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Nov/Dec 2023 • VOL. 41 NO. 5

Tennessee Public Works Magazine
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5 Remembering Bob Freudenthal - A Leader 19 Plastic For Breakfast - No Thanks!
TCAPWA pays tribute to the late Bob Freudenthal, a legend Plastic is everywhere. Consumers cannot escape it.
within our chapter and nationally within APWA . We will dearly 20 Upper East Branch Meeting
miss him. Earlier this fall, the TCAPWA Upper East Branch held its
6 City of Knoxville’s Women in Fleet Management meeting at the City of Morristown’s Public Works Facility.
At the City of Knoxville, women make up nearly 20% of the After a facility tour, Greenworks made an informative
Fleet Department, employed in a variety of positions from presentation on the use of battery-operated equipment.
management and administration, to parts and service. Some 21 Lower East Branch
of them shared their experiences regarding this line of work. At the Lower East Branch meeting Justin Holland and Brent
8 PWX: Connecting the World Through Public Works Cunningham, Jacobs Engineering discussed “Improving
The Tennessee Chapter showed up in solid numbers at Chattanooga’s City-Wide Threat Response and Resiliency
PWX San Diego, with more than 50 members and spouses through the Development and Implementation of an
(including six of Tennessee’s best equipment operators) Enterprise Emergency Preparedness Plan.”
attending the August 27-30 event on the West Coast. 22 West Branch Meeting
10 Clifton Wins APWA Presidential Leadership Award Valve insertion products and methodologies were topics

Each year APWA’s President presents the Presidential covered in the West Branch Fall Lunch and Learn, with more
Leadership Award to an APWA member who has exhibited than 30 chapter members in attendance.
excellent Public Works leadership. Chosen this year is Calvin 24 Cherokee National Forest River Cleanup
Clifton, Business Development Manager of Mattern & Craig. A collective of 66 volunteers removed 13,137 lbs. of trash
12 2023 TPWI Maintenance Technologies Class from four different rivers in Keep the Tennessee River
The 2023 Maintenance Technologies Class of the Tennessee Beautiful’s 3rd Annual Cherokee National Forest River
Public Works Institute was held October 3-6 at the DoubleTree Cleanup Series, presented by Oris Watches.
Hotel in Murfreesboro. Twenty-six students attended the 26 Alcoa Community Helpers Hosts
class, representing eight municipalities and the Metropolitan
Knoxville Airport Authority. City of Alcoa Public Works
16 First Inaugural Road-eo Held in Lebanon The City of Alcoa Public Works participated in Community
Helpers Day at the City of Alcoa Elementary School. One of
More than 120 people attended City of Lebanon’s first annual the highlights was a display and demonstration of the large
Road-eo, which combined the equipment Road-eo with a pieces of equipment.
chili/soup cookoff, a raffle and a bakeoff. 27 Contributors to the Issue
18 Equipment Rodeo Held in Knoxville 28 APWA: History and Membership Information
The Knoxville Rodeo offered eight events for some friendly
competition. The winners of these events may represent 29 Equipment Spotlight
Knoxville at the November State Conference in Nashville. 30 Local Government Buyers’ Guide

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