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ORANGE COUNTY <br />ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD (OUTBoard) <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 17, 2016 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 6 <br />SUBJECT: Staff Updates <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning <br />ATTACHMENT(S):INFORMATIONCONTACT: <br />1.DCHC MPO NCDOT projects <br />2.NCDOT/County meeting notes <br />Abigaile Pittman, Transportation/ Land <br />Use Planner, 919-245-2567 <br />Max Bushell, Transportation Planner, <br />919-245-2582 <br />Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning <br />Supervisor, 919-245-2575 <br />PURPOSE:To receive staff updates <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Item 6a NCDOT Division 7 transportation projects located in the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br />Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) planning area (Max Bushell) <br />A list of the projects are provided in Attachment 1. <br />Item 6b Addition of Wake County to the renamed Triangle Tax District and approval of the Wake <br />County Transit Plan and Multiparty Interlocal Transit Agreement (Abigaile Pittman) <br />The Durham and Orange County Bus and Rail Plan (BRIP) was approved on October 2, 2012. <br />Durham and Orange Counties approved their state authorized ability to implement the ‘Mobility Bill’ <br />transit tax as a part of the financial plan with the associated BRIP in 2012. The Wake County Board <br />of Commissioners voted to officially adopt the Wake County Transit Plan on June 6, 2016. They join <br />the governing boards of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization and GoTriangle, which <br />approved the plan and corresponding Transit Governance Interlocal Agreement in May 2016. <br />At its June 21, 2016 Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting, Wake County requested <br />and received two actions from Orange County to facilitate the expected addition of Wake County to <br />the Triangle Tax District (“Special District”), the renamed and expanded district currently known as <br />the Western Triangle Tax District. Wake County’s participation in the Special District, if the funding <br />is approved by Wake County voters through an advisory referendum in November, will allow our <br />region to continue to work cooperatively to expand and improved transit options for our strongly <br />linked communities. The actions approved by the BOCC were: <br />1.Approval of the Wake County Transit Plan, specifically the financial plan (see attachment 3) <br />as required by the Local Government Sales Tax Act ("the Act") N.C.G.S. 105-508, et seq. <br />18