The public agency that provides electricity to most Richmond residents lost its founding chief executive last week, one day after a county grand jury found that the agency had been mismanaged for years and that its board had repeatedly failed to oversee it.
Dawn Weisz, who co-founded MCE in 2010 and led it as it grew from a small Marin County experiment into an agency serving 1.8 million customers across four Bay Area counties, left June 17. MCE announced the departure the following day in a brief press release that gave no reason for her exit.
“The Board of Directors is confident in the agency’s ability to seamlessly continue operations during this transition,” the release said…