Davis Names Water Resources, Parks and Recreation Chiefs, Labor Commissioner
Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Tom Hannigan, a former Democratic assemblyman from Fairfield, as the new director of the the Department of Water Resources and as a member of the Fish and Game Commission.
Davis also made two other key appointments.
Rusty Areias, 49, a former Democratic assemblyman from Los Banos, was named director of Parks and Recreation, a post that pays $105,883 a year. Areias is now a member of the California Coastal Commission.
Marcy Saunders, 49, a manager at the Building and Construction Trades Council of San Mateo County, was named labor commissioner. She will be paid $87,166 a year.
Hannigan, 58, served in the Assembly for 18 years and was majority floor leader from 1986 to 1996. He is a real estate broker.
He will be paid $105,883 a year.
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