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Orange County · Orange Unified Transportation Board
Monday, August 17, 2026

Regular meeting TransitPolice and public safetyCivil rights and nondiscriminationRoads and transportationBudget and appropriationsIntergovernmental agreementsParks and recreation

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What's on this agenda

Two hours, an hour of it on five new business items: a rider's guide for the county's public transport, a civil rights public participation plan, an agency safety plan and safety committee, the state transportation improvement programme, and the bicycle and pedestrian plan. Public comment runs five minutes a speaker.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting.

The five items together are most of what a small transit agency has to keep current, and three of them are federally driven.

The Title VI public participation plan is the document that sets out how the agency will involve people the federal civil rights statute protects - which languages it publishes in, how it reaches riders who do not attend evening meetings, and how it shows that service changes do not fall unfairly on one group. The agency safety plan and the safety committee that goes with it are likewise required of transit operators, and the committee is where frontline staff get a formal say in safety targets. The rider's guide and operator's manual are the county's own policy update: what a passenger can expect and what a driver must do.

On the planning side, the state transportation improvement programme is the list that decides which road and transit projects get state money and when, so a county board's comment on it is its main lever over projects it does not fund itself. The bicycle and pedestrian plan is the county's own.

Staff also report on the radio system, which for a transit operation is the communication backbone between dispatch and drivers.

Speaking at this meeting

Orange County's own rules for public comment — check them before you rely on anything here.

Jump to an item (13 on this agenda)
  1. 1Call to Order
  2. 2Roll Call & Establishment of Quorum
  3. 3Review & Approval of Agenda
  4. 4Review & Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes
  5. 5Public Comment
  6. 6.ATransit: Riders Guide
  7. 6.BTransit: Title VI Public Participation Plan
  8. 6.CTransit: Agency Safety Plan and Safety Committee
  9. 6.DPlanning: STIP
  10. 6.EPlanning: Bike-Ped Plan
  11. 7Staff Report & Updates
  12. 8Announcements & Future Agenda Items
  13. 10Adjournment

Agenda items (13)

Procedural · 5Discussion item · 5Staff or committee report · 2Minutes approval · 1
  1. 1 Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. 2 Roll Call & Establishment of Quorum
    Procedural
  3. 3 Review & Approval of Agenda
    Procedural
  4. 4 Review & Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes
    Minutes approval
  5. 5 Public Comment
    Procedural
    Five minutes a speaker, directed to the board rather than individual members, with written comment accepted beforehand.
  6. 6.A Transit: Riders Guide
    Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscriminationTransit
    An update to the county public transport rider's guide and handbook, alongside the operator's manual.
  7. 6.B Transit: Title VI Public Participation Plan
    Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscriminationTransit
    The plan setting out how the agency involves the groups protected by the federal civil rights statute in decisions about service.
  8. 6.C Transit: Agency Safety Plan and Safety Committee
    Discussion item Police and public safetyTransit
    The safety plan required of transit operators and the committee that goes with it, which gives frontline staff a formal part in setting safety targets.
  9. 6.D Planning: STIP
    Discussion item Budget and appropriationsIntergovernmental agreementsRoads and transportationTransit
    The state list that decides which road and transit projects receive money and when.
  10. 6.E Planning: Bike-Ped Plan
    Discussion item Parks and recreationPolice and public safetyRoads and transportation
    The county's bicycle and pedestrian plan.
  11. 7 Staff Report & Updates
    Staff or committee report Police and public safetyTransit
    Staff updates and the radio system, which carries communication between dispatch and drivers.
  12. 8 Announcements & Future Agenda Items
    Staff or committee report
  13. 10 Adjournment
    Procedural

Agenda changes

What moved between published versions of this agenda. Item numbers shift constantly as things are inserted, so only genuine additions and removals are listed.

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