Good Afternoon All,
I have the following volunteers for the STBG Set-aside evaluation sub-committee:
- Alan Adolf – Yakima County
- Bill Preston – WSDOT SCR
- Gracie Sexton – People For People
- Ardele Steele – City of Zillah
- Brett Sheffield – City of Yakima
- Menglou Wang – City of Wapato
- Rocky Wallace – City of Toppenish
- Jeff Ranger – Town of Naches
Thank you all for being so willing to sit through the evaluation of the applications. All applications are due to YVCOG by 5:00pm on Monday December 12, 2016. Once I receive all the applications, I will upload the evaluation materials with the application information inserted and the complete pdfs of the projects to the Shared “O” drive.
Since we’ll be using a temporary folder, I will ask John to provide me a link specifically for the evaluators and I’ll send that out individually. I anticipate having the link available to evaluators on Tuesday.
I am asking that if you are submitting a project and not intending to be at the evaluation meeting, please make someone available (and please provide to me a phone number) to answer questions during the time of the meeting so the evaluators have all the info they need to make decisions on the proposed projects. I think it’s reasonable to get through all evaluations within 2 hours.
When we are finished with the sub-committee meeting, I should have a proposed prioritized list that a sub-committee spokesperson will bring back to the full TAC in January. We’ll decide at the meeting who that could be. The TAC recommended prioritized list resulting from January TAC action will go before the Policy Board in January for approval.
So far so good, we are on schedule for the 2017 prioritized project(s) to be ready for the February TIP amendment.
Best Regards,
Deborah LaCombe
MPO/RTPO Manager
Yakima Valley Conference of Governments
311 North 4th Street, Suite 204
Yakima, WA 98908