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City sets up centralized program management, hires chief program officer and budgets staff to deliver Choose How You Move

3623156 · May 30, 2025
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Summary

Metro described a central program-management approach, initial hires and vendor partnerships to execute the 15-year program and said the FY26 budget will focus on building internal capacity and program oversight.

City staff told the advisory committee they are building a centralized program-management function to coordinate delivery across multiple departments and to provide a single public-facing source of information and accountability.

Kendra Apkowitz, acting program director for the initiative, described early steps after the referendum, including supplier outreach, posting for a chief program officer, a $59 million supplemental budget to…

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