John E. (Jay) Corey, Jr., P.E. City Engineer City of Woburn, Massachusetts
Professional Manager of the Year Award – Facilities and Grounds The Facilities and Grounds Professional Manager of the Year Award seeks to inspire excellence and dedication in the public sector by recognizing the outstanding career service achievements of facilities and/or grounds management professionals. The focus of this award is the recognition of exceptional leadership and management in the field of facilities and/or grounds.
During his 15-year tenure for the City of Woburn, John E. (Jay) Corey has been at the forefront of technical innovation in engineering, both locally and regionally. He has introduced state-of-the-art technologies to improve the department’s efficiency, enhance customer service, and address the City’s most pressing public works issues. These initiatives have included traffic analysis and control; water system monitoring; water usage; real-time field data collection using hand-held devices; and digitized engineering records. Prior to having plans scanned, the Engineering Department personnel would look up information on a card index, and retrieve the paper copies of the plans, typically stored in flat files in the Engineering Department vault. In 2005, under Corey’s direction, the department undertook the daunting task of scanning nearly 58,000 sheets of information dating back over 100 years. These included record utility plans such as the 1894 sewer plan, as well as information on other public and private utilities, site plans, subdivision plans, property plans, and various historic records.
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David J. Pinsonneault, CSFM, CPRP Operations Manager Department of Public Works Town of Lexington, Massachusetts
Since first being appointed as Public Grounds Superintendent and then as Manager of Operations, Pinsonneault has made a number of changes and improvements to the Division’s operations including: reorganizing the Park Division staff to create a crew responsible for turf maintenance; establishing a consistent mowing schedule to avoid unsightly turf areas; installing in-ground irrigation on heavily used fields, Westview cemetery and important public grounds areas; beginning a capital improvement program to renovate one field area per year; setting up a regular fertilizer program for all turf areas based on use, type of grass and soil tests to promote a healthy stand of turf; and working with the Recreation Department to refine field use policies.
Professional Manager of the Year Award – Public Fleet The Professional Manager of the Year Award in the Public Fleet category recognizes the outstanding career service achievements of public fleet management professionals with the award’s primary focus on exceptional leadership and management of public sector fleets. David J. Pinsonneault has served the Town of Lexington Department of Public Works since October 2000, when he was appointed as the Public Grounds Superintendent. In January 2011 he was promoted to the DPW Manager of Operations, responsible for the management and oversight of the Public Grounds, Highway, Environmental Services and the Water and Sewer divisions of the Department. In this role he oversees 60 employees, 600 acres of municipal and school department land and athletic fields, four cemeteries, 3,000 streetlights and 10,000 street trees.
Chris Trull Fleet Manager City of Charlotte, North Carolina