Career
Prior to joining MTC,Heminger served as Vice President for Transportation for the Bay Area Council,and as a staff assistant for various local,state,and federal governments,including the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,California State Legislature and United States Congress. [1] [2] At MTC,Heminger started as the manager of Legislation and Public Affairs in 1993;he was promoted to deputy executive director in 1999 and executive director in 2001. [3] [4]
In 2005,Heminger was appointed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of California to serve on the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. [5] The commission,formed by SAFETEA-LU,expired on July 7,2008. [6]
Heminger,a Democrat,has been active in transportation politics,and he has recommended that the federal gasoline tax be raised by forty cents per gallon. He was also a possible candidate to be President Barack Obama's nominee as Secretary of Transportation. [7] Obama would ultimately choose Ray LaHood to fill the Transportation post. [8]
Heminger's leadership at the MTC has been controversial, [9] in regards to his extensive foreign travel at public expense, [10] the problematic construction management of the new eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge,and the decision to spend substantial transportation funds on the acquisition of a new MTC regional headquarters,supporting a move from Oakland to San Francisco, [11] [12] which was projected to cost $48 million but later increased to $218 million. [13]
Heminger became the executive director of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) in July 2017 [14] after ABAG and MTC merged. [15] He retired from the executive director positions of both ABAG and MTC on February 28,2019 [4] and was appointed to the Board of Directors for the SFMTA by Mayor London Breed later that year. [16] [17] Heminger represents SFMTA on the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board,the authority that operates Caltrain. [18] In addition,he serves as a Senior Fellow for the University of California at Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies. [19]
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