I'm going to be back.

I'll be back.

Chair, staff is ready when you are.

Good evening.

Welcome to the September 19, 2024 active transportation commission.

The meeting is now called to order.

Will the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum?

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Harris?

President.

Commissioner Gibson?

President.

Commissioner Doer-Westburg?

President.

Commissioner Leddickard?

President.

Vice-Turkens-Aulis?

Here.

Commissioner Ha?

Here.

Commissioner Moore?

Here.

Commissioner Banks?

Here.

Commissioner Haudel.

President.

Thank you, Maverick-Horne.

I would like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you would like to speak

on an agenda item, please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins.

You will have two minutes to speak once you are called on.

After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker slips.

We will now proceed with today's agenda.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people

and tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Valley and Plains

Miwaak, Putwin and Win-Tun peoples and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's

only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside

us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice

of acknowledgments and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history, contributions

and lives.

Thank you.

Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

which stands one nation under God in the little liberty and justice for all.

Our first business today is the Commission staff report.

Staff, you may proceed.

Thank you, Chair.

Hello, everybody.

Jennifer Donlin-Wyant, Transportation Planning Manager.

I have a brief, very brief staff report for you today.

I know everyone in the room gets our monthly newsletter, but just in case you have not read

it yet.

I wanted to share that we've released our dashboard for the Transportation Priorities Plan.

So you can go to anywhere in the city and on a map, click on a line and it will tell you

its priority, what's included in the project, its planning level cost.

And so I encourage you all to go take a look at that.

We're really excited to have that publish.

It's one of a number of dashboards that we're going to be rolling out as we have staff capacity.

So that's the first one.

The next one is we're facing some staff vacancies on my team when transportation planning.

So I think some of you may know Cassandra Cortez has left us to go back to the Bay Area and

we're very sad to lose her.

And so her position is vacant right now.

And so we're going to be recruiting soon.

So please stay tuned to the newsletter so that we have you'll know about it and you can

share with your friends and colleagues who all who are planners or want to be planners,

but aren't yet to apply for the position.

So we are, we're in a misch, well we already do misch, she's left already.

But we wish her well and her new endeavors.

And I also want to let you know that Melissa Muganzo who has been our artist and residents

for the last nine or so months, it's a limited term effort through the Office of Arts and

Culture where an artist was embedded in our team.

The grant program that's supporting her is ending and so her last week with us is next

week.

And so she's been here a number of times and joined us in our HEC meeting so she'll be leaving

us as well.

And that is my update.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our first business today, oh I already do that.

Thank you.

Next is the approval of the consent calendar.

Claire, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar?

Thank you chair.

I have no speakers left on this item.

Thank you.

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

Commissioner Westbrook.

Doer Westbrook?

Thank you so much.

I just had one question for one of my items regarding free one.

One is TBD and I think it said that for the last couple of months.

So it's just curious if we have a sense if that will come forward in 2024 or not.

Commissioner Westbrook, is that the item for enforcement and obstruction of sidewalks?

That's correct.

We'll hold up with you with need of further clarification before we can move it forward.

Jeff, can you recent that email to the commissioner so we can move that forward?

Thank you.

I apologize.

That's okay.

And then too, we have that info.

We're happy to move it forward.

Okay.

Sounds good.

Okay.

I see no more commissioners.

I'd most approve the consent agenda.

Thank you.

We have a motion.

Can I have a second?

I second.

Okay.

I have a motion by Commissioner Hulped and a second by Commissioner Harris.

With the clerk, please call the roll for the vote.

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Harris.

Aye.

Commissioner Gibson.

Aye.

Commissioner Doa Westbrook.

Aye.

Commissioner Liddiger.

Aye.

Vice President Lawless.

Yes.

Commissioner Hulped.

Aye.

Commissioner Moore.

Aye.

Commissioner Banks.

Yes.

And Chair Hodele.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

We will now proceed to the discussion calendar.

Item number three is the Morrison Creek Revitalization and Trail Update.

Is there a staff presentation?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening.

I'm Chairman and Commissioners of the Active Transportation Commission.

I'm James Craig and I'm here to present to you an update regarding the Morrison Creek

Revitalization Study.

The purpose of this study is to create the framework that outlines the community's desired

and viable amenities, estimate the specific technical, environmental, and financial aspects

of the project, and identify project partners along the Morrison Creek corridor for project

coordination.

The end result of this study will be planning level documentation that formally defines

the scope of the Morrison Creek Revitalization Project.

The study area is in district six along Morrison Creek from 63rd Street on the left of the

slide to power and road on the right.

This section of Morrison Creek is 1.2 miles long nearby Will, Seawood Middle School,

and Elder Creek Elementary School.

In 2016, leaders from the Avandell Glen Elder Neighborhood Association and the Capital

Regional Organizing Project initiated this project starting as a simple cleanup effort.

This quickly evolved into a comprehensive community-driven plan to revitalize the Morrison

Creek corridor.

For the course of a year, the community came together to plan and set clear goals for

the outcome of the Creek's restoration.

In 2019, the City of Sacramento, in partnership with the Sacramento Community Land Trust,

received a grant through the California Department of Water Resources Urban Streams Restoration

Program to fund this feasibility study.

In this study, the project team is not only developing feasible design concepts in line

with the goals of the outcomes defined in the community-led plan, but also in coordination

with the Sacramento Department of Utilities, Sacramento City Unified School District,

Sacramento Department of Youth, Parks, and Community Enrichment, and of course, the California

Department of Water Resources.

As the grantee, the Department of Water Resources has set the primary goals of the Morrison

Creek Revitalization Study, according to the requirements of the Urban Stream Restoration

Grant Program.

Those are to reduce flooding, erosion, and associated property damage, restore, enhance,

and protect the natural ecological values of the stream and promote community involvement,

education, and stewardship.

The grant is also considering how this would interface with the city's plans for a multi-use

trail to enhance mobility along Morrison Creek.

Today, Morrison Creek is a channelized waterway maintained by the Department of Utilities

as flood controlling infrastructure.

Public access is not currently permitted along the Creek.

The Creek is engineered for maintenance, accessibility, and the water level varies seasonally

and significantly.

The proposed restoration design includes a riparian flood plain terrace adjacent to the Creek

at George Sim Park, planted with native Woodland vegetation which would be sustained by

by annual flows from Morrison Creek.

The project team also proposes cultivating native vegetation along the slopes of Morrison

Creek.

This project not only involves Creek restoration, but also the construction of a 1.2 mile long

shared-use trail.

The green dash line is the proposed trail location.

The trail would start with the replacement of the 63rd pedestrian bridge on the left

of the slide, then cross 65th Street with a pedestrian signal.

From there, the trail would continue east, where another pedestrian bridge would be installed

at Gold Moon Court.

Next there would be curb extensions installed at the trail crossing over Logan Street.

The trail would then integrate into George Sim Park above the riparian restoration area.

The third pedestrian bridge is proposed on the east side of George Sim Park, and a gate

is proposed to be installed on the rear fence of Elder Creek Elementary School.

The pedestrian signal to cross power and road would be installed at the east end of the

trail.

I'd like to add a little more detail regarding the signalized pedestrian crossings proposed

for the trail intersections with 65th Street and power and road.

These devices are identified in our pedestrian crossing guidelines as mid-block crossing

treatments.

These signals are green until activated by a pedestrian using the accessible pedestrian

signal hardware, at which point they operate as an ordinary traffic light.

These signals express clear and consistent engineering design language to drivers.

On the screen right now is a simplified aerial view of the crossing concept for the signal

at 65th Street and Morrison Creek.

Moving on to the trail crossing at Logan Street, the team has proposed to install a pinch

point.

A pinch point is comprised of two curb extensions that physically narrow the roadway.

These naturally reduce the crossing distance and therefore reduce the time a person crossing

would be vulnerable to vehicle traffic.

These also prevent parked cars from blocking curb ramps, enhancing visibility for drivers

while visually narrowing the road.

This is a simplified aerial view of the crossing concept of a pinch point at Logan Street

and Morrison Creek.

Circling back to the proposed trail, the project team proposes a trail 12 feet wide with a

five foot buffer between the path and the slope of Morrison Creek.

The trail is proposed to be asphalt mainly for emergency vehicles when emergency work

needs to be done in the creek during a flood event.

This is a cross section of how the restoration trail and George Sim Park area could cohesively

be implemented in a stream restoration program with the creek bed on the left of the

screen and George Sim Park on the right.

Thank you very much for your time.

Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair.

I have two speakers for this item.

Our first speaker is Tamika.

Hello commissioners.

My name is Tamika LaCluse.

I am the executive director of Sacramento Community Land Trust and a trustee on the American

River flood control district.

We have been working with the City of Sacramento on this project since 2019 and I do have to

say that this wouldn't have even been possible without the early work of the community members.

Their early input, their advocacy and their plans, their vision being a part of this project.

We wanted to be very careful to make sure that the community's voices and the communities,

the neighborhoods of Avandelle Glen Elder, Southeast Village.

We wanted to make sure that those communities voices were reflected in the plans including

the habitat restoration itself but also the bike paths, the walking paths, the benching,

the trees, the plants, all of the aspects of this project.

We fully support the plans that the engineers Michael Baker and James and the team here at

the City of Sacramento have put forth because it does reflect the hard work and the vision

of the community.

They want more pathways between elder creek elementary and the neighborhoods they live

and between Will C. Wood, middle school and the communities on the other side of Lemonhill.

We know that having these dedicated crosswalks on power in in 65th is great but we also

recognize that elder creek and Lemonhill are really high traffic areas and we want to

make sure that any improvements that we make onto the bike trail leverage further improvements

to mobility and safety in the area.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Matt.

Good evening, Stephen commission, Matt Anderson, district four.

Kind of hard to follow that.

All I want to say is heck yeah, I want to see more engineers with more projects, love

to see off street paths like this, all over Sacramento connected, it's amazing.

Would love to see a couple more safety features, you know, if you get some reach for the

moon, right?

Power in is a death trap.

There have been, you know, nine deaths there in the last four years and so it's great

to have a signal but if you could have raised crosswalks, I think it's a school zone there.

I know it goes from like 45 to 25 which is kind of ridiculous but crosswalks will be great

on actually all the crossings especially Logan, I think that's slow enough.

So I'm just curious about the, I know there's an issue in other places with off street

paths and cars potentially using them so if they're going to be ballards at the entrance

to any of these paths and then again reach for the moon, it would be really cool if there

are proximity sensors when you're approaching these lights.

I mean if they're going to be green for cars all the time, why should beds and bikes

have to come press a button if they just actuated like they do for cars on beds and bikes

approaching that would be, you know, it's great to have equivalent level of service but

all in all this is amazing, super excited, fantastic.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for your comment, Chair, I have no more speakers.

Thank you.

Are there any commissioners?

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this topic?

Vice Chair Gonzalez.

Thank you, Chair.

As a young boy growing up in MetaView, for 18 years of my life we often call the creeks

the canals and fence or no we would jump those fences and play in those canals and catch

frogs and ride our bikes.

So I know that these creeks in many cases were natural formations which man has improved

over time for flood control and drainage purposes but removing nature from our neighborhoods,

I'm glad to see maybe it's just a temporary measure and an error that's going to be

righted with the development of this path and this creek revitalization.

I too have had the opportunity to experience some time in the Avondale Glenelder neighborhood

attend community meetings, attend walk audits, sway back when it was walk Sacramento and Terry

Preston 2014 I think when we first talked about some of these wonderful ideas and this underutilized

natural asset.

So kudos to staff, kudos to all of you and I know we have some consultant team doing the

outreach to and aim consulting for the great work that you're all are doing.

So I just want to share how heart and I am to see that we're not installing rapid flash

with beacons but an actual signal at that intersection and I want to echo the comments

of the public speaker Matt about proximity detectors and raised cross-docs when possible

and also just kudos to the buildouts that you are proposing as well for the cross-docs.

So all in all just a wonderful project, very happy to see this presentation tonight and

hopefully we'll see it implemented sooner rather than later.

Thank you.

Commissioner Banks.

Hi, I know what Commissioner has just said.

Super excited about this project really needed and looking at the pictures I'm just

like can't wait for it to get built which leads me to my first question.

Timeline, do we have a timeline on this at all?

So we are nearing completion on our feasibility study in the next couple months here.

That will be the final delivery of our planning level documentation in which we'd be able

to then pursue funding for this project for further design and construction.

Got it.

I just had the opportunity to read grants for ATP cycles and there was a grant that I

read that was kind of similar to this.

So one of the things that was in that grant along with the lights that Matt was talking

about which I totally all on board for were gates.

I just curious, I don't know whether or not Morrison Creek ever floods.

Does it ever reach like flood stage because that becomes a safety issue and it might be

worth it to be able to close the gate so people can't get in there to possibly drown which

sadly could happen if Morrison Creek raises up to flood type levels.

I don't know if it does or not.

We do have a hydraulic analysis provided to us by DWR for this study and in that hydraulic

analysis it details 100 year flood event stays within the confines of the slope of Morrison

Creek.

That's not to say that these safety concerns aren't valid but the current proposal doesn't

include any gates.

Okay.

And then the last thing is doubling down on that race sidewalk on Logan.

I was curious about the volume of traffic on the road whether it should require something

else to stop traffic as people blow through or move through the space but maybe race sidewalks

and that pinch point will do it.

I don't have the particular traffic numbers with me today but our design team did follow

our pedestrian crossing guidelines when coming with these crossing treatments.

But absolutely we can reevaluate and take a closer look at what race sidewalks wouldn't

be.

That would be great.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Is on the white.

I don't really staff don't share but there was a question about elder Creek and I just

wanted to share with the public that we have tried to pursue funding for planning working

elder Creek and have been unsuccessful but it is one of our priorities and the infamous

transportation priorities plan that you can see if you get our newsletter.

And so those areas are part of the priority efforts that we're working on.

We're not just looking at the creeks but also other transportation improvements in the

area.

Commissioner Banks.

Oh, that's a lot on my screen.

Commissioner Dorr Whisper.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

I'm really excited about this project.

I've been hearing about it for several years myself and appreciate the public for coming

today and sharing their comments.

I think I'm in full support of those recommendations around a race, crosswalk and maybe doing something

with the signal timing of the light.

I thought in the staff report it read that you all had an identified funding to actually

build this project.

Is that correct?

Like this is a feasibility study but then actual construction of the work or could you

maybe speak to that?

This is a feasibility study that will give us the document, the planning document in

order to pursue further funding.

So the construction is not funded.

Okay.

So the construction isn't funded for this.

Yeah.

Okay.

I just wanted to double check and then has staff identified potential funding sources?

We've identified a few but we're still looking for more.

Okay.

Great.

Thank you so much.

Commissioner Banks.

Yes.

I did have one follow up question and that was just about access to the school.

I can't remember if you mentioned it or not.

We know we want, I mean if the trail goes right by the school is there like a gate or

something that kids can just get right in there?

We've spoken with the elementary school and there's a possibility for installing a gate.

It has to, we have to coordinate with the school on security because another access point

to a school is it needs to be secured.

Gotcha.

It would be so great.

Just like.

The convenience factor is desirable.

Thank you.

Okay.

Commissioner, I helped.

So my question is actually for Jennifer.

Jennifer, is this the same project where several neighbors came to us years ago and asked

for our support?

Commissioner Hopper, if you were remembering back to Naila Pope Hardin coming here and

asking for support, yes.

And that was 2018, 2019 and remember she was still pregnant with her child then.

So it was a while ago.

Yeah, Naila was here.

Naila was here just in a different version.

So yes, that is the same exact project.

What's wonderful to see we're making a project on that.

Thanks very much.

Commissioner Littaker.

Thank you and thanks for the presentation.

I'm wondering if there's any equity benefits to this project that you're aware of.

I'm, could you clarify what you're asking please?

Equity or social justice aspects of the project or this project benefit?

Have any benefits for disadvantaged communities or this type of thing?

The source of this project really is a, that community driven effort from 2016.

Going to the city with a project that is, has that kind of drive behind it.

That's why we're doing this.

Commissioner Banks?

No.

Commissioner Moore.

There it is.

I just wanted to elevate to me because comments and really appreciate you sharing yours.

It's often that we'll get a presentation and sometimes community engagement is acknowledged

and we'll get some highlights.

Sometimes it's not mentioned but it works for civic thread and very familiar with community

engagement and the outcome of that engagement varies tremendously with the impact on projects

and the final outcomes.

And so to hear that this project so fully embodies the community values from start to sounds

like finish, I really just commend the city and the team for continuing that vision and

incorporating that in the final outcomes.

Very appreciated and not kind of diluting it with bureaucracy or red tape or limitations.

We sometimes see.

So thank you for the comments.

Thank you for the project.

Thank you very much.

I echo all the positive comments made by everyone else.

Thank you.

I look forward to this project being completed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This item is receive and file so no vote is required so we're going to move on to the

next item.

Which is item number four, the Active Transportation Commission 2024 draft annual report.

Is there a staff presentation?

Yes, there is.

Hello, good evening.

All right.

Hello, good evening.

Jeff Jellisman, a transition player.

Here to discuss the 2024 HEC annual report.

So a quick recap of the process.

I'm just going to hammer this in every time I'm up here.

So right now it's a review and discuss item so that we can finalize the language in the

report, the recommendations, et cetera.

And then hopefully move to approve and forward it to the personnel and public employees.

Committee who will then forward that to City Council.

So hopefully we can have a robust discussion tonight and then maybe finalize it by October

which next month or I think the deadline would be November to get approved so that we

can have it before Council early next year.

So some updates that were made to the report since we last spoke or since we last seen

the report.

Thank you to Vice Chair Gonzalez for the message from the Chair.

So this is the first draft from Vice Chair Gonzalez.

And so we can discuss that tonight when we get to the comment period of the presentation.

And then for the preamble, for the report, it's the same.

I just changed this highlighted sentence in the bottom to reflect the changes in the

recommendations in terms of the phased approach from near term to longer term.

So to get into the actual recommendations.

So there's short term recommendations which were chosen because either they're in progress

like the construction detour policy or maybe the price tag was a little lower or less staff

time was required.

And so those recommendations are the finalized construction detour policy, the ATC dashboard,

expand the electric bike library, increase bike biking and promote e-bike incentives.

And so that rounds out the short term recommendations.

Moving on to the longer term recommendations.

These were larger budget items or more staff required or both.

A lot of these are programmatic in nature as well.

And so increased funding for active transportation infrastructure projects.

Create a quick Sacramento quick build bikeways program.

Develop a citywide safer school program and reestablish the slow and active streets as

well as expand the speed management program.

So that is the longer term recommendations.

So for tonight to move to discussion, we'd like to discuss those changes to the recommendations

terms of the formatting or the grouping however you want to call it.

And the phased approach also the message from the ATC chair.

I would love to discuss that whether or not the language is sufficient for the commission.

And then lastly, the photos and images in the report.

So I apologize for the last minute email for the group photo.

We decided, Jennifer and I decided that it might be best or it's just an idea for

the commission to discuss whether or not you would be open to sending in a photo of yourself

in your district.

And then we could maybe do like a photo collage or put it into the report somehow that way.

It might be a little easier.

So just a crazy idea for the commission.

Also the other images in the report as well.

Those are all up to us.

Those are chosen from previous reports they are not permanent by any means.

So that's it.

I'll put it up for discussion.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mark Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair.

I have two speakers.

Our first speaker is Dan Allison.

Good evening commissioners.

Dan Allison, District 4.

I like the report, I like the format of it.

I would like to see Quick Build bikeways moved up into short term and ongoing obviously.

But I think that project deserves work right now.

So I'd like to see it moved up.

That's all.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Matt Malkin.

Hello everyone.

Matt Malkin representing Land Park Traffic Safety Committee in District 7.

So I just want to thank the commission as always for their ongoing work and making Sacramento

better and safer place to be.

And this report by the city staff represents forward thinking and is also correct on the

data.

However, I feel that there would actually be some additional benefit if we added a little

bit more specific language and a program on intersection control, which is where, again,

active transportation frequently comes into deadly conflict with vehicular transportation.

This is mentioned in part in the speed management, but we have, I think, I have a way that can

fleshless out in a fundable manner.

So recently, as you may have read in the Sacramento Bee, we identified a CalTrans-supported

safety grant that would have provided 9-1 funding match.

So 10% from the city, not even all at once, and 9 from the state.

We also identified a solution that would have scored well that had been previously

unused in Sacramento, which is these modular many roundabouts to retrofit existing intersections.

And they could be installed at quick build speed.

Up to 20 of these would have been scored well and have been funded up to $10 million worth.

The city did not pursue this plan, but there's no reason it cannot be pursued in the next

cycle.

By adding this to the report, the ATC would be able to provide a proven safety measure

that would come with its own funding source and potentially build upon itself in perpetuity.

So please, I would recommend that we add this and follow the lead of other cities around

the country and incorporate this affordable solution that would make all modes of transportation

safety and deliver wind for this council.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

Chair, I have no more speakers.

Thank you.

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

And the answer is yes.

Commissioner Littaker.

Thank you, Chair.

Thanks for the presentation.

I have an easy question to start out with.

These photographs that you want the commissioners to submit, is this like a headshot or

a standing in the community shot?

What was your vision on this?

Well, we hadn't really fully flushed it out.

We thought about this earlier today.

We were thinking it would be something like you would be in your district, so it would

be something that reflects your community wherever that may be.

So maybe if you're in a teleg village, you would take a picture of a teleg village or something

like that.

And a headshot, so we could see who you are and you'd be in the report, would be important.

Two photographs or one?

That has both of those elements.

That's what I was wondering.

Thank you.

And then my other comment is I'm wondering if we can't consider the comment by Matt, you

know, for some content inclusion in the report.

Commissioner Gibson.

Sorry, I was able to attend last week, but I did have our last month, but I was able to

watch.

I guess I would have two.

So first of all, I heard from some commissioners that we thought about reducing the overall

number of ask in this, specifically in the short term.

Again, if we have limited funds, if people are open to reducing the amount of ask to focus

on things that would get more to the heart of traffic calming, traffic safety, the three

I would recommend removing so that our ask are more direct, would be the electric bike

library, bike parking, and e-bike incentive.

I'll just put that out there before I say by other two recommendations.

One would be either this could be a separate line or within the speed management program,

but something along the lines of replace funding for the speed limit program to replace that

funding with traffic roundabouts or intersection calming measures.

I have qualms about the speed limit program.

They do stop people from drag racing, but they aren't at conflict points.

So if we want to identify one source of funding that we can reallocate so we don't ask for

more money, it would be replacing the speed lump funding for the speed lump program with

intersection calming, such as roundabouts, race crosswalks, curve ballabouts, those are

the three immediately off the top of my head.

And then the other area, sorry, to just add more things, I don't know if any other commissioners

would be open to putting in our recommendations to expanding the scope about specifically

around safety.

As I think everyone heard the news, Vice Mayor Maple, Pro Tem, Tal Montes, and Mayor Steinberg

are beginning to get the emergency resolution on this.

And so there isn't one commission dedicated to all traffic safety.

We are within our scope relative to active transportation.

So one thing I want upon the table before I suggest any language is if people are open

to the idea of one of our recommendations being something along the lines of reforming

the duties and powers of this commission to be the Sacramento Active Transportation

Safety Commission so that we would, you know, one of our powers and news would be advised

to city council on safety implementations of all transportation projects proposals for

all uses with a focus and prioritization on safety for pedestrians biking, rolling, and

related projects.

So those are the three thoughts I had, you know, remove a couple items, replace the speed

lump program and scope.

Thank you.

To clarify Commissioner Gibson, so the replace the speed lump program would that be a kind

of a sub point of the speed management recommendation?

I think it'd be nice because it might be a short term option because we have a dedicated

funding source that would probably be elevated.

I think I'd prefer that to be a separate item because of our asking because by understanding

the speed lump program annual funding is around $100 to $200,000, is that correct?

You know, any immediately redirect?

Thank you.

Commissioner Doer, Westbrook.

Thank you.

Okay, so I guess I'll speak to some of your recommendations first.

I'll just want to move on to the one around removing the electric bike library, the

e-bike incentive, and bike parking.

I'm in support of removing those three items.

So just want to let others on the commission know.

I still think they're important.

And as we saw the city of Elk Grove just created their own e-bike incentive.

So we have examples of other communities within our region that have done it, but I won't

fight for it if no one else on the commission really wants to continue to see that one.

So I just wanted to share my support for the removal of those three items.

And then I had some notes, but you already talked about photos.

So yeah, I was just going to see if we could change the cover photo to a more current project.

I think that's from the open streets event that the city did many moons ago.

So that would just be one request that we change it to a newer project.

I think the commissioners in the document might be outdated now.

So we just want to update that to the current commissioners.

And I also noticed throughout the report we reference 2023 commissioners on page three

and four and 2023 costs on page nine.

But this is our 2024 report.

So I was thinking we maybe want to just keep it to 2024.

That was more of a question, I guess.

Sorry, can you repeat that?

Yeah.

Okay.

So this is our 2024 report.

And in the document I noticed on page three and four we talk about 2023 commissioners.

And on page nine we talk about 2023 costs.

Was there a reason we do that?

No, that was the type of.

Okay.

So that was just one, I guess, minor edit.

I'm sorry, I should have wrote the page number.

But when the page that discusses the construction detor policy, it says completed in 2023, that's

not happening.

So we'll just want to revise that.

Well, if we remove bike parking, my comment doesn't matter.

And for increased funding, it says the past two years, let's just change it to the past

few years now because this was written when it had been two years, but not anymore.

So just change to to feel.

And then also speaking to Dan's comment, I love the idea of moving quick builds into

the more near term actions.

And also in support of the other comment, tour and apologies.

Don't remember your name, but around intersection control within the speech management program.

And so I guess I'm also in support of Commissioner Gibson's comment to revise that item.

Thank you.

Commissioner Harris.

Thank you.

We know that we are in a crisis of public safety when it comes to pedestrians.

And I think that our focus on safety, wall being fiscally responsible because we have

another challenge, which is the upcoming budget cycle, which is expected to be worse than

this year for the city of Sacramento.

So with that, I strongly support the removal of non-safety items.

They are all wonderful.

It is not by any means to say they are on worthy projects, but we do have some momentum

with the city management, recognizing and the public, recognizing what a crisis this

is and what's happened this year.

So I also strongly support Commissioner Gibson's suggestion to remove those three items from

the report completely.

If we would like to include them as a side note, but not a proposal, I would be okay with

that, but I do not think we should move them forward.

The win would be to get funding for these public health and safety items.

And I can't in good conscience think that, unfortunately, adding additional e-bikes

would be a higher priority than adding that same funding to additional safety projects

at this time.

I'm also in support of the other change mentioned by the other commissioners and the public

idea of some questions about why we didn't include the quick build.

Is it that it's the creation of the program is two steps?

I just want to understand if there's a reason why that wasn't quick implies short.

So if you could just clarify maybe where misunderstanding.

Thank you.

No, absolutely.

The reasoning behind the grouping of the recommendations was that the quick build

had just a higher ticket.

Item in terms of the budget estimated for that as well as the staffing needed.

And so due to that, I thought that it would take a longer term.

But it does have quick build in the name.

So if the commission would like to move it into the near term, I certainly can do that.

Commissioner Moore.

There he is.

Yeah, just echoing the previous comments from the last meeting that I am also echoing

the support of the removal of the eBike library incentives and bike parking.

I think it's already been said.

If there are commissioners that still feel like the full list is what we should move forward

with, happy to speak on that more.

In responding to commissioner Gibson's comment around the speed lump funding, I have I think

mixed feelings that border on disagreement.

I think I don't disagree with collisions that intersections being a significant issue

and that is where collisions are happening.

But I also don't want to divert like I live on a street that is residential and people

lie through.

There's only two blocks length that don't have a stop sign between and people pick up

speed so fast I would love to see speed bumps there.

And I don't want to look at solutions that are in place that are keeping those from becoming

collisions in the future if we don't allocate speed lumps or funding towards that.

Because I do think they are doing a job.

I think the mixed feelings are that they also people go around them.

Given the emergency access gaps, I think people can still maintain a fair bit of speed.

But definitely not the 45-50 that I see on at least our street that I have seen people

get up to.

So I think that I would like to still see speed lump funding.

I think that does do have a place to play.

I think that is the speed with how many families and people are walking and biking in their

neighborhoods, at least in the one that I live in, to get to parks, to get to the schools

community centers that are nearby.

And that I think is it.

Yes, thank you.

Commissioner Banks.

ECHO, what everybody has said.

I'm all in and dropping the three e-bike library incentives and maybe bike parking.

Is that what the third one was?

I feel really strongly about focusing this report around our dangerous streets and safety

and what we're doing to try to help mitigate that and get back to vision zero.

I don't really see anything in here that really speaks to equity either.

And I think we talk about it a lot.

We make sure that all the projects are first and foremost in the Transportation Priorities

Plan.

And I feel that might need to have a place in here.

And I don't see it yet.

I might have missed it, but I don't think so.

And I love the idea of pushing quick build up to near-term versus long-term, especially

given the possible momentum from Tuesday night.

That's it.

But thank you so much, Jeff and Jennifer, for all the work on this.

Get that in.

Vice Chair, Gonzales.

I want to echo the recommendations that first came from Commissioner Gibson.

And it has been, it sounds like a great upon by most commissioners who have spoken of

removal of the three non-safety items.

The speed lump program, I understand and sympathize with the idea that our major conflicts

happen in intersections.

But I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive.

I think we could have intersection-based driver commy measures and speed lumps as well.

I know many of my neighbors who have fought for and won or been denied speed lumps over

the years would love to solve the opportunity to do so.

In fact, if anything, I want to add in the future log discussion about our speed lump

program and why we disqualify some roads and not others.

I think the whole thought process behind that is kind of our cake and based on internal

combustion engines when we have electric engines that are making those new rules kind of our

cake and unnecessary.

So the support Commissioner Gibson and everyone else getting rid of those three would rather

see split the baby in half and do some of the money away to do roundabouts and some of

the money to continue the speed lump program might be a good compromise.

And then I just want to add that the moment is ripe for us to have a serious discussion

about the state of emergency in our city regarding traffic safety.

As many of you probably have noted through the news past couple weeks and our recommendations

have been mentioned many times in those news articles.

So I want to again echo what I said last month and press upon this commission to try to

finish this next month.

We have nothing else to talk about tonight.

We have 70 minutes left in our lot of time and maybe another hour past set up we wanted

to take it.

We should, I would really recommend that we try to get this done as much as possible tonight

so that we can walk out of here and feel like Jeff is bringing back the final version

for us to approve in October and again to illuminate why is so we can get into the budget

cycle.

If we wait too long, if it takes too long to get through P.B.

and E to city council we may again not see this thing go to city council for approval

till June and then it's too like catch out of the bag another year wasted.

So if we can let's hang your this out and board together and get this to a point where

Jeff can go home and over the next two weeks because like we see just two weeks they

are going to be agenda for the next meeting.

Get this thing to a point where we can say yep that's what we want.

As far as the pictures I like to take a picture together.

That's all.

Commissioner Harris.

I'm wondering if there's a place and I was trying to find in the report specifically

to make a better specific suggestion to include just some language talking about the

possibility to look at the speed lump issue kind of have it both ways, leave it up to city

staff to say you know if there's funding that can be better allocated towards a quick

build program for ready funding that that would be something we would recommend instead

of having to make one way or the other leave it up but there may be some policy reasons

that we can't and I don't think anyone on this.

I don't think anyone's anti speed bump and anti quick build programs and anti many round

about I think we want to see it all the above and leave it up to city staff so if there's

of perhaps the best way forward is just to leave it as an open ended question that we make

a recommendation and that if that funding would be better used from increasing the speed

lumps to intersection traffic calming measures that that would be sufficient.

I don't know if anyone feels strongly I don't think this is anything that people are against.

It's really just a would like more right.

Commissioner Banks and back again.

You know when I think about this plus all the work that we've been thinking about and

spending in the last week with this possible declaration and the work that we did you

know months ago when Councilmember Valenzuela was almost there with quick build for us.

I feel really strongly that we should reorganize this whole thing or this whole report around

safety first and dangerous streets and I also don't think that longer term and shorter

term near term long term helps us.

We have a real strong opportunity right now to hit hard with with what we think is right

and I feel like we should so I think we should be really laser and I think that every time

that we say well like longer term for increasing the funding for the active transportation

infrastructure projects that's totally shooting public works in the foot in my opinion.

It gives a pass to not get the kind of money that we know we need to be able to make the

changes those long term changes that take a lot of time.

We know we need it and so I have a harder time seeing longer term written on top of that

so I would do away with long term and short term reorganize under safety drop off the

other three and really strengthen this report around streets and all the attributes that

will help make our streets stronger and safer for all users and make sure we get the equity

piece in there too.

Commissioner Gibson.

I agree with Vice Chair Gonzalez that we should finish up tonight hopefully within under

an hour from now to respect our time because I think we're all pretty much right there.

I agree with Commissioner Banks if we can just have those seven items or eight depending

on how ever it balances out and when it comes to the me bringing up the speed lump issue

I walk by speed lumps every day while walking my dog and son they are valuable but to Mr.

Malkin from the Land Park Safety Committee there is matching funds available for roundabouts

if we can get access that and if what he says is accurate which I hope is which is why

kind of more of the suggestion is because if we're able to get matching funds that can

really be very useful so that's by protecting the balance table and hopefully we can all

wrap this up promptly.

Commissioner Banks?

No.

No.

Just making sure.

Thank you.

Commissioner Harris.

Could we bring up the long term short term but the proposal since we're getting close

to possibly a decision and then we could make a decision about whether we're going to

be.

I also have all of them here.

Bumped them or not?

But it's not faith.

This isn't the phase.

Can we see the two phases first?

So the short term would be down to getting rid of the bottom three we just have two there.

Am I missing anything?

So the suggestion is to just have one list instead.

Does anyone strongly disagree with that?

So would they not come back to it?

One great list.

I'm for it.

I move that we have one list with seven issue items whatever we're down to.

Yeah.

I don't like the long term short term.

I think in the report that in the current form it seems like we've lost our priority list.

Like this is the most important thing and which is funding and then after that I suppose

we can have a discussion.

I also want to make sure that everyone reads the message from the chair and I sort of feel

that that statement could be strengthened with our in our current situation regarding

the emergency declaration and the number of deaths that are occurring.

But more open in it or more.

So Commissioner Harris I'm not sure that I addressed your comment.

I think you're fine I was just going to have one follow up which was how do we want to

order them?

Can we is it okay to just order them by the amount high to low, low to high?

It's not that's like a non-judgmental format or do we want to have a back forth?

Yeah.

I'm going to go to Commissioner Westbrook.

Door Westbrook sorry.

No you're okay.

Well were you even going to speak to Commissioner Harris's point?

Maybe I'll let you go first.

If that's okay.

I just thought safety is the obvious way to rank it given the conversation we're having

today.

I'm just concerned that we will disagree on what is the safest and was suggesting a

non-biased high to low, low to high, do not care.

But let's not get stuck on the safety.

They all are needed for safety because we got rid of the ones that are not safety focused

and I don't think we're going to have consensus.

So does anyone feel strongly high to low, low to high?

Not that way.

Better plan.

Yeah.

Okay.

Sorry.

Just one point of clarification just because we do have a year one cost a minute versus

a recurring cost estimate.

So low to high based on the total of the two or year one, just wanted to make that abundantly

clear.

Because some are actually cheaper on the recurring as opposed to the following.

Oh, I see.

Probably the year one I would assume.

Okay.

Yeah.

I think that makes sense.

I think that puts quick builds immediately after funding more active transportation projects,

which seems like we're all in support of.

So I think that's good.

There was one other point I was going to make.

I think I've lost it.

Oh, sorry.

Just on the chair letter, I agree with you, Chair Hodele.

I do think we can specifically call out how many lives have been lost on our city streets

and I think we should do that.

We have that information.

So I agree with you there that we can just continue to maybe just add a little, no, we can't

do that.

Sorry, Commissioner Deere Westbrook.

So we don't have accurate data for this calendar year for the number of fatalities.

For a number of reasons.

Yeah.

We're not done with the calendar year.

It's the data that Commissioner Gibson references is usually from the county coroner's office,

which doesn't give a specific location.

It's only within the county of Sacramento.

So there is a lack.

We can talk about 2022.

Confidently for our data, 2022 and back.

We're still processing 2023 data.

And obviously don't have much on 2024 data yet.

Thank you for that.

So maybe instead we reference the Smart Growth America dangerous by design report.

I think that I'm assuming uses that 2022 data.

No, okay.

We'll have to double check.

But anyways, I'm supportive of your recommendation to maybe just beef that up.

And then also I just noticed when I was reviewing it that the letter wasn't signed by you.

So let's add your signature.

Thanks.

Commissioner Littaker.

Thank you, Chair.

I just want to also say in favor of prioritizing quick build with that's a move issue.

I think that each initiative should discuss their equity benefits systematically,

just in the text of the description.

If that's not already done.

Commissioner Littaker, that is a big ask for the turnaround time for

which we have staff have to get the report finalized in a review in less than two weeks.

And we don't always have an information on the equity piece of it because things like speed management,

where and how hasn't been determined yet.

So is or not in our SB 535 communities, which are official does a disadvantaged communities.

We don't have that.

So I think it's probably premature to identify for specific recommendations,

the equity piece.

However, well, should the commission support this?

And we could reference as Commissioner Banks mentioned earlier the transportation priorities plan

and prioritizing through that, which has an equity component, a significant equity component

for how the city of Sacramento makes its decisions around prioritizing transportation investments.

Thank you.

And then also, probably this is not going to fly well either is also talk about the safety benefits of each initiative.

Commissioner Littaker, again, because we don't have the actual effort,

so what is happening in the speed management program could be different things.

And I'll get into our, I think our engineers left the room.

But like the crash reduction factor for one thing would be different than another item.

And so I think that it may be in the chairs, I'm blanking on the word now, opening statements,

which I know as well as calls.

We could talk about, we can add narrative and that says we prioritize those treatments

that are shown to have significant crash reduction factors.

Commissioner Banks.

Thank you.

I really like the high to low and it seems to fall out naturally, especially when we take out the three.

So I think that's great.

Jennifer, you just mentioned that you guys are crunching 2023 data.

Do we get a presentation on that perhaps maybe at the early 2025 or at the end of 2023?

Because we're going to wrap this up tonight.

That'd be awesome.

Commissioner Banks, we are, I think I've mentioned that we have a newer staff person on my team

who is working on data analysis.

And so we are taking the crash data from the police department.

And putting, basically putting in a GIS and creating a data dashboard.

We are still going through the vetting process though and it needs to be approved by the city

attorney's office and the police department.

So there's still some vetting for it to happen, but it is one of the dashboards that we are

working on.

In addition to the transportation priorities plan, we will be publishing a city, a publicly available

city crash dashboard.

But I won't be happening within the timeline for your report if your goal is to have it approved

here in November for council.

But it will be my guess in 2025 we will be bringing it to you.

Yeah, I was thinking that you would just give us the numbers, not the beautiful dashboard

that will be created, but some of the crunched data like we know we've had X number of

cigarette injuries and the location of a lot of those, there's a big red bubble over

this area versus some, you know, bigger, higher picture versus the finished beautiful,

fantastic dashboard to creating.

Thank you, Commissioner Banks.

I guess I would ask because we have two weeks to turn it around and we're very short staff,

I would ask for a specific direction from the commission of what years you want us to

look at, what type of crashes you want us to look at, you know, injury, severe injury,

fatality, and so that we can go and look at that and have a high level view rather than

us guess and come back to you in November with something that isn't meeting your satisfaction.

Yeah.

I don't want to take time away from this, but if we have extra time and anybody else

is interested in asking public work staff to help us see some of this information, it

would be really, I think it would be really helpful.

We can save it for later, but it would be good in my view.

Commissioner Doar whisper.

Thank you.

Jennifer's comment made me think.

I mean, it sounds like you have staff now working on a dashboard in this effort to take

things off the list.

Do you feel like what your staff is working on kind of meets what we were hoping to achieve

through our ATC dashboard?

Or at least the parts of that.

Commissioner Doar whisper your requested dashboard includes letters from the ATC to mayor

and council.

I don't think that's something that we will be doing.

Policies updated or under review by the ATC.

No.

Grants of the city is applied for an outcomes, probably not.

Projects reviewed by the ATC, no, but our goal ultimately is to have planned projects.

It was already have TPP, right?

So all of our plans and working on our current infrastructure projects also getting those

up there.

That is under progress.

Bicycle and pedestrian counts, no, because we don't have a way to do that at this time.

Other than what we do in that grants require us to, but we don't have a database for that,

and that's probably a larger effort.

Bicycle and pedestrian injuries and fatalities, yes, because that is the crash dashboard.

In progress, I'm meeting our GHD and VMT targets.

Yes, we could readily do our, trying to think about how we would do that.

I don't know how.

I don't know how we would quantify that.

So we would probably need to spend some time.

So I could say that we would do the, the areas of fatalities are existing, are our plans,

transportation projects, and our current transportation projects are things that we're currently

looking at today.

So I will leave it up to you, but whether or not you want to leave this on or not.

Okay, well, since I wrote this, I will say.

When is the, sorry, when is the safety work going to have?

Commissioner Harris asked when, what are they going to be ready?

So my, my gut is telling me, we're validating data, so it takes some time and work with other

departments, so all these sub-cavvettes and astrasse.

My goals to have the crash dashboard available for the public in early 2025.

The current transportation projects is not on my team as a different division.

That's, we're a, actually, we're building sustainability now in the new division.

The current transportation projects, the ones that James who is here is working.

He's in a different division and they're leading that, so I can't tell you when or how,

that'll happen, but it is on the work plan.

Maybe the next year or two.

God, thank you so much.

So I just can say, I think I am going to recommend to the commission tonight that we do remove this.

I can already think of a few other places where some of this information is going to be located.

So as far as letters from the ATC to the mayor and council, I mean, our report is that letter

and that lives on the ATC's webpage, that the city clerk's office manages.

So I think that has been addressed.

Policies under review, if anyone were to look at any of our meeting agendas,

all of the things that we discuss here are in those agendas which are live on the city's website.

So I think that is also really being addressed already.

Same with grants, any grant that you all apply for, you come to the commission,

it's on the agenda that is available.

So I think those first three are already met.

Actually, first four or two because you also talk about projects here.

So those are on the agenda.

I'm as far as council at the state level.

We are developing California Active Transportation Data Portal.

So I think that information could potentially live there.

And I don't think we need to invest city resources and developing something new.

And then what you're working on now with staff is covering the pedestrian,

bicycle and pedestrian injuries and fatalities.

The progress on meeting our GHG goals feel like that's something maybe a database

that say, Cog might actually manage.

So I'm like, the more I look at this, I'm like, okay, maybe that's something

that is more applicable at a regional level, which you all are in close coordination with them.

So anyways, all that to say, trying to narrow our list,

and this is an additional item that I would like to propose.

We will remove as well.

I think the needs are being met at other places right now.

Commissioner, if you want to remove it, sure item.

Sounds great, smaller list, more impactful.

A few things will quickly.

The corners list does provide an intersection zip code and a legit city.

So you can look sort of where there's any plug-in into a mapping feature.

99% of the time you can figure if it's city proper or not.

So playing with that website.

And then when it comes to any kind of figures or data,

I'm going to volunteer myself to get it done by Monday, September 30th,

for any kind of figures or data.

Just would that be enough turnaround time for you all?

If I don't get it done, it doesn't get done, but I just wanted to.

9am, Monday morning, the 30th, so give me a week in change.

Commissioner Gibson, just going to add another wrinkle to our schedule challenge.

Jeff's going to be on vacation.

And then I'm going to be on vacation because we have exciting things happening.

Not together, separate, but exciting things happening.

And so we're advancing our schedule for the October meeting,

so that because Jeff and I are those that manage it.

And so the 30th probably is not going to make it.

Jeff, did we figure out any time for when we needed to get our staff reports in early?

I don't have the opt-out in my head right now.

But I think...

Yeah, the 30th would be really cutting it short.

Can you suggest a second date that would be appropriate for both of you?

Because I have some of these figures made, they're maybe not publication pretty,

but I could try to work on that.

If you could get it the week of the, like next week,

by like the 26th, 27th.

If I get it in by on the morning on the 26th, that would be great.

And I'm going to try my best to do it, if not, sorry.

Yeah, I could certainly try my best to turn that around.

Definitely, but so we would be taking that data and then integrating that into the chair,

message from the chair.

Correct.

That would be my intention that the message from the chair,

and then having some supporting figures, maybe three or four charts, images.

Remember?

And I might pull some stuff from the UC-TEMS too.

So...

I'm just going to pull up that message real quick, so maybe we can...

discuss where that would actually live.

So we aimed in hand safety, reduced greenhouse gas emissions,

and encouraged a healthy active lifestyle among our citizens.

Maybe kind of expand upon that.

I was personally just planning on providing the images,

not planning on updating the text, but I...

Oh, gotcha.

Okay.

So like after the last sentence, just kind of including some figures and facts.

Yeah, and then some captions, you know,

or the commissioner or chair's comments, part two,

I could probably ward Smith it to make it sound a little bit better than that.

Okay.

Maybe like this, this state of the emergency, you know?

Yeah.

Commissioner Gibson, I think the thing I would caveat, I know it's your commission's report.

When you look at the data, the city has not vetted, obviously the corner is the county corner's data.

The team's data is from our police report data,

and so that's something that I think we'd be more comfortable with using,

rather than the corner's office, which we...

It's not ours.

Okay.

Not from...

Just a note.

I can maybe say this is what the corner's office says for 2023.

Commissioner Harris, I love data, but I concur that it sounds like a lot of that information

may be better served in other locations than a dedicated ATC dashboard.

And so, unless we hear any strong opposition, I would suggest we remove that.

It's sort of...

I agree.

Commissioner Westbrook's proposal that we could take it off to have a more narrow hard-hitting list.

I do think that it's...

If there was a place to highlight the upcoming dashboard in our text about accomplishments that are coming up,

perhaps that's a place that we could add that in, but if it doesn't have a home in the existing document,

I don't want to add extra work, but I think it is important for us to also acknowledge the work that this commission and staff does every day on staffs.

In the case of the staff, to promote moving the needle.

So, thank you.

Jeff, I think you've received some input.

I did indeed.

I'll just recap it.

There's no more comments.

Just so that we're on the same page.

So, I'm going to go to the summary of the recommendations.

So, we'll be removing pilot and electric e-bike library, as well as the promote e-bike incentives,

and the increased bike parking and the development ATC dashboard.

Remove the phase approach for one list that will be prioritized by your one-cost estimates.

Hide a low.

And then include some safety data and facts and figures from Commissioner Gibson and the chair from the message from the chair.

And then fix those typos that you mentioned.

I saw that.

I saw that.

And fix the bullet that does not have a bullet.

Yes.

Anything else?

I'm going to open the statement on safety.

And some increased emphasis on safety and the opening message.

Can we have the commissioners in alphabetical order?

It seems like it's why my name is at the bottom.

Unless it's the way in which we sit.

Yeah, we could definitely accommodate that.

Not sure why it's like that.

Can we make it alphabetical?

It makes more sense when you're reading it.

People aren't going to read this and go, oh, right.

I think it's organized by like the seat.

I think that's how it is, but I'm happy to do it alphabetically if that's how folks.

Well, if it has to be organized by, if it needs to be organized by seat,

and that's an important piece, then that should be written in.

Sure.

And then for this district or this seat, et cetera, or alphabetical.

Please.

Okay.

Anything else from anybody before we?

Uh-huh.

Commissioner Moore.

Just to elevate commissioner Banks's comment around the equity component.

We also love to see some direct statements around safety and the disproportionate impacts on low income and disadvantaged communities.

We could put those in there.

Commissioner Moore.

So the staff can't write that.

So we need somebody to nominate themselves to write that and get it to us in the next seven days.

I'm hearing commissioners.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

So I think that's a great question.

I think the message is to the message or to be like in in lieu of it.

I think the message.

Yeah, a front with the message I think would be great to have if they're if we can sprinkle that into the report.

I think equity deserves to be highlighted.

But certainly like a front center on the message.

So I guess do I just write?

What do I have to have?

Kind of like.

So the process would be you would you would write it and then send it to me via email.

Just to comment some cells are kind of the whole.

So I think that you would like to include in the report.

Okay.

And where are you?

Okay.

Commissioner door whisper.

Sorry, mine's not that important.

It's just curious this whole process.

I mean, even this conversation that we're having now is largely off of a report that we were able to like meet as a committee and actually write.

How is like the city staff going to pursue this effort in the future when we're not using a document that we were able to like meet and write together?

I was just more like longer term because I noticed you had in your slide like this is going to be like on a yearly basis will meet from August to October.

And like that was the time frame when you were using what we wrote but like starting to think maybe it needs we're going to need more time next year.

So I just was curious about if you guys are already thinking about future years how the how this report is going to.

Yeah, I can answer that.

Okay.

So yeah, so we started this effort when we used to be able to have subcommittees.

Currently, if you're following PNPE is that there is conversation about the ability to have commissioners meet in small groups.

I don't know what the outcome of that will be but this would be a wonderful thing for commissions to take on this report rather than staff trying to write a report for the commission and really just building your over year.

So that's one thing that we are following to see if that can happen.

If we hear from commissioners that this process is we're not starting early enough and you like us to start earlier we typically start in August if you want us to you don't meet in July.

So we would have to start that in May or June before the calendar years yet half over we can start that and we'll follow it your direction.

Thank you Jennifer.

Vice Chair Gonzalez.

I just want to share with the rest of the commission that the chair and I are aware that our next meeting may be very stacked.

So if you have anything to say we will not have the lecture of this much time in October to discuss this issue.

So say it now.

Commissioner Harris.

Can we just take a photo after this?

Is that a lab doubt?

No.

It's not an action item on the agenda so therefore you can't vote.

It is a review and comment you vote next month.

Photo.

Oh the photo I thought you said a vote.

No.

We could get a photo.

Yeah.

We can do that.

Then we get the whole because we didn't and we didn't settle the photo thing did we sense I that was a question and so it's that it's moved on to take the photo.

We did we did not sell the photo or yeah well take a selfie while we sit in our spot.

Okay.

At the end.

Great.

Commissioner helped.

So very briefly my understanding is we can have committees we simply need to get authority from the PNPE committee to create the committee.

So even if the ad hoc committee proposal doesn't go anywhere we could go to the PNPE committee to ask for the authority.

Commissioner help you're you're very correct however the process to get to PNPE to get the approval to do that will take months.

And so it's just it's it's it's a lengthy process but that that process is currently available now so but it.

Staff would need to agenda is that which takes about two months to agenda is and then depending on how PNPE decides to incorporate it into their calendar it just could take some time but it's definitely a possibility.

Though we can't do it tonight perhaps we should start that process for next year.

Commissioner let it go.

I support the idea of starting the process now for next year.

To get a committee.

I see no more names.

This item is review and provide direction so no vote is required we will move on to the next item.

Next item is commissioner comments ideas and questions are there any commissioners that wish who wish to speak commissioner Gibson.

Sorry was not able to attend that last month I was sick in the time between the last time I spoke and that meeting there was at least four fatalities of people either walking or biking.

And so our last meeting there have been three people.

Azur Daniels office southern field road near community college on September 12th.

Then Gio so a first year physicians president at UC Davis in the psychology department that was off of Al hamburger roll for it on August 19th she was writing a scooter.

She was on the other section of Franklin Boulevard and just wish to thank our city leaders and everybody who spoke on Tuesday night in support of the emergency resolution.

Vice chair guns all.

I want to commend all my fellow commissioners for the work they've done the past few years on the annual reports.

I think because we've been so intentional and deliberate and thoughtful in our reports it's been repeated in the press as a as something that may have aided in the increased safety enhancements that our city so badly needed so kudos to all of you for your work and let's keep on doing that.

I really do hope the moment is right for our city to begin looking at pedestrian cyclists rolling and road safety and a new much more urgent way.

I want to bring up a comment that was emailed to me from a member of the community who request that the a potential bike pedestrian access over the new business 80 bridge come before the actor transportation at some point.

I want to note that it's very important to connect both sides of our river and would love to see something either come up the Union Pacific track or make use of Phil Angelidys 20 year assessment easement.

Excuse me through McKinley Village to provide a safe landing ramp for an over crossing that's his words not mine so perhaps in a future commission meeting we can discuss the potential of that pedestrian cyclists multi use bridge.

And lastly if the commission would indulge me I would like to adjourn this evening in the memory of Maggie O'Mara Maggie O'Mara was yes Maggie passed away Maggie passed away on August 16th she was a long time.

She was a member of the town of Park neighborhood association which I have the honor to serve on and was very instrumental in working on the 34th street and T street bike lane underneath highway 50.

Thank you commissioner Moore.

I also think everybody who came out to Tuesday's city council meeting it you know there are a lot of emails that get shared and conversations and support of the action and comments on the action.

To take the time out of your schedule and to prioritize showing up here physically to sit through what was believe over a four hour meeting.

It takes a lot and so I just really appreciate it ready that did you know take that opportunity and had the privilege to take that opportunity to be here for that and share your comments this is a much needed opportunity to appreciate the opportunity that vice mayor may pose putting forward.

Do have feelings that it needs to be done right and just share the echo the sentiments that you know this is an opportunity and that everybody came out last night in support of that around Tuesday should say so thank you.

Commissioner Banks.

Same super excited about the opportunity that we have right now I do feel it's a window of opportunity that we shouldn't squander that's why I think we should go really strong on this report.

I also want to thank Jennifer and Megan who I saw out through the whole meeting as well so you know the advocates when you choose to come to city council you're in for the long haul and you just kind of know it but these guys had that spend their night also and that was a long night right.

Yeah it was a long night and so I think you guys also especially yeah for that night.

Okay thank you commissioners.

The last item is public comments matters not on the agenda clerk are there any members of the public who wish to speak on public comments matters not on the agenda.

Thank you chair I have two speaker slips our first speaker is Dan Allison.

Good evening again commissioners Dan Allison district four.

I know that there are concerns about bike parking security around city hall and elsewhere and I just want to point out to any commissioners that bicycle here to the meetings or any members of the public that bicycle here.

There are bike link lockers.

Cady corner from city hall on 11th street.

All you need to do is get a bike link locker it's secure parking costs three to five cents an hour.

There are only four slots if everybody rode their bikes there wouldn't be enough space but that's a good problem to have because that's a way of encouraging the city to install more.

My other comment relates to the emergency declaration.

I was one of the people who stayed for four hours to make a comment and I think it's critically important that that process move forward.

It seems unlikely to me that the council would turn down the emergency declaration but of course the details are important how it's actually implemented.

I will point out that there's quite a distance between what was initially proposed by the three council members and what the commission has proposed.

The council members were proposing mostly non infrastructure stuff and you have proposed primarily infrastructure stuff.

So I'm going to suggest that the way of getting together on that is that the commission and the council meet together and talk about it.

I don't know the logistics of that but I think it would be an outstanding conversation to have.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comment. Our next speaker is Matt Anderson.

Good evening again commission.

I'm going to say pretty much what Dan Allison just said.

I'd hardly agree that everyone here knows we don't have the money.

There's an emergency. We're not going in the right direction for vision zero and I think that fact is percolating on to city council at this point.

I don't know if you're going to have a public community meeting and to have an honest conversation of all right we're going in the wrong direction.

What are we going to do as a council as a community to turn this around with no money with less money in the future.

What are our options and I know lots of people here in the community are pushing for quick build.

Obviously that's one of them but what else is available to us.

I think that open honest conversation would be really good.

I'm sorry to put that on staff as something to propose but that would be a good thing to do.

I also want to agree with the chair's statement that like the opening statement for that report should be punchy.

And I'm just going to have read out a couple of stats that I already had for you all.

So staff be disagree with this one. That's fine but in Sacramento city limits you're more likely to be killed by a car than by a homicide.

For each Sacramento killed by a vehicle another four are seriously injured often resulting in permanent disabilities.

On average over 5,000 people are injured in car crashes every year.

Sacramento has the highest rate of traffic fatalities per capita amongst all pure cities in California.

Dangerous roadways have extremely inequitable effects.

44% of all fatal crashes occur in underserved communities which comprise only 25% of the streets.

According to the Sacramento County corner 128 people have been killed in particular collisions in Sacramento County over this year.

At least 20 of them in on city roads.

And I don't have time for the rest but there was a traffic enforcement near my intersection and it resulted in an average of one citation every nine minutes which is just kind of wild.

The need is there. So thank you very much.

Thank you for your comment. Chair I have no more speakers.

Thank you. This concludes today's agenda. Thank you everyone for your participation. The meeting is adjourned.