GFU Board of Trustees Place 1 Vacancy
August 27, 2025:
Grey Forest Utilities Board of Trustees Post 1 Vacancy.
After more than a decade of service as a Trustee on the Grey Forest Utilities (GFU) Board of Trustees, Pat Tiner has decided to step down from the Board of Trustees. Her service has been extremely valuable and insightful, and she will be missed.
Pat has filled Post 1 on the Board of Trustee. This will leave a vacancy on the Board of Trustees that has about two years remaining on her four-year term which was set to end on September 30, 2027.
Post 1 is required to be filled by a citizen of the City of Grey Forest. The Board of Trustees will be initiating the process to fill this unexpired term. This process involves evaluating qualified candidates, interviewing one or more candidates, deciding on a candidate and then recommending a candidate to the Grey Forest City Council for appointment to the Board of Trustees.
The Board of Trustees for Grey Forest Utilities was created to:
- provide stable and progressive management for the GFU System
- provide an adequate, safe and reliable natural gas service for its customers
- discharge indebtedness reflected by the Utility Ordinance
- attract sufficient additional customers to create a financially viable utility system
- make available to the City of Grey Forest a reasonable rate of return.
The Board of Trustees is the controlling entity for GFU with full authority to make rules and regulations governing the furnishing of gas service to its customers and full authority with reference to making extensions, improvements and additions to the GFU gas system, and to adopt rules for the orderly handling of GFU affairs. Furthermore, the Board of Trustees has complete authority over the expenditure and application of the revenues of the system with paramount responsibilities of discharging its indebtedness to bondholders and other debts or costs incurred in the operation of the Utility.
The City of Grey Forest has delegated the overall management, maintenance, and operating functions relating to the Grey Forest Water Systems (GFWS) to the GFU Board of Trustees. Just as the Board of Trustees has oversight and responsibilities of GFU, it has similar oversight and responsibilities for GFWS.
A permanent resident citizen of the City of Grey Forest who feels that they possess the qualifications to help guide GFU as described above and wants to be considered to fill this position should submit:
- a letter of interest
- a resume of work history, education, public service,
Submissions should be sent by 5:00 p.m. on September 12, 2025 to :
Cynthia Prieto (cprieto@gfugas.com) – Secretary, GFU Board of Trustee
and Ron Reinhard (rreinhard04@outlook.com) -Chairman, GFU Board of Trustees
