ROLLA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Engineering Manager
- Member of the Management Team
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- Bishop Award, 2008 Recipient
Mr. Barrack began serving on the Rolla Board of Public Works in 2009.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Team
- Electric Superintendent
Job Titles:
- Finance Manager
- Member of the Management Team
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Team
- Water Superintendent
Job Titles:
- Business Manager
- Member of the Management Team
Job Titles:
- Vice Secretary
- President and CEO of Town
Joe Polizzi is President and CEO of Town and Country Super Market, Inc, a regional grocery store chain with multiple locations throughout south-central Missouri and northern Arkansas (including Price Chopper in Rolla, MO). Mr. Polizzi and his wife, Amber, have lived in Rolla since 2011 and have two daughters. He has coached youth soccer, basketball and softball.
Mr. Polizzi attended St. Louis University where he earned his undergraduate business administration degree in 1999, law degree in 2002 and MBA in 2008.
Prior to joining Town & Country as Vice President and General Counsel in 2011, Mr. Polizzi worked in private law practice with a primary focus on corporate and business law matters before joining UniGroup, Inc. (the parent company of United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit) as an in-house corporate attorney.
Mr. Polizzi currently serves on several other Boards, as follows: Town and Country Supermarket (Chairman), Town and Country Bank, Missouri Grocers Association (President 2023-25), Rolla Knights Soccer Club (Secretary), Phelps Health Foundation, and Harris Baking Company. He is also a past board member of Rolla Area Youth Soccer League.
Mr. Polizzi began serving on the Rolla Board of Public Works in February 2024.
Mr. Barrack is a 1971 graduate of Hogan High School, Kansas City, Missouri and a graduate of the University of Missouri-Rolla, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management. His business interests started in 1972 when he began installing and servicing alarm systems in the Rolla area while attending the university.
Job Titles:
- General Manager
- Member of the Management Team
Job Titles:
- Engineer
- Officer
- Secretary
- Project Director for Balfour Beatty Communities
Mr. Read is the Project Director for Balfour Beatty Communities, assigned to Fort Leonard Wood Family Communities working with Fort Leonard Wood military and civilian leadership to plan and develop the future of housing for Fort Leonard Wood.
Mr. Read is a people focused person and enjoys working with those around him to expand potential personally and as part of a team. Those teams have accomplished many things from the physical in multiple construction projects, to processes improvement such as increasing inclusion with civil and military operations.
Mr. Read is a retired US Army Engineer officer with a variety of positions related to operations, education and construction. While in the Army, he has deployments to Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Assignments included Fort Leonard Wood , Fort Drum, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley, multiple locations in Germany and the United Kingdom.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from North West Missouri State University, a MPA from Webster University, and is a graduate of resident Command and General Staff College.
Mr. Read is an accredited Track and Cross Country coach who has worked with Rolla High School athletes and volunteers with multiple non-profit organizations with physical and fiscal development.
He and his wife Diane currently live in Rolla with their two sons.
Mr. Read began serving on the Rolla Board of Public Works in August 2019.