Title
A Resolution Amending Resolution 132-13 and Approving the Active Transportation Advisory Committee Ad Hoc Subcommittee of the Citizens' Transportation Advisory Board and Updating the Member Composition
Presenter:
Scott Barnhart, CTAB Chair
Alex Armani-Munn, ATAC Chair
Body
Summary:
The Citizen's Transportation Advisory Board (CTAB) and the Active Transportation Advisory Committee (ATAC) seek to change the member composition of CTAB and render the ATAC as an ad hoc committee rather than a standing committee. This will more accurately reflect the multi modal transportation projects that the City currently implements.
Background:
The Citizen's Transportation Advisory Board was created on June 11, 2002 (Exhibit A) intended to serve as an advisory body to the legislative and executive branches of the City on "matters relating to the City's multi-modal transportation plan". In 2013, Council adopted the Active Transportation Advisory Committee (Exhibit B) as a permanent subcommittee to CTAB, with a focus on Active Transportation, to include issues facing people on foot, people on bicycles and people accessing transit.
In 2019, the members of ATAC and CTAB met as one body to discuss how they could better and more efficiently work together. The discussion focused on the question of raising the profile of active transportation in the city, and the evolving approach that all transportation projects have impact on active transportation, whether they include or exclude certain modes. The result of those conversations was to move forward with a trial period of joint meetings, at the end of which, the two bodies would recommend a revised composition to City Council.
The result of the trial period was to recommend that CTAB would be more effective for all types of transportation with changes to member composition. The composition of CTAB's 11 members has been:
? 6 members representing each of the 6 geographic Council districts
? 5 at-large members
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