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July Message
I would like to thank all
of you for participating in our District 6 student endowment
survey. The results were as follows:
- You are aware of the ITE District 6 student
initiatives.
- You support having ITE District 6 continue
with student initiatives.
- While there is a diversity of opinion
on how to fund student initiatives, you support (by a 2
to 1 margin) a blended or hybrid plan of funding that contains
incremental dues increases of 10% (less than $10 annually)
and establishing a modest endowment fund ($300,000 to $500,000).
I have asked our Advisory
Committee, headed by Randy McCourt, to review the survey and
take the steps necessary to establish the endowment fund.
The District 6 Board will take up the topic of a dues increase
and other funding strategies at our Annual Meeting in Montana.
Please feel free to contact me or any officer to share your
views on this topic. Our future begins with attracting the
best students to transportation, and our student initiatives
are targeted to actions that will achieve this goal.
I had the pleasure of attending the 45th Annual
Meeting of the Intermountain Section at Jackson Hole, Wyoming,
which serves Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah. Alyssa Reynolds
was selected as the new Secretary-Treasurer. While there,
Scott Thorston and I recognized Terry Smith for his 19 years
of service to ITE. I also met with the new officers for the
Idaho and Montana sections. We recognized Dave Butzier for
serving as membership committee chairman. Finally, Torsten
Lienau, president of Washington State Section, and I recognized
Rory Grindley for his tireless contributions to the transportation
profession through his work as a consultant, county traffic
engineer and his extensive ITE participation. Rory is a current
International Director.
I then went to the San Francisco Bay Area Section,
where chapter president David Parisi and I recognized Bond
Yee for 32 years of outstanding service to the transportation
profession through his extensive work in transit planning
and traffic operations.
My last stop was at the Southern California
section, where I presented an award to David Royer for his
35 years of service to our profession. Wayne Tanda was also
recognized at the meeting for serving as the ITE District
6 coordinating council chairman for the last three years.
I'd like to announce that our Newsletter, WesternITE,
has for the second year in a row recognized as the best newsletter
at the international level! Congratulations to John for an
exception job in making District 6 the best in the nation
and the world.
By the time you read this we will have had our
Annual Meeting at Kalispell. I would like to thank the Local
Arrangements Committee, led by Michael Sanderson, for what
I know will be (or will have been) an outstanding job in hosting
this year's Annual Meeting.
Together we are the best
Zaki Mustafa
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