Yakima Transit is required under RCW 35.58.2795 to prepare a Six-Year Transit Development Plan for the current calendar year and the ensuing five years. The annual plan is required in order to receive State and Federal grant funding. The plan must be consistent with comprehensive plans adopted by counties, cities, and towns. The plan is required to contain information as to how the municipality intends to meet state and local long-range priorities for public transportation, capital improvements, significant operating changes planned for the system, and how Yakima Transit intends to fund plan needs.
The six-year plan must specifically set forth projects of regional significance for inclusion in the transportation improvement plan within that region. In developing the plan, Yakima Transit must consider policy recommendations affecting public transportation contained in the state transportation policy plan approved by the State Transportation Commission.
Enclosed for your review is Yakima Transit’s Transit Development Plan for 2015-2020 and Annual Report for 2014. |