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ORANGE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TITLE VI PLAN <br /> <br />11 <br /> <br />VIII. Minority Representation of the Orange Unified Transportation Board <br />The Orange Unified Transportation Board (OUTBoard) serves as OPT’s transit services <br />advisory board and is a non-elected board. The table below depicts the OUTBoard’s <br />racial/ethnic breakdown: <br />Caucasian Hispanic/Latino African American Asian American Native American <br />90% 10% 0% 0% 0% <br />Efforts to Encourage Minority Participation <br />Orange County and OPT understand diverse representation on its OUTBoard results in <br />sound policy reflective of its entire population. As such, Orange County and OPT <br />encourage participation of all citizens. As of March 2015, one minority ethnicity was <br />represented on the OUTBoard. As vacancies on the Board become available, OPT will <br />make efforts to encourage and promote diversity by engaging racial and ethnic minority <br />communities within the OUTBoard’s representative townships to identify persons who <br />could be recommended for appointment by the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />to the OUTBoard. This will involve reaching out to community, ethnic and faith-based <br />organizations to connect with all populations. Additionally, OPT will create ways to make <br />participating realistic and reasonable such as scheduling meetings at times best suited <br />to its members and providing transportation for OUTBoard meetings, if needed. <br />51 <br />ReturntoAgenda