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Eugene Water & Electric Board announced Thursday, Sept. 18, its CEO and general manager, Frank Lawson, plans to retire next year.
Lawson, 64, has served nearly a decade in the role after working about six years as an engineering supervisor. He told the board of commissioners in early August of his plans to leave.
“It’s been an honor to work with you, but I don’t want to say too much now about that, because there’s a lot of work left,” Lawson said.
The utility has launched a nationwide search for a successor, similar to the hiring effort underway at Springfield Utility Board, where general manager Jeff Nelson announced in March that he would retire in June next year.
Lawson has not set a final day but intends to overlap with the incoming manager before leaving in spring 2026.
EWEB recently agreed to a new deal with the Bonneville Power Administration to keep buying most of the electricity for Eugene customers from BPA’s Columbia River dams. The deal will cost up to $3 billion.
Last month, a federal judge ruled in favor of EWEB in a case over fish passage at the Carmen-Smith Hydropower Project on the McKenzie River.
