NVTA staff presented a draft five‑year strategic plan update to the authority Oct. 9 that sets a vision, mission and four strategic goals and begins to list specific strategies and metrics intended to guide NVTA’s work through the next planning cycle.

Amanda Sink, NVTA project delivery and grants manager, reviewed the draft plan’s organization: a top‑level vision and mission, four goals, supporting strategies and a metrics layer intended to make the plan a living document. The four goals are:
1) Lead the region’s transportation initiatives; 2) Maximize public benefit through project selection and delivery; 3) Enhance regional planning through technical assistance and data‑driven tools; and 4) Safeguard and diversify NVTA revenue sources.

Staff described candidate strategies under each goal, including continuing transaction (NVTA’s long‑range plan for Planning District 8), building data and analytic capacity, strengthening project delivery oversight and exploring competitive federal grant opportunities. Sink said the authority has already adopted the vision, mission, core values and goals and that the current briefing focused on draft strategies and how NVTA will report progress using measurable metrics.

Sink described next steps: staff will refine strategies after committee review, finalize a metrics framework and present the plan for adoption at the November authority meeting. Staff said the strategy is intended to be updated annually through metric reviews rather than sitting dormant for five years.

Members asked questions about measuring the authority’s ability to deploy capital, clarifying that NVTA programs funds in multi‑year pipelines and that recent efforts have returned monies to active programming through project closeouts. Staff and finance said they would refine metric proposals to track deployment and stewardship of funds and report back in the coming month.