Asphalt Recyclers Elect New President

During its recent 26^th Anniversary Annual Meeting held in Tampa, the membership of the Asphalt Recycling & Reclaiming Association (ARRA), Annapolis, Md., elected Mike Polak as the association’s president for the 2002-2003 term.

Polak served a chairman of the ARRA’s Subcommittee on Cold In-Place Recycling and continues to serve this group. In addition, Polak has held the offices of vice president, secretary/treasurer and annual meeting program chairman.

Polak is a 22-year employee of and partner of E.J. Breneman, West Lawn, Penn. The firm specializes in Cold In-Place Recycling and has been a member of ARRA since 1986. Raised in England, Polak holds degrees from Wolverhampton College of Technology and Staffordshire College of Agriculture.

Other officers and directors elected for the 2002-2003 term were:

• Vice President – Tim Amling of Base Construction Co. Ltd., Columbus, Ohio;
• Secretary/Treasurer – Stephen Damp of Miller Paving Limited, Markham, Ontario;
• Thomas L. Johnson of Midstate Reclamation, Lakeville, Minn.;
• John Rathbun of Cutler Repaving, Lawrence; Kan.;
• Larry Schreiner of Koch Pavement Solutions, Chicago;
• Greg Brown of Brown & Brown, Salina, Kan.; and
• Dave Cannon of Terra-Firma Technologies, Uniontown, Penn.

Todd Casey of Base Construction, Columbus, Ohio, again will serve as chairman of the Committee on Recycling Education (CORE), ARRA’s technical committee.

ARRA is a non-profit trade association of contractors, equipment manufacturers, suppliers, public officials and engineers engaged in recycling and reclaiming asphalt and using recycling economies to rebuild a stronger and safer network of highways.

For more information on the organization, visit www.arra.org.