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PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT, ADVISORY COMMITTEE & STUDY TEAM

OKI views comprehensive, strategic stakeholder outreach and public involvement as essential to the success of the Bright 74 Study. A Public Involvement Plan (PIP) has been created to serve as a procedural outline. The PIP’s focus is on providing opportunities for early and continuing public involvement, including timely public notice and public access to key Study decision-making. In summary, the objectives for the Study’s public involvement and outreach efforts are:

  • Provide multiple opportunities for stakeholders and the public to review study-related information and obtain updates on the progress being made to identify and evaluate the feasible transportation improvement alternatives to improve connectivity between the Bright, Indiana area and the I-74 corridor
  • Provide stakeholders and the public with multiple opportunities through which they can provide feedback to the Study Team
  • Update community members who participated in previous planning efforts, while identifying and reaching out to new, previously untapped community members and stakeholders
  • Three public involvement meetings are planned during this 12-month study. The first Public Open House was held on February 17, 2016. The second Public Open House was held on June 22, 2016. The third and final Public Open House will be held on September 14, 2016. Please click HERE for more information on the September 14 Open House.

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ADVISORY COMMITTEE

For this particular level of transportation planning study, OKI has established an Advisory Committee. The Committee consists of Dearborn County OKI Board Members and other key stakeholders who represent 20 diverse and well-established governmental agencies, local businesses, emergency service providers and civic-based organizations in the area. Members represent large groups of people with whom they work and correspond regularly and from whom they receive feedback. The Advisory Committee members’ broad reach and representation throughout the study area and region provides information and guidance as a working group to the OKI Bright 74 Study Team.

Advisory Committee Responsibilities

  • Provide study updates and disseminate information to community/organizational/agency members to encourage an exchange of information
  • Share community/organization/agency members’ questions, concerns and general feedback
  • Assist with public involvement and outreach efforts, as appropriate

Five Advisory Committee meetings are planned during this approximate 12-month study. Members serve in an advisory capacity without compensation.

STUDY TEAM

This Study requires the expertise, knowledge and skills of professional transportation planning and engineering staff. In order to provide the highest quality of service to our region, The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) staff have been selected and dedicated to this important study. In turn, OKI has hired AECOM as the lead consultant for the Bright I-74 Study through a competitive selection process and assistance from Dearborn County, the INDOT Seymour District Office and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). AECOM has secured the assistance of Shrewsberry & Associates, The Corradino Group, LLC and Vox Populi, LLC as sub-consultants to meet all the needs of this scoping study.

The Study Team consists of OKI and AECOM staff. However, Dearborn County, INDOT Seymour District and FHWA staff are close working partners to the Study Team as they serve to address past, present and future transportation improvement needs for the entire study area. OKI will manage the overall study relative to the scope keeping to the established schedule and budget, resolving study issues, implementing agency and public involvement activities, and coordinating with the study Advisory Committee and other members of the Study Team.

Robyn Bancroft, AICP
OKI Strategic Planning Manager
(EM) rbancroft@oki.org
(T) 513-619-7662
(F) 513-621-9325