Members Present: Chairman Dwight Jones, Tony Rojas, Frank Peterson, L Golphin, Sam Hart, Christi Ellington, Bill Howell, Dr. Nissa Jones, AMB – MH Allen, Matthew Roach, Jason Small
Board of Trustees Pension Plan Inaugural Meeting
Dates and Times – 3rd Thursday, 2:30 pm
Plan – “included in the packages”
Trustees of the Pension Plan take guidance from MWA board
5 Trustee have fiduciary responsibility
Tony Rojas
Dwight Jones
Christi Ellington
Nissa Jones
Guy Boyle
Lots of organizational decisions for Trustees to include Responsibilities, Manual developmen, Email setup
Pension Committee Meeting
Present: Chairman Dwight Jones, Tony Rojas, Frank Peterson, L. Golphin, Sam Hart, Christi Ellington, Bill Howell, Dr. Nissa Jones and AMB (MH Allen, Matthew Roach, Jason Small)
Nomination and election of Arlene Samuels as Vice Chair
Presentation by AMB re: Retirement Savings Plan
Report presented
Presentation by FiduciaryVest – Jason Small – Investment Performance Report
Question from employees about Pension Portal
Question re: Investment Policy answered by Tony Rojas
Adjournment
Finance Committee Meeting
Present: Chairman Dwight Jones, Dr. Nissa Jones, Tony Rojas, Desmond Brown, Bill Howell, Michelle Wanna, Valerie Wynn, Frank Patterson, Sam Hart, Marvin Land, Guy Boyle, Heather Veal, R Shell
Audit by Miller Edwards of Mauldin & Jenkins. Debt Service Ratio is really good and it was considered a “clean” audit.
Awarding Bids
1. 8” Sanitary sewer relocation – Helix Group
2. Street Sweeping – Lots Appeal Environmental Services. Scope of work was reduced to fit budget.
3. Reconditioning of trucks. Alternative sought – voted to lease
4. PLC – Programmable Logic Recorders for treatment processes. MWA are obsolete and all of them need replaced. The life of this will be about 10 years.
5. Traveling Screen Project #3 — Atlas SSI
6. CRM at risk Billingsley Building renovations – Warren and Associates
Discussion of MWA new Brand and Logo implementation timeline
Engineering Committee Meeting
Present: Frank Patterson, Desmond Brown, Sam Hart, Nissa Jones, Bill Howell, Dwight Jones, Tony Rojas, Valerie Wynn, David King, Michelle Wanna, R Shell, Tom Kelley
Stormwater Implementation Update – David King/Michelle Wanna. Guidebook draft complete
Discussion of messaging during pandemic
Discussion of Street Sweeping. Collected 15 tons in the last week and cleaned catch basins
Cutting of levy – needs it three times/year
Update on Progress of three capital projects
3M gallon water tank
12M gallon booster station
20” water main extension
Update on $51.5M Renovation Projects by Haskell for the Rocky Creek Plant and Lower Poplar Plant.
Originally scheduled to be completed by May but extended with a change order.