April 2014
Membership
  
Please welcome our newest Board members:
    
Tom LeBeau
Bowman Engineering & Consulting

 

Lonnie Blaydes
Herzog
  
Darwin Desen
Burns & McDonnell
  
Ken Hughes
Huitt Zollars
  
Brandi Bird
Bird Advocacy & Consulting
  
David Cain
DC Strategic Consulting

Drew Campbell
Capitol Insights
  
Byron Campbell
Capitol Insights
  

  


  
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Save the Date
  
May 15, 2014

TCNT Membership Meeting 

Topic:  State Farm  Project in Richardson



TCNT will begin hosting monthly meetings on topics of interest to the transit industry, each month on the third Thursday at 2 pm, so mark your calendars.


2014 Membership meeting Schedule:

May 15th

June 19th

July 17th

August 21st

September 18th

October 16th

November 20th

 
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 Annual Membership Meeting
  
 
In March, the Transit Coalition held its second annual membership meeting and we would like to thank all of our members and special guests who attended.  We would especially like to thank our speakers Gary Thomas (DART), Jim Cline (DCTA), Andre McEwing and Tony Johnson (The T), as well as our keynote speaker Congressman Roger Williams.  
  
The discussion was highly informative and focused on the future of transit in the region from the perspective of each of the three transit agencies.  Each speaker emphasized future projects for their agency, including TEX Rail for The T, a second Downtown alignment for DART and the 35W Corridor and Frisco/ Little elm corridor for DCTA.
 
Congressman Williams focused on the transportation reauthorization bill process as envisioned by the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee leadership.  He stressed the need for a 5-6 year bill and a sustainable funding mechanism for the Highway Trust Fund.
  
   
  
  

 2014 Board and Staff Restructuring

 

 

At the TCNT membership meeting, the Nominating Committee proposed and the membership approved the following slate of Board Members and Officers.  

In addition, the TCNT Board took action to restructure the staff of the association.  Over the last three years, since the inception of the Transit Coalition in 2011,the Coalition has been able to determine what level of staff the Coalition can afford based upon the annual budget of the Association.  For this reason, we have asked the Consultants who helped found the Transit Coalition to join us as members of the Board and have contracted with Marisa Vantrease of Bird Advocacy & Consulting, who will provide association management and administrative duties for the Coalition.


 

2014 Board Officers

 

Chair:                          Kathy Ingle

                                    Ingle Rentals

 

Vice Chair:                  Jeff Davis

                                    Greater FW Real Estate Council

 

Secretary/Treasurer:   Brandi Bird

                                     Bird Advocacy & Consulting

 

  

2014 Board of Directors

 

Anne Crews- Mary Kay, Inc.

Don Dillard-Dillard Group

Sandra Adams-KBR

Bill Walker-Billingsley

Hugh Harrison-Legacy Resource Group

Corbett Howard-Celina Economic Development

Jack Matthews-Matthews Southwest

Steve Medina-Kiewit

Rick Fambro-Fairway Group, Real Estate

Raquel Ibarra-Ibarra Consulting Engineers

Brinton Payne-Legislative Intelligence

Byron Campbell- Capitol Insights

David Cain-DC Strategic Consulting

Drew Campbell-Capitol Insights

Lonnie Blaydes-Herzog

Tom Lebeau-Bowman Engineering/Consulting

Darwin Desen-Burns & McDonnell

Ken Hughes-Huitt Zollars

Steve Knobbe- HNTB

  

Click here to download the approved board.