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YEAH, WE'VE, YEAH, I GUESS THE POOL IS, UH, BRAGGING RIGHT AT THIS POINT.
[CALL TO ORDER]
RIGHT.UM, IT IS FIVE 30 ON DECEMBER THE SIXTH, 2022.
SO WE'RE GONNA CALL THIS URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION MEETING TO ORDER WE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA.
ANYONE SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS? NO, THERE IS NOT.
[1. Approve the minutes of the Urban Transportation Commission REGULAR MEETING on November 1st, 2022.]
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.UH, DO PEOPLE, HAVE THEY SEEN THE MINUTES FROM LAST MONTH? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE MINUTES? I WILL MAKE THAT MOTION.
IS THERE A SECOND?
ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MINUTES, SAY, AYE.
OR RAISE YOUR HAND THAT YOU'RE ON THE CAMERA OR BOTH IF YOU SO DESIRE.
UH, ANY POSED ABSTENTIONS? ALL RIGHT.
WE HAVE A, UM, VERY LIGHT AGENDA, BUT IT COULD BE INTERESTING AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE USEFUL.
[2. Discussion and possible action on writing draft recommendations Facilitator: Mario Champion, UTC Chair]
UH, WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT, UM, DRAFTING RECOMMENDATIONS, WHICH THE UTC SHOULD DO.SO WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT A LITTLE CONCEPTUALLY, WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT SOME EXAMPLES, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA TRY AND GET PEOPLE TO DO A, UH, A DRAFT ON THEIR OWN.
UM, THERE IS A LINK I SENT OUT TO CHRIS.
I DON'T KNOW IF HE CAN SEND IT OUT TO EVERYBODY ELSE.
IT'S TO A GOOGLE DRIVE THAT HAPPENS TO BE MY GOOGLE DRIVE, BUT IT'S OPEN TO THE WORLD CUZ THEY'RE JUST RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND YOU CAN TAKE ONE OF THESE AND COPY IT.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF AV PEOPLE HAVE LINK.
I'M GOING TO SEND IT TO AV AND, UM, WE'RE GONNA SHARE IT.
I'M ALSO GOING TO SHARE IT TO EVERYONE'S EMAILS.
SO I'M SENDING IT JUST MOMENT.
ALL RIGHT, WELL, IN THAT MINUTE, LET'S JUST TALK A BIT, UH, LIKE FOR A MINUTE ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF THE RECOMMENDATION.
UH, THE THING TO REMEMBER IS THAT WE DON'T PASS LAWS.
SO THERE'S UM, VERY LITTLE REASON TO NEGOTIATE WITH OURSELVES.
WE SHOULD ASK FOR THE THINGS THAT WE WANT, YOU KNOW, AND YOU SHOULD PROVIDE YOUR CONTEXT AND YOUR THEMES AND YOUR YOUR REASONS.
BUT, UM, THERE'S VERY LITTLE REASON TO NEGOTIATE WITH OURSELVES THAT OTHER PEOPLE IN THE ROOM WILL NEGOTIATE WITH YOU.
AND THEN CITY COUNCIL AND MOBILITY COMMITTEE AND ET CETERA WILL NEGOTIATE WITH THAT.
SO THERE REALLY SHOULD CRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE THINK ARE FOR THE BEST IN THE WAY THAT IS THE BEST THAT WE THINK.
AND DON'T WORRY THAT IT'S NOT PERFECT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT PASSING LAWS
AND, UM, THERE WILL BE LOTS OF PEOPLE IN THAT PROCESS.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT? I WOULD LOVE IF PEOPLE DID, BUT IF NOT ANYBODY, IF I CALL ON THEM BY NAME.
ANYBODY, ANNA LEAD? DO YOU HAVE, IS THERE A BOILER POINT OR A THAT'S CAUSE ALWAYS EASIER FOR YES.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE, YOU SHOULD HAVE A LINK IN YOUR EMAIL TO SOME EXAMPLES AND TO A TEMPLATE AS WELL.
AND THEN HOPEFULLY IT WILL SHOW UP ON SCREEN ANY MINUTE NOW.
IT WILL JUST GIVE US ONE MOMENT.
I'M GONNA SEND IT OUT TO EVERYONE NOW.
AND, AND WHILE THIS IS HAPPENING, YOU SHOULD ALSO BE THINKING ABOUT, CUZ WE'RE GONNA ASK YOU THIS IN A FEW MINUTES, BE THINKING ABOUT THE KINDS OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UH, HAPPEN.
YOU KNOW, WHETHER THEY ARE, UM, CHANGES TO THE BUS FAIR SYSTEM, WHETHER IT IS CHANGES TO THE LIGHTING ON A TRAIL, WHETHER IT IS BIGGER THINGS ABOUT HOW BIKE LANES ARE FUNDED OR WHATEVER.
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE CAN PROPOSE AND THEY CAN BE IGNORED OR THEY CAN BE ACTED ON
SO YEAH, IF YOU DON'T MIND, IF YOU LOOK AT THE LIST OVERALL, WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS GO THROUGH A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES BEFORE WE GO TO THE TEMPLATE.
CAUSE I THINK IT'S EASIER TO SEE.
SO, UM, YEAH, SO INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE TEMPLATE FIRST, IF YOU GO TO THE CONTAINING FOLDER, WHOOPS.
AND SO LET'S PICK ONE THAT IS, IS QUITE SIMPLE.
THE, UM, UH, CAPITAL MALL RECOMMENDATION ONE.
THIS IS ABOUT AS SIMPLE AS, UH, A RECOMMENDATION CAN BE, CAN BE.
AND SOME OF YOU WERE HERE ALREADY OR HERE WHEN THIS ONE HAPPENED.
SO REALLY THIS IS THE KIND OF RECOMMENDATION WHEREIN WE JUST WANT TO EXPRESS AN OPINION.
SO SOMEONE HAS GIVEN US A BRIEFING.
IN THIS CASE IT WAS THE CAPITAL MALL PEOPLE, UM, AND OTHER ONES, IT'S BEEN THE, UH, BLUE LINE BUS POTENTIAL.
UM, THERE'S BEEN OTHER PEOPLE WHO JUST SHOW UP AND WE WANT TO EXPRESS TO MOBILITY COMMITTEE OR ATD THAT UTC THINKS THIS IS A GOOD IDEA.
SO THIS RECOMMENDATION IS VERY SIMPLE, WHEREAS WE'VE RECEIVED THIS BRIEFING, BE IT RESOLVED, WE SUPPORT IT, IT COULD REALLY BE AS SIMPLE AS THAT.
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LANGUAGE WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHEN WE GET TO THE TEMPLATE THING.UM, BUT YOU CAN REALLY SEE THIS, THERE'S THE BOILER PLATE LANGUAGE, UM, AND THEN IT JUST SORT OF DESCRIBES THAT WE SUPPORT IT.
SO THAT ONE'S VERY, VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
UM, IF YOU WANNA CLOSE THAT ONE AND GO TO ONE THAT'S A LITTLE MORE COMPLEX, LIKE, WE'LL GO.
THE NEXT ONE UP IS, I THINK BIKE LANE BOUNTY IN TERMS OF COMPLEXITY.
SO IN THIS ONE, YOU KNOW, THIS ONE DID NOT COME FROM, UH, A BRIEFING.
IT DID NOT COME FROM CITY STAFF AT ALL.
IT CAME FROM ME SEEING AN ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ABOUT THE IDLING TRUCK BOUNTY AND THINKING, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A SIMILAR PROBLEM.
AND SO IN THIS ONE YOU CAN SEE THE WAREHOUSES.
THERE'S A COUPLE JUST BECAUSE IT MADE SENSE TO CONCEPTUALLY BREAK THEM UP.
THEY'RE BULLETED BECAUSE IT'S JUST EASY TO READ.
UM, SO IF YOU SCROLL DOWN A BIT, THE, THE FIRST ONE IS THE CONTEXT.
THE SECOND ONE IS SOME DATA POINTS.
SO I TRIED TO PUT ALL THE DATA POINTS IN THE SECOND SET OF WHEREAS IS, AND THEN IN THE THIRD, IF YOU GO DOWN A LITTLE BIT FURTHER, THERE'S UM, IT SORT OF TALKS ABOUT THE DESIRED OUTCOME, WHICH IS, UH, TO PROVIDE A LITTLE MORE CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND.
BECAUSE LIKE WE SAY, YOU KNOW, MOBILITY COMMITTEE OR COUNCIL, IF THEY TAKE THIS UP, WILL NOT TAKE UP THIS EXACT LANGUAGE.
THEY'LL CRAFT A THING OF THEIR OWN.
BUT THIS HELPS GET TO THE UNDERSTANDING.
AND THEN AT THE END ARE THE THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED ALONG WITH IT, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED.
AGAIN, BROKEN UP WITH BULLET POINTS TO MAKE IT EASIER TO UNDERSTAND.
BUT THAT'S REALLY THE, THE TEMPLATE.
THEN I'LL SHOW ONE MORE BEFORE WE GET INTO THE TEMPLATE ITSELF, WHICH I WOULD BE THE, UM, I 35 RECOMMENDATION.
THIS ONE IS PROBABLY THE MOST COMPLEX, AND THIS ONE HAD SEVERAL AUTHORS.
UM, SOME OF THESE HAVE ONE AUTHOR THAT'S FINE.
THIS ONE HAD SEVERAL AUTHORS AND WE BROKE IT UP, UM, ACROSS DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE, UM, UH, COMMISSION.
SO IF YOU, IF YOU SCROLL A BIT, YOU'LL SEE, UH, THERE YOU GO.
SO, UH, SEVERAL OF US, UH, MET THROUGH EMAIL, FORMED A WORKING GROUP.
WE, UM, BROKE UP, UH, WHAT WE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT IN TERMS OF I 35.
AND IT TURNED OUT THERE WAS SEVERAL THEMES.
WE DID NOT KNOW THIS AHEAD OF TIME.
THIS IS IF YOU'RE LIKE IN A SOFTWARE PERSON, THIS IS, UH, WHAT WE CALL AGILE.
WE KIND OF KNEW WHERE WE WERE HEADED, BUT WE DID NOT KNOW HOW WE WERE GETTING THERE.
WE PUT A BUNCH OF THINGS IN A SHARED GOOGLE DOC, STARTED SPLITTING IT UP.
UM, I TOOK THE LEAD ON ONE SECTION.
I THINK COMMISSIONER SUMMERS ON ANOTHER SECTION.
UM, SAM, NOT SAMUEL FRANCO, BUT UH, SAMUEL.
OH, WHAT WAS SAMUEL'S LAST NAME? HE TOOK ONE OF THE OTHER SECTIONS, DOESN'T MATTER.
MULTIPLE COMMISSIONERS WORKED ON A SHARED GOOGLE DOC TO BREAK UP THESE SECTIONS AND FLESH OUT THESE SECTIONS.
AND THEN WE KIND OF WENT THROUGH IT AND, UM, I PROBABLY TOOK THE FINAL EDITING PASS, BUT ANYBODY COULD HAVE TAKEN THAT FINAL EDITING PASS.
SO YOU CAN SEE THIS ONE'S KIND OF LONG.
UM, IF YOU WANNA SCROLL, YOU SEE THERE'S SEVERAL WHERE ASS IN EACH THEMED SECTION, EQUITY CLIMATE, UH, HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT.
AND THEN WE GET TO THE THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED.
AND IN THIS ONE I WANT TO POINT OUT A COUPLE OF THINGS.
THE FIRST SENTENCE IS, UH, UH, A SENTENCE THAT STANDS ON ITS OWN AND FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO JUST, REGARDLESS OF ALL THE OTHER DETAIL, KNOW THAT WE ARE OPPOSED TO THIS PROJECT.
AND SO THAT'S A SENTENCE OF ITS OWN.
SO THAT'S WHY IT'S SPLIT ON ITS OWN.
AND THEN THE BE IT RESOLVE THAT FOLLOWS THAT HAS A LOT MORE DETAIL.
UM, SO THAT'S JUST A WAY TO HELP MAKE IT EASY TO UNDERSTAND.
AND THEN THERE ARE ADDITIONAL, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVES BECAUSE WE HAD SO MANY THEMES, THAT'S WHY THERE'S SO MANY.
UM, BUT THIS IS THE MOST COMPLEX ONE I THINK WE PROBABLY DID.
UH, AND THERE'S A FOLLOW UP TO THIS THAT'S FAIRLY COMPLEX, BUT NOT AS QUITE AS COMPLEX.
BUT THE GOAL BEING OF THESE THREE TO SHOW YOU, THEY CAN BE QUITE SIMPLE.
LITERALLY A SENTENCE OF, UH, WHEREAS PROVIDE SOME DATA AND SOME CONTEXT AND BASICALLY A SENTENCE OF BE IT RESOLVED.
AND IT CAN BE, IT CAN GO FROM THAT TO THIS.
SO, ALRIGHT, LET'S JUMP IN INTO THE RECOMMENDATION TEMPLATE.
SO IN THIS TEMPLATE, WHICH, UH, YOU SHOULD HAVE A LINK TO, FEEL FREE TO COPY THIS.
UM, YEAH, AND IF YOU DON'T MIND BLOWING THAT UP A LITTLE BIT SINCE IT'LL FIT ON THE SCREEN, I BELIEVE.
OKAY, SO LET'S JUST GO OVER THE, THE, THE TEMPLATE PIECES.
UH, THERE'S A HEADER STUFF THAT SAYS UTC RECOMMENDATION.
UM, IT, THEN IT HAS A YEAR, MONTH DATE ASPECT TO IT.
IF YOU GET THAT WRONG, CHRIS WILL FIX IT FOR YOU.
AND THEN THERE'S BASICALLY JUST, IT NEEDS A, WHEREAS IT NEEDS A THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED AND THE WHEREAS.
SO LET'S JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE STRUCTURE.
USUALLY THEY SAY SOMETHING LIKE, THE CITY OF AUSTIN URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION HAS DONE ANYTHING OR RECEIVED A BRIEFING OR GENERATED AN IDEA.
THIS, THIS GIVES IT ITS CONTEXT.
IT COULD BE REALLY A STRAIGHTFORWARD SENTENCE.
DOESN'T NEED TO BE COMPLICATED.
T FRANKLY, LIKE, UM, AND THEN IF YOU NEED ADDITIONAL, WHEREAS LIKE WE SAID, YOU
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CAN JUST ADD 'EM IN.UH, THE THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED USUALLY TAKES A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT FORMS. AND THESE ARE A LITTLE BIT BOILER PLATES.
SINCE WE AREN'T MAKING POLICY, WE AREN'T MAKING LAW.
SO WE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CITY MANAGER TO DO THINGS.
AND THE CITY, CUZ THE CITY MANAGER ACTUALLY DIRECTS STAFF TO DO THINGS.
AND SO WE OFTEN HAVE THE FORM OF RECOMMEND CITY MANAGER DIRECT ATD OR DIRECT
HE WAS JUST A FEW FEET AWAY NOT SO LONG AGO.
UH, AND, AND THEN SOMETIMES WE'RE DIRECTING OR NOT DIRECTING, WE'RE RECOMMENDING TO SOMEPLACE LIKE MOBILITY COMMITTEES.
AND THAT COULD, THAT COULD VARY.
BUT THAT'S ANOTHER ONE THAT WE'VE DONE SEVERAL OF.
AND, AND SO THAT'S REALLY AS SIMPLE AS THAT.
UM, CAN WE HAVE ANY QUESTION? I GUESS WE CAN'T PROBABLY SHOW THIS IN PEOPLE'S FACES, I GUESS LET'S SHOW THE FACES.
YEAH, WE'D HAVE TO STOP SHARING.
UM, ALSO TO GIVE SOME MORE CONTEXT AS TO WHAT HAPPENS ONCE THE RECOMMENDATION RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MADE, UM, IT, WE ESSENTIALLY, UH, THEY GO TO THE BORDER COMMISSION THAT YOU WANT THEM TO GO TO, UH, ESSENTIALLY THROUGH ME.
BUT ALSO WE HAVE A SYSTEM IN PLACE WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN WHERE IT'S AUTOMATICALLY UPLOADED MM-HMM.
AND IT'S AUTOMATICALLY SENT, UM, TO THOSE THAT YOU REQUESTED TO.
SO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL GET THEM AS WELL AS THE CITY MANAGER.
UM, AND ANY, ANYONE OUTSIDE THE CITY, I WOULD MAKE SURE THAT IT GETS TO THEM, SAY CAP METRO OR CAMPO OR WHOMEVER.
SO IN TERMS OF DISTRIBUTION, THAT'S HOW THESE RECOMMENDATIONS GET OUT.
AND I'LL ADD ONE MORE BIT OF CONTEXT.
IT IS WORTHWHILE CONTACTING YOUR APPOINTEE OR POINTER, I GUESS YOU POINTEE, UH, CONTACTING YOUR POINTER IF YOU WANT, UM, TO GET SOME EXTRA ATTENTION.
THEY GET INUNDATED WITH ALL SORTS OF, UH, OFFICIAL CITY BUSINESS.
AND THIS IS OFFICIAL CITY BUSINESS, BUT IT IS, UM, JUST ONE OF MANY THINGS.
SO IT'S DEFINITELY WORTH CONTACTING THOSE FOLKS AND, UM, BRINGING IT TO THEIR ATTENTION.
IF THEY'RE ON, UH, A COMMITTEE LIKE MOBILITY COMMITTEE OR, UH, ANOTHER COMMITTEE, THEN THAT'S, THAT'S WORTH SEEING IF THEY CAN GET IT ONTO THAT CALENDAR.
AND DOES A RECOMMENDATION GET DOCUMENTED EVEN IF IT'S NOT APPROVED BY THE UTC? WELL, IT IS ARCHIVED SORT OF AUTOMATICALLY, IF THAT'S MAYBE WHAT YOU MEAN.
SO IT IS, SO ANYBODY, SO IF I CAME UP RECOMMENDATION AND THE UTC VOTED ON IT AND THERE WAS NOT A MAJORITY, IT WOULD STILL GO OH, IF IT WASN'T APPROVED TO OH, IF IT WASN'T APPROVED THROUGH US.
I DON'T THINK IT, HOW DATABASES HE WAS TALKING ABOUT IS ONLY FOUR THINGS APPROVED BY THE UTC.
YEAH, BUT IT'S AT THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING.
JUST WONDERING ABOUT THE DATABASE ITSELF.
THE DATABASE WHERE YOU COULD GO TO SEE THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
THEY ARE APPROVED BY DIFFERENT COMMITTEES OR COMMISSIONS.
AND IF YOU GO BACK THROUGH, THIS IS WHAT I DO AS CHAIR ONCE A YEAR, I BASICALLY GO BACK THROUGH ALL OF THE LINKS ON THE AUSTIN TEXAS.GOV/UTC SITE, AND EVERYTHING THAT GETS APPROVED GETS UPLOADED USUALLY WITHIN A COUPLE OF DAYS TO THAT PAGE.
UM, IF YOU CLICK ON THE VIEW AGENDA DOCUMENT, ET CETERA, AND YOU CAN GO BACK AND YOU CAN SEE EVERY, UH, RECOMMENDATION THAT PASSED OUR COMMISSION, YOU DON'T SEE EVERY RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS FLOATED.
UM, BUT YOU SEE EVERYONE THAT WAS PASSED, UM, SO THEY, THEY, THEY END UP THERE AS WELL, AND THAT'S PUBLIC.
SO ANYBODY LITERALLY IN THE WORLD COULD GO LOOK THROUGH THAT AND SEE WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO.
SO WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO DO, WELL, LET'S, ARE THERE OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT PROCESS OR WHY WE DO THIS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? AGAIN, THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE ONCE MARIO IS GONE, WE WILL HAVE TO ELECT A NEW CHAIR THAT WILL TAKE PLACE.
UM, I THINK A NEW CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR.
I THINK SUSAN SUMMERS IS COMING UP ON THEIR TERM AS WELL.
UM, SO THOSE HERE, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE, UH, THE UTC COMMISSIONERS THAT ARE NOT HERE, YOU'LL, YOU'LL ALL HAVE TO VOTE AND IT'LL BE IMPORTANT TO KNOW HOW TO DO THIS.
YOU KNOW, I WON'T TELL YOU THAT'S WRONG, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM, UH, THE BEST WAY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
UM, AGAIN, SINCE WE'RE NOT PASSING LAWS, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE YOUR OPINION AND THE OPINIONS THAT YOU GET FROM OTHERS, UH, BROUGHT UP INTO THE WORLD.
SO PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.
SO LET'S SEE IF, YES, COMMISSIONER RBY, I, I HAVE A QUESTION.
I GUESS REALLY FOR CHRISTOPHER, ONCE WE DO PASS A RESOLUTION, DO YOU, IS THERE A METHODOLOGY FOR YOU TO KNOW WHAT'S BEEN ACTED ON AFTER IT'S BEEN, AFTER IT'S GONE FORWARD? UNFORTUNATELY NOT.
UM, IF IT'S GONE, IF IT MAKES ITS WAY THROUGH MOBILITY, MOBILITY COMMITTEE OR GOES TO COUNCIL, UM,
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AND COUNCIL PASSES IT, OBVIOUSLY THEN WE'LL KNOW THAT IT'S, IT'S BEEN ADOPTED.BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT, THERE'S NO WAY TO ESSENTIALLY FOLLOW UP OR KNOW IF A RECOMMENDATION IS BEING CONSIDERED.
THE ONE THAT COMES TO MIND IS ACTUALLY THE, THE FIRST EXAMPLE THAT MARIO USED TONIGHT.
AND THAT WAS THE, UM, THE PRESENTATION THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE, UH, FROM THE STATE.
HIS, UH, HISTORICAL COMMISSION OR, UH, STATE, THE STATE GROUP THAT'S DOING THE CONGRESSION, THE CONGRESS MALL.
YES, I, I DID NOTICE, YOU KNOW, I, WE RECEIVED THAT, THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, AND THEN THEY CAME TO THE MOBILITY COMMISSION AND SOME MOTHERS PROBABLY MM-HMM.
BUT I NOTICED THIS WEEK WHEN I, OR LAST WEEK WHEN I WAS DRIVING DOWN, UH, 15TH STREET, THAT THERE DOES SEEM TO BE MM-HMM.
SO OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING HAS COME ABOUT.
IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS, I KNOW THERE WAS NEW SIGNAGE AND MAYBE MAYBE MR. DELL CAN SPEAK TO THIS, BUT IT LOOKED LIKE MAYBE A, A SIGNAL SYSTEM OR CROSSING THE STREET THERE, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN, WELL, FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF 15TH TO THE BLATON ACROSS THE STREET.
NOT, I KNOW WE HAVE A NUMBER OF SIGNAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS GOING ON AROUND TOWN.
I'M NOT AWARE OF THAT, BUT IF YOU DID SEE SOMETHING NEW THERE, I'M SURE OUR FOLKS WERE, WERE WORKING ON THAT AND MADE THAT COME ABOUT.
I THINK ITS THE REASON THEY CAME WAS BECAUSE THEY, I GUESS IT WAS SORT OF LOG JAMMED, PROBABLY THERE WAS A, UM, WORKFORCE ISSUE OR WHATEVER, BUT IT LOOKED LIKE MAYBE THAT HAD, UH, BEEN EFFECTIVE IN CALLING ATTENTION TO IT POSSIBLY.
OR MAYBE AS YOU SAID, MAYBE IT WAS ALREADY IN THE WORKS AND THE STATE PRESERVATION BOARD JUST DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT,
BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE FOLLOW UP ON THAT BACK TO THE COMMISSION TO SAY, WELL, THIS IS WHAT YOU DID AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.
YEAH, I DON'T KNOW ANY, CERTAINLY NO AUTOMATED NOTIFICATION WHEN THINGS HAPPEN, YOU SHOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW COUNCIL AGENDAS REALLY.
OR COMMISSION AGENDAS LIKE MOBIL OR COMMITTEE AGENDAS, LIKE MOBILITY.
BUT YEAH, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME IF, IF WE DID KNOW THAT.
WELL LET'S, UH, IF YOU DON'T MIND, UM, AND AV, WE CAN SHOW THE TEMPLATE.
I WOULD LOVE IF WE, IF PEOPLE ON THEIR OWN AND, AND YOU KNOW, WE CAN TYPE IN HERE AS WELL.
SOMEONE THROWS OUT AN IDEA THAT THEY HAVE THAT THEY WOULD LOVE TO SEE.
THIS IS GONNA BE AD HOC AND IS NOT GOING FORWARD.
JUST WHO HAS AN IDEA ABOUT SOMETHING THEY WOULD LIKE TO PASS A RECOMMENDATION ON? I'LL START CALLING PEOPLE BY NAME,
COMMISSIONER WEATHERBY, WHEELER, MARTINEZ.
WHO ELSE WAS THERE? I CAN'T REALLY SEE THE FACES ANYMORE.
IS THERE, UM, A LIST OR, UM, SOMETHING OF THE TOPICS THAT WE CAN, OR LIKE THE AREAS WHERE WE CAN PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR? UH, THERE IS, WHICH IS, OR BYLAWS, AND THEY ARE PRETTY BROAD IS, I DON'T WANNA OVERSTATE IT.
SO CHRIS, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT IT IS ESSENTIALLY, UH, THINGS INVOLVING TRANSPORTATION, UH, STREETS, UM, EVENTS, CLOSURES AND THAT SORT OF STREET IMPACT STUFF.
UM, I DON'T HAVE THE BYLAWS IN FRONT OF ME.
I COULD LOOK 'EM UP, BUT IT'S, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH CORRECT.
YEAH, IT'S VERY BROAD AND INTENTIONAL.
UM, SO THAT WAY ANYTHING TRANSPORTATION RELATED, YOU ALL COULD S YEAH.
SO WE'VE PASSED RECOMMENDATIONS AND DONE DEEP DELIBERATIONS ON MICRO MOBILITY.
SO LIKE SCOOTERS AND TNCS, WHICH IS THE, THE OLD NAME, MAYBE THEY STILL EXIST FOR THE UBERS AND THE LYFTS OF THE WORLD, THAT GUESTS STILL SORT OF EXIST.
UM, TAXI CAB FRANCHISES AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY SHOULD BE FRANCHISES, UH, CAP METRO PROJECT CONNECT, UM, A WHOLE WIDE, UH, RANGE OF ISSUES AROUND TRANSPORTATION REALLY.
UM, IS THERE, IS THERE SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND, UM, THAT YOU, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, JUST SIDEWALK RELATED SURE.
PROBABLY SOMETHING THAT I WOULD FIND.
UM, I'M A RUNNER AND IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD SPECIFICALLY, THERE JUST ISN'T A LOT OF SIDEWALKS MM-HMM.
UM, AND FOR A LOT OF IT, UM, YOU KNOW, I TRAIN FOR 13 MILES AND I'M ON THE ROAD MOST OF THE TIME MM-HMM.
SO, UM, SOMETHING LIKE THAT PROBABLY IS SOMETHING THAT I CLOSE TO ME OR SURE.
AND IT PROBABLY AFFECTS EVERYBODY WHO RUNS, UH, OR WALKS OR ROLLS, ET CETERA.
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LET'S IMAGINE, UH, A WHEREAS THAT COVERS THAT.SO LET'S SAY THIS ISN'T PARTICULARLY FROM, UH, AS A RESPONSE TO SOMETHING, IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED WITH.
SO AN INITIAL WHEREAS MIGHT BE SOMETHING AROUND, SO I'M, I'M SORT OF GONNA LEAD YOU, BUT I'M NOT GONNA GIVE GIVE THEY'RE NOT ANSWERS BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THIS, I'M JUST SORT OF MAKING IT UP.
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS LIKE A BROAD CONTEXT ENCAPSULATING SENTENCE, WHEREAS STATEMENT PROBLEM OR PROBLEM STATEMENT.
WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? AND YOU WOULD SAY WHEREAS THERE IS, OR WHEREAS PEDESTRIAN SIDEWALK FACILITIES ARE NOT PROVIDED.
AND, AND, AND ALSO DON'T, DON'T CONCERN TOO MUCH THAT THIS HAS TO BE LIKE, UH, WORDSMITH, UH, LEGALISTIC.
CERTAINLY NOT RIGHT OFF THE BAT.
SO GOOGLE DOC IS, YOU KNOW, WHEREAS THE SIDEWALKS ARE OFTEN BROKEN, THAT'S A FINE PLACE TO START.
WHEREAS, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO RUN, BUT I FIND IT TROUBLESOME TO RUN ON BROKEN SIDEWALKS, YOU KNOW, SO YOU COULD DO A COUPLE OF THINGS AND THEN KIND OF CONGEAL IT.
SO LET'S SAY YOU HAD A SENTENCE, LET'S COME UP WITH ONE SENTENCE THAT'S A, A SIDEWALK SENTENCE SINCE THAT'S HOW YOU STARTED.
UM, WHEREAS, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THE SAME GOOGLE DOC, SO I'M GOING TO JUST WRITE IN THIS GOOGLE DOC AND I'M JUST GONNA TAKE NOTES AS YOU, AS YOU TALK, UM, OR SOMEONE ELSE WANTS TO JUMP IN, BECAUSE OFTEN THESE ARE, UM, COLLABORATIVE, WHEREAS YOU SAID SOMETHING, THE, UM, SIDEWALKS, UM, ARE OFTEN NOT SUITED FOR PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY.
UM, AND THEN WHAT'S ANOTHER, WHEREAS JUST SAY YOU WANTED TO HAVE A COUPLE OF REASONS, WHEREAS SIDEWALKS ARE OFTEN BROKEN IN SEGMENTS, IT BE A SIDEWALK AND THERE WILL, I MEAN, THEY'RE OFTEN NONEXISTENT, RIGHT?
THERE ISN'T WHOOP, OOPS, NONEXISTENT BROKEN IN SEGMENTS.
AND SO SOMEONE JUST BROUGHT UP RUNNING.
SO, SO LET'S ADD IN A WHEREAS ABOUT WHY THIS MATTERS, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SIDEWALKS FIXED FOR SIDEWALK'S SAKE IS NOT NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, WHEREAS, UM, I'M JUST GONNA SAY SOMETHING VERY BROAD.
MANY PEOPLE LIKE TO RUN, WALK, STROLL, UM, USE WHEELCHAIRS, YOU KNOW? OKAY.
SO YOU SEE, WE MIGHT END UP WITH, UH, A WHEREAS THAT'S AROUND WHAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY NEED THESE SIDEWALKS TO BE BETTER FOR.
LIKE, UH, AND UH, THE CURRENT STATE OF SIDEWALKS, UM, SOMEONE GIMME A SENTENCE.
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM HERE? THIS CURRENT STATE OF SIDEWALKS, THEY'RE NOT, NOT CONDUCIVE.
THAT'S NOT HOW YOU SPELL THAT.
UM, AND I'M GONNA SAY JUST AS A, AS A SUGGESTION HERE, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM.
SO IS IT INSUFFICIENT FOR ME, INSUFFICIENT FOR, UH, A FEW FOLKS? INSUFFICIENT FOR A BROAD SWATH OF SOCIETY? LIKE SOME SORT OF THE MAJORITY.
MAJORITY, RIGHT? LIKE OUR ROADS AND FOR CARS, BUT THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE LIKE TO BUILD OUR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PEOPLE, WE SHOULD NOT BUILD OUR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CARS.
SO IT'S THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, RIGHT? ISN'T EVERYBODY LIKE A PEDESTRIAN AT SOME AT SOME POINT, YES.
SO LET'S TURN THAT TALKING POINT INTO SOMETHING AROUND, UM, WHEREAS, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SAYING, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE SAYING THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE EX I'M GONNA EXPAND A LITTLE BIT.
EXPERIENCE THE CITY NOT IN CARS OR NOT JUST IN CARS, BUT YOU'RE SAYING SOME SORT OF CONCEPT AROUND SPENDING TOO MUCH FOCUS ON THE CAR ASPECT AND NOT ENOUGH ON THE PEDESTRIAN ASPECT.
SO MAYBE IT'S BE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE, I'M NOT GONNA GET CAUGHT UP IN WORDS, ARE CERTAINLY PEDESTRIANS, UH, SOME OF THE TIME
YOU KNOW, ON A, ON A BUSY ROAD WHERE THERE'S NO SIDEWALK, I CHOOSE TO DRIVE MY CAR.
UH, SO WE WOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE THE, THE CITY
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HAS A VESTED INTEREST IN GETTING MORE PEOPLE, PEOPLE SAID BE, YOU KNOW, HAPPY PEDESTRIANS, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, JUST WRITING ANYTHING.AND THEN WE, WE'LL COME BACK AND KIND OF COMBINE THINGS, BE HAPPY, SAFE, WHOOPS, HAPPY SAFE, UH, PEDESTRIANS, UM, YOU KNOW, AND THEN, OKAY, SO LET'S JUST STOP THERE FOR A SECOND AND THEN, UM, TALK ABOUT THIS PROCESS.
SO AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THIS IS NOT, UM, PROBABLY WHAT THE FINE ONE WILL LOOK LIKE, BUT IT TOOK US LITERALLY THREE OR FOUR MINUTES TO GET THIS FAR.
AND FROM HERE WE A HUNDRED PERCENT CAN COMBINE THIS INTO ONE OR TWO OR MAYBE THREE TOTALLY CLEAR, CLEAN SENTENCES THAT TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEM, THE POTENTIAL SOLUTION AND THE SCOPE OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THAT SOLUTION.
UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE LOOK THROUGH THIS, WE HAVE, SIDEWALKS ARE BROKEN, THEY'RE OFTEN NONEXISTENT.
UM, PEOPLE CAN'T BE PEDESTRIANS AS MUCH AS THEY MIGHT LIKE TO BE.
WE COULD EXPAND THIS VESTED INTERESTS.
WE COULD MENTION THE A S M P MODE SHARE.
SO ONCE YOU'RE LOOKING AT THESE WAREHOUSES, YOU KNOW, THEN YOU GO THROUGH, YOU KNOW, COME DOWN AND, YOU KNOW, MAKE A, A MORE FINAL VERSION, YOU KNOW, AND JUST, YOU KNOW, FIGURE OUT HOW TO COMBINE THIS INTO A WAY THAT MAKES SENSE AND IS CONCISE.
WE WON'T DO THAT RIGHT HERE CAUSE IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, DOING THIS ONE THOUGH.
AND LEE, YOU COULD ALWAYS TAKE THIS ONE AND, AND DO IT, UH, FOR NEXT TIME.
I MEAN, I THINK IT WOULD BE A GREAT THING.
OKAY, SO THEN LET'S MOVE DOWN TO, YOU KNOW, SO WE'VE GOT THIS, UH, LEMME JUST TAKE A NOTE HERE.
UM, YOU KNOW, UH, MORE CLEAN, CONCISE, UH, WHEREAS, UM, COMPILED FROM THE ABOVE AND ANY NEW THOUGHTS, YOU KNOW, SO THAT JUST TOOK LITERALLY A FEW MINUTES.
SO THEN WE WANNA HAVE THIS BE IT RESOLVED.
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK ANYBODY, UM, IS, WHAT, WHAT WOULD, WHAT SHOULD THIS RECOMMENDATION RESOLVE? WHAT SHOULD THEY PROPOSE? ANYBODY? ANNA, SINCE YOU BROUGHT IT UP, WHAT, WHAT WOULD IDEAL WORLD, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IN AN IDEAL WORLD, PROVIDING MORE FUNDING FOR PROJECTS SOLELY, UM, ON SIDEWALKS OR PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES.
UM, NOT, NOT A PACKAGE THAT THAT INCLUDES, YOU KNOW, GROWTH BUT JUST SOLD.
YEAH, NO, THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD.
I MEAN, IF THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT, THEN THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD.
UM, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE A, ANOTHER POTENTIAL SOLUTION OR, YOU KNOW, PROPOSAL OF THIS, YOU KNOW, CAUSE IT'S JUST A PROPOSAL, UM, OR MAYBE SOME REFINEMENT ON THIS, YOU KNOW, IS THERE A PLACE TO TARGET FOR THIS? YOU KNOW, THE CITY ALREADY DOES THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL AND THAT SORT OF THING, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU COULD PROPOSE FULLY FUNDING OR INCREASING FUNDING FOR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL OR FOR AROUND SENIOR CITIZEN, THE SENIOR CENTERS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
IF YOU WANTED, I'M NOT SAYING WE NEED TO, BUT DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE AN IDEA HERE THAT THEY WANNA PROPOSE? NO, I FEEL LIKE SPECIFICALLY MM-HMM.
SO MAYBE TARGETING SOME RESIDENTIAL AREAS BETWEEN
SPECIFICALLY RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
UM, PLACES WITH, I MEAN, IF YOU WANTED TO, YOU COULD SAY, YOU KNOW, UM, THE PLACES THAT HAVE BAD SIDEWALKS ARE BETTER THAN PLACES THAT HAVE NO SIDEWALK.
SO LET'S NOT SPEND REPAIR MONEY.
LET'S SPEND NEW CREATION MONEY.
I MEAN, I'M JUST MAKING THAT UP OBVIOUSLY, BUT, YOU KNOW, PLACES WITH NO SIDEWALKS SHOULD BE A FOCUS.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, I JUST TO DO A THIRD BULLET POINT, SOMEONE COME UP WITH A THIRD BULLET POINT, WHAT WOULD BE ANOTHER GOOD TARGET WAY TO TARGET THIS MONEY OR THIS PROPOSED MONEY? UM, MAYBE ALONG BUS ROUTE.
SPECIFICALLY THAT GET THE MOST USE OF THEIR SIDEWALKS AROUND THOSE.
SO WE ARE, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T SEE WHEN WE STARTED, BUT WE'RE PROBABLY EIGHT MINUTES INTO THIS, YOU KNOW, NOT, NOT, PROBABLY NOT.
AND HERE WE HAVE PRETTY CLOSE TO A VERY USABLE RECOMMENDATION.
YOU KNOW, MAYBE ADJUST SOME SENTENCES A BIT.
YOU COULD CERTAINLY DO IT COLLABORATIVELY.
YOU KNOW, GOOGLE DOCS IS GREAT, SHARE IS GREAT.
SHARE THAT LINK WITH, UH, FOLKS.
PEOPLE CAN COME IN AND TYPE WHENEVER THEY WANT.
AND JUST LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, WE HAVE A PRETTY CLOSE TO USABLE RECOMMENDATION, UM, THAT SOMEONE COULD BRING.
SO WHAT I WOULD CHALLENGE, I KNOW YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING, IS THAT, UM, UH, SOMEONE AMONG YOU,
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MAYBE IDEALLY THE PERSON WHO FIRST STARTED THIS ONE, TAKE IT AS A TAKE IT AS A CHALLENGE FOR WHEN WE COME UP ON JANUARY 6TH TO JUST CREATE A PROPOSAL OR CREATE A RECOMMENDATION AND PUT IT ON THE AGENDA.AND WE'LL GET IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE PROCESS.
EITHER IT'LL PASS OR NOT PASS, PROBABLY WILL PASS.
AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE THAT UNDER YOUR BELT AND EVERYONE ELSE, IF YOU WANNA CHIP IN OR CREATE YOUR OWN, I WOULD SUPER HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT TOO.
UH, SO HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT PROCESS? OH, SORRY.
I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, IF YOU JUST EMAIL THOSE TO YOU, CHRISTOPHER, TO GET THOSE ON THE AGENDA, UM, CERTAINLY, UM, WE CAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT AND I CAN ADD THAT AS A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM FOR OUR JANUARY MEETING.
I MEAN, I, I HAVE THE LINK SO IT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT NECESSARY TO EMAIL IT TO ME.
I HAVE IT AND I'LL JUST MAKE A NOTE TO PUT IT ON OUR FUTURE AGENDA FOR, FOR, UM, JANUARY.
BUT LET'S SAY YOU MADE A COPY, ANOTHER COPY OF THIS CUZ YOU WANTED TO WORK ON IT OR WHATEVER.
YOU CAN JUST EMAIL THAT TO, UH, CHRIS.
I, I END UP USING GOOGLE DOCS BECAUSE THEN WE CAN SHARE IT BACK AND FORTH AND THEN WE CAN SHOW IT UP ON THE SCREEN AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, AND THEN WHEN IT GETS APPROVED, IT GETS PRINTED OUT AND SIGNED AND ET CETERA.
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THOUGH, AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, MARIO, UH, WHEN MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, WE STILL HAVE TO ABIDE BY QUORUM RULES.
AND SO WHAT, WHAT I THINK WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST IS THAT WE WORKED ON RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE UTC, UM, BUT SENDING THEM TO MORE THAN SIX COMMISSIONERS CREATES A QUORUM AND THEN I WILL GET IN TROUBLE AND GET FIRED.
SO JUST JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND.
I THINK IN THE PAST WE, WE'VE DONE IT IN, IN THE ROOM AND WE'VE TAKEN THE TIME OUT OF OUR MEETING TO ACTUALLY GO THROUGH THE RECOMMENDATION.
YOU CAN ALSO, UM, SEND IT TO ONE OR TWO OTHER COMMISSIONERS IF SOMEONE IS CO-SPONSORING THE ITEM YOU TWO, YOU CAN, YOU TWO OR THREE CAN WORK ON IT TOGETHER.
BUT ANYTHING OVER, UM, SIX COMMISSIONERS AND WE HAVE QUORUM AND THAT'S CONSIDERED A WALKING CORM AND WE DON'T WANT THAT.
SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND AS YOU'RE MAKING THE GOOGLE GOOGLE DOC IS FINE.
UM, BUT JUST KEEP THAT IN YOUR MIND AS YOU'RE CREATING THEM.
KEEP IT TO JUST A COUPLE OF PEOPLE.
EVEN THE, THE BIG, LIKE THE I 35 1, I THINK IT WAS THREE, MAYBE FOUR OF US.
AND, UM, I WORKING ON BIKE LANE B WITH ATHENA, SO THAT WAS JUST TWO.
UM, I SENT IT TO PEOPLE NOT ON THE COMMISSION, SO THAT WAS FINE.
LIKE I GOT ADVICE FROM JUST FRIENDS.
UM, SO THAT WAS, THAT WAS FINE.
UH, BUT YEAH, AS CHRIS POINTS OUT, IT IS TECHNICALLY AGAINST THE LAW TO HAVE A WALK IN QUORUMS. YES.
BUT WE'LL COME VISIT YOU IN JAIL.
CAN I JUST ADD THAT IT'S REALLY HELPFUL TO KNOW, UH, WHAT THE STAFF HAS ALREADY WORKED ON.
WE'VE, AND I DON'T KNOW AT WHAT POINT, I CAN'T, I CAN'T QUOTE A DATE THAT WE RECEIVED THE LAST OVERVIEW, BUT THERE IS A PRETTY ELABORATE SIDEWALK PROGRAM MM-HMM.
I MEAN, THERE'S SOME REALLY GOOD STATISTICS BY JUST CHECKING THE, UM, CURRENT PLAN THAT'S BEEN ADOPTED AND WHERE WE STAND IN THAT.
AND MAYBE IF IT'S A MAJOR PUSH THAT WE WANNA MAKE ON TAKING AN ACTION, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE A, YOU KNOW, AN UPDATE AT A CERTAIN MM-HMM.
RELEVANT PLAN TO PULL THOSE FIGURES IN BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHERE THE BIGGEST NEEDS ARE, WHERE THE GAPS ARE.
THEY KNOW HOW MUCH IS PROGRAM FOR THE NEXT YEAR AND THE NEXT YEAR AFTER THAT.
AND IT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TO TIE THOSE TWO TOGETHER.
CAUSE IT'S A LOT OF WORK THAT COULD BE DEMONSTRATING WHAT YOUR ASSUMPTION IS.
YOU KNOW, GIVE VALIDITY TO WHAT YOU, WHAT YOUR, UM, OBSERVANCE IS.
AS FAR AS I KNOW THERE NONE OF THE 300 MILLION, UH, IN 2020 MOBILITY FUNDS HAS YET BEEN SPENT.
AND IT CAN BE SPENT ON SIDEWALKS AS WELL AS BIKEWAYS, AS WELL AS OTHER KINDS OF THINGS.
WHY AREN'T YOU SPENDING IT? I, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS MEETING CAN HAVE THAT AGENDA ITEM.
NO, BUT, BUT IT'S WORTH FINDING OUT BECAUSE WE CAN MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS.
WHY DON'T YOU DO THIS TO SPEED UP THE MM-HMM.
OH, I THOUGHT YOU WERE ASKING JIM RIGHT THIS MINUTE.
NO, I WAS GONNA SAY I WAS WEED, BUT ALLOWED TO SAY, BUT FOR, FOR FUTURE AGENDA, EITHER THAT'S, YEAH, THAT'S, AND I WANNA PUT A BIT OF NUANCE THOUGH ON WHAT, UH, COMMISSIONER WEBY SAYS THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF DANGER IN US SPEAKING TO THE ECHO CHAMBER BY TALKING ABOUT THE TOPICS THAT THE CITY IS ALREADY TALKING ABOUT.
AND SO I, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY CONCUR
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THAT IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT SIDEWALKS, I'M NOT SAYING YOU SHOULD, BUT IF YOU DECIDE TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF DATA, DO A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH.IF YOU THINK IT'S WORTHWHILE, LET'S PUT IT ON A AGENDA ITEM AND LEARN MORE.
BUT ALSO YOU CAN OUT OF THE BLUE SAY, I HAVE NOTICED THESE THINGS AND GO TRY AND DO SOME RESEARCH.
SO I SHOULD ADD ON, SO WE DID THIS IN 10 MINUTES, BUT REALLY WE DO, YOU DO PROBABLY WANNA DO A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH.
IT'S NOT A RESEARCH PAPER THAT'S GONNA TAKE YOU A WEEK, BUT LOOK AT THE WEBSITE, LOOK AT THE BUDGET, SEE IF YOU CAN FIND SOME USEFUL DATA THAT SAYS SOMETHING IN THERE AND DRAW YOUR OWN INSIGHTS FROM IT.
THE CITY WILL DO THEIR JOB ALREADY, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO BE TOO CONCERNED THAT, UM, WE'RE GONNA PUSH THEM IN SOME WAY THAT THEY'RE NOT WILLING TO GO.
SO IF, YOU KNOW, IF, IF YOUR CONCERN WAS, I'M JUST GONNA MAKE SOMETHING UP, UH, LIGHTING, CUZ YOU RUN EARLY IN THE MORNING OR LATE AT NIGHT AND YOU CAN'T FIND THAT ANYWHERE, WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE A MEETING TO SEE WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT LIGHTING.
JUST SAY THERE'S NOT ENOUGH LIGHTING WHEN I GO RUNNING, WHEN OTHERS GO RUNNING, FIND SOME SAFETY CONCERNS, PUT THAT DATA IN THERE AND YOU'RE GOOD TO GO.
SO THERE'S REALLY A COMBINATION OF WAYS TO DO IT.
AND THAT'S WHY I SORT OF SHOWED DIFFERENT RECOMMENDATIONS.
BIKE LANE BO CAME OUTTA NOWHERE.
THERE'S NOTHING IN THE CITY AGENDA TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
UH, NEW YORK CITY'S GONNA BEAT US TO THE PUNCH IF WE DON'T, BUT THAT'S A SIDE ISSUE.
UH, I 35 IS A HUGE CITY AGENDA, A STATE AGENDA, A CAP METRO AGENDA, A CAMPO, AGEN, YOU KNOW, SO THERE'S A LOT OF DATA THERE TO WORK WITH.
SO THERE'S A, THERE'S DIFFERENT, UM, DIMENSIONS I GUESS OF, OF, UM, EXISTING, UH, DISCUSSION THAT YOU CAN PAY ATTENTION TO AND YOU CAN ALSO JUST TRY AND BE INSIGHTFUL ON YOUR OWN.
SO, UM, AND I DON'T HAVE MUCH MORE THAN THAT BESIDES TO SAY, I HOPE THAT WHEN WE SHOW UP, AND THEN ALSO WHEN I'M GONE, PEOPLE KEEP MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS AND, UM, MOVE THINGS FORWARD.
IN YOUR EXPERIENCE, WHAT'S BEEN THE MAXIMUM FREQUENCY ON WHICH RESOLUTIONS HAVE NEW APPEARED? WAS THERE A TIME WHEN YOU WERE DOING ONE PER MEETING? UH, THERE WERE TIMES WHEN WE DID MULTIPLE PER MEETING AND THEN TIMES WHERE WE DID NONE FOR MULTIPLE MEETINGS.
IT REALLY, IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT'S ON THE, WHAT'S, HOW MUCH ENERGY PEOPLE HAVE, HOW MUCH, UH, TIME THEY HAVE, UM, WHAT'S COMING UP IN THE WORLD, THINGS LIKE I 35 OR PROJECT CONNECT THAT ARE REALLY BIG THINGS THAT WE WANNA WEIGH IN ON OR THE TNCS WHEN THAT WAS THE WHOLE DEAL AND A SPECIAL ELECTION AND ALL THAT.
UM, SO IT JUST, YEAH, IT JUST DEPENDS.
YOU'RE GONNA SAY SOMETHING JIM, IT'S TARGET TO SHOOT FOR, BUT YEAH.
WHY NOT?
LIKE IF THERE NO BEST THING TO DO IS HAVE A PRESENTATION TO THE COMMISSION.
I THINK WHEN ONCE EVERYONE ON THE COMMISSION STARTS TALKING, I THINK THAT STARTS TO MM-HMM.
UM, BUT ALSO LIKE, AS FOLLOW UP TO THAT OR IF THERE'S SOMETHING WHERE THERE'S NOT A CHANCE TO HAVE A PRESENTATION, WE'LL DO OUR BEST TO CONNECT YOU WITH THE STAFF TO GET SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
UM, ANYTIME THERE'S QUESTIONS LIKE, UM, COMMISSIONER BROOKS QUESTION ABOUT, OKAY, WHAT'S THE STATUS OF THE SPENDING ON SIDEWALKS? MM-HMM.
AND THAT PART'S DEFINITELY TRUE.
YOU CAN LOOK THINGS UP ON THE WEBSITES.
A LOT OF THE CITY WEBSITES ARE ACTUALLY QUITE GOOD IN TERMS OF THEIR DATA.
UM, LIKE IT'S, IT'S CITY SHOULD BE PROUD, BUT, AND, AND PEOPLE WILL ANSWER EMAILS IF YOU FIND A LITTLE CONTACT LINK AND SEND AN EMAIL PEOPLE, PEOPLE WILL ANSWER THEM.
SO IT HAPPENS, YOU KNOW, ALSO I THINK WE EACH REPRESENT, OR EVERYONE BUT ME I GUESS REPRESENTS A DISTRICT AND WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR DISTRICT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TOO, BECAUSE I'M NOT IN A DISTRICT.
I GET COMPLAINTS ABOUT THINGS AND I HAVE TO SAY SIDEWALKS ARE AT THE TOP OF THAT
SO I MEAN THIS IS A, A WIDESPREAD CITIZEN ISSUE FOR OTHERS, BUT THIS IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THOSE TOP ONES.
I MEAN, I'M NOT SAYING YOU HAVE TO MAKE A DATA ENTRY, I'M JUST SAYING THAT IT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF WHAT'S GOING ON.
UM, THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO ADDITIONAL ACTIONS.
ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? NOW WE'LL MOVE THROUGH OUR AGENDA.
I'M GONNA, UM, ADVOCATE FOR THIS TO BE SENT TO LIKE UT STUDENTS SO THEY CAN LEARN HOW
UM, SERIOUSLY, I THINK THIS WAS VERY, VERY GREAT.
WERE YOU A PROFESSOR AT SOME POINT? UH, YES.
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I ACTUALLY USED THIS LATER ON.
THAT'S A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WRITING SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS, UH, THAT I DO AS WELL.
I'M A PRODUCT MANAGER FOR A LIVING, SO I DEAL WITH, UH, BREAKING THINGS INTO PIECES AND WORKING THROUGH 'EM.
ALL RIGHT, WELL LET'S MOVE INTO THE BRIEFINGS.
UM, NUMBER, NUMBER, THE FIRST DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, NO QUORUM.
[BRIEFINGS]
COMMISSIONER WHEELER.UM, WE HAVE ALSO HAD TROUBLE MAKING, UM, QUORUM.
WE DID HAVE THE CITY OF AUSTIN PRESENT.
I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS, IF I ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THAT IN THE LAST U GC MEETING OR NOT.
BUT WE REMEMBER THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS COME AND PRESENT THEIR FISCAL PLAN TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT MET THE CITY'S ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS.
AND THE CITY OF AUSTIN PRESENTED AND TALKED ABOUT THEIR, UH, RAPE CASE.
UH, BICYCLE ADVISORY WOULD BE ATHENA.
PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY WOULD BE ALLEG RUS.
UM, MOBILITY COMMITTEE, UH, IS ME.
I WAS THERE FOR THE BEGINNING OF IT, AS ALWAYS.
UM, MY, MY STUFF HAPPENS FIRST AND THEN I DON'T STICK AROUND CAUSE I HAVE TO JUST DO WORK STUFF.
UM, CHRIS, MAYBE YOU SHOULD BECOME THE, UH,
DO YOU, THEY, THEY RECEIVED THE SAME UPDATES ON VISION ZERO THAT YOU ALL RECEIVED AS WELL AS PLACE MAKING.
UM, NOT TOO MUCH MORE DEBATE OR DISCUSSION AFTER THAT.
UM, SO YEAH, I UPDATED THEM ON OUR DISCUSSION AROUND THE, UH, CREATIVE CROSSWALKS IN PARTICULAR, HOW THAT HAD GENERATED SOME INTEREST TO WHICH I, I DID NOT KNOW EXISTED AND WAS PRETTY INTERESTING.
AND THEN, UM, I DO NOT SEE COMMISSIONER SUMMERS EITHER FOR THE COMMUNITY ADVISOR.
[FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]
RIGHT.FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS IS LOOKING PRETTY BLANK ON THIS DOCUMENT.
OH, I, I, I, UM, IT SHOULDN'T BE LIKE THAT.
I, WE HAVE SOME, WE HAVE A LOT.
UM, IF YOU GO BACK TO THE, THE
UM, I FORGOT TO ADD THE SLEW OF ITEMS ON THERE.
BUT WE, WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TEED UP FOR JANUARY.
UM, WE SHOULD BE RECEIVING A CAP AND STITCH, UH, UPDATE FROM, UH, QUARTER PROGRAM OFFICE, UM, AS WELL AS AN UPDATE ON THE, UH, UM, AUSTIN CORE, UH, TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UM, ACT, ALSO KNOWN AS THE ACT PLAN AND A FEW OTHERS THAT I CAN'T REMEMBER AT THE RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT.
BUT AGAIN, I'LL EMAIL, EMAIL THOSE OUT TO YOU ALL.
WE WILL MEET AGAIN ON JANUARY 10TH.
UM, SO, AND I'LL KEEP THAT ON YOUR CALENDARS AS WELL, SO.
UM, AND WITH THAT, ARE THERE ANY ITEMS AD HOC ANYONE WANTS TO DISCUSS? GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE.
I THINK WE CAN ADJOURN BY CONSENT, RIGHT? YEAH.
NOW I'M STANDING AT THE RAV ABOVE THE CANYON WALL AND IT SEEMS THERE IS NO.