Agenda - 12-15-2020; 4-a - Presentation of The Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award to Former Orange County Commissioner Dr. Alice M. Gordon

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5 C. IMPROVED REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION - To promote public transit and improve long range transportation planning in the Triangle region, Alice was a dedicated leader of two regional transportation policy boards. (1) Triangle Transit(now GoTriangle) Board of Trustees -Member and Chair • Chair of the Triangle Transit Board of Trustees in 2006-2007, after being an officer for the preceding four years. During her 16 years of service on the board (late 1995-early 2012), she promoted improved public transit and other alternatives to cars, and efforts to improve air quality in the Triangle region. • Leadership Triangle honored Alice with the Goodmon Award for "Exemplary Regional Leadership by an Elected Official" in 2006. The award citation recognized her contributions in the areas of environmental protection and regional transportation. (2) Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Transportation Advisory Committee (now MPO Board) -Member and Chair, and Co- leader of a Nationally Recognized Transportation Planning Effort • Chair of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization Board in 1996 and 1997, and again in 2007 and 2008. During her 24 years of service on the board (1990-2014), she was an officer for eight years, including four as Chair and four as Vice Chair. The DCHC MPO is the regional organization responsible for transportation planning for the western part of the Research Triangle, while the Capital Area MPO (CAMPO) does the planning for the eastern part. Previously the two MPOs produced their long range transportation plans separately. In 2007 and 2008 Alice worked with the leader of CAMPO to craft the Triangle region's first ever joint"Long Range Transportation Plan" (LRTP). • The joint 2035 LRTP won the "National Award for Outstanding Achievement in Metropolitan Transportation Planning" in 2009 from the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations as an example of "exemplary practice within the planning process." D. OTHER SERVICE - Alice Gordon served on many boards and commissions during her tenure as an Orange County Commissioner, including the Orange County Board of Health (member), Orange County Commission for the Environment (commissioner representative), Intergovernmental Parks Work Group (convenor), and Triangle J Council of Governments (TJCOG Board of Delegates and Executive Committee member).