Central Basin Municipal Water District: board of directors.

Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, provides for the formation of municipal water districts and grants to those districts specified powers. Existing law permits a district to acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any water for the beneficial use of the district, its inhabitants, or the owners of rights to water in the district. Existing law requires the board of directors of the Central Basin Municipal Water District to be composed of 8 directors until the directors elected at the November 8, 2022, election take office, when the board would be composed of 7 directors, as prescribed. Existing law requires the 3 directors appointed by the water purveyors, as specified, to live or work within the district and requires the term of an appointed director to be terminated if the appointed director no longer is employed by or a representative of the appointing entity. This bill would define representative for these purposes to be a consultant to or contractor of an entity, or a governing board member of a mutual water company. The bill would require a consultant to or contractor of an entity, in order to be eligible for nomination as a director, to have commenced services to that entity at least one year prior to nomination. The bill would state that an individual nominated for appointment to the board of directors is required to be employed by or a representative of the entity that puts forth their nomination. The bill would state that a director appointed by the water purveyors takes office at noon on the first Friday in December following the director's appointment.