Contra Costa County Representative Sue Noack Elected MTC Chair

Stephanie Moulton-Peters, Marin County Supervisor, named Vice Chair

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pleasant Hill City Councilmember Sue Noack, who has served for the past two years as the Contra Costa County cities' representative on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission today assumed the helm of the regional board, with her Commission colleagues unanimously electing her to serve as Chair for the two-year term running through February 2027.

Noack originally was elected to the Pleasant Hill City Council in 2014. She served as Mayor in 2016 and 2021 and recently was elected for her third council term. Noack, who has served as Vice Chair of MTC's Regional Network Management Committee, graduated from Bucknell University in 1981 with a Bachelor's in Business Administration. She worked for several banking institutions and simultaneously earned her MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.

MTC today also elected Marin County Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters to serve as Vice Chair for the next two years. Moulton-Peters has represented District 3 on the Marin County Board of Supervisors since January 2021 and was elected by her colleagues to serve as Board President for 2023. Before her 2020 election to the Board of Supervisors, Moulton-Peters served for 12 years as a member of the Mill Valley City Council and served as the city's Mayor in 2010, 2014 and 2018. She is currently a board member for the Transportation Authority of Marin and the Marin Transit District and is a former member of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District (SMART) Board of Directors.

In addition to the new Chair and Vice Chair, other MTC seats have changed hands in recent weeks:

• Santa Clara County Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga replaced Cindy Chavez as the Santa Clara County Representative. Abe-Koga joined MTC in December 2020, previously serving as a Mountain View City Council member and representing the cities of Santa Clara County.
• Palo Alto City Councilmember Patrick Burt replaced Abe-Koga as the cities of Santa Clara County representative.
• Alameda Mayor Marilynn Ezzy Aschraft replaced former Union City Councilmember Carol Dutra-Vernaci as city of Alameda County Representative.
• Contra Costa County Supervisor Candace Andersen is representing Contra Costa County, taking over for longtime Supervisor Federal Glover.
• Alicia John-Baptiste replaces former Commission Vice Chair Nick Josefowitz as the San Francisco Mayor's appointee.
• Napa County Supervisor Amber Manfree is replacing former Commission Chair Alfredo Pedroza as the Napa County representative.
• San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar now serves as the City and County of San Francisco representative, replacing Hillary Ronen.
• Solano County Supervisor and Solano Transportation Authority Chair Mitch Mashburn is taking over for Jim Spering, who stepped down from the Commission in January after 38 years as Solano County's representative on the Commission.
• Napa County Supervisor and ABAG Executive Board President Belia Ramos replaced Sonoma County Supervisor David Rabbitt as the ABAG Representative. Rabbitt continues to serve as a Sonoma County Supervisor and as Immediate Past President of the ABAG Executive Board.

MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.

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SOURCE Metropolitan Transportation Commission