Notice

PA One Call Board Member Nominations

The Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs is seeking an interested borough official to serve on the Pennsylvania One Call Board of Directors. 

Pennsylvania One Call System is a service organization dedicated to minimizing utility service interruptions, reducing on-the-job injuries and deaths, promoting a higher level of public safety, and protecting the environment. Since its inception in 1972, Pennsylvania One Call System has increased its membership from 6 utilities in one county to over 3,800 underground facility owner/operators in all 67 counties from the following industries: cable television, electric, gas, propane, Marcellus shale, pipeline, sewer, telecommunications, telephone, water and government, including state, county, city, borough, townships of the 1st class, townships of the 2nd class, and municipal authorities.  Members also include private master meter companies, manufactured housing communities, and private entities, such as schools, hospitals, manufacturing sites, and others owning underground facilities which cross public roads.

A 35-member Board of Directors governs Pennsylvania One Call System.  The composition of the Board includes representation from the following industries:  Electric, Gas (including an owner or operator associated with Conventional oil and gas wells and a facility owner representative of a pipeline associated with Unconventional oil and gas wells), Municipal, Pipeline, Telecommunications, Telephone, Water, Cable Television, Associate, Excavator, Designer, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, and the Department of Transportation.

Interested borough officials should send an e-mail stating their interest in serving in this position to Ron Grutza, PSAB Senior Director of Government Affairs at rgrutza@boroughs.org.