Title
Amendment #1 to the 2018 Updated Raleigh Urbanized Area and Wake County Locally Coordinated Human Services Public Transportation Plan including the creation of the Mobility Coordination Committee
Crystal Odum, MPO Staff
Body
The 2018 Updated Raleigh Urbanized Area Coordinated Human Services Public Transportation Plan is a federally required plan that sets regional priorities for transportation investments and initiatives for human services and public transit coordination guiding funding and service development for transportation projects supporting elderly, disabled and low-income individuals.
Updated in 2018 to serve as the federally required update to the 2013 Locally Coordinated Human Services Public Transportation Plan, the 2018 updated plan (adopted in February 2019) is being amended to make administrative revisions that include:
• A name-change from the Locally Coordinated Human Services Public Transportation Plan to the Coordinated Public Transit-Human Services Transportation Plan to be consistent with the Federal Transit Administration’s terminology;
• Clarification of recommended Roles and Responsibilities;
• Clarification of reporting structure; and a
• Timeline modification for implementation of the Mobility Management Program
The scope of the plan covers Wake County and the entirety of the Raleigh Urbanized Area, which includes a sizable portion of Johnston County and small portions of Harnett, Franklin and Granville Counties and serves as the official plan that informs the distribution of federal Section 5310 (Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities) funding throughout the Raleigh Urbanized Area. The plan, which was developed in concert with the larger Wake Bus Plan, will also be used to recommend priorities for Wake Transit funding to human service transportation needs within Wake County.
One of the recommendations of the Plan is to formalize the Coordinated Plan Working Group to establish a Mobility Coordination Committee (MCC) and to assign this group responsibility for implementing recommendations identified in the plan. The short-term goals/recommendations for the MCC include creating a consistent framework for Wake County’s ADA Services; coordinating the management and delivery of ADA services; monitoring the ongoing changes in the state’s Medicaid program and transitioning the rural transportation programs into a mobility management framework. The MCC, staffed by the MPO, will make recommendations to the TPAC and the MPO regarding the goals and recommendations contained in the plan.
On May 22, 2019, CAMPO staff convened the working group to begin implementing the recommendations of the plan, inviting transit provider members from GoCary, GoRaleigh, GoTriangle, GoWake Access, Wake County, JCATS, KARTS and HARTS. The MCC has developed its membership, informal organizational and meeting structures, created a working timeline or DRAFT “Recommended Implementation Strategy Schedule” based on coordinated work on the recommendations outlined in the regional CPT-HSTP plan. Staff presented an overview of the committee to the TCC and Executive Board at the November meetings and received direction to expedite the mobility management program which is reflected in the amended Implementation Chart on page 6.3 of the draft plan.
The draft amended plan is provided as an attachment. Consistent with CAMPO’s Public Participation Plan, the draft Raleigh Urbanized Area amended CPT-HSTP was shared with multiple stakeholders for review and posted for a 30-day public comment period running from January 17th through February 16th. To date, one public comment has been received and is attached. No public hearing is required to amend the plan. The CAMPO TCC and Executive Board will be asked to recommend and consider approval of the amended draft plan including the creation of the Mobility Coordination Committee at the February 6th and19thth regular meetings.
The TCC has reviewed this amendment to the Plan and recommends approval.
Requested Action: Action Approve the Amendment #1to the 2018 Updated Raleigh Urbanized Area and Wake County Coordinated Public Transit-Human Services Transportation Plan, including the creation of the MCC to oversee the implementation of recommendations of the plan.