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V� Commissioner Jacobs requested that verbal descriptions of the bike routes in the plan be included in the text (see attached Draft Text Bike Route Descriptions). He also requested that the secondary priority routes by labeled with letters instead of numbers (see attached Draft Bike Route Letter Designation Map). Orange County Bicycle Plan Component Task Force Members Mark Schultz and Chris van Hasselt both requested that the Bike Plan be acted upon with expediency. The Draft Bike Plan was referred to the Planning Board for a recommendation to the Commissioners no later than May 4, 1999. At the Planning Board's March 4, 1999 meeting discussion on the draft Bicycle Plan included the following: Draft Text Bike Route Descriptions, Draft Bike Route Letter Designation Map, Bicycle Tourism, Bicycle Safety, and Implementation of the Bike Plan (see attached Draft 3/4/99 Planning Board Minutes and 3/19/99 S. McCalip Memo). The Planning Board unanimously accepted the draft plan and forwarded it on to the Commissioners reaffirming their approval of the plan and the following recommendations as made by the Bicycle Plan Component Task Force and modified by the Planning Board at their August 5, 1998 meeting: 1) That a permanent and formal bicycle advisory committee be formed; 2) Dedicate part-time (the task force recommended full -time) staff support for the advisory committee; 3) Update the 1974 Bikeways Act; and 4) That this task force remain together until after TIP project e -3606 is complete ($ 50,000 that the State has programmed for Orange County to develop a bicycle suitability map). FINANCIAL IMPACT: The approximate fiscal impact can be determined depending on the Board's guidance about the amount of part-time staff support for the Bicycle Advisory Committee that should be allocated to this function. RECOMMENDATION: The Administration recommends approval of the proposed Bicycle Plan Component to the Transportation Element of the Comprehensive Plan and also that the following actions be considered in a timely manner: 1) Form a permanent and formal bicycle advisory committee; 2) Dedicate part-time staff support to the bicycle advisory committee; 3) Initiate an update to the 1974 Bikeways Act; and 4) Keep the current Bicycle Task Force together until after TIP project E -3606 is complete ($ 50,000 that the State has programmed for Orange County to develop a bicycle suitability map).