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1 <br />0 RANGE C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date April 1, 1991 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # ZC EE - <br />SUBJECT: NCDOT TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (TIP) <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes _x _No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />- Orange County Request Gene Bell <br />- Chapel Hill Request Ext. 2589 <br />- Carrboro Request <br />Hillsborough Request TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />—Draft Resolution for TIP Hearing Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -73.31 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 <br />PURPOSE: To consider endorsement of proposed transportation <br />system improvement requests. by Orange County and the <br />Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough and <br />to authorize the Chair of the Board to support the <br />requests before the North Carolina Board of <br />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 on Wednesday, April 17, <br />1991 for officials and citizens in District 7, the <br />district in which'Orange County is located. <br />Registration begins at 1:00 pm and the hearing starts <br />at 2:00 pm in the Richard Whitted Human Services <br />Complex, 300 W. Tryon Street, Hillsborough. <br />Representatives from each of the municipalities will <br />be presenting their requests for highway improvements <br />to the Board of Transportation. Each year, the Chair <br />of the Board of Commissioners, or his designee, has <br />attended the hearing and spoken in support of each <br />municipality's request as well as other needs which <br />Commissioners have identified. <br />