All right, this is called this meeting to order the Sacramento City Council.

Please call the roll. Thank you council member Kaplan.

Council member Dickinson is expected momentarily. Vice Mayor Talamantes, council member Plycki

council member Maple, Mayor Prattam-Garris, expected momentarily. Council member Jennings, council member Vang, Mayor Ricardi, you have a quorum.

Council member Vang, will you do the land acknowledgement and then Mr. Jennings the pledge?

Yes. Please grind your vehicle.

Land, the Nissan on people, the Southern Maidu, Valigan planes me walk, put win and win two peoples and the people of Vultin Rancheria.

Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor that it native people who came before us and still walk besides us today on these ancestral land by choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples, history, contributions and lives. Thank you.

Would 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.

Or a nation under God in the physical, but there's an interest as well.

Thank you. So Madam City Attorney, do you ever report out from closed session?

Mayor and councilman closed session to discuss one item related to the initiation litigation and also to meet with their labor negotiators and there's nothing to report at this time.

Thank you. So, Mayor, we have one item on tonight's agenda, which is Trucksville Bridge concept and feasibility study.

There we go.

Good evening, Mayor and council. My name is Fudolia Harris with your public works department, better known as Sparky and I am very happy to come to you today to talk a little bit more about the Trucksville Bridge concept and feasibility study.

I'm going to try to stick to my notes so I can stay on track. But I'm here today seeking your approval for the concept and feasibility study that staff is prepared as well as staff's recommendation for preferred alternative.

This effort was funded by a Cal Trans Grant awarded to the Sacramento area council of governments on our behalf in partnership with the Sacramento Regional Transit District.

We work closely with several resource agencies to set the design parameters before developing for alternative concepts, which are analyzed for constructability, potential environmental effects, hydraulic impacts and traffic impacts.

Pamela from Dockin Engineering is here to answer questions. She managed the consultant team and will be available after the presentation.

So I'll walk you through our process, but to spoil the ending, staff's recommendation is alternative 3B. So I just wanted to make that clear off the bat.

It's important for us to understand the direction that staff was given in 2013, which was to further the implementation of an all modes crossing following the adoption of the American River Crossings Alternative Study.

This direction was included in our General Plan in 2015, Seikoks Metropolitan Transportation Plan in 2017, and our General Plan again in 2024.

The concepts developed for this study were intended to satisfy the purpose statement adopted by council in 2013, which was to provide local connectivity for local trips.

To add capacity for multiple modes with an eye towards reducing vehicle miles traveled and emissions.

To minimize cut through traffic.

And to improve access to the parkway below.

So let me walk you through the four alternative concepts that were developed.

We weren't starting from scratch. Sacramento Regional Transit District had already started preliminary design for a Truxel Bridge crossing for the green line to the airport.

And our first alternative concept was based on that design with the addition of cars to satisfy the purpose statement.

This concept is an 84 foot standard cross section with right of way for pedestrians, cyclists, cars, and transit grouped by direction on either side of the bridge.

This alternative concept follows the original horizontal alignment developed by regional transit, which is shown in red.

The requirement requires a building take at the end of Sequoia Pacific Boulevard.

A new intersection and the relocation of a high voltage PG&E tower.

The rest of the alternatives follow the black alignment, which avoids these issues.

The second concept was our attempt to design the narrow west cross section by running cars and transit in the same right of way and combining pedestrians and cyclists on a class one trail off to one side.

Shoulders were required to accommodate breakdowns in a center turn lane, sorry, a center lane was required for emergency service vehicles.

This concept came in at 69 feet.

The third concept started with our attempt to group each mode by directionally as shown at the top of the slide.

This concept was shared through our community engagement process and feedback received drove us to rearrange the concept placing transit in between the cyclists and cars to create a buffer.

That's how we came up with alternative 3A.

The result was a 90 foot cross section as you see here.

The previous concept also was designed to keep pedestrians and cyclists on the west side of the bridge to accommodate a west side connection down to the Jetsmith trail in the parkway.

A fourth concept was developed to mirror that cross section to address a few issues and is being presented as staff's recommendation.

One of our goals was to avoid property takes.

So shifting the pedestrians and cyclists to the east side of the bridge made it easier to peel the right of way off of the bridge to connect to the two river trail and Fitz Street as an alternative to continuing down Sequoia Pacific Boulevard where we were attempting to squeeze between two existing buildings.

The thinking was that Fitz Street is transforming into a low stress two lane facility that will stretch from the American River all the way into Upper Land Park.

And the conversion of Fitz Street from one way to two way was recently completed through the Central City Mobility Project leaving short segments in the river district and the rail yards to complete this corridor.

Shifting cars to the west of the bridge also allowed us to accommodate regional transit's desire to reduce the number of times that transit has to cross over vehicle lanes.

With this configuration light rail can be extended from township nine along Richard's Boulevard and turn north onto Sequoia Pacific Boulevard without crossing over car lanes.

A crossover would still be necessary near the intersection of Truxel and Garden Highway to shift the tracks into the middle of the road going north but there's already an existing signalized intersection versus creating a new one.

These concepts were developed with a great deal of community engagement over the last year.

We began by meeting people where they were attending community events presenting at neighborhood associations union headquarters board meetings and commission meetings.

Our first formal presentation was a community conversation to drive awareness to clarify the purpose of the study we're in the early stages of developing the concepts.

Over 40 people attended this meeting and provided valuable input on the early concepts and I'd like to point out that many of those folks are here today.

Some of the questions we started with were who are you and how do you use the bridge?

That meeting was followed by an online survey to gather feedback from folks that couldn't join us in person and that survey generated over a thousand comments that also helped us improve the concepts.

The revised concepts were shared with a small focus group of advocates, community-based organizations and other partners to review the changes that were made based on community feedback to see if we're going in the right direction.

Additional revisions were made before the concepts and analysis were shared with the public at a community open house to gather thoughts regarding the final products before we came before council.

Over 140 people attended the open house and hard questions asked hard questions and provided feedback.