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and whatever comes up from the Planning Board will include what the OUT Board recommended. He does not think that the County Commissioners need to get a separate recommendation. Chair Pelissier said that if the County Commissioners asked for it, then it will see it through the Planning Board. She thinks that this will be taken care of. The Board agreed with adding "bicycle and pedestrian" to the first item under Goals and Objectives. Commissioner Gordon made reference to #6, "serve as an advisory body to the Administrative Staff of the Orange Public Transit system." She said that it is strange to have an advisory board of the County Commissioners be an advisor to the staff. Chair Pelissier said that it was agreed that it would be folded into the OUT Board, which would serve as advice to the staff because they were dealing with transportation. Darcy Zorio said that NCDOT requires that Orange Public Transportation have a transportation advisory board as a recipient of subgrades. DOT also requires that the transportation advisory board have specific membership. At this time, the board does not address the issues required by the state statutes. She said that the OUT Board needs to keep its goals and objectives "clean" and satisfy the DOT requirements. There are some membership issues on the TAB that might not be pertinent to the OUT Board. Chair Pelissier made reference to page 4 where it says that there would be three members from the advisory boards having transportation interests — Commission for the Environment, Economic Development Commission, and Planning Board. She said that her concern is that when there are these requirements it means that people have to be on two boards. She is hearing that this is problematic and that it does not work very well. She knows that there should be communication between two different boards, but maybe the staff people can summarize pertinent issues. She questioned having this as a stipulation of inembership. Commissioner Gordon said that the Commission for the Environment might have an interest, but she is not sure about the Economic Development Commission. There is an overlap between planning and transportation. Chair Pelissier suggested not requiring this, but maybe having someone with specific interests or expertise on the OUT Board. Commissioner Gordon suggested asking the boards how they felt about it. Frank Clifton said that the commonality with all of these boards is that the County staff supports them all. Commissioner Yuhasz suggested saying, "six at-large members with expertise or specific interests in the environment, economic development, planning, bicycle transportation, pedestrian access and safety, and public transit." After discussion, the Board decided to remove item B-4 regarding the staggered terms. Aqricultural Preservation Rich Shaw is staff support for this board. He said that Objective B-2 should be divided up and bulleted. John Roberts made reference to Section IV, B, #4 and said to delete this statement about quorum. Animal Services John Roberts said that the current date and time was included, but it somehow got deleted from this one. He suggested that the current meeting dates and times should be included.