The APTA Nominating Committee has selected Kevin J. Holzendorf, current chair of APTA’s Transit Board Members Committee and immediate past chair of the Board of Directors for the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, as vice chair of APTA for 2021-2022. Jeffrey A. Nelson, general manager, Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District (MetroLINK), Moline, IL, continues as chair of APTA for 2021-2022.

 

David M. Stackrow Sr., board treasurer, Capital District Transportation Authority, Albany, NY, will continue to serve as immediate past chair. APTA members will vote on the 2021-2022 slate of nominees Nov. 6 during APTA’s 2021 TRANSform Conference & EXPO in Orlando.

 

The 2021 Nominating Committee nominated members-at-large for both the APTA Executive Committee and the APTA Board of Directors at a Sept. 16 meeting in Chicago. Nominated to three-year terms as members-at-large of the 25-member APTA Executive Committee are:

The committee also approved the following individuals to fill portfolio seats on the Executive Committee:

Nominations for three-year terms on the APTA Board of Directors are:

Transit system directors:

Business member directors:

 

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure advanced legislation this week to invest nearly $60 billion to make America’s infrastructure more sustainable, resilient and equitable, and to reduce carbon pollution from the transportation sector. Specifically, the committee’s title of the budget reconciliation bill, or Build Back Better Act, creates a new, innovative program to provide $10 billion for competitive grants for public transit access to affordable housing and to enhance mobility for low-income riders and residents of disadvantaged communities.

 

The bill also provides $10 billion to plan and construct high-speed rail and $150 million to better leverage innovative financing tools for high-speed rail projects.

 

The House Committee on Ways and Means continued its markup of the Build Back Better Act this week. The committee is considering several infrastructure financing and climate-change provisions that would benefit public transit and high-speed rail.

 

 

View APTA’s Sept. 10 Legislative Alert for more on the T&I Committee title of the bill. View the Ways and Means Committee’s Subtitle F (Infrastructure Finance) and Subtitle G (Green Energy) of the Build Back Better Act. View the committee’s section-by-section of the titles. View the Joint Committee on Taxation’s Description of Subtitle F (Infrastructure Financing) and Subtitle G (Green Energy).

 

 

 

 

FTA is awarding $140.4 million of American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds to the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). ARP funds are intended to help public transit agencies maintain service and jobs as communities continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

This funding is part of more than $30 billion for public transportation in the American Rescue Plan Act, which was signed into law by President Biden in March of this year.

 

“Public transportation has been a lifeline for communities and the American people throughout this pandemic,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “This funding from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan will help protect transit employees from layoffs, keep transit service running and ensure people can get where they need to go.”

 

“As our nation’s transit systems recover from COVID-19, the American Rescue Plan funds ensure that they continue to provide service to the many Americans who depend on transit to get to essential jobs, healthcare and vaccine appointments,” said FTA Administrator Nuria Fernandez.