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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: April 2, 2024 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-i <br /> SUBJECT: Orange County FY 2024 Quarter 4 Annual Work Program Amendments <br /> DEPARTMENT: Orange County Transportation Services (OCTS) <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. FY 2024 Q4 AWP Amendments Darlene Weaver, Transportation Planning <br /> Manager, 919-245-2002 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve FY 2024 Quarter 4 Amendments to the Annual Work Program (AWP). <br /> BACKGROUND: Orange County Transportation Services (OCTS) and Chapel Hill Transit (CHT) <br /> are requesting the following amendments to operating and capital projects included in the FY 2024 <br /> Orange County Annual Work Program. The amendments completed a 21-day public review <br /> period, and no comments received. <br /> March 20, 2024 — Staff Work Group (SWG) <br /> The SWG recommended approval. <br /> Trapeze <br /> OCTS is requesting the approved FY 2024 Q3 amendment for Trapeze—a transit service tracking <br /> software — be moved from Operating to Capital. OCTS anticipates completing this project in FY <br /> 2025 Q1, and no later than Q2. <br /> Short Range Transit Plan (SRTP) Update <br /> Chapel Hill Transit (CHT) requests funding for an updated SRTP. The last SRTP was completed <br /> in early 2020, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The impacts of COVID, including a nationwide <br /> shortage of transit operators, significantly impacted CHT's ability to implement planned <br /> improvements. Additionally, post-COVID patterns of development, ridership, and employment are <br /> challenging the feasibility of assumptions in the 2020 SRTP. Updating this plan provides an <br /> opportunity to revisit the current plan and its assumptions, and to make changes to planned <br /> improvements to better serve Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Orange County, and the 40,000 people who <br /> commute into Chapel Hill each day. <br /> Safe Streets for All Supplement Grant <br /> Chapel Hill Transit (CHT) requests funding to conduct a safety study along Martin Luther King, Jr. <br /> Boulevard to identify short-term and long-term solutions for road user safety. The project will <br /> address safety along the town's busiest transit route and will complement existing planning for the <br /> North-South Bus Rapid Transit (NSBRT) project. Funding is requested for the Town of Chapel <br /> Hill's required local match. <br />