Financial Responsibility Stakeholder Group
Group 3: Infrastructure Investment will focus on the balance between financial efficiency and transit system coverage to achieve a transit system that is financially stable and effective in connecting people to opportunity. This group will work toward goals, strategies, and performance measures to address two plan outcomes including
A transit system that is financially stable (How do we find new balance in funding so that the transit system can continue to operate while also remaining affordable for riders?)
A region that is connected (How can we connect people and communities to more opportunities to improve their quality of life?)
Recommendation Memo
The Financial Responsibility Working Group Recommendation Memo is available for comment until July 29, 2022. Please return all comments to your group facilitator.
Meeting materials
Meeting 6 (June 30)
TAKE A SURVEY: Before the next meeting share your level of support for the draft strategies
Meeting 5 (June 16)
Meeting 4 (June 2)
Watch a recorded presentation from Doug Anderson, RTA Manager of Operating Budgets and Analysis, about the 10-Year Financial Plan being developed as part of the next Regional Transit Strategic Plan
Draft Strategy Google Documents (available for comment through the weekend)
Meeting 3 (May 19)
Meeting 2 (May 5)
Updated Briefing Book (includes a new section called "Follow up items from Meeting #1" on Page 3 with answers to questions we were asked at the first meeting)
Meeting 1 (April 21)
Defining the Plan Principles
Six months of public engagement and stakeholder discussions have informed a vision, principles, and six desired outcomes for the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA)’s next regional transit strategic plan. Defining the principles of Equity, Stewardship and Committed to Change is critical to guiding the discussions, developing strategies, and ultimately achieving the outcomes. The RTA has developed a Principle Discussion Tool with definitions and key questions that will be used to help evaluate ideas proposed during the working groups.
Membership
Learn more about being a member of the RTA Working Groups in the other working groups in the Stakeholder Participant Guide. Members of this group include:
Bill Lachman, RTA (Group Facilitator)
Peter Kersten, RTA (Group Facilitator)
Chris Groven, RTA Board of Directors
Jamie Gathing, RTA Board of Directors
Bea Reyna-Hickey, RTA
Jeremy LaMarche, RTA
Sonali Tandon, CTA
Lisa Smith, CTA
Maulik Vaishnav, CTA
Alan M. Ochab, Metra
Brian Stepp, Metra
Melanie Castle, Pace
Erik Llewellyn, Pace
Daniel Comeaux, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Elizabeth Ginsberg, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Henry Guerrerio, Illinois Tollway
Jacky Grimshaw, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Laura Salzman, Access Living
Jesse Elam, Cook County
Scott Hennings, McHenry County
Kristi DeLaurentiis, South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association (SSMMA)
Vignesh Krishnamurthy, Chicago Department of Transportation
Paula Worthington, University of Chicago
Tom Kotarac, Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago
Brad Tietz, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
Laura Calderon, Illinois Public Transit Association
Judy Shanley, EasterSeals, National Center for Mobility Management
Andrea Reed, Roseland Chamber/Coalition for Modern Metra Electric
Kate Lowe, University of Illinois-Chicago
Kevin Brubaker, Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest
Rudy Faust, Shared-Use Mobility Center
Rebecca Mason, Transportation for Illinois Coalition
Brad Tietz, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce