* 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.
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          OKAY, APRIL 1ST, 2025 AT 5:09 PM WE ARE HERE AT THE AUSTIN ENERGY HEADQUARTERS, UH, ASSEMBLY ROOM AT 4 8 1 5 MUELLER BOULEVARD IN AUSTIN, TEXAS. 
          UM, I'M SUSAN SUMMERS, THE CHAIR OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, AND I'M GOING TO CALL THIS, UH, MEETING TO ORDER. 
          UM, THE FIRST THING WITH THAT, THAT I'M GOING TO DO IS I AM GOING TO, UH, ROLL CALL, UH, THE MEMBERS HERE TODAY, SO WE ENSURE WE HAVE QUORUM. 
          UM, JUST A REMINDER WITH THAT, UM, IF YOU ARE ATTENDING VIRTUALLY, YOU DO NEED TO PLEASE HAVE EMAILED OUR STAFF LIAISON MEREDITH. 
          UM, NOW IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY, TO LET HER KNOW THAT YOU ARE ATTENDING VIRTUALLY AND, UH, DO THE, UH, RECUSAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE WITH HER VIRTUALLY AS WELL. 
          SO PLEASE DO THAT WITH HER IF YOU'RE ATTENDING VIRTUALLY AND YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY. 
          UM, AND FOR THOSE ATTENDING VIRTUALLY, ALSO FOR ROLL CALL, I DO NEED YOU ON CAMERA, SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND DO THAT. 
          SO, UM, UH, JUST GO THROUGH OUR ROLE, COMMISSIONER HEATHER BFA, PRESENT. 
          GREAT. 
          COMMISSIONER ARLAN ALVAREZ HERE. 
          I'M SUSAN SUMMERS. 
          I'M THE CHAIR. 
          I'M HERE. 
          COMMISSIONER DANIEL KAMAN HERE. 
          UM, COMMISSIONER VERIN PSAD. 
          I BELIEVE HE'S NOT GOING TO BE, UH, HERE. 
          HE'S TRAVELING OUTTA THE COUNTRY. 
          I'VE ALSO, UH, COMMISSIONER JUSTIN JACOBSON ALSO LET US KNOW HE WOULD NOT BE HERE. 
          COMMISSIONER UH, SPENCER SCHUMACHER. 
          HELLO? HELLO. 
          ARE YOU HERE? WE SEE YOU HERE. 
          SORRY. 
          YES, IT'S ALL GOOD. 
          I THINK YOU, HE'S IN THE BASEMENT, THE MATRIX. 
          BLIPPED, YES. 
          , UM, , UH, COMMISSIONER RUBEN BROOKS. 
          OH, HOLD ON. 
          I'M GONNA ADD HIM BACK IN. 
          YOU THINK HE MAY HAVE FALLEN OUT? I'LL GO TO COMMISSIONER DESHAUN BROWN. 
          I'M HERE. 
          GREAT. 
          AND COMMISSIONER RUBEN BROOKS, I THINK MAY NOW BE HERE WITH US. 
          CAN YOU CONFIRM FOR US VERBALLY? I'M NOT, I WAS MUTED AND I COULDN'T UNMUTE MYSELF. 
          YES, I HEAR YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          YES, I'M HERE. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, FOR ANY VOTES, WE DO NEED YOU TO BE ON CAMERA. 
          OKIE DOKIE. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, SO, UM, WE DO HAVE QUORUM. 
          WE'VE ESTABLISHED THAT. 
          SO WE'RE HERE. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO, UM, NOW GO TO GENERAL PUBLIC 
          [PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL]
COMMUNICATION. 
          THIS IS FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION, NOT ON, UH, AGENDA ITEM. 
          AND I DO HAVE, UM, ONE INDIVIDUAL SIGNED UP FOR THAT. 
          THAT IS, UH, MR. SCOTT JOHNSON. 
          SO, UM, WE'LL CALL YOU UP. 
          UH, I'VE BEEN TOLD YOU CAN SIT IF THESE SEATS HERE, AND THOSE MICS SHOULD BE ON, IF YOU WOULD LIKE. 
          AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES. 
          UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, COMMISSION MEMBERS AND STAFF. 
          MY NAME IS SCOTT JOHNSON. 
          I WAS HERE LAST MEETING. 
          I'M ALWAYS TRYING TO RAISE AWARENESS, AND OBVIOUSLY THROUGH THAT PROMOTE ACTION. 
          RECENTLY, BECAUSE OF FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS, THE CAPILLARY METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION HAS ASKED AND REQUIRED NECESSARILY THE COUNTIES WITHIN THE CAMPO AREA TO, TO DEVELOP A, A ROAD SAFETY PLAN. 
          AND THEY'VE, THEY'VE DONE THAT, INCLUDING TRAVIS COUNTY. 
          WHAT I'VE LONG BELIEVED IS THAT THE, WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE GREATEST BARRIER TO LIMITING OR MINIMIZING AND REDUCING CRASHES AND REDUCING FATALITIES, AS IS THE GOAL OF, OF VISION ZERO, WHICH I'M, UH, A FOUNDING MEMBER. 
          WE STARTED AT THE BEGINNING OF 2015, IS THIS IDEA THAT DRIVER BEHAVIOR MATTERS A LOT. 
          THIS CITY CAN GET AFTER REDESIGNING INTERSECTIONS AND DOING OTHER THINGS THAT ARE HELPFUL AND THAT ARE NEEDED, BUT WE NEED MORE EMPHASIS ON THIS. 
          SO IN THE ARTICLE WRITTEN FOR THE AUSTIN MONITOR, THIS GENTLEMAN WHO'S THE CONSULTANT FOR SAFE STREETS ACTION PLAN PART OF CAMPO, HE SAID THIS ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION IMPROVEMENTS MAY NOT SOLVE WHAT THE SURVEY, THE CAMPUS SURVEY INDICATED AS THE BIGGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO DANGEROUS ROADS. 
          WHAT WE'VE HEARD IN TERMS OF TOP SAFETY CONCERNS WERE SPEEDING, ROAD RAGE, RECKLESS DRIVING, AND DISTRACTED DRIVING OTHER BEHAVIOR CHALLENGES. 
          SO THAT IS REALLY INFORMING THE DISCUSSION THAT WE HAVE. 
          A LOT OF THE CHALLENGES ARE NOT SO DANGEROUS PORTIONS OF ROADS, BUT DRIVER BEHAVIOR. 
          SO THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 
          AS I TALKED ABOUT LAST TIME, DISTRACTED DRIVING. 
          APRIL IS DISTRACTED DRIVING AWARENESS MONTH, THE NATIONAL ONE, AND THAT'S IMPORTANT. 
          TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS HAS AN ARTICLE IN THEIR NEWSLETTER WRITTEN BY THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM, AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS. 
          WE NEED TO DO MORE. 
          AND ONE OF THE WAYS WE CAN DO MORE IS THAT I'M AWARE OF THIS 'CAUSE I HAVE CONTACT REGULARLY WITH VARIETY 
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OF DIFFERENT FOLKS WHO WORK FOR THE CITY. 
          SOME OF THEM ARE ISSUED PHONES BY THE CITY. 
          WHEN THEY ARE ISSUED PHONES, YOU CAN PRESCRIBE THE WAY THAT THEY SHOULD USE THEM. 
          AND ONE OF THOSE WAYS, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IT MAY BE IMPORTANT FOR THE UTC TO CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AND PASS IT, IS THAT THE MANAGERS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENTS AND THE SUPERVISORS, ET CETERA, THEY SHOULD NOT BE CALLING EMPLOYEES BEFORE BUSINESS HOURS AND AFTER BUSINESS HOURS, UNLESS THE PERSON'S USING A HANDS-FREE SETUP, WHICH IS LEGAL. 
          EVEN STILL, THERE IS A COGNITIVE DISTRACTION FROM HANDS-FREE. 
          IT'S BEEN QUANTIFIED AS A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN ONE WHERE YOU'RE HOLDING THE PHONE IN A TACTILE WAY. 
          BUT NONETHELESS, THERE'S A HUGE AMOUNT OF CHALLENGES IN THAT REALM. 
          AND ALSO THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS SHOULD CONSIDER FOR THE ISSUED PHONES BY THE CITY, MAKING SURE THEY HAVE AN OUTGOING GREETING ON THERE, WHICH IS, I CAN'T PICK UP THE PHONE RIGHT NOW, I'M DRIVING, OR I'M BUSY. 
          AND JUST BE AS STRICT AND DISCIPLINED AS POSSIBLE IN THAT REGARD, EVEN IF IT IS THEIR MANAGER, EVEN IF THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR, BECAUSE AGAIN, HANDS FREE IS NOT 100% SAFE. 
          SO PLEASE KEEP ALL THIS IN MIND AS I CAN SHOP THIS AROUND TO DEPARTMENTS AND SPEND TIME DOING THAT. 
          AND SOME MAY SAY, YES, THAT THAT'S A GOOD IDEA, WE SHOULD DO IT. 
          BUT WE NEED A CITY POLICY. 
          AND, UH, THAT HASN'T BEEN BROUGHT UP IN RECENT YEARS. 
          I BROUGHT IT UP BEFORE, BUT IT TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT AND A LOT OF MONTHS AND YEARS SOMETIMES TO GET THINGS TO CHANGE. 
          AND I WOULD WELCOME YOUR PARTICIPATION AND, AND QUESTIONS FOR STAFF ABOUT HOW THIS COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          AND, UH, I KNOW I, AS I SAID BEFORE THE MEETING, I THINK I OWE YOU EMAIL, SO LET'S DEFINITELY CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION. 
          THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT AGAIN. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS ON GENERAL ITEMS, SO WE'LL MOVE INTO, UM, UH, ITEM NUMBER, 
          [1. Approve the minutes of the Urban Transportation Commission REGULAR MEETING  on March 4, 2025. ]
UH, ONE, WHICH IS APPROVAL OF OUR MINUTES FROM THE, UH, URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSIONER COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING FROM FEBRUARY 4TH, 20, UH, EXCUSE ME, FROM MARCH 4TH, 2025. 
          UM, SO WE'LL MOVE INTO THAT. 
          UM, THIS IS, UH, BEEN PRECIATE VIA EMAIL, AND IT'S ALSO IN THE PACKET FOR THOSE WHO ARE HERE IN PERSON TODAY. 
          AND SO, UM, VERY DETAILED MINUTES HERE IF YOU HAVE WANT A SECOND TO REVIEW THEM. 
          JUST NEED TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO IT. 
          UH, GREAT. 
          YES. 
          UH, LET'S DO A MOTION. 
          I'LL MOVE TO APPROVE THE MINUTES. 
          DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER CAVEMAN. 
          UM, AND SO YOU HAD AN AMENDMENT? YEAH, I JUST BASICALLY NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S, IT'S HERE THAT I WAS NOT, I WAS ABSENT. 
          I WAS NOT HERE TO VOTE. 
          AH, YES. 
          SO WHERE IT SAYS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE, HOW THEY VOTED, I WAS NOT HERE. 
          OKAY. 
          I THINK, UH, MEREDITH, MAYBE YOU CAN HELP US HERE, BUT, UM, SO YOU WEREN'T LISTED ON THE TOP ON ATTENDANCE, BUT THEN MAYBE THROUGHOUT IT MAKES SENSE. 
          CORRECT. 
          I SEE WHERE THAT COULD CREATE CONFUSION WHERE IT SAYS MM-HMM . 
          SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT, THAT IT'S NOTED I DIDN'T VOTE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. 
          SO IT SAYS COMMISSIONER, BUFO, COMMISSIONER, YOU KNOW, SMITH ABSENT, SHOULD ALSO SAY COMMISSIONER ALVAREZ, ABSENT. 
          YES. 
          WE CAN MAKE THAT AIR, UH, THAT, THAT CHANGE TO THE, UH, EACH ITEM TO MAKE SURE THAT IT SAYS COMMISSIONER SMITH, UM, ALVAREZ AND BUFO. 
          ABSENT, UH, ON THAT NOTE, I THINK I WAS PRESENT, ACTUALLY, UNFORTUNATELY, YOU WERE, I EMAILED YOU ABOUT THIS. 
          MAYBE I'M THINKING OF TWO MONTHS AGO. 
          OKAY. 
          THIS IS, THIS IS THE MARCH MEETING. 
          OKAY. 
          I WILL HAVE TO DOUBLE. 
          I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T SEE YOUR EMAIL BEFORE. 
          IT'S OKAY. 
          YOU, YOU WERE HERE, BUT JUST READ, I THINK, OH, I WAS OFF CAMERA. 
          YES. 
          SO FOR THE RECORD, I'M, DOES THAT MEAN MY VOTES, OUR GUIDANCE FROM THE CITY CLERK? THE GUIDANCE FROM THE CITY CLERK, UM, REGARDING, UM, WHICH THERE WAS A EMAIL THAT WENT OUT, I THINK THE DAY AFTER OUR MEETING. 
          YEAH, CORRECT. 
          UM, IS THAT, UM, STAFF LIAISONS ARE BEING INSTRUCTED NOT TO ACCOUNT COMMISSIONERS, UM, IF THERE'S A VOTE OR A ROLL CALL OR THE, IT BECOMES LIKE, LET'S SAY SOMEONE DROPS OFF THE SCREEN AND IT'S UNCLEAR IF WE HAVE QUORUM AND PEOPLE HAVE THEIR CAMERAS OFF. 
          ANYTIME WE NEED TO CONFIRM WE HAVE QUORUM, WE'RE TAKING A VOTE OR TAKING A ROLL CALL, YOU HAVE TO BE ON CAMERA, OTHERWISE YOU'RE NOT COUNTED PRESENT FOR THAT VOTE. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT THAT DOESN'T CHANGE THE OUTCOME OF ANY OF THE VOTES. 
          IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE OUTCOME. 
          WE, WE WERE, WE HAD QUORUM THE WHOLE TIME, AND IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE OUTCOME OF THE VOTES HEARD. 
          SO, UM, IT'S A GOOD REMINDER FOR US ALL. 
          SO, UM, 
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AND IF I HAD UNDERSTOOD THAT IN THAT WAY AT THE MEETING, I WOULD'VE TRIED TO ALERT YOU TO THAT, BUT THEN WE GOT THE GUIDANCE THE DAY AFTER. 
          THAT'S FINE. 
          SO, YES. 
          UM, ALL RIGHT. 
          SO I THINK THAT EVERY, I THINK THE AMENDMENT ON THE, UH, TO RESTATE THE AMENDMENT, WHICH IS MY DUTY AS CHAIR, I JUST REDID MY TRAINING, UM, IS THAT WE ARE AMENDING IT TO SAY EVERYWHERE IT SAYS COMMISSIONER, BFO AND SMITH ABSENT. 
          WE ARE ALSO GOING TO ADD ALVAREZ TO THAT LIST, AND WE'LL TRUST OUR, UH, HAND OUR TRUSTEE STAFF LIAISON TO MAKE THAT CHANGE. 
          I WILL SECOND THAT AMENDMENT. 
          LET'S TAKE A VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          A APPEARS TO BE UNANIMOUS OF THOSE HERE. 
          UM, SO, UH, ARE THERE ANY OTHER AMENDMENTS TO THE MINUTES OR DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. 
          I'M GONNA CALL FOR A VOTE ON THE MINUTES TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS AMENDED. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY AYE. 
          AYE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT IS ALSO, UH, UNANIMOUS. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          UM, THEN WE 
          [2.   Discussion regarding the 2016 Bond Corridor Construction Update.  Presenters: Eric Bailey, Capital Delivery Services]
HAVE, UM, ONE DISCUSSION ITEM FOR TODAY. 
          THIS IS ITEM TWO, WHICH IS A DISCUSSION REGARDING THE 2016 BOND CORRIDOR CONSTRUCTION UPDATE. 
          UM, ON OUR PRESENTER WILL BE ERIC BAILEY FROM CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          CHECK, UH, IS THAT ON? NO, I THINK THEY ARE. 
          THOSE ONES, THE HANDHELDS ARE JUST SUPPOSED TO BE ON, SO JUST MAYBE TRY IT, SPEAK LOUDER INTO THE MIC. 
          THERE WE GO. 
          OKAY. 
          IT'S GOOD. 
          PUT IT REAL CLOSE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          APPRECIATE, UM, Y'ALL HAVING ME HERE FOR OUR, UH, REGULAR RECURRING, UH, 2016 MOBILITY BOND UPDATE. 
          UM, I'M ERIC BAILEY. 
          I'M THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICES. 
          I'M GONNA TRY AND ANGLE THIS IN MY NOTES, AND SO I CAN LOOK AT THE PAGE AND DO ALL THAT STUFF AS WE GET GOING. 
          SO, UM, LET'S SEE. 
          SO, AS I'VE STATED BEFORE, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECTS IN THE 2016 MOBILITY BOND, UH, HAS BEEN A, A LONG PROCESS. 
          UM, WHEN THE BOND WAS INITIALLY APPROVED, THE PLANS WERE AT A HIGH LEVEL CONCEPT AND NOT FULLY DEVELOPED. 
          AND FOR SOME OF THE CORRIDORS, UM, THERE WERE MAJOR COMPLICATIONS RELATED TO THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AND ADDING IMPERVIOUS COVER, WHICH REQUIRED SIGNIFICANT ALTERATIONS AND CHANGES TO THE INITIAL PLAN. 
          UM, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE WERE PROJECTS WHERE A, UH, RELATIVELY LIGHT TOUCH TRANSPORTATION, UH, PROJECT TURNED IT TO A, UH, LARGE DOLLAR VALUE STORM RATED IMPROVEMENT WITH, UM, SOME TRANSPORTATION ENHANCEMENTS ON TOP, WHICH WAS CLEARLY NOT THE INTENT OF THE BOND. 
          UM, CDS CAME IN AND TPW CAME INTO THE PICTURE IN, IN 2023, WITH THE DISILLUSION OF THE CORRIDOR PROGRAM OFFICE TO, UM, WRITE THE SHIP ON THESE PROJECTS AND BE ABLE TO MOVE THEM FORWARD INTO CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR REALLY THE PAST TWO YEARS, BEING ABLE TO EVALUATE WHAT BUDGET WAS AVAILABLE, WHERE THE PRIORITIES WERE, AND WHAT, UM, NEEDED TO BE, UM, UH, WHAT SCOPES NEEDED TO BE ADJUSTED. 
          SO AS WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS PROCESS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HAS BEEN A CONSTANT REACHING OUT TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY MEMBERS ALONG THE CORRIDORS, COORDINATING THE PLANS, AND MITIGATING, UH, ANY CONSTRUCTION IMPACTS THAT COME UP. 
          AND I'M HAPPY TO PROVIDE Y'ALL WITH SOME UPDATES ON SOME OF THE CORRIDORS. 
          SO, HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE, UM, THE COMPLETION OF THE BURNETT AE DRAINAGE PROJECT, UM, THAT WILL ENABLE THE WORK ON THE BURNETT CORRIDOR ALL THE WAY FROM 180 3 TO MOPAC. 
          UM, WE'RE CONTINUING WITH CONSTRUCTION ON THE WILLIAM CANNON DRIVE PROJECT FROM ONE RUNNING WATER TO MCKINNEY FALLS, WHICH THAT PROJECT IS AIDED BY A CAMPO GRANT, AS WELL AS, UM, ONGOING BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS ON ALL OF THE CORRIDORS. 
          THE, UM, BURNETT CORRIDOR IN PARTICULAR HAS SEVERAL UPCOMING PROJECTS THAT ARE EITHER CURRENTLY BIDDING OR COMING TO BID IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO, INCLUDING 180 3 TO BRIGHT VERDE, UH, THE IDIQ CONTRACT. 
          IDIQ STANDS FOR INDEFINITE DELIVERY AND DEFINITE QUANTITY, UH, FOR DELIVERING THE SHARED USE PATHS AND INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS FROM WHITEHORSE TRAIL TO 180 3, AS WELL AS THE SECTION FROM BRIGHT VERDE, UH, TO MOPAC. 
          WE ALSO RECENTLY AWARDED, UH, CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR SLAUGHTER LANE FROM MOPAC TO BRODY WITH THE CONSTRUCTION THERE EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS. 
          WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF COORDINATING WITH BOWIE HIGH SCHOOL IN TERMS OF TRAFFIC IN AND OUT THERE, AS WELL AS, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS, UH, ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL FRONT. 
          ADDITIONALLY, WE'VE CONTINUED TO UPDATE THE NINE ACTIVE WEBSITES. 
          THOSE WERE PAIRED DOWN FROM A TOTAL OF 27 ACTIVE WEBSITES. 
          UH, THOSE ARE AVAILABLE IN THE LINK TO THE RIGHT. 
          THERE ARE PLANS AND, AND UPDATED INFORMATION IN THERE AS WELL, AS WELL AS CONTACT INFO AND MONITORED, UH, MAILBOXES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, AT A HIGH LEVEL, UM, THE NUMBER, ACTUALLY, THERE SHOULD BE 265 MILLION, UM, UPDATED SPENDING TO DATE, UH, WITH APPROXIMATELY A 
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HUNDRED MILLION IN LEVERAGED FUNDS FROM GRANTS AND DEVELOPERS. 
          AND WE'RE MOVING FORWARD, AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, WITH ADVERTISING $146 MILLION IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN 2025. 
          UM, SO THAT INCLUDES THE, THE IDIQ PROJECTS, THE BURNETT PROJECT THAT I MENTIONED BEFORE, AS WELL AS, UM, LOOKING TO REALLY PUSH THE SOUTH LAMAR PROJECT AND GET THAT OUT TO BID, UH, HERE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          SO I'M GONNA RUN THROUGH, UM, SOME OF THE PROJECTS, UH, AS WE GO DOWN THE CORRIDORS. 
          SO THIS IS A PHOTO HERE. 
          YOU CAN SEE A BEFORE AND AFTER OF THE SHARED USE PATH ON THE WEST SIDE OF AIRPORT FROM 45TH TO 55TH. 
          THIS IS CURRENTLY IN CONSTRUCTION. 
          IF YOU'VE BEEN DOWN AIRPORT, THERE, UH, APPEAR TO BE SOME, SOME GAPS IN THAT. 
          AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN PARTNERING WITH SOME OF THE LOCAL BUSINESSES ALONG THAT ROUTE TO ENSURE MINIMAL DISRUPTION DURING THE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES, UM, IN PARTICULAR FOR SOME OF THE BUSY SEASONS THAT SOME OF THOSE BUSINESSES ARE SEEING. 
          SO WE HAVE THIS, UM, THIS IDIQ CONTRACT IN PLACE WHERE WE'RE DELIVERING THIS IMPROVEMENT. 
          AND THEN ONCE WE ADVERTISE AND AWARD THE NEW IDIQ CONTRACT, THOSE PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE IMPROVEMENTS WILL INCLUDE, WILL CONTINUE, UH, FROM EAST OF I 35 DOWN, UH, TO 180 3. 
          UM, ADDITIONALLY, WE PARTNERED WITH TXDOT TO REPLACE THE MOAN TRAIL BRIDGE, UM, WHICH IS A PROJECT THAT'S GONNA BE DESIGNED BY THE CITY AND DELIVERED, UH, CONSTRUCTED BY TDOT. 
          SO WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THE DESIGN PHASE ON THAT ONE AND COORDINATING, UH, STAGING AREAS AND THINGS WITH, UM, VARIOUS CITY PROJECTS ALONG THE WAY FOR NORTH LAMAR. 
          UM, WE'VE COMPLETED SEVERAL SIGNAL, UH, IMPROVEMENTS, AND WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON FILLING IN SIDEWALK GAPS FROM RUNDBERG TO PARER, SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU SEE HERE. 
          UM, YOU CAN SEE WHERE THIS USED TO BE, UM, JUST A SIDEWALK TO NOWHERE THAT DENTED AT A BUS STOP. 
          AND WE BUILT OUT A FULL LENGTH SIDEWALK. 
          THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF, OF ADDITIONAL MOBILITY IN, IN THE AREA THERE. 
          AND, AND A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING ALONG PAR WHERE WE CAN, AGAIN, ALONG NORTH LAMAR RATHER. 
          NORTH LAMAR IS ONE OF THE MORE CHALLENGING CORRIDORS BECAUSE OF THE OPEN CHANNEL DRAINAGE THAT HAPPENS THERE AND LIMITED RIGHT OF WAY. 
          SO WE CAN'T GO THROUGH EVERYWHERE AND JUST PUT SIDEWALKS ON TOP OF AN OPEN CHANNEL DRAINAGE. 
          SO WE'RE DOING WHAT WE CAN NOW TO FILL IN, UM, THOSE SIDEWALK GAPS AND QUEUE THAT PROJECT UP, UM, FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN ADDITIONAL FUNDING, UH, HOPEFULLY BECOMES AVAILABLE TO, TO MOVE THAT FORWARD FOR BURNETT ROAD. 
          UM, WE'VE COMPLETED THE, UM, INTERSECTION AT K KAGAN BREAKER. 
          UM, THE KRAMER LANE DRAINAGE PROJECT IS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE. 
          AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THIS PROJECT REALLY ENABLES THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK ON BURNETT TO, TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          SO, UM, BURN IT FROM WHITEHORSE TRAIL TO 180 3 IS GONNA BE DELIVERED VIA IDIQ USING A, A NEW CONTRACT THAT'S GONNA BE ADVERTISED HERE IN MAY. 
          AND THEN THE SECTION FROM 180 3, UH, TO BRIGHT VERDE RECEIVE TEXTILE APPROVAL, UM, AND IS CURRENTLY, UH, BEING ADVERTISED FOR BID. 
          THE SECTION FROM BRIGHT VERDE TO MOPAC IS AWAITING THAT TEXT, SAME TEXTILE APPROVAL, SO WE'RE EXPECTING THAT RELATIVELY SHORTLY. 
          AND, UH, BIDDING THAT DATE, UH, PROJECT IN MAY. 
          UM, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY COORDINATING BETWEEN THOSE TWO SO THEY'RE NOT RUNNING INTO EACH OTHER OUT THERE ON, UH, BURNETT ROAD. 
          UM, AS I MENTIONED ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE, WE'VE COMPLETED, UM, SIGNAL WORK AT TIN AND FORD, WILLOW CREEK, WICKERSHAM, CORIANDER VARGAS, AND AIRPORT COMMERCE IS ONE THAT IS RECENTLY, UH, COMPLETED. 
          AND WE HAVE ONE REMAINING SIGNAL AT FRONTIER VALLEY THAT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH AN EXPECTED COMPLETION ALSO IN MAY. 
          AND THE BULK OF THE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS ALONG, UH, RIVERSIDE DRIVE HAVE BEEN DEFERRED DUE TO THE UPCOMING CHANGES FROM PROJECT CONNECT RUNNING THROUGH THE, THE MEDIAN OF THE, OF THE ROADWAY THERE. 
          CAN YOU REPEAT THAT? YES. 
          SORRY, CAN YOU JUST REPEAT THAT LAST PART? YEAH. 
          SO THE, THE BULK OF THE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE HAVE BEEN DEFERRED DUE TO PROJECT CONNECT, UH, RUNNING, UH, DOWN THE CENTER OF THE MEDIAN THERE ON RIVERSIDE FROM, UH, I 35 ALL THE WAY OUT TO 180 3, WHICH IS WHAT THE SCOPE OF THIS ORIGINALLY WAS. 
          AND, AND WHEN YOU SAY DEFERRED, THAT BASICALLY MEANS PROJECT CONNECT IS DOING IT. 
          YEAH. 
          YOU'RE NOT GONNA, YOU'RE NOT GONNA SPEND THIS BOND, THE 2016 BOND MONEY ON IT. 
          CORRECT. 
          BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE DONE WHEN PROJECT CONNECT HAS TO DIG EVERYTHING UP ANYWAY. 
          BUT THE MINOR STUFF LIKE POTHOLES AND STUFF WHERE CLEARLY WHEN IT RAINS, POTHOLE, POTHOLE, POTHOLES ARE A DIFFERENT POT OF MONEY. 
          WE CAN'T USE BOND FUNDS TO DO MAINTENANCE WORK MAINTENANCE. 
          YEP. 
          AND SO IF YOU, SO JUST ANY NEW, YEAH, SO IT'S SIDEWALKS AND, AND, UH, NEW, NEW INFRASTRUCTURE SIGNALS, THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT'S PART OF, THAT'S PART OF THE BOND. 
          YEP. 
          THANKS FOR THE CLARIFICATION. 
          IF YOU HAVE POTHOLES, CALL 3 1 1. 
          THEY COME AND FILL THEM VERY QUICKLY. 
          WE'LL TAKE CARE OF, I'LL GO DIRECTLY TO, TO JIM. 
          JIM'S GOT, SO, UM, LET'S SEE. 
          SO FOR GUADALUPE STREET SIMILAR, UM, SITUATION ON GUADALUPE, UM, AS RIVERSIDE, BECAUSE OF PROJECT CONNECT, WE'VE COMPLETED SOME WORK, UH, GUADALUPE AND NOIS AS WELL AS THE CONTRAFLOW, UH, BUS LANE. 
          BUT AGAIN, THE BULK OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN DEFERRED IN COORDINATION WITH, UH, PROJECT CONNECT 
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WILLIAM CANNON, YOU CAN SEE A LONG LIST OF SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED HERE, AS WELL AS THE PROJECT THAT'S CURRENTLY IN CONSTRUCTION. 
          UH, FROM RUNNING WATER TO MCKINNEY FALLS, YOU CAN SEE AN AERIAL PHOTO HERE. 
          THE CONSTRUCTION AREA SHOWS THE WIDENING OF THE ROADWAY, UM, PARTICULARLY ACROSS THE, UH, THE CREEK THAT'S THERE. 
          SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE IN CONSTRUCTION, UM, AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT COMPLETION IN EARLY 2026 ON THAT PROJECT. 
          SO MOVING FORWARD, A LOT OF INFRASTRUCTURE UNDERGROUND, YOU KNOW, UTILITY CORRIDORS THAT ARE GOING IN THERE, AS WELL AS COORDINATION WITH A LOT OF THE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING, UH, ALONG THIS AREA TOO. 
          SO, UH, I, CAN I ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THAT ROAD? YEAH. 
          IS THERE A BIKE LANE BEING PUT ON THAT RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH, THE, THE LINK TO THE PLANS IS ACTUALLY IN THE, UM, WILLIAM CANNON, UH, WEBSITE THERE. 
          SO IF YOU WANNA LOOK AND SEE WHAT THE EVENTUAL LAYOUT IS THERE, UM, GO THERE AND YOU CAN LOOK AT IT AND PULL UP AND KIND OF FLIP THROUGH AND SEE WHAT THE LANE ARRANGEMENT AND STUFF LOOKS LIKE. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          I RODE MY BIKE ON IT RECENTLY. 
          IT WAS TERRIFYING. 
          SO I, I'M SORRY, THAT'S, YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S CONSTRUCTION UNFORTUNATELY. 
          AND, AND WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, DO WHAT WE CAN TO, TO MAKE THE IMPROVEMENTS WORK AT THE END OF THE DAY. 
          UM, LET'S SEE, SLAUGHTER LANE, UM, YOU KNOW, COMPLETED A LOT OF WORK, A LOT OF SIGNAL WORK GOING ON THERE. 
          WE HAVE ONE MORE, UM, SIGNAL THAT'S HAPPENING AT, UH, BILL BROOK. 
          AND THEN I MENTIONED THE PROJECT FROM MOPAC TO BRODY THAT WAS RECENTLY AWARDED AND WE'RE WORKING ON COORDINATING, UH, THE NOTICE TO PROCEED FOR CONSTRUCTION ON THAT PROJECT. 
          SOUTH LAMAR. 
          THIS IS THE BIG ONE THAT'S COMING UP THAT WE'RE REALLY PUSHING HARD TO GET THROUGH. 
          UM, THIS IS A MAJOR, MAJOR IMPROVEMENT FROM BARTON SPRINGS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 71. 
          UM, YOU CAN SEE A CROSS SECTION OF WHAT THE MAJORITY OF THAT IS GONNA LOOK LIKE THERE ON THE BOTTOM. 
          UM, AGAIN, A LOT OF COORDINATION BETWEEN UTILITY RELOCATIONS AND, UM, WATERSHED IMPROVEMENTS, STORM DRAIN IMPROVEMENTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT HAVE NEEDED TO HAPPEN THERE, UM, FOR A VERY LONG TIME. 
          SO WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE, UH, THE DESIGN PHASE THERE WITH OUR PARTNERS IN WATER AND WATERSHED, MAKE THAT HAPPEN. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, MLK, THAT PROJECT WE, UM, RECENTLY RECEIVED, THE 90% DESIGN COMMENTS ARE BACK TO THE ENGINEER ON THAT ONE. 
          UM, AND THEN WE'RE EXPECTING THE A HUNDRED PERCENT, UH, REVIEW TO BE DONE IN AUGUST. 
          UH, YOU CAN SEE AN EXAMPLE OF THE IMPROVEMENTS HERE, WHICH INCLUDE, YOU KNOW, SIDEWALKS AND SHARED USE PATHS, BIKE LANES FOR THE FULL LENGTH, AS WELL AS INTERMITTENT MEDIAN DIVIDERS FROM A SAFETY STANDPOINT. 
          UM, AND THIS IS ANOTHER PROJECT THAT THE CITY IS PERFORMING THE DESIGN WORK ON, AND TDOT IS GOING TO BE, UH, CONSTRUCTING THAT WITH CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATED TO START IN EARLY 2026. 
          BUT AGAIN, THAT'S A, A TX COORDINATION BASED ON THEIR AVAILABILITY. 
          AND WITH THAT, I WILL, UH, OPEN UP FOR QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, MY QUESTION IS FIRST, SO I KNOW THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT Y'ALL ARE TRYING TO REALLY IS GET ALL THIS MONEY OUT THE DOOR BY A CERTAIN DATE. 
          UM, WHERE ARE YOU TRACKING WITH THAT RIGHT NOW? YEAH, SO I MEAN, WE'RE TRACKING A LOT OF THAT IS RELATED TO CONSTRUCTION. 
          UM, PROBABLY A GOOD SIXTIES TO 70% OF BOND PROGRAM SHOULD BE SPENT ON CONSTRUCTION. 
          A LOT OF THAT SPENDING COMES AT THE END OF THE BOND PROGRAM, RIGHT? THIS IS A, THE 20, THE 2016 BOND IS A, A GREAT EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING WHERE THE EDICT WAS GIVEN TO BE LIKE, LOOK, WE NEED TO START BUILDING STUFF ON THIS. 
          WE NEED TO STOP DESIGNING IT AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN BUILD AND ACTUALLY PUT IN PLACE. 
          AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING. 
          UM, WE'RE LOOKING TO GET, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE TECH STOP PROJECTS, WHICH WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF CONTROL OVER BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE BUILDING IT, WE'RE LOOKING TO GET EVERYTHING, UH, ADVERTISED FOR BID BY THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR. 
          UM, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY CONSTRUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE, UM, AS IT MOVES FORWARD THROUGHOUT, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON WHAT THE PROJECT IS. 
          SO, SO, I MEAN, MAYBE SETTING ASIDE THE TECH DOT ONES MM-HMM . 
          WHICH ARE A LITTLE OUTSIDE YOUR CONTROL, WOULD YOU SAY THEN, BY THE MOST OF THESE PROJECTS SHOULD BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION BY THE END OF 2026 AND THEN OH, YES. 
          AND THEN MAYBE EVEN COMPLETE IT, MOSTLY COMPLETE IT BY THE END OF 2026? WELL, THE, MAYBE A FEW GOING INTO 27. 
          YEAH, THERE'S GONNA BE ONES THAT ARE GONNA BE GOING INTO 2027. 
          AND SPECIFICALLY WHEN I SAY THAT I THINK OF THE SOUTH OMAR PROJECT, 'CAUSE THAT IS A PROJECT, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, UM, HAS A LOT OF PHASING WHEN IT COMES TO THE TRAFFIC CONTROL PLAN. 
          'CAUSE WE NEED TO KEEP IT OPEN AS WE GO. 
          AND THAT REALLY EXTENDS THE CONSTRUCTION DURATION THERE. 
          SO THE GOAL IS TO HAVE ALL THE MONEY, WHAT'S CALLED ENCUMBERED, WHICH BASICALLY WE HAVE A CONTRACT IDENTIFIED AND THE CO THE MONEY IS REALLY SET ASIDE FOR THAT CONTRACT BY THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR. 
          UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MOVING FORWARD THROUGH CONSTRUCTION BASED ON WHAT THE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE IS AND LOOKING TO EXPEDITE, EXPEDITE THAT, OBVIOUSLY IN ANY WAY THAT WE CAN. 
          AND ALL OF THIS REALLY IS, IS IDEALLY SETTING US UP, UM, FOR THE, UH, 20, 26 BOND PROGRAM AS WE MOVE FORWARD INTO THAT AND BEING ABLE TO, UH, MOVE FORWARD WITH OTHER IDENTIFIED NEEDS THAT WE HAVE, UM, ON ALL FRONTS, THAT'S GONNA BE A COMPREHENSIVE BOND PROGRAM THAT'S GONNA INCLUDE, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I DO HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION, I GUESS, AND 
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IT'S A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, AND I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY LIKE, EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE, BUT, UM, INITIALLY WHEN, BECAUSE I WAS ON, AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, UM, AFTER THE BOND PASSED, THERE WAS A CITIZEN COMMITTEE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HELP PRIORITIZE. 
          'CAUSE EVEN THEN WE KNEW WE CAN'T DO ALL THESE PROJECTS. 
          AND SO WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE CREATING A TOOL, LIKE A, YOU KNOW, A, A PLANNING TOOL THAT HELPED US DECIDE MM-HMM . 
          WHAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE CONSTRUCTED AND MM-HMM . 
          UM, COMING OUT OF THAT PROCESS, AS YOU PROBABLY ALSO KNOW, THERE WAS A PLAN TO LIKE DO SOME OF THE CORRIDORS FULLY AND THEN OTHER CORRIDORS SORT OF PARTIALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST DOING SIDEWALKS OR, UM, UH, SHARED USE PATHS OR IMPROVING SOME SIGNALS, BIKE LANES, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, UNFORTUNATELY IN SOME CASES FOR REASONS YOU NOT, IT, WE MIGHT NOT EVEN GET THAT IN SOME PLACES. 
          BUT, UM, AT THAT TIME WE WERE GONNA SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ACTUALLY ON AIRPORT AND RIVERSIDE. 
          AND I THINK AIRPORT IS GETTING THAT TREATMENT TO LARGE DEGREE. 
          IT KIND OF LIKE, I HAVE THIS IMPRESSION FROM WATCHING THE PRESENTATION THAT OBVIOUSLY WITH RIVERSIDE WE'RE NOT PURSUING THAT BECAUSE OF THE TIMING. 
          WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT IN 2016 RIGHT. 
          THAT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITH CAP METRO. 
          NONE OF THAT WAS LIKE, WE HAD JUST FAILED TO PASS A RAIL MM-HMM . 
          VOTE. 
          AND SO NONE OF THAT WAS REALLY APPARENT TO US AT THE TIME. 
          BUT IT KIND OF SEEMS LIKE THAT THAT SOUTH LAMAR IS GETTING SORT OF THAT DELUXE TREATMENT A LITTLE BIT. 
          I MEAN, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY, LIKE OF THE CORRIDORS, LIKE I THINK IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL AT SOME POINT. 
          I MEAN, I GUESS I COULD GO ONLINE AND PROBABLY FIND IT ON THE WEBSITES, LIKE WHICH CORRIDORS ARE GETTING THE MOST MONEY OR MM-HMM . 
          IS, THAT'S ALL AVAILABLE ON THE, ON THE DASHBOARD. 
          I ASSUME IT'S ALL OF IT. 
          IT'S AVAILABLE ON THE DASHBOARD. 
          WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND I'M HAPPY TO BRING THAT TO YOU NEXT TIME I COME JUST TO LAY THAT OUT. 
          'CAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE REALLY DIVING INTO IS SORT OF WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING AND WHERE WE CAN PRIORITIZE THE SPENDING, UM, AND KIND OF FIGURE THAT OUT. 
          AND PART OF IT IS RELATED TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROJECT AND THE PLAYERS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN IT. 
          UM, IT WAS ALWAYS REALLY THE INTENT THAT SOUTH LAMAR WOULD BE ONE OF THE, UM, REALLY HIGHLIGHTED CORRIDORS ALONG THE WAY JUST BECAUSE OF THE NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT THERE. 
          UM, NORTH LAMAR WAS ALSO GONNA BE ON THAT LIST TOO, BUT WE'VE RAN IN, WE'VE RUN INTO A LOT OF ISSUES THERE IN TERMS OF COORDINATION AND FUNDING. 
          AND COUNCIL MEMBER VELA HAS REALLY BEEN LEADING THE CHARGE ON THE NORTH LAMAR ASPECT OF IT. 
          UM, AND WE'RE DOING WHAT WE CAN THERE WITH THE FUNDING THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE WITH THE REALIZATION THAT THERE IS ADDITIONAL COORDINATION THAT'S REALLY NEEDED TO MAKE, UM, THE TYPE OF IMPROVEMENTS THAT REALLY NEED TO BE MADE THERE. 
          SO I'M HAPPY TO COME BACK WITH Y'ALL NEXT TIME. 
          I CAN ADD THAT TO THE, UM, THE PRESENTATION IN TERMS OF SORT OF WHAT'S THE PLANNED SPEND FOR EACH CORRIDOR AT A, AT A HIGH LEVEL. 
          UM, I THINK THAT'LL KIND OF ANSWER SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, IN TERMS OF THE PRIORITIZATION, I WASN'T REALLY INVOLVED WITH THE, THE CORRIDOR PROGRAM THEN, SO I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION. 
          I'M SURE WE CAN DIG IT UP IF WE NEED TO. 
          I'M SURE IT EXISTS SOMEWHERE. 
          I'M NOT, I'M NOT REALLY MARRIED TO THE WORK THAT WAS DONE. 
          I, I MEAN, I THINK THAT, UM, Y'ALL ARE, Y'ALL WERE GIVEN A SITUATION AND THEN JUST STARTED TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU COULD GET THE MONEY OUT THE DOOR BEST. 
          I THINK, YOU KNOW, IF WORLD IS PERFECT, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE PLANNING TOOLS THAT HELP US PRIORITIZE, BUT I, PART OF THE REASON I'M LEADING US DOWN THIS TRAIN OF QUESTIONING IS THAT LOOKING AHEAD, UM, YOU KNOW, TO FUTURE BOND PROGRAMS AND NUMBER ONE, THINKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT REGIONS OF THE CITY, I'M NOT ONE THAT'S LIKE, WELL, EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT NEEDS THE SAME SIZE BALL OR SOMEBODY'S GONNA GO HOME CRYING. 
          LIKE, I DON'T NECESSARILY LIKE THAT, THAT, I DON'T THINK THAT ACTUALLY IS EQUITY, LIKE REGION. 
          LIKE, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE, THE NEED AND THE INVESTMENT IN AN AREA AND THE DENSITY AND DIFFERENT THINGS WHEN YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT ACTUALLY IS AN EQUITABLE DECISION, NOT JUST PUTTING, YOU KNOW, A BEACH BALL ON EACH, UM, COUNCIL DISTRICT, BUT IT IS A CONCERN. 
          SO I THINK GETTING A LITTLE BIT OF SENSE OF WHERE, WHICH AREAS HAVE GOTTEN SOME ATTENTION OR WHICH MAY BE AREAS WERE, UM, MAYBE NOT DELIVERED ON FROM WHAT THE HOPE WAS IN 2016. 
          I THINK THAT'S HOW HELPFUL WHEN WE THINK ABOUT 2016. 
          AND UNFORTUNATELY, SOME OF THE AREAS THAT MAY BE THE MOST IMPACTFUL MAY BE THE MOST COMPLEX AND EXPENSIVE, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO KNOW GOING INTO THE NEXT CYCLE. 
          SO I THINK, UM, ADDING SOMETHING TO LIKE THAT, AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT TIME YOU SWING AROUND AND SEE US, COULD BE VERY, VERY FRUITFUL FOR US. 
          SO, YEAH, FOR SURE. 
          UM, I'VE ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS, SO I'M GOING TO SEE IF ANYONE ELSE HAS. 
          YEAH, COMMISSIONER KELMAN. 
          UM, JUST TWO COMPLIMENTS HERE. 
          UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS PRESENTATION. 
          REALLY EXCELLENT WORK. 
          UM, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR, UM, SOME OF THE DESIGN ELEMENTS, ESPECIALLY ON THAT BRUNETTE CORRIDOR, WHICH I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING. 
          IT'S NICE TO SEE SOME FLEXIBILITY WHERE YOU'VE SEEN THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT TPW HAS DONE IN THE AREA AND THAT YOU'RE WIDENING THAT SHARED USE PATH ON THE WEST CURVE OF BURNETT BETWEEN, UH, RUTLAND AND LONGHORN DRIVE. 
          I THINK THAT'S REALLY COOL AND EXCITING THAT YOU AND TPW WERE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER ON THAT. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          UH, THE SECOND THING IS, IT'S ALSO IMPRESSIVE THAT YOU'RE ABLE WITHIN 18 MONTHS TO PIVOT TO USING IDIQ APPROACH ON SOME OF THESE PROJECTS, WHICH IS, I THINK PART OF THE BIG REASON YOU'RE ABLE TO BE SPENDING THIS MONEY SO QUICKLY. 
          UM, THE SECOND QUESTION I HAVE IS, OR THE MAIN QUESTION I HAVE IS AS 
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YOU'RE GOING THROUGH AND LOOKING AT THESE VARIOUS CORRIDORS THAT PERHAPS WERE NOT ABLE TO BE FUNDED FULLY, UH, TALKING ABOUT LIKE NORTH MAR, SOUTH MAR LOOKS GREAT, I'M GLAD TO SEE A TINY BIT OF A SCHEMATIC IN THERE. 
          UM, ARE YOU DOING ANY SORT OF PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING OR ANY SORT OF SURVEY OF THE AREA TO HAVE A REALLY AS ACCURATE AND DETAILED OF A COST ESTIMATE AS YOU CAN BE AS WE MOVE INTO DESIGNING THE 2026 BOND PROGRAM? YEAH, FOR SURE. 
          THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE REALLY, UM, FOCUSING ON THIS TIME AROUND WITH THE 26 BOND. 
          AND ONE OF THE, THE BIG LESSONS THAT WE LEARNED, PARTICULARLY FROM THE CORRIDOR PROGRAM, IS THAT WE NEED TO GO WITH MORE THAN JUST SORT OF A CONCEPTUAL IDEA OF WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO. 
          'CAUSE THAT LEADS TO SITUATIONS LIKE THIS WHERE, EXCUSE ME, THE BOND ELECTION WAS IN 2016 AND IT'S NOW 2025, IT'S ALMOST 10 YEARS LATER, AND WE'RE HALFWAY IF WE'RE GENEROUS HALFWAY THROUGH WITH CONSTRUCTION AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          AND THAT'S JUST, THAT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE. 
          THAT'S NOT WHERE WE NEED TO BE, AND IT DOESN'T BUILD CONFIDENCE WITH THE PUBLIC. 
          AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. 
          AND SO WITH THE 26 BOND, WE'RE REALLY TAKING A LOT OF THAT PLANNING AND STUFF AND DOING THAT BEFORE THE ACTUAL BOND ELECTION. 
          SO WE CAN COME FORWARD AND SAY, OKAY, FOR THIS PROJECT WE ARE DOING X AND WE'VE THOUGHT IT OUT, WE HAVE AN ACCURATE COST ESTIMATE FOR WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY GONNA COST US, AND AN ACCURATE DELIVERY TIMEFRAME FOR HOW LONG IT'S GONNA TAKE BASED ON EXPERIENCE, NOT ON, YOU KNOW, OPTIMISTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF WHAT WE MIGHT GET DOWN THE ROAD. 
          AND SO THAT'S REALLY THE BIG PIVOT THIS TIME IS COMING FORWARD WITH A MUCH MORE DETAILED, UM, YOU KNOW, SET OF, OF WHETHER IT'S A PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT OR WHETHER IT'S MORE DETAILED COST INFORMATION WHEN WE COME FORWARD WITH THESE PROJECTS FOR THE BOND ELECTION. 
          SO THAT WAY WE CAN THEN DELIVER ON THOSE, YOU KNOW, IN A TIMELY MANNER. 
          UM, WHICH, YOU KNOW, WE, TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST, WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO WITH, WITH THESE BOND PROGRAMS FOR A WHOLE HOST OF REASONS THAT Y'ALL KNOW ABOUT. 
          UM, ONE MORE QUESTION. 
          UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS APPROPRIATE FOR YOU TO ANSWER, BUT I'M GONNA ASK IT ANYWAY. 
          UM, SO A LOT OF TIMES WHEN, UM, THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE BOND ELECTION ADVISORY TASK FORCE MOVE FORWARD AND THE COMMUNITY CONCERNS COME FORWARD, UM, RIGHT NOW YOU'RE PROBABLY DOING A LOT OF PRELIMINARY WORK ON WHAT YOU THINK OF OUR PRIORITIES FOR THE CITY'S CORRIDORS AND THE VARIOUS, UH, TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES THAT YOU THINK NEED TO BE IMPROVED THE MOST. 
          UM, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO, I, WE'RE MOVING A LITTLE BIT PROBABLY TOO FAR INTO THE 26TH QUESTION, BUT HOW ARE YOU GOING TO BE PREPARED FOR WHEN THIS GOES TO COUNCIL AND THERE BECOMES A BIG YEAH. 
          LIKE WHERE IT GETS A LITTLE GRAB BAGGY THERE, AND LIKE, HOW ARE YOU GONNA, HOW ARE YOU PREPARING FOR THAT YES. 
          AND LEARNING FROM THIS? YEAH, SO WE'RE, WE'RE MOVING FORWARD AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN, AND JUST TO BE SUPER CLEAR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 26 BOND, AND NOW WE'RE GETTING A LITTLE BIT OFF TOPIC, BUT WE, CDS HAVE BEEN COLLABORATING WITH ALL OF THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT USE BOND MONEY. 
          SO THAT'S PARKS, LIBRARIES, TPW WATERSHED, EVERYBODY SAYING, WHAT ARE YOUR NEEDS? WHAT IS THIS WORLD NEEDS? AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO EVALUATE THESE PROJECTS? RIGHT? SO WE COME UP WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, RELATIVELY OBJECTIVE SCORING CRITERIA. 
          AND SO THE NEEDS, IF YOU WATCH ANY OF THE B TIFF MEETINGS, YOU KNOW THAT THE NEEDS FAR EXCEED ANYTHING THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY BOND FOR. 
          AND SO YOU NEED A PRIORITIZATION, AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE PLAN IS. 
          AND WHAT WE'RE DOING AS STAFF IS LIKE, WE'RE SAYING, HEY, WE'VE IDENTIFIED THESE NEEDS AND WE'VE IDENTIFIED THESE SCORING CRITERIA TO EVALUATE THESE NEEDS AND PRIORITIZE THEM. 
          AND THEN THIS SUMMER WE'RE GONNA HAVE THAT LIST OF THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION, AND WE'RE GONNA GO TO THE PUBLIC AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE AS STAFF FROM TAKING ALL THE STRATEGIC PLANS, ALL OF THE NEEDS AND WHAT OUR SCORING CRITERIA ARE, HERE'S WHAT WE CAME UP WITH IN TERMS OF OUR BASICALLY RANKED ORDER OF THE PROJECTS. 
          AND IF, LET'S SAY WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS FOR TRA FOR MOBILITY IMPROVEMENTS IS PROJECTS ONE THROUGH, WHATEVER YOU GET TO, THAT ADDS UP TO A HUNDRED MILLION. 
          AND THOSE ARE WHAT WE'RE GONNA MOVE FORWARD WITH. 
          NOW IN TERMS OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GO TO COUNCIL, THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT THING. 
          AND ALL WE CAN DO IS STAFF IS PRESENT OUR RATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND SCORING CRITERIA AND PUT THAT FORWARD AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE RECOMMEND AS PROFESSIONAL STAFF WHO DEAL WITH THIS ON A DAILY BASIS. 
          UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS AT COUNCIL HAPPENS AT COUNCIL. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT ANSWER. 
          I JUST, I THINK ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE'RE SO FOCUSED ON THE 2016 AND WHY WE LIKE THESE QUARTERLY UPDATES IS THAT I THINK THAT WE HAVE THE MOST TO LEARN FROM THIS BOND PROGRAM, UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD AND AS PEOPLE WHO CARE A LOT ABOUT TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES AROUND THE CITY, WE, WE REALLY WANT TO DO OUR PART IN UNDERSTANDING ALL THE LESSONS THAT WE HAVE TO LEARN FROM HERE SO THAT WE CAN DELIVER THE BEST TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES TO THE, UH, PEOPLE OF AUSTIN MOVING FORWARD. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESENTER? GREAT. 
          UM, SEE NONE. 
          UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING OUT TO US TODAY. 
          WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 
          WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT TIME WE SEE YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO WE, AND WE DO REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR REGULAR UPDATES TO US. 
          YEAH, THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, WE'LL SEE YOU IN WHAT, JULY OR AUGUST. 
          YEAH. 
          AWESOME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THAT IS GONNA, UH, OUR ONE DISCUSSION 
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ITEM FOR THE DAY. 
          THE OTHER ITEMS ARE POSTED FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTION. 
          AND SO, UM, WE DO HAVE, UM, A, UH, FOR ITEM NUMBER 
          [3. Discussion and approval of a recommendation on the CAMPO 2050 Regional  Transportation Plan. ]
THREE IS DISCUSSION AND APPROVAL OF A RECOMMENDATION ON THE CAMPO 2050 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN. 
          UM, SO COMMISSIONERS, YOU DO HAVE A, LOOKS LIKE WE DO HAVE A, A SLIDE DECK PRESENTATION. 
          SO, UM, WE, UH, AND WE ALSO HAVE A PROPOSED RECOMMENDATION. 
          I KNOW THIS WAS CIRCULATED, UM, I THINK IT IS ON BACKUP NOW ON THE CITY SITE. 
          AND IT WAS CIRCULATED THIS MORNING. 
          I HAD SENT IT IN ON SUNDAY NIGHT. 
          AND, UM, TRUE TO, UH, MANY WORKPLACE, UH, FUND THAT WE OFTEN HAVE, I FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE ATTACHMENT. 
          SO , I GOT A TEXT MESSAGE LATE YESTERDAY AF YESTERDAY AFTERNOON THAT SAID, I DON'T HAVE THE ATTACHMENT . 
          AND SO, UM, IT DIDN'T GO OUT TILL THIS MORNING, SO I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT, BUT IT IS IN, IN THE BACKUP. 
          WE ALSO DO HAVE A COMMUNITY SPEAKER. 
          I THINK IT MAKES SENSE. 
          I'VE DECIDED IT. 
          UM, WHATEVER CITY COUNCIL DOES. 
          I THINK AFTER OUR LAST MEETING, LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE OUR PRESENTATION FROM OUR CITY STAFF AND THEN, UM, WE'LL HEAR, UH, FROM OUR SPEAKER AND THEN WE CAN GO INTO OUR DISCUSSION OF THE PROPOSED RECOMMENDATION. 
          AND OUR PRESENTER AGAIN IS COLE KITTEN. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. 
          UH, COLE KITTEN, DIVISION MANAGER OF THE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT DIVISION IN TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS. 
          UM, I'LL BE GIVEN A PRESENTATION OVER THE DRAFT CAMPO 2050 RTP. 
          UM, I ALSO INCLUDED AS BACKUP SOME PRESENTATIONS THAT CAMPO STAFF HAS DELIVERED TO THEIR TRANSPORTATION POLICY BOARD, AS WELL AS THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
          UM, I AM ONE OF THREE, UH, CITY OF AUSTIN TECH MEMBERS AS WELL AS, UH, DIRECTOR MENDOZA AND, UH, UH, PLANNING DEPARTMENT, UH, MEMBER ERICA LEAK. 
          SO, SO THIS PRESENTATION INCLUDES, UM, INFORMATION PROVIDED BY CAMPO, OR IS INCLUDED IN THE DRAFT RTP. 
          UM, AND I'LL GO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF THAT AND THEN ALSO WHAT OUR CITY OF AUSTIN STAFF RESPONSE HAS BEEN, UH, TO THE PROCESS SO FAR. 
          SO THE, UM, STARTING WITH THE BACKGROUND OF, OF WHAT A, UH, RTP IS, UM, THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE GOALS, POLICIES, PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR, UH, REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING. 
          UM, THAT INCLUDES SIX, SIX COUNTIES WITHIN CENTRAL TEXAS. 
          UM, IT INCLUDES A FISCALLY CONSTRAINED LIST OF REGIONALLY SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED OVER THE PLAN HORIZON. 
          THAT PLAN HORIZON IS, IS 20, UH, PLUS, UH, YEARS, AND THE PLAN IS UP UPDATED, UPDATED EVERY FIVE YEARS. 
          SO THE CURRENT PLAN IN PLACE IS THE 2045 RTP ADOPTED IN MAY OF 2020. 
          AND THE 2050 RTP WILL WILL GO TO THE TRANSPORTATION POLICY BOARD FOR ADOPTION ON IN MAY OF 2025 IN ORDER TO, TO COMPLY WITH THOSE FEDERAL, UM, REQUIREMENTS. 
          UM, SO FAR, THE THE KEY REVIEW DATES HAVE BEEN, UM, EARLY ON IN 2022 AND 2023, WORKING ON THE TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL AND, AND DEMOGRAPHICS UPDATE. 
          AND THEN IN 2024 IS REALLY WHERE CAMPO, UM, STARTED, UH, WORK ON THE RTP UPDATE. 
          AND SO IN JUNE TO AUGUST, THERE WAS A PROJECT SUBMISSION PERIOD. 
          OCTOBER TO DECEMBER WAS THE FIRST ROUND OF PUBLIC OUTREACH. 
          NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER IS, UH, UH, THERE WAS DISCUSSIONS WITH AGENCIES OR MEMBER JURISDICTIONS ABOUT, UH, THE FISCALLY CONSTRAINED PROJECT LISTING. 
          AND THEN FEBRUARY TO APRIL IS THE SECOND ROUND OF PUBLIC OUTREACH, WHICH WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW. 
          AND THEN, UH, THIS MONTH, APRIL, THE ATTACK WILL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON THE FINAL PLAN FOLLOWED BY THE, THE TPB ADOPTION IN MAY. 
          SO AN OVERVIEW OF THE DRAFT 2050 RRTP, THE, THE, THE PLAN DOCUMENT ITSELF INCLUDES SEVEN CHAPTERS COVERING THE RTP REQUIREMENTS, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, REGIONAL TRENDS AND TRANSPORTATION NEEDS, UH, FISCAL CONSTRAINTS AND FUNDING ESTIMATES, UH, PRIORITIZATION OF CONSTRAINED PROJECTS, UH, PERFORMANCE MODELING, INCLUDING, UH, TITLE SIX ANALYSIS AND, UH, THE PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK. 
          AND THEN, UH, LASTLY, THE FEDERAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND, AND POLICIES. 
          THE 
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DRAFT, UH, RTP AS PRESENTED INCLUDES, UH, UH, A PROJECT LISTING, WHICH IS OFTENTIMES, UM, KIND OF THE PRIMARY, PRIMARY THING THAT, THAT PEOPLE LOOK TO IS WHAT'S BEING, UH, WHAT'S BEING PLANNED AND WHAT'S BEING IMPLEMENTED. 
          IT INCLUDES 611 CONSTRAINED PROJECTS AND 400 AND, UH, ONE ILLUSTRATIVE PROJECTS. 
          AND THE GRAPHIC ON THE LEFT SHOWS, UH, A BREAKDOWN OF ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT WERE SUBMITTED BY PROJECT TYPE. 
          AND, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE MAKEUP OF THE PROJECTS ACROSS THE REGION, UM, 63% WERE, WERE ROADWAY, UM, AND 22% WERE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, AND 12% WERE TRANSIT. 
          AND I ADDED A, AN ASTERISK AT THE BOTTOM THAT EXPLAINS THAT, UM, THE CONSTRAINED PROJECT LISTING IS, HAS A DIFFERENT MAKEUP, WHICH ACTUALLY HAS 54% ROADWAY, 24% ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND, AND 18% TRANSIT. 
          SO THAT, THAT, UM, COMPOSITION IS DIFFERENT ONCE YOU LOOK AT THE, THE CONSTRAINED OR THE, THE, UH, FUNDED, UH, PROJECT LISTING. 
          SO, SO CONSTRAINED MEANS, WHICH IS, THIS IS NOT INTUITIVE FOR ME. 
          CONSTRAINED MEANS IT'S FUNDED. 
          YES. 
          SO THE LAST POINT IS THAT THERE'S $67.5 BILLION FORECASTED OVER THE HORIZON YEAR. 
          AND SO SIMILAR TO OUR PREVIOUS CONVERSATION, THE THE NEEDS ARE ALWAYS OUTWEIGHING, UM, THE FUNDS. 
          AND SO THE 67.5 BILLION IS REFLECTIVE OF THE 611, UM, PROJECTS IN THE CONSTRAINED LISTING. 
          SO THE 401 AND ILLUSTRATIVE PROJECTS ARE CONSIDERED UNFUNDED. 
          UH, SORRY, I'M ALSO, UH, VOCABULARY YOU CONFUSED. 
          WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSIT? YEAH, SO TRANSIT IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, UM, RELATED IMPROVEMENTS LIKE AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL, UM, BUS SERVICE, PARKING RIDES, UM, EVEN, UH, VEHICLE, UH, PURCHASES. 
          AND THEN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IS INCLUSIVE OF, UM, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES THAT ARE OF, UH, REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. 
          SO IT COULD BE REGIONAL URBAN TRAILS OR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROJECTS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO NON VEHICULAR. 
          NON VEHICULAR. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND ONE THING TO NOTE, UM, ROADWAY IS, IS DEFINED BY OFTEN VEHICLE CAPACITY RELATED IMPROVEMENTS, BUT DEPENDING ON THE PROJECT SPONSOR, THOSE PROJECTS ARE, UH, CAN BE INCLUSIVE OF ACTIVE MODES, SO INCLUDING THE SIDEWALK WHILE THEY'RE ALSO EXPANDING THE ROADWAY. 
          UH, AND THE LAST THING TO NOTE IS THAT, UM, AS YOU'LL NOTICE THAT CHANGE IN COMPOSITION OF THE PROJECT LISTING FROM THE PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE CONSTRAINED PROJECTS IS VERY MUCH INFLUENCED BY WHAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN SUBMITTED. 
          SO I'LL SHOW THAT IN A, IN A SUBSEQUENT SLIDE. 
          SO THE GOALS IN THE DRAFT RTP ARE THE SAME AS THOSE THAT WERE INCLUDED IN THE 2045 RTP COVERING, SAFETY, MOBILITY, STEWARDSHIP, ECONOMY, EQUITY, INNOVATION. 
          AND IN THAT TABLE, THEY ALSO LIST THE, THE, THE OBJECTIVES RELATED TO THOSE GOALS. 
          UM, AND THEN THERE'S A ADDITIONALLY, UH, A LIST OF KEY POLICIES WITHIN, WITHIN THE RTP, AND THIS IS SOME OF THEM, UM, PRIORITIZING MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION, SUPPORTING REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY, MANAGING CONGESTION THROUGH TDM AND TRANSIT INVESTMENTS, ADDRESSING AIR QUALITY AND EMISSIONS REDUCTION, ENHANCING TRANSPORTATION EQUITY. 
          SO ALL OF THOSE ARE, ARE VERY, UM, VERY GOOD THINGS THAT ALIGN WITH THE OBJECTIVES OF WHAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN IS, UM, SUPPORTING AND, AND, AND TRYING TO ACHIEVE THROUGH OUR OWN CITY POLICIES. 
          UM, BUT, UM, A LOT OF THAT DEPENDS ON HOW WE, WE PARTICIPATE AT THE, AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL, UH, TO BE ABLE TO SEE ITS EFFECT AT, ON A REGIONAL LEVEL. 
          SO, UM, OUR RESPONSE SO FAR, UH, THROUGH THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN PARTICIPATING ON PROVIDING FEEDBACK THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS BACK IN 22 AND 23. 
          IN AUGUST 24, WE SUBMITTED A PROJECT LISTING, WHICH, UH, WAS MORE THAN $8 BILLION. 
          AND THEN IN DECEMBER OF 2024, WE SUBMITTED AN UPDATED PROJECT LISTING BASED ON OUR, UM, FINANCIAL FORECAST FOR LOCAL FUNDING, WHICH WAS $4.2 BILLION OVER THE HORIZON YEAR OF THE PLAN. 
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SO THAT UPDATED PROJECT LISTING, UM, INCLUDED 162 CONSTRAINED PROJECTS AND 163 ILLUSTRATIVE PROJECTS. 
          SO BASICALLY CUTTING IT IN HALF. 
          UM, THERE WERE, UH, SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT WERE CARRIED OVER FROM THE 2045 RTP AS WELL AS THE CURRENT, UH, FOUR YEAR TRANS TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, UM, PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING TO IMPLEMENTATION. 
          UM, OUR, OUR APPROACH TO DEVELOPING THE CONSTRAINED PROJECT LISTING WAS, WAS BASED ON, UM, LOOKING AT PROJECTS THAT ARE ACTIVELY BEING DEVELOPED USING RECENT MOBILITY BONDS, UM, UH, PROJECTS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED AS PRIORITIES AND ADOPTED PLANS. 
          UM, THESE FACILITIES WERE OFTEN ON HIGHER FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION ROADWAYS AND, AND OF, OF REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. 
          UM, AND COULD, COULD ESSENTIALLY BE, UH, UH, EXPLAINED AS BEING COMPLETE STREET PROJECTS. 
          THE ILLUSTRATIVE PROJECT LISTING, OR THOSE THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT INTO THE CONSTRAINED LIST, UM, ARE CONSIDERED GROUPED PROJECTS. 
          AND SO THESE ARE OFTEN, UM, LARGER BUCKETS OF PROJECTS THAT, UM, UH, SUCH AS A COMPLETE, A COMPLETE PACKAGE OF SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROJECTS. 
          SO OUR, OUR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORTS TOTALED MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS. 
          SO INSTEAD OF INCLUDING THAT IN THE CONSTRAINED PROJECT LISTING, WE'RE ABLE TO INCLUDE IT IN THE ILLUSTRATIVE SO THAT IT'S ON THE RADAR. 
          AND THEN AS FUNDING BECOMES AVAILABLE, WE, WE SUBMIT OR APPLY FOR FUNDING, AND THEN THOSE PROJECTS MOVE INTO THE CONSTRAINED PROJECT LISTING OVER TIME. 
          UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S ONE STRATEGY TO, TO HAVE THEM IN THE PLAN, BUT, UM, CAPTURED AS ILLUSTRATIVE. 
          AND THEN, UH, THE REMAINDER OF THE PROJECTS WERE, WERE EITHER IN, UH, OF LOWER, UM, LOWER FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION ROADWAYS, UM, THAT WEREN'T, WEREN'T AS HIGH AS, UH, OF PRIORITIES OR, OR MORE OPPORTUNISTIC, UH, WITH PAIRED WITH DEVELOPMENT. 
          AND SO, AS, AS YOU'LL SEE ON THE BOTTOM, OUR CONSTRAINED PROJECT LISTING IS, WAS MADE UP OF 75% ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE PRIMARY COMPLETE STREET PROJECTS SHOWN IN GREEN IN THE MAP. 
          AND THEN 22% WERE, UM, UH, ROADWAY PROJECTS. 
          AND THEN EV ALL OF THOSE ROADWAY PROJECTS WOULD BE CONSIDERED INCLUSIVE OF ACTIVE, UH, TRANSPORTATION MODES AND SUPPORTIVE OF OF TRANSIT. 
          SO IN ADDITION TO OUR, UH, PROJECT, UM, LISTING SUBMITTAL, WE, WE ALSO PROVIDED STAFF COMMENTS IN THE PREVIOUS ROUND OF, OF FEEDBACK THAT WAS DUE IN MARCH. 
          UM, BASED ON OUR REVIEW OF OUR ADOPTED CITY POLICIES AND WHAT IS SHOWN IN THE RTP, WE HIGHLIGHTED, UM, A, A HIGHER NEED FOR VISION ZERO AND SAFETY, UM, TO BE A STRONGER COMMITMENT IN THE, IN THE 2050 RTP, UH, TO PRIORITIZE SAFER STREET DESIGN, SPEED MANAGEMENT, MULTIMODAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AND TO INCREASE THE, THE SCORING CRITERIA THAT'S THAT'S USED, UM, UH, FOR PROJECT SELECTION, UH, TO INCREASE THE SAFETY, UH, SCORING CRITERIA FOR THAT. 
          UM, ADDITIONALLY, WE POINTED OUT THAT, UH, AS A REGION WE NEED TO INCLUDE, UH, MODE SHIFT AND, UH, MODE SHIFT GOALS AND MULTIMODAL INVESTMENTS TO ALIGN WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S 50 50 MO SHARE GOAL, UM, BY PRIORITIZING TRANSIT, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION FIRST, LAST MILE CONNECTIONS AND, AND, UH, TRA UH, TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES. 
          UM, AS YOU'LL SEE IN THE TABLE ON THE LEFT, UH, THESE ARE, UH, PERFORMANCE RESULTS OF THE, OF THE TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL. 
          AND AS A REGION, UM, IN 2020, THERE WAS 88.6% DRIVE ALONE TO WORK. 
          AND THEN IN THE 2050 BUILT SCENARIO, IT IT ONLY SHIFTS TO 87.8%. 
          SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO SEE MOVE THE NEEDLE AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL IF, IF THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL AT ACHIEVING THE 50 50 MO SHARE GOAL. 
          UM, ADDITIONALLY WE WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, THE, THE ROLE OF AUSTIN'S CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN GOALS IN PROJECT SELECTION. 
          SO ADVOCATING FOR, FOR STRONGER, UH, CARBON REDUCTION STRATEGIES AND, AND, AND PRIORITIES THERE. 
          UM, AND THEN ENSURING EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS, UH, FOR UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. 
          SO WITH THAT, UH, THE NEXT STEPS, THE SECOND ROUND 
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OF PUBLIC OUTREACH IS, UH, WILL CLOSE ON APRIL 15TH, AND EVERYONE'S BEING ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT COMMENTS, UM, EITHER VIA EMAIL OR, UM, THROUGH THE SURVEY LINK. 
          UM, AND, OR THEY CAN EVEN CALL THE NUMBER LISTED. 
          UH, THEY CAN ALSO ATTEND UPCOMING CAMPO MEETINGS, WHICH WERE THE, UH, APRIL 14TH TPB PUBLIC HEARING AND DISCUSSION, THE TAC RECOMMENDATION, UM, ON THE 28TH, AND THEN THE MAY 12TH, UH, TPB MEETING FOR ADOPTION. 
          THAT'S IT. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, I THOUGHT WE MIGHT JUST, UM, YEAH, JUST HAVE OUR PUBLIC COMMENTER COME UP NOW, UM, AND THEN WE COULD STILL HAVE TIME FOR QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESENTER. 
          UM, AND COLE, A FEW COULD REMAIN WHILE WE DISCUSS THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          UM, IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL AS TO, I KNOW A LOT OF THE RECOMMENDATION ITEMS ARE KIND OF DIRECTED AT CAMPO AND NOT AT CITY STAFF, AND THAT'S OKAY. 
          BUT, UM, IF YOU COULD HANG OUT WITH US, IT MIGHT BE COOL. 
          SO, UM, WITH THAT, I'LL CALL OUR, OUR PUBLIC SPEAKER UP FOR THIS ITEM, IT IS MIRIAM SCHOFIELD, UM, WITH RETHINK 35, AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES. 
          ALL OF THOSE MICS THERE, THE HANDHELDS SHOULD JUST BE ON IF YOU JUST HAVE TO GET KIND OF CLOSE TO THEM. 
          OKAY. 
          COOL. 
          . 
          OKAY. 
          GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONERS. 
          UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, UH, BEING HERE TONIGHT AND, UH, ENGAGING WITH THE CAMPO PROCESS AND THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN. 
          UM, THIS IS A 25 YEAR PLAN. 
          IT INVOLVES BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. 
          IT'S INCREDIBLY, UM, IMPORTANT. 
          IF YOU'VE SPENT MUCH TIME THINKING ABOUT TRANSPORTATION IN AUSTIN, AND I KNOW EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM HAS, THEN I'M SURE YOU KNOW, THAT, UH, A LOT OF OUR EXPERIENCE MOVING AROUND THE CITY IS GOVERNED BY DECISIONS AND POLICIES THAT ARE MADE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY. 
          UM, AUSTIN, YOU KNOW, JUST DOES NOT HAVE AS MUCH OF A SAY ABOUT A LOT OF THE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, THAT WE SEE, WHETHER THAT'S MAJOR HIGHWAYS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, PAVING THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS OR DANGEROUS ARTERIALS, BUT CAMPO A REGIONAL PLANNING BODY HAS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF POWER. 
          UM, THEY DECIDE HOW BILLIONS OF FEDERAL AND STATE TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS GET SPENT IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          UM, EVERY MAJOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT HAS TO BE IN CAMPOS PLAN IF IT IS GOING TO BE GO FORWARD. 
          SO CAMPO HAS A LOT OF SAY, AND IF WE AS A CITY WANNA HAVE A SAY ON WHAT'S HAPPENING, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE ENGAGE AND ADVOCATE AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL. 
          SO WE THINK THIS IS A REALLY OPPORTUNE TIME TO PUSH FOR SOME MEANINGFUL CHANGE AT CAMPO. 
          AND, UH, WE'RE REALLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE RESOLUTION, UM, THAT THE, UH, UTC HAS BEFORE IT. 
          UM, THERE ARE SOME REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUES HERE. 
          UH, ONE CAME UP ALSO IN COLE'S PRESENTATION, WHICH IS THE WAY THAT PROJECTS ARE SCORED. 
          THE SCORING SYSTEM HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2017. 
          AND SO ALL OF THOSE PAGES THAT COLE WAS MENTIONING IN THE PLAN WITH GREAT IDEAS AND POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES HAVE NO WAY OF ACTUALLY PERCOLATING INTO THE DECISIONS ABOUT WHICH PROJECTS ARE BUILT. 
          UM, BECAUSE THE SCORING SYSTEM IS ESSENTIALLY OUT OF DATE. 
          UM, THERE SHOULD ALSO BE UPDATED MODELING. 
          UM, I SAW THAT IN THE RESOLUTION. 
          UM, MORE TRANSPARENCY, MORE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, UM, ET CETERA. 
          AND I'LL ALSO NOTE THAT WE DID, UM, SOME ANALYSIS ON THE LAST, UH, BASICALLY FUNDING PACKAGE FROM CAMPO AND 90% OF THE DISCRETIONARY FUNDING WAS USED TO EXPAND HIGHWAYS. 
          SO VERY MUCH NOT IN ALIGNED WITH THESE GOALS AND PRINCIPLES. 
          THE LAST THING I WANNA SAY IS THAT WE'RE REALLY FORTUNATE TO HAVE A GREAT, UH, QUARTET OF COUNCIL MEMBERS SERVING ON CAMPO RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, AND WONDERFUL, UH, FOLKS ALSO ON THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
          UM, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THEM THAT THEY HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY OF ADVOCATES URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION AND COUNCIL AT LARGE. 
          UH, PUSHING FOR CHANGE AT CAMPO IS HARD, AND, UH, THEY'RE GONNA NEED ALL THE SUPPORT THEY CAN GET. 
          SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          I, UM, AM JUST GONNA GO AHEAD AND MOVE THAT, UM, WE APPROVE THE, UH, RECOMMENDATION. 
          UM, THIS IS, UH, IN THE PACKET. 
          IT SHOULD HAVE, IT WAS CIRCULATED THIS MORNING AROUND, UH, JUST BEFORE 10:00 AM AS WELL. 
          AND IT'S ONLINE IN THE BACKUP. 
          UM, AND IT'S, UH, RECOMMENDATION, UH, 20 25 0 4 0 1 DASH 0 0 3. 
          UM, I, UM, DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          SECOND, I WILL, UM, INTRODUCE THIS. 
          I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M GOING TO READ IT WORD FOR WORD IN THIS CASE SINCE IT WAS CIRCULATED, AND IT'S ONLINE FOR YOUR REVIEW, BUT I'LL TRY TO GO THROUGH IT PRETTY QUICKLY. 
          SO, UM, IT SAYS, WHEREAS, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, THE US CODE REQUIRES, UH, NPOS, WHICH ARE THE, TO DEVELOP LONG RANGE 
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TRANSPORTATION PLAN. 
          AND, UH, THE DRAFT FROM CAMPO OR THE 2050 RTP DRAFT WAS RELEASED JANUARY 27TH, 2025. 
          UM, AND THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM PLAYS A KEY ROLE AND WHERE THE GROWTH OCCURS. 
          UM, AND WE KNOW CAMPO WISHES TO REDUCE THE PER CAPITA VEHICLE, MILES TRAVELED AND SUPPORTS THE TXDOT ROAD TO ZERO GOALS, AND WHEREAS THE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED TO PER CAPITA CONGESTION LEVELS, COMMUTE TIMES AND CRASHES, AND OUR REGION HAVE BEEN INCREASING AND THE REGION IS NOT MEETING THE SAFETY TARGETS RECOMMENDED IN THE TEXAS TRANSPORTATION'S INSTITUTE'S REGIONAL TRAFFIC SAFETY PLAN. 
          AND WHEREAS EXPANDING HIGHWAYS LEADS DEVELOPMENTAL SPRAWL INCREASES IN TRAFFIC AIR POLLUTION PER CAPITAL VMT, WHILE FAILING TO RELIEVE CONGESTION. 
          WHEREAS THE TRAM O 2015 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN PROPOSES ADDING OVER 3000 NEW LANE MILES, WHICH IS A 2016 26% INCREASE IN ROADWAY CAPACITY. 
          AND WHEREAS, UH, C-T-R-M-A, UH, MOPAC SOUTH PROJECT DESCRIBED IN THE RTP PROPOSES TO ADD FOUR TO SEVEN LANES TO MOPAC BETWEEN ENFIELD AND SLAUGHTER AND TX.ONE 83 EXPANSION TO TRANSCRIBED IN THE RTP PROPOSES TO ADD ONE MAIN LANE AND THREE FRONTAGE ROAD LANES IN EACH DIRECTION BETWEEN STATE HIGHWAY 71 AND STATE HIGHWAY ONE 30. 
          WHEREAS THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 20 24 1 2 1 2 DASH 0 6 6 REQUESTED CTM RA WORK WITH THE CITY TO REFINE THE MOPAC SOUTH PLAN IN LINE WITH THE GOALS AND INTENT OF ALL OF OUR PLANS. 
          WE WON'T READ THEM ALL OUT THERE AND REQUESTED THE RESULTING PROJECT NOT INCREASE VMT NOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. 
          AND WHEREAS COUNCIL MEMBER ELLIS THEN SENT A FOLLOW-UP LETTER, UH, INCLUDING, UH, REQUESTING THAT MOPAC SOUTH INCLUDE NO MORE THAN ONE ADDITIONAL LANE EACH DIRECTION. 
          AND WHEREAS TRAVIS COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S COURT REQUESTS THAT CTNA PRODUCE A FULL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT WITH A THOROUGH STUDY OF ALTERNATIVES BEFORE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT. 
          BY THE WAY, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ROADWAY PROJECTS HIGHWAY EXPANSIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT. 
          WE HAD A RECOMMENDATION ON THAT FOR AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL, THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH A VERY COMPREHENSIVE KIND OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATE STATEMENT, WHEREAS A LOT OF TIMES ROADWAY EXPANSIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO DO THE SAME AMOUNT OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, UM, INFORMATION. 
          SO THEY GET SORT OF EXCUSED FROM SOME OF THAT, WHICH IS INTERESTING. 
          SO THAT'S WAS THE RE THE REASONING BEHIND THAT REQUEST THERE FROM THE TRAVIS COUNTY. 
          UM, WHEREAS AS OF THE DATE OF THIS RESOLUTION, C-T-M-R-N-A HAS NOT MODIFIED THE PROJECT OR COMMITTED TO PERFORMING A FULL EIS, UM, WHEREAS RTP ACKNOWLEDGES LIMITED SIDEWALKS AND BIKE LANES IS A CHALLENGE TO SAFETY. 
          WHEREAS CAMPO HAS OPPORTUNITY TO ALLOCATE, ALLOCATE FUNDS, UH, TO A WIDE RANGE OF PROJECTS, INCLUDING TRANSIT, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, SAFETY, UM, AND WHEREAS IT'S IN THE COMMON INTEREST FOR THE RTP TO BE ASKED BASED ON ACCURATE FORECASTING AND MODELING. 
          AND WHEREAS THE PREVIOUS LAWN RANGE TRANSPORTATION USED URBAN SIM IN COMBINATION WITH STATE DEMOS, DEMOGRAPHER'S DATA TO COM INCORPORATE SOCIAL JURISDICTION'S UNDERSTANDINGS OF REGIONAL TRENDS. 
          AND THEN WHEREAS THE RTP, THIS ONE DID NOT USE URBAN SIM AND THE DATA USED TO DETERMINE THE DETAILED POPULATION IN EMPLOYMENT DISTRIBUTIONS FOR EACH COUNTY WAS NOT SHARED PUBLICLY. 
          AND WHEREAS IN PREVIOUS RTPS, THE TAC HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE DEMOGRAPHIC FORECAST AND METHODOLOGIES AND THIS PLANNING PROCESS, THERE WAS NO OPPORTUNITY FOR DE DEDICATED FEEDBACK ON FORECASTING MODELING. 
          SO THERE WE ARE AT RB RESOLVE. 
          SO WE RECOMMEND THAT FOLLOWING FOR FUTURE CAMPO RTPS AND TRANSPORTATION SA IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS. AND I KNOW THAT THIS RECOMMENDATION IS, IS RECOMMENDATION OF LIKE WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN. 
          SO THIS COULD BE WHAT CAMPO SHOULD DO, BUT ALSO WHAT CITY STAFF OR WHAT WE RECOMMEND COUNCIL SHOULD ADVOCATE FOR WHEN THEY'RE ADVOCATING IN THE PROCESS. 
          'CAUSE THIS IS VERY COMPLEX, RIGHT? THERE'S CAMPO IS A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY THAT'S DOING ITS THING, BUT THEN THE CITY HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADVOCATE WITHIN CERTAIN PATHWAYS, AT LEAST WITHIN THAT PROCESS. 
          SO WE SAID PRIORITIZE FUNDING FOR PROJECTS THAT IMPROVE SAFETY FOR ALL USERS, PRIORITIZE FUNDING FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT AND ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, PRIORITIZE PROJECTS THAT WILL RESULT IN PEOPLE LIVING CLOSER TO EMPLOYMENT AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES. 
          DEPRIORITIZE PROJECTS THAT INCREASE VEHICLE CAPACITY. 
          DEPRIORITIZE PROJECTS THAT RESULT IN PEOPLE NEEDING TO TRAVEL GREATER DISTANCE TO REACH EMPLOYMENT AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES PRI PRIORITIZE PROJECTS THAT HAVE RECEIVED SUPPORT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MAKE USE OF SCENARIO PLANNING. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN ASKING. 
          I THINK OUR LAST, UM, UTC RECOMMENDATION MAY BE ACTUALLY FOR THE LAST RTP ACTUALLY SAID THIS USE SCENARIO PLANNING FOR POPULATION FORECASTS SO AS TO BETTER REFLECT THE IMPACT OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ON DIFFERENT GROWTH SCENARIOS. 
          SO WE KNOW THAT IF YOU BUILD TRANSPORTATION A CERTAIN WAY, THERE'S GOING TO BE DEVELOPMENT AND THEN GROWTH PATTERNS THAT FOLLOW THAT. 
          IF YOU BUILD IT A DIFFERENT WAY AND TRY TO, UM, IT MAY YOU'LL BE DIFFERENT GROWTH PATTERNS. 
          SO LIKE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THAT LIKE WE'RE, THERE'S A PATH DEPENDENCY SOMETIMES TO THESE 
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DECISIONS. 
          UM, IMPROVED TRAFFIC DEMAND MODELS SO THAT THEY ADEQUATELY COUNT FOR THE IMPACTS OF INDUCED DEMAND, REFLECT THE FACT THAT INCREASES IN ROADWAY CAPACITY WILL INCREASE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED AND PER CAPITA VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED. 
          INCLUDE IN THE RTP INFORMATION ABOUT WEATHER GOALS FROM PREVIOUS RTPS HAVE BEEN MET AND INCLUDE IN SECTION ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE RTP AND MITIGATION MEASURES, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT UTC RECOMMENDS THAT THE MOPAC SOUTH EXPANSION BE REMOVED FROM THE CAMPO 2050 RTP OR AMEND IT FROM UP TO TWO LANES IN EACH DIRECTION AND UP TO ONE LANE IN EACH DIRECTION. 
          THAT'S IN LINE WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBER ELLIS LETTER AND THAT THE 180 3 PROJECT AS DESCRIBED SHOULD BE REMOVED, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED. 
          THE UTC RECOMMENDS THAT CAMPOS SHOULD SHARE ALL DATA AND MODELING METHODS USED IN THE DEMOGRAPHIC FORECAST WITH THE PUBLIC, THE TRANSPORTATION POLICY BOARD AND THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
          AND DURING EACH LONG-TERM REGIONAL PLANNING PROCESS, CITY OF AUSTIN TECH MEMBERS IN CONSULTATION WITH ANY OTHER RELEVANT STAFF SHOULD REVIEW THE DEMOGRAPHIC FORECAST BEING USED IN THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN. 
          SO, UM, AND THAT'S A LITTLE BIT, I MEAN, THE LAST TIME WE DISCUSSED THIS AS A DISCUSSION ITEM THAT WE KIND OF GOT IT, THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT HARD TO GET AT THE EXACT NUMBERS AND MODELING AND HOW THOSE ARE BEING ARRIVED AT. 
          WE KNOW IT COMES FROM THE STATE TO DEMOGRAPHERS AND IT'S SMOOTHED AND DIFFERENT THINGS HAPPEN, BUT I THINK, UM, DIGGING INTO THAT IS LIKE, ANYWAY, A LOT OF BEHIND THIS RECOMMENDATION IS REALLY TRYING TO MAKE, BRING TO LIGHT SOME OF THE PLANNING TO THE PUBLIC TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT TRANSPARENT AS WELL. 
          SO THAT'S THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          DID I TAKE A SECOND? I DID. 
          I TOOK A SECOND I THINK. 
          DID I? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, I'LL, UH, LET EVERYONE DISCUSS IT. 
          WE MAY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. 
          I THINK THERE, I WAS WARNED THAT ONE PERSON NOT WARNED, INFORMED, UH, THAT ONE PERSON MAY HAVE A HELPFUL AMENDMENT AS WELL. 
          SO, UM, I SEE COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER ONLINE. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I'M JUST HOPING TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS OF, UH, OF COLE BASED ON THE, THE PRESENTATION, IF THAT'S ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT IS PERFECTLY GREAT. 
          AWESOME. 
          SO, UM, I WANTED TO TOUCH ON, ON TWO THINGS IF WE COULD. 
          UM, FIRST, YOU KNOW, I MEAN THE REALITY IS WE NEVER HAVE THE BOATS IN CAMPO AND UNDER THE CURRENT STRUCTURE, WE NEVER WILL. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE ONE PLACE WHERE WE SOMETIMES CAN DO BETTER JUST BY VIRTUE OF BEING THE LARGEST CITY IS TRANSIT. 
          UM, AND I THINK ONE THING I WAS, I WAS A LITTLE FRUSTRATED WITH, YOU KNOW, BACK WHEN WE DID THIS FIVE YEARS AGO IS, UM, AT LEAST IT FELT FROM THE OUTSIDE THAT, UM, THE CITY MAYBE WASN'T DOING THE BEST AT COORDINATING WITH CAP METRO, UM, WHO OBVIOUSLY HAS THEIR OWN PROJECTS. 
          AND A LOT OF, I THINK THE PROJECTS CAP METRO WILL SUBMIT WILL BE NOT ONLY THE ONES WE HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF GETTING FUNDED SOMEHOW THROUGH, YOU KNOW, A FUTURE FUNDING BLOCK, BUT ALSO PROJECTS THAT ARE, ARE REALLY INFLUENTIAL, UM, FOR OUR CITY. 
          I MEAN, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THE GRADE SEPARATION, UH, UH, OF THE RED LINE AT LAMAR AIRPORT. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'LL BE ON IT, RIGHT? BUT THAT'S A HUGE PROJECT FOR OUR ROADWAY SYSTEM, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSIT. 
          SO I GUESS THAT'S A LONG WAY TO SAY. 
          CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT THE COORDINATION HAS LOOKED LIKE WITH CAT METRO AND HOW THE CITY OF AUSTIN WILL SUPPORT CAT METRO'S REQUESTS? YEAH. 
          UM, I GUESS THE FIRST PART IS WHAT, WHAT THE CITY HAS, UM, I GUESS RESPONSIBILITY FOR OR, OR, OR JURISDICTION OVER. 
          UM, WHAT WE FOCUSED ON WAS WHAT, WHAT WE IMPLEMENT. 
          SO WE SUBMITTED A SINGLE, UM, GROUPED PROJECT LISTING FOR TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS. 
          SO THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TPW HAS A TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM THAT PARTNERS WITH CAP METRO TO FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS THAT PRIORITIZE, UH, TRANSIT, UM, SPEED AND RELIABILITY. 
          AND SO THROUGH THAT PROGRAM IS WHERE WE KIND OF SURGICALLY, UM, IMPLEMENT TRANSIT PRIORITY PROJECTS. 
          HOWEVER, HISTORICALLY WHAT IS REFLECTED IN THE RTP IS, IS, IS, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICE. 
          AND SO CAP METRO SUBMITS WHAT'S CONSIDERED MORE OF A TRANSIT SERVICE LINE ITEM. 
          AND SO EVEN IN THE 2045 RTP, UH, ADOPTED IN 2020, THAT WAS, THAT WAS REFLECTIVE OF THE HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT SYSTEM THAT WAS BEING KIND OF CO-CREATED AT THE TIME WITH THE CITY THROUGH THE A SMP PROCESS. 
          AND SO, UH, THAT WAS SUBMITTED BY CAP METRO AND, UH, CONTINUES TO BE ITEMS THAT CAP METRO SUBMITS, EVEN THOUGH IT'S, UM, PART OF THE CITY'S TRANSPORTATION, UM, SYSTEM. 
          UH, SO IT'S, IT'S MORE OF LIKE A SHARED, I GUESS, RESPONSIBILITY OR, UM, BUT IT FOLLOWS THE LINES OF TRANSIT SERVICE 
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PROVIDER VERSUS, UM, RIGHT OF WAY OWNER. 
          YEAH, NO, THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL CONTEXT. 
          I, I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS SEPARATED LIKE THAT. 
          THAT'S GREAT TO KNOW. 
          UM, AND SO MY SECOND QUESTION, I KIND OF HATE THAT I EVEN HAVE TO BRING THIS UP. 
          I DO KIND OF WANNA KNOW HOW YOU GUYS ARE THINKING ABOUT THIS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE WE'VE ALL SEEN THE, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AS A NEW MEMO THAT'S BEEN CIRCULATING THAT SAYS BASICALLY PULL ALL FUNDING THAT YOU CAN, UM, AS IT AS IT FUNDS BICYCLE IMPROVEMENTS OR BICYCLE FACILITIES. 
          UM, OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF WHAT WE'RE PUTTING FORWARD IS, UM, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY GOING TO INCLUDE BICYCLE FACILITIES IN MOST CIRCUMSTANCES. 
          UH, AND MOST OF CAMPUS FUNDING IS GONNA COME FROM SOME SORT OF FEDERAL GRANT. 
          YOU KNOW, WHETHER THOSE HAVE THE SAME STRINGS ATTACHED. 
          WHETHER THAT FLOWS DOWN TO THE NPOI, I DON'T KNOW. 
          BUT I GUESS HOW, HOW ARE YOU GUYS THINKING, OBVIOUSLY IN ANY OTHER CLIMATE WE WOULD PUT FORWARD, YOU KNOW, A A LOT OF GREAT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. 
          HOW ARE YOU GUYS THINKING ABOUT THAT CONSTRAINT AND HOW THAT COULD ALTER WHAT WE'RE PUTTING FORWARD OR EVEN IF IT SHOULD ALTER WHAT WE'RE PUTTING FORWARD? YEAH, SO THERE'S, UM, IN THE BACKUP AS WELL IN THE RTP, UM, CAMPO HAS PRESENTED WHAT THOSE FUNDING SOURCES ARE AND WHAT THEY'RE ELIGIBLE TO FUND. 
          AND I THINK THE MAIN, UH, THE MAIN THING FOR US TO, I GUESS, UNDERSTAND AS A CITY IS THAT WE ARE OFTEN RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERING OUR OWN PROJECTS WITH OUR OWN FUNDING. 
          SO OUR MM-HMM . 
          OUR APPROACH TO THE, TO THE RTP WAS IDENTIFYING OUR PRIORITIES AND INCLUDING THEM IN THE CONSTRAINED PROJECT LISTING USING WHAT OUR FINANCIAL FORECAST WAS, WHICH WAS $4.2 BILLION. 
          AND SO WE HAD 75% OF THOSE WERE, WERE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION OR COMPLETE STREET PROJECTS. 
          UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE OUR ATTENTION IS, IS HOW DO WE CONTROL OUR OWN FUNDING AND PRIORITIZE THOSE INVESTMENTS. 
          UM, OTHERWISE, UM, THE OTHER, THE, THE ADDITIONAL MAKEUP OF THE, THE, THE FUNDING SOURCES ARE STATE, FEDERAL, AND, AND TRANSIT RELATED. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT IS REALLY WHERE, UM, YOU'LL SEE THAT IMPACT ON, ON HOW THAT, HOW THAT FUNDING GETS PRIORITIZED AND WHETHER IT'S IT'S GOING TOWARDS ACTIVE MODES OR, OR, OR NOT. 
          THANKS FOR THAT. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          SO I THINK WE COULD HAVE MORE QUESTIONS FOR OUR PRESENTER, OR IF PEOPLE HAVE AMENDMENTS OR DISCUSSION OF THE RECOMMENDATION, WE CAN KIND OF DO IT ALL AT ONCE. 
          I SEE. 
          COMMISSIONER BROOKS, YOU'RE MUTED. 
          HERE WE GO. 
          OKAY. 
          I THINK THE PRESENTATION UNDERESTIMATES THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN TO TRANSIT. 
          THE WHOLE BILL COMES OUT OF MY, I KNOW WHEN I PAY MY REAL ESTATE TAXES AND LOOK DOWN TO THE CITY OF AUSTIN, PORTION OF THE TAXES, THAT THAT'S HOW PROJECT CONNECT IS FUNDED. 
          IT'S FUNDED THROUGH CITY OF AUSTIN TAX PAYERS, NOT CAP, NOT CAP METRO TAXPAYERS, BY THE WAY, JUST THE, THE LARGER SET, BUT JUST THE SET THAT LIVE IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND PAY TAXES. 
          SO EVEN THOUGH I UNDERSTAND, I DON'T THINK AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP IS EVEN ALLOWED TO SUBMIT ITEMS TO THE RTC, BUT, UM, THEY ARE ALL SUBMITTED THROUGH CAP METRO. 
          BUT EVEN THEN, EVEN THOUGH NOMINALLY IT'S CAP METRO WHO'S IN CHARGE, IT'S ACTUALLY THE CITY OF AUSTIN WHO'S PAYING. 
          AND CERTAINLY YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE RTP, BUT YOU CAN CHANGE THE WAY YOU TALK ABOUT IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SURE. 
          UM, I JUST WANNA SAY, UM, THIS, THE CITY OF AUSTIN PORTION OF THE, THE RTP LOOKS SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN A LOT OF THE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AROUND THE REGION. 
          AND I KNOW THAT THAT'S THE HARD WORK OF OUR CITY OF AUSTIN REPRESENTATIVES ON CAMPO ON BOTH THE TPB AND THE TAC. 
          AND, UM, I, I NEVER ONE JUST WANT TO COMMEND YOU ON THAT AND THAT EVEN ALL THE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS SEEM TO HAVE A LOT OF MULTIMODAL ELEMENTS IN THERE AS WELL. 
          I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A REALLY BIG COMMITMENT TO SAFETY HERE, AND THAT CAMPO HAS, IS OSTENSIBLY COMMITTED TO THE VISION ZERO FRAMEWORK AS WELL. 
          UM, 
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AND JUST, UM, UH, SO THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN ESPECIALLY COMPARED WITH SOME OF THE STUFF HAPPENING WITH THESE GREENFIELD HIGHWAYS OUT IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY ARE PRETTY DISAPPOINTING TO SEE IN THIS. 
          UM, IS THERE A WAY THAT THIS RTP BREAKS DOWN SPENDING BY COUNTY OR IN MUNICIPALITY? IS THERE A BREAKDOWN OF THAT IN THERE? I KNOW SOME OF THE JURISDICTIONS OVERLAP, SO IT GETS PROBABLY COMPLICATED, BUT YEAH. 
          I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER IF THERE IS A BREAKDOWN BY JURISDICTION, UM, OR EVEN BY COUNTY. 
          UM, BUT THE, THE PROJECT LISTING IN THE APPENDIX DOES HAVE COST AND SPONSOR AND COUNTY, SO IT CAN BE QUANTIFIED. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE, IS IT LIKE, UM, IS THERE A SPREADSHEET LIKE VERSION OF THAT? I DON'T, YEAH, THERE IS. 
          WE COULD, WE COULD REQUEST IT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AWESOME. 
          AND THEN ONE QUESTION I HAVE FOR THE, UM, RECOMMENDATION SPONSOR IS, OR, UM, INITIATOR IS WE HAVE, UM, JUST LIKE A QUESTION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION OF THIS IS THAT IT SEEMS LIKE THIS LAST, FOR THE RESOLVED CATEGORY HAS A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT THE FORECASTING AND THE MODELING. 
          UM, AND THEN IN THE FIRST BE IT RESOLVED, THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT BULLET POINTS IN HERE THAT TALK ABOUT SCENARIO PLANNING, TRAFFIC DEMAND MODELING AND EVERYTHING. 
          UM, AND JUST I AM WONDERING WHY NOT ALL OF THE MODELING AND FORECASTING WERE INCLUDED UP IN THAT LAST RESOLVED? I, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 
          I HUMANS IS PROBABLY THE ANSWER WHY. 
          UM, SO I, I WOULD CERTAINLY, I MEAN, I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF WE NEED, IF WE'RE NOT REALLY CHANGING THE TEXT, BUT JUST MOVING SOME THINGS AROUND. 
          I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF WE NEED AN AMENDMENT, BUT LIKE, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO MOVE. 
          SO THAT FIRST BE IT RESOLVED WHERE IT SAYS SCENARIO PLANNING, JUST THOSE TWO BULLET POINTS SCENARIO, MAKE USE OF SCENARIO PLANNING AND IMPROVE TRAFFIC DEMAND MODELS AND, AND MOVE THOSE TO THE FINAL, BE IT RESOLVED. 
          I I DON'T REALLY EVEN THINK WE NEED IT. 
          I MEAN, IT'S NOT REALLY CHANGING ANY THRUST OF ANYTHING, SO I THINK THAT COULD JUST A TEXT EDIT. 
          I'M, I'M VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT. 
          PERFECT. 
          JUST TO HAVE IT JUST, YEAH, THAT'S GREAT. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER BROOKS, I THINK YOU'RE STILL MUTED AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, LET'S SEE. 
          THERE'S A SECTION THAT SAYS WHERE IS THE CAMPO 2050 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN. 
          CAMPO DID NOT USE URBAN SIM. 
          THE DATA USED TO DETERMINE THE DETAILED POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT DISTRIBUTIONS FOR EACH COUNTY WAS NOT SHARED PUBLICLY. 
          UM, I THINK THEY DID IN FACT USE POLL COMMENT AUTHORITATIVELY, BUT I THINK THEY DID USE URBAN SIM, BUT THEY DID IT SEPARATELY FOR EACH COUNTY. 
          IS THAT, DO WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT? I MEAN, IF THAT, I WOULD BE PRETTY CONFIDENT, COMMISSIONER BROOKS THAT IF ANYBODY UNDERSTANDS THE MODELING THAT CAMPO IS DOING THAT ISN'T DIRECTLY EMPLOYED BY ANY OF THESE ENTITIES, IT'S , IT'S, IT'S PROBABLY YOU. 
          UH, BUT IT, LET ME ALSO LOOK TO, UH, COLE KITTEN HERE AS WELL. 
          IS THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING AS WELL WITH THE MODELING? IT'S HARD TO SAY. 
          I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE WHETHER IT WAS DONE AT THE SIX COUNTY REGION LEVEL OR IF THEY DID RUN IT IN AS INDIVIDUAL COUNTIES IN ORDER TO CONTROL FOR THE, THE TOTAL, THE CONTROL TOTALS. 
          LET ME JUST NOTICE HERE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SPENDING $67 BILLION OF PUBLIC FUNDS AND WE DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW WE DID THE MODELING, SO THAT'S JUST GREAT. 
          UM, ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, OKAY, , SO, UM, MAYBE THERE'S A WAY TO, LIKE, IF YOU, IF YOU FEEL THEY MAYBE DID USE IT, BUT, AND NOT IN THE SAME WAY, UM, MAYBE WE COULD SAY DID NOT USE GO AHEAD. 
          DID NOT USE EVERYTHING IN THE SAME WAY. 
          YEAH. 
          AMENDED TO, YEAH, JUST AN AMENDMENT THERE. 
          IS THAT A MOTION FROM YOU, COMMISSIONER BROOKS? YES. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          AND THE I'LL SET, ADD THE THREE WORDS IN YES. 
          IN THE FOUR WORDS IN THE SAME WAY. 
          PERFECT. 
          I WILL SECOND THAT. 
          LET'S TAKE A QUICK VOTE 
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ON THAT. 
          THAT'S AGAIN, TO ADD ON THE NEXT TO LAST, WHEREAS WHERE IT SAYS, IN WHEREAS FOR THE CAMPO 2050 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN, CAMPO DID NOT USE URBAN SIM RIGHT AFTER THE CAMPO DID NOT USE URBAN SIM. 
          WE'RE ADDING IN THE SAME WAY, AND THEN THE COMMA AND THE SENTENCE CONTINUES. 
          SO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THAT AMENDMENT, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. 
          THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          FURTHER DISCUSSION. 
          I JUST WANNA SAY, AND THIS IS, UM, BEFORE WE TAKE A VOTE, AND THIS IS A QUESTION FOR, UM, COLE KITTEN AGAIN. 
          SO I FEEL THAT WITH THE CAMPO PROCESS, A LOT OF TIMES WE COME IN AS WE'RE GOING IN THE DRAFT PROCESS OR MAYBE THE PUBLIC INPUT PROCESS, BUT THEN IT ALREADY FEELS LIKE IT'S DONE, YOU KNOW? UM, AND SO I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT INFLUENCING THESE PROCESSES IS VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE CAMPO IS SORT OF A VOTE OF REGIONAL MUNICIPALITIES BY WHICH AUSTIN IS ALREADY OUTVOTED AS COMMISSIONER KAMAN ALREADY VERY WELL POINTED OUT. 
          UM, AND THAT ALSO THAT THERE'S JUST WAYS IN WHICH THIS OPERATES THAT ARE JUST VERY HARD TO GET YOUR HANDS BETWEEN THE GEARS AND, AND INFLUENCE. 
          BUT, UM, I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, SO WHEN THIS VOTE TAKES PLACE, AND THIS IS ADOPTED IN MAY, THE NEXT TIME WILL BE THE 2055 ORIGINAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN. 
          AND HOW COULD, UM, THE UTC OR CITY TRY TO CHANGE SOMETHING TO REALLY GET THEM TO, FROM THE GROUND LEVEL, DO SCENARIO PLANNING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE THE PATHWAYS THAT YOU COULD SEE AS CITY STAFF OR MAYBE AS JUST COMMUNITY ADVOCATES, SOMEBODY ON THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION? DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT? YEAH, I THINK, UM, I THINK WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S WITHIN OUR CONTROL VERSUS WHAT'S IN CAMPUS CONTROL. 
          AND, AND THERE'S A LOT THAT THE CITY HAS PURVIEW OVER AND, AND THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO OUR, DO OURSELVES. 
          SO IF WE WANNA DO SCENARIO PLANNING AS A CITY, MAYBE WE SHOULD DO THAT AND, AND SEE HOW WE CAN INCORPORATE THOSE RESULTS INTO THE RTP PRODUCT. 
          AND SO THERE, THERE HAS BEEN, I THINK, SOME, UH, LEVEL OF ACCEPTANCE FROM THE CAMPO LEVEL TO INCORPORATE JURISDICTIONAL FEEDBACK ON THE DEMOGRAPHICS. 
          AND SO IF, IF OUR APPROACH WAS, WELL, WE DID A SCENARIO PLANNING PROCESS AND HERE'S THE, HERE'S THE FINAL PRODUCT, WILL YOU ACCEPT IT? THEN THAT MAY BE A PATH TO INFLUENCING THAT OUTCOME. 
          UM, SIMILARLY, YOU KNOW, WE SUBMITTED WHAT WE THOUGHT WERE OUR PRIORITIES FOR THAT PROJECT LISTING, AND SO THOSE PROJECTS WERE IDENTIFIED FROM CITY ADOPTED PLANS, BUT IT WAS STAFF'S INTERPRETATION OF, YOU KNOW, APPLYING A PRIORITY, A PRIORITIZATION LENS, SO YOU HAVE WINNERS AND LOSERS, AND SO THERE COULD BE ADDITIONAL TIME TO, TO SEE, WELL, WHICH ONES DIDN'T MAKE IT INTO THE CONSTRAINED LIST, UNDERSTANDING WHY. 
          AND SO THAT WE CAN MAYBE ITERATE ON, ON WHICH PROJECTS GET, GET SUBMITTED AS LOCALLY FUNDED, CONSTRAINED, UM, AS WELL AS HAVING MORE CONVERSATION ABOUT WHICH PROJECTS MAY BE, UM, COMPETITIVE CANDIDATES FOR FEDERAL FUNDING. 
          YEAH. 
          GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          JUST SO JUST TO FOLLOW UP, UM, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE CITY MAYBE COMING TO CAMPO WITH ALREADY HAVING DONE AN ALTERNATIVE DEMOGRAPHIC SCENARIO. 
          WHAT, LIKE, HOW CAN THE, YOU KNOW, US AS SUPPORTERS OF THAT SORT OF PROJECT HELP YOU GUYS GET LIKE A BUCKET OF MONEY FOR THAT IN THE FUTURE? I GUESS IS, WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING THROUGH LIKE THE BUDGET PROCESS OR, UM, LIKE A ALLOCATION FROM T OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? I KNOW THAT'S FOR MAINTENANCE, BUT LIKE, I KNOW THERE'S A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT BUCKETS OF MONEY, UM, AROUND TO, 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT A LOT OF IT IS CAPITAL PROJECTS AND MAINTENANCE, BUT FOR SOMETHING LIKE A PLANNING, HOW WOULD THAT WORK? YEAH, I WOULD SAY IT JUST DEPENDS ON ITS LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY. 
          UM, WE'RE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING DEMOGRAPHIC FORECASTS THROUGH THE CITY DEMOGRAPHER'S OFFICE. 
          AND SO THAT'S AN UPDATE TO A PREVIOUS PROCESS OF, OF DOING DEMOGRAPHIC FORECASTING. 
          AND SO WE, WE HAVE THE CAPACITY AND, AND, UH, SKILLS AND TOOLS TO DO THAT. 
          UM, AND SO IF WE WANT IT TO BE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF SOPHISTICATION AND COMPLEXITY, THEN CERTAINLY YOU'D HAVE TO GET MODELING SOFTWARE OR, UM, HIRE A CONSULTANT. 
          BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE HAVE WITHIN OUR CURRENT RESOURCES, UH, AND, AND WE WOULD JUST NEED TO KIND OF PLAN FOR THAT 
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IN OUR, UH, OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS AS WE LEAD INTO THE 2055 RTP DEVELOPMENT. 
          AND, AND WOULD YOU SAY, I MEAN, IS CITY STAFF IN AGREEMENT? I MEAN, I THINK US A LOT OF ACTIVISTS, ADVOCATES, COMMISSIONERS HAVE, HAVE THOUGHT, LIKE, YOU, YOU AGREE THAT TYPICALLY GROWTH WITHIN THE CITY OF AUSTIN IS UNDERESTIMATED IN THE, IN THE CAMPO R RTPS, IT DOESN'T, WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, IT UNDERESTIMATED THE GROWTH WITHIN THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
          RIGHT? I WOULD SAY IT DEPENDS. 
          UM, IT, IT, THE DEVILS ARE IN THE DETAILS AND IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO, YOU KNOW, QUOTE UNQUOTE GET RIGHT. 
          UM, I WORKED AT CAMPO DURING THE 2035 RTP AND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR DEVELOPING THE DEMOGRAPHIC FORECASTS, AND WE DEVELOPED SCENARIOS AT THAT POINT IN TIME. 
          SO WE HAD A TRENDS VERSUS ALTERNATIVES AND DEVELOPED A, A PREFERRED GROWTH CONCEPT. 
          UM, AND THAT WAS ADOPTED INTO THE 2035 RTP. 
          SO THE SCENARIO PLANNING EXERCISE IS, IS REALLY THE THING THAT'S MISSING NOW. 
          AND, UM, SO BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE, THE VARYING, UM, FUTURES, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, WHERE WE DO EXCEED OUR EXPECTATIONS, WHAT WILL BE THE IMPACT VERSUS, UM, UNDERESTIMATING. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          AND I JUST LOOKING AT SOME OF THE FORECASTS EVEN WITHIN THE PLAN TO SAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO REDUCE MODE SHARE, YOU KNOW, BY ONE OR 2%, UM, MORE PEOPLE OR SOMETHING AS JUST LIKE, THAT'S REAL CRAZY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          LET'S TAKE A VOTE ON, UM, ON THIS, UNLESS THERE'S FURTHER DISCUSSION. 
          I'M LOOKING AROUND ONE LAST TIME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO LET'S TAKE ON THE, UM, TAKE A VOTE NOW ON THIS RECOMMENDATION AS AMEND IT. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          LOOKS LIKE THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          UM, AND, AND COMMISSIONERS, I WILL, UM, OBVIOUSLY SHARE THIS WITH CITY CITY COUNCIL, BUT I WILL ALSO, UM, SUBMIT THIS, UM, AS OFFICIAL PUBLIC COMMENT TO THE CAMPO, UH, PLAN THROUGH THESE EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT WERE PROVIDED TO US AS WELL BY THE APRIL 15TH DEADLINE. 
          GREAT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT NOW BRINGS US 
          [4. Discussion and approval of a Right of Way Vacation for 6400 ½ Burleson Road. ]
TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR, WHICH IS DISCUSSION AND APPROVAL OF A RIGHT OF WAY VACATION FOR 6,400 AND A HALF BURLESON ROAD. 
          AND, UM, THAT OUR PRESENTER IS GOING TO BE CHRISTOPHER BECKERT. 
          DID I GET THAT RIGHT? IT'S BUCHAR ACTUALLY ERT, I KNOW YOU'VE TOLD ME THAT BEFORE. 
          I'M SO SORRY. 
          THAT'S ALL RIGHT. 
          IT'S WEIRD GERMAN, UM, UH, FROM THE, FROM TPW, SO, UM, PLEASE TAKE IT AWAY. 
          YEAH. 
          GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONERS. 
          I'M CHRISTOPHER BUKART, A REAL ESTATE SERVICES AGENT WITH THE LAND DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING DIVISION OF TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS. 
          I'M HERE TODAY TO PRESENT A STREET RIGHT OF WAY VACATION, UH, FOR BURLESON ROAD, ABUTTING 64 AND A HALF BURLESON ROAD. 
          THIS FIRST SLIDE HERE IS A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE VACATION TRACK INDICATED IN RED, UH, WHICH IS ADJACENT TO OLD BURLESON ROAD AND BURLESON ROAD, AS WELL AS EAST ANEY LANE. 
          THE ABIDING PROPERTY OWNER IS ZIFS BURLESON, 6,300 LLC. 
          THIS IS ANOTHER BIRD'S EYE VIEW AND PERSPECTIVE OF THE ABUTTING PROPERTY. 
          64 AND A HALF BURLESON ROAD INDICATING THE PAVED DEVELOPED RIGHT OF WAY. 
          AND HERE WE HAVE A COUPLE OF STREET VIEWS FROM EITHER END OF THE RIGHT OF WAY. 
          THE VACATION TRACT IS APPROXIMATELY 0.911 ACRES TRACT LAND. 
          ALL PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 300 FEET OF THE VACATION AREA. 
          WERE SENT PUBLIC NOTIFICATIONS ON FEBRUARY 14TH, 2050, 2025. 
          AND AS OF TODAY, NO PUBLIC OBJECTIONS WERE RECEIVED. 
          ALL AFFECTED CITY DEPARTMENTS AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS HAVE REVIEWED AND RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THIS RIGHT OF WAY, UH, WHICH IS SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS ON THE MASTER COMMENT REPORT THAT WAS SUBMITTED WITH THIS PRESENTATION, THE CITY WILL RETAIN AN ELECTRIC EASEMENT AND A WATER AND WASTEWATER LINES EASEMENT OVER THE ENTIRE ENVELOPE OF THE RIGHT OF WAY VACATION AREA. 
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HOW DO YOU PLAN TO DEVELOP THE VACATION AREA? THE LAND IS CURRENTLY OWNED IN FEE BY TRAVIS COUNTY, AND IT WAS ACTUALLY ANNEXED TO THE CITY ON APRIL 23RD, 1987. 
          AND AT THAT TIME BECAME A PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. 
          UM, THAT RIGHT OF WAY WILL BE CONVEYED TO THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER FOR REDEVELOPMENT PER THE APPLICANT. 
          AND AT THIS TIME, THERE IS NO ACTIVE SITE PLAN. 
          I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE REGARDING THE VACATION PROJECTS, UH, AND THE APPLICANT IS HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING ANY SORT OF, UH, DEVELOPMENT OF THIS VACATION TRACK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS, MAYBE, MAYBE FOR BOTH OF YOU, BUT, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS SORT OF LIKE A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL TYPE SITE AT THIS TIME. 
          UM, IS THAT WHAT'S GOING ON? LIKE WHAT, WHAT IS, UM, LIKE THERE'S A BUSINESS HERE MAYBE, OR WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE CURRENT USE OF THE PROPERTY? SO NOW I'M GRANT INGLER, WINSTED, PC, UM, THE SITE WAS ACTUALLY REZONED. 
          I HAVE THE EXACT ONE. 
          IT WAS LINP MM-HMM . 
          AND NOW IS CS M-U-V-N-P. 
          SO MIXED USE VERTICAL. 
          UM, I'M SORRY, CAN YOU DEFINE ALL OF THE LETTERS YOU JUST SAID CS, I'M BLANKING ON, BUT THE REST ARE, UH, COMMERCIAL SERVICES, COMMERCIAL SERVICES, MIXED USE, UH, VERTICAL IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN. 
          WHAT WAS LI UH, LIGHT INDUSTRIAL. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          SO IT WAS A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL SITE, AND IT'S BECOMING POTENTIALLY SOME, UM, UM, IT'S GOT A ZONING NOW FOR SOME SORT OF MIXED USE. 
          SO ALTHOUGH THERE'S NO ACTIVE SITE PLAN, WE COULD CONJECTURE, THERE MIGHT BE ONE COMING. 
          RIGHT. 
          THAT WAS, AND THAT WAS APPROVED IN 2023 BY COUNSEL. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AND IS THIS LIKE, IT LOOKS LIKE THIS WOULD MOSTLY BE USED FOR INTERNAL CIRCULATION TO THE SITE. 
          LIKE I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WOULD BE USING THIS. 
          IT DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE IT NECESSARILY GOES ALL THE WAY THROUGH AS A CUT THROUGH OR ANYTHING. 
          THERE'S PLENTY OF OTHER WAYS TO CUT THROUGH. 
          UM, WHAT IS THE CURRENT USE OF THE ROW, IF ANY? SO CURRENTLY IT'S NOT REALLY A CUT THROUGH OR ANYTHING. 
          IT DOESN'T CONNECT, UM, TO THE OTHER SIDE. 
          YEAH, YOU CAN SEE IN THE, TOWARDS THE, THE, UH, I GUESS THAT'S THE EAST SIDE OF THE, THE STREET, UH, IT ACTUALLY DOESN'T EVEN CONNECT AND IT'S, IT'S, THE CONCRETE IS WITHERING AWAY. 
          I YEAH, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THAT. 
          YEAH, IT'S DOWN THERE. 
          YEAH. 
          BELIEVE IT ONLY CONNECTS TO THE OLD ENT ROAD END. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, SO THE FUTURE PLAN WOULD BE SOME KIND OF SITE PLAN COMES IN HERE AND THE CITY WILL HAVE A EASEMENT FOR UTILITIES UNDER, IN THIS ZONE, THE CORRECT, CORRECT. 
          OF THE VACATION AREA? YEAH. 
          AND ELECTRIC EASEMENT AND A WATER AND WASTEWATER LINES EASEMENT. 
          DOES THAT PREVENT DEVELOPMENT OVER THE, UM, OVER THE RIDE OF WAY? UM, ANY PERMANENT STRUCTURES THAT WILL BE THERE, THE, UNTIL THE UTILITIES ARE REMOVED, THEY'LL HAVE TO GET AN EASEMENT RELEASE AT THAT TIME ONCE IT'S, UH, TAKEN CARE OF. 
          GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. 
          DOES, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE QUESTIONS? SO THERE'S, THERE'S NO OTHER DETAIL ON WHAT IT WILL BE USED FOR, ASIDE FROM THE ZONING IMPLICATION. 
          SO THERE'S NO CURRENT PLAN IN PLACE, BUT THE IDEA IS MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT, UM, GROUND FLOOR, COMMERCIAL AND MULTIFAMILY ABOVE. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I'M SORRY, YOU'RE FROM WHERE? WINSTEAD AND WE'RE AGENTS FOR TRAVIS COUNTY AND THE, UH, THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, SO TRAVIS COUNTY WOULD BE THE DEVELOPER HERE, OR THEY OWN THE SITE OR THEY'RE THEY OWN, THEY OWN THE TRACK, THEY OWN LAND AND FEE, UM, BUT THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS ARE DIFFERENT. 
          I GOT YOU. 
          AND THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING TOGETHER TRANSACTION OF CONVEYING IT OVER TO THEM? YES. 
          GOT IT. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          YEAH. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, UH, SPENCER, AS OUR PARLIAMENTARIAN, CAN YOU REMIND ME, DO WE MOVE APPROVAL ON THESE OR THIS IS SOMETHING COMPLICATED WITH THESE, RIGHT? YEAH, IT'S ONLY COMPLICATED IF WE WANNA OBJECT, AS LONG AS WE DON'T OBJECT, UH, PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING WE DO IS TAKEN AS APPROVAL. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          UM, LET'S JUST MOVE APPROVAL THEN. 
          I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF THIS, UH, PROPOSED RIGHT OF WAY VACATION. 
          DO I HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND. 
          UH, GREAT. 
          WAS THAT COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER? YES. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? YES. 
          AYE, AYE. 
          THAT'S UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU ALL. 
          HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THIS DOES BRING 
          [5. Discussion and approval of a Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget recommendation from the  Urban Transportation Commission. ]
US TO ITEM FIVE, WHICH IS DISCUSSION AND APPROVAL OF A FISCAL YEAR 20 25, 20 26 BUDGET RECOMMENDATION FROM THE UTC. 
          UM, I KNOW I'M LISTED AS FACILITATOR HERE, BUT I'M ACTUALLY GONNA DEFER, I THINK, TO COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER, UM, TO PROBABLY TAKE 
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US THROUGH THIS. 
          UM, THERE IS A RECOMMENDATION THAT'S IN THE BACKUP, AND IT WAS PRECIATE ON MONDAY MORNING. 
          SO, UH, AND IT'S ALSO IN THE PAPER FOR THOSE HERE IN PERSON. 
          UM, BUT I THOUGHT I'D JUST DEFER TO COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER TO GUIDE US THROUGH IT. 
          SURE. 
          SO I'LL START BY MAKING A MOTION, MOTION TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          I'LL SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, UM, HOPEFULLY THIS IS, THIS IS GONNA BE MUCH EASIER THAN OUR, OUR LAST YEAR'S, UH, BUDGET RECOMMENDATION. 
          SO LAST YEAR, THE BUDGET OR THE, UH, CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED, I'M GONNA CALL IT A PSEUDO BIENNIAL BUDGET. 
          UM, RIGHT, SO THIS IS NOT AS FULL OF A BUDGET PROCESS AS THE PREVIOUS YEAR WAS. 
          UM, WE'RE ALSO NOT NECESSARILY IN THE, UH, FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENT WHERE THERE ARE GOING TO BE LARGE INVESTMENTS MADE ON THIS BUDGET CYCLE. 
          SO THE MEMO WE GOT FROM THE BUDGET OFFICER AND THE BUDGET OFFICE, UH, WAS TO REALLY FOCUS ON UNMET NEEDS AND REFER TO LAST YEAR'S, UH, BUDGET MATERIALS. 
          UM, SO IF THAT, I KIND OF TOOK OUR BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LAST YEAR, LOOKED AT WHAT ARE ONE-TIME EXPENSES OR PROGRAMMATIC EXPENSES THAT ARE, UH, SPECIFIC IN NATURE THAT WE COULD RECOMMEND AGAIN FOR, UM, THIS CYCLE. 
          UM, SO, UM, THOSE THREE ONES ARE, UM, INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF THE LIVING STREETS PROGRAM. 
          UH, WE RECOMMENDED 72 ACTIVATIONS LAST YEAR. 
          THEY DID NOT GET THAT FULL AMOUNT, BUT THEY ALSO DID GET A GRANT TO SUBSIDIZE IT. 
          SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT A GOOD TARGET IS, BUT I KNOW THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE SAID IN THE PAST ABOUT THEIR CAPACITY WOULD BE, AND I THINK WE WANNA BE BUILDING AS MANY LIVING STREETS PROGRAMS AS WE CAN. 
          SO I THINK IT'S GOOD TO RECOMMEND THE SAME TARGET. 
          THE SECOND ONE, THIS ONE MAY TAKE SOME EXPLAINING. 
          AS YOU RECALL, WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT BIKE LANE BLOCKAGES. 
          WE SENT UP MULTIPLE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          THE CITY COUNCIL TOOK ONE OF THOSE, WHICH WAS TO CREATE A VOLUNTEER BIKE ENFORCEMENT, UH, UH, PROGRAM. 
          UH, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION SAID FOR SOME REASON WE'RE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          TPW NEEDS TO PROPOSE ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF ENFORCEMENT, UM, TO FOCUS ON THIS. 
          UM, THERE IS, UH, AN ONGOING BACK AND FORTH AS TO WHETHER A VOLUNTEER BIKE ENFORCEMENT GROUP IS ALLOWED UNDER, UH, STATE LAW. 
          UM, SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE ALTERNATIVE METHOD, UH, OF ENFORCEMENT THAT TPW IS CURRENTLY LOOKING AT, UH, IS USING TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS. 
          UH, THIS WAS TALKED ABOUT IN, IN A MOBILITY COMMITTEE MEETING A FEW MONTHS AGO, UM, THAT COULD LOOK LIKE PUTTING CAMERAS ON ON CARS THAT CAN, UH, IMMEDIATELY, UH, OR I SHOULD SAY TRANSPORTATION MOBILITY SERVICE OFFICER'S CARS, UH, THAT CAN IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZE WHEN SOMEBODY IS BLOCKING THE BIKE LANE. 
          UM, THAT COULD LOOK LIKE LICENSE PLATE READERS IN VERY SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE WE KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE BLOCKING THE BIKE LANE. 
          UM, THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT METHODS. 
          UM, SO THIS JUST SIMPLY SAYS, UM, LET'S MAKE SURE IN THIS BUDGET CYCLE WE SET ASIDE SOME FUNDS FOR THAT TO BE DONE. 
          UM, THERE ARE A LOT OF WAYS FOR THIS TO BE DONE COST NEUTRAL TOO, THROUGH A VARIETY OF CONTRACTS. 
          SO THAT'S REALLY AN EXTENSION OF WHAT WE RECOMMENDED LAST TIME, EVEN THOUGH IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. 
          UM, AND THEN THE FINAL ONE, THIS ONE I, I AM GONNA BRING AN AMENDMENT FOR. 
          UM, BUT, UH, LAST YEAR WE RECOMMENDED, UH, UH, PURCHASING 65 MERIDIAN ARCHER BARRIERS. 
          UH, THESE ARE THE BARRIERS THAT, UH, THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT USES DURING SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST TO, UH, PROTECT STREETS, UH, THAT WE PEDESTRIANIZE FOR THE, THE FESTIVAL. 
          UM, WE HAVE BEEN RENTING THOSE, UM, FROM THE COMPANY FOR I THINK WELL OVER A DECADE NOW. 
          UM, A PD WANTED TO PURCHASE THOSE SO THEY CAN USE THOSE YEAR ROUND. 
          UH, AND WE BELIEVE LAST TIME IT MADE SENSE FOR TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORKS TO PLAY A ROLE IN THAT. 
          UM, SO THEY CAN ALSO BE USED FOR THINGS LIKE LIVING STREETS, BLOCK PARTIES. 
          UM, WE ALSO THINK IT KIND OF MADE MORE SENSE FOR TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORKS TO TAKE THAT ON, UH, SINCE THIS IS INHERENTLY, UH, A, A TRANSPORTATION, UH, THING, RIGHT? WE'RE PROTECTING PEDESTRIANS IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. 
          UM, THE ONE AMENDMENT I'LL BRING HERE IN A SECOND IS I WAS IN CONTACT WITH SOME FOLKS FROM, UH, THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND, UH, THEY LET ME KNOW, WHILE THIS WAS NOT ADOPTED IN THE BUDGET LAST TIME, THEY WERE ABLE TO PURCHASE ALL OR MOST OF THEM, UM, USING, UH, UH, ADDITIONAL FUNDS THAT WERE FOUND LATER. 
          UM, I BELIEVE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE NEW ORLEANS ATTACK. 
          UH, BUT THEY DO WANT MORE. 
          THERE IS A NEED FOR MORE, AND THEY DO WANNA EXPAND THEM BEYOND JUST DOWNTOWN. 
          UH, AND THERE IS AN INTEREST IN TPW TAKING THIS ON, AT LEAST FROM THEM. 
          UH, SO I WILL PROBABLY JUST AMEND THAT TO SAY, UH, PURCHASE ADDITIONAL MERIDIAN ARCHER BARRIERS RATHER THAN, UH, 65. 
          UM, AND THEN I BELIEVE, UH, UM, COMMISSIONER SUMMERS ALSO HAS AN AMENDMENT ON TO HERE, BUT, UH, THAT, UH, THAT'S, THAT THE, THAT WAS MY THEORY FOR PICKING THESE THREE SPECIFICALLY OUT OF A VERY LARGE RECOMMENDATION. 
          HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          GREAT. 
          AND I ALSO NEGLECTED THAT WE DO HAVE, IT'S ACTUALLY FINE BECAUSE I THINK MY PRINCIPLE OF PRESENTING WHAT OUR BUSINESS IS AND THEN HAVING THE PUBLIC COMMENT, IT MAKES SENSE TO NOW CALL ADAM GREENFIELD, WHO HAS SIGNED UP FOR COMMENT ON ITEM 
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FIVE. 
          UM, FROM SAFE STREETS AUSTIN. 
          UH, GOOD EVENING. 
          GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. 
          ADAM GREENFIELD HERE WITH SAFE STREETS AUSTIN. 
          UM, THANKS FOR TAKING UP THIS ITEM. 
          UH, WE ARE RECOMMENDING, UM, IN, IN YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU ALSO INCLUDE, UM, INCREASED ANNUAL MAINTENANCE FUNDING FOR SIDEWALKS AND URBAN TRAILS. 
          SO CURRENTLY IT'S ABOUT $5.4 MILLION, 5 MILLION A YEAR FOR SIDEWALKS AND 0.4 FOR URBAN TRAILS. 
          UH, IT USED TO BE 1 MILLION, AND IT'S INCREMENTALLY GONE UP TO FIVE. 
          BUT ACCORDING TO THE SIDEWALK PLAN, THE ACTUAL ANNUAL NEED JUST FOR SIDEWALKS IS 30 MILLION. 
          SO THAT MEANS 5 MILLION THIS YEAR WILL BE 25 MILLION SHORT NEXT YEAR, 25 PLUS 25 IS 50 MILLION SHORT, 75 THE NEXT YEAR AND SO FORTH. 
          SO WE, WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN'T JUST SUDDENLY GO FROM 5 MILLION TO 30 MILLION, UH, BUT WE, WE'D LIKE TO SEE A, A MORE OF A BUMP UP, UM, FROM, UH, FROM WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW. 
          AND, AND WE THINK IT'S REASONABLE TO GO FROM 5.4 TO 7.5, UM, AND THAT STAFF CAN DECIDE HOW THAT EXTRA, HOW THAT BUMP UP IS DIVIDED BETWEEN URBAN TRAILS AND SIDEWALKS. 
          SO THAT'S OUR, THAT'S OUR RECOMMENDATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT TEES ME REALLY UP NICE FOR PROPOSED AMENDMENT . 
          SO I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT, AND IT WOULD BE TO ADD, UM, A FOURTH BULLET POINT, AND IT WOULD HAVE THIS WORDING, AND I CAN SHARE THIS WITH YOU, UM, MEREDITH AFTER THE MEETING. 
          BUT, UM, INCREASE THE ANNUAL MAINTENANCE BUDGET FOR SIDEWALKS AND URBAN TRAILS FROM 5.4 MILLION TO AT LEAST 7.5 MILLION, PROVIDING STAFF DISCRETION IN WHICH PROGRAM TO ALLOCATE THE NEWLY AVAILABLE FUNDS. 
          I'LL SECOND. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, CAN YOU REPEAT IT ONE MORE TIME JUST SO I CAN PUT IT IN? YEAH. 
          YOU WANT ME TO READ IT AGAIN ONE MORE TIME? YES. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          IT IS INCREASE THE ANNUAL MAINTENANCE BUDGET FOR SIDEWALKS AND URBAN TRAILS FROM 5.4 MILLION TO AT LEAST 7.5 MILLION, PROVIDING STAFF DISCRETION IN WHICH PROGRAM TO ALLOCATE THE NEWLY AVAILABLE FUNDS. 
          GOT IT. 
          GREAT. 
          ANY DISCUSSION? WE CAN TAKE A VOTE ON THAT AMENDMENT. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THAT AMENDMENT. 
          UM, RAISE YOUR HAND, SAY AYE. 
          GREAT. 
          AYE. 
          THAT, UM, AMENDMENT DOES PASS UNANIMOUSLY. 
          UM, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION OR AMENDMENTS OF THE, UH, MOTION? I'D ALSO LIKE TO, UH, MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND. 
          GREAT. 
          UH, SO, UH, MY MOTION WILL BE TO, IN THE NOW THIRD BE IT RESOLVE WHERE IT SAYS, UH, WORK WITH THE AWESOME POLICE DEPARTMENT TO PURCHASE, UM, STRIKE 65, UH, AND SUBSTITUTE THE WORD ADDITIONAL. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          YES. 
          CAN YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF? THANK YOU. 
          CAN I, YEAH, YEAH, YOU, YOU CAN, UH, HELLO, COMMISSIONER RICHARD MENDOZA, DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION OF PUBLIC WORKS. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT AND OUR, UH, MOBILITY, SAFETY, UH, NEEDS. 
          I JUST NEED TO ADVISE THAT, UM, GOING FROM THAT AMOUNT INCREASE TO $7 FROM FIVE, FROM 5.4 TO 7.5, 5.4 TO 7.5, THAT'S ABOUT 30 CENTS A MONTH ON THE RESIDENTIAL TRANSPORTATION USER FEE. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAD. 
          OKAY. 
          WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE TRANSPORTATION USER? I THINK THAT IT'S ATTACHED TO YOUR UTILITY BILL. 
          OKAY. 
          I, I THINK THE ONLY THING I WOULD SAY TO THAT IS, AND THE DIRECTOR CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I BELIEVE THAT CAN BE OFFSET BY DECREASING OTHER THINGS THAT THET IS USED FOR. 
          IT'S NOT NECESSARILY AN INCREASE, IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO, UH, DO THAT. 
          CAN YOU, IS THE DEPARTMENT PLANNING TO ASK FOR AN INCREASE IN THE TOUGH THIS YEAR AS PART OF THIS BUDGET PROCESS? IN GENERAL? WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH OUR FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT ON WHAT OUR CAPACITY IS, UM, GOING FORWARD. 
          SO IS IT, IS IT TOUGH, THE ONLY METHOD TO FUND SIDEWALK AND URBAN TRAIL MAINTENANCE? OH, NO. 
          WE USE GRANTS. 
          UM, WE HAVE, UM, UM, 
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MOSTLY GRANT FUNDING, BUT THE MAJORITY AND, AND THEN OF COURSE BONDS, UH, THE MAJORITY OF OUR SIDEWALK PROJECTS ARE FUNDED THROUGH THE, UH, GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, AND THEN A VARIETY OF GRANTS. 
          UH, WE GET CAMPO GRANTS, FEDERAL GRANTS, UH, SAFE STREETS FOR ALL GRANTS. 
          WE'VE BEEN PRETTY SUCCESSFUL LATELY ON WITH THOSE. 
          WE ALSO HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH CAT METRO, WHICH, UH, WE PARTNER ON AND FUND SIDEWALKS AROUND BUS STOPS. 
          SO, NO, I JUST WANNA PROVIDE THAT, THAT CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THIS IS, THIS IS SPECIFIC TO SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE. 
          SO THIS IS NOT FOR CONSTRUCTION. 
          I DID WANNA JUST HIGHLIGHT THAT AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, MAY, I'M NOT, MAYBE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THING, BUT, UM, WE'RE CALLING OUT SPECIFICALLY THE SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE AND URBAN TRAIL MAINTENANCE. 
          UM, I'M, I'M PERSONALLY COMFORTABLE GOING AHEAD AND WITH THE AMENDMENT BECAUSE MY VIEW IS THAT WE ADVOCATE FOR WHAT WE THINK SHOULD BE IN THE BUDGET, AND THEN OTHER PEOPLE CAN FIGURE OUT THE FINANCING AND, AND HOW TO PAY FOR IT . 
          SO, UM,  OR, OR WHAT ELSE NEEDS TO GET REDUCED. 
          SO, UM, I THINK THAT IF IT'S OUR PRIORITY, THEN WE SHOULD GO WITH WHAT OUR PRIORITY IS, AND THAT, THAT'S MY PERSONAL FEELING. 
          WELL, AND I MEAN, I WAS GONNA ASK, SO I MEAN, IF YOU COULD GIVE US A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT, MR. MENDOZA. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, IF YOU COULD GIVE A LITTLE MORE, SORRY TO HAVE YOU COME BACK UP, UM, BECAUSE I CAME UP FOR A REASON TO SAY LIKE, HEY, THIS IS A 30 CENT INCREASE. 
          SO IS THERE SOMETHING MORE REASONABLE THAT YOU THINK, UH, I DIDN'T SAY INCREASE. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          OKAY, I INTERRUPT. 
          I DIDN'T SAY INCREASE. 
          I SAID WHAT THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY WOULD REFLECT IN THE CORRESPONDING TRANSPORTATION USER FEE. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          RIGHT. 
          BUT SO IS THERE IS 30 CENTS MORE A MONTH? WELL, I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT IT WOULD REFLECT AND WHAT IT WOULD AND AN INCREASE. 
          YEAH. 
          EVERY MILLION DOLLARS, UH, OF SPEND, UM, IN MY, IN MY DEPARTMENT HAS FUNDED THROUGH THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE REPRESENTS ABOUT 15 CENTS, UH, ON THE RATE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO IS THERE A, LIKE A DIFFERENT RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU NO, I'M JUST PROVIDING SOME CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION. 
          OKAY. 
          I, I MEAN, CLEARLY YOU CAME FOR A REASON, RIGHT? LIKE, TO KIND OF VOICE THAT. 
          SO IF THERE'S A DIFFERENT NUMBER THAT FOR A REASON THAT WE SHOULD TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, I'D LOVE TO HEAR IT. 
          UH, WELL, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, I HAVE, I HAVE SIDEWALK NEEDS. 
          I HAVE A LOT OF OTHER COMPETING NEEDS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AND OUR DEPARTMENT HAS IMPLEMENTED THAT MILLION YEAR INCREASE YEAR OVER YEAR, ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO, PANDEMIC, I THINK WE, WE HELD IT FLAT. 
          UH, SO NO, WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE, THE NEEDS OUT THERE, UH, OFTEN OUTWEIGH THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE THAT WE HAVE. 
          I MEAN, SHOULD WE ASK FOR MORE? I, I DON'T, I'M NOT FOLLOWING WHETHER 15 OR 30 CENTS IS SIGNIFICANT OR NOT. 
          I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ASK. 
          NO, I, WELL, I, NO, I'M TRYING TO SAY IF WE NEED TO GO LESS, IS IT SIGNIFICANT? CAN ANYONE ANSWER THAT? BUT I JUST, I MEAN, I DON'T, I THINK WE'RE GETTING CAN, THIS IS MY TAKE AND I, THE WEED, I'M SORRY. 
          YEAH. 
          I, THIS INTERVENTION IS, ANYWAY, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE, WHAT OUR RECOMMENDATION SAID IS WHAT WE, HOW WE WANNA FUND IT. 
          UH, MR. MENDOZA HAS COME IN AND SAID, THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD REPRESENT IN THE TOUGH. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, I DON'T PERSONALLY, MY, MY OWN PERCEPTION IS NOT THAT THE TOUGH MONEY IS THE ONLY WAY TO FUND SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE. 
          AND I THINK THAT WE ALL UNDERSTOOD YES, AGREED ON THAT. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, I, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T THINK THAT IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY. 
          LIKE WE ONLY, THIS IS A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WE ARE ELEVATING TO OUR RECOMMENDATION TO, TO TINY IN THE, THE OVERALL BUCKET OF THE TRANSPORTATION BUDGET. 
          AND SO IF WE AS THE UTC REALLY FEEL THAT RAISING THE MAINTENANCE BUDGET TO 7.5 MILLION IS A PRIORITY, AND THEN COUNCIL OR TPW WANNA TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT, THEN I THINK THEY CAN FIGURE OUT WHERE IS THE APPROPRIATE PLACE TO CUT THAT. 
          THAT'S MY, IF, IF A CUT NEEDS TO BE MADE ELSEWHERE. 
          THAT'S MY OWN PERSONAL FEELING IS LIKE, I REALLY FEEL PERSONALLY THAT THIS IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. 
          AND SO I'M COMFORTABLE MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS. 
          I'M NOT SAYING RAISE, RAISE THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE ON PEOPLE. 
          I'M SAYING FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE THAT THIS ITEM WORK. 
          THAT'S MY PERSONAL FEELING. 
          AND IF, IF I CAN ALSO JUST JUMP IN, OH, SORRY. 
          I THINK I TALKED OVER SOMEONE ELSE. 
          I, I JUST WANT TO, UH, LIST, I JUST WANNA SAY MY JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS IS THAT, UM, OUR LATEST, I THINK THE MOST RECENT INFLUX OF MONEY INTO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS OF THE SIDEWALK AND URBAN TRAIL PROGRAM, I THINK THEY EACH GOT $80 MILLION IN THE MOST RECENT MOBILITY BOND. 
          AND SO WHEN WE'RE EXPANDING THE NUMBER OF MILES THAT WE HAVE OF SIDEWALKS, THE, LIKE, THE, UH, NEED FOR MAINTENANCE YEAR OVER YEAR GOES UP. 
          AND WHAT IS ATTRACTIVE ABOUT THE TOUGH IS IT'S A, UH, REVENUE STREAM RATHER 
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THAN A BLOCK OF MONEY. 
          AND SO, I, AM I WRONG? OKAY. 
          SO, UM, I THINK MY BACK, OH, OKAY. 
          SO I THINK THAT THAT IS WHAT MAKES THIS THE MORE ATTRACTIVE OPTION. 
          AND IN TERMS OF THE ALLOCATION OF THET, I THINK IS A, A BETTER QUESTION ON WHETHER OR NOT THE DEPARTMENT FEELS LIKE THEY'RE, THEY WOULD DO THE 30 CENT INCREASE IN THE TOUGH RATHER THAN A REALLOCATION OF 30 CENTS. 
          UM, I'M OKAY WITH THIS PRIORITIZATION AND, AND, AND I, OH, SORRY, I KEEP JUMPING IN. 
          NO, YOU'RE GOOD, . 
          THANK YOU. 
          SORRY, I YOU HAVE THE FLOOR, SPENCER, FIRST TIME ONLINE. 
          I'M NEW TO THIS, YOU KNOW, I LIKE JUMPING IN. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER THING I WAS GONNA SAY IS I, I, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO BRING AN AMENDMENT RIGHT NOW TO SAY AT THE BEGINNING, UH, WE RECOMMEND INCREASING THE TRANSPORTATION USING USER FEE TO PAY FOR AN INCREASE, RIGHT? BECAUSE I THINK WE, WE HAVE PUT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY INTO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, UH, AND WE HAVE MORE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT WE HAVE NOT SEEN A CORRESPONDING INCREASE IN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION MAINTENANCE INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          UM, THIS HAS BEEN A, A BIG POINT OF CONTENTION ON THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR A LOT OF TIME, BUT I ACTUALLY THINK THE PROBLEM IS IT IS MUCH MORE SEVERE WITH OUR, OUR SIDEWALKS AND, AND URBAN TRAILS. 
          UM, SO I, I THINK IT IS PERFECTLY REASONABLE TO SUGGEST THAT WE SHOULD INCREASE THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE TO PAY FOR THIS ADDITIONAL MAINTENANCE, EVEN THOUGH THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS IS ASKING US. 
          YEAH, I, I DON'T NECESSARILY DISAGREE. 
          I'M NOT SURE WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. 
          I'M NOT SURE I AGREE. 
          I I'M NOT QUITE SURE IF I'D BE READY TO MAKE THAT AMENDMENT TO THIS, THE, THIS PROPOSED RECOMMENDATION RIGHT NOW, BUT I, I JUST DO FEEL FUNDAMENTALLY COMFORTABLE WITH FORWARDING IT AND THEN LETTING, UM, STAFF FIGURE OUT HOW TO ADDRESS IT. 
          I JUST THINK, AND, AND NOT ONLY ARE YOU, YOU KNOW, THE MORE THINGS THAT WE'RE BUILDING FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THEN WE'RE NOT MAINTAINING THEM, THAT'S JUST REALLY BAD. 
          LIKE WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING MORE MILES ON THE STREET AND THEN WE'RE NOT MAINTAINING THEM. 
          WHEREAS, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU HAVE A POT, AS WAS SAID EARLIER TODAY, IF YOU HAVE A POTHOLE, YOU CALL 3 1 1 AND IT'S FILLED. 
          SO I THINK THAT THAT'S, UM, ULTIMATELY THE LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT WE DESERVE ON OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 
          IT'S GONNA TAKE A WHILE TO GET THERE. 
          SO, UM, I, I AGREE. 
          AND I, I, I DO THINK WE SHOULD TAKE THIS UP LATER. 
          AND I, I, I, I THINK THE ONE THING I JUST WANT TO CAUTION IS THAT WE, I THINK WE DO, ACTUALLY, WE SHOULD TAKE THIS UP AS A BODY AND CONSIDER THIS, I'M NOT GONNA GET TOO FAR OFF THE AGENDA TOPIC, BUT I'VE SEEN OTHER CITIES WHERE MAINTENANCE IS FUNDED THROUGH DEBT. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND I THINK UNLESS WE ARE HONEST ABOUT THE REVENUE SOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR US FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION MAINTENANCE, I THINK, LOOK, WE'RE NOT THERE NOW, BUT I THINK GIVEN OUR REVENUE CAP SITUATION, WE ARE DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO BEING THERE 10 YEARS FROM NOW WHEN WE'VE INVESTED A BILLION DOLLARS PLUS IN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND DON'T HAVE NEARLY ENOUGH MONEY TO MAINTAIN IT. 
          UH, BUT THAT'S A CONVERSATION FOR ANOTHER DAY. 
          YEAH, NO, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. 
          I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD DO MORE WORK ON. 
          UM, I NEED TO REMIND MYSELF WHERE WE WERE. 
          I BELIEVE WE DID, DID WE TAKE A VOTE ON REVISING THE 65 TO ADDITIONAL? WE DID. 
          NO, I DON'T BELIEVE WE DID. 
          WE, WE GOT, OKAY, SO I JUST WANNA CHECK ON THAT. 
          SO WE HAD A MOTION, UM, WHEN, WHEN THE OTHER, UH, CONVERSATION WAS RAISED, WE WERE, HAD A MOTION ON THE TABLE TO ALTER FROM, UM, 65 MERIDIAN ARCHER TO JUST ADDITIONAL. 
          AND DID WE HAVE, WE HAD A MOTION, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? OKAY, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND SECOND THAT WE DO THAT WORD REVISION THERE, AND WE'LL TAKE A VOTE ON THAT, I THINK, UNLESS THERE'S DISCUSSION. 
          AND THAT'S BECAUSE THEY'VE ALREADY PURCHASED SOME OF THEM, IS THAT RIGHT, SPENCER? THAT'S CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AND, BUT THERE'S A, UH, AN INTERESTING MORE LAST THING I'LL SAY BEFORE WE VOTE, THERE ARE SOME TYPOS IN THE BACKUP, SINCE THOSE ARE NON SUBSTANTIVE. 
          I DID GO AHEAD AND FIX THOSE. 
          LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, IT REFERS TO OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE 24 25 BUDGET WHEN THIS IS 25, 26. 
          YES. 
          OKAY, PERFECT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO LET'S TAKE A QUICK VOTE ON 65 TO ADDITIONAL, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? YES. 
          PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY, AYE, THAT'S UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          UM, ANY OTHER AMENDMENTS OR DISCUSSION? I JUST HAVE MORE DISCUSSION. 
          YES. 
          UM, SO FROM LOOKING AT THE PREVIOUS RECOMMENDATION, HOW WERE THESE THREE, I GUESS NOW FOUR CHOSEN TO MOVE FORWARD AS LIKE TOP PRIORITY? TOTALLY FAIR. 
          SO I, UM, WENT THROUGH A LOT. 
          I, I TRIED TO TAKE THE GUIDANCE AS MUCH AS I CAN FROM, UH, THE BUDGET OFFICE, AND THEY SEEM TO BE SUGGESTING THAT THINGS THAT WOULD BE, UM, UH, THAT, THAT WOULD MAKE THE MOST SENSE IN THIS BUDGET WERE, UH, A UNMET NEED. 
          UNMET NEEDS. 
          SO I WENT THROUGH AND LOOKED AT THINGS THAT WE REQUESTED THAT HAD A SPECIFIC FISCAL IMPACT, UM, 
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AND WEREN'T MET IN THE BUDGET. 
          UM, AND THEN SECOND, I LOOKED AT, UM, UH, THINGS THAT WERE EITHER PROGRAMMATIC IN NATURE, UM, OR, UH, UH, WERE ONE-TIME EXPENDITURES, RIGHT? I WASN'T, I WAS TRYING TO AVOID THINGS THAT, UM, WOULD CREATE NEW PROGRAMS OR, UM, UH, WOULD CREATE NEW FTES, UM, OR THINGS THAT WEREN'T FISCAL IN NATURE. 
          LIKE I, I THINK, I THINK WE'VE HAD SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT, UM, A LOT OF THE THINGS IN OUR BUDGET RECOMMENDATION LAST TIME WERE MAYBE NOT SUPER FISCAL IN NATURE. 
          UM, AND I DON'T THINK THEY WERE NECESSARILY INAPPROPRIATE FOR THAT TIME, BUT I THINK GIVEN WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR IN THIS BUDGET CYCLE, IT MADE SENSE TO EXCLUDE THOSE. 
          YEAH. 
          THANKS FOR THE CLARIFICATION, . 
          ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. 
          I'LL, UH, CALL FOR A VOTE ON THE, UH, UH, RECOMMENDATION AS AMENDED. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY, AYE, THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          AND MEREDITH, WE'LL GET YOU THE UPDATED WORDING. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          APPRECIATE THAT. 
          YES, I THINK SPENCER WAS WORKING ON THAT ACTIVELY. 
          GREAT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT CONCLUDES ITEM FIVE AND TAKES US INTO ITEM SIX, 
          [6. Discussion and possible action regarding officer appointments to the Urban  Transportation Commission.]
WHICH IS DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING OFFICER APPOINTMENTS TO THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION. 
          SO EVERY YEAR IN APRIL, WE DO HAVE TO UPDATE OUR OFFICERS AND UM, OR, UH, WE DO ALSO HAVE, UM, A NEED AS WELL BECAUSE, UH, COMMISSIONER BROOKS IS NOT WHO IS OUR CURRENT VICE CHAIR IS, UH, ENDING HIS TERM, UM, AND NOT GOING TO BE CONTINUING, UM, WITH DISTRICT 10. 
          SO, UM, WE DO MINIMALLY NEED ANOTHER VICE CHAIR. 
          I, I AM WILLING TO DO AT LEAST ONE MORE YEAR AS CHAIR. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF I WILL. 
          UM, I'M BEING REAPPOINTED FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS, UM, AND I'M HAPPY TO CONTINUE SERVING. 
          I'M NOT SURE I WANNA BE CHAIR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS, SO, BUT I'M HAPPY TO AT LEAST BE CHAIR FOR 2025. 
          UM, AND UM, UH, SO BASICALLY WE'LL NEED A VICE CHAIR AND THEN DEPENDING ON, UH, WE'LL ALSO NEED A PAR A PARLIAMENTARIAN, WHICH IS CURRENTLY, UH, SPENCER SCHUMACHER IS CURRENTLY THE PARLIAMENTARIAN. 
          THOSE ARE IN OUR BYLAWS. 
          THOSE ARE OUR THREE OFFICERS. 
          UM, SO, UM, WE CAN DO THIS DIFFERENT WAYS. 
          I WAS GONNA SUGGEST IF, IF FOLKS ARE WILLING TO HAVE ME CONTINUE SERVING THAT I WOULD BE CHAIR THAT COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER AND I HAVE TALKED TO HIM ABOUT THIS COULD BE VICE CHAIR AND THEN I DON'T KNOW WHO WANTS TO BE PARLIAMENTARIAN, Y'ALL TELL ME, UM, IF , WE DO HAVE TO, WE LIKE HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY IN THOSE THREE ROLES PER OUR BYLAWS. 
          WHAT DOES BEING THE PARLIAMENTARIAN ENTAIL? VIRTUALLY NOTHING. 
          I MEAN, SPENCER CAN TELL YOU WHAT HE'S DONE. 
          SPENCER ACTUALLY IS A REALLY GREAT PARLIAMENTARIAN IN THAT HE ACTUALLY KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES. 
          SO HE'S ACTUALLY NUMEROUS TIMES DONE HELPFUL INTERVENTIONS TO KEEP US ON TRACK. 
          UM, SO, UM, IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THE PERSON COULD DO THAT, BUT, UM, I THINK SPENCER DID A MORE ADMIRABLE JOB THAN MOST IN THAT SERVING, IN THAT ROLE. 
          SO I THINK IT WOULD BE OKAY IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE THAT WELL, SORRY, ARE WE, UM, ARE WE JUST LIKE DRAFTING WHO WE'RE THINKING FOR THESE RULES? DID WE VOTE? WELL, IT'S DISCUSSION. 
          WE COULD DO THEM INDIVIDUALLY OR WE COULD JUST DO THEM AS A SLATE, WHICH WAS KIND OF WHAT I WAS THINKING. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT ARE WE, ARE WE NOMINATING AND VOTING ON ALL OF THEM TODAY? THAT'S, YES. 
          THAT'S THE, SO WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT EVERY APRIL. 
          THIS IS PER OUR PER BYLAWS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, AND WE KNOW THAT OBVIOUSLY THERE'S GONNA BE MORE PEOPLE CYCLING THROUGH, UM, IN MINIMALLY DISTRICT TWO, SIX AND 10 ARE GOING TO BE NEW APPOINTMENTS. 
          SO, AND WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THOSE ARE, WHEN THOSE WILL HAPPEN. 
          UM, WE DID HAVE SOME THAT TOOK REALLY EXTENDED TIME LAST YEAR. 
          UH, LAST TIME AROUND THERE WAS A, WHEN THERE WERE COUNCIL ELECTIONS, SO WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SEE. 
          YEAH, I KNOW SOMEONE'S BEEN APPOINTED IN SIX, BUT THEY HAVEN'T FINISHED THE TRAINING. 
          I DON'T THINK ANYONE'S BEEN APPOINTED OR TWO OR 10. 
          AND I WILL ALSO ADD WITH THIS AS WELL, COMMISSIONER BROOKS. 
          UM, SO THE 90 DAY, UM, GRACE PERIOD BETWEEN, UM, COUNCIL ELECTIONS DOES END AT THE END OF APRIL. 
          SO I BELIEVE YOU ARE I, I'LL DOUBLE CHECK THIS MAR MEREDITH'S NODDING. 
          SO, UM, I BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE YOUR LAST MEETING WITH US, SO WE DO APPRECIATE YOU CONTINUING TO SERVE IN THE GRACE PERIOD. 
          WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE ON THIS BODY. 
          AS VICE CHAIR, I'M VERY PERSONALLY APPRECIATIVE FOR ALL THE RECOMMENDATION WRITING AND EMAILING. 
          AND, UH, I KNOW I'LL CONTINUE WORKING WITH YOU IN OTHER BO BODIES AND CAPACITIES. 
          SO I'M, I'M, WE'LL SEE A LOT MORE OF EACH OTHER, SO I'M EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 
          BUT I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU WARMLY FOR, FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE FOR THIS GROUP. 
          SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU. 
          YAY, . 
          SO 
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I GUESS WHAT I'M REALLY TRYING TO GAUGE, AS I KNOW WE HAVE SOMEONE, FOLKS WILLING TO BE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR, BUT I'M NOT QUITE SURE ABOUT PARLIAMENTARIAN. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT I'M REALLY TRYING TO READ THE ROOM HERE. 
          I'M ASSUMING THAT THE COMMISSIONERS FROM DISTRICT SEVEN AND EIGHT DID NOT EXPRESS ANY INTEREST IN THIS SINCE I, HERE I HAVE NOT ASKED THEM. 
          COMMISSIONERS, THE SEVEN IS LIKE BRAND NEW, RIGHT? YEAH. 
          SO AN EIGHT. 
          UM, HE, HE MIGHT BE, I MEAN HE'S NEW-ISH. 
          HE'S NEW-ISH. 
          HE'S BEEN AT SEVERAL MEETINGS. 
          OKAY. 
          I DON'T HAVE ANY WORDS OF INTEREST. 
          THE OTHER THING IS THAT THE OFFICERS, THE THREE OFFICERS OFTEN DO GET COPIED LIKE ON, I DO, UM, JUST CONVERSE WITH THEM ABOUT THE AGENDA. 
          SO IF LIKE, UM, OTHER THAN HELPING US WITH PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE, LIKE IF YOU WANT IT TO SORT OF LIKE GET MORE EMAILS ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE AGENDA OR ME ASKING YOU FOR FEEDBACK ON THE AGENDA OR WHAT WE CAN CUT WITHIN THE TIME THAT WE HAVE THE OFFICERS DO EMAIL WITH ME ABOUT THAT SOMETIMES. 
          SO THAT MIGHT BE A FUNCTION THAT YOU COULD DO OR YOU COULD JUST IGNORE THE EMAILS AND IT WOULD PROBABLY BE FINE TOO. 
          , DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE LOOKING AT ME AND YOU SAY THAT, AND I DO HAVE A TERRIBLE TRACK RECORD OF EMAILS, SO I FEEL LIKE I'M NOT NO, NO, I'M LOOKING ONLY LOOKING AT YOU. 
          'CAUSE YOU ASKED THE QUESTIONS ABOUT IT, WHICH ARE HELPFUL FOR ALL OF US TO, TO KNOW. 
          SO, UM, UH, I, I WILL JUST SAY IF IT'S HELPFUL, IF I AM ELECTED AS VICE CHAIR, I AM HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO INTERVENE. 
          PARLIAMENTARY AS IT IS, UH, WELCOME. 
          I WOULD ASSUME  I WOULD EXPECT NO LESS. 
          HONESTLY, SPENCER. 
          YEAH. 
          NO, AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 
          I WAS LIKE, APPRECIATE REALLY PROUD THAT WE GOT THE, UM, THAT RIGHT OF WAY VACATION A COUPLE MONTHS AGO. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, VERY GOOD. 
          ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE PARLIAMENTARIAN? NO. 
          OKAY. 
          SO DO WE PER BYLAWS, PARLIAMENTARIAN, WHAT DO WE DO IF THERE , IF THERE'S NO ONE HERE WANTS TO DO IT? WELL, I MEAN, I, I WOULD RECOMMEND IF WE CAN'T HAVE A SLATE, LET'S TAKE EACH POSITION INDIVIDUALLY AND THEN WE CAN DO THE FUN THING WHERE WE NOMINATE EACH OTHER UNTIL SOMEONE EVENTUALLY ACCEPTS THE NOMINATION. 
          OKAY. 
          BY GOD, ? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M I'M DOWN FOR THAT. 
          YES. 
          ALL. 
          SO LET'S, I'LL JUST, I'LL DO IT. 
          YOU'LL DO IT. 
          I'LL DO IT. 
          SURE. 
          OKAY. 
          WE BROKE HIM DOWN. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO I KNEW WHERE THAT WAS GONNA, I AM JUST GONNA MOVE. 
          IT'S A LITTLE AWKWARD TO MOVE YOURSELF TO BE CHAIR, BUT I, I REALLY KIND OF WANNA CONTINUE MY WORK. 
          I REALLY, I DO KIND OF THINK THAT 2025 MAYBE MY LAST YEAR AS CHAIR. 
          SO IN ANOTHER YEAR I REALLY DO HOPE SOMEONE'S THINKING I WILL PLAN TO CONTINUE TO SERVE MY ENTIRE FOUR YEAR TERM. 
          BUT I, I WOULD LIKE SOMEONE TO CONSIDER BEING CHAIR NEXT YEAR. 
          UM, AND, UM, HAPPY TO TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT THAT GOING FORWARD. 
          BUT I'LL JUST MOVE THAT WE APPROVE A SLATE. 
          UM, MYSELF, SUSAN SUMMERS AS CHAIR COMMISSIONER SPENCER SCHUMACHER AS VICE CHAIR AND COMMISSIONER DANIEL CAVEMAN AS PARLIAMENTARIAN A I SECOND. 
          THANK YOU COMMISSIONER ALVAREZ. 
          ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT, I'LL CALL FOR A VOTE ON THAT. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR RAISE YOUR HAND. 
          ARE YOU IN FAVOR, COMMISSIONER BROOKS? YES. 
          YES, I SEE YOUR, YES. 
          OKAY. 
          A FAVOR. 
          GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT DOES CONCLUDE OUR OFFICER ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
          UM, THAT BRINGS 
          [7. Discussion and possible action regarding an appointment to the Joint Sustainability  Committee (one vacancy). ]
US TO ITEM SEVEN, WHICH IS DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING AN APPOINTMENT TO THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE. 
          SO LET ME, UM, MESSAGE THIS. 
          I THINK I DID A LITTLE BIT LAST MEETING. 
          THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COM COMMITTEE IS A COMMITTEE, A COUNCIL COMMITTEE THAT IS, UM, A SORT OF FRANKENSTEIN OF COMMITTEES. 
          SO IT'S A COMMITTEE THAT'S OPPOSED, UH, COMPOSED BY APPOINTEES FROM OTHER COMMITTEES. 
          AND SO THEY DO A LOT OF WORK ABOUT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING AND, UM, ONE OF, SO THEY, THEY ARE COMPOSED, ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT COMPOSES THEIR BODY IS AN APPOINTEE FROM UTC BECAUSE WE OBVIOUSLY KNOW THE CRUCIAL ROLE THAT TRANSPORTATION PLAYS IN, UM, SUSTAINABILITY. 
          SO, UM, FOR THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS THAT HAD BEEN, UM, DIANA FROM DISTRICT SEVEN, BUT SHE HAS NOW ROLLED OFF, UM, THE COMMISSION. 
          SO, UH, THE UTC. 
          SO THAT NECESSITATES US APPOINTING A NEW UTC MEMBER TO THE, UM, UH, TO THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE. 
          THIS IS A PRETTY ACT, MUCH MORE SO THAN PARLIAMENTARIAN . 
          THIS IS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT COMMITMENT BECAUSE IT DOES INTEND, ENTAIL ATTENDING ANOTHER MONTHLY MEETING OF THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE AND ALSO OF, YOU KNOW, DOING THE WORK OF A COMMITTEE LIKE TAKING VOTES. 
          YOU MAY BE WRITING RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          ANYTHING THAT WE DO HERE, THEY WOULD DO THERE. 
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UM, I, UH, DIANA HAS BEEN REALLY DEDICATED AND ACTUALLY WAS SERVING AS VICE CHAIR OF THE SUSTAINA JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE. 
          SO SHE WAS REALLY DOING QUITE A BIT OF WORK THERE AND WAS A VERY, LIKE, FREQUENT ATTENDER BECAUSE OF, PROBABLY DUE TO SOMEWHAT THE NATURE OF THAT COMMITTEE, THEY DO HAVE QUORUM ISSUES. 
          SO ATTENDANCE IS VERY IMPORTANT AND WE HAD APPOINTED A BACKUP. 
          I HAD AGREED TO SERVE AS THE BACKUP. 
          IF DIANA WAS EVER UNABLE TO ATTEND, I DEFINITELY CANNOT COMMIT TO, I MEAN, IT SOUNDS FUN, BUT I MENTALLY, I KNOW THAT I CAN'T, UM, TAKE THIS ON. 
          SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF ANYONE WAS HERE. 
          WE ALSO COULD TRY TO WAIT AND SEE A COUPLE BEATS AND SEE THROUGH IF SOME OF THESE NEW FOLKS WANNA CYCLE THROUGH AND DO IT. 
          BUT I, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OUR THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY BY WHEN DO WE NEED TO APPOINT, BECAUSE IF THEY'RE NOT MEETING QUORUM ALREADY, RIGHT. 
          LIKE HOW DOES THAT IMPACT, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE GONNA IMPACT THEM. 
          AND ALTHOUGH I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE BACKUP, YOU DON'T WANNA GO. 
          I, I, I, I COULD, I COULD FOR A COUPLE MONTHS. 
          I HAVE TO LOOK AT WHEN THE MEETING TIMES ARE. 
          I MIGHT BE ABLE TO MAKE THAT WORK, BUT I CAN'T DO IT MORE THAN A COUPLE MONTHS. 
          SO, UM, AND I CERTAINLY DON'T THINK I HAVE TIME TO DO ANY ACTUAL WORK ON IT. 
          I COULD JUST GO AND REPORT BACK OR PARTICIPATE. 
          BUT, UM, UH, IF, DOES ANYONE CURRENTLY PRESENT IN THIS MEETING HAVE AN APPETITE FOR THIS ROLE? THIS IS WHY, I MEAN, THIS IS, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE MANY COMMISSIONS AND THEIR INTERESTING, UNIQUE COMPOSITIONS, THIS IS AN ISSUE. 
          I'M GONNA THEN THEREFORE MOVE THAT WE POSTPONE THIS ITEM MM-HMM . 
          UNTIL OUR SUMMER, UNTIL THE, CAN I, I CAN SAY TILL THE JUNE MEETING AND WE'LL SEE WHERE WE ARE THEN. 
          AND I WILL, UM, I WILL SEE IF I CAN LOOK UP AND REACH OUT TO THE CHAIR OF THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE AND PERHAPS SEE IF I AM, IT'S FEASIBLE FOR ME TO ATTEND THE NEXT COUPLE. 
          I, AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE, I DON'T KNOW. 
          WE'LL SEE. 
          I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHEN THEY MEET, SO, ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT'S ITEM SEVEN. 
          OH, DO I HAVE TO TAKE A VOTE ON A POSTPONEMENT? I GUESS I DO DO. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO I JUST MOVED THAT WE POST ON THIS, POSTPONE THIS ITEM TO JUNE. 
          YES. 
          IF I JUST ADD ON THIS BEFORE WE VOTE, I, I WILL SAY LAST TIME, YOU KNOW, WHEN I JOINED TWO YEARS AGO AND WAS YOUNG AND NAIVE, I HAPPILY SIGNED ON TO BE THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE. 
          I BET ONE OF THESE NEW PEOPLE WILL BE REALLY EAGER TO GET INVOLVED AND, UH, THEY WILL MISTAKENLY SIGN UP FOR IT. 
          . 
          DANG. 
          SPENCER SPENCER, WE'RE ON A TX. 
          HOPEFULLY THEY'RE NOT WATCHING OUR, OUR MEETING  TO LEARN. 
          WHAT ABOUT A BUSINESS TWITTER WE CONDUCT? OH MY GOODNESS. 
          OKAY. 
          . 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, SO I MOVE, WE POSTPONED TO JUNE. 
          DO I HAVE A SECOND ON THAT? SECOND. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER ALVAREZ. 
          LET'S TAKE A VOTE. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? UH, SOL SOME HANDS GO UP. 
          COMMISSIONER BROOKS? YES. 
          THAT'S UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT TAKES US THROUGH OUR DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS. UM, WE WILL, UM, UH, GO THROUGH, UH, UH, COMMITTEE UPDATES. 
          [8. Update from Commissioner Schumacher from the Downtown Commission regarding  actions taken at the March 19, 2025, meeting. ]
SO AN UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER FROM THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE MARCH 19TH, 2025 MEETING. 
          NO ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE MEETING. 
          WE DID HAVE A, UM, UH, VERY INTERESTING PRESENTATION ON THE, UH, OSCAR CONVENTION CENTER. 
          UM, THEY DID TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE DETOURS FOR TRANSPORTATION THAT WILL BE, UM, UH, AROUND THAT. 
          SO MAY BE INTERESTING FOR SOME OF US TO TAKE A LOOK AT. 
          THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, UPDATE 
          [9. Update from Commissioner Schumacher from the Bicycle Advisory Council regarding  actions taken at the March 18, 2025, meeting.]
FROM COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER FROM THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN FROM THE MARCH 18TH, 2025 MEETING. 
          YES, NO ACTIONS TAKEN, UM, BUT SOME UPDATES FROM THE AUSTIN CENTER FOR EVENTS. 
          UH, AN UPDATE FROM TPW JUST ON ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS, AND THEN A CONTINUING DISCUSSION ON, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD BIKEWAY WAY FINDING, UH, THE BAC, UH, DID A BIG RECOMMENDATION ABOUT THAT A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, AND I BELIEVE, UH, THE STAFF RESPONDED TO IT. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, NUMBER 10, ITEM 10 
          [10. Update from Chair Somers from the City Council Mobility Committee regarding actions  taken at the March 20, 2025, meeting.]
IS UPDATE FROM ME FROM THE CITY COUNCIL MOBILITY COMMITTEE REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE MARCH 20, 20 20TH, 2025 MEETING. 
          I'M ACTUALLY GONNA CALL ON ONE OF THE MANY WAYS THAT VICE CHAIR BROOKS IS AMAZING, UM, UH, HAS BEEN AMAZING, IS THAT HE FILLED IN FOR ME ACTUALLY QUITE LAST MINUTE AT THIS MEETING LAST MONTH. 
          SO I'M GONNA ACTUALLY ASK IF HE CAN GIVE THIS UPDATE FOR ME. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, THIS WILL BE THE SECOND TIME I'VE BEEN SURPRISED IF I HAVING TO GIVE THIS UPDATE. 
          BUT IN ANY CASE, WE ACTUALLY, I REPORTED THAT WE PASSED THREE RESOLUTIONS. 
          ONE 
          [02:05:01]
WAS ON THE AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL, THE OTHER WAS ON ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALONG I 35, AND THE THIRD WAS THE AUSTIN CORE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. 
          OKAY. 
          LET'S PUT IT THAT WAY. 
          UM, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I CAN REPORT OTHER THAN THAT? ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE MOBILITY C COMMITTEE LISTENED, UH, INTENSELY TO THE THINGS I SAID, EVEN THOUGH I WAS KIND OF STUMBLING THROUGH THEM AT THE LAST MINUTE. 
          I REALLY THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH. 
          I, I HAD A DENTIST APPOINTMENT AND I HAD NOT PUT IT ON MY CALENDAR AND I THOUGHT, OH, I'LL DEAL WITH THAT LATER. 
          AND THEN I JUST WAS NOT, DID NOT REALIZE THAT LOOKS LIKE WHAT THEY ALSO, WHAT MOBILITY COMMITTEE HAD ON THEIR AGENDA WAS, UM, IF I LOOK THROUGH THIS REAL QUICKLY, THEY HAD THE UPDATE FROM US. 
          THEY HAD A BRIEFING ON THE AUSTIN CORE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UM, THE SIXTH STREET VEHICLE ACCESS PILOT PROGRAM, THE CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GASES, UM, AND THEN THEIR ONGOING, UM, MOBILITY PRO PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS, UH, FROM TPW INCLUDING, UH, CONSTRUCTION AND SERVICE UPDATES. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT THEY HAD ON THERE. 
          UM, I WILL 
          [11. Update from Chair Somers from the Community Advisory Committee for Austin Transit  Partnership Board regarding actions taken at the March 6, 2025, meeting.]
NOW MOVE TO ITEM 11, WHICH IS UPDATE FROM ME, UM, FROM THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP BOARD REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE MARCH 6TH, 2025 MEETING. 
          SO OUR MAIN THRUST OF THAT MEETING WAS WE PASSED A RECOMMENDATION ON AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL. 
          I THINK IT WAS, UM, UH, COMMISSIONER BROOKS AND I BOTH HAD A HAND, UH, IN HELPING WITH THAT. 
          I THINK IT IS, UH, VERY GOOD. 
          I'M REALLY PROUD OF IT. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY NOT, I NEED TO EMAIL THE STAFF. 
          IT'S NOT ON THEIR SITE, SO I NEED TO ASK THEM TO DO THAT. 
          BUT, UM, I THINK WE DID A REALLY GOOD JOB AND VERY SUBSTANTIVE. 
          SO, UM, Y'ALL CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT WHEN IT GETS ONLINE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THAT BRINGS 
          [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ]
US TO FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. SO, UM, WE DO HAVE, UM, THREE ITEMS THAT ARE SLATED FOR MAY. 
          ONE IS THE ETOD UPDATE, SO THAT'S EQUITABLE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT. 
          AND THAT IS FOR THE, UM, CYCLE OF, UM, COUNCIL PROPOSED UPDATES, YEAR TWO UPDATES THAT'S GONNA COME FORWARD. 
          SO SHE'S, UM, ON OUR DOCKET, WE HAVE THE LIVING STREAMS STREETS PROGRAM UPDATE FROM MATT MAGE, AND THAT WAS ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO BE, I THINK IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY AND WE DEFERRED IT BECAUSE WE HAD SUCH FULL AGENDAS FOR A COUPLE MONTHS. 
          BUT WE'RE PLANNING TO HAVE HIM COME OUT AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER RIDE OF WAY VACATION. 
          UM, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIT IN ANOTHER, UM, ITEM OR TWO, POSSIBLY. 
          UM, I ALSO HAVE, I KNOW THERE'S SOME ITEMS THAT A FEW OF US HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR LIKE A DAY WHERE WE DON'T HAVE A VERY BUSY MEETING. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THAT OPPORTUNITY WOULD BE IN MAY OR LATER, BUT THERE'S A FEW THINGS OUT THERE LIKE THAT. 
          LIKE, UM, DISTRACTED DRIVING, NATO LANE SIZE, UM, SAFE ROUTES TO PARKS. 
          THESE ARE JUST SOME SORT OF CATEGORIES OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT, UM, SOME OF US HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING. 
          SO I THINK THAT THOSE, WHEN WE HAVE A LIGHTER AGENDA, WHICH IS OFTEN IN SUMMER, WE'LL HAVE THAT. 
          I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO ADD AN ITEM IN THE JUNE AGENDA, MEREDITH, TO DISCUSS THE, UM, ANNUAL REPORT. 
          AND SO I THINK THAT WE VOTE ON THE ANNUAL REPORT IN JULY, BUT LAST YEAR I JUST HAD TO SORT OF PULL TOGETHER THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE JUNE MEETING. 
          BUT I WOULD IDEALLY LIKE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ITEM IN JUNE FOR LIKE, ACTUALLY WHAT I REALLY WANT THE DISCUSSION TO BE IS THERE'S A, MOST OF THE ANNUAL REPORT IS THE, UH, PRESENTATIONS AND ACTIONS THAT WE HEARD, UM, AND THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMITTEE, WHICH JUST COMES FROM THE CHARTER AND STUFF LIKE THAT, THE COMMISSION. 
          BUT THE LAST PART IS ITEMS THAT THE COM COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO WORK ON FOR THE NEXT YEAR. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE DISCUSSION OF, OF WHAT Y'ALL SEE AS OUR PRIORITIES FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR. 
          UM, AND THAT WOULD BE PRETTY BRIEF I THINK, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO ME IN REALLY MAKING SURE I HAVE THE COMMISSION, HAVE THE ANNUAL REPORT WELL DONE. 
          SO, UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE, UM, CAP METRO 2035 TRANSIT PLAN. 
          SO THIS IS THEIR, UM, SORT OF THEIR VERSION OF THE LONG RANGE TRANSIT PLANNING. 
          AND SO THAT'LL HOPEFULLY BE SOMETIME THIS SUMMER. 
          UM, OTHER ITEMS THAT PEOPLE HAVE UPCOMING, ESPECIALLY FOR MAY AND JUNE OR EVEN A LITTLE BEYOND IS OKAY TOO. 
          LET'S MAYBE LET'S HEAR FROM A PROGRAM THAT WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM IN A COUPLE YEARS. 
          UM, OH YEAH. 
          IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO HEAR WHAT OUR VISION ZERO STUFF IS LIKE LOOKING LIKE, HOW ARE WE DOING ON THAT? UM, SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL SPENDS MONEY REALLY, WELL, LET'S SEE, LET'S HEAR ABOUT THEIR LATEST PROJECTS MAYBE IN THE NEXT, IN THE FEW COMING 
          [02:10:01]
MONTHS. 
          THOSE ARE, I JUST LOOKED AT SOME OF THE PROGRAMS IN TPW AND WE, WE LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT LIKE, SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS AND, UM, WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THEM IN A COUPLE YEARS, SO IT'D BE COOL TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE UP TO. 
          YEAH, I REALLY, VISION ZERO ESPECIALLY SEEMS SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO QUEUE UP, UM, PRETTY SOON, ESPECIALLY SO FAR OUTS TO SCHOOL. 
          IT'S BEEN A LITTLE MORE RECENT, BUT NOT THAT RECENT. 
          NOT THAT RECENT AT ALL. 
          LIKE 14, LIKE 18 MONTHS. 
          YES, YES. 
          UM, SO I AGREE WITH THOSE. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, AND I'LL GIVE, GIVE AGAIN, I'M GONNA GIVE ACCOLADES TO COMMISSIONER BROOKS. 
          WHEN HE JOINED THE COMMISSION, WE WERE SORT OF IN A LOWER ENERGY POINT AND HE, UM, ACTUALLY SUGGESTED THAT WE SORT OF GET A TOUR OF THE TPW DEPARTMENTS. 
          AND SO WE HAD A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE PEOPLE WERE COMING OUT, LIKE THE EVENTS MANAGEMENT PEOPLE, THE SIGNS AND MARKINGS PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, LIKE, AND WE REALLY GOT A SENSE OF ALL THE WORKINGS OF THE DEPARTMENT. 
          I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WANNA GO THROUGH THAT AGAIN NECESSARILY, BUT I DO THINK THOSE TYPES OF, UM, LITTLE JUST UPDATES OR EVEN INTROS, IF THERE'S ANY DEPARTMENT WE MISSED WHEN WE DID THAT, WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FOR THEM. 
          BUT THEN SOME OF THEM I THINK WE'RE READY TO CYCLE THROUGH AGAIN PROBABLY. 
          BUT THOSE TWO DO SEEM, SO WOULD IT BE LIKE AN OVER LIKE AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT THEY LIKE THEY DO AND THE IMPACT THAT THEY MAKE IN THE COMMUNITY? YES, I WOULD LOVE THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH, IT WAS REALLY FUN ACTUALLY TO DO IT. 
          MM-HMM . 
          I KNOW THAT A COUPLE OF US W WENT THROUGH IT ALREADY, SO I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO CUE IT UP AGAIN, BUT IT WAS REALLY WAS ALSO QUITE EDUCATIONAL, ALL GONE THROUGH IT. 
          I KNOW  AND IT WAS QUITE EDUCATIONAL ALL IN. 
          YES. 
          YEAH. 
          LIKE TO REALLY UNDERSTAND RIGHT, THE WHOLE, LIKE THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT OVERALL. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          IT'D BE GREAT. 
          I ALSO SUPPORT THAT IDEA. 
          YEAH. 
          SO MAYBE IF STAFF, UM, COULD THINK THROUGH WHO LIKE, GO BACK AND I CAN HELP WITH THIS, BUT LIKE WHO WE HEARD FROM THE LONGEST AGO OR MIGHT HAVE SOME UPDATES OR IF THERE'S ANYONE WE MISSED IN THAT FIRST ROUND, MAYBE WE COULD DO SOME, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE CALLING THEM THE MEET AND GREETS, BUT YEAH, LIKE, UM, UH, WE REALLY, REALLY ENJOYED THAT LIKE THREE MONTH ROAD SHOW OF EVERY LIKE FOR A THREE MONTH. 
          I DON'T KNOW. 
          AND I DO THINK IT REALLY HELPS PEOPLE THAT ARE NEW, LIKE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE NOT IN THE ROOM WITH US YET, LIKE LEARN THE LAY OF THE LAND AS WELL. 
          THAT WAS LIKE MY WHOLE FIRST YEAR. 
          IT WAS GREAT. 
          YES. 
          AWESOME. 
          YES, YOU GOT A TUTORIAL. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ANY OTHER AGENDA ITEMS? SPENCER? I KNOW YOU HAD A COUPLE THINGS YOU WERE THINKING NATO, LANE SIZE WAS ONE OF THEM. 
          WERE THERE OTHER THINGS? YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I GET FOR SUGGESTING TOPICS RIGHT BEFORE SESSION. 
          UM, THAT ONE MIGHT BE AN EASY ONE 'CAUSE NATO JUST RECOMMENDED GOING TO A 10 FOOT LANE SIZE. 
          SO THAT ONE WOULD BE A PRETTY SIMPLE ONE. 
          I MIGHT TRY TO BRING THAT IN MAY OR JUNE. 
          UM, THE ONE, ONE THING THAT MAYBE I'LL FLAG FOR JULY, UH, WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE, UH, IS WE TALKED ABOUT A PROJECT CONNECT STYLE ORDINANCE FOR BOND PROJECTS. 
          UM, GIVING THEM WAIVERS FROM CERTAIN, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, PERMITS AND, AND PROCESSES THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO SPEED UP BOND DELIVERY, UH, OF PROJECTS. 
          UM, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO DO THAT, BUT I THINK THAT IS A, A BIG BITE AT THE APPLE. 
          SO I I WILL DEFINITELY NEED SOME HELP THAT, THAT MAKES SENSE AS WELL. 
          I ALSO JUST WANNA SAY SPENCER, THAT, UM, ERIC BAILEY AND DIFFERENT PRESENTATIONS THAT HE'S, UM, GIVEN HIS, LIKE TALKED ABOUT HOW THEY'RE WORKING ON THAT. 
          AND SO MAYBE THAT COULD JUST BE PAIRED WITH AN UPDATE ABOUT WHAT CDS HAS DONE TO CLEAR SOME OF THOSE REGULATORY AND OTHER BARRIERS AWAY AND THEN WE CAN LOOK AT, UM, CONTRIBUTING AND COLLABORATING WITH THEM ON HOW THAT MIGHT MOVE FORWARD. 
          YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          LET ME SUGGEST ONE THING. 
          OTHER THING IS TO PERIODICALLY LOOK AT THE CAP METRO CUSTOMER SATISFACTION ADVISORY COMMISSION AGENDA. 
          MM. 
          SO MOST OF THE ITEMS ARE VERY SPECIFIC TO TAP METRO, BUT OCCASIONALLY THERE'S ONE THAT IS PROBABLY OF, OF BROADER GENERAL INTEREST AND IT'S INTO URBAN TRANSPORTATION. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S GOOD NOTICE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ANYTHING ELSE? ALL RIGHT. 
          I BELIEVE THEN THAT, THAT DOES TAKE US TO THE END OF OUR AGENDA. 
          I'M GONNA COMMIT THANK COMMISSIONER BROOKS. 
          ONE MORE TIME, YOUR LAST MEETING WITH US. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND, UM, WITH THAT, IF I SEE NO FURTHER OBJECTIONS, I'LL ADJOURN THIS MEETING AT 7:23 PM NICE.
* 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.