Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

public comment. So we will move on to the consent agenda. Uh the items under the consent agenda were the meetings of our meeting from October 6, the financial reports and the um MCP staff reports. Um is there any items that need to come off the consent agenda? If not, I take a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Motion to approve. Thank you. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. All those opposed, same sign.

We're now on to our regular agenda, and we don't have any items from the consent agenda. So, we're on to the um meat of the meeting today, which is the approval of the proposed uh uh overall work plan for 2026. Right. Thank you. Uh so much too and I recognize I guess Mr. Olsen you're also on the call looks like uh is that right? That is correct. Hello everyone.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um this is essentially our budget uh work program uh budget uh document for FY 26. And I think all of you may know this already. If not, just if you don't mind, I just going to give you some cover basic, you know, what we do with budgets. Every year we uh do two budgets uh experience for the newer commissioners who who may or may not know we do two budgets. One for the state ID inland department transportation, then another budget for the county. Uh and the ID budget because it goes with the state fiscal year. So it starts July 1 and then for the county's budget the fiscal year starts January one and so we do one in the middle of the year and then another one you know for you know for um the beginning of the year and so this one is for the county uh budget for the fiscal year that uh FY26 that's January 1 26 the so this is a draft that have uh gone through uh the administration some of administration as well as the uh the executive committee of the many commission and they both have both bodies have uh approve uh or recommend approval of this document this draft document. uh we cleaned up you know some minor uh typos and stuff uh with the document after the approval of the of the second committee. Um as you may know our funding sources basically is uh composed of grants really the majority and then uh some part from what we call the regional service agreement you know with contributions from the county the

state the county the city of Bington as well as uh the town of Normal and uh so for this for this document we uh for the county we call the overwork program, but the one that we do for the state, we call it the unified, uh, work program. And so the approval process, uh, we've gone through two bodies already and then yours is the third and then with your approval, it would go to the county board and then the committee and and the whole process. And so we if you uh look at the proposed budget uh for for this upcoming fiscal year 6 it's little bit you know not quite 1.5 but 1.477 million and that's a a drop of about 4.8% 4.83% 3% from last year I want about 1.55 and don't don't be alarmed uh that is primarily because we are based out you know on grants right I mean it fluctuates and so sometimes we got some grants done sometimes we have new ones coming in we never know so that fluctuation uh it doesn't mean that hey we're losing funding sources it's just the way that the grants work basically and so while there's a drop of of 4.83% I wouldn't be alarmed just the way it works and and so there's some works that some grants being completed the new grants that we anticipate in FY26 and some will be like continuation of work that that we're doing. So that's kind of the gist of it and you have some charts that we have prepared to make it a little bit easier to to really understand our budget. So the one that's the the the large size, the the larger size 11 by 17, it kind of captures

really the overall document in terms of money coming in, money we anticipate to spend. Um, and thanks to Jen who got put together and then Katie, our Katie uh uh the the office manager kind of work together uh along with with uh Luke on the housing elements and just just put this together like a snapshot of what what the overall budget um the the really the ins and outs what the revenue and then the expenditures. So that is supplemented by a couple of the task that we have extracted you know from the document uh little bit enlarge in those two kind explaining uh the table 2.2 That's the budget, the different categories, the line items, and then the chart 2.1 is kind of a pie chart showing, hey, how how the revenues break down from what sources and how much that makes up to that 1 seven 1.477 uh medium. And with that, I'll be happy to answer questions you may have.

Questions for Ray? My only question I would have would be on your on your final revenue source or additional grants. Those are grants that you already have anticipated the final. And the additional grants that is the um that is the uh BCO right the 210. Yeah, under 210 it says additional grans regional service agreement

that's the implementation one the 800 has this the 210 is 167 Oh, that's the um isn't that the implementation grant for the

That's not the issue. Yeah, but according to the chart, it's the right implementation. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Got it. Yeah. That that reminds me that brings it. Yeah. It's the the housing implementation grant because the amount uh because we doing this for one year. Uh the the grant amount from the state from PCO uh is for two years. That's why Okay. I'll tell you is $330,000. But divided by two that's why we Yeah, that's that. And so that money is already for sure again.

We yeah we've been awarded the money. We're still working with the state on the uh on the paperwork you know the grant agreement and the budget allocation and then we eventually have to uh do an RFP to hide the people but the grant we've been awarded. Yeah. We just haven't received the money yet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like other other grants is awarded when we uh start uh uh having the grand agreements done and we start uh executing the grand agreement then we ask for reimbursement when we spend the money and that will be captured by the 167.

Other questions for me? If not, I'd entertain a motion to approve motion. Thank you. Second. Thank you. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, same sign. This approved. We're now on to um our presentation for today, which is the uh Jose Mlan County action plan update for 2025. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. If I may uh before I introduce our presenter today just to background if you recall back in March believe of this year uh you all have approved a contract with the consultants to do this SS4A which is an update uh to the 2021 plan called safe action plan county and so since then uh we have created a project stem and then the uh rep with representatives from different organizations, the government, you know, some other agencies from the state uh from like state farm and from NAACP, health department, uh you know, city, town, county. We had a number of people who helped on that uh on that project in guiding and steering the process. And then with the help of the the consultant and their subconsultant lock middle group is the the lead consultant and Tylim uh is the subconsultant and I Thomas is the project manager/ project leaison to that project on behalf of the lock mut group and what I would like to uh recognize we don't see it uh now but but one of the committee project committee members is joining us. I I think uh if you I don't know if you can go back one year so you can show her face or or if you would like to show her face. Uh but uh Jan Jenny Mu uh serves representing the county health department and she's joining us in and I don't know I cannot wait because we find anybody else Jen Jen Neil and who else if okay all right yeah so Jenny Neil on behalf

of the uh county health department is joining us you know we know all the time of meetings and input along with many other members of the public ste committee. So um after the presentation uh by Heidi that's a giving a kind of a general overview but you all have also received link and some of you have read you read the draft document uh that's been prepared by the consultant and we have received comments and also there were two public open houses that were held uh in August uh relate to this project we have received some comments some feedback back and some have gone back to make or start making some changes. We have received some comments from even the project steering committee members including uh comments from you know some of you which we appreciate and so we are at the stage of winding down the project. Uh this as you recall is a federal rent and so by the end of September the project will be done. Uh and uh but we are closing in uh to have the consultant uh to finish the uh project uh the plan document and also uh with the draft out and then to be you know further refine have a final plan document to the staff uh in on the 10th of September which means in like a week. So today uh Heidi is going to give us the background give overall uh kind of gist of of the project and then and I have further comments and looks for you all. So please

thank you very good afternoon everybody. My name is Heidi Thomas. family group at the transportation consultant firm and we were selected to do this project and we we a large team also had a team from TY who helped us along the way too. I'm going to provide you a roughly 15inute overview of a 100page document that we prepared in oh about five months. So high level overview but feel free to ask questions share commentary as as you see fit. This project is funded by the safe streets and roads for all program a federal discretionary program that the planning commission put in an application for and was selected. The project is to update the former 2021 the original plan. And in the update, it's to align with that SS48 framework which comes in the structure of eight required elements which we'll which we will walk through today. And ultimately the goal is to reduce if not eliminate fatal and serious injuries on your roadway network here. We started in April with collecting data. Then we analyzed data, did public outreach and survey within the community and outside the community in the rural areas as well. Took that information, developed recommendations, compiled the entire process into a draft plan which just ended its public review period. So we are buttoning that up. any final comments that you received today into a final document which we will turn over to the planning commission. So this has been a planning process throughout and we'll have all of the requirements listed 1 through eight up here. That's

the structure that we're aiming for. Vision zero, this is a required commitment by the government governing body which would be the commission here and the steering committee, which we'll talk about, decided that the goal to reach zero fatalities and serious injuries should be by 2035. That's a goal. Everyone's going to work hard to achieve it because one life lost is too many. I will note that these numbers exclude the interstates and a piece of expressway which are shown on the map here. And there are two reasons for that. one, the type of crashes on those particular facilities are pretty specific to their characteristics. Closed access, interchanges, they're just kind of different animals than a lot of the other roadways, most of which are under local jurisdiction. And secondly, those are ID dot roadways like many of the others, but those are heavily influenced by the design standards and there's not a lot of flexibility to make changes. So strategically with the data we pulled those out. So what does that goal look like? We have on the left five years of historical data. These are people killed or seriously injured. The rolling average of those five years is 77. So looking ahead including interim targets a 20% reduction in 2027 would be a target of 62 or less and a 50% reduction would be 39 in 2030 to lead us down to what we're trying to reach in 2035. And again, this excludes interstates expressways. Of course, August 11th, ID

do rolled out its 2024 data. A little late in our process to analyze it, but we're sharing some of that data because this is an ongoing process and it's not going to stop with calendar years, dispel years, anything of the sort. 2024, the number to match this map was 66, which is a step in the right direction.

That's in the entire county. Ex correct excluding those three inter correct those were individuals. What we'll talk about here are total crashes and with that asterisk excluding interstates and expressways. So just to get a feel for how many crashes do we have in the clan county? It's 2,000 to 3,000 every year. Those are the bad ones down to the fender benders. the whole gamut 2024 right on in the mix as it has been historically. If we break that apart a little bit, KSI is killed or seriously injured people in a crash. So we are talking crashes here. So these would be more or less the the bad crashes, the ones that we are trying to prevent. On average in the urban areas, we've had 46 in the region. 2024 saw 41 and in the rural parts of the county by definition was an average of 19 and 2024 dropped by two. Same thing pedestrian and bicycle fatal or serious injury crashes average of seven per year. four beds, average of four bicyclists or bicycle crashes per year. And combining those together, that would be an average of 11. And in 2024, there were 14. Nationally, those vulnerable road user crashes, those who aren't protected by a car, those numbers just keep inching up, which is what we happen to see here on this number. And just as a note, all of the pet and bike crashes noted here were in the urban areas. They were not in the rural, which one would expect, but you never know. People do ride out.

And just looking at what types of crashes those are. The majority were fixed object, which means you departed your travel lane where you should be on the roadway and you hit something. Fixed object. Angles often at intersections. turning also often at intersections and the same data the ped bike so you can see where 2024 may fall into those or not. So this is the data foundation from which we started to derive the plan and especially that goal. Ray mentioned the steering committee which was comprised of these 12 entities and we met with this committee monthly plus a couple more times to get their feedback, bounce ideas off of them and have them guide the entire process. Number three is a robust safety analysis. So we took the existing conditions, the data, we looked at that from a geographic standpoint, from severity and crash type, which we just did an overview of, and also contributing factors, what leads into that. We took that and turned that into two high injury networks, one for rural and one for urban, because they are a different entity. So we don't really want to mesh those together and consider them the same. The time entry network is something we'll talk about later, so keep it in mind. It's a visualization tool. It identifies the areas where we have the higher rates of those crashes where we're having people getting hurt. And we did mathematical calculations to figure out which ones are more important or dangerous or not. The rural high injury network accounted for 250 roadway miles. So after we did the analysis, this is the top 20% of those

safety index scores that we calculated 250 miles. On the urban side, same analysis, but looking at just the urban areas together, we had 100 miles of roadway that accounted for the top 20% of those safety scores. And we will talk about these masks a little bit later. So just please don't forget them for the next five minutes. Requirement number four was engagement. The first part of the process was to get the public's feedback on what are what are your needs? What do you think the problems are? We wanted to hear from them. We did a public survey and we also had on the right here an interactive map where participants could mark an intersection they felt was bad or ping a spot where they really wanted a sidewalk to get to their kids school or get to a park. Obtained a lot of comments there. We had that open for about a month. All in all, uh 31 additional comments were submitted where people put in their thoughts on this map. for the actual survey. 276 responses were received from the public. We also went out to the public to talk to people with a variety of engagement events. We did two farmers markets, one right here, and then one where we went out to Leroy. And the more rural setting, that right here, and the planning commission promoted the plan also at the county fair and central Illinois weather canceled our other open streets event to normal, which we were looking forward to attending. But we all live here. We know what the weather's like. But our engagement was was successful, and we did get to talk to a lot of people in person. Additionally, we did stakeholder interviews with the four key groups identified here. Those were virtual a

conversation with these groups to just extract that same information. What are the problems and needs from your uh your area your perspective because everyone's needs are different. And the piece that we're just we just wrapped up now is the public release of that plan. get the public's feedback on what they think about the whole plan, but in particular the recommendations. We asked about the problems and needs earlier, gain the feedback on the result, and that comment period just ended on August 24th. In conjunction with that review period, we also held two open houses in August. One at the Bloomington Library, then the other a week later at the county department. Another requirement is to conduct a policy and process review. And this is where TY led the show here and talked to the local agencies about what policies do you have or do you not have and identified what they saw as gaps, barriers, or opportunities to make improvements to reach that vision zero goal. Collectively the end result needed to be a comprehensive list of projects and strategies. Not everything leads to construction. We have our set of project and strategies into three groups and we'll talk about those recommendations in the three groups. The first is priority locations. Where can we do a project that would have a strong impact? Group B is systemic improvements. Where can we uh where do we know the risk is that we can try to mitigate that risk before a crash happens which is different than we know crashes are

happening happening at this location but what can we do and the third is that policy improvement element of it. So if we talk about group A, we go back to those high injury network maps, the top 20% of our safety scores. We took those locations in working with the steering committee. They identified the criteria listed here below and debated and came with these with the waitings that we listed here. So each project location got a score and we took that and developed what we call the priority list. We're showing you graphically here the top 11 rural locations because there's 10A and attendee and then the top urban locations for within the plan for each location. Each of these top priorities receive pages like this where the existing conditions are discussed. the amount of killed and serious injury crashes. What are the contributing factors? But very importantly, what are the potential improvements that could be done here on a short term and a long term? The same, if not similar, if not the same information is provided for all of those urban locations as well within the plan. But we have more than 20 priorities. Those are just the top ones. All of the other locations on that high energy network, both urban and the rural, are listed in the plan. So they're not forgotten. And this plan is to be a living document and priorities change

over time. So we don't want restriction to just that 20. We want focus on that entire high injury network to live on. So the remaining 250 miles of locations are identified in the plan too. I think I can you go back a slide for me? I don't know how to do with the mouse. Oh, maybe hit escape and then back. Thank you. That one. Um, for the systemic areas, we had two groupings of strategies. If you could get it in a presentation mode, that'd be great.

Do I have to do it? Oh, dang it. I told I stuck your told your stole your mouse, didn't I?

We had two groupings. Systemic areas by roadway characteristic and by crash type. So for each of these shown in the black boxes, we had a set of strategies that could be implemented systemically across the board on every perhaps um multimodal facility in the area that would work towards reducing those fatal and serious injury crashes. Oh, right. Now I'm really going the wrong way. There we go. and the conclusion of the policy assessment were seven policy goals. It in for each of these goals, there's a series of objectives that detail the framework of what the planning commission and its partner agencies can do to work towards reaching vision zero. Collectively, there are 21 strategies under these seven umbrellas that are captured in the plan. Requirement seven, we call performance management. We don't want to have a paper document that just we want it to live on. We want it to be active. We want to see if it's working. So the goate task force was established as guided by the steering committee and it framework is pretty similar to the steering committee but that task force will be charged with collecting and assessing data on an annual basis and that's what that group decided was best annual basis determine the status of recommendations. Have has progress been made? Have we made construction? Have we implemented new policies? Are we making it happen? and produce an annual report, a document that will be user reader friendly that can be generated and shared to the

public to keep the go safe concept alive. This task force can also update the plan when it's needed. If it's needed, they can make modifications to it. It plan does not need to wait another four or five years to be updated. If the planning commission decides it's time to pull the data and do an update, the task force can meet that charge. Number eight is timing. Um assuming that the planning commission will want to apply for SS4A implementation funds in FY 26, the next round, this plan needs to be updated or completed within a certain window. We anticipate that will be by June 1st or 30th next year. Fanning commission will be well within that window. So that's pretty much a minor check mark at this point to apply for future funding. There is one additional element we included as part of this plan and that is a safety toolkit. It is a large menu of safety proven counter measures that can be used to positively impact safety. And here's a sample page that just describes at a high level of what these counter measures are and where they could be applied. A lot of our recommendations in the plan, if not all of them, tie back to this toolkit and additional information and 40 measures were identified in the toolkit. Here is what six pages of the plan looks like. And I have a half a hard copy of the plan here with me today. I didn't kill the whole tree when I turned that one off. So, what's next? We have a plan. It's about finalized.

Ray's intent is to schedule a special meeting with this group in order to do two things. One, adopt a plan and embedded within that plan is the vision zero target of reaching zero fatalities and serious injuries by 2035. So, twofold pieces of adoption for this. That concludes my I'm a little over time highle overview of the plan and the process that was taken to get to the final plan. Questions for Absolutely.

I have questions. Um, in the data that you analyzed, um, what what were the top three strong correlations that you developed from that data plan? I don't have them memorized in the top of my Oh, okay. of my head. Um, okay. Analysis page. And I don't Peter Williams, my counterpart. And how strong were the correlations? You know, oh gosh,

you can answer that separately. different ways to answer to answer what I'm getting at is what were the root causes and and is there a pattern is are there you know there are top three that stick out so that we can focus our plan on because we're going to get to zero we have to focus on those that's that's all I'm asking no that's a that's a good question and there's not a straight definitive answer for that. Okay? Because we look at numbers which we we looked at the crash data, we looked at

the risks which is based on the characteristics of the roadway and then the nonroway items too. And then we have the people elemented. We can't really control the people and what they do and the decisions they make. We can best design roadways for them or best educate, but we also can't control. So the recommendations and the prioritizations pull all those pieces together, but within the plan, there are more details, more substance to that. Um, just as an example, I happen to be looking at I don't even know what page I'm looking at here. Um, within the crash analysis though, contributing factors that led to those fixed object crashes where someone didn't stay in their lane and they got off course. 24.4% 24% were for the crash report failing to reduce speed to avoid a crash. 20% were improper lane usage and 17% were under the influence of drugs or alcohol for those crash types. We do a similar thing and we looked at the angle only crashes. So probably our urban areas also the rural too. 24% were disregarding stop sign just shy of 20 were failure to yield and similarly almost 18% were disregarding traffic signals. So that's where the contributing factor piece

was brought into the puzzle and then all those factors trickle down into the smaller categories too and that information comes from a crash report and that data is filled out to the best of the ability or knowledge or time crunch from the officer and that's the large data set that report. And you you did not include bicycle like constitution trail in this did you? In terms of for bicycle and pedestrian if we because this is this is for roadways only right

well crash data I don't recall it. I have to check with Peter. I don't if a crash occurred on the trail only. I don't think that would result in a crash report. Right. If someone were cross crossing along the trail across the roadway and had an incident with cars, that would result in a crash report. Got it. That's the data element only. But the problems and needs that we got from the community and the steering committee and the surveys, where are your needs? Where do we need a bike trail to get people off of the road and to the park to the school to my neighboring neighborhood? Yeah. It's they're putting themselves at great risk in that roadway.

Yeah. He I don't know if this is a question for you or Ray in general, but um obviously where um crashes tend to get the most uh news is when they happen around the ISU campus, especially with pedestrian and cars and such. Um, is any of this being tied back to what ISU is doing or is this helpful for ISU in terms of Yeah. them being able to do things to make their campus safer?

Sure. if it would help. Can somebody uh go back show that picture the high injury network for uh urban that might be using but to to answer your question uh the currently as some of you might know uh ISU and town normal working together on a campus safety uh transportation safety plan for the campus they got a state grant work on that in fact they might have started because this started They bring about campaign promotion, public safety survey, uh what they call popups, you know, to contemporary thing, uh to encourage people's attention on on safety and the town of Noble is the engineering director of public works and engineering also serves on the PSC for this project. So yeah, he provides input along the way during the meetings and so in that sense we kind of tie together but we they have their own mechanism we have our mechanism we don't work together in that way but the the kind of normal representatives kinds on both and then so when they uh see certain issues or network or locations that warrant attention that's you know got incorporated into the overall uh plan for our project. Yeah, cuz that for the ISU project is still just ongoing. So stay doing campaigning purposely. Uh so they're not really done done yet.

I would also add that this analysis of the whole county confirm that those are the problem areas too. Yeah. Yeah. That's where that's the concentration. Yeah. Other questions for Heidi, Mark. Yeah. I just so you know my background. I used to work for Farnsworth. Okay. And so I know enough to be dangerous. Are you a planner, an engineer or a plan engineer?

I was a engineer. And so um anyways, my question for you is the next step on a lot of this will be construction. I would assume some sort whether or not it's major construction or you know, um, ancillary funding for that, where is that? Is that already in the planning or where is the funding for that coming from? And especially if you've only got, you know, 10 years to get this done. Sometimes projects take four or five years,

not more. I'm going to go to my former position, which was federal highway for my entire career. So, this is a federal highway program and funding sources. So I get that question. We talked about implementation applications for the last cycle of SS4A. That is one funding source with pretty much one shot left unless that program continues onwards or is renewed. Although this plan was developed around SS4A structure, it is to be used above and beyond that to inform transportation decision making. seeking of funding sources, alternative funding sources, creative funding sources beyond just SS 4A. So we can go to the federal programs that are funneled through ID do like safe routes to school the transportation alternatives program which is bike trails the sidewalks or any other funding sources that I can't think of private sources or incorporated when you have a new development change your procedure so that developer is required to put in a shared use path or a bicycle facility. There's no singular slam dunk funding source for these. Applying for FY26 SS4A for a strong implementation project would highly recommend it. But this plan is to be above and beyond just that program. Do we have a list of fantastic funding sources just ready to be uh grabbed by all the communities? Not necessarily, but this will help inform decisions and even on those 20 projects get an idea of what kind of improvements would be needed

to be implemented to make that change. Maybe it's not full-blown reconstruction. Maybe it's just restriping or some very specified signal upgrades, more lowc cost safety improvements. Emphasis on the lower cost. Thank you. Any other questions for Heidi? Right.

Yeah. Um, so you've seen a wonderful presentation for Heidi as one of the slides indicated. Uh we hoping to schedule meeting for your consideration of adoption uh of this uh uh plan update and we considering after uh consulting with the chair we could look considering uh September 24th. I will be emailing you all just to call to make sure that works for you all. there's a Wednesday of I think three weeks from today or you know certain time that works for you all and hopefully and that also would kind of uh we try to cons move the October meeting to that day. So there won't be a October meeting. So instead have a special meeting uh on September 24th uh for that. So hopefully it works out and so I'll be pulling uh you all uh next day or if you just keep it in your mind. So we with that if if the plan gets uh uh approved and adopted by you all then we will uh present that to the uh FHWA and complete uh the the plan document and the uh project uh by September 30th which is the deadline for the plan documents. Of course, there's like money and other things involved after September 30th, but so I I'll be pulling the the planning commission members that just for sake anybody that that is a no no.

Okay. Okay. Got it. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you for your time everybody.

We're on to the coordinator position. Yeah. Um that's kind of related to the the question earlier I indicated on the budget got this the state grants on the housing coordinator position. So what you saw the budget was half of of what that grant and it's not the full grant because actually there's local matches provided by semington and town marble. So we uh finalizing you know on the on the uh grants agreement with the state. uh there's some bunch of things to be worked out and after that then we'll be issuing the uh the RFP uh for for the position uh so uh yeah so next year uh with the budget that will be the second half so what you saw on this is kind of the first half that so that's that's my update for for that

questions for it the original housing initiatives Luke Afternoon everyone. Um for the local updates, uh MCRPC facilitated the August housing staff committee meeting last week and uh we will also be facilitating the affordable and supportive housing or the ASH committee meeting uh on September 15th, Monday. And in relation to that, we are developing a new white paper analyzing the changes in housing units, vacancy rates, housing and populate uh households and population and median income in MLAN county. Uh for other updates, uh MCRPC attended the housing coalition meeting two weeks ago. During this meeting, uh the coalition discussed its immediate, short-term, one-year, and three-year goals. Um during this meeting we also uh rather policy technology and front door work groups were were established. Uh MCRPC also attended the unhouse task force last week um where we discussed street outreach updates and alternative housing solutions specifically cold weather response. Um we also attended a webinar on zoning strategies and tools to unlock housing supply across the Midwest. Um in this webinar some of the best practices uh include changes in zoning regulations specifically reducing minimum of lot with to uh to allow other housing units other than single family homes to be built and then also reducing rent tape to encourage more developments. But ultimately they recommended that the most important step is to actually build more houses and involve developers in um and other entities involved in housing development. Uh those are the updates that I have. Any questions? Questions?

Thank you. Thank you. Jennifer, the uh human services transportation plan update.

Good afternoon everyone. Um, as we previously noted, the next regional committee meeting, which is the technical and policy committees for region six for the human services transportation planning process, um, is scheduled for September 15th, uh, 10:30 to noon at the county historic courthouse in Pontiac, which we've been for some years. Um, in preparation for that meeting and for the ongoing management of the services we provide to region six, Thomas Valencia, our assistant planner here by the computer, um, has created an information dashboard draft essentially regarding region six services and key destinations in each county for various purposes. Healthcare is one of them. There are some others. Um and the idea is that the draft version wherever it's at when we hit the 15th um will be demonstrated was a September 15th meeting and we will ask the participants in the committees to essentially tell us what might be missing if there are other aspects of their communities that they want us to showcase or refer to. That would be part of that meeting. Um on August 26th I got hosted a meeting with the bridge and sex service provider organizations actually provided transportation services. Um and I got staff they were about half but I got people there and um the regional coordinator also known as me. Um, so the idea was to try and get, you know, sort of ahead of the September meeting to try and get everybody equated and we sort of made a start on that and answered some questions and made sure that everyone knew who was in what slot. Um, two of the three current providers uh were present for this including connect transmit transit sorry and show us. Connect of course is rural service here

in Clinton County. Um, SHUS continues to serve uh, Livingston County, Iraq County, and Kendrick County. So, we will see who turns up at the meeting in September. We will be making a push to ensure that all of the service providers are present. Absolutely. Okay. Other questions for Jennifer? Thank you very much, Jennifer. Um, you're going to talk about the Veterans Parkway coordinate corridor planning update.

Yeah. Really quick, uh there was a project steering committee meeting August 8th. Uh and it's they're still the consultant still working on different analysis. They're working the uh the steering committee and their own subconsultants. Uh so they are actually canceling the meeting for September. So they have more time you know to keep working on the analysis. uh kind of heads up there will be two public open houses going to be held in early November and we when we have more details we'll let you know. So they're working on all these different analysis and then working with ID do and then to have some alternatives and try to get public input November. So just that's the the latest questions. And finally, the strategic land use plan. Anthony, got a quick presentation, nothing too long. Um, just a fewformational items here. Um, okay. Uh, so we just closed out our first round, thank you, of public outreach for the strategic land use plan. uh that started on June 23rd um and ended September 1st just a few days ago. Uh right now we're currently in between outreach phase one and two uh and that September 2025 development of the revised second draft. So that's what we're working on now. Um the first public comment phase that just concluded uh included five public openhouse meetings hosted by MCRPC and attended by local government staff where we presented information that similar to a presentation you had last month um and collected feedback on the first draft. Uh this also included presentations and a request for comment from additional stakeholders that included the McLean County Township Supervisors, the Mlean County Township Highway Commissioners,

the Mlean County Mayor's Association members, ML County Farm Bureau, Bloomington Normal Economic Development Council Board, and representatives from rural municipalities in ML County. Uh during that first round of outreach, we collected valuable public comments that we used to help uh guide the revision of the second draft. Uh we're now in that process uh incorporating all of those comments and hopefully presenting a revised draft in mid to late September. Uh included in that draft, we intend on incorporating an outreach report that outlines all of our outreach efforts, public comments received, and the resulting updates to the plan. Once that second draft is released, there'll be another an additional 30-day public comment period where we can collect any additional uh public comment. Uh we are also planning on doing two more public outreach events for that second draft. Um we haven't figured out the dates for those yet, but once we do, we'll post them. Uh after that second round of public comment, we'll consider any additional comments received uh and incorporate them into the final draft. Uh we anticipate having that final draft available um by the end of October. And at that point, any of the local governments in McLean County that wish to adopt the plan will then take it through their review and approval process. Um have some stats about some of the comments that we've received. Uh if you'd like to hear those, but

yeah, please. I was going to ask you about the general sense of what what the comments were leading to.

Yeah. So, um over the five open house events, we had roughly 75 people attend. Uh we had signin sheets. Not everybody signed in, but based off of the the head count we had is roughly 75 80 people. Um, we received 83 online comments and then five written comments submitted at those open houses and seven comments submitted by email. Total of 95 to 100 comments on this first draft. Um, the number one comment we we received kind of a tie. So, I guess two number one comments is the the inclusion of the East Side Highway. um and the industrial land use uh the southeast side of Wilmington. Those seem to be the two most talked about uh content pieces of this plan. That's all I got. Any questions?

Any other questions for Anthony or Ray? Thank you very much. Appreciate you. Um is there anything else that needs to come before the commission today? If not, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So, second all those favor signify by saying I same sign. We stand a journ. Thank you.