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Orange County · Orange Unified Transportation Board
Monday, June 16, 2025

Regular meeting Roads and transportationTransitComprehensive planFees and utility ratesPolice and public safety

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The Orange Unified Transportation Board met on 16 June 2025 to comment on three staff documents, none of them requiring a vote. The substantial one is a draft State of County Transit report, which would set out what county transportation services have done since the 2022 transit plan and what it wants next. Staff make the case in that draft that the department covers all 150,626 county residents at the lowest cost per service hour in the Triangle while receiving the smallest share of transit tax investment in the county.

The board also reviewed a draft project management plan for projects outside the state transportation improvement program, drawn from the county's Transportation Multimodal Plan and aimed mainly at safety for vulnerable road users, and an update to its own orientation material. Staff reported on the county land use plan, the Hillsborough Circulator and a corporate extension partnership, the FY26 annual work program, and business at the metropolitan and rural planning organisations and NCDOT.

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Agenda items (9)

Procedural · 4Discussion item · 3Minutes approval · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. 1 Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. 2 Consideration of Additions or Changes to Agenda
    Procedural
  3. 3 Public Comments
    Procedural
    Members of the public may attend or email the transportation director, whose comments are read into the meeting.
  4. 4 Minutes - April 21, 2025
    Minutes approval
  5. 5.a OUTBoard Orientation Material Update
    Discussion item Roads and transportation
    Members comment on updated orientation material for the board.
  6. 5.b Non-STIP PMP Draft
    Discussion item Police and public safetyRoads and transportation
    A draft project management plan for county road projects outside the state transportation improvement program, drawn from the adopted Transportation Multimodal Plan and focused on safety for vulnerable road users. Staff would track them alongside quarterly meetings with NCDOT. No financial impact at this stage.
  7. 5.c State of County Transit Report
    Discussion item Fees and utility ratesTransit
    A draft report on what county transportation services have done since the 2022 transit plan: service extended ten miles past the county line, longer hours, over twelve operators recruited, the lowest cost per service hour in the Triangle, and GoTriangle approval to use transit tax funds for a future Mebane circulator and the Hillsborough circulator improvements. It proposes a regional multimodal hub in Hillsborough and picking up service gaps left by GoTriangle, Chapel Hill Transit and UNC route changes, and notes the department receives the smallest share of transit tax investment in the county.
  8. 6 Staff Report/Updates
    Staff or committee report Comprehensive planRoads and transportationTransit
    Updates on the county land use plan, the Hillsborough Circulator and a corporate extension partnership, the FY26 annual work program, and business at the MPO, RPO and NCDOT.
  9. 7 Adjournment
    Procedural
    Next meeting 21 July 2025.

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