Randy Record Elected to Lead Statewide California Water Group

The Assn. of California Water Agencies (ACWA) announced it elected Randy Record, director of Eastern Municipal Water District, to a two-year term as president. John Coleman, member of the East Bay Municipal Utility District Board of Directors (EBMUD), was elected vice president. The two will take office in January 2012.

The election, which took place at ACWA's 2011 Fall Conference & Exhibition, capped a year in which the association launched several new policy initiatives and worked to advance a comprehensive approach to the state's water supply challenges.

“The need to invest in our statewide system has never been more critical,” Record said. “We have faced tough economic times in California in the past, but we had the vision and the will to invest in our infrastructure. We have to find that vision and will again.”

Record has served as vice president of the association since January 2010. He has been a member of the Eastern Municipal Water District's Board of Directors since 2001 and has represented Eastern on the board of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California since January 2003, currently serving as first vice chair.

Coleman has served on the East Bay Municipal Utility District Board of Directors since 1990. He was president of the EBMUD board from 1996 to 2000 and served as vice president in 2009 and 2010. He is past president of the board of the California Assn. of Sanitation Agencies and currently chairs the Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority and the Freeport Regional Water Authority.

Source: ACWA Services Ltd.