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Stephanie Wiechmann
John Barlow has worked with the Muncie Sanitary district for 38 years. Currently, he's the superintendent of the city's water pollution control facility. Now he'll serve as the MSD administrator. Barlow told the board he's very grateful to lead the agency he's worked at for so long.

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John Barlow
So I've worked with a lot of people around here for a long time and it's been great. I just love like to thank you and I'm looking forward to it. And, let's let's go forward and keep moving.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Other MSD board members and staff have frequently and loudly praised employees since the July 2019 arrest of former MSD administrator Nikki Grigsby. Federal officials said Grigsby steered work to a local businessman in exchange for kickbacks. Grigsby is set to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of a deal with federal prosecutors, but a hearing on the matter has not been scheduled yet.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Interim administrator Bill Smith, who is retiring now as MSD head and board president but will stay on the board until the end of the year, says the district's employees are upstanding.

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Bill Smith
Bottom line is the district is the people, the employees, they're the ones who do it. And we certainly have a outstanding and I've said it before, I go to work with this, with the district employees, any time, any place.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
A board member, Mike Cline, is also retiring from the board at the end of the month after moving out of state. The mayor will appoint his replacement. Also at Wednesday's board meeting, the Muncie Sanitary district says of the more than 24,000 customers it serves, a quarter have late notices on their accounts, but it says it won't shut off water to anyone right now.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
It asks customers with late notices to call the billing office and work out a plan that could see late fees removed. In Muncie. Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.