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New Executive Director Appointed At Northern Palm

Beach County Improvement District

By Katie Roundtree, Finance Director, Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District

In September, O’Neal potable water systems and System (NPDES) Steering Committee for Palm Beach
Bardin Jr. announced his wastewater collection and County.
retirement as executive treatment. Beatty gained his Dan and the rest of Northern’s dedicated staff intend to
director after almost 35 knowledge and experience carry on in O’Neal’s footsteps by continuing to provide the
years with Northern Palm through his employment excellent level of service that our constituents have been
Beach County Improvement with Northern, the City accustomed to.
District (NPCID). C. Danvers of Delray Beach and the The Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District
(Dan) Beatty was appointed engineering firm of Caulfield is an independent special district created by the Florida
executive director by the & Wheeler Inc. Legislature in 1959 to provide water management and
Board of Supervisors, to Beatty graduated from infrastructure development in Palm Beach County. For more
become effective immediately the University of Tennessee information please visit www.npbcid.org.
following Bardin’s retirement. with a degree in civil NPDES tip: Planting a rain garden with native plants
On Nov. 13, Beatty became executive director of Northern engineering and received somewhere around your home helps lock rainwater in the
Palm Beach County Improvement District. As a licensed his master’s degree in public C. Danvers (Dan) Beatty ground, reducing the flow of pollutants and poisons into
professional engineer, Dan joined Northern in 2005 as administration from Nova the drains. Using organic fertilizers and pesticides in your
deputy director of engineering and operations. He has Southeastern University. He is the current treasurer of the garden further protects and brings health to your yard and
over 35 years of public and private experience in all facets Florida Association of Special Districts and serves on the all the species living there.
of civil engineering, including storm water management, Board of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination

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Don’t Avoid “Taboo” Topics With Older Parents

By Sally Sima Stahl

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