Administration

Executive Director

Cheri R. Cousens, P.E.

Finance Director

Laurie Elliott

Operations Manager

Brett Leavitt

Wastewater Engineer

Milagros Puello, P.E.

Maintenance Manager

John Buckley

Monitoring Manager

Colleen Spero

Office Manger

Ann Rader

Commission meetings are currently held remotely on the last Wednesday of the month at 3:00 PM. The meetings are otherwise held in the conference room of the GLSD Administration Building, 240 Charles Street, North Andover. Meeting dates are subject to change to accommodate holidays or satisfy quorum requirements.

Special meetings and subcommittee meetings are posted as needed.

Budget Process

The District runs on a July 1 – June 30 fiscal year. In November of each year the department heads of the District submit estimated expenditures for the next fiscal year to the Executive Director. The Executive Director, in turn, prepares a draft of the budget which includes the anticipated expenditures, as well as estimated income derived from sources such as septage receiving and uncommitted funds from the previous fiscal year. Member communities are then assessed operations and maintenance fees based on the flow received from each community in the previous calendar year. A fixed percentage is applied to debt service and capital costs.

The District is required to stay within the spending ceilings set by Proposition 2 ½. Massachusetts law does, however, allow a multi-member water or sewage district (such as the District) to increase its budget over the 2 ½ % annual increment with first a two-thirds vote of the District governing body and thereafter, the approval of two-thirds of the local appropriating authorities of the member municipalities. The District has never had to request a Proposition 2 ½ override.

The Executive Director presents the draft budget to the District Board of Commissioners for approval. For the budget to become final, it must be approved by a majority of the District Commissioners.

Previous Budgets

• FY 2024-Budget
• FY-2023-Budget
• FY-2022-Budget
• FY-2021-Budget
• FY-2020-Budget
• FY-2019-Budget
• FY-2018-Budget

Requests for public records are handled in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the Massachusetts Secretary of State. Those guidelines can be accessed at the Secretary of State’s website.