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WSTA Offices Closed, Intercity Transit Wins Award, Conference Information and Thank You, Sponsors, Transit Jobs, and News!
Vol. 4, Issue 32: August 15, 2019
WSTA Offices Closed

WSTA staff will not be in the office starting today, August 15 through Wednesday, August 21, as we will all be on site for the 43rd Public Transportation Conference, Vendor Expo, & State Roadeo.

We will have limited ability to check email request unless it's directly related to the event itself. Phone messages left between these dates also will not be addressed until later next week. 

Thank you for understanding - see many of you this weekend in SeaTac. 

For All Conference Information, CLICK HERE

Intercity Transit Receives
2019 Governor’s Smart Communities Award


By: ThustonTalk
 

Intercity Transitrecently received one of 13 Smart Communities Awards. The award, presented to the Intercity Transit Authority (the Authority) by Mark Barkley, Assistant Director with the Washington State Department of Commerce, on August 7, 2019, recognizes the agency’s and its many partners’ efforts to design and deliver transit services desired by the community.

Intercity Transit’s two-year ‘IT Road Trip’ was launched in response to anticipated budget shortfalls and potential service cuts. In response, the Authority sought input from constituents living within the Public Transportation Benefit Area to determine the type of transit system they wanted to see in the future. During the first phase of community engagement, over 10,000 individual comments were recorded.

WSTA Job of the Week:

Deputy Director, Public Transportation Division 
WSDOT

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Public Transportation Division is seeking an enthusiastic and proven leader driven to move WSDOT into an integrated and multimodal future. Does providing people access to community inspire you? Do you know how to make teams more effective than the sum of their parts? Do you want to work with a team of highly talented and motivated people?  This position provides the direction and leadership to ensure that the division operates in a focused and highly functional manner with the common goal of providing citizens of the state improved access to goods, services and community.
 
Through your skills and confidence, you would help facilitate in the development and adoption of Division goals and objectives, and evaluate the progress toward their achievement. This facilitation includes ensuring that the Divisions goals align with agency objectives, budget and compliance requirements, as well as making sure that staff are actively engaged, and respected internally and externally. If you are an experienced and visionary leader with the skills to inspire professionals to progress to the next level, you are encouraged to apply for this exceptional opportunity.


 
CLICK HERE

WSTA offers a comprehensive clearinghouse for transit jobs across the state.  Use our website to interactively locate an agency in the area you wish to work or scroll through the list agencies and jobs available.  

If you are a transit agency and have an opening - please use the submit button on the website.
 
Visit WSTA Committees web page, HERE, for information on each meeting listed below.

3rd Quarter Board Meeting
August 18 - SeaTac

Operations Committe 
August 19 - SeaTac

Vanpool Committee
August 19 - SeaTac

IS Committee
August 19 - SeaTac

2019 Washington State Public Transportation Conference, Vendor Expo, and State Roadeo
August 16-20
SeaTac, WA

Finance Officers Leadership Committee
September 25
Wenatchee, WA

 

Full 2019 Events Calendar
can be found
HERE

transit employees are encouraged to follow, engage and participate in the WSTA committee structure.  No need to be asked or nominated to join your counterparts around the state!

What Committee best fits you?  

Click HERE to find out! 


 
WSTA pays an annual membership to the Municipal Research and Services Center (MRSC), which allows our Transit Agency members access to their services.  Check out what is new with MRSC. 

Available for WSTA Transit Members: 
Ask MRSC - Ask MRSC Archives


 


Ask Transit
WSTA's partner tWashingtonton State Transit Insurance Pool (WSTIP) provides an "Ask Transit" tool which allows agency employees to ask a question and staff will work to research that question and respond back. 
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Click Here to Ask Transit

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