Friday, June 11, 2004

New PTC public works director named Peachtree City’s new public works director will begin work here Monday, June 28, according to City Manager Bernie McMullen. Tom Corbett is currently deputy director of public works for College Park, Md. (population 25,000) where he has been since March of 2000. Corbett has more than 25 years in municipal public works management, serving as director of public works for the city of Madeira Beach, Fla., the township of Wyckoff, N.J. and the borough of Bergenfield, J.J. in the 1980s and 1990s. He also served as assistant director of public services for Greenville, S.C. in the 1970s. Corbett also has Georgia connections since he received all three of his college degrees at area universities. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1969 with a bachelor’s in political science; he received his masters in public administration from UGA in 1972 and in 1999 he received a BBA in computer information systems. When he arrives, Corbett will have several key supervisory positions to fill in the department. Those positions were left open in February after then-public works director Bobby Thompson and former fleet manager Tony Wood were arrested on several criminal charges for bilking the city of money by having a city mechanic do repair work on private vehicles at Thompson’s Pike County home while still on the clock for the city. Thompson and Wood have been charged with felony counts of theft by taking while acting in a fiduciary capacity and falsifying statements and concealing facts of a political subdivision. Several other employees also resigned in the wake of the scandal, but they have not been charged.

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