The consultant helping the Gainesville-Hall Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Hall County area’s lead transportation planning agency, is set to give an MPO committee a status report this morning on the 2040 plan update. Richard Fangmann of Norcross-based Pond & Co. plans to talk to the Technical Coordinating Committee at 10:30 a.m. in the Hall County Government Center, 2875 Browns Bridge Road, Gainesville. The federally required long-range plan must be renewed for another four years by August.