Marin County District 5 candidates bring ideas to the table at supervisor debate

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News May 5, 2026May 6, 2026

Candidates running for Marin County’s District 5 supervisor seat in the June election.

FIND AND REMOVE unnecessary regulations, develop a community around a new museum, use future property tax growth to upgrade infrastructure, provide a better path to citizenship for immigrants and offer low-cost loans to long-time residents who want to build equity. These are some of the ideas offered at a debate last week by five candidates who are running for Marin County’s District 5 supervisor seat.

One of them will replace Board of Supervisors President Eric Lucan, who is running for California State Assembly. Lucan hopes to replace Assemblymember Damon Connolly, who is leaving his seat to run for California State Senate.

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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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