RIVERVIEW, N.B. – At a recent meeting of Riverview Town Council, Mayor Ann Seamans announced that David Muir has been appointed to the board of TransAqua – the Greater Moncton Wastewater Commission. The appointment is for a three-year term and was effective on Oct. 27. On Jan. 3, 2015, Mr. Muir officially retires as the Town of Riverview’s chief administrative officer (CAO), a position he has held since 1996.
A native of Nova Scotia, Mr. Muir has spent the majority of his career in New Brunswick, with the last 23 years at the Town of Riverview. He received his undergraduate degree in business at Acadia University and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1977. After several positions in industry and seven years as an internal auditor with CN Rail, Mr. Muir joined the Town of Riverview in 1991 as director of finance.
As Riverview’s CAO, he manages a full-time staff of about 90 and total operating and capital budgets of about $37 million. Active in his community, he has served on various boards and commissions over the years and has been involved with local service clubs, charities and non- profit organizations. He is married to Kathy and has three grown children.
“David Muir brings a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience to TransAqua,” said Winston Pearce, TransAqua’s Chair. “His significant knowledge of Greater Moncton municipal issues, budgets, administrative practices and government as a whole will be a tremendous benefit to our board. On behalf of TransAqua’s board and staff, I wish him a warm welcome to our organization.”
Mr. Muir replaces Winston Pearce as one of Riverview’s two representatives on TransAqua’s board. Mr. Pearce recently moved to Moncton and was subsequently reappointed to TransAqua by Mayor George LeBlanc.
Each municipality in Greater Moncton appoints two commissioners to sit on TransAqua’s board. With this new appointment, all of TransAqua’s six volunteer board positions are now filled: Winston Pearce (Chair, City of Moncton), George Somers (City of Moncton), Chanel Michaud (Treasurer, City of Dieppe), Julie Thériault (City of Dieppe), Clarence Sweetland (Secretary, Town of Riverview) and David Muir (Town of Riverview).
TransAqua / Greater Moncton Wastewater Commission (www.transaqua.ca) was established in 1983 to support the wastewater collection and treatment needs of the Dieppe, Moncton and Riverview tri-community. Since then, it has developed a 35-kilometre collection network and a treatment facility to best deliver on this mandate. It has also become a leader in the reuse of biosolids through the generation of type ‘AA’ compost (the highest grade currently achieved in Canada) as opposed to disposal in a landfill site. The organization is now positioning itself to further upgrade its facilities to provide an enhanced secondary treatment approach that will allow it to meet recently introduced mandatory federal regulations prior to the 2020 deadline.
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Media contact:
Winston Pearce, P.Eng.
Chair
TransAqua - Greater Moncton Wastewater Commission 506-381-0899
wpearce@transaqua.ca
www.transaqua.ca