At its January 27 meeting, the NOACA Board of Directors elected

	2017 NOACA Board President  Adam Friedrick

Medina County Commissioner Adam Friedrick president of the Board for calendar year 2017. Friedrick has been a NOACA Board member since 2014 and served as the Board's first vice president in 2016. Raised in Lakewood, Friedrick graduated from Miami University in Oxford and also served in the U.S. Marine Corps. "I look forward to serving as Board president in 2017," says Friedrick. "As representatives on the NOACA Board, members have a big responsibility to make decisions that are in the best interest of the taxpayers. To meet that objective we all need to show up. Show up prepared and on time."  

"Commissioner Friedrick is a successful businessman and county commissioner who has honed his leadership skills in the military. I look forward to working with him in his new role as NOACA Board president," said NOACA Executive Director Grace Gallucci. "There is no doubt that we will have a very disciplined and productive 2017 under his stewardship."

The NOACA Board also elected a slate of officers including vice presidents, secretary, treasurer, assistant secretaries and assistant treasurers. The newly elected NOACA officers, as well as a roster of Board members serving in 2017, are posted on the agency's website.

Does your community or agency have a transportation or environmental infrastructure project in development but need to find funding for implementation? NOACA will help you find potential funding sources through a new Funding Resource Guide. The guide is a user-friendly, searchable database of funding programs and can be accessed on NOACA's website under the Funding tab. You can search the database by project type, sponsor or funding source. The guide will be reviewed and updated annually.

 

Do you seek an engaging and knowledgeable speaker for your next meeting, workshop or luncheon? NOACA welcomes the opportunity to speak to your group or community on various transportation and environmental topics.   Through NOACA's Speakers Bureau, you can learn about how the agency creates a vision for the region's future transportation system, how you can become more engaged in transportation planning or how your community can benefit from NOACA's technical expertise and funding programs. Speakers can educate your group about Northeast Ohio's transportation alternatives and on the social and economic consequences of transportation decisions.

For more information about the Speaker's Bureau, contact NOACA's Communications Office at noaca@mpo.noaca.org or (216) 241-2414. To request a speaker, complete the request form.

If you'd like to know more about the transportation, air quality and water quality work that NOACA does, the services the agency provides, and the composition of the agency's Board of Directors, check out Navigate NOACA: A Resource for the Board of Directors. This guide can help you get better acquainted with NOACA's plans, programs and products and its Board and committee structure. Each page of the guide links to a companion Web page where additional details can be found about that page's topic .

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is now accepting Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) project applications. The purpose of SRTS is to encourage and enable students from kindergarten to grade 8 to walk or ride their bicycle to school. ODOT funds projects that promote a safe environment and allow children to walk or bike away from vehicular traffic. Proposed projects can be either for infrastructure (i.e., improved sidewalks, crosswalks, pavement markings) or non-infrastructure (education and encouragement programs). Apply through ODOT's website by March 3, 2017.