Water and Sewer Board

• First appointed: June 1997
• Term expires: June 2023

Board Chairman Harold Evans has been a member of the Greeley Water and Sewer Board since 1997 and has served as its chairman since 2003. His extensive background in water issues includes bachelors and masters degrees in civil engineering from the University of Missouri. He also holds licenses as a professional engineer in both Missouri and Colorado and since 1990, is the owner of the Evans Group, a commercial real estate development and construction management consulting service.

Mr. Evans was appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter in 2007 to the South Platte River Task Force. He also served on the Statewide Water Supply Initiative and has served as the Weld County Municipal Representative on the South Platte Basin Roundtable since 2005. In July 2010, he testified before the US Congress Subcommittee on Water and Power, Committee on Natural Resources, regarding municipal water resource planning. 

Mr. Evans currently is a member of the Colorado Water Congress and the Colorado Foundation for Water Education. He has received numerous community awards and belongs to many civic associations, including Greeley Rotary Club, United Way and Boy Scouts of America.

• Date First Appointed: June 1998
• Term Expires: June 2023

John M. "Mick" Todd has been a member of the Greeley Water and Sewer Board since 1998. Mick is the former President of Toddy's Supermarkets and is currently the manager of Cottonwood Management LLC, a real estate investment and management company. 

Mr. Todd has a degree in finance from the University of Colorado and a Juris Doctor degree from Southern Methodist University. As a resident of Greeley, he has served on numerous local boards including Union Colony Bank, NCMC Foundation, the Greeley Chorale, United Way, and the Greeley Art Commission to name a few. 

Mick is married to Susan Todd and they have three children: Haynes, Perry, and Paul.

• Date First Appointed: January 1975
• Term Expires: June 2021

Robert A. Ruyle graduated from the University of Colorado, School of Law, Boulder, Colorado (LLB 1959). Mr. Ruyle became a partner in the law firm of Miller & Ruyle (1959-1970) in Greeley, Colorado, specializing in real estate, commercial, and water law. He joined the construction firm of Hensel Phelps Construction Co. as Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel in January 1970 and later became a principal stockholder of this large national contracting firm.

As Vice President and General Counsel of Hensel Phelps Construction Co. and its related subsidiaries, Clearwater Constructors, Inc., Rocky Mountain Prestress, Inc., Southern Steel Company, and Pickens-Bond Construction Co., Mr. Ruyle participated in a wide variety of construction litigation ranging from mechanical liens and foreclosures, Miller Act claims, construction failure cases, and government contract claims prosecuted before federal agencies, including the General Services Administration, the Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Veterans Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission. He also specialized in construction payment and performance surety bond default cases. He represented the construction industry as a guest lecturer at the national surety bond school of Aetna Casualty and Surety Company in Hartford, Connecticut.

Mr. Ruyle has lectured to members of the Colorado Bar Association on a variety of topics concerning construction litigation, conducting sections for the Colorado Bar Association programs for continuing legal education.

Mr. Ruyle has conducted a number of construction seminars for various trade associations, including the Colorado Association of General Contractors, the Colorado Masonry Contractors Association, and the Denver-Metro Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Contractors Association. He has served as chairman of the National Association of General Contractors (AGC) Corps of Engineers Committee and its Water Resource Committee. He served the National AGC as chairman of its Heavy and Industrial Committee servicing the contracting industry’s affiliation with the Corps of Army Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Soil Conservation Service, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Dredging Industry. In this capacity, he also served on the National AGC Executive Committee (1989-1991).

Mr. Ruyle has been a member of the Weld County Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association, and the American Bar Association and is admitted to practice law in all Colorado State Courts, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Ruyle was awarded the University of Colorado Distinguished Achievement Award as an Executive in Industry in 1991.

Mr. Ruyle was one of the original organizers of the Union Colony Bank in Greeley, Colorado, and served on its Board of Directors. He has been active in civic organizations having served on its Board of Directors. He has been active in civic organizations having served as a director of the Greeley Chamber of Commerce, Greeley Industrial Development Foundation, University of Colorado Foundation, Inc., North Colorado Medical Center Foundation, Longs Peaks Council, Boy Scouts of America, Mountain Prairie Council Girl Scouts of America, University of Colorado Law School Alumni Board, and University of Colorado President Leadership Institute. He has been a member of the Greeley Water and Sewer Board since 1975.

• Date First Appointed: June 2005
• Term Expires: July 2024

Fred Otis grew up in Greeley and currently practices law, focusing on real estate and business matters.  He is a founding member of Otis & Bedingfield, LLC.  Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Otis served as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mr. Otis is admitted to practice law in the State courts of Colorado and before the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Colorado Bar Association and the Weld County Bar Association. 

Mr. Otis has previously served as a Municipal Court Judge for the City of Greeley, Chairman of the Greeley/Weld Chamber of Commerce, member of the Commission on Judicial Performance for the 19th Judicial District, the Weld County Planning Commission and the Board of United Way of Weld County.  

In addition to participating in many civic organizations, Mr. Otis currently serves on the Board of Poudre River Trail Corridor, Inc.

• Date First Appointed: June 2010
• Term Expires: June 2020

Joe Murphy has been a member of the Greeley Water and Sewer Board since 2010.  Mr. Murphy is a native of Greeley and graduated from Greeley Central High School.  He received a degree in Engineering from the US Military Academy in 1974 and an MBA from Georgia State University in 1979.  Mr. Murphy spent five years on active duty in the US Army Corps of Engineers where he managed building and road construction projects.  After the service, Mr. Murphy worked for a number of companies including General Electric and International Paper Company as a Finance Manager, Product Manager, Sales Manager, Vice President of Marketing and Division General Manager.

Since returning to Greeley in 2007, Mr. Murphy has been a real estate agent working primarily in the residential market.  He is an avid golfer, biker, fisherman, and outdoorsman.  Joe is married to JoAnne Murphy and they have two children. 

• Date First Appointed: June 2013
• Term Expires: June 2023

Tony Miller is Executive Vice President of First FarmBank, an independent community bank with headquarters in Greeley and branches in Yuma and Sterling, Colorado.  He has been with First FarmBank since its formation in 2006.  Mr. Miller has been involved in banking in Northern Colorado since 1981 and has been in Greeley since 1984.

Mr. Miller was appointed to the Greeley Water & Sewer Board in July 2013.  His strong interest in water comes from being a lifelong resident of the front range of Northern Colorado with a farming background and a belief in prudent oversight of water resource management and beneficial use of this valuable resource.

Mr. Miller has a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Business from Colorado State University and has completed numerous banking related programs.

Mr. Miller is Chairman of the Greeley Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee, a member of the Local Government and Business Affairs Committee, and serves as Secretary / Treasurer and Executive Committee Member for the Colorado Farm Show.  He has also served on several boards for local community service organizations.

• Date First Appointed: June 2014
• Term Expires: June 2024

Manuel Sisneros was the co-owner of Dumar Contractors, which was in business for 37 years. Dumar Contractors completed concrete contracts throughout northeastern Colorado which included box culverts, bridges, and retaining walls on nearly every county highway north of Denver as well as at DIA; the Crystal Lakes Dam structure; curb, gutter and sidewalks in most communities; boat ramps at Horse Tooth reservoir; and decorative concrete fences in many residential areas. They were selected by the Greeley/Weld Chamber of Commerce to receive the 1998 Winners Circle Award and several of the projects they worked on received awards – one of the most notable the sculpture plaza “When Champions Meet” at the Greeley Independence Stampede which was selected by the Daily Journal/Construction Management Report for Outstanding Landscape Project.  They donated concrete projects to the Poudre Trail as well as Island Grove Park via the Gold Spur program.  

Mr. Sisneros also has the owner of Alamo Liquors, co-owner or convenience stores, and gas stations, was the Chairman of Security for 4 years and the General Chairman for 2 years of the Greeley Independence Stampede, Chairman of the Old Buckers Group (past members of Stampede Committee) for 2 years, served as the Greeley Independence Stampede Grand Marshall in 2006, and serves on the Greeley Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Colorado Christian Businessmen, and United Way Board of Directors.  His hobbies include golf and traveling.