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Community Connectivity Plan—just updated and adopted by Town Board in March <br /> D. Orange County— Dave Stancil (Director Orange County Department of Environment, Agriculture and Parks & <br /> Recreation) <br /> MST Segment 11 Community Meetings are complete. <br /> • A report will be presented to the BOCC May 16t"with the preferred corridor map <br /> BW F Park <br /> • RFP beginning deveped to hire an engineer to design new entrance <br /> • Bee Keeper's Association would like to produce honey there <br /> • Milkwed planted for the Monarch Butterflies <br /> • Masterplan revisions will need to be made <br /> Accquired 37 acres next to soccer.com center for additional fields <br /> • Natural/Synthetic fields to be determined <br /> • Expansion 2019-2020 <br /> E. City of Mebane— Dean Ray (Director of City of Mebane Recreation and Parks) <br /> New Community Park on Clay Street—will include <br /> • pineapple husks artificial turf soccer fields, <br /> • spray park, <br /> • playground, <br /> • dog park. <br /> • Projected opening April 2018. <br /> City approved a Bike and Pedestrain Plan <br /> April 21-22 Dogwood festival <br /> Baseball; Softball and Soccer sign up going on <br /> F. Others <br /> TLC— In 2010 TLC purchased the Brumley property <br /> • 613Ac <br /> • Now called The George and Julia Brumley Family Nature Preserve <br /> • Grand Opening - April 22 <br /> • 5 miles of trails <br /> • Walkers and hikers in the morning and bikers in the afternoon <br /> Eno River Assocation—Open Air Pavillion opening in 2018 <br /> UNC—a unique partnership between athletics/student affairs/and staff— 11 1/2 acres of indoor and outdoor <br /> practice facilities will be used by the athletics department/the student body/and as classroom areas. This is <br /> not the norm for university facilities. Joint use of practice/training facilities. <br /> 5. Housekeeping Issues <br /> a. Possibly adding a"Senior" category to the membership/ IPWG found the recommendation acceptable- <br /> Marabeth to follow up with adding a staff from DOA and one board member from their board <br /> b. Review the membership roster for terms due to expire -Marabeth will contact all members in Jan each <br /> year to verify if they will be serving on the board that year. <br /> c. Switching from a 3 meeting a year to 2 meetings a year format/ IPWG agreed to move to meeting two <br /> times per year—April and October <br /> 6. Adjournment 7:OOpm. <br />