Golba was promoted from deputy superintendent of water and sewer services.
Christopher Golba has been named superintendent of the Agawam Department of Public Works.AGAWAM – Christopher J. Golba has been hired as the city’s new Department of Public Works superintendent, according to Mayor Richard A. Cohen.
Golba has replaced Anthony Sylvia, who took a position with the Tighe and Bond consulting engineering group so he can be closer to his children and family in Rhode Island.
“He has a wealth of knowledge and supervisory skills that he brings to the department,” Cohen said of Golba, who has started his new job.
The new superintendent, who has been promoted from deputy superintendent of water and sewer services, joined the department five and a half years ago. Prior to that, he had worked in the Chicopee Water Department for 31 years, 14 of them as superintendent.
Golba, 58, will be paid $96,301 annually.
“It’s a great opportunity,” Golba said of his appointment.
He will oversee a number of water and waste water projects now in the design phase, the Feeding Hills sewer project and the upcoming repaving of part of Springfield Street.
Golba, who grew up in Chicopee, lives on Roberta Circle. Sylvia, who has been paid $103,928 a year here, was the city’s Department of Public Works chief for about a year and a half.