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Ryan Pedrotti
3424 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa · 707-328-0890 · ryanp5521@gmail.com

November 25th, 2019

Koff & Associates
2835 Seventh Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

To Whom It May Concern,

I am interested in the BACWA Executive Director position. Currently, I work as the Education
and Public Outreach program manager for Sonoma Water. I believe my education, training,
experience, and values make me an ideal candidate for this position.

As education and public outreach manager, I manage a team of ten staff who are responsible
for implementing education and public outreach programs throughout the Russian River
watershed. Our educational content includes storm water, wastewater, climate change, water
and energy efficiency, and water quality. My team is responsible for providing field trips,
classroom lessons, staffing outreach events, leading public tours, and coordinating public
meetings. My responsibility is to train and evaluate these programs and staff members, and to
share the content mentioned above with elected officials, technical experts at cities and water
districts, and regulators. My program’s budget is 2.5 million, from five different external
revenue sources and six different internal funds.

In 2017 I met with Sonoma Clean Power’s (a JPA) board of directors to convince them to fund
my program to deliver climate change and energy education programs. We are currently in the
third year of our climate change education program. This year I met with technical staff
members in cities adjacent to our existing service area to convince them to fund my program to
deliver storm water education as a requirement of our shared MS4 permit.

I have taken on additional responsibilities at Sonoma Water, to work on organization wide and
innovative projects. I led a team of colleagues on a process to manage each of our core
functions (water supply, flood control, and sanitation) through Effective Utility Management (as
designated by AWWA). I coordinate a leadership lunch, where colleagues gather once a month
to discuss topics relevant to leadership and management. I coordinate the Career Pathways
Program, which is a partnership with a local nonprofit that provides at-risk youth year-long
internship opportunities in our technical departments. I have spoken to stakeholder groups
about Sonoma Water’s biological opinion and restoration requirements and our various
discharge requirements (our facilities span two different regional water quality control boards).

I am the chairperson of the board of directors of a local nonprofit, the Center for Social and
Environmental Stewardship. The organizations employees 20 staff and delivers environmental