Ann Schneider

Ann Schneider was appointed by the City of Millbrae to the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency on January 10, 2023.  Millbrae owns and operates its own water utility, serving residential, commercial and light industrial customers, as well as Capuchino High School in San Bruno.

Ann Schneider has served on the Millbrae City Council since December 2015.  She represents Millbrae on the San Mateo County Emergency Services Council, City and County Association of Government’s (CCAG) Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC), the SFO Noise Airport Roundtable where she Chairs the Ground Based Noise Ad Hoc Committee. She is Millbrae’s alternate to ABAG and Peninsula Clean Energy Board of Directors.  She serves as council liaison to Millbrae’s Cultural Arts and Community Enhancement advisory committees, and Council Fire and Budget sub-committees.  She also serves on the following Council sub-committees: Infrastructure & Climate Change, Fire Sharing, Budget, Bike Sharing, and Economic Development & Strategic Alliance with SFO.

Ann helped create Millbrae’s first Community Garden in June 2019, and hosted several Bike Rodeos including safe riding course and free helmets, Millbrae’s first Disaster Preparedness Day, and first Martin Luther King Community Volunteer Day.  She represented the City of Millbrae with visits to our Sister City, Mosta in Malta, and to our Friendship City, Hanyu, Japan.  She also worked closely with MCAAC to bring back Millbrae’s Annual Art Shows, the City’s Utility Box Mural Program and the new Adopt a Spot Project.

She is a member of the Millbrae Lions, Advisor to the Millbrae Leos Club, a member of the Millbrae Historical Society, Friends of Millbrae Library, Millbrae Chamber of Commerce, and current volunteer and former board member of Millbrae Community Television.

Ann has worked in the Zero Waste field for over 30 years, spearheading recycling programs in San Mateo County, Hewlett Packard, Santa Clara County Manufacturing Group (now Silicon Valley Leadership Group) City of San Jose, and University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).  She also created and taught courses in the Integrated Waste Management Certificate Programs for San Jose State University and UCSC, and served as a Board Member of the California Resource Recovery Association, and the National Construction Material Recycling Association.

In 2006 Ann created the Sierra Club National Zero Waste Committee, emphasizing extended producer responsibility and full circle resource consumption.  She also created the first “Guide to Commercial Recycling” in the United States.

Ann graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts in Analysis of Ecosystems/Geography.  She is a certified Master Composter, Integrated Pest Management Instructor, Emergency Medical Technician I, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member, and she is certified in all Red Cross Disaster courses.  She completed the coursework for the Master of Environmental Science program at the University of San Francisco.