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Approved 11/28/18 280 Heidi Perry: Widening of lanes? 281 282 Nish Trivedi: Yes. The draft will be out in January or February 283 284 Alex Castro: With these roads flooding and everything NCDOT did have a site, DriveNC.org which indicated what 285 segments of what roads were closed. You could go county by county, so if you were going out you could tell if you 286 needed to find an alternate road because such n such a road was flooded. That looked like it was effective. 287 288 Ted Triebel: The Waze app is a GPS app– road closures and stuff like that. I think the flooding was happening faster 289 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 know what was happening 291 292 5b. OUTBoard Members whose terms are ending (Abigaile Pittman): 293 Abigaile Pittman: At the end of the month the Board will have six vacancies. Abigaile the terms ending are for Alex 294 Castro, Earl Smith, Ted Triebel, Gary Saunders, Jeff Charles and Justin Miller. A Public Service Announcement (PSA) 295 was sent out several weeks ago, and a second one went out earlier today. I have copies available should Board 296 members want one to pass on potential applicants. A number of applications had been submitted but that more were 297 needed 298 299 Tina Love: I will email the PSA to Board members. 300 301 Certificates of Appreciation to the two Board members present: Alex Castro and Ted Triebel; and the staff and the Board 302 thanked them for their years of service. 303 304 Ted Triebel: I want to thank Heidi Perry for chairing the Board and Alex Castro for his astute comments to the Board. 305 306 Alex Castro: I want to thank Abigaile for coming forward. I am also on the Aging Advisory Board and helping with work to 307 implement the Master Aging Plan. One of the problems we had was that we developed it as dreamers, if you will, and 308 we lacked the practitioners, the people to make it happen. It’s people like Abigaile and Stephanie Trueblood, a planner 309 from Hillsborough that populated the committees and what they do is make it more realistic in terms of what we can 310 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 what we feel all communities would wish to see in terms of what is happening transportation-wise. It is good that we are 312 cross-populating getting people involved. One of the things that I consider as an outstanding accomplishment of the 313 OUTBoard is the bicycle safety effort, and the fact that the High School students were involved in producing the video 314 PSAs. I feel other noteworthy accomplishments were the fencing on the bridge over I-40 on Orange Grove Road; and 315 the Department on Aging’s AARP grant for the purchase of Semme seats. There is a great deal of bureaucracy with 316 NCDOT and the BOCC. It seems that there are many bureaucrat hurdles for such simple things as fencing on a bridge. 317 or signage for bus stops. We’ve got to fight the good fight and it will always be ongoing. 318 319 Heidi Perry: With the end of Alex Castro’s term the Board will need a new Vice-Chair. 320 321 Tina Love: Board Members can continue to attend meetings for up to one year or until someone is appointed to take 322 their place. 323 324 The meeting adjourned. 325 326 OUTBoard meeting was adjourned 327 ____________________________________ Heidi Perry, Chair