Town Hall focuses on RTA plans for Pinal
Victor Mendez, US Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary, giving keynote at Pinal County Town Hall./Pinal Partnership Twitter
The 29th annual Pinal County Town Hall meeting drew about 165 attendees with the theme “Linking Transportation: Paving the Way to Economic Growth,” which included a presentation and discussion of the Pinal Regional Transportation Authority headed to voters within the next year.
Dibble Engineering’s Tim Wolfe delivered a presentation on the Pinal RTA, which the Board of Supervisors voted to establish in August 2015. The following September, the RTA and Pinal County consultant services executed an agreement and presented their draft plan to the supervisors in January. The RTA board approved the draft plan in May.
If a public vote passes — the earliest it is likely to be held will be next spring — the plan and a new half-cent transportation excise tax will allocate about $640 million in transportation funding over the next two decades to establish a stronger transportation system within the county.
Also check out Pinal Partnership’s Twitter feed for our living tweeting of the event.
