Chapter 7 General Membership Meeting May 17, 2012 ~ DTE Energy, Detroit, MI

I N T E R N A T I O N A L R I G H T O F W A Y A S S O C I A T I O N M I C H I G A N • C H A P T E R 7

Vol 58, Issue 2• April 2012

8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:30 am - 8:45 am Chapter President Kimberly A. Tassen, SR/WA

Opening Remarks and Business Meeting 8:45 am - 9:45 am Ron A. May – Senior Vice President, DTE Energy State of the Company 9:45 am - 10:45 am Matthew J. Wagner - Manager of Wind Development, DTE Energy Wind Power 10:45 am - 11:45 am Gerard J. Labut - Manager of SmartCurrentssm Program Strategy and Standard, DTE Energy SmartCurrents 11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch – Buffet Lunch: Chicken marsala, rigatoni with meatballs served with julienne vegetable salad, roasted broccoli, confetti rice and chocolate dipped biscotti. *Please return to your seats by 1:00 pm promptly* 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Jennifer Cichowlas - Supervising Engineer - Power Systems Technology Solar Power 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Gary Tremberth – Supervisor of System Operation Center (SOC), DTE

Energy Guided Tour of DTE Energy Control Room

Shaun Summerville, Marketing Program Manager Guided Tour of DTE Energy Smart Home

*For the first half-hour, half of the group will attend the Control Room Tour and the other half will attend the Smart Home Tour and then they will switch so everyone gets the opportunity to attend both tours.

Any ideas on future topics/speakers are appreciated-- please send to Steve Roon, SR/WA at: sroon@kentcountyroads.net

Registra on Details Contact: Michael A. Schutz Phone: 734‐483‐1427 Ext. 316 Email: mschutz@metroca.net Mail: Metro Consul ng Associates, LLC 6001 Schooner Dr., Belleville, MI 48111 Registra on Fee: $40.00

One Energy Plaza Detroit, MI See pg. 6 for Directions

Meeting registration by May 4th is appreciated

Michael Ode e, SR/WA

Asset Management Jeffrey L. Jones, SR/WA,R/W‐NAC, R/W‐RAC, R/W‐URAC

James J. Aiello, P.E.., SR/WA Educa on Andrew Boe cher Educa on Cer fica on William A. Horn, Esq. Environmental Richard W. Roth, R/W‐AC Finance Edward R. Bradley, SR/WA David C. Maturen, SR/WA Historian & Parliamentarian Glenn R. Spence A.K (Kenneth) Smith Michael Oakes, SR/WA

Richard W. Roth, R/W‐AC Land Economics & Valua on Valerie Lafferty, J.D., SR/WA Raymond O. Howd, Esq. Gary D. Strauss, Esq. Law & Legisla on Teresa Vanis Chris Barnes, P.E. L.R Cole, SR/WA Local Public Agency David Maturen, SR/WA Patricia Pe o, SR/WA, R/W‐RAC

Marian J. Barnes Norman Thomas, SR/WA

Margaret Steketee Marke ng Margaret Steketee Membership

It's been a great 2012 so far for Chapter 7. We have offered several educational courses, with many of our members working toward or ob-taining their SR/WA designation, or other spe-cialized certifications. Our membership meet-ings have been informative and educational, thanks to careful planning and to our colleagues volunteering their time and knowledge to our membership. We have the Region Forum in April in Indiana and shortly thereafter, we have the May membership meeting at DTE Energy, and the Installation of Officers Banquet at We-ber's Inn. I encourage you to attend as many of the events that you are able to. Your leadership is preparing to attend the IRWA annual educa-tional conference in Seattle, Washington in June. Please take advantage of this educational opportunity and utilize the resources on the IR-WA website to convince your boss of the bene-fits of attending this conference. Just in time for fall colors, we will be holding our Fall Seminar at Shanty Creek in September. Start planning now to attend this educational event. This term, we have had a very intense membership cam-paign to retain and gain membership. Our cur-rent Membership Chair, Margaret Steketee, has been working diligently to audit and track our chapter membership. She has done an outstand-ing job with the help of others, including LR Cole. We will continue to have an aggressive membership drive facilitated by the IRWA headquarters, in conjunction with our dedicated chapter Marketing Committee. Thanks again to all of our members and officers who are pas-sionate about their profession and have consist-ently volunteered their precious time, knowledge and efforts to this chapter.

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Kimberly A. Tassen SR/WA, R/W‐NAC

Paul E. Sander, SR/WA

Nomina ons

Norman Thomas, SR/WA, R/W‐RAC

Past Presidents & Re red Members Carl L. Meyer, SR/WA,R/W‐RAC Pipeline Steve R. Roon, SR/WA, R/W‐NAC Program Jeffrey L. Jones, SR/WA,R/W‐NAC, R/W‐RAC,

R/W‐URAC

Andrew Reed, SR/WA

Recogni on & Awards

Linda M. Dembeck, SR/WA

Theresa Vanis Mark Chovan Reloca on Tim Davis, SR/WA, R/W‐NAC, R/W‐RAC Roster Lynn P. Hall, SR/WA Silent Auc on Christopher S. Lamus Michael Schutz Survey Paul E. Sander, SR/WA Steve R. Roon, SR/WA, R/W‐NAC Transporta on Laura Stensland, SR/WA, R/W‐NAC U li es & Liaison Jim Aiello, P.E., SR/WA Website Professional Development Andrew M. Reed, SR/WA‐Class of 2011 Norman G. Thomas, SR/WA‐Class of 2012 Paul Stempin, SR/WA‐Class of 2013

2011‐2012 Execu ve Board

Kimberly A. Tassen SR/WA, R/W‐NAC

President Paul E. Sander, SR/WA

President‐Elect Steve R. Roon, SR/WA, R/W‐NAC

Vice President Laura Stensland, SR/WA, R/W‐NAC

Treasurer Larysa A. Figol, SR/WA

Secretary Michael Schutz

Interna onal Directors

Kimberly A. Tassen, SR/WA, R/W‐NAC Director, 1 years Paul E. Sander, SR/WA

Director, 2 years

Commi ee Chairs & Co‐Chairs

President’s Chapter Message Kimberly Tassen, SR/WA, R/W-NAC

To register, please contact Chapter 7 Secretary, Michael Schutz: Mail: Michael A. Schutz, 6001 Schooner Dr., Belleville, MI 48111

Email: mschutz@metroca.net Phone: 734‐483‐1427 Ext. 316 Make check payable to: Chapter 7 IRWA Name:________________________________________ Guest/Spouse Name:____________________________ Company:_____________________________________

Total Attendees: ___ X $40 Total Enclosed: $_________

What:

General Membership Meeting

When:

May 17, 2012

Where: DTE Energy

Cost:

Registration $40 per person

General Membership Meeting Registration Form

March General Membership Meeting Highlights

Chapter 7 President, Kim Tassen, SR/WA

Norm Thomas, SR/WA Arif Cekic & Kevin Dubnicki (L to R) Scott Evilsizer & Fred Hipshear (L to R)

Ron A. May – Senior Vice President, DTE Energy

Topic: State of the Company

DTE Energy, is a Detroit-based diversified energy company involved in the development and man-agement of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. Ron is responsible for major gener-ation construction and environmental projects at Detroit Edison’s power plants, the new nuclear power plant development project, development of renewable and metering assets, along with strate-

gic facilities and service projects. Detroit Edison is one of three major business units of DTE Energy. Ron previously served as Senior Vice President of DTE2, an enterprise resource planning project. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President of Energy Distribution at Detroit Edison, responsible for engineering, operation, construction and maintenance of the company’s distribution and transmission system. Additional responsibilities included customer service, corporate facilities, and security. He also held a variety of nuclear leadership positions at Detroit Edison, including positions in ma-terials management, maintenance, and administration. Prior to joining Detroit Edison, Ron was Vice President at Project Management Associates, a project controls consulting business. Earlier in his career, he held leadership positions at Townsend and Bottum, Inc., a heavy utility construction business, including environmental equipment additions to De-troit Edison’s fossil generation fleet. Ron earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering at the University of Michigan, and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. Additionally, he completed graduate course work at Eastern Michigan University, Youngstown State University, and Pennsylvania State University. Currently, he is a member of the American Association of Cost Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, Ameri-can Nuclear Society and the Engineering Society of Detroit. Ron is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and holds a Michigan real estate license. Presently, Ron serves as the chairman of the Oakland University School of Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Council and the chairman of the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, while serving on the board of directors of numerous educational and civic organizations, including University of Michigan Engineering Advisory Council, Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, Think Detroit PAL and the United Way 2-1-1. Formerly, he was a board member of the Warren Conner Development Coalition, Crossroads for Youth, the campaign for the United Negro College Fund and Leadership Oakland. Ron received the Diversity Champion awards from the Birmingham-Bloomfield Diversity Task Force and the Detroit Chapter of the Association of Asian Pacific Americans, the Distinguished Leader Award from Leadership Oakland and the Honorary Alumni Award from Oakland University.

Matthew J. Wagner - Manager of Wind Development, DTE Energy Topic: Wind Power Matt manages various aspects of wind development for DTE Energy, including obtaining land easements, collection of wind resource information, and conduct of environmental studies includ-ing wildlife and wetland assessments. Matt is also involved in various aspects of communica-tions and community relations related to wind development at DTE. Previously, Matt worked in DTE’s environmental management department where he managed environmental personnel re-sponsible for the company’s environmental compliance. Prior to joining DTE Energy, Matt

worked as an environmental consultant for Delta Environmental Consultants in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and EN-COTEC, Inc. an Ann Arbor, Michigan based company. Matt began his career at the United States Environmental Protec-tion Agency’s Automotive Emissions and Fuel Economy Lab, also in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Matt earned a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1984, and a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan in 1991. Matt is also a professional engineer, licensed to practice in Michigan.

April General Membership Meeting-Speaker Bios

Volume 58, Issue 2

Gerard J. Labut - Manager of SmartCurrentssm Program Strategy and

Standards, DTE Energy Topic: SmartCurrentssm

Gerry has held a series of increasingly responsible assignments over a 33 year career as manag-er of planning, design, engineering, budgeting, construction, and operations for DTE’s electri-cal system and its annual capital improvement program. Gerry is a member of the Engineering Society of Detroit, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Business Admin-istration from the University of Detroit. He has also received DTE’s Walter McCarthy Award for community service, Sarah Sheridan Award for customer service, and Alex Dow Award for technical innovation. Jennifer Cichowlas - Supervising Engineer - Power Systems Technology, DTE Energy Topic: Solar Power Jennifer is an Electrical Engineering graduate from Wayne State University in Detroit. Jennifer has been with DTE Energy for 13 years and started as a co-op student during her time attend-ing WSU, in the Northwest Planning and Design Region. She was hired as a full-time engineer upon graduation in 2002 where she continued her career in the same group gaining valuable experience about planning the electrical system. Throughout her career at Detroit Edison, she has worked in various groups and roles; such as learning about rates and the impacts of electric

choice with our marketing organization, understanding and working with our fleet operations, additional time in a leader-ship position in the regional planning group, then became a resource analyst where she created short and long term sched-ules between the design and field organizations. Jennifer is currently in the power systems technology group, where she is the Supervising Engineer with her main project overseeing the interconnection of the utility solar projects with our grid and learning how solar PV operates.

Gary Tremberth – Supervisor of System Operation Center (SOC), DTE Energy Topic: Guided Tour of DTE Energy Control Room Gary started with Detroit Edison in 1977 and has served in varying roles during his career. Gary possesses over 22 years of substation field experience in operations and maintenance and 12 years Electrical system operation. Gary earned his Associate Degree in Electrical technolo-gy from Macomb College and obtained Journeyman Substation Operator status from the US Department of Labor. Gary is also a NERC Certified Transmission Operator and NERC Certified Reliability Coordinator. Shaun Summerville, Marketing Program Manager, DTE Energy Topic: Guided Tour of DTE Smart Home Shaun Summerville is currently a Marketing Program Manger in Retail Marketing at Detroit Edison. In this position, she is responsible for developing new products and services delivered through AMI that will be offered to Detroit Edison's customers. She has 5 years experience at DTE in several departments including Gas Operations as well as Corporate Finance. Prior to joining DTE, she worked for 7 years in the automotive industry in product development and vehicle operations and 3 years in the pharmaceutical industry in both production operations and product pricing. Shaun has an MBA from Columbia University and a BS in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

April General Membership Meeting-Speaker Bios Cont.

Volume 58, Issue 2

IRWA Guests please park in the MGM Casino parking structure on the 2nd Floor and walk to the DTE Energy

Entrance (also on the 2nd floor) where you will be directed to register and

pick up your visitor’s ID badge.

DTE Energy and Chapter 7

Detroit Edison's Richard H. Taylor was credited for being primarily responsible for starting the Michigan Chapter 7 in 1953. The January 1954 edition of Synchroscope (Detroit Edison com-munication newsletter) reported that Dick Taylor reported to VP Edward T. Gusbee, when he championed the creation of Chapter 7, which became the only American Right of Way Associa-tion Chapter east of the Mississippi. Once Canada began creating chapters, the American Right of Way Association became the International Right of Way Association (IRWA). Today there are 25 Chapters of IRWA east of the Mississippi. Frank Balfour, from the California Transportation Department, was recruiting professionals in the United States, in 1953, to form the American Right of Way Association. One person became especially engaged with Frank and that was Richard (Dick) H. Taylor, Director, Detroit Edison Right of Way Department. Dick and Frank both traveled together to promote the American Right of Way Association. Dick became the main organizer and first Michigan Chapter 7 Presi-dent in 1954. Frank became the 1st President of the American Right of Way Association and then Dick Taylor became the 2nd American Right of Way Association President from1957 to1958. At some point when Dick reported to Detroit Edison Vice President Chet Ogden, start-ing in 1964, Chet and Dick combined both the Right of Way and Real Estate Departments into a single department, the Real Estate and Right of Department, with Dick Taylor as its Director. Detroit Edison’s Robert W. Tewksbury was Chapter 7 President in 1974 and Detroit Edison’s Thomas H. Beagan was Chapter 7 President in 1975. -Submitted by Tom Wilson, DTE Energy

Photos provided by DTE Energy

2012-2013 EVENTS TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

June 1, 2012 Installation of Officers Banquet Weber’s Inn

June 10 - 13, 2012 Annual Education Conference Seattle, Washington August 16, 2012 Executive Board Meeting Orchard Hiltz & McCliment; Livonia Sept. 26, 2012 Executive Board Meeting Shanty Creek, Bellaire, MI Sept. 25-27, 2012 Fall Education Seminar Shanty Creek, Bellaire, MI October, 2012 International Right of Way Month October _TBD_, 2012 Fall Region Forum Charleston, West Virginia November 8, 2012 General Membership Meeting Frankenmuth, MI December 6, 2012 Executive Board Meeting Washtenaw County Road Commission, Ann Arbor February 7, 2013 Executive Board Meeting JR Group, Detroit, MI March 7, 2013 General Membership Meeting TBD April _TBD_, 2013 Spring Region Forum Wisconsin April 25, 2013 Executive Board Meeting Commonwealth May 9, 2013 General Membership Meeting TBD June _TBD_, 2013 Installation of Officers Banquet June 23 – 26, 2013 Annual Education Conference Charleston, West Virginia Note: All Executive Board Meetings start at 9:30 a.m. unless otherwise stated. All General Membership meetings start at 8:00 a.m. with registration.

The March General Membership meeting held at Schuler’s in Battle Creek was extra special. In attendance were many Past Presidents who were recognized during the

luncheon. Chapter 7 would like to extend its thanks to all Past Presidents. Thank You!!

Past Presidents recognized at Luncheon From L to R: Andy Reed SR/WA, Norm Thomas SR/WA, Roland Cilke SR/WA, Lynn Hall SR/WA, Laura Southwell SR/WA, R/W-RAC, Mary Anne Marr SR/WA, Mary Benko, Dave Maturen SR/WA, Dick Roth R/W-AC, Gary

Bowman SR/WA, Scott Carlson, and Jeff Jones SR/WA, R/W-NAC, R/W-RAC, R/W-URAC.

Chapter 7 Recognizes Past Presidents

Save the Date!

June 1st, 2012

Installation of Officers Banquet

Weber’s Inn ~ Ann Arbor, MI

Register Today for Upcoming Courses!

Contact: Jim Aiello jjaiello@cai-engr.com Ph: (517) 796‐5741

Education & Development

May 18, 2012

Course 213 Conflict Management

DTE Energy ~ Detroit, MI

May 7-8, May 9-10

Course 800 Principles of Real Estat4e Law

Principles of Real Estate Engineering Weber’s Inn ~ Ann Arbor, MI

Dave Maturen, SR/WA named Public Servant of the Year

03/27/2012- Kalamazoo Regional Chamber of Com-merce honored local leaders and businesses at the Community Awards. Dave Maturen, SR/WA was presented with the Public Servant of the Year Award.

“The Public Servant of the Year Award has been presented to a public servant who has provided

exemplary leadership in their role as a government official. Recipients of this award have gone above and beyond their

day-to-day responsibilities as leaders to secure a positive future for the re-gion. Past Public Servant of the Year award recipients have made signifi-

cant and visionary contributions to the area and its citizens.“

Dave Maturen, SR/WA is in his 10th year on the County Board of Com-missioners representing the 17th District-the Vicksburg/Schoolcraft/South County area. He serves on the Michigan Association of Counties Econom-ic Development and Taxation Committee. He serves on the National Asso-ciation of Counties Energy, Environment and Land Use Committee. He is a Certified General Appraiser and the owner of Maturen & Associates.

Congratulations Dave Maturen, SR/WA!

Tim Davis

If you are interested in advertising in the Great Lakes

State•ment and/or the Member-ship Roster, please contact Tim

Davis SR/WA, R/W-RAC, R/W-NAC.

trdavis@cai-engr.com

517-768-7153

Advertising Rates GLS Business Card $75.00

Roster Business Card $75.00

Roster Half Page $150.00

Roster Full Page $225.00

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The Great Lakes State•ment is a publica on for the members of MI Chapter 7 Interna onal Right of Way Associa on (IRWA). Stories and ar cles of interest are encouraged. Please forward your submissions to: Beth Skowronski, Newsle er Chair/Editor 517 788 0752 baskowronski@cmsenergy.com   For informa on on IRWA MI Chapter 7, please contact the Secretary: Larysa Figol, SR/WA

figoll@troymi.gov (248) 524‐3380 April 2012 Vol.58 No.2

Tim Davis, SR/WA, R/W-RAC, R/W-NAC Commonwealth Associates PO Box 1124 Jackson, MI 49201

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What: General Membership

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When: May 17, 2012

Where:

DTE Energy ~ Detroit, MI

Cost: $40 Registration

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