Districts 2 and 4 will choose new representatives as two-term councilmembers leave office
Roseville, Calif. (Rocklin Online) –The Roseville City Council Districts 2 and 4 will have to elect their representatives in the general election taking place Nov. 3, 2026. Four candidates qualified to run for the two open positions, with none of them being incumbents: District 2 Councilmember Pauline Roccucci and District 4 Councilmember and mayor Krista Bernasconi cannot file for candidacy as they reach their second four-year term under the provisions of the City Charter.
The situation occurs at a time of ongoing population and development of public safety, transportation and municipal utilities in Placer County’s biggest city.
The qualified candidates from District 2 are Anne Carpenter, a businesswoman, according to the city listing, and David Nelson, a business owner and a father. In District 4, candidates will choose between former Roseville fire chief Rick Bartee and a retired medical salesperson Mike Franks. The Placer County’s candidate watch report published Aug. 28 lists all four candidates as qualified for the election, while also naming two other individuals as having started the process but did not manage to qualify, hence not being candidates in the November general election.
Two open seats as opposed to incumbent candidates
There are five districts in Roseville. The city council members are elected by the citizens of their districts but they act as councilmembers for the whole city. Under the Roseville City Charter, a council member may serve no more than two four-year consecutive terms. The even-numbered districts are up for reelection in 2026, since the last time they were on the ballot was 2022.
Both Bernasconi and Roccucci were elected to council in the 2018 at-large election and reelected as district council members in 2022. While Bernasconi serves as mayor of Roseville under the city’s rotating mayoral system, and Roccucci acts as a council member for District 2, both of them reach the term limit and cannot seek reelection for the third consecutive term. It means that the 2026 council race will represent a change for Roseville: two out of the five council seats will have different representatives after December of 2026.
City of Roseville operates as a council-manager city. While the council determines the city policy, city manager is responsible for the city administration. Since 2018, Dominick Casey serves as the city’s manager, while starting his career in Roseville government in 2011 as Parks, Recreation and Libraries director. In addition, the Roseville city administration includes such officials as Police Chief Jeff Beigh (took over the department in 2026), and Fire Chief Ryan Harrigan (was appointed as a Bartee’s successor after his retirement at the end of 2024).
From railroad junction to Placer County’s largest city
Despite all the development in recent years, the image of Roseville is still associated with the railroad. Being built as a settlement around the railroad junction, Roseville has gained its character due to the Southern Pacific’s decision to move major facilities from Rocklin to Roseville somewhere around 1905-1906. Roseville was officially chartered on April 10, 1909.
One of the first major employers in the area became Roseville’s railroad yard. By 1929, nearly 1,500 people worked in the railroad yard. Meanwhile, the period between 1911 and 1914 saw construction of more than 100 buildings in Roseville. As the additional landmark of the period, the city received a massive ice manufacturing plant, built in 1913 to provide refrigerated shipments of produce. During the Great Depression, Works Progress Administration projects allowed more than 2,000 people to get a job, paving the streets, building sidewalks and installing storm drains.
However, postwar developments, construction of the Interstate 80 highway and development of the Sacramento region turned Roseville into an employment, commercial and residential center for the area. Roseville still has its distinctive municipal characteristics due to the presence of the publicly owned utilities and long-term planning.
Roseville by the numbers
As of August 2025, the city’s demographic data shows a population of 158,304 in 44.14 square miles, making Roseville the largest city of Placer County. According to Roseville estimates, there are nearly 90,200 jobs, 6,816 businesses and 63,571 housing units in Roseville, with a median household income of $119,714. Roseville is about 16 miles from Sacramento and located at the southern end of Placer County.
Geographically, Roseville is bounded by Rocklin to the north and Citrus Heights to the south, with Granite Bay to the east and Antelope area to the southwest. Agricultural and developing regions of western Placer County border Roseville to the west. The constant residential construction on the borders of the city has increased the importance of the municipal borders, as there are several properties, which despite having Roseville mailing addresses, do not fall inside the city’s borders.
City of Roseville has a staff of more than 1,000 employees organized into 14 departments, according to the Roseville city manager’s office. City services include police, fire, parks, libraries, streets and transportation, as well as publicly owned electric, water, wastewater and solid waste systems.
Public safety expands with the city
One of the most notable development during the 2022-2026 council term was the development of Roseville’s public safety services. The Real Time Crime Center was opened in Roseville in spring 2023, uniting various information and technology systems to support the patrol and investigation efforts. Then, the city hired more personnel for the eighth police patrol beat in west Roseville and added advanced mobile-data technology to patrol cars.
According to the latest data, Chief Beigh leads a department that has about 240 sworn and professional employees and operates with the budget of $69 million per year. Beigh is a 20-year veteran of Roseville Police Department and participated in planning of the Beat 8 expansion before being appointed as chief.
Fire Department also grew along with the city. Now the department has nine fire stations, Ryan Harrigan being the chief. As the latest data shows, there are 111 suppression personnel in three shifts and 20,368 calls for service in 2024. Fire Station 8 in northwest Roseville is now part of the expanding fire stations network.
Infrastructure, utilities and parks
Roseville finished the deployment of its Advanced Metering Infrastructure system in this council term, upgrading its electric and water meters, so that they could transmit their readings to the utility operations via digital connection. By March 2024, more than 109,000 electric meters and water endpoints were already installed, putting the project ahead of schedule by about three months.
Water reliability was another major issue of the city’s infrastructure. Two additional Aquifer Storage and Recovery wells joined the Roseville groundwater program in west Roseville in 2024. As of March 2026, the city reported seven active wells, two under construction and 3,633 acre-feet of water stored underground using the program since 2023.
Among the transportation and recreation developments are expansions of the trail system. For instance, the Miner’s Ravine Trail, which is a 6.36-mile-long corridor, received the status of the National Recreation Trail in 2025. Also, in February 2026, Roseville earned the status of the Silver Bicycle Friendly Community from the League of American Bicyclists (previously, it held the Bronze status). The city reports more than 110 miles of on-street bike lanes and more than 51 miles of paved off-street trails. In 2026, Phase 1 of the Dry Creek Greenway East Trail added more than two miles of paved multiuse trail.
Roseville Parks, Recreation and Libraries also received numerous recognitions during this council term. For instance, the department became the finalist in the National Gold Medal competition three years in a row – in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and was once again nominated for this honor by the city in 2025. As of 2025, the department managed about 90 parks, more than 4,000 acres of natural areas, three libraries, three swimming pools, two golf courses, Maidu Museum and 21 before- and after-school childcare locations.
At the same time, Roseville earned recognitions in the field of technology during the term. In 2024, the city received the ninth consecutive Municipal Information Systems Association of California Excellence in IT Practices award and ranked fourth among cities with populations between 125,000 and 250,000 in the National Center for Digital Government Digital Cities program. Roseville’s technology operation also received the OnCon Top 10 Technology Team recognition.
District 2: Anne Carpenter
Anne Carpenter — Businesswoman/Parks Commissioner
According to her campaign biography, Anne Carpenter has more than 30 years of living in Roseville and a professional experience in business technology. At present, Carpenter is a member of the Placer County Parks Commission, representing District 1 and having the term that ends on Dec. 31, 2026. Also, she participates in Roseville Police Activities League and Roseville Community Crime Stoppers.
Carpenter has never served on the Roseville City Council. According to Placer County’s data, her ballot designation is Businesswoman/Parks Commissioner, while Roseville’s election site designates her as Businesswoman. Candidate statement of Carpenter was submitted on Aug. 4.
Public contact information: anne@voteforannecarpenter.com, campaign website voteforannecarpenter.com. According to the county candidate report, the campaign address is 1350 Trevor Court, Roseville, CA 95678.
District 2: David Nelson
David Nelson — Business Owner/Father
David Nelson has some experience in Roseville’s municipal advisory commissions. Records of Roseville show that he represented the Transportation Commission on Roseville’s 2017 Community Priorities Advisory Committee. According to his campaign biography, Nelson served on the Roseville Transportation Commission from 2013 through 2017, has been a part of the community for more than 25 years and currently serves on the Roseville City School District Foundation board.
David Nelson has never served on the City Council. His official ballot designation is Business Owner/Father, candidate statement was submitted on Aug. 5.
Public contact information: (916) 761-8922, david@electdavidnelson.com, and electdavidnelson.com. According to the campaign and Roseville Area Chamber listings, the campaign mailing address is 115 Irene Ave., Roseville, CA 95678.
District 4: Rick Bartee
Rick Bartee — Retired Fire Chief
Rick Bartee has the largest employment history in Roseville out of the four candidates. Having served 34 years with the Phoenix Fire Department, Bartee became Roseville fire chief in 2015 and held this position until his retirement at the end of 2024. Roseville City Council presented Rick Bartee the certificate of appreciation for nine years of service to the city and Fire Department when he retired.
Bartee has never served on the City Council, but his nine years of service as fire chief made him one of the city’s senior administrators. Rick Bartee’s ballot designation is Retired Fire Chief, and his candidate statement was filed on July 23 according to Placer County data.
Public contact information: (602) 826-0192, rickforroseville@gmail.com, and rickforroseville.com. Bartee’s campaign lists his address as 3213 Halverson Way, Roseville, CA 95661.
District 4: Mike Franks
Mike Franks — Retired Medical Salesperson
Michael Dean Franks is listed by Placer County as his full name and by the City of Roseville as Mike Franks. The official ballot designation of Mike Franks is Retired Medical Salesperson, and his candidate statement was filed on Aug. 5. Franks has not been mentioned in any of the city records reviewed in preparation of this article as the council member.
According to the City of Roseville, the public contact information of Mike Franks is (916) 768-0368 and mikefranks@outlook.com. Meanwhile, additional contact fields in Placer County’s current candidate report are marked as not authorized for release. Other than the official city and county filing data, there is no public biographical information found for this candidate.
Council transition in the face of ongoing growth
The upcoming election will not be about sitting council members, as neither Roccucci nor Bernasconi can seek reelection to another consecutive term. The task of Districts 2 and 4 will be to choose the candidates who will take the responsibility of representing a city, which went far beyond its railroad town origins and is currently providing broad spectrum of public safety, transportation, recreational and municipal utility services.
For voters, the difference between the candidates is largely the difference in backgrounds: Carpenter has community and parks experience, Nelson has experience with city advisory commissions, Bartee has nine years of experience as Roseville’s fire chief and Franks is running from the private sector career with comparatively little biographical information available to date. The winners of the race will receive four-year terms and will join the council of five members responsible for policymaking in the city that continues to develop and grow.
