U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters will keynote a line-up of elected officials, transportation policy makers, and other experts on December 3.
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The 2008 Texas Lyceum Public Conference aims to move beyond the traditional panel discussions and into active engagement of the audience to establish public policy priorities for transportation infrastructure across the state. During this interactive one-day public conference, attendees will hear from four diverse panels and, after each one, participate in an interactive facilitation exercise. At the conclusion of the conference, the most urgent priorities as established by these four sessions will be assimilated into the Journal, the Lyceum’s annual publication. The results of this conference will include not just an audience with a better understanding of the issues, but an objective assessment of the priorities identified by the diverse body present at the Texas Lyceum’s Public Conference.
As a non-partisan forum, the Texas Lyceum is dedicated to leadership development and exploring consensus approaches to important issues that affect the future of Texas. Our 2008 Public Conference is an opportunity for the Lyceum Directors, its alumni and the public to interact with policy makers, policy advocates and each other and actively engage in the discussion. This conference will employ innovative facilitation techniques, led by Margaret Vaughan Robinson, to extract from the audience actionable priorities for policy makers to consider in their deliberations.
The Conference proceedings will be published, along with submissions from the speakers, in the 2008 Lyceum Journal, which receives wide distribution among policy makers and the media. Additionally, results from the 2008 Texas Lyceum Poll which dedicated approximately one third of its survey questions to public attitudes to policy priorities involving transportation will also be included in the Lyceum Journal.
The Public Conference Advisory Board includes:
Paul Hobby, Chairman of the Public Conference Advisory Board
Bill White, Houston Mayor
Fred Underwood, TxDOT Commissioner
Ed Emmett, Harris County Judge
John Carona, Texas Senator and Transportation Committee Chairman
Mark Ellis, Gulf Coast Freight Rail District Chairman
Robert Eckels, Former Harris County Judge
Bruce Laboon, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
Allan Rutter, Cambridge Systematics
Eddie Lucio, Texas Senator
Kirk Watson, Texas Senator
Larry Phillips, State Representative and Transportation Committee Chair
Sylvia Borunda Firth, City of El Paso
Bill King, Bracewell & Giuliani
Dr. Carol Lewis, Texas Southern University
J. D. Salinas, Hidalgo County Judge
Susan Stasny, Bee County Commissioner
Pam Stuart, Bee County Chamber of Commerce
Carlos Uresti, State Senator
Anne Wynne, Ikard Wynne LLP
Gerry Pate, Pate Transportation Partners
George Dehan, Camp Allen
Robert Nichols, State Senator
Juan Hinojosa, State Senator
Joe B. Allen, Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP
Ruben Bonilla, Jr., Bonilla & Chapa
Frank Wilson, President/CEO of METRO
Thank you to the following sponsors: Port of Houston Authority; Dannenbaum Engineering; Cameron Management; Baker Botts LLP; IBC-Laredo; Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP; Austin Bank; USAA; CFF Capital Management; Deloitte Services LP; Houston Endowment; The Methodist Hospital; Chase Bank; Frito Lay North America; Tuggey Rosenthal Pauerstein Sandoloski Agather LLP; Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell; Continental Airlines; Goldman Sachs; Winstead; Fluor Corporation; Zachry; Altria; Andrews Kurth; SAIC; Allen Boone Humphries Robinson; Episcopal Diocese of Texas; American Airlines; PBS&J; Estrada Hinojosa; Pate Transportation Partners; ROBOT Creative; Denim Group
Transportation Infrastructure: Establishing Public Policy Priorities will be held on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at the Reliant Center in Houston.
Registration for the conference is $175. No refunds will be given after November 19, 2008.