BIOGRAPHIES FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS CANDIDATES

RON STAFFORD

I have been a member of the Board of Directors for the BMDCWA for the past nine years. During most of this time my wife and I have been full-time residents of the Brazos area. We are presently in the Brazos during the summer and fall. Over the years I have had the opportunity to learn about our water system, and to provide a considerable amount of my time in daily and weekly maintenance activities. I have received training through the New Mexico Rural Water Association on Operator Certification Fundamentals and am certified as a Level 1 Water Systems Operator. In 2007, I worked through the sponsorship of Senator Domenici for a grant for $160,000.00 for the new well that was completed and in full service for the community in 2009.

If I have the opportunity to serve as a Board Member during the next three years, I will continue to learn more about the water system and will assist the community in their needs for quality water, as well as necessary upgrades on an aging water system.

MIKE VALDEZ, MD, MPH&TM

I have been a member of the Board of Directors for the BMDWCA for the past six years. I was born and raised in northern New Mexico not far from the Brazos Canyon. I served in the United States Air Force, after which I attended New Mexico State University earning a Bachelor of Sciences in Biology. I received a Medicine Degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a Master in Public Health and Tropical Medicine degree from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In October 2004, I retired with the rank of Captain from the U. S. Navy.

I am married to Nina L. Lohr, formerly from Monterey, Virginia. We have owned property in the Brazos since 1987 and our cabin since 1991. I also serve as a volunteer firefighter with the Brazos Canyon Volunteer Fire Department.

PAUL WALENCIAK

After vacationing in the Chama area for almost fifty years, my wife, Jonelle, and I bought property in the Upper Brazos in 2008. We were both raised in the southeast corner of New Mexico and met at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces where I received a degree in Electrical Engineering. After marriage and college, we lived from San Francisco to Washington D.C., including about fourteen years in Tijeras, but when it came time to retire we chose the place we both loved most—the Brazos. I am currently employed through Southwestern Oklahoma State University as a manufacturing consultant for the State of Oklahoma working closely with the Department of Commerce and Labor. At the end of June, we will be making the Upper Brazos our primary home.

The Brazos is everything we dreamed for—the geography is great and the neighbors we have met are friendly and very helpful to us flatlanders. We appreciate what all those who came before us have done and look forward to contributing to the future of the area.