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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:700">June Delegate Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:700">Via Zoom</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:700">June 22, 2021</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Attending the meeting were:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:700">Neighborhoods</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Bragtown – Constance Wright, Vannessa Mason Evans</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Colonial Village – Charles Giamberardino</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Colony Park – Donald Lebkes</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Liberty Park – Carmen Williams</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Long Meadow – Pakis Bessias</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-weight:400"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Merrick-Moore – Bonita Green</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-weight:400"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Morehead Hill –
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-weight:400">Rochelle Araujo,
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-weight:400">Bruce Mitchell</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-weight:400"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Trappers Creek / Greymoss – Will Wilson, Eileen Sarro</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Trinity Park – Philip Azar, Mimi Kessler, John Dagenhart, Mollie Flowe, Diane Amato</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Tuscaloosa-Lakewood – Susan Sewell</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Watts Hospital Hillandale – Tom Miller</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:700">Guests</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Annette Smith -- Durham Parks and Recreation</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-weight:400">Karmisha Wallace</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400"> –
City of Durham</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Wanda Page – City of Durham</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.92;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-weight:400">Shelia Huggins</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">President Will Wilson called the meeting to order, and those present introduced themselves. There were no adjustments
to the agenda. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Philip Azar</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">moved
to approve the May minutes, Bonita </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;font-weight:400">Green
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">seconded, and the minutes were approved. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:700">Discussion with Durham City Manager Wanda Page
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">-- Manager Page is excited to lead Durham in the critical time for the city and the nation. She has always been focused
on service. She wants to see a strong financial recovery, to transform government to ensure excellent service, to pursue equity, and to have a safer community. She mentioned that the City Council approved the budget last night. On how the Planning Department
can do better at engaging and supporting residents, she mentioned the conversations in the Comprehensive Plan process, the real listening to the voices of the community and soliciting of the knowledge residents have. On things in the city she wants to keep,
she appreciates the engagement excellence of NIS and the innovation efforts of the city employees (such as the uses of the city’s drone). Something she would like to improve is the inclusiveness of contracts. For some neighborhoods that have been promised
improvements for a </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">long</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400"> time,
Manager Page said that she thinks having a concrete plan and a schedule and openness about progress will improve trust and accountability; given that there is never enough money for everything, we need to re-prioritize infrastructure spending / investment
into historically underserved communities. On the Housing Bond that was authorized in 2019, the money is part of the $160M stream from the bond and city and federal spending. The budget passed last night includes money for the debt service on the bond and
funds for implementation staff. The program is moving, has an oversight committee (</span><a href="https://durhamnc.gov/4501/Affordable-Housing-Implementation-Commit"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">https://durhamnc.gov/4501/Affordable-Housing-Implementation-Commit</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">),
has been on the council agenda with details several times, and has a website to allow the public to track progress (</span><a href="https://durhamnc.gov/3932/Affordable-Housing-Bond"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">https://durhamnc.gov/3932/Affordable-Housing-Bond</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">).
On the fact that Fayette Place is now just sitting there and was not included in the redevelopment plan, the Durham Housing Authority is a partner to the City of Durham but is a separate entity to the City of Durham; DHS owns Fayette Place and has a request
of proposals on redevelopment of the site (which because of federal regulations, will have affordable housing in it). On gun violence in Durham, she knows there are no magic wands, but she is committed to addressing root causes and expanding the tool box
of ways to address it (for example, with youth employment). We thanked Manger Page for her insights and time. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:700">NEW BUSINESS:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:700">Trinity Park Neighborhood Fiber Installations
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">-- The digging in the right of way to install fiber has caused a lot of concern, such as noise, traffic disruption, tree
damage, equipment on sidewalks and especially harm to other utilities, most significantly gas leaks that have even caused people to have to evacuate to a hotel. See the Trinity Park resolution in the appendix. Oversight and permitting need to be stronger.
We are concerned about equity with respect to the “digital divide.” AT&T fiber created a lot of issues in Watts Hospital Hillandale, especially with sink holes created from the cutting of the drainage tiles that were installed when the neighborhood was developed.
The city approved Verizon doing whatever it needed to install 5G. Carmen Williams said the fiber guys cut her water line, messed up her water pressure, dug in her yard to put in box for the 5G tower, and had to re-grade the yard because of the mess the heavy
equipment made in her front yard. Tuscaloosa-Lakewood can tell where the fiber guys from the chatter on the list-serve and has seen lots of water line damage and a possible gas leak. In TLNA, the streets with affordable housing have no fiber while the rest
of the neighborhood has 4 choices. Bruce Mitchell asked that the resolution have some requirement about notification and would like to know about what are the easement conditions that the utilities need to work within. The city needs to be an advocate;
they don’t mark beyond the curb and won’t mark sewer line. A sewer cut means the sewer backs up into the house. Tom Miller moved INC calls on the city and all the utilities to take greater care in their operations to ensure safety of residents and look
forward to learning what happens with the meeting with city staff, Susan and Phil seconded, and we will vote on this resolution in July. The full resolution: </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Resolved that the InterNeighborhood Council calls upon the City of
Durham and the firms owning and controlling the several utilities using public rights of way and utilities easements to do a better job of installing and repairing utility lines so as to cause the least surprise, damage and risk to the residents of Durham. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:700">OLD BUSINESS:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Bylaws Revision Update -- Report next time</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">INC Vice President -- Bonita Green has agreed to be the
Vice President. Susan moved and Phil seconded that by acclimation Bonita be elected as Vice President. This passed. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Deficiency Analysis of 2050 Transportation Plan -- Comments are due June 30. The draft shows what travel times look like in 2050 under
their assumptions of growth (in short, really bad). </span><a href="http://www.dchcmpo.org/programs/transport/2050mtp/default.asp#tabs6"><span style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">http://www.dchcmpo.org/programs/transport/2050mtp/default.asp#tabs6</span></a><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">National Night Out is August 3; register at the Police Department and nationally with Neighborhood Watch.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">72nd Annual Watts-Hillandale July 4 Parade will be Sunday July 4, 10-11:30 AM at Oval Drive Park on West Club. Please
join us if your schedule permits.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Parks and Rec is sponsoring the Bulls game and a laser light show for July. EnoFest is happening this year, but with size limits to promote
distancing.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Small home design links:
</span><a href="http://www.blink-lab.com/landing.html"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51, 122, 183);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">http://www.blink-lab.com/landing.html</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51, 122, 183);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">and</span></p>
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<a href="https://futureofhousing.aarp.org/wp-content/themes/aarp-housing/dist/ADU-Technical-Drawings.pdf"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51, 122, 183);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">https://futureofhousing.aarp.org/wp-content/themes/aarp-housing/dist/ADU-Technical-Drawings.pdf</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Adjournment</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:700">Appendix: MEMO about Fiber Installation Issues</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">To: Durham INC </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">From: Executive Committee of the Trinity Park Neighborhood
Association </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Subject: Resolution about the disruption and damage relating
to the placement of internet fiber optic cables </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Date: June 17, 2021 </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">We, the Executive Committee of the Trinity Park Neighborhood
Association Board of Directors, have concerns relating to the placement of internet fiber optic cables in city right-of-ways in our neighborhood. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">From October 2020 until the present, residents have been
experiencing minor and major disruptions resulting from fiber optic cable work, in many cases without advance notice or any communication. Experiences including prolonged periods of construction noise, tree damage, sidewalk damage, yard damage, traffic flow
disruptions, and cutting of utility lines (internet, water, sewer), sometimes resulting in extensive private property damage or personal expense, with inadequate repair or compensation. In one instance, a gas line was damaged, necessitating late night evacuations
in a significant portion of the neighborhood, causing widespread fear and distress, especially in the wake of the devastating 2019 gas explosion on N. Duke St. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Trinity Park residents have asked TPNA for support in advocating
for better handling of the situation. In response, we have drafted the resolution below to lift up concerns to city staff and elected officials. We request that they take action to improve communication with residents and to improve supervision of fiber optic
cable placement so as to prevent additional disruption and damage. We will also lift up these concerns and repeat our requests through a neighborhood meeting devoted to the issue on July 7. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Because we see the concerns as being potentially relevant
to other neighborhoods throughout the city, we request that INC continue to monitor this issue and stay engaged. Below we share our concerns and the actions we resolve to take, for consideration in formulating a Durham INC resolution. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Sincerely, TPNA Executive Committee </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Karalyn Colopy, TPNA President </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Mollie Flowe, TPNA Vice President </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Waugh Wright, TPNA Secretary </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Adam McClellen, TPNA Treasurer </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Diane Amato, TPNA Past President </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">RESOLUTION </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">WHEREAS, the placement of internet fiber optic cables (“fiber
optic”) in Durham has led to repeated disruptions of downtown, arterial and neighborhood streets, seemingly often with little coordination with neighborhood residents; </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">WHEREAS, there has also been a major gas explosion (with
fatalities) at the corner of N. Duke and Main Street, as well as a recent gas leak in Trinity Park (in conjunction with fiber optic placement) and another on Alston Avenue; </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">WHEREAS, a number of concerned Trinity Park residents have
approached the Trinity Park Neighborhood Association (“TPNA”) and asked for support in coordinating or liaising with the City / County and fiber optic providers, with advocating for tighter supervision of providers and/or their subcontractors, in particular
as relating to the positive identification of all utilities in the right-of-way before digging may begin, for more rigorous safety standards and/or bonding and insurance requirements, and with requests to tell their stories publicly and seek reimbursement
for damages from fiber optic providers or subcontractors; and </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">WHEREAS, TPNA sees the aforementioned concerns as both neighborhood
and Durham-wide issues; </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">NOW, THEREFORE, TPNA through its Executive Committee resolves
as follows: </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">1. To devote its next meeting on July 7 to the issue, with
a focus on hearing the concerns and experiences of neighborhood residents and asking appropriate city staff and elected officials to also hear those experiences and concerns; </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">2. To request that the city review its supervision of fiber
optic providers (and sub- and/or lower-tier contractors) and its safety standards and/or binding and insurance requirements of the same; </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">3. To request that the city benchmark its reviews outlined
in item 2 against best practices in surrounding and other jurisdictions; </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">4. To request that the city report those findings to Durham
city and county elected officials in open public meetings; </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">5. To request that the city place stop orders on all fiber
optic placements within 200 feet of gas lines until such time as the review is completed and changes, if any, made to policies and procedures such that residents feel safe and “in the loop” as to what is going on around them and disruptions are minimized; </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">6. To request that INC and other neighborhood organizations
continue to monitor this issue and to stay engaged; </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Passed this 17th day of June 2021 by the Trinity Park Neighborhood
Association Executive Committee, meeting between regularly scheduled meetings of the board. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">Signed, Waugh Wright, TPNA Secretary</span></p>
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