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D R A F T <br />Amy Cole added that she is in agreement but in general the whole plan doesn’t sit well with her but at this point the 109 <br />conceptis already approved and now it is the best situation going forward.110 <br />111 <br />The motion was seconded and approved unanimously.112 <br />113 <br />114 <br />AGENDA ITEM V: STAFF UPDATES115 <br />a.Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) recommendations for new projects in the 116 <br />DCHC MPO and TARPO planning areas for the State Transportation Improvement 117 <br />Program(STIP)118 <br />b.Clarification regarding bicycle project in the STIP119 <br />c.Safe Routes to School Plan adoption schedule120 <br />d.OUTBoard Appointments121 <br />e.OUTBoard items of discussion for Chuck Edwards, NCDOT District Engineer122 <br />OUTBoard Action: Receive updates123 <br />124 <br />Abigaile Pittman provided an update that the BOCC is reviewed the list of BG MPO projects recommended by the 125 <br />OUTBoard, and on the 19th will review the remainder of the projects in the DCHC MPO and TARPOareafor the 126 <br />STIP. Also, Triangle Transit is working with Orange County for the list of bus projects for implementation of the 127 <br />Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan (BRIP) and a report should be out by the end of the year.128 <br />129 <br />Alex Castro requested that the OUTBoard be given access to the presentation of the DCHC MPO coordinated public 130 <br />transportation plan workshop. He noted that thisrequest was made to the consultants but they never followed up on 131 <br />it. He thinks they do their thing in the MPO and the OUTBoard hears about it secondarily and he thinks the Board 132 <br />should know what is going on as it happens as opposed to after it has been completed. 133 <br />134 <br />Abigaile Pittman stated that she would follow up and get back with Alex Castro about this report. 135 <br />136 <br />Abigaile Pittman clarifiedinformationfrom last month’s meeting aboutbike projects that are over 1 million dollars 137 <br />having tobe classified as highway projects. She statedthat NCDOT has reversed that decision and determined they 138 <br />will continue to be bike projects no matter the costs.Local governments will have to come up with 20% and 139 <br />administer the projects.140 <br />141 <br />AbigailePittman advised that the Safe Routes to School Plan adoption schedule was approved by the BOCC and the 142 <br />OUTBoard will be reviewing it at itsDecember 18th meeting. 143 <br />144 <br />AbigailePittman advised that the OUTBoard will be also be working on the annual work plan to be submitted to the 145 <br />BOCC in December.146 <br />147 <br />Abigaile Pittman let the OUTBoard know that there may not be a need to meet in Novemberand that she would 148 <br />follow up to confirm. 149 <br />150 <br />Paul Guthrie requested to have the Safe Routes to School material several weeks in advance of the December 151 <br />meeting in order to have ample time for review.152 <br />153 <br />Alex Castro suggested working on the annual report by email prior to the December meeting.154 <br />155 <br />Abigaile Pittman advised the Board of the two newly appointed OUTBoard members, Brantley Wells representing 156 <br />Hillsborough Township and Donald Wollum representing Eno Township.157 <br />158 <br />Abigaile Pittman advised the members that Chuck Edwards, NCDOTwants an agenda before coming to a meeting 159 <br />due to time constraints and asked the members to send her topics for an agenda.160 <br />161 <br />Paul Guthrie suggested that Chuck Edwards give the OUTBoard a candid appraisal of what he thinks the new 162 <br />system is going to do withregard to the allocation of different kinds of projects in Orange County.163 <br />5 <br />ReturntoAgenda