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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 2, 2015 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 6 -i <br />SUBJECT: Resolution to Endorse Orange County's Transportation Project Lists for the <br />Burlington- Graham and Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro Metropolitan Planning <br />Orqanizations and the Triangle Area Rural Planninq Organization <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Resolution Endorsing Projects for <br />BGMPO, TARPO and DCHC MPO <br />2. BGMPO Priority Project <br />Descriptions and SPOT 3.0 Scores <br />3. BGMPO Project List Map <br />4. TARPO Priority Project <br />Descriptions and SPOT 3.0 Score <br />5. TARPO Project List Map <br />6. DCHC MPO Project Descriptions <br />And SPOT 3.0 Scores <br />7. DCHC MPO Project List Map <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Bret Martin, Transportation Planner, 919 - 245 -2582 <br />Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor, <br />919- 245 -2575 <br />Craig Benedict, Planning and Inspections Director, <br />919 -2585 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a resolution (Attachment 1) endorsing transportation projects within the <br />Burlington- Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization ( BGMPO), Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro <br />(DCHC) MPO and the Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization ( TARPO) planning areas for <br />State scoring and ultimate consideration of inclusion in the 2018 -2027 Statewide Transportation <br />Improvement Program (STIP). <br />BACKGROUND: Biennially, the North Carolina Board of Transportation (BOT) adopts a multi- <br />year Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) containing funding and scheduling <br />information for transportation projects throughout the state including those for highways, aviation <br />facilities, public transportation, ferry travel, freight rail, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The <br />STIP is the major tool the State uses for the implementation of locally and regionally adopted <br />transportation plans, from which projects are conceived for programming consideration. In 2013 <br />and 2014 the State, in conjunction with the metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and <br />rural planning organizations (RPOs) throughout the state, completed the prioritization process <br />for the 2016 -2025 STIP, which is scheduled to be finalized and adopted by the North Carolina <br />Board of Transportation in July 2015. <br />The State is once again beginning the process of developing the 2018 -2027 STIP, which is <br />scheduled to be finalized and adopted in July 2017, and will be requesting local input for <br />transportation project priorities to be submitted through each local government's respective <br />MPO or RPO. Implicit in this process is the application of the Strategic Mobility Formula (SMF) <br />developed as part of the Strategic Transportation Investments (STI) legislation adopted in 2013 <br />