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Approved 4/20/11 <br />1 <br />MEETING MINUTES 1 ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD REGULAR MEETING 2 MARCH 16, 2011 3 <br /> 4 5 MEMBERS PRESENT: Nancy Cole Baker, Pedestrian Access & Safety Advocate; Julian (Randy) Marshall, Bingham 6 <br />Township; Sam Lasris, Cedar Grove Township; Jeff Charles, Bicycle Advocate; Paul Guthrie, Chapel Hill Township; 7 <br />Amy Cole, Transit Advocate; Dan Barker, Hillsborough Township; Annette Jurgelski, Eno Township; 8 9 MEMBERS ABSENT: Renee Price, CFE Representative; Tommy McNeill, Planning Board Liaison; Al Terry, 10 <br />Transportation Services Board; Economic Development Commission -Vacant; Cheeks Township - Vacant; Little 11 <br />River Township-Vacant; 12 <br /> 13 <br /> 14 STAFF PRESENT: Karen Lincoln, Transportation Planner; Tina Love, Administrative Assistant 15 <br /> 16 <br /> 17 <br />OTHERS PRESENT: Chuck Edwards, NCDOT District Engineer 18 <br /> 19 <br /> 20 <br />I. Call to order 21 22 <br />Chair Nancy Baker called the meeting to order. 23 24 25 <br />II. Consideration of additions to the agenda 26 27 28 <br />III. Approval of Minutes 29 <br /> 30 <br />The OUTBoard approved the minutes from January 19, 2011 by affirmation. 31 <br />The OUTBoard approved the minutes from February 16, 2011 by affirmation. 32 <br /> 33 <br /> 34 <br />IV. NCDOT Presentation on Division Programs and Funding Resources 35 <br /> 36 <br />The OUTBoard received a presentation from Chuck Edwards on multiple programs and funding resources (attached) 37 <br />Chuck Edwards updated the Board on multiple projects and answered the Boards’ questions on his presentation. 38 <br />Chuck told the Board that they have an opportunity to make a list and give it to NCDOT to identify problems and 39 <br />make suggestions. He thanked the Board for inviting him and assured the members that he values the input. 40 <br /> 41 <br /> 42 <br />V. 2014-2020 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Priority List 43 <br /> 44 <br />Karen Lincoln let the Board know the BOCC approved the comments recommended by the OUTBoard regarding the 45 <br />2012-2018 Draft TIP and Draft MTIP with some additional comments. She noted one thing the BOCC wanted to 46 <br />point out to the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is Orange County 47 <br />wants the MPO to include Orange County priority projects that received a high ranking in the Triangle Area Rural 48 <br />Planning Organization (TARPO), and are within the recently expanded DCHC Metropolitan Area Boundary. Karen 49 <br />added that priority projects for the 2012-2020 TIP are due to NCDOT by July, which means DCHC MPO and TARPO 50 <br />must approve any new priority projects in June . NCDOT will reprioritize projects previously submitted for the TIP that 51 <br />are not funded . NCDOT will prioritize the projects, and send those results to the regional agencies. The regional 52 <br />agencies will then decide how to distribute qualitative points in developing their ranked priority lists to submit to 53 <br />NCDOT 54 <br /> 55