Re-elect Tom Moore to the

Board of Directors

Marina Coast Water District

There are two seats up for election, so please also vote for Roland Soltesz

Photo by Zmak Photography

Introduction

While much of it is hidden from sight underground, the infrastructure that Marina Coast Water District (MCWD) operates and maintains is technically complicated and essential to your daily survival. You demand clean water every time you turn on the tap or run your washing machine. And you never want to see the wastewater from your home or business flowing in the streets and causing serious disease.

Since MCWD is a local government agency, there are thousands of laws it must carefully comply with each and every day. Thus, the management, operation and maintenance of MCWD infrastructure involves very complex tasks. It requires dedicated, detail oriented, highly trained and educated employees.

Members of the Board of Directors must be equally well prepared for their role at MCWD. The Board sets budgets and rates, makes capital improvement and strategic plans, and approves policies and certain hires for a very specialized group of 50 employees who manage an annual budget of $58 million for an agency that has a net position (similar to net asset value) of nearly $217 million.

My Top Priorities

· Ensure that you have clean drinkable water 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and the safe removal of all your wastewater.

· Defeat the attempts of Cal Am to get source water for their desalination plant from the Marina portion of the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin and their attempts to take more money from MCWD ratepayers.

· To insist that MCWD Staff maintain the latest physical and cybersecurity equipment and processes to ensure the safety of the critical infrastructure that MCWD operates.

· Support MCWD efforts to work cooperatively with other water agencies such as Monterey One Water, Monterey County Water Resources Agency, Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency and even Cal Am when necessary.

· Do our part to solve the problem of seawater intrusion into the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin.

· Ensure that MCWD can continue to hire future employees who are appropriately trained and experienced.

Education

· Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Tech

· M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University

· B.A. in theoretical Mathematics with a minor in Physics from Northeastern University.

· Graduate of the U.S. Army Field Artillery School Officer Basic Course

· Graduate of the U.S. Army Engineer School Officer Basic Course

· Graduate of the U.S. Army Engineer School Officer Advanced Course

· Graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff College

· Graduate of the U.S. Naval War College

Past Local Public Service

· City of Marina Planning Commission - 6 years

· Marina Coast Water District Water Conservation Commission - 4 years

· Board of Directors, Marina Coast Water District - 28 years

· Board of Directors, Monterey One Water - 14 years

· Monterey County Local Agency Formation Commission - 2 years as alternate

· Special District's Association of Monterey County - 20 years

Employment History

· Recently retired from 48 years of full and part-time teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level. I have taught for the U.S. Naval War College, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Stanford University, Golden Gate University, Virginia Tech, Hartnell College and CSU Monterey Bay.

· Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel, U.S. Army Engineer Corps.

· For more than 40 years I’ve been a part-time soccer referee at the college, adult amateur and high school levels.

Endorsements:

· Jan Shriner

· Gail Morton

· Matt Zefferman

· Dr. Monigue Fargues

· Ernesto Pacleb

· Judy Merritt

· Paula Pelot

· Joe Blau

· Dr. Bob Tomlinson

· Stephen Hardy