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March/April 2024 • VOL. 41 NO. 7

Tennessee Public Works Magazine
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5 “Advancing Quality of Life for All!” 18 First Year of Blount Glass Recycling Mill:
National Public Works Week - May 19-25, 2024 Growth and Potential
Blount County Highway Department’s Glass Recycling Mill
6 “We Have Salt, and We Have a Plan.” opened a little over a year ago. Since then, it’s processed
Chad Weth, Public Service Director with the City of Knoxville, more than 315,000 pounds of glass.
shares his “snow removal diary,” which includes the ups and
downs in dealing with Mother Nature, and in staying calm as 19 TPWI: Pick Your Top Three Classes for 2024
some testy residents called him names such as “the dumb as
a box of rocks” (among other things.) 20 Morristown Public Works Bought the Farm
Morristown’s new Public Works facility, located at 4360
10 Chapter Leaders Working for You Durham Landing, was the site of a working farm (crops and
Earlier this year, several TCAPWA chapter leaders attended hay) prior to its opening in July 2020.
the Roger Clark Leadership Conference and Council of
Chapters Meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla. The biennial event 22 Nicholas Bradshaw Named to Knoxville
allows leaders to share best practices, discuss challenges, 40 Under 40 List
and more. TCAPWA’s own Nicholas Bradshaw was named to the
Knoxville 40 Under 40, a yearly list honoring the city’s most
12 Solid Results in Germantown Recycling Outreach impressive up-and-coming professionals under the age of
In its first year of operation, nearly 800 residents have been 40. Bradshaw, 39, is Director of Fleet Services for the City of
educated through a new recycling sustainability outreach Knoxville.
program.
24 Branch Directors are Unified in ’24 Goals
14 Signal Mountain’s Hopper Retires After 22 Years We’re spotlighting our four Branch Directors (two returning
Boss Lady Loretta Hopper celebrated her retirement with co- directors, and two new ones) who represent distinctly
workers, friends and family in December of 2023. different areas within Tennessee, yet are unified in their top
15 Public Works Spotlight: Wes Stokes 2024 objectives in their regions.
Taking the reins as Signal Mountain’s new Public Works 26 Murphy Snoderly Award Call for Nominations
Director is Wes Stokes. The Murphy Snoderly Award is an opportunity for your
16 Sevierville’s Bryon Fortner Retires After 27 Years City to recognize an employee who you believe is doing an
Bryon Fortner, P.E., retired from service as the Public outstanding job.
Works Director for the City of Sevierville. His retirement 27 Contributors to the Issue
will conclude a career with the city spanning more than 27
years. He’s now working with a local contractor to mentor its 28 Call for GESA Awards Nominations
younger generation of engineers. Nominations are currently being accepted for the Governor’s
Environmental Stewardship Awards.
17 Public Works Spotlight: Doug Tarwater
Moving into the role as Sevierville’s Public Works Director is 30 Local Government Buyers’ Guide
Doug Tarwater.

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