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Approved 11/15/17 413 414 AGENDA ITEM 5A. BICYCLE SAFETY IMPLEMENTATION SUBCOMMITEE REPORT (ART MENIUS, ABIGAILE PITTMAN) 415 416 Abigiale Pittman said that the purpose of this is to receive the report from the Bicycle Safety Implementation 417 Subcommittee and to provide any comments or suggestions from the OUTBoard. Art Menius is the chair of the 418 Subcommittee. Ms. Pittman passed out a copy of her presentation. 419 420 Art Menius noted that in the packet, the meeting notes from August 23, 2017 start on page 34 and continue on page 421 41 with other notes from another meeting (stapling discrepancy). Comments were made to Melissa Blackburn on the 422 logo emphasizing that there be people in the logo, not just vehicles. She had 16 logo suggestions, narrowed down to 423 3 at the September 11, 2017 meeting. Peter Luces from the original Bicycle Safety Taskforce attended the August 424 23rd and September 111h meeting; Bonnie Hauser attended the September 111h meeting. 425 426 Abigaile Pittman asked if others noticed problems with the page numbering. 427 428 Art Menius and Gary Saunders noted page numbering issues in their packet and Mr. Menius moved forward with 429 his summary. 430 431 Art Menius said that he was elected chair of the Subcommittee at the August 23rd meeting. The Subcommittee has 432 $10,000 in funding from the General Fund and $5,000 from the Visitor's Bureau, the latter is for communications. 433 The committee will create a budget at their next meeting on October 41h (moved from October 2nd). Laurie Paolicelli 434 from the Convention and Visitor's Bureau informed the committee of the variety resources at their disposal, 435 including access to media outlets and print sources for advertising space available pro bono and for purchase out of 436 the $5,000 budget. Todd McGee, Director of Community Relations will help with a Facebook page, Twitter account, 437 website, to get the word out about the Subcommittee and its work. Melissa Blackburn, Graphic Designer, will 438 provide guidance on the arts and communications and design the website. The Subcommittee wants to do a video 439 contest among the schools for a safety video to get PSAs out there. The committee narrowed down the logo design 440 options to 3 logos; Melissa will start creating designs. Bonnie Hauser brought up a good point that the committee's 441 initiative is unique because it looks at both bicycle and automotive safety, a collaborative safety project. 442 443 Abigaile Pittman said that Melissa just sent her 8 revised logo designs for the committee to review. 444 445 Art Menius responded that he looked forward to seeing the designs. He also said that Brennan Bouma, the 446 Sustainability Coordinator, talked to the committee about what he could do, along with the new the Transportation 447 Demand Coordinator. Through GoTriangle, they could come -up with logo- branded collateral like rear lights, spoke 448 lights, mobile phone cases, wallets, cooling towels, and stickers to get out the "ride safe" message. As homework, 449 committee members are reviewing videos from the United Kingdom to inform their video contest idea. The 450 committee's idea is to have one video contest open to school children and one video contest open to anyone. Peter 451 Murphy talked to the video clubs and looked into video programming at Orange High and Cedar Ridge. Cedar 452 Ridge has the capacity for this. Allison West passed out 9 examples of artwork used in safety campaigns, and the 453 committee continued to discuss how they can humanize the campaign. Mr. Menius developed a list of menu text 454 and content for the website Melissa will be designing for the committee. Abigaile Pittman was going to reach out to 455 NCDOT. 456 457 Abigaile Pittman reported back about her conversation with Chuck Edwards of NCDOT who said that the County 458 can install bicycle safety signs along NCDOT routes by way of encroachment agreements. The County would be 459 responsible for the cost of design, installation and maintenance. Ms. Pittman is going to ask about who covers the 460 cost of reduction. Prior to installation of the signs, the BOCC requires a resolution of approval and NCDOT has to 461 review and approve the sign design and locations. The design has to comply with MUTCD and NCDOT 462 requirements and signs have to be located independently from highway signs. The proposed signs would undergo 463 a comparable review process as the green and white "welcome signs" along NCDOT routes. Ms. Pittman E