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IGSC selects first full-time leader

Ergler recently graduated from Mount Aloysius with biology degree

The region’s newest governmental body has its first full-time leader.

On Thursday, the Intergovernmental Storm­water Committee held its first meeting with coordinator Chelsey Ergler, who is new to the working world herself — having recently graduated from Mount Aloysius with a bachelor’s degree in biology.

Ergler is actually an employee of the Blair County Conservation District, although her $32,000 salary will be reimbursed by the committee — a council of governments comprising 11 municipalities working together to meet increasingly strict federal and state regulations for keeping stormwater contaminants out of streams.

Ergler was hired from six initial applicants. A hiring committee interviewed four candidates and reinterviewed two, said Conservation District Manager Donna Fisher.

The committee recommended Ergler for her enthusiasm and organizational abilities, Fisher said.

Ergler will be a facilitator, Fisher said. Among her key initial duties will be to develop templates to enable each municipality to comply more easily with “permit” requirements common to them all, Fisher said.

For example, Ergler will develop a housekeeping plan for municipal garages and an outreach plan, Fisher said.

The outreach plan would be customized — listing the schools, the homeowners associations and watershed associations in each municipality, Fisher said.

Ergler said she has long been enthusiastic about conservation in all forms.

“I’m a hard believer in doing what you love,” she said.

She didn’t expect, however, to ascend to a job like stormwater coordinator for the district so quickly — figuring that would take something like five years, she said.

“I’m very fortunate,” she said.

She grew up in Altoona and graduated from Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School in 2012.

Mirror Staff Writer William Kibler is at 949-7038.

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