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DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS: The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has determined that three counties in Florida are expected to be classified as urban after the results -of the 1990 census become available. These three counties are Indian River, Martin, and Charlotte. Once a county isdesignatedas urban, a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) is established in the.county, and the county then participates more -fully with FDOT in transportation planning. An MPO is a transportation planning organization which, together with FDOT, undertakes transportation planning and prepares a transportation plan for its area. From this planning effort, the FDOT's five year transportation plan is derived. Unlike rural counties which have limited input into the FDOT's five year transportation plan, MPO's have- the ability to dictate FDOT projects and funding priorities within .'their area. Once an MPO is designated, the governor appoints -its members, all of whom must be elected officials of general purpose local -governments in the MP0i s jurisdiction. To facilitate the transition of the three emerging MP0's from rural county status to MPO status, the legislature appropriated $100,000 for FY 88-89. FDOT has divided this sum equally among the three counties and is offering $33,000 to each of the counties to develop a future year 2010 transportation plan. A copy of the proposed agreement between FDOT and the county is appended to this item. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS The staff has been working with FDOT on an update to the County's transportation plan for several months. Specifically, the staff has tripled the number of traffic analysis zones in the county And prepared base and target year socio-economic data for each zone. FDOT is currently in the process of developing base and target year networks and validating and calibrating the model. The result of this effort will be the initial inputs for the traffic circulation element of the County's revised comprehensive plan. With the funds available,* a consultant can be retained to work with .staff in developing the final traffic circulation element. Final products will be a completed traffic circulation element and a transportation system model which the county will be able to use on its PC's. It is staff's opinion that these funds provide an opportunity to have necessary transportation planning done. Therefore, staff recommends that the agreement be approved and that the staff be authorized to develop and distribute an RFP for transportation planning services. RECOMMENDATION: The staff recommends that the approve the FDOT/Indian River agreement, authorize the chairman authorize the staff to prepare an funded by the agreement. Board of County Commissioners County joint participation to execute the agreement, and d distribute an RFP for the work 49 BOOK f', e