All the sending our meetings are ordered or some formation calendars.

All right, so uh reminder that um that the public is provided to attend this meeting in person or on Zoom.

Uh we'll start with the roll call, district one, Sean will be here after District Two.

Present District Three, President District Four, yeah, district five are here, district six present.

District seven is first mayoral present and second mayor all.

Okay, are there any proposed changes to the agenda?

Is there a motion to approve the agenda?

Motion to approve the agenda.

Second.

All right, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Okay, this item has been approved.

Are there any changes to the minutes from March 25th, 2026?

I see now.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes?

Motion to approve.

Second.

All favor.

All opposed.

All right, on schedule communications or a public comment with anyone from the earning member of the public like to speak on the issue within the jurisdiction of the committee.

Is there anyone online?

Okay, since I hear none, I will close the comment and move to other business.

Okay, we'll begin with with item 5a, the presentation of the vision zero action plan.

Greenham, would you like to afternoon?

Uh ATEC members.

My name is Andrena Aguilar, Chief Engineering Tech with Public Works and Transportation Planning.

Uh today I'm here to present on the draft vision zero action plan.

Um the purpose of the presentation is to kind of inform you what that layout looks like.

Um give me an opportunity to ask questions or comment um or do so formally during this public review period that uh started early in the month and is set to close on May 2nd.

I will also be doing this presentation for city council tomorrow as a workshop setting, so if you'd like to listen in as well on that effort.

Okay, so vision zero.

Um vision zero is a commitment to eliminate traffic deaths and severities and severe injuries.

Um as a goal to reach zero.

Our plan gives Fresno a practical roadmap uh to act over the next five years.

Here I'm highlighting a few um quotes that this is not a unique uh concern to to Fresno.

Um traffic safety is a crisis.

Um it's been acknowledged at the state and federal level.

Um you see here a uh the Office of Transportation.

Um their triannual highway safety plan um update uh provided indicates that this is a crisis on all roadways throughout the state um and it calls out its urgency and calls upon all the state and local partners uh to do something about it.

Um US DOT uh calls for an all-American response to address this crisis, um and also acknowledged as a um path and safety with the health and human services uh office of the uh disease preventable and health promotions uh indicates that motor vehicle crashes is the second leading cause of deaths from unintentional injuries in the United States.

And also acknowledged as a path and safety with the Health and Human Services Office of Disease Preventable and Health Promotions indicates that motor vehicle crashes is the second leading cause of deaths from unintentional injuries in the United States.

Unfortunately, the City of Fresno in 2024 was, I'm sorry, the Fresno metro area, which includes beyond just the city limits was ranked number seven and most deadliest or dangerous metro areas per pedestrians out of a hundred and one metro areas.

We made it to number seven, unfortunately.

That was with a lot of support of a lot of current and former members of ATUC.

Citywide between so uh we started the process, um the data analysis showed that from 2019 to 2023, we saw go back, please.

Uh we saw 217 fatal crashes and 629 severe injury crashes.

That's well over 800 crashes within those five-year period.

Um here in our area, there is a strong foundation of uh all of the efforts that have been done, not only by the city of Fresno, but um with other partners such as Fresno Unified School District, they did a safety uh assessment of some of their schools, and I think they've done two rounds of that.

Um the police department has received OTS grant funds to educate and um uh to educate the public on safety.

Uh the parks department has received multiple OTS grants as well where they perform activities such as uh the bike rodeos and provide education to uh vulnerable road users, which are um uh school-age children and seniors.

Um the city of Fresno has received multiple roadway safety type of grants to implement um safety countermeasures throughout the city.

Uh project goals and the process.

This took a on a two-track process, um, there was community engagement while the analysis of the data was happening.

Um, so what we heard from the public and that community outreach was incorporated and overlaid with the collision analysis as well.

So, as part of vision zero, um, you must make a commitment, right?

So, what the the what the plan proposes is a zero fatality and serious injuries by 2050.

Um, that is in line with the state of California goal, which requires that vision for change, right?

So it's it's the institutional change, so the policies, the programs that jurisdictions have, but it also looks at the community change, uh, the public norm, the behavior of those that are using uh the roadways and the infrastructure, um trying to move towards a more proactive safety culture rather than a reactive, so not only wait for things to happen, of course, address it if they do happen, but proactive, like stepping back and proactively looking at those hotspots, um, trying to prevent those collisions from happening or fatalities from happening.

So achieving zero requires a new approach.