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10 <br /> 1 Following is a list of key process milestones carried out by the Renaissance, PSC, transit service <br /> 2 providers and staff teams: <br /> 3 <br /> 4 • Bi-monthly staff meetings with progress updates for the PSC during the 2020 calendar <br /> 5 year (May 2020) <br /> 6 • Completed the Transit Choices Brochure (TCB), a visual document that illustrates the <br /> 7 concepts and continuums of transit planning, and the Regional Connections Opportunity <br /> 8 (RCO) Report, a technical assessment of key issues and opportunities for effective transit <br /> 9 service (July 2020) <br /> 10 • Held the first Transit Summit over the Zoom platform and documented key themes from <br /> 11 the summit discussions and first public survey (October 2020) <br /> 12 • Developed draft versions of conceptual scenarios and graphics with an accompanying <br /> 13 memo (January 2021) <br /> 14 • Held recurring monthly PSC meetings over Zoom with updates for first half of 2021 <br /> 15 (January 2021 —June 2021) <br /> 16 • Received final versions of conceptual scenarios and graphics with an accompanying <br /> 17 memo (May 2021) <br /> 18 • Held an in-person Transit Summit for PSC members to discuss core values and visions <br /> 19 for the fiscally-constrained plan and learned of aspirational future projects (July 2021) <br /> 20 • Received draft recommended network and plan as well as draft conceptual vision map for <br /> 21 transit service provider feedback and scheduling of future PSC meetings (October 2021) <br /> 22 • Held PSC Work Session #1 to look at the final recommended network and conceptual <br /> 23 vision map with goal of beginning round 2 of public outreach (January 2022) <br /> 24 . Created public outreach opportunities with a second round of surveying (over 1,000 <br /> 25 surveys were collected) and two focus groups (held on February 8t" and February 16t") <br /> 26 that included local stakeholders (February 2022) <br /> 27 • Held PSC Work Session #2 to look at the feedback received from public outreach and <br /> 28 assess the draft network, which resulted in a request to provide check-in presentations to <br /> 29 the local elected boards (March 2022) <br /> 30 • OUTBoard received a presentation on the draft Transit Plan Update (April 2022) <br /> 31 • Orange County BOCC received a presentation from its consultant on the draft <br /> 32 Transit Plan Update (April 2022). The projects and service improvements included in the <br /> 33 draft received by the BOCC last April are the same as those included in the final Draft plan <br /> 34 for current consideration by the BOCC along with a recommendation to add funding to the <br /> 35 Chapel Hill North-South Bus Rapid Transit Project to facilitate the project's application for <br /> 36 eighty percent (80%) federal funding. <br /> 37 • Held PSC Work Session #3 to present a final draft of the plan updated with feedback from <br /> 38 the transit service providers, the local elected boards and the PSC (May 2022) <br /> 39 • Consultant delivered final report (including appendices) to Orange County Planning Staff <br /> 40 in preparation for fall 2022 adoption timeline (August 2022) <br /> 41 <br /> 42 The complete 2022 Orange County Transit Plan Update, including Appendix, as well as the 2017 <br /> 43 Orange County Transit Plan, can be downloaded via the following link: <br /> 44 https://www.orangecountync.gov/DocumentCenter/View/21099/2022-Orange-County-Transit- <br /> 45 Plan-Update?bidld= <br /> 46 <br /> 47 Policy Steering Committee (PSC) Recommendation: At its May 20, 2022 meeting, the PSC <br /> 48 recommended the draft 2020 Orange County Transit Plan Update for consideration by the <br /> 49 adopting parties, beginning with Orange County, and as outlined below. The PSC also met on <br /> 50 October 14, 2022 to consider and provide a recommendation specific to Chapel Hill Transit's <br />