PMUA Nominee Proposed, Reorg Next Week

Last month Mayor Adrian O. Mapp nominated four new commissioners for the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority, but the City Council rejected all of them. At this month's regular meeting on Feb. 10, the mayor is seeking confirmation of just one proposed commissioner from the list, Charles Tyndale.

Tyndale is nominated to replace holdover Commissioner Alex Toliver, for a term expiring Feb. 1, 2017. This was one of the terms that former Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs wanted to use to lengthen the tenure of Malcolm Dunn and Cecil Sanders. She wanted to shift Dunn from a term that just expired on Feb.1 of this year and tried to move Sanders from a term that expires on Feb. 1, 2015. On Jan. 27, the council did approve one nomination, for Carol Ann Brokaw to succeed herself for a term ending Feb. 1 2017.

If Tyndale's appointment goes through, it would secure the other longest term on the board.

Here is SRB's failed plan:

current	Term	proposed
Alex Toliver (holdover)	2017	Malcolm Dunn
Carol Ann Brokaw (holdover)	2017	Cecil Sanders
Harold Mitchell (holdover)	2016	Barbara James
Cecil Sanders	2015	Carol Ann Brokaw
Malcolm Dunn	2014	Alex Toliver
Charles Eke	Alt 1 2015	Charles Eke
vacant	Alt 2 2015	Jeffrey R. Burke

The PMUA board is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m.on Feb. 11 at 127 Roosevelt Avenue to reorganize. Sanders, who joined the board as an alternate in November 2011 and became a full commissioner succeeding Tracey Brown in January 2013, is the current chairman. Depending what happens at next Monday's council meeting, Toliver, the current vice-chairperson, could be off the board. Dunn, the current treasurer, will stay on the board as a holdover. Brokaw is the current secretary.

Here are posts on the 2012 Reorganization and 2013 Reorganization. The PMUA has gone through a lot of changes and maybe Feb. 11 will bring about more.

Meanwhile, it was interesting just now to come across a memo from Executive Director Dan Williamson on the PMUA web site. Williamson seeks to set the record straight on a recently announced wage freeze. This memo is part of a move to encourage the public to go directly to the web site for PMUA information rather than hearing things from bloggers and their ilk. The web site is at pmua.info

--Bernice

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