MEMORANDUMSurface Transportation Program Agreement • October 4th, 2017
Contract Type FiledOctober 4th, 2017Since early 2017, a working group composed of representatives from the Council of Mayors Executive Committee, council planning liaisons, COG directors, the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, the City of Chicago, Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and CMAP has been discussing principles for programming the region’s Surface Transportation Block Grant (known as STP) funds and options for implementing those principles. The working group was formed in response to a federal certification recommendation from the US DOT and provisions within the STP distribution agreement between the Council of Mayors and City of Chicago that call for the review of the agreement with the passage of any new federal transportation funding bill. A draft agreement focused on four major themes described in more detail in this memo was presented to the Council of Mayors Executive Committee for consideration on September 12, 2017 and the committee gave approval for the Chair