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Paul Kelley Elected to Lead Statewide Water Group
ACWA Members Also Choose Randy Record for Vice President Post
| Source: Association of California Water Agencies
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - December 4, 2009) - Members of the Association of California
Water Agencies (ACWA) have elected Paul Kelley to a two-year term as
president of the statewide group. A Sonoma County supervisor and director
of the Sonoma County Water Agency, Kelley had served as vice president of
the association since January 2008.
Randy Record, a member of the Eastern Municipal Water District Board of
Directors, was elected vice president. The two will take office in January.
The election, which took place at ACWA's 2009 Fall Conference & Exhibition
in San Diego, capped a year in which the Association launched several new
public outreach initiatives and supported a historic legislative package on
water passed by the Legislature in November and signed by Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
"We are in tumultuous and challenging times for California water," Kelley
said. "But this organization is a strong organization. We are uniting to
implement sustainable policies and take care of California's water. I am
thrilled to be part of that."
Kelley was first elected to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors in 1994.
He has served as chair of ACWA's Region 1 and is current chair of Sonoma
County's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO).
Record, who currently chairs ACWA's Federal Affairs Committee, has served
on the Eastern Municipal Water District Board of Directors since 2000. He
also represents Eastern on the board of the Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California and is a past chair of the Riverside County Water Task
Force.
ACWA is a statewide association of public agencies whose 450 members are
responsible for about 90% of the water delivered in California. For more
information, visit www.acwa.com.
