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12/21/2023
In less than 11 months, Elk Grove voters will select their mayor and council representatives for Districts 1 and 3. Councilmembers Darren Suen and Kevin Spease have purchased ads in the 2024 Elk Grove Town Planner calendar, although as yet they have no challengers. Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen, also on the ballot, did not purchase calendar space.

08/11/2023
Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen is now in her second term, having defeated incumbent Steve Ly in 2020 and her lone challenger Brian Pastor in last year’s race. She told the Citizen that she had known for a long time that she would seek a third term.

04/01/2023
Elk Grove will use new technology to help solve pressing problems, improve residents’ transportation options, and launch transformative civic projects, Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen said in laying out future plans.

04/01/2023
The mayor of Elk Grove is proposing the first-ever municipal tax that would help to fund the massive Sacramento Zoo relocation project.

03/24/2023
Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen appointed two new members to the city’s Measure E Citizens’ Oversight Committee on March 22.

12/08/2022
Bobbie Singh-Allen, first directly elected Sikh mayor in America, will be sworn in for her second term as mayor of Elk Grove. She says upcoming tasks includes a new train station, improvements in Old Town, public safety, and affordable housing.

11/13/2022
With not all votes counted yet, Bobbie Singh-Allen is projected to be reelected mayor of the city of some 179,000.

04/21/2022
Brian Pastor will challenge Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen in this November’s election. An 18-year resident of Elk Grove who also ran for mayor in 2020, Pastor spoke to the Elk Grove Citizen regarding his decision to run again.

03/31/2022
Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen delivered her second State of the City address on March 25—Elk Grove’s first in-person State of the City address since 2019. The past two addresses were presented online only, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

10/28/2021
A campaign that was formed to remove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen has failed to meet its deadline. The group forming the petition, Elk Grove Hmong Americans, had until Oct. 21 to proceed to the next step of the process.

10/16/2021
Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen is making person-to-person contact with local business owners, encouraging them to apply for a city grant. The funds, generated by the American Rescue Plan Act, are disbursed by Elk Grove to its residents.

08/24/2021
Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen took time to read aloud to children at a coffeehouse in Elk Grove as part of a popup event sponsored by A Seat at the Table.

07/25/2021
Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh Allen recently posted an announcement on Facebook that, after a year of not seeing eye-to-eye, fences were mended with community member Mia Yang-Foster, who was responsible for recall efforts against the mayor over the past year.

05/27/2021
Elk Grove Hmong Americans launched a recall petition against Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen. But one recall organizer has left the effort, saying “recent events have opened new pathways for communication and reconciliation.”