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Orange County · Orange Unified Transportation Board
Monday, April 20, 2026

Regular meeting Roads and transportationBudget and appropriationsIntergovernmental agreementsTransitCivil rights and nondiscriminationEnvironment and sustainabilityEthics and transparency

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What's on this agenda

Three regular items: the regional planning organisation's master transportation plan and air quality report, the draft 2027 transit work programme, and the county's priorities for the next round of state project scoring. Anyone may comment by email and the comments are read aloud during the meeting.

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Meeting recap

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

The state project scoring item is where a county competes for road money. North Carolina ranks projects by formula and the local share of that score is what a county board actually controls, so agreeing priorities before submission is the whole exercise.

The draft work programme before this board was the one released for a shortened 21-day public comment period rather than the usual 30, because the adoption schedule had slipped by a year. Comment closed on 21 April and the staff working group adopted it the next day.

The board takes public comment entirely by email, read into the meeting - unusual, and worth knowing for anyone who cannot attend in Hillsborough on a weekday evening. The agenda carries the county transport department's full non-discrimination notice under the federal civil rights statute.

Speaking at this meeting

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

Agenda items (6)

Staff or committee report · 2Discussion item · 2Procedural · 1Minutes approval · 1
  1. 3 Public Comments
    Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
    Submitted by email and read to the board during the meeting.
  2. 4 Minutes – February 16, 2026
    Minutes approval
    Draft minutes from the February 16, 2026 meeting.
  3. 5.a Triangle West MPO Master Transportation Plan and Air Quality Report
    Staff or committee report Environment and sustainabilityIntergovernmental agreementsRoads and transportation
    The Triangle West metropolitan planning organization's master transportation plan and its air quality conformity report.
  4. 5.b Staff Working Group FY27 Draft Annual Work Program
    Discussion item Budget and appropriationsTransit
    The draft released for a 21-day public comment period rather than the usual 30 because the adoption schedule had slipped a year. Comment closed 21 April and the working group adopted it on 22 April.
  5. 5.c Orange County Transportation Priorities for Spot 8.0
    Discussion item Budget and appropriationsIntergovernmental agreementsRoads and transportation
    The county's priorities for the next round of state project scoring, where the local share of the score is what a county board controls.
  6. 6 Staff Reports and Updates
    Staff or committee report Ethics and transparencyRoads and transportationTransit
    Try Transit Week and conflict of interest statements from public transit; the county bicycle and pedestrian plan, work with the metropolitan and rural planning organisations and the state transport department, and the board's own packets.

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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