Longtime employee named Costa Mesa’s city engineer
Longtime Costa Mesa employee Bart Mejia has been promoted to city engineer, a role to which he brings decades of professional experience in engineering and project management.
Mejia has been with the city for more than 25 years, working in “almost every engineering position in the city,” he said Tuesday.
He has been acting city engineer since February, following the death of Fariba Fazeli after a battle with cancer.
Mejia said he is “humbled and honored to have been selected for this position.”
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In addition to improving roads and building needed facilities, Mejia said one of his top priorities is “to continue to search for and obtain grants to leverage the city’s dollars and to continue to provide the services that our residents expect.”
Costa Mesa Chief Executive Tom Hatch and former Public Services Director Ernesto Munoz announced Mejia’s promotion Friday.
In a statement, Munoz called Mejia the “ideal choice” for the job and praised “his soft but firm personality, professionalism and dedication.”
“He has been intimately involved with the development of the Fairview Park master plan and managed the construction of many of the plan’s elements,” said Munoz, who officially left the city Friday to take a job in the private sector.
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Luke Money, lucas.money@latimes.com
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