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SW WA Public Agency Liaison

ACEC Oregon / SW Washington Public Agency
Liaison Committee

MISSION STATEMENT
To commit to a meaningful partnership between our organizations in the common purpose of providing quality and responsive consulting engineering services to the communities of southwest Washington.

OBJECTIVE
Meet twice a year (fall and spring) to network and share information with southwest Washington local agencies.

Goals include:
- Facilitating a cooperative dialogue between southwest Washington public agencies and ACEC;
- Enhancing professionalism and integrity throughout the design and construction industry;

- Promoting quality and value through improved business practices;
- Investing in the future by promoting education, new technology, and research and development; and
- Promoting the use of project delivery methods that best serve the public interest.

Pictured above, Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt, PE, PBS Engineering + Environmental, takes questions from the group during their January 28 meeting. He and Dan Swensen, City of Vancouver's Engineering Manager, provided the public agency update. About 40 members, guests and representatives from various southwest Washington public agencies attended the presentation on "Practical Design: Transforming Design Policy." Kevin Miller, SW Region Design and Engineering Services Manager, Washington State Department of Transporation, delivered the talk.

For more information please contact the steering committee chair, Matt Shanahan, mshanahan@gri.com, or mwebber@acecOregon.org.

NEXT MEETING / PRESENTATION

Thursday, December 2, 2021
12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

PRESENTATION
Prioritizing Your Transportation Improvement Program

PRESENTER
Chris Malone, PE, PMP
Public Works Finance & Asset Manager
City of Vancouver

PUBLIC AGENCY UPDATE
Ryan Lopossa, PE
Public Works Streets & Transportation Manager
City of Vancouver

Click HERE to register. (No charge to attend.) Zoom meeting login credentials are included with event registration confirmation.

PAST MEETINGS / PRESENTATIONS

Thursday, April 15, 2021
12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Co-hosted by ACEC and WTS

PANEL DISCUSSION

Update on your agency's impact from COVID in the following areas:
a) 2021/ 2022 capital improvement plans

b) Budgets
c) Changes to procuring professional services
d) Changes to agency office policies
Update on your agency's plan for post pandemic re-officing.
Update and planning associated with potential stimulus funding.

Click HERE for more info, including list of panelists and moderators.

Click HERE for video of presentation.

October 1, 2019
City of Vancouver - Water Resources Education Center
City of Vancouver: Water Station 1 Upgrades - Design and Construction

April 4, 2019
Clark County Public Works, Vancouver
What's new at WSDOT SW Region

October 3, 2018
WSDOT Headquarters
WSDOT's Design-Build Process and the Chamber Way Bridge

April 5, 2018
City of Vancouver - Water Resources Education Center
Green Stormwater Infrastructure Design

October 5, 2017
Clark County Public Works
Connecting Mass Transit and Trails - A Win-Win for Both

May 3, 2017
WSDOT Headquarters
Bus on Shoulder Study & Pilot Project for SR-14 and I-205

January 26, 2017
WSDOT Headquarters
Adapting Water Supplies Post-Condit Dam Removal

October 19, 2016
WSDOT Headquarters
Collaborative Design of Context Sensitive Rockfall Mitigation - Challis Highway Project, Idaho

July 28, 2016
WSDOT Headquarters
Landslide Mitigation using Anchored Shear Piles

April 28, 2016
WSDOT Headquarters
Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People

January 28, 2016
WSDOT Headquarters
Practical Design: Transforming Design Policy

October 6, 2015
Clark Regional Wastewater District
Performance Based Intersection and Interchange Evaluations

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Matt Shanahan, GRI
mshanahan@gri.com

STEERING COMMITTEE BOARD REP
Mark Leece, PBS

NEXT MEETING
December 2, 2021
12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Click HERE to RSVP/register.

SW WA PUBLIC AGENCY INVOLVEMENT / PARTICIPATION

City of Battle Ground
City of Camas
City of Kelso
City of Longview
City of Ridgefield
City of Vancouver Public Works
City of Washougal
Clark County Public Works
Port of Vancouver
Regional Transportation Council
WSDOT SW Region
Western Federal Lands Highway Division

If you are a public agency representative and would like to get involved with the steering committee, please contact the committee chair at mshanahan@gri.com or mwebber@acecOregon.org.