NCUCC MEETING MINUTES

May 10-12, 2006

               Hosted By: NCUCC

Location: New Bern Riverfront Convention Center

New Bern, North Carolina

 

 

 

 

May 10, 2006

Vendor Set Up – 10:00-6:00 p.m.

Golf Outing – 12:00 Noon

Early Registration – 3:00-7:00 p.m.

Reception – 7:00-8:00 pm

 

 

May 11, 2006

Registration and Continental Breakfast – 8:00-9:00 a.m.

 

Opening Session 9:00 a.m. – Sandra Johnson opened the session and welcomed everyone.  Presentation of Colors/Anthem - New Bern High School Jr. ROTC – Tom Dotson, Instructor. 

 

General Session – Speakers/Reports

 

Tom Bayliss – Mayor of New Bern - Welcome

Scott Harrison – Operation Specialist, Camp Lejeune – “Military Logistics, USMC”

Jim Breznay, SC UCC Chairman – “SC UCC Report”

Sandra Johnson, NC UCC Chairman – “NC UCC Report”

Local UCC Chairman/Representative – “Local UCC Reports”

Ted Williams, General Design – “Highway/Utility Coordination”

Alex Lowe, A & L Underground – “Repair of Infrastructure in Iraq”

Gray Lewis, Patterson Wilder – “Currituck Sound Project”

Ed Randolph, PSNC Energy – “Purpose of Safety”

Mike Roberts, Dominion – “National Joint Use Notification System”, (NJUNS)

Ted Greene, International Right of Way Association – “Right of Way or Wrong of Way”

 

Door prize drawings were held and awarded throughout the day.

 

Trolley to tour Tryon Palace started at 6:00 p.m.

 

Dinner served on the lawn of the Tryon Palace 7:30 p.m.

 

 

May 12, 2006

 

Continental Breakfast –7:30-8:00 a.m.

 

General Session Reports 8:00 a.m.

 

PUPS, Kelly Howell

NC One Call, Ron Fairbanks

SC Utility Commission, Vernon Gainey

NC Utility Commission, John Hall

SC DOT, Marion Leaphart

NC DOT, Robert Memory

 

General Session Speakers

 

Sue Flowers & Bryan Brooks, Ralph Whitehead Assoc., Inc-“Utility Coordination for SC DOT”

Paul Scott, TBE Group – “Subsurface Utility Engineering”

Buddy Murr, NC DOT – “Changes in Project Bidding and Preparation”

David Horne, So Deep – ASCE 3802

 

Door prizes were held and awarded throughout the day.

 

Final Drawing was held and Conference Adjournment at 12:00 noon.

 

A short meeting of the NCUCC members was held after the conference due to Jeff Yontz not being able to accept the Secretary Position for 2006.  Mark Hannah, PSNC had been nominated by the Officer Selection Committee. A vote was taken and approved at the meeting.  Mark Hannah will be the NCUCC Secretary effective July 11, 2006.

 

 

The next NCUCC meeting will be held on July 11, 2006 in Hickory, NC sponsored by Piedmont Natural Gas

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted by

Theresia Creswell