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49 Commissioner Price: Do you have a pointer? Chad Abbott: Let me zoom in for you. So the DOT Right of Way ends about right here. The rest of that is a private easement. It's a private right of way. Commissioner Price: Owned by whom? Chad Abbott: By which —typically— DOT or the County, in my experience has not required sidewalks in the County either. But you know, unless we were connected to another sidewalk, I really think that the School probably would be best just to try to keep the walkways onsite, so that they don't bring children down near the right of way, or increase the potential that some children may wander up sidewalks, along the right of way. Commissioner Price: Well that's what I was talking about. I think that there — I may be wrong, it may be— have been another group of children. But I was over in the area, and I know that there was a group, a chaperoned group of people walking along the road. And I know that the County, we don't do roads. I was just wondering if that property—that you're saying is north of the right of way— is owned by the School, whether they were going, whether they would incorporate that into the master plan to have walkways so that their not on the road when they're out doing field trips. Chad Abbott: And like I said, I can speak to the school Commissioner Price: I think someone behind you would like to speak. Chad Abott: They may want to speak about the details of why that occurred. It may have been something to do with the existing parking situation or congestion, which we've done everything to move that off of the right of way. But I'll let Charlie speak. Charlie Viles: Do I need to say I'm still sworn? Chair McKee: Please come as close to mic as is comfortable, so it picks up. Charlie Viles: So should not be anybody walking in the road there. And if there were —and it were our students - they shouldn't have been there. We don't have any plans to put in sidewalks next to New Jericho, for example. Commissioner Price: Okay Charlie Viles: There's one kind of spot that we're concerned about, which is where they cross over Millhouse Road to go to the playing fields. And they cross right now at a— and we've actually been out there with the traffic engineer, Chuck Edwards, to talk about that. And he's told us, and we're willing to work with him to figure out how to make that as safe as possible. But currently, the only time that people —the only place that people would be crossing Millhouse, would be to go over to the playing fields, or to the garden at that one crossing point there at the curve — right there where Spence's Farm is. Commissioner Price: Okay, I stand corrected. It was on Millhouse Road.