Thank you.

So I'd like to call a meeting the order, the uh bicycle pedestrian advisory committee, or our February meeting.

Could we have a roll call, please?

Yes.

Chair Burton.

Present.

Vice Chair Cousin.

Present.

Committee member Stone.

Present.

Committee member Wong.

Present.

Committee member Bonte.

All present.

Okay, thank you.

So our first order of business is oral communications from the public for items not related to any item on the agenda.

We'll start with members in the room.

Are there any members of the public that wish to speak to the committee at this time for any item not on the agenda?

Seeing none, then can we go to the uh zoom call?

No one has raised their hands.

Seeing no members of the public.

We'll move on to our regular schedule items.

So we have a consent item.

So for consent.

We have one item, the meeting minutes of November 17th, 2025.

Motion is requested to approve the minutes unless there's discussion.

I move that we approve the minutes.

Is there a second?

I can second that.

Thank you.

So we have a second.

All in favor of approving the minutes for the November 17th meeting, please raise your hand.

Aye.

That would be unanimous.

Okay, we have no unfinished business, so we'll move on to item six, new business items.

So our first item is item 6.1, and it is our annual election process for the 2026 chair and vice chair.

So I'd like to open that item.

I have a staff presentation, a quick presentation for that.

So why don't you give an overview of the BPAC members' uh election process?

BPAC was established to provide advisory input to city council on matters related to bicycle and pedestrian transportation and to meet requirements for receiving transportation development uh act, TDA funds from state distributed by Metropolitan Transportation Committee, MTC, Regional Uh Transportation Funding Agency.

BPAC accomplishes this goal via an annual work plan that we check in on each month.

The work plan itself is developed in consultation with BPAC each year and annually approved and edited by the city council.

The committee has five members, each appointed by council to a four-year term.

Members may serve two consecutive terms in January of each year.

Members agree to nine-year nine uh nine meetings a year schedule with May, July, and December off, but with flexibility to add or cancel a meeting as needed.

Meetings are usually held in this room on the last Wednesday of each month at 6:30.

We are usually done by 9 30.10.

Agendas are posted at least 72 hours in advance.

Um confirming there is a quorum, which means three members are present and a roll call, followed by input from public regarding items not on the agenda.

Uh later, uh we include items such as new business, staff, and epac members update.

Each agenda is item will typically include a staff presentation followed by BPAC questions and staff clarifying answers, followed by public comment and then BPAC discussion.

Through the discussion, VBAC provides their input on the item and may take a formal motion to request counsel to take an action when appropriate, regardless whether an act motion is made or not, staff relay the pack meeting to council if the item is discussed by BPAC, is taken to council.

Significant portion of our manual uh manual is dedicated to explaining basic meeting procedures and protocols, including the requirements of Brown Act.

And here you can find uh the documents related to BPAC, which includes BPAC bylaws, work plan, advisory handbook, and uh general ask at B links.

Um, so that concludes my presentation.

Okay, thank you for that.

Uh any clarifying questions about the BPAC processes or the annual election process for members of the committee.

Seeing none, any members of the con uh public wishing to comment on the item for the election of uh the 2026 uh positions.

No members in the room, any online.

Okay, seeing none, um I think we'll open for discussion of the committee members.

Um, so there is a tradition that we don't have to follow.

Um, so I welcome comments.

You can nominate someone, you can nominate yourself, you can discuss what you might like to see in members or anything appropriate for uh and just clarification.

Are we specifically obliged to do the I we typically have on the chair and then the vice chair election?

Is that is there anyone or the other or both at once?

We can do it, ever.

Yeah, however, who would like as long as there is a motion.

Great, right?

Um, the tradition would be to nominate the vice chair to be chair.

Um, but I'm not exactly sure who we would nominate as vice chair.

Any member can make a nomination, okay.

Well, I will say I'm I'm happy to be uh chair this year.

I don't have particular suggestion on vice chair.

I know the uh closest we have thing to we have to a tradition is whoever has gone the longest without being vice chair, and I believe we have two members who have not been vice chair before or a chair before.

Either of you interested in becoming vice chair, and be vice chair.

Okay, I'm all done.

Okay, so I would make a motion that we elect uh vice chair Kuzmal to be our chair, and member Monte to be our vice chair.

Okay, um, like second on the motion.

I'll be crass and second the motion.

Thank you.

So the uh the motion is to both the chair and vice chair, member Kuzmal is chair, member Bonte is vice chair for the 2026 year.

Um we have a second, so all in favor.

Um, okay.

So it's a year.

Yes.

So um thank you for the privilege of serving.

I'd now like to turn the meeting over to the new chairman, Member Kuzma.

Excellent.

I believe that was just item 6.2, the active transportation coalition report.

That would be the meeting officer.

Officers here are given that presentation.

I am currently pulling up Jim.

We're good.

All right, good evening to have you on.

My name is Alex Carraha.

Uh recently promoted to lieutenant.

I'm a police lieutenant with our police department.

Currently overseeing our weekend patrol teams, teams four, five, and six, and as well as traffic, um, which is going to be short-lived because Sergeant Goff here was our traffic sergeant.

We'll be working in an acting lieutenant capacity for the next for this year.

So he's going to be overseeing traffic, which he already runs for quite a few years and it's very well versed with traffic.

We have a short presentation here today for you guys.

Those questions we prepared in advance.

The way it's going to work out for us, we're just going to briefly talk on the dashboard, just a quick overview.

It's somewhat new to me as well as a new lieutenant dashboard.

Did a little research on it.

Then we have the BPEC inquiries that you guys submitted to us in advance.

We'll have the answers for you.

And then at the end, we'll give you a quick safety update on e-bikes, which is uh some it's a very hot topic, and then we're working very diligently.

So for the everybody understands what the dashboard is, everybody okay.

So I don't want to spend too much on this, but if you go to the city's website and you click on transparency, transparency dashboard.

Uh you have our dashboard there with a lot of data.

Uh the goal for the dashboard for us is really just to provide an overview to the public.

Uh, but we don't want to overwhelm the public with a lot of data with a lot of historical data.

Um, traffic data is updated every month.

It's on a monthly basis.

We have an analyst that does all that.

Uh property crimes, it's weekly.

Uh, and all the other tabs are updated quarterly.

And this is essentially what it looks like on the dashboard.

As far as the inquiries today, uh, one of the inquiries that we got was uh the question was what are specific actions MVPD has engaged in the past few months related to bike pedestrian safety.

Uh so our traffic unit, uh Sergeant Goff and uh is uh traffic officers, they conduct ongoing pedestrian safety enforcement in all target patrol areas, uh, known problem areas such as Central Express, Bancastro, Rankstorf and Junction.

Uh and officers also focus on a downtown area for e-bicycle and motorcycle violations in the castro street mall.

Is there anything else you can add, Chris, to uh specific things we're doing?

We're really kind of developing our approach to the e-motorcycle issues as the laws continue to change, we're getting a little bit more authority to be able to handle them differently.

Uh we're really trying to emphasize education to our officers as far as the differences between the e-bikes, different classes and the e-derb bikes that are really motorcycles that have much higher speed.

So as the laws are changing with that, we're able to address it differently in impound of or issue citations to uh unlicensed riders.

So we're really more targeting the motorcycle side because that's more problematic due to the high school.

Another inquiry was uh the transparency dashboard appears to only have detailed traffic collision data for 2026.

Is it possible to view 2025 data in the dashboard?

So I spoke with our analyst who is in charge of updating the dashboard.

Uh and again, the objective is to provide the public with a snapshot of what's happening.

It's not to overwhelm the public with a large amount of historical data.

Um, the dashboard, they're being streamlined for efficiency and they're ever evolving based on the need and data capacity limitations of the dashboard.

Uh the trend tab on the bottom, if you go to traffic and then there's a trend tab, it has an annual comparison of total conditions going back to 2022.

Uh, but if there's a specific project that you're working on that you want in-depth comparisons and data, raw data can be downloaded from the TIMS, which is transportation injury mapping system.

And here's the link uh for that.

And the other inquiry was do we have any details regarding the primary collision factors and injury collisions between vehicles and bike or pets that have occurred in the past few months.

Uh, again, with the traffic dashboard, it's updated uh monthly.

Uh, the most common uh primary collision factors are listed on the dashboard.

That's the slides team change.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, Priority was the one that we said.

Okay.

Okay, we're on the same page now.

Uh Chris, you want to add something to the uh primary collision factors that you're seeing on bikes and pads, uh vehicles versus uh bikes and pets?

Uh most of us remaining consistent.

There's not there's not a change in that.

Um, and it is on the pedestrian ones that we've had.

Um, next page, please.

Uh another inquiry.

The dashboard appears to say that there were 259 DYRS in 2026 thus far.

Is this a correct interpretation of the dashboard?

Could you please help educate the pack about how MVP looks for and for and enforces DUIs?

So there was a um there's a it was an error.

Uh that number was for 2025.

It was the total number of arrests for that's a very large number for for one month.

Uh we are proactive, but not that proactive.

Uh however, for January of 2026, we've had 37 DUI arrests.

Um, not all DUI arrests involve a collision.

Uh, and the DY enforcements for us really, it's uh it's a twofold approach.

Uh we have proactive enforcement stops by patrol officers who are just monitoring the streets, and uh a lot a lot of this stuff happens on the weekends with downtown.

Uh we all but we also have grunts that are funded uh funding overtime, and it's uh is essentially overseen by our traffic division, and then we have um that grants available uh grants available to fund overtime for officers to proactively look for DY enforcement stops.

And how often would you would you say that traffic does uh proactive operations uh focused on DYs?

So the DUIs are funded through two different grants currently.

There's a cannabis grant, which bought us two Mustang GTs and a transport truck.

That one runs currently it's running once a month.

That one's going to uh we're gonna end up with three more out of that that ends in June.

But we also have Office of Traffic Safety grant funding for DYs, and that's gonna run from May through September.

So those are once a month.

Um, and then on top of that, the Office of Traffic Safety Funds uh directed patrol.

So motor units, um, one of our favorite things to do, which is a little bit controversial is we have a pedestrian decoy who wears a yellow shirt that says undercover officer on it with the badge on the back, and she loves walking back and forth and crosswalk nonstop for hours.

And uh we do that over on Ring Store for Junction just because we're we're trying to focus on that one.

Um so the grant overtime is really good because it helps us isolate and target certain areas.

The DUI overtime.

Again, that's our I can't say enough about our weekend teams.

Our weekend teams are seriously motivated to detect and arrest DUI drivers on the weekends, in addition to then we add three extra cars once a month on one night to go out and just target the UIs.

We try to pick the weekends that are busy.

Uh, if it's a holiday weekend or something like that, we're putting more units out there with three cars that are directed or dedicated just to DUIs.

And I oversee our weekend team, so I can't speak vouch for that.

They're very uh focused on DY enforcement.

Uh, our downtown, as you as you know, on the weekends are very, very busy.

Um, we do have a lot of DYs coming out of downtown and our officers uh do put up quite a quite a bit of an effort to uh look for DUIs and enforce them.

Um question uh next there.

Another inquiry was any data on bike lane parking enforcement.

I believe uh Sergeant Goff came up with this uh statistics.

That's one of my favorite.

I probably issued half of those, but um we're really we're this is a lot of complaint-based uh ways to address this.

We have one um CSO that's focused on abandoned vehicle and parking enforcement.

And so between her and myself, we hit those complaint areas a lot.

East Evelyn, uh San Antonio, El Camino, pretty much everywhere there's a green lane now, we're we're hitting it.

One of the things that we've encountered problems with is uh semi trucks that are deciding to park in the entire green lane with the uh delineators.

So we're addressing that in a different way.

There's uh, there's parking violations, which are just a city ordinance violation and uh and a fine, but then there's a moving violation for a commercial driver to block a roadway.

So that's the next step that we're taking to get rid of the trucks on Al Camino.

Um, and 55.

A lot of it we started with warnings.

So once those lanes went in, we started by giving people warnings instead of uh citations, and then we moved into there was a point where we just kicked it off and decided everyone was getting tickets.

That's January, uh August 1st.

Yes, or August 1st.

No, that's since August 1st.

Okay, yeah, that number is correct.

So that's it's so normally we have normally I have parking or police their police assistants, so they're part-time usually college students that come in that we train to do parking enforcement, and at one point we were up to three, we're down to one now, but we're recruiting, and we have another one in background.

So once I can get three of those police assistants back out, work in parking enforcement, those numbers are probably gonna quadruple.

Uh similar question.

The next one was uh any data on red light violations and no right turn on red.

Uh, Chris also obtained uh the stats for this one 56 citations for red light violations in the past six months, and that's it.

Uh the no right turn on red.

There's a lot of new signs on El Camino that Caltrans put in.

So we haven't gotten into those yet.

We focus mainly on for those the sign violations.

Those there's a no left turn now on Castro and Expressway.

We focus on that.

That's complaint-based, and then we could be writing those citations at the off-ramp of one-on-one at Shoreline with a red turn, the no right turn on red, the arrow.

That's a lot of need to how they make that right star.

But we tend to err on the side of the red light.

There's a there's a section for running a red arrow.

So we could write the sign violation, or we could write the red light and we choose to write the red light instead.

This doesn't include the uh saturation patrol that we brought into town.

I think uh I can't remember if it was two months ago, but we brought other than San Jose.

Every agency in the county sends their motor units to our town for saturation patrol, and we do that.

We go once a month to a different city and do that.

So I think we had about 30 motorcycles in town, and uh that was racing, right?

It was yeah, within the last couple months.

We worked until it started raining pretty hard, and then we stopped.

I think it was about four house enforcement, and that's these numbers are not including those other officers.

We didn't collect their tickets, so that was probably a lot more than that because we had six motor officers at Grant and ECR, they were non-stop.

So all right, the next one, next slide.

Uh related to red lights, does MapView operate red light cameras?

Does MapView plan any action related to SB 720 adopted and signed in the fall of 2025?

Uh we currently do not have any red light cameras, and as far as I know, we don't have a plan to um use red light cameras for the automated enforcement uh for SB 720.

Chris, do you know anything on you want to expand on that?

Or no, we have no plans for that.

Okay, that's uh outside of our I think 720 had designated cities for a limited amount of time.

Right, that's the speed camera.

I think for this one, the cities, already, to start the program.

I think San Jose has started one.

Um, and but the changes are in in the wave of the violations are um first of all um uh captured.

So you just need the license split, it's not not the face of the driver.

Uh and then it's uh I think it's just uh an administrative type of citation versus something that goes to call to all things like this, so uh less TIFF but easier to false.

And I can bring this up to my chief and see if there's anything else about that on our lab.

Oh, I haven't heard.

The law I read the law uh that they that came from that bill, and it identified several cities, usually larger cities that they authorized to put in the speed cameras.

So there's the speed sections.

I know San Jose is one of them.

They're large enough that they can do this.

Los Angeles.

There are other cities that have a red light cameras.

From what I I've gathered from talking to other agencies, there's some logistics with that because you have to staff somebody full time to follow up on all that data and issue all the citations, and then if they take you to court, that person has to go to court.

So there's there's a lot of logistics with that too.

Okay.

And our next slide.

So I won't read this whole thing.

This was a large comment with a question there, but it's essentially asking for our personal opinion and whether we support uh.

It could be a good idea for in PD's opinion whether they believe new laws should be established proposed either in the city or California to add on as an add-on to regulate bikes and uh e-bikes and etc.

Um the short answer is you know, you know, as a representative of the PD, uh we're not allowed to share our personal opinion, but we're here to enforce the laws that are currently in place.

Um community members have the right to share their perspectives with the local legislative representatives or city council, and then regarding e-bikes and scooter riders rides um who are running red lights and not following traffic laws.

Uh, I would say please contact us uh when you observe those violations so we can send an officer right away.

Uh if you know areas, there are problem areas within the city that you're observing those violations.

You can send me an email and Sergeant Goff, and then we can saturate that area and do some uh proactive enforcement of uh related to that as well.

Anything on that?

Uh yeah, a lot of that I think falls into like usually at the start of school at the high schools.

I know day one this year.

Actually, the whole first week, we're sitting out at the main entry points of the school, and forcing the stop sign that Derek's in the band.

Uh just starting off educating from the very beginning for the people not stopping at the stop signs, and that's usually the that's teenagers on e-bikes and scooters, but and I'll I'll touch on e-bike safety shortly here because we are doing a few things.

So if it's the juvenile aspect, that's typically surrounded by the schools, and we try to spend a week educating them all at the start of the school year.

So, and as far as e-bike safety, here's a quick update.

So, our um our school resource officers, they currently take a very proactive approach within the schools to teach e-bike safety in all Mountain View schools.

Um, there is um several educational videos that were created and approved uh for distribution uh distribution recently.

Uh, our chief just approved those videos.

Uh, he should be coming out to the schools and to the uh school uh staff uh very shortly as well.

So our SROs.

Uh the videos include safety about e-scooter, e-bikes, e-motorcycles, bike lanes.

Um, we also have an e-bike safety campaign brochure that was created, and it's currently uh sitting at the chief's office uh waiting for approval.

Uh he was a little busy with certain some other things.

Um this is next.

Uh he's he's done with as you guys heard, uh, the flock and all that stuff.

Uh, but it is sitting in his office right now, it's just waiting for approval.

And then that brochure is gonna go out to the schools as well, and our SROs are gonna continue their proactive approach to uh uh teaching e-bike safety within the schools.

Uh, we're also working with our uh PIO on uh an e-bike social media campaign, and that's in progress as well.

Anything else on e-bike safety?

We have uh one officer who is a former traffic officer.

He's back on patrol now.

He works uh team one, which is our day shift weekdays, and he's an expert in that stuff.

He has a great PowerPoint that he created for e-bike safety.

Have you seen that one?

Yes, he was here.

Oh, yes, yes, uh, Oscar Hammond.

So he's been going around schools and presenting that PowerPoint as well.

Uh, and it's been it's been great to have him.

Um, but we do have some other stuff uh in the works right now that uh uh we're pretty much done with it, just waiting for approval.

As far as contact information, if you guys have any uh next slide, please.

Um I said I'm currently overseeing traffic until next week, but you feel free to reach out to me as well.

I'm still in uh field operations, uh, overseeing patrol on weekends, and then Sergeant Goff will be our acting lieutenant for this year, and he's gonna be overseeing traffic.

Uh, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to call or text or email me or him, and we can address those.

Last slide.

That is the last slide, and we're happy to answer any questions.

Yeah, we will go through and do some questions from the committee, and then as normal, we will have other comments and then any comments from the committee in our normal format.

So uh number one.

Yeah.

You know, the statistics you have about the DUI.

I mean, yeah, the citations.

At what age, you know, would you say the most, or you know, do you have a statistics on the age of uh DUI citations that you get down to or most?

Are you referring to DY citations?

Yeah, DUI.

Age-wise, I don't have the numbers up in my head.

I can research the answer and get back to you.

But I mean, we have to go back through every single case and pull out the data and see what they age.

But the next one would be um running the red lights, same.

I mean, it's to go back, it's go back to individual data and look at all that, like every single report.

Uh, but so I can't answer that top of my head, but I can get that number.

That could sort of like give us an indication of you know the education you guys are talking about, yeah.

First hand first hand experience for the DUIs.

I worked on those shifts and it's all over the place.

Yeah, so it's all all over the place.

It's it's very mixed.

If it if it's downtown, you can probably guess that it's probably like the younger crowd in the downtown if they're associated with coming from a club downtown.

But we'll have DUIs all over town, so and that's where you start getting that mix of yeah, people coming off of one uh one-on-one on ring store.

If we make a stop over there, it could be different age.

But as I can imagine on the weekends, DUIs on the weekends are typically coming from downtown.

Uh, and that is a younger crowd, it's uh I'd say 20s to 30s.

Um, but that's for the weekends only, right?

Because it's really coming from downtown.

Uh, but it really varies throughout the week.

It's it's it's it's a mix.

The same thing with the red light, just first hand experience.

Yeah, I write a lot of those tickets and it's all age groups.

Not more the younger.

No, no, and Chris, I mean, that he spends a lot of time writing citations in uh in his his unit, that's what they do.

Uh and it's really a big mix.

I assume that they're bottom.

Uh sure.

Um, that's my shot actually.

So if somebody wants one to move, so I just so you mentioned for the red light and citing uh moving violation for the red arrow.

Not all of the if I remember right, not all those locations with a no right arm right have a red arrow.

So is that something you could like that's still gonna be uh red light violation, even if it doesn't have the physical like arrow pointing red button?

No, if it's got if it's gonna have to have that that right turn, that arrow.

So it just has the sign, no right on red.

Where were those on El Camino you mean?

Uh I I'm looking for new spots.

You know, I only know a couple.

There's the one coming off on to Evelyn from uh I'm not sure that that one has I don't think that one has an arrow.

I have worked that one.

It doesn't have maybe it does.

I don't know for certain if it's got an arrow.

I know it's got a sign though, because I have saw people for that there, yeah.

Uh okay.

Just a question.

So if if it doesn't have arrow, is it the sign's still valid?

In my opinion, it's a little watered down of a violation.

I prefer the red light, but okay.

Um so it's the same thing though.

If it's a red arrow, it it's it's it's stands for the same thing for no right, turn red, but I think there's that.

I know those new signs have popped up on El Camino because we weren't aware of them, and then all of a sudden they were there one day, so yeah.

You're in charge of enforcing that.

Yes.

And that one on one on one as shoreline is a big one.

There's a lot of violations coming out of the off-ramp onto shoreline.

With Lava Vinita parallel to the on-ramp or the off ramp, and yeah, it creates a set uh a safety issue there, hazard when folks are coming from Lavanita making a left turn, and you have folks violated L.

So we're doing put a lot of enforcement there, a lot of emphasis on that one just because there's a huge safety component, but they they're all over the place looking for new spots.

Also to the best of their ability, because Chris started with uh as a traffic sergeant and four traffic officers, motor officers, and he's down to one because of staffing issues, right?

And then this year our numbers are looking a little better, where our chief is beginning to talk about providing the traffic unit with additional officers.

But that was a challenge for the past few years where he went down from four officers to one officer.

Uh, aside from him.

Uh so that does create some uh challenges for us as well.

So I don't know.

Uh so for the DUI, uh, you is it just alcohol or or do you have stats on on other substances, but but you know, because so there are um usually those are collisions, and it's usually like a prescription medication mixed with alcohol.

Um or there's I think there was one or two that I saw last year that were methamphetamine, but it's usually they're always usually combined with alcohol, so uh no cannabis or so cannabis is a difficult topic because there's not a way to quantify it like alcohol 0.08, it's a hard number, you know.

If it's over that, that's a presumed DUI with cannabis.

You have to have driving indicators, so you have to observe them driving fairly poorly to be able to be able to uh dictate in a report exactly why it was impaired, and then there's the experience that I've seen from the court locally is not very good where I've talked to officers who've gone through a full jury trial and it still acquitted.

It's fairly difficult to get a cannabis conviction because of this the fact that there's not a tangible number to say this is impaired, and because of tolerance levels, uh people consuming it, it changes, so there's people who can smoke every day and probably drive.

I'm not condoning it, but they can probably drive and we wouldn't be able to notice it.

So there's not a test, you know, because alcohol, you could save the same, right?

So there's no there.

There is a test you you spit in to a cup and it tell it tells you if there's presence of it there, so it tests for presence, but it doesn't test for a quantifiable amount.

Interesting.

I believe the vast majority of the UIs though are alcohol related.

Uh, we do have a a fraction of portion that there's some medication included, and a combination of medication and alcohol, but the best majority will be alcohol intoxication.

Sorry, yeah.

Yeah, so um two questions.

First one on semi trucks in Al Camino.

So I've encountered several walking lane.

Uh, some of the small businesses that don't have loading facilities.

Um, is the appropriate behavior for our driver.

I've seen some blocking the you know, the day al camino traffic slightly some blocking the alchemino lanes, some blocking the bike lane, and then obviously some of the facilities that are large enough they pull into the private space.

Um, so if they don't have enough five private space for a large truck, what's the expected key?

That would refer to the traffic sergeant.

So that was this is a touchy subject for me.

I've got into some confrontations with the truck drivers.

Um, I I consider it, I don't care.

I understand that they have business to conduct, but it's a cost.

But I don't that doesn't apply to me.

And so this is why I've escalated from a parking violation, which I've had them told me that's okay, my company will pay for, and they leave their truck there.

And I'm like, no, you're gonna move your truck.

You're blocking a lane on the roadway.

Uh so that's why I'm stepping it up the next violation.

Where if I see them moving in a park, now that's a that's a movement.

So I've asked them to find another way to do it.

I don't want to be in confrontation with them.

I know they have a job to do, but they need to find somewhere else to park off the roadway where they're not blocking.

The way I consider it, the bike lane is just like any other lane on the roadway, and you can't just stop at any lane.

And so that's where we're getting.

There's gonna have to be some sort of conversation with the companies because there's there's a few of the ones, especially in the 1900 block of El Camino Real, like the Circle K there.

Yeah, um, that's where I've I've had some uh conversations with people, so um yeah, it's an economic trade-off.

So it's you know 15 minutes more to find the space and come back or get a smaller truck.

But it's someone what I've told them is it's not my problem to solve for them, but they can pull into dittims.

Yeah, they can there's other places they just have to make a little bit of a trip.

And so I just I'm taking a zero tolerance approach to having them blocking, especially when there's a delineator and they're taking up the entire plane.

There's no option to get around them.

So we're working on that.

My next question is, you know, our role here is to look to improve safety.

So the collision data can be significant, and the TIMS data is kind of lagged by quite a bit and not always specific enough.

In the past, um, I've requested um use public uh records request to get a redacted report saying we're gonna look at a road and specific instances to look at a report.

I believe we can do that.

I stepped on that in other cities.

Um is that the best way to get more detailed information as we consider you know the three of collisions on the road, what actually we should be looking at for improvements in terms of the type of infrastructure, or what would you suggest?

It depends on this the specificity of the information you're looking for.

Yes, if that's what you're if you're looking for like a primary collision factor, that data is is available on the transparency portal.

But um it just depends on what information you're trying to gain from it.

Tim's is very good.

I I understand they're lagging behind, but compared to squitters, Tim's is light years ahead because of the delay of what's going on with digital reporting as opposed to mailing reporting.

And so what we're encountering right now is backlog of traffic collision report data that is being sent to CHP switters, which is then manually inputted by somebody and they've got years to catch up on as opposed to now.

We're actually coming, we're gonna probably go active in March with a new uh report writing software, crossroads, and the analytics for crossroads is phenomenal.

It also automatically uploads at the end of each week.

So CHP squitters is gonna have instantaneous data for the week each week from Mount View.

So TENS gets that right now, and they I know they don't have all the data, but as far as somebody who's compiling that data, they're the best one that we can review right now.

Yeah, because we, you know, as you saw in some of the comment letters, we missed the download capability to filter and sort and focus in that particular problem area or trend.

And actually, one of your trends we noticed was your junction enforcement.

You know, the uh crosswalk across four lanes of uh 35 mile free to has been you know causes some fidelities in the past years, and so it'll also allow us to isolate you know that pattern and then either start to make requests for change.

So that helps us work in that area.

So you're we're we're gonna be able to have a much um there's gonna be I can't overemphasize how much more data broken down that we're gonna have in crossroads.

Crossroads, the analytics is compared to the software that we're using right now, which is a general police writing report writing software, it's specific for collision data, and every box is able, I believe.

From what we're told, is capturable where you can isolate it for whatever it is that we're looking for.

If we're looking for pedestrians, if we're looking for e-motorcycles, it'll divide that off into different categories, whereas right now it's very limited what we can get out of it.

Okay, thank you for that clarification.

There's questions, I have one, which I apologize.

I should have thought about putting it in the questions earlier, but um it's around daylighting.

Um so there have been some new laws that that's pretty much uh much advanced calls or all vehicles to to be too close to a crosswork, whether it's marked or unmarked.

Um, so I I don't know if you could talk uh a little bit about the the type of enforcements you you may have started to do based on on that new road.

So, yeah, but yeah, that's yeah.

Um, so again, the same CSO that does all the bike lane parking, she's the only one that's really been focused on that also.

So uh CSO flores is is the primary one on that, and that's a case-by-case basis.

I would love to go out and just saturate everywhere and start that enforcement, but really it's at this point with the manpower we have, we're taking complaints and addressing the complaints and then issuing citations based on complaints.

And so the Ask Mountain View Link that's there, that's where most of those complaints come to her, and then she'll go out and address it as part of her normal patrol.

Um, as I see those violations, there's like this morning on Nathan at Castro School, I saw one park right on top of the yellow crosswalk, and that's one where it's it's gonna get addressed right away.

So, those obviously are in my travels.

If I can get those, I get those, but she takes the complaints and she goes out and writes the citations based on where those are.

And do you have stats on the number of citations you may have issued or I don't think that we core that data for for this meeting at all?

We can't we can get it.

We can we can get that.

If you send us an email with a question, yeah.

Yeah, we can get you that data.

You just gotta pull up.

I know it's not many because of all the other issues that she's focused on.

I know it's probably uh 25 or less at this point.

I spoke to her about it and I don't think that she's she's been able to write that many yet.

I mean, there's a blatant violation like a school crosswalk and school zone, the cars have been there for a while.

Is the best option to call the non-emergency number, then as opposed to um the Ask Mountain View for kind of same day results because yeah, absolutely that way if somebody's again it's depending on the availability for officers, so yeah, an email to all this would be very helpful too because uh as we get those emails, we can send some patrol folks and traffic folks to that area and just to work that problem.

So, but I would I would say non-emergency would be number one, but then let us know too, because we can come up with a game plan and address those issues as we get the information from you.

Yeah, my route, most of them are in other cities, yeah.

That's the way I'd like to, but um, yeah, thank you for that.

Yeah, because it's not just traffic unit, our patrol folks are out there doing enforcement as well.

Yeah, some are much worse, and yes, as we get this information, it's uh issues coming, yeah, and we can uh address any briefing, and as they go to the streets, they can uh focus on that for today, or so but let us know.

Email will be helpful, member one, yeah.

Are all the rules um of the bike rules, e-bike rules applicable to scooters?

How do you guys distinguish?

I mean, are you uh are the scooter riders just as um how do you call it?

Uh knowledgeable or you know, careful when they take the routes, the bike ones are the same.

I guess we can traffic.

So there is a there's a separate section for scooters, which I only found out recently because we had a collision involved in a scooter.

There's an actual vehicle code for scooter riders.

It's not as thorough or in my opinion, um effective as it would be like the the bicycle vehicle code basically says you have to put the rules of the road, just like a car.

They've they've kind of separated that off for the scoot or the scooters, electric scooters.

Um traditionally those were always perceived as pedestrians, they fell into the pedestrian section of the vehicle code, but now there's actually a separate section, which is limited, very limited amount of vehicle codes that pertain to those.

Yeah, officer uh Hammond was it?

Yes.

Yeah, when it could be used, correctly.

Because that collision on Santa Expressway and MOP, it wasn't a scooter, right?

Expressway, oh yes.

That's true.

That was a red light, yes.

And that was a scooter, because these are um a couple questions from me.

First off, you mentioned some grant funding that was used for DIs.

I'm not all that used to how that sort of grant funding worked.

What is that coming from state programs?

Is that coming from that you asked this is my this is my baby.

He's gonna talk for hours about very proud of it.

So there's two different two different grants that we use.

We've we traditionally use the office of traffic safety grants for a long for several years, probably 15 years.

Those are split in two, those funds come from the federal government, they're NHSA, and so there's two different categories.

There's a DUI enforcement category, and then there's a uh generic traffic enforcement.

So the categories for those are bicycle pedestrian safety, uh primary collision factor focused, where we go out and look for mainly speed.

We just do a lot of speed enforcement on that and red lights.

Um, the other ones, cell phone, so distracted driver, which uh the last year's grant wasn't we didn't have a lot this year, we got a lot more funds for that.

And then there's the DUI section, and so the DUI section is split into two.

One is saturation patrols, and one is checkpoints.

Uh we don't do checkpoints here, so I haven't done one since 2013.

So we focus on saturation patrols, and typically that's two officers per shift for the OTS, and then the other grant that we just got last year is the cannabis tax grant.

So, uh whenever cannabis is purchased, part of the tax funds DUI enforcement grants.

And that's run through the CHP.

So the applications go to the CHP.

The CHP is the ones who decide which agencies get the money.

Now that one is split differently.

That one's two part, it's one for equipment and one for overtime funding.

And that's what allowed us to get the Mustangs and the F 150 pickup.

Those were chosen because they blend in.

So those vehicles don't look like that at all.

Those were picked because I figured that people are going to run right through stop signs in front of them.

They're gonna they're gonna pass them on on the road.

And so those blend in a lot easier.

Uh that's the current grant.

The next one that I just got done submitting on Monday is gonna be another pickup truck, uh lifted one that's off-road so that we can use it out of shoreline because we do get a lot of DUIs, both cannabis and alcohol out there.

Uh so those are off-road vehicles.

I got a uh selected a ribbon R1S off-road package for that one, also, and then an expedition for a transport vehicle for the prisoners.

So that's an application that's a process, so we won't know until July if we get that one.

Uh, but that's giving us extra vehicles that are just for DUIs.

So those are only to be used for DUIs or traffic enforcement.

So you'll see the Mustangs driving around.

That'll be usually motor officers who are using the car for traffic enforcement, or it's gonna be at night where pretty much no one's gonna see them, and they're gonna be using they're gonna be uh designed for DUI enforcement.

And so it's part of the grant that they can only be used for um DUIs and traffic enforcement currently.

So the for the one period, the one year period, the first year, right?

So once that that once July comes around, those will be part of the fleet, but they're still gonna be used for DUIs.

So you'll see they have DUI enforcement stickers that are different from they're very different from the patrol cars.

Okay, and I'd be asked to what's the what's the purpose of the um more off-road vehicle for uh that you were mentioning?

So shoreline, I work a lot of concerts, and a lot of times we can't get to those areas because of the way the traffic is, but there are backways that are dirt that our police cars probably wouldn't be able to get to.

So the focus on this one is off-road and to be able to get to those.

Okay.

So the Rivian again is the off-road version of the Ruby and the trucks a little bit lifted.

So um, complete change of topic, but did the you mentioned some educational videos around um e-bike enforcement.

Did that get us or reviewed by the um transportation department within the sort of non-PD city staff?

That I'm not sure.

I can get you an answer for that.

I know it was just recently approved by our chief.

Oh, there's a there's no not yet.

Okay.

Okay, um, there's a few of those videos, but uh and then so you and you mentioned uh having done some stop sign enforcement, and I think you said tier six and eleven.

Yes, okay, and that was around I from what you were saying, that would have I mean, I could elaborate a bit on that.

That would so we we split up.

There's obviously that we've explained there's two of us right now.

I would love to have five of us, but I took I take that side, the direction limit um for the kids coming into school, usually they're coming off the trail and then they come up directly to that stop sign.

Uh the other side is Bryant at Truman, there's a stop sign there, and so we've had problems before where kids on bikes have been hit by cars there, mainly because they're just swarming through in packs of like 25.

So uh that same thing happens on directs where they just come through in big swarms, and so we start off the school year by just being just standing there, and as they come through having conversations with people for the first week, so it's not something that we like.

I d I don't personally like writing kids' tickets, it's it's a strange feeling to rent a kid a ticket.

So I don't know that that's it's a lot more effective to have education and then maybe refer them over to school resource officers for a little bit more.

And that's when the SROs come into play.

They do put a heavy emphasis on education uh with the kids, especially not with the bias and the scooters and sort of that.

So it's a team effort between Astro's and traffic, yeah.

I think I'll move this to public comments so that we can get and get to any comments the committee has.

Uh do we have any members of the public in the room wanting to comment on this item?

Do we have any?

Looks like we have people online.

Um April, give me one second.

I have the timer on.

Um I'm starting the timer.

Can you hear us, April?

Yeah, I can hear you.

Thanks, Peyote.

I appreciate it.

Um hi, my name's April Webster.

Um I live in the Moffat Boulevard um neighborhood, and I really just wanted to say thank you to um the police for um, you know, starting to enforce uh cars parked in the bike lane on El Kamena Real.

Um that means a lot.

It's I've I've used the bike lanes and they're they're really nice now.

Um it's I actually feel safe biking along um El Camino Real at this point, but there are I've noticed um I once did a a count um on my way to Palo Alto, and I think there are at least a dozen.

I took photos um in the bike lane.

I think it's gone better since then because it's been there for a while now, but um it's it's really nice to know that um that's happening.

It might also be useful to know the best way, uh I don't know where this could be shared with the public, but the best way for folks who are using the bike lanes or who are happen to see um folk, you know, cars parked in those bike lanes, um how to report that.

Um I saw a a FedEx just recently in Palo Alto, FedEx truck driving down the bike lane, um, which was kind of crazy.

Um, and then the other thing I wanted to say is I hadn't noticed that there were no right on red um signs um on El Camino Real.

I know Caltrans was looking at it, so I'm really excited that that actually happened.

Um uh later on it happened in Palo Alto first, but it's great to see that we have it um because that's uh it's really a lot of there's more opportunity for uh people on bikes to get hit at those intersections when people are speeding around and they just clip them and don't notice.

So it's nice to see that they're being forced to stop and then make the turn.

So uh I just want to uh shout out and say you know, thanks for um enforcing that.

I see my time, thanks.

Do you have any other public speakers?

Yeah, right.

But that we'll move to committee comments.

I s if so we'll just be uh finding any feedback or further questions we have for the police department here.

I don't believe there's any expectation of any formal motions here.

So uh members to uh's comment reminded me of a question I forgot.

Uh so I noticed there's a lot of new bollards on uh California, where people used to park illegally and now they can't, uh just drawing some equipment.

Uh my question is, is that do you coordinate with the the PD and the staff to understand where and how people are violating the rules so that you can know where to put the collards.

You didn't put the ballards in, we put the ballards in.

I know you put the ballard in.

You're out there every day.

We don't we don't coordinate on it.

No, we've started recently we started the uh hash mark enforcement.

Yeah, because a lot of vehicles are parking the those hash marks.

Yeah, and but you were now it's been planned for a full walk.

Myself on one side street and my CSO on the other, and we're gonna take a two-mile walk down California and do parking enforcement for the entire length.

We just because of the weather, we kind of fell back on that one, so but that's in the in the works.

Okay.

Well, that doesn't really answer the baller question, but yeah, a lot of it's based on observation.

Yeah.

But we've seen it too.

So that's comments or I mean, do you have I guess we will have things that's part?

So um one question I know some of the schools are starting um bike buses to complement the other bike programs.

When or if do you recommend ever advising the police department that that's gonna occur?

Is there a size that you want to know about or um I know some cities provide escorts or periodically or once in a while or at the start, or do you have any thoughts on that?

I'm not sure.

I know.

Bike bus is when they move as a unit.

So a bunch of students will get together at their a bus, but they're bike.

Okay, usually for younger students.

Yeah, they'll pick up starting.

They'll pick a starting point.

It's something we recommend as part of the safe routes to school programs because it's a more visual.

I have seen that, I just didn't know that.

Yeah, that's the term.

I don't know what it is.

Yeah, it's usually a published route with time.

People join in.

It's usually younger, you know, elementary age students and parents, and they may range from five to you know, a hundred, I guess.

Um, I don't think there's any that large in this area, but yeah, um, so I know I was invited on one.

I was just curious, I wonder if you'd like to be advised or you would be good to know from a safety perspective whether our traffic guys are gonna get more SROs or even the patrol guys.

Where's that published at?

Um the one I'm aware of is just getting organized for Bub School in April.

Okay.

I love the idea.

I just I don't that's I I think and we'll and we'll talk.

I think the best route would go be to work through the safe routes to school, and then we can coordinate with with the officers.

If that's especially if it's something planned and programmed and not an everyday occurrence, because I know there's some.

Most of them are pretty informal, yeah.

I know there's like we'll meet here kind of a thing.

But if it is a programmed one, we can definitely talk to one in Burlingame and you said you know, they were on their own until they got to be about 30.

Yeah, and then they were having some interactions with motorists, and then they advised the police department for an escort a couple times to kind of give them the legitimacy and say, no, that's not the behavior uh the motorists should, you know, be doing around school children.

Um, so that was the recommendation I had is you know, start small when you get to a size, or if you're having issues and then you know, maybe a little visible, and then it should be fine after that.

But I think if that's scheduled, that's something we could probably get on on board with and have somebody uh join in, especially Officer Hammond, because he's always looking for a reason to get on his bike and get out of the car.

So that would be good for him to join with that if we had an advanced notice on that.

But I have seen what sounds like that.

It's very effective.

It's definitely effective.

So it's okay.

Thank you.

I can coordinate with the uh bike bus that's going to happen in April and uh with the PD know.

And you know, if you're aware around, stop by saying hi to kids.

Yeah, bring your stickers.

Yeah, they love that.

I know that.

Yeah, I guess the second thing related is one, what kind of outreach opportunities do you like?

Um, you know, whether it's just the the kids on uh the uh walker wheel or bike rodeo days or whatever education days, whether it's you know, uh I think we've talked with a little bit about potentially in the fall doing a uh theft prevention registration education kind of outreach event uh to i schools and then obviously I know the school I used to teach at had some coactive education followed by enforcement on e-bikes.

Um so I don't know if you have recommendations out where you'd like to be engaged in local schools more.

So safe route still doing the bike rodeos at the beginning of the year.

Yeah, I I think it the best is us to we're we're gonna kick off and you'll hear about it coming up in our our staff updates, but we're getting ready to start the next round of safe routes to school, and we'll be active and involving uh PD in that outreach effort.

We've definitely done that a lot.

We have we bring a lot of personnel to that.

There's also funding part of our grant from OTS is uh traffic safety education.

So that's why we try to partner that and blend that with the bike rodeo or we have bike officers out there.

Uh I would say SROs also provide a lot of the outreach and education aspect of CFROS.

So uh that's something we had coordinated a couple of years ago.

We partnered with it.

SRO is sorry, resource officer.

Yeah, I think that way, yeah.

100 image.

Which I'll be overseeing now as it takes traffic, I get uh SROs so I'll be involved as well.

So they're helpful with our safe routes to school program.

I was thinking about that.

I was like, what is SRL?

Yeah, school resource options.

Yeah, right, thank you.

Additional comments or uh sure.

So um I wanted to relay some of the public comments we got in in writing, I think.

You know, it was in in both sites and uh and kind of and had to do with the the dashboard essentially and and kind of uh especially for traffic, kind of a limited set of data that that's exposed.

So uh in the like 90 days.

Um, I I'm not gonna paraphrase what would the comments were, but uh I think it would be useful to have more data uh uh specifically to see some trends.

So for instance, uh we see only 90 days worth it.

Uh it shows pretty much no fatalities, but we know they had that we had fatalities in the previous 90 days, uh, and uh things but with the monitor like Vision Zero and so on.

Uh it's kind of very useful to see the trends, uh be able to see, but hopefully we have less and less facilities, eventually zero, uh, and and some type of things for this, so uh so anything that can be done to to add more data there.

Well you send me an email to both of us, yeah, just as a reminder.

And and I think they were uh written comments.

So I didn't see them sent out in advance.

Did I miss them?

They were sent out today.

They were they were attached to the meeting.

I didn't notice.

I didn't I saw them online.

I mean, if you send us an email just with a reminder about the data and how you would like to see more data, I can uh look into that and talk to our analysts and uh see what we can do about that.

I'm fairly confident that once crossroads, I keep saying about I'm yes, it's another part of my grant, excuse me, that I wrote to get crossroads uh report writing.

Once that goes in, it's just for my, I do a lot of uh research for the analytics on it, especially for the OTS grant, and so it's gonna change a lot.

And that's gonna be able to give us a much better picture of that.

It's gonna help our analysts a lot.

I've worked with her trying to get information, is the software that we have is not conducive to getting her what she needs.

And I I believe once that goes live, it's gonna help a lot.

I'm going to pay back on the data one just to since I was going to say a couple things.

And another point on the data, I think it would be useful to have also some on the dashboard and and maybe a different tab for maybe like something like enforcements, as opposed to just collisions.

Uh, you know, the type of things that you share with us, like the number of the UIs, the day lighting uh type of things, uh the the uh the the red lights uh type of validation, maybe the speed values too uh, because that that would be also uh something that could inform the public, you know, uh, because we get lots of questions.

I mean, and staff does it all the time about bike line enforcements, and it'd be nice to be able to okay.

Look, it's here, uh type of things, and it's also something that would inform um our work to kind of try to improve safety for citation data.

Yeah, I mean, but the violation of numbers that you shared, you know, about the UI, uh, you know, uh the lighting, uh, you know, we didn't talk about speed, but you know, if you had some old speed, but maybe red lights, and just to elaborate a bit on that, the the data stuff comes up in part.

There's it's a I know a lot of us like to be able to go look at what compare historical data so we see how the city's trending, where we're improving, where we're not, that sort of thing.

And it so there's something like with the transparency dash, we're not always like I was surprised that to see that a lot of the 2025 data for um traffic related things like phase out as like, okay, now we're gonna go look at this.

Some degree, if all the underlying data is the same as what's in something like Tim's, then it is still possible for us to go get it.

I know there were been times when that it's not been true where there's extra data that is exposed by that dashboard or by the reports that PD has provided that have made it so that it would be hard for us to get that data any other way.

So that's for some of the background on people wanting to see more data.

Some of it's also just different presentations of the data.

Um, just to give you some context on that.

That makes sense.

Thanks for having me.

I have something that's really just maybe uh do you guys work with uh all alto and see like their statistics as how how ranking is uh in terms of safety is bike safety is mountain view versus the sunny veil or Palo Alto.

What was the question again?

I think I'm sorry.

Um I was wondering if you guys you know know about the Palo Alto or Sunnyville kind of statistics about how the ranking in terms of safety uh fits into I don't know about their stats.

Do you I I seem to remember at some point that passed through was like a countywide statistical run that showed the different cities, but I haven't seen that in some time and I'm not sure who compiles that.

But I know that I saw a side-by-side comparison of the cities and and the safe the traffic safety issues.

I I just can't remember who sent that out.

I will give some comments of my own and then we'll see if no one else has anything more.

Then we will move on.

Um, let's see.

I appreciate you all coming out.

I appreciate the uh some of the things you're covering.

Like I like that there you're trying to make sure you draw the distinction between e-bikes and things that are not e-bikes but look like e-bikes.

Um that is a very important distinction.

I know we all want to be seeing more people able to get around using e-bikes safely, but and there's also a lot of people on motorcycles or dirt bikes or whatever they're legally called.

Um so I appreciate that that focus.

Um it would be nice to hear about uh get more informed, I guess, opinion or thought from PD.

If that means talking to Chief Canfield or such about red light cameras, if that is easier to do now, that is something that I will comment in that will definitely require a great deal of care given that what has been happening with the flock cameras.

Um but if it is specifically focused on safety stuff, that is something that I think would be good to hear more about, even if that's doesn't move quickly.

Um and yeah, I would I don't know, I would just I'm always wary of hearing about um if like the stop sign enforcement stuff with with the school kids.

I don't know exactly how I don't know exactly what threshold you're using for like how egregiously someone blows the stop sign before you have a conversation about with them.

I know I don't having attended Mountain View High School when I was in uh school, I didn't it didn't make me comfortable to be worried about that sort of thing.

If I was if like, oh, I I didn't come to a complete full and complete stop.

I didn't want to feel like I had to stress about PD.

Um, and so I do whenever I hear about that sort of thing, that always makes me a bit wary about whether that is building the right right relationship between the students and the PD.

Um, but also if people are flowing through at obnoxious speeds at unsafe speeds and are um then a some amount of a talking to may be appropriate.

So I want to make sure I mentioned that.

Um yeah, other than that, there is context to that.

If you I would I would appreciate that so that originated because of a young lady or girl that did not stop at a stop sign, and a moving truck that also did not stop at the same stop sign, and she ended up underneath it.

That was a catalyst for me to begin focusing at that intersection specifically.

There was a video of it.

When I saw the video, it kind of it stirred something up.

So to clarify, it's not it's not the slow rolling the stop sign, it's the usually it's e-bikes that are moving through at 25 miles an hour.

And that's the ones that get spoken to.

So it's not there.

There are people who slow down, and I'm not gonna say that I'm applying just as equally, but if if it's a slow roll on a bicycle as compared to a bicycle flying through a 25, just like a car, I'm gonna have a conversation.

So yeah, and along with us, I appreciate the approach it sounds like you're taking to uh people stopped in with vehicles and bike lanes.

I that is a severe safety hazard, and so it's good to hear that that's been taken seriously.

Um yeah, I I appreciate the comment about uh planning to go do a more careful review of how things are going on California Street to uh make sure that's being consistently enforced.

So yeah, is that anything else?

If anything comes up, questions, comments, feel free to email both of us.

Uh we can certainly address that at a later time.

If I don't know the answer, I'll get it for you.

All right, I believe that ends this item and moves us to item six, there's this item 6.3.

Yes.

Okay.

Thank you.

I'm so sorry.

If you want to three, we can do that.

You're good to go.

Okay, so I'm sorry.

What do you guys think about those trash cans on the on the streets?

You know, we're calculating.

You guys find that uh you know, the functionals on those green uh streets.

Do you guys find that annoying?

No.

We have them.

You know, there's a lot of trash cans, you know, on the Tuesdays when people are coming, you know, on the streets, and then so with the new trash cans, and they don't know the people in the homes, they don't put it back in.

And so the micros might run into them.

Oh on California Street you're referring to, or in yeah, on sure.

You see that a lot?

No.

Well, California speed supposed to have designated locations for the trash can.

It is, there are those locations.

It's supposed to be the yeah, it's been a challenge for us.

Uh but there, yeah, there was education material as sorry.

I also have solid ways under my uh and um we did send out notifications.

You'll actually see that there's a recommendation in the ATP for a policy.

Um so we're we're all aware of the concern.

So I have one comment on this.

Is that uh break go to cheap when they pick up the things?

They don't drop it's I've also had a conversation with them about that too.

If we will be on the six point, you know.

That was brought up in the monthly meeting today.

So I can let you know that that is happening.

Those conversations are also happening.

One of the benefits of the breadth that I have under me is six point three, six point three.

So we are moving on.

Yeah, share.

Share we.

We are on six point three.

Please provide our presentation.

Um so this is the VPAC work plan.

Um, this was adopted last year.

Um, it has not changed.

Um we also have the towel.

Um this is showing kind of end till end of the year, what's on the agenda.

So next school year fiscal year till end um till June.

Um so next two next two months, it's going to be quite busy.

Uh next month we'll have TDA three as well as middle field.

And then April is uh ATP with uh CIP development and draft work plan as consents.

And then we'll finish up the year with Stephen's Greek uh trail extension, safe rest to school update, Moffitt precise plan, micromobility, and another collision review.

Any questions, comments?

For next month's meeting for the TDA article three.

Are you I know in past times we've asked that we at least get a couple alternatives so we get some sense for the different options are will we be getting alternatives?

That is the intent.

I will say some of it is dependent on when VTA tells us how much money we have.

We don't know that yet.

So so that one right now is honestly we're trying not to put it with April because April is going to be busy.

But depending on when we hear from the VTA of how much funding we're getting, it's okay.

But yes, we've started to compile a list, so we're ready.

Thank you.

All right.

For the middle field complete streets.

What section of Middle field?

Is it all of middle field?

Um I believe it's Shoreline to Bernardo.

Okay.

All right.

Question of um I recognize that we don't have meetings on May.

Maybe a rigor nothing or it's part of the bylaws that there's no BPAC meeting in May.

I mean we can have one if you want.

No no I don't know he's he's for weeks.

Okay.

No, according to the bylaws there is no May, July or December B PAC meeting.

Any other questions?

We might have to comment or I don't know if we can back down yeah we do.

I'm gonna stop sharing my screen and bring down my timer.

April can you hear us?

I can yeah okay give me one one more sec.

I'm sure take your time getting up this there we go.

So weird seems not to be something oh email.

Okay there we go.

All right April thanks um I wanted to just comment on the work plan.

I'm really happy to see the middle field OBAG 3 um complete streets project on there in March.

And I was wondering if as part of that update um it would be helpful to understand what design phase is going to be presented whether conceptual 10% 30% and then also what level of flexibility will remain to incorporate public feedback as that project moves forward.

And at that stage um staff noted that um adding in meaningful changes becomes more difficult at that stage.

So I'm wondering whether middlefield um when it gets presented will it be at an earlier phase in that process such as you know conceptual or 10% so that um when um feedback is provided by BPAC council public etc um that the staff will actually have an opportunity to incorporate that into the final design.

And then I was also wanting to understand um what additional community outreach is planned um I understand that there was outreach done for this project in June 2022 at a virtual meeting but it was held um more in anticipation of the two complete streets projects and getting general input but that was before the award was actually uh the OBAG3 was actually awarded so um I maybe there's been feedback and I did I missed it but I was wondering what um opportunities there will be for feedback in the design.

Um and then also um I did to understand I I work regionally um in transportation and I reached out to MTC and VTA um just to understand the process generally um and from what I understand, the federal construction funds um need to be obligated by January 2027, but that there's also flexibility.

I'm wondering, given that context um it would be helped understand what schedule the staff are targeting for middlefield and how community outreach is going to be um in integrated into that and um yeah, it would be um given strong input from the BPAC and public on the Moffitt um it'd be helpful to understand if other cross section alternatives like a road diet might be considered.

Thank you.

I see I think I'm almost at my time.

Yeah, I see the rest of my time.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Do we have any additional public commenters on this item?

Just double check it.

Thanks.

No.

Okay.

I well, I heard a few questions in there that I would also be curious about just confirmation of.

So I guess there's a other than the BPAC meeting itself.

Are there any um public input opportunities on the middle field completed streets project?

I am not aware at this time.

I can get back to you on that.

What I would direct you all to is our updated project website.

It does say what the next outreach is for each project and when the what the last one was.

So we have recently updated our project website.

So hopefully that information is there.

Um we are also in the process of updating it for quarter one of 2026.

So it will be getting updated here soon.

And the one other question I heard there's the um I heard a few questions, but one other one I heard there was the what what stage is coming to us at this time in terms of design process.

And I guess is that on the what project list on the website?

Um it is in conceptual design, is what it says.

So I would say that's in the between 10 and 35% design um base.

Yeah.

So what will be coming?

Yeah, because I think I would echo the Moffitt comments.

Yeah, there are it will be helpful to set people's minds going into that meeting and they'll I'm sure have a robust discussion about the project at that meeting.

Yeah, and it links the last time it went to council.

So the last public report is also linked on the project website for that specific project.

Does it mention the way it's funded?

Because I remember from Muffet, it you know, the one issue was that it was time sensitive for for something.

It is part of federal funding.

Yeah, it does have part of that one Bay Area grant program.

Also listed on the project website.

Okay, but I'm just we just read, yeah.

I'm reading.

So if there's no, I I mean, I think the issue on Moffitt was that we were told it was already time sensitive, the traffic counts and stuff started like the day before the meeting, um, and we felt kind of boxed in.

So we'd like to avoid that.

I believe if memory serves me, and again, I'm sorry, it was when I earlier on and when I started, um, that when the grant was written, it did not include a road diet for Moffitt.

However, I believe that there is a road diet included in middle field for the grant.

Uh, so that I I think that was part of the uncertainty when it came to BPAC last time.

Is that that study was not written into the grant, and so to change the scope was the concern.

Um, whereas this has been written into the scope of the grant.

I believe that was that matches my memory, the discussion at the that it being in the middle field, road diet being a possibility or including middle field grant was mentioned at the time.

Yeah.

Um, if there's nothing else, uh we will move on to item 7.1 staff comments.

Staff presentation for this.

So um, did it okay?

Um, so we have a quick presentation.

So Safe Rest to school, we had a successful tree lighting last December, as well as we currently have Safe Rust to school request for a proposal out.

So SafeRest School goes through three years of contracting uh with our specific consultants.

So we are at the three year mark, so we are opening up uh for another round of proposal receiving.

Uh we want so this the scope for it will include the education, encouragement, and evaluation, as well as we are looking forward to adopt SafeRaster School as a citywide program.

So that's that's the primary scope, and we want to have a contract done by end of May.

So we have June to get the project team together, and July is when we kick off safe routes for the next school year.

So I see the deadline is March 8th and 9th.

March 9th is to receive all the proposals.

Then it will go through evaluation, our contracting, and um we'll go to council interviews with the consultants.

Yeah.

Tommy, uh we had about 10 consultant teams expressed interest.

But we don't know how many are they gonna propose.

We are currently doing kind of our first round of outreach, which is visioning existing conditions, understanding pain points and areas of um improvements.

So we have a survey out that's mountainview.gov slash city projects.

You can take that survey.

We also have a community walk and bike tour uh this Friday at 7.45 a.m.

I'm trying to catch commuters and school parents and students.

Um we are going to start at community center and then break off to groups to go north and then go south.

It will have both walk and bike component.

And then we just did a school pop-up in Monteloma Elementary School where we went and talked to parents and directed them to take our survey.

All right, I'll take the next couple slides here.

So we just submitted for a measure B uh grant for VTA for Evelyn Avenue Complete Street Study.

It's a planning grant.

Um, we will hopefully hear from VTA about our successful application in spring of 2026.

So we went in for that complete street uh study.

Um some news about the department, the division.

Last night with the mid-year budget adoption, council approved the addition of a new division within public works.

It'll be the traffic and transportation, and that will include a new chief transportation official.

So that will oversee both traffic and transportation sections.

That's the intent.

Um, just some transportation section information uh staffing and restructuring.

We are actively recruiting for our transportation manager.

We finished finished interviews this week, so that is hopefully will be done here by the end of the month.

Um we have our transportation planners, both Ben and Priori.

We have changed their titles, they are senior planners, so that change has happened.

And we have also added a new position, which is the junior assistant associate planner.

So we will be going a little bit more vertical in our um setup for the department.

And then we have Karen joining us here tonight.

She is the administration assistant in public works, and she's gonna help us facilitate BPAC meetings moving forward.

So we're happy to have her from that side of some housekeeping.

All right, next slide.

And what you all want to hear about the ATP.

So just a little bit background of how we've gotten to where we are.

So back in 2021, BPAC reviewed our ATP scope.

In 2022, we entered into an agreement with Nelson Igard Engineering for ATP development.

In 2023, BPAC reviewed the vision statement and existing conditions analysis.

In 2024, BPAC and City Council reviewed our scoring criteria for priority projects, and CTC recommended um that council approve additional scope and funding for the project.

In 2025, BPAC and CTC reviewed the revised scoring criteria and the updated approach to completing the ATP.

So that's how we got to where we are today.

We currently have the what we're showing here is the ATP draft outline plan.

So it's going to be divided into three sections, what it's like to walk and bike in Mountain View.

So our current existing conditions, the holistic maps for pedestrians and bikes, and just some community characteristics and input we received.

Then we have a recommendation section.

So this is where the scoring and prioritization criteria, as well as our top top 20 projects will be identified, and gives uh project descriptions.

And there's also a policies and programs recommendation section.

And then finally, the let's roll, that is our implementation plan.

So that is the design considerations, and some funding strategies, as well as the next steps for the projects identified in the ATP.

And so a little bit of what's happening right now.

We have our draft ATP right now.

The city staff is reviewing it, both in our current public works department, but also CDD, um, CDD communications, parks, CSD.

We're missing.

Sustainability.

It is everybody at City Hall has is looking at it to make sure that we are consistent through all of the other big plans we have going, especially with CSD, the parks specific plan and the biodiversity plan, make sure that we are all in alignment there.

Traffic's reviewing, our CIP.

So everybody is looking at this right now.

We will be putting it out for public review in mid-April, and it will be coming to BPAC on April 29th for review and comment.

There will be a public meeting, an in-person public meeting scheduled for early May.

And then it will go to CTC on April 6th.

I'm sorry, on June 16th.

Then that gives us the summer to do all of the final tweaks, and we will be taking it to council after their recess on September 8th for review and adoption.

And then just some back to what we just covered a little bit, the TAL for the next couple meetings, but we've got the TDA3 funding, middlefield complete streets for March, and in April, we've got the draft ATP, CIP development, and the draft work plan.

So that is our staff updates.

Dock it for right now.

Questions on the staff update.

I just had one question.

It says CIP developments.

So it means we don't provide input.

So our CIP cycle is on a two-year cycle.

So last year was new projects.

This year they roll forward.

So it's not we do not typically add any new CIPs this year.

Next year, we would have a more of a uh, yeah.

So it's it's on a they're funded every year, but we program for two years.

So we plan for two years of CIPs, but they only get funded every year annually.

So it's just moving the next years up.

And I had another question about the ATP.

So I I think VATP is for a certain period of time to then be reviewed after five years or something like this.

So I know it's been delayed, so that did it also change for the time the ATP is vetted for.

Um no, because it hasn't been adopted, but I will say it has made the process a little more tricky because things that were existing, we've like California Street, right?

That has changed since we did the existing conditions.

So, you know, that's one of the things we're looking for right now as we're reviewing is making sure that what we're showing is what has happened right now, what's current, what the classifications are, what projects are under design.

Some specific plans have been um or um precise plans have been adopted since we started, so making sure that we're we're following all of the direction council has previously given up to to today first uh i have a couple questions about the staffing updates.

Oh, yeah.

All right, graphic and transportation together.

That makes a lot of sense.

Was parking also in a different division?

Is that parking?

We don't know enforcement or design like somebody's in charge of parking i don't know um their economic development has parking for like a downtown plan if that's what you mean um parking permits would go through traffic so i it kind of depends on what you mean by parking i think i think it's the economic development okay so that's like specific to downtown yeah they've got a specific doesn't have to be but right now that's the only discussion that's occurred right yeah right now economic development is leading the downtown specific yeah working and i i guess trails are still under parks trails are currently under parks yeah okay uh um i didn't see uh specific uh active transportation planner is that also we don't actually have a job description for an active transportation so we have to go based on what job descriptions have been approved by our or not uh a employee associations or notes but so there's different specific classifications that go through it okay yeah so I guess I Brandon was an active transportation planner but that wasn't his his official title was a transportation planner okay okay so yeah which we have changed to senior transportation planners yeah congratulations thank you yeah time frame on the junior transportation planner or the other um well it just got approved last night so I haven't put out for the act of recruitment yet but we do have the job description ready to go I don't remember where that one's at but um the goal is to get them on board as soon as possible and that's sorry there it was like junior slash assistant slash associate so that's it's called a flexible position it means that we go it's one job classification with different levels of experience so we would recruit for that and we can hire one that if the best fit is entry level person that just comes in but we have has great opportunity it would be a junior but if we have somebody who has five plus or some management experience they would come in at the associate level so we're funded for that flexibility in the position.

So is that job description been approved by the employee association.

That's the part I'm not it the I believe so because there's a junior assistant associate planner position on the website.

So yes.

Yeah it's it's there yeah uh a couple of questions on the the chief transportation officer A is that a thing that's going to go through a hiring process correct as well okay and then what I assume then transportation will go under the chief transportation officer.

What of the traffic groups are going to fall under that the entire traffic team would go under that as well okay and that sorry that so that's this the um our city traffic engineer and his two seniors and two associates and two associates okay but like um Robert Gonzalez's group is a generic capital is the capital improvement project that's under that will stay under engineering and that's not just uh road stuff so he's doing he mostly focuses on roads but yes okay yeah he he will stay with the engineering group for just education um any plans have to be signed off by the city engineer so anything that his team puts forward has to be signed off by Ed and so he will continue to report to Ed as that sign off process.

Okay.

And the one other question I was not as directly related but of us I said the VPEG um demo thing uh has these city I believe there are some changes to the brown act related to remote participation is the city have anything planned on that front not seen anything come down from our city clerk's office but whatever they do for council we would roll out through to you guys as that becomes available.

Okay I guess okay.

Any public comment on item 7.1 um I see April's hand raised on yes, I can see.

Okay.

April, can you hear us?

I can, yeah.

Thanks, Pey.

Okay, your time starts.

Great, thanks.

Uh quick comments.

Um, I guess more of a question.

Um I saw the eight uh in the ATP uh work plan uh timeline moving forward.

Um that's great that there's public um uh outreach scheduled, but I I noticed and I actually haven't heard either about um the ATP advisory committee, which um was formed uh to provide more targeted feedback from different community groups and sort of expertise um in the community.

And I was just wondering if that if there's something scheduled for that um in the next few months.

The last time we met was February 2025.

Thank you so much.

I would be curious as well as to that.

Yeah, so so that is planned to happen in April as well.

I we're just trying to figure out the dates and how everything lines up.

So we do intend to have an at pack meeting before the B PAC meeting.

We need to appoint somebody or is there you have you are on it.

Oh, I okay.

No, if you would like to say I'm no longer chair and had I think I think Member Barton was been on that well before he goes.

Yeah, I believe so.

I think we started in 2021.

I thought I was a temporary stand in there.

Oh, so I I'm okay with it.

I will say when you get the invite if there's somebody else from the BPAC you would like to send in on your behalf.

It is not that formal.

Okay, okay.

Yeah, I thought I was originally sent because of somebody else's absence and I next to that.

That's more might have been a like someone being turned down.

So that was part of the question.

All right.

Are there any committee comments on the staff comments?

I have a couple.

Oh, okay.

Um stone number one on the ATP, I guess I always between city code and zoning.

Um so uh particularly on bike racks.

So I I had to take someone visiting from out of state that had to go to In and Out and had to use the drive-in.

And the one at ring store.

Um I noticed the bike rack is uh against a wall, so it doesn't hold two like it was designed to do.

It is on the very back away from the door, not visible unless you go through the drive-in.

So uh there are 35 employees there, most of which I don't believe are likely driving the size of their parking lot.

Um I don't know if I I don't think we have a set code on bike racks other than guidance, and it certainly didn't meet the 10% of the parking space, which is kind of common.

Um, and I know I've worked with enforcement before and it was kind of clear that they didn't do a job in another place.

How do we get it into the ATP or improve the code so we have effective bike racks installed by the developments that are supposed to have them?

So the ATP will not have any changes to ordinance or zoning because that requires a little bit heavier of a lift, multiple reads and um different outreach, but it will give recommendations where that code information and requirements that be more on the building enforcement side and conditions of approval when they come in for a permit.

It's hard on the private property side.

I will say one of the other things staff is currently working on is our citywide TDM ordinance and bike racks is something that will be in there that will be in more that will give us a little bit more teeth.

Um, yeah, um I it seems like unless I asked they're not gonna be enforced.

Um so is that something that'll come back to us as part of TDM?

Because I think I made the comments about all phases of TDM, not just the bus, but um TDM will be going to EPC and CTC, but it is not coming to BPAC because it's not uh pedestrian and bike, it's it's its development, so it goes through planning.

Um, more than happy to have you guys come and and read it and um have for the ordinance, but um, so we would now be the time to make a motion.

Now is well.

Or provide public comment on it.

Just start with let's take a look at what you see in there from a policy.

Okay.

See what's in there first.

So making a motion to ask CTC to do something would be appropriate.

Um I think it depends on what the motion is.

If it's an enforcement, if it's a change to policy, I'm not sure that that's uh would go into the ATP.

Um I'd have to go back to what no, it's more asking since it's not in the ATP and we don't have to.

Yeah, I have to see what the process is for recommending a council action from BPAC, because that's what you're asking.

You're asking camp council to take a individual action.

And so I I'd have to go back and talk to our city clerk about what the the exact process is for that recommendation.

That I sorry, this is that would that would I think would be useful to know that that type of thing has come up a couple times.

Um I think it would also be this also reminds me that we may want to have a brief conversation at some point about what's in that draft work plan so that we to get an assessment of whether that actually makes sense to be on consent because sometimes there has been discussion about what we want to request to be on the work plan for the year, and I'm not yeah.

So I don't know where that's going to be in the process for the work plan at that point, but I'm not going, it's not always been a free item.

Yeah.

Um, it says provide input on regulations related to the ATP.

And I guess that's I want to understand how to do that.

So can I ask you to follow up and tell us how to do that?

Yeah, we'll we'll take a look and we'll talk with our city clerk on what the process is for that.

Yeah, it sounds like if it's appropriate that we request that, you know, before the review bodies make their decisions.

And I think ATP is going to provide more information of like update of you know bike parking.

I think we have that as a policy.

So uh, you know, as it goes through city internal review, once you see the ATP, you can make that specific feedback of what needs to be added.

But it sounds like there's an April deadline for the CTC.

It's gonna happen before then, but the April deadline for the C So you'll see it first in April.

And you're gonna C C sees it in June.

CTC doesn't see it in the you were saying there was something that wasn't coming to us.

That's the TDM, the TDM ordinance.

So is it it should be both in TD, considered it's part of TDM?

I don't know that it needs to be part of TDM.

What I'm saying is TDM will have a little bit more enforcement because it goes into our Muni code, there is an enforcement section, it's an ordinance, so um it has right the ATP is not an ordinance change, so there's no enforcement mechanism as part of the ATP, whereas the TDM ordinance has an enforcement mechanism, so um, and there are depending on the developer if they choose bike racks as how they're going to mitigate their um transportation uh or or to help for as a TDM measure, then we can enforce the bike racks.

So there it's a lot of ifs thens kind of a thing, but but there are teeth as an ordinance.

So I guess in order to encourage CTT CTC to have the teeth in their TDM, we should give them instances of where we've seen problems from our perspective as a bike advisor.

I don't know that that's the right path because the TDM is a toolkit, so when a developer comes in, they're trying the goal of the TDM ordinance is to um change mode shift.

It's it's a yeah, I understand.

I guess what I'm seeing is but we are but the developer gets to choose how they achieve that mode shift.

Right.

So if they don't choose bike racks, if they do choose bike racks, I guess I see the problem.

We're I think we're getting a bit down a rabbit hole for an item that's not really on this right now.

I think we'll get the feedback on how we can provide input.

It sounds, I think the sequencing if meetings is such that we can provide feedback as VPAC on these items in a useful manner at a future meeting.

Um I don't want to use it.

And I think if you have an issue with enforcement of bike racks and you would like to send an email, we can take that from an accent uh an MV.

So the TDM date would be the TDM is going to CTC May.

Oh, yeah, that's not the calendar.

It is going, it's scheduled to go to CTC on May 5th, but it will likely go to not likely, it will go to EPC first, likely the beginning of April.

Just to put up just briefly on the TDM and changes, the TDM is only for new developments or projects.

Why that's not retroactive.

So there are uh you know, the code is whatever it is.

Um maybe or not the validation, but it's not you know at all.

Yeah, it would it would be through our enforcement.

Yeah.

Is there anything else on the staff comments?

This application.

Just on a site.

Who's usually responsible for updating the codes?

I see all my code because I was just reading it, it's sort of like 2019, other than um 2026.

Which code specifically?

919.

Uh Section 19 article, um article.

It's section 19.

I mean, uh pedestrian laws and the and the scooter laws.

I mean, scooter laws are not even on it.

It's the buyers.

And it's been 2019 since the last updated, and so it's really behind.

So I'm wondering like who usually would be the one to update such a thing.

Um, without looking exactly at that case and where you're looking at it from, generally speaking, what happens is there's a state law, and if we need to change it or we do something specific to Mountain View, then we have a Muni code.

So I don't know what specific you're referring to there.

It is not updated every year.

We post uh, I mean, there are some things in our ordinances that are probably not yeah, it's artificial.

I so I think that law was or that ordinance was part of the bike ordinance when it went through, so that's how it wasn't uh, you know, in part of the muni code, and that I think happened in 2019.

Uh and so it has a lot of changed.

I think the certain laws have changed, and it was says e it says about motor scooter rather than e scooter.

E scooter, yeah, because that was back, you know.

I will say we it is not typical to change the code for language cleanup because it is a very long process.

It has to be read multiple times, it has to be public for a certain amount of times, and it has to be done through the attorneys and everything else that there's just other priorities.

I'm just gonna be honest.

And that field is gonna move much faster.

So even if we change it now, it is going to be backdated very soon, just because there's so many laws in in the state right now of talking about class two, class three emotos.

So, you know, it's uh I think we need to kind of wait around to see how those landings are happening, and then it reflects on the local side.

I see.

But the the loc our local um city turner stuff is being updated the next year or two, right?

Which is a substantial undertaking, right?

Yes.

So it's the city charter requires the ballot measure.

Um, and if anyone is does consider updates to city code and certainly high priority, we could also break they could be brought up at the draft work planned item with and then could be considered as to whether we want to spend time on that and staff is and if staffing cancel approve of us spending the time on that.

Yeah, I think we were just we expect the ATP to be a lengthy conversation.

That is why what am I expecting about that meeting as well?

Um so anyways, uh if there's something else, I believe we have to move to item 7.2, which is committee comments.

I was going to provide a BPD pack.

Yes, I have I have your presentation.

What is wondering about that?

Is there a way to make sure that that presentation gets provided to either as part of the meeting minutes or to other VPAC members so that people can see the content in the future outside of just the slides here?

Send it out as a reading, right?

Oh, there it is.

Nothing else.

So I will check if this could be part of the meeting minutes.

What I learned that we cannot attach an item with the staff or committee comments.

So that has to be verbal.

And since these meeting minutes and agenda have been published publicly, you know, that's not that's already in the public domain.

But I'll check if we can attach it as part of the meeting minutes.

Okay.

Could it be added as a public comments or I guess?

Something that has to give people it in advance if meetings in the future would be great.

Um, but anyways, I'll let you guys worry about that.

Um the updates, I don't remember what order.

We have to be careful from a Brown Act perspective too.

It's a whatever is appropriate for we'll figure out a way to try and um yeah.

So for this, the let's see.

I said I don't remember what order put this in.

But in January, we well, I as mentioned Brown Act changes the VTA is not yet enacted any changes, but there are apparently some state law changes around making it.

I think it was more possible for um actual like body members to participate remotely.

Um there are a few different items.

Uh, there are variety of different items I tried to call it the most interesting one.

There's one about um a variety of funding that comes through something called TFCA that has historically included some things like uh traffic signal replacements, but now is moving more towards just straight-up funding, say transit measures or uh transit signal priorities projects rather than just general signal timing projects.

Uh it is amusing in my opinion to see some of the different efficacy numbers they have for how much this is primarily focused on emissions.

Um some things are far more effective at others per dollar at a reducing emissions.

There was a bit of conversation at the meeting about um how how effective on-demand transit is versus fixed drought transit.

Um there was a complete trees policy update, which is now which came before VPAC several times, and VPAC provided input on multiple times around, um being concerned about exceptions to the complete treats policing getting um being overused.

Uh VTA the VTA board did adopt the policy in February, and there was at least a revision to uh include specific report facts on the efficacy of complete streets policy regularly.

Um there was also an item, and I believe I had let's say on the next slide about a bunch of new bike walker locations with bike link walkers that VTA is installing uh prey, could you go to the next slide?

If it will go to the next slide.

Maybe you just have to scroll.

Okay, there we go.

Um so there's a bunch of spots to putting new bike link blockers.

These are generally just like one walker unit, which is um to individual lockers.

Um yeah, so they're putting a bunch of new ones in not a huge number of mountain view, but a lot to spread out the coverage.

Uh next slide.

In February, we got a strategic plan update, which is still VTS doing a strategic plan.

It is very high level still.

Um we based the main input the BPI provided was asking for more explicit inclusion of sort of safety and vision zero goals at the high level.

Um there was a safety item, but it was more focused on sort of occupational safety.

Um there's there's a transit single priority project going on for some routes that we reviewed these checklist for.

Um and there was a there's a central express right pavement rehabilitation project that is something that previous a few years ago probably would not have come before BPAC.

It came before VPAC very late in the design process this time.

So there's very few um bike sector pedestrian safety improvements there.

Um VPAC expressed opinions that that would be good if those came earlier in the design process so that more improvements could be made.

Uh next, okay, and these are just I in the PDF I included the prior meetings since this way, since I'm not sure those are anywhere that's accessible to people here.

So if we can get the PDF attached to the minutes in some way, then that makes that accessible to everyone.

Are there any questions on that?

Or any other unagendized committee comments?

Uh everyone, yeah.

So um back on the bike quest thing, I I made aware and invited to two schools.

Um Bub and Springer.

So I guess I don't know that uh they didn't mention any engagement with safe routes to school per se, other than occurring on the same day.

So and then like say they weren't on the list that you sent up.

Oh, okay.

I see.

So I guess the Bub and the Springer.

Yes, I mean I don't think Springer is on the doesn't get, yeah.

They don't participate because they do it in the beginning of the year.

Okay, and then Bob.

Bub, I think they were going back and forth on April 16th, but they there have to uh confirm that the school has to confirm.

13th, okay.

They're planning on it, but um should the um uh should the parents working on the bike bus alert the consultant or should there be communication, I guess.

Um if you can send me who the parent lead is, so I'll put it that put them in touch with our consultant so they are well aware.

The consultant comes during the PE time, so they will come during the school time.

So I assume we'll just be totally independent.

Yeah, they'll be totally independent.

So they come with their whole um bikes and instrument, you know, equipments to do the rodeo.

So uh previously when we have done it for Bub even last year, we didn't really coordinate, but I think it would be good for them to know that there's a bike bus, um, especially if there is any bike needs any um fixing.

Uh so yeah, I can let them know.

Would would you would you like to be in contact or do you have a contact in Bob?

It wouldn't hurt for us to know each other just in case there's another connection that's not happening, I guess.

Um, yeah, communication should come through the city, um, not from a parent to a consultant.

Right.

Yeah, that's what the way I'm paying the invoice, so I'd like to make sure that we're the ones giving the direction.

Yeah, I mean it's I at this point I don't think there is any, it's just FYI.

Yeah, understood.

Yeah, I just want to make sure that we're kept in the loop.

Yeah, then the uh it sounds like the police bar would like to know once yeah, and we'll we can coordinate with for sure.

Any other, I guess, announcements or general and agenda's committee comments, all right.

Uh any public comments on committee comments.

No, all right.

Uh in that case, I believe oh, we have our next meeting, which is in March, as we said previously.

And with that, we are adjourned at 825.

So you think you