Sue Holt

Sue represents the unincorporated-area users of City water on the WSAC.  She came to Santa Cruz during the 1970s’ drought to teach environmental economics and statistics at UCSC.  She enjoyed teaching too much to get tenure, so she spent the next three decades teaching at Cabrillo until retirement.  One of her teaching interests was to showcase the varieties of collaboration that communities develop for natural resource protection.   Key factors in community-based resource protection include transparency, accountability, and a sense that everyone’s concerns are addressed.  She feels fortunate to collaborate with her 13 colleagues on the WSAC.  Sue also, occasionally, consults on residential water use to the Soquel Creek Water District.   Her outdoor adventures have included rowing the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon a couple times.  Sue had also made changes in her own home and thinks the best thing about switching her garden to natives (besides conserving water) is the amazing bird and butterfly show.