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  • PATH Partners with CAA, BRHD, and InnoVage to Help Older Adults Ride CAT

    • Post published:October 15, 2024

    The Partnership for Accessible Transportation Help (PATH) is a TJPDC Mobility Management program, designed to help improve and increase transportation options for older adults and other non-drivers. PATH works with transportation providers and helps elders find rides that meet their needs.Recently, as part of the Charlottesville Area Alliance’s (CAA) AARP Livable Community grant, PATH, the Blue Ridge Health District (BRHD), Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) and InnoVage staff worked together to host a group travel training event for seniors. The training was designed to assist elders in learning how to ride…

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    CEDS Plan Approved by EDA

    • Post published:October 15, 2024

    TJPDC  is pleased to announce the release of its Comprehensive Economic Development Plan (CEDS). The plan was funded through a  U.S. EDA Economic Adjustment Assistance grant to develop a regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) plan to benefit all TJPDC localities.  A CEDS is meant to integrate with and complement other economic development plans. Rather than being “owned” by any one agency, a CEDS consists of plans of action that may be undertaken by multiple players. The approval of this plan also opens up additional federal funding opportunities. This plan was done…

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    Meet the Staff: Sarah Simba

    • Post published:October 15, 2024

    Sarah Simba, Regional Planner Sarah joined the TJPDC in May as a Regional Planner and has been working with the Charlottesville-Albemarle MPO and on transportation projects, such as Move Safely Blue Ridge. She graduated from UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in May 2022. She earned her Graduate Diploma (License) in Mathematical Economics and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Economics from the Université Protestant du Congo, which is the Protestant University of Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, her country of birth.Q: What led you to…

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    Rain Barrel Workshop

    • Post published:October 10, 2024

    The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC) hosted a successful rain barrel workshop in Fluvanna County in partnership with the James River Association and the Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District (TJSWCD) on October 3. Participants learned how to assemble and install rain barrels at home and received a 55-gallon drum and a RainRecycle rain barrel kit from The Rain Barrel Depot.Every time it rains, stormwater carries things such as nutrients from fertilizers, bacteria from pet waste, and chemicals from herbicides and pesticides to local waterways. Using a rain…

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    October Commission Meeting Updates

    • Post published:October 10, 2024

    The TJPD Commission met on October 3 and addressed the following topics:Blue Ridge Cigarette Tax Board six-month presentation/updatePartnership for Accessible Transportation Help (PATH) presentationFY26 Draft Budget approvedTJPDC Local Contributions--presentation of options for increasing funding for six agency programs that receive additional local dollars outside the per capita funding paid by each member locality; the Commission approved 1) converting local funding for these programs to per capita rates moving forward; 2) a recommendation that TJPDC request up to a 7% increase from the member localities for these programs for FY26; and…

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    TJPDC Joins Firefly, REC in Marking VATI Achievement

    • Post published:September 13, 2024

    TJPDC joined Firefly Fiber Broadband and Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) on September 9 in celebrating the first REC internet connections in Madison County. TJPDC, Firefly and REC are partners in the 2022 Virginia Telecommunication Initiative (VATI)/RISE project, which is administered by the TJPDC and ultimately will make high-speed internet available to more than 36,000 homes and businesses in a 13-county area in Central Virginia.Additional information about this milestone and pictures from the celebration event are available here.  

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    March 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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    Citizens Advisory Committee

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    Charlottesville Albemarle Regional Transit Authority

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