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DRAFT 5 Jeff Charles commented that with the understanding that they put in significant time to discuss the Safe Routes to 208 School. Heidi Perry agreed that should be on the next meeting agenda. 209 210 MOTION by Jeff Charles to not meet in December, but to have the Board’s next meeting on January 18, 2017. 211 Seconded by Alex Castro. 212 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 213 214 AGENDA ITEM 7: INFORMATIONAL ITEMS 215 216 217 7.A. UPDATE ON SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PLAN IMPLEMENTATION CONCEPTS BY WALKABLE HILLSBOROUGH – (AMY 218 COLE) 219 220 Amy Cole Presented 221 222 Abigaile Pittman suggested that Amy Cole inform the Board about the smaller SRTS Plan projects that Hillsborough 223 recommended in a recent meeting. Amy Cole informed the Board of two smaller projects that Hillsborough thinks 224 could be accomplished much quicker and would help to build interest in their cause with the community. The first was 225 to build a little pedestrian bridge over a creek on Hayes Street for Central Elementary School students. The second 226 was to build in a gate at the back of the field of Orange High School, which would give students quicker, more direct 227 and safer access to the school. 228 229 Amy Cole continued her presentation. 230 231 Jeff Charles expressed the importance of getting someone on the BOCC to be their advocate for this project to get 232 this pushed forward and that they need to get political support. 233 234 Amy Cole also explained that they have to find access to the federal funding to which the County would have to 235 provide a 20 percent match for, and that this is going to be difficult. Max Bushell explained that this is something else 236 the BOCC would have to sign off on and that there would also have to be someone accountable to manage the 237 project and the maintenance and liability issues once the project is completed. 238 239 Heidi Perry suggested keeping this one as of the OUTBoard’s priorities. She also suggested that Amy Cole come to 240 the meeting presenting this to the BOCC as a citizen. Heidi Perry also said that she would speak to some of the 241 County Commissioners to see if they’re interested in being a supporter or if they can recommend someone who 242 could be. 243 244 Jeff Charles suggested also getting policy regarding maintenance involved, getting the press involved, getting a 245 reporter to go out there themselves to see first hand what’s going on, and getting pictures with vehicles going by. He 246 pointed out that a lot of people see this going on and they need to apply pressure on policy to move forward. Art 247 Menius then informed the Board that he had a column coming out soon in the Chapel Hill News about the dangers of 248 the bridge over I-40. 249 250 Jeff Charles mentioned the many years the Board has spent trying to accomplish this and thinks that should be 251 pointed out. Abigaile Pittman informed the Board that Hillsborough has brought up some of the same issues and if 252 they want to move forward there’s going to need to be a different way of approaching it because Hillsborough has 253 also said that they don’t have money to spend. She also mentioned that Hillsborough brought up the two smaller 254 projects they thought could be successful that could be done until they’re able to figure out how to approach bigger 255 projects. 256 257 7