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The Joint Committee on Transportation (JCT) visited Clackamas County on September 26 for meeting 11 of 12 in a statewide tour to hear from communities ahead of building a transportation package for the 2025 state legislative session.
In anticipation for this event, Clackamas County and partners joined together to build a unified message, resulting in a document called the Joint Values and Outcomes. This local conversation began in June at a retreat with the Clackamas County Coordinating Committee. The county and 12 cities signed the Joint Values and Outcomes.
The group put forth that without adequate transportation funding to address maintenance and capital projects in our communities, our collective transportation system will continue to struggle, maintenance projects will become capital projects, and our transportation systems will fail to meet public expectations and uses.
The values and outcomes agreed upon by Clackamas communities urges that a transportation package should:
- ensure funding to maintain roads, increase safety for all travel modes and manage traffic
- ensures that tax dollars are being used well
- address funding needs to make good on commitments promised to the public
- provide for sustainable long-term funding for first and last mile transit solutions
- include funding that supports transportation networks that connect communities and connect people to jobs
- invest in transportation infrastructure that increases growth, safety and usability while reducing congestion on roads that connect urban and rural communities
Learn more about the county’s coordination and advocacy for the transportation package.