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07/02/2026
Auburn lost a devoted friend in Captain Mike Holmes, a Navy veteran, longtime educator and two-term Auburn mayor, who passed away at home on June 27.
Mike found Placer Community Foundation years ago through his friendship with founding board chair Janice Forbes and never looked back, supporting our Youth Development and Community Needs Funds ever since. He spent his life proving Placer County had more to offer than people realized, from his years on the Auburn City Council to his work preserving local history, including a monument honoring the Chinese railroad workers who helped build the First Transcontinental Railroad through the Sierra Nevada.
"I'm not a rich person, but I try to bring people together as much as I can to solve problems," Mike once said.
Read more about his life: https://www.placercf.org/post/mike-holmes-remembering-his-roots
07/02/2026
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Janice LeRoux, executive director of the First 5 Placer Children and Families Commission, came to the Placer County Board of Supervisors this week with a message of gratitude — and a sobering reminder of what's at stake.
Janice hears directly from families who can't afford the basics. Forty-three percent of low-income families in Placer County are priced out of renting. That's not an abstraction. Those are parents and children in our community.
She thanked the Board for taking meaningful steps to close the affordable housing funding gap and asked them to go further: allocate $10 to $15 million per year to the affordable housing fund, adopt inclusionary zoning, and establish a fee-in-lieu structure that actually works.
Thank you, Janice, for keeping families at the center of this conversation.
Today, the Placer County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.5 million affordable housing fund in the 2026-27 budget, and Placer Community Foundation CEO Veronica Blake was there to say thank you.
Veronica also urged the Board to advance cleanup of the surplus property on Atwood Road in Auburn, designated for affordable housing back in 2021, and to commit the funding needed to reach the county's goal of 1,300 new units by 2029.
The fund is a meaningful first step. The work ahead is even bigger. We're grateful for a Board willing to lead on this issue, and proud to have Veronica at the table advocating for our community.
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