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Attendees: Lisa Harris, Marie Walsh, George Huntington, Lisa McCluskey, Janet Leli, Jim Grothaus, Bernie Alkire, Patsy Anderson and Clark Martin. Ed Stellfox was not able to attend the call.
Consent Items
The minutes for the June 11 and June 22 conference calls were approved as written. The agenda for this call was approved without changes.
For EC Direction or Action
Develop agendas for Chicago meetings. The EC reviewed agenda items for the EC and business meetings to take place in Chicago. EC business to include discussion of reauthorization. Membership business meetings to include approval of bylaws and officer structure and an update on the LTAP Center Needs Assessment and the upcoming meeting with ATSSA. Harris asked all EC members to attend the Tuesday reception for sponsors and partners.
Reports and Updates
- Work Group Updates (5-10 min. each)
- Partnerships — Walsh
- NACE–Marie suggest working with NACE's elected officials in the partnership.
- Salt Institute–Continued discussion on relationship; a meeting was planned to discuss, but will be rescheduled
- APWA, LTAP has a good relationship with APWA.
- AASHTO, NLTAPA will request having a seat on the AASHTO Safety Subcommittee
- Other groups (NHTSA, GHSA, League of Cities) Nothing new to report
- Training Products and Resources – Huntington, for Stellfox Next work group meeting is July 9. Huntington is working on compiling the needs assessment.
- Professional Development – Grothaus reported on the nominees for Leadership award; the EC decided on a recipient (Patsy Anderson).
- External communications – Alkire would like to serve on the committee until the annual meeting and will cycle off after that.
- Internal communications – Leli has asked Janet Degner and Sally Collopy to join her committee; she would like to hold a conference call before the annual meeting.
- Program Strategies – Harris is receiving comments from members about draft bylaw changes; only one comment so far.
- Lisa asked teh EC reps to let her know if they would like to continue serving as the head of their committees.
- LTAP 2007 conference – Anderson
The final conference brochure will be printed soon. A trifold pocket agenda is also being prepared. Rooms are still available at the discounted rate. A room is being reserved for the sponsor/partner reception. Kevin Burke is taking care of the AV.
- NLTAPA Annual Report – Anderson
Anderson has received pictures and a few reports, but not much else. Harris will help on this project and will be collecting materials. Regions were asked to send materials to Lisa Harris by July 13. Harris will be going on vacation the week of July 9.
- ATSSA and LTAP – Walsh, Stellfox and Mike Burk will be meeting with ATSSA next week to find out how LTAP and their customers will fit into the program. So far there has been very little contact by ATSSA with the LTAP community.
- Regional meeting highlights – Region 2 — did Bernie report?; Region 1 — Janet did not attend her regional meeting but received a report that the needs assessment could have gone better.
- OPCD update – Martin
- OPCD activities
FHWA has been working on a business plan to present to the executive committee. A new FHWA LTAP Program Manager has been selected- Denise Saunders, she is currently on the program improvement team. She will be at the conference in Chicago and will start full time in early August. FHWA-OPDC is working with DOT International to develop relationships, and several people from other countries will be attending the conference. Martin is preparing for the National LTAP meeting and on the work plan for the program. Ishaq will be working with the Clearinghouse Steering Committee on the Clearinghouse's yearly plan. LTAP Exchange did change their name.
- LTAP Clearinghouse report – Lisa McCluskey reported that the Clearinghouse traveled to all regional meetings and that the second LTAP E–newsletter went out the week of June 25.
- Current Clearinghouse Activities include:
- Final preparations for LTAP 101 – reminder to EC that they are having lunch with the LTAP 101 participants.
- Updates to the webpage – working on updating the trainer and resource databases while North Dakota is working on the "members only" area. For specifics in this area – a general timeline would be having a functional trainer database in September and a resource database soon after in October – but specific timing to be announced in Chicago
- Will also post FHWA's presentation and the regional summaries on a webpage. The next quarterly mailing of materials will go out the week of July 16.
- Report any recent changes in LTAP Center staff – none reported?
Take Note / FYI
No discussion
- Bylaws changes — Harris sent to members on 6/24. Will discuss at 7/24 membership business meeting.
- Nominations for officers — Ballot was sent to members on 6/24.
- Need new Region 9 representative — Region 9 still needs to elect a new rep. Anderson has asked Linda Howe-Steiger to share information with the region, in the interim.
- Conference invitations to partners — Waiting to hear from partners on which opportunities they will participate in.
- Conference call service — Our current conference call service is through Iowa LTAP. Need to clarify if we need to transfer that service as well as bookkeeping. Alkire to inquire.
Upcoming Meetings
- EC calls– Second Mondays at 11:00 Eastern –August 13, September 10, October 8
- EC meeting- July 23 in Chicago, 10:00 - noon
- LTAP conference July 23-26, NLTAPA business meetings on July 24 and 26
Due Dates
- 7/24 or earlier– Completed ballots due back from members
- 7/26 – Members to approve new officer structure in bylaws and affirm ballot
- Send all info. for the annual report the week of July 9.
Minutes submitted by Lisa McClusky and Lisa Harris.
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