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Approved 2-20-2008 10 Pat Strong: I had a meeting yesterday with Steven Lowery and what Karen has done is extracted information from reports that came out in May or June this year. This is an ongoing thing and this information that is generated is examined very carefully. There’s also a group of regional traffic engineers and they have standards based on 2 regions. They receive recommendations from the division and regional traffic engineers. The PH numbers are potentially hazardous intersection and or highway safety and the low number would be looked at very carefully. The Spot Safety program and the WB programs are both of these funds are reviewed by the executive committee. Orange County intersections ranked 116 will probably be looked at by this committee. What you are looking at like shoulder improvements and turn lane additions, things that might not cost much. The Spot Safety program would fund those types of improvements. This goes on all the time. Steve had mentioned that in the list for 2007 there were a large number of intersections that were flagged. Jan Grossman: There’s nothing we can do because there’s already a process going on. Pat Strong: What you have been considering is that there are some of these that are flagged with high priority numbers and if you have strong feelings it wouldn’t hurt to make decisions on what areas you have concerns about. Alice Gordon: Which column do you look at? Pat Strong: The state ranked PH number. One intersection is ranked 116 in due course these will be looked at but there’s no guarantee that you will see any action. But the others priority levels are not high enough. Alice Gordon: Even 116 does not seem high enough. Pat Strong: That’s borderline. Alice Gordon: When you are talking about single digit – there’s nothing. Pat Strong: You don’t have any but when you have one ranked 116 out of 5400 that’s a concern for you. Paul Guthrie: I think this is a good thing to periodically look at and you have to be more analytical. The map is helpful also. I don’t see any reason why we can’t point these problems out. Pat Strong: Steven explained that there is a severity formula and they have prefixes of values that are applied to this. Alice Gordon: They said one is division 7 and one is division 9. Pat Strong: That is a descriptive label that DOT uses and division 9 is part of the high country area. That is significant to them and no one else. Alice Gordon: It is significant in that fact that money is parceled out by divisions or regions. Pat Strong: Another thing Steven mentioned yesterday was the $250 thousand dol lar cap for spot safety. If each project used about that amount of money then you are only looking at 25-30 projects total with thousands of locations. Alice Gordon: But somebody gets them. Pat Strong: Yes and your comment about all the rings on I-85/I-40 that’s probably because 65-75 thousands vehicles per day that travel that road where accidents occur. Sam Lasris: Turn to page 29 attachment A the calendar.