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D R A F T one of the handouts, he noted that it containsobjectives, strategies, and indicators. He advised that in year two fiscal203 needs will be addressed. He referred the members to review the handouts and to email him with any inquiries.204 He would love to have anyone interested get involved in workgroups as they are developed to work with 205 transportation issues. He added that the focus in this area is the rural areas.206 207 Abigaile Pittman suggested that when Craig Benedict presents the BRIP to the OUTBoard in March that perhaps he 208 could give some thought to those issues aired in the course of the OPT analysis with the input of the OUTBoard.209 210 Alex Castro advised the members that the Department on Aging has applied for a grant to staffa Mobility Manager 211 that would be working from the Department on Aging but coordinating with the Planning Department. 212 213 Abigaile Pittman updated the Board on the status of the proposed railroad closures. She advised that the BOCC 214 approved a second comment letter on 2/21/13 which will be posted to the website by 2/23/13. The next step is for 215 Orange County to provide comments to NCDOT. NCDOT will be meeting with Planning staff in the next month to try 216 to clear up some issues for the public and the BOCC. Abigaile noted that there is a proposed interchange design at 217 70 and 85 that needs to be redone and it hasn’t been slated as a project yet but she has a draft drawing. 218 219 Abigaile Pittman referred the members to the information regarding the annual statement for 2012 from NCDOT on 220 secondary road construction. She noted some of the completed roads are Buckhorn Rd. and Dairyland Rd.221 222 Jeff Charles commented that the 2-footextensions to the shoulders are not 2 feet in many areas. They go from 3 223 feetextensions down to 6 inches in places. Jeff Charles would like NCDOT to be asked why the signed off on the 224 project and would like Chuck Edwards to visit the OUTBoard.Jeff would like staff to get information about new 225 construction this year. It is his understanding that they are going to do repair on New Hope Church Rd. replacing a 226 bridge and he would like to know when that construction is going to begin as it will require shutting down New Hope 227 Church Rd between Old 86 and Union Grove Church Rd. It isgoing to have a dramatic impact on the bicycling 228 community and he would like to get the word out.229 230 Abigaile Pittman informed the Board of the updates in the Burlington-Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization 231 (BGMPO) including appointments to that group and to DCHC MPO and TARPO. She also advised that Dwight Stone 232 of Greensboro has been appointed as the Orange County representative on the NC Board of Transportation.233 234 Ted Triebel noted that while 50% of the drivers using the highway are female and that 10 men were appointed by the 235 Governor which seems to be a lack of gender diversity on his part.236 237 Matt Day gave the Board some updates on items being discussed at the next TARPO meeting including reviewing a 238 map of the whole TARPO region showing all of the current plans. It puts about 15 plans into one map. He noted that 239 a project comingup is the locally coordinated Transit Tlan that they will be working with the transit agencies in the 240 four counties and this is a federal requirement.Matt informed the group that a 15-501 Corridor Study by DOT is 241 getting ready to start it will be on 15-501 from 54 in Chapel Hill down to 64 in Pittsboro and they will be looking at how 242 the roadways function in terms of traffic operations, placement of traffic lights, and improvement that can be done to 243 make that function better from an operational perspective.244 245 Paul Guthrie asked Matt Day to provide a summary of the 15-501 Corridor Study to Abigaile. He noted it is fairly 246 crucial to southern Orange County.247 248 .Abigaile Pittman referred the group to the handout regarding the roundabout project on Erwin Road requested by 249 Jeff Charles at the January OUTBoard meeting.250 251 Abigaile Pittman reviewed the outcome of the BOCC retreat with regard to the OUTBoardgoals for 2013. 252 253 7 ReturntoAgenda