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Agenda posted before 4:00 PM, July 31, 2025

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

August 7, 2025, 10:00 AM (Estimated duration: 1 hour and 22 minutes, expected ending at 11:22 AM)

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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.       Action Item: Approval of June 5, 2025, Meeting Minutes, 5 minutes (posted)

7.       Action Item: Work Scope: Interagency Transit Connections, Bradley Putnam, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve the work scope for Interagency Transit Connections, which will conduct field assessments on a set of transit connection points to understand the state of rider ease in connecting between the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and other transit providers and provide a set of recommendations for an ongoing program of evaluation and improvement, 5 minutes (posted)

8.       Action Item: Work Scope: MBTA Transit Data Collection Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2026–28, Jonathan Belcher, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve the work scope for MBTA Transit Data Collection FFYs 2026–28, which will perform various forms of data collection on MBTA transit services, 5 minutes (posted)

9.       Action Item: FFYs 2025–29 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Amendment 12, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to endorse FFYs 2025–29 TIP Amendment 12, 5 minutes (posted)

10.   Action Item: FFYs 2025–29 TIP Amendment 13, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to waive the public comment period and endorse the FFYs 2025–29 TIP Amendment 13 as presented, 15 minutes (posted)

11.   Community Advisory Council Membership Update, Stella Jordan, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion of the members selected for the Community Advisory Council, 20 minutes

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