Pitlock replaced by McIntire on PUC

Pitlock sought reappointment but had been in limbo since the end of September, when his term expired. A veteran of 20 years of public service, he had finished out the term of Lucy Stewart after she resigned from the post paying $80,700 a year.

"Obviously I was hoping to stay, but I respect the governor's decision," said Pitlock. "The only indication I got was that he was looking for a change in the direction of the commission and wanted someone new."

His replacement, McIntire, was named the PUC's director of the regulatory operations staff in July by PUC Chairman Don Soderberg.

McIntire started work in 1992 as an economist for the state Public Service Commission, renamed the PUC in 1997. When the commission was restructured in 1997, McIntire went to work at the Bureau of Consumer Protection in the attorney general's office.

Guinn said McIntire was "a perfect selection" because of his PUC experience and background as a consumer advocate.

In other appointments, Guinn named three Clark County people to a task force that will decide the health priorities in spending millions of dollars from the national tobacco settlement.

They are Dr. John Ellerton, an oncologist with more than 20 years experience, who is chairman of the Clark County Anti-Tobacco Task Force; former Assemblywoman Maureen Brower, director of advocacy and communications for the American Heart Association, and Dr. Elizabeth Fildes, a consultant for the Family Medicine Faculty Development Project and certified addiction counselor.

The Task Force for a Healthy Nevada was created to determine how part of Nevada's tobacco settlement money will be allocated over the next 25 years. The state is to receive $1.2 billion or about $45 million to $48 million a year.

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