I am calling to order the Transportation Policy Committee of the Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting for October 22nd. It is 1.30. We do have a quorum. First item on the agenda is approval of meeting minutes from August 27th, 2025. Can I get a motion? Move to approve. We have a motion and a second. Any questions about minutes? Yes, Mr. Combs. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I have one correction on page four, section seven. The last sentence of that section reads, most impacted area will be between bus stops 18, 19, and 20. That comment was in reference to map numbers, not bus stops. We'll make the correction. Thank you. So we've noted it with that change. Any other questions or comments about approval of minutes? Okay, so with that change in mind, all those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? All right, that motion passes. Next up is resolution 2025-12, amending the fiscal year 2026 unified planning work program. And I believe we have a presentation for Mr. Aviglia. Yes, so just as a reminder, the UPWP effectively serves as the operating budget for the MPO, identifies those work tasks we intend to accomplish through the fiscal year, and identifies the amount of funding that we will need to accomplish those tasks and where that funding will come from. This also sometimes includes tasks being performed by other folks other than the MPO, such as LexTran or KYTC if it also involves planning dollars. There are three changes that have come about since you adopted this work program back in April, and a part of this is just the timing of some of these things are not always in coordination with the time that we have to adopt this document. One of those is related to the FTA-5303 planning dollars that are distributed through the Office of Transportation Development. That ended up being $27,000 less than what we had applied for, and the timing here is that we usually have to apply before we actually adopt our plan or our program, and we don't find out how much OTD will actually approve for us until usually about June. And so this is one situation where the amount provided was less than what we had applied for. The other part is related to the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant. You may recall that that grant awarded money to fund a Vision Zero coordinator position, and we went ahead and filled that position late in fiscal year, or the previous fiscal year, funding that initially with general fund monies, but the anticipation was that we would have a grant agreement by this point in time. We are actually still in negotiation with the Federal Highway Administration on that grant agreement, and the anticipation is that it's probably going to be some time spring before we actually have that coming to council for your approval. So the result is that we're probably going to, well, we are going to need to fund the remainder of that position through the end of this fiscal year, anticipating that it's going to take us a little while to get a fully executed grant agreement, which we have to wait until that happens before we can start drawing down money. The third part is related to staff salaries, and since we are LFUCG employees, we did receive a 3% increase from the council. That was approved by council. When we have to actually approve this document, however, we really have no idea what that amount is going to be, or even if there's going to be a salary increase, and so this is something we go through each year. Previous years, we've had enough vacancies and staff to be able to cover the difference. This year, though, really for the first time since I've been here, we are fully staffed now, so we do need the additional dollars for that. And so I've mentioned already about the SS4A grant agreement and so what we're asking to do is to fund about two-thirds of this, the Vision Zero Coordinator position through our SLX dollars. The other third came from LFUCG general fund that was identified previously from the CAO's office. And when we put this all together, most of this is just moving money around from one pot of money to the other, but the actual difference, the $14,600, is the result of the salary increase and the change in benefits that results from that. So since this is an amendment to the work program, we do have to conduct a public process to gather comment on this. We did conduct a 15-day comment period between October 1st and October 15th. There were no formal comments received as part of that process. And we do need to open a public hearing to accept any comment on this before we are ready to take action. And so with that, we can open the public hearing and then answer any questions the policy committee may have. All right, thank you, Mr. Aviglia. I'm gonna open the podium and the mic for a public hearing. If anybody from the public is here and wishes to speak, you may do so now. I'm gonna take that as a no. Then I'm closing the public hearing and ready for committee member questions or comments. And then we do have, since we're at the horseshoe, please turn on your mics to speak. But let me know if you have comments. Okay, looks like we don't have any. I move we approve. Okay, we have a motion. Second. And we have a second. Any discussion on the motion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thank you. Next up is the adoption of the MPO committee and work group meeting schedule for calendar year 2026. All right, so under the Kentucky revised statutes, the MPO is defined as a policy making body. And as such, we are required to adopt a schedule for the upcoming year of meetings for not just the policy committee, but also our various advisory committees and work groups. And so we are presenting that for your approval today. This impacts our transportation technical coordinating committee, which meets on even months, the second Wednesday at 1.30. Our bicycle pedestrian advisory committee, which meets monthly, the first Friday of each month at 12 noon. Our congestion mitigation and air quality work group, which meets on odd months, the second Wednesday at 10 a.m. And the safety work group, which meets on even months, the second Wednesday. And we've actually had to adjust the time to 10.30 a.m. because of a conflict that KYTC District 7 has at 10 o'clock and we wanna make sure that they're able to be part of that work group. For the transportation policy committee, our standard meeting schedule is every other month until we get to the month of December. And I think if we met on the fourth Wednesday of that month, it would be like the day before Christmas this next year, so that's probably not gonna work. So we typically move that to the following January. And so we end up with a back-to-back months meeting for the policy committee. We meet at 1.30 p.m. on the fourth Friday of each month. The fifth Wednesday of those months. We are proposing this year that we only have one Teams meeting or virtual meeting, that being in January for the possibility of inclement weather. The rest would be in person. Of those, we would have one meeting in Jessamine County at the city of Nicholasville for April. And we do want to note a change in time for that particular meeting. One thing that we failed to account for when we sent the initial agenda was that the Association of MPOs Technical Symposium is being hosted here in Lexington the week before. And so having a policy committee meeting in the middle of that would be a conflict. And so we have checked, and April 29th is available for us to meet in Nicholasville. For all the other in-person meetings, we have scheduled us to be in the third floor conference room at the Phoenix building, since we've heard that that is a preference. Now we occasionally may have a special called meeting in case something comes up, but we do try to avoid those if at all possible, trying to conduct our meeting during the regularly scheduled, or business during the regularly scheduled meetings. And so with that, we'll be happy to address any questions the policy committee may have. All right, can I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. Questions or comments? Council Member Ellinger. Thank you. Did you say that there was a different, was it just a time, or was it date or time change? It was a date change. Just a date change? All still at 1.30, all of them? Yes. Thank you. Will you back up one slide? Okay. Any other questions or comments on the 26th calendar? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thank you. Next up is information and discussion items. We have a discussion regarding the TPC officer elections for January of next year. All right, according to our prospectus, which is just another name for bylaws for us, we are required to elect a chair and vice chair every two years, and each position is limited to two terms, so you can be re-elected once. Both Mayor Carter, who is the current chair, and Vice Mayor Wu, the current vice chair, are eligible to serve another two-year term, but with that said, it is always possible to nominate and elect another person to serve. And the term of office, I think officially it says January 1st to December 31st, two years later, but effectively, since we vote on this in January, it's really the January meeting to the January meeting two years later. And we do not, the prospectus does not prescribe any specific election methodology, but previously we did have a nomination committee when we had the two positions term-limited two years ago. So just a reminder, the chair has more specific requirements than the vice chair, and for the chair, you have to either be the Mayor of Lexington, Mayor of Nicholasville, Mayor of Wilmore, or the judge executives of either Fayette or Jessamine County to be eligible to be chair. And then for the vice chair, it can be any TPC representative that is an elected official, can serve in that capacity. The difference is that the vice chair is required to be from a different county from the chair. And so, happy to address any questions you might have on the election. And we'll conduct that at our next meeting in January. Chris, are there particular sort of ways by which people would nominate folks? Is that something that would be done over email ahead of time or does all the action take place in the January meeting? So the prospectus doesn't prescribe a particular methodology for that, so I think any of those methods would be acceptable. Okay, thank you. Any other questions on elections? No, okay, good. Next up, public outreach opportunities for the North New Circle Road, Safe Streets and Roads Project. All right, so just a little bit of background here. We've already mentioned a little bit about the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant agreement that we're still in negotiations on. This is the lion's share of that grant, the reconstruction of a section of North New Circle Road. And officially, it would go from, or the project goes from Boardwalk down to Bryan Station Road. And this originally was conceptually identified in the Imagine New Circle Road study that was completed in 2022. And then the Lexington County Safety Action Plan completed in 2023, identified this section of New Circle Road as one of the highest facilities with a number of crashes, especially fatal and serious injury crashes within Fayette County. And so once the grant was awarded, the MPO began working with KYTC, and LFECG began working with KYTC to develop the design for the reconstruction of this facility. And so that design identifies specific roadway, bicycle and pedestrian intersection elements as part of that, as well as identifying any potential constraints, whether they're environmental constraints, right-of-way, utility location, et cetera. Now, this is a little bit of a different beast than what we're normally used to for state highway projects. LFECG is the grant recipient, but since this is a state highway, KYTC oversees the design of that facility. And so we will, once the design is done, we'll have a separate agreement with the Transportation Cabinet for them to actually acquire the right-of-way, relocate the utilities, and actually perform the construction phases. The design has progressed to the point where it's ready for public review. There is actually a project website, www.imaginenorthnewcircle.com. If you're not able to attend the open house, it provides information on how to review the proposed designs, and provides an opportunity for folks to submit comments. But there is a public open house scheduled for Thursday, November 6th, which I'll cover in a little bit more detail in the next slide. But once the design is finalized, or well, once we get past the public open house, the MPO staff, LFECG staff, and KYTC will review the comments that have been provided, and consider any possible design modifications that might be considered appropriate. And then once that's finalized, we'll have a final design, which includes the actual construction documents. And then we'll proceed with the next phases of implementation. The anticipated completion is about between four and five years after the design is complete. So we're looking at the year 2030 or 2031 for this to be open to the public. So the open house on November 6th starts at 4.30 p.m., runs till seven, and this will be in the cafeteria of Northern Elementary School at 340 Rookwood Parkway. And so we're encouraging all interested folks to come, and this is a come and go format. And there will be engineers and representatives from KYTC, as well as the MPO, there to answer any questions that folks might have regarding this project. And so we wanted to make sure that you, the policy committee, were aware, and we also wanted to make sure any of the public listening to us today were also aware of this opportunity to provide comment. So a little bit of heads up here. One of the things you'll probably notice is that the estimated cost for this project is now about $12 million more than what the original estimate had. There are a couple reasons for this. Inflation is much higher than we previously were estimating, and access to raw materials also remains a challenge after the pandemic. Also, the design team has identified a number of constraints, which have, any time you identify a constraint, that makes the project cost more expensive. So one of the things that we'll be considering over the next few months as part of the development of the new Transportation Improvement Program is where will those dollars come from. So we're working with the Transportation Cabinet to identify additional funding, but one of the sources that we may have to tap into is our SLX dollars, which can be used for construction phases. Hopefully we don't have a huge impact to that, but that's something that we want, at least on your radar screen, that we may have to tap into in order to make this project whole. As a reminder, we do a new tip every two years, so we're looking at adopting the new tip in October of next year. And so I'm happy to address any questions at this time. All right, thank you. Any questions? Council Member Baxter. Thank you. Can you just make sure that that image that you shared, can you share that with council members so that we can? Yes. Push it out. Yes, there is a flyer. We'll make sure that all of you receive that. Yeah, I think it was actually in your agenda packets that we distributed to you as well. Yes, yes it was. But we'll resend that to make sure that you have it. Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you. Anything else? Can I ask, going to the page with the budget, or the, yeah, and I apologize if I missed it, what was the original estimate and when was that estimate made? So the original estimate, I believe, was in the $22 million range. And so now we're kind of approaching $34, $35 million. And when was that original estimate made? That estimate was made about two years ago, about two, maybe two and a half years ago. Shoot, yeah. Yeah. It's the times we live in, right? All right, anything else? All right, that item is good. I'm gonna call for general public comment. If anybody from the public would like to speak, you may come to the podium now. All right. Other business items? Does anybody else have any particular items for the good of the order or new business? All right. Next meeting date is January 28th at 1.30, and that's gonna be via Teams. We are at the end of our agenda. Without objection, we are adjourned. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.