Whether it’s the seven office changes during his nearly 30-year career with the JEA or traveling to Tallahassee or Washington, D.C., to represent the interests of the utility to politicians who are voting on pertinent issues, the JEA Director of Legislative Affairs is in constant motion.“I like putting together coalitions of stakeholders when we have a common interest,” said Para. “Take Seattle City Light. We work together quite a bit, even though they are almost 100 percent hydropower and we are about 80 percent fossil fuels, but we still have similar interests.”
