California Asphalt Magazine – 2019 Special Recognition Issue

2019 SPECIAL RECOGNITION ISSUE

MOVING FORWARD IN THE NORTH STATE Hat Creek Construction & Materials, Inc. leads the way for nearly 50 years

INSIDE: CSU Chico professor NCAT training Q&A with Kiana Valentine of Transportation California New Caltrans director named

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Publisher’s Letter Dear Readers: Regular readers of this publication will recall the well-chronicled fight our industry has waged, over many years, to call attention to the dismal condition of our state’s streets and highways. Credible research from numerous sources has demonstrated that lousy pavements steal money out of our pockets, in some cases more than $1,000 per year, due to poor fuel economy, time lost to congestion and vehicle damage.

Contributing to this chronic problem is the fact that the state’s fuel taxes have not been adjusted since the early 1990s, when Gov. George Deukmejian was in office. When inflation is taken into account, a 1991 dollar has about half the buying power two decades later.

Why has the public and our elected officials been reluctant to take steps to address this underinvestment in our transportation infrastructure? Simple. The state has a long and infamous history of diverting transportation dollars to other purposes, including bailing out the state’s general fund during the last recession.

In 2017, the California Legislature finally decided to take action, passing SB1, the “Road Repair & Accountability Act,” which raised fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees to help generate about $5 billion per year for transportation improvements.

In 2018, as you may recall, voters in the June primary approved a measure by 80 percent to protect transportation dollars for their intended purpose. And in November, a gas-tax repeal measure, Proposition 6, was soundly defeated at the polls.

If you think our work is now done, however, you would be sadly mistaken. Although there are additional revenues flowing to transportation coffers thanks to SB1, the work to repair roads around the state continues to be maddeningly slow, particularly in rural areas. As motorists fill their tanks and watch their dollars disappear faster and faster, it seems only fair that they ask, “Where’s all that money going?”

Powerful interests representing environmentalists, bicyclists and transit-backers have some ideas.

They have been promoting various uses for transportation funding that aren’t going to fix any potholes or improve commute times. In fact, they likely will make everything much worse. Sometimes these are couched with code words such as “active transportation” or “complete streets.” We have come to know them as “fix everything but roads.” All of these ideas have merit, but this is not what our fellow Californians signed up for when they voted to tax themselves to fix our crumbling roads and bridges.

Add on top of this the difficult regulatory environment in California, which delays improvement projects further, and bureaucratic inertia, and you can see why SB1 dollars, save for some high-profile mega-projects, seem to have vanished into thin air.

What this boils down to is a basic principle: Do what you say you are going to do. SB1 was titled the “Road Repair & Accountability Act” because it was meant to “repair roads” and hold our elected officials and government bureaucrats “accountable” if they did not deliver on those promises. Our association, for one, will continue to be the vanguard of making sure that all transportation dollars are used in the manner in which they were intended, and that our fellow Californians get the maximum return on their investments and that roads are noticeably smoother, safer and less congested. It’s only fair.

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Hat Creek Construction & Materials, Inc. – Where teamwork, respect, pride, reputation and community have led the way for 47 years Page 8

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CSU Chico professor goes through NCAT ‘Professor Training Course’ on asphalt

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Q&A with Kiana Valentine, Executive Director of Transportation California

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Tennessee transportation executive named new director of Caltrans

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Industry News

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On the Cover:

Hat Creek Construction & Materials, Inc. performing full depth reclamation work on Highway 139 project between Tulelake and Canby.

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stablished in 1972, Hat Creek Construction & Materials, Inc. (Hat Creek) has successfully become one of the leading heavy civil contractors in the North State. The company was appropriately named after the creek that runs clean and cold through the Thompson Family's 324-acre Hat Creek Hereford Ranch in Shasta County. The nearly 50-mile long creek is well-known by many fly fishermen for its amazing rainbow and brown trout. The story is told that the creek got its name due to a surveyor who once lost his hat there. The town of Hat Creek boasts a population of 309 souls and is located around 70 miles east of Redding with around the same distance to Susanville.

Current company president, Perry Thompson, will one day be the fourth generation to own and care for the Hat Creek Hereford Ranch, where the firm's first office trailer was placed and occupied in 1972. It was his father, Robert (Bob) Thompson and his uncle, Howard Lakey, who started the family business by initially remodeling homes, along with Perry's grandfather, Robert Thompson, Sr. Like many other companies of the day, Hat Creek Construction started humbly with a backhoe, truck and a trailer. Perry's grandfather had already been involved with building and construction activities in the local area, and before long, Bob, Howard and 8

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Robert Sr. were constructing cabins and doing some light site work throughout Shasta County.

The early days gave way to larger road building projects for the timber companies, where bigger, heavier equipment like dozers

and excavators were required.

The company was pushed to new heights in the mid-80s when they began to build several 100 kilowatts to 20-megawatt hydroelectric facilities that are all still up and running to this day.

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Where teamwork, respect, pride, reputation and community have led the way for 47 years

Below: Hat Creek Construction & Materials, Inc.'s Ward Lake Pit near Susanville.

The company had reached a little over $1 million in annual contracts by 1997, when Robert Thompson Jr.'s son, Perry Thompson, joined the ranks.

Perry graduated in 1992 from Chico State with a degree in

construction management. He then went on to work for and be trained by Teichert Construction as an estimator, eventually working his way up to superintendent and project manager. After five years with Teichert, Perry felt that he

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was ready to join his father and uncle in the family business.

"The knowledge and experience I received while working for Teichert Construction cannot be overstated," says Perry Thompson (Thompson). "Working for Teichert 9

helped me learn the many facets of our business from one of the most professional and highly respected companies around. This is also where I witnessed firsthand the benefits and advantages of the vertical integration strategy."

Hat Creek Construction officially changed their business name to Hat Creek Construction & Materials, Inc. in 2001 to better reflect their current and future status. It was at this time that Hat Creek Construction & Materials, Inc. received their first Environmental Impact Report (EIR) permit for their Burney quarry/office location in Shasta County. They immediately began crushing and selling aggregates, along with manufacturing and selling concrete and asphalt products. "My dad always wanted to have his own material supply, and we already owned a cinder and sand pit, but no hard rock materials," says Thompson. "We were the first

company in Shasta County to complete an EIR for a quarry, asphalt, and concrete plant."

According to Thompson, the Burney location no longer produces asphalt because specifications have evolved, and the rock is a bit too soft and high in absorption. However, in 2009 the company purchased the assets of the old Miller's Custom Works in Susanville and Hat Creek acquired their first true drum asphalt plant in the deal (a 350TPH Almix plant).

"We experienced tremendous growth with the purchase of the Miller's Custom Works in 2009.

We added RAP and started competing at a much higher level with our competition," says Thompson. "We took a big risk when nobody was buying anything, and that required a big leap of faith. We already had a batch plant, and we were in a good position during the recession, and it worked out well for our company."

Below: Hat Creek uses their Roadtec shuttle buggy along with their Cedarapids 552 paving machine to pave on Hwy. 395 between Susanville and Reno near Herlong.

Weston Hutchings joined Hat Creek in 2009, around the time of the Miller's Custom Works purchase. Hutchings and Thompson both earned a degree in construction management at Chico State. While Thompson began his career with Teichert, Hutchings later began his career at Granite Construction. "We were very aware of Weston's work at Granite Construction, where they subscribe to many of the same philosophies as Teichert Construction, particularly in the area of vertical integration. He also worked for Sierra Nevada Construction, and Weston's time at both of these great companies allowed him to immediately contribute to our bottom line. He has greatly contributed to our company with his heavy paving background and knowledge, and serves as our vice president and is a shareholder," says Thompson.

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Below: Hat Creek Construction & Materials, Inc. on the Rocky Ledge Project near Burney.

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cousin and interned with our company during college. We have a great yin and yang relationship, where our knowledge and talents complement one another."

2016 marked another year of remarkable growth for Hat Creek when they purchased their second drum asphalt plant, a 400-ton per hour Gencor. "We purchased the Gencor from Skanska around three years ago, and it represents our first California legal portable plant," says Thompson. "We do a lot of work on two-lane highways, and this plant has allowed us to provide asphalt material to those further out, rural areas. This acquisition has been instrumental in pushing our revenue to new levels with projections being at around $50 million by the end of the year."

Part of this amazing growth is due to the two-year, $15 million downtown Susanville reconstruction project the company is currently 12

working on. This job is a five-lane mill and fill project that goes through downtown Susanville. It runs for 5 or 6 miles and is scheduled for completion in just a few more weeks," says Thompson. "The contract also required us to complete all of the concrete work and ADA ramp construction. It was challenging to meet the specifications for the asphalt rides, while completely changing the ADA ramps and all the while maintaining the drainage." This project is an excellent example of Hat Creek's vertical integration capabilities as they supplied all of the asphalt, concrete, aggregate, concrete slurry, and backfill material for the project. "The concrete construction work was subcontracted to Granite Construction who performed an outstanding job on the ADA ramps," continues Thompson.

Hat Creek supplied 70,000 tons of hot mix asphalt and 5,000 cubic yards of concrete.

Hat Creek is currently well into another large project in Northern California on Highway 70. "We're doing an $18 million FDR (Full Depth Reclamation) project on Hwy 70 at an elevation of around 5,000 feet. It comes with a tight timeline that has been complicated by a lot of redesigns and change orders," says Thompson. "The project was originally predicated on a 7" asphalt section, but instead ended up being 12 to 14 inches in depth.

Caltrans has partnered with us and allowed us to essentially redesign the project. The net change was minimal and when completed, it will be a much superior project." According to Thompson, the job has required around 10 inches of FDR, while putting back 4 inches in two separate lifts. Hat Creek will supply approximately 70,000 tons of asphalt by jobs end.

Hat Creek also performs a fair amount of environmental cleanup work. They recently completed a

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job at the Sierra Pacific Mill in Susanville where they were contracted to clean up a large diesel oil spill. "We excavated the soil, placed it on asphalt, cleaned the material, and then performed the required testing before placing it back into the structural fill," continues Thompson. "We also recently cleaned up a tanker spill outside of Quincy on Highway 70. We removed asphalt material, excavated and exported soil, and then replaced it with new fill material before repaving the section."

The company's long list of product offerings allow them to remain busy, even during short or long economic downturns. "When the economy was in the dumps, we took on a $10 million unique wind farm project, where we cleared trees, installed roadway systems and parking lots, and excavated for electrical and other underground utilities. We also produced and placed 80,000 tons of aggregate base while providing

40,000 cubic yards of concrete for the foundations," says Thompson.

"I would say that around 90% of our work is for public works agencies, and it is our vertical integration that keeps us competitive, and it would be rough going without it."

Hat Creek is not only vertically integrated but also extremely diversified. Some examples include road building, asphalt paving, structural concrete, concrete flatwork, rough and fine grading, underground utilities, portable rock crushing, bridge construction, culvert and pipe installation, equipment rental and trucking, commercial building and much more. They also manufacture and supply asphalt concrete, ready-mix concrete, crushed aggregate, riprap, cinder, sand products, and landscape materials. "Our 690-acre Ward Lake Pit is our largest operation near Susanville where we maintain a 24-hour asphalt and concrete plant. Our Shaw Pit is the newer

and more rural operation we acquired in Lookout where we have our Gencor portable drum plant," continues Thompson.

"Additionally, we have our 340-acre main office location in Burney, where a quarry and concrete plant is also located, along with a full crushing and screening sand operation."

Hat Creek has a lot to offer, not only with their diverse product offerings but also to the California asphalt pavement industry in general. They recently became a member of the California Asphalt Pavement Association (CalAPAÂŽ) after being a member of NAPA (National Asphalt Pavement Association) for many years.

"We decided that it was time to get more involved on the local level and CalAPAÂŽ has an awful lot to offer. I am excited to begin participating in all of their events and academic conventions and seminars," says Thompson. "I am particularly interested in gaining more knowledge and getting

Above: Another shot of the Roadtec shuttle buggy and Cedarapids 552 paving machine on Highway 70 Project near Vinton.

feedback from other producers on what they are seeing from SB1 funding. We do not see much here in these rural communities, and I am anxious to talk to other contractors and suppliers and hear their opinions."

During the busy construction season, Hat Creek maintains around 125 fulltime employees.

"We have an incredible group of individuals working here, and I would like to sincerely thank all of them for their hard work and creative contributions," says Thompson. "Our focus has been on building the best team in the industry. It's, at times, a challenge to accomplish this from our rural location. We found a lot of success in identifying common core values that include the love of the outdoors. We live in one of the most beautiful areas in the world, and once people visit and meet our incredible

team, they're usually sold on coming to work here."

Perry Thompson has great respect and admiration for his father, Bob Thompson, who sadly died a few years ago.

"My dad was a huge driving force for this company. He would be here every day at 4 a.m. and leave at 7 or 8 p.m. It was both his hobby and his passion, and his spirit still resonates throughout this company," continues Thompson. "He was a wonderful person and treated everyone with kindness and respect and is someone that we all aspire to be like as we carry on and grow the faithful traditions of our company.

I give both my dad and my uncle a lot of credit for providing us with a firm foundation from which to grow."

Perry Thompson stresses that it is Hat Creek's desire to be the best and to provide

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Above: Dr. Kun Zhang of CSU Chico visiting the National Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University, Ala.

CSU Chico professor goes through NCAT ‘Professor Training Course’ on asphalt

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professor of engineering from California State University, Chico, recently completed the prestigious Professor Training Course conducted by the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) at Auburn University.

Dr. Kun Zhang, assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at CSU Chico, said he enjoyed the weeklong training that includes the most up-to-date lecture and laboratory material for the asphalt portion of an undergraduate civil engineering materials course.

“I really enjoyed the five-day, intensive professor training, and was very impressed by the lab facilities at NCAT,” Zhang told California Asphalt magazine.

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“All of the sections and lectures are very well-prepared and instructed, as were the topics covered, from the testing of asphalt binder, aggregate, and asphalt mixture, to the Superpave Mix design method, as well as asphalt plant production, paving and compaction.

“In addition,” Zhang said, “the course introduced cutting-edge research topics, including the use of WMA (Warm Mix Asphalt) and RAP/RAS (Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement/Recycled Asphalt Shingles) in asphalt mixtures as well as the balanced mix design.

During this training, lecturers have appropriately addressed all of my questions and concerns that I had written down before the training.

Some of them have bothered me for years!”

The Professor Training Course was held June 17-21 at NCAT’s main facility in Auburn, Ala. The National Asphalt Pavement Association Research & Education Foundation (NAPAREF) contributes about $30,000 annually for the program, and since 2005 a total of about $452,160 has been raised.

Most of these funds come from a donation made by attendees of the NAPA Annual Meeting as part of their registration. Since 1988, more than 550 people have gone through the professor training program, including numerous professors from California institutions of higher education.

Attendees have come from all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and foreign countries such as Canada, India, Trinidad and Venezuela, NAPA says.

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Below: NCAT’s Randy West (left) presents a certificate of completion to Dr. Kun Zhang.

Above: Attendees at the NCAT Professor Training Course held June 17-21 at Auburn, Ala.

Teachers from the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) have taken the class, as well as staff from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

“Most civil engineering programs give students only minimal exposure to asphalt pavements because the professors may lack knowledge in this area,” noted Audrey Copeland, Ph.D., P.E., NAPA’s president and chief executive officer. “NAPAREF supports NCAT’s Professor Training Course because one of the best ways to better expose students to asphalt is by educating their teachers. Arming professors with information about the basics of asphalt pavements, as well as exposing them to the many innovations and advances being made in materials, design, and construction, is the best way to encourage more students to pursue a career in civil engineering and construction.”

Zhang said the training will have long-term benefits for future generations of students who attend

Chico State, which among other things is home to the California Pavement Preservation Center.

“The NCAT professor training significantly benefits both my teaching and my research on asphalt technology,” he said.

“Utilizing the facility at the California Pavement Preservation Center (CP2C), I plan to develop an asphalt training program as well as to pass the knowledge that I have learned from this course to my future students in the classes of Transportation Engineering and Asphalt Pavement Materials.

Thanks go to all lecturer and lab technicians at NCAT for this training. Thanks also go to Russell Snyder and Bill Knopf from CalAPA® and my Department Chair, Steffen Mehl, for supporting my application of this professor training.”

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Zhang has been with CSU Chico since August of 2018 and is the senior pavement researcher at the California Pavement Preservation Center. Prior to joining the faculty at CSU Chico, Zhang served on the staff at Washington State University from 2012 to 2018, where in addition to serving on the faculty he was Co-Director of the Washington Center for Asphalt Technology (WCAT). He earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Washington State University in July of 2016, and both his Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science degrees in Civil Engineering from Shandong University in Jinan, China, where he studied between 2009 and 2012.

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Asphalt Pavement Association (WAPA), said he appreciated Zhang’s engagement with the industry during his time at WSU. “Dr. Zhang was a WAPA graduate student scholarship recipient in 2016, so it’s great to see that he was awarded one of the highly competitive training spots at NCAT,” Gent said. “Dr. Zhang was very involved in fostering the Washington Center for Asphalt Technology’s impact in the region, making this well-equipped resource available for both commercial use and original research. He also participated in developing our state standards for porous asphalt pavements as a volunteer on our expert task force. It’s good to see that his talents have been retained on the West Coast at CSU Chico.”

The curriculum in the five-day NCAT course includes sections on asphalt binder, which covers grades

of asphalt and Superpave binder tests and specifications; Aggregates, including aggregate characteristics, quarrying operations, processing and blending aggregates for asphalt mixtures; Other materials, including RAP, RAS and WMA; Asphalt mixtures, covering desirable mixture properties, types of mixes, philosophy of mix design and mix design methods; Construction, including asphalt mixture facility operations, equipment for production and placement, laydown methods, compaction methods and quality control/quality assurance; Pavement Design, including various elements of pavement structure design. Laboratory exercises include asphalt binder characterization tests, aggregate characterization tests, and asphalt mixture design and analysis.

Each participant receives a copy of the NCAT textbook and other supporting documents.

There is no fee to attend the class or for course materials for participants who live in the United States, and eligible faculty participants will receive a stipend to cover some housing, food and transportation costs to attend the class. The course provides 4.0 continuing education units, or 40 professional development hours.

For more information on the Professor Training Course, visit the NCAT website at www.eng.auburn.edu/research/ centers/ncat/ or contact Stacie Hunter at (334) 844-6202. CA Russell W. Snyder, CAE, is executive director of the California Asphalt Pavement Association (CalAPA®).

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Editor’s Note: Kiana Valentine is the executive director of Transportation California, a statewide association that advocates for adequate transportation infrastructure funding in California. She has more than 15 years of policy experience in transportation, housing and land use, and local government issues.

With a deep understanding of transportation policy and funding, she has played a role in the passage and implementation of all major state transportation policy and funding decisions over the past decade, including Proposition 1B, the 2006, $19.9 billion transportation bond act, the 2010 transportation fuel-tax swap, and most recently, the successful passage of SB1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, as well as the defeat of the SB1 repeal measure, Proposition 6, on the November 2018 ballot.

Prior to joining the Politico Group, through which she is under contract to head up Transportation California, she spent 12 years in service to counties at the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) as their senior legislative representative on housing, land use, transportation and tribal gaming issues. She holds a Master of Public Policy and Administration degree from California State University, Sacramento, and attended California State University, Chico, where she earned her undergraduate degree in political science and international relations.

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California Asphalt Magazine: Tell us a little bit more about your organization, Transportation California.

Kiana Valentine: Transportation California was formed in the early 1990s. The construction industry, broadly, and allied labor, recognized a need for a statewide entity that advocated on their behalf, in particular for transportation funding to improve and to maintain the transportation infrastructure in the state. We are comprised of contractor organizations, labor, and materials and equipment suppliers.

CAM: Transportation California has been a part of every major transportation funding battle since then, right?

KV: Yes. Since the 1990s Transportation California has been the lead, or the co-lead, on every principle transportation funding mechanism. Together with our coalition partners we helped secure the first major new funding source for transportation infrastructure – what we now know as Proposition 42.

CAM: That was the initiative known as the “Traffic Congestion Improvement Act,” approved by voters in the March 5, 2002, Primary Election, which sought to protect gas-tax revenues from being diverted to other purposes.

KV: Right.

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CAM: The fight for transportation funding has taken many twists and turns since then. When Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor, there was little appetite for raising taxes, so other funding mechanisms needed to be pursued.

KV: Transportation California was involved in a number of transportation bonds, most recently the 2006 transportation infrastructure bonds, which totaled almost $20 billion.

CAM: Schwarzenegger also helped campaign for those bonds, which were put before voters on Nov. 7, 2006 as Proposition 1B, the “Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality and Port Security Bond Act.” More than 61 percent of voters approved it.

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KV: Transportation California and its member organizations and partners also played a huge part in the passage of SB1 in 2017, and the defeat of Proposition 6 in 2018.

CAM: Senate Bill 1, authored by state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, raised fuel taxes and other fees for the first time since the 1990s to pay for transportation. It passed the Legislature in 2017, but then became the subject of a contentious repeal measure the following November, known as Proposition 6.

Thankfully, voters rejected the measure, which would have jeopardized more than $5 billion in transportation funding each year for state and local agencies. But let’s also not forget Proposition 69, which was on the June ballot in 2017 and was passed by nearly 80 percent of voters. It placed additional protections on the use of transportation dollars for transportation purposes. In a way, however, we’re still recovering from the recession, and the borrowing that was done in the 2000s that put stress on transportation programs, and other convoluted financing mechanisms, like the 2010 “gas tax swap” that no one seemed to like.

KV: Borrowing started almost immediately after passage of Prop 42, sometime in the early 2000’s.

Now, pursuant to SB1, all of those outstanding loans will be repaid from the state General Fund by the end of next fiscal year. Technically, Proposition 42 does not exist anymore since it has been replaced

by SB1. Still, the historical impact of Proposition 42 can never be understated because that was a huge boon to transportation without raising taxes on motorists.

CAM: There are many other infrastructure-related initiatives and measures that we’re not even discussing, such as the Seismic Retrofit Bond Act of 1996 to fix thousands of bridges in the state

to withstand powerful earthquakes.

Then there are bills in the Legislature, regulations and red tape that seem to construct the flow of money for its intended purpose. It seems like the fight to secure and protect adequate infrastructure funding is never-ending. SB1 was a major achievement, but it didn’t cure everything.

KV: The development of SB1 occurred over a number of years, and if SB1 were to have fixed the deferred maintenance problem alone, it probably would have had to be double what it is. Through analysis and partnership with people like the League of California Cities, the California State Association of Counties and Caltrans, we were able to analyze what outcomes you get with X amount of investment. Can you stop the bleeding? Make some gains over time? And that’s how we arrived at the ultimate number that was in SB1. We also realized that raising the gas tax $1.25 in one fell swoop was not good for the industry or the economy, for our fellow Californians. So, yes, SB1 was a huge success, and not to take anything away from that, but it was only a partial solution. Not only do we have unmet maintenance needs, we have capacity needs, we have multimodal needs. We need to keep investing in our infrastructure so that we can accommodate all Californians and provide multiple modes of travel to get people, goods and services moving efficiently and safely in this state.

CAM: Using gas taxes to pay for transportation has served us well for a century, but it’s days are numbered, right?

KV: Yes,even though we have an inflationary index in SB1.

CAM: Which was one of the major reasons we got into this mess.

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KV: Right.

CAM: Gas taxes were never indexed to inflation, and last raised in the early 1990s, so a dollar today had about half the buying power of a dollar in the 1990s. That was remedied in SB1.

KV: Yes – had we done that in the 1990s we wouldn’t be where we are today. So the inflationary index will help us for some time, but the inflation index will at some point no longer make up for the loss of gasoline sales due to the sale of electric vehicles and other alternate-fueled vehicles.

CAM: We know that is coming.

KV: Yes, but it is a bit further out than we expected. I always thought it was a 10-year problem. I think it will be a little farther off than that, but that just means we have to start today because it could take us 10 plus years to research, test, develop and debate the right solution. Meanwhile, we still have major needs to address now.

There’s significant freight corridor needs. We have huge congestion hotspots for everyday commuters, and goods coming in and out of the ports, so those are needs that are not necessarily addressed

by SB1, which is primarily a maintenance bill.

CAM: It’s a pretty complicated challenge.

KV: I think it is a critical mission of Transportation California and its partners to continue to educate the Legislature. Even though term limits have been extended, there is still going to be turnover, and loss of institutional memory. It’s important to have a presence in Sacramento and remind folks what role infrastructure plays in everyday life, the value it provides in terms of supporting middle-class jobs and supporting the economy, and 21

even sustainability and our future.

Transportation construction and infrastructure plays a positive role in cleaning up air quality and addressing climate change. Those things are not inherently at odds, in my opinion.

CAM: To cite just one example, there’s been a fair amount of research that demonstrates that smooth, well-maintained pavements improve fuel economy and help reduce air pollution, while also reducing wear-and-tear on vehicles, and even prevents damage to produce carried to market by trucks.

KV: Exactly.

CAM: Looking ahead, what do you see as the primary focus of Transportation California?

KV: To a large degree, I think the current administration and the Legislature are going to dictate what we focus on. If I were to predict what they are going to focus on next, it is this continued attention on affordable housing, which is a crisis for the state, which is definitely worthy of the state’s time and attention.

CAM: And there is a definite connection between housing and transportation, which connects where people live to where they work.

KV: That’s right. However, the attempts to leverage transportation dollars to try to leverage other types of outcomes is a concern.

CAM: You’re talking about the current administration’s threat to withhold transportation dollars from regions that haven’t met housing targets. That has proven to be controversial.

KV: I don’t think that has been successful. I don’t think the stick in many instances is even big enough 22

to make an impact in terms of housing, but also it is also rife with other types of problems. The voters rejected Proposition 6 because we promised them that the transportation revenues would go to every single community, so I think from a larger governance perspective, wading into that issue to try to use SB1 for other purposes is challenging at best.

CAM: Backers of SB1 communicated our displeasure to the administration about this strategy.

KV: Robustly!

CAM: There have been bills in the Legislature aiming to do this same thing. Our industry has found them to be flawed and we opposed them.

KV: The problem is, local governments don’t actually build housing. Do they control the regulatory environment in which housing must be built? 100 percent.

Cities and counties can definitely make it easier or more difficult to build housing, but that’s a very narrow focus.

CAM: What other issues do you see ahead?

KV: Hand-in-hand with the affordable housing crisis, I think you’re going to see continued interest on reducing greenhouse gases and whether SB375 is working or not.

CAM: Tell us more about Senate Bill 375.

KV: SB375, authored by then Senate President Pro Tem Darryl Steinberg, was signed into law in 2008. It basically married, in an official way, planning for housing, transportation and land use at the regional level. California’s 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) are now required to

develop Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCSs) as part of their federally and state-required regional transportation plans. The SCS is the road map by which each region must reduce its share of greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, as determined by the California Air Resources Board. However, the plans are constrained by the reasonably likely to occur land use pattern for the region and can only assume existing transportation funding. For example, SACOG, here in the Sacramento region, just released their draft plan. They have a target of a 19 percent GHG reduction over their planning period. That is substantial. Getting there is extremely challenging when you have to rely on existing resources, and quite frankly, voluntary actions by cities and counties to make land-use decisions consistent with that sustainable communities strategy.

CAM: The disconnect between land-use at the local level and statewide policy initiatives has been going on for many decades.

How is this going to change?

KV: I think the politics at the Capitol are different. We have a super-majority of Democrats in the Legislature, and a governor who has already indicated that these are critical issues, and he is willing to sort of push back on the traditional local role in land-use decision-making. Just look at the housing crisis, and his administration suing jurisdictions that don’t meet their housing goals.

I think there is a different appetite in the state Capitol for having that conversation.

CAM: There is also the conflict between who is best to make decisions – with strong arguments to be made for pushing decisionmaking to the lowest level. [ Continued on page 24 ]

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KV: I was never comfortable as an advocate for local governments that the state make land-use decisions. Communities know their communities best. That being said, when certain policy issues become statewide crisis-level issues, like the affordable housing crisis, I understand that the state may need to intervene.

CAM: Maybe the role is for the state to put up policy guardrails.

KV: Flexible guardrails.

CAM: Nice transportation analogy.

KV: The second part of this equation is that when SB375 was passed, it was adopted with intent language that said cities and counties must have a sustainable, ongoing source of investment to build these plans. So it’s one thing to point fingers at cities, counties and regions, and say, “You’re not doing enough.” But the state has not, in my opinion, met its side of the agreement. So, until the state does things like a $500 million infill infrastructure investment grant program, annually for 20 years, it’s really hard to point the finger for the lack of success of SB375.

CAM: What about the regulatory environment in California in general?

It seems like there is some new requirement, some new mandate or regulation, that makes it more difficult for our industry to deliver on all those SB1 improvements voters are demanding.

KV: I think it is really easy to stand for efficiencies and streamlining, right? That just sounds good. But when the rubber meets the road, if you will, it becomes challenging.

Before I left CSAC I was working on implementation of a federal FAST Act provision that allows you to satisfy NEPA by doing a CEQA document.

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CAM: The FAST Act stands for “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation” Act, which was signed into law by President Obama in 2015. Part of the streamlining provisions were, as you mentioned, allowing federal environmental impact reports as called for by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to be satisfied with a state-level report as called for under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

KV: CSAC, our regional partners, the transportation industry broadly in California, supported that effort in the Congressional bill. Implementing something that seems so easy to get behind is very challenging. Convincing all the folks at the regulatory level to change, to push boundaries, to rethink processes, is a very slow process. It is something that I hope Transportation California will continue to champion.

CAM: Is there a middle ground for collaboration?

KV: If we are able to collaboratively help the state to meet some of its other policy goals, it allows us more space to work in the regulatory environment, in my perspective, to reduce some of the regulatory burdens. If regions are reducing some of the GHGs, for example, and cities and counties are working collaboratively in siting housing where it needs to go, and we’re sort of making progress there, my hope is that it opens up space to say that this rule is costing $100 million, or putting small businesses out of business, having all of these adverse impacts, and now you are no longer having your bang for the buck in terms of your policy goals out of this, that is my approach to try to loosen some of the red tape.

Above: Katrina Lynch with Ingevity, Kiana Valentine and DeAnn Baker with CSAC (left to right) celebrate the defeat of Proposition 6 on Election Night Nov. 6, 2018 in Sacramento.

CAM: Our members try the same collaborative approach when dealing with specification development with state and local agencies. We try to be a credible resource for practical information to help them understand the impact of specification changes, or to identify specifications or construction standards that need to be changed.

We are trying to make those transportation dollars go farther and eliminate waste and inefficiency.

KV: You make a good point.

Couching a policy change or a regulatory change in a way that provides benefit to all involved.

This isn’t just about improving the regulatory environment for the industry. It is helping alleviate bottlenecks. It’s helping improve processes so there are less negative audit findings. It’s the whole trickle-down effect.

CAM: Are there other policy initiatives Transportation California sees itself promoting?

KV: I also think the future for Transportation California is

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identifying what other legislative policy changes we can bring about to provide more flexibility to the industry, to try new techniques, to use alternative delivery methods.

For example, Transportation California has championed public-private partnerships for many years, alternative delivery methods such as design build.

Transportation California also sponsored the authorizing legislation that established the road under charge pilot program to study and analyze options for replacing the gas tax with a more sustainable revenues stream.

CAM: There is a fair amount of education that needs to take place to help policy-makers understand these various innovative delivery methods and make sure they are comfortable with them. Our association frequently arranges tours of our member facilities for members of the Legislature, Congress, and regulatory officials, to help them better understand our operations. We find it helps demystify what we do, and can dispel some myths.

KV: Tours, things that make non-tangible policy ideas tangible, are so critical in my opinion, and that is something Transportation California hopes to get into in the coming years, working with our partners to highlight successful projects, or successful plants, or new technologies. When they can touch it, it becomes much more real.

CAM: We find those tours to be very educational for everyone involved.

KV: Can I come on the next one?

CAM: Sure! (The interviewer takes note of the two hard hats on the bookcase in the Transportation California office).

CAM: Speaking of legislators, since we and other associations, and some of our member companies, also employ lobbyists and engage legislators and regulators, how is Transportation California going to position itself going forward?

KV: Transportation California has, and will strive to continue to be, complementary and not redundant of the other associations out there.

CalAPA® has a very defined, specific place in the construction industry in terms of asphalt pavement, and the knowledge that your association houses on those issues is second to none in the state. Associated General Contractors, United Contractors, Southern California Contractors Association – those organizations are a wealth of knowledge about what contractors’ experience on the ground, how it impacts business, cost-effectiveness, safety, all the things that matter to contractors when they are on a jobsite. You have our allied labor organizations, who are there to grow well-paying jobs, provide certainty. We have the California Alliance for Jobs, and the Southern California Partnership for Jobs, which are more regional in nature but are working on all of these issues on behalf of their members as well. So for me, what Transportation California always has done, and I think still can do, is be the experts on funding and finance. What are the needs of the industry? What are the best, most cutting-edge, successful ways in which we fund and finance transportation. Transportation California has always been a leader in those areas, and always will continue to be a leader in those areas. We will be helping find a pathway to a replacement of the gas tax. Can we serve as the uniting force to bring the industry together on those issues? What about congestion pricing? That is something the administration and the Legislature is keenly interested

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in. How can we bring all parties together to find the best policy path forward on those issues?

Hopefully that is complementary to all of the work all of the other associations are doing. We are open to evolution and growing and changing and adapting to what the industry needs as well.

CAM: What can CalAPA® members do to help support the work of Transportation California?

KV: Transportation California is in Sacramento. Our primary focus is the Legislature and the administration, as well as the statewide regulatory bodies. Being the eyes and ears and the boots on the ground in every community in the state is vital. Not a single one of us has all the answers, but collectively we know everyone.

It’s a feedback loop. What can we tell you to help your members, your businesses, your operations?

What can you tell us about what is happening out there? To me it is a relationship of feedback and brainstorming and collaboration that will produce the best results for all of us. CalAPA® has its own relationships in the Legislature that you have cultivated that Transportation California has not, and vice-versa, so that is another reason I am a huge fan of collaboration and working together and leveraging all of our relationships and expertise for the good of the industry. We also want to be a credible clearinghouse for understanding and evaluating how SB1 dollars are being deployed.

CAM: Thank you for your time.

We’ll see you at the next asphalt plant tour.

KV: Absolutely! CA Interview conducted by Russell W. Snyder, CAE, executive director, California Asphalt Pavement Association (CalAPA®).

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Tennessee transportation executive named new director of Caltrans Gov. Gavin Newsom named a transportation executive from Tennessee to take over the helm as director of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).

Adetokunbo "Toks" Omishakin, 43, has been deputy commissioner for environment and planning at the Tennessee Department of Transportation since 2011. His role also oversees transit programs for TennDOT. Previously he was director of Healthy Living Initiatives in the Nashville's Mayor's Office, from 2008 to 2011.

“We look forward to welcoming Mr. Omishakin to the State of California. He’s the right person for the job, and we welcome his enthusiasm and eye toward innovation at Caltrans,” said California State Transportation Agency Secretary David Kim. Kim was appointed to the cabinet-level position earlier this year and his appointment was confirmed by the state Senate on Sept. 10.

Newsom on Sept. 3 also announced that James Davis, 54, of Davis, will serve as chief deputy director for Caltrans. He has been special advisor to the director where, among other duties, he was overseeing the department's SB1 implementation.

Omishakin becomes the 10th Caltrans director in 10 years and will oversee a massively complex government agency of more than 20,000 employees and a $15 billion budget. The department has been on a hiring spree since the passage of SB1, the Road Repair & Accountability Act of 2017, which has generated more than $5 billion year for transportation improvements paid for by tax hikes 26

on gasoline, diesel and vehicle registrations. Among Caltrans' responsibilities is maintenance of a 50,000 mile system of freeways and highways across the state.

"We look forward to working collaboratively with Toks Omishakin to improve transportation in California," said CalAPA® Chairman Jordan Reed with George Reed Inc. "Tennessee, like California, recently enacted a gas-tax increase to support fixing roads and bridges, so he will be familiar with the challenge of converting tax dollars to road improvements quickly and efficiently in a manner that is most conspicuous to the traveling public. Also, his background in goods-movement will be valuable given California's prominent role as the gateway to the Pacific Rim." In 2017, the Tennessee Legislature passed, and the governor signed into law, the "IMPROVE Act," which is an acronym for "Improving Manufacturing, Public Roads and Opportunities for a Vibrant Economy Act, meant to help pay for the state's $10 billion backlog in road repairs. The legislation is estimated to provide $250 million to the state Department of

Adetokunbo "Toks" Omishakin, newly appointed director of Caltrans.

Transportation, $70 million to counties and $35 million to cities, according to news reports.

Omishakin is described by those who have worked with him as approachable and a good listener.

"The Tennessee Road Builders Association worked closely with Toks Omishakin during his tenure at the Tennessee Department of Transportation," Kent D. Starwalt, executive vice president of the association, told the California Asphalt magazine. "We have always found him to be bright, personable and always willing to listen to our concerns."

“He’s very intelligent, approachable and personable,” added Scott Metcalf, Vice President of Pavement Preservation and Specialty Products at CalAPA®-member Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. “He cares about the environment, is well thought-of at TennDOT and is a straight-shooter.”

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Cal APA members take in cool ocean breezes, sizzling thoroughbred action at Cal APA 'Day at the Races' at Del Mar ®

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Standing on the very left - Ian Firth (left) and Nici Boon from Lehigh Hanson, went down to the winner's circle to congratulate the winner of the CalAPA® sponsored 9th race at Del Mar July 20, which was won by Pure Xena with jockey A.T. Gryder aboard.

The marketing slogan for Del Mar Racetrack is "Cool As Ever," and that pretty much summed up this year's annual CalAPA® "Day at the Races" at the venerable seaside venue. More than 100 CalAPA® members, friends and family rubbed elbows in the association's luxury "skybox" July 20 to watch the opening weekend of thoroughbred horse racing.

For those with any energy left, the park attendance included a concert by Ziggy Marley. Photos from the event are posted on the CalAPA® Facebook page. The ninth race, which was sponsored by CalAPA®, went off at 6:22 p.m. and had plenty of drama. Out of the gate, the No. 4 horse, She's So 28

Special, briefly got caught in a sandwich between two other horses but expert handling by the jockeys averted a mishap. Eventual winner, the No. 6 horse, Pure Xena, with jockey A.T. Gryder aboard, started strong, briefly slipped into second mid-race, and then found another gear on the back stretch to pull away from the field, winning by about nine lengths in 58:19. Pure Xena paid $6.40 on a $2 bet. Ian Firth with Lehigh Hanson joined the winning horse, jockey, trainer and owners for the Winner's Circle photo. The Day at the Races event is sponsored every year by the CalAPA® Southern California Paving Contractors Committee. CA

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Erik Montero (left), Irma Herbrandson, Len Nawrocki, Life Member, Mayra Nawrocki, Eddie Rogers, Jackie Henry, Valero Marketing & Supply.

Patriot Risk & Insurance Services group; Dena Kurtz (left), Steve Cota, Ryan Wilkinson, Courtney Cheek and Monica Velasquez.

Jeff Luzar, GuardTop (left), Steve and Teresa Upton, Advantage Lisa and Keith Bock, J. McLoughlin Engineering, Jay and Jackie Sealing Systems, Kathy Luzar, Amy Alcantra, Laura Koleas, Rosa, Nixon-Egli Equipment, Marvin Butler, Wirtgen, Doug and GuardTop, Bob Koleas, GuardTop, Steve Allison, Troutman Toma Sweeney, Mission Paving & Sealing.

Sanders LLP and Keith Terrill, Road Science.

Scott and Amy Johns, Cleancor Energy Solutions.

Dennis and Monique Beyle with Mike Murray, Hardy & Harper.

Lehigh Hanson’s group: JR Menville (left), Inese Menville, Ian Firth, Katelyn Bruggema, Leslie McBeath, Parker McBeath, Nici Boon, Jen Merritt, Ryan Merritt and Teri Mundt.

Brian and Megan McDaniel with Amber and Mike Hinson of Quinn Company.

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FALL ASPHALT PAVEMENT CONFERENCE & EXPO Wednesday & Thursday, November 6 – 7, 2019 Hilton Sacramento Arden West; 2200 Harvard St., Sacramento, CA 95815-3306

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6th - DAY 1 PROGRAM 11:30 a.m. Registration Desk, Trade Show Floor OPEN

Refreshments and snacks included 01:00 p.m. Conference Welcome:

Jordan Reed, George Reed, Inc. & 2019 CalAPA® Chairman

Challenges and opportunities facing the industry in 2019 and beyond.

01:15 p.m.

Legislative: Washington Update – Issues Impacting the Asphalt Industry Jay Hansen, Executive Vice President – Advocacy; National Asphalt Pavement Association An overview of the industry efforts to secure long-term Federal funding for roadway improvements. Learn how the current political climate affects legislative activity for the asphalt pavement construction industry.

02:00 p.m.

Environmental: Addressing AB617 Implementation John Lane, Teichert Materials In 2017, the State of California enacted AB617 – Non-vehicular Air Pollution: Criteria Pollutants and Toxic Air Contaminants. CARB and regional air districts are developing implementations plans to reduce these pollutants and contaminants. Learn about the requirements on our industry and how CalAPA® and other industry stakeholders are involved in the development process.

02:30 p.m.

Technical: Enacting Changes to the Hamburg Wheel Rutting Test for Improved Reliability Maged Armanuse, Branch Chief METS, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) The Pavement & Materials Partnering Committee (PMPC) have completed necessary revisions to the HWTT (AASHTO T324). Learn about the issues with the HWTT and the change strategy utilized to revise the test.

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03:30 p.m. Workforce Development: Addressing the Construction Industry Workforce Crisis Sue Weiler-Doke, Senior Consultant, D. Brown Management It’s a “perfect storm” of factors that is battering the construction industry at all levels. The talent pipeline is running dry, from the lack of experienced craft workers in the field to effective project managers and leadership succession planning. This crisis will undercut the ability of companies and agencies to deliver current and future work. A noted expert in construction work force development will share insights, strategies and techniques for companies and agencies to become “talent magnets” to recruit, develop and retain a steady flow of workers now and for years to come.

04:15 p.m. Featured Speaker: Adventures in Travel Before Paved Roads The Ghost of Mark Twain, as portrayed by McAvoy Lane For 30 years now, in over 4,000 performances from Piper’s Opera House in Virginia City to Leningrad University in Russia, McAvoy Layne has been preeminent in preserving the wit & wisdom of “The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope,” Mark Twain. McAvoy is a winner of the Nevada Award for Excellence in School and Library Service, and author of the newly published, ”Huck Finally Graduates!” Mac plays the ghost of Samuel Clemens in the Biography Channel’s episode of Mark Twain, and in the Discovery Channel’s Cronkite Award winning documentary, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Says McAvoy, “It’s like being a Monday through Friday preacher, whose sermon, though not reverently pious, is fervently American.”

05:00 p.m. DAY 1 PROGRAM CONCLUDES 05:30 p.m. – EVENING RECEPTION 08:00 p.m. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres. Trade Show Floor Open / Equipment on display. Reception is free for all conference

attendees, but advance reservations are required at registration. Pose for “selfies” with the Ghost of Mark Twain.

P.O. Box 981300, West Sacramento, CA 95798. Phone (916) 791-5044

FALL ASPHALT PAVEMENT CONFERENCE & EXPO Wednesday & Thursday, November 6 – 7, 2019 Hilton Sacramento Arden West; 2200 Harvard St., Sacramento, CA 95815-3306

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH - DAY 2 PROGRAM 07:00 a.m. Registration Desk, Trade Show Floor OPEN

Full Breakfast included 08:00 a.m.

CONFERENCE PRICING INFORMATION $249 – CalAPA® Member/Public Agency ($299 after Oct. 25) $299 – Non-Member ($349 after Oct. 25)

Environmental: Sustainability in Practice Adam J.T. Hand, P.E., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nevada - Reno Organizations throughout various industries include sustainability as a primary goal in their strategic plans. How do asphalt pavement stakeholders apply sustainability to their daily operations? Dr. hand provides an overview of sustainability, which includes understanding sustainability, what practical activities stakeholders should consider, and how stakeholders incorporate these activities in a sustainability program.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 09:00 a.m.

MATERIALS

BINDERS

SUSTAINABILITY

Superpave Mix Designs Dave Aver – City of Santa Rosa Greg Reader – George Reed, Inc. Explore procedures used to create a quality asphalt mix. This session provides an overview of the test methods used and how the results are incorporated in the final Job Mix Formula (JMF)

Asphalt Emulsion 101 Sallie Houston – Valley Slurry (VSS) Asphalt Emulsions are used in various aspects of pavement construction and maintenance. Learn how they are made, tested, graded and utilized.

Sustainability in Practice – Specific Actions Adam Hand – UNR Learn about specific sustainability actions that can be taken in a corporate/organizational strategy, project delivery, mix design, materials production, construction activities, and pavement design.

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09:45 a.m.

10:15 a.m.

11:15 a.m.

Troubleshooting the JMF Greg Reader – George Reed, Inc. Dave Aver – City of Santa Rosa Learn the various relationships between the material and mix characteristics and how they are used to adjust the mix design to meet the project requirements.

Modified Asphalt Binders 101 Edgard Hitti – Granite Construction Mr. Hitti, a respected binder expert, will provide an overview of the benefits of modified binders, what are the types of modifiers used, and how these binders are tested and graded.

Sustainability in Practice – Specific Actions Adam Hand – UNR Dr. Hand provides insight on why asphalt industry stakeholders should consider a sustainability program and how to create the program.

Technical: Evaluating High RAP Mixes - UCPRC Overview of Current Research Mohamed Elkashef, Ph.D. – Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California Pavement Research Center (UCPRC) Dr. Elkashef will provide an overview of UCPRC’s research related to the use of RAP in asphalt mixes. The Center’s efforts include lab, full scale test track and field evaluations. Dr. Elkashef will also provide current research activities across the US and how agencies and the industry can assist in current research efforts.

12:00 p.m. DAY 2 PROGRAM CONCLUDES

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INSURANCE COLUMN

WHAT IS THIS SOCIAL ENGINEERING SCAM I KEEP HEARING ABOUT? AM I INSURED FOR THIS TYPE OF RISK?

By Steve Cota, Patriot Risk & Insurance Services

If thieves break into your construction yard or hackers unknowingly gain access into your computer systems, traditional insurance policies are there to cover that. However, if a sophisticated con artist tricks an employee into turning over millions of dollars, your conventional insurance policy likely doesn’t cover it.

What is Social Engineering?

Social Engineering is the art of influencing people to disclose or give access to information that they would not typically provide, relying on human interaction rather than attempting to hack into a computer network. A potential scammer uses written or verbal communication such as an email, fax, letter, or phone call. Social Engineering scams are often successful because they exploit our natural tendency to trust each other and to believe information is credible rather than questionable.

A recent scam you may be familiar with is referred to as “phishing,” which is someone claiming to be in a position of authority (i.e., the CEO or president of a person’s company), asking for confidential information such as a password or sending an email attachment infected with malware or spyware.

Why does my business need protection against Social Engineering?

Even if you are careful and utilize best practices of employee training, partner background screenings, and financial checks and balances, your well-managed

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business can still be infiltrated. Fraudsters can gain the confidence of an employee by posing as a vendor, client, employee, or authorized person, and instruct him or her to transfer money or information. The fraudster may even use some legitimate information that was accessed by breaching your network, the network of your partners or any other company that has stored your data. Most companies do not even realize a scam has occurred until the real recipient (who never received the legitimate payment) notifies them. Once discovered, it can be too late to stop the theft. It is important to understand the threat and be prepared to protect your business from serious financial loss.

Traditionally, a fraud scheme must be a situation that your business is unaware of for it to be covered by your Crime policy. Instances where your business is an active participant (such as above) are typically excluded. Adding a Social Engineering endorsement will specifically extend coverage to include occurrences of fraud executed by a known vendor, client, employee, or another authorized person. CA Steve Cota, CRIS, directs the Construction Program for Patriot Risk & Insurance Services in Irvine, California.

For more information regarding the above or any other insurance-related questions, he may be reached at (949) 486-7947 or scota@patrisk.com.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Dr. Gary Hicks receives Monismith Award

By Roger Smith

Dr. Gary Hicks, currently a Project Manager for the California Pavement Preservation Center (CP2 Center) at California State University, Chico, is the 2018 winner of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Geo-Institute’s Carl L. Monismith Award and Lecture on Pavement Engineering for his 50 years of technical and professional contributions in pavement materials, design, and evaluation and the construction and maintenance of transportation facilities.

The Monismith Lecture is awarded annually for outstanding research contributions in Pavement Engineering and honors Professor Carl L. Monismith’s contributions to the field. It’s an especially fitting reward for Hicks since he received his BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees from the University of California at Berkeley where his major professor was Carl Monismith. He was one of Carl Monismith’s earliest Ph.D students and is the first of Professor Monismith’s students to receive this award. Other noteworthy students of Professor Monismith included John Deacon, Ken Secor, Jon Epps, Fred Finn, Ron Terrel, George Dehlen, Nick Coetzee, and many more.

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Hicks has held teaching positions at Georgia Tech and Oregon State University for 30 years, and in 2006 helped establish our California Pavement Preservation Center (CP2C) at CSU Chico. He has also been active with the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), Foundation for Pavement Preservation (FP2), the International Society of Asphalt Pavements (ISAP) and ASCE. He is a registered Civil Engineer in the states of California, Oregon, and Alaska and has authored more than 200 publications and one textbook, with Clark Oglesby,

Dr. Gary Hicks, Project Manager, CP2 Center.

titled “Highway Engineering,” and has won numerous awards during his career. In addition to his ongoing work for the CP2 Center, he is still active as a consultant to several companies and organizations in the area of pavement design, management, maintenance, and rehabilitation. CA Roger Smith is a former executive for the California Asphalt Pavement Association and helps produce the CP2 Center newsletter. Reprinted with permission.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Jeff Brown joins Roadtec as regional sales manager Roadtec is pleased to announce Jeff Brown has joined the company as their new Regional Sales Manager, serving the California and Hawaii market. Brown will represent Roadtec as the primary contact in the region, and will be responsible for assisting their valued customers and developing new business opportunities.

An Air Force veteran, Jeff earned an MBA from the University of Arkansas, and is an established Business Development Manager.

Jeff previously worked for the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, where he was a Pavement Management

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Engineer. At the AR DOT Jeff became well versed in Federal Highway Administration regulations, and conducted research regarding crack detection, pavement condition, pavement distress, and more.

Eric Baker, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, said, “We are glad to have Jeff on board and look forward to his success in California and Hawaii. Jeff’s unique combination of talent, experience and attitude made him the ideal fit for this opportunity.”

Jeff is based in Oxnard, CA and can be reached at jdbrown@roadtec.com. CA

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CALENDAR UPDATE 'ASPHALT PAVEMENT 101' CLASS Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Time: 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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TOPGOLF NETWORKING EVENT Date: Tuesday, November 5. 2019 Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Topgolf Entertainment Complex Location: 1700 Freedom Way Roseville

SOCAL CONTRACTORS' DINNER Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Time: 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Location: Dal Rae Restaurant 9023 E. Washington Boulevard Pico Rivera

FALL ASPHALT PAVEMENT CONFERENCE Date: Wed. & Thur., November 6-7, 2019 Hilton Sacramento Arden West Location: 2200 Harvard Street Sacramento

2020 CalAPA® ANNUAL DINNER Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020 Jonathan Club Location: 545 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles

2020 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Date: April 16-17, 2020 Disney’s Grand California Hotel and Spa Location: 1600 Disneyland Drive Anaheim Meeting dates are subject to change.

Watch the weekly Asphalt Insider newsletter for meeting updates or call CalAPA® at (916) 791-5044 to confirm meeting date and location.

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