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Jan
25
2016
Cocopah Representatives Participate At Transportation Summit.

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Economic Mobility: The Race for 2016 was held Jan. 12 - 15 at the Riverfront Conference Center in Yuma.

Cocopah Vice-Chairman J. Deal Begay Jr. and Planning Director Paul Soto

Elected officials, transportation experts, civil engineers and policy makers throughout Arizona attended a four-day rural transportation summit in Yuma, Arizona, this week.

Cocopah Vice-Chairman J. Deal Begay Jr. and Cocopah Planning Department Director Paul Soto attended the event, which was hosted by the Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization. Mr. Begay moderated two discussion groups, one on tribal transportation in Arizona and the other on federal lands access.

Pictured left to right: Vice-Chairman J. Deal Begay Jr., Federal Highway Administration Arizona Division Administrator Karla Petty, FHWA Assistant Administrator David Kim, and Cocopah Planning Department Director Paul Soto.