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Approved 4/16/12 109 Tom Altieri: In general, when you compare attendance to the number of people in the jurisdiction or noticed with the 110 information, it is a very small percentage. 111 112 Tom Altieri reviewed the request for a seat on the Burlington Graham MPO. 113 114 Annette Jurgelski: On page 32, are the points on that page from the MPO or the RPO that is another set of points? 115 116 Tom Altieri: Those are RPO projects. 117 118 Tom Altieri reviewed the status of the Safe Routes to School Action Plan. He noted that when Karen Lincoln left, her 119 update was that this Board had completed a draft plan working with a consultant, reviewed the draft, provided 120 comments and DOT was also to provide comments on the draft plan and the consultant was awaiting those 121 comments and intended to incorporate both OUTBoard comments and DOT comments simultaneously. I have 122 inquired about the status of the project and have not received a response to date. 123 124 Tom Altieri gave a brief update on the CMAQ noting he has familiarized himself with the reimbursement process and 125 the County just received its first check. 126 127 There was a short discussion about the bike rack for the buses and how they would be used. 128 129 Randy Marshall: What is the status of the Chapel Hill County Joint Transit Study? 130 131 Darcy Zorio: We are currently trying to get a schedule from the consultant as to when we can expect things to be 132 complete. 133 134 Tom Altieri: One of the County concerns is following consolidation, how does Orange County continue to maintain a 135 seat the table that ensures we maintain adequate service in the rural areas. 136 137 Randy Marshall: Chapel Hill, Durham /Raleigh, Triangle area has sucked all the transportation money anywhere they 138 can. 139 140 Tom Altieri: The last item is on Bicycle Safety. The response from Chair Pelissier has been included in your packet. 141 142 Randy Marshall: What is the appropriate length of time to wait to ask the Sheriff what he plans to do about this? 143 144 Nancy Cole Baker: We can invite the sheriff here to discuss this. 145 146 Jeff Charles: I think that is an excellent idea because part of the issue with cyclist is that sheriffs are enforcing traffic 147 safety laws for cyclists. A number of our cyclists go through red lights, stops signs without stopping and I think if 148 Orange County was known that the sheriff /deputies were enforcing by giving tickets that would benefit cyclists' 149 safety. It would also defuse some of the comments made by drivers on the other side of the fence they also need to 150 enforce the two foot path that cars have to give cyclists, etc. They need to do both. It would be good to have the 151 sheriff here and have that discussion. 152 153 Renee Price: In this letter did you want the letter to talk to us or the BOCC or both? 154 155 Nancy Baker: I think we were talking about forwarding the issue to the sheriff but I think...... 156 157 Randy Marshall: Well we don't tell the BOCC what to do with the referral, we referred it in hopes they would do they 158 did which was to refer it the sheriff. How that the sheriff has it, it seems it comes upon us to say, okay, this was 159 brought to us originally and referred to you by the Commissioners, can you give an idea what the response will be. 160 Two weeks ago a sheriff deputy was behind me and a cyclist went right through a stop and didn't even slow down 161 and it didn't even register to them that it had happened, it's not on their radar. 162 Nancy Baker: If you could invite the Sheriff to come and talk to us at a meeting that would be great.