Jan 12, 2021 Transportation Committee on 2021-01-12 10:00 AM

WE CAN WORK TOGETHER TO NAVIGATE AND REALLY HELP SAN ANTONIANS SHARE WITH US HOW THEY EXPERIENCE TRANSPORTATION.

RIGHT.

WELL, THANK YOU EVERYONE.

WE DO HAVE SOME IMPORTANT BRIEFINGS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, SPEND, UH, SOME TIME, UM, MEETING AND TALKING TO OUR NEW TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR.

SO I THINK ROD IS GONNA DO THE INTRODUCTION AND I'M SO EXCITED TO MEET TAMIKA, BUT I'LL, I'LL, UM, TURN IT OVER TO ROD AND THEN WE'LL, WE'LL HEAR FROM YOU, TAMIKA.

ALL RIGHTY.

THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS? YES.

UH, TODAY'S AN EXCITING DAY FOR US.

UH, AS YOU KNOW, A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO, UH, ERIC MADE THE DECISION TO SPLIT UP PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION, UM, YOU KNOW, AND REALLY, REALLY FOCUS.

HE WANTED TO GET A FOCUS ON, ON TRANSPORTATION.

SO, UM, WE STARTED A MONUMENTAL TASK OF, OF FINDING, YOU KNOW, THE RIGHT PERSON, YOU KNOW, TO LEAD THIS DEPARTMENT.

AND, UH, WE HIRED A CONSULTANT, UH, THAT DID A NATIONAL SEARCH FOR US.

UH, SOMETHING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 160 PEOPLE APPLIED FOR THE JOB, WANTED THE JOB.

UM, WE PUT THEM THROUGH WRITING ASSIGNMENTS, UH, FOUR GRUELING INTERVIEWS, UH, WITH, WITH PANELS.

AND, AND THE, THE LAST ONE WAS WITH THE, WITH ME AND ERIC.

UH, WE ACTUALLY FLEW TAMIKA IN TO, TO VISIT WITH US.

AND, UH, I TELL YOU WHAT, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, WE DEFINITELY FOUND THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB.

UH, THIS, UH, TAMIKA MONVILLE HAS ALL KINDS OF CRAZY EXPERIENCE IN TRANSPORTATION.

I MEAN, SHE'S RIGHT NOW IN ORLANDO, AND, UH, I WAS REALLY IMPRESSED TO HEAR ALL THE GREAT WORK SHE DID IN, IN THE WASHINGTON DC AREA.

UH, SHE'S, UH, VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT TRANSPORTATION.

UH, SHE'S GOT AN ENERGY THAT, UH, THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN IN, IN A, IN A LONG TIME.

SO, YOU KNOW, ERIC AND I WERE JUST, UH, WE WERE SUPER EXCITED TO, TO REALLY, YOU KNOW, GET TO KNOW HER.

AND, UH, WE FEEL SHE'S JUST THE, THE RIGHT FIT, UH, TO LEAD OUR TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, UH, INTO THE FUTURE.

SO, WITH THAT, UH, LET ME JUST INTERVIEW OR INTRODUCE MS. IKA MONTVILLE.

SHE'S HERE ON THE CALL WITH US.

SHE, UH, SHE TOOK SOME TIME OFF FROM HER JOB , SHE SAID SHE COULD SPEND ABOUT AN HOUR OR SO WITH US.

SO, UH, TAMIKA, WHY DON'T YOU TELL THE, THE GROUP A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF.

THANK YOU, ROD.

I APPRECIATE THAT.

THAT WAS SO SWEET.

UM, I HAVE TO FIRST, UM, SAY, I APOLOGIZE IF YOU HEAR SOME SNORING.

I HAVE A ENGLISH BULLDOG, AND AS WE ALL KNOW, UM, SHE'S MY OFFICE ASSISTANT, SO YOU MIGHT HEAR SOME SNORING.

UH, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH.

IT IS SUCH A PLEASURE TO BE ABLE TO CHAT WITH YOU ALL FOR A LITTLE BIT.

AND CHAIRWOMAN GONZALEZ, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ENTHUSIASM.

ROD TOLD ME EVERYONE WAS EXCITED, AND I'M, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS ARE MORE EXCITED THAN I AM BECAUSE I'VE SORT OF BEEN STALKING SAN ANTONIO, IF YOU CAN STALK A CITY.

I SHARED WITH THE RECRUITER, UH, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO THAT, UH, A FORMER, UH, COLLEAGUE WHO WORKED AT VIA A GOOD FRIEND, SHARED WITH ME SOME OF THE LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION WORK YOU ALL HAVE BEEN DOING, UM, IN THE REGION.

AND SO I ACTUALLY USE THAT AS A MODEL FOR A LOT OF MY RECENT, UH, AGENCIES THAT I'VE WORKED WITH AS A MODEL TO COLLECTIVELY WORK TOGETHER TO KIND OF TIE IN TRANSPORTATION AND EQUITY AND HOUSING AND AFFORDABILITY.

AND SO I'VE BEEN STALKING YOU GUYS FOR A WHILE, SO I'M JUST HAPPY THAT YOU HAVE GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED MY ENTHUSIASM.

AND I FEEL VERY HONORED TO BE THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.

AND I, I'M SUPER DUPER EXCITED.

IN FACT, I CALLED ROD A LITTLE EARLIER AND TOLD HIM MY HOUSE IS ON THE MARKET.

SO I HAD A, A POTENTIAL SHOWING AT 10 30, AND I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOSH, I WANNA SELL MY HOUSE, BUT I WANNA MEET EVERYONE TOO TODAY.

SO FORTUNATELY, EVERYTHING WORKED OUT, AND I'M REALLY JUST HERE TO LISTEN TO YOU ALL AND LEARN FROM YOU ALL, AND REALLY JUST SEE HOW

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UM, AS ROD SHARED WITH YOU, WE HAD RIDING EXERCISES.

AND FOR ME, I HAVE THE GOOD FORTUNE OF TRANSPORTATION BEING MY PERSONAL MINISTRY.

IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING I FELL INTO AND DIDN'T KNOW I WAS GONNA FALL INTO.

AND I KIND OF, IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH HIP HOP.

YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH TRANSPORTATION.

AND THAT'S KIND OF, FOR ME, IT'S MY LITTLE BABY.

AND FROM MY CAREER, I'VE BEEN VERY BLESSED TO HAVE WORKED AT THE FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL LEVEL, AND IN PUBLIC WORKS IN SMALL AND LARGE METROPOLITAN AREAS.

AND WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SAN ANTONIO IS IT'S A LARGE METROPOLITAN CITY, BUT YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S A SMALL TOWN.

AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY CRITICAL WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CHANGING THE WAY PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THEIR LIVES WITH SOMETHING LIKE TRANSPORTATION.

SO I'M JUST HERE TO HELP YOU GUYS AND SUPPORT YOU GUYS AND WANT YOU GUYS TO SUPPORT ME.

AND I HAVE A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM.

SOMETIMES IT'S, IT'S BORDERLINE CRAZY ENTHUSIASM ABOUT TRANSPORTATION, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, IT DOES.

ONE THING ABOUT TRANSPORTATION, I TELL PEOPLE IS, DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE A CELEBRITY, IF YOU'RE A PUBLIC OFFICIAL, IF YOU ARE THE, THE STREET SWEEPER, IF YOU ARE THE DOG WALKER, IF YOU ARE A MOM STAYING AT HOME, EVERY DECISION YOU MAKE IN YOUR LIFE, IT REVOLVES AROUND TRANSPORTATION.

SO IT'S, IT'S THE GREAT EQUALIZER FOR ME.

AND, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I WANNA EXPERIENCE AND LEARN HOW PEOPLE EXPERIENCE TRANSPORTATION IN THE CITY AND WORKING WITH THE GREAT PLANS AND JUST, YOU KNOW, REALLY FACILITATING IMPLEMENTATION OF ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE, YOU KNOW, SO FAR.

SO I'M JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE, AND THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME TODAY.

WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TAMIKA.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, UH, SEVERAL OF US ON THIS COMMITTEE, COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL, COUNCILMAN CLIO, HDA, COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, ALSO ALL FIT ON THE M P O, THE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION, WHICH I'M SURE YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH.

UM, SO TRYING TO TIE IN A LOT OF THOSE BIG, UH, PICTURE ITEMS. AND, AND, UM, I'M GONNA ASK YOU SOME QUES, IT'S NOT AN INTERVIEW, OBVIOUSLY, YOU'RE, YOU'RE HERE AND YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN HIRED, SO WE'RE SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

BUT I DO WANNA JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES AND, AND, UM, UH, AND YOUR VISION, PER SE FOR TRANSPORTATION.

I HAVE, UM, UH, TRANSPORTATION, YOU CALLED IT A PERSONAL MINISTRY.

AND, UM, I HAVE NEVER, UH, IMAGINED IT THAT WAY, BUT I, I FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT IT TOO.

UM, AND IT WAS MY, ONE OF MY VERY FIRST INITIATIVES AS A COUNCIL MEMBER WHEN I WAS RUNNING FOR COUNCIL.

AND NOW, UH, EIGHT YEARS AGO, I TALKED ABOUT, UM, UH, THE PRIORITIES FOR THE DISTRICT BEING, UM, UH, UH, ONE WHERE, UM, PRIVATE AUTOMOBILES WERE THE LAST USE, UM, OR, AND, AND THAT WE WOULD INVEST MOST OF OUR DOLLARS ON SIDEWALKS AND, UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION TRAILS, WAYS, TRANSIT, AND THEN PRIVATE AUTOMOBILES LAST.

UM, AND SO THAT HAS, UH, AND, AND OF COURSE THAT'S, UM, NOT NECESSARILY HOW THE CITY OPERATES, BUT IT WAS ALWAYS MY VISION FOR THE CITY.

SO I JUST WANNA ASK YOU SOME QUESTIONS, AND THEN I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUES TO ASK YOU SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT, UM, UH, HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT SOME ISSUES THAT WE HAVE HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.

AND, UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT AND TOUR PARTS OF OUR CITY, AND, UM, SAN ANTONIO, NOT UNLIKE, UM, OTHER CITIES THAT YOU'VE, YOU'VE WORKED IN OR LIVED IN, UH, IS VERY HEAVY, UH, AUTOMOBILE DOMINANT.

UM, AND, UM, I, AND IN FACT, I PURPOSELY CHOSE THE ITEMS, UH, ON OUR AGENDA TODAY IN CASE YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT IN, UM, BEING FOCUSED ON ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION.

SO WE TALKED ABOUT VISION ZERO, WHICH IS OUR INITIATIVE TO ELIMINATE FATALITIES.

I DON'T THINK THAT ORLANDO HAD A VISION ZERO, UM, INITIATIVE UNLESS THEY ADOPTED IT IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.

YEAH, IT'S BEEN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS THAT THE CITY'S ADOPTED THE VISION ZERO HERE IN ORLANDO.

I'VE FOUND FROM MY EXPERIENCE IS WE DO A REALLY GREAT JOB IN TRANSPORTATION, EDUCATING THE PEOPLE WHO USE OUR SYSTEM, BUT WE REALLY DON'T DO A GREAT JOB OF EDUCATING THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE ALTERNATIVE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION.

AND, AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT, BUT, UM, LEMME JUST ASK YOU, SO WHAT, UM, I'LL JUST START WITH THAT PARTICULAR QUESTION JUST ABOUT VISION ZERO.

HOW DO YOU THINK WE COULD ADVANCE THE CITY'S VISION ZERO INITIATIVE? WE'RE GONNA GET A, A, UH, A BRIEFING A LITTLE BIT LATER, BUT, UM, THE NUMBERS ARE NOT TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, AND I THINK THAT'S BEEN THE CASE FOR A LOT OF THE CITIES, UH, IN THE UNITED STATES.

WHAT DO YOU THINK WE COULD DO TO ADVANCE THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE? YOU KNOW, I THINK VISION ZERO IS A GREAT INITIATIVE NATIONALLY.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT

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SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT VISION ZERO, YOU WANT TO REDUCE, YOU KNOW, SERIOUS INJURIES AND ELIMINATE FATALITIES.

BUT IT ALL GOES BACK TO THE DESIGN OF OUR CITIES.

SO IF WE'VE DESIGNED A CITY THAT WAS DESIGNED FOR AN AUTOMOBILE, BUT WE ARE PROPOSING TO REDUCE FATALITIES AND INJURIES, WE HAVE TO START DESIGNING SPACES AND PLACES THAT INCORPORATE OTHER MODES OTHER THAN AUTOMOBILES.

AND IT'S A COMBINATION OF THINGS, QUITE HONESTLY.

YOU KNOW, HAVING, MOST OF MY EXPERIENCE ON THE TRANSIT SIDE, WHEN I HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE ABOUT GETTING TO ZERO FATALITIES AND INJURIES IN THE TRANSIT WORLD, THAT'S AN IMPOSSIBILITY BECAUSE HOW WE DEFINE INJURIES AND FATALITIES AND ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT MODAL SYSTEMS, THEY HAVE TO BE CONSISTENT AND THEY HAVE TO BE NORMALIZED.

BUT THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN BECAUSE TRANSIT IS EVALUATED IN A DIFFERENT WAY.

AND THE TRANSIT SAFETY TARGETS FOR VISION ZERO FOR TRANSIT ARE DIFFERENT THAN THEY ARE FOR BICYCLES, THAN THEY ARE FOR PEDESTRIANS.

AND SO I THINK WE HAVE TO BE COGNIZANT OF HOW WE MEASURE ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH PEOPLE MOVE ABOUT, AND THEN DETERMINE WHAT ARE THE MOST APPLICABLE STANDARDS AND PERFORMANCE METRICS FOR THOSE MODES.

SO I'VE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH COLLEAGUES AT THE M P O HERE ABOUT, WELL, WHY DON'T YOU HAVE ZERO INJURIES IN TRANSIT? WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ GOT ON THE BUS AND SHE TRIPPED YESTERDAY.

THESE ARE EVERYDAY OCCURRENCES.

AND IF YOU HAVE AN AREA THAT HAS A HUNDRED BUS ROUTES AND THE POTENTIAL FOR, YOU KNOW, 20 BUSES ON ONE ROUTE, THAT IS POTENTIALLY GONNA BE AN INCIDENT OR ACCIDENT.

AND WHAT WE CATEGORIZE AS AN INJURY IN TRANSIT IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE CATEGORIZE AS A SERIOUS INJURY IN AUTOMOBILE WORLD.

SO I THINK WE HAVE TO SIT DOWN AND WE HAVE TO DISCUSS WHAT MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE IF WE HAVE DIFFERENT MEASURES AND WE HAVE DIFFERENT TARGETS, AND WE APPLY THE SAME MEASURES AND TARGETS ACROSS ALL MODES, THEN WE'RE GOING TO GET REALLY PREPONDERANCE NUMBERS.

AND SO I THINK THAT'S THE FIRST STEP, IS MAKING SURE THAT THE TARGETS AND MEASURES PERFORMANCE METRICS THAT WE ESTABLISH FOR VISION ZERO ON ALL OUR MODES ARE REALISTIC AND REFLECTIVE, AND NOT JUST A RUBBER STAMP OF, OH, THIS IS HIGHWAY, SO LET'S HAVE ZERO FATALITIES FOR BICYCLES.

YOU KNOW, SO IT IS A CONVERSATION FIRST AND FOREMOST, AND REALLY LOOKING AT OUR AREAS FOR VISION ZERO.

SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT VISION ZERO, AND THIS IS A HISTORIC THING, THIS IS NOT JUST A SAN ANTONIO THING.

WE'VE MEASURED EVERYTHING BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE AUTOMOBILE USER.

SO WE HAVE TO UNPACK THAT AND DEVELOP VISION ZERO MEASURES FOR OUR BICYCLISTS.

AND THEN WE HAVE TO BEGIN THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE DESIGN OF THE AREAS IN WHICH WE HAVE MULTIPLE MODES USING THEM SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE WE ARE PROVIDING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL THE USERS AND NOT, UH, GOING TO THE PROVERBIAL HIERARCHY OF NEEDS, YOU KNOW, WITH THE AUTOMOBILE BEING FIRST AND THE PEDESTRIAN BEING LAST.

WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I KNOW WE COULD GO ON AND ON, BUT I'LL TURN IT OVER TO SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES SOME QUESTIONS, AND I'M JUST GONNA GO RANDOMLY.

I SEE HERE, COUNCIL WOMAN AT SANDOVAL, UH, TAMIKA, WELCOME TO THIS NEW VERY EXCITING POSITION.

UH, SEVERAL OF US HAVE BEEN WAITING WITH BATED BREATH, UH, FOR THE START OF THIS NEW DEPARTMENT, AND WE ARE SO GLAD, UH, TO SEE YOU AT THE HELM.

WE'VE RECEIVED A COPY OF YOUR, OF YOUR BIO, YOUR RESUMES THAT WE'RE, UH, AT LEAST I CAN SPEAK FOR MYSELF, ABSOLUTELY THRILLED THAT YOU'LL BE OUR FIRST TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR.

UH, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU, WE WANT YOU TO SUCCEED.

WE WANT THE CITY, UH, TO SUCCEED.

UH, WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE SAFE.

UH, WE WANT TRANSPORTATION TO CONNECT THEM TO OPPORTUNITY.

UH, I TOO, UH, AM A, A DISCIPLE OF THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION, , I, I STARTED MY CAREER AT VIA IN PUBLIC, UH, TRANSPORTATION.

AND, AND HERE I AM, UH, TODAY.

SO, UH, I'M, I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO QUESTIONS, BUT I WOULD LOVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT WITH YOU, UH, ONCE YOU'RE, ONCE YOU'RE HERE.

AND, UH, CHAIR, IF WE AT SOME POINT WANT TO AGENDIZE, UH, SOMETHING LIKE TAMIKA'S TAKE ON TRANSPORTATION AT OUR AT OUR COMMITTEE MEETING,

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I WOULD, I WOULD LOVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

BUT ANYWAY, JUST, JUST AN IDEA.

LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.

WELCOME.

THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL.

AND MAYBE WE JUST CALL IT TRANSPORTATION CHURCH, YOU KNOW, I LOVE THAT.

STILL ME.

UH, THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN.

I'M BEING TOLD THAT, THAT WE MAY BE VIOLATING THE OPEN RECORDS ACT, SO I'LL, BUT I, BUT I STILL WANNA GIVE MY COLLEAGUES OPPORTUNITY AT LEAST TO WELCOME YOU INTO, UM, UH, INTRODUCE THEMSELVES AS WELL.

AND SO I, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO COUNCIL WOMEN K .

HI.

THANK YOU, CHAIR.

WELCOME MS. VE I'M VERY EXCITED TO MEET YOU.

I LOVE HEARING YOUR ENTHUSIASM FOR OUR CITY, AND I LOOK, REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.

WELCOME.

THANK YOU, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO, THANK YOU CHAIR, AND, AND WELCOME, UH, TAMIKA.

I LOOK FORWARD TO MANY CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU.

UH, I DO WANNA SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT AS WELL.

UH, THE, YOU, YOU KNOW, THE, I THINK IT'D BE HELPFUL FOR YOU AS, AS YOU WORK, UH, WITH THIS COUNCIL.

UM, YOU KNOW, I, I WANT TO THANK MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES BECAUSE, UH, WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS THE CITY COUNCIL THAT, UH, HAS PRESSURED CITY MANAGEMENT TO, TO SEPARATE OUR, UM, TRANSPORTATION AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS DEPARTMENT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A SEPARATE ENTITY AND HAVE SOMEBODY LIKE YOURSELF BE APPOINTED TO THIS POSITION.

SO, UH, WE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY TO GO, TO GO BACK TO A SYSTEM THAT HAS TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS IN TWO SEPARATE, UH, DEPARTMENTS.

UH, SO WE CAN REALLY FOCUS ON, ON THE ISSUES AT HAND.

AND AGAIN, I, I LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, UH, REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR ENTHUSIASM.

AND, UH, MOST IMPORTANTLY, I LOOK FORWARD TO THE, THE INSIGHT THAT YOU WILL HELP BRING, UH, TO US AS A COUNCIL.

COUNCIL MEMBER , UH, COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.

THANK YOU, MA'AM.

AND TAMIKA WELCOME AND, UH, CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO GET HERE TO SAN ANTONIO.

LOOK FORWARD TO SOME INDIVIDUAL, UH, MEETINGS WITH YOU AND PRESSING FORWARD WITH THE VISION THAT WE HAVE FOR SAN ANTONIO AND WORKING, UH, NOT ONLY HERE AT THE CITY LEVEL, BUT WITH THE M P O AS WELL.

AND LOOK FORWARD TO THAT, THAT OPPORTUNITY.

I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW.

YOU'LL GET THOSE WHEN YOU GET HERE.

HOW ABOUT THAT? SO ANYWAY, LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU PERSONALLY AND, UH, GETTING TO WORK.

LIKEWISE.

ALRIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS.

AND, UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TAMIKA, FOR, FOR YOUR TIME THIS MORNING.

I HOPE YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT IN FOR A LITTLE WHILE, UH, BEFORE YOU GET BACK TO WORK.

AND, UM, AND, UH, WE, WE DO HAVE A, A PRETTY PACKED AGENDA WITH, UH, VISION ZERO, UH, MICRO MOBILITY PLAN, UM, AND A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS.

SO, UM, HOPEFULLY, UH, WE WILL, UH, HAVE YOU JOIN US, AND OTHERWISE WE'LL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU VERY SOON.

UM, FEBRUARY 1ST IS YOUR START DATE, UH, AND, UM, WE WILL WELCOME YOU WITH OPEN ARMS AND MAKE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OUR POTENTIAL FOR SEEING YOU IN PERSON.

THAT'S, YOU KNOW, UH, HOW QUICKLY THAT WILL BE, BUT HOPEFULLY VERY SOON.

THINGS BASED ON THEIR LENS.

AND LIKE I SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO JUST COMING AND SPENDING TIME WITH YOU ALL.

I'M NOT ONE OF THE, I'M ENTHUSIASTIC, BUT I'M NOT CRAZY.

IT'S IMPORTANT THAT, UM, I LEARNED FROM YOU ALL WHAT YOUR NEEDS ARE AND WHAT YOUR EXPERIENCE IS WITH TRANSPORTATION AND REALLY PARTICULARLY SOME OF YOUR PRIORITIES AS IT RELATES TO, I'VE READ SEVERAL OF YOUR BIOS AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO START AT, YOU KNOW, AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL AND REALLY UNDERSTAND, AS I'VE SHARED WITH BRAD AND, UH, ERIC, THEY'RE OFFICIAL AND THEY'RE UNOFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE IDENTIFY WHAT THE NEEDS ARE OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND CALL SAN ANTONIO HOME.

AND OUR EXPERIENCES ARE DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE.

UM, I, I GREW UP IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, I LOVE MY CAR.

I'M NOT GOING TO, YOU KNOW, BEAT PEOPLE UPSIDE THEIR HEAD WITH, YES, YOU HAVE TO TAKE A SCOOTER, OR YES, YOU HAVE TO USE TRANSIT.

I THINK WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO REALIZES THIS, IS THAT WE, WE ALL HAVE OUR UNIQUE EXPERIENCES AND WE WANT TO MOVE AROUND DIFFERENTLY.

AND CREATING THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PLATFORM AND GIVING PEOPLE THE LANGUAGE TO TALK ABOUT HOW THEY EXPERIENCE TRANSPORTATION IS REALLY CRITICAL BECAUSE WE, WE ARE PRACTITIONERS.

WE ALL HAVE OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE, AND THAT'S WHAT GETS LOST A LOT OF TIMES, IS WE TALK UP HERE ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S SO RIGHT HERE FOR PEOPLE AND REALLY GETTING TO THE PLACE WHERE WE CAN HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND BE UNCOMFORTABLE AND BE INTIMATE.

I MEAN, I'M A, A BLACK WOMAN IN AMERICA IN 2021.

I HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCES AND I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCE

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AND SO EQUITY IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME.

AND WHEN I LOOK AT SAN ANTONIO, I LOOK AT A CITY AND, YOU KNOW, YES, THE JOB IS GREAT, BUT MY FAMILY, WE WANNA BE IN A CITY THAT PRIORITIZES PEOPLE OVER PROJECTS AND OVER THOSE THINGS THAT ARE EXTERNAL TO YOUR EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT SAN ANTONIO, AND THAT'S WHY I'M REALLY EXCITED TO MAKE IT MY HOME.

AND I'M JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU GUYS.

SO DON'T RUN FOR ME WHEN YOU SEE ME KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR WANTING TO ASK CRAZY TRANSPORTATION QUESTIONS.

UM, I, I LOOK AT IT, YOU KNOW, WE SPEND MORE TIME AT WORK AND PEOPLE YOU WORK WITH BECOME YOUR FAMILY.

AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT AS A FAMILY, THAT WE DISAGREE RESPECTFULLY, BUT IT'S ALL IN LOVE.

IT'S ALL OF US TRYING TO GET TO THAT SAME PLACE TOGETHER AND NOT LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND.

SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD IN, UM, TRYING TO SELL MY HOUSE.

SO I'M GONNA GET OFF RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I THINK I HAVE A POTENTIAL SHOWING RIGHT NOW, .

YAY.

SO YOU GUYS TAKE CARE AND I'LL SEE YOU IN A FEW WEEKS.

FEW, YES, THANK, THANK, FORWARD TO IT.

AND I READ THE AGENDA ALSO, JUST THE FYI, I READ THE AGENDA AND THE NOTES FROM LAST WEEK, SO WE'LL BE TALKING.

AND, UM, I KNOW THAT WE'RE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING TAMIKA HERE AND SEE HOW SHE CAN, UH, HELP US, UM, ADDRESS SOME OF THESE PRESSING ISSUES.

UM, AND SO THAT MEANS THAT WE WILL START,

[1. 21-1054 Approval of the Minutes for the December 1, 2020 Transportation and Mobility Committee Meeting.]

UH, WITH APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.

UM, IF I COULD, UH, ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM DECEMBER 1ST, 2020.

I MOVE SECOND.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

WE HAVE A, A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.

ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

AYE.

ANY OPPOSED? OKAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

MOTION CARRIES.

AND THEN WE WILL MOVE ON TO A BRIEFING

[2. 21-1086 Briefing on the City’s Vision Zero Program status and an update on related legislative initiatives. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Bianca Thorpe, Capital Programs Manager, Transportation Department]]

ON THE CI CITY'S VISION ZERO PROGRAM STATUS AND AN UPDATE ON RELATED LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES.

UM, SO I THINK WE, UM, WE'LL, UH, ROD, YOU WANNA KICK US OFF? I HAVE TO UNMUTE MYSELF.

I AM ACTUALLY GONNA TURN THIS OVER TO BIANCA THORPE WHO'S GONNA LEAD US IN THIS PRESENTATION.

GOOD MORNING.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.

PERFECT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS WITH YOU SOME OF THE PROGRAMS AND GIVE SOME UPDATES.

WE'RE GONNA START THIS MORNING WITH A VISION ZERO UPDATE, KIND OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE OVER THE 2020 FY.

NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

SO USUALLY START WITH A LOOK AT OUR FATALITY SUMMARY.

WHAT YOU'LL NOTICE HERE IS THE DIFFERENT COLORS REPRESENT DIFFERENT YEARS, STARTING WITH 2016 UP THROUGH 2020, AND THEY'RE BROKEN DOWN BY MODE, WHETHER IT'S VEHICULAR, UH, MOTORCYCLE, PEDESTRIAN, AND BICYCLISTS.

YOU WILL SEE THAT THE TREND 2016 WAS THE HIGHEST ON THE FAR RIGHT IN THE TOTALS.

WE DID HAVE A DROP IN 2017, AND IT HAS BEEN TRENDING UP TO WHERE 2020 PUT US AT ABOUT 156.

UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS, IS PRETTY CYCLICAL AND WE WORK TO FIND, UM, REASONS WHY, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE DIFFERENT PIECES.

2020 WAS DEFINITELY A DIFFICULT YEAR BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THERE WEREN'T AS MANY VEHICLES ON THE ROADWAY BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, BUT STUDIES ARE NOW TAKING PLACE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT PARTICULAR THAT WAS WITH LESS VEHICLES ON THE ROADWAY.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING THAT WE'VE HEARD NATIONALLY AND STATEWIDE 'CAUSE WE DO HAVE A STATEWIDE TASK FORCE WITH OTHER VISION ZERO CITIES THAT THEY ARE SEEING THE EXACT SAME TRENDS THAT WE HAVE HERE.

SO I JUST WANTED TO BRING, UM, SOME OF THIS INFORMATION TO YOU KIND OF AT, AT THE BEGINNING.

AUGUST, UH, TIMEFRAME, WE DID PICK BACK UP A LITTLE BIT.

SO, PUBLIC OUTREACH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS VERY BIG PART OF VISION ZERO AND WHAT WE DO.

AND 2020 WAS DEFINITELY A CHALLENGE, UM, JUST TO LOOK AT IN GENERAL SINCE WE STARTED VISION ZERO SPECIFICALLY IN 2016.

BETWEEN NOW AND THEN, MY STAFF HAS PUT TOGETHER 400 DIFFERENT OUTREACH EVENTS OR JOINED OTHER OUTREACH EVENTS TO TOUCH ABOUT 65,000 PLUS PEOPLE GETTING OUR MESSAGE OUT.

AND, AND WHAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO, THE PICTURES THAT YOU SEE HERE ARE IN JANUARY BEFORE REALLY COVID HIT.

UM, WE DID SOME DIFFERENT, UH, LITTLE POPUPS THERE AT THE VO CENTRAL PLAZA TO TALK WITH DIFFERENT TRANSIT RIDERS, BRING THE MESSAGE OF VISION ZERO TO THEM, AND WE DID SEVERAL OF THEM.

SO, YOU KNOW, WE WERE GOING FULL SPEED AHEAD WITH OUR NORMAL PROCESS.

AND THEN COVID HIT AND, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A BREAK AND WE HAD TO GET CREATIVE.

UM, WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN THE BOTTOM PICTURE IS, UM, AROUND THAT SEPTEMBER, LATE

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WE TOOK THE VISION ZERO MESSAGE AS WELL AS SOME OF OUR BICYCLE MESSAGING, WHICH YOU'LL SEE FROM THE SURVEY A LITTLE BIT LATER.

AND WE PUT OUR MASKS ON AND KEPT OUR DISTANCE AND WE WERE OUTDOORS AND WE CONTINUED TO PICK UP THOSE OPPORTUNITIES LATER IN THE YEAR WHERE WE FELT SAFE AND COMFORTABLE THAT WE COULD.

SO ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT WE DID THIS YEAR WAS WE UPDATED OUR WEBSITE, WE WORKED WITH I T S D, GOT A FRESH WEBSITE, PUT TOGETHER A LOT OF INFORMATION AND RESOURCES THAT WERE AVAILABLE, AND THIS IS WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE WHEN YOU GO TO THE VISION ZERO WEBSITE.

ANOTHER THING THAT WE DID WAS WE PUT TOGETHER A PRESENTATION.

UM, ESPECIALLY SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS WERE ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE DID A LOT OF TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT, UH, TO THE CONSTITUENTS.

AND IT WAS SOMETHING THAT HAD COMPLETELY STOPPED, ESPECIALLY WHENEVER CHILDREN WERE NOT IN SCHOOL.

AND WE HAD SEVERAL PRESENTATIONS THAT WE WOULD PROVIDE AND WE SAID, LET'S TAKE THIS AND MAKE IT AUTOMATED AND MAKE IT A VIDEO THAT ANYONE CAN USE, ANYONE WHO, UM, EDUCATES CHILDREN OR EVEN DAYCARE CENTERS.

AND WE PUT THIS TOGETHER WITH OUR CONSULTANT AND IT IS ON OUR WEBSITE, AND IT HAS BEEN OUT THERE SINCE ABOUT OCTOBER, AND IT IS AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE, UM, TO USE.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

SO ANOTHER THING THAT WE WORKED ON IN 2020 WAS MEDIA COORDINATION.

OBVIOUSLY WE DO HAVE REQUESTS, UM, FOR STORIES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, BUT WE WANTED TO KIND OF COME TOGETHER AND COORDINATE A LITTLE BIT BETTER.

WE WORKED WITH SOME OF THE TV STATIONS ON, UM, YOU KNOW, PROMOTING WHAT OUR VIDEO WAS, BUT IT, ON TOP OF THAT, TALKING THROUGH TO THEIR ANCHORS, ESPECIALLY THEIR TRAFFIC ANCHORS THAT GO THROUGH AND DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, ON, ON A DAILY BASIS WHAT KIND OF TRAFFIC ISSUES THERE ARE OUT THERE, KIND OF DISCUSS WITH THEM, VISION ZERO, BRING THEM UP TO SPEED ON KIND OF OUR VIEW OF WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHAT OUR GOALS ARE.

WE ALSO WANTED TO KEEP TRACK OF CERTAIN EVENTS THAT WE DO ON A YEARLY BASIS.

WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE, WHICH IS IN NOVEMBER, IS ONE OF THOSE SITUATIONS AND YEARS PAST PHYSICAL RIDES, OR WE HAD THE MURAL IN 2019 THAT WE DID AND, AND BROUGHT THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER.

THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT HARDER THIS YEAR.

SO WE WORKED THIS YEAR WITH, UM, UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM AND SAFE KIDS, AND WE PUT TOGETHER SORT OF A VIRTUAL REMEMBRANCE.

UM, WE DID PUT SOME SIGNS, UM, ALONG CERTAIN LOCATIONS WITHIN TOWN TO JUST COMMEMORATE AREAS THAT DID HAVE HIGH CRASH.

WE, WE ALSO WORKED WITH CERTAIN FAMILIES TO RECORD THEIR STORIES AND INTERVIEW, AND WE POSTED THEM ON OUR WEBSITE IN SORT OF A REMEMBRANCE ON THE FRONT PAGE FOR THE WEEKEND, A WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE TO BRING ATTENTION TO, UM, THAT THIS IS STILL VERY IMPORTANT AND THAT WE WANT TO RECOGNIZE, UM, THOSE FOLKS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES, UM, TO TRAFFIC FATALITIES.

ANOTHER THING THAT WE DID IN 2019 WAS WE PUT TOGETHER ALL THE HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN 20, UH, I'M SORRY, IN 2020.

WE PUT THE HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019.

THERE'S AN ANNUAL REPORT THAT WE DID SHARE OUT AND IS ON OUR WEBSITE THAT JUST KIND OF WENT THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT WE DID, UM, TO RECOGNIZE WHAT THOSE PIECES ARE, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE, UM, IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

THE OTHER THING THAT WE DID IS UPDATE AND PUT TOGETHER A, AN INTERACTIVE CRASH MAP ON OUR WEBSITE.

THIS TALKS ABOUT AREAS WHERE YOU SEE CRASHES DEPENDING ON THEIR SEVERITY, DEPENDING ON WHAT TYPE OF CRASH THEY ARE.

IT TALKS ABOUT LOCATIONS WHERE WE HAVE COMPLETED VISION ZERO INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, WHERE WE HAVE THEM PROPOSED.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF, UH, PULLED OUT WHAT THE 2020 PROPOSED ARE AS WELL.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO CONTINUALLY UPDATE AND YOU WILL SEE ON OUR WEBSITE AND IS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC VIEW.

ADDITIONALLY, RECALL IN THE PAST WHERE WE LOOK AT WHAT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS WE WANT TO, UM, DO, EACH YEAR WE PUT TOGETHER A REPORT WHERE WE ANALYZED WHERE ARE THE SEVERITIES AND WHAT LENGTHS OF ROADWAY HAVE THE HIGHEST CRASHES.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE PUT TOGETHER A REPORT, OUR SEVERE INJURY PEDESTRIAN REPORT IN 2017.

AND WE FELT LIKE IN 2020 IT WAS TIME TO UPDATE THAT DOCUMENT, WHICH WE DID.

YOU CAN SEE HERE ON OUR WEBSITE, IT IS, THE PUBLICATION IS THERE AND IT IS AVAILABLE FOR VIEW FOR VIEW.

BUT ADDITIONALLY WHAT WE DID WAS WE TOOK A CLOSER LOOK AT THE BICYCLIST INJURIES AND THE VEHICULAR INJURIES.

WE'RE FINALIZING THE VEHICULAR INJURIES REPORT, BUT BOTH THE PEDESTRIAN AND THE BICYCLIST CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE.

WHAT THE DISTRIBUTION IS.

UM, ADDITIONALLY WE HAVE SOME MAPPING THAT KIND OF SHOWS HERE

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YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE CERTAIN PROJECTS OVER THE YEARS.

WE HAVE THE NEW PROJECTS COMING, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONTINUING, RIGHT? WE'RE, UM, THE PROCESS ITSELF TO BRING A PROJECT FROM PLANNING THROUGH DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION IS ABOUT AN 18 MONTH PROCESS.

AND SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE, UM, ON THE BACKEND OF OUR 2020 PROJECTS.

WE'VE DETERMINED WHAT WE WANT AS OUR 2021 PROJECTS AND WE'RE ABOUT TO START THE DESIGN.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONTINUALLY LOOKING AT AND WORKING THROUGH.

SO VISION ZERO TASK FORCE.

WE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TASK FORCE THAT WE WORK THROUGH WITH, UM, STAKEHOLDERS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE ADVOCATES AS WELL AS PARTNER AGENCIES.

WE HAVE A CRASH REVIEW TASK FORCE THAT WE LITERALLY LOOK AT CRASHES THAT HAVE HAPPENED ON OUR STREETS, WHAT WE SEE AS THOSE TRENDS ARE, AND INVITE, UM, THESE OTHER GROUPS TO PROVIDE INPUT ON THESE, UM, PARTICULAR CRASHES AND WHAT MITIGATION COULD HAPPEN.

WE ALSO HAVE A COMMUNICATIONS TASK FORCE THAT WE WORK THROUGH, UM, AS WELL ON A BIMONTHLY BASIS.

SO WE WANT INPUT FROM ALL DIRECTIONS.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW IT IS, CAN'T BE JUST A SOLE EFFORT.

SO WE KEEP TRACK OF THAT CONTINUOUSLY.

SO ONE OF THE LAST THINGS THAT WE'RE TALKING THROUGH IS WE DID HAVE AN ACTION PLAN AT THE BEGINNING, AND IT'S TIME FOR AN UPDATE.

SO WE'RE COORDINATING AGAIN WITH MANY OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S NEXT.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THERE, BUT WHAT DIRECTION DO WE NEED TO GO FROM HERE? UM, NEXT SLIDE.

APPLIES ONLY TO THE FOUR LARGEST CITIES IN TEXAS, HOUSTON, SAN ANTONIO, DALLAS, AND AUSTIN.

AT THIS TIME I WANT TO TURN IT OVER TO JEFF COYLE TO TALK ABOUT OUR LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION.

BIANCA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, FOR THE COMMITTEE'S AWARENESS.

THE, UH, 87TH TEXAS LEGISLATIVE SESSION BEGINS TODAY.

UH, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF VISION ZERO BECAUSE MANY OF THE LAWS THAT GOVERN OUR ROADWAYS ARE IN THE TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE.

UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

AS, UH, A REMINDER, THE STATE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM THAT THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED IN NOVEMBER INCLUDES THIS LANGUAGE THAT WE SUPPORT LEGISLATION THAT ENHANCES TRAFFIC SAFETY AND CONTINUES TO SUPPORT SAFETY INITIATIVES.

WE ALSO HAVE A SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO VISION ZERO IN THE PROGRAM.

UM, THERE ARE SEVERAL BILLS THAT HAVE BEEN FILED ALREADY, AND IF YOU'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I'LL TALK THROUGH THEM BRIEFLY.

UM, THE FIRST ONE, HOUSE BILL 4 43 IS FROM REPRESENTATIVE CELIA ISRAEL.

SHE'S AN AUSTIN, UH, AREA LEGISLATOR.

AND SPECIFICALLY WHAT THIS DOES IS ADD THE WORD STOP TO A NUMBER OF REFERENCES IN STATUTE WHERE, UH, MOTOR VEHICLES ARE REQUIRED TO YIELD TO PASSENGERS.

UH, THEY ARE REQUIRED TO YIELD TO PASSENGERS IN, IN CROSSWALKS, UH, WHEN EXITING A, UH, A PARKING LOT ONTO A ROADWAY.

AND THE INTENT OF THIS BILL, UM, FROM THE VISION ZERO TEXAS GROUP THAT IS PUSHING IT, IS TO, UH, CREATE MORE CLARITY AROUND THE LAW SO THAT WHEN THERE ARE ACCIDENTS BETWEEN MOTOR VEHICLES AND PASSENGERS IN A CROSSWALK, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, HISTORICALLY THE ARGUMENT IS THAT IT'S HARDER TO, TO TICKET AND HOLD DRIVERS ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE, UH, THE, THE DRIVER WILL OFTEN SAY THAT I, I YIELDED, BUT THE PERSON STEPPED OUT IN FRONT.

AND THIS MAKES IT A CLEAR REQUIREMENT THAT THE VEHICLE STOP, UH, END YIELD WHEN SOMEONE IS IN THE ROADWAY.

UH, LIKE MUCH LEGISLATION, WE HAVE CITY DEPARTMENTS LOOKING AT THIS.

UH, I KNOW, UH, BIANCA HAS TAKEN A LOOK AT IT WITH PUBLIC WORKS.

WE'RE SHARING IT WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WILL LIKELY COMMUNICATE WITH THE COUNTY AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND THE FULL IMPLICATIONS IN TERMS OF ENFORCING THAT STATE LAW.

UH, BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF IT.

SECONDLY, UH, UNDER THE SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS, THESE ARE TWO BILLS THAT RELATE TO THE PRIMA FASCIA SPEED LIMIT.

UH, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LOT BEFORE, CHAIRWOMAN, I KNOW YOU'RE VERY FAMILIAR, BUT FOR THE, THE SAKE OF THE AUDIENCE, PRIMA FACIE IS ESSENTIALLY THE DEFAULT SPEED LIMIT IN-STATE LAW.

UH, SPECIFIC SPEED LIMITS ARE DEFINED FOR SPECIFIC TYPES OF ROADWAYS, AND YOU CAN STRAY FROM THOSE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.

BUT IT REQUIRES SIGNAGE POSTED ALL OVER THE CITY ON ALL OF THOSE STREETS.

IT SOMETIMES REQUIRES TRAFFIC STUDIES AND OTHER HURDLES TO OVERCOME.

AND SO WHAT THESE TWO BILLS DO IS ADDRESS THE, IS IS LOWER THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT, SPECIFICALLY IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS FROM 30 MILES AN HOUR TO 25 MILES AN HOUR.

SO IT WOULD BE A DEFAULT LOWERING OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD SPEED LIMIT.

HOUSE BILL 4 42, UH, AFFECTS EVERYBODY'S, UH, STATEWIDE AND, UH, AND SENATE BILL 2 21 FILED BY OUR SENATOR ZINI

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THE REASON FOR THAT IS BEFORE THE LAST SESSION, WE PROPOSED THIS LEGISLATION AT A, AT A GATHERING OF ALL CITIES THROUGH T M L, AND THERE WERE A NUMBER OF SMALL CITIES WHO EXPRESSED OPPOSITION TO IT.

THEY DIDN'T WANNA LOWER THE NEIGHBORHOOD SPEED LIMITS, UH, AND THERE WAS A FORT WORTH COUNCILMAN AT THAT MEETING WHO ALSO EXPRESSED OPPOSITION.

SO WE EFFECTIVELY BRACKETED THE BILL TO ONLY APPLY TO THE TOP FOUR, UH, LARGEST CITIES WHO WERE ALL IN SUPPORT OF THIS.

SENATOR ZINI HAS FILED THAT AGAIN, UH, ISRAEL HAS FILED THAT AGAIN.

AND SO THERE ARE TWO BITES AT THE APPLE, UH, SO TO SPEAK.

THE THIRD ONE HAS TO DO WITH A STATEWIDE, UH, HANDS-FREE LAW.

SO, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF BRIEF HISTORY HERE.

FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, TEXAS DID NOT HAVE ANY TEXTING PRO PROHIBITION ON DRIVING, UH, A TEXTING WHILE, WHILE, UH, OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE, SENATOR ZINI TRIED FOR NUMEROUS SESSIONS.

SHE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN 2017.

UH, BUT THE BILL ONLY SPEAKS TO TEXTING.

IT ONLY PROHIBITS THE READING, WRITING, AND SENDING OF AN ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION.

AS YOU KNOW, OUR LOCAL ORDINANCE GOES BEYOND THAT AND PROHIBITS ALL, UH, USE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES WHILE DRIVING, UH, IF, UH, IF THEY ARE NOT A HANDS-FREE, UM, DEVICE.

AND SO SENATOR ZINI IS NOW COMING BACK, UH, SEEKING TO EXPAND THAT AND CREATE A STATEWIDE LAW THAT PROHIBITS THE USE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES WHILE DRIVING UNLESS THEY'RE HANDS FREE.

FINALLY, UH, THIS, THIS FOURTH ONE, UH, IS AN ISSUE NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART, AND I KNOW THE CHAIRWOMAN AND MANY OTHERS.

IT HAS TO DO WITH PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS.

UH, IT'S FI BEEN FILED BY REPRESENTATIVE RAY LOPEZ FROM OUR DELEGATION, AND SPECIFICALLY IT REQUIRES A THREE FOOT, UH, PASSING, UH, DISTANCE, UH, FOR MOTOR VEHICLES PASSING A, A PEDESTRIAN OR A DRIVER, UH, AND A SIX FOOT DISTANCE FOR COMMERCIAL TRUCKS, TRACTOR TRAILERS AND, AND SO FORTH, UH, EFFECTIVELY REQUIRES THAT THEY MAINTAIN THAT SPACE WHEN GOING AROUND A PEDESTRIAN OR A CYCLIST ON THE ROADWAY.

THIS HAS BEEN PUSHED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS BY, BY TEXAS, UH, UNSUCCESSFULLY.

UM, BUT, UH, RE REPRESENTATIVE LOPEZ HAS FILED IT AGAIN THIS SESSION AND, AND WE'LL BE WATCHING THIS.

AND THE OTHERS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

BIANCA, I APPRECIATE THE TIME TO, TO SHARE THESE WITH YOU AND, AND JUST KNOW COMMITTEE THAT WE WILL BE WATCHING ALL OF THESE AND, AND VERY ENGAGED WITH THEM, UH, IF AND WHEN THEY GET HEARINGS AT THE LEGISLATURE.

UH, IT, IT ALWAYS CAN, I GUESS IS THE SHORT ANSWER.

UM, OKAY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, FOR THE PRESENTATION.

UM, AND, UH, UH, I FEEL LIKE, UM, BIANCA, THIS WAS A, A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PRESENTATION FROM THE ONE THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN AT THE BICYCLE MOBILITY COMMITTEE, WHICH WAS DONE BY, UM, SORRY, I'M NOW BLANKING ON HIS NAME AS I LOOK AT HIS PHOTO RIGHT HERE.

UM, SO, AND YEAH, I RECOGNIZE THAT ONE WAS MAYBE GEARED TOWARDS THE CYCLING COMMUNITY, UM, AND, UH, VERSUS THIS ONE THAT'S A BIT MORE GENERAL, BUT, UM, JUST GIVEN THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CONTINUE TO SEE A SLIGHT INCREASE, UM, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A LOT LESS PEOPLE ON THE ROAD, I THINK THAT'S BEEN MENTIONED A COUPLE OF TIMES.

UM, ARE WE MAKING ANY ADJUSTMENTS GIVEN THAT WE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE ARE NOT TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND THERE'S FEWER CARS? SURE.

SO IN, IN THIS CASE, YOU KNOW, WE DEFINITELY WANT TO ANALYZE THOSE PARTICULAR CRASHES THAT HAPPENED THROUGHOUT 2020 TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, ARE THERE SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTING FACTORS THAT WE CAN ADDRESS IMMEDIATELY? ABSOLUTELY.

WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT.

I THINK THE OTHER THING THAT IS A REALLY KEY COMPONENT TO THIS, WHICH YOU'LL SEE IN THE NEXT PRESENTATION, IS WHAT IS OUR MICRO MOBILITY POLICY? HOW ARE WE STRENGTHENING COMPLETE STREETS? HOW ARE WE FRAMING OUR GUIDANCES AND OUR POLICIES TO HELP US CHANGE THAT DESIGN, TO HELP US CHANGE OUR APPROACH TO WHAT WE'RE DOING? AND THAT IS ABSOLUTELY WHAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS.

UM, AND YOU'LL SEE A LOT MORE OF THAT INFORMATION IN THE NEXT PRESENTATION.

UH, OKAY.

GREAT.

WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND THEN JUST JEFF, REGARDING SOME OF THE LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION, I KNOW, I MEAN, I THINK WE'VE TRIED ALL FOUR YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ON ALL THESE FOUR TIMES THAT I'VE PARTICIPATED, ANTICIPATED, UM, TO GET SOME OF THESE BILLS PASSED.

IT LOOKS LIKE PERHAPS THEY'RE CHANGING THE LANGUAGE.

DO YOU THINK THAT MIGHT HAVE AN IMPACT ON WHETHER OR NOT THESE GET ADOPTED?

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UH, IF, IF THERE ARE DR ISSUES THAT ARE RAISED DURING THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION, UH, MAKING ADJUSTMENTS EITHER DURING THAT SESSION OR THE NEXT ONE CAN POTENTIALLY OVERCOME SOME OF THE HURDLES.

I THINK SPECIFICALLY ON THE PRIMA FASCIA, WHAT HAPPENED LAST SESSION WAS THE MEMBER FILING THE STATEWIDE BILL PREDICTABLY RAN INTO OPPOSITION.

AND WHENEVER YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT AFFECTS EVERYBODY STATEWIDE, A A STATEWIDE LAW, UH, YOU, YOU REALLY NEED A STRONG COALITION OF SUPPORT TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THAT.

AS SOON AS MEMBERS START HEARING CONCERNS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STATE, THEY BECOME RELUCTANT.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE BRACKETED BILL THAT WE HAD FILED TO TRY TO AVOID THAT NEVER REALLY GOT A FAIR, UH, SHAKE AFTER THE STATEWIDE BILL, UH, WAS LEFT PENDING IN, IN COMMITTEES.

SO, UH, IT'S HARD TO PREDICT.

AND, AND JUST AS A GENERAL RULE, THIS IS GONNA BE A LEGISLATIVE SESSION WITH A MORE LIMITED, UH, AGENDA AND, AND BANDWIDTH, I THINK BECAUSE OF COVID.

UM, SO IT'S, IT'S REALLY HARD TO ESTIMATE HOW THINGS WILL WORK, BUT, UM, BUT WE'LL BE CLOSELY INVOLVED AND IF THERE ARE LANGUAGE TWEAKS, FURTHER TWEAKS THAT CAN BE MADE TO HELP MOVE SOMETHING ALONG, THAT'S A, A BIG PART OF THE WORK WE DO UP THERE.

UH, OKAY.

YEAH, I, I, UM, I HOPE SO.

I, I, I FEEL LIKE I'M AFRAID THIS IS GONNA BE MY LAST ATTEMPT TO GET THE PRIMA ASCIA SPEED LIMIT REDUCED.

UH, SO I'LL HAVE TO HAND THAT OFF TO ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES TO, TO CARRY THE, UM, TO, UH, THAT CARRY THE BANNER FOR.

SO, UM, I, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I DON'T SEE ANY HANDS RAISED, BUT, UM, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL, THANK YOU BOTH FOR, FOR THE PRESENTATION.

UM, I AM, FIRST I'LL, I'LL START WITH THE VISION ZERO.

UM, THANK YOU BIANCA, FOR, FOR ALL THE WORK IN THE PRESENTATION.

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE INTEGRATION OF, UH, OF THAT LEVEL OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY INTO OUR NEXT BOND CYCLE.

I, I WOULD SAY THAT IF WE, IF WE WERE TO AGREE ON THINGS THAT WERE IMPORTANT FOR US TO SEE IN THE NEXT BOND CYCLE, THAT THIS WOULD BE, UH, SOMETHING UP THERE THAT, THAT GETS INTEGRATED TO, INTO OUR PROJECT.

SO, SO I'LL JUST, I'LL MAKE THAT STATEMENT, UH, SECONDLY, UH, REGARDING THE STATE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA.

THANK YOU, JEFF, FOR, FOR THAT UPDATE.

SO REGARDING TWO QUESTIONS, UH, PRIMA FASCIA, WHAT'S THE POSSIBILITY OF US JUST DOING THAT ON OUR OWN AT THE STATE LEVEL? SHOULD THE OTHER, UM, SHOULD WE, SHOULD WE SEE OPPOSITION? DO, DO YOU MEAN PASSING A STATE LAW THAT ONLY APPLIES TO SAN ANTONIO, OR WHAT AUTHORITY DO WE HAVE, UH, ALREADY TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS IT? OH, GOOD QUESTION.

SO IF FOR SOME REASON THIS HIT SOME HURDLES, UH, BECAUSE OF THE OTHER, UH, AREAS, THE OTHER METROPOLITAN AREAS THAT ARE INCLUDED, UH, WELL, DO YOU SEE THE OTHER METROPOLITAN AREAS HAVING ISSUES WITH IT? I GUESS I, I THINK THERE MAY BE SOME SMALLER CITIES THAT CONTINUE TO, I, I THINK THE FORT WORTH OPPOSITION WAS MAYBE OVERSTATED LAST SESSION.

I THINK THERE WAS A COUNCIL MEMBER WHO EXPRESSED OPPOSITION AND, AND, AND LATER ON IN THE SESSION, MY COUNTERPART IN FORT WORTH WAS SAYING, NO, I THINK WE'RE OKAY WITH THIS.

UM, YOU KNOW, I WILL SAY THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE TWO BILLS, ONE IS FILED IN THE HOUSE, ONE IS FILED IN THE SENATE.

OUR SENATOR ZINI IS A, BOTH MEMBERS ARE VERY CAPABLE, BUT SENATOR ZINI IS A VERY WELL RESPECTED AND SENIOR SENATOR.

UH, AND I THINK SHE'LL, YOU KNOW, SHE'LL GET A FAIR HEARING ON IT.

SO I THINK THE APPROACH FOR NOW IS RIGHT.

UM, AND CERTAINLY WE, YOU KNOW, IF, LET'S SAY THE CITY OF AUSTIN DECIDED IT DIDN'T LIKE THAT, WHICH I DON'T THINK WILL HAPPEN, WE COULD ADJUST THE BRACKET TO, TO CARVE THEM OUT, BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S BEEN CREATED, UH, AROUND THE FOUR LARGEST CITIES WHO ARE ALL ON BOARD, UH, WITH THIS INITIATIVE.

THE, THE REAL CHALLENGE IS JUST GETTING AN AUDIENCE AND GETTING, UH, ENOUGH INTEREST IN THIS WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER CHALLENGES AND SO MANY BILLS FILED.

UH, SO THAT'S OUR JOB AND THE, AND THE SENATOR'S JOB TO REALLY PRIORITIZE THIS.

BUT IT, IT, IT'S ALWAYS DIFFICULT TO MOVE LEGISLATION EVIDENCED BY SENATOR Z'S, UH, MULTIPLE SESSION ATTEMPTS TO GET A STATEWIDE, UH, TEXTING LAW PUT IN PLACE.

IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN 2015 OR SO AT DOING, UM, AT THIS POINT, YES, IT REQUIRES PRETTY MUCH THE CHANGE OUT OF EVERY SINGLE SIGN THAT WE HAVE.

AND, AND SAY FOR SOME REASON, UH, WE JUST WANTED TO DO IT IN, IN SAN ANTONIO, IT DOESN'T GO WELL AT THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

IT DOESN'T GET HEARD.

WHAT, UH, AND MAYBE THIS IS A QUESTION FOR ROD, WHAT WOULD WE NEED IF WE'RE NOT CHANGING PRIMA FASCIA, BUT WOULD WE NEED TO GO PUT UP A, A BASICALLY A 25 MILE PER HOUR SIGN ON EVERY SINGLE RESIDENTIAL ROAD? UH, WHAT, HOW, HOW WOULD THAT WORK? UM, I, I HAVE SOME KIND OF BACKGROUND.

IT,

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IT REQUIRES SOMETHING AT OUR CITY LIMITS, EVERY ENTRY POINT, AND IT DOES REQUIRE AN ORDINANCE.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE COULD GET THE STATEWIDE PRIMA FASCIA, IT'S IMMEDIATE WHETHER THERE'S A SIGN OR NOT, OR ANY OF THAT DETAIL.

UM, SO THERE IS SOME FUNDING, THERE IS A LOCAL ORDINANCE AND THERE'S A LOT OF COORDINATION, BUT IT, IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE, WHICH IS WHY YOU SEE IT IN CITIES LIKE ALAMO HEIGHTS AND CASTLE HILLS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, BECAUSE THEY'VE DONE IT IN THEIR SMALLER CITIES.

SO I I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THAT IDEA.

UH, I MEAN, WE ALREADY HAVE 30 MILE PER HOUR SIGNS IN A LOT OF PLACES.

SO EVEN IF THE PRIMA FASCIA WERE, WERE CHANGED, MY GUESS IS WE WOULD NEED TO, UH, TAKE THOSE DOWN, WOULDN'T WE? YES, IT WOULD BE, TAKE ALL THE OTHERS DOWN, FABRICATE AND INSTALL ALL THE NEW ONES.

AND I, IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I LOOKED, BUT I CAN'T RECALL IF THERE WERE THOUSANDS .

SO IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY A HEAVY LIFT.

AND IF I MIGHT JUST ADD COUNCILWOMAN TO BIANCA'S COMMENT AND MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE CURRENT STATE LAW, THAT THE, THE PURPOSE OF THE PRIMA FASCIST SPEED LIMIT IS THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO SIGN EVERYWHERE.

IT'S AUTOMATIC.

SO I THINK THERE ARE MANY, MANY, MANY RESIDENTIAL STREETS ACROSS THE CITY THAT DON'T HAVE 30 MILES AN HOUR POSTED, BUT THAT IS THE DEFAULT SPEED LIMIT.

SO, SO IT WOULD BE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE.

IT IS WITHIN OUR AUTHORITY, BUT THERE ARE COSTS AND THERE ARE IMPLICATIONS FOR AESTHETICS AND SO FORTH.

BUT, UM, BUT WE DO UNDER THE STATE LAW, HAVE SOME LOCAL AUTHORITY TO ADDRESS THAT.

WELL, UM, I THINK IT'S, UM, OBVIOUSLY WE, WE'D LOVE IT IF THE STATE APPROVED IT AND, AND THAT'S A HEAVY LIFT TOO.

SO WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO REQUEST MAYBE A COST ESTIMATE OF WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO, TO, UM, IMPLEMENT IT ON OUR OWN? SHOULD THE STATE NOT COME THROUGH? WOULD THAT BE OKAY, CHAIRWOMAN? YES, IT WOULD.

AND IN FACT, WE HAVE DONE IT BEFORE.

UM, I THINK, UH, BIANCA HAS, I THINK, I THINK WE'VE TRIED THIS ONCE BEFORE AND IT DIDN'T WORK OUT.

UH, OR MAYBE IT THE COST WAS PROHIBITIVE, BUT, UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE CAN FIND OUT AT LEAST, UH, AND, AND KIND OF RE REVIVE THAT BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WE DID THAT ONCE BEFORE AND, UM, THERE WAS SOME CONCERN ABOUT EVEN CAPACITY TO GET IT ALL DONE IN SOME SORT OF TIMELY MANNER.

BUT, UM, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO REVISIT THAT, BELIEVE ME, ESPECIALLY IF IT DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE THIS SESSION, UM, I FEEL LIKE IT'S MY LAST, MY LAST CHANCE TO GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT DONE, UM, WHEN WE KNOW THAT IT'S SO CRITICAL.

AND, AND, UH, ALSO, UM, UH, I DID HAVE A PILOT PROGRAM GOING ON IN MY DISTRICT TO HAVE ALL THE SIGNAL LIGHTS TIME TO 25 MILES AN HOUR.

AND I THINK I MENTIONED THAT TO YOU, ROD, IN OUR LAST BRIEFING, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, UH, I WANTED TO GET AN UPDATE ON THAT AND, YOU KNOW, WAS IT SUCCESSFUL AND DID IT IN FACT REDUCE FATALITIES, UM, UH, OR COLLISIONS, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, BUT UH, WE, I, UM, I THINK THAT COULD BE SOMETHING ALSO THAT WE CAN DO.

IT'S JUST TIME.

THE SIGNALS ACCORDINGLY.

AND UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE, I THINK, HANDLED BY THE TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR TO, THERE ARE SOME TECHNOLOGY INVOLVED AS WELL IN, IN, IN DOING THIS SIGNAL TIME.

SO, UM, I THINK THAT'S, UH, THOSE ARE REALLY IMPORTANT.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE, COUNCIL MEMBER OR .

LEMME JUST, LEMME JUST SWAY IN.

I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND THE, WHAT THE COMMITTEE'S SAYING.

SO, SO I GUESS RIGHT NOW WE'RE GONNA STAY THE COURSE, WE'RE GONNA SUPPORT, UH, JEFF AND, AND HIS GROUP, UH, AND, AND SEE WHAT THE STATE DOES.

SHOULD THAT NOT GO OUR WAY THEN? AM I UNDERSTANDING THIS COMMITTEE WANTS TO HAVE A, YOU KNOW, A, A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE COST AND WHAT IT WOULD TAKE AND, AND WHETHER WE, WE WANNA DO IT ON OUR OWN, I THINK WE CAN HAVE IT PENDING, RIGHT? LIKE YOU, UH, SEE HOW MUCH IT IS.

WE, WE DO HAVE IT THERE, SO I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO REINVENT IT.

I THINK JUST GO LOOK FOR IT.

IT'S IN THERE.

WE'LL, WE'LL SEE IF WE HAVE IT.

UM, AND WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL BE READY, UH, FOR WHEN YOU, WHEN, WHEN YOU WANT US TO PROVIDE THAT.

TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B, UH, AND THIS PERSON WAS, WAS KILLED BY A LARGE TRUCK, UH, SORT OF ONE WITH, WITH HIGHER, UH, WHEELS.

ALL RIGHT.

AND THEN THE UPDATE ON THE PILOT, WHICH, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE CAN DISCUSS IN COMMITTEE WHEN, WHEN, UM, WHEN WE HAVE TIME.

SURE.

COUNCIL, I'M GONNA, I HAD A FOLLOW UP ON THE OTHER LEGISLATIVE ITEM, UH, REGARDING, UH, CROSSWALKS AND, AND YOU TALKED ABOUT, UH, THE DA AND STUFF.

UH, WE HAD AN INCIDENT, AND I'M SURE IT'S NOT THE ONLY ONE, BUT WE HAD ONE IN DISTRICT SEVEN ON A ROAD WHERE THERE IS NO SIDEWALK.

AND WE HAD SOMEONE IN A, UM, MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR.

OH, YOU KNOW WHAT, RIDING ALONG, UH, TRYING

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AND THE, THE DRIVER, NOTHING HAPPENED TO THE DRIVER BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T SEE THE, THE WHEELCHAIR.

AND IT, I GUESS I, I FIND THAT REALLY HARD THAT IT'S OKAY FOR A DRIVER NOT TO SEE WHAT IS ON THE ROAD BECAUSE OF THAT HEIGHT DIFFERENCE.

AND, UH, THIS IS PROBABLY NOT IN YOUR BILL RIGHT NOW, BUT I THINK IT'S SOMETHING, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S WORTH, MAYBE I JUST NEED TO ASK THE QUESTION, LIKE WHY IS THAT OKAY? AND I DON'T KNOW WHO TO ASK IT TO .

YEAH, I'M NOT SURE I CAN SPEAK, I'M NOT SURE I CAN SPEAK TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SIDE OF IT, BUT I BELIEVE THE BILL, AND I'LL GO BACK AND REVISIT THAT FOLLOWING THIS QUESTION HERE, BUT I BELIEVE THE BILL SPECIFICALLY SPEAKS TO DESIGNATED AREAS WHERE YIELDING TO PEDESTRIANS IS REQUIRED CROSSWALKS, EGRESS, AND INGRESS FROM ROADWAYS.

UM, I'M NOT SURE IT'S A BLANKET, UH, EVERYWHERE ON THE ROADWAYS, BUT, UM, I GUESS BIANCA MAY CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, AND IF NOT, I'LL GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT AND, AND SEND YOU AN ANSWER COUNCILWOMAN.

RIGHT.

UM, AND I THINK TOO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S PART OF LOOKING AT DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES.

IF YOU'RE A LARGER VEHICLE AND YOU HAVE BLIND SPOTS, MAYBE YOU NEED ADDITIONAL SENSORS OR CAMERAS OR THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO SEE EVERYTHING NO MATTER WHAT THE SITUATION, SO THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF ALL MODES AROUND YOU.

SO THAT COULD BE A POSSIBILITY.

I KNOW SOME OF THOSE TECHNOLOGIES ARE OUT THERE AS WELL VIA USES A LOT OF THEM.

EDUCATION, ENCOURAGEMENT, ENGINEERING, ENFORCEMENT AND EVALUATION.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, CHAIRWOMAN.

UM, THANK YOU COUNCILMAN KABER.

HABER, THANK YOU CHAIR.

UH, THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION NOTES, UH, FIVE ELEMENT APPROACH.

WILL YOU EXPAND ON THAT? I'M SPECIFICALLY INTERESTED IN, UH, EVALUATION AND ENGINEERING WORK, RIGHT? SO, UM, THERE ARE THE FIVE E'S AND, AND I'M GONNA TRY TO REMEMBER THEM OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.

YOU DID SAY EVALUATION AND ENGINEERING.

MM-HMM.

, THERE IS EDUCATION, THERE IS, UM, OH GOODNESS, ENFORCEMENT, ENCOURAGE, ENCOURAGEMENT, I'LL READ 'EM TO YOU.

SO, UM, THE EVALUATION WAS THE FIRST ONE YOU MENTIONED, AND THAT REALLY IS KIND OF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT HERE, EVALUATING THE CRASHES THAT ARE HAPPENING OUT THERE, NOT JUST WHERE THEY'RE HAPPENING.

WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ROADWAY OUT THERE, THE EXISTING CONDITIONS, WHAT WAS THE MANNER OF COLLISION AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO MITIGATE FOR WHAT THOSE ARE? AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ARE CONSISTENTLY DOING, WHETHER THERE'S A CRASH OR NOT, WHAT CAN WE DO TO CONSTANTLY BE LOOKING AT IT? EVEN WHEN, UM, WE'VE PUT A CROSSING OUT THERE, WE STILL WANNA KNOW, IS IT WORKING? DO WE NEED TO MAKE ADJUSTMENT? EVALUATION IS CONSISTENT AS FAR AS THE ENGINEERING SIDE, THAT'S KIND OF A, A, A BOTH PIECE, RIGHT? IT, IT HAS TO DO WITH THE PHYSICAL ENGINEERING BECAUSE WE DO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT, UM, CROSSINGS OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, IS THE PROJECT FOR THAT YEAR AND THAT LOCATION.

BUT ALSO LOOKING AT WHAT TYPE OF ADJUSTMENTS FROM AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE.

MAYBE IT'S NOT A FULL CROSSING, BUT WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO? ADJUSTING THE STRIPING OR THE SIGNAGE OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE.

SO THOSE ARE KIND OF THE OVERALL LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING TO BRING FORTH VISION ZERO FROM THOSE ES APPROACH.

I I, I'D LIKE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THOSE TWO PARTS OF THE PROCESS.

I'M PROCESS, I'M INTERESTED IN EXPLAINING TO RESIDENTS WHEN THEY INQUIRE ABOUT A PARTICULAR PROJECT.

I WANNA BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THAT TO 'EM.

I MAY TAKE THIS OFFLINE AND, AND MAYBE HAVE A SEPARATE MEETING WITH YOU.

ABSOLUTELY.

UM, BUT I, ONE, ONE MORE QUESTION.

UH, THANK YOU.

APPROXIMATELY HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO SEE A PROJECT COMPLETED AND ON THE GROUND ONCE IT GOES THROUGH THAT PROCESS? PROCESS? SO I HAD MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, IT'S ABOUT 18 MONTHS IN THE WHOLE PROCESS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT THE STUDIES THAT WE'VE DONE, DETERMINE THOSE AREAS OF NEED, DISTRIBUTE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ADDED THIS PAST YEAR, SORT OF THAT EQUITY LOOK, WHERE ARE WE GONNA FOCUS FIRST? AND THEN ONCE WE DETERMINE WHERE THE LOCATION IS, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT FITS THERE, WHO ARE WE AFFECTING? ARE WE, IS THE MITIGATION MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR THE ACTUAL ISSUE THAT'S HAPPENING THERE, THE CONFLICT.

AND THEN ONCE WE COME UP WITH WHAT THAT IS, THEN, YOU KNOW, WE USUALLY TALK TO THE COUNCIL OFFICE AND SAY, THIS IS THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WE'RE THINKING OF DOING.

WE COME AND WE BRING THAT FORWARD.

AND THEN ONCE THERE'S APPROVAL THERE, WE GO TO OUR DESIGN CONSULTANTS AND HAVE THE PROJECT DESIGN, BRING IT BACK, UM, TO THE CONSULTANTS, UH, THROUGH THE CONSULTANTS TO COUNCIL OFFICE TO ENSURE THAT YOU'RE OKAY WITH IT.

AND THEN WE DO THE PUBLIC OUTREACH ASSOCIATED WITH, HEY, THIS IS

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WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING.

UM, FROM THERE WE HAVE TO GET OUR CONSULTANT CONTRACTS TO, UM, PREPARE THE FINAL PLANS AND THEN TAKE IT TO CONSTRUCTION.

SO THAT WHOLE PROCESS CAN TAKE ABOUT 18 MONTHS TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THOSE PIECES.

AND JUST BRIEFLY, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE OUTREACH PROCESS TO THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? MM-HMM.

SO, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY WHEN WE LOOK AT WHERE THE CROSSING IS HAPPENING OR WHERE THE ADJUSTMENT IS HAPPENING, WE LOOK AT, UM, WHAT ARE THE NEIGHBORHOODS, WHAT ARE THE BUSINESSES, ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS RIGHT THERE ADJACENT.

WE TAKE INFORMATION DOOR TO DOOR OF EVERYONE THAT IS ALONG THAT LENGTH OF WHERE THE PROJECT IS SO THAT THEY'RE VERY AWARE AND THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO ASK QUESTIONS.

AND THEN DEPENDING ON THE CROSSING AND WHAT'S HAPPENING, WE TRY TO SET UP A JUST GENERAL MEETING.

SO ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC, LET'S SAY SOMEONE WHO LIVES DOWN THE STREET, BUT USES THIS AREA OF THE INTERSECTION THERE TO TALK THROUGH IT.

UM, WE HAD ONE WHERE THERE WAS AN ADJACENT, UM, SENIOR LIVING FACILITY WHERE WE SAID, OKAY, WE ALSO NEED TO GO TO THEM SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT WALK CONSISTENTLY IN THIS AREA FOCUS A LITTLE BIT THERE.

ANY ALSO ANYWHERE THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE WORKING WITH THE COUNCIL OFFICE, THEY SAID, I ALSO NEED YOU TO FOCUS ON THIS PARTICULAR AREA.

WE WILL ABSOLUTELY GO AND SPEAK TO THOSE FOLKS AS WELL, LITTLE HARDER WITH COVID, BUT WE'RE HAPPY TO, YOU KNOW, PUT TOGETHER ANY TYPE OF WEBEX OR ZOOM MEETINGS TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION AND EXPLAIN, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE CROSSING OR PROJECT IS ABOUT.

I'VE, I'VE HEARD SOME CRITICISM ABOUT THE OUTREACH SPECIFICALLY.

THERE'S, THERE'S A, A STRETCH IN MY DISTRICT, UH, OLD HIGHWAY 90, ENRIQUE BARTA PARKWAY.

AND I, I, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THE, THE BUSINESSES GET, ARE CONTACTED AND THEN THE MEETINGS ARE BEING HELD.

BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS, IF THEY DON'T HEAR ABOUT THE MEETING, THEY, THEY'LL COME BACK LATER AND SAY, HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? AND, YOU KNOW, I WOULD'VE LIKE TO HAVE SOME INPUT.

IS THERE ANY, UM, KIND OF DOOR TO DOOR OR, UM, YOU KNOW, PHONE CALLS, UH, FOR, NOT JUST FOR THE, THE IMMEDIATE, UH, GEOGRAPHICAL AREA, BUT KIND OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS SURROUNDING IT? SO I, AS FAR AS ENRIQUE BETA, IS THAT SPECIFICALLY THE BOND PROJECT THAT WE'RE TALKING? NO, AND IT'S NOT EVEN SPECIFIC TO ONE PROJECT, IT'S JUST WHEN I, I KNOW DIFFERENT THINGS ARE HAPPENING.

I HEAR SOMETIMES THAT THEY DIDN'T, THEY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT.

AND YOU KNOW, WE EVEN PUT IT ON OUR CHANNELS AS MUCH AS WE CAN, BUT NOT EVERYBODY IS, YOU KNOW, IS PEOPLE ARE WORKING DURING THE DAY, THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO, AND I KNOW, I'M JUST WONDERING HOW WE CAN GET OUT TO THEIR, THEIR WHERE THEY ARE, YOU KNOW? SO I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, EACH KIND OF GROUP AND DIVISION HAD A DIFFERENT WAY OF DOING THIS, BUT I KNOW THAT FROM A PUBLIC WORK STANDPOINT, THAT THE FOLKS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN PR THERE HAVE REALLY WORKED TO ORGANIZE A REALLY CONSISTENT ON MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS APPROACH THAT THEY'VE RECENTLY ROLLED OUT.

AND I KNOW THAT IN ANY FACET, WE REALLY DO TRY TO SEND FLYERS OR TAKE FLYERS DOOR TO DOOR, EVEN IF IT'S NOT JUST ALONG THE ROADWAY THERE TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT IN MANY DIFFERENT FORMS. UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALWAYS WORKING TO IMPROVE.

UM, AND ANY SUGGESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE, WE'RE, WE'RE DEFINITELY OPEN TO SUPPORTING.

WONDERFUL.

WE COUNCIL, WE CAN, WE CAN COUNCIL ROMAN, THIS IS REI.

WE USUALLY REALLY ALSO GET INFORMATION FROM EACH COUNCIL'S OFFICE REGARDING ANY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION THEY WANNA ASK TO INFORM REGARDING THE MEETING.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

UH, YEAH, AND I'D LIKE TO, WHEN WE MEET ABOUT THE, THE EVALUATION PROCESS, I'D LIKE TO TALK WITH YOU MORE ABOUT THAT, BUT THANK YOU.

COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.

YES.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, BIANCA.

THANKS FOR, UH, THAT PRESENTATION.

UH, DID HAVE A COMMENT ON THE ONE SLIDE WHERE, I FORGET WHICH SLIDE IT IS.

IT IS BROKEN OUT BY YEAR FOR VISION ZERO AND BY TYPES OF, UH, ACCIDENTS, THERE'S ONE PIECE OF INFORMATION I THINK WE NEED TO START COLLECTING, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN GO BACK ON ALL THESE YEARS, UH, TO COLLECT THAT INFORMATION.

AND THAT'S WHAT RESOURCES ARE WE PUTTING TOWARDS EACH ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES AND WHAT DOES THAT TOTAL UP PER YEAR? BECAUSE IT'S NOT REALLY, IT'S NOT CLEAR TO ME ON, YOU KNOW, TO PROMOTE THESE PROGRAMS TO EXECUTE THESE PROGRAMS. IT, IT COSTS US MONEY, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE NOT SHOWING HERE, IS HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE PUTTING TOWARDS EACH ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES.

SO I'D REALLY LIKE TO HAVE THAT ADDED CHART FOR FUTURE, FUTURE REFERENCE.

HOW MUCH ARE WE SPENDING IN THESE CATEGORIES? AND NOT ONLY, YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY THE, UM, NOT ONLY THE, THE FIXED OR, OR PROJECT INCLUDED, BUT HOW MUCH MANPOWER ARE WE SPENDING TOWARDS THIS AS FAR AS SALARIES, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE, THE

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WHOLE NINE YARDS.

I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE THAT SPLIT OUT FOR EACH ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S ALL MY COMMENTS ON THE VISION.

AND, UM, I, I, I DO KNOW, UH, I THINK THE COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, BRINGS UP A GOOD QUESTION.

I KNOW IT'S VERY LITTLE.

IT'S JUST A COUPLE MILLION DOLLARS FOR VISION ZERO INITIATIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT WE SPEND SO FAR.

UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I WAS HOPING THAT ONCE WE, UM, HAD COMPLETED SOME OF OUR BOND PROJECTS THAT WERE SIDEWALKS AND STREET MAINTENANCE THAT WE MIGHT, UM, THAT MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO A DECLINE IN FATALITIES, BUT WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT YET.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY OUR NEW TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR WILL HAVE A VISION FOR PUTTING ALL OF THAT TOGETHER, UM, AND, AND LEAD TO A DECLINE IN FATALITIES.

'CAUSE OF COURSE, THAT'S THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF ALL OF THIS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, EACH OF THESE NUMBERS REPRESENTS A, A, A PERSON, A PERSON WHO'S DIED.

UH, AND SO, UM, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, WE LOOKED AT A GRAPH AND IT DOESN'T REALLY HAVE QUITE THE IMPACT, UM, THAT IT, IT REALLY DOESN'T.

IT, I MEAN, IT, ALL THESE PEOPLE, I MEAN, IT'S 156 OF OUR NEIGHBORS WHO ARE, ARE DEAD AS A RESULT OF, OF TRAFFIC, UH, FATALITIES, UH, IN ANY FORM.

SO, SO THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE.

UH, WE KNOW WE STILL HAVE OKAY.

COUNCIL MEMBER AFTER ALL.

UH, WITH, WITH THE COMMUNITY, AND MAKE SURE IT GETS PRIORITIZED IN THESE TWO FUNDING ROUNDS FOR BOND AND FOR, FOR M P O, JUST BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A HIGH FATALITY, UH, ROAD.

UM, SORRY, COUNCIL MEMBER, I DIDN'T SEE YOUR HAND UP, SO GO AHEAD.

THANK YOU, CHAIR.

I, I'LL BE BRIEF.

IT REALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST, I WANT TO KIND OF, I, I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO JUST BE VERY SPECIFIC.

UM, UH, YOU, YOU AND I HAVE BEEN VERY VOCAL ABOUT RA, AND I JUST, I'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT, WHAT ARE THE PLANS, UH, TO MAKE, TO, TO UTILIZE THE, WHAT WE'VE BEEN EXPERIENCING, UH, IN TERMS OF, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY, UM, AROUND WHEN WE GO TO THE LEGISLATURE? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE HEARING IS, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'VE GOT TO, WE'VE GOT TO GET, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE OKAYS AND THE, UH, THE APPROVALS FOR, FOR CERTAIN THINGS TO HAPPEN.

BUT, YOU KNOW, IT IS, IT IS A, A A STREET.

WE JUST, UH, ALL TOO OFTEN HEAR ABOUT, UH, FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS.

AND SO I, I, YOU KNOW, I JUST, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, THAT THAT ROADWAY IS FRONT AND CENTER WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO THIS LEGISLATURE.

SO I, IF, IF I COULD HEAR, UH, ANYTHING, DO YOU HAVE ANY, WHAT ARE THE PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF THAT ROADWAY? SURE.

SO, UM, I KNOW THERE HAS BEEN CONVERSATION.

UM, MY TEAM IS INVOLVED IN THE M P O, UH, CALL FOR PROJECTS.

AND, YOU KNOW, IN A PAST YEAR WE GOT FUNDING TO LOOK AT CORRIDOR STUDIES TO LOOK AT TRANSFORMATION OF CORRIDORS.

AND OBVIOUSLY WE CHOSE COLLIBRA ROAD AS THAT NUMBER ONE CORRIDOR.

UM, FOR MANY REASONS.

UH, OBVIOUSLY IT DOES HAVE THE HIGHEST CRASH PICTURE.

UM, IT, FROM AN EQUITY STANDPOINT, IT, IT, IT DEFINITELY, UM, MEETS THAT REQUIREMENT AND THAT NEED AND JUST LOOKING AT WHAT THE CURRENT USE IS, THE LAND USES AND WHAT THE ABILITY IS, RIGHT? COLLIBRA WAS THAT MAIN MOBILITY CORRIDOR BEFORE FREEWAYS WERE REALLY, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.

AND SO IT, IT REALLY CALLS OUT AS THAT MAIN ROADWAY THAT NEEDS SOME SORT OF TRANSFORMATION.

SO THE STUDY THAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW IS LOOKING AT WHAT ARE THOSE CONDITIONS AND WHAT CAN WE DO, UM, FROM THAT ENGINEERING STANDPOINT, UM, TO NOT ONLY CHANGE THE ROADWAY ITSELF, UM, TO SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, SAFER TRAVEL THERE FOR ALL MODES, AS WELL AS LOOK AT WHAT IS THAT TRANSFORMATION THAT'S NEEDED FOR THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE ALONG THAT ROADWAY.

SO WE ARE DEFINITELY WORKING ON THAT RIGHT NOW, AND WE WILL ALWAYS BRING UPDATES AS TO WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THAT PARTICULAR STUDY AND WHAT THE OUTCOME SHOWS.

WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO A PARTICULAR PROJECT AS PART OF THE 2022 BOND THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED BASED UPON THIS STUDY.

AND, AND WHICH IS REMINDING ME, I KNOW COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL HAS APPROACHED ME ON A NUMBER OF VACATIONS AT DR.

CBRA, UM, AND, UH, BECAUSE THERE ARE FOUR OF US, UM, WHOSE, WHOSE CBRA, UM, UH, IT TOUCHES.

PERHAPS WE COULD GET ALL THAT ON A FURTHER NEXT AGENDA OR A FUTURE AGENDA.

IS, IS CULEBRA, BECAUSE I THINK IT WAS MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

I DON'T KNOW.

UM, COUNCILMAN A**L, DO YOU, CAN YOU RECALL OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD WHAT THE, UM, WHAT, WHAT, WHERE WE WERE WITH THAT? BECAUSE I KNOW YOU WERE WORKING ON THAT ONE AS WELL.

OH, RIGHT.

I THINK, UH, WE JUST WANTED TO, UH, WELL, BIANCA'S WORKING ON THE, ON THE PLAN, BUT I THINK WHAT I THOUGHT WAS IMPORTANT IS TO COME TOGETHER ON A VISION FOR, FOR THAT ROAD,

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MM-HMM.

COUNCILMAN, CAN I PROVIDE YOU THE UPDATE? COLLIBRA ROAD PROJECT LIMITS START FROM 10 AND GOES TO 1604 GOES THROUGH COUNCIL DISTRICT 1, 5, 6, AND SEVEN.

MOST OF YOU HAS PART OF IT.

WE MET WITH THE COUNCIL WOMEN AND WERE ACTUALLY YESTERDAY OR THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY OR YESTERDAY, WE ARE REALLY LOOKING AND WE ARE GOING TO MEET WITH ALL OF YOU AS A PART OF THE GLOBAL ROAD PROJECT TO SEE HOW YOU LIKE US TO GET INPUT FROM PUBLIC.

AND WHEN WE, OUR VISION IS, COLLABOR ROAD IS ONE OF THE BEST ROAD WE CAN REALLY DO.

A ROAD DIET IS A VERY WIDER SECTION.

OUR VISION SO FAR, AT LEAST THE IDEA TO COULD PROVIDE A PROTECTED BIKE LANE, WIDER SIDEWALK.

THERE IS ALMOST NO TREE.

PROVIDE SOME NICE LANDSCAPING, MAKE A PLEASANT FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO WALK WHEN SUMMER IS 9,500 DEGREE TEMPERATURE.

BUT WE WILL BE COMING WITH EACH OF YOU BECAUSE IT'S A LONG SECTION.

WE WANNA MEET WITH EACH OF YOU AND HAVE A COMMUNITY MEETING NUMBER OF THEM AND GET REALLY THEIR IDEA AND THEIR VISION WHAT TO BE DOWN ON CBRA ROAD, OUR INTENTION TO SUBMIT THIS FUND AS PART OF THE M P O FUNDING AND 2022 BOND PROGRAM.

OKAY, GREAT.

GREAT.

WELL, THAT SOUNDS VERY POSITIVE.

IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S ON THE TOP OF ALL OF OUR MINDS.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST HOPEFULLY WE CAN DO A PUBLIC BRIEFING AS, AS SOON AS WE HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO PRESENT SOMETHING MEANINGFUL, UM, THAT CAN BE DONE IN OPEN SESSION.

SO I KNOW THAT'S NOT ON OUR AGENDA, SO I'LL MOVE US ALONG, BUT I THOUGHT THAT WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT IS, UM, PART OF OUR, UH, MAJOR CRASH CORRIDOR.

SO LET ME MOVE US ALONG TO, UH, OUR MICRO MOBILITY

[3. 21-1085 Briefing on the Micromobility Plan and an update on the associated planning efforts. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Bianca Thorpe, Capital Programs Manager, Transportation Department]]

PLAN.

AND WHO, UH, BIANCA, ARE YOU GONNA GIVE US THAT ONE AS WELL? UH, FORMALLY OUR BICYCLE MASTER PLAN, BUT, UM, YES, WE'RE CALLING IT MICRO MOBILITY, SO, YES.

UM, GO AHEAD.

UM, YES, SO THIS IS AN UPDATE, KIND OF WHERE WE ARE AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, PREVIOUS BICYCLE MASTER PLAN, WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THIS.

AND FOR THE F Y 20, WE REALLY SAID, OKAY, WE NEED TO THINK BIGGER.

WE NEED TO THINK MICRO MOBILITY, AND, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THAT AFFECT THE PIECES THAT WE'RE DOING? NEXT SLIDE.

SO WE TOOK A, A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VIEW OF OUR F Y 20.

WE, UM, THERE WERE SOME FUNDS TO CREATE OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION TEAM.

WE HAVE HIRED SOME, WE HAVE NOT COMPLETED.

UM, COVID PRETTY MUCH PUT A STOP TO SOME OF THE HIRING THAT WE WERE DOING, BUT WE'RE BACK IN BUSINESS AND HOPING TO CONTINUE THAT PROCESS.

UM, AS I MENTIONED KIND OF IN THE PREVIOUS, UM, PRESENTATION, WE REALLY NEEDED TO LOOK AT MICRO MOBILITY POLICY POLICY IN GENERAL THAT WAS GONNA HELP US.

UM, ALSO THAT BROUGHT IN KIND OF A VIEW OF COMPLETE STREETS BECAUSE WE FELT LIKE THOSE GO HAND IN HAND, RIGHT? IN ORDER TO MAKE THE BEST POLICIES THAT WE HAVE INTERNALLY.

COMPLETE STREETS ARE A BIG PIECE OF THAT, AND WE NEED TO SORT OF REFRESH WHAT WE HAD, UM, IN 2011 AS FAR AS THAT.

THE OTHER PIECE WAS WE WANTED TO GET TO WHAT ARE SOME PROJECTS THAT WE CAN ASSESS.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 2011 BIKE PLAN, IT'S, IT'S AN IDEA, IT'S IT'S GOAL OF WHAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH, BUT THERE IS NO ASSESSMENT OF THE ROADWAYS THEMSELVES TO SEE WHAT IS THAT PROPER FIT FOR THAT ROADWAY.

AND BECAUSE OUR FUNDING COMES FROM BIKE I M P, AND IT'S JUST A CHUNK OF BIKE I M P THIS YEAR, WE FIGURED, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE NEED TO BREAK IT DOWN INTO SMALLER CHUNKS, ASSESS DIFFERENT AREAS, AND WE WERE KIND OF FOLLOWING THE SAME VISION FOR THE AREAS THAT THE REGIONAL CENTER PLANS DID.

SO WE CHOSE THE DOWNTOWN MIDTOWN AS THE AREA THAT WE WOULD FOCUS, AND WE KNEW THAT WE NEEDED TO HAVE A LOT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO BRING US TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH RESPECT TO ALL OF THE PIECES.

SO OBVIOUSLY WHEN YOU LOOK FOR THOSE CORRIDORS THAT YOU WANNA ASSESS OUTSIDE OF THE POLICY, YOU KNOW, YOU DO WANNA LOOK AT WHAT IS THE DEMAND THAT'S THERE, UM, EQUITY AND SAFETY AND, AND WHAT THAT IMPORTANCE IS AND WHAT KIND OF CONNECTIVITY.

BUT THAT JUST KIND OF SCRATCHES THE SURFACE.

AND SO WE SAID, OKAY, WE, WE WANNA TAKE AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT WHAT THIS IS.

WE NEED TO GO TO THEM, WE NEED TO HAVE THEIR ASSISTANCE IN TELLING US WHAT ROADWAYS ARE MOST IMPORTANT FOR THEM, WHERE THEY HAVE CONCERNS, AND THAT WE WOULD NARROW THAT TO THE FOUR TO SIX, UM, CORRIDORS THAT WE WANTED TO DO THE DEEPER ANALYSIS AND MODELING ON WHICH WE CHOSE BASED UPON OUR FUNDING.

SO FOCUSING SPECIFICALLY ON THE DOWNTOWN OF MIDTOWN, WE SAID, OKAY, LET'S START WITH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

WE KNOW WHERE WE SEE A CRASH PICTURE, WE KNOW WHERE SOME OF THAT RIDERSHIP IS, BUT WHAT DOES THE COMMUNITY THINK? RIGHT?

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AND THEN DO THAT MODELING.

AND WHEN WE'RE DONE WITH THAT MODELING, COME BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT WE, UM, LEARN FROM THAT.

RIGHT NOW WE ARE IN THE MODELING PROCESS, UH, FOR THIS PARTICULAR LOCATION.

SO, UM, WE WENT THROUGH A VARIETY OF THINGS IN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THOSE CORRIDORS ARE.

YES, THE, THE STAKEHOLDER INPUT WAS, UM, A PRIORITY, BUT WE ALSO LOOKED AT A UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA RESEARCH OF HOW THEY SCORED.

SO WE LOOKED AT PIECES SUCH AS THOSE CONSTRAINTS AND THE STAKEHOLDER INPUT.

WE LOOKED AT OPPORTUNITIES WHERE COULD WE, UM, HAVE FUNDING TO BUILD THEM IN THE FUTURE.

WE LOOKED AT OVERALL SAFETY WHEN IT CAME TO CRASHES.

EXISTING CONDITIONS LIKE WHAT IS THE CURRENT POSTED SPEED? WHAT DOES PARKING LOOK LIKE? ALL THE DIFFERENT PIECES THAT FALL INTO HOW YOU CAN, UM, BUILD A FACILITY AND HOW IT WOULD WORK.

WE LOOK AT THE DEMAND, WHAT ARE THE ATTRACTORS IN THE AREA, WHAT IS THE DENSITY? WE LOOKED AT OBVIOUSLY CONNECTIVITY AND EQUITY, AND TRIED TO DETERMINE WHICH ROADWAYS WOULD BE A PIECE OF THAT AND HOW WE WOULD SCORE THEM ONCE WE DETERMINED, UM, WHAT PEOPLE RECOMMENDED TO US.

AS I MENTIONED, WE REALLY FOCUSED ON OUTREACH, AND THIS WAS REALLY CRITICAL BECAUSE THIS WAS AROUND THE TIME THAT COVID HIT.

AND SO WE SAID, OKAY, WE WANT TO HAVE A SURVEY FOR SURE TO ASK QUESTIONS, UH, ABOUT THAT SPECIFIC REGION, THE DOWNTOWN MIDTOWN, AS WELL AS POLICY IN GENERAL AND PEOPLE'S NEEDS.

WE DID A CROWDSOURCING MAP WHERE WE ASKED FOLKS, TELL US WHERE YOU WANT A FACILITY.

TELL US WHERE YOU RIDE.

TELL US WHERE YOU HAVE A CONCERN.

ANYTHING THAT YOU COULD THINK OF TO GIVE US INPUT.

AND IT MIGHT NOT, UM, COMPLETELY TELL YOU, THIS IS THE PARTICULAR ROADWAY, BUT WE WANTED TO HEAR EVERYTHING.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE PUSHED OUT A LOT OF THIS THROUGH, UM, DIFFERENT AD OPTIONS THAT WE WENT THROUGH, UM, BUYING SOME OF THAT, UM, MEDIA TIME AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE TO GET THIS MESSAGE OUT AS WELL.

AS YOU SAW IN THE LAST PRESENTATION, WE DID A LITTLE BIT OF OUTREACH AS WELL.

SO WHEN WE WENT THROUGH THE RANKING AND THE INFORMATION THAT WAS BROUGHT FORWARD, THERE WERE MANY DIFFERENT CORRIDORS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED, UM, BASED UPON THE DEMAND, BASED UPON THE CONNECTIVITY.

AND WHAT RANKED HIGHEST FOR US WAS FREO STREET, ST.

MARY'S, ASHBY, EUCLID MARKET, AND NUEVA.

AND SO THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE ARE FOCUSING THAT PARTICULAR, UM, MODELING AND INFORMATION ON AS WE CONTINUE THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

SO OBVIOUSLY IN THE MODELING, YOU KNOW, WE LOOK AT THE EXISTING CONDITIONS, BUT YOU ALSO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE LANE USE AND WHO IS THE BIKER THAT WE'RE DEFINING HERE? AND OBVIOUSLY WE WANT ALL LEVELS TO BE ALLOWED.

UM, WE LOOK AT WHAT FACILITY BASED UPON THE SPEED THAT'S OUT THERE AND WHAT TYPE OF FACILITY WOULD WORK BEST, AS WELL AS WITH THE VOLUMES.

AND THEN WE DO THE MODELING TO SEE HOW DOES THAT WORK WHEN WE'VE CHOSEN WHAT THAT FACILITY IS.

AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SEVERAL ITERATIONS.

THE MODELING MIGHT TELL YOU SOMETHING DIFFERENT, AND WE MIGHT HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT WHAT FACILITY MAKES THE MOST SENSE.

UM, BUT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH ALL OF THIS PROCESS.

SO THEN IT REALLY ALSO SPEAKS TO, FROM A DESIGN PERSPECTIVE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE MICRO MOBILITY POLICY? WHY IS IT NECESSARY? YOU KNOW, AND, AND FOR US, WE KNOW BASED UPON OUR COMPLETE STREETS POLICY, COMPLETE STREETS POLICIES THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT OVER THE YEARS, GUIDANCE BY NATIONAL COMPLETE STREETS COALITION OR SMART GROWTH AMERICA, AS WELL AS NATO, WHERE WE WANNA BE, RIGHT? BUT EITHER WITHIN OUR POLICY, IT'S DOESN'T HAVE THOSE SPECIFIC DETAILS, OR WE JUST DON'T HAVE GUIDANCE IN GENERAL A A, A CITY STANCE ON WHERE SOME OF THESE THINGS ARE.

AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO WORK THROUGH, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THAT INFORMATION? WHAT DO WE WANNA SEE SO THAT WE CAN GET INPUT AND WE CAN ADVANCE SOME OF THESE.

'CAUSE THESE ARE SOME OF THE MAIN ISSUES THAT PREVENT US FROM, YOU KNOW, PUTTING IN A ROAD DIET OR ADJUSTING WHAT THE PARKING IS AND HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS, NOT JUST WITH THE COMMUNITY WITHIN, UM, DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS, OUR STAFF COUNCIL, EVERYONE TO BE ON THE SAME PAGE WHEN IT COMES TO THESE PARTICULAR ITEMS. SO THIS IS A REALLY KEY COMPONENT THAT WE ARE WORKING TOWARDS.

UM, WHAT ARE OUR STRATEGIES? WHAT IS GONNA BE OUR ANALYSIS AND HOW WE'RE GONNA BRING THAT

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FORWARD.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA HAVE PARTICULAR LANGUAGE THAT TALKS ABOUT THAT.

WE WANT TO SHOW HOW WE'RE PRIORITIZING THESE DIFFERENT PIECES.

SO ANOTHER THING THAT WE'RE DOING, WHICH IS LIKE THE NEXT STEP OF THIS PROCESS IS WE'VE HAD SOME WORK SESSIONS STARTING WITH STAFF, RIGHT? TALKING ABOUT OUR COMPLETE STREETS POLICY, TALKING ABOUT WHERE WE'RE GOING AND WHAT THAT MICRO MOBILITY TOOLKIT OF WHAT IS AVAILABLE AND HOW WILL WE SUPPORT THEM, YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS A BOND PROJECT COMING, YES.

WE'LL DO THAT ANALYSIS FOR YOU TO DETERMINE THAT YOU CAN MAKE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS, UM, WHETHER IT'S ROAD DIET OR SOMETHING ELSE, OR BRING FORTH, YOU KNOW, A DIFFERENT SORT OF, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE.

WE ALSO, EXCUSE ME, HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE DISABILITY ACCESS FOLKS WITH REGARD TO THEIR SIDEWALK TRANSITION PLAN AND, YOU KNOW, INCORPORATE THAT AS WELL IN THE PROCESS.

WE HAD SIX DIFFERENT OPTIONS.

THIS WAS RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS WHERE STAFF COULD COME TO THESE WORK SESSIONS, WE COULD PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION TO THEM AND WHAT ROUTE WE'RE GOING WITH THIS, AND THEN GATHER THEIR INPUT ON HOW WE CAN MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL.

UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN DEFINITELY BE EXPANDED, BUT WE, WE DEFINITELY WANTED TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT AND, AND START THOSE CONVERSATIONS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE NEW BOND COMING.

SO NEXT STEPS.

YOU KNOW, THE POLICY IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR IMPLEMENTATION, UM, AS WELL AS THE ANALYSIS OF THE DIFFERENT REGIONAL CENTERS TO DETERMINE WHAT PROJECTS ARE NECESSARY, BECAUSE OUR END GOAL IS TO HAVE THAT LIST OF PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN VETTED, THAT ARE FEASIBLE, EXCUSE ME, AND ARE AVAILABLE THERE FOR FUNDING SOURCES LIKE THE 2022 BOND OR OTHER FUNDING, LIKE THE M P O CALL FOR PROJECTS OR BIKE, I M P.

WE WANT TO BE PREPARED WITH THOSE PROJECTS AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE OUT THERE TO, UM, ENHANCE PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY, BICYCLE MOBILITY, EVERY BIT OF MICRO MOBILITY THAT WE POSSIBLY CAN.

THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION, AND I AM AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UM, UH, BIANCA AND I JUST, CAN YOU REMIND ME, UM, WASN'T THIS LIKE MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS? WHICH PART? MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS? JUST THAT THE MICRO MOBILITY PLAN, WASN'T IT LIKE, LIKE 6 MILLION OR SOMETHING? NO.

SO I KNOW THAT, UM, I BELIEVE IT MIGHT'VE BEEN FOR F Y 2020, WE HAD ASKED, WE HAD DONE A BUDGET ASK, BUT IT WAS NOT ONE OF THOSE, UM, BUDGETING PIECES THAT WAS CHOSEN.

SO WHAT WE DID IS WE SAID, OKAY, THEN WE WILL TAKE A PORTION OF BIKE I M P EVERY SINGLE YEAR AND DEDICATE IT TO MOVING THIS FORWARD.

SO IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, THE DOWNTOWN AND MIDTOWN AND THE MICRO MOBILITY POLICY WAS A TOTAL OF 500,000 OUT OF THE 1 MILLION THAT IS ALLOTTED EVERY SINGLE YEAR.

FOR BICYCLE I M P, THERE WAS NOT A SEPARATE MONDAY.

OKAY, OKAY, GOOD.

BECAUSE I, MAYBE I'M THINKING OF SOMETHING ELSE.

SO, UM, UH, THEN WHAT, WHAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE PRESENTING HERE IS SIMPLY A PLAN THAT WE'RE HOPING TO IMPLEMENT WITH THE BOND.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A POLICY SIDE THAT WILL SUSTAIN US THROUGH ANYTHING THAT COMES ABOUT SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE THAT PROCESS.

AS FAR AS THE DOWNTOWN MIDTOWN ITSELF, IT'S IDENTIFYING PROJECTS THERE THAT CAN BE FUNDED BY ANYTHING.

AND YES, I THINK WE'RE LOOKING AT ONE OF THE PROJECTS AS BEING ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT CAN BE PUSHED TO THE 2022 BOND.

BUT ANY FUNDING SOURCE THAT COMES ABOUT THAT'S AVAILABLE, WE WANT TO HAVE PROJECTS IDENTIFIED THAT CAN FIT THAT NEED.

AND, AND I GUESS ONCE THOSE ARE DETERMINED, THEN THERE'S AN LIKE A ECONOMIC IMPACT.

SO IN THE SENSE OF WHAT IT COSTS US TO IMPLEMENT, IS THAT, UM, WELL, BECAUSE ONE THING WE DO KNOW AND, AND, UH, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, AREAS THAT HAVE BIKE LANES HAVE BETTER PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY, UM, ALSO, UH, HAVE AN, A POSITIVE, UH, ECONOMIC IMPACT TO SMALL BUSINESSES.

UM, AND, AND, UH, ALONG THOSE LINES.

BUT, AND I FEEL LIKE WE DO THAT STUDY, UM, SOMETIMES, BUT I DON'T, DO WE DO IT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS? I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK INTO WHO PARTICULARLY ORGANIZES THAT STUDY.

MY TEAM DOES NOT, BUT THEY CAN RESEARCH THAT ON WHO DOES.

UH, CREATION AND DISCUSSIONS AS YOU POINTED OUT IN TERMS OF GETTING INPUT.

UM, OKAY.

THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? VIN UH, COUNCIL MEMBER , THANK YOU CHAIR.

UM, AND, AND, AND THANK YOU YA FOR THE PRESENTATION, UH, REGARDING THE SORT OF THE POLICY,

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UM, WHERE, WHERE IS OUR PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY OFFICER, MICRO MOBILITY OFFICER, TIM HAYES, UH, WHAT'S HIS ROLE IN THAT AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT HE IS, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, HELPING TO, TO COMMUNICATE OR SERVE AS A, A LIAISON, UH, FOR BOTH THE NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, DISTRICT ONE AND, AND, UH, YOUR OFFICE? SO CURRENTLY TIM WAS LEADING THESE EFFORTS THAT YOU SEE AS THE DOWNTOWN MIDTOWN AND THE MICRO MOBILITY POLICY.

UM, HE WAS WORKING DIRECTLY WITH THE CONSULTANTS, UM, ON THE PROCESS ITSELF, UM, THE STEPS AND REALLY BEING IN CHARGE OF THE OUTREACH AND THE TECHNICAL SIDES OF ALL OF THIS THROUGH THE PROCESS.

UM, IT IS PLANNED THAT THAT PARTICULAR ROLE WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THAT AND CONTINUING INTO THE NEXT YEAR, RIGHT? SO IN FY 2021, WE WANNA LOOK AT TWO OTHER NEW AREAS TO DO THIS SAME PROCESS.

AND THAT PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY OFFICER, BECAUSE THEY ARE SO INGRAINED IN OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT FROM HERE AND BEYOND.

AND ANY OUTREACH, ANY SUPPORT THAT YOU KNOW, IS NEEDED IN THIS, THEY'RE GONNA BE THAT KEY ELEMENT INVOLVED THERE.

CO COUNCILMAN, LET ME PROVIDE A LITTLE UPDATE.

RECENTLY, KIM HAY HAS DECIDED TO LEAVE THAT POST.

HE'S STILL GOING TO STAY WITHIN CITY ORGANIZATION.

HE'S MOVING FOR PUBLIC WORKS FOR PROJECT DELIVERY TO MANAGE SOME PROJECT STILL.

HE WILL BE PROVIDING SOME INPUT, BUT WE ARE GOING TO DO NATIONAL RESEARCH AND FIND SOMEBODY LIKE A TEAM TO, TO ASSIST US ON THIS EFFORT.

THANK YOU RAZZY.

AND, AND THAT'S, THAT'S, UH, I THINK CRITICAL FOR THIS COUNCIL TO KNOW, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WANNA EMPHASIZE, UH, OUR PRIORITY FOR, UM, MICRO MOBILITY AND HAVE SOMEBODY THAT IS EMBEDDED WITHIN CITY, UH, CITY OFFICES THAT IS, IS GONNA BE THAT BRIDGE TO HELP ADVOCATE, TO HELP TRANSLATE, UH, THE, THE, THE KINDS OF WORK THAT, UH, WE WANNA SEE.

AND WE WANNA DO IT IN A WAY THAT IS THOUGHTFUL, INTELLIGENT, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, WI WITH SOMEBODY WHO HAS, UH, THE EXPERTISE TO, TO TRANSLATE THE, THE, THE DATA TRANSLATE, THE, THE, THE POTENTIAL JARGON THAT COMES BEHIND, UH, SOME OF THE ENGINEERING THAT HAS TO BE DONE.

UH, I, TIM'S DONE A GREAT JOB, UH, IN, IN FACILITATING A LOT OF THAT.

SO I'M, I'M SAD TO SEE HIM, UH, MOVE ON, BUT I I, I WILL USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, EMPHASIZE, UH, THAT, UM, THAT WE, WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO CERTAINLY FILL THAT SPOT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY WITH, WITH OUR BOND PROJECT, UH, OUR, OUR, UM, BOND PROCESS, I SHOULD SAY COMING UP.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S AN IMPORTANT POSITION AND, UH, I THINK IT WILL, IT WOULD ONLY SERVE US, UH, TO, TO HELP IDENTIFY, UH, THESE PROJECTS.

AND LIKE I SAID, I THINK ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES HAS BEEN SORT OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE, THE JARGON AND, AND TO BE THAT SORT OF, THAT BRIDGE I THINK WOULD BE REALLY, UH, REALLY HELPFUL.

SO, UH, PLEASE KEEP US POSTED AND, AND CHAIR, MAYBE WE COULD, UH, ASK THAT, UH, WE GET A, A REGULAR UPDATE ON THAT POSTING ON THIS COMMITTEE TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT WE FOLLOW AND SEE IT THROUGH TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET, UH, SOMEBODY, UH, UH, POSTED IN THAT POSITION THAT IS GONNA GONNA HELP US THROUGH THE, THE, UM, THE NEXT BOND AND FOR MANY YEARS TO COME FOR, YOU KNOW, ANY MANY OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE FACING IN OUR CITY AS WE'RE DEVELOPING THESE POLICIES AND DEVELOPING, UH, THESE MASTER PLANS.

COUNCILMAN, I, I, I COULDN'T AGREE MORE WITH, UH, WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAID AND, UH, YES, ABSOLUTELY.

WE ARE, WE ARE MOVING TO, TO FILL THAT POSITION AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT TAMIKA DOES IS, IS IDENTIFY, YOU KNOW, THE APPROPRIATE PERSON, UH, YOU KNOW, TO, TO LEAD THESE EFFORTS.

SO WE WILL DEFINITELY, UH, KEEP YOU AND THE COMMITTEE, UH, APPRISED OF, UH, OUR PROGRESS IN, IN BRINGING THAT POSITION ON BOARD.

COUNCILMAN VINNO, COUNCIL MEMBER CAB HDA.

THANK YOU CHAIR.

UM, CONCERNING THE COMPLETE STREET POLICY REVIEW, IS THERE, HAS THERE ANY WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE REGARDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NEEDS OF RECREATIONAL CYCLISTS AND COMMUTER CYCLISTS? THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE IN DISTRICT SIX, AND REALLY THE WHOLE CITY FOR RIDING BIKES IS A NECESSITY TO GET TO WORK, NOT NECESSARILY FOR LEISURE

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OR EXERCISE.

THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT INTENTIONS I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF WE'RE ADDRESSING THOSE EXCLUSIVE NEEDS, UM, FROM A POLICY PERSPECTIVE.

SURE.

MM-HMM.

SO I, I THINK THAT WHEN WE IDENTIFY WHAT OUR APPROACH IS TO, TO A PARTICULAR ASSESSMENT OF A ROADWAY, THERE WAS A DIAGRAM THAT SAID, OKAY, BASED UPON THE ROADWAY ITSELF, THE VOLUME AND THE SPEED, THAT REALLY SPEAKS TO WHAT TYPE OF FACILITY YOU NEED TO HAVE, RIGHT? AND THE WAY THAT WE LOOK AT THINGS IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL FACILITY THAT I CAN PROVIDE YOU, I'M GONNA PROVIDE YOU BECAUSE I WANT EVERY LEVEL OF BICYCLIST OR PEDESTRIAN TO BE ABLE TO USE THAT ROADWAY.

UM, AND, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK AT IT, IT NEEDS TO BE A PART OF THAT ROADWAY, AND IT NEEDS TO BE SAFE FOR THE CONDITIONS THAT ARE THERE, NO MATTER THE USER.

IS THERE A PRIORITY FOR, UM, FOR ROADWAYS THAT ARE MORE HEAVILY USED FOR, FOR COMMUTING CYCLISTS? UM, LIKE MAYBE AROUND, AROUND BUSINESS AREAS, THINGS LIKE THAT? I I THINK THAT IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT THOSE ROADWAYS FLOAT TO THE TOP WHEN WE'RE DOING THE ASSESSMENT, BECAUSE RECALL IN SOME OF THOSE ITEMS, THERE'S CONNECTIVITY THAT WE LOOK AT ASSOCIATED WITH THAT AND JUST THE USE OF THE AREA.

UM, I THINK YOU'RE ALSO GONNA SEE IT WILL FLOAT TO THE TOP FROM AN EQUITY PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE THOSE AREAS THAT YOU SEE, MOST OF THE COMMUTERS ARE IN THOSE AREAS OF EQUITY NEEDS.

SO I THINK THERE ARE SEVERAL POINTS THAT ARE REALLY GONNA ALLOW THOSE AREAS TO RISE TO THE TOP.

I, I'D LIKE TO SEE A SPECIFIC POLICY OR CRITERIA THOUGH, THAT, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, IT'LL FALL UNDER EQUITY ANYWAY, BUT THERE MAY BE SOME THAT, THAT, THAT DON'T FILL IN THAT.

UM, BUT I MEAN, THERE MAY BE A GAP, RIGHT? I, I'D LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY PRIORITIZING COMMUTERS.

UM, AND COMMUTER COMMUTER ROADWAYS ANYWAY, AND THAT'S ALL CHAIR.

ABSOLUTELY.

COUNCIL MEMBER K, COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.

YES.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UM, WE'VE TALKED AROUND IT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE M P O, WE TALKED ABOUT THE BOND, UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPING A LIST OF PROJECTS.

I'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS THE LAST COUPLE OF TIMES, I THINK, IS WHAT IS THE PROCESS OF THIS COMMITTEE GONNA BE IN DEVELOPING THAT LIST, AND HOW IS IT, HOW DO WE COMBINE IT WITH THE N P O? HOW DO WE PRIORITIZE THAT LIST FOR THE, FOR THE UPCOMING BOND? I, I'M, I'M, UH, I KEEP ASKING THIS QUESTION, BUT WE REALLY HAVEN'T GOTTEN A TIMELINE AND A PROCESS LIKE FLOWCHART OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT SHOWING, OKAY, HOW ARE WE GONNA GET THERE FROM HERE? RIGHT.

AND WE, WE GOT TO GET STARTED WITH THAT BECAUSE I'M, I'M ASSUMING WE'RE GONNA START PUTTING COMMUNITY COMMITTEES TOGETHER, UH, HERE SOON FOR THE BOND.

UH, THE M P O WE'RE, WE SHOULD BE DEVELOPING A LIST FOR THE, UM, UM, FOR INPUT INTO THE M P O, UH, ALL OF THAT STUFF, YOU KNOW, WHERE, WHEN IS THAT GONNA HAPPEN? WHEN ARE WE GONNA START REVIEWING THAT HERE AT THIS COMMITTEE LEVEL? SO RECALL, WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT SINCE AROUND NOVEMBER ABOUT THAT THIS PROCESS IS UP AND COMING AND REQUESTING PROJECTS, WHICH WE'VE GOTTEN QUITE A FEW OF THEM.

ON TOP OF THAT, MY STAFF HAS LOOKED AT A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT PLANS AND PROCESSES, WHETHER IT'S THE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN, REGIONAL CENTER PLANS, OTHER BIKE MASTER PLAN, VIA PLANS, EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF AND COME UP WITH SOME CANDIDATES THAT WE WANNA RECOMMEND.

THEY DO INCLUDE SOME OF THE, UM, ROADWAYS THAT WERE MENTIONED BY THE SPECIFIC COUNCIL MEMBERS.

AND THE PLAN IS TO BRING THAT LIST TO TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE NEXT MONTH TO SHOW YOU WHAT WE CAME UP WITH, BASED UPON ALL THAT INPUT, ALL THAT INPUT AND COMMENTS, UM, AND GET YOUR TAKE AND YOUR INFORMATION ON THOSE LOCATIONS.

SO THAT'S, THAT'S ON THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE GONNA TRY TO GET INTO THE N P O? YES, SIR.

THOSE PROJECTS WE ARE GOING SUBMIT FOR M P O.

AND WHAT IS THE PROCESS FOR THE NEXT BOND? 2022 BOND? MM-HMM.

COUNCILMAN, FIRST OF ALL, FOR M P O, WE HAVE PROVIDE OUR SUBMITTAL ON APRIL.

WE ARE GOING TO COME BACK TO YOU ON FEBRUARY AND GO PROBABLY B SESSION OR A SESSION ON MARCH AND MAKE OUR SUBMITTAL ON APRIL BECAUSE THAT'S A DUE DATE.

EITHER ALL OF THE PROJECTS ARE GOING TO SUBMIT FOR M P O OR MOST OF THEM ALSO GOING TO BE PART OF THE BOND BECAUSE WE HAVE TO PAY 20% OF THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS, HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE DESIGN COSTS, HUNDRED PERCENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ARE RIGHT AWAY.

WE ARE LOOKING AT LEAST 45% OF THE ENTIRE COST WAS ABSORBED BY US.

THEREFORE,

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ALSO, WE'LL BE PART OF THE BOND, OUR BOND.

I MET WITH ALL OF THE COUNCIL DISTRICT, ALL OF YOU IN LATE LAST YEAR.

WE HAVE RECEIVED LIST WITH MOST OF YOU, BUT NOT ALL OF YOU.

AND WE ARE WORKING ON THOSE CATEGORIZING FOR PARKS PROJECT, DRAINAGE STREET FACILITY.

WE WILL PROBABLY GETTING OTHER DOCUMENTS, THE MANAGER'S OFFICE IN NEXT FEW MONTHS.

THEN WE WILL COME BACK TO YOU AND CLOSE THE LOOK WITH YOU BECAUSE EACH PERSON HAS MADE US TWICE, THREE TIMES MORE THAN REALLY WE CAN AFFORD KIND OF TO GET, MAKE SURE YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IN SUMMER OF THIS YEAR.

WE'LL PROBABLY FINALIZE THOSE PLACE AND FOLLOW UP THIS YEAR.

WE'LL ASK YOU ANOTHER COUNCIL MEMBER TO APPOINT COMMITTEE MEMBER TO START A COMMITTEE INPUT IN FALL OF THIS YEAR.

MOVE STRAIGHT ALONG TO SHARE THE STREETS INITIATIVE.

THAT'S, THAT.

THAT'S GREAT.

RAZZIE, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING FOR IF, IF Y'ALL WOULD BE SO KIND AS TO KIND OF PUT THAT ON A TIMELINE AND WHERE THE, THIS COMMITTEE FALLS INTO REVIEWING OR, OR WHATEVER IS THE RESPONSIBILITY GONNA BE FOR THIS COMMITTEE AND HIGHLIGHT THOSE ON THAT TIMELINE.

BUT THE TIMELINE THAT I'M LOOKING FOR INCLUDES BOTH WHAT WE'RE GONNA SUBMIT TO THE M P O AND ALSO, UH, IN PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT BOND.

AND AT WHAT POINTS DOES THIS COMMITTEE GET INVOLVED IN THE REVIEW, THE APPROVAL OR SUBMISSION TO, UH, B SESSION OR A SESSION, UM, FOR, FOR THESE LISTS.

SO IF YOU COULD SET THAT OUT ON A TIMELINE, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.

COUNCILMAN, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.

IT WOULD HELP ME, IT WOULD HELP ME IN DEVELOPING MY SCHEDULE ON WHAT MY EX OR WHAT THE EXPECTATIONS WOULD BE ON REVIEWING AND, AND GETTING INPUTS TOGETHER FOR THIS COMMITTEE.

YES, SIR.

WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING WITH ERIC THIS WEEK ON ACTUALLY KIND OF FINALIZING THE, THE BOND SCHEDULE.

SO, UH, WE'LL WE SHOULD BE GETTING THAT OUT TO YOU SHORTLY AND, AND WE'LL, WE'LL FILL IN THE DETAILS THAT YOU SPOKE ABOUT ON HOW, YOU KNOW, THE ROLE THAT THIS COMMITTEE CAN PLAY IN, UH, DEVELOPING AND SCOPING OUT THOSE PROJECTS AS WELL.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MAN.

THANKS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND, UH, I THINK THAT'S ALL WE HAVE FOR, UH, THIS PRESENTATION.

UH, AND SO WE'LL

[4. 21-1087 Briefing on the Share the Streets Pilot Initiative. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Bianca Thorpe, Capital Programs Manager, Transportation Department]]

SO ONE MORE.

IT SHOULD BE SHORT AND BRIEF, SO HANG IN THERE, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

UM, SO THIS PRESENTATION IS JUST KIND OF AN UPDATE IN, UM, THE SHARE THE STREETS INITIATIVE THAT TOOK PLACE THIS SUMMER AND, UM, WHAT THE PROCESS WAS AND, UH, WHAT WE LEARNED FROM, UM, AN AFTER SURVEY NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

SO, THE BACKGROUND OF THIS IS MANY OF CITIES SAW WITH THE STAY AT HOME ORDERS, AN INCREASE IN WALKING AND BIKING, YOU KNOW, FOLKS WANTED TO GET OUT.

UM, BUT HAVING THAT SEPARATION OF, OF KEEPING SOCIAL DISTANCING, UM, MADE IT TO WHERE THIS WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT PEOPLE REALLY ADOPTED.

UM, MANY CITIES ACROSS THE NATION SAW THE SAME THING.

UM, I SPOKE TO MANY OF THEM THROUGH NATO AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

AND SO IT SEEMED THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WE WERE INTERESTED IN IN SAN ANTONIO AS WELL.

UM, THE GROUP ACTIVATE SA BROUGHT SOME PROPOSALS OF SOME ROADWAYS AND THE MENTION OF A PILOT LOCATION.

UH, SPECIFICALLY IT WAS CINCINNATI AVENUE AND WEST CAESAR CHAVEZ, AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT STAFF SAID, YES, ABSOLUTELY LET, LET'S WORK ON DOING THIS.

AND, AND WE DID SET UP A PROCESS TO DO IT.

WE THEN DID SOME AFTER EVALUATION AND DISCUSSED HOW WE COULD REPLICATE IT IN THE FUTURE.

SO THESE ARE KIND OF JUST SOME GENERAL MAPS OF WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT.

UM, THE FOCUS HERE WAS SOME RESIDENTIAL STREETS WHERE YOU WOULD SEE FOLKS DOING THAT, WALKING AND BIKING.

UM, IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, YOU KNOW, THESE ONES HAD DESTINATIONS IN BETWEEN THEM, WHETHER IT WAS PARKS OR SCHOOLS OR ANY BUSINESSES ALONG THEM, UM, IN ITSELF.

AND WE WANTED TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT WAS LOWER SPEED.

SO THE TRANSITION OF BRINGING THIS SORT OF WHAT MANY CITIES CALL SLOW STREETS, BUT WE CALLED SHARE THE STREETS, UM, WOULD WORK BEST IN AREAS THAT WERE LOWER SPEED TO BEGIN WITH.

PUT SOME SIGNAGE OR BARRICADES OF THAT NATURE.

SO IN THIS PROCESS, STAFF LOOKED AT WHAT IS THE SCHEMATIC OF WHAT WE WOULD BRING FORTH IN THIS AREA.

THERE WAS A QUICK ASSESSMENT OF WHERE THE BRAKES WOULD BE, WHERE WE COULD

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WE OBVIOUSLY COORDINATED WITH VIA, BECAUSE THEY'RE A KEY PLAYER AND SOMETHING THAT WE HAD TO CONSIDER THEIR OPERATION.

UM, LIKE I SAID, WE LOOKED AT BARRICADE AND SIGNAGE PLACEMENT.

WE DID FLYER NOTIFICATION TO RESIDENTS, RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES ALONG THE ROADWAY.

AS WE WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS, BECAUSE THEY WERE A 30 DAY PILOT, WE DID HAVE TO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS, WHETHER IT WAS ADDING MORE BARRICADES, ADJUSTING SIGNS, UM, THERE WERE SOME OTHER PIECES, AND THE NEXT FEW SLIDES WILL SHOW WHAT WE DID.

UM, NEXT SLIDE.

SO OBVIOUSLY WE DID THE TYPE THREE BARRICADES, WHICH ARE THOSE ORANGE AND, UM, WHITE BARRICADES THAT YOU SEE CONSISTENTLY ON ENDS OF THE, UM, TRAVELED ROADWAYS AND ALSO SIDE STREETS TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS IMPORTANT THAT WAS HAPPENING, THAT WAS A CHANGE IN THE PROCESS.

UM, WE WORKED TO ADD TEMPORARY GUIDANCE SPEED ADJUSTMENTS.

SO YOU CAN SEE THE SIGN ON THE LEFT, WHICH TALKS ABOUT A 25 MILE AN HOUR, UM, AREA THAT WE WERE RECOMMENDING.

UM, NEXT SLIDE.

WE ALSO ADDED ADDITIONAL BARRICADES AS NEEDED.

WHEN WE SAW THERE WAS A CONCERN IN A PARTICULAR LOCATION, OR JUST MORE ATTENTION THAT NEEDED TO BE BROUGHT, WE WOULD ADD THEM THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS.

AND THEN WE ADDED SPEED TRAILERS AT ALL LOCATIONS TO BASICALLY, IF, IF YOU WERE DRIVING ALONG AND YOU REALLY DIDN'T NOTICE ANYTHING DIFFERENT, THAT THERE WAS THIS LARGE SPEED TRAILER, UM, TELLING YOU, HEY, SHARE THE STREETS IS OUT HERE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING IMPORTANT GOING ON, YOU KNOW, PLEASE SLOW DOWN, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

SO ONCE WE WENT THROUGH THE 30 DAY PILOT FOR EACH LOCATION, WE SAID, OKAY, WE, WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS THE INPUT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS AND, AND WHAT CAN WE DO BETTER.

SO WE DID A SURVEY THAT WE HAD MANY WAYS.

FOLKS COULD DO IT ONLINE, THEY COULD CALL US.

WE KNOW NOT EVERYBODY HAS THE ABILITY TO DO IT ELECTRONICALLY.

UM, WE WORKED THROUGH THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS, WE WORK WITH THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND ON NEXTDOOR AND ANY AVENUE THAT WE COULD.

UM, THE SURVEY WAS OUT THERE FOR FOUR WEEKS.

WE GOT 40 RESPONSES TO THE SURVEY, AND WE ALSO DROPPED OFF FLYERS AT RESIDENCES TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE SURVEY WAS OUT THERE AND AVAILABLE.