Steve Detrick News Today

Elk Grove Vice Mayor Kevin Spease will run for reelection in 2024 to retain his current seat as the representative of City Council District 3.

Former Elk Grove School Trustee Bobbie Singh-Allen on Dec. 9 was sworn in as Elk Grove’s first directly elected woman mayor. She also made history as the nation’s first directly elected Sikh woman mayor. Singh-Allen’s victory in this November’s election came against the incumbent and now-former Mayor Steve Ly, who served for four years as the city’s mayor and was the nation’s first Hmong mayor. A video of Singh-Allen’s swearing-in ceremony was played for viewe...