Agenda posted before 5:00 PM, April 21, 2016

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

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

April 28, 2016, 10:00 AM
(Estimated duration: 3 hours and 5 minutes, expected ending at 1:05 PM)

Please Note: This meeting will be preceded by a Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Committee meeting beginning at 9:00 AM

Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions, 5 minutes

2. Public Comments, 60 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. Minutes of April 7, 2016, MPO meeting, Maureen Kelly, MPO Staff, approval,
5 minutes (to be posted)

8. Green Line Extension Phase 1 Update and Presentation, Jack Wright, Project Manager, Green Line Phase 1, presentation on the on-going review of the project’s value engineering and redesign, re-procurement strategy, project management, and additional funding sources, 45 minutes

9. FFYs 2017–2021 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Development: TIP Project Updates, Sean Pfalzer, MPO Staff, presentation and discussion of updated project information received from MassDOT, 30 minutes

10. FFY 2017 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Development: Bryan Pounds, MassDOT Staff, and Alexandra Kleyman, MPO Staff, presentation of UPWP Committee Recommendation,15 minutes (pending Committee vote on recommendation)

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

Meeting locations are accessible to people with disabilities and are near public transportation. Upon request (preferably two weeks in advance of the meeting), every effort will be made to provide accommodations such as assistive listening devices, materials in accessible formats and in languages other than English, and interpreters in American Sign Language and other languages. Please contact the MPO staff at 857.702.3700 (voice), 617.570.9193 (TTY), 617.570.9192 (fax), or publicinformation@ctps.org.

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