Partners Project on Public-Private Partnerships (P3s/PPPs)
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Mission Statement and Summary
- extract from the Project's Concept Paper
To link legislators, legislative staff, and interested private sector entities to analyze legislators’ needs and to develop nonpartisan, balanced, and useful materials to aid legislators’ decision-making, both in their respective states and as they consider state-federal relationships. The P3s Partners Project will largely focus on publicly held surface transportation systems – namely roadways – but may incorporate linked water-based systems or intermodal installations as Project time and resources permit.
The initial 18-month Project (2008-2010) was designed to:
- Develop and offer educational sessions;
- Develop and provide a Legislative P3 Toolkit, including, but not limited to, items legislators and staff can use to:
- Evaluate the merits of P3s when considering implementing legislation,
- Assist state transportation officials as they evaluate tenders and bids,
- Understand P3 contracts,
- Oversee the operation and performance of P3s, and
- Respond to public and press inquiries about P3s;
- Develop greater NCSL expertise on P3s, offer episodic technical assistance upon request from legislators and staff, and increase capacity to respond to information requests; and
- Inform the NCSL Transportation Committee’s deliberation of P3s in the context of state-federal relations.
NCSL PPP Partners Project: Phase II
New and renewing sponsors are invited to join and support Phase II of the ongoing work led by the NCSL Working Group on Transportation Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). This group worked for 18 months (2008-2010) to formulate guiding principles for state legislatures to use when considering the application of PPPs for the development of transportation infrastructure. The report containing these principles was released in December 2010, and will help address the well-documented gap in expertise among elected officials about PPPs in the United States.
The next step is a focused educational and awareness effort. Following the release of the PPP Principles Toolkit in December 2010, NCSL has embarked upon a 12-month, Phase II of the project to accomplish the following tasks:
- Widely disseminate the PPP Toolkit and findings;
- Analyze and categorize PPP enabling statutes for transportation;
- Upon invitation, provide technical assistance to individual state legislative entities; and
- Continue NCSL PPP Working Group meetings and host educational sessions on PPPs at NCSL meetings.
In addition, during Phase II, NCSL has produced a two-page LegisBrief that summarizes some of the findings from the PPP Toolkit.
For more information, see this description of the Partnership Opportunity on Public-Private Partnerships and this Invitation to Join Phase II.
Members of the Steering Committee
(Last Updated March 29, 2011)
Officers
Co-Chair: Representative Terri Austin, Indiana
Co-Chair: Representative Linda Harper-Brown, Texas
Staff Chair: Fred Lewis, West Virginia House Finance Committee
Legislators
Senator Steven Baddour, Massachusetts
Senator Scott Dibble, Minnesota
Representative Steve Farley, Arizona
Senator Mary Margaret Haugen, Washington
Representative Sherman Packard, New Hampshire
Senator Bruce Starr, Oregon
Legislative Staff
Eric Bugaile, Pennsylvania House Transportation Committee
Kara Collins-Gomez, Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA)
Jessica Digiambattista, California Legislative Analyst's Office
Sarah Freeman, Indiana Legislative Services Agency
Jennifer Jones, Texas Sunset Advisory Commission
Kate Wade, Wisconsin Audit Bureau
Foundation
NCSL Foundation for State Legislatures - Caroline Carlson, Director of Development
Private Sector Partners (Phase I, 2008-2010)
AAA - Justin McNaull, Director of State Relations and Pete Nonis, Manager of Congressional Relations
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) - Dennis Houlihan, Policy Analyst
American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) - Hank Webster, Managing Director - Public-Private Ventures Division and Bill Toohey, Senior Vice President
American Trucking Associations (ATA) - Ted Scott, Director of Special Projects and John Lynch, Vice President, Federation Relations
Americans for Transportation Mobility Coalition (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) - Janet F. Kavinoky, Director, Transportation Infrastructure
Macquarie Capital - Geoffrey Segal, Vice President, Government Relations
Reason Foundation - Leonard Gilroy, Director of Government Reform
Transurban - Jennifer Aument, Kristie Helmick and Bill Berry, Public Affairs
Private Sector Partners (Phase II, 2010-2011)
AAA - Justin McNaull, Director of State Relations and Pete Nonis, Manager of Congressional Relations
AECOM - Samara Barend, Vice President and Director for Public-Private Partnerships
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) - Dennis Houlihan, Policy Analyst
American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) - Hank Webster, Managing Director, Public-Private Partnerships Division and Bill Toohey, Executive Vice President and COO
American Trucking Associations (ATA) - Ted Scott, Director, Engineering Department and John Lynch, Vice President, Federation Relations
Cintra US - Patrick Rhode, Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Design-Build Institute of America - Richard Thomas, Vice President, Advocacy and External Affairs
Dorsey and Whitney, LLP - Jay Lindgren, Partner
The Lane Construction Corporation - John Irvine, Director of Communications
Transurban - Jennifer Aument, Director of Public Affairs
U.S. Chamber of Commerce - Janet F. Kavinoky, Director, Transportation Infrastructure
Technical Resource
Jerry Zhao, University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
Reports and Meeting Summaries
Meeting Summary & Presentations – Project Meeting at the 2011 NCSL Spring Forum – April 14, 2011
NCSL LegisBrief – Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation – March 2011
Final Report – Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation: A Toolkit for Legislators – Released December 9, 2010
Meeting Summary – Project Meeting at the 2010 NCSL Fall Forum – December 9, 2010
Meeting Summary – Project Meeting at the 2010 NCSL Spring Forum – April 8, 2010
Meeting Summary & Presentations – “The Promise and Risks of Public-Private Partnerships” – Invitational Government-to-Government Summit on PPPs (co-sponsored by UK Trade & Investment) – March 26, 2010
Meeting Summary & Presentations – Project Meeting at the 2009 NCSL Fall Forum – December 11, 2009
Meeting Summary & Presentations – Project Educational Session at the 2009 NCSL Legislative Summit – July 20, 2009
Meeting Summary & Presentations – Project Pre-conference at the 2009 NCSL Spring Forum – April 22-23, 2009
Meeting Summary – Project Meeting at the 2008 NCSL Fall Forum – December 11, 2008
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Upcoming Meetings (subject to change)
N/A: Thank you to the Partners Project for your wonderful work from 2008 to 2011!
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Past Meetings
November/December 2011 – NCSL Fall Forum, Tampa, Florida – P3s Partners Project Business Meeting and educational session.
August 2011 – NCSL Legislative Summit, San Antonio, Texas – P3s Partners Project Business Meeting and educational session.
April 2011 – NCSL Spring Forum, Washington, D.C. – P3s Partners Project Business Meeting and educational session.
December 2010 – NCSL Fall Forum and Transportation Leaders Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona – final release of toolkit report, P3s Partners Project Business Meeting, educational session, and roundtable discussion of Phase II with Transportation Committee.
July 2010 – NCSL Legislative Summit, Louisville, Kentucky – P3s Partners Project Business Meeting, final review of draft report, and final update/report to Transportation Committee.
April 2010 – NCSL Spring Forum, Washington, D.C. – P3s Partners Project Business Meeting, review of draft report, and update/report to Transportation Committee.
March 2010 – “The Promise and Risks of Public-Private Partnerships” – Invitational Government-to-Government Summit on PPPs (co-sponsored by UK Trade & Investment).
December 2009 – NCSL Fall Forum, San Diego, California – P3s Partners Project Business Meeting, educational session, first review of draft report, and update/report to Transportation Committee.
July 2009 – NCSL Legislative Summit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – P3s Partners Project Business Meeting, educational session, and update/report to Transportation Committee and NCSL Foundation Board.
April 2009 – NCSL Spring Forum, Washington, D.C. – P3s Partners Project Business Meeting, educational session, and update/report to Transportation Committee.
December 2008 – NCSL Fall Forum, Atlanta, Georgia – P3s Partners Project Business Meeting, educational session, and update/report to Transportation Committee.
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