Our recreation and parks department to be able to do some at Pit Moyer and some of the other places.

And last year I did uh a demo at the senior center in the Bates complex that was really successful, and everyone was really excited about it.

So I I appreciate y'all, you know, I appreciate you all's time.

And if there's any questions I can answer, I'm happy to do so.

Are there any questions for my colleagues?

Go ahead.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um Srell, thank you so much for joining us in this wonderful presentation.

Um my two questions are one do we have a timeline on the West East Expressway yet?

Uh we do we have a timeline, but it's it's constantly moving.

Um and part of it is because we have uh we are lawyer who helped us acquire and and work with land some of the landowners to get you know uh ease proper easements and all the legality done with that.

What ended up happening is some of them were kind of absent, some of the the landowners, so it took a while to get to to reach them.

Um I would say for we installed the sign and we had uh the symbolic groundbreaking.

I don't know if you remember that.

That was but um it's supposed to happen any any day now when we first start breaking ground.

Um you know we're still working out some contractual things, um, but all of the framework is already established for that.

So the short, I feel like this is a Senate hearing where they're where they don't answer the question.

But um in short, it should be in the next, it should be sometime this year.

Uh my second question, and um if you don't know the answer off the top of your head, that's fine, but I would love to get something written out.

These infrastructure projects take a frustratingly long time for all of us.

Yes.

Some of that's financing, some of that's negotiating with private property owners, is what it is, federal law financing, yeah, property rights.

I get that.

Some of that is our own city process, and some of that city processes code.

What could we do in the code to streamline these projects?

Okay.

Well, I will tell you in the bicycle master plan.

Um part of that is being able to for lack of a better word, advocate for that level of change in order for it to happen.

We attempted to do it in the last administration, but a lot of it, as you all know, uh happened like rapidly, and we were kind of building the plane as we were flying it.

So um, in short, I would say I can provide a series of recommendations.

Um I can uh draw them from the bicycle master plan, but I also have a little bit of framework that I can grab from some other areas, some of my um you know, colleagues uh in similar positions, for instance, the county, uh, to find out uh their process.

But but you're absolutely right.

I mean, it is it, you know, it is time consuming because with everything there has to be a study related to it, and that's usually what takes a good deal of time.

Um but but Alderman Chandelmeyer to to answer a part of your question, we do have a an RFP that we we've already um I was on the review committee that we've already gone through, which is um pushing forward our safe routes to school programs and some other things and drawing down money for that.

So, you know, so I think that will kind of expedite a little bit of that process because we'll have our own um like relative framework locally as opposed to drawing off of Ana Rondo County or the state of Maryland.

Excellent.

Okay, but but I'll um I will provide some recommendations.

Thank you.

And just anything that we can change locally that we control on this level, uh, I definitely want specifics on anything that's required by the state.

I'd like specifics on because we can go and at least ask, hey, can you help us streamline this?

We might not get it, but yeah, it never hurts to ask.

And then the feds uh that the feds, we might as well just yell into the wind, nothing we could do about them.

Yeah.

I will say um one uh really good uh resource um that we have is Eric Leshinski because he's he's done so in other municipalities, but he's also uh he's actively trying to navigate um ways in which you know we could cut some of the red tape um in terms of getting some of the and you probably already know that, but but he's um you know he's you know I work with him and he's he's quite adept at you know figuring that out.

Thank you, sir.

Okay.

Aldman Savage.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you so much, Mr.

Rao, for joining us today.

Um and can I say about bike to work day?

I look forward to biking to work with my fellow ward seven uh uh constituent and colleague, uh the director.

Uh uh we need to get the bike share program set up.

Yeah, we'll get a bike.

Yeah, we'll get a bike.

You can borrow one of mine, Marcus.

Actually, I know another director who's in Ward 7 that has a whole garage full of bikes.

Um but any case, I'm really glad.

I know you're somewhat new in this position.

It hasn't been too long, but I'm glad that we have you in this working on these.

I would love to see the goals that you if you could send those to us, that'd be great to see.

Okay.

Um I love the symposium idea.

And let's see, I'm I'm gonna try to go a little faster than I normally would just because um I have someplace I need to get to soon.

But um so as far as the bike the 2011 bike uh ped, you know, I think for those colleagues who may not be aware of some of the background, I believe this is the plan that is put together by your predecessor by Ian Banks.

Uh because we had a position like yours.

So again, this was like um 20 years ago, whatever 15 years ago.

And then, and that was under a different director.

Uh, and then I think we had a new director, that position went away.

Um, and it we haven't really gotten it back until uh a year or so ago.

Yeah, when we created yours.

Um so that plan, the 2011 plan was great, but it kind of went into a black hole because of that.

We lost the staff person who was heading it up, we lost the director.

Um so we didn't really have a champion.

And so um, you know, um I'm glad that we we will get one, you know, and you be able to champion that plan because it they laid out a lot of things.

The plan called for a lasting transportation program that was integrated with the the county and the state.

Uh it called for annual meetings of I think of their um the work group that set it up, and um you know, I haven't even had a chance to look at who was in the work group, but that work group was supposed to identify um things they need to get updated in the plan uh as far as the projected list of projects, improvements, um the routes, all kinds of things.

And we just haven't, I know I know both you and Mr.

Lashinsky have been working on parts of this, but at least from my mind, I think it'd be really helpful and think of it.

Maybe we we we should reconstitute that work group in some fashion or utilize the transportation board um to help support you in that effort because I think it does need to give be a group effort.

Um, and I'd really like to make sure that this plan you know is able to be uh continue in the future, right?

Uh, because that's what that's one thing.

I know we've we've worked a lot on these issues the past few years, um, but we don't really have it collected in at least not that I'm aware of that we can really visualize and show to the public.

Well, here's our really our plan.

These are the improvements that we're looking at immediately.

And some of them are pretty easy in the plan.

They were like putting up signs, putting paint on the road.

Um those things we should be able to get done really quickly.

Um, and I don't know if we need and plus we have that that was uh Alderman Shannon might help me with it, but we have a CIP project for I think it's safety improvements, traffic safety.

Yeah, and I think we did specifically call out in that CIP that it's supposed to be used for these kind of bike quick build bike projects.

And so as you get your head around that plan and and what you're envisioning as far as your own goals, I think please do keep us posted as far as if you need additional resources.

Uh I think a number of us would be more than happy to try to track that down.

I you know I'm trying to figure out different funding mechanisms for this infrastructure.

Um, but if if you know in the short term we need a consultant to help out with various aspects, I think we're certainly very open to this kind of prospects.

I appreciate that.

And that you know, luckily uh the RFP that that we're uh getting ready to put out into the world, I think is is gonna help with aspects of that.

Um I think we've already identified um the contractor that we're gonna use, so so hopefully uh the plan that they come up with can be integrated into this and and will greatly help me with a work plan.

Is that the the mobility plan that Mr.

Lashinsky's working on?

Yes, and and myself.

It'd be good uh Madam Chair if you're and the colleagues on the committee uh if you're interested, I would love to hear about that plan for Mr.

Lyshinsky.

I don't know too much about it.

Yeah, um my what I do know about it is that it it seems to be very much broader.

I think this bike plan is more of a deep dive than specifically biking, but it does touch on other things that you mentioned.

Um but I think that'd be important to hear about as we figure out what we want to fund in the upcoming budget.

Um I guess if we could we have that on the list to follow up with, and then yeah, so I would love to also see more of you if you're if uh director's willing.

Um I don't know if you think a quarterly or something or at least a few times a year.

Yeah, on the things you need.

Um just end with um something about the bike share program.

Uh is this would this include because I think I've so in the past when we've heard from you and I think the director, it's been an issue's come up as far as we're not attracting too many people bidders on this because the market is just relatively small, at least when you look at just the city, right?

Is that accurate?

Uh and it in a broader sense, yes.

We the good thing is we with the RFP, we do have um a lot of vendors that do universities and colleges.

And so I think what's going to be most conducive that that you can kind of overlay is let's say um the vendor who does the University of Maryland College Park.

Um they are it's numbers wise and size-wise, it's more conducive than let's say, you know, which is what you're saying.

You know, let's say uh you know bird is bird is used to markets like Washington DC, Baltimore, New York, and stuff like that.

And so, yes, what we do is we want to attract some of those other vendors, but they are out there.

Is the county joining us on this effort?

So per some other conversations we had when we found out we were running kind of side by side tracks.

Um Tanya Astman and I have been talking about being sure that we're um combining scopes.

And part of that is because is exactly why you're asking, which is it makes no sense that our scope and our our uh geo fencing would end right at the county line, and then there's a different vendor.

Yeah, um so what we're trying to do is kind of move alongside, but but I think what they're doing, uh what she said they may be doing is allowing us to do our process, and then if the vendor works for them, there may be an opportunity to for them to do the exact same thing on their side.

Well, if I could throw out an idea, um, because this is what we did with the streetcar feasibility study, which is running it through the resilience authority, because obviously, as you mentioned earlier, one of the way reasons to get people out of the cars is because of the climate uh emissions and whatnot.

So it is directly related, and plus the transportation sector is our largest sector for uh greenhouse gases in the city as well as the state.

But um so perhaps maybe we could end this to the director too.

Um have a conversation with the resilience authority about maybe they could be the vehicle to pull our money as well as the counties and do an RFP from them because to your point, it really seems like it makes sense because people are gonna want to take this out ride on the Wii trail to go out to the mall or the hospital, right?

Uh I mean people I'm sure who live in Bay Ridge or Hillsmere may want to also jump on this, right?

Uh use the bike share.

So um it probably makes sense to pretty innovative way to use the resiliency fronting because it's only so much uh stormwater infrastructure you can put in, and uh I can think of nothing better to address the problem than cutting it off at the source.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, thank you.

That's all um if you could maybe talk with the director about it, yeah.

See if that might be something would be feasible.

Yeah, I'll certainly follow up with you all and provide um the uh answers to the questions that uh Alderman Shanamara have.

And I'll and whenever you need me to come back um to give updates or to flesh out some of the some of the other things.

I'm more than happy to do so.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Rao.

Thank you all.

The chair may have questions for I did.

Um I did I did.

Um the buses hold the um bikes on the uh have bike racks on them.

Yes.

And how many um bikes will you all they allow on the bus?

I think it's three.

Only three.

I think it's three, yeah, at a time.

Are we going to be increasing them since was if we get this per bus?

And but you know, people they the odds of people ten people having a bike at the same time and putting them on the bus are at current pretty low.

Um, not a lot of people utilize that.

In fact, we we have talked uh the director and I had talked about um you know promoting and doing like videos to let people know because some people may not know that all the buses have have uh have bike racks on them.

Right, I didn't know which is awesome, you know.

If you if you think about that, it's it really is a good that's good to know.

It's a good amenity for the city.

Okay.

All right, but just keep us posted, and I'm really we really appreciate you being here today, Mr.

Raoul.

Thank you, thank you.

Enjoy your day.

I thought about it.

I'll talk to you.

Okay.

Uh next on the agenda is ID 5526, potential bus route serving Annapas High School.

We have more Mr.

Marcus Moore here.

Yeah.

Okay.

Good afternoon, um chair and members of the Transportation Committee.

Um, I I know you're pressed for time.

I will uh kind of share with you quickly, but not too fast information about um the new bus stop on the county's uh it's their number 207, used to be our yellow route, where it actually goes when it started, and um and the like.

But um, we have our both of our parking contractors that would like to present, and I have a few things too, and I know Alderman Um Savage has a pressure time.

So, what I can do is on March 2nd, which was a Monday, um, the county added another stop um at the swim club.

And what this stop does is bring the students just a little bit closer, but they stopped at 2662 Reva Road, which we call the Heritage Turnaround, which is right nearby, and there's a cut across to go to the school itself.

I had presented to you in last month saying the school would not let us on their property.

So this is still the the swim club, it's not really their property, but they're not allowing the county bus to go two times a day at 8 30 in the morning and also at 3 30 because to get out of there they have to go around the school and go out the same way the school buses do, and intermingling it'll be um a bit of a challenge.

However, the stop will still remain where it already is uh less than 50 yards to the side of it, but that stop is there.

Um it's a step in the right direction.

It doesn't completely solve the problem.

Um Alderman Um Savage and I will be you know talking about some of the essays that came up for this fiscal year, FY26 about studies.

Um our TDP that was very uh was uh approved by you guys last summer, talks about a force drive corridor and um uh Eastport circulator.

Um so we want to develop these ideas because a lot of our services go back more than 20 years.

Slight changes have been made along the way to make it a little bit better.

And if I can use a reference point of our um 2019 TDP, it talked about looking at um a microtransit.

So in 2024, we did it cost money.

So where we are, I talked about last month.

I don't want to um go too deep into it unless you have questions.

Um we're able to get the technology, which is the iPads, and you know, we rent the software, no one's gonna sell it to you.

Um, and also get everything set up for this, and we have enough money for uh 36 months, and we're halfway through that.

So in FY 2028, we'll need to look at um our microtransit and how it's operating if we want to keep it or expand it.

So if I can give you a quick brief on it, what this did was remove two underutilized routes.

It was the orange route that went Monday through Friday and it transversed um Robinwood by water all the way down Spa Road.

This route did not go to the mall and it did not go to Eastport.

It ran Monday through Friday.

The ridership was really low.

Monday through Saturday in the evenings from 7 to 10 45, we had something called the purple route, which picked up everything that we did.

And the purple route also encompassed the yellow route, which we did.

The yellow route is all in the county, and that's why the county took it over in 2018.

It didn't pick up what we did with the gold route, which went from Edgewater, the Kmart, all the way down to the uh community college.

So that was underutilized.

When I say underutilized, sometimes you would have with two buses out there for the purple, we may carry 30 or 40 people, and sometimes 100.

But two buses for three and a half hours with utilization.

And it because it ran the whole route.

It was on a headway of more than an hour and a half.

So now with the go time, if you're going that same place from the mall and you want to get to buy water, you'd make all those stops along the way.

It would take you 20 some odd minutes.

Now, with a few people, it's a still shared ride.

It won't be as long.

But one of the things we look at ridership, it is more costly or as costly as ADA.

See, ADA is a curb to curve service, which we're required to have because we have federal funds.

It costs twice as much as fixed route, even if you are a senior.

So $4, that service covers it.

With the go time, it's the same rate as our fixed route.

It's the way to go, but it's expensive.

But it's the wave of the future, and we do really need to realign.

So I look forward to upcoming conversations that talk about what we can do with Eastport Edgewood Road, because we're going to be developing Cars Beach.

And we, you know, parking is going to be pretty much at a premium at limited bases and how we get people back and forth.

We need to look at Forest Drive and partner with the county of things that we can do.

So looking forward to that, but I can definitely present you with the actual schedule of what the new bus route, what it does, and it just shows you the schedule of where it goes and all.

But we can revisit that.

But if I may go into my presentation and answer any questions you have and come back to whatever it is that you might have.

So for the record, which I don't know if I did actually say, I'm Marcus Moore, Director of Transportation and Parking.

And you've already heard from Mr.

William Rao, our bike ped micromobility coordinator.

But along with me with my presentation, you'll also hear from Metropolis, uh Jason Kinney, the senior manager, and Brianna Denton, the uh facilities manager, and with premium parking, uh Jason Parola, the market president, and also Brianna, excuse me, um Megan Murray, the she's the account manager.

They have some things to follow up from the last time we spoke and try to answer some of the questions that we have going along.

So if I may.

One of the things we talked about last time around was uh the automatic vehicle um locator, the AVL system.

And as I mentioned, it was our hope to piggyback on an existing contract in the state uh that we could use the same service that uh the county is using, which is PASIO.

Not to say we can't, but we decided we're gonna go our own direction and get an RP of our own, um, which will be put out.

And who knows, Pasio might still be that um winning um bid.

And as we discussed in previous meetings, this technology, of course, will allow us to track the buses in real time and improve the monitoring of on-time performance and provide a more accurate arrival information for our passengers.

In addition to in addition to that, the system will give our operations staff uh better data to manage service more efficiently.

So the request for proposals are underway, and once we have them, we'll be evaluating them.

And um, our collaboration with the county really makes a whole lot of sense as you talk to Mr.

Rao about um the scooter um situation, that will be the same thing here.

Another thing I'd like to talk to you about, and I'm you know, if you stop me along the way if there's questions about that, but I'll definitely have time at the end.

But I want to talk about the magenta shuttle because also this past Monday, which was the second, we've added that extra little loop that I talked about last um last month.

So that's really helped out, and for a variety of reasons, as I made mention, even if people don't get off at the first go round, remember this uh service connects all four of our garages and probably the other ones too, because it's nearby Whitmore, not too close to Calvert Street Garage, but it's free.

And as I mentioned before, Monday through Thursday from six o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock at night, Friday, 6 o'clock in the morning to midnight, Saturday, 7 o'clock in the morning to midnight, and Sunday, 8 to 8.

So even though we have an inventory problem with parking downtown, this does help out a lot of the resident uh the employees of local businesses.

Maybe not all of them that are closing that restaurant or closing that bar, but we do have some options that we're working on that can hopefully make life a little bit easier.

And along with that, um, at the work session we had on February 23rd, we're asking about other programs for employers of downtown businesses, the park, shop and dine.

Um, those programs do still exist, and the further out you get, the cheaper they are.

Um for Gott's Court Garage, um, a local business will make contact with um SP Metropolis, and they if they enter their employee or they themselves enter between 12 and 6, they would pay $5, and they would have to be out by 6 o'clock in the morning.

Night and night in garage is $3, and still this between 12 noon and 6 uh 12 noon, 6 p.m.

$3 out by 6 in the morning.

And the caveat is park place is $3, come anytime out by six.

And the bus stops there.

That's where the very first spot stop of the bus, the magenta shuttle is.

It is the circuit court when they're you know the jurors are are reporting.

You'll see that spike there.

Um of the other things we talked about a little, or maybe we haven't come into that season.

We have two EV carts.

They're called Gem Carts.

Um, and I know, chairwoman, you don't like you know abbreviations.

Global electric motor cars is a gym, it's a uh E6, six just means six passengers, and not counting the driver, of course.

The one that we have that is well, we have two that are operating during fair weather.

The fair weather would be in the next couple weeks, um, all the way through sometimes October, November.

So we were running in the area of um Eastport and uh the Calvert Street.

Calvert Street uh went down, does go down West Street, Church Circle, School Street, around State Circle, um Maryland Avenue, Prince George Street, uh College Avenue, St.

John's and back free.

Um remember the battery operated, there's no HBAC.

We try to do some aftermarket stuff.

If I plug it in, I get lesser time.

The best time I can get is like seven hours.

And remember, you know, trying to get the bus back to our location to charge for the next day.

I can only do it about six and a half or seven hours.

So ridership in 2025 for that route that I just made mention of was just over 950 people.

Remember, Saturday and Sunday.

Eastport um, a little longer of a route.

In fact, I'm sorry I didn't jot down exactly where it went, but it started all the way down at like bread and butter, um 2nd Street and uh Severn Avenue, all the way to Eastport Shopping Center, Monroe Street.

We had just over 400 doing the same period of time when one ran, the other one ran.

So the good news is what we want to try, because this is a pilot program as well.

Um, in a couple weeks, I want to say um clearly by the Easter weekend, but maybe the last weekend in this month, I want to say it's the 28th.

Um, we will put these fully electric carts back on the road.

And what we're gonna do with this other one is gonna be a pilot, and I'll give you a map of it as well.

Um it'll start at church circle and go down school street around State Circle.

It'll hit Cornhall Street, Cornhill Street, which merges into Fleet Street.

Fleet Street, they'll be able to make all the way down and make a left on market space.

They'll come down to Main Street, make that left around Memorial Circle, which is Randall, and also hit City Dot.

So it'll make that right, it'll hit City Dot, Craig Street, Prince George's Street, Randall, it'll come back up around uh Main Street, and then it'll hit Gorman and go up Gorman, make the left onto conduit or right onto Main, back to the circle.

We really think that'll help even folks that are at you know at the top of the circle to be able to get back down to um City Dock.

And remember, this is a pilot program just to see how this works out.

Hopefully, we can run this as long as possible.

When I say fair weather, if it's really really hot, ambient temperature, you know, people say I'm gonna be there in only five hours, you know, five minutes, but the driver's there for seven hours.

Um I can only give them so much water and just trying to keep them comfortable.

And because of the flooding, I gotta be careful of that too.

But we're trying to look at the businesses downtown and what we can do to show that we care to show that we're working on some things um to take a look at.

So we talked about the high school.

Um, but I want to entertain any questions that you may have before I ask our parking contractors to come up.

I will stay up here with them, and in case it comes up to you later on, um, I'll still be right here.

Ethan Gully.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh so I want to talk about two things that you brought up.

Uh one was the parking program for downtown employees.

Um we you went over some of the several generous programs we have for each garage.

Gets more expensive as we get it gets more expensive as we get closer to downtown, which makes sense.

That's just how prime real estate works.

Um can you repeat the costs of each sure?

And what I failed to do was talk about Hillman.

Hillman's got a program too.

Mm-hmm.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday is really busy, especially good weather.

So there's a program Monday through Thursday, it's $110 for a monthly subscription that would they can work that through um premium parking.

Um and I know that doesn't work out way well for a weight staff or anyone in a bar because you may not work four consecutive days, but if you can share it, you know, because remember your subscription in all of our garages, yours per subscription, you can have up to three vehicles in there, only one in at a time.

The second one's gonna get a ticket.

So go so $110, uh, just average that out $30 days a month.

Yeah, seven a day if you run every single day.

Three dollars and six cents.

Three uh three dollars and sixty-six cents.

Uh, but four days a week though.

Okay, well, if we do it, I was doing seven days.

Oh, yeah, see it can't be used Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so it's just Monday through Thursday.

That's the program we have right now.

So it comes out to be about seven.

So you're close, but just for four days a week.

Seven dollars a day to park in Hillman Garage is an offer and a benefit we have to downtown employees.

So uh we've been getting some emails recently from folks saying that we don't offer affordable parking in our downtown to local employees.

Businesses just need to reach out to us and find out how they work, yeah.

We are very happy to help accommodate.

But can you repeat those other ones, which are even more reasonable?

Yeah, because those are a lot better because you know you can you use it, you pay it for it when you use it.

So let's go back to Gott's Court, 25 Calvert Street.

Um, under the management of premium, I'm excuse me, under management of metropolis, which is SP, it is five dollars for their their shift because if they're they're probably not gonna work past six o'clock in the morning coming in at 12 noon.

You come in between 12 noon and six p.m.

any day, and you have to be out by six o'clock in the morning the next day, five dollars.

You have to sign up through the establishment, so it'll be the owner of the business or the manager of the business reaching out to metropolis.

The second one we talked about is similar.

It is um night and garage on Colonel Avenue.

It's three dollars for the same parameters in between 12 noon and 6 p.m.

out by 6 a.m.

the next day, same price.

Park place wide open, three dollars, uh, come in at any time, but still out by the next day.

How do we know the next day?

Because we have the they have the uh LPR system, and that's how they'll register and um be able to validate that employee of the local business.

As they come up with me too, you might have some you may need to peel the onion back a little more.

You might have some more specific questions, or they may fact check me to make sure I said everything is absolutely correct.

So if a reference point, if someone with that deal parks in Gott's garage for 12 hours, that is 42 cents an hour.

That is very affordable for Gott's garage, which is less than a mile from the waterfront.

Um, why noon though?

Like let's say there's a retail employee that has to come in before that, or uh there's a brunch shift where you have to get at 10 a.m.

What can we do for employees that have to be incombinated there?

Do we have ways to deal with that, or is it we encourage them to go to park place?

If they were creative, all of our meters are two hours.

Maybe they have to move it, but three dollars and twenty-five cents, six dollars and fifty cents.

I know it costs more than the whole rest of the time, or in the garage, uh the the folks behind me will be able to give you the exact cost of the first hour, hour two to three, three to four, it might be cheaper that way as well.

But thinking outside the box, there might be a way for that.

Maybe that's an anomaly.

Um, not sure.

You know, for somebody coming in at two hours before that time, and you know, they're probably still getting off in that calendar day at 10, 11 or 12, maybe not you know, after midnight, unless it's some big event um like St.

Patty's Day.

We hope keep the bars open, the restaurants open a lot longer.

All right.

Uh my second question is regarding the go time.

Um I don't remember if I asked this during our first meeting, but I used GoTime for the first time back in January, and I was very impressed with it.

But one issue that we had was I for some reason had it in my head.

I guess it's because we had hyped it up as similar to Uber, order it on the app, just go and stand on the spot that I could pay for it through the app.

Uh this was wrong.

Luckily, I had $2 cash on me.

Uh so we were able to take care of it, but do we have the capacity to find a way for someone to input their credit card information into the app itself to start paying for it?

I think if we're really starting to aggressively push GoTime as this wonderful service, that can improve that's something we really if we want to make it as a competitor for ride share, which I personally do.

Right.

Um the Gen Z crowd, I mean, I'm not that I'm not that good, man.

I'm still a millennial.

You know what I'm gonna but um you know, putting thing on Apple Pay.

So not only with that one, but the rest of our service.

So as we grow our service and we improve our service that's been around for the same way for more than 20 years, we need to look at other payment options.

So not just go time, but others that's come up not a lot, but some.

Um, how can I pay other than cash?

Um, you know, because the parking allows us that you can prepay um for the garages, and these guys can talk to you about how that works.

Uh not necessarily reserving a space, but you're pre-paying for a space um if the system will allow it based on availability.

But that's something, Alderman Um Shandelmeyer, that I would think that we want to look at it's gonna be a cost uh to be able to do that, so not just with go time, it would make a lot of sense with the other services that we have too.

I personally think that would be worth the cost to figure out and incorporate directly into the go time app itself, um, unless you come back and say it's like millions on top of millions of dollars, then uh we'll adjust from there.

But I think incorporating that convenience can really help encourage more people to use go time, which goes into my second question on people using go time.

I was at the gym, there was a Monday around three o'clock, and uh there was a fellow who was trying to order the go time, and he couldn't.

It wasn't being offered at that time by the Pitmore recenter.

Apparently, it's only offered at uh past a certain hour.

Do we have plans to expand it to more frequent service beyond after I think six p.m.

was the kick in time?

Or no, that's a good question.

And as I made mention of the area served, like right now, um it's replacing the orange route.

So using the parameters that the orange route never went to the mall or Eastport.

So within that three quarters of a mile, a mile of where that orange route was, it'll say no service available if you're around that period of time.

7 p.m.

to close 1045 or all day Sunday or a holiday, it's covering the whole city.

So during the day was that orange route that we removed.

So I would have to look at the coordinates um and remember my geography of the city of Annapolis as to Pitmoir 275 Hilltop Avenue.

Used to have an orange route stop.

Sorry?

Used to have an orange route stop.

It does.

It does.

So why that didn't pick up at that time, um, I'm not sure.

If it didn't ever work, it's all it's always good to call the 410, 263, 7964.

Um, it's our dispatch office.

I'm having problems with the app.

Can you tell me what's going on?

I'm not able to book it on my device.

Because what you just gave me at six o'clock in that location, it should have been able to book the trip.

They were informed when they called that that they couldn't pick them up until six.

I don't know if this was a misunderstanding on someone's part, which it happens, but if you can offline if you'd like, if you can give me the uh the date uh we got the time, but the date we can definitely check it out.

I'm sorry to hear that um because it all things that I'm looking at right now that should have worked.

It was the rare Monday I got to work from home, so I was able to get to the gym.

I can't even quite remember the exact date, but sometime in February.

Thank you, Mr.

Uh Director.

Thank you, Mr.

Alma.

Your community.

Yes.

I'll let you say thank you, madam chair.

Um, and thank you, Director.

So a few things going back to the high school uh bus question.

So the the route the changes you were talking about, correct if I'm wrong, were made by the county.

Excuse me.

Can you help me out, please?

Yes.

Thank you.

Sorry.

So the route changes that you were talking about in the new bus stop at the pool.

Was that made by was that a change made by the county route?

Yes, that was by Anaro County.

To their yellow route, right?

Yes.

So has but that so when I looked at that, that doesn't actually cover the city.

That route does not go well, I partially see.

It doesn't go down forest drive, which was the main concern of people.

Right.

As I may mention, that was one of the routes that we had that stayed all in the county.

So that's why we want to look at some of the other initiatives that you've supported with SAs.

Um this is this bus or this route was the same route that we ran that's all county.

Okay, so well, I guess because the the concern I've heard from people uh you know, so they want the the kids on and off of Forest Drive and you know around that area to be able to get to the school to and from school for after school activities, but they also similarly want the parents to be able to have the billy who who again may be may not have uh car availability to be able to use, get on a bus and actually get to the school to participate in their activities.

And so the county route doesn't address that because it doesn't go down the forest drive.

So I'm wondering what are the what are the options?

How can we get coverage?

Do we need to get can we get a uh fixed route during you know uh morning rush hour and evening rush hour just for a few hours, or is there some other option that you have in mind?

Uh and where's this the school district on this conversation since it'd be Yeah?

I haven't gotten with a school, but that was one of the things that you may mention, or we discussed about the uh four strive quarter of just making that a little bit um more robust.

Um because we got a lot of economic development going on going on on Riva Road that would only make sense for us to look at that for other jobs of folks that live within the city.

Um to make those kind of change, we would have to kind of I'm sure we'd have to have public public hearing, and that will change some of the routes of how we are connecting.

Um in the top of my head, I mean it could work um how we divert one route to do something.

One of the one of the buses on a specific route to do something different, but we'd really just have to um look at how we would need to do a change like that with requesting um, you know, what are the steps for that?

Yeah, well, okay.

So is that what you're saying?

You would need more time to develop some of the next steps.

Well, yeah, a few things.

We'd need to develop what we're gonna do.

You know, are we rerouting a brown or red?

Clearly, not a green, uh, to do something like that, and how does that affect connections for other services that we're connecting to currently, and what are the requirements to um to provide this type of a change, even if it is a pilot.

Is that something that could be done?

But is that something that would be done by the department or uh consultant?

Um both.

Um we can actually look internally.

What do we need to do with um MTA?

Um, or what are the rules that we're required to do when we make a change to a a bus route and how things need to be posted with public comment and for how long when we make that kind of a change.

Adding a stop along a route, like they did, that was pretty easy for them.

Um existing route.

Um, you know, it's along the way where they're going for any of our routes to go down Riva Road, even if we say it's only a half a mile during certain times of the day and getting caught up with other traffic because you're looking at control devices of getting to certain places and getting back out, uh may not seem like long, but it could add anywhere from 12 to 15 minutes, which is throwing a whole route off.

So we really would need to look at a whole route of what we want to do.

Part of the TDP talks about that.

Um it's a whole nother color.

Um the a blue route to do something similar that can connect with um the county or make a connection directly.

One of the things we can't do is for one group, as we talked about before, a group of students, a group of seniors, a group of whatever it may be, um any organization, any um transportation entity that gets federal funds, um, you can make stops along the way, and we can do these kind of things, but you you're not gonna be able to have a route that's gonna go express.

Any organization, any transportation entity that gets federal funds, you can make stops along the way, and we can do these kind of things, but you you're not going to be able to have a route that's going to go express.

Okay.

Because that now you're a charter.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I think I guess that's one reason why I think we need to pull the the county in, but I mean the uh school district.

But so we have a lot of people making this request on us.

Uh I think all three of us have constituents that are impacted by this.

And so I'm just trying to get an idea of expectations on our end, but also expectations of our constituents.

So what is what's the next step and when should we and they expect to get some updates on that?

Well, we what you and I, what we can do is try to set up some some um virtual meetings in the next couple weeks to see what we need to do.

I can do some background research so when we meet and we can figure out how we need to go about this and what kind of timeline we're looking at.

I would honestly say for the next meeting, we should be able to come back with some realistic time frames of what we need to do, and we'll be able to work backwards from.

Here's the goal, here's what we want to do, and how do we get there and the time it'll take and the avenues we need to take to get there?

Okay.

Uh that sounds good.

And the other quick request would be uh if you could do you have a visual yet, a map showing the the um the electric route.

That's I I actually I do, and I'll bring that up with you.

One of the things I know you they can't see on uh those that are watching virtually, we're having these signs made as a um a test when we talked about it the last um work session of the council back in February 23rd.

It says uh family parking only.

So, you know, if you got a family of, you know, I'm still a family with all of my older friends, older members, but we're really trying to go towards those that are in strollers and hand walkers kind of thing.

It's an honor system.

We're gonna try it out in God's court with a couple um a couple spaces uh once the signs come in next week or next week.

We'll be able to report back to you.

It's just a pilot, and if it works well, we might try it in other places.

Is something similar to what you've seen and you know, grocery store parking lots in the mall reserved for, you know, expecting mothers or just families with children.

I mean, certain things are new, then because of COVID, they have all these stalls that if you've called in here, you go to stall number five, so we have reserved places that they can bring the things out for you.

But I think this is a good step in the right direction.

Um with the things that we're going through with uh you know, Gotts Court and all of our um areas that need work, elevators, mechanical things that break down.

I think I made mention at our 23rd um work session that we had 11 handicapped spaces and nine of which were van accessible.

I was um up you know, reminded or corrected that we have actually 22, and nine of them are van accessible, so we can take away some of those to do maybe three spaces there just to try it out.

Um work continues with uh Techmark to get that um circuit board fixed in the northeast elevator.

Um talk to planning and zoning of what needs to happen for the permit to do the work.

Um parts have been ordered.

Um we really really hope to get that one up soon.

Um the other one, the whole design and build it made mentioned that a um our local architect firm has uh been awarded back in January, and they're two or three months to get the design, another RP will go out to um build.

Um, but that's 10 months away, maybe nine months if we're aggressive, but that'll happen towards the end of this year.

Then we have others to do, like in the night and garage, and then of course one of our um facilities where some of our offices are.

We're we're dealing with all those at once.

Uh we got a little bit to work through that you'll hear during uh the budget deliverations.

Um thank you.

That's all I have, madam chair.

Okay.

Um thank you at this time.

Um can we finish or do you want uh finished?

Are you finished?

No.

Oh well go ahead.

I'd like to have uh Mr.

Jason Perilla, um the market president with um Megan uh Murray.

They have a brief presentation uh to provide you, and I may mention we have metropolis, they have a presentation, uh, so we'll continue on, and um I then I think you have uh translation board making coming.

Uh okay, hi Jason Prolo, Market President for Premium Parking.

Okay, hi, Jason Prola, market president for premium parking.

Thank you for having me here.

Uh so I have a short deck here for the uh last month since we met.

Uh and I'll just kind of go through that with you and take any questions that you have.

Uh current status of elevators and EV chargers.

Uh all but one EV charger are working.

This is sort of a repeat of last month's update with a small caveat.

We finally received the part that we had been waiting for for many months, uh, and it was installed.

The issue was that as that was installed, it enabled us to find out that there was another part in the charger that also needed replaced.

Uh so once we had power flowing through the device, we found another fault, and that is unfortunately on order.

I wish that wasn't my update on this, but um incrementally closer.

Uh, unsure what the delivery time is on that part at this point.

No elevator issues.

Uh I think my you know note right now is we need to replace some of the braille buttons inside they get ripped off nearly every weekend.

Uh we're out of inventory and are placing an order on those.

And then uh no updates from the partner in the concession with uh future EV strategy.

I don't expect one to come anytime soon.

I wanted to leave that in here for now.

Uh but they are looking at uh EV and solar at a high level.

They manage about, I think it's 450 gigawatts of power around the their book of business.

Um, and so we'll we'll provide further updates when and if we receive some on that.

Uh at this point on the DMV integration through the MVA.

Uh right now, uh believe it's actually with Marcus to look at with uh IT.

The integration is via a FTP server.

If you're familiar with those, it's a very archaic old file sharing format.

What it does is looks for replace or changes in files and then it uploads and replaces new files and downloads changes from the other side.

Right now the MVA has a system or policy in place where you have to have uh or you're allowed to have one administrator account per uh entity, the city of Annapolis being one.

Gonna work uh at the high levels of kind of saying, hey, that's a bit restrictive and prevents this being simple.

Uh this is a I think at home at my office computer I could set this up in 15 minutes and we could have this ready to rock.

Uh right now we'll have to work with Marcus and the tech team to figure out how both of the parking operators could have access to it without sharing each other's parker information and things like that.

Um don't know what the ETA will be on that.

These are relatively low lifts, but probably a lot of more red tape uh around them than anything, but we'll push through that and see what we can learn.

As soon as that's done, mobile LPR will start to happen as well.

Uh we'll either procure or release.

We have the pricing and everything set up for both uh with whatever we do.

Um and actually have a really big improvement on the platform side on our mobile LPR and read rates and things like that that are exciting.

Um it's now moved to a continuous video that reads and has about a 99% read rate on accuracy as it drives down the street, which is good.

Uh will help us with very limited staffing to be a bit more efficient with the enforcement that we do out in the field in between all of the one-off calls and things that we serve throughout the day.

Beyond that, this is just a quick uh update.

Our February mystery shop score.

Uh this is kind of the norm we typically run between 97 and 100%.

I think our lowest over the last year was one that was 85 or 88.

Uh, and most of that one was actually just uh misunderstanding of the scoring and uh items on.

I think there were two deliverables we were able to walk away with and make them changes to on that one bad one.

Um, but that is the most recent one.

The one before that you can see at the very bottom, uh the two middle columns.

You can see the one before that for January was a 97.3.

Um, and I believe we lost points on that one mostly because of the storm and snow and things that were happening.

Uh this is a fun one.

Programs and promotions.

So uh we said there was a pilot program on the way and couldn't say much more as of last month's meeting.

At this point, we launched the gold pass this week.

We put the PR out on Friday uh with the mayor's office.

That has been I was worried that we wouldn't have a big user base or or a big interest base and that it would fall to the wayside.

And we've had a really good uh it's had good energy so far.

We're only a few days into it.

We've had over 60 applications in the first day around mid-afternoon.

Uh 39 have fully completed the registration process uh after the first 48 hours, which would be yesterday.

And there's probably interestingly enough, maybe another 50% of this uh would be an increase in demand for people outside of the city that are not residents, uh which is something we'll continue to monitor and take a look at.

We uh we want to it's interesting that it was marketed to residents, but we're we're getting non-resident interest for this.

This is for 62 and older, uh, hence the golden pass name.

Uh what this does is it allows people to park at any meters in the city.

So that was a last-minute change.

It includes Maryland Avenue, which I thought was a great inclusion, uh, and last minute change.

And then uh if the inventory is not available to them, it also will work in the helm and garage for these folks.

Uh and that's just to make sure we didn't want to offer something with a paid program and then not have them be able to get access to it.

Uh the real original genesis of this was to with all of the city dock project and lost parking to allow elderly to park in front of the store and not have to make quite a walk.

Unfortunately, since all of that parking does expand all the way up the market space, there's very limited inventory on Main Street, and it's also probably the highest demand street in the city to park on.

Um so that lets them access Hillman, but also kind of have an easy way to access it.

Think of it as a almost a monthly pass that expands into the metered areas, if you will.

Uh, and then our occupancies.

So January is a repeat from last month.

You had this data.

Uh, and I want to keep a couple months in this as we go through um for future meetings and not just have one with no reference point to what's happened prior, and then January.

Very interesting.

This is winter storm fern and the impact we had with all of the free parking for residents in the garage throughout January.

It's uh so it's full because of the winter parking.

Yes, and with that volume of snow, there was a lot of issues with dirty uh lasers.

So these are laser-counted vehicles.

Um reported occupancy from the app that users can also report their blended and weighted.

Uh but yes, the majority of this, some tech issues with the snow being plowed over the sensors and then not working at all, resetting the counts every day, uh, and then also just salt and things like that kicking up onto them with all of the wet weather that we had, and then a very expanded compared to normal period where we had the residents in the garage as we worked through the ice.

Um, shocked to see it, but it made sense once I stepped back and thought about this when I was looking at it.

Uh and this is the validation program data uh to follow up with our last meeting.

I've added the dollar amount uh February being the most recent uh in the third square at the top is the February dollar amount of free parking given to residents through the two-hour program.

Um below it, you'll see maybe I'll change the font to a little less gray one next month.

Um, but below it is the January amount as well, and you'll see it better displayed further down uh below also.

And so we have the free two-hour resident parking, and then you also have the park shop and dying for the last two months in this.

And that is what I have, but love to take questions or have conversations if I may.

Um, one of the things that we're learning along the way, we'll make sure you guys get um this information that you can look through before the meetings.

Uh so we're not always sending it uh to you after the time.

So apologize for uh not having on the printed material in your hands prior to the meeting.

And I'll take ownership of that.

I had no mobile signal on my cell phone all day and spent half the day fighting that uh so I was unable to send it to markets early enough to get it in your hands.

Um but we will do that in the future.

Okay, so as the end of your being.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, that was great.

You want to give us copies of it or you have to say, we will send those out, yeah.

I with the tech issue I had, I couldn't get them out earlier today.

We'll follow up with them and then in the future make sure you get them prior to us sitting down.

Going forward, we'll make sure you have them pre prior to, but all the presentations and things that we've given, because I think we'll also had an issue with uh what you were seeing and what he was reading from.

Right.

So we'll make sure those are all sent uh before the end of the week, preferably tomorrow.

You'll have everything that we talked about.

Thank you.

And thank you for coming out.

Of course.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next, you'll be hearing from um Mr.

Jason Kinney, uh senior manager with Metropolis.

Good evening.

Thank you for having us.

My name is Brianna Denton.

I'm the operations manager for Annapolis Parking Metropolis.

Thanks.

And I'm Jason Kinney.

I'm the senior manager for Annapolis Parking.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

Um, so um I had one question from the last time that I'm aware of, and we will get to that at the end of the presentation.

It's part of the presentation, but uh everything else is just uh occupancy for the garages, um little breakdown there.

You can see the total visits, um where our biggest stays are the two to four hours seems to be the biggest um the you know the the most amount of stays for uh this is for Gott's garage for January, and then this is just a little heat map that shows you visits per day, and you can see how after the thirteenth kind of picked up a little bit during the week.

Uh we tend to be busiest Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday during uh session.

This is February.

Um visit counts are up a little over two thousand, and uh again, two to four hours is like the biggest group of uh visits, but you can see the four to eight hours is really um stepped up since uh we're in the middle of session.

Did I miss one?

Oh, and your heat map for February's visits, and this is the night in garage for January, and your heat map, and you can see how the snow really affected everything.

No visits on during the snow.

And your visits for February again that uh two to four, four to eight.

Uh the biggest uh the most amount of people are staying in the garages for transient parkers, and there's your visits by day.

And I'll fix this for next time because I just realized that that doesn't have the days of the week on it.

I think February first was a Thursday.

And then park place.

Um and you can see park place.

We have some longer stays, not many, but six and seven days because of the hotel upstairs.

There's your heat map.

But your visits by day.

And then February.

And that's the visit breakdown by day.

And then you'll see the 12th and the 14th.

The 12th was the peace walk when the monks came.

What?

And then the 26th was a small business symposium that was held at the Weston Hotel.

So we did good those two days.

And this is your uh this is the number of citations that was issued by month by garage.

And then of this number 218 were adjusted for first time infractions.

So when somebody gets a citation in the garage for the very first time, instead of the whole thing, we reduce it to what the cost of their parking was.

So if they were there for two hours and GOTs and didn't pay and left and got a citation for the $6.

Then uh we reduce it to the 645.

So they pay the their parking fee and the uh service fee, and then now they're signed up.

Now they'll never get another citation.

Is uh park place so high because we're guessing the hotel and just out of towners not knowing the process.

We're still like this is higher than it was at the end of last year.

So we're still kind of investigating that.

Um I think uh a lot of it is uh the that we don't you know we don't understand.

We get a lot of that in the appeal process.

Um getting uh nearly double of guts and uh nearly quadruple.

Um my numbers are rounded, obviously here, but uh this is pretty substantial differences.

Well it's also three times the size, too.

Yeah, park place has 1140 spaces.

Well twice the size.

Yeah, it's about twice the size of Gots.

So if we account for that, would that'll I guess even out, I suppose a little bit.

It's all relative.

It is a little bit higher than last, as he mentioned, um, but it is always uh a higher number than the rest of the facilities, just due to the size, I believe.

I do think that um we're working with um Vinode on some some things that might help um alleviate some of those issues, uh, but we are still currently investigating what the the cause of those are.

All right, interior signage and wayfinding inside the garage.

And then last, this is your validation usage for the garages.

Um so 206 uh residential QR codes were used, or 412 hours.

Um, and then uh the residential automated QR or uh validation.

We had 12 of those.

Um, and then the businesses 3458, and that's a mix of parkshop and dines, bed and breakfasts.

Uh some people do buy full comps for their visitors, that's included in that number as well.

That also includes, and I need to correct that employee validation usage as well.

Ah, okay.

I just realized that doesn't, but those are included.

And then um what you the residential automated uh we now have the ability um to add residents to a group, like a like a membership, and they don't have to scan a QR code.

They drive in, it recognizes their tags, it automatically applies the two-hour residential validation, and they drive out.

So, and we are slowly it's the numbers are small right now because it's new, and we're slowly transitioning people to that uh option.

That's all I got anything else?

No, well, thank you for coming by.

Did you guys have any questions?

What's going on at the garages?

Great information, and um it's just gonna take time, but you'll we'll get there.

Do you have any questions for us?

Do you have any questions?

No, so much time.

Thanks.

Have a good evening.

Thank you very much.

Marcus, you're done.

Are you done?

Okay, have a nice day.

Okay, next on the amendment is I D 12 26 Transportation Board update.

Good afternoon.

Yeah.

Good afternoon, Tara Ashmore, chair of the Annapolis Transportation Board.

We don't have uh I have not much to discuss, or actually nothing, but this is the opportunity we had mentioned bringing Zoe Johnson to meet with you all so that you could get to know her.

She is the liaison from the Naval Academy on the transportation board, and she's really quite uh knowledgeable about transportation and all things with infrastructure roadway work being done in Annapolis.

Welcome.

Thank you, Tara.

Well, welcome.

Thank you.

It's a pleasure to be here, Madam Chair.

Haldrook Schendelmeyer.

Uh, my name is Zoe Johnson.

I'm the community planning liaison officer for the U.S.

Naval Academy and Naval Support Activity Annapolis.

And it's my been my pleasure to sit on the Annapolis Transportation Board for six years.

I looked it up this morning.

So it's uh so I've seen been been in several administrations uh with the city uh, but it has been very informative, and I've it's been very useful for us to continue advocating and being a good neighbor uh to the city of Annapolis.

We are not an island uh at the Naval Academy.

We depend on community resources, both on the City of Annapolis side uh here on this side of the Seven River.

We sit within the city of Annapolis, and on the other side of the Seven River on the North Severn side, we we do our coordination with Anarondo County.

And so I wanted to take the opportunity, Tara.

Um you know, mentioned at one of the last meetings you asked if if I could come and kind of share some of the things we're working on and how we're working with the city and kind of what some of our interests are and why I continue dedicating my time to participating on the uh transportation board.

Uh so just a kind of the kind of high-level issues that we're interested in with regard to the Naval Academy and continuing to support our mission in you know, in concert with the city.

Um we have a lot of special events.

City has a lot of special events.

We have a lot of uh general traffic congestion issues throughout the city.

I like to say even any given Friday, we've got a lot of traffic backups, but throughout the city, uh I would think uh I would say that we do have you know some serious congestion issues, and so uh we are continuing working and exploring ways at alleviating some of those congestion uh problems through infrastructure upgrades, traffic single upgrades, better planning and preparedness uh for evacuation and response planning, and a lot of special event planning around Navy games, boat shows, um uh miscellaneous festivals, race run these these foot race routes that are you know the the three major um running races that we have.

Another one is coming up on on March 21st.

Um so the other thing that we're very uh interested in in continuing working with the city on is public safety, including infrastructure projects for both pedestrians, bicycles, uh, but also roadways.

Our midshipmen uh you can see them recreating uh, you know, throughout the city, but you can also see them uh doing physical training and uh and and their running routes.

Um they don't always stay on sidewalks.

We encourage them to stay on sidewalks, but they do run uh throughout the city.

Uh so improvements for bicycle and pedestrian uh you know, improvement projects.

We're working on both right, you know, there on Route 450 in King George, but we're also supporting uh other upgrades to pedestrian uh and bicycle safety routes throughout the city, recognizing that our our our employees but also our midshipmen um you know are utilizing those same resources and evacuation route planning is something uh there are only three major evacuation routes out of the city of Annapolis.

Uh we sit at the Naval Academy kind of on the on the corner, if you will.

Uh, you know, and and so we're very dependent on working with the city's emergency uh management office on making sure that that we have good communication and planning when it comes to evacuation.

Um so with those kind of high-level issues.

I wanted to kind of just give you a high kind of a few projects that we're working on just to kind of showcase the kind of planning and preparedness and project execution that we're working on in concert with the city.

Uh, right now we do have we're working this is a project that's being led by the state highway administration with Department of Transportation funding, uh, which is the Route 450 King's George Street uh pedestrian and bicycle safety improvement project.

Alderman Shannelmeyer mentioned that projects take a long time, unfortunately.

We've been working on a project there.

Well, initially a sidewalk improvement projects in 2016.

We're 10 years in.

And we're a little still not firm on the timeline, but they are working towards 100% design.

Yes.

I'm sorry, can you repeat what it's moving forward into?

I missed that word.

You said it was moving forward into, and then I missed that.

100% design.

Design, okay, thank you.

With a commitment for funding by state highway administration.

But this includes a large stakeholder planning group, the city participates, the county, Bike Triple A, as well as State Highway Administration.

But that will be obviously complicated and you know, take approximately a year to 18 months.

So that's sort of why it takes so long, just to try and look at some of these infrastructure retrofit projects that are complicated from a design perspective but also complicated from a real estate perspective.

This project though ties into improvements on the on the Naval Academy Bridge, and we'll tie into you know the bike uh paths that are uh on North Severn, as well as uh travel down uh Taylor Avenue and tying in with the Naval Academy uh trail.

So it's a it will be a huge project once we get it over the goal line, uh but it is still uh a work in progress.

But we're very thankful uh for the county uh who and the city who both uh you know contributed to the funds towards the feasibility study as well as uh state highway that now is committed to to the design and moving forward to construction.

Um, the other project I want to mention is the military installation resilience review project.

So this was a DOD funded study that was completed in around 2022 and 2020.

These were DOD dollars that were brought to the city and Anorona County to look at the impacts of of extreme weather and infrastructure improvements that could be made to better improve the resiliency for both the installation and the surrounding community.

And that project funded uh what was called uh intelligent transportation signal upgrade study, looking at these key evacuation routes, not just near the Naval Academy, but throughout the city on Forest Drive, uh West Street, uh Rao Boulevard, and uh on you know, on Route 450, and what sort of technology the existing signal network include you know used and what opportunities that were to advance the signalization uh to enable us to install uh signal upgrades.

Um city is kind of taking that report and now is working it you know moving forward and we're you know continuing to engage with them to kind of move that and advance that project or those projects.

There is some opportunity to pursue some additional DOD funding, particularly particularly for signals that are that support uh the Naval Academy's evacuation response planning.

Um the tricky thing is that there is a hodgepodge of who owns traffic signals throughout the city of Annapolis.

So the two signals that sit on Naval Academy property uh at on Route 450 and King George Street, as well as Boyer Road and Gate 8 are both owned and operated by State Highway Administration.

So they're state assets.

Same on Rao Boulevard, I'm not sure about West Street, um, and and then those that sit on Forest Drive.

So, you know, it's and then this a number of the signals within the city are also operated by the state.

So we're really continuing to work.

This is sort of an area we want to focus a little bit more heavily on, you know, in the next year or so, really to kind of take a better look and at what where we are and what we do need to do next to advance the signalization and um of these um intersections uh so that we can do better response planning and also uh as a secondary benefit would help with congestion flow.

Signals could be timed, we could do reverse flow during evacuation.

There's a lot of opportunities.

Um the other area that we work very closely with the city on is these road race coordination.

I mean, we coordinate right these road races.

So I'm gonna give you an example.

This event that's coming up on March 21st, the Annapolis Running Festival, um, requires the closure of our gate eight, which is our primary entrance into the gate uh into the Naval Academy for three and a half hours.

So we've worked with the city uh to, and the reason for that is that the runners uh run from the stadium, downtown Annapolis, down Randall Street, up King George Street, they run over the Naval Academy Bridge, up Baltimore and Apollo Boulevard, and then they come back down and then they run back over the bridge to Rao Boulevard and back to the stadium.

So gate one, um we've worked very closely with the city to support metered traffic for about an hour period between 7 and 8 a.m.

And so traffic is congested there, but we've but it with us the race and the organizers in the city uh can support uh traffic both in flow and outflow at the Naval Academy.

The concern is just the length of time uh that the impact that we lose uh access at gate eight.

Uh so just want to thank the city for their continued participation, um, but we're constantly looking for ways to kind of coordinate and improve these races and the congestion and the impacts on our gates.

Um spring races are much more complicated because I think we have seven uh athletic events on Saturday, March 21st during the same period as the race.

We have a STEM event with 400 students coming in, and we have a candidate visited weekend for USNA admissions with about 250 students on the same day.

So we're trying to get students off, we're trying to get students on, we're trying to get our athletes and visiting athletes to different venues, including those on North Severn, and it's just a lot to coordinate.

We're we we're working well and we're working on it, but it just kind of shows you the type of coordination and the mechanics of it to um assure that the races are not you know, sort of impacting mission, and we're both carrying on all of these activities.

So I just kind of want to highlight that those are the kind of operational special event planning uh coordination efforts that we work very closely with the city on.

Um, the other thing that we work very closely with the city on is construction project coordination.

So we have three projects, two, uh one currently underway on Hanover and Wagner Street, uh, where we've coordinated a parking and sidewalk closure for a period of two years uh with the city of Annapolis.

Um you know, unfortunate impacts to those residents in that area.

We are rebuilding a failing uh perimeter wall from the 1800s, um, and it's a long steady construction project that required uh parking outages.

So we work we've uh run a number of community meetings, two community meetings with those constituents, and um with the support of the city and uh and the department of transportation, but it there's a lot of concern and angst uh among those residents just on the loss of parking and the need for uh better um uh uh parking enforcement.

Uh we did work in the transportation department helped support the conversion of on-street parking to residential only, but it still requires some enforcement.

So that's something that we're working on.

Um, the other project that we kicked off just this week.

Uh you'll you've probably may have seen it, is we are starting a flood wall construction project on Lower Prince George Street.

So basically extends from Barrie Gate to the Severn River, where our flood wall will tie in with the city docs flood protection project.

So we've worked extremely of this most of the time I've been presenting to the city council, it's been on this project, but uh over the last um six years or so.

But that project also took out parking, um, which is unfortunate, about five parking spaces over the life of that project.

That project will is estimated to take approximately one year.

Um so the other uh project that we just awarded for construction, we will be replacing the utility bridge that long runs alongside uh the College Creek Bridge on King George Street.

So that existing utility bridge will come down.

It has the U-shaped um a bridge that sits just to the you know uh right side as you're exiting uh King George Street, and we'll be replacing that bridge with a new bridge 50 feet further uh towards the Naval Academy.

There will be impacts uh that we'll need to get on the existing uh state bridge to to uh once when we move to the portion of the project when we remove the existing utility bridge.

So there'll be some impacts to King George Street there.

Um so we're working, you know.

Obviously, when we get to that stage, we'll work with the city, the county, the state, you know, to support that cons that major construction project.

So those are just kind of a couple examples uh of how we you know coordinate for projects for uh special events for kind of the issues we want to work for work towards in terms of flood resiliency as well as um you know better uh evacuation and response planning for the safety of our of our midshipmen and our population.

The other thing uh area that and and one of the the the I would say it's a hot topic for our uh the uh transportation board is public transportation.

So our midshipmen are one of the uh high users of public transportation, they have certain routes that they love.

Um, and so we want to continue supporting the city and then the advocating for the use and and and and routes that that are the services that that benefit uh midshipmen.

Um so those those are just a few areas of of interest, and um I just want to thank you for your time and uh for the opportunity to continue representing uh the Navy on the city's transportation board.

I mean, not only with just the events you were talking about, but you got the commencement coming up soon too.

So that's one of the special events.

Yeah, that's yes, yes.

So we're gonna all run right behind each other all together.

But um, we appreciate working with you all at any time, you know.

But if you could send some that information to us, copies of what you just indicated for we can send to our constituents to let them know about the air what areas gonna be busy, which streets gonna be you know, model or whatever.

Please also um Alderman Sharma had some concerns.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh wouldn't say concerns, but uh excitement and wanting more information on the Naval Academy Bridge project.

Uh so I appreciate you getting into that.

That was actually something that Alderman Savage um wanted some more information on as well, um, but unfortunately had to step out.

Um so you said that was entering the design phase.

It is in the design phase.

It is in the design phase.

It's past 30 percent.

So it's at 30 percent of the design phase?

How long tracking towards 60?

How long does the rest of the 70 percent of the design phase take?

Or is that a uh giant void of it's not our project, it's being led by the state highway administration.

So it's uh it's likely to take 2020 2026, and then probably the next phase in 27, likely, probably if I had to guess, and I can't really speak for state highway, but we're still looking at a year to two years out for for construction.

So two years out from construction.

Thank you.

Because this we will once they're at 60 percent design, we can begin the real estate process.

So we'll know the right-of-way and the extent of of roadway impacts, and we can begin that real estate process with state highway.

Okay, uh, thanks again for coming out and giving us the um upcoming events at the Academy.

Thank you very much.

Thanks, Zoe.

Thank you.

That's all for us today.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, next on the agenda.

The agenda is complete, so is anything else?

What a good of the order.

Uh I just want to shout out and thank our colleague Alderman Savage who couldn't uh who had duck out, but uh getting the RFP for the study for uh the streetcar going down West Street into downtown.

That's great work.

He's been spearheading that for the past year and really proud of him.

Okay, uh, we'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

Okay.

I say aye.

So the meeting is adjourned.

Okay.

Black settlements do you have in Annapolis?

Or what was the first black community?