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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 4, 2013 Action Agenda Item No. 5 -f SUBJECT: Locally Coordinated Human Service Transportation Plan DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections — PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No Transportation; Aging ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Locally Coordinated Human Service Al Terry, 919 - 245 -2002 Transportation Plan (Under Separate Janice Tyler, 919 - 245 -4255 Cover) Craig Benedict, 919 - 245 -2592 PURPOSE: To approve a four year updated Locally Coordinated Human Service Transportation Plan for Orange County which will allow the County to apply for additional North Carolina Department of Transportation, Public Transportation Division Grants. BACKGROUND: The Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization ( TARPO) has taken the lead in developing this update to the Locally Coordinated Human Service Transportation Plan, with cooperation from Chatham Transit Network (CTN), County of Lee Transit System (COLTS), Moore County Transportation Services (MCTS), Orange Public Transportation (OPT), and the North Carolina Department of Transportation Public Transportation Division (NCDOT -PTD). The TARPO region encompasses Chatham (partially), Orange (partially), Lee, and Moore counties. The parts of Chatham and Orange counties that are not part of the TARPO are included in the Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) for the northeastern Chatham and southeastern /central Orange, or the Burlington- Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization (BGMPO) for west - central Orange. Community Transportation Systems and human service agencies are dependent on both state and federal funded grants to sustain their transportation administration and operations. The purpose of this Plan is to provide a viable and effective public transportation service network in the four counties that comprise the TARPO, complying with current federal regulatory requirements pertaining to human service public transportation coordination. This adopted plan will allow Orange County access to future federal funding sources to include a Mobility Manager for the Department on Aging. The Plan is focused on rural services similar to those OPT provides rather than urban services (e.g. Chapel Hill Transit). It should assist (along with other proposed outreach activities) in the implementation of the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan with regard to rural areas and connections to urban public services /networks.