Guiding values
The Metro Council directed that the Get Moving 2020 plan should prioritize investments that:
- Improve safety for everyone
- Prevent displacement and benefit communities of color
- Make it easier to get around
- Support resiliency from disasters and emergencies
- Support clean air, clean water, and healthy ecosystems
- Support economic growth
- Increase opportunity for low-income Oregonians
- Leverage regional and local investments
Community involvement
Between January 2019 and July 2020, thousands of community members shared their views to inform the Get Moving 2020 plan. They attended dozens of workshops and events around the region, submitted written testimony and took online surveys. People contributed input in 11 different languages.
This built off engagement to inform the 2018 Regional Transportation Plan that included over 19,000 individual comments.
In summer 2019, community teams in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties toured major travel routes and provided feedback on potential projects. Community-based organizations led discussions with people of color to help shape investments that make our transportation system safer, give people more choices in how they get around, and make TriMet free for high school students.
Metro also worked with the Transportation Funding Task Force and met regularly with government partners, business leaders, transportation advocates, and other stakeholders to shape the plan.
Community partnerships
In 2019, Metro awarded $200,000 in grants to four local organizations. The grants funded civic engagement activities to help ensure that the needs of people of color would be represented in the Get Moving 2020 plan. The four community partners – Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO), Portland African American Leadership Forum (PAALF), Unite Oregon and Verde – led discussions where historically marginalized communities could voice their priorities. Community leaders reported input directly to the Metro Council.
Local investment teams
Over the summer of 2019, Metro convened volunteer teams in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties to tour areas targeted for investment and discuss whether the improvements proposed by transportation planners would meet the needs of their communities. The teams' findings helped shape the investment recommendations the Transportation Funding Task Force made to the Metro Council.
Task force meetings
In January 2019, Metro Council President Lynn Peterson appointed a 35-member Transportation Funding Task Force comprised of local leaders representing a diverse range of stakeholders and communities across greater Portland. Over the course of 22 meetings, the task force helped the Council identify and prioritize the investments that make up the Get Moving 2020.
Meeting summaries
Meeting 1, Feb. 27, 2019: Introduction to Task Force members, setting up meeting protocols, public comment
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Meeting 2, March 6, 2019: Transportation Snapshot video, racial equity training, Council direction and values, orientation to corridors, public comment
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Meeting 3, March 20, 2019: Task Force values, list of corridors, public comment
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Meeting 4, April 3, 2019: Review of referral process, orientation to climate strategy, corridor prioritization (part 1), public comment
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Meeting 5, April 24, 2019: Corridor prioritization (part 2), corridor values and outcomes, small group discussions, public comment
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Meeting 6, May 15, 2019: Corridor tiers (part 1), project readiness, public comment
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Meeting 7, May 29, 2019: Review of Task Force discussions to date, orientation into next phase of work, corridor tiers (part 2), public comment
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Meeting 8, June 19, 2019: Metro Council updates (González and Lewis), plan for local investment teams, intro to regionwide programs, public comment
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Meeting 9, July 24, 2019: Polling data, regionwide programs (continued), public comment
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Meeting 10, Aug. 21, 2019: Regionwide programs with small group discussions, public comment
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Meeting 11, Sept. 18, 2019: Local investment teams feedback, public comment
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Meeting 12, Sept. 25, 2019: TriMet workshop: ridership and service outlook, low-income fare initiatives, enhanced transit and better bus, transit priorities
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Meeting 13, Oct. 30, 2019: Staff proposal, small group discussions on 82nd Ave., SW 185th Ave., Clackamas to Columbia, and Sunrise Corridor, public comment
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Meeting 14, Nov. 20, 2019: Amendments to staff proposal, public comment
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Meeting 15, Dec. 11, 2019: Potential revenue mechanisms, public comment
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Meeting 16, Dec. 18, 2019: Potential outcomes for Tier 1 corridors, votes on recommendations and amendments, public comment
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Meeting 17, Jan. 15, 2020: Updates on timeline and programs; funding options: feasibility and feedback to Council, public comment
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Meeting 18, Feb. 19, 2020: Tier 2 corridors, public comment
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Meeting 19, March 4, 2020: Racial equity analysis, regionwide programs (open house and small group discussions), public comment
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Meeting 20, March 18, 2020: Update on community engagement on programs, Tier 2 corridors, public comment
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Meeting 21, April 1, 2020: Tier 2 corridors, panel discussion on oversight and accountability, public comment
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Meeting 22, April 15, 2020: Final meeting: recap and highlights of process, Task Force members give advice to Metro Council
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