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DALLAS COUNTY ADOPTED A TAX RATE THAT WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR'S TAX RATE.

THE TAX RATE WILL EFFECTIVELY BE RAISED BY 22.02 PERCENT AND WILL RAISE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS ON A $100,000 HOME BY APPROXIMATELY $29.08.

2012 Infrastructure Forum

2012 Infrastructure Forum

Morning Sessions

7:45 am to 8:00 am

  • Alberta Blair - Dallas County Public Works - Introduction - Leveraging Partnerships with Collaborative Project Delivery

8:00 am to 9:30 am

  • Tim McKay – DART - Transit Partnership Overview
  • Jeff Rice – NCTCOG - Leveraging Partnerships
  • Bill Hale – TxDOT Dallas - Methods and Innovative Financing Tools for Delivering Major Projects in a Metro Region
  • Jim Cline – DCTA - Commuter Rail Construction and Ops - The A-Train Partnership
  • Mark Bouma - NTTA - Financial Partnering to Deliver the Chisholm Trail Parkway
  • Peggy Grubbs - USACE Fort Worth - Emerging Partnership Mechanisms

9:45 am to 10:30 am

  • Rick Galceran – City of Dallas - Partnership Opportunities in Successful Bond Program Planning
  • Alberta Blair – Dallas County - Effective Partnering Through the MCIP
  • Cesar Baptista - Dallas Water Utilities - Water Conservation Efforts
  • David Marshal - Tarrant Regional Water District - Status on Creating the North Texas Urban Water Institute with the UT Arlington

Lunchtime Session

  • Michael Morris – NCTCOG - Leveraging Partnerships with Collaborative Delivery

Afternoon Sessions

Boonesville -- Breakout 1

  • Gregory Hooten - AECOM - Impact of Zebra Mussels on Integrated Pipeline project
  • Jerry Cotter - USACE - USACE and Water Resources
  • Lesley Brooks - iSWM - Partnering with iSWM to Solve Stormwater Issues

Boonesville -- Breakout 2

  • Enrique Guillen - NTTA - Chisholm Trail Parkway partnerships in major Project Delivery
  • Mo Bur and Duane Milligan - TxDOT Dallas - Horseshoe Trail

Spindletop -- Breakout 3

  • Chiamin Korngiebel - City of Dallas - Putting Vision into Action
  • Daniel Vedral - City of Irving - Irvings Vision and DART Orange Line
  • David Lott - TxDOT Dallas - Loop 12-State HWY 114 Interchange
  • Perfecto Solis - DFW and DART - Orange Line - A Lesson in Inter-Agency Coordination