County supervisors don't draw the attention of mayors or state legislators. The Placer County Board meets twice a month in Auburn, and the meetings rarely make the news. But the seat carries significant authority — a $1.4 billion budget, oversight of the sheriff's department, the district attorney's office, and the jails. Supervisors also set land use and zoning rules across the unincorporated parts of the county and oversee social services programs ranging from foster care to behavioral health.
Two candidates are running in the June 2 primary for Placer County's District 2 seat on the Board of Supervisors: incumbent Shanti Landon and Lincoln City Councilmember Holly Andreatta.
District 2 covers the city of Lincoln, the rural community of Sheridan, and the western portion of Roseville. It’s one of the most rapidly growing parts of Placer County, with master-planned communities approved decades ago now being built on land between Roseville and Lincoln.
The supervisor seat has changed hands only once since 1995, when Robert Weygandt was first elected. He held it for 27 years before retiring at the end of 2022. Landon, who had worked for Weygandt as his district director, successfully ran to succeed him. Andreatta endorsed her then. She is now her challenger.
The supervisor's seat is officially nonpartisan. It carries policymaking authority similar to a city council seat, but spread across a county with more than 400,000 residents, with over 100,000 in District 2 alone. The board also functions as an arm of state government, delivering services to residents both inside and outside city limits.
Shanti Landon, the incumbent District 2 supervisor on the Placer County Board of Supervisors, is seeking reelection in the June 2 primary.Courtesy of Shanti Landon
Shanti Landon
Notable endorsements: Predecessor Robert Weygandt; Placer County Sheriff Wayne Woo; Sacramento Area Firefighters Local 522 PAC
Landon has held the District 2 seat since January 2023. Before that, she spent nearly six years as district director for Weygandt. She lives in Newcastle with her husband and the youngest of their five children, four of whom were adopted from foster care. She is the 2026 chair of the Placer County Board of Supervisors.
Landon's stated priorities include public safety, foster youth, land conservation, and what she described as accountability in homeless spending.
She compared the supervisor's role to a city council seat extended across an entire county. "Even though we may not make land use decisions in the incorporated cities, a lot of our services are for city residents," she said.
Landon describes herself as "very much a free market person," but said the county does much of its work in a heavily regulated environment that conflicts with that philosophy. She pointed to state mandates requiring the county to zone for affordable housing and meet regional housing targets, which she said often leaves the county filling gaps that the private market won't.
On growth, she said much of what's now reshaping west Roseville traces back to project approvals made years ago. She described the Placer County Conservation Program — which aims to conserve more than 47,000 acres of open space alongside future development — as a "build-out vision" for the county, with growth and conservation areas mapped out together.
Her ideal, she said, would be for large-scale growth to happen inside city limits, where municipalities are set up to deliver urban services. Instead, she said, the county will soon need to provide urban-level fire, police, and parks services in places like west Roseville, where the Placer Vineyards project alone is approved for 14,000 housing units.
"We are going to have essentially a city out in West Roseville," she said.
Landon's interest in homelessness is personal. Her father had schizophrenia and died homeless, she said, and family and resources were available to him but did not change his situation.
"There's no silver bullet," she said.
She credited the county's recent nearly 10 percent decrease in homelessness, reported in this year's point-in-time count, to investment in permanent supportive housing, including a 55-unit project now under construction. She has called for an external audit of how the county has spent its share of state Project Homekey funds, which pay cities and counties to open homeless housing.
On the budget, Landon said the county's Health and Human Services [HHS] spending deserves more scrutiny. "There are millions and millions of dollars that are flowing through the county to HHS from the state and federal government," she said.
Asked what has changed in her thinking during her time in office, Landon pointed to her family's experience adopting four children from foster care. She said she used to assume people start from roughly the same place, but watching her own children navigate the lasting effects of trauma reshaped that view. "True conservatism is investing in children and families before they get to the point where they fall off the waterfall," she said.
Holly Andreatta, a Lincoln City Councilmember since 2018, is running for the District 2 seat on the Placer County Board of Supervisors in the June 2 primary.Courtesy of Holly Andreatta
Holly Andreatta
Notable endorsements: Lincoln Mayor Richard Pearl; former California Republican Party Chair Tom Del Beccaro; Loomis Town Councilmember Danny Cartwright
Andreatta has served on the Lincoln City Council since 2018 and was reelected unopposed in 2022. She served as mayor in 2022 and again in 2025. She and her husband are both former public school teachers; she taught for years at Cooley Middle School in Roseville before stepping back from full-time teaching. She holds a doctorate of ministry from Epic Bible College in Sacramento, where she also teaches, and is an ordained minister. Her family's ties to Lincoln go back to the 1970s.
Andreatta's stated priorities include the relationship between the county and its cities, agricultural land preservation, accountability in homeless spending, and what she described as integrity in local government.
Her central pitch is that the county should be a partner to its cities, not a competitor with them. "Strong cities make a strong county, not the other way around," she said. She argued that the county has, in recent years, gotten that backwards by approving projects on unincorporated land at the edges of cities — collecting tax revenue while leaving cities to absorb traffic and infrastructure costs.
On growth, Andreatta said state housing mandates have pushed counties into difficult positions. She also said supervisors going back years have made the situation worse by allowing developers to pay in-lieu fees instead of building affordable housing — a pattern she said has now produced controversies like a proposed 240-unit affordable housing development in Penryn, where she said community members have indicated they would support a project at 50 to 100 units. She emphasized that her criticism was directed at past boards, not the current one.
"As growth happens, you can't stop it," she added. "But we also need to take a step back and not do things that are going to cause negative impacts to the people who already live here."
On homelessness, Andreatta said the housing-first model adopted at the state and county levels is incomplete. "You can put a roof over the head, but they still have a substance abuse problem or a mental illness that needs to be treated," she said. She wants the county to expand treatment services and said she would support requiring treatment in some cases for unhoused people who decline help.
Lincoln's homeless population has declined sharply during her council tenure, she said, an outcome she attributed to services, accountability, and partnerships with the county and community groups.
On the budget, Andreatta said she wants a full external audit of the county's homeless spending. She said other parts of the budget may also warrant a closer look but acknowledged she has not studied them in detail.
The relationship between the county and its cities, in her view, has reached "an all-time low." She pointed to a long-running dispute over property tax sharing in several Lincoln-area zones, including Sun City Lincoln, where she said the city's share of revenue is roughly half what comparable areas receive elsewhere in the county. She said the arrangement dates to a time when Lincoln had a volunteer fire department and is overdue for renegotiation.
Asked what has changed for her over time, Andreatta said her policy views haven't really evolved, but her patience with what she sees as a pattern of dishonesty in regional government has run thin. "I'm demanding integrity. I'm demanding truth. I'm demanding transparency and honesty," she said.
District 2 voters will decide on June 2.
