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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 24, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. b <br />SUBJECT: Orange County Public Transportation Community Transportation Improvement <br />Plan (CTIP) <br />DEPARTMENT: Aging/Transportation <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Community Transportation <br />Improvement Plan <br />2. Recommendations from <br />Transportation Services Board and <br />CTIP Steering Committee <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jerry Passmore, ext 2009 <br />AI Terry, ext 2002 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To approve the Community Transportation Improvement Plan (CTIP) for 2004- <br />2009 and accompanying recommendations from the Transportation Services Board (TSB) and <br />CTIP Steering Committee. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County Public, Transportation must have an approved Transportation <br />Improvement Plan to qualify for North Carolina Department of Transportation, Public <br />Transportation Division funding of administrative and capital acquisitions. The present plan <br />expired in 1999. The North Carolina Department of Transportation allowed Orange County to <br />hire a consulting firm, Wilbur Smith Associates, Inc., in 2004 to prepare the updated plan with <br />assistance from the Transportation Services Board and the CTIP Steering Committee. The <br />membership of the CTIP Steering Committee included a variety of organizations and agencies <br />throughout the County with interest in community transportation. The North Carolina <br />Department of Transportation consultant, Ms. Gayle Worley, assisted with the completion of the <br />plan. Initial meetings were scheduled with the Transportation Services Board and the CTIP <br />Steering Committee. The following timeline outlines the dates for discussion of the CTIP with <br />both groups: <br />A. July 27, 2004 -- Transportation Services Board met with the consulting firm as an <br />introduction to the CTIP process <br />B. September 8, 2004 - CTIP Steering Committee met with consulting firm to offer direction <br />public and Human Services transportation should proceed in Orange County <br />C. September 21, 2004 -- Transportation Services Board met with consulting firm as an <br />update to the CTIP process <br />D. October 11, 2004 -- Transportation Services Board held a special meeting to discuss the <br />recommendations from the consulting firm