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Charge 6. Suggest/recommend policies, procedures for advancing bike and pedestrian safety in the county. 1. Create a Task Force to put together an action plan for implementing the list of actions suggested in Charge 5, and have the action plan reviewed by the OUTBoard and presented to the BOCC. Have one member of the BOCC serve as a member of the Task Force. 2. Charge the Task Force with providing a list of roadways or areas in Orange County that need improvements for the OUTBoard to review, and send to the BOCC or to staff for approval. 3. Have staff create a list of goals for improving the roadways identified by the Task Force, including desired timelines and approximate costs. 4. Instruct staff to review with the OUTBoard roads that are scheduled for resurfacing and recommend wide shoulders or other appropriate improvements on roads identified as rural bikeways. 5. Ask NCDOT to adhere to their Complete Streets manual and to their written policies concerning rumble strips when installing them on rural roads (see Appendix B) 6. Receive semi-annual updates and annual written reports from staff regarding progress of the above noted action items and goals for the past and the upcoming year. Charge 7. Identify agencies, departments, groups that might work to move this forward. All of the following, in addition to every Orange County resident, are stakeholders who should work together to make our roads safer. 1. Law enforcement agencies (Sheriff’s Department, Highway Patrol) 2. School representatives 3. Orange County Visitor’s Bureau 4. NCDOT staff 5. County and regional planning staff 6. Elected representatives 7. County businesses 8. Bicycle advocacy groups 9. Those who work with driver’s education classes and traffic offenders 17