Beau Goldie, Chief Executive Officer
Beau Goldie is the Chief Executive Officer of the Santa Clara Valley Water District, the water management agency for Santa Clara County's 1.8 million people. Mr. Goldie is focused on leading the agency's unique integrated water resources mission which includes the supply of clean safe water, flood protection, and stewardship of streams.
Mr. Goldie joined the district in 1984 as an engineer and has worked in water supply planning, groundwater protection, environmental compliance, and watershed programs. Before being appointed as CEO, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Capital Programs Services.
A resident of Morgan Hill, Mr. Goldie serves on the board of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce. He is a registered professional engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Resources Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering.
Stan Yamamoto, District Counsel
Stan Yamamoto began his service as District Counsel on February 1, 2010. Mr. Yamamoto is a graduate of San Jose State University and earned his law degree at the University of Santa Clara School of Law. His experience in the public sector encompasses more than 29 years including having served as the City Attorney for the cities of Redwood City, Riverside, and Modesto California. He was a recipient of a National Urban Fellowship and received recognition as Management Leader of the Year (Public Sector) by the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management , University of California , Riverside.
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Michele L. King, CMC, Clerk of the Board
Michele King was appointed Clerk of the Board on Jan. 12, 2010. As a Board Appointed Officer, she answers directly to the Board of Directors and supervises a staff of 10. Ms. King has been with the district since 2004 and has had over 12 years experience in providing support to elected officials of special districts. As a Certified Municipal Clerk and a member of the Northern California Clerks Association and the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, she brings years of experience and training to her job of assisting Board members and the public.
As Clerk, her priorities are ensuring that the public has access to the board’s information and records as well as supporting board members so they can do the jobs they were elected to do. Ms. King is an expert in state regulatory requirements, such as the Ralph M. Brown Act, which ensures through posting and archiving of records that the public has equal access to the information of the district’s elected officials. While overseeing her staff, she also makes sure the district complies with regulations and deadlines for board and committee meetings, agenda publications, frequent Groundwater Production Charge Protests, directors’ schedules and travel plans, Lobbyist Ordinance compliance, public record requests, directors’ expenses, and the Board of Directors, Board Advisory and Ad Hoc Committee, and Clerk of the Board annual budgets. .
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Jim Fiedler, Chief Operating Officer: Water Utility Enterprise James Fiedler is the Chief Operating Officer for the District’s Water Utility Enterprise. He has served in this capacity since 2007. A member of the district staff since 1982 he has over 29 years of leadership and engineering experience in the area of water supply, flood control and watershed stewardship. His management and technical experience includes regional water resources, flood and environmental planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance of water supply and flood protection infrastructure.
Mr. Fiedler is a registered civil engineer in California. He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, and graduate of Stanford University with a Master's degree in Civil Engineering.
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Sharon Judkins, Chief Administrative Officer Sharon Judkins is the Chief Administrative Officer at the Santa Clara Valley Water District. As CAO, Ms. Judkins directs the operations of Budget and Financial Planning; Human Resources and Labor Relations; Information Management; Corporate Business Services; including Contract Administration and Public Procurement; Warehouse Services; Fleet Services; and Ethics and Equal Opportunity programs.
Ms. Judkins has more than 25 years of strategic leadership and executive management experience in both the public and private sectors, with emphasis on municipal/public organizational development and performance-based management. She received a Bachelor’s degree in History/Political Science from Virginia Union University and a Master’s degree in Human Resources Development with a focus on Organizational Development from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
In addition to her national experience, Ms. Judkins served two years as an international advisor on legislative financial reform to the National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa. She serves on the Board of Directors for the National Forum for Black Professional Administrators (NFBPA) and has been a member since 1993.
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