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SAFETY QUALITY SERVICE

CONTACT US:4301 Sterling Commerce Dr.

Plant City, FL 33566

(813) 988-8829

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T H E WA Yyour quarterly newsletter for environmental construction

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At the end of the day, ‘is the equipment parked in a straight line?’, which is how Superintendent, Bill Newman, leaves his jobsite. ‘Is your trailer clean and organized every day?’, which is how Superintendent, Martin Calderon, operates on his jobsite. Are the trucks and transport clean when they leave the yard? Is housekeeping a priority?

COMANCO does a lot to sell our brand through social media like our COMANCO Blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube channels. Making customers is a priority that is everyone’s job, for without them, we have no paychecks. Do we put our customers first? Do you ever thank our customers for giving us the contract?

Sell More Than Price

Mark A. Topp, President

‘core values’. Regardless of your position or the area you work, incidents can and do occur.

COMANCO encourages our employees to bring forward safety concerns and questions. Raising safety awareness and taking responsibility for the safe condition of equipment and tools is a job requirement.

At COMANCO, we are committed to preventing accidents through safety education and instilling safe work practices, at every level, by maintaining a questioning attitude at all times and avoiding complacency. Think safety in everything you do at work and at home!

BOTTOM LINE: COMANCO’s Safety Culture is for ‘safety’ to become a part of everyone’s daily life.

COMANCO Promotes From Within

Clayton LungDivision Manager

Natalia ShreveHR Manager

Thomas RaabProject Manager

Daniel WardProject Manager

Customers demand and expect more than a cheap price today. At COMANCO, we are proud of the quality, safe work and expertise we provide. Are COMANCO customers or potential customers aware of the added value we offer? If they only evaluated us based upon low price, we would not have made it 25 years.However, I know we can do better! We must continue to show the value of choosing COMANCO to our potential, new and current customers. We must sell ourselves every day, in everything we do, to represent the COMANCO brand.

Everyone potentially works in our Marketing and Safety Departments; everyone is a Safety Director, everyone markets or sells the COMANCO brand by the safe and organized way we conduct our business.

Thomas Topp – 25 yearsWillie Boswell – 14 years

Mario Moran Ortiz – 14 yearsCarlos Campos-Estrada – 13 yearsCarlos Granados Cruz – 13 years

Cirino Martinez Cortez – 13 yearsJorge Mendez – 13 years

Jeffrey ‘Scotty’ Martone – 13 yearsMartin Calderon-Murillo – 11 years

Frank Gutierrez – 11 yearsFrancisco Rubi Murillo - 11 yearsPablo Gomez-Medina – 11 years

Hever Argueta – 11 yearsJose Manuel Mendez – 11 years

Segundo Alvarez - 11 years

Maximino Macedo – 8 yearsJose Zenteno – 7 years

Ruben Carreno – 7 yearsObed Velasquez – 7 years

Ronald Wyatt – 7 yearsAntonio Sanchez – 7 years

Carlos Lopez Gomez – 6 yearsEnoch Forte – 5 years

Kathleen Peterson – 5 yearsWilliam Newman Jr. – 5 years

Francisco Vargas-Flores – 4 yearsCharles Ingle – 3 yearsCynthia Reed – 3 years

Christine Thomas – 2 yearsChirstoper Sowers Jr. – 1 year

Oscar Ochoa – 1 yearJose Sanchez – 1 year

Jesus Delgado Jr. – 1 year

1st quarter / 2015

April 30th - May 2ndFPPC Spring Conference

Boca Grande, FL

May 5 - 7thWorld of Coal Ash

Nashville, TN

June 4 - 5thElko Mining Expo

Elko, NV

June 10 - 12thFAWQC Annual Conference

Naples, FL

July 12 - 14thMissouri Annual Waste

Management ConferenceOsage Beach, MO

Come out and meet the COMANCO team!

Tony Norris II - MechanicJose Carreon - Laborer

Jack Wiggins - OperatorPhilemon Onyango - Superintendent

Pamela Frazier - Fleet Cooridnator/DispatchShawn Essex - Jr. Estimator/Agtek TechRolando Guevara Zarate - Liner Tech

Michael Bloodworth - OperatorKip Thompson - Project Engineer

Patrick Harris - OperatorAlberto Chavez Juarez - Liner Tech

Peter Vaka - Technical WriterEzekiel Servin - Laborer

Michael Fraley - Fleet ManagerFabian Carreon - Laborer

Jose Murillo Luna - LaborerEmmanuel Terreros Gramajo - Laborer

Randy Atkins - LaborerDaniel DeLeon - Laborer

Brian Doane - LaborerAmanda Long - HR Generalist

ContractorSafety Program

Basic 16 Hour Training February 11th & 12th, 2015

Cindy ReedCOMANCO Safety Department

COMANCO is passionate about safety and that is why it is one of COMANCO’s

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We are currently hiring Dozer Operators, Laborers, Liner Technicians & QA/QC Technicians- candidates need to complete a job application on www.comanco.com or send resume to hr@comanco.com or call 813-988-8829.

The COMANCO team has recently been working on the Boyette Reclaimed Water Reservoir project located in Pasco County, Florida. COMANCO’s scope of work is the supply and installation of 60mil HDPE Liner, Composite, Textile and GCL on the slopes of the reservoir, which is about 20 acres in area. The top is anchored in the perimeter road and the bottom is tied into a TRD seepage cut-off wall that is 60-feet deep.

The reservoir is expected to be completed this Fall. Once completed, the reservoir will store 500 million gallons of reclaimed water that will increase and help balance water supply to the residents of Pasco County for lawn and landscape irrigation during wet and dry seasons.

Everyone has been working hard and safe, adjusting to inclement weather and site conditions to exemplify the core values of Safety, Quality, and Service. The crew is led by Foreman Nathan Wilfong, and Project Engineer Mohammad Lutfiyya. Keep up the great work team!

COMANCOProgressing with

Reservoir Liner Installation

Matt Remmert, Project Manager

COMANCO Referral Program The referral program at COMANCO is great for all who participate:

• Current employees receive a referral bonus for each new employee they refer to COMANCO ($250 after first 3 months of employment and $250 more after 3 more months) • We hire candidates who our employees want to work side-by-side with. In construction, where teamwork and safety are paramount, we trust that our employees send their best referrals to us!

We hired 25 new employees, so far, in 2015! As in the past, our current employees sent their referrals to COMANCO and we hired many of the candidates who were referred to us for various positions: Laborers, Technicians, Operators and a Project Engineer!

Special Thanks to employees who referred candidates to HR in the last 3 months:

• Alfredo Flores • Francisco Rubi Murillo • Kelvin Williams • Juan Jimenez Gonzalez • Justino Macedo • Silvino Sanchez Olivares • Nick Rauh • Oscar Ochoa • Patrick Harris • Pedro Beltran • Dragan Milosavljevic

In January and February, COMANCO employees attended several Open Enrollment meetings: Luz Lopez, HR & Benefits Administrator, met with employees at various job sites, at the corporate office and in online meetings!

In the benefits meetings, COMANCO employees gained an understanding of the benefits COMANCO offers and asked questions about insurance plans, deductibles, life and disability insurance and 401(k).

Luz and Natalia, from HR, would like to say, ‘THANK YOU’ to the Foremen, Superintendents, Project Engineers and Project Managers for your cooperation! With your support, HR reached out to all active employees and gave each employee an opportunity to learn about all the benefits COMANCO offers!

Benefits Open Enrollment 2015 - Big Success!!!

I get asked this question pretty frequently. There are two schools of thought when it comes to shutting down a PC:

1. The more you turn your PC off and on, the more it wears out.

2. Turn off your PC when not in use to conserve en-ergy and make it last longer.

WhenShould ITurn Off

My Computer?

These simple steps will help maintain your COMANCO machine in top condition and assist me in maintaining our equipment.

As always come by the IT office if you have any questions or concerns and I will be happy to walk through the process with you.

Field users should power their laptops off and on as required:Monday through Thursday you should lock your machine when you leave for the day. On Friday, before leaving, you should restart your machine and leave it at

the login prompt.

Let me explain the “Best Practice” for COMANCO office com-puters. If you turn your computer off, scheduled maintenance can-not be performed. In order to maintain a healthy network please leave your office computer on and never shut it down.

Matt DiTarando, COMANCO IT Department

COMANCO Making Progress on Cooling

Pond Liner Installation

COMANCO continues to make progress on a Cooling Pond Liner Installation project at a closed chemical plant in Florida. The project scope is comprised of the instal-lation of 160 acres of smooth and textured HDPE liner with the installation of geocomposite as a gas ventilation system underneath the liner.

The crew is being led by Project Superintendent Max Macedo, Project Engineer Craig Stevenson, Project Manager Dragan Milosavljevic and Sr. Project Engineer Nick Bridges. The project is expected to be completed by the summer of this year.