Plymouth Street Department Superintendent Jim Marquardt was recently awarded the 2020 Ivan H. Brinegar Municipal Management Award which is given to municipal officials with a minimum of 10 years of city or town service who display strong leadership, contributions to the community, and serve as a role model to citizens and other municipal officials.
The award was presented during the recent President’s Reception at the annual Accelerate Indiana Municipalities (AIM) Ideas Summit.
According to the Plymouth Mayor’s office, Jim Marquardt began working with the Plymouth Street Department in August of 1985 and was appointed as the superintendent on January 1, 2000. Marquardt has been actively engaged in the community and in professional organizations. In 2013, he was named Street Commissioner of the Year.
Mayor Mark Senter said, “Jim is the quintessential quiet leader. He goes about his business managing more than 20 employees without fanfare or plaudits. He and his staff just get the job done the best and most efficient way they know how.”
City officials say under Marquardt’s leadership “Plymouth has undertaken thousands of dollars of new sidewalk construction and millions of dollars of new street improvements, consistently improving the quality of the city’s transportation network.”
