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Approaches to Regional Coordination

A quick recap: TMA structure

• ptions discussion
• Meeting chair to rotate with meeting location
• No decision on a voting structure
• Many steps to formalize the TMA Leadership Group
• Clarify role with respect to the MPO Chairs’ Coordinating

Committee (CCC)

• Clarify TMA public engagement process
• Clarify TMA decision‐making process in relation to each

MPO’s decision‐making

• Draft TMA bylaws
• Update each MPOs’ bylaws to recognize TMA
• Expand and confirm non‐voting advisors, incl. adjacent MPOs
• More

A quick recap: ideas from the Best Practices Study

Looking for the pink unicorn …

 What is mandatory?  What assets do we have for regional coordination?

• Both the CCC and the TMALG are

responses to requests from Tallahassee to consider merging the MPOs

• The CCC was not explicitly discussed in

the recent Best Practices Study

 What are we good at?  What can we improve?

What is mandatory?

• Where part of an urbanized area

served by one MPO extends into an adjacent MPA [MPO planning area], the MPOs shall, at a minimum, establish written agreements that clearly identify areas of coordination and the division of transportation planning responsibilities among and between the MPOs. (CFR 450.312)

Assets: what has the CCC done well?

• Track record of funded projects based on CCC priorities
• Track record of jointly‐produced plans, adhering to

federal reg’s

• Formal interlocal agreement and operational procedures
• Voting structure (one MPO, one vote)
• Iterative approval process with member MPOs
• CCC ability to prepare and approve a regional plan did not

detract from each MPO’s ability to prepare and adopt the

• fficial plan for its area
• Established public participation process ‐‐

public notice, etc.

• Process for sharing financial resources, to produce plans

Assets: what has the TMA done well?

• Stronger relationships between members of different boards
• Deeper and broader

understanding of perspectives from around the region

• Building energy to

move towards solutions

What can we improve?

• Duplication of regional groups; confusion
• f roles; too many meetings
• Communicate a compelling, feasible,

multimodal vision for the region

• Ultimately ‐ craft agreements between

the counties to implement the vision

• Rethink the CCC’s never‐used dispute

resolution process?

• More ideas?

Streamlining the regional process

• Use CCC structure as a base

Note: CCC staff support (a limited amount) is currently provided by contract with TBARTA: does that still make sense? With 2017 change in TBARTA’s geographic area and modal scope, should MPOs reestablish responsibility for regional multimodal plan?

• Schedule time for broader discussions involving multiple board

members from each MPO

• Annually reconvene the TMA
• Arrange some joint board meetings, among at least two MPO boards, on an

as‐needed basis

• Begin CCC quarterly meetings in 2020
• Continue TMA meetings this year: focus on Tri‐County Long Range Plan
• Next year: expand Regional Plan to the larger CCC area
• Aligns with Plan timing for MPOs in FDOT District 1
• Propose new process to CCC at summer meeting