TPC Agenda

TPC Agenda - Public Listening Session

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Approve goals and objectives of the transportation planning process and plan.

• Establish fiscal and personnel management agreements between the MPO Policy Committee and the fiscal agent to identify respective relationships, roles and responsibilities.

• Ensure that the Metropolitan Planning Organization is adequately staffed.

• Provide guidance and policy to the MPO Staff on carrying out their responsibilities.

• Hire, terminate and evaluate the Transportation Planning Director.

• Review and adopt changes in transportation planning concepts.

• Review and approve the Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) and its revisions.

• Review and adopt the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and its revisions including project priorities and approval of any changes in the priority schedule.

• Review and adopt the Metropolitan Transportation Plan and its revisions.

• Ensure the efficient and effective use of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) PL Funds and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5303 planning funds.

• Serve as liaison representatives between various governmental units in the study area to obtain optimum cooperation of all governmental units in implementing various elements of the plan.

• Ensure citizen participation in the transportation planning process through a pro-active policy. 

CURRENT MEMBERS:

Voting Members:

• Patti Jones, Chair, Lubbock County Commissioner

• Tom Martin, Vice-Chair, Mayor, City of Lubbock

• L. C. Childers, Mayor, City of Wolfforth

• Tom Head, Lubbock County Judge

• John Leonard, City Council, City of Lubbock

• Jim Gilbreath, City Council, City of Lubbock

• Lee Ann Dumbauld, City Manager, City of Lubbock

• Randy Hopmann, District Engineer, TxDOT - Lubbock

• John Wilson, General Manager, Citibus

Non-Voting Members:

• Kirk Fauver, Federal Highway Administration

• Pearlie Tiggs, Federal Transit Administration

• Diane Lann, Transportation Planning & Programming, TxDOT - Austin

• Jim Estes, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)

• Any State legislators, or United States Congressmen, whose districts include the study area and who desire to serve in an ex-officio capacity.

          Randy Neugebauer

          Robert Duncan

          Carl Isett

          Delwin Jones

          William Thornberry