ILMPO NOTICES
Illinois MPO Advisory Council Meeting
Monday, August 30 at 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Stoney Creek Inn Conference Center, 101 Mariners Way, East Peoria, Illinois 61611
Thank you for responding so quickly regarding your availability for the meeting. Please submit any agenda items by close of business on Friday, August 20, 2010. Tri-County has prepared the financial documents and they can be viewed here. Teleconference will be available. You are not required to register for the ILARC conference to attend the MPO Advisory Council meeting.
Federal Highway Program
Financing
Tuesday, August 24 at CMAP office, Lake County Room
or Tuesday, August 31 at
the FHWA Springfield Office
FHWA in collaboration with the Illinois
MPO Advisory Council is hosting this event. The timeline is as follows: Morning session (9:30 to 11:30); Lunch on your own; Afternoon session (1:00 to 3:00). The updated outline for the training session is available here. Please respond via email to indicate how many staff will be
attending from your MPO office.
IDOT Letter to MPOs
MPOs and regional planning agencies across the state will soon be receiving a letter from IDOT,
Bureau
of Urban Planning and Programming regarding upcoming outreach
meetings being conducted by the Division of Highways. Click here for a digital copy of the letter.
NOTICE OF RESOURCES
Transportation Conformity Rule Restructuring Amendments
This proposal would primarily restructure several sections of the
transportation conformity rule so that they would apply for any new or
revised NAAQS that are established.
Click here for the (PDF) file which was released on August 6.
How can your community's plan yield federal dollars?
This webinar was sponsored through CMAP, Illinois ResourceNet and the Region 5, USEPA office. Illinois Resource Net recently provided the August 3 webinar power point presentations as well as the accompanying audio file. Click here for the presentation through the SlideShare website. You can also download the webinar file to your computer.
Using Economic Impact Analysis for Transportation Decision-making
The national workshop was held on June 16, 2010, highlighting the new
ways state DOTs and MPOs are incorporating economic impact analysis
into their program planning, project prioritization and selection
processes. Five speakers representing DOTs
and MPOs from across the country were featured in this 90 minute event. The website also provides a recorded
question and answer period. Click here for materials.
AMPO email from SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES@HUD.GOV
Recently AMPO added the FAQs document to their website. Click here for the PDF file of the HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant and Community Challenge Planning Grant FAQ Updates.
The HUD website, updated on August 6, to include both 1) Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program FAQs and 2) Tiger II - Community Challenge Planning Grant Program FAQs. The website also includes a number of additional documents you may find useful in
completing applications, including a Data-specific FAQs form and additional information regarding Regional Boundary
Definitions for the Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant.
As a reminder, applications are due by 5:00 pm EDT on
Monday, August 23.
UPCOMING CONFERENCESILARC invites you to attend the IDOT Fall Planning ConferenceThe topic of this year's theme is 'Sustainability Defined' September 28-29 Hilton Hotel, 700 East Adams, Springfield, Illinois Executive Director's Conference (September 28-30) and Regional Metropolitan and Urban Policy Forum (September 27-28) sponsored by NARC September 27-30 Omni Austin Downtown Hotel, Austin, Texas Click here for additional information. 2010 AMPO Annual Conference
Hosted by AMPO and East West Gateway Council of Governments
October 19 - 22
Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark
Click here for additional information.
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