79 West May Breakfast Club with Victor Czar, Sanford Assistant City Manager

Welcome to the 79 West Monthly Breakfast Club - our laid-back take on the predictable morning networking event happening every month. Enjoy live acoustic music 🎸, a full breakfast 🍳, and free coworking until 5pm.

In May, we're featuring Victor Czar, who is the Assistant City Manager for the City of Sanford and the driving force behind one of the most significant regional infrastructure achievements in recent NC history. A NCSU trained engineer 🐺, Czar has served the City of Sanford since 1990, holding positions of City Engineer and Public Works Director before rising to Assistant City Manager. In that role, he oversaw the creation of TriRiver Water, the utility now serving both Lee and Chatham counties.

Prior to this merger, Pittsboro's water infrastructure, much of it built before the Great Depression, had forced the town to impose water service moratoriums fifteen times over twenty years, directly blocking new residential, commercial, and industrial development. By combining Pittsboro's needs with Sanford's ample Cape Fear River 🚣‍♂️ water supply and modern infrastructure, Czar helped engineer a solution that grew the utility. It went from roughly 23,000 to 40,000 customers, and expanded its service area to a region roughly the size of Rhode Island — with plans to scale water capacity from 12 million to 30 million gallons per day.

TriRiver Water has already helped unlock major economic development, including water and sewer infrastructure supporting the Wolfspeed semiconductor manufacturing facility in Siler City.

You'll also get news updates from Gene Galin of the Chatham Journal 🗞️, and industry insights from our amazing sponsors:

Shanklin Wealth Planning, Woof Gang Bakery and Grooming, 39 West Catering, Falco Studios LLC, Mosaic at Chatham Park, and Pittsboro Print Plus

Interested in getting in front of Chatham County's business leadership yourself? Contact [email protected] for sponsorship info.

Want more Breakfast Clubs? Join us in June! (We'll be on vacay in July 🏖️)

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