Woodland's City Council meets regularly every first and third Tuesday of the month. Meetings are held in the City Council Chambers, 2nd floor of City Hall, 300 First Street in downtown Woodland. Citizens are welcome to attend in person or view proceedings on government access cable channel 20.
Videotaped copies of previous City Council meetings are available at the Woodland Public Library.
City Councilmembers
Art Pimentel, Mayor
Born in the City of Woodland in 1979, Art Pimentel began his education at Willow Spring Elementary School. After graduating from Woodland High School in 1997, Art went on to attend California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences.
In 1999 Art was hired as Legislative Assistant for Assembly member Tony Cardenas. While attending CSUS, Art was elected Executive Vice President of the student body government. The following year he was elected President, and represented 27,000 students. During his term as Student Body President, Art promoted the Cadet program to aid campus police efforts; established an internship program with the support of local business people and state elected officials and balanced an $8.2 million budget.
In 2002 he was elected Chairman of the California State Student Association (CSSA). CSSA is an association that advocates the student perspective for the 480,000 students of the California State University System. As Chairman, Art worked closely in developing and influencing university public policy with the State Legislature, Board of Trustees, Chancellor's Office and labor unions.
Art obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences in 2002. That same year he served as Deputy Supervisor for a member of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. This position required him to work with county planning, policy, management, and constituency issues.
Art was first elected to the Woodland City Council in 2004 and re-elected in 2008 where he will serve as Mayor from 2010-2012. He currently serves as Vice-Chairman for the Yolo-Solano Air Board, Board Member for the Yolo County Transportation District, member of the Affordable Housing Subcommittee, and member of the Yolo/Woodland 2X2.
In December of 2006, Art was hired as the Public Information Specialist at Woodland Community College and in 2009 accepted the position as Director of the Upward Bound program at the same institution. Upward Bound is a program that helps low-income; first generation high school students reach their educational goals.
In 2010, Art received his Masters of Arts in Educational leadership from CSUS. In addition to his city and career responsibilities, Art currently serves as a Board Member for the Yolo County Red Cross, member of Coalition for Woodland Youth, and member of the Taller de Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA) Community Advisory Board. Art has also participated in the Great Valley Leadership Class, The Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, and the California International Studies Project with the School of Education at Stanford University.
Marlin H. "Skip" Davies, Vice Mayor
Elected to the Woodland city Council in 2006 Marlin Davies and his family have resided in Woodland since 1966. Skip completed high school in Marysville, California, received his Bachelors degrees from the University of California at Davis, Master of Arts from California State University Sacramento and Ed. D. from Utah State university in Logan, Utah.
Skip completed his career in education after serving in numerous roles as a teacher and administrator for forty two years. After moving to Woodland he taught and coached at Woodland High School (1966-69), served as Principal of Douglass Junior High School (1971-83) and joined the Los Rios Community College District in Sacramento in the fall of 1983. While with the Los Rios District (1983-2004) Skip was appointed to numerous administrative positions which included Dean assignments with Cosumnes River College, President of the Folsom Lake College Centers, and the Deputy Chancellor for the Los Rios Community College District. In addition Skip also served at the State level as Vice Chancellor in the California Community Colleges system office.
In addition to the professional life Skip has had the opportunity to serve in numerous volunteer positions, serving on the Woodland Parks and Recreation Commission for approximately ten years, president of
the Woodland Swim Team Boosters, served on the Boards with the YMCA and the Sheltered Workshop, Coordinated the construction of the Woodland High School Weight Room and the Auxiliary Building at the Chuck Brooks Swim Center in Woodland. In addition Skip served in significant roles with the Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Corporation in the City of Folsom.
Skip has received local recognition for his efforts in the Woodland Community receiving the City of Woodland's Community Service Award, the Yolo County Champion Award, The Yolo County Educator of the Year recognition, and Induction into the Woodland Athletic Hall of Fame.
Currently enjoys having his entire immediate family residing in Yolo County which includes his wife of forty-six years, Juliann, their three daughters, son in laws and five grandchildren. Being retired he has
the time and opportunity to focus on both his family and his community.
William L. Marble, Councilmember
Dr. Bill Marble grew up in Yolo County and graduated from Davis High School. He played on the tennis and soccer teams and was named a State of California Governor’s Scholar. As a boy and young adult he lived for 3 years in Chile and Peru, where he became fluent in Spanish and developed an interest in ancient American archaeology and Hispanic cultures.
Bill attended Brigham Young University as a Presidential Scholar. He received a B.S. degree in Zoology and graduated Summa Cum Laude. He attended Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago where he received a research fellowship. He was granted a D.D.S. degree in 1977 and was awarded the Alpha Omega Award for scholarship.
Bill served our country as a Captain in the United States Air Force and is a member of the American Legion. He and his wife, Sandy, have 5 children and 7 grandchildren. All of the children are graduates of Woodland High School. While his children were growing up he served as a Y.M.C.A. soccer coach, Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, and as the Yolo District Commissioner for B.S.A. He has been an active jogger for 30 years and he and Sandy enjoy cultivating a berry patch, vegetable garden, and thirteen fruit trees in their backyard.
Professional service includes appointments as an evaluator and expert to the Dental Board of California, appointments to committees and boards with the Sacramento District Dental Society and California Dental Association, and an appointment as Adjunct Instructor at the University of the Pacific Dental School. Bill serves as an alternate California Delegate to the American Dental Association. He has previously served as a dental consultant to Hillhaven Nursing Home and has been a member of the medical staff at Woodland Healthcare Hospital since 1981.
Bill served on the Board of Directors of the Food Bank of Yolo County for 12 years. He also served on the Welfare Reform Task Force for Yolo County as well as the Woodland Green Waste Citizen’s Advisory Committee. He has previously served in leadership appointments for his church including Bishop, Stake President, and Welfare Council Chairman. He is a past president of Woodland’s interfaith service organization, Woodland Ecumenical Ministries.
Elected to Woodland’s City Council in 2006 and 2010, Bill serves as Woodland’s representative to the Water Resources Association of Yolo County (WRA) and the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency (WDCWA). He has served as WRA Chairman since 2008 and as WDCWA Chairman since 2009.
Active in the League of California cities, Bill was elected as President of the Sacramento Valley Division for 2010-2011. The Division includes 59 cities in Northern California. In September of 2010 he was also elected to serve as a director on the League’s board. Bill has served as a member of the League’s Public Safety Policy Committee since 2007 and was appointed in 2009 to the League Board Water Task Force.
Martie L. Dote, Councilmember
A native Californian, Martie was born in Sacramento and grew up in Carmichael, on the north-east side of Sacramento County. She graduated from La Sierra High School with membership in Lingua Honoraria and the California Scholarship Federation. She was President of the Biology Club and a member of the German Club, and in advance placement courses in science, math and English. She entered UC Davis with Honors at Entrance and graduated after four years with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences, with extensive course work in Chemistry and German. Besides taking courses every summer since sophomore year at high school, starting in her UCD second year she worked half time as a laboratory assistant in various departments, from Botany to Environmental Health and Safety and Biochemistry.
After graduation, she worked on campus in the departments of Zoology and in the Medical School, departments of Endocrinology and Biological Chemistry, for the next eight years. While there she married her first husband, Alan Smith, an organic chemist from England. After five years in Davis, they moved to seven acres west of Woodland and lived in the country for six years. There they raised a variety of farm animals and Martie was active in the 4H dairy goat project. During this time she changed jobs to work for the Yolo County Office of Education, in the transportation of special education students and adults. The last seven years there she was department director, responsible for purchasing, staff recruitment and supervision, and budgeting.
In 1980, she moved into Woodland and in 1981 married Tom Dote, a local businessman who is a professional portrait photographer. In 1990 she went to work for the Yolo County Transit Authority (now the Yolo County Transportation District), as the Senior Transportation Planner, where she worked on transit service design, development review, and state and federal grant applications. During this time she did extensive course work in land use and transportation planning, CEQA project management, and worked closely with the city councils, Board of Supervisors, and planning and public works staff from all five Yolo County jurisdictions. In 2005, she retired from public agency employment.
In 1998-99, Martie became interested in local land use issues because of her work at the Transportation District. She served on the Grand Jury in 1999-2000, and on the Woodland Planning Commission until being elected to the City Council in 2000. In 2004, after missing a bid at re-election, she returned to the Planning Commission where she served until being elected to the Council for the term beginning in 2008. She also served on the Opera House Board of Trustees, on the Habitat for Humanity Yolo County Board, and on the Woodland Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, where she has chaired the Women’s Seminar for seven years. Service as an elected official has broadened her interests, and recently she has become engrossed in history and political science, especially biographies of Founders such as Thomas Jefferson and the Federalist Papers.
In her current term on the Woodland City Council, she also serves as the representative to the Yolo County Habitat/Natural Communities JPA, which is drafting the Habitat Conservation Plan for the County, and is the second member from Woodland on the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency JPA Board, working on obtaining surface water for the two cities. She also serves on several sub-committees on energy, infrastructure, solid waste, and the 3x2x2 with the Community College and Woodland Joint Unified School District. Martie also is the Woodland representative to the Commission for the Ten Year Plan to end homelessness in Yolo County, which she Vice Chairs. In addition she serves on ad hoc sub committees such as redevelopment projects.
Her two step sons graduated from Woodland High School, where both were active in sports such as baseball, football and for Justin, wrestling. Tom, the older stepson, graduated from California State University at Sacramento and has an insurance business in Pleasanton. He and Lisa, his wife, have two children, Kannon and Kiara. Justin, the younger son, has returned to Woodland to eventually take over the photography business. He and Maia have a new daughter, Marly, just nine months old.
Martie and Tom Dote continue to operate Photography by Dote, along with Justin, where she focuses on the production work after the portraits are taken, such as digital retouching, sales, and orders, and restoration of old photographs. Martie also works as a substitute teacher for the Woodland Joint Unified School District, and is a member of the Woodland Shakespeare Club, second oldest book club in the state. In her spare time she enjoys seeing her grandchildren, camping, fishing, photography, gardening, and reading and writing, focusing mainly on poetry and short stories. She is currently writing a semi-autobiographical novel about her family, and has a science fiction trilogy on the story board.
Tom Stallard, Councilmember 
Tom Stallard is a graduate of the UC Davis School of Law and operates two small businesses; one researches legislation for lawyers throughout the country and the other rehabilitates historic commercial buildings. He was named “Small Business Person of the Year” in 2004 by the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. He was also the recipient of the 2004 Individual Leadership Award given by the Sacramento Arts and Business Council. Mr. Stallard is a former eight-year Yolo County supervisor, serving in the leadership of the California State Association of Counties and chairing the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. Returning to the private sector, he now chairs the six-county nonprofit known as Valley Vision. Over the last two years, Valley Vision partnered with SACOG to develop the Blueprint Project which has now won over ten local, state and national awards for its innovative approach to citizen engagement.
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