An official website of the POLICY 2: Funding
This policy states:
Ensure the region has funding to achieve our goals.
The transportation policy plan includes policies that guide all work and apply to all goals and objectives. Policy 2: Funding is one of those policies.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
| = Lead agency = Supporting agency |
Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 2A. Consider equity and geographic balance principles when allocating federal funds. Ensure all community types have adequate opportunity to access regional transportation funding. Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 2B. Identify and conduct needed prioritization studies to help the region be competitive in discretionary grant programs. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Investment Priority |
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| 2C. Develop and provide technical support programs for state and federal discretionary grant programs. Work with partners to best align projects with funding opportunities. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 2D. Continue to share Regional Solicitation-funded project lists with Tribal Nations to encourage early coordination around cultural resources. Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 2E. Develop resources, data, and guidance for local agencies to support their federal discretionary grant pursuits, focusing on workforce development, equity, and climate and sustainability. (See 6B for related action.) Action types: Technical Capacity Building Work Program |
(UMN, MPCA) |
UMN is the University of Minnesota. MPCA is the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
