2023 Candidates for WOWSC Director positions . . .
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MIKE NELSON & JOE GIMENEZ 
along with other current  Directors are non-confrontational, and for years while fighting off angry litigants, they have gone about getting the business of our member-owned water company (WOWSC) taken care of.  Their accomplishments:

  • 7-years of PERFECT WATER (EPA & TCEQ REGULATED) throughout droughts, historic freezes, and zebra mussles.
  • Implemented NEW Online Billing and Customer Payment.
  • Initiated independent Financial assessment of WOWSC 
  • Created the WOWSC Conflict of Interest Policy.
  • Completed WOWSC (2019-2024) 5-year plan.
  • New water treatment plant backup generator -- kept the power on when so many local communities were without water during the major freezes & storms.
  • Worked with SAPA (Spicewood Airport Pilots Assoc.) to add (at SAPA’s cost) additional waste water dispersal area
  • New 125,000 gallon storage tank to accommodate growth of community, from current 290 members to up to 610.
  • Zebra mussel mitigation — installing filtration systems to keep ZMs out of tanks and processing equipment.
  • Received LCRA & TPWD permits to dispose of ZMs.
  • Completed water intake barge rebuild
  • Interconnection between WO & Ridge Harbor established for emergency backup pressurization assistance
  • New SCADA system (WOWSC Water Treatment Plant computer system)
  • Installed new security system
  • Repaired and improved wastewater dispersal fields
  • Implemented recommendations of New Gen report, creating a WOWSC Financial Policy, establishing financial policy for future board's administration
  • ONGOING: zebra mussel mitigation, new clarifier, irrigation field expansion, and more . . .
  • BIGGEST CHALLENGE: Defending WOWSC from litigants who put WOWSC non-profit status (Way to lowest rates) at risk.
HOW WELL DO YOU KN0W
THESE CANDIDATES?
 
Did you read
WOWSC Candidate Information?
See: “Professional Experience” (in their own words)
JEFF WALKER​
  • NO WATER COMPANY or related EXPERIENCE
  • NOT A RESIDENT of Windermere Oaks
  • Filed PUC Protest and cost WOWSC $25,000+. 
  • Burnet County CAD showed on 3/31/23 that Jeff Walker was DELINQUENT on '21 & '22 Burnet County Property taxes of​ $7,246.55. 
  • Conspired & manipulated to get out of paying Spicewood Airport Pilots Assn. (SAPA) assessments and dues.
  • SCREAMS:  “I don’t care about the law!” at the 2022 Annual WOWSC meeting in the middle of a report. 
  • GOAL=  put WOWSC in RECEIVERSHIP. (see pg16)

Does Jeff Walker represent the responsible leadership
​you'd want guiding  your company?
RENE FFRENCH
  • ·NO WATER COMPANY or related EXPERIENCE
  • NOT A RESIDENT of Windermere Oaks. Lives in Austin.
  • Plaintiff who sued WOWSC for 5 years straight in 2 very costly lawsuits which increased water rates to defend.
  • Sought a Million Dollars for himself (Plaintiffs) plus attorney fees in “relief” in lawsuits (48292). The Court did not grant this but it cost WOWSC to defend.
  • Appealed lawsuit (#47531) at least 3x. Supreme Court of Texas DENIED hearing. Cost WOWSC to defend.
  • Rene French’s legal fees (#48292) are over $428,000 to gain $35,000 for WOWSC and he asks you to have him manage your Company’s money.
  • LOST in 2021 WOPOA and 2019 WOWSC Elections.
  • GOAL = drive WOWSC into BANKRUPTCY.​​
Do Rene Ffrench's financial management skills & choices
add up for qualities you want in a leader?

All Candidate bios here

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