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Intergovernmental Forum Focuses on Role of Governments, Financing Agreements For Surface Transportation WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The initial meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum: Transportation Finance starts at 9:00 am, February 12, 2007 at the offices of the National Academy of Public Administration in Washington, DC. Designees to the Forum include state and local government leaders from across the United States and from the Administration and Congress. Together, the participants will study and make recommendations on the role of government in transportation finance and ways to finance transportation systems within the United States. Academy Fellow Mortimer L. Downey, Board Chairman, Pb Consult, Inc., chairs this Intergovernmental Forum. Other designees include: -- Jack Basso, Director of Management and Business Development, American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials -- Capri Cafaro, Senator, Ohio State Senate -- Suzette Denslow, Deputy Director, Virginia Municipal League -- G. Edward DeSeve, Academy Fellow, Professor, Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania -- Tom Downs,Academy Fellow; President, ENO Transportation Foundation -- R. Michael Eastland, Executive Director, North Central Texas Council of Governments -- Anthony Giancola, Executive Director, National Association of County Engineers -- Bill Graves, former Governor of Kansas, President, American Trucking Associations -- Scott Haggerty, Supervisor, Alameda County, California -- Jim Hearn, Director for Federal Programs and Budget Process, Minority Staff, U.S. Senate Budget Committee -- Jim Kolb, Staff Director, House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit -- Marcia Marcoux, Council Member, City of Rochester, Minnesota -- Mark Norris, Senate Majority Leader, Tennessee State Senate -- Rudolph Penner, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute -- Phyllis F. Scheinberg, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation -- Bruce Starr, Oregon Senate, State of Oregon, Chair, Transportation Committee, National Conference of State Legislatures -- Jim Tymon, Staff Director, Minority, House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit -- John S. Wisniewski, Deputy Speaker, New Jersey General Assembly Special presentations informing participants on current thinking in the United States, in European experiences, and on the ways to balance climate and energy dependency concerns through our governing approaches include Jack L. Schenendorf, Vice-Chairman, National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission; Pete Rahn, AASHTO Vice-President and Director, Missouri Department of Transportation; Hans de Jong; Counselor for Transportation, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Washington, DC; Kevin McCarty, Senior Director of Federal Policy, Surface Transportation Policy Project. For more information on the Intergovernmental Forum, please contact Jim Frech, Director of the Academy's Center for Intergovernmental Relations, at +1-202-347-3190 or jfrech@napawash.org. Direct media requests to Melissa Thorpe, Academy Communications, at +1-202-347-3190. The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit corporation chartered by Congress to provide trusted advice to government agencies on issues of governance and public management. Under its Congressional charter, the Academy is charged with advancing the effectiveness of government at all levels-federal, state and local. For more information about the National Academy of Public |
