BWD Board of Trustees Meeting

Thursday – January 20: The BWD Board of Trustees (BOT) held their regular monthly meeting and their annual reorganizational meeting all rolled into one this past Thursday at Wellsville Village Hall. Present at the meeting was Board President Mike Ryan and Board members Bob Wines, Dave Lloyd, Rick Williams, Cal Carney, Jack Call, Tim O'Hara and Roy Dray. Also attending was District Manager Al DeAngelis, Fiscal Officer Tony D'Angelo, Legal Adviser Fred Emmerling and Office Manager Greg Stanley. Board member Gene McGaffick was not present.

The first order of business was the nomination and election of Board officers to new two year terms. See our post below.

The Board then retired into a 26 minute Executive Session with Legal Adviser Emmerling and District Manager Al D'Angelis. There was no comment or actions taken when they returned.

Ryan advised he is working on Committee assignments and will have that accomplished in a few days.

For The Treasurer's Report, Wines first commended D'Angelo and all the members of the office staff for getting everything done to close out the year and supplying reports for the litigation proceedings in Common Pleas Court. Everything was accomplished while switching the accounting software program. D'Angelo advised the Board that all funds are now set up as requested by the State Auditors.

Wines also reported that a new check writing printer has been purchased and installed for the Budget & Audit Committee. Finally Wines reported there were no County meeting this month for Liaison Committee.

Jack Call reported that the Insurance Committee will be meeting with several insurance brokers to see where they can go with hospital insurance for the BWD employees. As of March 1 BWD will be dropped from the group plan previously provided through the County. Call noted there will probably be three committee meetings next week and possibly a Special Board of Trustees meeting at the end of the week. Ryan added there is a time constraint to make sure the employees have an insurance plan and indicated an extra BOT meeting will be needed.

For the Rate Study Committee, Call noted he was considering himself as an individual but he has been questioned by several people about all the litigation and water rates. It was his personal opinion that with people not being able to work and pay their water bills he would have a no vote if any surcharge or increase in rates were proposed. Ryan was quoted in the newspapers after the meeting to accept the proposed payment plan to the City of East Liverpool as saying BWD is not looking at any rate increases. The payment plan was for the $4.8 million awarded to East Liverpool for the breach of contract law suit.

District Manager D'Angelis reported that with the holidays there was nothing out of the ordinary to put in the District Manager's Report. With no projects going on there was no Project Report.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:45 AM. The next regular meeting is scheduled for February 17 at 9 AM at Wellsville Village Hall.

Pictured above is your BWD Board of Trustees present at the meeting. From the left is Bob Wines, Dave Lloyd, Rick Williams, Cal Carney, Mike Ryan, Jack Call, Tim O'Hara & Roy Dray.

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