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Orange County & NCDOT Highway Luncheon <br />Division 7 and District 1 <br />July 12, 12:00 p.m. <br />stakeholders, including Chuck Edwards from NCDOT and herself from the <br />Planning staff. Commissioner Renee Price is the BOCC liaison to the group. <br />Heidi Perry is the chairperson, appointed by the BOCC. <br />The first meeting of the task force was held on July 11th. The meeting agenda <br />included educating the members regarding the existing rules of the road, recent <br />ratified amendments in HB 959, and the origins of the development of the task <br />force. A structure of topics, tasks and goals for the next four meetings was set, <br />utilizing subcommittees, and it was agreed that the task force would meet once a <br />month. The first subcommittee will be examining what problems we are trying to <br />solve with the task force’s campaign, what are the specific goals should be to <br />effect change in behavior, and what the task force’s message should be, and <br />which audiences are trying to be reached. <br />Other subcommittees will look at the best way to disseminate information to <br />target audiences, develop an action plan to achieve goals, and create a set of <br />recommendations for the BOCC with an estimated funding request. <br />This initial work is estimated to take approximately 6 months and the task force is <br />authorized to operate for up to a year. <br />Commissioner Dorosin inquired about the tone of the meeting. Abigaile Pittman <br />stated that she felt it was a good blend of stakeholders and that they <br />communicated well. <br />31