Section Officers

President – Lance Phillips

lance.phillips@dallascityhall.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  – Paula Monaco

pmonaco@plummer.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 / Programs – Blayne Johnson

johnsonbj@trinityra.org

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  – Chris Vela

chris.vela@kimley-horn.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 – Brandt Miller

bmiller@hazenandsawyer.com

Secretary – Sharon Miller

smiller@ntmwd.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 – Heather Wootton

Heather.wootton@kimley-horn.com

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assists new President
  • Executive Committee and Nominating Committee Involvement
  • QC’s Newsletters
  • Transition to successor

Section Representative – Kaylee Waldo

kwaldo@utrwd.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 Representative – Andrew Paulson

ajpaulson@sig-auto.com

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assists new Section Representative
  • Executive Committee involvement
  • Transitions to successor