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The Board considered making appointments to the Orange Unified Transportation Board. A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Pelissier to appoint to the Orange Unified Transportation Board: • Mr. Donald Wollum to the Eno Township position with a term ending 9/30/2016. • Mr. Brantley Wells to the Hillsborough Township position with a term ending 9/30/2016. VOTE: UNANIMOUS 12. Board Comments Commissioner Rich said Project Connect took place last week, and 300 people attended. She said each of these people got about 10 services. Commissioner Price — no comments Commissioner McKee said if the Board of County Commissioners acted like the federal government the Board would be run out of town. He said if the federal government doesn't get this straightened out, the citizens should replace them all in the next election. Commissioner Gordon said she and many of the Commissioners attended the installation of the Chancellor at UNC. Commissioner Gordon said the DCHC MPO meeting was held on October 9th. She said there was discussion of the Memorandum of Understanding, taking into account the comments received from Orange County and others. She said this has been released for approval and should come back to the Board in the near future. She said time was spent on the prioritization of bicycle projects, and a schedule was received. She said this will come back on November 19th She said the DCHC MPO always expresses concern about how this process is moving forward. She referenced a letter being sent to the Board of Transportation to highlight two issues. She said the issues are: 1) How many input points the MPOs and RPOs are given to allocate, and 2) the so called normalization of monies for highway and non-highway. Commissioner Dorosin said today he was representing clients in the latest hearing regarding the future viability of the NC Pre-K program. He said a compelling argument was made in favor of the program, but the state continues to argue their authority to narrow this program. He said the decision will be in a couple of months, and he is cautiously optimistic. He said he has been working with Commissioner Price on the County Fair exploratory committee. He said there will be a meeting on October 30th at 7pm at the Solid Waste Administrative Office to receive public input and gauge interest. This will be presented to the Board at the work session on the 12th of November. Commissioner Pelissier recognized school board members who volunteered at Project Connect. She also said she had talked to an attendee who lived at a mobile home park that is closing. She noted that housing was a major concern. She said there needs to be a discussion about mobile home parks. She said Triangle Transit Authority released their annual performance report, and ridership was up 11 percent overall. She said will be attending a Triangle Transit conference in Seattle this weekend and she hopes to learn a lot of things. She said she is happy to copy the Board on her report.