Marin County supervisors elect new leaders for 2026, pass emergency proclamation

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News January 20, 2026January 20, 2026

The Gate 6 Road parking area at Waldo Point Harbor in Sausalito lies under flood waters on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026. The area flooded with high water from Richardson Bay after a series of storms and king tides. The Marin County Board of Supervisors has approved an emergency proclamation that will allow the county to request assistance from the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to offset the costs of repairs. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)

On Tuesday, the Marin County Board of Supervisors reorganized their leadership structure for 2026 and affirmed a countywide emergency proclamation to address damage from recent flooding.

Supervisor Eric Lucan will be the new president of the Board of Supervisors, Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters will serve as vice president and Supervisor Brian Colbert will serve as second vice president.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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