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NVTA staff unveils draft five-year strategic plan and seeks wording tweaks on safety
Summary
NVTA project delivery staff presented a draft five-year strategic plan that affirms a vision and mission, lists four strategic goals through 2030, and proposes a May timeline to adopt vision and goals; members asked staff to tweak mission language to explicitly include safety.
Amanda Sink, NVTA’s project delivery and grants manager, presented the authority’s draft five‑year strategic plan Tuesday evening, laying out a vision, a concise mission and four strategic goals NVTA staff propose to pursue through 2030.
Sink told board members the draft formalizes work that began under earlier initiatives and said staff expect to bring the vision and goals back for adoption in May, then refine strategies and metrics over the summer ahead of a final plan adoption in 2025. “We want to identify what NVTA can do in the next five years, up until 2030,” she said in the presentation.
The draft plan sets four headline goals: lead the region’s transportation initiatives; maximize public benefit through improved project selection and delivery; enhance regional planning through technical assistance and data; and safeguard and diversify NVTA’s revenue sources. Sink described safety as both a core value and a discrete performance measure used when analyzing projects.
Board members pressed staff on whether safety should be explicit in the mission statement. One member suggested modifying the mission from “plan, fund and advance multimodal transportation solutions that reduce congestion” to “reduce congestion and improve safety.” Sink said safety already appears twice in the draft — as a core value and as a performance measure — and staff will return with tightened language. “We can come back to you next month with that draft verbiage,” she said.
Several members also asked whether the strategic‑plan process would include a standalone public comment period. Sink said the plan has already been briefed to technical and citizen advisory committees and that NVTA relies on ongoing outreach tied to project programs (for example TRANSPORTation and the six‑year program) rather than a separate strategic‑plan comment window this year.
Next steps: staff will revise mission wording to better reflect safety and return the draft vision and goals for adoption in May, then work through strategies and metrics for later approval.
