PID looking for a new director
Directors may approve new employment deal that includes a 5% raise
The Paradise Irrigation District will hold a special meeting Monday to address an opening for District 1 director and ratify a new employee’s agreement.
According to the agenda, District 1 Director Brian Shaw tendered his resignation on June 17. PID’s Executive Assistant Georgeanna Borrayo said that Shaw’s resignation was because he longer has property in Division 1 that he intends to build on.
The district is now looking to replace a director for the fifth time since the Camp Fire struck the Ridge in 2018.
Since then, Dan Wentland, Anne Rice, Dan Hansen, and Bob Prevot.
Hansen had been appointed to replace Wentland in Division 1 but ran unopposed in Division 5 in 2020. He resigned earlier this year and was replaced by Robert Matthews.
Shaw was selected to the position in the winter of 2020 as a replacement for Director 2 Bill Kellogg, who had resigned for health reasons. The others who applied were Alan Hinman, Jr., Heidi Lange, Henry Martin and Michael Snyder.
In November 2020, Shaw was elected to the District 1 position with nearly 60% of the vote, defeating his opponent Chris Rehmann. Shaw resigned about halfway through his term.
The current board consists of Hinman in Division 2, PID Board President Shelby Boston in Division 3, Marc Sulik in Division 4 and Matthews in Division 5.
Hinman was elected to the Division 2 seat in 2020 to finish out Kellogg’s term defeating Kellogg, who had sought to win his seat back after his resignation, and Fred Hayden. Boston replaced Rice in 2019 and ran unopposed in 2020. Her seat is up for reelection in November. Sulik, the longest-serving director, is also up for reelection this year. He was initially elected in February 2017. Because of Shaw’s resignation, every seat is up for election in November.
The next steps for replacing Shaw are as follows:
• The district must notify the county elections official within 15 days of the date of vacancy, or by July 2, 2022.
• The remaining members of the district board can fill the vacancy by appointment or by calling an election within 60 days of the vacancy. If no action is taken for a period of 60 days immediately subsequent to a vacancy on such a board, the Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to fill the vacancy by appointment. Although rarely utilized, the law does provide for an alternative appointment in that the PID board may call for an election to fill the vacancy in lieu of appointment. The obligation to call an election becomes mandatory if the seat remains vacant for 90 days. (Gov. Code § 1780, subdivision (g)(1).)
• If the vacancy is filled by appointment, the person appointed shall serve until the next general election in November 2022, and thereafter until the person elected to fill the vacancy assumes office in December 2022. A notice of vacancy must be posted in three or more conspicuous locations at least 15 days before an appointment to fill the vacancy can be made.
The district will also ask the directors to ratify a proposed tentative agreement between the district and IBEW Local Union 1245 and update the terms of the agreement in the rules and regulations governing employment conditions, salaries and benefits for employees in the general unit effective July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
The new deal calls for a 5% increase in pay starting July 1 and a 2.5% increase in pay every July starting in 2023. It also states that on July 1, 2022, when both parties’ ratification whichever is later, full time employees shall receive a onetime off the salary schedule payment of $2,000.