A Guide to the Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1994-1997
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 35872
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Preferred Citation
Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1994-1997. Accession 35872, State Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
This collection was transferred by records manager, Cathy M. Ghidotti, 19 November 1997.
Processing Information
This collection has been processed using minimal processing standards: the originial arrangement has been maintained, the container list is brief and simple, and the records have not been refoldered and fastners have not been removed.
Material found loose in boxes was foldered and given a title determined by the archivist. In cases where folder titles were inaccurate, the titles have been corrected to more adequately describe material.
Biographical Information
In 1970, the Governor's Management Commission Study recommended the creation of six "Deputy Governors" to assist the Chief Executive in his managerial duties. Compatible functions of government were grouped under these administrative heads, who would serve as the Governors top management team or "secretariats," as they are called now.
Governor Linwood Holton's top priority for the 1972 session of the General Assembly was a proposal for a Governor's Cabinet, reorganizing state agencies into six major departments--each headed by a secretary appointed by the governor. Transportation and public safety was one of these six departments. The office of Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was created on April 8, 1972, by an act passed by the General Assembly. Governor Holton appointed Wayne A. Whitham, a member of the Winchester City Council, as the first Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety. When Whitham took office on July 1, 1972, he was responsible for State Highway Commission, Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of State Police, Highway Safety Division, Office of Emergency Services, Department of Military Affairs, Virginia State Crime Commission and the Law Enforcement Officers Training Standards Commission. The Office has undergone a series of administrative reorganizations since. On April 12, 1976, the Legislature established separate secretariats for transportation and for public safety, effective July 1, 1976. On July 1, 1984, the offices were again combined. Most recently, the Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was divided into separate secretariats on February 22, 1990. The Secretary of Transportation is a member of the Governor's Cabinet, and is appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly. The Secretary is responsible to the governor for the Department of Transportation, Department of Rail and Public Transportation, Department of Aviation, Department of Motor Vehicles, Virginia Port Authority and the Motor Vehicle Dealers Board.
Wayne A. Whitham, the first Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety, was reappointed by Governor-elect Miles E. Godwin, Jr., in December 1973 and by Governor-elect John N. Dalton in December 1977. Whitham suffered a heart attack in August 1978 and resigned in December 1978. On June 7, 1984, Whitham died in Richmond, Virginia. Governor Dalton named George M. Walters, a former top executive of the Reynolds Metals Corporation, to succeed Whitham as Secretary of Transportation. Walters served until the end of Dalton's term in January 1982. Governor-elect Charles S. Robb, the first Democrat to be elected governor since 1965, did not retain any of Dalton's cabinet secretaries. Robb appointed Andrew B. Fogarty, Dalton's assistant secretary for financial policy, as Secretary of Transportation. On July 1, 1984, the secretariats of transportation and public safety were combined again. As a result this partial reorganization of state government, Governor Robb appointed Fogarty Secretary of Administration and Franklin E. White, Secretary of Public Safety, assumed Fogarty's Transportation duties. White, who served as a White House liaison official under President Jimmy Carter, resigned in June 1985 to become the New York state commissioner of transportation. He was replaced by Andrew Fogarty who served until the end of the Robb administration. He later served as Governor Gerald L. Baliles chief of staff from August 1986 to October 1989 when he resigned to become a vice president with CSX Corporation.
In December 1985, Governor-elect Gerald L. Baliles, picked Vivian E. Watts, a northern Virginia legislator, as Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety. Watts served until the end of Baliles' term in 1990. In 1995 she was elected to her old seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. On February 22, 1990, the Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was divided into separate secretariats. Governor L. Douglas Wilder, appointed John G. Milliken, a member of the Arlington County Board of Supervisors, as the Secretary of Transportation. Milliken resigned on December 17, 1993.
In February 1994 Governor George Allen, the first Republican elected governor since 1977, appointed Robert Martinez as Secretary of Transportation. Martinez was born in Cuba and had served as Deputy Administrator for the Marine Administration and Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation during President George H.W. Bush's administration. At the end of Governor Allen's term in January 1998, Martinez joined the Norfolk Southern Corporation. Shirley Ybarra, deputy Secretary of Transportation in the Allen administration, was named Martinez's successor by Governor-elect James Gilmore. Ybarra previously worked as a special assistant to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole during President Ronald Reagan's administration. Ybarra served until the end of Gilmore's administration in January 2002. Whittington W. Clement, a former lawyer and long-time member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing the City of Danville, was appointed Secretary of Transportation by Governor Mark R. Warner in 2002. Pierce R. Homer, Deputy Secretary of Transportation, replaced Clement in 2005.
Scope and Content
This collection consists of memorandums related to transportation in Virginia, all materials fall under the headings of Virginia Port Authority, Department of Motor Vehicles, Department of Rail and Public Transportation, Department of Aviation, Highways and Corridors, Speeches, Department of Transportationa nd General Secretariat files.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into the following series:
Series I. Correspondence and Suject FilesContents List
Arrangement created by agency has been maintained, files are alphabetical under each sub heading.
- Box 1
Folder 1
Virginia Port Authority: Bonds, 1996 .
- Box 1
Folder 2
Virginia Port Authority: Bonds, 1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 3
Virginia Port Authority: Corps of Engineers, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 4
Virginia Port Authority: Crany Island, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 5
Virginia Port Authority: Dredging - James River, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 6
Virginia Port Authority: Dredging - York River, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 7
Virginia Port Authority: Foreign Trade Zones, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 8
Virginia Port Authority: Inland Port, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 9
Virginia Port Authority: Intermodal Installation Project, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 10
Virginia Port Authority: Maersk/Sea Land, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 11
Virginia Port Authority: Procurement, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 12
Motor Vehicles, Department of: Accomplishments, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 13
Motor Vehicles, Department of: Auto Theft Unit, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 14
Motor Vehicles, DMV "Connections", 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 15
Motor Vehicles, Department of: Customer Service Centers, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 16
Motor Vehicles, Department of: District Alignment, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 17
Motor Vehicles, Department of: Emissions Inspections, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 18
Motor Vehicles, Department of: License Plate Production, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 19
Motor Vehicles, Department of: One Stop Shopping, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 20
Motor Vehicles, Department of: Salvage Vehicle Legislation (Federal), 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 21
Motor Vehicles, Department of: Series/1 Replacement, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 22
Motor Vehicles, Department of: Special License Plates, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 23
Motor Vehicles, Department of: Trucking Task Force, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 24
Motor Vehicles, Department of: VIPNet, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 25
Rail and Public Transportation, Department of: Bus Transit Privatization, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 26
Rail and Public Transportation, Department of: High Speed Rail, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 27
Rail and Public Transportation, Department of: Virginia Railway Express, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 28
Aviation, Department of: Air and Space Annex, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 29
Aviation, Department of: Air Service, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 30
Aviation, Department of: ARNAV Datalink, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 31
Aviation, Department of: Eastern Virginia Air System Study, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 32
Aviation, Department of: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 33
Aviation, Department of: Regulations, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 34
Aviation, Department of: Richmond International Airport, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 35
Aviation, Department of: State Aircraft Use, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 36
Aviation, Department of: Tangier Island Airport, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 37
Aviation, Department of: US-UK Open Skies, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 38
Highways and Corridors: Coalfields Expressway, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 39
Highways and Corridors: Corridor H, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 40
Highways and Corridors: Dulles Toll Road, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 41
Highways and Corridors: Fairfax County Parkway, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 42
Highways and Corridors: Norfolk-Virginia Beach Expressway, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 43
Highways and Corridors: Oak Grove Connector, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 44
Highways and Corridors: Snickersville Turnpike, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 45
Highways and Corridors: Southeatern Expressway, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 46
Highways and Corridors: Route 17, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 47
Highways and Corridors: Route 29 - Charlottesville Bypass, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 48
Highways and Corridors: Route 43Y - Eagle Rock Bridge, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 49
Highways and Corridors: Interstate 66, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 50
Highways and Corridors: Interstate 66 - Major Investment Study, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 51
Highways and Corridors: Interstate 73, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 52
Highways and Corridors: Interstate 95 - Pavement Issue, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 53
Highways and Corridors: Route 168, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 54
Highways and Corridors: Route 234 Bypass, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 55
Highways and Corridors: Route 288, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 56
Highways and Corridors: Route 460, 1996-1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 57
Speeches, 1997 .
- Box 1
Folder 58
Speeches, 1996 .
- Box 1
Folder 59
Speeches, 1995 .
- Box 1
Folder 60
Speeches, 1994 .
- Box 2
Folder 1
Transportation, Department of: Alternative Fuels Revolving Fund, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 2
Transportation, Department of: Bonds, 1995;1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 3
Transportation, Department of: Coleman Bridge, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 4
Transportation, Department of: Crumb Rubber, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 5
Transportation, Department of: Demonstration Projects, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 6
Transportation, Department of: Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 7
Transportation, Department of: Enhancements, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 8
Transportation, Department of: Fastoll, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 9
Transportation, Department of: Federal Funds, Additional, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 10
Transportation, Department of: High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes (HOV-2), 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 11
Transportation, Department of: Inmate Labor, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 12
Transportation, Department of: Metropolitan Washington Regional Transit Authority, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 13
Transportation, Department of: National Transportation System, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 14
Transportation, Department of: North Carolina, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 15
Transportation, Department of: Northern Virginia District - VDOT Building, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 16
Transportation, Department of: Northern Virginia District - Maintenance Complex, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 17
Transportation, Department of: Ohio Plan, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 18
Transportation, Department of: Outdoor Advertising, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 19
Transportation, Department of: Ozone Transport Commission, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 20
Transportation, Department of: Privatization (1), 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 21
Transportation, Department of: Regional Design Centers, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 22
Transportation, Department of: Rest Areas, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 23
Transportation, Department of: Six Year Plan, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 24
Transportation, Department of: Smart Road, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 25
Transportation, Department of: State Infrastructure Banks, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 26
Transportation, Department of: State Vehicle Fleet, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 27
Transportation, Department of: Statewide Intermodal Long Range Plan, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 28
Transportation, Department of: Telecommunications/Accommodation Policy, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 29
Transportation, Department of: Transportation Coordination Council, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 30
Transportation, Department of: Truck Access - Route 15, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 31
Transportation, Department of: Woodrow Wilson Bridge, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 32
General Secretariat Files: Air Quality, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 33
General Secretariat Files: Blue Ribbon Strike Force, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 34
General Secretariat Files: Budget, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 35
General Secretariat Files: Customer Service, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 36
General Secretariat Files: Commercial Vehicle Information System and Network project, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 37
General Secretariat Files: Debt Capacity, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 38
General Secretariat Files: Drug Testing, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 39
General Secretariat Files: Federal Mandates, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 40
General Secretariat Files: House Joint Resolution 160, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 41
General Secretariat Files: Intermodal Coordinating Council, Establishment of, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 42
General Secretariat Files: National Highway System, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 43
General Secretariat Files: Needs Assessment, 20 year, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 44
General Secretariat Files: National Economic Crossroads Transportation Efficiency Act, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 45
General Secretariat Files: Privatization (2), 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 46
General Secretariat Files: Reauthorization of Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 47-48
General Secretariat Files: Senate Joint Resolution 143 and 240, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 49
General Secretariat Files: Southern Governor's Association, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 50
General Secretariat Files: STEP 21, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 51
General Secretariat Files: Urban Initiatives, 1996-1997 .
- Box 2
Folder 52
General Secretariat Files: Virginia Aviation Conference, 1997 Aug 21 .
- Box 2
Folder 53
General Secretariat Files: Virginia Connections, 1996-1997 .