PUBLIC NOTICE

St. Mary Parish

Water & Sewer Comm. 2

P.O. Box 635

Patterson, La. 70392

January 12, 2026

The Board of Commissioners met in regular session at 5:30 p.m. at the district office with President, Chris Cooper presiding.

Present: Board Members – Chris Cooper-President, Tony Hensgens- Vice President, Thomas Philbrook-Sec. Treas., Raymond Beadle and Paul Tholen.

Guests: Larry & Pam Fromenthal- Fromenthal Plumbing, Reid Miller- Miller Engineers, Glen Duncan- Providence Engineers, Gerald Price- BVVFD Chief, David Hill- Parish Councilman, Employees- Destinee DiMaggio and Logan Theriot.

Chris Cooper called the meeting to order and roll call was taken.

December’s board minutes were accepted as circulated with a motion from Tony Hensgens and a second from Raymond Beadle, motion carried.

Accounts Payable and Treasurer’s Report was accepted by motion from Thomas Philbrook and a second from Paul Tholen, motion carried.

No public comment.

Logan Theriot provided the maintenance report for the month. The field has been going through a check list of meters to confirm they are in good shape after the total meter change out has been completed. Logan prepared a water loss breakdown to review with the board; they are still working to determine causes for loss. After the Sanitary Survey we are required to add an MRT site, which has been done. All daily routine maintenance continues.

Larry Fromenthal provided his maintenance re- port for the month. Larry has completed a few larger meter change outs. He suggests getting temporary meters placed on unmetered lines to troubleshoot and detect flow, such as fire lines. He is waiting on a 4” meter to come in to be able to change at Cameron. Claire House had a leak on a fire main that was repaired. There was a main break on David Rd that has been dug out and repaired he just needs to fill in concrete.

Larry plans to do pressure testing on the lines running under the Teche in the up- coming week.

Chris addressed the water loss and said he would like Larry to make pressure testing the lines that run underneath the Teche a top priority, and we will look into getting the strap meters.

Chris reminded all board members that since it is a new calendar year, Sexual Harassment and Ethics training need to be completed asap.

We are still waiting on an update regarding Capital Outlay; he asked councilman David Hill to see if he could get more information.

Tony Hensgens gave a joint plant update; he stated a clarifier will need to be replaced in the future.

Reid Miller suggested that we graph peaks of water loss to identify trends. He also recommended identifying and metering all fire lines.

Chris commended all employees for doing a great job preparing and completing the Sanitary Survey. He said LDH mentioned we were one of the best in the state.

There being no further business to come before the board, a motion was made by Raymond Beadle to adjourn with a second from Paul Tholen, all were in favor and motion passed.

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Chris Cooper-

President

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Destinee

DiMaggio –

Recording

Secretary

Adv. Feb. 13, 2026