* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:03] HI. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. WELCOME TO OUR TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY COMMITTEE. UH, TODAY IS MARCH 15TH, 2001. AND, UH, SO GLAD TO SEE EVERYBODY, UH, AFTER THE SPRING BREAK. UH, IT'S TOUGH GETTING BACK TO THE SPRING BREAK WITH THAT, UM, TIME CHANGE. I THINK WE'VE ALL BEEN SUFFERING. SO GLAD TO SEE EVERYBODY HERE THIS AFTERNOON. LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A QUORUM SO WE CAN GET STARTED RIGHT AWAY. UM, CLERK, CAN WE HAVE A ROLL CALL, PLEASE? COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. I'M HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL HERE. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, VEO HAR HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER TINO HERE. AND, UH, CHAIR GONZALEZ. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M PRESENT OF QUORA MADAM CHAIR, AND, UH, IF WE COULD MOVE [1. 21-1696 Approval of the Minutes for the February 26, 2021 Transportation and Mobility Committee Meeting.] ALONG TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR FEBRUARY 26TH. CHAIR. I HAVE A COMMENT ON THE MINUTES. OKAY, GO AHEAD, COUNCILWOMAN. UM, I'D LIKE TO MOVE TO APPROVE WITH THE FOLLOWING CHANGES, ADDING TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE, ON THE ITEM THAT ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR THE CULEBRA ROAD PROJECT. AND THEN, UH, LISTING EACH OF US, I'VE SENT THIS LANGUAGE TO YOURSELF AND TO THE CLERK, UH, DURING THE DRAFT MINUTES, ONLY SHOW COUNCIL VEDA EXPRESSING SUPPORT. AND WHILE HER SUPPORT IS VERY IMPORTANT, UH, I DID WANT THE MINUTES TO REFLECT THAT ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS SUPPORTED THE PROJECT. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, ADDITION. SECOND AND CLARIFICATION. THANK YOU. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES AS AMENDED. ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OKAY. ANY OPPOSED? SAME SIGNED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, MOTION CARRIES. SO WE HAVE TODAY TWO, UM, ITEMS FOR BRIEFING, [2. 21-2189 Briefing on a proposed strategy to incorporate equity into the transportation decision-making process.[Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Tomika Monterville, Director, Transportation Department]] AND I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO, UM, THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, THE BRIEFING ON PROPOSED STRATEGY TO INCORPORATE EQUITY INTO THE TRANSPORTATION DECISION MAKING PROCESS. AND, UH, I KNOW ROD IS HERE AND TAMIKA'S HERE, UH, TO GIVE US A BRIEFING ON HOW WE MIGHT, UM, INCORPORATE THESE ITEMS INTO OUR TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. SO I'LL TURN IT OVER. ABSOLUTELY. I KNOW TAMIKA AND, UH, HER TEAM AND, UH, JONATHAN BUTLER WITH THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND BRIDGETT WHITE HAVE ALL WORKED REAL HARD ON THIS. UH, WE'VE ALSO REACHED OUT TO OUR FRIENDS AT U L I TO RECEIVE THEIR COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK, AND I KNOW SOME OF THEM ARE ON, UH, ON THIS MEETING, UH, WEBEX AS WELL. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE, BUT, UH, I'LL TURN IT OVER. TOMIKA TO, YOU KNOW, WALK, UH, DO A MORE IN DEPTH, UH, PRESENTATION OF THIS, UH, PROGRAM. TAMIKA, YOU'RE MUTED. IF OKAY, WE'LL GIVE TAMIKA JUST A MINUTE. I THINK SHE WAS HAVING A AUDIO, UM, PROBLEM, SO I KNOW I SAW HER A FEW MINUTES AGO, BUT WE'LL GIVE HER A FEW MINUTES. I ALSO WANNA MENTION, TOO, UH, I KNOW JOHN BAILEY IS HAVING A HARD TIME LOGGING ON. ROBERT, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN HAVE TO LET HIM INTO THE MEETING OR IF THERE'S SOMETHING YOU CAN HELP ME TROUBLESHOOT THERE FOR JOHN BAILEY. THANK YOU, MA'AM, TOO. OH, ARE WE ABLE TO, UH, WERE WE ABLE TO CONNECT? CAN YOU HEAR ME? OH, YES, NOW WE CAN HEAR YOU. OKAY, PERFECT. GO AHEAD, TAMIKA. I JUST HAD TO GO OUTSIDE. MY WIFI SUCKS. OKAY. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR AND COMMITTEE FOR YOUR TIME. WE WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU, FOLLOWING THE MEETING LAST MONTH, YOU [00:05:01] REQUESTED INFORMATION ABOUT HOW WE PROPOSED TO INCORPORATE EQUITY INTO OUR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS. SO WITH THE HELP OF OUR PARTNERS IN THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, Z GIBBS, JONATHAN BUTLER, TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES TO INCORPORATE EQUITY. SO, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, OUR MULTIMODAL PLAN WAS COMPLETED MANY YEARS AGO, AND AT THE TIME, THE CONVERSATION ABOUT EQUITY WAS NOT INCLUDED. SO WE THOUGHT ABOUT HOW CAN WE GO ABOUT INCORPORATING EQUITY AND IDENTIFYING BEST PRACTICES TO HELP SUPPORT PRIORITIZATION OF OUR PROJECTS WITHIN OUR, AND WITHIN OUR PLANS. SO WHAT WE PROVIDED IN A SHORT WHITE PAPER WAS OPTIONS OF CERTAIN CRITERIA THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY USE. BUT AS WE DID THAT EVALUATION AND TALKING WITH OUR PARTNERS IN THE EQUITY OFFICE, WHAT WE REALIZED IS THAT THE EQUITY OFFICE HAS BEEN DOING A LOT OF WORK WITHIN OTHER DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE CITY TO INCORPORATE EQUITY. AND WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO NOT BE PREMATURE IN REINVENTING THE WHEEL, BUT TO INTEGRATE THE WORK THAT THE OFFICE HAD ALREADY BEGUN, AND IDENTIFY CRITERIA AND CATEGORIES THAT WOULD BEST BE APPLICABLE TO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS. SO WHAT WE PROPOSE TO DO IN RESPONSE TO YOUR INQUIRY IS TO UTILIZE THE EXISTING EQUITY ATLAS TOOL THAT THE CITY HAS, AND IDENTIFY AND REFINE SOME EQUITY CRITERIA THAT WE THINK MOST APPROPRIATE TO DEVELOP A SCORECARD FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION PROJECT DELIVERIES. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU'RE ON MUTE, TAMIKA, WE LOST YOU. UM, JONATHAN, CAN YOU TAKE OVER OR ANNE LOOKS LIKE WE LOST TAMIKA FOR THE MOMENT. YEAH, I, I CAN TAKE OVER UNTIL WE, UM, HEAR FROM HER AGAIN. UM, WHERE THE NEW DIRECTOR WAS, UM, WHERE SHE LEFT OFF REALLY WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW COULD WE INTEGRATE INTO THE MULTIMODAL PLAN, THIS IDEA OF INTRODUCING EQUITY IN EVALUATIONS OF PROJECTS, UM, BOTH THAT EXIST AND, UM, PROJECTS THAT WOULD BE FUTURE PROJECTS, AND LOOK AT WAYS IN WHICH WE COULD ACTUALLY CREATE AN EQUITY SCORECARD THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR US TO EVALUATE MORE ADEQUATELY, UM, AND GET SOME DATA AROUND, UM, JUST WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE DON'T HAVE. UM, THE THOUGHT PROCESS TOO IS, AS TAMIKA MENTIONED EARLIER, UM, WE, WE HAVE, UM, XAN IS ON THE LINE AS WELL, AND XAN HAS BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME WITH OUR TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, UM, PRIOR TO THE, UM, NEW SPLIT, IF YOU WILL, IN CREATING THE ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENTS. AND THEY WERE LOOKING AT SOME MECHANISMS FOR EVALUATING EQUITY IN, IN PROJECTS. UM, WE WANT TO TAKE THAT A STEP FURTHER AFTER WE TALK TO COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ, UM, AND ADD ROD'S DIRECTION TO KIND OF LOOK AT A TOOL IN WHICH WE CAN EVALUATE SOME OF THESE THINGS AND CREATE A SCORECARD AROUND. UM, AND THE IDEA IS THAT WE WOULD PILOT IT. UM, LOOKING AT THE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UM, THAT WAS REALLY THE SUM TOTAL OF THE PRESENTATION THAT WE WERE GOING TO GIVE. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE ARE REAL OPPORTUNITIES, WE THINK IF WE DO THIS RIGHT, TO BE ABLE TO INCORPORATE THIS IN MORE WAYS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM WITHIN NOT JUST, UM, TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS AND PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS, BUT ALSO OTHER WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN LOOK TO MODIFY AND INCORPORATE THE SAME TOOL ACROSS THE SPECTRUM WITHIN OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS AS WELL. NOT SURE IF WE GOT TAMIKA BACK ON THE LINE OR NOT. NO. TAMIKA, ARE YOU THERE? CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME NOW? YES, YES, YES. JONATHAN PUT A BOW ON IT. CHAIRWOMAN. OKAY. . I WILL OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS PROPOSAL. OKAY. UM, OKAY, GOOD. WELL, I DO HAVE SOME, I, I, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. UM, SO [00:10:01] PREVIOUSLY, UM, IN FACT WHEN I, UM, WHEN I DID WORK ON THE EQUITY THAT WHAT BECAME THE EQUITY BUDGET A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK IN 2017, UH, I USED, UM, T C I SCORES TO REALLY HELP REDIRECT FUNDING TO THE AREAS THAT NEED IT MOST. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE AREAS ACTUALLY THAT GOT THE, ONE OF THE MOST FUNDING, I THINK WAS DISTRICT, UH, 10, COUNCILMAN PERRY, UM, BECAUSE OF REALLY LOW P C I SCORES IN HIS DISTRICT, DISTRICT ONE, UM, GOT I THINK A LARGE SUM PERHAPS FIRST DISTRICT ONE AND MAYBE THEN DISTRICT 10, UH, DISTRICT TWO, UM, DISTRICT THREE AND DISTRICT FIVE, UH, ENDED UP WITH REALLY LOW P C I SCORES. AND SO AS A RESULT, WE ADJUSTED INCOME, OR RATHER WE ADJUSTED OUR BUDGET TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE, UM, THAT DISCREPANCY. SO IS THAT SOMETHING YOU WOULD USE, OR ARE YOU TRYING, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT PERHAPS SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT? I THINK P C I WOULD BE ONE OF THOSE SPECIFIC CATEGORIES THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT. SO, OR CRITERIA WITHIN A CATEGORY. SO FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE SAY ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY, THE CRITERIA WE WILL BE LOOKING AT WOULD BE EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, COMMUNITY SERVICES, AND THE ACCESS BASED ON THAT SPECIFIC PLAN, HOW DOES THAT PLAN IMPROVE ACCESS TO THOSE CRITERIA? AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE ACTUAL SAFETY AND OR INFRASTRUCTURE, WE WILL BE LOOKING AT HOW DOES IT ADDRESS P C I. SO P C I WOULD BE JUST ONE OF THE FACTORS, ONE OF THE CRITERIA THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT IN A SERIES OF CATEGORIES. SO ANOTHER THING WE'VE DONE HERE, I'M SURE YOU'VE SEEN IT BY NOW, WAS, UM, THERE WAS AN ANALYSIS DONE OF SIDEWALK GAPS, UH, AND WE, WE DETERMINED, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE GREATEST NUMBER OF SIDEWALK GAPS WERE, UM, IN THE CITY. AND OF COURSE, AT THAT TIME IT WAS DISTRICT THREE THAT HAD THE LARGEST NUMBER OF GAPS. BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE ALL HAD, UH, A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SIDEWALK GAPS. SO I GUESS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE THE SORT OF THE NUMBERS THAT WE'VE USED. THEY'RE PRETTY HARD NUMBERS OR IT'S NOT, UM, NECESSARILY UP FOR, UM, WELL, THAT'S NOT TRUE. I MEAN, I THINK THEY'RE SOMEWHAT SUBJECTIVE, BUT, BUT AT LEAST THEY WERE CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT THE CITY. UM, AND I, I GUESS I, BECAUSE THIS IS A, THE OTHER THINGS ARE, UM, WE HAVEN'T DONE THAT BEFORE, I GUESS. SO YOU, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A PILOT AND, UH, HERE I SEE PILOT APPLICATION OF EQUITY SCORECARD WITH AN ASSESSMENT OF THE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN IN 20 PLAN AND F Y 2022. SO WHAT MIGHT, WHAT, WHAT MIGHT A, A PILOT LOOK LIKE? SO WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY IS WE'RE RECOMMENDING THE NEXT STEPS WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE IN ORDER TO INCORPORATE EQUITY CRITERIA TO HELP WITH PRIORITIZATION. IT GOES A LITTLE DEEPER THAN I THINK SOME OF THE CRITERIA WE'VE PREVIOUSLY USED MORE IN DEPTH AND HOLISTIC. AND THEN WE ALSO WANT TO ALIGN WITH THE WORK THAT THE EQUITY OFFICE IS DOING TO BE CONSISTENT ACROSS DEPARTMENTS. BECAUSE THE CHALLENGE BECOMES, IT, IT BECOMES REALLY CHALLENGING TO DEVELOP A BASELINE IF WE'RE CONSTANTLY CHANGING THE CRITERIA. AND SO WHAT WE WANNA DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALIGNING WITH THE EFFORTS OF THE EQUITY OFFICE, AND WE PROPOSE AS A PILOT OF THE APPLICATION OF THE, THESE EQUITY PRIORITIZATION SCORECARD, UTILIZING AN UPDATE OF THE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN. BECAUSE ONE THING WE KNOW IS THAT THE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN IS FIVE YEARS OLD. AT THE TIME IT WAS COMPLETED, WE WEREN'T DISCUSSING EQUITY AS WE ARE TODAY. AND ALSO WHEN WE COMPLETED THAT PLAN, THE ADVENT OF THE USE OF SCOOTERS AND REALLY TO A LARGE EXTENT TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES AND THE DEGREE OF THEIR USE IN THE CITY WAS NOT NECESSARILY INCORPORATED AS ROBUSTLY AS IT PROBABLY COULD BE TODAY. AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE PLANS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO UPDATE IN THE FUTURE AS A PART OF THIS NEW DEPARTMENT. AND WE THINK THE APPLICATION OF THIS SCORECARD WITH THE UPDATE OF THIS PLAN COULD BE A PILOT FOR US APPLYING THIS TOOL, THIS SCORECARD. UM, AND SO I GUESS THEN THE IDEA IS WE WOULD REDIRECT FUNDS TO THOSE AREAS, UM, THAT HAVE, I, I GUESS A HIGH SCORE, RIGHT? NOT A LOW SCORE, BUT IN THIS CASE HIGHER [00:15:02] MEANS WE NEED TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS. THE GOAL IS THAT THIS WILL INFORM THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS AS IT RELATES TO FUNDING PROJECTS. OKAY. PROJECT, UH, OKAY. WELL, I, I WOULD LOVE TO, UM, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT HAPPEN A LITTLE BIT QUICKER. UM, THAT'S MY, UH, I GUESS THE ONE CONCERN I HAVE REGARDING THE PILOT IS IT'S NOT SHOWING TILL F Y 22, UM, WHICH I GUESS IS OCTOBER. UH, SO MAYBE NOT SO, NOT SO DELAYED. BUT, UM, IT SEEMS LIKE IT NEEDS TO BE DONE WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE BOND PROJECTS SO THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT, UH, HOW SOME OF THAT BOND MONEY GETS INVESTED. SO IS THAT, IS THAT CONSISTENT WITH THE TIMELINE FOR THE BOND? NO, THIS EFFORT REALLY WAS IN RESPONSE TO THE DESIRE TO INCLUDE EQUITY INTO OUR PROCESS. AND THERE'S ALREADY A PRIORITIZATION PROCESS THAT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT APPLIES. THIS EFFORT IS REALLY LOOKING TO BE MORE HOLISTIC AND LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE CRITERIA AND AREA THAT WE MAY NOT CURRENTLY LOOK AT IN TERMS OF EQUITY. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, THE CURRENT CRITERIA THAT WE UTILIZE, WHICH I BELIEVE WE'VE SHARED PREVIOUSLY AS A PART OF THE N P O CALL FOR PROJECTS, WE WENT THROUGH EXAMPLES OF THE PRIORITIZATION PROCESS. AND IN DOING THAT, WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE DON'T HAVE A METRIC TO MEASURE THE IMPACT OF AIR QUALITY ON THE SELECTION OF PROS PROJECTS. WE ALSO DO NOT IN OUR EVALUATION PRIORITIZATION PROCESS TODAY, LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF RELOCATION AS A RESULT OF INVESTMENT OR PRIORITIZATION OF A PROJECT. WHEN WE LOOK AT A SIDEWALK ENHANCEMENT, OR WE LOOK AT, UM, THE FACT THAT PERHAPS A COMMUNITY MAY NEED TO BE RELOCATED AS A RESULT OF THE INVESTMENT OR A PRIORITIZATION. SO THERE'S SEVERAL AREAS THAT WE HAVE ONLY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE WITH IN TERMS OF EQUITY AS WE EVALUATE OUR TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. SO OUR GOAL WITH THIS IS TO USE THE PLAN AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WE WOULD INCORPORATE EQUITY INTO OUR PLANNING PROCESS. AND THIS BECOMES A CRADLE TO GRAVE. WE CAN'T JUST LOOK AT THE ACTUAL BOND PROGRAM. WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE PLANS THAT INFORM THE IDENTIFICATION OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT DO EVENTUALLY BECOME BOND PROJECTS. SO UNFORTUNATELY, MADAM CHAIR, WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IT SOONER, BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO STEP BACK AND BE VERY COMPREHENSIVE IN OUR APPROACH SO THAT WE CAN ESTABLISH A BASELINE THAT WE CAN LIVE WITH, AND THAT WE CAN STAND BEHIND AND ENSURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THE ASPECTS OF EQUITY. GREAT. WELL, THANK YOU, UH, VERY MUCH. UM, AND LET ME TURN IT OVER TO, UM, SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES FOR A QUESTION STARTING WITH COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO. THANK YOU, CHAIR. UM, AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I, I GUESS I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT, UH, UTILIZING, UH, THE, THE EQUITY ATLAS. UM, AND WELL, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THERE'S MORE TO IT AND, AND, UM, I THINK JONATHAN CAN SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO THIS. I MEAN, WE, WE WENT THROUGH THIS WITH, WITH SMALL BUSINESSES AS ASSIST ASSISTANCE. AND SO I'LL JUST, I'LL, I'LL GIVE A SMALL EXAMPLE. UH, AND, AND I THINK JONATHAN AND TAMIKA PLEASE, UH, RESPOND TO THIS. UM, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS GEOGRAPHICALLY, UH, THE, THE EQUITY, WHICH, WHAT THE EQUITY ATLAS DOES, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT'S NOT IN THERE IN, UH, THAT I, THAT I, THAT I THINK IS NOT IN THE EQUITY ATLAS OR IN THIS CONSIDERATION, IS WHERE RENTERS ARE. AND WE KNOW RENTERS ARE THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO USE TRANSPORTATION AND, AND MULTITUDES MORE LIKELY TO, TO WALK, UM, WHEREVER THEY NEED TO, TO GO TO WORK, WHAT HAVE YOU. AND, AND SO THAT, THAT, THAT'S WHAT KIND OF GIVES ME PAUSE IN TERMS OF ESTABLISHING THIS AS A FRAMEWORK. I, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT, UH, HOUSING AND RENTER'S ISSUES. UH, I, I WOULD HOPE THAT WE COULD MAYBE TALK TO SOME OF THE HOUSING ADVOCATES IN TERMS OF WHAT ARE THE NEEDS, TRANSPORTATION NEEDS THAT ARE NEEDED, BECAUSE THEY, THEY WERE JUST DOVETAIL SO, SO, SO MUCH INTO, YOU KNOW, THESE CONCERNS, UH, AS WE'RE TRYING TO GROW OUR CITY, TRYING TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES THAT ON PAPER, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, [00:20:01] UH, HALF THE CITY RENTS, THE OTHER HALF OWNS A HOME, BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE. UH, IT'S NOT DIVIDED PERFECTLY IN HALF. IT, IT ITSELF IS ALSO GEOGRAPHICAL. SO I'D LIKE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT, AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE COVERING THAT BASE. YEAH, THANK YOU. THAT'S A GREAT QUE OH, GO AHEAD, JONATHAN. UM, YOU WANNA GO FIRST AND THEN I WILL COME AFTER YOU? CERTAINLY. THAT'S A GREAT, GREAT QUESTION. AND SO WHAT WE RECOGNIZE IS THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE LOW INCOME AND MINORITY UTILIZING THE ATLAS, WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE ARE VARIABLES ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR, THEIR STATUS. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE USE THE EXAMPLE OF HAVING CATEGORIES, ACCESS TO MOBILITY WOULD BE A CATEGORY, AND THIS IS JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THIS EXAMPLE, BUT THEN WE WOULD HAVE CRITERIA, AND THERE WOULD BE A SERIES OF QUESTIONS THAT WE WOULD ASK RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT QUALITY SUCH AS ACCESS WITHIN ONE MILE OR ONE QUARTER MILE OF A TRANSIT STOP. DOES THIS IMPROVE? WE WOULD ASK THESE SERIES OF QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE CATEGORY. DOES THIS INCREASE THE ACCESSIBILITY OF MAJOR ACTIVITY CENTERS FOR RESIDENTS WHO ARE ALREADY IDENTIFIED WITHIN THOSE EQUITY ATLAS CATEGORIES? ANOTHER EXAMPLE WOULD BE, IF WE LOOK AT THE BURDENS, WE ALREADY HAVE KNOWLEDGE THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE LOW INCOME AND MINORITY, AND BY TAKING THAT DATA AND SPATIALLY REPRESENTING IT OVER THE CENSUS BLOCK TRACKS FOR A SPECIFIC PROJECT, WE THEN CAN CAPTURE THAT PERCENTAGE OF MARGINALIZED AND UNDERSERVED COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED OR BURDENED BASED ON THE SERIES OF QUESTIONS THAT WE WOULD HAVE ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF THOSE CATEGORIES. SO I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A BURDEN OF DISPROPORTIONATE BURDEN, AND THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE CATEGORIES. WHAT ARE THE BURDENS? AND THE QUESTIONS WE WOULD ASK WOULD BE, DOES THIS DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACT THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT WE'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED AS PER THE EQUITY ATLAS? SO ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO DO AS WE LOOK AT THE EQUITY ATLAS, IS OUR REALLY IS OUR GUIDING INFORMATION TOOL. AND WE TAKE THAT SPATIAL DATA FOR THE PROJECT AND WHERE IT'S LOCATED AND FOR THE PLAN AND THE AREA THAT IT COVERS TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THIS PLAN CAPTURES THE NEEDS OF THOSE MARGINALIZED AND UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES. AND JONATHAN, I'LL HAND IT OVER TO YOU. I, I'LL, I'LL SAY THIS. ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT THE GREAT, UM, INTUITION FOR HIRING TAMIKA, BRINGING HER TO SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, IS TO HAVE A NEW TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS, WHO GETS IT AND KNOWS HOW TO APPLY THIS WORK IN REAL TIME. AND SO, UM, WE ARE VERY, VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE HER. UM, I CANNOT UNDERSCORE THE EXCELLENT WAY IN WHICH SHE JUST, UM, ACCOUNTED FOR THE QUESTION, BUT I WANNA SAY THIS TO YOU, COUNCILMAN TREVINO. IT IS BASED ON YOUR SUGGESTIONS IN THOSE PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS THAT WE TOOK THAT INFORMATION AND TRY TO THEN THINK ABOUT APPLYING IT TO THIS SCHOOL, THINKING ABOUT THE VERY THINGS THAT YOU STATED, RIGHT? SO FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE RECOMMENDED CRITERIA IN MECHANISM IS EVERYTHING FROM, UM, ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION, UM, HOUSING, BUT ALSO ANTI DISPLACEMENT. SO DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE ALREADY THOUGHT ABOUT INCLUDING AND EMBEDDING INTO THE SCORECARD. THE REASON THAT, TO COUNCILWOMAN, UM, GONZALEZ'S POINT, WE ARE TRYING NOT TO RUSH THIS PRODUCT AND THIS PROCESS TO, IS TO ACCOUNT FOR EXACTLY WHAT THE, THE SECOND PART OF WHAT YOU SAID, WORKING WITH NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING SERVICES IS IMPORTANT, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT CRITERIA TO BE ABLE TO EVALUATE THAT PERHAPS IS NOT AS, UM, I THINK RELIANT TO, TO IN DETRIMENTAL WAYS OF SOME OF THE POINTS THAT YOU, YOU POINTED OUT PREVIOUSLY WHEN WE THOUGHT ABOUT THE APPLICATION OF THE, THE, THE ATLAS TO SOME OF THE E D D PROJECTS. SO I, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT. AND THEN THE LAST THING I WANNA SAY, [00:25:01] AND TAMIKA UM, SAID THIS, UM, EARLIER, UM, WE DO FIND THAT, YOU KNOW, RACE AND INCOME ARE ALSO GOOD PREDICTORS TO BE ABLE TO OVERLAY WHERE PEOPLE LIVE AND HOW THEY LIVE. AND SO RENTERS ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY, UM, PEOPLE OF COLOR, EXCUSE ME, AND LOWER INCOME RESIDENTS, RIGHT? AND SO WE DO BELIEVE THAT ADEQUATELY THEN USING THE ATLAS AS A BAROMETER FOR SOME INFORMATION IS GOING TO GET US JUST SOME INFORMATION. BUT TO YOUR POINT, WE'VE GOT THESE OTHER POINTS THAT WE WANT TO BUILD INTO THE METHODOLOGY THAT GIVE US A BIGGER, A MORE ROBUST PICTURE SO THAT WE KNOW THAT WE ARE ANALYZING THESE PROJECTS APPROPRIATELY. OKAY, WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT. UH, AGAIN, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE CONSIDERING, UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF ISSUES AS WE'RE TACKLING. THEY, THEY, THEY SEEM TO HAVE THE, THE SAME GOALS IN TERMS OF, OF, OF OUTCOMES. UM, YOU KNOW, POINTING THEM TOWARDS THAT SAME GOAL, I THINK IS, IS IS THE, UH, THE OVERALL ARCHING, UH, GOAL IN, IN ALL THIS. SO, SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR THOSE ANSWERS, BOTH OF YOU. THANK YOU, CHAIR. UH, THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, VINNO, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COUNCILWOMAN. UM, THANK YOU FOR, FOR THE PRESENTATION, UH, JONATHAN ANNE AND, UH, AND TAMIKA, UH, JONATHAN AND ZAN. SO GLAD TO SEE YOU TWO IN, INVOLVED IN THIS. UH, JONATHAN WAS TREMENDOUSLY HELPFUL TO US WHEN WE WERE, UH, SELECTING MEMBERSHIP FOR THE CLIMATE ADVISORY COMMITTEES. AND ZAN, OF COURSE, YOU'RE ALWAYS HELPFUL TO US, ESPECIALLY WITH THE HEALTH ISSUES, UH, THAT WE'VE RECENTLY WORKED ON. UH, A A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. TAMIKA MENTIONED A WHITE PAPER. UH, I AM NOT QUITE, I WASN'T CLEAR THAT WHITE PAPER WAS, IT WASN'T IN OUR PACKET. SO WHERE IS IT OR IS IT BEING DEVELOPED RIGHT NOW? IT WAS REALLY COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. THAT WAS REALLY OUR PREAMBLE TO THE PRESENTATION THAT YOU SAW TODAY. FOLLOWING OUR DISCUSSION WITH COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, WE PUT TOGETHER, UH, A REALLY SHORT METHODOLOGY AND WE CAN SHARE THAT WITH YOU JUST TO EXPLAIN WHAT OUR PROPOSED APPROACH WAS. SO IT'S REALLY JUST A WORD DOCUMENT THAT CONVEYS WHAT WE HAVE IN THE PRESENTATION, AND WE CAN DEFINITELY SEND THAT TO YOU. UM, THANK YOU. I'M A, I'M A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED, I GUESS, ABOUT WHERE WE'RE, UH, GOING TODAY. IT SEEMS, UM, YOU'RE TELLING US WE'RE GOING TO, UH, INTEGRATE EQUITY CRITERIA AND THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA DO IT UNTIL THE TRANSPORTATION MOBILITY PLAN IS BEING, UH, REDEVELOPED. IS THAT THE TAKEAWAY? NO, MA'AM. WHAT WE WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS THAT AS WE DISCUSSED THIS TOPIC, WHAT WE AGREED UPON IS THAT WE CANNOT JUST LOOK AT EQUITY IN THE CONTEXT AND THROUGH THE LENS OF PROJECT DELIVERY. WE HAVE TO LOOK AT EQUITY HOLISTICALLY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR SCOPES OF WORK, IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR PLANS. AND SO TODAY, WHAT CURRENTLY EXISTS IS THERE IS A PROJECT PRIORITIZATION THAT PUBLIC WORKS HAS BEEN UTILIZING, BUT AS MANY OF US CITIES AND STATES GRAPPLE WITH, HOW DO WE EFFECTIVELY AND HOLISTICALLY ACCOUNT FOR ENSURING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO OUR SERVICES AND OUR PROGRAMS? WE, WE ARE LEARNING AS WE GO, AND WE WANNA BE COMPREHENSIVE. SO OUR PROPOSAL AND RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE KNOW THE MICRO MOBILITY PLAN, THE MULTIMODAL PLAN NEEDS TO BE UPDATED. AND SO WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO AS A NEW, A FIRST SCRATCH AT THE SURFACE IS TO UPDATE THAT PLAN AND INCORPORATE EQUITY BECAUSE IT CURRENTLY DOES NOT EXIST WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT PLAN. SO THAT DOES NOT USURP THE PRIORITIZATION PROCESS THAT PUBLIC WORKS HAS ENGAGED IN, IN DEVELOPING THEIR BOND PROGRAM. I THINK MY CONCERN AS A DIRECTOR FOR THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT IS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE PROCESSES IN PLACE THAT INCORPORATE EQUITY, BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LOT MORE WORK FOR THE WORK THAT, THE WORK THAT ZANS DEPARTMENT IS DOING TO REALLY FULLY INTEGRATE ALL OF THE ASPECTS OF EQUITY INTO THE PUBLIC WORKS BOND PROGRAM. AND WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS IN ORDER TO APPLY EQUITY ACROSS THE BOARD AND START WITH SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ASSESSED, IS TO [00:30:01] DO IT WITH THE MULTIMODAL PLAN. BUT WE'RE SAYING TO DO THAT IN 22 BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE FUNDS TO DO IT RIGHT NOW. IT'S NOT FUNDED. AND SO THAT WOULD TAKE FUNDS TO UPDATE AND ASSESS THAT PLAN. AND SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE SAYING IT'S PART OF F Y 22. ALRIGHT? UH, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO DOING, TO UPDATING THE PLAN WITH THOSE, UH, CRITERIA, UH, FULLY DEVELOPED, BUT LET ME TELL YOU THAT THE BOND PROCESS ISN'T GOING TO WAIT FOR US TO BE DONE WITH OUR, UH, WITH OUR TRANSPORTATION MOBILITY PLAN. AND I WANT THAT BOND PROCESS TO BE EQUITABLE AND TO HAVE THE BEST RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE CAN POSSIBLY COME FORWARD WITH. SO ROD, HOW CAN WE MAKE THAT HAPPEN? WELL, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A PRESENTATION FROM RAZZIE, UH, IN THE NEXT DAY OR SO. UH, I THINK IT'S B SESSION, UH, COMING UP THIS WEEK ON THE BOND PROCESS, UH, WHERE WE'RE GONNA GO OVER, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST THAT, THAT PROGRAM AND, AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA DEVELOP THE PROJECTS AND, AND YES, ABSOLUTELY, UH, EQUITY IS GONNA BE A PART OF THAT PROCESS. UH, THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S, UH, I DON'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW, GET IN FRONT OF HIS PRESENTATION, BUT, BUT WE ARE GONNA HAVE THIS DISCUSSION WITH YOU GUYS COMING UP THIS WEEK TO, TO, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THAT PROCESS AND, AND, UH, WE DEFINITELY WANT TO HEAR FROM COUNSEL, UH, YOU KNOW, WHERE, WHERE YOU THINK WE NEED TO, TO DO BETTER ON THAT PROCESS. SO, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO THAT DISCUSSION LATER ON THIS WEEK. OKAY, WELL, I'LL TELL YOU NOW SO THAT YOU CAN INTEGRATE IT. UM, I WOULD LOOK AT THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCHERS BOARD RESEARCH BOARD'S, UH, SIX CATEGORIES FOR EQUITY SCORECARD, THEIR ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT SAFETY AND EMERGENCY EVACUATION, AFFORDABILITY AND MOBILITY. I AM SURE YOU HAVE ALREADY LOOKED AT THESE . IN ADDITION TO THAT, I WOULD ALSO LOOK FOR A SYNTHESIS WITH A CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN. AND THEN I WOULD LOOK FOR WHAT YOU CAN DO IN TERMS OF MULTIPLE BENEFITS. SO IS THERE A TRANSPORTATION PROJECT THAT ALSO BENEFITS US IN TERMS OF A PARKS AND RECREATION PROJECT, OR IN TERMS OF A DRAINAGE PROJECT? SO THAT'S WHAT I'LL BE LOOKING FOR, UH, WHEN WE IN THIS PRESENTATION. I PROMISE, I I'VE SEEN THIS PRESENTATION. IT'S, IT'S IN THERE, . OKAY. SO, UH, IN TERMS OF EQUITY CRITERIA, I REALLY, AGAIN, I, I DON'T WANNA WAIT UNTIL THE TRANSPORTATION PLAN TO MAKE SOME LEVEL OF PROGRESS RIGHT ON, ON EQUITY. I UNDERSTAND IT'S GONNA BE MUCH BETTER WHEN WE GET OVER THERE, BUT COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ IS GONNA BE DONE AS A COUNCILWOMAN IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS. I, YOU KNOW, IF I'M LUCKY, I'LL BE BACK AGAIN FOR ANOTHER TERM. UH, BUT WE HELP US, HELP US MAKE OUR PROJECTS BETTER AND MORE IMPACTFUL FOR OUR, OUR PUBLIC IN THE, FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS. IN THE ABSENCE OF YOUR, OF YOUR TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, WE WILL BE GOING ON OUR MENTAL MODELS. AND ALTHOUGH WE HAVE SOME GREAT MENTAL MODELS, WE KNOW THAT YOUR TECHNICAL EXPERTISE CAN MAKE THOSE PROJECTS MUCH, MUCH BETTER. SO, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, I MEAN, CHAIR, I WOULD, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AN UPDATE ON THIS ITEM IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I DO KNOW THAT THE M P O IS GOING TO BE USING EQUITY CRITERIA IN THEIR SELECTION, UH, DURING THIS CALL FOR PROJECTS THAT WE'RE SUBMITTING THE ONES THAT WE DISCUSSED LAST TIME. UH, SO WE COULD, WE COULD LEARN FROM THEM, WE COULD WORK WITH THEM, UH, ON THAT. BUT ANYWAY, WOULD APPRECIATE AN, AN UPDATE ON THIS PROJECT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THANK YOU. UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, COUNCIL, UH, WOMAN SANDOVAL, AND I GUESS, WELL, LET ME TURN IT OVER TO COUNCIL WOMAN CAB MAYOR HDA, AND I'LL WRAP UP WITH SOME COMMENTS. GO, GO AHEAD, COUNCILWOMAN. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. UM, THIS MAY, UH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL ASKED ABOUT THE WHITE PAPER, AND MAYBE THIS INFORMATION IS IN THERE. UM, BUT MY QUESTION IS ABOUT THE, THAT WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY FOUND, SO WHAT IS THE GREATEST DISPARITY GAP THAT YOU FOUND IN THE SERVICE OF TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE FOR THE UNDERSERVED? AND THEN WHAT IS THE PRIORITY ACTION THAT YOU PLAN TO TAKE TO CLOSE THAT GAP? IS THAT IN THE WHITE PAPER? THE WORD DOCUMENT ESSENTIALLY OUTLINES THE ANALYSIS AND DATA AND RESEARCH WE FOUND ON PROJECT PRIORITIZATION FOR TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON HAS AN EQUITY IN DOLLARS DEPARTMENT, IF YOU WILL, AND THEY FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION DEVELOPED THIS TOOL OR EQUITY SCORECARD, WHICH SPEAKS TO SPECIFICALLY WHAT COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL JUST SPOKE ABOUT. [00:35:02] AND SO, I BELIEVE IT WAS JANUARY 12TH, UH, BIANCA THOR PROVIDED A PRESENTATION ON THE MICRO MOBILITY PLAN, AND SHE ACTUALLY DID REFERENCE THOSE EQUITY CRITERIA THAT T R B FEDERAL AT U S D O T UTILIZE. WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IS A MORE ROBUST LOOK AT EQUITY, EVEN BEYOND HAVING BEEN A MEMBER OF T R B FOR MANY YEARS. NOW, IT'S BEYOND THE SCOPE OF WHAT THE U S D O T DOES, AND THAT WHITE PAPER REALLY JUST TAKES WHAT WE SAW AS THE SCORECARD THAT THEY UTILIZE, AND WE JUST PROPOSED IT AS THE METHODOLOGY THAT WE WOULD APPLY TOWARDS OUR PLANNING PROCESS. AND THEN, SINCE WE MET A MONTH AGO, WE HAVE WORKED WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, AND WE TOOK THREE PROJECTS AND APPLIED THE CRITERIA AND THE CATEGORIES THAT WE SPOKE ABOUT BRIEFLY, NOT ALL OF THEM IN THAT SLIDE, BUT WE ACTUALLY TOOK THREE PROJECTS, AND THEY RANKED ALMOST THE SAME AS THE CRITERIA THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY USED FOR THE BOND PROGRAM. SO WE ARE NOT FAR OFF WITH WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING. ESSENTIALLY, WE ARE DOING A DEEPER DIVE THAN OUR PARTNERS AT OTHER CITIES AND TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES ARE DOING BY BEING MORE HOLISTIC AND LOOKING AT AIR QUALITY AND TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE NATO INFORMATION, WHICH QUITE HONESTLY, THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY AND FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION USUALLY ARE A LITTLE BEHIND LOCALITIES AND DEVELOPING THAT FORWARD THINKING ANALYSIS AND CRITERIA ABOUT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. IT'S JUST THE NATURE OF THE BEAST OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SO, IBEL, EARLIER THIS WEEK WE DISCUSSED, OR LAST WEEK WITH COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL, WE DISCUSSED THE UPDATE OF THE M U T C D, THE MANUAL OF UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MANY IN THE SPHERE OF THE PUBLIC REALM HAVE BEEN ASKING IS THAT THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION CONSIDER THE WORK OF NATO, CONSIDER THE WORK OF COMPLETE STREETS AND SMART GROWTH AMERICA. SO I BELIEVE THAT YOU ALL WILL BE VERY SATISFIED WITH WHAT WE COME UP WITH, AND I DO NOT WANT YOU TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS DISCUSSION THAT WE ARE NOT PRIORITIZING EQUITY, WE ARE JUST TRYING TO REALLY GET INTO A MORE GRANULAR LEVEL SO THAT WE CAN CHECK AND RECHECK AND REALLY SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE ARE IMPROVING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE MOST IN NEED. THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE DO, DOING A DEEPER DIVE. UM, SO YOU MENTIONED THE THREE, THE THREE TOP, I THINK YOU SAID THE THREE TOP ISSUES. WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE THOSE? WHAT, WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS THE GREATEST DISPARITY GAP THAT, THAT THEY FOUND IN THE WHITE PAPER AND THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE EXPANDING ON? SO I THINK WE, WE DEFINITELY, ROBERT, IF YOU CAN SEND THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE THE MEMO THAT WE SENT TO ROD TO OUTLINE WHAT OUR APPROACH WAS. SO THIS TOOLKIT, WHAT THEY DID AT UT ARLINGTON, UH, COUNCILWOMAN HDA, IS THAT THEY TOOK AN N P O PROJECT, A CITY PROJECT, AND AN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT, AND THEY APPLIED CATEGORIES AND SPECIFIC QUESTIONS FOR THE CRITERIA TO WEIGHT THESE PROJECTS, AND DETERMINED HOW THEY ACTUALLY BENEFITED THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT WERE UNDERSERVED AND MARGINALIZED. AND SO THIS TOOLKIT REALLY TOOK THESE CATEGORIES, ACCESSIBILITY, MOBILITY, SAFETY, AND EVACUATION, THE ONES THAT COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL MENTIONED EARLIER. SO WE ARE UTILIZING EVERYTHING THAT'S OUT HERE IN THE UNIVERSE, T R B, NOW WE'RE TAKING WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE USING THE SAME LANGUAGE. THE EQUITY CATEGORIES WON'T CHANGE, BUT THE STRATEGIES AND THE CRITERIA WILL BE DIFFERENT DEPENDING UPON THE DEPARTMENT WHO WE'RE WORKING WITH ON THE EQUITY FRONT. SO THE CRITERIA FOR P C I WOULD NOT APPLY TO A DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT, SERVICE OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES PROJECT THAT ONLY APPLIES TO TRANSPORTATION. AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE WANNA WORK TO IDENTIFY THE CRITERIA THAT BEST FIT EACH RESPECTIVE DEPARTMENT, IF THAT, I HOPE THAT HELPS YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE NOT, WE'RE CONTINUING TO [00:40:01] LOOK AT EQUITY IN OUR BOND PROGRAM, BUT WE ARE STARTING TO GO MORE ROBUST AND EQUITY WITH THIS PLAN, AND THAT'S OUR DESIRE TO DO THAT, TO SHOW HOW IT CAN BE APPLIED IN THE PLANNING PROCESS. OKAY. AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY WHAT I'M GETTING AT IS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT THOSE APPLICATIONS ARE OR WILL BE, UM, MAYBE THAT'LL BE IN THE MEMO. AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO READING THAT, BUT, UM, I'M SORT OF JUMPING AHEAD TO WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW, . SO, UM, I, I'LL LOOK FORWARD TO READING THAT MEMO. THANK YOU. THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, COUNCILMAN CAB HAVVER AT COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY? YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR, UH, PRESENTING THIS. THIS LOOKS VERY INTERESTING. I'M, I'M, UH, UH, INTERESTED TO SEE HOW THIS IS GONNA KIND OF SORT OUT OVER TIME, AND I KNOW THIS ISN'T GONNA BE DONE OVERNIGHT, BUT, UH, WANNA GET BACK TO THE P C I SCORES. YOU KNOW, WE, WE PUT IN A LOT OF TIME, EFFORT, AND MONEY INTO INVESTING IN P C I SCORES ACROSS THIS ENTIRE CITY ON, IN GRADING OUR, GRADING OUR ROADS, AND HELPING TO IDENTIFY WHICH ROADS REALLY NEEDED TO GO FIRST, YOU KNOW, AND CATEGORIZING 'EM FROM A TO B TO C TO D TO F UH, ROADS HERE ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY. UM, UH, IS YOUR PLAN TO, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU FO WHEN YOU FOCUS ALL OF THIS IN, UM, WILL THERE BE A WEIGHTED SCORE, LIKE TO ME, P C I SCORES SHOULD BE WEIGHTED THE, THE HIGHEST IN MAKING THAT DETERMINATION ACROSS THIS EQUITY LENS. SO, UM, JUST LIKE WE DID THIS, UM, YEAH, LAST YEAR, UM, AND THE YEAR BEFORE THAT IN OUR I M P PROGRAM. SO, UM, ARE, ARE YOU LOOKING AT THAT AT ALL IN THIS PROCESS? YES, SIR. THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. COUNCILMAN PERRY. WE ARE P C I WOULD BE ONE OF THE CRITERIA THAT WE WOULD BE EVALUATING THOSE PROJECTS BASED UPON. SO, AND, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE METHODOLOGIES THAT SEATED, THAT'S THE DEPARTMENT AT UT ARLINGTON UTILIZED WAS LOOKING AT WAITING. AND SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO DETERMINE IF IT'S BETTER TO WEIGH THEM OR DO THE PROJECTS JUST COME OUT WITH A RANKING THAT'S SUITABLE TO US WITHOUT THE ACTUAL WAITING. AND SO THERE'S SEVERAL METHODOLOGIES THAT YOU CAN APPLY. YOU CAN WEIGHT THEM, YOU CAN TOTAL ALL OF THE SCORES BASED ON WHATEVER CRITERIA YOU'RE UTILIZING. BUT A QUESTION RELATED TO SAFETY AND EVACUATION AS A CATEGORY OF EVALUATING EQUITY, A QUESTION YOU WOULD ASK FOR THE CRITERIA. AND THE CRITERIA ARE REALLY JUST QUESTIONS. HOW DOES THIS PROJECT IMPROVE THE P C I FOR A SPECIFIC CORRIDOR? OR DOES IT REDUCE THE P C I OF A SPECIFIC STREET? SO THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF DETAILS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE AND QUESTIONS YOU WOULD ASK RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS AND THE DECISIONS ABOUT WAITING. THAT'S, THOSE ARE THE CONVERSATIONS THAT STAFF NEED TO DETERMINE. DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO WAIT THEM, BECAUSE JUST DOING THE THREE PROJECTS THAT PUBLIC WORKS DID, IT TOOK SEVERAL DAYS FOR THEM TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THOSE CATEGORIES AND ANSWER EACH OF THE QUESTIONS AND THEN CORRELATE THEM TO THE ACTUAL EQUITY ATLAS IN THOSE POPULATIONS. SO THO THAT'S THE STAFF LEVEL WORK THAT WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT. IT'S A SPATIAL TOOL THAT WE CAN USE, BUT WE WILL HAVE TO PUT THOSE ALGORITHMS IN. SO IT'S NOT THE MANUAL PROCESS. THIS WAS JUST US ATTEMPTING TO DEMONSTRATE IT WITH THREE EXISTING PROJECTS. AND LIKE I SAID, I CAN'T RECALL THE PROJECTS OFFHAND, BUT EACH OF THEM CAME OUT PRETTY MUCH THE SAME WAY THAT THEY WERE PRIORITIZED WITH THIS MOST RECENT EQUITY PROCESS THAT WE'VE UTILIZED FOR THE BOTTOM PROGRAM TODAY. OKAY. UM, YEAH, I, I'M, YOU MADE A STATEMENT A WHILE AGO THAT I'M TRYING TO, UM, EVALUATE WITHIN MY HEAD, UH, THAT NOT ALL DEPARTMENTS WOULD USE A P C I SCORE. I MEAN, UH, WHETHER THEY'RE USING IT OR NOT, IT'S IS THE ROAD PASSABLE OR, OR NOT FOR ANY DEPARTMENT ON GETTING AROUND THE CITY? SO I, I, I COULDN'T SEE A, AN INSTANCE WHERE P C I SCORES WOULDN'T APPLY TO ANY PARTICULAR, UM, CITY STAFF OR AGENCY. SO, UM, YEAH, AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT SOME MORE HERE IN THE FUTURE, BUT, UM, I, I, AGAIN, [00:45:01] I SEE THAT WE, UH, ROD, HOW OFTEN DO WE DO THOSE, UH, UH, P C I SCORES THAT YEARLY OR EVERY TWO YEARS, OR HOW, HOW DO WE, BECAUSE THAT'S A CONTRACTED SERVICE, ISN'T IT? AND HOW MUCH DO WE SPEND ON THAT? IT IS, OH, THERE'S ZY. I'LL LET ROSSIE RESPOND. HI, COUNCILMAN, HOW ARE YOU? HEY, ZY. YEAH, WE DO YEARLY. IT COST US A AVERAGE MILLION DOLLAR, BUT YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OVER 4,000 MILES OFF THE STREET. THEY DON'T FINISH EVERY ROAD EVERY YEAR. IT HAPPENS TO BE EVERY ROAD HAPPENED TO BE SURVEYED, USUALLY EVERY OTHER ONCE EVERY THREE YEARS, BUT THEY'RE CONTINUOUSLY WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK AND PROVIDING US THE RAW DATA. AND OF COURSE, WE TAKE THAT ONE AND WE CREATE A P C I P C I, AS TOMIKA MENTIONED, IS GOING TO BE PART OF OUR SELECTION CRITERIA FOR 2022 BOND PROGRAM. AND YOU'RE RIGHT, COUNCILMAN, IF WE DON'T TAKE CARE OF THOSE STREET, THEY WILL BE FAR BEHIND AND WILL BE MUCH, MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE IN THE FUTURE FOR US TO BE REBUILD THEM, RIGHT? UH, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THAT. UH, I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M TRYING TO MAKE HERE IS THAT WE'RE ALREADY SPENDING A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR ON THESE, UM, SURVEYS OF OUR ROADS, 4,000 MILES OF ROADS. AND TO ME, THAT WOULD, WE SHOULD SPEND A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME LOOKING AT THAT, UH, AS PART OF THIS, THIS EQUITY LENS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE USING THAT DATA AND WE'RE USING IT PROPERLY ON A IDENTIFYING WHICH STREETS NEED TO BE UPGRADED AND, AND WORKED ON TO BE BROUGHT UP. YOU KNOW, WE'D LOVE TO HAVE ALL OF OUR STREETS AT THE A RATING, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT GONNA BE POSSIBLE EVER. UH, RIGHT NOW, I, WHAT IS OUR TOTAL AVERAGE RIGHT NOW, RAZZI? DO YOU KNOW OFFHAND? YEAH, I BELIEVE IT'S 76 OR 77 AVERAGE CITYWIDE, OF COURSE, SOME COUNCIL DISTRICT OVER 80, SOME IS LOW SEVENTIES, BUT AVERAGE IS 76 OR SO. YEAH, I THINK, I THINK DISTRICT 10 IS IN THE VERY LOW SEVENTIES YET, SO STILL LAGGING BEHIND THE REST OF THE CITY. BUT, UH, THE POINT I'M MAKING IS WE'RE SPENDING A MILLION BUCKS A YEAR ON THIS, THESE SURVEYS, AND I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE A HIGHER WEIGHTED PORTION ON THIS WHOLE EVALUATION PROCESS ON LOOKING AT, UH, THE EQUITY AND, UH, THESE OTHER CATEGORIES. SO THAT'S JUST MY COMMENTS ON THAT. BE HAPPY TO DISCUSS THAT MORE WITH YOU, MA'AM. AND, UH, UH, BUT YOU KNOW, WE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON THAT EVERY YEAR. THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MA'AM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN PERRY. UH, THANK YOU. UM, COUNCILMAN, UH, PERRY. SO TAMIKA, LEMME JUST BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE, UM, WE MAY HAVE MISSED THE MARK TODAY. I, I PERHAPS I HAD A DIFFERENT EXPECTATION WHEN I MADE THIS REQUEST THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS SOMETHING READY AND THAT WE COULD INPUT SOMETHING IN A CATEGORY AND SORT OF GET A SCORE LIKE WE'VE DONE, UH, FOR OTHER ISSUES. UM, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY RELATED TO, UM, THE SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT OR HOUSING LIKE WE'VE DONE. AND PERHAPS IT DOESN'T WORK AS WELL WITH TRANSPORTATION. SO LEMME JUST ASK YOU, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR OUR NEXT MEETING TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE, THE, UH, IN OUR LAST, UH, MEETING, WE APPROVED A SLATE OF PROJECTS, UH, TO GO TO THE FULL COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION, UM, TO, TO PUT IN THE NEXT BOND, WHICH MAYBE WE ALREADY APPROVED IT. THERE WERE SEVERAL THAT WERE LARGE COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL EARLIER IN THE MEETING, UM, MADE THE, UM, THE, UH, THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT, UH, MOST OF US, THAT EVERYONE ON THIS COMMITTEE APPROVED THE, UM, INVESTMENT OF CBRA. SO COULD YOU TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE, CULEBRA AND, AND START USING SOME OF THESE, THESE, UM, THESE DATA POINTS AND GIVE US A SCORE? UH, AND I MEAN, I KNOW THERE WERE OTHERS, THAT'S THE ONE OF COURSE THAT IS TOP OF MIND. UM, BUT CAN WE DO THAT SO WE CAN HAVE SOMETHING BEFORE, UH, WE GO TO A BOND PROJECT, EVEN IF IT'S PRELIMINARY OR IN DRAFT FORM? BECAUSE I'M, I'M NOT REALLY SATISFIED WITH WHAT IS BEING PRESENTED TODAY. I, I, I THINK I JUST ANTICIPATED SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND PERHAPS, UM, YOU KNOW, I RUSHED THE PROCESS. BUT CAN WE DO THAT IN TIME FOR OUR NEXT MEETING? HIGHLIGHT THE TOP FIVE OR SOMETHING, A PROJECT, A STREET TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS? YES. I THINK WE CAN TAKE THE CRITERIA. SO AS WE TOOK THE EXAMPLES FROM T R B, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ARLINGTON'S [00:50:01] TRANSPORTATION PRIORITIZATION TOOL, THERE'S A TERM THAT'S UTILIZED, THAT'S NOT A TERM THAT THE EQUITY COMMUNITY SUPPORTS. THE TERM IS COMMUNITIES OF CONCERN. AND SO WE COULD TAKE THAT TOOL AND WE COULD APPLY IT IN ATTEMPTING TO BE RESPONSIVE TO YOUR REQUESTS. WE TOOK THAT TOOL AND IN SHARING WITH OUR PARTNERS IN THE EQUITY OFFICE, THERE WERE CONCERNS ABOUT THE APPLICATION OF THAT TOOL. AND SO IT'S A LITTLE MORE NUANCED ON THE TRANSPORTATION SIDE BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY CATEGORIES THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT. AND ZI CAN HELP ME HERE. WE TOOK THREE OF THE PROJECTS THAT WERE IN THE CALL FOR PROJECTS, I BELIEVE, AND WE APPLIED THAT COMMUNITIES OF CONCERN MODEL, AND IT TOOK SEVERAL DAYS FOR HIS TEAM TO DO THAT. AND THAT WAS JUST THREE OF THE PROJECTS. AND WE HAVE 400 PLUS PROJECTS. SO I THINK BASED ON OUR ATTEMPT TO APPLY THAT CRITERIA, THAT ROBUST CRITERIA, WE CAME OUT VERY SIMILAR TO THE PRIORITIZATION THAT ROSIE'S TEAM ALREADY HAS FOR THE BOND. I THINK DOING, APPLYING THIS EQUITY SCORECARD TO THE PLANNING PROCESS BEGINS TO INITIATE A NEW PROCESS BY WHICH WE DO PLANS. AND SO I DON'T THINK THAT THAT NEGATIVELY IMPACTS OR DELAYS THE WORK THAT PUBLIC WORKS HAS ALREADY DONE IN PRIORITIZING THE PROJECTS. SO I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA LEAVE THIS MEETING BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE APPLIED EQUITY. WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO DO IS APPLY IT MORE ROBUSTLY AND START WITH THE PLANNING PROCESSES, BECAUSE I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE APPLIED EQUITY TO OUR PLANNING PRODUCTS. C COUNCILWOMAN, THIS IS REZI ON THURSDAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, WE HAVE A SPECIAL PRESENTATION. I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT 2022 BOND. WE HAVE NUMBER OF THIS WHAT IS GOING TO DISCUSS GUIDING PRINCIPLE, AND WE HAVE VERY DETAILED PROJECT SELECTION CRITERIA. WE WILL TELL YOU WHAT WE ARE PLANNING TO USE AND GET INPUT FROM YOU AND FINALIZE THAT ONE AND USE ON ALL OF OUR FUTURE PROJECT SELECTION. UM, OKAY. OKAY. I THINK THAT MAKES A LITTLE BIT MORE SENSE. UM, AND, AND PERHAPS I, I OVERCOMPLICATED IT EARLY ON BY REQUESTING THAT IT BE DONE IN THE PLANS. UM, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WHAT WE, WE KNOW THAT WE NEED PLANS, BUT WHAT WE ALSO WANT THOSE PLANS IS TO RESULT IN AN ACTIONABLE PRODUCT. UM, AND SO, UM, HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE THAT, SO RAZZIE, YOU HAVE THAT ALREADY, SO YOU CAN INCORPORATE THAT INTO YOUR PRESENTATION ON THURSDAY. BECAUSE I, I THINK YOU SAID THAT EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION, TAMIKA, THAT YOU HAD THEM AND THAT THEY WERE FAIRLY CONSISTENT. I GUESS I'M A LITTLE BIT SURPRISED. WELL, OKAY. WHAT, GET INTO THAT DISCUSSION WHEN WE SEE THE INFORMATION. ACTUALLY, THURSDAY PRESENTATION AT ONE O'CLOCK BY JOHN PATEK WILL BE SENDING YOU MY PRESENTATION PROBABLY TODAY, IF NOT TODAY, TOMORROW IN ADVANCE. SO MY TODAY PRESENTATION, THEN YOU WILL HAVE TIME TO REVIEW AND KIND OF, LET'S, LET'S DISCUSS, WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOME GOOD FEEDBACK FROM THE COUNCIL ON THURSDAY PRESENTATION. PRESENTATION. OKAY. OKAY. WELL HOPEFULLY THEN WE'LL GET A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARITY, UH, WHEN WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION PRESENTED, UM, TO US AS WELL. SO, LOOKS LIKE YOU'VE DONE THE TOP THREE, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THEN PERHAPS EACH COUNCIL MEMBER CAN SORT OF GO THROUGH THAT EXERCISE WITH OTHER PROJECTS AS WELL. SO I'LL, UM, I'LL JUST LEAVE IT THERE AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET MORE CLARITY NEXT WEEK. UH, MA'AM, CAN I, COUNCIL MEMBER? YES. THANK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I JUST WANT TO, MAYBE I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED HERE, BUT THE LIST THAT WE APPROVE UNANIMOUSLY FROM THIS COMMITTEE TO FORWARD TO COUNCIL WAS ONLY THOSE THAT WERE SUBMITTING TO THE M P O FOR CONJUNCTIVE FUNDING, UH, FOR THIS NEXT BOND. IS THAT CORRECT? RAZZY, AND THAT'S, AND THERE'S STILL, THERE'S STILL ANOTHER WHOLE LIST OUT THERE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR, UH, ONLY CITY FUNDING, CORRECT? CORRECT. TRANSPLANT, THAT'S THE PART OF OUR BOND. HOPEFULLY SMALLER BOND, OUR BOND PROBABLY WILL BE MUCH, MUCH BIGGER THAN THAT. THAT'S ALSO ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA THIS THURSDAY FOR APPROVAL. TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE APPROVED THAT FROM FEW WEEKS AGO, BUT FULL COUNCIL NEEDS TO APPROVE THIS THURSDAY. YEAH. OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WAS, I WAS, UH, UNDERSTANDING THIS CORRECTLY. OKAY. THANK YOU, RAZZIE. THANK YOU, MA'AM. UH, OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, COUNCILMAN PERRY. AND, UM, THAT WAS JUST A BRIEFING. [3. 21-2188 Briefing on the Transportation Department’s programs and priorities. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Tomika Monterville, Director, Transportation Department]] UH, SO WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM, UM, AND WHICH WILL ALSO BE HANDLED BY, UH, TAMIKA. IT IS A, UH, [00:55:01] A, UH, BRIEFING, UH, ON THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT'S PROGRAM AND PRIORITIES. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ROD OR TAMIKA. YEAH, THAT'S GONNA ME AGAIN. OKAY, GO AHEAD TAMIKA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CHAIR. WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU TODAY OUR OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE ARE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. WE, THIS IS MY SIXTH, SEVENTH WEEK HERE, AND I'M SPENDING A LOT OF TIME JUST TALKING TO A LOT OF CITY MEMBERS, UM, STAFF AND ALSO DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE'VE BEEN DOING THINGS, WHERE WE ARE, WHAT THEIR VISION IS FOR THE DEPARTMENT. AND THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU TODAY. NEXT SLIDE. SO TODAY I'M GONNA TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF OUR STARTUP PRIORITIES, THE FOCUS AREAS THAT I ENVISION TO CARRY OUT THE GOALS, WHICH WERE ESTABLISHED WHEN THIS BODY, THE COUNCIL, AND THE CITY'S LEADERSHIP DETERMINED THAT A DEPARTMENT WAS NEEDED. ALSO, A LITTLE DISCUSSION ABOUT FUNDING AND STAFFING AND PROGRAMMATIC NEEDS, UH, A STAFFING PROPOSAL, INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT, OUR BRANDING AND COMMUNICATION AND THE FUTURE VISION AND HOW WE GET THERE. NEXT SLIDE. SO RIGHT NOW I HAVE OUTLINED FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE KEY PRIORITIES IN ORDER TO STAND UP A NEW DEPARTMENT, A NEW FUNCTIONING AGENCY WITHIN THE CITY'S GOVERNMENT SYSTEM. AS YOU ALL ASCERTAIN, I'M STILL DOING MY STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, AND OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS ANALYSIS. AND I ENVISION THIS TO TAKE PLACE FOR SIX MONTHS AND EVEN INTO THE NEXT TWO YEARS, I WILL STILL BE LEARNING ABOUT OUR INTERNAL PROCESSES, BUT WHAT'S REALLY CRITICAL IS THAT I WILL BE COORDINATING WITH YOUR OFFICES, YOUR RESPECTIVE TEAMS, AND THE CITY MEMBERS OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE CITY THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS. BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN ORDER TO STAND UP THIS DEPARTMENT, IT'S GONNA HAVE TO BE AN ITERATIVE PROCESS, AND IT'S GONNA INVOLVE A LOT OF WORK ON ALL OF OUR PARTS. ONE OF THE KEY AREAS IS PROJECT DELIVERY AND OVERSIGHT. WHAT WE ENVISION FOR THIS DEPARTMENT IS TO DELIVER PROJECTS AND TO ALSO PERFORM OVERSIGHT OF THOSE THIRD PARTIES WHO MAY BE PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. THIS NEXT SIX MONTHS IS GOING TO BE CRITICAL AND ESSENTIAL FOR DETERMINING WHAT OUR STAFFING NEEDS ARE, WHAT OUR C CURRENT STRENGTHS ARE, AND THAT WILL INFORM WHAT OUR FUNDING ASKS ARE FOR THIS NEXT FISCAL YEAR. AND THAT WILL ENABLE US TO DEVELOP WHAT OUR PROGRAM OF PROJECTS ARE AND WHAT OUR ASK ARE OF THE N P O AND PARTNERSHIPS, SIMILAR TO HOW WE DEVELOP THE M P O CALL FOR PROJECTS. WE'LL BE LOOKING TO THE M P O AND TO COORDINATE REGIONALLY FOR A LOT OF THE NEEDS THAT WE WILL HAVE. NEXT SLIDE. SO AS I LOOK AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, T C I, THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING DIVISION, AND WHERE WE WANT TO GO AS A DEPARTMENT, I IDENTIFIED FIVE BOXES OF WORK. SO WE WON'T BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE IN DEPTH TODAY, BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE A DEPARTMENT FOR SERVICE DELIVERY. WE WILL EITHER, BY VIRTUE OF OUR THIRD PARTY CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS AND RELATIONSHIPS, BE PROVIDING SERVICES. SO THAT MEANS TRANSIT SERVICE PROVIDED BY VIA, WE ARE IN THE SERVICE DELIVERY BUSINESS WITH TRANSIT, WITH BICYCLES, WITH FOUR HIRE VEHICLES, RIDE SHARING SERVICES, PARKING INFORMATION. THESE ARE THINGS THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION, THEY HAVE THESE FUNCTIONS. THEY MAY NOT BE DIRECTLY PROVIDING THESE SERVICES, BUT THEY PERFORM A ROLE OF OVERSIGHT. AND THAT'S WHERE I GO TO THE FOCUS AREA OF SAFETY, COMPLIANCE, OVERSIGHT AND PROCUREMENT. CURRENTLY, THE A D A AND COMPLIANCE IS WITHIN OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE COMPLIANCE PIECE OF A D A, YOU LEARN THAT THERE HAS TO BE A SERVICE DELIVERY COMPONENT THERE. THIS TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO BE THAT PLACE WHERE A RESIDENT, A VISITOR, CAN CONTACT THE CITY AND SAY, HEY, I HAVE A CONCERN. I BELIEVE MY DISABILITY RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED. WHAT'S THE DEPARTMENT THAT MANAGES THE ADMINISTRATION OF THAT? AND THEN ULTIMATELY, OF COURSE, IT MAY POTENTIALLY BECOME A LEGAL ISSUE, BUT THIS DEPARTMENT HAS TO PERFORM OVERSIGHT OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO THE CITY [01:00:01] IS PAYING TO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES AND OR ALLOWING BY VIRTUE OF OUR THIRD PARTY AGREEMENTS, THOSE SERVICES TO OPERATE IN THE CITY'S RIGHTS OF WAY. SO FOR EXAMPLE, WITH BIKE SHARING, THE SAN ANTONIO, THIS BIKE PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE OVERSIGHT. IF SOMEONE WERE TO BE INJURED ON ANY TYPE OF MOBILITY DEVICE IN THE CITY, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT. BUT HOW STRONG ARE WE IN OUR MANAGEMENT OF THOSE THIRD PARTY CONTRACTS TO ENSURE THAT THAT CONTRACT INCLUDES EQUITY, INCLUDES THE LOCATION, AND HAS THE TEETH NECESSARY TO ENSURE ENFORCEMENT OF OUR REGULATORY RULES AND REQUIREMENTS AND POLICIES. SO THAT'S WHERE THE SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE AND OVERSIGHT COMES IN, IN THE RELATIONSHIP TO OUR PROCUREMENT PROGRAMMING. THE OTHER FOCUS AREA IS STRATEGIC AND CORRIDOR PLANNING. IN ORDER TO PARTNER WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WITH HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES AND WITH SUSTAINABILITY, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT OUR CORRIDORS FROM A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE AND COORDINATE AND CREATE THE PLANS THAT WILL GUIDE THE INVESTMENT THAT PUBLIC WORKS MAKES IN THE BOND PROGRAM IN THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION. BUT WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS WE NEED PLANS. PLANS THAT GUIDE THE WORK THAT WE DO, TRANSIT ORIENTED AND TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE PLANS THAT ARE BASED IN GROUNDED IN COMPLEMENTARY SUPPORT AND ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR SUB AREA PLANS AND SA TOMORROW. THESE PLANS NEED TO ALSO HAVE AN IMPLEMENTATION COMPONENT. ONCE WE COMPLETE THESE PLANS, WHETHER IT'S IN COORDINATION WITH REGIONAL ACTIVITY CENTER PLANS AND SMALL AREA PLANS, THEN THEY BECOME PROJECTS THAT WE DELIVER. WE MAY BE DELIVERING SOME PROJECTS, OR WE MAY BE PARTNERING AND PASSING IT ON TO PUBLIC WORKS, AND THAT'S WHERE THE PROJECT DELIVERY BOX COMES IN. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE PROJECT DELIVERY INVOLVES MANY PARTNERS, AS YOU ALL KNOW, AMPO VIA THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. AND IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE COMPETITIVE AT THAT LEVEL, WE NEED STAFF WHO ARE ENGAGED IN COORDINATING WITH THE DELIVERY OF THOSE PROJECTS. AND HOW DO WE GET THOSE PROJECTS DELIVERED? GRANTS, GRANTS, GRANTS. IN ORDER FOR US TO BE COMPETITIVE AS A CITY FOR FEDERAL DOLLARS, WE HAVE TO SHOW COORDINATION AND WE HAVE TO HAVE A TEAM THAT'S ABLE TO DEVELOP THOSE GRANTS WITH THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATIONAL, LOCAL, AND STATE PRIORITIES AS IT RELATES TO MOBILITY OPTIONS. SO THESE ARE THE FIVE FOCUS AREAS WHICH MAY CHANGE. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, PARKING, DEMAND MANAGEMENT, MANY OF THESE THINGS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED HERE DON'T CURRENTLY EXIST IN THIS DEPARTMENT. BUT WHEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO YOU ALL HAD THE VISION OF CREATING A MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, THIS IS ESSENTIALLY WHERE WE WANNA GET TO NEXT SLIDE. SO AS WE PONDER ALL OF THOSE FOCUS AREAS, I THINK THE MOST CRITICAL COMPONENT OF THAT TODAY IS FUNDING AND STAFFING. NEXT SLIDE. THERE ARE MANY FEDERAL RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO US, BUT IT REQUIRES A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF COORDINATION WITH VIA TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR FEDERAL ASKS ARE AND WHERE WE CAN ELIMINATE THE APPEARANCE OF DUPLICITY BY APPLYING FOR THE SAME GRANTS OR COMPETING WITH THEM FOR CERTAIN GRANTS, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEVERAGE MANY OF THE DISCRETIONARY GRANTS THAT VIA COMPETES FOR AND TO DO SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS. MANY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THAT ENHANCED MOBILITY FOR SENIORS AND INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES, WHICH IS A PART OF THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION'S 53 10 PROGRAM, WE CAN ALSO INCLUDE AND PERFORM TRAFFIC SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS IF WE ARE IMPROVING THE EXPERIENCE FOR THOSE SENIORS AND INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES. THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE WANNA PARTNER WITH VIA ON AND IDENTIFY WAYS TO LEVERAGE OUR BOND PROGRAM WITH PROGRAMS SUCH AS THIS NEXT SLIDE. WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FORMULA FUNDS. WE JUST RECENTLY SUBMITTED TO THIS BODY OUR PROPOSED LIST OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE WANT TO PROPOSE FOR THE REGION TO SUPPORT. THESE ARE PASSED THROUGH DOLLARS FROM THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION. THERE ARE MANY SOURCES OF FUNDING THAT WE COMPETE FOR BASED ON OUR FORMULA, AND THAT FORMULA SIGNIFICANTLY INCLUDES THE NUMBER OF LOW INCOME AND MINORITY INDIVIDUALS WHO WE SUPPORT AND SERVE. WITH THESE PROJECTS. WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE [01:05:01] OUR PLANNING FUNDING WITH CMAC PROJECTS AND ALSO OUR TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES PROGRAMS AS WELL. COORDINATING IN THIS AREA IS GOING TO HELP US TREMENDOUSLY TO FUND MANY OF THE PLANS AND ALSO THE PROJECTS THAT WE WANT TO COMPLETE WITH THIS DEPARTMENT. NEXT SLIDE. PROGRAMMATIC NEEDS. THIS DEPARTMENT AS A DIVISION WITHIN PUBLIC WORKS HAS NOT BEEN FUNDED TO THE LEVEL NECESSARY TO REALLY CARRY OUT MANY OF THE TRANSPORTATION PLANS AND BRING THEM TO FRUITION IN A COMPREHENSIVE MANNER. SO IN ORDER TO DO THAT, THE DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO NEED THE SUPPORT OF STAFF, BUT ALSO CONSULTANT MANAGEMENT AND ON-CALL CONSULTANT SUPPORT BECAUSE AS IT STANDS TODAY, WE DO NOT HAVE THE TECHNICAL CAPACITY TO DELIVER MANY OF THOSE ITEMS THAT WERE REQUESTED IN THE C C R IN THE FALL, THE SUMMER, THE FALL OF 2019. SO IN RESPONSE TO THAT, SOME OF THE THINGS I WANNA UPDATE THIS BODY ON IS THE TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING TO UPDATE THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY, AND IN CONSULTATION WITH OUR PARTNERS IN PLANNING AND SUSTAINABILITY, WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THE ASPECTS OF COMPLETE STREETS AND WITH PUBLIC WORKS TO IDENTIFY WHERE WE CAN IMPLEMENT MANY OF THE INITIATIVES THAT WERE REQUESTED BY THIS BODY OVER A YEAR AGO, ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO. SO WITH THAT IN MIND, IT LEADS US TO THE STAFFING. SO AS WE UPDATE PLANS AND AS A DIVISION, WHAT THE STAFF HAVE BEEN DOING, THE NINE STAFF THAT WE HAVE, THEY HAVE BEEN SLOWLY, INCREMENTALLY DEVELOPING PORTIONS OF THESE PLANS WITH VERY SMALL BUDGETS. SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CONTEXT OF THE THE SA BIKES AND THE BIKE SHARE PROGRAM, OVER A DECADE, WE'VE SPENT ABOUT $7 MILLION. REALISTICALLY, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT A BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM, IT CAN TAKE SEVERAL MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO DEVELOP THAT PLAN AND THAT INFRASTRUCTURE. RIGHT NOW, WE CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT. WE DO NOT HAVE AN ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. AND WE HAVE THREE MAJOR VACANCIES, WHICH MAKE IT QUITE CHALLENGING TO MANAGE STAFF AND BE RESPONSIVE TO THE CUSTOMERS WHO ARE THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. SO OUR GOAL IS TO BUILD THE TEAM, BUT FIRST, WE MUST FILL THESE VACANCIES THAT CURRENTLY EXIST IN ORDER TO DELIVER AND MAINTAIN MOMENTUM FOR THE PROJECTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING MANAGED BY THE TEAM. THIS IS GOING TO TAKE SIGNIFICANT COSTS, AND THIS IS ALSO GOING TO TAKE SIGNIFICANT MANPOWER TO DELIVER JUST BASED ON THE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS WE HAVE TODAY. NEXT SLIDE. ENGAGEMENT, ENGAGEMENT, ENGAGEMENT. IN ORDER FOR US TO BE SUCCESSFUL, IT'S GOING TO BE A SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP BUILDING PROCESS AND ALSO EDUCATING PEOPLE ON WHAT OUR ROLE IS AND WHAT WE'RE HERE TO DO. NEXT SLIDE. SO WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PARTNERS IN DELIVERING TRANSPORTATION, NOT ON THIS LIST, BUT CRITICALLY IMPORTANT ARE UNIVERSITIES AND OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN OUR SCHOOLS, BECAUSE AS WE KNOW, MANY OF THE STUDENTS WHO UTILIZE TRANSPORTATION ARE GOING TO BE OUR BIGGEST VOICES FOR CHANGE AND IMPROVEMENT TO THE WAY WE DELIVER OUR SERVICES AND COORDINATE PLANNING FOR LIMITED TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS. NEXT SLIDE. BRANDING AND COMMUNICATION. WE HAVE BEEN PUBLIC WORKS, WE'VE BEEN TRANSPORTATION AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. PUBLIC WORKS AGAIN, AND NOW A DIVISION. IT'S GOING TO BE CRITICAL FOR THE DEPARTMENT TO HAVE A BRAND AND HAVE STAFF WHO CAN DELIVER THAT BRAND BECAUSE PART OF THE MESSAGING FOR THE DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO BE LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE ARE AN INDEPENDENT DEPARTMENT WITHIN THE CITY'S GOVERNMENT AND IN ORDER TO DELIVER THE PROGRAMS THAT EVERYONE, THE, THE CITY MADE A SIGNIFICANT VOTE WHEN MID MANY CITIES WERE NOT VOTING FOR TRANSPORTATION. AND THAT WAS A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR SAN ANTONIANS. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE NEED TO PROVIDE THE STAFF AND THE FUNDING TO REALLY SEE THIS DEPARTMENT GROW. WE'RE NOT PUBLIC WORKS. WE'RE A PARTNER TO PUBLIC WORKS. [01:10:01] WE'RE NOT T C I, WE ARE THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. BUT IF WE CONTINUE, AND THIS IS WHERE I THINK IT'S GONNA BE CHALLENGING FOR RESIDENTS, IF WE HAVE STAFF WITHIN THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT GOING OUT WITHOUT THE BRANDING, WITHOUT THE REQUISITE SUPPORT, THEN PEOPLE ARE GONNA SAY, OH, THAT'S JUST PUBLIC WORKS. BUT REALLY WE HAVE TO BE DISTINCT. WE HAVE TO BE DELIBERATE ABOUT INVESTING IN THIS DEPARTMENT IN ORDER TO ASSURE ITS SUCCESS. ITS SUCCESS IN COMMUNICATING WITH OUR FUTURE PARTNERS. AND ALSO ONE OF THE AREAS WHERE WE REALLY WANNA WORK WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS IS SAYING, HEY, THIS FUNCTION IS WITHIN THIS DEPARTMENT. DOES IT MAKE SENSE FOR IT TO CONTINUE TO BE THERE? AND THAT'S A PART OF THAT ONE TO THREE YEAR PLAN WHERE WE FIGURE OUT WHAT DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS SHOULD BE WITHIN TRANSPORTATION, WHAT STAFFING WE NEED TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF THOSE FUNCTIONS. AND THEN WHAT WE REQUEST ANNUALLY IN THE BUDGETING PROCESS IS GOING TO BE INFORMED BY THE VISION THAT'S DEVELOPED IN SUPPORT OF THE GOALS OF THE COUNCIL AND THE CITY'S EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP. NEXT SLIDE. WHAT'S THE FUTURE VISION? THIS DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO SUPPORT THAT GREEN TRANSPORTATION PYRAMID, WHICH I BELIEVE IS THE VISION THAT THIS DEPARTMENT AND THE COUNCIL WANTS FOR THE FUTURE OF SAN ANTONIANS. ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES THAT CITIES HAVE IN COMPETING FOR FEDERAL FUNDS AND FEDERAL PROJECTS IS THAT WE'RE NOT READY. WE DON'T HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE. WE WANT THE PROJECTS, WE WANT THE PILOTS, WE WANT THE AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY. BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE THE PLANS AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE CAN'T SUPPORT THAT, THEN WE WILL CONTINUE TO BE LEFT BEHIND. WHEN DISCUSSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY ARE HAD IN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES FOR AUTONOMOUS PILOT TECHNOLOGY OCCUR, THIS IS NOT WHAT WE WANT FOR THIS DIVISION, THIS DEPARTMENT, THIS VISION IS ALL INCLUSIVE. WE TALKED ABOUT EQUITY EARLIER, AND REALLY THESE THINGS ARE SO INTEGRAL TO ENSURING EQUITY AND MAKING SURE THAT EQUITY IS A PART OF OUR PROJECT DELIVERY PROCESS IS GOING TO BE THE HALLMARK OF THIS DEPARTMENT. BECAUSE FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF YOU DON'T TEACH COMPANIES HOW TO TREAT YOUR RESIDENTS, THEY WILL NOT CONSIDER THEIR NEEDS IN DELIVERING THOSE PROJECTS. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO SHOW SAN ANTONIANS, THAT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT ANY INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE IMPLEMENT IS NOT SIMPLY GOING TO BE RELEGATED TO THE DOWNTOWN TOURIST AREAS, BUT ARE GOING TO SERVE ALL OF YOUR COUNCIL DISTRICTS EQUITABLY SO THAT EVERYONE GETS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE A PART OF THE FUTURE VISION OF MOBILITY IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. NEXT SLIDE. AND WITH THAT, I WILL OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL MAY HAVE. UH, GREAT. THANK YOU, UH, TAMIKA FOR THE PRESENTATION. AND SO LET ME JUST START WITH A, A A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS HERE. WHAT, UM, WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT GRANT, UM, DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH, UH OH, SO IT'S PROBABLY NOT, I DON'T KNOW IF TAMIKA IF YOU KNOW THIS ANSWER, BUT PERHAPS YOU DO. HOW, HOW MUCH FUNDING COMES FROM OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS CURRENTLY? I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S IN THE MANY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS, BUT DO WE KNOW, UM, BROAD OR, OR ROSIE WHEN IT COMES TO HIGHWAYS OR, UM, OTHER, I, I COUNCILMAN, I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE THE DOLLAR FIGURE, BUT WE GET GOOD AMOUNT. WE DO EVERY YEAR, NUMBER OF THE M P O FUNDED PROJECT, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PROJECT IN YOUR DISTRICT FOR ZZA OVERPASS, I BELIEVE WE ARE GETTING 19 MILLION IN 2024. WE GET GOOD AMOUNT, AND AS I MENTIONED THURSDAY, WE ARE GOING TO SUBMIT ALMOST SLIGHTLY LESS THAN 200 MILLION FOR M P O. DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE GOING TO SELECT ALL OF IT, BUT HOPEFULLY WE GET GOOD AMOUNT APPROVAL. YEAH, I I, I, I THINK I'D BE CURIOUS TO KNOW, JUST, UM, I KNOW THAT WHEN WE WERE, IN FACT, MANY TIMES WHEN I TALK ABOUT THIS SOMEWHAT AT BRIDGE PROJECT, BECAUSE I AM SO PROUD OF IT, UH, I TALK ABOUT IT BEING A $30 MILLION INVESTMENT, UM, AND IT'S 19 MILLION FROM THE M P O AND ANOTHER 10 MILLION FROM, FROM, UH, THE BOND. AND THEN EARLY ON WE HAD ABOUT 2 MILLION, UH, IN, UM, I M P MONEY. AND SO I, I, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE THE TAXPAYER, OR RATHER THE CITIZEN DOESN'T NECESSARILY KNOW WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM. THEY JUST KNOW THAT THEY GOT A HUGE INVESTMENT IN THEIR COMMUNITY. SO, UM, I, I DO THINK IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT [01:15:01] TO GET THAT INFORMATION, UH, FOR A FUTURE PRESENTATION. HOW MUCH DOES COME FROM ALL THE DIFFERENT SOURCES, BECAUSE YOU LIST THAT AS, AS ONE OF THE MAJOR KEY POINTS, UM, TAMIKA IN YOUR PRESENTATION IS THAT YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S GRANT FUNDING AND WE KNOW THAT, UM, PERHAPS, UH, AND I DON'T KNOW IF MAYBE WE CAN GET THIS IN, IN, UM, IN ONE OF OUR, UH, UM, GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, UM, COMMITTEES. I DON'T WHO'S ON THE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, PERHAPS YOU COUNCILMAN PERRY, OR, UM, HOW MUCH, I THINK THERE'S A POTENTIALLY VERY LARGE STIMULUS COMING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION. AND SO, UM, AND INFRASTRUCTURE. SO IT WOULD BE CURIOUS TO, UH, AND I, WE KNOW THAT SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE FUNDED IF THEY'RE SHOVEL READY. SO, UM, PERHAPS WE CAN KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE'RE, AS WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS HERE ON SOME OF THESE. UM, COUNSEL, I'LL JUST TELL YOU, JEFF COYLE IS ON, ON TOP OF THAT RIGHT NOW. SO HE'S, HE'S LOOKING AT THAT. AND UM, THERE'D PROBABLY A PRESENTATION COMING UP TO THAT COMMITTEE SHORTLY. UH, YEAH, I THOUGHT I SAW $326 MILLION COMING TO THE CITY FOR A VARIETY OF THINGS. NOT JUST TRANSPORTATION, BUT RIGHT. SO THAT WOULD BE A INCREDIBLE, UM, UH, SUPPORT. SO, UM, AND THEN I GUESS, UH, ONE QUESTION I HAVE FOR YOU, TAMIKA, AND IT, IT'S NOT LISTED HERE UNDER YOUR, THE PRESENTATION ON, UM, FUTURE VISION, BUT YOU KNOW, AND, AND WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT IN, IN OUR PRE-MEETING ABOUT ENFORCEMENT, UM, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE DO GET PEOPLE TO COMPLY WITH THINGS LIKE SPEED LIMITS, UM, AND SCHOOL ZONES AND THINGS LIKE THAT ARE, ARE, IS POLICE ENFORCEMENT. AND THERE'S A BIG DISCUSSION GOING ON IN OUR COMMUNITY ABOUT THE NECESSITY FOR POLICE ENFORCEMENT FROM SOMETHING THAT COULD BE TAKEN CARE OF, PERHAPS THROUGH AUTOMATION OR TECHNOLOGY OR, UM, OR SOMETHING ELSE. UM, YOU KNOW, DO WE REALLY NEED, UM, UNIFORMED POLICE OFFICERS TO DO THE ENFORCEMENT PIECE, UM, AND, AND PERHAPS GET REDIRECTED SOMEWHERE ELSE? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN PRESENT ON, OR IS THAT OFF THE TABLE BECAUSE OF OUR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT? I, YOU KNOW, COUNCILWOMAN, I, WE CAN CERTAINLY, UH, HAVE THAT DISCUSSION. ENFORCEMENT, I DON'T THINK IS NECESSARILY PART OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. I MEAN, THAT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE A TRAFFIC DIVISION IN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. UM, I THINK TAMIKA AND I WERE TALKING TO YOU ABOUT WHERE IT'S LIKE TARGETED ENFORCEMENT FOR CERTAIN AREAS WHERE WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PROBLEMS. UH, SO WE CAN CERTAINLY HAVE A DISCUSSION LIKE THAT HERE AT THIS COMMITTEE IF, IF THAT'S A DESIRE. UM, I, WELL, I, I, I THINK IT'S PART OF A LARGER CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE FUND, YOU KNOW, HOW WE REALLY USE OUR BUDGET. BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO LIKE DRAG RACING, YOU PROBABLY WANT INFORMED OFFICERS, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO JUST REGULAR TRAFFIC STOPS, WE KNOW THAT THOSE ARE VERY, UM, DANGEROUS FOR, UM, THE POLICE OFFICERS AND FOR THE PEOPLE, UM, THAT ARE GETTING CITED. SO I, I DON'T KNOW. I, I FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT A DIFFERENT WAY TO DO THE ENFORCEMENT SIDE OF, OF TRANSPORTATION. UM, SO, UH, AND I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I, I HAVE THAT, UH, CONCERN. AND THEN THE REST, I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, I I, I, I THINK I MAY NOT BE HERE FOR THE NEXT, UM, UH, I THINK I MAY, I THINK I WILL NOT BE HERE FOR THE NEXT BUDGET, BUT I, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, UH, I KNOW TAMIKA, YOU'RE TRYING TO WORK ON A BUDGET FOR ALL THIS STUFF, AND IT LOOKS LIKE, JUST LIKE IN OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, UH, OR I THINK IT'S HUMAN RESOURCES, OVER HALF OF THEIR BUDGET IS GRANT FUNDED. SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE END UP LOOKING SOMETHING LIKE THAT HERE TOO, UH, BECAUSE OF, UH, YOU MENTIONED THAT, UH, IN THE, IN THE, UM, PRESENTATION. UH, BUT I JUST, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, GREAT INFORMATION HERE. AND SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO, TO FULLY FUNDING, YOU KNOW, YOUR, UM, YOUR DEPARTMENT, UH, BECAUSE, UH, IT IS, IT CURRENTLY WE KNOW THE PUBLIC THAT THE R I M P IS $110 MILLION A YEAR. UH, AND SO WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, PART OF THAT IS JUST REPAVING STREETS AND ADDRESSING, UH, P C I SCORES, BUT YOU KNOW, IT GOES TO ALSO STREET WIDENING AND A BUNCH OF OTHER THINGS AS WELL. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO HOW THAT BREAKS DOWN FOR YOU, UM, IN, IN THE POSITION. AND SO, UM, I SEE HERE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU'VE GOT A, A POTENTIAL, UH, PIE CHART OR A ORG CHART. UH, AND SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY GREAT. I, I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING A VERY ROBUST TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. AND SO I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO HAVE QUESTIONS STARTING WITH COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL. [01:20:10] CAN'T HEAR YOU. COUNCILWOMAN, I THINK YOU'RE MUTED. I STILL CAN'T HEAR YOU. YEAH, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, LET'S, LET'S, LET'S GO TO COUNCILWOMAN CABELL HDA AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU. COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. UM, MIKA, WHAT, WHAT DOES THE TANGIBLE OUTPUT LOOK LIKE IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT THAT DEMONSTRATES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN, UM, YOU MENTIONED VIA AND, UH, N P O ALL ASSOCIATED WITH CONNECT SA, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE PRODUCING? SO REALLY IT'S MORE OF A FUNCTION OF HOW ARE WE COORDINATING THE PRODUCTION ENDS UP COMING THROUGH IN THE DELIVERY OF THE SERVICES. SO FOR EXAMPLE, WE DO GET A LOT OF GRANT FUNDS. WE, WE ARE VERY COMPETITIVE AT THE MPO M P O LEVEL, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, MOST OF OUR PROJECTS ARE HIGHWAY PROJECTS. WHEN WE REVIEW THE TA AND CMEC PROJECTS, THERE AREN'T A LOT OF SIGNIFICANT ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MULTIMODAL AND WE TALK ABOUT INCREASING VIA SERVICE DELIVERY, WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF CAPITAL PROJECTS RELATED TO THE ADVANCED RAPID TRANSIT AND THE PRIMO CORRIDORS AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS THAT REALLY MOVE THE NEEDLE ON MULTIMODAL. BECAUSE IF WE ARE DEVELOPING, WE HAVE A BIKE MASTER PLAN THAT WAS COMPLETED 10 YEARS AGO, AND REALLY IN ESSENCE WHAT THAT WAS WAS A NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF THE BIKE NEEDS FOR THE CITY. AND SO TODAY, IN ORDER TO MOVE THE NEEDLE MORE COMPREHENSIVELY IN CONCERT WITH CONNECT SA AND SA TOMORROW, IT REALLY REQUIRES US TO DEVELOP A ROBUST BIKE MASTER PLAN THAT INCLUDES AN IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY. SO SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU ALL HAVE SEEN WITH VIAS PRIORITY CORRIDORS AND THE ART PROGRAM, WE NEED TO DO THE SAME FOR MICRO MOBILITY AS EVERYONE IS CALLING IT. SO WE HAVE OUR BIKE MASTER PLAN, WE HAVE OUR BIKE I M P, WHICH IS A LITTLE LESS THAN A MILLION DOLLARS. SO WE WANT A ROBUST BICYCLE NETWORK, A SAFE NETWORK, BUT IF WE'RE ONLY CONTRIBUTING APPROXIMATELY A MILLION DOLLARS TO ACTUALLY DEVELOPING THAT PLAN, AND THAT REALLY IS ABOUT HALF A MILLION AND WE'RE ONLY DOING PIECES OF IT EVERY YEAR TO THE TUNE OF, YOU KNOW, LESS THAN A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, WE NEVER REALLY DEVELOP A NETWORK, A CONNECTED NETWORK OF BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE CITY. AND SO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE M P O AND VIA AND THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT IS SAYING, HEY V'S NORTH SOUTH CORRIDOR IS THE PRIORITY. ALL OF THE PLANS THAT WE DEVELOP IN THIS NEXT FISCAL YEAR OR NEXT FIVE YEAR CAPITAL PROGRAM PERIOD WILL BE FOCUSED ON THAT NORTH SOUTH CORRIDOR. ALL OF THE INVESTMENT IN THE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM FOR THE CITY WILL BE FOCUSED ON MOVING THAT CORRIDOR TO GETTING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION SO THAT THEY CAN INCORPORATE HIGH CAPACITY, HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSIT SERVICE. BUT WHAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW IS WE'RE TAKING PIECES OF THE BOND PROGRAM AND COMPLETING PORTIONS. WE MIGHT COMPLETE A A, A QUARTER OF A MILE OF A BIKE LANE AND WE'VE, WE'VE COMPLETED THAT BOND PROJECT, BUT WE STILL DON'T HAVE THAT CITYWIDE SYSTEM OF CONNECTIVITY. AND SO THAT'S THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ALL OF THEM. AND THEN THE FUNDING PIECE IS SAYING TO THE SAYING TO AMPO, THIS IS OUR PRIORITY FOR THE CORRIDOR NORTH AND SOUTH FOR VIA, WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS FOR THIS NEXT TWO YEAR PERIOD ON IMPROVING ALL OF THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE ON THIS CORRIDOR BECAUSE THAT LEVERAGES MORE OF THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT THAT VIA IS MAKING. THAT GIVES THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLETE THAT FIRST RAPID CORRIDOR THAT GIVES PEOPLE WHO CONNECT TO THAT CORRIDOR VIA BIKE A SAFE ROUTE TO GET THERE. [01:25:01] AND IT TAKES US AWAY FROM DOING A SEVENTH OF A MILE ON ONE PART OF THE CITY THAT REALLY DOESN'T CONNECT TO A TRAIL OR DOESN'T CONNECT, BUT BECAUSE WE WERE DOING A ROADWAY IMPROVEMENT, WE COMPLETED THAT. BUT DO WE ASK FOR AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS TO GET OFF OF A ROAD AND DETOUR FOR A TRIP TO, FROM ONE ACTIVITY CENTER TO ANOTHER? THAT WOULD BE BLASPHEMOUS FOR SOMEONE IN A CAR TO BE FORCED TO DO THAT. BUT WE DO THAT TO BICYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS ALL THE TIME WITH THE SYSTEM OF, OF CONSTRUCTION AND THE PLANNING THAT WE DON'T DO AS COMPREHENSIVELY AS WE CAN. AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO AVOID. AND THAT'S WHY LOOKING AT IT COMPREHENSIVELY TO CREATE THIS NETWORK IS GONNA BE PARAMOUNT. BUT QUITE HONESTLY, A COMPREHENSIVE BIKE PLAN COSTS YOU SEVERAL MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE NOT DONE IF WE'VE INVESTED OVER 10 YEARS, $7 MILLION INTO THE BIKE SHARE PROGRAM AND THE ACTUAL CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE OVER 10 YEARS, BUT WE WANNA HAVE THIS ROBUST SYSTEM, IT'S GOING TO COST AND WE HAVE TO CALL OUT FUNDS WITHIN THAT BOND PROGRAM TO FUND THAT TOO. OKAY. I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE KEY TAKEAWAY, YOU SAID IT RIGHT AWAY WAS, UM, THE RE THE RESULT OF THE DEPARTMENT'S FOCUS ON BUILDING RELATIONSHIP WITH PARTNERS IS COORDINATION. UM, AND I HEAR THAT, UH, LOUD AND CLEAR WHEN IT COMES TO FUNDING. DOES THAT ALSO INCLUDE LIKE DESIGN, YOU KNOW, I THINK WHAT YOU WERE SAYING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HAVING A, A STRETCH OF SIDEWALK THAT CONNECTS TO NOTHING ELSE, UM, TO ME THAT TALKS ABOUT, UM, USING THESE RELATIONSHIPS, UH, WITH OUR PARTNERS TO, FOR DESIGN IS THAT, AND WHAT ELSE, WHAT ELSE WOULD IT BE? OTHER THAN THOSE THINGS, WE REALLY JUST ALL HAVE TO GET ON THE SAME PAGE. SO WE DON'T HAVE, WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IS A SERIES OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AND OUR TEAM IS SPENDING TIME DOING SOME DESIGN, BUT REALLY WE NEED TO, IT'S NOT A GOOD USE BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE TEAM. IT'S NOT A GOOD USE OF THE TEAM'S TIME TO DO CAD DRAWINGS WHEN WE CAN HIRE A CONSULTANT TO PERFORM THAT WORK FOR US AND DELIVER US A DESIGN THAT WE CAN THEN IMPLEMENT. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO GET AWAY FROM. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL CHAIR. THANK YOU. OKAY. I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE, UH, WITH ANY QUESTIONS. AND WE LOST, UH, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL, SO I THINK WE ARE, UH, READY TO WRAP UP THIS PRESENTATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, TAMIKA. AND I THINK THAT'S ALL WE HAVE TODAY, RIGHT? SO THAT'S ALL WE HAVE. NO ACTION, JUST BRIEFINGS ON THESE TWO ITEMS. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH COLLEAGUES FOR HANGING IN THERE AND UM, WE WILL SEE YOU ALL VERY SOON. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU. BYE-BYE. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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