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RESOLUTION RE: METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION (MPO) WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, pursuant to Colorado statute and theWeld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with the authority of administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and WHEREAS, a Metropolitan Planning Organization has been established for the purpose of coordinating and prioritizing Federal transportation assistance to urbanized areas greater than 50,000 people, and WHEREAS, since most State transportation programs are dependent upon federal funds, in practice a great deal of autonomy is given to Metropolitan Planning Organizations in the areas of highway and transit projects, and WHEREAS, it has been determined that a Metropolitan Planning Organization for this Region would present an excellent forum for local governments to work together to influence policy decisions on the State level in transportation, and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado has determined that it can best serve the citizens of Weld County as a voting member on the Technical Advisory Committee to the Metropolitan Planning Organization. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Com- missioners of Weld County, Colorado, that the .Board deems it advisable to participate as:,a _voting :member::.on the Technical Advisory Committee to the Metropolitan Planning Organization. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Board that the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado be, and hereby is, authorized to sign said letter, attached and made a part hereof by reference, reflecting the Board's determination. The above and foregoing Resolution was, on motion duly made and seconded, adopted by the following vote on the 22nd day of 820808 LHR867 w t"), n ! . PAGE 2 - METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION March, A. D. , 1982. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WELD COUNTY, COLORADO -Ail -7-)7 42(4-6,E) J n/��rtin, Irma C1� ai!s , ro Tem Norman Carlson W. Kirby / ne K. Ste nmark ATTEST: WELD COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER AND CLERK TO THE BO Y: puty County e APP ,E,D_AS TO FORM: County Attorney DATE PRESENTED: MARCH 22, 1982 i lopOFFICE OF BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PHONE 1303)3564000 EXT.200 I\ P.O.BOX 758 FEFr GREELEY,COLORADO 80631 • . COLORADO March 18, 1982 Larimer-Weld Regional Council of Governments Jonathan M. Rutstein, . Executive Director 201 East 4th Street, Room 201 Loveland, CO 80537 Dear Mr. Rutstein: In response to your letter dated March 11 , regarding the options available to Weld County for participation in the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Board of Weld County Commissioners wishes to restate its position that, in fact, membership in the Larimer-Weld Regional Council of Governments is an unenforceable restriction. After reviewing the purpose and future participation by Weld County in the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Board of Weld County Commissioners determined that it can best serve the citizens of Weld County as a voting member on the Technical Advisory Committee to the M.P.O. and by way of this letter, the Board is informing you of its decision. Sincerely, iT. Martin Chairman JKS:tkh cc: City of Greeley City of Evans Town of Rosedale Town of Garden City Town of LaSalle Town of Windsor Colorado Dept. of Highways Colorado Highway Commission r T1 J LARIMER - WELD REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS PHONE(303)532-4480 ROOM 201 EAST 41H STREET LO fin,' Ilp0 80537 'Oft/oAtte March 11, 1982 r"j.'. i f . . 1982 The Honorable John Martin li'itizzjet�� .1 Chairman Weld County Board of Commissioners P.O. Box 758 Greeley, Colorado 80631 Dear Commissioner Martin: Over the past year and a half, the member governments of the Larimer-Weld Regional Council of Governments have been working together to develop a structure for a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) . The development of an MPO is a necessary condition to continue the flow of Federal Transportation Assistance to urbanized areas that have exceeded a population count of 50,000. The Greeley and Fort Collins urbanized areas have officially exceeded this criteria as of the 1980 census. The major purpose of the MPO is to insure that federally-assisted transporta- tiof prpjccts' : occurring within the urbanized areas 'are z¢ith'±he overall policies of the local governments having jurisdiction there. Additionally, the MPO is charged with establishing long-range transportation plans for the urbanized area and those areas expected to be urbanized within twenty years. A proposed structure for the MPO has been generated as a result of extensive negotiation between the involved local governments, the LWRCOG, the State Highway Department, and the Highway Commission. These structural recommenda- tions are attached. They describe the purposes of the MPO, its various components, and its voting structure in detail. The Memorandum of Agreement between the LWRCOG and the Colorado Department of Highways, which will formally establish the MPO, is presently under review by the Attorney General's Office. One item which has yet to be included in the Agreement is the partici- pation of the Weld County Government. At the last meeting of the LWRCOG Governing Board, I was instructed to formally request that the Weld County Board of Commissioners participate in the MPO. That is the purpose of this letter. There are two options available which would give the County participatory status in the MPO. r n , Hon. John Martin -2- March 11, 1982 The first would be as a full member of the LWRCOG. As a full member, the County would have voting status on the LWRCOG Governing Board, the Urban Area Policy Committee of the MPO, the MPO Technical Advisory Committee, and the MPO Citizens' Advisory Committee. This level of participation would require that the County contribute its fair share of the cost of maintaining the organization. The second option would be as an adjunct member of the MPO. As an adjunct member, the County would have a voting seat only on the Technical Advisory Committee to the MPO, and would not be required to contribute any funds toward the organization. If the County chose not to participate in the MPO at all, past precedents set by the Federal Highway Administration would probably require that the County be allowed to review and comment on the major actions of the MPO after they had been taken by the MPO, but before they were forwarded to the State Highway Commission and the Federal Highway Administration. This, in effect, is a third option. Because of the finalization of the Memorandum of Agreement establishing the MPO will soon occur, if the County desires to be included as a Charter Member, under either of the first two alternatives stated above, you should inform this office by not later than March 24, 1982. If we have not received a determination from you by that time, we will assume that the County does not wish to participate at this time. After that date, membership in the MPO will still be available to the County through petitioning the Governing Board. If you have any questions concerning this letter, please contact me. Sincerely, JL FM onathan M. Rutstein Executive Director JR/dp Encls. n C) 3/4/82 STRUCTURAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION (MPO) UNDER THE LWRCOG A Metropolitan Planning Organization is established for the purpose of coordinating and prioritizing Federal transportation assistance to urbanized areas greater than 50,000 people. Since most State transportation programs are dependent upon federal funds, in practice a great deal of autonomy is given to MPO's in the areas of highway and transit projects. In addition, a Metropolitan Planning Organization for this Region would present an excellent forum for local governments to work together to influence policy decisions on the State level in transportation. Overview of Recommended Structure The recommended structure is composed of five bodies (see diagram below. ) Although the LWRCOG Board would be the officially-designated MPO, the decision making power would be vested in the Urban Area Policy Committee. The voting representation of this committee would be composed of those LWRCOG member local governments having jurisdiction within the designated Urbanized Area and the cities of Loveland and Windsor (see map on page 7. ) Loveland and Windsor, because they are not now within either urbanized area, would vote only on long range planning issues. The Urban Area Policy Committee would be advised by a Technical Advisory Committee composed of local government staff interested in transportation matters and representatives from the Colorado Department of Highways and the Air Pollution Control Division of the Colorado Department of Health. A sub- committee for advice on mass transit for the public and the elderly and handicapped would also be created. Finally, a Citizens Advisory Committee would be appointed by the local governments on the Urban Area Policy Committee. This group would report to the Technical Advisory Committee and serve to advise it on matters of public concern in the Transportation area. LWRCOG GOVERNING BOARD \ T { URBAN AREA POLICY COMMITTEE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE 1 ---- CITIZENS ADVISORY I____ TRANSIT COMMITTEE J SUB-COMMITTEE • • MPO Memorandum Page 2 LWRCOG Governing Board Membership: The LWRCOG Governing Board is composed of elected representatives from the following jurisdictions: Larimer County, Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Fort Lupton, Evans, Berthoud, Estes Park, Windsor, and Gilcrest. MPO The LWRCOG Governing Board would be formally designated by the unction: Governor as the MPO for Transportation Planning. The LWRCOG Governing Board would be required to adopt transportation policy recommendations from the Urban Area Policy Committee (UAPC) or to ask the UAPC to reconsider its recommendation. The Governing Board would be required to adopt the UAPC recommendation after its reconsideration. Urban Area Policy Committee Membership: City of Fort Collins Larimer County City of Loveland* City of Greeley City of Evans Town of Rosedale Town of Garden City Town of La Salle** Town of Windsor* Weld County** Colorado Department of Highways - Executive Director Colorado Highway Commission - District II Representative Voting Voting on the Urban Area Policy Committee is designed to insure that each group of local governments having jurisdiction in the two urbanized areas will have an equal number of votes. The local governments in each urbanized area are presently negotiating the number of votes that each will have. The votes are expected to largely follow population totals. Loveland and Windsor are presently not located within the boundaries of the Census designated urban area and therefore will not be impacted by many decisions made by the MPO. However, they will be affected by and are concerned with the long range (twenty-year) transportation planning that the MPO, by law, must undertake. They therefore will vote only on long range planning issues. *Votes on long range planning issues only. **La Salle and Weld County have formally been asked to participate in the MPO. O MPO Memorandum Page 3 The number of votes that will be cast on the two categories of voting are: VOTES FOR ALL ISSUES EXCEPT LONG RANGE PLANNING City of Fort Collins 8 Larimer County 2 Subtotal 10 City of Greeley City of Evans Town of Rosedale Town of Garden City Town of La Salle Weld County Subtotal Tb Colorado Department of Highways 1 Colorado Highway Commission 1 Subtotal 2 TOTAL 22 VOTES FOR LONG RANGE PLANNING ISSUES City of Fort Collins Larimer County City of Loveland Subtotal 1� City of Greeley City of Evans Town of Rosedale Town of Garden City Town of La Salle Weld County Town of Windsor Subtotal 15 Colorado Department of Highways 1 Colorado Highways Commission 1 Subtotal TOTAL 22 The total number of votes necessary to adopt the Transportation Improvement Program, the Unified Planning Work Program, and the Long Range Plan will be 16 of the 22 votes. The population that each local government has within the urbanized areas is as follows: *Presently under negotiation • • MPO Memorandum Page 4 Fort Collins Urbanized Area Greeley Urbanized Area Fort Collins 65,092 Greeley 53,006 Larimer County 13,195 Evans 5,063 Loveland -0- Rosedale 38 8,287 Garden City 85 LaSalle 1 ,929 Windsor -0- Weld County 2,176 62,297 Function: The Urban Area Policy Committee will be the primary policy making body of the MPO. It will perform three major activities. The first and most significant is the generation of a list of transportation projects to be developed within the urbanized areas. All federally-assisted transportation projects must be on this capital facilities list to be eligible for funding. The capital facilities list is required to be based on a number of long and short-range multi-model transportation plans. The development of these plans is the second major task of the UAPC. The final task is the development of a work program to accomplish MPO tasks from year to year. Technical Advisory Committee Membership: City of Fort Collins 2 City of Greeley 2 Larimer County 2 City of Evans 1 Towns of Rosedale and Garden City 1 City of Loveland 1 Town of Windsor 1 Town of LaSalle 1 Weld County 1 Colo. Dept. of Highways 2 Larimer-Weld Regional Council of Governments 1 Colo. Air Pollution Control Div. (ex-officio) 0 Federal Highway Administration (ex-officio) 0 Urban Mass Transportation Adm. (ex-officio) 0 TOTAL 15 Voting: Voting on this Committee will be one person-one vote. • ' MPO Memorandum Page 5 Function: To advise and assist the Urban Area Policy Committee on the technical development of the various transportation plans, the yearly work programs, and the list of transportation projects for funding within the urbanized areas. Public and Elderly and Handicapped Transit Subcommittee to the Technical Advisory Committee Membership: TRANSFORT (Fort Collins) 1 CARE-A-VAN (Larimer County) 1 THE BUS (Greeley) 1 ESP (Loveland) 1 Larimer County Elderly and Handicapped Transit Committee 1 Voting: Voting would be on a one person-one vote basis. This subcommittee would advise the entire Technical Committee on matters relating to transit in the Region. Of particular importance would be recommendations on the updating or amending on Transit Development Programs (TDPs) and the review of UMTA Section 3, Section 5, and possibly Section 18 and 16b2 transit grants. Citizens Advisory Committee Membership: Each local government member of the Urban Area Policy Committee would be asked to appoint one Citizen Advisory Committee member. Representation would be as follows: City of Fort Collins 1 City of Greeley 1 Larimer County 1 City of Loveland 1 Town of Garden City 1 City of Evans 1 Town of Rosedale 1 Town of Windsor 1 Town of LaSalle 1 Weld County 1 TOTAL 10 The members of the Urban Area Policy Committee would be asked to appoint members from a representative cross-section of groups interested in transportation, with special emphasis on equitable representation from minority groups. • . n C� MPO Memorandum Page 6 MPO Function This Committee would serve in an advisory manner to the Technical Advisory Committee. The TAC would, in most cases, request CAC review of the various transportation proposals. CAC views on proposals would be reported to the Urban Area Policy Committee by the TAC. Other Issues Apportionment of Federal Aid to Urban Systems Funds (FAUS) One of the major issues discussed up to this point in the development of the MPO has been that the City of Fort Collins and Greeley were concerned that they maintain control over those FAUS funds which are directed to them by the Federal Highway Administration and the Colorado Department of Highways on the basis of population. To mitigate conflicts that may arise in the future, the formal agreement establishing the MPO will state that FAUS funds be apportioned by the MPO to those jurisdictions within the census-designated "urbanized areas" on the same basis that those funds are distributed by the State among the various MPOs. Present estimates of FAUS funds are $287,000 a year for the Fort Collins "Urbanized Area", and $264,000 a year for the Greeley "Urbanized Area". Study Area Boundaries One of the major functions of the MPO is to perform transporta- tion planning. The planning is to be performed within study area boundaries which are required to delineate the urban trans- portation network which is expected to occur within 20 years. The delineation of this study area boundary is a complex question worthy of analysis. It is not necessary to delineate the study area for the MPO in order that the Governor complete his designation. We recommend that the study area boundary he developed after MPO designation and when funds are available from the Federal and State governments to undertake such an action. This is expected to be in 1982. Staff The work scope of the MPO over the next few years and its funding are volatile. This is due to new, rather vague regulations published by the Federal Highway Administration detailing work requirements for MPOs under 200,000 in population and the present Federal turmoil concerning Federal spending levels. 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