An official website of the POLICY 4: Shared decision-making
This policy states:
Conduct engagement activities and implement shared decision making with historically underrepresented communities throughout policy making, planning, and project development to ensure equitable distribution of the benefits and burdens of transportation investments.
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 |
| 4A. Eliminate barriers to public participation. Compensate community members for their time and expertise. Engage members of historically underrepresented communities, including communities of color, low-income communities, youth, and people who have a disability. Use a variety of communication and engagement methods that are culturally appropriate for the community. Increase the availability of language services for those who do not speak English as a first language. Action types: Investment Priority Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 4B. Provide best practices and training opportunities for culturally responsive and inclusive engagement, including language services, ADA services, community assessments, and other activities as identified. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 4C. Implement changes to planning and project development processes to ensure impacted communities can provide meaningful feedback, be involved in decision making, and influence outcomes. Action types: Local Planning Partner |
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| 4D. Provide guidance on best practices for Tribal engagement in transportation projects. Identify opportunities to document the full, equal, and effective participation from Tribal Nations. | ||||||
| 4E. Incorporate community assessments into regional transportation planning and project prioritization processes. Create processes and guidelines and implement training for a community assessments process. Document project processes and decision making for future reporting. Use community assessments to understand the community including demographics, history, and needs. Action types: Work Program Local Planning Investment Priority |
