Bill Stogsdill oversees Region VI as part of his Regional Director role with APWA. This includes the following chapters: Iowa, Kansas, Kansas City Metro, Manitoba, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. He also serves as the Board of Directors Liaison to the Certification Commission.
Stogsdill has been a part of public works for 31 years. He has worked for the City of Fairway, Kansas since February 2001, and became public works director in 2006. The City of Fairway is a small community covering one square mile with 4,000 residents. Since becoming the public works director, Stogsdill has helped the agency to achieve APWA Accreditation in 2018, and Reaccreditation in 2022. He also helped lead his agency through a new facility master plan, and went through a partial design to rebuild at the old location. In the process of finding a temporary home while it was under construction, they found a new site (with an existing facility) that was rehabbed at half of the cost instead of building new.
Stogsdill helped implement $7 million in stormwater improvements, which was an APWA Project of the Year in 2009. He was also responsible for a $2.9 million bond program for street improvements, which he wrote about in the APWA Reporter.
As part of the APWA Kansas City Metro Chapter, he has served in numerous roles, including president. Currently, he serves as the Chapter’s Delegate representative on the Council of Chapters. Nationally, he served on the Project of the Year Committee for several years, was a co-chair of the 2018 PWX conference held in Kansas City, a graduate of the Emerging Leaders Academy, and was the Young Leader of the Year in 2011. This is Stogsdill’s first term on the Board.