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MEMORANDUM TO: Lee County Board of Commissioners John Crumpton, County Manager FROM: Marshall Downey, Planning Director DATE: May 16, 2016 REF: Ranking of local transportation project for NCDOT Strategic Transportation Investment (STI) program 034 N��Pa\ v ,•i 0 \yRRTEpED / As you may be aware, the NC Department of Transportation uses a relatively new system in which projects are awarded funding known as Strategic Transportation Investment (or simply STI). Passed in 2013, STI is intended to allow NCDOT to use its funding more efficiently and effectively to enhance the state's infrastructure, while supporting economic growth, job creation and a higher quality of life. The STI process also established the Strategic Mobility Formula, a new way of allocating available revenues based on data -driven scoring and local input The STI process is intended to make the awarding of projects and related funding more objective (and less subjective/political). Under this new mobility formula process, NCDOT looks to our regional transportation planning organization, the Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization (TARPO), for assignment of local input (point). You may recall that TARPO consists of Lee County, Moore County, Chatham County and certain unincorporated parts of Orange County, as well as the respective municipalities within each county. As such, TARPO asks that each of the four counties (and municipalities therein) each submit a collective list of their top 10 projects for consideration. This list of 40 projects will then get trimmed down by TARPO to a total of 14 projects that will be assigned "local" points and forwarded to NCDOT. Please note that each of the four counties is guaranteed to get a least two (2) projects included in the group of 14, so that means that 8/14 projects will be spread among the four counties. Under the revised STI process, NCDOT does a preliminary scoring of all of the proposed projects (note that Lee County had a total of 15 projects scored). This information/scoring was distributed to local staff in mid April. Planning staff distributed the information first to our ad-hoc transportation subcommittee composed of the Mayors for Sanford and Broadway as well as Chair Dalrymple and the three managers. We met on the afternoon of April 27b with the intent to make a preliminary ranking of the 10 projects from the original list of 15.