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D R A F T Ted Triebel: This problem has existed for decades in this county. My question is whether there would beany 280 documentation as to havethis proven to be a problem in 5 out of 100, etc. Is this a problem or not?281 282 Elizabeth Gregory: As far as documentation, I believe the fire departments, when they do their incident reports to 283 the state or fire marshal they documentif they had an access issue. We have not pulled the actual statistics. If we 284 can’t access one person, one house,itis a huge issue.We can research thatinformation. 285 286 Ted Triebel: Anytime we make a big change, thereneeds to be a data to back it up. 287 288 Paul Guthrie: As I understand the recommendation, you are asking this Boardto tell the BOCC to have staff to take 289 a look at this issue.290 291 Abigaile Pittman: We are saying if you agreewith staff’s recommendations,then recommend to the BOCC that they 292 have the staffcontinue to research it. 293 294 MOTION made by Jeff Charles to accept recommendations for the staff with the addition of the emergency access 295 for trailsystems. Seconded by Alex Castro.296 VOTE:Unanimous297 298 Ted Triebel: I live right by Little River Park which is a joint Durham/Orange County Park. We can look at those type 299 parks to say, this is what we accept as risks and this is what we think we shouldn’t accept.300 301 302 AGENDA ITEM V: STAFF UPDATES303 a.Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Action Plan304 OUTBoard Action: Receive updates305 306 Abigaile Pittman: Last night, the BOCC adopted the Safe Routes to School Action Plan. The next step is we will be 307 establishing a committee for implementation activities and they will be planning staff from Orange County, from the 308 Town of Hillsborough, someone from the School Board, the original steering committee and one or twomembers309 from the OUTBoard. 310 311 312 AGENDA ITEM VI: BOARD COMMENTS313 OUTBoard Action:Receive commentsand participate in discussion.314 a.Chair initiated a comment session regarding Board members’ thoughts on the 315 following potential topics:316 i.Critical transportation issues for Orange County, now and into the future.317 ii.The role of the OUTBoard in the examining of the difficulties in transportation 318 planning brought about by the programmatic fragmentation of current 319 transportation planning and funding.320 iii.Improved OUTBoard engagement of Orange County residents’ transportation 321 concerns.322 iv.Improving OUTBoard advisory service to the Board of County Commissioners.323 v.Agenda development.324 vi.The role of each member of the Board.325 vii.Meeting format, including presentations and member participation.326 327 OUTBoard Action: Receive comments and participate in discussion.328 329 Paul Guthrie: I would like to pose several questions for the Boardto considerover the next several meetings:income 330 and housing locations, work locations, school locations, affordable housing, income diversity, a discombobulating of331 transportation planning and providers, public and private, a lack of resources in revenue and authority statutory for 332 the city and county, the state governments role and responsibility and the costs and uncertainty of the future. The 333 role of the OUTBoard in examining the difficulties in transportation planning brought about by the programmatic 334 fragmentation of our current transportation planning of funding in private and public. Also, improved OUTBoard 335 8 ReturntoAgenda