When introducing Todd Myers for induction into the PCCA Hall of Fame, PCCA President & CEO Tim Wagner said, "Most of the PCCA Hall of Fame members have one thing in common – they’re hard workers. Todd Myers is one of the hardest workers that I have ever met. When he’s not working at his day job, running a successful utility construction company, he’s farming or making wine or restoring old cars or spending time with his grandchildren. And he still finds time to serve on the PCCA Government Affairs Committee, attend PCCA Washington Fly-ins, attend PCCA Mid-Year Meetings, attend quarterly Ohio Broadband and 5G Sector Workforce Partnership meetings, and support the utility technician program at Terra State Community College.
Todd developed his work ethic early on. At 14 he got his start in construction threading steel pipe after school and on weekends so that his father’s crews had a supply of pipe to push under roads to keep the plows working. This was before directional drills. He started helping in the shop fixing equipment when he wasn’t farming, and when he was a senior in high school, he learned how to paint when he painted a 4020 farm tractor at school. That was the start of his 20-year painting career at the company. He occasionally worked with crews in between the wheat and fall harvests.
In late 1995, Todd’s father suffered a stroke and passed away nine months later. Todd found himself in charge of a construction company with 80 employees and a two-thousand-acre farm. For five years, he worked both but finally had to step away from farming in order to properly support the construction company and the employees who depended on him. Today, Todd is farming about 1,400 acres again and still runs Kenneth G. Myers Construction.
Kenneth G Myers Construction was started in 1958 by Todd’s grandparents doing pipeline construction for Northern Ohio Gas. In 1960, the gas distribution business slowed, and the company was approached by Ohio Bell to push pipe under roads to support their plow contractor. In 1962, they started plowing cable, and Todd’s grandfather mortgaged the farm to buy a TD15C dozer and a plow he designed and had built by the Greenville Box Car Company. Through the 1960s and '70s, the company purchased more plows, backhoes, and small trenchers and were doing mostly telephone work including drops. By the late 1970s, the company got into the overhead business when they purchased a couple of T40Bs and a corner mount digger truck. In the early 1980s, they did their first fiber job for Pirelli Fiber, a 50-mile job along the Ohio turnpike that required a plow that would go 4-feet deep. In 1991, they purchased a prototype straight line boring machine, and today they own 12 boring machines and five full plow trains.
In service to PCCA, Todd served on the board of directors for 18 years, as General Director, Secretary, Treasurer, 2nd Vice Chair, 1st Vice Chair, Chair-Elect, and Chair. He served on the Education and Workforce Development Committee and the Government Affairs Committee. He was selected to serve on the FCC's Precision Ag Connectivity Task Force, where he was able use his expertise in broadband deployment and in using precision agriculture equipment on his family farm to increase crop yields each growing season.
Wagner called Todd "one of the hardest working Chairs that I’ve served under, but the most impressive thing about Todd is that his level of involvement in PCCA has not decreased at all since serving as chair in 2016."