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26 Nish explained all the improvements made to Hillsborough circulator: expanded services hours and 27 receiving new vehicles for the reverse circulator. The Circulator is funded through the transit tax and 28 remains fare free.We will improve our marketing. Beginning in November,we will be improving our Short 29 Range Plan. Nish will follow up on how the plan will be updated. 30 31 Todd Orr stated he applied for the vacant OUTBoard position and is looking forward to serving. 32 33 Agenda Item 4:Approval of Minutes—August 2023 34 Art requested Lines 244-245 be amended. Randy Marshall adjourned the meeting,and that future minutes 35 include titles and full names. Changes will be approved at the next meeting. Darlene Weaver stated 36 meetings are recorded and transcribed using Microsoft Teams, though not accurately. It does not always 37 provide clear words or who said them. Amy Cole recommended keeping them short and to the point. 38 39 Amy also requested clarification on what Chuck Edwards provided in October. How is OUTBoard going to 40 use the information? Darlene Weaver noted that it would be covered in the NCDOT Quarterly Luncheon 41 updates segment of the agenda. A follow-up with NCDOT will be done to ensure information consistency. 42 Nish reminded OUTBoard that the non-STIP is a bi-annual item covered by the OUTBoard,twice a year. 43 44 Amy asked if we could coordinate those OUTBoard updates by inviting Congresswoman Renee Price to 45 attend an OUTBoard meeting. Darlene Weaver stated she would reach out to Congresswoman Price to 46 extend an invitation to the meeting and that she had invited the School Board including School Board 47 member Bonnie Hauser. 48 49 OUTBoard requested updating line 110 to change the word ballers to the technical term ballards and 50 replace alternate with at large. 51 52 Agenda Item 5.a. Safe Routes to School 53 Approved in 2014. Changes occurred since then: October 2022, County adopted a Complete Street Policy 54 and Vision Zero, and approved a sidewalk maintenance agreement. County continued to grow. It will be 55 ten years old in 2024. Work will be in-house because plan already exists. Nish requested feedback from 56 OUTBoard on best professional practices for the update. It will go through a public process and completed 57 within a year. Comments on a Scope of Work welcomed and scheduled for your approval. 58 59 The School Board is conducting their own facilities assessment.The program is a federal program for non- 60 infrastructure improvements through the transportation authorization bill called Infrastructure 61 Investment and Jobs Act or Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill. Funding is limited to non-highway improvements 62 such as in education, and enforcement. 63 64 Amy recommended UNC's Graduate School program - City and Regional Planning for some of the work 65 and actively engage in communities that directly shape the Safer to School initiative. She stated a lot of 66 people will see that walking route to school is beneficial to them and recommended actually reach out 67 and going into these communities.She mentioned her previous efforts in the original plan,she went door- 68 to-door along Orange Grove Road, and people were very supportive of the committee having the 69 infrastructure in place so that students could safely walk to school. The area lacks the resources and she 70 wants people involved in building this plan, its help make this plan better when committee is involved. On 71 Orange Grove Road, there is a large mobile home park and an apartment community where children 72 attend Grady Brown Elementary and Cedar Ridge High School. 73