Senate committee considers reshuffling state water agency
Apparently the Texas Water Development Board won’t be a witness to its own execution.
Tuesday morning, the Senate Natural Resources Committee took invited testimony on a proposal that would dismiss the agency’s six part-time commissioners and full-time executive director, replacing them with three full-time commissioners and a new director.
The logic, said state Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, who chairs the committee and authored the proposal as part of a wider effort to pay for and implement the state water plan, is to professionalize the agency’s leadership.
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In keeping with changes at a host of state agencies the past few years, a shakeup at the Water Development Board could bring the agency, which could have a lot more clout if the Legislature approves financing for the state water plan, under closer control of Gov. Rick Perry, who has long counted Fraser as a dependable ally.
More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/senate-committee-considers-reshuffling-state-water/nWMmn/ .
[font color=green]Because when an agency is going to be spending billions of dollars, Perry has to stick his thumb in the pie. I wonder how many campaign donations Perry will receive from the construction companies contracted to do the work?[/font]
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