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Biennial Review and Appointment of Regional Board Representatives <br />December 20, 2022 <br />Page 3 <br />3 <br />1 <br />4 <br />2 <br />Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) Board <br />The Orange County Sanitation District is a wastewater treatment facility that serves <br />Orange County, California. It consists of two operating plants, referred to as Plant No. 1 <br />located in Fountain Valley and Plant No. 2 located in Huntington Beach. It is the third <br />largest wastewater treatment facility west of the Mississippi River. OCSD and the <br />Orange County Water District were awarded the Stockholm Industry Water Award in <br />2008 for pioneering work to develop with Trojan Technologies the Groundwater <br />Replenishment System, the world’s largest water purification plant for groundwater <br />recharge. A board member and alternate are appointed by the majority of the City <br />Council. <br />The current representative is Councilmember Johnathan Ryan Hernandez and former <br />Councilmember Nelida Mendoza was serving as alternate. <br />Orange County Vector Control <br />The Orange County Vector Control Board is an independent special district dedicated to <br />controlling rats, mosquitoes, and other disease carrying and public health pests. <br />Activities also include surveillance of vectors and vector-borne diseases, public <br />education services and identification of public health pests. Each Trustee is appointed <br />by the city they represent to serve a two or four-year term. <br />The current representative, former Councilmember Nelida Mendoza, was appointed to a <br />term that will expire on January 2024. A representative may only be removed for cause. <br />Orange County Water District <br />The Orange County Water District manages, replenishes and protects the Orange <br />County Groundwater Basin—Orange County's largest source of drinking water. <br />The 270-square-mile basin provides approximately 75 percent of the water supply to <br />more than 2.5 million residents in north and central Orange County. <br />A 10-member board of directors governs the District and implements policies that foster <br />sound management of the basin, as well as support the advancement of OCWD's <br />mission to provide an adequate, reliable, high-quality water supply at the lowest <br />reasonable cost in an environmentally responsible manner. Seven board members are <br />elected and three are appointed by Anaheim, Fullerton and Santa Ana city councils. <br />Former Councilmember Nelida Mendoza was serving as the representative. <br />Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) District #16 <br />Pursuant to the SCAG bylaws, each SCAG district in the six-county SCAG region has <br />one Regional Council seat. Regional Council members are elected by a vote of the <br />cities in each SCAG district that are members of SCAG. Elections for Regional Council <br />District Representatives are completed every other year, with elections for odd- <br />numbered districts occurring in odd-numbered years, and elections for even-numbered