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ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES <br /> Monday September 30, 2024, 6:30 pm <br /> 131 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br /> 1 Attendance: Members Present <br /> 2 Natalie Ziemba Cedar Grove Township <br /> 3 Micheal Hughes At Large <br /> 4 Joshua Mayo At Large <br /> 5 Amy Cole At Large <br /> 6 Art Menius Little River Township <br /> 7 GregoryWoloszczuk Chapel Hill Township <br /> 8 Heidi Perry At Large <br /> 9 Gene Owen At Large <br /> 10 Chloe Pankratz Youth Delegate <br /> 11 Darlene Weaver Orange County Staff <br /> 12 Kelly Milligan Orange County Staff <br /> 13 Nishith Trivedi Orange County Staff <br /> 14 <br /> 15 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER <br /> 16 The meeting was called to order and the roll was taken. <br /> 17 <br /> 18 AGENDA ITEM 2: CONSIDERATIONS OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA <br /> 19 No additions to the agenda <br /> 20 <br /> 21 AGENDA ITEM 3. PUBLIC COMMENTS <br /> 22 No public comments <br /> 23 <br /> 24 AGENDA ITEM 4. MINUTES—September 30th, 2024 <br /> 25 Motion:Art Menius?—with changes: <br /> 26 • Amy Cole did not attend September 30th meeting. <br /> 27 • Spell out the MSTA <br /> 28 • Meeting held at the Whitted Building, not West Campus <br /> 29 • Clarify stakeholder language in 2024 Safe Routes to School Plan <br /> 30 • Clarify the high priority items <br /> 31 Second: Gregory Woloszczuk <br /> 32 Approval: Unanimously <br /> 33 <br /> 34 AGENDA ITEM 5. OUTBOARD AGENDA <br /> 35 <br /> 36 a. Transportation Multimodal Plan <br /> 37 Nish T. presented the final Transportation Multimodal Plan. The Plan was originally about 500-600 <br /> 38 projects. It is now 300 or so and mainlyfocusing on 100%of it is Orange County projects.The document <br /> 39 itself, includes the public engagement analysis,the public engagement process,the public engagement <br /> 40 summary, as well as all the activities,the prioritization, scoring prioritization process, all the comments <br /> 41 received throughout the planning process. Nothing has really changed through the whole thing other <br /> 42 than the removal of town projects. We now have a full draft document that explains the whole <br /> 43 consolidation,the purpose behind it,the schedule,the planning process. Conversation was held about <br /> 44 the lack of public response to the plan.The lack of public comments has been an ongoing issue with any <br /> 45 county plan. Art M. made the recommendation to move the public engagement comments to an <br /> 46 appendix so it was not the first information viewed.This would follow the formatting of the Transit Short <br />