The Kern County Water Agency appointed two long -time employees to head the powerful company after the board was to run its general manager just one month before the end of his contract.
Nick Pavletich and State Water Project Manager Craig Wallace, manager of the administrative company, will use the agency with the search for a new general manager at the beginning of a recruitment committee. The two were named interim manager after a special meeting on Tuesday morning.
Pavletich, who has been with the agency for 24 years, will monitor local activities. Wallace, who has worked for the agency for a little more than 10 years, will monitor the nationwide activities of the agency with a focus on the DELTA transport project.
The Board agency also announced that it would be a consulting committee of board members to work with the CO managers to “ensure stability”.
The local water managers were stunned last week after the Board McCarthy agency, who had only worked at work since 2020. After numerous special sessions with a closed session were held with an object that was listed as “public employed discipline/discharge/publication”.
There was no reason except that the board wanted to go in a “new direction”. Immediately after coordinating the board of directors, McCarthy was relieved of his tasks from his tasks, which does not extend his contract, which will take place on June 30th.
This shock takes place a little more than a year after the agency displaced her long -time lawyer Amelia Minabrrigarai.
The top position of the agency can be difficult.
Anyone who takes over the reins will be responsible for around 60 employees, a budget of 365 million US dollars and a large, complicated organization with the fingers in almost every water aspect of California water.
The agency is the second largest contractor of the state water project.
In addition to agricultural water, it is the drinking water supply to suppliers that serve large parts of East Bakersfield.
It has the right to high river water on the core River. It is one of six units that control the massive core water bank. And it is one of three members who rule the Kern River Groundwater Sustainability Agency who can monitor water tables and set pump boundaries.
The agency also controls the movement of considerable amounts of water in and from the district through the Cross Valley Canal, which can move water to the east and west from the California aqueduct and is connected to numerous other channels to the central bakers field.