Nine finalists to be interviewed for TRPA director post

Wednesday, April 19, 2000 | 10:21 a.m.

A subcommittee of the TRPA's governing board is scheduled to begin interviewing the finalists next week. The full board could make an appointment to replace Jim Baetge when it meets April 26.

Baetge resigned in January due to health reasons.

The new director will guide the bistate agency as it tries to build $900 million dollars worth of erosion control projects and other programs that experts say are needed to save Lake Tahoe's famed clarity.

"It's critical we get a new executive director in there who will be able to lead the agency," said Brian Sandoval, a former state assemblyman and Nevada's at-large appointee to TRPA's governing board.

"We need somebody who has a vision and the ability to carry that vision out."

Sandoval also serves on the committee that will begin interviewing finalists on Monday.

Among the finalists are Pam Wilcox, administrator of the Nevada Division of State Lands and executive officer of the Nevada Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and Janet Wold, who retired in 1997 as supervisor for Stanislaus National Forest.

Other finalists are Bill Allayaud, principal planner for Salt Lake City; Mark Carey, King County, Wash., land use services manager; Thomas Clarke Jr., environmental attorney in Redwood City, Calif.; Carl Hasty, TRPA environmental improvement program coordinator; Roger Hedrick, director of a planning consultant firm in Lafayette, La.; Gregory James, water director and natural resource counsel for Inyo County, Calif.; and Phil Williams, a Spokane, Wash., planning consultant specializing in infrastructure management.