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REQUEST TO APPROVE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION (MPO) APPORTIONMENT PLAN Community Development Director Bob Keating made the following presentation with the aid of enlarged maps and graphics: TO: James Chandler County Administrator FROM: Robert M. Keating, AICP RMK Community Development Director DATE: June 10, 1992' SUBJECT: `REQUEST TO APPROVE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION (MPO) APPORTIONMENT PLAN It is requested that the data presented herein be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting of June 16, 1992. DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS: For the past several months, county staff in conjunction with the Technical Complement Committee of the Transportation Planning Committee have been working on various work products necessary to proceed with creation of the Vero Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). Foremost among the activities undertaken has been preparation of an MPO apportionment plan. As indicated in the Governor's recent letter to the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, the apportionment plan must be submitted by July 1, 1992. The plan submittal should reflect agreement among the local governments within the metropolitan planning area, and it should be approved by a majority of those local governments. An apportionment plan is a design of the structure of the MPO governing board. As such, the plan must specify the number of members on the governing board and indicate how representation on the board will be allocated among the local governments within the MPO area. While a proposed apportionment plan must be submitted by the local governments- within an MPO area, the Governor is responsible for creating the MPO and apportioning its membership. This item was scheduled for consideration 9, 1992 meeting. At that time, the item wa 16th meeting to allow the Transportation consider the apportionment plan issue. Transportation Planning Committee met and apportionment plan. ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS: by the Board at its June s tabled until the June Planning Committee to On June 10, 1992, the considered the proposed Florida Statutes Section 339.175 identifies the requirements of an MPO apportionment plan. This statute provision mandates that an MPO governing board have between 5 and 18 members; be comprised of elected officials of general purpose local governments within the MPO area (with several exceptions for transportation/transit authorities and planning agencies); and be generally proportional in representation with respect to the local governments within its boundary. 15 BOOK L,j" JUN 16 1992