Good afternoon, I'd like to call this meeting to order of the MPO Bloomington Monroe County MPO Policy
Committee Call to order for and introductions. I'll start to my left Gillian Kinsey the Bloomington
Plan Commission Hopi Stossberg Bloomington City Council John Kennedy
Chair and chair of the MPO Citizens Advisory Committee Andrew Seabor serving as proxy for mayor Thompson
Lisa rich Monroe County Doug Horn for Bloomington Public Transit Corporation Board of Directors Dan
Swofford Elchville Town Council Linnea wellings in dot proxy for Tony McClellan Nate Nicole
Bloomington Public Works Department proxy for director Adam Wason Jason Bannock Indiana University Thank
you approval of meeting agenda Any changes to the agenda or a motion to approve I'll motion to approve
second We have a motion and a second. We don't have anyone online so I believe we can
We don't need to do roll call So all those in favor for approving the meeting agenda is submitted say
aye Any opposed motion carries moving on approval of minutes for August 8 2025 Any changes comments
or a motion Move approval
We have a motion and a second any public comment Seeing none all those in favor for approval of the
minutes for August 8 2025 do so by saying aye Any opposed staying I wasn't here All right, that was
did you get that Katie? Yeah, okay Communications from the chair and vice-chair I
I don't have any announcements or anything. I Don't have any announcements either except that the Citizens
Advisory Committee Recommend to the Policy Committee approval of all the tip amendments that we'll see
today. I Also from the Technical Advisory Committee we met on August 27th and also recommended Agenda
items that we're looking at today for approval Thank you
I think you just took care of the reports from the officers and the committees So moving on to reports
from MPO stuff Item a Sorry, the first item we have is The Federal Highway Administration or US Department
of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Federal Transit Administration
of the fiscal year 2026 2030 statewide transportation improvement program and then by reference the
Bloomington Monroe County Metropole planning organization fiscal year 2026 2030 Trans transportation
group program that's on page 7 and page 8 the only thing I wanted to add to that is that it was a little
more complex this year not for us and
but for the state of Indiana and also the Department of Transportation, simply because there are a number
of vacancies, Federal Highway Administration Office in Indianapolis. So normally we would get this,
normally, normally several years ago you would get this on July 1st, and then it's crept to August 15th
around there, and this time it was by the hair on her chinny chin chin of August 28th. But we have the
approval letter in there,
So we're all good to go and the program that we're now operating under is the 26 to 30 transportation
improvement program, which is posted online, the original version and the amended version, which will
go through the amendments today. Any questions? Anybody may have? I'm not saying any questions.
Item B. Okay, item B. Congress is now
formulating the new surface transportation Act to the IIJA infrastructure investment jobs act And that
is up. I mean it expires on September 30 30th of this year So Congress has been holding preliminary
sessions On advancing the new proposal
And then published in the Federal Register under docket number Which is on page nine of your packet?
docket OST 2025 0468 We submitted a Comment recommendation of what we would like to see We as in the
MPO would like to see in the new surface transportation act I don't know how many the responses they got
thousands upon thousands, I'm sure And so far the Legislation is not advanced. It looks like everything
will be going to a continuing resolution The issue is continuing resolution going to be a short-term
one or whether it's going to be till January and right now it looks like January but then stay tuned
I Recommend that you read
was written there on page 9 10 and 11 in response to the Public publication of the National Register
known the following pages on page 12 13 14 15 16 and 17 or what I would call all of the associated
organizations with surface transportation planning in the United States and I'm not going to name those
off their logos are right there and
but Suffice to say there's substantial interest in this because the last well the current act the IIJA
was revolutionary in terms of what they not only offered in terms of dollar amounts, but also in the
variety of infrastructure Offerings that they had and that's all I've got on that unless anybody has
any comments. I
Okay on page 18 of the packet You'll find an early coordination letter that federal state and local
entities received This is just the ones the MPO Local local federal state entities received this early
coordination letter for in dots pedestrian upcoming pedestrian improvements that will be done at
SR 45 and South Liberty and Hickory Leaf Drive so they plan to According to the letter just in summary.
They plan to relocate the bus stop To the southwest quadrant Or from southwest quadrant to the southeast
These these updates are primarily to make the bus stop accessible
and improve the intersection for pedestrians. They also plan to install a new bus pad, construct two
new crosswalks across SR 45. They plan to install crosswalk signals with push buttons, as well as ADA
compliant curb ramps. They'll also construct a piece of sidewalk to lead up
to the bus pad, and then no drainage work is anticipated at this time. So engineering and all the other
entities listed in this letter also received the letter. I did reply with a few questions for them,
but the likely next step is that they'll be having a meeting with the folks that sent this letter.
Further input and construction is anticipated to start summer of 27 Just a point of clerical stuff on
page 21 in the list of agencies that received the early coordination letters at the bottom of column one and
Listed City of Bloomington Transit at 301 South Walnut Street If that is supposed to be the Bloomington
Public Transportation Corporation That might be edited and then our address is is not 301 South Walnut
Street, but Who am I to complain? Yeah
Did you do you know if the if they received letter we can sorry, I don't know I'm I'm happy to pass
mine on my copy on but I didn't know whether our agency should check in with identity And update this
or y'all or what you'd suggest These letters are all electronic so it would have gone to
Bloomington trance. I'm sure I'm trying to create some somebody nothing in the olden days It all came
in all came in a letter form, but in the in the last nine years, everything's been electronic So I'll
just point this out at our office then no, it's good. They do No, and we'll note that to the consultant,
too Thank you Any other comments or questions on this item I
Moving on to item D. Okay, I included on page 27 to 28. Oh, looks like that's inaccurate, isn't it?
No. Okay, page 27 to 28. I just included a chart, a screen grab of a chart I have
of projects, and it's just kind of a place to put updates for projects. Normally, we just try to verbalize
the updates that were given by engineers recently, but now they're in this document. So a few updates
on West Second Street project. The letting actually occurred two days ago on September 10th, so after
this packet went out,
a consult a contractor was Selected the bid ended up being six million two hundred and seventy three
thousand Which was slightly more than was estimated And is and that's in the tip so additional local
money will probably go towards that But that's to be determined I
Paul Saturday from Monroe County also shared that Eagleson Avenue bridge over Indiana Railroad project
will start cutting trees for the project during the October fall break The As mentioned the in dot pedestrian
improvements project we received early coordination letter from them The SR 446 project
which was HMA overlay, but also possibly some minor structural between Moores Pike and Third or sorry
46 That it's not a formalized change yet in the tip, but we've heard through email that they plan to
That they've paused those plans for now and
Sunrise greetings had its ribbon cutting event yesterday And the road is now open the road bridge and
bike path. I should say are now open there is a Nice aerial image from Lisa that's in the packet Fullerton
Pike is finishing up with paving and Probably in a few weeks will have its own ribbon cutting and
Pedestrian Trail crossing improvements for the solar as of August late August all the signals were installed
and To the two solar powered lights are functioning the other five were waiting for Duke Energy That
that they may be all running by now and then
For the old SR 37 and Dilma road intersection improvement project a design consultant was selected in
July and early coordination meeting within dot is forthcoming That's all the updates I have on projects
in the tip that are receiving federal funding Questions or comments
None I've already discussed item two and three So the tip funding distribution process overview Page
30 Your packet page 13 31. This is a working draft This was as of Monday afternoon we've since revised
this substantially and
Renamed it instead. Also, it's it's more transportation improvement program flex federal funds Exchanges
instead of a distribution process overview and we'll go into greater detail on that within the next
couple of weeks We'll have a draft out Lisa will have a draft out to you and to Andrew as the LPAs will
have that out to you next week early next week but it's just an FYI is all this is and
Any questions or comments on this item Any old business seeing none on the agenda New business the tip
amendments resolution fiscal year 2026-02 I
So given that the tip was the 26 to 30 tip was approved. This is a set of amendments to that document
that have occurred since March. You have seen the majority of these already as they got changed in the
24 to 28 tip. You just wouldn't have seen the any of the numbers in 29 years 29 and 30.
Hopefully you looked through these so I won't go into detail on all of them, but I will highlight that
Item number one the bridge deck overlay at heart straight heart straight Over branch shacks to feet
Creek near Ellisville was rescheduled to a date outside the current tip Projects or items two through seven are
New projects to the tip. However, you did see them in Updates that happened this past spring and summer
Item nine There were some bridge program funds that
from 2025 that weren't used up by the end of the year. And so those were moved in forward into 26. So
they join the funding that is scheduled for the 26 to 29 inspections and inventory. Item number 12 bridge
deck overlay on SR 46 over Stevens Creek.
3 miles east of sr-446 That is a new project Item number 15 Improvements to sr-45 and 10th from the
bypass to Pete Ellis That had a cost increase small cost increase I
Item number 22 Is a new project that was added by added to the tip Although I believe that you're you've
already seen this one And Item 23 is nevy funding electric vehicle funding that
Was Not initially in the the project list but then was requested to be added back in in late March just
shortly after we looked at the the Adopted the draft in March So it was kind of unknown what's gonna
happen with that exactly but they asked us to put it back in and
So we're requesting approval of these changes for the now active 26 to 30 tip Questions or comments
from the board A question on that last one on the 23 so you don't know exactly what that's for in terms
of what kind of electric vehicle infrastructure they're going to be pursuing
It's what's current state of Indiana has a electric vehicle infrastructure plan Which was published
year and a half ago two years ago somewhere around that area Projects were programmed for funding and
then with the change of national administration in January all funds were put on an embargo and
Recently In the last month and a half two months 20 states sued US government for the release of the
funds as an illegal impoundment those 20 states Subsequently and other states received funds. There
was a partial release of the funds for the National Infrastructure Program and state of Indiana received
I don't remember the exact amount but they received a substantial amount of money. There are still projects
out there that have not been funded. One of those that's not been funded is the project which would
be out on Jacob Drive. That was supposed to be a level three charger for Monroe County. That one has
not been funded yet. Others around the state have been funded. What you're seeing though too is that
a substantial amount of private investment
has gone into charging units and that's available on a different map outside of the U.S. government.
But the official national administration policy is they would like to cancel the electric vehicle
infrastructure program and direct those funds elsewhere, where elsewhere is unknown at this point in time.
But a large portion of those funds are still being held in abeyance Hope that answers your questions
Well, I guess this the short answer might be that that I Mean is there a specific project say in 2026
that this 19 million dollars is dedicated to Is that that one that you referred to that level three
charging station then like Largely charging stations. Yes. Okay
And if and if we go to that State infrastructure plan it might have more details about like where they
are and that kind of thing. It's Precisely where they are. Okay, great and they are predominantly like
99% along the interstate system, right? Hope I don't think you were on this committee last year when I
That announcement came through of all the locations that would receive a charger Bloomington the west
side was one of them Okay, where was the exact location again? Jacob Drive And what I can do is I can
send out we can send out to the entire committee as a refresher Indiana's electric vehicle infrastructure
plan so that way everybody can see where they were scheduled to be located and
And the list of try and find the list of what ones were funded also in that funding announcement came
within the last three weeks. Yeah I would appreciate that. That would save me a little bit of googling
if you had that at the tips of your fingers to send. Thanks. Any other questions or comments or entertain a motion.
Another question on number 21, which is that? improvements from Well, it got amended from the bypass
to Russell Road to Pete Ellis to Russell Road and the description doesn't mention anything about pedestrian
improvements or the bike ped stuff, but my understanding was that that section will have improved pedestrian
and bicycle infrastructure as well and so I was just wondering how like detailed that description is
Actually is in terms of that project Yeah, sorry the the field is cut off and the description field
is cut off So there's more okay, awesome. Thank you. I just wanted to make sure that that was in there.
Thanks Yeah, let me read it off from for a second here It's substantial
Well, it's not that detailed. Wait, is it? Yeah, it's not that detailed yet because they haven't done
design and estimates, especially for the pedestrian infrastructure kind of in the in the around the
curve just before Smith. It's probably going to be pretty high cost. But they are also, I think,
They may be pondering connecting the path through the neighborhood as well But design isn't is just
now starting for it Okay, as long as there's still a plan for a better pedestrian infrastructure in
there. That's the only thing that I Cared about in that question count count on it. Thank you If you're
looking for a motion to approve
Memorial County Metropolitan Planning Organization FY 2026 2030 tip amendments I would make a motion
to approve these amendments for per resolution fiscal year 2026 0-0 to We have a motion and a second
any comments from the board I Have a comment. Sorry. I've just pulled up the full description it for
now that we have which is
Intersection improvements with added turn lanes from Pete Ellis Road to North Russell Road road widening
installation of added turn lanes installation of pedestrian facilities and other intersection improvements
Specifics are pending the completion of design plans in 26 Thank you any public comment on the motion
Seeing none
All those in favor for passing the 2026 to 2030 tip amendment resolution fiscal year 2026-02 do so by
saying aye. Any opposed. Motion carries. Do we have any communications from committee members on matters
not on the agenda.
Upcoming meetings. I think that we skip public comment on matters not included on the agenda agenda
item nine. Oh Thank you for catching that do we have any public comment on matters not included in the
agenda? I Don't see any hands on on zoom. Thank you. I
Communications from committee members on matters not included on the agenda Okay Upcoming meetings our
technical advisory committee meeting is September 24th at 10 a.m. Citizens Advisory Committee is September
24th at 530 Policy committee is October 10th at 1 30 and they are all hybrid also and I would
and retain a motion for adjournment. Motion to adjourn. Thank you.