- Please let us know who you're with, so go ahead and start with Paul on my left.
- Paul Satterly, Monroe County Highway Engineer. Neil Copper, Proxy for the Bloomington City Engineer.
- David Hiddle, Bloomington Planning and Transportation. Nate Nichols, City of Bloomington
- Public Works Department. John Baton, G.I.'s Coordinator, Monroe County. Jane Flieg, City of
- Bloomington Utilities. Beth Casart, Proxy, Monroe County Parks and Recreation. Hunter Jackson, Proxy
- for Monroe County Auditor. Megan Blair, G.I.S. Manager, City of Bloomington. Linnea Wellings,
- INDOT, Proxy for Becky Packer. Rebecca, do we have you on line?
- All right, Linnea, are you a proxy for Rebecca Swift today?
- I think Linnea is the proxy for Becky Packer.
- Yes, for Becky Packer. Okay, thanks. Sorry. Yeah.
- Oh, I think Rebecca just sent you a chat there. Can't quite see it. I'm on the screen here, but.
- Yeah.
- Hello, Rebecca. I just made you co-host, so you can unmute and turn on your video now.
- Thank you. Hello. Sorry, I'm having to remote in today. I'm a little sick,
- but I didn't want to miss this meeting and was trying to help with a work crisis on some
- pavers showing up to ops. But hello, Rebecca Swift. I'm the Operations and Development
- Division Director for Parks and Recreation. Great. Thank you. Hope you feel better. Thank
- you for being here. Okay, next item is approval of. Oh, sorry, John. I missed you over there. Go
- ahead.
- And we got John Connell up front here from Bloomington Transit.
- We've missed anybody else. We can move ahead to approval of today's meeting agenda. And this is
- an action item, so do I have a motion to approve? And we'll need a second as well. Motion to
- approve.
- Thanks, John. We have a second. Second. Thanks, Neil. Any public comment on today's meeting agenda?
- Okay, hearing none, give it back to staff for roll call vote. Rebecca Swift.
- Sorry, there's keeping a lag on my mute button. I am here. Sorry.
- Oh sorry, this is a roll call roll call vote for the agenda.
- Yes, the approval approval today's meeting agenda.
- Thank you.
- Aye.
- Paul Satterly.
- Yes.
- Linnea Wellings.
- Yes.
- Nate Nichol.
- Yes.
- David Hiddle.
- Yes.
- Jane Fleague.
- Yes.
- John Connell.
- Yes.
- Megan Blair.
- Yes.
- John Baton.
- Yes.
- Hunter Jackson.
- Yes.
- Both Beth Cosart.
- Yes.
- Motion passes.
- I'll also vote yes.
- Ah, Neil Copper.
- Thank you.
- Motion passes.
- Thanks, Katie.
- Okay, next item is approval of minutes from our last meeting on January 29th.
- This is also an action item, so I'll need a motion to approve in a second as well.
- Motion to approve.
- I will say one thing before John's approval, just for the minutes, there were some comments
- in there that weren't included, comments from the chair and vice chair.
- I know that Paul shared some project updates at the last meeting, so we probably should
- just make a note of that because there were some comments in there.
- And then I provide some comments just to welcome John on board as
- our new vice chair for this year.
- So it just would be my only, my only notes for that.
- So, you know, maybe I'll do a motion to approve the amended
- agenda with those comments if anyone's comfortable with that.
- Okay, thanks, John.
- Roll call to approve the amended minutes.
- John Baten.
- Yes.
- Megan Blair.
- Yes.
- Jane Fleague.
- Yes.
- John Connell.
- Yes.
- Neil Copper.
- Yes.
- David Hittle.
- Yes.
- Nate Nichol.
- Yes.
- Linnea Wellings.
- Yes.
- Paul Satterly.
- Yes.
- Rebecca Swift.
- Yes.
- Hunter Jackson.
- Yes.
- Beth Kosart.
- Yes.
- Motion passes.
- Great, thank you.
- Next item is communication from the Chair and Vice Chair.
- So I'll turn it over to John.
- Any updates you'd like to share?
- Not at this time.
- Same here.
- Just hoping that the nice weather we had yesterday and a little bit this morning continues,
- but I think we still have some winter ahead of us.
- Moving ahead to reports from officers and/or committees.
- Anything that anyone would like to report or provide an update on?
- I was going to update on a few city MPO projects.
- We have a few that are still in construction right now.
- We have Jackson Creek Trail is still technically open.
- We're trying to wrap up a few items and utility coordination with Duke still.
- The B-Line Trail extension is most of that is complete,
- but the work adjacent to the railroad tracks,
- there's about a block there that got delayed for some environmental radiation.
- So that should be wrapping up hopefully in the spring.
- Our first street project is still ongoing.
- I believe the road is open, but they're still down there.
- I'm doing some additional work.
- Let's see.
- We have a project that just went to a successful bid letting,
- our crosswalks phase two project.
- That's on the agenda later for some modification.
- We have one project that has been delayed,
- our West Second Street reconstruction project.
- The environmental process on that has delayed the project beyond its letting date.
- It was on a May letting and it's been pushed unfortunately beyond the fiscal year.
- So it's now on an August 2025 letting, which while it's only a few months later,
- it does create some complications for our funding.
- So we're working to shift some of that funding into other projects that can use the funding.
- We're talking to the county and Bloomington Transit and NDOT and other MPOs about options
- for funding swaps and of course working closely with MPO staff here to make sure that whatever
- we do with that funding is kind of the best option for the community.
- Probably it'll end up being a mixture of different options for shifting things around.
- But overall with that project, we're expecting it to still move forward,
- but a few minutes or a few months behind schedule
- and utility relocation will probably still start on the same timeline.
- So it probably won't actually impact the construction schedule.
- And then we have a couple projects that are still working through the process.
- Our High Street project is in right away acquisition right now.
- And our North Dunn Street project is just starting up with design consultant selection.
- So wanted to quickly update on those and be happy to answer questions if there are any.
- Yeah, Neil, just as a curiosity, the Jackson Creek Park, is that to move the power line
- or the power pole?
- Yeah, there's still some still some poles in the middle of the trail that we have been
- struggling with Duke to get resolved.
- It's a great trail. So I'm a fan. Thanks.
- Yeah, thanks for that update, Neil. Appreciate it.
- Any other reports or updates anyone like to provide?
- Yeah, County or the Sunrise Greetings Overpass, we're going to be setting beams hopefully middle
- of March. So be on the lookout for that. That project should be complete this year, August,
- July timeframe.
- Great. Looking forward to that.
- I have an update for parks. For those of you who hopefully heard about the power line trail
- from Steve Cotter and actually just first and foremost, in case it hasn't been announced,
- Steve Cotter did retire from Parks and Rec on January 3rd. So hopefully you've seen him out
- still riding his bike and enjoying the sweet bliss of retirement. But the power line trail,
- 30 years in the making, is hopefully going to be going to construction later this year. I'm
- expecting to receive 1,100% plans from Aztec at the end of this month to start the official
- review process and start getting some permits in place. And this again reminder power line trail
- will start at South Rogers right across from Switchart Park and follow the Duke power line
- easement and connect users to RCA Park and the new Osage Habitat for Humanity neighborhood and then
- continue on to the property boundary of the Monroe County Commissioners. And hopefully the plan is
- that the new Sudbury development that's proposed in that area will pick up the multi-use trail and
- continue on towards Wimmer Road and eventually connect the dots to Clear Creek Trail.
- Happy to answer any questions if anyone hasn't at this time but
- looking forward to sharing more of those design plans once they are final.
- Thanks Rebecca appreciate the update from everybody. Moving ahead to reports from
- MPO staff looks like we have a number of items here so I can turn it over to Patrick and Katie.
- I just wanted to point out for the record a few of the staff modifications to the TIP that have
- taken place recently. These are just shifting of funding or no significant increase in funding
- changes that have been made to various projects in the past couple months and they are not ones
- that
- require committee approval but I did want to make you aware of them. I'm not I can't remember if I
- put the information for those in the packet probably not but if you have any questions
- about any of them feel free to ask but if you just look on the TIP there will be a note in
- red text a footnote in red text below each of the project tables that have been modified or amended
- and so you can reference those footnotes for some details on those changes.
- The second item is that we had a TIP amendment so as a new project that was added to our TIP
- by INDOT it was an INDOT project the installation of railroad crossing safety equipment
- for a few locations if you click on the link in the packet you'll see the map of where those
- locations are they're all northwest northeast of town along the railroad and these are only the
- crossings there are more crossings as part of this project that are involved but these are the only
- three that are part of our MPO project area within our boundaries so this request this new
- project request was an amendment which typically goes to all the committees but it was expedited
- and just just shown to the policy committee just before or at the February 14th meeting
- if you have any questions about that let me know do you know the locations of three in the county
- yeah um here i'll show share this real quick
- uh it's here
- one right here um this is the uh in dot identifying number um
- up here new new near new unionville and then uh just north um by early young road
- the other one is mount gilead yeah was there anything specifically they were doing to those
- crossings was it just equipment or was it yeah safety upgrades installation of safety equipment
- um i think i did put that one in the packet let's see
- uh
- um yeah lights gates and cantilevers
- any questions for staff on any of those items
- if you do or have any follow-up feel free to reach out to patrick or katie on those
- we can move ahead to old business seeing none jump ahead to new business
- and it's the fiscal year 2026 2023 tip adoption okay 2026 2030 tip what we have here is what's
- called a proposed final i'd hope to have you a draft final but everything has been very fluid
- the last couple of days if not weeks um on the federal level uh with step and tip amendments
- being held up uh those step amendments now statewide transportation improvement program
- amendments normally approved in indianapolis by the federal highway staff now i have to go to
- washington dc so there's a delay in in some of the approvals uh the funding well the the funding
- has
- been very fluid also in the sense that we think we know what we have but then what will come down
- from washington dc may be something different any day or any week now so what we have here is the
- proposed the proposed final uh listing all the projects beginning on page 20 of the document
- per project list for monroe county city of bloomington rural transit bloomington transit
- and the indiana department of transportation just prior to the meeting we found six minor errors
- these are typo errors of some type or another on page 6 page 7 appendix a page 49 page 54 and
- page 75 those have all been corrected in fact the correct version will be uploaded to the website
- just shortly after this meeting with those errors corrected the big thing to jump to
- here let me get to it is on page 17 where we have what we call our metropolitan planning
- anticipated fiscal year 2630 transportation improvement program federal program revenue levels
- i'm might note there that the 2027 numbers are incorrect the assumption here was that
- surface transportation block grant funds had been were were subject to a payback and it turns out
- crp hsip protect section 164 and ta are all subject to a payback that was a loan agreement
- between the mpo and the indianapolis mpo or construction of the first street project
- so fiscal year 26 estimates are are here these are rock solid for the moment i'll say that
- these are lower than what they were in previous years in the sense that revenue
- revenue receipts for the state of indiana are distributed on group two cities 50,000 200,000
- those are distributed based on population our urbanized area population decreased vis-a-vis
- they were balanced the state because of the 2020 census when our students went home and therefore
- we were undercounted but the your bureau the census numbers are what count anyway is the official
- numbers so as a result there's a lower distribution in terms of funding that carries out we were we
- were instructed by the department of transportation federal highway and fta to assume constant
- flat levels for all years so you'll see there in 26 28 29 and 30 28 29 and 30 are also what i would
- call aspirational years they're not fiscally constrained total to be we showed them anyway
- um trying to think what else here uh that's that's essentially it in the projects for bloomington
- transit and rural transit those are up to date those are shown on page 18 projects for monroe
- county and the city of bloomington summary table which is on page 19 wait till you get there
- shown on page 19 those are still subject to some change in that we must fiscally constrain those
- those are off by several thousand dollars not a not not a significant amount but those are
- still subject to change and as neil reported previously the city and the county are working
- on the on adjusting those figures out so that they that way they meet fiscal constraint now the
- indiana department of transportation projects are as current as can be well yeah fiscal sorry rural
- transit and bloomington transit are locked for now uh the indiana department of transportation
- projects
- which begin on page 31 those are locked for now we will not be changing those prior to adoption
- by the policy committee in uh on march 14th of next month um in terms of the appendices
- nothing has changed there we still the financial analysis assumptions have remained the same
- despite the flux of funding on the national level the infrastructure and investments jobs act or
- the
- bipartisan infrastructure law whatever you want to call it is subject to reauthorization beginning
- july 1st there are no reads out of washington dc at this point in time on where that will go
- whether it will be increased or decreased or remain the same we anticipate a continuing
- resolution actually is what we anticipate uh the transportation planning requirements have
- remained the same those come from the indiana department of transportation federal highway
- administration federal transit performance-based transportation planning targets have remained
- constant environmental justices remain the same despite a notification that we must
- review all of our documents for the term dei and we are to re-describe diversity
- and in terms of making it similar to what governor's executive order was
- on uh this is executive order number 14 2025 so we're making that adjustment internally
- air quality and climate change assessments have remained the same complete streets policy remains
- the same we anticipate doing a complete streets policy update later on this calendar year to make
- it more well to put it in line with the city of bloomington's safe streets and roads for all
- policy which was adopted in december of last year plan development and public meeting meeting
- involvement methodology remains the same we did have a number of comments on the draft
- transportation
- improvement program we've addressed all of those uh glossary remains the same except for like i
- said
- a change on dei self-certification will remain the same adoption resolution which we will have for
- the policy committee public participation legal notice to show that we actually had a 30-day
- public comment period and that appeared in the herald times and then we will have a transportation
- improvement program approval letter we anticipate if if we have the adoption by the policy
- committee
- on march 14th we anticipate having that approval of the transportation improvement program in may
- june at the very latest we've updated the policy committee uh membership we updated technical
- advisory committee membership also the citizens advisory committee and membership
- and with that i'll stop and ask for any questions anybody may have or clarifications anybody needs
- a lot of information to digest there so any questions for patrick on that
- we apologize for how fluid the document is right now but uh circumstances on the federal level are
- very fluid so therefore we're very fluid in what we have to write and respond to
- this is an item up for adoption so if anyone is comfortable
- proposing a motion and a second happy to entertain that
- i'll move approval with the understanding that there are still some updates to be made to the
- project applications to bring it into fiscal constraint
- i'll second that thanks neil thanks john any public comment on the fiscal year 26 23
- or 2030 rather that fiscal year 2026 2030 transportation improvement plan program
- hearing none i can turn it over to katie for roll call vote
- for the recommending of the adoption of the 2026 2026 to 2030 tip um john connell yes
- jane fleag yes
- neil copper yes megan blair yes john baton yes david hiddell yes beth cosair yes
- under jackson yes lenea wellings yes nate nickel yes paul saturday yes rebecca swift
- yes and joe van de venter yes
- motion carries
- all right thank you
- okay moving ahead on the agenda any public comments
- on any items we didn't include on today's agenda
- hearing none any communications from committee members on items we didn't include on today's
- agenda i know we touched on a lot of these already but if anybody else has
- communication updates or topic suggestions for future meeting agendas let us know
- all right a couple upcoming meetings policy committee which i represent the tac on it's
- march 14th our next meeting will be march 26th and the cac also meets on the 26th of march as well
- thank you everybody for being here thank you proxies for pinch hitting and we'll see you next month
- thank you on behalf of the staff thank you
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