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701 Art Menius suggested that they roll the approvals all into one vote. 702 703 Motion by Art Menius to approve Attachment 2, Bicycle Safety Taskforce Report Implementation Subcommittee, 704 Fiscal Year 2017-2018, and to appoint Heidi Perry, Alyson West, and Art Menius to the subcommittee. Seconded 705 by Alex Castro 706 707 Heidi Perry asked if there needed to be something said about the additional non-OUTBoard members in the motion. 708 709 Abigaile Pittman replied that this consideration is already in Attachment 2. 710 711 Heidi Perry called for the vote. 712 Vote: Unanimous 713 714 Abigaile Pittman said that she would send out an online poll to members to schedule the subcommittee’s first 715 meeting to be held before the end of the month.. 716 717 7. STAFF UPDATES (ABIGAILE PITTMAN) 718 719 Abigaile Pittman reported that she had a productive meeting with Todd McGee, Melissa Blackburn, and Laurie 720 Paolicelli from the Visitor’s Bureau in Chapel Hill. Since much of the conversation circled back to the topic of a logo 721 for the subcommittee, Ms. Pittman put in a request with Melissa Blackburn for assistance with the logo, and she will 722 attend the upcoming subcommittee meeting to present some initial logo concepts. She learned that the bicycle safety 723 website no longer has to be part of Orange County Planning Department’s webpage. There is a new contract to 724 revise the website, and a freestanding fixed website is now feasible, which the subcommittee can update as 725 necessary, inclusive of direct links to other websites, laws and policies, etc. 726 727 Art Menius said that the a site like Wordpress has a cascade system set-up so that the subcommittee’s website 728 would still be part of the Orange County website but it would have its own web address. 729 730 Abigaile Pittman noted that Mr. McGee and Ms. Paolicelli will help launch a media campaign inclusive of radio, public 731 access television, website banners, newsprint and more (e.g. WCHL radio and Chapelboro.com, WUNC, WHUP, 732 Chapel Hill Public Access TV, Visitor’s Bureau, neighboring towns and Chambers of Commerce, local newspapers, 733 etc.). Once the subcommittee has a concept of who they want to reach and how, they can negotiate for media slots. 734 735 Heidi Perry asked if the subcommittee is keeping the bike safety slogan in the report. 736 737 Abigaile Pittman said the slogan must be used because it was officially approved by the Bicycle Safety Task Force 738 and the OUTBoard. She said that in her meeting with she went over recommended preferred messaging and also 739 unfavorable messaging. Pittman started a brief discussion on best meeting times and subcommittee members gave 740 initial feedback. 741 742 Abigaile Pittman noted that she had raised the Task Force’s concern about not wanting people to use Facebook to 743 make contentious remarks and comments in posts, so the media staff suggested doing a Facebook ad that connects 744 to the subcommittee’s website. She concluded this update. 745 746 7.A. MEBANE TRAFFIC SEPARATION STUDY (TSS) 747 748 Abigaile Pittman reviewed the abstract (see page 27 in the packet). This study is being conducted by the Rail 749 Division of NCDOT, City of Mebane, and Norfolk Southern Rail line. They retained a private consultant to do the 750 study which examines eight highway at-grade railroad crossings, two of which are in Orange County: (1) Mattress 751 Factory Road and (2) Buckhorn Road. The purpose of a traffic separation study purpose is to improve safety. She 752 went over some of the methods described in the abstract and slide presentation. The consultant said that there was 753 nothing that they could recommend for the crossing at Mattress Factory Road because the distance to the nearest 754 16