Candidates for the APWA Board of Directors named
ine nominees are on the ballot for election to the APWA Board of Directors in 2012. Five candidates selected by the National Nominating Committee include Edward A. (Ed) Gottko, P.E. (ret.), PWLF, Adjunct Professor, New Jersey Institute for Technology, Newark, NJ, for President-Elect; David L. Lawry, P.E., Director of Village Operations, Village of Wauconda, Ill., for Directorat-Large, Engineering & Technology; William E. (Bill) Spearman, III, P.E., Vice President, Woolpert, Inc., Columbia, S.C., for Director-at-Large, Environmental Management; Cora Jackson-Fossett, Public Information Director II, Public Affairs Office, City of Los Angeles, Calif., for Director-atLarge, Leadership and Management; and Susan M. (Sue) Hann, P.E., AICP, ICMA-CM, City Manager, City of Palm Bay, Fla., for Director-atLarge, Transportation. The PresidentElect will serve one year as PresidentElect, one year as President, and then one year as Past President. Four candidates nominated by regional nominating committees as directors include William (Bo) Mills, Jr., PWLF, Director of Public Services, City of Germantown, Tenn., for Region III Director; Tommy Brown, Superintendent of Fleet
Services, City of LaGrange, Ga., for Region IV Director; Jimmy B. Foster, P.E., PWLF, retired, Plano, Tex., for Region VII Director; and Jill M. Marilley, P.E., Senior Project Manager, HDR, Inc., Shoreline, Wash., for Region IX Director. The 11-member National Nominating Committee includes the two most recent APWA Past Presidents and one representative of each of APWA’s nine regions as recommended by the Regional Directors and appointed by the APWA National President. The 2012 committee was comprised of the chair, Past President Larry T. Koehle, P.Eng, PWLF, President, L&N Koehle Consulting Services, Brampton, Ontario.; Past President George R. Crombie, MPA, BCEEM, PWLF, Senior Faculty Member, Public Works Administration, Norwich University, Northfield, Vt.; Richard J. (Chip) Barrett, Highway Superintendent, Town of Westford Highway Dept., Westford, Mass.; William J. (Bill) Rafferty, P.E., City Engineer (retired), City of Atlantic City, N.J.; Calvin D. Clifton, Client Services Manager, Littlejohn Engineering Associates, Johnson City, Tenn.; Suzanne McCain, P.E., Transportation Group Leader, HNTB, Baton Rouge, La.; Yvonne Tindall, Works Training
Officer, Region of Durham, Whitby, Ontario; Michael E. McGee, Director of Buildings & General Services, City of Topeka, Kans.; Marsha J. Reed, Director of Public Works, City of Lubbock, Tex.; Helena K. Allison, Ing., PWLF, HAB International, Davis, Calif.; and Jonathan W. Knowles, Civil Engineer, DOWL HKM, Anchorage, Alaska.
Edward A. (Ed) Gottko, P.E. (Ret), PWLF President-Elect Ed Gottko’s career in public works began in 1970 as the Assistant City Engineer for the City of Bayonne, N.J. In 1979 he was appointed the Town Engineer/Director of Public Works for the Town of Westfield, N.J., and in 1994 was appointed the Town Administrator at Westfield. In 2000 he retired from public service and now serves as an adjunct professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology and New York University.
“You can’t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German theoretical physicist 10 APWA Reporter
July 2012
