| The Calhoun Commission has requested that the WV Public Service Commission do a broad-sweep investigation of the Mt. Zion Public Service District, following complaints and unresolved problems.
PSD secretary-treasurer Wilma Mace did not respond within legal time frames to a Freedom of Information request issued by the commission, but did deliver a few records last week.
The commission appointed Roscoe Gainer to the PSD board, replacing Della Nichols who resigned.
Gainer will be attending his first board meeting this evening at 5 p.m. at the Arnoldsburg Community Building.
The motion to ask the WV-PSC to investigate, covers financial and management issues from how money is handled, record keeping, decision making, the hiring of personnel, engineers and bidding processes.
PSD secretary-treasurer Mace has not been issuing monthly reports to the Calhoun Commission, required under State Code.
Mace has still ignored, for the most part, a written list of PSD records to the commission.
WV Public Service Commission employee Geert Bakker said last week that an annual Financial and Statistical Report required by their agency has been late for seven of the last ten years.
More recently, because the 2008 report was late, the WV-PSC turned the problem over for court action, but the report was apparently filed in August, 2009.
Record keeping problems at the Mt. Zion PSD goes back several years, according to C. David Cobb, District Engineer of the Environmental Engineering Division of the Bureau of Public Health.
Efforts in 2004, reported in the Hur Herald, said Cobb's agency issued a violation to the PSD for poor record keeping, saying many of the records were missing.
See MT. ZION PSD CITED FOR SHORTCOMINGS - Survey Defines Water Loss Problems, Future Water Woes Raised
The PSD has currently been cited by the WV Department of Environmental Agency for multiple problems linked to their management of the wastewater system at Arnoldsburg, including spillage of sewage into the West Fork River.
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