And at this point, we are going to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God.

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

No, I know.

So at this point, we'll ask anyone from the public who wishes to speak on anything that's not on the agenda to stand up and speak if they wish.

Since no one is speaking up, we will close a public comment and move on to the protocol.

And I excuse me, before that, maybe Bridget, you want to cover our um online protocol.

Yes.

Um we are filming this live on PCT's website in Channel 27 Local News or Local Station.

Um we are offering excuse me in Spanish interpretation as well this evening.

And we are starting the evening with a joint study session um with our architectural advisory committee.

So I would like to do a roll call if we could, and then um we'll see if Mr.

Hernandez is coming.

So um Commissioner Johannes.

Here.

Commissioner Redick.

Here.

Commissioner Gorn.

Here.

Vice Chair Gossett.

Here.

Um currently her Chair Hernandez is absent.

Um Commissioner I'm sorry, Committee Member Poncini.

Here.

Committee member Hooker.

And committee member Kikucci.

Thank you.

And we have no minutes for this month.

Thank you.

Sure.

Yes, we did.

Both parties?

Complete.

Sorry.

It's okay.

It's busy.

Thank you.

Umbers.

Um, John Dowdy for the record.

Um, we are um thrilled to have each of you here tonight.

Um this is intended to be um pretty informal um conversation.

This is um intended to um first and foremost, I think to provide each of you um some feedback and um what we've heard from the community uh process and give you a um taste of uh some of the design work that is underway.

Uh this is something um that we committed to um when we came initially with this group um as a joint meeting, and we appreciated that effort and that uh commentary process and um and feedback point.

We know that we've seen some of you, many of you at uh at the follow-up meetings, and we thank you for your engagement with the community.

Um tonight uh along with me is uh Cindy Zerger from Tool Design and our project manager who will be presenting as well, um, Karen Decker.

Uh we also have other um staff and uh folks have been involved in this project, including Irma Acosta.

And um again, I think it's um I'm you know I'll be short as short as I ever am.

I know you can yell at me about that.

Um I want to uh first kind of speak to the overarching project goals, and um to some extent those are sort of um long and and uh but but I think they're important.

So one is to revitalize uh streetscape and that effort stemmed from the uh CRI initiative, um, the coastide recovery initiative and looking at and focusing on both short and long-term solutions.

One coming out of the COVID pandemic time and then evolving into a longer term stability and economic vitality for the community.

Um team vibrant was part of this package and really became the the guiding um piece for uh this effort.

And basically, they recognized as a group of community members that we really needed to look at the whole package of how we deliver goods services, and part of that was how do we better refine, define, and uh make down downtown and um uh Hapmoon Bay even a better place than it is than um today.

So uh this project also takes off from many efforts, including the the city's work on the parks master plan as well as the um slide four.

Okay.

So in any event, um sorry I'm I'm meandering, but let me get to the let me get to the heart of really what I wanted to say.

Um we're we're we're pleased to be here.

Um I think we've done some great work, and um we wanted to check in, we wanted to talk about this.

Um we want to ensure assure you that our efforts um are focused on flexibility, focused on long-term viability in terms of designs, looking at how do we both encourage um multimodal access, pedestrian, bicycle, as well as acknowledge that the automobile still remains with us, and people do utilize that to get to and fromtown, and how do we make those things work?

Again, the focus of this initially uh really started with the four-block heritage main street, basically from the bridge to Corrayas, but as part of the process and as part of the iteration that we started looking through when we scoped the work.