8 Questions with Billy Moore
NWNM Solid Waste Authority Executive Director
by Fowler Roberts
Q. What caused you to be interested in working for the Solid Waste Authority?
A. Well, I had served on the Board of Directors for a number of years and as a Chairman of the Board. The Director was resigning and the Board called me and asked if I would be interested in filling that position because of my experience with the Authority.
Q. What do you enjoy most about your job?
A. I guess the job has a lot of different aspects to it. It may be a mechanical problem or a personnel problem. There is always something different every day – it’s never the same thing.
Q. What is the biggest challenge of your job?
A. Trying to keep the facility being successful. I have six employees. We want to keep everybody employed and keep everything going. It’s challenging, but I don’t want to get in trouble with the regulators or anybody else.
Q. What are your priorities as director for the Solid Waste Authority?
A. To see it continue to grow and be financially stable. I also want to make the facility last as long as it can.
Q. What do see in the future for the Solid Waste Authority?
A. We have about 80 years of space left, so it will probably last far past my life span, but I think it will grow into a facility that is well recognized throughout the state as one of the top. In fact we are getting comments from the NM Environmental Department of Health about how clean it is. I want us to be a model in the state and it really doesn’t take a lot of money, it just takes a little effort.
Q. What do you enjoy doing in your off time?
A. With the little off time I do have, I enjoy hunting, fishing, and spending time with my grandchildren.
Q. What is your favorite movie?
A. I like action movies. My favorite is probably Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Q. If you could trade places with one famous person, who would it be and why?
A. I admire John Wayne. As a movie star he portrayed somebody that was strong and stood up for what he believed in. My wife’s grandparents were from Bluff, Utah by Monument Valley and they got to know John Wayne pretty well because he made a lot of films there. They have a lot of family photos with John Wayne. They thought the world of him; he was just a down-to-earth person, even though he was a movie star.
