Guest Speaker for Oct. 16th Community Forum
Katherine Borges will be the Guest Speaker at the October 16, 2017 Community Forum on Municipal Incorporation and Local Governance to be held at Howe Park. She is a leader in her community of Salida in Stanislaus County and an articulate spokeswoman for local control there. Katherine is the President of the Salida Chamber of Commerce, chairs the Salida Municipal Advisory Council, and serves on the Stanislaus County Planning Commission. She is also involved in the newly-formed organization, California (un)Incorporated, which is working to improve local governance for unincorporated communities across California. Katherine has been married to her high-school sweetheart, Vince, for 25 years and they have two children, Joshua and Michaela.
Salida was established in 1870. The largest unincorporated community in Stanislaus County, it sits just across the Stanislaus River from the similar community of Ripon, a city in San Joaquin County, incorporated in 1945, "where the Quality of Life shines like a small jewel in the middle of California's central San Joaquin Valley." The Salida Chamber of Commerce, led by Katherine Borges, seeks to "promote economic progress and quality of life to build a strong, independent, incorporated Salida", i.e. to have local control like Ripon.