Meeting Date: June 22, 2023
Venue: Hybrid Meeting
Attendance: 28 Participants
Welcome Attendees
President Keoni Wasano welcomed all attendees and started the meeting.
Announcements
President Keoni Wasano announced upcoming meetings. See list below for upcoming meetings:
July 19, 2023 – Virtual Meeting with Dr. Roger Chen
August 13-16, 2023 – Joint ITE International and Western District Annual Meeting in Oregon
September 2023 – Rail Tour
October 26, 2023 – ITE Hawaii Annual Meeting Social
Committee Chair Updates
No Updates
National/District Updates
Section Administrator Cathy Leong announced the 2023 Western District Secretary-Treasurer candidates. Candidates are Josh McNeill and Ryan Zellers. To find more information the candidates, click here: https://westernite.org/news/2023-western-district-elections-and-candidates/
Presentation
Cathy Leong introduced guest speaker, Peter Koonce as the candidate for ITE 2023 Western District International Director. He is a licensed transportation engineer from Portland, Oregon with nearly 25 years of experience in both the private and public sector implementing solutions for transportation. He then did a presentation on Vision Zero and the MUTCD. He talked about the incorporation of safety to meet community Vision Zero Goals and how the MUTCD needs to change to enable engineers the flexibility we need to meet today’s challenges.
Peter’s presentation is available here.
Closing and Next Meeting
Keoni thanked the speaker and reiterated the upcoming meetings listed below:
July 19, 2023 – Virtual Meeting with Dr. Roger Chen
August 13-16, 2023 – Joint ITE International and Western District Annual Meeting in Oregon
September 2023 – Rail Tour
October 26, 2023 – ITE Hawaii Annual Meeting Social
Upcoming Event Links
2023 ITE Western Districts Annual Meeting: https://www.westernite.org/annualmeeting/