Nov 13, 2025 Mobility Committee

I APPRECIATE THOSE COMMENTS, ADAM.

GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL MEMBERS.

ADAM GREENFIELD HERE WITH SAGE STREETS AUSTIN.

UM, WELCOME BACK.

COUNCIL MEMBER CADRY, WHEREVER YOU ARE.

UM, SO WE ARE HERE TO SPEAK STRONGLY IN SUPPORT OF PROTECTED BIKE LANES ON SIXTH STREET.

UH, STAFF IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON PROPOSALS FOR THE FUTURE OF SIXTH STREET.

THOSE PLANS MUST INCLUDE PROTECTED BIKE LANES.

IT IS OFFICIAL CITY POLICY.

IT'S IN THE BIKE PLAN.

UM, SIXTH STREET HAS UNIQUE CONNECTIVITY.

SO SOME PEOPLE SAY, WELL, WHY NOT HAVE BIKE LANES ON FIFTH OR SEVENTH? SIXTH STREET IS THE ONLY WESTBOUND, UM, STREET THAT GOES FROM I 35 TO MOPAC.

SO, UM, IT HAS UNIQUE CONNECTIVITY VALUE FOR CYCLING.

OUR MODE SHIFT GOALS VERY MUCH DEPEND ON PROTECTED BIKE LANES ON OUR HIGH PROFILE STREETS LIKE SIXTH STREET.

UH, WE KNOW MERCHANTS, SOME MERCHANTS HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT BIKE LANES, AND WE WANNA SEE THE CITY REALLY WORK WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO MAKE THESE, UH, THESE BIKE LANES WORK.

BUT THE DATA ARE VERY CLEAR.

BIKE LANES MEAN BUSINESS BUSINESSES THAT ARE CLOSE TO BIKE LANES DO BETTER THAN BUSINESSES THAT ARE NOT.

THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BIKE LANES, NOT ONLY IN AUSTIN, BUT IN TEXAS.

WHEN YOU SEE PHOTOS OF BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE IN TEXAS, THAT WILL BE SHOWN ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

IF WE HAVE BIKE LANES ON SIXTH, THEY WILL BE SEEN IN THOSE PRESENTATIONS.

UH, CONFERENCES COMING TO TOWN WILL USE THESE FACILITIES.

THEY WILL BECOME REALLY A, UM,

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AN EXAMPLE OF OF HOW SERIOUS AUSTIN IS ABOUT BIKING AND REALLY THE FUTURE OF SIXTH STREET AND THE FUTURE OF BIKE LANES ON SIXTH STREET IS A LITMUS TEST FOR BIKING IN AUSTIN.

HOW SERIOUS ARE WE ABOUT OUR MODE SHIFT GOALS? HOW SERIOUS ARE WE ABOUT SAFETY? UM, HOW SERIOUS ARE WE ABOUT LISTENING TO ALL STAKEHOLDERS AND MAKING SURE THAT SIXTH STREET CAN BE ACCESSED, UH, SAFELY BY ALL TRANSPORTATION USERS? SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE TIME.

UH, WE REALLY HOPE THAT THE COUNCIL WILL SUPPORT STAFF IN, UM, IMPLEMENTING OUR OWN PLANS FOR BIKE LANES ON SIXTH STREET.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR REMARKS.

DO WE HAVE A THIRD SPEAKER OR ARE THEY NOT HERE YET? SHE'S NOT HERE.

SHE DID EMAIL ME AND LET ME KNOW.

SHE'D BE HERE AROUND ONE 30 IF SHE CAN STILL SPEAK.

YES.

I WILL GIVE HER TIME TO SPEAK WHEN SHE ARRIVES.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND START WITH THE OTHER ITEMS THAT WE HAVE TO TACKLE TODAY AND JUST FLAG ME WHEN SHE ARRIVES AND WE'LL GIVE HER A SPOT IN BETWEEN PRESENTATIONS.

PERFECT.

THE MINUTES OF THE OCTOBER 16TH MOBILITY COMMITTEE MEETING.

ALRIGHT, ITEM NUMBER ONE IS APPROVE

[1. Approve the minutes of the October 16, 2025 Mobility Committee Meeting. ]

DO I HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER LANE? SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER VELA.

UM, I WANTED TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE MEETING DATES FOR 2026, OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE COULD HAVE ADDED INTO BACKUP, OR SHOULD I CREATE SPACE SO WE CAN READ THOSE INTO THE RECORD? GIVE ME ONE SECOND.

UM, I NEED A FEW MINUTES TO PULL UP THE, THE PROPOSED DATES.

PERFECT.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO THE FIRST PRESENTATION AND THEN WE'LL CIRCLE BACK ON THAT SINCE IT'S BEEN MOTIONED AND SECONDED.

WE WILL JUST LEAVE THAT ON THE TABLE FOR A SECOND.

SORRY.

OH, YOU'RE FINE.

CAN WE APPROVE THE MINUTES? GOOD AFTERNOON.

THIS IS A

[2. Briefing update on Austin Police Department traffic enforcement. ]

BRIEFING UPDATE FROM THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT ON TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.

SO WE HAVE A GREAT PRESENTATION.

WE KNOW THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN DOING GREAT THINGS, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE COVERING TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER SAFETY ISSUES ON THE ROADS, AND WE WANTED TO CREATE A SPACE TO BE ABLE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE INITIATIVES.

ABSOLUTELY.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

UM, ASSISTANT CHIEF MIKE CHANCELLOR WITH AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT, I WAS ASKED TO PRESENT ON OUR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS AND INITIATIVES.

FIRST, I WANNA THANK ASHLEY AVAN WITH OUR EXECUTIVE STAFF FOR HELPING PUT TOGETHER THE PRESENTATION.

UM, THERE WE GO.

UM, SO TWO THINGS THAT KIND OF, UH, WE LOOK AT WHEN WE'RE DOING TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT TO GUIDE IT.

AND THE FIRST ONE IS OUR MISSION STATEMENT, WHICH IS ABOUT KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.

AND THEN THE SECOND IS VISION ZERO.

UH, YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH VISION ZERO.

THIS IS THE 10TH YEAR WITH WE'VE BEEN A PART OF VISION ZERO.

AND, UH, EVEN THOUGH OUR TRAFFIC NUMBERS HAVE DROPPED, YOU'LL SEE SUBSTANTIALLY THAT WITHIN AUSTIN WHERE WE STARTED, MIDDLE OF THE ROAD COMPARED TO OTHER TEXAS CITIES, 10 YEARS IN DIVISION ZERO, WE'RE NOW THE LOWEST PER CAPITA FOR SERIOUS INJURY AND FATALITY RATES AMONG THE LARGEST CITIES IN TEXAS.

SO THERE'S TWO PARTS TO, UH, THE WAY WE RUN A TRAFFIC INITIATIVE OR HAVE ENFORCEMENT.

THE FIRST PART IS EDUCATION.

WE ALWAYS WANNA MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE EDUCATED ON, UH, THE ISSUES THAT PEOPLE ARE FACING, WHERE WE'RE HAVING COLLISIONS, WHAT'S CAUSING COLLISIONS, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF SOCIAL MEDIA, UH, THAT WE PUSH OUT.

USUALLY AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK YOU'LL SEE SOMETHING PUT OUT ABOUT SPEEDING SEAT BELTS, DRUNK DRIVING, THINGS LIKE THAT.

AND SO THAT'S THE FIRST PART.

WE ALWAYS WANT TO EDUCATE PEOPLE BEFORE WE TAKE ANY TYPE OF ENFORCEMENT ACTION.

HERE YOU'VE GOT A SLIDE FOR THE TRAFFIC CITATIONS THAT WE'VE RIDDEN THIS YEAR ARE THE TOP ONES.

UH, WE TYPICALLY, UH, ALWAYS TARGET AGGRESSIVE DRIVING FIRST, SPEEDING, RUNNING RED LIGHTS, RUNNING STOP SIGNS, THINGS LIKE THAT.

UH, BUT AS YOU'LL SEE, OUR MOST COMMONLY ISSUED CITATIONS ARE DRIVING WITHOUT INSURANCE AND DRIVING WITHOUT A DRIVER'S LICENSE.

THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ONCE WE STOP A VEHICLE, WE END UP FINDING THAT SOMEONE DOESN'T HAVE THE EITHER OF THOSE, AND SO THEY END UP GETTING A CITATION FOR THOSE.

ON THIS NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'RE UP ABOUT 14% FROM LAST YEAR.

UH, AND PART OF THAT IS THE STAFFING THAT WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH AND TRYING TO GET OFFICERS BACK ON PATROL.

YOU'LL SEE THAT IT'S HAD A STEEP, UH, DECREASE SINCE JUNE.

THAT IS SPECIFICALLY BASED ON OUR STEP GRANT OVERTIME FUNDING, UH, THAT RAN OUT DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.

AND SO WE HAVEN'T HAD THE OVERTIME FUNDS TO, UH, FROM THE GRANT TO HAVE OFFICERS SPECIFICALLY TARGET THE HIGH SPEED ROADWAYS AND COLLISIONS.

BUT THE

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GOOD NEWS IS THAT'S A STATE GRANT, SO IT WASN'T AFFECTED BY THE SHUTDOWN.

IT'S A FISCAL GRANT, SO IT'S NOW RUNNING AGAIN.

AND SO YOU SHOULD SEE THAT RED LINE START TO GO BACK UP AGAIN.

UH, BUT WE'VE ISSUED A LITTLE OVER 11,000 CITATIONS THIS YEAR, UH, THROUGH SEPTEMBER.

AND SO THAT IS AN INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR, AND WE EXPECT THAT NUMBER TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE.

TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE CAMPAIGNS THAT WE'VE DONE THIS YEAR, WE TYPICALLY PARTNER WITH TXDOT OR OTHER GROUPS TO PUT ON CAMPAIGNS.

UH, AGAIN, THERE'S AN EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT BEFORE THE ENFORCEMENT COMPONENT.

YOU CAN SEE THAT IN MARCH AND APRIL OF THIS YEAR, WE DID A DISTRACTED DRIVING CAMPAIGN.

THAT IS WHEN, UH, PEOPLE ARE ON THEIR CELL PHONES DRIVING.

UH, YOU CAN SEE THE MARKED INCREASE IN CITATIONS THAT WERE ISSUED DURING MARCH AND APRIL OF THIS YEAR.

AND THAT WAS BASED ON THAT CAMPAIGN.

WALKING THROUGH A FEW MORE CAMPAIGNS, WE HAD A CLICK AND TICKET CAMPAIGN WITH TEXDOT.

UH, IT DIDN'T REALLY INCREASE, AND THAT IS BASED ON WHEN YOU'RE, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT SEAT BELTS, IT IS A LITTLE BIT HARDER TO TO SEE IF SOMEONE'S WEARING A SEAT BELT OR NOT WHEN THEY'RE DRIVING AROUND.

UH, VERSUS WE CAN ALL TELL THE PERSON THAT'S ON THEIR CELL PHONE, UH, SWERVING IN AND OUTTA A LANE.

UH, SO, BUT WE DID RUN THAT CAMPAIGN.

WE RAN A SPEEDING OPERATION SLOWDOWN CAMPAIGN AS WELL.

UH, YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS, YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, IN JULY WE HAD OUR HIGHEST, UH, NUMBER OF CITATIONS THIS YEAR FOR SPEEDING.

WE ALSO DID A DWI INITIATIVE DOWNTOWN.

AND SO WE HAD OUR DRUG RECOGNITION EXPERTS THAT WERE WORKING DOWNTOWN OVER THE SPRING AND SUMMER, AND THEY WERE PICKING UP SHIFTS DURING THE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS AND LOOKING FOR DRUNK DRIVERS.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE WE MADE 49 DWI ARRESTS DURING THAT TIME.

IT WAS VERY SPECIFIC, UH, TIMING, VERY TARGETED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE LOOKING IN THE AREAS THAT WE BELIEVED WE HAD THE, THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF INTOXICATED DRIVERS.

SO KIND OF MOVING FORWARD OF WHAT WE'RE DOING TO TARGET, UH, AND FIND OUT WHERE WE NEED TO RUN TRAFFIC AND WHERE WE NEED TO BE SPECIFIC.

UH, I DON'T WANNA BEAT A DEAD HORSE.

EVERYONE KNOWS WE'VE GOT A SLIGHT STAFFING SHORTAGE.

AND SO THAT DOES KIND OF DRIVE, UH, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE TO BE DATA DRIVEN AND FIGURING OUT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO PUT TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.

AND SO WE HAVE WEEKLY CRIME REDUCTION MEETINGS AND DURING THOSE CRIME REDUCTION MEETINGS, WE GO OVER THE HOTSPOT LOCATIONS FOR COLLISIONS THROUGHOUT AUSTIN.

UH, THEY'RE TYPICALLY CENTERED AROUND HIGH SPEED ROADWAYS I 35 180 3 AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

AND SO, UH, WE, WE WILL PUSH OUT DIRECTED PATROLS FOR THOSE AREAS AND ASK OFFICERS TO GO ENFORCE, UH, CITATIONS SPECIFICALLY WHERE WE'RE HAVING THOSE ISSUES.

UH, AND WE ALSO TALK ABOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THOSE AREAS.

SO WHAT WE SEE A LOT OF IS, OKAY, ON, ON I 35, THERE'S A CONSTRUCTION AREA HERE.

SEEMS TO BE A LOT MORE COLLISIONS IN THIS AREA.

WHAT CAN WE DO TO PARTNER WITH TXDOT TO PUT BETTER SIGNAGE UP TO MAKE SURE IT'S VERY CLEAR TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF COLLISIONS THERE? IN ADDITION TO THE ENFORCEMENT THAT WE'RE TAKING THERE IN LEVERAGING RESOURCES, WE HAVE A RESERVE OFFICER PROGRAM.

WHILE THEY CAN'T RUN TRAFFIC, THEY CAN'T GO OUT AND DIRECT TRAFFIC AT, UH, SPECIAL EVENTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

AND SO WE DO HAVE THEM OUT THERE DIRECTING TRAFFIC IN THOSE AREAS, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, PEOPLE ARE SAFE AND BEING ABLE TO EXIT A SPECIAL EVENT, SAY THE FOOTBALL GAME OR A FESTIVAL OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

UH, AND KEEPING PEOPLE SAFE THERE.

WE ALSO STILL HAVE A COMMERCIAL VEHICLE ENFORCEMENT UNIT.

THIS UNIT, UH, HAS DONE SOME AMAZING WORK.

IT'S REALLY COMPRISED OF A SERGEANT, TWO OFFICERS AND A CORPORAL RIGHT NOW, UH, WHICH IS VERY SMALL.

HOWEVER, THEY'VE DONE OVER 2000 INSPECTIONS THIS YEAR.

UM, SO WHEN F1 AND THE DIFFERENT GROUPS COME IN AND THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES OUT THERE, UM, THEY'RE OUT THERE INSPECTING THOSE TRUCKS AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE SAFE TO BE ON THE ROADWAY.

AND SO OUT OF THOSE 2000 INSPECTIONS THAT THEY'VE DONE THIS YEAR, THEY'VE ACTUALLY PUT 800 VEHICLES OUT OF SERVICE UNTIL THEY COULD GET THINGS CORRECTED AND DRIVE SAFELY ON THE ROAD.

WE ALSO WORK WITH TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS.

UM, THEY'VE WORKED WITH US A LOT.

UH, YOU'VE SEEN A LOT OF THEIR WORK DOWN IN SIXTH STREET AROUND HERE AS WE'VE MOVED ON TO HAVING THE STREETS OPEN, UH, DURING THE WEEKENDS AND TRYING TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SAFE, UH, TRAFFIC PATTERNS FOR PEOPLE AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS IT.

AND THEY'VE BEEN AN AMAZING PARTNER WITH US.

WE'VE WORKED WITH THE RIDESHARE COMPANIES TO GEO-FENCE LOCATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE DRIVING INTO AN AREA WHERE IT'S GONNA CAUSE A TRAFFIC JAM.

SO FOR INSTANCE, ON SIXTH STREET, WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE DROPPING PEOPLE OFF WHERE THERE'S NOWHERE TO JUMP INTO A BAR.

SO WE GIVE THEM A LOCATION, UH, ON SEVENTH STREET AND SAY, HEY, HERE'S A GREAT PLACE TO DROP PEOPLE OFF WHERE THEY CAN WALK.

IT'S ONLY A BLOCK, UH, TO GET TO WHERE THEY'RE GOING.

AND THEN WE CAN KEEP TRAFFIC MOVING AND MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE AREN'T WALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROADWAY TO GET TO WHERE THEY'RE TRYING TO GO.

SO LOOKING AHEAD, OBVIOUSLY WE'VE TOUCHED ON STAFFING A LITTLE BIT.

HOWEVER, UH, WE'RE GONNA END THIS YEAR, I BELIEVE, WITH MORE

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OFFICERS AND WE, WE STARTED IT, WHICH IS A GREAT, UH, PLACE TO BE AT.

AND SO AS WE DO THAT, WE'RE LOOKING AT BRINGING BACK OUR MOTORS UNITS AND OUR DWI UNITS.

AND SO THOSE ARE CRITICAL.

PRIOR TO 2020, WE HAD A 60 OFFICER MOTORS UNIT THAT DID THE MAJORITY OF OUR, OUR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT ALONG WITH THE OFFICERS THAT WERE ON PATROL.

HOWEVER, RIGHT NOW WE'RE UH, REALLY RELYING ON OFFICERS IN BETWEEN CALLS TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT OR WE'RE RELYING ON THE STEP GRANT, UH, WHICH IS OVERTIME FUNDING FOR OFFICERS.

AND SO AS WE BUILD AND, AND, UH, HAVE MORE OFFICERS ON THE STREET, WE'RE LOOKING TO BUILD BACK THAT DWI UNIT, THAT D UH, THAT MOTORS UNIT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE TARGETED ENFORCEMENT AND SO MUCH MORE THAT THOSE MOTORCYCLE UNITS CAN DO.

UH, WE'RE ALSO, UH, RELYING HEAVILY ON DATA, AS I SPOKE TO BEFORE IN LOOKING AT DATA AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING, UH, STREET SEGMENTS OF WHERE COLLISIONS ARE HAPPENING AND PUTTING OFFICERS THERE.

AND SO THAT'S PART OF WHY YOU'RE SEEING THE INCREASE IN CITATIONS BEING WRITTEN THIS YEAR IS BECAUSE WE'RE VERY TARGETED AND WHERE WE'RE GOING AND MAKING SURE WE'RE DOING THAT.

UH, THE OTHER THING THAT I'LL SAY IS THAT, UH, FOR RESIDENTS THAT ARE CONCERNED ABOUT SPEEDING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND AREAS LIKE THAT, UH, I WAS AT A MEETING WITH CM LANE YESTERDAY AND WE TALKED TO SOME OF THEIR RESIDENTS ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT IN NEIGHBORHOODS.

THEY DON'T TYPICALLY SHOW UP, UH, ON OUR TRAFFIC PATTERNS WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT COLLISIONS BECAUSE THAT'S IN HIGH SPEED ROADWAYS.

BUT WE DO LOOK AT, UH, THE CITY'S, UH, TRAFFIC CALMING RATINGS FOR THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AND BEING ABLE TO SEND PEOPLE OUT.

BUT WHEN PEOPLE HAVE ISSUES IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, IF THEY CAN CONTACT THEIR DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES, ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS GOOGLE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES, IT HAS A PAGE ON THERE, YOU CLICK ON IT, YOU PUT IN YOUR ADDRESS, IT'LL TELL YOU WHO YOUR DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE IS, AND THEN WE CAN GET OFFICERS OUT THERE TO ENFORCE THOSE ISSUES.

YOU MAY LIVE IN A SCHOOL ZONE, YOU MAY LIVE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE YOU'RE SEEING SPEEDING AND WE'RE NOT SEEING IT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SEEING THE HIGH RATE OF COLLISIONS OUT THERE.

BUT IF YOU CONTACT YOUR DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES, WE CAN GET PEOPLE OUT THERE.

AND SO FOR CM LANES DISTRICT, THEY REACHED OUT, WE HAVE MOTORS OFFICERS OUT THERE, UH, DOING TRAFFIC IN THE MORNING.

AND SO THOSE MOTORS OFFICERS ARE ASSIGNED TO PATROL RIGHT NOW.

UM, AND SO WE REALLY TRY AND TARGET AND GO, OKAY, HERE'S WHERE THE ISSUE IS.

IT'S DURING THE SCHOOL HOUR IN THE MORNING WHEN PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GO TO WORK, KIDS ARE GOING TO SCHOOL.

AND WE SEND ONE OF OUR, UH, PATROL OFFICERS THAT HAS A MOTORCYCLE OUT THERE TO TARGET THAT AREA FOR AN HOUR OR 30 MINUTES, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN GET, UH, SOME ENFORCEMENT IN THOSE AREAS.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS Y'ALL MIGHT HAVE.

I'VE, I'VE GOT JUST A COUPLE BEFORE I KICK US OFF AND I'LL PROBABLY ASK TWO AND THEN LET OTHER FOLKS ASK.

'CAUSE THEY MAY BE, UH, ASKING ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO THEIR DISTRICT.

UM, THE STATS ABOUT FAIL FAILURE TO MAINTAIN FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, IS THAT INSURANCE? YES, MA'AM.

JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD THAT STATISTIC.

UM, AND THEN I HAD HEARD THAT MOTORS DIVISION, THERE WERE SOME THAT WERE STILL OUT THERE.

CAN YOU TALK ME THROUGH, UM, HOW AND WHEN YOU ASSIGNED SOMEONE TO MOTORS DIVISION AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE ON THE ROAD FORWARD? I KNOW YOU MENTIONED STAFFING LEVELS AND YEAH.

WHERE YOU WANT TO BE ULTIMATELY.

SO WE HAVE TWO FULL-TIME MOTOR SERGEANTS AND THEY DO A LOT OF WORK.

HOWEVER, THERE'S NO OFFICERS THAT ARE FULL-TIME MOTORS THAT'S AN AUXILIARY UNIT.

AND SO WHEN WE HAVE SPECIFIC INITIATIVES WE CAN REQUEST AND ASK THEM TO GET OUT THERE AND DO THAT.

BUT THE MOTORS THAT YOU'RE PROBABLY HEARING ABOUT ARE OFFICERS THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO PATROL, BUT THEY STILL RIDE A MOTORCYCLE.

SO THEY'RE STILL RESPONDING TO CALLS.

UM, BUT WE HAVE THEM RIDE THE MOTORCYCLE SO THAT DURING, IN BETWEEN THE CALLS THEY CAN, UH, WORK TRAFFIC MORE EFFICIENTLY BECAUSE THE, THE MOTORCYCLE OFFICERS ARE VERY EFFICIENT AT, AT BEING ABLE TO WORK TRAFFIC, GET IN AND OUT OF SPOTS AND BE ABLE TO MOVE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU COME TO WORK IN THE MORNING OR WHEREVER YOU'RE COMING FROM, IF YOU'RE ON I 35 OR MOPAC, YOU'RE STUCK IN TRAFFIC.

IT'S VERY HARD TO MOVE TO GET, GET AROUND PEOPLE.

AND THAT'S THE SAME FOR OFFICERS, RIGHT? SOMETIMES THE SHOULDER'S NOT WIDE ENOUGH.

SOMETIMES US TRYING TO MOVE AND, AND GET AHEAD TO MAKE A STOP CAUSES MORE OF A TRAFFIC JAM, WHEREAS A MOTORCYCLE IS ABLE TO MOVE TO THE SIDE AND, AND BE ABLE TO MOVE THROUGH THAT A LITTLE BIT QUICKER AND EASIER.

THAT MAKES SENSE.

UH, VICE CHAIR CADRE, DID YOU RAISE YOUR HAND? YEP.

UM, THANK YOU CHAIR.

UH, AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.

REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT Y'ALL DO.

UH, I HAD TWO QUESTIONS.

FIRST, IT WAS AROUND THE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAM.

UH, IT SHOWS THAT THE, ON THE SLIDE THAT IT'S SHARED ACROSS ALL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. DO YOU ONLY SEE IT IF YOU ARE SUBSCRIBED TO THE, UH, SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT OR THEY'RE RUNNING ADS? I I JUST WONDER HOW FOLKS GET THE, GET THE CONTENT.

YEAH, I'D HAVE TO LOOK AND CHECK WITH OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE IF THERE'S ADS AS WELL ON THAT.

I KNOW THAT OBVIOUSLY IT'S BASED ON YOUR ALGORITHM, SO DEPENDING ON HOWEVER YOU HAVE WHATEVER SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM YOU'RE SET UP FOR, YOU MAY GET SOME EXTRA STUFF FOR THE AREA YOU'RE IN.

AND, AND, AND THIS, I I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A RIGHT OR WRONG ANSWER FOR THIS ONE, BUT WHAT MORE CAN BE DONE TO ENFORCE DISTRACTED DRIVING OR, AND OR SPEEDING? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

UH, BUT TARGETED ADS I'D HAVE TO CHECK ON AND LOOK AND SEE.

I CAN LET YOU KNOW.

GREAT, THANK YOU.

AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION WAS, UH,

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UM, SO OBVIOUSLY THE EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN, WE DO IT ALL THE TIME.

YOU'RE GONNA SEE IT.

UM, AND YOU SEE TDOT DOING THE SAME THINGS.

YOU SEE IT ON THE TOLL ROADS AND OTHER AREAS WHERE THERE'S MESSAGING PUT OUT.

WE'RE PUTTING UP MESSAGING AS WELL.

UH, THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE BIGGER COMPLAINTS YOU HAVE IN TRAFFIC IS PEOPLE LOOKING AROUND AND YOU, YOU CAN SEE THE PEOPLE ON THEIR PHONE.

UM, SO WE CAN RUN TARGETED, UH, ENFORCEMENT ON THAT IF, IF WE HAVE A SPECIFIC PLACE.

BUT REALLY THAT'S AN ALL OVER ISSUE.

UM, WE RAN IT BACK IN I BELIEVE FEBRUARY AND MARCH, OR IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MARCH AND APRIL OF THIS YEAR IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.

UH, WE DID A COUPLE DIFFERENT THINGS WITH BLOCK THE BOX AND WITH DISTRACTED DRIVING AND REALLY TRYING TO WATCH AND WE HAD A COUPLE OFFICERS THAT WERE ON MOTORCYCLES THAT WERE ABLE TO DRIVE AROUND THE AREA AND LOOK FOR THAT SPECIFICALLY.

SO, UM, THE SOONER WE ARE ABLE TO GET THAT MOTORS UNIT UP AND RUNNING, THE EASIER IT'S GONNA BE ABLE TO TARGET THAT SPECIFICALLY, UM, TO, TO DO THAT AS WELL AS THE DISTRACTED DRIVING IS HAZARDOUS.

AND SO, UH, THE STEP GRANT WOULD ALSO COVER THAT.

SO, UM, WITH THE STEP GRANT, WE LOOK AT WHERE THE ISSUES ARE AND WE WRITE THAT GRANT TO THE ROADWAYS THAT NEED COVERED.

AND SO WHEN WE SEE THOSE ISSUES, UM, EARLIER THIS YEAR WE HAD IT, UH, REDONE SO THAT IT WOULD COVER PORTIONS OF SIXTH STREET SO THAT WE COULD, UH, USE THAT OVERTIME FUNDING FOR THERE.

SO THOSE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE CAN KIND OF MOVE AROUND AND, AND TARGET TO DEAL WITH DISTRACTED DRIVING.

GREAT.

AND COUNCIL MEMBER LANE HAD HER HAND UP.

UM, JUST FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WORK YOU'RE DOING AND YES, UM, WE HAD A PUBLIC SAFETY FORUM LAST NIGHT IN MY DISTRICT AND, UM, THE AMOUNT OF PRAISE AND GRATITUDE FOR HAVING PRESENCE, UH, ON THIS PERSISTENT AREA, TROUBLE WITH SPEEDING, UH, AND A FEW OTHER TYPES OF COMPLAINTS THAT, UM, WOULD BENEFIT FROM MORE VISIBILITY OF OFFERS OFFICERS IS SO APPRECIATED.

UM, I, I DO HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.

UM, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR PRIORITIZATION OF WHERE, UM, TO ENFORCE IT, IT LOOKS AT THESE HIGH SPEED ROADS.

WHAT IT, HOW ARE YOU DEFINING HIGH-SPEED ROAD? SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT HIGH-SPEED ROAD, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE A GREAT ANSWER FOR YOU RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU'RE TYPICALLY LOOKING AT I 35 MOPAC 180 3 71.

UH, AND WHEN I SAY HIGH-SPEED ROADWAYS, I'M LOOKING AT THOSE ROADS AS THEY'RE COMING ACROSS ON OUR COLLISION REPORTING DATA.

AND THOSE ROADS ARE THE ROADS THAT I SEE DIRECTLY RELATING TO TRAFFIC COLLISIONS REPEATEDLY.

OCCASIONALLY YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE ON THERE, MAYBE LAMAR POPS UP, UH, MAYBE SOME OTHER AREAS POP UP.

BUT TYPICALLY THOSE ARE THE, UH, FOUR ROADS THAT I REALLY SEE, UM, TRAFFIC, UH, AT.

AND SO THOSE ARE OBVIOUSLY HIGH SPEED ROADWAYS AND, AND THAT'S WHY I REFER TO THEM THAT WAY.

EACH SECTOR HAS ABOUT EIGHT DISTRICTS.

SOUNDS LIKE HIGHWAYS.

UM, OKAY.

SO THAT AREA WHERE THERE'S BEEN INCREASED PATROL IS ACTUALLY ALSO NUMBER SIX ON THE HIGH INJURY ROAD NETWORK LIST.

AND SO I JUST WANNA ELEVATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ALSO CONSIDERING THAT PARTICULAR RANKING, UH, AND ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THERE ISN'T RIGHT NOW TRANSPORTATION FUNDING TO DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN THAT.

UM, AND I ALSO WANNA ELEVATE THE POSSIBILITY OF, UM, CONSIDERING SCHOOL ZONES AS AN AREA THAT COULD USE FOCUS.

UM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT SOME PARTS OF THE CITY HAVE VISIBILITY OF A PD AND I KNOW THAT'S BEEN A BIG PRIORITY, UH, FOR CHIEF DAVIS.

UM, BUT ALSO CONSIDERING THERE ARE LARGE AREAS OF THE CITY THAT DON'T AND HAVEN'T FOR SOME TIME HAD ANY VISIBILITY FROM A PD AND SO PERHAPS MOTORS ENFORCEMENT AND IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AREAS WHERE WE DON'T FIND OFFICERS GETTING OFF OF HIGHWAYS INTO WHERE EVERYBODY IS DOING CUT THROUGH SPEEDING BECAUSE OF THE TRAFFIC.

UM, I, I, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE, AND, AND I'M HAPPY TO HEAR NOW IF IT'S THERE, BUT OTHERWISE I'M HAPPY TO JUST COMMENT, UM, CONSIDERATION OF HOW TO CREATE VISIBILITY IN SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT DON'T, DON'T HAVE IT.

UM, HAVING SAID THAT, I'M GOING TO, UH, HIGHLIGHT THE STAFFING THING 'CAUSE I KNOW I DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT, BUT I WANNA PAUSE IN CASE YOU WANNA SAY ANYTHING ON ANY OF WHAT I SAID SO FAR.

YEAH, I JUST WANNA ADD TO IT THAT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE GOING BACK TO THAT WE HAVEN'T DONE MM-HMM .

UH, SINCE BEFORE 2020 WAS DISTRICTS FOR OFFICERS MM-HMM .

AND SO BY THAT I MEAN WE HAVE YOUR SECTORS AND OFFICERS WERE LOGGING INTO THEM AND THE STAFFING SITUATION WAS, YOU KNOW, THE FOUR OR FIVE OFFICERS THAT ARE HERE ARE GONNA WORK THIS SECTOR.

AND SO IF WE TAKE THE NORTHWEST AREA, THAT'S ADAM'S SECTOR FOR US, THAT'S ABOUT 50 SQUARE MILES AND YOU WOULD HAVE SIX OFFICERS WORKING THAT AREA.

RIGHT NOW YOU'VE GOT EIGHT TO 10 OFFICERS TYPICALLY WORKING THAT AREA BECAUSE OF THE STAFFING STRUCTURE AND CHANGES THAT WE'VE MADE.

AND WITHIN THAT, TYPICALLY

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AND SO WE'RE ABLE TO PUT AN OFFICER IN EACH DISTRICT AND YOU'RE SEEING IT ACROSS RESPONSE TIMES, UH, ACROSS THE BOARD FOR THE CITY.

SOME SECTORS HAVE, UH, HAVE DROPPED THEIR RESPONSE TIMES UP TO 30, 40 MINUTES, UM, JUST BY THE INCREASE OF STAFFING, UH, FROM THE MOVES THAT WE'VE MADE, BUT ALSO BY PUTTING OFFICERS IN DISTRICTS.

UM, SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE NOT IN A DISTRICT IS ALL THE OFFICERS GO TO THIS SIDE BECAUSE THE CALLS ARE HAPPENING AND THEN WE KINDA SHUFFLE AND IT TAKES US A LONG TIME TO GET TO PLACES.

AND SO, UH, PUTTING OFFICERS IN DISTRICTS, YES, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE SOME MOVEMENT, YOU'RE NOT ALWAYS GONNA BE ABLE TO STAY IN YOUR DISTRICT, BUT THAT AREA IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

SO THAT OFFICER AND YOU, WE TALKED ABOUT IT LAST NIGHT WITH THE MOTORS OFFICER THAT'S BEEN GOING OVER THERE AND PROVIDING SPECIFIC, UH, TRAFFIC DIRECTION FOR THAT, THAT'S NOW HIS DISTRICT.

AND SO HE HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOWING THE BUSINESSES, THE, THE COMMUNITIES, THE PEOPLE IN HIS DISTRICT AND LEARNING THE PROBLEMS. AND BY DOING THAT WE REALLY DO HAVE A FOCUS ON COMMUNITY-BASED POLICING AND KNOWING YOUR AREA, KNOWING YOUR DISTRICT, AND BEING ABLE TO RESPOND AND KNOW THE ISSUES.

UM, BECAUSE IT, AGAIN, IN A 50 SQUARE MILE, IF YOU'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR A SMALLER AREA, YOU KNOW, THEN EVERYTHING JUST BECOMES OVERWHELMING.

AND SO BY GIVING THEM THAT DISTRICT, IT REALLY DOES HELP US FOCUS ON WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT.

AND, AND WE'RE SO HAPPY TO SEE THE IMPACT ALREADY FROM THOSE CHANGES.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

UM, DID I HEAR CORRECTLY THAT IN 2022 THERE WERE 60 MOTORS OFFICERS AND NOW WE HAVE TWO SERGEANTS AND KNOW ASSIGNED OFFICERS.

SO, AND, AND THE NEED IS TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE OVERTIME PAY UNTIL WE HAVE SOME STAFFING? CORRECT.

AND, AND I CERTAINLY, CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.

UM, I WILL MAKE JUST, UH, ONE LAST PITCH FOR, UM, IN THE AREAS WHERE THERE AREN'T FOR OTHER REASONS, CONCENTRATIONS OF OFFICERS, UH, CREATING SOME PRIORITY FOR VISIBILITY.

UM, 'CAUSE IT'S AT THIS POINT BEEN BECAUSE KNOW YEARS SINCE IT'S BEEN THERE.

UM, ONE LAST COMMENT ON PAGE SEVEN, UM, THE COOPERATION THAT'S BEING DONE AROUND TRANSIT AND CONSTRUCTION ZONES.

I, I HOPE THAT WE CAN ADD TO THE LIST WORKING WITH CAP METRO ON THOSE NEEDS AS WELL.

UM, IT MAY ALREADY BE THERE AND JUST NOT ON THE SLIDE.

AND WE DO WORK WITH CAPITAL METRO A LOT AND SO YEAH, BECAUSE I LOVE TO ELEVATE THE NEED WITH CAP METRO WHEN WE CAN .

ABSOLUTELY.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND CAP METRO HAS RECENTLY LAUNCHED THEIR OWN POLICE FORCE OVER THE PAST YEAR, AND SO I KNOW THAT THEY DO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH AUSTIN POLICE.

IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT EVER ELEVATES TO THE POINT WHERE THEY, THEY NEED A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION, THEY'RE VERY GOOD ABOUT SAYING WE'RE GONNA TALK TO AUSTIN POLICE TO BE ABLE TO SORT THROUGH SOME OF THOSE ISSUES.

UM, I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS, BUT COUNCIL MEMBER VELA, I'LL GO AHEAD AND GIVE YOU THE FLOOR.

UH, THANK YOU CHAIR.

UM, THE, FIRST OF ALL, DID I HEAR YOU SAY AT THE BEGINNING THAT AUSTIN HAD THE LOWEST PER CAPITA RATE OF INJURIES AND DEATHS ON HIS ROADWAYS IN, IN TEXAS? I, I CAUGHT MOST OF THAT STATEMENT OR I PER CAPITA FOR THE MAJOR CITIES ACCORDING TO THE LAST VISION ZERO REPORT THAT CAME OUT.

THAT'S, UH, THAT'S REALLY, UH, IMPRESSIVE.

UH, AND I MEAN, THAT'S ONE OF THE HIGHEST RISKS OF DEATH.

I KNOW, AGAIN, PEOPLE ARE VERY AFRAID OF CRIME, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, CAR ACCIDENT THAT CAUSES A MAJOR, UH, INJURY OR DEATH, IT'S, IT'S REALLY THE GREATEST RISK I THINK THAT MOST OF US, UH, FACE ON A, ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.

AND THE FACT THAT AUSTIN IS THE SAFEST CITY OF THE MAJOR CITIES IN TEXAS TO DRIVE IN IS, UH, A TESTAMENT TO, TO THE WORK THAT THAT TRANSPORTATION HAS DONE THAT, THAT Y'ALL HAVE DONE.

UH, AND REALLY TO THE PEOPLE OF AUSTIN WHO, YOU KNOW, SLOW DOWN, TAKE IT EASY, YOU KNOW, DON'T, DON'T DRIVE CRAZY.

SO THAT, THAT'S REALLY, UH, UH, GLAD TO HEAR.

UM, LOOKING AT THE, AT THE TRAFFIC CITATIONS, HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO PRIOR YEARS? I MEAN, THINKING ABOUT 10 YEARS BACK, FIVE YEARS BACK, DO YOU HAVE ANY SENSE OF WHERE OUR CITATION LEVELS ARE COMPARED TO, UH, YOU KNOW, A WHILE BACK? SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT PRIOR TO 2020, AND I KEEP REFERRING TO 2020, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT HAPPENED.

2020, RIGHT? SURE.

COVID HAPPENED, UH, WE WEREN'T, CERTAINLY WEREN'T OUT MAKING TRAFFIC STOPS DURING COVID, YOU KNOW, UNLESS IT WAS VERY BAD.

ALRIGHT.

UM, AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK BACK, UH, AT AROUND 2015 OR SO, UH, WE'RE DRASTICALLY LOWER THAN WE WERE THEN.

RIGHT? UM, AND THAT IS, THAT IS, UH, A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH THE STAFFING ISSUES AND HAVING THAT MOTORS UNIT, UM, AND BEING ABLE TO SPECIFICALLY GO OUT THERE AND TARGET IT.

IF YOU LOOK AT AN OFFICER WHO TAKES, YOU KNOW, 10 TO 10 TO 12 CALLS A DAY, UH, THEIR ABILITY TO STOP AND MAKE A TRAFFIC STOP IN THE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT IS ALMOST NONE.

SENSE OF, 'CAUSE OUR DEADLIEST ROADWAYS ARE, ARE, UM, HIGHWAYS, UH, COMBINED WITH, AGAIN, SOME OF THE MAJOR THOROUGH AFFAIRS, UH, UH, LAMAR AND CAMERON IN MY DISTRICT COME TO MIND.

YOU KNOW, OCCASIONALLY THERE IS TIME, THERE'S CERTAINLY TIMES WHERE WE CAN, AND, AND WE PROVE THAT BY INCREASING THE, THE, UH, TRAFFIC CITATIONS WE'VE RIDDEN THIS YEAR.

BUT THAT IS THE, THE LARGEST DRIVER IS BEING ABLE TO HAVE OFFICERS STAFFED WHERE PROACTIVE ACTIVITY CAN HAPPEN.

YEAH.

AND ANY

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UH, IF WE DID HAVE OFFICERS TO ISSUE CITATIONS, WHERE WOULD THEY BE DEPLOYED? TYPICALLY? WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT, AND WE TALKED ABOUT HAVING OUR WEEKLY MEETINGS WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE SHOWING THE COMMANDERS AND THE, THE, UH, I, AND I'VE STARTED TO WORK WITH OUR TWO MOTOR SERGEANTS TOO.

HERE'S WHERE OUR TRAFFIC ISSUES ARE.

HERE'S WHERE COLLISIONS SHOW UP THE MOST.

AND SO THEY'RE GONNA BE IN THOSE AREAS THE MOST.

BUT THE SECOND PART IS CM LANE WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER, IS THAT CALMING LIST BASICALLY OF, HEY, HERE'S THE NEIGHBORHOOD AREAS THAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON.

AND SO THAT'S THE SECOND PART IS SHOWING THOSE MOTORS OFFICERS SHOWING THOSE DISTRICT COMMANDERS AND THE OFFICERS THAT ARE OUT THERE, HERE'S WHERE THE CONCERNS ARE ON A NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL.

ON A SMALLER LEVEL, WE'RE NOT GONNA SEE THE CRASHES THAT WE'RE GONNA SEE ON A HIGH SPEED ROADWAY, BUT WE DO NEED TO ENFORCE IT THERE.

SO, UH, HIGH-SPEED ROADWAYS WHERE THE COLLISIONS ARE AT, THAT'S GONNA BE THE PRIORITY.

AND SO, UH, WE SEE IT BROKEN DOWN BY SECTOR, BROKEN DOWN BY BLOCK.

THIS IS THE MOST COLLISIONS IN THIS AREA.

THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO, UH, TARGET IN A FORCE.

SO THAT'S HOW WE WOULD PRIORITIZE THAT.

AND THE HIGH CRASH ROADWAYS THAT WOULD INCLUDE, YOU KNOW, YOUR I 35, YOUR 180 3, YOUR TWO 90, HUH? YES, SIR.

GOT IT.

FINALLY.

UH, AND I, I, I THINK OF NEW ORLEANS AS A CITY THAT REALLY LAUNCHED THAT NON-SWORN RESPONSE TO NON-INJURY.

UH, AND, AND, AND AGAIN, I I, I WISH I HAD TIME TO, TO DIG INTO THESE DETAILS MORE.

SOMETIMES WE JUST GET A VERY QUICK BRIEFING ON IT.

BUT IT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL OVER THERE IN TERMS OF THEIR OFFICERS THAT THEY'RE HAVING THIS KIND OF A SPECIALIZED PRIVATE UNIT RESPOND TO RELATIVELY MINOR CRASHES WHERE, AGAIN, YOU NEED IT FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES.

UH, BUT, AND THAT HAS FREED UP A LOT OF OFFICERS.

WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME PRESENTATIONS ON IT AND, AND IT AGAIN SEEMS LIKE A GREAT IDEA TO ME.

WHERE ARE WE ON THAT? YEAH, SO WE ARE STILL LOOKING AT THAT AND, UH, WE'VE LOOKED AT A LOT OF OPTIONS NOW COMPARING US TO NEW ORLEANS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT BECAUSE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT STATE REQUIREMENTS.

AND SO ANYTIME WE WRITE A CR THREE THAT IS REQUIRED BY THE STATE TO HAVE AN OFFICER SIGN OFF ON IT.

AND SO IT MAKES LITTLE SENSE FOR US TO GO OUT AND DO A COLLISION REPORT WITH SOMEONE THAT IS CIVILIAN AND THEREFORE A SWORN PERSON TO COME BACK ON THE BACK END AND HAVE TO REVIEW EVERYTHING AGAIN TO BE ABLE TO SIGN OFF ON IT.

NOW, ARE THERE COLLISIONS OUT THERE? ARE THERE, UH, TRAFFIC HAZARDS OUT THERE THAT DON'T REQUIRE THAT CR THREE THAT SOMEONE COULD RESPOND TO? ABSOLUTELY.

UM, AND I BELIEVE THAT'S ABOUT, UH, 60,000 LAST YEAR THAT WERE EITHER COLLISIONS OR ROAD HAZARDS THAT WE COULD HAVE, HAVE SENT SOMEONE ELSE TO, UM, THE HERO PROGRAM WITH TDOT.

UH, IS AN AMAZING PROGRAM THAT COMES OUT.

THEY BLOCK ROWS, THEY DO BATTERY JUMPS, THEY, THEY HELP PEOPLE GET OFF THE ROAD.

AND SO, UH, WE ARE STILL LOOKING AT THAT.

UH, AND WE HAVE ASSISTANT CHIEF ANGIE JONES IS KIND OF LEADING THAT PROJECT AND TRYING TO SEE WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THAT DIRECTION.

AND THE CR THREE, COULD YOU, UH, UH, EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE BIT? YEAH.

SO THE STATE HAS A REQUIREMENT FOR WHEN YOU WRITE AN ACTUAL COLLISION REPORT, UH, THROUGH THE STATE, RIGHT.

AND SO THE CR THREE IS THAT FORM.

AND SO, UH, AS YOU'VE SEEN IN THE LAST, UH, CITY AUDITOR'S REPORT, WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE, UH, TOY SMITH ACT, UH, THEY TALKED ABOUT THERE'S FOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR THAT STATE COLLISION.

NOW, AUSTIN, WE DO A LOT MORE, WE ACTUALLY DO MORE THAN DOUBLE OF THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COVERING EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO.

UM, AND SO THAT'S WHAT THAT CR THREE IS, IS THE STATE'S REQUIREMENT.

YOU WILL WRITE A, A STATE COLLISION REPORT AND SEND IT INTO THE STATE BASED ON THESE TYPES OF COLLISIONS.

AND THAT'S REQUIRED FOR, FOR ANY COLLISION? OR IS THAT LIMITED? NOT ANY COLLISION.

THEY'RE VERY SPECIFIC THINGS.

AND SO, UH, WHEN THERE'S INJURY, UM, WHEN THERE'S, UH, DAMAGE MORE THAN A THOUSAND DOLLARS, WHICH THAT'S THE TRICKY PART.

AND YOU SAW IN THE AUDITOR'S REPORT WHERE THEY'RE LIKE, MM-HMM .

YOU KNOW, WE, WE SAY WHEN YOU CAR GETS TOWED, BECAUSE OFFICERS AREN'T APPRAISERS, THEY'RE NOT OUT THERE GOING, WELL, THIS, I MEAN, YOU SEE A SCRATCH ON A CAR AND IT MIGHT BE $10,000 WORTH OF DAMAGE NOWADAYS.

SO WE DON'T ASK THE OFFICERS TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT AN APPRAISE DAMAGE.

WE SIMPLY SAY, IF IT'S TOWED, THEN WE KNOW IT'S AT THAT LEVEL AND WE'RE GONNA MAKE THAT REPORT.

LOOKED AT BOTH WAYS, RIGHT? SO, UM, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT OUR RESERVE OFFICERS, OBVIOUSLY THE ORDINANCE FOR RESERVE OFFICERS WOULD HAVE TO BE REWRITTEN, AND THERE HAS TO BE A, HAS TO BE ENOUGH FUNDING TO PAY THEM TO BE ABLE TO GO OUT THERE AND DO THAT.

SO, SO IN OTHER WORDS, THOSE OF THE, THE POTENTIAL IS THERE FOR, UH, ACCIDENTS THAT DON'T REQUIRE A C3, WHICH WOULD BE, AGAIN, MINOR, UH, ACCIDENTS TO DEPLOY.

UH, SOME OF THE, THE, AND AGAIN, THEY'RE NOT CIVILIAN, IT'S PROBABLY THE, THE WRONG WORD.

'CAUSE THESE ARE RETIRED SWORN OFFICERS, OR, OR WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT? WELL, IT DEPENDS.

SO IN NEW ORLEANS IT MIGHT BE JUST CIVILIANS.

SOME, SOME AREAS MIGHT USE RETIRED SWORN OFFICERS TO DO THAT JOB.

UM, AND SO IT, IT REALLY DEPENDS ON HOW YOU PUT THAT PROGRAM TOGETHER.

AND I KNOW THAT WE'VE

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GREAT.

WELL, AND, AND I KNOW THAT THE, THE RESERVE FORCE THAT WE DO HAVE RIGHT NOW, AGAIN FOR TRAFFIC, UH, UM, AND SPECIAL EVENTS AND, AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN, UH, REALLY HELPFUL, VERY HELPFUL.

UH, AND, AND AS, ESPECIALLY, AGAIN, GIVEN THE, THE, THE PROP Q SITUATION AND GIVEN KIND OF THE, THE BUDGET REALITIES THAT WE'RE FACING, UH, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I WANT OUR 1,450 OR HOW MANY OFFICERS THAT WE HAVE LIKE OUT ON THE STREETS KIND OF DOING THE CORE WORK, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, PROPERTY CRIMES, UH, ASSAULTS, UH, YOU KNOW, VIOLENT CRIMES, THAT KIND OF, UH, STUFF.

AND ANYTHING THAT WE CAN SHIFT OFF TO, YOU KNOW, CONTRACT, UH, OUT OR, OR, OR TO, TO LEAVE OUR, TO FREE UP THOSE, UH, CRITICAL POLICE RESOURCES WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF.

SO ANYWAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I'VE GOT JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN ASKED ALREADY.

UM, WHAT IS THE THRESHOLD FOR DOING A TARGETED TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS ANNOUNCED FOR 2222? IS IT HIGH INJURY CRASHES OR IS THERE, IS IT QUANTITY? WHAT ARE THE FACTORS THAT GO INTO THAT CONSIDERATION? IT KIND OF DETERMINE WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR WHEN YOU'RE SAYING INITIATIVE.

SO, UM, TXDOT DOES A LOT OF INITIATIVE BASED ON THE DATA THROUGHOUT THE STATE, AND WE PARTNER WITH THEM ON ALMOST ALL OF THOSE INITIATIVES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO 'EM.

HOWEVER, UM, THERE'S REALLY NO THRESHOLD, UH, FOR US PUTTING TOGETHER AN INITIATIVE BASED ON COMPLAINTS OF CITIZENS OR ISSUES THAT WE'RE SEEING.

AND SO, UH, I'LL TAKE 22, 22 AS AN EXAMPLE.

RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT A LOT OF MOTORCYCLE RACING BEATING ON THAT ROAD.

UH, AND WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CONSTITUENTS CALL IN.

AND SO WE HAVE PUT A LOT OF EFFORT TOWARDS 2222 AND TRYING TO STOP THAT ACTIVITY THAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE.

AND SO WE'VE DONE INITIATIVES ON OUR OWN BASED ON THAT, BASED ON HEARING FROM THE CONS, UH, UH, CITIZENS OUT THERE THAT ARE SAYING, HEY, THIS IS AN ISSUE, US GOING OUT THERE AND LOOKING AT IT.

UH, AND SO IT JUST KIND OF DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE INITIATIVE AND WHO WE'RE PARTNERING WITH.

AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS GOING TO BE ABOUT THE SIXTH STREET SAFETY PILOT.

I KNOW THAT THE CHIEF HAS BEEN MAKING SOME CONSIDERATIONS AROUND OPENING THE STREET BACK UP TO CARS, NARROWING THE STREETS AGAIN.

CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THERE IN REAL TIME AND, AND WHAT, WHAT YOU'RE FACTORING IN AS YOU DECIDE WHAT THE ACTUAL MAKEUP OF HOW MANY LANES ARE ON THOSE, ESPECIALLY EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS? YEAH.

WELL, AND FOR HOW MANY LANES WE NEED AND THINGS LIKE THAT, WE RELY HEAVILY ON TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS TO COME IN AND TELL US ALL ABOUT THE TRAFFIC PATTERNS, HOW MANY VEHICLE USERS ARE ON THAT ROAD, HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE FOR US AS FAR AS, UH, KEEPING IN THE ROADS OPEN VERSUS CLOSING THEM.

OUR GOAL EVERY WEEKEND, UNLESS IT'S SOUTH BY HALLOWEEN WEEKEND.

THINGS LIKE THAT IS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP THAT ROAD OPEN AS LONG AS IT'S SAFE TO DO THAT.

UM, NOW WHEN IT BECOMES UNSAFE TO DO THAT, THEN WE'RE CLOSING DOWN THAT ROAD TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE DON'T HAVE A DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING DOWN THERE TO ENTER THE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT.

UM, IF YOU SAW ON HALLOWEEN, IT'S PROBABLY THE BUSIEST NIGHT WE'VE HAD IN 15, 20 YEARS DOWN THERE.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN THE VIDEOS, BUT IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT WERE DOWN THERE, UM, DURING HALLOWEEN AND, AND WE, UH, CLOSED IT DOWN BEFORE THAT.

UM, OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T HAVE THAT MANY PEOPLE AND VEHICLES TRAVELING THROUGH THAT ROADWAY, SO THAT'S AN EASY CALL.

UM, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP IT OPEN, BUT WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO WORK WITH THE, UH, ESTABLISHMENTS DOWN THERE, THE BARS, BARS AND GROUPS DOWN THERE, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THE PEOPLE DOWN THERE THAT ARE, UH, PARTICIPATING IN THAT ARE SAFE AND ABLE TO DO THAT.

AND SO, UH, WE JUDGE IT BASED ON, YOU KNOW, WHERE THINGS ARE AT AND, AND HOW WIDE IT'S GONNA BE.

AND, AND ULTIMATELY WE'LL TAKE THE DIRECTION OF, YOU KNOW, IF WE PUT IN A, A BIKE LANE OR, OR WHATEVER ELSE, AND THEN, UH, COORDINATE WITH TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS ON WHAT THEY FEEL IS BEST FOR TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND, AND, UH, WHEN WE NEED TO CLOSE DOWN THE STREET, WE WILL, UH, TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE.

AND WHEN WE CAN KEEP IT OPEN AND WE FEEL THAT PEOPLE ARE SAFE, WE'LL DO THAT.

I KNOW THOSE OF US THAT HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A LONG TIME ARE ACTUALLY USED TO IT BEING SHUT DOWN.

SO, UM, HOPEFULLY THAT'S SOMETHING THAT AS Y'ALL MAKE YOUR DECISIONS AND ARE ABLE TO MOVE THROUGH THAT TO KEEP PUBLIC SAFETY AT TOP OF MIND THAT FOLKS WILL BE RELATIVELY FLEXIBLE AROUND.

IS LIFE ON A HEALTHY STREET.

DOES THAT DO IT FOR ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT.

THANKS CHIEF.

THANKS FOR BEING HERE.

DID OUR THIRD PUBLIC SPEAKER, WERE THEY ABLE TO MAKE IT? YES, SHE IS HERE.

OKAY, PERFECT.

WHY DON'T WE GIVE HER HER THREE MINUTES AND THEN WE'LL APPROVE THE MINUTES AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE OTHER PRESENTATIONS.

HI, I AM KATE HAYNESWORTH.

I'M THE ORGANIZER OF THE HEALTHY STREET THAT IS NESTLED BETWEEN OLD TORF AND SOUTH AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD PARK.

UM, I CAME IN JANUARY WITH A VERY SMALL BABY AND PROMISED TO COME BACK WITH PICTURES, AND THAT'S WHAT I HAVE HERE TODAY.

I HAVE THREE SECONDS PER PICTURE, SO I'M GONNA GO PRETTY FAST.

BUT THIS

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WHEN WE FIRST PUT IT IN AT FIRST, THE KIDS JUST WANNA RIDE THEIR BIKES AROUND AND AROUND AND AROUND.

UM, THE KIDS GET HUNGRY WHEN THEY RIDE THEIR BIKES.

I'VE GONE THROUGH A LOT OF HOT DOGS ENOUGH TO WARRANT TASTE TESTING.

THERE'S A CLEAR WINNER.

YOU CAN SEE ME LATER IF YOU'RE CURIOUS.

UM, UNLESS IT'S THE MORNING, THEN THEY WANT BREAKFAST SAUSAGES BECAUSE A HOT DOG WOULD BE BLASPHEMOUS.

UM, ON IT'S MY PARK DAY, THEY GATHER WITH OLDER NEIGHBORS TO MAKE SEAT BALLS AND DISPERSE THEM IN THE PARK.

UM, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AP UH, AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION, UM, EMBOLDENED BY A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, THE KIDS WILL FLEX THEIR ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS.

WE'VE HAD REPTILE SHOWS, GARAGE SALES, SUMMER CAMPS RUN BY TEENS AND KIDS FROM NEIGHBORING BLOCKS.

WE'LL KNOW THIS IS WHERE TO COME TO LAUNCH YOUR STARTUP.

UM, HERE'S SOMEONE, UH, AT A PARK ENTRANCE WITH HER LEMONADE STAND.

THERE'S GOING TO BE A RECURRING KID DINNER SERIES WHERE THEY ALL WALK TO ONE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE EVERY TUESDAY FOR DINNER AND SOCIALIZING, AND THE BIG KIDS WALK THEM HOME AFTER THEY MAY OR MAY NOT LEARN MANNERS WHILE THEY'RE THERE.

UM, YOU'LL BE CONVINCED TO SHUT DOWN THE BLOCK FOR HALLOWEEN AND MAKE TROPHIES FOR THE COSTUME CONTEST, AND YOUR HUSBAND WILL DRESS UP LIKE A TRAFFIC BARREL AND YOU BOOK A FACE PAINTER A YEAR IN ADVANCE BECAUSE THEY ARE A HOT COMMODITY.

AND THE MOMS WILL START A ONE NIGHT BIKE GANG OF THEIR OWN.

WE DID A WITCHES RIDE THIS YEAR.

IT WAS ACTUALLY A FUNDRAISER FOR THE HEARTENING AS WELL, BECAUSE, UM, WE ALL LOVE TO SUPPORT THE KIDS ARE GOING TO WANNA HAVE SHARED FRONT YARD BIRTHDAY PARTIES WITH DONUTS THAT ARE EXTENDED VIA OPEN INVITATION INVITATION TO ALL NEIGHBORS AND GATHER A COUPLE BIRTHDAYS THAT ARE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TOGETHER.

AND WHEN YOU PLAN AHEAD TO MEET AT THE PARK FOR A PICNIC, YOU HAVE FOUR TEXTS BY THE TIME YOU WALK HOME ASKING IF THIS IS GOING TO BE A WEEKLY THING.

UH, WE MADE IT MONTHLY, FIRST FRIDAY PICNICS.

THIS MIGHT HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE KID LED REPTILE SHOW AND TELL THIS IS WYATT, I AM SURE YOU CAN HIRE HIM.

YOU CAN FIND ME IF YOU NEED HIS DETAILS.

WHEN SOMEONE CALLS THAT THERE ARE EIGHT ABANDONED PUPPIES IN THE PARK ON THE COLDEST DAY OF THE YEAR, YOU KNOW, THE VILLAGE WILL BACK YOU UP AND YOU GO AND GET THEM.

THESE GUYS ARE ALL IN MY TRUNK.

THEY'RE ALL SPAYED, NEUTERED, VACCINATED, DEWORMED, MICROCHIPPED, AND ADOPTED.

IT WAS EXHAUSTING.

UH, YOU'LL NEGOTIATE GROUP DISCOUNTS FOR MOSQUITO TRAPS, MULCH, DELIVERY, ET CETERA.

YOU MIGHT END UP WITH A PAGE OF WIFI CREDENTIALS, DOOR CODES AND KEYS IN YOUR JUNK DRAWER.

I CAN GET INTO, I THINK MOST OF MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSES, UH, I DON'T ONLY IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, UM, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO USE THE HEALTHY STREET AS A SELLING POINT WHEN THEY LIST THEIR HOUSE FOR SALE AND BUYERS WILL BUY SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE OF IT TO JOIN THE BLOCK.

UH, THERE'S MORE.

I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT PRESENTATION.

UM, COULD YOU EMAIL IT TO US IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY? I HAVEN'T SEEN IT, BUT WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH IT IF WE EVER GET A LITTLE SPARE TIME.

THAT IS WONDERFUL.

THAT WAS WHAT I THINK LIVING STREETS WAS REALLY SET UP FOR, WAS BEING ABLE TO BRING COMMUNITY BACK TOGETHER AND TO CREATE THESE TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES.

I'M SORRY, YOU ENDED UP WITH EIGHT PUPPIES ALL OF A SUDDEN, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY WERE LUCKY TO HAVE YOU .

ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE BACK TO THE MINUTES.

I THINK WE WERE GONNA JUST READ INTO THE RECORD THE CALENDAR DATES FOR APPROVAL SO THAT WE COULD APPROVE THOSE.

DO YOU HAVE THOSE READY? YES.

OKAY, PERFECT.

LET'S DO THAT.

IF MY COMPUTER WILL CON WORK WITH ME HERE.

SO THE DATES THAT I HAVE THAT WERE APPROVED LAST MEETING ARE GOING TO BE, SORRY, MY COMPUTER'S STILL LOADING.

NOVEMBER 12TH, 2026, AND DECEMBER 10TH, 2026.

AND THOSE WILL BE LISTED IN THE APPROVED MINUTES AS WELL.

OKAY, FANTASTIC.

I APPRECIATE IT.

THE MOTION IS ALREADY ON THE TABLE.

IT WAS MADE BY COUNCIL MEMBER LANE AND SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER VELA.

ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THOSE MINUTES.

THAT IS UNANIMOUS ON THE DAIS.

UM, WE DO NOT HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON AT THE MOMENT.

UM, SO LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT.

THEN WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM

[3. Briefing from Austin Transportation and Public Works on the state of Austin bridges.]

NUMBER THREE, BRIEFING FROM AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS ON THE STATE OF AUSTIN.

BRIDGES, UH,

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CHARGED WITH MAINTENANCE AND ASSET, UH, MANAGEMENT PLANNING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, BRIDGES AND ROADWAYS.

AND I'M HERE TO PRESENT STATE OF BRIDGES REPORT.

AND, UH, DURING THIS PRESENTATION, WE WILL TALK ABOUT BRIDGE INVENTORY, BRIDGE CONDITIONS, FINDING AVAILABLE AND NOT AVAILABLE, AND DISCUSS NEXT STEPS.

BRIDGES, UH, BRIDGES AND ROADWAYS THAT THEY'RE FOUNDATIONAL FOR.

MOBILITY BRIDGES.

UM, WELL MAINTAINED BRIDGES ARE ESSENTIAL TO CONNECT OPPORTUNITIES OR CITIZEN AND COMMUNITIES TO OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT FOR, UH, PUBLIC, UH, SPACES TO CONNECT COMMUNITY WITH DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND WELL MAINTAINED BRIDGES.

THEY'RE ESSENTIAL FOR SAFETY.

THEY SUPPORT HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY.

THEY SUPPORT ECONOMIC GROWTH.

ALSO, IT NEEDS TO MENTION THAT THEY'RE AFFECTED BY GROWTH BRIDGE INVENTORY.

I WOULD LIKE TO START WITH, UH, MAJOR BRIDGES.

CURRENTLY, UH, WE HAVE 466 BRIDGES IN, UH, UH, CATEGORY MAJOR BRIDGES WITH SPAN OVER 20 FEET.

ON THE RIGHT SIDE, YOU CAN SEE A CROSS-SECTION OF MAJOR BRIDGES, UM, STARTING WITH A TYPICAL CROSS-SECTION CULVERT, UH, BOX CULVERTS, UH, ORANGE BREACHES AND DIFFERENT SHAPES OF, UH, CULVERTS AND PIPES.

UH, MAJOR BRIDGES, THEY INSPECTED BY TEXT DOT INSPECTED ONCE IN TWO YEARS.

AND TEXT DOT PROVIDES REPORT TO OUR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE CITY ENGINEER.

WE ALSO HAVE 810 SMALL CULVERTS AND BRIDGES, SO-CALLED SMALL STRUCTURES.

THOSE STRUCTURES ARE INSPECTED ON FIVE YEAR CYCLE, INSPECTED BY THE CITY, BY OUR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTORS.

WE ALSO HAVE 20 PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE BREACHES.

THEY ARE INSPECTED BY THE CITY ALSO.

WE MAINTAIN, UH, WE HAVE URBAN TRAIL BREACHES THEN OUTSIDE OF, UH, PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.

AND WE PLAN AND WE WORK TO COMPLETE THE ASSESSMENT BY FY 27.

A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT AGE OF OUR MAJOR BRIDGES, AVERAGE AGE OF MAJOR BRIDGES APPROACHING THEIR DESIGN LIFE.

UH, IT'S 48 POINT, UH, ACTUALLY FOUR YEARS OLD.

UH, DESIGN LIFE ON AVERAGE FOR BRIDGES ARE 40 TO 50 YEARS, AND WE HAVE 35%, UH, OF OUR MAJOR BRIDGES INVENTORY APPROACHING THAT, UH, PASS DESIGN LIFE.

AND ACTUALLY MORE APPROACHING THAT WAY, I NEED TO MENTION THAT ALL THE BRIDGES WITH INCREASED TRAFFIC, INCREASED LOAD WILL EXPERIENCE IN THE FUTURE AND ALREADY EXPERIENCING, UH, INCREASED DETERIORATION RATE.

AND IT'S VERY HARD TO PREDICT WHEN THEY NEED, UH, REPLACEMENT AND REHAB.

BUT WE USE OUR ASSESSMENT TO PREDICT AND PLAN FOR REPLACEMENT AND REHABILITATION.

AND ALSO WE ARE FACING IN THE FUTURE, UH, LARGE BLOCK OF BRIDGES, UH, APPROACH IN REHAB AND REPLACEMENT NEEDS.

SO WE ARE TRYING TO BE PROACTIVE TO BRING YOU AWARENESS FOR INCREASING INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS.

UH, ABOUT BRIDGE CONDITION, MAJOR BRIDGES, UM, I MENTIONED TEXT DOT INSPECTION ON, UH, EVERY TWO YEARS.

SO OFFICE OF THE CITY ENGINEER, UH, RECEIVED THE REPORT FROM TAX DOT.

IT'S A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT, UH, THAT ASSESS EACH BREACH AND, UH, EVERY, UH, BREACH ELEMENT.

AND WE CALCULATE SO-CALLED COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL RATING FOR EVERY BRIDGE.

HOWEVER, WE ALSO HAVE 3 1 1 REPORT, UH, THAT WE USE TO ASSESS BRIDGES AND ALSO WE INSPECT BRIDGES.

WE CONDUCT FIELD INSPECTION.

UH, WE USE OUR CONTRACTORS OR OUR ENGINEERS, UH, FROM AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS.

AND BASED ON THAT, WE PREPARE BRIDGE, UH, MAINTENANCE, ANNUAL SERVICE PLAN.

AND WE IDENTIFY BRIDGES FOR REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT, HOW WE MANAGE HEALTH OF BRIDGES.

UH, MAINTENANCE.

MAINTENANCE, MOSTLY REACTIVE.

AND IT'S BASED ON ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET, UH, MAINTENANCE, UH, BRIDGES.

IT'S NOT LIKE PAYMENT MAINTENANCE WHEN WE TRY TO BE PROACTIVE AND PROACTIVELY MAINTAIN, EXTEND PAYMENT SERVICE, LIFE.

THESE BRIDGES, WE TOUCH BRIDGES ONLY WHEN BRIDGE NEEDS, NEED, NEEDS OF REPAIR TYPE OF REPAIRS.

YOU CAN SEE IT'S RAILING, REPAIR PATCH, CONCRETE REPAIR, FIRE DAMAGE.

AND WE'VE BEEN SEEING, UH, A LOT OF INCREASED FIRE DAMAGE LAST YEARS.

UH, PREVENT WATER, UH, FROM RE AND REINFORCED STEEL REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT.

UH, IT'S, UH, MORE PLANT WORK AND, UH, REHABILITATION BRIDGES BASED ON, UH, SOMETIMES IT'S TO SUPPORT STRUCTURE.

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SOMETIMES WE NEED TO WIDEN THAT TO ACCOMMODATE ON OTHER MODES OF INFRA, UH, TRAVEL.

AND, UH, AT THE END OF THE LIFECYCLE, BRIDGES, UH, MUST BE REPLACED, UH, FUNDED THROUGH, UH, THIS TYPE OF, UH, WORK.

REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT SHOULD BE FUNDED, ALL FUNDED THROUGH BONDS AND GRANTS A BREACH CONDITION.

GOALS, OUR DEPARTMENT HAVE CERTAIN GOALS WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE BASED, UH, ON, UM, OUR BREACH ASSESSMENT OVERALL.

UH, WE TRY TO ADDRESS IMMEDIATE MAINTENANCE AND BREACH, UH, BRIDGES THAT, UH, WILL LIKELY NEED REHA AND ADDRESS REHABILITATION OF THOSE BRIDGES THAT WILL LIKELY NEED REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT NEXT FIVE TO 10 YEARS.

UH, LIKELY I WANT TO EMPHASIZE UNLIKELY BECAUSE IT'S VERY DIFFICULT.

UH, IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT WHEN EXACTLY A BREACH NEEDS TO BE REPLACED IMMEDIATELY, RIGHT? AND PLUS REPLACING BREACH, UH, IT TAKES TIME, IT TAKES YEARS.

SO WE TRY TO BE PROACTIVE AS MUCH AS WE CAN.

OUR GOAL NUMBER ONE, UH, AND IT'S SAFETY RELATED, PUBLIC SAFETY RELATED THAT ALL BRIDGES, UH, RATED IN STRUCTURALLY FAIR OR BETTER CONDITIONS.

SO, UH, COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL RATING WE TRY TO ACHIEVE EQUAL OR MORE THAN FIVE.

AND, UH, YOU CAN SEE IN THE TABLE RANGES OF A SO-CALLED CSR COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL RATING FROM ZERO TO 10.

10 IS EXCELLENT CONDITION, AND ZERO IS JUST BASICALLY COLLAPSED BREACH.

GOAL NUMBER TWO, IT'S FINDING RELATE, UH, RELATED TO MINIMIZE THE FINANCIAL RISK OF UNEXPECTED FAILURE.

UH, AND IT COMES WITH A HIGHER COST AND, UH, LONGER, UH, YOU KNOW, BREACH WILL BE, UH, CLOSED FOR LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

OUR GOAL, OVERALL KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR, UH, TO MAINTAIN MAJOR, 90% OF MAJOR BREACHS IN SATISFACTORY OR BETA CONDITION AND 80% OF SMALL INFRA, UH, STRUCTURES, UH, IN, UH, SATISFACTORY CONDITION OR BETTER, UH, FOR BRIDGE CONDITION MAJOR BRIDGES.

UM, WE HAVE AVERAGE CSR COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL RATING FOR OUR FOUR, UH, 166 BRIDGES.

UH, 6.5, WHICH IS SATISFACTORY.

UH, ALL OUR MAJOR BRIDGES IN FAIR ALBERTA STRUCTURAL CONDITION AND 95% IS, IS IN SATISFACTORY ALBERTA CONDITION.

IT'S GOOD NEWS.

HOWEVER, WE HAVE QUITE A FEW BRIDGES THAT, UH, IN SEVERE NEEDS OF REPLACEMENT REHABILITATION, AND, UH, WE NEED TO ACT, UH, ON THOSE BRIDGES AS SOON AS THEY CAN.

AND A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT, UH, THOSE, UH, SEVEN BRIDGES.

UM, ON THIS SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE FIRST IT'S BARTON SPRINGS, UH, BREACH, UH, A HUNDRED YEARS OLD BREACH.

UH, WE, UH, RECEIVE WESTERN TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS RECEIVED GRANT FHWA GRANT, UH, IN FY 24.

AND WE ARE CURRENTLY IN DESIGN STAGE, UH, RED, BUT TRAIL BREACH.

UH, CURRENTLY WE ARE WORKING THIS CONSULTANT TO IDENTIFY BEST COURSE OF ACTION.

REPLACE REHAB, UM, IS SEVENTH STREET BRIDGE.

OVERPASS STRUCTURE IS SCHEDULER FOR SUBSTRUCTURE REHABILITATION.

CURRENTLY, WE DON'T HAVE ANY FINDING AND, UH, SOME OTHER BRIDGES I CAN, UH, TALK ABOUT THEM UPON YOUR REQUEST ABOUT OUR SMALLER CULVERTS AND BRIDGES CONDITIONS.

UH, AVERAGE CSRS FOR THE STRUCTURES HIGHER, UH, EIGHT, AND THEN OVERALL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

HOWEVER, THERE ARE TWO BRIDGES THAT IDENTIFIED IN POOR CONDITIONS.

UH, I NEED TO MENTION THAT THERE IS NO PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERN BECAUSE THOSE SMALL STRUCTURE, HOW, UH, COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL RATING, UH, WORKS.

IT'S BASICALLY WEIGHT AVERAGE OF ALL ELEMENTS.

IT'S STRUCTURE ITSELF, S AND CHANNEL THE CHANNEL.

SO IT COULD BE SOMETHING, MAYBE JOINT CEILING NEEDED OR SOME STRUCTURE.

AND THE BRIDGE IS A LITTLE BIT, UH, DISFIGURED AND NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.

SO THERE IS NO PUBLIC SAFETY RISK HERE.

AND OVERALL YOU CAN SEE, UH, DISTRIBUTION.

WE HAVE 99% IN SATISFACTORY OR BETA CONDITION.

UH, HERE IS, UH, BASED ON OUR ASSESSMENT, WE ESTIMATED THAT 18 BRIDGES IN NEED, UH, SMALL STRUCTURE IN NEED OF REHABILITATION REPLACEMENT.

AND OF COURSE WE NEED, UH, PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT PRIOR, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS AND DESIGN.

UH, HERE IS ESTIMATE 15 MILLION WE NEED FOR REPLACEMENT IN REHAB OF SMALL VERTS IN BRIDGES AND DISTRIBUTIONS THEM OVER THE CITY.

UH, BRIDGE CONDITION FOR PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE BRIDGES.

UH, AVERAGE CSR FOR PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE BRIDGES, IT'S 6.4 OVERALL SATISFACTORY.

AND WE

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DO HAVE ONE BREACH RATED IN POOR CONDITION, AND IT'S CLOSED CURRENTLY FOR PUBLIC USE.

THERE IS A, A GOOD NEWS THERE IS AVAILABLE, UM, NOT FAR, BUT THAT BREACH NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.

80% OF BRIDGES IN SATISFACTORY OR BETTER CONDITION.

UH, ALSO WE HAVE SOME BRIDGES, UH, CONNECTING TRAILS THERE OUTSIDE OF RIGHT OF WAY.

AND WE ARE WORKING, UH, TO ASSESS THOSE BRIDGES TO DEVELOP ASSESSMENT AND, UH, ASSESS THOSE BRIDGES IN THEIR RATING.

IT'LL BE, UH, COMPLETED BY FY 27.

UH, FOR PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE BRIDGES.

WE HAVE 10 BRIDGES IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT.

AND OF COURSE, PR HAS, UH, MUST BE COMPLETED PRIOR, Z UM, AND WE ESTIMATE 6 MILLION JUST FOR CONSTRUCTION AND REPLACEMENT.

UH, I MEAN REPLACEMENT ITSELF.

AND YOU MAY SEE BRIDGE DISTRIBUTION OVER THE CITY ON THE MAP FINDING FOR MAINTENANCE FINDING.

AS I MENTIONED, WE USE OPERATING BUDGET IN FY 26 THIS FISCAL YEAR.

WE HAVE, UH, ABOUT 2000001.8 TO BE EXACT FOR AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS.

THAT INCLUDES OUR CONTRACTED WORK AND STREET AND BREACH, UH, BREACH CREW.

COUPLE YEARS AGO WE, UH, RECOMMENDED AND, UH, WE, UH, ESTABLISH A BRIDGE CREW AND IT HELPS US A LOT TO MAKE, UH, USE OF OUR PUBLIC FUNDS MORE EFFICIENT BECAUSE CONTRACTORS, IT, IT COST A LOT TO REPAIR, TO DO SMALL REPAIRS OF BRIDGES FOR MOPING THE UP.

SO, UM, WE DO BASICALLY PS MAINTENANCE PROGRAM.

IT'S, UH, SURFACE THREE P GUARDRAIL RAILING, DEBRIS REMOVAL, FIRE DAMAGE, UH, PAINTING GRIP PREP, AND MINOR CONCRETE WORK FOR REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT.

UH, BRIDGES, JUST TO REPEAT MYSELF, THAT ARE, THEY'RE VERY CRITICAL LINKS IN OUR, UH, TO KEEP AUSTIN MOVING.

THEY'RE CRITICAL FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.

THEY'RE CRITICAL FOR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS.

THEY'RE CRITICAL JUST FOR DAY BY DAY LIFE.

AND, UH, IF NOT ADDRESSED, IF WE ARE NOT RECEIVING FINDING FOR REPLACE REHABILITATE BRIDGES, WE MAY NEED TO LOAD RAID BRIDGES OR CLOSE THOSE BRIDGES THAT, UH, WE FIND DEFICIENT.

AND IT WOULD, UH, REQUIRE DETOUR.

DETOUR ARE THEY'RE INCONVENIENCE AT LEAST.

AND, UH, ALSO IT JUST INCREASE IN EMERGENCY RESPONSE TIME.

AND IT'S THIS SAFETY PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERN.

UM, AND, UH, CREATE CONGESTION.

SO, AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO PREDICT WHEN, UH, EXACTLY REHAB AND REPLACEMENT NEEDS.

SO WE USE OUR OVERALL ASSESSMENT THAT WE, BASED ON CSR ANALYSIS OF VIEX, OUR INTERNAL INSPECTION, AND WE TRYING TO COME UP WITH THE BEST RECOMMENDATION AND WE CAN, WITH THE DATA WE HAVE FINDING REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT CURRENTLY, UH, WE ASSESS THAT ALL OUR BREACH ASSETS, IT'S, UH, COST ABOUT LIKE 3 BILLION IN BREACH ASSETS AND WITH A VERY OPTIMISTIC A HUNDRED YEAR LIFE OF BREACH AND 1% REPLACEMENT PER YEAR.

BREACH NEEDS COULD BE AS HIGH AS COT MILLION PER YEAR.

ITS SO-CALLED ANNUALIZED APPROACH.

AND BASED ON CONDITION ASSESSMENT, UH, WE ESTIMATED THAT OVER NEXT 20 YEARS, UH, WE WOULD NEED 400 MILLION CONDITION BASED APPROACH.

AND, UH, CURRENT FINDING, WE HAVE SOME FINDING, I BELIEVE SIX, ABOUT 62 MILLION AVAILABLE.

THEY'RE ALLOCATED FOR SPECIFIC PROJECTS.

THEY'RE NOT ENOUGH.

AND FUTURE FINDING, OF COURSE, UH, DETERMINES THROUGH BOND PROCESS, GRANT PURSUIT, AND, UH, TO ADDRESS THE MOST CRITICAL, UM, URGENT NEEDS.

AND THIS SLIDE SUMMARIZE, UM, JUST OUR ASSESSMENT AND ESTIMATE ON NEEDS, UH, FOR REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT FOR MAJOR BRIDGES, WE ESTIMATE ONE 25 MILLION NEEDED IN, UH, FIVE YEARS, NEAREST FIVE YEARS.

FOR SMALL BRIDGES, WE NEED 16.5 MILLION, UH, CONSIDERING, UH, PRELIMINARY PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORTS.

AND FOR PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE BRIDGES, WE NEED, UH, 7 MILLION CONSIDERING, UM, PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORTS INCLUDED.

AND, UM, TOTAL ESTIMATE IT'S ABOUT ONE 49 MILLION.

AND AFTER THAT, UH, CONSIDERING THAT WE HAVE 62 MILLION, UH, AVAILABLE AND AFTER THAT IT'S OUR ESTIMATE THAT EVERY YEAR TO MAINTAIN OUR BRIDGES SAFE FOR PUBLIC, WE NEED CT MILLION PER YEAR.

UNFORTUNATELY, UH, INVESTMENT IN BREACH, UM, REHABILITATION REPLACEMENT WASN'T ENOUGH TO A YEARS.

WE LOOKED AT, UH, YEARS SINCE 1998 AND ON AVERAGE IT'S LESS THAN 3 MILLION FOR CAPITAL, UH, PROGRAM WAS ALLOCATED, WHICH

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IS BARELY ENOUGH.

UH, SO IT'S 73 MILLION, UH, WE RECEIVED SINCE 1998.

AND OUR NEXT STEPS, WE WILL CONTINUE TO PRIORITIZE AVAILABLE FUNDING TO ENHANCE BREACH SAFETY TO KEEP THEM IN GOOD SERVICEABLE CONDITION TO OUR COMMUNITY.

WE'LL COMPLETE CSR THAT, UH, WE ARE WORKING ON, WE WILL DEVELOP STREET AND BREACH REHABILITATION PLAN.

ACTUALLY, WE CONTINUOUSLY WORKING ON THIS PLAN, ANALYZING AND MOVING IT CURRENT AS BRIDGE BRIDGES AGE, CONTINUE TO SEEK ALTERNATIVE FINDING SOURCES, FEDERAL OR STATE GRANTS, AND, UH, COMPLETE INVENTORY AND INSPECTION OF, UH, PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE BRIDGES IN THE URBAN TRAIL NETWORK IN, UH, FY 27 AND COMPLETE ROUTINE INSPECTION OF SMALL BRIDGES IN NEXT INSPECTION CYCLES, WHICH WILL BE FY 28.

AND DEVELOP, UH, THE REQUIREMENTS FOR AN AUTOMATED, UH, BREACH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION THAT CONTINUES TO ALIGN WITH THE FEDERAL SPECIFICATION.

AND IT CONCLUDES MY, UH, PRESENTATION AND WE ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF THIS ROBUST INFORMATION.

I KNOW WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET BRIEFINGS ON STREET MAINTENANCE AND SO IT'S GOOD TO GET TO SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS, WHICH IS WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO MAINTAIN AND REVITALIZE THE BRIDGES THAT WE HAVE IN AUSTIN? UM, I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE THERE'S ONLY 20 BIKE PED BRIDGES.

UM, HOW DOES THAT INTERACT WITH OUR TRAIL NETWORK? DOES, ARE THOSE CLASSIFIED AS CULVERTS OR SOMETHING ELSE IF THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT SMALLER OR CAN YOU TALK ME THROUGH THAT? UH, YES.

THOSE, UH, ONLY 20 JUST BECAUSE THEY IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT AWAY WITH THIS TRAIL NETWORK.

UH, UNFORTUNATELY WE STILL DON'T HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING HOW MANY WE HAVE.

SO WE WILL BE WORKING ON TRAIL NETWORK THERE OUTSIDE OF RIGHT OF WAY, RIGHT.

SO, UM, NOT OF ON CONNECTING ROADWAYS.

UM, WE'LL BE CONDUCTING THAT ASSESSMENT, UM, BY FY 27.

FANTASTIC.

I WAS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN A PANEL RECENTLY THAT WAS TALKING ABOUT TRAIL MAINTENANCE IN PARTICULAR AND HOW TO UTILIZE GIS IN MAINTAINING OUR TRAILS.

AND SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OVERLAP THERE THAT WE CAN BE HELPFUL WITH TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT DO OUR SMALLER BRIDGES LOOK LIKE IF THEY'RE ONLY GETTING BICYCLES, PEDESTRIANS, STROLLERS, PUPPIES, ALL, ALL THAT GOOD STUFF THAT AUSTINITES HAVE ON THE TRAILS.

AND SO I, I THINK I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KIND OF IN THE, THE CUTTING EDGE FOREFRONT OF HOW WE'RE MONITORING AND MAINTAINING EVEN THE SMALLEST INFRASTRUCTURE.

'CAUSE THERE'S STILL A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT UTILIZE THAT.

UM, CAN YOU TALK ME THROUGH A LITTLE BIT IF TEXT DOT OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS HAS CHANGED HOW THEY DO THEIR ON SYSTEM OFF SYSTEM WORK? I KNOW THAT THEY DO HAVE DIVISIONS THAT WILL ASSIST WITH BRIDGE MAINTENANCE OR REPLACEMENT THAT IS NOT ON TDOT RIGHT OF WAY, BUT I'M JUST NOT SURE IF AUSTIN IS HAVING TO STEP UP AND DO THAT ALL ON OUR OWN.

OR IF THERE'S ANY RULES THAT HAVE CHANGED OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS OR SO, LIKE DOES TDOT OR CAMPO HELP US WITH ANY OF THESE FUNDS? WELL, I TOLD YOU LIKE THIS, UH, ED POPIT FROM, UH, AT THE OFFICE OF THE CITY ENGINEER, UM, THE OFF SYSTEM STRUCTURES, UH, ARE COMPETING FOR, UH, A LIMITED AMOUNT OF FUNDS.

SO ALL ACROSS THE STATE, THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, COUNTIES AND CITIES COMPETING FOR THOSE FUNDS.

AUSTIN HAS RECEIVED SOME OF THE OFF SYSTEM FUNDING, UH, IN, IN THE PAST, BUT IT'S VERY LIMITED.

UH, AND IT'S JUST BEEN A FEW PROJECTS HERE AND THERE.

SO FOR THE MOST PART, YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE HEAD.

WE ARE MOSTLY TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES.

UM, WE DO TRY TO, YOU KNOW, UH, COMPETE FOR FUNDING WHEN IT'S, UH, WHEN A PROGRAM'S OUT THERE, BUT TECH STATS, UH, IN THE SAME SITUATION AS MOST ARE, THEY'RE TRYING TO COVER A LOT OF TERRITORY WITH A LIMITED FUNDING.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER FOLKS COMPETING FOR THOSE OFFICES AND FUNDS.

AND, AND PUBLIC SAFETY AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT.

I, I KNOW EVERYONE AT THIS POINT IS LOOKING AT HOW WE MAINTAIN RESOURCES THAT ARE CURRENTLY OPERATING.

UH, THIS IS GONNA BE AN INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT CONVERSATION BECAUSE BRIDGES ARE SO MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN ROADWAY MAINTENANCE.

AND SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LOOK AT OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS IS HOW DO WE MAINTAIN OUR OWN INFRASTRUCTURE.

UM, AND I KNOW THERE'S OTHER FOLKS HERE THAT HAVE STEPPED UP TO SERVE ON CAMPO AND UM, I KNOW THAT THROUGH MY TIME THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S DEFINITELY A COMPETITION FOR WHAT ARE THE NEEDS OF SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND WHAT ARE THE NEEDS OF BIGGER COMMUNITIES.

BUT AS ALL 11 OF US ON THE DIOCESE ARE GONNA BE APPROACHING CONVERSATIONS AROUND LIMITED RESOURCES MOVING FORWARD, I, YOU KNOW, I'M ALWAYS WORRIED THAT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE THE SAME WAY THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO.

AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, SOME OF OUR INVESTMENTS ARE HIGH PRIORITY.

IF THEY ARE HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES, THEY'RE GONNA BE HIGH PRIORITY, BUT THAT MEANS IT'S GONNA START PINCHING OUT SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT AREN'T BRIDGES

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UM, I THINK I HAVE JUST ONE OTHER QUESTION.

SLIDE 14 HAD THE PINPOINTS OF ALL OF THE CULVERTS, SMALL CUL CULVERTS AND BRIDGES.

UM, THE BLUE ONE AT THE NORTH OF DISTRICT EIGHT WESTLAKE DRIVE, IS THAT ONE BEING INCORPORATED THROUGH THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE ON 360 RIGHT NOW? OR IS THAT SOMETHING SEPARATE? I DON'T BELIEVE, UH, THAT WOULD BE, UH, SEPARATE.

YEAH.

UH, TXDOT STRUCTURES WITHIN THE, UH, TXDOT MAINTAINED, UH, RIGHTS OF WAY, UM, ARE COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM WHAT WE'RE SHOWING HERE.

OUR CITY MAINTAIN STRUCTURES WITHIN OUR CITY RIGHTS OF WAY, SO THEY'D BE COMPLETELY SEPARATE.

WE DO OCCASIONALLY HAVE PROJECTS THAT COMBINE, BUT THAT'S VERY UNUSUAL THAT THERE'S SOMETHING THAT ISN'T CLEARLY IN ONE OR THE OTHER'S JURISDICTION.

OKAY, THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW.

SO EVERY PINPOINT ON THIS MAP OF THE SMALL CULVERTS AND BRIDGES IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE HAVING TO, THESE ARE CITY, CITY CONTROLLED STRUCTURES AND MAINTAINED? YES.

OKAY, THAT'S HELPFUL.

I KNOW OF ONE EXAMPLE IN SOUTHWEST AUSTIN WHERE IT WAS WILLIAMSON CREEK AT OLD B CAVE ROAD.

AND WITH TDOT BEING, BEING ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT THAT THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, THEY WERE ABLE TO INCORPORATE THAT BRIDGE INTO SOME OF THEIR, UH, THEIR SCHEMATICS AND TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT PROJECT.

UM, BUT I THINK THAT'S A RARE CASE WHERE THEY TEND TO SAY, WHY DON'T YOU LET US HANDLE THAT AND WE'LL WORK IT OUT.

SO WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THAT 'CAUSE IT HELPS US STRETCH OUR DOLLARS A LITTLE BIT FURTHER FOR OTHER PARTS OF TOWN.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMITTEE MEMBERS? VICE CHAIR, CADRY.

GREAT, THANK YOU.

UM, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.

WHAT A IMPORTANT, WHAT AN IMPORTANT PRESENTATION.

IF, IF WE DON'T HAVE, UM, OUR, OUR BRIDGES PROPERLY MAINTAINED.

IT, IT AFFECTS ALL OF 'EM ABILITY, WHETHER IT BE CARS OR TRANSIT OR, OR BIKES.

SO, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT I KNOW THAT WE ALL CARE ABOUT, UM, ON THIS DIOCESE AND WE'LL ALL BE WORKING TOWARDS.

BUT, UH, JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION.

IT'S, IT'S, IT'S IN TWO PARTS.

SO, UM, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT GRANT OPPORTUNITIES TO LOOK LIKE IN THESE NEXT FEW YEARS AND, UH, OUTSIDE OF, OUTSIDE OF THE CITY BOND FUNDING? AND THEN DOES IT LOOK BETTER OR WORSE, UM, THAN HISTORICAL YEARS, UH, AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS? OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A, A VERY CHAOTIC STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

YEAH, THIS IS A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

AND, YOU KNOW, IF I WISH I HAD A CRYSTAL BALL.

UM, WE GOT LUCKY.

UH, OUR OFFICE APPLIED FOR FHW GRANT AND FY 24.

THAT'S HOW WE GOT, UM, GRANT, WHAT WE CAN DO, JUST ONLY MONITOR WEBSITES AND, UH, HOPE THAT WE WILL HAVE, UH, TO SEE INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT.

AND IT'S ALL IN MERCY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND STATE.

UM, IF WE HAVE STATE FUND, UH, GRANTS AVAILABLE OF FEDERAL GRANTS, WE WILL APPLY.

AND IT'S VERY HARD.

UH, YEAH, IT'S VERY HARD TO PREDICT WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN.

I HOPE I HOLD THAT.

UM, OUR OFFICIALS WILL RECOGNIZE, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE NEED A REPLACEMENT BECAUSE NATIONAL, UH, NATIONWIDE INFRA INFRASTRUCTURE IS ACTUALLY, UH, GETTING ALL THE BRIDGES, ROADWAYS, AND WE DO NEED FINDING, IF I COULD ADD JUST A LITTLE BIT TO, TO THAT, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE PURSUING AS MANY OPPORTUNITIES AS WE CAN AND SCANNING FOR THOSE.

UM, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF COMPETITION FOR THOSE.

SO EVEN WHEN THERE ARE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES, AND IT DOES APPEAR THAT THERE ARE STILL, UH, PROGRAMS OUT THERE THAT ARE HELPING FOLKS, UM, WE'RE FACING A LOT OF COMPETITION.

SO WE'VE APPLIED FOR A NUMBER OF GRANTS THAT WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED AND A FEW THAT WE'VE BEEN, UH, HAPPY TO RECEIVE.

UH, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S AN ONGOING, UM, CONSTANT THING THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO LEVERAGE THOSE FUNDS WHEN WE CAN AND WE KEEP LOOKING FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.

UH, THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION.

COUNCIL MEMBER.

I WANTED TO ADD A LITTLE BIT.

CAMPO DOES HAVE A CALL FOR PROJECTS THAT'S GONNA BE COMING UP IN WHICH WE WILL BE VERY ACTIVE IN THAT PROCESS.

UM, THAT CALL FOR PROJECTS IS, UM, GONNA BE TAKING PLACE OR THE APPLICATIONS ARE GONNA BE DUE JANUARY 20, EXCUSE ME, JANUARY 30TH, 2026.

HOWEVER, WORKING BACKWARDS, THERE'S GOING TO BE MULTIPLE SESSIONS THAT STAFF IS GOING TO HAVE WITH COUNSEL.

AND SO WE CAN START TO SELECT THE, THE, THE CORRECT PRIORITIES OF POTENTIAL PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE THAT WE'RE GONNA, UM, SUBMIT FOR.

AND TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE, UH, PROJECTED AMOUNTS, THERE'S THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BLOCK GRANT OR STBG FUNDS.

UH, THERE'S PROJECTED TO BE ABOUT 330 MILLION THERE.

AND THE TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVE, SETA ASIDES, TASA, ABOUT 40 MILLION THERE.

AND CARBON REDUCTION PROGRAM, ABOUT 13 MILLION THAT

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IS PROJECTED IN THOSE PARTICULAR CATEGORIES.

BUT WE'RE GONNA BE AS AGGRESSIVE AS POSSIBLE IN, UH, DEVELOPING A PLAN AND WORKING, UH, THAT PLAN WITH, WITH YOU ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.

GREAT.

DO YOU HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMITTEE MEMBERS? NO.

SOUNDS LIKE THAT WAS VERY THOROUGH.

WE APPRECIATE YOU.

THANKS FOR THAT PRESENTATION.

GONNA CALL UP IS GOING TO BE A BRIEFING ON AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS ON THE LIVING STREETS PROGRAM.

ALRIGHT, THE NEXT ONE I'M

[4. Briefing from Austin Transportation and Public Works on the Living Streets Program: Status Update and Future Opportunities. ]

AND AS YOU ARE TAKING YOUR SEAT, I JUST WANT TO REMIND FOLKS IN THE AUDIENCE WE ARE ENDING AT 2 45 TODAY.

WE HAVE ANOTHER SPECIAL COMMEMORATION THAT WE WILL BE TAKING UP AT THAT TIME.

SO I THINK AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE END OF OUR PROGRAM, THIS IS A GREAT ONE FOR US TO END ON.

AND THEN WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS AFTER THAT.

EXCELLENT.

THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR HAVING US.

UM, MY NAME'S MATT.

I THINK YOU GUYS KNOW ME BY NOW.

THIS IS I THINK MY SIXTH TIME IN FRONT OF YOU TALKING ABOUT LIVING STREETS SPECIFICALLY.

AND IF YOU COULD, OH, I GET IT.

CONTROL.

NEVERMIND.

UM, WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU A QUICK UPDATE ON LIVING STREETS AND WHERE WE'RE AT.

AND I'M GONNA BE BRIEF ABOUT THIS 'CAUSE I'M ALSO EXCITED ABOUT THE REWARD, UH, AWARD COMING UP.

SO, UM, FIRST WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT FY 25 FISCAL YEARS UPDATES AND TELL YOU WHERE WE'RE AT AND GOING.

BUT THEN WE'RE GONNA TELL YOU ABOUT, I THINK THE LONG AWAITED ANSWER TO EVERYONE'S QUESTION IS HOW DO WE MAKE THESE MORE COMMUNITY ORIENTED AND BETTER LOOKING INSTALLATIONS WITH LONGER IMPACT? SO FY 25 STATS FOR LIVING STREETS, YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OUT THERE.

NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTIES IS ONE OF THOSE.

IT'S A SINGLE BLOCK AND IT'S SET UP FOR A ONE DAY USE.

UM, ONE OF THE THINGS IN THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS, UH, PUT FORWARD FOR STAFF TO EXECUTE WAS, PLEASE FIX THE APPLICATION PROCESS.

AND I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT WE PROUDLY LAUNCHED THAT IN OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR.

AND I THINK THE QUOTE ON THE SCREEN SAYS IT ALL WAY SIMPLER SITE, I HOPE I DID IT RIGHT.

IT WAS ALMOST TOO EASY.

UM, AND COMING FROM AMANDA, THAT IS ACTUALLY HUGE KUDOS 'CAUSE AMANDA IS SET UP FOR EVERYTHING FROM CONSTRUCTION CLOSURES TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TO RIGHT OF WAY CHANGES AND ANY OTHER PERMITTING THAT WE'RE DOING.

SO TO BE ABLE TO SIMPLIFY THIS PROCESS AND MAKE IT MORE USER-FRIENDLY FOR OUR NEIGHBORS THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY IN THIS INDUSTRY, IT'S A HUGE STEP FORWARD FOR THE PROGRAM.

UM, I THINK IN JANUARY OF LAST YEAR, YOU WERE ASKING ME FOR NUMBERS THAT PROJECTED IN TERMS OF BUDGET FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR.

AND WE TOLD YOU SOMEWHERE AROUND 30 TO 40 AND, UH, I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT WE HIT THOSE NUMBERS, DOUBLED THEM AND TOOK IT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.

SO YEAR TO DATE, WE HAVE DONE 114 INSTALLATIONS ACROSS HEALTHY STREETS, PLAY STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTIES.

THE 30 TO 40 WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HEALTHY STREETS AND PLAY STREETS.

WE FOUND A LOT OF EFFICIENCIES WITH OUR TEAMS AND OUR GROWTH PATTERNS, OUR INSTALLATIONS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THAT THE RESIDENTS ACTUALLY WANTED TO RENEW A LOT.

SO WE DID 40 UNIQUE, UH, LOCATIONS FOR HEALTHY STREETS AND PLAY STREETS OUT OF THAT 74 APPLICATIONS.

WE'VE ALSO DONE SOME PRELIMINARY TEST DATA SINCE THAT WAS OUR FIRST FULL YEAR OF ACTIVATIONS.

AND ON OUR HEALTHY STREETS AND PLAY STREETS, IT'S MUCH HARDER TO PROJECT ON A NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTY 'CAUSE THEY'RE ONE DAY, ONE MOMENT IN TIME WE SAW A 9% REDUCTION IN SPEED, A 10% DECREASE IN VEHICULAR VOLUME AND A 62.5% REDUCTION IN VEHICULAR COLLISION.

I'M GONNA PREFACE THAT THIS IS A SMALL DATA SET AND WE'RE STILL COLLECTING DATA, BUT IT TELLS US WE'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

OUR QUALITATIVE SURVEY SHOWS STILL AN EXTREMELY HIGH APPROVAL RATE OF 65% IN SUPPORT, 7% NEUTRAL, AND 28% OPPOSED.

BUT WHAT WE HEARD MOST IS THAT THE EQUIPMENT IS STILL NOT RIGHT.

I'M GONNA COME BACK TO THAT LATER STATEMENT.

UM, WE ARE SEEING CHANGE IN WHERE AND HOW THESE ARE GOING IN.

WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT AREAS IN DISTRICT FOUR, SEVEN AND NINE ARE SOME OF OUR OLDER ROADWAYS IN AUSTIN.

THEY MOST LIKELY DO NOT HAVE A SIDEWALK APPLICATION.

THEY'RE ROUGHLY 30 FEET AND WIDTH, HAVE PARKING ON BOTH SIDES AND ARE STRONG FAMILY ORIENTED NEIGHBORHOODS.

AND AS SUCH, THE CONNECTIVITY IS OFTEN

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WHAT WE CALL A CLASS ONE ROADWAY, WHICH MEANS IT'S ALMOST ALL RESIDENTIAL ROADWAYS.

AND IF YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD OF RESIDENTIAL ROADWAYS, SOMETHING'S STILL ACTING AS A SLIGHTLY HIGHER VOLUME.

AND A LOT OF PEOPLE SEE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND BRING THIS FORWARD.

SO WITHIN, UM, THE AREA JUST SOUTH OF ANDERSON, BETWEEN BURNETT AND LAMAR, WE HAVE SEVERAL APPLICATIONS TO THE POINT WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY DEFERRING ONE APPLICATION FOR EACH SIX MONTHS SO THAT WE'RE NOT CONGESTING THE NETWORK CONNECTIVITY, BUT WE'RE CREATING THAT BEHAVIOR CHANGE WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, WE ARE SEEING GROWTH IN OUR EQUITY ANALYSIS ZONE.

THIS IS THE AREA WHERE OUR NEIGHBORS ARE THE MEDIUM HIGH TO MOST VULNERABLE PER AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION STATISTIC ANALYSIS.

AND, UH, THAT'S ALSO WHERE WE SEE, UH, DIRECT CONNECTIVITY, LARGER FAMILY GROWTH, LOWER INCOME FAMILIES, UH, CONNECTIVITY TO SCHOOL IS LACKING, SIDEWALKS ARE MISSING, AND LIVING STREETS IS A VIABLE OPTION FOR US TO COME IN AND PROVIDE SAFE ROUTES TO THOSE LOCATIONS.

SO THIS IS A PERFECT MOMENT FOR ME TO GO BACK TO TALK ABOUT THE EQUIPMENT AND GIVE YOU GUYS WHERE WE'RE AT ON OUR HEALTHY STREETS.

SO OUR ORIGINAL INSTALLATION HAD NINE PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, TWO SIGNS.

THEY SAID LOCAL TRAFFIC ONLY.

THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN.

UM, THIS WAS CONSIDERED ORANGE CLUTTER.

IT SENT MIXED MESSAGES.

MOST PEOPLE WERE TOLD US IT'S OBTRUSIVE.

IT'S A LOT.

AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, I'M LOOKING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT, NOT THE KID AT PLAY.

WE ARE MOVING TO THE FINAL SOLUTION, WHICH IS MORE IN LINE WITH THE VISION SET FORTH IN THE RESOLUTION.

SO OUR GOAL HERE IS TO MAKE IT MORE COMMUNITY ORIENTED, BRING IN PLANNERS AND ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT THAT IS LONGER TERM, AND THAT'S BECAUSE WE ARE SEEING THE NEED FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

BUT WE ARE ALSO SEEING THE NEED THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE APPLYING FOR OUR PROGRAMS ARE ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS AND RENEWING.

SO THE EQUIPMENT'S OUT THERE FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME.

WE WILL SAVE MONEY BY DOING THE INTERIM DECREASING DOWN TO SIX CONES.

SO A 30% DECREASE AS WE DESIGN, DEVELOP, AND INSTALL THE BETTER LOOKING PLANTER BASED CURB BLOCK, UH, INSTALLATIONS.

UM, WE'VE ALSO ALREADY TAKEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO WITH THE INTERIM SOLUTION, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY BEING FORWARD DEPLOYED AS WE SPEAK.

IT INCLUDES ENHANCED SIGNAGE, WHICH IS THE PEDESTRIAN VEHICLE, OR SIGN A LIVING STREET SIGN ON ALL STREETS SO THAT PEOPLE IDENTIFY IT AS A LIVING STREET.

AND YES, IT'S STILL THE ORANGE CONE.

SO YES, WE ARE AWARE THAT THAT IS STILL ONE OF THE REQUESTS OF OUR RESIDENTS COUNCIL AND EVEN OUR TEAM WITHIN TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS TO CHANGE THAT.

BUT THE WAY TO GET THERE IS THIS, IN JULY WE HOPE TO ROLL OUT OUR FINAL, UH, IDEA BEHIND A HEALTHY STREAM TO GET TO THERE.

WE ARE ALREADY IN THE PROCESS OF RE DOING THE INTERIM SOLUTIONS AND REDUCING THOSE ORANGE CONES THAT'S GONNA SAVE US CONSIDERABLE MONEY OVER THE NEXT COMING MONTHS.

THAT MONEY WILL BE USED TO PROCURE THE EQUIPMENT TO DO THE FINAL INSTALLATION LAYOUTS.

AT THE SAME TIME, WE'VE USED THE REMAINDER FUNDING FROM PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR TO PROCURE EQUIPMENT TO TEST THESE AND ENGINEER THEM.

WE ARE GOING TO BE RUNNING A FOCUS GROUP STUDY WITH SOME OF OUR APPLICANTS.

UM, KATE, WHO PRESENTED TO YOU IS ONE OF THOSE APPLICANTS WHO WILL BE OUT LOOKING AT OUR SHARED STREETS.

UM, OUR TRANSITION FROM HEALTHY STREETS TO SHARED STREETS, BUT ALSO LOOKING AT HOW THOSE CLOSURES ACTUALLY TRANSLATE THAT DIVIDE.

AND THEN ONCE WE HAVE THAT DESIGN, WE WILL PILOT THAT PHASE OUT FOR FIVE TO EIGHT ISH STREETS, TEST THOSE ON OUR HEALTHY STREETS, GET OUR FEEDBACK.

BY APRIL, WE SHOULD HAVE ENOUGH FEEDBACK.

WE CAN COME UP WITH THE FINAL CONFIGURATION LAYOUT AND EQUIPMENT NEEDS, ADJUST OUR BUDGET AND PUT FORWARD THE PLAN TO PROCURE, USE THE REMAINING FUNDS FOR THIS YEAR TO DEPLOY AS MANY AS WE CAN IN THIS FISCAL YEAR AND SUSTAIN THE CURRENT FISCAL ASK THROUGH NEXT YEAR AS WE BUY OUT THE EQUIPMENT.

AND THE REASON THIS IS ALL REALLY IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY

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HAVE A KIND OF THIRD PHASE TO THIS, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THE LEFT IS OUR PROPOSED KIND OF LATEST CONFIGURATION OF OUR HEALTHY STREETS.

I'VE SHOWN YOU THE PREVIOUS ONE WHERE I SAID IT'S LIKE OUR FINAL PLAN, UM, BEFORE THAT'S A ART SKETCH THAT WE DID AS A CONCEPT IDEA.

THIS IS A MORE INVOLVED RENDERING THAT WE'VE DONE TO START TO MIMIC WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.

AND THE OUR SECOND GOAL, AND THAT'S TO MOVE TO MORE PERMANENT INFRASTRUCTURE.

A SHARED STREET AND A HEALTHY STREET BOTH ACT AS SHARED STREETS IN THAT THEY DON'T HAVE SIDEWALKS.

PEDESTRIANS ARE SHARING THE ROAD WHETHER WE'D LIKE THEM TO OR NOT WITH VEHICLE TRAFFIC.

AND WHAT WE KNOW FROM OUR HISTORY FROM DATA COLLECTION AND BEST PRACTICE IS THAT SOME SEPARATION BETWEEN VEHICLE AND PEDESTRIANS IS A HUGE INCREASE IN SAFETY FACTOR AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE HEALTHY STREET PROGRAM.

OUR GOAL IS TO USE THE HEALTHY STREET PROGRAM AS THE ENTRY POINT INTO THE SHARED STREET PROGRAM.

AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE SEEING A SIMILARITY IN LAYOUT CONFIGURATION IN OUR HEALTHY STREET, LONG-TERM, MORE TEMPORARY BASED EQUIPMENT, BUT THAT COULD SUSTAIN A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME AS WE COME WITH THE FUNDING FOR THE SHARED STREET, IT'S ABOUT A ONE TO 10 BUDGET RATIO AND THEN A SHARED STREET TO A SIDEWALK IS ABOUT ANOTHER ONE TO 10 RATIO INCREASE.

IN DOING THIS, WE EXPEDITE OUR DES DESIGN AND DELIVERY SERVICE, INCREASE OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PROVIDE THE NEIGHBORHOODS EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE REALLY ASKING US TO DO IN A WAY THAT THEY'RE MORE FAMILIAR WITH, MORE COMFORTABLE WITH, AND HAVE ACCLIMATED TO OVER TIME.

THAT DECREASES THE AMOUNT OF DESIGN WORK THAT WE NEED TO DO AND ENGINEERING WORK ON THE BACKEND.

AND IT MEANS THAT WE HAVE TEMPLATES, PROFILES, AND A KIT OF PARTS THAT WE CAN FORWARD DEPLOY ON THESE STREETS THAT NEED TO BE PRIORITIZED FOR OUR SHARED STREETS PROGRAM TO BE SUCCESSFUL, WHICH ULTIMATELY TAKES THEM OUT OF THE SIDEWALK PRIORITY, UH, COST.

THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT COST SAVINGS OVER TIME, RESOURCES, AND STAFFING.

AND THAT'S WHERE ALL AND MY PRESENTATION.

FANTASTIC.

WELL, I APPRECIATE THESE GRAPHICS.

I KNOW WE'VE BEEN HEARING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FLEXI POSTS, YOU KNOW, THE ONES THAT ARE ORANGE THAT ARE TEMPORARILY INSTALLED, AND JUST SOME OF THE VISUAL CLUTTER THAT HAPPENS WITH THIS.

AND SO YES, I LOVE TO SEE THE MINDSET THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY MAKE THESE BEAUTIFUL, WE CAN MAKE THEM USEFUL, WE CAN PUT POLLINATOR PLANTS IN THEM.

WE COULD ACTUALLY GET TO A PLACE WHERE YOU SEE SOMETHING AND YOU THINK, OH, I ACTUALLY WANNA SLOW DOWN BECAUSE THERE'S THINGS HAPPENING HERE RATHER THAN JUST PLOWING THROUGH.

UM, I HAVE A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS IN MY DISTRICT THAT ARE SUPER WIDE AND I'M INTERESTED IN THE CONVERSATION AROUND BEING ABLE TO CREATE SOME PINCH POINTS JUST TO SLOW TRAFFIC DOWN.

WE HAVE FOLKS GOING, YOU KNOW, 50 PLUS MILES AN HOUR DOWN A NEIGHBORHOOD STREET.

UM, A LOT OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS WERE BUILT WHEN THEY WERE NOT IN THE CITY LIMITS, AND THEN SUBSEQUENTLY WE'RE ON THE HOOK FOR MAINTAINING THEM AND RESPONDING TO CRASHES AND TRYING TO CROSSWALK OUR WAY THROUGH SCHOOL SAFETY.

UM, SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT I THINK CAN BE ADDRESSED BY THIS TYPE OF INFRASTRUCTURE.

SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE ALL THE PROGRESS THAT'S BEING MADE.

UM, I'LL JUST PLUG IN.

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THESE DEPLOYED A LITTLE EARLIER, BUT I'LL JUST PUT THAT ON THE RECORD AND SEE, UH, SEE WHAT COMES OF IT.

DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM OTHER FOLKS ON THE D LET'S START WITH VICE CHAIR CADRY.

YEAH, I GOT A FUNKY WEIRD QUESTION, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S THAT FUNKY.

WEIRD, I THINK IT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

UM, IN, IN DISTRICT NINE WE SEE A LOT OF ALLEYWAYS BEING USED, UM, YES.

AS ACT, YOU KNOW, BEING ACTIVATED.

THAT'S WHERE COMMUNITY KIND OF COMES TOGETHER.

COULD WE MAKE ALLEYWAYS INTO LIVING STREETS? IN THEORY, YES.

ANYTHING BELOW A CLASS ONE CAN ACTUALLY BECOME A LIVING STREET.

SO CLASS ONE TO CLASS ZERO, WHICH IS WHAT AN ALLEYWAY IS.

WHAT WE'D NEED TO LOOK AT IS HOW MANY DRIVEWAYS ARE EXITING ONTO THAT, WHAT IS THE WIDTH OF THE ROAD, WHAT OUR CLOSURE WOULD BE FOR IT.

BUT WE'VE ALSO LOOKED AT HOW A NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTY COULD ACTUALLY BE ACTIVATED IN AN ALLEYWAY, HOW PEDESTRIAN CORRIDOR THOROUGHFARES COULD BE ACTIVATED IN AN ALLEYWAY.

SO THESE ARE CONVERSATIONS WE ARE ABSOLUTELY HAVING.

AND THAT SOUNDS WEIRD, UH, YOU WERE IN AN ALLEY PARTY.

WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE ALLEYWAY INITIATIVES AND CONCEPTS BEHIND ALLEYWAYS AND HOW TO ENGAGE THE AUDIENCE IN THAT.

UM, I THINK LAST TIME WE PRESENTED, UH, THERE WAS A RESIDENT WHO CAME PRIOR TO US AND ASKED ABOUT ACTIVATING SOME DOWNTOWN ALLEYWAYS MM-HMM .

AND HOW THEY COULD POSSIBLY DO THAT.

THAT TRIGGERS A LOT OF CONVERSATION WHEN IT COMES TO COUNCIL AND THEN OUR TEAM HEARS ABOUT IT.

WE CAN ACTUALLY BRAINSTORM AND CONTEMPLATE AROUND THAT.

OKAY, GREAT.

YEAH, I WAS THAT A YEAH, I GUESS, I GUESS IT WAS A, A PARTY OF SORTS, UH, IN AN ALLEYWAY.

UM, AND,

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YEAH, I I WAS AN ALLEY PARTY.

UM, IT WAS A RALLY IN AN ALLEY, THAT'S WHAT IT WAS CALLED, .

UM, AND IT WAS GREAT.

AND IT JUST, ALL, ALL THE DATE NEIGHBORS COMING TOGETHER AND KIDS PLAYING AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MUSIC AND BUBBLES AND CHALK ON THE GROUND, IT WAS, IT WAS GREAT.

SO, UM, GREAT.

WELL YOU ANSWERED MY QUESTION.

YEAH, NO PROBLEM.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE QUESTION.

I WOULD BE REMISS NOT TO MENTION THAT THE BLOCK PARTY PROGRAM CAME FULL CIRCLE FOR ME.

I GOT INVITED TO A BLOCK PARTY AFTER ALL THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE WITH LIVING STREETS AND HEALTHY STREETS AND BLOCK PARTIES.

AND I WAS VERY EXCITED TO GET TO WALK INTO THIS THING THAT I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH, HAD NOT PUSHED ON ANYONE.

THEY JUST PUT IT TOGETHER FOR THEIR BLOCK.

AND IT HAD A FIRE TRUCK, A BOUNCY HOUSE, A FOOD TRUCK.

IT HAD GAMES IN THE BACK, LIVE MUSIC AND THERE WERE PROBABLY ABOUT 400 PEOPLE, MOST OF WHICH WERE CHILDREN.

SO IT WAS A VERY GREAT, UM, A THING TO SEE IN THIS SOUTH AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD THAT, YOU KNOW, FAMILIES COULD COME OUT.

PEOPLE WERE INVITING FRIENDS AND EVERYBODY WAS ABLE TO KIND OF ENJOY THIS PRE HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA.

UM, IT WAS, IT WAS JUST REALLY, REALLY FUN TO GET TO SEE.

AND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T HAVE TO PUSH IT ON ANYONE.

THEY JUST FOUND IT, CAME UP WITH THE IDEA THEMSELVES AND THAT THE TOOL WORKED WELL ENOUGH THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO UTILIZE THIS.

AND IT WAS, IT WAS A FANTASTIC TIME.

COUNCIL MEMBER VELA, DID I SEE YOUR HAND COME UP? I JUST GOT, CAN'T LET A, A PRESENTATION ON THE HEALTHY STREETS, SHARED STREETS GO BY WITHOUT GIVING A SHOUT OUT TO DISTRICT FOUR .

WE LOVE OUR HEALTHY STREETS AND SHARED STREETS THAT WE'RE THE NUMBER ONE, UH, DISTRICT THAT'S BEEN APPLYING AND I EXPECT THAT WE'LL CONTINUE.

SO THE, THE TREND OVERALL IS ONCE ONE DISTRICT HAS ONE, THE GROWTH AROUND THAT HAS CONTINUED TO OCCUR.

SO COUNCIL MEMBER ELLIS, COUNCILOR MEMBER LANG, YOU ASKED US HOW CAN WE GET MORE OUT TO YOU? AND THE IDEA IS THAT GET ONE, AND YOU ACTUALLY BOTH HAVE TWO THAT ARE MOVING IN A VERY SUCCESSFUL PATTERN RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE COORDINATING WITH, UM, ONCE THAT HAPPENS, OTHER PEOPLE WILL KNOW ABOUT IT AND IT WILL COME FULL CIRCLE, BUT REACH OUT TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS.

UM, WE KNOW THAT THIS PROGRAM ACTUALLY HAS THE SAFETY FACTORS THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE LOOKING FOR ON THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS.

I AGREE WITH YOU COUNCIL MEMBER ELLIS.

THERE'S NOTHING MORE WONDERFUL THAN ACTUALLY GOING OUT TO ONE OF THESE EVENTS AND JUST BEING LIKE, WOW.

UM, AND WITH THAT SAID, I'LL, UH, IF NO ONE ELSE HAS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.

OH, COUNCIL MEMBER LANE.

COUNCIL MEMBER LANE HAS ONE.

, YOU ANTICIPATED THE QUESTION THAT I HAD WAITING, UM, WHICH IS WONDERFUL.

UM, THIS, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT PRESENTATION.

I REALLY, UH, IN PART, YOU KNOW, I LOVE A LOT ABOUT THIS PROGRAM AND I PARTICULARLY ENJOYED IN THIS PRESENTATION HOW YOU'RE BRINGING FORWARD, UM, THE IMPLICATIONS OF THESE RENEWALS, UM, TO THE NEED FOR PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS AND HOW THAT TIES BACK TO SAFETY AND SAFETY, UM, REDUCTION IN SPEEDING AND THESE SORTS OF THINGS.

I FIND THAT VERY RELATED TO THE FIRST PRESENTATION WE HAD.

UM, AND YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT FROM IN SOME OTHER AREAS, THERE ARE LIMITATIONS IN TPW FUNDING RIGHT NOW TO DO INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS.

THERE ARE LIMITATIONS ON A PD FUNDING TO DO SPEEDING ENFORCEMENT.

UM, AND EVEN TO THE EXTENT THAT THAT'S HAPPENING, IT, THE SPEEDING ENFORCEMENT IS ONLY HAPPENING ON HIGHWAYS AND NOT AROUND OUR SCHOOL ZONES AND WHERE THE CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC IS HAPPENING 'CAUSE OF THE, THE CONSTRUCTION AND CONGESTION AND ALL OF THAT.

YES.

HAVING SAID ALL THAT, UM, I, I, I DO RECALL THE RATING THAT YOU DID IN THE LAST PRESENTATION, UM, WHEN YOU CAME OF WHICH DISTRICTS HAVE THE GREATEST POTENTIAL, UM, BASED ON TYPE OF STREET TO BENEFIT FROM THIS.

AND I BELIEVE THAT DISTRICT SIX WAS RATED SECOND.

I KNOW WE HAVE ALL THESE OTHER ISSUES.

WE ARE CURRENTLY, YOU KNOW, WE DID GET A WONDERFUL TARGETED ENFORCEMENT ON A STREET THAT IS NOW SIXTH IN THE HIGH INJURY ROAD NETWORK, WHICH IS NOT A ROAD DESIGNED FOR TRAFFIC.

IT IS PURELY A NEIGHBORHOOD STREET THAT'S BEING USED FOR CUT THROUGH ONTO OLD SPICE WITH SPRINGS ROAD.

THAT WAS A LONG INTRO TO ASK THE TWO QUESTIONS.

ONE, UM, HOW CAN WE, UM, DO WE NEED TO DO MORE OF WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY AND IF SO, HOW CAN WE HAVE SOME OF THESE SAFETY, UM, CONSIDERATIONS THAT OTHER ASPECTS OF TPW AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY ARE COLLECTING DATA, DATA ON INFORM PLACES WHERE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS, WHERE THE DEPARTMENT WANTS TO DO TARGETED OUTREACH TO GET THAT FIRST ONE OR TWO GOING OR TO BRING THIS METHOD TO ADDRESSING SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS.

PARTICULARLY CONSIDERING THAT, YOU KNOW, LIVING STREETS ARE THESE NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS WHERE WE, WE KNOW THAT OTHER RESOURCES AREN'T NECESSARILY BEING DIRECTED TOWARDS, RIGHT.

I MEAN IS THAT ALREADY HAPPENING AND TO WHAT EXTENT? SO YES.

DIRECTOR JIM DALE, MY AD ELIZABETH BOSWELL IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM AND OTHERS TO ACTUALLY START TO CONFIGURE AND COORDINATE SOME OF THIS MOVEMENT W WITH THE NEW ADDITION OF THE PLANTERS, THE CONCEPT, THE PILOT, WE'RE GONNA BE DOING A OUTREACH PROGRAM AROUND THAT.

THAT IS ALREADY HAPPENING.

OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM ACROSS OUR ENTIRE DEPARTMENT WITH DIRECTOR MENDOZA, ASSISTANT

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WHEN WE DID THIS LAST TIME WE RECEIVED OVER 300 APPLICATIONS.

UM, WE'RE GOING TO BE TARGETING SOME OF THOSE AREAS THAT WE KNOW ARE IN NEED.

SO THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE OUTREACH AND MARKETING PLAN.

BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE FOUND IS MOST EFFECTIVE IS GOING OUT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS.

AND WE'RE HAPPY TO DO THAT.

THE DIVISION I'M UNDER IS CALLED THE COMMUNITY SERVICE DIVISION.

WE FULLY BELIEVE THAT IS PART OF OUR PARAMOUNT PLAN.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE'RE SUPPORTED WITH OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE AND TOGETHER WE MAKE A GREAT ENGAGEMENT TEAM.

EVEN WHEN WE DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER TO THE CURRENT PROBLEM.

OFTENTIMES IT'S, WELL HOW DO I FIX THE TRAFFIC LIGHT? WELL THAT'S NOT MY PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY, BUT I WILL TAKE IT BACK AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT IT GETS TO THE RIGHT DIVISION.

AND IN DOING THAT, WE'RE CREATING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.

SO I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO REACH OUT TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND SAY, HEY, WE'RE HAPPY TO COME OUT AND TALK BECAUSE THAT IS THAT HAND AND FACE DIRECT CONNECTION.

IT'S PARAMOUNT IN TERMS OF IDENTIFYING WITH INDIVIDUALS.

WE'RE ALSO SEEING THAT IN EAST AUSTIN WHERE FRANKLY THE CITY HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN TRUSTED AS A FACE AND A REPRESENTATIVE.

BUT AS WE MAKE PROGRESS AND WE'RE SEEING THIS CHANGE, WE ARE SHIFTING FURTHER AND FURTHER EAST EVERY CYCLE WE GO.

AND THAT'S, TO ME, THAT'S THE POSITIVE GROWTH ABOUT WHAT THE PROJECT CAN DO BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT COMMUNITY OUTREACH, IT IS ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT, IT IS ABOUT HEARING THE VOICES OF OUR CITIZENS, NEIGHBORS AND OUR RESIDENTS AND BRINGING IT BACK TO OUR ENTIRE TEAM THAT SITS BEHIND ME TODAY.

UM, THEY'RE ALL FANTASTIC.

WE ARE ALL IN THIS FOR THE RIGHT REASONS.

CIVIL SERVICE, UM, I THINK MOST OF US ARE POTENTIALLY COULD BE MAKING MORE MONEY IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, BUT WE LOVE THIS WORK.

I MEAN, I'VE MOVED TO TEARS EVERY TIME KATE COMES BEFORE ME AND I'M ALWAYS GLAD THAT THERE'S A BREAK BE IN BETWEEN HER AND ME.

UM, THAT SAID, THAT'S ACROSS THE BOARD FOR AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS.

SO I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO HELP US ENGAGE WITH THOSE COMMUNITIES.

'CAUSE WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE DIRECT CONNECTION TO THE RIGHT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OR THE RIGHT MEMBER, BUT THOSE THAT WE DO, WE MEET WITH ON A REGULAR BASIS.

DO YOU, DO YOU HAVE, UH, CURRENTLY A LIST OR ANY KIND OF RANKING OF THE, THE STREETS THAT HAVE SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS THAT WOULD ELEVATE IT OR IS IT YES, WE DO.

UM, WE HAVE THAT IN BOTH OUR SPEED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, UHHUH, , UM, WE HAVE THAT IN OUR VISION ZERO PROGRAM AND WE HAVE THAT IN OUR SIDEWALK PRIORITIZATION PROGRAM.

ALL THREE OF THOSE THINGS HELP INFORM THE PRIORITIES THAT WE ARE PUTTING FORWARD FOR SHARED STREETS, PLAY STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTIES AS WELL.

AND JUST ONE LAST QUESTION.

UM, AS YOU'RE MOVING TOWARDS THESE MORE PERMANENT SOLUTIONS, WHEN YOU GET NEW INTEREST, ARE YOU STARTING FROM THE TEMPORARY ONES AND THEN SEEING THE INTEREST IN RENEWAL? OR ARE YOU JUMPING, LIKE ARE YOU HANDLING THAT ASPECT RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO BE IN THAT INTERIM PERIOD OF PHASE WHERE WE STILL HAVE TO PILOT IT AND WE STILL HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BEHAVIOR CHANGE IS RIGHT AND THAT WE HAVE A RIGHT AMOUNT OF INFRASTRUCTURE.

WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO IS DEPLOY SOMETHING THAT IS CONSIDERED UNSAFE.

THAT'S WHAT I WAS HOPING TO HEAR AS AS A PERCEPTION THING.

UHHUH, NO MATTER WHAT WE DEPLOY, IT WILL BE CODE COMPLIANT THE BEST THAT WE CAN POSSIBLY DO.

THAT SAID, THERE'S A PERCEPTION OF SAFETY THAT'S EQUALLY AS IMPORTANT AS TO THE PHYSICAL SAFETY.

SO THAT'S WHY FROM THE FIRST SLIDE TO THE SECOND SLIDE, YOU SAW FLEXIBLE DELINEATORS ADDED TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND THAT'S TO PROTECT THAT ISLAND THAT IS TAKING IT OUT OF THE VEHICLE TRAFFIC LANE, TURNING IT OVER ESSENTIALLY TO SIDEWALK AND ALLOWING US TO PUT PLANNERS OR MEDIANS INTO THAT AREA.

THAT WHOLE PROCESS IS THE ENGINEERING PROCESS THAT WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH SINCE LAST TIME I PRESENTED.

UM, AND YES, THAT IS THE GAME PLAN AND GOAL HERE IS TO MOVE TOWARDS THAT GOAL.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

IT'S, IT'S REALLY A PLEASURE TO SEE THAT PROGRESSION FROM A PILOT TOWARDS PERMANENT THAT'S MAINTAINING THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.

YEAH.

THANKS SO MUCH.

UM, WITH THAT SAID, UH, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN KATE'S FINAL PRESENTATION AND SEEING ALL OF IT, UH, THE PLAY STREETS ARE ACTUALLY HOSTING IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALL OF THE LIVING STREETS AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SAFE STREETS.

AUSTIN, A SPECIFIC LIVING STREET GATHERING THIS SATURDAY, PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME IF YOU'D LIKE

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TO ATTEND.

IT'S ACTUALLY FOR OUR APPLICANTS, IT'S NOT FOR US TO TAKE A PODIUM OR PROMOTE THE PROGRAM.

IT'S SO THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY TALK WITH EACH OTHER ABOUT HOW TO BETTER ORGANIZE ACTIVITIES, EVENTS.

AND KATE WILL BE PRESENTING IF YOU GIVE A NEIGHBOR A LIVING STREET, THIS IS HOW IT GOES.

FANTASTIC.

SO PLEASE HAVE YOUR STAFF REACH OUT AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THE LOCATION.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

THANKS FOR THE WORK YOU DO.

OUR AGENDA IS GOING TO BE THE REPORT BY A TPW RELATED TO ONGOING MOBILITY PROGRAMS. SOMETIMES THERE'S NOT A FORMALIZED PRESENTATION.

ALRIGHT, THE NEXT ITEM ON

[5. Report by the Austin Transportation and Public Works related to ongoing mobility programs and projects in the Central Texas region, including construction and service updates.]

DO YOU WANT ME TO JUST READ THE, THE HEADLINES REAL FAST? PERFECT.

THE DIRECTOR SAYS THAT'S OKAY.

UH, THE FIRST ONE IS THAT THE CITY HAS COMMEMORATED 10 YEARS OF VISION ZERO IN AUSTIN AND RELEASES A PROGRAM'S 10 YEAR REPORT.

I JUST GOT MY REPORT SO IF YOU SEE ANYTHING LIKE THIS, MAKE SURE YOU CHECK IT OUT.

10 YEARS OF HAVING A VISION ZERO PROGRAM, UM, HAS BEEN REALLY, REALLY HELPFUL IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR STREET AND ROAD SAFETY AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE DESIGNING STREETS THAT FUNCTION FOR EVERYBODY.

THE CITY HAS BROKEN GROUND ON A CAMERON AND DESA ROAD SAFETY PROJECT.

THE THERE'S 250 PLUS SIDEWALK MILES 29 SAFER INTERSECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS AT 120 SCHOOLS AND MORE.

SO THERE IS A MAP THAT HIGHLIGHTS PROGRESS ON THE MOBILITY BONDS, WHICH IS GREAT TO SEE.

CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN TO ADDRESS THE GAP IN THE SHOAL CREEK TRAIL.

I KNOW THAT'S A HIGH PRIORITY FOR A COUPLE OF OFFICES.

CONGRESS AVENUE URBAN DESIGN INITIATIVE MOVES FORWARD.

SO THERE'S SOME NEW INFORMATION AND A PROJECT WEBSITE TO BE ABLE TO REFERENCE FOR CONGRESS AVENUE AND WE'VE GOT THE AIRPORT BREAKS RECORD FOR BUSIEST DAY EVER AFTER F1 WEEKEND 2025.

I KNOW THERE'S A HANDFUL OF CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT SPENT BETWEEN THE TWO WEEKENDS OF ACL AND THEN TO HAVE F1 HIT RIGHT AFTER THAT FOLLOWED BY A RALLY THAT HAD TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SHOW UP.

UM, THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WERE BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS AND WE CERTAINLY APPRECIATE OUR, UM, ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS STEPPING UP AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS SAFE.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE IMPROVEMENTS ON THE LONGHORN DAM MULTIMODAL PROJECT.

SO THAT IS ONE THAT A FEW OF US HAVE GOTTEN TO SEE GET BETTER AND BETTER AND BETTER OVER THE TIME THAT IT'S BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

AND I CANNOT WAIT TO RIDE MY BIKE ACROSS IT BECAUSE THAT WILL BE A VERY, VERY HAPPY DAY FOR MANY PEOPLE.

UH, NEW DESTINATIONS TAKING FLIGHT AT THE AIRPORT AND I THINK THAT DOES IT.

WE ARE RIGHT ABOUT TIME SO I HOPE THERE'S NO QUESTIONS ON ANY OF THOSE ITEMS. OTHERWISE REFERENCE THE REPORT OR REACH OUT TO TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORK STAFF, UM, BRIEFINGS BY MEMORANDUM.

WE DID NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THOSE ON THIS AGENDA, BUT WE WILL HAVE A LIST THAT WILL BE INCLUDED FOR DECEMBER.

AND THEN THE

[6. Identify items to discuss at future meetings. ]

LAST ITEM IS IDENTIFY ITEMS TO DISCUSS AT FUTURE MEETINGS.

WE HAVE A WHOLE LIST OF ITEMS THAT WE ARE WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH TO TRY TO SCHEDULE OUT WHAT CAN BE HANDLED LATER THIS WINTER, WHAT CAN BE HANDLED IN THE SPRINGTIME DEPENDING ON WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE TIMELINE FOR SOME OF THESE PROJECTS.

BUT I WILL JUST BRIEFLY READ THROUGH DECEMBER.

WE HOPE TO DO AN UPDATE ON I 35 CAPITAL EXPRESS CENTRAL PROJECT, MOSTLY AROUND THE NORTHERN STITCH OPTIONS AS THEY'RE DOING SOME PUBLIC OUTREACH RIGHT NOW.

PARKS IMPACTS AND BOARDWALK PROJECT BIDDING AND CONSTRUCTION AND CAP DECISION TIMELINE.

SO IN 2026 THE CITY COUNCIL IS SET TO LOOK AT WHAT ARE OUR NEXT PHASE OF COMMITMENTS FOR THAT PROJECT.

ANOTHER ITEM IS MICRO MOBILITY THAT WE ARE TRYING TO OPEN BACK UP AND FIGURE OUT KIND OF WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE MORATORIUM ON SCOOTERS IN DOWNTOWN.

WHERE ARE WE AT WITH, UH, THE FOLKS THAT ARE PROVIDING THAT SERVICE AND WHAT CAN WE DO WITH CURB MANAGEMENT STUDY URBAN TRAILS AND SIDEWALKS, PROGRAM UPDATES AND SIXTH STREET PILOT UPDATE.

SO WE'VE GOT A FEW THINGS SLATED FOR DECEMBER.

IF THERE'S OTHER THINGS FOLKS WANNA DAYLIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT ABOUT ONE MINUTE BEFORE WE DO OUR SPECIAL CEREMONIAL PRESENTATION.

I'LL TAKE LIKE 10 SECONDS.

UM, PTMD UPDATE, UM, JUST GETTING UPDATES ON THAT AND ALL PHASES, ET CETERA OF THAT.

ALRIGHT, ANYTHING ELSE PEOPLE WANNA DAYLIGHT AT THIS MOMENT, YOU'RE ALWAYS FREE TO REACH OUT TO US OR CITY STAFF TO TRY TO GET ANOTHER ITEM ON THE AGENDA.