HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE, Calif. – The Hidden Valley Lake Community Services District reported on Tuesday that it has appointed an interim general manager.

On Friday, April 20, the district board unanimously appointed Roland Sanford of Santa Rosa as interim general manager, the district said.

“We are delighted to have Mr. Sanford on board,” said HVLCSD Board Chairperson Linda Herndon. “His consensus building and technical expertise will be invaluable as we move forward as an organization.”

“I’m pleased to be here and to get to know the Hidden Valley Lake community, and I want to thank the HVLCSD for this opportunity,” said Sanford.

Sanford has 27 years of technical and managerial experience with local, state and federal water projects in California – seven years in the private sector and 20 years with public water agencies, 13 years with the Solano County Water Agency and, more recently, seven years as the general manager of Mendocino County Water Agency.

While with the Solano County Water Agency, Sanford served six years as the agency’s assistant general manager and was instrumental in the settlement negotiations that resolved the Putah Creek water cases of the 1990s.

As the general manager of the Mendocino County Water Agency, Sanford led Mendocino County’s participation in the highly successful seven-county North Coast Integrated Regional Water Management Plan and associated grant proposals that secured over $10,000,000 for infrastructure and habitat restoration projects in Mendocino County.

Sanford’s appointment as the interim general manager is expected to last three to six months, the district reported.

On May 1, the district board will meet to discuss recruitment of a permanent general manager.

The board let go its previous general manager, Mel Aust, at its March 20 meeting, as Lake County News has reported.

The district provides sewer and water to an estimated 7,000 residents of Hidden Valley Lake.