First Huntington Sanitary Board Meeting

This semester I will be attending the monthly meetings of the Huntington Sanitary Board and then blogging about what goes on during these gatherings. My first meeting was last week, on Jan. 20.

According to members of the board this was a very routine get-together. The meeting was divided up into eight parts and totaled under an hour, with the largest amount of time being devoted to an executive session where all the citizens in attendance had to wait in the hallway while the staff discussed a personnel issue. The other sections of the meeting were minutes, finances, field operations, plant operations, administrative, good and welfare (questions and comments), and the discussion of when future meetings would be.

The most interesting part of the meeting was the administrative section. Matt Taylor was attending as a city representative. He gave updates on current projects already underway, heard suggestions from the board, and fielded questions about future projects. The two most important issues he discussed with the board were the actual amount of time left to complete current projects, and how the sanitary departments remaining stimulus money will be spent.

The meeting ended with the board deciding to advance with “green” projects that had been on the back burner and then it was adjourned. Everyone was very friendly and courteous to me and I was the same, likewise. Mayor Wolf even took a moment of his time to thank me for coming and let me know when the next meeting would be so that I could attend.