Nouvelle publiée le 23 juillet 2021
Prix 2021 de l’APWA
Le programme de prix de l’APWA récompense les personnes, les groupes et les chapitres exceptionnels qui représentent le meilleur des travaux publics. Dans le numéro d’avril de l’APWA Reporter, nous avons annoncé les lauréats du prix d’excellence pour le contrôle de la neige et de la glace; dans le numéro de mai, nous avons annoncé le prix des dix responsables des travaux publics de l’année; et dans le numéro de juillet, nous avons annoncé les lauréats du prix des projets de travaux publics de l’année. Dans le présent numéro, nous annonçons le reste des lauréats de cette année, en reconnaissance de l’excellence de leurs réalisations telle que démontrée par leur vision, leur passion et leur prestation de services dans leurs communautés.
Consultez ci-dessous les catégories et les gagnants (anglais seulement).
Myron Calkins Young Leader Award
The Myron Calkins Young Leader Award recognizes and encourages young APWA members who have demonstrated an initial commitment to the profession and the association and show potential for future growth within the association. The award promotes the concept that length of career does not necessarily indicate leadership abilities or potential for service.
Francis “Frank” Marinaccio, P.E.
Project Manager
BETA Group, Inc.
Lincoln, Rhode Island
Francis (Frank) Marinaccio entered the public works profession in 2009 as an Engineering Intern for the Department of Public Services for the City of Newport, Rhode Island. He was hired as an Engineering Tech soon after graduating from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was promoted to Assistant City Engineer shortly after being hired and served as the Interim City Engineer from 2015-2016. In this role, he was responsible (solely or in part) for the planning, design, and management of a variety of projects dealing with the City’s transportation infrastructure, parks, buildings, seawalls, and other physical assets. In 2017, he took a position with BETA Group, Inc. as an Engineer and has been promoted three times in just four years to his current title as Project Manager.
Marinaccio started his involvement in APWA while at the City of Newport in 2010. He currently serves on the National Young Professionals (YP) Committee, the National YP Network Group, and multiple New England Chapter committees, for which he chairs the YP Committee and co-chairs the Membership Committee. Throughout his involvement, Marinaccio has been devoted to developing opportunities to increase awareness of the public works profession and to creating a succession plan for both public works and APWA through YP involvement. He has maintained an active role as the New England Chapter’s YP Liaison to National since 2014.
Professional Manager of the Year Award – Administrative Management
The Professional Manager of the Year Award in Administrative Management recognizes outstanding achievements in the area of administration within the public works field and to inspire excellence, leadership and dedication to the public good.
Adrienne Todd
Departmental Personnel Officer
Contra Costa County, California
Adrienne Todd has worked for Contra Costa County for 14 years. During her time with the County, she has made significant contributions in the areas of Administrative and Emergency Management. Examples of her contributions include improving personnel functions within the Public Works Department such as recruitment, retention, onboarding, and her leadership role in response to COVID-19.
Todd takes a leadership role for all personnel functions with the Public Works Department. When the Department identified recruitment and retention as a focus area, she initiated several initiatives to streamline the recruitment process. Several of the initiatives included implementing self-scheduling for interviews, online reference checks, online bid postings by PW Personnel Analysts, and an electronic exit interview questionnaire in order to gather and track data more efficiently. Todd and her team presented at the last two mid-manager meetings/trainings. The meetings included more than 50 supervising managers and Todd discussed employee performance, evaluations, coaching and counseling, and different types of leave such as FMLA, workers comp, etc.
Professional Manager of the Year Award – Engineering and Technology
The Professional Manager of the Year Award in Engineering and Technology recognizes outstanding achievements in the area of engineering and technology within the public works field and to inspire excellence, leadership and dedication to the public good.
Jeremy Cox
Utilities Administrator
City of Woodland, California
Jeremy Cox is an engineering and technology professional with a long career. He has made contributions to the safe management of systems through his extracurricular regional work with backflows. He utilizes progressive management techniques for water and has recently expanded that to collections. Woodland’s water system utilizes many state-of-the-art technologies and Cox has managed their development and integration into the system. He is also committed to community service through providing excellent customer service and by giving of himself through voluntary leadership roles in the water community.
Cox’s engineering and technology career spans a variety of duties and employers. Working his way up through the water systems in Dixon and the Solano Irrigation District, he has performed a variety of tasks. He has achieved high levels of state certification including a Distribution Level 5 certification and a Treatment Level 3 certification. Most recently, he has had the leadership role managing the City of Woodland’s water production and distribution for over 10 years.
Professional Manager of the Year Award – Facilities and Grounds
The Facilities and Grounds Professional Manager of the Year Award recognizes the outstanding achievements in the area of facilities and/or grounds management within the public works field and to inspire excellence, leadership and dedication to the public good.
Robert C. Antonelli
Assistant Commissioner
DPW & Parks; Parks Recreation & Cemetery Division
City of Worcester, Massachusetts
As the Assistant Commissioner of DPW & Parks; Parks, Recreation & Cemetery Division for the City of Worcester, Mass., Robert Antonelli manages 58 full-time employees and has overall responsibility for the City’s physical assets and recreation programs, its cemetery operation, and urban tree forest. This includes 61 parks and playgrounds encompassing nearly 1,400 acres of land; a 160-acre full-service cemetery; forestry operations (all trees within the rights-of-way and all park trees); an 18-hole municipal golf course; recreational/aquatic facilities and programs; and all capital improvement projects within this domain.
Antonelli has spearheaded the City of Worcester’s aggressive capital improvement program to modernize parks, playgrounds, athletic fields, aquatic facilities, pathway and trail systems, beaches, and passive recreation spaces. His efforts have led to over $70 million of capital improvements in the last six years alone. He has been instrumental in the pursuit of funding from various sources and has prepared multiple grant applications that have yielded over $10 million in additional funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the National Park Service, Housing & Urban Development, and private foundations.
Professional Manager of the Year Award – Public Fleet
The Professional Manager of the Year Award in the Public Fleet category recognizes the outstanding achievements in the area of public fleet management within the public works field and to inspire excellence, leadership and dedication to the public good.
Travis Brown
Vehicle Fleet Services Manager
City of Raleigh, North Carolina
Travis Brown has dedicated his career to fleet management, starting in the United States Army, where he was a Chief Warrant Officer 4, managing the fleet until he retired from service in November 2001. He began working for the City of Raleigh in March 2002 as a Vehicle Fleet Services Safety and Training Specialist and was promoted to Vehicle Fleet Services Manager, serving the City well until his retirement in December 2020.
As the City of Raleigh’s Fleet Services Manager, Brown adhered to the compliance and implementation of policies, programs, and management for all City equipment and assets as it pertained to fleet services within all local, state, and federal codes/requirements mandated. He challenged his team to provide innovative services and programs to enhance fleet operations for the City of Raleigh, while also encouraging professional development for his staff. Brown collaborated with all City departments, more specifically with the Office of Sustainability, to explore many effective solutions and to create a more sustainable fleet operation. He implemented a variety of innovations to the fleet management program during his career with the City of Raleigh.
Professional Manager of the Year Award – Public Works Emergency Management
The Professional Manager of the Year Award in Public Works Emergency Management recognizes the outstanding achievements in the area of public works emergency management within the public works field and to inspire excellence, leadership and dedication to the public good.
Mark Ray
Public Works Director/City Engineer
City of Crystal, Minnesota
Mark Ray has been an active member of APWA for over 10 years and is extensively involved at both the Minnesota Chapter and APWA National levels. On the professional experience side, he has been employed and involved in the public works profession for nearly 15 years, working in both the private and public sectors. His accomplishments and contributions to emergency management, not only within public works but the emergency management profession as well (at both the local and national levels), are unparalleled for public works professionals.
Through his involvement on APWA’s Emergency Management Committee, Ray was initially connected with the Department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Services Sector (ESS). In 2020, ESS started a Strategic Planning Initiative in which he was selected to represent APWA (along with APWA staff member Marty Williams). Even after his term on the Emergency Management Committee ended, he has continued to be a regular participant and contributor to the ESS Strategic Planning initiative as the work continues into 2021.
Professional Manager of the Year Award – Transportation
The Professional Manager of the Year Award in Transportation recognizes the outstanding achievements in the area of public transportation within the public works field and to inspire excellence, leadership and dedication to the public good.
Matthew Morreim, P.E.
Assistant City Engineer
City of St. Paul, Minnesota
Matt Morreim has worked as an engineer for over 15 years within transportation design, field engineering, maintenance, and operation arenas. After working as an intern at both the Anoka County Highway Department and Bonestroo (now Stantec), Morreim worked at MFRA, Inc. as a project engineer for five years. His experience included design, surveying, inspection and managing of municipal street, utility and maintenance projects and poised him to work successfully to quickly become a leader in the Street Maintenance Division of the Public Works Department of the City of St. Paul, where he was hired as Civil Engineer III in 2010. Promotions to a Civil Engineer IV and then to an Assistant City Engineer position within Street Maintenance occurred over the next 10 years.
Morreim has held the position of Division Manager for Street Maintenance (Assistant City Engineer) for almost three years. This combination of private and public sector service has served him well and allowed him to contribute significantly to transportation maintenance, operations, design, and programming using his skill, knowledge, and abilities.
Professional Manager of the Year Award – Water Resources
The Professional Manager of the Year Award in Water Resources recognizes outstanding achievements in the area of water resources within the public works field and to inspire excellence, leadership and dedication to the public good.
Frederick J. McNeill, P.E.
Chief Engineer
City of Manchester, Massachusetts
Frederick McNeill started his long and distinguished 40-year professional career in water resources as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone, Africa, where he managed a province-wide rural water supply program. He then embarked on a 20-year consulting career including ten years working internationally in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. In 2006 he moved to the public sector in his present position as Chief Engineer of Manchester’s Environmental Protection Division where he manages northern New England’s largest wastewater utility.
McNeill’s vision of environmental sustainability has been the guiding force for several proactive programs that address Manchester’s aging and failing infrastructure, and that are serving as models for all of New England. He has created an effective Capacity, Maintenance, Operations and Management (CMOM) program that is entering its 12th year. This proactive sewer rehabilitation and repair program has issued four construction contracts that have addressed over 100 miles of pipeline deficiencies.
Donald C. Stone Award for Excellence in Education – Chapter
The Donald C. Stone Award for Excellence in Education (Chapter) was established in honor of Donald C. Stone, founder of APWA. The award is intended to recognize APWA chapters for their work in delivering educational opportunities for all levels of persons engaged in the delivery of public works services.
New England Chapter
Public Works Awareness Committee
The New England Chapter Public Works Awareness Committee (PWAC) works tirelessly to promote the value and importance of public works in our communities and in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devasting effect on daily life and the ability of people to enjoy socializing and working together. The ability for associations like APWA to continue to prove value to its members has been a challenge over the past year. Recognizing that it is important to bring value to our members in New England, the PWAC developed the New England Chapter Connects Virtual Learning Series. The goal of the program was developed to keep members engaged, informed, and most important during these uncertain times—connected.
Working with the University of Connecticut T2 Center and the chapter’s Education Committee, the New England Chapter Connects program has provided valuable and interesting topics from a variety of distinguished speakers and panel groups. Occurring on the fourth Thursday of every month, these one-hour sessions have attracted a wide audience from throughout New England and beyond, including California, Colorado, Michigan and even Puerto Rico. It has been a great opportunity for public works professionals to learn, collaborate and exchange ideas. The sessions are free and open to anyone. The program has become a very popular monthly event for chapter members and the participant registrations continue to increase each month.
Harry S. Swearingen Award for Outstanding Chapter Achievement and Excellence in Chapter Service – Individual
The Harry S. Swearingen Award recognizes outstanding individual achievement through chapter activity and achievement in support of APWA’s strategic plan, goals and objectives, through dedicated and longstanding contributions to the chapter.
Chris Petree
Director of Rochester Operations
Rochester, Minnesota
Chris Petree’s first exposure to APWA was in 1999 when he attended the APWA-MN Chapter Fall Conference to accept his certificate for completing the Public Works Certificate Program. Shortly after, he joined APWA in the Spring of 2000 and started becoming involved in the APWA-MN Chapter a few years later. His philosophy is simple: try and give back as much to APWA and the Minnesota Chapter as he has received from being an active member over the last 21 years.
Petree was a session moderator and was instrumental in working with the Raise Our Grade MN Committee to organize the first-ever Legislative Infrastructure “Coffee Talks” for MN State Legislators in 2021; he helped lead a team to create the APWA-MN Chapter’s first virtual conference sessions in the Fall of 2020 when the Chapter’s Fall Conference had to be canceled due to the pandemic; he scheduled the first-ever Public Works Advocacy Training with national staff while serving as Chapter President; and he created the Government Affairs Committee while serving as Chapter President in 2017, which began their work in 2018.
Harry S. Swearingen Award for Outstanding Chapter Achievement and Excellence in Chapter Service – Corporation
The Harry S. Swearingen Award recognizes outstanding corporate achievement through chapter activity and achievement in support of APWA’s strategic plan, goals and objectives, through dedicated and longstanding contributions to the chapter.
Rock Solid Project Solutions
Las Vegas, Nevada
Rock Solid Project Solutions’ contribution, dedication and tireless commitment to APWA is impressive and unmatched. Every single employee is an active APWA corporate member: 100% engagement! They donated over 1,500 volunteer hours and over $5,500 in sponsorships in the past three years alone. Several of their staff serve on the Nevada Chapter’s executive committee and Southern Branch boards including Raquel Floyd, Chapter President; Kelly McGuire, Southern Branch Young Professional Chair; and Carmen Gkikas, Branch Board member and long-time member of the Spring Conference Committee.
A few of their accomplishments include: founding the first student chapter with the University of Nevada-Las Vegas; mentoring and supporting the YP committee; leading the Spring Conference planning efforts; organizing the historical matters of the chapter; spearheading the website relaunch in coordination with APWA National; managing the 50th Anniversary Celebration Committee. Every member of their firm is an extraordinary public works advocate and they are dedicated to improving the quality of life for communities nationwide through their impressive project portfolio. The RSPS team has devoted significant personal time towards the chapter, the branches, APWA National, the public works profession, and the community.
Exceptional Performance Award–Adversity
The Exceptional Performance Award–Adversity recognizes exceptional performance in the face of adversity in service to the public.
Peter D’Agostino
Administrative Services Manager
Village of Lake in the Hills, Illinois
Peter D’Agostino navigated the challenge of starting a new position as Administrative Services Manager and shortly thereafter taking on the role of Interim Public Works Director, training numerous new staff members, and adhering to highly restrictive COVID-19 regulations in a short amount of time. During his tenure as Interim Public Works Director, he put in countless additional hours on evenings and weekends at the expense of time with his family, a grounding element in his life that is very important to him.
While acting as Interim Public Works Director, D’Agostino remained cognizant of and addressed the needs of all staff members during the shutdown; helped shepherd the inclusion of Parks and Recreation tasks into Public Works operations; assumed interim leadership of the department during organizational change; helped guide numerous capital projects toward completion; played a key role in preparing the annual budget; prepared documents necessary for Village Board meetings and regularly attended the meetings; and kept Public Works staff well-informed of changes in COVID-19 guidelines and protocols.
Exceptional Performance Award–Diversity
The Exceptional Performance Award—Diversity recognizes individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to diversity.
Equitable Tree Distribution in Des Moines
City of Des Moines, Iowa
The City of Des Moines Public Works Department is genuinely invested in ensuring equity in tree planting and maintenance in the city’s historically and currently under-represented and marginalized communities. This partnership supports hiring of youth from these very communities for tree planting, and the unique opportunity to make their built environment more equitable. Two members of the City’s Public Works Department sit on the organization-wide Equitable Services Team, which is a group of staff dedicated to embedding racial equity within their programs, services, policies and practices.
Authentically serving the minoritized communities in Des Moines has been put at the top of the list and incorporated into the culture and operations of Des Moines Public Works. As local government entities throughout the country continue to work towards eliminating inequities and creating equitable communities, the Des Moines Public Works team can proudly say that they are truly helping lead the way in Des Moines, Iowa.
Exceptional Performance Award–Journalism
The Exceptional Performance Award–Journalism recognizes exceptional performance in presenting the story of a public works issue or event that projects a positive image of individuals or agencies in the course of their performance in both broadcast and print mediums.
Derecho Cleanup Communications
Des Moines Department of Public Works
A natural disaster during a public health emergency is an excellent way to clear your calendar. Every leader in the organization knows exactly what they will be doing for the foreseeable future. Such was the case for Des Moines Public Works on August 10, 2020. A mild summer storm quickly metastasized into a devastating derecho, which has the same wind conditions as a very widespread, even if low-grade, tornado. Practically every property in the city had storm damage. The Public Works Department got right to work.
Innovative GPS-enabled photo tracking tools developed on the fly helped residents visualize the progress through the department’s website and see when it would be their turn while simultaneously equipping call center staff to rebut false claims that late debris had been skipped. Intense outreach to media coupled with unprecedented access to operations and leadership helped ensure transparency and accountability and inspired confidence. The City Manager’s office reported receiving “zero complaints” about storm cleanup—unheard of in this day and age.
Exceptional Performance Award–Chapter Journalism
The Exceptional Performance Award–Chapter Journalism recognizes exceptional performance at the chapter level for their newsletters, magazines and/or other publications and broadcast mediums.
Raise Our Grade, Minnesota
Minnesota Chapter
Raise Our Grade, Minnesota is a public awareness campaign stressing the importance of infrastructure investment in Minnesota. To get action from legislators on this issue, the elected officials needed to hear from the constituents in their districts. The APWA Minnesota Chapter moved this idea into action by creating an easy-to-use website.
The Raise Our Grade, Minnesota website (www.raiseourgrademn.org) informs the public about the state of Minnesota’s infrastructure and gets them the resources to understand how aging infrastructure impacts them on a personal level. It educates them about infrastructure needs across the state but also in their own congressional district. It shows how failing infrastructure can negatively impact their quality of life. Then the website invites the user to tell their own legislators that it is a high priority to invest in this critical infrastructure. There is strength in numbers and this website will help bring attention of this need to those who can make changes happen.
Exceptional Performance Award–Safety
The Exceptional Performance Award–Safety recognizes exceptional performance in the area of safety.
Tyson Hollis, CHST, QSP
Safety Manager
City of Henderson, Nevada
As the Safety Manager for City of Henderson, Nevada, Tyson Hollis ensures the safety of over 2,200 full-time employees and 1,000 part-time employees in 16 departments with a staff of six Safety professionals within the Fire/Emergency Management and Safety Department. With an emphasis at reducing preventable accidents and injuries by implementing safety programs, training and procedures, they have been able to reduce the total number of accidents and injuries and have increased public outreach for the community.
An essential task for any safety professional is to assess the risks that individual workers encounter on a day-to-day basis. As the Safety Manager it is Hollis’s responsibility to perform a thorough review of all job tasks across the City. One example of his dedication to evaluating the risk associated with job functions is when he volunteered to be tazed in an effort to understand what police trainees go through as part of their employment. This level of involvement emphasizes how dedicated Hollis is to the employees of the City of Henderson.
Exceptional Performance Award–Sustainability
The Exceptional Performance Award–Sustainability recognizes exceptional performance that demonstrates outstanding contributions to sustainability in public works. Sustainability is accomplished by the efficient delivery of infrastructure in an environmentally and socially responsible way that ensures the best choice in the long term.
Vincent Stetson
Superintendent of Street Services
Public Works Department
Town of South Windsor, Connecticut
A critical challenge today facing municipalities across the country is the economic and environmental challenge of managing a community’s organic waste generated from a variety of naturally occurring activities. Annual leaf fall and other yard waste generated from tree removal, brush cleanup, and lawn mowing need to be disposed of in a responsible way. Past methods of landfill or incineration are no longer either available or permissible methods for disposal of these reoccurring waste materials. While composting has been a viable alternative for managing organic waste, it has typically not been cost effective often requiring a large investment in labor and equipment to produce a viable end-product.
The Town of South Windsor’s Green Waste Management Program demonstrates that with a deep commitment to innovative thought and development of a proactive business plan, a community can enhance green waste efficiency and create a circular economy that produces a sustainable end-product and program. Under Vincent Stetson’s leadership and guidance, each phase of the waste generation to refined end-product cycle, has been evaluated, modified, and new significant innovative efficiencies have been implemented that are turning an economically challenged service into a vehicle for future green waste management investment. Summary efficiencies that Stetson has created and overseen include modification to leaf collection equipment, improved transportation methods, investment in leaf turning equipment, compost monitoring and testing, refined end-product screening, regional service compacts, and advanced marketing strategies.
Management Innovation Award
The Management Innovation Award recognizes an individual, team or organization for the development and implementation of a creative idea, program, process or system that enhances the delivery of public works services to the public.
Regional Express Lanes Concept of Operations
Southern California Association of Governments
The Regional Express Lane Network Concept of Operations (ConOps) was developed to help describe how express lane facilities are being implemented, planned or proposed by the region’s County Transportation Commissions (CTCs) and/or California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) districts in the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region. Express lanes or High Occupancy Tolls (HOT) lanes are specially designated highway lanes that provide an alternate, faster commute option to the users. They are designed to reduce congestion and improve traffic flow. For solo drivers who cannot use the high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane, express lanes give the option to pay toll to use the lane.
The express lane network in SCAG is collectively referred as the Regional Express Lane Network. The purpose of the ConOps is to provide a blueprint for a regional express lane network that integrates individual express lane facilities into a regional system with consistent or compatible operating, design, and policy rules. It brings user perspective to the table and helps set the framework for the design and operational characteristics of the express lane system in the region. The results of this study also helped refine the recommendations for a regional express lane network for inclusion into the adopted SCAG 2016‐2040 Regional Transportation Plan / Sustainable Communities Strategy (2016 RTP/SCS).
Technical Innovation Award
The Technical Innovation Award recognizes an individual, team or organization for the development and implementation of a creative idea, program, process or system that enhances the delivery of public works services to the public.
Eagan GIS Mobile Workforce
City of Eagan, Minnesota
The City of Eagan has been a leader in the creation and administration of numerous GIS applications that have benefited the departments at the City and its constituents—from easy-to-use mobile applications for field workers to dashboards and GIS applications for managers. The City of Eagan has been acknowledged by not only its GIS peers in Dakota County, but also the entire Twin Cities metropolitan area. These applications have gained wide acceptance from staff and management for streamlining workflows and processes and have paid dividends in efficiencies for the workforce. They also have developed asset data creation and maintenance processes that ensure the quality of information collected while also supplying the tools for analyzing the information.
Specifically, the City of Eagan GIS team are leaders in the embracing of mobile application development for staff to report immediately on conditions of assets in real time facilitating immediate situation awareness. Forms, surveys, interactive data collection, and dynamic maps are now integrated with the use of GIS. The GIS team at Eagan is driven and innovative and can translate a business problem into a technology solution. They have also developed interactive applications that allow the citizens of Eagan easy access to snowplowing information, street maintenance activities, community activities and others.
Community Involvement Award
The Community Involvement Award recognizes a member who is actively involved in their community, either where they work or where they live. This award acknowledges outstanding involvement to enhance quality of life and to be a positive role model.
Renee Tyler
Community Services Director
City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Renee Tyler is the Director of Community Services for the City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This department includes Water Utilities, Transit, Streets & Fleets, Recreation and Parks/Forestry, Building Maintenance and Cemeteries. Her prior positions include that of Director of Transportation and Parking for Dubuque, Iowa; the Assistant Public Works Director for Dubuque; Manager of Fleet Acquisitions, Parts and Special Projects for Little Rock, Arkansas; and the former Chief of Staff for the Speaker Pro Tempore for the New Jersey Assembly.
Tyler has volunteered as a job coach in organizations focused on assisting homeless people to strengthen their interviewing skills. She is active in working to increase diversity awareness in multiple ways. She is currently a member of the 2021 Engaging Local Government Leaders cohort focused on having hard conversations about race. Much of her passion stems from the desire to create equitable policy that ensures quality of life provided by a good public works department to its community. She is also a strong advocate for creating inclusive work platforms within public works that are welcoming of others regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender or religion.
Distinguished Service to Public Works Award
To promote and enhance the purposes of APWA. This award is regarded as the highest honor that APWA can bestow on a member that would reflect prestige and honor.
James J. Dean
Superintendent of Highways
Town of Orangetown, New York
James J. Dean is the Town of Orangetown Superintendent of Highways. He has been accredited as a Road Master, Level IV, through the Cornell Local Roads Program. His career in the Highway Department and service to the community began over 63 years ago. He rose through the ranks of laborer to Motor Equipment Operator (MEO) in 1964; from MEO to Highway Maintenance Supervisor (HMS) in 1969, and from HMS to Assistant General Foreman in 1982. In 1989 he became General Foreman and served in that position until he was elected to Superintendent of Highways in 1998. Dean is running for his twelfth, two-year term in November.
Dean developed the Highway Department Everyday Recycling Campaign. This campaign describes how the Town recycling program is not limited to a one-day fair or a weekly recycling pickup. The Highway Department recycles many materials on a daily operational basis. The need for new material used for new asphalt, paving, drainage, road repairs and concrete sidewalk projects is reduced by recycling the existing asphalt and concrete from reconstruction excavation. This not only reduces the cost for disposal of the above items and of purchasing these new products, but also has a tremendous positive effect on the environment because it decreases the use of non-renewable sources of aggregate, fuels and energy needed to produce those commodities.
Presidential Award for Chapter Excellence (PACE)
The PACE Award recognizes chapters for contributions made and dedicated efforts in developing programs and services that result in a positive impact for their members, public works profession and community. Below are the chapters receiving the 2021 PACE Award:
Region I
New England
Region II
New York Metro
Region III
Mid-Atlantic
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Region IV
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Region V
Chicago Metro
Illinois
Ohio
Wisconsin
Region VI
Iowa
Kansas
Kansas City Metro
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Region VII
Arizona
Texas
Region VIII
Monterey Bay
Nevada
Northern California
Sacramento
San Diego/Imperial Counties
Silicon Valley
Southern California
Ventura
Region IV
Colorado
Oregon
APWA Awards Program
For more information about APWA’s Awards Program, please contact the Membership Department at (800) 848-APWA or rwilhite@apwa.net.