The Citizens for Modern Transit 27th Annual Meeting is scheduled for Friday, September 23, 2011. The event will be held from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Grand Hotel, 800 Washington Ave. St. Louis, MO 63101. The event will feature keynote speaker Scott Bernstein, President & Co-Founder for the Center for Neighborhood Technology. Scott leads CNT's work to understand and better disclose the economic value of resource use in urban communities, and helps craft strategies to capture the value of this efficiency productively and locally. He was a founding Board member at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Center. President Clinton appointed Scott to the President's Council for Sustainable Development.