BOARD OF TRUSTEES              
The District is governed by a three member Board of Trustees, appointed by elected State legislators representing the entire District.  The Board of Trustees is responsible for making policy, setting user charge rates, appropriating funds, approving payments, and appointing a manager to operate the District and an attorney to provide legal counsel.

Thomas E. Brabec                President 

Bernadette M. Morrison        Vice President/Treasurer

David M. Zerante                   Clerk

John M. Izzo                            Corporate Attorney

ADMINISTRATION
The Manager is responsible for all of the activities of the District, including management of the treatment plant operations, coordination and supervision of all planning and construction work, management and accounting of revenues, disbursements and cash flow, and coordination with all interacting governmental units, private agencies and citizens.

Jennifer Hindel P.E.              Executive Director
Patricia McKinney                 Administrative Assistant

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
The Engineering Department provides all engineering services needed by the District, by either performing services directly or supervising consultants.  The Department is responsible for all phases of major renovation project including the design, bidding, construction and startup, sewer system tributary to the treatment plant, both lines owned by the District and lines owned by the communities and the application of biosolids to farm land.

John McDonnell P.E.             District Engineer

FINANCE DEPARTMENT
The finance Department handles and documents all revenue from the user charge system, Illinois replacement taxes, connection fees and other income.  Payrolls are prepared.  All vouchers are checked and recorded before payouts are made to vendors, contractors, suppliers, and engineers.  This Department also supervises billings done for the District by Park Forest, Steger, Crete and Homewood.

Trudy Krygsheld         Finance Director
Norma Cash               Bookkeeper  

BILLING DEPARTMENT
The Billing Department, which is under the supervision of the Finance Director, is responsible for billing and collecting the volume based user charges.  Residents and businesses in South Chicago Heights plus most major industries are billed directly by this department.

 OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT
The Operations Department is responsible for day-to-day operation of the treatment facilities and the plant computer control system.  The control scheme and process variables are adjusted to operate each treatment unit in the most efficient manner possible while consistently complying with all of the State and Federal standards and discharge permit conditions.  The Homewood Excess Flow Plant is also Operations' responsibility. 

Processed residuals are pumped to a lagoon facility (known as the Annex) by the Operations Department.  Supernatant is returned to the treatment plant through a sewer.  After years of thickening, the solids are disposed of on agricultural land as a low grade fertilizer.  The cost of sludge disposal is borne by the Sludge Disposal Department.

Lucas Streicher         Director of Operations
Eric Lindsey               Computer Network Administrator
Brian Barankiewicz   Chief Operator
Rubin Maross            Operations Foreman

Operators:
Mike Englund
Gerald Moeller
Brian McDermott
Mike Rieke
Harold Wiegal

LABORATORY DEPARTMENT
The Laboratory conducts all of the chemical and biological analyses necessary for operational control of the plant, documenting plant performance to the EPA and monitoring of industrial discharges into the sanitary sewer system.  The water quality in Thorn, Deer and Butterfield Creeks is monitored upstream and downstream of the plant discharges and District pump stations.  A pretreatment program is operated in compliance with the USEPA requirements.  The ground water monitoring wells at the Annex are also sampled and tested, as are the solids applied to farmland.

Debby Martch                           
Lab Director/Pretreatment Coordinator         

Lab Supervisor/Chemist
Sara Forrester

Lab Technicians
William Hahn
Jeremy Stubbs

MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT
The Maintenance Department performs all the overhaul, repair and replacement of the equipment and structures within the district's $40 million dollar facilities including the Main Plant, Homewood Excess Flow Plant, Biosolids Storage Lagoon, Steger Road Station, Deer Creek Station and Monee Road Station.

Allen Busse                   Maintenance Superintendent
Jeff Quigley                   Maintenance Foreman

Maintenance Assistant
Susan Kronenberger

Class A Mechanic
Carl Port
Gavier Sanchez
Eric Stanton
Arnold Strzelinski 

Class B Mechanic
Abel Bravo

Building & Grounds Laborers
Carl Laws
Marco Recio

Janitor
K. Berg

LIFT STATION DEPARTMENT
Operation maintenance costs of the three remote pump stations in Park Forest and Crete are charged to the Lift Station Department, supervised by the Maintenance Department.  Work performed on the District's sewers is also charged to this department.

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