Tehama County Board of Supervisor Matt Hansen announced that Solid Waste Agency Manager Rachel Ross-Donaldson passed away during the Thanksgiving holiday week.
In 2013, Ross-Donaldson was hired as a recycling coordinator. The following year, her position was reclassified to recycling coordinator 1. She was promoted to recycling coordinator 2 and later to solid waste agency manager in 2016.
“We just recognized Rachel a couple of weeks ago for her 10-year service to the county,” Supervisor Pati Nolen said. “She was a remarkable agency director.”
One word that strikes Nolen when she thinks of Ross-Donaldson is forthright. Nolen describes Ross-Donaldson as able to talk to the supervisors about any subject without any brutal truths or animosity.
“She was also a mother, an aunt, a friend and a colleague, a sister, and she was, just as I said, a mentor to so many and all that,” Nolen added.