Street Commissioner Hired
October 25, 2011

Barry Arthur, who has 27 years experience with the Missouri Department of Transportation, is the new Street Commissioner for the City of Chillicothe.

Arthur, who resides near Cameron, is retiring from MoDOT after 27 years and will begin work as the city's new street superintendent on November 1.

Arthur was employed on a unanimous vote by the city council following a recommendation by City Administrator Ike Holland. The vote took place in an executive session following the regular city council meeting Monday evening, October 24, 2011.

The street department has been busy with city projects such as oiling
and painting parking spaces of the city- owned parking lot east of city hall.
Pictured: Street Commissioner Barry Arthur and City Administrator Ike Holland.

The new commissioner has served as a maintenance superintendent for MoDOT since 2002. He began his employment in 1974 as a county supervisor for a special Cameron road district and supervised a crew of four. In 1985, he began with MoDOT as a crew worker, crew leader and equipment operator. He then was elevated to a local maintenance supervisor in 1991 and a regional maintenance supervisor in 1997 before being elevated to his present superintendent's position where he supervised seven MoDOT maintenance buildings in three counties.

Arthur was the successful candidate following interviews with three other finalists by a city committee of four including an outside construction foreman. There were five finalists from the field of 23 applicants, but one withdrew.

Arthur succeeds Hugh Musselman who resigned on June 30, 2011 after 27 years with the city street department. Musselman began work as a regular street employee in 1984, and when he resigned he was Transportation Director.

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