* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:03] ONE. SO WE'RE ON TIME. OKAY. TODAY IS [CALL TO ORDER] NOVEMBER 1ST. WOW. ALL RIGHT. IT IS, UH, FIVE O'CLOCK ON NOVEMBER THE FIRST, 2022. WE HAVE A QUORUM. SO WE'RE GONNA CALL THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION MEETING TO ORDER THE, UH, FIRST ITEM, AS ALWAYS. IS, UH, ANYONE SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION? NO, THERE IS NOT. ALL RIGHT. CHECK. ALL RIGHT. UH, APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. [1. Approve the minutes of the Urban Transportation Commission REGULAR MEETING on October 4th, 2022.] UM, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM, UH, OCTOBER 4TH? RAVEN? IS THERE A SECOND? RIGHT? I SEE SOME SECONDS FOR SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. OR RAISE YOUR HAND. ANY OPPOSED OR EXTENSIONS? SEEING NONE UNANIMOUS. ALL RIGHT. AND WITH THAT, WE'RE GONNA MOVE INTO ACTUAL, WHOOPS. UH, YEP. ACTUAL ITEMS. UH, FIRST UP, A [3. Discussion and possible action on Vision Zero Updates] DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON VISION ZERO UPDATES, SAFETY MEASURES AND PROJECTS, UH, PRESENTED BY LEWIS. RIGHT. WHENEVER YOU'RE READY. WELL, AND I GUESS THE SIGN, SORRY. ALMOST THERE. GOOD EVENING, CHAIR COMMISSIONERS. MY NAME IS LOUIS LE. I'M THE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY OFFICER WITH AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME AND PRESENT TO YOU TODAY. WE WANTED TO COME BACK, PROVIDE A BROAD UPDATE, UH, ALSO TOUCH ON ONE OF THE AGENDA ITEM REQUESTS THAT CAME THROUGH RECENTLY, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE, UH, GIVE YOU A, JUST A QUICK BRIEF KIND OF UPDATE OF WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT AND, AND KNOWING THAT WE'LL BE COMING BACK FOR A MORE FULL DISCUSSION IN THE FUTURE ON THAT ONE. SO, UH, BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I ALWAYS LIKE TO START THE PRESENTATIONS BEFORE WE JUMP INTO DATA AND ENGINEERING AND REALLY TALK ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE. WE'RE HERE BECAUSE OF THE TRAGIC LOSS OF LIFE THAT WE CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE ALMOST EVERY THREE AND A HALF, FOUR DAYS HERE IN AUSTIN. ON AVERAGE, THIS TRAFFIC VIOLENCE ISSUE IS AFFECTING EVERYONE. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE, UH, WHAT YOUR BACKGROUND IS, WHAT YOUR RACE ETHNICITY IS, HOW MUCH INCOME YOU MAKE. UH, THE REALITY IS THIS IS A PHYSICS PROBLEM. WE HAVE, UH, VEHICLES GOING AT HIGH SPEEDS, INTERACTING WITH OTHER PEOPLE, EITHER INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF VEHICLES, AND IT IMPACTS EVERYONE BECAUSE OF THAT. SO, JUST WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO REFLECT ON THE, THE LOSS OF LIFE THAT WE SEE, PARTICULARLY LOOKING AT A PUBLIC HEALTH METRIC THAT WE LOOK AT YEARS OF LIFE LOST, SAYING THAT YOU DON'T GET TO EXPERIENCE MANY YEARS OF YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU DIE PREMATURELY IN A CAR CRASH. SO HERE IN AUSTIN, AND, AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN BE ADOPTED NATIONALLY IS A SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH TO THE VISION ZERO, UH, INITIATIVE THAT WE HAVE. IT, IT'S AN ETHICAL APPROACH TO SAFETY MOBILITY. IT, IT RECOGNIZES THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO JUST ACCEPT FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES ON THE ROADWAYS AS PART OF GETTING AROUND TOWN. UH, MANY PLACES HAVE BEEN PUSHING TOWARDS A GOAL OF VISION ZERO. THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR DECADES AND OTHER PLACES. IT, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A NECESSARY PART OF HOW WE GET FROM A TO B TO TO LOSE LIFE ON A REGULAR BASIS, TO HAVE LIFE CHANGING INJURIES ON A REGULAR BASIS. WE KNOW THAT THE HUMAN BODY IS VULNERABLE, AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. WE'RE NOT PERFECT ON THE ROADWAYS, WE'RE NOT PERFECT IN OTHER AREAS OF LIFE. SO HOW DO WE DESIGN AND OPERATE A SYSTEM THAT ACKNOWLEDGES THESE TWO CRITICAL FACTORS? WHEN WE TALK ABOUT VISION ZERO, ANOTHER KEY PIECE IS SEPARATING USERS IN TIME AND SPACE. YOU SEE A LOT OF THAT, PARTICULARLY IN OUR BICYCLE NETWORK AS WE'RE BUILDING OUT PROTECTED BIKE FACILITIES AND WHATNOT. IT'S THE SAME THING WITH PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, ROLLING. UH, WE KNOW THAT THERE'S WAYS TO SEPARATE USERS, EVEN PEOPLE JUST IN VEHICLES AT THE SAME TIME IN PLACE. SO WE DON'T HAVE THOSE CONFLICTS THAT END UP RESULTING IN THESE SERIOUS INJURIES AND FATALITIES. WE ALSO KNOW WE CAN'T PREDICT WHERE THE NEXT FATAL OR SERIOUS INJURY CRASH IS GONNA HAPPEN. WE DO KNOW THE TYPES OF CONDITIONS. WE DO KNOW WIDE FAST ROADWAYS WITH HIGH SPEED VEHICLES IS ALWAYS A CONSTANT IN THESE CRASHES. IT IT'S TYPICALLY A CONSTANT IN THESE CRASHES. SO WHAT DOES IT MEAN HERE WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO WORK TOWARDS VISION ZERO? IT MEANS IT'S NOT JUST A PROGRAM WITHIN ONE DEPARTMENT WORKING TOWARDS US. IT'S NOT JUST A TEAM OF FIVE PEOPLE. THIS IS ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT AREAS, NOT JUST CITY OF AUSTIN DEPARTMENTS, UH, ACROSS THE BOARD IN OUR ORGANIZATION. IT ALSO MEANS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN THE LOCAL AREA. IT MEANS THE STATE OF TEXAS. IT MEANS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT IMPAIRED DRIVING, IT'S AN UPSTREAM APPROACH FROM A PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE ABOUT DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE IN OUR COMMUNITY. IT MEANS, UH, ENFORCEMENT ON THE GROUND WHEN WE'RE SEEING IMPAIRED DRIVERS MEANS PROSECUTING THOSE. IT MEANS GOING THROUGH THE WHOLE PROCESS TO SEE WHAT KIND OF IMPACT WE CAN MAKE TO REDUCE CERTAIN TYPES OF BEHAVIORS AND, AND CHANGE THIS, THE DESIGN OF THE SYSTEM TOWARDS A MORE APPROPRIATE DESIGN FOR PRESERVING HUMAN LIFE OVER TIME. THIS IS, UH, [00:05:01] UH, A SIMPLE GRAPHIC FROM THE VISION ZERO NETWORK WHERE ONE OF, I THINK 35, 40 CITIES NOW IN THE, IN THE US AND CANADA, THAT ARE PART OF THE VISION ZERO NETWORK. MOST CITIES ARE, ARE WORKING TOWARDS VISION ZERO, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE MAKING PROGRESS ALONG THIS SPECTRUM OF THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH TOWARDS VISION ZERO TO REALLY GET WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO. IT'S GONNA TAKE SOME TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE. IT'S GONNA TAKE SOME KEY ASPECTS OF OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK AND HOW IT'S OPERATED TO REALLY SEE FULL CHANGE OVER TIME. IF WE EXPECT A DIFFERENT OUTCOME, WE'VE GOTTA HAVE DIFFERENT INPUTS INTO THE CONVERSATION. SO THERE'S SOME, SOME KEY FACETS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING TOWARDS HERE. AND, AND AS WE'RE TRYING TO WORK TOWARDS THESE POLICY GOALS OVER TIME, LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DATA AND, AND THE TRENDS HERE IN AUSTIN. UH, WE KNOW THAT OVER TIME, FATALITIES IN THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE RISEN. THIS IS FOLLOWING STATEWIDE AND NATIONAL TRENDS, BUT IT'S NOT RISING EQUALLY ACROSS THE DIFFERENT MODES THAT WE SEE. THESE ARE DATA BY CRASHES, NOT PEOPLE. SO THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, KNOW WE HAVE A VISION ZERO DASHBOARD THAT SHOWS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN SERIOUS INJURIES AND, AND WITH SERIOUS INJURIES AND FATALITIES. THESE ARE THE CRASHES. THESE ARE LOOKING AT THE INCIDENTS THEMSELVES AS OPPOSED TO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE CRASHES. I WANNA HIGHLIGHT JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS. IN PARTICULAR, PERCENTAGES OF PEDESTRIANS, PEOPLE WALKING AND MOTORCYCLISTS IN PARTICULAR. UH, YOU'RE SEEING THE PEDESTRIAN NUMBERS RISE FASTER EACH YEAR. WE'RE SEEING THAT ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL. WE SEE THAT LOCALLY AND, AND ON THE STATEWIDE LEVEL AS WELL. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT, UH, I CAN RECALL SEEING PEDESTRIAN NUMBERS FOR FATALITIES BE HIGHER THAN PEOPLE IN VEHICLES. THE MOTORIST NUMBERS THAT YOU SEE THERE, MOTORCYCLISTS IS ANOTHER ONE WE WANNA POINT OUT. IT'S NOT AS HIGH AS AS THE OTHER CATEGORIES, BUT WE'VE ALREADY EXCEEDED LAST YEAR'S TOTAL OF MOTORCYCLIST FATALITIES. WE DID THAT, UH, I THINK LAST MONTH. SO WE'VE ALREADY EXCEEDED THAT. THIS YEAR WILL BE, I THINK, MAYBE A RECORD YEAR OF MOTORCYCLIST FATALITIES ON OUR ROADWAYS. WHEN WE LOOK AT TRENDS, UH, THERE'S A CHART LOOKING AT NATIONAL DATA THAT SHOWS OVER A 10 YEAR PERIOD, AS I MENTIONED, THOSE PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST FATALITY ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL HAVE BEEN INCREASING FAST OVER TIME, EVEN FASTER THAN THE RATE OF TOTAL FATALITIES. WE DECIDED TO TAKE A LOOK AT AUSTIN DATA JUST TO SEE WHAT THAT 10 OR 11 YEAR PERIOD WOULD LOOK LIKE HERE IN AUSTIN. AND WE HAD TO CHANGE THE SCALE OF THE GRAPH BECAUSE PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES HAVE INCREASED OVER A HUNDRED PERCENT IN A 10 YEAR PERIOD. AND THAT'S PREDICTING, UH, A TOTAL FOR THIS YEAR BASED ON CURRENT ESTIMATES AS OF, UH, OCTOBER 1ST. SO WE KNOW THAT, UH, PEDESTRIAN RELATED FATALITIES ARE RISING FASTER AND FASTER, UH, EVEN MORE SO THAN OUR OVERALL NUMBER OF FATALITIES ON THE ROADWAY. THANKFULLY, THE BICYCLISTS NUMBERS ARE NOT SEEING THAT SAME TREND AS THE NATIONAL LEVEL. WE ARE PRETTY STEADY AT 2, 3, 4 BICYCLIST FATALITIES PER YEAR, AND WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT SAME KIND OF EXPONENTIAL GROWTH. SO, PEDESTRIAN RELATED FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES ARE REALLY A FOCUS FOR US, UH, NOW AND MOVING FORWARD TO SEE WHERE WE CAN HAVE THE BEST INTERVENTION TOWARDS IMPROVING THOSE NUMBERS OVER TIME. I WANNA POINT OUT TOO, THAT WE, WE LOOK AT THE DATA IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. UH, ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT IS BASED ON THE, THE OWNERSHIP OF THE ROADWAY ON SYSTEM IS STATE OWNED ROADWAYS OFF SYSTEM WOULD BE CITY OWN ROADWAYS. WE ARE SEEING A, A PARTICULAR TREND THERE AS WELL. UH, BACK IN 2015, YOU KNOW, THE NUMBERS WERE ABOUT TWO THIRDS ON SYSTEM VERSUS, UH, A THIRD OFF SYSTEM. AND WE'VE SEEN THAT BE SOMEWHAT CONSISTENT. BUT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND PARTICULARLY THIS YEAR, WE'RE SEEING QUITE AN INCREASE ON THOSE ON SYSTEM FATALITY NUMBERS. AND SO CAN, IT'S ON SYSTEM WITH STATE AND OFF SYSTEM IS CITY, CORRECT? ON SYSTEM IS STATE OWNED ROADS. SO THINK ABOUT FREEWAYS, UH, FRONTAGE, ROADS, SOME OF THE, THE MAJOR ARTERIALS IN OUR CITY, UH, FULL PURPOSE JURISDICTION. AND SO IT'S NOT REALLY ABOUT WHAT'S ON PAPER AND WHO OWNS THE ROADWAY, RIGHT? THIS IS ABOUT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. THIS IS ABOUT THE DESIGN OF THOSE ROADWAYS WHEN THEY'RE DESIGNED TO MOVE AS MANY VEHICLES AS FAST AS POSSIBLE THROUGH A PARTICULAR AREA. WE'RE GONNA SEE OUTCOMES LIKE THIS AND IT, AND IT JUST SEEMS TO BE THAT THE TREND IS, UH, TURNING UPWARD ON THOSE PARTICULARLY WIDE FAST ROADWAYS RELATIVE TO CITY ROADWAYS OVERALL. SO KEY TAKEAWAYS, UH, JUST COMBINED, YOU KNOW, WE LOOK AT FATALITIES IN SERIOUS INJURIES AS OUR VISION ZERO GOLD WORKING TOWARDS ZERO. THEY'RE UP COMBINED IN 2022 AT ABOUT 2% FATALITIES ARE DOWN. UH, WE'VE SEEN A NUMBER OF FATALITIES IN THE PAST FEW DAYS, UNFORTUNATELY. SO THOSE NUMBERS ARE CREEPING UP TO LAST YEAR'S TOTALS AND, AND THE PACE THAT WE WERE ON LAST YEAR AND, AND SERIOUS INJURY CRASHES ARE UP WHILE THOSE REPORTABLE CITY CRASHES. UH, CITYWIDE CRASHES ARE UP 2% AS WELL. JUST OVERALL NUMBER OF CRASHES THAT GET A REPORT EVENING AND EARLY MORNING HOURS, 8:00 PM TO 4:00 AM ACCOUNT FOR 45 OUTTA THAT 84 FATAL CRASHES. SO OVER HALF OF OUR FATAL CRASHES HAPPEN OVERNIGHT, PARTICULARLY ON THE FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY EVENINGS. AND THAT'S JUST REPRESENTING A THIRD OF THE DAY, OR, OR EVEN LESS THAN THAT, UH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT FRIDAY, SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY OVERNIGHT PERIODS RELATIVE TO THE REST OF THE WEEK. SO WE KNOW THOSE OVERNIGHT CONDITIONS, PARTICULARLY ON WEEKENDS, HAVE CERTAIN VARIABLES THAT ARE ACCOUNTING FOR, UH, A HIGHER NUMBER OF FATAL CRASHES RELATIVE TO THE REST OF THE DAY. WE ARE SEEING, AGAIN, THAT INCREASING PERCENTAGE OF FATAL CRASHES ON, ON SYSTEM ROADWAYS, AND THEN AGAIN, THAT [00:10:01] TREND ABOUT PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECENT MEMORY, MAYBE EVER EXCEEDING MOTORIST FATALITIES. SO, UH, GLAD TO KEEP GOING AND, AND GET INTO SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING, OR IF YOU WANNA PAUSE FOR SOME QUESTIONS. GLAD TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DATA BEFORE WE MOVE ON. SURE. I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. I DUNNO IF YOU WANNA PUT THE OTHER FOLKS ON THE SCREEN SO WE CAN SEE THEM. UH, IS MICRO MOBILITY MEASURED WHAT, OR DO YOU KNOW IT OFFHAND? SCOOTERS. SPECIFICALLY SCOOTERS. UH, WE'VE DEFINITELY SEEN A, A HANDFUL OF SCOOTER FATALITIES IN THE PAST THREE OR FOUR YEARS. UH, WE'VE SEEN MORE INCIDENTS IN THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS THAN WE DID, OBVIOUSLY IN THE PANDEMIC TIME. MM-HMM. , UH, UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S NOT AN AREA. WE'VE GOT GREAT DATA. MOST OF OUR DATA COMES FROM POLICE REPORTS. MM-HMM. . AND SO WHEN THAT CDC STUDY HAPPENED A FEW YEARS BACK, CDC AND ALSO PUBLIC HEALTH AND OTHERS, WHEN THEY LOOKED AT THE NUMBER OF SCOOTER RELATED INCIDENTS, UH, ONLY I THINK 15 TO 16% OF THEM WERE CAR RELATED. MM-HMM. , MOST SCOOTER RELATED INCIDENTS ARE SOMEBODY FALLING OFF ON THEIR OWN, UM, HAVING SOME OTHER KIND OF RUNNING INTO AN OBJECT OR SOMETHING ELSE. MM-HMM. . SO IF YOU THINK ABOUT THAT SITUATION, THEY'RE NOT CALLING THE POLICE FOR A CAR CRASH REPORT. MM-HMM. , THEY'RE GOING TO A HOSPITAL, THEY'RE GOING TO A DOCTOR. SO WHAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO IS TRY TO FILL OUT THAT DATA SIDE, WORKING WITH THE HOSPITAL, THE LOCAL DEL SETON MM-HMM. , UH, INJURY PREVENTION MANAGER, AND, AND TRYING TO GET BETTER DATA AROUND THAT TO SEE THE NUMBER OF INCIDENTS. BUT RELATIVELY SPEAKING, THEY'RE USUALLY CATEGORIZED WITHIN THE PEDESTRIAN CATEGORY JUST BASED ON THE, HOW THE STATE CRASH REPORT IS SET UP. YEAH. OKAY. AND SO WE, WE DO HAVE A FLAG THAT WE'RE TRYING TO IDENTIFY THOSE AND TRY TO TRACK THOSE BETTER OVER TIME. I, I THINK FOR UTC, YOU KNOW, SPECIFICALLY IT WOULD BE INTERESTING BECAUSE THAT DOES COME UP AND WE ALSO DO HEAR PEOPLE SOMETIMES SHOW UP AND THERE'S BOTH SIDES OF THE, YOU KNOW, SCOOTERS ARE DANGEROUS IN, BUT WHAT DOES THE DATA SAY? ARE SCOOTERS MORE OR LESS DANGEROUS THAN OTHER THINGS? SO THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO PULL OUT IF YOU COULD. UH, AND THEN I HAVE ONE OTHER QUESTION. ARE, UH, THE VEHICLE TYPES TRACKED IN, SO IN THE VEHICLE PEDESTRIAN INCIDENTS, IS IT, IS IT TRUCKS? IS IT, UH, SPORTS CARS? IS IT, IS THERE A PREPONDERANCE OF ANYTHING THERE THAT WOULD BE WORTH ADDRESSING? WE, WE DO HAVE THE VEHICLE TYPES, UH, MAKE MODEL AND WE'RE STARTING TO DO A LOT AROUND ACTUALLY THE VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER, THE VIN MM-HMM. , TRYING TO SEE WHAT KIND OF SAFETY FEATURES ARE ON THOSE VEHICLES. WE DO QUITE A BIT OF ANALYSIS AND WE'RE TRYING TO WORK TOWARDS THAT. WE DID LOOK PARTICULARLY AT PEDESTRIANS BECAUSE THERE'S A, A GROWING CONSENSUS THAT LARGER VEHICLES, YOU KNOW, HIGHER MASS OF THE VEHICLE, IT'S GONNA IMPACT ENERGY. SO WE WANTED TO SEE IF THAT'S THE CASE IN THE, IN THE FATAL SEVERE CRASHES. WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT PLAY OUT LOCALLY. OKAY. YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OUR PEDESTRIAN RELATED FATALITIES HAPPEN ON THE WIDE FAST ROADWAYS. MM-HMM. . SO IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE VEHICLE THAT'S GOING 70, 80 MILES AN HOUR, IT, IT'S NOT THE VEHICLE SIZE KINDA DOESN'T MATTER AT THAT POINT. THAT'S RIGHT. YEAH. IT'S, IT'S NOT AS BIG A FACTOR AS IF IT WERE ON A LOCAL ROADWAY OR, OR A ARTERIAL OR COLLECTOR THAT WAS KINDA MORE OF A CITY STREET IN SITUATIONS. MM-HMM. . SO, UH, WE WANT TO KEEP DIGGING INTO THAT AND BETTER UNDERSTAND ONCE WE SEPARATE OUT THOSE KIND OF FREEWAYS IN FRONTAGE ROADS, ARE WE SEEING A DIFFERENCE IN VEHICLE SIZE AND IF, IS THAT HAVING AN IMPACT? CAUSE WE KNOW SUVS ARE NOW OVER 50% OF NEW CAR SALES. SO STARTING TO SEE THAT, LOOKING AT AGE OF VEHICLES ALSO ANOTHER FACTOR THAT WE'RE, WE'RE CONSIDERING AS WELL. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE VERY INTERESTING TO KNOW AS WELL BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU SORT OF FEEL IT WHEN YOU DRIVE OR WHEN YOU'RE RIDE A BIKE, YOU KNOW, THESE GIANT VEHICLES, BUT IF THE DATA DOESN'T INDICATE THAT IT'S REALLY PROBLEM, THEN IT DOESN'T INDICATE ITS PROBLEM. BUT IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO FIND OUT. UM, ANYONE OUT THERE ON ZOOM? UH, HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? YEAH, I, AND MAYBE MINE IS, UM, SORT OF DIRECTLY FOLLOWING ON YOUR QUESTION, I, I HAD THE SAME QUESTION ABOUT THE VEHICLE TYPE THAT WAS ANSWERED, BUT, UM, WITH THE, UM, ON SYSTEM ROADS OR THE STATE ROADS, I KNOW THAT, UM, AT LEAST SOME THINGS HAD BEEN DONE TO TRY TO INCREASE SAFETY. UM, PARTICULARLY I'M THINKING THE CORRIDOR OF I 35, LIKE NEAR THE TARGET JUST SOUTH OF 51ST STREET OR NORTH OF 51ST STREET, SORRY, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. THERE WERE SOME THINGS PUT IN PLACE THERE. I THINK MORE COULD BE IMPROVED, BUT THERE'S SORT OF SOME HOTSPOT, LIKE PLACES WHERE FOLKS ARE TRYING TO CROSS HIGHWAYS CUZ THERE'S NOT A SAFE CROSSING FOR THEM. UM, SO I LIKE ARE ARE YOU STILL SEEING THOSE TYPES OF TRENDS WHERE LIKE THERE'S SOME LIKE HIGHWAY HOTSPOTS WHERE FOLKS ARE CROSSING THAT ARE REALLY BECOMING, UM, A DANGEROUS AREA FOR OUR COMMUNITY? YEAH. THANKS FOR REFERENCING THAT. THAT WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY AND, AND TEXTILE WORKING TOURING TO RESOLVE THIS HOTSPOT LOCATION THAT AREA NORTH OF 51ST STREET ON I 35 PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO CROSS THOSE MAIN LANES ON A REGULAR BASIS. AND I THINK IN 2018 AND 19 WE SAW FOUR PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES PER YEAR IN THAT PARTICULAR STRETCH. 51ST I THINK UP TO MAYBE THE RUNDBERG AREA, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND SO WHEN WE WORKED WITH THEM TO IDENTIFY A POTENTIAL SOLUTION, UH, THEY WERE ABLE TO USE SOME, I IDENTIFIED SAFETY FUNDS THAT WERE IN THE BIUM THAT YEAR AND, AND PUT THAT IN PLACE SO THAT WE COULD INCREASE THE SIZE OF THAT MEDIAN BARRIER. AND SO AGAIN, AN INTERIM TREATMENT, IT DOESN'T RESOLVE THE LACK OF SAFE CROSSINGS IN THAT AREA, BUT IT DID HELP TO PREVENT, I THINK FROM THAT POINT FORWARD FOR A TWO YEAR PERIOD. I THINK WE SAW ONE PEDESTRIAN FATALITY RELATIVE TO FOUR PER YEAR, THE YEARS BEFORE. SO WE [00:15:01] HAVE SEEN THOSE TYPES OF TREATMENTS BE EFFECTIVE. THEY DID SECURE FUNDING TO DO THAT INCREASED HEIGHT, UH, BARRIER ALONG MORE STRETCHES OF I 35 AND WE'RE HOPING THAT'S ACTUALLY GONNA BE IN PLACE IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS WHERE WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF THESE PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES AS PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO CROSS. BUT REALLY THE LONG TERM SOLUTION IS HOW WE DESIGN THE LONG TERM PLANS FOR THAT SECTION AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT ENOUGH SAFE CROSSINGS AT REASONABLE DISTANCES TO, TO RESOLVE THAT ISSUE OVERALL. YEP. UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY ROUGH NUMBER FOR HOW FAR APART REASONABLE CROSSINGS OUGHT TO BE? WE DO HAVE SOME GUIDELINES WITHIN OUR TRANSPORTATION CRITERIA MANUAL. IT, IT DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE STREET, IT DEPENDS ON THE TRACTORS, THE LAND USE, OTHER DESTINATIONS NEARBY. SO IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE CONTEXT REALLY. UH, I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBER OFF HAND. I'M GLAD TO FOLLOW UP AS FAR AS WHAT YEAH. I'D SUGGEST MIGHT BE A QUARTER MILE ON THE BASIS, THAT'S A GOOD DISTANCE FOR SEPARATING TRANSIT STOPS AT THAT. IF YOU'RE THAT FAR AWAY FROM TRANSIT, YOU TEND TO GET HIGHER RIDERSHIP THAN WHEN YOU'RE FURTHER AWAY FROM TRANSIT. YEAH, I THINK I'D TO, I'VE A SIMILAR NUMBER IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT IN PARTICULAR. MAKES SENSE. UM, WHAT THAT MEANS ALONG A FREEWAY. NOT SURE IF IT'S THE SAME, BUT GLAD TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT. AND YOU HAVE, PRESUMABLY YOU COULD GET DATA OF FROM A CRASH LOCATION TO THE NEAREST CROSSING POINT WHEN THE CRASH OCCURS ON A MAJOR ARTERIAL? CORRECT. IS THAT SOME, HAVE YOU COLLECTED THAT OR? WE DO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. UH, WE REVIEW EVERY FATAL CRASH WE'RE, WE'VE, UM, GOT ITS DATABASE SET UP TO MANUALLY REVIEW THE DISTANCE AND LOCATION FOR EVERY CRASH THAT HAPPENS THAT INVOLVES A SERIOUS INJURY OR FATALITY. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FATALITIES, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL THOSE BUILT ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS, THE DISTANCE TO THE NEAREST CROSSING, WAS THERE A BUS STOP NEARBY POTENTIALLY THAT, UH, WAS PART OF THAT CONVERSATION. UH, IS THERE SAFE, IS THERE SUFFICIENT LIGHTING IN THE AREA? SO THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT WE TAKE A LOOK AT. AND AND CROSSING DISTANCE IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THOSE. DO YOU PUBLISH ANY OF THAT DATA? I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A TABLE THAT SHOWS FOR EACH, NO, I DON'T THINK WE'VE PUBLISHED IT FOR EACH CRASH, BUT, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD TAKE A LOOK AT AS WELL. YEAH. OR UPPER QUARTILES. UH, YES. COMMISSIONER WEATHERBY, YOU, YOU MENTIONED, UH, LIGHTING AND PASSING JUST NOW. I REMEMBER IN THE INITIAL REPORTS FROM THE VISION ZERO WORK THAT LIGHTING WAS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF A LOT OF THESE AREAS THAT HAVE, UH, PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS OR JUST ACCIDENTS AROUND REGULAR STREET. UM, HAS, CAN YOU CHARACTERIZE WHAT KIND OF PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE IN ADDITIONAL LIGHTING IN THESE PROBLEM AREAS? SURE. AND I'LL GET TO IT IN ONE OF THE UPCOMING SLIDES, BUT WE'VE BEEN WORKING TO TRY TO IDENTIFY, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE, WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES TO INCREASING LIGHTING, PARTICULARLY WHERE WE'VE GOT GAPS IN LIGHTING OR WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO INCREASE THE LEVELS OF LIGHTING. WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING, UH, HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM GRANTS. THOSE ARE FEDERAL FUNDS THAT FLOW THROUGH THE STATE. WE'VE ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED FIVE DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF ROADWAYS WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE FORWARD PROJECTS THAT WOULD INCREASE LIGHTING, FILL IN GAPS AND, AND CHANGE THIS OLD LIGHTING STYLE TO, TO L E D LIGHTING. JUST HAVE GREATER LIGHTING LEVELS, PARTICULARLY WHERE WE'RE SEEING DARK CONDITION CRASHES, UM, SHOW UP WITH PATTERNS. SO WE'VE, WE'VE MADE SOME GOOD PROGRESS ON IDENTIFYING FUNDING, IDENTIFYING LOCATIONS WITH HIGH NEED AND OPPORTUNITY. UH, WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS AT AUSTIN ENERGY TO TRY TO DEVELOP MORE OF A STANDARD PROCESS OF WHO'S GONNA BE TAKING, WHAT'S ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS FILLING IN THESE GAPS OR HANDLING REQUESTS FOR LIGHTING. HOW DO WE ENSURE WE'VE GOT SUFFICIENT FUNDING IN THE LONG RUN THAT DOESN'T JUST RELY ON GRANTS, BUT REALLY TRIES TO IDENTIFY HOW WE, HOW WE MOVE FORWARD IN THIS LIGHTING AREA OVERALL. AND NOT JUST LOOKING AT ROADWAY LIGHTING, RIGHT? THIS IS ABOUT MOBILITY LIGHTING AND TRANSPORTATION LIGHTING. HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, WAITING FOR TRANSIT, THEY HAVE SUFFICIENT LIGHTING TO FEEL SAFE AND AND TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTINUE TO USE THOSE ALTERNATIVE FORMS, I'LL CALL 'EM, OF TRANSPORTATION RELATIVE TO JUST DRIVING WHEREVER THEY NEED TO GO. THANKS. YES. COMMISSIONER WHEELER. YES. SO YOU SAID THAT THE MAJORITY OF PEDESTRIAN DEATHS ARE IN THE WIDE FLAT AREAS. IS THAT CORRECT? THE MAJORITY OF PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES ARE NOT AT KIND OF SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS. CORRECT. THEY'RE ON, THEY'RE ON SEGMENTS. WIDER ROADWAYS, FASTER ROADS THAT ARE WIDER AND FLAT. RIGHT. SO IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE TINY LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE SOMEBODY RUNS INTO YOU FROM BEHIND. IT'S, IT'S WIDER, FLATTER. AND IS THAT LIKE, I MEAN LIKE 60% OR EIGHT 90%? WHAT, WHAT THE MAJORITY, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET A FEEL FOR, UM, HOW MUCH THERE IS OF NOT BEING WIDE AND FLAT, I GUESS IS WHAT I'M SAYING. YEAH. UM, I DON'T HAVE AN EXACT NUMBER FOR YOU, BUT OKAY. OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I'D SAY AT LEAST THREE OUTTA FOUR GENERALLY. OKAY. UM, THANK YOU. AND THAT 75, 80 5% RANGE? IT'S, IT'S THE MAJORITY ARE ON THE, THE HIGHER SPEED ROADWAYS. GOT IT. THANK YOU. AND A QUICK FOLLOW UP AND DOES THAT OVERLAP WITH THE 8:00 PM [00:20:01] TO 4:00 AM THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAYS? SO IS IT TRUE TO SAY THEN SOMETHING LIKE 75 ISH PERCENT HAPPEN ON THOSE KINDS OF NIGHTS ON THOSE KINDS OF STREETS? I THINK THAT'S AN ACCURATE STATEMENT. YEAH. WE CAN TRY TO GET BACK WITH YOU ON ON MORE SPECIFICS THERE IF YOU'RE INTERESTED. BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE CRASHES, FATAL CRASHES HAPPEN OVERNIGHTS, PARTICULARLY ON WEEKENDS. MAJORITY OF THE PEDESTRIAN RELATED CRASHES ARE HAPPENING ON THESE WIDE FAST ROADWAYS. HOW DO WE START TO ADDRESS THOSE THROUGH DESIGN, THROUGH OPERATIONS AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON. OKAY. WELL THAT'S AN EXCELLENT SEGUE THAT YOU USED THE WORD DESIGN, CUZ THE LAST QUESTION I HAVE IS ON SLIDE FIVE, IT'S LESS OF A DATA QUESTION, I GUESS MORE OF A CONCEPTUAL QUESTION. HAS THE BULLET DESIGNING TO REDUCE CONFLICT BETWEEN ROAD USERS? CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT? SURE. SO, UH, THERE'S, THERE'S A VARIETY OF WAYS TO DO THAT, RIGHT? WE HAVE, WE HAVE OPERATIONS WITH SIGNAL TIMING MM-HMM. , SO WE KNOW THAT WE CAN PROTECT LEFT TURNS OF, OF ONCOMING VEHICLES, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN AN UPCOMING SLIDE. MM-HMM. . SO WHEN YOU'RE AT A LIGHT, DO YOU HAVE A PROTECTED LEFT TURN OR DO YOU HAVE AN OPTION TO GO WHEN IT'S, UM, WHEN THERE'S A GAP MM-HMM. , SO IT'S A FLASHING YELLOW ARROW OR A GREEN BALL. YOU'VE GOT THAT PERMISSIVE PHASE THAT HELPS DEFINITELY WITH OPERATIONS, BUT IT, IT'S GOT A TRADE OFF A LITTLE BIT WITH SAFETY MM-HMM. . SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY HAVING THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. SAME THING WITH, UH, LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS. IF YOU RECALL, ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, WE WORKED WITH OUR SIGNAL ENGINEERS DOWNTOWN TO SAY, OKAY, SOMETHING LIKE 90 OR A HUNDRED INTERSECTIONS WE'RE GONNA HAVE LPIS SO THAT PEDESTRIANS CAN START TO WALK ACROSS THAT CROSSWALK BEFORE THE VEHICLE DRIVER GETS A GREEN LIGHT. SO THEY ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, THEY'RE VISIBLE. UH, WE'VE SEEN INCREASED SAFETY FROM THAT. SO SEPARATING THAT, THAT USER IN TIME AND SPACE CAN BE SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IT CAN BE PROTECTED INTERSECTIONS WITH MM-HMM. , BICYCLE PROTECTION, UH, PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION AS YOU'RE GETTING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION. AGAIN, VISIBILITY, SHORTER CROSSINGS, SEPARATING THOSE USERS IN TIME AND SPACE. ALL RIGHT. YEAH, THAT'S SUPER HELPFUL. UH, YEAH. UM, LET ME THROW OUT JUST AN IDEA. UH, IS, IS THERE A DISCUSSION OR HAS THERE BEEN DISCUSSION ABOUT VEHICLE TYPES? YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GONNA HARP ON THE GIANT TRUCKS AGAIN, JUST TO HARP ON GIANT TRUCKS, BUT YOU KNOW, IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, TRUCKS HAVE BECOME KIND OF RIDICULOUS IN MY MIND. AND IT, IF THERE'S DATA THAT INDICATES THAT, THAT THE KIND OF CONFLICT BETWEEN THAT KIND OF VEHICLE AND OTHER VEHICLES, AND THEN EVEN, ESPECIALLY THINGS LIKE POLICIES THAT ARE ALREADY IN PLACE THAT NEIGHBORHOODS AND STREET SIGNS THAT SAY YOU CAN'T HAVE VEHICLES ABOVE A CERTAIN WEIGHT. I'M CERTAIN MANY OF THOSE VEHICLES ARE ABOVE THAT WEIGHT. AND IT, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S SORT OF LIKE A SUPPLY SIDE, I GUESS, UM, APPROACH. LIKE, YOU KNOW, IN ADDITION TO PUTTING IN BIKE LANES OR PUTTING IN BETTER SIGNALING AND LPIS AND STUFF, IS THERE A WAY FOR THIS CITY OR VISION ZERO TO THINK ABOUT TRANSFORMING THE KINDS OF VEHICLES THAT ARE KIND OF ACCEPTABLE? LIKE IF YOU WANT TO HAVE THE, YOU KNOW, 9,000 POUND VEHICLE, YOU, YOU PAY THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT THROUGH A TAX, THROUGH A FEE, THROUGH A WHATEVER. HAS THERE BEEN EVER DISCUSSION OF THAT? SO IT'S INTERESTING TO BRINGING THAT UP. UH, JUST CAME BACK FROM NATO, THE, THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CITIES THAT MM-HMM. TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS AND, UH, THERE WAS A PRESENTATION FROM SOMEBODY IN DC A POLICY AID IN DC WORKING FOR ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THERE. THEY ACTUALLY, THROUGH THEIR BUDGET PROCESS, PASSED AN INCREASED AMOUNT OF VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEES FOR LARGER VEHICLES. SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT SAME KIND OF, UH, CONTROLLER AUTHORITY OVER VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEES, BUT THERE IS SOME INTEREST IN EXPLORING WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE LOCALLY, WHETHER THAT'S COUNTY OR, OR MM-HMM. WORKING WITH THE STATE OR, UM, AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. UH, BECAUSE THE WAY THAT THEY FRAMED IT WAS THOSE LARGER VEHICLES NOT ONLY HAVE AN IMPACT ON SAFETY, BUT THEY HAVE AN IMPACT ON SURE. THE CLIMATE CHANGE GOALS YEAH. HAVE AN IMPACT ON, AND THEY TEAR UP THE ROAD, YOU KNOW, THE ROADWAY AND MAINTENANCE AND, UH, THE SIZE OF PARKING SPACES. AND I MEAN, JUST A LOT OF DIFFERENT FACTORS. THE LARGER THE VEHICLE, WE, WE'VE GOTTA ACCOMMODATE THEM IN A LOT OF WAYS. THEY'RE HAVING AN IMPACT IN A LOT OF WAYS YEAH. ON THE DIFFERENT POLICY GOALS WE HAVE. SO THERE IS, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF MOVEMENT THERE AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THAT PLAY OUT, OBVIOUSLY IN EUROPEAN CITIES AND COUNTRIES MM-HMM. WHERE THEY'VE MADE THE MOST PROGRESS. THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF KIND OF NATIONAL LEVEL STANDARDS AROUND VEHICLE SAFETY. UH, JUST A LOT OF VEHICLE FEATURES LIKE, UH, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY DETECTION AND INTELLIGENT SPEED ASSIST IS GONNA BE REQUIRED ON, ON VEHICLES TO BE CLOSER TO THE SPEED LIMIT. YEAH. SO THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT PLAY IN WHICH ARE SEEM MUCH MORE NATIONAL HERE, BUT WE MIGHT HAVE SOME LOCAL AUTHORITY TO DO SOME THINGS. OKAY. JUST, UH, BYE. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. ANYONE ELSE ON, UM, REMOTE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? RIGHT. SEEING NONE. THANKS FOR THE, UH, INTERLUDE. LET'S, LET'S KEEP GOING. . ALL RIGHT. OKAY. SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR APPROACH. UH, AS WE SAID, YOU KNOW, THE KEY TO LONG TERM SUCCESS IS REALLY REDESIGNING OUR STREETS TOWARDS THE SAFER OUTCOMES WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE. ENGINEERING IS OUR LEAD ALL THE TIME. AND SO JUST WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT VISION ZERO BOND FUNDED PROJECTS. UH, INTERSECTION SAFETY IS A, IS A KEY COMPONENT. WE'VE DONE, I THINK 19 OR MAYBE 20 NOW, COMPLETED PROJECTS SINCE 2015. ORIGINAL FUNDING FOR VISION ZERO SAFETY FUNDS AND 20 16, 20 18 AND 2020 BONDS ALL HAD MONEY FOR VISION ZERO WORK. WE'VE GOT FOUR PROJECTS COMPLETED THIS YEAR. TWO IN CONSTRUCTION, TWO BEGINNING CONSTRUCTION IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. FIVE MORE IN DETAILED DESIGN AND 20 MORE THAT ARE [00:25:01] IN KIND OF THE EARLY PHASES OR JUST AWAITING APPROVALS FROM TECHON ON THEIR PARTICULAR SECTIONS. SO WE'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK KIND OF UNDERWAY, AND THAT'S REALLY PART OF THE GOAL OF HAVING THOSE 2020 BONDS THAT REALLY RAMPED UP, GIVES US THE ABILITY TO SCALE UP AND TRY TO GET MORE PROJECTS DONE FASTER SO WE CAN SEE THOSE OUTCOMES ON THE STREET AND, AND USE THOSE BO BOND DOLLARS WISELY. AND, AND EFFECTIVELY ANOTHER PIECE TO IT, IT'S NOT JUST LOOKING AT HISTORIC CRASH DATA THAT THE INTERSECTION SAFETY KIND OF PRIORITIZES LOOKING AT SYSTEMIC SAFETY. THAT MEANS BEING PROACTIVE ABOUT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. WE'VE GOT A CURVE WARNING, SYSTEMIC SAFETY PROJECT WE JUST COMPLETED, AND WE'LL HAVE A FINAL TOUCHES ON A FEW LOCATIONS IN THE COMING MONTHS. 40 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS THAT HAD CONDITIONS OF THE ROADWAY WITH SEVERE CURVES THAT WE WANTED TO TRY TO ADDRESS THROUGH A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT TREATMENTS. ACCESS MANAGEMENT IS ANOTHER KEY AREA WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SOME PROGRESS ON. WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS ON SOME OF OUR CORRIDORS WHERE WE'VE GOT A LOT OF DIFFERENT DRIVEWAYS TO COMMERCIAL FACILITIES, UH, MULTI-FAMILY FACILITIES, YOU'VE GOT A, A TWO-WAY LEFT TURN LANE IN THE MIDDLE. LOOK AT ALL THOSE CONFLICT POINTS THAT CAN BE THERE WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO TAKE A LEFT TURN ACROSS ONCOMING TRAFFIC AND JUDGE A GAP IN THE OTHER DIRECTION, WHEREAS A MEDIAN CAN REALLY HELP TO RESOLVE FOR THAT AND, AND REDUCE THOSE CONFLICT POINTS BY A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT. SO TRYING TO LOOK AT A NEW APPROACH THAT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE STANDARDIZED, UH, THAT WE'LL ALL USE CONSISTENTLY MOVING FORWARD AS A DEPARTMENT TOWARDS THOSE KIND OF LARGER CORRIDORS AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT TYPE OF ISSUES. AND THEN SIGNAL GUIDELINES FOR LEFT TERM MOVEMENTS. UH, I WANNA POINT TO AN EXAMPLE IN THE NEXT CO COUPLE SLIDES, BUT REALLY TRYING TO, AGAIN, STANDARDIZE THE APPROACH, SAYING WHEN DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO PROTECT THOSE TURNS AT THAT, UH, SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION AND WHEN DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE THAT PERMISSIVE, UH, ABILITY TO, TO HAVE THAT GAP FOR MOBILITY PURPOSES? I MENTIONED EARLIER THE HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. UH, IT'S THE FIRST TIME I THINK, UH, JUST A COUPLE YEARS AGO THAT WE, WE APPLIED FOR THIS TYPE OF GRANT AND WE WERE ABLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN MULTIPLE ROUNDS NOW, AND THERE'S FIVE SAFETY LIGHTING PROJECTS AND FIVE TRAFFIC SIGNAL PROJECTS. WE'RE WORKING WITH TECH.TO TRY TO IMPLEMENT. UH, WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF HICCUPS TRYING TO GET THE FIRST PROJECTS OUT THE DOOR, BUT I THINK IT'S PART OF THIS GROWING UP, GROWING AND SCALING UP TO BE ABLE TO, UH, GET THOSE PROCESSES IN PLACE SO THAT IN THE FUTURE WE CAN JUST REALLY KNOCK OUT A LOT OF PROJECTS IN A ROW. SO THAT'S EXCITING ON THE, UH, FEDERAL FUNDING SIDE OF THINGS TO BE ABLE TO USE SOME CURRENT, UH, COMMUNITY BOND FUNDS TO LEVERAGE THOSE TOWARDS FEDERAL FUND OPPORTUNITIES. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ASK ALL THE TIME, IS VISION ZERO WORKING? WHAT DOES IT, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? SO WE DECIDED TO DO SOME ANALYTICS PAPERS, AND THIS IS ON OUR WEBSITE AT THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION VISION ZERO WEBPAGE. YOU CAN GO AND FIND THE PLANS AND REPORTS. THERE'S I THINK THREE, MAYBE FOUR PUBLIC REPORTS AT THIS POINT. UH, ONE OF THE FIRST ONES WE DID WAS THOSE INTERSECTION SAFETY PROJECTS. WE COMPLETED 19 PROJECTS, BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE HAD AT LEAST A YEAR OF DATA ON, ON ANYTHING THAT WE WERE GONNA REVIEW. CAUSE WE WERE COMPARING FIVE YEARS OF BEFORE DATA TO ONE YEAR AFTER DATA. SO WE DECIDED TO TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE 13 LOCATIONS WHERE WE'VE MADE SOME IMPROVEMENTS AND THE REDUCTIONS ARE SIGNIFICANT. UH, 30% REDUCTION IN CRASHES PER YEAR ON AN ANNUALIZED BASIS, GOING FROM 326 TO 229. THINK ABOUT A HUNDRED CRASHES BEING REMOVED FROM THESE 13 LOCATIONS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY RESOURCES THAT DON'T HAVE TO RESPOND TO A CRASH. THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS FOR TRAFFIC WHEN YOU'RE BACKED UP BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN A CRASH. THERE'S A LOT OF POSITIVE BENEFITS FROM REDUCING THESE CRASHES AND TRYING TO BE PROACTIVE AS MUCH AS WE CAN. 31% REDUCTION IN SERIOUS INJURY FATAL CRASHES. THINK ABOUT FOUR CRASHES THAT DON'T HAPPEN EACH YEAR MOVING FORWARD BECAUSE OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO WITH THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED BONDS THAT WE'RE COMPLETELY GRATEFUL FOR. SO OVER THAT SAME TIME PERIOD, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT WHERE WE'VE DONE IT, HOW DOES IT COMPARE TO OTHER SIMILAR LOCATIONS? WE'VE SEEN A CITYWIDE CONTROL GROUP DECREASED 4% ON COMBINED A CRASHES, BUT SERIOUS INJURY OF FATAL CRASHES INCREASED 8%. SO A 31% REDUCTION IN THOSE SERIOUS AND FATAL CRASHES COMPARED TO AN 8% INCREASE IN OTHER LOCATIONS THAT DIDN'T GET TREATED. SO WHY WE'RE CONTINUING TO TRY TO IMPLEMENT THESE PROJECTS, UH, USE THOSE BOND DOLLARS WISELY AND, AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY. ALSO POINTING OUT, UH, OPPOSITE DIRECTION, ONE STRAIGHT ONE LEFT CRASHES THAT, AS I MENTIONED, A SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION, BEING ABLE TO TAKE THAT LEFT TURN. UH, JUDGING A GAP WHEN YOU HAVE A PERMISSIVE PHASE OR BEING ABLE TO PROTECT THAT, SEEING A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE GOING FROM ALMOST A THOUSAND PER YEAR OF THAT PARTICULAR CRASH TYPE AT SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS DOWN TO, UH, 796, UH, PROJECTED. SO A, A SIGNIFICANT 200 CRASH REDUCTION AT JUST A NUMBER OF, UH, SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS WHERE WE CAN HAVE OUR SIGNAL ENGINEERS EVALUATE 'EM, MAKE A INFORMED DECISION AND, AND MAKE SOME CHANGES THAT REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE. EITHER GOING FROM A COMPLETELY PERMITTED PHASE TO A FLASHING YELLOW ARROW OR GOING ALL THE WAY TO PROTECTED AT CERTAIN TIMES OF DAY, MAKING A HUGE DIFFERENCE. AND AGAIN, UH, KS ARE THOSE KILLED. SERIOUS INJURY AND MINOR INJURY CRASHES, 30 FEWER CRASHES THIS YEAR, EXPECTED RELATIVE TO THE HIGH BACK IN 20 18 20 19. SO, UH, THAT'S 30 PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT, THAT WILL NOT BE AT THESE IZED INTERSECTIONS BEING INJURED OR KILLED BECAUSE OF SOME SIGNAL TIMING CHANGES THAT WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE, WHICH IS REALLY PHENOMENAL. I KNOW, UH, POLICY AREA IS DEFINITELY ANOTHER AREA THAT WE'RE ACTIVE IN. I, THERE WAS A REQUEST FOR AN ITEM HERE AT THIS COMMISSION [00:30:01] TO LOOK AT RIGHT TURNS ON RED. I JUST WANNA POINT OUT A LITTLE BIT OF THE EARLY FINDINGS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DIG INTO OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS. AGAIN, POINTING OUT THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO COME BACK IN THE FUTURE AND, AND REALLY TALK THROUGH THIS ITEM, UH, ONCE WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION, A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO DISCUSS WITH OUR ENGINEERS. UH, JUST CONTEXT RIGHT TURNS ON RED USED TO BE ILLEGAL IN THE US PRIOR TO THE SEVENTIES. I THINK WITH THE, UM, THE OIL CRISIS BACK THEN. THEY WANTED TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT MOBILITY WAS PRIORITIZED AND MAKE SURE PEOPLE WERE USING THEIR FUEL WISELY AND UM, MAKE SURE PEOPLE GETTING AROUND AS MUCH. SO THEY, UH, I THINK THAT WAS A, A BROAD KIND OF NATIONAL LEVEL DECISION TO ALLOW FOR RIGHT TURNS ON. RED STILL PROHIBITED IN CERTAIN CITIES. UM, THERE'S NEW RESTRICTIONS. DC DID A PILOT THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT, AND THEN THEY'RE, UH, DECIDING IN A FEW YEARS TO RESTRICT RIGHT TURNS ON RED AT A LOT OF LOCATIONS. UM, AND ANN ARBOR IS DOING THE SAME WITH A RECENT DECISION, I THINK IN THEIR DOWNTOWN AREA. SO JUST LOOKING AT THE LOCAL DATA, UH, IT'S ABOUT 3% OF INJURY AND FATAL CRASHES INVOLVING PEDESTRIANS. SO 43 OUT OF 1500 CRASHES IN A FIVE YEAR PERIOD THAT WE LOOKED AT. SO PRETTY RELATIVELY SMALL PERCENTAGE AGAIN, HAPPENING AT SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS WITH A RIGHT TURNING VEHICLE. THOSE CRASH NARRATIVES, WE, WE TOOK A LOOK AT EVERY ONE OF THOSE 43 IN ADVANCE OF THIS DISCUSSION. UH, HALF THE TIME THE CRASH REPORTS DON'T ACTUALLY MENTION THE, THE, THE, WAS THE SIGNAL RED OR OR GREEN AT THE TIME. AGAIN, OFFICERS ARE DOING THEIR BEST TO KIND OF PIECE TOGETHER WHAT HAPPENED CUZ THEY'RE SHOWING UP AFTER THE FACT. SO HALF THE TIME WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SIGNAL WAS, BUT, UH, HALF, BASICALLY THERE'S AN EQUAL PERCENTAGE OF RED AND GREEN LIGHTS AT THOSE SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS WHEN THOSE RIGHT TURNS WERE BEING MADE. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE POTENTIAL IMPACT? WE GOTTA CONSIDER ALL THOSE FACTORS BASED ON HISTORICAL CRASHES. PEDESTRIANS DID HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY AT LEAST HALF THE TIME, 56% OF THE TIME. SO WE DO KNOW THAT AS THE PEDESTRIAN WAS TRYING TO CROSS THE STREET, UH, THEY HAD THE WALK SIGNAL AT LEAST 56% OF THE TIME AND THERE'S 30% THAT WAS UNDETERMINED. SO, UH, PRETTY HIGH LIKELIHOOD THAT MOST OF THESE HAD A WALK SIGNAL AT THE TIME WHEN THEY WERE TRYING TO GET ACROSS. JUST WANNA MENTION, LIKE I SAID, I THINK THEY'RE, THE ITEM REQUEST HAD A A DOWNTOWN FOCUS. YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE WANNA DO? THIS DOWNTOWN WITH A HIGHEST DENSE PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY IS ONLY SEVEN OUT OF THOSE 43 IN A FIVE YEAR PERIOD. AGAIN, SEVEN CRASHES IN FIVE YEARS HAD, UH, A, A DOWNTOWN RELATED SIGNAL, RIGHT TURN CRASH. SO, UH, NOT, NOT A HIGH PERCENTAGE, PROBABLY NOT AN AREA THAT WOULD BE OF, OF HIGHEST PRIORITY RELATIVE TO SOME OTHER THINGS THAT WE SEE WITH PEDESTRIAN RELATED FATALITIES IN SERIOUS INJURIES. AND AGAIN, THE REPORTS SHOWED FIVE SERIOUS INJURIES AND ONE FATALITY OUT OF THE OVERALL, UH, MIX. SO, UH, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF DATA. THEN JUST AGAIN, LOOKING AT RESEARCH, WE FOUND A FEW DIFFERENT RESEARCH STUDIES RIGHT TURNS IN RED SIMILAR TO WHAT WE SAW HERE ABOUT LESS THAN 1% UP TO 3% OF PEDESTRIAN RELATED CRASHES NATIONALLY IN DC. THEY DID A A HUNDRED LOCATION PILOT BACK IN 2019, ADDED NO RIGHT TURN, UH, NO TURN ON RED SIGNS. AND THEY SAW THAT THEY DID DECREASE THE FAIRITY YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS BY 90% ON RED LIGHTS AND, AND 60% ON GREEN LIGHTS. SO IT DID SEEM TO HAVE AN IMPACT THERE. I DO WANNA NOTE DC'S GOT RED LIGHT CAMERAS, WHICH WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO BASED ON STATE LAW. SO THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER CONTEXTUAL FACTORS I THINK WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF AS WE GET INTO DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT THESE SIGNS MAY OR MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH HERE. AND ANOTHER STUDY IN FLORIDA SAW, YOU KNOW, 60, 70% COMPLIANCE. SO I THINK WE HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT THAT COMPLIANCE RATE MIGHT LOOK LIKE. THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A QUESTION ABOUT WHERE IT MAKES SENSE TO DO IT. IS IT AT HOTSPOT LOCATIONS, AT HIGH PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY LOCATIONS? UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT YOU COULD CONSIDER ABOUT WHERE THIS MIGHT MAKE THE MOST SENSE. AND AGAIN, GLAD TO COME BACK, UH, EARLY NEXT YEAR AND TALK WITH Y'ALL ONCE WE HAVE A CHANCE TO DIGEST SOME OF THIS INFORMATION. CAN I ASK ONE QUICK QUESTION? YEAH. TO 2.8% OVERALL OF THE CRASHES. AND THEN THIS, UM, SLIP LANE IS 7% OF THAT 2% OR CRASHES FROM A SLIP LANE TURN? IS THAT WHAT THAT MEANS THERE? IT'S 2.8, YEAH. 43 OUT OF THE 15, 13 AND THEN OUT OF THAT 43, THE SLIP LANE WITH THE YIELD WAS ONE OF THOSE OR SOMETHING. YEAH. SURPRISINGLY WRONG. I OF DATA THAT SURPRISES ME, BUT YEAH. CAUSE THAT SEEMS TO ME THE MOST DANGEROUS SPOT. YEP. BUT GUESS IT'S NOT. YEP. RIGHT. EVEN THINGS THAT CLAIM THE CLAIMS WHEN DONE PROPERLY ARE INCREASED SAFETY. MAYBE I'M JUST SUPER FAMILIAR WITH OLD HF AND LAMAR THAT LIVED RIGHT THERE FOR A DOZEN YEARS. THAT ONE IS JUST NOT SAY IT WAS DONE PROPERLY. YEAH. OH, , YES. THERE'S, THERE'S OBVIOUSLY DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO A A SLIP LANE. WE'RE MOVING A LOT MORE TOWARDS SMART RIGHTS THAT INCREASE THE VISIBILITY OF THE DRIVER'S WINDOW TOWARDS PEOPLE THAT MIGHT BE, UH, TRYING TO CROSS AND AROUND THEM. SO, UH, THE ANGLE OF THE VEHICLE AND WHERE THE DRIVER CAN ACTUALLY SEE VERY IMPORTANT TOWARDS THE SUCCESS OF THOSE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE MOVING TOWARDS AS WELL. YEAH. SO I'LL BE QUICK WITH THE LAST COUPLE AND LEAVE SOME MORE TIME FOR DISCUSSION. SO I JUST WANNA MENTION, WE DID GO AFTER NEW FEDERAL FUNDING. YOU KNOW, WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL TO HAVE REAL LEADERSHIP IN THE U S D O T THIS YEAR. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THEY RELEASED THE FIRST NATIONAL ROADWAY SAFETY STRATEGY AND INCLUDED A GOAL OF ZERO DEATHS ON A NATIONAL LEVEL FOR [00:35:01] THE FIRST TIME. AND THEY BACKED THAT UP WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND JOBS ACT, UH, CAME BACK WITH A LOT OF MONEY AVAILABLE TO, TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO BE ABLE TO, TO PUSH THESE SAFETY PROJECTS THROUGH. SO THEY'VE GOT A REAL STRONG FOCUS ON GETTING AS MANY COMMUNITIES TO HAVE A VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN AS THE FIRST STEP. WE'RE FORTUNATE THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING A VISION ZERO PLAN IN PLACE FOR YEARS NOW. WE'VE BEEN MAKING PROGRESS. SO WE WENT AFTER THE IMPLEMENTATION GRANT SIDE OF THINGS. AND SO WE ACTUALLY DID APPLY FOR ABOUT 28 MILLION OF PROJECT COSTS. ABOUT 20% OF THAT WOULD BE LOCAL MATCH, PRIMARILY THROUGH THE OUR BOND DOLLARS HOPING TO DO, UH, WHAT THE, WHAT THE GRANTS REALLY FOCUSED ON STRATEGIES THAT REDUCE TRAFFIC RELATED FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES WITH PROVEN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES. A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING BUILDING UP AND RAMPING UP THOSE, IT'S GOT A STRONG FOCUS ON EQUITY, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE INVESTING IN HISTORICALLY UNDERINVESTED AREAS AND THEY WANNA MAKE SURE WE CAN DELIVER WITHIN FIVE YEARS. SO THAT'S MAJOR SAFETY INTERSECTION PROJECTS, PUSHING PROTECTED INTERSECTIONS, ROUNDABOUTS, WHICH WE'LL GET TO AND SHORTLY SYSTEMIC SAFETY PROJECTS. REALLY RAMPING UP A FOCUS ON CORRIDORS AND NOT JUST THE ONE LOCATION THAT HAD A CRASH, BUT THE CONDITIONS THAT EXIST ALONG A STRETCH OF ROAD AND COORDINATING WITH OTHER BOND PROGRAMS LIKE OUR, UM, OUR, UH, SAFE ROUTE TO SCHOOL PROGRAM, OUR SIDEWALKS, BIKEWAYS. WE'VE GOT OTHER BOND PROGRAMS THAT ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN TRYING TO SCALE UP WITH FEDERAL FUNDS AS WELL. SO, AGAIN, HOPING TO HEAR BACK, UH, LATE DECEMBER, JANUARY IS THE TIMEFRAME WE'VE BEEN TOLD. WE'LL SEE IF THAT HAPPENS. AND HOPEFULLY, UH, NEXT YEAR WE'LL BE ABLE TO COME BACK WITH GOOD NEWS ABOUT REALLY LEVERAGING LOCAL DOLLARS FOR AN INCREASED AMOUNT OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO, TO RAMP UP AND SCALE UP THESE WORK. OH, JUST WANNA MENTION TWO OTHER GRANT STRATEGIES. UH, VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR SAFETY ANALYSIS, CITYWIDE LIGHTING PLAN, WHICH WE DON'T HAVE AS A CITY RIGHT NOW. AND A ROUNDABOUT EDUCATION CAMPAIGN WOULD ALL BE PART OF THAT PACKAGE AS WELL. SO, REAL BRIEFLY, I'VE TOUCHED ON THIS BEFORE, BUT, YOU KNOW, ACHIEVING OUR POLICY GOALS, Y'ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE A S AND P TRYING TO GET TO A 50 50 MODE SPLIT, 50%, UH, PEOPLE DRIVING IF THEY CONTINUE TO CHOOSE TO DO SO. AND THEN, UH, 50% NON-DRIVING ALTERNATIVES. AND BEING ABLE TO DO THAT REALLY MEANS WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO TRANSFORM OUR ENVIRONMENT, KIND OF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THAT EARLIER SLIDE. IT'S GONNA MEAN CHANGING OUR ROADWAYS, HOW THEY LOOK AND HOW THEY OPERATE. UH, JUST WANNA POINT TO A RECENT EXAMPLE ALONG SOUTH PLEASANT VALLEY, OVER THE LONGHORN BRIDGE AS WELL AS THE, THE STRETCH OF ROAD OF SOUTH PLEASANT VALLEY. YOU KNOW, OUR BIKE WAVES PROGRAM HAD A GREAT, UH, CONCEPT HERE AND THEY WERE GONNA MOVE FORWARD WITH ADDING SOME SHARED USE PATHS, DOING WHAT THEY COULD WITH THE AVAILABLE RIGHT AWAY TO THEM. WE STARTED TO DO SOME CRASH ANALYSIS AS OUR, OUR CRASH DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS GOT A LOT BETTER IN IN RECENT YEARS, IDENTIFIED THIS AS A HIGH CRASH ROADWAY, STARTED TO PARTNER TOGETHER TO FIND A, A BETTER OUTCOME FOR THAT PARTICULAR STRETCH OF ROAD AND WHAT WE COULD DO WITH THAT, KNOWING WHAT THE VOLUMES WERE, KNOWING WHAT THE TURNING MOVEMENTS WERE. SAW A LOT OF REAR END CRASHES AS PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO TAKE LEFTS INTO CREG FIELDS OR ONTO CANTERBURY OFF OF PLEASANT VALLEY. SO WE KNEW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WE COULD DO TO INCREASE SAFETY FOR DRIVERS, INCREASED SAFETY FOR PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, ROLLING AROUND THIS AREA, PARTICULARLY AS A CONNECTED TO THE TRAIL. AND SO WE WENT FROM THIS FOUR LANE UNDIVIDED CROSS SECTION WITH A LOT OF REAR ENDS, SOME HEAD ON COLLISIONS, UH, SOME BIKE AND P RELATED CRASHES TO SOMETHING. NOW THAT LOOKS REALLY TRANSFORMATIVE. IT'S, IT'S CHANGED THE LOOK AND FEEL. UH, IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO GO DOWN AND, AND GO ACROSS THAT BRIDGE, IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE. UH, YOU'VE GOT MUCH WIDER SPACE. IT'S NOT CONSTRAINED AS MUCH FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE, UH, OUTSIDE OF VEHICLES. WE'VE GOT PHBS, THE PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACONS TO ALLOW FOR SAFE CROSSINGS. THEY'RE, UH, MUCH MORE FREQUENT THAN THEY USED TO BE. WE'RE SEEING A LOT MORE ACTIVITY OUT THERE, PARTICULARLY WITH FAMILIES THAT ARE, THAT ARE OUT THERE ENJOYING THIS STRETCH OF ROAD. SO EXCITING TO SEE A PROJECT LIKE THAT CAN REALLY BE TRANSFORMATIVE AND, AND AT A, A VERY REASONABLE COST. I'M GONNA BE, UH, AN ADVOCATE, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME A LOT THIS YEAR AND, AND OVER THE NEXT 12 MONTHS TALKING ABOUT ROUNDABOUTS. UM, ROUNDABOUTS JUST WORK. THEY WORK AGAINST SEVERE CRASHES, ALMOST AN 80% REDUCTION OF SEVERE CRASHES WHEN YOU HAVE, UH, UH, GOING FROM A SIGNAL TO A ROUNDABOUT, THEY WORK 24 7, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE NEXT STORM COMING THROUGH. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND WHAT THAT COULD LOOK LIKE ON OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK ROUNDABOUTS WORK, WITHOUT HAVING TO GO AND SIGNAL SIGNAL TEXTS WHENEVER THAT THAT POWER GOES OUT. WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE BACKUPS, WE DON'T HAVE TO REPLACE THE HEADS. MAINTENANCE IS IS A LOT EASIER WITH ROUNDABOUTS AND WE CAN DO THIS, UH, ALSO BY INCREASING CAPACITY AND THROUGHPUT THROUGH THERE ON A CONSISTENT BASIS, PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO DRIVE THROUGH AND THEY, THEY MUCH PREFER TO KEEP GOING SLOWLY THAN TO STOP AND WAIT FOR THEIR SIGNAL TO GO. ESPECIALLY OVERNIGHT WHEN WE'RE SEEING THE MOST SEVERE CRASHES, THERE'S A LOT OF RED LIGHT RUNNING BECAUSE OF PEOPLE'S FRUSTRATION. THIS RESOLVES THAT COMPLETELY RESOLVES THOSE ANGLE CRASHES RESOLVES THOSE OPPOSITE DIRECTION CRASHES. SO THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT MORE EXPENSIVE UP FRONT, BUT THEY PAY OFF DIVIDENDS FOR, FOR DECADES TO COME. SO I'LL JUST CLOSE WITH THIS. UH, ACHIEVING OUR POLICY GOALS, YOU KNOW, IS REALLY GONNA TAKE NOT JUST VISION ZERO EFFORTS, VISION ZERO BOND PROJECTS, BUT IT'S GONNA TAKE SAFER ROADWAY DESIGNS AND SAFER UH, UH, IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE GOT FUNDED THROUGH OUR BONDS. AGAIN, WITH THAT COMMUNITY SUPPORT, IT'S BEEN TRANSFORMATIVE. IT'S GONNA TAKE LIGHTING TO BE THERE FOR ALL MODES TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE FEEL SAFE AS THEY GET AROUND. IT'S GONNA TAKE SOME [00:40:01] NARROWLY FOCUSED TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT ON THOSE ROADWAYS WHERE WE DON'T HAVE CONTROL OF THE DESIGN AND WHERE IT TAKES DECADES TO CHANGE THE DESIGN OF A FREEWAY OR A FRONTAGE ROAD. WE NEED TO HAVE THAT SPEEDING AND IMPAIRMENT BE PART OF THAT CONVERSATION, PARTICULARLY OVERNIGHT ON THE WEEKENDS. PROJECT CONNECTS A CRITICAL PIECE WHEN WE LOOK TO OTHER LOCATIONS THAT HAVE REALLY MADE PROGRESS ON REDUCING THEIR SEVERE CRASHES AND FATALITIES. THEY'VE GOT A HIGH FUNCTIONING MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM AND THANKFULLY WE'VE GOT THE FUNDING TO DO THAT AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS TOWARDS THAT OVER TIME. WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH TECH DOT, AS WE MENTIONED, THE HIGH PERCENTAGE OF OF ON SYSTEM FATAL CRASHES THIS YEAR IS ALARMING IN A WAY. AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THEM ON FINDING SOLUTIONS THAT ARE ACCEPTABLE TO BOTH. THANKFULLY, WE'RE ALIGNED ON THE POLICY. WE BOTH HAVE A GOAL OF ZERO AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL, AND NOW WE'VE GOT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AS WELL. SO WORKING TOWARDS THAT POLICY GOAL THAT WE SHARE IS, IS CRITICAL. AND THEN STATE AND LEGISLATIVE CHANGES AT THE, AT THE LOCAL LEVEL AS WELL. YOU KNOW, WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IT ENOUGH, BUT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE PEOPLE GOING TOWARDS DESTINATIONS OF WORK OR, OR FOR PLAY? AND HOW CLOSE ARE THEY AND CAN THEY GET THERE? MOST TRIPS ARE WITHIN THREE MILES. THOSE TRIPS ARE A LOT EASIER TO MAKE OUTSIDE OF THE VEHICLE. AND SO HOW DO WE START TO, TO TRANSFORM KIND OF OUR OVERALL THINKING AROUND THIS, TOWARDS THAT SYSTEMS BASED APPROACH, WHICH WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT LAST WEEK WITH THE THINK BIKE WORKSHOP THAT WAS HERE IN TOWN AND THEN ENFORCEMENT AND PROSECUTION. A LOT OF, A LOT OF ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT THERE ON THE STATE AND UH, ON THE STATE LEVEL IN PARTICULAR, AND CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT LEGISLATIVE AGENDA TO PUSH FOR THOSE CHANGES THAT ARE NEEDED. SO I WILL PAUSE THERE AND MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF TIME FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION WITH THAT SECTION. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. UM, ALRIGHT. LOOKING AT THE FOLKS REMOTE ON THE SCREEN. UH, YES, COMMISSIONER FRANCO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT'S BEEN A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL PRESENTATION, UH, THUS FAR. I JUST HAVE, YOU MENTIONED, UM, IN THE FEDERAL FUNDING EQUITY AND I WAS WONDERING WHAT, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE FILTERS Y'ALL ARE USING TO MAKE SURE YOU GUYS ARE DISTRIBUTING THESE FUNDS EQUITABLY? ARE THOSE FROM THE FEDERAL PERSPECTIVE? AND IF NOT, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE FILTERS THAT THE CITY IS USING TO, TO PERFORM THAT ANALYSIS? YEAH, I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION. SO AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, THEY ACTUALLY REQUIRE YOU TO SHOW HOW MUCH OF THAT INVESTMENT THAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR FROM THE FEDERAL GRANT, HOW MUCH OF THAT WOULD BE TARGETED TOWARDS AIR OF THE CITY THAT MATCHED THE U S D O T HISTORICALLY UNDERINVESTED AREAS. SO THEY'VE ALREADY GOT A MAP LAID OUT ACROSS THE CITY, UM, AND I, I CAN'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT THAT CRITERIA IS, BUT I'M GLAD TO FORWARD THAT INFORMATION TOWARDS YOU AS FAR AS HOW THEY DEVELOP THAT, THAT, UM, THAT DEFINITION OF HISTORICALLY UNDERINVESTED. AND SO WE ARE AIMING FOR NOT ONLY JUST MEETING THE MINIMUM OF WHAT THE GRANT REQUIRES, BUT GOING FAR ABOVE THAT AS FAR AS WHERE WE WOULD INVEST THOSE FUNDS AND TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING MOST OF THOSE PROJECTS IN THOSE LOCATIONS WHERE THEY'VE BEEN DEFINED AS HISTORICALLY UNDERINVESTED. WE ALSO AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, UH, WE'VE GOT A GREAT SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT GROUP, THE POLICY AND PLANNING GROUP AT ATD, AND THEY'VE DEVELOPED EQUITY ACTION ZONES AND THEY WENT OUT AND THEY WORKED WITH COMMUNITY TO DEFINE WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE, HOW DO WE DEFINE THE CRITERIA? SO AGAIN, I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH INFORMATION THERE, BUT THAT WAS A LOT OF THE KIND OF LOCAL AVAILABLE DATA AS FAR AS PERCENTAGE OF, UM, UH, CAR OWNERSHIP IN THOSE PARTICULAR AREAS. HOUSEHOLD INCOME, UH, USE OF ALTERNATIVE TRANSIT OR, OR USE OF MASS TRANSIT. SO A LOT OF DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT CAME TOGETHER TO PROVIDE SCORING TO, TO RATE RELATIVE TO OTHER PARTS OF TOWN. WHAT ARE THESE HIGH PRIORITY ZONES, MEDIUM HIGH PRIORITY ZONES AND, AND GOES DOWN THE LIST. SO, UH, IN CON IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EQUITY OFFICE, I THINK, AND, AND, UH, OTHER STAKEHOLDERS FROM THE COMMUNITY, THEY DEVELOP THIS PROCESS AND IT'S RESULTED IN A REALLY NICE MAP TO, TO HELP US PRIORITIZE WHERE WE'RE GONNA INVEST FUNDS IN THE FUTURE. AWESOME, THANK YOU. ARE, UM, JUST OUTTA CURIOSITY, ARE THOSE, ARE SOME OF THOSE MAPS AVAILABLE ONLINE? YEAH, I BELIEVE SO. I THINK THEY'RE, THEY'RE WORKING TOWARDS PUTTING SOME OF THE METHODOLOGY AND THINGS ALONG WITH THE MAP, SO LET ME DOUBLE CHECK WITH THEM AND I'LL, I'LL CIRCLE BACK WITH THE, WITH THE CHAIR AND DISTRIBUTE THAT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. DO WE HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? OKAY. SEEING DONE. I WANT TO, UH, SECOND THE, UM, GREAT PRESENTATION. A GOOD AMOUNT OF DATA, A GOOD AMOUNT OF STORY AND NARRATIVE. LIKE THERE'S, THERE'S A WELL DONE . I ENJOY IT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YEP. ALL RIGHT. ARE WE, UM, UM, YEAH, THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE. . UH, ALRIGHT, MOVING ON TO [4. Discussion and possible action on Placemaking updates] THE NEXT ITEM LISTED FOR DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION IS THE, UM, PLACE MAKING UPDATE. LUKE RIE IS ONLINE OR HERE? ONLINE. HI EVERYONE. UH, I'M ONLINE SO I MEAN, GOOD EVENING CHAIRS AND COMMISSIONERS. UH, IT'S A PLEASURE TO SERVE IN PLACE OF JASON, JOHN MICHAEL, WHO IS UNFORTUNATELY COULD NOT ATTEND THIS MEETING THIS EVENING. UH, AS YOU MENTIONED, UH, I AM LUKE ERIE, I'M A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM MANAGER AT ATD SMART MOBILITY OFFICE AND I'M ALSO THE PLACEMAKING PROGRAM LEAD DISCUSSING ATDS PLACEMAKING PROGRAM UPDATES. UH, AGAIN, I APPRECIATE YOU [00:45:01] SUPPORTING VIRTUALLY TODAY AS I'M FORMING IT COLD, SO HOPEFULLY YOU GUYS CAN BEAR WITH ME AND HEAR ME ALONG THE WAY. KIND OF GAVE THE INTRODUCTION, SO I'LL KIND OF MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND MOVE INTO THE AGENDA. UH, TODAY'S AGENDA WILL BE TO DISCUSS AND PROVIDE DETAILS ABOUT THE SMART MOBILITY PLACEMAKING PROGRAM, UH, AND THE SUB-PROGRAM. SO THE ART BOX PROGRAM, THE STREET BANNER PROGRAM, CREATIVE CROSSWALK PROGRAM, LIVING STREETS PROGRAM, COMMUNITY MOBILITY HUBS, AND PUBLIC PLAZA PROGRAM. AS WE GO THROUGH EACH ONE OF THESE SUB-PROGRAMS, I'LL KIND OF PAUSE FOR A BREAK SO THAT, UM, WE HAVE TIME TO DISCUSS, DISCUSS EACH ONE OF THESE PROGRAMS INSTEAD OF JUST GOING IN FULL LENGTH FOR EACH ONE OF 'EM. BUT THE SMART MOBILITY PLACEMAKING PROGRAM, IT DOES TRANSFORM UNDERUTILIZED PUBLIC SPACES AND EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLACEMAKING FOCUSED OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE TRANSPORTATION RIGHT AWAY. SO SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE JUST KIND OF LOOKING WITHIN THE TRANSPORTATION RIGHT AWAY FOR THOSE PLACE MAKING OPPORTUNITIES AND THE INTENTION IS TO EXPAND THESE SPACES INTO VIBRANT PLACES AND ADDING UNIQUE CHARACTER FOR US TO SEE, LEARN, AND ENJOY FROM THEM AS WE GO THROUGH. SO THAT WAS THE AGENDA. NEXT SLIDE. AND NOW I WANT TO TALK ABOUT LIKE WHAT IS PLACEMAKING? UH, SO PLACEMAKING IS AN INTEGRATED URBAN DESIGN APPROACH INTO PLANNING, DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT. AND WE'RE LOOKING INTO THIS INTO PUBLIC SPACES AND POTENTIAL TO CREATE PUBLIC POSITIVE SPACES THAT PROMOTE HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND WELLBEING. AND THE MAIN REASON WHY I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT PLACE MAKING IS CUZ THERE'S ALSO PLACE KEEPING, WHICH WOULD BE NEXT SLIDE. AND SO WHAT IS PLACE KEEPING? UH, PLACE KEEPING IS SAFEGUARDING AND STRENGTHENING THE QUALITIES THAT DEFINE THE CULTURE OF THE COMMUNITY. SO THIS COULD BE CULTURAL LANDMARKS, POINTS OF INTEREST, HISTORICAL FEATURES, EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES. IT COULD ALSO EVEN INCLUDE ART. SO PRESERVING THE HISTORY OF THE CULTURE OF THESE PLACES IS A PIVOTAL PART OF CREATING HEALTHY, PROSPEROUS COMMUNITIES. SO AGAIN, PLACEMAKING IS A THOUGHTFUL, INTENTIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT AIMS TO REFLECT THE AREA OF UNIQUE CULTURE AND HISTORY WHILE WE EMBRACE THIS INTO THE FUTURE. NEXT SLIDE. AND WITH THE POLICY AND FRAMEWORK. SO SMART MOBILITY OFFICE, PART OF, AGAIN, THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT COMPLETED AN ARTS COLLECTION MANAGEMENT POLICY, AND THESE EFFORTS WERE PART OF ATDS COMMITMENT TO CONTRIBUTE TO VIBRANT STREET LIFE. YOU KNOW, THIS DOCUMENT DOES HELP ATD IN THE SMART MOBILITY OFFICE WITH AS A S M M P INDICATORS AROUND SAFETY, EQUITY, AND EVEN IN PLACE MAKING. SO THIS DOCUMENT DOES DEFINE THE POLICY AND ESTABLISHES PROCEDURES GOVERNING THE SELECTION, THE ACQUISITION, THE DESIGN, THE FABRICATION, AND EVEN THE INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ARTWORK. AND NEXT SLIDE. AND WE TALKED ABOUT GRANT OPPORTUNITIES RIGHT BEFORE, I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO HIGHLIGHT THIS AS WELL BECAUSE WE ARE INVESTIGATING AND INTERESTED IN COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE NEEDS WITH DOT'S NOFO OR THEIR NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS WITHIN THE THRIVING COMMUNITIES PROGRAM. YOU KNOW, THE AREA OF FOCUS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS THE COMPLETE NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE WORKING WITH URBAN AND SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN AREA TO COORDINATE TRANSPORTATION, LAND USE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND KIND OF PULL ALL THOSE TOGETHER. AND NEXT SLIDE. AND HERE I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT AGAIN, KIND OF SOME OF THESE SUB-PROGRAMS AND I WANT TO BE ABLE TO, I'LL GIVE YOU GUYS SOME TIME IN BETWEEN, BUT I WANTED TO START OFF WITH THE ARTBOX PROGRAM. SO A KEY MOTIVATION FOR THE ARTBOX PROGRAM WAS TO MAKE AUSTIN STREETS MORE PEOPLE FRIENDLY AND THAT EXPRESSES THE UNIQUENESS AND SPECIAL CHARACTER OF THE COMMUNITY. SO THE ARTBOX PROGRAM PROVIDES NEIGHBORHOOD AND BUSINESS DISTRICTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE ATDS TRAFFIC SIGNAL CABINETS OR UTILITIES, SIGNAL CABINETS WITH THE COMMUNITY INSPIRED ARTWORK. AND ALL OF THIS IS CREATED BY LOCAL ARTISTS. SO CURRENTLY WE DO HAVE, WE HAVE COMPLETED 27 ART BOXES. WE HAVE CREATED A PROCESS FOR THE COMMUNITY WITH OUR ART PARTNERS TO SPONSOR THEIR OWN ARTWORK. AND WE DO EXPECT TO COMPLETE AT LEAST AT A MINIMUM RIGHT NOW OF 20 TO 30 MORE WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS. AND YOU CAN APPLY THROUGH THE ARTBOX PROGRAM, THROUGH THE SMART MOBILITY OFFICE WEBSITE ON THE CITY OF AUSTIN. UH, UM, SMART MOBILITY OFFICE KIND OF WEBSITE. BUT LASTLY, IN PARTNERSHIP, I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT IN CREATIVE ACTION. THERE IS A BIKE TOUR FOR MURALS THROUGHOUT AUSTIN THAT WILL INDICATE AND INCLUDE THE THREE NEWLY COMMUNITY INSPIRED ART BOXES ALONG AIRPORT BOULEVARD. AND THAT'S COMING UP FAIRLY QUICKLY. THAT'S NOVEMBER 11TH TO THE 13TH. [00:50:02] AND SO THERE IS SOME HIGHLIGHTS WITH THE ARTBOX PROGRAM. AND SO, NEXT SLIDE I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO HIGHLIGHT NOW ABOUT THE STREET BANNER PROGRAM. SO THE STREET BANNER PROGRAM PROVIDES A SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY, NONPROFITS, UM, AND EVEN ARTS AND CULTURE GROUPS THAT NEED AN EFFECTIVE TOOL TO PROMOTE EVENTS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR AUSTINITES AND EVEN FOR VISITORS. SO THE STREET BANNER ENHANCES THE STREETS SCAPE OF AUSTIN BY ADDING A VIBRANT ELEMENT THAT ENLIVENS EACH EV EACH KEY CORRIDOR AND THE MOBILITY EXPERIENCE. AND NOT ONLY FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS, BUT THEN ALSO VEHICULAR DRIVERS. SO, ATD SIGNS AND MARKINGS DIVISION HAS TRANSITIONED TO LEAST THE FRONT OF HOUSE FOR THE STREET BANNERS PROGRAM. AND THE SMART OFFICE IS STILL COORDINATING WITH SIGNS AND MARKINGS FOR THE OPERATIONAL SIDE OF THINGS. AND THIS ALL TRANSITIONED IN OCTOBER, AND THE PROGRAM IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING NEW REPORTING AND APPLICATION PROCESS, UH, FOR THIS PROGRAM. UH, ALSO KIND OF LASTLY, WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT FOR DOWNTOWN AND KEY DISTRICT CENTERS AND CORRIDORS STREET STRENGTHEN A SENSE OF PLACE AND DISTRICT IDENTITY. SO AGAIN, COORDINATING INTERDEPARTMENTALLY, INTER DIVISIONALLY OR OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO GROW THIS PROGRAM. NEXT SLIDE. AND THEN THE CREATIVE CROSSWALK PROGRAM. SO THE CREATIVE CROSSWALK PROGRAM IMPROVES IN ITS STRIVES TO IMPROVE, AGAIN, PUBLIC SAFETY AND CULTIVATES ECONOMIC SENSE OF A PLACE AND A SENSE OF PLACE. SO THE GROWING NUMBER OF CITIES EMBRACING THE ART AND EFFECTIVE STRATEGY TO ACTIVATE THEIR STREETS, WHETHER WE DO THIS LIKE VISUALLY OR BECOMING MORE COMMON. SO CREATIVE CROSSWALKS NOT ONLY HIGHLIGHTS MARKED PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS, BUT AGAIN, IT USES COLORS, IT USES TEXTURES AND PATTERNS TO LIVE IN THE CITY STREETS. UM, AS YOU'RE SEEING RIGHT HERE, WE'RE EXPLORING LICENSING AND PERMITTING OPTIONS FOR LONG TERM SOLUTIONS FOR THIS PROGRAM. AND A DRAFT OF STANDARD OPERATION PROCEDURES OR AN SO P HAS BEEN PRODUCED TO DEVELOP REGULATIONS, LESSONS LEARNED, UH, FROM THE ORIGINAL PRIDE CROSSWALK THAT YOU CAN SEE, UM, WITH, WITH THE DOG IN THE PICTURE ON FOURTH IN COLORADO. AND THIS WILL PROVIDE GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE DEPLOYMENTS. UH, YOU KNOW, AFTER THOSE. SO SOPS OR, YOU KNOW, STANDARD PROCEDURES, WE PLAN TO EXPLORE A SET OF NUMBER OF COMMUNITY VOTING, UM, OR HAVING COMMUNITY VOTERS KIND OF VOTE ON EACH ONE AS WE WERE PROGRESS FORWARD. BUT I WANTED TO STOP HERE AGAIN, BECAUSE THESE ARE AT LEAST THREE PROGRAMS. I'M SURE YOU GUYS HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. SO BEFORE I MOVE ON, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS WITH THE ART BOX PROGRAM, THE CREATIVE CROSSWALK PROGRAM, OR EVEN THE STREET PANEL PROGRAM? YEAH. COMMISSIONER FRANK. YEAH. COMMISSIONER FRANCO. YES. YEP. UH, THANK YOU. COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. THE, I THINK I SAW IN YOUR PRESENTATION THAT, UM, COMMUNITIES COULD SPONSOR, UH, AN ART BOX MM-HMM. , THAT IS CORRECT. YOU KNOW, IS THERE LIKE A MINIMUM NUMBER OF NEIGHBORS OR SOMETHING? OR JUST AS LONG AS YOU CAN PAY THE FEE FOR THE ART BOX, HOW DOES, HOW DOES THAT WORK TYPICALLY THROUGH THAT? AND THEN WE DO HAVE AN ARTIST POOL, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT EXPANDING THAT, UH, THROUGH THE PROCESS SO THAT IF THE COMMUNITY WANTS TO BE ABLE TO, TO SELECT AN ARTIST OR IF THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO IT THEMSELVES, THAT ALSO IS ALL INCORPORATED INTO THAT APPLICATION PROCESS ONLINE. GOTCHA. SO THE APPLICATION PROCESS ONLINE, IT'S INTERESTING. THERE'S AN RPO MM-HMM. , THERE'S A POTENTIAL ART BOX IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO MY NEIGHBORS ABOUT. SO THEN AS FAR AS THE LICENSE, THE LICENSING OF THE CROSSWALKS, WHEN YOU SAY LICENSING, WHO ARE WE OPENING UP THE LICENSING TO? AND I GUESS, YOU KNOW, BEING VERY MORE DIRECT, ARE WE GONNA START SEEING ADVERTISEMENTS FOR COCA-COLA OR AIRBNB ON A CROSSWALK? OR WHAT DOES LICENSING LOOK LIKE? NO, NO. I MEAN, SO THAT ADVERTISING IS, IS KIND OF PART OF THAT, YOU KNOW, STANDARD OR PROCEDURES OR GUIDELINES THAT, THAT CAN'T BE PROMOTED. SO TYPICALLY ALSO, UM, BECAUSE OF THE TEXAS M U T C D STANDARDS AS WELL, UH, AN ARTIST OR A COMMUNITY LIKE, OR YOU, YOU AREN'T ABLE TO NOT ONLY PROVIDE ADVERTISEMENTS, BUT YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO LIKE SIGN THE ARTWORK ITSELF EITHER. SO WHAT IS THE LIGHT, WHAT'S, WHAT IS THE, WHAT'S THE CONCEPT BEHIND LICENSING, I GUESS? AND THE LICENSING IS TO HELP KIND OF THE, THE OPERATION OF MAINTENANCE, UH, FOR, FOR MORE LONGEVITY. TYPICALLY THE, THE MAINTENANCE IS FOR ONE TO THREE YEARS. IT DEPENDS ON KIND OF WHERE THE CREATIVE CROSSWALK IS ACTUALLY KIND OF BEING PLACED. AND, AND DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE GONNA BE REQUIRED. UH, LIKE WE WERE ABLE TO, TO MAINTAIN THE FOURTH IN COLORADO AS OF RECENT, AS OF RECENTLY, OR, UM, FOR, FOR KIND OF PRIDE WEEK AS WELL. BUT I THINK THE BIGGER DEAL IS WE, WE REALIZE LIKE AFTER [00:55:01] KIND OF UTILIZING THAT AS A PILOT, THAT THAT MAINTENANCE IS, IT'S, IT IN THAT AREA WOULD PROBABLY BE REQUIRED ALMOST QUARTERLY. AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT, WE NEEDED SOME, UH, UH, LIKE MORE OF A PERMIT THAT, THAT PROVIDES MORE LONGEVITY FOR THE OPERATIONS SIDE OF THINGS. SO NOT, NOT WITH ADVERTISEMENTS JUST FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SIDE OF THINGS. GOTCHA, GOTCHA. I GUESS, AND UM, YOU MAY HAVE MENTIONED THIS, OR THIS IS JUST MY IGNORANCE TO THE PROCESS, BUT I GUESS MY, MY MAIN QUESTION IS WHO IS PAYING THAT LICENSING FEE ? WELL, AND THAT'S THE THING, THE, THESE PROJECTS ARE, ARE FAIRLY EXPENSIVE. SO WE'RE KIND OF LOOKING AT AN INTERNAL KIND OF GRANT PROGRAM FOR THIS AS WELL. SO ALL THAT'S INCLUDED. SO TYPICALLY WHAT'S INCLUDED INTO A CREATIVE CROSSWALKS, BUT NOT ONLY BE THE MATERIAL AND THE PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRE PR, BUT IT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE THE AGAINST THAT LICENSING PERMITTING. THERE'S THE ARTIST INSURANCE, THERE'S STREET CLOSURES OR THE TRAFFIC CONTROL PLAN. AND AGAIN, THERE'S A ONE TO THREE YEAR MAINTENANCE DEPENDING ON WHERE THE TYPE OF LOCATION AND WHERE THAT'S GOING TO BE. AND THAT'S GONNA BE KIND OF STATED IN THE GUIDELINES THAT, AGAIN, IS IN DRAFT FORMAT AT THIS TIME. OKAY. THANK YOU. IF I COULD FOLLOW UP THE, CAUSE I DIDN'T QUITE GET THE ANSWER. IS IT AN ORGANIZATION, LET'S SAY A CORPORATION THAT'S BEING PHILANTHROPIC THAT, UH, THE ORGANIZATION YES. WOULD, WOULD BE PAYING FOR THAT. AND, AND BECAUSE THEIR NAME IS SPONSORING IT AND BECAUSE THEIR NAME CAN'T BE ATTACHED, IT'S REALLY A, IT'S A COMMUNITY. GOOD. SO IT'S PHILANTHROPY, IT'S SOME MEASURE. IT'S LIKE WE WANT TO JUST SAY THAT WE SUPPORT PRIDE, SO WE'VE PAID FOR THE PRIDE CROSSWALK. THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, YOU HAVE A SEPARATE QUESTION ABOUT THE, IS THERE ANY OVERLAP BETWEEN THE CREATIVE CROSSWALK PEOPLE AND FRANKLY THE VISION ZERO PEOPLE, WHERE IN A HIGH VISIBILITY, UH, ARTFUL ENDEAVOR MIGHT BE USED IN ORDER TO HELP PEDESTRIAN SAFETY? HAS THERE BEEN TALKS OF THAT NATURE? YEAH, SO WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TALK TO VISION ZERO AND LEWIS, LIKE IN THE PAST, NOT ONLY FOR CREATIVE CROSSWALKS, BUT FOR SOME ARTBOX OPPORTUNITIES TO AT LEAST BE ABLE TO KIND OF PROMOTE OUT SOME VISION ZERO INITIATIVES. BUT I THINK, UM, AS PART OF THIS, AS WE LOOK AT THOSE SOPS AND WE PLAN TO EXPLORE AGAIN, A SET NUMBER OF COMMUNITY ACTIVATIONS EACH YEAR, EACH CALENDAR YEAR, UH, THAT THAT IS DEFINITELY A, A DIS YOU KNOW, A DISCUSSION THAT, THAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO HIGHLIGHT. BECAUSE AGAIN, THAT THERE ARE, THERE ARE MEASURES THAT SHOW THAT IT, IT DOES REDUCE, UM, AT, AT LEAST UP TO THAT. THERE'S STUDIES FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS RIGHT NOW FOR MO MOST OF THESE CREATIVE CROSSWALKS AND, AND SOME DIFFERENT STUDIES AROUND TACTICAL URBANISM AND LIKE HOW IT CAN ACTUALLY REDUCE SOME, SOME KIND OF VISION ZERO INITIATIVES OR, OR SOME OF THE, LIKE, SEVERITIES IN THOSE CAR CRASHES. BUT I THINK WE, WE STILL ARE TRYING TO PROVIDE MORE DATA BEYOND THAT TO SEE, YOU KNOW, IS IT STILL SUPPORTING IT WHEN SIMPLY IT FADES AND WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO, TO MAINTENANCE IT MORE FREQUENTLY. MM-HMM. . OKAY. THANKS. IT SOUNDS INTERESTING. I LIKE THE IDEA GENERALLY. OKAY. ANYBODY ELSE? YEAH, I'M, I'M KIND OF INTRIGUED BY THE, THE, THE SPONSORSHIP THING TOO. UM, AND I IMAGINE THAT IT CAN GET QUITE EXPENSIVE. I WORK AT UT AND UM, I'M ALWAYS CROSSING THE DRAG, YOU KNOW, RIGHT THERE AT THE CO-OP. AND THOSE BURNT ORANGE ONES, THEY HAVE AREN'T BURNT ORANGE AFTER VERY LONG. . SO I DEFINITE MAINTENANCE THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR THAT. UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ASK THIS. I THINK IT'S, YOU KNOW, SO IT MIGHT BE, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE NOT, BUT IT MIGHT BE THAT THERE'S LIKE CROSSWALKS THAT COMMUNITY ADVOCATES WANT OR THINGS THAT WE WANNA COMMEMORATE LIKE THAT DON'T HAVE SPONSORS. I, I GET, YOU KNOW, LIKE, YOU KNOW, I GUESS IS LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN THIS, THESE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT CROSSWALKS. CAUSE I KNOW THE PRIDE CROSSWALK WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ACTUALLY SPECIFICALLY ADVOCATED FOR, AND, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THAT. SO, UM, DO YOU FIND THAT IT'S EASY TO FIND SPONSORS FOR PROJECTS? OR IS IT, IS LIKE THAT BEEN A, LIKE, THAT BEEN A NATURAL PROCESS? OR LIKE HOW HAS THAT WORKED? OR HOW WOULD YOU ADVERTISE FOR THAT? LIKE I DON'T, AM I, AM I, ARE WE OVERTHINKING THE, THE LICENSING THING HERE, ? WELL, NO, NO. SO IT, IT'S VERY EASY TO FIND ADVOCATES OR, OR SPONSORSHIPS. I THINK THE DIFFICULT PART IS BECAUSE IT IS FAIRLY EXPENSIVE, THAT SORT OF CHA THAT MAKES MORE CHALLENGES. AGAIN, LIKE WHAT YOU KIND OF SEE HERE, LIKE, NOT ONLY WITH UT OR AT LAKE AUSTIN BOULEVARD, THE, THE MAINTENANCE AND BOTH OF THOSE AREAS ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. AND ALSO WITH FOURTH AND COLORADO, SIMPLY WITH DELIVERY [01:00:01] TRUCKS AND THE, THE TIGHT TURNS THAT THEY'RE MAKING THERE AND THE AMOUNT OF LIKE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC KIND OF REQUIRES MAINTENANCE. AGAIN, SOMETIMES IN AREAS IT COULD BE MAINTAINED EVERY SIX MONTHS, EVERY, SOMETIMES IT'S EVERY QUARTER. SO THAT, THAT PART IS WHAT KIND OF ESSENTIALLY GETS FAIRLY EXPENSIVE. CUZ EACH TIME YOU DO THAT, YOU HAVE, YOU CAN STILL USE YOUR SAME TRAFFIC CONTROL PLAN, BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO HAVE STREET CLOSURE MATERIAL. AND A LOT OF TIMES JUST POWER WASHING IS NOT NECESSARY BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES YOU STILL HAVE TO HAVE THAT SLIP RESISTANT MATERIAL, AT LEAST ON THE CONTINENTAL STRIPES. SO YOU CAN'T NECESSARILY LIKE JUST CLEAN IT. YOU ALSO HAVE TO BE ABLE TO REAPPLY THE COLOR OR REAPPLY THE SLIP RESISTANT MATERIAL TO THE ACTUAL INTERSECTION ITSELF. SO FINDING, FINDING FOLKS THAT ARE INTERESTED, HAS BEEN FAIRLY EASY. BUT I THINK FINANCIALLY, UM, SPONSORSHIPS IS A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A CHALLENGE. SO I THINK, AGAIN, THAT THAT'S WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO EXPLORE, AT LEAST FOR, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE, THE PRIDE CROSSWALK AT FOURTH IN COLORADO WAS, WAS MORE OF A PILOT JUST FOR MORE LESSONS LEARNED AND GUIDELINES FOR US TO MOVE THIS PROGRAM FORWARD TO KIND OF FIGURE OUT WHAT THOSE, THOSE STANDARDS ARE. BUT AGAIN, WE'RE KIND OF, LOOK, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOME GRANT OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE COULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR THOSE SPONSORSHIPS, FOR FUNDING FOR, FOR INSTALLATIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THAT WAS A VERY LONG WINDED . THAT'S HELPFUL. YES. UH, COMMISSIONER FRANCO, SORRY. UM, THIS IS A REALLY INTERESTING TOPIC, JUST BALLPARK FIGURE, YOU KNOW, I KNOW IT, I'M SURE DEPENDS ON, ON THE SIZE AND LENGTH OF THE CROSSWALK AND WHATNOT, BUT BALLPARK FIGURE, WHAT WOULD ONE OF THESE, YOU KNOW, ONE TO THREE YEAR LEASE TERMS COST? OH, FOR THE LICENSING PERMIT OR FOR JUST LIKE THE FULL, FULL PROJECT AS A WHOLE FULL PROJECT. IF A COMMUNITY WANTED TO COME TOGETHER AND, YOU KNOW, PRETTY UP THERE, THEIR CROSSWALK, WHAT WOULD THAT COST THE COMMUNITY? SO TYPICALLY YOU'RE, YOU'RE ROUGHLY LOOKING AT ABOUT 20 K AT A 4K INTERSECTION. UM, HOWEVER, MATERIALS, AND, AND FROM OUR LESSONS LEARNED, AT LEAST AT THE, THE PRIDE CROSSWALK, IT WAS A LITTLE, IT WAS A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN THAT. SO IT, IT COULD RANGE ANYWHERE FROM LIKE 20 TO 30 GRAND FOR, FOR THE ENTIRE PERIOD. THAT INCLUDES MAINTENANCE UP, THAT, THAT INCLUDES THE MATERIAL, THE ENGAGEMENT, THE STREET CLOSURE, THE, THE INSURANCE, AS WELL AS THAT MAINTENANCE KIND OF REQUIRED. AND THAT, THAT'S THE WHOLE MAINTENANCE. THAT'S NOT JUST THE CLEANING OF THE MATERIAL THAT'S REAPPLYING, UH, EVERY TIME THAT, THAT IT WOULD BE MAINTAINED. GOTCHA. THAT, THAT, THAT SEEMS REASONABLE. I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKING SOMEWHERE, YOU KNOW, 150,000, $200,000 ON THE PER CROSSWALK OUT. OH YEAH, NO. PRETTY CHALLENGING. YOU KNOW, BUT IT ALL, I MEAN, AGAIN, IT'S A THREE WAY. YOU'RE KIND OF LOOKING AT 18,000 SOMETIMES AROUND THAT 20 TO 30 KIND OF THOUSAND DEPENDING AGAIN ON WHERE THE INTERSECTION IS. THE AMOUNT OF LIKE FOOT TRAFFIC OR MOBILITY MOVEMENT THAT KIND OF GOES THROUGH THERE AT THAT. THAT'S WHAT REALLY KIND OF RAISES A NUMBER DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF MAINTENANCE THAT'S GONNA BE REQUIRED AT THAT INTERSECTION. GOTCHA. UM, AND JUST ONE LAST COMMENT, AND I WON'T, I PROMISE I'LL STOP ON THIS, ON THIS, UH, TOPIC, BUT YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE, THESE CROSSWALKS, UM, AND SOME OF THE STUFF THAT I'VE SEEN PAINTED IN THE STREET ARE REMARKABLE. AND I REALLY LOVE SOME OF THE MESSAGING THAT WE HAVE, THE PRIDE CROSSWALK, THE BLACK LIVES MATTER, UM, AND I THINK THEY CAN, THEY DO A GOOD JOB OF COMMUNICATING TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. SOME OF LIKE WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE AND WHAT WE VALUE MM-HMM. . AND SO IS THERE ANY WAY, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED SOME GRANTS, I DON'T, YOU DIDN'T BE MORE SPECIFIC AS FAR AS WHERE THAT GRANT FUNDING WOULD COME FROM, BUT IS THERE ANY WAY, YOU KNOW, ARE WE LOOKING AT POTENTIAL, MAYBE LIKE SLIDING SCALE FOR MORE COMMUNITY BASED PROJECTS, UM, THAT WE ARE, WE'RE USING MONIES FROM ANOTHER ENTERPRISE FUND OR SOMETHING TO HELP, TO HELP OFFSET SOME OF THOSE COSTS? UM, IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN LOOK AT THINGS LIKE THAT? CAUSE THERE'S, I'M SURE THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT WOULD LOVE TO HAVE MESSAGING OUT THERE AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE MAJOR INTERSECTIONS AND WHATNOT, BUT JUST DON'T HAVE, DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO AFFORD THEM. YES, YES. AND AGAIN, THAT, THAT WAS KIND OF LIKE THE FUNDS FOR LIKE MAJOR INTERSECTIONS VERSUS LIKE A NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT THAT'S WHERE WE'RE KIND OF TRYING TO LOOK AT EACH CALENDAR YEAR OF HAVING A COMMUNITY VOTING BASED OFF OF NOT ONLY, YOU KNOW, LIKE A, A QUANTITATIVE DATA ASSET AROUND, UH, COMMUNITY NEEDS, BUT THEN ALSO LOOKING AT SOME OF THOSE VISION ZERO SAFETY ANALYTICS AND BEING ABLE TO KIND OF PULL A LOT OF THESE INITIATIVES TOGETHER TO, TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, YOU KNOW, POSSIBILITIES FOR A MULTITUDE OF, OF DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS. BUT I THINK AS WE, WE, AS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME IMPLEMENTED, BUT AS WE INITIATED IT, IT'S GONNA KIND OF MOVE INTO [01:05:01] THAT SMALLER COMMUNITY VOTING APPLICA, AND THEN KIND OF MOVE INTO MORE OF A, AN ACTUAL APPLICATION THAT COMMUNITIES CAN BE ABLE TO DO ONLINE, SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU SEE WITH THE ART BOX. BUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WERE TO HAVE 20 TO 40 THESE REQUESTS IN A YEAR, I THINK, I THINK THAT MIGHT BE, UM, A BIT MUCH. SO I, I THINK IT'S JUST MORE IN A, IN A, IN A POSITIVE KIND OF CONTROLLED WAY THAT WE'RE KIND OF LOOKING AT IT. BUT YEAH, I MEAN, DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES AROUND HELPING TO SUPPORT SPONSORSHIP FOR THESE IS, IS DEFINITELY PART OF THOSE GUIDELINES TO, TO SUPPORT, UH, COMMUNITIES THAT WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO THIS. BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT IT STILL CAN BE FAIRLY EXPENSIVE. I, I PRESUME THE NEIGHBORHOOD. YEAH. AND I WAS MORE THINKING ALONG THE LINES OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF A IF THERE'S A CROSSWALK IN FRONT OF A, OR CLOSE TO A PARTICULAR SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOL WANTED TO GET TOGETHER AND, AND MAYBE PUT SOME OF THEIR SYMBOLISM ON THERE. OR IF, IF A COMMUNITY WANTED TO MEMORIALIZE A CERTAIN PERSON WHO I LOST THEIR LIFE AT THE INTERSECTION OR SOME ALONG THOSE LINES, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ALONG THAT, ALONG THOSE LINES. OKAY. YEAH, NO, I MEAN, THAT'S GREAT. GREAT IDEA AND GREAT OPPORTUNITY. AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WONDERFUL TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF PLACE THAT WITHIN, UH, AGAIN, PART OF THOSE, THE STANDARD OF PROCEDURES, I PRESUME NEIGHBORHOOD MATCHING PROGRAM FUNDS CAN BE USED. WE HAVE BEEN IN DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM. I JUST HAVEN'T BROUGHT IT UP LIKE IN MORE PARTICULAR BECAUSE THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE, WE'RE IN COORDINATION EFFORTS WITH. SO IT, IT'S NOT, UH, IT'S NOT LIKE COMPLETELY STATED LIKE, AS AN MOU, BUT THAT THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF A, A PLAN THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AND COORDINATING SOME OF THOSE EFFORTS. SO THOSE DISCUSSIONS HAVE, HAVE BEEN HAD, BUT IT'S, IT WOULD SEEM TO BE A PERFECT MATCH, MORE OR LESS. CAUSE THAT PROGRAM IS, IS INTENDED TO FUND COMMUNITY SPECIFIC IMPROVEMENTS. AND THIS SOUNDS LIKE IT WOULD, WOULD FIT EXACTLY. YES. AND SO WE, WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS KIND OF IN THE PAST AND WE'RE KIND OF MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT NOW. BUT UNTIL WE KIND OF GET THAT FULLY ESTABLISHED, I, AGAIN, THAT'S, THAT'S SOME COORDINATING EFFORTS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO KIND OF PURSUE HERE. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE'S SOME OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE KIND OF MOVED FORWARD IN SOME OTHER KIND OF STANDARDS. AGAIN, TEXAS M MU M U TCDS KIND OF STANDARDS ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT. BUT I THINK THE IDEA IS IF YOU COULD KIND OF EXPAND THE ENVELOPE, PASS THE ROADWAY INTO THE SIDEWALK, AND MAYBE EVEN INTO AN ART BOX PER SE, IS ANOTHER KIND OF, UM, IT KIND OF GIVES THE, THE ARTIST OR THE COMMUNITY THAT CAN KIND OF SEE THE PICTURE AS A WHOLE INTO, UH, SOMETHING THAT EXPANDS MUCH FURTHER. OKAY. SEEING NO MORE HANDS, LET'S, UH, CONTINUE, IF YOU DON'T MIND. YEAH. I FIGURED THERE MIGHT BE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ON THIS. IT WAS GOOD. I DIDN'T KIND OF TAKE A PAUSE, , AND SO I'LL WAIT AND COUNT UNTIL THE NEXT SLIDE. SO, LIVING STREETS PROGRAM, AGAIN, THIS IS NOW A NEWLY KIND OF PROGRAM THAT WAS ESTABLISHED AND CONSISTS OF THREE DISTINCT COMPONENTS. UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTY, PLAY, STREETS AND HEALTHY STREETS. SO NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTIES IS CURRENTLY PERMITTED THROUGH THE OFFICE OF SPECIAL EVENTS AND, YOU KNOW, PLAY STREETS AND HEALTHY STREETS. WE'RE CURRENTLY STILL KIND OF EXPLORING. SO THE LIVING STREETS PROGRAM, AS YOU CAN SEE, LIKE IT AIMS TO CREATE THE MEANS FOR PEOPLE TO GATHER, CELEBRATE, PLAY, WALK, BIKE, AND ROLL WITH A COMFORT OF SAFETY IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS. AND THIS WAS UNDER THE RESOLUTION 2020 1 10 21 DASH 0 27 . UH, BUT YOU KNOW, THIS, WE PLAN TO LAUNCH THIS PILOT KIND OF PROGRAM IN 2023, UM, KIND OF SLASH 2024. KIND OF DEPENDS ON WHAT, WHAT SORT OF THE, THE LESSONS LEARNED WE KIND OF HAVE MOVING FORWARD. BUT WE'RE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE EXPANDING ITS BRAND NEW PROGRAM. AGAIN, IT KIND OF COLLIDES MULTIPLE DIVISIONS AS WELL. BUT AGAIN, IT'S LOOKING AT NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTIES, PLAY STREETS AND HEALTHY STREETS. UH, NEXT SLIDE. SO COMMUNITY MOBILITY HUBS, AGAIN, ANOTHER REALLY KIND OF, WE'RE KIND OF EXPANDING THE ENVELOPE INTO , MORE BIG, BROAD KIND OF LARGER PROGRAMS, UH, WHERE THEY CAN HELP MAKE TRANSIT, UM, BE MORE DESIRABLE, ESPECIALLY FOR COMMUNITIES BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACCESS PUBLIC TRANSIT, BIKE AND CAR SHARE, EVEN RIDE HAILING AND FIRST AND LAST MILE OPTIONS. SO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, OF AUSTIN AND AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS JAILED THE JOBS, WHICH WAS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, WERE SELECTED AND AWARDED A $1 MILLION GRANT THROUGH THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. FOR US, IT WAS A CIVIC INNOVATION CHALLENGE. AND THIS GRANT FUNDED A ONE YEAR PILOT, WHICH IS JUST, THE GRAND OPENING IS FAIRLY SOON AT THE GEORGIAN ACRES. AND IT'S ON NOVEMBER 14TH, UH, AND IT'S FROM NOON TO THREE. BUT AGAIN, THIS [01:10:01] GRANT FUNDED A ONE YEAR PILOT THAT'S JUST ABOUT TO KICK OFF, UH, TO DESIGN, BUILD, OPERATE, AND EVALUATE COMMUNITY MOBILITY HUBS IN NORTH AUSTIN'S GEORGIAN ACRES. UH, THE HUB, THE HUB ALSO IS PLANNED TO FEATURE SOME ADDITIONAL SERVICES AS WELL, LIKE ACCESS TO FREE WIFI, AS WELL AS VARIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INFORMATION AS WELL AS, UH, SOLAR WITHIN THIS COMMUNITY. SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GUYS GET A CHANCE, UM, COME BY. GRAND OPENING, UH, FOR, FOR KIND OF THIS GRANT AWARDEE, WE WILL, WE'LL ACTUALLY BE ON NOVEMBER 14TH. AND THEN NEXT SLIDE. I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO TALK MORE ABOUT PUBLIC PLAZA PROMINENCE. SO THE PROGRAM, THE PROGRAM WAS ESTABLISHED, UH, FOR TEMPORARY AND EVEN PERMANENT PUBLIC PLAZA TO PROVIDE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR ENHANCED COMMUNITY URBAN SPACES. THIS IS PRIMARILY TO KIND OF HAVE LESS MOVEMENT FOR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC AND HAVE MORE MOVEMENT FOR PEDESTRIANS WITH AGAINST SOME EMERGENCY KIND OF VEHICLE ACCESS WHEN THAT HAPPENS. SO PUBLIC PLAZA PROMINENCE PROVIDE THE PERU, YOU KNOW, THEY PROVIDE COMMUNITY THE AMENITIES THAT THEY'RE EASILY ACCESSIBLE. THEY SERVE A VARIETY OF USERS, AND THEY ACCOMMODATE A HIGH VOLUME OF PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT. AND AGAIN, IT'S, IT HAS EMERGENCY VEHICLE ACCESS, BUT AGAIN, THIS AREA IS TO EXPAND FURTHER FROM HEALTHY STREETS AND LIVING STREETS AND SHARED STREETS. AND THIS IS PRIMARILY A PEDESTRIAN PROMENADE, UM, WITH, YOU KNOW, SHARED MOBILITY KIND OF ACCESS, BUT, BUT IT, IT REMOVES THE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC AT ALL MEANS. SO I WANTED TO MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE THAT KIND OF STILL SHOWS SOME OF THE SAME INFORMATION. SO I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT OLD RED RIVER, AND I PRIMARILY JUST WANT TO KIND OF FOCUS ON ONE A RIGHT NOW, BUT I'LL KIND OF ELABORATE, UM, IN MUCH A HIGHER LEVEL ON KIND OF PHASE TWO, PHASE THREE. SO DURING THIS PHASE ONE A OR THIS INTERIM SHORT TERM PLAZA, WE'LL REGULATE AND MAINTAIN ACCESSIBLE, WALKABLE AND SHARED MOBILITY. PUBLIC PLAZA, AGAIN, ON OLD RED RIVER BETWEEN 12TH STREET THAT YOU KIND OF WOULD SEE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE AND 15TH STREET. ON THE OTHER SIDE, KIND OF IT, YOU KNOW, ENCOMPASSES TRINITY AS WELL AS PART OF LIKE A LY GREENWAY. UH, IT'S A BIT CUT OFF, BUT WHAT YOU WOULD SEE IN BLUE IS CENTRAL HEALTH'S 55 FOOT WIDE ACCESS, UM, STILL TO THEIR GARAGE. AND THEN AGAIN, MAINTAINING THAT EMERGENCY VEHICLE ACCESS WITH UNOBSTRUCTED RIGHT AWAY IS KIND OF THE, WHAT YOU WOULD SEE ON THE BOTTOM IMAGE IN RED. SO MOVEMENT ANALYTICS IS CURRENTLY BEING STUDIED AT THIS TIME AS WELL AS WE STUDY KIND OF LIKE FURTHER WITHIN THIS PHASE, UH, POST FLANKS FOR QUEUING FOR THE EVENTS, UM, FOR, YOU KNOW, TEMPORARY TICKETING AREA IS ALSO HAPPENING FOR THAT WATERLOO GREENWAY BECAUSE AS MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT THAT PARK FOR THE EVENTS WILL PARK ALONG TRINITY, WALK UP 15TH STREET AND THEN ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO ACCESS IT THROUGH OLD RED RIVER. UM, ACTUALLY A PERMANENT TEMPORARY USE OF RIGHT AWAY, UH, FOR A TURP IS ACTUALLY BEING ENFORCED HERE. AND THEN ALSO LOOKING AT SOME ENFORCEMENT SIGNAGE AFTER KIND OF COORDINATING WITH, UH, APD ON SOME CHALLENGES THERE. SO THAT'S KIND OF A, YOU KNOW, ROUGH PICTURE FOR PHASE PHASE ONE A PHASE TWO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, AT HIGH LEVEL WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO DO STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN. AND THAT'S ALREADY KIND OF BEING KICKED OFF NOW. BUT THEN AT PHASE THREE, LONG-TERM PUBLIC PLAZA IS ALSO GONNA BE KIND OF IN WORKS AROUND THIS TIME NEXT YEAR. SO MANY PUBLIC PLAZAS PROCEED FROM INITIAL FIRST PHASE IN THAT PHASE ONE TO A PERMANENT PHASE. AND A LOT OF TIMES THAT TAKES ABOUT A THREE TO FIVE YEAR MARK IN SOME CASES, LIKE A DOWNTOWN STATION THAT WAS DONE IN A TWO YEAR MARK. BUT, UH, AGAIN, TYPICALLY IT'S, IT'S KIND OF AROUND THE THREE TO TO FIVE YEAR. UH, BEFORE I KIND OF GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WHICH IS KIND OF THE FINAL SLIDE I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, THAT WE'RE ALSO SUPPORTING EFFORTS REGARDING IN BONUS AND INCENTIVE PROGRAM, WHICH IS A NEW PROGRAM FOR EXISTING CREATIVE SPACES. UH, WE'RE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTS. IT'S GONNA BE LEADING IT AND WE'RE SUPPORTING THOSE EFFORTS. BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OVER THAT, FEEL FREE TO, UH, TO ASK SOME, BUT IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BRAND NEW AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE STARTING TO KIND OF COORDINATE EFFORTS, UH, TO MOVE FORWARD. AND THEN ON THE LAST SLIDE, THAT WAS MY FINAL SLIDE, BUT I WANTED, AGAIN, HAVE A BREAK TO EITHER TALK ABOUT ALL THE SUB-PROGRAMS, THE OVERALL PROGRAM, OR EVEN SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVEN'T DISCUSSED, WHICH IS THE COMMUNITY MOBILITY HUBS, THE PUBLIC PLAZA PROMENADE, OR EVEN THE LIVING STREETS PROGRAM. ALL RIGHT. LOOKING OUT AT THE FOLKS, DO PEOPLE HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? [01:15:03] I MEAN, I THINK GENERALLY I, JUST SPEAKING FOR MYSELF, IT'S VERY EXCITING STUFF. I DO LOVE THAT THE CITY'S PUTTING AN EFFORT INTO PLACE MAKING. I WENT TO WATERLOO GREENWAY THAT, YOU KNOW, AS IT SORT OF STANDS NOW AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME SIGNAGE THAT EXPLAINS HOW THE REST OF IT'S GONNA CONNECT UP AND MM-HMM. WHATEVER FOURTH AND, UM, SABINE OR WHATEVER IT IS BY THE OLD CONVENTION CENTER GETS CONNECTED UP, THAT'LL ALSO BE GREAT. THERE'S A FENCE THAT'S BEEN ACROSS THAT THING FOREVER. UH, BUT YEAH, IT'S, IT'S A VERY EXCITING WHERE, WHERE, WHERE IT'S HEADED , IT'S MY PERSONAL OPINION. YEAH. WELL, AND THE, THE PROGRAMS I JUST KIND OF BROUGHT UP ARE THE INITIAL PHASE, SO I CAN UNDERSTAND, UM, YOU KNOW, UNTIL YOU SEE IT IN PERSON. MAYBE, MAYBE NOT, NOT AS MANY QUESTIONS, BUT I DID SEE RAISED ANSWERS. SORRY, . YEAH. YES. COMMISSIONER FRANCO. YEAH, I GUESS MY ONLY, MY ONLY QUESTION, UM, IS THAT I DIDN'T SEE IN THE PRESENTATION IS, UH, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT WITH REGARDS TO MAYBE, YOU KNOW, SMALL BUSINESSES IN PLACE MAKING RIGHT, LIKE THINKING THROUGH IN DENVER OR HAVE THOSE LITTLE CONTAINERS WITH SMALL BUSINESSES, UM, OR, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING TO PROMOTE, UH, KIND OF, YOU KNOW, SMALLER BUSINESS ACTIVITY ALONG OUR, ALONG SOME OF THESE STREETS. NO, THAT'S GREAT. I MEAN, WE'VE ACTUALLY JUST, UM, OR WE'VE BEEN INITIATING THE CONVERSATION WITH NOT ONLY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUT WITH, UH, SOLELY AUSTIN AND KIND OF LOOKING AT SOME OF THOSE BUSINESS DISTRICTS AND, AND, AND BEING ABLE TO PRESENT OUT TO FOLKS OF ALL THESE DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES. UH, SO BEING ABLE TO, TO HIGHLIGHT ALL THESE SUBPROGRAMS SO THEY'RE ABLE TO KIND OF SEE SOME, SOME, SOME OPPORTUNITIES. AND AGAIN, THAT'S THAT WE, WE ACTUALLY JUST HAD A, A RESOURCE FAIR WITH SOLELY AUSTIN WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME INFORMATION FOR SOME OF THE BUSINESSES. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE STILL KIND OF PLAN TO EXPAND FURTHER AND BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, HELP SUPPORT THAT, YOU KNOW, PLACE MAKING IS, IS NOT ONLY WITH AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, IT'S WITH MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS AND MULTIPLE DIVISIONS, AND I KNOW A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE A LOT OF INTEREST IN IT, AND LIKE, WHO DO WE COORDINATE? WHO DO WE KIND OF TALK WITH? SO THAT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO COORDINATE MORE INTER DIVISIONALLY TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE COMMUNITY, TO THE BUSINESSES OF WHO THEY REACH OUT TO AND HOW THEY'RE ABLE TO KIND OF LOOK AT PLACE MAKING OPPORTUNITIES THAT, THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE AND COORDINATE WITH EACH OTHER AND WHAT WOULD HELP SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, THEIR BUSINESSES ALONG THE WAY. SO YEAH, I MEAN, AGAIN, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE DEFINITELY COORDINATING WITH. WE'RE JUST, WE AREN'T THE LEAD FOR THE BUSINESS DISTRICTS, SO WE ARE, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON THAT. ALL RIGHT. UM, ANYONE ELSE? OKAY. WELL THANK YOU MR. URY FOR AN EXCELLENT PRESENTATION. GOOD QUESTIONS. OKAY, WELL THANK YOU EVERYONE. ALL RIGHT. OKAY, MOVING ALONG, WE ARE TO THE, UH, BRIEFINGS SECTION OF THE AGENDA, COMMISSIONER [BRIEFINGS] WEATHERBY DOWNTOWN COMMISSION. ANYTHING TO ADD? UM, THE ONLY THING THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE 19TH OF OCTOBER AT THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION WAS A REVIEW OF PROJECT CONNECT, AND THEY TOOK UP THE SAME PRESENTATION THAT WE DID LAST MONTH, AND AS YOU RECALL, WE AGREED TO SUPPORT THE PROPOSALS. THERE WAS A RESOLUTION OR A, A MOTION MADE FOR THAT. AND I'M SAD TO SAY IT ONLY PASSED BY FIVE TO FOUR MM-HMM. , AND I GUESS I, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT, UM, I THINK WE, AS THE UTC NEED TO BE COGNIZANT OF, OF THAT, AND, UH, PROBABLY OTHERS ON THE COMMISSION KNOW AS MUCH OR MORE ABOUT THAT THAN I DO. BUT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, IT'S PRETTY NORMAL FOR A NEW ENTERPRISE LIKE THIS TO EVOLVE AND CHANGE, AND THERE WOULD BE QUESTIONS AND NEW PEOPLE INVOLVED. AND, UH, I'D JUST SAY THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'D NEED TO KEEP ON OUR RADAR ON, UH, THE VARIOUS REASONS THAT PEOPLE MIGHT NOT SUPPORT THE PROJECT AND ALL THOSE THAT DO SUPPORT THE PROJECT. MM-HMM. . ALL RIGHT. GOOD REMINDER REPORT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. UH, JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSIONER WHEELER? YES. YOU CAN HEAR ME? YES. OKAY. WE, UM, WE DID NOT HAVE QUORUM, UM, UH, BUT WE, UH, SORRY, WE HAD QUORUM BARELY. WE HAVE, UH, SEVEN NEW, UM, NEW POSITIONS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN FILLED. SO IF EVERYBODY DOESN'T SHOW, WE DON'T HAVE QUORUM MM-HMM. . AND WE ARE HAVING THE VARIOUS CITY DEPARTMENTS, UH, COME AND PRESENT. AND SO AUSTIN ENERGY PRESENTED, AND MARK DOMBROWSKI, WHO IS THE GENERAL MANAGER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER PRESENTED ON, UM, [01:20:01] ON WHY AUSTIN ENERGY HAS HAD TO ASK FOR THE PASS THROUGHS AND THE, THE RATE INCREASES. AND THERE WAS A VOTE ON THAT, BUT I ABSTAINED. SO WE DIDN'T HAVE QUORUM TO VOTE ON THAT. I HAD TO ABSTAIN BECAUSE I'M AN AUSTIN ENERGY EMPLOYEE, BUT IT WAS A REALLY GREAT PRESENTATION, I THOUGHT. AND VERY INTERESTING ON WHY AUSTIN ENERGY HAS TO, THEY REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY CHOICE OTHER THAN TO RAISE RATES. UM, BUT WE ARE, EVERY MONTH, DIFFERENT CITY OFFICES ARE TELLING US HOW THEY ARE MEETING OUR CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN. AND SO NEXT MONTH WE'LL HAVE DIFFERENT CITY OFFICES. PUBLIC HOUSING I THINK IS PRESENTING NEXT MONTH. ALRIGHTY. THANK YOU. UH, BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMISSIONER, DEAN LAYTON. UM, THEY HAD MEMBER ELECTIONS LAST MONTH AND RECEIVED A GENERAL UPDATE ON THE I 35 EXPANSION. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. UH, PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY, UH, ALIS HAS NOT MET YET THIS MONTH. OUR LAST MEETING THERE. NEXT MEETING WILL BE NEXT MONDAY. . OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, CITY COUNCIL MOBILITY COMMITTEE. UM, DID I ATTEND THAT ONE? I HONESTLY CANNOT RECALL. YOU DID. UM, THEY, WE HAD THE SAME PRESENT. JIM WAS THERE. UH, WE HAD THE SAME, UH, I FIVE PRESENTATION. OH, THAT'S RIGHT. AND WE MEET AGAIN ON THE 10TH NEXT THURSDAY. YES. THIS WAS AN FY YES. THANK YOU FOR THAT WHERE I PRESUME YOU'VE BEEN TRACKING IT, BUT WHERE EXACTLY DO WE STAND ON THE BOUNTY FOR BIKE LANE VIOLATIONS? UM, IT'S GETTING NATIONAL ATTENTION, I'LL SAY THAT. OKAY. BOB. THE, UM, WE HAD A GOOD DISCUSSION. UM, I FELT LIKE IT WENT REALLY WELL FOR THOSE WHO WERE ATTENDING IT. UM, STILL NEEDS TO GO UP TO CITY COUNCIL, SO I DO NOT KNOW IF IT'S ON A COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM YET. GOOD LUCK. WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF ELECTIONS, SO, UH, I DON'T, I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING ON COUNCIL AGENDA PERSONALLY. YEAH. AND, UH, THAT I THINK THAT'S EXPECTED CONSIDERING THE SEASON THAT WE'RE IN. YEAH. AND NEW YORK CITY HAS BROUGHT IT BACK UP, SO THEY'RE GONNA BEAT US. UM, THEY'LL BE FIRST, BUT, UM, OKAY. I KNOW I STOLE IT FROM THEM, BUT THEY'RE STEALING IT BACK WITH THE TWISTS, SO I, I CAN'T COMPLAIN TOO MUCH, BUT, UH, YEAH, I DO NOT KNOW. UH, ALRIGHT. AND THEN, UM, SUSAN SUMMERS, DID YOU MAKE IT TO, UM, YEAH, ATP? YEAH, SURE. UM, SO THE, UM, PROJECT CONNECT COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, MET AND WE TALKED ABOUT AGAIN, SORT OF THE COST OF PROJECT CONNECT AND SOME OF THE SAME THINGS WE'VE HEARD ABOUT HERE AS WELL. AND WE ALSO TALKED A BIT ABOUT THE, UM, UH, COMMUNITY GRANTS FOR PROJECT CONNECT. SO THESE WERE ANTIS ANTI-DISPLACEMENT, UM, COMMUNITY, SO COMMUNITY INITIATED SOLUTIONS. THESE WERE, UM, IT WAS A GRANT PROGRAM THAT WAS, UM, IMAGINED IN THE BOND LANGUAGE THAT, UM, RATHER THAN I GUESS DIRECTLY FUNDING HOUSING, UM, OR HOUSING AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS, UM, WAS ENCOURAGING NON-PROFITS, PERHAPS SMALLER, UM, LOCAL NON-PROFITS TO APPLY FOR THESE GRANTS FOR ANTIS DISPLACEMENT IN AREAS, UM, THAT MAY BE AFFECTED BY PROJECT CONNECTS. SO WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, THOSE GRANTS, UM, AND WHERE THOSE ENDED UP, AND I THINK THAT'S MOVING THROUGH COUNCIL. I THINK IT MAY HAVE IT PASSED. I KNOW. UM, ANYWAY, SO WE TALKED ABOUT THAT AND, UM, THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION OF HOW TO REVISE THE APPLICATION PROCESS, LESSONS LEARNED FOR IF WE DO THE COMMUNITY INITIATED SOLUTIONS, UH, GRANTS AGAIN AS WELL. SO, AND THIS IS PART OF THE 300 MILLION ANTIS DISPLACEMENT FUNDING BUILT INTO PROJECT CONNECT. SO. ALL RIGHT. THAT SOUNDS GOOD. VERY EXCITING. UM, OKAY, NOW WE ARE ONTO FUTURE [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS] AGENDA ITEMS. AND CHRIS, DID YOU WANNA SAY A FEW THINGS HERE? YEP, IT'S MY TURN. UM, EVERYONE, UH, WE'VE HAD PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT POTENTIALLY MEETING IN JANUARY OF 2023. UM, IF YOU LOOK IN THE CALENDAR INVITE AS WELL AS IN RUBEN, RUBEN, AND, UH, MARIO, YOU CAN LOOK AT YOUR HANDOUTS. I ATTACHED A, UH, A VERY BROAD, UM, VERY TENTATIVE, YOU KNOW, LIST OF THINGS THAT WE CAN POTENTIALLY TALK ABOUT FOR 2023. UM, THE REASON FOR THAT IS AS I REACHED OUT TO STAFF CONCERNING DECEMBER MEETINGS, UM, I JUST CAME ACROSS A LOT OF THE SAME THINGS IN TERMS OF, HEY, WE'RE STILL WORKING ON A LOT OF PROJECTS. UM, THIS BODY, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, I MEAN YOU GUYS ARE A BODY. YEAH. UM, HAS MET, I DON'T WANNA SAY RELIGIOUSLY, BUT VERY FREQUENTLY, UM, THROUGHOUT THIS YEAR, UM, THE ONLY TIME WE ACTUALLY HAVEN'T MET IS DUE THE ERR ON MY PART IN JANUARY WHERE WE DIDN'T MEET CORN, BUT IN MY DEFENSE CITY COUNCIL WAS NOT ON BOARD WITH MEETING VIRTUALLY. SO WE ACTUALLY HAD CORN. WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE ONE PERSON PHYSICALLY THERE. UM, AND [01:25:01] IT WAS, IT WAS A MESS. AND THEN THE NEXT MONTH THEY CHANGED THE RULES. SO IN ANY CASE, UM, I THINK WE'VE DONE A GOOD AMOUNT. WE CERTAINLY CAN MEET IN DECEMBER. BUT IN REGARDS AGAIN TO THE FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS, UM, IF YOU LOOK IN IN YOUR CALENDAR INVITE, YOU SHOULD SEE, UH, A LIST OF ITEMS THAT WE SHOULD BE TACKLING IN, UH, THROUGHOUT 2023. I ACTUALLY EXPECT THIS LIST TO INCREASE QUITE A BIT. I HAVE STILL HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO A FEW STAFF MEMBERS, UM, IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. UM, SO I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE I'M DOING MY JOB TOO WELL. WE HAVE A, A LOT OF ITEMS ON HERE, UM, AND WE CAN CERTAINLY MOVE A LOT OF THESE AROUND. AND I THINK THERE ARE SOME THAT EVEN BEEN ADDED TODAY AS WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, LIVING STREETS AND WE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, NO TURN ON RED, UM, SOUTH CENTRAL WATERFRONT REGULATION PLAN. I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT. UM, AND OF COURSE, CONTINUING OUR REGULAR I THROUGH FIVE UPDATES, PROJECT CONNECT UPDATES, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. UM, SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, AGAIN, THESE ARE THE FUTURE ITEMS FOR 2023, BUT I DON'T HAVE NECESSARILY ANYTHING FOR DECEMBER. SO NOW MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO GAUGE THE ROOM. YEAH, I WAS ABOUT TO SAY. SO LET'S SEE, A SHOW OF HANDS. WOULD, UM, WOULD IT BE OKAY, YOU KNOW, TO SHOW OF HANDS OR I, IF WE SKIPPED DECEMBER WOULD WOULD BE, SO WOULD IT BE OKAY TO SKIP DECEMBER? AND IF THERE ARE ANY OBJECTIONS JUST YEAH, I'M ALL YOURS. YEAH. OR IF YOU'RE INDIFFERENT AS WELL, IF, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU COULD TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. WELL, IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE ANYONE WOULD BE TERRIBLY UPSET. I FEEL LIKE WE'VE PROBABLY EARNED IT. THE ONLY THING I WAS THINKING THAT WE HAVEN'T DONE, WHICH I'VE MENTIONED, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT WE EVEN REALLY NEED TO MEET CAUSE WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE A PROCESS FOR THIS, IS, UM, YOU KNOW, HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW TO WRITE, UH, RESOLUTIONS. YOU KNOW, UM, THIS IS A THING THAT WE COULD CERTAINLY DO ONLINE. UH, YOU KNOW, WE COULD DO IT WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, GOOGLE DOCS AND GOOGLE CHAT QUITE FRANKLY, YOU KNOW, UM, I THINK IT WOULD BE WORTHWHILE FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T EVER PROPOSED A RESOLUTION, WE JUST SORT OF WALK THROUGH. IT'S, IT'S NOT VERY TOUGH. YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT THE EXISTING RESOLUTIONS AND YOU KIND OF BREAK IT DOWN. AND THAT'S THE THING WE COULD TALK ABOUT. UM, IT'S REALLY EVERYONE'S REMOTE, SO WE, IT COULD BE PRETTY SIMPLE TO DO AS WELL. UM, THERE WOULD BE A PRETTY EASY ITEM AND THEN, YOU KNOW, COULD TELL CHRISTMAS STORIES . UM, SO TO CLARIFY, I THINK WE'RE SAYING IS FOR DECEMBER 5TH, WE COULD CERTAINLY, IF, IF THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE WANTED TO DO, WE COULD CERTAINLY MEET. UM, CUZ DECEMBER 5TH WOULD BE OUR NEXT DATE. UM, WE COULD CERTAINLY MEET AND I CAN BRUSH UP ON, UM, SLASH CALL EMILY SMITH TO SEE HOW , YOU KNOW, TO WRITE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, YEAH, I MEAN, I, I MEAN I'VE DONE MANY RUBEN'S, DONE SOME, SAM, WELL, HAVE YOU DONE SOME SUSAN? YOU KNOW, THERE'S SEVERAL LESS IN HERE IF, IF THAT'S A THING. I MEAN, I MENTIONED IT IN THE PAST AND I, I DID SEE SOME SORT OF HEAD SHAKING OF LIKE, YEAH, YEAH, I THINK THAT MIGHT BE WORTHWHILE. UM, SO IF PEOPLE ARE STILL FEELING THAT WE COULD, WE COULD GIVE THAT A SHOT, I'D BE INTERESTED IN DOING THAT. WE, WE HAVE TO HAVE QUORUM. I MEAN, WE REQUIRE A QUORUM TO COME. IF WE WANTED TO USE OUR DECEMBER 5TH TO TALK ABOUT HOW TO WRITE RESOLUTIONS, ARE WE NOT, WOULD WE NOT BE ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT HOW TO WRITE RESOLUTIONS IF, IF THERE WAS NO QUORUM? YEAH, WE COULD, WE COULD CREATE A, A WORK WORKING GROUP. RIGHT. OKAY. TO, TO DO THAT I THINK, UM, MIGHT BE A STRATEGY. UM, WE WOULD HAVE TO COMMIT TO NOT HAVING QUORUM . RIGHT. , THAT'S THE PROBLEM. SO WITH A WORKING GROUP, YOU MAY NOT HAVE QUORUM BECAUSE OF OPEN MEETINGS, RIGHT? YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. I THINK THAT IS CORRECT. BUT WORKING GROUPS, HMM. COULD WE HAVE TWO WORKING GROUPS? POTENTIALLY, YEAH. WE COULD, UM, BASICALLY HAVE A WHAT, A SUB QUORUM OR SOMETHING. SO YEAH, LIKE, SO, UM, I MEAN MAYBE THAT WOULD BE A STRATEGY IF YOU WANT THAT TO HAPPEN. I JUST DUNNO THE LEVEL OF INTEREST IN WHO WANTS TO ATTEND OR WHO WANTS TO BE THE EDUCATOR OR, AND WHO WANTS TO LEARN, YOU KNOW, LIKE , OH, YOU TURNED IT OFF. YEAH. PROVIDED WE ANNOUNCE IT, IS THERE, DOES QUORUM MATTER? THERE WILL BE NO VOTING ISSUES. I, I THINK CITY WISE, QUORUM ALWAYS MATTERS. I, I CAN'T HAVE A, A SET AND STONE ANSWER FOR THAT, BUT I THINK FOR RIGHT NOW, I THINK THAT IS A, IF WE MAKE, AND THERE WERE TOO MANY PEOPLE, THAT WOULD BE A WALKING QUORUM TYPE OF ISSUE. BUT YEAH, WE ALREADY DECLARED OURSELVES A MEETING, BUT NO, UH, NO VOTING ITEMS TO BE CONSIDERED. THEN IT WOULDN'T MATTER WHETHER WE MADE QUORUM OR WE DIDN'T, WE COULD STILL, I SUPPOSE I COULD ALWAYS JUST SEND YOU YOU GUYS SOME DOCUMENTS AS WELL. UM, IN TERMS OF PROBLEM, HOW TO DO IT. OH, I'M SORRY, SAM, GO AHEAD. IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, ISN'T THERE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, CUZ SOMETIMES THERE'S CEREMONY LIKE CEREMONIES OR EVENTS WHERE YEAH, THERE'S A POTENTIAL TO HAVE QUORUM OF ANYBODY THERE OR WHETHER IT'S CITY COUNCIL OR, OR IT'S, UH, BORDER COMMISSION, AND DON'T THEY JUST KIND OF LIKE POST THAT ONLINE SAYING THERE MAY BE A QUORUM [01:30:01] OF PEOPLE THERE, BUT THERE WILL BE NO DISCUSSION, NO ACTION TAKEN, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. YEAH. THAT THAT'LL, I THINK THAT'LL ACTUALLY WORK. YEAH. I MEAN THAT SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY GOOD ROUTE. UH, WHAT PROCESS FOR THAT? CAUSE IT DOES HAPPEN SOMETIMES THERE'S, YOU KNOW, ALL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS IN THE SAME ROOM, BUT THEY'RE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT ANYTHING THEY'RE THERE FOR, YOU KNOW? YEAH. OR THEY'RE NOT GONNA VOTE ON ANYTHING. YEAH. YEAH. UH, CINDY WEATHERBY, YOU HAD A, YOUR HAND UP A MOMENT AGO. WELL, I WAS GONNA SUGGEST ONE THING, BUT THEN MAYBE ANOTHER CAME TO MIND. UH, I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULDN'T JUST CALL IT A WORKSHOP AND WHOEVER SHOWS UP SHOWS UP, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, THE RULES CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME. SO IT MIGHT BE BETTER TO HAVE, OR IT MIGHT TAKE THE BURDEN OFF OF CHRISTOPHER TO HAVE SOMEONE FROM THE CITY SECRETARY STAFF MAKE THE PRESENTATION. UH, AND THEN MY OTHER THOUGHT IS SOME OF US WON'T BE HERE PROBABLY FAIRLY QUICKLY, AND IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO DEFER THIS UNTIL THE OTHER PEOPLE ARE APPOINTED, BUT I REMEMBER HOW WE WERE APPOINTED. SO THAT COULD STRETCH, STRETCH OUT OVER TIME TO YEAH, IT COULD BE. YEAH. THAT'S A GOOD POINT. UM, OH, WHO WILL WE BE LOSING? I, I GUESS I WASN'T AWARE. OH, WE DON'T KNOW YET, RIGHT? ALL THE NEW CITY COUNCIL PEOPLE HAVE THE OPTION TO APPOINT THEIR OWN MM-HMM. REPRESENTATIVE. SO IS THAT HALF OUR BOARD, LIKE LESLIE POOL HAS ANOTHER TWO YEARS, SO I'M NOT SURE WHO ELSE THAT IS. YEAH, YEAH. TALKING ABOUT HALF THE MAYOR AND THE OTHER FOUR, SIX OF THEM. RIGHT. SO IT'S, IT WOULD BE HALF OF THIS BOARD WE, YEAH. OKAY. EXACTLY. AND ANYBODY WHO'S TERM LIMITED, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY'S BEEN ON HERE FOR EIGHT YEARS. I HAVE. SO I'LL BE, I'LL BE, I'LL BE OUT LIMITED. THAT'S A HARD LIMIT. WELL, WELL THAT'S ANOTHER REASON. YEAH. BUT THERE IS ALONG AND HONORABLE TRADITION OF HOLDING ONTO BOARD AND COMMISSION APPOINTEES, PARTICULARLY IF THE NEWLY ELECTED COUNCIL PERSON HAD A SYMPATHETIC VIEW WITH THE PREVIOUSLY ELECTED CARDS PERSON. YEAH, I WAS APPOINTED BY GREG CZAR AND NOW I'M APPOINTED BY CHIVE. SO, UM, THAT IS POSSIBLE TO, TO, TO BRIDGE IT IF YOU'RE INTERESTED AND NOT TERM LIMIT IT. SO, YEAH. WELL, AND THAT IS A QUESTION. I'VE NOT HEARD TERM LIMITS, SO THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND. IT'S, YOU CAN ONLY, YOU CAN ONLY SERVE ON THE SAME BOARD OF COMMISSION FOR 2, 2, 4 YEAR TERMS, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO STEP OFF FOR AT LEAST REGARDLESS OF, SO MARIO, MARIO GER, DEFINITELY YOU ARE TERM LIMITED NO MATTER WHAT. YES. AND, AND THAT'S PARTLY WHY I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, UM, I END UP WRITING A FAIR NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WE TALK ABOUT AND THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS AND DO A LITTLE TEACH TO FISH SO THAT WHEN I'M STEPPED AWAY, IT WON'T BE JUST IN THE HANDS OF WHOEVER'S LEFT. SO, BUT I MEAN, IN MY MIND, THIS IS SOMETHING WE COULD DO IN 30 MINUTES. YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A GREAT BIG DEAL ABOUT IT, BUT JUST, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE LIKE BEING ABLE TO ASK A QUESTION, THERE'LL BE THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE IN THE ROOM WHO HAVE DONE IT AND CAN ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS AND, YOU KNOW, WE, YOU KNOW, HELP PEOPLE LEAVE WITH A, AN ASSIGNMENT. YES. MAY, MAY I SUGGEST THAT. UM, I LIKE THE IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, A WORKSHOP. I THINK, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE EVERYBODY ALREADY HAS THIS DATE AND TIME, GENERALLY ON THEIR CALENDAR. UM, I THINK IF NOW CHRIS, CHRISTOPHER, YOU KNOW, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG HERE, BUT IF WE JUST KIND OF ASSUME WE KEEP THE SAME DATE AND TIME, WHOEVER WANTS TO SHOW UP TO THIS WORKSHOP AND WHOEVER WANTS TO LEAD IT, MARIO, I THINK YOU'D BE GREAT TO LEAD IT. UM, BUT THEN WE JUST HAVE TO POST SOMETHING ON THE, ON THE WEBSITE SAYING, HEY, THERE WILL BE NO ACTION TAKEN. WE'RE NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING. BUT, BUT WE'RE, EXCEPT FOR THIS. YEAH. JUST GO DO A WORKSHOP AND THEN YEAH. AND THEN YOU SHOW UP FOR A WORKSHOP AND YEAH. PEOPLE, BUT IF A QUORUM SHOWS UP FOR A WORKSHOP, SO CHRISTOPHER, IF A QUORUM SHOWS UP FOR A WORKSHOP, WHAT ARE THE RULES THAT YOU HAVE? DO YOU HAVE TO DO ANYTHING? NO, IT'LL JUST BE A REGULAR MEETING. OH, OKAY. OH, IT'D BE A REGULAR MEETING. YEAH. OKAY. OKAY. WE JUST, IF PEOPLE ARE READING THE AGENDAS AHEAD OF TIME, THEY WOULD SEE THAT THERE'S NOT AN ITEM THAT WE'RE VOTING ON AND THEN THEY WOULD BE LIKE, OH, OKAY. AND IF, I GUESS IF SOMEONE WANTED TO COME WATCH THAT AND LEARN THAT PROCESS, THAT GOOD FOR THEM, MAYBE THEY WANNA BE ON THE BOARD NEXT. , THERE'S ABOUT TO BE SIX NEW OPENINGS. , THAT WOULD WELL, THE ONLY, THE ONLY REASON I'M, I'M HESITANT, UH, AND THIS IS A MORE OF A CLARIFICATION QUESTION, CHRIS, AND MAYBE YOU CAN GET THE ANSWER FOR US IN A COUPLE DAYS, BUT, UM, IF FOR SOME RE LIKE, I DON'T KNOW THAT I WOULD SHOW UP SOMETHING LIKE THAT IF THAT'S ALL WE'RE GONNA BE DISCUSSING. AND SO FOR SOME REASON WE DIDN'T HAVE A QUORUM, IT'S JUST FOUR OF THE NEW FOLKS WHO DON'T NECESSARILY WANNA KNOW THAT PROCESS. UM, THEN WE COULDN'T HAVE THE MEETING IF WE ACTUALLY CALLED IT A MEETING. RIGHT? CORRECT. IF WE POSTED IT AS A REGULAR MEETING AND WE DIDN'T HAVE QUORUM, THEN WE COULDN'T HAVE THE WORKSHOP. MM-HMM. . UM, SO GOING WITH SAMUEL'S IDEA, OR MARIO, WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THE IDEA TO HAVE, UH, I FORGET THE CORRECT TERM FOR IT, BUT HEY, THERE MAY BE A QUORUM AT THIS, UM, AT THIS SITE DURING THIS TIME. PLEASE BE ADVISED, UH, THAT THAT COULD BE THE WORKSHOP. RIGHT. THE ONLY OTHER THING I WOULD THROW OUT THERE MAY, UH, [01:35:01] MAYBE A HICCUP IN THIS WHOLE PLAN IS THAT IF IT'S NOT AN OFFICIAL MEETING, I DON'T KNOW THAT, THAT THE CITY IS GONNA USE THE RESOURCES OF OUR AV AND THAT KIND OF STUFF TO, TO, TO FACILITATE THAT. MM-HMM. . BUT THAT'S, I COULD BE WRONG ABOUT THAT. I DON'T KNOW. NO PROBLEM. I BET YOU'RE RIGHT. . IT MIGHT NOT BE BROADCASTED, BUT I THINK WE CAN STILL HAVE IT. SO WELL LET'S TRY IT. AND IF WE FIND OUT TWO WEEKS FROM NOW THAT WE CAN'T, THEN WE'LL, WE'LL ALL MAKE DUE , YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'LL SURVIVE. YEAH. YEAH. WOULD IT MAKE SENSE TO DO IT AS LIKE, JUST LIKE A, YOU KNOW, GOOGLE MEET KIND OF THING AND IT'S LIKE MARIO'S AMAZING HOW TO WRITE RESOLUTIONS WORKSHOP , AND THEN YOU, YOU CAN POST LIKE, OH, THERE MIGHT BE A FORUM OF UTC BECAUSE OF THIS WORKSHOP HERE. HERE'S A PUBLIC LINK IF SOMEONE WANTS TO JOIN MARIO CHAMBER.COM/YOU KNOW, I DO THINK, I DO THINK, AND I I I'M FEELING FOR CHRISTOPHER HERE AS WE'RE DISCUSSING THIS, UM, IS IT, I THINK WE'RE MAKING THE COMP, IT IS COMPLICATED CUZ THE LAW IS COMPLICATED. BUT I DO THINK THAT LIKE THE, THE, UM, THE POLICY ABOUT LIKE NOTICING THAT THERE MIGHT BE A QUORUM. I MEAN, WE'RE KIND OF DOING, I HAVE TO SAY THE WORKSHOP IS KIND OF DOING SOME WORK, EVEN IF WE'RE NOT DISCUSSING OR TAKING ACTION. IT'S LIKE WE'RE ALL SITTING THERE TALKING KIND OF ABOUT OUR WORK ISH. NOT, I MEAN, NOT, NOT A DIFFERENT, IT'S THE ISH . IT'S NOT THE SAME AS LIKE EVERY CITY COUNCIL MEMBER GOING TO, UH, ANOTHER CITY COUNCIL MEMBER'S WEDDING OR, UM, YOU KNOW, GOING TO A RIBBON CUTTING. IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THAT. IT DOES RELATE TO THE WORK OF THE BODY. SO I THINK IT IS PROBABLY, I'M GUESSING A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATED. SO, UM, I'M, I'M HAPPY TO FACILITATE IT IN WHATEVER WAY IT CAN WORK. UM, AND THAT IS, I ALSO, HOPEFULLY, I THINK IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO ALL OF US, BUT I WANT IT TO ALSO BE LOW IMPACT ON CHRISTOPHER HOST. HOPEFULLY. SO WHY DON'T WE JUST CALL A MEETING AND IF WE DON'T HAVE A QUORUM, WE DON'T HAVE A QUORUM. THAT IS THE SIMPLEST OF ALL, WHICH IS DO IT OUR REGULAR MEETING, OUR ONE AGENDA ITEM IS THIS WORKSHOP, WE'LL CALL IT WHATEVER WE CALL IT. AND IF WE DON'T HAVE A QUORUM, THEN ALL OF Y'ALL ARE JUST YOUR HOMES ALREADY. SO YOU JUST TURN OFF YOUR CAMERA , YOU KNOW, I'LL RIDE MY BIKE BACK. WORKS FOR ME PRETTY EASY. YEAH, WE DID IT THAT WAY ONE TIME. WE THE SOUTH CENTRAL WATERFRONT, WE HAD A KIND OF A WORKSHOP TO DISCUSS PRIORITIES AND WE JUST POSTED THAT THERE WAS, THERE WAS GONNA BE PEOPLE LIKE WE'RE ALL GONNA BE MEET, THERE MIGHT BE A QUORUM, BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE ACTION ON ANYTHING. YEAH, EXACTLY. POSSIBLE. YEAH. THAT SEEMS THE SIMPLEST. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. SO FOR CLARIFICATION, WE'RE GONNA POST, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A REGULAR MEETING LIKE WE ALWAYS DO. IF YOU GUYS DECIDE NOT TO SHOW UP, I WILL LEAVE EARLY . EXACTLY. COOL. . ALL RIGHT. IT TOOK US 15 MINUTES TO GET BACK TO SQUARE ONE. YOU KNOW, WE EXPLORED THE OPTIONS, WE DID IT. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE ALL WERE ON THE SAME PAGE IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, STAFF NEEDING TIME TO WORK. THAT WAS THE BIGGEST THING. YEAH. IT WORTH IT. SO WE, WE FIND A COMPLETELY FINE RIGHT. WITH THAT, WE'RE AT THE ADJOURNMENT ITEM. ALL IN FAVOR SAY, AYE. ADJOURN. OKAY. THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU ALL. BYE. THE MORE DID I CAN BREATHE. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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