Mar 16, 2026 Special Urban Transportation

THE PUBLIC COMMENT.

COMMENT.

I'D LIKE TO CALL UP RYAN SAUNDERS.

OH, AND, UH, COMMISSIONER BROWN HAS BEEN ABLE TO TURN HIS CAMERA ON, UH, COMMISSIONER BUFFET.

THAT DOES MEAN WE HAVE, UH, QUORUM WITHOUT YOU NOW.

SO IF YOU NEED TO TURN YOUR CAMERA OFF TO FOCUS ON, UH, DRIVING AND GETTING HERE, THAT'S A OKAY.

WE, WE ARE TRULY THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION TODAY.

WE HAVE VISUAL AID, .

AND ARE YOU GONNA DO THE, OR DO I HAVE A QUICK OH, YOU BACK HERE? OKAY, COOL.

AND WHENEVER WE GET THAT READY FOR YOU, YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

UH, THREE MINUTES AND YOU CAN START WHENEVER YOU'RE READY.

DIRECT BACK OUT, PULL IN TO DIAGONAL AND MAKE IT ONE WAY FROM CHALMERS HEADING EAST TOWARDS CHACON.

I'M NOT SURE.

ALRIGHT, IT'S ON, UH, MY NAME'S RYAN SAUNDERS.

THANK YOU FOR, UH, HAVING ME.

UM, I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE, UH, WILLOW ALLEY THAT RUNS BETWEEN CHACON AND, UH, FOR CHALMERS AND CHACON.

UH, IT GOES ALL THE WAY TO PLEASANT VALLEY, BUT WE'RE FOCUSING MAINLY ON THIS BLOCK FOR THIS, IF I CAN.

UH, THIS IS JUST SHOWING AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE WORK WE'VE DONE ON MAKING THE ALLEY MORE PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY.

WE STARTED PUTTING UP MURALS WORKING ON, UM, SOME GROUND SURFACE.

AND THE TOPIC OF THE CONVERSATION FOR TONIGHT IS, UM, ON A CHANGING IT TO ONE WAY TO ACCOMMODATE FOR SOME PARKING THAT A BUSINESS IS LOOKING TO ADD.

IF I CAN CHANGE THIS SLIDE.

UH, SO THIS ONE JUST SHOWS THE EXTENT OF THE ALLEY AND THE AMOUNT OF BUSINESSES.

ONE SIDE HAS PEDESTRIAN OR, UH, RESIDENTIAL USES, AND ONE SIDE HAS COMMERCIAL USES.

I GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

UM, THIS IS LIKE A REALLY ROUGH DRAWING, BUT ESSENTIALLY, UM, EAST FIRST STREET GROCERY THIS YEAR ON THE CORNER OF CHACON.

AND THEY'RE, UM, REMODELING THEIR STORE AND THEY'RE WANTING TO ADD EIGHT PARKING SPACES IN THE ALLEY.

THAT WOULD JUST BE A DIRECT REVERSE BACK OUT, UM, THAT WOULD BLOCK THE ENTIRE ALLEY.

THEY'D UP TO A THREE POINT TURN.

AND CARS CAN ENTER FROM CHACON OR CHALMERS AT THIS TIME.

AND SO WE WANT TO CHANGE THOSE PARKING SPACES FROM

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AND BECAUSE IF YOU'RE ADDING THAT, MANY CARS ARE GONNA BE BACKING IN AND COMING IN AND OUT, IT'S GONNA CREATE SOME HEAD ON INTERACTIONS.

AND WITHOUT MAKING THOSE SPACES TO AGONAL, UH, YOU'RE ALSO CREATING ISSUES WHERE IF PEDESTRIANS OR PEOPLE ON BIKES OR ANYTHING ELSE, THEY'RE TRYING TO USE THE ALLEY, UM, PEOPLE BACKING OUT TEND TO NOT BE PAYING ATTENTION USING THEIR PHONE.

UM, IT'LL TAKE AWAY ALL THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST YEAR TO MAKE IT PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY.

IF I CAN CHANGE ONE MORE SLIDE.

UH, THIS IS JUST A, ANOTHER JUST ROUGH SKETCH, BUT THEN REAL QUICK BEFORE I RUN OUTTA TIME, I'LL GO TO MY LAST SLIDE.

AND, UM, ADDITIONALLY, THIS IS A SHOT FROM 53RD AND VAL AND HYDE PARK, BUT I SHARE THIS AS AN EXAMPLE BECAUSE CHACON NEXT TO, UH, EAST FIRST STREET GROCERY HAS A BIKE LANE DIRECTLY ON THE CURB.

AND SO I HAVEN'T REALLY GOTTEN ANY FEEDBACK FROM THE CITY.

UM, YOU'VE SEEN ON CONGRESS, THEY'VE TALKED ABOUT DOING 10 FOOT WIDE LANES.

YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT ON I 35, 11 FOOT WIDE LANES.

BUT WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THIS ON CHACON TO HELP THE EAST FIRST STREET GROCERY TAKE AWAY SOME OF THOSE PARKING SPACES FROM THE ALLEY AND ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE OTHER TRAFFIC.

CHALMERS HAS ON STREET PARKING.

UH, NONE OF CHACON, UH, SOUTH OF SEVENTH STREET HAS ON STREET PARKING LIKE THIS.

IT'S ONLY A BIKE LANE, AND WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THE STREET WASN'T WIDE ENOUGH, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT LANE WIDTH OF TRAVEL THAT THAT'S BASED OFF OF.

AND SO YOU GO IN HYDE PARK, YOU SEE THIS AS AN EXAMPLE, AND I'VE MEASURED THESE STREETS, STREET'S ONLY LIKE TWO FEET WIDER THAN CHICON.

SO THIS IS THAT SAME, UH, AREA THAT WE'RE REFERENCING.

SO THIS IS A FULL PICTURE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD BEING DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN WORKING AND THE CITY NOT LISTENING TO WHAT WE'RE SAYING IN OUR DIRECT NEIGHBORHOOD.

DO YOU MIND IF I ASK YOU A, A FEW QUESTIONS? SO YOU SAID WE, ARE YOU WORKING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION HERE OR, OR WHO ARE YOU WITH? YES, I'M ON, ON THE BOARD OF EAST CHAVEZ NEIGHBORHOOD CONTACT TEAM AND THE HOLLY NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD.

UHHUH .

UM, AND THEN ALSO THROUGH THIS ALLEY PROJECT EVERY OWNER, SO THAT'S THE PART THAT I FORGOT TO MENTION.

I'VE TALKED TO THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE.

WE'D LIKE TO SUBMIT OFFICIAL PETITION, UM, FROM THE NEIGHBORS TO SHOW, 'CAUSE THE CITY RESPONDED BACK AND SAID THEY DIDN'T THINK NEIGHBORS WOULD APPROVE OF THE ONE WAY, BUT THE NEIGHBORS DO APPROVE AND WE'RE ALL WILLING TO PUT IT ON PAPER.

UM, SO WE WANT TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY.

UM, AND, BUT WE'VE BEEN TOLD TO MAYBE DO IT THROUGH A PLANNING, UH, PETITION.

UM, SO I WAS JUST COMING HERE TO EITHER ASK YOU ALL TO ADD THIS TO A FUTURE AGENDA OR JUST TO HELP US WITH THE, UH, PETITION ASPECT OF IT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT GETS OFFICIALLY RESPONDED TO.

AND IF I CAN JUST ASK IF THERE'S ANY STAFF WHO'D LIKE TO CHIME IN, WHEN A NEIGHBORHOOD WANTS TO MAKE A CHANGE LIKE THIS TO AN ALLEYWAY, WHAT'S THE BEST PROCESS? SHOULD THEY JUST DO A 3 1 1 REQUEST ON IT OR, UH, SHOULD THEY, YOU KNOW, DO THIS PETITION? GOOD EVENING.

ERIC OCK, UH, MANAGING ENGINEER AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS.

UM, I HAVE BEEN COPIED ON SOME OF THE EMAILS BETWEEN MR. SAUNDERS AND SOME OF OUR LEADERSHIP, AND WE, WE DID KIND OF LOOK AT THE, THE INITIAL REQUEST AND WE KIND OF GAVE SOME INITIAL RESPONSE.

UM, AND I THINK YOU KIND OF HAD SOME FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS AND I THINK, UM, WE EMAILED YOU FRIDAY WITH MAYBE NEEDING A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO KIND OF, UM, RESPOND AGAIN, KIND OF GIVEN THE, THE NEW INFORMATION THAT MR. SAUNDERS GAVE US.

SO I THINK THAT'S KIND OF THE CURRENT STATUS WE ARE RIGHT NOW.

BUT TO YOUR DIRECT QUESTION, YEAH, IT'S USUALLY, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A PETITION PROCESS TO CHANGE, YOU KNOW, DIRECTIONALITY OF VALLEYS OR, OR STREETS.

YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF LOOK AT, I THINK FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, WE'RE KIND OF WEIGHING EVERYTHING IN TERMS OF THE, THE ACCESS AND THE WIDTH AND EVERYTHING.

SO I THINK WE STILL JUST PROBABLY NEED A FEW MORE DAYS TO KIND OF GATHER OUR INFORMATION.

BUT, UM, I, AT LEAST I'M AWARE I HAVEN'T BEEN IN THE DIRECT CON CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. SAUNDERS, BUT I, LIKE I SAID, I WAS COPYING ON SOME RECENT EMAILS, SO I'M KIND OF AWARE OF THE ISSUES.

PERFECT.

IF YOU CAN PUT IT ON FULL SCREEN FOR HIM, IT, IF NOT, I CAN JUST SPEAK TO IT AS IT IS.

UH, ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, FOLKS? ONLINE? ALL RIGHT, WELL THANKS FOR, UH, COMING OUT HERE TODAY.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

APPRECIATE IT.

NEXT WE HAVE ENOVIA JOSEPH, AND YOU HAVE, UH, THREE MINUTES.

YOU CAN START WHENEVER YOU WANT.

SHOULD PULL UP THE SLIDES, MR. CHAIR.

OH, FOR SURE.

WE'LL MAKE SURE WE GET THOSE UP FOR YOU.

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IF YOU'LL GO WITH A SLIDE ONE.

IS THAT SLIDE ONE? THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.

MEMBERS ENOVIA JOSEPH, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS AS IT RELATES TO SOME OF THE CORRIDOR PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN ONGOING.

I WANNA REMIND YOU OF THE CONTRACT WITH VOTERS.

IF YOU LOOK, YOU'LL SEE THAT NORTH LAMAR WAS RANKED NUMBER ONE.

IT WAS ALSO THAT WAY, MAY 15TH, 2020 WHEN TDOT AND THE CITY OF AUSTIN HELD THEIR PUBLIC HEARING.

HOWEVER, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT ERIC BAILEY ACTUALLY UNILATERALLY ELIMINATED NAR LAMAR.

YOU'LL SEE MAY 7TH, 2024.

THE SIGNATURE PROJECT IS AIRPORT BOULEVARD.

THAT WAS RANKED NUMBER THREE.

AND I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE REASON THAT IT LOOKS, THE WAY THAT IT DOES IS BECAUSE OF THE POOR PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE.

THAT WAS JOEL MEYER WHO SAID THAT IN 2017.

I WANT YOU TO SEE THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, MIKE ROGERS DID A RECON WITH ME.

HOWEVER, THAT AREA STILL NEEDS A PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACON.

AND DOTTIE WATKINS REFUSES TO CLOSE THE MIDBLOCK STOPS.

I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE AS WELL THAT BERNARD ROAD AND NORTH LAMAR WERE STUDIED TOGETHER IN 2013.

SO FOR THOSE WHO SAY THIS IS TEXT DOTS RIGHT AWAY, THAT IS TRUE.

BUT YOU'VE BUILT THE SOCCER STADIUM, YOU'VE BUILT MANY THINGS THAT HAVE CONFLICTS IN THIS AREA, AND YOU CONTINUE TO DO SO.

I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT IT VIOLATES TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, WHICH PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE, COLOR, AND NATIONAL ORIGIN.

I WANT YOU TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE.

YOU HAVE INVESTED OVER A MILLION DOLLARS KNOWING THAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY ELIMINATE THIS FOURTH AND I 35 PEDESTRIAN CROSSING FOR WHITE PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR.

BUT YOU HAVE MINORITIES ON NORTH LAMAR STILL BEING KILLED.

YOU'LL SEE THIS LADY IN HER WHEELCHAIR.

THAT'S WHERE THE IMAM ISLAM MOSSAD WAS KILLED.

DONALD NORTON WAS KILLED IN HIS WHEELCHAIR.

THIS IS YEAGER NORTH LAMAR, 1, 2, 3 0 0 NORTH LAMAR.

AND YOU STILL NOT INVESTED IN THIS AREA.

I WANT YOU TO SEE THAT ITS SUBSTANDARD AMENITIES IN NORTH LAMAR, NORTH OF US.

180 3, 3 92 ROUTE.

I WANT YOU TO SEE THE STARK DIFFERENCE WHERE THE BUS STOP HAS TRASH CANS THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED AND PEOPLE ARE SITTING ON THE GROUND.

THIS IS THE LAST SLIDE I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE, AND IT'S A LITTLE, I HAVE AN ARROW ON THIS SLIDE, BUT IT'S ABOUT A QUARTER MILE WALK FROM THE RAIL STATION.

HOWEVER, YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE ARE NO SHELTERS IN THIS AREA.

SO I'M ASKING THE COMMISSION TO ACTUALLY PUT FORTH THE RESOLUTION TO ACTUALLY PRIORITIZE NORTH LAMAR.

THEY'VE BEEN NUMBER ONE FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

AND THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN, WALK BIKE ROAD 2023, PAGE 37, SPECIFIES THE DISINVESTMENT IN NORTH LAMAR AND THE CITY'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THEIR DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES.

SO THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I'VE JUST MADE UP.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY'VE ACKNOWLEDGED.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GO AHEAD AND ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS CHECKING ONLINE? SAY AGAIN? UH, I'M SORRY, I WAS JUST CHECKING ONLINE.

OKAY, WITH THAT WE'LL MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE, APPROVAL OF OUR MEETING MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY.

UH, THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT TODAY.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

[1. Approve the minutes of the Urban Transportation Commission Regular meeting on 2/3/2026.]

UH, I'M GONNA GIVE EVERYONE A SECOND TO CHECK THESE.

THEY ARE IN YOUR BACKUP.

AND IT WENT ON A LITTLE BIT AGO, AND I'LL, UH, ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

SO MOVED.

THAT IS A, A MOTION TO APPROVE, APPROVE THE PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES.

IS THERE A SECOND?

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WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO OUR, UH, DISCUSSION ITEMS. WE HAVE A PRESENTATION FROM THE TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM BY MAX SCHWARTZ.

THERE IS A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER JACOBSON.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MEETING MINUTES, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY AYE.

[2. Transit Enhancement Program Update. Presentation by Max Schwartz, Program Manager, Austin Transportation and Public Works.]

CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME? YES.

GREAT.

JUST ONE SECOND, JUST PULLING UP MY NOTES.

PERFECT.

UH OH, NEVERMIND.

IT'S THE, UH, TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT ONE.

YEAH, THAT ONE RIGHT THERE.

ALRIGHT, GOOD TO GO.

GREAT.

UM, THANKS EVERYBODY FOR HAVING ME.

MY NAME IS MAX SCHWARTZ.

I'M A, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM MANAGER WITH THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

I WORK UNDER, UH, ERIC BULLOCK, MANAGING ENGINEER, WHO YOU JUST HEARD FROM.

UM, AND I LEAD THE TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM WITHIN, UH, A TVW.

I'M ALSO JOINED HERE BY NADIA BARRERA RAMIREZ FROM CAB METRO, WHO WE WORK WITH DAILY.

AND, UM, I'M HERE TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE UPDATE ABOUT OUR PROGRAM AND, UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO TALKING WITH YOU.

IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO, JUST TO GIVE YOU A QUICK ROADMAP OF WHAT WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS TODAY, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A QUICK BACKGROUND ON OUR PROGRAM, AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE DO, WHY WE DO AND, UH, HOW WE DO IT, AND THEN, UH, SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO, UH, ACHIEVE WITH OUR FUNDING, AND THEN ALSO FUTURE WORK THAT WE HAVE PLANNED.

IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, DAVID.

WHICH IS OUR GUIDING, UH, DOCUMENT, WHICH IS OUR, OUR METHODOLOGY FOR OUR PROGRAM.

SO OUR, UH, PROGRAM MISSION IS TO DEVELOP AND CONSTRUCT TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE TO IMPROVE SAFETY OPERATIONS AND ACCESS IN AN EQUITABLE MANNER.

UM, WE ARE FOCUSED, UH, WE ARE ONE OF MANY, UH, PROGRAMS WITHIN AT, UH, EXCUSE ME, TPW NOW, UH, INCLUDING, WHICH INCLUDES LIKE THE SIDEWALKS, URBAN TRAILS, BIKEWAYS, PEDESTRIAN CROSSING, VISION ZERO SPEED MANAGEMENT.

WE'RE ONE OF THOSE PROGRAMS. UM, WE'RE UNIQUE IN THE SENSE THAT WE, UH, HAVE A COOPERATION AGREEMENT CALLED, UH, INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH CAT METRO.

SO I AM ON THE PHONE WITH NADIA JUST ABOUT EVERY DAY.

AND, UH, WE ARE WORKING HAND IN HAND TO DELIVER THE BEST, UH, TRANSIT RESOURCES THAT WE CAN FOR THE COMMUNITY.

AND WE TRY TO DO OUR BEST TO, UM, WORK SUCCINCTLY AND WORK EFFICIENTLY SO THAT WE CAN UTILIZE OUR FUNDING, UH, AS APPROPRIATELY AS POSSIBLE.

IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

SO, UH, JUST BEFORE I GET INTO THE EXACT PROJECTS AND THE WORK THAT WE DO, UM, YOU'RE PROBABLY ALL AWARE OF THIS, BUT JUST FOR SOME, UH, INFORMATION, WE HAVE, UH, PLENTY OF GUIDING DOCUMENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT LEAD OUR WORK.

UH, THE FIRST ON THE LEFT IS, UH, THE IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, WHICH DEFINES, UH, WHICH DEFINE THE VISION FOR THE CITY, WHICH IS A MOBILE CITY AND AN INTERCONNECTED CITY.

AND PART OF THAT IS THROUGH TRANSIT, UH, FURTHER THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN.

FURTHER, UH, DEFINE THAT TRANSIT VISION, UH, LOOKING AT MODE SPLIT AND, UM, LESS, UH, EXCUSE ME, UM, MORE, UH, FOCUS ON TRANSIT THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

AND THEN LASTLY, ON THE RIGHT, UH, HAVE A SNIPPET FROM OUR, UH, TRANSPORTATION CRITERIA MANUAL, WHICH SPECIFICALLY, UH, ADVISES US ABOUT THE DESIGN MAN, UH, THE DESIGN MECHANISMS THAT WE CAN USE FOR THE VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE INITIATE THROUGH OUR PROGRAM.

IF WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

AND THEN LASTLY, UH, WITHIN OUR PROGRAM, WE HAVE, UH, THE TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT,

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SO, UM, WITHIN THIS REPORT, WE'VE IDENTIFIED, UH, VARIOUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT, UH, CAN SPECIFICALLY ASSIST WITH OUR PROBLEM SPOTS WITH, UH, TRANSIT RELATED TO DELAY OPERATIONS AND ACCESS.

WITHIN OUR REPORT, WE'VE IDENTIFIED ABOUT A $50 MILLION WORTH OF IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE CAN, UM, FUND TO ENHANCE TRANSIT THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

AND ON THE RIGHT OF THE IMAGE HERE, YOU CAN SEE THOSE 30 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.

UH, WE'VE BEEN HARD AT WORK, UH, TARGETING THOSE WITH THE FUNDING THAT WE'VE BEEN ALLOCATED.

AND I'M GONNA GET MORE INTO THAT IN JUST A BIT.

UM, BUT WE'VE GOT A PROGRAM METHODOLOGY, AND ANYTIME THERE'S OVERLAP, WE SEEK TO COORDINATE WITH OUR VARIOUS, UH, EXCUSE ME, UH, OUR OTHER PROGRAMS WITHIN TPW AND TRY TO DELIVER THE BEST POSSIBLE PROJECTS THAT WE CAN.

IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

AND THEN LASTLY, JUST WITH BACKGROUND, UM, TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT HAS HAD A LONG HISTORY OF COOPERATION WITH CAP METRO, AND THAT BEGAN 11 YEARS AGO WHEN WE FORMULATED, UH, FORMED, UH, TRANSIT PRIORITY WORKING GROUP, WHICH IS A BIWEEKLY, UH, WORKING GROUP AMONG STAFF.

UH, WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN UPCOMING MEETING THIS FRIDAY.

UM, I CURRENTLY RUN, UH, THE MEETING WITH NADIA AND HER TEAM, AND WE BRING UP EVERYTHING FROM COMPLEX DESIGNS, UH, RELATED TO TRANSIT, PRIORITY LANE SIGNALS, UH, ACCESS IMPROVEMENTS, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO SIMPLE IMPROVEMENTS, SUCH AS, DOES A STOP BAR NEED TO BE ADJUSTED SO THAT A BUS CAN MAKE A TURN? IS THERE, ARE THERE PARKING ISSUES THAT, UH, WHERE A BUS CAN'T ACCESS THE STOP WITHOUT, UH, BUD BUDGING OUT CAUSING SAFETY ISSUES? WE DISCUSS ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING, AND WE TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, UH, INCORPORATE AS MANY IDEAS AS WE CAN WITHIN THIS GROUP.

UM, THIS IS THE SPECIFIC GROUP WHERE WE ENCOURAGE IDEAS AND FOSTER THEM, UH, THROUGH COLLABORATION.

THIS MECHANISM OF COLLABORATION WAS FORMALIZED IN 2018 WHEN WE INITIATED OUR INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH CAP METRO.

UH, AND CURRENTLY CAP METRO PROVIDES US, UH, WE BILL OUT ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IN INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH WE BILL BACK TO CAP METRO AS WE GO ALONG.

SO IT'S GREAT.

IT, IT SUPPORTS OUR, UM, OUR FUND, OUR WORK THAT WE DO ON OUR OWN.

AND I'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.

IN 2019, AS YOU MAY KNOW, CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED THE AS MP, WHICH SUPPORTS OUR WORK THROUGH STRATEGIC STRATEGIC DIRECTION.

AND THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY, IN 2020, UH, EXCUSE ME, THE, UH, 2020 MOBILITY BOND WAS PASSED, WHICH PROVIDED US OUR FIRST RENDITION OF, UH, CONCRETE FUNDING.

SO WE WERE ALLOCATED FROM THE BOND, $19 MILLION.

I'LL GET MORE INTO HOW MUCH WE'VE SPENT AND WHAT THAT'S GOING TOWARD IN JUST A SECOND.

UM, EXCUSE ME.

IN 2021, OUR TCM WAS APPROVED, WHICH PROVIDE SPECIFIC DESIGN DIRECTION.

AND THEN LASTLY, IN 2023, OUR TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT, WHICH I PREVIOUSLY SPOKE TO, WAS APPROVED.

SO WE'VE BEEN HARD AT WORK, AND THIS HAS BEEN, UH, A LONG, UH, COORDINATION WITH CAP METRO, AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'VE DONE.

AND THEN WHAT'S TO COME? IF YOU CAN JUMP TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

OTHER METHODOLOGIES THAT OFTEN OVERLAP WITH OURS, SO WE SEEK TO COORDINATE WITH THEM AND UNDERSTAND, UH, YOU KNOW, IF PROGRAM A IS GOING HERE, WHERE CAN WE JUMP IN AND EITHER PROVIDE FUNDING TO SUPPORT AND GO FROM THERE.

SO THAT'S THE BACKGROUND OF OUR PROGRAM.

UH, GETTING INTO AN OVERVIEW QUICKLY ABOUT WHAT WE DO, UM, WE WORK IN THREE DIFFERENT WAYS.

ONE, UH, WE LOOK AT OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS.

THE IMAGE ON THE LEFT IS THE WEST FIFTH STREET, UH, BUS AND BIKE LANE.

THIS WAS A, UH, TREATMENT TO REVISE THE CROSS SECTION AND ADDRESS THE DELAY IN THAT AREA.

UH, WE PAIRED THIS TREATMENT WITH A TRANSIT Q JUMP, AND THAT, UH, HAS ADDRESSED A LOT OF THE ISSUE.

WE STILL NEED TO COLLECT SOME MORE DATA FOR OUR VARIOUS PROJECTS, BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE TREATMENTS THAT WE'VE PROVIDED.

IN THE MIDDLE, YOU CAN SEE AN ACCESS IMPROVEMENT.

A LOT OF OUR BUS STOPS HISTORICALLY, WERE BUILT MIDBLOCK.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, AS WE KNOW, IF YOUR MID-BLOCK, UH, NOWHERE NEAR A CROSSING, YOU'RE MORE LIKELY TO JUST CROSS THE STREET THERE, EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT SAFE.

SO WE DO OUR BEST TO IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS WITHIN OUR TRANS ENHANCEMENT REPORT AND BUILD OUT CROSSINGS TO ADDRESS THOSE.

AND IF WE CAN'T BUILD THEM IN THE EXACT, THOSE EXACT PLACES WE MOVE, THE BUS STOPS TOWARDS CROSSINGS THAT ARE SAFE, AND WE DO OUR BEST TO GET THEM THERE.

LASTLY, UH, WE DO A LOT OF PROJECT COORDINATION.

OBVIOUSLY I HAVE, UM, PROJECT CONNECTS, UH, LIGHT RAIL MAP UP HERE.

WE ARE FOCUSED ON LOCAL TRANSIT, SO ALL THE BUS SERVICE, UH, THAT SURROUNDS, UH, THE REGIONAL TRANSIT THAT'S COMING IN, UH, AND METRO RAPID THAT ALSO WAS JUST DELIVERED THROUGH PROJECT CONNECT.

AND WE WORK HAND IN HAND WITH THESE PARTNERS TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACTS TO LOCAL TRANSIT, HOW, UH, THEY CAN BE SERVED.

AND WE ALSO WORK HAND IN HAND WITH OUR OTHER PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT TPW.

A LOT OF OUR PROGRAMS HAVE

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UM, LASTLY I'LL JUST MENTION, I ALSO LED THE, UM, L MAP PROCESS, WHICH IS OUR LOCAL MOBILITY ANNUAL PLAN, WHICH, UM, PROVIDES AN UPDATE TO OUR PROGRESS WITH OUR, UH, 2020 MOBILITY BOND.

AND THAT'S A PROG A, A PROCESS IN AND OF ITSELF WHERE WE IDENTIFY THOSE MOMENTS OF COORDINATION.

AND WE WORK TOGETHER TO, UH, BRING, YOU KNOW, THE SIDEWALKS TEAM WITH THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING TEAM SO THAT FUNDING CAN BE PROVIDED FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS.

AND THE SAME GOES WITH TRANSIT WITHOUT OUR VERY PARTNERS.

IF YOU CAN JUMP TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

TAKING A STEP BACK FOR JUST A SECOND.

UM, SOME OF YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH THIS IMAGE.

THIS IS AN IMAGE FROM, UH, AN, EXCUSE ME, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS, KNOWN AS SHORT AND ACTO.

AND IT PROVIDES, UH, IN MY MIND A REALLY SUCCINCT MESSAGE FOR WHY COORDINATION IS IMPORTANT.

SO A TRANSIT AGENCY HIGHLIGHTED IN ORANGE MIGHT OWN THE TRANSIT VEHICLES THEMSELVES, AS WELL AS THE SHELTER AMENITIES.

THE LITTER CAN, UH, TICKETING INFRA, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S AT THE STOP, BUT THE CITY ALL WILL OWN, YOU KNOW, UH, THE SIGNALS, THE MARKINGS ON THE STREET, THE ROADWAY ITSELF, AND THEN SIGNAGE.

SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US IN ORDER TO CREATE A COHESIVE CITY, THAT WE WORK TOGETHER WITH OUR TRANSIT PROVIDERS SO THAT WE'RE NOT JUST WORKING TOWARDS ONE SET OF GOALS, WE'RE WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THEM.

SO WE BUILD TRUST, WORK TOGETHER, DELIVER THE BEST POSSIBLE RESOURCE THAT WE CAN FOR OUR RESIDENTS USING THE FUNDING THAT WE HAVE.

AND, UM, I THINK IT'S VITALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IF WE JUST LET YOU KNOW, SAY TO CAB METRO, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL ARE ON YOUR OWN, WELL, WE'RE KIND OF DOING OURSELVES A DISSERVICE AS WELL.

AND WE'RE ALSO DOING THE CITIZENS OF AUSTIN A DISSERVICE.

SO I REALLY ENJOY THIS ASPECT.

AND THE FACT THAT OUR INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT IS, UH, SIGNED AND IN WRITING IS, IS A GREAT RESOURCE FOR US.

UH, THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE, AND I'LL JUST WRAP UP QUICKLY JUST SO WE CAN SAVE TIME FOR SOME QUESTIONS.

SO WE'VE DONE A LOT, UH, SINCE OUR PROGRAM FORM.

UH, AS I NOTED, WE'VE CREATED A TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT THAT GUIDES OUR WORK.

UH, WE'VE CREATED FIVE TRANSIT QUEUE JUMPS, UH, AT SIGNALS WHICH ALLOW FOR THE BUSES TO JUMP AHEAD OF A QUEUE AND PRIORITIZE THAT MOVEMENT.

UH, THOSE ARE ESPECIALLY FUN, BUT ESPECIALLY COMPLICATED.

SO IF YOU'RE EVER INTERESTED, I COULD TALK YOUR EAR OFF AND BORE YOU TO DEATH ABOUT IT, BUT IT'S QUITE A LOT OF FUN.

WE'VE CREATED EIGHT PLUS MILES OF TRANSIT PRIORITY LANES.

THAT MEANS WE'VE PRIORITIZED SPACE FOR THE BUS IN THAT SPACE.

AND OFTENTIMES IN THESE TREATMENTS, WE'RE ABLE TO PRIORITIZE, UH, MULTIMODAL ACCESS AND BICYCLING AS WELL.

WE'VE CREATED 66 ACCESS IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH MAINLY INCLUDE CROSSINGS, UM, BUT ALSO INCLUDE SIDEWALKS, SHARED USE PATHS AS THEY CONNECT INTO BUS STOPS, BECAUSE WE OFTEN FIND, UM, TRANSIT TRIPS OFTEN BEGIN WITH BIKING OR WALKING IN SOME WAY, SHAPE OR FORM.

SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN GET THERE.

AND THEN WE'VE ALSO UPGRADED 82 BUS STOPS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND THAT MOSTLY MEANS THAT WE'VE UPGRADED THEM TO MULTIMODAL STATUS OR MOVED THEM TO SAFER LOCATIONS.

A LOT OF THESE ARE MULTIMODAL UPGRADES.

IF YOU CAN JUMP TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS, UH, THE PIECE, THE RESISTANCE, IF YOU WILL.

UM, WE'VE, OF THE 19 MILLION THAT I MENTIONED THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE 2020 BOND, WE HAVE ENCUMBERED ABOUT 86% OF OUR TOTAL FUNDING.

AND A LOT OF THAT IS SPLIT IN DIFFERENT WAYS.

WE'VE SPENT $11 MILLION OF IT.

WE HAVE IN CONSTRUCTION ANOTHER THREE, UH, WE HAVE $1 MILLION IN DESIGN.

WE HAVE ANOTHER MILLION DOLLARS THAT'S SET ASIDE FOR GRANTS THROUGH, UH, CAMPO GRANT APPLICATIONS AND SS FOUR A THAT WILL SUPPORT TRANSIT THROUGH CROSSINGS.

AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER, UH, 2.7 THAT'S UNENCUMBERED.

THESE NUMBERS ARE EFFECTIVE AS OF THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY.

SINCE THEN, MORE MONEY HAS GONE OUT THE DOOR.

WE'VE BEGUN OUR BUDGETING PROCESS.

WE'VE ENCUMBERED MORE MONEY FOR DESIGN, UM, AND MORE WORK IS GOING INTO CONSTRUCTION AS WE SPEAK.

SO THESE NUMBERS ARE, YOU KNOW, THAT LITTLE PO UH, SECTION OF THE PIE THAT IS, UH, SHOWING UNENCUMBERED IS SLOWLY AND SLOWLY GETTING MORE AND MORE REDUCED.

AND WE HAVE PLENTY OF WORK, AS I MENTIONED, BECAUSE, UH, WE'VE BEEN ASSIGNED $19 MILLION.

WE HAVE ABOUT $50 MILLION WORTH OF WORK TO ACCOMPLISH.

UM, SO WE'VE GOT A LOT TO DO AND WE'RE DOING OUR BEST TO MEET DIRECTOR MENDOZA'S GOAL OF SPENDING EVERYTHING, GETTING IT ALL OUT THE DOOR BY THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 27.

UH, THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

I'M JUST WRAPPING, I'M SORRY.

I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU.

WHAT DOES UNENCUMBERED MEAN? UH, JUST WE HAVEN'T ASSIGNED IT TO A SPECIFIC PROJECT YET.

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SO IT'S KIND OF JUST READY TO GO.

READY TO, YEAH.

READY TO BE ASSIGNED, BUT HAS NOT BEEN ASSIGNED YET.

SO YES, I DO THINK IT'S A POSSIBILITY, BUT FOR RIGHT NOW, WE'RE FOCUSED ON WHAT WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US.

YEP.

UM, SOME PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS OF STUFF OF WORK THAT WE'VE RECENTLY COMPLETED IS, UH, YOU ALL MAY BE AWARE OF THE TRANSIT PRIORITY LANES THAT ARE ON GUADALUPE.

UM, YOU MAY ALSO BE AWARE OF ALL THE DEVELOPERS THAT HAVE BEEN COMING IN AND BUILDING VERY TALL BUILDINGS.

UH, THEIR TRAFFIC CONTROLS HAVE OCCUPIED CERTAIN BLOCKS.

WE HAVE GONE IN RECENTLY AND FILLED THOSE IN.

UM, AND THAT INCLUDED, UH, COORDINATION WITH OUR SIGNS AND MARKINGS TEAM, UH, WITH OUR RIGHT OF WAY GROUPS AND ALSO CAT METRO TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NO DISPROPORTIONATE SURFACE IMPACTS AS WE GO.

IN.

THE IMAGE ON THE RIGHT IS EAST 12TH AND AIRPORT, AND THIS IS A REALLY GREAT EXAMPLE OF CREATING SOMETHING OUTTA NOTHING.

WE HAD A OVERBUILT INTERSECTION AND WE COULD HAVE RES STRIPPED IT AFTER RESURFACING TO CREATE, UM, THE SAME PROJECT THAT EXISTED.

BUT WE WORKED WITH CAP METRO AND OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION TEAM TO REDESIGN IT AND CREATE A DEDICATED, UH, MINI BUS LANE, IF YOU WILL, FOR THE TRANSIT TIME POINT.

AND ALSO, UH, CREATE PROTECTED BIKE FACILITIES.

SO WE TOOK SPACE THAT PREVIOUSLY WASN'T EFFECTIVELY BEING USED AND DEDICATED IT FOR TRANSIT.

SO THAT WAS A REALLY EXCITING PROJECT, AND WE ALSO PAIRED IT WITH A QUEUE JUMP, SO NOW THE BUS IS ABLE TO JUMP AHEAD OF THE QUEUE.

IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

AND LASTLY, ONE OF THE MORE RECENT LARGER PROJECTS THAT I MANAGE IS, UH, TRINITY AND SAN JACINTO, WHICH IS DOWNTOWN.

IT OPERATES, UH, A WHOLE LOT OF, UM, LOCAL TRANSIT, BUT ALSO SERVES, UH, THE RECENT, UH, RECENTLY ESTABLISHED EXPO LINE, UH, FOR METRO RAPID.

WE TOOK A CROSS-SECTION THAT WAS, UH, ON THE HIGH INJURY NETWORK, THREE GENERAL PURPOSE LANES, UNPROTECTED BICYCLE FACILITIES AND PARKING ON BOTH SIDES, AND REORGANIZED IT TO BETTER ALIGN THE PARKING CREATED, UH, A TRANSIT PRIORITY LANE, AND THEN MOVE BIKES AGAINST CURB FROM THIS.

NOT ONLY HAS TRANSIT BENEFITED BENEFITED, BUT WE HAVE MEASURED THAT, UM, COMPREHENSIVE CRASH COSTS FROM THIS DESIGN HAVE BEEN REDUCED BY 56%, WHICH EQUATES TO ABOUT $10 MILLION OF SOCIETAL COSTS FROM CRASHES BEING REDUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS DESIGN.

THE BEST PART ABOUT THIS PROJECT WAS WE WORKED HAND IN HAND WITH OUR PARTNERS AT THE STATE TO IDENTIFY THEIR GOALS, WHICH WERE TO REDUCE THE LENGTH OF CROSSINGS FROM THEIR EMPLOYEES WHO CROSS AT THE VARIOUS PARKING LOTS IN THE CAPITAL COMPLEX.

AND WE WERE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THOSE, THOSE GOALS BY REDUCING CROSSINGS IN CERTAIN AREAS.

AND ULTIMATELY, THIS WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN US CAP METRO, THE STATE, AND OTHER PARTNERS IN THE AREA TO ACHIEVE A LITANY OF GOALS.

AND I'M REALLY EXCITED FOR IT.

WE'RE LOOKING TO EVENTUALLY PAINT IT RED, BUT WE'RE WAITING FOR THE TIME WHEN WE'RE OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW.

YOU CAN SEE FROM THE IMAGE, UH, WE HAVE RED BACKED, UM, LEGENDS IN THE LANES, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE, UH, SIGNAGE OVERHEAD.

WHEN WE'RE READY, WE WILL GO BACK AND PAINT THE WHOLE THING RED.

AND IF YOU'RE EVER INTERESTED, I'D LOVE TO INVITE YOU OUT TO COME SEE IT LIVE.

IT'S A REALLY GREAT SCENE TO SEE THE MATERIAL GO DOWN.

UH, LAST SLIDE PLEASE.

YEAH, AND I JUST WANNA WRAP UP WITH, UM, IT TAKES A VILLAGE, YOU KNOW, UH, DIRECTOR MENDOZA'S LEADERSHIP ALONG WITH, UH, DEPUTY DIRECTOR DALE, UH, ANNA MARTIN, UH, ERIC BOCK, AND EVERYBODY ELSE HERE FROM TPW AND, UM, CAT METRO ALL COME TOGETHER TO CREATE ALL THESE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE SEEKING TO ACCOMPLISH.

AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF, UH, WHAT OUR PROGRAM'S ACCOMPLISHED.

I'M EXCITED FOR WHERE WE'RE GOING AND I'M INTERESTED TO HEAR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE SO THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE SOME DIRECTION FOR Y'ALL.

UM, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME HERE, AND, UH, IT'S REALLY A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

NO, THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO, UH, COME OUT.

DO WE HAVE ANY, UH, QUESTIONS? I'LL START IN PERSON FIRST.

COMMISSIONER KAMAN.

UM, YEAH, UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS PRESENTATION.

IT WAS REALLY GOOD.

I REMEMBER BEING REALLY IMPRESSED, UM, WHEN THE REPORT WAS PUBLISHED, AND IT'S EXCITING TO SEE A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS GET IMPLEMENTED.

UM, SO IT'S CALLED A REPORT, BUT IS IT PLANNED TO BE, UM, ITER ITERATIVE? LIKE ARE WE MAYBE IN, UM, 10 YEARS FROM 2023 GONNA HAVE A SET OF A NEW SET OF PROJECTS THAT WE WANNA WORK ON? OR, I KNOW THAT THERE'S, WITH THESE 30 DIFFERENT PROJECTS, WE HAVE A LOT AHEAD OF US.

UM, BUT YEAH.

ARE WE PLANNING TO MAKE THIS ITERATIVE? YEAH, I THINK IT'S VERY MUCH POSSIBLE, BUT AT THE CURRENT TIME, WE'RE FOCUSED ON WHAT WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US, YOU KNOW, GIVEN OUR LIMITED RESOURCES.

UM, THERE'S SO MUCH TO BE DONE AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WHAT WE HAVE AND WE'RE DOING OUR BEST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN SPREAD OUT OUR RESOURCES AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

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AND, UH, THE LIST FROM ONE TO 30, DOES THAT REPRESENT THE PRIORITIZATION OF THE PROJECTS? IT DOES.

YEP.

I HAVE A IN THE WEEDS QUESTION, PLEASE.

I'M JUST WONDERING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT TREATMENTS OF THE RED PAINTED LANES FOR THE SHARED BUS LANES.

IT LOOKS LIKE SOME ARE FULLY PAINTED AND SOME ARE STRIPED.

CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT? YEAH, IT, IT, IT, IT'S CONTACT SENSITIVE DEPENDING ON, UM, THE RESOURCES WE HAVE.

SO THE PAINT IS ACTUALLY NOT PAINT.

IT'S KIND OF LIKE A, A HIGH LEVEL, UH, NAIL POLISH, IF YOU WILL.

IT'S CALLED METHYL METH RE OKAY.

AND IT'S EXPENSIVE.

SO, UM, WE TYPICALLY PUT THEM DOWN IN AREAS WHERE THEY'RE NEEDED.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, ON RIVERSIDE, WHERE THERE ARE TRANSIT PRIORITY LANES MM-HMM .

UM, THEY'VE BEEN EFFECTIVE WITHOUT, IN THE FUTURE, WE MAY CONSIDER IT, BUT ALSO PROJECT CONNECT IS COMING IN, IN THE CROSS SECTION'S GONNA BE CHANGING.

SO, YEAH.

UM, GUADALUPE AND LA VACA DOWNTOWN, A LOT OF TRAFFIC VISITORS, TOURISTS, THAT'S WHERE WE PUT THEM IN.

UM, AND ON TURNING IN SAN JACINTO, WE JUST HAVEN'T HAD THE RESOURCES YET TO GO TO THAT SPOT AND PAINT RED.

YEAH, THANKS.

ABSOLUTELY.

SO, I'M GONNA INTERRUPT, UH, REAL QUICKLY, UH, FOLKS ONLINE.

I'LL LET NATALIE EXPLAIN THIS IN A MINUTE, BUT, UH, THIS SESSION IS GOING TO TIME OUT AND WE WILL NOT HAVE A QUORUM.

SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO TAKE A BRIEF RECESS JUST TO GET YOU GUYS ON A DIFFERENT WEBEX.

NATALIE, DO YOU WANNA EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED? I, I THINK YOU EXPLAINED IT PERFECTLY.

UM, THERE WERE TWO DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS.

I DIDN'T REALIZE I STARTED THE WEB.

LIKE I, I CREATED IT ON ONE ACCOUNT.

I'M GONNA GO IN AND CREATE A MEETING ON A DIFFERENT ACCOUNT, AND I WILL SEND THE INVITE OUT TO EVERYBODY THAT NEEDS IT, AND THEY SHOULD, UH, CHECK ON THEIR EMAILS.

CORRECT.

AND IF I, IF IT'S BETTER TO SEND IT VIA TEXT, JUST SHOOT ME A TEXT AND I'LL GET IT TO YOU THAT WAY.

COMMISSIONER CHEN, COMMISSIONER BROWN, DOES THAT SOUND GOOD TO YOU GUYS? WORKS FOR ME.

UH, I'M GONNA MAKE A MOTION TO RECESS UNTIL 5:46 PM UH, IS THERE ANY OBJECTION? OKAY, UH, UNDER, BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT, WE'LL RECESS UNTIL 5:46 PM UH, IT IS 5 51 AND I'M CALLING THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION BACK TO ORDER.

SINCE WE NOW HAVE A QUORUM, IT LOOKS LIKE COMMISSIONER BROWN IS NOT QUITE PRESENT, SO I'M GONNA GIVE HIM 30 SECONDS TO HOP ON BEFORE WE CONTINUE WITH OUR PRESENTATION.

I AM GONNA KEEP IT GOING IN THE INTEREST OF TIME.

UM, I THINK COMMISSIONER BUFFET, DID YOU GET YOUR QUESTION? A ANSWERED? ALL RIGHT.

ANYONE ELSE HAVE A QUESTION? I GOT ONE.

UH, UH, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, THANKS FOR THANKS FOR THIS.

IT'S GREAT TO SEE THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN, UM, UH, TPW AND CAP METRO.

I JUST HAD A QUESTION.

WHEN YOU MENTIONED THE SAN JACINTO TRINITY PROJECT, WHAT KIND OF LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT OR COLLABORATION Y'ALL HAVE WITH THE STATE AND, YOU KNOW, THEIR RIGHT OF WAYS AND THEIR ROADWAYS, AND DO THEY, HOW DO THEY CONTRIBUTE TO THESE PROJECTS? I DON'T KNOW, DO THEY, IS THERE ANY AGREEMENTS Y'ALL HAVE WITH THEM? FOR SHARED S WE, WE DON'T HAVE A FORMAL AGREEMENT, BUT WE WORKED HAND IN HAND WITH THE, UH, STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD, WHICH MANAGES THE PARKING, UH, FROM 10, UH, NORTH OF 10TH UP TO MMLK, WHICH IS WHERE OUR PROJECT BOUNDARIES WERE.

AND, UH, WE ACTUALLY TOOK A TABLE MUCH LIKE THIS AND PRINTED OUT A LARGE, UH, SCROLL PLOT OF OUR ENTIRE DESIGN, AND WE JUST MARKED IT UP WITH THEM, AND WE ASKED THEM ABOUT, WHAT ARE YOUR PRIORITIES? WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING TO SEE HERE? WHAT NEEDS TO BE ADJUSTED? UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE MET THEIR NEEDS BECAUSE, UH, A LOT OF THEIR, THE PARKING IS VERY VITAL FOR THEM FOR FUNDING FOR, UH, CAPITAL GROUND MAINTENANCE.

AND WE WERE ABLE TO MAINTAIN ACTUALLY, UH, SLIGHTLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PARKING BY ONE OR TWO SPACES ON THE CORRIDOR, AND ALSO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS OF REDUCING THAT.

UM, SO THEY WERE VITAL PARTNERS.

THEY CAME OUT WITH US, UH, IN THE FIELD WHEN WE ACTUALLY STARTED MOVING METERS.

UM, THEY CAME OUT TO OUR OFFICES BACK WHEN WE WERE AT BARTON OAKS BACK IN THE DAY, AND, UM, WORKED ON EVERYTHING.

SO THEY WERE GREAT PARTNERS AND, UM, IT WAS WONDERFUL WORKING WITH THEM AND ACHIEVING THIS, UH, MULTIMODAL PROJECT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S REALLY JUST A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE THIS, YOU KNOW, ACCESS POINT THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN.

I'LL HIT YOU WITH ONE MORE SO WE DON'T KEEP YOU TOO LATE, PLEASE.

OKAY, COOL.

AND JUST NOTING THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER BROWN HAS JOINED US.

UM, SO WE NOW HAVE SEVEN, UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS LOOKING AT YOU, UH, FOCUS ONLINE, ESPECIALLY HERE, AND IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY OTHER TRANSIT RELATED QUESTIONS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO ASK AFTER THE MEETING, I'M HAPPY TO HANG OUT AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT EVERYTHING BUS, SO, WELL, I'LL,

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UM, SO I'D LOVE TO TALK ABOUT, UH, ENFORCEMENT IN OUR TRANSIT PRIORITY LANES.

'CAUSE I, I EITHER GET TO WORK BY, BY BIKING ON SAN JACINTO OR BY TAKING A BUS DOWN ON GUAD.

SO I, I GET TO SEE BOTH OF THE, THE MAIN ONES AT LEAST, UH, NOT, MAYBE NOT THE RIVERSIDE AND THE FIFTH STREET ONES, UH, BUT I CAN SEE THAT ENFORCEMENT IS AN ISSUE BOTH IN FOLKS PARKING, IN BLOCKING IT, AND FOLKS, UH, ESPECIALLY ON TRINITY DURING THE PM RUSH HOUR, JUST IGNORING THAT DESIGNATION AND USING IT AS A GENERAL PURPOSE LANE.

AND I'M MINDFUL THAT THAT'S BOTH A MOVING AND A NON-MOVING VIOLATION THERE.

YEP.

SO, I'M CUR IF YOU COULD JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT ENFORCEMENT LOOKS LIKE AND MAYBE WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK, LOOK LIKE OR COULD LOOK LIKE ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

SOME MUNICIPALITIES USE, UM, VIDEO ENFORCEMENT, UM, THAT IS NOT ALLOWED BY STATE LAW HERE.

UM, THERE IS IN PERSON LEVELS ENFORCEMENT, WE ALSO HAVE TO BE, YOU KNOW, MINDFUL OF, UH, DISPARATE IMPACTS TO, UM, MINORITY GROUPS FROM, YOU KNOW, SUCH STOPS.

UM, THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS TO GO ABOUT IT.

UM, OFTEN WE, AT LEAST IN MY ROLE, UM, I TRY TO LOOK AT HOW CAN WE ENFORCE COMPLIANCE AS MUCH AS WE CAN THROUGH DESIGN.

SO, UH, FOR ATTORNEY AND SAN JACINTO, THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO PAINT IT RED.

UM, BECAUSE THAT PROVIDES, YOU KNOW, A CLEAR DESIGNATION THAT THIS SPACE IS RESERVED FOR BUSES.

AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, DOWNTOWN, AS YOU MAY KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF VISITORS, BUT ALSO THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY AT THE EVENING RUSH, THAT ARE JUST WORKING IN THE CAPITOL COMPLEX OR THE BUILDINGS THAT ARE AROUND THAT, YOU KNOW, SEE EXTRA SPACE AND TAKE IT.

UM, SO THROUGH DESIGN, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ULTIMATELY LOOKING TO DO.

UM, YOU KNOW, UH, ENFORCEMENT COULD BE IN PERSON OR VIA VIDEO, LIKE I MENTIONED.

IT'S NOT ALLOWED BY STATE LAWS, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT.

WE TRY TO DO OUR BEST THROUGH SIGNAGE AND DESIGN AND STRIPING THROUGH THE MEANS THAT WE CAN TO DELIVER THE BEST POSSIBLE RESULTS.

YEAH, DEFINITELY HEAR THAT.

I WOULD SAY, LET'S MAYBE HAVE A CONVERSATION OFFLINE ABOUT STATE LOCKS.

I THINK IT'S A LITTLE MORE FLEXIBLE.

IT'S REALLY TIED TO JUST RED LIGHT CAMERAS AND SPEED CAMERAS.

UH, AND IN FACT, I BELIEVE A ID TICKETS, PEOPLE WHO, UH, UH, PASS A BUS ON A STOP SIGN MM-HMM .

UH, THROUGH VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.

SO I, I THINK THERE COULD BE OPPORTUNITIES THERE, THOUGH THAT MAY ALSO BE A CONVERSATION WITH, UH, CAP METRO.

WE REALLY, WE, WE'D BE CERTAINLY BE INTERESTED IN HEARING YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT IT AND TAKING IN YOUR INPUT, AND THEN FIGURING OUT AS A TEAM, YOU KNOW, IS IT POSSIBLE.

SO YEAH, WE WOULD LOVE TO CHAT OFFLINE.

GREAT.

UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YEAH.

UM, SORRY, I, I WAS DRIVING HERE FROM AN APPOINTMENT, SO I MAY HAVE MISHEARD SOME THINGS, BUT, UH, COMMISSIONER CALVIN, YOU A FEW MINUTES AGO ASKED IF THE, THE NUMBERS ON SLIDE FIVE IS A PRIORITY ORDER.

WAS THAT WHAT YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT? AND WAS THAT THE ANSWER THAT THOSE ARE ORDER OF PRIORITY? YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT.

AND, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY GOING DOWN THE LIST BECAUSE, UH, SOME PROJECTS LIKE PROJECT ONE, WHICH IS ON PLEASANT VALLEY, REQUIRES, UH, WHAT'S CALLED A PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT, UHHUH, WHICH WE'RE CURRENTLY PURSUING.

THAT'S JUST KIND OF A, A, A REPORT THAT WE SEEK TO, YOU KNOW, GET A CONSULTANT TO FURTHER EVALUATE WHAT IS AND WHAT, WHAT'S NOT POSSIBLE.

UM, IF YOU, IF WE'RE ABLE TO GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE, SLIDE FIVE, IF THAT'S ALL RIGHT? YEAH, YEAH.

UM, THERE'S A PROJECT, I FORGET THE NUMBER, BUT IT'S ON SOUTH FIRST STREET MM-HMM .

UM, A LOT OF IT INVOLVED RELOCATING BUS STOPS TO, UH, DESIGNATED CROSSINGS AND ENHANCING SIGNAL INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND A SCHOOL, UH, AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT'S OVER THERE.

AND, UH, WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THAT FAIRLY EASILY BECAUSE IT DIDN'T INVOLVE COORDINATION WITH THE STATE OR SOME OF OUR OTHER GROUPS.

SO IT KIND OF DEPENDS.

WE, WE MOBILIZE BASED ON WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO FORESEEABLY ACCOMPLISH MM-HMM .

BECAUSE WE HAVE OUR DUAL GOAL OF, UM, DELIVERING AS MUCH AS WE CAN WITH WHAT WE HAVE, BUT ALSO DELIVERING THE BEST PROJECTS THAT WE CAN.

SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A BALANCE.

THE REASON I'M ASKING IS IN REGARDS TO THE PUBLIC COMMENT WE HAD EARLIER ABOUT NORTH LAMAR.

WAS THAT, WAS THAT COMMENT ABOUT SOMETHING BESIDES TRANS ENHANCEMENT? UH, THAT WAS, IS THAT UNRELATED? UM, THAT WAS ABOUT THE, THE DEFERMENT OF THE PROJECT ON NORTH LAMAR FROM THE 2016 BOND THAT ERIC COMES AND GIVES US UPDATES ON EVERY, YOU KNOW.

KNOW, YOU KNOW, LIMITED RESOURCES, SO WE DO THE BEST WITH TO DO WHAT WE CAN WITH WHAT WE HAVE.

SO DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. I WAS GONNA ASK IF HE HAD A RESPONSE TO THAT, BUT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S DIFFERENT.

SO YEAH, WE, AND, YOU KNOW, AND WE WORK, UM, THROUGHOUT THE CITY, NOT JUST WITHIN THE 30 PROJECTS, BUT WE IDENTIFY ISSUES THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND THERE'S OPPORTUNITY PROJECTS THAT DO COME UP HERE AND THERE, AND WE'RE ABLE TO MOBILIZE ACCORDINGLY AND ADDRESS THOSE.

UM, YOU KNOW, BUT AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE, YOU

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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU FOR, UH, COMING BY.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

AND, UH, WE CAN NOW GO ON TO OUR THIRD AGENDA ITEM, UH, BRIEFING ON THE AUSTIN CORE TRANSPORTATION PLAN UPDATE FROM MICHELLE MARKS.

[3. Austin Core Transportation Plan Update. Presentation by Michelle Marx, Transportation Officer, and Cole Kitten, Division Manager, Austin Transportation and Public Works.]

THANKS FOR HAVING ME TODAY.

UM, MICHELLE MARKS TRANSPORTATION OFFICER.

I CURRENTLY OVERSEE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AT TPW AS WELL AS STRATEGIC PROJECTS, TRANSPORTATION, DEMAND MANAGEMENT, UM, SO HERE TODAY TO REVISIT THE AUSTIN CORE TRANSPORTATION PLAN WITH YOU.

UM, I BELIEVE MY, UH, COLLEAGUE COLE KITTEN, UM, BRIEFED THIS GROUP ON THE ACT PLAN ABOUT MORE OR LESS A YEAR AGO.

AND, UM, WE'RE BACK TODAY SINCE WE ARE GETTING READY TO TAKE THE ACT PLAN AFTER SOME, UM, PAUSE BACK TO CITY COUNCIL FOR, UM, ADOPTION.

UM, SO HERE TO JUST PROVIDE A COURTESY BRIEFING ON WHAT'S TO COME.

UM, AND WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I'LL JUST DIVE RIGHT INTO THAT NEXT SLIDE.

FIRST SLIDE PLEASE.

UM, REALLY BRIEFLY, SINCE IT'S BEEN A WHILE, UM, SINCE WE'VE DISCUSSED THE ACT PLAN WITH YOU, UM, THIS IS A SMALL AREA TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UM, WHICH WILL BE AMENDED TO THE A SMP.

UM, AND, UM, IT REALLY IS AN UPDATE TO THE PREVIOUS DOWNTOWN MOBILITY PLAN THAT WAS IN PLACE KIND OF PRE, UH, 2019 BEFORE THE A SMP WAS ADOPTED.

UM, SO WITH THE ADOPTION OF THE AS SMP AND, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE VERY AGGRESSIVE, UM, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES IN THAT, UM, CITYWIDE PLAN, IT REALLY WAS TIME TO REVISIT, UM, THE DOWNTOWN PLAN TO KIND OF BRING IT INTO ALIGNMENT.

THERE HAS ALSO BEEN, YOU KNOW, SINCE THE PREVIOUS DOWNTOWN PLAN WAS ADOPTED, JUST A LOT OF KIND OF, UM, CHANGES IN BEST PRACTICE IN OUR INDUSTRY, UM, THAT WE REALLY WANNA REFLECT HERE IN AUSTIN.

UM, SHOW PEOPLE WE, YOU KNOW, BE THE CUTTING EDGE CITY THAT WE ARE.

UM, ALSO, UM, I THINK AS WE ALL KNOW, THERE'S JUST A MONUMENTAL AMOUNT OF CHANGE HAPPENING IN AND AROUND THE DOWNTOWN, UM, WHICH REALLY CAUSES US TO NEED TO KIND OF STEP BACK AND THINK, UM, HOW OUR DOWNTOWN STREETS AND OUR NETWORK ARE, UM, RELATING AND PLUGGING INTO ALL OF THESE CHANGES HAPPENING IN AND AROUND US.

THOSE CHANGES BEING, YOU KNOW, CHANGES THAT TDO IS BRINGING VIA KIND OF THE I 35 CONSTRUCTION CHANGES THAT AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL, UM, IS BRINGING IN AND THROUGH DOWNTOWN AS WELL.

CHANGES AT THE CONVENTION CENTER BLOCKS, JUST A WHOLE LOT OF REASON TO STEP BACK AND KIND OF RECALCULATE HOW OUR DOWNTOWN GRID, UM, FUNCTIONS AND OPERATES.

UM, SO THE INTENT HERE IS TO CREATE AS ON THE, UM, YOU KNOW, ARTICULATED ON THE SLIDE, UM, KIND OF A UNIFORM VISION FOR MOBILITY AND TRANSPORTATION, UH, DOWNTOWN.

NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

I THINK I'M GONNA TRY AND STAND UP HERE A LITTLE BIT.

UM, THE, UM, THE ACT PLAN HAS BEEN KIND OF A, A LONG PROCESS, A LONG WORK IN PROGRESS.

UM, WE STARTED THIS WORK BACK IN, UM, REALLY IN EARNEST IN 2019, UM, AND THEN PUT THE WORK ON PAUSE, UM, JUST KIND OF AS COVID WAS HITTING OUR COMMUNITY, PICKED IT REALLY BACK UP AGAIN IN 2022 WITH LOTS OF KIND OF EXTENSIVE ENGAGEMENT IN 22, 23.

UM, AND THEN STARTED HAVING DISCUSSIONS WITH, UM, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, INCLUDING YOURSELVES, UM, IN 2025.

UM, AND THEN PUT THE WORK ON PAUSE AGAIN.

UM, CAN YOU ALL STILL HEAR ME ? YES.

UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT WORK CONDUCTED, WE'RE NOW READY TO, UM, KIND OF COMMENCE, UM, THE ADOPTION PROCESS THAT WE STARTED LAST YEAR.

PUT THE WORK ON PAUSE AGAIN.

UM, TO REALLY DELVE INTO SIXTH STREET IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL, UM, THE ORIGINAL ACT PLAN HAD VARIOUS KIND OF PERMUTATIONS AND OPTIONS FOR, UM, KIND OF HOW THE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT IN SIXTH STREET COULD POTENTIALLY, UM, BE CONFIGURED.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY HEARD A DESIRE FROM STAKEHOLDERS IN THE COMMUNITIES, UM, TO KIND OF DO A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, UH, OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT AND, AND GO AHEAD AND CONDUCT, DO THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING, UM, AND DEVELOP A PREFERRED CROSS SECTION FOR SIXTH STREET, UM, WHICH WE HAVE, UM, YOU PROBABLY HAVE SEEN AND HEARD FROM, YOU KNOW, ANNA MARTIN AND HER TEAM, UM, IN RECENT MONTHS, UM, ABOUT THAT PREFERRED CROSS SECTION THAT IS NOW REFLECTED IN THE ACT PLAN.

UM, AND,

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UM, WE HAVE, UH, BRIEFED THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, UH, BRIEFING YOU ALL, UM, TODAY WE WERE AT MOBILITY COMMITTEE ABOUT A WEEK AND A HALF AGO.

UM, AND WE WILL BE AT CITY COUNCIL, UM, NEXT THURSDAY AS WELL.

UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

UM, AS MENTIONED, UM, A LOT OF ENGAGEMENT IN KIND OF THE 22, 23 TIMEFRAME.

UM, THE TEAM AT THAT POINT KIND OF, UM, HAD A, UM, VERY CAREFULLY CRAFTED WORKING GROUP COMPRISED OF STAKEHOLDERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UM, IN AND AROUND THE DOWNTOWN, UM, WHILE THAT WORK WAS, UM, IN PROG PROCE PROGRESS.

UM, AND THAT GROUP, YOU KNOW, REALLY REFLECTED THE INTEREST AND CONCERNS OF DOZENS OF STAKEHOLDERS.

UM, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO KIND OF ENGAGE AND DIRECTLY CONNECT WITH, YOU KNOW, REPRESENTATIVES FROM 80 SOME ODD GROUPS.

UM, THERE WERE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT EVENTS AND POPUPS AND CITYWIDE SURVEYS.

UM, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY REALLY DID A VERY KIND OF INTENTIONAL, CAREFUL JOB TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, UH, FEEDBACK THAT THEY WERE, UM, FOLDING INTO THE WORK WAS REFLECTIVE OF A BROAD, A BROAD VARIETY OF, UM, STAKEHOLDERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS, SO THAT WE WERE REALLY KIND OF REFLECTING MORE OR LESS A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE, UM, OF INPUT.

UM, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I'VE ALREADY SPOKEN A LITTLE BIT TO, UM, THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE BEGAN BRIEFING AND SOLICITING FEEDBACK FROM IN 2025.

AGAIN, WITH THAT PAUSE, WE ARE NOW KIND OF RE COMMENCING THAT, THAT PROCESS.

UM, WE HAVE AGAIN, ALREADY KIND OF ENGAGED THIS COMMITTEE AS WELL AS OTHERS.

UM, I BELIEVE YOU, UM, ALL HAVE ALREADY PASSED A RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING ADOPTION WITH, UM, CERTAIN CAVEAT CAVEATS.

UM, SO WE REALLY HERE ARE TODAY, UM, TO KIND OF JUST PROVIDE A COURTESY BRIEFING, UM, REGARDING THE CHANGES THAT, UM, WE'VE FOLDED INTO THE PLAN SINCE WE LAST VISITED WITH YOU.

UM, AND AGAIN, WE WILL BE AT CITY COUNCIL NEXT THURSDAY.

UM, SO WHAT WE HEARD, THIS IS KIND OF A SUMMARY OF, OF NOT ONLY WHAT WE HEARD DURING THAT KIND OF TWO YEAR, UH, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PERIOD I ALLUDED TO EARLIER, BUT ALSO WHAT WE'VE HEARD OVER THE LAST, UM, YOU KNOW, 12 MONTHS OR SO, UM, AS WE'VE BEEN ENGAGING IN THE SIXTH STREET PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING WORK.

UM, YOU KNOW, STARTING FROM THE TOP HERE, CERTAINLY THROUGHOUT OUR PROCESS WE'VE HEARD STRONG SUPPORT FOR, UM, A WALKABLE HUMAN SCALED PEDESTRIAN FIRST DOWNTOWN, BUT ONE THAT PROVIDES, YOU KNOW, ROBUST MULTIMODAL FACILITIES AS WELL, INCLUDING PROTECTED BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE, EXPANDING THAT NETWORK DOWNTOWN, UM, AND ALSO SUPPORT FOR PROVIDING, UM, TRANSIT SPEED AND RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENTS KIND OF TO AND THROUGH OUR DOWNTOWN AS WELL.

UM, IN THE LAST, YOU KNOW, NINE TO 12 MONTHS, WE'VE ALSO HEARD, UM, STRONG ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT FOR MAKING SURE THAT THE, THE BICYCLE NETWORK DOWNTOWN IS PROVIDING VERY STRONG KIND OF EAST WEST CROSSTOWN CONNECTIONS.

UM, NOT ONLY KIND OF INTO AND UP TO THE LIMITS OF THE ACT PLAN, BUT ALSO LOOKING AT HOW DO WE HELP FOLKS, UM, CYCLING GET UP TO AND THROUGH LAMAR AND EVEN FURTHER WEST, UM, AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, UM, MOPAC FOR EXAMPLE.

UM, SO YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THAT THINKING REFLECTED IN THE UPDATED ACT PLAN, UM, AGAIN, UH, COMMUNITY AND STAKEHOLDER PREFERENCE FOR US TO GO AHEAD AND REFLECT THE PREFERRED CROSS SECTION FOR SIXTH STREET.

UM, AND THEN SOME FEEDBACK THAT I'LL KIND OF DIVE INTO, UM, WITH YOU THIS EVENING.

UM, WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF CONVERSATION IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, ASKING, YOU KNOW, WHETHER THERE ARE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONVERTING ONE WAY STREETS TO TWO WAY.

UM, AND I DID WANNA PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE TECHNICAL CONTEXT, UM, ON THAT TOPIC, UH, FOR YOU ALL TODAY.

UM, JUST TO, I THINK, UM, UH, PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE, I THINK, UM, UNDERSTANDING IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT THE ACT PLAN IS RECOMMENDING, WHY THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE IN THERE, AND WHAT THE POTENTIAL TRADE-OFFS, UH, WOULD BE IF WE WERE TO, UM, UH, LOOK AT ADDITIONAL TWO-WAY CONVERSIONS IN THE DOWNTOWN.

SO JUST TO BRIEFLY REACQUAINT YOU WITH THE STRUCTURE OF THE ACT PLAN, AGAIN, THE INTENT IS REALLY LARGELY TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY PLAN FOR THE DOWNTOWN IS REFLECTIVE OF OUR, UM, VERY AGGRESSIVE KIND OF STATE OF THE PRACTICE A SMP GOALS.

UM,

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UM, AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE ARE RECOMMENDED CAPITAL PROJECTS, UM, THAT THE ACT PLAN SETS FORTH.

UM, THEY'RE ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO PRIORITY PROJECTS, WHICH ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN THOSE CORRIDORS IN RED ON YOUR SCREEN, UM, SUPPORTING PROJECTS WHICH ARE SHOWN IN BLUE, AND THEN KIND OF MORE PROGRAMMATIC AND SYSTEMATIC IMPROVEMENTS THAT COULD BE APPLIED, UM, THROUGHOUT THE DOWNTOWN AND ELSEWHERE.

UM, AND AGAIN, THE, THE INTENT WITH THOSE, ESPECIALLY WITH THOSE PRIORITY PROJECT, IS TO KIND OF BRING OUR NETWORK INTO ALIGNMENT WITH SOME OF THESE KIND OF MASSIVE CONSTRUCTION EFFORTS HAPPENING, UH, NEARBY.

AND THIS IS A, A REPRESENTATIVE, UM, CUT SHEET, IF YOU WILL, OF HOW THOSE PROJECTS ARE LAID OUT IN THE ACT PLAN.

THIS IS JUST ONE, UH, STREET SEGMENT, ONE EXAMPLE.

UM, BUT, BUT THIS IS, UM, REALLY THE STYLE OF HOW THOSE PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS ARE DISPLAYED IN THE PLAN.

WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE, UM, IS, UH, LOOKS LIKE WEST FIFTH STREET, UM, WE'VE GOT A CROSS SECTION AND PLAN VIEWS FOR EVERY STREET SEGMENT.

UM, A LOT OF VERY, UM, CAREFUL ANALYSIS HAS GONE INTO THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE ACT PLAN FOR HOW THESE ROADWAYS, UM, CAN BE RECONFIGURED, UM, TO REALLY MORE, UM, PROACTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY AND INTELLIGENTLY REPROGRAM AND REALLOCATE, UM, WHAT'S OFTEN UNDERUTILIZED SPACE.

SO NOT KIND OF, UM, ALL TOO DIFFERENT WITH WHAT MAX WAS DESCRIBING, UM, FOR THE TRANSIT AND BIKE LANES THAT WERE ADDED ON TRINITY AND SAN JACINTO, TAKING SOME, YOU KNOW, UNDERUTILIZED ROADWAY SPACE AND, AND REALLOCATING THAT TO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND SAFETY AND TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS.

UM, THAT REALLY IS KIND OF THE FOUNDATIONAL APPROACH OF THE ACT PLAN AS WELL.

SO IN THIS CROSS SECTION FOR FIFTH STREET, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, WHAT YOU'LL SEE HERE, UM, IS A RECOMMENDATION IN THE ACT PLAN.

SO TAKE WHAT'S CURRENTLY, UM, A FOUR LANE CROSS SECTION AT EAST FIFTH, KIND OF, UH, WEST FIFTH, JUST EAST OF LAMAR.

UM, AND TAKE THOSE FOUR VEHICULAR LANES AND REALLOCATE THAT TO TWO VEHICULAR LANES, ONE TRANSIT ONLY LANE, UM, AND PROTECTED BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE.

UM, SO AGAIN, THE, THE ACT PLAN IS REALLY LOOKING TO FIGURE OUT HOW CAN WE INTRODUCE MORE OF THESE KIND OF PROTECTED, SAFE, UH, MULTIMODAL IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR DOWNTOWN STREET GRID.

UM, WE GET REAL SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK REAL FAST.

UM, ALRIGHT, LET'S TALK ABOUT, UM, ONE WAY, UH, STREETS AND TWO-WAY STREETS.

UM, THE ACT PLAN DOES RECOMMEND, UM, SEVERAL, UH, STREETS TO BE CONVERTED TO TWO-WAY OPERATIONS.

UM, THOSE ARE THESE STREETS THAT YOU SEE HIGHLIGHTED HERE IN PURPLE.

UM, SO SEVENTH, NINTH, 10TH, AND BRAUS ARE CURRENTLY RECOMMENDED TO TRANSITION FROM ONE WAY TO TWO WAY OPERATIONS.

UM, AND MANY OF THE DIRECTIONAL CHANGES HERE REALLY ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, REQUIRED, UM, JUST FOR THE SAKE OF FUNCTIONALITY.

UM, TEXT IS CHANGING THEIR KIND OF ON AND OFF RAMP CONFIGURATIONS WITH THEIR I 35 CAPEX PROJECT.

UM, AND SO WE'VE GOTTA FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET PEOPLE FROM EIGHTH AND SEVENTH TO AND FROM THOSE NEW HIGHWAY OFF RAMPS.

UM, AND THOSE DIRECTIONAL CHANGES ARE GONNA BE REQUIRED TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

UM, YOU'LL SEE IN THE MAP HERE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TRIED TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT TO KIND OF HELP, UM, HELP, UH, FOLKS KIND OF UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE JOBS THAT THESE STREETS HAVE TO DO.

UM, YOU CAN SEE KIND OF WHERE THOSE NEW ON AND OFF RAMPS ARE GONNA BE LOCATED AT, AT SEVENTH AND EIGHTH.

UM, WHEN YOU LOOK DOWN TO KIND OF FIFTH AND SIXTH, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT BECOMES A LITTLE, UH, IT COMES READILY APPARENT THE IMPORTANT ROLE THAT, THAT THE FIFTH AND SIXTH COUPLET PLAY IN OUR STREET NETWORK.

UM, FIFTH AND SIXTH ARE REALLY ONE OF ONLY A HANDFUL OF STREETS THAT FULLY CONNECT EAST WEST BETWEEN I 35 AND MOPAC.

UM, I THINK WE CAN PROBABLY COUNT ON ONE HAND THE NUMBER OF STREETS, UM, IN AUSTIN THAT DO THAT MUCH LESS IN THE DOWNTOWN.

UM, WE HAVE DONE SOME MODELING AS PART OF OUR CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION OFFICE, UM, WITHOUT FIFTH AND SIXTH KIND OF ACTING AS THOSE HEAVY LIFTERS.

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UM, SO THESE, THESE STREETS, UM, ARE RECOMMENDED TO REMAIN AS ONE WAY, UM, IN LARGE PART BECAUSE OF THIS SPECIAL FUNCTION THAT THEY PLAY IN OUR GRID.

UM, AS NOTED ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE WHERE WE SHOWED SOME OF THE ACT PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HOW WE CAN RECONFIGURE THOSE CROSS SECTIONS ON THOSE ONE-WAY STREETS, THIS ALSO PROVIDES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLOCATE SOME OF THAT ONE WAY SPACE FROM FOUR VEHICULAR LANES OF THROUGH TRAFFIC TO, UH, MEETING THAT VEHICULAR CAPACITY NEED WHILE ALSO GIVING SOME OF THAT EXTRA SPACE TO TRANSIT FACILITIES AND PROTECTED BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE.

CAN I CLARIFY SOMETHING HERE BEFORE WE MOVE ON THE NEXT ONE? OF COURSE.

SO WHEN WE SAY TDOT IS REQUIRING THESE DIRECTIONAL CHANGES, I, I'M, I'M ASSUMING WHAT WE MEAN HERE IS THAT EIGHTH STREET IS GOING FROM WESTBOUND TO EASTBOUND AND THEN SEVENTH STREET IS GOING FROM EASTBOUND TO WESTBOUND.

YES, THANK YOU.

THE, THE, OKAY.

AND I ALWAYS GET THAT MIXED UP IN MY HEAD WHICH WAY EACH ONE IS GOING AND WHICH WAY THEY'RE GONNA BECOME, BUT THAT'S CORRECT.

SO EIGHTH, SEVENTH WILL, UM, BECOME TWO WAY, UM, I CAN'T SEE THE SCREEN VERY WELL FROM HERE.

I'M SO SORRY.

UM, YEAH, SO SEVENTH WILL, UH, FLIP AND THEN EIGHTH WILL FLIP.

THAT'S RIGHT.

AND SO IS TEXTILE ALSO REQUIRING A, A, THAT SEVENTH STREET BE TWO WAY OR THE EIGHTH STREET BE ONE WAY OR THEY'RE JUST REQUIRING THE DIRECTIONAL FLIP AND THAT'S IT, THEY'RE REQUIRING THE DIRECTIONAL CHANGE, BUT WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE ABLE TO CONVERT THAT SEGMENT OF SEVENTH FROM TWO WAY WHILE ALSO MAKING THAT DIRECTIONAL CHANGE WORK.

GOTCHA.

AND THEN I, BECAUSE I JUST WANNA UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S COMING FROM TXDOT, WHAT'S DECISIONS BY CITY, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE TDOT IS REQUIRING OR VERY MUCH ASKING FOR FROM THE CITY TO ACCOMMODATE CONSTRUCTION ON I I 35 OR, UH, NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE, ERIC.

IS IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT RINGS A BELL WITH YOU? UM, IN GENERAL? YEAH.

WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH TDOT FOR A FEW YEARS NOW, BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, OKAY, HERE'S NEW FOOTPRINT DRIVE FIT, THE NEW RAMPS GO ON OFF, KIND OF, THAT WAS KIND OF A STARTING POINT THAT LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, EIGHT STREETS COULD BE A MAJOR EGRESS OUT DOWNTOWN 35.

AND SO KIND OF WORKING UNDER THOSE PARAMETERS, THAT'S KIND OF HOW WE CAME TO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.

SO, SO WHY IS SEVENTH STREET ONLY CONVERTING HALF OF IT TO TWO WAY? AH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

, YOU'RE QUEUING ME UP.

IT'S ACTUALLY THE SLIDE AFTER THIS.

UM, UM, I DID WANNA PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT FOR THE ENTIRE DOWNTOWN GRID.

YOU CAN SEE, UM, ACTUALLY WE, WE'VE GONE AHEAD ONE, ONE MORE THAN I WAS INTENDING.

IF YOU COULD GO BACK A SLIDE PLEASE.

AN UPDATED MAP IDENTIFYING, UM, KIND OF WHAT WE'RE CONCEPTUALIZING IN THE ACT PLAN AS KIND OF THE PRIORITY EAST WEST BICYCLE CONNECTION HERE.

UM, YOU CAN SEE MOST OF OUR DOWNTOWN STREETS IN PURPLE HERE ARE IN FACT TWO-WAY.

UM, SO WITH THE ACT PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT ONLY SIX, UM, ONE WAY CORRIDORS REMAINING IN OUR DOWNTOWN.

UM, AND AGAIN, THOSE REMAINING ONE WAY STREETS REALLY ARE THOSE HEAVY LIFTERS, THOSE EAST WEST CROSSTOWN CONNECTIONS, UH, THOSE STREETS THAT ARE GOING TO BE FUNNELING INTO NEW OR OFF OF NEW TXDOT RAMPS.

UM, AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU, UM, I DO WANNA POINT OUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A, SOME DISCUSSION, YOU KNOW, LOOKING BACK AT THE SUCCESS WE'VE HAD WITH THE CONVERSION ON SECOND STREET, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE AND I THINK THIS MAP HELPS CLARIFY THAT, THAT SECOND STREET IS A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF STREET.

UM, IT, YOU CAN SEE IN THE MAP HERE, IT DEAD ENDS AT SEA HOME, IT DEAD ENDS AT THE CONVENTION CENTER.

UM, AND IT DOESN'T CARRY TRANSIT.

UM, SO IT'S, IT'S A WONDERFUL STREET.

UM, IT DOESN'T DO ALL THE SAME JOBS THAT WE'RE ASKING SOME OF THESE OTHER HEFY LIFTER STREETS TO DO IN OUR DOWNTOWN.

UM, SO LET'S DO TALK ABOUT TRANSIT.

IF YOU COULD GO AHEAD TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

UM, THE STREETS IN, UM, RED THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN RED HERE, UM, ARE, UM, ARE DESIGNATED TRANSIT STREETS.

SO YOU CAN SEE HERE, UM, A, A A NOT UNINTENTIONAL OVERLAPPING BETWEEN SOME OF THESE RECOMMENDED STREETS, UM, AND OUR TRANSIT NETWORK HERE, IT REALLY IS HONESTLY KEEPING THOSE STREETS AS ONE WAY THAT GIVES US THE, THE EXTRA RIDE OF WAY TO BE ABLE TO ALLOCATE TO TRANSIT LANES AND BICYCLE LANES.

AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE TRINITY AND SAN JACINTO COUPLETS THAT MAX DESCRIBED FOR US EARLIER, DOING EXACTLY THAT.

NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

BICYCLE CONNECTION.

SO THIS IS, UM,

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UM, AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL, UM, I THINK AS YOU KNOW, WILL BE PROVIDING KIND OF BRAND NEW PROTECTED BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE ON FOURTH CONNECTING TO THE LANCE ARMSTRONG BIKEWAY.

UM, THAT WILL IN TURN, UM, CONNECT TO, UM, SUPERB BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE ON CONGRESS NORTH SOUTH.

UM, AND THEN THE ACT PLAN IS IDENTIFYING, AGAIN, THOSE ONE-WAY STREETS WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO REALLOCATE SPACE, UM, TO, UH, PRISTINE NEW PROTECTED BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE ON FIFTH AND SIXTH UP TO, AND, UH, WORKING WITH OUR, OUR PROGRAMS, OUR BICYCLE PROGRAMS, IDEALLY TO AND THROUGH LAMAR AS WELL.

NEXT SLIDE, UM, IS WHERE YOU CAN SEE KIND OF THE ADDITIONAL LAYER OF BICYCLE NETWORK CONNECTIONS, UH, PROPOSED IN THE ACT PLAN, UM, KIND OF ON TOP OF AND, UM, IN SUPPORT OF THAT, UH, KEY EAST WEST CONNECTING FACILITY.

SORRY.

ACTUALLY, COULD WE CLARIFY ONE THING? UM, SOMEBODY ELSE ASKED ME THIS AND I ACTUALLY DIDN'T KNOW.

SO THE ARROWS ON THIS SLIDE, IS IT SHOWING, UM, WELL, I GUESS THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, ARE THE ARROWS JUST SHOWING THAT THE BIKE LANE IS CONTINUING IN THAT DIRECTION? OR IS IT INDICATING ONE-WAY TRAVEL ON THE BIKE LANES? UH, THOSE ARE ARROWS OF CONTINUATION.

SO ALL OF THOSE WOULD BE TWO WAY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF I THINK FIFTH AND SIXTH STREET, UH, TRINITY AND SAN JACINTO, WITH THE EXCEPTION.

OF THOSE SIX CORRIDORS, TRINITY SAN JACINTO, UM, EIGHTH SEGMENTS OF SEVENTH AND FIFTH AND SIXTH.

SO THAT MEANS THAT FOURTH AND 12TH STREET ARE THE ONLY CROSS TOWN CONNECTIONS FOR BICYCLE FROM 35 TO MOPAC FIFTH AND SIXTH.

BUT 12TH DOESN'T GO ALL THE WAY TO MOPAC.

UH, OH, THAT'S LAMAR.

FIFTH AND SIXTH THERE WOULD BE BICYCLE ALL THE WAY ACROSS.

NO.

'CAUSE FIFTH IS NOT SHOWING IT.

I'M CONFUSED.

HOW DO I GET ACROSS TOWN ON A BICYCLE? UM, ON FIFTH AND SIXTH.

UM, SO IT'S THE CROSS TOWN BICYCLE CONNECTIONS ARE FOURTH AND THEN FIFTH AND SIXTH WEST OF CONGRESS.

UM, IN THIS INSTANCE, THE ARROW, UM, DOESN'T SHOW A CONTINUATION ON FIFTH BECAUSE THAT IS A, A ONE-WAY STREET.

UM, BUT THEY GO OFF THE PAGE.

UM, SO THE IDEA IS THAT IT WOULD GO ALL THE WAY TO MOPAC.

SO, SO YOU CAN, I'M SORRY, CAN YOU JUST SAY THAT ONE MORE TIME? I'M NOT FOLLOWING BOTH.

FIFTH FROM THE BLACK LINE NORTH, SOUTH ON BOTH SIDES.

WHAT BIKE LANES GO ALL THE WAY ACROSS FIFTH AND SIXTH.

FIFTH AND SIXTH, OKAY.

IS THE VISION MM-HMM .

I SEE.

SO EVEN THOSE SIX IS CONVERTING TO TWO WAY.

IT WILL STILL HAVE A BICYCLE LANE, BUT NOT PROTECTED.

FIFTH AND SIXTH WILL BE REMAINING ONE WAY WILL BE REMAINING ONE WAY.

BUT THERE'S, THERE'S NO PROTECTED BICYCLE LANE.

SORRY, NOT TODAY.

UM, THE ACT PLAN IS SUGGESTING THAT THE VISION IS THAT THERE WILL BE, BUT THIS DIAGRAM DOES NOT SHOW WHERE OR DOES SHOW WHERE FIFTH AND SIXTH IS ANYONE ELSE CONFUSED OR IS IT JUST ME? FIFTH AND WOULD BE ADDED UP UNTIL CONGRESS, I THINK IS THE CONFUSION.

SO THEY WOULD STOP AT CONGRESS.

I, RIGHT.

SO THERE'S NO WAY ON A BIKE TO GET ALL THE WAY ACROSS.

I THINK TO TALK, I THINK WHAT'S ALSO MISSING HERE IS FOURTH STREET SHOULD CONNECT TO THE LANCE ARMSTRONG.

LANCE ARMSTRONG BIKEWAY AT SOME POINT DO THIS.

WELL, AND THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE, THERE SHOULD BE A CONNECTION TO THE SHOUL CREEK BRIDGE AT SOME POINT.

THAT'S ON THIRD STREET NOW.

AND THEN THAT WOULD CONNECT DOWN TO THE LANCE ARMS SUM BIKEWAY ON THE OTHER WAY.

YEAH, THIS GOES THIS WAY, SIX GOES RIGHT.

BUT YOU CAN'T PASS CONGRESS IN A PROTECTED BIKE LANE.

YOU JUST DOWN AND GO TO FOURTH.

SO THERE, OKAY, SO LET ME REPHRASE.

THERE'S NOT ONE SINGLE STREET THAT YOU CAN GO ALL THE WAY ACROSS.

THEN I HAVE A FOLLOW UP ON THAT.

'CAUSE I, I DON'T MEAN TO GET TOO IN THE WEEDS HERE.

UM, I DO MEAN TO DO THAT LATER, BUT MY, MY UNDERSTANDING WAS AS PART OF PROJECT CONNECT, RIGHT, WE'RE MOVING THE LANCE ARMSTRONG BIKEWAY THROUGH DOWNTOWN FROM THIRD STREET TO FOURTH STREET MM-HMM .

BUT THAT AT SOME POINT PAST REPUBLIC SQUARE, IT WOULD COME DOWN ON FOURTH STREET.

SO IT STILL CONNECTS TO THE BRIDGE ACROSS SHOAL CREEK THAT WE HAVE ON THIRD STREET.

AND THEN FROM THERE YOU CAN CONNECT TO THE SHOAL CREEK TRAIL AND CONNECT TO THE LANCE ARMSTRONG BIKEWAY DOES ANYBODY WHO HAS IS MORE WELL VERSED IN ALL THOSE DETAILS IS ABLE TO CONFIRM OR DENY THAT .

NADIA, THANK YOU.

THERE'S A MICROPHONE IN HERE

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IF YOU WANT.

HI, I'M NADIA BAR RAMIREZ AND I WORK FOR CAP METRO, BUT I DO CROSS AGENCY PROGRAMMING WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN.

SO, AND I'M PART OF OUR, UM, LIGHT RAIL REVIEW TEAM.

SO WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, UM, FACILITY DESIGN FOUR FOURTH STREET, LIKE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

AND IS THAT YOUR QUESTION HERE? YEAH.

AT THE LAST BRIEFING I'VE RECEIVED FROM HP ON THIS, WHICH WAS ON THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL, WAS THAT AT SOME POINT THE FOURTH STREET BIKE LANE WOULD COME DOWN TO THIRD STREET TO CONNECT TO THE EXISTING BRIDGE OVER SHOAL CREEK.

CORRECT.

IT GOES PAST OASIS AND CONNECTS AT THE BRIDGE.

GOTCHA.

SO THEN FROM THERE, IT'S STILL ACROSS TOWN BIKEWAY IN TERMS OF THE LANCE ARMSTRONG BIKEWAY CONNECTION YOU HAVE.

NOW, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO FROM THIRD AND FOURTH STREET AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, YOU WOULD DO THAT PROBABLY SOMEWHERE BY REPUBLIC SQUARE, GO UP TO FOURTH STREET AND THEN CONTINUE ON FOURTH STREET, OR YOU CAN DO IT AT AN OASIS OR ON THE SHOAL CREEK TRAIL.

I DO WANNA MENTION THE ACT PLAN ALSO INCLUDES BICYCLE FACILITIES ON SEVENTH STREET ON EIGHTH STREET.

YOU'LL KEEP YOUR BIKE LANES ON 11TH STREET AND 12TH STREET.

SO THERE ARE LOTS OF EAST WEST BIKE CONNECTIONS THAT ARE EXISTING TODAY THAT WILL REMAIN.

AND SEVENTH AND EIGHTH STREET ALSO HAS CURB PROTECTED BIKE LANES ON IT FOR PORTIONS OF IT, IF YOU IN THE PLAN.

DON'T WORRY, , I JUST WANNA GO ALL THE WAY DOWN ONE STREET ON MY BIKE.

IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK? JUST TO BE CLEAR.

ALRIGHT, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

ALRIGHT, THESE ARE, UM, JUST A COUPLE OF ON THE GROUND PRECEDENTS IMAGES FROM, UM, SEATTLE AND PORTLAND.

THESE ARE, UM, CITIES THAT THE ACT PLAN VERY MUCH, UM, USES AS AN EXAMPLE, UM, IN, IN THIS WORK, THESE ARE ALL, UM, BOTH CITIES WITH DOWNTOWN ONE WAY STREET GRIDS WHERE THEY'VE DONE EXACTLY WHAT THE ACT PLAN IS PROPOSING, REALLOCATING, UM, EXTRA VEHICULAR SPACE ON ONE ONE-WAY STREETS, UM, TO BICYCLE AND TRANSIT FACILITIES.

SO JUST GIVES AN EVOCATIVE IMAGE OF, OF, OF WHAT THE, THESE IMPROVEMENTS COULD LOOK LIKE ON THE GROUND IN AUSTIN AS WELL.

NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

UM, SO A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT, UM, TWO-WAY STREETS.

UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO, UM, KIND OF KEEP IN MIND THAT TWO-WAY STREETS DO REQUIRE MORE SPACE FOR VEHICLES, UM, WITH TWO-WAY STREETS, UM, YOU REALLY DO HAVE TO HAVE PROTECTED LEFT TURNS AND LEFT TURN POCKETS.

WE KNOW THAT PERMISSIVE LEFT TURNS ARE HIGHLY, HIGHLY CORRELATED WITH PEDESTRIAN CRASHES.

UM, WE ARE MOVING AWAY FROM PERMISSIVE LEFT TURNS TO REQUIRE PROTECTED LEFT TURNS.

THOSE REQUIRE POCKETS.

UM, SO NECESSARILY THE MINIMUM SPACE THAT ANY TWO-WAY STREET IS GONNA REQUIRE, UM, IS GONNA BE AT LEAST 10 FEET MORE THAN THAN THE MINIMUM SPACE ANY ONE WAY STREET WOULD REQUIRE.

UM, FOR VEHICULAR SPACE, UM, ADDING THAT EXTRA 10 FOOT TURN POCKET OR EVEN A NINE FOOT TURN POCKET, UM, IN A TWO WAY STREET MEANS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO FIT MORE STUFF IN THE SAME RIGHT OF WAY.

SO WE REALLY DO GET TO A PLACE WHERE WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE TRADE-OFFS AND DECISIONS.

SO WITH THE DIAGRAMS DOWN HERE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, UM, ARE DOING IS JUST TRYING TO ILLUSTRATE EXACTLY THAT.

UM, WITH A ONE-WAY STREET, 30 FEET PLUS OR MINUS, UM, WE'RE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE TWO VEHICULAR, UM, EASTBOUND OR WESTBOUND TRA UM, VEHICULAR LANES AND HAVE THAT BUS AND BIKE LANE, UM, PROCEED AND MOVE THROUGH THE INTERSECTION.

UM, WHEREAS AT A TWO-WAY STREET, IF WE HAVE TO FIT IN A TURN POCKET AT THE INTERSECTION, UM, WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT MAKING SOME DECISIONS.

OR DO WE DROP THE BIKE LANE AT THE INTERSECTION? DO WE DROP THE TRANSIT LANE AT THE INTERSECTION? WHO'S MERGING WITH WHO ARE WE GONNA BRING CARS INTO THE TRANSIT LANE, BIKES INTO THE TRANSIT LANE? UM, AND, UM, WHAT, WHAT TRADE OFFS ARE WE GONNA MAKE HERE? UM, IT'S ALSO, I THINK, VITALLY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THE INTERSECTION IS WHERE WE NEED THESE TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS.

UM, WHERE WE HAVE BIKE AND PED CRASHES IS AT THE INTERSECTION.

IT'S NOT MID-BLOCK.

UM, WHERE TRANSIT GET DELAYED GETS DELAYED IS AT THE INTERSECTION.

THAT'S WHERE WE NEED THE Q JUMP.

UM, AND SO WE'RE GONNA BE MAKING THESE DECISIONS, UM, AT THE PLACE WHERE WE REALLY NEED THESE IMPROVEMENTS MOST.

UM, SO THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, TWO-WAY CONVERSIONS ARE NOT POSSIBLE OR, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, EVEN IF THE COMMUNITY HAS A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE, UM, THAT'S COMPLETELY JUSTIFIABLE.

UM, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THAT WILL COME WITH TRADE-OFFS, UM, AGAIN, THAT WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE AS A COMMUNITY.

KNOW, A CITY THAT'S DONE GREAT THINGS FOR, UM, PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE IMPROVEMENTS AND TRANSIT, ESPECIALLY TRANSIT FACILITIES.

UM, JUST A PHOTO EXAMPLE.

THIS IS, AGAIN, SEATTLE'S DOWNTOWN ONE-WAY STREET GRID.

UM, YOU

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UM, THIS IS THERE DOWNTOWN, THE PIKE PINE CORRIDOR RECENTLY, UM, DID EXACTLY WHAT THE ACT PLAN IS PROPOSING, UM, AND REALLOCATED SPACE TO, TO BICYCLE AND TRANSIT FACILITIES.

AND JUST ILLUSTRATING, UM, THAT WHEN YOU HAVE THE SPACE AND THE RIGHT OF WAY TO PLAY WITH ON THESE ONE-WAY STREETS, YOU CAN CARRY THOSE IMPROVEMENTS THROUGH TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE INTERSECTION.

AND YOU'LL HAVE TO FORGIVE ME.

UH, MY EXAMPLES ARE NORTHWEST HEAVY BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE I'VE, UH, WORKED FOR 20 YEARS.

UM, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE ONE-WAY STREET GRID IN PORTLAND.

UM, AGAIN, THEY'VE DONE THE SAME THING HERE.

THIS IS, UM, SOUTHWEST SECOND STREET, CARRYING THAT BICYCLE FACILITY THROUGH THE INTERSECTION.

UM, ONE THING, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, IF, UM, UH, YOU WERE ABLE TO JOIN US FOR, UM, OUR TECHNICAL LUNCH AND LEARN LAST WEEK, UM, I BELIEVE NATTY LAND SENT AN INVITATION, UM, OUT TO COMMISSIONERS.

UM, WE DID HAVE, UM, THE SIGNAL, UM, THE LEAD SIGNAL ENGINEER FROM PORTLAND TALKED TO US ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF PORTLAND'S ONE WAY STREET GRID, THEY'RE ABLE TO MORE EASILY TIME THEIR TRAFFIC SIGNALS IN THEIR DOWNTOWN, UM, TO PROVIDE MULTIMODAL BENEFITS.

SO IN PORTLAND, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY'RE, THEY AIM FOR ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR, UM, MAXIMUM PROGRESSION SPEEDS FOR VEHICLES, UM, WHICH COINCIDENTALLY IS PROVIDE, ALLOWS FOR A GREEN WAVE FOR CYCLISTS.

AND EVEN FOR PEDESTRIANS WHO TYPICALLY WALK, YOU KNOW, AROUND 3.5, UM, FEET PER SECOND, YOU'RE ACTUALLY GETTING A GREEN WAVE THAT'S A PEDESTRIAN AS WELL.

WHEREAS IF YOU'RE DRIVING A VEHICLE, YOU'RE STOPPING AT EVERY RED LIGHT.

UM, THE OTHER, UM, KIND OF BENEFIT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY, UH, DO YOU GET KIND OF A SIMPLER, KIND OF MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD, UM, KIND OF OPERATIONAL PATHWAY FOR, UM, METERING YOUR TRAFFIC SPEEDS ON ONE WAY STREETS.

UM, BUT YOU'RE INTENT, YOU'RE ABLE TO KIND OF INCREASE SERVICE AND DECREASE WAITING TIME, ADD SIGNALS FOR THOSE PETS AND BIKES.

KIND OF THE SPEED MANAGEMENT CROSSING AND, AND LEFT TURN PRODUCTIVE LEFT TURN OBJECTIVES.

UM, I DID WANNA SPEAK, UM, REALLY BRIEFLY TO, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME, UM, STATEMENTS, UM, THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT, UM, STREETS BEING QUOTE UNQUOTE SAFER THAN ONE WAY STREETS.

UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KIND OF STEP BACK AND TAKE A LOOK AT, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST SOME OF THE ANECDOTAL BEFORE AND AFTER STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED ON TWO-WAY CONVERSIONS, UM, IN SOME OF OUR COMMUNITIES.

BUT TO STAY, TAKE, TAKE A STEP BACK AND LOOK AT SOME OF THE KIND OF, UM, UH, SCIENCE AND, UM, UM, UNIVERSITY LEVEL RESEARCH THAT THAT WE USE IN THE PROFESSION TO KIND OF GUIDE THE, UM, TYPES OF VISION ZERO IMPROVEMENTS AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE DEPLOY ON OUR STREETS.

ONE OF THE BIG TOOLS WE USE IS CRASH MODIFICATION CLEARING HOUSE.

I'VE JUST GOT, UM, A SCREENSHOT OF THAT, UM, FOR YOU.

UM, JUST TO GET FAMILIAR WITH THIS IS, UM, A DATABASE MAINTAINED BY THE, UM, FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION AS WELL AS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SAFETY RESEARCH CENTER.

UM, AND THEY AGGREGATE KIND OF ALL THE BEST STUDIES OUT THERE.

UM, KIND OF IDENTIFY WHAT ARE THREE STAR STUDIES VERSUS FOUR STAR STUDIES VERSUS FIVE STAR STUDIES.

UM, AND THEY, UM, TAKE KIND OF THAT AGGREGATED ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND, UM, ACTUALLY QUANTIFY, UM, THE CRASH MODIFICATION OR REDUCTION FACTOR TO VARIOUS COUNTERMEASURES OUT THERE.

UM, SO WE KNOW BASED ON THIS AGGREGATED RESEARCH, MUCH OF WHICH HAS BEEN CONDUCTED, YOU KNOW, SINCE VISION ZERO, YOU KNOW, HIT NORTH AMERICAN SHORES 20 SOME ODD YEARS AGO, UM, WE'VE JUST HAD A BURST OF RESEARCH ON THESE TOPICS.

WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY COUNTERMEASURES OUT THERE THAT HAVE SIGNIFICANT CRASH MODIFICATION FACTORS.

THINGS LIKE SPEED MANAGEMENT, HIGHLY RELI, YOU KNOW, UM, CORRELATED WITH CRASHES.

UH, MAKING SURE YOU HAVE FREQUENT SAFE PROTECTED PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS LIKE MAX WAS ALLUDING TO EARLIER.

UM, AND THEN MANAGING VEHICLE LEFT TURNS BOTH AT INTERSECTIONS AND MID-BLOCK, UM, VIA ACCESS MANAGEMENT.

THESE ALL ARE ALL THINGS THAT ARE SCIENTIFICALLY SHOWN, UM, TO HAVE LIKE STRONG RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS IN, IN MITIGATING BOTH THE FREQUENCY AND SEVERITY OF CRASHES.

UM, THERE IS NO RESEARCH BASED CRASH MODIFICATION FACTOR FOR CONVERTING A ONE WAY STREET TO A TWO-WAY.

UM, AND THAT'S LARGELY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THESE ELEMENTS OF MANAGING SPEED LEFT TURNS AND CROSSINGS, THESE ARE IMPROVEMENTS THAT CAN BE APPLIED, UM, ON ANY STREET, WHETHER IT'S TWO WAY OR ONE WAY.

UM, AND CERTAINLY WHETHER WE HAVE A TWO-WAY OR ONE WAY STREET, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DESIGNING TO MEET, UM,

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UM, AND SO YOU'LL SEE IN THE ACT PLAN THAT WHETHER IT'S A TWO WAY OR ONE WAY STREET, WE'RE GONNA BE APPLYING THESE, UM, COUNTERMEASURES.

AND I'LL JUST BREEZE THROUGH THIS.

YOU KNOW, MAX SPOKE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT NATO EARLIER.

THIS IS ANOTHER GUIDE THAT'S KIND OF HEAVILY USED IN OUR FIELD.

UM, YOU KNOW, THE, IN THE SIGNALIZATION SECTION OF NATO, THEY REALLY STRESS, UM, SHORT SIGNAL CYCLES FOR PETS AND BIKES.

UM, THAT'S SOMETHING YOU DON'T REALLY SEE READILY ON A PLANT SET, UM, UM, IS SIGNALING AND, AND WAIT TIME FOR PETS AND BIKES AT, AT SIGNALS.

UM, BUT SOMETHING I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT AS PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS, WE ALL EXPERIENCE EVERY DAY WHEN WE'RE OUT THERE WALKING AROUND THE CITY, UM, ONE WAY INTERSECTIONS HAVE HALF THE PEDESTRIAN AND, UH, BICYCLE WAIT TIMES AS TWO-WAY STREETS.

AND SO, UM, THIS ISN'T, YOU KNOW, NECESSARILY TO ARGUE A POINT THAT ONE TYPE OF STREET IS BETTER THAN ANOTHER BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S NOT, IT'S ALL JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, CON THESE ARE CONTEXT SENSITIVE DECISIONS, UM, THAT, THAT WE'RE MAKING AS PART OF OUR PLAN.

UM, IT'S JUST A POINT OUT KIND OF MINUTE KIND OF TECHNICAL NUANCE, UM, AND TRADE OFFS AND CONSIDERATIONS THAT COME INTO PLAY WHEN WE'RE MAKING THESE KINDS OF DECISIONS THAT THERE REALLY IS NO KIND OF UNIVERSAL A IS BETTER THAN B.

UM, SO JUST TO CLOSE ON THAT TOPIC, AGAIN, THERE REALLY IS NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL APPROACH.

WE REALLY HAVE TO RESPOND TO CONTEXT, THE JOBS THAT STREETS HAVE TO DO AND TO APPLY THOSE, THOSE PROVEN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES, UM, ON ALL STREETS, NO MATTER IF, YOU KNOW CARS ARE TRAVELING EAST OR WEST.

UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S SOME OF THE EXAMPLES WE SHOWED ON THE SCREEN TODAY.

WE KNOW THAT SOME OF THE MOST WALKABLE CITIES IN NORTH AMERICA HAVE ONE-WAY STREETS IN THEIR DOWNTOWN.

AND WE CAN TOO.

UM, AND YOU KNOW, OUR OBJECTIVE IN THE ACT PLAN AGAIN IS TO USE THAT EXTRA VEHICULAR SPACE, UM, AND GIVE IT TO MULTIMODAL FACILITIES, UM, IN A WAY THAT BALANCES SAFETY FUNCTION AND MULTIMODAL NEEDS.

I THINK HERE IS MY, UM, JUST WRAP UP SLIDE.

LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT STEPS, UM, ON SLIDE 21.

OH, NO, THANK YOU.

ONE MORE IMPORTANT SLIDE.

UM, I DID, YOU KNOW, WE WANT, WE'VE BEEN HEARING, UM, KIND OF LOUD AND CLEAR THE COMMUNITY'S DESIRE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR DOWNTOWN IS, YOU KNOW, AS WALKABLE AND MULTIMODAL AS POSSIBLE.

UM, DEFINITELY HEAR THAT MY BACKGROUND IS IN PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND DESIGN AND URBAN DESIGN.

AND SO I AM ALL ON BOARD FOR THIS MYSELF PERSONALLY.

SO A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WE'VE, UM, INTEGRATED INTO THE ACT PLAN IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS TO KIND OF REFLECT THAT.

UM, SIGNAL SPACING'S VERY CRITICAL TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MEETING KIND OF THAT 350 FOOT SIGNAL SPACING, UM, OBJECTIVE IN OUR DOWNTOWN.

THAT'S THE PATTERN WE HAVE NOW, AGAIN, NOT ONLY TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE KIND OF SAFE PROTECTED PEDESTRIAN CROSSING OPPORTUNITIES EVERY 350 FEET, BUT ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE USING OUR SIGNAL TIMING INTELLIGENTLY TO METER TRAFFIC SPEED.

SO WE DID GO BACK AND TAKE A LOOK TO SEE IF WE HAD ANY GAPS, UM, AND WE DID SEE A SIGNAL GAP AT SAN ANTONIO OF BOTH FIFTH AND SIXTH.

SO NOW THAT INFRASTRUCTURE NEED IS EXPLICITLY CALLED OUT IN THE ACT PLAN.

UM, THE PLAN IS ALSO, UM, LOOKING TO EXPLORE, UH, RAISED INTERSECTIONS AT, UM, UM, SIXTH IN THE HEART OF THE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT, UM, LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES THERE AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH ENGINEERING FOR SIXTH STREET.

SO THAT'D BE ANOTHER GREAT SPEED MANAGEMENT TOOL.

UM, WE'LL HAVE, WE'LL BE WORKING WITH, UM, OUR, UM, FOLKS IN WATERSHED TO FIGURE OUT THE DRAINAGE AND THEN THE TRANSIT PERFORMANCE AND ALL OF THAT.

BUT I THINK IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

UM, AND THEN SIGNAL TIMING AGAIN, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW OUR SIGNALS IN DOWNTOWN ARE TIMED SO THAT VEHICLES CANNOT EXCEED 25 MILES AN HOUR.

UM, AND UH, WE WANNA, UH, WE WE'RE CALLING FOR DOING, UM, SPEED STUDIES IN THE ACT PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, UM, MEETING THAT PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT OUR DOWNTOWN.

UM, AND DOING SOME MODELING TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY OPPORTUNITIES TO ADJUST THOSE, UM, THAT SIGNAL TIMING, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT EXCEEDING 25 MILES AN HOUR.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT COME TO MIND THAT WE WANNA TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT SPECIFICALLY INCLUDE, UM, WEST FIFTH AND SIXTH, KIND OF AS YOU APPROACH LAMAR, WE WANNA, UM, MAKE SURE WE'RE HITTING OUR TARGET SPEEDS THERE.

UM, SO WE HAVE INTEGRATED ALL OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE ACT PLAN.

UM, AND AGAIN, WE WILL BE TAKING ALL OF THIS TO COUNCIL NEXT WEEK.

UM, HAPPY TO, UM, WITH MY COLLEAGUES HELP HERE, UM, ADDRESS ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.

WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.

START US OFF WITH A QUESTION AND APOLOGIES 'CAUSE IT IS GRANULAR, BUT ALL MY QUESTIONS ARE GRANULAR.

UM, I THINK I'M GONNA

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UM, SO I, I THINK I UNDERSTAND THE JUSTIFICATION FOR ONE WAY ON FIFTH AND SIXTH STREET, RIGHT? WE'VE GOT THE EXITS COMING OFF MOPAC, WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, THAT CREATES A CAPACITY ISSUE AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF HIGH FREQUENCY, UH, UH, BUS ROUTES THAT, THAT NEED THAT TRANSIT PRIORITY LANE.

UM, BUT WHERE I'M LOOKING IS ON, ON EIGHTH AND SEVENTH STREET, WE OBVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE, UH, THAT TRAFFIC COMING IN FROM MOPAC TO THE SAME DEGREE WE HAVE ON FIFTH AND SIXTH.

AND UH, OBVIOUSLY WHEN THE ACT PLAN FIRST HAPPENED, WE DIDN'T HAVE TRANSIT PLAN 35, SO WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW FREQUENT BUSES WE WERE GONNA HAVE ON THESE CORRIDORS.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I WAS DOING THE MATH EARLIER AND ON THESE CORRIDORS IN PEAK WE'LL HAVE, UH, LET'S SEE, WHAT WAS IT? I THINK IT WAS, YEAH.

UH, A BUS EVERY 8.5 MINUTES ON, UH, PEAK AND EVERY SIX MINUTES IF THERE ARE EXPRESS ROUTES GOING IN THAT DIRECTION, UM, I THINK NATO GUIDANCE IS TO START CONSIDERING A BUS ROUTE ON A MAJOR CORRIDOR WHEN YOU HIT, UH, ONCE, PRETEND DURING OR ONE EVERY 10 MINUTES DURING PEAK.

SO IT IS WITHIN THAT WINDOW.

BUT GIVEN THAT IT'S NOT A MAJOR CORRIDOR, HOW DO WE ASSESS THE NEED THAT WE DO NEED? TRANSIT PRIORITY LANES THERE.

CAN WE GO BACK TO, UM, A FEW SLIDES TO, IT MIGHT BE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS WHERE WE'RE SHOWING THE TRANSIT ROUTES.

I THINK IT'S, UH, 11.

AND THIS IS REALLY AWKWARD POSITIONING 'CAUSE I CAN'T SEE HERE .

SO YOUR QUESTION IS ABOUT SEVENTH AND EIGHTH IN PARTICULAR AND THE NEED TO PROVIDE TRANSIT ONLY FACILITY ON THOSE TWO STREETS COME TO THE DETERMINATION THAT WE NEED TRANSIT PRIORITY LANES THERE.

WELL A LOT OF THIS HERE AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL CERTAINLY DEFER TO, TO NADIA, UM, AND MAX WHO PROBABLY HAVE MORE INFORMATION THAN I DO.

UM, BUT A LOT OF THIS IS LOOKING AT THE NEED.

OH, THANK YOU.

BLESS YOU.

A LOT OF THIS IS LOOKING AT THE NEED TO CONNECT, UM, FACILITIES TURNING OR BUS OPERATIONS TURNING OFF, UM, TRINITY AND SANJA AND HEADING OVER TO, UM, THE NORTH SOUTH LINE ON, UH, THAT'S QUAD, RIGHT? SO CONNECTING QUAD, CONNECTING THOSE NORTH SOUTH CORRIDORS BETWEEN GUAD AND TRINITY SANJA.

UM, CAN YOU ADD TO THAT NADIA? SURE.

SO, AND MICHELLE WENT THROUGH A REALLY NICE, UM, TIMELINE OF HOW THIS PLAN WAS DEVELOPED AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT SINCE 2018 AND THE TRANSIT PLAN WAS ONLY JUST FINALIZED.

SO I THINK THERE'S A BIT OF A MISMATCH TOO.

THIS, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF, THIS IS WHERE WE WERE THINKING THAT WE WOULD PUT A LOT OF OUR SERVICE.

UM, WE ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE DESIRE TO COME DOWN TO THE CONVENTION CENTER AND INTERACT WITH THE RED LINE, RIGHT? UM, SO WE DO HAVE A, UM, THE TRANSIT PLAN IS TALKING ABOUT THE ADJACENT CENTER, UH, EAST ALIGNING SAN JACK TRINITY AS ANOTHER PRIORITY NORTH SOUTH ROUTE THAT BRINGS, UH, PEOPLE DOWN TO THE CONVENTION CENTER AND DOWN TO THE RED LINE.

SO I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO STRIKE A BALANCE, OF COURSE, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT EVERY THREE TIMES A YEAR WE HAVE A SERVICE CHANGE THAT ALLOWS US TO DECIDE.

AND THE BOARD VOTES ON WHERE THOSE ROUTES WILL EVENTUALLY END UP.

AND, AND TRAVIS, UH, TRANSIT PLAN IN 2035 IS A LONG WAYS OUT.

UM, AND SO AS LIGHT RAIL, SO I THINK THIS IS LIKE ANY OTHER PLAN THAT'S ASPIRATIONAL MM-HMM .

AND, UM, I KNOW THAT THE CITY IS DOING A STUDY OF SEVEN OR THEY'RE, WE'RE THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT YEAH.

MOVING STUFF FORWARD.

SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING PIECES.

I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION, BUT DEFINITELY.

AND I, I GET THAT TRANSPLANT 2035 COULD CHANGE, RIGHT? WE COULD DECIDE WE DON'T WANT THE 8 37 TO GO DOWN FOURTH STREET, WE WANT IT TO COME UP AT SEVENTH AND EIGHTH DOWN IN THE FUTURE.

BUT, UH, TO ME THAT SEEMS LIKE THE BIGGEST BARRIER TO HAVING A TWO-WAY STREET ON SEVENTH AND EIGHTH IS THE IDEA THAT WE NEED TRANSIT PRIORITY LANE MM-HMM .

SO MM-HMM .

YOU KNOW, IF WE DON'T NEED THEM, IT, IT WOULD BE GOOD TO KNOW THAT NOW SO WE CAN, UH, START TO THINK ABOUT, OKAY, WELL THEN DOES A TWO-WAY WORK IF WE DON'T NEED A TRANSIT PRIORITY LANGUAGE.

AND NATALIE'S RIGHT, WE ARE KICKING OFF THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING FOR SEVENTH AND LIKELY, UM, EIGHTH ON THE HEELS OF THAT AS WELL.

AND SO THAT'S GONNA BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DRILL INTO, UM, IN MORE DETAIL WHAT NEEDS TO BE ACCOMMODATED AT THAT IN THE, ON THE STREET DURING THAT PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING.

UM, I KNOW ONE OF THE TECHS THAT WE'VE, UM, AND, AND THE ANSWER MAY, MAY, MAY VERY WELL SHIFT, YOU KNOW, DURING THAT, THAT PPER PROCESS, I KNOW ONE OF THE TAGS THAT WE'RE TAKING ON SIXTH STREET, UM, IS, WHICH IS REMAINING ONE WAY, UM, IS KIND OF KEEPING THAT 30 FOOT CURB TO CURB CROSS SECTION SO THAT, UM, THE STREET IS CONVERTIBLE AT ANY TIME IN THE FUTURE.

UM, AND THAT CAN HAPPEN WITH THE CURBS WHERE THEY ARE.

UM, AND I HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT WE WOULD BE TAKING THE SAME TACK, UM, WITH ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS ON SEVENTH AND EIGHTH AS WELL.

UM, SO THAT WE CAN BE KIND OF REFLECTIVE IN RESPONSES AS THOSE NEEDS CHANGE.

YEAH, IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE.

UH, THANK YOU FOR THAT.

I APPRECIATE YOU COMING UP.

UM, ANYONE ELSE HAVE QUESTIONS? I'M SURE PEOPLE DO DON'T MAKE ME GO AGAIN.

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UM, WE'RE LOOKING, SO THAT 13 TO 16 MILE PER HOUR THAT THEY HAVE IN PORTLAND MM-HMM .

UM, FOR PROGRESSION SPEED, UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT DOING THAT SPEED STUDY AND WOULD, IS THAT TO LIKE, SEE IF WE COULD GET THAT LOW FOR VEHICLE PROGRESSION SPEED? IS THAT FUNDED RIGHT NOW? A SPEED STUDY? UM, IT'S NOT, IT WOULD, UM, LIKELY BE WORK.

WE WOULD, UM, OUR SIGNAL ENGINEERS WOULD JUST TAKE A LOOK AT IN-HOUSE.

UM, AND JUST TO CLARIFY, IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE WORK IS NOT TO SEE IF WE CAN REPROGRAM OUR PROGRESSIONS FROM 25 DOWN TO 15.

IT REALLY IS JUST A START LOOKING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, UM, HITTING THAT 15, UH, THAT 25 OBJECTIVE.

UM, THERE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S POLITICAL WILL, THERE MAY BE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT REDUCING IT.

UM, I WILL SAY THAT WITH A FULLY ONE-WAY STREET GRID, LIKE WHAT THEY HAVE IN, IN MOST OF SEATTLE'S DOWNTOWN AND PORTLAND, IT'S A LOT EASIER, UM, TO HIT THOSE, UM, TARGETED SPEEDS JUST BECAUSE THE SIGNALIZATION IS SIMPLER WITH ONE WAY STREETS.

WE HAVE, UM, A PRETTY HEALTHY MIX IN OURS.

AND SO IT, IT WILL, IT WILL BE TRICKIER AND IT WILL TAKE MORE MODELING.

I'LL GO AHEAD AND HITCH WITH ANOTHER ONE WHILE DO IT FORMULATE.

UM, SO THIS KIND OF A A, A NICE FORMAT 'CAUSE WE SENT THE RECOMMENDATION, Y'ALL RESPONDED TO IT BEFORE CITY COUNCIL ADOPTION, THEN IT GOT POSTPONED, SO WE'RE HERE AGAIN.

UM, SO IT'S NICE THAT WE CAN KIND OF CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION.

SO ONE THING THAT WE HAD IN THE LAST RECOMMENDATION WAS THAT, UH, RED RIVER STREET, WE BELIEVE SHOULD BE, UM, A, A FULL PROTECTED BIKE LANE, UM, FROM NORTH TO SOUTH.

UM, THE RESPONSE THAT WAS, UM, GIVEN WAS THAT, UH, THE ACT PLAN WANTED TO PRIORITIZE A CONSISTENT CROP SECTION ALONG THE ENTIRE CORRIDOR THAT PRIORITIZED CURB ACCESS TO SUPPORT BUSINESS ACTIVITY.

AND THAT A, A PROTECTED BICYCLE LANE WOULD HAVE TO REMOVE PARKING ON WARN SIDE STREETS.

THAT'S KIND OF INCONSISTENT WITH THAT, BUT IT SAID, UH, IMPROVEMENTS THAT ALLOW BICYCLES TO SHARE TRAVEL LANES WITH VEHICLES SAFELY WITHOUT REMOVING PARKING OR LOADING IS ANOTHER FEASIBLE OUTCOME.

UM, WHEN I LOOKED AT THE VERSION OF THIS PLAN THAT'S ON, UH, UH, SPEAK UP AUSTIN, IT STILL LISTS RED RIVER STREET FOR, UM, BICYCLE ENHANCEMENTS.

OBVIOUSLY WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A FULL BIKE LANE HERE, BUT I GUESS I JUST WANTED TO DRILL DOWN ON, ON WHAT OPTIONS ARE STILL ON THE TABLE, RIGHT.

ARE WE CONSIDERING A NEIGHBORHOOD BIKEWAY, YOU KNOW, UM, SITUATION WHERE WE WOULD HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, SPEED BUMPS ON RED RIVER AND, AND CUT THROUGHS FOR BICYCLISTS? OR ARE WE JUST TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A SHERO SET UP MM-HMM .

WHERE BANKS JUST DIDN'T MIXED TRAFFIC MM-HMM .

UM, YEAH, HONESTLY, THAT'S, UM, COMMISSIONER IS WHAT I'M GONNA HAVE TO TAKE BACK TO THE TEAM, UM, AND KIND OF GET SOME INPUT ON, UM, WHAT, WHAT THE DETAILED VISION THERE WOULD BE.

I JUST DON'T KNOW OFFHAND I WASN'T PART OF THAT PROCESS, BUT I CAN GET AN ANSWER FOR YOU FOR SURE.

LOOKING ONLINE FOR QUESTIONS.

UM, COULD WE GO TO THE BICYCLE CONNECTION SLIDE, WHICH I THINK IS, UH, 13.

SO, UM, AND I KNOW THE SEVENTH STREET PROJECT IS A LITTLE BIT OUTTA THE SCOPE OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY MM-HMM .

BUT YOU KNOW, I, I KNOW THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT, UH, YOU KNOW, A PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT OF WHAT WE CAN DO ON SEVENTH STREET MM-HMM .

YOU KNOW, UH, ONE THING WE TALKED ABOUT WHEN LAST MONTH WHEN WE WERE, UM, DISCUSSING THE SIXTH STREET COORDINATION IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE OF THE OPINION THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER EAST WEST THROUGH CONNECTION THAT CAN GET YOU FROM, FROM MOPAC, UH, TO ACROSS I 35 MM-HMM .

UH, AND THERE AREN'T TOO MANY GOOD OPTIONS FOR US FOR ROADS THAT CROSS I 35 AND CAN TAKE US ALL THE WAY TO MOPAC.

UM, SEVENTH STREET, YOU KNOW, COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO CROSS I 35, BUT I'M SEEING THE PROJECT STOPPING AT, UH, SAN JACINTO.

SO I GUESS WHY NOT CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, MOVING IT FORWARD AND THEN MAYBE CONNECTING TO NINTH OR EVEN 12TH STREET MM-HMM .

TO PROVIDE A, A, A REALISTIC NORTH SOUTH PATHWAY THAT THAT SERVES THAT NORTHERN SECTION OF DOWNTOWN.

AND, AND THAT'S ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING, THOSE DETAILS, UM, ARE ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING WE WANNA LOOK AT IN THE PER PROCESS WHERE THOSE TRANSITIONS AND HOW THOSE TRANSITIONS OCCUR.

UM, YOU KNOW, AS NADIA SAID, WE'VE GOT A NARROW STOPPING AT SAN JACK RIGHT HERE, BUT, BUT WE'RE GONNA BE TAKING A CLOSER LOOK, UM, DURING THE PER TO FIGURE OUT IS THAT INDEED THE, THE RIGHT PLACE TO TRANSITION THAT FACILITY THAT WILL BE PART OF THAT SCOPE.

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UM, ONE MORE QUESTION.

UH, I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS IN THE ACT PLAN, BUT WE DEFINITELY GAVE THIS FEEDBACK IN THE CONGRESS AVENUE URBAN DESIGN INITIATIVE.

UH, AND I JUST WANT TO KNOW, HAD YOU LOOKED AT ALL ABOUT OR CONSIDERED ANY PEDESTRIAN SCRAMBLE, UH, INTERSECTIONS? UM, I'M THINKING WE, WE WERE THINKING LIKE SIXTH IN CONGRESS, MAYBE CESAR CHAVEZ IN CONGRESS, BUT MM-HMM .

IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS HAD THOUGHT ABOUT? UM, NO, AND I WILL TELL YOU THIS IS A HARD MESSAGE TO DELIVER BECAUSE I AM A PED PERSON.

UM, SCRAMBLES ARE REALLY HARD TO MAKE WORK.

YOU GOTTA HAVE MASSIVE VOLUMES, OKAY.

'CAUSE THEY REALLY, REALLY, UM, THEY HAVE, THEY CREATE HUGE DELAY, UM, FOR PEDS ALSO.

UM, SO THEY ONLY REALLY WORK WHERE YOU GOT BIG VOLUMES, LIKE AT, YOU KNOW, ACROSS, UH, UH, OVER AT UT IS IS ONE THAT WORKS REALLY WELL, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE THE VOLUMES THERE.

JUST, YEAH, JUST, YEAH.

THEY'RE COOL THOUGH.

THEY'RE COOL.

LAST COLIN QUESTIONS.

I HAVE ONE MORE UNLESS SOMEONE ONLINE WANTS TO GO.

GO AHEAD.

UM, SORRY IF I MISSED IT IF YOU ALREADY SAID THIS, BUT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT FUTURE TIMELINE.

SO YOU SAID YOU'RE PRESENTING TO COUNSEL THIS WEEK OR NEXT WEEK.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT? IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S STILL A LOT OF OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS ABOUT LIKE, FINAL DESIGN.

SO I'M JUST, I'M, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SO MANY ROADS.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A WHOLE GRID.

SO I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED AT LIKE, WHAT IS PLANNED, WHAT STILL NEEDS TO BE ASSESSED.

SURE.

AND WHEN IS EXECUTION ON CHANGES? YEAH.

FAIR QUESTION.

UM, SO THE PLAN IS SCHEDULED FOR ADOPTION NEXT THURSDAY AT CITY COUNCIL.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT IS THEN WE DELVE INTO KIND OF THE INDIVIDUAL, UM, ENGINEERING STUDIES, UM, FOR, UM, EACH CORRIDOR.

AND THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THESE, WHAT'S BASICALLY FAT LINES ON A MAP MM-HMM .

UM, BECOME FIGURED OUT IN MORE ENGINEERING DETAIL CORRIDOR BY CORRIDOR.

SO THE FIRST ONE, WE'VE ALREADY STARTED THE ENGINEERING, PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING FOR SIXTH.

THE NEXT ONE WE'LL BE KICKING OFF WILL BE FOR SEVENTH AND LIKELY FOR EIGHTH AFTER THAT KIND OF TICKING THROUGH THOSE PRIORITY PROJECTS.

AND THAT'S WHEN WE'LL START TO GET INTO THE NITTY GRITTY OF DOES THE BIKE LANE STOP AT X STREET OR Y STREET, FOR EXAMPLE, IS THIS STILL A TRANSIT PRIORITY FOR CAP METRO OR DO THEY WANNA MOVE DOWN TWO BLOCKS? SO WE'LL GET THAT FIGURED OUT.

AND WHAT'S THE SORT OF LIKE, OVERALL TIMELINE OF WHEN WE'LL HEAR THE FEEDBACK FROM THOSE ENGINEERING PLANS TO, I GUESS IT, LIKE, I IMAGINE IT'S ALL SORT OF LIKE STREET BY STREET.

BUT ARE WE TALKING LIKE IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO OR LIKE THE NEXT 10 YEARS? SO THIS IS A LONG RANGE KIND OF, UM, LARGE SCALE CIP PLAN.

UM, CIP IS, YEAH.

SO THESE WHAT, SORRY, WHAT IS CIP? CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS? OKAY.

MY APOLOGIES.

UM, WE HAVE A BAD HABIT OF DOING THAT .

THAT'S OKAY.

UM, SO THESE ARE BIG PROJECTS THAT ARE GONNA TAKE MANY YEARS TO IMPLEMENT.

UM, SEVENTH STREET AND A STREET.

THOSE WILL LIKELY AND SIXTH STREET, THESE WILL LIKELY BE FIRST OUT OF THE GATE.

AND WE'LL START DOING THAT KIND OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS ON THE ENGINEERING AND DESIGN IN THE COMING YEARS BECAUSE THOSE, THOSE HAVE TO CHANGE, UM, AS WE MENTIONED TO TIE INTO TECH DOTS WORK.

UM, BUT IT'S GONNA BE MANY YEARS OF, OF PULLING, YOU KNOW, THE PROCESS AND THE FUNDS AND THE ENGINEERING TOGETHER TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THESE PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS HAPPEN.

BUT, UM, YOU WILL SEE SOME COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THIS COMMUN COMMUNITY, WITH THIS COMMISSION ON, UM, SIXTH AND SEVENTH WITHIN THE NEXT, UM, WITH THIS YEAR AND NEXT YEAR.

SO THERE WILL BE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PUBLIC TO WEIGH IN ON THAT.

WE WILL HAVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH THAT WORK.

OF COURSE.

THAT'S GREAT TO HEAR.

UM, ALL RIGHT, LAST CALL FOR QUESTIONS LOOKING ONLINE.

ALRIGHTY.

WELL, THANKS FOR SPENDING TIME WITH US TODAY.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

NICE TO SEE Y'ALL AGAIN.

THANKS FOR HAVING

[4. Austin Transportation and Public Works Services and Budget Update. Presentation by Richard Mendoza, Director, Austin Transportation and Public Works.]

ME.

UH, ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON TO OUR FOURTH DISCUSSION ITEM.

UH, YOU MAY NOTICE, UH, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, UH, JIM DALE COULDN'T BE HERE WITH US, SO WE'RE VERY APPRECIATIVE, UH, THAT, UH, DIRECTOR MENDOZA HAS STEPPED INTO HIS SHOES.

UM, I THINK YOU WERE HERE FOR THE LAST BUDGET RECOMMENDATION WE DID TOO.

SO MAYBE WE MAKE THIS AN ANNUAL TRADITION.

UH, BUT I WILL TURN IT OVER TO DIRECTOR MENDOZA FOR A, UH, DISCUSSION ITEM ON THE, UH, A TPD, UH, PUBLIC WORKS AND BUDGET UPDATE.

WE DO HAVE A RECOMMENDATION THAT WILL BE A SEPARATE ACTION ITEM AFTER THIS PRESENTATION.

AND THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE, AS WELL AS THE BUDGET THAT Y'ALL AFFORD US TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES.

AND GOOD EVENING COMMISSION.

I'M RICHARD MENDOZA.

THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR DEPARTMENT

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UH, FOR TONIGHT, I'M GONNA BE FOCUSED ON OUR ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET.

SO THIS IS THE BUDGET THAT FUNDS MOSTLY PRIMARILY OUR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE.

UH, YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR ALSO THAT WE HAVE A CAPITAL BUDGET AND THAT CAPITAL BUDGET'S FUNDED PRIMARILY FROM GRANTS AND BONDS TO BUILD NEW STUFF.

BUT TODAY'S TALK IS GONNA BE ABOUT, UM, THE BUDGET THAT WE USE TO TAKE CARE OF THE STUFF THAT WE ALREADY GOT OUT THERE PROVIDING, UH, QUALITY MOBILITY SERVICES FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

AND SO WITH THAT, GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO, AT AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS, UH, WE DO HAVE A MISSION STATEMENT, AND THAT IS WE ARE A HIGHLY RELIABLE ORGANIZATION THAT BUILDS AND MAINTAINS MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

AND WE ARE A LARGE DEPARTMENT TAKING CARE OF A LARGE CITY.

I THINK LAST COUNT WE'RE 11TH OR 12TH LARGEST IN THE COUNTRY.

SO BY THE NUMBERS YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT SIDE, WE HAVE AN OVER $240 MILLION ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET PROVIDING, UH, WHICH ALLOWS, UM, COMPLIMENT OF EMPLOYEES OF OVER A THOUSAND TO PROVIDE CRITICAL TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORK SERVICES.

UM, ONE OF MY PROUDEST GROUP OF EMPLOYEES OF THAT THOUSAND ARE THE 200 SEASONAL SCHOOL CROSSING GUARDS THAT ARE OUT THERE DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR PROTECTING OUR FUTURE.

UH, AND THIS, WE DO THIS ACROSS, UH, SEVEN MAJOR SERVICE AREAS, AND I'LL SHOW THAT IN AN ORG CHART.

AND SO, AGAIN, WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR A WIDE RANGE OF TRANSPORTATION, MOBILITY, SAFETY FUNCTIONS.

WE WORK WITH ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION AND NUMEROUS, WITH NUMEROUS AUSTIN AREA PARTNERS AND AGENCIES TO ENSURE THAT OUR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IS SAFE, RELIABLE, AND WELL MAINTAINED.

UH, THOSE SEVEN SERVICE AREAS INCLUDE BUSINESS SUPPORT SERVICES, THE OFFICE OF DIRECTOR AND CHIEF OF STAFF STREET AND BRIDGE OPERATIONS, THE OFFICE OF CITY ENGINEER, TRAFFIC OPERATIONS, TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.

SO I MENTIONED THAT WE'RE A BIG CITY, WELL, A BIG CITY HAS A BIG MOBILITY NETWORK, AND I'M JUST GONNA TOUCH ON A COUPLE OF THESE INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS THAT YOU ALL CHARGE US WITH MAINTAINING AND KEEPING OPERATIONAL.

UH, EACH YEAR WITH OUR ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET, UH, WE HAVE OVER 7,900 LANE MILES OF ROADWAYS, CITY ROADWAYS 466, MAJOR BRIDGES, 2,900 MILES OF SIDEWALK, 1200, OVER 1200 SIZED TRAFFIC INTERSECTIONS, ALMOST 200,000 TRAFFIC REGULATORY TRAFFIC SIGNS, AND ALMOST A THOUSAND CENTER LINES OF LONG LINE STRIPING.

ALL THESE ASSETS REQUIRE CONTINUOUS OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE TO MAINTAIN THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFE CYCLES, TO PROVIDE, UH, CRITICAL MOBILITY SERVICES.

AND SO NEXT SLIDE.

AND SO WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, OUR SERVICES TOUCH THE DAILY LIVES OF MOST EVERYONE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

UM, WHETHER YOU'RE BACKING OUT OF YOUR DRIVEWAY OR IF YOU'RE WALKING OUT YOUR FRONT DOOR TO EITHER WALK OR BIKE, TO ACCESS TRANSIT OR YOUR DESTINATIONS.

AND SO IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT THE MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE SAY, UH, STAYS SAFE AND RELIABLE.

WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN THE STREET NETWORK CROSSWALKS, BRIDGES, SIDEWALKS, TRAFFIC SIGNALS AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, BUT WE'RE ALSO ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE TO OUR VULNERABLE POPULATION.

WE ALSO HAVE TO MAINTAIN, UM, BY LAW ACCESSIBLE MOBILITY OPTIONS.

SO A DA COMPLIANCE EFFECTIVE TRAFFIC SIGNAGE WAY FINDING.

WE'RE EXPANDING ALTERNATIVES FOR MOBILITY THROUGH OUR URBAN TRAILS NETWORK SYSTEM, BUILDING BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES, PROVIDING THOSE PRIORLY SAID CROSSING GUARDS AT ALL OF OUR AUSTIN SCHOOLS.

AND THEN CROSSWALK, NEAR LIBRARIES, PARKS, AND BUS STOPS.

AND THAT NEW DEPARTMENT TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS OR TPW IS DEPICTED ON THIS SLIDE THROUGH THOSE SEVEN FUNCTIONAL AREAS.

AND THAT'S JUST A SNAPSHOT OF THE ORG CHART OF OUR DEPARTMENT.

AS MANY OF YOU MAY RECALL, UM, THE FIRST TIME I ACTUALLY CAME AND GAVE A PRESENTATION TO THIS BODY WAS, OH MY GOSH, ALMOST NINE, EIGHT YEARS AGO.

I WAS THE THEN PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR.

WE HAD A SEPARATE TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR, AND WE TAG TEAMED ON OUR BUDGET PRESENTATION.

NOW I GET THE PRIVILEGE OF PROVIDING, UH, BOTH OPERATIONAL UNITS, UH, TO YOU THIS AFTERNOON,

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GENERATES ABOUT 20.5 MILLION.

SO THIS IS A BUDGET PRESENTATION, SO I'M GONNA SWITCH AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE BUDGET NOW, NOT JUST THE THINGS THAT WE DO, UH, WITH THAT BUDGET.

WE ARE FUNDED IN THE OPERATING SIDE THROUGH FIVE PRIMARY SOURCES OF FUNDING DEPICTED ON THIS TABLE.

UH, THE, THE MAIN FUNDING SOURCE IS THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE.

THIS TRANSPORTATION USER FEE IS ASSESSED TO ALL RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS, UTILITY ACCOUNTS WITHIN THE CITY FOR THE USE OF THE MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN OUR CITY OF AUSTIN.

OUR COMMUNITY FELT THAT MOBILITY WAS SUCH A PRIORITY, THAT BACK IN 1992, THEY SET THE, THEY SET UP PASSED AN ORDINANCE THAT SET UP A DEDICATED FUNDING SOURCE TO MAINTAIN THEIR ROADS, SIDEWALKS, AND MOBILITY.

AND THAT FUND, UH, THIS PAST FY 26, UH, GENERATED AROUND $156 MILLION.

THIS TAKES CARE OF FIXING ALL THE POTHOLES, FIXING ALL THE CRACK SIDEWALKS, MAINTAINS OUR TRAFFIC SIGNALS, REPLACES FADED SIGNS, CLEARS VEGETATION OUT OF THE WAY OF THE URBAN TRAILS, MAINTAINS BRIDGES.

ANOTHER, UH, MORE RECENT FUNDING STREAM IS THE TURP, THE TEMPORARY USE OF RIGHT AWAY.

UM, IT SLOWED DOWN A LITTLE BIT, BUT IN THE LAST 10 YEARS, 15 YEARS WITH ALL THE DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION, INVARIABLY THERE WAS, UH, PERMITS FOR LONGSTANDING LANE CLOSURES.

SOME OF THESE LANE CLOSURES TO SUPPORT PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT MIGHT BE ENACTED FOR, GOSH, UP TO ONE, TWO, EVEN THREE YEARS.

OF COURSE, THAT USE OF THAT PUBLIC ASSET SHOULD BE COMPENSATED FOR BY THAT PRIVATE DEVELOPER.

AND WE ASSESS A, A TEMPORARY RIGHT OF WAY, UH, USE FEE THAT, UH, FUND GENERATES AROUND $14.4 MILLION.

WE HAVE OTHER COSTS OF SERVICE FEES, NAMELY TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, WHERE WE REVIEW SITE PLANS.

WE REVIEW TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS FOR ASSESSING, UH, STREET, UH, IMPACT FEES.

THAT'S JUST TO RECOUP OUR SERVICES.

WE ALL ALSO HAVE RIGHT OF WAY INSPECTORS AND, UM, AND OTHER INSPECTORS OF, UH, SAY LICENSE AGREEMENTS AND ENCROACHMENT AGREEMENTS.

SO WE ASSESS A FEE TO COMPENSATE US FOR THAT SERVICE.

PARKING, OUR DEPARTMENT IS OVER ALL THE ON STREET AND WE MANAGE SOME PUBLIC MUNICIPAL PARKING GARAGES THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

AND THEN, UH, OTHER FUNCTIONS SUCH AS BILLABLE TIME TO BONDS, INTERDEPARTMENTAL WORK, THE POLICE A PD ASK US TO GO PAVE THEIR PARKING LOT.

UH, WE'RE GONNA DO THAT, BUT WE'RE GONNA, UM, GET PAYMENT FOR DOING THAT TYPE OF WORK.

THAT OTHER REVENUE ANNOUNCED ABOUT 31, UH, MILLION.

SIDEWALK INFRASTRUCTURE, $9.2 MILLION.

SO THAT'S THE INCOMING STREAM OF FUNDS.

THIS, HE IS GONNA BE A PRESENTATION OF THE OUTGOING OF THOSE SAME FUNDS IN THREE MAJOR CATEGORIES.

UM, WE UTILIZE THE, UH, PARKING REVENUES, THE, UH, CHILD SAFETY FUND AND THE TRANSPORTATION FUND, UH, FOR DELIVERING THE MULTITUDE OF TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORK SERVICES.

THIS IS A ROLL UP OF THE TRANSPORTATION FUND AND F AND FOR FY 26, UH, WE PLANNED A OPERATING BUDGET OF JUST A TAD OVER $213 MILLION.

AND THERE'S, UH, QUITE A FEW CATEGORIES HERE.

I'LL TOUCH ON THE, ON THE MORE PROMINENT ONES, UH, BEGINNING WITH THE TOP ONE ASSET AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT.

SO THAT IS AROUND 20.4 MILLION OUT OF THIS FUND.

OUT OF THIS EXPENDITURE, UH, WE MANAGE ALL OF OUR FLEET, UM, UH, MANAGEMENT SERVICES THAT WE PAY THE FLEET FOR TAKING CARE OF OUR VEHICLES FUEL REPAIRS.

UH, WE PAY RENT ON ALL OUR FACILITIES.

UH, THE TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS OPERATES OUT OF, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOTTA BE AT LEAST EIGHT OR NINE DIFFERENT SERVICE CENTERS AND INSTALLATIONS.

WE PAY RENT ON SOME.

UH, WE ALSO PAY RENT TO INTERNAL, UH, DEPARTMENTS.

THE FACILITIES, UH, DEPARTMENT WE FUND OUT OF THIS ONE, THE OFFICE OF CITY ENGINEER FOR TECHNICAL SERVICES, AS WELL AS OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS.

THE, SOME OF THESE ARE PRETTY INTUITIVE, LIKE BRIDGE MAINTENANCE, 2.4 MILLION.

UH, FIVE YEARS AGO WE HAD ZERO FOR THIS LINE ITEM, WE RECOGNIZED THAT WE NEEDED TO DO MORE AND PROTECTING

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OUR BRIDGES.

THAT'S UP TO 2.4 MILLION COMMUNITY SERVICES.

I, UM, WE CONTRIBUTE TO THE, UH, CHILD SAFETY FUND FOR SAFE FROST TO SCHOOL.

WE ALSO MANAGE THE, UH, SAFE FROST SCHOOL EDUCATION AND NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM THAT'S GONNA BE HERE IN COMMUNITY SERVICES GENERAL MAINTENANCE.

A LOT OF THIS IS ROUTINE MAINTENANCE.

WE REPAIR ALL OF THE UTILITY CUTS FOR AUSTIN WATER, SO WE BUDGET FOR THAT IN THIS LINE ITEM.

WE DO CONCRETE REPAIRS.

WE ALSO HAVE A DOWNTOWN CLEANING CREW THAT WORKS CLOSELY WITH THE DOWNTOWN AUSTIN ALLIANCE ONE STOP SHOP.

THIS IS THE, UH, THE PDC.

SO WE PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT SERVICES OUT THERE.

10 YEARS AGO, THIS NUMBER WAS ABOUT 400,000 OR LESS.

SO WE'VE BEEN RAMPING UP ON OUR SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE IN THE LAST NINE OR 10 YEARS.

STREET PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE, 29.8 MILLION.

THIS IS, UH, THE PAVEMENTS THAT WE GO OUT EACH YEAR.

AND THE SERVICE PLAN, DO SEAL COATS, DO CRACK CEILING MINOR OVERLAYS TO MAINTAIN OUR, UH, OVER 7,000 LANE MILES OF STREETS.

WE HAVE A SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION TO PROVIDE FINANCE, HUMAN RESOURCES AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES.

WE ALSO PAY OTHER DEPARTMENTS LIKE OUR CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICES THAT DELIVER A LOT OF OUR LARGE BOND PROJECTS AND PROJECT MANAGE THOSE.

SO THERE'S A, A FEE FOR THAT THAT WE PAY THROUGH ALLOCATIONS.

WE ALSO PAY OTHER DEPARTMENTAL INDIRECTS AS EVERY OTHER LARGE ENTERPRISE DEPARTMENT DOES, UH, FOR THOSE SUPPORT, FINANCE, CORPORATE FINANCE, IT, UH, LEGAL SERVICES, TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING.

AND, UH, YOU HEARD FROM ERIC BOCK OVER HERE.

HE'S, HE'S FUNDED AND HIS PAYCHECK COMES FROM THIS TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING BUCKET.

UH, TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS.

WE HAVE A, A MOBILITY MANAGEMENT CENTER.

WE GOT COMMUNICATIONS TO MOST ALL OF OUR SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS.

THIS FUNDS THAT OPERATION AS WELL AS THE STRIPING AND THIS, UH, SIGN REPLACEMENT.

AND THEN FINALLY, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND STRATEGIC PROJECTS.

YOU JUST HEARD FROM OUR MICHELLE MARKS, SHE'S TRANSPORTATION OFFICER OVER STRATEGIC PROJECTS.

THAT'S WHERE HER PAYCHECK COMES FROM.

AND ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT OUR FOLKS DO AROUND DEVELOPING THE ACT PLANS AND OTHER SMALL AREA PLANS.

SO LARGE PORTFOLIO OF SERVICES PROGRAMMED EACH YEAR OUT OF THAT TRANSPORTATION USER FEE.

SORRY, YOU SAID, WHOA.

SORRY, THAT WAS LOUD.

UM, YOU SAID ONE STOP SHOP IS FOR PDC.

WHAT IS PDC? OH, I'M SORRY.

AGAIN.

THAT'S OKAY.

I'LL JUST KEEP ASKING.

IT'S FINE.

UH, IT'S THE, UH, PERMIT DEVELOPMENT PER PERMIT, DEVELOP CENTER PERMITTING AND DEVELOPMENT.

OH, PERMITTING.

PERMITTING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER.

, THE BUILDING THAT WE'RE SOMETIMES AT.

SO IF YOU'RE A BIG DEVELOPER AND YOU WANNA BUILD A NEW SKYSCRAPER DOWNTOWN, YOU GOTTA GO THERE FIRST.

WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT PARKING FUND.

THESE WILL GO A LITTLE BIT QUICKER.

THEY DON'T, THERE'S, THERE'S NOT AS VARIETY HERE, BUT YOU BASICALLY GOT EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE LOWERING THE NUMBER OF PARKING ACTUAL METERS AND MOVING MORE TOWARDS PAY APPS ON THE PHONE.

SO THAT'S LOWERING OUR COSTS.

UM, BUT WE DO FUND A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS OUT OF THE PARKING FUND TO INCLUDE AIR QUALITY ASSET AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT, EMERGING MOBILITY.

AND THEN OF COURSE, WE PAY FOR OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, PARKING AND MOBILITY MANAGEMENT.

AND THEN THEY ALSO HAVE TO PAY INTERDEPARTMENTAL, UH, TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

AND THEN THE LAST FUND, OPERATING FUND IS OUR CHILD SAFETY FUND.

AND SO THIS PAYS FOR ALL THE SEASONAL SCHOOL CROSSING GUARDS AS WELL AS STAFF TO SUPERVISE.

WE ALSO HAVE A LARGE, UH, EDUCATION, UH, PROGRAM.

SO OUR STAFF THAT ARE, ARE, UH, FUNDED THROUGH HERE WILL GO OUT INTO ALL THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN AND OUR PARENTS ON HOW TO SAFELY WALK AND BIKE TO SCHOOL.

AND CAN I ASK THE NEW BIKE BUS PROGRAM THAT Y'ALL ARE PUTTING YES.

IS THAT ALSO COMING FROM THIS FUND? IT DOES.

THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THAT.

AND THE BIKE BUS, OF COURSE, IS A VOLUNTEER PROGRAM.

YOU CAN SIGN UP AND YOU GET A GROUP OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER, AND THEY'LL GO IN ONE WAVE.

UM, AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MANY OF THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO, UH, AFFORD AROUND MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS.

A LOT OF THEM BOND FUNDED FROM THE 2016 BOND.

I CAN I ASK REAL QUICK? YES.

I HAD NO IDEA THAT OUR CROSSING GUARDS WERE CITY, CITY EMPLOYEES.

OH, THEY ARE.

ARE THEY PART-TIME OR IS IT JUST YES.

SEASONAL THROUGH THE SCHOOL.

MANY OF ARE RETIREES.

IN THE MORNING SHIFT AND THEN GO HOME AND THEN COME BACK, UH, TO THEIR ASSIGNED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CROSSING AND THEN WORK A COUPLE MORE HOURS IN THE AFTERNOON.

AND, UM, THEY'RE SEASONAL AND PART-TIME.

SO THEY'LL WORK A COUPLE HOURS

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UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, MANY OF THEM ARE, UM, RETIREES EITHER FROM THE CITY OR ELSEWHERE.

AND MANY OF THEM LIVE RIGHT THERE, RIGHT IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THEIR SCHOOL IS.

UH, THAT MAKES THE TRAVEL A LOT EASIER.

AND THEY GET TO KNOW THE CHILDREN AND, AND ALL THE FAMILIES, I'LL TELL YOU, THEY'RE GREAT PEOPLE.

ONCE A YEAR, WE THROW A LUNCHEON FOR ALL OF THEM.

I GET ALL 200 IN AN AUDITORIUM.

WE HAVE A TALENT SHOW.

WE HAVE AWARDS CROSSING GUARD OF THE YEAR, MANAGER OF THE YEAR.

UH, THEY TRY TO GET ME UP ON STAGE AND, AND JUGGLE OR SOMETHING.

I HADN'T DONE THAT YET.

BUT THESE, THESE ARE GREAT PEOPLE AND THEY LOVE WHAT THEY DO.

2016, THEY'VE PROBABLY DELIVERED, OH GOSH, 80, $90 MILLION IN SIDEWALKS, ABOUT 60 MILES OF NEW NETWORK.

FOR FY FOR FY 26, YOU MAY BE AWARE, UH, OUR, WE WERE AFFORDED, UH, SOME INCREASES IN OUR BUDGET TO ENHANCE SOME OF OUR SERVICES FROM CITY COUNCIL.

UM, AND I JUST WANT TO VERY QUICKLY TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT THOSE ARE AND THE STATUS.

AND SO WE, YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, WHEN OUR CITY MANAGER CAME, HE WANTED US TO START LOOKING AT A TWO YEAR HORIZON FOR AN ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET.

WE DID A TWO YEAR BUDGET WITH A FLAT 26 AND CERTAIN SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS FOR 27.

UH, WE WERE VERY FORTUNATE IN THAT THE MANAGER AND THE COUNCIL MOVED UP THE 27 ENHANCEMENTS TO 26, SO WE COULD START DELIVERING THOSE VALUABLE SERVICES RIGHT AWAY, AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO WAIT A YEAR.

UM, AND SO THEY'RE LISTED HERE ON THIS SLIDE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM.

WE WERE AFFORDED AN EXTRA PAVING CREW, AND THIS ALLOWED US TO ADD 10 MORE LANE MILES OF PAVING NEW STREETS EACH YEAR.

WE ALSO INCREASED OUR THIN SURFACE TREATMENTS AND ADDED ANOTHER 25 LANE MILES.

EVERY YEAR WE TRY TO TOUCH 10% OF OUR NETWORK WITH STREET TREATMENTS SO THAT WE CAN EXTEND THE LIFE BEFORE THEY NEED TO BE, UH, TOTALLY RECONSTRUCTED, WHERE THAT'S AROUND SEVEN, 800 LANE MILES EACH YEAR.

SO THIS IS GETTING US INCREMENTALLY WHERE WE NEED TO BE.

WE WERE ABLE TO GET AN INCREASE IN THE PAVEMENT MARKINGS CONTRACT.

AND SO, UH, PAVEMENT REGULATORY SIGNS AND PAVEMENT MARKINGS ARE SO IMPORTANT, UH, TO MANAGING TRAFFIC.

AND EVEN MORE SO NOW WITH THE ADVENT OF AVS.

THEY, THEY DE, UM, DEPEND ON THOSE MARKINGS A LOT TO SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE AROUND THE CITY.

UH, BEEN A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, BUT THE FEDERAL, UM, NATIONAL HIGHWAY SAFETY ADMINISTRATION EXTENDED MINIMUM REFLECTIVITY STANDARDS TO STRIPING.

THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN, WELL, NOT ALWAYS, BUT FOR MANY YEARS, THEY'VE BEEN ON THE SIGNS THEMSELF AT NIGHT.

THEY REFLECT.

SO YOU CAN SEE THE SIGNS STARTING THIS SEPTEMBER.

WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAINTAIN RE MINIMUM REFLECTIVITY FOR STRIPING AT NIGHT AS WELL.

AND SO TO PREPARE FOR THAT, WE WERE AFFORDED AN INCREASE IN OUR BUDGET FOR ANOTHER STRIPING CREW, URBAN TRAILS.

WE'VE KNOWN THAT AT SOME POINT WE ARE BUILDING ALL THESE GREAT NEW TRAILS.

THEY'RE FANTASTIC.

IT'S JUST ONE OF OUR NEWER, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS.

HOWEVER, AT SOME POINT THEY DO NEED MAINTENANCE AND THEY DO NEED, UM, UH, ATTENTION.

AND SO WE WERE ADDED ANOTHER URBAN TRAILS MAINTENANCE CREW, SAME WAY WITH STREET TREES.

UH, YOU MAY HAVE HEARD WITH OUR RESILIENCY PLANS AND SUSTAINABILITY PLANS, WE WANT TO START A AFFECTING MORE STREET TREES FOR BOTH SHADE AND FOR CLIMATE, UH, IN OUR RIGHT OF WAY.

AND SO WE STARTED BUDGETING UP TO START REPLACING MANY OF THE DEAD TREES IN THE RIGHT OF WAY.

AND MORE CONCRETE REPAIR AND CONSTRUCTION, UH, CONSTRUCTION PROJECT COORDINATOR.

WE ADDED SO THAT WE COULD DO ASSESSMENTS ON NEEDED EXISTING SIDEWALK REPAIRS AND ALSO BE COMPLIANT WITH A DA.

ANYTIME WE MAKE AN IMPROVEMENT TO A STREET, WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THE A DA SERVICE OF THE ADJOINING SIDEWALK AND HANDICAP RAMPS.

IF THEY'RE NOT UP THE STANDARD, WE HAVE TO BRING THEM UP.

THE STANDARD.

UM, WE IN, WE INSTATED THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM.

THAT WAS A PROPOSED BUDGET REDUCTION.

ORIGINALLY IT WAS PUT BACK.

UH, THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PROGRAMS, UH, IN THAT WE GET TO PARTNER WITH NEIGHBORHOODS AND GET REALLY, UM, A POPULAR PROJECTS DONE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

OTHERWISE, THOSE PROJECTS DON'T TYPICALLY FLOAT TO A BOND PROGRAM.

AND WE JUST DON'T HAVE A RESOURCE.

AND YEAH, IT GETS, IT GETS OLD SAYING NO ALL THE TIME.

THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM WHERE WE GET TO SAY YES AND WE GET TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY.

AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM FOR BUILDING NEW SIDEWALKS, OUR SIDEWALKS TEAM HAVE REALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DELIVER SIDEWALKS FAST.

SINCE

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AND WE WANT THEM TO KEEP GOING.

WE DON'T WANNA STOP.

UM, THEY'RE GONNA RUN OUT OF THE PRIOR BOND MONIES, PROBABLY BY THE END OF THIS YEAR, COUNCIL WILL FORWARD US ANOTHER 10 MILLION IN CAPITAL SO THAT WE CAN KEEP THAT PROGRAM GOING AND WE CAN KEEP THE CONTRACTORS HERE RIGHT.

AND KEEP THEM WORKING.

WE DON'T WANNA LOSE THEM TO OTHER CITIES.

AND SO THAT'S A QUICK UPDATE OF THE SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS.

AND I THINK THAT'S THE END IN MY PRESENTATION.

SO I, I WANNA THANK YOU AGAIN FOR, FOR COMING AND GIVING US THIS PRESENTATION.

IT'S A GREAT BASELINE FOR US AS WE START TO TALK ABOUT OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOUR BUDGET.

SURE.

UM, NEXT CYCLE.

UM, I I I WANT TO GET ONE CLARIFYING QUESTION OUTTA THE WAY THOUGH, SO EVERYONE'S ON THE SAME PAGE, RIGHT? YOU ALL DO NOT RECEIVE SETTING ASIDE CAPITAL FUNDS AND MAYBE SOME TRANSFERS YOU RECEIVE FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS, ANY GENERAL FUND REVENUE WHERE THE BULK OF OUR SALES TAX AND PROPERTY TAX GO TO, RIGHT.

THE ONLY GENERAL FUND MONEY WE WOULD GET IS IF WE WERE DOING WORK FOR A JOURNAL FUND DEPARTMENT.

AND THEN THEY WOULD, UH, THROUGH AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL PAY US.

BUT OUR OPERATING BUDGET IS NOT, UH, AUGMENTED BY THE JOURNAL FUND.

YEARS AGO, THE CHILD SAFETY FUND FOR CROSSING GUARDS USED TO BE, BUT THAT WAS REDUCED IN THE BUDGET REDUCTION.

NOW MY TRANSPORTATION FUND FUNDS THE CROSSING GUARDS.

INTERESTING.

WELL THAT, THAT WONDERFUL.

THAT IS A INTERESTING TIDBIT.

MAYBE WE CAN GET THAT BACK, GET YOU A LITTLE MORE MONEY.

UM, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DIRECTOR MENDO? OKAY.

LOOKING ONLINE AS WELL.

COMMISSIONER BUFFET.

UM, THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION.

THIS WAS REALLY INFORMATIVE.

I JUST DID SOME QUICK MATH AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE I DIDN'T MISS ANYTHING.

BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE, THE TOTAL OF THE FUNDING SOURCES, THE REVENUE IS 233.2 MILLION MM-HMM .

AND THEN THE SUM OF THE OPERATING BUDGET FROM THE TRANSPORTATION FUND, THE PARKING FUND AND THE CHILD SAFETY FUND IS 2 41 0 8, SO MM-HMM .

THAT'S 8 MILLION OVER.

IS THAT, UH, LIKE KNOWN OR AVERAGE DIFFERENTIAL OR IS THAT A MISTAKE? THEY SHOULD BE PRETTY CLOSE.

I MIGHT HAVE MISSED ONE LINE ITEM.

BUT I'LL GO BACK THROUGH THESE AGAIN.

IT'S COMING FROM FIVE DISTINCT FUNDING.

SO SOURCES INTO THREE FUNDS.

SOMETIMES THERE'S SOME CROSSOVER OR DUPLICATION, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE BEING CHARGED IN THEIR DEPARTMENTAL.

SO IT'S QUITE POSSIBLE SOMETHING GOT DOUBLE COUNTED.

BUT, BUT I'LL GO BACK AND, AND RE-LOOK AT THAT.

THANKS JENNY.

I GOT MY FINANCE PEOPLE HERE.

, THEY'RE JUST ITCHING TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

THAT IS, UM, THAT IS CORRECT.

AND THAT THE EXPENSES ARE FOR 26 BUDGETED GREATER THAN REVENUE AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE AWARE OF.

AND AH, PART OF THE 27 IS YEAH.

IS RIGHT SIZING THAT YEAH, YOU'RE, YOU'RE CORRECT.

WE DID HAVE A GREATER FUND BALANCE.

SO A LOT OF THE ONE TIME NEEDS WE DREW DOWN THE FUND BALANCE IN THIS ONE YEAR.

ALRIGHT, UH, WE ARE NOW GOING TO MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM FIVE, WHICH IS OUR ACTION ITEM REGARDING THE 20 26 20 27, UH, FISCAL YEAR BUDGET.

OTHER QUESTIONS FROM FOLKS? SO, UM, ONE QUESTION FOR YOU, I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED THIS.

UM, ARE, ARE, UM, FOLKS WHO WORK ON OUR, OUR LOCAL MOBILITY PROGRAM, SPENDING OUR BOND DOLLARS, YOU KNOW, MAXI AROUND TRANS ENHANCEMENTS, SIDEWALKS, UH, UH, BIKEWAYS, ARE THEIR SALARIES FUNDED BY THOSE BOND DOLLARS OR ARE THEIR SALARIES FUNDED BY THE TRANSPORTATION FUND? THE ENGINEERS THAT WORK DIRECTLY ON THE PROJECTS ARE GOING TO RECOUP THE SALARIES FROM THE PROJECTS, UH, OVERHEAD.

LIKE MYSELF, I'M NOT CHARGED TO THOSE PROJECTS.

OUR PROJECT MANAGERS ARE NOT CHARGED TO THE PROJECTS.

THOSE ARE INDIRECT.

AND WHEN WE SAY ENGINEERS, ARE THOSE THE CONSULTANTS YOU HIRE OR THE ENGINEERS YOU HAVE ON STAFF? BOTH.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR DR. MENDOZA? MM-HMM.

AWESOME.

WELL, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR, UH, GIVING US THE PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR, UM, INVITATION AND FOR YOUR SPORT.

[5. Approve a recommendation regarding the Fiscal Year 2026-20727 budget of Austin Transportation and Public Works.]

I BELIEVE WE HAVE ONE, UH, PUBLIC SPEAKER.

UH, MS. ENOVIA JOSEPH.

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THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR MEMBERS.

UM, ENOVIA JOSEPH JUST WANTED TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS AS IT RELATES TO THE BUDGET FOR TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS.

I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THERE WAS A STUDY DONE IN 2009 FOR PEDESTRIANS ON NORTH LAMAR WAS TDOT, THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND CAPITAL METRO WITH THE CITY'S HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, AND THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT 20 MONTHS.

AND THEY TOLD THEM SPECIFICALLY THAT MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS ARE WHERE PEOPLE GET KILLED THE MOST.

YOU'LL SEE, HOWEVER, THAT CAPITAL METRO, AS I SHOWED YOU BEFORE, THE METROPOLITAN PARK, WALNUT CREEK IS ON THE LEFT HERE ON YOUR SLIDE ON THE RIGHT IS THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN HERITAGE WOODS.

THAT'S A MIDBLOCK STOP AND IT IS DANGEROUS.

I SHOWED YOU SOME FATALITIES EARLIER.

AS SHE'S PULLING UP THE NEXT SLIDE, MY COMMENTS AS THEY ALWAYS ARE IN THE CONTEXT OF TITLE SIX OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, WHICH PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE, COLOR, AND NATIONAL ORIGIN.

DIRECTOR MENDOZA JUST TOLD YOU ABOUT AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 1990, AND I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT ON NORTH LAMAR, THEY HAVE ACTUALLY DISINVESTED IN THAT AREA.

YOU'LL SEE YOU HAVE TO LITERALLY BE IN THE DITCH IN ORDER TO PUSH THE BUTTON TO CROSS THE STREET.

THIS IS THE SAME AREA WHERE MR. NORTON WAS KILLED IN HIS WHEELCHAIR.

HIS SERVICE DOG LIVED IMAM MUS, UH, ISLAM MOSSAD WAS KILLED IN THIS AREA.

THAT'S WHERE I SHOWED YOU THE LADY AS WELL.

YOU'LL SEE THE DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES CONTINUE.

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL SOUTH STANE AND FIRST STREET, BUT NOT ON NORTH LAMAR.

NEXT SLIDE, I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE AS IT RELATES TO SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE, YOU'LL SEE THIS IS RUNDBERG NORTH LAMAR AREA.

THIS IS ACROSS FROM, NOT FROM RUNDBERG.

UH, THE, THIS IS A SCHOOL RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET.

YOU'LL SEE THAT MUNIEZ HAS A $36 MILLION CONTRACT, BUT THIS IS THE SUBSTANDARD WORK THAT THEY DO IN THE AREA.

YOU'LL SEE IT'S BEAUTIFUL AT 18TH AND MLK ON ROUTE 18.

THE SIGNAGE, THE MARKINGS, NONE OF THAT IS, UH, ON NORTH LAMAR, SO THERE'S REALLY NOTHING FOR THEM TO MAINTAIN.

THESE ARE PICTURES OF REAL PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN KILLED.

THAT'S MR. NORTON.

THAT'S THE IMAM.

NEXT SLIDE I WANT YOU TO SEE AS IT RELATES TO LIGHTING, THE CITY HAS MONEY FOR LIGHTS, BUT THIS IS NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER AND THIS IS MICHELLE MARKS TALKING ABOUT THE EQUITY LENS THAT THEY DO THE PROJECTS, BUT THE PICTURES SHOW A DIFFERENT STORY.

THIS IS THE NETWORK.

IT WAS CREATED IN 2016, SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL AUSTIN, NORTH LAMAR, NORTHEAST OF US.

180 3 IS THE GRAY MAP.

IT IS INFREQUENT, UNRELIABLE, DISCONNECTED, AND IT'S BECAUSE CAPITAL METRO TRIPLE COUNTS THE MINORITIES AND THEY INFLATE THE RIDERSHIP.

THIS IS DOTIE WATKINS AFTER THE TRANSIT PLAN 2035 PASSED, SHE ACTUALLY SAID THAT THEY WILL NOT BE MAKING ANY IMPROVEMENTS IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GO OUT AND ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME AND APPRECIATE YOU ALLOWING ME TO MAKE MY COMMENTS.

UH, ANY QUESTIONS FROM OUR COMMISSIONERS? THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT.

THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.

BUT I SHOULD AT LEAST THANK THE COMMISSIONER WHO ACKNOWLEDGED MY COMMENTS EARLIER.

OF FUNDING? ARE WE FUNDING THEM ENOUGH? DO WE NEED TO FUND THEM MORE? UM, SO, SO WE'RE ABLE TO GET A, A REALLY GOOD PICTURE AND THANKS TO A TBW ON THIS.

ALL RIGHTY.

SO WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO OUR DRAFT RECOMMENDATION HERE.

UM, BEFORE I MAKE A MOTION, I DO JUST WANT TAKE A SECOND TO THANK, UH, NATALIE AND, UH, UH, JIM DALE AND THE TPW STAFF.

UM, THE, YOU KNOW, WE WERE TALKING LAST TIME, UH, THEY OFFERED ANY QUESTIONS WE HAD ABOUT THE BUDGET PROCESS, THE CHASE DOWN, THE ANSWERS FOR US AND THE, THE QUESTIONS.

UH, WE HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM THE WORK GROUP, BUT, UH, THE ANSWERS WERE VERY THOROUGH AND I THINK IT HAS PRODUCED A, A BUDGET RECOMMENDATION, UH, THAT IS, UH, VERY MUCH GROUNDED WITH ACCELERATING THE WORK THAT A TPW IS ALREADY DOING.

UM, AND IS IS IS REALISTIC GIVEN THE THE FISCAL PICTURE, UM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

SO WITH THAT, I'M GONNA MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DRAFT RECOMMENDATION, AND THEN WE'LL DISCUSS FROM THERE.

I'LL SECOND IT, UH, SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER KAMAN.

UM, SO I'LL, I'LL START JUST BY TALKING ABOUT, UM, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION MAINTENANCE.

I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, UM, FOR YEARS IN TERMS OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE THOSE BUCKETS

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SO, UM, RIGHT NOW WE'RE, WE'RE FUNDING SIDEWALK REHABILITATION AT ABOUT $7.7 MILLION A YEAR.

UH, THE BULK OF THAT IS GOING TO BE IN THE SIDEWALKS AND ROUTINE CONCRETE MAINTENANCE, UH, PLAN.

THERE'S A ANOTHER BUCKET THAT GOES TO, UH, A DA RAMPS AND SOME ASPHALT OVERLAYS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

UH, BUT THAT'S THE LARGE BUCKET.

UM, IF WE WERE TO KIND OF CONTINUE THAT $7.7 MILLION, UM, FUNDING, UH, THROUGHOUT THE ESTIMATED GAP IN TERMS OF HOW MUCH WE'RE SPENDING ON MAINTENANCE VERSUS WHAT THE NEEDS ARE TO GET A, A, UM, HIGH QUALITY SYSTEM IS GONNA BE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 323,000,523 MILLION IN 10 YEARS.

UM, SO OBVIOUSLY THAT'S A, THAT'S A PRETTY WIDE GAP FROM, UH, WHERE WE NEED TO BE TO WHERE WE ARE.

UM, URBAN TRAILS, AS WE MENTIONED, THEY NOW HAVE A DEDICATED MAINTENANCE CREW, WHICH IS GREAT.

UM, THEY HAVE ABOUT $400,000 IN THE MOBILITY TRAILS MAINTENANCE FUND.

UM, IF YOU EXTEND THAT ACROSS FOR 10 YEARS, THEN THE GAP WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, UH, IS ABOUT $32 MILLION, UH, IN 10 YEARS FOR DEFERRED MAINTENANCE.

UH, AND THEN WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, BIKEWAYS, BIKEWAYS IS KIND OF SPLIT UP INTO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT, UH, PLACES.

UM, THOSE PAINT SIGNAGE AND VERTICAL PROTECTION ASSETS, THAT'S GOING TO BE, UH, SIGNS AND MARKINGS.

UM, SOME OF THE PAVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE STUFF IS GOING TO BE STRAIGHT AND BRIDGES.

SOME OF THE SIGNAL STUFF, UH, WILL BE ARTERIAL MANAGEMENT.

SO IT'S KIND OF SPREAD ACROSS, UM, MULTIPLE DIVISIONS AT A TPW.

SO THE FIRST THING WE SAY, UM, A TPW HAS A PLAN TO KIND OF INCREASE THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE AS WE HAVE INCREASING MAINTENANCE COSTS AND THEY HAVE INCREASING COSTS FOR INFLATION AND STAFF AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

UM, THE PLAN FOR THIS YEAR, UH, AT LEAST AS WAS STATED LAST YEAR, OF COURSE, THE THIS COULD CHANGE WAS TO INCREASE IT BY ABOUT 8.3% JUST FOR A REFERENCE POINT.

THAT'S AN EXTRA DOLLAR 81, UH, A MONTH FOR A TYPICAL SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOUSEHOLD ON THEIR ENERGY BILL.

UM, AND SO WHAT WE'RE SAYING IN THAT FIRST BE FURTHER RESULT, I DON'T THINK IT'S REALLY OUR PLACE TO SET A TARGET SPECIFICALLY ON RAISE THE FEED THIS MUCH, BUT WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS OUT OF WHATEVER WE END UP INCREASING IT TO, LET'S TRY TO SPEND THIS MUCH ON EACH OF THESE ITEMS. SO, INCREASING SIDEWALK REHABILITATION FROM 7.7 MILLION TO 15.4 MILLION.

UM, THAT'LL GIVE US A REDUCTION, UH, LONG TERM ACROSS 10 YEARS OF THE BACKLOG, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 31% AND 14%.

UM, INCREASE URBAN TRAILS MAINTENANCE FROM 400,000 TO 1 MILLION.

UH, AGAIN, THAT'LL DECREASE AGAIN AROUND 31%.

THE BACKLOG, UH, THAT WE'LL HAVE OVER 10 YEARS FROM 32 MILLION TO 22 MILLION.

AND THE THIRD PART OF THAT IS TO, INSTEAD OF HAVING THINGS, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF IN A, A BROAD BUCKET OF FUNDING AND, AND, UH, PERSONNEL AT SIGNS AND MAINTENANCE, UH, HAVE A DEDICATED MAINTENANCE CREW FOR VERTICAL SAFETY.

UH, AND WHEN I SAY VERTICAL SAFETY, I MEAN THOSE FLEX POSTS WE HAVE DELINEATORS, DELINEATING THE BIKE LANES, UM, UH, THE LITTLE RUBBER ZLA THAT LOOK LIKE A LITTLE CROISSANT WITH THE ZEBRA STRIPES.

UM, RIGHT.

AND THOSE ARE NOT JUST USED ON BIKEWAYS, BUT THEY'RE ALSO USED ON, ON CROSSWALKS AND VISION ZERO PROJECTS TO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE, UM, SHUT DOWN A, A SLIP LANE THAT WAS DANGEROUS OR CREATE A TRAFFIC CIRCLE.

UM, I, I THINK I'VE, I'VE HEARD A LOT FROM FOLKS, NOT JUST CYCLISTS, BUT ALSO PEOPLE, UH, WHO INTERACT WITH OUR INFRASTRUCTURE ON A DAILY BASIS THAT, UH, OUR DELINEATORS, UH, THEY GET HIT A LOT, THEY BREAK A LOT, UH, AND THEY START TO LOOK UGLY AND SOMETIMES THEY DISAPPEAR, RIGHT? I THINK WE CAN ALL THINK OF A, A BIKE LANE THAT JUST DOESN'T HAVE ANY DELINEATORS ANYMORE.

UM, I THINK TO THEIR CREDIT, TPW HAS GOTTEN BETTER ABOUT REPLACING THEM, BUT IT IS EXPENSIVE.

UM, I REMEMBER HEARING IN A PRESENTATION A COUPLE YEARS AGO THAT ONE DELINEATOR CAN COST UP TO $200 TO REPLACE.

UM, SO THE IDEA HERE IS TO HAVE A DEDICATED FUND AND A DEDICATED MAINTENANCE CREW, JUST LIKE WE HAVE A DEDICATED MAINTENANCE CREW FOR URBAN TRAILS, UH, THAT'S JUST FOCUSING ON REPLACING THESE ELEMENTS AND REPAIRING THEM.

UH, I ALSO INCLUDED IT HERE, RIGHT? TPW MAY ALREADY HAVE THIS KIND OF BUDGETED SOMEWHERE IN SIGNS AND MARKINGS.

I THINK IT'D BE HELPFUL FOR THE COMMUNITY IF THAT'S THE CASE, UH, TO KIND OF PULL IT OUT INTO ITS OWN SEPARATE, UH, ITEM.

THAT WAY THE COMMUNITY CAN SEE HOW MUCH WE'VE BUDGETED AND HOW MUCH WE'VE SPENT ON THAT ITEM, AND WE CAN GET A GOOD IDEA FOR WHAT THE NEED IS.

UH, 'CAUSE THIS IS ONE AREA WHERE WE DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW MUCH WE NEED TO SPEND.

UM, NEXT, UH, UH, YOU HEARD DIRECTOR MENDOZA TALK ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM.

UM, I WILL AGREE THAT I THINK THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM IS A GREAT PROGRAM.

HOWEVER, IF YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE LIST OF PROJECTS, UH, THE MONEY CAN BE USED BOTH FOR TRANSPORTATION ELEMENTS AND FOR PARKS, UH, IMPROVEMENTS.

AND A LOT OF THE MONEY AND A LOT OF THE PROJECTS ARE PARKS IMPROVEMENTS.

SO I LOVE A PARKS IMPROVEMENT, UH, BUT I THINK THE PARKS DEPARTMENT SHOULD PAY FOR PARKS IMPROVEMENTS.

SO, UH, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF WE ASK THE,

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UH, UH, UH, PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT TO CHIP IN SOME OF THEIR ENTERPRISE FUNDS.

THEY HAVE FUNDS FROM PARKING, THEY HAVE FUNDS FROM GATE ENTRY THAT THEY COULD USE TOWARDS A PROJECT LIKE THAT.

AND THEN WE MAKE SURE THAT OUR TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS ARE ACTUALLY BEING SPENT IN THE NEXUS OF MOBILITY LIKE THEY SHOULD BE WHILE ACTUALLY PROTECTING A PROGRAM THAT IS GREAT FOR COMMUNITIES ACROSS AUSTIN.

UH, AND FINALLY, YOU, YOU ALSO HEARD, UM, UH, DIRECTOR MENDOZA TALK ABOUT HOW CITY COUNCIL INFUSED, UM, UH, AN EXTRA $10 MILLION INTO SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION.

UH, NOW TRADITIONALLY WE KIND OF SEPARATE DURING THIS PROCESS THE OPERATING BUDGET FROM THE CAPITAL BUDGET.

UM, CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE 2026 BOND.

UH, THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT MORE FLEXIBLE, THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT MORE SHORT TERM, AND YOU CAN, UH, MIX IN DIFFERENT REVENUE SOURCES.

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE JUST PROPERTY TAXES.

UH, SO LAST YEAR THE CITY COUNCIL DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS WAS ABLE TO FIND 10 MILLION, UH, TO ADD TOWARDS SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION IN THE LAST FISCAL YEAR.

UH, AND THE IDEA WITH THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT DIRECTOR MENDOZA SAID, WE ARE ON FIRE WHEN IT COMES TO BUILDING SIDEWALKS, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THE 2026 BOND CAN HIT THE GROUND RUNNING.

THEY CAN KEEP THOSE IDIQ CONTRACTS, UH, KEEP THOSE CONTRACTORS IN PLACE.

SO THE LAST RECOMMENDATION JUST SAYS, UH, UH, HEY, CONSIDER DOING THIS AGAIN BECAUSE IT'S A GOOD IDEA THAT WE KEEP THIS MOMENTUM GOING, THAT WE CONTINUE, UH, TO FUND SIDEWALKS.

UM, THE LAST THING I'LL SAY IS, UH, WE ARE ASKING FOR A PRETTY BIG JUMP IN THAT MAINTENANCE FUNDING.

UH, BUT I DO THINK IT'S REASONABLE.

ONE, I THINK IT'S REASONABLE GIVEN HOW BIG THE PROBLEM IS.

UH, BUT TWO, WE'VE HAD JUMPS LIKE THIS BEFORE.

THE LAST TIME WE INCREASED, UH, THE SIDEWALKS AND ROUTINE CONCRETE MAINTENANCE FUND WAS BACK IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, AND WE INCREASED IT FROM ABOUT 3.8 MILLION TO 6.3 MILLION, WHICH IS ABOUT A TWO THIRDS INCREASE.

UM, SAME THING WITH, UH, UH, MOBILITY TRAILS MAINTENANCE.

UH, IT WAS INCREASED IN FISCAL YEAR 24 FROM 210,000 TO 400,000.

UM, SO THEY'VE HAD INCREASES LIKE THIS BEFORE.

THE NEED IS BIG.

AND WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BIG INCREASES, I THINK IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF HOW MUCH THIS WOULD COST FROM OUR TRANSPORTATION USER FEE, IT MIGHT NECESSITATE A SLIGHTLY HIGHER TRANSPORTATION USER FEE THAN WE WERE THINKING.

UH, BUT I THINK IT'S REASONABLE AND IT'S ACCOMPLISHABLE.

UH, NOW I JUST HAD A LOT OF THINGS, SO I'M GONNA OPEN IT UP FOR, FOR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS.

UM, SO I KNOW THAT THERE WAS LIKE A BIG ASK IN STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION FOR THE 2026 BOND PROGRAM ON STREET REHABILITATION.

UM, AND THEN I KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME PEOPLE LIKE, OH, WE SHOULD JUST PAY FOR THAT FROM THE TOUGH, IS THERE AN I, LIKE, DO WE KNOW LIKE WHAT THE BACKLOG IS ON STREET MAINTENANCE? IT, IT'S MUCH BIGGER AND I, I BET DIRECTOR MENDOZA COULD PROBABLY GIVE US A, A GOOD BALLPARK IF, UH, HE'S WILLING.

BUT, UM, UH, I THINK WE COULD FIND THAT PRETTY QUICKLY.

BUT IT IS, IT IS MUCH BIGGER.

AND I CAN KIND OF EXPLAIN WHY I DIDN'T GO DOWN THAT TREE, BUT I'LL LET DIRECTOR MENDOZA CHIME IN IF HE WANTS ON HOW BIG THAT GAP IS.

UH, WE DO, WE ARE, WE, WE ARE DEALING WITH A, UM, A BACKLOG OF DEFERRED PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE.

UM, JUST DRIVE AROUND TOWN AND IT'S PROBABLY NOTICEABLE THAT OUR PERCENT OF STREET SATISFACTORY OR BETTER OR NOT 80% , IT'S MORE LIKE 70 69.

IT'S HOVERING THERE.

UH, AND IT'S GONNA TAKE A COUPLE OF STRATEGIES TO STOP THE BLEEDING AND REVERSE THAT TREND.

IT'S GONNA NEED A DEGREE OF MORE, UH, OVERLAY, AND THAT'S NOT RECONSTRUCTING, THAT'S HEAVY MAINTENANCE.

ANYTHING ON, ON STREET RECONSTRUCTION REHABILITATION, EVEN THOUGH I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT IS ONE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THEIR, THEIR MAIN KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR ON THE OPERATING BUDGET IS WHAT PERCENT OF OUR ROADWAYS ARE IN FAIR OR EXCELLENT CONDITION.

AND IT'S GONNA NEED AN INFUSION OF EITHER TOTAL RECONSTRUCTION OR REHABILITATION.

REHABILITATION OR MINOR RECONSTRUCTION IS A MORE COST EFFECTIVE WAY THAN FULL RECONSTRUCTION.

YOU CAN STRETCH YOUR DOLLARS, UH, FURTHER, BUT AT THIS MOMENT, UM, WE'RE STILL CALCULATING THE NUMBERS.

UM, I NEED ON THE ORDER OF ABOUT 40 MORE MILES OF OVERLAY THAN WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW.

AND I THINK I PRESENTED WHERE WE, WE GOT, UM, AN INCREASE TO DO, UH, 10 MORE MILES LAST YEAR.

SO I STILL NEED ABOUT ANOTHER 40 MILES OF ANNUAL OVERLAY.

AND, UH, I'M EXPLORING OTHER REVENUE STREAMS TO FUND MINOR RECONSTRUCTION.

OTHER CITIES HAVE OTHER TYPES OF FEES THAT THEY ASSESS COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE HAULERS.

UM, IT'S BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME.

UH, BUT I'M STILL EXPLORING THOSE MEANS TO BE LESS RELIANT ON MAYBE THE NEXT BOND.

'CAUSE I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF COMPETING NEEDS MM-HMM .

AND I'LL JUST SAY OFF THE BACK OF THAT, THE REASON WHY I, I DIDN'T INCLUDE

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UM, SO I'M KIND OF TRUSTING THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ON THE BALL, THEY WANNA MAX UP ON, ON TRANSPORTATION USER FEE USAGE FOR, UM, THIS POCKET OF MONEY.

IT'S THE, UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION THAT MAYBE COULD BENEFIT FROM OUR, UM, UH, ATTENTION TO THERE.

UH, THE OTHER THING IS, I, I THINK EXACTLY LIKE YOU SAID, UH, YOU KNOW, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS IN, IN THE, THE, UH, BOND RECOMMENDATION WE DID, UH, A FEW MONTHS AGO.

UH, THAT THE PROBLEM IS SO BIG WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT WITH JUST BONDS AND WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT BY JUST RATCHETING UP THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE.

UM, SO I, I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE BEFORE WE START SAYING THIS IS THE NUMBER WE NEED A A, A KIND OF ANALYSIS OF, YOU KNOW, WHERE CAN WE USE STREET IMPACT FEES? WHAT ARE NEW, YOU KNOW, A COMMERCIAL WASTE FEE SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA, RIGHT? YEAH.

SO THOSE ARE THE TRUCKS THAT ARE REALLY, UM, UH, TEARING UP OUR ROADWAYS.

SO WHEN WE CAN SEE THE FULL PICTURE OF HOW WE GET OUT OF THIS HOLE, I THINK THAT MAKES SENSE.

I DO THINK THOUGH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, WE CAN FIX THIS PROBLEM THROUGH THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE OR AT LEAST GET, YOU KNOW, UH, MAKE IT SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER, UH, WITH AN INVESTMENT THAT IS, IS REASONABLE AND ALSO NOT TOO EXPENSIVE ON OUR RATE PAYERS.

THAT SOUNDS OKAY.

, THAT WORKS FOR ME.

UM, I AM CONFUSED ABOUT THE MATH AGAIN.

OH, DID I, I MAY HAVE TOTALLY MISCALCULATED.

THAT'S OKAY.

UM, THE FIRST, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED SAYS, FUND THE FOLLOWING MAINTENANCE PARTIES OUT OF ANY INCREASE IN THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE.

AND YOU JUST SAID THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE INCREASE WILL BE.

WE'RE JUST ASKING THAT IF, IF THERE IS ONE, WHATEVER IT IS, AT LEAST SPEND THIS MUCH ON THE, THESE THREE THINGS.

THE, THE, UM, IN, IN, IN EACH BUDGET, TPW KIND OF DOES A PROJECTION OF WHAT THEY THINK THEY'LL NEED TO RAISE IN FUTURE YEARS.

THROUGH, I THINK THE LAST ONE WAS THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 30.

UM, SO IN THE LAST ONE THEY INDICATED AN A PROJECTED INCREASE OF 8.3%.

WHICH WOULD EQUATE TO AROUND JUST UNDER 15 MILLION IN EXTRA REVENUE IN CONSULTATION FUND.

OH, THAT WAS THE PREVIOUS PROJECTION SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS COMING FISCAL YEAR.

NOW OF WHAT THIS ONE INCREASE WOULD BE, I, I'M SURE THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO ADJUST THAT.

I'M SURE THEY HAVE NEW NUMBERS AND, AND, AND THEY'LL CONSIDER, RIGHT.

THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S SET IN STONE, RIGHT? RIGHT.

THEY STILL HAVE PLENTY OF FACTORS TO CONSIDER, BUT THAT WAS JUST KIND OF THERE TO SAY LIKE, ALL RIGHT, LEVEL SETTING, THIS IS, WE'RE EXPECT WHAT PROTECTIONS ARE, SO LET'S USE THAT AS OUR SCOPE FOR WHAT'S A REASONABLE ASK HERE.

AND THEN YOU SAY 8.8 MILLION TOTAL, BUT THEN THE FIRST BULLET SAYS 15.4 MILLION.

FAIR? I AM, AND MAYBE I NEED AN AMENDMENT TO MAKE SURE THIS IS CLEAR.

UM, 8.8 MILLION ABOVE THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR'S, UH, FUNDING LEVELS.

SO WE INCREASED, OH, SIDEWALKS BY 7.7, UH, UM, URBAN TRAILS BY 0.6 AND AN ADDITIONAL 0.5 THAT DIDN'T EXIST FOR VERTICAL SAFETY.

YOU ADD THAT TOGETHER, YOU GET 8.8.

I THINK WE CAN SOLVE THAT BY JUST, AND I THINK THIS IS A NON-TEXT AMENDMENT OF JUST 8.8 MILLION ABOVE FY 22, AN INCREASE OF 8.8 MILLION.

SO YEAH.

'CAUSE WHAT YOU ALSO JUST CONTRADICTED THE FIRST BULLET, UH, 100% INCREASE FROM 7.7 MILLION OR INCREASE OF 7.7 MILLION.

BOTH.

BOTH POTENTIALLY, YES.

BECAUSE IT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT.

IS THAT 7.7 TIMES TWO IS 15.4? YEAH.

MAYBE I SHOULD JUST DELETE THE PERCENTAGES BECAUSE MAYBE THAT'S WHAT'S CONFUSING HERE AND I DON'T REALLY NEED IT.

UM, AS LONG AS THE MATH, MATHS, I'M JUST TRYING TO LIKE DO IT IN MY HEAD AND MAKE SURE I'M FALLING.

UM, OKAY.

ASSUMING ALL THE MATH, ULTIMATELY MATHS.

UM, MY OTHER QUESTION IS ABOUT THE VERTICAL SAFETY.

UM, ARE, ARE YOU, ARE YOU JUST, ARE WE JUST ASKING THAT, THAT WE TRACK THE AMOUNT SPENT ON IT AS A SEPARATE BUDGET ITEM? OR THAT WE ALLOCATE ADDITIONAL BUDGET, ALLOCATE ADDITIONAL BUDGET FOR THIS? ARE WE TRACKING THAT TO DATE OF WHAT IS SPENT ON REPLACEMENT OR REPAIR OF ANY OF THOSE STRUCTURES? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

WE TRACK ALL OF YOUR EXPENDITURES.

WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU.

REASSESS IS IT THE RIGHT THING? BUT I'M SURE SOMEBODY HERE IS SMART ENOUGH HAS DONE THAT ALREADY.

I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THAT BECAUSE, UM, I THINK IT'S A VALID POINT.

LIKE A LOT OF THOSE THINGS DO GET BROKEN AND IT IS UGLY AND OR IT CAN END UP IN THE STREET, WHICH MAKES IT MORE DANGEROUS, WHICH DEFEATS THE WHOLE PURPOSE.

UM, BUT LIKE, WHY ARE WE STILL REPLACING THEM IF THEY JUST KEEP GETTING DAMAGED? LIKE IS IT A, IS IT A LOW ENOUGH PERCENTAGE OF THAT'S TOTALLY FAIR.

UM, LIKE I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHY WE WOULD ALLOCATE MORE MONEY TO IT IF LIKE WE NEED TO

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WELL, AND JUST, AND, AND SO I, I CAN, UH, I'LL, I'LL DEFINITELY YIELD TO DIRECTOR MENDOZA ON THIS, BUT I DO THINK THE END SOLUTION IS FOR A LOT OF THESE, UM, VERTICAL SAFETY ELEMENTS, WE DO NEED TO SWITCH TO CONCRETE.

UM, THE CITY BOUGHT PERMIT IS A SLIP FORM PAVER THAT THAT'S THE THING THAT, UH, IT DOES THE LITTLE YEAH, IT DOES THE LITTLE BIKE LANE BIKE.

AND THE GOAL IS TO GET THAT TOO COMPETITIVE WITH REPLACING THE SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE'S STILL PROBABLY A YEAR OR TWO AWAY FROM THAT.

SO THIS IS KIND OF LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THAT.

IN THE MEANTIME THOUGH, WE STILL NEED TO REPLACE THESE ELEMENTS.

UH, OKAY.

AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE GOING TO BE PLACES WHERE CONCRETE WON'T WORK, RIGHT? YEAH.

CONCRETE MAY WORK FOR A BIKE LANE, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA WORK FOR STREET CROSSING IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE.

RIGHT? YEAH.

WE MAY ACTUALLY NEED, UM, THOSE FLEX POSTS, THOSE DELINEATORS, UH, FOR LONG TERM SOLUTION.

AND I WILL DEFINITELY YIELD TO DIRECTOR MENDOZA IF HE WANTS TO ADD ANYTHING ON THAT PRETTY SPOT ON THE DELINEATORS.

WE, UM, MOVE FORWARD WITH THE STRATEGY FOR QUICK BUILD TO EFFECTIVELY GET OUR, OUR ALLS AND ABILITIES NETWORK BUILT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE WITH THE INTENT THAT WE WOULD COME BACK LATER WITH MORE HARDENED INFRASTRUCTURE, LIKE THE, UH, SLIP FORM CONCRETE CURBS.

THAT MAKES MORE SENSE.

'CAUSE THAT SEEMED RANDOM OTHERWISE.

UM, AND, AND I'LL SAY TOO, RIGHT, THE NUMBER I HAVE HEARD IN THE PAST, AND IT'S NOT HARD AND FAST NUMBER, I THINK SOMETIMES IT'S MORE, SOMETIMES LESS, IS WHEN YOU FACTOR IN LIKE THE COST ACTUALLY BY THE DELINEATORS AND THEN THE LABOR COSTS.

IT'S ABOUT 200 PER DELINEATOR.

AT LEAST THAT'S THE MATH I WAS USING IN MY HEAD FOR THIS.

SO THAT IS ENOUGH MONEY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO REPLACE 2,500 DELINEATORS AT THAT PRICE, WHICH I THINK WE COULD DEFINITELY FIND 2,800, UH, OR SORRY, 2,500, UH, DELINEATORS ACROSS, UH, UH, THE CITY OF AUSTIN THAT COULD USE REPLACING.

UH, MY ONLY OTHER COMMENT THEN IS ABOUT, I, I REALIZE THAT WE ARE NOT TRYING TO BE LIKE OVERLY PRESCRIPTIVE ON LIKE, HERE'S WHAT YOUR WHOLE BUDGET SHOULD BE.

UM, BUT SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SIDEWALKS AND LIKE THE LARGE BACKLOG AND, UM, GAP IN FUNDING, I WONDER IF WE SHOULD ALSO ADDRESS BRIDGES.

'CAUSE I THINK WE LEARNED, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY FROM THAT PRESENTATION, THAT THERE'S LIKE A SIGNIFICANT SHORTFALL THERE AS WELL.

I I WOULD PUT BRIDGE MAINTENANCE INTO THE CATEGORY OF, UM, STREET CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS ONE, I THINK IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE A MIX OF MULTIPLE FUNDING SOURCES.

AND TWO, I JUST DON'T PERSONALLY HAVE A, A, A GOOD ENOUGH FEEL FOR HOW MUCH NEEDS TO BE DEDICATED FROM THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE TO SAY, THIS IS HOW MUCH WE NEED ON BRIDGE MAINTENANCE.

I'M THINKING MORE VAGUE IN THE SENSE JUST LIKE, DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE BRIDGES.

ALSO THROW SOME MONEY AT THAT.

UH, BUT I DO NOT HAVE A CONCRETE, UM, AMENDMENT TO SUGGEST, SO I WILL KEEP THAT THOUGHT TO MYSELF.

UM, AND THEN JUST A TEXT EDIT ON THE SECOND PARAGRAPH.

MM.

IT SAYS E LINEATORS, NOT DELINEATORS.

OOH.

I'M SURE THAT CONFUSED SOMEONE SOMEWHERE THIS, THIS WAS THE SECOND, WHEREAS MM-HMM .

NO, THIS, OH, YEAH.

THE SECOND, YES.

THE SECOND OVERALL PARAGRAPH IN THE PARENTHESES.

I ELINE OR MY PRINT COPY SAYS THAT.

NO, I DID DEFINITELY MAKE THAT MISTAKE.

DO WE HAVE A, A COMMENT FROM STAFF? YEAH.

I JUST WANTED TO MENTION BRIEFLY ON THE DELINEATORS.

SO WE WORK WITH CAP METRO BECAUSE AS SERVICE CHANGES POP UP, THEIR ROUTING CHANGES AND BUSES SOMETIMES HIT, UH, DELINEATORS AS THEY'RE CHANGING UP TURNS AND WHATNOT.

WE WORK WITH THEM AND IT SEEMS LIKE ALMOST EVERY WEEK TO ADJUST OR ADD BACK IN DELINEATORS.

AND WHAT WE FOUND IS, UM, LIKE ON TRINITY SAN JACINTO, WHERE I MENTIONED THERE'S SIGNIFICANT SAFETY INCREASES, UM, THOSE DELINEATORS HELP BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AT, AT THE CURRENT MOMENT, THEY'RE SOME OF THE CHEAPEST WAYS TO PROVIDE THOSE LARGE SAFETY BENEFITS.

I AGREE.

I RIDE MY BIKE ALL THE TIME THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN, AND, YOU KNOW, I LIVE IN SOUTH AUSTIN WHEN THEY GET HIT, THEY'RE SUPER UGLY.

I, I LOVE TO, YOU KNOW, I SUBMIT CSRS TO HAVE THEM REPLACED ALL THE TIME, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S WHAT WE HAVE AT THE MOMENT, SO, YEAH.

I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THEY WERE A TEMPORARY SOLUTION RATHER THAN A LONG-TERM ONE.

SO YEAH, THAT WAS, THAT WAS HELPFUL.

GOTTA START SOMEWHERE.

YEAH, YEAH, EXACTLY.

THANKS SO MUCH.

LOOKING FOR OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS.

GOING TO CALL FOR A VOTE ON THIS RECOMMENDATION.

SCENE THEN.

I'M

[02:30:01]

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY, AYE.

COMMISSIONER BROWN, ARE YOU WITH US? OH, I SEE IT.

PERFECT.

ALRIGHT, ON A VOTE OF SEVEN TO ZERO, THE RECOMMENDATION PASSES.

UH, THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO CHIMED IN THERE.

[6. Approve proposed changes to Urban Transportation Commission By-laws.]

ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO, UH, OUR LAST ACTION ITEM, WHICH IS TO APPROVE CHANGES TO THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION'S BYLAWS.

UH, YES, WE ARE ACTUALLY TAKING A VOTE ON IT THIS TIME.

UM, IT MAY SEEM LIKE IT TOOK US A LONG TIME.

THE LAST TIME THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION TRIED TO ADJUST ITS BYLAWS, IT TOOK FOUR YEARS, AND EVEN THEN IT DIDN'T ALL GET DONE.

SO THE FACT THAT IT HAS ONLY TAKEN US A YEAR IS VERY GOOD.

THIS IS GOOD PROGRESS.

UM, SO THAT WE CAN MOVE TO DISCUSSION, I'M GONNA MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DRAFT BYLAW UPDATES.

SECOND, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER BFO.

UM, SO JUST TO EXPLAIN, UH, THE REASON THIS TOOK SO LONG IS THE, UM, UH, CITY CLERK'S OFFICE AND, UH, UH, CITY LEGAL DEPARTMENT WANTED TO PROVIDE SOME INPUT ON THIS.

UM, THEIR INPUT WAS REALLY GOOD.

THIS IS A REALLY COMPLICATED THING TO DO, UH, BECAUSE THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL AND THE PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL ARE NOT OFFICIALLY CITY OF AUSTIN ENTITIES, AND THEY'RE NOT TOMA ENTITIES, BUT THEY ARE RECOGNIZED BY THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL.

UH, SO THAT PROVIDED SOME DIFFICULTIES, AND THAT'S WHY THE DRAFT THAT YOU SEE HERE IS A LITTLE BIT STRIPPED DOWN FROM WHAT WE SAW BEFORE.

SO I'LL JUST GO THROUGH IT REAL QUICK.

UH, FIRST CHANGE IS THAT WE JUST MAKE A QUICK CHANGE THAT, UH, INSTEAD OF REFERENCING THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, WE REFERENCED THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

UM, AND THEN YOU'LL SEE UNDER WORKING GROUPS, WE DELETE, UH, SUBSECTION F UNDER WORKING GROUPS, WHICH MADE NO SENSE.

IT WAS A NON-SEQUITUR.

YOU CAN READ IT THERE.

UM, AND THEN WE CREATE A SEPARATE, UH, UM, UH, THING UNDER THERE TALKING ABOUT BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL.

THE FIRST THING THAT SAYS WE SHOULD SEEK TO PARTICIPATE AND IMPROVE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE BOARD.

BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL COMES FROM THE CITY COUNCIL IN THEIR RESOLUTION, DIRECTING US TO CHANGE OUR BYLAWS TO APPOINT A LIAISON TO THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL.

SO THIS PART IS JUST US FINISHING OUR HOMEWORK, UH, MANY YEARS TOO LATE, BUT WE'RE GETTING IT DONE NONETHELESS.

UH, THE NEXT POINT IS THE SAME FROM WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, IS THAT, UH, WE WILL JUST HAVE THE BOARD CHAIR, UH, WITH THE MEMBERS CONSENT, UH, APPOINT A LIAISON TO THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL AND THE PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL.

THIS IS FUNCTIONALLY HOW WE'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR MANY YEARS WITHOUT IT BEING IN OUR BYLAWS.

UH, THE NEXT JUST TALKS ABOUT THE DUTIES OF THE LIAISON, WHICH IS TO ATTEND THE MEETINGS OF YOUR RESPECTIVE COUNCIL AND REPORT BACK TO THE BOARD ON ANY ACTION TAKEN BY THE COUNCIL AT THE BOARD'S NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING.

YOU'LL NOTE HERE WE DELETED SOME THINGS THAT TALKED ABOUT WHAT THE, UH, LIAISON SHOULD DO AT THE BAC AND PAC.

UM, THE THINKING THERE WAS THAT'S BETTER ADDRESSED BY THE BAC AND PAC AND, UH, WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL IN DIRECTING A MEMBER TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE UTC.

SO, JUST TO BE CLEAR, THE LIAISON, WHILE THEY ARE THERE TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION AND PARTICIPATE IN THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL, THEY'RE DOING SO AS AN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER, NOT NECESSARILY AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UTC, EXACTLY HOW, IF YOU ARE OUR COMMISSIONER ON THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, YOU REPRESENT YOURSELF ON THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION.

JUST REPORT BACK TO US ON ANY, UH, ACTION TAKEN THERE.

UH, NEXT PART, UM, SAYS THAT LIAISON SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF THE BOARD CHAIR.

AGAIN, THAT'S JUST A SIMPLE THING SO THAT IF SOMEBODY SAYS, HEY, I DON'T WANNA SERVE ANYMORE, OR, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NO LONGER ON THE COMMISSION, IT'S VERY EASY FOR US TO MAKE A CHANGE.

AND THE LAST THING WAS JUST SOMETHING, UM, THAT, UH, THE, UH, CITY CLERK'S OFFICE WANTED JUST TO CLARIFY THAT STAFF SUPPORT WILL NOT BE PROVIDED TO LIAISONS IN CARRYING OUT THE DUTIES OF THIS SUBSECTION, RIGHT? SO IT'S ON YOUR OWN TO ATTEND THE BAC AND PAC MEETINGS.

UM, UH, OBVIOUSLY A LIAISON IS NOT GOING TO ATTEND IN YOUR PLACE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

THOSE WERE THE KIND OF THINGS THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT.

UM, REALLY QUICKLY, I'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT KIND OF COMES AFTER THIS.

IF WE APPROVE THIS, THE AUDIT AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, UH, WILL TAKE AN UP OR DOWN VOTE ON WHETHER OR NOT TO APPROVE THESE BYLAWS AT THAT POINT.

IF THEY APPROVE THEM, THESE ARE OUR BYLAWS.

AT SAME TIME, THE PAC AND BAC WILL BE, UH, UPDATING THEIR BYLAWS TO SAY WHAT THE ROLE OF THE UTC LIAISON IS WITHIN THEM.

UH, THEY'LL BASICALLY SAY THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME POWERS AS AN ALTERNATE MEMBER, UH, WHICH WILL BE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS WHAT WE HAVE ON THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, WHERE YOU ARE A MEMBER WITH FULL RIGHTS TO PARTICIPATE, BUT A NON-VOTING MEMBER AND YOU CAN'T SERVE AS CHAIR OR VICE CHAIR.

UM, THAT'S ALSO, AGAIN, BEEN THE PRACTICE OF WHAT THAT'S HAPPENED IN THE, THE B-A-C-R-P SAY.

WE'RE JUST KIND OF GOING BACK AND CODIFYING THAT.

UH, ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS? NO.

ALL, UH, LET'S GO AHEAD AND MOVE, OH, SORRY.

[02:35:01]

UM, THIS WAS ALREADY POSTED MM-HMM .

AND THEN I GOT FEEDBACK FROM THE CITY, CITY CLERK'S OFFICE.

UM, IF I CAN HAVE YOU LOOK AT ARTICLE SEVEN UHHUH, SECTION J UM, I, I FEAR THERE WAS ONE THING MISSED, AND I KNOW THIS IS NOT SOMEWHERE YOU'RE MAKING ANY EDITS, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THIS GETS OUT THERE.

I THINK IT'S NOT VERY SUBSTANTIVE, BUT SECTION J SHOULD READ, THE BOARD SHALL ALLOW MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON AGENDA ITEMS DURING A PERIOD OF TIME.

SET ASIDE FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION ON NON AGENDA ITEMS. THE CHAIR SHOULD ALLOW THE SPEAKER TO SPEAK FOR NO LESS THAN TWO MINUTES PER AGENDA ITEM, AND FOR THREE MINUTES PER NON-AGENDA ITEM.

LET ME, LET ME WRITE THAT ALL DOWN SO I CAN READ IT INTO THE RECORD.

UM, I GOT THE PART ON NON AGENDA ITEMS. AND THEN CAN YOU START AT THE LAST SENTENCE, WHICH READS THE CHAIR MAY LIMIT.

DO YOU WANT ME TO SEND IT TO YOU? WE, WE, LET'S JUST START OVER.

IT'LL BE QUICKER.

OKAY, PERFECT.

UM, THE CHAIR SHALL ALLOW SPEAKER TO SPEAK FOR NO LESS THAN TWO MINUTES PER AGENDA ITEM.

AND FOR THREE MINUTES ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS, NO LESS THAN TWO MINUTES ON AGENDA ITEMS. CORRECT.

AND, SORRY, READ THE LAST PART FOR ME FOR THREE MINUTES ON NON-AG AGENDA ITEMS, IS THAT ALSO FOR NO LESS THAN THREE MINUTES, OR IS THAT UP TO THREE MINUTES? UP TO, OKAY.

SO I'M GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE DRAFT BYLAWS, UH, THAT WILL AMEND SECTION SUBSECTION J AND ARTICLE SEVEN ABOUT MEETINGS, UH, TO HAVE THE ENTIRE J SUBSECTION READ AS FOLLOWS, THE BOARD SHALL ALLOW PUBLIC COMMUNICATION TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON AGENDA ITEMS, AND DURING A PERIOD OF TIME SET ASIDE FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION ON NON AGENDA ITEMS, THE CHAIR SHALL ALLOW SPEAKERS TO SPEAK FOR NO LESS THAN TWO MINUTES ON AGENDA ITEMS AND FOR THREE MINUTES ON NON-AG AGENDA ITEMS. IS THAT CORRECT? WAIT, I THINK IT SHOULD ALLOW, THAT'S CONFUSING.

NOT, UH, THE BOARD SHALL ALLOW MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC RIGHT WITH THE FIRST YES.

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, THE BOARD SHALL ALLOW RATHER THAN PUBLIC COMMUNICATION.

OKAY, I'M GONNA WITHDRAW THAT MOTION.

THE BOARD SHALL ALLOW MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, AND I ASSUME THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THE OTHER BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ARE UPDATING, OR IS THIS LIKE IT WAS JUST WRITTEN WRONG OR WHAT? YEAH, NO, IT WA IT WAS JUST RECEIVED LATER.

UM, AND ALL THIS HAD ALREADY GONE THROUGH AND MOVED THROUGH AND IT WAS, I HAD GIVEN SPENCER INCORRECT INFORMATION BASED.

UM, NO, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY CHANGE.

SECOND BY COMMISSIONER JACOBSON.

SO I'M GONNA MAKE A MOTION AGAIN.

AND THEN, NATALIE, CORRECT ME IF I GET ANYTHING WRONG, A MOTION TO AMEND SUBSECTION J ON ARTICLE SEVEN OF MEETINGS TO READ AS FOLLOW.

THE BOARD SHALL ALLOW MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON AGENDA ITEMS AND DURING A PERIOD OF TIME SET ASIDE FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION ON NON AGENDA ITEMS, THE CHAIR SHALL ALLOW A SPEAKER TO SPEAK FOR NO LESS THAN TWO MINUTES ON AN AGENDA ITEM.

AND FOR THREE MINUTES ON NON-AG AGENDA ITEMS, IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.

UH, LET'S TAKE A MO ON A VOTE ON THAT AMENDMENT FOR SUBSECTION J.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE AMENDMENT, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY, AYE.

UH, OKAY.

THAT MOTION PASSES SEVEN TO ZERO.

IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE ON THE MAIN MOTION WHICH IS APPROVING THESE DRAFT BYLAWS AS AMENDED? OKAY.

I'M GOING TO CALL FOR A VOTE ON APPROVING THE DRAFT BYLAWS AS AMENDMENT.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY, AYE.

ALL THOSE OPPOSED, UH, PASSES.

SORRY, LEMME GET BACK TO MY AGENDA.

ALL RIGHT, WE'RE NOW GONNA MOVE ON TO OUR MEETING UP, OR OOPS, SORRY.

OUR, OUR COMMITTEE UPDATES.

WE'LL START WITH AN UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER CHEN FROM THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE FEBRUARY 18TH MEETING.

I WAS UNFORTUNATELY UNABLE TO ATTEND THE MEETING THIS TIME, SO I'LL PROVIDE THE UPDATE AT OUR NEXT SESSION.

[02:40:02]

ALL RIGHTY.

UH, NEXT WE WILL, UH, WELL, COMMISSIONER BARAD IS ABSENT, SO WE WILL, UH, MOVE ON FROM, I DON'T NEED TO MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE ON FROM AGENDA ITEM EIGHT.

SO YOU WOULD NEED TO MAKE A MOTION IF YOU WANNA POSTPONE AND HAVE HIM GIVE THIS UPDATE NEXT TIME.

OTHERWISE WE CAN JUST MOVE ON FROM THAT.

LET'S JUST MOVE ON.

UH, AN UPDATE FROM ME REGARDING THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING ON FEBRUARY 17TH.

[9. Update from Commissioner Schumacher from the Bicycle Advisory Council regarding actions taken at the February 17, 2026, meeting]

UH, THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL MET AND APPROVED A RECOMMENDATION, UH, ON CONGRESS AVENUE URBAN DESIGN INITIATIVE, UM, THAT WAS CENTERED AROUND REALLY, UM, I WOULD SAY VERY SPECIFIC, UM, UH, COMMENTS ON THE CONSTRUCTION THAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, FROM THE 100 BLOCK TO THE 700TH BLOCK, UH, MAINLY AROUND RIGHT TURN CONFLICTS, UM, ENSURING WE HAVE THE RIGHT PLACEMENT OF FLEX POSTS AND, UH, DELINEATORS TO ENSURE PEOPLE ARE NOT USING CUTOUTS FOR ACCESSIBLE PARKING TO ILLEGALLY PARK IN THE BIKE LANE.

UM, AND MAKING SURE WE HAVE SUFFICIENT SPACE, UH, UH, FOR A FUTURE PROTECTED INTERSECTION WHEN WE MOVE THE LANCE ARMSTRONG BATES, THE FOURTH STREET, UH, AND RECOMMENDING THAT WE ALLOCATE FUNDS TO RETURN THE CONGRESS AVENUE BIKE LANES FROM SEVENTH STREET TO 11TH STREET TO A STATE OF GOOD REPAIR, UM, PRIOR TO THE COMPLETION OF THAT CONSTRUCTION.

THAT'S ONE OF THOSE PLACES WHERE WE'VE JUST LOST A LOT OF DELINEATORS OVER THE YEARS.

UH, AND IT'S NOT, DOESN'T FEEL AS PROTECTED AS IT ONCE DID.

UM, NOW WE'LL MOVE ON

[10. Update from Commissioner Kavelman from the Pedestrian Advisory Council regarding actions taken at the February 2, 2026, and March 2, 2026, meetings.]

TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 10.

AN UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER KAMAN FROM THE PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE FEBRUARY 2ND AND MARCH 2ND MEETINGS.

SO A LOT OF UPDATES.

UM, SIXTH STREET, UM, AND VISION ZERO AND CONGRESS AVENUE, THERE WAS RUN RECOMMENDATION PASSED.

UH, BASICALLY THEY WERE DISCOURAGED BY THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE HAPPENING AROUND THE POSSIBILITY OF A BOND.

AND SO, UH, BASICALLY JUST ANOTHER ONE TO URGE, YES, PLEASE GO MOVE FORWARD WITH A BOND IN 2026.

LOVELY, LOVELY.

UH, NEXT WE WOULD HAVE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 11, WHICH IS AN UPDATE FROM CHAIR SUMMERS ON THE CITY COUNCIL MOBILITY COMMITTEE.

SHE'S NOT HERE, SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 12, AN UPDATE FROM CHAIR SUMMERS FROM THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP BOARD.

UH, SHE'S

[FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]

NOT HERE, SO WE WILL MOVE ON TO FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. UH, THIS WILL BE IN THE LAST PAGE OF YOUR PACKET.

I'LL GO AHEAD AND READ OFF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING OUT FOR THE APRIL UPDATE, OR SORRY, APRIL MEETING.

WE'LL HAVE AN AUSTIN PROJECT CONNECT UPDATE.

UH, WE'LL HAVE, UH, A, HOPEFULLY A PRESENTATION FROM, UH, MOVABILITY REGARDING THEIR COMMUTER SURVEY.

UH, WE'LL HAVE AN UPDATE ON THE CITYWIDE LIGHTING PLAN.

WE HAVE A RIGHT OF WAY VACATION APPLICATION FOR 1909 KAMAL STREET.

UM, WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT A, UH, POSSIBLE UPDATED RECOMMENDATION TO COUNSEL FOR THE 2026 BOND.

UM, THAT WILL PROBABLY HAPPEN IN THE PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED BOND WORKING GROUP.

UH, AND THEN WE WILL HAVE TO DO OUR UTC OFFICER ELECTIONS.

UM, OTHER THINGS COMING UP IN MAY, WE EXPECT TO HAVE A CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT UPDATE FROM TPW, UH, LATER THIS FALL WE EXPECT A CAP AND STITCH, UM, UPDATE.

AND THEN I WILL NOT, UH, GO THROUGH ALL THE OTHER ONES THAT ARE JUST THERE.

UM, BUT I WILL YIELD.

NATALIE, IS THERE ANYTHING I MISSED THAT YOU WANT TO ADD? UH, NO.

ALL GOOD.

YEAH, I, ALL, ALL LOOKS GOOD TO ME.

UM, APRIL, I'LL JUST NEED TO KNOW ULTIMATELY IF THE BOND RECOMMENDATION WILL BE HAPPENING.

UM, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS PRETTY MUCH CONFIRMED FOR APRIL.

WONDERFUL.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I WILL ADD ONE FUTURE AGENDA.

WELL, IT'S ACTUALLY ON THERE, BUT I JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT IT.

UM, SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S A TCM UPDATE ALREADY HAPPENING REGARDING URBAN TRAILS CROSS SECTIONS.

UH, AND THEN THERE SHOULD BE ANOTHER ONE COMING REGARDING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE.

UH, I JUST WANNA REITERATE, I KNOW THE TCMS KINDA HAVE THEIR OWN TECHNICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL, UM, THAT ADVISES TPW, BUT YOU KNOW, THE TCM IS SO IMPORTANT AS A TRANSPORTATION DOCUMENT.

I THINK WE JUST WOULD LOVE AN UPDATE ON IT ANYTIME IT GETS CHANGED.

UM, THAT WOULD BE OUR PREFERENCE THERE, IF THAT'S, UH, AMENABLE.

UM, ARE THERE ANY OTHER FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS WE WOULD LIKE TO ADD AT THIS TIME? MM-HMM.