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4 <br />RESOLUTION APPOINTING A RAIL STATION DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE <br />AND CALLING FOR PREPARATION OF <br />A SITE SELECTION AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN <br />WHEREAS, Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough have worked cooperatively on <br />planning initiatives surrounding the Town of Hillsborough; and <br />WHEREAS, Amtrak and NCDOT have indicated passenger train service is financially feasible <br />in the Hillsborough area; and <br />WHEREAS, The advent of a train stop in Hillsborough is a regional transportation initiative; <br />NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Hillsborough Town Board of <br />Commissioners/Board of Orange County Commissioners that a Rail Station Development Task <br />Force is hereby appointed to include representatives of the Hillsborough Planning Board, the <br />Orange County Unified Transportation Board, the Orange County Transportation Services <br />Board, 3 citizens, the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough, the Economic Development <br />Commission, and the Walkable Hillsborough Coalition. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Task Force is charged to undertake the following work: <br />• Defining best practice criteria for selecting a location for a train station <br />• Apply the criteria to parcels in the Hillsborough area to select/recommend to both <br />government Boards a location for a Hillsborough station <br />• Investigate the established funding criteria and procedural steps to proceed with station <br />development and collect/report those items already prepared or readily available for <br />submittal to fenders, including but not limited to: connectivity to other <br />services/infrastructure, such as buses, roads, parking which may not yet be in place; <br />supporting partner organizations and documents; documented or anticipated benefits to <br />the community <br />• Describing a schedule of tasks to be accomplished prior to initiation of service for this <br />train station <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Task Force is directed to report on the site selection at <br />the joint meeting of the Hillsborough Town Board of Commissioners and Board of Orange <br />County Commissioners in February 2009 and the Task Force shall complete its work no later <br />than May 31, 2009 in the form of a final report document. <br />This the 28~` day of October 2008. <br />Barry Jacobs, Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Attest: <br />Clerk <br />