The Public Safety Committee met on Monday, August 10, 2026, at 5:30 PM in the Council Chambers and via Zoom. All five committee members were present. The meeting covered consent agenda items, public comments on three agenda items, discussion and action on parking restrictions, stop signs, ambulance service agreements, and a budget overview. The meeting adjourned at 6:36 PM.
Okay, it's uh 5 30. I call the uh monthly meeting of the public safety committee to uh to order. Um call everyone is here and present. Next we'll have uh public comment if there's somebody here from the public that wish wishes to make a comment regarding anything on our agenda or city business. Uh now is the time to do so. Uh we have the microphone up here at the front table uh so everybody can hear you, and if there's anybody on the internet, uh they can hear uh anybody care to yes, ma'am, in the back if you'd come up and state your name and address for the record. Hello. I hope this is loud enough. Um Amber Dogs, I reside at 108 River View Drive. I'm very grateful for CA for News. I would have not known that this evening Riverview Drive was on the agenda for this evening. Um I see that there is a request for no parking on a specific side of River View Drive, but I would also like to add it would be great if we could also get a no parking sign on the side of Court Treatment Center as well. I've made multiple conversations with city staff as well as the police department about vehicles parking on the wrong side of the street repetitively over the last several years, especially as staff from Court Treatment Center choose to park overnight on the wrong side of the street. Um also in the morning when staff are parked at Freightert or going to work at Freight Arts. There are staff members from core parked on the wrong side of the street. So often there's only one lane of traffic to actually drive through, and you can't always see people crossing the sidewalk to go to work at Holy Family or vice versa, vehicles trying to come down uh from Meadow Lane onto Riverview Drive. So there's not just an issue of making no parking on one side of the street, but also additional signage where there is already no parking necessary, specifically directly in front of Core Treatment Center. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Yes, yes, sir, in the yellow shirt. Hi, my name is Brian Siler. I live at 2112 Summit Street. Um over the past maybe 15 years, there have been at least three car accidents on 22nd and summit. The last one was actually a rollover. People just seem to fly through there. Now that area it's just a two-city block, both directions, but they just come flying through. Wondering if maybe somebody could put a yield sign or stop sign in that particular area. Oh, we don't have give and take, but uh I I did see that on the agenda, I believe. And there was a did you fill somebody filled out some paperwork? I know uh we just passed that, I think maybe two months ago, as far as if you want to stop sign a yield sign, something to do with pedestrian crossing anywhere. Uh, we try to do it uh whatever your request is, you could go on the internet, fill out the paperwork, and then submit it, and then it would go through the process of reviewing. And I did that. Yes. So it it is on our um agenda tonight along with uh that and we'll also hear from the city engineer and uh their thoughts along with the police and uh what have you. So it it is on the agenda, and we'll be taking that up. All right. Thank you very much, Donald. Well, thank you. Yes, sir. Hi there, I'm Eric Walsdorf, and we live at 3414 Meadow Lane, and tonight it was brought up that they're talking about no parking on the northeast section of Lindbergh and Meadow Lane, which is it right in front of my house. I guess I'm here because I don't understand the reason why that they want to do it. I mean, I'm not sure what the problem is and what it's going to solve, but uh I've been a law-abiding citizen, lived there for 29 years, paid her taxes, and now I'm feeling violated or discriminated if they're gonna try and take my parking away because I don't park on their lot, but I do at times to use it. And um I guess I don't know what it's a regular, it's a not a busy road, Lindbergh, 35th and metal, yes, but Lindbergh is a quiet neighborhood, and I don't see what the need is because you should be able to go, it's a two-way street parking on both sides, and by having no parking there, to me, it's gonna give aid to the reckless people, they're gonna drive faster because at times, yes, there are people at drive rock plus in fast. I've never seen an accident there because of that. I've seen an accident on Lindbergh when the guy was going south, he missed a curve and what went up on the front lawn. So no matter what, that was not going to cure anything. Um to me, if you're talking about you can visibly see the intersection good if you come up, if you're going south on Lindbergh, come up to the stop sign. Nobody ever parks up to the crosswalks, and I don't see what you're gonna gain by having a no parking in that position. Can you guys comment on that before this, or is it have to go into your discussion later?