So we went over this office and do what they call it.

It's awesome.

It was couple of slides.

Okay, everybody.

It is five o'clock.

And Councilor Peacock is not going to be here, and Councilman Logit is going to be here later.

So we'll go ahead and get started with the two items we have on the agenda for the city council special meeting for Tuesday, September 23rd.

The first item is a discussion regarding the Central Oklahoma long range transit plan.

We have Taylor here from our city staff.

And it looks like some uh ACOG folks here as well to discuss that further.

Thank you.

Mayor Holman and Council.

Taylor Johnson, your transit parking program manager for uh public works department.

I'm just here to kind of introduce this topic, and I'll let Chip and John uh carry it on from there.

But this will be your third update on the uh development of this plan.

Uh it's really been about 20 years since we've done this as a region, so it's very exciting, and we're getting close to the end as you'll hear.

So I'll let them take it away.

You have your good hands uh as you've been in the last couple meetings, and I'll let them introduce themselves real quick.

So evening everybody, I'm Chip Nolan, planning manager with Embark.

I'll be going through the slides here and then make uh the other questions at the end, but also we're gonna show Rebecca.

Nice to be here again.

Uh we're getting close to the end of this project, and so we're very excited about it.

From A colleagues' point of view, this is 20 years since we've done this as a region, so very important.

And secondly, we've got our 2050 plan coming up next year, so we need something very concrete and give us some good direction going forward.

So, this this plan is really gonna help us, and hopefully, we'll get some good discussion later.

So, thank you.

So, with that, I'll dive right in.

So, we've got our agenda here.

We'll do project overview, go through the vision, uh, and then how we develop the vision uh and then how we deliver on that vision.

So, our project partners, uh the first few slides uh here, I think you'll see before.

Project leads, uh Embark and MAPS are contributing uh part of the funding, and ACOG is also contributing part of the funding.

So, project leads operating partners uh and then government partners here uh that we've been coordinating with throughout the project.

Project overview.

Uh so these are projections on the left are from the ACOG's 2045 plan, and they'll be working on update in their further use projections in their 2050 plan.

You can see 434,000 residents, 320,000 jobs that will result in 1.1 million trips over the next 20 years.

So this plan hopefully will guide strategic investment to accommodate this growth.

Uh we want to build on previous planning efforts, uh including Go Norman, uh Edmond Shift and uh OKC moves in Oklahoma City, consolidating those planning efforts and building on those uh those great uh great plans.

Want to connect communities by increasing the amount of transit we're providing.

Uh and then another component of this is also uh stimulating local economy and economic development, which I'll get into in one of our slides in a little bit.

So again, we are assessing local service.

We are defining clear recommendations and then identifying responsible investments based on um the funding that should become available.

The vision and goals for this project will develop an intentional plan for cohesive network of transit services that supports growth, promotes economic mobility, enhances quality of life, and facilitates opportunity across central Oklahoma.

We want to provide communities with meaningful access to transit, create compelling reliable rider experience on competitive service options, so people want to take transit, and utilizing our resources effectively uh so that we can figure out where and how to spend the limited dollars that we have for for transit.

Here's where we're at.

Uh third time we're coming to you in the third and final phase of the project.

We're uh presenting uh presented to Edmund Mobility Commission last week, presenting to MBARC's board next week.

Uh and we'll be presenting to ACOG as well on our draft plan here.

And then eventually we'll be asking the ACOG board to formally adopt and approve this plan once it's finished.

So developing the vision.

So on the left here, uh you can see that uh the level of detail you get into with different planning efforts.

So we're in the long range plan here, so you can see that it's the fuzzy purple circle.

And then as you get to your midterm and your short term, you get into a little bit more detail.

So when we look out 2030 years, we recognize that the recommendations in this plan will change once it actually comes time to implement them and you get the funding to make that happen.

We fully acknowledge that a lag will happen in the 20 years.

But that's the level of detail we're at.

And the process we went through is we have our planned high capacity routes through the RTA, local planning efforts for previous planning efforts, previous planning studies, and then stakeholder feedback, been meeting with stakeholders throughout this process.

And we identified opportunities, partly by looking at uh population employment density and other uh typical metrics that typically drive traits.

Developing universal alternatives, getting input and feedback from the public and stakeholders, and finally refining a network based on all of that input.

So we have our planning horizons here.

It's a 30-year plan broken up into three segments.