- and if we can go ahead and start with introductions just please introduce
- yourself and the agency you're with and if you're a proxy for someone also just
- let us know who you're inch hitting for I'll start off to my left Ryan Ryan
- Robling City of Bloomington Planning and Transportation Department proxy David
- Hiddle Neil Copper proxy for Bloomington City Engineer Nate Nichols City of
- Bloomington Public Works and the TAC chair Cheryl Gilliland deputy controller
- City of Bloomington proxy for Jessica McClellan controller City of Bloomington
- Paul Satterly Monroe County highway engineer
- Irina Valentine-Bowen Monroe County Jazz Division proxy for John Baten
- James League City Bloomington utilities Kelly Whitmer Monroe County Parks and
- Recreation Linnea wellings in dot proxy for Rebecca Packer Megan Blair ITS City
- of Bloomington I am Steve Connor with Bloomington Parks and Recreation proxy
- for Rebecca Swift Lisa Salyers area 10 Rural Transit proxy for Chris Meyers
- Krista Browning and controller at Bloomington Transit and I'm processing
- for John Connell thank you do we have any members online with us today Joe
- Van Diemener director street operations for the city thank you Joe anybody else
- online okay hearing none we can go to the next meeting agenda item approval
- today's meeting agenda have a motion I move second okay thank you this is a
- public comment item so any public comment on the meeting agenda for today
- hearing none I can throw it back to staff for roll call vote
- Ryan Roebling yes Neil yes Nate Nichol yes Cheryl Hill yes or Cheryl I don't
- know all your last names yet sorry there's a test on that later Paul
- Satterley yes I also couldn't get girls I couldn't hear everybody who's here for
- John Dayton Irina yes who was sorry could you reset your name I couldn't hear
- you irena valentine Bolin
- Jane Flake yes Kelly Whitmer yes Leanna welling yes Megan Blair yes Steve
- Cotter yes Lisa Krista and Joe online yeah I don't know if you really hear
- that just a vote to approve today's meeting agenda Joe do you vote to
- approve today's meeting agenda yes thank you motion passed thank you moving
- ahead to our next item approval of minutes from our last meeting on August
- 28th 2024 to have a motion to approve the August meeting minutes approval
- thanks Neil second thanks Ryan any public comment on the August meeting
- minutes okay hearing none can go back to Katie for roll call vote can I do all in
- favor no I can't
- Joe yes and yes Krista Browning Steve Cotter Leanna welling yes Kelly Whitmer
- yes Paul Satterly yes Nate Nickle yes Ryan Roebling yes Neil
- copper yes Megan Blair yes James League abstain Lisa
- all yours okay and then the proxy for John Baten his name I still can't hear
- yes idiots Irina you get Megan and the proxy for Jessica McClellan yes Cheryl
- motion passes okay thank you next item is communication from the chair and the
- vice chair I'll turn it over to Paul any updates like to sure sure our Fullerton
- Pike project we got our bridge deck poured and working on the bridge rails
- currently also going to be doing paving between Rockport Road and the bridge this
- week and we've got currently the intersection at Wickens and Gordon Pike
- and Falcon and Gordon Pike closed so if you're in that area be aware of that our
- Vernal Pike connector project is well underway we're getting pretty high up in
- the air with the overpass there and almost to our first settlement period or
- the fill behind the MSE walls our cars farm greenway connector is pretty much
- complete except for the two traffic signals and we've encountered a delay
- with the contractor on that so hope to get that done here shortly so pretty much
- it thank you I'll just share a quick one from the city of Bloomington public
- works side we're currently underway with an effort to become an accredited public
- works agency with the American Public Works Association and it's an effort to
- really follow national best practices for operational procedures and standard
- operations currently there is only one accredited agency in the entire state
- and that's Fishers and we are looking at going to Columbia Missouri next month
- they're pretty similar to Bloomington as far as being college town and population
- and their operations and and facilities so looking forward to visiting with them
- touring the facilities and and just getting a better handle of how they went
- about their accreditation journey and learning more about how they run
- operations in Columbia so I'll have something to report next month and I said
- looking forward to that moving on do we have any reports from officers or
- committees I don't believe we have any currently right now but if anybody has
- an update they'd like to share feel free
- okay we can move on to reports from MPO staff looks like we have a couple items
- there okay starting off first excuse me BMC MPO fiscal year 2026 2030
- transportation improvement program call for projects we issued call for projects
- at the end of August we received all the project applications from rural transit
- Bloomington Transit Monroe County city of Bloomington and we did not receive
- INDOTS projects until Wednesday of last week we still haven't incorporated those
- in one thing I want to note is that we have public input opportunities
- on the draft transportation improvement program if anything I would call today's
- document a draft draft because we do not have the INDOT projects in there yet we
- will post that though by the end of this week or the first of next week and have
- the INDOT projects in there for public review we have a public comment
- period scheduled legal advertisements will go out shortly public comment period
- will begin on November 10th and and it will go through December 9th public
- input meeting which will be here in council chambers from five o'clock to
- seven o'clock on December 5th okay and then moving on to the metropolitan
- transportation plan we're closing in on issuing a draft document either by the
- end of this month or the first of November we're still seeking still
- seeking an answer on future needs from Monroe County other than that we have
- everybody else in the public input opportunities on that again we're
- running to legal advertisement same time and two comment periods same time public
- comment period on the Metropolitan Transportation Plan draft it begins on
- November 10th and runs through November 10th runs through December 9th the
- public input meeting on that here in the council chambers is on December 5th from
- five to seven o'clock it's a rare opportunity for people to comment not
- only on the transportation improvement program but also on the Metropolitan
- Transportation Plan itself okay any questions for staff on that item one
- question for the public meeting for the tip is there a requirement for project
- applicants to be present for that or is that handled by MPO staff project
- applicants do not do not have to attend I mean we will we have to record all the
- comments anyway all those comments have to be addressed in the document in the
- final document itself so all of those will be taken care of eventually so it's
- a free night is what I want to say thank you thank you for asking Neil I did
- invite all of the applying the all the folks that applied for projects but yeah
- sounds like you don't have to go a question on the public input
- opportunities is that exclusively online are you doing any kind of site visits
- throughout the county to collect input or how are you kind of doing that
- procedure well the public comment period that opens up on on November 10th those
- all have to be sold well we would like people's submit electronically so that
- way we've got a written documentation on the comments comment reviews that they
- have for particular projects or particular areas of the city in the
- county that they have concerns about either in highway road bridge type
- projects transportation alternatives are also in public in public
- transportation at the public meeting itself we will answer questions verbally
- but if there are questions we need those submitted in a written form we'll have
- written paper here for that matter or encourage people to submit in a written
- form just simply because there's no ambiguity once once a question is is put
- in a written form and therefore we can answer it in a complete way this is
- essentially a survey then you have online that people fill out yes okay yeah
- yeah you know and we'll broadcast that for and wide similar to what we do
- already any additional questions
- you have an update on the MPO conference yeah Pat and I attended the annual
- Indiana MPO conference last week which was in Indianapolis and so we we meet a
- lot of the people there that we work with on a regular basis as well as folks
- who work with other MPOs in the state of Indiana any big themes come out of this
- year's conference or changes come down the pike from in that any big themes
- from the conference that not huge themes I I enjoyed all the sessions I attended
- and had a great conversation about police crash data with with a bunch of
- the MPOs and thankfully in that was in the room so they heard all of our
- comments about that any questions for staff on any of these items okay moving
- to old business looks like we have in dot annual performance measures okay the
- in dot these are calendar year 2025 in dot safety performance targets they're
- required for adoption or approval by all of the MPOs the MPOs have a have the
- option of adopting their own targets for the state of Indiana if they so wish to
- do so but they must show documentation that's acceptable to Federal Highway
- Administration and the US Department of Transportation the safety performance
- targets are part of the current legislation for funding the infrastructure
- and investment jobs act now legislation the targets that we adopted this
- committee well policy committee I'm sorry adopted this committee adopted in
- fiscal year 24 and the policy committee adopted in July of this year which is
- fiscal year 25 the chart as soon as we adopted those the very next week
- Department of Transportation moved goalposts and said that we had to
- re-adopt new targets there had been adjustments made those are shown in your
- packet in the memorandum that was prepared on the safety performance
- targets you have that up there okay you do have it up there all right the number
- of total fatalities previous approved was target was eight hundred and twelve
- point four the new target remains the same eight hundred and twelve point four
- vehicle miles traveled per hundred million VMT that changed considerably
- that went from eight hundred and seventy point two five to eight or ninety one
- point two seven the rate of fatalities therefore went down from one point zero
- three two to one point zero zero nine number of serious injuries remain the
- same three three thousand and thirty one point nine both in the previous target
- and the current and then the rate of serious injuries also changed that went
- down from three point four eight four to three point four oh two the target for
- the number of non-monorized fatalities serious injuries remains changed three
- hundred sixty three point four previously in three hundred sixty four point four
- now now again these are calendar year 25 targets that don't begin until January
- 1st if the state of Indiana does not meet these targets in other words if they
- exceed these targets then there is a punishment so to speak in the sense that
- a certain proportion of the surface transportation block grant program funds
- must be redirected to highway safety funding instead so there is well yeah
- there's there's motivation here Indiana Department of Transportation has been
- there there in the second year now of a very active program on transportation
- safety particularly in construction zones particularly with non-motorized
- vehicles and non-motorized pedestrians fatality rates have for this calendar
- year are slightly down at the current time but the year is not over in serious
- injuries are actually slightly up this year over the previous year but that
- remains to be seen how that how that works out by the end of the calendar
- year any questions anybody may have I'll be happy to answer those but a I don't
- want to put you on the spot but if there's anything from the end that
- perspective you want to share feel free no I think Pat covered it I don't have
- anything additional great thanks any questions for staff on this item okay
- moving ahead to new business looks like we have several fiscal year 2024 2028
- amendments proposed they need I'm sorry well we'll need a motion and a vote on
- this to make a recommendation to the Policy Committee and we already do that
- we did in July but then these are new targets and so we need to readopt again
- I'm sorry okay so going back looks like we need to do a motion for the in that
- annual performance measures that would anyone like to propose that move that we
- forward to the Policy Committee with a positive recommendation and attaching
- the same language that we used with our last motion second thank you Neil thank
- you Ryan any public comment on this item
- okay hearing none go back to staff for vote Irina Valentine Boland yes Paul
- Satterly yes Megan Blair yes Linnea wellings yes Krista Browning Nate
- Nickle yes Ryan Robling yes Neil copper yes Cheryl Gilliland Gilliland thank
- you abstain Kelly Whitmer yes Eve Cotter Lisa
- Salyers Joe and I can't still can't do that one Joe I'm yes thank you
- Brian why do I have you on here twice Neil copper did I already say you yeah
- Jane Flake yes motion passes all right thank you okay now moving on a new
- business and the fiscal year 2024 2028 tip amendments just as a reminder there
- is an copy of this safety performance target fact sheet in here again if you
- want to read that okay we received three tip amendments for the fiscal year 24 to
- 28 tip the first all three are requests by Bloomington Transit the first being
- for their goal of the purchase and support purchase of support and
- maintenance vehicles so you can see the numbers that were approved as of the
- June 14th 24 tip update and in the second table and the table with the red
- shows all of the elements that were changed so it was an increase in funding
- in the year 2025 the second tip amendment also for Bloomington Transit is
- for their purchase of electric buses and charging equipment they've requested a
- slight change in funding slight increase in funding for 2025 also they've altered
- the flex funding source and I know in general they're working on making their
- category names less specific so that it encompasses more so the purchase of
- buses and charging equipment the third tip update also from Bloomington Transit
- is for their land acquisition for facility expansion funds have the funding
- source funding sources have been altered slightly since the June update and funds
- have been moved from 24 to 25 and so we're requesting their adoption
- recommendation for these three tip amendments for fiscal year 24 to 28 tip
- any questions for staff on these items it's that one I'll throw out for the
- land acquisition I know a lot of that area around Grimes Lane is in a flood
- plain just make sure that BT is aware of working around that and adding updates
- on navigating that we are currently looking at other properties so that's in
- the planning right now because of the flood plain outside of Grimes Lane yes
- okay yeah you're pretty constrained yeah there with the creek and everything okay
- thank you and you'll notice that instead of Grimes Lane facility expansion it now
- says service and fleet expansion any other questions on these proposed BT tip
- amendments hearing none is there a motion to approve the tip amendments I moved
- second all right and thank you any public comment on the proposed BT tip
- amendments okay hearing none can throw back the staff Joe van Deventer yes
- Megan Blair yes Kelly Whitmer yes Lisa Salyers okay
- Steve Cotter Cheryl Gilliland Ed Stane Nate Nicol yes Ryan Roebling yes
- Irina Valentine Bolan yes Paul Satterly yes Jane Fleague yes
- Krista Browning Linnea Wellings yes Neil Copper yes motion passes great thank you
- okay next item a new business is the fiscal year 26 to 2030 transportation
- improvement plan program draft document okay we issued as I had previously said
- we issued a call for projects the end of August with a receipt of the of the
- applications by the end of September our timetable is was slightly thrown off by
- the Indiana Department of Transportation central office the statewide
- transportation improvement program staff STIP team did not release the final list
- of projects until middle of last week so therefore the document is incomplete in
- that sense of we have not inserted in the end dot projects we did however
- receive applications from rural transit Bloomington transit Monroe County city
- of Bloomington and again eventually like I said the Indiana Department of
- Transportation real transit projects totaled over the over the life of the
- tip the 2026 2030 program year rural transits program request was nine point
- seven seven million Bloomington transits request totaled one hundred and fifty one
- point three seven million Monroe County's request totaled twenty eight point six
- million city of Bloomington's request fifty four point seven million and
- Indiana Department of Transportation's request totaled two hundred and thirty
- point three million now this includes local match and state match in here
- these are total funds so it may be somewhat overblown in the sense that
- Monroe County's city of Bloomington overmatch all of their projects but the
- total amount for this tip right now looks to be four hundred and seventy four
- point seven five million dollars that's a significant increase over last year last
- year's or the current tip I should say is somewhere in the vicinity of 350
- million dollars a lot of that are new in dot projects in what I would call
- prevention maintenance and prevention type of projects and also safety projects
- and then the Bloomington Transit also has shifted some of their priorities
- onto the current transportation improvement program year by virtue of
- the amendments we just did and then they're like I said their total is around
- I'm sorry their total was 151 million for the coming years I can walk you
- through this on page 17 of the document
- let you scroll down there I can't see it because of the okay there okay there you
- go 17 of the document these were the anticipated federal program revenue
- levels for Monroe County in the city of Bloomington they're lower than what our
- current values are but these were the values that we were directed to use by
- the Indiana Department of Transportation's local assistance program in
- that we're totaling we're looking at carbon reduction program 346,000
- annually highway safety improvement program 571.7 thousand protect program
- which is for environmental use hundred and twenty eight thousand two hundred
- section 164 safety money hundred and thirty five thousand nine hundred and
- fifty eight surface transportation block grant three million one hundred seventy
- nine thousand four eighty eight transportation alternatives 396 993
- nothing in STP block grant group three so total annual values which we had to
- flatline at the direction of the Department of Transportation were four
- million seven hundred and fifty eight thousand seven hundred and sixty one
- dollars now these are preliminary numbers that we're working with we put
- together the request based on that these these levels we should
- received normally I'll say normally we receive final values in January of
- fiscal year 20 I'm sorry calendar year 25 will receive final values then program
- adjustments will have to be made then either up or down for the city of
- Bloomington and also from Monroe County Highway Department and then following
- tables we also have here on page 18 of the draft document we have the funding
- requests here for operating assistance for rural transit we have operating
- capital assistance requests for Bloomington Transit summary requests
- then on page 19 of the draft document we have Monroe County summary requests by
- funding year and funding category and then we have city of Bloomington summary
- of requests by funding category and funding year and then we beginning on
- page 20 we have the individual projects identified from Monroe County page 22
- individual projects for the city of Bloomington page 25 of the document
- draft document we have rural transit and then Bloomington Transit begins on page
- 26 goes through page 28 and then after that is where we will be inserting the
- Indiana Department of Transportation projects there and I'll jump ahead to a
- couple of other things that are unfinished at this port at this current
- time we have way down on page 89 we have a self-certification which we must
- submit in we've got formal adoption minutes to yet adopt in page 91 we have
- a draft legal participation notice which has an error on it because it has the
- right date but it has the wrong time we've since changed the time and then
- we're looking at a tip approval letter our current timetable calls for a tip
- approval by the Federal Highway Administration somewhere in March or
- early April at the very latest we're looking or well our current schedule
- anticipates an adoption of the transportation improvement program in a
- final form by the Technical Advisory Committee and the Citizens Advisory
- Committee in January and then final adoption by the Policy Committee in
- February we have a month so that we can slide on that and have adoption by the
- Policy Committee in March but we'd prefer to have it all done by March we
- must have it done by no later than June 30th of this of calendar year 2025 and
- right now we're ahead of the Department of Transportation in terms of its
- schedule now I'd be happy to entertain any questions anybody may have about
- funding levels projects or timetable or anything else any questions for staff on
- the tip I apologize for the fact that it's a what I would call a draft draft
- in that we don't have the end dot projects in there but we didn't have
- adequate time to insert those in by the time they sent those to us we will have
- the end on projects inserted in by the first of next week and we will post that
- online on the website we'll also email that out email the link out to all the
- parties involved rural transit Bloomington Transit Monroe County City of
- Bloomington in dot and also all three committees questions anybody I think at
- this point instance like you mentioned a draft in progress I don't think we need
- any action at this point until it's a finalized document so yeah stay tuned
- and staff will keep us advised on the next steps and look forward to seeing
- the complete document yeah we in in this case we move faster than and that's why
- we've got the incomplete document thank you very good okay completes our new
- business any public comment on matters we didn't discuss on today's agenda
- hearing none if there's any updates communications or topic suggestions for
- future agenda from anybody on the committee feel free to share all right
- we'll meet again on November 20th and so will the CAC and the policy committee
- will meet on November 8th thank you all for being here appreciate you spending
- the morning and working on these projects and special thanks all the
- proxies thanks for pinch hitting and we'll see you in November thanks
- everybody
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