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sustainability program and building classes. They have little connection to the historic preservation community but he believes they are open to it. Chair Jacobs noted they have two or three items in their report that reference Hillsborough and that the Board of County Commissioners is meeting with the Town of Hillsborough in February. He suggested that they bring forward anything about the archeological digs, etc prior to that meeting. He said there is already time on the agenda for development of joint policy for dealing with archaeological, cultural and historic sites within the jurisdiction. OUTBoard (Orange County Unified Transportation Board) Paul Guthrie, Chair—Jeff Charles, Vice Chair Paul Guthrie thanked the Board of County Commissioners for appointing new members recently. The board is moving ahead getting organized. There are still two vacancies, one relative to Economic Development and one relative to Environment. Paul Guthrie said their report covers the subjects asked for. He pointed out that on the first page of assigned charges is their guiding principle. He noted that this is very vague and broad, therefore what they do or don't do depends on the direction of the Board on a yearly basis. He noted that with the number of new members, on issues of certain topics, it might be wise to have briefings or one on ones. He referenced a recent sensitive and critical topic that came up about the issue of the interaction of the planning and management functions for transportation in the county and among the municipalities in the triangle and triad. This area keeps coming up. How can the most interaction be gained from these multi-jurisdictional transportation boards without overburdening each of the individuals appointed to represent those bodies? He said their board has two central functions —to advise Board of County Commissioners on things going on or that may come before them, but also it owes them foresight on what will be coming on the horizon. He said they just initiated a list of 39 organizations that have issues of transportation. Effort will be made to have the members volunteer to be monitors of these entities to give the Board of County Commissioners a more comprehensive view of what is going in transportation. He noted that it is hard to staff this. He said they have a list of activities for the future and at their next meeting they will be reviewing the Comprehensive Transportation Plan. He said that they have been deeply involved in that plan. Craig Benedict said this board is a county wide board that has been around about eight years and looks at all issues related to transportation. The board's role in the coming year would be to focus on part of the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan and how to continue to have that representation county wide to facilitate movement of people to jobs and services in the county. He said the board is enjoying the diversification of the new membership. There has been a lot of action around CTP and safe routes to schools. . Mr. Benedict noted the contributions of Tom Altieri and Abigail Pittman. Commissioner Rich asked how many people are on the board. Craig Benedict responded, about 13. Commissioner Rich asked if younger people are being attracted onto the boards and Jeff Walker said that he sees young students getting involved and learning about the existence of the OUTBoard and he believes there will be more young applicants. Commissioner McKee said that he realizes there are many layers involved in transportation and he expressed his appreciation for the OUTBoard and their input. He noted that he had found surrounding rural counties to be very amenable to including the needs of Orange County on equal basis. He attributed this to the active subgroup of people that are