The leader of the San Diego County Water Authority is joining the delegation that the region’s main water buyer sends to manage its water seller – the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
It’s rare that the Water Authority’s general manager, Dan Denham, serve in this capacity. Metropolitan has 26 member agencies, including San Diego’s Water Authority. Most of the board’s directors are political appointees. But it’s the votes of these member agencies that determine who will lead Met after its general manager was ousted, among other things.
Denham will now, potentially, have a vote or a say on the matter. Denham stressed that he’s not been sworn in yet, and likely won’t be until September. (The quest to find Met’s new leader is in progress now – in fact the board is meeting in closed session Tuesday on the matter.)…