At its meeting on June 9, the COG Board of Directors authorized COG Chair and District of Columbia Councilmember Kwame Brown to appoint three additional representatives to a COG-Board of Trade task force that will review the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Agency's governance structure. The COG Board wanted current area officials to be included in the review so that members of the public and stakeholder groups would have points of contact about the process.
Today, Chair Brown appointed Prince George's County Council Vice Chair Andrea Harrison, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Penelope Gross, and himself to join the group.
In May, the COG Board voted to join the Greater Washington Board of Trade in an independent governance review of WMATA and authorized COG's Executive Director David Robertson to select volunteers to the task force. Mr. Robertson invited seven former elected and appointed officials to provide a public sector perspective to the task force.
The first meeting of the COG-BOT task force is Friday, June 11, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. For information on the task force, please contact COG Executive Director David Robertson at 202-962-3249 or drobertson@mwcog.org
Task Force Roster
Appointed by BOT
Michael Daniels
Senior Vice President
Science Application International Corporation
James Dyke
Partner
McGuireWoods LLP
Pat McGuire
President
Trinity Washington University
Tony Pierce
Managing Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauler & Feld LLLP
Manny Rouvelas
Partner
K&L Gates
Stu Solomon
Managing Director, Metro Washington Office
Accenture
Scott Wilfong
Chairman, President & CEO
Greater Washington/Maryland SuntTrust Bank
Jim Dinegar
President
Greater Washington Board of Trade
Task Force Co-Manager
Appointed by COG
Hon. Kwame Brown
Councilmember
District of Columbia
Chairman, COG Board of Directors
Ron Carlee
Director, Domestic Strategic Initiatives
International City/County Management Assoc.
County Manager
Arlington County
Hon. Penelope Gross
Vice Chair, Board of Supervisors
Fairfax County
Past Chairman, COG Board of Directors
Hon. Andrea Harrison
Council Vice Chair
Prince George's County
Vice Chairman, COG Board of Directors
JayEtta Hecker
Director of Transportation Advocacy
Bipartisan Policy Center
Former Director of Physical Infrastructure
U.S. General Accountability Office
Hon. Betty Ann Kane
Chairman
DC Public Services Commission
Former Councilmember
District of Columbia
Hon. John Mason
Former Mayor
City of Fairfax
Hon. Connie Morella
Ambassador in Residence
American University School of Public Affairs
Former Representative, 8th District, Maryland
U.S. House of Representatives
Bruce Romer
Vice President, Administration
Westat, Inc.
Former Chief Administrative Officer
Montgomery County
Hon. Peter Shapiro
Executive Director
Chesapeake Center for Public Leadership
Former Councilmember
Prince George's County
Hon. Anthony Williams
Executive Director
Corporate Executive Board
Former Mayor
District of Columbia
David Robertson
Executive Director
Metro. Wash. Council of Governments
Task Force Co-Manager