CVSan: General Manager Nominated as President of the ACSDA

Castro Valley Sanitary District’s (CVSan’s) CVSan’s General Manager (GM), Roland Williams, has recently been nominated and successfully elected to serve as President of the Alameda County Chapter of the California Special Districts Association (ACSDA). This will be his fifth two-year term as President of ACSDA.

The ACSDA was the founding Chapter of the California Special Districts Association (CSDA) in 1990 and began with 12 Member agencies. The CSDA serves as the organization to contact regarding proposed governmental endeavors that might affect Special Districts that provide Alameda County residents with services such as fire protection, hospitals, mosquito abatement, open space, parks, recreation, resource conservation, sanitation, transportation, and water. Today, the ACSDA has a total of 20 Member agencies, six Partner Members, and is actively involved with many partner agencies such as the Alameda County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), East Bay Regional Parks District Park Advisory Committee (EBRPD-PAC), and the East Bay Economic Development Alliance (EBEDA).

In previous years under the guidance of GM Williams’ ACSDA Presidency, the ACSDA created the website format for which the CSDA modeled a template for all other Chapters to use when designing websites, initiated the allowance of Partner Members to generate revenue for the Chapter, and was recognized by the CSDA for promoting and holding a 2018 Districts Make the Difference Student Video Contest in conjunction with the statewide competition, which resulted in a Castro Valley High School student winning a third place scholarship at the state level. The ACSDA was the CSDA’s 2018 Chapter of the Year Award recipient, an honor it received after being nominated by a neighboring Chapter in recognition of the ACSDA’s continued advocacy for education, good governance, and promotion of public outreach of Special Districts.

Congratulations to GM Williams on beginning your next two-year term as President of the ACSDA.