One member of APWA (who is a public agency or consulting firm employee and who is certified as a Diplomate of AAEE) is appointed by the APWA president to this Board of Directors.

The APWA president appoints a member of the association to help judge these American Academy of Environmental Engineers’ Awards.

One member of APWA is appointed by the president and by virtue of that appointment also serves as Chair of APWA Winter Maintenance Sub-committee (which is appointed by the Transportation Committee) to this American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials committee.

Member of APWA is appointed by the APWA president to serve as an APWA Observer on the committee and provide input from APWA’s perspective on the standard contract documents that are then published and sold by several organizations, including APWA. The APWA Observer of this committee needs to come from the public sector.

The committee reviews and is responsible for updating the Management Practices Manual used in the public works agency self-assessment process.

The APWA president appoints three members of the association to this committee to revise this manual and three alternates for three-year terms. Both members and alternates to this committee must agree to attend all meetings. The Federal Highway Administration publishes the MUTCD. The APWA representatives alone bring the municipal point of view to the committee; the other member organizations tend to be more highway oriented.

The purpose of this coalition is to improve management and operations of the national transportation system through projects undertaken by seven action teams. Members represent the collective interests of stakeholders at state, local and regional levels and have a wide range of experience in operations, planning, and public safety.

The purpose of this Consortium is to maintain a presence with the national committee in an effort to assure that public works concerns regarding homeland security issues are addressed. The Consortium’s mission is to provide a forum of key national organizations through effective collaboration, coordination and leveraging that positively influences national policies, strategies, practices and guidelines to preserve the public safety and security of the nation.