Eastern Municipal Water District’s (EMWD) board of directors has selected Ronald W. Sullivan and Joseph J. Kuebler, CPA, to two-year terms as president and vice president, respectively.

Among other noteworthy recognitions at its first board meeting of 2009, directors Sullivan and Randy A. Record began their latest four-year terms as elected board members.

Sullivan represents EMWD’s Division 4, which includes the cities of Perris and Menifee, Mead Valley, Good Hope, Quail Valley, Romoland, Sun City and the eastern portion of the City of Canyon Lake.

A board member since January 2003, Sullivan is the immediate past president of the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority, an organization of five water agencies in the 2,800-square-mile Santa Ana River watershed.

He brings many years of experience with city and county organizations to EMWD, including chair of the Riverside County Planning Commission, city of Hemet Planning Commission and Riverside County Aviation Commission.

A licensed general contractor, Sullivan is an owner of Sullivan & Sullivan Development & Consulting.

He earlier served as a representative for former State Senator Marian Bergeson.

His EMWD board term expires in January 2013.

Kuebler represents Division 2, which includes the cities of Temecula and Murrieta and a portion of Murrieta Hot Springs.

He has served as EMWD’s treasurer since May 1996 and as a board member since April 2006.

He is president of Kuebler, Prudhomme & Company, one of southwest Riverside County’s largest CPA practices serving a client base of companies in real estate development, engineering, medical, retail and agricultural industries.

Kuebler has served as chair of Region 9 of the Association of California Water Agencies.

His EMWD board term expires in January 2011.

Other board members include David J. Slawson, the board’s immediate past president and a member of the EMWD board since January 1995.

Slawson, an attorney and licensed professional land surveyor, is president of Winchester Associates, a civil engineering and land surveying firm based in Moreno Valley.

He is also a former Advertisement

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Slawson’s Division 5 includes the central and northern portions of Moreno Valley and the eastern portion of Riverside.

Active in statewide issues, he is a member of the Association of California Water Agencies’ (ACWA) Water Quality committee and is a former member of the California Department of Consumer Affairs’ Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

His EMWD board term expires in January 2011.

Record, a fifth-generation San Jacinto native, has been active in the farming community for more than three decades.

He is a past EMWD board president and was first elected to the EMWD board in 2000.

He represents Division 3, which includes the communities from San Jacinto through Lakeview, Nuevo, Homeland, Juniper Flats, Soboba Hot Springs, Gilman Hot Springs and the southern and eastern portions of Moreno Valley.

Record has represented EMWD on the board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California since January 2003.

In addition, he is chair of the ACWA Federal Affairs committee and past chair of the Riverside County Water Task Force.

His EMWD board term expires in January 2013.

Phil Paule shares two decades of leadership experience from state and federal government.

His Division 1 extends from portions of Murrieta Hot Springs and French Valley north through Winchester and Hemet, including Valle Vista, Diamond Valley and Cactus Valley.

Paule and his wife have two sons.

His EMWD board term continues until January 2011.

Directors are elected to four-year terms and represent divisions roughly equivalent in population, or about 135,000 people each.

Public meetings of the EMWD board are generally held on the first and third Wednesdays of each month.

Work sessions begin at 9 a.m. and the board meetings start at 1 p.m.

Members of the public interested in attending a meeting should contact the board secretary during normal work hours at (951) 928-3777, ext. 4235, to be certain the meeting is being conducted on the normal date.