C-12-19
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Reappointments to the Customer Advisory Committee
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SUMMARY:
The Customer Advisory Committee (CAC) was established in November 2006 to assist in and facilitate public review and discussion of Water Authority policies, plans and programs. The CAC consists of nine voluntary members who are customers of the Authority's water or wastewater system. The resolution, R-06-27, establishing the CAC recommends that the appointed members have professional or technical competence in one of the following areas: water resource planning, water system engineering, environmental or public interest advocacy, planning or landscape architecture, financial or business management, resource economics, and customer service.
Three of the current members have completed their first term and are eligible to be reappointed to a second two-year term. The following are the current three members and the category they represent:
Ø Lola Bird, Landscape Architecture Category
Ø Frederick Arfman, Water System Engineering Category
Ø John Shomaker, Water Resource Planning Category
Staff recommends that these three members continue to serve on the CAC. Below is a summary of their professional and academic background.
BIOGRAPHY OF APPOINTMENTS:
Lola Bird, RLCA, AICP - Ms. Bird, a registered Landscape Architect in the State of New Mexico, and Urban Planner, has been working as an urban and landscape designer for more than ten years in Albuquerque. Ms. Bird is a principal of Strata Design LLC, a local, women-owned architecture, landscape architecture and planning firm. Her past professional experience includes master planning, site planning, landscape design for commercial and multi-family projects, campus planning, corporate identity and wayfinding. She previously worked at Dekker/Perich/ Sabatini and Denish + Kline Associates before establishing Strata Design. She has experience in a diversity of project types including sector planning and entitlement planni...
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