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1) First, the lists were meant to be Orange County's official list of projects to submit for scoring by the State and to be considered for inclusion in the STIP and ultimately implemented; and 2) Second, the lists were meant to act as guides for both the Transportation Coordinating Committee (TCC) and Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) representatives from Orange County to strategize /prioritize their assignment of local input points to projects during each organization's respective internal local input process. The role of the priority lists serving as the County's official lists of projects to submit for scoring has been fulfilled. The scores for each project have been received and are provided in Attachments 3 and 6 for TARPO and DCHC MPO, respectively. As a continuation of Orange County's input into the STIP development process, the order of the projects in the respective lists for each transportation planning organization have been reconfigured to maximize the project programming and funding potential of Orange County- endorsed projects. In Attachments 3 and 6, the projects are listed in their new staff - recommended priority order with references to their respective rankings in the previously approved priority lists the BOCC adopted in November 2013 provided in the far right column. Attachments 2 and 5 are maps depicting the locations of each of the projects and are coded to correspond to the new staff - recommended ranking of projects reflected in the resolutions (Attachments 1 and 4). The original transportation project priority lists can be found using the following link to the minutes of the November 19, 2013 BOCC meeting: http: / /server3.co. orange. nc. us:8088 /weblink8 /0 /doc /32180 /Page 1.aspx TARPO and DCHC MPO Proiect Ranking Policies Since the BOCC's approval of the priority lists in November 2013, both TARPO and DCHC MPO have developed and approved project ranking methodologies that prescribe how each organization's local input points will be assigned to projects. TARPO's policy applies points to all projects across all modes based on the rank order of projects in each jurisdiction's priority list. Higher ranked projects on Orange County's list will receive the greatest number of points, and lower ranked projects will receive the fewest. As such, in order to maximize scoring output for Orange County's projects and their potential to be funded and included in the STIP, it is staff's recommendation to rank projects in priority order consistent with their rankings based on their State scores and based on Orange County's financial capacity (local match requirements, etc.) to implement such projects. The DCHC MPO's project ranking policy is data - driven, but leaves open the possibility for the TAC to rearrange local input points based on factors such as geographic equity, knowledge of local jurisdictional needs, public input, coordination with division engineers, and maximization of the MPO's opportunities for receiving funding. Nonetheless, because the adopted policy is data - driven and is largely consistent with the State's scoring criteria, projects receiving the higher State scores are likely to be those recommended to receive local input points, while those receiving lower scores likely will not. It is also within the DCHC MPO policy to apply a certain number of local input points to each mode. Therefore, the reconfigured priority list for the DCHC MPO must be broken down by priority for each mode. Burlington Graham MPO Prioritization Update At its September 17, 2013 meeting, the BOCC considered and approved a list of six (6) priority transportation projects to submit to the Burlington- Graham MPO (BGMPO), including four highway projects, one transit/park -n -ride project, and one bike /pedestrian project. All of the