All right.

You join through the preamble here.

For the record.

Are we ready?

Good evening and welcome.

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With that, I would like to formally call this February 25th, 2026 meeting of the transportation board to order.

So we're gonna go to our agenda.

Um, and we do not have a quorum tonight, so this will be an abbreviated meeting.

Um so any disclosures from any members of the board tonight?

Hearing none.

Um then changes to the agenda.

Um we have two uh board members that we need to excuse, and I would like uh to uh solicit a uh a motion to excuse them.

I'll make a motion to expand and I'll second that.

All approved, say aye.

I all right.

We have excused them.

Um and we do not have the quorum.

As mentioned, we will go through staff updates.

Um minutes from last.

Oh, uh, we can't approve these from last year.

Yeah, um, so I guess we will go on to staff update, Director Ross.

Thank you, Rio.

Uh I will be quick since it is a nice evening, uh, but we do have a lot going on.

Um, part of the work plan that we're all gonna get to adopt shortly here, um, unfortunately next month, but um city did close um the RFP requisition period for our uh comprehensive safety action plan last week.

Uh we received five submissions from teams or firms uh that are looking to uh be our lead consultant for that uh for that safety plan.

As a reminder, the safety plan is going to be uh developed in parallel with our upcoming transportation master plan so that uh both plans are aligned with one another, and the safety plan ends up being a document within the ultimate transportation master plan update.

So we're really excited to get one uh get this one going.

Um couple updates on projects.

Uh we are um we actually have right now our North 27th from Baxter to Cat Till Project, uh Out for Bid and are due to open bids on uh March 4th.

So that's gonna be a really cool project uh that we get to fill a missing length in North 27th, uh sort of in the the central part of town, I guess, at this point.

Um, but we hope to get some good bids.

We've seen a lot of contractor attention uh in the last few months.

And so we're seeing uh some good news on that front for hopefully some good prices, and that is a project that we're hoping to complete all this summer.

Um similarly, we will be bidding our annual street maintenance project uh next week.

Uh that's the contract that we use for contracted services to do um our arterium collector milling and overlaying projects uh as well as our friction seal uh projects for local streets as well.

And so uh we've got uh uh pretty full uh projects uh project list uh for this this upcoming year.

The uh really fun one that I'm looking forward to is going to be uh repaving milling and overlaying of Babcock Street uh from Wilson over to Rouse.

That's gonna include uh about a hundred thousand dollars worth of pedestrian safety improvements uh with curb extensions and ADA upgrades at Black and Bozeman.

Uh the other one of the other major mill and overlay streets there is gonna be North 15th from Durston uh North, and that's gonna also get all brand new uh ADA treatments along with it.

So we've got uh somewhere around 200,000 worth of pedestrian and ADA improvements coming this year uh simply through our street maintenance project.

Um in addition, I'll throw out our uh uh Bozeman Streets division.

We have um roughly around 3,000 tons of asphalt mill overlay work planned to do in-house uh this year.

So that's almost the same uh equivalent uh amount of work that our contracted services are gonna do for us.

So it's gonna be a big paving year uh for our streets division as well as for our street maintenance contract.

And the last plug I'll do on street maintenance project um one of the the ways we went about contracting this year.

We're uh soliciting uh unit cost prices for two um of our primary permanent traffic calming installation devices, which will be neighborhood traffic circles and uh asphalt speed tables.

Uh so the goal there is that we have um a contract mechanism available if uh um if and when our um recently launched neighborhood traffic calming program uh receives some viable projects that we can start to go through uh in either past uh streets that uh knee calming or new ones in the hopper this year.

We at least have a contract mechanism available to us.

Um another smaller project, our Black Avenue Bicycle Boulevard, um, the final traffic circles, the permanent installations for for that bicycle boulevard.

That contract has been approved, uh, and we should get going in construction early this spring.