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36 1 Chair Jacobs gave some history on the current convenience center fee system, which 2 was set up by recommendation from a past solid waste working group. He said the idea was 3 that it was reasonable for urban residents to pay for these centers because they could use 4 them, and it allowed for the potential of a pay-as-you-throw option in the future. He said the 5 more options offered at the convenience centers, the more people who will use them. 6 Chair Jacobs said there needs to be a discussion at their retreat about taxes. 7 Commissioner Gordon said there are two issues here. She said the Board could first 8 decide how to fund recycling and then as part of the budget, whether to raise the SWCC fees. 9 She said this second part could be part of a budget session, and it does not have to be decided 10 tonight. 11 Commissioner Dorosin said he is happy to support option 1 tonight on the landfill 12 reserves, but he feels it is a bad idea to talk about funding services based on who uses them. 13 He said this undermines the idea of community and what is important collectively, and he feels 14 it is not economically or socially progressive. 15 A motion was made by Commissioner Rich, seconded by Commissioner Price for the 16 Board to fund the Rural Curbside Recycling Program by using $728,260 of Solid Waste 17 Unrestricted Reserves for Fiscal 2014/2015 (Option 1-- Fund Rural Curbside Recycling 18 Program for Fiscal 2014/2015 with Landfill Reserves. To fund$728,260 from Solid Waste 19 Unrestricted Reserves which were $3,082,630 as of June 30, 2013.) 20 21 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 22 23 g Orange County's Reprioritization of Transportation Projects for the Durham- 24 Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Triangle 25 Area Rural Planning Organization (9:45-10:00) 26 The Board considered two (2) resolutions (Attachments 1 and 4) reconfiguring two (2) 27 priority lists of transportation projects within the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan 28 Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) and the Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization 29 (TARPO) planning areas for consideration of inclusion in the 2016-2022 Statewide 30 Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). 31 Bret Martin said at the BOCC's November 19, 2013 meeting, the BOCC considered and 32 approved two lists of priority transportation projects incorporating all modes to submit to TARPO 33 and the DCHC MPO for the portion of Orange County within those organizations' respective 34 planning areas. He said these lists were subsequently submitted to each transportation 35 planning organization for submission to the State for scoring. It was determined at the 36 November 19, 2013 meeting by the BOCC that the transportation priority lists for TARPO and 37 the DCHC MPO should be revisited upon receipt of the State scores for each project to 38 evaluate whether the projects should be reprioritized with the benefit of knowing their respective 39 scores. He said these lists were meant for scoring by the State to be included in the STIP. 40 Bret Martin said since the BOCC's approval of the priority lists in November 2013, both 41 TARPO and DCHC MPO have developed and approved project ranking methodologies that 42 prescribe how each organization's local input points will be assigned to projects. He said the 43 DCHC MPO's project ranking policy is data-driven, but leaves open the possibility for the MPO 44 board to make changes based on factors such as geographic equity, knowledge of local 45 jurisdictional needs, public input, coordination with division engineers, and maximization of 46 the MPO's opportunities for receiving funding. He said that the only thing that can change the 47 output of the MPO scoring is if the MPO board acts on those considerations. He said there is a 48 value in doing this, because it institutionalizes the County's project priorities moving forward. 49 Bret Martin said the only DCHC MPO project that appears likely to be funded is the 50 Orange Grove Road extension project from South Churton Street to US 70 Business. He said