The purpose of the legislative program is to set general principles to guide staff and Board responses to proposed legislative or budgetary issues. The program also notifies state representatives of the Transportation Agency’s position on issues of key importance to the agency.

The recommended action has no direct financial impact.

The 2016 TAMC Legislative Program focused on maintaining and augmenting transportation funding. The 2017 legislative program continues this focus on transportation funding. Attached are the draft 2017 legislative program  (attachment 1) and showing changes as compared to the adopted 2016 program (attachment 2).

The Executive Committee discussed this draft program on October 5 and recommended the Board receive the draft 2017 Legislative Program and approve releasing the program to Committees for comment. Following the Committees’ review of the draft program in November, the final program will come back to the  Executive Committee and Board in January for adoption.