Organizational Structure

Committee Structure

The report card will be developed through the efforts of three committees. As described in individual sections below, the committees will gather, evaluate, review and compile various pieces of data.

• The Infrastructure Working Committee
• The Review Council
• The Executive Committee

The makeup and responsibilities of each committee are as follows:

Infrastructure Working Committee

a) Would consist of Technical experts from field – both public and private sector. Each committee will be composed of approximately 3 to 6 people.

b) Would develop detailed methodology for their specific category using the guidelines presented below:

a) Would gather data – either review of existing data where available or surveys for new data. The kind of data collected would result in:

1. Assessment of infrastructure
2. Cost of needed to reach an acceptable level of improvements

b) Compile and analyze the data, resulting in the development of a summary report, to be reviewed by the Review Council.

c) Determine an initial grade.

d) Develop a short (approximately two pages) report. The report, at a minimum, should summarize the methodology and criteria used, findings and results, and list the sources of data.

Review Council

a) The Review Council would consist of 3 to 6 senior management experts in the specific category. The council will be comprised of leaders in the public sector, consultant /private industry, academia, and where appropriate the environmental community.

b) Responsibilities of the Review Council are to:

i) Review and evaluate methodology.
ii) Review and validate Infrastructure Working Committee findings/Report
iii) Develop overall assessment statement and general overview statements of what grade means.

c) The Review Council will have the ability to adjust the grades up or down, based on information not considered by the Infrastructure Working Committee. For example, if review committee senior managers are aware of project capital improvement programs or funding commitments, that would improve the infrastructure, they could determine that this justifies a modification of the overall grade.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is responsible for organizing and guiding the report card effort. They are responsible for gathering the grades from the Review Councils and printing up a distributable report card. The Executive Committee is responsible for planning and hosting the press and publicity, and all other PR events.