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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD DF CDMMISSIDNERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 5, 2011 Action Agenda Item No. SUBJECT: Memorandum of Agreement MDA} between the Town of Hillsborough and Oran e Count for the Hillsborou h Circulator Transit Service DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: ~YIN~ No ATTACHMENTS}: INF4RMATI~N CONTACT: 1. MDA Approved by Hillsborough Town Board Karen Lincoln, 245-2580 2. Map of Hillsborough Circulator Route with Craig Benedict, 245-2592 Route Summa PURPOSE: To consider approving a Memorandum of Agreement between the Town of Hillsborough and orange County for Orange Public Transporfiation service for a Hillsborough Circulator bus. BACKGROUND: In May 2009, the BOCC approved a resolution endorsing a Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) grant agreement with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) that includes three (3) years operating assistance for an intra-Hillsborough transit route. The CMAQ Program is a reimbursement program. The County must budget funding for the CMAQ project, and establish an account for expending funds until NCDOT provides reimbursement for eligible project costs. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) approved, in October 2010, a Supplemental Agreement for the project that provides for NCDOT to reimburse the County 100% of Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2011 eligible costs for operating the new transit route (up to $198,Q00 operating assistance), and 80% of eligible operating costs (up to $130,680 a year) for FFY 2012 and 2013. The Hillsborough Town Board, at its meeting on March 14, 2011, approved the attached MDA agreeing to provide Orange County the required 2Q°/o local match for operating costs for FFY 2012 and 2013, as shown in the following table. Year Federal Funds State Funds Local Match Hillsborou h Total Cost 1 $87,520 $21,880 $109,400 2 $91,896 $22,974 $114,870 3 $96,491 $24,123 $120,614 Appendix A of the M4A delineates a marketing agreement to promote the new transit route. All activities for marketing the route prior to its anticipated initiation in May can be accomplished with existing funds in the jurisdictions' current budgets. The MQA stipulates each jurisdiction budget 50°/~ of the anticipated costs in FY 2412 for professionally printed brochures for the service, after adjustments to maximize effectiveness of the route have been made.