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CCRPC committee to forward FY27 work program to board, keeps current numbering amid federal review
Summary
The Executive/Finance Committee recommended forwarding the draft FY27 Unified Planning Work Program and budget to the Board using the currently warned numbering structure while continuing discussions with VTrans and FHWA about a proposed administrative renumbering. Staff said project-level time tracking will remain; corrected revenues improved the budget projection to about a $53,000 surplus.
Charlie Baker, Executive Director of the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, presented the draft FY27 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) and accompanying budget and asked the committee to recommend the documents to the Board after the public hearing.
Baker described a proposed reorganization of the UPWP task-numbering scheme away from the 2013 regional-plan-linked structure to a simpler, topic-based numbering system organized by planning areas such as economy, community development, transportation, hazard mitigation and water quality. Matthew Arancio of the Vermont Agency of Transportation said FHWA and VTrans had not yet completed review and expressed concern about proposals that could reduce project-level staff-time tracking; Baker said the draft would continue to maintain project-level tracking and that the re-numbering was intended mainly for administrative clarity, not to reduce accountability.
Committee members said they were wary of changing the publicly warned document after notification and advised presenting the original numbering for formal approval while making an alternative available for informational purposes. Joe Segale identified a drafting error in the Community Development section that incorrectly referenced Huntington work in a Westford row; Baker clarified that the Huntington town plan project includes municipal fee-for-service funding plus subsidized staff support from ACCD, producing total staff costs greater than the municipal contribution.
C. Baker and Business Director Forest Cohen reported previously missing revenue had been corrected, shifting the FY27 projection from an approximately $40,000 deficit to a roughly $53,000 projected surplus. Staff noted possible future budget adjustments could follow Transportation Planning Initiative guidance, regional planning grant scope updates and a potential Department of Energy grant.
The committee agreed that the UPWP should proceed to the Board using the currently warned numbering structure while staff continue discussions with VTrans and FHWA about any administrative reorganization. The Board will consider the UPWP and budget following the public hearing on May 20, 2026.
