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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 6, 2003 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9 - ~- 3 <br />SUBJECT: Triangle Area Rural Transportation Planning Organization (RPO) -Rural <br />Transportation Advisory Committee (RTAC) -Appointment(s) <br />DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Letter from Dee Freeman, Executive <br />Director, TJCOG <br />2. Attachment to Letter above, "Triangle Area <br />RPO -Next Steps" <br />3. Memo from John Hodges-Copple, <br />Planning Director, TJCOG <br />4. Draft Comments From the BOCC, <br />"Possible Changes. to the Bylaws of the <br />RTAC" <br />5. RTAC Bylaws (Proposed) <br />6. RTCC Bylaws (Proposed) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Clerk's Office, ext. 2130, 2125, 2126, 2129 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 245-2130 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider appointing one member and one alternate to the Triangle J Area <br />RTAC and to provide comments regarding bylaws (TAC and TCC). <br />BACKGROUND: The Triangle Area Rural Transportation Planning Organization (RPO) was <br />chartered August 28, 2002, with the Triangle J Council of Governments (TJCOG) as Lead <br />Planning Agency. The Rural Transportation Advisory Committee (RTAC), the policy making <br />body for the RPO, is composed of one county commissioner representing each county, one <br />municipal elected official representing the municipal interests in each county, one member of <br />the Triangle J Council of Governments (ex-officio), and a member of the North Carolina Board <br />of Transportation representing the Department of Transportation. In order for the RPO process <br />to move forward, each governing body should appoint a representative, and an alternate, to the <br />RTAC. <br />As a member of the Triangle Area RPO, Orange County's Board of Commissioners needs to <br />elect one Commissioner to serve as the voting member on the RTAC. It is recommended that <br />an alternate also be elected. <br />The County Commissioners are not asked to adopt the bylaws, but should review the draft <br />documents and provide comments to their representative when elected. A list of draft <br />comments from the BOCC, "Possible Changes to the Bylaws of the Rural Transportation <br />