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Forward Pinellas endorses special‑district performance measures and renews safety targets
Summary
The board endorsed its special district annual performance measures and voted to retain adopted safety performance targets, restating a goal of zero fatalities and sustaining practical numeric targets tied to planned projects.
Forward Pinellas voted to endorse annual performance measures required by Florida’s Uniform Special District Accountability Act and separately approved the MPO safety performance targets staff recommended.
Linda Fisher, presenting the special‑district measures, said the agency’s draft report sets four goals drawn from the special act that created the Pinellas Planning Council: maintain a countywide land‑use plan, integrate countywide land use and transportation planning, share planning resources with local governments, and tackle countywide issues such as jobs, housing affordability and resilience. Fisher said the complete draft is in the board packet and asked for endorsement and any direction from the board; the board moved and carried endorsement.
Chelsea Favrove presented federally required safety performance measures. She said the MPO tracks five required safety measures using five‑year rolling averages: total fatalities, fatality rate (per 100 million vehicle miles traveled), total serious injuries, serious‑injury rate, and combined non‑motorized (bicycle/pedestrian) fatalities and serious injuries. Favrove said Florida DOT set statewide targets of zero for fatalities and serious injuries; Forward Pinellas retains 0 as an aspirational goal while keeping practical numeric targets the board already adopted because those targets align with projects on the MPO priority list.
Favrove reported a first‑time decrease in the five‑year rolling average for fatalities and continued declines in serious injuries; staff recommended retaining the current numeric targets and the board approved that recommendation on a voice vote. The board’s technical committee had recommended rounding targets to whole numbers and referring to them as “lives.” Board members asked about data sources, law enforcement reporting, and details about crash circumstances; staff said fatal crash reports and state vehicle‑miles‑traveled estimates provide the underlying datasets and noted a lag in final data availability.
The two votes were carried by the board; staff said the measures will be published on the agency website to comply with statute.
