Marcus Elected Head of Public Works Board
Prominent environmental activist Felicia Marcus was elected president of the Board of Public Works on Wednesday, replacing Steve Harrington, who died last month. Appointed to the Public Works board in 1989, Marcus, 35, founded Heal the Bay, the organization credited with pressuring the city to develop a plan for better managing the dumping of raw sewage into Santa Monica Bay.
As board president, she will be in charge of the plan to renovate the city’s sewage treatment plants, which she called “the largest public works project in the city’s history.”
The five-member Board of Public Works supervises the Department of Public Works, the 6,000-employee department that provides sanitation, construction, engineering and other vital city services.
Marcus said one of her goals for the 1990s is to “educate citizens how to produce less trash.”
She will also oversee the city’s ambitious recycling program, the multimillion-dollar plan to get 80% of the city’s residents to separate their garbage by 1995.
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