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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 20, 2005 Action Agenda Item No. 6 -q SUBJECT: Resolution Providing Comments to the Transportation Advisory, Committee of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization Regarding the Ra~innal Priority List for 2007-2013 Transportation Improvement Program DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC (YIN) HEARING: ATTACHMENT(S): 1, Resolution to Transportation Advisory Committee 2, Draft Regional Priority List for 2007-2013 TIP (Excerpts) 3, Letter from NCDOT MPO Coordinator INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Benedict Ext. 2592 Karen Lincoln Ext. 2594 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 PURPOSE: To endorse comments to the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCNC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) regarding the draft regional priority list for the 2007-2013 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). BACKGROUND: The DCNC MPO TAC, at its meeting on August 10, 2005, adopted a provisional regional priority list far the 2007-2013 TIP, with recognition that the priority list may be amended after input from the local jurisdictions, The TAC will consider comments and approve the regional priority list at its meeting on October 12th, The Technical Coordinating Committee ~TCC) will make its recommendation to submit to the TAC at the TCC's meeting on September 281 . The NCDOT Transportation Improvement Program cycle change, from even numbered years to odd numbered years, has abbreviated the schedule for MPOs to develop regional priority lists, To meet NCDOT schedules far developing the 2007 - 2013 TIP, the TAC released the draft regional priority list for the 21-day public comment period in .luly, when many local jurisdictions did not hold meetings, The provisional regional priority list (Figure 3 in Attachment 2, pages 30 - 47) reflects each project's priority, with respect to priority projects submitted by all jurisdictions in the MPO, based on the MPO's endorsed ranking system and methodology. The NCDOT considers distribution of funding at the division level. Projects in Durham County (Division 5) and Chatham County (Division 8) should not affecafuenS 9 9 8e ssaosubset of thetregionalnlg tthat costa nls only t olse projects (that aren Attachment 2, p g in Orange County. The ranking methodology (Attachment 2, pages 20 - 25) is only one tool used to produce the final regional priority list, The TAC will consider other criteria, i,e. local government project priorities, public comments and the long-range transportation plan, in developing the final regional priority list.