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AGING /MENTAL HEALTH (1 VOTE) <br />• Convening including state <br />legislators on serious gaps in <br />quality and quantity of longterm <br />senior care, especially low- income <br />seniors. <br />• Thorough review of services from <br />Cardinal. <br />TRANSPORTATION (1 VOTE) <br />• Identify initiatives or ways to <br />leverage current programs to help <br />break cycle of poverty <br />• Employment as articulated by staff <br />(crossed with transportation as <br />relevant). <br />• Survey of unmet transportation <br />needs for education and <br />employment needs of low income <br />residents, used to prioritize <br />additional services. <br />cooperative <br />opportunities <br />• Created booklet of <br />outside agencies and <br />funding <br />• Maintenance of Efforts <br />funds refocused on <br />County priorities in <br />criminal justice system <br />and Social Services <br />• Long Term Care learning <br />collaborative <br />• Crisis intervention <br />training for detention <br />staff <br />• Youth mental health <br />liaison created in <br />Criminal Justice <br />Resource Department <br />• Mental health intake <br />screening for individuals <br />booked into the <br />detention center <br />• Orange County Transit <br />Plan adopted <br />• Cost share agreement <br />for Durham - Orange <br />Light Rail System <br />adopted <br />• Orange Alamance <br />Connector implemented <br />• Internet hotspots <br />available on OPT buses <br />• Try Transit week <br />implemented <br />• Funding added to <br />Bicycle Safety Campaign <br />• Monitor Cardinal <br />Innovations needs <br />assessment process <br />• Behavioral health <br />system study and gap <br />analysis <br />• Planning for Diversion <br />Center model for <br />Emergency Medical <br />Services and Law <br />Enforcement <br />• Short range bus <br />planning study <br />• N/S Bus Rapid Transit <br />Project study — <br />including Chapel Hill to <br />Hillsborough Corridor <br />• Review of <br />Implementation <br />Agreement and bus <br />operation funding to <br />Orange County <br />• Develop <br />sidewalk /mobility <br />strategy for County <br />CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC <br />SAFETY (Not originally identified by • Implemented • Apply for Reentry <br />BOCC) misdemeanor diversion Council funding for jail <br />3 <br />