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and private roads, particularly Thunder Mountain and the Mount Mitchell communities. The communities are concerned about privacy and safety. The County staff has been working with the neighborhood groups to resolve this and they are hoping to work together to find alternative routing that fulfills the goals of the trail without impending on communities. She said that there needs to be transparency through the process to ensure that the project is truly a win-win. b. Matters on the Printed Aqenda These matters were considered when the Board addressed that item on the agenda below. 3. Petitions bv Board Members Commissioner Hemminger petitioned the Board to move the concealed weapon from February 7t" to a regular meeting so that the County Commissioners may openly discuss this item again and also to receive public comment. Commissioner Jacobs requested that at the next work session - March 15th -that the County Commissioners have a brief discussion on protocols for constituting the Board of County Commissioners' boards and citizen groups that do not conform to the customary appointing procedures. This has come up in a few different ways recently. Commissioner Gordon distributed a petition, as shown below: Petition from Alice Gordon relating to the Orange County transit plan February 21, 2012 Currently, Orange County is considering a county transit plan which essentially utilizes 25% local funding, 25% state funding, and 50% federal funding. The purpose of this petition is to ask that the County also develop and consider a transit plan which essentially relies only on local resources. The advantage of having such a plan is that the voters, in considering a'/-cent sales tax referendum for transit, will know what the plan would be if the County does not secure new state and federal funding for transit. This "core" transit plan would utilize the new local funding sources, including the proceeds of the'h-cent sales tax and the vehicle registration fees. It could also include other revenues, as appropriate. However, it would not utilize the 25% state and 50% federal funding that is yet to be obtained. The core plan would describe which transit investments could be made utilizing these local funds. In contrast, the "enhanced" transit plan would utilize the 25% state funding and 50% federal funding, as well as local funds, and it is essentially the Orange County transit plan that the Commissioners have been considering for several months. This petition requests that the Commissioners direct the staff to develop the draft core transit plan outlined above, and that the Commissioners consider the core and enhanced versions of the transit plan as part of their future discussion of the Orange County transit plan. The goal would be to have the draft core plan ready in time for it to be placed on the agenda of the next BOCC meeting at which the Orange County transit plan is discussed. Chair Pelissier said that this has already been put in the agenda process.