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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 22, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ,,~" ' ~'' <br />SUBJECT: Orange Unified Transportation Board: Name Change and Rules of Procedure <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1, Resolution Changing Transportation <br />Board's Name and Approving Rules <br />of Procedure for the Orange Unified <br />Transportation Board <br />2. Rules of Procedure, Orange Unified <br />Transportation Board <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Karen Lincoln, 245-2594 <br />PURPOSE: To approve a resolution to officially change the name of the Orange County Unified <br />Transportation Advisory Board (OCUTAB) to the Orange Unified Transportation Board <br />(OUTBOARD) and to consider a resolution approving Rules of Procedure for the Orange Unified <br />Transportation Board. <br />BACKGROUND: The Orange County Board of Commissioners approved A Resolution <br />Establishing the Orange County Unified Transportation Advisory Board in May 2005. <br />Recruitment efforts resulted in a citizens group that had its first meeting in May 2006. During <br />that time, the transportation board has commonly been referred to by the acronym OUTBOARD, <br />for Orange Unified Transportation Board. <br />The transportation board discussed rules of procedure at its first meeting in May 2006, and <br />approved rules of procedure at the following meeting in June, The County Board of <br />Commissioners must endorse the rules of procedure. Attachment 1 is a resolution officially <br />changing the name of the board to Orange Unified Transportation Board, and endorsing the <br />Orange Unified Transportaticn Board's Rules of Procedure.. Attachment 2 is the "Rules of <br />Procedure, Orange Unified Transportation Board", as adopted by that board .June 21, 2006. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with this item. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the Resolution <br />Endorsing Name Change and Rules of Procedure for the Orange Unified Transportation Board <br />