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Approved 11/20/19 6 that should be done at the end of this month. I will give you an update on those projects as the model input as they get 266 to the point of giving public information for that. Two MPO’s and TARPO have passed a The Title VI program. Title VI 267 being the nondiscrimination policy that is done by executive order that all transit providers have to follow being 268 recipients of federal funds. DCHC, BGMPO, and TARPO have all completed theirs. Orange County is under three Title 269 VI programs. DCHC/MPO has released a tolling study. A public hearing was done on the tolling study and they should 270 be approving that in the next meeting. I think you have a list of the highway projects for NC DOT. If there are any 271 questions, please let me know. 272 273 AGENDA ITEM 6: INFORMATION ITEMS 274 275 AGENDA ITEM 6A: NCDOT COMPLETE STREETS POLICY AMENDMENT 276 277 Nish Trivedi: The last time we met I gave you the draft. This is the Board of Transportation approved version. 278 Differences can be found on page 66, Section 6. The cost share is different. There was always a discussion on how 279 the NC DOT is going to change their cost-sharing in paying for bike ped and this includes the transit bicycle facilities, 280 pedestrian facilities, side pads, bus pull out, bus stops, Greenway crossings. This is something were going to be asking 281 Hanna Cockburn when she comes in November because it says if it is in a bicycle and pedestrian project/public 282 transportation facility that appear in a state, regionally, or locally adopted transportation plan will be included as part of a 283 proposed highway project, roadway project, NC DOT will fully fund the cost, design, right-of-way, and construction of 284 those facilities. If it is not in the plan but identified as a need, there’s a cost share policy. If it’s just betterment, local 285 pays. The only clarification that has been made so for that I know of in this policy is: you have to distinguish between 286 an independent bike ped project and an incidental bike-ped project. SDI law has not changed regarding independent 287 bike ped projects. If you submit a bike-ped project independently of a highway project, DOT does not pay. This 288 Complete Street does not affect independent bike ped projects. If submitting a highway project with a Greenway or 289 component of a bike ped and if it is a locally adopted, regionally adopted, or state adopted plan then it says DOT is 290 supposed to pay. There’s one problem, this is administratively enforced by Hanna Cockburn and other the members of 291 DOT which are listed on page 60 with the exceptions to the policy, and in the SPOT people who review this new 292 administrative policy. When you submit a SPOT project or a STIP project, you have to fill out a form called a Complete 293 Street form and show that your project meets the Complete Streets Report. These five members are the only ones who 294 review the application and a complete Street form and say no or yes. 295 The burden of proof is on them to deny a Complete Streets. It is no longer on the local jurisdiction to say it does or 296 doesn’t when bringing the application. The cost share has changed as well. The cost share you see in the second 297 column, if you turn to page 268. The percentages have changed. If it’s not in a locally adopted plan, it’s not in a state 298 plan, and there’s no line on the map, and you want to submit a bike ped or meet this Complete Street, you have to go 299 through the cost share process. If a municipality, a town, has a population of less than 10,000 their share is five 300 percent. If a population is between 10-50,000, their cost share is ten percent. Municipalities, towns, over 100,000 are 301 now doing the 80/20. 302 303 AGENDA ITEM 6A: BOCC SEPTEMBER 3 MEETING INFORMATION ITEM – NCDOT CORRIDOR UPDATES 304 305 Nish Trivedi: These are the corridor updates that I mentioned about the Orange Grove Road extension being pulled 306 and with the state is doing. Now that the STIP has been adopted, the funding for the Orange Grove Road that was 307 committed is now being distributed to the projects. And the update on the 54 and its process. 308 309 AGENDA ITEM 7: ADJOURNMENT 310 OUTBoard meeting was adjourned. 311 312 313 ____________________________________ Art Menius, Chair