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Approved 11/19/14 <br />280 Ted Triebel: This problem has existed for decades in this county. My question is whether there would be any <br />281 documentation as to have this proven to be a problem in 5 out of 100, etc. Is this a problem or not? <br />282 <br />283 Elizabeth Gregory: As far as documentation, I believe the fire departments, when they do their incident reports to <br />284 the state or fire marshal they document if they had an access issue. We have not pulled the actual statistics. If we <br />285 can't access one person, one house, it is a huge issue. We can research that information. <br />286 <br />287 Ted Triebel: Anytime we make a big change, there needs to be a data to back it up. <br />288 <br />289 Paul Guthrie: As I understand the recommendation, you are asking this Board to tell the BOCC to have staff to take <br />290 a look at this issue. <br />291 <br />292 Abigaile Pittman: We are saying if you agree with staffs recommendations, then recommend to the BOCC that they <br />293 have the staff continue to research it. <br />294 <br />295 MOTION made by Jeff Charles to accept recommendations for the staff with the addition of the emergency access <br />296 for trail systems. Seconded by Alex Castro. <br />297 VOTE: Unanimous <br />298 <br />299 Ted Triebel: I live right by Little River Park which is a joint Durham /Orange County Park. We can look at those type <br />300 parks to say, this is what we accept as risks and this is what we think we shouldn't accept. <br />301 <br />302 <br />303 AGENDA ITEM V: STAFF UPDATES <br />304 a. Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Action Plan <br />305 OUTBoard Action: Receive updates <br />306 <br />307 Abigaile Pittman: Last night, the BOCC adopted the Safe Routes to School Action Plan. The next step is we will be <br />308 establishing a committee for implementation activities and they will be planning staff from Orange County, from the <br />309 Town of Hillsborough, someone from the School Board, the original steering committee and one or two members <br />310 from the OUTBoard. <br />311 <br />312 <br />313 AGENDA ITEM VI: BOARD COMMENTS <br />314 OUTBoard Action: Receive comments and participate in discussion. <br />315 a. Chair initiated a comment session regarding Board members' thoughts on the <br />316 following potential topics: <br />317 i. Critical transportation issues for Orange County, now and into the future. <br />318 ii. The role of the OUTBoard in the examining of the difficulties in transportation <br />319 planning brought about by the programmatic fragmentation of current <br />320 transportation planning and funding. <br />321 iii. Improved OUTBoard engagement of Orange County residents' transportation <br />322 concerns. <br />323 iv. Improving OUTBoard advisory service to the Board of County Commissioners. <br />324 v. Agenda development. <br />325 vi. The role of each member of the Board. <br />326 vii. Meeting format, including presentations and member participation. <br />327 <br />328 OUTBoard Action: Receive comments and participate in discussion. <br />329 <br />330 Paul Guthrie: I would like to pose several questions for the Board to consider over the next several meetings: income <br />331 and housing locations, work locations, school locations, affordable housing, income diversity, a discombobulating of <br />332 transportation planning and providers, public and private, a lack of resources in revenue and authority statutory for <br />333 the city and county, the state governments role and responsibility and the costs and uncertainty of the future. The <br />334 role of the OUTBoard in examining the difficulties in transportation planning brought about by the programmatic <br />335 fragmentation of our current transportation planning of funding in private and public. Also, improved OUTBoard <br />