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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 6, 2018 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 7 -c <br />1 <br />SUBJECT: Quarterly Update on the Orange County Transit Plan and the Durham - Orange <br />Light Rail Project <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager's Office <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Attachment 1: GoTriangle Presentation <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Travis Myren, 919 - 245 -2300 <br />Matthew Clark, 919 - 270 -7858 <br />John Tallmadge, 919 - 485 -7430 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a quarterly update from GoTriangle on the status of the implementation <br />of the Orange County Transit Plan and more specifically on the status of the Durham - Orange <br />Light Rail Project. This quarterly update is prescribed by the Cost Share Agreement between <br />Durham County, Orange County, and GoTriangle. <br />BACKGROUND: On April 27, 2017, the Board of Orange County Commissioners adopted the <br />Interlocal Cost Sharing Agreement for the Durham - Orange Light Rail Transit Project as well as <br />the Orange County Transit Plan. These agreements allowed GoTriangle to provide updated <br />financial information to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) in support of GoTriangle's <br />application to enter the engineering phase of the Durham - Orange Light Rail Project. On July <br />28, 2017, GoTriangle received approval from the FTA to enter the New Starts Engineering <br />phase of the Capital Investment Grant Program. This project is now underway, and the <br />engineering component of the project is expected to reach the fifty percent (50 %) completion <br />milestone in February. <br />The Cost Sharing Agreement requires GoTriangle to provide quarterly reports to the FTA, <br />Durham County, Orange County, and the Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro Metropolitan Planning <br />Organization (DCHC MPO). This quarterly report will update the Board on Transit Plan <br />implementation activities, contracting agreements that are in place for the Durham - Orange Light <br />Rail Transit Project, the status of funding sources for the light rail project, and the Transit <br />Oriented Development (TOD) planning work that is currently underway. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: No direct financial impact is associated with the project update. The <br />maximum Durham - Orange Light Rail Transit Project budget was established when GoTriangle <br />