Petersburg employees credited with helping during city’s crunch
Jeremy M. Lazarus | 1/6/2017, 5:56 p.m.
Two Petersburg Public Works managers are being credited with repairing trucks and equipment for their department that the city could not afford to fix.
Juan Mumford and Tyrone Parham “used their ingenuity and expertise” to make essential repairs just for the price of the parts, saving the city at least $6,000, said City Engineer Daniel Harrison.
“They repaired tractor tires, rewired trucks and replaced truck thermostats and alternators in going above and beyond what they were hired to do” in order to prevent a shutdown of the department’s work, Mr. Harrison said.
The two men got involved after their department supervisor, Fred Satterwhite, secured pricing for the fixes and told the staff that there was no money in the budget to make the repairs.
City officials described the work of Mr. Mumford and Mr. Parham as a prime example of employees pitching in to support the city during a crisis.
