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TFLEx Workshop Spring 2024 – Houston, TX
April 8 @ 8:00 am – April 9 @ 5:00 pm
“Mission Control”
Refocusing Agency Resources in a post-COVID world
(Field of Study: Finance)
April 8-9, 2024
Lee P. Brown Administration Building
1900 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77002
Program Content/Learning Objectives
Transit finance officers from across the nation will gather in Houston to understand the financial challenges of “Mission Control” in the post-pandemic transit environment. The current landscape reflects changes to the level and nature of service provision, innovations to encourage demand for transit, and increasingly costly capital investment – all within the context of an expanded view of the mission of public transportation. This Transit Finance Learning Exchange workshop will center on the budget impact and budget trade-offs of mission refocusing in a post-pandemic world.
Workshop objectives – After attending this conference, participants will be able to:
- Develop a realistic and comprehensive assessment of the changed transit industry mission, considering aspects ranging from transit-oriented development to homeless outreach.
- Assess the budget impact of changes in the agency services operated, and agency capacity to sustain pre-pandemic service levels.
- Inventory expanded reduced-fare and free-fare programs, as well as innovations to improve service quality and effectiveness to increase transit usage, and understand the financial impact of these initiatives in light of lower ridership.
- Explore capital cost drivers and sister agencies’ budget balancing efforts to maintain state-of-good-repair, support service expansion, and meet other requirements such as decarbonization.
- Synthesize workshop information to develop financial strategies to advance and support agency near-term and longer-term plans. Evaluate the impact on agency ability to meet its more typical goals.
- Identify and share best practices through structured, participative, conversation sessions with other transit agencies..
Group-Live Delivery Method
Program Level: Advanced
No Pre-Conference Reading Material Provided
No Prerequisites*
Earn 14 CPE credits
*This program is at an advanced level of continuing education. Although no prerequisite course or work experience is needed to participate in this program, working knowledge of finance and transportation practices and policies, and knowledge of the program topic, is required.
To register visit https://tflexSpring2024.eventbrite.com. For information regarding refund, complaint and cancellation policies, contact Joe Costello, Costello Consulting, 708-606-0811 [email protected].
Transit Finance Learning Exchange is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org
NOTE: The workshop is open to TFLEx member agencies only, and their guests. If you are a transit agency and wish to attend as a guest, please contact [email protected]
Hosted by Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (Metro) (https://www.ridemetro.org/)