City of Bloomington, Indiana MPO Policy Committee, 14 Feb 2020

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14Th at 1:30 do we have a motion to approve the agenda as presented. We have.

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We have that motion in a second all those in favor of approving this.

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Agenda as presented do so by saying hi hi any opposed.

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Motion carries approval of the minutes for january 10th 2020. We have a motion.

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Second- and we have a second all, those in favor of approving the minutes for.

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January 10th 2020 do so by saying aye any opposed.

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Communications from the chair, I'd like to say happy valentine's day to.

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Everybody and then I thought it would be great if the new member, if we could all.

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Introduce ourselves because I think we have some new members on the board- that's been appointed, so if we want to start at that end to them also, if.

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Someone is here as a proxy: please identify themselves as a proxy proxy for.

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Moment on with any partner to transportation proxy for tony malone,.

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Monroe county surveyor monroe county plan, commission member alternate for.

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Margaret clements, kate, wilson or county council county john hamilton, mayor of.

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Bloomington 30 bloomington city council cameras, samples.

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L town council penny givens monroe county.

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Commissioner, adam wastin public works director for the city of bloomington.

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Thank you, reports from offices and or committees, citizens, advisory committee.

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2045 mtp we discussed at length, particularly the environmental justice.

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Provision and its implications and the ways that we would like to see it.

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Expanded we'll be discussing that later, so I won't go into that now. We also.

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Recommended approval of the tip amendment that we will be looking at.

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Today, for bridge maintenance. Thank you. Thank you. Sarah, a technical advisory.

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Committee, well, he did ask that I report the technical advisory committee.

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Approved the recommendation for the bridge maintenance project, which is in.

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The transportation improvement program amendment for today thank you.

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Reports from mpo staff, operational bylaws, update, yeah the tac and the cac.

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Also recommended that we open a 30-day public comment period on the draft.

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Operational bylaws amendment in this period we'll review additional comments.

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From the tac and cac as well as comments that we received from our online.

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Commenting forum and in-person forum found at the planning and transportation.

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Department expect this to be on the agenda in old business next month. Also.

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Once this comes to a resolution, we can give you the public participation plan.

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Which we need to update before pass in the 2045 mtp.

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Any discussion.

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Seeing none, okay, old business.

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Do we need to go through each of the one? Okay, the number one 2045 metropolitan.

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Transportation plan introduction background way of explanation. The reason.

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We put this under reports from staff. Is that if we introduced it is new to.

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Business then we would have to come back and use it as old business. So by putting.

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It as a staff report, it short-circuits the process so much so to speak. First.

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Thing is just the update on the status of the entire plan itself. The draft 2040.

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Metropolitan transportation planners are reported to you. Last month we met with.

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The indiana department of transportation and federal highway of representatives.

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In january, outlining our timeline for the process, the update, the update.

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Chapters, the requirements, the public involvement process and all that I don't.

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Have a detailed schedule for you yet other than than to tell you that we have.

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Ten public meetings scheduled for the plan itself three in march three and.

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April three in august and then another one in september. The final one will.

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Actually be in september, two of those meetings well to each of those meetings.

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For example, the first two in march will be at the bloomington transfer to center.

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Downtown transfer center so that way we're reaching out to those who are a.

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Transit dependent and then the second meeting will be at town of ellisville.

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Town hall in april again same thing: downtown transfer center at noon down at.

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Ilet's ville up at ilet's, ville town hall at six o'clock and eight o'clock.

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That evening also, then in august same thing: downtown transfer, center.

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Again at noon hour and then town of ellis ville and then in september, we're.

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Looking at having a final meeting here in the atrium- and this would be a public.

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Become as you are type of meeting in the atrium, the extra meetings that we're.

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Talking about the extra three meetings we we haven't, solidified the location.

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Of those yet and will will be able to send out to you hopefully next week or.

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Within two weeks, a detailed schedule on exactly where we'll be at each month of.

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The of the process we're still on schedule for presenting an adoption to.

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This committee, in october of this year, the plan must be updated or must be.

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Approved for an update by the policy committee by the end of december of this.

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Year, questions questions on number one: okay ask as we proceed we're we're.

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Giving all of the committee's giving giving specific chapters to the citizens.

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Advisory committee and the technical advisory committee first and then.

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Followed by by presenting those chapters to the policy committee, we started with.

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What I would call the the easier chapters, for example, the financial.

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Forecast which you have on our agenda today, the environmental justice chapter.

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The environment and then because at the last meeting the committee asked for a.

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List of what I would call acronyms, we've included in the glossary that would.

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Normally be included into the the metropolitan transportation plan, then.

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Proceeding through all of this with the financial forecast, the process is, is.

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What I would call prescriptive in terms of what what we're required to show and.

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Document is there's very little leeway on this. What we're showing here is.

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Federal resource programs- and these have changed significantly since last time,.

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Excuse me under the fast act we now have highway performance program.

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National highway performance program, we have a surface transportation block.

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Program in the highway safety improvement program, congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program that doesn't.

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We don't qualify for that because our air is is entertainment and then.

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Metropolitan planning money- this is for our planning activities and then the.

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National highway freight program- and this is this predominantly used by the.

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Indiana department of transportation under the funding, federal funding.

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Projections staff projected the surface transportation block grant funds for.

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Receipt to the urbanized area, those are currently somewhere around three point.

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Six three point: five million dollars per year.

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Those are allocated to us based on population, in other words, surface block.

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Transportation block grant funds come to the state of indiana state of indiana.

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Gives the the urbanized areas a certain proportion of those funds? And then those.

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Funds are divided up based on population, and the population is based on the 2010.

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Census, so the outlook is that we would grow with the 2020 census, because some.

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Urban areas have declined and we've continued to grow, but that still would be probably a marginal gain. The text here describes.

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The urbanized areas with populations of two hundred thousand group ones, 50,000.

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To 200,000, which was ourselves which are group twos, showing that these these.

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Funds are 7525 funds. Well, I'm sorry it shows here. 2.75 million is approximately.

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What we receive in any one year, we went through a process of looking back at the.

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Historical performance of surface transportation, block grant funds and.

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They've been growing at a rate of approximately three percent per year, so.

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Instead, we took a very conservative approach and used a 2 percent forecast.

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Growth rate, we have the spreadsheets available for you. If you wish to look at.

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That but it's showing that between the year.

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2020 and 2030 a big number 31 million 2030 and 2040 554 million a total over.

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The entire forecast period of 86 million dollars we went through the same process.

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For highway safety improvement frunze, we only receive approximately four hundred.

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And seventy thousand dollars of that in any one given year. I wish that was.

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Triple or quadruple, but this is what we get going through again through a.

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Process of forecasting a growth rate of 2% we're showing over the forecast.

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Period, a total of 14 million dollars, transportation alternatives. This was.

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Previously called transportation alternatives program, they dropped the.

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Program we receive what I would call this is, these are my words, a minuscule.

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Amount of a hundred and fifty five thousand eight hundred and one dollars.

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Per year in transportation, alternatives grants.

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These these are what we use for multi-use pathways and other special.

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Projects which alleviate congestion in in the roadway system and also allow.

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Alternative transportation modes again with a forecast growth rate of 2% we're.

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Looking at only four point, eight million dollars to the year 2045, looking at.

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State of indiana investments. We have indiana's next level roads plan which.

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Was announced through the enrolled act in 2017? This was not documented in the.

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Previous plan we're looking at five-year investments of somewhere around 13.

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Million dollars from 2018 to 2020, I don't know what the additional dollars.

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Are now because they haven't really forecast for us but they're, showing that.

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It should be somewhere in the vicinity of 1.2 billion dollars in new state and.

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Local revenues in 2024 now how much of that trickles down to the local level! I.

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Don't know a yet at this point in time. Yes, sir,.

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The bottom page for where you just set a five-year investment of 13 million, but.

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It only mentions three years so that just threw me off is that when you it.

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Says you see where I'm looking under next level? Yes, 20 18 through 20 yeah.

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What what they had documented this is from their website. This is from the.

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State of indiana's website in dots website- okay, I'm just trying to I know.

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It was it five years that five years of it yet its 2018 through 2020. Well, I'm.

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Doing my math, that's nice yeah I or is there more in 21 22 or that's 21, 22 and.

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They haven't released those amounts yet, okay. Well, it's just an odd statement.

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We'll review that again, it is three years and this is what they.

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Had posted on their website will will do the research and correct this.

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I'm sorry, looking back in dot also created the community crossing program.

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We did not do a forecast for that because it would just wasn't possible.

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Those grants are based on merit and discretionary awards. We looked at.

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Federal transit program grants, capital grants and state assistance, federal.

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Formula grants for bloomington transit before caster those those were somewhere.

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Around two point: seven: seven million dollars in calendar year. Twenty these.

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Are actual numbers forecasting again a two percent growth rate, we're looking at.

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Eighty six million dollars over the forecast period, state transit assistance.

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To bloomington transit was two points: six million dollars in 2020 forecasting.

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That out, a two percent rate shows eighty eight point: nine million dollars in.

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Twenty forty five federal transit formula grants and operating grants for.

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Rural transit totaled, seven hundred and forty eight thousand five, forty four and.

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Twenty twenty forecasting, those out using what they had previously received.

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We showed to twenty four point: four million dollars in the year, 2045 state.

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Transit assistance to rural transit was three hundred and six thousand eight.

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Hundred and seventy five dollars in 2020 projecting that out, ten million dollars.

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In twenty forty five, we next looked at local resources. These were in.

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Cooperation with all of the local entities, the motor vehicle highway.

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Account local road and street wheel tax, kuhn, bridge qm capital development.

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Alternative transportation funds, in some cases, inc tax, increment financing,.

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Motor vehicle highway accounts for the monroe county and the city of.

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Bloomington have shown a great degree of variability. Therefore, we we forecast a.

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Very conservative 2% growth rate on that we showed that the monroe county was.

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Actually growing somewhere somewhere around the 3% range, the city of.

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Bloomington was slightly less than 3% range, but still a 2%. It was a very.

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Conservative estimate on that and we're showing that, under the assumption that.

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The general assembly will allow everybody to continue is the way the law.

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Is currently written we're looking at three hundred and twenty five thousand.

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In the year, 2045, local road and street funds a grant again a great degree of.

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Variability we're showing a two percent rate here and 65 million in 2045 cume.

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Bridge funds again we're showing that well we're actually showing a constant.

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Dollar growth in this cuny count in monroe, county kuhn, bridge fund have been.

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Growing, that's it's slightly better than two percent they've been growing.

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Somewhere around close to three percent or slightly above, but we're looking at.

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Fifty five thousand fifty five million, I'm sorry, seven, seven, forty eight in the.

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Year, 2045 major bridge fund, which is a brand new brand new under the general.

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Assembly, where it's only three point, three three three cents per $100 of a.

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Set of assessed valuation is that right hundred. Is that a thousand point zero.

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Three, I'm sorry per hundred. We made no forecast on this because the.

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Current year, 2019, I believe was the first year that you received 2018. I was.

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Approximately two and a half million dollars, or so we did four, we didn't. We.

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Didn't forecast that out, we did just for the exercise to show it, but we couldn't.

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Assume that that was going to be the we we just didn't have a track record on.

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That so we didn't forecast that out human to.

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Capital development, municipalities and and monroe county have the option of.

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Using qm cap development for investment projects, we therefore forecast those out.

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Showing one hundred and twenty two point: six million dollars in the forecast year.

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Tax increment financing believe monroe county has for tax increment financing.

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Districts or is it three I can't remember, I don't have it off the top. Hey.

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It's four three: okay, we did not do a forecast for that under the assumption.

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That those were again variable and they couldn't be forecast with any great.

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Degree of accuracy, alternative transportation funds, those are used.

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Exclusively by the city of bloomington, we looked at those in terms of what what.

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Has been performed in the past projected those out at a 2% rate, again, twenty five.

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Million dollars locally derived income, we did not make a a forecast for that.

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General obligation bonds are out there, we didn't assume any use on that and.

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Therefore, we came to a concluding number which the federal highway administration.

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Expects us to issue, which is a big number and in terms of of actuality.

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Anything beyond the ten-year forecast is a good guess. I mean that's. That's just.

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The staff talking here be happy to show you what what the numbers are behind the.

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Scenes on this in terms of the spreadsheet we can share those with you.

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If you have any questions, okay, questions on my right, sir, yes.

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Not exactly retaining, but what would it take in terms of financial forecasting.

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And for this body's action to be able to take or designate some portion of the.

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Stp funding either to alternative transportation and/or to transit, because.

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We know both of those funding sources are quite limited and we know that.

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Alternative and transit both serve the entire community and all ages. In our.

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Community the option exists right now, where you mean, in fact, when we do the.

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Call for projects the call for transportation and improvement projects.

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I mean a certain portion of those projects could be allocated to to say a.

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Reconstruction of a roadway or a street modernization where you've got a side.

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Path on one side and a sidewalk, multi multi use pathway. I'm sorry! I have to.

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Use the right term around the country designate a particular portion and.

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That's their funding, that's what I'm asking is there something within state.

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Law that would prohibit us from making such a designation as an mpo body. Your.

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Your surface transportation block grant funds. You can use those as you wish. Okay,.

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Thank you for eligible activities, yes, including public transportation. If you.

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Wish to take away from the other programs our point here we're trying to.

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Make is that the pot of money available to us in terms of federal funds, for.

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Surface transportation, highways safety, improvement program and transportation.

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Alternatives, it's small in terms of what our needs are and if you look at what.

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The investments are being made using 100% of local funds, that's where the.

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Bulk of the investments are: do we have a notion of proportionally.

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What portion of our funding our total funding goes to both transit and to.

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Alternative, yes, I have that on a spreadsheet. Okay, thank you.

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The stp program was converted to a block grant program. Instead. Is that just a new.

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Name and the same thing or as that, actually promote additional flexibility.

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In some way it is it kind of incest, same same thing, name change! Okay, thank you.

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Allocating to it in the current typical and those funds are being used to match.

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For an electric bus acquisition, I just wanted to clarify a couple. Things is.

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This this actually lists 26 years 2020 through 2045. Is this actually a 26 year.

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Plan at summaries the forecast was for forecast. Minimum is 25 years. We did 26.

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We ran through the tape.

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I would I would recommend that we, when we describe the breakout, you say 2020.

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Through 2030 and then you say 2030 again through 2045, I think you probably mean.

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20 31 through 2045 or anyway, whatever your double listing, 23rd. Oh yes,.

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Because the mpos fiscal year ends in the middle of the year, it ends on june 30th.

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And so I think this is what it was or why I was showing 2034 for both sections.

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By fiscal year that would be consistent, correct well, well, just a little.

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Confusing we'll make it right we'll make them on a.

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Vacation, no, that's a good point, my quick numbers- and I don't know if.

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They match up exactly so you, I do think it's helpful for the public and for us.

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Frankly, at the very beginning, to kind of do the big categories I had about a.

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Hundred and six million projected of the federal highway about two hundred and.

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Nine million for the transit combination and that may not be right, I don't know I.

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Just added a clue, then 595 for the local sources, but just just to give the big.

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High level numbers of where this is coming from, I think, would be helpful and.

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Of course, that those are 26 year totals and and they can help us think about.

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Relative, maybe another pie chart, could be kind of the relative investments in.

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Transit surface, you know I kind of like charts that show one can be. This is.

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Where is the money coming from in a lot of ways? Yes, but it probably a little.

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Different pie chart if it showed, where is the money being spent on what.

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Categories: roads, transit, bridges, whatever the right categories, are kind.

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Of to be able to see- because all this is really hard to digest for for this.

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Member of the public, and maybe so so so I find maybe if you can think about some.

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Pie, charts to help people see that that might be helpful, and then I would also.

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Just sorry to point it out, but the very first page it says financial resources.

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Are typically set aside for three categorical areas, and then there are.

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Four bullets, so I just want to kind of love that too.

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So how many times if we prove this, but thank you this is helpful to get a sense.

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Of the scale of investment, which is which is big for this stuff, it's thanks.

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A lot it's a massive amount in some ways. It's.

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Overwhelming because it's words and data and and the graphics would help.

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Immensely and that's something we talked about- we just hadn't put it into this.

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Chapter previous plans had had not included graphics and we'd like to go.

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More to a graphic program, if you've seen the indiana department of.

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Transportation's plan, it's entirely graphic. They try and say as little as.

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Possible, thank you. This is a really big picture type of thing and I don't know.

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How much this particular document is sort of scripted by what the federal.

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Government expects to see- and things like that, but I think all the.

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Projections seem to be based on a transportation system that looks in 2045.

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Very much what our transportation system looks like today, and I think that that's.

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Hopefully inaccurate, I hope that we will not have as many gas-powered cars and.

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Trucks and projections out of other groups are that we won't even have as.

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Many personally owned vehicles that will go to rideshare types of things like.

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Uber and lyft, even over the last couple of years, we've seen shifts within this.

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Area with electric scooters, for example, and so I think that income based on for.

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Example, wheel, taxes, gasoline taxes, even personal property taxes. I think that.

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Those are going to shift dramatically and I think that it's it's putting too.

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Much weight on out into the future and I guess I'm challenging the notion that.

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That we're going to have this same revenue stream and I'm not putting this.

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On you, I'm just challenging what the general assumptions are here. I also.

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Think things like an ageing population makes the difference. I mean we're we're.

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Trying to take keys away from certain elderly.

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Relatives at this point and there's projections that even the iu student.

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Population will decrease in the future which again shifts what we need locally.

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And the income that we'll have locally, so I I guess I just challenged the whole.

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Basis for what this is coming from, and- and I assume that some of this comes.

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From what you're getting from outside sources, I'm not I'm not pointing a.

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Finger here, but I would like to see these are all data-driven they're all.

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Data driven- and they all assume you know a certain progressive trend and that.

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Progressive trend is, as I say, somewhere beyond 10 years, it's fraught with a lot.

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Of peril, and what you're you know and part of the part of our fault here- is.

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That we're giving you financial forecasts yet, but yet, prior to this.

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We're supposed to be rolling out what I would call a future transportation needs.

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In other words, where we look at what do we think the future is going to be like.

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What do people want, what is the future really going to be like and you're right.

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There will be fewer personal loan vehicles. There will be a total shift to.

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Alternative fuels of some type or another, probably electric and the gas.

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Tax in the long run is dead, as they would say, along with the diesel tax.

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You'll see more shared vehicles, you'll see interconnected vehicles, you'll see.

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Automated vehicles, you're gonna, see everything and I expect things delivered.

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To my home, maybe done by a drug, won't even you know, which puts less pressure on roads and bridges, even though I just. I just think that trying to project out.

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25 26 years at this point when there's such shifting technology that it's.

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Realistic and the other part we have out here too, that we haven't shown you and.

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I'll have to familiarize you with: it is the travel demand forecast model? We were.

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Required in well in 2013, we created a travel demand, forecast model.

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We quantified as much as possible transportation needs demands, usage.

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Patterns and all of that in the monroe county, well in all of mineral county, I'm.

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Sorry- and we looked at it in terms of myrtle splits in terms of what's.

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Highway, what's public transportation and what's possibly bicycle and pedestrian.

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And that travel demand forecast model again assumes certain patterns are out.

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There into the future- and that's that's what we have right now behind the.

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Curtain we haven't pulled that out again because that's all based on the 2010.

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Census data, in other words, the behavior patterns and the economy and everything.

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Of 2010, we we can update certain economic patterns on that terms of.

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Employment in terms of population in terms of everything else, but it's a.

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Guess until we get the census data, so what we're doing here is we're putting.

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Out a lot of big numbers and those big numbers may not necessarily have any.

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Relevance right now, but when we get to the model we get to future.

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Transportation needs what people want, what people want now and in the short.

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Term and what we anticipate happening in the in the future, then the picture.

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Changes dramatically, I also wanted to ask: has this kind of work been done.

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Before and how accurate are the projections in the short-term, the.

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Projections are fairly accurate. You know, you know I'll give you an example here.

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Traveled around forecast model shows that we're growing at a zero point. Four.

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Nine percent increase in vehicle miles traveled on an annual basis and the.

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State of indiana was showing during ordering our calculations, we showed it.

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Something like zero point: five percent annual growth rate vehicle miles.

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Traveled monroe county in the urbanized area, it's.

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Growing at what I would call a slower rate than the rest of the state and when.

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Asked why that's happening? The answer is simple. We have somewhere around four and.

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A half to five and a 5.2 million people using public transportation. We also have.

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A compact urban form which allows people to bicycle, allows them to be pedestrians.

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It uses a whole mix in there, so in answer your question: we're actually.

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Doing pretty well into in terms of how we're growing and in terms of the.

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Accuracy of the model, it shows a high degree of accuracy up to this point in.

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Time there are only so many corridors that people are traveling to and from.

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The patterns are highly predictable terms of where they're, where they're.

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Doing I mean the the biggest change here will be land use and if you can control.

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The land use you can control the traffic. I hope that helps you.

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Want to move on to environmental justice.

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Justise another requirement of the 2045 metropolitan transportation plan is that.

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We evaluate what are defined as environmental justice areas, the.

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Definition is is set out here in terms of what the environmental divini I'm.

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Sorry in terms of what it is definition is high minority population tracks where.

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50% or more of the residents or the tract or considered minority populations.

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And then also low-income tracks, where 50 percent or more of the individuals who.

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In a tract or classified is living below the poverty level using the american.

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Community survey 2017: these are estimates from the census bureau, but.

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It's the most available data. We examined all of the census tracts in monroe.

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County we found that there were six tracks that meet the criteria census.

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Track number one two point: zero one. These won't mean anything to you until I.

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Show you the map, two point: zero to six point: zero. One, six point: zero: two and.

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Track sixteen now showing you this is the tabular form of the data, but then.

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Here's the graphical form of the data which shows you the pattern. These are.

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The environmental justice areas at present these were the environmental.

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Justice areas, three years ago, when we lasted metropolitan transportation plan.

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And these were the environmental justice areas back in 2010. They haven't changed.

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In terms of where people are living now, if you look at these closely invite.

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Tract number one: two point: zero two two point: zero one and sixteen these have.

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High student populations and therefore they qualify in in terms of you, you have.

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Minority populations of students congregating together within these.

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Census tracts and you also have low poverty rates because they are students.

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I would, I would suggest that track six point: zero, two and six point: zero one or.

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More of would call a traditional urban.

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Environmental justice area, though I've been advised that in 6.02 and 6.01 there.

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Are significant student populations in those tracts also now now that we've.

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Documented these these tracks, it's it's up to the local area, to.

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Determine that the investments we made aren't discriminatory, that we are not.

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Not inducing what I would call a disproportional adverse effect on.

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Anyone's any any of the individuals, the minority populations of low-income.

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Populations in these census tracts. Thank you for acknowledging that all of those.

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Census tracts are high student rental properties. My concern is that they are.

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Already being served by both transit and by some of our alternative pathways and.

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That's great what we, the areas that we are not serving are some of the most.

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Deeply impoverished members of our area who are residing in, for instance, mobile.

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Home courts and some of them are quite large units. They are not being served by.

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Transit, they are not being served by us and I would really encourage this body.

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To look outside the federal guidelines and to find ways to actually do what we.

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Can to make sure that those areas are being served since they are the working.

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Poor in our community- and they are the ones most in need of our services, they.

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Cannot get to work if they have no transit possibilities and their car has.

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Broken down how they would get to grocery or any other services is really.

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Questionable so when we are looking at environmental justice, I think we need to.

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Look beside the federal guidelines. Thank you.

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Is look at these trucks with a little bit more granularity to look within them.

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To see where the, where we can find these populations and also something that that.

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Would be very helpful is to look at resources so overlay. This information.

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With transit services, food sources, grocery stores, you know access to all of.

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The things that we look for when we're looking at wellness and quality of life.

H

To both of those just mentioned, I think in 6.01 and point o2 we do have some at.

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Least some mobile home parks in other areas that could be better served, but the points certainly well taken that this is influenced by students. My question was going to be: if are we able to parse this data by just you know,.

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Using an age category in the american community survey to say to look at the.

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Same questions for the population age over age 25, to try to like identify our.

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Highest need areas that might not be skewed by by um students who, for the.

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Time being have no income, the difference we made in in this chapter versus.

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Previous chapters is that we looked at the data in terms of white only.

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Non-Hispanic previously we'd included hispanic in with white, and we.

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Differentiated that out, we could look at that in terms of age I mean the age was.

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Was actually telling factor in terms of poverty levels say, for example, in 2.0.

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Two and 2.0 one because we were showing a seventy-five some cases, seventy-five.

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61% low income. But then, if you looked at the.

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Age cohorts the age cohorts were all under the age of 24 between the ages of.

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18 to 24, so that's what let us despair were student populations.

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And we also found in one of the tracks we found a very high disproportionate.

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Percentage of asian population and again that turned out that was an.

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Agglomeration which we didn't know about, so we can answer your question. Yes, we.

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Could break this down by age? We can also break down by block if you wanted to, for.

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These individual, these individual census, tracts doing it by block, though some of.

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That may be lost because again, this is based on the 2010 census. Data updated by.

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The american community survey in 2017, so these are estimates and when you make.

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Guesses, based on estimates, you're a little more prone to error, but with the.

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2020 census and I'm knocking on wood, hopefully that'll solve a lot of.

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Problems we'll have well. I have much more precise information within two.

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Years, two and a half years, the very most. But yes an answer to your question. Yeah.

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We could break this down by by an age. Okay,.

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Moving on to air quality, air quality were required again by the federal.

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Highway administration, us department of transportation to look at air quality.

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For the area monroe county is an attainment area for air quality, so.

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That's why this chapter is very short, very sweet, the usual question that comes.

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Up is: where is our air quality monitor? We have a single air quality monitor in.

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Monroe county, this is located at binford elementary school. This air monitor was.

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Installed in april 1st 2009, it's a pm, 2.5 monitor and then looking.

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At the air quality data, that's we've received from 2009 up until 2019 we're.

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Well below the standards of pm, 2.5.

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Questions on this section, four chosen as the site to put the air sampler the.

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Indiana department of environmental management made that decision they made.

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That decision sometime in 2009- I can't I don't know the region right, roger.

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Rationale behind that I can check for you what doesn't seem like that's where.

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The densest amount of traffic is it's. Why I'm raising that? Oh well, it.

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Surprisingly, the the data shows a decline in two point. Two point: five.

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Contamination or air quality I mean it shows, I'm sorry. It was at a higher level.

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And it's been declining to a better level. It's been improving since 2009. You.

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Would you would hope that was was occurring with electric vehicles.

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I mean somewhat, but I think that we've probably got a lot more traffic.

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Congestion around the iu campus and around the downtown area, just because of.

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Traffic patterns some.

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Yeah, some of its due to prevailing winds too. That's the other thing.

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Prevailing winds are out of the southwest, so it benford elementary.

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Though they're getting what I would call a clean, neighborhood air, perhaps I don't.

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Know I don't know I the data, I mean we looked at the spreadsheet, just a few.

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Hours before this meeting and I'm gonna share the spreadsheet with everybody.

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Again I'll send that out showing what the performance of the data is.

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Department of environmental management uses a three-year rolling average to.

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Come to their conclusions on what what the value is, in fact, mary hamilton, you.

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May know about this more about this than I do since you were at I dam. Okay, thank.

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You so it's a pm, 2.5 particular matter. 2.5 microns. Is that what that? Yes,.

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They're very, very small, correct particles, and I, the location of those I.

D

Assume are kind of done all across the state. To try to identify areas is.

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Certainly worth asking about that, it would be helpful to see the actual data.

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You say it's gotten better, since oh nine, yes, it has. Can you include that as well.

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I mean be simple graph just to show perhaps the federal level actual.

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Measured level and this in this location and then is a is ozone npm, 10 or those.

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Also numbers- or we don't get that they're not monitored here, yeah, the only.

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Monitor we have here in this in in monroe county is the pm 2.5.

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They have ozone in vigo county, yet a non-attainment yeah, the non-attainment.

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Areas pm10 all. I have to look and see no pocs, no, no.

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None of that in this area- yes, it's concentrated more and what I would call.

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The industrial areas we used to have an item actually grab samples that would be.

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Done just across the state to get you know a sample and test all kinds of.

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Stuff in the actual sample real time, I don't know that they do that anymore.

D

Unfortunately, now the last thing is, I know you say the forecast model.

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Suggested air quality would degrade over the forecast period.

D

So is that does that have monetary? Do you have predictions on that under the.

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Models, or is that just directional or is there some kind of magnitude prediction.

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It's it just shows the decline in the model itself. Well, all I have to pull out.

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The exact numbers- and I mean it's- it's- showing a decline in air quality, simply.

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Because they're the assumption it was an or trend assumption of vehicle miles of.

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Travel would continue to grow well. It would be good to get a sense of.

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Magnitude of that is it is it a 5% decrease? Is it a 50%? You know what what.

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Kind of choose them: what does the model show? Because that can help us try to.

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Judge where the threats are and the opportunities and also that's great.

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Thank you sure. I don't necessarily want this in the draft report or any other.

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Report, but I hope that you might remind this body that well, we are not happy.

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With necessarily where we're collecting the data that there are real.

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Consequences for this mpo should we fall out of compliance, and I.

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Hope that briefly, you could just tell this body what it would mean if we fell.

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Out of compliance well, it depends on how badly we fall out of compliance.

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If, if we were to fall out of compliance for pm 2.5, I'm sure that we would have.

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At least one or perhaps more additional monitors installed, we would also only.

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Have to allocate a certain proportion of our projects to what I would call.

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Alternative transportation or public transportation in an attempt to reduce.

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Vehicle miles traveled, then growth and we'd also have to go through what I.

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Would call an education program to make the public aware of the fact that.

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Because of the increase, we need to decrease vehicle miles traveled and we.

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Need to look at alternative forms of transportation, either carpooling.

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Ride-Sharing, whatever whatever to bring vehicle miles, traveled down, that's a big.

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If, because right now, the numbers are showing good data.

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Explain a little bit more about the travel demand, forecast, model and and.

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What how that's built and what assumptions go into it is this something.

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Developed, but in within our npo or is it it's handed down from other resources.

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What's the context there, the model was built in 2013 2013-2014 and then they.

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Delivered the model to us, I think it was in september or october who's. They, they.

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Developed them, I'm sorry, the core dino group. This was a consulting firm.

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Professional consulting engineering, consulting firm that we hired the mpo.

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Hired yeah to make just story short: they delivered the model. The model didn't.

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Necessarily work correctly, and we made corrections to that to make it work.

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For all of the alternative analysis, we looked at 13 different scenarios and do.

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Nothing plus 12 different alternative scenarios. The twelfth scenarios included.

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The existing what I would call the existing committed projects, it also.

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Looked at things like urban infill, in other words, a compact urban form type of.

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Land-Use, it looked at peak oil where oil would go to well. I'm sorry fuel would go.

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To $5 a gallon, what the impact would be in terms of vehicle miles traveled it.

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Also looked at an interstate 69 no build, and that was only to determine what the.

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Impact was of interstate 69. That was not looked at as as no building interstate.

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69 and then we looked at what I would call bedroom community or urban sprawl.

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Model in terms of what, if large developments happened on the periphery.

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The urbanized areas, what would that do to vehicle miles traveled and the answer.

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Was it caused everything to increase because people would be commuting? The.

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Longer distances into the into the community, where the employment centers.

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Are shopping opportunities and all that, but.

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The model the model turned out to be highly predictive. I mean the r-squared.

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Was something like 0.9 6.9, 40.94 96? The our sme was very small, and I mean it.

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It's a good model in terms of capturing the behavior, but that behavior was based.

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On 2010 census data based on employment data at that time, based on the land-use.

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Patterns at that time and everything's changed since then. The land-use patterns.

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Haven't changed that much, but in terms of employment, the employment growth is.

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Has changed dramatically, which is increased? The number of vehicle miles.

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Traveled, because people now have more discretionary income from automobiles.

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Instead of public transportation and they're, driving more and and then we're.

F

Seeing that growth yep, I and I can go into that in vast detail outside of here.

F

Yes, another time, thank you it just it just popped in my head thinking about it.

D

You know we just did a greenhouse gas inventory for the city and also.

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Transportation demand management plan, for example, finding that 62 and a half.

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Percent of the trips in bloomington were single occupancy vehicle. I think, and I.

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Think that's all trips that we could measure. We set a goal of getting that to.

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60%, so those that kind of data could be helpful also just to supplement what we.

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Know about what is going on. I think that numbers not bad for the state, but you.

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Know moving that number is really hard, but that's really important and can.

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Affect the models we will shamelessly steal all of that data.

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And put it into this plan, I mean because yeah when, when those when those came out.

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We're going hurrah, because that gives us information that we don't have and we.

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Don't have the resources to do? Is it going to be all about, is getting ideas.

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From the public about what we're missing in this report, so we can then review it.

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And and I try to include everything after we discuss it, so thank you for.

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That are you, gonna read all those god. No sorry, I've learned that out. Okay, no, no.

F

Someone yeah several people asked for you, know the list of acronyms well here.

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You go. This has been added to also since the 2040 plan, which was adopted three.

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And a half years ago, we've added a number of definitions in here. I think.

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Maybe another dozen definitions have been added in here or perhaps two dozen.

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Definitions are in here. If there's something missing, let us know: we've got.

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Some new things in here like vision, zero, that's something we'll be talking about.

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Later on, sustainability and climate change is in here and a few other things.

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That necessarily haven't been included in prior plans, rather than just being in.

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The mtp that we post this separately on the website so that anyone coming to the.

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Website to have access to this glossary and in terms of your wonderful mpo, 101.

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That you append this also to the mpo 101. We can post that you wish. We can post.

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That also, yes, please yeah, that's updated almost on a monthly.

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Basis, but yes, we can post that also, okay, thank you.

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Moving on communications from committee members for non agenda items and he's: oh.

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I'm sorry I I apologize I'd, move down skipped everything. Sorry.

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Old business, seeing none new business fiscal year, 2020 to 2024.

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Transportation improvement program amendment we have a single fiscal year.

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2020 2020 for transportation improvement program, amendment from the indiana.

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Department of transportation- and this is ver- bridge maintenance at various.

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Locations to be determined as needed by the seymour district, these are citizen.

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Preservation projects looking at the year 2021 using surface transportation.

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Block grant program money $800,000 in federal funds, $200,000 in state match.

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For a total of 100, I'm sorry of $1,000,000, now it's when they say.

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Various locations to be determined, in other words they haven't determined yet.

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They just have a pot of money available, and these will be based at the.

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Discretion of the engineers within the district on wherever they're bridge.

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Maintenance needs are, and I would assume these would be small spot improvement.

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Type things bridge deck, painting well, yeah. In fact it's it's in here deck.

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Patching joint replacement, thin deck overlays, scour protection railing.

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Repairs and other things of that nature.

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2024 tip amendment des number, one: nine, zero, two, eight nine.

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For approval by this body, we have a motion second, and we have a second any.

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Discussion from the committee members do we have any public comment on this item.

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Seeing none all those in favor for supporting the 2022 2024.

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Transportation improvement program amendment do so by saying aye.

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Any opposed motion carries.

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Communications from committee members non-agenda items- I would just like to.

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Send kudos to the county and to miss ridge for the monroe county, bicentennial.

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Pathway project funding for the area along old state route 37 in the.

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Northeast part of the county, I'm delighted that you've gotten more.

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Funding to the county. Thank you any other items or topics. First, discussion.

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Okay, upcoming meetings, technical advisory.

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Committee meeting will be february 26th at 10:00 a.m. in the mccloskey room.

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Citizens advisory committee meeting will be february 26th at 6:30 p.m. in the.

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Mccloskey room and the next policy committee meeting will be march 13th at.

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1:30 here in the council chambers move to adjourn. We have a motion to adjourn.

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In a second all, those in favor do so by saying aye.

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