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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: .June 7, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~_-F-~ <br />SUBJECT: NCDOT Issues -Funding far Homestead Road Sidewalks and Smith Level Road <br />Improvements <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1, Resolution Karen Lincoln, ext. 2594 <br />2, Letter to Douglas Galyon <br />3, April 11, 2005, Homestead & High School Roads TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Safety Task Force Meeting Notes Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />4, Letter to J, Douglas Galyon from Town of Carrboro Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />5, Resolution by Chapel Hill Town Ccuncil Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane (3361227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider comments supporting two transportation projects related to schools: <br />1. A resolution requesting the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to <br />transfer funding in the Moving Ahead program allocated for improvements to Smith Level <br />Road to bicycle and pedestrian improvements on Homestead Road and Rogers Road; and <br />2. A letter to the North Carolina Department of Transportation supporting the position of the <br />Carrboro Board of Aldermen regarding Smith Level Road. <br />BACKGROUND: Local officials at the April 28, 2005, Assembly of Governments meeting received <br />an update on the progress of two transportation projects: <br />1. The Homestead and High School Roads Safety Task Force efforts to attain sidewalk along <br />the north side of Homestead Road from Camden Road to Rogers Road and a short <br />extension of the existing sidewalk on the east side of Rogers Road to Homestead Road; and <br />2, The Tawn of Carrboro's efforts regarding the scope of the proposed widening of Smith Level <br />Road between Morgan Creek and Rock Haven Road. <br />Homestead and Rogers Roads Sidewalks <br />The NCDOT, at a Homestead and High School Roads Safety Task Force meeting in February <br />2005, informed the task farce that the Homestead Road sidewalk project was not included in the <br />Moving Ahead program, as NCDOT had indicated at a meeting of the task force on June 2004, <br />Furthermore, because of budget issues, the NC Moving Ahead program had been extended <br />another year and many projects were being delayed. <br />Mike Mills, Division 7 Engineer, met with the task force on April 11, 2005, and outlined actions to <br />get this project funded in the Moving Ahead program. (Please refer to the attachment of the April <br />11, 2005, Homestead & High School Roads Safety Task Farce Meeting Notes,) <br />