2015-390 Planning - City of Durham for Local Match for the DCHC MPO Federal Transportation Planning Grants

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3W �lann�r) City of Durham and Orange County INTER-LOCAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT Local Match for the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) Federal Transportation Planning Grants _--THIS AGREEMENT, ("Agreement") is made and entered into this the /lay of �L 2015, between the CITY OF DURHAM, a North Carolina municipal corporation, (hereinafter "City") and ORANGE COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of North Carolina (hereinafter "County"). This Interlocal Cooperation Agreement is made pursuant to Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the North Carolina General Statutes. I. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE. The City and County are members of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) and have entered into agreements with the members of the DCHC MPO ("member governments") regarding the authority conferred to the DCHC MPO to make transportation decisions regarding the region covered by the DCHC MPO. The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) is the recipient for Federal transportation funds in our area. Federal legislation designates funds for planning purposes in addition to highway, transit and multi-modal construction projects. To receive these planning funds, a local match of twenty percent(20%) of the total project cost must be provided. The annual budget for the MPO planning program is through the federally mandated Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) and approved by the MPO Board. Each MPO member agency's proportionate share of the local match is determined on an annual basis during the development of the UPWP. The local match shares are determined using population and number of data collection locations/segments. The DCHC MPO provides regional transportation planning for the metropolitan planning area. The MPO fulfills federal mandates for transportation planning, such as developing a Long Range Transportation Plan, multi-modal transportation planning, congestion management, air quality analysis, Transportation Improvement Program and distributing and providing oversight of federal transportation funding, etc. In addition, the MPO manages and/or funds multimodal projects for the area such as data collection and corridor/sub-area studies,parking studies, travel behavior studies, transit and rail studies, etc. The MPO also provides an essential service for its member jurisdictions and agencies through its transportation planning activities. Federal legislation and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), adopted by the MPO Board on March 12, 2014, require that member jurisdictions participate in a continuing, comprehensive, and cooperative transportation planning process through the MPO in order to be eligible to receive federal transportation funding and continue to implement and support federally funded projects within the metropolitan planning area. The MPO must provide a 20 percent match necessary to receive federal funding necessary to fulfill these requirements. The DCHC MPO, in an ongoing manner, authorizes transportation projects for which federal transportation funds generally provide 80% of the total cost of projects authorized by the DCHC MPO, while local governments provide the remaining 20% of the total cost("the local match").