The Suburban Cities Association recently appointed Auburn City Councilmember Bill Peloza to the Metropolitan King County Regional Water Quality Committee for a one-year term ending Dec. 31.

Peloza serves 37 cities and nearly one million citizens as its representative.

He is caucus chair selected by his committee peers. The committee engages and recommends policy for water quality, drinking water, wastewater, storm water, reclaimed water, combined sewer and related financial water issues in the region.

Three regional Metropolitan committees were established in 1993, Regional Transit, Regional Water Quality and Regional Policies Committees. The mission of these regional committees is to develop, review and recommend action to the Metropolitan King County Council on regional plans and policies for consideration in their assigned areas.

Earlier this year, Peloza was appointed to the National League of Cities’ Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Steering Committee.

The panel has the lead responsibility for developing NLC federal policy positions on issues involving air quality, water quality, energy policy, national wetlands policy, noise control, and solid and hazardous waste management.

NLC President Ted Ellis, Mayor, Bluffton, Ind., made the announcement.

As a member of the committee, Peloza plays a key role in shaping NLC’s policy positions, while advocating on behalf of America’s cities and towns on Capitol Hill, with the administration, and at home.

The chair of this year’s Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee is Michael A. Sesma, Council Member, Gaithersburg, Md. Serving as this year’s vice chairs are Matt Applebaum, Mayor, Boulder, Colo., and Mary Hamann-Roland, Mayor, Apple Valley, Minn.

For more information on NLC’s other committees and councils, visit www.nlc.org/influence-federal-policy/policy-committees.