HomeMy WebLinkAboutOUTBoard Minutes - July 10, 2024 ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Monday July 10th, 2024, 6:30 pm
131 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC 27278
1 Attendance: Members Present
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3 Jamie Crandell Eno Township
4 Natalie Ziemba Cedar Grove Township
5 Darlene Weaver Transportation Planning Manager
6 Roy Schonberg Chapel Hill Township
7 Erik Legg Cheeks Township
8 Adam McGovern At Large
9 Michael Hughes At Large
10 Joshua Mayo At Large
11 Amy Cole At Large
12 Sherry Appel At Large
13 Randy Marshall Bingham Township
14 Art Menius Little River Township
15 Todd Jones At Large
16 Gregory Woloszczuk-Chapel Hill Township
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18 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER
19 The meeting was called to order and the roll was taken.
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21 AGENDA ITEM 2: CONSIDERATIONS OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA.
22 Art has two motions; one is the attendance of the Transportation Director, and the other is the agenda. Art
23 motioned that printed copies of the agenda be mailed to anyone who requested one week prior.Sherry asked
24 a question about mailing out 10 days,Art explained that 7 days was sufficient.
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26 Motion:Art Menius Second: Randy Marshall Vote: Unanimous
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28 Art opened the discussion about the awkwardness of meeting without the Transportation Director and how
29 to avoid this happening in the future. The point was made by several of the Transportation Directors not
30 informing the OUTboard about his vacation. Several members explained in the past the Director would
31 inform and cancel the meeting.The Chair explained that after reviewing the content of the presentations, he
32 thought it was too much to talk about than there would be time and wasn't comfortable. It was mentioned
33 that they would like WSP to provide the briefing on the Transportation Multimodal Plan, but Darlene could
34 notgive a date.Sherrywanted to knowwhatthe policyon cancellation of the meetingwas. Darlene explained
35 for the June agenda that we didn't have the SPOT results or allthe required information for the Transportation
36 Multimodal Plan. Art mentioned that decisions about meetings should be made in coordination with the
37 Chair and Vice Chair and in the past that is how all decisions were made. It decided to table the
38 Transportation Multimodal Plan until the consultants could be at the meeting. Josh made a motion to table
39 the Non-STIP for July.
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41 Motion:Art Menius Second:Joshua Mayo Vote: Unanimous
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43 AGENDA ITEM 3. PUBLIC COMMENTS.
44 None.
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46 AGENDA ITEM 4.APPROVAL OF MINUTES
47 Corrections:Art suggested correcting line (35) should read merge minutes, Micheal was not in attendance,
48 so add Art's name to attendance, and no second for the motion to approve the last April minutes. Art
49 suggests the correction of lines (92) and (169) it should read Highway 70 W and suggests removing the
50 statement. Sherry questioned why all the US 70 recommendations and amendments were not referenced.
51 Randy suggests a correction for Bing Township to Bingham Township, correcting the spelling of Michael's
52 name. Make corrections for the minutes and include the US 70 minutes before approval.
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54 Motion: Randy Marshall Second:Art Menius Vote: Unanimous
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56 AGENDA ITEM 5. OUTBoard Agenda
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58 5.b. SPOT 7 Local Input points
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60 D.Weaver presented the overview, process, and results from the SPOT 7 process by explaining each level of
61 the process. Explained that in September we will start talking about Division projects.
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63 S.Appel asked for copies of the presentation maps.They are in the report and copies could be provided and
64 inform the OUTboard that scores could be slightly adjusted, released in June through August at the Regional
65 level.
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67 J. Mayo provided feedback on the fund's process of funding at all three levels and projects must score at
68 least 45 points to be competitive.
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70 S.Appel: From what year does the North Carolina Department of Transportation(NCDOT) use its data? They
71 use the data from the submission, spreadsheet, and historical information, and they collect data every two
72 years. Are projects limited by the number of dollars? Projects are limited by numbers;the organization gets
73 points based on the population.
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75 R. Marshall: Questions about the points? D. Weaver and J. Mayo explained the points are distributed by
76 population and each Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and Rural Planning Organization (RPO) has
77 several counties they represent and not just Orange County. The funnel on the slides represents all three
78 counties.
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80 S. Appel: When are allowed to make suggestions about prioritization? The Central Pines Rural Planning
81 Organization (CPRPO), Burlingham Graham (BG), and Durham- Chapel Hill- Carrboro (DCHC) MPO have
82 regular meetings with the different countries to discuss the priorities, but everything is based on the score.
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84 S. Appel: Are there any non-MPO representatives on the board and not elected officials over the towns? It
85 was explained that we have BOCC members who are representatives on each of the MPO and RPO boards.
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87 R. Marshall: Made statement Congresswoman Alice Gordon was on the Board of County Commissioners
88 and a representative forthe MPO board and had a wealth of Knowledge.She attended the OUTboard meeting
89 regularly,since we have lost access to Congresswoman Gordan we no longer have access to that information
90 and our voices are not heard.
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92 M. Hughes and S. Appel: Asked for the names of the Board of Commissioners names that were set on the
93 board.The Orange County Transportation Planning Manager agreed to provide the OUTboard members with
94 the name of each commissioner who represents each board.
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96 The OUTboard members would like Jamezetta Bedford to attend the OUTBoard meetings occasionally.There
97 was a motion to invite Jamezetta Bedford to attend the OUTBoard meetings.
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99 S.Appel suggested we have Commissioner Bedford attend the meeting for specific items on the agenda, i.e.
100 the SPOT 7 decisions.
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102 A. Cole stated that Alice Borden would attend as the Liaison, but there was no item on the agenda for her.
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104 M. Hughes volunteered to write the invitation to Jamezetta Bedford.
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106 Motion:Amy Cole Second: Roy Schonberg Vote: Unanimous
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108 S.Appel: I know what NCDOT scoring is based on,what is Orange County's scoring based on?We currently
109 have consultants completing our Transportation Multimodal Plan, this will allow us to work with the MPOs,
110 and RPO and create Orange County's score method.
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112 J. Crandell: For the Regional and Division scores can we combine them? If the project is large enough it can
113 be supported at both Regional and Division, so if the doesn't qualify for regional it can still be funded at the
114 division.
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116 R. Marshall: Says if we can just refine modernization,we don't need sidewalks and grass berm if they would
117 just give us 11-foot lanes and 5-foot bike lanes for 2-foot gutters. That would be way down the road and
118 probably a lot less expensive than having sidewalks on those roads. It was explained that price plays a role
119 but was not a major factor in scoring for SPOT 7.
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121 M. Hughes suggested we bring SPOT 7 back to the July meeting, so everyone could have time to look over
122 the information and provide their recommendations and suggestions.
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124 S.Appel:Ask what projects are we recommending? DCHC MPO has them amount of points to fully fund and
125 support 23 projects,we can put projects in the portal that we think should get points out of those 23 projects.
126 However, not all the projects will make it past the regional level.
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128 Suggestion to postpone recommendation for SPOT 7 until the July meeting
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130 Motion:Art Menius Second: Randy Marshall Vote: Unanimous
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132 AGENDA ITEM 8:ADJOURNMENT
133 The OUTBoard meeting was adjourned at 8:05 p.m.The next meeting is scheduled for July 18th, 2024