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President
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Chris Campany
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Vice-President
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Cleve Kapala
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Secretary
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Tom Kennedy
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Treasurer
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Mary Sloat
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Past
presidents
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Commissioners
Connecticut
River Commissioners are volunteers
appointed for three-year terms by the governors of each state, except
for designated positions as noted below.
New
Hampshire's Connecticut River Valley Resource Commission
Robert
Christie, Hanover (representing
statewide conservation organizations) - Dr. Christie is a
retired pathologist, laboratory
director, Adjunct Professor of Pathology at Dartmouth Medical School,
and a writer. A member of the Lancaster Conservation Commission, he is
also active in a number of regional conservation organizations, as well
as the Weeks State Park Association and North Country Chamber Players.
Dr. Christie served for 15 years on the White Mountains Regional School
Board and is a former member of the Board of Trustees at Norwich
University, which awarded him an honorary degree. During World War II,
he served as a tank company commander in Europe where he received the
Bronze Star. Members of his family own Christie's Maple Farm in
Lancaster.
Robert
Harcke, Westmoreland (designated
by Southwest Region Planning Commission) - Mr. Harcke, a
riverfront landowner, is the
chief executive officer of Continental Cable Company in Hinsdale, a
business that he founded in 1969. He has served as president of the
Hinsdale Commercial and Industrial Development Corporation since 1999.
He is a board member of the Southwest Region Planning Commission, and
serves on its economic development and brownfields advisory committees.
He has served on the Westmoreland Budget Committee and is a member of
the town's planning board.
Cleve
Kapala, Hopkinton (representing
hydroelectric interests) - Mr. Kapala
is
Director of Government Affairs
and Relicensing for TransCanada Hydro, the present owner of the hydro
generating dams on the Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers. He previously
served as Director of Relicensing for the company's predecessors, New
England Power Company and USGen New England. Mr. Kapala has also been a
director of the New England Salmon Association, a member of the board
of trustees of the New Hampshire chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and
former Director of Education & Policy for the Society for the
Protection of New Hampshire Forests.
Mary
Sloat, Lancaster (designated
by North Country Council) - Mrs.
Sloat is former chair of the planning boards of both Northumberland and
the Coos County Unincorporated Places, and serves on the Board of the
Northern Forest Canoe Trail and on the Citizen's Advisory Committee for
Nash Stream. Formerly vice-president of the board of directors of the
North Country Council and chair of its Northern Forest Lands Committee,
she has taken leadership roles in the North Country League of Women
Voters and 4-H, and participated on the STA-North Economic Development
Commission and the Heritage Trail Advisory Committee. Mrs. Sloat has
served as chair of the NH River Commission and President of the
Connecticut River Joint Commissions.
Donna
Drouin, Walpole (designated
by CT River Watershed Council) - Mrs. Drouin is a
native of Keene, who received degrees at Keene State College in
Geography (BA) and a Masters in Education. While residing in Keene, she
chaired the Keene Conservation Commission, briefly, was a city
councilor and served on various other community committees. She is now
retired, having taught high school social studies for 17 years in the
Green Mountain Union School District of Chester, VT. Since retirement
in 2004, she has been a volunteer with the Walpole Recycling Action
Program and the Walpole Historical Society. In April 2011, Mrs. Drouin
was elected president of the Historical Society. She has held
memberships in the Connecticut River Watershed Council and the Society
for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests for many years.
Robert Ball, Jefferson (member
at large)
- Mr. Ball is a retired electrical engineer who worked as a
technical manager at Bell Laboratories and specialized in
project and software quality management of telecommunications
systems. Since retirement, he has served on the New Hampshire
Water Quality Standards Advisory Committee for the New Hampshire
Department of Environment Services, the Jefferson Conservation
Commission, the New Hampshire State Moorings Appeals Board, the New
Hampshire Lay Lakes Monitoring Program, and the New Hampshire Coverts
Coordinator Project. In 2005, he formed the Israel River Volunteer
Advisory Group which has partnered with state, federal and local
university agencies to access basic water quality, thermal, and
trout migration issues in the Israel River Watershed. He is an officer
and director for the Ammonoosuc Chapter of Trout Unlimited and
certified fly fishing instructor for the NH Fish and Game Let's Go
Fishing Program.
Joan Monroe, Lebanon (designated
by Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission)
Rebecca
Brown, Sugar Hill (member at large)
Vermont
's Connecticut River Watershed
Advisory Commission
Peter
Gregory, Woodstock (designated
by Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Planning Commission) - Executive Director
of the Two
Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Planning Commission since 1997, Mr.
Gregory is also a former treasurer of the Greater Upper Valley Solid
Waste Management District. Gregory serves on the Vermont Transportation
Operations Council, an advisory panel to the Vermont DOT Secretary, and
is a Board member on the Vermont State Infrastructure Bank serving as
Chairman for the past 4 years. He helped develop the Vermont Byways
Program, provides staff support for the Vermont Scenery Preservation
Council, and is active on the Connecticut River Byway Council Steering
Committee. He was presented with the Regional Leadership award by the
New England Association of Regional Councils in 2003.
Thomas
Kennedy, Hartland (designated
by Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission) - Mr. Kennedy is
Executive Director of the
Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission, chairman of the
Vermont Association of Planning and Development Association, and active
on the Vermont Scenery Preservation Council and Connecticut River Byway
Council Steering Committee. He lectures students in elementary and
middle schools on the history, life and culture of people in southern
Africa, and is active in youth soccer in Hartland and in the Upper
Valley. He and his wife own a small farm in Hartland, Vermont where
they raise livestock breeds that are considered to be endangered.
Beverly
Major, Westminster (representing
agricultural interests) - Currently
Town Librarian in Westminster West, Mrs. Major is a retired teacher.
She is also a former chair of the Westminster School Board and chair
and founding member of the Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association. She
serves on the local Board of Civil Authority and has served on the
State School Directors' Board and the boards of the Extension Service
and Brattleboro Community House. Her family owns the dairy sheep
cheese-producing Major Farm in Westminster. For 17 years she led a
large and very active 4-H club in her area. In 2008 Mrs. Major was
honored by EPA with the President's Volunteer Service Award and by Gov.
Douglas with an Outstanding Community Service Award.
Alison
Meaders, St.
Johnsbury (designated
by Northeastern
Vermont Development Association) - Ms. Meaders is a
planner at Northeastern Vermont Development
Association (NVDA), and is an active member of the Connecticut River
Scenic Byway Steering Committee. As the regional planning commission
for Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, NVDA works with 55 communities to
improve quality of life and protect the region's uniquely rural assets.
Previously, she was the downtown coordinator for St. Johnsbury, where
she helped to found St. Johnsbury Works!, a "Main Street" program
modeled on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's comprehensive
approach to downtown revitalization.
Gary
Moore, Bradford (member
at large) - The emergency
management director for his native Bradford, VT, Mr. Moore is a
consultant in homeland security, teaching a variety of terrorism and
bomb related courses to fire, police and emergency management officials
around the country. He is a member of the VT State Police Search and
Rescue Team and the VT Hazardous Materials Response Team. He has served
on all three of the government commissions focused on New England's
largest river, currently including the four-state CT River Flood
Control Commission, and, formerly, the CT River Atlantic Salmon
Commission. Moore has also served as commissioner of VT's Dept. of Fish
& Wildlife, chair of the VT Water Resources Board, and is vice
chair of the VT State Colleges System board He writes a regular column,
"Thoughts on the Out of Doors," for several valley newspapers.
Gayle
Ottmann, Hartford (member
at large) - Executive
Director of the Hartford Area Chamber of Commerce and Vice Chair of the
Hartford Select Board, Mrs. Ottmann is an active member of the Scenic
Byway Council Steering Committee. She is involved in an array of area
non-profit organizations with emphasis on tourism and economic issues.,
including Upper Valley Housing Coalition Public Outreach and Education
Sub-Committee, member of the State of Vermont's Cultural Heritage
Tourism Council, member of the Upper Valley Transportation Committee,
Vermont's Rail Advisory Council, member of the Executive Board of
Vermont Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, and Program
Director for the White River Rotary Club.
Joseph
Sampson, Bradford
(member at large) - Mr.
Sampson brings years of experience in municipal affairs to the
commissions, having served for 17 years as a member of the Bradford
Board of Selectmen. He is an assistant scout master with Boy Scout
Troop 978, and is a member of the Masons, Charity Lodge No. 43.
Michaela
Stickney, Waterbury (designated
by the Vermont Agency of Natural
Resources) - Michaela
Stickney is Coordinator of Vermont's Lake Champlain Basin Program, a
large, bi-state and multi-national watershed program. Her twenty years
of experience in watershed planning and aquatic biology include work in
twenty Vermont towns, four states, and seven countries. Ms. Stickney is
working on Governor Douglas' Clean and Clear Action Plan, a new
statewide water quality improvement initiative. She and her husband
sell hay and framing lumber from their 150 acre hilltop farm.
Brendan
Whittaker, Brunswick (member
at large) - The Reverend
Mr.
Whittaker, who holds
degrees in forestry and divinity, began his career in Vermont state
government as Essex County Forester, and was appointed by Governor
Davis to serve as First Chairman of the Act 250 District 1
Environmental Commission. Governor Snelling appointed him as Director
of the State Energy Office in 1977, and in 1978 as Secretary of the
Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. In 1991 he was appointed by
Governor Snelling to the Northern Forest Lands Council. He later joined
the Vermont Natural Resources Council as Northern Forest Project
Manager. A selectman of Brunswick, Mr. Whittaker and his wife operate a
market garden from their farm. Though retired, he continues to fill in
at Episcopal churches in NH. He is a founding member of the nation-wide
"Forest Stewards Guild."
Norman
Wright ,
Westminster (member
at large) - A
former
Vermont
State Representative and
Commissioner of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, Mr. Wright
has 26 years experience in government in Montpelier and in Washington
D.C. He served until 2002 as chief executive officer of the Vermont
Hospital Association and on a number of American Hospital Association
work groups on Medicaid and Medicare. He is a member of the executive
committee of Windham Regional Planning Commission and chair of its
Community Development and Housing Committee. He has served as town
meeting moderator for Westminster and was principal of an appraisal
business in Putney.
Alex
DeFelice ,
Wilder (member
at large)
Elizabeth
Coppola ,
Springfield (member
at large)
Chris
Campany, Brattleboro (Windham
RPC)
Steve
Adams, Hartland (member
at large)
Staff
CRJC has contracted with Upper
Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission to provide
administrative support to CRJC.
Rachel Ruppel, Program Manager
Yutian Zhang, Finance Manager
Past
Presidents
1989
- 1996 - George
Moulton, Charlestown NH
1996 - 1997 - Peter Richardson,
Norwich VT
1998 - 1999 - Cheston Newbold,
Cornish NH
2000 - Mary Sloat,
Northumberland NH
2001 - Nathaniel Tripp, Barnet VT
2002 - Mary Sloat,
Northumberland NH
2003 - 2004 - Gary Moore,
Bradford VT
2005 - 2006 - Glenn English,
Haverhill, NH
2006 - 2007 - Gayle Ottmann,
Hartford, VT
2007 - 2008 - Cleve Kapala,
Hopkinton, NH
2008 - 2009 - Beverly Major,
Westminster VT
2009
- 2010 - Glenn
English, Haverhill, NH
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