Well it does have a delay, but I'm still not seeing it here.

So okay.

We're okay?

Now we're good.

All right, thank you.

We're back from our five-minute quick recess.

Um so let's take it at the top of the slide, the the beginning of the slide.

Okay.

Okay, thank you.

Uh the beginning from the No, I just mean the beginning of that slide that we were on, just in case it went down.

So that one, yeah.

Okay, to start there.

Thank you.

You have a question?

No.

Um I did, but do you want to first give your uh the little bit about the presentation and then I'll just ask?

Because I'm not sure when Zoom went down, so I just want to make sure the public hears it.

Sure.

Okay.

I will continue with our uh back to the project, a bike project.

Uh yes, please.

The country the project uh we already finished the design and the contract uh has been awarded.

Uh we should uh start the construction in the next few months.

Okay, I do have a question on that then.

Um quick question.

We do have a lot of folks who are interested in um in the bike pedestrian, you know, uh ability to to get around the city.

So with the thick black line, can you just explain again what that is indicating?

Okay.

Uh in the uh I think in the like Sixth Avenue, uh Sixth Avenue and the uh uh Fifth Avenue, we are going to have the class two bike lane, so with the buffered uh dedicated bike lane.

And uh like the on the O'Neill Avenue, we are gonna have the bike share like assigned.

So currently there is no any dedicated bike facilities.

And with the construction awarded beginning twenty early twenty twenty-six, is that still are we early?

Are we getting mid it should be in the next few months?

Yeah.

It's already s uh uh just f a few like the document scenes and uh the contract already be awarded.

Yeah.

Great.

Thank you.

Can I ask a follow-up?

Yes, please.

So um, I just really want to understand that so the thick black line is kind of like the the best bike process, the best bike sort of bike and pedestrian like walkways.

Uh uh, I can show you in the previous uh image.

Uh I this is uh our like the Belmont uh village loop.

The uh this uh the yellow path is shows Belmont village loop.

Other than that, you see the green one and the other other that means the place is good for people like to suggest people to walk on that bike on that.

Save connect area.

Yeah.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

If I can just gonna put some context in a as part of the Belmont Village specific plan, we identified some connectivity and mobility uh infrastructure needs and this is what this loop kind of indicates is based on the points of uh attraction for the neighborhoods.

It's the park, it's the shopping and all that kind of stuff.

The loop was created as part of the 2017 Belmont Village specific plan.

So staff's been working on grant opportunities funding to bring that uh uh kind of infrastructure to life.

And uh earlier last year you kind of saw this project that that uh Josh was indicating uh that that was competitive bid, we got a grant for it.

And so that's the final phases of getting that project that kind of addresses both biking and and pedestrian improvements.

And that's what that project is gonna address.

And so I believe the project's online if people want to see a little bit more details on it.

Yeah.

Right.

And so that's available on the on the city's project website with more details on the specific improvements within that plan.

Great.

Thank you.

Okay.

Okay, next I will continue with our Rostum segment four projects.

Just a little bit of background.

In 2014, we city adopted Rostan corridor studies.

And the segment one through one through three from like the one one connect one out of RAM to Alameda de las Pagas has been completed over the past five years.

So we kind of moving forward to the Rostum segment four from the 92 ramp uh to the Alameda de las Pagas.

The longest path.

And since the original design is like we did the design like the 10 more than 10 years ago, the design is kind of outdated, and also today's increasing interest about active transportations.

And we have a lot of like the safety concern uh from the residents nearby schools.

So we think it's important we can we should take a fresh look.

So we and also as I mentioned in the previously, uh countywide local safety routes, a local safety plan, uh this uh Ralston is listed as the top a higher that higher injury network.

So we are moving forward a new feasibility study for Rostan segment four.

Wait, I'm sorry, say that again.

We're going to do a new feasibility thing.

Study, yeah.

Oh, okay.

That's great.

Yeah, just go over and see what's new, like the facility we should consider for this route and uh yeah, what's also the especially for the the residents' needs.

Yeah, because we received multiple needs for the concern about the kids uh using the Rostin, go to the Rostin Middle School.

So they think about safety issues.

So we will explore new features, see how we can make it better.

Okay, great, thank you.

So in 2025, we refine the project scopes and the coordinate to our encore consultants and get multiple proposals.

We we now are finalizing the scope of work and the fee.

And uh we expect to bring the contracts uh in next uh in the council meeting next month.

And uh I just uh choose uh to a concept ideal like the design from the one of the proposals.

This is very ideal.

Uh and the we uh on the left side, we kind of thinking proposed uh class one uh separate cost uh trails for bicycle and pedestrians.

On the right uh cross section, we propose a class four or protected bicycle lens on both sides of the Ralston Avenues.

But this is just as I mentioned, is the ideal design.

And once the project kick off, we are planning multiple outreach efforts, including three public meet three public meetings and a BPAC meetings and a council updates.

So and several community invest pop-ups.

Our goal is to make sure all the voice along the corridors be heard and uh also develop a solution that address the community's needs and the clip and also remaining is feasible.

We don't want some plan just on the paper.

We want uh make it work.

Yeah.

Uh the next project, uh, our Alameda de las Cup de las Pagas Corridor project.

We call it the ADRP project.

And some uh background is uh in 2020 the project we we started a project from uh uh uh traffic study called Four Corner Traffic Studies.

It's a multi-agency uh multi-agency efforts, including the city of St.

Carlos, uh school two school districts, St.

Carlos School District and Secure High School Districts.

And from this traffic studies, uh, we get some recommendations.

So we want to a traffic signal insection at Carmont Drive and the three mini roundabouts along the uh Air Verano, Chula Vista and the Craig Field in sections.

And we are also uh recommended for two new school entrance and the continuously uh sidewalk and the class two bike lens.

Uh but over the past few years the project slowed down uh due to the staff changes and budget constraints.

It's uh it was temporary paused.

But uh since uh 20 20 2025, we restart the project.

We redefine the scope and clarify the priorities.

We also reconnected with some stakeholders.

We had meetings with two school districts, uh provide the project updates.

We also had multiple discussions with CEO of San Carlos.

Uh currently we uh the project is 65% design.

We are finalizing the scope of work with the remaining work.

Uh we have uh we plan to uh release uh IFP, a new IFP to complete the remaining design and the RF documents we already go over with the San Carlos, and they are also be happy and agree as they want to be part of the interview selection and the proposal reviewing.

So we our we meanwhile we also actively pursuing the grants grant funding to support the construction for this project.

This is uh an auth, uh overall our like focus is shift just the like finish the design and the positions this corridor for successful implementation.

Great, thank you.

Can I uh make a quick request?

It looks like some of these uh slides are not in the presentation online, so uh maybe you could just at some point update them so that the uh agenda will reflect the slides.

I think especially this one is probably something that public would want to see.

So it's why I got the chance to do the presentation and as a was able to express more information about each project.

So additional slides were added for the benefit of the public, and yes, they will be replaced online.

I think that's a great idea.

Really appreciate the uh the um pre the yeah, the pre-consultation, so that's fine, just uh updating that that topic.

Last uh weekend I do like a rehearsal with my wife.

I said uh by Belmont Vidge Loop.

She said, What?

I don't know.

I have been here for five years, never heard it before.

Right.

So I think okay, I do need to show some exhibits for those stuff.

Thank you for including that.

Thank you.

And having it online.

I'm having trouble finding it online, but having having information on this project online would be amazing too.

True.

Thank you, Wife for us.

Okay.

In addition to the project delivery, uh, planning is also very important.

And lastly, in 2025, uh, the biggest milestone with secure uh culture and sustainable transportation planning uh planning grants, the overall is six six hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars.

Uh so to improve to develop our transportation mass plan.

This plan will like provide a long-term framework to guide the future transportation investment.

It will help help us to prioritize the projects based on the safety needs, connectivity gaps, and also available fundings.

For uh for the cultural end, they like suggest that we put like 40% of the total project cost on the public outreach.

So this project will be a very outreach focused on efforts.

I just provide a draft, this is the draft schedule.

We're still working on that with uh the the consultants.

Uh so we will have uh two phase of the outreach.

Uh the first phase will take a last like six months.

Uh focused on understanding community needs and concerns, and uh it's well including in-person and virtual meetings and the social media outreach.

And we have had more than like the 10 community pop-up events and coordinate with like the local employees and the community organizations.

And the phase two, uh, we are last like three months.

We're focused on like presenting the funding, including the Fed identified issues, recommended strategies, and the proposed projects, and we will also uh collect and gather additional feedback from the from multiple uh rounds of the public meetings.

Uh yeah, this pro this project is expected to kick off this summer.

We are right now interview the consultants.

We receive uh multiple proposals, and uh this week we are just interviewing them right now.

Yeah.

And uh the other uh uh program updates is payments, payment programs.

We completed the payment distress surveys and the PDAP programs.

As I mentioned before, currently the city payment condition index is 71.

Uh 60 uh uh increase from 68 from last year, and also I can share some uh information from our neighbor city, but not late, uh 2025.

They haven't released the 2025 numbers, but for the 2024, the Redwood City's uh uh payment condition index is 68, San Carlos is 57, and uh Milbri is 52.

So which reflects our success of our payment program, yeah.

Uh back to the uh I mentioned in previously the regional coordinations, uh we actively uh participated in the L Communal Rail uh transit multimodal corridor plans and the Grand Boulevard initiatives.

Uh the action plan for the Grand Boulevard initiatives has been finalized.

It is the first step towards redesigning the L communal reels to improve safety, accessibility, and connectivity for all the users.

And uh I also highlight uh one of the alternatives uh they proposed for the L Communal Rail in the Belmont segments.

Uh this is one of the cross-sections that gets most positive feedback uh during the public outreach.

We are going to remove the parking space along the uh call trend parking parking side and the proposed protect bike line on both sides of L Cinder Rios.

Currently, the project uh is moving forward to the Culturent project initiation process.

We also uh actively participate participate participate in the same SMCTA 101 corridor uh connected programs, three Belmont projects identified as top priority project country wide.

Uh one is uh old country uh complete street project, the other is L Cameral project, the other the third one is uh Belmont bike sharing station project.

Uh this help us to like strengthen our eligibility for future grant uh opportunities.

Uh last but not least, we are also adapting the changing mobility trends and probably will continue improving the safety and the accessibility for all users at the same time.

We are seeing the rapid growth in the e-bike and the micro mobility.

We are evaluating the impact and monitoring the legislation and the coordinating with our neighboring city for how to see how they do uh deal with this new uh travel modes.

Our goal is to support these new modes while maintaining maintaining a safe and connected transportation systems.

And uh, once we kick off the transportation mask plan, we definitely will evaluate these new modes, make sure they will be part of our of our future transportation system.

Yeah.

Next, I will uh go through through the uh the second E education.

Since the our fire department and the police department uh won't be able to present tonight, so I will briefly cover on their behalf.

Uh our public work department shared our project updates via like social media project meetings, uh mail outreach.

Uh we also gather like the community feedback from the BPEC City Council meetings and also the PTSD request reviews.

Uh the police department supports safety through education, community, community engagement, and the targeted enforcement help helping reinforce safe driving behavior.

Uh semi-till fire department provide year-round preventions, emerging preparedness programs, and including file investigation and file inspections, which help reduce the risk and improve overall community safety.

Together, these efforts help build awareness and support safe travel throughout the city.

So last E the enforcement.

Uh the police department play a key, a very important role in safe uh travel traffic safety.

A key approach is direct traffic enforcement, where office focused on the specific location to improve the tribe uh driver behavior and the safety.

In 2025, the department conducted over 2,700 traffic stops and more than 400 direct enforcement efforts.

Many of these interactions resulted in education and warning.

The department also received a grant funding to support DUI enforcement to improve safety and the pedestrian cyclists.

Was the um increase of 27% versus 2024?

Is that simply because we had more folks out there to be able to do those traffic stops?

More PDF.

I will talk to the Chief Noddy.

I would say it's a combination of two things.

We have more drivers on the road along with having more enforcement focus.

More drivers on the road since 2024?

Volumes are picking up, yeah.

Yeah, uh, based on the traffic data, yeah, because of a lot of a lot of big tech companies require people to work back to office.

So we do have more traffic today compared to 2024.

Yeah.

Okay, thank you.

For uh AB413, the focus has been education first, especially around schools and the high pedestrian areas with limited citations, uh, which with limited citation issues so far.

Yeah, education first.

Overall, uh looking ahead in 2026, uh, under project deliveries, uh, we will begin construction for Belmont Hog Project, Belmont Village Hog Crossing Project and the Bike Pedestrian Project.

Uh, we will launch the Rawson segment for feasibility studies with multiple rounds of public outreach, and we are going to continue advancing the aluminum progress corridor improvements.

On the planning and policy, we kick off our Belmont first transportation master plans.

Uh also uh uh outreach focused on outreach focused focus project.

And we will continue regional uh continue regional coordination with on the L Camino Rail to make sure uh the city will be presented uh in the regional regional wise.

We are going to redefine the micro mobility and the e-bike safety strategy.

And under the operation and safety, we continue to implement the 2026 payment rehab project, and we will uh the PTSD will continue to receive and review and the the residents uh requests.

And we are going to expand the construction management efforts.

Um we are continuing to build a safe and more connected and future radio transportation system for Belmont.

Thank you.

Great, thank you so much.

Um nobody can tell that this was their first presentation to council.

It was great.

And the um what was really great was the content.

So um, you know, when we do our citywide surveys and when we talk to our residents, um, transportation and mobility is uh way the top three in terms of concerns um for our residents.

So this is a great update.

It helps us um a lot, and I think um even some of the things that you reminded us about, for example, segment four on Ralston, as you noted gets a lot of attention and a lot of concern.

Um so it's great to that's coming back.

It sounds like the contract uh will come back to us next month and we'll be able to look at that.

So this update, this snapshot in time is very helpful for us to communicate to the residents too when they're um letting us know.

So appreciate that.

Um questions uh for uh staff on the presentation.

Yes.

Just real quick, summarize for us where segment four is on Ralston.

It's from uh Alamida de las Pagas 292.

Um say again, please.

So it's that that hit that hilly part where and then also at the Ralston area, which makes a lot of sense.

Um that's great.

Any other questions?

Questions?

No.

Okay.

Uh do we have public comment on this item?

I do have a raised hand.

Juliano.

Yeah, um, thank you very much uh for the opportunity to chat and for this presentation in particular.

I sure wish uh the slides had been online earlier because it substantially changes what the impression that uh folks may have.

Ralston stage four in particular looks very exciting.

I sure wish that folks in particular folks who are actively involved had a chance to participate earlier, but public workshops after are great.

Um issue is that while the update as the one last year sounds really great.

When the rubber meets the road, what we're actually doing doesn't cut it.

It doesn't even come close to uh meeting what the update describes.

The loop, I've never seen this loop described before, and I've read the Bell on Village Specific Plan.

It seems to be a new creation.

Um the work at Hill was a 1.5 million dollar project that was in a single city council meeting as part of the uh consent agenda, opened this plan, added the project, and closed the plan.

Proposals to improve Ralston that I've made for a few tens of thousands of dollars will not even be considered.

The last time, because of the fact that they were too ambitious.

And the PTSC specifically said that they weren't uh able to consider uh changes for bike lanes and lane changes and parking, even though this presentation said this is specifically under the purview of the PTSC.

Um the loop is nice, except for the fact that 6th and Hill Street are hilly.

Folks aren't gonna cycle that.

Fifth Street and 6th Street don't go anywhere.

You need something going down Ralston, but any proposals to to do that are rejected.

Um the reasons for rejection shift every time I talk about it.

Uh often in the past, the route through the parking lots of Twin Pines and Emmett are proposed.

The last response indicated the city recognized that that route is unviable, in particular because you don't want to be cycling through a parking lot and Emmett with eight different driveways to high traffic uh uh shops and retail is exceptionally dangerous.

So I like the aspirations.

I sure wish that what we did actually matched what this document and prior documents have talked about.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I did have another quick question I just realized.

Um mention that PTSC reminded me with regard to the um increase.

Um I know that several years back we were talking about trying to make sure that we had um vehicles and and portals by which you know residents could be able to directly um communicate their concerns, and so even when they came to us individually or staff member, we would say please also fill this out.

Is that the increase, or is there actually been an increase in some of the concerns?

You know, is it just now that we're recording it, do you think, or is it somehow that the maybe the concerns or the types of concerns have increased, or do we know?

Yeah.

Hard to know without that.

Well, I can I can add probably from a long-term perspective, these things go on an ebbs on flows.

So it's not unusual, but we've had a period where you know, as traffic picks up as people kind of change their habits and routines, those concerns gonna come up as new residents move in.

Some of these things are repeat kind of concerns that comes up and they already been analyzed.

So you get a mixed spag of different issues that might come up.

You have new residents, you have new situation that we have to analyze.

And so the request fluctuates over the years based on some of those those changes and issues as as it relates to traffic patterns and people being home more often or less more often, travel more often.

So those are things that uh I can tell you over the last 15 years that I've been here that kind of ebbs on flows based on just different circumstances.

I was just wondering if it had something to do with the you know, my Belmont 3-1 run, all the ways that we've gotten people to oh, Chief looks like he's also.

So those also facilitate, but again, there's there's kind of like uh, you know, in the past, people were more used to calling in or walking into the department, and now you have more kind of uh uh electronic versions of that kind of reaching your city hall.

Right.

So I think you know, again, all of those things kind of help uh based on issues to kind of fluctuate those numbers up and down based on based on accessibility as well as just new situations where people experience.

Great.

No, I think that's a positive thing.

I mean, I think that that if people feel like they can access and there's ways to do that and let us know how they're feeling.

I think that's great.

And so I think that's a a good thing.

Um I want to make sure.

Do we have any other public comment?

There was no okay, great.

Well, thank you very much.

Any other questions, comments from anyone?

I I just want to make maybe a couple of quick comments.

Um, thank you so much.

I I think you did a fantastic job.

Uh I do think that we are in this post-COVID world that I think that uh as we had in our previous presentation that you know a lot of people kind of got used to maybe working from home and things are changing now.

So I think that that um does lend to the increase uh in traffic.

And I appreciate that the committee that you take into account um kind of all of our citizens that I mean we have to advocate for our young children who are going to school and safe route to schools all the way up to you know our retired population who you know maybe still need that parking space close to where they're going because they're not as mobile as they were before, and also including everything in between, including you know the pedestrians and the bicycles.

So I just want to thank you all for that and the partnership that we have within the city with all the different agencies.

So I I thought it was a great presentation.

Thank you.

Um yes, thank you so much for the presentation.

Um I will say that I'm very excited about this plan.

I think we're moving forward on a number of really amazing things and things that maybe have stalled before, things we haven't looked at as carefully before.

Um I love the coordination with other cities and that you guys are working really well with San Carlos is awesome.

Um and I love that you guys are taking the plans that, or I guess we all are taking the plans that exist in isolation in all these other places, the multimodal plan, the the Grand Boulevard plan, and putting it and integrating it all into one comprehensive piece.

And I know that's not easy, so I really appreciate the work um that you're doing, and I think it it allows me to understand more clearly kind of what the visions, the visions are, and it's a vision I I feel like I support.

Thank you.

Uh and I also just wanted to double click on one other thing you said, which is the um uh the traffic calm and that we're implementing that plan.

And I think um that's great.

That's actually something we hear all the time from residents, and I think it's also our residents who are also maybe going too fast, not adhering to stop signs, things like that, as you get used to living in in a certain neighborhood.

So whether that's due to enforcement or uh the other things that we're implementing through that plan, um, um that's great and good to keep that um top of mind too.

So it sounds like you have plenty to do uh every day.

So thank you very much.

Thanks again for the presentation.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh with that, we will move on then to item 12, which is brief verbal reports from members and staff.

And so council members looking to you for any intergovernmental IGR subcommittee assignment updates that you might have for the council.

Yes.

Well, we had our housing subcommittee meeting, I think, last week.

Uh so we got a great update um from our assistant city manager and that and also uh community development director on some of the projects they're working on.

I hope that the community is enjoying um is it the development corner that we have in the weekly update now?

So um they're doing a great job of really trying to push the word out of all of the different projects that we're working on.

And this wasn't an IGR, but I did want to say that last week I was invited to speak to the third grade class at Belmont Oaks Academy, and they had just finished up their civil civic uh and local government section and unit, and so I spent 30 minutes there, and uh, probably within the first five minutes the teachers knew I was not a teacher because I said I want this to be interactive, so raise your hand.

And the hands just went up.

So after about 15 minutes, I said, okay, I'm gonna just pause on the questions.

But they were they were really inquisitive.

They were uh they really wanted to know um, you know, if we've if I've met like the president and um and they asked several times how much money we make.

And so it it it was it was a really fun time, and I did explain to them that we have our hundred year anniversary, so um, I told them to think of some stuff that they want to put in the capsule and to have their teacher submit it.

But it was a really great day.

Very nice.

Um can I add to the subcommittee?

Um one thing that's great is hearing about some of the things um and staying involved on not involved, but updated on things that are happening in nearby cities.

So I guess I just want to say out loud that there are two large housing developments happening on just on the other side of our borders.

So one happening in San Carlos, um, where CVS is, and one happening kind of near where Samaritan House is.

So um, so that coordinator is seeing a lot of action.

All right, thank you.

And no other updates.

Um the only update I have to just I guess to to tag on to the vice mayor's visit was we did have a group of scouts who came to visit and had their field trip here a few days ago, and um that was uh uh fun.

The most fun they have is coming to the chambers and we let them sit in the chairs and everyone gets a turn to bang the gavel.

So uh appreciate that, and just a reminder that if folks are interested, uh we can do um more field trips like that for youngsters, and um, it's great that council members are getting out there and talking to our young people.

That may be the way we recruit.

Um you never know.

I heard they were really impressive impressed by our city attorney, so I'll be able to do that.

That's a very rare thing to see, but we tell them they get to sit in those chairs if they if they get to grow up and do that.

They made it my office.

Oh, did they?

Oh, you have the nice windows.

It was a whole gaggle.

Oh, awesome.

Well, thank you.

Thank you to our staff for doing that.

All right, moving on to 12B, verbal reports from City Manager.

I don't have much, but I do want to kind of given cybersecurity is in the front of mine given some of the recent re news.

I just want to embark on on the community to be cautious.

And there's a lot of different uh phishing and scam that's going on through um emails and text and other things.

And so we do have some resources on our website about just being mindful of those things, and we'll push that back out again, but it's good to be mindful uh nowadays.

That's an easy target.

And if you're not really watching out what you're doing, they can really grab to grab on your uh information, and and that's not a that's not a pleasant thing to go through.

So we want to kind of just put that caution out there to folks to be extra diligent when they deal with cybersecurity issues.

Um that's a good point.

With regard to that, do we I know we push out that information on occasion, you know, electronically.

Um don't we have some programs sometimes where um our PD will also go to seniors and and folks who don't necessarily always go to their we can definitely kind of look at some of the outreach uh efforts and just gonna bring that up.

We do hold uh uh usually hold one or two sessions a year on cybersecurity with the seniors and doing some outreach there as well.

Okay, great, thank you.

All right, for item uh thirteen matters of interest and clarification.

We don't have anything on that item, so uh that brings us to adjournment until our next regular meeting.

We're adjourned.