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5-6-05
Thanks
for making a difference in Idaho's transportation
system
As Public Employee
Recognition Week concludes, I want to
take the opportunity to emphasize a
common theme we’ve enjoyed this
week – the investment each of
you make in the transportation system,
your professions and your colleagues.
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ITD
employees at Headquarters enjoyed a week of special
activities,
including rootbeer floats prepared by members
of executive management.
Thanks
for extraordinary commitment
Fellow
State Employees:
I am sending my best wishes to you for Public
Service Employees Recognition Week and for State
Employee Recognition Day, May 4th, 2004. It is
important for all Idaho citizens to recognize
the work each of you performs on a daily basis
to keep our great state working.
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Detour
sign posted on road to retirement
There’s
nothing like a full plate of projects and the promise
of re-engineering transportation throughout Idaho
to provide motivation. Steve Hutchinson, recently
appointed ITD's Chief Engineer, has been intimately
involved in the program planning of the governor’s
Connecting Idaho initiative. He and the Division
of Highways will be responsible for turning new
funding options (GARVEE bonding authority) into
additional lane miles, interchanges and bridges.
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Open
insurance enrollment |
ITD
employees must re-enroll for the Flexible Spending
Account Program for the new plan year. Please read
the open enrollment brochure, posted on the state
insurance office’s Web site, for valuable information.
The open enrollment brochure is available online at:
http://www2.state.id.us/adm/insurance/what's_new.htm
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ITD
brings home eight Idaho Press Club awards
ITD
claimed four first-place awards and an equal number
of third places in the Public Relations division
of the annual Idaho Press Club annual awards last
week. The 2004 awards presentation Saturday (April
30) included a capacity crowd of print and electronic
media and public relations representatives at the
Owyhee Plaza in Boise.
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Transportation
forum outlines long-term needs
More than 80
participants and observers recently studied
at Idaho’s transportation needs
during the third meeting of the Forum
on Transportation Investment (FTI), an
all-day session at the Red Lion Hotel
in Pocatello.
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Public
involvement process wins AAMVA award
Successful
public involvement is based on receiving
as well as giving information. That philosophy
has been the guiding principle of the
award-winning public involvement campaign
for the U.S. 95 Thorncreek to Moscow project
in District 2. The project team for the
controversial project is providing a wide
range of opportunities for public input.
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Mineta
warns against changes to federal bill
“There is a dark cloud
looming that will needlessly delay many important
highway and transportation projects around the country
and force consumers to pay more at the pump at exactly
the worst possible time,” U.S. Department of
Transportation Director Norman Y. Mineta said Thursday
(May 5).
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