OUTBoard Minutes 101619 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

Approved 11/20/19 5 Todd Jones: I’m a little confused that the Town of Hillsborough says they are not legally allowed to maintain any facility 213 outside their boundaries. I know they’ve got Kings Highway Park that’s outside the town limits, and they appear to 214 maintain that however minimally. 215 216 Nish Trivedi: The South portion is in the ETJ. Not where the bridge and the fencing is. 217 218 Heidi Perry: I would like to know what the state law is. 219 220 Tom Altieri: I’m happy to submit with the highlighted section of the state law that we received the town. 221 222 Heidi Perry: Maybe I’ll just ask somebody like Sig Hutchinson how Wake County gets all their stuff maintained because 223 it’s not all in any particular community. 224 225 Todd Jones: Regarding the schools being funding partners for all of this, there’s two main sources of funding for the 226 school system. The state provides funds that are very strictly earmarked to teachers and some facilities and then the 227 County and its generosity provides a lot of funds to the schools and presumably that would be the only area we had 228 some flexibility and discretionary use of funds, so whether it’s the County paying directly or the County paying the 229 schools money, the schools turnaround and say hey we’re partners. It’ s all essentially from the same bucket of money. 230 231 Heidi Perry: In 2010, there was a pedestrian bridge that was submitted for funding from NC DOT and my understanding 232 was that it had scored well but that DOT pulled it because there were no sidewalks on either end of it and they weren’t 233 going to build a bridge that didn’t connect to something. I have a couple of the letters from 2010, but I don’t have the 234 whole chronology of that, but I’d love to see it. I’d love to see how it scored and what year and then when it was pulled 235 from consideration. Which was in 2010. Amy did a very nice presentation at DCHC/MPO a couple years ago that laid 236 out some of the things she’s talked about today, and I think it would be good to have that as part of the stuff that you’re 237 looking at. I’m going look and see if I can find other examples around the state. I don’t know what that law is. Maybe 238 you should show to the people at NC DOT and ask them how they interpret it. I just think that other places have 239 managed to build things that are outside of city limits, so either Orange County is very specifically different in that they 240 have a policy that they won’t maintain sidewalks or greenways and, if that’s the case, Orange County needs to work on 241 their policy, or other places have figured out to do it and we need to figure out what they’ve done to make it work. 242 243 Heidi Perry: I think the focus probably should be: How do we have a safe route to the school. As Todd said, the cost 244 and how we pay for it should not be a part of the study. There are different mechanisms that can help pay for things, 245 but I think somebody has to actually take responsibility for apparently the maintenance of it. 246 247 Art Menius: I think it has to be solved politically. I don’t think it’s going to get solved logically or administratively. 248 249 Erik Broo: It would just be nice to have this come back to us with, here’s how we can get Hillsborough to think 250 differently. Here’s how we can make these examples in Onslow County good things that we might use in making an 251 argument. 252 253 Heidi Perry: And Todd’s argument about some of these kids, you give them away to get to school safely without a car 254 and it gives their whole family more freedom plus there are studies that show people who arrived to school walking or 255 biking are more attentive in class. It’s healthier for the kids too. 256 257 Tom Altieri: I think the study could include what are those critical path policy issues that need to be identified and the 258 maintenance is one of them. Thank you for your comments. 259 260 AGENDA ITEM 5B: MPO/RPO AND NCDOT UPDATES – NISH TRIVEDI 261 262 Nish Trivedi: Burlington/Graham Metropolitan (BGMPO) is moving forward with their MTP update. They have created a 263 universal list of projects. Their student committee met yesterday to go over the project selection process and how they 264 were to select projects for the new MTP. They are waiting on the Piedmont Triangle Regional model to be updated and 265