Summary and Background
Buckeye Hills Regional Council (BHRC) is a council of governments established in 1968 to serve the counties of Athens, Hocking, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Perry and Washington in Ohio. Buckeye Hills administers funding from multiple State and Federal sources in the areas of community and economic development, transportation planning and aging services in order to address the needs of member communities.
To align individual county coordinated mobility management directives, plans and strategies, BHRC is using funds allocated through the Ohio Department of Transportation’s Regional Transportation Planning Organizations to develop one, holistic coordinated mobility plan for ODOT’s Mobility Management Region 8.
This region includes the counties of Athens, Hocking, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Nobble, Perry and Washington. Under the current requirements of the state’s mobility management program, each county with a mobility manager must also have a county-wide coordinated mobility plan. Under the advisement of ODOT, BHRC is taking the initiative to combine each individual plan into one, larger, inclusive plan for the entirety of Region 8.
Project Scope
Consultant will review each county’s coordinated mobility plan and detect trends along them. The consultant will then refer to the BHRC RTPO’s Regional Transportation Improvement Plan to consolidate data, information, and strategy to create one holistic Region 8 coordinated mobility plan. A draft of this plan will need to then be presented to the Region 8 mobility managers, the RTPO’s Transportation Advisory Committee, as well as members of the public, for comments. Following the outreach efforts, the final plan will then be presented to the BHRC Executive Committee and go forth for approval.
The purpose of the coordinated plan is to identify community resources for transportation and mobility, understand the gaps and unmet needs within those resources, and to determine the approaches to addressing those gaps and unmet needs. The plan needs to be developed and approved through a process that includes participation by seniors, individuals with disabilities, representative of public, private, and nonprofit transportation and human services providers and other members of the public.
Proposal specifications are available at the link below.
The deadline has been extended to 4:00 p.m., February 17, 2023. Proposals are due by email to Melissa Zoller, Planning Director, at mzoller@buckeyehills.org.