The Riverton City Council held a hybrid Work Session at 4:33 PM and a Regular Council Meeting at 7:01 PM on August 4, 2026, at City Hall. The Work Session included discussions on traffic management, the Timberline project, and a Town Days debrief. The Council Meeting featured citizen comments, a recognition of Gospel Hope Church volunteers, approval of the consent agenda, tabling of a rezone ordinance, a fraud risk assessment presentation, and a discussion-only review of window signage regulations.
All right, good afternoon, Council. Let's go ahead and get started. It's our work session. It's our work session. All members of the council are present. I'm Mayor Tish Baroker. We will start with a presentation on traffic management speed study from Mr. Castle. Good evening. I was told I have 15 minutes. I talked too fast. I could be done in about two, but I'll try to drag it out. However long you need. Don't need to. So I'm here today to uh try to give you an overview of our traffic calming uh program. Uh hopefully by going through it a high high level going through that program may answer some of your questions, but we obviously we open for other questions as we go through this. Um our traffic calming program is not something new. A lot of other cities do it. We're trying not to reinvent the wheel, and so what we're doing is really using information uh on from a national level to help us make decisions as we go forward. So we have a couple of goals, and the first one is uh data driven equity and encourage safer, more responsible driving. And those are kind of the goals in my mind that we should be achieving or going after. Data driven equity is and I have it written down prioritizing projects using objective metrics like crash history, measured 85th percentile speeds and pedestrian proximity rather than purely emotional requests. So okay, keep going. So are we there? I'm looking, Brooke. You're gonna give me a thumbs up, right? Okay, give it a shot. Okay. Um that's what this slide got. Next slide. So the original traffic program we had had just had a few people on it. Um and one of the things I wanted to make sure this program does is as an engineer, um, the decisions we make don't affect me. They do affect police, they do affect fire. Um, response time for those two organizations is extremely important, and it's a metric they track all the time. For public works, it's maintenance, it's snow removal. Uh so any time we try and go in and fix slow change road sections and do things that impact police fire and public works, we need them to prove it to say yes to to acknowledge it before we go any farther. If it's something that they can't bear, we simply aren't going to do it. And speed bumps is a perfect example. Uh I'm for or against it, but it it's police fire and public works are the ones that if you put a speed bump in, they're the ones that it slows down the response time. They've got to plow, they've got to remove um uh clean the the gutters. It it causes them issues, and they're the ones that really need to make decisions on what when we use uh uh uh try to fix things, uh which ones we should be using. Next slide, please. So it's not written, but uh one of the things we need to finish is our standard operating procedure. And I've at a high level, I just want to talk about what we are thinking and the direction we are going to go. And what we're talking about is a phase one, phase two, phase three approach. So phase one is something that we see every day. A single person comes in, or they fill out uh uh a request form, and we go out there and we track if it's a speeding request, we track speeds, we track a couple other things, and we give them an answer. Oftentimes that answer is no. Um, and so what I'd like to do is add a couple other phases, which is phase two is if we give them a no, but they can go out there and get five other people in their neighborhood to sign off saying that we need to look into it further, that we go to a phase two approach. And the same thing that if that ends up being a no, that there's a phase three, and I'm not gonna go deep in the phase three, but they need a higher level of their uh neighborhood to be involved in that.