Jeff Stroehmann Appointed to Transportation Board
A former Woodward Township supervisor and one-time congressional candidate has been tapped to serve on the state Transportation Advisory Committee.
Jeff Stroehmann, vice president of operations for Moran Industries in Watsontown, said he was appointed to serve on the 12-member bi-partisan board as a result of his diverse background in transportation issues.
He also referred to some of the accomplishments of Moran, a warehousing, distribution and logistics company, in transportation-related activities.
He was appointed by state Rep. Keith R. McCall, D-Lansford, who serves as Speaker of the House.
“I am honored to have been appointed to this very important committee by Speaker McCall,” he said. “I look forward to working with the other members to enhance Pennsylvania’s infrastructure, which will create jobs and economic opportunity for citizens of Pennsylvania.”
The committee, he noted, studies state transportation issues and their impact on economic development and makes reports to the state Legislature and the governor.
Stroehmann, chairman of the Lycoming County Republican Committee, lost in the party’s primary for a Congressional seat in 2008 to Glenn Thompson.
He said, however, that while campaigning his ideas on transportation, including a plan to enhance the state’s infrastructure through investments in roads, rails line and rural airports, caught the attention of some officials.
Stroehmann is filling out the term of Larry McCrae of Philadelphia, who resigned from the committee.
The term expires next year.
Committee members are appointed by the governor, Speaker of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate.
Other members include state Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler, Public Utility Commission Chairman James H. Crawley, Acting Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection John Hanger, Secretary of Agriculture Dennis Wolff, Secretary of Education Gerald L. Zahorchak, and Acting Secretary of Community and Economic Development John Blake.
Source: Sun Gazette, Mike Reuther
