We're doing the Ohio State partnering
meeting and so opportunity once a year
for a lot of the folks from the Great
Lakes . So highway division that do
work uh in the State of Ohio and a lot
of our Ohio State partners , Department
of Transportation , Ohio , epa uh
Department of Natural Resources , all
to come together and really just talk
through issues and it really goes back ,
you know , the chief's partnering
playbook , right ? It's , it's it
cooper operation his commitment and his
communication . The main goal is today
is one to continue to build those
relationships , but it's an opportunity
to have conversations that we don't
necessarily always get to have . We
have all our districts have a really
good relationship with state agencies
on the working level . Uh And a lot of
them have been doing it for years
together . So that that is , is great .
But sometimes we don't get the
opportunity at this more senior level
to have those conversations and to
understand and be able to share what we
know or don't know and ask questions at
that level . So it helps at the , at
the more senior level to kind of be
more unified with all the folks that on
the working on the ground are working
together . Great and may already know
we may not understand it , but it's
also an opportunity to maybe find out
where do we go next and how do we get
better ? I get a lot of questions when
I'm out and about about , you know , is
it frustrating to work in the political
environment ? And you know , how are
things working with the federal level ?
This is an example of when you sit face
to face , there's no daylight between
us . We , we work so closely uh with
Major general Quander . Uh We were down
in Cincinnati at the end of last year
starting these conversations and I
really appreciate his commitment to the
State of Ohio and to uh really seeing
things through this isn't just talk ,
this is action . And so I'm very
grateful to him and his team . When you
communicate , you bring issues out on
the table . Uh When you collaborate ,
you help solve tough challenges , you
know , we solve our nation's toughest
engineering challenges and when you are
committed to each other , you help
solve those tough problems . And so
it's really going back to those three
CS . Uh and it , it works every single
time and uh everybody's just being
great teammates and uh and that's how
we get after those tough problems .