PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING
Meeting Minutes
David Bailey, City of
Geoff Bornemann, City of
Dan Brown, City of Cohoes
Frank Commisso, Albany Port
District Commission
Steve Feeney,
Rocky Ferraro, Capital District Regional Planning
Commission
Mike Franchini,
Bruce Hidley, City of Watervliet
Fred Howard, Rensselaer County
Phil Pearson, Town of
John Poorman, Capital
District Transportation Committee (Secretary)
Dave Rettig, NYS Department of Transportation Region 1
Dede Rudolph, City of Albany
Bernie Sisson, City of Schenectady
John Stangle,
Mike Valentine, Saratoga County
Steve Watts, Town of Halfmoon
Kristina Younger,
representing
STAFF AND OTHERS
Don Adams, Stantec
Mark Anduze, NYS Thruway
Authority
Brian Hannafin,
Bob Hansen, NYS Department of
Transportation Region 1
Mary Marsh, Capital District
Transportation Authority
Fred Mastroianni, Village of
Colonie
Sandra Misiewicz, Capital
District Transportation Committee
Jason Newman, Capital
District Transportation Committee
Glenn Posca, Capital District
Transportation Committee
Deb Stacey, Capital District
Transportation Committee
Ann Sutkin, NYS Department of
Transportation Region 1
Paul Tazbir, Town of North
Greenbush
Joan Walters,
VISITORS ISSUES
Chairman Franchini opened the meeting at approximately
Lisa Nagle of Elan Planning presented a summary of the
products of the Hudson River Greenway Trail Study in
Action Items
ADMINISTRATION
Approval
of the
The minutes of the
Election
of Officers
UNIFIED PLANNING WORK PROGRAM
Semi-Annual
Progress Report
Mr. Poorman distributed a copy of the CDTC Progress
Report for April 2004 – September 2004.
Members accepted the report for transmittal to state and federal
agencies.
2005-06
UPWP Outlined
Mr. Poorman highlighted items in the
previously-distributed outline, including new Linkage studies, the New Visions
2030 effort, Federal Reauthorization and NYSDOT Transformation. Members discussed the safety initiative and
operations planning as key elements of the upcoming UPWP. No action was taken; a complete draft is
anticipated for the February meeting.
PROPOSED FUNCTIONAL
CLASSIFICATION CHANGE
2005-10 TRANSPORTATION
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM UPDATE
Status of
Major Projects
Mr. Poorman distributed a sheet describing changes to
the previously-distributed TIP material.
Key changes include a recalculation of the NHS funding availability to
reflect a higher federal share on NHS projects on the Interstate system and the
proposed shift by NYSDOT of two projects from IM to NHS funding. These two actions reduce NHS availability
from the $74 M in the mailout to about $45 M (assuming that Exit 3 is shifted
to “Demo” funds). Mr. Rettig also
indicated that commitments to NHS projects in
Discussion ensued over the CDTC commitment to the Exit 3
project and options for a TIP listing with NHS, Demo or a combination of the
funding sources. The issue was
eventually tabled.
Members then reviewed the remainder of the “major
projects”, noting issues include resolving the phasing of Slingerlands Bypass,
reviewing the urgency/feasibility of
Other
Changes to Existing Projects
Not having resolved the changes to the major projects,
the discussion of other changes was tabled.
Review of
Candidate Projects
The agenda item was also tabled.
OTHER
The discussion item agenda was tabled. A special
There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned
at
Respectfully submitted,