The Executive Board voted to restructure its composition to meet new state requirements.

The Legislature included a proviso in the 2004 supplemental transportation appropriation that requires the PSRC to make adjustments to voting membership of the Executive Board in order to receive $750,000 in state planning funds. The Executive Board opted to increase its size to 30 to include voting representatives for Bellevue, Kent, Renton, and Bremerton.

For more information, contact Rick Olson at (206) 587-5060 or rolson@psrc.org.

A top priority of the Executive Board has been to dramatically improve the ways PSRC communicates with the wider region. The Board heard a report from Cocker Fennessey on ways the agency can strategically target communication and better engage the region in its work. The strategy suggests improvements to existing communication programs targeted at PSRC membership, stakeholders and the news media, as well as new initiatives. PSRC intends to focus upcoming communication programs on the new regional economic strategy, updates to Destination 2030 and VISION 2020 and PSRC's investment of roughly $160 million annually in transportation projects within the region.

For more information, contact Rick Olson at (206) 587-5060 or rolson@psrc.org.

The Progress Report is a three year review of the region's long range transportation plan and covers the status of planning activities, projects and financing. The Progress Report is available on the web at www.psrc.org/projects/mtp/2004progress/progress.htm.

For more information, contact Kathy McMullen at (206) 464-6172 or kmcmullen@psrc.org.

The sketch planning model will be used to help inform discussions about the VISION 2020 Update alternatives. It will provide an interactive communication tool that will visually show the transportation and land use effects of different scenarios.

For more information, contact Ivan Miller at (206) 464-7549 or imiller@psrc.org.

PSRC is contracting with Siemens ITS, who will provide all the equipment and operate the value pricing pilot project. The project will test people's behavioral response to varying transportation prices/tolls. Objectives of the project include: familiarizing the public and policy makers with road pricing, generating price response data, and further understanding of the technological applications of pricing.

For more information, contact Matthew Kitchen at (206) 464-6196 or mkitchen@psrc.org.