Committee meeting to order.

I'm going to start off with the invocation of Pledge of Allegiance.

Can you all bow your heads, please?

Thank you, Lord, for allowing us to gather together today to do the business of the county and its residents.

Please guide our decision making in your will and help us to make the best decisions possible for our constituents and the people who live and travel here every day.

In your name we pray, amen.

Under individual justice for all.

Thank you.

All right, there is no one signed up for public input today.

I don't think there's anybody here who would like to speak on anything.

So we'll move on to a review and approval of the agenda contents.

Second.

All in favor?

Okay, eyes have it.

Approval of the minutes from the May 26 2026 meeting.

So move.

Second.

All in favor?

Okay, thank you.

Alright, moving along to discussion items.

We will have a ride program update from John Christensen.

Thank you for the opportunity to present today at the September by monthly transportation committee meeting of Rory County Council.

This is a ride presentation for an update.

As you might be aware, we did not have a July update, so this will represent the full summer progress.

Starting with the slides, they're updated from the previous slides and stuff.

Ride three, current projects under construction, the dirt road pavings, the 701 widening in North Conway, the 501 realignment, the 501 mainline widening, the highway 17 business intersections, and the Forest Brook Road early clearing and grubbing package.

A little bit more in depth for the ride three dirt road pavings.

Most importantly are the roads under construction, Bonnie Bay Road, Booth Road, Harrelson Road, New Dawn Lane, Turner Road, and secondly the upcoming roads are Minick Road and Watts Road.

The early utility relocations are nearly complete.

The clearing and grubbing is nearly complete.

So we're finalizing the water sewer and power relocations.

This has paved the way for the roadway construction to start.

We have the initial lifts of embankment being put in place, some of the ditch lines being excavated for drainage, and the storm sewerments are progressing.

Further ride 3501 realignment.

After the summer lane restrictions were lifted, you can see the paving of the new alignment of 501 there.

After the lane restrictions, we're now constructing the signalization, all the foundations, poles, and mast arms.

Once the signalizations are working, we'll begin tying that pavement into the intersections and demolishing the old roadway.

Finally, after weather conditions uh change or improve next spring, we'll final surface everything, stripe and roadside development items opening it sometime late spring of next year.

The mainline widening on 501 again after the Labor Day lane restrictions were lifted.

We've been working in the median.

We shifted traffic to the outside, worked in the median, uh working on grading and drainage through the area, some of the widening that's left over there so that after the winter and the weather conditions improve, we'll put down final surface striping and hopefully open it, open it up for completion in spring of 2027.

The intersections project down in Garden City.

Um again after the lane restrictions were lifted at Labor Day.

The contractor is back to work through that period.

The utilities were being relocated.

They're going to continue to be relocated, both power and communications and the contractor with his uh water and sewer line.

All of the right-of-way has been procured, so the project should be open for construction.

And they have started some of the widenings and the temporary detour work to uh to make the phased construction progress.

Uh hopeful completion is sometime mid-2029.

Lastly, the Forest Brook Road uh early clearing and grubbing package is progressing.

Uh, this is uh definitely uh will be beneficial to the project once the power and communications and the utilities are relocated out to the limits of the new right-of-way.

We can let the project for construction and they should have minimal impacts while going through the widening of the new construction of the roadway.

Ride three upcoming uh group four dirt road paving, the Conway Perimeter Road, Carolina Bay's North Extension.

We've received a uh alternate 10 functional design here in September.

Um it shows a new alignment that we're looking at.

Um, and then these SC22 extension, the SEL with the 22 extension.

Uh we're hoping to have the reasonable alternatives, information meetings for public information meetings upcoming here in 2026.

Um we can present a couple of alternates and come up with the best value.

This slide is uh one that we've used in previous presentations.

The only thing that's really been updated on it is that the uh package two of the dirt road pavings is now shown as complete, which was previously shown as under construction.