[0]City-wide problem, city-wide solutionAfter hosting numerous stakeholder and neighborhood meeting to discuss the problems that face our transportation system, Commissioner Adams is engaging a stakeholder committee made up of neighbors, government partners, business leaders, as well as advocates for bikes, pedestrians, and freight mobility. Sam will meet with the stakeholder committee [0] to develop a strategy to fill the funding gap and address the maintenance and safety deficiencies of our system.
Sam has also asked experts in financial audits and budgets to perform a review of PDOT's analysis and give him an independent recommendation about the condition of our assets. They will review PDOT's existing resources and expenditures to ensure that they have accurately identified and prioritized the critical needs that should be funded with any additional revenue. This group will also evaluate the proposed projects and identify the highest priority needs that exist in the system.
Because he relies on the community's input so heavily, Sam also created an options workgroup that will ensure that the PDOT has effectively identified and evaluated revenue-generating strategies for critical transportation needs.
After this initial work is done Sam will take the results back out to the community. He has seven town halls scheduled [0] for late September where he will share the workgroups findings and solicit feed back. He wants the community to be involved in the solution, as well as identifying the problem. True to Sam's form, any proposal will only come after the community wrestles with the problem and has an opportunity for feed back.
Join us at a town hall, participate in conversations at your coalition level, take our online survey [1], or post a response here. This is a long conversation, which impacts our daily lives, so get involved in how we find a solution.