The Modesto Irrigation District (MID) Board of Directors announced on Thursday, March 24 the appointment of Ed Franciosa to serve as the District’s General Manager. Franciosa will fill this position following the resignation of Bill Schwandt who served as MID’s General Manager for the last fifteen months. Franciosa has been MID’s Assistant General Manager of Transmission and Distribution since 2014, overseeing the electric engineering, substation, metering, line construction, line maintenance and trouble departments.

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