WEBVTT 00:00:01.634 --> 00:00:10.553 - Okay, I'd like to call the meeting to order of the Bloomington Monroe County MPO policy committee meeting 00:00:10.553 --> 00:00:19.303 - Introductions and we'll start to my left Bishop City Planning Commission Andrew Seabor serving as proxy 00:00:19.303 --> 00:00:28.222 - for mayor Thompson Hopi Stossberg Bloomington Common Council Lisa Ridge Monroe County Scott Ferris Monroe 00:00:28.222 --> 00:00:30.494 - County Planning Commission 00:00:30.946 --> 00:00:39.730 - Doug Horn with the Bloomington Public Transit Corporation Board of Directors John Kennedy proxy for 00:00:39.730 --> 00:00:48.514 - Sam Tobin Hoxton Becky Packer Indiana Department of Transportation City of Bloomington Public Works 00:00:48.514 --> 00:00:57.387 - Department serving as a proxy for the public works director Jason Bannock IU and online Julie Thomas 00:00:57.387 --> 00:00:59.934 - mineral kind of commissioner 00:01:02.754 --> 00:01:15.161 - Thank you. Moving to item to approval of agenda for August 28th 2026 need a motion and a second. I'll 00:01:15.161 --> 00:01:27.568 - move to approve the agenda as presented. Second we have a motion and a second. Any board comments any 00:01:27.568 --> 00:01:30.974 - public comment seeing none. 00:01:31.394 --> 00:01:45.391 - Guess we do a roll call vote since we have someone online Bannock nickel Yes, Kennedy. Yes horn. 00:01:45.391 --> 00:02:00.254 - Yes Ferris. Yes bridge. Yes Stasberg. Yes Seaborg. Yes Bishop yes Packer. Yes Thomas Yes Motion passes 00:02:01.922 --> 00:02:14.819 - Thank you. Moving on approval of minutes from July 24th 2026. Do we have a motion for 2026 as presented. 00:02:14.819 --> 00:02:27.101 - Second we have a motion we have a second. Any board comments seeing none. Any public comment seeing 00:02:27.101 --> 00:02:31.646 - none. Roll call vote please abstain. 00:02:32.898 --> 00:02:46.737 - Horn. Yes, Ferris. Yes, nickel. Yes, bannock. Yes, Thomas Yes, ridge. Yes packer Yes, Bishop. Yes Seaborg. 00:02:46.737 --> 00:03:00.446 - Yes, Stasberg. Yes motion passes All right moving on communications from the chair vice-chair Seeing none 00:03:01.506 --> 00:03:12.743 - communications from officers or committees TAC we met this is prior Wednesday and had a chance to review 00:03:12.743 --> 00:03:23.981 - the new business item that's being proposed today and recommend it for approval Wednesday and recommends 00:03:23.981 --> 00:03:29.118 - approval of the tip amendment today. Thank you. 00:03:31.458 --> 00:03:40.363 - Seeing no other comments, we'll move on to, looks like the stars of the show today is reports from staff. 00:03:40.363 --> 00:03:49.269 - The stars are aligned. First item we have for you in your packet is the U.S. Department of Transportation 00:03:49.269 --> 00:03:57.922 - Service Transportation Reauthorization Priority Letter from Secretary Duffy. This was dated July 22nd. 00:03:57.922 --> 00:03:58.846 - Thank you. 00:03:59.298 --> 00:04:08.053 - Dated July 22nd, Congress has been discussing the reauthorization since January, first week of January. 00:04:08.053 --> 00:04:16.893 - So this letter is somewhat late to the table. And it looks right now as if Congress will do a continuing 00:04:16.893 --> 00:04:24.638 - resolution until the new Congress comes in in January when reauthorization will occur then. 00:04:24.866 --> 00:04:32.902 - Nonetheless, the letter from the Secretary of Transportation is quite extensive. What I'll do is just 00:04:32.902 --> 00:04:40.229 - highlight key points here. First one is transit safety and security. Secretary of Department 00:04:40.229 --> 00:04:48.187 - of Transportation feels that he should have the authority to withhold transit funding for safety and 00:04:48.187 --> 00:04:51.102 - crime prevention in transit systems. 00:04:51.522 --> 00:05:00.938 - Second thing is expanding modernizing modernizing infrastructure. They want to authorize the completion 00:05:00.938 --> 00:05:10.082 - and expansion of the interstate system. Third point restoring the highway trust fund solvency. Their 00:05:10.082 --> 00:05:19.227 - their proposal is that they eliminate the mass transit account from the highway fund. But there's no 00:05:19.227 --> 00:05:20.766 - no detail on how 00:05:21.602 --> 00:05:29.532 - transit would then be funded. Next item, prioritize motor vehicle travel over bicycle lanes, eliminate 00:05:29.532 --> 00:05:37.462 - road diets and bicycle lanes that contribute to congestion. They believe that bicycle lanes contribute 00:05:37.462 --> 00:05:45.391 - to congestion. Next point is preserve daylight savings time. In other words, they've come out and said 00:05:45.391 --> 00:05:48.702 - that there are four daylight savings time. 00:05:49.090 --> 00:05:57.281 - This all leads into the next item, which is the National Roadway Safety Strategy for 2026, which was 00:05:57.281 --> 00:06:05.392 - also published just about the same time. Just a few days before publication of the National Roadway 00:06:05.392 --> 00:06:13.989 - Safety Strategy for 2026, the Federal Highway Administration quietly removed from safety countermeasures, 00:06:13.989 --> 00:06:18.206 - proven safety countermeasures, they quietly removed 00:06:18.466 --> 00:06:27.249 - bicycle lanes, road diets, speed safety cameras, variable speed limits, speed limits that are appropriate 00:06:27.249 --> 00:06:36.032 - for vulnerable road users from the list of proven safety countermeasures. With that preface, the National 00:06:36.032 --> 00:06:44.567 - Roadways Safety Strategy for 2026 focuses on three things. First one is safer people, safer roads, and 00:06:44.567 --> 00:06:47.550 - safer vehicles. Under safer people, 00:06:48.098 --> 00:06:56.044 - They note the fact that there were over thirty nine thousand fatalities on the roads in twenty twenty 00:06:56.044 --> 00:07:04.223 - four a third of which involves speeding and another one third involved alcohol impairment. What's failed 00:07:04.223 --> 00:07:12.090 - to mention here is that there's distracting driver distracted driver emphasis which is a big deal in 00:07:12.090 --> 00:07:15.518 - Indiana was not really called out directly. 00:07:15.810 --> 00:07:24.871 - 41 percent of the deaths occurred on rural roads in Indiana. The deaths are predominantly on rural roads, 00:07:24.871 --> 00:07:33.420 - not just 41 percent. It's more like closer to 56 or 60 percent. Safer roads, they note that half of 00:07:33.420 --> 00:07:42.054 - all deaths occur on arterial roads, and the reason for that is traffic volume. More people travel on 00:07:42.054 --> 00:07:43.678 - arterial roadways. 00:07:44.002 --> 00:07:52.959 - More than half of all fatalities occur at night, where only 25% of the travel occurs during darkness 00:07:52.959 --> 00:08:02.093 - hours. Here in Indiana, fatalities are higher at night than 25%, and they predominantly occur on rural 00:08:02.093 --> 00:08:11.582 - roads, and they predominantly occur with some sort of an alcohol impairment or speed or distracted driver. 00:08:11.842 --> 00:08:20.993 - and they typically involve leaving the roadway. Under safer roads, the proposal is that ITS solutions 00:08:20.993 --> 00:08:30.145 - such as LIDAR equipped adaptive signal control technology can reduce congestion and improve safety at 00:08:30.145 --> 00:08:37.502 - intersections by quickly adjusting signal timing to real traffic time conditions. 00:08:38.082 --> 00:08:46.009 - have asked that we prioritize safer work zone management. That's something that's already prioritized 00:08:46.009 --> 00:08:54.014 - by the state of Indiana. They noted that 5,300 people died in large truck crashes in 2024. That number 00:08:54.014 --> 00:09:01.785 - in Indiana is substantially less, substantially less, but it nonetheless is, it's a big issue and a 00:09:01.785 --> 00:09:04.894 - concern issue for the state of Indiana. 00:09:05.474 --> 00:09:13.823 - A shortage of truck parking nationwide forces drivers to choose between cutting driving hours to secure 00:09:13.823 --> 00:09:22.333 - parking spaces or risk driving beyond their acceptable limits. That is a problem in the state of Indiana. 00:09:22.333 --> 00:09:31.083 - There are not enough truck parking areas for commercial freight users or drivers, I'm sorry. Safer vehicles, 00:09:31.083 --> 00:09:31.966 - the policy 00:09:32.674 --> 00:09:41.489 - promotes integrate life-saving technology into vehicles and automated brakes and automatic bag systems 00:09:41.489 --> 00:09:50.476 - and better technology for that without a great deal of detail. And then they also promote the deployment 00:09:50.476 --> 00:09:59.291 - of automated vehicles. And that's all it is for the strategy. Any questions thus far on any of the two 00:09:59.291 --> 00:10:00.318 - items? Yes. 00:10:02.722 --> 00:10:10.529 - impact our long-term plans or funding expectations in terms of things like the road diets and 00:10:10.529 --> 00:10:19.001 - the prioritizing or de-prioritizing bicycles or anything like that. Well, the current administration, 00:10:19.001 --> 00:10:27.390 - if they had their way, they would de-emphasize, well, they would eliminate bicycle lanes altogether. 00:10:27.682 --> 00:10:36.592 - And some of those bicycle lanes are also used jointly with pedestrian facilities. There is no real mention 00:10:36.592 --> 00:10:45.002 - of vulnerable road users here in any of this. So the proposal coming out of Washington D.C. would be 00:10:45.002 --> 00:10:53.412 - eliminate this and the prioritization would be given to automobiles. That's all I can say and that's 00:10:53.412 --> 00:10:54.494 - that's their 00:10:54.882 --> 00:11:02.199 - recommendation priority. Now what Congress does is completely different. The reauthorization discussions 00:11:02.199 --> 00:11:09.376 - that have happened so far on both sides of the aisle would largely maintain the current infrastructure 00:11:09.376 --> 00:11:16.623 - and investment jobs act programs, which are bringing, which bring about safety. And they also recognize 00:11:16.623 --> 00:11:20.734 - multimodal transportation. Does that answer your question? 00:11:24.226 --> 00:11:32.486 - funding, even like transit funding, like any of that? No. Well, transit funding has been impacted nationwide 00:11:32.486 --> 00:11:40.746 - in that the federal transit, well, there are a number, a large number, and there have been stories published 00:11:40.746 --> 00:11:48.475 - in the New York Times and others, a large number of the great metropolitan cities, Chicago, New York, 00:11:48.475 --> 00:11:53.022 - Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, go on and on and on. 00:11:53.186 --> 00:12:01.732 - San Francisco San Diego their transit programs have been authorized by the Federal Transit Administration 00:12:01.732 --> 00:12:10.116 - but the office of the management budget has not released funding for any of those programs. The capital 00:12:10.116 --> 00:12:18.581 - investment fund for public transit has not awarded any projects as of two weeks ago they had not awarded 00:12:18.581 --> 00:12:19.710 - any projects. 00:12:19.970 --> 00:12:27.879 - for major transit projects anywhere in the United States in the past year and a half. Does that answer 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:35.865 - your question? I think so. So this doesn't affect it any more than it's already been affected. Correct. 00:12:35.865 --> 00:12:43.544 - Yeah. We have, we have a critical situation with large transit systems right now, but this does not 00:12:43.544 --> 00:12:47.998 - affect anything beyond that point. Questions. Any others? 00:12:50.466 --> 00:12:59.003 - Okay. The next item we have, and this is just an FYI, U.S. Department of Transportation, Intercity Bus 00:12:59.003 --> 00:13:07.540 - Atlas. Just two key things to note here. Miller Transport serves Bloomington with routes to Evansville 00:13:07.540 --> 00:13:16.076 - and Indianapolis. And then there's a second carrier, our bus, OUR, capital B-U-S, all one word, serves 00:13:16.076 --> 00:13:19.806 - Terre Haute with connections to Bloomington. 00:13:20.002 --> 00:13:27.517 - with connections to other locations in Illinois and Missouri. I don't know if there are any questions 00:13:27.517 --> 00:13:35.106 - about that or not. It's just something we found online because there are people that use the intercity 00:13:35.106 --> 00:13:42.768 - bus system, predominantly students and predominantly international students for that matter. Next thing 00:13:42.768 --> 00:13:47.262 - we have is the Indiana second gas tax holiday reimbursement. 00:13:48.034 --> 00:13:57.765 - The key takeaway here is that you should be aware of this is a cost to the state of Indiana of $5 million 00:13:57.765 --> 00:14:06.946 - per day. This has been ongoing for two and a half months, I think, something in that vicinity. This 00:14:06.946 --> 00:14:12.638 - is being this holiday, tax holiday, has been, well, replaced. 00:14:12.770 --> 00:14:19.856 - Temporarily replaced with the state surplus revenues and those state surplus revenues have been directed 00:14:19.856 --> 00:14:26.808 - to the motor vehicle highway account in the local road and street account so local jurisdictions won't 00:14:26.808 --> 00:14:33.624 - see any change whatsoever. It's just a Significant cut and constant drain on the state's revenues on 00:14:33.624 --> 00:14:40.441 - the state's surplus revenues The question here. The key question is the issue of long-term viability 00:14:40.441 --> 00:14:42.398 - How long will this continue? 00:14:42.786 --> 00:14:50.993 - There's been a public push about Indiana has the lowest gasoline prices in the nation But the question 00:14:50.993 --> 00:14:59.121 - is how long can you keep that up? And that really revolves around how deep do you want to go into the 00:14:59.121 --> 00:15:07.089 - surplus revenues? The next item we've got is early coordination letter for the state road 45 46 new 00:15:07.089 --> 00:15:11.870 - sidewalk addition between Kinzer Pike and Walnut Street and 00:15:12.450 --> 00:15:20.908 - The need for the project is a lack of pedestrian facilities in the project area. Purpose of the project 00:15:20.908 --> 00:15:29.204 - is to provide safe and adequate pedestrian facilities. This would be located on the north side of the 00:15:29.204 --> 00:15:37.500 - roadway and on the north side of the existing bridge structure between Kinzer and Walnut. There would 00:15:37.500 --> 00:15:41.566 - be a 10-foot buffer from the edge of the roadway. 00:15:42.146 --> 00:15:49.691 - There would be a concrete barrier wall protecting the pedestrians and or cyclists using that facility. 00:15:49.691 --> 00:15:57.163 - There would also be a replacement of the existing railing on the bridge and railing on the north side 00:15:57.163 --> 00:16:04.855 - of the bridge is is for well for automobiles and it would be replaced with railing that would facilitate 00:16:04.855 --> 00:16:09.470 - safe movement of bicycles because the bicycles are in elevated 00:16:09.986 --> 00:16:18.764 - Elevated height about pedestrians above the automobiles Concrete barrier for pedestrians and cyclists. 00:16:18.764 --> 00:16:27.713 - I mentioned that and also they would upgrade the pedestrian push buttons and the pedestrian Signal heads 00:16:27.713 --> 00:16:36.492 - at all the signals in those locations Questions on any of this at all One question that came up in the 00:16:36.492 --> 00:16:39.134 - Citizens Advisory Committee is 00:16:39.330 --> 00:16:46.348 - or maybe no, but that was a technical advisory committee is who would be responsible for the maintenance 00:16:46.348 --> 00:16:52.496 - of this. And, um, I had assumed on the bridge structure, it would be the Indiana department 00:16:52.496 --> 00:16:59.313 - of transportation, but I was corrected by Neil copper. The deputy city engineer said that probably it 00:16:59.313 --> 00:17:05.997 - would be a, an agreement with the city where the city would maintain clearing and, uh, safe passage 00:17:05.997 --> 00:17:08.670 - of that corridor once it's constructed. 00:17:10.914 --> 00:17:18.932 - Any questions anyone. It's been a long time coming. This is something that was recognized by a member 00:17:18.932 --> 00:17:27.264 - of the Citizens Advisory Committee five years ago but then two years ago the Department of Transportation 00:17:27.264 --> 00:17:35.124 - did not fund sidewalk type projects that only occurred in recent years. City of Fort Wayne took all 00:17:35.124 --> 00:17:36.382 - of the funding. 00:17:36.546 --> 00:17:44.280 - The first year and that's somewhere around 18 to 20 million dollars statewide. So simply to have this 00:17:44.280 --> 00:17:52.090 - project programmed is a major win for our area in terms of safety for the pedestrians and the bicycles 00:17:52.090 --> 00:17:59.673 - using that court or going back and forth predominantly to the Kroger there on that one corner. Next 00:17:59.673 --> 00:18:04.222 - item is the city of Bloomington safety week. Oh, I'm sorry. 00:18:04.386 --> 00:18:11.838 - I missed one city of Bloomington press release increased traffic enforcement for the beginning of the 00:18:11.838 --> 00:18:19.218 - Monroe County School Corporation consolidated school corporation year. That's already occurred. That 00:18:19.218 --> 00:18:26.816 - was two weeks ago City of Bloomington safety week. This is safety week This almost was safety week here 00:18:26.816 --> 00:18:33.246 - because we're at the end of that the big takeaways here are the community bike ride and 00:18:33.538 --> 00:18:42.689 - sponsored by the Planning and Transportation Department. Community bike ride was for new IU students 00:18:42.689 --> 00:18:51.840 - and or returning students and also people interested in the IU community on how to navigate the city 00:18:51.840 --> 00:19:01.625 - on a bicycle. How to get to key component areas of say healthcare, groceries, shopping, other opportunities 00:19:01.625 --> 00:19:02.622 - like that. 00:19:03.106 --> 00:19:12.620 - That was on Wednesday night. I'm sorry, Tuesday night. Wednesday night was traffic cones at Chocolate 00:19:12.620 --> 00:19:22.134 - Moose where people could stop by, have a free ice cream cone thanks to Chocolate Moose, meet with the 00:19:22.134 --> 00:19:31.742 - staff, the planning transportation staff regarding traffic safety issues for pedestrians and cyclists, 00:19:32.098 --> 00:19:41.201 - I was there only an hour and we had something like 35 to 40 people in the first hour and that was early 00:19:41.201 --> 00:19:50.128 - on. And then I had to leave after that and I don't have a follow-up for that. Last night was Kitticoe 00:19:50.128 --> 00:19:57.918 - Mass at Bryant Park where it was involved with safety again, giving away bicycle lights, 00:19:58.114 --> 00:20:05.856 - which we also gave away at the community bicycle ride and also traffic cones so that way people can 00:20:05.856 --> 00:20:14.063 - ride safely with the flashing lights. There was what I would call safe movement of the bicycles, training 00:20:14.063 --> 00:20:22.115 - techniques, and also answering questions for critical mass. Katie was there last night, I was not. Then 00:20:22.115 --> 00:20:24.670 - the final thing I've got here is 00:20:25.090 --> 00:20:34.947 - A rather large one, this is the MPOs fiscal year 2028, 2032, transportation improvement program calls 00:20:34.947 --> 00:20:44.610 - for projects. We do this every two years. This is for all federal aid projects. For the allocation, 00:20:44.610 --> 00:20:53.790 - the published online here is the timeline, what we call the development and adoption timeline. 00:20:54.338 --> 00:21:03.768 - It's very aggressive, very tight. We do think, however, that we can achieve it. If the need comes up 00:21:03.768 --> 00:21:13.572 - for a postponement or some sort of a delay of some type, we have what I would affectionately call wiggle 00:21:13.572 --> 00:21:19.454 - room for approximately a week or two in meeting that schedule. 00:21:19.714 --> 00:21:27.489 - It's all being driven by the fact that we hope to have an adoption of a final transportation improvement 00:21:27.489 --> 00:21:35.560 - program in the first week of December. We could go as late as the second week of December, don't necessarily 00:21:35.560 --> 00:21:43.334 - want to. If we have to go beyond the second week of December, then we're looking at an adoption sometime 00:21:43.334 --> 00:21:49.406 - in the latter part of January by the policy committee and mid-January also by the 00:21:51.266 --> 00:21:58.357 - Advisory Committee and the Citizens Advisory Committee and all of this is aimed toward an endgame of 00:21:58.357 --> 00:22:05.449 - having an adopted transportation improvement program approved by the Federal Highway Administration, 00:22:05.449 --> 00:22:12.470 - NDOT and Federal Transit Administration by February no later than March because the new fiscal year 00:22:12.470 --> 00:22:16.542 - would begin on July 1st and development approval approval 00:22:16.962 --> 00:22:23.867 - Timelines for the Federal Transit Administration the Federal Highway Administration In this calendar 00:22:23.867 --> 00:22:30.772 - year have been four to six months So if you take February and add in four months to six months, then 00:22:30.772 --> 00:22:37.746 - you're looking at a transportation improvement program Conceivably might not be approved until August 00:22:37.746 --> 00:22:44.719 - of next year which would delay the implementation of our federal aid projects by somewhere around one 00:22:44.719 --> 00:22:45.950 - to two months and 00:22:46.050 --> 00:22:55.402 - And that's significant in terms of development timeline when we're meeting critical timelines, milestones. 00:22:55.402 --> 00:23:04.666 - Anticipated funding levels are shown right here. Funding levels reflect the fact that we've had decreased 00:23:04.666 --> 00:23:11.134 - shares in recent years. That's because of the 2020 census, all group two, 00:23:11.330 --> 00:23:20.394 - Metropolitan Planning Organizations, that is those of us that are smaller than 200,000. We are allocated 00:23:20.394 --> 00:23:29.026 - our funding based on a per capita basis on the 2020 census. Our population here in Bloomington, our 00:23:29.026 --> 00:23:37.054 - population predominantly, the IU students all went home with COVID the second week of March. 00:23:37.506 --> 00:23:46.644 - Census came in the first week of April and we lost 48, 49,000 students. Those were not counted in our 00:23:46.644 --> 00:23:55.603 - population. Therefore, in terms of our proportional share of the urbanized area based on per capita 00:23:55.603 --> 00:24:04.741 - population, we lost funding allocations. I've gone into anticipated funding levels. The last thing is 00:24:04.741 --> 00:24:07.070 - the LPA response to date. 00:24:07.202 --> 00:24:13.665 - Like to thank Monroe County, Lisa for the applications that we received thus far. We understand that 00:24:13.665 --> 00:24:20.256 - there's one more application still out there. I spoke to the county engineer the other day and he told 00:24:20.256 --> 00:24:26.783 - me that one was in process. Uh, Bloomington transit also like to thank them. We received all of their 00:24:26.783 --> 00:24:33.246 - list of projects yesterday from Krista Browning, the controller. Um, that's all I have to say unless 00:24:33.246 --> 00:24:36.254 - anybody has any questions for Katie or myself. 00:24:46.658 --> 00:24:56.226 - So I guess under six seven the Bloomington safety week yes, the question I have Is how much did you 00:24:56.226 --> 00:25:05.889 - have a whole lot of participation from IU students or is it just local people primarily? Well on the 00:25:05.889 --> 00:25:16.126 - first one the community bike ride it was predominantly I use students and and or faculty and or a staff on 00:25:16.674 --> 00:25:24.855 - Traffic cones chocolate mousse. I don't know because what I saw were predominantly local local people's 00:25:24.855 --> 00:25:33.036 - school children parents was school children There were three families. I saw with at least six children 00:25:33.036 --> 00:25:41.138 - if not more and those I spoke with Last night for Bryant Park for critical mass. I don't know. I don't 00:25:41.138 --> 00:25:45.150 - know the answer to that because I wasn't attending 00:25:45.474 --> 00:25:52.305 - So in those discussions, and this is a topic that I hear about quite a bit from primarily the older 00:25:52.305 --> 00:25:59.615 - crowd, and that is that the bicyclists are not adhering to the traffic laws. They're not stopping. They're 00:25:59.615 --> 00:26:06.651 - speeding through intersections. They're not using turn signals. They're just zipping right through the 00:26:06.651 --> 00:26:13.278 - intersections and are not adhering to any of the, well, the traffic laws. So my comment is that, 00:26:14.114 --> 00:26:21.246 - Is there some sort of a, oh, by the way, you need to be aware that if you're going to be in our community, 00:26:21.246 --> 00:26:27.912 - you need to adhere to the traffic laws to be enforced by whatever local authorities, et cetera. Any 00:26:27.912 --> 00:26:34.644 - discussion about that? I don't know. Yeah, well, I would offer that if you're going to do that work. 00:26:34.644 --> 00:26:41.644 - What we can do is we can push that out there as a follow-up. I mean, you noted on cyclists. I've noticed 00:26:41.644 --> 00:26:42.910 - it on pedestrians. 00:26:43.106 --> 00:26:50.475 - because I drive through the campus on 3rd Street every morning and every evening on 3rd Street or on 00:26:50.475 --> 00:26:57.916 - 10th Street and pedestrians. Yeah a lot of jaywalking. Well I live as I brought up before in previous 00:26:57.916 --> 00:27:05.358 - discussions I live off of 10th Street going toward Unionville and of course we get all the little 500 00:27:05.358 --> 00:27:11.486 - crowd out there doing their thing and they really don't adhere to the traffic laws. 00:27:12.482 --> 00:27:21.001 - So anything you can do to put the word out there to get people to adhere that would be greatly appreciated. 00:27:21.001 --> 00:27:29.046 - Yeah I would I would note that the little 500 training teams also go through my complex and what I've 00:27:29.046 --> 00:27:36.382 - observed is them observing the laws they're stopping they're going through our neighborhood. 00:27:36.674 --> 00:27:43.451 - On their way to see where forty six and four forty six and they take four forty six as a training route 00:27:43.451 --> 00:27:50.097 - all the way down to U.S. fifty and then coming back and they're using the shoulders they're using the 00:27:50.097 --> 00:27:56.939 - shoulders on steward four forty six because I travel four forty six down to Lake Monroe three four times 00:27:56.939 --> 00:28:03.520 - a week to run down there. As you know we don't have shoulders on 10th Street going toward Unionville 00:28:03.520 --> 00:28:05.214 - except in certain places. 00:28:05.698 --> 00:28:16.398 - We will note that push out the safety message about obeying traffic laws. Thank you. Any other questions. 00:28:16.398 --> 00:28:26.997 - Observations. Moving on to old business which there are no items. I'm sorry we have six point nine which 00:28:26.997 --> 00:28:35.678 - is. Oh I'm sorry. Katie I apologize. It's OK. Just just an announcement in general we 00:28:36.034 --> 00:28:45.202 - NPO staff do hope to explore new ways of handling TIP project applications that are submitted every 00:28:45.202 --> 00:28:55.195 - two years. So I'm not saying we will change the process necessarily, but we do hope to explore possibilities 00:28:55.195 --> 00:29:04.638 - for how to go about processing applications and making decisions on funding in the future. And so just 00:29:04.866 --> 00:29:13.404 - This is just a general brief announcement about that. So we encourage you to pay attention to this year's 00:29:13.404 --> 00:29:21.538 - tip development process and call for projects process. And that way you can take note of things that 00:29:21.538 --> 00:29:30.398 - you think should change how we currently do things etc. So just wanted to say a brief brief thing about that. 00:29:33.506 --> 00:29:42.725 - Item 6.10 page 35 and the combined packet. All of this information in this memo is in our current tip 00:29:42.725 --> 00:29:51.944 - document that is on our website. But this memo just pulls the fiscal year 2027 information out of the 00:29:51.944 --> 00:30:01.886 - tip and puts it into a memo for you. So this being the beginning of fiscal year 27 which started in July 1st. 00:30:02.594 --> 00:30:14.088 - We just wanted to share what the allocation plan was for the MPOs annual federal funding allocate federal 00:30:14.088 --> 00:30:24.932 - funding amounts. So the MPO receives four point five million in this fiscal year. We have to either 00:30:24.932 --> 00:30:32.414 - use it trade it or flex it to transit by the end by May 1st of 2028. 00:30:36.226 --> 00:30:46.373 - The majority of this year's allocation federal allocation is going towards paying back a loan to the 00:30:46.373 --> 00:30:57.022 - Indianapolis MPO 4.6 million in exchange for an amount that was received in 2024 We also have an incoming 00:30:57.022 --> 00:31:04.958 - of 2.2 million from a exchange that was made with another MPO and then we have 00:31:06.050 --> 00:31:14.991 - Extra 47,000 that was granted to us at the end of fiscal year 26 in May and we have until September 00:31:14.991 --> 00:31:24.469 - to use it So this makes the total amount available for this year 2.2 million and As previously programmed 00:31:24.469 --> 00:31:34.125 - in the tip and approved 2.1 of that will go towards High Street multi-use path and intersection improvement 00:31:34.125 --> 00:31:35.198 - project and 00:31:36.034 --> 00:31:49.603 - the 46 extra 47,000 will go towards downtown curb ramps project PE phase as That was decided earlier 00:31:49.603 --> 00:32:01.694 - this spring And shared with you at a previous meeting any questions Item six point eleven 00:32:01.954 --> 00:32:10.095 - Don't have any major updates on the projects that are occurring On the tip projects that are taking 00:32:10.095 --> 00:32:18.317 - place As usual you can go to the tip project listing link here to look at the latest updates and I'm 00:32:18.317 --> 00:32:26.620 - sure you're all aware that several of the projects in the tip are ongoing currently and I just wanted 00:32:26.620 --> 00:32:28.574 - to remind everyone that 00:32:29.026 --> 00:32:38.528 - If you want to go to our web page, I'm sure you're familiar with each of your own web pages for road 00:32:38.528 --> 00:32:48.783 - closures. But we do have all three linked to our website. If you want to know what construction is happening 00:32:48.783 --> 00:32:57.438 - when in the upcoming months, you can find that information online. Any questions, comments? 00:33:03.938 --> 00:33:15.753 - Old business, we don't have any new business item 8.1 resolution fiscal year 2027-03 proposed changes 00:33:15.753 --> 00:33:27.451 - to the fiscal year 2026 2030 BMC MPO tip We per federal law we have to present changes to the tip to 00:33:27.451 --> 00:33:33.822 - you for approval and So the first change we have is to 00:33:34.210 --> 00:33:42.376 - to a Bloomington Transit project called Green Line Design and Engineering. And the change that is taking 00:33:42.376 --> 00:33:50.697 - place is changing the funding source for the money that is being used in fiscal year 27, and then updating 00:33:50.697 --> 00:33:58.707 - the funding amounts that will be used for this phase of the project. Specifically, this 300,000 is for 00:33:58.707 --> 00:34:01.118 - traffic signal prioritization. 00:34:08.802 --> 00:34:17.076 - Second amendment for your consideration is an update to the Bloomington Transit project called 00:34:17.076 --> 00:34:25.785 - new administrative and maintenance facility unlike the MPO the transit transit agencies are allowed 00:34:25.785 --> 00:34:34.582 - to bank their their funds over the course of years and so Bloomington Transit has been banking their 00:34:34.582 --> 00:34:37.630 - funds for a while now and They are 00:34:37.826 --> 00:34:49.187 - Wanting to update fiscal year 27 funds for this project They'll be adding 23 million to Fiscal year 00:34:49.187 --> 00:35:00.889 - 27 and that is for phase one of building construction for the new facility There is a risk of I'll say 00:35:00.889 --> 00:35:06.910 - there is a risk of this funding being taken away and 00:35:07.298 --> 00:35:15.518 - And so they are trying to get it used for what they've been saving it for. The next amendment is the 00:35:15.518 --> 00:35:23.738 - addition of a new end up project called high mast tower lighting replacement at various interchanges 00:35:23.738 --> 00:35:32.609 - in Vincennes and Seymour districts. So as you're aware they put these generalized projects for the district. 00:35:32.609 --> 00:35:36.190 - They have us put them in the tip because it 00:35:36.482 --> 00:35:46.945 - Accelerates approval in the future. We do not have specific locations for this at this time And the 00:35:46.945 --> 00:35:57.618 - last amendment is to update the funding for in dots project of repairing or replacing joints on SR 48 00:35:57.618 --> 00:36:06.302 - over I 69 They are simply increasing the fiscal year 27 construction funding a bit 00:36:06.658 --> 00:36:22.332 - from two hundred thirty nine thousand to three hundred sixty two thousand and that is it. Any questions 00:36:22.332 --> 00:36:34.238 - on any of the tip amendments. I would ask for a motion approval of resolution. 00:36:34.658 --> 00:36:46.498 - FY twenty twenty seven oh three as presented to approve these minor amendments to the tip. We have a 00:36:46.498 --> 00:36:58.221 - motion and a second. Any comments from the board. Any online. Any public comment. Seeing none. Roll 00:36:58.221 --> 00:37:02.910 - call vote please. Stasberg yes Seaborg. 00:37:04.770 --> 00:37:22.896 - Bishop. Nickel. Thomas. Yes. Bannock. Yes. Horn. Yes. Kennedy. Yes. Ferris. Yes. Ridge. Yes. Packer. 00:37:22.896 --> 00:37:31.870 - Yes. Motion passes. OK. Moving on public comment. 00:37:33.698 --> 00:37:42.847 - It doesn't look like we have any public online. Communications from committee members on non voting 00:37:42.847 --> 00:37:52.088 - matters not included on the agenda. Topic suggestions for future agendas. I'm not a committee member 00:37:52.088 --> 00:38:01.694 - but I did want to share that the city of Bloomington is doing a public meeting on Tuesday September 1st. 00:38:01.890 --> 00:38:11.628 - at 5.30 PM at Switchyard Park. This is a public input meeting for their Rogers Madison Kinzer corridor 00:38:11.628 --> 00:38:21.460 - study and redesign. There is also an online survey available on the website. It's a pretty good survey. 00:38:21.460 --> 00:38:31.198 - And so please, I encourage you to fill that out if you'd like to provide your input. Great. Thank you. 00:38:33.666 --> 00:38:42.150 - The next technical advisory committee meeting is September 23rd at 10 a.m. CAC citizens advisory committee 00:38:42.150 --> 00:38:50.397 - is September 23rd at 530 and policy committee is September 25th at 1030. All the meetings are available 00:38:50.397 --> 00:38:53.886 - by hybrid and I would move for adjournment.