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Water and Sewer Subcommittee <br />April 22, 2003 <br />Page 4 <br /> <br />Development with the OMI Management, Inc. <br /> <br />Ms. Ross came forward introducing Randy Massey, who is their Project Manager <br />in Georgetown, Texas, where they operate the water and wastewater treatment <br />systems. She also introduced Gregg Higgins who is the Regional Vice President <br />for this area of the country for OMI, which means that Gregg has the <br />responsibility of overseeing all of OMI Projects in this region. <br /> <br />Ms. Ross informed the Committee that they have a short presentation about their <br />company which gives a background on their experience and capabilities, what <br />they do, where they do it, and who their clients are. They wanted to review a <br />couple of their projects in the region and things that they were able to <br />accomplish at these projects. <br /> <br />Ms. Ross said their company was founded in 1980 and they are a part of a larger <br />environmental engineering company called CH2M HILL. Their company is <br />100% employee-owned and American-owned. They are not traded on the stock <br />exchange and the only way that you can own stock in OMI or CH2M HILL is to <br />be an employee. They have grown every year by an average of 15% just by <br />adding projects and clients like Paris, Texas. She said they have not purchased <br />any other companies or made large acquisitions. They just grow very steadily <br />every year by adding cities as their clients. Ms. Ross said they had 175 million <br />dollars in revenue in 2002. They manage 180 water and wastewater systems in <br />this country and a few overseas. They have about 1500 associates that work for <br />OMI and the parent company. If you add all of the employees with the parent <br />company, it is over 7,000 employees. Ms. Ross said they have approximately <br />125 clients; cities and industries across the country. She said they try to take all <br />of those assets and facts and apply their business strategy; which is to give their <br />customer the best value and world class performance. Ms. Ross advised that <br />they have more operations and management federal, state, and local awards than <br />any other of their competitors combined. They won the 2000 Malcolm Baldridge <br />National Quality Award from the U. S. Department of Commerce and they were <br />the only water industry recipient ever to receive that award. She said that what <br /> <br /> <br />