PMUA Adding a New Customer, Reorganizing

The Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority expects to ratify another outside contract Tuesday, this time with North Plainfield for "bulky waste," such as household castoffs.

The new contract expands a roster that includes several others for acceptance of vegetative waste at the Rock Avenue transfer station. The outside contracts fulfill the authority's longtime goal of bringing in revenue above what it gets from providing solid waste and sewer services to Plainfield residents.

The meeting, at 6 p.m. on Feb. 11 at 127 Roosevelt Avenue, also includes the annual reorganization at which the board of commissioners will elect a chairman and other officers for 2014. To see the agenda, click here.

The meeting will include passage of the solid waste and sewer budgets as well. At the Jan. 15 meeting, Executive Director Dan Williamson said rates for the first quarter of 2014 will stay the same as those for the last quarter of 2013. Any subsequent increase or decrease will depend on revenues generated, he said.

In January, the commissioners agreed to hire attorneys at $190 per hour to represent themselves in a lawsuit. See details here.

The nature of the litigation was not described, but since then Courier News reporter Sergio Bichao filed a story revealing that former Chief Financial Officer James Perry is suing the commissioners over contractual matters and alleged racial discrimination. Perry, who is white, was offered a 9 percent reduction in his salary even as PMUA commissioners gave two other executives a $725,000 settlement, with Commissioner Cecil Sanders referring to them as family men who "happen to be African-Americans."

Also since January the City Council voted approval for Commissioner Carol Ann Brokaw, a holdover, to succeed herself for a term ending Feb. 1, 2017. The council rejected four other nominees, but the name of one, Charles Tyndale, was brought back and will be up for a vote Monday for a term ending on Feb. 1, 2017, replacing Commissioner Alex Toliver. Commissioner Malcolm Dunn's term expired Feb. 1 and now he is a holdover.

--Bernice

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