Pickett Ray and Silver

COMPANY NEWS

New Office Locations Up and Running
• PRS has recently opened two new locations in Missouri to better serve our customers. Our New Town location opened for business November 19th, 2008. The Chamber of Commerce held the ribbon cutting ceremony on November 28th and welcomed PRS to the St. Charles Business community. The building was built with the industrial style in mind. The 12 foot ceilings and stainless steel fixtures help to reinforce the technological atmosphere of the building.

PRS held its Grand Opening December 12, 2008 and invited employees, clients and friends to visit the new facility and celebrate the Holiday Season in style. Many of the local businesses provided their services and helped PRS feel welcomed to the New Town community.<

• Our second location, Branson, Missouri, is in the heart of the country and has proven to offer new avenues for growth in the Commercial, Residential and Natural Resource areas. Our office, located just off of the strip on Highway 76, is centrally located to our business clientele. Mike Rankin, Director of Business Development, has been a resident of the Branson area for several years and his knowledge of the area and business contacts has proven to be an invaluable resource.
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Residential Department
• Phase 3 improvements for New Town at St. Charles have been completed with grading for Phase 4 and Part of Phase 10 now under way. Improvement Plans have also been submitted for Phase 10.

Natural Resources Department
• PRS is proud to announce that our Natural Resources Manager, Jim Valleroy became President of the Central Chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists and Matt Cosby, our staff scientist also became the Treasurer of the Chapter. The Society of Wetland Scientists is the world’s largest professional society of Wetland Scientists and represents those in private, public, non-profit and academic sectors.

• PRS also has three Certified Arborists through the International Society of Arboriculture. To obtain recognition as a Certified Arborist, professionals must have a minimum of three years experience in some aspect of tree care and must pass an exam developed by an international panel of experts. The exam covers extensively all aspects of tree care and the individuals must have an acceptable level of knowledge in all areas of arboriculture.

Congratulations to the following people
Doug Tiemann-Director of Public Works
Jim Valleroy- Natural Resources Manager
Matt Cosby- Staff Scientist

• PRS’s Natural Resources Division has completed year 1 of a 2 year contract that was awarded by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources earlier this year. The contract awarded to PRS includes conducting Use Attainability Analysis (UAA) and Dissolved Oxygen Assessments for waterbodies in the state of Missouri. A UAA is a structured scientific assessment of the factors affecting the attainment of uses (e.g. swimming, fishing, and drinking) of a waterbody. These studies are used by MDNR to assist in determining the ability of waterbodies to support the Clean Water Act uses such as “aquatic life protection” or “swimmable”. Missouri must conduct an evaluation of the potential of a waterbody to attain the designated use in accordance with 40 CFR 131.10(j), as administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. During 2008, PRS conducted assessments on 67 stream segments in the East and Northeast Regions of the state.

Commercial Department
• Construction has commenced on Phase 2 of the Shoppes at Branson Hills, which includes a Wal-Mart Supercenter, currently under construction and the new Kohl’s store which just opened in 2008. Grading for the new Sam’s store is probable for the summer of 2008.

• A ribbon cutting ceremony took place for the new intersection at Highway 30 and Summit Road for the first continuous Flow intersection in Missouri and only 3rd in the country.

• PRS has just begun design plans for a new Movie theater at Gravois Bluffs. We are also proud of the new 50K square foot Cancer Treatment Center currently under construction in Lake St. Louis. The structure can be seen from I-70 and Lake St. Louis Boulevard.