{"id":231,"date":"2007-05-16T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2007-05-16T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T21:13:00","slug":"dot-bill-passes-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/dot-bill-passes-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"dot bill passes Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/Rkt2bdVK2AI\/AAAAAAAAAMc\/PVGsLGn7CA0\/s1600-h\/Proceed-stopcaution.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;cursor:hand;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/Rkt2bdVK2AI\/AAAAAAAAAMc\/PVGsLGn7CA0\/s200\/Proceed-stopcaution.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>A compromize was reached today on the DOT reform bill:<br \/><strong>Executive Director<\/strong><br \/>-appointed by the Governor with advice &amp; consent of the Senate<br \/>-Serves at-will to the Governor<br \/><strong>Department of Transportation Board<\/strong><br \/>-7 (congressional &amp; 1 at large)<br \/>-Elected by congressional district legislative delegation on proportional voting<br \/>-hires chief highway engineer &amp; internal auditor<br \/>-all members must be from different counties<br \/>-creates STIP (state transportation improvement plan) with public input<br \/>-4 year staggered terms<br \/><strong>Joint Transportation Review Committee<\/strong><br \/>-Screen Board appointees &#8211; must state either qualified or unqualified within 30 days<br \/>-Annual review of activities of the Board and the Department<br \/>-Review Methodology of STIP<br \/><strong>Chief Highway Engineer<\/strong><br \/>-hired by the Department of Transportation Board<br \/>-may be removed for cause<br \/>-must sign off on expenditures $10 million or less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compromize was reached today on the DOT reform bill:Executive Director-appointed by the Governor with advice &amp; consent of the Senate-Serves at-will to the GovernorDepartment of Transportation Board-7 (congressional &amp; 1 at large)-Elected by congressional district legislative delegation on proportional voting-hires chief highway engineer &amp; internal auditor-all members must be from different counties-creates STIP (state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-3J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}