Bob Buster has represented the 1st District on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors since 1993. A proven community and governmental leader for more than 30 years, Supervisor Buster served two terms on the Riverside City Council in 1980-1983 and 1990-1992.

The 1st District includes about 450,000 residents and encompasses the cities of  Wildomar, Lake Elsinore, and most of the City of Riverside. The district also covers the unincorporated communities of  Gavilan Hills, Lake Hills, Lake Mathews, Mead Valley, Temescal Valley and Woodcrest.

As a dedicated civic leader in the 1970s and 1980s, Bob helped draft initiatives, gather signatures, and lead winning campaigns for laws that now protect more than 10,000 acres of citrus greenbelt, historic Victoria Avenue, scenic hillsides and arroyos, and the Santa Ana River wildlife refuge. These measures helped create Sycamore Canyon Park and Citrus Heritage Park. Bob added 1,000 acres to the scenic Santa Rosa Plateau and he has worked to protect the pristine escarpments overlooking Southwest Riverside County.

On the March Joint Powers Commission, which oversees military base re-use, Bob singlehandedly led the fight to ban noisy DHL cargo jets from flying at night over neighborhoods.

Bob is a native of the City of Riverside and a fifth generation Californian. After working his way through Harvard University and attending Oxford, he served in the U.S. Army. He married Mary Jeanne and returned to his hometown. Bob and Mary are still farming the orange and lemon groves his grandfather planted 75 years ago in Riverside's Historic Greenbelt.

As a Supervisor, he initiated the process that put the 91 Toll Roads back into public hands and opened up additional traffic lanes for Riverside County commuters. He spearheaded the effort to create the Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (TUMF), which has raised more than $500 million from developers (instead of charging taxpayers) for roads, bridges and grade separations. Bob is a proponent of local control, which became the basis for  Wildomar  cityhood in 2008. Bob believes in establishing local committees to provide  residents with a strong local voice in regional planning and important issues that impact their lives.

In Riverside County, Bob continues to be an outspoken advocate for pension reform and taxpayer protections. As far back as 2002, Bob was the first supervisor to publicly warn against raising county pensions to massive levels that could not be sustained by taxpayers.

Bob is a champion for healthcare improvements. In 2010, he received the Outstanding Local Public Servant Award from the American Medical Association for his focus on strengthening relationships between local physicians, hospital providers and county healthcare resources.  Bob provided $100,000 as seed money for the new medical school at the University of California, Riverside. He led the way to secure $10 million, ensuring the school opens in 2012, as part of his initiative to bring  new doctors, medical research and improved healthcare to our region.

Supervisor Buster currently serves as the chairman of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors and the Riverside Transit Agency (RTA). Some other boards on which he serves include:

• Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC)
• Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO)
• Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP)
• State Route 91 Advisory Committee 
• March Joint Powers Commission
• Regional Conservation Authority (RCA)

Dr. G. Richard Olds is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was an infectious disease fellow and one of the nation’s first Geographic Medicine fellows at University Hospitals of Cleveland, where he also served as medical chief resident and a faculty member. In 1986, Olds went to Brown University where he rose to full professor of medicine, pediatrics, molecular, cell and developmental biology and headed that institute’s International Health Institute. In 1993, he became professor and chairman of medicine at the MetroHealth Campus of Case Western Reserve University and in 2000, was appointed as professor and chair of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In 2010, he became vice chancellor of health affairs and founding dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside.

Olds is a tropical disease specialist who has served on the WHO expert committee on schistosomiasis, the WHO working group in the health of school aged children, and the board of a Gates Foundation Initiative to de-worm children in sub-Saharan Africa. Olds is author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews, primarily focused on international health issues.

Known as an educational innovator, Olds has taught undergraduates at Brown and medical students during all four years of training at Case Western Reserve University, Brown and Medical College of Wisconsin. He has won an outstanding teaching award at each institution and he was elected by his peers to the Society of Teaching Scholars at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Olds advised more than 100 students a year at the Medical College of Wisconsin and received the MCW Student Assembly’s “Standing Ovation” Award for these activities.

Olds came to UCR to develop a School of Medicine — the first public medical school in California in more than four decades — which was intended to address the severe doctor shortage in Inland Southern California. In addition, the medical school is developing pipeline programs to bring more diversity into the medical profession, transforming the orientation of medical education to emphasize cultural competency, prevention and outcomes, and serving as a catalyst to improve the health of an area of California that fares poorly in several health indicators.