Call to Order

9:00 A.M. CONVENE MEETING

Item 1

Safety Briefing
Staff will provide general safety instruction.

Additional Item

Additional Item

Item 2A

Resolution recognizing recently retired State Representative Joseph C. Pickett, in
honor of his decades of service and support of Texas transportation

Item 2B

I-69 Alliance - Polk County Judge Sydney Murphy

Opening Remarks

At the conclusion of all other agenda items, the commission
will allow an open comment period, not to exceed one hour, to receive public comment on any
other matter that is under the jurisdiction of the department. No action will be taken. Each
speaker will be allowed a maximum of three minutes. Speakers must be signed up prior to the
beginning of the open comment period.

Item 3

Consider the approval of the Minutes of the December 13, 2018, regular meeting
of the Texas Transportation Commission

Item 4A

Contracts
Consider the award or rejection of contracts for highway construction and
maintenance, and construction and rehabilitation of buildings (Presentation)
These proposed minute orders contain information concerning the receipt of bids for highway improvement contracts. The department may reschedule receipt of bids for those projects where the commission rejects all bids. Those bids accepted by the commission will result in conditional contract awards to the low bidders. Contract award conditions may involve securing funding from other sources, the contractor's ability to satisfy federal DBE subcontracting requirements, or other requirements as outlined in the project bid proposal.

a. Highway Improvement and Other Transportation Facilities
(see attached itemized list) (MO)

Item 4B

Routine Maintenance (see attached itemized list) (MO)

Item 4C

Construction and Rehabilitation of Buildings
(see attached itemized list) (MO)

Item 5

Discussion Item
Development of 2020 Unified Transportation Program (UTP) planning targets
(Presentation)
The UTP is a 10-year statewide plan for transportation project development. The purpose of this presentation is to facilitate a discussion of the 2020 UTP planning targets and investment strategy. The outcome will be a guidance document to be distributed to department districts, metropolitan planning organizations, and other planning partners for the development of the 2020 UTP.

Item 6

US 183N
Travis and Williamson Counties - Consider (i) authorizing the Central Texas Regional
Mobility Authority (CTRMA) to use state-owned right of way to develop, construct, and
operate two tolled managed lanes in each direction and related facilities along US 183
from SH 45 North/RM 620 to Loop 1 in Travis and Williamson Counties (the Managed
Lanes Improvements); (ii) approving the connection of the Managed Lanes
Improvements with a segment of the state highway system; (iii) authorizing CTRMA to
develop, design, and construct as an improvement to the state highway system a fourth
non-tolled general purpose lane in each direction and other non-tolled improvements to
US 183 (the US 183 Improvements) along the same corridor; (iv) authorizing the
department to reimburse the costs of the non-tolled US 183 Improvements with 100%
federal funds while ensuring no funds from state funding, including sources commonly
known as Proposition 1 and Proposition 7, are utilized, subject to public involvement and
an update to the Unified Transportation Program allocating funds for the US 183
Improvements; (v) authorizing the executive director to enter into agreements and take all
actions necessary to carry out the provisions of the minute order, while ensuring that
funding from sources commonly known as Proposition 1 or Proposition 7 will not be
used on either the Managed Lanes Improvements or the US 183 Improvements; and (vi)
rescinding Minute Order 115078 adopted by the Texas Transportation Commission on
October 26, 2017 (MO) (Presentation)
This minute order will provide commission authorization for CTRMA to construct both its tolled Managed
Lanes Improvements and the department’s non-tolled US 183 Improvements together as the 183 North
Mobility Project under a single design-build construction contract. The minute order will authorize the
department to reimburse the costs of the non-tolled US 183 Improvements with 100% federal funds, subject
to required public involvement and an update to the UTP allocating funding for those improvements. No
state funds, including funds from sources commonly known as Proposition 1 or Proposition 7, will be used
for either the CTRMA’s Managed Lane Improvements or the department’s non-tolled US 183
Improvements. This minute order also rescinds Minute Order 115078, adopted by the commission on
October 26, 2017, which would not have prohibited state funds from being used on the US 183
Improvements.

Item 7A

Transportation Planning (Presentation)

Various Counties - Concurrence with the Regional Transportation
Council of the North Central Texas Council of Governments' funding of
construction and other project development costs of projects to be advanced
through the use of payments received from the North Texas Tollway Authority in
accordance with the SH 121 Toll Project Agreement (MO)
The department has established a separate fund to account for and track projects and project
costs funded with the SH 121 payments. This minute order authorizes the funding of additional
project costs. The project costs to be funded were selected through a cooperative process with the
Regional Transportation Council.

Item 7B

Various Counties - Concurrence with the Regional Transportation
Council of the North Central Texas Council of Governments' funding of
construction and other project development costs of projects to be advanced
through the use of payments received from the North Texas Tollway Authority in
accordance with the SH 161 Toll Project Agreement (MO)
The department has established a separate fund to account for and track projects and project
costs funded with the SH 161 payments. This minute order authorizes the funding of additional
project costs. The project costs to be funded were selected through a cooperative process with the
Regional Transportation Council.

Item 8A

Promulgation of Administrative Rules Under Title 43, Texas Administrative Code,
and the Administrative Procedure Act, Government Code, Chapter 2001:

Proposed Adoption
Chapter 9 - Contract and Grant Management
Amendments to §9.34, Comprehensive Process (MO)
The department proposes amendments to Texas Administrative Code Title 43, Subchapter C, §9.34
related to Comprehensive Process. These amendments modify administrative qualification
requirements for professional services contracts by establishing the requirements for bonus and
incentive compensation to be allowed. The amendments also establish a process for the
department to review and approve labor rates for use in negotiations for a 12-month period and
clarify that this information will not be provided to negotiators before selection. Additionally, the
amendments permit the department to extend the use of an approved indirect cost rate for an
additional 90 days beyond the expiration date, if the department has received a provider’s annual
administrative qualifications information prior to the expiration date. Finally, the amendments
clarify that the indirect cost rate in effect at the time negotiations commence is the rate that will be
utilized.

Item 8B

Rule Review
Consider the re-adoption of Title 43, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 10,
Ethical Conduct by Entities Doing Business with the Department, and Chapter 16,
Planning and Development of Transportation Projects, in accordance with
Government Code, §2001.039 (MO)
State law requires a state agency to review each of its rules every four years. After the review, the
agency must readopt the rule, readopt the rule with amendments, or repeal the rule. The
department reviews its rules on a rotating basis.

Item 9

Eminent Domain Proceedings
Various Counties - Consider the authorization of the filing of condemnation proceedings
to acquire real property by eminent domain for non-controlled and controlled access
highways (see attached itemized list) (MO)
Commission findings, determinations, and authorizations for the state, by motion made in accordance with
Senate Bill 18 (82nd Legislature), to acquire by eminent domain, upon the payment of adequate and just
compensation, various ownership interests in specific parcels of real property that are needed to develop
or improve both non-controlled and controlled access state highways, to include requesting the state
attorney general to bring and pursue condemnation suits relating to those specific parcels of real property
described in the attached itemized list.

Item 10

Routine Minute Orders and Reports
a. Donations to the Department
Various Districts - Consider the acknowledgment of donations with a value of
$500 or more, including donations of money, materials, services, or real property,
that are made to the department for the purpose of assisting the department in
carrying out its functions and duties or for improving access to or from a highway
on the state highway system (see attached itemized list) (MO)
State statutes require the commission to acknowledge the acceptance of a gift to the department
that is valued at $500 or more. By the adoption of this minute order, the commission
acknowledges the receipt and acceptance of the property specified in the minute order.

10. Routine Minute Orders and Reports (continued)
b. Real Estate Dispositions
The commission must approve the sales, transfers, and exchanges of state rights of way and other
real properties that are no longer needed for a state highway purpose. It must also approve,
accept, and acknowledge donations to the state of real property that is valued at $500 or more.
(1) Lamar County - SL 286, .54 miles east of FM 195 in Paris - Consider
rescinding and replacing Minute Order 115358, dated October 25, 2018, to
correct exhibits (MO)
The legal description in Exhibit A to Minute Order 115358 was incorrect. This minute
order rescinds and replaces Minute Order 115358 to include the correct exhibits.
(2) Tarrant County - I-30 and Riverside Drive in Fort Worth - Consider the
sale of right of way to an abutting landowner (MO)
The district has determined that the land is no longer needed for highway purposes. An
abutting landowner has requested to purchase the land, and it may be sold to the
requester.
(3) Tarrant County - SH 183 and Fuller in Euless - Consider the sale of right
of way to the City of Euless (MO)
The district has determined that the land is no longer needed for highway purposes. The
City of Euless (city) has requested to purchase the land, and it may be sold to the city.
(4) Williamson County - SL 332, a bypass of State Highway 29 in Liberty
Hill - Consider the removal from the system and transfer of control,
jurisdiction, and maintenance, and quitclaim of right of way to the City of
Liberty Hill (MO)
The district has determined that a segment of the highway is no longer needed as part of
the highway system. The City of Liberty Hill (city) has agreed to assume control,
jurisdiction, and maintenance. The right of way may be quitclaimed to the city.

c. Reports
(1) Compliance Division report
State law requires the commission to establish a compliance program, which must
include a Compliance Division to oversee the program. The Compliance Division is
responsible for acting to prevent and detect serious breaches of department policy, fraud,
waste, and abuse of office, including any acts of criminal conduct within the department.
The Compliance Division is required to provide a monthly report to the commission
regarding investigations and a summary of information relating to trends and
recommendations.
(2) Letting Allocation Status report
Quarterly status report on the FY 2018 letting allocation, the actual
allocation utilized through the current month, and proposed remaining
highway maintenance and construction contract letting for the fiscal year
(Report)
This report will provide the current overall allocation status, by district and metropolitan
planning organization, of the FY 2018 letting allocation and will also provide the
anticipated effect on the letting allocation of remaining proposed highway maintenance
and construction letting.
(3) Quarterly report on FY 2018 State Highway Fund 6 cash status (Report)
This report updates the commission on the year-to-date cash balance and activity of
Fund 6. The report will include original projections and actual revenues/inflows and
expenditures/outflows on a cash basis.

Routine Minute Orders and Reports (continued)
c. Reports (continued)
(4) Texas Department of Transportation Annual Financial Report (With
Independent Auditor’s Report) for the Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2018
(Report)
State law requires that a state agency prepare an annual financial report regarding the
agency’s use of appropriated money during the preceding fiscal year. In addition, the
department is required to have an independent certified public accountant audit the
department's books and accounts for each toll project or system at least annually, and is
required to submit an agency report to the Sunset Advisory Commission, in certain years,
that includes a financial audit conducted by an independent certified public accountant.
d. Finance
(1) Quarterly Investment Report
Consider the acceptance of the Quarterly Investment Report (MO)
This minute order recognizes the presentation and commission’s acceptance of the
quarterly investment report for the investment of funds held by the Bank of New York
Mellon, as trustee, under the Central Texas Turnpike System master trust indenture;
funds for the pre-paid TxTag account held by the Bank of New York Mellon, acting as
custodian; and funds related to obligations issued for the IH 35E Project under a Trust
Agreement by and between Amegy Bank, a Division of ZB, National Association, as
trustee, and the department.
(2) Consider the acceptance of the audited financial statements of the Texas
Mobility Fund as required by the governing master resolution (MO)
The master resolution governing the issuance of Texas Mobility Fund (TMF) bonds
requires the preparation of an audited financial report of the TMF for each fiscal year.
Audited financial statements have been prepared for FY 2018.
(3) Travis and Williamson Counties - Consider the acceptance of the
audited financial statements of the Central Texas Turnpike System
(CTTS), as required by the CTTS Indenture of Trust (MO)
The Indenture of Trust as supplemented by the Amended and Restated Seventh
Supplemental Indenture of Trust that prescribes the terms for bonds and obligations
issued to finance CTTS, a toll project comprised of the SH 130, Segments 1-4, SH 45N,
SH 45SE, and Loop 1 project elements, requires the preparation of a financial report of
the results of operation of the system for each fiscal year. Audited financial statements
meeting the requirements of the Indenture have been prepared for FY 2018.
(4) Travis and Williamson Counties - Consider the acceptance of the
Quarterly Report of Actual Traffic and Toll Revenue for the Central Texas
Turnpike System (MO)
Report of actual traffic and revenue for the Central Texas Turnpike System as of
November 30, 2018.
e. Speed Zones
Various Counties - Consider the establishment or alteration of regulatory and
construction speed zones on various sections of highways in the state (MO)
This minute order establishes or alters regulatory and construction speed zones on various
sections of highways in the state.

Item 11- Executive Session, Open Comment, & Adjourn

Executive Session Pursuant to Government Code, Chapter 551
Section 551.071 - Consultation with and advice from legal counsel regarding any
item on this agenda, pending or contemplated litigation, or other legal matters.

OPEN COMMENT PERIOD - At the conclusion of all other agenda items, the commission
will allow an open comment period, not to exceed one hour, to receive public comment on any
other matter that is under the jurisdiction of the department. No action will be taken. Each
speaker will be allowed a maximum of three minutes. Speakers must be signed up prior to the
beginning of the open comment period.

ADJOURN