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Advisory committees review MTIP and planning programs; Metro invites partners to April 15 waste budget forum

Joint Policy Advisory Committee (JPACT) / Metro advisory meeting · March 18, 2026
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Summary

Team TAC and MTAC reported several planning items: draft 2027–2030 MTIP (roughly $1.1B) opened for public comment, a draft UPWP, Regional Emergency Routes report, and MTAC will act on local preferred transit alternatives. Metro’s Waste Prevention & Environmental Services invited partners to an April 15 virtual budget forum on the FY27 budget.

Several advisory committees gave routine updates and outreach invitations during the meeting.

Will Farley, representing cities at Team TAC, summarized highlights: a fatal‑crash update (five fatalities in February, one in Clackamas County); the draft 2027–2030 Metro Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP), which manages about $1.1 billion in federal funds across 139 projects and opened for a 30‑day public comment period on March 9; a draft Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) for FY27 planning activities; a draft final report on Regional Emergency Routes; and a revised transportation demand management (TDM) strategy to reduce single‑occupancy vehicle trips.

Christina Valenuela, from Metro’s Waste Prevention & Environmental Services Department, invited members to a virtual budget forum on April 15 from 3–5 p.m. to review FY27 budget priorities for the regional garbage and recycling system and to collect partner input. She said registration information appears in committee packets and that the forum would inform budget guidance and regional fee decisions.

Miss Stasney provided the MTAC briefing: members will be asked to recommend local preferred alternatives for several transit projects (82nd Avenue, TB Highway, Montgomery Park streetcar), heard an update on the Sunrise Corridor Community Project (Clackamas County coalition leadership), and will review Metro’s land‑banking scope to support affordable‑housing production and a technical primer on Metro’s transition to the UrbanSim modeling platform.

Those items will return to committees for recommendation and then to Metro Council as appropriate.

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