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. 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 (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music)