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280 <br />Heidi Perry: Widening of lanes? 281 <br /> 282 <br />Nish Trivedi: Yes. The draft will be out in January or February 283 <br /> 284 <br />Alex Castro: With these roads flooding and everything NCDOT did have a site, DriveNC.org which indicated what 285 <br />segments of what roads were closed. You could go county by county, so if you were going out you could tell if you 286 <br />needed to find an alternate road because such n such a road was flooded. That looked like it was effective. 287 <br /> 288 <br />Ted Triebel: The Waze app is a GPS app– road closures and stuff like that. I think the flooding was happening faster 289 <br />than the site could keep up with. In some areas it was still cresting and in other areas it was going down, so you had to 290 <br />know what was happening 291 <br /> 292 5b. OUTBoard Members whose terms are ending (Abigaile Pittman): 293 <br />Abigaile Pittman: At the end of the month the Board will have six vacancies. Abigaile the terms ending are for Alex 294 <br />Castro, Earl Smith, Ted Triebel, Gary Saunders, Jeff Charles and Justin Miller. A Public Service Announcement (PSA) 295 <br />was sent out several weeks ago, and a second one went out earlier today. I have copies available should Board 296 <br />members want one to pass on potential applicants. A number of applications had been submitted but that more were 297 <br />needed 298 <br /> 299 <br />Tina Love: I will email the PSA to Board members. 300 <br /> 301 <br />Certificates of Appreciation to the two Board members present: Alex Castro and Ted Triebel; and the staff and the Board 302 <br />thanked them for their years of service. 303 <br /> 304 <br />Ted Triebel: I want to thank Heidi Perry for chairing the Board and Alex Castro for his astute comments to the Board. 305 <br /> 306 <br />Alex Castro: I want to thank Abigaile for coming forward. I am also on the Aging Advisory Board and helping with work to 307 <br />implement the Master Aging Plan. One of the problems we had was that we developed it as dreamers, if you will, and 308 <br />we lacked the practitioners, the people to make it happen. It’s people like Abigaile and Stephanie Trueblood, a planner 309 <br />from Hillsborough that populated the committees and what they do is make it more realistic in terms of what we can 310 <br />aspire to in terms of improvement. I think that is what we do at the OUTBoard meetings; we try to add to the government 311 <br />what we feel all communities would wish to see in terms of what is happening transportation-wise. It is good that we are 312 <br />cross-populating getting people involved. One of the things that I consider as an outstanding accomplishment of the 313 <br />OUTBoard is the bicycle safety effort, and the fact that the High School students were involved in producing the video 314 <br />PSAs. I feel other noteworthy accomplishments were the fencing on the bridge over I-40 on Orange Grove Road; and 315 <br />the Department on Aging’s AARP grant for the purchase of Semme seats. There is a great deal of bureaucracy with 316 <br />NCDOT and the BOCC. It seems that there are many bureaucrat hurdles for such simple things as fencing on a bridge. 317 <br />or signage for bus stops. We’ve got to fight the good fight and it will always be ongoing. 318 <br /> 319 <br />Heidi Perry: With the end of Alex Castro’s term the Board will need a new Vice-Chair. 320 <br /> 321 <br />Tina Love: Board Members can continue to attend meetings for up to one year or until someone is appointed to take 322 <br />their place. 323 <br /> 324 <br />The meeting adjourned. 325 <br />8