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Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Report
From the Desk of the Director:
Welcome to the first online COMPASS annual report. This past year has been an eventful one at COMPASS. Like many of our member agencies, we've tightened our belts, but still have significant achievements to share.
- COMPASS is moving! We have been saving to purchase office space since 2006. In April 2011, construction began on a two-condo office building in downtown Meridian that we will be co-owning with Valley Regional Transit. Our new location is consistent with the Community Choices land use scenario in Communities in Motion and will help us better collaborate with Valley Regional Transit. Construction is nearly complete and we expect to move in November 2011. Our new address will be 700 N. East 2nd Street, Suite 200, Meridian, ID 83642. Stop by and visit us at our new location.
- Communities in Motion 2035, the regional long-range transportation plan for Ada and Canyon Counties, was adopted by the COMPASS Board at the very end of fiscal year 2010. Final editing and printing occurred in the first few months of FY2011, followed by an intense effort to bring the plan to our member agencies for their individual adoption.
- Communities in Motion 2040 is already underway. The planning scope has been expanded to become a long-range transportation and sustainability plan. This is a major step forward in holistic planning for the valley.
- For the third year in a row, COMPASS did not raise membership dues. In fact, due to a dues reduction in FY2009, FY2011 membership dues remained lower than they were in 2008.
Use the COMPASS logo below to explore our programs and projects. Each "point" on the compass represents a COMPASS program or project. Hover over a point to see the program/project represented by that point and reveal a brief description of a project, with highlights from 2011. The program/project titles are linked to pages on the COMPASS web site with more detailed information.
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