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Attachment 2 4 Ms. Bernadette Pelissier, Chairperson Orange County Board of Commissioners 4516 Mystic Lane Hillsborough, NC 27278 August 12, 2011 Dear Chairperson Pelissier: I am writing to you in my capacity as Chairman of the Burlington-Graham MPO Technical Coordinating Committee (TCC) for transportation. Recently it came to the attention of the BGMPO that the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) MPO had extended its urban area planning boundary into an area that overlapped into the planning boundary for the BGMPO. Our Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for transportation is scheduled to consider the boundary overlap at its meeting on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at S:OOpm in the City Manager's conference room of the Burlington Municipal Building located at 425 S. Lexington Avenue in Burlington. The purpose of this letter is to invite you to the above meeting and to give you the opportunity to comment and provide input regarding this matter. Mike Bruff, Director of Statewide Planning for NCDOT will be present to answer questions related to the boundary extension. I have been advised by NCDOT that it would be appropriate for the BGMPO to extend a formal invitation to Orange County officials to join our MPO. We currently coordinate primarily with Orange County staff with regard to transportation matters and it has been my understanding that this is the preferred protocol. However, if it is the desire of Orange County to become a formal member of the BGMPO I will be happy to facilitate this transition. Please do not hesitate to contact me or Transportation Planning Manager Mike Nunn at (336) 222-5110 if you have questions or if we may provide you with further information. Yours very truly, Robert R. Harkrader III TCC Chairman Mike Mills, NCDOT Division 7 Engineer Karen Lincoln, Orange County Planner II