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<br />Identify any activities this board/commission expects to carry out in 2025 as they relate <br />to established BOCC goals and priorities. If applicable, is there a fiscal impact (i.e., <br />funding, staff time, other resources) associated with these proposed activities (please <br />list). <br />1. Continue expanding all transit services as approved in adopted plans and investigate <br />more ways of addressing rural transit needs. <br />2. Continue pursuing the Regional Multimodal Hub in Hillsborough <br />2. Implementation of the complete street and vision policy through innovation. <br />3. Participated in all aspects transit grants analysis, and recommendations to support <br />transit services and funding to non-urbanized areas. <br />4. Continue implementing all adopted Transportation Plans to help meet County’s <br />Strategic Plan goal and objectives. <br />9. Advance the County’s Transit and Transportation Dashboards to help meet State <br />and Federal performance measures and targets. <br /> <br />What are the concerns or emerging issues your board has identified for the upcoming <br />year that it plans to address, or wishes to bring to the Commissioners’ attention? <br />1. Prepare for the uncertainty of any new Transportation Authorization Bill when the <br />current Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act expires. <br />2. Monitor connectivity and infrastructural changes with the local jurisdictions, <br />surrounding counties, regional agencies, and along utility easements to create a more <br />comprehensive multimodal transportation system. <br />3. Work with NCDOT to promote funding of multimodal projects in rural areas to a greater <br />degree. <br />4. Promote alternative transportation modes during peak hours via public-private <br />partnerships through programs like TDM, innovative P3s, Business Development and <br />other best practices across the country. <br />5. Improve transportation planning process by encouraging local schools and other <br />public agencies to be more involved through public engagement. <br />6. Pursue alternative means of addressing local match and local administration <br />requirements for non-highway projects when plausible options exist for rural, low- <br />density areas of the County; at the same time, encourage municipal partners to pursue <br />similar options in urbanized, higher-density municipal areas. <br />