September 2017 Vol. 72 No. 9
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UCTA Gulf Coast Meeting Highlights
UCTA Gulf Coast’s Aug. 2 luncheon meeting featured Scott Taylor, director of engineering for Conroe, TX. Taylor has more than 30 years of professional experience in the water and wastewater field, leading both public infrastructure delivery and private sector planning and design.
In his current role, he directs the department responsible for performing a variety of technical engineering work to ensure that public and private infrastructure is analyzed, designed, constructed and inspected in accordance with City Codes, policies, standards and regulations. This includes delivering capital projects, and managing public and private infrastructure development – a huge challenge in this fastest growing city (50,000 plus population) in the country.
“Conroe grew 8 percent last year, to about 84,000 people,” he reported. “Currently, growth is exceeding estimates, with 100,000 people forecasted by 2022.”
The meeting also featured recipients of the UCTA chapter’s 2017 Scholarship award ($1,000 each) for use toward their education: Karly Brightwell, Colleen Catania, Rahul Kilambi, Sara Olshefski, Kenneth Scott Walker II, Kaytlyn Vacrecka, Jessica Vera and Ashney Vyas.
To be eligible for the award, students must be dependent children of full-time employees — in good standing — of UCTA member companies, and enrolled in full-time, post-graduate or undergraduate course study at an accredited two- or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school.
Winners are selected based on cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), classification (year/level of college) and heavy emphasis on the discussion paper students must submit with their applications.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Underground Technology Association Gulf Coast, (713) 830-2184, uctaonline.org
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