Fort Worth Business Press, June 2, 2014 Vol. 26, No. 21 | Page 15

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standpoint. People don’t see that as
a big positive.
You’ve said the Parker County program
goes to the future of transportation
projects.
The Parker County story really is
looking at partnerships. How do you
work with the city, the county, [the
Council of Governments], the state and
feds to leverage as much as you can to
meet your local transportation needs.
They had a plan people could see and
could buy into, they went out to a
bond election. There wasn’t a whole
lot of sale that needed to happen. And
then the component that’s made it
really successful is we didn’t just talk
about it. We got the jobs done.
How transferable is this approach to
larger entities that have big staffs that
manage these projects?
The program management approach
can be used at a city or county level. Most
of the time the counties typically have
limited staff. The program management
approach works well, because they have
limited staff. The big counties may have
three, four, five people who work on
transportation projects.
Fort Worth brought in the Jacobs Group
to help accelerate its delivery of projects
because the city didn’t have the capacity.
Will we see more of this in the future?
I do think you’ll see cities, as

Freese and Nichols was responsible for the design of more than 20 projects in the Parker County bond program.

well as counties, take a more
comprehensive approach. I think
some of your larger transportation
jobs will look more like [construction
manager at risk] or design-build,
different types of delivery. )]