Civil Engineer, retired

Dusty recently retired as the General Manager-Chief Engineer of the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, a position he held for the last 13 years of his 41-year career with the District.  Dusty holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cal Poly, Pomona and is a licensed Civil Engineer in California.  In addition to his position on the Board of the RLC, he is also a Board member and the current Chair of the United Way of the Inland Valleys.  Further he serves on the Board of the Riverside County Parks Foundation, sits on the Cal Baptist University Civil Engineering Industry Advisory Council and is a volunteer docent for San Bernardino County Public Works Department.

Assistant County Counsel for County of Riverside (retired)

Karin Watts-Bazan joined the Office of County Counsel in April of 1988 as a Deputy County Counsel and retired in March 2018 after serving 30 years. For most of her career, Karin has practiced land use and environmental law with particular emphasis on federal and state Endangered Species Act compliance. She has provided legal advice and assistance in the development and implementation of several Habitat Conservation Plans including the Stephens’ kangaroo rat Habitat Conservation Plan, the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, and the Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan

Eric Johnson is a Riverside resident and spent 25 years working in Construction Equipment and Power Generation.  Private and non-profit Board experience.  He has been on the RLC Board for 5 years.

Alfred Javier has been employed at Eastern Municipal Water District since 1988 and currently serves as the Director of Environmental and Regulatory Compliance.  Additionally, Mr. Javier is an associate faculty member at Mt. San Jacinto College specializing in water technology education, including classes for Introduction to Water and Wastewater and Laboratory Methods for Water and Wastewater.  He has previously served as the chairperson for both the Santa Ana River Dischargers Association and the Southern California Association of Publicly Owned Treatment Works Water Section.  Currently, Mr. Javier is the chairperson for the San Jacinto Coalition, an association of Agricultural Owners and Operators organized under the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board for compliance with the Conditional Waiver for Agricultural Dischargers.  Mr. Javier has a B.S. in Biology and a Masters of Public Administration.

Rail Design Engineer, HDR Engineering

Mr. Ryan holds a B.A. in civil engineering.  At HDR Engineering, he is responsible for railroad track design utility coordination, construction observation, and safety.

Director of R'Garden at the University of California, Riverside

Mr. Morales holds a B.S. in Environmental Sciences and is currently a graduate student at the School of Public Policy at UC Riverside. He is responsible for the educational programming and operations of the R'Garden, including 3 acres of community garden plots, row crop production, and a citrus grove.

Community and Environmental Activist

Mrs. Block, a member of the RLC Board since 1989, was one of the organizers of groups that provided the citizen impetus to preserve natural areas including: The Box Springs Mountain Park, Sycamore Canyon Park, and, as one of the founders of the group Preserve Our Plateau, the addition in 1991 of 3800 acres to The Santa Rosa Plateau Preserve. She also was actively involved in the establishment of the County of Riverside’s Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan. In 1995 Jane purchased property in downtown Riverside on Mission Inn Ave and created a non-profit center to house environmental groups including RLC.

Vice President, Properties and Land Development, Vulcan Materials Company, Western Division

Mr. Linton has an extensive background in corporate finance.  For over 20 years, Mr. Linton has been responsible for managing Vulcan's real estate portfolio throughout the state of California.  He has reclaimed old mining sites into restored natural habitats, productive farmland, and water recharge facilities.  Capitalizing on the company's land reclamation experience he has headed Vulcan's efforts into land conservation, mitigation banking and water conservation as a standalone business activity.

Marketing Manager, The Toro Company

Orion is a Riverside native and works as the Channel Marketing Manager for The Toro Company’s irrigation and lighting division, where he leads channel partner relationship management, demand generation programs, and customer acquisition strategies. In addition to serving on the RLC Board, Orion also serves on the Inland SoCal United Way’s Board of Directors, and on the Advisory Board for Keep Riverside Clean and Beautiful. Orion holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Cal State Fullerton, an MBA from the University of Redlands, and a professional certificate in Project Management from the UCR Extension Center.

Sr. Account Manager with CityWorks

Ms. McKinney heads up the Riverside Regional Office for CityWorks People+Places. Her expertise is in community engagement, relationship-building, and marketing to the benefit of residents, stakeholders and her agency. She spent 15 years with a regional water agency, as well as the early portion of her career at The Press-Enterprise. She has numerous past affiliations with groups such as the Association of California Water Agencies, California Special Districts Association, Public Relations Society of America - Inland Empire Chapter, and Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce.

City Manager, Policy Advisor, Municipal Consultant - Retired 

Prior to his retirement in 2014, Steve had more than thirty- eight years professional public and private sector experience in municipal management, urban planning, economic development, housing, and public finance. As a city manager, policy advisor, municipal consultant, developer, or as a departmental director, he had served nearly 60 public and private sector organizations. He negotiated, developed public financing structures, and prepared feasibility studies for more than $4 billion in real estate development projects.  Steve was an executive team member in the establishment of two newly incorporated California cities serving as the first Community Development Director and second City Manager of the City of Murrieta and the first City Manager of the City of Jurupa Valley. He held the positions of President of the City of San Diego’s Southeast Economic Development Corporation (SEDC), and Deputy City Manager of the City of Santa Ana serving as the City’s Executive Director of both the Redevelopment Agency and Housing Authority. He is a past Member of the Board of Directors for the California Municipal Finance Authority (CMFA). Serving as an Instructor at Northwestern University, the University of La Verne, and California State University, Northridge, Steve facilitated the education of more than 1,000 graduate students in public policy, urban management, globalization, and economic development. He studied Comparative Politics, Environmental Economics, International Relations, and Russian History at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from California State University, Long Beach. Steve currently teaches political history for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of California, Riverside.

Dr. Stephen Osborn has conducted and published research throughout his career addressing fundamental questions of groundwater and solute migration in the environment.  He grew up in Riverside California attending UC Riverside for degrees in Environmental Science (B.S.) and Soil Science (M.S.).  Following this, he worked with the USDA as a physical Science technician and then Environmental Consulting for many years.  While working as a consultant, he developed an interest in Hydrogeology and Geochemistry and decided to go back to school for degrees in Geology (M.S.) at Georgia State University and Hydrology (Ph.D.) at the University of Arizona.  His dissertation work focused on an improved understanding of the source and migration of deep basinal fluids (groundwater and microbial/thermogenic methane) in the northern Appalachian Basin region.  Following this, he started as a post-doctoral researcher at Duke University, where I investigated shallow groundwater quality in close proximity to oil/gas well production in Pennsylvania and New York (Marcellus Shale).  Results from this work were published in PNAS (2011) and became highly cited as growing environmental concerns from energy production and hydraulic fracturing has developed.  Currently, Dr. Osborn is a professor at Cal Poly Pomona and research faculty in the CSU Water Resources and Policy Initiatives.  My on-going research program continues to investigate groundwater quality where there is intensive oil/gas production, expanding to areas in California.

*Served as Officer

Andy Bodewin

Ann Brady

Beth Martinez

Beverly Wingate*

Bill Judge

Bob Hewitt

Bob Nelson*

Bob Shipley

Brian Moore*

Carole Bell

Dallas Holmes

Dan Clark

Dan Silver

Diana Ruiz

Dwight Tate

Eileen Ashwal*

Frank Heyming*

Gary Strickland*

Greg Ballmer*

Harald Schraer

Jack Easton*

Jeff Beehler*

Jenny Cleary

Jerry Jolliffe

Jim Davis

Jim Dudek*

Joan Patton

Kelly Alhadeff-Black

Kevin Wolf*

Kim Davidson-Morgan

Kim Hammond

Kristi Lovelady

Lewis Vanderzyl

Lynn Calvert-Hayes

Mac McQuern*

Marion Mitchell-Wilson*

Mary Lou Morales

Michele Ouellette*

Nancy Stephens

Norman Ellstrand

Norton Younglove

Paul D. Jones II

Patricia Lock-Dawson

Ray Becker*

Robert Zweig*

Rodolfo Ruibal*

Rosanna Scott

Sarah Mundy

Sheila Ferguson

Steve Anderson

Tom Scott

Virginia MacDonald

Walter Parks