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0 <br />1 AI Teny said that there have been several meetings with Steve Spade, and one of the <br />2 options is using some new Freedom Funds from the Metropolitan Planning Organ¢ation that <br />3 would give an inner-city senior route that would get the seniors to more populated areas and <br />4 ease up on the EZ Rider service that normally carries the senior adults. There is no discussion <br />5 with OPT and .Chatham County at the moment <br />6 Chair Jacxabs said that, as far as Carolina North, this would be non-senior. Mayor Foy <br />7 said that Chapel Hill is just about finished with its bng-range transit plan, and it has implications <br />8 for the broader region. <br />9 Carolyn Efland said that there are some modeling issues with Carolina North and it may <br />10 be April before there is any more information on the transit issue. <br />11 Mayor Foy said that it fume out that the regional model numbers are bad because it says <br />12 that no one is riding the bus on Martin Luther IGng Boulevard, and this is wrong. The next step <br />13 will be engaging Orange and Chatham Counties. <br />14 Chair Jacobs said to make sure and engage Hillsborough. <br />15 Craig Benedict said that Orange Courrty put together an Orange Unfied Transportation <br />16 Advisory Board last year, and some of these topics could be broached at these meetings. <br />17 Then: are representatives from Chapel Hill, Can'boro, and Hillsborough. <br />18 Mayor Foy said that UNC is very interested in Alamance County because it has a lot of <br />19 employees there. <br />20 AI Teny said that Alamance County Transit Authority accesses Chapel Hill through US <br />21 70 and NC 86. There is another transit agency that goes into Chapel Hill called Piedmont Area <br />22 Regional Transit, which is an express route for commuters. This is an option of looking at <br />23 another agency coming into our area. <br />24 <br />25 6. Joint Plannins~ <br />26 Method of sharing information among governments <br />27 Bi-monthly meetings <br />28 Shan3d website <br />29 Special word groups <br />30 Tiered Priorities <br />31 o Collaborative Planning Topics <br />32 o TransportatioNUtilities Land Use Planning <br />33 Water resounres <br />34 Housing <br />35 Parks and environment <br />36 Mapping/GIS <br />37 <br />38 Chair Jacobs asked where this was left off last time and Roger Stanch said that Planning <br />39 Directors have been meeting. <br />40 Craig Benedict said that they have been working on a shared website for joint planning. <br />41 There have been discussions with the Information Technology departmerrts. The Planning <br />42 Directors are meeting on a regular basis to talk about these topics in general. <br />43 Chair Jacobs asked how to move forward with making something happen. Craig <br />44 Benedict said that then: could be a resolution at the AOG meeting. <br />45 Mayor Foy said that he is interested in Cary and Chatham and what they are doing, and <br />46 their joint planning. There is also a work group with Durham. He would like to know what could <br />47 be done in this regard. <br />48 George Luaer said that the work with Cary came out of the annexation issue. He said <br />49 that at one time Cary was more environmentally conscious about planning than Chatham and <br />50 now it is the other way around. He thinks there are some river protection issues with the Haw <br />51 River. There an: some areas that the governmental entities need to work on together. <br />