Contact: Virgil R. Hazelett, PE
County Manager
(804) 501-4386
March 17, 2009
Henrico County Manager Virgil R. Hazelett, PE has announced
the appointment of Timothy A. Foster, PE as director of the Department
of Public Works (DPW). The appointment took effect March 14.
Foster, who had been serving as acting director of the agency,
succeeds Edward L. Priestas, PE, who recently retired from the
position.
As director, Foster will oversee a department with 266 employees
and a fiscal year 2009 budget of nearly $36 million. He heads an agency
responsible for maintaining 3,385 lane miles of roads - the
third largest road network in Virginia, trailing only the state and the
city of Virginia Beach. In addition to conducting the planning, design,
construction and maintenance of all secondary roads in the county, DPW
also is responsible for bridges, storm water drainage, traffic
engineering, administration of public transit services and enforcement
of erosion and sedimentation laws and ordinances.
Foster, a Henrico employee since 1989, began as an assistant
traffic engineer and was named assistant director of DPW in 2006. He
earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University.