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2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCES AGENDA

 

The Ninth Annual Conference of the National Association of
State Highway and Transportation Unions

 

was held April 28 - 30, 2008
at the
Phoenix Park Hotel
520 North Capitol Street, N. W.
Washington, D.C. 20001

Featured Items from the 2008 Conference

 

Monday, April 28, 2008

8:30 a.m. Breakfast – Ballroom, First Floor
   
9:00 Welcome Remarks – Mary Richards, Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers and Scientists (MOSES)
   
9:30

Congressional Panel Discussion: What are the Issues Facing Congress – Reauthorization, Bridge and Tunnel Inspections, Financing?
Moderator: Ted Toppin, Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG)

  • Helena Zyblikewycz, Senior Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

  • Kathy Dedrick, Senior Policy Advisor for Transportation, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

  • Aaron Klein, Chief Economist, Senate Banking Committee

   
10:30 Break
   
10:45 Ed Wytkind, President of Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO
   
11:15 Emil Frankel, Transportation Policy Director, Bi-Partisan Policy Center
   

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

  • Jack Basso, Director of Management and Business Development, AASHTO

   
1:30 Screening of Amazing: The Rebuilding of the MacArthur Maze, PECG-Sponsored Documentary
   
2:15 Break
   
2:30

Public Private Partnerships – Presentation by USPIRG, GAO
Moderator: Dennis Houlihan, AFSCME

   
3:30 Nancy Humphrey, Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US Transportation, Transportation Research Board
   
4:30 Susan Binder, Transportatin for Tomorrow, National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission
   
6:00  NASHTU Group Dinner, Hawk’n’Dove Restaurant, 329 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE (www.hawkanddoveonline.com)

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TUESDAY, April 29, 2008

8:00 a.m. Breakfast
   
9:00 Panel: Federal Transportation Reauthorization Issues – Advancing NASHTU’s Agenda in Congress
Moderator: Dennis Houlihan, AFSCME
  • Anne P. Canby, President, Surface Transportation Policy Project
  • John V. Wells, Director, Office of Economic and Strategic Analysis, USDOT
   
10:00 a.m.

Lobbying NASHTU’s Legislative Agenda

Moderators:

Ted Toppin, PECG
Mary Richards, MOSES

   
10:30 Break
   
11:00 Michael Replogle, Transportation Director, Environmental Defense
   
12:00 Lunch
  • David Kusnet -- Love your work? But not your job? Here's why.
   
1:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Lobbying on Capitol Hill

   
5:30-7:30

Congressional Reception -- Rayburn HOB, B-338

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WEDNESDAY, April 30, 2008

8:00 a.m. Breakfast
   
9:30 Panel and Discussion: Developments at Highway Departments Throughout the Nation. Moderator: Bruce Wyngaard, OCSEA/AFSCME Local 11
  • Bruce Blanning, Professional Engineers in California Government
  • Stephen Livingston, Connecticut State Employees Association, SEIU Local 2001
  • Claude Fort, AFSCME Local 375 DC 37 (New York City)
  • TBD, Minnesota, AFSCME Council 5
   
10:45 Break
   
11:00 Action Plan for NASHTU for 2008-2009
  • Dennis Houlihan, AFSCME
  • Mary Richards, MOSES
  • Jimmy Tarlau, CWA
  • Ted Toppin, PECG
   
1:00 p.m. Adjournment

 

 

 

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