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Chattanooga Team replaced broken or missing lateral the TCAPWA/SWANA Conference
cleanout caps and visited more than 300 Equipment Roadeo in Chattanooga this
The City of Chattanooga Department homes. year, November 5-7, 2019. Many thanks
of Public Works celebrated 2019 National to the great group of Team Members
Public Works Week with six community At Maurice Kirby Childcare Center, who set up our Equipment Roadeo event,
volunteer events, an Equipment Rodeo, our Team Members provided their time spending their morning judging each of
an awards ceremony, and an Employee and skills to help the center reorganize the competitions.
Appreciation Lunch. The community the shed and do some general clean-up,
events were a chance for our Team to get providing a safer, cleaner area for the The City of Chattanooga Department of
out and give back to Chattanooga in ways children and teachers. Public Works hosted a special recognition
they may not already do during their ceremony for our Team Members in 24
everyday work, such as: Thirty-two City of Chattanooga different service awards. In Chattanooga,
Department of Public Works Equipment NPWW19 ended with the entire
A stream cleanup resulting in 450 Operators took part in a bit of friendly, Department joining together for lunch
pounds of litter removed from Friar but fierce, competition. The Equipment and some more friendly competition
Branch Stream. Roadeo always is a great display of by way of a cornhole tournament and
our operators’ skills and we can’t wait basketball shootout.
At the Chattanooga Area Food Bank, to see the competition coming up at
our Team worked rounded up expired
perishable goods; separated and created
300 packages of dry goods; labeled and
packed 1500 canned goods, and organized
various boxes of food that would feed a
family for a week.

At Bethel Bible Village, the Team got
to work painting the Administration
Building and staining transitional housing
porches. The knuckleboom operator
cleaned troublesome overgrowth on the
property.

The Weed Wrangle, at local outdoor
landmark Stringers Ridge Park’s
Pumptrack, had our Team pulling
invasive, non-native plants. This particular
space was designed as a semi-wild
meadow which helps infiltrate stormwater
runoff into the ground.

During the Cleanout Cap Handout,
sponsored by Jacobs Engineering, our

Collierville

The Town of Collierville’s Public Service Department
held its annual Public Works Week celebration Thursday,
May 23. Included among the attendees of this year’s
celebration were the Department’s employees, Town
Administration, Planning & Engineering Department,
Finance Department, members of the Board of Alderman,
and the Mayor.

Employees from the Public Service Department and
guests enjoyed a wide variety of activities including an
Equipment Rodeo, giving employees and guests the
opportunity to compete in the operation of several pieces
of equipment and in a Horseshoes Tournament – a
favorite of the Department’s employees.

Employees and guests also enjoyed a luncheon
provided by the Public Service Department and served
by the Public Service Department Administrative staff.
Attendees had a fun-filled day celebrating the men and
women who work throughout the year to make our
community a great place in which to live.

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