TransMAC frames its upcoming budget votes; members press staff for criteria and visuals
Feb 19, 2026
As TransMAC prepares recommendations on FY2026-27 spending, members and staff discussed voting procedures (consent-style handling of major projects, individual votes for items pulled), prioritization of construction-ready projects, and requests for visualizations and crash/criteria data to support signal and safety project selections.
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Chair described the board's approach for the coming budget recommendation: a single vote on countywide project buckets (sidewalks, signals, resurfacing), a consent-style vote on the major project bucket with options to pull individual items for discussion, and separate votes on LYNX and SunRail funding to avoid conflict-of-interest complications. "When it's ready to come for final hearing from TransMAC, it gets put on the agenda," the chair said, urging members to prepare questions and pulls prior to the vote.
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