Valley Water chair named
The Valley Water Board of Directors on Jan. 9 elected District 5 representative Nai Hsueh board chair for 2024. Richard Santos, representing District 3, was elected vice chair.
Hsueh previously served as board chair in 2013 and 2020. A registered civil engineer in California, Hsueh worked at Valley Water for three decades. She was first elected to the Valley Water board in November 2012 to represent District 5, which includes the cities of Cupertino and Saratoga, areas of Sunnyvale and southwest San Jose. She was re-elected in 2016 and 2020.
Vision Zero meeting
The City of Cupertino is developing a Vision Zero Action Plan to reduce the number of traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries to zero and has set a second virtual community meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 6 p.m. for residents to give feedback.
To learn more about the project and register for the Zoom meeting , visit cupertino.org/visionzero.
MetroED head to retire
After 11 years leading the Metropolitan Education District (MetroED), superintendent Alyssa Lynch has announced plans to retire at the end of the 2023-24 school year.
Lynch came to MetroED in 2013 after working for the Santa Clara County Office of Education for nine years. She led MetroED’s conversion for from direct funding to local funding, opening up its free Silicon Valley Career Technical Education (SVCTE) courses to juniors and seniors across Santa Clara County. Until that conversion, SVCTE courses were available to students in the high school districts that are part of MetroED’s joint powers agreement.
Lynch plans to work through June. MetroED’s governing board hopes to have the new superintendent chosen in time for there to be an overlap with Lynch to facilitate a smooth transition.