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THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR JOINING US TODAY FOR THE JUNE 21 MEETING OF TRANSPORTATION OF OUR TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY COMMITTEE.
MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL ROLE? YES, MA'AM.
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IN OUR AGENDA IS APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM THE MAY 13TH MEETING.SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE MAY 13TH MEETING.
UM, AURORA, CAN WE USE THE COMPUTER TODAY FOR VOTING? I'M TRYING TO START THAT VOTE IN MOTION.
I JUMPED THE GUN A LITTLE BIT TOO, BUT, OKAY.
SO I THINK WE CAN USE THIS FOR VOTING TODAY, UM, COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND WE CAN ALSO USE IT TO, UH, BUZZ IN FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY, IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
WITH NO PUBLIC COMMENT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM,
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UH, TWO AND THREE.ARE WE TAKING THIS TOGETHER? WE CAN.
WE'LL DO, UH, ITEMS TWO AND THREE TOGETHER.
HOW ARE YOU, COUNCILWOMAN? VERY GOOD, MA'AM.
HOW ARE YOU? YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TODAY.
TODAY WE WANTED TO COME TO THIS BODY AND FOLLOW UP TO OUR MAY MEETING WHERE WE DISCUSS THE MULTIMODAL CORRIDOR STUDIES AND THE EVALUATION CRITERIA THAT THE STAFF USED TO RECOMMEND.
THE THREE CORRIDORS THAT WE PRESENTED LAST MONTH, WHICH WERE HARRY WACH ROAD, ALSO MARBACH ROAD AND WEST AVENUE.
SO MANY OF YOU MAY KNOW WE WERE AWARDED $3 MILLION TO COMPLETE THREE $1 MILLION STUDIES.
THE ORIGINAL GRANT AMOUNT WAS $4 MILLION IN THE FIRST CORRIDOR THAT WE STUDY WAS CBRA, AND IT'S STILL UNDER STUDY RIGHT NOW.
AND WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO IDENTIFY OTHER CORRIDORS THAT WE BELIEVE WOULD BE IDEAL TO COMPLETE MULTIMODAL STUDIES.
AND LAST MONTH WE RECOMMENDED THOSE CORRIDORS AND THIS BODY ASKED US TO PROVIDE THE CRITERIA WE USED TO EVALUATE THOSE CORRIDORS.
AND WE ALSO DISCUSSED OTHER CRITERIA THAT THE COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE TO UTILIZE.
AND SO NOW WE ARE COMING TO YOU TODAY TO SHARE THEIR CRITERIA AND DISCUSS A LITTLE BIT OF WHY WE RECOMMENDED THE CORRIDORS WE PROPOSED LAST MONTH.
SO THE METHODOLOGY WE ORIGINALLY USED WHEN WE DETERMINED WHICH CORRIDORS TO STUDY WERE FIRST, WE WANTED THEM TO BE CITY ON CORRIDORS, AND THESE WERE COLLECTORS OR ARTERIAL ROADWAYS.
ESSENTIALLY, THESE MULTIMODAL STUDIES ARE USED TO ENHANCE THE MOBILITY FOR ALL MODES ON THE CORRIDOR AND PRIMARILY FOCUS ON THOSE THAT HAVE TRANSIT SERVICE.
SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MULTIMODAL IS PRIMARILY PEOPLE THINK ABOUT CARS AND ALSO ABOUT BUSES, BUT WE ALSO WANT TO ADVANCE THE SAFETY AND OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE ABOUT FOR PEDESTRIANS.
SO THE INITIAL SCREENING THAT WE DID, THESE THREE CORRIDORS WERE THE ONES THAT WE IDENTIFIED.
AND AT THAT TIME, WE DID NOT HAVE AS DETAILED OF DATA FROM VIA, WE JUST BASICALLY HAD THE BOARDINGS AND A LIGHTINGS.
THAT IS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO GET ON BUSES AND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO GET OFF BUSES.
SO WE WERE AWAITING A LITTLE MORE DATA FROM THEM ON THE RIDERSHIP BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THESE CORRIDORS, IT'S NOT JUST THE BUS RIDERSHIP ON THE CORRIDOR, BUT THOSE CROSS STREETS THAT HAVE A LOT OF RIDERSHIP.
SO WE FURTHER ANALYZE THEM AND THIS IS THE BASIS OF, UM, OUR METHODOLOGY.
SO THIS IS A MAP OF THE CORRIDORS THAT WE ORIGINALLY RECOMMENDED.
AND THE ORANGE IN THIS MAP IS ACTUALLY THE ESSAY TOMORROW CORRIDOR.
SO WE ALSO INCLUDED THIS IN OUR EVALUATION CRITERIA, WHICH WILL BE ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THESE CORRIDORS, TRANSIT SERVICE AND ALSO TRANSIT RIDERSHIP, THE DATA WE RECEIVED SINCE OUR MEETING LAST MONTH WAS THE MARCH, 2022 VIA RIDERSHIP DATA.
WE ALSO IDENTIFIED MAJOR ACTIVITY CENTERS ALONG THESE CORRIDORS AND THE TRAFFIC VOLUMES.
SO MANY OF THESE CORRIDORS, YOU'LL SEE THE, THE AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC VOLUMES, ITS DATA FROM TXDOT, AND THAT'S FROM 2020.
WE ALSO LOOKED AT THE SAFETY, THE VISION ZERO HIGH INJURY NETWORK, WHICH IS OUR SEVERE PEDESTRIAN INJURY REPORTS AND SEVERE BICYCLE INDUSTRY INJURY REPORTS.
BUT WE ALSO LOOKED AT THE SS A P D CRASH DATA.
WE ALSO LOOKED AT SA TOMORROW PLANS.
AND IN RED YOU'LL SEE WE ADDED WITHIN HALF A MILE OF A PARK BECAUSE DURING THIS PAST MONTH, COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY ASKED US TO CONSIDER THAT.
SO THE DATA YOU'LL SEE IN THE PRESENTATION DOES NOT INCLUDE THAT, BUT WE
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DO HAVE A HANDOUT OF THE DATA PROVIDED BY PARKS WITH THOSE PARKS THAT ARE ADJACENT TO THE CORRIDORS THAT WE RECOMMENDED.AND LASTLY, THE CRITERIA WAS BOND PROJECTS.
AND THE REASON WHY WE LOOKED AT PLANNED BOND PROJECTS, BECAUSE FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU LOOK AT COMMERCE, COMMERCE OF THE 13 CORRIDORS WE EVALUATED HAS OVER 110 AVERAGE DAILY VEHICLE TRIPS.
BUT COMMERCE, AS YOU ALL KNOW, IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN THAT WONDERFUL BOND PROJECT IS UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW.
SO IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO DO A MULTIMODAL CORRIDOR STUDY, WHICH WOULD RESULT IN A CONCEPT PLAN FOR RESTRUCTURING OR REDESIGNING A STREET IF WE'VE ALREADY DONE THAT.
SO AS WE LOOK AT BOND PROJECTS, WE LOOK AT PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY WHICH OF THESE CORRIDORS RISE TO THE TOP, IF YOU WILL.
NOW, WE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO SEE THIS, BUT WE DO HAVE HANDOUTS FOR THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO TAKE A LOOK AT THESE.
SO JUST ANECDOTALLY, THESE ARE NOT PRIORITIZED, BUT THESE WERE THE CORRIDORS BASED ON LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE THAT HAVE TRANSIT RIDERSHIP, THAT HAVE HIGH VOLUMES OF AUTO TRIPS, WHICH ONES WOULD DERIVE THE MOST BENEFIT OF BEING REDESIGNED TO FACILITATE MOBILITY.
SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THESE CORRIDORS, THE NUMBER ONE CORRIDOR IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WE WILL IMPACT, WE ADDED THE TRANSIT RIDERSHIP TRIPS AND WE ADDED THE SINGLE OCCUPANCY VEHICLE, PRIMARILY WHEN WE LOOK AT AVERAGE DAILY VEHICLE TRIPS.
AND SO COMMERCE IS NUMBER ONE IN TERMS OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE IMPACTED BY THIS IMPROVED OR CHANGE IN THE CONCEPT OF THE STREET.
THE SECOND CORRIDOR IN THIS LIST OF 13 WAS GENERAL MCMILLAN, WHICH HAD 103.
THE THIRD CORRIDOR, WHICH HAD THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF TRANSIT AND VEHICLE TRIPS WAS HARRY WACH.
WHAT, 92,217 MARBACH WAS NUMBER FIVE, EXCUSE ME.
AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO TAKE EVERYTHING IN CONTEXT.
SO WE WANNA PROVIDE YOU WITH A LITTLE MORE DETAIL AS TO WHY WE RECOMMENDED THE CORRIDORS WE RECOMMENDED.
SO THESE WERE THE SCREEN CORRIDORS MAPPED GRAPHICALLY.
WE, YOU CAN SEE IT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL OVER THE CITY.
THEN WHEN WE LOOK AT EACH CORRIDOR, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MADE HARRY WACH STAND OUT WAS THE FACT THAT IT HAS A LOT OF TRANSIT RIDERSHIP, NOT DIRECTLY ON HARRY WACH, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF RIDERSHIP THAT CROSSES HARRY'S.
WE ALSO NOTED THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LAND USE AROUND HARRY WACH, IT HAS HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL.
SO A LOT OF MULTI-FAMILY UNITS IN ADDITION TO SINGLE FAMILY UNITS.
WHEN WE LOOK AT THE MAJOR ACTIVITY CENTERS, FORT SAM HOUSTON, THOSE RESIDENTIAL UNITS, AND THE AVERAGE VEHICLE TRAFFIC VOLUME IS 84,000 TRIPS.
THAT'S A LOT OF TRIPS, AND IT'S A WIDE ROADWAY.
SO WE'RE ASKING PEDESTRIANS TO CROSS THESE ROADWAYS, AND THAT'S WHERE THESE MULTIMODAL STUDIES COME INTO PLAY, WHERE WE CAN REDESIGN THESE STREETS AND COME UP WITH CONCEPTS TO MAKE IT SAFER FOR PEOPLE, MORE ATTRACTIVE.
THE AESTHETICS OF THE CORRIDOR, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS CAN SLOW DOWN THAT TRAFFIC TO WHERE WHAT COULD OCCUR WITH A CRASH COULD BE LESS DEADLY IN SOME INSTANCES, WITH THE REDESIGN OF THE STREET, WE ALSO HAVE A HIGH VOLUME OF VEHICLE TRIPS AND THEY INCREASE THE VOLUME OF CRASHES, STATISTICALLY MORE CARS, MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONFLICT BETWEEN PEDESTRIANS, AND ALSO IT SUPPORTS THE AIRPORT IN THE FORT SAM HOUSTON SA TOMORROW PLANS.
SO THOSE WERE SOME OF THE CRITERIA THAT HELPED IT RISE TO THE TOP.
IN TERMS OF OUR STAFF EVALUATION.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT EQUITY, WHEN WE LOOK AT EQUITY, THERE ARE NO AREAS OF LOW INCOME OR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ALONG HARRY WARDBACK.
AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT VISION ZERO HIGH INJURY NETWORK, IT HAD LESS THAN ONE HOTSPOT.
WHEN WE LOOK AT HOTSPOTS IN TERMS OF THOSE AREAS THAT ARE CONSTANTLY, AND THAT'S AUSTIN, UM, HIGHWAY AND HARRY WACH, WHERE WE SEE A LOT OF CRASHES.
BUT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT INTERSECTION IS, IS, IS RIPE FOR REDESIGN, AND A PORTION OF IT IS BEING REDESIGNED.
BUT THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE LOOKED AT.
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT MARBACH, SIMILAR TO HARRY WACH, WE HAVE A LOT OF HIGH TRANSIT RIDERSHIP, A LOT OF CROSS TOWN RIDERSHIP.
AND THE CONNECTIVITY IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THERE ARE SEVERAL HIGH RIDERSHIP VIA ROUTES ALONG THIS CORRIDOR.
HERITAGE SQUARE IS A MAJOR EMPLOYMENT CENTER, A LOT OF RETAIL.
WE ALSO HAVE A HIGH VOLUME OF TRAFFIC TRIPS, AND WE HAVE HIGH RIDERSHIP VISION ZERO.
THIS IS A CORRIDOR WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF HIGH INJURIES, OR IT'S A PART OF OUR HIGH INJURY NETWORK IN TERMS OF VISION ZERO AND OUR SS A P D CRASHES.
AND ALSO THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT POPULATION OF LOW INCOME AND MINORITY BASED ON THE CENSUS TRACK AND OUR EQUITY ATLAS.
THIS SUPPORTS A 2022 DRAINAGE PROJECT.
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE MULTIMODAL STUDIES AND MAKE THAT DETERMINATION, WHICH ONES WE'RE GOING TO STUDY, WE WANNA STUDY A CORRIDOR AND COME UP WITH A CONCEPT PLAN TO INFORM THOSE
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PROJECTS, WHETHER IT'S A BOND PROJECT OR NOT.BUT IF WE KNOW WE HAVE THIS 22 2 BOND PROJECT FOR DRAINAGE, IT WOULD BE NICE TO REDESIGN THE STREET ONCE WE DO THAT DRAINAGE PROJECT WITH SOMETHING THAT'S ATTRACTIVE, SUPPORTS SAFETY AND ALSO THE LAND USE GOALS.
WEST AVENUE HAS SOME OF THE HIGHEST RIDERSHIP CROSS TOWN.
IT'S A ROADWAY THAT TRAVERSES THE CITY.
AND WHAT'S REALLY UNIQUE ABOUT THIS ONE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE RIDERSHIP, THE EXPRESS U T S A, THE RIDERSHIP WENT UP 140%.
SO THESE COMPARISONS ARE FROM MARCH OF 2021 TO MARCH OF 22.
SO REDESIGNING THIS ROADWAY TO REALLY SUPPORT THE PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY, THE TRANSIT SAFETY.
AND IT HAS A VOL, A HIGH VOLUME OF MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING ALONG THIS CORRIDOR.
AND A LOT OF IT'S CONNECTING TO A LOT OF MAJOR ACTIVITY CENTERS IN THOSE CROSSTOWN ROUTES THAT HAVE HIGH RIDERSHIP.
SO THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY WITH THE 15,000 TRIPS.
AND JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, WEST AVENUE HAS ABOUT 78,000 PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE IMPACTED IF WE JUST LOOK AT THE TRANSIT TRIPS AND THE SINGLE OCCUPANCY TRIPS.
BUT WHAT STANDS OUT TO ME BEING A, A TRANSIT EXPERT, IF YOU WILL, I'LL CALL MYSELF THAT, UM, TRANSIT RIDERSHIP IS WE SEE A LOT OF THE IMPACTS BETWEEN THE PEDESTRIAN EXPERIENCE AND THE TRANSIT EXPERIENCE.
AND WHEN WE REDUCE OR SLOW DOWN THAT TRAFFIC VOLUME AND MAKING THE ROADWAY MORE EFFICIENT WITH CONCEPT PLANS, WE CONSIDER ALL THOSE MODES.
SO SOMETHING LIKE LIMITED STOP BUS SERVICE, THOSE THINGS BECOME ATTRACTIVE.
AND WHEN YOU IMPROVE FOR ONE MO, YOU'RE ACTUALLY IMPROVING IT FOR ALL.
SO SOME OF THE CONCEPTS THAT MAY COME OUT OF THESE MULTIMODAL STUDIES ARE DEDICATED LANES, BUT WE KNOW WHEN WE DO PROJECTS SUCH AS THESE, WE CAN IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND THE TRIP TIME, TRIP SAVINGS OF ABOUT FIVE MINUTES FOR SOME OF THESE MODES.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT WITH THESE STUDIES IS TO COME UP WITH TRIP RELIABILITY.
SO REDESIGNING THE ROADWAY WITH THESE MULTIMODAL PLANS IS OUR WAY OF HELPING TO MAKE ALL MODES EFFICIENT OR MORE EFFICIENT.
SO THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE DEPARTMENT IS WE ARE SEEKING THE APPROVAL OF THIS DEPART, OF THIS COMMITTEE.
WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT THESE BE THE CRITERIA AND THE RECOMMENDED CORRIDORS THAT WE'VE PROPOSED.
AND THOSE THREE CORRIDORS ARE MARBACH WEST AND HARRY WACH.
THE OTHER THING I WANNA POINT OUT ABOUT HARRY WACH, THESE ARE REALLY QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA THAT WE'RE USING TO MAKE A SELECTION.
IT'S GOING TO BE UP TO THIS BODY TO MAKE THAT DECISION.
BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT HARRY WACH, IT'S IMPORTANT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THOSE MAJOR ACTIVITY CENTERS, FORT SAM HOUSTON IS ONE OF THOSE, I FAILED TO MENTION THAT.
BUT WE WANNA MAKE THESE CONCEPTS THAT COME OUT OF THESE PLANS TO BE GATEWAY STREETS, TO BE GREAT STREETS THAT INCLUDE ALL THE MODES AND ARE NOT REFLECTIVE OF WHAT WE SEE ON A LOT OF THESE CORRIDORS TODAY.
BUT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT.
AND SO THE NEXT STEPS FOR US WILL BE TO PROVIDE TECH STOP WITH THE FINAL SCOPE OF WORK.
ONCE WE DETERMINE WHICH CORRIDORS WE ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH AS A CITY, WE WILL RECOMMEND THIS WILL BE RECOMMENDED TO THE FULL COUNCIL.
AND THEN WE WILL DO A HIGH, HIGH PROFILE SOLICITATION THIS SUMMER OR IN THE FALL.
AND THEN WE'LL SEEK TO AWARD THESE THREE MULTIMODAL STUDIES TO ONE FIRM.
AND THE GOAL OF THAT IS TO HAVE ONE CONTINUOUS THEME SO THAT WE DON'T DUPLICATE EFFORTS AND HAVE MULTIPLE FIRMS DOING THE SAME TYPE OF PROJECT, BUT WE DEVELOP A THEME SIMILAR TO THE WORK THAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAS DONE WITH THE SA TOMORROW STUDIES IN THOSE CORRIDORS.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS, MADAM CHAIR.
I THINK WE WERE GONNA PUT TWO AND THREE TOGETHER, TAMIKA.
SO YOU WANNA GIVE THE, THE PRESIDENT THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE COMBINATION.
AND THEN THE CORRIDORS ONE, THAT'S WHAT MAKES YOU THE TRANSPORTATION EXPERT, RIGHT?
UM, SO, UH, BRIEFLY, THERE WAS, UM, UH, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL IS NOT PRESENT TODAY, BUT SHE HAD A MEMO THAT WE WOULD LIKE READ INTO THE RECORD.
I'LL GO AHEAD AND START WITH THAT.
ARA COLLEAGUES, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE MY COMMENTS IN LIEU OF MY ATTENDANCE AT THE JUNE 21ST, 2022 TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY COMMITTEE MEETING, I HAVE THE FOLLOWING FEEDBACK ON THE CRITERIA AND PROPOSED CORRIDORS.
I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE CRITERIA USED TO SELECT THE CORRIDORS.
THE TABLE WAS HELPFUL TO SEE HOW DIFFERENT CORRIDORS COMPARE.
HOWEVER, IT DID NOT INDICATE WHY THE THREE CORRIDORS WERE SELECTED.
I I PROPOSE THAT WE PRIORITIZE SAFETY AND EQUITY FIRST AND TRANSIT AND USAGE SECOND.
THIS WOULD MEAN PRIORITIZING QUARTERS THAT ARE PART OF THE VISION ZERO HIGH INJURY NETWORK OR ARE IN EQUITY AREAS.
AND THEN USING AVERAGE TRANSIT
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RIDERSHIP AND AVERAGE DAILY TRIPS TO PRIOR PRIORITIZE WITHIN THAT GROUP.THIS PROPOSAL WILL LEAD US TO CONDUCT TO STUDIES FOR WEST COMMERCE GENERAL MCMULLEN AND SARA SAMURA.
AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE MY FEEDBACK.
AURORA, REMINDER TO MY COLLEAGUES, IF YOU, UM, HAVE COMMENTS ON EITHER TWO OR THREE TO, TO BUZZ IN.
BUT I'LL ASK YOU TO BUZZ IN UNDER ITEM TWO, SO IT'LL ALL BE TOGETHER.
UM, THE, UH, THE, I THINK YOU WENT OVER THIS SELECTION CRITERIA WELL, AND, UM, IT'S, I MEAN, I REALLY SEE TAMIKA YOU'RE MAKING SORT OF A HOLISTIC APPROACH OR TAKING A HOLISTIC APPROACH TOWARDS THE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION.
UM, AND INCLUDING, OF COURSE, IMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.
THESE THREE PARTICULAR CORE DOORS THAT YOU'RE RECOMMENDING, UM, NEAR ECONOMIC HUBS ALLOW FOR A BASE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION CAN LOOK LIKE, WHICH IS REALLY IMPORTANT I THINK AS WE, AS SOME OF US, UH, IN THIS COMMITTEE ARE ON THE M P O AS WELL.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE TALK A LOT ABOUT, UM, WHAT MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION CAN LOOK LIKE IN OUR CITY AND AND COUNTY WHEN THE COURT, AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH WHATEVER, UM, WE WE CHOOSE HERE TODAY.
I'M CURIOUS, I'M, I'M SORT OF LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE.
WHAT, WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP AFTER THIS? THESE PROJECTS ARE PUSHED FORWARD TO M P O.
WHAT, HOW ARE WE LOOKING AT, AT THIS, AGAIN, FOR NEXT YEAR? SO, IF YOU RECALL EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE REQUESTED THAT THE M P O MOVE THE TARGET DATES BACK A YEAR.
SO WE'RE ALLOWED TO COMPLETE ONE STUDY A YEAR.
SO OUR PLAN WOULD BE BASED ON YOU ALL DETERMINING AMONGST, AMONGST THIS BODY, WHICH ONE YOU'D LIKE TO START OFF WITH FIRST.
THAT WOULD BE OUR RECOMMENDATION IN THE A F A THAT WE DEVELOP WITH TDOT WOULD BE TO SAY, THIS YEAR, 2023, WE WILL COMPLETE THIS STUDY.
24 AND 25, WE'LL GO IN THAT ORDER.
SO THE NEXT STEP IS TO DO THE SOLICITATION.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT ALL OF THESE AND UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, I DO UNDERSTAND THE FOUNDATION OF COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL'S RECOMMENDATIONS TO START WITH EQUITY AND SAFETY.
IT MAY BE A CORRIDOR LIKE HARRY WACH.
YOU DON'T EXPECT IT TO, YOU KNOW, THERE AREN'T ANY CENSUS TRACKS THAT HAVE EQUITY, BUT HARRY WACH CROSSES A LOT OF STREETS THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE LOW INCOME AND MINORITY ARE USING TRANSIT SERVICE AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THOSE INTERSECTIONS ARE GONNA MAKE IT SAFER FOR THEM.
SO I THINK THIS BODY HAS TO PRIORITIZE, AND SOMETIMES IT'S GONNA BE THAT MAJOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT IT'S GONNA SUPPORT, OR IT'S GOING TO BE A CIVIC OR MAJOR ATTRACTION OR TOURIST ATTRACTION THAT YOU WANT TO SUPPORT.
AND THAT'S A, A DECISION THAT HAS TO BE MADE BY THIS BODY.
BUT I THINK WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH THESE CRITERIA IS WE'VE TAKEN THE MOST PARAMOUNT, AND THAT'S THE SAFETY PIECE AND THAT EQUITY PIECE.
BUT SOMETIMES THERE'S A TRADE OFF.
IF WE KNOW IN THE CITY WE HAVE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GOAL TO ADVANCE THE AIRPORT, WE ARE HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
SO IT TOUCHES ON THAT AND IT CREATES A GATEWAY INTO THE AIRPORT.
SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT, THANKFULLY I MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, I DON'T HAVE TO DECIDE THAT, BUT WE WANNA GIVE YOU ALL THE INFORMATION THAT'S GOING TO HELP.
SO WHEN I LOOK AT WEST, THESE ARE TYPICALLY THE CORRIDORS.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT TRANSIT, THEY CARRY A LOT OF PEOPLE AND THEY CARRY A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEEDS.
SO THEY MAY NOT BE DIRECTLY IMPACTED, BUT THEY'RE INDIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT YOU WOULD DO TO A HARRY ACH.
UM, THE TRANSIT DATA THAT WE RECEIVE FROM VIA IS VERY TELLING.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHERE THE RIDERSHIP IS GOING, WE WANNA BE PROACTIVE IN DOING THESE TYPES OF CONCEPTS, BECAUSE ONCE WE GET THE CONCEPT, THEN WE DO THE DES THE DESIGN AND THE ENGINEERING.
BUT WHAT HAPPENS WITH A LOT OF THE BOND PROJECTS IS WE HAVE GOTTEN THE BOND TO DO THE CONSTRUCTION, BUT WE HAVEN'T DONE THE DESIGN.
AND SO THESE CORRIDOR STUDIES, THE MULTIMODAL STUDIES, THEY GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY AND HAVE THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT IT TO LOOK LIKE.
SO WHEN WE DO START THE PROCESS FOR CONSTRUCTION, WE ALREADY HAVE A CONCEPT PLAN OF HOW WE WANT THAT STREET DESIGN.
AND THAT MAKES IT BETTER FOR EVERYONE BECAUSE OFTEN WE'RE SPENDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, BUT WE REALLY HAVEN'T COMMUNICATED.
IT JUST BECOMES A, YOU KNOW, MILL AND OVER A RECONSTRUCTION OF A STREET WITH THE SAME CROSS SECTION.
AND WE WANNA DO MORE THAN THAT.
WE WANNA ADD, AS A PART OF THE DESIGN, THE MID-BLOCK CROSSINGS THAT HAVE THE PEDESTRIAN REFUGE, THE, YOU KNOW, LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS.
THESE THINGS DON'T COME WITH JUST A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
IT'S JUST WHAT WE'VE ALREADY HAD.
AND SO THESE CONCEPT PLANS WILL HELP US DO THAT AND HAVE
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SOMETHING FOR DAVE MACBETH AND ROSIE'S TEAM TO CONSTRUCT BASED ON THE COMMUNITY'S INPUT INTO THAT PLAN.IT, IT'S, UM, IMPORTANT CONVERSATION TO HAVE REGARDING, UM, OF COURSE INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY AND SAFETY PE TO PEDESTRIANS SPECIFICALLY FOR ME ON THAT LAST MILE.
UM, FROM, YOU KNOW, THE BUS STOP TO THEIR, UH, PLACE OF, OF EMPLOYMENT, PLACE OF WORSHIP, WHATEVER IT IS, UM, OR THEIR HOME.
UM, BUT TO THEIR DESTINATION REALLY IN, IS IT YOUR OPINION THAT THESE THREE THAT YOU'RE RECOMMENDING THAT'S MADE A PRIORITY? I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S WHAT I JUST HEARD YOU SAY, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING.
AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY TOUCH OTHER PROJECTS AS WELL, AND SO THEY BECOME THE JUMPING OFF POINT FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THOSE CROSS-SECTION STREETS.
YOU KNOW, NO CORRIDOR LEFT BEHIND.
WE WILL HAVE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO DO STUDIES, AND I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE COME AS A DEPARTMENT AND RECOMMENDED A, A CRITERIA AND ALSO RECOMMENDED OTHER STREETS WHERE WE HAVE THIS DATA.
AND I THINK WE HAVE TO KIND OF LEVERAGE THAT WITH EXISTING AND PLANNED PROJECTS IN THOSE ANNUAL C I P PROJECTS THAT WE CAN LEVERAGE AS WELL TO INFORM THE DECISION MAKING.
BUT THIS IS OUR FIRST EFFORT DOING THIS TYPE OF ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFYING THE CORRIDORS.
AND THE NEXT STEP WOULD BE FOR THIS BODY TO PRIORITIZE WHICH ONES BASED ON ALL OF THAT INFORMATION THAT YOU WANNA GO AND, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO ASK FOR FUNDING, WHETHER IT'S A GRANT, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH THE N P O, WE CAN START THIS PROCESS WITH THIS LIST.
UM, I DON'T SEE ANYBODY BUZZED IN, I Y'ALL DON'T HAVE ANY COMMENTS? OKAY.
SO I GUESS I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
UM, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, BUT, UH, COUNCIL GUILLO, THANK YOU CHAIR.
UM, AND THANK YOU TAMIKA FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, I KNOW I HAD A COUPLE OF CONCERNS WITH, UH, THE METRICS AND METHODOLOGY, RIGHT? YES, MA'AM.
UM, REVIEWING THE PRESENTATION AND SEEING THAT, UM, THERE ARE, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, ON SLIDE SEVEN, UH, CORRIDORS WITH SEVERE PEDESTRIAN INJURY THAT WEREN'T PRIORITIZED OR RECOMMENDED BY STAFF.
BUT, UH, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE SPECIFIC PROJECTS, FOR EXAMPLE, COMMERCE AND, UM, COMMERCE AND, UM, A COUPLE OF OTHER PROJECTS THAT ARE RECEIVING BOND FUNDING.
RIGHT? UM, I, I DO HAVE SOME HESITATION ABOUT PUTTING ECONOMIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AHEAD OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
UM, AND I KNOW EVERYONE HERE DOES PRIORITIZE VISION ZERO, RIGHT? SO I DO HAVE SOME CONCERN, UM, THAT WE'RE NOT INCLUDING GENERAL MCMULLEN AS A RECOMMENDATION.
UH, I UNDERSTAND ULTIMATELY, RIGHT? UM, I HEAR YOUR POINT OF THESE RECOMMENDED CORRIDORS SERVING AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRANCH OFF INTO DIFFERENT CORRIDORS AND NEIGHBORHOOD, SO ON AND SO FORTH.
BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT, UM, PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES, AMOUNT OF, OF INJURIES, THE AMOUNT OF, UH, BUSES, RIGHT? I SEE THAT JENNA MCMILLAN HAS THE MOST BUS STOPS, RIGHT? SO THAT TELLS ME THAT'S MORE PEOPLE CROSSING THE STREETS, AND I KNOW VIA HAS THAT DATA.
UM, SO I I'M STILL A LITTLE CONCERNED RIGHT, THAT THIS ONE ISN'T BEING CONSIDERED.
UM, CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME, UM, IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO CREATE A GRADING SCALE SIMILAR TO SIDEWALKS AND STREETS, RIGHT? A THROUGH F IF WE CAN CREATE A RUBRIC TO GRADE THESE CORRIDORS, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WAS CONSIDERED? AND CAN WE DO THAT? IF SO, I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND THAT, BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE'RE ASKING IS WHICH CORRIDORS ARE WE GOING TO STUDY? I THINK THAT'S A PART OF THE DISCUSSION THAT THIS BODY WILL HAVE, IS WHICH ONE YOU WANT TO PRIORITIZE.
IT JUST BECOMES, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE OTHER EFFORTS THAT ARE UNDERWAY.
SOME MAY NOT HAVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT'S NOT WORTHY.
AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT THESE CORRIDORS AND I LOOK AT THE SCOPE THAT WE WRITE FOR THESE, IT'S LOOKING AT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO DO ALL THOSE THINGS.
SO WHEN YOU DO A STREET SCAPE REDESIGN, YOU ACTUALLY, INHERENTLY, WITHOUT SAYING IT, YOU'RE MAKING IT SAFER BECAUSE YOU'RE WIDENING A SIDEWALK, YOU'RE PROVIDING THE ILLUMINATION AND DOING A NUMBER OF THOSE THINGS.
SO IT'S NOT FOR ME TO MAKE THAT DECISION.
BUT THE DATA THAT WE'VE PROVIDED, I THINK GENERAL MCMULLEN HAS A TOTAL OF 103 VEHICLE A D T AND TRANSIT TRIPS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED.
AND IT HAS A NUMBER OF HIGH RIDERSHIP TRANSIT ROUTES.
THIS IS WHERE, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HAVE TO DECIDE WHICH ONE THAT YOU WANT.
AND BASED ON THE DATA THAT WE LOOKED AT, THESE WERE THE ONES WE RECOMMENDED.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT GENERAL MCMULLEN ISN'T A PRIORITY IN THE SAFETY CONCERNS.
I THINK THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING IN TERMS OF VISION ZERO.
AND AS WE LOOK AT THOSE CORRIDORS, AND ONCE WE HAVE A BRIEFING WITH YOU ON
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THE PEDESTRIAN HOTSPOTS FOR YOUR DISTRICT.WE WANNA DISCUSS THOSE ALTERNATIVES AND, AND WHERE WE CAN DO THOSE THINGS.
AND WHY DID WE NOT USE FATALITIES AS A METRIC? UH, I KNOW WHEN WE'RE LOOKING TO CALL FOR TRAFFIC STUDIES AND TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES, RIGHT? UM, WE HAVE TO COUNT X AMOUNT OF FATALITIES OR INJURIES.
UM, DID WE FACTOR IN FATALITIES? UH, SO THESE ARE THE, THE HOTSPOTS MM-HMM.
WE BASICALLY WERE CALLING IT A HIGH INJURY NETWORK.
SO IT'S A CORRIDOR THAT HAS A NUMBER OF INJURIES AND FATALITIES.
SO WE DIDN'T JUST LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF FATALITIES FOR EACH OF THEM.
SO IF IT HAD MORE THAN FOUR SEVERE INJURIES OR FATALITIES, WE SAID, YES, IT HAS, IT'S A PART OF THE HIGH INJURY NETWORK.
OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE THESE, AND, AND THIS IS WHY WE DID NOT PRIORITIZE THEM, BECAUSE IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE PRIORITY IS.
UM, I'M SUPPORTIVE OF WHAT'S BEING RECOMMENDED, BUT WOULD I BE ABLE TO OFFER A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT? UM, YOU COULD, YEAH.
I I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, AMEND THE LANGUAGE TO INCLUDE, UM, GENERAL MCMULLEN FOR THE, TO BE PRIORITIZED WITH THE FISCAL 2023, UM, UH, BUDGET.
UM, I WANNA BE, WANNA BE CLEAR YOU'RE NOT, UM, PROPOSING THAT, THAT THERE'S ANOTHER NO.
SO IT WOULD BE, I'M NOT SURE THAT IS THAT I'M LOOKING AT THE CITY ATTORNEY.
IS THAT AMENDMENT APPROPRIATE TO ADD TO THIS PARTICULAR ITEM? WELL, UM, NOT TO THIS PARTICULAR ITEM BECAUSE IT'S JUST THE THREE CORRIDORS THAT WE'RE, UM, SENDING FORWARD.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT WOULD BE MAYBE A TALK WITH TAMIKA BASED ON THE NEW CRITERIA THAT'S APPROVED TO SEE WHERE IT WOULD FALL, UM, POSSIBLY TO SEE IF IT'S, UM, MAYBE FALLS DIFFERENTLY IN LINE WITH THE OTHER ONES BASED ON THE NEW CRITERIA THAT THAT'S EVENTUALLY ADOPTED.
SO WE, WE HAVE A PLAN AS A PART OF OUR MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS TO DO MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS ON GENERAL MCMULLEN BASED ON THE SEVERE PEDESTRIAN INJURY DATA.
IF YOU RECALL IN OUR PRESENTATION, UM, ON VISION ZERO, WE LISTED GENERAL MCMULLEN AS ONE OF THE CORRIDORS WHERE WE'RE INSTALLING MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THE COMMITTEE AWARE.
AND, UH, CHAIR, THE RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE, UM, THE AMENDMENT WOULD BE A RECOMMENDATION, RIGHT? NOT, UM, THAT GENERAL MCMULLEN WOULD BE PRIORITIZED, BUT RECOMMEND THAT THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THAT GENERAL MCMULLEN BE PRIORITIZED FOR A CORRIDOR STUDY WITH THE FISCAL 2023 FOR A CORRIDOR STUDY.
I THOUGHT, UH, I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE, THE BUDGET, THE REGULAR CITY BUDGET.
SO I, I, I THINK, LET ME LOOK, TURN TO YOU A CITY ATTORNEY.
AGAIN, I THINK THAT'S A, THE QUALIFICATION THAT MAYBE DOES MAKE IT APPROPRIATE TO, OR THE ONLY THING IS THAT TO RECOMMEND A PROJECT BE PRIORITIZED ABOVE OTHER PROJECTS MAY BE SOMETHING THAT MIGHT NEED TO BE FURTHER DISCUSSED AMONG THE COMMITTEE AND ALSO, UM, ALLOW, UH, FULL COUNSEL TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION, UM, SO THAT EVERYBODY HAS A CHANCE TO WEIGH IN ON, ON THEIR PROJECTS AS WELL.
COUNCILMAN, UM, WOULD YOU REPEAT THE, THE AMENDMENT? MM-HMM.
UM, SO LET'S, WE'LL HAVE A ROUND OF DISCUSSION ON THE AMENDMENT.
IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THIS RIGHT, IS TO HAVE THIS GENERAL MCMULLEN, UH, BROUGHT FORWARD FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF CORRIDOR STUDIES? CORRECT.
I, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT, BUT I, I THINK THAT WOULD, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WOULD BE AN AMENDMENT TO THIS, TO THIS MOTION, UM, MAYBE A RECOMMENDATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO THIS COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S DOCUMENTED IN THE MINUTES THAT YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IS A CORRIDOR THAT IS BEING RECOMMENDED FOR THE NEXT, NEXT ROUND.
DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT? GO AHEAD.
SO IS THAT A RECOMMENDATION FOR GENERAL MCMULLEN TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF FUNDING THROUGH THE M P O OR THROUGH THE CITY'S 2023 BUDGET? THROUGH THE CITY'S CORRIDOR? 2023.
AND SO THE REST OF THESE WOULD BE GO TO THE M P O TO BE APPROVED TO BE FUNDED THROUGH THE M P O FOR THESE CORRIDOR STUDIES.
SO, OR THESE STUDIES ARE ALREADY FUNDED.
WE HAVE AN A FFA, WE WOULD JUST BE SPECIFIC WITHIN OUR A FFA, WHICH CORRIDORS WE'RE GOING TO STUDY.
AND ARE, IS THAT MONEY THAT WE'RE GETTING THROUGH THE M P O? YES, SIR.
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UH, I, UM, JUST A, WELL, LET ME REAL QUICK MAKE A COMMENT.I, UM, I'M, I'M IN SUPPORT OF GENERAL MCMULLEN.
I JUST WANNA MAKE THAT CLEAR BECAUSE IT'S, IT DOES, IT'S A QUARTER THAT AFFECTS, UM, I THINK MANY, UM, PEOPLE, UH, I JUST WANT, AND I DON'T WANNA STIFLE THE AMENDMENT, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT HAS POWER, THAT IT, IT IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT WE'RE PUTTING IT IN THE APPROPRIATE PLACE.
SO I I, I THINK I'M STILL A LITTLE CONFUSED ON, UM, IF WE, IF WE, IF IT'S NOT AN AMENDMENT TO THIS PARTICULAR MOTION, IS IT, AND, AND LET'S BE CLEAR THAT THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR IS TO MOVE THIS, UH, RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL.
SO, UM, I'M TALKING IT OUT, I'M TALKING IT THROUGH OUT LOUD, RIGHT.
BUT IF WE MAKE THIS AMENDMENT TO RECOMMEND THAT GENERAL MCMULLEN BE A PRIORITY, IT REALLY IS JUST SENDING IT TO COUNCIL TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE, UH, RECOMMEND THESE CORRIDORS, BUT WE ALSO, UM, WANT TO PRIORITIZE GENERAL MCMULLEN FOR THE NEXT ROUND.
DID I, DID I ACCURATELY STATE THAT TO YOU? OKAY.
AND THEN IS THERE ANY LEGAL ISSUE WITH THAT OR, AND ALSO WANT ROD'S OPINION ON THIS? I THINK MY ONLY CONCERN WOULD BE THAT BECAUSE, UM, ESTABLISHING PRIORITY FOR THE OTHER PROJECTS WASN'T PART OF THE AGENDA, THAT IT MAY NOT BE SOMETHING THAT, UM, I WOULD RECOMMEND, UM, JUST BECAUSE THAT WASN'T AGENDIZED.
UM, I, I UNDERSTAND THE COUNCIL WOMAN'S, UM, SUGGESTION AND, AND PRIORITY, BUT I, I THINK THAT MIGHT BE, MIGHT BE AN ISSUE.
SO IT MIGHT BE MORE APPROPRIATE ON, ON MAYBE A FUTURE AGENDA TO, UH, TO SAY, POSSIBLY COME UP WITH THE, THE LIST OF, OF ORDER FOR THE, THE UPCOMING PROJECTS.
BUT THE ONLY THING IS THAT THE, THE PRIORITY OF IT AND THE OTHER ONES WASN'T.
UM, SO THAT IF SOMEONE WANTED TO COME AND SPEAK ON, SAY, UM, LET'S SAY BASSEY ROAD, AND THEY FELT THAT THEY WANTED THAT TO BE THE NEXT ONE, THEY WEREN'T GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T MADE AWARE THAT THAT WAS A DISCUSSION AS FAR AS WHAT WAS GONNA BE PRIORITIZED.
THE ONLY THING THAT WAS AGENDIZED WAS THAT WE WERE, THAT THE COUNCIL WAS GOING TO LOOK AT SENDING THE THREE CORRIDORS UP RATHER THAN SENDING THE THREE.
AND THEN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRIORITY ON, ON THE OTHER PROJECTS CHAIR.
ALSO, I WILL NOTE THAT I AM DOCUMENTING THE RECOMMENDATION FROM COUNCILWOMAN CASTILLO ON THE RECORD, AND THAT THIS WOULD FOLLOW FORWARD AND BE NOTED AS A MINUTE THAT SHE HAS MADE THIS RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION.
I'M, I'M GONNA ASK ROD TO SAY SOMETHING AND THEN I'LL, I'M GONNA COME BACK THAT, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY.
I, I, I THINK COUNCILMAN PERRY'S RECOMMENDATION IS, IS THE BEST WAY TO HANDLE THIS.
PUT IT ON THE RECORD THAT, THAT THIS COMMITTEE SUPPORTS GENERAL MCMULLEN.
UM, AND YOU GOTTA REMEMBER, COUNCILMAN, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO DISCUSS THE UPCOMING BUDGET.
AND, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, WE'LL, WE'LL TAKE THIS BACK.
UH, TAMIKA STILL HAS TO HAVE HER BUDGET SESSION WITH THE CITY MANAGER.
UH, WE'LL, WE'LL CAPTURE THE MINUTES, WE'LL SHARE THAT WITH THE MANAGER ALONG THE WAY.
PROPOSED BUDGET WILL COME OUT.
YOU'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY THAT DAY TO WEIGH IN AND SAY, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE THE PROPOSED BUDGET, BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE THIS.
UH, TAMIKA WILL ALSO HAVE A BUDGET PRESENTATION THAT SHE WILL MAKE TO YOU.
THERE'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU ALSO TO SAY, I LIKE WHAT I SEE HERE, BUT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE THIS.
AND OF COURSE THEN THERE'S THE DAY THAT THAT COUNCIL ADOPTS THE BUDGET, UH, WHERE YOU'LL ALSO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT AT THAT TIME.
UH, BUT FOR TODAY, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT, UH, YOU JUST PUT IT ON THE RECORD SO THAT WE ADOPT IT THE NEXT TIME WE, WE ADOPT THE MINUTES.
IF, IF THE, THE BODY FEELS THAT WAY.
UM, YOU, ME, TO SAY, GO AHEAD.
THAT, THAT, THAT WORKS SOMEWHERE.
I JUST WANNA PROVIDE A CLARIFICATION.
THESE ARE AMPO FUNDED MULTIMODAL STUDIES.
AND SO COUNCILWOMAN CASTILLO, WHEN YOU SAY YOU WANT TO DO A CORRIDOR STUDY, THESE ARE SPECIFICALLY HAVE TO HAVE THAT MULTI MULTIMODAL COMPONENT TO THEM WITH AMPO.
SO WHEN YOU SAY CORRIDOR STUDY, THAT'S JUST LOOKING AT THE CORRIDOR, NOT NECESSARILY FOCUSED ON, YOU KNOW, THE TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT SPECIFICALLY.
SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THE DISTINCTION, BECAUSE CORRIDOR STUDIES ARE CARRIED OUT BY THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, AND THOSE FOCUS ON LAND USE, THOSE FOCUS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AND WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT MULTIMODAL STUDIES, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE TRANSPORTATION MOVEMENT.
SO JUST TO INFORM THE DISCUSSION IN THE FUTURE, DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ACHIEVE.
IS IT MORE OF THE CORRIDOR STUDY WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE LAND USE AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? OR IS IT THE MULTIMODAL LOOKING AT THE TRANSPORTATION, THE SAFETY, THE MOVEMENT OF ALL OF THE DIFFERENT MODES? OKAY.
UM, COUNCILMAN, DID YOU STILL HAVE SOMETHING? GOT IT.
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NO.SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO WEIGH IN ON THAT SO THAT WE CAPTURE THAT IN, IN THE MINUTES, WHETHER IT'S A MULTIMODAL OR IT'S JUST A CORRIDOR IN GENERAL.
ONE MULTIMODAL STUDY THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING TODAY.
UM, I THINK THAT WAS, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD ON THE AMENDMENT? OKAY.
SO THAT WAS, I THINK OUR ROUND OF DISCUSSION ON THE AMENDMENT.
UH, SO ARE, ARE YOU WITHDRAWING THE AMENDMENT? YES, I
SO THEN WE'RE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
I MEAN, THIS IS, UM, THIS IS IS NOT A CRITICISM VIEW.
I JUST, I DON'T FEEL LIKE AS A POLICYMAKER, I HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO REALLY WEIGH IN ON THIS.
AND I, I MEAN, I GUESS SOME, MAYBE SOME OF THESE CATEGORIES ARE A LITTLE BROAD FOR ME.
AND, AND I WONDER ON THINGS LIKE VISION ZERO, YES, UH, MULTIMODAL, UH, CORRIDOR STUDY MIGHT HELP US ADDRESS SOME OF THAT STUFF.
BUT ARE THERE OTHER TOOLS WHERE WE COULD ADDRESS THAT WITHOUT THESE SUCH AS, YOU KNOW, ARE THERE A BUNCH OF BAR BARS ON THAT CORRIDOR AND PEOPLE ARE, THERE'S DRUNK DRIVERS COMING OUT AND THEY'RE HITTING PEDESTRIANS AT NIGHT OR, AND IS THAT SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, WITH, UH, CROSSWALKS AND MORE LIGHTING OR SOMETHING LIKE, I, I JUST DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T, AND YOU KNOW, THE SA TOMORROW PLANS, OKAY, YES.
IT'S, IS IT NEAR ONE OF THOSE, UM, REGIONAL CENTERS? BUT LIKE, I JUST WONDER ALSO HOW, HOW DO THESE ALIGN WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST MASTER PLANS OF THE CITY? AND I, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO COMMENT ON THAT, BUT I JUST, I DON'T FEEL LIKE I REALLY KNOW ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO WEIGH IN ON WHAT THE PRIORITIES ARE.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, YOU STUDY THIS EVERY DAY.
I'M HAPPY TO FOLLOW YOUR RECOMMENDATION AT THIS POINT, BUT I, UM, I DO WANT TO KNOW, BECAUSE I HAVE TALKED TO CITY STAFF ABOUT, UM, WANTING TO CREATE A POLICY FOR THE CITY SO THAT WE ARE INCLUDING TREES IN RIGHT OF WAYS AND IN MEDIANS AND BULL BOUTS AS STANDARD PRACTICE IN EVERY PROJECT WHEN WE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE RECONSTRUCT A ROAD, UM, AS LONG AS THERE'S NOT A SAFETY REASON NOT TO DO SO.
AND SO IN WHAT DO, DO THESE STUDIES, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT I HAVE TO DO TIME-WISE TO GET THAT, UM, TO PASS A KIND, A RESOLUTION OR AN ORDINANCE? OR IS THERE ANYTHING, ANY WAY IN WHICH THAT COULD BE INCORPORATED IN THIS, IN THESE STUDIES? THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN BRAVO.
I APPRECIATE YOUR TRANSPARENCY ABOUT NOT BEING A TRANSIT NERD OR TRANSPORTATION NERD, BUT, UM, THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT WE WANNA DO WITH THE SCOPES THAT WE DEVELOP.
SO ONE OF THE STANDARD THINGS YOU'LL SEE WITH THE SCOPES THAT COME OUT OF THESE STUDIES WILL BE A HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND ALSO A FUNDING AND FINANCING STRATEGY FOR ANY STUDIES THAT WE DO OUT OF THE DEPARTMENT.
AND YOUR POINT ABOUT THE TREE CANOPY, WHEN WE SCOPE THIS, THESE MULTIMODAL CORRIDOR STUDIES, THE CONCEPTS THAT CAN IMPROVE SAFETY INCLUDE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES SUCH AS PEDESTRIAN ISLANDS WITH, UH, PEDESTRIAN REFUGE.
THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT SPEAK TO YOUR GOALS OF REDUCING THE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT.
AND ALSO IN INTEGRATING THOSE TYPES OF DESIGNS THAT TYPICALLY DON'T COME WHEN WE JUST DO THE CONSTRUCTION OR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ROAD.
BUT WITH THESE MULTIMODAL STUDIES, WE CAN INCLUDE THOSE TYPES OF CONCEPTS AND SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY AND GET THEIR FEEDBACK AND DESIGN THE ROADWAY TO WHERE WE CAN ADDRESS THE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT.
I KNOW YOU AND COUNCILWOMAN CASTILLO HAVE SPOKEN A LOT ABOUT THAT.
AND WE KNOW THAT WHEN WE DO THESE TYPES OF CONCEPTS AND SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY, WE COME UP WITH BETTER CONCEPTS THAN OUR EXISTING ROADWAY, UH, CROSS SECTIONS THAT WE HAVE.
SO THERE'S OPPORTUNITY WITH THESE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANNA INTEGRATE AS PART OF THE TOOLBOX, THE TOOLKIT, IF YOU WILL.
I DON'T THINK IT REQUIRES A C C R, I DON'T THINK IT REQUIRES THAT IT'S REALLY IN THE SCOPING PROCESS IN THAT WE ARE HIRING FIRMS WHO LOOK AT THE UNIVERSE OF ALTERNATIVES IN OUR TOOLKITS FROM ENGINEERING, DESIGN, PLANNING, AND TRANSPORTATION TO CREATE PLACES AS WE DO THESE RECONSTRUCTIONS.
WE HAVE, UM, A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.
I DON'T THINK I HEARD A SECOND.
SO, UM, THE MOTION AND A SECOND.
THIS IS ITEM, UM, I GUESS, DO WE NEED TO DO TWO AND THREE SEPARATELY? WHAT WAS THE MOTION AGAIN? COUNCILMAN MOVE THIS, DO COUNCILORS.
I THINK WE CAN DO BOTH TOGETHER THEN.
UM, SO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, UH, WELL GO AHEAD AND VOTE PLEASE.
WHAT, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT YOU ACCEPT THAT THE CRITERIA, BECAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
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YEAH.LET'S HAVE YOU CLARIFY THE MOTION, THE, THE ACCEPTING THE CRITERIA AND THE, UM, MOVING THE THREE ITEMS I MOVE TO ACCEPT THE CRITERIA AND MOVE THIS ITEM TO FULL COUNSEL.
SO, OKAY, THAT THOSE, UM, GO AHEAD AND VOTE.
UM, IS IT TAMIKA? GO AHEAD TAMIKA.
THANK YOU AGAIN, COUNCILWOMAN.
I FORGOT TO ANNOUNCE MYSELF, TAMIKA MONVILLE, DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION TODAY.
WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS LAST MONTH.
WE WANTED TO COME TO YOU THIS MONTH AND ASK FOR YOUR AUTHORIZATION TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION FOR THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW, SAFE STREETS FOR ALL USERS, GRANT AND TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.
SO WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR A GRANT WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.
THIS GRANT WILL COME DIRECTLY TO US AS A MUNICIPALITY IF WE ARE SUCCESSFUL.
WE ARE PROPOSING TO SUBMIT A GRANT FOR $8 MILLION TOTAL.
AND THIS IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE, THE, THE SAFE STREETS FOR ALL USERS.
GRANT, YOU CAN ONLY APPLY FOR EITHER A PLANNING GRANT OR AN IMPLEMENTATION GRANT.
AND YOU CAN ONLY GET AN IMPLEMENTATION GRANT IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN.
SO WE ALREADY HAVE OUR VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN, AND WE WILL BE APPLYING TO FUND THOSE PORTIONS OF OUR VISION ZERO HIGH INJURY NETWORK, WHERE WE HAVE OUR MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS, WHERE WE DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE THE FUNDING FOR THAT NEXT SLIDE.
SO SOME OF THE ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES ARE RAISE CROSSWALKS, UM, ADDRESSING ALCOHOL IMPAIRED DRIVING ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS, EDUCATION PROGRAMS. AND SO WE'RE GONNA BE PARTNERING WITH SS A P D TO INCLUDE THAT SAFETY CAMPAIGN ELEMENT AND THAT ENFORCEMENT ELEMENT BECAUSE BASED ON NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION DATA, DOING THE CAMPAIGNS FOR SAFETY THAT DO NOT COMBINE SOME TYPE OF ENFORCEMENT.
SO THAT MIGHT BE DURING PEAK PERIODS DOING TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT OF THE SPEED LIMITS ON OUR CORRIDORS WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF HIGH INJURIES OR, UM, SEVERE PEDESTRIAN INJURIES AND FATALITIES AND A LOT OF CRASHES, WE WOULD BE APPLYING IN THIS GRANT TO INCLUDE AN ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION COMPONENT WITH OUR SAFETY CAMPAIGN AND ALSO THE IMPLEMENTATION COMPONENT, WHICH IS THE CONSTRUCTION OF OUR MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS.
SO THE BACKGROUND DURING THE F Y I 21 BUDGET CYCLE, WE REQUESTED 5.2 MILLION AND IT WILL COST US 7 MILLION TO COMPLETE ALL OF THESE MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS.
AND IN ADDITION TO THE $1 MILLION SAFETY CAMPAIGNS, THESE ARE THE ADS THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE ON COL EBRA RIGHT NOW.
WE HAVE A NUMBER OF KING AND QUEEN ADS ON THE BUSES, THE VIA TRANSIT BUSES, AND AT THE TRANSIT SHELTERS THAT ARE LOCATED ON COL EBRA, WE HAVE THESE ADVERTISEMENTS, THESE, UH, SAFETY MESSAGES.
WE'RE GONNA BE DOING THIS ON ALL OF THOSE CORRIDORS WE PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED AS A PART OF OUR HIGH INJURY NETWORK, THOSE EIGHT CORRIDORS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS.
AND WE'RE REQUESTING FUNDS IN THIS GRANT FOR A TOTAL OF $8 MILLION.
OUR LOCAL MATCH WOULD BE 1.6 MILLION.
IF WE ARE SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT AMOUNT, AND WE ARE REQUESTING THAT WE WOULD BE FUNDING THAT LOCAL MATCH WITH OUR VISION ZERO FUNDS.
SO SOME OF THE RECOMMEND, SOME OF THE THINGS YOU WOULD SEE IS PEDESTRIAN MID-BLOCK CROSSINGS, THE LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS, AND ALSO THE, UH, HYBRID BEACONS.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE WOULD DO WITH, WITH THE FUNDING IF WE ARE SUCCESSFUL CONTINGENT UPON THAT AMOUNT.
SO THE DEPARTMENT IS SEEKING THE COMMITTEE'S APPROVAL TO SUBMIT THE APPLICATION FOR THE GRANT.
AND ONCE WE GET THAT GRANT FINALIZED, WE'D BE HAPPY TO SEND TO THIS COMMITTEE THAT GRANT APPLICATION, SO YOU ALL ARE AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE APPLYING FOR.
AND LASTLY, WE WOULD COMPLETE THE APPLICATION, WHICH IS DUE BY SEPTEMBER 15TH.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
UH, TAMIKA, UM, COUNCILWOMAN CASTILLO, THANK YOU CHAIR.
UM, WITH THIS, UM, WILL COMMUNITY AND EACH COUNCIL OFFICE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE INPUT, UM, ON WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE? I ASKED BECAUSE FOR EXAMPLE, ON BUENA VISTA, WE HAVE THESE NEWLY INSTALLED BIKE LANES AND A LOT OF COMMUNITY, UH, HAVE BEEN CALLING YOUR OFFICE, UH, AND GIVING THE RECOMMENDATION, RIGHT? THAT THEY WOULD'VE LIKED TO SEEN
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A DIFFERENT TYPE OF, UH, SIGNAGE POSTED.SO WILL COMMUNITY AND COUNCIL OFFICES, UH, HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE INPUT? SO THESE MID-BLOCK CROSSINGS, DEPENDING UPON WHERE THEY ARE IN THE LOCATION, THAT'S DEFINITELY WHAT WE WANNA DO.
FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE ON OUR WEBSITE RIGHT NOW, WE'RE NOT REQUIRED TO, BUT FOR OUR BIKE I N P PROGRAM, WE ARE ALLOWING 30 DAYS FOR PEOPLE TO GIVE THEIR FEEDBACK BEFORE WE GO AND STRIFE.
SO HAVING THE COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS IS VERY MUCH A PART OF WHAT WE WANNA DO.
AND ANYTHING WE DO, WE'RE GONNA BE COMING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TO GET THEIR FEEDBACK.
THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL.
UM, WILL THIS COMMITTEE OR COUNCIL WHO WILL DECIDE WHICH, UM, INTERSECTIONS WILL BE PRIORITIZED? SO THIS WILL, WE ARE ACTUALLY DEVELOPING THE GRANT APPLICATION RIGHT NOW.
AND SO BY THE TIME WE ACTUALLY SUBMIT THE APPLICATION, WE MIGHT BE FARTHER ALONG WITH OUR CURRENT VISION ZERO PROGRAM.
SO WE'LL BE TWEAKING IT TO DETERMINE WHICH CORRIDORS, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT SAFETY DATA, SO SPECIFIC TO WHERE WE HAVE THE MOST INJURIES, THOSE ARE THE LOCATIONS WHICH ARE IN OUR, UH, HIGH INJURY NETWORK AND WHATEVER SPECIFIC SAFETY COUNTERMEASURE IS APPROPRIATE.
THAT'S WHAT WE WANNA APPLY THERE.
AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S GONNA BE, BUT WE'RE GONNA DEFINITELY GET THE COMMUNITY'S FEEDBACK ON WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO, SO WE CAN'T PRIORITIZE RIGHT NOW 'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY WE'RE GONNA GET AND YEAH.
WHICH ONE IS GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL, SO, ALL RIGHT.
COUNCILWOMAN CASTILLO, UH, COUNCILMAN PERRY.
UM, TAMIKA, ON SLIDE NUMBER FOUR, I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT THESE NUMBERS HERE.
UM, OKAY, WE APPROVED $5.2 MILLION FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF UP TO 28 MID-BLOCK CROSSINGS.
WHERE ARE WE WITH THAT TODAY? SO WE HAVE 13 OF THOSE LOCATIONS ARE EITHER UNDER DESIGN AND OR UNDER PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING, UH, EXCUSE ME, DATA COLLECTION, PRE-DESIGN.
DATA COLLECTION IS PRE-DESIGN.
AND THEN SECOND IS PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION.
SO WE HAVE 13 LOCATIONS IN VARYING CONDITIONS.
I BELIEVE EIGHT ARE IN PRE-DESIGN.
AND WHEN I SAY PRE-DESIGN, TYPICALLY WE DO NOT COLLECT PEDESTRIAN OR AUTO DATA.
SO WE'VE GONE OUT AND COLLECTED THE DATA AT THE LOCATIONS WHERE WE HAVE THOSE SEVERE INJURIES.
AND NOW WE'RE WORKING ON THE DESIGN COMPONENTS FOR THOSE.
WE HAVE ONE THAT'S SLATED TO START CONSTRUCTION IN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS.
SO YOU, THIS WAS APPROVED, APPROVED FOR 28 AND YOU TOLD ME ABOUT 13.
WHERE'S THE OTHER ONES? SO THOSE OTHER ONES ARE STILL, WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE THEM OUT BECAUSE SOME ARE RELATED TO BOND PROJECTS.
SOME ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF 22 BOND GBRA.
SO GBRA IS ONE OF THE CORRIDORS.
BUT WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE LIMITS ARE GOING TO BE FOR THAT BOND PROJECT AND THEN WE CAN DETERMINE WHERE WE ACTUALLY PUT THOSE MID-BLOCK CROSSINGS.
SO WE IDENTIFIED LOCATIONS ALONG GBRA THAT HAD HIGH PEDESTRIAN INJURIES, BUT BECAUSE THERE IS A BOND PROJECT, WE DIDN'T WANT TO INSTALL THEM AND THEN COME BACK AND TEAR THEM UP WITH THE BOND PROJECT.
SO WE'RE WORKING WITH THE BOND TEAM TO DETERMINE WHAT THEIR LIMITS ARE FOR THEIR STUDY, WHERE THERE ARE INJURIES, AND WHAT THE DESIGN IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE FOR THAT PROJECT.
AND THEN WE CAN DETERMINE WHERE IT IS, EVEN IF IT'S FEASIBLE BECAUSE THE DESIGN FOR THE COLLAB BOND PROJECT MAY HAVE SIGNALS INSTALLED WHEREBY WE NO LONGER NEED THE PEDESTRIAN MID-BLOCK CROSSINGS.
SO THE ONES THAT WE HAVE NOT COMPLETED YET, SEVERAL OF THEM ARE A PART OF OTHER PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING ON WITH IN TERMS OF DESIGN AND OR CONSTRUCTION OR PLAN CONSTRUCTION WITH PUBLIC WORKS.
SO WE WANNA BE EFFICIENT, WE DON'T WANT TO GO OUT AND PUT THEM OUT THERE BECAUSE THEY'RE THERE.
AND THEN WE HAVE A BOND PROJECT OR A C I P PROJECT WHERE WE HAVE TO REMOVE THEM BECAUSE WE DIDN'T COORDINATE.
SO THAT'S WHY SOME OF THOSE ARE UP IN THE AIR.
BUT I CAN GET YOU A LIST OF THE DETAILS 'CAUSE WE'RE DOING THAT PROCESS RIGHT NOW FOR OUR BUDGET.
I CAN LET YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ARE.
SO THOSE 13 ARE NOT ON COLLIBRA? NO, NO SIR.
AND THE 15 THAT'S REMAINING, SOME ARE ON COLLIBRA, THEY'RE ON, ARE ALL 15, THEY'RE ON VARYING DIFFERENT, UM, CORRIDORS.
AND WE'VE DONE THE DATA COLLECTION FOR MOST OF THEM, BUT WE'RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WITH THOSE PROJECTS, ZAMORA, THERE WAS ONE THAT WAS, I FORGET WHICH STREET, BUT TDOT, WE MISSED THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE TXDOT CONSTRUCTED BECAUSE
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WE DID NOT COMPLETE THE TDOT ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS.SO EVEN THOUGH WE HAD IDENTIFIED THOSE LOCATIONS, WE CAN'T GO AND PUT THEM IN BECAUSE IT'S A PART OF, IT'S A T ROADWAY.
AND SO I CAN TALK WITH YOU IN MORE DETAIL ABOUT WHERE WE ARE WITH EACH OF THOSE PROJECTS.
WELL, I'M, I'M TOTALLY CONFUSED ABOUT THE FIRST 28 TO BEGIN WITH.
YOU SAY YOU GOT 13, ANOTHER 15 THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO PUT 'EM.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE BOND INTERFACE ON THAT.
THE BOND SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THESE PERIOD.
WE SHOULDN'T BE HAVING THIS MONEY TO SUPPLEMENT THE BOND.
THE BOND SHOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF CROSSWALKS, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO ON COLLIBRA.
SO COLLIBRA SHOULD NOT BE A PART OF THIS DISCUSSION AT ALL IF IT'S BEING COVERED BY THE BOND.
AND I, THAT'S WHAT TAMIKA'S SAYING.
WE, WE HAVE SOME THAT ARE IN HERE THAT ARE CON THAT, THAT WE, WE, WE FOUND A NEED AND HERE'S SOME CROSSWALKS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED SINCE THEN WE'VE PUT IT ON THE BOND.
SO THERE'S GONNA BE A COMPLETE OR, OR SOME OTHER PROGRAM.
WE'RE GONNA DO A COMPLETE REDESIGN, UH, A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
THERE, THERE MAY NOT BE A NEED FOR THAT.
AFTER WE DO THAT, WE MAY FIX IT THROUGH A SIGNAL, WE MAY FIX IT THROUGH SOME OTHER MEANS.
SO WE DON'T WANNA SPEND MONEY TO FIX SOMETHING THAT MAY NOT BE NEEDED LATER.
SO I THINK WE'RE BEING EFFICIENT STEWARDS OF, OF THE DOLLAR BY NOT GOING AND PUTTING A CROSSWALK IN WHERE WE'RE GONNA COME AND, AND DO A DIFFERENT PROJECT THERE.
AND IT MAY NOT BE NEEDED THERE IN THE FUTURE.
I WAS, I WAS HEARING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT STORY THERE ABOUT WHETHER TO USE THIS MONEY OR THE BOND MONEY OR SUPPLEMENTING THAT KIND OF THING FOR COLLIBRA.
YEAH, I I, I GET IT, I GET IT.
UM, BUT I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS APPROVED BACK IN 21 FOR 28 CROSSWALKS AND WE'VE ONLY IDENTIFIED 13, YOU KNOW, SO I DIDN'T KNOW THAT I, I COULD HAVE, I COULD HAVE BEEN GENERATING MY OWN LIST TO BRING IN AND SAY, HEY, I NEED THESE CROSSWALKS ACROSS DISTRICT 10.
I'M SURE THAT EVERY OTHER COUNCIL PERSON COULD DO THE SAME THING.
UH, SO I UNDERSTAND YOU NEED TO COLLECT DATA TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AND SEE WHERE THE BEST PLACES ARE, BUT, UH, I COULD TELL YOU WHERE THE BEST PLACES ARE IN DISTRICT 10.
I, I, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S TAKEN THIS LONG TO FILL UP THIS REQUIREMENT ALREADY AND GET THESE PROJECTS UNDERWAY.
I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION, SIR.
SO IF YOU RECALL, THE BOND WASN'T APPROVED UNTIL MAY.
SO NOW THAT WE KNOW WHAT BOND PROJECTS ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD, WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR DATA THAT WE COLLECTED FOR THOSE CORRIDORS.
AND SO WE ALREADY IDENTIFIED THE LOCATIONS, THAT'S WHY WE HAVE 28 BECAUSE THESE WERE THE LOCATIONS WHERE WE HAD A HIGH VOLUME OR EITHER THERE WERE INJURIES AND FATALITIES AT THOSE LOCATIONS.
SO WE TOOK THAT DATA, BUT WE NEEDED TO VALIDATE THAT DATA BECAUSE THIS IS BASED ON THE CRASH INFORMATION THAT WE RECEIVE.
SO WE ACTUALLY HAD ENGINEERS GO OUT, COLLECT THE TRAFFIC VOLUMES, COLLECT THE PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY ON THOSE CORRIDORS, AND COORDINATE IT WITH TEXT DOT BASED ON WHAT THEY WARRANT IN TERMS OF SIGNALS.
BECAUSE SOME OF THE LOCATIONS, EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS A FATALITY THERE, THE VOLUME OF PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC MAY NOT WARRANT A SIGNAL.
AND SO THAT'S THE DATA ANALYSIS PROCESS.
THAT'S WHY WE CALL THAT PRE-DESIGN.
UM, SO LET'S GO TO THE NEXT ONE.
YOU, YOU SAY $5.2 MILLION AND THEN MID BLOCK CROSSING CONSTRUCTION COSTS 7 MILLION.
IS THAT IN ADDITION TO THE FIVE POINT I I, WHERE DOES THIS 7 MILLION COME FROM? SO THE TOTAL COST OF COMPLETING ALL OF THOSE CROSSINGS IS $7 MILLION.
THE 28 WE'VE ALREADY, ALL RIGHT.
SO YOU'RE SAYING WE NEED ANOTHER, WHATEVER THAT DIFFERENCE IS TO FINISH THOSE 28.
AND SO THAT'S WHY WE WERE APPLYING FOR THE GRANT AND IN THE EVENT WE GET THE GRANT, THEN WE WILL COME BACK TO THIS BODY TO SAY, OKAY, WE RECEIVED THAT GRANT, BUT WE'RE ASKING FOR FUNDING FOR THESE MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS BECAUSE WE KNOW THERE ARE OTHER SAFETY ISSUES IN OTHER AREAS.
AND IF WE ARE SUCCESSFUL WITH THE GRANT, THEN WE WILL PROCEED.
BUT THE 5.2 MILLION SAYS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.
AND THEN YOU'RE SAYING $7 MILLION FOR CONSTRUCTION? YES, SIR.
WHAT IS IT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THOSE 28? THE COST ESTIMATE IS $250,000 FOR EACH OF THESE.
BUT IT DEPENDS ON THE LOCATION OF ONCE WE DO THE DATA ANALYSIS, SOME OF THE LOCATIONS MAY COST MORE THAN 250,000.
SO THE LAST QUESTION, UM, IF WE GET THIS GRANT $8 MILLION, I'M ASSUMING THAT SOME OF
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THOSE ARE GONNA GO, SOME OF THAT'S GONNA GO INTO THE 5.2 TO MAKE UP THE SEVEN.AND THEN HOW MANY OTHER CROSSWALKS ARE WE GONNA GET FOR THE, THE ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL MONEY? 9.6 MILLION.
IT'S NOT JUST THE CROSSWALKS, IT'S ALSO THE SAFETY CAMPAIGN.
SO THE SAFETY CAMPAIGN THAT'S UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW ON EBRA COST $125,000.
WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE NINE? HOW MANY MORE CROSSWALKS ARE WE GONNA GET? I CANNOT TELL YOU THAT, SIR, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO VARY BASED ON THE CONDITION OF THE ROADWAY, BASED ON THE LOCATION AND BASED ON THAT INTERACTION AND ENGAGEMENT WITH PUBLIC WORKS ON THE BOND.
AND WE CAN COME BACK AND GIVE YOU THAT INFORMATION AT A LATER DATE.
I, I, YOU HAVE UP THERE 125,000 TIMES EIGHT, THAT'S FOR THE CAMPAIGN, BUT WE KNOW ABOUT HOW MUCH EACH, ON AVERAGE, HOW MUCH A CROSSWALK COSTS.
AND YOU DO THAT TO FIND OUT, OKAY, YOU GOT THIS MUCH MONEY, YOU MAKE THAT DIVISION AND THAT WILL GIVE YOU AN APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF CROSSWALKS, MID, MID ROAD CROSSWALKS, WHATEVER, TO GIVE US A FEEL FOR HOW MANY WE'RE GONNA GET FOR THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY.
AND IS THAT A HUNDRED PERCENT OF OUR REQUIREMENT FOR THIS CITY OR IS THAT 10% OR IS THAT 10% OR 20%? I'M JUST, I JUST, I'M JUST SAYING THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE DATA ON THIS.
SO $250,000 IS THE COST ESTIMATE FOR A CONCRETE MID-BLOCK CROSSING.
SO HOW MANY ARE WE GONNA GET THEN? WHAT, WHAT'S THAT? SO WE ARE SAYING UP TO 28, BUT AGAIN, AS WE DO THE ANALYSIS BASED ON THE CONDITION OF THE ROADWAY, BASED ON OTHER FACTORS, IF THERE'S DRAINAGE REQUIREMENTS, THAT PRICE CAN CHANGE.
AND SO THE BASELINE IS $250,000 FOR EACH OF THESE LOCATIONS.
AGAIN, JUST LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS, WE'RE GETTING 28 4 7 AND WE'RE GETTING 9.6.
I WOULD THINK WE'D HAVE MORE COMING ON THE 9.6 THAN THE SEVEN.
COUNCILMAN, I'M GONNA UH, MOVE ON TO THE, IF YOU WANNA MOVE CHINA YEAH, BUT I'M GONNA, THE, I'M, WE'D BE HAPPY, HAPPY TO DISCUSS THE NUMBERS WITH YOU.
I'M STRAIGHT ON HERE 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT STRAIGHT ON HERE FOR ME.
THOSE, UM, THREE MONTH SAFETY, SAFETY CAMPAIGNS.
SO LIKE WHY ARE WE DOING PILOTS? IN WHAT WAY ARE THEY PILOTS? SO COLLIBRA IS THE PILOT BECAUSE IT'S THE FIRST ONE.
THE ONES AFTER THAT WILL NOT BE A PILOT, SIR.
SO HOW DO WE MEASURE SUCCESS LIKE AFTER THREE MONTHS? SO DO WE, I'M SO HAPPY YOU ASKED THAT BECAUSE PERFORMANCE MEASURES ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO COUNCILMAN PERRY.
SO HOW WE ARE MEASURING THE SUCCESS IS WE CURRENTLY, WE WILL BE HAVING ON OUR WEBSITE A SURVEY PROBABLY ONE TO THREE QUESTIONS, ASKING PEOPLE IF THEY HAVE SEEN THE CAMPAIGN AND IF THEY'VE CHANGED THEIR BEHAVIOR AS A RESULT OF THE CAMPAIGN.
ADDITIONALLY, WE WILL HAVE A SIMILAR SURVEY SURVEY FOR PEOPLE WHO RIDE THE BUS TO ASK THEM THE SAME QUESTION IF THEY NOTICE THE ADVERTISEMENT AT THE TRANSIT STOP.
AND ALSO FOR DRIVERS, IF THEY DROVE, IF THEY SAW THE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN, THE SAFETY CAMPAIGN ON THE BUSES.
SO WE'VE STRATEGICALLY LOCATED THEM.
JOE CONGER, OUR PR MANAGER, HAS STRATEGICALLY LOCATED THE SIGNAGE ON THE BUSES AND ALSO AT THE TRANSIT SHELTER.
SO AS NOT TO DISTRACT DRIVERS, BUT TO MAKE THEM AWARE AND ALSO TO MAKE THE PEDESTRIANS AWARE OF THE SIGNAGE.
SO THAT'S THE, THAT'S WHY IT'S A PILOT BECAUSE THIS IS OUR FIRST TIME DOING THIS.
IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT THE TEAM HAS DONE A SAFETY CAMPAIGN, BUT THE WAY IN WHICH WE'RE DOING IT TO COLLECT THE DATA, AND THAT IS REALLY CRITICAL AND ESSENTIAL SO THAT WE CAN PUT THE DATA, THE PRELIMINARY DATA FROM OUR FIRST PILOT INTO OUR GRANT APPLICATION TO SHOW THAT THE CITY IS INVESTING IN THIS OURSELVES.
AND WE'D LIKE THE GOVERNMENT TO HELP US, ASSIST US IN IMPLEMENTING THIS ACROSS THOSE REMAINING CORRIDORS.
SO, SO IT'S GONNA BE AT BUS STOPS ON BUSES, AND THEN ALSO BILLBOARDS.
AND WE'LL ALSO BE DOING, ONCE WE SEE THE SUCCESS OF THIS, WE ALSO WANNA DO THE YARD SIGNS AND BUSINESS SIGNS AS WELL.
DO WE KNOW WHERE THE SOUTH SAMOA CROSSINGS ARE AT? ARE THEY IN DESIGN OR READY FOR CONSTRUCTION? UM, AND IF I DON'T, AND WE COULD GET THAT OFFLINE, BUT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO SEE WHERE EACH OF THESE ARE, AND IF THEY'RE CURRENTLY IN CONSTRUCTION AND, AND DESIGN AND OR DESIGN RATHER.
UM, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE PROVIDED TO THIS COMMITTEE? YES, MA'AM, WE CAN.
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I DON'T THINK WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION, HOWEVER.
WITH A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE FLOOR.
UM, AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS TO SEND IT TO, UH, COUNSEL, OKAY? YES.
UM, ONTO ITEM FIVE, UM, FIRST I WANNA THANK COUNCILMAN PERRY AND BRAVO FOR SERVING ON A SUBCOMMITTEE THAT WENT THROUGH ALL THE APPLICATIONS AND PROVIDED THIS LIST OF CANDIDATES THAT WE'RE GONNA BE INTERVIEWING TODAY.
WE'LL INTERVIEW INDIVIDUALS FROM THE BUSINESS, COMMUNITY AND AVIATION INDUSTRY FOR THE, UH, THOSE SEATS.
EACH CANDIDATE WILL RECEIVE FIVE MINUTES FOR, UM, FOR QUESTIONS.
WE'RE GONNA GIVE THEM A MINUTE TO INTRODUCE.
WE HAVE, I BELIEVE, FIVE PEOPLE IN PERSON.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A NUMBER THAT ARE, ARE GONNA, THAT HAVE PROVIDED STATEMENTS THAT WILL BE READ BY AURORA.
UM, SO WE, WE DON'T, I WANNA MAKE SURE WE STAY ON TIME HERE, SO THEY'LL GET FIVE MINUTES EACH WITH ONE MINUTE FOR AN INTRODUCTION.
AFTER THE INTERVIEWS, THE COMMITTEE WILL GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AND DELIBERATE FOLLOWING OUR REVIEW.
IN AN EXECUTIVE SESSION, WE WILL RECONVENE AN OPEN SESSION AND MAY PROPOSE APPOINTMENTS FOR THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION FOR THE FULL CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER AND ACT UPON AT AN UPCOMING A SESSION.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL GO AHEAD AND, UM, START WITH, WE'LL START WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY POSITIONS.
THERE ARE TWO POSITIONS TO FILL AND FOUR INDIVIDUALS HERE TODAY FOR, IN, FOR INTERVIEWS.
SO WE'LL START WITH JEFF FAIR.
JUST NOTING THAT ONE OF THE CANDIDATES THAT'S GONNA BE IN PERSON, UM, DEBORAH, DEBORAH WILL BE, UH, HAS PROVIDED A STATEMENT SO SHE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE, AND I'LL PASS THOSE ON AT THAT TIME.
UM, YOU, YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ME SAY, WE'LL HAVE FIVE MINUTES FOR QUESTIONS, BUT ONE OF THAT, THOSE MINUTES WILL BE JUST FOR AN INTRODUCTION.
SO, UM, AND AURORA WILL HAVE A, A TIMER AND A BEEPER.
UM, SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
WELL, MADAM CHAIR, DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERATION OF MY APPLICATION.
UH, I AM, UH, VERY PROUD OF THE EFFORTS ALREADY BEING MADE BY OUR LOCAL AIRPORT SYSTEM, AND BELIEVE THAT THE ONLY WAY TO ENSURE SUCCESS IS TO CONTINUE TO BE AS INCLUSIVE AS POSSIBLE.
AND I THINK ONE OF THE KEY CONSTITUENCIES THERE IS THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
UM, IN MY ROLE AS THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR CYBERSECURITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AT THE SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, I, UH, I HANDLE ALL OF THE CHAMBER'S AVIATION, AEROSPACE, AND RELATED EFFORTS.
I ALSO FACILITATE THE CHAMBER'S AEROSPACE COMMITTEE.
WE'RE A GROUP THAT REPRESENTS BOTH SMALL AEROSPACE COMPANIES AND LARGE AVIATION BUSINESSES IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND WE BASICALLY DO FOUR THINGS AS A GROUP.
WE GROW THE AVIATION WORKFORCE.
WE PROVIDE SAN ANTONIO'S AEROSPACE INDUSTRY.
UM, WE PROMOTE IT OUTSIDE OF OUR REGION.
WE PROMOTE NEW TECHNOLOGY LIKE VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING AND COMMERCIAL SPACE SECTOR.
AND WE SET THE CONDITIONS FOR THE INDUSTRY TO GROW AND THRIVE.
AND THAT INCLU THAT INCLUDES NOT JUST, UH, THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE AIRPORT, BUT ALL ASPECTS OF THE AIRPORT SYSTEM HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
UM, I'M GONNA, UM, START WITH A, A QUESTION THAT WE'LL GO AROUND TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UM, WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION'S ROLE IN REGARDING FUTURE AIRPORT EXPANSION? I THINK THE COMMISSION IS GONNA BE AN AID TO THE AIRPORT SYSTEM LEADERSHIP AND BRING IN ALL VOICES FROM ACROSS THE COMMUNITY.
AND IN MY CASE, I THINK I'M WELL PLACED TO HELP BRING MANY VOICES IN FROM THE, UH, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
UM, UH, COUNCILMAN CASTILLO? THANK YOU, CHAIR.
ARE THERE ANY INITIATIVES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UH, UH, EXPLORED WHEN
UH, THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION.
I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF GREAT PLANS RIGHT NOW FOR BOTH TERMINALS AND THE, UH, TRANSPORTATION CENTER.
BUT IN TALKING TO SOME OF THE AIRPORT TEAM ALREADY, UH, I THINK MAKING SURE THAT THAT TRANSPORTATION CENTER IS, UH,
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IS CONSTRUCTED WITH THE FUTURE IN MIND.SO FOR THE NEXT TWO TO THREE DECADES, MAKING SURE THAT ADVANCES LIKE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING AIRCRAFT ARE CONSIDERED AS THAT GROWS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
UM, JUST IN YOUR, YOUR OPINION, AND I'M SURE YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING EVERYTHING THAT'S KIND OF GOING ON AT THE AIRPORT.
WHAT, WHAT IS THE MOST PRESSING ISSUE AT THE AIRPORT TODAY? HONESTLY, I THINK IT'S AROUND THE AIRPORT, SIR.
WE'VE SEEN SOME STAKEHOLDERS IN THIS TOWN TALK ABOUT THE AIRPORT AS A LIABILITY WHEN THERE ARE MANY STRENGTHS OF OUR CURRENT AIRPORT.
AND THAT THE PLAN RIGHT NOW BUILDS ON THAT STRENGTHS AND ADDRESSES SOME OF OUR, I WOULDN'T SAY WEAKNESSES, BUT AREAS THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY STRENGTHS.
AND SO I THINK IT'S COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW ABOUT WHERE WE'RE GOING.
I THINK THE PLAN IS A SOLID PLAN.
UH, BUT I THINK THAT IF THERE IS ONE THING THAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON, IT'S MAKING SURE WE UNDERSTAND THE DEMAND AND THE DEMAND OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
AND, UM, UH, YOU WORK AT THE CHAMBER, UH, AND WHAT IS YOUR TIME COMMITMENT TO THIS, THIS COMMITTEE? SO, THE, THE COMMITTEE THAT I RUN, UH, IS FULLY INVESTED IN MAKING SURE THAT THIS COMMISSION AND SUPPORTING THIS COMMITTEE.
UH, SO, UH, I'M SURE THAT MOST OF MY MEMBERS WOULD WANT ME TO BE HERE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY'S VOICE IS HEARD.
UM, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT, UH, THE CHAMBER AND SMALL BUSINESS' VISION AND PRIORITIES ARE FOR THE AIRPORT? WELL, FOR THE AIRPORT, I THINK IT'S AN, IT'S AN AIRPORT.
SO WE HAVE LOTS OF AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES, BOTH AT THE PORT AND THE AIRPORT.
SO YOU HAVE FOLKS THAT ARE TRAVELING ON BUSINESS TO AND FROM, AND PEOPLE WHO ARE OPERATING IN AND AROUND THE AIRPORT.
AND SO RIGHT NOW, I THINK IT IS JUST MAKING SURE THAT THE AIRPORT MAINTAINS THE, THE CAPACITY AND GROWS ITS CAPACITY TO MEET THE, WHAT THEY SEE IS THE POST COVID INCREASE IN DEMAND.
I MEAN, THERE ARE ARTICLES OUT THERE NOW SAYING THE INDUSTRY IS, IS REBOUNDING NICELY AND MAY OR MAY NOT BE AFFECTED BY, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE MAY SEE IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AS FAR AS THE ECONOMY.
AND YOU MENTIONED LIABILITIES AROUND THE AIRPORT.
CAN YOU TELL US, CAN YOU EXPAND ON THAT A LITTLE BIT? WELL, I THINK A LOT OF FOLKS SEE, LIKE, THERE'S NOT AS MANY ROUTES COMING OUT OF OUR AIRPORT OR, OR NOT CERTAIN TYPES OF ROUTES AS THEY'RE COMPARING APPLES TO ORANGES WITH OTHER AIRPORTS EITHER IN OUR REGION OR, UH, NATIONALLY.
BUT OUR AIRPORT SERVES WHAT DEMAND WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.
THERE'S ALWAYS IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE, BUT I THINK AS WE LOOK AT HOW SAN ANTONIO WAS GROWING, WHAT INDUSTRIES ARE GROWING AND WHAT ROUTES THOSE DRIVE, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE GOOD DATA COLLECTION.
UM, WE'LL GO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT.
UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME TODAY, AND WE'LL CALL IN PAUL WILLIAM BISHOP.
WE'LL, UM, WE HAVE ABOUT FIVE MINUTES WITH YOU TODAY AND WE'LL ASK, UM, WE'LL OFFER YOU A MINUTE FOR INTRODUCTION AND THERE'LL BE A TIMER AND A BEEPER.
UH, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO.
I REMEMBER AS A CHILD, THE SMELL OF MY PILOT DAD.
WHEN HE CAME HOME, HE SMELLED LIKE SWEAT AND JET EXHAUST.
HE FLEW FOR THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD AND THEN US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PATROL, AND THEN, UH, A, A BIG CARGO COMPANY AFTER THAT.
SO WHEN I GREW UP, I JOINED THE AIR FORCE AND BECAME A MAINTAINER SERVING IN SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN CUTTER IN LAS VEGAS.
AND SO EVERY TIME I WAS OUT ON THE FLIGHT LINE, I WOULD SMELL SWEAT AND JET EXHAUST FOR THE BETTER HALF OF A DECADE BEFORE, UH, EVENTUALLY BECOMING AN ATTORNEY AND HAVING THE PRIVILEGE ACTUALLY OF WORKING WITH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN HDA, WHICH WAS VERY NICE.
I REMEMBER MARSHALING AANS AND F SIXTEENS INTO HANGERS ON THE FLIGHT LINE AT OSAN AIRBASE IN SOUTH KOREA.
I REMEMBER A PIN OF GUINNESS WITH MY PILOT GRANDFATHER AT AN IRISH PUB IN JAPAN WHILE HE WAS ON A LAYOVER NEAR NIDA.
AND I REMEMBER SAND BLOWING UP INTO OUR SHOP WHEN A B ONE LANCE'S TIRE EXPLODED ON THE RUNWAY IN QATAR.
I REMEMBER THE RUSH OF FIREFIGHTERS TO THE PLANE, I REMEMBER BEFORE THAT NINE 11, AND WONDERING IF MY DAD AND GRANDFATHER
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WOULD MAKE IT HOME.AIRPORTS CAN BE FUN, EXCITING PLACES OF ADVENTURE AND REUNION, BUT, UH, UNDERNEATH THAT ROMANTIC GLOW FOR THE TRAVELER, FOR THE TRAVELER IS A SERIOUS SYSTEM OF PEOPLE, MONEY, TECHNOLOGY, FUEL, SAFETY, AND LABOR.
THANK YOU, PAUL, THAT THAT WAS YOUR MINUTE.
UM, WE HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR YOU AND, UM, WITH THE COMMITTEE'S PERMISSION, I'M JUST GONNA GO IN THE SAME ORDER EVERY TIME THAT I DID LAST TIME.
UM, HOW DO YOU SEE THE, THE ROLE OF THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION REGARDING FUTURE AIRPORT EXPANSION? WELL, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A $2 BILLION BOND PROJECT TO EXPAND THE SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE, THE MISSION OF THE, THE ADVISORY COMMISSION IS TO ADVISE THE DIRECTOR OF AVIATION OR THE AVIATION DIRECTOR.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN AVIATION DIRECTOR RIGHT NOW, DO WE? OKAY.
I DIDN'T SEE HIM ON THE WEBSITE, SO, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING THEM IF I'M
BUT THE IDEA IS, I DON'T REALLY HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, UH, BUT THERE'S 19 OF US ON THIS COMMISSION, SO IF I HAVE THE ANSWER, YOU KNOW, ONE MONTH OUT OF THE 12 THAT WE HAVE IN A YEAR, THEN I'VE DONE SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
I REALLY APPRECIATED YOUR PROFESSIONAL HISTORY AND CERTIFICATION DESIGNATION.
UM, MY QUESTION IS, ARE THERE ANY INITIATIVES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT EXPLORE, AND IF SO, WHAT ARE THOSE INITIATIVES? UM, I'M COMING TO THIS WITH FRESH EYES AND I, I REALLY DON'T WANT TO, I DON'T HAVE AN AGENDA OR ANYTHING.
I ACTUALLY APPLIED TO A FEW OF THESE POSITIONS AND I JUST WANNA SERVE IN SOME CAPACITY.
SO, LIKE A LOT OF YOUR PROJECTS, I'M GONNA DO SOME DATA, UH, DISCOVERY AND MAYBE MULL OVER SOME QUESTIONS IN MY SLEEP AND THEN COME TO THESE MEETINGS WITH FRESH QUESTIONS FOR THE DIRECTOR AND, AND EVERYONE ELSE.
COUNCIL MA CASTILLO, COUNCILMAN PERRY.
UM, IN TODAY'S AIRPORT, WHAT, IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING AT THE AIRPORT? UH, SAFETY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING AT THE AIRPORT.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE YOUR NEIGHBORS.
AND, UH, PLANES ARE DANGEROUS IMPLEMENTS.
YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT GIANT JET TURBINES AND YOU GET SUCKED UP IN THERE.
UH, THEY GO REAL FAST, SO YOU DON'T WANNA GET RUN OVER BY ONE.
THERE'S A LOT OF EQUIPMENT ON THE FLIGHT LINE THAT COULD HURT SOMEBODY.
SO, UH, SAFETY IS PROBABLY THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.
'CAUSE IF SOMEBODY GOES DOWN THE AIRPORT SHUTS DOWN FOR, UH, TIME AND THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR US.
IT'S NOT GOOD FOR THE CITY, IT'S NOT GOOD FOR TRAVELERS.
AND THAT'S HOW, HOW MUCH, UM, TIME CAN YOU PLEDGE TO THIS COMMITTEE? UH, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE COMMITMENT IS ONE THURSDAY EVERY MONTH, AND I CAN PLEDGE THAT TO THIS POSITION.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING IN TODAY, PAUL.
ROBERTS, WE GOING ACROSS, YOU'RE GOING ACROSS FOR YES.
UH, WE HAVE FIVE MINUTES WITH YOU TODAY AND ONE MINUTE FOR AN INTRODUCTION.
AND THERE'S GONNA BE A, A BEEPER THAT WILL LET YOU KNOW YOUR MINUTES UP.
I PREPARED FOR TWO, BUT I'LL OH, OKAY.
UM, SO MY NAME IS JEREMY ROBERTS.
I'M A SENIOR STRATEGY CONSULTANT WITH ADOBE CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER WITH S ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF MARKETING A AND M SAN ANTONIO BOARD MEMBER.
I'M ALSO THE CHAIR FOR THE S A C.
AND I'VE SPENT THE LAST 15 YEARS, OR EVEN MY WHOLE LIFE TRAVELING IN AND OUTTA THE AIRPORT.
AND I'VE STARTED THINKING ABOUT WHAT IS MY WHY, WHAT CAN I CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COMMISSION? I DON'T HAVE THE SAME LEVEL OF AVIATION EXPERIENCE, BUT I THOUGHT I WORKED ON A PROJECT, UH, BETWEEN ADOBE AND AXIOM AND HEATHROW AIRPORT, UM, CONNECTING GEOLOCATION, PROMOTIONAL MESSAGING SO THAT WE'RE ABLE TO WORK TO IDENTIFY PASSENGERS WALKING THROUGH THE AIRPORT TO IDENTIFY PROMOS,
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WORKED WITH AIRPORT, UM, AIRLINE TERMINAL DATA, INTEGRATING THAT INTO GEOLOCATION GEOFENCING TO DETERMINE PASSENGER MOVEMENT PATTERNS FOR MARKETING PURPOSES.UM, I BRING TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN DATABASE DECISION MAKING, DIGITAL MARKETING TECHNOLOGY, CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING, PUBLIC SPEAKING, ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE, ECOSYSTEMS AND GROWTH.
UM, TRYING TO LOOK AT HOW I COULD COMPLIMENT, AND FOR ME IT'S THAT DATA STRUCTURE, ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT THAT I COULD BRING.
WHAT, HOW, WHAT ROLE DO YOU SEE THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION, UH, PLAYING REGARDING AIR FUTURE AIR AIRPORT EXPANSION? I BELIEVE IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A BODY THAT BRINGS IN DIFFERENTIATED OPINIONS.
I LOOK AT THE CONCEPT OF, UM, CHANGE IN TRANSFORMATION AS A, BASICALLY AN EQUATION.
IT'S AN EQUATION OF DIVERSITY, CHAOS AND TRANSFORMATION OR CHANGE.
YOU BRING IN LEVELS OF DIVERSITY INTO THE ROOM, DIFFERENT OPINIONS, A LITTLE BIT OF CHAOS TO WHERE YOU SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, EVEN AS WE EVEN HAD TODAY, I DON'T REALLY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT IT.
AND THEN ALSO THE FACT THAT YOU'RE GOING TO INNOVATE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE CHANGE.
AND SO SOMETHING HAS TO BE DIFFERENT IN ORDER FOR IT TO COME THROUGH.
UM, THE WAY I SEE THIS COMMISSION COMING TOGETHER IS BEING ABLE TO TAKE THOSE DIFFERENTIATED OPINIONS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE BEST RESOLUTION POSSIBLE.
IT'S NOT REALLY WITH JUST THE PURVIEW OF HAVING 30 YEARS OF AVIATION EXPERIENCE, BUT IT'S ALSO UNDERSTANDING HOW THE AIRPORT FALLS WITHIN AN ECOSYSTEM WITHIN THE CITY.
I MEAN, IF YOU LOOK AT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO COMPARED TOP THREE CITIES OR TOP FOUR CITIES IN TEXAS, THEY ALL HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON EXCEPT US.
THEY HAVE A LARGE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND THEY HAVE TOLL ROADS, AND WE DON'T.
SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? SO THERE HAS TO BE AN ECOSYSTEM CHANGE.
THERE HAS TO BE A CHANGE ON HOW, UM, THE AIRPORT HELPS WITH OUR GROWTH, HELPS WITH POPULATION GROWTH IN PARTS OF THE CITY, HOUSING, EVERYTHING.
SO FOR ME, IT'S THAT DIFFERENTIATED VIEW OF LOOKING AT THINGS.
ARE THERE ANY INITIATIVES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT EXPLORER? IF SO, WHAT ARE THOSE INITIATIVES? I WOULD BE REMISS TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING SPECIFIC.
I HAVE YET TO LOOK AT WHAT SOME OF THOSE INITIATIVES ARE, AND I'VE YET TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT ANY OF THE DATA.
'CAUSE I DON'T HAVE A PURVIEW TO THAT.
I DO NOT MAKE DECISIONS BASED ON GUT FEEL.
I DO NOT MAKE DECISIONS BASED ON HEARSAY OR WHAT I'VE HEARD FROM OTHER PEOPLE.
I LIKE TO SEE THE DATA FOR MYSELF AND MAKE DECISIONS FROM THERE.
AND SO FOR ME, WITHIN A SITUATION, WITHIN A COMMISSION, WITHIN A MEETING, THAT'S WHERE I MAKE MY DECISIONS.
COUNCILMAN PERRY, WHAT IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST ISSUE AT THE AIRPORT THAT YOU I TRAVEL A LOT TO SOUTH AMERICA.
I CAN ONLY GO DIRECTLY TO MEXICO CITY OUT OF SAN ANTONIO.
WE HAVE TO DRIVE TO AUSTIN TO GO TO SOUTH AMERICA.
IF WE ARE TRYING TO BRIDGE A CORRIDOR BETWEEN SOUTH AMERICA, LATIN AMERICA, AND SAN ANTONIO IS THAT HUB TO LATIN AMERICA.
MY ENTIRE COMPANY SHOULD NOT BE DRIVING TO AUSTIN JUST TO FLY OUT THERE.
SO I THINK THE BIGGEST THING IS TRULY WE NEED TO BUILD AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT THAT'S, THAT PROVIDES FOR THAT.
WHAT I DO, TRAVEL EVEN DOMESTICALLY.
I ALWAYS GOTTA GO THROUGH DALLAS.
I ALWAYS GOTTA GO THROUGH HOUSTON AND I AM KILLED WITH COST.
AND SO FOR SOME REASON, IT, I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE CANNOT GROW AS AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
AND HOW MUCH TIME CAN YOU PUT TO THIS COMMITTEE? AS MUCH AS NEEDED? I'M ACTUALLY HERE TODAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK, SO I MAKE MY OWN SCHEDULE.
UM, IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS TO WHERE I'M ALLOWED TO BE ABLE TO COMMIT FOR AS MUCH AS NEEDED.
UH, SIMILAR BEING THE CHAIR FOR THE SBA C I AM THERE WHEN NEEDED.
COUNCILMAN PERRY, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCILMAN BRAVO.
I THINK YOUR ANSWER FOR COUNCILMAN PERRY'S KIND OF COVERED MY QUESTION, BUT, UM, WHAT, SO OTHER THAN, UM, DIRECT FLIGHTS, WHAT ELSE DO YOU SEE AS, AS PRIORITIES OR, UM, ISSUES TO ADDRESS CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE? SAN ANTONIO IN NATIONAL AIRPORT IS NOT ONE OF THOSE AIRPORTS THAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT AND SAY, WOW, DID YOU SEE THAT AIRPORT? OR, I HAD A GREAT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE.
SO IT'S REALLY HARD TO, TO GAIN REVENUE FOR SOME OF THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE THERE IF YOU'RE NOT HOLDING PEOPLE THERE, EXCEPT THROUGH LAYOVERS, I'VE TRAVELED ALL ACROSS THE US ACROSS THE WORLD TO EVERY AIRPORT.
I DO LOVE THE FACT THAT I CAN GET IN AND OUTTA THE AIRPORT IN ABOUT 10 MINUTES.
I NEVER CHECK A BAG, I JUST GO STRAIGHT THROUGH BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I DO IT.
BUT THE THING IS, OUTSIDE OF THAT, I BELIEVE WE HAVE A CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE PROBLEM.
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THERE'S BEEN SURVEYS OUTSIDE OF THAT.
WE'VE DONE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS TO MAKE IT LOOK GREAT.
BUT JUST FUNCTIONALLY AS, AS FAR AS
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CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, I DON'T FEEL IT.THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING IN TODAY.
UM, MARK RAMIREZ, WHAT I'M DOING,
WE HAVE FIVE MINUTES WITH YOU TODAY, MR. RAMIREZ, AND ONE MINUTE FOR INTRODUCTION, AND THERE'LL BE A BEAT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE, THE MINUTE'S UP.
UH, I AM MARRIED AND PROUD TO SAY THAT I HAVE THREE GOOD, BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS.
I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, AND I GREW UP ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF TOWN, UH, IN THE SHADOW OF JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL.
PAUL'S CATHOLIC, UH, SCHOOL, AND, UH, I ALSO, UH, ATTENDED CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, WHICH HAS BEEN, HAS BEEN AN ICON IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
UH, AND I GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF, UH, INCARNATE WORD WITH A DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
UM, A LOT OF MY CHARACTERS DEVELOPED FROM MY PARENTS.
MY PARENTS, MY MOTHER GREW UP, UH, ON, ON THE WEST SIDE IN THE CHIHUAHUA COURTS WHILE HER FATHER WAS IN THE NAVY.
MY FATHER, UH, THEY BOTH ATTENDED LINEAR HIGH SCHOOL AND THEY RAISED SIX CHILDREN.
MY MOTHER AND FATHER PUT A HUGE EMPHASIS ON EDUCATION.
AND SO CONSEQUENTLY, ALL OF HER CHILDREN GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADUATED FROM UNIVERSITY.
SOME, EXCUSE ME, SOME OF US GOT ADVANCED DEGREES.
UM, AND THE OTHER THING IN MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE, I, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, MR. RAMIS.
UM, ACTUALLY, WE'RE GONNA GO RIGHT INTO QUESTIONS.
BUT I LOST MY QUESTION, SO YOU HAVE TO GIMME ONE SECOND, SIR.
YOU GET A EXTRA POINTS FOR WAITING, GETTING
UH, WHAT ROLE DO YOU SEE THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION'S, UM, COMMISSION PLAYING REGARDING FUTURE AIRPORT EXPANSION? I'M SORRY, COULD YOU REPEAT THAT QUESTION? YES, SIR.
WHAT ROLE DO YOU SEE THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION PLAYING REGARDING FUTURE AIRPORT EXPANSION? OH, I THINK IT PLAYS A, A VERY LARGE ROLE, UH, FROM BOTH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND FROM, UH, HAVING EXPERIENCE IN BEEN IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY FOR OVER 30 YEARS, UM, TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD.
I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT AIRPORTS AND SEE, UH, DIFFERENT SIZE AIRPORTS, NOT JUST IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT AROUND THE WORLD.
AND, UH, AND I, AND I'VE GROWN UP IN THIS CITY.
I'VE LIVED HERE FOR OVER 53 YEARS.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I'VE SEEN THE AIRPORT GROW.
UH, AND I THINK THAT THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE CAN HELP, UH, ADD TO THAT GROWTH AND, UH, ALLOW IT TO, UM, BETTER SERVE THE COMMUNITY THAT WE, UH, ARE CURRENTLY, UH, WITH OUR CURRENT SIZE.
UM, I THINK CORRIDORS, UM, COULD BE EXPANDED UPON, BUT I, HAVING SEEN OTHER AIRPORTS AROUND THE WORLD, I, I THINK THAT THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES, UH, BUT I KNOW THAT WE'RE LIMITED BY SIZE AND, UH, SQUARE F, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, FOOTPRINT.
SO I WOULD NEED TO SEE MORE OF WHAT WAS BEING RECOMMENDED.
COUNCILMAN PERRY, THANK YOU FOR COMING IN TODAY.
IN, IN YOUR OWN OPINION, WHAT DO YOU THINK, UH, OR WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE BIGGEST ISSUE HERE AT OUR AIRPORT SIZE? I THINK THAT THE CITY OF THIS SIZE, UH, REALLY, UH, IS DESERVES AN AIRPORT THAT HAS, UH, IF YOU GO TO AUSTIN, FOR EXAMPLE, AND YOU LOOK AT WHEN THEY TOOK OVER STROM AIR FORCE BASE AND CONVERTED THAT TO, UH, A VERY MODERN, UH, AIRPORT, THEY HAD THE FOOTPRINT AVAILABLE AND THE, UH, ACREAGE AVAILABLE TO EXPAND THAT OPERATION.
I THINK THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S LIMITED IN THE, IN THE SIZE OF THE AIRPORT.
AND, AND YOU'RE, YOU'RE, UM, ALREADY AT YOUR, AT YOUR BREAKING POINT.
UM, SO HOW YOU UTILIZE THAT SPACE, UH, EFFECTIVELY IS REALLY GONNA BE CRITICAL.
AND HOW MUCH TIME ARE YOU GONNA BE ABLE TO, UH, DEVOTE TO THIS COMMITTEE? HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO ANSWER?
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SO, UM, I GREW UP IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY.I STARTED WHEN I WAS 22 YEARS OLD.
UM, I HAVE A, A LOVE FOR AVIATION.
I DID IT FOR 30 YEARS, 20 YEARS AS A CIVIL SERVICES, UH, PERSON.
IN 10 YEARS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, I'VE TRANSITIONED OVER TO THE NON-PROFIT WORLD WHERE I'VE REALLY FOUND MY PASSION, UH, WORKING WITH A MISSION-BASED COMPANY.
UH, BUT IT AS A, AS A CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER FOR, UH, A BLIND ORGANIZATION, UM, IT AFFORDS ME THE TIME, UH, THAT I NEED TO, UM, KIND OF SET MY OWN SCHEDULE.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COUNCILMAN BRA? SURE.
SO, UH, OTHER THAN, UH, YOU KNOW, EXPANDING THE AIRPORT AND DRESSING THE SIZE, WHAT'S YOUR VISION FOR THE SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT? WHAT DO YOU, OR, UH, WHAT ARE YOUR PRIORITIES? SO, UH, COUNCILMAN, I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY PRIORITIES.
UM, I CAME INTO THIS, UH, OPPORTUNITY, UH, SOMEBODY BROUGHT IT TO ME AND, UM, SUGGESTED THAT I ADD MY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN AEROSPACE AND IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, UH, TO HELP, UH, FORMULATE A PLAN.
UH, SO FOR ME, I, I THINK THAT THE, THE SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO, TO BE A WORLD CLASS, UH, ORGANIZATION, UH, AIRPORT, UM, THAT COMPETES WITH, UH, CITIES LIKE SAN ANTONIO AND EL PASO AND, UH, OTHER, UH, LOCAL, REGIONAL AIR, UH, AIRPORTS, INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS.
UM, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I, I HAVE NO AGENDA GOING INTO THIS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR, FOR COMING IN TODAY.
WE'LL HAVE, UH, UNDERSTAND THAT MARK FESSLER IS HERE AFTER ALL.
THIS IS FOR A DIFFERENT CATEGORY.
THOSE, THOSE, UM, LAST FOUR INTERVIEWS WERE FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY CATEGORY.
THE NEXT, UH, INTERVIEW WILL BE FOR THE AVIATION INDUSTRY.
MR. FESSLER, WE'LL HAVE AT LEAST TWO STATEMENTS CORRECT.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.
WE HAVE FIVE MINUTES WITH YOU THIS AFTERNOON, AND WE'LL ALLOW ONE MINUTE, UM, FOR AN INTRODUCTION, AND THERE'LL BE A BEEP THAT I, YOU KNOW, THAT YOUR MINUTES UP.
I HAD TWO MINUTES PREPARED, SO LET'S JUST THROW THAT TO THE SIDE.
I'M THE CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION.
IT'S AN HONOR TO STAND IN FRONT OF YOU AGAIN TODAY.
KEEP WONDERING HOW LONG YOU'RE GONNA WANT ME TO KEEP COMING, BUT, UM, I'VE, I'M A CAREER, UM, AVIATION PROFESSIONAL.
BEEN DOING THIS FOR ABOUT 25 YEARS, THIRD GENERATION AVIATOR.
UM, MY DAUGHTER, OLDEST DAUGHTER IS ON THE WOMEN'S AIRBASE TEAM, FORNO, SHE'S OUT RACING IN FLORIDA RIGHT NOW.
MY SON 16 IS, UH, JUST STARTED HIS FIRST JOB WORKING ON THE FLIGHT LINE FUELING AIRPLANES.
I'M NATIVE SAN ANTONIO, AND IT'S BEEN AN HONOR TO SERVE IN THIS CAPACITY.
THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION, AS YOU KNOW, SERVES, UM, THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR AND ITS LEADERSHIP.
AND, UM, WE'VE GOT AN EXCITING FEW YEARS AHEAD OF US, AS ALL OF YOU KNOW.
SO WITH THAT, THAT'S KIND OF WHO I AM.
SO I'M GONNA ASK THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION.
IF YOU'RE A SAN ANTONIO NATIVE, WHERE DID YOU GO TO HIGH SCHOOL?
UM, BACK TO THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
WHAT ROLE DO YOU SEE THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION PLAYING REGARDING FUTURE AIRPORT EXPANSION? IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE BECAUSE, AS YOU KNOW, THIS COMMISSION IS, IS HOPEFULLY WHEN IT'S STAFFED WELL, IT'S MADE UP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE VERY DIVERSE AND BRING A LOT OF DIFFERENT GIFTINGS TO THOSE MEETINGS THAT WE HAVE EACH MONTH.
UM, SO REALLY THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION IS INTEGRAL IN, IF I CAN GIVE YOU SOME INSIGHT INTO THE INSIGHT OF OUR MEETINGS, WHAT, WHAT WILL HAPPEN A LOT OF TIMES IS WE'LL GET CERTAIN BRIEFINGS FROM THE AIRPORT MANAGEMENT, AND THEN THIS DISCUSSION WILL START, AND YOU'LL HAVE PEOPLE AROUND THE TABLE THAT HAVE BEEN TRAVELING, AND THEY'LL SEE A GOOD IDEA AT ANOTHER AIRPORT.
THEY'LL HAVE SOMETIMES JUST A FRESH IDEA THAT NO ONE'S EVER THOUGHT OF.
AND SO THAT, THAT'S WHAT KIND OF GOES INTO THIS THINK TANK THAT HOPEFULLY, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, ASSIST THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR AND HIS STAFF.
WE DO NOT ALWAYS COME UP WITH GREAT IDEAS.
SOME OF THE MEETINGS ARE, ARE KIND OF BORING.
UM, BUT IT'S, UH, THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION IS VERY IMPORTANT.
I BELIEVE IN BEING ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT THE, WE CAN BE A SOUNDING BOARD TO THE, TO THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR AND TO STAFF.
THEY COME UP WITH IDEAS, OR IF CONSULTANTS HAVE PRESENTED IDEAS, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK ABOUT THE RENTAL CAR, UH, FACILITY THAT
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WE ENJOY NOW.THAT WAS ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT CAME OUT OF AN AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING MANY, MANY YEARS AGO.
SO IT'S THAT TYPE OF THING THAT I THINK THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION IS, IS VERY INTEGRAL IN, IN HELPING THE CITY AND HELPING THE AIRPORT.
UM, ARE THERE ANY INITIATIVES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE AIRPORT EXPLORE OR CONTINUE TO WORK IN YOUR POSITION? IF SO, WHAT ARE THOSE? YEAH, THERE ARE, AND, AND I FEEL LIKE WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE RUNNING DOWN THAT TRACK RIGHT NOW, THAT THE, WE HAVE THE BEST LEADERSHIP, IN MY OPINION.
UM, THEY'LL GIMME $5 FOR SAYING THAT, HOPEFULLY A LITTLE MORE.
BUT BEST LEADERSHIP, ALL KIDDING ASIDE, THE BEST LEADERSHIP, I THINK, IN OUR AIRPORT'S HISTORY, AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN HERE AT LEAST.
UM, SO THE, THERE'S A LOT OF, OF, UM, PARALLEL AND ALIGNMENT THAT WE HAVE.
AS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU FLY IN AND OUT OF OUR AIRPORT, YOU KNOW, THE CORRIDORS ARE NARROW, THE RESTROOMS ARE NOT PLENTIFUL ENOUGH.
UM, BUT YOU WILL FIND THAT OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS AMAZING.
SO WE, WE EXCEL IN A LOT OF THINGS, BUT I THINK, UM, UH, SOME INITIATIVES, WOULD THEY ALL ALIGN WITH THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT YOU GUYS JUST APPROVED A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO? AND, YOU KNOW, SAN ANTONIO, LIKE I SAID, IS VERY GOOD AT CUSTOMER SERVICE, BUT WE'VE FALLEN BEHIND IN TERMS OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO I THINK IN THE DAYS TO COME, WHAT WE'LL SEE IS AN AIRPORT THAT WE CAN BE PROUD OF.
IT'LL HAVE THE CAPACITY TO HANDLE OUR GROWTH.
UM, IT'LL HAVE THE CAPACITY TO HAVE MORE RESTAURANTS, MORE AREAS FOR MOMS AND CHILDREN AND BUSINESS PASSENGERS, TOURISTS, YOU KNOW, ALL THE DIFFERENT TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT USE OUR AIRPORT.
SO, UM, I THINK, I THINK NEWER FACILITIES, BIGGER FACILITIES, MORE EFFICIENT FACILITIES, AND REALLY FINALLY USING THE LAND THAT WE HAVE THERE, WHICH, AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, IN THAT STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN, WHAT WE IDENTIFIED WAS THAT OUR LOCATION IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST BENEFITS THAT WE HAVE AS A CITY OF OUR AIRPORT.
VERY FEW CITIES CAN ENJOY, UH, THEIR MAJOR AIRPORT THAT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY WHERE IT'S CLOSE PROXIMITY TO DOWNTOWN, THE NORTH SIDE, THE SOUTH SIDE, THE WEST SIDE, THE MEDICAL CENTER.
AND SO WE ACTUALLY, I THINK, SOMEWHAT ACCIDENTALLY FELL INTO THIS POSITION WHERE WE HAVE A GYM THERE.
AND IN THE NEXT FIVE OR SIX YEARS, I THINK IT'S GONNA BE SOMETHING WE CAN REALLY BE PROUD OF.
UM, IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT'S THE SINGLE BIGGEST ISSUE AT THE AIRPORT RIGHT NOW? UM, OKAY.
THIS WON'T BE A GOOD TALKING POINT, BUT FOR ME PERSONALLY, WHEN I TRAVEL COMMERCIALLY, THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE I SEE IS WHEN I GET OFF OF ONE OF OUR AIRPLANES HERE, IT'S CROWDED.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT, UM, IT'S NOT OPEN AND INVITING IN THE WAY THAT IT NEEDS TO BE.
AND, YOU KNOW, YEARS AGO WHEN OUR FACILITIES WERE BUILT, THEY FELT WIDE AND OPEN AND THEY FELT WELCOMING.
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU HEAR PEOPLE A LOT OF TIMES TALK ABOUT A SENSE OF PLACE WHEN IT COMES TO OUR AIRPORTS.
AND I THINK WE'VE BEEN CONTINUALLY IMPROVING THAT SO THAT WHEN YOU GET OFF OF AN AIRPLANE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN SAN ANTONIO, BUT JUST, IF I'M JUST BEING HONEST WITH YOU, I FEEL LIKE IT'S TOO SMALL.
WE NEED, WE NEED, WE NEED BIGGER, AND WE NEED MORE.
AND THAT SOUNDS HORRIBLE TO SAY, BUT 'CAUSE BIGGER IS NOT ALWAYS THE ANSWER RIGHT.
UM, YOU'VE BEEN THE CHAIRMAN, UM, BUT HOW MUCH MORE, I MEAN, HOW MUCH TIME WOULD YOU, HOW MUCH MORE LIFE DO I HAVE IN ME? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SAY?
I DON'T LIKE, I JUST LIKE TAKING CARE OF MY FAMILY AND TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, DO BUSINESS.
AND, UM, BUT I'LL TELL YOU, I'M GLAD THAT I GOT TRICKED INTO APPLYING.
IT'S BEEN A VERY REWARDING EXPERIENCE.
I GET TO WORK WITH REALLY SOME AMAZING PEOPLE, UM, IN, AT THE AIRPORT.
UM, HOW MANY YEARS DO I HAVE LEFT IN ME? I DON'T KNOW.
I, I FEEL LIKE YOU GUYS WILL LET ME KNOW WHEN MY TIME IS UP, IF I QUIT BEING, UM, BENEFICIAL TO, TO THE CITY IF I QUIT, IF I START RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS.
SOME COULD ARGUE I ALREADY HAVE RUN OUT OF IDEAS, BUT, UM, I LOVE DOING THIS.
MY KIDS ARE GROWING UP HERE, AND, UM, I JUST SEE SO MUCH POTENTIAL AT OUR AIRPORT.
AND I'M A CRIER, SO I MAY GET A LITTLE TEARY ABOUT IT, BUT I JUST THINK WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO IT RIGHT.
AND I CAN SEE MYSELF IN A, A RECLINER 20 YEARS FROM NOW GETTING TO SAY, HEY, GRANDKIDS.
I, I WAS A PART OF THAT, YOU KNOW, I WAS A PART OF THE GROUP THAT DID THAT.
SO THE ANSWER IS, AS LONG AS Y'ALL WANT ME, YOU KNOW.
I'M, I'M 51, SO THAT'S THE NEW 28.
UM, SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF YEARS LEFT.
YOU, YOU MENTIONED A, UH, CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE, AND DO YOU ALL HAVE, UM,
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ANY ARCHITECTS THAT ARE HELPING GUIDE YOU IN THAT? YES.UM, THERE'S, WELL, NEXT TIME YOU'RE WITH THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR, WE CAN BRING A PRESENTATION TO YOU.
BUT WE'VE HAD, UM, KAKA, DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THEY CALL 'EM? THEY'RE THE, THEY'RE THE DESIGN STANDARDS THAT WE'VE NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'VE PUT TOGETHER, UH, DESIGN STANDARDS FOR THE AIRPORT.
SO NOW ANYTHING NEW THAT'S BUILT, WE'LL START TO SHOW SIMILARITIES AND YOU'LL START TO SEE THAT SIGN OF SAN ANTONIO WITH EVERYTHING NEW THAT WE BUILD AS WE REMODEL PARTS OF THE AIRPORT THAT ARE GONNA STAY, YOU'LL SEE THAT ALL START TO COME TOGETHER NOW TO WHERE YOU WON'T REALIZE I'M IN TERMINAL A OR I'M IN TERMINAL B.
AND YOU KNOW, I FIND THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT THE, OUR AIRPORT, AND I'M WONDERING TO WHAT EXTENT AND WHAT EFFORTS HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD IN THE PAST OR, OR WHAT IDEAS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE FUTURE FOR HOW WE CAN COMMUNICATE TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE, YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE ARE THE REASONS WHY WE DON'T HAVE MORE DIRECT FLIGHTS RIGHT NOW, OR MORE INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS, OR THESE ARE THE CHALLENGES WE'RE DEALING WITH.
THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE BEING ADDRESSED JUST TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
HAVE YOU EVER SAID SOMETHING AND IT WAS USED AGAINST YOU? YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU KNEW WHAT YOU MEANT WHEN YOU SAID IT, BUT IT WAS TAKEN IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT AVIATION OR YOU TALK ABOUT AIRPORTS, UH, FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T IN AVIATION, THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND AIRPORT TERMINOLOGY.
A LOT OF TIMES THINGS CAN BE MISUNDERSTOOD.
WE NEED TO HAVE BETTER COMMUNICATION WITH THE COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND.
AND, AND I, I'LL SIT AT LUNCH WITH A, UH, ANOTHER C E O AND THEY'LL POUND THEIR FIST, WELL, WHY DON'T WE HAVE MORE DIRECT FLIGHTS? OR, WHY DON'T WE HAVE A FLIGHT TO THIS CITY OR THAT CITY? AND IF YOU CAN SIT THEM DOWN WITH, UM, AN AIRLINE REPRESENTATIVE, OR WITH THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR IN ABOUT 10 MINUTES, THEY CAN UNDERSTAND, OH, IT'S NOT A, IT DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE BEING LAZY.
WE'RE JUST SITTING ON OUR LAURELS.
IT MEANS THAT THERE'S A RIGHT WAY TO ACCOMPLISH THAT.
AND IF WE GO ABOUT IT THE RIGHT WAY, WE MAY BE ABLE TO GET THAT ROUTE, BUT IT'S NOT JUST A, YOU KNOW, POUND YOUR FIST AND IT COMES, UM, IT'S AS, YOU KNOW, AS MARKET DRIVEN.
SO, SO IF WE WANT THREE NONSTOPS TO BOSTON, WE HAVE TO HAVE THE MARKET THAT WILL FILL THE AIRPLANES TO GET THE AIRLINES TO INCENTIVIZE TO COME IN AND COMPETE FOR THAT ROUTE.
SO I THINK TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WE COULD, WE COULD ALWAYS DO A BETTER JOB, I THINK, OF COMMUNICATING TO THE PUBLIC.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO SAY TO THIS GROUP HERE, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT ONE OF, ONE OF THE BIGGEST, UM, BENEFITS, I THINK OF THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION.
THESE, THESE COMMISSIONERS, WHEN THEY'RE OUT AT PARTIES ON THE WEEKENDS, WHEN THEY'RE OUT AT THEIR COMPANIES THAT THEY WORK FOR, THEY SERVE AS A MOUTHPIECE FOR THE AIRPORT.
AND SO SINCE I'VE BEEN THERE, WE'VE SEEN A REALLY, UM, GOOD IMPROVEMENT IN COMMUNICATION ON THINGS LIKE NONSTOP FLIGHTS ON THINGS LIKE THE DELAYS DURING HOLIDAYS OR PARKING ISSUES, OR THE RENTAL CAR FACILITY.
SO THESE COMMISSIONERS ARE REALLY HELPFUL, HELPFUL WHEN YOU GUYS ARE, WHEN WE'RE ALL SLEEPING, THEY'RE OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, TALKING AND COMMUNICATING AND, AND THE THINGS THAT WE UNDERSTAND, THEY HELP TO, TO HELP THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND BETTER AS WELL.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING IN TODAY.
WE HAVE, UM, A STATEMENT FROM, UH, CHRISTOPHER MEDINA.
YOU GONNA READ THAT OVER? YES, MA'AM.
AND, UH, CHRISTOPHER MEDINA AND SAMANTHA LOPEZ ARE FOR THE AVIATION INDUSTRY, TO WHOM I MAY CONCERN.
GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO CONSIDER MY APPLICATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE CITY'S AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION.
I WILL, I HAVE, I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF SAN ANTONIO SINCE 1989, AND HAVE WORKED IN THE LOCAL AVIATION INDUSTRY SINCE 1998.
I'M CURRENTLY SERVING AS GENERAL MANAGER OF LOU MARTIN ASSOCIATES AND AVIATION MANUFAC MANUFACTURING FIRM, WHERE WE DESIGN AND BUILD WINDOW SHADE SYSTEMS AND COMPOSE SHELL KITS FOR AIRCRAFT INTERIOR CABINS.
ALONG WITH L M A I ALSO, I AM ALSO EMPLOYED WITH MY EMPLOYER SUBSIDIARY TECHNICAL COMPOSITES CORPORATION AS QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER, AN AVIATION MANUFACTURING FIRM, WHICH MAN MANUFACTURERS COMPOSITE PANELS FOR L M A AND OTHER AVIATION BASED BUS BUSINESSES, BOTH DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY.
IN MY FREE TIME, I AM HISTORIC AND OF LOCAL HISTORY FOCUSED ON WHERE THE SAN ANTONIO HOSTED THE OFFICIAL 1968 WORLD'S FAIR HEMISPHERE, 68.
INCLUDED IN MY RESEARCH OVER THE PAST 16 YEARS IS AN INTEREST IN THE SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT PRE HEMISPHERE 68 UPGRADES AND SERVICE FROM HEMISPHERE 68 AND THE REDEVELOPMENT SINCE THE FAIR, INCLUDING THE CURRENT MASTER PLAN, I LOOK FORWARD TO AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THE A A C TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMISSION IN PROMOTING THIS S A T SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, AS WELL AS IDENTIFYING CURRENT ISSUES TO WORK FOR A 21ST CENTURY AIRPORT TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEYOND, I BELIEVE MY 24 YEAR BACKGROUND IN THE LOCAL AVIATION INDUSTRY AND 16 YEAR LONG INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF OUR GREAT CITY, INCLUDING THE SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT,
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AND ITS SERVICE TO THE CITY, CAN BRING GREAT BENEFIT TO THE A A C.THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION OF MY APPLICATION.
SINCERELY, CHRISTOPHER MEDINA, A STATEMENT FOR SAMANTHA MARTINEZ.
DEAR TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY COMMITTEE, FROM THE MOMENT I SAW AN AIRCRAFT TAKE OFF AT THE MACALLAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN 2013, I KNEW THE DIRECTION OF MY CAREER HAD FOREVER CHANGED.
SINCE THEN, I HAVE WORKED WITH U P S AIRLINES FOR THE PAST NINE YEARS OF MY 16 YEAR CAREER, IN WHICH I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK ALONGSIDE OTHER AIRPORTS AND TENANTS.
WHEN I FIRST STARTED WITH U P SS IN 2006, I WORKED PART-TIME WHILE I ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE, NOW KNOWN AS U T G R G V.
MY GOAL WAS TO LEAVE U P S ONCE I GRADUATED OR GRADUATED, HOWEVER, THAT CHANCE, ONCE I WAS OFFERED A FULL-TIME, THAT CHANGE ONCE I WAS OFFERED A FULL-TIME POSITION.
NOW, 16 YEARS LATER, I AM THE DIRECTOR FOR U P S AIR OPERATIONS IN SOUTH TEXAS, IN WHICH I OVERSEE THE LOGISTICS OPERATIONS OF SIX AIRPORTS, SAN ANTONIO, AUSTIN, EL PASO, HOUSTON, L R D AND M F E.
SORRY, DON'T KNOW THOSE ABBREVIATIONS.
PRIOR TO MY CURRENT ASSIGNMENT, I WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THE NORTH TEXAS OPERATIONS, WHICH INCLUDED THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH, LUBBOCK, OKLAHOMA CITY, AND TULSA AIRPORTS.
I AM A HIGHLY MOTIVATED AND DRIVEN INDIVIDUAL WITH A PASSION FOR CHANGING THE STATUS QUO.
I AM A MEMBER OF THE U S P U P S HISPANIC AND WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS RESOURCE GROUPS, WHERE WE FOCUS ON MENTORING OTHER YOUNG PROFESSIONALS AND PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE THEIR SKILL SET FOR FUTURE PROMOTIONS WITHIN OUR ORGANIZATION.
I RECEIVED NUMEROUS AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS THROUGHOUT MY CAREER.
MOST RECENTLY, THE SAN ANTONIO U P S OPERATION WAS RANKED NUMBER ONE IN DECEMBER, AND FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER IN 2021, AMONG 27 US DOMESTIC OPERATIONS.
IN MARCH OF 2222, THE HOUSTON U P S OPERATION ALSO WAS RANKED NUMBER ONE FOR ALL US DOMESTIC OPERATIONS.
IN ADDITION, I WAS HONORED TO BE SELECTED AS A ROLE MODEL FEATURE FOR SA WOMEN'S MAGAZINE, FOR THEIR MARCH APRIL, 2022 EDITION.
I WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION BECAUSE I CAN BRING A DIVERSE PERSPECTIVE WITH MY EXPERIENCE IN AVIATION, TRANSPORTATION, AND LOGISTICS.
MY GOAL IS TO ENHANCE POLICIES AND STRATEGIC PLANNING TO IMPROVE OUR AIRPORT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDER CONSIDERATION SINCERELY.
OKAY, THOSE, UH, THREE APPLICATIONS WERE FOR THE AVIATION INDUSTRY.
NEXT WE'LL MOVE TO, UM, ACTUALLY IS THAT ALL OUR IN PERSON? SHE, SHE WAS NOT UNABLE TO ATTEND.
WE'RE PASSING OUT THE STATEMENT FOR, UH, MS. AMLE, UH, JAR JARMAN.
AND SO THIS IS GONNA BE FOR THE COMMUNITY, UH, POSITION.
AND WE HAVE THREE SLOTS FOR THAT.
AND I'LL BE READING FOUR STATEMENTS.
AS A COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION, I BRING A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE.
I'M A RETIRED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, HOME FORMER HOSPITALITY COMPANY OWNER, COMMUNITY ADVOCATE, VISIT SAN ANTONIO, BOARD MEMBER AND C E O OF THE CITY'S OF CITY'S ONLY AMERICAN MUSEUM.
MY INSIDE COOPER COOPERATIVE NATURE AND ZEAL FOR THE FORWARD PROGRESS OF OUR CITY MAKES ME A GREAT FIT.
I LOOK FORWARD TO BENEFIT TO CONTINUING SERVING AS A MEMBER OF THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
BLESSINGS IN PEACE, DEBORAH OMO, JARMAN
THE NEXT STATEMENT IS FOR ROGER DILLARD.
I REGRET THAT I AM UNABLE TO ATTEND THE COMMITTEE MEETING TODAY AT ONE 30.
I AM IN COLORADO FOR THE SUMMER AS A CAMP COOK AT MY CHILDREN'S SUMMER CAMP.
I HAVE GREATLY ENJOYED MY TIME ON THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION.
THESE PAST FEW MONTHS, THE PEOPLE THAT I HAVE MET AND IDEAS THAT I HAVE HEARD HAVE BEEN AMAZING.
I LOOK FORWARD TO OFFERING CONSTRUCTIVE IDEAS IN THE COMING YEAR TO ADD TO THE CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW TO KEEP OUR AIRPORT THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY AS AN EDUCATOR AND RESIDENT IN CO IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE AIRPORT, I HAVE A UNIQUE POINT OF VIEW THAT MAY OFFER VALUABLE INSIGHT FROM SOMEONE WHO IS NOT DIRECTLY TIED TO THE INDUSTRY.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT MEETING.
THE NEXT IS FROM WILLIAM PATTON GARRISON.
MY NAME IS WILLIAM PATTON GARRISON.
I CURRENTLY SERVE ON THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION.
I'M REQUESTING REAPPOINTMENT TO A SECOND TERM.
MY APOLOGIES FOR NOT PRESENTING MYSELF AND MY CREDENTIALS IN PERSON.
HOWEVER, I RETURNED FROM A BUSINESS MEETING IN DALLAS AND HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID.
I CUR CURRENTLY REPRESENT BOTH THE NORTHEAST NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE, MIKE GALLAGHER, PRESIDENT OAK PARK, NORTHWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, GINA GALVEZ,
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PRESIDENT.AS A N AVIATION EXPERT, I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN NEIGHBORHOOD NOISE ISSUES FOR THE PAST 25 YEARS.
I HAVE OVER 50 YEARS OF AVIATION EXPERIENCE.
THE F A A RECENTLY AWARDED ME THE WRIGHT BROTHERS MASTER PILOT AWARD, THEIR HIGHEST AWARD OVER THESE, THESE 50 YEARS I HAVE FLOWN INTO AND OUT OF SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AS BOTH A COMMERCIAL PASSENGER AND AS A PILOT.
I KNOW HOW S A T OPERATES, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, I KNOW HOW OTHER AIRPORTS OPERATE.
MY FAMILY AND I LIVE IN NORTHWOOD, A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS, THAT WAS DEVELOPED OVER 65 YEARS AGO.
IT IS A NEIGHBORHOOD MOST AFFECTED BY AIRPORT NOISE, AIRCRAFT NOISE.
I HAVE WORKED WITH AIRPORT AUTHORITIES AND F A A OFFICIALS TO MINIMIZE THOSE NOISE IMPACT OVER US IN ADJACENT NOISE IMPACTED AREAS FOR SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL TO REMAIN IN ITS CURRENT LOCATION, NEIGHBORHOOD COOPERATION IS REQUIRED.
I ALSO BRING REALITY TO THE TABLE.
SS A T IS A MEDIUM SIZED AIRPORT.
JESUS AND HIS TEAM, JESUS AND HIS TEAM, SORRY ABOUT THAT, WANT TO MAKE SS A T THE BEST MID SIDE AIRPORT THAT IT CAN BE.
I WOULD APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE A PART OF THAT DREAM BECOMING REALITY PROCESS.
I AM REQUESTING REAPPOINTMENT TO THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION.
UM, CHERISE GUPTA SUBMITTED HIS APPLICA, HIS HIS RESUME.
SO IF YOU'D LIKE, I CAN, I CAN READ HIS, UM, EXPERIENCE PROFILE.
CHERISE GUPTA HAS MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE INVOLVING SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, INSTALLATION OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, AD ADMIN, ADMINISTRATION, AND INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS. HE HAS IMPLEMENTED A NUMBER OF INFORMATION SYSTEM PROJECTS AT VARIOUS MANAGEMENT LEVELS FOR TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, AND HAS PARTICIPATED IN RESOLVING LABOR MANAGEMENT ISSUES FOR TRANSIT AGENCIES.
CICE IS A PROFICIENT, IS PROFICIENT IN A VARIETY OF SYSTEMS, HARDWARE INCLUDING SERVERS, STORAGE DEVICES, COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT AND PROCESSORS, AS WELL AS OTHER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT.
HE'S ALSO PROFICIENT IN A VARIETY OF COMMERCIAL SHELF AND CUSTOM DEVELOPED SOFTWARE FOR TRANSPORTATION.
MR. GUPTA HAS DIRECT HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE IN THE MANAGEMENT, DESIGN AND FIELD IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FULL GAMUT OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INCLUDING C C T V, ACCESS CONTROLS, SECURITY, WIRELESS NETWORK, RADIO, PUBLIC ADDRESS, AND TELEPHONE INTERCOM, AS WELL AS THE ASSOCIATED NETWORK COMMUNICATION BACKBONES AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO SS C A D A FOR TRANSPORTATION.
THOSE ARE THE LAST OF THE STATEMENTS.
UH, AURORA, THE TIME IS NOW THREE 20.
UM, MADAM, UM, IT WAS ALSO BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION THAT THE SUBCOMMITTEE HAS INTERVIEWED THE THREE APPLICANTS THAT HAVE, UM, THAT WILL BE, THAT THEY RECOMMEND DIRECT AND, UH, DIRECT APPOINTMENT OR DIRECT CONSIDERATION TO THE FULL COUNCIL.
AND THAT IS UNDER THE F A A CATEGORY, ORAL JACKSON.
MYRA LEVY AND JOHN GRISEL FOR, I'M TRYING TO SEE WHAT FOR THE GROUND TRANSPORTATION.
UM, AGAIN, TO THE COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR, UH, THOSE INTERVIEWS.
WE WILL NOW, UM, TIME IS NOW 3:24 PM ON TUESDAY, JUNE 21ST, 2022.
AND THE CITY COUNCIL TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE WILL NOW RECONVENE.
WILL NOW, UH, RECESS INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DELIBERATE THE APPOINTMENT OF THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.074 PERSONNEL MATTERS AND DISCUSS RELATED LEGAL ISSUES PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071, CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY SECOND.
OKAY, UH, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND, PLEASE VOTE.
CITY COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER THE APPOINTMENTS OF THE, OF THOSE APPLICANTS SHOWN ON THE TABLE ABOVE FOR TERMS EITHER ON MARCH, ENDING, EITHER ON MARCH 17TH, 2024 AT THE FIRST AVAILABLE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME TODAY AND PLEASE REMEMBER OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE IN AUGUST.
THE BEING THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE TODAY.