National Security Council and the Director of National Intelligence offer positive
examples.
I hope that Biden continues CCAM - the Coordinating Council on Access & Mobility.
They’ve produced a funding braiding guide to show which non-DoT funding sources can be
used to match DoT grants. They are 1/3rd through describing the 120 federal programs
subsidizing rides. If supplied with Congressional teeth, they can offer a model to
standardize the reporting structure for these programs. Common objective is to provide
more rides within budgetary resources.
Sent from Steve Yaffe’s iPhone
On Nov 25, 2020, at 10:17 PM, Marc Brenman
<mbrenman001(a)comcast.net> wrote:
I've worked on a number of federal interagency task forces and Presidential
commissions, and they're pretty generally worthless. One sits in interminable meetings
wondering A) Why am I here? B) What's come out of this meeting? and C) What will this
commission/task force accomplish?
Marc Brenman
Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities
White House Commission on Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders
Interagency Task Force on Education of Native Americans
Interagency Task Force on Development of a Human Services Vehicle
Department of Justice/Interagency Task Force on Limited English Proficiency
EPA/Interagency Task Force on Environmental Justice
Post 9/11 Tiger Team to set up the Transportation Security Administration (this one
actually accomplished something)
Interagency Task Force on Holocaust Remembrance (this one managed to put on one very good
event a year)
Etc.
> On 11/25/2020 6:38 PM Steve Yaffe <yaffe(a)ymobility.info> wrote:
>
> Climate Change is an infrastructure issue requiring cross-agency coordination.
Infrastructure includes health facilities, roads, and utilities - especially water. While
John Kerry will focus on international aspects of health, the rumor is that a domestic
counterpart will also be appointed at the cabinet level. Such an appointment is very
necessary, to lead an interdepartmental council focused on the broader aspects of climate
change to infrastructure.
>
> Steve Yaffe
> Yaffe Mobility Consulting LLC
> 803-398-9100
>
www.YMobility.info
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> From: Marc Brenman <mbrenman001(a)comcast.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 2:21 PM
> To: TRB Health and Transportation <trbhealth(a)mailman.chrispy.net>et>; Kelly
Rodgers <kelly(a)thinkstreetsmart.org>
> Subject: [TRBHealth] Re: National Institute of Climate Change and Health
> Interesting points, but isn't a great deal of money already being spent on
studying these issues, by advocacy groups, think tanks, universities, governments, and
individuals? Plus, one would think that Biden appointing John Kerry to be climate change
ambassador on the National Security Council would help draw attention and resources to the
issues.
> Marc Brenman
> mbrenman001(a)comcast.net
> Author of Planning as if People Matter: Governing for Social Equity, with Tom
Sanchez, Island Press
>
>>> On 11/25/2020 7:26 AM Kelly Rodgers <kelly(a)thinkstreetsmart.org>
wrote:
>>
>>
>> FYI, opinion penned by Howard Frumkin and Richard Jackson
>>
>>
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-a-national-institute-of-…
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>> Kelly Rodgers
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http://welcome.thinkstreetsmart.org/)
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