City Street Dept. receives 2023 ISSA Excellence in Pavement Preservation Award
The City of Malvern Street Department recently received recognition from the International Slurry Surfacing Association for their expert work attending to city streets with expert skill and preservation in mind.
“On behalf of our membership and Board of Directors, it gives me great pleasure to inform you that the City of Malvern has been selected as one of the recipients for the 2023 ISSA Excellence in Pavement Preservation Award,” as stated in an award letter from ISSA Senior Association Manager, Ali Mostardo.
“Presented annually by the International Slurry Surfacing Association to public officials, consulting engineers, or agencies, this award is given in tribute to your outstanding contributions to the pavement preservation industry,” the letter states. “We offer our sincerest congratulations on being selected for this honor!”
The award was established in 2015 and annually honors public officials, organizations and municipalities “that have made outstanding contributions to the Pavement Preservation industry,” their website states. “The award is presented to an Owner/agency or Engineering firm that has been a champion in the promotion, use and success of pavement preservation applications represented by ISSA (slurry surfacing, micro surfacing, chip seal, cape seal and crack treatment).
“We are receiving this award due to the hard work of our Street Superintendent, Jacob Wright and the employees at the Malvern Street Department,” Mayor Brenda Weldon stated via email about the award.
Wright recently took over for outgoing Superintendent, Mike Smith, and Weldon praised Wright’s expert skill and professionalism at a Jan. 10 Lions Club meeting, saying, “Jacob’s young, he’s very smart, he’s very aggressive, he studies, he just—he’s going to really be an asset to the city, he really is,” Weldon said. “He already has been as an assistant.”
Street department employees recently finished putting down the first coat of a micro-seal overlay on 17 miles of local roadways, and the city has invested over $1.5 million on this and other street projects completed within the last couple of years. Weldon said they plan to spend millions more in culvert and stormwater drainage repair projects in the coming year.
Wright has been invited to accept recognition for the city at ISSA’S next Annual Meeting. The week-long meeting and award event takes place Feb. 27-March 3, 2023, and culminates with an Awards Banquet on Thursday, March 3 at The Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park, Ariz.