For job well done, Eleazer awarded pay hike

When it comes to the matter of Oconee’s sanitary sewer operations, the buck often stops with Chris Eleazer.  And his employers like the job that he’s doing.  Eleazer has worked as executive director of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority at Seneca since 2017 and is only the third such director in the approximate 40-year history of piper sewer that links the county’s three largest municipalities.  Yesterday, after conducting its annual review of Eleazer’s job performance, the JRSA governing board approved a 2.5% pay raise, which will bring the director’s salary to $117 thousand annually.  The last couple of years have been marked by several sewer spills and a loss of JRSA funds, but Board Chairman Scott Moulder says Eleazer has done his job well.