HPMPO Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC)

Attachment 1 MINUTES TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE September 22, 2015 TAC MEMBERS PRESENT: Tobin Shepherd –Lexington Neal Grimes – Thomasville Larry Warlick – Archdale Cheryl McQueary – NCDOT Board Division 7 Steve Shell – Davidson County Clyde Lyn Reece – Wallburg Larry Ward – Denton Bill Bencini – High Point Jesse Hill - Trinity TCC MEMBERS PRESENT: Greg Venable, Guy Cornman, Hemal Shah, Bryan Fulbright, Roger Jones, Zeb Holden, Jesse Day, Ed Lewis, Diane Hampton, Chuck George, Oliver Bass, Scott Rhine, Greg Errett, Darius Sturdivant, Marty Tillman, Jeff Loflin, Marc Allred, and Carrie Spencer. OTHERS PRESENT: John Hanes (Transportation Planning), Gwen Ford (GIS Analyst) RECORDING SECRETARY: Marianne Janiszewski, City of High Point Item 1: Reading of the Ethics Statement. Neal Grimes read the Ethics Awareness and Conflict of Interest Reminder. No one had any conflicts. Item 2: Public Comment Period Neal opened up the public comment period. No one spoke. Neal closed the public comment period. ACTION ITEMS Item 3: Consideration of the August 25, 2015 TAC meeting minutes. There were no corrections to the minutes. Motion by: Larry Warlick Seconded: Clyde Lynn Reece Vote: 1 Attachment 1 For: Unanimous Against: None Item 4: Public Hearing for the High Point Urban Area 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), the High Point Urban Area 2016-2025 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP), and the Conformity Determination Report. Neal opened up the public hearing. No one spoke. Neal closed the public hearing. Greg stated that these documents were out for a 50 day public review period as part of the public participation policy. Item 5: Consideration of the Air Quality Conformity Determination Findings for the High Point Urban Area 2040 MTP and the High Point Urban Area 2016-2025 MTIP are in conformance with the State Implementation Plan (SIP). The purpose of this report is to comply with the provisions of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 and the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) of July 6, 2012. This report demonstrates that the activities resulting from the implementation of the fiscally constrained metropolitan transportation plan (MTP) and Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP) will not “cause or contribute to any new violation of any standard in any area, increase the frequency or severity of any existing violation of any standard in any area, or delay timely attainment of any standard or any required interim emission reductions or other milestones in any area” of the following jurisdictions: The portion of Guilford County within the Burlington-Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization (BGMPO) The portions of Guilford County within the Greensboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (GMPO) The portions of Guilford, Davidson and Forsyth Counties within the High Point Metropolitan Planning Organization (HPMPO) The portions of Forsyth and Davidson Counties within the Winston-Salem Metropolitan Planning Organization (WSMPO) This conformity determination is based on a regional emissions analysis that uses the transportation network approved by the above-named Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) for the 2040 MTPs, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and speed input data developed by NCDOT, and emissions developed by the North Carolina Division of Air Quality (NCDAQ). Motion by: Larry Warlick 2 Attachment 1 Seconded: Bill Bencini Vote: For: Unanimous Against: None Item 6: Consideration of the 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan. The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) requires that all urbanized areas develop a long-range multi-modal Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) and update their plans on a regular basis. The MTP must have at least a twenty (20) year planning horizon, include both long-range and short-range strategies/actions that lead to the development of an integrated transportation system that facilitates the efficient movement of people and goods, and shall be reviewed and updated at least every four ( 4) years to confirm its validity and its consistency with current and forecasted transportation and land use conditions and trends. On January 22, 2013, the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) approved the 2035 Transportation Plan Update. The 2040 MTP continues the assumptions of the previous document. Six public meetings, including the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market, were held to review the 2040 MTP, the draft Air Quality Conformity Determination Report and Fiscal Year 2016-2025 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP) were held in July and August, 2015. The draft documents were distributed to each library and available to each municipality within the MPO and were available on the High Point MPO website for a 50-day public review period from July 13, 2015 through August 31, 2015. Motion by: Bill Bencini Seconded: Larry Warlick Vote: For: Unanimous Against: None Item 7: Consideration of the 2016-2025 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program. On June 4, 2015 the North Carolina Board of Transportation approved the 2016-2025 State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The STIP is a comprehensive listing of all transportation projects in North Carolina that are programmed for funding with 3 Attachment 1 State and Federal dollars during fiscal years 2016 – 2025. The High Point 2016-2025 MTIP is a comprehensive listing of all projects in the High Point MPO. The MTIP must be a subset of the High Point Urban Area 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) and found to be in conformance with Air Quality Conformity standards in accordance with the Clean Air Act. The MTIP along with the 2040 MTP and the Air Quality Conformity and Determination Report was out for public review and comment from July 13, 2015 through August 31, 2015. Six public meetings were held throughout July and August. Motion by: Larry Warlick Seconded: Bill Bencini Vote: For: Unanimous Against: None Item 8: Consideration of the resolution approving programming for Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funding for HPMPO projects. 3 Resolutions: Hi Tran Bus - $400,000 PART Bus Service Palladium - $458,762 – Scott Rhine stated that the schedules and transfers still need to be fine-tuned. PART has also been working with NCDOT on the emissions factors. Assuming that the MPO accepts these applications they then go to a committee within NCDOT that will review the projects. PART is looking at starting the Palladium service at the beginning of the fiscal year. PART Bus Replacement - $380,000 The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) announced the release of federal CMAQ funds for the High Point MPO for Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017. The funds are eligible to be programmed for projects in Fiscal Year 2017, which runs from October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017. NCDOT has allocated $1,238,762 in CMAQ funds for both Fiscal Year 2016 and Fiscal Year 2017 for the MPO for a grand total of $2,477,524 (see enclosed table). The High Point Deep River Greenway was selected for the 2016 project. The required 20% local match of $619,381 means that a total of $3,096,905 may be programmed for eligible CMAQ projects. This averages to $1,548,453 of CMAQ/local funds per year for the 4 Attachment 1 MPO to program. Be aware that each jurisdiction will be responsible for the 20% local match of a project if that project is selected for funding. Motion by: Cheryl McQueary Seconded: Larry Warlick Vote: For: Unanimous Against: None Information Items: Item 9: Review of SPOT 4.0 Update. SPOT online will be available on October 15 for entering projects. This will be available for 1 month. The High Point MPO receives 13 new projects each across all modes of transportation. At the end of March 2016 the quantitative scores and draft list of programmed statewide mobility projects will be released. At the end of April points will be able to be submitted on regional projects. We receive 1600 points for regional projects and 1600 points for division projects. At the end of July, 2016 the draft list of programmed regional impact projects will be released. On August 1, 2016 the Division Needs Local Input Point window opens up for 2 months. The final P4.0 scores will be released in October 2016. The 2017-2027 Draft STIP will be released in December 2016. Guy Cornman stated that all the TAC members from Davidson County are going to meet tomorrow at 10:00 at the Governmental Center to review the current list of projects in Davidson County. AGENCY REPORTS Item 11: NCDOT Board of Transportation Report. Cheryl McQueary reported that the budget that was signed by the Governor on Friday DOT will get additional funds. There are two types of money that DOT needs. The first is for maintenance and bridges, and the second is money for projects that are submitted under the SPOT process. The budget approved maintenance and bridge money and there is no new money provided for construction projects. The impact for this TAC is that the 5 Attachment 1 Jamestown Bypass part 2 is not in the bond so it will be rescored again as part of SPOT. The citizens are going to be able to vote on whatever is going to be in the Bond in November 2016. Transportation and Education have been deleted from the bond. It has not been voted on by the General Assembly yet. Cheryl has someone looking into what happens to the rest of the money if there is a cap on transit projects. Item 13: Division Engineer’s Reports. Division 7 Ed Lewis reported that there are 6 projects in planning. The traffic signal revisions at Kivett Dr. are pretty much done, just waiting on some punch list items. The public meeting map has been reviewed and comments have been made on the I-74/US 311 and NC 68 interchange improvement project. These comments will be sent to NCDOT and the public meeting will be scheduled within the next 4 weeks. The draft noise wall report has been done and is out for a four week review period. As part of this process there will be a public comment period that will be conducted by the staff from the project development and environmental section. The properties that are affected by noise get to vote as to whether or not they want a noise wall. They are trying to coordinate these two comment periods for the same day. Division is waiting on bid documents to come in on the bridge #895 project on Lexington Ave. over Bouldin Branch. The modifications to project submittals that were discussed at the last meeting have been turned into the SPOT office. Mike Mills is currently reviewing the division SPOT point methodology and as soon as he approves it they will send it out to partner RPO and MPO agencies. Division 7’s public meeting for SPOT 4.0 is scheduled for Monday, October 26 at the Division 7 Office on Yanceyville St. from 4-7. The public comment period is from October 1 – November 2. Jesse Day reported that the mission of the Piedmont Transportation Professionals Forum is to provide trainings in the Triad to reduce cost for local government to receive AIC and PE credits. Training will start on October 13 at the Deep River Center at 8:30 am. The NC 62 project has been broken into several projects. When looking at the travel time savings, reducing congestion, safety, benefit cost ratio staff decided this was the best route to go. This project has turned into 5 sub-projects. These do not count against the 13 projects. Division 8 Darius Sturdivant reported that the shoulder work that was done on I-85 is complete. The resurfacing projects have also been completed. The Prospect St. bridge replacement project over I-85 Business just started a month ago. Three of the SPOT 3 projects, Archdale Rd. widening, I-85 and Main St. interchange, and Finch Farm Rd. widening, that this MPO approved have been selected for funding and are moving along. They are scheduled for construction in 2022. Division 8 is also working on their scoring methodology which should be completed in a couple of weeks. The public meeting for SPOT 4.0 is scheduled for October 15 at the Division 8 Office in Carthage from 4-7 6 Attachment 1 Jeff Loflin reported that he will be retiring from DOT and Marty Tillman will be his replacement. Division 9 Diane Hampton reported that the State DOT is rebranding their logo. The motto is “Nothing Compares”. Cheryl stated that she believes all NC State vehicles are going to be white and branded with the new logo. Division 9’s public meeting will be Tuesday, October 13 from 4-7 in the division office on Silas Creek Parkway in Winston Salem. There are several bridge projects underway. The Frye Bridge Rd. project is 65% complete. The pavement and bridge rehabilitation project is 96% complete and is expected to be complete in December. The replacement of bridge #27 over I-85 Business will be let in October. The Winston Rd. project will tie into the replacement bridge #27 project. The Bud Sink Rd. bridge over Leonard Creek project will be let in October. The replacement bridge #40 on I-85 Service Rd. over Swearing Creek will be let in November. Item 10: Triad Air Awareness. No one was present. Item 13: NCDOT Transportation Planning Branch Report. Hemal Shah had nothing to report. Item 14: Hi tran Report No one was present. Item 15: PART Report Scott Rhine reported that the Transit Resource Call Center went active for Hi tran and PART in August. In October this will be expanded to incorporate Davidson County. PART will be looking at Route 9 between I-85 Business in Lexington and Downtown to Greensboro to make it more efficient and increase ridership. PART will be bringing to the TAC the second round of freight enhancement for the travel demand model. Item 16: Other Business Cheryl talked about how the small construction funds can be used to help the rural area projects. In the budget for this upcoming year there is $175,000 per division and then after that there is nothing. In the second year this money has been zeroed out so if you are doing your planning next year is the last year that rural counties will have access to any special project funds. After this they will have to compete in the SPOT process or come up with their own funding. Greg informed everyone that the MPO will have an additional staff person that will start at the end of October. He also introduced Gwen Ford, the MPO’s GIS Analyst. The next meeting will be Tuesday, October 27, 2015. 7 Attachment 1 There was no other business. The meeting was adjourned. 8