MPO TPC/TAC Board Minutes - 12/03/2004a
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TRANSPORTATION POLICY COMMITTEE (TPC) MEETING
WICHITA FALLS METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION
SPECIAL CALLED MEETING
December 3, 2004
Present:
Mayor Bill Altman, Chairperson ♦ Members
Charles Elmore, City Council Representative
Dennis Wilde, NORTEX Regional Planning Commission
Don Sheppard, Lakeside City
Larry Tegtmeyer, TxDOT, District Engineer
Scott Taylor, Director of Public Works
Carolyn Askins, TxDOT, TxDOT Transportation Planning Assistant ♦ Staff
Dave Clark, Director of Community Development
Danny Brown, TxDOT, Director of Trans. Planning and Development
Darron Leiker — City of Wichita Falls — ACM /Dir. Aviation, Traffic & Trans.
(Interim MPO Director & TAC Chairperson)
Donnie Arbeau, Transportation Planner I
James Kelley, TxDOT, Area Engineer
Lin Barnett, Transportation Planner III
None ♦ Ex- officio
None ♦ HNC
Tim Kroeker, Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. ♦ Guests
Jon Moller, Citizen Stakeholder
Jeff Watts, City of Pleasant Valley ♦ Absent
Linda Ammons, City Council Representative
Woodrow (Woody) Gossom, County Judge, Vice - Chairperson
I. Welcome & Introduction.
Mayor Altman began the meeting at 9:05 a.m. with introductions around the room.
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Discussion, Review and Revision of the Draft 2005 — 2030 MTP Project List
Mr. Leiker briefly discussed the reasons for the project list, the progress on it thus far
and the due date for the entire MTP update in January 2005. He commented the project
was on schedule and that staff would be forwarding the entire completed MTP draft to
all TAC and TPC members, once the project list had been reviewed, revised and
approved by TPC, as soon as Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam, Inc. made the
updates and changes. He stated the goal of staff was to put the draft into the hands of
TAC and TPC as quickly as possible in order to give each board adequate time for
review. The same draft would be placed on the MPO/Transportation web page for public
review and comment, as well as a hard bound copy on file in the Transportation
Planning Division's office for anyone wishing to come by and review it. Mr. Leiker then
asked Mr. Brown to present the content of the list.
Mr. Brown explained the purpose of the project list and how it was organized. He stated
the list would allow anyone to know what projects were being proposed and it would
also list any new projects added by addendum. He commented that staff had devised a
simpler way to move and track smaller projects without having to modify the plan each
and every time the opportunity to let a project presented itself. Mr. Brown then explained
the eleven funding categories used by TxDOT, and how most of the projects would fall
under the umbrella of state -wide CSJ's. He then explained the use of the appendices in
the back of Chapter 8 — Financial Analysis, and how anyone can find a specific project
in them. He explained that Category 3 (Urban Area [Non -TMA] Corridor Projects) and
Category 11 (District Discretionary) projects were listed separately because they did not
fit anywhere under the state -wide CSJ umbrella. He then discussed the various city and
county projects included in the appendices and the reason for the Kell Interchange
project being listed in both Category 3 and Category 11.
Mr. Tegtmeyer and Mr. Brown discussed the advantages of using the state -wide CSJ's
for tracking the projects and for obtaining a marginal increase of funding for projects.
Councilor Elmore asked that Wellington be added to the project list. Mr. Taylor stated he
would run a cost estimate and have it added to the City of Wichita Falls project list. Mr.
Taylor also inquired how unmet needs would be listed, whether altogether or in
separate state and city unmet needs lists. Mr. Taylor stated the City of Wichita Falls
projects should be listed as "un- funded" rather than "funded ". Mr. Brown stated Lake
Side City and Pleasant Valley should be listed the same way.
The board discussed various terminologies and typographical errors that should be
corrected. The board had no objections to the methodologies used for developing the
project list and, by consensus, gave approval to MPO staff to go forward with the
current list plus the changes discussed during today's meeting.
The board decided to change the January 20, 2005 TPC meeting time and place from
8:30 a.m. at City Hall to 1:30 p.m. at NORTEX Regional Planning Commission.
III. Public Comment on Anything Not on the Agenda
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Mr. Tegtmeyer gave an update on the Pass - Through Tolling issue concerning the Kell
Interchange.
IV. Adjourn
The meeting adjourned at 10:00 a.m.
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Mayor Bill Altman, TPC Chairperson
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