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MAGSA Board Selects Attorney, Forms Adhoc Committees

At the August 2 McMullin Area GSA Board Meeting, the Board selected Ron Donlan from Ellison Schneider Harris & Donlan LLP out of Sacramento as General Counsel. Rob Donlan is a Partner in Ellison Schneider Harris & Donlan. Rob specializes in water and natural resources law, including all aspects of surface water and groundwater rights and management; state and federal Endangered Species Acts and fisheries laws; the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); water quality and wetlands regulation; and other areas of state and federal regulation involving use and management of water resources. Rob’s experience also includes public agency governance and administration, infrastructure and regulatory finance, desalination and recycled water use, and water supply for power and energy development.

To support the various administrative and technical functions of the McMullin Area GSA, several adhoc committees were formed with Board member appointments:

  • Technical Advisory Committee – Board Members Don Cameron and Jerry Rai
  • Financial Committee – Board Members Matt Abercrombie and Jeevan Singh
  • Outreach Committee – Board Members Matt Abercrombie and Jeevan Singh
  • Human Resources Committee – Board Members Jerry Rai and Jeevan Singh

In other business, the Board approved a contract to engage the firm Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group (P&P) through June 30, 2018 as the engineering firm to oversee, manage and coordinate the preparation of a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP). P&P proposed scope of work is segregated into several phases including data collection, compilation and review; GSP development; and administrative support. The total estimated fee for the services is $234,000 with $42,500 for the data collection, compilation and review phase, $153,000 for the GSP development phase, and $38,000 for the administration phase.

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