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35 <br />NAME OF BOARD /COMMISSION: Orange Unified Transportation Board <br />(OUTBoard) <br />Report Period: 2017 <br />ORANGE COUNTY ADVISORY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS <br />INPUT FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' ANNUAL PLANNING RETREAT <br />Person to address the BOCC at Retreat (if requested by BOCC) and contact <br />information: <br />Heidi Perry, Chair. Telephone 919 - 618 -8199 <br />E -mail: heidiperov @gmail.com <br />Primary County Staff Contacts: <br />Primary Administrative and Professional Support for General Agenda Topics — <br />Abigaile Pittman, Transportation /Land Use Planner <br />Burlington- Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) — Abigaile Pittman, <br />Transportation /Land Use Planner <br />Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro MPO and Triangle Area Rural Planning <br />Organization (RPO) — Nish Trivedi, Transportation Planner <br />Transit Services /OPT — Theo Letman, OCPT Director, and Peter Murphy, OCPT <br />Transportation Administrator <br />Secondary Administrative — Meredith Pucci, Administrative Assistant (Provided <br />for distribution /website posting of agenda packets, quorum polling, room set -up, <br />recording of meetings, note taking and preparation of detailed minutes, and <br />coordination with the Clerk's office regarding Member appointments and <br />attendance records.) <br />Management — Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Tom Altieri, Comprehensive <br />Planning Supervisor <br />How many times per month does this board /commission meet, including <br />any special meetings and sub - committee meetings? <br />The OUTBoard meets as needed per its BOCC adopted Rules of Procedure <br />(09/06/2016), generally 6 to 8 times per year. When held, meetings take place <br />on the third Wednesday of the month. The Board met eight (8) times in 2017, as <br />needed to address Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) priorities. At three <br />(3) of these meetings the Transit Advisory Services /OPT Group, including <br />supplemental staff from other County departments (Aging; DSS; Housing, <br />Human Rights and Community Development; health; Child Support Enforcement; <br />and the Library) jointly addressed transit services agenda items with the <br />OUTBoard. <br />Additionally, two members of the OUTBoard were appointed to a Bicycle Safety <br />