PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
APWA EQUIPMENT RODEO Kaitlyn Ballard,
Executive Assistant to the Public Works Director
On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, City of Fort Pierce Public Works Department employees Gil Arbelo, Nick Riegler, Keith Roberts, Robert Hennis, Nate Morris, Jay Conley, Clayton Miller, Andy Avery, and Chuck Penachio participated in the APWA Fla Chapter, Treasure Coast Branch, 2022 Equipment Rodeo at the Mid Florida Event Center in Port St. Lucie. They were joined by employees from the City of Stuart, Port St. Lucie, the City of Okeechobee, the City of Sebastian, and St. Lucie County. This local event was created by the APWA for vendors to show off their new equipment by setting up obstacle courses and challenges that the participants competed in against time. These obstacle courses included a vacuum truck sucking up a basketball and placing it in a basketball hoop, a grapple truck picking up a tire and placing it onto a pylon, a crawler backhoe placing an attached rod in a hole at the top of a pylon, a mini excavator swinging its bucket to catch a tennis ball and dropping it into a 5 gallon bucket, and an electric street sweeper driving through the course without hitting any pylons.
14 | CITY MANAGER’S REPORT
