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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 9, 2003 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9T <br />SUBJEC'T': Homestead and High School Roads Safety Task Force <br />DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (Y!N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Membership Roster Clerk's Office, ext. 2130, 2125, 2126, 2129 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 245-2130 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider appointments to the Homestead and High School Roads Safety Task Force <br />BACKGROUND: This Task Force was created by the BOCC on December t, 2003 to address <br />traffic, pedestrian and bicycle safety in the area of Homestead and High School Roads. <br />Charge: This short-term task force will help suggest short-term improvements and lend support to <br />accelerate long-range improvements noted in the Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation <br />Improvement Program (MPO-TIP) for the area. <br />Composition: <br />Community representative .. . .. , One, Appointed by Carrboro Board of Aldermen <br />Community representative ........ ....One, Appointed by Chapel Hill Town Council <br />Community representative .. ...... ....One, Appointed by Board of County Commissioners <br />Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools <br />District representative . . ... . ... . . . . . One <br />Sheriff's Office ........ .. . .. One, Sheriff or designee <br />North Carolina Department of <br />Transportation representative .. , ... , .. One <br />Town of Carrboro ................ .. One, Alderman or designee <br />Town of Chapel Hill . .. . ......... . . . <br />BOCC .. ... ... .............. <br />Appointed by Board of Aldermen <br />One, Council Member or designee <br />Appointed by Town Council <br />One, Commissioner or designee <br />Appointed by BOCC <br />Two members have been appointed already. Ms. Sharon Cook, a local area resident and spokesperson <br />for "Students on Sidewalks," was appointed by the BOCC to a Community representative position. The <br />Honorable Dorothy Verkerk, member of the Chapel Hill Town Council, was appointed by the Council to <br />the Town of Chapel Hill pasition.There remain seven vacant positions. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: None at this time. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S) Consider appointing a BOCC member or designee to the Homestead and <br />High School Roads Safety Task Force and other appointments as appropriate, as the Board may <br />decide. <br />