Mike Rotkin

Mike Rotkin serves on the WASC as a representative of the Sustainable Water Coalition, a citizens’ group that supports the City’s Integrated Water Plan (conserve, curtail in droughts, and create a new supply so curtailment can be kept at or below 15%). Mike is a former five-time Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, served six terms on the Santa Cruz City Council, and he recently retired from teaching in the Community Studies program at UCSC where he was the Director of the Field Study Program. Now that the City has decided to reopen the water supply discussion (backing away from the earlier commitment to desalination), Mike is excited to be working with a group committed to finding a consensus solution to meeting our community’s need for a water supply that is feasible, adequate, sustainable, and cost effective. Mike is an avid ocean kayaker and thinks he can play guitar.