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Impacts to California Transportation Finance

October 23 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am PDT

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Impacts to California Transportation Finance

The COVID-19 crisis has significantly reduced transportation revenues from the motor vehicle fuel tax, toll bridges and roads, transit fares, regulatory surcharges on rental cars, taxis, and TNCs, and perhaps most importantly, general sales taxes. How large are these effects and when can we expect recovery? How does the crisis impact opportunities to invest in equity programs and projects? Should California accelerate transportation infrastructure construction through a bond financing program?

Speaking:

Director and Professor

Asha Weinstein Agrawal
Executive Director

Chanell Fletcher
Executive Director

Therese McMillan
Chairwoman

Hilary Norton

Director and Professor

Asha Weinstein Agrawal

Asha Weinstein Agrawal is Director of MTI’s National Transportation Finance Center at San José State University, and also a Professor in the Urban and Regional Planning Department at San José State. Dr. Agrawal has been involved in transportation finance for over ten years and has published in Transport Policy and Journal of Planning Education and Research, while also co-authoring research at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, Dr. Agrawal has interests in pedestrian planning and transportation history, publishing research for MTI, URISA Journal, and Transport History.

Executive Director

Chanell Fletcher

As the Executive Director of ClimatePlan, Chanell oversees network partners and staff efforts’ on state and regional policy to help California communities become more healthy, equitable, and sustainable. Chanell has over 10 years of experience working on policy issues related to climate change, land use, and transportation. Chanell sits on the boards of the Planning and Conservation League and California Walks. Previously, as the organization’s Associate Director, Chanell led ClimatePlan’s policy campaigns. Prior to that, as Senior California Policy Manager for the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, Chanell worked with state agencies and the state legislature to support safe walking and bicycling for children and families, especially in lower-income communities throughout California. Chanell began her career as an intern in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, analyzing the federal transportation bill, MAP-21, connecting it to states’ performance and funding needs. Chanell received her Master’s degree in Public Administration from San Francisco State University and studied history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Executive Director

Therese McMillan

Therese W. McMillan has served since March 2019 as MTC’s Executive Director and as the top executive for the Association of Bay Area Governments. Ms. McMillan, who received her Bachelor of Science degree from U.C. Davis in 1981, a master’s degree in Civil Engineering Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1983, and a master’s in City and Regional Planning from U.C. Berkeley in 1984, previously worked for 25 years at MTC, including more than eight years as MTC’s deputy executive director for Policy before her 2009 appointment by then-President Barack Obama to serve as deputy administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, which was followed by service from 2014 to 2016 as Acting FTA administrator before serving from April 2016 to February 2019 as Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s chief planning officer.

Chairwoman

Hilary Norton

Hilary Norton is the founding Executive Director of Fixing Angelenos Stuck in Traffic (FAST), who’s main initiatives include the creation of a Transportation Management Organization (TMO) for Downtown LA, developing mobility hubs, improving arterials, Metro infrastructure construction, and Metro Expresslanes implementation through LA County. Norton served as 2018 chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Business Federation (BizFed), and is on the Board of Directors of the Central City Association. She co-chairs the Transportation Committees for BizFed, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and the Los Angeles Business Council. Norton also served as the Business Representative on LA County Metro’s Policy Advisory Committee and was a member of the Advisory Boards for Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation and Metro’s Next Gen Bus Study. She is a member of SCAG’s GLUE Council and its TDM Working Group. In 2019, CA Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Norton as a commissioner to the California Transportation Commission.

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