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O R A N G E C 0 U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date April 17, 1990 <br />Action A ends <br />Item #B <br />SUBJECT: NCDOT TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (TIP) <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes _x —No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gene Bell <br />Chapel Hill Request <br />Carrboro Request <br />Hillsborough Request TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />BOCC Resolution of 3 -5 -90 Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane - 227 --2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 <br />PURPOSE: To consider endorsement of proposed transportation <br />system improvement requests by the Towns of Chapel <br />Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough and to authorize the <br />Chair of the Board to support the requests before the <br />North Carolina Board of Transportation. <br />BACKGROUND: The N.C. Board of Transportation adopts annually a <br />a multi -year Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) <br />outlining needed transportation improvements and the <br />method and schedule for funding such projects. Prior <br />to adopting the Program, the Board of Transportation <br />conducts a series of meetings around the state to <br />obtain advice from local officials and citizens on <br />needed improvements. <br />A public hearing will be held May 8 for officials and <br />citizens in District 7, the district in which Orange <br />County is located. The hearing is scheduled from <br />12:00 - 5:00 pm at Alamance Community College in Haw <br />River. The campus is located on the south side of <br />I -85 at Exit 150. Representatives from each of the <br />municipalities will be presenting their requests for <br />highway improvements to the Board of Transportation. <br />Each year, the Chair of the Board of Commissioners, or <br />his designee, has attended the hearing and spoken in <br />support of each municipality's request as well as <br />other needs which Commissioners have identified. <br />