The Board of Directors
John Pringle Position 1 Term Expires 12/10Mr. Pringle owns and farms several local cherry orchards. He is also a land developer. He has served in many capacities as a member of the Board of Directors since August of 1983. He is a past President and Vice-President of the Board. Mr. Pringle serves on the Realty Committee.
jpringle@kid.org
Patrick McGuire Position 2 Term Expires 12/12Mr. McGuire retired from the United States Navy, where he supervised operations, maintenance and training on several different naval nuclear power plants. He currently farms forty-five acres that he owns in Badger Canyon. Mr. McGuire chairs the Finance Committee and acts as Board liaison to the Water Rate Advisory Committee.
pmcguire@kid.org
David McKenzie Position 3 Term Expires 12/11Mr. McKenzie owned and operated a John Deere dealership. He now manages his family farm raising cherries, grapes, hay and cattle. Mr. McKenzie chairs the Operations and Engineering (O&E) Committee.
dmckenzie@kid.org
John Jaksch Position 4 Term Expires 12/10Mr. Jaksch owns a small cherry orchard. He has more than 30 years of professional experience in water quality/quantity issues pertaining to irrigated agricultural and urban water use. He is retired from Battelle Memorial Institute. His educational background is in resource economics and finance. Mr. Jaksch is President of the Board and serves on the O&E and Finance Committees. jjaksch@kid.org
Gene Huffman Position 5 Term Expires 12/12Mr. Huffman has an educational background in Agriculture and has owned and operated a farm raising alfalfa, apples and onions. He worked as an electrical troubleshooter and service manager dealing with all phases of irrigation from design to implementation, as a heavy-duty mechanic and as a realtor. He served 20 years on a rural school board. Mr. Huffman is Vice President of the Board and chairs the Realty Committee. ghuffman@kid.org
The Kennewick Irrigation District is a non-profit, quasi-governmental organization that is governed by a five-member Board of Directors. Directors are elected by the district’s ratepayers to serve three-year terms. The Board is responsible to set KID policy.
Regular Board meetings are held the first and third Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held at the KID business office at 12 West Kennewick Avenue, in downtown Kennewick. Meetings usually start at 9:00 a.m. and are open to the public.
An agenda is posted on the bulletin board in the district office lobby by 1:00 p.m. the Friday before each meeting. The public is usually allowed time to address the Board during each meeting. If you wish to speak to a specific agenda item, please notify the district office before the meeting begins. No action can be taken on items not on the posted Board agenda.
July 27, 2010 KID Board special meeting revised agenda
July 20, 2010 KID Board meeting packet
Each director serves on one or more committees that focus on different areas of operation. The KID Board committees are as follows:
Operations and Engineering Committee: The current Operations and Engineering Committee chair is John Jaksch.
Realty Committee: This committee advises the KID’s Asset Management staff on negotiations and master planning. The committee meets only as needed. The current Realty Committee chair is John Pringle.
Finance Committee: This committee acts as the Budget/Assessment committee. It reviews the budget and advises in its preparation. It also periodically reviews district finances to ensure that budgets are followed. The current Finance Committee chair is John Pringle.
Planning Committee: This committee deals with water management: water rights, supply and distribution alternatives, salmon/in-stream flow requirements and irrigation group interactions. The committee also advises the board on district boundary, reclassification, hydraulic power and potable water issues. All five board members are also members of the Planning Committee.
Any qualified district elector may run to serve a three-year term as one of the five members of the Kennewick Irrigation District Board of Directors. The terms are staggered so that at least one position is up for election each year. In the next election (December 8, 2009), Board positions two and five are open for election for a full three-year term. Petitions for candidacy must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. the first Monday in November.
Board of Directors Nomination Packet
Board of Director Conflict of Interest Policy & Procedure
RCW 42, Public Officers and Agencies
RCW 87, Irrigation Districts Generally
For more information, contact the KID at (509)586-9111.