April 19, 2019 Investing in People and Places @RegionalPlan #RPAassembly RPA Board of Directors Chairman Rohit T. Aggarwala* Trent Lethco* Scott Rechler* David Armour Christopher Levendos Mark Marcucci President & CEO Charles Avolio Andrew Mathias Thomas K. Wright* Joseph Barile Stephen R. Beckwith Jan Nicholson Robert Billingsley* Richard L. Oram Co-Chair, Advancement Committee Eugénie Birch Seth Pinsky* Marcia Bateson* Robert Blumenthal Clint Plummer Jason Post Co-Chair, Connecticut Committee Mark Blumkin Thomas Prendergast Michael J. Cacace Anthony Borelli Jo Ivey Boufford David Quart Co-Chair, Connecticut Committee Tonio Burgos Richard Ravitch Michael J. Critelli Vishaan Chakrabarti Gregg Rechler Michael J. Regan Vice Chair Kevin G. Chavers James Rubin Douglas Durst Jun Choi* Frank Cohen Elliot G. Sander Co-Chair, New Jersey Committee Anthony R. Coscia John Santora Hon. James J. Florio Jose Luis Cruz Samuel I. Schwartz Peggy Shepard Co-Chair, Nominating & Governance Committee Peter D’Arcy Tokumbo Shobowale Timur Galen* Mike DeMarco Steve Denning H. Claude Shostal Counsel Lisa Diaz Ryan Simonetti David Huntington* Susannah Drake Jennifer Skyler Monica Slater Stokes Co-Chair, New Jersey Committee Blair Duncan Susan L. Solomon Paul Josephson* Eva Durst Winston Fisher Robert K. Steel* Co-Chair, Audit & Finance Committee Sarah Fitts Robert Stromsted Matthew S. Kissner* James E. Fitzgerald Michael Sweeney Reuben Teague Co-Chair, Audit & Finance Committee Maxine Griffith Travis Terry Hope Knight* Christopher Hahn Rachel Haot Richard T. Thigpen Co-Chair, Advancement Committee Richard J. Haray Darryl Towns Denise Richardson Suzanne Heidelberger Jane Veron Philippe Visser Co-Chair, Communications Committee Peter W. Herman Kevin Willens Marc Ricks Dylan Hixon Brian Hughes Kate Wittels Co-Chair, Communications Committee Kerry Hughes Eric Yarbro Janette Sadik-Khan Sabrina Kanner Robert D. Yaro Co-Chair, New York Committee Anaita Kasad Directors Emeriti Lynne B. Sagalyn Gregory A. Kelly Kyle Kimball Edward J. Blakely Co-Chair, New York Committee Thomas Klin Barbara Joelson Fife Anthony Shorris* Mitchell Korbey Hon. James J. Florio Kenneth T. Jackson Co-Chair, Nominating & Governance Committee Ben Korman Marc Joseph Marilyn J. Taylor* Judith Lagano* Barry Langer Charles J. Maikish Christopher LaTuso Luther Tai Secretary of the Corporation Jill Lerner* Juliette Michaelson * Member of Executive Committee Welcome Welcome to Investing in People and Places, Today you will hear from a wide range of policy Regional Plan Association’s 29th annual Assembly! experts, politicians, public officials, academics, journalists and business leaders about the critical It is a tremendous privilege to host this gathering issues facing our region. What are we going to each year. We learn so much from our distinguished do about the threat of climate change? How can speakers and from everyone who comes to listen, we promote job growth in diverse communities participate and share ideas about what our region without displacing existing residents? What are could be. Thank you for joining us and helping institutions and community groups doing to promote make our region a better place to live and work. public health in communities that have suffered Your dedication and enthusiasm is an inspiration to from decades of neglect, underinvestment and everyone at Regional Plan Association. racial bias? What can we do to fix New York’s This year’s event is especially exciting! After years public housing system? And how can we actually of advocacy and many starts and stops, the New implement a tolling system that manages traffic York State legislature included a congestion pricing congestion and provides funding for transit? program in the budget that was signed into law by All of these topics are on the table in today’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. RPA has been advocating sessions. Your participation and engagement will for this ever since we released A Region at Risk, help us craft our positions and provide for a future RPA’s Third Regional Plan, in 1996. It took a broad that is more equitable, sustainable, healthy and coalition of civic, business, community, transit and prosperous. environmental advocates to get us over the finish line. We spent countless hours hosting community On behalf of the staff and the board of directors of briefings, producing facts sheets about the benefits Regional Plan Association, thank you for joining us! of the program for different communities, meeting with legislators, and keeping the issue in the news throughout the year. We are grateful to all of our partners for their commitment and hard work and to Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and all the legislators and political leaders who supported this Scott Rechler effort. It will generate billions of dollars to invest Chairman in our transit system and begin managing our limited streets and highways. We’re excited to help implement these policies and expand these ideas to communities in Connecticut, New Jersey, Long Island and the Hudson Valley. Thomas K. Wright President & CEO 3 Grand Hyatt 109 E 42nd Street, New York, NY WiFi Login Network: RPA-Assembly Password: thinkregional 4th Floor Ballroom Level Follow us on Twitter @RegionalPlan To 3rd Floor #RPAassembly Registration Coat Check Foyer Elevators Breakfast, Exhibits & Closing Reception To 3rd Floor Ballroom LuncheonMorning Program and Stage 3rd Floor Breakout Sessions To 2nd FloorTo 4th Floor Elevators Building Healthy To 4th Floor Communities (Carnegie Room) Fixing Our Public Housing (Broadway Room) Creating Jobs, Climate Tolling for Preserving Communities Justice for All Transit (Juilliard Room) (Morosco Room) (Imperial Room) 4 Agenda Presenting Sponsor: 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Breakfast & Registration Lunch In the foyer In the ballroom 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Morning Program Luncheon Program Presented by Guidehouse In the ballroom In the ballroom President’s Address Welcome Tom Wright,* President & CEO, Regional Plan Association Tom Wright,* President & CEO, Regional Plan Association Featured Speaker Featured Speaker The Honorable Eric Garcetti The Honorable Ned Lamont Mayor of Los Angeles Governor of Connecticut Introduced by Introduced by John Fish, Chairman & CEO, Suffolk Construction Hope Knight,* President & CEO, Interviewed by Greater Jamaica Development Corporation Janette Sadik-Khan,* Principal, Transportation, Panel: Confronting the Climate Crisis Bloomberg Associates Rohit T. Aggarwala,* Head of Urban Systems, Sidewalk Labs The Zuccotti Award Dale Bryk, Deputy Secretary for Energy & Environment, Presented by State of New York Howard Milstein, Chairman, President & CEO, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist at the New York Private Bank & Trust NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Presented to Peggy Shepard,* Co-Founder and Executive Director, Alicia Glen WE ACT for Environmental Justice Former Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Moderated by Development, New York City; Founder, women.nyc Andrew Revkin, Strategic Adviser for Environmental and Science Journalism, National Geographic Society Chairman’s Address Introduced by Scott Rechler,* Chairman & CEO, RXR Realty; Anaita Kasad,* Partner, US State & Local Government Chairman, Regional Plan Association Practice, Guidehouse Featured Speaker Jamie Dimon 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase Breakout Sessions In the 3rd floor breakout rooms 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Building Healthy Communities (Carnegie Room) Closing Reception Fixing Our Public Housing (Broadway Room) In the foyer Creating Jobs, Preserving Communities (Juilliard Room) Climate Justice for All (Morosco Room) Tolling for Transit (Imperial Room) * RPA Board Member 5 Featured Speaker “Connecticut’s economic revival cannot only be about creating opportunities for just some of our people. It must be an economy that works for everyone. We must bring our workforce into the 21st century.” — Ned Lamont own experiences, and helping to place students in local The Honorable Ned Lamont internships. Lamont is on the faculty of Central Connect- Governor of Connecticut icut State University as an adjunct professor of political science and philosophy, where he also helped to found Edward Miner “Ned” Lamont, Jr. was sworn in on January a popular business start-up competition. In early 2009, 9, 2019 as the 89th governor of Connecticut. he helped lead an initiative to bring together Connecticut leaders from across the business, nonprofit, and labor Lamont got involved in public service shortly after college, sectors to unite in a strategy to create new jobs in the state. founding a weekly newspaper in a town hit by the loss of its largest employer. Covering town meetings and the As a candidate for United States Senate in 2006, he stood Board of Selectmen, he helped to bring voice and trans- up for his convictions and challenged the political estab- parency to a community working to recover from job lishment. Taking on long-time incumbent Joe Lieberman losses and reinvent itself. Later, as a member of both the for the Democratic nomination for United States Senate, Greenwich Board of Selectmen and the Board of Estimate Lamont campaigned on the platform that wars in the and Taxation, Lamont worked in a bipartisan effort to Middle East were draining resources and attention that safeguard a multimillion-dollar budget and deliver results could be better focused on pressing domestic issues like for constituents. For four years, Lamont also served as the economy, education, and healthcare.