AGENDA #4f

MEMORANDUM

TO:	Roger L. Stancil, Town Manager
FROM:	K. Stephen Spade, Transportation Director
SUBJECT:	Project Ordinance for a 2007-08 Transportation Planning Grant (Federal Highway Administration Section 104(f))
DATE:	May 7, 2007

The attached ordinance would establish a project budget for a transportation planning grant for 2007-2008.

BACKGROUND

The Town has requested FY2007-2008 Section 104 (f) planning funds.  These funds are administered by the City of Durham, the urbanized area’s lead planning agency.  These funds are apportioned to the State through a population-based formula approved by the North Carolina Board of Transportation.  Recipients of these funds are required to provide a 20 percent local match.

DISCUSSION

Section 104(f) planning funds have been allocated to Chapel Hill in the amount of $82,640 and will be used for general program support and technical assistance of the Town’s Transportation Planning staff.  Tasks to be performed include:

• to participate in the revision to the Triangle Regional Model (designed to capture the regional travel patterns for trips made in the Triangle) and further refinement of the mode split procedures and transit element,
• to collect data on travel behavior of transit riders for use in the regional model,
• to revise the 2030 highway, bicycle, pedestrian and transit networks as part of the development of the 2035 Long Range Plan,
• to prepare projections of 2035 housing and employment for use in the 2035 Long Range Transit Plan,
• to administer the development of the Chapel Hill Long Range Transit Plan,
• to develop and monitor the annual planning work program,
• to prepare the 2007-2013 TIP,
• to develop the Chapel Hill Transit Capital Improvement Program; and
• to prepare analysis of feasibility of projects for inclusion in the TIP.

The Town will be reimbursed 80 percent ($66,112) of the project expenses by the City of Durham.  The Town is required to provide the local match of 20 percent ($16,528) for this project, from funds budgeted for this purpose in the Town’s General Fund.  There is no State participation in this project.

RECOMMENDATION

That the Council enact the attached budget ordinance.