Transportation Operators Committee Agenda

Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 from 10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. Online Meeting Only: Use Zoom Connection Information Provided Below

1. Welcome and Introductions (10:00) – Peter Heffernan, Chair (King County Metro)

2. Action: Approval of Meeting Summary – December 2, 2020* (10:05)

3. Action: Special Needs Transportation Committee’s recommended regionalpriority rankings for 2021-2023 WSDOT Consolidated Grant projects* (10:10)

4. Discussion: Updates on CRRSAA Act Funding (10:30)PSRC is working with the FTA Regional Caucus on understanding the details andimpacts to the region from the Coronavirus Response and Relief SupplementalAppropriations Act, 2021, and to identify next steps. A brief report will be provided tothe TOC.

5. Discussion: Regional Transportation Plan – Transit Elements (10:40)PSRC staff will provide an update on the future transit network and other transit-related topics associated with the Regional Transportation Plan.

6. Discussion: PSRC Transit Plan Checklist* (11:05)PSRC staff will provide background and timeline for an update of the Transit PlanChecklist update associated with the adoption of VISION 2050.

7. Discussion: Transit Agency Roundtable (11:20)As time permits, transit agency staff will provide updates on their work that they wantto share with regional partners.

8. Information: 2021 Planned Meeting Topics*9. Next Meeting: February 24, 2021

Calendar Link: https://www.psrc.org/sites/default/files/toc2021-calendar_0.pdf

10. Adjourn (11:30)

*Supporting materials attached

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Transportation Operators Committee Meeting Summary

Date: December 2, 2020 Location: Online Meeting Only: Zoom Remote Meeting

Welcome and Introductions

Gil Cerise PSRC, welcomed everyone at 10:00 a.m., reviewed the remote meeting procedures and then took a roll call and confirmed the members and alternates present.

Approval of Meeting Summary

The summary for the October 28, 2020 meeting was approved.

Discussion: 2022 Regional Transportation Plan – Potential Transit Network Revisions and Uncertainty

Gil reviewed the Regional Integrated Planning timeline and explained the ongoing necessity for any transit updates which will need to be incorporated into the 2022 Regional Transportation Plan. He then provided a debrief on the November Transit Technical Working Group meeting and followed-up on potential revisions. He reviewed any transit agency updates to long-range plans and adjustments to project schedules / service levels based on COVID 19 or other factors. The committee members from the represented agencies discussed the information and provided any recent updates.

Gil then reminded the committee on addressing the uncertainty of conceptual planning for future projects and services due to impacts from COVID 19. He reminded the committee that the use of PSRC data and visualization tools could help in the assessment of needs and opportunities for their long-range transit planning. Kelly McGourty, PSRC, noted that transit agencies may have identified changes to their projects and/or adjustments to service levels due to COVID 19, but if revisions are not complete, the plan will acknowledge this. The committee discussed and provided feedback.

The presentation is available on the PSRC website here .

For more information, contact Gil Cerise at gcerise@psrc.org or Kelly McGourty at kmcgourty@psrc.org

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Discussion: Regional Transit Safety Performance Targets

Gary Simonson, PSRC, provided an overview of Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) and provided an update on the progress toward the development of regional transit safety targets in compliance with FTA requirements. He provided an overview of the submitted draft target currently received and shared the PSRC draft regional target with the TOC for any feedback. He said that once all targets were collected the next steps would be to develop final regional targets and share this with the committee in February or April 2021 meetings. He noted the targets would then go through the PSRC board approval process for potential adoption by June 2021.

The presentation is available on the PSRC website here .

For more information, contact Gary Simonson at gsimonson@psrc.org

Discussion: Regional Transit Asset Management (TAM) Performance Targets

Gary provided a review of TAM targets and facilitated a discussion on how to move forward on the regional TAM performance target setting process and asked the committee who the contact person is for this information. He noted that regional targets must be developed for the Regional Transportation Plan and that PSRC would like to establish a timely data sharing mechanism between transit agencies. Agencies represented provided contact information and feedback.

The presentation is available on the PSRC website here .

For more information, contact Gary Simonson at gsimonson@psrc.org

Discussion: FTA Project Tracking Status

Sarah Gutschow, PSRC, provided an update on the on-going project tracking of FTA-funded projects, including information and highlights from PSRC’s October 2020 Progress Reports.

The presentation is available on the PSRC website here .

For more information, contact Sarah Gutschow at sgutschow@psrc.org

Discussion: Puget Sound Passenger-only Ferry Update

Gil shared an update on the status of the POF Study which is currently being drafted and prepared for public feedback. He reviewed the upcoming schedule of next steps which included the final POF Study webinar scheduled for December 15 and delivering the study to the state legislation at the end of January 2021.

The presentation is available on the PSRC website here .

More information on the Puget Sound POF Study is available on the PSRC website here: https://www.psrc.org/passenger-ferry-study

For questions or additional information, contact Gil Cerise at gcerise@psrc.org

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Discussion: Transit Agency Roundtable

During the Roundtable, the committee received updates and announcements from the following attendees:

• Sabina Araya, Community Transit

• Don Chartock, WSDOT

• Ray Deardorf, WSF

• Peter Heffernan, King County Metro

• Dan Hoyt, WSDOT

• Alex Krieg, Sound Transit

• Benjamin Smith, City of Seattle

Information: 2021 TOC Meeting Calendar

The TOC 2021 Meeting Calendar was provided for review.

Information: 2020-21 Planned Meeting Topics

An updated 2020-21 Planned Meeting Topics was provided for review.

Adjourn

The meeting adjourned at 12:00 p.m.

*Members and Alternates Present Peter Heffernan, King County Metro and Chair; Alex Krieg, Sound Transit and Vice-Chair; Melinda Adams, Everett Transit; Sabina Araya, Community Transit; Don Chartock, WSDOT; Ray Deardorf, Washington State Ferries; Dan Hoyt, WSDOT; Lindsey Sehmel, Pierce Transit; Benjamin Smith, City of Seattle

*PSRC Staff and Other Guests Present Curtis Ailes, City of Seattle

PSRC Monica Adkins, Jennifer Barnes, Gil Cerise, Sarah Gutschow, Catherine Kato; Jean Kim, Kelly McGourty, Gary Simonson, Kimberly Pearson *All attendees were present via remote participation

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Item 3 MEMORANDUM January 22, 2021

TO: Transportation Operators Committee

FROM: Gil Cerise, Program Manager, Transportation Planning Jean Kim, Associate Planner, Transportation Planning

SUBJECT: PSRC Regional Priority Rankings for the WSDOT Consolidated Grant Program—Recommendation to the Transportation Policy Board

IN BRIEF The Special Needs Transportation Committee (SNTC) convened on January 20, 2021 to develop recommended regional priority rankings for the WSDOT Consolidated Grant competition. The recommendations can be found in Attachment 1.

RECOMMENDED ACTION The Transportation Operators Committee, at its January 27 meeting, will review the SNTC recommended regional priority rankings for the WSDOT Consolidated Grant competition found in Attachment 1. The TOC recommendation will be presented to the February 11, 2021 Transportation Policy Board (TPB) meeting for its further review and recommendation to the Executive Board.

The SNTC recommendation allocates 10 regional priority rankings (A, B, or C) to special needs transportation projects seeking funding from a variety of federal and state funding sources, including the large urbanized area (Seattle-Tacoma-Everett UZA) FTA Section 5310 program. The recommendation also includes three “D” priority rankings. Thirteen projects were submitted for consideration and eight of them are seeking funding for a 4-year period (two state biennia), while the rest are seeking funding for a single biennium (2021-2023).

Summary of SNTC Recommendation

Regional Ranking Summary

4-year/2-year Projects Amount requested 2021-2023

Amount requested 2023-2025

2 “A” rankings worth 50 pts each

2 projects requesting 4-years $1,522,160 $1,557,764

3 “B” rankings worth 25 pts each

2 projects requesting 4-years 1 project requesting 2-years

$410,450 $387,030

5 “C” rankings worth 12 pts each

2 projects requesting 4-years 3 projects requesting 2-years

$841,654 $481,691

3 “D” ranking worth 0 pts.

2 projects requesting 4-years 1 project requesting 2-years

$464,119 $346,277

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Please see Attachment 1 for the full recommendation of projects receiving priority rankings ordered in the priority recommended by the SNTC.

As additional context to this year’s recommendation, eleven regional priority rankings that were awarded to projects in the 2018 competition were awarded funding for two biennia. These projects provide an additional $6.8 million to the region for the 2021-2023 biennium. See Attachment 2 for this list of projects already funded.

SUMMARY OF JANUARY 20, 2021 MEETING RECOMMENDATIONS

The SNTC convened on January 20, 2021 to review special needs transportation projects competing for a regional priority ranking in WSDOT’s Consolidated Grant competition, a statewide competition that funds a variety of special needs transportation and rural transportation projects from a variety of federal and state funding sources.

Regional priority rankings provided by Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPO’s) add points to the overall project score in WSDOT’s statewide competition. Of the 21 regional priority rankings WSDOT has allotted to this region, ten were available for this competition. They included:

• 2 “A” rankings = 50 points added to WSDOT statewide scoring• 3 “B” rankings = 25 points added to WSDOT statewide scoring• 5 “C” rankings = 12 points added to WSDOT statewide scoring• Unlimited “D” rankings = 0 points added to WSDOT statewide scoring

Thirteen projects were submitted to the PSRC region for regional priority rankings. The projects totaled $3.2 million in request for the 2021-23 biennium and $2.8 million for the 2023-25 biennium. The projects submitted consisted of a mix of operating projects serving people with disabilities and other people with special transportation needs, mobility management programs, and capital vehicle requests for private nonprofit transportation providers.

WSDOT’s Consolidated Grant competition includes funding from a variety of federal and state sources that can be applied anywhere in Washington State. In addition, as part of this competition, WSDOT also includes the FTA Section 5310 funding for the large urbanized area. Funding from this source can only be used for programs benefiting this large urbanized area, consisting of western portions of King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. The amount that FTA makes available on an annual basis for FTA Section 5310 is less than $3 million. Funding amounts from the other federal and state sources that WSDOT awards cannot be predicted for the PSRC region since those funds are distributed statewide.

PSRC staff worked with the SNTC to develop five evaluation factors to review and provide an initial sorting of the projects submitted to PSRC for regional priority ranking. Most of these evaluation factors were based on PSRC’s Coordinated Plan, adopted in May 2018 as part of the Regional Transportation Plan. These factors included:

1. Project Type (Preservation vs. New/Expansion);2. Support for PSRC’s Coordinated Plan,3. Uniqueness of Service or Program,4. Performance Measures and Targets, and5. Financial Sustainability.

PSRC staff reviewed all applications submitted by WSDOT’s October 30, 2020 deadline and provided an evaluation of whether the projects adequately addressed these five factors. PSRC

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staff used a consistent methodology for review and evaluation based upon guidance developed and publicly shared with the Notice of Funding Availability information.

The results of the initial evaluation were shared with the SNTC as follows:

• 1 project adequately addressed all 5 factors,• 5 projects adequately addressed 4 out of 5 factors,• 7 projects adequately addressed 3 out of 5 factors.

After review of the initial evaluation and PSRC’s process for conducting the evaluation, the SNTC discussed additional factors to take into consideration in their deliberation on recommendations for regional priority rankings. The SNTC previously reviewed and discussed these factors and created a list of those they could agree upon using in the summer of 2020, which were then posted with the Notice of Funding Availability information on PSRC’s Special Needs Transportation Funding web page.

At the January 20th meeting, SNTC decided to make some minor adjustments to the factors. The group decided to add a new factor to allow discussion of the effectiveness of the project in implementing PSRC’s Coordinated Plan, and to add language to recognize the effects of projects awarded four-years of funding in the last competition in the overall geographic distribution of rankings.

The final list of additional factors included:

a) Geographical distribution of regional priority rankings (identifying projects by county aswell as multi-county projects and recognizing location of projects already awardedfunding for the 2021-23 biennium);

b) Project types (e.g., operations, mobility management, capital);c) Agency equity (e.g., number of projects submitted by each agency);d) Compelling cases for agencies with limited resources;e) Strategic application of federal/state funds;f) Coordination; andg) Effectiveness in Implementing the Coordinated Plan.

PSRC staff provided a preliminary analysis based upon the initial evaluation that suggested projects addressing 4-5 of the initial evaluation factors would receive an “A” ranking; projects addressing 4 of the initial evaluation factors would receive a “B” ranking; projects addressing 3-4 of the initial evaluation factors would receive a “C” ranking; and any remaining projects would receive a “D” ranking. Given that there were more applications than rankings, and the initial evaluation included several projects receiving a 3 or 4, the committee focused its discussion on these projects.

The committee discussed adjustments to the initial ranking of projects, focusing discussion on the following factors:

• Project types and geographic distribution: Ensuring each of the counties in thecompetition had higher ranked projects that addressed vital operating programs forpeople with special transportation needs and core mobility management functions;

• Strategic application of federal/state funds and project types: In the context of fundingeligibility, there was a recognition that applications eligible for the FTA Traditional 5310funding source for the large urbanized area would likely receive funding with a lowerpriority ranking (B or C), compared to operating projects and volunteer transportation

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programs, which were more likely to need to compete for funding that is distributed statewide. These projects should generally receive an A or B.

• The committee further applied geographic distribution and coordination factors inreviewing and distributing rankings. In terms of geographic distribution, the committeerecognized that Snohomish County did not have any county-specific projects funded forfour years in the last competition. Several larger projects in King and Pierce countieswere provided four years of funding already. It was noted that some counties did abetter job of consolidating their requests into smaller number of applications than others.

The committee deliberated for more than two hours to develop a recommendation for the regional priority rankings. These priorities were adjusted using the additional factors identified above, as follows:

• Strategically applying higher regional rankings (A or B) to projects that are not eligible forTraditional FTA 5310 funds.

• Ensuring a mix of projects are addressed with the priorities, including higher priorityrankings to the major operating programs and volunteer transportation services in thethree counties; and ensuring that countywide mobility management programs providingcore mobility management functions receive at least a “B” ranking.

• Geographically distributing A’s to ensure all counties have at least one “A” over thebiennium and making sure that counties with fewer A’s are provided with more B and Crankings than the other counties.

• Agency equity also played a role in the recommendation. One agency submitted six ofthe 13 applications, and received one “A” ranking, and a mix of C’s, and D’s for its lowerranked projects.

In addition, the committee recommendation provides higher funding amounts for the next four years for “A” priority rankings, as shown in the Summary of SNTC Recommendations table on page 1. This increases the chance of leveraging more funding to the region over the next four years through this competition.

The motion to recommend the final package to the TOC was approved unanimously by the SNTC.

TOC Recommendation and Next Steps The TOC will review the attached recommendation of regional priority rankings and forward its recommendation to the Transportation Policy Board (TPB).

The Transportation Policy Board will review TOC’s recommendation at its February 11, 2021 meeting and make a recommendation to the Executive Board meeting on February 25, 2021.

PSRC will provide WSDOT with the approved list of regional priority rankings after the Executive Board action, in time for consideration in WSDOT’s Consolidated Grant Program scoring process. WSDOT plans to announce final funding amounts in the spring of 2021.

If you have questions, please contact Gil Cerise at gcerise@psrc.org or (206) 971-3053 or Jean Kim at jkim@psrc.org or (206) 971-3052.

Attachment 1: Recommendation for WSDOT Consolidated Grant Regional Priority Rankings Attachment 2: PSRC Region Projects Already Funded for 2021-23 Biennium

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Sponsor Project Title Project Description County

Sustaining,

Expansion,

or New

Project Type

Amount of

Funds

Requested

2021-23

Amount of

Funds

Requested

2023-25

2-yr

(2021-

23)

4-yr

(2021-

25)

Recommended

Priority Ranking

Catholic Community

Services of King County

Continue to Preserve Volunteer

Services' (VS) King County

Volunteer Transportation Program

Provides a free of charge service to low-income older adults and adults with

disabilities who do not qualify for state-paid chore services. Transportation

services are provided throughout King County and prioritize special-needs

populations and individuals who live in poverty.

King Sustaining Operating $ 106,484 $ 111,576 X

A

Homage Senior Services Homage Transportation

Assistance Program-Operating

Sustains the demand-response transportation service to bring populations of

older individuals, persons with disabilities, and individuals with low income to a

myriad of essential service, including, but not limited to medical appointments,

congregate dining, and other social services.

Snohomish Sustaining Operating $ 1,415,676 $ 1,446,188 X

A

Catholic Community

Services of Snohomish

County

Disabled Veterans Transportation Supports the ongoing operation of the Disabled Veterans Transportation

program (DVT), which provides disabled veterans living in Snohomish County

with no-cost transportation to medical, dental and other essential appointments.

Snohomish Sustaining Operating $ 41,650 $ - X

B

Pierce County Human

Services

Mobility Management Pierce

County

Sustains staffing of the Pierce County Coordinated Transportation Coalition

(PCCTC) which provides Mobility Management (MM) leadership to Pierce

County and the region. Their primary focus is to find solutions for special needs

riders who are facing transportation challenges.

Pierce Sustaining Mobility

Management

$ 184,000 $ 184,000 X

B

Workforce Snohomish Snohomish County Transportation

Coalition (SNOTRAC)

Provides staffing, planning, and operational support for the Snohomish County

Transportation Coalition (Snotrac) and support for subregional coalitions;

assists in implementing locally priotitized mobility management projects; and

conducts outreach to targeted special needs populations.

Snohomish Sustaining Mobility

Management

$ 184,800 $ 203,030 X

B

Homage Senior Services Homage Pay Your Pal Operating Sustains Homage's existing volunteer transportation program in rural and

extreme rural areas of Snohomish County. This program serves seniors and

disabled citizens who utilize friends, family, neighbors to transport them to and

from work, medical, and educational appointments.

Snohomish Sustaining Operating $ 79,556 $ 83,308 X

C

Homage Senior Services Homage Transportation

Assistance Program- Operations

Expansion

Expands the hours of service and days of service to better meet the demand of

the communities served as well as better match the hours of public

transportation. TAP also is seeking funding to better serve more rural areas of

the county, mostly the eastern side of Snohomish County, including Darrington

and Granite Falls.

Snohomish Expansion Operating $ 394,035 $ 398,383 X

C

Homage Senior Services Transportation Assistance

Program Capital Grant

Replaces 2 specialized, ADA accessible vehicles in its current fleet to provide

transportation to seniors, those with disabilities, and low income residence in

Snohomish County that do not have the benefit of using other public

transportation options.

Snohomish Sustaining Capital $ 120,000 $ - X

C

Hopelink One-Call / One-Click Implements a One-Call One-Click (OCOC) system to provide multimodal trip

planning and transportation request service for special needs populations

within King County. The platform is expected to launch in Year 2 and serve as

the first phase in an eventual multimodal booking and payment platform.

King New Mobility

Management

$ 148,063 $ - X

C

Northshore Senior Center Northshore Mobility Access

Program

Replaces 2 vehicles in fleet of para-transit vehicles to offer transportation to

older adults and people with disabilities throughout the North King County and

South Snohomish County region. Northshore's transportation program is able

to provide limited transportation access across the county line.

Multi Sustaining Capital $ 100,000 $ - X

C

Homage Senior Services Homage TAP Outreach Sustains the TAP Outreach program, which highlights the transportation service

options of those in need in Snohomish County. The services highlighted will

include those in PSRC, SNOTRAC, RARET, and the NCTC geographic areas.

Snohomish Sustaining Mobility

Management

$ 47,474 $ 51,382 X

D

Homage Senior Services Transportation Assistance

Program Capital Grant -

Marysville

Adds 2 ADA accessible vehicles to its current fleet to provide transportation to

seniors, those with disabilities, and low income residence in Marysville that do

not have the benefit of using other public transportation options.

Snohomish Sustaining Capital $ 120,000 $ - X

D

Pierce Transit Special Needs Transit Connector Implements phase II of an on-demand service using a contract-transportation

provider to provide transit connections for elders, those with special needs and

those with limited mobility in the 2- to 5-mile boundary around Route 1 in the

Parkland-Spanaway-Midland area.

Pierce Expansion Operating $ 296,645 $ 294,895 X

D

TOTAL $ 3,238,383 $ 2,772,762

Attachment 1: Recommendation for WSDOT Consolidated Grant Regional Priority Rankings

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Sponsor Project Title Project Description County

Sustaining,

Expansion,

or New

Project Type

Amount of

Funds

Awarded

2021-23

Final Priority

Ranking

Mt. Si Senior Center Mt Si Senior Center - Sustain SVT

- Snoqualmie Valley

Transportation

SVT provides ADA accessible demand response and deviated route services to

transit-dependent individuals in the incorporated and unincorporated rural areas

of Snoqualmie Valley including North Bend, Snoqualmie, Fall City, Preston,

Carnation, Duvall and Monroe.

Multi Sustaining Operating $ 1,060,870

A

Pierce County Human

Services

Beyond the Borders Sustain Beyond the Borders' accessible demand response and deviated fixed

route transportation service for special needs riders who live or travel to

unincorporated rural and suburban locations in east and south Pierce County

and who do not receive service from Pierce Transit.

Pierce Sustaining Operating $ 1,197,299

A

Puget Sound Educational

Service District (PSESD)

Key Peninsula School Bus

Connects (KPSBC)

Key Peninsula School Bus Connects preserves an existing route-deviated

service that utilizes off-duty school buses to provide transportation to special

needs populations in an otherwise unserved remote region of Pierce County.

Pierce Sustaining Operating $ 150,000

A

Puget Sound Educational

Service District (PSESD)

Road to Independence Van

Program (RTI)

Sustain existing van operations to assist individuals with special needs in rural

south King and east Pierce counties. RTI Van program provides: CDL driver

training and licensing for low-income individuals and rides driven by CDL driver

trainees for people with special transportation needs.

Multi Sustaining Operating $ 572,000

A

Sound Generations Sustain the Hyde Shuttles: A

Community-based Paratransit

Service in King County

Sustain a community-based paratransit service for seniors and people with

disabilities in King County who are unable to use public transportation such as

the bus or ADA Paratransit, because they cannot afford the fare, not eligible for

ADA Paratransit or too frail to use it.

King Sustaining Operating $ 1,858,141

A

Catholic Community

Services of Western

Washington - Pierce

County

Volunteer Transportation Services VTS provides door-through-door transportation to medical, grocery shopping

and other necessary appointments to low-income seniors and adults with

disabilities (18-59) who don't qualify for Pierce Transit Shuttle, Paratransit

services or who live in a rural area of Pierce County where public transportation

isn't available.

Pierce Sustaining Operating $ 290,886

B

Hopelink Mobility Management in King

County

Provides staffing, short term planning and operational support for the King

County Mobility Coalition and subregional coalitions; implements locally

prioritized mobility management projects; and conducts outreach to targeted

special needs populations.

King Sustaining Mobility

Management

$ 667,248

B

King County Metro Transit Sustain Community Shuttles for

Seniors and People with

Disabilities in King County

Requests operating assistance funds to support the continuation of the Hyde

Shuttle, an existing paratransit service for seniors and people with disabilities in

urban and suburban King County. The project would provide operating

assistance for 7-9 vans, allowing continuation of Hyde Shuttle service in Seattle,

SeaTac and Tukwila.

King Sustaining Operating $ 553,632

B

United Way of Pierce

County (UWPC)

South Sound 2-1-1 Transportation

Resource Center

Sustain South Sound 2-1-1 Transportation Resource Center, preserving the

centralized intake service for special needs transportation services and

providing the special needs community with a single point of contact to learn

about, apply for and get connected to all available mobility options in Pierce

County.

Pierce Sustaining Mobility

Management

$ 236,493

B

Hopelink Regional Emergency

Management/ Transportation for

Vulnerable Populations

Coordination

Provides staffing, short- and long-term planning, and operational support for the

Regional Alliance for Resilient and Equitable Transportation (RARET) project

and workgroup.

Multi Sustaining Mobility

Management

$ 88,456

C

Northshore Senior Center Sustain Inter-County Special

Needs Transportation

The Northshore Senior Center Transportation serves seniors and persons with

disabilities in Bothell, Kenmore, Woodinville, and unincorporated King and

Snohomish-including Bellevue, Kirkland, Lake Forest Park, Juanita, Redmond

and Shoreline in King County, as well as Brier.

Multi Sustaining Operating $ 122,029

C

TOTAL $ 6,797,054

Attachment 2: PSRC Region Projects Already Funded for 2021-23 Biennium

Transportation Operators Committee Agenda Item 3 - Attachment 2 January 27, 2021

MEMORANDUM Discussion Item 6 January 27, 2021

TO: Transportation Operators Committee (TOC)

FROM: Andrea Harris-Long, Senior Planner

SUBJECT: VISION 2050 Implementation: Plan Review Manual Project Update

IN BRIEF

VISION 2050 was adopted in October 2020 and includes new and updated multicounty planning policies and actions. The plan calls for PSRC to support efforts to reflect VISION 2050 in countywide planning policies, local comprehensive plans, and infrastructure and utility plans by updating the Plan Review Manual, including plan certification guidance (RC-Action-1). PSRC staff will brief the committee on this project, focusing on how the plan review and certification process and guidance encourages coordination between jurisdictions and transportation providers and how PSRC’s transit agency plans reporting tool will be updated to serve as a resource for long-range transit planning efforts.

DISCUSSION

A major emphasis of the Growth Management Act is coordination of local, regional, and state planning efforts. To advance this coordination, the law requires PSRC to review and certify that local comprehensive plans, countywide planning policies, and Sound Transit’s long-range plans within the region conform to established regional guidelines and principles (multicounty planning policies), the regional transportation plan, and planning requirements in the Growth Management Act. Certification of local plans and policies is a requirement for jurisdictions and agencies that intend to apply for PSRC funding.

Within the central Puget Sound region, local governments and PSRC have worked together to develop an overall process (Adopted Policy and Plan Review Process, Revised Sept. 2003) for reviewing and certifying local, countywide, and transit agency policies and plans.

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A set of materials, compiled in a Plan Review Manual, provides details on the review and certification process, background, and framework. The manual was last updated in 2014. With the adoption of VISION 2050, the Plan Review Manual and supporting documents must be updated to reflect new and revised regional policies, goals, and actions. VISION 2050 builds on VISION 2040, with much more emphasis on housing, climate change, racial equity, transit-oriented growth, and other key policy areas. Specifically, plan reporting tools that highlight relevant multicounty planning policies and actions need to be updated to reflect new and revised policies. PSRC has a formal review and certification role for Sound Transit’s long-range plan under state law, and the Plan Review Manual helps support this review. For other long-range transit plans in the region, PSRC’s plan review checklist is an opportunity to support coordination between regional goals and local planning. At the January committee meeting, staff will review the objectives of the Plan Review Manual Update project, focusing on how the expectations for updates to countywide planning policies and local plans can impact transit agencies’ work. Staff will also share the process for the updating the transit agency plans reporting tool to support long-range transit planning efforts. For more information, please contact Andrea Harris-Long at AHarris-Long@psrc.org.

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11/24/2020

2021 TOC Planned Meeting Topics

Ongoing

• FTA fund adjustments• FTA fund project tracking

Quarter 1 (January – March)

• Next Level of Transit Planning for Regional Transportation Plano Completion of future transit networkso Continued work on access to transito Update to transit performance measures beyond the FTA requirementso Approach to incorporating TDM throughout the RTPo Planning for people with special transportation needs: assessment of needs and gaps

• PSRC Transit Plan Review• Action on Consolidated Grant Regional Priority Rankings (special needs transportation)• Check-in FTA Performance-based Planning:

o Transit Safety Rule implementation – agency plan development; performance and targetso Transit Asset Management

Quarter 2 (April – June)

• Next Level of Transit Planning for Regional Transportation Plano Regional Capacity Projects submitted: cross-check with future transit networks.o Continued work on access to transito Update to transit performance measures beyond the FTA requirementso Refining approach to incorporating TDM throughout the RTPo Planning for people with special transportation needs: prioritized strategies for

addressing mobility challenges• 2021 Transit Integration Report Initiation

Quarter 3 (July – September)

• Next Level of Transit Planning for Regional Transportation Plano Incorporating transit elements into the Draft Regional Transportation Plan

• 2021 Transit Integration Report development

Quarter 4 (October – December)

• Next Level of Transit Planning for Regional Transportation Plan• Completion 2021 Transit Integration Report

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