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 – 3^rd 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.

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