💧 Water and Power · U.S. Virgin Islands
Kyle Fleming elected chairman of WAPA governing board
Official document: http://www.viwapa.vi/docs/default-source/default-document-library/07292021-kyle-fleming-elected-wapa-board-chairman-at-meeting-thursday.pdf?sfvrsn=60175916_2
Virgin Islands Energy Office Director Kyle Fleming was elected chairman of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority governing board in a unanimous vote at a July 29, 2021 meeting held by Zoom.
Fleming succeeded Anthony D. Thomas, who had served as board chairman since 2018. Board member Juanita Young was unanimously renominated to another one-year term as secretary. The board did not elect a vice chair after several members declined nominations for the post.
At the meeting, the board approved WAPA's fiscal 2022 water system operating budget of $31.5 million, but did not approve a proposed water system capital budget. WAPA said its fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 30.
The board also approved cost increases on specific items in a material consignment contract with American Wire Group and authorized additional items under that supply agreement. Members also approved extending the maturity date of lines of credit and standby credit facilities with Banco Popular to October 31, 2021, and extending lines of credit and an overdraft credit facility with First Bank through April 30, 2022.
Board members voted down a proposed supply contract with Glencore Ltd. for No. 2 fuel oil and ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel for power plants on St. Thomas and St. Croix. WAPA said its existing contract with Glencore ran through December 31, 2021.
In executive session, board members discussed legal and personnel matters and approved a strategy to hire the authority's next general counsel. WAPA said attorney Dionne Sinclair was serving as acting general counsel.
WAPA said board members attending the meeting were Fleming, Young, Thomas, Cheryl Boynes Jackson, Hubert A. Turnbull and Elizabeth Armstrong. Joel Lee and Jed JohnHope were excused.