The chair shall appoint an executive director who shall not be a member of the authority and who shall serve at the pleasure of the authority and shall employ the staff of the conservancy and other necessary persons to enable the authority to properly perform the duties imposed upon it by this division. The executive director shall receive compensation as fixed by the authority. The authority may delegate to the executive director the power to enter contracts on behalf of the authority.

(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 213, Sec. 22. (AB 2768) Effective January 1, 2011.)