AGENDA: Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization

Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting Agenda

DATE:                               Monday, February 26, 2024

TIME:                                1:00 p.m.

PLACE:                            Online at capecodcommission.org/mpo/join, passcode: join

PHONE:                           (929) 205-6099, Meeting ID: 932 6393 2207

AGENDA

1. Call to Order
2. Roll call/Attendance
3. Potential approval of prior meeting minutes: January 22, 2024
4. Public Comment
5. Sub-region D Representative Election: Staff will describe and Committee members will vote whether to approve a process for the election for the vacant Sub-region D (Towns of Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown) Representative seat to the Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization for the term though December 31, 2026. If the election process is approved, the chair will accept nominations for this seat with the election to be held at the March 25, 2024 meeting.
6. Election of Vice Chair:Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization members will nominate and vote to elect a vice-chair of the Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization. 
7. Federal Fiscal Years (October 1– September 30) 2024-2028 Transportation Improvement Program (“TIP”) Amendment # 1:  Staff will review, and Committee members will consider, public comments and may vote whether to endorse the 2024-2028 TIP Amendment 1, which revises the list of Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority planned projects by adding the Steamship Authority Woods Hole Terminal Solar Power Project and a Community Transit planning grant that was awarded to Outer Cape Community Solutions to that list.
8. Federal Fiscal Years (October 1– September 30) 2024-2028 Transportation Improvement Program (“TIP”) Adjustment # 1:  Staff will present, and Committee members may vote whether to endorse the 2024-2028 TIP Adjustment 1, which revises the document appendix to add a statewide Wrong Way Vehicle Detection System project that includes equipment installed at the Route 6 at Route 132 ramps in Barnstable.
9. Federal Fiscal Year (October 1, 2024– September 30, 2025) 2025 Unified Planning Work Program (“UPWP”) Development: Staffwill provide an update on the development of the 2025 UPWP, a program which summarizes all significant transportation activities planned for the fiscal year on Cape Cod. Committee members may ask questions and suggest potential tasks and studies for inclusion in the 2025 UPWP.
10. Federal Fiscal Years (October 1 – September 30) 2025-2029 Transportation Improvement Program (“TIP”) Development: Staff will review draft project evaluation scoring and lead a discussion on the status and readiness of current and future TIP-eligible projects. Committee members may ask questions and provide feedback on project evaluation. The TIP summarizes the regionally significant transportation infrastructure projects receiving federal funding for construction over the next five years.
11. Reports: Massachusetts Department of Transportation staff will discuss the status of the Transportation Improvement Program projects. Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority and Cape Cod Commission staff will report on recent and upcoming transportation initiatives across Cape Cod.
12. New Business: Topics not reasonably anticipated by the Chair more than 48 hours before the meeting.
13. Adjourn

This meeting is accessible to people with disabilities. The Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) provides reasonable accommodations and/or language assistance free of charge upon request (including but not limited to interpreters in American Sign Language and languages other than English, assistive listening devices and alternate material formats, such as audio tapes, Braille and large print, as available). For accommodations or language assistance please contact the Cape Cod MPO by phone: (508) 362-3828, fax (508) 362-3136, Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS), dial 711 or email frontdesk@capecodcommission.org.

Title VI Notice of Nondiscrimination: The Cape Cod MPO complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related federal and state statutes and regulations. It is the policy of the Cape Cod MPO to ensure that no person or group of persons shall on the grounds of Title VI protected categories, including race, color, national origin, or under additional federal and state protected categories including sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, creed, ancestry, veteran's status (including Vietnam-era veterans), or background, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program or activity administered by the Cape Cod MPO. To request additional information about this commitment, or to file a complaint under Title VI or a related nondiscrimination provision, please contact the MPO’s Title VI Coordinator by phone at (508)362-3828, Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS), dial 711, fax (508) 362-3136 or by e-mail at mhevenor@capecodcommission.org. If this information is needed in another language, please contact the MPO’s Title VI Coordinator by phone at (508)362-3828.

Caso estas informações sejam necessárias em outro idioma, por favor, contate o Coordenador de Título VI da MPO pelo telefone 508-744-1299. The public discussion of the Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) at CCJTC, MPO, and transportation meetings satisfies the Program of Projects (POP) public hearing requirements of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).