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 (orchestral music)