Born: Omaha, Nebraska
Represents on MWD board: City of Pasadena
Joined MWD board: June 1985
Current MWD committee appointments:
Chair: Metropolitan
Board of Directors; Executive Committee
and the Special Committee on Bay-Delta
Water industry affiliations:
Brick served
14 years on the Pasadena Utility Advisory
Commission, which directs the municipal
water and power department, including
four terms as chair. He is a member
of the Colorado River Water Users Associations,
National Water Resources Association
and a member of the board of POWER
(Public Officials for Water & Environmental
Reform.) He also belongs to the Audubon
Society, the Nature Conservancy and
the Society for Ecological Restoration.
Brick was vice-chair of the MWD board
from 1998-2000 and chaired the Water Planning & Resources
Committee (1995-1998) as well as the Headquarters
Committee, which developed MWD’s
Union Station Headquarters. He has
also chaired the Water Education Committee,
the Water Quality Committee, and the Strategic
Plan Implementation Committee. This Spring
Brick attended the World Water Forum in
Mexico City and delivered a presentation
on Southern California conservation and
integrated planning efforts at a panel
on the “Challenges and Perspectives
of Megacities.” Brick also
played an important role in the development
of MWD’s World Water Forum program,
which provides grants to Southern California
colleges for educational efforts addressing
world water problems.
Professional and community activities:
Brick is an organizational consultant,
currently serving as Managing Director
of the Arroyo Seco Foundation, a non-profit
organization devoted to the protection
and promotion of the Arroyo Seco watershed,
a major tributary of the Los Angeles
River. He has previously served
as an executive and consultant for a
wide variety of business, governmental
and nonprofit organizations such as
the Hahamongna Operating Company, Pasadena
AIDS Community Coordinating Committee,
Hospice of Pasadena, the Pasadena Health
Department, USA for Africa and others.
Brick was also a member of the advisory
committee of the Business Technology
Center of Southern California.
Previous appointments have included the
California Energy Commission's residential
standards advisory committee, the Joint
Public Utilities Commission/Energy Commission
committee on marginal cost pricing and
the advisory committee for the Rand Corporation/Los
Angeles Department of Water and Power
Peak Period Pricing Experiment. Brick
graduated from California State University,
Los Angeles with a bachelor’s degree
in philosophy and has pursued further
studies in broadcast journalism and resource
economics.