ASCE Tacoma-Olympia Section and Seattle Section Joint Meeting

December 14th 2016

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Please join us for the Tacoma-Olympia Section and Seattle Section joint meeting! It will be at Ramada Tukwila Southcenter in their Yakama Room. There will be a social hour, followed by dinner and a presentation. Parking is FREE at Ramada for attendees. Drinks are available at the restaurant bar. 

5:30 Social Hour
6:00 Dinner
6:30 Program 

Early Bird Rates end Friday, December 2nd.
$45 ($40 early bird) for General Admission
$20 ($15 early bird) for students, and free agents

 Registration closes Friday, December 9th.

Attendees must preregister; there will be no on-site registration. Contact Don Nguyen to make other payment arrangements.

Program - Connecting Washington

Roger Millar will speak about Connecting Washington and our agency’s efforts to deliver the $16 billion program the Legislature passed and the Governor signed in 2015.

The following is a high-level breakdown of spending, which includes:

• $9.4 billion for state highways and local roads
• $1.4 billion state highway maintenance, operations and preservation
• $1.3 billion for non-highway projects such as bike paths, walkways, rail and transit
• $602 million for ferries and terminals
• $300 million for fish barriers
• In the outer years, anticipated cost savings from practical design will be used to fund preservation and unforeseen capital projects

For more information, visit: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Funding/CWA/

Speaker - Roger Millar

Roger Millar was appointed the Secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation by Governor Jay Inslee in August 2016. Millar oversees an agency of 6,800 employees, with responsibility for 18,600 lane miles of highway, 3,700 bridges, general aviation airports, passenger and freight rail programs, and Washington State Ferries, the largest system in the nation.

Millar is a second generation civil engineer with 38 years of experience in the transportation arena. During that time he has worked in construction, design, planning, research, policy development, and management and administration in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining WSDOT as Deputy Secretary in October 2015 Roger served for five years as vice president of Smart Growth America, a national not-for-profit organization, providing technical assistance to state DOTs in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont. During that time he also served as director of the National Complete Streets Coalition.

Millar was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1999. From 2000 to 2014 he served on the ASCE Committee for America’s Infrastructure, which produces the nationally recognized Report Card for America’s Infrastructure.

A graduate of the University of Virginia, Millar is a registered engineer, a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a Certified Floodplain Administrator. Millar has served as president of the Oregon Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the Montana Association of Planners. 

Dinner will be either Mediterranean Chicken or Fire Grilled Flank Steak, with roasted fingerling potatoes, fresh baked dinner rolls with butter and NW Wild greens salad.

Special accommodations for meals are available upon request. If you have any food allergies or require special accommodations, please enter dietary information during registration.