In a few minutes I’ll leave the Shed and roll over to Portland Community College to begin a seven-hour assignment. It’s the first stop on the Oregon Legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation Transportation Safety and Sustainability Tour (JCTTSST, just kidding).
As I’ve been sharing recently, this is a big deal because this is the first stop on a statewide tour where lawmakers will learn about local issues and listen (notice I didn’t say “hear”) to what Oregonians think about transportation. It’s also rare for lawmakers and JCT members to hold a public hearing.
Before I head over there, I wanted to share the schedule and a bit more info about what will happen.
The first event is an invite-only infrastructure tour that begins at 12:00. We’ll stop at four spots: Multnomah County’s Bridge Shop on SE Water Ave, the intersection of SW Broadway and Jackson, the DMV in downtown Portland, and N Lombard Ave. Various agency leaders will speak at each stop to discuss specific issues.
After that there’s a roundtable discussion from 2:30 to 4:30 back at PCC Cascade. I just received the list of people who will be around the table:
- Mayor Ted Wheeler, City of Portland
- Commissioner Mingus Mapps, City of Portiand – Bureau of Transportation
- Millicent Williams, PBOT Director
- President Lynn Peterson, Metro Council
- Councilor Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Metro/JPACT Chair
- Commissioner Lori Stegmann, Multnomah County
- J.C. Vannatta, TriMet
- Dave Roberson, Port of Portland
- Pia Welch, FedEx
- Sumi Malik, IC Environmental Justice
- Zack Culver, Laborers 737
- Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle, City of Vancouver
- Greg Johnson, Interstate Bridge Program Administrator
- Jana Jarvis/Evan Oneto, Oregon Trucking Associations
- Marie Dodds, AAA Oregon/Idaho
- Dan McFarling/Doug Allen, AORTA
- Courtney Graham/Alberto Gallegos, SEIU 503
- Robert Camarillo, Building Trades
- Don Loving, Amalgamated Transit Union
- Jenny Dressler/Megan Desalvo, Oregon Chamber of Commerce
- Sharla Moffett, Oregon Business and Industry
- Kirsten Adams/Dee Burch, Associated General Contractors
- Charlene McGee, Multnomah County Health Department
- Tina Adams, Casso Consulting
- Jennifer Dill/John McArthur, Portland State University – TREC
- Jeanette Shaw, Forth
- Cassie Wilson/indi Namkoong, 1000 Friends of Oregon
- Jacqui Treiger, Oregon Environmental Council
- Brett Morgan, Climate Solutions
- Victor Duong, Housing Architect
- Thomas Le Ngo,
APANOThe Street Trust - Ariadna Falcon Gonzalez, Getting There Together
- Rebecca Sanders, Pedestrian Safety Expert
- Zachary Lauritzen, Oregon Walks
- Melvin Norman, Western States Carpenters
- Kelly Brooks, Office of the Governor
At 4:00 there will be a rally outside the venue hosted by Sunrise PDX. And then from 5:00 to 7:00 will be the public hearing where folks can sign up and testify.
OK, gotta get packed and run over there. Stay tuned for coverage over on my @Jonathan_Maus X account.
NOTE: The list of names above originally had Thomas Le Ngo as a representative of APANO, but that was an error by organizers. He was actually at the roundtable as a rep for The Street Trust (where he’s board chair). I regret any confusion.