AGENDA #4i

MEMORANDUM

TO:

Roger L. Stancil, Town Manager

FROM:

J.B. Culpepper, Planning Director

 

David Bonk, Long Range and Transit Planning Coordinator

SUBJECT:

Budget Amendment: Regional Transportation Planning Projects

DATE:

May 7, 2007

This memorandum summarizes the Town’s participation in several regional transportation planning projects. The attached budget amendment would provide additional funding for the Chapel Hill share of these projects.

BACKGROUND

The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization has initiated several regional transportation planning projects designed to support regional efforts to improve the regional transportation planning model and implement the adopted Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Regional Transportation Plan.

These projects include:

 

            Enhancement and Update of Triangle Regional Model

            Land Use Model Development

            Southwest Durham/Southeast Chapel Hill Collector Street Plan

            GIS Centralization and Data Automation Project

            Non-motorized Trip Model

            Intelligent Transportation System Development

            Household Travel Survey

            On Board Transit Survey

The total cost of these projects is approximately $1.4 million. The projects have been funded from the federal Surface Transportation Program Direct Allocation program, which requires a 20 percent local match. The local match for these projects has been allocated to Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization member jurisdictions based on population. The total Chapel Hill contribution is $52,514.

In the 2006-2007 Chapel Hill budget the Council set aside $42,237 for the Town’s portion of the local share. We will need to allocate an additional $10,277 to fully fund the Town’s local share.

RECOMMENDATION

That the Council approve the attached budget amendment providing $10,277 from Council contingency for use towards the Chapel Hill local match for regional transportation planning projects.