Harry C. Horstman has been reappointed to a full term on the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District’s Board of Directors.
Horstman’s appointment was confirmed June 11 during a meeting of the MWCD Conservancy Court in the Tuscarawas County Courthouse at New Philadelphia. Horstman, who is serving as president of the five-member MWCD Board during 2005, is a resident of Scio in Harrison County. He originally was appointed to an fulfill an unexpired term on the Board in 2002.
Members of the MWCD Board of Directors are appointed by the judges of the Conservancy Court to oversee the operations and business affairs of the Conservancy District. The MWCD manages 54,000 acres of land and water space dedicated to public use in an 18-county region in eastern Ohio.
A retired educator in Carroll, Harrison and Tuscarawas counties, Horstman also managed Camp Aldersgate on Leesville Lake for 35 years and is a member of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Foundation, Inc., Board of Trustees. A member and past commodore of Atwood Yacht Club, he formerly was a member and past chairman of the MWCD’s Development Advisory Committee.
Other members of the MWCD Board of Directors are David E. Brightbill of Lower Salem, Steve Kokovich of New Concord, Joanne Limbach of New Philadelphia and Thomas L. Tribbie of Cambridge.
Members of the Board of Directors serve terms of five years, with a limit of two full terms on the Board.
The Conservancy Court, which consists of one common pleas court judge from each of the 18 counties the MWCD serves, meets annually to review the MWCD’s operations.
Court members also reappointed Thomas A. Roe of Wooster to a new five-year term on the three-member MWCD Board of Appraisers.
As established by Ohio law, the Board of Appraisers is the panel that approves the methodology for determining assessments of the MWCD, based on the relative benefits/damage to property owners, along with making recommendations to the Board of Directors on property sales and acquisitions as needed.
In other business, the Court:
- approved the MWCD Annual Report of Operations for 2004, as required by Ohio law. The report contains required financial data and other information about the MWCD’s operations and reservoirs.
- heard a report on the flooding of January 2005 from Col. William E. Bulen Jr., commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Huntington, W.Va. The Corps of Engineers owns and operates the dams located at the MWCD reservoirs. Bulen pledged continued support of the MWCD and the partnering agreement between the agencies.
- approved renewal of five-year agreement between the MWCD and the City of Cambridge for emergency water supply.
- heard an update on the Muskingum River Basin Initiative, a multi-agency task force reviewing the needs of the region, from John M. Hoopingarner, MWCD executive director/secretary.
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