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4 1 downtown. The recommendations are different for each section. She said that they want to 2 address congestion, but not at the expense of the vitality of downtown. The section between 3 US 70 and Corbin Street is recommended to have a bus pull-off. Regarding the free-flowing 4 right turn from Corbin Street onto Church Street is a little bit of a safety and speed issue. It is 5 recommended to possibly have a roundabout there. This is an expensive option. There are 6 also other widening and crosswalk recommendations throughout downtown. 7 Margaret Hauth said that just today she received a funding table for these big ticket 8 items. The two big-ticket items were in the $500-600,000 range and some of the projects were 9 as small as $5-10,000. The Town Board will be reviewing these things at the next meeting. 10 Commissioner Foushee arrived at 7:45:12 PM. 11 Chair Pelissier made reference to the right-in and right-out on Margaret Lane from 12 Churton Street and asked if the Sheriff had been contacted about this. 13 John Roberts said that he spoke to the Sheriff, who said that he was not happy about 14 putting a median across Margaret Lane because it would inhibit his deputies from making a left- 15 hand turn out of Margaret Lane in an emergency. 16 Commissioner Hemminger said that she liked the removal of some of the on-street 17 parking. She said that she has concerns about a median on East Margaret Lane. 18 Margaret Hauth said that the pedestrian signal would be kept at East Margaret Lane. 19 Discussion ensued on how confusing the parking garage is next to the library regarding 20 what is free and what is paid. 21 Commissioner Yuhasz said that he is concerned that someone coming south on 22 Churton Street who wanted to drop someone off at the courthouse would have difficulty. 23 24 d) Update/Follow-up Discussion on Safe Routes to Schools Draft Action Plan 25 Orange County received a Safe Routes to School Action Plan Service Award in July 26 2008 for planning assistance to prepare an Action Plan for Grady A. Brown Elementary School, 27 Cameron Park Elementary School and C.W. Stanford Middle School. The North Carolina 28 Department of Transportation, in 2009, contracted Greenways, Incorporated and Greene 29 Transportation Solutions to work with County staff, local agency representatives, School Team 30 leaders and principals of the three schools to identify non-motorized infrastructure 31 improvements that enhance safety. An adopted plan will provide greater opportunities for 32 Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough to obtain Safe Routes to School (SRTS) grant 33 funds for the implementation of the Action Plan. 34 35 A draft Plan has been completed, reviewed locally, and comments submitted to 36 Greenways, Incorporated for inclusion in the final draft. Once a final draft has been completed 37 and returned, Orange County Schools, Orange County, and the Town of Hillsborough will be 38 asked to adopt the Plan. 39 40 More information on this program is available at: http://www.ncdot.gov/programs/safety/. 41 42 Darcy Zorio, Transportation Planner, said that there is not a lot of update on this item. 43 The final plan has not been received yet. 44 45 e) Mobility Fund (ADDED) 46 Eric Hallman said that there is a bottleneck when 1-40 and 1-85 narrow down from 6-8 47 lanes to 4 lanes in Orange County. This was discussed last year. It is in the Transportation 48 Improvement Plan, but it competes with local road improvements. During the last MPO 49 meeting, there was a call for projects for the Mobility Fund, which was set up about two years 50 ago to create a separate pot of money that does not go through the individual DOT divisions