Boundary County to be recognized at Idaho Transportation Board meeting Bonners Ferry Mayor, County Road and Bridge Director will also give presentations |
July 25, 2016 |
Boundary County will be recognized at the
upcoming meeting of the Idaho Transportation
Board later this week for achieving zero traffic
fatalities during 2015. The Idaho Transportation Board meeting, scheduled for this Wednesday and Thursday, July 27 and 28, will be held in Coeur d’Alene. On their first meeting day, the Board will be touring several north Idaho businesses (none in Boundary County), and on Thursday, their second meeting day, the agenda shows they will be formally recognizing Boundary County for its commitment to the “Toward Zero Deaths” program. As part of that recognition, the Transportation Board and the Idaho Transportation Department will honor the Boundary County Sheriff’s Office, Boundary County, and Idaho State Police District 1 in achieving the national goal of zero traffic deaths in 2015. The National Strategy on Highway Safety, called Toward Zero Deaths, aims to reduce the deaths on our nation’s roadways from over 33,000 each year to zero. The TZD plan provides countermeasures in education, engineering, enforcement and emergency medical services for organizations, businesses and individuals toward reducing traffic deaths. In another item of business on the Transportation Board agenda, the board will meet with the mayors of several north Idaho cities, along with officials from cities and road districts across the area. Bonners Ferry Mayor David Sims and Boundary County Road and Bridge Director Clint Kimball are among those scheduled to give brief reports to the Idaho Transportation Board at their Thursday meeting. |