All right.

Well, good afternoon, everyone, and welcome um to the May meeting of the Vision Zero Task Force.

A couple things to to talk about to get started.

But before we jump into it, I'm gonna ask folks to um introduce themselves.

And in a couple cases, we have folks who are sitting in uh for other members, so please just note that.

But I'll start.

I'm John Barth, I'm a member of the City County Council, and I'm uh chair of this committee, and I'll uh pass it on to Councilor Nielsen.

Uh thank you, Chairman.

Uh Andy Nielsen, City County Counselor District 14 representing the city council.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, Derek Cahill, uh City County Council District 23.

Hello, uh, I'm Elena Jones.

I am uh here on behalf of Abby Brands for Department of Business and Neighborhood Services.

Good afternoon, Addison Pollock, Director of Community Engagement with AARP Indiana.

Good afternoon, Ernest Malone, Indianapolis Fire Department.

Abby Hanson, City Controller.

Good afternoon, thank you, Mr.

Chairman Lucas Knee Camp with the Marion Kennedy Prosecutor's Office.

Good afternoon, Todd Wilson, Director of Department of Public Works.

Megan Vukasich, Department of Metropolitan Development.

Taylor Feierstein, Director or Director of Healthy Communities at Health by Design.

Good afternoon, Matt Thomas, Deputy Chief of Operations for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Okay, thank you to all the members.

And if anyone is interested in making public comments, there's a sign-up sheet on isn't on the podium.

On the podium, thank you.

Okay, so just a few comments um and opening remarks.

Bear with me, this is a little esoteric, and uh some people in the room were with me last night, but there's something um that happened in my district this past weekend that I've been thinking a lot about that has some relevance to here today, I think, and it's that uh on Sunday morning um there was uh at an Airbnb uh multiple shootings, including one fatality, and um which is a uh a tragedy um that I've been spending uh nearly all my time on uh since then.

And last night we had uh I along with the Meridian Kessler Neighborhood Association had a uh public forum where hundred plus people came um to talk about their uh their concern, frustration, anxiety um with what happened.

And one person um during the a really um uh meaningful and um consistent engagement um of QA between the folks who were attending and and the folks who are serving on a panel stood up and and said, um, I just don't understand how we're at a point where um hu humans people are treating other people in this way, are being so um uh disrespectful but also disregarding of um of uh human life and of other people for their own convenience or for their own self-aggrandizement or whatever it may be.

And when I went to respond to her, you know, there's it it you know it's almost it's really an abstract question.

How do you respond to that, right?

And so the first thing that popped into my head was I said, hey, listen, let me just tell you the first thing I think about, and that's that ever since the pandemic, I mean before the pandemic when uh President Lewis and I um passed the complete streets ordinance, but then especially sort of accelerated during the pandemic has been this issue that we're all working on, which is uh how do we make the streets safer for all the users?

And the fact that even though um Councilor Cahill, Councilor Nielsen and I and uh President Lewis um have passed ordinance after ordinance, we we've made some meaningful and important improvements, but still it doesn't change the fact that there are folks out there who um are driving in a way that is reckless and dangerous and um not respectful of other people and is resulting in maybe they get to to where they're going one minute faster, two minutes faster, but in in the process they're making everyone's life uh more dangerous.

Um and I think about that all the time because I I happen to live, I'm I'm I've uh happen to live near a large university where every single year uh a thousand experienced drivers leave the neighborhood and then a thousand inexperienced drivers come in the neighborhood.

And so since I lived so close to the university, I I experienced um a lot of uh questionable driving.

And those folks are in and I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the work we're doing here is the same thing I said to the woman last night about the shooting, which is the only way we can make improvements is by everyone working together, right?

And I've said this phrase over and over um when it comes to vision zero, is that going through the process, this challenging process we've gone through in the last couple years of writing this ordinance, working through it, having the task force be convened, having the ongoing process of engagement that Health by Design managed for us with pop-up events all around the city, creating the actual action plan, all of that is to create that sense of community and that sense of unified purpose so we can get everybody on the same page and we can achieve something really important, which is this incredible goal we have that we're trying to achieve in 10 in 10 years.

So now it's an exciting moment.

I mean, every moment's been exciting because everything's been progress um and walking in the right direction.

But now we have a 10 year plan, and um, even though we've only taken uh a short step towards it, this is um uh we're six months in to it to a 10-year plan, and we're following the ordinance and having this this update uh opportunity and and public engagement opportunity.

So the thing I think about a lot is I think every counselor on here, and I'm sure DPW has the same experience where we have a lot of people coming to us all the time who want um this improvement or that improvement or or XYZ, and then as we've talked about in this room many many times, just with limited resources, and we have our controller here, I'm sure she'll remind us at some point today that we have limited resources.

We have to make you know tough choices, and the tough choices come from um having this plan and executing on it.

And so I'm excited to be here.

I'm excited that we're able to report out this first uh um six months of effort.

But you know, we have years to go and a lot more engagement that we need to do and a lot more work that we need to do, but we come a long way, and I'm really excited to have this first annual report.

Um, so we're gonna turn it over in a minute to to Leandre.

Oh, oh, and I and and one more thing I do I do want to say is um something else I've noticed is that um not only I, but I'm gonna use myself as an example because I just did this recently, but many counselors are really t taking um an effort to start chipping away at the work of Vision Zero and um accomplishing our goals by doing actions in their own district, right?

They're and I'm just giving an example.

I had I recently held uh a meeting, um, public meeting at the College Avenue Library where I asked DPW to come and um review the community powered infrastructure program, uh specifically thinking about 46th Street, but people came from all over my district to talk about it, and uh one of our task force members over there came and he presented on a tactical urbanism project he's working on.

Um, but I think those even though we have this um work plan that we're working on outside of the four corners of the work plan, there's other work that's happening.

And I I I've passed um an ordinance recently that made the entire Butler Talkington neighborhood association a low um neighborhood um boundaries have a lower um speed limit, and I just because of that I got an email today from someone in Ridding Kessler who wanted to do something similar.

I did the entirety of Canterbury neighborhood is now lower for that same reason.

So these actions are happening.

Um we're making uh meaningful progress.

I I I wish um we could go faster.

I wish we had the resources um uh uh to to do everything we want to do in a short period of time.

Um but like I said, we have to make we have to make intentional choices to make um uh consistent progress so with that let me um before I turn it over to Leandre to oh and and I'm sorry I keep interrupting myself but I I do want to do uh make one more comment and it is that um uh uh DPW um the direct Todd is here and and and I'll say this and and uh the whole point of uh vision zero is that everyone every discipline here is working together in tandem to to execute on this but just there's no way of denying that a lot of that burden falls on DPW right there's just it's just a fact and um in that public meeting about the community powered infrastructure that I was just describing I made this point um uh that it's been a big journey uh for me and and Andy and and and President Lewis um and DPW working together over time but over uh time uh DPW has really oriented towards um the kind of initiatives that we that we're really hoping for and I think it's been really impressive to see um the change and the in the culture and the orientation towards towards towards safety I think that's been uh meaningful I think uh uh director hergert and and now director wilson have both been instrumental in that but also I want to point out uh Daniel and Chris out in the audience they've also uh been really important uh to that progress as well so I want to make sure we're recognizing the people who are really doing the work to get this done okay now I promise I'm actually gonna move on um but before we go to um uh the vision zero administrator to um do uh his update I want to see if the counselors up here have any any comments to make um to get started and then if any any task force members do so um uh councilor neels and council cale any comments you'd like to make uh thank you chairman I'll be I'll be quick um yeah I think as as you've identified we've we've come a long way and I think we've heard uh from the community as well the need to you know to obviously create some uh budget permanency to some of the issues that we're trying to achieve and I know that's gonna be the work that we're gonna be doing um in this budget uh even though we're gonna have our own set of of challenges uh but I think it's something that we've been able to chip away at through um other fiscal ordinances but I I think we heard loud and clear from the community last year the need to program um funding for um additional vision zero initiatives into the budget and it'll be something that I know that the three of us and the entire city council will be working on as we are looking to address um other capital needs uh in the city so appreciate your comments sir and I'll kick it over to someone else.

Uh counselor cale I have some comments after the uh presentation here but I'll I'll reserve until then thank you though okay and before I do want to see if any task force members have any comments like they like to make before we start just raise your hand.

Okay well I do um want to acknowledge um Stephanie uh just stepped in and I know this is your first minute of your first uh your first time as a task force member but she was originally appointed um by President Lewis to serve on the task force so if you just pull that the little um lever back and speak into the microphone and just say um uh who you are and and who you represent and then and then you're a new task force member I'm Stephanie Patterson from Butler Tarkington.

And I'm just hoping hopefully I can um enjoy this I think thank you thank you Stephanie it's great it's great to have you here um okay with all that as by way of background let me turn it over to uh Leandre Level um our vision zero administrator to review the 2025 annual report uh thank you Mr.

Chairman uh first of all thank you task force members and to your staff for helping develop this end report uh we started this uh believe it or not in February so we worked through the the adoption of the action plan which we did in early December kind of got through the holidays and immediately went into Andrew report so so how do we put together annual report if we just adopted the the action plan, right?

So what uh the approach that I took was looking at the KPIs that we have outlined in the uh action plan, apply that to some of the ongoing progress that we're doing now, and what uh major highlights we've done last year uh to incorporate to develop this uh annual report.

A lot of that is simply data, right?

And this is data from INPD, this is data from DPW, and other um task force members able to share some some progress and upgrades updates that have happened last year.

Uh because this is our first time, like I said, six months in.

Uh our report's only about 50 pages.

About half of that is the actual uh statuses and where they are for implementation.

Uh the other first portion of that is really just kind of giving a quick highlight of where we are with crash analysis, where we are and implementation, kind of give a um progress and a glance as we call it uh to some things we're doing, and then hopefully this time next year, once we start this process, maybe we can have a lot more kind of uh in-depth thorough uh approach to this as well.

So, again, because it's this is the first one, right?

Six months in.

Uh, where we are setting some reasonable expectations about uh what we reporting, how we're doing it, but at the same time, uh by ordinance, we want to make sure we are uh reporting to the public and giving the community update about where we are in terms of our direction regarding vision zero.

And again, please I want to thank your staff who's been very helpful and helping me get up to speed on on a lot of this data, input, and information.

Um, credit to them as well.

All right, I'll get started.

So uh when looking at the ND uh Vision Zero annual report, like I mentioned before, here's kind of the agenda.

We'll talk about the crash analysis, we talk about progress at a glance, and when we're talking about that, we're mainly looking at where 25 uh some of those investments and the impact were that take place throughout our city, and then we're going to talk about the safe system implementation.

Again, those are the strategies directly uh that we have outlined in the action plan, kind of where we are in those, and then we'll kind of look ahead in 26 kind of peak of what we're doing so far this year this quarter, uh talk about the ND Vision Zero dashboard, and we'll talk about the public service announcement that uh we've been kind of progressing forward the last few weeks.

Um, so yeah.

So here's just a quick executive summary.

If you want to sum up where we are right now.

Six months into implementation of the Indianapolis Vision Zero Action Plan.

The task force is encouraged by the meaningful progress underway across agencies and community partners.

Guided by a shared responsibility and a commitment to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries, task force members have begun advanced the key strategies, and early signs are promising, but more work needs to be done.

On Indianapolis roadways, fatal crashes decreased by nearly 16% from 2024 to 2025.

Fatal crashes have declined by nearly 30 percent to the uh from the peak of the pandemic in 2021, bringing fatal crashes back to pre-pandemic level.

This downward trends uh mirrors those observed in other uh peer vision zero cities nationwide, many of which are also experiencing measurable declines in fatal and serious crashes.

While many of these strategies outlined in the Vision Zero Action Plan have only begun, the task force remains focused on accelerating and sustaining the positive downward trajectory.

The goal is not only to sustain progress but to intensify safety efforts that will bring fatalities and serious injuries to zero.

As implementation continued, the task force will prioritize data data-driven decision making, strategic investments, and working with advocates to continue to ensure that safety improvements reach communities most impacted by crashes.

This early progress demonstrate that Indianapolis is moving in the right direction, reinforcing our commitment to deliver safer streets for all modes of transportation.

The uh Indy Vision Zero Task Board looks forward to building on this momentum and providing continued updates as implementation advances.

So, of course, uh throughout the entire work, you know, what's what's the purpose of Vision Zero right is to remember those who've lost on the roadways.

So this is just a memorum that we have for all of our um annual report in our action plan to uh as our guiding light of why we're doing this.

So I want to open up straight up with the crash analysis of fatalities.

Uh last year, City of Indianapolis experienced 85 losses on our roadway.

Uh 24 of those are from people walking, nine of those are people riding their bikes, and 52 of those people are driving.

Uh, I do want to kind of get some clarification on on some of these numbers a little bit, and I'll show the the metrics.

How the data is collected is through police reports, right?

Uh, but how we kind of categorize it are in these main three categories.

So we know that, for instance, there are motorcycle fatalities, right?

That is encompassed into people driving because how the data reports it, it kind of clumps those all at once and kind of counts it twice.

So I just want to be very clear on that.

That there are there were motorcycles fatalities.

There was you know different types of categories, but sometimes they all kind of kind of clump into the motorist category.

So that's a little outside my purview, but I just want to be clear on that because there were those types of fatalities.

I also kind of broke it down a little bit by uh vulnerable road users.

Uh, these are people walking and people riding their bikes, just kind of the trends the last five years.

Uh 2025 last year, we've seen the most of those uh individuals riding their bikes at nine who experienced those fatalities, and it's been a kind of an up and down trajectory for people walking uh in the last several years.

Uh different years during the pandemic and out of where those fatalities have taken place.

And as I mentioned before with the data, pretty much all of these fatalities does involve a vehicle on some level.

The data showing, and strongly indicates that a vehicle were it was involved.

And here just again kind of the year-to-year fatal crash trends.

Uh, this is by all modes of transportation, so this is incorporating everything kind of where we've been uh in the last five years or so.

So as you can see, we peaked through 2021 during the pandemic.

Um I'm pretty sure there's going to be psychologists and others be able to document everything kind of take place during the pandemic.

Uh but since then we have been uh progressively trending downwards so a near 30% decline since 2021.

And here is for a series of incapacitating injuries.

Again, uh, this is by all modes of transportation.

Uh starting to level off here a little bit, um, some measurable decline since 2024, uh, but starting to really come down here in most recent years.

And actually, I'm sorry, this is backwards.

It's supposed to be uh 1,048.

My apologies.

And here are the locations for all of the known uh fatal crashes and uh locations.

This is where uh our team within um IMPD, DPW, particularly our fatal crash review team has kind of reviewed a lot of those fatal crashes and kind of uh outlined those reports and with through the fatal crash review process, but also too, even though these are dots, let's just remember, you know, these are people's lives, these are individuals who are no longer with their family.

Uh and this is overlaid with our transportation impact in neighborhood.

Uh, if you remember from our transportation impacted neighborhood, these are communities where there's a uh high likelihood of social economic indicators, poverty status, uh, walking is the main or riding the bike is their main source of transportation, um, maybe public transit, but they probably don't have a car or this language barriers uh in others.

So you kind of see the the disparity there again uh kind of being reinforced of why the need uh support these efforts uh were in communities that are most impacted.

So, so what is what is the analysis?

You know, like I mentioned before, uh fatalities in 25 remain slightly higher than 2019, uh traffic deaths and serious injuries are essentially back to pre-pandemic levels, and as I mentioned before, you know, it's been near 30% decline in fatal crashes in our roadway since 2021, uh, nearly uh 67% decline in serious injuries from 2021.

But at the same time, the data underscores that fatal crashes and serious injuries remain at an unacceptable rate.

This reinforces the need for continued sustained efforts to meaningfully meaningfully uh eliminate uh fatalities and serious injuries on our roadway.

Overall, the trends highlight the importance of the city's vision zero commitment and the importance of maintaining implementation momentum across all strategies outlined in the action plan.

And again, here's just kind of how we kind of came up with that analysis.

Uh as I mentioned before, probably 90-95% of the data, crash data we collect is through IMPD.

However, there are some jurisdictional lines that we do not report.

We do not kind of incorporate into our analysis, so we don't include excluded cities from their departments, particularly, and we don't include uh data from um any of the state police.

So, but we do include roadways that is in DPW City of Indianapolis right away within our authority.

So that does go into excluded cities a little bit, but not on their local roads, and then obviously we don't include N-DOT roads because of jurisdiction.

So what I would say is you IMPD may report a number, and then a year later when we do this, uh our number may be a little bit higher because we may include or incorporate different data points to make sure we get to that that number we're looking for using both uh source, both metrics to come up with that number.

So, like I said, everything mostly runs through through Aries.

We do try to make sure we kind of clean the data a little bit, uh, but there are circumstances where that's that doesn't always align, and through our federal crash review team, they kind of help delineate that just a little bit more, and I'll talk about that a little bit.

So now we're gonna talk about uh kind of progress at a glance.

We're gonna look at some some investments and some impacts for 2025.

We're gonna talk about the federal crash review team.

We're gonna talk about uh completed capital projects that's done by DPW, the power uh community powered infrastructure, which are community-based projects that we've been doing throughout the community, and some traffic enforcement efforts uh that's been led by INPD.

So I'm gonna open up with uh the Federal Crash Review Team.

A lot of people don't know that the city has this uh mechanism.

Uh it's a multiple disciplinary.

We have DPW representative um DMD IMPD and two civilians.

Uh this it was established under ordinance in 2022.

You know, after uh police crash investigators review that the fatal crash uh fatal crash review team evaluates the crash and determine whether roadway design, traffic controls, or other infrastructure uh factors can prevent or mitigate those severe crashes.

Uh based on the finding, the federal crash review team offers up a formal recommendation, usually to DPW engineering and operational staff to uh influence or change certain types of projects uh recommendation to help guide the city's capital plan vision zero efforts and other safety projects.

So since 2022, the Federal Crash Review Team has identified and tracked uh a series of infrastructure recommendations and projects for locations associated with those fatal crashes and serious injuries.

These recommendations range from low-cost operational changes or major corridor reconstruction, uh, all are used to prioritize intervention based on crash history and systemic factors.

So to date, uh the city has evaluated in advance more than 82 infrastructure recommendations out of 338 fatal crashes reviewed, and this is generated through the uh federal crash review process.

Recommendations safety improvements include signal timing modification, pedestrian crossing enhancement sidewalks, access management, uh corridor redesign, traffic calming, and other uh multimotor safety upgrades.

Uh and again, here's just as kind of a highlight of those 82 projects.

So three through 31 of them are in progress.

Some of them are incorporated into existing capital projects within DPW.

Uh 19 have been completed.

Some of those are small modifications that our operational staff uh can do.

Sometimes we send them out to the jock for they can do as well.

Um 11 of them are not complete, so they either we have not defined a project yet or have incorporated them to a major capital plan yet, and several of them are still under valuation or have not been uh categorized yet.

So uh last year, and we'll talk about this in a second, the council approved some fiscals that help with that.

Uh but but but despite that effort, we know that more work and more support is needed.

And here again is about that uh support uh 500,000 last year for the spring fiscal appropriation, uh supported four separate projects coming from the fatal crash review team, pedestrian improvements on 10th Street and Sheridan.

Uh we installed detection deployment uh protections at uh 500 North Shalen, access control on Keystone and 63rd, uh 62nd Street, excuse me, and then we modified a neighborway program uh where we recognize that uh a path for cyclists was not uh it was high conflict, so through our neighborway program, we offered alternative route, and that's something we're implementing right now.

And then as part of the 1 million dollar fall fiscal uh and that uh councilman uh Andy Nielsen uh authored and adopted for our rapid response and traffic safety improvements.

Uh 400 of that is will be allocated to procure uh of our quick build materials.

There's a new program that DPW is about to roll out here in the next few weeks, probably in the next month.

And that's to um purchase more type of forgiving materials curb, uh delineators, rubber, um, curbing, flex ballers, and other materials like that.

So when these fatalities happen, we're able to respond to those a lot more quickly, especially those coming from the federal crash review team.

And we'll talk more about that, hopefully next month at the border works.

Uh 500 of that is advancing more of those safety projects.

So any of those projects from the fatal crash review team or recommendations they have, we can just simply accelerate that program, just continue those projects where we can, and 100,000 reserve as contingency for those either fatal crash, excuse me, for the quick build program or for those types of projects.

Uh here at a quick glance again in 2025, the city of Naples do Department of Public Works has invested tens of millions of dollars in capital infrastructure safety improvements.

Many of these uh completed projects are on or near the Hindry high risk network, including complete streets elements and cap and capital outputs that advance multimodal transportation improvements and uh and enhanced safety for all road users.

In the report, you actually see the list of those, but throwing it up here wouldn't make sense.

But it you will see um the New York and Michigan uh two-way conversion project, um the nickel plate trail, the B no trail, all those trails uh that were completed last year.

Uh again, advanced multimodal options uh for the public and try to mitigate uh those um fiddle crashes uh throughout our our network system.

Here's a quick map of where those projects took place.

I know you probably can't see it from here, but again, uh in the red is our high injury network, and then in the green is those completed safety projects we did last year, and again overlay with our transportation impact and neighborhood.

And again, here it is the high injury network and high risk network that we use in uh DPW as part of our review when we look at capital projects.

So again, we look at um excuse me, progress in again uh in events and a glance, excuse me.

Uh we're empowering residents and um safety advocates organizations to lead safety demonstration projects, uh particularly through our uh capital, excuse me, our tactical urbanism projects that we do throughout the city, and what we've been doing the last several years is been an absolutely growing uh program in DPW that we love to do.

We're continuing to do it.

Uh as you can see, we have 18 plans this uh planned this year, several of those have already started.

Uh we imagine this program will continue to grow, uh, and it's a great way for the public to get involved.

Uh this also too needs some support, as we know.

Uh, but we are prioritizing those these types of projects uh as low-cost efforts to uh make sure we are uh advancing safe and multimodal options as well.

And here's just some of the projects that uh were completed last year and all the neighborhood and organization that were involved.

Many of them are here today.

I know several task force members have uh participate participated in many of these projects, and they've been very successful.

Uh so now we're gonna look at the traffic enforcement efforts.

Uh many of these efforts were done by IMPD particularly.

If you look at just from countywide data, uh 25,000 uh crash respondents that's been done by IMPD, particularly reported by IMPD, uh, nearly 50,000 traffic stops conducted, nearly 30,000 citations issued, and a little over 6,000 of traffic warnings issued throughout the entire county.

Uh we look at a little bit more detailed about how those efforts are impacted on the high-end re network, as as I mentioned before.

Uh those those intersections and corridors where we have a high propensity of speeding crashes and fatalities that have taken place.

Uh about half of those uh 50,000 are taking place within 500 feet of the uh high-jury high risk network.

Uh, many of those uh traffic stops and those uh calls are taking place uh kind of on the appropriate corridors, right?

Including many of those citations are being issued on those kind of a high-speed, uh high risk uh uh corridors.

Again, here is just a kind of a high level of the traffic enforcement for citations that's kind of taken place over the top five common.

There's more, but here's just the top five common speeding, expiring plates, no driver's license, and then the top five warnings.

Again, speeding, you know.

Sometimes people can be forgiving, right?

Uh speeding on certain streets and then operating with expired plates.

So these are the top five throughout county wide of the traffic enforcement that's been taking place.

And all this is publicly available on the IMPD transparency hub for traffic data.

If we look at a little more detailed about what are some of the partnerships we have throughout the county, uh we have with uh Indiana State Police, Beach Grove, and uh INPD, kind of some uh tactical um DUI checkpoints that are conducted throughout the entire county.

These are some were taken place last year for during the grant period uh from November 24 to all the way uh August of 2025.

Many of these checkpoint DOIs that take place throughout the county did yield results, uh meaning of DUI arrests, alcohol related, felony arrests related to um traffic enforcement, making sure that as part of our safe people safe speed management program, that we are uh doing those types of stops throughout the community.

And also too, we look about the safety outcomes of those, right?

Uh, particularly about uh traffic enforcement from the prosecutor's office.

Um, you know, since uh effective July one, 2025, the prosecutors' office changed their safety drivers diversion program.

Uh previously, if you were cited over 15 miles per hour or up to 25 miles per hour, uh you were offered eligible for deferment.

Uh that has been lowered down to 15 miles per hour.

Uh, this was uh in response to the state raising the uh speed limit on 465 from 55 miles per hour to 65 miles per hour, and now uh the prosecutor's office has implemented this program, and as you can see from the result, it is yielding uh less revenue for the prosecutor's office because of the deferment program.

And now we're getting to the safe system approach and the safe system implementation.

Uh as you know, um through Vision Zero, we know that uh deaths and serious injuries are unacceptable, right?

Humans make mistakes, humans are vulnerable, redundancy is critical, safety is proactive, and responsibility is shared.

These are all the kind of the main principles and core of the safe system approach.

And through these, through safe vehicles, safe speed, safe roads, post-crash care, and safe people, we're able to implement uh those strategies effectively without siloing those to either particular department or agency.

And so now we'll kind of go through kind of where we are with those strategies that's outlined in the action plan.

We had eighty-three of them, and I can kind of share where we are on those.

So since the adoption of the action plan in December 25, each task force member has been responsible for implementing their assigned strategies.

The uh 25 annual report is intended to monitor the effectiveness and the progress of action plan through the safe system approach.

The KPIs outlined in uh action plan are used uh to measure progress and you'll uh evaluate outcomes and intensify identify areas for continuing improvement.

So uh throughout the reporting process, uh when I sent it to yourself or your staff, I kind of asked like are where you are on these uh strategies.

So here's the main uh key uh key here is not started, so no substantive implementation has begun, initiated, at least some preliminary internal discussions have begun regarding implementation and development strategies are active being planned, in progress, they're actively underway, implemented, they're fully executed and ongoing, which means they're you know, either a policy alignment, routine operations, or continuous improvement or on hold for whatever reason, maybe for policy considerate external factors, some of those policy or strategies have been on hold.

So, as just a quick summary before we kind of go through some of the strategies.

Uh the current implementation of the status of the Vision Zero Action Plan reflects continued forward momentum with the majority of the strategy advancing through implementation phases.

Of the 83 total strategies, 75 have been at least initiated or an actively progressing.

A significant portion of the work remains in the pipeline with 29 strategies initiated, 17 in progress, and eight in development.

This distribution shows an effort or steadily transition into execution.

So as you can kind of see through this through this wheel, probably not the best colorization because there's multiple.

The city is progressing, like I mentioned before, in the right direction.

Many of your staff and your agencies have at least started with those strategies, at least have some level of internal discussion or actively implementing them.

And each strategy is different.

As you saw in the action plan, there was different timelines.

Some can be started immediately.

As you know, we're progressing in those in the right direction, but um it may take a little time to get there.

Now, in this annual report, we did not uh offer any type of supplemental report, meaning we did not add any new strategies, but that may be an opportunity we could do either next year or in the coming years, as some of these strategies are fully executed.

Uh, we can kind of see kind of the long-term impact in what else can we do uh in terms of kind of double down on these efforts.

Uh, and with that, I'll kind of just go through a little bit some of these strategies.

Like I mentioned, this is Safe Roads, is kind of really looking at how we're implementing street designs and policies that maximize safety on our roads.

Uh, as you can see, we'll just look at um Safe Road 1 about how we modify the fatal crash review process that has been fully implemented.

Uh, I am not on the fatal crash uh board, but I do attend regularly and uh offer my thoughts and recommendations through that process and how um that those strategies are being implemented.

Here's safe speeds again.

Uh again, talk about how we can safely get through our roadways and environments through combination of thoughtful equitable uh context appropriate road design.

Uh this is mainly through speed management and different agencies are doing.

I know you guys can't see it up there because it's so small, but it is in the end report.

And again, I want to thank all your staff for kind of giving some updates of where we are on each of those strategies.

Uh same thing for safe spee uh safe people.

Uh this is more so of kind of a communication, how we're educating the public about the importance of vision zero, whether that's through our PSA, whether that's how we're communicating about uh fatal crashes in the media and to the community, and again, kind of a quick update of where we are on those uh for each strategy.

Post-crash care, uh, many of those uh we this is kind of it for post-cratch care, but a lot of the conversations that we've been having with the medical professional team uh is very much uh good, they're very much bought into vision zero, the few conversations I have, and uh we may hopefully in the future have some more member tasks task force members join us in in offering that perspective.

Uh safe vehicles.

Uh the city is moving forward with uh a lot of on internal training for those for the fleet vehicles.

I've been working with the controller's office by updating the training process, but also to the types of vehicle and packages we'll have uh for the new updated fleet vehicles, which we're excited about.

And then general, uh again, a lot of these has to do with me, particularly about uh making sure we have uh website communication, uh, the dashboard again, one of the critical components for vision zero is make sure we have that publicly available for everyone, and we're progressively moving that forward uh six months in.

And as I kind of wrap up here in a little bit, I just kind of want to talk about uh progress uh that's kind of happening here in 26.

First, I would say uh we do have a newsletter now.

So if you want to subscribe to the Vision Zero newsletter, you want in the public, I encourage you all to do that.

Uh we'll try to have these newsletters posted quarterly and uh kind of give one update about tactical urbanism things that we're doing throughout the entire city.

Uh next thing I would do want to share is we now have a vision zero dashboard.

Uh so I really want to thank ISA uh for being extremely um helpful in in getting this uh established.

I would say there is some some data glitches here and there.

So it is a work in progress.

Uh it is a constant living document, so it is updated every 24 hours.

Uh, and it shows in almost real time of when there is crash reports uh from uh INPD uh so that data can be updated in real time.

So if if anyone goes on there now, is it should prompt you to current, meaning what's happening right now in 2020 and 26.

But unfortunately, the injury section there's a gap in the data right there that we're trying to work with uh IMPD to try to figure out what what that gap is.

So if you go on right now, we'll say zero, that is not correct.

Um and we're trying to make sure we get that figured out.

But it is live, it is a living uh document.

We're still working on it.

So hopefully this time next year we'll have some more features on it to kind of show to the public what we're doing and how we're tracking it.

Uh, but now this is now a publicly available to the public to look at uh all the the data and dashboard.

I just kind of click the uh a different time frame just so people kind of see the breadth of what features are on it.

Uh you can look at um the modes of transportation the year by month, uh you have the high injury network, you have the high risk network, you have the transportation uh impacted neighborhood overlays as well, and all that is publicly available on the Vision Zero website.

And um with that, I kind of want to end it here as part of our uh PSA campaign that we're doing.

Uh DPW particularly is taking a lead on.

And I kind of want to let uh Alex Pelow, fourth time indie card champion and in Naples 500, we're gonna kind of talk about it.

Um with that, Mr.

Chairman, I'll turn it over.

Thank you, Andre Leandre.

Um, so just a couple comments and I'll hand it over to the task force members.

Um, number one, the the quick build investment I think is incredibly important.

I know that's something that folks have been uh wanting to happen for a long time.

Um I want to give a lot of credit to Councilor Nielsen for identifying the funds and and uh making the um the legislative uh maneuver happen to make sure that those funds were allocated.

Um I also want to thank the IMPD.

Uh even um being uh downstaffed, they are um being responsive and and uh conducting uh traffic enforcement.

Um just recently I had a lot of uh people in my district at 58th and Central uh express a lot of concerns after uh a crash occurred and um uh near school and uh within just a day or two, the IMPD was out there very visibly doing enforcement um which I appreciated, and they're doing that all across the city.

Um not just reactively but also proactively.

And then finally, I will tell you for ever since I um uh did the complete streets ordinance like 12 or 13 years ago, the I've been trying to get money in the budget to get this kind of PSA done.

And so to finally see it done and to see it done with such a plume uh is is really um exciting.

Uh I think those these uh the that PSA in particular is great, and I I've had several people mention it to me.

So getting more and more visibility on the work we're doing here and and uh having sort of people see it and maybe ask what the heck is this and and Google it and find it, I think is really important.

Um again, I'm gonna thank Leandre for all his work.

He's really the person making all this happen behind the scene.

I mean, everyone in this room is making it happen within their own elements, but working together and sort of pulling all the strings, that's Leandre, and I especially appreciate his work out in the community um being out there giving presentations, uh attending uh meetings.

Um he came to a uh a neighborhood association in the in a district that counselor Delaney and I um share a few weeks ago, and and uh folks who knew about it were interested in learning more and in doing that kind of community engagement is really important.

Okay, task force members, questions about the annual report or anything that uh Leon Dre presented today.

Please just raise your hand.

Counselor Cahill.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh thank you, uh Leandre for all the work that went into this.

I uh I it truth be told, I did not know you could email a 100-megabyte PDF.

Uh so that that speaks to for those of you that have not yet seen this, uh it is quite comprehensive.

Uh the um some things I would like to see.

Uh well, let me let me start with this.

I I say this every time and it it it's going to be true every time that this is a marathon not a sprint this is our very first uh annual report so this is where we start not where we finish I uh I would like to see some more uh the the metrics we have for example on the the serious injuries and the deaths that the year over year charts the the trend that's very valuable I would like to see that for the traffic stop metrics to be able to compare the 50 thousand that we we saw here is that is that an increase where does that compare to the say the last five years uh so that next year when we see this we can say did we we've we've said that's more of a focus did we increase that number five or ten percent or what what happened with it.

The other uh I would also if I am I believe IMPD can provide these as well uh but some of the some additional detail uh for example the DUI enforcement metrics uh I'd be interested in knowing are how how do those numbers look again uh year over year is that is that enforcement are we uh are we arresting a flat number of people are we uh is that increasing decreasing where's that going and speed metrics as well so obviously the number of speeding tickets or warnings is one factor but again when we look at this over a 10 year window even if in 10 years we are still uh issuing or we're making 50 thousand traffic stops I would be curious to know if are we stopping people because they're going 11 miles an hour over where in the beginning the average speeding ticket was you know 19 miles per hour over that would that itself would would still indicate significant progress um and and that leads into the other one that I'd like to request is the fatal crash review team uh cause chart so I know that the fatal crash review team clusters the the the direct or proximate cause into different things and it's my understanding that speed and alcohol are the two single biggest factors which is why I want to see a little more data on those two because I believe those are the the leading causes.

It has been highly visible uh I I think that has been absent for a number of years and I can tell you I have just seen them out proactively uh and reactively as well and uh thank you to the uh prosecutor's office for lowering that number on the deferral program I think that's very important I think that if the standard was 20 over you don't get any points on your license I mean it's kind of no wonder that uh that I think the people behave the way they do so I think tightening that down is is appreciated I think there are uh a number of things I would also encourage that I think the the council us three counselors and the council as a whole are not now that now that we've seen this in progress we we may own some of these things a little more than I think when we saw the the initial plan um it I would challenge us uh and I and I said this last fall that we need to the vision zero money is not in the budget it it's it was that it's mentioned in here it's in the fiscal it's not in the budget uh we need to operationalize that money this fatal crash review team should not be on the wish list it should not be a nice to have uh it needs to be in the budget uh we've got to do that this year and we've got to if that means that we need to take a look at things that are currently operationalized and put them onto the nice to have list and put them into a fiscal that's that's what I would challenge us to do.

The uh there are several things in here also where now that we have this first annual report uh I think the council uh needs some more information and it there are you listed several things where funding was was a uh an issue and I and I can appreciate that some of the things have a high price tag, but the one was listed as uh IMPD education materials uh for during a traffic stop.

Uh I would love to understand what budget is needed for that because frankly, I in my mind I envision this like a flyer that I would imagine all three of us paid for during our campaigns to hand out a piece of paper.

So when we don't have that kind of budget, I now is a perfect time to be asking us for that because we should fix that.

And then the other thing I would offer now that I am reading this, is uh this is assigned to the prosecutor's office.

Encourage uh appropriate judicial outcomes.

Uh and I can appreciate that the prosecutor's office that has to stand before the very judges very often has both from a working relationship and from an ethical standpoint, may not be in the position to make those criticisms, but I would encourage to figure out how we could see some fact and data based things uh here because I would challenge that as politicians, we are not in, we are not constrained that way, and that when judicial outcomes are not what I think common sense would tell us they are, that we can say things that I don't believe a prosecutor that has to then turn around and stand before the same judge tomorrow uh can say those those really are my notes.

I I appreciate all the work that went into it, but both from you obviously assembling it and from everyone in here that provided the update for all the work that this represents, so thank you.

Other comments or questions from Task Force members that proceed.

If I could make a shameless plug under the safe people uh portion of the plan, uh AERP is responsible for the driver safety program and um reaching um older adults who's just 50 plus who are interested in promoting safe driving uh behavior um throughout the course of everyone's life.

So um that's a volunteer-driven program.

So if anyone is interested in volunteering, uh we'd love to hear from you.

Any other comments?

Stephanie.

Um I heard we had I heard the categories about bike, car, and pedestrian.

It would be nice to know if in that bike category we're talking e-bikes and other wheeled um vehicles too, because I think that provides a complexity that we might not know.

Um if we love that all with bikes, because I think e-bikes bring a different set of risks.

So if we could see that kind of data too, I don't know if you have that available, but we can do that offline.

Thanks.

And just uh and uh and a comment as an aside, um e-bikes.

I think this is the wrong phrase for the bikes.

I'm talking about the uh um I've gotten a lot of uh emails and concern lately, and so I've reached out to the folks in the cycling community and others to talk about um not so much e-bikes, but things that are almost mini mopeds that are on the mo that are on the monon and in neighborhoods that folks have um expressed some concern about.

And so we're looking we're looking for a public process at some point to think about do we need to do something similar to Carmel has done.

And so that's uh there's a lot of emails and thinking going on about that now, and at some point there'll be some public discussion, but that's uh that's a matter that um has come up over and over and over um recently, so just FYI.

Okay, other uh comments from any members of the task force.

Okay, super, then let's move on to public comment.

Leandre uh is gonna get the list of folks who have signed up to have comments, and I don't believe we're using a clock today, but we do in general ask folks to stick around two minutes or so um with your comments.

Not a hard and fast rule um uh being a little bit more flexible in this committee than then uh than a uh then uh an established council meeting.

Um, but uh um we would ask folks to keep their comments um uh within that sort of two-minute or so time frame.

Go ahead, Landre and start calling folks out.

Uh Andrew Riley.

So Jacob's gonna go first with that.

Oh, okay.

Hello.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

What's your last name?

Uh my name is Jacob Morales, J A K O B M O R A L E S, uh District 13.

Okay, thank you.

Um yeah, just like to start off with an appreciation for you all, um, as you know, being public servants and committing to vision zero, and also a special thank you to Chairman Barth for allowing public opportunity to comment at these meetings.

Uh so uh my concern kind of uh echoes uh Council Kate Counselor Cahill's points about uh enforcement KPIs.

So uh from the day I'm looking at from Safe Streets Indy, since 2024, 53% of hit and runs resulting in serious or fatal injuries uh that involved the pedestrian cyclist.

Um that was 53% versus when you're looking at involving motorists, it's only nine percent.

Uh so you know, incidents where where people are being seriously injured or killed, uh hit and runs are happening substantially more for for that uh subgroup.

Um and so I would love to see some kind of KPI for uh hit and run investigation closures, uh just from a personal experience.

I've been side swiped, hit and run, call on camera, license plate, person's face, literally admitting, oh, I hit you, and then taking off.

Uh, and you know, I've I've been kind of on the on the investigator, and uh over a year, nothing.

Um so to me that just sends a signal that uh the city um and that enforcement needs to uh you know do more to actually close these cases out because it's really disincentivizing, especially from the things that I've heard from people in the biking community, people walking, uh, hit and runs are not adequately addressed, and because of that, people are less likely to actually call it in.

That's less data for all of us to be able to work with to address these issues.

Uh so I would appreciate a KPI uh regarding that.

Um I also had a question for DMD uh about the transit-oriented development um kind of action item.

Uh do you have a current timeline?

Because I know that was uh short to medium term, uh will the TOD be exactly the same as what's on current BRT routes?

Uh will it be expanded as we're you know looking at these efforts to doing things like uh restricting gas stations and drive-throughs.

Um uh yeah, so uh do you have any any timelines?

So Jacob, this is not a QA, this is a public comment.

So we'll note that and she will get back to you.

Okay.

Uh thank you.

Uh will you just make sure that you get your email to Leandre so we can make sure you get a response.

Uh can you make sure you get your email to Leandre so we get your get your response, yeah.

Thank you.

Um great.

Uh mentioned neighborways, uh fantastic, love neighborways, and would love to see that program expanded.

Um I was working, I know in the ordinance uh in Municode, there's ordinance for play streets.

Uh that hasn't been something that I've seen utilized.

I've tried to go on going through community powered infrastructure to enact some kind of play street, you know, something pedestrian, uh like a small pedestrianized street where the kids of my neighborhood can play without fear of being run over, uh, which is a concern that I have, at least on on my block that doesn't have sidewalks and is uh you know prone to uh people running stop signs and and the whole whole nine yards.

And so uh I would really appreciate more um abilities for residents to come together to enact a play street, you know, pedestrianized.

Uh, they've even gone through gotten majority of people involved, their their approval and signatures, and and that wasn't able to move the needle.

So uh I would definitely appreciate some some movement there.

Um and then finally um, yeah, I you know, I I would just like to close it out with that.

Uh so thank you all.

Great, thank you for your comments, Jacob.

And and I when J.

We came up, I realized that I didn't do a good job of saying when you come up, please say your first and last name in uh approximately where you live in the city.

Thank you.

Or if you represent a certain group.

Hello, uh, I'd like to ask for an indulgence.

Um I want to give a comment from Courtney Hawk, who can't be here today before I give my own.

Would that be okay?

Sure.

Thank you so much.

If you could just say you already said Courtney Hawking, I'm Andrew Riley, and this is Courtney Hawk's comment.

Um I consider myself to be an involved citizen who has learned how to navigate the oft confusing landscape of city government.

Yet if someone came up to me today and asked what VZTF is, Vision Zero Task Force, what they are empowered to do and what they've done so far, I wouldn't know where to begin.

VCTF seems to be following the general trend of performative box checking while leaving real change to people in our communities who may or may not be able to access tactical urbanism or other um quote official self-serve solutions.

At the memorial walk along Raymond earlier this year, a city county counselor told us the public gathered to remember those killed by drivers, enabled by poor design, and pedestrian hostile infrastructure put in place by NDOT and DPW, that we need to keep showing up to hold them, the council and VCTF accountable.

Why should we keep showing up when nothing is changing and is actually getting worse?

I can spend this hour helping my neighbors instead of begging for the ability to get to work, school, or anywhere without risking death or serious injury.

So that's the enough for a comment.

And then I'd like to give my comment.

The first thing I'd like, you know, I do want to recognize that DPW has done a lot, right?

I've started cycling just a couple years ago, stopping driving so much cycling to work.

Projects like the Michigan and New York bike lanes are huge.

I mean, I can get to work almost completely in protected paths.

But that's also something that started before the Vision Zero project.

So I also want to recognize what is Vision Zero specifically doing.

Before I get into that, I also just want to comment on some language.

I hate to be the language police, but when you say cyclists experiencing fatalities, I don't know what that means.

Are they keeling over in the middle of the street?

Are they being killed?

Um I know I've emailed already, and a couple people have emailed about how the public is communicated to about pedestrian and cyclist deaths.

Um there's one specific instance where there's scanner um radio transcripts.

A man was hit, killed in the middle of the street.

Um, the IMPD statement made it seem like nobody saw him, but if you listen to the transcripts, all the drivers driving around him saw him because they were avoiding his body.

Um, so this kind of victim blaming, everybody wants to find somebody who's at fault, and when you just put it on the pedestrian like that, I think it's very unfair.

Um I also want to talk about this budget, right?

I keep hearing we don't have the money.

I understand, right?

I'm a Democrat and a blue dot in a red state.

I understand that we don't have a lot for the things that we care about, but there's so many things that are free, right?

There's things that already exist.

Those Michigan and New York bike lanes, they used to have bollards in the center line to stop cars from getting in so easily.

They were removed for snow plowing and they're gone.

I know it's Indiana and the weather's crazy, but I'm not expecting another snowfall before later this year.

So I'd really like to see those put back.

There's also projects that are ongoing, like the the White River Trail detour for the Henry Street Bridge.

DPW put in this amazing jersey barrier detour that goes past Lucas Oil.

Um, there's cement barriers, I feel completely safe behind them.

But those same paths are being cannibalized by signs for drivers or cones.

Debris is just being left in there overflow from other projects.

I've emailed about signage being left in sidewalks.

Um I keep asking, I'm not asking, can you move this?

I'm asking, this keeps happening.

What's the vision zero plan?

Where's the communication?

How much does it cost to send a communication to our contractors and other employees?

This is not acceptable.

Make sure it doesn't happen again, right?

I don't know how that's a budget line item.

And it really comes down to a thing about culture, right?

Um, I try to reach out to counselors who are responsible for these areas to also try to get something to happen, and they are not even responsive.

So I appreciate everyone in this room who's bought into Vision Zero.

I believe that you're all bought in, but it takes the whole city government as well to be bought in and have this culture really make things change, right?

Um, because getting to even the drivers, you know, I know we have this PSA, but that's probably gonna be the hardest group to reach versus design and clear communication and intentional placement of construction projects, etc.

Alright, thank you.

Connie Schmucker.

Afternoon, hi.

Connie Zable Schmucker, advocacy Director for bicycle Garage indeed.

Thank you for this public comment opportunity.

I am not commenting specifically on the annual report because we just saw it, haven't had time to digest it.

So I will do that once I have time to look at all hundred pages or whatever.

Um, but I would suggest in the future, if you if you want public comments on the report, it would be helpful to have that available for people to look at prior to the meeting so that we can make informed comments.

So some of these comments may or may they are somewhat in the report, so I'm going to say them anyway.

So a million dollars was allocated in last year's budget addendum for quick build projects.

And these are more comments and questions.

What project or projects are planned for 2026?

And I think that was part of the presentation, but I'm not sure it was in detail as to what projects would be.

Can a minimum of 50% of each spring and fall fiscal be dedicated to fix the 205 miles of roadway where 40% of the crashes occur?

If we can't put it in the budget itself, can we make that commitment that the spring and fall fiscals would help address that?

Um could future multimodal transportation facility funds, aka scooter money, be redirected to fund quick build projects going forward.

Um the number of tactical urbanism projects this year is awesome, but it is also a systemic issue of the need, it show points to a systemic issue of the need for safer streets and the community's desire for them.

Hundreds of people for each of these projects are coming out of their day in their day in their own time to put together all of these projects.

Could a list and a map of these projects be placed on the city's website?

So number one, people know what's happening, they can be involved, they can see what's happening in other people and get inspired to do it in their neighborhood.

But more importantly, can a pathway be developed and funded to turn these community-driven projects into something interim and more permanent within one to two years of completion.

So many of you know me that I've been an advocate voice for many years and will continue to be an advocate voice.

The role of an advocate is to push for more better, faster, and I will continue to do so until there are zero lives lost to traffic violence in Indianapolis.

Again, thank you for the opportunity to provide public comments and to all of the Vision Zero Task Force members, thank you for your service.

Thanks.

Thank you, Connie.

Mr.

Chair.

Could I respond to one thing on that?

Yes.

Because yes, you can.

But uh I just wanted to uh address the uh scooter money thing based on your feedback at the memorial, your comment.

Councilor Nielsen and I have had several discussions already.

We have uh talked to our council CFO who has quantified the dollars that that uh brings in, and we are having conversations about uh flowing that money to something that I think would be more acceptable.

Uh, I can't say it'd be the the quick bill necessarily, but but something that would probably fit better.

So thank you.

Leslie Schulte.

Londra, you want to call the person who's on deck.

Yeah, who's the next person?

So Doreen.

That's a long walk for Leslie.

Hi there.

I am here to advocate for quick build projects.

So my name is Leslie Schulte, and I am a current member of the Board of Public Works and the former president of Community Heights Neighborhood Organization.

During my time as president of Community Heights, my neighborhood installed a DPW approved tactical urbanism project that installed water barriers in a diamond pattern to break up the continuous center turn lane between Emerson and Arlington Avenue on East 10th Street.

This was a one-mile long project.

The reason the neighborhood wanted to break up the continuous center turn lane is because it causes fatal crashes.

In 2028, a woman at Rush Hour was able to achieve speeds in excess of a hundred miles per hour using the continuous center trend lane.

In 2023, another driver, this time drunk and traveling the opposite direction, was able to achieve speeds in excess of 70 miles per hour at 7 p.m.

So during the day, not 3 30 in the morning in a Dodge Challenger.

This time the driver hit a family.

Mom and dad were killed and declared dead on the scene.

The child in the car did survive as an orphan.

Crashes dropped 74% during the project period.

They went from 30 crashes in 90 days the year prior to only eight crashes in 90 days.

Three years after the community-led project was removed, the center turn lane is still continuous.

It's in the same configuration that it existed when we had the fatal crash in 2018 and in 2023.

Construction on the project, inspired by the neighborhood led project, is expected to go to construction in 2028, five years after the community-led project was torn down.

DPW approved installing traffic control devices in a diamond pattern every 200 feet.

The neighborhood, which by the way, the median income is less than 35,000.

We raised or secured grants totaling a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to do this project.

Hundreds of neighbors showed up and donated thousands of hours of their time to test breaking up the center trend lane.

DPW operations and capital could spend $6,720 on parking stops and $7,104 on delineators to mark the parking stops.

They could arrange them in the same diamond pattern they approved.

It would take a two-man crew an afternoon to bolt these devices to the ground.

And it's it's really sad every day that my neighbors have to continue to deal with this quick with this continuous center trend lane that they were so motivated to change, they raised all this money, they showed up, and it's no different than it was in 2018.

Thank you.

Thank you, Leslie.

Doreen Crenshaw.

Hi, my name's Christina Hartley.

I live in District 13.

Thank you for accommodating public comment during this meeting.

I appreciate that modification.

At the beginning of this meeting, Councillor Barth said we lacked the resources to implement all the changes we would like.

The best practices for creating safe streets are well established, well documented, and every single person in this room knows what they are.

If we lack the resources to implement the changes that we all know we need, then it is because our counselors and our mayor lack any sense of urgency.

They lack the political will and the courage to make hard choices to reallocate resources.

We need you to be leaders to actually lead, to take political risks.

You can reallocate money away from IMPD, you can raise taxes, you can advocate of the State House.

There are so many possible solutions.

If we act like the lives of the most vulnerable matter, then we can find the solution to this problem.

Without real allocating resources, we will continue to engage in performative tactical urbanism and endless demonstration projects in wealthy neighborhoods and the most vulnerable among us will continue to be killed on our streets.

The 10 year target deadline will come and go, and we will continue to build and maintain streets paved in blood.

Thank you.

So on just a quick note that Councillor Nielsen and I and several other counselors spent a fair amount of time over at the State House during this last session.

And one of the things we were doing was trying to ensure that the preservation of a $50 million match.

If the city would generate $50 million in new revenue.

So that's a debate and a discussion we're gonna have to have sometime soon, because the General Assembly has set a date by which we have to generate that new revenue.

If we do, that will ultimately be a hundred million dollars in new revenue for our infrastructure.

So that's a debate that's gonna happen uh in the next few months.

And so uh this discussion uh that you mentioned, um, come out.

Come out and express your thoughts about that because um that'll be an important um this will be a cornerstone, I think, of that discussion, and that uh if we are able to uh get that match and generate more revenue for infrastructure, how we use it and how we use it uh effectively for the folks of Marion County.

So don't shirk away from that.

My counter to you would be don't shirk away from that.

Come out for that debate and be active in it.

Those are all those signed up, but anyone else?

Super.

Let's give uh anyone a chance who didn't sign up who would like to come forward.

Okay, well, super.

Listen, thanks everyone.

Um, like I said earlier, this is uh very meaningful.

Um this is uh significant progress.

I know um uh my dedication to uh uh process and to uh documentation and to um public process of where we review this information, um sometimes seems slow, but this is the hard work of government.

You have to um document what you're doing, you have to be transparent with what you're doing, you have to make sure the folks in the city know what you're doing, and you have to uh spend the time um sharing it uh in public.

Um we have the this plan that I think is very solid and very impressive, and we're chipping away on it day by day.

Everyone in this room um is doing that when they go back to work, uh, and um when they're here in this room, um, and all the advocacy community is paying a detailed attention, and that process is how this works.

These public comments are really important and they weigh in on on the work we do and the work that only Andre does, and we're all gonna keep at it and keep trying to achieve this incredibly ambitious goal we have set for ourselves across 10 years.

But it's not gonna be easy, and it's gonna take a lot of work, and the the part of the great thing about some some of the comments tonight is if you don't have um this public engagement process and you don't have this process of having um sometimes tough conversations, then you don't get anywhere, right?

You have to be willing to do that uh in order to move things forward, and that's what we're doing today.

So, thanks uh to everyone.

Um, and with that, we will adjourn this meeting of the Vision Zero Task Force.