Marilyn Jordan is no stranger to town government.

After holding a position on the Finance Committee for a two-year term and a place on the Cromesett Park Improvement Association for more than 30 years, Jordan chose last year to run for a seat on the then-new Board of Sewer Commissioners, a position she is going for again this year.

Jordan said she was initially unsure whether or not she wanted to run, but believed the board “accomplished a lot” in its first year of existence, and wanted to see out the projects she helped begin.

Jordan said she would like to see a clear resolution to the intermunicipal complex with Bourne, which sees Bourne’s wastewater treated along with Wareham’s at the Wareham Water Pollution Control Facility. However, Jordan said, Bourne may not be paying the town as much as it should for wastewater treatment, in the agreement which has spanned 20 years, and gets redone every five years.

She said a clearer agreement was supposed to have been reached by Dec. 31, 2015. She feels the Board of Selectmen, who are the official negotiators, “dragged their feet” on the matter.

“Although we kept pushing to sit down with them, they didn’t move with any swiftness to get this done,” Jordan said. “Every month we don’t sit down with Bourne and hammer this out, it costs the ratepayers money.”

Jordan, who is currently in Florida, did not have the figures in front of her, but said she knows the cost to sewage ratepayers is “substantial.”

“They pay us for treating sewerage, but if we don’t factor in every single thing, then that money is borne by the ratepayers – it should be borne by Bourne,” Jordan said.

Another initiative Jordan said she wants to follow through on is the use of generator power to partially power the facility. She said this would cut costs for the facility, which is the largest user of electricity in town. She said the facility is looking to sign an agreement with an energy management company that would pay the Water Pollution Control Facility not to use electricity. For instance, in the summertime, when the facility uses a lot of power for air conditioning, it has the ability to go on generator power, rather than use electricity. An energy management company would pay the facility to use the generators, rather than draw from the electric grid.

“We will turn our generators on, and they will use that electricity to power other things,” Jordan said. “We will save on costs, and they will pay use to do that, so it’s a win-win.”

Jordan said the facility is looking into solar power, too.

Jordan also wants the board to be less of an advisory board to the Board of Selectmen, and “do more of what we were elected to do.” She believes the board has done that, and has made “a lot of strides,” particularly where getting money from foreclosed houses back to ratepayers is concerned. For years, Jordan said, the liens on houses that should have been partially paid to the Water Pollution Control Facility, and sewer ratepayers, had been going into the town’s general fund. Just this past year, she said, “that was won, and went back to our ratepayers.”

Jordan also said she wants to see better cooperation between the Board of Sewer Commissioners, and the Board of Selectmen and the Town Administrator.

“We got off to a rocky start,” Jordan said. “But we have proven we are there to do one thing: help the ratepayers and taxpayers. … We do not spend money foolishly.”

The town’s elections will be held April 5.