thank
you John if you'll continue with the
online participation roll call please
to all right we
have um Bert thander uh Orange County
Vision Hudson Valley Pathways
committee thank you very much for um
Naomi of please State your affiliation
organization or municipality that you're
representing I'm Naomi Klein and with
Katon
Manning thank you na
danowski hey Dan M with
associes Village of K
Joel thank
you Daniel
Wood hello I'm Dan wood I'm with the
Federal Highway Administration uh New
York Division
office thank you uh Kenneth
foron yep speaking kraton Manning
engineering consultant to various towns
in Orange
County all right thank
you Dave
Lake hi Dave Lake midus sou
TCC Dave
Val Parsons
MTA
Tiana good morning or good afternoon
Tiana Grimes New York metropolitan
Transportation
Authority thank you very
much all right I think that is everyone
who's joining online if I missed any
please let me know Nicole farmer from
New York State Department of
Transportation thanks Nicole and Katie
Craig from wsp listening in on behalf of
city and
Middletown great thank
you great John thank you uh do any me I
want to go to call for citizen
participation are there any members of
the public wish provide commentary to
the planning committee if so please
State your name and
affiliation um Bert thelander Pathways
would like to make some
comments
okay begin now or yes you may yeah um I
I've participated in your meetings in
the recent remote past and I want to
thank you again for supporting
non-motorized Transportation options in
Orange County and specifically some
components of the bike Way vision um
Pathways made paid recommendations to
the Orange County budget public Hearing
in late November excuse me late October
and we made a couple of recommendations
about a couple of components of the bike
Way vision um one is the bike way
segment 3A Unionville to Slate Hill and
another is segment one of the Heritage
Trail um I think Monroe to the harman
train station so we would encourage you
folks to consider that in your um
support for non-motorized transportation
options and also um we are collaborating
with other counties olster County
Sullivan County and to a lesser extent
uh Duchess County in in promoting
non-motorized options throughout the
region um Allan and Travis are aware of
that work that we've been doing so again
we want to thank you for your support
and we want to um hopefully encourage
you to spend money on those
non-motorized options that I just
mentioned and then um supervisor Cardone
I see you're in the room um I've been
trying to get a hold of you to get
scheduled for that monthly
supervisor mayor meeting so I hope we
can connect with you to get me on the
agenda for one of those meetings in the
near
future have you have you reached out to
me yes i' I've emailed you yes and you
responded to two or three times but
should should I call you or uh yeah give
me a buzz I'll give you my number eight
845 we could we can follow up all right
don't follow up with you we'll send
we'll follow up with uh Tony's uh phone
number okay thank you very much okay are
you are you are you talking about the
association of towns meeting yes and and
you'd like to speak yes okay so I'm
going to have you speak in March that
would be great so um I'll let you I'll
let you know the location but the date
is uh March
25th okay um I'll get a hold you by
phone don't want to take up your time
thank you very much no problem no
problem thank
you are there any other members of the
public who wish to speak
if not I'm going to close the call for
citizen
participation sorry for that little
tangent um going to ask next uh for the
members we're going to ask for the
approval of the meeting minutes from our
November 12 2024 meeting uh these were
previously distributed in the material
packets um are there any questions
comments suggested revisions to the
meeting
minutes if not I'm going to ask for a
motion for approval
minutes M
favor I'm gonna abstain it's not present
okay we have one
abion yep okay moving on to
Communications and announcements uh we
have none at this
time and next we're going to go into
reports and actions on Old business I'm
going to ask uh Stacy to provide
Orange County transation Council staff
report
St um we just wanted to note that thec
calendar the 10 one for 2025 that went
out to the distribution list there was
an error in the October date it should
be the
16 and we'll repost that
everyone revised
version we submitted the draft uniform
planning work program which we'll do a
little riew of a few minutes to um C for
approval or preliminary review and have
public comment from January 22nd through
February
5th uh the draft tip Amendment for um
ootc 2310 that's going to be reviewed
under old business that'll also be
available for public comment from
January 22nd through February
5th and thank you to all of you
submitted your completed um tiip local
project sponsor questionnaires if you
haven't already done so if you can get
those in
please that great
appreciated
process
into uh the applications for the TMA
5307 funding have been received and
they're being reviewed by staff within
each each of excuse me staff from each
of the three
mpos and uh our no staff is also
preparing prepar proposed revisions to
our title six policy the operating
procedures and public participation plan
to bring them current with Federal
Regulations you know some outstanding
items so you'll see those over the
course of
this they'll get finalized
about the upw performance and
expenditure report John has been working
on those been fantastic so they are
about or that has been completed that's
submitted the tip obligation report is
also working on that's just about
complete forw and we're working on the
tip update along with the
self-certification so that
in uh we're beginning drafting the
transportation Consulting Services RFP
to get some extra staff assistance but
also start working on some of the
studies been
onp for a while
and the TMA is meeting on January 24th
to discuss that sub allocations of4
fos and then the TMA recertification
process is going to start
probably a
thank next we'll go on to other member
reports we have any members of the
public wish
commentary I don't know we're we're
having our first review committee
meeting tomorrow so
take and I want
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don't know
yet tomorrow I'm sure that's GNA be the
first how many people from each County has the same
it's representative of the
St um any other commentary if not I'm
GNA go on to AC on business um so we
have draft tip Amendment UHC 2310 was
included in the agenda package this
meeting will be available for public
comment from January 22nd through
February 5th this amendment will
reallocate CAC andb large Urban block R
PS to four projects existing P
875
965 for Road improvements that's going
to be St largeur funding we have
existing pin 876
300 expansion that's CAC funding
uh we have existing pin
87575 orange Heritage Trail
segment is CAC funding and we have a new
pen
89522 is New York state New York State
207 at Road widen
project
again this amendment will be up for
adoption at the February 20thc
you mentioned the first one
was cover multip oh covered multiple
ones okay all right y okay no
problem cut me
out no not
you trying to cut anybody out
discussion on that i' like to move on to
new business U we have draft draft
resolution
20502 this meeting no
ComEd this resolution proposes to adopt
to revise New York state do performance
measurement targets for pavement pm2.5
and
safety uh as we have done traditionally
uh we follow DC policy New York State
performance measurements and this
resolution formally acknowledges and
adopts the update as noted in resolution
the following rision made there's Revis
payment performance measures for the
percentage of payment Interstate System
good condition condition which also Fe the interstate
system then non Interstate System good
condition
and there's a correction of particular
matter 2.5 total emissions reduction
performance measure um and then for 2025
upd for the safety performance so the
specific changes and Target amounts can
be found in attachment one of the
resolution resolution be up for adoption
at
today's policy board meeting will
followe
next i' like to go on to introduce the
draft upw public comment ask
sty um
John that's table 14 that's the summary
task table that it's at the end of
the draft that was circulated in
everyone's packets for today's
meeting um this is going to
the draft is going to be out public on
it's noted earlier January 22nd through
February 5th adop SCH for the policy
board meeting on February 20th funding
allocations for 2025 to
2026 the state FAL year which start in
April April 1 were
79879
in funding and
M funding and a 20 sorry 20% match to
the funding is re fired and 15% is
provided by n for total credits services
and five is provided by
county and the M also has
80,000
8,86 in safe and accessible
Transportation options set aside
funding funding this is does not require
a local match um however this year as
part of thec process we were required to
specify a project um so the F has
proposed hiring interns to review the
2017 complete streets policy and
implementation efforts um and also take
a look at some of the other counties
policies prioritization plans and
proposed revisions to our policy along
the lines or including aspects of
barrier removal Vision zero safety
strategies and implementation of
the and the inss will also GA and post
online resources so they'll be available
to the local governments
tivities that set should cover theost of
the interns as well as the staff overs
and
was and then notable revisions upw again
this is still under review elimary
review by
misat we'll be out for public comments
but see the categories on here the gray
bars are the six main Ally codes
activity line items that are required by
the feds for all you
W so program support the administration
we have General development and
comprehensive planning do you have
copies in the
packets hello online just we can't see
what you're showing everybody in the
room is can you reference the don't
work apologies Tiana I'm sharing it with
you right now moment okay no problem
thank yeah mainly this is just I'm not
going to be referring too much to this
ex I just wanted to note the six main
Ally code categories so we have program
support in admin General development and
comprehensive planning long range
transportation planning system level
long range Transportation plan project
level the transportation Improvement
plan and then other activities
the mo had um many more sub lines under
program support in the admin and general
development and comprehensive planning
and we combined some of those just for
ease of administration purposes with
time ping and submitting reimbursements
so that's one of the significant changes
um we also added um another map in
figure one to indicate the 2020
transportation management area and the
Metropol area and included the small
urbanized areas as well and then the
transportation management area
description figure two was also updated
and this is all as a result of the um
final approvals of the urbanized area
boundary adjustments from
the2
um regarding the Ally codes um we
collapsed some of the sub lines um
activities related to um Administration
data Gathering processing and
maintenance tended to overlap which is
why we um collect some of the lines
programs for an admin and general
development and comprehensive
planning see what else under long range
Transportation Planning project level
the sub lines were similar rearranged
and we placed Cooperative Community
Transportation Planning at the top
under that category and this is the line
item where we do an projects plans and
studies that's the funding source once
we have a transportation consultant on
board we can start assisting the local
studies
stud so we anticipate hopefully later
this year we'll do another call for
projects we did want in December
response so we'll cut that
um the other changes we also um just twe
the the category we had a under the
plans and studies Montgomery truck rout
study is now the Montgomery traffic
study just expanded the scope of work on
that a little bit and the short range
planning category that used to be on
this list eliminated it's not one of the
required fedal categories admin acties
that so again this will be out for
public comments 22nd through the 5th if
you guys have ADD questions
concerns Stacey thank you um I just want
to take one moment to thank Stacy and
John there
is amount of work that goes into
preparing the plan work program and all
the uh calculations and numbers that you
see in that spreadsheet so uh not only
have it done a great job pring the plan
work program but um Stacey's also done
an outstanding job ter going through and
helping us develop improve standard
operating procedures as so that as we
forward more efficient
um John are you ready to talk us through
the tip process update
pleas moment I'll
share books online
all right those of you online can you
see
the yes we can see it thanks um okay
yeah so what I'm going to do now is um
just take a couple of minutes
to walk everyone through the different
aspects of the transportation
Improvement program
update now this first question I'm sure
for a lot of council members here
probably doesn't need a long answer but
we have a big group of people joining us
online and decent amount of people here
in the room too
so the the tip it's a short range
multimodal Capital program that lists
kind ation projects be undertaken in
Orange County over five year time
frame projects on the tip are funded
with Federal Highway or Federal Transit
funds um there can be a variety of
different types of projects on the tip
projects related to Highway work Bridge
work um Bikeway pedestrian all kinds of
active Transportation projects as well
as
Transit it's important to note that the
tip must be fiscally constrained what
this means is that funding program each
year of the tip cannot exceed the total
planning targets for each of the
tip and I'll um I'll talk a little bit
more about that in a
moment you'll see here on this slide
there are nine different um points for
the tip update process I'll just step
through each of them briefly and give a
little explanation where needed
um so the first step would be to review
and evaluate the existing project needs
um and so a lot of this information
comes from the tip project
questionnaires that were
distributed the Second Step would be to
fiscally constrain the tip to the
current funding allocations um so this
step is kind of doing the math part of
the project making sure
that funding allocated to the different
projects doesn't exceed
those am
I'm sorry we're still looking at the
first slide have we moved on to the one
after that I'm so
sorry
right thank you there you go oh you guys
got
it all right sorry about
that
was the third step will be to update the
tip narrative and tables so this is more
like a ootc sta assignment um kind of
editorial work making sure that the tip
reads well and that certain pieces
information and
um dates and figures are are all up to
date in the current
tip um The Next Step would be to develop
air quality Conformity determination um
I'll talk more about this in a little
bit too um but again that's kind of an
internal OTC sta
assignment same thing with the
self-certification that needs to be
completed octc will also consult with
New York state do Federal Highway
Administration EPA tribal Nations and
other groups to make sure that their
input and
um make sure that their input is uh
given for this new
tip there going to be a public meeting
to share the draft tip and
aqc there will be a public comment
period following that and finally the
last step Mr formally adopt 2026 to 2030
tip and air quality foration
now I'll talk briefly about the
publication process um so a specific tip
update meeting will be held by the
planning committee to discuss the tip
development process projects on existing
tip projects being considered to be
added to the tip and this will happen
before the public comment period
against public will be notified seven
days before the meeting occurs and
they'll be notified when the public
comment period
begins um lastly uh thec consults with
the federal state local agencies tribal
Nations um so Representatives folks from
those organizations will have an
opportunity
to provide their input considerations
for the tip
as all right on this slide here you see
um a couple of key Milestone dates that
we're looking at as we lead up to the
formal adoption of the tip um so today
January 16th we're kind of introducing
this process um the next key Milestone
date is at the end of May publishing the
publish notice of the initial tip in
graphs to the transportation Council and
we announce the public comment
period you know I won't read all of
these um you can see them here but
another important thing to note is that
these aren't totally set in stone things
might change um especially because Nim
the no in the New York City metropolitan
area is very kindly assisting us with
the transportation modeling and the work
involved in the um apcd work um so we're
going to be working with them and if
certain dates need to be changed because
of them um we certainly let everyone
know and
keep everyone updated um but this is
more or less um what we'll be looking at
as we lead up to adoption of the
tip another thing to note is there's a
pretty big gap between today January
16th in that next Milestone date at the
end of May um it's good that we're not
kind of jumping right into a Sprint to
the finish line and as Stacy you know
just listed to everyone there's a lot of
non- tip related Transportation counsel
work that needs to be done
time all right now I'm going to go over
a couple of options um related
to this new tip update um the first is
block funding or block pins um so this
is traditionally what Transportation
Council has done um and as a reminder
any funding that is allocated to a
specific project is put into a block pin
by its funding source so there could be
a CMAC block pin an STG large Urban
block pin 5307 Transit funding block pin
um so taking that unallocated funding
for Li block pins is what the
transportation Council has done in the
past however it's possible that for this
tip update there might not be any
immediately available unprogram
next option I want to discuss is the
call for projects um so how this would
work is that the transportation Council
would put out called projects in late
2025 more likely early
2026 project proposals will be evaluated
and funding would be allocated um to
eligible projects and then via Amendment
those projects will be incorporated
all right this is the final slide just
going to go over um some of the next
steps as a reminder um first we're going
to collect and summarize the tip
questionnaires um we'll set up any
project sponsor followup interviews as
needed based on our review of the
questionnaires there's the math work
involved in fiscally constraining the
tip there's the uh work involved in kind
of doing the writing and drafting the
tip narrative and all the different
tables in the document there air quality
Conformity determination which like I
mentioned we're partnering with NCH on
that and lastly self-certification
which is more or less kind of a review
of previous tip projects and a written
evaluation
of how
they so that's that's it for this tip
update presentation um anybody in the
room who have questions please feel free
to ask
same thing to folks joining us
online feel free to either raise your
hand or put a question into
the
thanks thank
you um before I move on um I just uh I
was remiss when I was talking about the
wp um certainly
um it's important to compliment Stacy
and John also want to include Raina in
that but more importantly sand us and
your team and uh it is it's a
partnership
andk all the credit go to the team no
credit in this
so Nicole Thank you Lisa
coryy yeah it's a team effort I mean uh
for persons who are not familiar with
the Trans
Council Orange County planning
and um with that I just want to go on
note that the next meeting date will be
Thursday February 20th from 1 to 3m.
class one in Emergency Services Center
so right here Well Road York uh is
anticipated that at the February meeting
you will be will be a planning committee
follow by the policy board uh all
meetings as will be hybrid as usual
however inperson forum is required for
all policy board meetings as always New
York state do fhwa
FDA deadline driven requirements may
result in adjustment to accomodate
public comment periods or filing so
please just make a note calendars for
that
dat February
20 yes mostly
there's there's a couple a lot Wednesday
Thursday any other comments questions
MERS V on these tip
amendments not on a tip amend
has
toch tip Amendment for 2310 I think it
was for the project that'll
be but there's another
one
um yes yeah there's one that's been
pending for
the I
think will be the
next next time we'll have public
comments on projects Amendment and that
will be passed in
February any other comments questions if
not I'll ask for motion
to uh parking ride what you exactly
addressing
all right thank
you okay uh meetings Jour everyone
please uh need take a quick break
was yeah I that's what I said I
got yes they uh they hit right
okay I'd like to call this afternoon's
meeting of the Orange County
transportation Council policy board uh
meeting to
order like to start off with um
introductions and also as we go through
that uh quum
determination um so we'll start off with
uh inperson roll calls please State your
full name and affiliation as we go
around the room that would be greatly
appreciated Alan S orange
countyy car mon supervis
Den commission Works city of middle
Morris Works City un
assant County attorney
marelli assistant to the county
executive County Ex
Office county legis
County Peterson
also
County thank you John if you'll uh
conduct the online participation roll
call please
I can start if you want this is Tiana
Grimes of
MTA
Dave Dave Lake mid sou
PCT Katy
Craig Katy Craig
wsp grer
yes M Village of K
Joel thank you NY
zo Nicole
farmer Nicole farmer New York State
Department of
Transportation uin
um
je jatra from
MTA
Val you
right all right thanks everyone
online all right John thank
you um like to ask for a call for
citizen participation if there's any
members public wish to provide
commentary uh please do so
now hearing none we'll move on uh
approval of meeting minutes this is the
summary from the October 15 2024 policy
board meeting uh these were previously
included in the packets for this meeting
um there are no objections can we have a
motion to approve
Charlie all those in favor say
I again we have no Communications or Ann
announcements at this
time moving on to reports and actions on
Old
business um as this was reviewed in
immediately proceeding planning
committee meeting no updates necessary
at this time um other member
reports anything anyone else like to
addly um does anyone have any old
business they wish to bring to the
attention of
move on then to new business um so first
item is resolution number
20251 that's the adoption of the tip
Amendment o c239 at FTA 537 funds to F
year 23 pin 882
399 mtas Newberg Beacon per service
operations including parking Leasing The
Vessel Improvement transfer to
FDA
6122 through 531
2029 uh this was reviewed in a November
planning committee meeting and out for
public comment from November 15 through
November 29 and no comments were
received may I have a motion to
adopt
B all those members in favor
by
saying
anyone moving on we have resolution
2022 that's the adoption of the
revised performance me targets for
pavement matter 2.5 safety again this
was reviewed today's planning committee
meeting and the public comment period is
not required this adopts New York State
Do's 2025 divisions
certain performance measures as noted in
the
resolution and it's attach I have a
motion
to any other
bu uh just State uh the next meeting
date will be Thursday February 20th 1 to
3M right here uh Services Center
classroom number one road
York anticipated that February meeting
will planning committee followed by
policy board as the upw and tip
Amendment for
o10 will be up for adoption policy
meeting you will need it in person Forum
so just emphasize that members please
make sure we have uh all meetings will
be hybrid as usual however in for is a
part for all policy board meetings as
always any New York State
FDA adjusts toate
com a here
so this everybody here on the council
and commissioner please accept letter is
my formal notice of resignation from my
position on the transportation Council
fact that CL at this meeting I enjoyed
my time in the account appreciate your
support as well as older members here
today highly recommend Michael Mendez
deput supervisor of town Corp for many
years been my Deputy supervisor for many
years he's a graduate of Virginia Tech
his family well respected Dair Farm
County for many many years in terms of
knowledge agricultural issues and other
expertise to this Council sincerely me I
want to say sit right next to me is
Denise who also very qualified
individual on there but obviously
supportive of my deputy and I know
there's another retirement coming soon
and if you not
choose I hope that the members of the
Gateway I understand supervisor Gateway
yeah both the new person
again thank everybody I want to retire
while I can still travel and do some
things my wife's pressuring me so I'm
thanking everybody here I'll give Allan
a copy of my
letter okay all right thank you char
consideration um I really I just want to
thank you for all your years of service
with the transportation Council and um
wish you all the best in your
reti got great Council here a lot of
great members here Department one of the best around so
and thank
you and do working in years past um I'm
a one away in my opinion and we work
closely with the towns much better in
the way yeah we're really trying so glad
amen I got my little $1 million Paving
job in the spring and they're going to
do it at night I got it
everyone loves their
B he saved me a little Galia saved me a
little so I got a little
piece are you moving out of the area
adex and the great state of
Tennessee by
Knoxville just
Knoxville I know where she is
got I will uh ask for motion toour but
also