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TCAPWA EVENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Lower East Tennessee Branch Meeting By Kristin Franklin

The Lower East Branch of TCAPWA met earlier
this year, on March 12, where sixteen attendees
enjoyed a lunch generously sponsored by Graco.
Kristin Franklin, TCAPWA’s Lower East Director,
kicked off the meeting with member introductions,
then spotlighted future events locally centered around
Public Works Week. Several upcoming important
dates also were announced, including the TCAPWA
State Conference and TPWI classes.
Representing Graco, Rich Stankiewicz gave a
presentation with slides highlighting their technology
that can eliminate trip hazards (as well as remove
paint stripes.) After lunch, attendees went outside for
an onsite technology demo of this machine.
Many thanks to all who attended on the beautiful
spring day!

Middle Tennessee Branch Meeting By Casin Swann

The TCAPWA Middle Branch with engineering and inspection (CEI) processes city and county infrastructure projects,
32 attendees, met for their 1st quarter by replacing fragmented communication including roadways, water and sewer
luncheon on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at and cumbersome paperwork with a single, systems, and treatment plant expansions.
11:30 a.m. CST in Nashville at offices of intuitive platform. Oversite ensures that In an era where accountability and
Collier Engineering. project data is organized, accessible, and efficiency are more important than ever,
Chad Collier, President of Collier always up to date. Oversite gives public agencies the tools they
Engineering and Co-Founder and SME For municipalities and public works need to deliver infrastructure projects with
of Oversite, kicked the meeting off with departments, Oversite offers an added layer clarity, speed, and confidence.
a warm welcome to their offices. He of transparency and control. Stakeholders The meeting concluded with the branch
introduced the group to Matt Houston, Co- can see exactly what has been installed, what director updating the membership on the
Founder and CEO of Oversite, and Marissa is pending or approved, and what has been events TCAPWA has planned in 2025.
Reese, Sales and Ops Manager for Oversite. invoiced—supported by field photos and Each person was given an opportunity to
Houston and Reese introduced those in detailed logs. It empowers teams to catch introduce themselves to the group. At the
attendance to Oversite—a purpose-built discrepancies early, improve documentation, conclusion of introductions, a drawing
platform that modernizes how public and ensure compliance with design was held for the door prizes which were
agencies, engineers, and contractors standards and contract requirements. generously donated by the following
manage infrastructure projects from Oversite is currently being used across companies: Collier Engineering; OHM
the ground up. It is a centralized system the Southeast by firms like Volkert, TLM, Advisors; LDA Engineering; and Pavement
designed to streamline construction Gresham Smith, LDA, and TTL to support Restorations, Inc.
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