Agenda 11-16-2021; 8-a - Minutes

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23 1 Commissioner McKee said that information answers his question. 2 Nancy Freeman said this application would need to be redone on an annual basis to 3 ensure qualification. 4 Corey Root said yes, for income verification. 5 Commissioner Bedford said Commissioner Greene's question is important and she does 6 not have an exact answer, but because of pandemic she wants to "go big", recognizing that the 7 ARPA funding will be gone after this year. She said it is hard to cut back on programs after they 8 have started, but the Board has to be prepared to make changes after getting data from the pilot 9 program about future funding. 10 11 Roll call ensued 12 13 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 14 15 Chair Price said the social justice fund is another possible source of funding for the 16 future. 17 18 c. Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization 2050 19 Metropolitan Transportation Plan 20 21 The Board received a presentation from Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) 22 Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) staff on the 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan 23 (MTP) Alternatives Analysis. 24 25 BACKGROUND: 26 The DCHC MPO is responsible for long-range transportation planning for Durham County 27 and parts of Orange and Chatham counties, and the organization is updating its MTP. In 28 Orange County, the DCHC MPO planning area covers the areas around Hillsborough, 29 Chapel Hill and Carrboro delineated by a blue line in Attachment 1. 30 31 The MTP, which is required by Federal law, recommends major transportation projects, 32 policies and strategies designed to maintain existing transportation systems and to plan for 33 the region's future travel needs. The Plan must be fiscally constrained, which means that 34 projected revenues must cover the anticipated costs. Projects must be in the 2050 MTP to 35 receive any state and federal transportation funding through the State Transportation 36 Improvement Program (STIP). Projects are selected from the MTP and processed through 37 the State's prioritization process (SPOT) for inclusion in the STIP, which is a 10-year funding 38 program. This requires several steps over a multi-year timeframe, and not all projects listed 39 in the MTP will be included in the final STIP. 40 41 There are several steps involved in the MTP Process (Attachment 2), and the current focus is 42 on the Alternatives Analysis. Goals and objectives were identified previously, and the 43 Deficiency Analysis and Needs Assessment were completed in May 2021. An Alternative is 44 a combination of improvements to a transportation network. This includes a set of highway, 45 transit, other transportation improvements (such as bicycle and pedestrian improvements), 46 and a land use scenario that depicts the distribution of population and employment for the 47 year 2050. These Alternatives are then analyzed using the Triangle Regional Model (TRM), 48 which forecasts future travel statistics based on assumptions concerning the highway 49 network, transit service and other transportation facilities. It is very unlikely that one of the 50 Alternatives in its entirety would be advanced as the Preferred Option. Most likely, the final 51 MTP will be a combination of the various Alternatives.