Lower Valley Water District Special Meeting Tonight

There is a special meeting tonight of the Lower Valley Water District and there are two very interesting items on the very short agenda.

Both deal with Jack Alayyan and an allegation against him.

Click here to see the agenda item.

Item 8 deals with "discussion and possible action to address personnel investigation, pending personnel matter involving the General Manager, and status of General Manager's contract of employment."

Items 9 and 10 also appear to be possibly related. They will "discuss the evaluation of the Chief Deputy General Manager's evaluation". Ricardo Hernandez is the Chief Deputy General Manager. He was previously a consultant for the LVWD until the position of Chief Deputy General Manager was created. Because the two are so close its not clear if items 9 and 10 are some sort of discipline for Hernandez or if they are on the agenda in the event that the Board chooses to replace Alayyan with Hernandez.

As I previously mentioned, a similar item was posted on several agendas going back to 2014 with a different employee.

Lower Valley Water District provides water and trash collection service to about 20,000 homes in the Mission Valley areas of Socorro, Sparks, San Elizario, Clint, and Cuadrilla. They are also the largest wholesale customer of El Paso Water Utilities.

More to come.

Comments