May 27, 2016
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Collaboration Initiative Co-Chairs Report Progress

The APTA Task Force on Member Collaboration held its fourth listening session at the Bus & Paratransit Conference to report on its progress. A fifth and final session is scheduled during the Rail Conference in Phoenix, June 19-22.

The task force, the initiative of APTA Chair Valarie J. McCall, has been looking for ways to enhance internal partnerships and collaboration among the three key membership constituencies (public transit agency CEOs, business members and transit board members), as well as between APTA and important external associations with shared policy interests.Co-chairs Patrick Scully, chair of the Business Member Board of Governors; Ann August, former member of the Bus and Paratransit CEOs and Mid-Size Operations committees; and David Stackrow, chair of the Transit Board Members Committee, summarized the task force’s work to date and invited comments and questions from the audience.

The session focused on member alignment, APTA strategic plan alignment, staff support for member groups, staff support for APTA leadership groups, APTA member services and association culture and external collaboration.

Among the completed tasks cited were incorporation of APTA’s strategic plan into committee work, customer service training for APTA staff, greater cross-pollination of ideas across the three major categories of members, improved coordination among committee chairs and the APTA leadership team, and APTA participation at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this summer.

“We are going to be a better organization as a result of this task force,” said Richard White, APTA acting president & CEO, while APTA Vice Chair Doran Barnes said, “I intend to support, embrace and encourage a continuation of this group’s vision and take it to the next chapter.”

A final report and set of recommendations will be submitted to the APTA Board of Directors in mid-June; many of the initiatives that were launched by the task force will continue for the next four years. “It’s a good roadmap for APTA’s future,” McCall said.

Reporting on the progress of the Task Force on Member Collaboration are, from left, APTA Chair Valarie J. McCall and the three task force co-chairs: David Stackrow, chair, Transit Board Members Committee; Ann August, former member, Bus and Paratransit CEOs and Mid-Size Operations committees; and Patrick Scully, chair, Business Member Board of Governors.

 
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