Area July 18, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 9 The Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority recently reorganized with sitting Commissioner Brian Chewcaskie of Allendale as the group’s new chairman. Chewcaskie replaced William Dator of Mahwah, whose term had ended. Michael Kasparian of Ho-Ho-Kus will continue to serve as vice chairman. He heads MDK Development, which is based in Paramus. The NBCUA also installed two new commissioners on its governing board. They are Christopher P. DePhillips of Wyckoff and John DaPuzzo of Mahwah. Both men, with distinguished resumes in public service and career success, were recommended by Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan and approved by the Bergen County Board of Freeholders. Chewcaskie is a New Jersey native and has been a resident of Allendale since 1993. He earned a B.S. degree cum laude from Fordham University, followed by a law degree, also cum laude, from Seton Hall University. He was admitted to the bar in New Jersey in 1984. His firm has a distinguished track record of success in acting as special counsel to a number of New Jersey municipalities. NBCUA reorganizes with Chewcaskie at helm The new chairman has focused practice areas, particularly on corporate and commercial transactions, land use and development, banking, and real estate. He has performed successfully in a wide range of important posts for municipalities throughout Bergen County. His resume lists a host of titles from borough attorney to zoning and planning board attorney, redevelopment counsel, and public defender. “We are very gratified to have these two outstanding new commissioners join our team,” Chairman Chewcaskie said of DePhillips and DaPuzzo. “They have demonstrated extraordinary personal and professional accomplishments that will certainly enhance the authority’s ongoing mission to deliver the most cost-effective, environmentallyadvanced sewer services to our member communities.” DePhillips is a principal of the law firm Porzio, Bromberg, & Newman and member of its Complex Litigation Practice Group and Government Affairs Group. Throughout the years, he has won special recognition as national and local counsel on asbestos, pharmaceutical product liability, and environmental contamination matters. A noted author and featured speaker on a host of criti- cal legal issues, DePhillips, who now serves as mayor of Wyckoff, has served on the Wyckoff Township Committee and as a trustee for Community Blood Services of Bergen County. He has also been active with the Northern New Jersey Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and the Wyckoff Education Foundation. His interest in government affairs advocacy was inspired many years ago while working as legislative assistant to then Congresswoman Marge Roukema. An accomplished local businessman, DaPuzzo has (continued on page 10)