Agenda posted before 5:00 PM, October 30, 2014

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

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

November 6, 2014, 10:00 AM (Estimated duration: 2 hours and 45 minutes, expected ending at 12:45 PM)

This meeting will be preceded by a meeting of the Unified Planning Work Program Committee, scheduled to begin at 9:00 AM

Civil Rights, nondiscrimination, and accessibility information is on page 2.

Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions, 5 minutes

2. Public Comments, 10 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 (Update on Recertification Review)

7. Action Items:

a. TIP Amendment One, Sean Pfalzer, MPO Staff, presentation and discussion of public comments, and vote to endorse TIP Amendment One to the FFYs 2015 – 18 Transportation Improvement Program, 20 minutes (to be posted)

b. Work Scope - Foxborough JARC Transit Feasibility Study, Karl Quackenbush, MPO Executive Director, presentation, discussion, and vote to approve this work program, 10 minutes (to be posted)

c. Meeting Minutes of October 16, 2014, meeting, Maureen Kelly, MPO Staff, approval of these meeting minutes, 5 minutes (to be posted)

8. LRTP Development, Anne McGahan, MPO Staff, and Karl Quackenbush, Executive Director, 60 minutes, presentation and discussion of:

a. Update on LRTP development – process, milestones, progress to date, and introduction to scenario planning and LRTP programming

b. Public comments on MPO Vision, Goals and Objectives and staff recommendations for revisions

c. Setting priorities for LRTP scenarios; invitation to take survey

9. Project Cost Containment and TIP Project Cost Increase Reporting, Dave Anderson, MassDOT, and Sean Pfalzer, MPO Staff, report on MassDOT cost containment initiative and staff recommendation on method for reporting cost increases of TIP projects 30 minutes)

10. 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 617.973.7100 (voice), 617.973.7089 (TTY), 617.973.8855 (fax), or publicinformation@ctps.org.

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