OXNARD : Water Board Elects New Vice Chairman
Oxnard resident Patrick Miller who now serves as president of the Calleguas Municipal Water District has been elected a vice chairman of the agency’s parent supplier, the giant Metropolitan Water District.
Miller, 61, was elected to his new position Feb. 9, with his term running through the end of the year. He has been a member of the Metropolitan Water District board of directors since 1990.
The 51-member Metropolitan Water District board of directors has four vice chairmen who represent six Southern California counties. The MWD’s only agency member in Ventura County is the Calleguas Municipal Water District, which provides water to nearly 500,000 residents in Simi Valley, Oxnard, Camarillo, Thousand Oaks and Moorpark.
MWD board members do not campaign for the office of vice chairman, but are nominated by committee. Miller said that as a vice chairman he will represent the concerns of several northern Los Angeles County water districts as well as the Calleguas district.
Miller, who will continue to serve as president of Calleguas, said his new position with the MWD will give him extra clout in pushing forth new policies and plans for the mammoth agency.
“People listen to you a little bit more,” Miller said.
He said one of his chief concerns is finding new and more efficient ways to transport water from Northern California to the Los Angeles County basin.
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