Rebuilding Our Transportation Vision Workgroup

Governor Tina Kotek is convening transportation experts, system users, and advocates from across the state and political spectrum to build an achievable and comprehensive vision for Oregon’s transportation system. Building on prior state and legislative work, the Rebuilding Our Transportation Vision Workgroup (Workgroup) will review transportation needs, funding challenges, priorities, and tradeoffs and provide recommendations to inform action in the 2027 legislative session. Recommendations will focus on affordability, accountability, safety, and economic vitality.

Strategic Goals

The Workgroup will:

Assess current service levels across all modes of transportation and evaluate how these conditions align with legislatively adopted performance measures. Review and synthesize how historic transportation spending trends impacted current service levels.
Review the current and projected financial condition of major transportation funds, including the Highway Trust Fund, which currently provides equal funding to state and local transportation systems, and the Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund, which helps to fund public transit across Oregon.
Evaluate how Oregon will perform against existing KPMs, and the goals set forth in the Oregon Transportation Plan, at currently adopted funding levels. Compare Oregon’s system condition, and funding tools, to other states.
Develop a tiered, comprehensive transportation investment framework, that supports economic development, affordability, and a safe, accessible, and reliable transportation system. This framework should also identify opportunities for operational efficiency and funding simplification.

Workgroup Members

Grace Crunican – Co-Chair

Crunican is a transportation leader known for managing infrastructure systems. She has served as General Manager of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, the Director of the Oregon Department of Transportation, and led the Seattle Department of Transportation.

Bruce Hanna – Co-Chair

Hanna served five terms in the Oregon House of Representatives representing the Roseburg area, including as Co-Speaker of the House in 2011-12. In addition to his public service, Hanna has built a long career in the beverage distribution industry.

Ted Aadland

Aadland is a member of the ODOT Continuous Improvement Advisory Committee and former president of Associated General Contractors. With more than 40 years of heavy highway experience, he has supervised more than 200 transportation improvement projects, with experience in freight rail, highways, transit and light rail.

Julie Brown

Brown is the Chair of the Oregon Transportation Commission and General Manager for the Rogue Valley Transportation District. She has 30 years of experience in transportation planning and service implementation.

Gale Castillo

Castillo is one of the founders of the Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber and the co-owner of Brown Castillo, LLC, a property management company. She is the past President and co-owner of Canopy, one of the largest privately held companies that provides a variety of mental health and wellness services globally.

Dan Dorran

Dorran is a Umatilla County Commissioner. He is the Chair of the North East Area Commission on Transportation and Co-Chair of the Association of Oregon Counties Transportation and Community Development Subcommittee. Dorran also serves on the Oregon Road User Fee Task Force.

Tyler Frisbee

Frisbee is the Director of the Institute of Metropolitan Studies at Portland State University and has worked in transportation policy at the federal, state, regional, and local levels, focusing on building multimodal systems and advancing policy work to support major capital projects. She also represents District 4 on the TriMet Board.

Jeff Gritz

Gritz is the Business Manager of LIUNA Oregon and Southern Idaho, the Laborers’ International Union of North America. Gritz has served on many public, private and community boards across Oregon, including the Oregon Building Trades Council, Pendleton Building & Construction Trades Council, and Eastern Oregon Workforce Board.

Chris Hagerbaumer

Hagerbaumer is Executive Director of OpenAQ, an environmental tech nonprofit. Previously at Oregon Environmental Council, she worked to develop and advocate for environmentally friendly, people-focused transportation solutions as transportation program director then deputy director.

Patrick Nofield

Nofield is Chairman and co-founder of Escape Lodging Company, a lodging and restaurant operator/developer with 16 properties located throughout Western Oregon. He is Immediate Past Chair of the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association and previously served as Chairman of the Oregon Tourism Commission.

Jim Trett

Trett served as the Mayor of Detroit from 2017-2026 and previously served on the Detroit city council. Trett is a former president of the Oregon Mayors Association and served 34 years at the Keizer Fire Department.

Lisa Sumption (non-voting)

Sumption is the Interim Director of the Oregon Department of Transportation. Sumption has served as the Director of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department since 2014. Sumption is one of the longest-serving agency directors on the Governor's Enterprise Leadership team.

Meetings

The Workgroup will hold nine meetings from May to November, and meetings will be accessible to the public. The Workgroup’s recommendations will be delivered to Governor Kotek by the end of 2026.

Public Input

Public engagement opportunities will be shared in the coming weeks.

The Workgroup welcomes feedback from the public as it builds recommendations to rebuild Oregon’s transportation system. Feedback to the Workgroup can be sent to RebuildingTransportation@odot.oregon.gov.