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Council and commission approve transportation work plan; staff seeks parking monitoring and mobility-hub design funds
Summary
Town and county approved a transportation division work plan that emphasizes system monitoring, capital planning, parking management and mobility-hub design; staff said they will pursue grants and recommended procurement of parking-monitoring technology.
Jackson Town Council and the Teton County Commission approved the transportation division work plan on May 5, 2025. The plan prioritizes system monitoring, capital planning, parking management/reform and design work for “mobility hubs,” and staff said they will pursue grant funding and technology purchases to improve data collection and management.
Charlotte O’Brien, transportation manager, presented the FY26 work plan and described priorities intended to support mode shift and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by improving active and shared transportation choices. Staff emphasized the need for better system monitoring (traffic, parking and pedestrian activity), a capital plan for transportation assets, and dedicated revenue strategies to fund multimodal services and maintenance.
O’Brien described mobility hubs as transfer points that consolidate parking, transit, bike and micromobility options near trip generators and showed a conceptual network centered on downtown, midtown and west Jackson. Staff said they had prepared a federal grant application for design work to fund mobility-hub engineering and urban design; if that grant is not awarded they recommended allocating local funds for limited conceptual design.
The work plan includes a recommended procurement of parking-monitoring equipment and an initial budget estimate for scoping and technical specification; staff explained that continuous digital monitoring would allow better real-time management of capacity and enforcement and would inform broader parking-policy choices. Commissioners questioned whether paid parking was the objective; staff said the immediate aim is monitoring and management — reform options would follow analysis and public discussion.
Councilman Schechter moved to approve the transportation division work plan and Councilwoman Veeneman seconded; the town approved the plan by voice vote. The county took the same motion and approved it unanimously. Staff said they will return with capital-program details, grant updates and the results of any parking-monitoring procurement.
