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10 <br /> Following is a list of key process milestones carried out by the Renaissance, PSC, transit service <br /> providers and staff teams: <br /> • Bi-monthly staff meetings with progress updates for the PSC during the 2020 calendar <br /> year (May 2020) <br /> • Completed the Transit Choices Brochure (TCB), a visual document that illustrates the <br /> concepts and continuums of transit planning, and the Regional Connections Opportunity <br /> (RCO) Report, a technical assessment of key issues and opportunities for effective transit <br /> service (July 2020) <br /> • Held the first Transit Summit over the Zoom platform and documented key themes from <br /> the summit discussions and first public survey (October 2020) <br /> • Developed draft versions of conceptual scenarios and graphics with an accompanying <br /> memo (January 2021) <br /> • Held recurring monthly PSC meetings over Zoom with updates for first half of 2021 <br /> (January 2021 —June 2021) <br /> • Received final versions of conceptual scenarios and graphics with an accompanying <br /> memo (May 2021) <br /> • Held an in-person Transit Summit for PSC members to discuss core values and visions <br /> for the fiscally-constrained plan and learned of aspirational future projects (July 2021) <br /> • Received draft recommended network and plan as well as draft conceptual vision map for <br /> transit service provider feedback and scheduling of future PSC meetings (October 2021) <br /> • Held PSC Work Session #1 to look at the final recommended network and conceptual <br /> vision map with goal of beginning round 2 of public outreach (January 2022) <br /> • Created public outreach opportunities with a second round of surveying (over 1,000 <br /> surveys were collected) and two focus groups (held on February 8t" and February 16t") <br /> that included local stakeholders (February 2022) <br /> • Held PSC Work Session #2 to look at the feedback received from public outreach and <br /> assess the draft network, which resulted in a request to provide check-in presentations to <br /> the local elected boards (March 2022) <br /> • OUTBoard received a presentation on the draft Transit Plan Update (April 2022) <br /> • Orange County BOCC received a presentation from its consultant on the draft <br /> Transit Plan Update (April 2022). The projects and service improvements included in the <br /> draft received by the BOCC last April are the same as those included in the final Draft plan <br /> for current consideration by the BOCC along with a recommendation to add funding to the <br /> Chapel Hill North-South Bus Rapid Transit Project to facilitate the project's application for <br /> eighty percent (805/o) federal funding. <br /> • Held PSC Work Session#3 to present a final draft of the plan updated with feedback from <br /> the transit service providers, the local elected boards and the PSC (May 2022) <br /> • Consultant delivered final report (including appendices) to Orange County Planning Staff <br /> in preparation for fall 2022 adoption timeline (August 2022) <br /> The complete 2022 Orange County Transit Plan Update, including Appendix, as well as the 2017 <br /> Orange County Transit Plan, can be downloaded via the following link: <br /> https://www.orangecountync.gov/DocumentCenter/View/21099/2022-Orange-County-Transit- <br /> Plan-Update?bidld= <br /> Policy Steering Committee (PSC) Recommendation: At its May 20, 2022 meeting, the PSC <br /> recommended the draft 2020 Orange County Transit Plan Update for consideration by the <br /> adopting parties, beginning with Orange County, and as outlined below. The PSC also met on <br /> October 14, 2022 to consider and provide a recommendation specific to Chapel Hill Transit's <br />