MINUTES – June 27, 2014 meeting
Iowa Infrastructure Report Card committee – Iowa Section ASCE

Note: Meeting held at Iowa State Assoc. of Counties offices, West Des Moines, IA
Called to order by Chair Steve De Vries at 10:00 AM

Attendees:

Name / email / Organization
Steve De Vries, P.E. / / Iowa County Engineers Assoc. Service Bureau, West Des Moines
Brittney Kohler / / ASCE National
Dave Mulholland, P.E. / / Iowa DOT – Ames
Mark Crawford, P.E. / / CGA Consultants, Marshalltown
Gary Reed, P.E. / / Civil Design Advantage, Grimes
Kari Sebern, P.E. / / Sebern Structural Services, Panora
Aaron Moniza, P.E. / / Foth, Johnston
Mike Vander Wert, P.E. / / Calhoun – Burns Associates

Report Card participants / Section Officers not present

Name / email / Organization
Brian Boelk, P.E. / / HBK Engineering
Mike Shimkus, P.E. / / Curry-Wille Assoc., Ames
Riley Quinn, P.E. / / Shive-Hattery Assoc., West Des Moines
David Claman, P.E. / / Iowa DOT, Ames
Sarah Okerlund / / City of Ankeny
Corey Mellies / / Iowa APWA representative & City of Ames
Aaron Granquist, P.E. / / McClure Engineering
Ben Cole, P.E.; / / City of Des Moines
Brian Wilham, P.E. / / Shive-Hattery Assoc., West Des Moines
Joe Spradling, P.E. / / HDR, Des Moines
Lisa Burch, P.E. / / YTT Design

Color key: Iowa Section Officer ASCE National

MINUTES – June 27, 2014 meeting
Iowa Infrastructure Report Card committee – Iowa Section ASCE

  1. Review and approve May minutes
    Motion by Vander Wert, second by Mulholland, passed.
  1. Status reports from Infrastructure sub-committees
    Reviewed the list of categories and ‘champions’ of each. Received progress reports for each one as follows:
  1. Aviation – Initial data gathering has begun (DeVries)
  2. Bridges – Have data in hand, working on preliminary grading plan (Mulholland)
  3. Inland waterways – no action (McCoy)
  4. Rail – Data has been obtained and uploaded to e-Room; analysis and grading come next (DeVries)
  5. Roads – partly ready to assign grades; talking to cities about their situations (Mulholland)
  6. Dams – have met with Jon Garton of Iowa DNR to obtain data; one challenge is lack of records on privately owned facilities. (Reed)
  7. Levees – of the approximately 900 miles of levee in Iowa, 500 are under US Army COE jurisdiction; the other 400 are tracked by Iowa DNR (Sebern)
  8. Drinking water – no report (Boelk)
  9. Wastewater – no report (Claman)
  10. Energy – Have gathered data on transmission and production (Shimkus)
  11. Solid Waste – Have met with Iowa Solid Waste Operators Association; still gathering data (Granquist, Moniza, Quinn)
  1. Discussion of media graphics and public relations services
    No proposals have yet been received. De Vries advised that a recheck with the five firms to which RFP’s had been sent indicates that three are interested and will be submitting responses. We have had to extend the turn-in deadline, but should have packages to consider in July.
  2. Next meeting
    To be held on-line – via Goto Meeting – on Thursday, July 31, 2014 @ 10:00 AM

Submitted by: Steve De Vries, Iowa Report Card Chair

Category / Champion
Aviation / <vacant>
Bridges / Dave Mulholland
Inland waterways / Andy McCoy
Rail / Steve De Vries
Roads / Dave Mulholland & Mark Crawford
Dams / Gary Reed
Levees / Kerry Serbern
Drinking water / Brian Boelk
Wastewater / Dave Claman
Energy / Mike Shimkus
Solid Waste / Aaron Granquist, Aaron Moniza, Riley Quinn