Board of Public Affairs
The Bryan Board of Public Affairs is a five-person board elected to oversee the operations of the community-owned utility. The Board keeps itself informed regularly of utility services, financial position, and personnel. The Board has four committees that meet once a month. At these meetings, management discusses all significant utility activities with the Board.
Board Meetings
The full Board meets the first and third Tuesday of each month in open session at 5 p.m. at the Utility office, 841 East Edgerton St. The public is always welcome.
BPA Meetings are available at this link below.
CLICK HERE: City of Bryan Public Meetings – BPA Playlist
In 2018, the Bryan Board of Public Affairs—BMU’s governing body—initiated a strategic planning process, the first such strategic planning process in more than 20 years. The strategic plan encompasses 2023-2026 to help preserve for Bryan residents, businesses, and institutions the many benefits of living and working in a municipal utility community. The Board of Public Affairs, BMU senior staff, and participants from each utility department comprised the strategic planning team.
The strategic planning team worked through a series of sessions to update BMU’s vision, mission, and values; review organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; identify key strategic issues for the next three years; develop objectives to achieve the strategic goals; and establish success measures to track the strategic plan’s progress.
To ensure the strategic plan reflects community priorities, BMU staff conducted face-to-face interviews to collect customer opinion information. The Board selected Hometown Connections, Inc., a public power utility services organization, to facilitate the development of the strategic plan with the Board and staff. The primary objective of the strategic plan is to support BMU’s continuing excellence in providing safe, reliable, competitively-priced, and environmentally responsible utility services focused on the customer and community and protected through superior financial, technology, and workforce management.
Debra Beevers
Debra Beevers has been a resident of Bryan, Ohio, for 57 years and brings 37 years of experience in the metals industry. After graduating from Bryan High School and attending Defiance College, she built a diverse and successful career spanning operations, sales, marketing, and public relations.
From 2009 until her retirement in October 2025, Debra served as Marketing Director for Concast Metal Products, leading marketing initiatives for the company’s Cleveland and Pittsburgh operations. Throughout her career, she remained active in key industry associations, including the Precision Machined Products Association, the Copper and Brass Supply Chain Association, and the Association of Women in the Metals Industry.
Debra and her husband, Steven, have been married 50 years and live in Bryan. They have two adult children and three grandchildren. She is also active in community organizations including Power in the Purse (BAF), Friends of the Bryan Library, the BAF Memorial Scholarship Fund, Bryan Music Boosters, and Friends of The Bryan Area Chamber of Commerce.
Brian Davis
Brian Davis built a successful early career as a national sales manager for several corporations before entering public service. In 2006, he was elected to the Williams County Board of Commissioners in the Ohio General Election. He went on to serve four consecutive terms, retiring from the board at the end of 2022.
In June 2021, Davis accepted the role of Village Administrator for Antwerp, Ohio, a position he continues to hold. Throughout his career, he has contributed his leadership to numerous boards and committees, including service on the Ohio Department of Transportation’s TRAC Board and two terms as Chairman of CCNO. His work reflects a long-standing commitment to community development, infrastructure, and public service.
Karen Ford
Annette Schreiner
Jeremy Suffel
Jeremy Suffel has been a resident of Bryan, Ohio, for 20 years, he brings two decades of dedicated public service across both the education and government sectors in information technology and local administration.
His career in public service spans 20 years, beginning in education as Assistant Technology Coordinator for Montpelier Exempted Village Schools (2008–2012), where he supported technology infrastructure for students and staff. He continued in government roles as Information Systems Supervisor for the Fulton County Auditor’s Office (2012–2016) before becoming IT Manager for Williams County in 2016 where he continues to serve. In that capacity, he established and leads the county’s centralized IT department, managing network/hardware support, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, data protection, and key initiatives like next-generation 911 systems. Jeremy holds an Associate’s degree in Network Administration from Northwest State Community College and a Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Management from Bluffton University.
Committed to the Bryan community, Jeremy previously served as president of the Bryan Wrestling Club, varsity head wrestling coach for Bryan High School, and has volunteered as a coach for various youth sports programs through Bryan Youth Sports. He is married to his wife, Faith, and they have two children.
Jeremy is dedicated to applying his extensive experience in public-sector technology, educational support, and community leadership to help ensure reliable, innovative, and affordable utility services that benefit Bryan residents and businesses for years to come.