ITE NY Upstate Section

Executive Board Meeting

Syracuse , NY

 

July 16, 2004

 

 

Meeting Attendees:

Lorenzo Rotoli, President

Don Adams, Secretary

Joe Tocke, Immediate Past President and District Delegate

Paula Benway, District 1 Chairperson

Mike Schauer, District Delegate (on telephone)

 

I.                   Call to Order

Lorenzo called the meeting to order at 10:45 AM

 

 

II.                Reading and Approval of the Previous Minutes

A motion was made and seconded to accept the minutes from the April 2 , 2004 Executive Board Meeting

 

 

III.             Reports of Officers

 

President – Lorenzo Rotoli

·        Vote for the International Director needed to be post marked today (July 16, 2004)

·        The Met Section has confirmed the annual meeting will be from 5/2 to 5/4 at the Madison Hotel in Morristown , NJ .  The brochure is very impressive.

·        Newsletter

o       Won International Award for circulation under 250

o       Mike needs articles

o       No response on the member spotlight

o       Lorenzo submitted a “Help wanted” advertisement in the next Newsletter for a local activities coordinator for the Syracuse area, Regional Educational Chairman (traffic calming, roundabouts, …) and Fall meeting volunteers

·        Asked if an achievement award plaque made for and presented to Tom Werner?

·        Two candidates had been identified for Section Treasurer from the Rochester Area – Amy Dake and Andrea Koch.  Amy has accepted. Still need to confirm from Andrea on accepting the nomination. Need to get the bios for the newsletter (this month)

 

 

Vice President – Tim Faulkner (absent)

 

Secretary – Don Adams

 

Treasurer – Sheila Ranbottom (absent)

·        Sheila sent copy of budget update for review

·        Don will confirm whether or not the Section Dues were deposited early in the year

·        Need to bring signature card to annual meeting so the address change can occur earlier in the year.

·        Joe made a motion to approve the budget and Don seconded it.

·        Robert Miller prepared an audit for the 2003 finances.  Overall he concluded that the he was “reasonably confident that the Section’s financial accounts (“books”) are in proper order and generally acceptable accounting procedures are being applied”.  Don will work with Sheila to resolve the outstanding issues identified in the audit.

 

Past President – Joe Tocke

·        Need to actively recruit active members and volunteers for the different committees.  Use the meetings/conferences to do this.

 

IV.              Reports of Other Executive Committee Members

 

International Director – Rick Zabinski

·        Nothing to report

 

District Delegate – Mike Schauer

·        Candidates for the District International Director were well qualified

 

District Chairperson – Paula Benway

·        International Director elect will attend the international meeting ( Florida )

·        The initial indication was that the 2004 Annual Meeting in Burlington was profitable

·        Joe is heading the committee to make nominations to run for District 1 Board

·        Paula has the three Professional Development CD’s (MUTCD Update, Red Light Running and Signal Timing Clearance Intervals)

·        Three new student chapters were approved at the annual meeting

o       University of Rhode Island

o       Cooper Union

o       Rutgers University

 

V.                 Reports of Committees on Programs

 

a.      Local Activities

Rochester

·        Keith is working on a River Cruise for this fall (Joe requested that the Buffalo people be notified)

 

Buffalo

·        Working on the next event

 

Syracuse

·        Looking for a Local Activities Coordinator

·        Working on annual meeting

 

Albany

·        Transportation Symposium – November 1 and 2

 

Southern Tier

·        Nothing to Report

 

b.      Meetings

·        Transportation Symposium will be November 1 and 2 at The Century House in Latham (the same location as previous years).  Session topics include Albany Area Interstate Corridor Studies; Area Waterfronts, Quality Communities, Future of Highway Safety Programs and Tech Valley Capital District.

·        Section Meeting – Will be a joint meeting with the NYSMPO’s, 1 day, 2 concurrent sessions with PDU’s for at least some of the sessions.

·        The Pan-American Conference of Traffic and Transportation Engineering will be held in Albany on 9/26 –9/29.  For more information please go to http://www.eng.rpi.edu/panam.

 

c.       Membership – Carl Ast

·        Carl recommended that we put a notice in the Newsletter for members to update their information on the ITE website

 

d.      Newsletter – Mike Wieszchowski

·        Advertise that the Professional Development CD’s are available to borrow

·        Won award

·        Need articles, member spotlight

·        Advertise The Pan-American Conference of Traffic and Transportation Engineering

·        Notice for people to update their information on the ITE website

·        Solicit nominations for annual section awards

·        Lorenzo asked that we not issue the next Newsletter until we have Treasurer nominee bios for inclusion

 

e.      Student Membership – Mike Croce

·        Nothing to report

 

f.        Webpage – Cory Greene

·        Nothing new to report.

 

g.      Technical

 

1.                  Parking Study – Paula Benway

·        Nothing new to report

 

h.      Awards – Tim Faulkner

·        Will be solicited in the next Newsletter

 

VI.              Old Business

·        The section is a Program Member of PIE.  Don will become a certified program reviewer for the section.

·        Don will confirm whether or not the Professional Development CD’s are approved for NYS PDU’s.

 

VII.           New Business

·        Next meeting will be at the Section Annual Meeting (date to be determined)

 

VIII.        Adjournment

·                    The meeting was adjourned at 11:45 AM.

 

 

This represents the writer’s interpretation of issues that were discussed.  Any revisions should be submitted within one week of receipt of meeting minutes.

 

Respectively submitted,

Don Adams, P.E., PTOE

 

   

Stantec

109 Great Oaks Boulevard

Albany , NY 12203

 

Phone: (518) 464-1717

Fax: (518) 464-6767

dadams@stantec.com

 

Distribution List

Attendees

S. Ransbottom

T. Faulkner

 

   

Section Committee Chairs

C. Ast

M. Wieszchowski

C. Greene

M. Croce

 

Local Coordinators

B. Miller – Buffalo Local Activities

K. Mortimer – Rochester Local Activities

G. Stansbury – Syracuse Local Activities

S. Johnston – Albany Local Activities