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Jay A. Bernas, PE
General Manager and Chief Executive Officer

generalmanager@hrsd.com

Jay Bernas was appointed General Manager by the HRSD Commission in February 2022 after previously serving as the Director of Finance for seven years. He has a demonstrated history of integrating engineering, quantitative and financial skills and driving strong financial performance, including three ratings upgrades within two years and obtaining WIFIA and clean water loans projected to save ratepayers over $600M. Before his promotion to this position, he served as Chief of Planning and Analysis for 10 years and was responsible for planning HRSD's $1.4 billion Capital Improvement Program, performing business case analyses saving $239M NPV, system capacity analyses to support regional growth and managing four technical sections: Geographic Information Systems, Data Analysis, Hydraulic Modeling, and Capital Planning. Prior to joining HRSD in 2005, he was a project manager with the City of Virginia Beach. Mr. Bernas graduated from Old Dominion University in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and earned his MBA from the College of William and Mary in 2013. He also has completed the Kenan-Flagler Water and Wastewater Leadership Program and was part of the 2008 class for LEAD Hampton Roads. He received the George Robert House, Jr. Award for the young public administrator of the year from the American Society for the Public Administration in 2006 and was recognized by Inside Business as a "Top Forty under 40" in 2011. Appointed by the Virginia Beach City Council to serve on the Planning Commission from 2006-2013, Mr. Bernas was its Chair for the last two years of his tenure. He served as chair of the St. Gregory the Great's School Board from 2015-2019. In 2018, he was elected to the $2.0 billion Virginia Investment Pool Board of Trustees. In 2020, he was elected to the National Association of Clean Water Agencies Board of Directors.

Libby Scott
Commission Secretary

commissionsecretary@hrsd.com
757.460.7003

Libby began her career at HRSD in March 2014 as Administrative Assistant at the Nansemond Treatment Plant. She was promoted to Administrative Coordinator for the Operations Division in July 2021 and later transferred to the Finance Division reporting to the Deputy General Manager. Libby was appointed by the Commission to serve as Assistant Secretary to the Commission in July 2022, and was appointed to Commission Secretary in March 2024. Libby serves on the Water Environment Federation (WEF) Operations Challenge Committee and is the Day of Events Coordinator for the Operations Challenge event at WEFTEC. She also volunteers with other Operations Challenge events, WaterJAM, and HRSD Red Cross Blood Drives.