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Attachment 3: Resolution of Adoption of Orange Public Transportation ADA Paratransit Plan <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />A RESOLUTIONAUTHORIZING THE ORANGE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AMERICANS WITH <br />DISABILITIES ACT (ADA) PARATRANSIT PLAN <br />WHEREAS,the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed by Congress and signed into law <br />by the President in July 1990; and <br />WHEREAS,the ADA prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment, housing <br />and transportation; and <br />WHEREAS,the ADA’s intentis to ensure equal opportunity for persons with disabilities to access <br />public accommodations, public services, telecommunications and transportation; and <br />WHEREAS, to comply with the ADA, Orange Public Transportation is required to provide paratransit <br />service to those persons with disabilities who are unable to use or access the fixed-route transit <br />system; and <br />WHEREAS,the North Carolina Department of Transportation and U.S. Department of Transportation <br />require public transit operators providing fixed-route service to submit complementary paratransit <br />plans and annual updates to the Federal Transit Administration; and <br />WHEREAS,Orange Public Transportation will be expanding fixed-route service considerably over the <br />coming year necessitating a need to develop and adopt a major update to its ADA paratransit plan <br />with an updated service plan and service area. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Orange County Board of Commissionersthat the <br />Board approves and adopts the 2015 Orange Public Transportation ADA Paratransit Plan. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Orange County Board ofCommissioners authorizes the <br />Orange County Transportation Planner to submit the 2015 Orange Public Transportation ADA <br />Paratransit Plan to the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Federal Transit <br />Administration. <br />Upon motion of Commissioner _______ ________, seconded by Commissioner _______ _______, <br />the foregoing resolution was adopted this the 17th day of March, 2015. <br />I, Donna Baker, Clerk to the Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Carolina, DO <br />HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true copy of so much of the proceedings of said Board at a <br />meeting held on March 17, 2015, as relates in any way to the adoption of the foregoing and that said <br />proceedings are recorded in the minutes of said Board. <br />WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this ______ day of ___________, 2015. <br />_____________ ___ <br />Clerk to the Board of Commissioners <br />37 <br />ReturntoAgenda