At its July 15 meeting in Chicago, APTA’s 2011 Nominating Committee nominated the current vice chair—Gary C. Thomas, president/executive director of Dallas Area Rapid Transit—as APTA chair for 2011-2012, and Flora Castillo, a board member for New Jersey Transit Corporation, as vice chair. Nathaniel P. Ford Sr., principal of the Ford Management Group, remains secretary-treasurer for another year. APTA Immediate Past Chair M.P. Carter, commissioner with the Memphis Area Transit Authority, chaired the nominating committee.

Nominated as members-at-large of the APTA Executive Committee were Ronald L. Epstein, chief financial officer, New York State DOT; Joseph J. Giulietti, executive director of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority/Tri-Rail in Pompano Beach, FL; Crystal Lyons, board chairman, Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority, Corpus Christi, TX; Reginald A. Mason, director of safety and training/chief safety officer, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency; and Gary McNeil, president, GO Transit/Metrolinx in Toronto.

Transit agency representatives nominated as members-at-large of the APTA Board of Directors are Thomas J. Costello, assistant managing director, Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, Urbana, IL; Bradford J. Miller, chief executive officer, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, St. Petersburg, FL; Hugh A. Mose, general manager, Centre Area Transportation Authority, State College, PA; Trevor Ocock, vice president and chief operating officer, Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation (IndyGo), Indianapolis, IN; Allan Pollock, general manager/chief executive officer, Salem-Keizer Transit, Salem, OR; and Peter J. Varga, chief executive officer, Interurban Transit Partnership (The Rapid), Grand Rapids, MI.

Board member nominees representing APTA business members are Richard M. Amodei, senior vice president/chief strategic growth officer, STV Incorporated; Christopher P. Boylan, director, governmental and strategic partnerships, for the General Contractors Association of New York; Peter Gertler, senior vice president/high speed rail services chair, HNTB Corporation; and Arun Prem, executive director, Full Access and Coordinated Transportation Inc.

APTA members will select officers and board members Sept. 21 during the association’s first virtual Annual Business Meeting and Election. This will allow the board to get right to work at the 2011 Annual Meeting and EXPO, with a Saturday morning orientation for new board members followed by a working session of the full board beginning at noon.

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