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Community Connectivity Plan —just updated and adopted by Town Board in March <br />D. Orange County — Dave Stancil (Director Orange County Department of Environment, Agriculture and Parks & <br />Recreation) <br />MST Segment 11 Community Meetings are complete. <br />• A report will be presented to the BOCC May 16th with the preferred corridor map <br />BW F Park <br />• RFP beginning deveped to hire an engineer to design new entrance <br />• Bee Keeper's Association would like to produce honey there <br />• Milkwed planted for the Monarch Butterflies <br />• Masterplan revisions will need to be made <br />Accquired 37 acres next to soccer.com center for additional fields <br />• Natural /Synthetic fields to be determined <br />• Expansion 2019 -2020 <br />E. City of Mebane — Dean Ray (Director of City of Mebane Recreation and Parks) <br />New Community Park on Clay Street — will include <br />• pineapple husks artificial turf soccer fields, <br />• spray park, <br />• playground, <br />• dog park. <br />• Projected opening April 2018. <br />City approved a Bike and Pedestrain Plan <br />April 21 -22 Dogwood festival <br />Baseball; Softball and Soccer sign up going on <br />F. Others <br />TLC — In 2010 TLC purchased the Brumley property <br />• 613Ac <br />• Now called The George and Julia Brumley Family Nature Preserve <br />• Grand Opening - April 22 <br />• 5 miles of trails <br />• Walkers and hikers in the morning and bikers in the afternoon <br />Eno River Assocation — Open Air Pavillion opening in 2018 <br />UNC — a unique partnership between athletics /student affairs /and staff — 11 1/2 acres of indoor and outdoor <br />practice facilities will be used by the athletics department/the student body/ and as classroom areas. This is <br />not the norm for university facilities. Joint use of practice /training facilities. <br />5. Housekeeping Issues <br />a. Possibly adding a "Senior" category to the membership / IPWG found the recommendation acceptable - <br />Marabeth to follow up with adding a staff from DOA and one board member from their board <br />b. Review the membership roster for terms due to expire - Marabeth will contact all members in Jan each <br />year to verify if they will be serving on the board that year. <br />c. Switching from a 3 meeting a year to 2 meetings a year format / IPWG agreed to move to meeting two <br />times per year — April and October <br />6. Adjournment 7:OOpm. <br />