NOTE: If you require any accommodations in order to participate or experience technical difficulties during the meeting, please contact Erin Maguire, MPO Staff, at emaguire@ctps.org or 857.702.3681.

Agenda updated before 3:00 PM, February 14, 2025

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

February 20, 2025, 10:00 AM (Estimated duration: 2 hours and 27 minutes, expected ending at 12:27 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, 10 minutes

5. Committee Chairs’ Reports, 5 minutes

6. Action Item: Approval of December 19, 2024, Meeting Minutes, 5 minutes (posted)

7. Action Item: Transit Safety Performance Targets, Sam Taylor, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve the Transit Safety Performance Targets, 15 minutes (posted)

8. Action Item: Federal Fiscal Years (FFYs) 2025–29 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Amendment Seven, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to endorse FFYs 2025–29 TIP Amendment Seven, 5 minutes (posted)

9. Action Item: FFYs 2025–29 TIP Amendment Eight, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to endorse FFYs 2025–29 TIP Amendment Eight, 5 minutes (posted)

10. Action Item: FFY 2025 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Amendment Two, Olivia Saccocia, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to endorse FFY 2025 UPWP Amendment Two and waive the 21-day public comment period, 10 minutes (posted)

11. FFYs 2026–30 TIP Project Readiness Update, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion on FFYs 2026–30 TIP Project Readiness, 60 minutes (posted)

12. Massachusetts Association of Regional Planning Agencies (MARPA) Funding Update, Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT): Presentation and discussion of MARPA formula funding distribution for FFY 2026, 15 minutes

13. 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.