AGENDA DATE: 5/3/2017
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Transportation Priorities Work Session
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SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: Review and direction on Albemarle Transportation Priorities
ITEM TYPE: Regular Information Item
STAFF CONTACT(S): Walker, Russel, Gast-Bray, McDermott
PRESENTER (S): Kevin McDermott
LEGAL REVIEW: Not Required
REVIEWED BY: Douglas C. Walker
BACKGROUND: This workshop is intended to present information on transportation priorities and transportation funding mechanisms. This information can be used to assist the Board in providing direction on transportation priorities and preferred funding mechanisms. With the Board's guidance provided at this work session, staff will return in July with a prioritized list of transportation projects and recommended grant applications for the fall application cycle or other appropriate funding sources. This work session will also serve to update the Board on recent applications for funding, including some lessons learned from those application cycles and the performance based prioritization process under Smart Scale. The Board will have an opportunity to determine if any projects should be added to or removed from the County Transportation Priorities List for the next cycle of grant applications as well as the Capital Needs submissions for the FY19 Capital Improvement Plan.
STRATEGIC PLAN: Infrastructure Investment: Prioritize, plan, and invest in critical infrastructure that responds to past and future changes and improves the capacity to serve community needs
DISCUSSION: The focus of discussion at this meeting will be on transportation funding obtained through Virginia's Six-Year Improvement Program (SYIP). The SYIP is the document through which Virginia allocates the majority of state transportation funding for primary roads. Virginia's Smart Scale process, developed to achieve the goals described in House Bill 2 (HB2 signed into law in 2014), requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) to dev...
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