The truth is neither out there nor in our stars. But, in ourselves.

2015

Winter

Conference

February 4-6

Crowne Plaza Hotel OKC

Finding transit answers within systems, state boundaries.

“The truth is neither ‘out there’ nor in our stars. But, in ourselves.”

A b o u t t h e 2 01 5 c o n f e r e n c e t h e m e

Many will recognize a play on words from Shakespeare ‘s Julius Caesar_{: “"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,}

But in ourselves.” This is Cassius exhorting Brutus to find resiliency and do what need be done.

During a March 9, 1954, ‘See it Now’ _{program, Edward R. Murrow - the patron saint of broadcast news - employed}

these lines as his weapons to help end the ‘red scare’ hysteria. In so doing, he etched, embedded the lines in American cultural history.

We took poetic license with Shakespeare a la Morrow to delineate the state of OTA and Oklahoma public transit in 2015.

‘Truth’ and ‘stars’ are employed allegorically. ‘OTA members have only to look within themselves, their transit

systems, their own industriousness and the state borders to find future answers – the ‘truth’. Not ‘out there’ as X Files warned us or the ‘stars’.

The 2015 theme also takes a page and play on words from the current science fiction film, ‘Interstellar’ _{where those}

re-maining among disappearing resources engage their own enterprise to survive against the odds. Scissor-tailing the quote Murrow style with the sci-fi plot defines Oklahoma public transit:

• Dealing with a draconian MAP-21 federal transportation law which

• Entering a third year with almost invisible federal capital dollars via MAP-21. • Congress extending MAP-21

• Eighth consecutive year without a state funding increase. • Transit systems strapped for drivers, vehicles

In 2014, OTA members too the first steps: finding a grantwriting partner and submitting with two grant applications The FTA Ladders of Opportunity Initiative funding was fully funded. Following, the all-volunteer CityRide Circuit in Bar-tlesville made Oklahoma transit history with a successful, crowdfunding initiative. Thus, more doors of opportunity opened for OTA with this new age platform.

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• Dana Shuler Drummond

Owner

Sharpshooter Communications, Tulsa

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Federal Transit Administration Fort Worth, Texas

Blending ADA & Customer Service Blending ADA & Customer ServiceBlending ADA & Customer Service Blending ADA & Customer Service

• Leon Irving

Safety Training Analyst EMBARK

WELLS LAW FIRM

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW

Ask an Attorney Ask an Attorney Ask an Attorney Ask an Attorney

• William Wells

Principal, Wells Law Firm Oklahoma City

Black Belt

Performance

Transit Messaging: Transit Messaging:Transit Messaging: Transit Messaging:

• Terri Angier

Chief, Media &Public Information

Oklahoma Department of Transportation When You’re the Teacher & Trainer When You’re the Teacher & Trainer When You’re the Teacher & Trainer When You’re the Teacher & Trainer

• Kyle Eastham

Black Belt Performance Stillwater Signature Session

Agenda

Tentative: topics may switch places; Watch OTA newswire for announcements.

Day One Wednesday, Feb. 5

Morning: visits to capitol & Legislature More info to come

Transit News & Notices (*)

ODOT Transit Programs - open to all registrants

• Ask an Attorney:

HR to Employment Law & Everything in-Between

• Blending ADA & Customer Service Redux

(ADA updates)

Break: 2:45 to 3:00

4:10 to 5:00 - The Oklahoma Electorate

State Room

Speaker: Pat McFerron CMA Associates

OTA Legislative Reception

State Room 5:00 to 7:00

Dinner on your own

Day Two Thursday, Feb. 5

8:00 - Opening Session

• Transit Messaging

• OTI How-to Session:

When you’re the teacher & trainer

Break: 10:00 to 10:15

11:30—Luncheon Speaker TBA

Day Two Thursday, Feb. 5 (con’t)

• Grants & Excavating Meaningful Data

• Ask an Attorney:

HR to Employment Law & Everything in-Between

• Transit Messaging

Break: 1:30 to 1:40

• OTI How-to Session:

When you’re the teacher & trainer

• Blending ADA & Customer Service Redux

(ADA updates)

• Grants & Excavating Meaningful Data

Break: 3:30 to 3:40

TrAMS - successor to TEAM

A primer from Federal Transit Administration

4:30 - OTA Membership Meeting

6:00— Reception 7:00— Banquet

Keynote Speaker: TBA

Day Three Friday, Feb. 6

8:30 to 9:30 - Observations From Two Score Plus Years in Transit

• Robert Patrick / Region VI Administrator Federal Transit Administration

9:45 to 10:45—Crowdfunding Transit Breakthrough in Bartlesville

• Nancy Warring, Grants Administrator City of Bartlesville

• M’Liss Jenks, Volunteer

Transit Coalition of Washington County 11:00 to noon: Speaker TBA

Concurrent Sessions I 2:00 to 4:00 General Session 4:10 to 5:00 In-Depth Sessions 8:40 to 11:05 Concurrent Sessions II 1:00 to 2:30

Concurrent Sessions III 2:45 to 4:00

General Session 4:00 to 4:30

17th Annual Awards for

Excel-Signature Sessions 8:30 to Noon

Registration

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Postal registration: Oklahoma Transit Association

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LODGING

Crown Plaza Hotel

405.848.4811 / OTA Rate: $92.00 Deadline: January 21, 2015