Transportation meeting on Jan. 11, 2022

Motorists drive on Southeast Maricamp Road east of the intersection of Southeast 25th Avenue in Ocala, Fla. on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. [Bruce Ackerman/Ocala Gazette] 2021.

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Posted January 4, 2022 | By Gazette Staff

The Ocala/Marion Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) board has scheduled a meeting of its Citizen’s Advisory Committee (CAC) and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for Jan. 11, 2022, beginning at 1:30 p.m. at Green Clover Hall, 319 SE 26th Terrace, Ocala, FL 34471.

The meeting agenda includes among other things, priorities of the board for 2022. Irby Shakayla, the Administrative Specialist for the organization, confirmed that the controversial toll road issue was not on the meeting agendas for either committee.
The TPO is a transportation policy-making body responsible for the overall guidance of the transportation planning process in Marion County.

The board is comprised of 12 voting members- the Mayor of the City of Ocala, four members of the Ocala City Council; all five of the Marion County Commissioners; as well as one representative each from the Belleview City Commission and the Dunnellon City Council.
The Florida Department of Transportation District V Secretary is a non-voting member of the TPO board.

Both committees scheduled for meetings provide input to the TPO on local transportation issues, one is made up of citizens and the other professional planners, engineers, and school officials.

In the case of the Citizens Advisory Committee- Richard McGinley serves as Chair, Michelle Shearer, Vice-Chair, Davis Dinkins, Richard Howard, Travis Magamoll, Phyllis Silverman, Suzanne Mangram, and Steve Rudnianyn and Clark Yandle.

In the case of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Mickey Thomason of Florida State Parks serves as chair, Elton Holland of Marion County Engineering as Vice-Chair, along with these other members: Nancy Smith from the Ocala Planning Department, David Herlihy from Marion County School Board, Ji Li City of Ocala- SunTran, Kenneth Odom of Marion County Planning Department, Bob Titterington City of Belleview, Loretta Shaffer of Marion County Tourism, Eric Smith City of Ocala Engineering, Troy Slattery City of Dunnellon and Anna Taylor (non-voting) FDOT- District 5 Liaison.