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          TUESDAY, 
          [CALL TO ORDER ]
MAY 5TH, 2026. 
          IT IS 5:09 PM WE'RE CONVENED HERE FOR THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION. 
          WE'RE IN CITY HALL ROOM 1, 1 0 1 AT 3 0 1 WEST SECOND STREET IN AUSTIN, TEXAS. 
          WE'LL START BY TAKING THE ROLE. 
          I'M CHAIR SUMMERS, I'M PRESENT. 
          UM, UH, COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER, OUR VICE CHAIR PRESENT. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER VALMAN. 
          OUR PARLIAMENTARIAN PRESENT. 
          COMMISSIONER BROWN PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER BUFFET. 
          UM, COMMISSIONER CHEN PRESENT. 
          UM, I KNOW COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ IS NOT GONNA BE HERE TONIGHT. 
          HE LET US KNOW. 
          AS SAME FOR COMMISSIONER JACOBSON. 
          COMMISSIONER PRASAD NOT HERE. 
          UM, AND COMMISSIONER SORIN ALSO NOT HERE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, NOW IT IS TIME FOR OUR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION. 
          SO, UM, THE FIRST FIVE SPEAKERS WHO ARE SIGNED UP PRIOR TO THE MEETING, UM, BEING CALLED TO ORDER, WILL BE ALLOWED A THREE MINUTE ALLOTMENT TO ADDRESS CONCERNS REGARDING ITEMS NOT POSTED TO THE AGENDA. 
          ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMUNICATION SPEAKERS TODAY? WE HAD NO ONE SIGN UP FOR TODAY. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO, WE'LL, THAT WAS ITEM ONE. 
          WE'LL NOW MOVE RIGHT INTO OUR DISCUSSION ITEMS. IT SHOULD BE A PRETTY QUICK AGENDA TODAY. 
          UM, FOLKS, SO WE'RE GONNA GO INTO ITEM TWO, WHICH IS THE BOND FUNDED BRIDGE PROJECTS UPDATES. 
          DID I SAY THAT RIGHT? NO. 
          UH, MINUTES. 
          OH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. 
          I'M REALLY, I TOLD YOU I WAS UPSIDE DOWN. 
          WE'LL GO TO ITEM ONE, WHICH IS APPROVING ARM. 
          I SAID THE OTHER THING WAS ITEM ONE. 
          THAT'S CRAZY. 
          UM, WE'RE GONNA GO 
          [APPROVAL OF MINUTES  ]
TO  ITEM ONE, APPROVING THE MINUTES OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION SPECIAL CALLED MEETING ON 4 7 20 26. 
          UM, COMMISSIONERS, THOSE ARE IN YOUR PACKET AND PRECIATE IT IF YOU WANNA CAVE A SECOND TO REVIEW. 
          BUT, UM, IF YOU COULD, UM, PLEASE, UM, UH, I ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON THAT. 
          SORRY, I NORMALLY REVIEW THESE AHEAD OF TIME. 
          I JUST FORGOT TODAY. 
          BUT, UM, I HAD TWO QUESTIONS ON THIS. 
          UH, BOTH UNDER APPROVING OFFICER APPOINTMENTS. 
          UM, IT SAYS APPROVED AS AMENDED. 
          IS THAT BECAUSE WE INITIALLY DID A SLATE AND THEN WE BROKE THEM UP? AND THEN I'M ALSO JUST NOTICING THE NAME OF WHO WE ELECTED. 
          UH, ISN'T ON THERE. 
          IS THAT, IS THAT LIKE THE CLERK'S GUIDANCE NOW THAT WE JUST NEED TO SAY THAT WE APPROVED SOMEONE AS CHAIR? WE DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO SAY WHO IT WAS. 
          . 
          THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION, ACTUALLY. 
          I CAN, I CAN UPDATE THAT TO REFLECT A NAME WHERE IT SAYS AS AMENDED. 
          GOTCHA. 
          AND THE AS AMENDED BECAUSE WE JUST SLATE AND THEN BROKE IT UP. 
          MM-HMM . 
          COOL. 
          I DON'T THINK WE EVER DID THE SLATE THOUGH. 
          DO WE HAVE, DO WE EVEN GET AS FAR AS A MOTION ON THAT? I DON'T THINK WE DID. 
          THAT'S, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. 
          I DON'T THINK WE DID A MOTIONAL. 
          I SAID THERE'S TWO WAYS WE COULD DO IT AND THEN WE OPT IT FOR THE ONE BY ONE. 
          I THINK THAT SOUNDS RIGHT. 
          SO WHAT WE COULD DO IS CHANGE THE OFFICE OF CHAIR WAS APPROVED AS COMMIS COMMISSIONER SOME SUMMERS WITH AN EIGHT OH VOTE AND JUST INSERT THE NAME. 
          SO THAT FIRST MOTION WOULD BE FOR CHAIR. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THEN, SO THE, ACTUALLY IN ORDER AS I LOOK AT Y'ALL, THAT WORKS. 
          . 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          I'LL FIX THAT. 
          BEFORE WE POST HERE, I'LL, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. 
          I, I'LL SECOND. 
          AND THEN I THINK SINCE IT'S A CLERICAL AMENDMENT, WE DON'T NEED TO DO EACH, I'LL LEAVE THAT TO YOU AS CHAIR. 
          DO YOU WANT TO? YEAH, I, I THINK AS LONG AS I'M CONFIDENT IN THE BILL, UH, OUR STAFF LIAISON TO MAKE THE CHANGES THAT WE, UM, THE CLERICAL CHANGES WE DESCRIBED. 
          SO, UM, IF OTHERS ARE CONFIDENT WITH THAT, WE CAN JUST GO FORWARD THAT WAY. 
          SO DO YOU WANT A MOTION TO AMEND WITH IT WITHOUT SPECIFIC MOTION? I DON'T, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO AMEND. 
          DO YOU? YEAH, NO. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, COMMISSIONERS, I JUST WANNA RESTATE FOR EVERYBODY. 
          SO THE MOTION ON THE TABLE IS TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS CIRCULATED, BUT WE ARE ASKING NATALIE TO AMEND, UM, THE, UH, ITEM SEVEN FOR EACH ITEM. 
          SO IT WILL SAY IT WAS APPROVED, YOU KNOW, UH, WITH, IT'LL LIST THE PERSON AND THEN IT'LL REMOVE THE AS AMENDED BECAUSE WE DIDN'T AMEND ANYTHING THERE. 
          'CAUSE I DON'T THINK WE EVEN GOT AS FAR AS A MOTION. 
          SO, UM, ON THE SLATE IDEA. 
          SO THAT IS THE CHANGE. 
          WE'RE TRUSTING HER TO MAKE THAT CLERICAL CHANGE. 
          IF ANYONE HAS CONCERNS, LET US KNOW. 
          ARE THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION OR AMENDMENTS TO THE MINUTES? ALSO JUST SAY, NATALIE, DEFINITELY CHECK US ON, WE MIGHT BE MISREMEMBERING ON WHETHER WE GOT TO A MOTION ON THE SLATE. 
          SO, NO, I THINK THAT WAS AN OVERSIGHT ON MY PART, NOT HAVING NAMES IN THERE. 
          NO WORRIES. 
          ANY OTHER DISCUSSION 
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OR AN AMENDMENT FOR THE MINUTES? OKAY. 
          THEN I'M GONNA CALL FOR A VOTE ON THAT REMINDER THAT WE DO HAVE THAT CLERICAL CHANGE THAT WILL BE MADE. 
          ALL THOSE WHO RAISE YOUR HAND, UH, OR SAY I IF YOU APPROVE, THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          NOW THAT REALLY DOES 
          [2. Bond Funded Bridge Projects Update. Presentation by Eric Bailey, Deputy Director and  Genest Landry, Assistant Director, Austin Capitol Delivery Services.  ]
TAKE US TO ITEM TWO, . 
          SORRY FOR ABOUT THAT EARLIER, WHICH IS THE BOND FUNDED BRIDGE PROJECTS UPDATE PRESENTATION BY ERIC BAILEY, DEPUTY DIRECTOR. 
          AND IS THAT JANS LANDRY, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF, UH, AUSTIN CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICES. 
          HOW'S EVERYBODY DOING TODAY? UM, MY NAME IS ERIC BAILEY. 
          I'M THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR OF CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICES. 
          WITH ME TODAY IS JANAE LANDRY, WHO'S OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR PROJECT DELIVERY. 
          UH, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT, UH, SOME UPDATES ON THE BOND FUNDED BRIDGE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE, UH, UNDERWAY. 
          UH, WE'RE GONNA START TALK ABOUT THE BARTON SPRINGS ROAD BRIDGE RED BUD TRAIL, AS WELL AS THE WISHBONE BRIDGE, UH, MOVING FORWARD THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. 
          UH, I'M GONNA START WITH THE BARTON SPRINGS ROAD BRIDGE. 
          UH, AS A REMINDER, THIS, THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE IS A HUNDRED YEARS OLD. 
          THIS YEAR IS EXPANDED IN 1946 TO ITS CURRENT FOUR-LANE CONFIGURATION AND SEASON AN AVERAGE OF 20,000 VEHICLES PER DAY. 
          IT'S A KEY ENTRANCE TO ZILKER PARK AND FOR SOME OF THE CITY SIGNATURE EVENTS, INCLUDING TRAIL OF LIGHTS, BLUES ON THE GREEN, AND THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS MUSIC FESTIVAL. 
          THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED VIA THE CITY'S GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, WITH THE BULK OF THE FUNDING COMING FROM THE 2020 BOND, AS WELL AS A RECENTLY AWARDED $32 MILLION FHWA BRIDGE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM GRANT TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION COST OF THE BRIDGE. 
          NOW, THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN BEFORE COUNCIL, UH, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 
          THE FIRST TIME WAS WITH THE 2020 BOND RESOLUTION, WHICH INCLUDED DIRECTION FOR STAFF TO COMPLETE THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT, AND THEN RETURN TO COUNCIL FOR A PRESENTATION ON THE OPTIONS AND DIRECTION ON WHICH OPTION TO PURSUE. 
          UH, STAFF PRESENTED THOSE OPTIONS TO COUNCIL AT A WORK SESSION IN DECEMBER OF 2023, AND AT SUBSEQUENT COUNCIL MEETINGS, STAFF WAS DIRECTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE FULL REPLACEMENT OPTION. 
          UH, SINCE THEN, THE PROJECT HAS RETURNED TO COUNCIL RELATED TO THE APPLICATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE FEDERAL GRANT. 
          AND THE NEXT TIME THIS PROJECT WE NEED TO GO TO THE FULL COUNCIL WOULD BE FOR A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AWARD, UH, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW BRIDGE. 
          UH, THIS PROJECT WILL NEED TO GO TO VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AS A PART OF THE PERMITTING PROCESS, WHICH WILL HAPPEN, UH, IN LATER IN 2026 AND EARLY 2027. 
          NEXT, I'M GONNA PROVIDE SOME INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE THE PROJECT IS IN THE DESIGN PROCESS. 
          UH, BECAUSE WE WERE AWARDED THE FEDERAL GRANT FOR CONSTRUCTION, THE PROJECT NEEDS TO GO THROUGH THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT OR NEPA PROCESS. 
          AS A PART OF THIS PROCESS, THE ALTERNATIVES PRESENTED IN THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT, UM, ARE ANALYZED AGAIN, UH, THE DETER DETERMINATIONS ARE MADE BY THE ADMINISTERING AGENCY, WHICH IN THIS CASE IS TDOT IN COORDINATION WITH THE TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, INCLUDING THE SAVE OUR SPRINGS ORGANIZATION, WHICH HAS BEEN INVITED TO COLLABORATE ON THE NEPA PROCESS AND IDENTIFY ANY ADDITIONAL STUDIES THAT MAY BE NEEDED AS A PART OF THAT CLEARANCE. 
          UH, ADDITIONALLY, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO PROVIDE COMMENT ON THE NEPA DOCUMENT AS IT'S DEVELOPED. 
          UH, THIS PROCESS TAKES ABOUT A YEAR TO COMPLETE AND IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY. 
          WE ARE, UH, LOOKING TO WRAP THAT UP IN 2020, IN LATE 2026, AND HAVE THE READY PROJECT READY TO BID IN 2027. 
          THE TIMELINE, UH, MAYBE PUSHING JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ON THAT DUE TO SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, WORK AND ADDITIONAL OPTIONS THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED TO EVALUATE, UH, DURING THE NEPA PROCESS. 
          CITY STAFF WORKS WITH TXDOT, THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND THE TEXAS HISTORIC COMMISSION DEVELOP THE DESIGN AND DETERMINE HOW TO COMPLY WITH ALL OF THE RELEVANT REGULATIONS. 
          UM, IN ADDITION TO THE NEPA PROCESS, THE PROJECT WILL GO THROUGH THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S PERMITTING, UH, PROCESS AND OBTAIN APPROVAL FROM BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS FOR ANY VARIANCES THAT ARE NEEDED. 
          AS A PART OF THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT, THE CONSULTING ENGINEER STUDIED THE BRIDGE INTERNALLY AS WELL AS EXTERNALLY. 
          UH, THE ENGINEER LOOKED AT TRAFFIC PATTERNS, A DA ACCESSIBILITY, AND THE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS OPTIONS. 
          UH, FINALLY, THE ENGINEER, UM, AND CITY STAFF COORDINATED WITH THE ARMY CORPS AS WELL AS THE TEXAS HISTORIC COMMISSION. 
          UM, IF WE LOOK AT THE EXISTING CURRENT CONDITION OF THE BRIDGE, THE PHOTO IN THE UPPER LEFT SHOWS CRACKING, UH, AND EXPOSED STEEL UNDER THE BRIDGE. 
          THE PHOTO IN THE UPPER RIGHT SHOWS CRACKING AND DELAMINATION AROUND THE BRIDGE COLUMNS. 
          THE PHOTO IN THE LOWER LEFT IS A CONCRETE CORE SAMPLE FROM THE BRIDGE DECK SHOWING DETERIORATION IN THE CONCRETE. 
          AND THE PHOTO IN THE LOWER RIGHT SHOWS THE CURB, SIDEWALK AND GUARDRAIL, WHICH DO NOT MEET CURRENT DESIGN STANDARDS. 
          UH, THIS CURRENT BRIDGE IS FUNCTIONALLY OBSOLETE, WHICH MEANS, UH, AS I MENTIONED, IT DOESN'T MEET THE CURRENT DESIGN STANDARDS. 
          Y'ALL HAVE BEEN ON THIS BRIDGE. 
          YOU KNOW, YOU'VE SEEN THE NARROW SIDEWALKS, HIGH CURBS, LOW GUARD RAILS. 
          IT'S REALLY CHALLENGING TO GET ACROSS THAT BRIDGE AS A PEDESTRIAN. 
          UM, IN ADDITION, THE, THE CONSULTING ENGINEER UNDERTOOK 
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A STRUCTURAL EVALUATION OF THE BRIDGE IN 2023 AND FOUND THAT, AND THIS IS A QUOTE FROM THE REPORT, UH, BASED ON THE CURRENT LEVEL OF DETERIORATION OF THE LONGITUDINAL BEAM AND CONTINUED INTRUSION OF WATER, IT'S ESTIMATED THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF REHABILITATION, SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION COULD PROGRESS TO A POINT WHERE INCREASES IN MAINTENANCE COST AND REPAIRS REACH A SIGNIFICANT LEVEL IN FIVE TO 10 YEARS. 
          REPAIR OF THE LONGITUDINAL BEAM ALONE TO LIMIT WATER INTRUSION MAY NOT BE SUFFICIENT TO EXTEND THE LIFE OF THE BRIDGE SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          A A PREFERRED METHOD TO LIMIT WATER INTRUSION WILL BE TO REPLACE THE DECK ENTIRELY AND ELIMINATE THE LONGITUDINAL AND TRANSVERSE JOINTS ALTOGETHER. 
          IN ADDITION, SINCE THE SPANEL COLUMNS EXHIBIT LOW COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND SEVERAL EXHIBIT SPING AND OR DELAMINATION, ANY BRIDGE REHABILITATION DESIRING INCREASED LIFESPAN WOULD INVOLVE STRIPPING THE STRUCTURE DOWN TO THE ARCH RIBS AND REBUILDING THE SPANDREL COLUMNS, FLOOR BEAMS AND DECK. 
          SO IF YOU TRANSLATE THAT FROM ENGINEERING SPEAK INTO PLAIN ENGLISH, THAT MEANS THERE'S NO WAY TO HAVE A LIGHT TOUCH REHABILITATION WHERE YOU'RE JUST PATCHING CRACKS AND THINGS. 
          THE STRUCTURE, UH, NEEDS TO BE REPLACED, AND THE MAIN STRUCTURAL ISSUE IS THE DECK ITSELF, AND IT'S BEYOND THE POINT OF REPAIR. 
          UM, ADDITIONALLY, DO THE CONCERNS BROUGHT UP IN THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT AND SUBSEQUENT TXDOT INSPECTION REPORTS. 
          THE CITY ENGINEER AND THE TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT HAVE SHIFTED THE TRAVEL LANES TO THE SOUTH TO LIMIT HEAVYWEIGHT VEHICLE TRAFFIC LOADING ON THE OLD PORTION OF THE BRIDGE, WHICH WAS IN THE WORST STRUCTURAL CONDITION. 
          SO AS WE GO THROUGH THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT WERE, UH, EXPLORED, FIVE OPTIONS WERE EVALUATED. 
          UH, PRESERVING THE EXISTING STRUCTURE WAS ELIMINATED FROM FURTHER ANALYSIS DUE TO THE STRUCTURAL CONDITION OF THE EXISTING BRIDGE THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER. 
          UH, THREE REPLACEMENT OPTIONS AND ONE RE REHABILITATION OPTION MOVE FORWARD FOR FURTHER ANALYSIS. 
          UH, DURING THIS PROCESS, UM, CITY STAFF HELD OPEN HOUSES IN PERSON AND ONLINE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          FROM THE RESPONSES RECEIVED. 
          REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT WERE ABOUT EVENLY SPLIT IN TERMS OF PUBLIC, UH, INPUT ON THOSE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVES. 
          UM, NOW WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REHABILITATION, UH, THIS IS A SCHEMATIC OF WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE. 
          THE DECK WOULD BE FULLY REMOVED FROM THE EXISTING STRUCTURE. 
          REPAIRS WILL BE MADE TO THE EXISTING ARCHES, AND ADDITIONAL ARCHES WILL BE ADDED TO AC ACCOMMODATE THE PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE TRAFFIC. 
          THEN THE DECK WILL BE REPLACED. 
          UH, AT THIS POINT, LESS THAN HALF OF THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE WOULD REMAIN AND ALL OF THE OLD ARCHES WOULD BE OBSTRUCTED FROM VIEW BY NEW ONES. 
          THIS OPTION COSTS ABOUT AS MUCH AS THE FULL REPLACEMENT AND HAS A SHORTER USEFUL LIFE, APPROXIMATELY 50 YEARS FOR THE REHABILITATION COMPARED TO 75 YEARS FOR THE FULL REPLACEMENT. 
          SO THIS DIAGRAM SHOWS WHAT THE NEW BRIDGE WOULD LOOK LIKE, PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE LANES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BRIDGE, SAME NUMBER OF THROUGH TRAFFIC LANES THAT CURRENTLY EXIST, AND THE ADDITION OF A RIGHT HAND TURN LANE ONTO AZ MORTON TO IMPROVE VEHICULAR CIRCULATION, UH, ON THE BRIDGE. 
          SO, AS I MENTIONED, GO AHEAD. 
          ACTUALLY, COULD YOU GO BACK THIS, IT'S JUST THE, UH, FIRST TIME I'VE BEEN, I THINK I'VE SEEN THIS, UH, DIAGRAM. 
          SO I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION ON THIS. 
          SO MM-HMM . 
          ON THE, UM, I GUESS THIS WOULD BE THE EASTBOUND SIDE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          IS THAT THAT'S SHOWING NOT A SEPARATE BIKE LANE, BUT A SHARED USE PATH THAT THEN TURNS INTO A SEPARATE BIKE LANE AFTER THE BRIDGE? UH, YES, I BELIEVE SO. 
          I THINK THERE'S A SEPARATED FACILITY ON THE NORTH SIDE AND A SHARED FACILITY ON THE SOUTH SIDE. 
          COULD YOU TOUCH ON WHY THE SHARED FACILITY THERE? I MEAN, WE HAVE SEPARATED BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE THERE RIGHT NOW. 
          I MEAN, AGAIN, THIS IS SORT OF PRELIMINARY STAGES. 
          THE, THE FULL DESIGN IS NOT COMPLETE. 
          SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COULD CHANGE AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          UM, I BELIEVE IT'S BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF, UH, PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE CIRCULATION WE SEE ON A REGULAR BASIS THROUGH THIS PART OF THE BRIDGE. 
          AND OBVIOUSLY WITH THE BRIDGE BEING IN THE CONDITION THAT IT'S IN, IT'S A LITTLE BIT SKEWED IN TERMS OF THE POTENTIAL FUTURE USE, BUT IT'S REALLY BASED ON HOW MANY FOLKS WE ARE PROJECTING TO SEE CROSS THAT IN THE MODES THAT THEY'RE USING AS THEY CROSS THE BRIDGE. 
          YEAH, THAT, THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          WHEN'S THE NEXT POINT FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ON THAT DESIGN? YEAH, I'D HAVE TO LOOK AND, AND SEE WHAT THE SCHEDULE IS COMING UP. 
          BUT WE'RE RIGHT NOW WORKING ON SOME PRELIMINARY, UH, REPORTS RELATED TO THE NEPA DOCUMENT. 
          AND WE WILL, UM, MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, MOBILITY, Y'ALL, LANDMARKS, ENVIRONMENTAL PARKS, ARE AWARE OF THE NEXT ROUND OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND WHEN THAT'S GONNA BE HAPPENING. 
          GOTCHA. 
          YEAH, JUST THE LAST THING I WOULD TOUCH ON HERE IS I THINK CONTEXT IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT HERE, JUST 'CAUSE WE'RE IN A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A RECREATIONAL SETTING. 
          MM-HMM . 
          YOU KNOW, I MIGHT BE GOING 20 MILES PER HOUR THROUGH ON MY E-BIKE, AND I'M SURE OTHER PEOPLE CERTAINLY WILL. 
          YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO COME FACE TO FACE WITH SOMEONE'S LITTLE DOG THAT THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, WALKING ACROSS ON THAT SHARED USE PATH. 
          SO MM-HMM . 
          SEPARATED FACILITIES MAY BE A GOOD SAFETY IDEA THERE. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          UM, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF, UM, A LOT OF WORK IN FRONT OF US AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THE NEPA AND PERMITTING PROCESS. 
          UM, WE WILL NEED REVIEW BY AND APPROVAL BY LANDMARKS COMMISSION MOBILITY COMMITTEE, PARKS BOARD DESIGN COMMISSION, ENVIRONMENTAL 
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COMMISSION, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, ACTION FROM ALL THOSE COMMISSIONS ARE GONNA BECOME AS WE NEAR THE END OF THE PERMITTING PROCESS, WE'RE NOT REALLY THERE YET. 
          GENERALLY THE 90% DESIGN SUBMITTAL, UM, IS, UM, WHEN WE ARE GOING TO START THAT PERMITTING PROCESS AND WE GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT EXACTLY THE WAIVERS ARE THAT ARE NECESSARY. 
          AND THE CHANGES, OBVIOUSLY WITH A PROJECT LIKE THIS, WHEN YOU'RE WORKING AROUND SENSITIVE AREAS, UH, WITH BARTON CREEK AS WELL AS ZILKER PARK AND SOME, YOU KNOW, PRETTY, UM, UH, PRETTY IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, CITY FACILITIES THAT ARE IN THIS AREA, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THAT LEVEL OF PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT AS WELL AS UNDERSTANDING OF ALL OF THE, UM, IMPACTS THAT THE PROJECT IS GONNA HAVE IS, IS VERY CRITICAL. 
          SO I THINK THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROJECT, ONE OF THE CLEAR CHALLENGES IS GOING TO BE PUBLIC INPUT AND THINGS. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL HAVE FOLLOWED THE LANDMARK COMMISSION AT ALL ON THIS PROJECT, BUT THERE IS, UH, I, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THERE'S A MOTION, UH, AT THE LAND, AN UPCOMING LANDMARK COMMISSION. 
          I THINK IT'S TOMORROW IN ORDER TO DESIGNATE THE BRIDGE ITSELF A HISTORIC LANDMARK. 
          RIGHT NOW, IT IS A CONTRIBUTING STRUCTURE TO THE ZILKER PARK DESIGNATION. 
          UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THAT DOESN'T, UM, PRECLUDE THE REPLACEMENT OPTION FROM THE AVAILABLE OPTIONS. 
          UH, IT DOES CHANGE THE REQUIREMENTS, UH, OF THE DESIGN AND THINGS LIKE THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          SO, UM, LIKE I SAID, THERE'S A LOT TO, TO DIGEST HERE. 
          A LOT OF WORK THAT'S GOING TO BE COMING IN THE FUTURE IN TERMS OF GETTING THE DESIGN, UH, REVIEWED AND APPROVED AND GETTING THE PERMITS READY AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          BUT, UM, I THINK A REAL BIG WIN THAT WE HAD ON THIS PROJECT IS THAT GRANT FOR $32 MILLION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT IS GONNA COVER A, NOT ALL OF THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS, BUT A, A GOOD PORTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS, WHICH IS REALLY, UH, GREAT NEWS FOR THIS PROJECT. 
          SO, UM, WITH THAT I WILL SAY TOO, UM, YOU KNOW, REPLACING THESE HISTORIC BRIDGES CAN BE CHALLENGING. 
          THIS IS A PROJECT THAT I WORKED ON IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 
          THIS IS A CALIFORNIA INCLINE. 
          YOU CAN SEE THIS PROJECT FACED SIMILAR ISSUES, LOW RAILINGS, UH, STRUCTURAL DETERIORATION. 
          THIS WAS A SERIES OF FIVE OR SIX INDIVIDUAL STRUCTURES ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE THAT OVERHUNG THE BLUFF ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE. 
          IT WAS JUST A ROADWAY AND THAT BLUFF ERODES ON A REGULAR BASIS. 
          AND SO, UM, WHAT WE DID IS WE WENT THROUGH AND ACTUALLY REPLACED THAT STRUCTURE FULLY. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THE IMPROVED, YOU KNOW, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN USE CUL LANES REMAIN THE SAME, UH, WIDER ACCESS THERE UP AND DOWN NEW STRUCTURE. 
          BUT WE WERE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, WORK WITH, UH, IN THIS CASE THE CALIFORNIA HISTORIC COMMISSION AND THE OTHER REGULATORY AGENCIES TO REPLICATE SOME OF THE LOOK OF THE BRIDGE, UM, WHILE PROVIDING A BRAND NEW STRUCTURE. 
          UM, AND WITH THAT, YOU GUYS, LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU WANNA DO. 
          IF YOU WANNA OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS ON THIS ONE OR I'LL HAND IT OVER TO JANAE AND WE CAN ASK QUESTIONS AT THE END. 
          OR WHAT I DO YOU WANNA DO BRIDGE BY BRIDGE? I THINK WE MIGHT DO IT BRIDGE BY BRIDGE IF Y'ALL ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT. 
          UM, I, I DEFINITELY WANNA, IF I COULD JUST MAKE A COMMENT FIRST MM-HMM . 
          WHICH IS THAT LIKE, I DEFINITELY WOULDN'T TAKE THE CURRENT USE AS THE WHAT COULD BE. 
          RIGHT? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN THAT AREA TO ME, YOU, YOU GO ON THE NORTH SIDE BECAUSE IT FEELS A BIT SAFER THAN THE SOUTH SIDE RIGHT NOW. 
          BUT IF YOU MADE THE SOUTH SIDE FEEL SAFE, THEN IT WOULD BE FINE, I THINK. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND, UM, DEFINITELY A, YOU KNOW, AS SOMEONE THAT'S HAD LITTLE, UH, LITTLE GIRLS, UH, IN PARKS AND ON TRAILS, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO REALLY LIKE BIKING FAST AND I LIKE THOSE PEOPLE. 
          BUT  RICH STORY, YOU KNOW, THEY COME UP BEHIND LITTLE KIDS AND THEY'RE LIKE, DING, DING ON THE RIGHT. 
          LIKE, MY KID DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          SO LIKE, I, I THINK THAT IN, IN PARK TYPE SPACES, KEEPING THAT SEPARATED IS GOOD. 
          'CAUSE I WANNA BE NICE TO MY FRIENDS WHO LIKE TO BIKE FAST AND I ALSO WANT MY KIDS NOT TO GET RUN OVER BY BIKES. 
          SO, UM,  WE CAN TAKE THAT FEEDBACK BACK. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THE DESIGN TEAM AND THINGS, I THINK IT'S BETTER. 
          AND I THINK IF YOU MADE IT REALLY GOOD, PEOPLE WOULD USE IT. 
          RIGHT NOW I THINK PEOPLE ARE GONNA GRAVITATE TO THE NORTH SIDE 'CAUSE THAT SIDE DOES FEEL MARGINALLY SAFER THAN THE SOUTH SIDE IS MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE HAVING WALKED OVER THERE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          I DUNNO IF Y'ALL WOULD AGREE WITH THAT. 
          UM, SO I WOULD JUST SAY WITH THE DESIGN WHERE IT HAS THESE, UM, REPLACEMENT OPTIONS OF ONE SPAN, TWO SPAN, THREE SPAN OPTION, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE EXPLORED WITH THE COMMUNITY AT THIS POINT OR NOT REALLY YET? YEAH, SO THAT WAS PART OF THE INITIAL COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND THINGS AS PART OF THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT FROM 2023. 
          UM, AND THAT WAS REALLY OPERATING UNDER THE DIRECTION FROM CITY COUNCIL TO DEVELOP THOSE OPTIONS AND THEN, UH, YOU KNOW, OBTAIN PUBLIC INPUT ON IT AND COME BACK, UM, FOR THEIR, FOR COUNCIL'S INPUT ON WHICH DESIGN THEY PREFERRED AND WHICH ALTERNATIVE THEY PREFERRED. 
          SO DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT YOU CAN SHARE AT THIS POINT, OR NOT REALLY YET. 
          I, I, I CAN SEND YOU ALL THE RESULTS FROM THAT MM-HMM . 
          SURVEY AT THAT TIME. 
          I DON'T HAVE THAT WITH ME TODAY. 
          YEAH, THAT'D BE, THAT'D BE HELPFUL TO HAVE THAT. 
          I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW. 
          LIKE I  THAT'S, THAT WAS PART OF THE THING TOO. 
          AND, AND AS WE 
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WENT THROUGH THIS AND PRESENTED THE ALTERNATIVES, THE, THERE WASN'T AN OVERWHELMING, OH, IT HAS TO BE THIS OPTION. 
          THERE WAS A LOT OF, UM, SPLIT BETWEEN BOTH THE, YOU KNOW, REHABILITATION OPTION VERSUS THE REPLACEMENT OPTION. 
          AND THEN BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL REPLACEMENT OPTIONS, THERE WASN'T, UH, A PARTICULAR OPTION THAT WAS THE OVERWHELMING, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC PREFERRED, YOU KNOW, OPTION ONE VERSUS THE OTHER TWO OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 
          SO, SO I'M GONNA ASK ONE MAYBE SILLY QUESTION, BUT I ACTUALLY DON'T THINK IT IS SILLY. 
          SO THE ZILKER, IT'S NOT THE ZEPHYR ANYMORE, RIGHT? IT'S THE EAGLE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          ZEPHYR WAS COOLER. 
          IF I, YOU KNOW, MY ONE DUMB THING THAT I WOULD DO IS GO BACK TO THAT NAME IF I WERE, WE DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT BRANDING, I DUNNO. 
          YEAH, I KNOW. 
          WHATEVER. 
          IT'S FINE. 
          UM, SO, UM, I ALWAYS HAVE THOUGHT THAT THAT IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT OF A, IT'S RECREATIONAL, BUT IT'S ALSO A LITTLE BIT OF A TRANSPORTATION OPTION AND I KNOW THAT IT GOES UNDER THE BRIDGE. 
          COULD YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE EXPLORED WITH THAT IMPACT THERE? YEAH. 
          WE'RE GONNA BE ACTUALLY IMPROVING A LOT OF THE UNDER THE BRIDGE CIRCULATION FOR BOTH PEDESTRIAN FOR PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLES, AND THE ZILKER EAGLE. 
          BASICALLY, IF YOU'VE BEEN UNDER THERE, YOU'VE SEEN WHERE THE TRAIN SITS, ESPECIALLY WHERE IT GOES UNDER THE BRIDGE DOES NOT LOOK PARTICULARLY GREAT, UH, IN TERMS OF THE CONCRETE THAT'S USING, THAT'S THERE TO SUPPORT THE TRACK AND THINGS. 
          AND SO ALL OF THAT UNDER THAT REPLACEMENT OPTION, UM, NUMBER THREE, UM, IS GONNA BE REPLACED AND IT'S GONNA BE A MUCH WIDER, UH, PATH THERE WHERE THE TRAIN IS GONNA HAVE MUCH MORE SPACE. 
          IT'S GONNA BE BUILT ON GRADE, THERE'S GONNA BE A SEPARATION BETWEEN THAT AND THE PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLES THAT ARE GONNA BE NEXT TO IT. 
          THE WHOLE THING IS GONNA GET WIDER THAN WHAT IT IS NOW. 
          UM, ONE OF THE ISSUES WITH THE EXISTING DESIGN IS THAT ARCH ENDS AND THEN THERE'S THE BRIDGE ABUTMENT. 
          AND SO YOU HAVE KIND OF A WEIRD AREA WHERE YOU HAVE TO THREAD THE TRAIN BETWEEN THE BRIDGE ABUTMENT AND THE TOP OF THE ARCH. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THE PEDESTRIAN SIDE GOES UNDERNEATH THE ARCH ON THE OTHER SIDE. 
          AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS. 
          AND ONE OF, YOU KNOW, TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST, ONE OF THE GREAT FEATURES OF THE COMPLETE RECONSTRUCTION IS THAT WE CAN CREATE A BETTER PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE AND TRAIN EXPERIENCE UNDER THE BRIDGE, UM, WITH THE NEW STRUCTURE. 
          AND WOULD, I ASSUME, I COULD BE WRONG, THE, WOULD THE EAGLE BE ABLE TO OPERATE DURING CONSTRUCTION? THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAUSE DURING THAT TIME. 
          THERE MAY BE TIMES DUE TO THE CONSTRUCTION THAT'S GOING ON WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAUSE. 
          WE WANNA TRY AND KEEP THE, THAT BUSINESS IN BUSINESS AS MUCH AS WE CAN. 
          UM, OBVIOUSLY DEMOLISHING A BRIDGE AND REBUILDING IT IS NOT A LIGHT TOUCH KIND OF THING THAT YOU CAN DO. 
          SO THERE MAY BE TIMES WHERE WE WOULD HAVE TO WORK WITH THEM ON THEIR LEVEL OF SERVICE AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE WHEN THEIR BUSIEST TIMES ARE AND THAT KIND OF THING. 
          UM, I THINK AN IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE TOO ON THIS IS NO MATTER WHAT OPTION IS CHOSEN AS COMING OUT OF THE PROJECT, THAT THE BRIDGE WILL REMAIN OPEN DURING CONSTRUCTION, UM, LIKELY REDUCED TO ONE LANE IN EACH DIRECTION, BUT, UH, CLOSING THE BRIDGE IS NOT AN OPTION FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT REASONS, MAINLY RELATED TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AS WELL AS THERE'S SOME HEAVILY TRA TRAVEL BUS ROUTES THAT GO, UH, ACROSS THE BRIDGE THERE. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH THE FOLKS THAT, YOU KNOW, USE THE TRAILS AND THE BRIDGE, YOU KNOW, BOTH FROM A A PEDESTRIAN STANDPOINT, BICYCLE STANDPOINT, AS WELL AS, UM, YOU KNOW, A BUSINESS STANDPOINT WITH THAT, UM, AUSTIN LANDMARK IS GONNA BE KEY AS WE COORDINATE THE CONSTRUCTION MOVING FORWARD. 
          YEAH, I'VE LONG THOUGHT THE, THE ZILKER TRAIN IS LIKE, IT'S RECREATIONAL, BUT IT'S SORT OF LIKE SEMI TRANSPORTATION OPTION IN A SENSE TOO. 
          SO, UM, I I'M A, I'M A FAN ANYWAY, SO THAT'S GREAT TO HEAR. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAD. 
          ANYBODY ELSE HAVE SOME QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, UH, ON, ON THE, UH, ZILKER BRIDGE? YES. 
          UM, SO I AM A MEMBER OF THE ZILKER NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. 
          I'M SURE THAT YOU'VE SEEN THEIR LETTER. 
          I, I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, AS A DISTRICT FIVE PERSON, I HAVE TO, I HAVE TO JUST LIKE ASK A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND I'M SURE YOU'VE DONE ALL YOUR DUE DILIGENCE, BUT, UM, THEY'RE PRETTY IN FAVOR OF, YOU KNOW, RETAINING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND EVEN PAUSING ANY SORT OF MAJOR CONSTRUCTION, IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S NOT REALLY POSSIBLE OR IT'S A REALLY BAD IDEA TO NOT GO IN THERE AND MAKE SOME SERIOUS ADJUSTMENTS. 
          IT'S A VERY BAD IDEA TO NOT DO ANYTHING. 
          THE DO NOTHING ALTERNATIVE IS NOT REALLY AN ALTERNATIVE BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LOAD RATE THAT BRIDGE, WHICH MEANS THAT NO FIRE TRUCKS, NO AMBULANCES MM-HMM . 
          NO BUSES ACROSS IT. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND THAT'S OBVIOUSLY, LIKE I MENTIONED, ONE OF THE KEYS OF KEEPING THAT ROADWAY OPEN IS THOSE ARE MAJOR, UH, EMERGENCY ACCESS POINTS AS WELL AS A MAJOR TRANSPORTATION POINT, UH, TO GET PEOPLE ACROSS TOWN. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THE JOB OF TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORK, CDS AND CITY STAFF IN GENERAL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR FACILITIES ARE OPERATED IN, MAINTAINED IN A SAFE AND EFFICIENT MANNER. 
          AND WHEN IT COMES TIME TO REPLACE THOSE FACILITIES, WE'VE GOT GOOD JUSTIFICATION FOR DOING THAT, NUMBER ONE. 
          AND WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT IN AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT MANNER AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          OKAY. 
          AND EVEN IF IT WERE TO BE A REHABILITATION RATHER, RATHER THAN A REPLACEMENT, IS THE IDEA BEHIND LIKE THE HISTORIC DESIGNATION AND THING THAT PEOPLE LOVE, IS IT THE ARCHES THAT WOULD BE COVERED 
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REGARDLESS OF THE REHABILITATION VERSUS YEAH. 
          THE REPLACEMENT AS A PART OF THE HISTORIC DE DESIGNATION, THEY WOULD IDENTIFY WHAT THE HISTORIC PIECES ARE. 
          UM, AND SO AS THAT PROCESS MOVES THROUGH LANDMARKS AND THEN PLANNING COMMISSION AND THEN CITY COUNCIL, IT'S IMPORTANT I THINK TO NOTE THAT THE LANDMARKS COMMISSION DOESN'T ACTUALLY DESIGNATE ANYTHING HISTORIC. 
          MM-HMM . 
          THEY MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO PLANNING COMMISSION AND THEN PLANNING COMMISSION THEN FORWARDS THAT TO CITY COUNCIL. 
          CITY COUNCIL IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN ACTUALLY MAKE IT A HISTORIC DESIGNATION. 
          AS A PART OF THAT PROCESS, THEY IDENTIFY THE HISTORIC FEATURES THAT ARE IN THERE THAT WOULD NEED TO BE PRESERVED. 
          UM, REPLICATION IS A LITTLE BIT CHALLENGING IN A HISTORIC STANDPOINT, BUT WE WOULD GET THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ENGINEERS AND PROFESSIONALS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THAT TYPE OF HISTORIC WORK, GET THEIR INPUT ON WHAT THAT MEANS AND WHAT THE, UM, WHAT THE AREAS ARE THAT WE NEED TO PRESERVE AND WHAT WE NEED TO IDENTIFY AS THE, THE HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF THE BRIDGE. 
          AND ARE THESE HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT FEATURES THAT, LIKE, WOULD THEY BE DESIGNATED THAT BY VIRTUE OF JUST THEIR AGE? OR IS THERE LIKE SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS THAT THE COMMUNITY IS INTERESTED IN PRESERVING? YEAH, SO I KNOW A LOT MORE NOW ABOUT HISTORIC LANDMARK DESIGNATION THAN I EVER THOUGHT I WOULD. 
          THERE ARE FIVE CRITERIA. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AND LANDMARKS COMMISSION GOES OVER ALL OF THAT. 
          I DON'T KNOW THEM OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT IT'S, IT'S, UM, NOT ONLY THE LOOK AND DESIGN, IT HAS TO HAVE A, A SIGNIFICANCE IN TERMS OF THE, IN THIS CASE THE ENGINEER, UM, IS SOMEONE WHO, THAT'S PART OF THE APPLICATION AND THERE'S FOUR OR THERE'S FIVE TOTAL CRITERIA THAT THEY GO THROUGH AND TALK ABOUT EACH ONE OF THOSE THINGS. 
          AND THE REASON FOR DESIGNATING THAT A LANDMARK AND WANTING TO PRESERVE, UM, THE FEATURE THERE. 
          AND IF THERE IS LIKE A FEATURE OF THE CURRENT BRIDGE THAT IS, ESPECIALLY BY BELOVED BY THE COMMUNITY, BUT CAN NO LONGER BE THERE, WOULD THERE BE AN EFFORT TO IMITATE IT IN AN UPDATED DESIGN? OR WOULD THAT JUST DEPEND ON WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AND WHO USES THE BRIDGE WOULD SAY THEY WANT? WELL, IT'D BE A MATTER OF WORKING WITH THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROFESSIONALS THAT WE HAVE TO DETERMINE WHAT THAT IS AND HOW BEST TO, TO DO THAT. 
          BECAUSE LIKE I MENTIONED, IT'S A LITTLE BIT BEYOND MY, UH, EXPERTISE, BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO JUST REPLICATE SOMETHING. 
          MM-HMM . 
          IT'S, THAT'S NOT REALLY HOW IT WORKS. 
          YOU TAKE IT AND TIE IT INTO WHATEVER THE NEW DESIGN IS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO, SO TO SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE ARCHES WERE A DESIGNATED HISTORIC PART OR A HISTORIC FEATURE, THERE WOULD BE A WAY OF INCORPORATING THE ARCHES. 
          IT MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME AS IT DOES NOW MM-HMM . 
          BUT HAVING SOME KIND OF ARCH FRAMEWORK. 
          AND AGAIN, DEPENDING ON THE DESIGNATION, THE RULES CHANGE IN TERMS OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. 
          AND IT WOULD CHANGE THE, THE DESIGN AND THE FEATURES IN THAT DESIGN. 
          SO I DON'T, THE ANSWER RIGHT NOW IS, I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER 'CAUSE WE DON'T, WE HAVEN'T GONE KIND OF DOWN THAT PATH , UM, 'CAUSE THAT HASN'T BEEN WHAT'S BEEN ASKED OF US AT THIS POINT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          I HAD, I HAVE TO ASK  TO ASK THOSE. 
          UH, THE OTHER HAVE TO ASK IS THE, UH, UM, EFFECTS ON EXISTING HERITAGE TREES IN THE AREA AND THE EFFORTS MADE TO LIKE MITIGATE, IT'S A VERY SENSITIVE, LIKE BARTON CREEK IS A VERY SENSITIVE AREA. 
          THERE'S A LOT OF CONCERN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ABOUT THAT. 
          I AM, I'M SURE. 
          BUT, UH, ARE YOU MAKING ALL THE EFFORTS TO PROTECT WHATEVER IS IMPORTANT THERE? ABSOLUTELY. 
          IN TERMS OF THE HERITAGE TREES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, I, I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT OUR MAP, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE ARE ANY HERITAGE TREES IN THAT AREA THAT WOULD BE SCHEDULED FOR REMOVAL. 
          I THINK ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO ADD TOO IS WE'RE ALSO IMPROVING, UM, A LOT OF THE OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE IN THAT AREA. 
          WE'RE PARTNERING WITH, UM, AUSTIN WATER TO MAKE SOME WATER AND WASTEWATER IMPROVEMENTS THERE. 
          WATERSHED PROTECTION IN TERMS OF, UM, IMPROVING THE WATER QUALITY PONDS THAT ARE IN THAT AREA, EXPANDING THOSE AS WELL AS, UM, ADDRESSING SOME OF THE DRAINAGE ISSUES IN ZILKER PARK ITSELF AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          UM, THAT'S GONNA BE PART OF THE MITIGATION DISCUSSION WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CHAPTER 26 USE OF PARKLAND. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, AGAIN, IT'S GONNA BE TEMPORARY USE OF PARKLAND WHILE WE DO CONSTRUCTION. 
          WE'RE GONNA NEED AREAS, UM, TO STORE EQUIPMENT, STORE MATERIALS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, UM, IN THE PARK IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          AND WE'RE, AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THE PERMITTING PROCESS AND THE CHAPTER 26 PROCESS, IDENTIFYING WHAT THOSE AREAS ARE, MINIMIZING THEM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, BUT THEN ALSO PROVIDING IMPROVEMENTS, UH, YOU KNOW, TO THE PARK SO THAT WAY WE LEAVE THE AREA IN A BETTER CONDITION THAN WHEN WE FOUND IT. 
          AND UM, IS THERE ANY OTHER EXAMPLES OF A BRIDGE OF A THIS AGE BEING REHABILITATED OR REPLACED IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN WITHIN, YOU KNOW, THE LAST, ANY TIME THE MOST RECENT THAT COULD REASSURE PEOPLE THAT EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE OKAY? UM, , THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE OF A SIMILAR PROJECT WOULD'VE BEEN THE LAMAR BRIDGE. 
          AND WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT WAS THE FLUTER PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE ACROSS, UM, THE LAKE ON THAT SIDE. 
          SO IT'S NOT REALLY AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON MM-HMM . 
          UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED AND WHERE THE REALLY CHALLENGING PIECE OF IT IS, IS ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS HAS BEEN TO BUILD A SEPARATE PEDESTRIAN FACILITY JUST LIKE THE, THE, UH, FLUGER BRIDGE, WHICH IS FINE, BUT THAT DOESN'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM WITH THE BRIDGE ITSELF NEEDING 
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TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY REHABILITATED. 
          AND SO WHAT YOU GET INTO IS THAT INSTEAD OF BUILDING ONE STRUCTURE WITH A DIS ADDITIONAL PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE ON IT, YOU'RE THEN BUILDING TWO STRUCTURES AND SO THAT YOU'RE BASICALLY DOUBLING THE COST OF WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO. 
          MM-HMM . 
          IT'S NOT EXACTLY DOUBLE, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU CAN, UM, STANDARD REASON THERE. 
          SO THERE, AT SOME POINT YOU COME TO THE, TO THE REALIZATION THAT IS THIS THE BEST USE OF THE CITY'S LIMITED BOND DOLLARS TO BUILD TWO SEPARATE STRUCTURES WHEN WE COULD BUILD ONE STRUCTURE THAT HAS FACILITIES FOR EVERYONE ON IT. 
          AND THAT I'M SURE IS GOING TO BE PART OF THE ALTERNATIVES DISCUSSION AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THE NEPA PROCESS AND THE DISCUSSION OF, SHOULD WE JUST REHABILITATE THE STRUCTURE AS IT IS AND MOVE, UH, PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLES OFF OF THE STRUCTURE SOMEWHERE ELSE. 
          UM, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR TEAM IS GONNA BE WORKING THROUGH AS WE GO THROUGH THE, THE NEPA PROCESS AND, AND THOSE FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS. 
          OKAY. 
          I THINK HAVING THAT AS AN OPTION I THINK WOULD REASSURE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT , YOU'RE AT LEAST CONSIDERING IT. 
          UM, AND THE LAST THING I'LL HAVE TO SAY IS THAT, UM, IN THIS, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THIS IS A PRETTY PRELIMINARY, UM, DRAWING THAT WE HAVE HERE. 
          UH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CONCERN ABOUT THE MODE SEPARATION BETWEEN THE BIKES AND PEDESTRIAN, I FEEL LIKE THIS LOOKS LIKE IT'S A, LIKE AT LEAST 12 FEET ON THAT NORTH SIDE. 
          UM, AND I FEEL LIKE THAT COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED WITH SOME PAINT MM-HMM . 
          SO I THINK THAT, LIKE, I THINK I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF LIKE A TON OF TERRACOTTA OR SOMETHING THERE WOULD HELP, BUT IT DOES LOOK WIDE ENOUGH TO BE, UM, A SHARED USE PATH THERE THAT COULD, THAT COULD MAKE PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT MORE COMFORTABLE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          JUST TO CLARIFY SOMETHING ON THE, THOSE AREN'T TERRACOTTA, IT'S STAINED CONCRETE, STAINED TERRACOTTA IS SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE STAIN. 
          DON'T THEY CALL IT THE COLOR? THEY CALL IT COLLOQUIALLY. 
          PEOPLE CALL THOSE MIXED JUICE PASS THE TERRACOTTA PASS. 
          WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT RELATED. 
          I KNOW IT'S NOT TERRACOTTA ONE OF MY PET PEEVES. 
           . 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE WILL APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THANK YOU FOR, YEAH, THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, I DO WANNA PEOPLE ONLINE, I CAN'T SEE YOU, SO IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION, COULD YOU JUST HOLLER AT US AS I WOULD SAY IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M GONNA ASK ONE MORE QUESTION IF NO ONE ONLINE HAS A QUESTION. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I KNOW THERE WAS REFERENCE IN SOME OF THESE COUNCIL ACTIONS IN THE PAST TO COORDINATE WITH THE ZILKER MASTER PLAN AND THAT OBVIOUSLY WOULD'VE BEEN GREAT IF THAT WERE HERE TO GUIDE US. 
          AND THAT GOT REALLY COMPLICATED AND IT'S NOT SO FOR BETTER OR WORSE. 
          SO I WOULD SAY LIKE HOW, HOW DOES THAT, I MEAN, MAYBE SOMEDAY WE'LL DO THAT AGAIN. 
          I DON'T KNOW, LIKE HOW, HOW IS THAT FACTORING INTO THIS WHOLE PROCESS? OR ARE YOU DRAWING ON ANYTHING THAT WAS LEARNED IN THAT PROCESS? IN THIS PROCESS? YEAH, I MEAN WE'RE REALLY PARTNERING WITH, UM, PARKS AND RECREATION ON WHAT THEIR GUIDING DOCUMENTS ARE FOR ZILKER PARK. 
          IT'S PART OF THE CHAPTER 26, UH, PROCESS AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT AS WELL AS, UM, YOU KNOW, BRINGING THEM INTO THE REVIEW, THE DESIGNS AND HOW THE CONNECTIONS WORK AS YOU GET FURTHER INTO THE PARK AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO IT'S REALLY BECAUSE THERE ISN'T A GUIDING MASTER PLAN FOR ZILKER PARK, WE'RE A LITTLE BIT LIMITED IN TERMS OF WHAT THAT MEANS. 
          IT'S NOT SUPER CLEAR BECAUSE THAT PROCESS, AS YOU MENTIONED, UM, WENT ASTRAY. 
          AND SO WE REALLY RELY ON OUR PARTNERS IN, UH, PARKS AND REC TO HELP US GUIDE THROUGH THAT AND IDENTIFY WHERE THOSE CONNECTIONS NEED TO BE AND, AND WHAT THE PLAN IS FOR THE PARK. 
          THAT'S HELPFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEP. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M GONNA LOOK ONE MORE TIME FOR ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE ZILKER BRIDGE. 
          OKAY. 
          IF Y'ALL WANNA THEN TAKE US THROUGH THE RED BUD TRAIL BRIDGE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU GUYS. 
          SO, UM, I'M GONNA FIRST GO THROUGH RED BUD TRAIL. 
          UM, SO THIS STRUCTURE IS 78 YEARS OLD. 
          UM, IT IS CURRENTLY A TWO LANE ROADWAY, ONE LANE IN EACH DIRECTION AND TRAVELS OVER LAKE AUSTIN. 
          THE EXISTING BRIDGE HAS NO SHOULDERS, UM, BUT IT DOES HAVE ONE THREE FOOT SIDEWALK THAT'S ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE STRUCTURE. 
          THE EXISTING RAILINGS ARE WHAT'S CALLED FUNCTIONING FUNCTIONALLY OBSOLETE BY TXDOT, WHICH MEANS THAT THOSE RAILINGS ARE NO LONGER IN USE ON ANY NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. 
          AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THE VEHICULAR PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE TRAFFIC THAT THIS BRIDGE CARRIES, UM, THERE ARE ALSO EIGHT SEPARATE UTILITY LINES THAT ARE ATTACHED TO THE STRUCTURE. 
          YOU CAN SEE THEM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THAT PHOTO, UM, ON THE BRIDGE. 
          UM, AND SO THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO THIS STRUCTURE IS CARRYING ALL OF THOSE UTILITIES. 
          UM, AND ADDITIONALLY THIS STRUCTURE IS BASICALLY, IT'S THE PRIMARY MEANS OF ACCESS TO THE ULRICH WATER TREATMENT PLANT. 
          SO THE ORIGINAL SCOPE FOR THIS PROJECT, UM, WAS FULL BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION. 
          UM, AND IT INCLUDED ACTUALLY FOUR BRIDGES, UM, THAT WOULD CARRY BOTH HUMAN TRAFFIC 
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AND THOSE UTILITY LINES. 
          SO THERE'S A TYPICAL SECTION IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER. 
          UM, THE MAIN STRUCTURES WOULD HAVE, AGAIN, ONE LANE IN EACH DIRECTION FOR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, EIGHT FOOT SHOULDERS, WHICH WAS SOMETHING THAT THE CURRENT BRIDGE DOES NOT HAVE, AND THEN A 12 FOOT SHARED USE PATH. 
          UM, IN ADDITION, THE ORIGINAL SCOPE INCLUDES A 14 FOOT UTILITY CORRIDOR TO ALLOW FOR UTILITY MAINTENANCE WITHOUT INTERRUPTING THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC ON THE BRIDGE AND TO LET THOSE FOLKS GET TO THEIR UTILITY SAFELY. 
          SO THE PROJECT ALSO REQUIRES EXTENSIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL PLANNING IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN ACCESS TO A R DURING CONSTRUCTION. 
          UM, SO, YOU KNOW, SIMILAR TO BARN SPRINGS ROAD BRIDGE, THIS IS NOT A BRIDGE THAT WE CAN JUST TAKE OUT OF SERVICE. 
          UM, AND SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE COST DRIVERS. 
          THE TOTAL PROJECT COST FOR THIS ORIGINAL SCOPE, UM, WAS $130 MILLION, WHICH LEAVES AN UNFUNDED NEED OF $77 MILLION. 
          SO RECOGNIZING THE FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS THAT CURRENTLY EXIST HERE, THE PROJECT TEAM HIRED A STRUCTURAL ENGINEER LATE, LATE LAST YEAR TO PERFORM A BRIDGE ASSESSMENT TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO REHABILITATE RATHER THAN REPLACE THE EXISTING STRUCTURE WITH THE POTENTIAL OPTION OF WIDENING TO PROVIDE SAFER ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WALKING AND BIKING. 
          UM, THANKFULLY, UM, WE HAVE A DIFFERENT SITUATION HERE THAN, THAN WHAT WE HAVE ON THE BARTON SPRINGS ROAD BRIDGE. 
          AND THAT ASSESSMENT DETERMINED THAT YES, BY RE MAKING PAIRS AND INVESTING IN ONGOING MAINTENANCE, THAT WE COULD INCREASE THE LIFESPAN OF THE STEEL BEAMS, UM, BY AN ADDITIONAL 90 YEARS AND THE CONCRETE ELEMENTS FOR 50 YEARS, WHICH GIVES US IN TOTAL EXTENDED SERVICE LIFE OF 50 YEARS. 
          SO THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER ALSO DETERMINED THAT THE EXISTING BRIDGE DOES HAVE THE CAPACITY TO BE WIDENED BY SEVERAL FEET, WHICH GIVES US THE OPTION OF PROVIDING IMPROVED, UH, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC IF WE SHOULD ELECT TO REHABILITATE THE BRIDGE ON THAT STRUCTURE. 
          UM, THIS COULD BE DONE SEVERAL WAYS. 
          UM, IT COULD BE, WE COULD WIDEN THE STRUCTURE BY BASICALLY LEAVING THE COLUMNS AND ALL OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT GOES DOWN INTO THE CREEK ALONE AND JUST WIDENING THE DECK. 
          UM, OR WE COULD GET EVEN MORE ADDITIONAL WIDTH BY PUTTING ADDITIONAL COLUMNS IN THE WATER, UM, AND, AND WIDEN IT EVEN MORE. 
          SO THERE ARE SOME OPTIONS AND SOME GOOD NEWS THERE. 
          UM, CDS IS NOW WORKING WITH TPW AND THE CONSULTANT TO REVISE THE SCOPE TO BOTH REHABILITATE AND PRESERVE THE EXISTING STRUCTURE AND WIDEN THE BRIDGE ENOUGH TO PROVIDE SAFER BIKE AND PED ACCESS WITH MINIMAL IMPACT TO THE CREEK. 
          UM, AND THIS SCOPE WILL BE ACHIEVABLE WITHIN OUR EXISTING BUDGET. 
          SO WHERE WE ARE NOW IS THAT WE'VE REQUESTED A PROPOSAL FROM OUR CONSULTANT, UM, AND ARE WORKING ON GETTING SCHEDULING AND COST ESTIMATE DATA FROM THAT DESIGN CONSULTANT AND EXPECT TO RECEIVE THAT VERY, VERY SOON. 
          UM, SO THAT IS THE LATEST ON RED BUD. 
          AND WE CAN STOP HERE OR THE NEXT PROJECT I'M GONNA COVER IS THE WISHBONE. 
          WE CAN MOVE ON TO THAT. 
          I THINK WE'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND STOP HERE REAL QUICKLY. 
          UM, I I DO HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. 
          SO, UM, FIRST QUESTION IS WHERE THERE WAS THIS BOND FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT, BUT COULD YOU REMIND ME WHICH BONDS WERE FUNDING THIS PROJECT? YES, I BELIEVE IT'S PRIMARILY THE 2020 BOND. 
          2020. 
          THAT'S 18. 
          18 20 18. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          AND, UM, SO THAT MONEY WILL BE USED FOR THE REHAB NOW, IS THAT THE THINKING AND IS IT, IS IT THINKING THAT THE MONEY COULD COVER THE FULL COST OF REHAB OR, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW THE COST OF REHAB YET UNTIL WE WE SCOPE IT A BIT MORE. 
          YES. 
          WE, WE HAVE INITIAL COST ESTIMATES, UM, SO WE HAVEN'T, ONCE WE HAVE THAT PROPOSAL EXECUTED WITH THAT CONSULTANT AND WE'VE LOCKED DOWN THE SCOPE, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF LOCKING DOWN THE SCOPE. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE FIRM NUMBERS, BUT IT SHOULD EASILY COVER THIS. 
          WE'RE PROBABLY 12, $15 MILLION THERE. 
          WHAT, UM, AND IF YOU MENTION THIS, I, I APOLOGIZE. 
          SO HOW MANY FEET WOULD IT BE WIDENED FOR THE SIDEWALK OR IT'S UP TO, IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER WE ADD MORE COLUMN. 
          YOU DID ANSWER THAT. 
          THAT'S RIGHT. 
          THAT'S RIGHT. 
          YES. 
          YOU SAID A MINIMUM OF WHAT? LIKE IF EVEN IF WE DIDN'T ADD MORE COLUMNS, WHAT WOULD IT BE? WE'RE LOOKING AT AT LEAST THREE TO FOUR FEET. 
          UM, IT'S POSSIBLE WE'RE LOOKING AT OPTIONS TO GET MORE THAN THAT. 
          SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE STILL KIND OF EXPLORING, UM, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE ALL OF THAT OUTLINED BEFORE THE CONSULTANT STARTS WORK SO THAT, UM, WE DON'T GET INTO ANY ISSUES WHERE WE'RE DOING REDESIGN LATER. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, AND IN TERMS OF THE UTILITIES THAT ARE RUNNING THERE, UM, WOULD IN THIS, UH, MODEL, LIKE HOW WOULD THAT BE AFFECTED? HOW WOULD THOSE BE ADDRESSED? RIGHT, SO THOSE UTILITIES DO NEED TO REMAIN ON THIS STRUCTURE. 
          UM, AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING AND WORKING THROUGH WITH THE CONSULTANT TO 
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MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ACCOUNTING FOR THAT. 
          SO THEY WOULD HAVE TO STAY, UM, AND THEY WILL NEED TO BE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE STRUCTURE, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MOVE THEM MOVING THE UTILITIES. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH, I MEAN THAT MAKES LOTS OF SENSE. 
          UM, I I'LL JUST SAY THAT LIKE IF ZILKER PARK IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, CHALLENGE PEDESTRIAN ZONE, THIS IS LIKE THE X GAMES OF PEDESTRIAN ZONE, LIKE , I DON'T KNOW, LIKE EXTREME PEDESTRIAN, UH,  MOMENTS. 
          UM, I DO IT BECAUSE I'M CRAZY PROBABLY, BUT, UM, AND IT'S A PEOPLE PLACE WANNA BE, PEOPLE WANNA BE YES. 
          YOU KNOW, WITH THE DOG PARK AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO, UM, I THINK THIS, THIS CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH. 
          UM, UM, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK IF WE CAN GET A LITTLE BIT MORE MILEAGE OUT OF WHAT WE HAVE, I'M GONNA ASK ONE LAST QUESTION AND THEN THEN GO TO OTHERS. 
          BUT LIKE WITH THE COMMUNITY, THERE'S, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THIS BRIDGE FOR DIFFERENT WAYS. 
          AGAIN, THERE'S SOME RECREATIONAL USE THAT WE SEE, UM MM-HMM . 
          THERE'S, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT SORT OF, THIS IS A PRETTY KEY ACCESS INTO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          I KNOW THEY HAVE, I'M SURE THEY HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT THAT. 
          WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE IDEA OF LEAVING IT ALONE OR BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE EXPANDING A LITTLE BIT AND REHABBING IT? IS THAT, HAS THERE BEEN SOME ENGAGEMENT DONE AROUND THAT YET? NOT YET. 
          WE STARTED THIS PROCESS, UM, LATE LAST YEAR. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE LIKE ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS. 
          UM, I THINK, I THINK IN GENERAL, PEOPLE LIKE YOU SAID, WANT TO SEE IMPROVEMENTS AND SO IF WE CAN GET THEM FASTER, I THINK THINK IN GENERAL PEOPLE WOULD BE IN SUPPORTIVE OF THAT. 
          HAS THERE BEEN, I ALMOST HATE TO SAY THIS, LIKE I SUPPORT WIDENING THIS FOR PEDESTRIANS. 
          HAS THERE BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION OF LIKE ADDITIONAL CAR TRAFFIC OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? OR IS THAT NOT SOMETHING THE COMMUNITY HAS SEEMED TO BE INTERESTED IN THAT THAT WAS NOT EVEN PART OF THE, THE REPLACEMENT ACTUALLY. 
          SO WE WERE GONNA MAINTAIN THE SAME YEAH. 
          ONE LANE IN EACH DIRECTION. 
          WE WERE GONNA HAVE THE EIGHT FOOT SHOULDERS, UM, WHICH IS VERY, VERY, YOU KNOW, HELPFUL PARTICULARLY FOR TRUCKS AND WHATNOT GOING TO ULRICH. 
          UM, AND SO YOU KNOW THAT WITH IT NOT BEING PART OF THE REPLACEMENT, UM, I WOULD NEED A LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, I, I WOULD GUESS THAT THERE WERE NOT TRAFFIC COUNTS THAT WARRANTED IT. 
          GREAT. 
          THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR. 
          UM, UM, I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. 
          UM, YEAH. 
          COMMISSIONER KAMAN, UM, HAS THERE BEEN CONTRIBUTION FROM NEARBY OTHER JURISDICTIONS TO THE COST OF THIS PROJECT AT ALL? THERE IS NOT. 
          OKAY. 
           WHAT A, WHAT A APT QUESTION. 
          , UM, UH, I'LL LOOK AROUND FOR OTHERS. 
          OH, THOSE ONLINE I CAN KIND OF SEE YOU, BUT PLEASE JUST HOLLER IF YOU, I KEEP SAYING THAT I'S JUST THE NORTH CAROLINA IN ME. 
          UH, PLEASE SAY SOMETHING IF YOU NEED ANYTHING. 
          YEAH. 
          COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER. 
          SO, UM, I'M CURIOUS, UH, AND I KNOW YOU SAID THE PLAN IS TO EXTEND THAT, UH, UH, PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY ALL THE WAY UP TO LAKE AUSTIN BOULEVARD. 
          WHAT ARE YOUR CONSTRAINTS AFTER THE BRIDGE IN TERMS OF HOW WIDE THAT RIGHT OF WAY IS? I THINK WE'VE GOT YOU UT PROPERTY, IT'S CONSTRAINED. 
          CONSTRAINED, PRETTY CONSTRAINED. 
          YES. 
          IS IT? WELL, YOU ANSWERED THAT FIRST AND THEN I'LL FOLLOW. 
          SO IF YOU, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA ON THE NORTH SIDE, THERE'S ACTUALLY A PRETTY STEEP, THERE'S A WALL RIGHT THERE, A NATURAL UHHUH, A BLUFF, UM, ON THE SOUTH SIDE, MUCH OF THAT PROPERTY IS OWNED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. 
          UM, AND SO EVEN WITH THE REHAB OPTION, WE ARE LOOKING AT, OKAY, HOW CAN WE WORK WITH SIDEWALKS TO, 'CAUSE THERE'S ACTUALLY NOT EVEN CONTINUOUS SIDEWALK TO GET CONNECTIVITY ALL THE WAY TO LAKE AUSTIN BOULEVARD. 
          UM, BUT IT IS PRETTY CONSTRAINED. 
          SO, UM, HAVE THERE BEEN ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH UT ABOUT, ABOUT, I MEAN, LIKE THE BRECKENRIDGE APARTMENTS DON'T EVEN COME CLOSE TO ABUTTING THAT RIGHT OF WAY, RIGHT. 
          SO HAVE THERE BEEN ANY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY GIVE US SOME RIGHT OF WAY, YOU KNOW, FIVE FEET FOR AN EXTRA SIDEWALK AND WE BUILD A CONNECTION DIRECTLY INTO THE BRECKENRIDGE APARTMENTS? THEY CAN, YES. 
          THERE, THERE'S BEEN QUITE A BIT OF CONVERSATIONS AND THEY CONTINUE WITH, WITH UT, SO YES. 
          UM, YES. 
          OKAY. 
          ANYONE ONLINE WITH QUESTIONS? OKAY. 
          HEARING NONE, WE'LL GO TO WISHBONE BRIDGE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO THE WISHBONE BRIDGE WAS A PRIMARILY A 2020 BOND FUNDED PROJECT. 
          UM, AND IT WAS COMPLETED AT THE END OF LAST YEAR. 
          UM, THE BRIDGE AND THE UNITY UNDER PRESS, WHICH IS PART OF THE PROJECT, WE'RE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, UM, JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, THIS PAST FEBRUARY. 
          AND THIS PROJECT REALLY IS ONE OF OUR SUCCESS STORIES FROM THE 2020 BOND PROGRAM. 
          SO, A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THE PROJECT. 
          UM, THE EASTERN END OF THE ANN AND ROY BUTLER TRAIL HAS BEEN A PINCH POINT ON THE TRAIL FOR DECADES. 
          AND PRIOR TO 2021, THE TRAIL CONSISTED OF A FOUR FOOT SIDEWALK ALONG PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD THAT WENT OVER THE, THE CURRENT PLEASANT VALLEY BRIDGE. 
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UM, THAT SIDEWALK ALSO DOUBLED AS MAINTENANCE ACCESS FOR THE DAM. 
          UM, AND SO IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN ON THE SIDEWALK, YOU DON'T NOTICE IT UNLESS SOMEONE IS ACTUALLY WORKING ON THE DAM AND THEY OPEN ONE OF THE DOORS THAT GIVES THEM ACCESS TO THE GATES AND THAT DOOR BLOCKS THE ENTIRE SIDEWALK OR THE, THE OLD SIDEWALK, IT WOULD BLOCK IT. 
          UM, SO LESS THAN IDEAL SITUATION FOR KIND OF OUR, YOU KNOW, CENTER TRAIL HERE IN AUSTIN. 
          UM, SO THE INITIAL OBJECTIVE FOR THIS PROJECT WAS TO PROVIDE SAFE ACCESS ACROSS LADY BIRD LAKE FOR PEOPLE BOTH USING THE TRAIL AND FOR PEOPLE TRAVELING NORTH AND SOUTH. 
          UM, EAST OF I 35, UM, BECAUSE THE, ACTUALLY THE NEXT CROSSING IS I 35 TO THE WEST. 
          SO, UM, WE ARE A LITTLE BIT CONSTRAINED THERE. 
          SO ANOTHER IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PROJECT IS THE UNITY UNDERPASS. 
          THE ORIGINAL UNDERPASS, UM, WAS A FIVE BY SEVEN BOX CALL CULVERT, UM, THAT WAS VERY POORLY LIT AND, AND OFTEN WET. 
          AND, UM, JUST NOT REALLY A VERY COMFORTABLE EXPERIENCE IF YOU'VE EVER USED IT TO GET TO GUERRERO PARK, UH, FROM THE TRAIL, UM, THE PROJECT REPLACED THAT CULVERT WITH, UM, A PARABOLA SHAPED STRUCTURE THAT WAS 16 FEET IN HEIGHT AND 30 FEET WIDE. 
          UM, THE ARTWORK THAT YOU SEE IN THIS PHOTO, UM, WAS PART OF AN A IPP, WHICH IS ART AND PUBLIC PLACES INSTALLATION. 
          UM, AND IT'S WAS DONE BY REGINALD ADAMS. AND SO IT WAS A COMMUNITY, UM, COMMUNITY SUPPORTED MOSAIC. 
          THERE WERE ACTUALLY, UM, SEVERAL COMMUNITY SESSIONS WHERE FOLKS GOT TO, UM, PARTAKE IN THE MOSAICS. 
          UM, AND THEN HIS TEAM ALSO DID THE PAINTINGS AND THE, THE LIMESTONE, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE RIVER THAT YOU SEE DOWN AT THE BOTTOM. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO A LITTLE BIT OF, UM, KIND OF THE HISTORY OF THIS PROJECT. 
          UM, SO THE PROJECT BEGAN IN, IN 2018 WITH A PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING STUDY. 
          SO THAT STUDY WAS FUNDED BY A COMBINATION OF BOTH QUARTER SENT FUNDS AND 2016, UM, LOCAL MOBILITY FUNDS. 
          THE PRELIMINARY PHASE INCLUDED VERY HEAVY ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PUBLIC. 
          SO SHORTLY AFTER KICKING OFF THE PRELIMINARY STUDY, WE HELD OUR FIRST PUBLIC MEETING. 
          AND IN THAT MEETING WE BASICALLY INTRODUCED THE PROJECTS, SAY WE'RE LOOKING TO IMPROVE THE CROSSING HERE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE TRAIL, AND GATHERED GENERAL FEEDBACK ON WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS WERE. 
          UM, THAT INITIAL MEETING WAS EXTREMELY WELL ATTENDED. 
          UM, IT WAS A PACKED HOUSE, UM, AND WE CONSISTENTLY HEARD SUPPORT FOR A LARGER, SAFER, UM, CROSSING IN THIS LOCATION. 
          SO WE TOOK THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THAT MEETING, UM, AND A SURVEY THAT WE FOLLOWED UP WITH AFTER THE MEETING, UM, AND USED THAT TO DEVELOP GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT INFORMED THE PROJECT AND ALSO HELPED US DEVELOP, UM, A SET OF FIVE INITIAL ALTERNATIVES FOR HOW WE COULD DEVELOP A CROSSING. 
          AND THOSE ALTERNATIVES RANGE FROM WIDENING THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, BUILDING A STRUCTURE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE DAM, BUILDING A STRUCTURE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE DAM. 
          UM, SO, UM, WENT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND CAME UP WITH THOSE ALTERNATIVES. 
          UM, AND THEN HAD A SECOND PUBLIC MEETING TO PRESENT THOSE ALTERNATIVES TO THE PUBLIC. 
          THAT SECOND MEETING WAS OPEN HOUSE STYLE WHERE WE HAD BOARDS SET UP WITH EACH ALTERNATIVE. 
          WE ALSO, UM, PRESENTED OPTIONS ON WHAT THE STRUCTURES COULD LOOK LIKE AESTHETICALLY, UH, WHETHER OR NOT, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC WAS INTERESTED IN SEATING ON THE BRIDGE, UM, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS, WHAT LIGHTING COULD LOOK LIKE. 
          UM, AGAIN, IT WAS A VERY, VERY WELL ATTENDED PUBLIC MEETING. 
          UM, AND AT, AFTER YOU WENT THROUGH THE, THE BOARD OPTIONS, WE ACTUALLY HAD A TABLE SET UP WHERE YOU COULD WRITE YOUR OWN ENTRY ESSENTIALLY. 
          IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE MISSED? WHAT WOULD YOU ENVISION THIS BRIDGE LOOKING LIKE? SO THE WISHBONE CONFIGURATION THAT CURRENTLY STANDS TODAY, IT WAS ACTUALLY NOT ON ANY OF THOSE BOARDS THAT THE CITY, UH, PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC. 
          THAT OPTION WAS DRAWN IN BY NOT ONE, BUT I THINK WE COUNTED AND IT WAS A LITTLE OVER A DOZEN INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT SAID, OH, I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE A STRUCTURE THAT CONNECTS NORTH AND SOUTH AND ALSO CONNECTS BACK TO THE WEST. 
          UM, AND SO I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO TELL BECAUSE IT REALLY SHOWS HOW WHEN YOU DO PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT EARLY AND YOU DO IT EARNESTLY THAT YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET REALLY GOOD IDEAS, YOU CAN GET BUY-IN FROM THE PUBLIC, UM, AND JUST OVERALL PRODUCE A BETTER, YOU KNOW, INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE CITY. 
          SO, UM, I ALWAYS TELL THAT STORY 
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'CAUSE I LOVE THE FACT THAT WE WERE COLLABORATIVE THERE, UM, WITH THE PUBLIC. 
          SO AFTER THE SECOND MEETING, UM, WE BROUGHT THAT OPTION OF THE WISHBONE BRIDGE TO OUR DESIGNER AND OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND EVERYONE AGREED THAT IT WAS THE BEST PATH FORWARD, UM, TO PROVIDE THE ACCESS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC WANTED HERE. 
          SO AT THAT POINT, WE DEVELOPED OUR PREFERRED RECOMMENDATION, UM, AND THEN WE WENT BACK TO THE PUBLIC A THIRD TIME WHILE WE WERE STILL IN PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING, UM, FOR WHAT I KIND OF CALL THE DID IT, DID WE GET IT RIGHT MEETING? SO HERE'S WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO, GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK. 
          UNLIKE THE FIRST TWO MEETINGS, UM, THAT THIRD MEETING WAS NOT VERY WELL ATTENDED AT ALL. 
          UM, WE TOOK THAT TO MEAN THAT YES, WE GOT IT RIGHT. 
          UM, WE DIDN'T  WE WEREN'T HEARING MUCH. 
          UM, AND SO WE MOVED, WE MOVED FORWARD AT THAT POINT, WE WRAPPED UP PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING. 
          UM, THAT WAS IN MARCH OF 2020. 
          UM, SO THE PROJECT WENT ON HOLD BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE FUNDING FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. 
          THE FUNDING FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION CAME WITH A PASSAGE OF THE 2020, UM, BOND, THE WORK THAT WAS DONE IN PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING. 
          WE BASICALLY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WE WERE BUILDING, UM, HOW WE WERE GONNA DO IT. 
          WE WERE ABLE TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING WITH THAT PROJECT. 
          SO WE STARTED DESIGN IN, I WROTE MAY IN MY NOTES, BUT I BELIEVE IT WAS MARCH OF NOTE, MAY OF 2021, UM, MOVED THROUGH DESIGN AND WERE ABLE TO GET A CONSTRUCTION PERMIT IN DECEMBER OF 2023, WHICH WAS ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS. 
          UM, FOR CITY PROJECTS OF THIS SIZE AND COMPLEXITY WHERE YOU'RE BUILDING A STRUCTURE, UM, JUST UPSTREAM OF AN ACTIVE DAM, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT WAS, UM, TOOK SOME DEDICATION AND DETERMINATION AND EVERYONE REALLY WORKING TOGETHER TO DO IT. 
          SO THEN WE STARTED CONSTRUCTION, UM, IN THE SUMMER OF 2024. 
          UM, THE PROJECT INITIALLY HAD A CONSTRUCTION DURATION OF 24 MONTHS, UM, BUT THE CONTRACTOR ACTUALLY WAS ABLE TO REACH SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION IN DECEMBER OF 25, WHICH WAS SIX MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. 
          SO THE PROJECT, UM, JUST A FEW KIND OF LIKE OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT. 
          UM, THIS PROJECT WAS OUR FIRST MAJOR INVITATION FOR BID PROJECT FROM THE 2020 BOND TO ACTUALLY REACH BID AND AND CONSTRUCTION. 
          UM, AGAIN, WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO CUT THE CONSTRUCTION DURATION, UM, BY SIX MONTHS. 
          UM, AND WE WERE ABLE TO, UH, FINISH THE CORE SCOPE OF WORK, UM, USING ONLY 1% OF THAT INITIAL CONTINGENCY. 
          SO FOR PROJECTS LIKE THIS, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO TAKE A STEP BACK AND LIKE, LOOK AT WHAT WENT RIGHT, WHAT WENT WRONG, UM, AND THE PICTURE THAT YOU SEE ON YOUR SCREEN IS, IS JUST A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THAT. 
          SO WHAT THIS PICTURE IS SHOWING IS, UM, A TEMPORARY DOCK THAT THE CONTRACTOR CONSTRUCTED IN ORDER TO BASICALLY FINISH THIS PROJECT SIX MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. 
          UM, BUT WHAT'S SIGNIFICANT HERE IS THAT THIS DOCK WAS NOT PART OF OUR DESIGN PLANS, UM, WASN'T PART OF OUR PERMANENT PLAN SET. 
          IT, WE, WE DID PROVIDE A DOCK IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION. 
          UM, BUT WHEN THE CONTRACTOR WON THE AWARD BEFORE HE STARTED CONSTRUCTION, CAME TO THE DESIGN TEAM WITH A PROPOSAL FOR HOW HE COULD GET THINGS DONE MORE QUICKLY, WHICH WAS TO BUILD THIS TEMPORARY DOCK. 
          UM, SO THE DESIGN TEAM, UH, QUICKLY GOT EVERYONE ON BOARD. 
          WE COORDINATED WITH PERMITTING, WE COORDINATED WITH EVERYONE THAT WE NEEDED TO, TO GET THIS IMPROVED BEFORE WE ACTUALLY ISSUED, UM, NOTICE TO PROCEED ON CONSTRUCTION. 
          IN ADDITION, UM, DURING CONSTRUCTION, WE NOTICED THAT THIS DOCK ACTUALLY HAS A PERFECT VIEW OF DOWNTOWN. 
          AND IN ORDER TO CONSTRUCT IT, SOME TEMPORARY FOUNDATIONS HAD TO BE PUT IN THE WATER, BUT THERE'S NO REASON THAT THOSE TEMPORARY FOUNDATIONS COULD NOT BECOME PERMANENT FOUNDATIONS. 
          SO AT THE END OF THE PROJECT, YOU KNOW, WITH THE SAVINGS WE HAD, UM, I ACTUALLY WORKED WITH THE CONTRACTOR TO DEVELOP A WAY TO BOTH MAKE THIS AREA WITH THIS BEAUTIFUL VIEW ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, USE SOME OF THOSE FUNDS. 
          AND SO WE ARE ACTUALLY GONNA BE FINISHED IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO, UM, WITH WHAT THE PROJECT TEAM'S NOW CALLING THE SKYLINE OVERLOOK. 
          UM, SO THERE'S GONNA BE, IT'S GOT, UM, LIKE A GREAT DECKING AND IT'LL BE KIND OF AN OVERS SHAPED OVERLOOK RIGHT HERE THAT THE PUBLIC WILL BE ABLE TO USE. 
          SO, UM, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS WITH THAT. 
          GREAT. 
          I, UM, I THINK THIS IS, AS YOU NOTED, ONE OF THE GREAT SUCCESS STORIES, SO I REALLY WANNA CONGRATULATE THE TEAM ON THAT PROJECT, BUT I'LL LOOK TO OTHERS IF THEY HAVE A MORE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS. 
          GREAT. 
          WE LOVE IT. 
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COMMISSIONER BUFFO, I, WE CAN'T QUITE HEAR YOU. 
          OH, YOU CAN JUST, I THINK IF YOU JUST SPEAK UP A LITTLE CLOSER, YOU'LL BE FINE. 
          IS THAT BETTER? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, I ALSO, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE BRIDGE, UM, AND I'M EXCITED TO SEE THAT OVERLOOK. 
          I'VE ALSO BEEN PEEKING THROUGH THAT AND I SUGGESTED IT TO SOMEBODY WHO WAS LOOKING FOR A PROPOSAL SPOT . 
          THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. 
          AWESOME. 
          UH, YEAH. 
          COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER, I WILL ADD TO THE APPLAUSE FOR BOTH TPW AND CDS. 
          I MEAN, JUST FAR AND AWAY ONE OF THE BEST PROJECTS THE CITY HAS COMPLETED, CERTAINLY IN, IN NEAR TERM, JUST GREAT EXECUTION, ALL THE WAY FROM PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT TO CONSTRUCTION TO DESIGN. 
          UM, I WAS ACTUALLY WONDERING IF I COULD ASK YOU ABOUT A DIFFERENT BRIDGE NOW THAT WE'VE KIND OF HIT THE END. 
          UM, SO, UH, IN THE BTA TRANSPORTATION AND ELECTRIFICATION WORKING GROUP AND ALSO THE PROJECT, UM, PROJECT REVIEW BOARD RECOMMENDATION ACCOUNTS ON THE BOND, UM, THEY BOTH HIGHLIGHTED THE WILLIAM CANNON BRIDGE FOR I THINK $8 MILLION. 
          I CAUGHT SOME OF THE NOTES OF Y'ALL'S EXPLANATION TO THE BTA AS TO WHY THAT PROJECT WAS UNIQUE AND KIND OF NEEDED IN AN UPCOMING BOND. 
          BUT I WAS WONDERING IF YOU GUYS COULD JUST E EXPLAIN THAT TO US AS TO WHY THAT PROJECT MAY BE A LITTLE UNIQUE. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THE WILLIAM CANNON BRIDGE IS ACTUALLY A BRIDGE OVER, UH, THE RAILROAD. 
          SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. 
          IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK OF A, A TRADITIONAL BRIDGE STRUCTURE. 
          AND THE ISSUE THERE IS REALLY WITH THE APPROACHES ON THE EAST AND WEST SIDE, UM, WE'VE ALREADY COMPLETED WORK ON THE WEST SIDE. 
          I THINK IT'S RIGHT IN TERMS OF SUPPORTING THAT, UM, APPROACH. 
          AND IT'S, UM, ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT'S BEEN IDENTIFIED BY TPW AS A PRIORITY. 
          UM, OBVIOUSLY WITH THE FUNDING CONSTRAINTS THAT, UM, WE'RE OPERATING UNDER IN TERMS OF THE PROJECT NEEDS FAR OUTPACING THE FUNDING THAT THE CITY HAS AVAILABLE. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS WE ARE WORKING WITH, WITH TPW IS ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF FUNDING THAT PROJECT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT CAN MOVE FORWARD AND THOSE SAFETY ISSUES CAN BE ADDRESSED, UM, WITHOUT HAVING TO TAKE OUT ADDITIONAL BOND FUNDING TO DO THAT. 
          WHERE, WHERE IS THIS BRIDGE? IT'S WILLIAM CANNON, UM, SOUTH BETWEEN MORE ABOUT THAN I DO. 
          YEAH. 
          PRETTY CLOSE TO MANS SH UH, IT'S A VERY TALL STRUCTURE. 
          IT GOES OVER RAILROADS. 
          THERE'S APARTMENT COMPLEX, I CAN PICTURE IT. 
          UM, IS IT NEAR LIKE CROCKETT HIGH SCHOOL? IS THAT ONE THAT THE ONE OR DIFFERENT? MY, AM I GETTING MY STREETS CROSSED? OH, IT'S BETWEEN, I DON'T KNOW, SOUTH ROAD MAN, CHECK IN FIRST. 
          YEAH. 
          FIND THE RAILROAD MAN CHECK FIRST, AND THAT, THAT'S HOW I ALWAYS FIND IT ON A MAP. 
          THAT STRUCTURE. 
          UM, THE, THE WALLS, THE RETAINING WALLS ON EITHER SIDE OF THAT STRUCTURE ARE SOMETHING CALLED MSE MECHANICALLY STABILIZED EARTH WALLS. 
          UM, AND IT WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE FIRST USES OF THAT TYPE OF WALL. 
          AND SO WE'RE SEEING SOME SHIFTING OF THE WALLS AND THAT'S WHAT THE PROJECT WOULD BE REPAIRING. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S WILLIAM CANNON JUST EAST OF MANCHAC HIGH SCHOOL. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I DID, THAT WAS WHAT I WAS THINKING. 
          THE WHERE THE HIGH SCHOOL IS BASICALLY JUST YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, I HAVE A MORE GENERAL QUESTION ABOUT JUST LIKE THESE THREE BRIDGES AND LIKE LESSONS LEARNED AND STUFF. 
          UM, FOR EXTREMELY LARGE PROJECTS LIKE THE, UH, RED BUD BRIDGE AND THE WISHBONE BRIDGE, THESE WERE NAMED IN THE BOND. 
          CORRECT. 
          UM, IS THAT APPROACH THAT YOU THINK WAS SUCCESSFUL AND THAT YOU WANT TO DO AGAIN, OR ARE PROJECTS LIKE THESE, I KNOW WE TEND TO FOCUS A LOT ON PROGRAMMATIC FUNDING BEING JUST LIKE SO MUCH MORE FLEXIBLE, ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF THE RED BUD BRIDGE, IT JUST REALLY BEING INFEASIBLE TO DO, UH, THE WORK IN INITIALLY ENVISIONED IN THE CURRENT BUDGET. 
          SO, UM, WHAT WOULD YOUR APPROACH BE? AGAIN, I, I THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT BALANCE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LARGE PRO PROJECTS, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE PROGRAMMATIC STUFF IS RELATIVELY SMALL. 
          WHEN I SAY RELATIVELY SMALL, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE ASSIGNMENTS ARE USUALLY ON THE ORDER OF $2 MILLION OR LESS, BUT WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT BRIDGE REPLACEMENTS AND THINGS, THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A GONNA JUST BY ITS NATURE BE A MORE SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT. 
          SO, UM, RED, BUT IS ACTUALLY A GREAT EXAMPLE BECAUSE THE WAY THE BOND LANGUAGE WAS WRITTEN, THE ACTUAL PROPOSITION IS FOR, UH, REPAIRS TO EXISTING CITY STRUCTURES AND BRIDGES. 
          SO IT, IT LISTS RED BUD AS A EXAMPLE PROJECT, UM, BUT IT DOESN'T FULLY PRECLUDE THAT FUNDING ONLY GOING TO RED BUD. 
          UM, OBVIOUSLY YOU RUN INTO AN ISSUE WHEN YOU HAVE, UM, A, A GAP THAT BIG IN FUNDING WHERE IT'S LIKE, WELL NOW WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? ARE WE GOING TO PROCEED AND GO BACK FOR MORE FUNDING FOR THIS BIGGER PROJECT? OR ARE WE GONNA WORK WITH THE FUNDING THAT WE HAVE? AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS. 
          UM, REDBUD IS A, AN EXAMPLE OF A PROJECT THAT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR A WHILE AND JUST BECAUSE OF THE TIME IT'S TAKEN FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT REASONS FROM AN 
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ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING STANDPOINT, FROM A RIGHT OF WAY STANDPOINT, UM, FROM A, A LOT OF THINGS BECAUSE IT HAS TAKEN SO LONG OBVIOUSLY, THAT THOSE COSTS HAVE INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY, ESPECIALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, DUE TO PANDEMIC RELATED PRICES INCREASES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO, UM, IT'S IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE FUTURE, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KIND OF HAVE BOTH, RIGHT? YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT PROGRAMMATIC MONEY THAT HAS THE FLEXIBILITY WHERE YOU'RE ABLE TO, UM, YOU KNOW, DELIVER THOSE, UM, SMALLER SCALE PROJECTS, UH, QUICKLY. 
          BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES IN THE CITY THAT YOU NEED TO ADDRESS, AND YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO NAME THOSE PROJECTS AND SAY, THIS IS THE PROJECT THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO FOR THE 2020 BOND. 
          THE, THE WISHBONE BRIDGE WAS A NAMED PROJECT IN THE MAJOR CIP BUCKET. 
          SO THE WAY WE DID THAT ONE IS WE IDENTIFIED $102 MILLION FOR WHAT WE CALL MAJOR CIP PROJECTS, AND THEN LISTED FIVE PROJECTS IN THERE AS THE EXAMPLES WITHOUT SPECIFIC DOLLARS TIED TO EACH ONE. 
          SO IT GIVES US THOSE PROJECTS, BUT THEN SOME FLEXIBILITY IN THE SCOPE AND COST AS WE MOVE FORWARD, UM, WITH IDENTIFYING THOSE OTHERS. 
          I, I'LL SAY THE CITY IS WORKING ON LIKE BETTER BRIDGE PLANNING. 
          LIKE WE HEARD LIKE A, YOU KNOW, A LOT RECENTLY ABOUT LIKE, THE CITY'S EFFORTS AT ONE OF OUR RECENT MEETINGS ABOUT CREATING SORT OF MORE OF A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THE BRIDGES AND THE NEEDS AND THE ASSESSMENTS. 
          AND SO I THINK THAT, UM, DEFINITELY SEEMS LIKE THERE'S PROGRESS BEING MADE IN THAT AREA, UM, TO SORT OF UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE WITH THESE BRIDGES AND WHAT THE NEXT SORT OF BEST PRIORITIES ARE. 
          UM, MY FINAL COMMENT ON EVERYTHING IS WE WOULD, I KNOW THAT THIS BODY WOULD ABSOLUTELY WANNA HEAR BACK, UM, PARTICULARLY ON ZILKER, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WE ALL, AS OUR CONVERSATION ACKNOWLEDGED, THIS IS GONNA BE A REAL ACTIVE ISSUE WITHIN THE CITY ON LOTS OF DIFFERENT COMMISSIONS AND INPUTS AND ALL THE THINGS. 
          SO I KNOW THAT WE WOULD LOVE, UM, AS THAT PROGRESSES TO BE UPDATED, ANYTIME YOU'RE MAKING THE ROUNDS, I'M SURE THAT WE WOULD ENJOY HEARING FROM YOU ON THAT, UM, OR EVEN EVENTUALLY PERHAPS MAKE A, UM, RECOMMENDATION. 
          UM, AND THEN, UM, EVEN I WOULD ALSO JUST SAY EVEN WITH RED BUD, THAT SEEMS LIKE IT'S A LITTLE, UM, MORE SETTLED PERHAPS, BUT ANYTHING THAT COMES UP, WE WOULD LOVE TO BE KEPT IN THE LOOP. 
          BUT ZILKER FOR SURE, I THINK PLEASE KEEP US LOOPED IN. 
          I THINK THIS BODY IS, UM, REAL KEENLY INTERESTED IN THAT PROBABLY. 
          SO, UM, YES. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          YES, JUST A QUICK COMMENT, JUST A CORRECTION. 
          I HAD MENTIONED EARLIER THAT THE WOUND CANYON BRIDGE WAS JUST EAST OF THE CROCKETT HIGH SCHOOL, AND CROCKETT IS ACTUALLY AT STANE. 
          OKAY, I GET IT. 
          I GET 'EM MIXED UP, BUT, BUT IT'S FURTHER SOUTH FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL. 
          OKAY. 
          JUST CLARIFICATION. 
          I LED YOU DOWN THE WRONG PATH THERE. 
          I WAS TRYING TO VISUALIZE IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT, EVERYONE. 
          THAT DOES TAKE 
          [3. Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Update. Presentation by Kristin Pipkin, Consulting  Engineer, Austin Transportation and Public Works. ]
US TO, UM, ITEM THREE, WHICH IS THE, UM, CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT UPDATE, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED BY KRISTEN PIPKIN, UM, FROM STON TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS, NEITHER OF US OR KRISTEN PIPKIN, BUT THAT, THAT'S OKAY. 
          TELL US WHO YOU ARE, DO DO OUR BEST IN HER STEAD. 
          UM, SO GOOD AFTERNOON COMMISSION MEMBERS, THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE ABOUT THE CLIMATE POLLUTION PRODUCTION GRANT. 
          MY NAME'S JACOB BARRETT, I'M TRANSPORTATION DEMAND PROGRAM MANAGER FOR THE CITY. 
          I'M SHANNON RILEY. 
          I AM THE CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT PROGRAM MANAGER, AND WE WORK IN TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS ON THE TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT TEAM. 
          AND WE'LL GET INTO OUR PRESENTATION ON CPRG. 
          UM, SO FIRST WE'LL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE GRANT, INCLUDING THE INVESTMENTS IT SUPPORTS OUR CURRENT PROGRESS AND THE OPPORTUNITIES IT BRINGS TO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND BY THE END OF THE BRIEFING, WE HOPE YOU HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE GRANT REQUIREMENTS AND WHERE WE STAND IN THE PROG OR IN THE OVERALL PROCESS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO CPRG ENABLES US TO REALLY PROVIDE OUR TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, NOT ONLY FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN, BUT ALSO FOR THE REGION. 
          UM, WE KNOW THAT OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT DECADE PLUS 10 TO 15 YEARS, WE'RE GONNA HAVE OVER $20 BILLION WORTH OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE REGION, UM, INCLU AND, UH, INCLUDING THE URBAN CORE, ALSO OUR MORE SUBURBAN AREAS. 
          AND THIS IS REALLY A GRANT THAT WAS RECEIVED FOR MITIGATION FOR THOSE PROJECTS TO KEEP AUSTIN MOVING. 
          SO THE TOTAL GRANT AWARD IS $47.8 MILLION. 
          IT'S THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT OUR TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT 
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PROGRAM HAS EVER RECEIVED. 
          UM, THE GRANT WAS RECEIVED IN JANUARY OF 2025, AND IT'S GOING TO END IN DECEMBER OF 2029. 
          WE KNOW THAT THE PROJECTS DON'T ALSO END IN 2029. 
          SO WHAT WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO DO HERE WITH THE GRANT IS ESTABLISH A CULTURE OF REDUCTION THAT WE CAN ALSO, UM, PROVIDE IN FUTURE YEARS. 
          WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE CONTINUALLY GOING AFTER MORE GRANT FUNDING TO PROVIDE MORE TDM PROGRAMMING, BUT THIS IS SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE US A REALLY STRONG FOUNDATION FOR THE REGION. 
          SO THE GOAL OF THE CPRG GRANT IS TO REDUCE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED. 
          UM, WE KNOW CENTRAL TEXAS DRIVERS TRAVEL 45 MILLION MILES PER DAY. 
          UM, AND THEN THE GOAL OF THE GRANT IS TO ROUGHLY REDUCE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED BY 39 MILLION MILES OVER FIVE YEARS. 
          HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO THAT? IF YOU ACTUALLY BREAK IT DOWN IN A MORE DAILY RATE, IT'S JUST 820 AVERAGE PEOPLE IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS REGION CHANGING FROM A DRIVE ALONE TRIP TO SOMETHING ELSE. 
          IT COULD BE CARPOOL, IT COULD BE TRANSIT, IT COULD BE BIKING, IT COULD BE WALKING, BUT ULTIMATELY IT'S JUST 820 INDIVIDUALS CHANGING THEIR DAILY COMMUTE HABITS. 
          UM, WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A REALLY BIG OPPORTUNITY HERE. 
          CONSTRUCTION IS GOING TO CONSTRAIN CAPACITY OF OUR ROADWAYS. 
          WE'RE GONNA HAVE LANE REDUCTIONS. 
          ULTIMATELY, IT'S A FUNCTION OF GEOMETRY. 
          WE CAN'T JUST FIT THE SAME NUMBER OF VEHICLES THROUGH THE REDUCED NUMBER OF LANES THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE. 
          SO IF WE CAN CAPITALIZE ON THAT RIGHT NOW BY GETTING PEOPLE TO SHIFT A MODE TO SHARE A RIDE, TO TAKE A TRANSIT TRIP, WE'RE GONNA BE OPTIMIZING OUR CAPACITY AND ALSO CHANGING THE CULTURE AT THE SAME TIME WHERE WE CAN BECOME MORE MULTIMODAL AND MOVE TOWARDS OUR 50 50 MO CHAIR GOAL. 
          SO THE CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT PROGRAM, WHEN WE FIRST APPLIED, IT WOULD'VE BEEN IN 2024. 
          WE APPLIED AS A COALITION, AND THIS PROGRAM DEFINITELY TAKES A VILLAGE. 
          SO ON THE SCREEN THERE IS ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT PARTNERS THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH. 
          WE AS THE CITY OF AUSTIN ARE THE MAIN PROJECT MANAGERS AND WE HOLD THE PURSE STRINGS, SO TO SPEAK, BUT WE'RE WORKING REALLY CLOSELY WITH TXDOT CAP COG CARTS, MOVABILITY CAMPO, AND CAP METRO. 
          SO IT'S ALL OF US TOGETHER. 
          IN BETWEEN THESE ORGANIZATIONS, THERE'S VARIOUS ILAS AND CONTRACTS IN ORDER TO HELP US IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT NEXT. 
          SO TO SORT OF LEVEL SET HERE, AT THE TOP OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT FINDINGS WE'RE WORKING OFF OF IN FALL OF 2025, WE INITIATED WHAT WE WERE CALLING THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH SURVEY. 
          WE INTERVIEWED APPROXIMATELY 1700 COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THEY ARE RIGHT NOW WITH THEIR COMMUTE CHOICES, WHY OR WHO ARE TRAVELING SINGLE OCCUPANCY VEHICLES, AND MAYBE WHY THIS IS THE INITIAL PROCESS WE VIEWED FOR THE CPRG PROGRAM. 
          SO WE COULD GATHER THIS INPUT AND PERHAPS UNDERSTAND THE INFLUENCES THAT PEOPLE ARE HAVE ON THEM FOR THOSE TRANSPORTATION CHOICES. 
          WE USED A MIX OF OUTREACH METHODS. 
          THERE WAS AN ONLINE SURVEY, THERE WAS A NUMBER OF FOCUS GROUPS, AND ALSO IN-PERSON INTERCEPTS ALTOGETHER, THE RESULTS WERE QUITE CLEAR. 
          MORE THAN 72% OF RESPONDENTS RELY ON THEIR PERSONAL VEHICLE, WHY THEIR TRAVEL DECISIONS. 
          THEY CITED CONVENIENCE, SAFETY, AND TIME. 
          SO THE INFORMATION WE GAIN FROM THIS STUDY SERVES AS AN IMPORTANT LEVEL SETTING MOMENT AS WE DESIGN STRATEGIES THAT MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE AND ADDRESS THE REALITIES OF DAILY TRAVEL IN OUR REGION. 
          IF YOU DO WANNA LEARN MORE ABOUT THE STUDY AND READ EVERY SINGLE DETAIL, IT'S AVAILABLE ON SPEAKUP AUSTIN.ORG/TDM STUDY. 
          AND THAT LINK IS RATHER NEW. 
          SO IT DIDN'T MAKE IT INTO THE, THE CUT OF THE POWERPOINT, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY SHARE IT WITH NATALIE AND SHARE IT AROUND WITH YOU ALL. 
          LIKE I SAID, THIS IS REALLY OUR BASELINE THAT WE'RE WORKING OFF OF. 
          AND THE GROUP THAT WE WORKED WITH TO HELP PERFORM THIS SURVEY, WE STILL HAVE THEM ON BOARD FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS OR SO. 
          SO OUR GOAL IS EVERY FALL YEAR OVER YEAR TO ACTUALLY REANALYZE HOW ARE WE DOING AFTER THIS FIRST YEAR OF CPRG? DID WE MOVE THE NEEDLE AT ALL? PERHAPS A LITTLE BIT. 
          WE'LL FIND OUT, BUT IF YOU DO WANNA LEARN MORE, UH, LIKE I SAID, IT IS AVAILABLE ON SPEAKUP AUSTIN.ORG. 
          SO CPRG IS COMPRISED OF THREE DIFFERENT MEASURES, AND TODAY JACOB AND I ARE GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH EACH OF THOSE MEASURES AND ALL THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS THAT FALL UNDER THEM. 
          BUT JUST TO GIVE US A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW, MEASURE ONE INVOLVES IMPROVING EXISTING SERVICES. 
          SO THIS IS OUR WORK WITH CAP METRO, OUR WORK WITH CARTS WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY INVESTING IN THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO PERHAPS MAKE SOME CHANGES IN THEIR LINES. 
          MAYBE THAT'S ADDING FREQUENCY, MAYBE 
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THAT'S ADDING A BUS, AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT. 
          BUT THAT'S MEASURE ONE. 
          MEASURE TWO INVOLVES INVESTING IN TDM INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          SO THAT INCLUDES OUR MOBILITY HUBS, THAT INCLUDES OUR BIKE AND PED COUNTER NETWORK, AS WELL AS OUR AIR QUALITY SENSOR NETWORK. 
          AND THEN MEASURE THREE, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE BREAKDOWN THERE, IT ACTUALLY HAS THE BULK OF OUR 48 MILLION. 
          THIS IS OUR MARKETING BUCKET. 
          WE'RE CALLING IT INTRODUCING TRAVEL OPTIONS. 
          BUT THIS IS THE BUCKET IN WHICH WE ARE WORKING WITH MOVABILITY, FOR EXAMPLE, GRASSROOTS ENGAGEMENT, MARKETING EDUCATION, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, AND WE'LL GET TO THIS SORT OF AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION, OUR WORK ON A PLATFORM OR APP THAT IS HELPING PEOPLE MAKE THOSE TDM CHOICES AND ACTUALLY INCENTIVIZING THEM TO DO SO. 
          SO THAT GIVES YOU A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE WORLD OF THE GRANT. 
          AND NOW WE'RE SORT OF GONNA GO MEASURE BY MEASURE TO TALK ABOUT OUR UPDATES SO FAR AND OUR PLANS FOR THE REST OF THE THREE AND A HALF YEARS AND SOME CHANGE WE HAVE LEFT IN THIS PROGRAM. 
          SO MEASURE ONE, IT'S A LITTLE CUTOFF ON THAT SCREEN, BUT, UM, MEASURE ONE, THIS IS LIKE I SAID, WORKING WITH CAT METRO AND CARTS TO IDENTIFY NEW AND ENHANCED TRA TRANSIT SERVICES THAT SUPPORT OUR VMT REDUCTION GOALS. 
          SO THE MAP YOU HAVE ON THE SCREEN INCLUDES OUR ACTIVE AND PROPOSED TRANSIT SERVICES PLANNED FOR 2026 THAT ARE FUNDED BY THE GRANT. 
          SO IN THE DARK BLUE, YOU HAVE THE CAP METRO LINES. 
          THE 9 35 USED TO RUN ALONG 35. 
          IT HAS NOW MOVED TO MOPAC. 
          THAT STARTED IN JANUARY, THE 8 0 1, THE FREQUENCY IS DOWN TO SEVEN OR EIGHT MINUTES. 
          THAT WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE GRANT THAT WAS STARTED IN JANUARY. 
          THE LIGHTER BLUE THERE, YOU SEE ROUTE TWO. 
          WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. 
          IT'S CONSIDERED PROPOSED BECAUSE IT HASN'T QUITE HAPPENED YET, BUT CITY COUNCIL HAS APPROVED THE FUNDING FOR THE PROGRAM. 
          THE CAP METRO BOARD HAS ALSO APPROVED, AND IT'S GONE THROUGH THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS. 
          SO STARTING IN AUGUST, ROUTE TWO, IF YOU GUYS ARE FAMILIAR, RIGHT NOW IT'S SORT OF A C SHAPE, BUT THROUGH CPRG FUNDING, WE WILL BE COMPLETING THE LOOP. 
          SO LITERALLY CLOSING THE LOOP, ADDING A COUPLE BUS STOPS TO SERVE THAT AREA THAT DIDN'T EXIST ON THE ROUTE BEFORE. 
          AND THEN IT'S ALSO GOING TO BE BIDIRECTIONAL, SO IT'S GONNA GO CALC CLOCKWISE AND COUNTERCLOCKWISE. 
          AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT ROUTE TWO, SORT OF TO PROVIDE THAT EAST WEST FROM THE EAST SIDE INTO DOWNTOWN ACROSS 35. 
          THAT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE CONNECTIONS WE'RE HELPING CA HAVE METRO MAKE WHEN IT COMES TO CARTS THERE. 
          ON THE, ON THE SCREEN, YOU'RE SEEING THE DARK RED ROUTES, 1515 FROM GEORGETOWN. 
          IT STOPS, IT PICKS UP IN GEORGETOWN, STOPS IN ROUND ROCK, AND THEN GOES INTO THE DOWNTOWN AUSTIN CAPITAL COMPLEX AREA. 
          AND THEN THE 1511 BEGINS IN SMITHVILLE, STOPS IN BASTROP AND MAKES ITS WAY INTO AUSTIN. 
          THOSE TWO ROUTES ARE BRAND NEW AND THEY STARTED ON MARCH 2ND, THE SALMON COLORED ROUTE THERE. 
          THE NINE 90 IS A LONG STANDING ROUTE, BUT THERE IS A POTENTIAL THIS FALL FOR CPRG FUNDING TO HELP INCREASE THE FREQUENCY AND FILL SOME OF THE GAPS IN THE TIMETABLES ON THAT ROUTE. 
          SO THESE ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE HELPED GET OFF THE GROUND JUST IN THE PAST THREE OR FOUR MONTHS HERE. 
          UM, SO WE'RE EARLY ON IN THIS IMPLEMENTATION YEAR. 
          AND HIGHLIGHTS FOR MEASURE ONE IN GENERAL, JUST WANNA TOUCH ON CARDS, IS REALLY HELPING US PROVIDE KEY OPPORTUNITIES TO EXTEND OUR WORK BEYOND AUSTIN. 
          WE'RE ENGAGING WITH THE RURAL AND SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES, WHEREAS CAP METRO, IT'S DEFINITELY FOCUSED ON THAT CENTRAL AUSTIN CORE, OBVIOUSLY FOCUSING ON ROUTES THAT MAYBE NEED HELP BECAUSE 5 35 CONSTRUCTION, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE ARE, WE'RE TRACKING THE RIDERSHIP FOR THESE ROUTES TO SEE HOW THEY'RE DOING. 
          AND THAT SORT OF LEADS ME INTO MY NEXT POINT. 
          WE'RE CONSTANTLY REEVALUATING WHAT IT IS THAT WE NEED TO BE LOOKING FORWARD TO. 
          AND SO RIGHT NOW, ABOUT THIS TIME OF YEAR, WE DID THIS LAST YEAR FOR 2026, AND WE'RE DOING IT RIGHT NOW FOR 2027. 
          WE'RE TAKING A LOOK AT THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE'RE HELPING CAP METRO AND CARTS MAKE AND SEEING IF THAT'S STILL THE BEST PLACE FOR OUR FUNDING. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING AT CONSTRUCTION IMPACTS FOR THE NEARBY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, THE AVAILABLE RESOURCES, WHAT ARE THE OPERATING COSTS, MAYBE CHALLENGES THERE, IS THERE A GAP? WHAT ARE THE PAIN POINTS? AND WE'RE ABLE TO REEVALUATE YEAR OVER YEAR. 
          SO NEXT YEAR WE CAN, WHEN WE COME TO GIVE AN ANNUAL BRIEFING, IT MAY NOT BE THE 1511 AND THE 1515 THAT WE'RE FUNDING ANYMORE. 
          WE MIGHT DECIDE ACTUALLY THERE'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY AND WE'RE PUTTING OUR, OUR DOLLARS THERE. 
          SO WE ARE NIMBLE ENOUGH YEAR OVER YEAR TO SORT OF MAKE THOSE CHANGES, WHICH WE'VE ALREADY FOUND TO BE, UM, TREMENDOUSLY HELPFUL. 
          BUT LIKE I SAID, MEASURE ONE IN GENERAL IS CAP METRO. 
          IT'S CARTS AND IT'S US. 
          AND WE'RE IN REALLY CLOSE COORDINATION. 
          WE'RE ONLY FIVE MONTHS INTO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS, AND WE'RE ALREADY SEEING REALLY POSITIVE RIDERSHIP NUMBERS. 
          SO WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THE REST OF THE TIME FOR THE GRANT HOLDS. 
          UM, WHEN IT COMES TO MEASURE ONE, JACOB IS NOW GOING TO TALK TO US ABOUT EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN FOR MEASURE TWO. 
          ALRIGHT, SO MEASURE TWO IS FOR TDM INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          THE, THAT'S REALLY BROKE UP INTO THREE CATEGORIES. 
          THE FIRST BEING MOBILITY HUBS. 
          THE SECOND IS BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN COUNTERS. 
          AND THEN THE THIRD IS PURPLE AIR SENSORS. 
          SO, UM, MOBILITY HUBS I THINK ARE THE MOST INTERESTING OF THE THREE. 
          UM, SO EVERYONE ASKS, WHAT 
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IS A MOBILITY HUB? WELL, A MOBILITY HUB IN THE A SMP TEST OR DESCRIPTION IS ESSENTIALLY A TRANSITION POINT BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT MODES. 
          IN AUSTIN, IT COULD BE FROM A PUBLIC PROVIDER TO A PRIVATE PROVIDER OR A PUBLIC PROVIDER TO ANOTHER PUBLIC PROVIDER. 
          WE REALLY VIEW THIS, UM, IN THREE DIFFERENT TYPOLOGIES. 
          SO THERE ARE PRIMARY MOBILITY HUBS, SECONDARY MOBILITY HUBS, AND NEIGHBORHOOD OR COMMUNITY MOBILITY HUBS. 
          PRIMARY MOBILITY HUBS ARE YOUR BIG ONES. 
          OTHER OR TRAIN STATIONS OR, UM, REALLY KIND OF DOWNTOWN TRANSIT TRANSITION POINTS. 
          UM, THE DOWNTOWN STATION WOULD BE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF ONE. 
          A RED LINE STATION WOULD BE A GOOD ONE. 
          THE AIRPORT WOULD BE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A PRIMARY MOBILITY HUB. 
          THAT IS NOT WHAT THE CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT IS FUNDING BECAUSE THOSE ARE REALLY LARGE CAPITAL EXPENDITURES. 
          WHAT REALLY FO WHAT WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON ARE THOSE SECONDARY AND THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD MOBILITY HUBS. 
          SO, UM, THE SECONDARY MOBILITY HUBS COULD BE SOMETHING LIKE A METRO RAPID STOP WITH A CO-LOCATED, UH, CO-LOCATED BIKE SHARE LOCATION OR A PARK AND RIDE WITH DEDICATED SPACES FOR VAN POOL. 
          SO THAT'S ESSENTIALLY, UM, WHAT A SECONDARY HUB IS. 
          A NEIGHBORHOOD HUB IS REALLY FOCUSED ON THOSE FIRST AND LAST MILE CUT CONNECTIONS. 
          SO IT COULD JUST BE AN INSTALLATION OF A SCOOTER CORRAL OUTSIDE OF A RETAIL DISTRICT, OR IT COULD BE JUST CO-LOCATING A SCOOTER CORRAL WITH A REGULAR LOCAL BUS STOP. 
          UM, THE OTHER ASPECT OF MOBILITY HUBS ARE THE PLACEMAKING AMENITIES AND ALSO THE KIND OF, UM, SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, AND CULTURAL AMENITIES. 
          SO WHAT WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO DO WITH THIS IS NOT JUST PLOP A BIKE SHARE STATION DOWN, WE'RE TRYING TO ADD THINGS LIKE LIGHTING, ART, LANDSCAPING, REALLY FEATURES THAT MAKE THE COMMUNITY MORE COMFORTABLE USING THESE LOCATIONS SO THAT THEY ARE MORE INCENTIVIZED TO USE, USE THOSE LOCATIONS. 
          UM, OTHER ASPECTS COULD BE A WATER FOUNTAIN, FOR EXAMPLE. 
          UM, SO IN 2026 WE SELECTED 10 MOBILITY HUB LOCATIONS, LARGELY CENTERED AROUND THE 800 METRO RAPID LINE. 
          WE KNEW THAT IT WAS A NEW LINE COMING, UM, TO CAP METRO SERVICE. 
          THEY DID A LOT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE WORK PRIOR WITH THEIR RAPID STATIONS, AND WE THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, INTRODUCE THOSE MOBILITY HUBS SURROUNDING THAT LINE. 
          SO LOOK TO THE END OF 2026 AND WE'LL HAVE THOSE 10 STATIONS DELIVERED, UM, OR 10 MOBILITY HUBS. 
          WE'RE LOOKING TO DO FO 40 TOTAL THROUGHOUT THE GRANT. 
          UM, SO 10 AND 26, 27, 28 AND 29, THE 2027 LOCATIONS. 
          UM, WE ARE WORKING THROUGH A PROCESS RIGHT NOW TO PRIORITIZE THOSE BASED ON DIFFERENT FACTORS, PROPENSITY TO TRANSIT RIDERSHIP, UM, UH, UH, SORRY, UM, UH, ADJACENCY TO CIVIC DESTINATIONS, UH, LATENT DEMAND OF OUR TRANSIT SYSTEM, PROXIMITY TO MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS BECAUSE AUSTIN ISD WILL BE FEATURING MOBILITY HUBS AT THE, UH, MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS. 
          SO REALLY KIND OF RUNNING LOCATION SUGGESTIONS THROUGH A CRITERIA WHERE WE'RE GONNA HAVE, WHERE POINTS ASSIGNED TO LOCATIONS. 
          AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH DIFFERENT, UM, PERMUTATIONS OF THOSE. 
          LOOKING AT OTHER PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE IN ALIGNMENT. 
          IS IT IN CAP METRO'S, BIKE SHARE EXPANSION PLAN? IS IT, UM, ADJACENT TO AN URBAN TRAIL? UM, LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO STRETCH THE DOLLARS THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE AS WELL. 
          UM, AND THEN WE'LL BE COMING UP WITH A PRIORITIZED LIST FOR 2027 TOWARDS THE END OF THIS SUMMER. 
          UM, AND THEN WE'LL BE GOING OUT FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH THAT 2027 LIST. 
          SO FOR, UM, MOVING ON TO BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN COUNTERS. 
          UH, IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW, AUSTIN HAS A BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN COUNTER NETWORK. 
          UM, BACK A YEAR AGO WE HAD ROUGHLY 30. 
          WE CURRENTLY NOW HAVE 44 UM, COUNTERS. 
          WE ARE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, UH, IN DELIVERING THOSE COUNTERS. 
          SO, UM, THE MAJORITY OF OUR COUNTERS PRIOR HAVE BEEN LOCATED AROUND, UH, THE LAKE. 
          UM, 
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ON THE BUTLER TRAIL. 
          WE'VE REALLY LOOKED AT EXPANDING THE COUNTER NETWORK INTO, UM, AREAS WHERE WE HAVEN'T REALLY DONE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN COUNTS. 
          UM, SO WE WE'RE EXPENDING NORTH SOUTH, UH, EAST AND WEST, UM, AND ALSO DENSIFYING THE NETWORK WHERE WE WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO USE THAT BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN COUNTER DATA TO MODEL WHERE FUTURE BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY CAN OCCUR. 
          UM, SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT EXPANSION. 
          WE ARE EXPANDING 50 ADDITIONAL COUNTERS. 
          14 OF THOSE HAVE BEEN COMPLETE. 
          WE'RE SHOOTING FOR 20 THIS YEAR. 
          UM, AND THEN IF THE 20 GO AS QUICK AS THE 14 WENT LAST YEAR, UM, HOPEFULLY WE CAN KNOCK OUT THE REST OF THEM TWO YEARS EARLY. 
          THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING TO DO. 
          UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE PURPLE AIR SENSORS THROUGHOUT THE, UM, THROUGHOUT THE REGION. 
          SO THE PURPLE AIR SENSORS, THESE ARE LARGELY COMMUNITY EDUCATION DEVICES. 
          THEY AREN'T THE SCIENTIFIC GRADE AIR QUALITY MONITORS, UM, THAT WE HAVE IN THE REGION. 
          THEY'RE REALLY MEANT TO BE A COMMUNITY FO UH, FOCUSED SENSOR. 
          SO PARENTS CAN, UM, SEE WHAT TYPE OF AIR QUALITY IS AROUND THEIR SCHOOL CAMPUS DURING THE QUEUING LINES, FOR EXAMPLE. 
          UM, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE A MOBILE, UH, MOBILE PURPLE AIR, UH, SENSOR PILOT THROUGH THE AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY. 
          SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY GO NOW AND CHECK OUT A PURPLE AIR SENSOR, UM, AND ACTUALLY GO AROUND AND CHECK THE AIR QUALITY, UM, IN YOUR AREA, WHEREVER YOU WANNA GO. 
          UM, SO THOSE ARE REALLY EXCITING AS WELL. 
          WE'RE LOOKING TO DO 50 NEW AIR QUALITY SENSORS THROUGHOUT THE REGION. 
          THEY'RE LARGELY GONNA BE FOCUSED ON SCHOOL CAMPUSES, CIVIC FACILITIES LIKE LIBRARIES, CITY FACILITIES, UM, AND EXPANDING THAT OUT. 
          AND THEN WE'RE GONNA MOVE INTO MEASURE THREE. 
          SO MEASURE THREE IS REALLY YOUR BREAD AND BUTTER, TDM, UM, IT IS THE COMMUNITY FOCUSED PART OF TDM, IT'S THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND, IT'S THE EDUCATION, IT'S THE INCENTIVES, AND IT'S REALLY THE PROGRAMMING THAT SUPPORTS THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE FUND THROUGH THE TRANSIT SERVICE AND THE MOBILITY HUBS AND INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          SO WE, UM, ARE REALLY FOCUSED ON PARTNERING WITH OUR TMA MOVABILITY ALSO ARE REGIONAL NONPROFITS, JUST ALL OF CYCLING INITIATIVE AND OTHER PARTNERS TO GET OUR TDM PROGRAMMING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          CONNECTING COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO MODES THEY MAY NEVER HAVE TRIED BEFORE, MODES THAT THEY HAVE TRIED BEFORE BUT MAYBE HAVE FALLEN OFF OF A HABIT. 
          UM, AND WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO PROVIDE THEM, UH, EDUCATION ABOUT THE PLACES THAT THEY CAN GO AND THE OPTIONS THAT THEY HAVE TO GO THERE. 
          WE KNOW THAT NOT EVERYBODY IS GOING TO SHIFT A COMMUTE AT FIRST. 
          UM, THAT'S LARGELY ONE OF THE HARDEST TRIPS TO SHIFT. 
          SO WE ARE GOING TO START WITH GOING TO YOUR LOCAL, UM, SPORTING EVENT OR GOING TO GRAB A CUP OF COFFEE, GRABBING, UM, A LOAD OF GROCERIES WHEN YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA TIME. 
          THOSE SMALL STEPS WITH TDM ARE GOING TO ADD UP TO THOSE BIGGER ASKS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE THE PRESSURES OF CONSTRUCTION UPON US DURING KIND OF OUR PERIOD OF PEAK CONSTRAINT THAT IS FAST APPROACHING. 
          ALRIGHT, SO AS JACOB WAS SAYING, MEASURE THREE IS REALLY BREAD AND BUTTER, TDM. 
          THIS ALSO INVOLVES OUR MARKETING CAMPAIGN, AS I SORT OF TALKED ABOUT AT THE, AT THE BEGINNING ON, UH, TOWARDS THE END OF FEBRUARY, COUNCIL APPROVED OUR CONTRACT WITH C PLUS C. 
          THEY'RE A MARKETING AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE FIRM OUT OF THE SEATTLE, PORTLAND, AND BOSTON MARKETS. 
          THEY HAVE AN AMAZING TRACK RECORD OF OF WORKING IN ADVERTISING AND MARKETING IN THE TDM SPACE. 
          AND SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO HAVE THEM ON BOARD SINCE THE END OF FEBRUARY. 
          WE'VE BEEN DEVELOPING, UM, AND FINE TUNING THEIR SCOPE. 
          THEY'VE BEEN GETTING ON BOARD AND TALKING TO ALL OF OUR PARTNERS AND REALLY LEARNING ABOUT WHERE AUSTIN IS AND WHERE WE COULD POTENTIALLY BRING OUR POPULATION IN THE WORLD OF TDM. 
          SO WE'RE EXCITED THAT WE PLAN TO LAUNCH A, A BIG SPLASHY CAMPAIGN TOWARDS THE SEPTEMBER TIMEFRAME IN INTERIM HERE IN THE SUMMER, THEY ARE GONNA BE WORKING WITH US A FEW INTERIM DEVELOP, UH, DEVELOP, UH, DELIVERABLES AND MINI CAMPAIGNS. 
          BUT REALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CONVINCING FOLKS OUT THERE AND, AND BILLBOARDS ADS AT GAS STATIONS, SOCIAL MEDIA, YOU NAME IT, WE'RE GONNA BE TRYING IT AND HOPEFULLY WE HAVE THEM ON BOARD THROUGH 2029. 
          SO OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEARS, WE CAN SEE HOW CAMPAIGNS GO, WHERE ARE WE ABLE TO MOVE THE NEEDLE? WHAT IS MAKING AN IMPACT, PERHAPS WHAT ISN'T, AND GO FROM THERE. 
          SO 
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MORE TO COME AGAIN IN IN FUTURE YEAR WHEN WE PROVIDE AN UPDATE. 
          WE'LL HAVE MORE TO SAY ON THIS TOPIC, BUT RIGHT NOW, JUST SORT OF GETTING STARTED, MEASURE THREE HAS A LOT OF SMALL COMPONENTS WITHIN IT. 
          SO WE WANTED TO TOUCH ON A COUPLE AMAZING PROJECTS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING TO GET OFF THE GROUND WHEN IT COMES TO MEASURE THREE. 
          AND ONE OF THOSE IS A TRANSPORTATION WALLET. 
          IN OTHER COMMUNITIES, THIS MIGHT BE KNOWN AS A MOBILITY WALLET, BUT THE IDEA, AND WE MADE THIS PROMISE IN THE GRANT, IS THAT AT THE END OF OUR GRANT PROGRAM, WE WILL HAVE PROVIDED UP TO 700 LOW INCOME RESIDENTS WITH A RELOADABLE TRANSIT BENEFIT CARD. 
          SO THE PARTNER WE'RE LOOKING TO GET UNDER CONTRACT WITH IS NAMED JAUNT. 
          UM, WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF SORT OF, UH, FIGURING OUT HOW, HOW THAT'LL BE EXECUTED, BUT ESSENTIALLY IT'S A DEBIT CARD THAT USES MERCHANT CODES WHERE IT'S ONLY ELIGIBLE TO BE CHARGED FOR TRANSPORTATION USES. 
          SO ON A CAP METRO BUS, ON A CARTS BUS TO RENT A SCOOTER, UM, EVEN UBERPOOL EVEN AT LOCAL BIKE SHOPS. 
          SO WE AS THE, AS THE TEAM CAN, CAN ACTUALLY PROVIDE THE LIST OF, UM, USE CASES IN THE FIVE COUNTY REGION THAT WE WANT THIS CARD TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR. 
          AND THEN WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS AT HAKA AND A PH AND WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS TO IDENTIFY THE PILOT PARTICIPANTS. 
          SO WE'RE IN THE VERY EARLY STAGES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION WALLET. 
          OUR IDEA THIS YEAR IS TO ACTUALLY JUST WORK WITH ABOUT A HUNDRED PEOPLE FOR A SIX MONTH PILOT, LEARN HOW IT WORKED, UM, WHAT DIDN'T WORK, AND THEN IMPROVE IT AND SORT OF, UH, EXPAND FROM THERE TO THE 700 BY THE END OF 2029. 
          ANOTHER PROGRAM WE'RE WORKING ON IS CALLED CASH FOR COMMUTERS. 
          THIS IS OUR INCENTIVE PROGRAM. 
          SO WE'RE WORKING THROUGH MOVABILITY AND OUR PLATFORM, WHICH WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IN THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          BUT ESSENTIALLY WE ARE PARTNERING WITH LOCAL EMPLOYERS AND REALLY JUST ANYONE WHO'S COMMUTING IN AUSTIN OR TO AUSTIN OR ACTUALLY IN THE FIVE COUNTY REGION. 
          AND YOU CAN EARN UP TO $5 A DAY FOR 90 DAYS STARTING MAY 8TH, ACTUALLY. 
          UM, SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROGRAM AND, AND HOPEFULLY CONVINCING PEOPLE THROUGH INCENTIVES THAT, HEY, IT'S NOT SO BAD TO TAKE A BUS IF I'M GONNA EARN $5 A DAY UP TO 90 DAYS, THAT'S $450. 
          UM, AND WE'RE PARTNERING WITH TANGO WHERE ESSENTIALLY YOU WOULD COLLECT YOUR INCENTIVES IN A PURSE OF SORTS AND THEN YOU COULD REDEEM IT FOR VARIOUS GIFT CARDS, WHETHER IT'S A VISA GIFT CARD OR A STARBUCKS GIFT CARD, YOU NAME IT. 
          UH, SO WE'RE, WE'RE HOPING TO SEE HOW, HOW THAT WORKS. 
          AND WE'RE REMAINING FLUID AND FLEXIBLE. 
          WE'RE IN FUTURE ROLLOUTS OF OUR INCENTIVE PROGRAM. 
          WE CAN CHANGE THOSE UP. 
          MAYBE, MAYBE IT'S A, IT WAS AN ACTION DAY AND WE WANNA HAVE A SPECIAL PROMOTION FOR THAT DAY. 
          MAYBE THERE'S A SPECIFIC GAME THAT WE WANNA GIVE MORE INCENTIVES TO. 
          SO WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS PROGRAM AND, UM, TOWARDS LATER IN SUMMER AND CERTAINLY EARLY FALL, WE'LL HAVE MORE STATISTICS TO SHARE, SHARE, SO TO SPEAK, ON HOW ALL OF THAT IS GOING. 
          THAT SORT OF BRINGS US TO THE LAST PART OF MEASURE THREE THAT JACOB IS GOING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT. 
          AND IT'S CTX GO. 
          OKAY. 
          SO CTX GO AND, AND I'LL PREFACE THIS WITH, UM, ONE OF THE MAIN TENETS OF TDM IS BEING ABLE TO CONNECT DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND HAVING AN APPLICATION WHERE YOU CAN BOTH EDUCATE AND GUIDE AND INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE TO MAKE A TRANSPORTATION CHOICE, UM, IS SOMETHING THAT WE AS A REGION HAVE REALLY LACKED. 
          UM, AND CTX GO IS THAT APPLICATION THAT IS BEING DEVELOPED. 
          UM, AND WE WILL HAVE FULLY AVAILABLE FOR LAUNCH THIS COMING FALL. 
          SO WE'RE TARGETING SEPTEMBER. 
          WE, THAT FIRST, UH, TDM WEEK ACTUALLY, UH, IS WHERE WE'RE TARGETING FOR CTX GO TO LAUNCH. 
          UM, IT PROVIDES THAT PLANNING, THAT EDUCATION, THOSE NUDGES FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND ALSO THE INCENTIVES FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO MAKE THOSE TRANSPORTATION DECISIONS ON THE FLY EACH DAY. 
          UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE REALLY FOCUSED ON IS MAKING SURE THAT THIS IS A REGIONAL PLATFORM. 
          THIS IS NOT JUST A CITY OF AUSTIN EFFORT. 
          A PERSON IN BASTROP CAN DOWNLOAD CTX GO AND BE ABLE TO HOP ON A CART'S BUS. 
          A PERSON UP IN TAYLOR WILL BE ABLE TO, UH, MATCH WITH A CARPOOL TO COME INTO DOWNTOWN AUSTIN. 
          A PERSON IN CEDAR PARK WILL BE ABLE TO FIND THEIR OPTIONS AND IT WILL BE THAT ONE STOP SHOP FOR TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION FOR THE REGION. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO BRING IT, UM, TO EVERYBODY. 
          UM, IT'LL NOT ONLY BE A MOBILE APP, WE'LL ALSO HAVE A MIRROR WEBSITE SO IT'S ACCESSIBLE, ESPECIALLY FOR TRIP PLANNING. 
          THAT CAN BE A LITTLE BIT ONEROUS ON A MO MOBILE DEVICE. 
          SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO THAT ON A WEBSITE ON YOUR DESKTOP OR LAPTOP. 
          UM, AND THEN WE WILL ALSO HAVE DIRECT COMMUNICATION, UM, FOR ANY TRANSPORTATION RELATED 
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ISSUES VIA A HOTLINE. 
          SO FOLKS WHO ARE NOT DIGITALLY INCLUDED RIGHT NOW, THEY'LL ALSO HAVE ACCESS TO THE SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE VIA CTX GO. 
          UM, SO THE MAIN, UH, ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS FOR CTX GO IS THE INCENTIVE DISTRIBUTION AND THE FLEXIBILITY THAT WE HAVE BEHIND IT. 
          SO WE TALK ABOUT CASH FOR COMMUTERS AND IT BEING ABLE FOR, UH, ABLE TO BE USED FOR CARPOOLING, INCENTIVIZATION. 
          WE WILL ALSO HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO SAY IT'S BIKE TO WORKDAY, USE THIS CODE, OR IT IS AN OZONE ACTION DAY. 
          TRANSIT IS FREE TODAY, YOU SHOULD TAKE TRANSIT. 
          UM, SO WE WILL HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY NOT ONLY TO HAVE THOSE DAILY COMMUTE CAMPAIGNS, BUT ALSO TO BE ABLE TO TEST OTHER THINGS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND REALLY EVOLVE THIS TDM PROGRAM AS THE COMMUNITY KIND OF DEALS WITH CONSTRUCTION. 
          UM, OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT DECADE PLUS, UM, WE CAN GO AND OFFER SPECIFIC INCENTIVES FOR SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE IMPACTED BY CONSTRUCTION. 
          WE CAN OFFER SPECIFIC ROUTE SUGGESTIONS FOR FOLKS WHO ARE TAKING MODES. 
          SO IT REALLY PROVIDES A LOT OF, UM, ROBUST TOOLS FOR US TO BE ABLE TO TARGET, UM, AND SHARE WHAT THE COMMUNITY, THEIR DIFFERENT TDM OPTIONS. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UM, THE OTHER THING THAT IS, UH, REALLY KIND OF CRUCIAL WITH CT XCO IS THE PARTNERSHIP. 
          SO WE ARE NOT ONLY PARTNERED WITH TDOT ON THIS GRANT, WE'RE PARTNERED WITH CAMPO, WE'RE PARTNERED WITH MOVABILITY, WE'RE PARTNERED WITH CAP COG, AND UM, PART OF CTX GO IS USING EVERYBODY'S DATA TO INFORM WHAT OPTIONS THAT WE PRESENT PEOPLE WITH. 
          UM, SO ONE OF THE MAIN PIECES OF THIS IS HAVING A COMMON DATA BACKEND SO THAT WHEN TXDOT GOES AND CLOSE, CLOSES A LANE ON I 35 AND THE CITY OF AUSTIN GOES AND CLOSES A LANE ON SOUTH LAMAR AND THEN A TP GOES AND CLOSES A LANE ON SOUTH CONGRESS, WE ARE ALL COORDINATED AND OUR SYSTEMS ARE TALKING TO EACH OTHER SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE THE BEST DATA AND SUGGESTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY AND INCENTIVES TO GET THEM TO SAY IT IS GOING TO BE A ROUGH ROAD CROSSING THE RIVER TODAY. 
          MAYBE I SHOULD CONSIDER TAKING TRANSIT OR TAKING A BIKE OR CARPOOLING WITH A FRIEND AND STOPPING AT SOUTH PARK MEADOWS. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE CAPABILITIES THAT THIS IS GONNA BRING TO THE REGION. 
          UM, AND IT IS AVAILABLE NOW CURRENTLY, BUT MORE FEATURES WILL BE COMING ON MAY 8TH, AND THEN IT SHOULD BE IN ITS FULLY FEATURED VERSION THIS FALL, UM, TARGETING THAT FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER. 
          AND WITH THAT, I'LL LEAVE IT FOR QUESTIONS. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU. 
          UM, I, I DON'T THINK I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW. 
          I'LL LOOK AROUND THE ROOM. 
          I JUST HAVE A SHORT ONE. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, SO THE DATA THAT YOU GRABBED AT THE VERY BEGINNING, UH, WHERE WE SEE THAT 72%, IS THAT RESULT OF A SURVEY? LIKE IS THAT A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT SURVEY THAT YOU GUYS CONDUCTED? YEAH, SO EVEN THOUGH IT ONLY HAS 1700, UM, RESPONDENTS, IT WAS THE, THE, THE CALCULATIONS THAT THEY WERE STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT. 
          AND ON TOP OF THAT WE ALSO HAVE OUR EMPLOYEE COMMUTE SURVEY THAT IS ALSO, I BELIEVE 72%. 
          WAS IT THE SAME EXACT PERCENTAGE OR SIMILAR? SO I'LL SAY ALSO THE 72% IS FOR REGIONAL COMMUTERS. 
          YEAH. 
          WE DO KNOW THAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN HIGHER TENDS TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE MODE SPLIT, UM, THAN THE REGION. 
          SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE AT THE 72%. 
          BUT EVEN LOOKING AT CITY OF AUSTIN EMPLOYEES, WE'RE AT ABOUT 72% THAT ARE USING SINGLE OCCUPANCY VEHICLES. 
          CORRECT. 
          SO ACROSS A COUPLE DIFFERENT SURVEYS WE'RE GETTING THE SAME RESULTS. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, SO I'VE GOT, UH, TWO QUESTIONS. 
          FIRST IS, UM, SO I, LAST WEEKEND I WAS, I WAS LOOKING AT CAMPO VMT DATA, YOU KNOW, AS ONE DOES FOR A FUN THING ON THE WEEKEND. 
          AND YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT A GREAT BREAKDOWN OF THE SIX COUNTY REGION. 
          THEY EVEN HAVE KIND OF A COUNTY LEVEL BREAKDOWN, ALTHOUGH IT'S NOT AS ROBUST. 
          BUT WHAT WE DON'T HAVE, AT LEAST FROM THE CAMPO DATA IS A CITY OF AUSTIN BREAKDOWN, RIGHT? BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE'RE ACROSS THREE COUNTIES, WE'RE NOT COMPLETELY CONTIGUOUS WITH TRAVIS COUNTY. 
          UM, WHICH OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, FOR THIS GRANT IT IS, YOU KNOW, A MULTI-COUNTY GRANT, SO IT MAKES SENSE TO MEASURE IT THAT WAY. 
          BUT I, I WOULD CURIOUS IF YOU GUYS HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT THE VMT IS IN AUSTIN, A WAY TO MEASURE THAT. 
          SO 
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IT'D JUST BE HELPFUL FOR US TO KNOW WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS WE'RE MAKING HERE IN AUSTIN DOING IN AUSTIN. 
          NOT NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, I LOVE CALDWELL COUNTY, BUT I DON'T NECESSARILY CARE AS MUCH WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CITY OF AUSTIN INVESTMENTS. 
          SO I'LL SAY IN TERMS OF THE GRANT REPORTING, THAT IS GOING TO BE BASED ON CAMPO DATA. 
          YEAH. 
          BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE APPLIED FOR THE GRANT IS USING THAT AS OUR BASELINE NOW FOR CITY OF AUSTIN VMT DATA, WE DO KNOW THAT THAT IS LESS THAN WHAT IS REPORTED IN THE REGION. 
          UM, HOW MUCH LESS, THERE ARE DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES THAT REPORT DIFFERENT TYPES OF VMT STREETLIGHT IS ONE OF THEM. 
          UM, WE HAVE ACCESS TO UM, OUR IN ENRICH SIGNAL SYSTEM. 
          WE HAVE ACCESS TO THE BIKE AND PED COUNTER OR NETWORK. 
          UM, AND WE REALLY TRY TO KIND OF COALESCE AROUND DATA SOURCES THAT, UM, MAKE THE MOST SENSE. 
          UM, SO THERE'S A DIFFERENT OPTION, THERE'S A FEW DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING INTO, BUT PRIMARILY THE ONE THAT WE'RE KIND OF CONCERNED WITH IS THAT CAMPO BASELINE, UM, FOR THE GRANT REPORTING AND REIMBURSEMENT, I'LL OH YEAH, ALSO ADD ONE THING. 
          UM, WE USUALLY WORK IT IN SOMEWHERE IN THE PRESENTATION AND I THINK WE, WE DIDN'T FIND A SPOT TODAY, BUT WE ACTUALLY HAVE UNDER CONTRAST, UM, TTI, THE TEXAS A AND M TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND THEY ARE WORKING WITH US USING THE CAMPO BASELINE, BUT THEN TAKING RIDERSHIP DATA FROM CARDS AND CAP METRO FOR EXAMPLE, AND DOING THE COMPARISON TO BEFORE CPRG INVESTMENT AND AFTER. 
          AND THAT IS HOW WE ARE CALCULATING THE VMT REDUCTIONS FOR THIS GRANT PROGRAM. 
          SO WE HAVE THOSE ACTUAL SCIENTISTS ON BOARD TRACKING ALL OF THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE'RE MAKING AS A CITY THROUGH THIS GRANT PROGRAM IN ORDER TO PROVE TO THE EPA THAT WHAT WE ARE DOING IS HAVING A VMT REDUCTION EFFECT. 
          SO THEY'LL BE WORKING ON THOSE REPORTS FOR US BI-ANNUALLY, THE FIRST BEING THE JUNE JULY TIMEFRAME, UH, AND THEN DECEMBER JANUARY TIMEFRAME. 
          SO STILL USING THE CAMPO BASELINE INFORMATION, BUT GETTING TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF GRANULARITY SPECIFIC TO THE GRANT MEASURES, WHICH WILL BE REALLY AWESOME TO SEE. 
          YEAH, THAT'LL BE REALLY NICE. 
          YEAH. 
          AND, AND THEN MY SECOND QUESTION WAS, I'D LOVE TO HEAR BOTH HOW YOU GUYS ARE THINKING ABOUT AND HOW THE EPA THINKS ABOUT THE BALANCE BETWEEN GETTING AS MUCH, YOU KNOW, VMT REDUCTION THERE BY, YOU KNOW, CARBON POLLUTION REDUCTION YOU CAN, UH, VERSUS HAVING A PROJECT THAT IMPACTS THE WHOLE REGION. 
          RIGHT. 
          YOU KNOW, I'LL CAVEAT THIS BY SAYING I LOVE CARTS. 
          I THINK CARTS IS SO IMPORTANT FOR, YOU KNOW, ECONOMIC MOBILITY ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE EQUITY, RIGHT? AND I'M REALLY GLAD TO SEE THAT ADDED SERVICE TO BA 'CAUSE I THINK IT'S GONNA BE TRANSFORMATIONAL FOR THAT COMMUNITY. 
          UM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, RIGHT, IF WE WERE JUST LOOKING AT LET'S REDUCE POLLUTION BY AS MUCH AS WE CAN, WE'D PROBABLY BE INVESTING A LOT MORE IN TAP METRO. 
          'CAUSE WE KNOW THERE'S, THERE'S HIGH RIDERSHIP POTENTIAL THERE. 
          SO, SO HOW DO YOU BALANCE THOSE TWO BOTH FROM THE GRANT PERSPECTIVE AND LIKE HOW MUCH LEEWAY DO YOU HAVE WITH THE OTHER PARTNERS? YEAH, I'LL SAY IT'S DEFINITELY A BALANCING ACT. 
          YOU KNOW, IF WE LOOK AT CARTS, THERE MAY NOT BE AS MUCH DENSITY OF RIDERSHIP, BUT THEY ARE TRAVELING A WHOLE LOT MORE MILES. 
          THAT'S A GREAT POINT THAN A LOT OF PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AUSTIN. 
          SO WE ARE LOOKING AT A BALANCED APPROACH, MAKING SURE WE ARE SERVING BOTH CITY OF AUSTIN RESIDENTS, BUT ALSO THE REGION AS A WHOLE, WHICH I THINK, YOU KNOW, IS A REALLY UNIQUE WAY THAT WE PITCHED THE GRANT TO THE EPA. 
          AND IT'S ALSO A REALLY GREAT WAY THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO BRING ALL OF THE DIFFERENT PARTNERS IN THE REGION TOGETHER. 
          UM, I CAN TELL YOU BEFORE WE RECEIVED THE GRANT, WE WERE NOT HAVING WEEKLY MEETINGS WITH CARTS, BUT NOW WE'RE ON THE PHONE WITH THEM OR TEAMS, UM, AT LEAST TWO TO THREE MEETINGS PER WEEK. 
          AND WHAT IT'S REALLY DONE FOR US IS BUILD THAT KIND OF REGIONAL COALITION, UM, AND HAVE US ALL KIND OF MARCHING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, UM, TO ACHIEVE THE GRANT GOALS, WHICH IS GREAT. 
          YEAH. 
          AND, AND THEN LIKE I SAID, I AM REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THEM GET THAT FUNDING. 
          'CAUSE YOU KNOW, THE STATE HAS NOT KEPT UP WITH HOW MUCH THEY SHOULD BE INVESTING IN RURAL TRANSIT, BUT THIS GRANT I'M SURE GOES A TREMENDOUSLY LONG WAY FOR THEM. 
          OTHERS. 
          YEAH. 
          COMMISSIONER CHEN, I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT OUR GOAL SETTING. 
          UM, ESPECIALLY ON THE SLIDE WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REDUCING VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED BY 39 MILLION MILES OVER FIVE YEARS BY MY MATH, IF WE'RE TRAVELING 45 MILLION MILES PER DAY NOW OVER THOSE FIVE YEARS, WE'RE BASICALLY DRIVING SOMETHING LIKE RAN THIS THROUGH REAL QUICK, 82 BILLION MILES AND SO A 39 MILLION MILE REDUCTION AMOUNTS TO BASICALLY AROUND 0.05%. 
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UM, SO I'M CURIOUS HOW Y'ALL LANDED ON THAT AS A GOAL AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO BE MORE AMBITIOUS THAN 0.05% WITH THIS PROJECT. 
          SURE. 
          SO, UM, WHEN WE APPLIED FOR THE GRANT APP, UM, OR WHEN WE APPLIED FOR THE GRANT, WE WERE REALLY FOCUSED ON THE CONSTRUCTION CORRIDORS THROUGHOUT THE REGION. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING THROUGHOUT, UM, THE COURSE OF THE GRANT IS FOCUSING OUR TDM EFFORTS AROUND THOSE CONSTRUCTION CORRIDORS, WHICH IF YOU TAKE THOSE AS A SUBSET OF THE TOTAL 89 BILLION OF THE REGION, IT IS MUCH LESS. 
          UM, SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE 39 MILLION MILE REDUCTION GOAL AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE SUBSET OF THE CONSTRUCTION CORRIDORS, IT'S A LITTLE BIT, UM, I BELIEVE IT'S ABOUT A EIGHT TO 9.5% REDUCTION IS WHAT WE'RE SHOOTING FOR ACROSS ALL OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION CORRIDORS. 
          AND WE DO KNOW THAT THAT'S NOT GONNA BE THE ENTIRE TIME, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GONNA BE PROJECTS THAT GO 18 MONTHS, THERE'S GONNA BE PROJECTS THAT GO 24 MONTHS OR 48 MONTHS. 
          SO WHAT WE'RE REALLY GONNA BE LOOKING FOR IS TO ALIGN THE TDM INTERVENTIONS THAT, THAT WE HAVE ALONGSIDE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULES SO THAT WHEN WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, SAY A LANE REDUCTION FOR 18 MONTHS, WE CAN THEN GO IN AND REDUCE THE VMT ON THAT CORRIDOR BY 10% AND THEREBY KIND OF REDUCING CONGESTION WHILE AT THE SAME TIME REDUCING THE VMT, UM, TOTAL THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO HIT FROM THE EPA, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          SO IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THIS CORRECTLY, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT THIS FUNDING AND THESE PROJECTS ARE INTENDED TO ALLEVIATE TRAFFIC ALONG CONSTRUCTION CORRIDOR SPECIFICALLY AS A FOCUS AND NOT NECESSARILY THE ENTIRE CENTRAL TEXAS REGION AS A WHOLE. 
          DID I GET THAT RIGHT? CORRECT. 
          SO YES, IT IS KIND OF DOING THE DUAL DUTY OF USING CONSTRUCTION AS THE IMPETUS TO, UM, GET PEOPLE TO CONSIDER ANOTHER TRIP AN ALTERNATIVE. 
          ARE YOU, YEAH. 
          ARE YOU USING THIS AS, LET ME THINK ABOUT HOW I WANNA PHRASE THIS QUESTION. 
          IS THIS INTENDED THEN TO BE SOMEWHAT OF A IN PRACTICE STUDY THEN ON MEASURES THAT CAN WORK AND THAT WE ROLL OUT TO THE REST OF CENTRAL TEXAS? OR IS THIS INTENDED JUST TO BE A STOCK GAPP MEASURE FOR AS WE'RE DOING CONSTRUCTION TO EXPAND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE? YES. 
          SO NOT NOT ONLY CENTRAL TEXAS, BUT TDM AS A WHOLE, AS A PRACTICE, AS MITIGATION FOR LARGE CONSTRUCTION PRO PROJECTS. 
          I CAN SEE OUR PROJECT REALLY ENABLING OTHER AREAS WITH LARGE CONSTRUCTION IMPACTS TO IMPLEMENT TDM MITIGATIONS AND GET A SIMILAR RESULT TO WHAT WE HAVE. 
          SO IT REALLY IS KIND OF ELEVATING TDM AS A MITIGATION MEASURE IN THE FIELD, UM, SO THAT OTHERS CAN KIND OF TAKE EXAMPLE OR TAKE, UM, ADVICE FROM US AS TO WHAT WORKED, WHAT DID NOT WORK, SO THAT THEY CAN PLAN FOR THEIR PROJECTS AND PULL THOSE LEVERS, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT FUTURE PROJECTS ARE LESS IMPACTFUL. 
          SO TO SUMMARIZE ALL OF THAT, IT SOUNDS LIKE THEN THE INTENT OF THIS PROJECT IS BOTH A PRESENT AND FUTURE APPLICATION OF USING TDM TO ALLEVIATE THE IMPACTS OF CONSTRUCTION, BUT NOT NECESSARILY TO ALLEVIATE TRAFFIC IMPACTS THROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS AS A WHOLE OVERALL. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          I THINK I'M GONNA TAKE THE MOMENT TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS, BUT I THINK AL I'M FOLLOWING STRAIGHT UP FROM COMMISSIONER CHEN, BUT LIKE YOU ARE ALSO TRYING TO TEACH NEW BEHAVIORS, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY. 
          SO THE HOPE WOULD BE THAT PEOPLE USE SOME OF THESE RESOURCES IN THE APP AND THEN THEN HOPEFULLY CONSIDER THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A PERMANENT CHANGE IN THEIR BEHAVIOR. 
          ABSOLUTELY, YEAH. 
          AS, AS JACOB WAS SAYING, IN SOME WAYS WE VIEW THIS GRANT AS A GIANT PILOT, WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT IS NOT WORKING? ARE WE CHANGING BEHAVIORS? CAN THAT BEHAVIOR CONTINUE? UM, THAT SORT OF THING. 
          SO YEAH, I HAVE A COUPLE, I THINK I DO HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS NOW. 
          SO ONE IS, UM, 
          [01:45:01]
ABOUT THE APP, THE, UM, CTX GO. 
          I KNOW THERE'S VARIOUS, THERE'S A LOT IN THIS GRANT AND PROGRAMS THAT'S LIKE, I'M LIKE, THERE'S A LOT TO TO GRAPPLE WITH HERE THAT'S REALLY GREAT AND COOL. 
          UM, THIS PARTICULAR APP, DOES IT HAVE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR FOLKS OR IS IT MORE LIKE A GAMIFICATION? LIKE I'M, I TRIED SOMETHING SO I'M GONNA GET SOME POINTS. 
          MM-HMM . 
          IT, IT'S, IT'S BOTH. 
          SO IT'S GAMIFICATION AND YOU EARN COINS, BUT THOSE CAN BE REDEEMED FOR REAL MONEY THROUGH THE TANGO PARTNERSHIP. 
          SO RIGHT NOW IT'S TWO 50 PER TRIP UP TO $5 A DAY, 90 DAYS PER YEAR FOR FOUR $50 TOTAL PER PERSON. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT THAT, YOU MAY HAVE SAID THAT, AND I THAT'S OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          . 
          SO THAT THAT, BUT THAT'S ONE EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT IS GOING TO BE IN THIS EARLY PHASE. 
          UM, AS WE WERE KIND OF MENTIONING, WE HOPE TO BE FLEXIBLE WITH THAT AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, BUT IT IS REAL MONEY, REAL, REAL INCENTIVES. 
          UM, OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T HAVE UNLIMITED FUNDS, SO IT IS UNTIL THE FUNDS ARE EXPENDED, BUT WE, THE GOAL IS TO GET AS MANY PEOPLE ON THIS APP MAKING DIFFERENT CHOICES AND, AND WE HOPE WE RUN INTO A SITUATION AT THE END 29 WHERE WE DON'T HAVE MONEY LEFT. 
          THAT IS THE GOAL, UM, TO SPEND IT DOWN TO ZERO. 
          YEAH. 
          I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, I THINK IT'S GREAT. 
          UM, SOME OF THE THINGS I, ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS A 17-YEAR-OLD AT HOME WHO'S LEARNING TO MAKE DIFFERENT TRANSPORTATION CHOICES, UM, AND WHAT I'M TRYING TO GIVE TO HER IS, IS A LOT ABOUT LIKE THE YOUTH AND HOW YOUTH NAVIGATE TRANSPORTATION AND WHAT YOU TRY WHEN YOU'RE IN YOUR LATE TEENS AND TWENTIES ALSO FILTERS DOWN TO LIKE WHAT YOU'RE WILLING TO TRY WHEN YOU'RE AN OLD LADY, 40-YEAR-OLD LADY LIKE ME. 
          SO, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          SO I'M REALLY GLAD TO HEAR THAT. 
          I THINK YOU MENTIONED THAT 2027, UM, FOR THE, UH, MOBILITY HUBS THAT YOU'RE, UM, GONNA LOOK MORE AT SCHOOLS BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW. 
          A LOT OF TIMES, UM, THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL REALLY FOCUSES A LOT ON OUR ELEMENTARIES, BUT HAVING A HIGH SCHOOLER THAT IS IN A HIGH SCHOOL, THAT IS IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION, LIKE I DON'T FEEL LIKE THAT HAS BEEN AS WELL THOUGHT ABOUT THE HIGH SCHOOLERS. 
          I THINK THERE TENDS TO BE AN ASSUMPTION THEY'RE HOPPING IN THEIR CARS, AND I DON'T ACTUALLY THINK THAT'S THE VIBES A LOT OF THEM ARE BRINGING TO THE TABLE ANYMORE. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IN OUR URBAN HIGH SCHOOLS. 
          SO, UM, I THINK THAT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT. 
          SO I REALLY GLAD THAT YOU'RE DOING THAT. 
          UM, WITH THE, I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE AIR SENSORS. 
          SO YOU MENTIONED, ARE THOSE AIR SENSORS, THEY'RE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY AND Y'ALL GET THE DATA? LIKE IF, IS IT SOMETHING THAT OTHER PEOPLE CAN SEE? ARE THEY LIKE SITTING THERE AND IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN I'M SPEEDING ON 35 AND IT SAYS, HEY, IT'S 65 AND YOU'RE GOING 67, YOU DUMMY, LIKE, DON'T DO THAT. 
          IS IT LIKE THAT? IT'S, IT'S NOT VISUAL LIKE THAT WHERE YOU WERE PASSING BY. 
          YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO, BUT THE PLAN IS FOR THESE SENSORS TO BE INSTALLED, FOR INSTANCE, AT, AT A HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN HAVE A PLAQUE OR A YARD SIGN NEXT TO IT THAT WOULD LEAD YOU TO A WEBSITE WHERE YOU COULD LEARN MORE. 
          AND SO THERE IS A PLATFORM, A A, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU CAN LOOK AT THE LOCATION OF THAT SENSOR AND FIND OUT THAT INFORMATION, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE DIGITALLY, YOU KNOW, SHOUTING AT YOU AS YOU, AS YOU WALK BY. 
          ONE THING THAT I, UM, HAVE NOTICED A LOT, SO I, I HAD A TWO DIFFERENT KID EXPERIENCES. 
          MY OLDER WENT TO A SCHOOL DOWN IN DOWNTOWN AUSTIN ON 12TH STREET THAT WAS CLOSED SADLY. 
          UM, UH, PEAS ELEMENTARY, 12TH AND RIO GRANDE, RIP. 
          UM, BUT MY, UM, , UH, AND THEN MY YOUNG, MY YOUNGER IS AT A, A NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL UP IN NORTH AUSTIN. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE NOTICED, EVEN THOUGH THAT'S A NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL AND THEORETICALLY IS MORE WALKABLE FOR MORE OF THE PEOPLE, THERE IS INTENSE LEVELS OF QUEUING. 
          WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE LINE UP FOR AN HOUR AHEAD OF TIME MM-HMM . 
          IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL WITH THEIR MOTOR RUNNING AND THEY WRAP ALL THE WAY AROUND. 
          AND I JUST FIND IT RATHER SHOCKING. 
          AND SO, UM, I THINK LIKE IF PEOPLE THOUGHT THROUGH THAT BEHAVIOR A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, THEY COULD CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR. 
          YEAH. 
          AND SO, UM, I MEAN, I JUST THINK THAT THAT'S JUST A REAL EASY, LIKE PROVIDING INFO TO PEOPLE. 
          SO LIKE, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE A BIG SIGN IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, I WON'T SAY THE NAME 'CAUSE I DON'T, YOU KNOW, LIKE MY OTHER PARENTS, YOU KNOW, LIKE BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, ELEMENTARY, YOU KNOW, AIR QUALITY, THIS AND THAT BECAUSE Y'ALL ARE ALL RUNNING YOUR ENGINES HERE, UH, FOR AN HOUR. 
          SO I MEAN, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT, UM, BECAUSE PEOPLE REALLY CARE ABOUT THAT AND CARE ABOUT THEIR KIDS. 
          AND SO I JUST THINK THEY'RE NOT THINKING. 
          SO, UM, I, I THINK THAT THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, AND THAT ALSO HELPS THEN STRUCTURE WHAT KIDS SEE IN THEIR YOUTH IS WHAT THEY THEN REPLICATE. 
          SO, UM, I THINK, UM, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO THINK THROUGH ALL OF THESE THINGS, HOW WE'RE REACHING THE YOUTH AND LIKE, ESPECIALLY THE APP, LIKE HOW ARE YOUTH ACCESSING THAT? AND I THINK THAT'S JUST SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE BEHAVIORS THAT THEY DO NOW ARE GONNA BE THE HEY BEHAVIORS THEY DO LATER. 
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SO, UM, YOU KNOW, MY KID WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT HER SCHOOL BUS AND I WAS LIKE, OKAY, WHY DON'T YOU TRY THE CITY BUS? AND SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT AND IT'S BEEN A REAL GAME CHANGER FOR HER AND FOR US. 
          SO, UM, THAT'S, UM, I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S JUST SO IMPORTANT. 
          SO, UM, I'LL SHUT UP ABOUT THAT, BUT I, YOU KNOW, I, I JUST ENCOURAGE YOU ANY TIME THAT YOU CAN BRING THIS TO THE YOUTH, SO, SO IMPORTANT. 
          ANYONE ELSE WITH QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? I, I'M SURE THAT WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR PERIODIC UPDATES, LIKE WHENEVER LEAST YEARLY, BUT WHENEVER YOU'RE READY TO COME OUT TO US, I'M SURE WE'D BE INTERESTED TO HEAR MORE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          Y'ALL ARE THE NO ONE'S. 
          I MEAN, YOU, I'M GONNA KEEP GOING BECAUSE NO ONE'S DOING THIS, RIGHT? THIS IS LIKE REALLY CUTTING EDGE STUFF. 
          THIS IS NOT LIKE SOMETHING LIKE WE'RE TAKING WHAT CHICAGO DID OR SEATTLE DID, LIKE, WE'RE THE FIRST PEOPLE, RIGHT? KIND OF, YEAH. 
          I MEAN WE DEFINITELY MODELED IT ON OTHER EFFORTS, BUT NO ONE IS DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING AT THE SCALE THAT WE ARE DOING IT WITH THE CONSTRUCTION CONSTRAINTS THAT WE'RE DOING. 
          GREAT. 
          AWESOME. 
          WE'RE GONNA LEARN. 
          THANK YOU, . 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT, COMMISSIONERS, THAT WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION AND THAT DOES TO CONCLUDE OUR DISCUSSION ITEMS FOR TODAY DISCUSSION. 
          SO WE'LL GO QUICKLY INTO OUR COMMITTEE UPDATES. 
          SO WE, ITEM 
          [4. Update from Commissioner Chen from the Downtown Commission regarding actions taken  at the April 15, 2026, meeting. ]
NUMBER FOUR IS, UM, AN UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER CHEN FROM THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE APRIL 15TH, 2026 MEETING. 
          THE ONLY ACTION TAKEN WAS IN CASTING A RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY MANAGER TO INITIATE COMMUNITY AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT TO RENAME CAESAR CHAVEZ AND TO REMOVE CAESAR CHAVEZ FROM ANY DOWNTOWN STREETS AND SIGNAGE. 
          IT WAS ASKED UNANIMOUSLY OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, UH, ITEM NUMBER FIVE 
          [5. Update from Commissioner Schumacher from the Bicycle Advisory Council regarding  actions taken at the April 21, 2026, meeting.  ]
IS, UH, UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER FROM THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE APRIL 21ST, 2026 MEETING. 
          TWO ACTION ITEMS, UM, WORTH THE, UM, DISCUSSING. 
          ONE IS, UH, YOU MAY RECALL THE BAC SENT A, A VERY DETAILED FEEDBACK ON THE BIKE DESIGNS FOR I 35. 
          THE TDOT TXDOT, ACTUALLY RESPONDENT IS MAKING A, A, A GOOD DOZEN OR SO CHANGES, UM, TO THE, THE SHARED USE PATH DESIGN, WHICH IS, UM, VERY ENCOURAGING. 
          I'LL MAKE SURE TO CIRCULATE THAT TO FOLKS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED. 
          UM, THE OTHER THING WAS THAT ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION WHICH I'LL CIRCULATE AS SOON AS IT'S UPLOADED TO BACKUP, UM, WHICH IS AROUND AUSTIN RESOURCE RECOVERY'S BICYCLE SWEEPING PROGRAM, UM, OR BICYCLE LANE SWEEPING I SHOULD SAY. 
          SO MAKING SURE THE BIKE LANES ARE CLEAN. 
          I THINK ANYONE WHO, UH, HAS RIDDEN THEIR BIKE AROUND AUSTIN A LOT HAS GOTTEN A, A FLAT FROM A NAIL OR GLASS THAT, THAT REALLY SHOULDN'T BE THERE. 
          SO MAKING SURE THAT PROGRAM, UH, OPERATES A LITTLE BIT BETTER. 
          UM, ITEM NUMBER SIX IS AN 
          [6. Update from Commissioner Kavelman from the Pedestrian Advisory Council regarding  actions taken at the May 4, 2026, meeting.  ]
UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER KAMAN FROM THE PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE MAY 4TH, 2026 MEETING. 
          UM, NO ACTIONS, JUST PRESENTATIONS. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU. 
          UM, NEXT IS ITEM 
          [7. Update from Chair Somers from the City Council Mobility Committee regarding actions  taken at the April 29, 2026, meeting.]
SEVEN, UM, WHICH IS, UM, A UPDATE FROM ME, UM, ON THE, UH, CITY COUNCIL MOBILITY COMMITTEE REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE APRIL 26TH, 2020. 
          APRIL 29TH. 
          2026 MEETING. 
          COULD YOU HELP ME WITH THAT, NATALIE? THAT WAS A SPECIAL CALL FOR THEM, RIGHT? YES. 
          AND IT WAS LIKE, UH, ABOUT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES. 
          DID THEY TAKE AN ACTION ON THAT? THERE IS NO ACTION. 
          JUST PRESENTATIONS FROM, UH, TRANSPORTATION AND, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          UM, NEXT IS 
          [8. Update from Chair Somers from the Community Advisory Committee of the Austin Transit  Partnership Board regarding actions taken at the April 9, 2026, meeting.]
AN ITEM FROM ME, UH, OR UPDATE FROM ME. 
          CHAIR SUMMERS FROM THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP BOARD REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT OUR APRIL 9TH, 2026 MEETING. 
          UM, WE, UH, DID, WE UPDATED OUR WORKING GROUPS, UH, AND DID LOTS FOR, UM, OUR NEW MEMBER TERMS. UM, AND THERE'S SOME INTERESTING, UM, REALLY INTERESTING PRESENTATIONS THAT WE SAW. 
          AND ACTUALLY WE MIGHT WANNA BRING SOME OF THOSE OUT TO THIS BODY AT SOME POINT. 
          UM, MAYBE WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT IN FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. SO, WE'LL, THAT'S OUR NEXT THING. 
          UM, SO, UM, BUT THE ONLY ACTIONS, WERE BASICALLY WORKING GROUP STUFF, UM, AND MEMBER TERMS, UM, THE FUTURE AGENDA 
          [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ]
ITEMS, WE DO HAVE A SHEET WITH THAT IN OUR PACKET. 
          I DO WANNA JUST PUBLICLY SAY REAL QUICKLY TO EVERYBODY HERE, I HAVE BEEN REALLY UNBELIEVABLY, EXTRAORDINARILY BUSY IN MY PERSONAL LIFE FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS, AND IT'S PROBABLY GONNA CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER FEW WEEKS AND THEN IT WILL PROBABLY CALM DOWN. 
          SO IF YOU HAVE SENT ME AN EMAIL AND I HAVE NOT RESPONDED, I REALLY WANNA APOLOGIZE. 
          IT'S NOT REALLY MY NORMAL BEHAVIOR, SO I'M REALLY SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          I KNOW I'M VERY BEHIND, BUT I'M HERE, I'M NOT GONE. 
          SO, UM, 
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PLEASE JUST, IF YOU NEED ME, TEXT ME, CALL ME. 
          IF YOU DON'T HAVE MY NUMBER, ASK FOR IT. 
          I'M PRETTY OPEN WITH THAT. 
          SO, UM, BUT I WILL BE TRYING TO CATCH UP ON THOSE EMAILS, BUT IT MIGHT BE ANOTHER COUPLE WEEKS BEFORE I'M REALLY ABLE TO REALLY DIG IN ON SOME OF THAT. 
          SO I APOLOGIZE FOLKS. 
          UM, IT'S JUST NOT NORMALLY WHAT I'M LIKE. 
          UM, SO, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE, ON THE AGENDA HERE, WE HAVE, UM, AN UPDATE ON THE CURB MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
          SO THAT'S A, THAT'S A, WE'VE BEEN ALREADY HEARD FROM THEM AT LEAST ONCE. 
          UM, AND THE PARKING TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS, IS THAT CONFIRMED? NOT YET. 
          OR IS THAT THAT'S THE SAME, THAT'S A SIMILAR TEAM IF NOT THE SAME TEAM, RIGHT? IT'S THE SAME TEAM AND WE'RE STILL KIND OF WORKING THROUGH WHERE THOSE WILL LAND OVER THE SUMMER. 
          YEAH, THAT'S TOTALLY FINE. 
          THAT'S GREAT THOUGH. 
          UM, I, I 35 SMALL MOBILITY PLANNING, MAYBE JULY, UM, UPDATES ON, UM, GROUND TRANSPORTATION FOR JULY SPECIAL EVENTS. 
          OH, CITY CODE REQUIRES UTC REVIEW AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON SPECIAL EVENT. 
          INTERESTING. 
          OKAY. 
          SO SOMETIME IN THE SUMMER, UM, AND I WAS JUST LOOKING THROUGH HERE, THERE WAS A REPORT, UM, I WONDER IF THE, UM, ETOD TEAMS, THAT WAS A REPORT THAT WE HAD AT A TP, LIKE THE CITY OF AUSTIN, ETOD, CITYWIDE DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM. 
          UM, I WONDER IF THERE WOULD BE A CYCLE WHERE THEY WOULD WANNA COME OUT TO THIS GROUP. 
          UM, I THOUGHT, UM, THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WE WANNA HEAR ABOUT. 
          THEY'RE PROGRESSING IN THEIR WORK AND YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE WANNA SAY ON THE, ON THE ACTUAL LIKE ZONING MIGHT BE LIMITED, BUT I, I, I DEFINITELY WANT TO GET INTO THE NITTY GRITTY OF THOSE LIKE AMENITY TYPE THINGS THAT YOU CAN ADD ON. 
          'CAUSE THAT IS VERY MUCH RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION. 
          OH, LIKE ALL THE, UH, LIKE THE, WHAT IS IT? IT'S SUBCHAPTER E RIGHT? THAT DENSITY BONUS PRO. 
          LIKE I, IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT, I'LL, OKAY, NEVERMIND. 
          , I, I THINK IT MIGHT BE I AGAIN, I THINK YEAH, WE DO HAVE TO BE A LITTLE CAREFUL. 
          WE'RE NOT REALLY ABOUT ZONING HERE, BUT I THINK AS FAR AS SOME OF THE, THE CONCEPTS IN THAT WOULD BE THAT, LIKE THERE COULD BE ELEMENTS OF LIKE, UM, SOMEONE PROVIDES IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT, A TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT OR A TDM, UM, KIND OF, UH, TREATMENT OR OPTION AND, AND THAT HELPS THEM GET SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANT. 
          SO I THINK THAT THAT COULD BE, UM, SCOPED TO WHAT WE ARE DOING WHENEVER THAT TEAM IS READY. 
          THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO HEAR FROM THEM. 
          UM, POSSIBLY. 
          IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? I KNOW THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT ARE HANGING OUT IN OUR, UM, DOC AS WELL. 
          SOME OF THEM ARE PRETTY OLD. 
          IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THAT IS LIKE IN THE TBD COLUMN THAT NEEDS TO BE MOVED UP OR ANYTHING THAT'S MISSING? IS CTRA EVER GONNA WANNA LIKE NO. 
          OKAY. 
          , WELL, THEY DID COME AND DO MOPAC SOUTH. 
          OH, THEY DID DO THAT? YEAH. 
          YES, THAT'S TRUE. 
          WE DON'T, NORTH IS ALMOST DONE, RIGHT. 
          WE DON'T REALLY NEED TO, IT'S ALMOST DONE. 
          SECTIONS OF IT ARE OPEN FOR SURE. 
          YEAH. 
          BIG PORTIONS OF IT. 
          THE, THE TOLL LANES ARE OPEN. 
          THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON SOME OF LIKE THE, THE ACCESS ROADS AND SIDEWALKS AND THINGS OVER THERE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          SO MAYBE THAT'S DONE STRIKING THAT ONE. 
          IF WE, YEAH, IF WE HAVE SOME LIGHT MEETINGS, I STILL, I STILL WANNA SEE A PD IN HERE EVER, BUT, UM, IS THAT THE, THE, THE DISTRACTED DRIVING ENFORCEMENT OR JUST ENFORCEMENT IN GENERAL? JUST ABOUT LIKE SEE SOME TICKET DATA AND STUFF LIKE THAT ABOUT SPEEDING AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          I RECOGNIZE THAT MIGHT BE COMPLEX FOR Y'ALL TO WORK THROUGH, BUT IS THAT SOMETHING WE COULD PRO I MEAN, I DON'T THINK IT'S THAT TIME SENSITIVE. 
          IT COULD EVEN BE INTO THE FALL OR WHENEVER THEY CAN GET PREPARED. 
          UM, THAT'S IS SORT OF ABOUT THEIR ENFORCEMENT AND TICKETING AND DISTRACTED DRIVING AND THAT KIND OF THING, LIKE WHAT THEY'RE SEEING. 
          IF THEY WANNA TALK ABOUT OTHER, I MEAN ANY TRANSPORTATION SAFETY WHERE A PD GETS INVOLVED, I THINK THAT COULD BE FINE. 
          UM, IF I CAN JUST SAY I, I, I ALREADY SEE IT ON HERE, SO, UH, THANK YOU NATALIE FOR THAT. 
          BUT JUST FOR THE CURB MANAGEMENT PLAN UPDATE, UM, I HAVEN'T SEEN THE FULL STUDY REPORT, SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GONNA WANNA MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, UH, BUT JUST DEPENDING ON WHEN IT COMES OUT, I THINK IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL JUST TO POST FOR ACTION. 
          UM, AND I, I MIGHT BE INTERESTED IF OTHER FOLKS ARE INTERESTED. 
          UM, DEFINITELY LET ME KNOW. 
          ANYTHING ELSE FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS? JUST A REMINDER, EVERYBODY, IF YOU HAVE AN ITEM THAT OCCURS TO YOU, A LOT OF TIMES I'M WALKING DOWN THE STAIRS OR SOMETHING AND I'M LIKE, OH, I HAD MORE IDEAS FOR AGENDA ITEMS. YOU KNOW, REACH 
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OUT TO NATALIE, REACH OUT TO, UM, MY, THE VICE CHAIR AND MYSELF. 
          AND WE CAN ALWAYS TALK ABOUT GETTING THAT ON THE AGENDA. 
          WE JUST NEED TWO PEOPLE TO PUT SOMETHING ON THE AGENDA, SO DON'T HESITATE TO DO THAT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WELL THAT DOES TAKE US THROUGH ALL OF OUR AGENDA. 
          SO, UM, UNLESS THERE'S OBJECTION, I WILL ADJOURN THIS MEETING AT 7:09 PM.
* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.