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5 Letter From The Publisher 20 Town of Atoka’s LED Conversion Reaps
Multiple Gains
6 Essential? No Doubt About It!
Atoka’s conversion of 795 aging streetlights to Light Emitting
Snapshots in time are captured across the cities, region, Diode (LED) style reaps multiple gains financially, with lower
state…showing our Public Works professionals on the job, light pollution and decreased overall maintenance as key
providing timely essential services in our communities. benefits.

10 Edgehill Apartments’ Master Plan 22 Managing Solid Waste Systems in the Time
of COVID-19
A solid planning process between Barge Design Solutions and
Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency Neal Bolton, President of Blue Ridge Services, presents best
(MDHA) lays the groundwork for revitalization in two of the practices and updated training procedures to help solid waste
city’s bustling commercial and residential areas. facilities survive “these challenging times.”

14 Reskilling, Upskilling and More 26 AmeriCorps Asset to Urban Forestry

Todd Evans, Director of Workforce Solutions at Pellissippi Kelsey Jones, a CAC AmeriCorps member for the City of
State Community College, walks us through the possibilities Knoxville’s Urban Forestry Division, discusses her service
ahead for the skilled trades and what reskilling, upskilling, program experience and the opportunities she’s had to
apprenticeships (and more) may resemble in the future… enhance the community’s landscape.
virtually.
27 2020 TPWI Class Schedule Canceled
16 TVA and the Tennessee Valley Project: 28 Equipment Spotlight
One of APWA’s Top Ten Public Works Projects 29 Contributors to the Issue
of the Twentieth Century 30 Local Government Buyers’ Guide

A short overview of the Tennessee Valley Project’s subsequent PAGE 18
construction and maintenance of its dams chronicles how
the project forever changed and improved the region’s
environment and living standards. Short Q & A brings us up-
to-date on Tennessee Valley Authority “today.”

18 Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful

Key corporate and local donations, both in money, manpower
and horsepower, help “speed the cause” of Keep the
Tennessee River Beautiful’s educational and trash cleanup
programs.

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