Title: Board Member

Affiliation: California Planning Roundtable

Bio: Marc Roberts has more than thirty-six years of experience in local government as a planner, Community Development Director and City Manager. He retired from the City of Livermore in 2022 as the City Manager after serving in that position for more than ten years.  He has managed a wide variety of transformative land use projects.  Roberts was the project manager for the development of the South Livermore Valley Specific Plan, a program that helped revitalize Livermore’s wine country and won a national planning award for implementation.  As the Community Development Director, he led the team that wrote and implemented the Downtown Specific Plan, a plan that transformed Livermore’s Downtown through dozens of coordinated private and public projects. Roberts currently a lecturer at San Francisco State University teaching in the MPA program. Roberts is a member of the California Planning Roundtable, a policy research and development resource for the California planning profession to enhance the sustainability and livability of California’s communities.

Title: Executive Officer

Affiliation: JAS Pacific, Inc.

Bio: Stuart Tom is an executive officer of JAS Pacific, Inc., a professional consulting firm that has provided municipal services to local cities and counties for the past thirty years.  Prior to his appointment as President of the firm in 2017, he retired as the Fire Marshal for the City of Glendale, California.  Prior to this appointment, he served as Building Official for sixteen years. Stuart has co-authored a number of provisions in the International Building Code as well as the California Building Code, California Residential Code, and California Fire Code.  He currently serves in an influential capacity on a number of state-wide committees including the CALBO/CalChiefs Building and Fire Advisory Committee for which he is a past chair.  In 2015, Stuart was elected to the ICC Board of Directors where he served as the Section A delegate until 2021, when he was elected to the Board’s Executive Committee, where he served as President of the Board of Directors in 2024.  In 2016, he was also appointed to the Board of Directors for the International Accreditation Service (IAS), which is responsible for accrediting municipal building departments and fire departments which demonstrate compliance with strict performance standards.

Title: Fire Advisor

Affiliation: University of California Cooperative Extension, Agriculture and National Resources

Bio: Barbara received BS and MS degrees in Forestry from Northern Arizona University, specializing in fire ecology. She has 20 years of experience in fire, including science communication and research.  Her primary responsibilities include wildland fire-related research and outreach for the Central Coast region, while building trust, strong partnerships and collaborative relationships within both professional and non-professional communities.  Her favorite job, though, was working as a backcountry ranger in Yosemite National Park during her undergraduate years.  Satink Wolfson researches issues to address some of the questions behind the use of prescribed fire in a variety of ecosystems (such as coastal prairies and oak woodlands), and help communities build resilience to wildland fire so residents can live safely within fire-adapted landscapes.  Satink Wolfson, based at the UCCE office in Hollister is supporting Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties.