Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will chair a Task Force on Infrastructure for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

The task force will focus on working with the Trump Administration and Congress to develop and pass the infrastructure package that President Trump campaigned on and has promised since his election.

Eric GarcettiAs Administration and Congressional leaders move to develop a major new infrastructure initiative, The U.S. Conference of Mayors has been actively engaged on this priority since the election, the organization says in a statement.

The organization's top four officers and CEO & Executive Director Tom Cochran met with then President-elect Trump on December 15 and discussed many issues related to infrastructure, including protecting municipal bonds, as well as the need for direct funding to cities.

In January, Vice President-elect Mike Pence came to the Conference's Winter Meeting and explained the President would deliver a major infrastructure investment for America. Most recently, during USCM's early March Leadership Meeting, mayors met with key infrastructure leaders including Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Bill Shuster, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and others.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors is a nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are nearly 1400 such cities in the country today, and each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.