8/14/2020

Safety Corner
Helmets to Headsets: Boise State athletic teams go head-to-head in virtual competition
If you can figure out this sentence, you may be younger than a millennial: “Covid-19 restrictions prompt Learfield IMG to use Twitch to pit BSU athletes against each other as IRL competition halts.” If you’re like me and need a bit more explanation, I’ve got you.   
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Environmental
Focus on relationship with Native American tribes helps projects get planned and improvements completed faster
More extensive collaboration between ITD Environmental staff and the state’s Native American tribes is paying significant dividends by creating timely transportation projects that serve the communities where the tribes reside, as well as the regions overall.
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ITD In Motion (VIDEO)
Latest ITD In Motion features safety reminder from D4's Schoolcraft, mining Idaho crash data, and I-84 bridge slide
ITD's own Justin Schoolcraft recounts his motorcycle crash and the long road to recovery, plus new crash dashboards allow users to create custom searches of ITD’s crash data, and crews have completed the time-saving process of sliding two new bridges on I-84 into place — all in the latest ITD In Motion video.
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Outreach
Map sticker alerts out-of-state drivers to safety law protecting ITD workers
Two of the department's primary goals - safety and mobility - were combined together under “safe mobility” in an innovation with the highway maps distributed to out-of-state drivers to alert them to a new law giving protections to ITD workers.
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Division of Aeronautics
Innovation for funding small airports could generate big results
An innovation for standardizing the funding approach for small airports throughout Idaho not only streamlines the process, allowing needed repairs to be undertaken more quickly, but also should save ITD, and taxpayers, about $53,000 over the next five years of the program.
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Leadership
Passing of the Gavel at WASHTO meeting takes on a new look in the virtual world
The time-honored tradition of the “passing of the gavel” from the person who has served as the WASHTO president for the last year to the incoming president had a new look this year with the annual meeting’s virtual format.
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Training
Online Technology Bootcamp provides instruction for employees during pandemic
Fulfilling the Transportation Tech Operator (TTO) Step 1 process requires completing the 2-day Technology Boot Camp computer course. During the pandemic, however, assembling a traditional hands-on, in-person class was simply not possible. So ITD’s Training & Development people went to work to find a solution.
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Innovation
Employee Information Site plays important role during pandemic
When the “stay-at-home” order was first issued by Gov. Little back in March, employees were understandably confused and worried about what was happening with their jobs and the workplace they’d called home, many of them for decades. Information was coming at them fast and furious from many different sources. Not all of it was accurate or timely. To bridge that information gap, the Office of Communication went into high gear.
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Highway Safety
Idaho Crash Data tells "the story of our roads"
When we think of highway safety, we might think of a campaign of public safety announcements encouraging people to buckle up. We might think of the police getting drunk drivers off the roads. Or it could be a project to improve safety for kids walking to the neighborhood school. The common theme through all of these safety activities is compelling data. 
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Idaho Transportation Board
Department performance, District 2 highlights and utility management to highlight August 20 transportation board meeting
Annual performance measures, District 2 highlights and management of utilities will highlight the August 20 meeting of the Idaho Transportation Board.The board will meet remotely on August 20. The meeting will start at 8:30 a.m.
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Career Development
ITD Jobs
The current list of job openings may help inform employees of the career choices available to them that make ITD a great place to work. It also may assist in external recruitment when looking for the best candidates.
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DMV
DMV's COVID-caused backlog reduced by increased use of online services
As COVID-19 continues to impact lives in Idaho, the DMV is one of many divisions at the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) adjusting the way it operates. For several months now, the DMV has turned to its online services to help keep crowd sizes down at county offices. Since March the backlog has been cut in half.
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Access
ITD meets public and employee needs by broadcasting transportation board meetings via WebEx during pandemic
When the pandemic hit hard in March and almost all of ITD began working from home over the next several months, the department still had an obligation under Open Meeting Law to make Idaho Transportation Board meetings accessible to the public. ITD also needed to do so for employees and presenters to the board who could no longer just pop into an in-person board meeting. WebEx was the solution.
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