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February 28, 2014  
                   
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Southern Plains TTAP Tribal Transportation News
TTAP Classes for March and April
Tribal RoadStar Program
Leaderships Skills for Supervisors and Managers
Defensive Driving Courses
Emergency Preparedness for Dispatchers
FHWA Highway Safety Manual Course coming
MCN Transportation wins OAPA AwardManual Course coming
TIGER Funding announced
EDC Innovation of the Month
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Contact:

Jim Self, Manager
jim.self@okstate.edu

or

Karla Sisco, TTAP Specialist
karla.sisco@okstate.edu
Grant Writing Class on Wednesday in Stillwater!

 

In these times of tight budgets and competitive funding, the skills associated with good grant writing become even more vital for an organization. The TTAP Grant Writing Class, set for Wednesday, March 5, will help agencies make the most of their grant writing skills in this morning session.

Nani Pybus, Ph. D, Proposal Development Specialist, Oklahoma State University, will offer information and tips on the basics of grant writing including the following: how to find funding sources, how to develop a funding proposal, and how to get it funded.  

Special emphasis will be placed on the next round of Tribal Transportation Program Safety Funding, due to come out in mid-March.    
This class is part of the Tribal RoadStar Program.

REGISTER NOW!

 

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TTAP Classes for March and April - Click on class to register!
 


Announcing something NEW! The TTAP
Tribal RoadStar Certificate Program 

The Tribal RoadStar Program consists of 12 different one or two day workshops that are offered through the Southern Plains TTAP. To become a 
Tribal RoadStar, you must attend at least 10 of the 12 designated workshops. Most of the training sessions will be held at the Southern Plains TTAP Center in the Center for Local Government Technology in Stillwater, OK.

 

Upon successful completion of the program requirements, participants will receive a plaque designating them as a Tribal RoadStar. 

 

(Classes taken prior to March 1, 2013 will not be eligible credit toward the certificate, as many of the courses have been changed or updated.)

      
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Agenda posted for
Leadership Skills for Supervisors and Managers


Whether you are new to supervising, or have been a supervisor for many years, this course is designed to help supervisors and managers develop a set of foundational skills that will make them more effective leaders in a supervisory role. Topics will include leadership attitude, communication, performance feedback, and time management.
 
This class is part of the Tribal RoadStar Program. 

 
DATE:  Thursday, March 13, 2014 
 
TIMES: 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
LOCATION:  OSU Center for Local Government Technlogy 
                      5202 N Richmond Hill Dr 
                      Stillwater, OK 74078

Instructor: Lorinda Schrammel, Training & Development Manager,
                   Human Resources, Oklahoma State University

 
 
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Have you scheduled the Defensive Driving Course for your Tribe?

The National Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course (DDC), instructed by Karla Sisco, strives to ensure that people get what they need to drive defensively--knowledge, skills and perspective that will help them continue to prevent injuries and save lives. 
 
This 6-hour course helps develop accident avoidance behavior and safe driving practices, which can significantly reduce the number of collisions and citations your drivers might experience.  
 
 
Emergency Preparedness Training for Dispatchers is set for March 13-14

Oklahoma DOT
Dispatchers play a critical role in emergencies. Help them to be prepared for the next one!

Mark your calendar for MARCH 13-14 for
Emergency Preparedness Training for Dispatchers and Schedulers.

Location: 
Oklahoma Association of Community Action Agencies 
605 Centennial Blvd. 
Edmond, OK

The training is sponsored by Oklahoma State University RTAP and
ODOT Transit Programs Division. 
 
 
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FHWA Highway Safety Manual Course coming to Sand Springs, March 25-26
FHWA Highway Safety Manual
 

This (2) two-day FHWA Safety Course provides the Highway Safety Manual methodology for the safety performance of geometric design decisions on both two-lane and multi-lane rural highways. This workshop presents applications of the Highway Safety Manual predictive equations for urban and suburban roadway segments and intersections. Each module is accompanied with an exercise for the participants to get hands-on experience with the Highway Safety Manual. 

 

The Highway Safety Manual crash prediction models for total crashes on rural two-lane roads and crashes based upon lane width, shoulder width, roadside hazard, traffic valume (exposure) and other characteristics are also presented.   

 

Case Community Center

1050 W. Wekiwa Road
Sand Springs, OK
918-246-2661 

 

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MCN Transportation wins Oklahoma Asphalt Paving Association Award
 
 

Pictured from left to right: Haskell Lemon Construction Company Vice-President of Operations Terry Wells, Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Association Executive Director Larry Patrick, HLCC Paving Crew Superintendent John McGee, Muscogee (Creek) Nation Interior Affairs Deputy Director Jeff Fife, Haskell Lemon Construction Company Project Manager Virgil Reschke, Okfuskee County Commissioner for District 3 Bruce Smith, MCN Principal Chief George Tiger, MCN Tribal Transit Program Director CharleyLaSarge and OAPA Board of Directors Chairman Tyle North

 

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation Tribal Transportation Program received state recognition for accomplishments in marketing and road quality.

  

The program received the Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Association Top City, County, BIA or State Highway Award Feb. 11, for supervision over the road construction project on U.S. Route 62 in Okfuskee County.

  

"This road is heavily travelled by our elderly and the tribe,"TTP Director Charley LaSarge said. "We drove it and you couldn't hardly drive down it."

 

 

MORE  See page 10

(Jessica McBride/MNN Reporter)

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$600 Million for Sixth Round of TIGER Funding  
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently joined President Barack Obama to announce that $600 million will be made available to fund transportation projects across the country under a sixth round of the U.S. Department of Transportation's highly successful Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) competitive grant program. 
 
The announcement was made at the Union Depot in St. Paul, which received $35 million in the first round of TIGER to renovate the facility and restore tracks. Combined with roughly $480 million in federal funding for the Central Corridor light rail transit line, St. Paul's Union Depot is proof of the impact that transportation investment can make, leading to job creation, downtown revitalization and economic growth. 

 

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EDC Innovation of the Month: 3-D Modeling  
  
Through Every Day Counts, the Federal Highway Administration is offering opportunities for highway agency staff and other transportation stakeholders to learn about using three-dimensional engineered models for construction projects.
FHWA launched a series of free webinars in 2013 on 3-D modeling. Information on registering for future webinars and recordings of the first two sessions are available here.

 
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This material is based upon work supported by the U. S. Department of Transportation under Agreement No. DTFH61-12-H-00004.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Federal Highway Administration.