Agenda posted before 1:00 PM, August 28, 2025

Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Process, Engagement, and Readiness Committee Meeting

Zoom Video Conferencing Platform: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83084799522

September 4, 2025, 2:30 PM (Estimated duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, expected ending at 4:00 PM)

 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Introductions, 5 minutes
  2. Public Comments, 5 minutes  
  3. Action Item: Approval of July 24, 2025, Meeting Minutes, Ethan Lapointe, Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Staff, 5 minutes (posted)
  4. TIP Readiness Policy Improvements, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Discussion and refinement of proposed five-year readiness guidelines to update TIP Project Cost Policies, 55 minutes
  5. TIP Project Scoring and Rescoring, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Discussion of the project rescoring actions taken at the September 4 meeting of the Boston Region MPO board and ongoing scoring policies, 15 minutes
  6. Members’ Items: Reports and notices by TIP Process, Engagement, and Readiness Committee members, including regional concerns and local issues, 5 minutes

 

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

Posted materials are available via the MPO’s meeting calendar webpage at bostonmpo.org/calendar/month.

 

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.