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DRAFT 71 school, but the funding is outside of the DOT budget. We are submitting a 57 project for improving 72 Orange County Road and modernizing the road with bike pad accommodations and adding to highway 73 to the complete street. The state and county complete streets both apply and once we explore funding 74 should be available. Last month we had a NCDOT meeting about implementation of the practice and 75 Nish presented how the county is trying to get into the sidewalk/ bike pad business. Orange County 76 adopted a complete street and vision zero policy for the county in October 2022. The resolution given 77 earlier involved three different funding sources and how we can fund them. One the Transit grant, the 78 5307 grants require a bus stop at them all around the bus stop. It would be done in the sidewalk city 79 through a 7-capital project, it's a reinforcement project to the Orange County that would manage and 80 organize the project and didn't get reimburse for grant funding. The transit tax that requires us the 81 update on the transit plan with the transit accesses project. By updating the transit plan, the transit tax 82 can help fund projects like the sidewalk and bike pad projects for transit access. So, transit tax can help 83 funds projects like sport complex and Home Depot for the bus stops and improvements to make the 84 transit grants. The Transit Tax funds can help fund projects to provide the local match for spot and bike 85 pad projects submissions and service transition block for the SBD 88 projects at the NGO, etc. 86 During the discussion about Patriots point and another location down Orange County closer to 40 87 overpasses, at that location the bus stop is not accessible for anybody right now. Is there another 88 source that we can look at for funding for accessibly reasons? Go Triangle has reached to up funded bus 89 stop, we would have to work with DOT. Has this been discussed at the lunching with DOT? We need 90 additional funding, and one suggestion is putting one of those temporary stop lights on the Oakdale 91 sections, so that cars can only travel in one direction at a time over that overpass which gives the 92 pedestrian the students access to much more of a wide birth to cross over, it would be a limited amount 93 of time. But if it is timed correctly, it would allow just that one way of transportation to go across or 94 something similar during those hours. Student have been hit on that overpass and we don't want 95 another accident to happen, so we need to do whatever we can to increase the safety that is an interim 96 measure. 97 The new Transportation Authorization Bill was created about two years ago. The bill started with State 98 Practice School Plan for funding. Last year funding was received, so the outboard should consider 99 revisiting the State Practice School Plan. 100 Question: So, you saying there is funding sources available again? Now that part of the school area 101 before was outside of that space. Orange County Transportation would have to research the new 102 program. Now it is considered non infrastructure, you can't build things, but you can encourage kids to 103 walk and bike. Orange had school plan, and it has not been touched because there have been incidents 104 after incident, we need the school board here to talk and educate us. We could consider having sheriff 105 department to consider supporting during the hours. They have the sheriff departments support 106 schools; however, the problem is kids are walking half a mile along Orange Grove were there are no 107 side walks over the pass and no space for pedestrians. 108 We could create a safety action plan like Graham County. The focus is safety, they implemented the 109 plan by doing subcommittees and workshops. They cover the west side of Orange County to address all 110 safety, and this involves all kinds of stakeholders/groups and the school. DCAC has received funding for 111 their safety action planning process. They are in the process of doing a scoping of the plan, action, and 3