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>> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
THE TIME IS NOW 2:11 P.M. ON MAY 5TH, 2026. THE MEETING OF THE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE IS CALLED TO ORDER.
MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE CALL ROLL?
>> CLERK: CHAIR, WE HAVE QUORUM. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: THANK YOU. WE HAVE A RELATIVELY SHORT AGENDA TODAY, BECAUSE I PUT IT TOGETHER AND I LIKE THINGS TO BE SUBSTANTIVE. THANK YOU.
TODAY, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THREE ITEMS. ONE IS MINUTES, OF COURSE.
ONE IS GOING TO BE A FOLLOW-UP BRIEFING ON COUNCIL CONSIDERATION REQUEST BY COUNCIL MEMBER ALDERETE GAVITO. WE DID HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL DROP OUT OF THE RUNNING FOR THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION, SO WE WILL BE RECONSIDERING SIX APPLICANTS FOR THAT. I WILL START OFF BY ENTERTAINING A
>> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: ALL IN FAVOR? MOTION CARRIES.
MADAM CLERK, ARE THERE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SIGNED UP TO SPEAK?
K >> CLERK: NO, CHAIR. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: ITEM TWO, A COUNCIL CONSIDERATION REQUEST BY COUNCIL MEMBER ALDERETE GAVITO ON LOWERING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS IN THE CITY AND IMPROVING SAFETY ON NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS.
>> PETEREK: YOU ASKED FOR SUBSTANTIVE SO HERE I AM. ART REINHARDT, PUBLIC WORKS.
APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS ON REVIEWING OUR NEXT STEPS ON TRYING TO LOWER SPEED LIMITS IN RESIDENTIAL STREETS.
JUST A BRIEF REMINDER AS WE GET STARTED ON WHAT THE CONCEPT OF PRIMA FACIE IS.
BY STATE LAW, BY DEFINITION, PRIMA FACIE IS REALLY A DEFAULT SPEED LIMIT BASED ON REASONABLE AND PRUDENT SPEEDS FOR OPERATING ON A ROADWAY IN TEXAS.
WITHIN STATE LAW, THERE ARE DIFFERENT LIMITS SET FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROADWAY.
THE ONE WE ARE FOCUSED ON IS WHAT'S CONSIDERED A RESIDENTIAL STREET OR URBAN DISTRICT. BY STATE LAW, THAT'S 30 MILES AN HOUR.
IF THERE WERE NO SIGNS POSTED ON A STREET, THAT'S WHAT THE DEFAULT SPEED LIMIT IS.
SO THAT'S REALLY THE ONE THAT THE CCR WAS FILED ABOUT, AND WE WILL BE DISCUSSING MORE IN DEPTH TODAY. I SHOULD NOTE, THERE ARE, I WILL COVER THIS MORE IN DEPTH IN A COUPLE SLIDES, BUT SPECIFIC PROCESSES FOR LOWERING THAT PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT THAT WE WILL TALK ABOUT. THE SO BY BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE CCR, REALLY T GOAL WAS PRETTY SIMPLE. IT'S TO IMPROVE SAFETY ON NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS. THERE WERE SEVERAL THINGS THAT WERE POINTED OUT IN THE CCR, IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO DO THAT, SUCH AS LOWERING SPEED LIMITS WITHIN A QUARTER MILE OF SCHOOLS OR OTHER PLACES OF GATHERING, OBVIOUSLY INSTALLING THE REQUIRED SPEED LIMIT SIGNAGE, HEIGHTENING ENFORCING IN THOSE AREAS, AND THEN WORKING AS WE HAVE TRIED MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS TO CHANGE STATE CODE REQUIREMENTS.
BRIEF HISTORY ON THE CCR, IT WAS FILED A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO BY DISTRICT 7.
THE TEAM HAS GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS OF BRIEFING THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE, AND MOST RECENTLY, THERE WAS A BRIEFING IN DECEMBER AT THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE AND THEN SINCE JANUARY, WE HAVE BEEN KIND OF WORKING ON WHAT WE ARE CALLING OUR PILOT PROGRAM. SO WHY IS SPEED SO IMPORTANT? I KNOW YOU ALL UNDERSTAND THIS, BUT FOR THE BROADER PUBLIC, IT'S CRITICAL COMPONENT OF BOTH LOCAL AND NATIONAL POLICY ON SAFETY. LOCALLY, YOU KNOW, VISION ZERO WAS ADOPTED ABOUT A DECADE AGO. YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN, THE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN LIKELIHOOD OF FATALITIES AS SPEED INCREASES ON THE ROADWAYS.
OTHER EFFECTS OF HIGHER SPEEDS IS LOWERING OF OUR FIELD OF VISION AS WE'RE DRIVING, AS WELL AS REDUCING THE STOPPING, REACTION TIMES OF OUR DRIVERS.
NATIONALLY, THERE'S A CONCEPT CALLED SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH THERE.
ARE SIX DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES OF THAT. SPEED IS A PRIORITY OF ONE OF THOSE. ALL OF THEM BUT IT'S FOCUSED ON ONE OF THEM.
DEATH AND SERIOUS INJURIES ARE UNACCEPTABLE SO PART OF THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH IS FOCUSING ON ELIMINATING THOSE FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES ON THE ROADWAYS.
ALSO AN UNDERSTANDING THAT HUMANS MAKE MISTAKES SO AS WE DESIGN AND OPERATE OUR ROADWAYS, WE NEED TO HAVE THAT UNDERSTANDING THAT MISTAKES WILL HAPPEN AND TRY TO DESIGN AND OPERATE OUR SYSTEMS ACCORDINGLY. WHERE SPEED SPECIFICALLY COMES INTO CASE IS HUMANS ARE VULNERABLE. AS WE ARE SETTING POLICIES, WE NEED TO HAVE THAT PEOPLE-FIRST APPROACH IN OUR WORK.
ALSO, RESPONSIBILITY IS SHARED SO YOU ALL ALONG WITH OUR DESIGNERS, OUR OTHER POLICY MAKERS, PLANNERS, WE ALL HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY IN THE SAFETY OF OUR RESIDENTS AND VISITORS ON OUR ROADWAYS. SAFETY IS ALSO PROACTIVE. SOME OF THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE BY THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AND OTHERS LOOKING AT OUR INJURY NETWORK AND HIGH RISK NETWORKS USING DATA TO BE PROACTIVE APPNT IDENTIFY WHERE WE NEED IMPROVEMENTS IS
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PART OF THE PROCESS AND REDUNDANCY IS CRUCIAL. WHETHER IT'S SAFETY ON THE ROADWAYS OR IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR VEHICLES, IT'S A SHARED APPROACH.THAT'S ONE OF THE CONCEPTS WE WANTED TO STRESS ON IN THIS BRIEFING.
SPEEDS ARE A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF THE OVERALL PROCESS IN TRYING TO IMPROVE SAFETY ON THE ROADWAYS. BACK TO STATE LAW. WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT LOWERING OUR SPEED LIMITS, STATE LAW PROSCRIBES TWO BASIC WAYS TO DO THAT.
THE FIRST ONE ON THE SCREEN IS DOING AN ENGINEERING STUDY, USING THE RESULTS OF THAT STUDY TO THEN DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE SPEED LIMIT ON THE ROADWAY AND POSTING THE SIGNS INFORMING DRIVERS OF THAT LIMIT. THE SECOND WAY OTHER COMMUNITIES HAVE DONE THAT, THERE'S A COUPLE LOCAL EXAMPLES, WHERE AN ORDINANCE HAS BEEN PASSED DECLARING A NEW PRIMA FACIE DEFAULT SPEED LIMIT ON THOSE ROADWAYS.
THERE ARE SOME NUANCES TO THAT. BY STATE LAW, IT'S 25 MILES AN HOUR IS THE MINIMUM SPEED THAT YOU CAN DECLARE. IT'S ONLY SPECIFIC TO TWO-LANE ROADWAYS AND THEN ALSO, AS PART OF ANNUALLY TO PROVIDE ACCOUNTABILITY, YOU HAVE TO PUBLISH REPORTS ON CITATIONS, WARNINGS, AND CRASHES ON THOSE STREETS THAT HAVE THAT LOWERED SPEED LIMIT. SO THIS EXISTS TODAY PER STATE LAW. SO THE WAY WE WANTED TO GO ABOUT THIS IN OUR PILOT PROGRAM WAS TWO-FOLD. WE WANTED TO CONDUCT A BEST PRACTICE REVIEW.
WE KNEW THERE WAS SOME COMMUNITIES, ONES UP THE ROAD IN AUSTIN, THAT HAVE DONE THIS AND WE WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WITHIN TEXAS AND ELSEWHERE, HOW HAVE THEY APPROACHED IT AND WHAT ARE THE BEST PRACTICES. SEX SECONDLY, WE WANTED TO TEST OUT THE DATA ASPECT OF IT. ABOUT A DECADE AGO, WE INSTALLED LOWER SPEED LIMIT SIGNS IN NINE NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE CITY.
THERE WERE 44 SIGNS WE POSTED AND WE DID DATA COLLECTION AT OVER 200 LOCATIONS.
WHAT WE OBSERVED IS ABOUT HALF THE LOCATIONS SAW AN INCREASE IN SPEED MINOR AND HALF SAW A DECREASE SO IT WAS INCONSISTENT. AS PART OF THE PROCESS, WE WANTED TO TEN YEARS LATER SEE IF BEHAVIORS CHANGED. THAT WAS THE SECOND COMPONENT. SO BACK IN FEBRUARY, WE INSTALLED 10 25 MILE AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT SIGNS THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR AND DID DATA COLLECTION BEFORE AND AFTER.
AGAIN, SIMILAR RESULTS. WE FOUND, YOU CAN SEE HERE, WE HAD DATA COLLECTION AT TWO LOCATIONS, ONE WAS ON ROSEMONTDRIVE. THE SPEED LIMIT WAS 31.6 MILES BEFORE AND AFTERWARDS, 31, SO SLIGHT DECREASE THERE. SIMILAR FINDINGS IN THE OTHER DIRECTION AS WELL AS THE OTHER LOCATION. AGAIN, POINTING TO THE FACT THAT WE KNOW, WE HAVE SHARED THIS IN THE PAST, SIGNS THEMSELVES HAVE LIMITED INFLUENCE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE DRIVER. THERE'S OTHER APPROACHES, ENGINEERING, ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER THINGS AS WELL. BUT AGAIN, WE WANTED TO TEST THIS OUT. ALSO, AS PART OF THE BEST PRACTICE REVIEW, WE LOOKED AT DIFFERENT CITIES, BOTH WITHIN TEXAS AND ACROSS. WHAT WE FOUND IS AUSTIN IS THE ONLY MAJOR CITY IN TEXAS THAT HAS KIND OF DONE A UNIFORM CITY-WIDE APPROACH TO THIS. WE ALSO WANTED TO SEE IN SOME OF THE OTHER STATES THAT HAVE A SIMILAR STATE LAW CONSTRAINT AS US WHAT WAS DONE THERE.
SO WE PICKED THREE, THERE WERE MORE THAN THREE CITIES BUT WE'RE SHOWING THREE HERE TO SUMMARIZE. SO WE LOOKED AT DIFFERENT POLICY DRIVERS, LEGAL AUTHORITIES THEY OPERATE AND KIND OF THE OVERALL STRUCTURE OF THEIR PROGRAM.
BOTH AUSTIN AND KIRKLAND IN WASHINGTON HAVE VISION ZERO LED APPROACH.
AUSTIN HAS A SPECIFIC SPEED PRIORITY FOCUS, WHEREAS KIRKLAND LOOKED AT A TRANSPORTATION, COMPREHENSIVE SAFETY ACTION PLAN AS PART OF THEIR WORK.
THE CITY IN CALIFORNIA WE WERE LOOKING AT WAS GLENDORA, NORTHEAST OF LA.
THEIR FOCUS IS COMPLIANT ON STATE LAW REQUIREMENTS. CALIFORNIA HAS A PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD PROCESS ON SETTING SPEED LIMITS AND THE LOWERING PROCESS AS WELL.
THAT'S KIND OF HOW THEY APPROACHED THIS, IS TO BE COMPLIANT WITH STATE LAW.
THE DIFFERENT LEGAL AUTHORITIES, AGAIN, AUSTIN OPERATES UNDER THE SAME CONSTRAINTS THAT WE DO. WITHIN WASHINGTON, ONE THING I WILL NOTE IS THAT IN THE DEFAULT SPEEDS THERE, THEY ARE 25 MILES AN HOUR FOR RESIDENTIAL STREETS BUT WITHIN WASHINGTON AND CALIFORNIA, IT'S AN ENGINEERING-BACKED DETERMINATION ON WHEN YOU LOWER YOUR SPEED LIMIT, SIMILAR TO TEXAS.
THE PROGRAM IN AUSTIN, THERE ARE -- AN ORDINANCE WAS ENACTED IDENTIFYING DIFFERENT SPEED LIMITS FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROADWAYS AND OVER THE YEARS, THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH A PROGRAMATIC APPROACH ON HOW THEY HAVE IMPLEMENTED THAT.
WHAT WE LIKED ABOUT THE KIRKLAND APPROACH IS IT KIND OF BALANCED A LOCAL DEFAULT FOR DIFFERENT CONTEXTS, WHETHER IT'S RESIDENTIAL HIGHER CLASSIFICATION ROADWAYS, CORRIDOR SPECIFIC STUDIES.
IF IT'S A UNIQUE TYPE OF ROADWAY, ARTERIAL ROADWAY, DOING YOUR TYPICAL CORRIDOR TYPE STUDY TO SET THE APPROPRIATE LIMIT. IN GLENDORA, IT'S A SMALLER CITY BUT THEY DID A CITY-WIDE TRAFFIC STUDY AND ESTABLISHED SEGMENT-SPECIFIC SPEED LIMITS ON THEIR ROADWAY BASED ON THE VARYING CONTEXTS. JUST KIND OF WRAPPING UP, AGAIN, WHAT WE ARE FINDING THROUGH OUR REVIEW IS REALLY, THE BEST WAY WE RECOMMEND TO
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MOVE FORWARD IS THROUGH THIS FIRST OPTION IS STATE LAW. AGAIN, DOING THE UP-FRONT WORK TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE SPEED LIMIT AND THEN TRY TO MAKE A BROAD DECISION BASED ON THE COMPREHENSIVE STUDY. THAT'S WHAT WE WILL FWATALK ABOUT IN THE NEXT SLIDES. BASED ON A REVIEW TO REALLY ADDRESS THE GOALS OF THE CCR, WE ARE RECOMMENDING A TWO-PRONG APPROACH. THE CCR TALKED ABOUT RESIDENTIAL STREETS BUT ALSO MENTIONED THE IMPORTANCE OF LOWERING SPEED LIMITS ON ARTERIAL ROADS AS WELL, ESPECIALLY IN URBAN CONTEXT OR RESIDENTIAL CONTEXT.WHAT WE WILL WANT TO DO IS BASICALLY THE GOAL IS TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY TO THEN MAKE A DETERMINATION ON OUR RESIDENTIAL ROADWAYS ON THE APPROPRIATE SPEED LIMIT FOR WHAT WE WOULD DETERMINE TO BE A NEIGHBORHOOD STREET, AND SECONDLY, COME UP WITH A POLICY FOR THOSE HIGHER LEVEL ROADWAYS, WHETHER IT'S IN URBAN ARTERIAL THAT HOMES ARE FRONTING OR MAYBE IT'S A TRANSIT CORRIDOR, ET CETERA, TO THEN STUDY THOSE IN DEPTH OVER TIME TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE SPEED LIMIT.
BUT AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, ALL THIS ALONE WON'T SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGE DRIVER BEHAVIOR. WE WILL EITHER NEED TO WORK ON ENFORCEMENT, WE KNOW THAT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE. ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL HAVE TO DO IS COME UP WITH A ROBUST COMMUNITY OUTREACH CAMPAIGN, TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT.
IF YOU THINK BACK TO THINGS LIKE CLICK IT OR TICKET OR DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS, SOMETHING THAT STICKS WITH PEOPLE, TO TRY TO INFLUENCE DRIVER BEHAVIOR.
SO THE NEXT STEPS IS WE STILL HAVE SOME WORK TO DO OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
WE WANT TO BASICALLY REFINE, ASSUMING WE HAVE DIRECTION FROM YOU ALL, TO REFINE THE SCOPE OF WORK THAT WE WANT TO UNDERTAKE FOR THIS STUDY, SO THAT WE CAN DEVELOP A COST FOR THAT AND PROPOSE THAT DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
SHOULD WE GET FUNDED FOR IT, WE WOULD PROCEED WITH DEVELOPING THE FRAMEWORK FOR THAT AND BRINGING BACK A POLICY FOR CONSIDERATION TO BE ADOPTED.
THAT'S WHAT WE WILL WORK ON OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. AS WE GO THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS, WE WILL BE FINALIZING THE RECOMMENDATIONS THERE TO THEN BE CONSIDERED BY COUNCIL. SO WITH THAT, I WILL ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS.
>> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: THANK YOU. WOULD YOU MIND GOING TO SLIDE SEVEN FOR ME? SO WHEN -- SO I IMAGINE, SO THE 10 SIGNS THAT WERE PLACED
THERE, DID THEY REPLACE PREVIOUS SPEED LIMIT SIGNS? >> REINHARDT: SOME WERE REPLACED AND SOME WERE NEW. BASED ON THE WAY KANTMAN IS, WE HAD TO TRY TO CAPTURE PEOPLE AS THEY WERE COMING OFF THE SIDE STREETS. SOME OF THOSE SPEED LIMIT SIGNS WERE NEW AND SOME WERE PROBABLY A REPLACEMENT OF THE TYPICAL 30 MILE AN HOUR.
>> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: OKAY. IF YOU HAD ASKED ME WHAT I THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF THIS PILOT, I WOULD HAVE SAID THAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKELY STILL SPEED BUT THEY WOULD SPEED ABOVE -- SO IF THE SPEED LIMIT IS CURRENTLY 30 AND THEY'RE GOING 35, INSTEAD, THE SPEED LIMIT WILL BE 25, THEY MIGHT GO 30, 31. IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. AND THAT AS YOU SAID, IT DOESN'T -- IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THE SIGNS HAVE MUCH INFLUENCE ON THE SPEEDS AT WHICH SOMEBODY DRIVES, AND I WOULD THINK THAT PEOPLE DRIVE IN A WAY THAT FEELS NATURAL, AND SO A LARGE PART OF CONTROLLING DRIVER BEHAVIOR IS GOING TO BE THE WAY THAT WE DESIGN ROADS AND SPEED BUMPS AND MEDIANS AND THE LIKE, BUT THEN YOU'LL LOOK AT AREAS WHERE WE DO HAVE MEDIANS AND BULB-OUTS AND SPEED BUMPS AND PEOPLE ARE DRIVING OVER THE SPEED LUMPS, FLYING, THEY ARE DRIVING OVER MEDIANS, NOTHING OVER SIGNS, RUNNING INTO FENCES.
TO ME, SAN ANTONIO, WE HAVE A PROBLEM. WE CAN CHANGE SPEED LIMIT SIGNS, WE CAN ADD SPEED BUMPS, WE CAN RE-ENGINEER AND REDESIGN ROADS BUT IF YOU DON'T CHANGE THE WAY THAT YOU DRIVE AND THE WAY THAT YOU TREAT OTHER DRIVERS ON THE ROAD AND THE COMMUNITY THAT YOU LIVE IN, NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE.
SO THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS I THINK HAVE TO HAPPEN. I THINK MAYBE THAT SORT OF CAMPAIGN YOU ALLUDED TO, CLICK IT OR TICKET, DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS, I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THAT FOR A FEW YEARS NOW AND NOTHING SOUNDS AS CATCHY AS STOP SPEEDING BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO KILL CHILDREN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE -- IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE CONFUSING. K COULD YOU GO TO 10? I WANT TO REMEMBER WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY. I APPRECIATE THE RECOMMENDATION AND I THINK I WOULD BE HAPPY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PATH.
I AM EXPERIENCING THE SAME FRUSTRATION THAT I'M SURE MANY OF US ARE AND MANY IN
THE COMMUNITY ARE. >> REINHARDT: YOUR SILENCE IS DEAFENING.
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I THINK ALL OF US SHARE THAT. THAT GOES BACK TO THE BEHAVIOR THING.GOOD EXAMPLE IS THE SCHOOL ZONE, RIGHT? THE ROAD ISN'T CHANGING, IT'S A BEHAVIOR THING. THERE'S FLASHING LIGHTS OR SIGNS THAT TELL PEOPLE TO SLOW DOWN BUT IT'S KIND OF INGRAINED IN SOCIETY, YOU'RE IN A SCHOOL ZONE DURING THOSE HOURS, YOU NEED TO SLOW DOWN. THAT'S THE THING BEHIND THE MESSAGING, IS TO TRY TO DRILL THAT IN. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ON THE FRAN SINFRASTRUCTURE.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAMS, OTHER PROGRAMS.
IT TAKES MORE THAN THAT BECAUSE FUNDING IS LIMITED. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: ON THE TOPIC OF DATA AND I GUESS A LITTLE BIT OF THAT PROCESS THAT INVOLVES REPORTING MECHANISMS AND WHATNOT, I HAVE -- THE TICKETS THAT I'VE GOTTEN HAVE ALL BEEN ON HIGHWAYS AND WHAT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO ME IS IF WE HAVE ANY DATA ON CITATIONS AND WHERE THEY'RE HAPPENING AS WELL AS WHERE ARE OFFICERS SPENDING MOST OF THEIR TIME.
BECAUSE IF THE GOAL IS TO -- IF SOMEONE IS MAKING A QUOTA OR SOMEONE WANTS TO STOP SPEEDING, THE EASIEST PLACE THEY WILL GO IS ON A HIGHWAY, AND I WONDER IF A LOT OF THE CALLS THAT HEY, I WANT TO SEE MORE POLICE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, THEY'RE SPEEDING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, I NEED SPEED BUMPS, ARE POLICE PATROLLING, ARE THEY STOPPING SPEEDING IN NEIGHBORHOODS? WHERE ARE THEY SPENDING THE BULK OF THEIR TIME? AND IF THEY ARE SPENDING THE BULK OF THEIR TIME ON HIGHWAYS, IS THAT EFFECTIVE IN THE REST OF OUR GOALS AS IT RELATES TO POLICING AND POLICE PRESENCE? AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT DATA THAT WOULD REQUIRE BUT I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN, I GUESS WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO IS WHERE ARE CITATIONS HAPPENING, WHERE ARE POLICE SPENDING MOST OF THEIR TIME, AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT MIGHT HELP US I GUESS DETERMINE IF WE ARE BEING AS EFFICIENT AND AS DILIGENT, I GUESS, IN OUR PLACEMENT OF OFFICERS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. TO THAT END, COUNCIL MEMBER ALDERETE GAV TOESHITO, THIS IS R CCR. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR
THOUGHTS. >> GAVITO: THANK YOU. TO COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ'S REPORT, OBVIOUSLY SPEEDING IS A HUGE I ISSUE FOR ALL OF US. WE KNEW CHANGING THE SIGNS WOULD NOT BE THE SILVER BULLET ANSWER. IS IT PART OF A SOLUTION? THAT'S WHAT WE WANTED TO TEST OUT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK.
I KNOW THAT IN THE EVENINGS ALL OF US GO TO NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS AND THIS IS WHAT WE HEAR ABOUT ON A CONSISTENT AND REGULAR BASIS. SO I DO FEEL WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, IF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE OTHER SOLUTIONS THAT WE CAN DO TO BUILD ON TO THIS, LET'S DO IT.
BECAUSE THIS IS A PERSISTENT PROBLEM, YOU'RE RIGHT, SAN ANTONIO, WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH SPEEDING. I LOVE THE THOUGHT OF A CAMPAIGN, A CITY-WIDE CAMPAIGN AROUND THIS, BECAUSE WHILE WE CAN QUICKLY CHANGE THE SIGNS ON KAMPMANN, AGAIN, A LOT OF THESE FOLKS DRIVING DOWN THERE ARE EITHER GOING HOME OR TO THE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OR WHATEVER, SO THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T REALIZE THE CHANGE BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW SPEED SIGNS JUST BECOME BACKGROUND. BUT I THINK IF WE COUPLE THESE SIGNS WITH AN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, CITY-WIDE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, THAT MIGHT GIVE PEOPLE PAUSE A LITTLE BIT. LIKE OH, OKAY, NOW WE KNOW THE CITY'S GOING TO BE COMING DOWN ON SPEEDING, OH, THAT'S RIGHT, LOOK, THE SIGN JUST CHANGED.
YOU KNOW? I THINK THAT IF WE COUPLE A CITY-WIDE CAMPAIGN EFFORT, LOWERING SPEED LIMIT SIGNS AS WELL AS ENFORCEMENT, THEN I THINK THAT PEOPLE WILL NOW KNOW HEY, YOU HAVE TO SLOW DOWN HERE, JUST LIKE WE ALL KNOW YOU HAVE TO SLOW DOWN IN ALAMO HEIGHTS AND IF NOT, YOU WILL GET A $700 OR $800 TICKET AND BE FORCED TO PAY IT. JUST LIKE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE CULTURE THAT WE ALL HAVE AROUND SCHOOL ZONES. WE HAVE THAT IN THE SUBURB CITIES.
WE ALL -- NO ONE IS SPEEDING THROUGH ALAMO HEIGHTS BECAUSE WE KNOW OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE THE LUXURY OF HAVING MORE ENFORCEMENT THERE BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF INGRAINED IN ALL OF US TO KNOW ABOUT THAT. SO I THINK THERE'S A MULTI-PRONG APPROACH. ENFORCEMENT BEING ONE OF THEM, LOWERING SPEED LIMIT SIGNS BEING ANOTHER ONE, AND AN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN AS WELL.
I ALSO THINK ON SLIDE FOUR, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SPEED BUMPS, I WONDER IF THERE'S ALSO A POTENTIAL FOR OTHER QUICK BUILDS IMPLEMENTATIONS WE CAN USE IN CERTAIN AREAS THAT MIGHT BE USED TO DECREASE SPEED.
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I KNOW WE SEE PEOPLE FLYING OVER SPEED BUMPS AND MEDIANS BUT I'M JUST WONDERING IF THAT CAN BE PART OF THE SOLUTION AS WELL. REALLY QUICK ON SLIDE SEVEN, WITH THE DATA, WAS THERE COORDINATION WITH SAPD ABOUT THIS EFFORT OR NO?>> REINHARDT: NO. WE DIDN'T REACH OUT FOR ANY ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES.
>> GAVITO: OKAY. WE KNOW THAT THE SIGNS NEED TO BE MATCHED WITH ENFORCEMENT AS WELL TO BE EFFECTIVE. I AGREE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING WHERE CITATIONS ARE HAPPENING BECAUSE WE ALL HEAR AND KNOW THERE IS PRIORITY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD SO IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE THE DATA AROUND IT AND SEE HEY, IF THEY ARE HAPPENING ON THE HIGHWAY, NOT THAT IT DOESN'T NEED TO HAPPEN ON THE HIGHWAY, IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN ON THE HIGHWAY AND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. YOU KNOW? BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR THINGS. YEAH.
I MEAN, I MENTIONED SIGNAGE IS A PART OF THE SOLUTION BUT TO ME, AGAIN, IT'S MULTI-PRONG. AWARENESS, CITY-WIDE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, ENFORCEMENT AND SIGNS AND AGAIN, TOTALLY OPEN TO FEEDBACK AND INPUT OF WHAT ELSE WE CAN DO BECAUSE THIS IS JUST A PERSISTENT PROBLEM. I FEEL IT'S ONLY GOTTEN WORSE WITH COVID AND IT'S ONLY GOTTEN WORSE WITH PEOPLE TEXTING AND DRIVING AND IT JUST POSES A SERIOUS RISK TO ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS, NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS, ALL OF THAT KIND OF STUFF. SO WE NEED TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.
BUT THANK YOU. I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THE RECOMM RECOMMENDATION. YEAH. WE JUST NEED TO KEEP TACKLING THIS THE BEST WAY. THANK YOU FOUR AYOU FOR YOUR WO ON THIS.
>> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE MISSED THE SIGNS BECAUSE THEY WERE ON
THEIR PHONES. COUNCIL MEMBER KAUR? >> KAUR: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
I WANT TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
WHEN SHE FIRST BROUGHT THIS TO ME, I SAID BASICALLY THE SAME THING, YOU GUYS KNOW THIS BETTER THAN ANYBODY, THAT SPEEDING AND TRAFFIC CALMING IN GENERAL IS THE NUMBER ONE CALL THAT WE GET IN OUR OFFICE AND WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD SOLUTION FOR IT.
THE NUMBER ONE REQUEST THAT WE GET, THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT PEOPLE ALWAYS ASK FOR.
MORE STOP SIGNS AND MORE SPEED HUMPS AS TRAFFIC CALMING SOLUTIONS BECAUSE BACK TO THE FIRST SLIDE WHERE YOU TALKED ABOUT ENGINEERING, WE HAVE SEEN THIS, RIGHT, WHERE THE REGULAR SPEED SIGNS DON'T WORK SO THEN WE'RE LIKE OKAY, LET'S TRY THE FLASHING SOLAR RADAR SPEED SIGNS AND THOSE HAVE BEEN TAKING FOREVER BUT AT LEAST PEOPLE FEEL LIKE WE'RE DOING SOMETHING. NOT THIS SLIDE.
THE ONE THAT HAD THE CHART. FOUR. YEAH.
AND SO THIS JUST GOES TO THE IDEA IS THAT IF WE ACTUALLY TACKLE ALL OF THESE THINGS, THAT WE MIGHT GET TO A BETTER VISION ZERO SPOT BUT ALSO, I THINK MORE SO IT'S ALSO ABOUT THE PERCEPTION OF PEOPLE THAT THEY FEEL SAFE. SO A LOT OF TIMES, WHEN THERE'S FOLKS THAT ARE CROSSING OR KIDS IN THE PLAY GROUND, OR IN THE YARD, EVEN IF SOMEONE IS SPEEDING, IS LIKE 28 MILES AN HOUR, IT MAY SEEM LIKE THEY'RE GOING REALLY FAST IF YOU'RE STANDING STILL. SO I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM. SO THE THING THAT I HAVE SEEN THAT WORKS THE BEST IS ACTUALLY CREATING ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO CHANGE THE WAY OUR STREETS ARE, PARTICULARLY WHEN THEY ARE SO WIDE. SO I GOT ACCEPTED INTO THIS PROGRAM RIGHT NOW AND IT'S FROM SMART GROWTH AMERICA, THE CHAMPIONS INSTITUTE WHICH IS TALKING ABOUT VISION ZERO ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND THE WHOLE GOAL OF THE PROGRAM IS TO CREATE SAFER STREETS.
EVERYTHING THEY TALK ABOUT IS BASED ON HOW DO YOU ACTUALLY DESIGN YOUR ROADWAYS TO MAKE SURE THAT MULTIPLE PEOPLE CAN USE THEM. WE HAVE BEEN DOING A GOOD JOB WITH THAT WITH OUR BIG BOND PROGRAMS. IF YOU LOOK AT SOUTH ALAMO NOW, I THINK IT'S MUCH SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS TODAY. I SAW SOMEONE USED THE RAISED CROSSWALK TO CROSS THE STREET AND I PAUSED AND LET THEM GO BECAUSE THE RAISED CROSSWALK SHOWS YOU THERE'S SOMEONE TRYING TO CROSS AND IT WORKED THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO.
THE PROBLEM IS SOUTH ALAMO TOOK I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY YEARS AND A LOT OF MONEY. TO THE POINT AROUND RESOURCES NOT BEING SUFFICIENT, I THINK WE HAVE TO START THINKING ABOUT THINGS IN MORE CREATIVE WAYS, THINKING ABOUT THEM FASTER TO SEE WHAT WORKS AND SO I'M TOTALLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE PILOT.
ONE OTHER THING I FOUND OUT IN THE LAST YEAR WORKING WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS TEAM IS THAT SCHOOL ZONE SIGNS FOR US, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, SCHOOL ZONES ARE MARKED AT WHERE STUDENTS CROSS THE STREET. SO IF YOU ARE CROSSING THE STREET, FOR EXAMPLE, ON GRAYSON BY PEARL WHERE HAWTHORNE IS, THE SIGN IS MARKED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCHOOL BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE KIDS ARE CROSSING. SCHOOL ZONES ARE DEFINED IN OUR CITY CODE AS WHERE STUDENTS WILL BE CROSSING AND THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE YOU CAN PUT THAT. YOU ARE SPEEDING DOWN GRAYSON AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SEE SCHOOL ZONE AND YOU HAVE TO STOP BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE A RANGE.
IT'S NOT LIKE THIS WHOLE STREET IS A SOCHOOL ZONE OR 50 FEET BEFORE OR AFTER THE
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SCHOOL IS A SCHOOL ZONE. SO I HAVE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT THAT AND WHETHER WE NEED -- I KNOW THAT'S BASED ON TEXAS CODE, LIKE WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING THAT'S NOT NORMAL, BUT I WONDER IF IT LOOKS LIKE WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT.BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT LIKE ALAMO HEIGHTS JUNIOR HIGH AND THEIR SCHOOL ZONE SIGN ISN'T BY A CROSSWALK. SO I'M WONDERING HOW SOME SCHOOLS KIND OF DO IT DIFFERENTLY AND WHETHER THEY JUST KIND OF PUT IT THERE OR THEY'RE USING A DIFFERENT POLICY. BUT I THINK WE ARE AT A MEETING WITH WHITTIER MIDDLE SCHOOL TWO SATURDAYS AGO AND THEY ASKED THE SAME THING, MOVE THE SCHOOL ZONE SIGN, MAKE IT SO THAT IT COVERS HALF THE STREET VERSUS RIGHT AT THE START OF THE SCHOOL BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY, TO YOUR POINT, I THINK PEOPLE DO SLOW DOWN FOR KIDS.
BUT THEY NEED TO BE -- THAT MESSAGE YOU WERE TRYING TO SHARE NEEDS TO BE CLEAR SO I THINK THEY DO SLOW DOWN FOR SCHOOL ZONES BUT IF IT'S NOT, IF YOU DON'T SEE THAT VISIBLE, YOU MAY NOT DO IT UNTIL YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. SO I GUESS I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THINKING ABOUT THIS HOLISTICALLY AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, NOT LIKE THIS ABSOLUTELY IS ONE COMPONENT BUT MAYBE THERE'S SOME WAY IN THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT EVERYTHING, WHAT EACH OF THESE THINGS LOOK LIKE AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING, TRULY ADDRESSING THIS AND WHAT IS OUR GOAL FOR EACH. LIKE I KNOW THEY'RE DOING REALLY GREAT WITH VISION ZERO AND WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK BUT WHAT WE WANT TO SEE IS HOW DO WE ACCELERATE AND SEE THIS AS A PRIORITY. I'M DONE.
THANKS, CHAIR. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: THANK YOU.
COUNCIL MEMBER MUNGIA? >> MUNGIA: THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS.
WE HAVE A LOT OF RESIDENTS THAT ASK ABOUT LOWERING THE SPEED LIMIT TO NEIGHBORHOODS AND YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE SAFER SPEED, THE DIFFERENCE OF A POTENTIAL FATALITY WITH 10 MILES DIFFERENCE. PART OF IT IS ENFORCEMENT. YOU PROBABLY HAVE MORE PEOPLE, BY LOWERING THE SPEED LIMIT YOU MIGHT HAVE MORE PEOPLE GETTING VIOLATIONS VERSUS SLOWING DOWN BUT I THINK OVER TIME THAT DOES CHANGE BEHAVIOR.
THE FIRST WEEK MIGHT BE ONE THING BUT YOU KNOW, LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THAT IT'S 20 MILES PER HOUR IS REALLY GOOD. I'M ALSO INTERESTED IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND MITIGATING SPEED ON ARTERIAL ROADWAYS BECAUSE TO MY KNOWLEDGE, WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF MEASURES FOR ARTERIAL STREETS. SO ZARZAMORA, SOMERSET, LARGE COLLECTOR STREETS, WE'RE NOT ADDING SPEED HUMPS ON THERE. WE CAN'T.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE YOU ADD TO SLOW PEOPLE DOWN. I'M NOT SURE THERE'S OPTIONS OUT THERE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DO OR THAT WE ARE LOOKING INTO.
OBVIOUSLY, THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING HELPS PEDESTRIANS CROSS SAFELY, BUT THERE'S NOT A REAL WAY TO SLOW PEOPLE DOWN ON THOSE LARGER COLLECTOR STREETS.
DO WE DO STUFF ON THOSE STREETS? >> REINHARDT: SO YOU'RE RIGHT, THE PROGRAMS WE HAVE IN PLACE TODAY, OUTSIDE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM, FOR THOSE LARGER STREETS, IT'S REALLY YOUR LARGE CAPITAL PROJECTS.
COUNCIL MEMBER KAUR MENTIONED SOUTH ALAMO AS AN EXAMPLE. THAT WAS A BIG PROJECT.
MAYBE NOT TO THAT SCALE BUT THOSE ARE THE TYPE OF IMPROVEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE PUT IN PLACE FOR THE LARGER SCALE PROJECTS. THERE'S THINGS THAT COULD BE LOOKED AT, POTENTIALLY AROUND AN INTERSECTION OR SOMETHING ON A LARGER SCALE BUT IT WOULDN'T BE YOUR TYPICAL NEIGHBORHOOD SPEED HUMPS TYPE APPROACH.
PART OF THE RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE COMING UP WITH A FRAMEWORK FOR OUTSIDE OF RESIDENTIAL STREETS, HOW DO WE WANT TO LOOK AT OUR ARTERIALS AND COLLECTORS.
AS AN EXAMPLE, ON THE EAST SIDE, IT'S ON THE MAJOR THOROUGHFAIR PLAN BUT THERE ARE HOMES FRONTING IT SO THAT SHOULD BE A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO A MORE COMMERCIAL TYPE AREA. THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE NEED TO LOOK AT.
AS ROADWAY SIZE INCREASES, IT'S A HIGHER COST TO INCLUDE SOME OF THOSE ENGINEERING
COMPONENTS. >> MUNGIA: I HAVE THIS PROBLEM IN MY DISTRICT, THE ACCESS ROAD, 410. WE HAD A GREAT MEETING WITH TXDOT ABOUT IT.
PEOPLE ARE SPEEDING FROM 90 TO VALLEY HIGH DRIVE BECAUSE THERE'S NO STOP, IT'S JUST A CLEAR RUNWAY AND PEOPLE ARE CRASHING INTO HOUSES. IT'S DEVASTATING WHAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE. THERE'S LITERALLY NOTHING THE STATE'S DOING TO COMBAT SPEEDING ON ACCESS ROADS. THERE'S NO SAFETY MECHANISMS IN PLACE FOR THAT, TOO.
THAT'S ANOTHER THING OUT THERE. SO GOING BACK TO THE PRESENTATION, THOUGH, BASED ON THIS ONE ANALYSIS THAT YOU DID IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU WERE ABLE TO DO
>> REINHARDT: SO REALLY, LET ME GO TO -- SO NO, NOT EXACTLY.
WE KNOW, WE COULD REFERENCE WHAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN DID. THEY DID A STUDY, IT WAS LIKE
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600 STREETS, I THINK THEY PULLED DATA COLLECTION ON, THINGS LIKE THAT.WE HAVE THE RESULTS FROM THAT. KIND OF WHAT WE WERE ANTICIPATING OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS IS REALLY HONING IN ON EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT TO LOOK AT AND MAKING THE RECOMMENDATION -- THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS WE WANT TO PULL. WE KNOW JUST AS PRACTITIONERS KIND OF WHAT MAKES SENSE, AND SOME OF THE YEARS OF DATA WE HAVE, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE ADDITIONAL WORK TO DO.
SO WE WILL BE KIND OF WORKING OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT EXACTLY THAT MEANS. PART OF THE FIRST STEP IS WE PROBABLY NEED TO DEFINE A NEIGHBORHOOD STREET, RIGHT. IT'S NOT JUST A LOCAL STREET. IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, AN ARTERIAL BUT THERE'S HOMES FRONTING. THERE'S SOME OF THAT HOMEWORK WE WILL HAVE TO DO AS PART OF THIS PROCESS. THEN THE SECOND PIECE IS LIKE YOU MENTIONED, OTHER ARTERIAL ROADS WE WANT TO ALSO COME UP WITH A WAY THAT WE WANT TO SET A POLICY AND FRAMEWORK ON HOW WE WOULD STUDY THOSE IN THE FUTURE.
>> MUNGIA: ANOTHER COMPONENT I WOULD ADD, I MENTIONED THIS MAYBE BEFORE YOU GOT HERE, WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SPEED HUMP POLICY, I KNOW WE RECENTLY MADE SOME CHANGES WHICH MAKES IT EASIER TO GET THEM WHICH IS GREAT, BUT I THINK ANOTHER THING I MENTIONED TO PUBLIC WORKS IS SOMETIMES TROUBLE GETTING SIGNATURES. WHAT IF YOU'RE ABLE TO DO A MAILER TO THESE STREETS THAT ARE HAVING A REQUEST, A COUNCIL OFFICE REQUEST, AND YOU JUST GET SOMEONE TO SIGN INDIVIDUALLY AND MAIL BACK TO THE CITY AND YOU CAN KIND OF PICTURE IF YOU GET, WHAT IS IT, 51% OR WHATEVER THE THRESHOLD IS NOW, VERSUS HAVING TO HAVE ONE APPLICATION WITH ALL THOSE SIGNATURES. SO I THINK THAT MIGHT BE AN EASY WAY TO HELP GET OTHER STREETS ON TO APPROVALS OF SPEED HUMPS, BECAUSE IT CAN BE QUITE CHALLENGING TO TRY TO REACH PEOPLE AT THEIR HOME TO SIGN SOMETHING.
WE DO THAT FOR, YOU KNOW, THE STREET LIGHTS, WHEN WE HAVE A STREET LIGHT APPROVAL, THE DSD MAILS THE FOUR PROPERTIES AROUND THERE AN AUTHORIZATION FORM, HAS THEM SIGN OR NOT SIGN AND RETURN TO THE CITY. SO I THINK IN SOME STREETS, THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD OPTION TO DO BECAUSE WE HAVE, I'M SURE WE ALL HAVE HAD RESIDENTS KIND OF TELL US HEY, I JUST CAN'T GET THE SIGNATURES, THEY DON'T ANSWER THE DOOR, I DON'T KNOW MY NEIGHBORS, WHATEVER. SO I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER OPTION TO HELP GET THAT
GOING. >> REINHARDT: ONE THING I WILL MENTION ON THAT, AS PART OF A DIFFERENT CCR RELATED TO TRAFFIC CALMING, ONE OF THE REQUESTS WAS TO WORK WITH ITSD TO COME UP WITH, IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU'RE ASKING BUT I WILL GET THERE -- AN ONLINE VISION FOR T -- VERSION FOR THE APPLICATION. WE ARE ENGAGED IN THAT PROCESS.
AS WE FINALIZE THAT, MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN MIMIC ON A PAPER VERSION.
WE ARE WORKING THROUGH THAT TO TRY TO FACILITATE THE SIGNATURE PROCESS.
>> MUNGIA: THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S HELPFUL. THAT'S REALLY GOOD.
ESPECIALLY WHEN -- THERE'S A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS IN MY DISTRICT WE'RE GETTING SIGNATURES, REACH OUT TO US, WHICH SOME DO.
IT'S CHALLENGING. >> REINHARDT: NOT EVERY PERSON HAS ACCESS TO THE
INTERNET. >> MUNGIA: YES. EXACTLY.
THAT'S GOOD. I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO DO.
WE REALIZE IF WE LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT, IF WE ADD SPEED HUMPS, PEOPLE STILL AREN'T GOING TO DO IT BUT WE HAVE THAT CONVERSATION ACTUALLY ABOUT UPGRADING THE PEDESTRIAN, THE HOT CROSSING BECAUSE A STUDENT DIED TRYING TO CROSS THE STREET DURING SCHOOL, AND WE WERE AT A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING, WE BROUGHT IT UP AND SOME PEOPLE WERE LIKE WHY YOU GOING TO SPEND ALL THIS MONEY ON THIS THING WHEN KIDS ARE GOING TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO. I SAID YOU HAVE TO TRY. YOU CAN'T JUST SAY HERE'S A PROBLEM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE NEVER GOING DHOTO CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR, OH, WELL.
WE HAVE TO ADD WHATEVER INFRASTRUCTURE WE CAN. MY TWO CENTS.
THANK YOU. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: THANK YOU.
ON SLIDE 11, BEGIN POLICY DEVELOPMENT, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE PROCESS-WISE?
>> REINHARDT: WE NEED A FEW MORE WEEKS, BASICALLY WE WANT TO GO THROUGH AND GET FEEDBACK TODAY AND THAT WILL HELP US FINALIZE. BASICALLY WE ARE DEVELOPING A SCOPE OF WORK. WE WILL HAVE TO USE SOME SUPPORT EXTERNALLY TO POTENTIALLY GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS SO WE WANT TO FINALIZE THAT SCOPE, COME UP WITH THE COST OF WHAT THAT WOULD BE SO WE CAN INCLUDE IT AS PART OF OUR BUDGET PROCESS. THEN MOVE FORWARD WITH, YOU KNOW, IF FUNDING IS APPROVED
FOR THAT. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: COUNCIL MEMBER, WOULD YOU LIKE, I GUESS WHAT I WOULD WANT TO BE SURE OF IS AS WE PROCEED THAT WE RECEIVE AN UPDATE ON IT
AND SO WOULD YOU LIKE IT TO COME BACK TO -- >> I THINK THE PROPOSAL IS WE WOULD WRAP THIS INTO THE BUDGET DISCUSSION IN THE UPCOMING CYCLE.
THERE WOULD BE AN UPDATE VIA THOSE METHODS, DURING THE PUBLIC WORKS PRESENTATION.
>> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: I GUESS THE POINT THERE, WHEN THINGS ARE WRAPPED INTO THE BUDGET, AND A LOT OF THINGS ARE WRAPPED INTO THE BUDGET, THINGS GET LOST IN THE FRAY.
I WOULD WONDER IF, I MEAN, CERTAINLY INCLUDED AS PART OF THE BUDGET DISCUSSION BUT A MORE THOROUGH PRESENTATION HERE SO WE KNOW FOR SURE WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WE CAN HAVE
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MORE ROBUST CONVERSATIONS THEN. >> GAVITO: I THINK AT LEAST WHAT I WAS DOING, YOU KNOW, YES, WE LIKE THIS BUT THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS WE'RE SEEING THAT NEED TO BE PART MAYBE AN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN. I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER KAUR MENTIONED QUICK BUILDS.
I DO THINK THAT IF WE WERE TO LOOK AT IT HOLISTICALLY, HOW MUCH WOULD THIS COST US.
I'M THINKING THROUGH THAT IN THE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE BEST AVENUE IS. IS IT COMING BACK HERE OR IN THOSE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS?
I'M NOT SURE. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: MORE SPECIFICALLY, WHAT I'M THINKING WE DO, PROCEED EXACTLY AS IS BUT WITHIN THAT, WE ADD IN THE STEP THAT
YOU WILL COME BACK HERE. >> REINHARDT: JUST TO BE CLEAR, REALLY, WHAT I WANT TO TRY TO ASK FOR FUNDS FOR AS PART OF THE BUDGET IS THAT TOP GROUP.
BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY SIGNS TO ASK FOR FUNDING FOR OR HOW BIG OF A CAMPAIGN BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE YET. SO REALLY, WHAT WE WANT TO DO, WE THINK WE'RE ON THE RIGHT PATH. WE WANT TO JUST PUT THE DETAILS TOGETHER, WHAT THAT WOULD BE SO WE HAVE A LEGIT COST OF WHAT THAT WOULD TAKE US TO WORK THROUGH TOWARDS 2027 SO DEFINITELY AS WE'RE UNDERTAKING THAT, WE WOULD BE PRESENTING KIND OF HOW IT GOES. WE WANT TO SHOW AS PART OF OUR BUDGET PROCESS, TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT IT'S GOING TO TAKE US FINANCIALLY AND THEN GET INPUT ON. HAPPY TO COME BACK.
I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TIME FRAME LOOKS LIKE IF THERE'S NOT ANOTHER COMMITTEE
MEETING BEFORE -- >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE -- WE WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN. I GUESS WHAT I THINK WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL, IT'S ONE THING TO GO TO COUNCIL AND SAY HEY, WE NEED THIS MANY NUMBER OF SIGNS.
IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF YOU COULD COME UP WITH A FEW DIFFERENT OPTIONS AND THEN COME BACK TO THE COMMITTEE SO THAT WE KNOW HEY, HOW MUCH WOULD A CAMPAIGN COST, HOW MUCH WOULD THESE SIGNS, HOW MUCH WOULD THESE COST FOR THE SIGNAGE AND WHAT IS THE BALANCE THAT WE WANT TO GET TO. BEFORE IT GOES TO FULL
COUNCIL. >> REINHARDT: SO WE CAN PROBABLY BALLPARK LIKE A CAMPAIGN COST BUT SIGNAGE IS GOING TO BE KIND OF DEPENDENT ON WHAT WE FIND AS FAR AS NUMBER OF STREETS, THE SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOODS. AGAIN, TO MEET STATE LAW REQUIREMENTS, WE HAVE TO SIGN ENTRANCES TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND SO FORTH.
THAT'S GOING TO VARY BASED ON THE OUTCOME OF WHAT WE DO AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS
POLICY. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: OKAY. DO YOU HAVE WHAT YOU NEED TO
MOVE FORWARD IN TERMS OF FEEDBACK? >> REINHARDT: AS LONG AS WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO FLESH OUT THIS SCOPE, WE PRESENT THAT AS PART OF OUR BUDGET DISCUSSIONS, AS A DEPARTMENT, AND THEN SHOULD IT BE APPROVED WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT PROCESS, THEN WE WOULD BE COMING BACK ON THE
NEXT STEPS. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: THE ANSWER IS YES.
THANK YOU. ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS ON THIS ITEM? ALRIGHT. WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM THREE. MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU READ THE CAPTION?
>> CLERK: RECONSIDERATION OF SIX AT-LARGE APPLICANTS TO THE AIRPORT ADVISORY
COMMISSION. >> MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ: THANK YOU.
THIS IS DUE TO THE WITHDRAWAL OF ONE OF THE PEOPLE SELECTED FOR THE COMMUNITY CATEGORY.
WE WILL CONSIDER APPLICANTS FROM THE SAME POOL TO FILL THAT SEAT.
SHOULD BE A FAIRLY QUICK EXECUTIVE SESSION, HOPEFULLY. THE TIME IS 2:49 P.M.
TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE WILL NOW MEET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE CONCERNING ATTORNEY/CLIENT MATTERS UNDER LAST OF US. THE TIME IS 257 P.M.
>> SO MOVED. >> GAVITO: CHAIR, I MOVE THE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE RECOMMEND TO THE FULL CITY COUNCIL THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO SUPPORT TO AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION THROUGH MARCH 18, 2028.
CAM CAMELIAMONTOYASERVE AS COMMUNITY CATEGORY.
>> MOLINA: WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. THANK YOU SO. .
THANK YOU AGAIN TO ALL THE APPLICANTS AND THANK YOU TO CAMELIA.
CONGRATULATIONS. WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONSIDERING YOU AT THE FULL COUNCIL MEETING. THE TIME IS 2:57 P.M. THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.