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Recent News 04/30/09 A Message from CIPWO President Don Jordan has been added. 04/24/09 CIPWO is preparing for our Summer Meeting. A report of the CIPWO Spring Officer Meeting has been added. Also see Other News, and Editor Notes at the bottom of the Main Page. Read all about it on this Website! Special Note: Links to our Contributing Members Websites are up now. We are missing links to two of them. If your link does not work please contact CIPWO and we'll get it fixed. If you would like to be listed as a Member on this website please feel free to send us your name and email and we'll gladly add you. |
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Greetings from your President:
My how things can change in such a short time! I was plugging along as always when out of the blue the Paris City Council offered an incentive bonus plan in addition to the ERI already on the table. I thought at my stage of my career that the thing to do was accept it and move on.
I do plan however on fulfilling my commitment as President of this fine organization for the rest of the year. As most of you know the summer meeting will be at the Newton WWTP. I hope to see all of you there.
Don Jordan, City of Paris
Breaking News: Information just released concerning economic stimulus funds on the IEPA Website under the title of 'American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009'. Location of the information is at www.epa.state.il.us or just click on the link on the lower left column of this website.
CIPWO Summer Meeting Info
Location: Newton WWTP, Newton IL
Date: July 29, 2009
Fees: None
Speakers: TBA
CIPWO Spring Officer Meeting 2009 News
As it has been in the past the Spring Officer’s Meeting for CIPWO was held following the opening day of the IAWPCO Conference in Springfield on April 21, 2009. The following topics were discussed; Location for the Summer Meeting, Speakers for that meeting, the organization’s budget, and a letter to be sent to State Representatives concerning staffing levels for the IEPA.
The location for the Summer Meeting was suggested and agreed upon to be held at Newton WWTP. Several speakers were suggested but without being able to verify their ability to attend we will wait to release that information at a later date.
Secretary-Treasurer Dave Miller reported that the budget was doing well due to attempts to control costs in several aspects of the organization’s business operations. The members will benefit from this by seeing no lunch fees for this year’s Summer Meeting. A full budget statement will be released shortly and will be posted on this website when it becomes available.
Finally, it was unanimously agreed that a letter should be penned and sent to various representatives to request attention be given to improved staffing at the IEPA. For far too long it is felt that the State Government has failed to keep up with the inherent demand for replacement Agency Staff to the point that the environment is at risk of being adversely impacted and Public Safety is put at unnecessary risk as well. A copy of the letter will be added to this website as soon as it becomes available.
- President: Don Jordan, Paris WWTP
- Vice President: Larry Dorn, Newton WWTP
- Coordinator: David Collard, Charleston WWTP
- Coordinator: Kristin Platt, Charleston WWTP
- Secretary-Treasurer: Dave Miller, Rantoul WWTP
- Lawrence Quick, 1998
- Greg Gress, 1999
- Larry Dorn, 2000
- Billie Kinnett, 2001
- Dave Sullivan, 2002
- Don Jordan, 2003
- Frank MacPherson, 2004
- Rick Pinnell, 2005
- Gerald Lynch, 2006
- David Collard, 2007
- Kristin Platt, 2008
4/24/09 Don Jordan, our current President, informed us at the Springfield Conference that he has been offered and accepted early retirement from the City of Paris. The offer had been there for some time but it was only recently that it reached a point at which Don could no longer turn it down.
Don plans to fulfill his current commitment to CIPWO and will remain as an Officer of the Organization until his terms are ended.
Don's last day with Paris will be the 30th of this month. I wish to take this opportunity on behalf of CIPWO to wish Don a long, healthy, and happy retirement.
4/24/09 As mentioned in the Spring 09 Officer's Meeting article it looks like the CIPWO budget is doing very well. I would like to thank Dave Miller for his efforts to control costs. From his efforts to aquire and keep contributing members, to his wheeling and dealing with Holiday Inn to keep costs down, to his sage advice on how to best use this internet technology to the best advantage of the Group.
One of the items which helped keep the budget in hand was the decision to go strictly to this website as the primary vehicle to get infomation out to the membership and to do away with the hardcopy newsletter.
We can obviously see the monetary benefit from this decision, but I was wondering if we are indeed getting the information out better as was hoped when we made this decision. I'd like to offer the idea that if you have a comment or concern in this area that you contact any of your CIPWO Officers and let us know your thoughts.
This or any organization can not survive without a good mechanism to pass along information. I know that I feel the website is doing it's job, but new input from other perspectives are always helpful!
The Editor
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We hope you enjoy the new WebSite!
Newsletter 33, Winter 2008
