Elk Grove elections: Singh-Allen leads in mayor’s race, plus early City Council results
Bobbie Singh-Allen was cruising toward a second term as Elk Grove mayor and she will preside over a new-look City Council.
Singh-Allen garnered 65% of the vote over challenger Brian Pastor. Pastor, a small business owner from a family of medical professionals and one-time City Council candidate, waged a long-shot bid focused on curbing neighborhood and business theft and homelessness. Pastor pulled in 34% of the vote in the early tally Tuesday night.
Singh-Allen rode strong tailwinds heading into election season, including a housing boom, a city economy left relatively unscathed by the COVID-19 pandemic, a popular effort to relocate the Sacramento Zoo to Elk Grove, and the summer opening of the Wilton Rancheria’s Sky River Casino months ahead of schedule with its promise of new jobs and new revenue.
“Promises made. Promises kept,” went Singh-Allen’s campaign slogan.
But growing concerns over homelessness and housing affordability, along with criticism and state scrutiny of how Elk Grove addressed the issues, threatened that momentum. Singh-Allen and city leaders responded with an ordinance barring the unhoused from camping in much of the city. They also pushed chips onto the table with city Measure E. The public safety initiative called for a 1% sales tax increase to pay for more police, address homelessness and improve roads, streets and parks.
Elk Grove City Council races
Cosumnes Community Services District Director Rod Brewer and city planning commissioner Sergio Robles both held commanding leads in their bids to join Singh-Allen on the Elk Grove City Council.
They would replace council member and Assembly candidate Stephanie Nguyen in a tough fight with Sacramento city councilman Eric Guerra for the state seat; and longtime councilman Patrick Hume. Hume was himself in a pitched battle with Cosumnes Community Services District president Jaclyn Moreno to represent south Sacramento County on the Board of Supervisors.
The campaign for the open District 4 seat featured Robles and Giezi Bermudez, an executive at nonprofit Asian Resources, the support services organization headed by the outgoing Nguyen. Bermudez trailed Robles in the early going with 27% of the vote.
Brewer was leading farmer and small businessman Felipe Martin by a 45%-to-31% count. Businesswoman Michelle Kile trailed with 23% of the vote. With a Brewer victory in east Elk Grove’s District 2, the Cosumnes district director would take on the seat held since 2006 by Hume. Robles would assume the seat on the other end of the dais, representing District 4’s neighborhoods south of Elk Grove Boulevard and bordered by Franklin Boulevard and Bilby Road.
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