thank you apta. my name is joe hughes, vice president for three parts of route map software, product management, customer relations and business development. as a brief overview, we provide software for public transit in the rural and urban, small urban areas. we figure we have worked with many people in this room and many other agencies here in the office. you are our partners. every year, we come to this event because to me, it's the epitome of the pure partnership. it's the most important part of the year for transportation. it represents a group of people that go off into their own business separately but here, they are partners for the greater good of the overall. we are very excited to be a part of this. we would like to think that we can help in any way but we hope to get to work with all you guys for the next two days and learn a little bit about where things are going and hopefully make some impact for the greater good of the whole industry. with that in mind, i have a couple of things -- do

and past apta chairs. if you're in that group, please stand up so we can give you a round of applause. [ applause ] >> thank you for all your work and all your service. many of the leaders in this room -- i was -- let me say i was honored to share the apta strategic planning effort about a year ago or so. we got it approved by the full board of directors. this plan really sharpens our focus, guides our operation for the next five years. this is the cover of that document. i think the marketing folks did just a great job in putting this together. five significant challenges that we put forth and we were calling these mega trends, sort of the environment that we believe that we will be working in for the next five to ten years. just very quickly, and you won't see them -- this is just the cover of the strategic plan itself, but safety and security was the first one. resource advocacy or funding. we've been talking about that all week. work force development, demographic shifts and technological innovation. a

and past apta chairs. if you're in that group, please stand up so we can give you a round of applause. [ applause ] >> thank you for all your work and all your service. many of the leaders in this room -- i was -- let me say i was honored to share the apta strategic planning effort about a year ago or so. we got it approved by the full board of directors. this plan really sharpens our focus, guides our operation for the next five years. this is the cover of that document. i think the marketing folks did just a great job in putting this together. five significant challenges that we put forth, and we were calling these mega trends, sort of the environment that we believe that we will be working in for the next five to ten years. just very quickly, and you won't see them -- this is just the cover of the strategic plan itself, but safety and security was the first one. resource advocacy or funding. we've been talking about that all week. work force development, demographic shifts and technological innovation.

i'm so pleased to be here again at apta.ou will hear repeatedly if you haven't already it's important for you to be here. how many of you have heard it's important to be here? this is a test by the way because you just heard it. if you don't raise your hands i'm afraid you are asleep. how many of you believe that? okay well thank god i don't have to convince you of that. there is new staff on the hill. some of the people you are going to talk to you have talked to for years and they are going to say it's great to see you again but i already know your story. for some of you you are walking into offices with completely new staff. it's a 23-year-old who's looking at you like transit, what is transit? i thought they only have that here in washington d.c.. you have got to tell them your story and like transit is important to your community. how many of you have a newly-elected freshman member of the house or senate you are going to see today? these people do not know anything about what you do. i'm going to put money on that say

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as the nlc president and mayor of salt lake i look forward to continuing to work with apta towards a long-term, well funded, transportation reauthorization this year. the president's proposed grow america act is an important contribution to this must-do reauthorization effort. so with that, those who participated yesterday in the legislative conference heard from a gentleman who represents america's infrastructure alliance. he made three key points that will be the focus of today's conversation. number one, make it local. okay. you have local here. number two, talk about economic benefits and commerce. talk about how transportation does what it's done in utah. talk about how it will affect your community, and lastly, perhaps most importantly, investment saves money. now is the time to make an investment, because it will pay dividends in the future. you won't be borrowing. it will cost you less. and i think the mayor will talk about that as we do some local efforts in that record. you're hearing from three, strong, conservative, fiscally responsible, energetic, motivated, fast-growing

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. >> i'm valerie mccall, i'm the vice chair of apta and chair of the transit board members committee. but also in my day job, i am the chief of government in international affairs for the city of cleveland, ohio, so i didn't want to sit up here and not say, thank you for the pilot program on local hiring rule-making. as you all know, i spent a lot of time up in d.o.t. in conversations over the last ten years about that. sometimes when we have projects and we have local laws that have local hiring practices, we cannot implement this. so i wanted to stand up and actually say, thank you for that. and, of course, we'll be submitting some comments. >> thank you so much. >> thanks. >> coming back to the theme about it being about the people, obviously, apta has a continuing interest in working to improve coordinated human services transportation and it involves a whole myriad of interests and overlapping programs. we all talk about project development streamlining but here's maybe another area where we could have some realignment and simplification. what in your view could be done to bring

as the nlc president and mayor of salt lake i look forward to continuing to work with apta forwards a long-term, well funded, transportation reauthorization this year. the president's proposed grow america act is an important contribution to this must-do reauthorization effort. so with that, those who participated yesterday in the legislative conference heard from a gentleman called jeff loving who represents america's infrastructure alliance. he made three key points that will be the focus of today's conversation. number one, make it local. okay. you have local here. number two, talk about economic benefits and commerce. talk about how transportation does what it's done in utah. talk about how it will affect your community, and lastly, perhaps most importantly, investment saves money. now is the time to make an investment, because it will pay dividends in the future. you won't be borrowing. it will cost you less. and i think the mayor will talk about that as we do some local efforts in that regard. you're hearing from three, strong, conservative, fiscally responsible, energetic, moti

wonderful audience and, please join me in thanking acting add mer mcmillan and feinberg on with behalf of apta and all your membership. we appreciate your candor and the time you've dedicated to come here and show us how the federal government can partner with us for a better tomorrow so that our postcards will be ones of positive messages and sense. [laughter] so thank you so much. appreciate it. and to our audience and our viewers, we, please, encourage you to join us for a view from the hill session at 3:45 to hear directly from congressional staffers on the industry and inside perspectives of upcoming legislation. so that is at 3:45, view from the hill. [inaudible conversations] >> coming up tonight on c-span2, the memorial service for former u.s. senator edward brook of massachusetts, the first african-american popularly elected to the senate. senate chaplain barry black will lead the service and secretary john kerry and delegate eleanor holmes norton are expected to give jewelies. see -- eulogies. see the ceremony at 8 p.m. eastern. >> keep track of the republican-led congress and follow

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. >> mayor, maybe one thing you can share with apta or us as an organization that we can help carry forward from your comments today. >> i love the stand up for transportation. i think taking the message back how critical it is that this country continue to rebuild its infrastructure that we can continue to offer modern innovative ways to attract people to use traffic because it helps us at every level from air quality, congestion, time save productivity and a healthier community. it's just a great message and this group can be a great vehicle for helping pass that along. >> great 9th don't forget. >> the best lesson you can learn from what's happened in our community is the importance of flexibility. and looking at the pots of money that you have and trying to figure out how to focus the resources you do have on the most important projects. to prioritize. are there ways you can shift some of the federal and our regional moneys to address the top needs. we've all got budgets with a variety of projects on them. and if some of the projects that you have funding for are not the most important

lindsey graham speaking on a politics and [applause] >> apta, good morning, how's everybody doing?