Costa Mesa has promoted a city engineer to public services director.
Ernesto Munoz, 55, will head the department, which has 163 employees and a budget of $17.3 million and more than $400 million in city assets, city spokesman Bill Lobdell said in a statement.
Munoz served as interim public services director for five months prior to his appointment Tuesday and has worked for the city for the past 18 years.
