Commission approves Metro Transit Title VI update with 8% disparate-impact threshold

Connor Mountford, interim planning and scheduling manager for Metro Transit, briefed the commission on the required Title VI program update and proposed policy changes. Mountford explained the update is required every three years and described two central staff proposals: adding specific metrics (revenue hours and directional route miles) to the major-service-change policy, and raising the disparate-impact/disproportionate-burden threshold from the current 2 percentage points to 15 percentage points to align with a peer-agency median. "The title 6 program is a technical document which serves 2 general purposes," Mountford said, outlining that it reports past Title VI activities and establishes service policies for the coming three years.