The November 19 actions of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California board included naming the San Jacinto Tunnel portal after Randy Record.
Record was on the Eastern Municipal Water District board for 24 years before declining to run for re-election in 2024. He was on the MWD board from 2003 to 2022 and was the MWD board chair from 2014 to 2018. Record also chaired MWD committees before becoming the board chair.
“I’m just really honored that my colleagues on the Met board would do that for me,” Record said.
MWD has a facilities naming policy that establishes criteria and procedures to submit a request to name one of MWD’s facilities after a person. The criteria includes that the person had a substantial, important, and positive impact on MWD as a board or staff mem
