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July 24, 2003 The Executive Board of the Puget Sound Regional Council approved Assessing the Effectiveness of Concurrency - Final Report. The final report includes recommendations crafted by the Growth Management Policy Board during a series of meetings held throughout the spring. The recommendations provide guidance for tasks the Regional Council can undertake to help localities in their concurrency efforts, while other recommendations are geared directly to local jurisdictions for consideration. The recommendations include policy, technical, research, and legislative activities, and fall into eight key issue areas. For more information, contact Ivan Miller at 206-464-7549 or imiller@psrc.org. The Executive Board adopted revised reprogramming policies for the regional Transportation Improvement Program. The revisions aim to expedite the obligation process to ensure that regionally managed funds are used in a timely and efficient fashion. The new policies establish time periods for reprogramming funds from one project to another and for requests for obligation date extensions. Funds not obligated or extended during the newly established time frames would return to the region's funding "pot" for the next project selection competition. For more information, contact Karen Richter at 206-464-6343 or krichter@psrc.org. The Executive Board held a special work session to discuss the future endeavors of the Puget Sound Regional Council as it begins its search for a new Executive Director. Mary McCumber announced earlier this year that she will retire at the end of 2003. David Harrison, Senior Lecturer at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, facilitated the discussion and provided some thought-provoking questions. The discussion helped identify the accomplishments the members of the PSRC are the most proud of and provided a framework for potential improvements to the agency's planning practice. A summary of the discussion will be available within the next few weeks. For more information, contact Rick Olson at 206-587-5060 or rolson@psrc.org. In other business, the Executive Board:
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