June 2023 Meeting Highlights

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/