Board Actions ¶
Documentation, documents, and decisions of the Board will be stored in a TIDES-transit GitHub Repository in /docs/governance/actions:
2026-08-27 Approve changes to Governance and Change Management Policy documents
Unanimous consent
2026-08-27 Approved changes to the Governance and Change Management Policy documents to reflect the new Working Group structure and minor changes to the MOU with MobilityData. By unanimous consent of the TIDES Board as documented in Board Meeting Minutes
2026-08-27 Approval of charter for Standards Development Working Group
Unanimous consent full document
2026-08-27 Approved by unanimous consent of the TIDES Board as documented in Board Meeting Minutes.
2026-08-27 Appointment of Standards Development Working Group chair and deputy chair
Unanimous consent
2026-08-27 Approved Christopher Yamas, Jarvus Innovations, as Chair of the Standards Development Working Group by unanimous consent of the TIDES Board as documented in Board Meeting Minutes
2026-09-08 Appointed Ian Thistle, WMATA, as Deputy Chair of the Standards Development Working Group by unanimous consent of the TIDES Board as documented in Board Meeting Minutes
2026-08-27 Approval of revised MOU with MobilityData as the TIDES Manager
Unanimous consent full document
2026-08-27 Approved by unanimous consent of the TIDES Board as documented in Board Meeting Minutes.
2026-10-02 Executed via signature of MOU by TIDES Board Coordinator and Mobility Data Executive Director.
2026-06-10 Approved TIDES Roadmap for 2026-2027
Board approval, ratified by Pull Request review full document
The TIDES Board approved the TIDES Roadmap for 2026-2027 on June 10, 2026. The Roadmap is published on the Roadmap page as a comment-enabled living document with a downloadable PDF, alongside a companion Gantt chart tracking resourcing. See Pull Request #267 for the record of Board member approvals of the publication.
2024-12-04 Approve Evan Siroky Board Member replacing Katrina Kaiser
Unanimous consent full document
Board approved Evan Siroky as a board member replacing Katrina Kaiser who decided to step down due to evolving job duties. Decision was made by unanimous consent as documented in meeting minutes.
The resulting TIDES board is now:
2023-12-06 Designation of Board Coordinator Role to John Levin
Unanimous consent
2023-12-06 Approved by unanimous consent of the TIDES Board as documented in Board Meeting Minutes.
2023-12-06 Execution of MOU assigning TIDES Manager role duties to MobilityData
Unanimous consent full document
2023-12-06 Approved by unanimous consent of the TIDES Board as documented in Board Meeting Minutes.
2024-01-03 Executed via signature of MOU by TIDES Board Coordinator and Mobility Data Executive Director.
2023-11-29 Approved Board Expansion to 5 Members
Unanimous consent full document
Approved by unanimous consent as documented in github issue #189 and signed letter from board chair.
The resulting TIDES board is now:
2023-11-29 Approved v1.0 of Change Management Policy
Unanimous consent full document
Approved by unanimous consent as documented in github issue #184