Agenda posted before 5:00 PM, May 12, 2016

 

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

Conference Rooms 2 and 3, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA

May 19, 2016, 10:00 AM
(Estimated duration: 3 hours and 20 minutes, expected ending at 1:20 PM)

Meeting Agenda

1.      Introductions, 5 minutes 

2.      Public Comments, 30 minutes

3.      Chair’s Report, 5 minutes  

4.      Committee Chairs’ Reports, 5 minutes

5.      Regional Transportation Advisory Council Report, 5 minutes

6.      Executive Director’s Report, 5 minutes

7.      Action Items:

a.  Work Program for MBTA 2017 Triennial Title VI Report, Karl Quackenbush, MPO Executive Director, presentation, discussion, and vote to approve,
5 minutes (posted)

b.  Work Program for MBTA State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2017 National Transit Database: Data Collection and Analysis, Karl Quackenbush, MPO Executive Director, presentation, discussion, and vote to approve, 5 minutes (posted)

c.  Federal Fiscal Years (FFYs) 2016–2020 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Amendment 3, MPO Staff, approval of the draft TIP amendment to incorporate changes to MBTA/transit funding priorities for FFY 2016,
10 minutes (posted)

d.  Minutes of April 28, 2016, MPO meeting, Maureen Kelly, MPO Staff, approval, 5 minutes (to be posted)

8.      FFY17 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Development: Committee Recommendation, Bryan Pounds, MassDOT, UPWP Committee Chair, and Alexandra Kleyman, MPO Staff, presentation and discussion of the UPWP Committee recommendation for the FFY 2017 UPWP budget, including new programs and studies, 35 minutes (posted)

9.      FFYs 2017–2021 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Development: First-Tier List of Projects and Programming Scenarios, Lourenηo Dantas, MPO Staff, presentation and continued discussion of the options for programming the TIP’s highway target funds; this discussion will feature a presentation by MassDOT on the Route 18 reconstruction project (601630); 75 minutes (posted)

10.   State Implementation Plan (SIP) Update, Bryan Pounds, MassDOT, monthly report for public information on progress, 5 minutes

11.   Members’ Items, reports and notices by MPO members, including regional concerns and local community issues, 5 minutes

 

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