Everybody.

Happy Friday.

Welcome to our special council meeting.

It is May twenty third, twenty twenty-five.

I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order, and I will pass it to Erica to do roll call and share with announcements with the public.

Council Member Barber.

Council Member Rash.

And Councilmember Smith.

And Mr.

Mayor.

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Thanks, Erica.

All right.

And with that, we will go to our public appearance items.

Number one on the agenda is to receive a presentation on the draft local road safety plan.

I just want to start off by thanking staff for all the work that you've done in getting this going.

And I know that there's been a lot of uh efforts and community engagement as it relates to this.

And obviously, this has to do with public safety.

And so I was um proud to be able to attend and participate in those sessions.

And hopefully we can hear some more public comment in this session today.

So with that, I'll pass it to Hans for staff introduction.

Yeah.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor and Council.

Uh, the local road safety plan is is uh has the objective or the goal to look at our uh collisions that we have here in the city to analyze those collision trends and to identify potential counter measures, uh of course with the objective to improve road safety for all of uh all our users here in the city visitors residents alike.

The um the work is funded through a grant and uh it has started uh quite a while ago, uh, but we felt it's important to present to you and the community uh the um draft status of this uh local road safety plan.

And I think uh our engineering assistant uh Maurice Alcia will um appreciate uh to present to you and also I think she appreciates the crowd uh in the council chamber uh listening to this good work that we are doing.

Well, good afternoon, mayor, council members.

I'm here today to present whoa wind.

Um the draft local road safety plan.

Um, and next slide, please.

So we'll start with what is a local road safety plan.

So it's a comprehensive data-driven safety plan that coordinates the efforts of a wide range of organizations to reduce traffic accidents and fatalities.

That's really the core of what this plan is.

We look at emphasis areas and we try and strategically pace ourselves for future funding for safety roadway improvements.

Next slide, please.

So the project purpose and outcomes was that we is the mic understand the factors that contribute to collisions, develop strategies to reduce traffic injuries, develop an action plan to prioritize safety improvements and increase the city's competitiveness for safety funding.

Next slide, please.

So just a little bit of background.

Um, as Hans said, we were able to fund this project through a SS4A or Safe Streets and Roads for All grant from the federal highway administration.

Um so we were awarded 200,000 in the first round of competitive funding for an action planning grant.

Um so now this summer we're gonna be working towards doing an implementation graph um due to all the effort from this first round.

So we're really hoping to go after um that new grant program that will be available to us.

Um we do want to add a little caveat to that to say that all of uh us who have been finishing our action planning grants are now going after to the same implementation funding.

So it's gonna be a really competitive process.

And with um the way that funding is for infrastructure right now, we it's a really hard to achieve the benefit cost ratios to make a very competitive project.

Uh, the cost of infrastructure is just it's increasing enormously with inflation and with scarcity of materials.

Um, so just wanted to add that in there.

Next slide.

So some quick facts.

Uh, we had just over 2,000 um collisions during a five-year period.

Um, we had six fatalities and 36 serious injuries.

Um, we do just want to say that if you look at the pie chart to your left, you'll see that the fatalities make up less than half a percent of all collisions that happened within that time period.

And then fatal and serious injuries, which are the focus of vision zero, made up two percent of all the collisions that occurred during that five-year period.

I do want to also acknowledge our police department because they provided this information, as well as our ISD uh division, who was the ones who made it happen behind the scenes, getting the information from the police department um to me so that we could process this information.

Um, we also do want to acknowledge that this data includes 2020 and 2021.