The Board of the Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization (CCMPO) recruited five prominent Chittenden County citizen-statesmen, each with extensive experience in the public and private sectors, to form a Blue Ribbon Commission on Innovative Finance of transportation (BRC). The charge of the BRC was to: "Provide recommendations by December 1, 2008 regarding viable innovative finance strategies to advance the region’s transportation needs, including all modes as well as the necessary connections with our land use, economic, environmental and quality of life needs."