COSTA MESA : Water Board Faces Options
Tom Nelson’s resignation from the Mesa Consolidated Water District board leaves trustees with three options, officials said Friday.
The four remaining directors can call a special election within 60 days, leave the seat vacant or appoint a replacement for Nelson, who resigned as board president late Thursday saying that he had been urged by his family to do so for health reasons.
Karl Kemp, general manager of the water district, said he expects the board to pick a successor to Nelson. That person would fill a term that expires in November, 1996.
If that is the case, Kemp said, anyone living in the district would be eligible to submit his or her name for consideration. The board will likely decide at its Aug. 24 meeting how it will deal with the vacancy, Kemp said.
Nelson, 69, was the subject of several inquiries during his 17-year tenure on the board. The most recent was in response to a complaint by residents that he was ineligible for the board because he did not live within the area covered by the district.
Nelson owns a home in Seal Beach but maintained that his primary residence is a converted office in Costa Mesa.
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