Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs - Senate

Glad to see everyone here today. We look forward to working on transportation and technology needs for the state of Arkansas. We've got a few rules and procedures that we need to cover. I'm going to start out by introducing our vice chair, Senator Desmay. It was good for him to join us today. And so, as, as you can tell, he will always look better than I do when he's up here, so there won't be any questions on that. Yeah, we cover our rules as you see inside your green folder. These are our rules. Last year, There was a technical and a verbal amendment that was put on for the committee. It's going to be up to us whether they decide to do that again this year or not. And so I'll leave that up to y'all. It's not in the rules, so someone will have to make a motion if we want to do that. So with Senator Dismay. Second of Sands, all in favor say I Oh same sign. So we will add that to the rules. Miss Whittaker. OK. And as we always say, please remember to leave your green folder in here. Do not take it with you. As you said, there is a sheet. Involved has a lot of phone numbers and information on here. This will be emailed to us because we have to leave this in our file. And so Mr. Jessica, we will email that to us. start out next, but it's going around the room and letting everyone introduce ourselves and where they're from. I'll start myself. I'm Senator Ricky Hill from Cabot. Look forward to working with everyone, and this will be my Like 3rd I think I've served on every year since I've been here 3rd or 4th, uh. on transportation. So look forward to working with her. I'll be the first year chair, but we're going to have fun no matter what. So Senator Dima. Yeah, uh, uh, from Cersei represent White County, uh, generally a little bit of Cleburne, uh, I think this is my 2nd time to have the opportunity to serve on transportation over. My name's Tyler Des, and I have the joy to represent, uh, Silent Springs is my hometown and Benton in Washington County, Northwest Arkansas, and I believe this is accurate. I think I am the furthest legislator from the Capitol 5 miles and so transportation is very important to me personally and to the drug. I. And now we'll let the staff introduce themselves. Hi, I'm Jessica Whittaker. I'm the assistant director of the research division, and I'm also the committee analyst for this committee. Marisa White, I'm her assistant. And that Cumbi will be our drafting attorney for this committee. So if you need anything drafted, please get with with Zach. One of the, the main reasons we're here today is we've got to decide when we want to meet. Typically it's 9:30 a.m. on Mondays. I know. Senator Dees drives a long ways, so to Senator Bryant. Yeah, I'm open for whenever y'all would like to try to meet. You know, if you want to meet at 3 o'clock on a Friday, that's fine too. So let's just kind of kind of kind of decide. We just kind of decide amongst us when y'all want to meet y'all wanna meet after after Monday's session or when would you like to try to let's just open this up for discussion. You're out of uh. Be in your seat before I know Just mainly have the input. Let's just temporarily say right now for the beginning of session we'll meet Monday afternoons after session 15 minutes upon an adjournment after session and as we get going later on in the year at that point, we may have to change it around the session just to lasting longer to a time before maybe a different day or something like that would kind of leave that discretion. I know that does make it difficult for people, but We'll work through what they have every year, so. Yes sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I should turn my mic on earlier, uh, since we're we're talking about Mondays, uh, I want to extend an invitation to all the members of the committee next Monday, a week from today at 3:30, we will be having a groundbreaking for the new UCA Aviation Academy at the Conway Airport. Obviously a transportation issue wanted to invite all the committee members and public to attend that, but this will be for the new hanger for the aviation academy. ECA it's at 3:30. The governor will be there next Monday, next Monday, the 27th, yes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Eka, would you mind sending the email out sometime during the week to remind all the committee of that plus those who are not here. Mhm Thank you for that. So we'll plan on meeting on Mondays and at some point we get a bunch of bills coming in, we can pick up a Wednesday or whatever we need to on that part of it we'll just be at the kind of. Call call of the chair. The other thing is, now I know Si dismaying and Senator D, this will be high priority on their list. Pictures cannot be scheduled after the 27th. And so that's the Secretary of State's office, so we will get that scheduled sooner or later. We'll get that taken care of, so we will not miss that. Try to get everyone in here. Mm I'd like to go around now and have the those in the audience to introduce themselves, who they're with, what they're working. Working on or through lobbying or if you're Department of Transportation, so they start over, we'll start over here. So you're the important one. well I Re division uh. Oh. Randy government solutions. I'm there on the. We appreciate everyone being here today. We appreciate, uh, and look forward to working with everyone to try to take care of the issues for the transportation and technology division. Center dismay, is there anything you'd like to add? Will we be dealing with crypto. I've heard it may be coming this way. Jessica, is there anything else we need to cover? That being said, we'll organize and we're adjourned. Let