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 the Newton WWTP.

Secretary-Treasurer Dave Miller reported that the budget was doing well due to measures to control costs in several aspects of the organization’s business operations. The members will benefit from this by seeing no lunch fee 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.



Archive date 04/24/09

CIPWO Winter Meeting 2009 News

Given the weather and road conditions the CIPWO Winter Meeting of 2009 was an unqualified success! Though census was low we had a much better turn out than we had expected with about forty members present, and seven Contributing Members setting up booths. Add to this that Dan Marsh of ISTC, and Dan Simpson and Steve Adams of Bernardi Securities all made it to give their presentations and more could not be asked!

The Business Meeting opened and Larry Dorn was welcomed as a returning Officer for the group as the newly elected Vice-President. Thanks Larry for your willingness to dedicate your time and energy. Thanks was also given to Gerry Lynch for his service as our outgoing Coordinator. Don Jordan has now stepped into the President's Office and Kristin Platt was installed as our new Coordiantor.

Also during the Business Meeting the changes of 2008 were recapped and discussion given to this website replacing the old Newsletter. It was a consensus that we should periodically send out mailings for a while to make sure everyone who used the old Newsletter is aware of the website. With no additional items for discussion the business meeting was adjourned and the floor was given to Bob Voss for an update of the Operator Certification CEU Program which is still moving forward.

A presentation from Dan Marsh of ISTC concerning his organization's assistance to industries and communities of water (& energy) conservation issues was offered. This was followed by a presentation from Dan Simpson and Steve Adams of Bernardi Securities concerning alternative methods of financing capital projects. Both presentations offered insight and information that many of our members might find useful for future references. We are adding links to ISTC and Bernardi's websites for those that might not have made it to the meeting to acquire the information they have to offer. (Please find them in the 'CIPWO Links' Section on the Lower Left of the Webpage.)

Following a lunch break we closed the day in the Vendors area were we took time to meet with the Vendors and view their wares. The final event was the drawing of door prizes supplied by those same vendors.

We hope to see you all at the Summer Meeting which will be held on the last Wednesday of July!

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Editor's Note: 7/15/08 As additional information concerning this site I'd like to take this opportunity to mention a few things that we plan to do with it.

Mailing List: We can and will add anyone to a mailing list to inform you when this site is updated which will allow you to obtain organizational updates in the fastest way possible. It would merely require that we have your email address on file.

Vendor Recognition and Links: We hope to offer a Link Page from this website for all of our contributing vendors that would take our members (and anyone visiting this site) directly to their business's websites. I feel it is important to support those that support us. Without our vendors many of the things our organization enjoys would not be available.

Archive date 11/18/08
CIPWO held it's Annual Summer Meeting at the Urbana Champaign Sanitary District's Northeast Plant in Urbana IL on July 30, 2008. Turn out was very good considering that this was the first event in which we depended entirely on this website for information! I believe attendence was over 50 members.

CIPWO would like to take this opportunity to thank our two presenters for this event; Tim Cicero of Vandevanter Engineering who spoke on the subject of Control and Control Theory, and Joe Piscula of Donohue & Associates who spoke on the Topic of Long Term Control Plans. The content of these subjects was very useful and informative and the manner in which they were presented was both educational and entertaining. Joe and Tim we can not thank you enough!

We also want to thank the Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District and it's staff for the opportunity to hold our meeting there and for the Tours which were given that afternoon. UCSD has and maintains Facilities that are some of the best in our Region. It's Staff are some of the finest Operators in our Community as was evidenced during the tours. Thank you.

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Archive date 01/30/09

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11/14/08 The Fall Meeting of the Board was held in Champaign, IL today. Topics discussed were the Annual Winter Meeting and Speakers as noted below this article. In addition the topic of the Newsletter was discussed and it seemed to be a consensus that the Newsletter is too problematic and as reported by our Secretary-Treasurer earlier this year too expensive to continue.

Attempts have been made to address the former issue yet delivery has and is an on-going issue. The latter issue could be addressed by increasing dues, but the Board would prefer not to do that at this time unless duly necessary.

What has been proposed instead is to use this website as a replacement for the Newsletter. By doing so costs are no longer at issue yet the problems of access which plagued the Newsletter are also resolved simply by visiting this site. Additionally, all members can and are being added to an email notification list to inform them of when this site is updated. Thus giving a much faster access to the News of the Organization than could be accomplished by any periodical.

Discussion was also given to a mail-out with this website URL to better facilitate getting the word out to the membership. You can bet this will be a topic for the Business Meeting in January.

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CIPWO Winter Meeting will be held on Wednesday January 28, 2009.

Location will be at the Holiday Inn at Urbana, IL.

Sign-up will be from 9:00 AM -10:00 AM.

Directions: Just off the Lincoln Ave. Exit From I-74 on Killarney Street

Membership dues will be $5. As of this time the cost for Lunch is again $20.

Speakers will be:

First Speaker; Dan Marsh, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, University of Illinois
Topic: Strategic Energy and Water Reduction (Initiative)

Second Speaker; Dan Simpson, Bernardi Securities
Topic: Alternate Method(s) for Project Financing