Nick, are you ready?

Yes, sir.

All right.

With that, good evening, everyone, and welcome.

Hello, Transportation Advisory Board members.

Uh before I call this meeting to order, I want to remind the public listening of how they can participate.

If you would uh like to follow along from home like I am tonight, you can go to the city's webpage at Bozeman.net and click on the meetings link from that page, you can look under the upcoming meetings to find our agenda.

There you'll find instructions on how to stream the meeting live list on the phone or watch on cable TV channel one ninety.

There will be several opportunities to provide public comment this evening during the public comment period.

We'll first hear from those people in the room, and then we will take comments from those online.

And if you are following uh along online, please use the raise your hand feature and staff will call on you by name at the appropriate time.

As a reminder, you can always provide written public comment in advance of the meeting by going to the commission page on Bozeman.net or emailing comments at Bozeman.net.

Emails noted as being for the transportation board are forwarded to us.

Any comment received before noon today was distributed and read by the board.

With that, I would like to formally call this June twenty fourth, twenty twenty-six meeting of the Transportation Advisory Board to order.

Um first off, are there any disclosures from any members on the board this evening?

I think there are none.

So we'll go on to changes to the agenda.

Uh we would like to uh uh move the action item to be the first item sign, and that is regarding the Bozeman High School residential parking permit district uh management.

And then we would also like to swap the special presentations.

So it will be I one H two and then H one.

Can I get a motion for this change?

Uh I'll motion to change the agenda so the action item becomes first on the agenda.

Thank you, Bryce.

Thank you, second.

I second that motion.

Thanks, Hayden.

All those in favor.

Aye.

I'm not sure.

All those opposed, eh?

And the motion carries.

Secondly, I would like to make a get a motion to excuse Mike Messley from the board this evening.

I'll motion to excuse board member Meslik.

Thank you, Bryce.

And can I get a second?

I'll second that.

Okay, and that also carries.

So now public service announcements, Director Ross.

Thank you, Rio.

Good evening, board.

Start out with heavy hearts tonight.

I want to take a moment to remember, recognize tragic loss of Addy McCurdy in our streets at Story Mill or excuse me at Griffin and Ralph's last week.

I know it's very heavy on a lot of people in town and very much with city staff and our commission as well.

And so personally and professionally, we want to remember and recognize her and her family and continue remembering people like Addy as we take up our charge as a board and as staff in a city to make our streets as safe as possible.

So for staff updates this month, we do have uh quite a long list.

Um, this is where I like to allow this to be a little bit interactive if there's any questions from the board.

Um, but I do want to highlight uh a couple topics in each.

One, we'll get to talk about this a little bit later on, uh, but we have uh released uh received uh responses for and made a preferred consultant selection for our transportation master plan update.

So uh team of Sandbell, Kittleson Associates, and Logan Simpson are gonna be supporting the city for the next year and a half, developing our 10-year master plan.

On the design side, I wanted to highlight uh some of the good work that's gonna be coming out towards the end of the summer next year, thanks to our commission's recently adopted budget uh which was approved last night.

Uh we had um one small but very impactful capital fund, um doubled in annual allocation to $300,000 a year, and that's our STR20 multimodal fund.

Um this is an annual funding source that allows us to take on more of small uh uh small but impactful multimodal and safety projects.

Uh and we have um a couple cool initiatives that are gonna be coming up that were only uh allowed to be brought forward because of this additional funding.

So one we're gonna begin development of a school zone speed feedback radar program.

So those are the um uh side of the road speed feedback signs, uh radar units uh that we're gonna roll out on all of our school zones across town.

Um we're gonna try to target five per year, starting with those schools on our higher volume, higher uh speed arterial and collector routes.

Additionally, we are gonna uh be able to bring next summer a pretty cool project down towards uh the tree streets neighborhoods, and so if you're familiar with that section of Highland, um there's pretty cool park system off to the side, uh, but no sidewalk along the the east side of Highland and no safe way to cross Highland Boulevard to the Shared East Path on the west side.

So uh with this funding, we're gonna be able to connect a section of sidewalk along the northbound or east side of Highland and then install a mid-block crosswalk with an RRFB at that location, which will extend to a future trail uh down into the park.

Um, we're also going to be able to add another uh grid tide RRFB at Wilson and Dickerson to support the school zone crossing there.