All right.

It's four thirty, and I'm calling to order the Campo meeting of March 11th, 2026.

Can we have a roll call, please?

Chair Novak.

Here.

Vice Chair Maloney.

Member Bagwell.

Member Casanelli.

Member Costa.

Here.

Member Nordlow.

Member Shuty.

Here.

Member Very.

A quorum is present.

Okay, thank you.

Moving on on our agenda.

This is our first opportunity for public comment.

Item three.

Is there anybody in the audience that would like to speak at this point?

Okay.

Seeing none, we'll move on to item four for possible action approval of the minutes of our last meeting, February 11th, 2026.

Any questions or comments or corrections on that from anybody?

I move to approve the minutes from the last meeting.

Okay.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, nay.

Motion passes unanimously.

All right, move on to our next item.

Public meeting item five A for discussion only.

A discussion and presentation regarding the draft unified planning work program, UPWP for the proposed Campo activities during fiscal year twenty twenty-seven and twenty twenty-eight.

And Kelly, you've got this, and we it's in our packet.

And uh sounds like you guys have been coming up with some good ideas for the next two years.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Kelly Norman, Senior Transportation Planner.

The Unifying Planning Work Program details Campos work elements, tasks, activities, and how they are funded.

Campo receives funding from the FHWA and the FTA for regional planning activities.

So all MPO activities within this next UPWP are subject to the reimbursed rate of ninety-five percent consolidated planning grant funds versus um five percent local match.

Um known and unknown timelines on federal funding.

So the UPWP is planned on a fiscal year timeline from July to July.

Campos planning for the known gap between July and September, and also other unknown gaps that may occur.

This will allow Campo to have continuous funds to cover continuous activities, fulfilling Campo's goal on providing that cooperative, comprehensive, and continuous planning to the region.

Campos public participation plan requires a 30-day public notice for the UPWP.

The 30-day public notice began March 4th and is open through April 3rd.

A legal ad went out on Saturday, March 7th in the local papers.

This draft UPWP has been shared with NDOT.

The final draft will be brought to the April 8th Campo meeting for final approval.

And staff welcome public feedback and board feedback on the UPWP tonight at the public meetings or any time throughout the month to inform the activities of CAMP.

Thank you.

That concludes my comments.

Are there any questions or comments from our board up here?

It looks like they've got things planned out and based on how much work they can get done in the given time and federal funding is still iffy as far as I'm concerned.

So you're doing the best you can.

Oh, questionnaire.

There are a lot of activities planned in the UPWP that I think are worthwhile and important.

Really the only comment I would have is that is there any way that we can increase the number of deadlines or some kind of measurement on how these are accomplished.

I see in some cases they are, like, for example, there may be a requirement that a given report be submitted on time or by a certain date.

That's fine.

And but I see some other ones that we could go ahead and try and get a specific objective to see how well we're meeting that plan.

Staff is usually strategic about the deadlines that we have.

If they're hard lead lines, we add them to the UPWP.

This being a planning document, we try to adhere to those deadlines, the ones that are required.

The ones that are not required, we we try to plan accordingly to achieve those.

Um, but I'm willing to talk to you about specific deadlines that you would like for specific tasks.

Um yeah, I will go ahead and provide a list.

I mean, I understand that the comment period anyhow is up until April 3rd.

So we got a few weeks.

Okay.

Okay.

Any other comments?

Um, just briefly, and this isn't a trick question.

Um, last UPWP, we um, as I recall, hired a consultant to help with some of the planning documents.

Can you just touch on how that went?

Was that successful?

Because it looks like um, like in 3.4, we have consulted on some of these reviews and kind of planning general planning work.

And um, I'd like to just hear kind of how that went before and if we're planning on doing that again.

Yeah, um, staff plan on um working with consultants again.

Really, we're planning that more towards um the 2028 period.

Um, but um uh yeah, staff work well with uh with consultants um and have worked well in the past and will in the into the future.

Okay, any other questions?

Good.

And next year, the 2027, the legislature will be back in town.

So I'm sure you'll be busy and see what else comes out of that.

And I see we've got some corridor studies kind of mapped out one after the other.

So I think you you guys are listening and thinking strategically, and we have a regional transportation plan now, right?

But that doesn't stop the planning.

Okay.

So move on to the next item.

Okay.

Agenda item 5B, and this one is for action, so I'll ask for public comment.

And this is to discuss our uh surface transportation block grant funds, and we've got a couple of projects, uh, Curry Street and Fairview uh listed, and I guess there's uh unspent money after that as well.

So we'll see what uh what you have to say and whatever comments we have.

Thanks.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Kelly Norman, Senior Transportation Planner.

So on January 10th, Campo staff released a call for STBG funded projects.

This call was open until February 19th of this year.

There were two submissions, both by the Carson City RTC.

The RTC asked for 325,000 for the Curry Street Complete Streets Project and 901,000 for the District 3 Fairview Drive Preservation Project.

STBG funding requires a 5% local match.

RTC grant submissions total 1,226,100 in STBG grant funding.

The local match would be 64,532 to be paid for by the RTC.

There is $953,900 in SDPG funding left to be distributed.

In order to assure that this SDBG funding does not expire, staff recommend prioritizing the obligation of these funds.

If the board would like, staff can recommend some suggestions.

Um, but it's up to uh the board.

Thank you.

All right.

And my initial reaction, I didn't have any problem with these two projects.

The one I still have a little, I don't know, concern, confusion is Curry Street since there's possible federal lands bill that's gonna get more land in around Curry Street.

So that would be a separate project, or are we looking at that future link now in some of the design or the analysis?

Because if it's gonna come and it might, that would be a good use for the remaining money.

But I wasn't sure time-wise how that would actually pan out.

Um some of our RTC representatives are here to talk about.

Do you want to, or the transportation manager can speak about Curry Street and the future plans?

Okay, thanks.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Chris Martinovich Transportation Manager.

We're not planning to include the fourth leg of the Curry Street, uh, fourth leg of the Stewart Curry Street roundabout into our current Curry Street Complete Streets project.

Uh we don't know when the timing of that federal lands bill was going to pass, what the steps are once it does pass to making the land transfer happen, how quickly that may or may not happen, what are the environmental complications with doing so?

How what do we do with the forest service property?

There's a lot of questions associated with that connection, and so we're intending to that to be a separate project.

Thanks.

I just it'll be complicated.

Well, the the issue for me, if I may, Mr.

Chair.

Um nothing we're doing here would be negatively impacted by that project.

That's what's that's what's important is that we're not putting any money in that we turn around and would rip up, right?

That's where you go.

Well, that was wasted money, because then we should select a different project.

That's what I needed on the record.

So thank you.

And does staff have any suggestions at this point for the remaining dollars?

Yeah, there's a there's um a couple of options.

So staff can initiate another call for projects.

Um the Campo Board can award more money to the two projects um that have already been recommended for award.

Um, and again, representatives can talk about you know, if you have more questions about the two projects.

Um uh, you know, we can have uh project manager uh talk to you about that.

Uh staff can work individually with uh Douglas and Lyon, um Carson for funding, um, as well as consider safe street or um safe routes to school um funding, which covers Carson City, Lyon, Douglas, and Story, which is eligible for STBG funding.

Um the Campo board can choose to wait.

Um STBG funds may expire um if if we wait, though.

Um, and then if there are other suggestions by the board, um, we can consider those as well.

What's the timing for the expiration on the STBG?

What's the granting period?

We're not sure because we don't know how old all these funds are.

So our target is to try to get these obligated as soon as we can so that we ensure we don't lose any of the STBG funding.

STBG funding is allotted to CAMPO because it is between 50 and 200,000 for the people, and there's an a lot, a number allotted to that size MPO, and we're the only one in Nevada.

So we have that money allotted to us.

Um that's yeah.

Pretty much ours to spend and let's be smart about how we do it, right?

So I think I think staff's recommendation.

Kelly did a great job outlining the options.

I think our recommendation is to work with three agencies and see if there are other projects that maybe didn't get applied for in this case uh to see if there's a project missing out there, or there's some project that's short of funding that we could we could potentially use STBG funding to to make up a difference, or to start like a safety project identifying local road safety plan or some of those elements.

The other option is we could roll it forward in coordination with Carson City to a future pavement preservation project.

One of the options was to take some additional money into the projects that are recommended today.

Um if the projects recommended today could use that money, why didn't they request that money?

And what would the money be used for for those options?

There uh through the review of the RTC with the RTC and the projects that were applied for.

In fact, I think we're gonna bring an item up in the next couple of couple of months to the RTC for the status of that project.

So that project has a lot of moving parts and could potentially benefit from additional funding.

We're not 100% sure yet.

I think the Fairview Drive project probably doesn't have a lot of need for additional federal funding at this time, and I think that project would struggle to spend any additional funding.

Um it's just uh first of all to be clear.

We have um if I understood correctly, we have what a million dollars left that we have to obligate STBG funding.

Is that correct?

953,900.

I'm sorry, what was that number again?

953,900.

Okay.

Okay.

And um Yeah.

We had talked about before widening curry, and I understand that it's part of this project here from roads to the railroad museum.

How big of a widening are we talking about for that project Mr.

Costello?

I'm gonna I'm gonna pause on answering that question until the RTC can receive a presentation on Curry Street.

There's a number of design alternatives that are being considered.

Um so I'd I'd I'd like to, if you don't mind, please deferring that until we can come with a comprehensive review of that project.

Okay.

Would one one way to one way to expand expand this money or expend this money is to um increase the length longer than room from roads to the railroad museum?

Is that a possibility?

We well uh we plan to bring the curry street project.

All answer all answers are kind of secondly.

First of all what we plan to bring the curry street project either April or May.

Uh so plan on that uh to the RTC in terms of extending the length of the project that isn't currently what we are considering, but we can consider that as part of that discussion at that time.

Okay.

So just as a clarification, the other discussion potentially is adding it into safe routes to school.

Did we have projects that well actually across everything?

Don't we have projects that we kind of have in order of priorities and things, and we may not have enough money, so you and we'll be doing that in May where we're picking roads and things.

So are we at any risk of losing this dollars if we wait till May and look at the overall the projects that were funding and looking at, which could at that time then include anything if Lyon or Douglas missed the opportunity to bring it back and we do the other 953,000 in May?

We're not in jeopardy of losing any money until that's what I suggest that we do then is let's look at the totality of what we're doing so that we have the best use of the dollars.

Yeah, I think we all pretty much agree that there's lots of options, but let's let's spend the money wisely.

Yeah, and I don't have enough information to make a good choice without seeing the whole laundry list.

Okay, which I'm sure will be long.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, this is an action item.

So is there any public comment at this point?

Let's kind of see where we stand, which is let's spend what we can now and hold off on the rest.

So all right.

See no public uh comment, I'll entertain a motion.

Happy to do it.

I move to award STBG funding to the Carson City RTC for the Curry Street Complete Street Improvement Project in District Three, Fairview Drive Preservation Projects, and to direct staff to bring us uh potential remaining use in the May meeting.

Okay, I have a second.

I'll second.

All right, we have a motion and a second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

No.

All right.

Lion and Douglas, you guys can think about it between now and then too.

And you ought to wait a point.

Okay.

That's right.

You have I'll bet yours is long too, huh?

Somehow.

All righty.

We're on uh non-action items uh 6A.

We start with Chris's transportation manager's report.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair Chris Martinovich Transportation Manager.

I'll just start off by saying you know, I think that was the direction we were looking for is how best to proceed with those funds and that prior agenda item, just getting some guidance as to what to do with those is helpful.

So thank you for that.

Uh big picture here.

We are coordinating with NDOT uh and a little bit with Lyon County on some signal improvements along the US 50 corridor in Lyon County.

There are three new three new intersections, three new traffic signals planned along that corridor, and uh Campo and Carson City staff are actively reviewing and and seeing what making sure those signals are being implemented in the correct ways and matching all of our maintenance requirements and things like that going forward.

So just know that we're coordinating with those uh agencies on those uh new traffic signals out there in Lion County.

Uh unfortunately here this board approved a grant application for FTA 5339B competitive funds for the purchase of a transit vehicle.

We were not awarded those funds.

We didn't ask for very much, but we did not receive that competitive grant award.

Uh so we'll we'll look to fund that vehicle through other means uh down the line, but but I just wanted to circle back on that grant application and notify the board.

We did not receive that one.

At the next meeting, we do anticipate bringing uh contract to kick off the East Dayton Bridge project.

Uh, we're working to finalize the scope and fee with with the consultants on that one, and we'll get that project started in April.

We also plan next meeting to bring forward a TIP amendment.

There are a number of projects as we just adopted in the prior prior action item that now require some tip amendments to account for those federal funds going to those projects, so that'll initiate, and there's some other there are other um amendments that need to occur as well.

And then lastly, is as noted with agenda for item 5A, uh, the final UPWP will be brought forward for uh possible approval by this board as well.

And that concludes my report, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Happy to take questions.

Thank you.

Any questions for Chris at this point?

All right, move on to 6B, the N DOT report.

I thought very well this month.

Um, I wanted to remind everybody that um this uh March is Nevada Moves Month, so we're excited about that.

We appreciate the partnership we have with Campo and their safe routes to school efforts, and we always like to extend any help that we can to that group.

Um February 23rd, we had some pretty big wins in the Washoe Valley and we had some issues.

Um I just wanted to note that NDOT does have 30 roadside wind warning devices out there, so we try our hardest to ensure that we're prohibiting large vehicles from entering the valley.

It's uh some even with 30 people will ignore that.

Uh another thing is is that we did get some um concerns with some of the detours through Lakeview, and we've reached out to um the different um ways and Google and uh Apple mapping to kind of remove that as a detour.

We understand that that did create some uh issues with some of the residents up there.

So we're trying to work on that.

And then um next month we plan to bring the US 50 Carson US 50 Dayton Preserve preservation project here for a presentation.

Uh Chris and I are working on what what that's actually gonna look like and uh hopefully it's all good news for you guys in terms of some of the things we're incorporating from the corridor study that you've completed.

With that, um final note.

Um the STBG funds that you guys use, that's a pass-through through NDOT.

And I just wanted to note um we uh in practice always use the oldest funds first.

So when you ask about the expiration, um our financial management group is really good about making sure we don't have any funds sitting in an expiring status.

So rest assured that we're we're working hard with Campo to ensure that those funds, those old funds are getting out first, especially as it comes to projects.

And I do want to know Campo and uh this group is really good about um getting those LPA projects out and and constructed.

So we really do appreciate that.

And with that, um, that's all I have.

I have a question.

Yeah, question.

So you you mentioned that you were receiving complaints about Lakeview being in as an alternate route via Google or things like that.

Where is it that the traffic would go if they're not utilizing?

I I guess that's a more important story.

What what is the alternate route?

There isn't one, right?

Without using that.

It's really tough.

Um we were from what I understood, we were pushing people towards the East Lake.

But people were trying to, from what I understand, and it wasn't, I don't want to say complaints, concerns is a little easier.

Um what people were trying to do is get through the traffic that was stacking on the 580 and trying to worm through there uh through the East Lake kind of bypass, so to speak.

And it was but that's the two choices.

Oh, you got three ways to get through.

You're going there, you're going there.

Unless you want to go out 50 up and around up to uh Virginia City and down, so or through the lake.

Uh, we've all probably had to experience that ourselves with some of the fires through the valley uh, you know, a decade ago or so.

So it's a situation that we we um are aware of.

It's something that's really hard to um manage people are gonna take the least path of resistance in their mind to get through.

Yeah, and we're and like I said, we have 30 signs and uh for wind warnings starting in Carson, and we still get people ignoring those.

Um so we we we're working on some solutions that uh I think can help, but again, we can only be as good as we can be.

Okay, thank you.

Hey, any other questions or comments for endot?

All righty, move on to our uh next agenda item six C other comments and reports.

Anything else uh folks want to bring up at this point, Mark?

Um, do we have scheduled a time when we'll be reviewing the responses to the comments for the transit coordinated human services planning?

Mr.

Costa Chris Martinovich Transportation Manager, we have received comments, your comments, some other comments on the coordinated human services plan, and those will be brought the plan will be brought to the RTC uh potentially in April.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, I've got one question or comment.

I mentioned earlier our regional transportation plan was approved and dot has accepted or approved it, and has that been distributed to the folks that need to see it?

Because we'd like to have a little bit better coordination between transportation and land use starting from my point of view at the Capitol.

So I think as long as everybody shares the information and we know what's going on, we'll come out ahead.

So I just want to make sure that gets done.

Got it.

Thank you.

Uh getting near the end here, it's our second opportunity for public comment.

Is there anybody else in the audience that would like to come forward and speak at this point?

Okay.

We also take written comments.

Okay.

With that, uh hearing no public comments, we're on to item eight.

Possible action to adjourn.

And I say we are adjourned.

Perfect.

We'll be RTC.