George Magnuson
George Magnuson has served on the City Council since November 1991. He has served four one-year terms as City Mayor.
George has lived in Rocklin since 1977 and is married with two adult children. George has been a mortgage banker since 1976 and was manager of Magnuson & Associates since 1987. He serves the following organizations: Western Placer Waste Management Authority Board of Directors since 1993 City Selection Committee (Placer County); Solid Waste Task Force National League of Cities as a member of the steering committee first-tier suburbs Public Safety to Crime Prevention Policy committee (for five years) Placer County National Guard Commission
George is actively involved in many community activities. He has been a volunteer firefighter with the Sunset Whitney Volunteer Fire Department since 1977. He advanced to the position of Assistant Chief, at which time the area was annexed into the City of Rocklin. He has been a volunteer firefighter since then.
In 1980, George founded and organized the “Community Thanksgiving Day Dinners Committee”. These dinners were started to enable seniors, widows/widowers, single people, and for those people that could not afford a dinner, to come together and have a holiday meal. It started out in Roseville and expanded to the communities of Rocklin, Lincoln, Loomis and Auburn. When all sites were functioning, over 5,500 meals were served to guests and volunteers.
OPU (oh-pooh), meaning “big belly” in Polynesian, is a volunteer Cooking Crew that George organized with other active members of the community to help raise monies for non-profit organizations throughout Placer and Sacramento counties.
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