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Jefferson County, Madras officials briefed on safety-action plan tied to federal SS4A implementation grants
Summary
County and city staff updated commissioners and council on a Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP) funded by the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program and said they plan to seek implementation funding in the coming application round, contingent on governing-body support.
City of Madras and Jefferson County staff briefed commissioners Feb. 5 on the Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP), a federally funded planning effort intended to reduce fatal and serious-injury crashes.
Miranda, the county’s project lead for the TSAP, said the plan is funded by the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program and is intended to create a multidisciplinary framework to eliminate fatal and serious injury crashes. "The primary objective of this program is to eliminate fatal and serious injury crashes from roadways," Miranda told the board.
Miranda said the TSAP is entering its planning completion this month and staffs expect to bring a resolution for each governing body to consider by the end of the month that would express support for the plan’s goals and policies. That support, she said, will strengthen the county’s and city’s eligibility for an implementation grant through SS4A; the implementation grants fund design and construction of prioritized safety projects.
The presenters said the next federal application period for implementation funding is expected to open in March, leaving roughly six weeks to assemble applications. Staff said they intended to brief each governing body individually later in February and seek formal adoption of the TSAP as an amendment to transportation system plans in the spring if the bodies agree.
Commissioners and Madras council members raised related local traffic issues during the briefing: the city described a current dispute with the Oregon Department of Transportation over truck parking regulations along Fourth and Fifth streets and indicated the city will decide whether to pursue red-light and speed cameras. County commissioners asked whether staff needed additional data; staff said they have what they need and will brief the bodies later in the month on the TSAP’s priority projects.
No formal action was taken at the Feb. 5 briefing. Staff asked for continued coordination between city and county on preparing an implementation grant application and for governing-body consideration of a supporting resolution later in February.
