Megdal re-elected to CAP board; other three seats uncertain

In a five-way race for four open seats, the race was too close to call for four other candidates for the board, which governs operations of the Central Arizona Project.

With most precincts reporting in the nonpartisan race for five nonpartisan seats, Megdal was followed in order by newcomer Karen Novak-Cesare, a landscape architect, and incumbents Pat Jacobs and Warren Tenney.

Wesley Mehl, a lawyer who works as vice president and general counsel for a real-estate firm, was polling last in a race in which the top four vote-getters win election.

Pima County has four seats on the 15-member board, whose members serve six-year terms.

Carol Zimmerman, who has served on the board for 12 years, did not seek another term.

Megdal is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, and she also serves as director of the University of Arizona Water Sustainability Program.

Novak-Cesare has owned and run the landscape architecture firm Novak Environmental for the last 16 years.

Jacobs is a retired court administrator who has also served on the Northwest Fire District Board, while Tenney is assistant general manager for the Metro Water District.