AGENDA ITEM
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Approve Draft Resolution 2026-01 Recommending the Lakeland Area Mass Transit District (LAMTD) as the Designated Community Transportation Coordinator (CTC) for Polk County
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PRESENTER
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SUMMARY
Every five years, the TPO must go through a process to recommend a single Community Transportation Coordinator, (CTC) to the Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged. This is usually handled through a competitive procurement process, for example, an RFP. However, when the existing CTC is a governmental agency, like Lakeland Area Mass Transit District (LAMTD), d/b/a Citrus Connection, then the process is carried out more informally. Over the last several months, the TPO, in cooperation with LAMTD and the TD Local Coordinating Board, has carried out several steps to produce a local recommendation for LAMTD to be re-designated as the Community Transportation Coordinator for Polk.
There is a designated Community Transportation Coordinator in every County in Florida. The role of the CTC is to manage funding and provide trips, and to arrange transportation for eligible passengers to get to non-emergency medical appointments, to the grocery store, to employment opportunities, and to other life-sustaining activities.
The Polk County Transportation Disadvantaged Local Coordinating Board (LCB) concurred with the designation at its December 15, 2025, meeting.
RECOMMENDED ACTION
TPO Staff requests TPO Board approve Draft Resolution 2026-01 Recommending the Lakeland Area Mass Transit District (LAMTD), d/b/a Citrus Connection as the CTC for Polk County with the Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged (CTD).
ATTACHMENT
1. Draft Polk TPO Resolution 2026-01