NOTE: If you require any accommodations in order to participate or experience technical difficulties during the meeting, please contact Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff, at elapointe@ctps.org or 857.702.3703.

Agenda posted before 4:00 PM, September 12, 2024

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

September 19, 2024, 10:00 AM (Estimated duration: 2 hours and 24 minutes, expected ending at 12:24 PM)

Civil Rights, nondiscrimination, and accessibility information is on page 3.

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Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions, 5 minutes

2. Chair’s Report, 2 minutes

3. Executive Director’s Report, 5 minutes

4. Public Comments, 5 minutes

5. Committee Chairs’ Reports, 5 minutes

6. Regional Transportation Advisory Council Report, 2 minutes

7. Action Item: Approval of July 18, 2024, MPO Meeting Minutes: 5 minutes (posted)

8. Action Item: Boston Region MPO Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Update, Dave Hong, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve updates to the MOU, 10 minutes (posted)

9. Action Item: Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Mid-Performance Period Progress Report (2024), Sam Taylor, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve the 2024 CMAQ Mid-Performance Period Performance Targets, 15 minutes (posted)

10. Quarterly Engagement Update, Erin Maguire and Stella Jordan, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion on MPO public engagement activities and how they will inform the next Long-Range Transportation Plan, 15 minutes (Link to StoryMap)

11. Summary of Board Input on the Annual Meeting, Tegin Teich, Executive Director: Presentation and discussion on survey results on Annual Meeting topics, 15 minutes

12. Community Transportation Technical Assistance Program Year in Review, Rounaq Basu, Shravanthi Gopalan Narayanan, and Kyle Casiglio, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion on the technical assistance projects completed in the FFY 2024 Community Transportation Technical Assistance Program, 30 minutes (posted)

13. Parking in Bike Lanes: Strategies for Safety and Prevention, Kyle Casiglio, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion of this FFY 2024 discrete study, 25 minutes (posted)

14. Members’ Items: Reports and notices by MPO members, including regional concerns and local community issues, 5 minutes

CIVIL RIGHTS NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Welcome. Bem Vinda. Bienvenido. Akeyi. 欢迎. 歡迎.

You are invited to participate in our transportation planning process, free from discrimination. The Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is committed to nondiscrimination in all activities and complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including limited English proficiency). Related federal and state nondiscrimination laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of age, sex, disability, and additional protected characteristics.

For additional information or to file a civil rights complaint, visit www.bostonmpo.org/mpo_non_discrimination.

To request accommodations at meetings (such as assistive listening devices, materials in accessible formats and languages other than English, and interpreters in American Sign Language and other languages) or if you need this information in another language, please contact:

Boston Region MPO Title VI Specialist

10 Park Plaza, Suite 2150

Boston, MA 02116

Phone: 857.702.3700

Email: civilrights@ctps.org

For people with hearing or speaking difficulties, connect through the state MassRelay service, www.mass.gov/massrelay. Please allow at least five business days for your request to be fulfilled.