The VAMPO Board of Directors elected officers at its annual Business Meeting on June 23, 2024, as follows:
- Chairman: Alec Brebner, Central Virginia TPO
- 1st Vice-Chair: Pavithra Parthasarathi, Hampton Roads TPO
- 2nd Vice-Chair: Ian Ollis, Fredericksburg Area MPO
- 1st Secretary/Treasurer: Taryn Logan, Winchester-Frederick MPO
- 2nd Secretary/Treasurer: Micah Bray, Bristol TN/VA MPO
The General Assembly established the Virginia Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (VAMPO) effective July 1, 2009, through House Joint Resolution No. 756 to provide education, information and opportunities for cooperation among Virginia’s Metropolitan Planning Organizations and among state, federal, and community officials. As prescribed in HJR No. 756, the VAMPO “will augment, not supplant, the duties of the individual MPOs in carrying out their respective metropolitan transportation planning and programming functions.
VAMPO's Objectives
- Provide a forum for the metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in the Commonwealth of Virginia to exchange information and experiences, enhance the practice of metropolitan transportation planning, provide education opportunities, and discuss issues relative to local, State, and Federal policies and requirements for transportation planning.
- Provide a forum for State and Federal transportation agencies to exchange information and guidance on transportation planning to the MPOs in a collective manner.
- Provide recommendations to the Virginia Secretary of Transportation and the General Assembly on statutory, regulatory, and policy improvements required to provide for effective transportation planning, programming, and funding in the Commonwealth.
