Good evening.

Welcome to the October 16th, 2025 Active Transportation Commission.

The meeting is now called to order.

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

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioners, please unmute.

Commissioner Harris.

Commissioner Gibson is absent.

Commissioner Wadwani is absent.

Vice Chair Gonzalez.

Here.

Commissioner Ha.

Here.

Commissioner Tao.

Present.

Commissioner Moore is absent.

Commissioner Banks?

Here.

And Chair Hodell.

Here.

Thank you.

We 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 Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Miwok, Patwin Winton 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 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 United States of America.

Our first business today is the Commission staff report.

Staff, you may proceed.

Thank you, Chair.

Wanted to update uh the commission on a couple of items.

We have from the commission standpoint, we do have one resignation from the commission, and that was Commissioner Hyatt, has resigned from the commission.

So we'll be actively seeking for that seat as well.

But in other news for uh district five, we have a uh new commissioner that is going to be going to city council for appointment next week, so should be ideally joining us in November.

So uh that'll be Commissioner Justine Rescio Patel, if all is appointed.

Also, I wanted to update uh this commission.

Um we had some great news this week.

Uh SB 720 was signed by the governor, which are uh for automated red light camera um reforms to to that law that will be going into effect uh January 1st.

Um this is uh an initiative that uh the transportation team will be leading uh the implementation of this.

So it'll be a really a safety first policy focused uh implementation of that uh moving forward.

So exciting news and a lot of advocacy done by uh our city and uh our local advocates, including on that initiative.

Um, also want to give a staffing update for the transportation team and for public works.

We are currently uh we'll be in a few weeks interviewing for a new senior planner, which we're very excited about finally filling some of these roles.

Uh at the same time, we are also in the middle of recruiting for an associate planner for um my team.

So if there's anybody that you know that closes on Saturday, uh would be a great um great opportunity for uh for young planners to to come in and uh work for the city.

Uh I also want to take a minute.

Uh we have uh some new Civic Spark fellows in Public Works, and I want to introduce uh we have two in the audience.

We have Yadira, who is on on my team working with Jeff, and Minaya, who's working with the OCAS team, who's joining us.

This is the Civic Spark uh program through AmeriCorps, and they're with us for a year.

So they just started.

That concludes my uh staff report.

Thank you very much.

Next is 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' lips for this item.

Thank you.

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on the consent calendar?

Is there a motion and a second?

So moved.

Second.

Okay.

I have a motion by Commissioner Haupt and a second by Vice Chair Gonzalez.

Will the clerk please call the roll for the vote?

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Harris.

Aye.

Commissioner Gibson is absent.

Commissioner Wadwani.

Aye.

Vice Chair Gonzalez.

Aye.

Commissioner Ha?

Aye.

Commissioner Tao.

Aye.

Commissioner Moore is absent.

Commissioner Banks.

Aye.

And Chair Holdell.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

We'll now proceed to the discussion calendar.

Item number three is SAC Adapt Transportation Adaptation Plan Phase 2 engagement.

And there is a staff report.

Excellent.

Oh, perfect.

Slide deck.

All ready to go.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Sarah Kalaric, and I am a sustainability specialist with the city's Office of Climate Action and Sustainability, and that is within the relatively new Mobility and Sustainability Division within the Department of Public Works.

Tonight's presentation is an overview of the Sacramento Transportation Infrastructure Adaptation Plan, which we are calling SAC Adapt for short.

And we'll also give an update on the engagement approach.

SAC Adapt is a planning effort to analyze our extreme weather risks to our transportation system and identify adaptation strategies to make our system more resilient.

This effort is funded by a Caltrans Adaptation Planning Grant and is being led by the city, but in partnership with SAC RT, as they were a partner on the grant application and are a very involved partner in the work.

So first I'll give a little bit of context about what we're thinking about when it comes to the transportation system and extreme weather risks.

So for the transportation system, we are thinking about all parts of the transportation system.

So facilities that facilitate driving, active transportation, so walking, biking, and rolling, and also public transportation with the partnership with RT, so thinking about bus and light rail facilities.

We are also thinking about some related assets that help facilitate the accessibility of our transportation system, so that includes things like pump stations to make sure that we're keeping roads free of flooding, also fueling stations for buses.

For extreme weather risks, we're thinking primarily about extreme heat, extreme storms, which include intense rainfall, potential for flooding, as well as extreme wind.

And we're also looking at fire and smoke primarily as secondary impacts.

None of these risks are new to Sacramento, but they are becoming more frequent and intense as a result of climate change.

And I'm sure that everyone in the room has experienced at least one of these risks, impacts fairly recently.

A couple of key recent events that helped even prompt this work, in particular with the very intense atmospheric rivers in the end of 2022 and early 2023, where there is a series of very intense storms, heavy rainfall, high winds.

Also thinking about extreme heat, summer of 2024 in particular, we had many heat waves, and even though this past summer has been cooler, we are on a trajectory of warmer summers.

So to bring it all together with this SAC Adapt Transportation adaptation Plan, we are analyzing extreme weather events, impacts on our transportation system, identifying actionable policy and maintenance recommendations, and then from there working to position ourselves to secure future funding, in particular grant funding, to help us implement impactful projects.

We kicked off the project work a little over a year ago in August 2024 and have been very busy since then.

We've completed a literature review and existing conditions report, phase one engagement at the beginning of this year, a vulnerability assessment to look at how each extreme weather impact affects different parts of our transportation system, and we also recently completed a draft risk assessment and draft adaptation strategies that at this point we're currently reviewing internally to make sure that they are implementable in the way that we want them to be.

Also thinking about resilience to floods.

Of course, is very important, in particular for many of the different materials and designs.

Many of those only function as well as the maintenance that is keeping them operable.

And so we're being very mindful of that.

And then emergency preparedness is also very important both on the community side and agency side, and that can be addressed through outreach and trainings.

For our upcoming schedule, we are currently in phase two engagement of this presentation tonight, an upcoming presentation to the Disabilities Advisory Commission on November 5th, and we have a project survey that will close on November 7th, and it has been open since mid-September.

We'll then be using the results from that project survey to inform how we're finalizing the strategies and prioritizing the strategies, and that'll all come together into a draft plan for public review in early 2026 when we'll come back to this commission with an update, and then we'll be working toward bringing this to city council for approval in April 2026 in order to meet our grant deadlines.

To highlight a little bit of the community engagement work that we're doing, we have a project survey, which is the primary pathway for folks to provide input, which is available online.

You can access it through the QR code or through the project website.

It's also available in hard copy at all city community centers.

We've been attending many events for targeted in-person engagement, and we've been covering every council district with, in most cases, multiple events, and we're providing updates through our sustainable Sacramento newsletter.

So, this item recommendation is review and comment.

So, I'm curious to hear all of your feedback, but in particular, a few questions.

Curious to hear commission feedback about this phase two engagement approach.

Any comments on the draft adaptation categories?

But in particular, any experiences that you want to share about walking, biking, or rolling on cool pavements or previous pavers that can help us assess what an appropriate use case may be for those strategies.

And then I think of my biggest interest is hearing from all of you about where we have the greatest opportunities to increase active transportation and whether that's through heat mitigation or flood mitigation strategies.

Of course, in our climate action adaptation plan, increasing mode shift to active transportation and public transportation is key.

We want to be thoughtful about how we're prioritizing and aligning those efforts.

And with that, thank you very much for your time.

Thank you very much.

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

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speakers look for this item.

Thank you.

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

Commissioner Banks.

Hi, Sarah, nice to meet you and welcome.

Great to have you here.

I can't answer questions about impervious pavement or I might have, but I don't know.

Because nobody says, hey, you are now on previous pavement, so I can't say that I have ridden on it.

To your last question, yeah, I think that there's a lot that we can do, but it's mostly about helping to clear water and then debris from the streets in a particular bike paths, because we know that we don't have very many street sweepers, and so then the question becomes how how long does debris sit in bike paths, which is very unsafe for cyclists, slippery conditions, etc.

etc.

So whatever strategies and we can utilize to help get our streets clearer faster would be fantastic.

It might mean purchasing some more street sweepers, et cetera, of that nature, especially for protected bikeways because we know they're smaller, etc.

That would be fantastic.

We've talked about that at length here over the years of the Active Transportation Commission.

But I have a different question for you, and it's about community engagement.

In some other spaces, there's discussion around climate and whether or not the community is responsive to issues around climate when we bring them up.

So I'm curious whether or not the engagement that you've done out there are you hearing from people that they realize it's an issue, and yes, it's something that's important to them, or does it sort of go over their head, or it's not as much of an issue as fill-in-the-blank something else?

I'm just curious because I'm in conversations with other people that have polling, etc., and they're like climate is not a thing, even though I think we think it is a thing.

I I know I think it's a thing.

So I'm curious about your guys' experience on this.

Yes, great question, and thank you for that feedback too.

Um, very duly noted.

Really appreciate that.

Um, to your question.

So we've been really starting the conversation with extreme weather impact.

So I think extreme heat in particular, folks, everyone is experiencing that.

If you're a resident in California, you're experiencing increases in extreme heat, um, and also we've seen extreme storm impacts that are very salient for folks, and so that is our primary touch point talking about how extreme heat is impacting people's lives or intense winter storms disrupt their lives and making the connection where climate change is contributing to extreme heat and intense storms, but also centering the conversation on kind of this is our reality right now.

We're gonna be continuing to see extreme heat and extreme storms in Sacramento.

So, what can we do?

And trying to really center the conversation about how it is already impacting people's lives, regardless of whether or not they're seeing the connections and making connections about how we all can be taking steps to be more resilient.

So a little less about climate changes here, but here are things that we are experiencing day to day.

How is this impacting you?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, thank you.

That's helpful.

Commissioner Harris.

Would it be possible to bring your questions back up so we can try to respond to them?

Um I mean, I think that cool pavements are an amazing technology, as are the uh previous pavers.

They do require a lot of um ongoing costs and maintenance.

Um I while I like the idea, um, since resources are finite, um, I think from an equity perspective, my interest would be how do we get the greatest cooling and reducing the heat island effect using trees to allow people to walk while also pairing that with um flood reduction strategies, such as the amazing um, trying to remember street is it's 16th Street, has the amazing uh development of the uh catchments to really allow for that overflow while also pairing that with trees, and we have such a need um in areas that have no infrastructure, no sidewalks, no um trees, no gutters that exist in this city.

Um, I I think that I think would be the responsible thing to do to focus um in how we can maximize our dollars um to to get those issues um all the things would be great.

But if we um are looking at this as a targeted strategy to provide both shade to reduce the the extreme heat um as well as catchment opportunities, I think that would be where I'd love to see us find those opportunities to also improve infrastructure where we need it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Banks.

Yep, thanks for a second question.

I just want to double down on what Commissioner Harris just said.

We talk a lot about equity.

I didn't really hear it, but I'm gonna make a great assumption that for sure this plan has equity at its front and center, so that places that don't have any shade or sidewalks or good pavement that needs cleaning, um, gets first dibs on all of those kinds of amenities.

Absolutely.

I mean, and I can add on a little bit to that.

So um in the project survey, there's some prioritization um questions where equity certainly is part of what we're what we have included in the matrix, and so we're gonna be using uh the public feedback to help us with that as far as it folds into prioritization, but for sure our approach to including active and public transportation, that in itself has is rooted in equity and climate resilience, and so we're we really take that to heart.

Yeah, thank you.

Yeah, we um so we do have um building on uh from some comments.

So there's a lot of technical analysis that's uh rooted uh um in this plan, and so as we finish those documents, those are going online.

Something that we're thinking about are um mapping assets and looking at um Calum Biro screen as a way of capturing need, and then also looking at overlays with extreme heat and urban heat island effect in the city, flooding, in addition to um like availability of resources and where there is or isn't redundancy in transportation resources.

So there's multiple ways where um the equity consideration is getting folded in.

Vice Chair Gonzalez.

Thank you, Chair.

Um, just two comments really quick.

Uh, so as far as the permanent paper question, I saw the photograph you had in the presentation from the Dig CNLE project, which I was um fortunate enough to work on.

I will tell you though, on one thing on that, we had the best of intentions with the permeable pavers, um, you know, not pulling water, not diverting um storm uh water into the roadway.

And then after the uh the core um samples came back, we found that there was a much more of a hard pen than we realized.

So we've yet to know exactly what the results are of the groundwater and how quickly it prevents polling.

Just you know, food for thought.

Second, I saw in your community outreach um calendar.

Are you coming to Tahoe Park on Friday?

A week from tomorrow.

Yeah, the Tahoe Park Food Truck Mania.

I will actually not be there personally, but Minaya will be there.

Our Civic Spark Aircore.

No, you'll be there.

Minaya will be there.

It is our spectacular event.

It's a Halloween event, so uh and we really go all out.

So we had about 3,000 kids.

So make sure you raid the City Hall Candy Cabinet.

Yeah, and we're bringing some candy.

Yeah.

Okay, that's all.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thanks, Isaac.

Thank you.

I see no other commissioners popping up.

This item is for review and comment, so no vote is required.

Thank you very much.

The next item is item number four, Connecting Howe Avenue, safety and mobility plan, phase three engagement, public draft plan.

Is there a staff presentation?

Yes, there is.

Good evening.

Sharice Padilla, planner with the city's Mobility and Sustainability Division of Public Works and Project Manager of the Connecting How Avenue Safety and Mobility Plan.

Thank you for having me here today to introduce the public draft plan and phase three public engagement.

Today I will cover a brief overview of the proposed alternatives from phase two.

The community preferred alternative, phase three engagement for the public draft plan, and next steps.

So proposed alternatives.

In phase two, there were two alternatives for the public to weigh in on.

This commission also commented on your pref preferences back in August as a note in response to the commission's request in August.

Current ADT and speed limits are included here as well as in the draft plan for reference.

As you can see, and to no surprise, overwhelmingly public comment from phase two as well as comments from this commission favored alternative two.

The draft plan will include adding a shared use path on the east side of Howe Avenue, adding a landscaping buffer with shade trees and lighting, filling sidewalk gaps, lowering posted speed limits, adding a shared use path through University Park, adding signalized crosswalks at route uh US 50 ramp crossings, and adding a cantilever structure on the east side of the American River Bridge and US 50 overpass.

Additionally, based on community request for more to be done to lower travel speeds along the corridor and after working with our traffic engineering team, the draft plan will also include removing a travel lane in each direction between American River Drive and the American River Bridge, as well as further analysis on additional lane reduction and tightening of the intersection at College Town Drive and the freeway off ramp, as well as additional study of College Town Drive at uh La Riviera Drive.

It also includes adding speed diverters north of the University Avenue and American River Overpass and evaluating the addition of optical speed bars on the corridor where they are deemed appropriate.

So phase three community engagement for this draft plan is uh set to open on October 21st, so not quite yet, and we'll run through November 10th.

Engagement efforts will include uh conveyo document review hosted on the project website, which is how uh connecting how as dot org.

There, community members can review the draft plan and leave their comments directly in the document.

The city will also be hosting uh virtual and in-person workshops, virtual workshop being October 27th via Zoom and in person on October 30th at the Campus Commons Clubhouse.

Registration for the virtual workshop is currently open on the web page now, although the draft plan is not yet posted and won't be there until October 21st.

We'll also be popping in at various community events and area locations, as well as posting city blog and transportation planning articles in or articles in the transportation planning newsletter.

Okay.

Following completion of phase three, the project team will evaluate all of the community input to develop the final draft plan.

Staff then plans to be back at ATC with the final draft plan in January of 2026, and then to council to be considered for adoption in February in line with the strict grant timeline.

So again, public engagement is not yet open but will open for this project on October 21st.

What we are asking of Commission is to review the draft plan and provide your input online, connectinghowav.org, and then share with your community so we can get as many people engaged as possible.

The more voices, the better the plan.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

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

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker's list for this item.

Thank you.

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

Commissioner Banks.

It's my night.

What can I say?

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This is my front yard.

I am so thrilled to hear the changes.

Lowering speed limits, that's an easy one, but getting that lane reduction is fantastic, and it will make life so much better on that road.

And for those that use it to get from point A to point B, as Commissioner Harris does, I hope that she also thinks it's great too.

But I just gotta say thank you for going back to the drawing board because the first two choices were not great.

Forced choice gave us to choice two, but I'm really thrilled about where you guys have come.

So thank you.

Thank you.

I see no one else popping up.

This item is review and comment, so no vote is required.

Thank you very much.

The next item is number five.

Norwood Mobility Project Phase Three Public Engagement, Public Draft Plan.

There is a staff presentation.

Yes, there is.

Hello again.

Uh Sharice Padilla, project manager of the Norwood Mobility Project.

Thank you again for having me today to introduce the Norwood Mobility Public Draft Plan and Phase Three Public Engement.

Today I will cover again a quick overview of the proposed alternatives from phase two, the community preferred alternative, phase three engagement for the public draft plan and next steps.

So proposed alternatives from phase two for the Norwood Mobility Project, there were five alternative variations for the public to weigh in on.

This commission also commented on your preferences in August.

Here also, in response to the commission's request in August, current ADT and speed limits are included here and in the draft plan for reference.

Based on public comment from phase two, as well as comments from the commission in August, the project team developed the public draft plan for community review and feedback, primarily based on the overall preferred alternative to C.

The draft plan based on alternative 2C includes removing a travel lane in each direction, north of Jesse and south of Harris Avenue, adding signalized crosswalks at high demand locations and at I-80 ramp crossings, adding sidewalks north of Berthoud Street, and adding sidewalk lighting, landscaping buffer, shade trees on the east side of the street.

That was a change made following discussion at ATC in August.

Additionally, the draft plan includes adding roundabouts for traffic calming at Bell Avenue and Silver Eagle Road, with future evaluation of an additional roundabout at Moray Avenue.

The draft plan will also add a cantilever structure on both sides of I 80 overpass, brought in from Alternative 3 by Popular Demand, as well as future evaluation of the feasibility of median trees where possible, which was highly requested by the community.

To encourage the public to review and provide their input on the public draft plan.

Phase three opened October 10th and will run through November 2nd.

Engagement for this project also includes the Cambeo document review that's hosted on the project webpage, NorwoodMobility.org.

We'll also be hosting in-person and virtual workshops for this project in person this Saturday, October 18th at Robertson Community Center, and a virtual workshop on October 20th via Zoom.

Registration is now available on the project webpage, Norwood Mobility.org.

We'll also be popping in at various community meetings and area events, such as the annual Harvest Festival that is at Robertson Community Center, as well as posting city blog and transportation planning newsletter articles.

Following the completion of the Norwood Mobility Plan or phase three, the project team will evaluate all community input to develop the final draft plan, planning to bring the final draft plan to Active Transportation Commission in January of 2026, and then to council to be considered for adoption in February, again in line with grants uh the grant strict timelines.

So public engagement is now open and runs through November 2nd.

We ask that the commission go online and review the public draft plan and provide your input through the webpage Norwood Mobility.org and share with your communities so we can get as many people as engaged as possible.

There is a downloadable promo post on the webpage now that you can share out to your communities.

As I said before, the more voices from the community, the better the plan, and that's our ultimate goal.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speakers' lists for this item.

Thank you.

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

Ooh.

Oh, Vice Chair Gonzalez.

Thank you, Chair.

I just want to um comment really quickly.

Uh, thank you for sharing all of that, um, about the uh roundabouts.

Are those are true roundabouts and not uh traditional like traffic circles like we see in Midtown?

Is that correct?

Um right now they're conceptual, so later phases they will look deeper into exactly what kind right now it's it's roundabouts.

Oh, I hope it stays that way.

I think you know, we engage.

Yes, yeah, I really we have a lot of traffic circles in midtown, and people call them roundabouts and they're and then not proper roundabouts, and um it would be nice to see these traffic calming measures that do really great job of preventing high injury, high uh speed crashes at intersections 24 hours a day, seven days a week installed in such a place where we know we have a lot of um uh violent crashes.

So that'd be great.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

This item is review and comment, so no vote is required.

Thank you very much.

The next item is item number six Active Transportation Commission 2025 annual report.

Is there a staff presentation?

Yes.

Hello, good evening, commissioners.

Jeff Chelsman, associate planner with Department of Public Works.

Um, here to continue the discussion on the 2025 annual report.

So just to reiterate, um, we are currently in step one where it is a standing item at commission to discuss the report and recommendations in the effort to then have an um an action item at next month's um commission meeting in November to then forward it to the personnel and public employees and um committee, uh, which then will approve and forward to city council for approval.

So for the 2025 report, um again, it's following a strict uh template from the clerk's office, um, where we can as a commission uh personalize with the photos as well as the recommendations and the message from the chair, um, which are highlighted here.

So um thank you to the commissioners who sent in the uh message from the chair, which is shown here, it's also uh shown as an attachment to the staff report.

Um, I'm not gonna read this verbatim, but um it was included in the staff report um as an attachment on the draft report.

Also included a fair amount of data um that came from Commissioner Gibson, which is great.

And then um for the ATC recommendations, there's a revamped um introduction to those recommendations coming from Commissioner Gibson and Commissioner Harris as well.

Um so that is shown here as well as in touch in the stock report.

And then uh diving into the recommendations themselves.

So I organized them um based on existing recommendations that have not changed.

Um the only thing that might have changed a little bit was the cost estimate based on labor.

But um, starting with the existing, the increased funding for active transportation infrastructure infrastructure projects that has not been changed.

Um, it's still at the same amount in terms of the year one cost estimate with the 10% increase year over year um for those recurring cost estimates after that.

Um, for the and then the second existing recommendation is develop a citywide safe routes of school program, uh, which includes two um full-time employees uh with a year one cost estimate around $800,000, and that continuing thereafter.

Moving into uh recommendations that were just changed.

Um, so the increased funding for the Sacramento Quick Build program was just remove the bikeways portion of that.

Um this is a program that is being currently working on to get staffed up, is approved by council um in terms of the work plan for public works.

So uh we remove the staffing uh estimate, given that it's already happening currently.

So it's just kept it at the 1.1 million um for the initial cost estimate to start of 1.2 thereafter.

Um another changed recommendation was implement the traffic calming toolbox, which was formerly the um expand the speed management programs.

So we changed the name based on the commission's uh recommendations.

Um keeping those uh halftime senior and associate engineer positions as well as uh the cost estimate around 2.1 to start 2.3 thereafter.

Um the description was the same.

So if you all want to change that, please let me know.

But I didn't change that at all from previous year's report.

Um and then diving into the new recommendations, so implement the leading pedestrian intervals citywide.

Um I included these details as my language here that I wrote based off the recommendations I got from uh from commission.

Um, and so working with the staff with staff um for cost estimates.

Um we decided that uh the best plan of approach was to create a cost estimate for a study to um understand the the impacts of creating a leading pedestrian interval citywide, and so this is a cost estimate for a study to do that.

Um staff could not come up with a comprehensive cost estimate based off implementing this citywide, just given all the different inputs that would have to go into that.

It could get rather large rather quickly.

Um, and so we would need a study in order to understand that, um, and then for another new recommendation implement no right turn on red.

So it's similar approach that we had in terms of the cost estimate to the leading pedestrian interval.

So we would need to fund a study to understand the true impacts of that in terms of what additional staffing, what materials that we would need in order to implement this citywide or um on a uh district-wide level, and so um that's what this cost estimate is here for, as well as in terms of the details in that recommendation based off cost estimates that we we did um in partnership with our staff internally, um, as well as what we I heard from commission last month.

Um and then the pedestrian safety review of proposed transitional housing.

This came from Commissioner Harris.

Thank you.

Um, and then we did a uh year one cost estimate uh based off the staffing time that would be required in order to review these, which could fluctuate, but it was very much TBD on that.

So we came up with that cost estimate.

Um and then the expansion of the creative crosswalk policy.

So this was based on commissioner feedback to expand the creative crosswalk policy.

This cost estimate is including staff time to do that, the policy that's itself.

So in summary, um, we have one, two, three, four, eight recommendations.

These are not prioritized based off last year's report.

They were um so just want to keep that in mind.

Um, it's around the same amount uh in terms of year one cost estimate around 8.2 million, um, with about 7.6 million thereafter, uh, with a reduction in additional staffing of three people, three full-time employees.

So um for tonight, um I'm asking the commission to uh finalize, confirm the message from the chair as well as the recommendations, um, both the introduction that I was shown as well as including the report, as well as the recommendations themselves.

Um I did email you all about the commission photo.

Thank you for all for looking great tonight.

Um, but we are missing a fair amount of commissioners, so we could do that next month potentially, although I'm not sure if I can include that into an approved report.

Given next month, we wanted to have an action report or an action item for the report.

So um that concludes my presentation.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Are there clerk?

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

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speakers' clips for this item.

Okay.

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

Commissioner Harris.

I just wanted to thank you so much for um putting together our ideas and to share with my fellow commissioners.

I did work with Commissioner Gibson to make sure somebody read and proofread the material while he added in his data to our section.

And I'm happy to answer any questions.

I will say the one thing I added from the last time we met and talked when I wrote up the recommendations regarding a staff review of transitional housing was asking that if there was not a sidewalk that an active decision be made by council whether a sidewalk should be considered.

I'll be clear, I don't expect that that will be something that often gets traction, but I wanted it to be an active discussion about the safety for people who have to walk because they do not have another option.

So I'm happy to answer any questions and take any feedback.

Appreciate the opportunity.

Commissioner Banks.

And also this is really small stuff on the beautiful huge map on the vision, vision zero, all the data.

I think the legend needs to be explained.

Of course, I can't see it.

Uh what is a what is a viable injury?

That's the light blue dot.

I don't know what a viable injury is.

So I'm kind of curious, and I think that if I don't know, then there's gonna be a lot of people that might look at this and they won't know either.

Um so obviously it's kind of a liker scale of injury from not so bad to death, um, and uh so maybe uh a sentence that explains what a viable injury is.

I don't know what that is.

You went to the hospital?

Yeah, I think um the Vision Zero dashboard has near misses, so a viable might be an actual injury.

Yeah.

But yeah, I can seek uh clarification on that from Commissioner Gibson.

Yeah, small, it's just super small, but again, clarification for folks that um aren't in this space, don't read this stuff regularly, but um it would be good education for them.

And then one other thing, and that is about the leading pedestrian intervals and the right turn on red.

I think it would I I'm I'm not opposed to a study, but I think it would be really great if we had a little bit more verbiage that said, here's the larger idea, here's why it's important, and the first step to this is we need to do a study.

Because I think that's the reason why it's ending up in this report in the first place, versus let's just go to a study.

So for me, again, thinking about people that might read this in council in particular who would be voting for or maybe against it, um, giving a little bit of information about why why we think this is important, how it how it impacts the safety of the city, etc.

Uh, might be really helpful.

And then what we think is the first step is um is a study, and here's the year one cost estimate for that.

So, Commissioner Banks, do you want to write that?

Happy to for right turn on red.

Okay, do we have any volunteers for the leading pedestrian interval?

Um, because as the commissioner's report, this is uh needs to be in the language of the commissioners.

I can't, I can't write it for you.

If you rattle me this, do we have that already around City Hall?

Because I was walking around and I think we already have it around City Hall.

So if you tell me roughly where we already have in the grid, I'll write it.

Roughly.

Wouldn't it be in the traffic calming?

Streets are for neighbors or streets are for people.

Streets are for neighbors.

That too.

I like that too, yeah.

Um are we talking?

We're talking about the no turn on red.

The leading interval.

Oh, leading pedestrian interval.

Um that is in the streets for people recommendation.

Yes.

Yes.

Sorry.

So I'll take right turn on red if you're um so yeah, I that there might be language already in there um regarding that.

Um yeah, I can look that up for you.

And it is around City Hall, that is what we're talking about.

It's always helpful to demonstrate you have that around your.

Yeah, this is the idea we would like to, yeah.

It brings home the concept versus if somebody thinks, well, it's not a problem, I do this all the time.

For you know, understanding the scope would be helpful.

I can make stuff up, but I like to be grounded in reality.

Commissioner Harris, yes, you are correct.

They they we do have them on on several intersections around City Hall.

Um we can only put them on on intersections where we have adequate uh ADA, uh, the full full build of an ADA, uh, the audible signals and everything else.

So that's why they are at our some of our newer and bigger intersections.

Okay.

Sporadically around town.

That's why the study is definitely some over by Sutter by the hospital down in Knittown.

Yeah, I mean, I'm just gonna reference you know the streets around Caesar Chavez and Cedar Hall, because that seems like where we have them that I'm aware of and would be the most meaningful to all council.

Thank you.

And when do you need them, Jeff?

Um, that's a great question.

I would need it by the next staff report, which would be um I would need it by probably the 7th.

In November.

Of November.

Okay.

And Commissioner Banks was just gonna say, I agree, some extra language would be helpful.

Are you done?

All right.

I I'm not sure if I'm waiting for you to say something.

Oh no.

Oh, okay.

Commissioner Tao.

Thank you, Chair O'Dell, and thank you, Jeff and Commissioners.

Um my question was actually very close to what Commissioner Banks had mentioned around um the leading pedestrian and the no write on red, um, and whether or not uh and maybe it's because I'm one of the newer commissioners around whether it should be um lead with the study, or if it's the same as uh to recommend to have a plan to implement um these recommendations, and then the first step would be to have the study as one of the first steps.

So I mean uh I think Commissioner Banks kind of covered it, but uh my question was just kind of related to the the order of operation of how we kind of just present that um recommendation there.

You want me to take that?

Just to I think the idea of that study was that study would produce a prioritized list and a prioritized way to achieve that citywide uh instead of um it would be the the probably the cleanest and the easiest way to to move that concept forward.

Um our fear when we just giving a a budget of what do we think to deploy it citywide is it's either gonna we're really doing it back in Napkin and the fear is either we're gonna cost it so high it'll never move forward or you cost so low that it'll never be implementable.

So the idea was to do that study to prioritize these areas and areas of high need and then start to move them forward as we as we do that.

Got it.

That's helpful.

Thank you.

Commissioner Wadwani.

And thank you.

Um really appreciate the work that went into this, both yours and um the commission commissioners who worked on it and appreciate the two of you taking a stab at those two additional items because I noticed that that was one of my first things was uh we need a little more detail here, and we really need to sell it in some way because it is important.

I also had the same question about whether we should be looking out um a few years to see you know if we get the study results.

Are we going to do we want to explain what the costs might be?

But I understand now.

Thank you for that answer.

Um given that almost everything I was going to ask got answered, just one final question.

I was pretty comfortable with the recommendations.

Um can you remind me and apologies if you've already said this, Jeff?

But how does this compare to the cost figures that were in the 24-25 report?

Are we asking for a lot more?

Is it about the same?

Yeah, that's a great question.

I have I have the previous year's report.

Um, and so we're asking um for year one, uh, around $90,000 more.

Um, and then for year two, we're actually we have reduced the ask by about um $800,000.

Um, we also reduced the number of staff recommended from four and a half to three.

So um it's like by and large the same.

Um, it's actually a little bit less in terms of the ask.

And and is that changes to the ones that remain the same, or just simply that we switched out one ask for another?

Yeah, there was some uh removal um of a couple recommendations from previous year that had recurring costs associated with it as well as staff, so there was significant cost savings with that.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Harris.

That's a great transition because I wanted to increase some of the costs for year two, um, or recurring costs uh if the other commissioners agreed.

Um, it looks to me like we should have a TBD for reoccurring annual costs potentially for um the LPI and the no right uh right turn on red since we wouldn't know what those costs might be.

Um, and that sorry, I'm reading over my shoulder trying to talk and think at the same time, uh going poorly um on the transitional housing.

Uh, should that be a reoccurring?

Would that be a every year cost since theoretically we'll continue to have transitional housing, it would be for all new transitional housing being proposed to do a pedestrian review.

Okay, that makes sense.

You're getting ahead and off of Chris.

Yeah.

We have more money you have to spend.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pretend money.

Um, and then uh wasn't certain about the expansion of the creative crosswalk policy if that is something that would be a reoccurring cost, or if that truly is no reoccurring costs.

So um the ask the initial ask from uh commission was to expand the creative crosswalk program, but we do not have a program, we have a policy.

And so um, in the spirit of the ask from last month's um commission was that it would be an expansion on the policy itself, and that would just be for the staff time, it'd be a one-time cost.

Gotcha.

Could you pull up that uh expansion of the creative crosswalk policy?

I'm wondering if we need to add anything.

I cannot remember what it says.

I can tell you from the staff side what our what we took this as is to better more streamline that policy so it's a little easier to implement some of these these these creative crosswalks.

That was that was the concept behind the numbers that you're seeing.

If anyone wants to volunteer to write more.

Perfect segue, thank you very much.

I'll step right up to also offer uh a couple of sentences to expand on that.

Um, and maybe it goes from an expansion, a streamlined policy to um a program in the future, but again, because it could have, I think it has legs in the community, um, and could be something that could be a really wonderful interaction between neighbors, neighborhoods, communities, et cetera, and getting some work done for the city as long as it abides by the right you know rules and regulations as long as those rules and regulations aren't so horrible and difficult that it makes it impossible for people to do so.

So I'd be happy to um throw in a couple sentences for this too.

Thanks.

Thank you.

I don't see any more speakers.

Thank you very much for the extra work that you're doing commissioners banks and Harris.

I appreciate that.

We all appreciate it.

This item is to discuss and provide direction on the ATC report so no vote is required.

Thank you.

The next 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 one speaker slip for Dan Allison.

Good evening commissioners Dan Allison District 4 City of Sacramento.

I wish to address something that's in the report but I'm not commenting on the report itself.

For intersections that have a significant number of pedestrian injuries and fatalities we should be doing LBI now.

We don't need to study it or plan it.

We need to do it now.

Same thing for no turn on red if there are significant number of crashes involving turns on red we need to do it now not plan it or study it.

Obviously a citywide recommendation as is in the report is a different matter but we need to act on those things now.

My comments relate to uh the strong sack town and El Paso Boulevard partnership meeting with Chuck Morone and others that happened one of the strong towns concept is identify where people are struggling make a change make the look for the next thing and make the change again the city doesn't do that.

The city is focused on big projects expensive things only some of which get funded we waste a lot of money on things that really don't help people I'll be blunt the police we need to focus on neighborhoods and making things better for the people who live here and that would require public works to shift away from big projects and paying attention to what is the issue in the neighborhood and how can we fix it at a reasonable cost.

Thank you.

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

The last item is commissioner comments ideas and questions are there any commissioners who wish to speak.

Commissioner Banks hold on I just got to bring it up I would like to request an update on the construction and event detour policy um I've been getting a number of uh texts etc from old commissioners etc who are asking me what's going on there is a current closure on L at the safe convention center that's closing that little passway that between L Street and where 15 is it where L Street comes into 15th and you know by where by State Cog is and it's closed right now and the detour is to take L Street and L Street is currently under construction.

So it's a completely unsafe place to tell a cyclist to go.

So and I have pictures um so I'm curious about what uh what's we need an update and I think we might need to have some kind of a conversation about I don't know how do you enforce a detour construction policy, but they're not necessarily um in the best interest of cyclists and pedestrians.

And I don't know if that means ask Saba to create a safe route around instead.

Um I don't wanna just say my organization can do that, we'll do that for everything, but something is better than nothing and there's no mechanism to get a good detour a detour in place when there is a detour that's gonna happen.

So this example of this one that's currently closed and just says go to L Street is crazy because you're putting people in harm's way instead of you know creating a safe way from the to get from point A to point B.

So I'm curious about some kind of an update on the policy.

Is that something then that you would put on for the commission log?

I guess, but I know the log takes all these, but isn't it already on the log?

I think so.

Haven't we already asked for an update on the policy at some point in time?

I have really bad log um expertise.

I don't really understand the log and how it works, because nothing ever comes forward from the log.

I think that the log item, if I remember right, was to finalize the policy.

It was finalized, and I think you're asking for maybe some additional information on on how that is proceeding to be implemented.

Yeah, it's the implementation of the policy because I exactly thank you, Commissioner Harris.

That's where it's starting to fall apart.

You have anything to share?

Yeah, and we're happy to take a look at that and and and bring it back, but um, so do you do you think this should go on the log the way she's described it, the way Commissioner Banks is described it?

A log commission request can could you do that?

Oh w uh well I'm not sure.

Um Chris, d is it something that needs to be on the log, or is it something that you can bring forward as an update for implementation because we have finished the detour policy?

It took five years to get it done.

We celebrated it last month, I think.

I think a report back on how it's doing would be a new item on the log, uh, because we have we did finish the previous item as a complete the policy.

Um but it would give us the mechanism to actually bring that back to you and report back on to you, uh to the to the commission uh on that policy.

So that would that's what I would recommend.

Okay, cool.

Uh, so do it.

Thanks.

Commissioner Harris.

So we I think left the topic of the photo for the report unspecified about whether a new photo could be put in.

And I just want us to make an active decision.

Is there a downside to taking a photo tonight to include and then if we can include a better representation in the la next uh report to to do that, or do we act I don't have a strong reference we can actively keep last year's photo?

I just want us to make a decision.

I think we should take the photo tonight in case we can't take legally take one next time to put in.

Didn't you say there was some kind of maybe a restriction or a limitation on being able to do that?

I'll defer to city attorney, but um I think if we made a motion to approve with the addition of a new photo that that would be inclusive of a photo.

But I think with the report that you would bring back in November, if you left, say for instance, you left the spot in the report blank and just said staff will bring forward a photo or upload a new photo before it goes to PMPE, that would be sufficient.

Thank you.

So still follow up question: is there risk mitigation of taking a photo tonight if in the next meeting we don't have better participation?

No?

Okay.

I just want to be.

Commissioner Banks.

Yeah, thanks.

This is actually about the report too.

I should have asked when Jeff you were doing the presentation.

I'm a little hung up on the list of all of the commissioners.

Some of the commissioners are no longer on the commission, some we have new commissioners.

Are we making sure we've got everybody on it?

Um, or is it worth it to say uh part of the year under folks that have had to take off and um or or does that matter?

I'm just curious what other people think.

Um I would only include commissioners who served on the commission in that uh report year.

So between January of this year and now.

Um I suppose I would defer to the commission if you want to include folks who have left since, but I think I would by default.

Well, there are people listed that are no longer sitting around this device.

That's what I'm asking.

Well, that um probably was my error and oversight in updating that list.

So I could I can update that.

That'd be great.

Thanks.

Thanks for catching that.

Yeah.

Okay, I see no more names popping up.

That means this can put my name up.

Commissioner Banks.

I know it's my night.

Uh sorry.

Uh we're throwing a big party.

Uh, let's see, today's Thursday, Saturday night.

Uh, Velopol, it's our biggest fundraiser.

This is Saba.

Please come join us.

We would love to have you guys with us.

We'd love to have all of you guys with us.

Uh tickets are still available.

There is a live auction which is live right now, so you could win something or auction on something that you don't even have to be there for.

Anyway, we'd love to have you there because it helps us keep doing all the work that we do in the city.

That was worth it.

This concludes today's agenda.

Thank you everyone for your participation.

The meeting is adjourned.