Thank you.

Chair staff is ready when you are.

Good evening.

Welcome to the October 17th, 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?

Here.

Commissioner Gibson?

Here.

Commissioner Duo Westbrook?

Here.

Commissioner Ladickard?

Here.

Vice-Charkin Zalas?

Present.

Commissioner Ha?

Here.

Commissioner Gors?

Absent?

Commissioner Moore?

Here.

Commissioner Banks?

Absent and Chair Hodeal?

Here.

Thank you.

We'll have a quorum.

I would like to remind members of the public in 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 niece and on people, the southern Maidu, Valley and Plains, Mewak, Patwyn and Windon peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancharia, 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 act of practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous people's 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 it stands one nation under God in the visible with the Indigenous people.

The first business today is the Commission staff report. Staff you may proceed.

Thank you, Chair Hodele, Jennifer Donlon-Miant, Transportation Planning Manager, and it's good to be here with you this evening.

I have only a few items for you tonight to update.

The first is I'd like to introduce you to our new Civic Spark Fellow, Graham Dillion, Graham's there in the audience.

She started with us a couple of weeks ago. You might have remembered Dylan Samden, who was our fellow last year.

Graham is our fellow this year, and Graham is just getting started in the process of working with us in the city.

This is a program of service.

So in addition to helping us do a lot of work, she'll also be doing some community service.

Graham's workload will include, we're still working through that, but community engagement and by parking and maybe some education.

So I wanted to welcome Graham to our team. We're so happy to have her.

We also have a new commissioner who's not here. Jose Gourous.

And so I was planning on introducing him, having him introduce himself at this point, but he was appointed by Councilman Ravang,

nominated by Councilman Ravang, and then appointed by the full city council.

So when he joins us, we'll show him do a little introduction about himself.

And then last but not least, we have two vacant positions on commission.

We don't get our newsletter, because you would have seen it in our newsletter.

Please sign up for our newsletter, but our newsletter, but we have two vacant seats, and I encourage you all as commissioners and members of the audience to encourage folks to sign up for the vacant seats.

The two vacant seats are one, a professional with experience in transportation planning or transportation engineering.

It is a city-wide position, so that process goes through the PMP Committee of City Council and then to full council for appointment.

And the next position is a new position, a youth seat that has been added to our commission.

So for a youth position, the person should be between, hold on, and pull it up just to be sure.

At least 16 years old and not older than 22 at the time of appointment.

Similarly, though, goes through PMP, which is the personnel and public employees committee of city council and then goes to the full city council.

So please share the word that we have openings on the commission, and that is my staff report.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next is the approval of the consent calendar.

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

Thank you, Chair. I have no speakers list for this item.

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

Commissioner, do our Westbrook.

Thank you, Chair Haudell. I had an actual question about the staff report. Is it okay if I go back to that?

Chair.

Oh, okay, thank you.

Thank you so much, Jennifer, for your presentation, and welcome.

I think you're on a fantastic team. So I'm really excited to see the work that you end up doing with them.

Back to the openings on the commission.

I have a question for you, or maybe the city clerk's office.

I know we had some vacancies and applications were due September 30th.

Were those extended at all the application deadline date?

Do we know?

I'm not too sure I will have to get in touch with the city clerk, and then I'll get back to you, okay?

Okay, that would be fantastic.

And then the next question was clarification on when there are current seats where the term are ending.

It's my understanding that the individual that is in the position stays there until a new person has been appointed.

Is that correct? Or does your term end on the date that is listed on the city's website?

Again, I will have to get back to you. I'll have to get in touch with the city clerk.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you so much. That was all I had. So thank you, Jim.

Clerk, maybe we can report back before the next meeting because we have one more meeting before the end of the calendar year.

We're most inspiring terms expire.

And we have a pretty packed January agenda.

And if we don't have half of our commission, we don't have a quorum.

And so just trying to figure out how that works.

Great. Thank you.

Okay. Are there any commissioners? Oh, where did that?

So now I need a motion and a second motion.

Second motion by commissioner Gonzalez and a second by commissioner Hopt.

Will the clerk please call the roll for the vote?

Thank you, Chair. Commissioner Harris.

Aye.

Commissioner Gibson.

Commissioner Doe Westbrook.

Aye.

Commissioner Liddickard.

Abstain.

Vice-Chairgons-Alas.

Yes.

Commissioner Hopt.

Aye.

Commissioner Gors.

Absent.

Commissioner Moore.

Aye.

Commissioner Banks.

Absent and Chair Hodell.

Aye.

Thank you, motion passes.

We'll now proceed to the discussion calendar, but we're going to start with item number four.

Then we'll do item three and our final item will be number five.

So item number four is Assembly Bill AB 43 project.

Is there a staff presentation?

A big commissioners of the active transportation commission.

My name is Joe Eger C. Along with public works traffic engineering design group.

And I'm here to provide you with an overview and update of the AB 43 project.

I am joined by Jim Dankewitch with our consultant DKS associates.

The AB 43 project is underway to evaluate the post-it speed limits within the city,

with the goal of reducing post-it speeds that are also enforceable,

and in accordance with Assembly Bill 43, Assembly Bill 1938,

and the updated California vehicle code.

This effort supports city goals to improve multimodal safety and vulnerable user safety.

It is also important to note that enforcement of these reduced speeds

will be an important factor in their effectiveness.

In addition to identifying opportunities to reduce post-it speeds,

this project will provide prioritization to address the most crucial roadway segments first,

as we continue to address all of the city's roadway segments.

Some of the major changes associated with AB 43 include the addition additional designation

of business activity districts, senior zones, safety corridors,

and additional opportunities to round down and reduce the post-it speed limit

from the 85th percentile speed.

Additional opportunities include reducing some post-it speeds to 20 or 15 miles per hour.

The updated vehicle code also allows us to extend engineering and traffic surveys

up to 14 years and implement previous post-it speeds.

City staff continue to evaluate and recommend reduced post-it speed limits when able

for the over 500 existing roadway segments with engineering and traffic surveys.

Reduced post-it speed limits associated with these efforts were recently approved by City Council.

These engineering and traffic surveys represent months of city staff efforts

and collecting data, analyzing, and documenting justifications for reducing post-it speeds

for city council approval.

With hundreds of roadway segments remaining to be evaluated,

we have tasked our consultant, DKS, to also provide prioritization metrics

to identify roadway segments to focus on first.

For school zones, the proposed prioritization metrics will include locations

with younger students' presence within the city's high-endery network,

half pedestrian and bicycle collision history,

and locations within a Cal and Viral Screen Disadvantaged Community.

All school zones will be considered.

For business activity districts, residential and senior zones,

the proposed prioritization metrics will include locations within the city's high-endery network

with collision history and locations located within a Cal and Viral Screen Disadvantaged Community.

For traffic and engineering survey roadway segments,

the proposed prioritization metrics will include locations with the history of speed-related collisions,

half pedestrian or bicycle collision history,

half general collision history, and are adjacent to schools and senior facilities,

and locations within a Cal and Viral Screen Disadvantaged Community.

These proposed prioritization metrics will allow us to focus our efforts for our evaluation

as we work our way through all city roadway sections.

Looking ahead, our goal is to include the AB43 project recommendations

towards the end of the year as we continue to evaluate and update our post-it speed limits.

This concludes the presentation, and we are happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you. 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 Ellison.

Good evening commissioners. I am glad that the city is looking at speed limits,

and the main things I have to say is, one, faster we get to it, the better,

because we have a backlog that needs to be addressed,

so accelerating as much as possible is a good thing.

Second, I am a little bit confused by the commercial streets thing,

and I realize that is the state law and not your thing,

but we would hope that mixed use shows up everywhere in the city of Sacramento,

so all streets be commercial use, eventually.

Lastly, I want to say that even though the speed limits will be changed or not increased at any rate,

I and most other people don't believe that direct law enforcement of speed limits is the correct response.

The city should continue to request that it be allowed to join the pilot project for speed cameras,

and when that program becomes permanent to make sure that they are participant in the speed camera program.

Thank you.

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

Good evening commissioners. Dan basically said everything that I was going to say,

but really encouraged to move as quickly as possible, very excited about this project.

A big thank you to everyone who is a part of this.

Absolutely excited. I am going to one up the enforcement thing and say,

actually, I would like to see if there could be any design changes that happen concurrently with this.

I know not permanent ones that take like 10 plus years,

but if we can get delineating your posts or small changes along with some of these speed limit changes,

that would be amazing.

If that's not a program that the city currently does, which it is not to my knowledge,

I would be very curious if that's something they could do or what it would take to make such a program.

But either way, I really appreciate that this is happening and very excited to see it happen.

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?

Commissioner Gibson.

Thank you. First of all, you and the rest of the city for your efforts to put this together.

One question I do have is if this program is implemented, how long does it take an individual street to get its speed potentially changed?

Just looking at some of these maps provided in the staff report,

there's 50 to 100 individual streets. Is it just one person saying it meets some qualifications on the map

and will change the sign or how much in depth is that?

Should I clarify for myself and everyone else?

It takes a couple of months.

It's all usually taking care of with internal staff.

We have to collect speed data, 80T counts, then we evaluate for any of the new metrics that AB43 allows,

provide justification for reducing or rounding down.

Then of course it needs to go to the city council for approval and be distributed to law enforcement and the court to be able to enforce.

So generally the process for any given segment is at least a few months to go through the process.

Okay, thank you. I assume they're done in bulk. It's like a process.

So I think the last time I saw reports that were about 15 or so streets considered last time I went to council.

Is that just so I understand the staffing that goes into is that like one FTE a year to do that, one FTE over those three months.

Typically the speed survey has lasted seven to ten years.

So say the 10 year mark at any given year we have to do one tenth of the city streets because they're going to expire and no longer be enforceable.

So generally they go and batches of 50.

So there's opportunity to again and more staff resources to get larger batches and we're certainly doing so to get through as much as we can.

Thank you very much.

Commissioner Moore.

I just want to echo the things for this project very much looking forward to the speed reduction and hopeful safety improvements.

I had two questions. One was on similar to Commissioner Gibson's as far as costs is I imagine it's just replacing the signs outside of staff time to do the analysis for actual is that accurate.

Are there any other for seen kind of barriers financial wise to implementing the actual speed reduction.

That's correct beyond the staff time is just a matter of us switching out the speed.

And then the other question I had the MUTCD was recently updated and saw and I don't know the exact language that's more of an engineering document than I'm capable of interpreting entirely.

But it did allow for adjustments for setting the speed right beyond the 85th percentile to include surrounding land uses and I think by competitive demand or maybe existing additions.

Can you elaborate a little bit on the relationship between AB 43 and kind of that most recent update and if they're in alignment with each other does one supersede the other.

So it's AB 43 amended the California vehicle code the California MUTCD kind of outlines how we go about processing that change.

So it starts with the vehicle code and as you mentioned it gave more information to the MUTCD in their last version eight I think version that the reason they came out with.

Okay. Thank you.

Vice Chair Gonzalez.

Thank you. Just for the presentation appreciate it very much for informative glad to see you have a prioritization matrix based on need and data.

I have a question for you we're not making changes to the built environment beyond changing out signs and I believe it may be there.

Our policy or at least a practice in the city that when we had a stop sign to an intersection we add flags.

So we're going to do a little bit of that to the intersection as well to that sign to let people know there's a new stop sign here and their normal traffic patterns should be augmented to reflect the change.

Since we make no changes to the built environment and people are driving down streets probably streets are familiar with.

Could we do something similar to those signs at least alert people that there's been a change to the speed limit.

So it's something we can look into I'd have to look into further and provide a feedback if you're interested.

I mean I think it's necessary because I quite honestly I think most people ignore speed limit signs and again if there's no changes and a sign just gets swapped down and it's five miles power people may not notice but.

So I think we're not trying to get the change to the built environment which we need obviously to get the behaviors we want.

Thank you again for the presentation.

Commissioner Dora Westbrook.

Thank you so much and yeah thank you for your presentation.

In the neighborhood that I live in we recently had the speed reduced and the signs were used and it drew my attention to the fact that the speed had been reduced by think about five miles per hour.

So yeah support that recommendation also with love to see the city be able to implement quick build efforts in addition to the sign because I mean I'm happy to see that we're moving forward and reducing speeds across the city but I think there's more.

Design changes that need to take place on the roadway for us to truly see a reduction in speed so yeah that's something I think that will continue to hear from from this body is that on in addition to the signs we'd love to see like the streets themselves change and have more traffic calming measures included.

So I have a question though for locations where you know the city or your consultant goes out and you determine the speed should be set that whatever is decided if the community thinks that's still too high is there any opportunity for them to work with you all to potentially reduce the speed even lower.

So sitting this speed limit it's it's very regimented we do have an additional flexibility and different options with AB 43 in the event we do a speed survey and even with all the additional options it doesn't maintain or lower the speed limit there's certain other infrastructure such as traffic calming items or other issues we can consider and come back at a later date to reevaluate the posted speed if that's a concern for the community.

Okay and is there like a space where community members can like go to and actually provide comment on maybe the how well they think that the reduction in speed as we're getting just trying to figure out like I think people will become aware of it if you know there's signs to indicate hey we've made a change here but then after the fact if you know neighbors are still seeing they're not noticing any changes like how can they get in contact with you all or make you aware of issues they're still experiencing.

I would recommend the citywide 311 app if there's any concerns or feedback that's the best way to make sure it's it's about it to our department our unit and we'll definitely hear about those concerns and provide some analysis and potential ways so we can help.

Thank you and then just my last question so I wasn't even aware about the change in speed on my street till it was on city council is there a website that your office or public works has that really highlights all the places across the city where these reductions and speed are taking place or where these changes are being made.

So just be a recommendation I think it's something to highlight it's a big achievement for the city that we're doing this work so yeah if there's any way we could just maybe advertise it a little bit more because not everyone watches city council meetings so thank you.

Commissioner Harris.

Following up on Commissioner do arrest books and thoughts I guess I'd like some clarification and this is a great presentation we're just diving in we care a lot we hear a lot about speed limits.

How does it work does the usage you talked a lot about the injuries the types of streets would there be a case where the physical environment like sidewalks or the width of the street would supersede the recommendation for reducing the speed limit or would you reduce the speed limit anyways I don't know if that makes sense I'm kind of trying to understand with the different factors.

What takes precedence is it the speed people actually travel or is it the usage of the non vehicle users of that street that's around it.

I'll give myself a break and let Jim provide some more feedback so it's kind of like a both you know if we do an engineering and traffic survey it's primarily based on the speed vehicle so traveling 85th percentile

rounding down there's other options such as if it's within a business activity district there's kind of another route at setting the speed limit whether it's also within I think that chart I had on the first or second slide there's definitely different avenues we could work on to set the speed limit so just kind of depends on the roadway segment and us going through the evaluation of doesn't

need engineering traffic survey does it qualify for these other zones what options we have so there's no care cut answer that question it's very dependent on the specific location well I think would be great following with the recommendation to have those if they were publicized so people could see why the decision was made it would be helpful if it also was clear on why the decision if they decided especially not to lower or too lower lower speed limit if it could be clear on why that decision was made.

Because I do worry that you had decision to be made and we might lose visibility with an opportunity to put in a traffic calming measure or take another look at it and resolve it if there was a physical reason to make change.

One of the important parts of our analysis and setting speed limit is what we do send the recommendation and analysis to the council for approval it will be documented on how we were able to round down how we were able to reduce it what zone it qualifies for and it's important to also have that documentation saved in the engineering traffic survey so in case it's our challenge and court speeding ticket we're able to decide whether it's going to be a good decision or not.

We're going to defend the decisions we made and it's well documented on how we got to that conclusion.

I guess what I'm asking is if we decided not to change a speed limit if that was accessible would be fantastic so people will prefer clarity.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

This item is receive and file so no vote is required and we're going to move on to the next item thank you very much.

Item number three is the fiscal year 2526 Cal Trans sustainable transportation planning grant applications and there is a staff presentation.

There it is.

All right, right presentation.

Good evening commissioners Jennifer Donnellan what we have a new clicker Jennifer Donnellan white transportation planning manager here to present on the fiscal year 2526 Cal Trans sustainable transportation planning grants.

I come here every year and I give you all about the same presentation that I modify for the grants that we're applying for but I'm for those of you that are newer and for members of the audience who haven't been here before I'll do a quick overview of what this grant program is.

This grant program is a managed by the state of California Cal Trans and it provides the funding for nearly all of our planning efforts so all of our long range planning in the city.

The goal of this grant program is to further clinicals reduce the greenhouse gas emissions there's a big equity components serving our under resource communities and the meeting Cal Trans goals.

This funding cannot pay for engineering cannot pay for environmental clearances there are other funding programs for that and typically our partners in engineering manage that the planning is through this program.

We've been very successful as you can see here on the list.

Dr. Bullivars approved in 2021 free port and Northgate we're currently working on how in Norwood and we'll be doing some community meetings for those in November.

Our transportation infrastructure and adaptation plan so I understand how climate change is going to affect our transportation infrastructure and what do we need to do to get prepared for that.

The most recent cycle we want Arden and Auburn which is a vision zero top 10 corridor and then fruitage which is a key priority in the transportation priorities plan and through the general plan we have a plan lean reduction on fruitage so we'll be kicking those off soon we're so negotiate with Cal Trans on our final grant agreement but hope to have that done soon.

So as we get ready for this next round of funding opportunity one of the things we want to consider is you heard my spiel on the transportation priorities plans that we have over 700 plan projects that will cost over five billion dollars and so we want to be very cognizant of creating more plans when we have such an incredible backlog of plans that are not funded.

And so that's why we're only recommending two that are moving forward and they're not big cord or plans because we want to make sure that our partners who are looking for funding to build our plans can work on those first before we come create more.

So our a little bit more about this is that we're applying for the grant program there were a eligible for which is the sustainable communities one.

The grant can support anywhere between 100,000 and 700,000 dollars in funding but if you look at the awards you want you don't want to be the big ask you want to be probably in the happy middle but it be able to fund yourself so just typically we're anywhere between 300 400 500 thousand dollars we also have to consider our match.

So it's an acquired 11.47% match however not all staff time is reimbursable through the state because we are not an audited department so we have to think about those sorts of things so it's generally closer to a 20% match that the city has to bring to the table.

And so we had to think about those things to be forward and again it studies plans visioning no engineering but we can talk about concepts and tell you whether it's going to be four lanes two lanes or how we're moving forward on that.

So we're recommending two projects one you've seen before we applied for this last year we were unsuccessful we met with cal trans and they gave us some very good constructive criticism to amend our plan and so what we're looking at is way finding and that's just to encourage walking biking and transit access as well.

So how can you walk to the train station to the light rail stop can you walk to school to a regional park or a major park in your community to local retail.

And so we're looking at developing that we finding plan like some of the big cities in the world just been doing some really great research Jeff is actually leading this one I'm just making the presentation today.

And so really can we get that funding for the planning again we can implement the planning and a big part of what we're going to do in in.

Re-focusing our application is looking at three pilot areas to do our planning work and those will be focused in or under resource communities or SB 535 communities so looking at doing that and particularly for access to transit so that's the way finding one.

The next one get on the bus or transit needs in Sacramento I get on the bus is a shout out to a 1990s movie about getting on the bus but city Sacramento's climate action and adaptation plan has a.

Very ambitious goal to get to 11% transit mo chair by 2030 20 30's like tomorrow in transportation world and we're currently a 3% so to get from 3% to 11% in about a 5 year period requires ambition and transit is incredibly important to our city because not only is it mobility processors but it helps us meet our climate goals it helps us meet our equity goals.

And so we approached regional transit and said hey we'd like to partner on this grant we'd like to lead it and see what do we need to do in partnership together to get to this 11% mo chair because a part of it it's going to be our infrastructure in the city.

So one where do we have in lane bus stops how can we have traffic transit signal priority.

So busses get to jump ahead or you know bus lanes like we're talking about on soft and bill of art and so that's the infrastructure that the city manages R T obviously manages the operations of where they travel one of the key things we want to do is understand where travel patterns so using.

We aggregated anonymous data where people traveling to and from we did a high level analysis for the streets for people plan and one of the things we learn is that in North Sacramento to pass a high take what there's a significant travel over to the Thomas and back and forth not a big surprise right there's jobs there's retail and so that connection back and forth well wouldn't that be a great opportunity to have.

Potentially frequent transit so we want to look at where people are traveling what trips can we capture into transit and then what do we need to do to make that transit effective for the customers and so we are in partnership with R T but we'll be leading that grant application and in that project to see what we can do to be really ambitious in the next couple of years.

So with that we are asking your support this is an action item we'd like you to make a recommendation to take for us to take the city council to apply for these two projects to the Cal State Sustainable Transportation Club planning grant program with that I'm happy to take any questions thank you.

Thank you clerk are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item thank you chair I have one speaker for this item Richard Miller.

Richard Miller advocate and bike enthusiasts good evening chair and esteem members of the act of transportation commission thank you for the opportunity to speak on the matter of deep effects or community public safety recyclists pedestrians and all road urges and so is Sacramento.

As our city embraces cycling as an economically friendly and popular motor transportation ensuring the safety of everyone whether they're on two wheels four wheels are in foot has been more important than ever public safety is shared responsibilities cyclists must fall traffic laws were protective gear while drivers need to respect cyclists rights and to give them adequate space pedestrians and also play a role being aware of shared pass and a

lot of other intersections but the safety doesn't stop with individual actions it also is about infrastructure we create and the polls that we uphold Sacramento has made progress with bike lanes in past but we must do more expanding safe cycling infrastructure improving our road conditions and

proper lighting sighted makes it significant difference equally is important is holding everyone accountable cyclists for obeying the laws drivers drivers respecting cyclists and the cities for providing safe streets I urge you today to take decisive action addressing grown concern during since the vehicle crimes involving bicyclists and pedestrians with a no tolerance approach

let's continue advocating for the city where we can travel safely on our pass and roadways I ask you tonight to take support and this grant program and possibly move it forward into the bike lane community and to help them have a safe drive thank you.

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

Commissioner door westbrook.

Thank you thank you so much Jennifer for your presentation I have a couple questions but first I'm curious if you could share the specific feedback that you heard from Caltrians regarding the way finding application or maybe just some takeaways absolutely I'm actually going to turn to Jeff for that okay not to put you on the spot Jeff but you were in that meeting no yeah totally happy to answer I did a bunch of research on way finding and kind of the effects of way finding regarding mode share and

the impacts has on various communities and I was surprised to find that there wasn't a lot of data out there it's a relatively newer subject in the realm of transportation science I guess and so I was only able to find a couple of studies that were helpful in my narrative like one that happened in Hawaii there's a really cool way finding program in London that they did a lot of cool data analysis on and so I think overall the application was lacking in that

Caltrians really likes those kind of hard numbers of like we do this we get this many more bicyclists etc that was one feedback also it was unclear the benefit it would have to disadvantaged communities and so I also had a kind of hard time making that connection how it would benefit just the disadvantaged communities so we're going to factor that into the new grant as Jennifer was mentioning with this pilot programs to make it a bite of the

bundling clear that this would have a great effect for those communities and then kind of making that through line with the current program or plans that we're doing with the streets for people as well as for neighborhood connections and really making that and driving that home that this will be the next step in that implementation it'll be really beneficial for folks to understand where the network is and be able to ride their bike or walk without having to use Google or their phones which might actually steer them in the wrong direction

kind of thing so really making that abundantly clear was also another point that Caltrians gave us.

Thank you so much great memory from that conversation so yeah I think that was one of my first questions it's an area of research I'm personally not super familiar with so I was yeah curious what studies that you were able to reference in there I think of the two proposals that you're putting forward that's one I had a little bit of reservations around and really excited

about the partnership you all have with Sakhar tea on the transit application but I'm still going to support both applications but I think I was kind of like trying to just maybe get a little bit to

more so first question in the plan are you going to be looking at different are you proposing to look at different types of wayfinding I know in New York City they have a wayfinding program it's digital however so are you all looking more to like digital wayfinding or sign similar to what you have in place now

and I'll just add one way that I think they were trying to benefit the disadvantaged community is there's also the ability to charge your phone at those wayfinding signs so if that I don't I guess it's a question are you looking for signs or kind of open to a variety of different wayfinding I think we're open to a variety of different wayfinding at this point we're going to be looking at best practices right and then from the what should we win this crack because we're going to win at the same.

Well look at best practices and from those best practices apply that to our recommendations moving forward one of the things that is special about Sacramento is that we have strict regulations but off site advertising and I bring that in because recently city council amended their off site advertising regulatory framework to allow for digital kiosk which I think is a way in into thinking about electricity and charging phones or more be charging e-mail.

And I think we're going to be able to have a community of like 80 bikes or things like that so we'll look into that as part of our best practices and when we win when we win the grand and of course that will the best practices and the recommendations will be brought before the commission.

Thank you so much and my next question wondering if there's it could be maybe open to the idea of like wayfinding and navigation in general I have to friends recently travel to Germany and they were just thrilled with how easy it was to find transit information and the

quality of the bikeway networks that they were traveling on just by using their phone and so I'm wondering if there's an opportunity for the city of Sacramento to be working with some of these you know Google or other mapping apps to improve the information that people are able to find so like the wayfinding but maybe if we could add in some coordination or ways to improve.

Yeah I'm also the United States would like to better coordinate with Google and Apple. It's something beyond our abilities to do but I think everything's on the table and so does anything anybody any commissioner would like to see.

Yeah something explored in these plans should we win them let us know now so as we develop the grant applications we can embed them in the proposed scope of work so that when we win it we can make sure that's in our agreement with CalTrans.

Okay well I would absolutely love to see that and I can provide specific examples to staff around the information that at least in Germany it's showing on Google Maps for folks there so we can make that happen here in Sacramento that'd be great.

Oh and then just last you know another so really concerned because it's still so early in the process but you know there's a variety of different like we're just spoken here in the city of Sacramento so I'm curious how your plan will address that topic.

Absolutely and that's a big question and we'll definitely dive into that when we win the grant and explore what our options are.

It could be QR codes we also want to make sure that it's accessible so it'll be a lot to think about.

Great thank you so much.

Commissioner Letaker.

Thanks for the staff presentation I totally support going through this grant of wayfinding in particular.

I think wayfinding is really undervalued in our whole American society so I just wanted to check and you probably the answer is already yes but are some of the target items that you're going to show the way to the bicycle paths and things like that around the city.

I was trying to get to the new.

The real trail through Southland Park neighborhood and it was non trivial I'll just put it that way and you know hitting from a major like shopping center like the Rayleigh's Park.

To that bike trail would be nice to have some science for example and I'm just wondering if that's already part of the plan.

Commissioner yes so I think that's what we'll be looking at is the city already has a wayfinding policy so that policies enacted will probably stick with that and identify as what we will and

will sign so shared use pass like the W trail that's signable signable to Jennifer's bicycle shop.

No because we're not going to be doing offside advertising sort of thing but we might sign it to Commissioner litakers.

I want to actually say the the I'm going to give a name the midtown right to the midtown commercial district we would sign to there because it's a general area that people know.

And so absolutely we want to be able to sign to a key community destinations like parks shared use pass major event centers like the convention center or golden one those key destinations.

All right thank you good luck Jeff and I encourage you to include you know the bicycle pathways in particular the bicycle bridges over the river I could sign to those things and how far away they are.

Thank you.

Vice chair Gonzales.

Thank you Jennifer great presentation hoping that we have more success with the wayfinding application hoping to count trans information was helpful in our application for this year.

Looking forward to recommending that we support both applications to the full city council but just could you elaborate a little further because I just want to know what you said you're in partnership with RT which I'm glad to hear.

But could you let us know a little bit more what what will compel them to follow through on the recommendations of the study when it's complete.

There'll be nothing to compel sack RT to implement the recommendations be were separate agencies however we we rely on each other while we provide the infrastructure they travel on our infrastructure and their success is our success and our success is their success.

So ultimately there'll be nothing compelling that we do have a number of board members on sacked our T's bar council members on sack RT sport and ultimately I think for RT the biggest challenge they'll have with moving forward the implementation just like for us is funding for whatever is recommended and for them it'll be for sack RT one of their biggest challenges is they can get funding for infrastructure like a bus.

What's challenging for them though is the operational dollars for staff and so that's something that we'll have to look at so let's say that we.

Let's say we double their their network of bus operations in the city of Sacramento and that let's say it's 15 minute headways let's just think big right.

Then how are they going to pay for all the staff to operate the buses to do that and that's what we'll go through with them and this planning process that's why it's essential that they be a partner.

It's part of this because we'll both have expectations for resources and how do we make those happen.

Thank you.

Yeah I'm just concerned about this as well. Will will we'll a survey or will the study put us in a more competitive advantage for like stakeholder grants or grants and you think that.

I can't imagine that it wouldn't because I don't know of another jurisdiction that partner that has a separate transit agency that they partnered together to really look at this to meet our climate goals.

So I think this really sets us ahead for really competitive funding.

Thank you.

Commissioner Harris.

Yeah I'm really excited about the way finding.

I think it's a great opportunity.

District two I believe has the least number of cars per capita.

The car ownership is down so for both grants I really encourage you to be thinking about economic disadvantage.

I know it's easy to convert cars into riders but it really matters for people who don't have cars.

I was on a plane ride and somebody was like it never occurred to me that people don't own cars and I was like you live a different life than a different neighborhood than I do.

I will say I think we really good whatever signage gets put in that it's really clear the distances and names not just light rail station.

I have one of those but if it doesn't say how far it's not very helpful for planning.

And I think naming things is really important for ownership right a light rail station is very different than the Marconi light rail station and transit station.

So I'd encourage that and I also want to make sure that we are thinking from the pedestrian mindset.

People who drive delight rail stations are rare and that's the sign that is designed in my neighborhood we have one.

So if you're driving your way to the light rail station you can find it but it's inset up for the sidewalks.

Thanks.

Commissioner Doer Westbrook.

Right one more question I forgot. So for the transit application it really appreciated in your presentation you talked about the local match required for submitting.

Will SakrTV be contributing any funding towards reaching that local match?

Commissioner we haven't actually worked out the details with SakrTV I think we're going to be meeting with them in a week or two to discuss.

Often what we do is we'll do I'm blanking on the term right now.

What's the term Jeff? Staff time? In kind, in kind match.

And so their staff time contributing to it will probably be most likely what they will just because of their financial situation.

We might also do in kind match with our staff time to be determined yet we have actually they haven't said when they're due we think they'll be due in early January.

So we're going to be looking at what they're about and the webinar that was held today I think.

But we're looking at what we're going to work at a process with SakrTV.

Okay great yeah I just I think that's really important especially if you want like to have that investment of SakrTV in this process and plan that they're contributing equally with the city on what's put forward and then just tying this back for everyone that our recommendation for ATC report.

So that's the reason why it's on the need for more funding so that the city has the ability to apply for state and federal grants so happy to see you all doing this and best of luck.

Thank you I think that's it right.

Is there a motion and a second for this item so moved.

I'll go with Commissioner Gibson has all do the second the second commissioner hopped did the motion.

Okay I have a motion by commissioner hopped and a second by commissioner Gibson will the clerk please call the roll for the vote.

Thank you chair.

Commissioner Harris.

Commissioner Gibson.

Commissioner do a Westbrook.

I Commissioner Liddickard.

Yes.

Vice Chair Gonzalez.

I Commissioner hop.

Commissioner Gores.

I.

Commissioner Moore.

I.

Commissioner Banks absent and Chair Haudel.

I thank you motion passes.

Thank you.

Item number five is the active transportation commission 2024 draft annual report and there is a staff presentation.

Hello good evening commissioners my name is Jeff Jelzman transition mine out Steve Sacramento public works.

Here to present about the 2024 annual report.

This is a request for the committee to be able to express everyone's memory.

This has been a standing item since August and we've had a number of discussions about the format and the content of the report.

Tonight it is an action item to approve and forward to the personnel and public employees committee.

Which thank you before it is the city council.

So some updates on the report since we since it was last seen.

We have the commission and commissioner Haudel as well as commissioner Moore and commissioner Gibson on the message from the chair.

And so we incorporated those edits so there was significant amount of changes to this initial message as well as some including a number of different graphs and figures on the situation in the city of Sacramento.

So that was a substantive change to the report.

And then for the recommendations this is more or less the same but instead of based on the feedback that we had from last month's commission meeting.

We did away with the phase that the phase approach on the recommendations and instead just went to the prioritization of those recommendations.

We also brought it down to six recommendations total.

So as you can see here they are in this order in the report prioritized by the amount the estimated amount for those different recommendations.

So six different recommendations based on that conversation we had last month.

So for tonight I wanted to review the changes made of the report.

Make sure that everyone is okay with those and then pass a motion to forward this report to PMP.

Happy taking questions.

Thank you.

Clerk 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 Dan Ellison.

Good evening again Dan Ellison district four.

I would like to thank the committee members for the report.

I like the report. I to be honest haven't read it in every detail but I like the format of it. I like what it says.

I like that the non safety items were removed from the report because for a period of time they will be the important items.

And I would like you to think about whether some of the funding could be brought up at the mid-year budget revision and not wait until next year's budget for some of them or some part of them.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment. Our next speaker is Richard Miller.

Thank you Richard Miller again. I want to thank you for doing this report. It's very alarming to see the number of injuries and deaths that are caused by vehicles or other traffic instances on the roads.

So thank you for bringing that report to our attention.

As a bicyclist here in the community and knowing several political leaders in the community that have been involved in accidents with cars.

I do realize how important it is. So I want to thank you for doing that but I want to reiterate my speech earlier applies to this topic as well.

And I look forward to having more funding and more bike routes and then being able to go from Roseville all the way down this Elk Grove is necessary.

Thank you for your time and consideration and I look forward to moving this forward. 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? Vice Chair can solve this.

Thank you chair. First, I want to acknowledge and welcome our new commissioner over here.

I'm a junior, Boris, Rosie. Welcome. Glad you can make it.

And I want to commend my fellow commissioners for working diligently to get this to an action item one month at a time.

I want to thank all staff for also helping us facilitate this well. And then I want to encourage all of us and the members of the public to help push this through P.P.

as quickly as we can in the new year so that it is adopted prior to the budget discussion in June of 2025.

With that, I just want to say again thank you to everybody for the hard work and looking forward to pass this recommendation on.

Thank you.

Thank you. Is there a motion and a second for this item?

I'd like to make the motion.

I have a motion by Vice Chair Gensolis.

I'll second it.

And a second by Commissioner Doerr Westbrook.

Next we'd wrap up this process.

Will the clerk please call the roll for the vote?

Thank you chair. Commissioner Harris?

Yes.

Commissioner Gibson?

Aye.

Commissioner Doerr Westbrook?

Aye.

Commissioner LeDigger?

Yes.

Vice Chair Gensolis?

Absolutely.

Commissioner Hop?

Thank you, staff for their hard work.

Aye.

Commissioner Gores?

I trust my fellow commissioners.

Aye.

Commissioner Moor?

An enthusiastic aye.

Commissioner Banks?

Absent and Chair Hodell?

Aye.

Thank you. Motion passes.

Thank you, everyone.

Let's see.

The next item is member comments, ideas and questions.

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak?

Can we do an answer or a new commission?

Oh, yes.

Okay.

And we're going to go back a little bit and do an introduction of our new commissioner.

Thank you, Chair.

Welcome.

Thank you, Chair.

Hi, everyone.

Junior Gores here.

Official name was a Gores, but I'm known as Junior.

I sat on the board and the pocket with Commissioner Hop.

So I'm very familiar with some of the politics of the city and kind of how we move things.

And I'm happy to join and humble to join this board.

I'm a recent member now or resident of District 8, which is why now.

And I'm not on the board anymore for the pocket green haven.

But I'm looking forward to working with alongside the view and doing great things in our city.

So thank you.

Thank you.

And no, I have no one else in the queue.

Okay.

Thank you.

Pardon me.

Oh, Commissioner Gibson, thank you.

Thank you.

I just really recommend all commissioners reach out to their council member and their community to highlight that this report is out.

There's been a lot of movement, as you all know, on these issues.

And the big reason there's a lot of movement issues is because it's a problem.

Since our last meeting, there's been at least three people who are either on foot or on bike who died due to traffic violence.

Yesterday around 5 a.m. on Highway 50.

Someone was walking on Highway 50 around 16th Street.

Then about four or five days ago, October 12th, someone on bike was hit and a hidden run.

And they sense arrested the driver.

I was a 35 year old man around 1130 at night near Mary's Hill Boulevard in Maine Avenue in North Sacramento.

And then at least one more person sadly was struck and killed on October 7th, a 57 year old woman off of Franklin Boulevard around 7 p.m. at night.

So glad we were able to get some data in about how this is a problem that needs to be solved but good news is solvable and with political will and funding that will be.

Thank you.

Commissioner Harris.

I have one thing I'd like to add to the future log.

Not urgent, but I would like a presentation or discussion regarding the policy to not have crosswalks that in areas without sidewalk because it is a matter of equity.

The areas that do not have sidewalks tend to be areas that are not.

That are disadvantaged.

And I think that not having sidewalks is a real safety concern and I get an ideal world we have sidewalks too but that's not going to happen.

So I'd like to add that to the log and I will follow up with my three or four questions, whatever the number of questions is that any to add.

I would also encourage I don't know anyone.

But so it's a request the community we have this youth position and I am super excited about the group of youth who have been writing and tearing it up around town and it's been some controversy among reddit.

And I know that they were really active at eight street.

And I think that's a very important thing to remember.

Some engagement that could happen there.

As far as how that could be supported to be safe.

So if anyone happens to know anyone then that group.

I would love for them to be invited to apply.

Thank you.

Commissioner Dorwesprick.

So we have a report that we have approved.

We still do include the construction detor policy.

It was curious if you could just give us a brief update on where that is at.

I know there was some hold up.

Commissioner do a respoak just to refresh everybody.

What is the work zone detor policy?

So my team has been working on a policy to better accommodate people walking in by scrolling through work zone efforts.

We have been working on a policy that could be closed or a bikeway might be closed.

And we developed a policy.

We had general internal consensus.

We brought it before the commission.

You provided input.

And I don't have the dates because I'm not prepared to speak on it today.

We brought it before the commission.

And then we took it.

We learned of a new city process or a new to me city process that requires some additional internal review through labor relations and other groups.

So that policy is with labor relations now.

And the reason why it's with labor because it affects city staff.

So let's say that city staff are building a new sidewalk.

And we are closing the sidewalk so they can build it.

How they do the work zone detor affects their workload.

And so then it needs to be reviewed by the labor team.

And then potentially reviewed by all the recognized unions at the city who would be affected by this work.

And then depending on the outcome of that, ideally we want to move this forward and take this to council.

So it's with labor.

We're meeting with labor soon to discuss that.

But the process and the timeline is unclear at this moment.

However, I do understand that this is a priority of the commission.

And working to move this forward as quickly as I can.

Great. Thank you so much.

Appreciate your steadfast effort because the ad continues to be a pretty significant issue here in the city.

So it's just wondering if you have a timeline but it's like could maybe be another year or so maybe longer.

Okay. Thanks.

Thank you.

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?

Chair, I have two speakers for this item.

Our first speaker is Dan Allison.

Thank you, Dan Allison, District 4.

I just have some questions and suggestions.

First on vision zero.

I hear that there's an update to the vision zero action plan going on.

What is going on or who's doing it or anything I would like to know.

I believe that the vision zero program should be under the purview of sack ATC.

I know that's been brought up before but it's time to make that happen.

It's not otherwise under the purview of anybody.

So it should be.

I believe that all changes in intersection control should come to sack ATC for review, not for approval necessarily.

There are a lot of expensive traffic lights being put in around the city.

Million bucks a piece roughly.

And they have a great impact on walkability and bike ability.

It's often not a positive impact.

So intersection control needs to come to sack ATC.

The city is now starting to talk about a quick build program.

I would suggest that sack ATC should provide a framework for that policy framework.

The details obviously will be up to the staff but I think the ATC needs to frame it for what a city program would look like.

Since a lot of quick builds would be a response to fatalities.

The city also needs to establish a rapid response program.

So when there is a fatality, there are city staff out there looking at it immediately.

And that will inform whether or not there's a quick build project that results from that.

That's all. Thank you.

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

I need to coordinate better with Dan because he says everything I'm going to say will work on that.

Other things I wanted to mention.

I just wanted to second commissioner Gibson.

This traffic violence problem is not just ending at city limits.

There have been 11 people.

I think it's a very important thing to do.

I think it's important to have a report since last commission meeting.

We all travel outside the city limits as well.

It's really important to work you all are doing.

I encourage you all once there's a draft of this report to send it to each one of your individual council members.

I think it's important to have a report about it now is really, really important.

Also, I really want to echo the crosswalk comment.

I wish you luck.

I think you're going to have to fight them.

Very strongly.

I think it is an important equity issue.

If we're on crosswalks.

High visibility crosswalks are a safety consideration by the city.

I agree with that on the framework.

Especially for our larger streets like arterials and things where often it's just been historically.

I know we're not going to touch those.

Maybe giving the community and the city a framework to address that would be a really good idea.

Thank you again for all you're doing.

Thank you for your comment.

I have no more speakers.

This concludes today's agenda.

Excuse me.

It's not in there.

Commissioner Holt.

I'll be real quick.

I'm fascinated by Dan Allison's suggestion for a rapid response team when there is a fatality involving at least a bicycleist but probably also a pedestrian.

Is there some mechanism to fairly quickly study the situation and say could we improve this situation with a quick build project?

Commissioner Holt, that's outside my specific role of my team because we're a long-range planning.

There is a process but I can't speak to the details of that.

That's our traffic engineering group.

What we can do is report back from our traffic engineering team about what they do and their responses.

Commissioner Harris.

I guess we could add it as a log item and also I wonder if we could suggest that as a subcommittee for the active transportation commission to review fatalities.

I wonder if whatever the subcommittee rules are that are new.

Vice Chair, Gonzales.

Jim, to go back to your point, I would recommend if you haven't already to take a look at the Beyond Blame press release that came out this week from strong towns, which actually discusses what Dan spoke about and many other options to

achieve vision zero goals based on other municipalities that have done so.

One of those is the rapid response to the regular violence task force that look at these things and make quick recommendations on things that can be implemented overnight to do temporary changes to the built environment.

Beyond Blame, if you just Google search Beyond Blame strong towns and find there's a whole report that just came out this week Tuesday that really goes over best practices nationwide.

So not something we need to reinvent but something we can definitely borrow from other municipalities who have achieved these goals.

And I believe that this city of Oakland already has a rapid response team as part of their city plan.

Before we move up the item, I need clarity on whether or not that's an official log request and if so from who.

I'll make it an official log item and I'll put it under my name with a second of commissioner hop, I guess, since it's going to be ready to email anyway but my other log item.

I would certainly second.

Thank you both.

Okay, so we're moving forward with a with a log entry.

I see no one else.

This concludes today's agenda.

Thank you everyone for your participation.

The meeting is now adjourned.