The Riverton City Council met on December 3, 2024, for a work session beginning at 2:30 PM and a regular session at 7:00 PM. The work session focused on traffic calming options, a dog park proposal, and strategic planning. The regular meeting included citizen comments, presentations, consent agenda items, and public hearings on a rezone, fee schedule amendments, and a budget amendment. Several votes were taken, with key decisions on the fee schedule, youth council ordinance, rezone, and a budget amendment including funding for a new animal shelter.
I should run it as well. That's the same. So there is a little scale. I would go with the answer to take a lot of things. But one doesn't make your manager. Yeah. Yes. She never told me if she was going to zoom in. So I think yet. We good to go, Jamie. Okay. Well, we will call our work session meeting to order. All of our elected officials present with the exception of Councilmember Broker, who's excused. I don't think she's gonna be joining us electronically, right? Josh, we don't have anybody who's not on participating. Great. First item up is 5A, the riveting discussion of speed dips versus speed bumps. And uh Mr. Carrie Nicase is gonna walk us through. Hey, I didn't I didn't want to get yelled at. Okay, just quick discussion. I know you guys wanted to hear about speed bumps versus speed dips or humps or tables. So we just kind of went through what we have out there and what we like about them, what we don't like about them, everything like that. So next slide. Can you just use the arrow on your keyboard? Yes. Okay. Anyway, you guys know back in 2018, uh City Council passed an ordinance for no longer allowing speed bumps, humps, and tables. Um so what we've done over the years is just not allowed them, which has kind of become an issue because we're getting a lot of requests for them, um, and we deny them uh due to the code. Um, but we also go out and do investigation. You know, we although we might tell them no, we do do studies to see where the speeds at, um, the kind of situation that's out there, how many complaints we're getting. Um, and most of these speed studies come back that the 85th percentile is within the speed parameters. Um, every once in a while, let's say the speed limit is 25, they come back around 2526. So, well within reason, it's not really even a speeding issue, it's just people assuming that they're speeding. Um the advantages of the speed bump itself is I can place them anywhere within the roadway, right? It doesn't matter if it's at a high point, a low point, the roads going sloped one way, cross slope flat anywhere, I can utilize the roadway and place those. And it can be done in asphalt or concrete. We would prefer concrete on those just because when we do future maintenance, we can mill the edges around them and they don't get milled out. Currently, every time we do an overlay or anything and we mill, you mill out that whole bump because you can't. And with our code, we're not installing new ones, so anyone that had them and we do those maintenance no longer get a speed bump. They get taken out and not redone. Um disadvantages of speed bumps is um again, they get removed in the road improvements, the annual maintenance. We've had a couple complaints that um some of the paint they can't see it or it's not lit well enough at night that cars are hitting them at a high speed. And I talked to our risk manager a little bit about this, and every call that she has received on that, she asks the question how fast were you going when you went over it, and they don't return calls, nothing after that. So my guess is they know at that point they're speeding. But we do want to make sure that it's lit enough that you can see it, and we paint these little white diamonds on it so that you kind of see it as it's coming up. We also put a sign. It says speed bump, right? And then the footprint. The footprint of this is 14 feet wide, and then the length of the road.