November’s  meeting will be held Thursday November 19th at 5:30p.m. at the Hilton Sacramento Arden West in Sacramento. (Note that this is the same location that the October’s OWL Awards were held)

Special Guest Speaker: Susan Peters, Sacramento County Supervisor District 3 and current Chair of the Board of Supervisors

Ms. Peters will speak to us and answer questions about how she came to be a leader in our community. She will also give us advice about how to go about picking and choosing boards or commissions as a way to give back or volunteer in the community.

Be in the know and find out what to expect in the next several months in the Sacramento region.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

SUSAN PETERS – Supervisor, Third District

Susan Peters is serving her second term on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors representing the Third District after having been first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2008.

This year she is serving as Chair of both the Board of Supervisors and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.  In addition, she serves on a number of boards including the Sacramento Area Council of Governments where she chairs the Transportation Committee and the Sacramento Transportation Authority where she served as chair during 2006.

Since entering office, she has been a strong advocate for economic development and smart business growth to generate investment opportunities and good jobs for Sacramento County. 

Her career started in banking and she later was Treasurer beside her late husband Peter McCuen at McCuen Properties.  While serving as Board Chair of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, she was a forceful voice for business and private enterprise in the region.  At the chamber she worked to locate Raley Field in West Sacramento and was the founding Chair of the Chamber’s “Perspectives” program, an annual conference hosting national and world leaders speaking on topical subjects.   She currently serves as Board Chair of the Leland Stanford Mansion Foundation which restored the historic home of California’s eighth governor.