On Monday, June 22, 2026, the Los Alamos County Transportation Board held a special meeting at 5:30 PM in the Municipal Building Council Chambers to consider a recommendation to the County Council for the Ashley Pond Safety Improvement Design. The board received a presentation from Jennifer Morrow, Senior Engineer, on three preliminary concepts for permanent barriers to prevent vehicles from entering Ashley Pond Park from Trinity Drive. After discussion, the board unanimously voted to recommend Concept 3 (natural boulders) to the County Council.
Chair Hampton. Member Lazowski, Member KleidMath, and Member Chappelle. Thank you. Members Connolly and Edwards are absent, although I think Member Edwards might join us later. Is there any public comment for items not on the agenda? And I see no public, so I'm gonna say no. And no one's showing us online, right? Not at this time, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Right, is everybody okay with the agenda? Um Mr. Chair, just to note that um the uh public comment for items not on the agenda isn't printed on the agenda. So if you want to have that, obviously there's no public comment, but it does look like we are having one attendee being admitted. So all right. Um would someone like since we're many men in the agenda, and I already have because I asked the question. Um do we someone want to make a motion that includes the amendment I don't know if I have to push this button. Yeah. Okay, all right. So move. Is that okay or do you want us to state it? We got that. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, all in favor. Passes unanimously. And with that, first presentation or only presentation. Hi everyone, I'm Jennifer Morrow, and I'm with the Public Works Engineering Group. And I'm here to talk to you about bollards. Umfortunately, in today's day and age, it's not uncommon for us to turn on the TV and to see where a road departure has resulted in a fatality or a severe injury for pedestrians, whether the uh road departure was intentional or unintentional. And at Ashley Park, we all know that we have large gatherings, especially with the music in the park, and we have festivals there and fairs, and it's it's just a kind of marquee location of this uh Los Alamos County. And so um just to ensure that we kept the safety of the public in mind. We started with the Jersey barriers, and apparently those didn't go over well with the public. There were quite a few complaints, and uh they were always a temporary solution. And so we started looking into permanent uh bollard solutions. Um I quickly learned that there's more about bollards than I can ever kind of come to terms with. And uh after several conversations, luckily Ann Aren't said, why don't we get a landscape architect in? And I thought, oh, what a great idea. This is not a job for an engineer. So um we hired um uh ground studios to do to evaluate and look at some bollard designs. And uh they came up with three designs that we have put out for uh uh a survey. Can you bring up that first design? And um so we the survey uh went into effect on uh June 4th, and it will go through June 28th. And here's the first option. This is what we're calling the peer option. They are ballers that can be utilized as seats, so they have uh two functions. Uh they do have an engineered foundation to them. This is the view you see from the sidewalk, and if you'll scroll, you can see the view of those bollards looking up from the pond, and then we can scroll on to the next one and see the view from the roadway. And here we've jumped into the second option. Um you can go ahead and go with the second option.