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MPO Members

Pioneer Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization

Members, Alternates, & Ex-Officio

Name Title
Monica Tibbits-Nutt Secretary and CEO of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Jonathan L. Gulliver Administrator of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Highway Division
Bill Dwyer Chair of the Pioneer Valley Executive Committee
JM Sorrell Chair of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority Advisory Board
Domenic Sarno Mayor of Springfield (Sub-Region 1)
John Vieau Mayor of Chicopee (Sub-Region 1)
Michael McCabe Mayor of Westfield (Sub-Region 2)
Gina-Louise Sciarra Mayor of Northampton (Sub-Region 3)
James Whalen Holland Selectboard (Sub-Region 4)
Roger Fuller Chesterfield Selectboard (Sub-Region 5)
Rick Sullivan Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts

PV MPO Regional Sub Areas with 2020 Populations

The Pioneer Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) implements and oversees the 3C transportation planning process in the Pioneer Valley region.  The objective of the 3C transportation planning process is to assist, support, and provide the capability to maintain an open comprehensive, cooperative, and continuing transportation planning and programming process at all levels of government in conformance with applicable federal and state requirements and guidelines.  The Pioneer Valley MPO was restructured in August of 2006 to enhance the role of the local communities in the transportation planning process and allow local MPO members to represent sub regional districts respective to community size and geographic location.

  • The Secretary and CEO of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation
  • The Administrator of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Highway Division
  • The Chair of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
  • The Chair of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority Advisory Board
  • The President and CEO of the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council (EDC)
  • The Mayors of two of the following three (3) urban core cities:
Chicopee Holyoke Springfield
  • The Mayor or a Selectboard Member of one of the following four (4) cities and towns:
Agawam Southwick Westfield
West Springfield
  • The Mayor, Selectboard Member, or Town Councilor of one of the following five (5) cities and towns:
Amherst Easthampton Hadley
Northampton South Hadley
  • A Selectboard Member or Town Councilor from one of the following fourteen (14) suburban and rural towns:
Belchertown Brimfield East Longmeadow
Granby Hampden Holland
Longmeadow Ludlow Monson
Palmer Pelham Wales
Ware Wilbraham  
  • A Selectboard Member of one of the following seventeen (17) suburban andrural towns:
Blandford Chester Chesterfield
Cummington Goshen Granville
Hatfield Huntington Middlefield
Montgomery Plainfield Russell
Southampton Tolland Westhampton
Williamsburg Worthington

In addition, the Administrator of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA), the Administrator of the Franklin Regional Transit Authority (FRTA), the Joint Transportation Committee (JTC) Chair, and one representative each from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the five (5) alternate community MPO representatives, and one representative each from both the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Highway Division District One and District Two Offices shall be considered ex-officio, non-voting members of the Pioneer Valley MPO. Alternate members shall be additional chief elected officials from each of the above-cited categories of communities and he/she shall be eligible to attend, participate and vote at MPO meetings in the event that the primary member cannot attend.

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