Officers
President – Grace Sober
LAN, Inc., 214.765.8731, gdsober@lan-inc.com
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepares and presides over Executive Committee Meetings
- Prepares and presides over dinner meetings
- Solicits the audit committee each year
- Coordinates, prepares, and reviews the electronic newsletter
- Committee involvement
- Transitions to successor
President Elect – Nicole Conner
Kennedy Jenks, 214.288.7609, nicoleconner@kennedyjenks.com
Key Responsibilities:
- Assists President in the performance of his/her duties
- Develops the annual WEAT-NTS calendar
- Committee involvement
- QCs the newsletter
- Reviews the website
- Transitions to successor
Vice President – Rami Issa
AECOM, 972.735.3012, rami.issa@aecom.com
Key Responsibilities:
- Acts as Program Committee chair
- Sponsorships
- Prepares dinner meeting synopsis for the speaker at dinner meetings
- QCs newsletter
- Reports on past dinner meetings at the Executive Meetings
- Transitions to successor
Treasurer – Elle Frier
Frier Group, 972.439.5706, elle@friergroup.com
Key Responsibilities:
- Reports financials on all events at the Executive Committee meetings
- Responsible for online payment system, receipts, posters, sign-up lists, mans the registration table, handles all expenses, deposits, and final reconciliations for dinner meetings and other events
- Responsible for quarterly and year-end close-outs
- Annual financial reporting to membership
- Involved in the Audit Committee
- Involved in the Scholarship Committee
- Young Professionals Budget
- Involved in the electronic newsletter
- Transitions to successor
Deputy Treasurer – Blayne Johnson
Trinity River Authority, 817.493.5173 johnsonbj@trinityra.org
Secretary – Heather Wootton
Garver, 972.377.7480, hawootton@garverusa.com
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepares for Executive Committee meetings
- Distributes meeting minutes, action item summary, and meeting handouts to all attendees at the EC meeting
- Prepares notes of the EC meeting, prepares meeting minutes, and emails drafts to all participants
- Keeps the calendar for the EC meeting updated
- Prepares CEU information for TCEQ approval and sends the fee to WEAT.
- Committee Involvement
- Prepares writeup on previous meeting to Electronic Communication committee
- Transitions to successor
Past President – Phil Spitzer
North Texas Municipal Water District, 469.626.4918, pspitzer@ntmwd.com
Key Responsibilities:
- Assists new President
- Executive Committee and Nominating Committee Involvement
- QC’s Newsletters
- Transition to successor
Section Rep – Sherri van der Wege
972.834.7580, sherri@vanderwege.com
Key Responsibilities:
- Represents the North Texas Section on the WEAT Executive Board
- Constitution and Bylaws Committees involvement
- Provides writeup for the WET Newsletter on NTS activities
- QC’s NTS Newsletter
- Membership Involvement
- Transitions to successor
Past Section Rep – Jeff Caffey
Plummer, 871.806.1723, jcaffey@plummer.com
Key Responsibilities:
- Assists new Section Representative
- Executive Committee involvement
- Transitions to successor