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PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Subject
SUBJECT: QUARTERLY STATUS DASHBOARD OF COUNTYWIDE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT'S STRATEGIC PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the Quarterly Status Dashboard of Countywide Planning and Development (CPD) Department's strategic projects and programs.
Issue
ISSUE
This item provides a snapshot of CPD's work program, with the status of key projects and programs that are pending or ongoing before the Board during the next 10 years in a dashboard format (Attachment A). To be provided on an approximately quarterly basis, the Dashboard is a simplified approach to communicating information to enhance transparency and accountability, along with providing a comprehensive context for informed decision-making.
Background
BACKGROUND
CPD introduced its Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 work program and intent to provide periodic updates at the September 2017 Planning and Programming Committee meeting (Legistar File #2017-0565). As part of that report, an overview of CPD's core services was provided. The prior quarterly update was in June 2019 (Legistar File #2019-0247).
Discussion
DISCUSSION
CPD is responsible for planning Los Angeles County's regional transit system and programming federal, state and local transportation funds for the county's transit system, highway program and locally-sponsored, regionally-significant projects for all modes of transportation and related programs. As such, it is at the forefront of many of Metro's planning and policy efforts, along with having a significant role in the implementation of those efforts through numerous programs. Direction and decisions on these significant policy and planning efforts come from the Metro Board of Directors.
The Dashboard summarizes the status of CPD's key projects and programs that are pending or anticipating action by the Board. These include the well-k...
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