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Minutes for Reorganization Meeting - February 02, 2010

Present: Mr. Milam, Mr. Calloway, Mr. DiLolle, Mr. Pileggi and Mr. Fiore.

Salute to the flag and a prayer.

Mrs. Denneny read the Opening Statement: "Pursuant to the Open Public Meetings Act, adequate notice of this meeting, as required by said Act, has been provided by preparing a written notice stating the time, date, location, agenda and statement whether formal action will be taken, which notice was: posted on the Authority bulletin board, e-mailed to the Courier Post and Gloucester County Times and filed with the Township Clerk on January 26, 2010.”

MMUA Reorganization: Mr. Moore opened the meeting and asked for a motion to appoint the Chairman.

A motion was made by Mr. Fiore and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 5-10. RESOLUTION TO APPOINT MIKE MILAM CHAIRMAN. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. Pileggi and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 6-10. RESOLUTION TO APPOINT JOE DI LOLLE,JR. AS VICE CHAIRMAN. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. Calloway and seconded by Mr. DiLolle to adopt Resolution 7-10. RESOLUTION TO APPOINT CARMEN FIORE AS SECRETARY. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 8-10. RESOLUTION TO APPOINT JERRY G. MOORE AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY. The motion passed on a roll call vote. A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Fiore to adopt Resolution 9-10. RESOLUTION TO APPOINT HANK CALLOWAY AS TREASURER. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. Calloway and seconded by Mr. DiLolle to adopt Resolution 10-10. RESOLUTION TO APPOINT NICHOLAS PILEGGI ASSISTANT TREASURER. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 11-10. RESOLUTION RE-APPOINTING JERRY MOORE AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND AUTHORIZED SIGNATOR ON BEHALF OF THE MONROE MUNICIPAL UTILITIES AUTHORITY. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution No. 12-10. RESOLUTION APPOINTING JERRY G. MOORE FINANCIAL DIRECTOR. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 13-10. RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE COURIER POST IN CHERRY HILL, NJ AND THE GLOUCESTER COUNTY TIMES IN WOODBURY, NJ OFFICIAL NEWSPAPERS. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 14-10. RESOLUTION APPOINTING FEDERICI & AKIN, P.E. ENGINEER. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 15-10. RESOLUTION APPOINTING TRIMBLE AND ASSOCIATES SOLICITOR. The motion passed on a roll call vote. A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 16-10. RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING MEMBERS OF MMUA. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 17-10. RESOLUTION DESIGNATING OFFICERS TO SIGN VOUCHERS. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 18-10. RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING OFFICERS TO SIGN AND ENDORSE CHECKS. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 19-10. RESOLUTION REGARDING CASH MANAGEMENT PLAN. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 20-10. RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ESTABLISHMENT OF REVENUE COLLECTION SAVINGS ACCOUNT. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 21-10. RESOLUTION FOR SCHEDULE OF REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE MONROE MUNICIPAL UTILITIES AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR 2010. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 22-10. RESOLUTION APPOINTING LINDA MAURONE CLERK TRANSCRIBER. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 23-10. RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING OFFICIAL SIGNATURES TO SIGN CASH IN LIEU OF BOND ACCOUNTS. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 24-10. RESOLUTION APPOINTING CAPITAL FINANCIAL ADVISORS, INC. AS FINANCIAL ADVISOR. The motion passed on a roll call vote. A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 25-10. RESOLUTION APPOINTING CHARLENE DENNENY CUSTODIAN OF PUBLIC RECORDS. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 26-10. RESOLUTION APPOINTING WENDY MAHONEY DEPUTY CUSTODIAN OF PUBLIC RECORDS. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 27-10. RESOLUTION APPOINTING REMINGTON & VERNICK CONSULTING ENGINEER FIRM TO COVER CONFLICT AND SPECIAL SERVICES RELATED TO ENGINEERING MATTERS. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 28-10. RESOLUTION APPOINTING COMPLETE CONTROL SERVICES, INC. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM INTEGRATOR. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adopt Resolution 29-10. RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MONROE MUNICIPAL UTILITIES AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH THE AUDITING FIRM OF BOWMAN & COMPANY. The motion passed on a roll call vote. A motion was made by Mr. Calloway and seconded by Mr. DiLolle to adopt the minutes from the Regular Meeting on January 13, 2010. The motion passed unanimously.

A motion was made by Mr. Calloway and seconded by Mr. DiLolle to open the meeting to the public. The motion passed unanimously.

A motion was made by Mr. Fiore and seconded by Mr. DiLolle to close the public portion of the meeting. The motion passed unanimously.

REPORT OF ENGINEER J. Federici

Nothing to report at this time. Mr. Federici thanked the Board for his reappointment.

REPORT OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR J. Moore

Nothing to report at this time. Mr. Moore thanked the Board of the Directors for their confidence in him and added that he looked forward to continue to work with them.

REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT G. Cossabone, Sr.

Mr. Cossabone congratulated the Board of Directors.

REPORT OF SOLICITOR J. Trimble, Jr.

Mr. Trimble had nothing to report but congratulated everyone on their appointments and thanked the Board for their continued confidence in his firm.

REPORT OF CHAIRMAN: Mr. Milam

Mr. Milam thanked his fellow Board members for his reappointment as Chairman and added it was a privlige to serve with all four of them. He said he does not take it lightly and garners knowledge from everyone of them.

REPORT OF BOARD MEMBERS

Mr. Fiore

Mr. Fiore asked when the job with Level I would be complete.

Mr. Moore said the start up on the Route #322 Booster Station will be February 16th.

He asked if this was the final payment and Mr. Moore said they were almost paid completely for the project.

Mr. Fiore questioned the bill from Remington & Vernick for $1,605.00, and asked if this was the final payment for them.

Mr. Moore said that it was the final payment for the Scotland Run Pump Station.

Mr. Fiore asked if he would see their name that we owed them any more money. Mr. Moore said there should be no more other than retainage for jobs that they have completed. Mr. Fiore asked what jobs were remaining and Mr. Moore said Kimberly West and Melva Lane.

Mr. Fiore said that this year “I plan to eliminate all these so called Engineers, I want them out of here. Not for any personal reasons, a thousand dollars here and two thousand there for money that we owe them. I want to stop that because we are going to look at certain things and these gentlemen I want to see their stuff stopped. I want to get my thumb on what we owe every individual and there is nobody going to come in I don’t care what kind of engineer he is. Any engineer that gets work now is going to work, I want him to sit in a chair, I want him to explain, they should explain to the entire Board what he is going to do and what money we owe. I haven’t seen Remington & Vernick’s man here the last time he was here we got in a dispute about $8,000.00 that he took off of us. His equipment went down and I had an experience with them in 1984/1985 I know we paid 2 million dollars because of his father-in-law being on the job in Pennsauken. His father-in-law got away with all the crap and we had to go back, the company I was with, and spend 2 million dollars out of our bank account, there was no bond coverage. I don’t want these guys to come in and start selling you, I know these people.”

This having two or three engineers working for us is going to stop, 1995 we had one engineer and that was Mr. Federici and Doug Akin. They did all the work and right now we don’t have any work and we are not going to have any big projects as far as I’m concerned. I am not going out and bonding any more money, we are done bonding. If something happens to us and the millions of dollars in equipment, this is nothing personal against anybody. The millions of dollars on our equipment, pipes, pumps, electrical work doing nothing. There is one ASR Well that hasn’t produced and the Plate Settler. I don’t even know. I want to go down there and I want that so called ASR Well online and I want to feel it and see it drawing water. I just want to let you know what direction I am going in, I don’t want to argue with anybody, fight with anyone or accuse anyone but we are going to run this really tough because we need the money.

Report of Liaison: Mr. Garbowski

Mr. Garbowski congratulated the Board and noted what an excellent job that everyone does. The MUA has the public’s best interest at heart.

He noted that DEP was out doing testing and asked if they would report back to the Authority. Mr. Moore said they will check and said he would contact the DEP and inform him of the details.

Mr. Garbowski said that he approached Council with regard to the Gloucester County Utilities Authority and the rates. He said if the Authority wants to put something together then Council would follow up.

Then Mr. Fiore said “I was talking to a good friend of mine and he said that the GCUA is filled to capacity and they don’t know if they are going to build another plant. He added that I have been saying for two years about us building a plant, investing 18 million dollars, its something where we will get our money back. Mr. Fiore said I wanted to bring up about the money that the government is giving out, someone just got 25 or 27 million dollars. I don’t know where they are taking this money from, there are corporations that have money just sitting there, people don’t know its there and they should ask to try and get it instead of going to a bank and borrowing it at their rate.”

A motion was made by Mr. Calloway and seconded by Mr. DiLolle to approve the Investment Summary. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. Pileggi and seconded by Mr. DiLolle approving Operating and Payroll Vouchers. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway for approval of payment for Project Vouchers. The motion passed on a roll call vote.

Mr. Fiore again spoke up and said he was Board Member and Secretary of the Board and said he was the secretary for a reason and he has a lot of power. If I am a going to initiate it, I don’t have to deal with anybody in this room. He asked the Board, Executive Director and Superintendent that any reports that come in from testing of the water but I have never heard the Director or the Superintendent give us a report on testing done out in the field. Mr. Federici asked, new construction. Mr. Fiore said not new construction because I keep my eye on that, its old construction, testing wells. I would like for you to give us a report on every test that is run out there by the DEP or any company. Mr. Fiore asked Mr. Trimble if he was asking for anything illegal. Mr. Trimble said it was up to the Board what type of reports they want the professionals to provide. Mr. Fiore said I am a Board Member and I have the right to ask a question and if I don’t get the answer then I will go another way but I will get the answer. I have the power to ask the questions to the right people without hurting anybody. Why do they have to designate you to have to approve something the whole five members should know. Mr. Trimble said I am just telling you procedure, I don’t think I understand what you are saying. He said the Chairman directs through the Board, he added that the Chairman or the Engineer directs him to prepare certain reports. Mr. Trimble said I am not sure if one individual Board Member can call him and request a report. Mr. Fiore said the Chairman runs the Board but what I am trying to tell you is that we have an ASR well down there and we have spent over $100,000.00 and we went over the limit. There was no report given to this Board that the well meets Joe’s specifications, if that well is going to hold up. I’m sure the Chairman would like to know or maybe he does know but I don’t know. I should know because I was put here by the Council of this community, I want to know and I’m not trying to be a troublemaker but I think I should know. Am I doing anything illegal? Mr. Trimble said you should direct everything to the Chairman. Mr. Fiore said he would bring it before the Chairman. I want to say this, I think we have an excellent Superintendent, he’s been around quite awhile and he does know a little more than me but he does a great job and I don’t want to offend anyone. He said at the rate we are going then they will come to me and say we are going to bond for another five years and I am going to tell them, “like hell you are.”

A motion was made by Mr. DiLolle and seconded by Mr. Calloway to adjourn the meeting. The motion passed unanimously.