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14 1 Commissioner Dorosin asked who is identified as the Title VI coordinator in Orange 2 County. 3 Bret Martin said Peter Murphy is the coordinator. 4 Commissioner Dorosin said Title VI is an anti—discrimination provision. He said this is a 5 comprehensive report, but he did not see much about the demographic of the ridership. He 6 would like to see this information if it is available, and if not, he would like to see a plan for 7 gathering it. 8 Bret Martin said there are no plans in place, but it is possible to get this information. He 9 said the Title VI requirements are more difficult as transportation systems get larger, and this 10 demographic requirement is in place for systems that operate more than 50 vehicles in a fixed 11 route service. He said OPT is not doing this, but it can be done. 12 Craig Benedict said socioeconomic data was looked at during the creation of the 5 year 13 plan, especially in the Efland Cheeks area, which was one of the highest transit dependent 14 populations. He said the ridership data will be looked at more once the service is in place. 15 Commissioner Dorosin said Title VI does not include socioeconomic status as a 16 protected class. He said the Family Success Alliance has been doing some census mapping, 17 and there may be an opportunity for some synergy there. 18 He said there is a lot of information in this plan regarding access to interpreters for 19 passengers with limited English proficiency, but he did not see anything about providing 20 language training for drivers to become bi-lingual. He said this might be something worth 21 incentivizing for folks who will be on the front lines. 22 Chair McKee said he has heard a request for more information on the demographics 23 and a request to look into the possibility of bilingual training. He said it seems like it is the 24 consensus of the Board to endorse these requests. 25 Commissioner Pelissier asked if there are already documents available that have been 26 translated into other languages for their ridership. If not, she would like to suggest this. 27 Commissioner Price echoed this suggestion. 28 Commissioner Price referred to page 6, and asked if complaints can be submitted by 29 email. She asked Bret Martin to look into this. 30 Commissioner Price asked if letters will be sent by certified mail. 31 Bret Martin said all correspondence regarding complaints will be handled by certified 32 mail. 33 Bonnie Hammersley said with the expansion of this service this summer, the system will 34 grow, and the size will require staff to look at these issues more diligently. She said staff is 35 committed to putting more systems in place to track information and reporting this information 36 back to the Board. 37 38 A motion was made by Commissioner Pelissier, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs for 39 the Board to: 40 1) Consider approval of the attached resolution (Attachment 2) approving and authorizing the 41 plan; and 42 2) Authorize the Orange County Transportation Planning staff to submit the plan to the North 43 Carolina Department of Transportation and Federal Transit Administration. 44 45 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 46 47 d. System Safety Program Plan — Orange Public Transportation (OPT) 48 The Board considered adopting an operational System Safety Program Plan (SSP) for 49 Orange Public Transportation meeting the North Carolina Department of Transportation/Public 50 Transportation Division (NCDOT/PTD) requirements.