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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 5, 2012 <br />SUBJECT: Orange County Transit Plan and Related Agreement <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager, Planning & <br />Inspections, Financial <br />Services and Attorney <br />ATTACHMENTS: (UNDER SEPARATE <br />COVER) <br />1. Final Draft Bus and Rail Investment Plan <br />(includes Financial Plan) <br />2. Orange County/Triangle Transit <br />DRAFT Implementing Agreement <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. -7-0, <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank W. Clifton, Jr., Manager, 245 -2300 <br />David King, General Manager, Triangle <br />Transit, 485 -7424 <br />Wib Gulley, General Counsel, Triangle <br />Transit, 485 -7418 <br />PURPOSE: To consider adoption of the Orange County Transit Plan and approval of the <br />Implementing Agreement. <br />BACKGROUND: Staff from Triangle Transit (TT) will lead the Board through discussion and <br />consideration of the attachments. <br />At its May 3, 2012 work session, the Board reviewed the public input on The Orange County <br />Transit Plan (also referred to as the Bus and Rail Investment Plan in Orange County) from the <br />following events: <br />o Public hearing held on April 3, 2012 <br />o Public hearing on April 17, 2012 <br />o Open House at Extraordinary Ventures, Chapel Hill, on April 23, 2012 <br />o Open House at the West Campus office building, Hillsborough, on April 30, 2012 <br />The Board also received and discussed the draft OCTP at the May P work session, and at its <br />regular meeting on May 15, 2012. Attachment 1 is the final draft Bus and Rail Investment Plan <br />in Orange County, which incorporates BOCC direction received on May 15. <br />The OCTP will describe Orange County's plans to utilize revenue from the Y percent sales tax, <br />if the Board establishes a referendum on the tax and if it is approved by Orange County voters, <br />in addition to how funds are spent from a possible $7.00 county tag fee, a $3.00 increase to the <br />current Triangle Transit tag fee, and triangle regional rental car fee revenues. The Plan <br />includes elements such as: <br />• Fixed guideway transit (Light Rail Transit) <br />o Orange County's transit partnership with Durham County <br />• Expanded or new bus service (local, rural and regional) <br />• Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. bus lanes <br />• Small capital transit facilities (park and ride lots, train stations) <br />