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Stafford supervisors hear FAMPO model showing $30 million-a-year need for regional transportation authority
Summary
FAMPO consultants presented a funding model for a proposed Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) that estimates roughly $30 million per year to fund one-third of sampled regional projects if all five jurisdictions participate, and flagged legislative resistance if key counties opt out.
FAMPO consultants outlined what a Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) could look like for Planning District 16 and walked supervisors through a high-level financial model aimed at unlocking federal and SmartScale grants.
Ian Olas, the consultant who introduced the analysis, said the subcommittee favored a 70/30 split of revenue — with 70% retained by the authority for regional projects and 30% returned to jurisdictions — and illustrated the model by funding one representative project in each of the five jurisdictions. "If we're gonna fund them up to a third of their cost, we would need about 30,000,000 a year over 6 years to fund one third of the total cost…
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