Agenda - 05-15-2018 8-a - Minutes

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16 Cedar Grove Road ranked number 2; and OCPT ranked number 3. He said staff agrees with 1 these recommendations, and the OUTBoard recommends ranking OCPT as number one. 2 Commissioner Marcoplos said he drives Old Greensboro Road all the time, and it would 3 be nice to see some improvements. 4 Chair Dorosin referred to the same slide, and asked if the maximum number of points a 5 project could receive is 50. 6 Nishith Trivedi said yes, the maximum score is 50 based on NCDOT’s quantitative data. 7 Chair Dorosin clarified that none of Orange County’s projects scored higher than 25. 8 Nishith Trivedi said yes. He said NCDOT is now looking for local input points, which will 9 raise the score. 10 Chair Dorosin asked if the local input scores will go in the second column, or be added 11 to the division score. 12 Nishith Trivedi said it will be added to the division score. He said the top ranking item will 13 get the most number of points added, but there is no guarantee that any projects will get 14 funded. He said the maximum amount any project can score is 100 points total. 15 Commissioner McKee said given that the impact of the reservoir expansion on Efland -16 Cedar Grove Road is an unknown, he suggested that the BOCC be laser focused on getting 17 transit services, and thus move Efland - Cedar Grove out of contention. 18 Commissioner Marcoplos asked if choosing only one item to recommend, would 19 guarantee any more certainty of funding. 20 Nishith Trivedi said items number one and two will each receive 100 points. 21 22 A motion was made by Commissioner Rich for the Board to approve the OUTBoard 23 recommendation included in Attachment 1 as the County’s ranking and submit to the TARPO. 24 25 Commissioner McKee said Old Greensboro Road is more critical, since it has a lot of 26 bike traffic, and he would rank this project higher than the transit buses. He said he would love 27 to see 4-foot shoulders added to Old NC 86. 28 Commissioner Marcoplos echoed Commissioner McKee’s comments, and said so many 29 of the rural roads are dangerous on a daily basis. 30 Commissioner Marcoplos asked Theo Letman, Transportation Director, if he could give 31 the relative value of recommending the transit buses versus the roadwork. 32 Theo Letman said the transit vehicles are necessary for the fixed deviated services that 33 the County has been planning to deploy, as well as for ADA services. 34 Commissioner Marcoplos asked if the cost for these buses is known. 35 Theo Letman said $54,000 per bus. 36 Commissioner Jacobs said, at the last meeting, three advisory boards reported a need 37 for increased transportation in rural areas, and the Board also recently discussed the lack of 38 funding to purchase a public transportation vehicle. He said he likes the idea of the bike lanes, 39 but he said the highest priority is public transportation. 40 Commissioner Price asked if the BOCC could just recommend only two projects, and 41 put all the weight of the points on the top 2. 42 Nishith Trivedi said yes. 43 Commissioner McKee said Old Greensboro Road and OCPT are priorities, and he does 44 not oppose the motion in any way. 45 Commissioner Burroughs seconded the motion. 46 47 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 48 49