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She suggested the submission of separate lists for bike/pedestrian and highway on November 19tH Bret Martin said the County can submit different projects in different modes, but the projects will still all be scored as one item. He said the list that will be coming to the Board on November 19th will act as a guide for the TAC members to look at where to assign points. Chair Jacobs asked if the Burlington MPO will be dealt with separately. Brett Martin said this was done last month. Chair Jacobs said staff discussed some adjustments, and somehow the number one priority, which was is the TARPO projects, got lost in the shuffle. He was wondering how to get this back in. Brett Martin asked if this is about the Buckhorn Road widening. He said this is now in the Burlington/Graham MPO planning area and can no longer be submitted. He said the projects that came to the BGMPO TCC were an abbreviated list of projects made by their staff. He said the Board did submit that project, but he is unsure what decision making process occurred at the MPO level to prevent it from being included in the recommendations. Chair Jacobs said there was an exchange of emails regarding substitution of projects. Craig Benedict said he believes the email discussion today will put the Buckhorn project in the Burlington/Graham priority list. Chair Jacobs said this is important because it is in the middle of the Economic Development District, and it is a bottleneck, especially as long as the flea market is there. He noted that residents do not like the traffic immobility on weekends, and it would also be a more attractive economic development area if people could drive through easily. Chair Jacobs said one of the reasons the interstate funding has not gone forward is because it has not been a priority in the past. He said the reason Interstate 40 stopped at the Orange County line is because Orange County sued to block that route in the 1980's. He said it has not been funded for the past 25 years, and he does not think this is a coincidence or a function of district lines. He said it is more a function of the way the DOT used to operate, but hopefully this is no longer the case. Chair Jacobs suggested that staff use the front and back of pages to create larger PowerPoint materials that the Board can more easily read the material. Commissioner Dorosin asked about the substitute handout for 7C. He asked if this is to replace 7C 3 in the original packet. Brett Martin said the handout will supplant what was previously received. He said this list is the only action item for tonight. He said the original list had all modes, but this list is narrowed to the action item. He said a comprehensive list with all modes will come back to the Board on the 19th Commissioner McKee said he gets a feeling that no matter how the Board prioritizes or ranks items, it will have little impact. He is not opposed to doing it, but he does question the effectiveness. Commissioner Gordon asked if Brett Martin had more to say on the transit projects. Brett Martin said he wanted to make the strong point that a lot of the projects being indicated would require a local match. He said the approval of the list tonight does not commit the County to a local match. Commissioner Gordon said there are two projects on the list for DCHC MPO —the Hillsborough Train Station and the Buckhorn EDD. She noted that those projects were on the original list, and now others have been added for a total of six. She said the Buckhorn EDD was submitted to the Burlington/Graham MPO, and it is in that MPO. Brett Martin said most of it is, but not all of it. Commissioner Gordon said it appears to be on the border.