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Good evening and welcome to April 2nd, 2025, Disabilities Advisory Commission meeting.

The meeting is now called to order.

Will the clerk please call roll to establish a quorum?

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioners, if you can please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

Here.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Here.

Commissioner Patel?

Here.

Commissioner Wilson?

Here.

Commissioner Dyson is absent.

Commissioner Tuzon Void is also absent.

Commissioner Mercer?

Here.

Vice Chair Ellis?

President.

Commissioner Carr is absent.

Commissioner Crowley is currently absent and Chair Cramer.

Here.

Thank you.

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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.

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Our first business today is approval of the consent calendar.

Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar?

Thank you, Chair. We have no speakers for this item.

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

Vice Chair Keith Ellis.

Motion to approve the consent calendar.

Can I get a second?

I'll second it. I have a question.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Just to clarify a question, what is the follow-up log?

The follow-up?

My unmute it.

The follow-up log represents a look ahead of potential items that will come before the commission.

It also includes the work plan items that were approved in the annual report.

It notes future projects like the ones coming to the commission today and tries to anticipate when those projects would come to the commission.

It also includes the items in the work plan and the recommendations in the work plan on their status.

So that's like a log for the commission. It's kind of the work it's done.

Okay, thank you for the clarification. That's all I wanted to ask about that. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Is there a second motion for the consent calendar?

Leave Barnbaum.

Will the clerk please call the roll for the vote?

Yes, and that was a motion by Vice Chair Ellis and a second by Commissioner Barnbaum.

Commissioners, if you can please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Patel?

Aye.

Commissioner Wilson?

Aye.

Commissioner Dyson is absent.

Commissioner Tucson-Boyd absent.

Commissioner Mercer?

Aye.

Vice Chair Ellis?

Aye.

Commissioner Carr is absent.

Commissioner Crowley is currently absent and Chair Cramer.

Aye.

Thank you. The motion passes.

Okay, we will now move on to the discussion calendar.

Is there...

Item number three.

Is there a staff presentation?

And to clarify, this is the Sutter's Landing Park Americans with Disability Act.

Hi, my name is Tenua Wong.

I'm a Lancet Park Tech with the Parks Department.

And I'd like to introduce Pamela Dalson-Wallen, a consultant with Dock and Engineering,

who will be presenting on the Sutter's Landing Park ADA River Access Trail project.

Good evening, commissioners.

Good to see you.

I'll be diving into the details of the Sutter's Landing Park ADA River Access Trail over the next few minutes.

So to get us started, location is in Sutter's Landing Regional Park,

which is on the South Bank of the American River to the east of state route 160 and to the west of business 80.

So a few details about the project.

The project is being sponsored by the city's youth parks and community engagement group.

We are scope to provide preliminary engineering, environmental clearance, as well as final design.

We are being funded through final design by the California Wildlife Conservation Board,

and we're currently seeking construction funds in order to construct the project.

We anticipate the environmental clearance document will be a CEQA initial study with mitigated negative declaration.

So a few details on the background and how this project came to be.

The city of Sacramento is currently in the process of finalizing a parks master plan for the Sutter's Landing Regional Park,

and as part of that master plan, there's a plan for a kiosk that rents kayaks in the general vicinity,

and Sutter's Landing Beach does not currently have an ADA accessible path to the river,

so to facilitate access to the river, this project is the goal of this project is to provide an ADA compliant pedestrian access to the beach.

Ensure that the trail can accommodate kayaks as well, and also there's a component of restoration in the general vicinity of the project as well.

So a few photos to show you kind of what the existing conditions look like.

So the left hand photo shows what it looks like at the base of the levee.

Looking up to the top of the levee, this is what folks currently traverse without assistance right now.

The photo on the right is looking from the top down.

It's basically showing a pretty steep slope from top to bottom, and that's what's making it difficult to access it.

Folks have created their own social trail, of course, and this is another similar set of photos from the top looking down the slope and providing a side view as well.

At the bottom of the slope, there's typically a rack that includes light preservers for folks heading to the beach.

So at the beginning of the project, we, our project team came up with several alternatives to meet ADA access requirements to beginning at the top of the slope of the levee and leading all the way down to the base of the levee.

We had alternative one, which is shown in yellow, and it is a little bit longer than alternative two in pink because it's side stepping a tree and elderberry shrubs, which we're trying not to impact.

And then alternative three is in blue. It's a little bit out of the way. It begins down farther to the east where the topography kind of meets the top of the levee more readily, and so it's a long, kind of more flat profile.

So after reaching out, after developing these concepts, we embarked on an outreach program, which included meeting with friends of setters landing on three different occasions.

They're very active in the park area. We also met with the American River Flood Control District, who's responsible for maintaining the levees.

So we wanted to make sure we involved city maintenance staff in the discussion.

We also met with the Central Valley Flood Protection Board and Army Corps of Engineers, knowing that in the final design phase we would be obtaining permits from those agencies, so we wanted to get their feedback.

And then after those meetings, we did have a public workshop to invite the general public out to view the various exhibits that we produced and to provide their feedback.

We then presented the project to the American River Parkway Advisory Committee, which is part of Sacramento County, and also the Sacramento County Recreation and Parks Commission.

And then we also conducted an online survey through the web. And then not listed here, maybe cut off. I'm not sure.

We also spoke with, we provided our initial plans to the Lionheart community, which serves the folks in wheelchairs. And so we wanted to get their feedback as well, as to how we could make this project accommodate everybody.

After all of that outreach and compiling everybody's opinions and thoughts and feedback, we determined that our preferred alignment would be the alternative one, which is shown in yellow.

And then the folks at the use parks department also wanted to add the alternative three, which is in blue, as kind of an additional alternative kind of a, if you, if the bids come in low, we can add it in and do that one as well.

And the reason being there is that it would accommodate folks coming from the east. And also the blue path is currently a maintenance path that's used by maintenance folks to collect trash and do other maintenance activities at the beach.

And so by paving that trail, it would provide additional access for them. So that is the purpose of including the blue if there's enough money to do so.

So in terms of the design itself, the ramp is envisioned to be a concrete pathway. And this was based on feedback from maintenance. They would like to see concrete over asphalt.

It will be eight feet wide to provide for two way usage and also have two foot DG shoulders on the side.

The slopes, the longitudinal slope of both of those profiles is is in accordance with ADA regulations. So less than 5%. And then we also have a landing that is located on the switchback alternative.

We have a landing around the curve. That was also brought up in some of the feedback that we got from the public folks pushing wheelchairs appreciated having a landing to rest partway down.

So that ended up being a positive aspect of the project as well.

So in terms of the path of travel, the alternative one is anticipated to serve folks that may be parking in one of two parking lots at Sutter's Landing Regional Park.

So parking lot number one is in the upper right corner and that is right next to the skate park. And then parking lot two is farther to the south.

And it's in a covered area covered with solar panels a little bit farther away. So in terms of the path of travel from each of these locations, there are two sets of handicaps parking spots in the parking lot number one.

And so the red arrows would show how somebody would go from those parking stalls to and access the top of the ramp in both of those locations.

And I had mentioned that there's a park master plan and there are about to start the process of going out to construction for the concession stand.

This particular plan shows what the concession stand will look like. That will be in place by the time we go out to construction. So this is a finished finished vision of what that would look like.

The red arrows show the path of travel in the future condition from parking lot number two, which is the one covered by the solar panels. And so there will be essentially a concrete path all the way from the parking lot number two all the way to the parking lot number one.

And then they would continue along the same path as we showed for parking lot number one.

We're currently in the preliminary engineering phase where essentially we just narrow our alternatives down to the preferred alignment.

And we're starting environmental clearance on those on those selected alignments. That'll be followed by permitting and final design.

And then we're anticipating being ready to start construction pending pending receipt of construction funds by the end of 2027.

These things take a long time.

All right. And that's pretty much the just of it. Do you guys have any questions?

I was first of all wanted to thank you for your presentation. And I just had a few questions. I know you wanted to use when I went through the plan.

I know you guys said you wanted to use more natural material. And I just want to know what sort of natural material we guys was the project thinking about using.

So the desire for the natural materials was coming from the Friends of Sutter's Landing. And so they wanted to stay away from any kind of hardscape, any kind of asphalt and concrete.

They were hoping to do decompose granite for the main path. And we explained to them that that would be very difficult to maintain ADA compliant grades and cross loops on a daily basis since decompose granite is a very moldable material.

And it changes based on the environment. So what we have thought about doing is having colored concrete that's maybe like a brown or something that blends into the environment a little bit more.

And maybe having some aesthetic stampings on the concrete, maybe like twigs or animal prints or something like that that would help it to kind of blend into the natural environment.

So we're working on that aesthetic aspect right now.

Thank you. Because it is important that when one materials are used, that they're ones that are going to be able to support those who use the device,

I'm really moving devices. So I know there's types of wood that if not treated, they decay or get all get warped. So it makes it makes transfer traversing traversing difficult.

Yes, yes. And then my last question before I turn it over to my fellow commissioners is how wide will the trails be?

So I think the eight feet wide, the paved section, and then the shoulders will be two feet wide on each side.

Thank you so much. Commissioner Mercer?

Yes. So in looking at that, the shoulder is going to be the decompose. We'll grant it material.

So I did forget to mention one important thing. So I mentioned that we had set our plans to the Lineheart community.

And I had a great conversation with them on the phone to talk about what their thoughts might be.

One of the things that she said was that they were looking and I'm kind of trying to go back to the plan view.

So this particular layout shows that we stop kind of just shy of the beach and the reason that we did that was to avoid taking out more trees.

Because we know that we're trying to balance providing this asset but also maintaining the environment out there. But what was pointed out was that they would really like to get all the way down to the beach.

And so what we're planning to do is extend the current path, trying to weave through the trees as best we can, and get down to what would amount to water levels that occurred during the summer.

So actually at the beach, because that was going to be my next question, because having negotiated that with a person of a motorized wheelchair, the hardest thing about going to places like beaches, etc.

is that the lack of accessibility to get in close to the beach.

There is, I think it might be cowl over at South Lake Tahoe, where they have a wooden ramp that goes pretty far out through a forested area.

But you know, there are some, as people have said, there are some issues sometimes with having wood over in those situations.

But that, having taken somebody in a motorized wheelchair, that was like really, really nice.

Right. So yeah, we are currently in the process of extending that path.

We were investigating the summer water level, so we knew where it would be an appropriate place to stop.

And then the other thing that we heard from the Lionheart community was that frequently when they use these paths in an environment that's subject to water, they find that the sides have been eroded because the water, you know, kind of eddies around the edges.

And so they're kind of trapped on the path because they can't get over these little ruts.

And so we've been thinking about incorporating some like a cellular mats, some sort of permanent cellular mats on the sides to prevent that kind of erosion so that that can be more sturdy.

Yeah, I saw one of those over at a beach in Waukeki when I was there recently.

Yeah, and I think also having you talked about landings are really important especially because I kayak, but I'm also occasionally transporting, getting somebody around over in a motorized wheelchair.

And I know just both of those communities, you kind of need some landing spots because if there's a lot of traffic going by, and also if they get to a point where it's like, okay, I want to go over and hang out here.

This is a nice spot, then they're out of the way.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you Commissioner Mercer. Commissioner Baumbaum.

Thank you.

You discussed about a couple of options to go forward with construction.

I mentioned concrete and asphalt.

Seems to me just kind of thinking it over a bit during your presentation that for me concrete seems to be preferred over asphalt, particularly in the summer months when temperature can be a major factor when you look back at what we did.

And how could we have done it better or whatever and that's the first thing that comes to thought there.

But tell us a little bit about the cost benefits or drawbacks of the two.

So we we had initially considered both of those materials, but after we met with city maintenance, it was explained to us that they would prefer concrete.

So we had a longer looking at asphalt as an option.

And so that kind of ended that discussion.

So the benefits of concrete are that it will maintain and withstand ADA compliant or any grades that you design are pretty much fixed without a lot of future maintenance.

And asphalt is a little bit it's hard, but it's a softer material.

And so it's more difficult to achieve the design grades that you need initially.

And then it also can morph in the hot summer sun and change.

So concrete seems to be the way that we're heading.

And that's what I would recommend to that was what you were asking of us to.

You want to recommend to the council and I would for sure go with concrete over over asphalt among the materials you'd like to use.

I like the yellow design on the map.

And like you said, if money is available then over on the east side provide the with the remaining funds to construct the secondary ramp.

If that was what you were looking for recommendation in a council agenda item at a future council meeting, I'd recommend that based on the staff presentation as well.

Great. Thank you Madam Chair. Those were the questions I had to ask. Appreciate it.

Thank you Commissioner Barnbaum. Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you. Just for my personal education, I'm curious with regards to the kayaks. And I guess the concession stand is that on.

Well, is that the city that rents them and the money goes to the city was a private company.

That is up for debate. I'm not sure it's a separate group that's heading up the park master plan.

And perhaps you have more. Jason is here. You might have more information about the park stuff.

Hello, I'm Jason Weisman. I'm the park planning and development manager for the Department of Youth, Parks and Community Enrichment.

Yeah, the concession stand right now we went out for some information trying to see if there was private vendors that would be interested in and doing the rentals.

The number of boats that they need to get on the water to make a profit is quite large. So we're looking at city options to see if the city right now.

Currently the city team runs the skate parks. We're trying to see if we can do a combined it with the skate park and maybe this kayak rentals can happen at one location.

So we can do that but we're not sure exactly what we're going to do yet.

And that would be my recommendation if you were looking for it to the council just because of course we really need those funds.

I also want to say that this was a wonderful presentation.

The American River is one of the most beautiful spots of Sacramento. We're on three rivers and it's the mission of this commission and is to make sure that all citizens are able to enjoy all aspects of our city.

And these steps are so important and so I'm very excited for this project.

In terms of me visualizing it, I guess in this at the very end, would this kind of look like what's is built at the William Land Park at the end of the park where there is a ramp.

So are you familiar with that area of the American River William Land Park in the river William.

So it's at the end of art and I might have.

Well, it's the end of art in way.

Yeah, I think that's Discovery Park. I mean the city does have a own.

It's this kind of park but it's operated by the county and then Discovery Parks the county as well.

So I'm not 100% familiar with that location.

All right. Well, thank you and wonderful presentation.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum. Commissioner Wilson.

So because I was, I just wanted to thank you for your presentation.

Thank you for listening to the community because the ramp because I was aware of this about two months ago because of resources for the delivery.

And it's a good thing that we were concerned about is the ramp that was further to the east, probably difficult for some people to walk from the parking all the way.

So that's a that's still a better culture for this one.

Yeah, yeah, we agreed. The blue alignment is a little out of direction from the parking lots and so that's why we really liked to focus

on the east some of the alternatives as starting closer to the parking lot and being more accessible.

Thank you, Commissioner Wilson. Vice Chair Ellis.

Thank you. I just wanted to say thank you so much for how thorough this presentation was you did a lot.

It's like a fair amount of outreach, if not a lot of outreach in my opinion, that you outlined to us, which I really appreciate.

And you've kind of incorporated you've shown us how you incorporated that outreach into how you're planning.

And I think that's exactly what we're kind of looking for when we get these kinds of presentations is what is the outreach and then how did it inform the process before it got here.

So thank you so much for doing that. And like some have already, you know, shared prior to me, I think there's that trade off of trying to get as close to the water as possible.

But then we know the water doesn't stay in one spot.

So it's, you know, then we have to deal with ongoing maintenance. So it sounds like you've kind of thought about those things as well is how are we going to deal with this in the long term.

So I appreciate that was going to be one of my questions. So you kind of address that through the other questions.

And there were elements of both the second and third or options that you the blue and the yellow lines.

You know, the blue seemed at least from what I could gather from the report seemed to like you said a flatter option.

But the yellow one gets you closer to the parking. So there's, you know, those kinds of things.

The one thing I would kind of say is I like that you're moving forward to try to do both if funding allows and hopefully that does turn out.

But if not, like maybe kind of hoping we could leave the door open if other funding materializes down the road to do the rest of the blue option if possible.

So there is that increased access as you were outlining of coming from the other direction.

And hopefully because I think you said there was only really one primary funder for this project.

So hoping maybe other funding sources potentially could materialize as you're going forward to the bid process to help support the completion of the full project.

But this is a really great project. So thank you.

Yeah, yeah. There's currently one funder through final design.

And but certainly construction funds we could solicit multiple other sources.

One thing that I didn't really get into too much was kind of how we selected our alternatives. Public outreach was one component.

But we did a full ranking based on a number of different criteria, including the hydraulic aspect.

And when we met with the permitting agencies, they also rendered an opinion about which ones they liked.

The number two doesn't put as much fill in the floodplain, but it is way out of direction.

So we considered a cost as well.

So a lot of different criteria. And then we assigned numbers to each of those and came up with a final score so that we could have a balanced result basically.

And something that we can demonstrate. We could demonstrate how we got to the preferred alignment.

Thank you. And thank you chair and just a friendly reminder.

Because sometimes we forget about public comments. So I'd love to hear if we have any public comment.

And thank you, Vice Chair Ellis. We have one more commissioner speaker and then we will move to public comments for this item.

Commissioner Patel.

Thank you for your presentation. I was thinking I don't know this space unfortunately, so I can't picture it.

And so I am excited about I haven't been to this location, but I'm excited about this for the folks that were there.

I think commissioner Mercer kind of talked about like I got down the ramp and now what.

And I'm thinking through spaces that I've been to where it's like, and then the terrain.

To get to the beach is is the is really difficult.

And I am wondering two things. One, is there going to be sort of, I know there's like, I don't know if it's landing pads or whatever that you you had mentioned about kind of along the ramp.

But it's not a steep grade. But is there is there also potentially a thought about large early and the pads.

I know I've been out to a couple of beaches in the Bay Area where when you get to the bottom of that accessibility ramp.

And if you want to enjoy the beach space and you can't really get through the sand, there's a large landing pad where you and your family could enjoy there.

Or maybe it's more of a decking space or something. There is a very large kind of sitting space.

So my first question is wondering is there something already there is that kind of what we see in the picture.

At the end where there's those two bigger spaces that I'm just not familiar or is there a plan for that.

So right now we have at the base of the ramps. So one other aspect of the project that I didn't really focus on because it's not really a disability feature but the stairs.

So there is a set of stairs that is more direct for folks who feel comfortable using the stairs.

So the stairs and both ramps come together in a wider area.

I would like in it to like a little plaza. And it is a location where there will be trash receptacles and where the life fest holders are.

So that when people are getting down there, we anticipate they'll be congregating but then there's still room for people to keep going if they're not stopping there.

So that little area is a little bit wider. And then as it continues forward or towards the water I should say.

There's two little spokes and those were envisioned to be heading towards foundations that could support picnic tables.

And then at this time we're actually extending the pathway towards the river and we could have like potentially maybe it end in a tea or maybe a circular turnaround type area.

And that would be where we would end it at the typical summer water level.

So those are the ones that I envisioned to be kind of what you're describing.

Nice. I think my second, that's wonderful. And I wondered kind of what those, if that's what those, right, little designs work.

My second question, sex data aquatic center, I know that their water level is much more stable.

It's a little dependable consistent, yep. But they have their accessibility ramp is mobile all the way into the water and then they have a mobile water pad that moves with the water level.

Again, it's not as big of a change.

I see this as this community development project where we're going to get anyone to the water and these kayaks and the other things that are going to be part of that.

I'm wondering if that is in maybe a future plan or if that's been thought about or if that's capable of being here because I think we've got, we've got most people to the water.

How do we help them get on the water and when I think about the way that's designed there, anyone can get on the water because of their design.

Yeah, we will definitely have to go check that out just to get some eyes on it.

One of the components that I believe was part of the project is a non-motorized boat launch.

And we were kind of trying to figure out what that would look like, but I believe, and Jason, you can collect me if I'm wrong, sorry.

I believe that may have been pulled out as its own project now.

Yeah, I mean, we're still looking at a non-motorized boat launch, but we've been looking at examples along the American River and what other, you know, we've been working closely with the county because technically the land and once we crossed the Levy, it is county land.

So we've been working in partnership with them to get the access trail here.

And they're doing another boat launch just downstream of this that they're working on the opposite side of the rivers is something very similar.

We've looked at stuff going into the water, but we're worried about ongoing maintenance.

Everything that everyone we've talked to, the cities that we have talked to, is a, you know, because of the fluctuating level of water, it's going to be a constant maintenance nightmare.

And right now we don't have the dollars for that.

So it is something we can consider in the future, but right now we're just focusing on getting them to the water.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Patel. Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you.

When my fellow commissioner was speaking about, I think is important and I envision, and now that you say that this might be on the other side of the Levy too, I have a hard time envisioning in my mind, but the how river access.

In terms of getting everyone to the river, it's very accessible for small for families.

And, but however, that might be the county and that's another area I envision where, however, there are parts of that area too that certainly need additional accessibility.

But with regards to this boat ramp, it is, it's really cool to see people with their children right there and that, you know, two feet of water.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much again for your presentation.

We will now move to public comment. Are there any members of the public who is to speak on the item?

Yes, thank you, Chair. We have Dan.

I think I'm getting there again.

Yes, you're there. And I can let you know when you have 30 seconds as well.

Okay, great. I'm a former commissioner. That commissioner is good to be back.

I wanted to mention that the, you might check out the Berkeley Outreach Recreational Program who has an accessible dock for their kayaking program.

So they might even have a picture on their website. I'm not sure about that.

The other thing that I would mention that, that the DAC commission should require all presentations be described so that blind people could follow.

I did not understand the blue and yellow sections because all they referred to was referred to the blue and yellow.

Oh, okay, that's nice. So that being said, I like the idea. I'm a kayaker. I'm a hiker, you know, and I love every chance to get out and do it.

And I think it's a great plan.

What else was it? Oh, pedestrians.

And the section where if you go to the section to the plan where trash trucks are going to be able to go down on the same road as pedestrians, I would suggest that you have a safe zone for pedestrians, especially blind pedestrians or seniors who can't.

I don't have 30 seconds.

Really, who can't really tell where they are. And so maybe a tactile strip of some kind or some kind of delineation between where the traffic is going and where the pedestrians going.

Now it would help the bicyclists too. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Chair, we have no more speakers.

Thank you to the public for speaking on this item. Our next item on the agenda.

We have one more commissioner's commissioner speaker commissioner, Barnbaugh.

Yes, per the speaker that we had, a very interesting point was made about accessible formats when the speaker discussed blue and yellow.

And the point made reminded me that, yeah, if there is a way, maybe to make a staff request.

That's something we have to consider in the public interest. Is there any way for future commission meetings that stuff in drawings, PowerPoints, graphics can be made available in accessible formats.

So, I think that the speakers like the one that we had will be able to as equally participate in the process as much as those that might take that for granted. Thank you.

Thank you commissioner Barnbaugh. Commissioner Greenbaum.

Yes, I think that was a very important thing that Dan brought up and commissioner Barnbaugh expanded upon.

And that makes me think of close captioning here for our audience that might need it.

And I don't, and I'm not a tech person. So, however, I think that's something that would be really cool to tap.

Thank you.

Thank you, commissioner Greenbaum.

Mr. Galkin.

Yes, thank you. Regarding the PowerPoint presentations, Stephanie Sayas, who sometimes joins me at these meetings.

She works with myself and staff presenting. We get the PowerPoints and we try to remind staff about the issues that were raised this evening.

Using the alternative text for images and a PowerPoint or to be very descriptive in their presentations.

And so, we do miss them sometimes. But that is something we do try to remind staff when they're bringing their PowerPoints.

So, thank you for public comment and for emphasizing that.

And then, let's see.

Oh, and the close captioning. Yeah. Close captioning. That has been part as the commissioners that have been on the dias for, we'll call them the veteran commissioners.

It has been raised with our IT technology. It is in the work plan and the annual report.

And so, yeah. So, that is something we're continuing to follow up with the clerk's office regarding someone.

Jesse, when does the work plan go to Sacramento City Council?

I was going to, that's my thunder for my oral report out. But, yeah. Well, we'll get, yeah. So, June 17th, but I'll address it later too.

Yeah. We'll do the PNPE committee.

Thank you, Mr. Jesse. We will now move on to our next item, which is the Vision and Zero School Safety Project.

Good evening. I'm Luke Fusen, Senior Engineer with the City Engineering Services. I'm pleased to present to the Disabilities of Ives Recommissioned the Vision Zero School Safety Project today.

I'll start with just a little bit of an agenda of what I'll be talking about today. First, we'll go over a little bit of the project overview in the background of Vision Zero.

I'll show, I'll show the improvements at each of the schools that are being proposed as part of this project, given update on the schedule, and open it up for any questions or discussion.

So, let's do a little bit background on the City's Vision Zero Program. On January 19th, 2017, City Council adopted a resolution adopting the following goal.

The City of Sacramento will work collaboratively in a data-driven effort to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2027.

In 2018, the City Council adopted the Vision Zero Action Plan, identifying those roads with the highest number of injuries and fatalities and identified a high injury network and kind of set the framework for the City's Vision Zero Plan.

After the Vision Zero Action Plan was adopted, a couple other plans came from that. One of them being the Vision Zero School Safety Plan, which this project will be discussing today and this project is based upon.

The Vision Zero School Safety Study documented conditions for students walking, biking, and taking both public and private transit at 20 schools throughout the City.

This project is a derivative of the Vision Zero School Safety Study that studied 20 schools. This project initially proposed to address improvements that were recommended in the Vision Zero School Safety Study at 9 of the schools out of that study.

They were based on equity and underserved communities. Today I'll be presenting seven schools. During project development to the schools, we identified no longer needed improvements. One of them, the improvements had already been completed by City Forces and the other was Oak Ridge School.

It's going through a complete reconstruction and the safety upgrades are conditioned as part of that development.

This project has a fairly limited budget and a tight schedule. It's funded with $2.2 million in community project funding that was secured through Congresswoman Doris Matt Sui's office.

So it was intended to make relatively near-term and somewhat inexpensive improvements at each of these schools just due to the funding that was available and again they were in the underserved communities.

The way that the improvements in the Vision Zero School Safety Plan were kind of adopted and thought of and recognized were based on, based a lot on community involvement, public outreach, and what we call the walk audits.

So, I'll be asking you all, essentially public officials for the city, public work staff, and planning staff, went out and put boots on the ground and met with school officials, school administrators, and representatives of the community in each school to actually walk around at each of these schools.

And here from the community, here from the schools, what kind of improvements they think would most benefit them and their students.

So, as well as everybody else, I mean this project really is intended to benefit all users, but that's just a little bit about the background about how the recommendations were determined.

I would mention that this city is currently pursuing a second effort of the Vision Zero School Safety Project to address remaining schools.

So, I just go through each school, now there's going to be seven of them.

So, the improvement of Sacramento High School improvements are pretty much directly out of the Vision Zero School Safety Study, and these are the type of improvements you'll see at most locations.

And that Sacramento High School is along 8th Street and V Street. Most of the improvements are at the intersection of 8th Street and V Street.

Talking with the school officials, there was a need for upgrading crosswalks, so we're putting in, and most of these locations you'll see the upgraded high visibility crosswalks.

There's two types that we implement throughout the project, but these are the high visibility crosswalks. We're putting in, and this fairly typical we're putting in, signage, pedestrian signage for directing people towards the intersections, putting in, signing and striping at most locations, and really trying to increase the safety at this intersection,

which is directly in front of the school. Another upgrade at this particular school is a relocated bus stop. So, we're working with Sacramento Regional Transit to move the bus stop a little bit closer to the corner and more clearly define where those buses should be pulling up for pickup and drop off.

Next school is St. Hope PS7. This school is along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 26th Avenue at the corner of 26th Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard will be installing the high visibility upgraded crosswalks again.

We will be making improvements to the ADA curb ramps and also installing an RRFB, which we see there was just the signage with the flashing lights where a user pushes the button to activate the lights that they can cross the road.

So, that will be going into this location. Some minor upgrades to the biking at the intersection, to refresh them and refresh all the striping, the upgrading the yield markings and the stop markings and the signage, and then looking along 26th Avenue installing speed humps as a traffic calming measure on 26th Avenue as it approaches Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

The next school I will mention is West Campus High School. These improvements are at the intersection of 58th Street and Fruit Ridge Road along and actually 25th Avenue as well.

The intersection with 25th Avenue, the improvements again call for the upgraded high visibility crosswalks. We are considering raised crosswalk at this location as well.

Kind of looking at that a little bit still as a necessary improvement. We're also looking at speed humps along along the street as well.

Fruit Ridge Road intersection of 58th Street and Fruit Ridge Road is a fairly busy intersection so we're proposing to add a raised concrete median across Fruit Ridge Road and installing some traffic signal upgrades.

With the limited budget on this project, the traffic signal upgrades are fairly minor in cost. We're not proposing to do major reconstruction of traffic signals on this project but we are focusing on installing the APS push buttons at all locations with countdown heads that don't currently have them.

So when we see traffic signal upgrades for the most part, we're talking about putting in the accessible pedestrian signal push buttons which have the ability to press the button and have audible signals or walk or don't walk.

They can be programmed in different ways depending on which one it is for street names. They also make the chirping sound for the user as well as they have the...

They have the diebroad tactile function where you can lead your thumb on the button and it will vibrate when it's safe to cross.

And so those are the types of traffic signal upgrades that we're installing with this project.

The next school we'll talk about is Natomas High School with the majority of the improvements along Fong Ranch Road at the intersection of San Juan Road.

I should have mentioned earlier that we are having ongoing coordination with school officials since that initial coordination of those block audits occurred during the planning phase.

At this particular school we've met with the principal I think three times now to kind of work through what best supports the school's needs.

Some of these have a balance with the upgrades and proposed modifications with the uses and the needs of the schools for things like events and parking and commencement and those type of things.

We're also installing a raised concrete median along Fong Ranch Road at this school that's to address some recommendations in the Vision Zero School Safety Study as well as current concerns from the principal about illegal U-turns during school drop-off and pickup.

We're also adding the green conflict striping and the bike lanes and we're installing on the southbound side of Fong Ranch Road a parking protected bikeway.

In the current in the existing condition parents, you know, may drop off at this school is right along Fong Ranch Road in the southbound direction at the top of the screen.

We're adding a parking protected bike lane there so that the bicycles are no longer kind of out in the road and with the fear of being in the sun being opening a door and striking them or something similar like that.

We're putting in the concrete raised median and the parking protected bikeway which also act as a traffic calling measure along this area so it's pretty wide road as it currently exists.

We're showing a bike box for users up at the south-way of Fong Ranch Road.

We're going to open there whether that stays in but we are considering bike boxes and things like that throughout the project.

And I guess one of the other upgrades here is there's currently a dual right turn lane and we're taking out the second right turn lane to have only a single right turn lane and that will provide some added benefit for safety as well.

The fourth academy of arts and sciences is located at Northgate Boulevard and Hagen Avenue.

This intersection of Northgate Boulevard and Hagen Avenue went through a traffic signal upgrade not too long ago several years but not too long ago but it was prior to some of our high visibility crosswalk standards being updated as well as our accessible pedestrian signal standards being implemented.

Across the city so at this location we're going to bring that intersection up to those current standards and install the crosswalks and the APS push buttons and count down heads and those type of things.

The city has another effort along this corridor that is a much bigger corridor project that's in the early phases and will do additional upgrades at some point in the future along Northgate Boulevard.

But this project is intended to bring that intersection up to current compliance.

Father Keith B. Kinney Elementary School is located along Martin Luther King's Junior Boulevard between 9th Avenue and 12th Avenue.

This is one of the more extensive improvements that we're doing on the project with regard to pavement delineation.

Striping were really coming through with a lot of upgrades on the bike lanes and putting in some buffers and putting in the raised delineators to kind of separate the cyclists from the vehicles.

This intersection also has the ADA curb ramp upgrades that we've been mentioning throughout the project and in accordance with the Vision Zero Study we are making those ADA upgrades where necessary at the curb ramps.

This one also installs an RRFB at the intersection of 11th Avenue and Martin Luther King's Junior Boulevard kind of in the center of the bottom view there.

And so I think this stretch of Martin Luther King's Junior Boulevard will realize quite a bit of upgrades with this project.

At William Land Elementary School we considered a couple alternatives along 12th Street.

So this school William Land at Elementary School is on 12th Street between V Street and U Street.

The current student pickup and drop off area is directly between the two intersections where we see the kind of white diagonal striping and we put some thought into the appropriate traffic calming measures at this location considered putting in bike lanes with the green stripes and doing some other things.

I think that the project is currently landedratulations after discussing this project again with with the school that the appropriate safety upgrade would just be to delineate the loading and unloading zone better and putting in a no passing kind of buffered center line in the existing position.

So this will be a big change and it will kind of help to funnel the channel into traffic and in their appropriate lanes without the risk of passing and really upgrade that loading zone.

Again, at all these locations we will be doing so we will be doing the signing and signing signing upgrades for parking no parking students and those type of things and there are some ADA upgrades at the curb ramps as well at this school.

So those are the improvements that are currently proposed at each of the seven schools.

We have completed our environmental document for this project that was completed in October so the project is environmentally cleared.

We're currently pursuing final plans.

I mentioned the funding deadline earlier and this project does have a tight funding deadline so just right around the corner looking at June of this year to finalize the plans.

And then looking at constructing this project in spring of 2026 this summer we'll be looking at advertising it and awarding the project to a contractor and potentially getting started later in the winter but most likely getting started in spring.

And with that I'm happy to open it up for discussion or answer any questions you may have.

Thank you very much for your presentation before I turn it over to the Philok commissioners.

I know that it's during a presentation that some of the schools did not have both the audio and visual crossing signs and I just want to know that I think it is important that especially with the schools that they have that they have both.

And I think that is never what what what what students are going to be attending we always want to make sure that that the crossings are safe for those that in case they ever have students who might need that that audio audio assistance to know it's okay to cross.

Okay. We're making some of the locations may already have some some facilities and we are making the improvements at those locations that I showed but we can certainly look and make sure that each location is because that is one of the purposes.

Okay. Thanks very much commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes. Thank you.

You mentioned about the audio sounds of signalized intersections in your presentation and it reminded me someone had made a comment to me between meetings about that very thing.

I'm glad you brought it up.

Some signals I know have like the chirping sounds like either the or but some have the and that was brought to my attention even I was wondering what is that and someone said that's a gun.

Built into the traffic signal informing a person after they push the button it's now okay to cross unlike to the sound of a gun no not unacceptable.

So I would like to since you mentioned it ask the city either with this agenda item or anything you look at about audible signals to go back to the chirping sounds that I described and did a show and tell of earlier and drop the gun sounds from traffic signals throughout the city.

That's a request I would have the city thank you to your presentation on that.

My question though is you discussed I think one of the first projects in your presentation I think it was in the north end of the downtown grid.

You're working you said with the Sacramento regional transit district regarding a bus stop relocation so my question Mr city attorney.

That's my employer and so I financially benefit from what I do with the regional transit district.

If the city is doing anything with the regional transit district.

Is that a financial or vocational conflict of interest but as far as you're concerned with what I do with them and what I have to recuse myself if there was a vote on anything the city is partnering with the regional transit district on going forward.

This is a receive a review and comment item I'd have to look at specific facts for a specific item that came before the board before I could kind of opinion I don't think I can provide anything more than that right now I think they're just discussing a relocating bus stop so I don't.

As far as I'm aware that wouldn't create a conflict but certainly it'd be something I'd have to look at.

Okay I just want to be as careful as possible about that or anything that mentions the regional transit district now that I'm one of their staff members.

Thank you.

Thank you commissioner thank you commissioner barbell commissioner Patel.

Yeah thank you so much for your presentation I think what you are doing is so important I'm an admin at a school and I've worked at some of the schools that you're planning to improve.

And yeah the you turns that it's it's bad.

I have so many thoughts and I'm trying to like wrap them all up and know something quickly I I have recently in the last 10 years been a part of a new school build and some things that I have learned along that way that I'm not sure if the commission is aware of or not is that it's on the schools when they construct it's on it's sort of on them to put in those crosswalks and so I love where you're starting we have to start somewhere.

It breaks my heart because I know the kids when our when our school was built and I was part of our safety plan I know the student who has suffered brain damage because there were no crosswalks put in and then we have some crosswalks.

And the location of those crosswalks are not really thoughtful in where the kids actually exit the school building and pathways so that brings me to one of my and sorry if I get a little emotional because it's it's so important and the.

I would love our city and all to get in a place where we are preventive instead of reactive and these are babies and there's somebody's babies and it impacts a huge community when something happens to them and you said that you talk brings me to my first question of you said that you talked with the schools so my wondering an assumption is that these.

These improvements are kind of going in locations and crosswalks that makes sense based on the school exit pathways not that kind of makes sense based on where some city official put one or city you know road planner dropped one down is that accurate that's an accurate statement these these improvements were all made in coordination with school administrators and school officials in the walk audits with actually visiting school.

And they're published based on the recommendations from those visits and then during during the project development now this phase that we're trying to deliver this actual project we are continuing those keep that communication with the schools awesome so I I assume that is what you were kind of saying in that piece and I want to thank you for that because it's important I'm an admin that stands out with the yellow vest and a stop sign and walk in front of cars all the time and hope for.

The best it's probably not a great plan but I do it every day because it's what's important for our kids and it shouldn't be that way our schools don't have funding for crossing guards and so they take out of the students pockets if they choose to fund for crossing guards because it's such a need in their area so this is so important like we're taking paper from students to put crossing guards in because we don't have a safe crossway for them to get home.

One of my other wonderings was just some more clarity you said a lot about describe the high visibility like you I wanted you to describe the high visibility and my example is again but this is real this is why you're putting this in there you know areas of need it comes from a really awful story.

The crossway of one block from Natomas Boulevard on club center worth three deaths in less than a year and a half they went in and they put in more visible crosswalks and another death happened a father the night before father's day.

His children were all out there with candles on father's day not the father's day they had planned.

They then went back and added a higher level of visibility and when I drive through that space now I can't help but wonder like that is the model for high visibility I have actually not driven through a crosswalk that has as much visibility as that one and it has that high visibility.

Because of the multiple deaths in a very short amount of time they went back and made the lines wider bigger more visible they went back and put poles in between the drive through space no you turns there's it's clearly marked that you walk between these poles and so I'm wondering on the preventive side for our children

that is defining what high visibility means and is and I think it kind of got at the last question but is there is there a format of equity across all like is there a desired state where every school crossing this is the poster of what it should be for safety.

The two types of crosswalks that I showed are what we call the ladder crosswalk and what we call the triple four crosswalk both of those crosswalks the city has been analyzing and studying and just recently as of I believe a year within the last year so has kind of approved those style crosswalks as our our safest type of crosswalks that we use in certain situations.

The ladder crosswalk is used the ladder crosswalk is used have a note here actually is used where it's a signalized controlled crosswalk those are probably the highest level of crosswalk that we have

maybe got that a little bit backwards I think we go back to my time when you're thinking it through like do I get it did I get that.

So the ladder crosswalk the triple four crosswalk is the one that's used on the on the busier road on Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard there and that's the application where we would use it in a in a signalized intersection so they're kind of just different the difference between the two is really comes down to a signalized intersection or uncontrolled intersection and the city is determined that the.

Just based on the type of intersection control these are the type of crosswalks we we are going to use to increase the safety to the greatest benefit and this was you know these were studied in our in our our traffic engineering folks and a lot of thought was put into where we use these and specifically on the these are what we're using on the the high injury network for the vision zero projects and these are standardized now and there could be well standards are currently the updated I believe.

But these are being implemented on our projects and I think a lot of thought went into into like which crosswalks we use where.

And so we're using the city's current safest type of crosswalks at these locations throughout this project.

I think I would if if there was a suggestion I would suggest the consideration of those polls that top with the reflectors that are between the traffic lanes I witnessed and noticed it automatically makes cars yep it's kind of in the way if you're not in your the right spot on your lane they naturally slow down which is already the affect that we're trying to achieve right so if they're I'm really happy that there's a lot of.

I'm really happy that there's a standard that that's going to kind of be followed for that equity piece across our schools and I wonder if that might be something to consider.

In my example it was added after another fatality which is I just don't want to see that for our children.

I agree as a father to elementary school kids.

Thank you thank you commissioner Patel commissioner Wilson.

I'm sorry would you mind sorry we're some of the schools chose them were they because they were like some of them were like dangerous.

This is why the schools are chosen yeah yeah the vision zero school safety study identified 20 schools throughout throughout the throughout the city I would refer back to the vision zero school safety plan to for the background on how exactly each each school was chosen but it is part of the vision zero.

The program and I don't have the background of the top of my head but yes these were these were identified as locations that were in need of safety upgrades.

Okay thank you.

Thank you commissioner Wilson vice chair Ellis.

Thank you. I really appreciate your presentation and I'll just say as commissioner who's blind is very detailed in your description so appreciate that and trying to like orient where we are in I mean I'm spatially challenged all admit but you know you were really descriptive in you know what streets and intersections and things like that so I appreciate that not you know they're parts of the city that I don't venture too very often like Natomas so it's not you know what I'm from the city.

I know what I'm familiar with but I appreciate that so thank you I do want to kind of circle back to a comment from commissioner bar and bomb about the accessible pedestrian button or signal buttons.

So what is happening is it it goes back to what commissioner to some point and I mentioned at the last meeting about maintenance so what's being heard audibly that really you probably shouldn't hear is the vibrator in the button that is there for those individuals who typically can't see and or hear the deaf and blind so that or if you need to just feel it you just hold your finger there or your thumb and it's supposed to vibrate.

And it's supposed to vibrate a little bit but various you know issues come along and you know either it doesn't vibrate at all or it excessively vibrates and then to the point where it's audible and it shouldn't really be audible we should be hearing either the voice that comes through or the other options so you know it's not and I don't think it's an intentional decision per say it's not.

It's just as we had been mentioning the need for proactive resources and I was going to say this for my commissioner comments in the end but I'll say it now since it's relevant that you know these button you know like the previous presentation was talking about maintenance you know this is us coming back after the fact and evaluating and realizing we need to make these upgrades you know for safety reasons.

Due to issues you know deaths and other your deaths that have occurred you know and we shouldn't be being that reactive but so just you know as we can go forward planning more building it in you know as we add more infrastructure like the buttons and the lights and the signals and all those things it's been a come but upon the city to also plan for review

and evaluation of that infrastructure and setting aside the money to do that and then also follow on to make sure that infrastructure continues to work I will say this last meeting I put in a request for the pedestrian buttons at 11th and K to be repaired and they were within five business days.

So that's really great but that's the squeaky wheel gets the grease philosophy which not I mean thank you for being re thank you for addressing it and not ignoring it but you know if we had a more as again commissioner to some void and other commissioners before us have been beating this dead horse in particular but you know if it would be better to on a regular ice system

for these things to be caught and not being aligned in the solely on the citizenry or the residents of Sacramento to you know take time put in a thing and 311 and whatnot but I do applaud the city's you know responsiveness there's a lot of squeaky wheels getting the grease so to speak but you know that's not my my favorite philosophy but again I do appreciate this presentation and that's what I'm going to say.

So I'm going to say that you know we're able to pull down these federal dollars and be able to do these things and try to maximize resources wherever we can find them whether it's internal city resources or it's going out for state resources or federal resources which we I hope continue to be available but so yeah so just my thanks on that and I just wanted to kind of mention that thank you.

Thank you vice chair Ellis commissioner Marsir yes so I just had a couple questions and some comments I too am an educator and in this Sacramento city unified school district and I live in a Thomas so these projects and I've worked over at Oak Ridge and at what is now the PS7 at that time.

It was success Academy so I'm glad to see all of these projects taking place I might road to the commission was that was through my husband and prior to his brainstem stroke that left him quadriplegic key worked over and say for its

school which is probably like the ancestor of this particular program and did a bunch of work and so my curiosity was I thought I heard you perhaps say that there have been walk out it's that were done to go over and as part of some of these projects was that was I miss hearing that were there

like some walk on its where they had input in the rest or was it just like a hearing during the development of the vision zero school safety plan the planning document the recommendations were based on based on walk on it's so there was walk out it's that occurred at each school.

And walk out it is a way where you invite the public and try and get stakeholders and actually go over and audit walk through the area I did some walk audits over at some county schools to help my husband kind of after school in a video format had kids do that and so it's a very powerful way and it's a really good way to go over and get what's actually needed the only problem that could happen with it.

I kind of be curious because a lot of times it's very centered around the students and whether or not there were some members of the disability community who were involved at it because but my thinking is basically this is kind of an intersectional thing usually when they're making the improvements that are needed to make it safer for kids to bike and walk to school it's better for wheelchairs walkers et cetera people are using mobility assist devices as well.

Then I let me get back to what my next question was I know that a lot of times that you mentioned limited budgets that when you're doing something like this and you ask the public what they want like we were doing a lot of work of her in county which has no sidewalks we want sidewalks it's like that's the most expensive thing we can do here.

So it sounds like some choices had to be made over about that and then also you're in a very highly developed area already and there have already been some improvements along MLK so it's like going over and I'm assuming that there were some trade-off she's already alluded to about hey we already have some infrastructure in here and some improvements this is going to be going over and finalizing some of the things that are needed and then how much money we have to spend we've got to do that.

So I'm going to have to go over and figure out the best thing for the back.

And I'm sorry to kind of salute me on that but that's we have a lot of new commissioners and some of you even who have been here may not be aware of some of the process that goes through when they go over and do these over in school environments and how they get the public input and the rest because it's a little bit different than some of these other projects like Cetterland.

But and then I wanted to because I always forget to do this I'm going to hurry to go over and talk thank you very much and I know the woman who did the prior presentation I forgot to thank her these have been very good presentations tonight.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you commissioner Mercer commissioner Crowley.

Thank you for being here today and taking these comments so I'm going to read to make sure that I'm brief and I think I have it right.

So my comment for this item is making the pedestrian and vehicle communication safer is a consideration I think this is a good time to to have within the city such that the reaction time is being considered.

The reason I mentioned this I this comment is because historically when the children are involved in the community.

One of whom is here and made a citizens request happens to be my daughter and she mentioned it at the last meeting so that was just perfect timing to remind me to make this comment that the vision zero school safety plan from from what I recall.

And I think that the question is how do you evaluate those early conversations about it used the standardized timing of all the surrounding signals and cross walks.

There is an example on 24th street between Floren and fruit Ridge where there is a pedestrian cross walk it's not highly visible and all of that but the reason I bring up that example is that a citizens request multiple

traffic study quickly allowed the timing of that cross walk to be increased by about 15 seconds if it serves me my memory serves me correctly.

To not to use this opportunity to conserve resources for the city those sort of examples exist somewhere in a database but that's the most recent example within the last two years.

So I would comment that another view of the timing such that the pedestrian cross walk timing not because of the walk study because it's very rare to have representation of those who are in a wheelchair, a walker, white cane, have delayed pacing.

And I think that's the most important thing to be that that's the closest area that I recall having heard a presentation in the DAC that was a very simple request it did require a traffic study though because it came from a community in this case since it's a project.

I would look at the vision zero school safety plan standard of anything related to time and defer to the community standard in that area which I believe should be satisfied without too much adjustment on like not a big committee decision because the traffic study then whoever the department is for that can make it a standard and perhaps even then amend have some sort of an amendment as a principle on how to handle.

Different areas as a preventative measure so I thought that would be something tangible to take away as a task that is easy to identify and that's why I gave that that example of a smaller version that wasn't project related but there but it was very simple for those for that data to be collected without having to redo any sort of data collection.

And your point is well taken and we actually there's three there's three intersections on this project that we are actually that have busy and busy signals that we are taking it so we did we did prepare a traffic study for this project.

I didn't I didn't mention the signal timing in my presentation maybe I should have but they are they are being looked at as part of this project one intersection in particular which is the the Mok Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard at 12th Avenue by

pass definitely that one the signal timing is going to is being looked at closely as we're doing these other APS pedestrian countdowns the signal we'll look at the we can revisit the signal timing and appreciate your comment.

Yeah thank you and it's specific to the studies as I recall from how the traffic engineer I guess mentioned it there were two studies that were required on that fruit ridge the 24th street between fruit

and fruit region and the reason is because the first time they did the traffic study it was based on a standard but it which was procedural and so because this is unique to the school to advocate for the might the miners who are not present it's it's the adult view so if you think about it for the child in the wheelchair this child with a delay a second study was necessary so to conserve resources from this meeting I'm hoping to

just remind that to present it such that the decision can be made with the resources one time and the standard from what I recall over the last two years is a 15 and there's a national standard and then there was an application to the community in South Sacramento district five so it was a kitty maple has been in her position so it's within the last two years for sure and the result was that it could have been done with the

traffic study and the traffic study and the traffic study and the traffic study was a different way of taking care of the

community and the resources one time and the standard from what I recall over the last two years is a 15 and there's a national standard and then there was an

application to the community in South Sacramento district five so it was a kitty maple has been in her position so it's within the last two years for sure and the result was that it could have been done even without the

community kind of like a desk review right because there's certain patterns that are known so I just wanted to bring it up from that point of view because we are the deck so if that could be standardized or amended to be a standard for

consideration it can move some of these projects along thank you.

Thank you commissioner Crowley commissioner Greenbaum.

First I echo my fellow commissioners thank you very much for this presentation it's very very important in terms of the signal across the board are we and I

might have missed this in your presentation is it the sound versus the voice and what to or is it all the sound in terms of the

serving or is there a voice or books.

I don't I don't have an exact answer for you on that I know there's a the city is the city is making upgrades like this across the city for which style

which style is used just to be honest that's not really in my area of expertise as far as the how those products are

installed but we have other folks that's that standardized standardized that type of equipment I'm not completely sure how the how those decisions are made.

Thank you and I appreciate that that's something that you know I would just be interested in what how what determines that and then in terms of voice having it and Spanish as well.

Thank you.

Thank you commissioner Greenbaum commissioner bomb bomb.

Yeah thank you just wanted to follow up with the vice chair Ella send commissioner Greenbaum I think we're getting to something I think we're going to be on the same page about the the sound that we've been discussing about going to a chirping sound but also vice chair

Ellis and commissioner Greenbaum mentioned about voices to announce when it's safe to cross and I know there's a good example in district two on Del Paso I want to say it's at Colfax or Southgate where when you press the button and it tells you it's ready for you to cross it

will say walk sign is on the cross Del Paso Boulevard walk sign is on the cross Del Paso Boulevard and then it will count down as it's flashing don't walk how many seconds you have remaining so you know to get over to that other side before it goes to a solid don't walk

that's another option I like in addition to the chirping sounds as my direction to staff to look at the intersections like ninth and K which when you press the button there it's the sound of a gun instead and that's the one I called the city out on that that's unacceptable.

So yes thank you for taking a look at that and taking our direction on that too.

Appreciate it.

Of course.

Thank you commissioner Barnbaum Mr. Gothen.

Yes I will reach out to our electrical engineering group and our traffic signal shop who kind of do the programming and I mean just anecdotally I know there's been different

generations of APS and so but I'll reach out to them for just just a basic kind of understanding of of how the different sounds are determined and include that one of my oral

report backs and APS is automated pedestrian signal.

Yeah or on accessible.

The accessible.

Yeah but yes the audible is included within that.

Thank you.

Thank you thank you Mr. Gothen and thank thank you again for for your presentation.

Okay thank you.

We will now move to put we will now move to public comment.

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

Thank you chair we have no speakers.

That was our last item for today we want to.

Chair so we have our commission staff report.

Jesse do you have a report this evening.

Yes.

Yes so I have a report out so as was mentioned earlier the schedule for bringing the annual report and work plan forward to the PNPE committee.

We will be June 17th it's 11 a.m. meeting and so it's a Tuesday and I'll coordinate with chair Cramer and vice chair Ellis and former chair Crowley I think on that and but I think you know as many of you as are able or encouraged or at least attend.

And that's where you can present to that committee.

Once it's heard at that committee and the next step would be for it to go to the city council and that would more likely be in late July or early August.

Yeah so we'll we'll determine that.

So we'll be able to move on to the next question.

Would that be at 5 p.m. for those that are working or later.

You know typically council me to 5 I think one Tuesday a month they meet at 2.

I don't know if if clerk's office to the annual reports typically go on the 5 p.m. agenda or the two of awkward is it not.

I don't know. I can ask and we can coordinate with you in the next.

Yeah sounds good but we can we can we can request a 5 p.m. agenda.

Jesse for the newer commissioners can you give us the.

I guess the cliff notes version of how you we got here.

Yeah.

Because we have a completed product this is just us presenting it to the P.m.

P.E. Committee and the council.

Yeah so commission put in a lot of work on their annual report and work plan.

And put together a really good report.

So we had intended to take it to the main meeting but P.m. P.E. is not meeting in May.

And so that's why we're going we're going in June.

But Cliff yeah I mean it's you know I would just defer you to the document you know it's it's it's a you know essentially it's recommendations to the council.

And yeah.

And we did that like was it November December January.

Yeah.

I'm probably do that again this year.

Yeah.

And my next thing is.

So the next meeting is on May 7th.

And so my my intent had been to invite the Tim Haley awardees to that meeting.

There are a number of awardees.

So I might consider if we want to space those out.

So I think that's the two different meetings.

I haven't thought that through all the way yet but I will need some information from you.

So I'll be singing email out and I'll need your awardees name.

And that's the key thing I want to get the spelling right.

I follow up with Sylvia and Keith about about spacing out the presentations.

Given the number of awardees and it will be your responsibility to contact them.

And to arrange for them to be at the meeting.

So I do want to emphasize that as well.

How many do we have total like lost count during the last meeting?

I haven't counted.

So yeah I think splitting it up into a couple meetings is probably.

Yeah so I thought we might do maybe as they were not made ago.

We go one by one for each person that brought forward one or maybe take two or something like that.

Mine ironically or coincidentally said they would like to come and make a presentation to this committee on May 7th.

They just got re-employed after not winning mayor.

Dr. Flow.

She's a mom mentor to 25 African American students set.

I think it's called Sacramento new technology.

Off some are off a free port in the East Land Park area.

And she's going to bring students one which is in a wheelchair.

She told me and will be making a presentation about accessibility and kind of all the things we talk about.

So you will see her and her students and the students will kind of see how government works in a way.

And that will be 5.30, 17.30 on May 7th.

I told her it's first Wednesday of the month.

Oh so you already made arrangements for her to come?

She wants to come to make that presentation anyway.

So that will be a very coincidental thing that she's coming.

She had to go out of the country and was not able to bring anybody today.

Okay.

So I think maybe I'll meet with Sylvia and Keith and we'll put together kind of the intent.

And then I'll send an email out to the commission.

And then the agenda will be the formal agenda posted by the clerk.

So you know whether we want to do all the awards at next meeting or space them out.

But that's the challenge I'm faced with right now.

Justy, I'm wondering if there's an end chair and vice chair an option to schedule another day that's dedicated to the awardees.

Rather than have it rather than recognition at Amy at a meeting.

I'm sure there's probably some legal aspects in terms of obviously being.

But I don't know if that's perhaps another suggestion.

Now we're limited by the Brown Act. How many of us can be together?

Yes and then to us think about like we're looking at our ahead of time to when we have during our meetings when they're less, less busy when we don't have that many presentations and possibly doing it that way.

Like we do a few during this present during this day when there's a few presentations and another one there's less presentations.

Jesse, I had a question about I think commissioner.

I think I might have been commissioner void last time.

Had she that she makes a slideshow am I. She was the right one that was speaking.

So how robust or kind of condensed of information are you looking for and are we email who are we sending that to.

Yeah, I think what.

You know we I work with the clerk's office and we prepare a certificate.

And I think we should come up maybe with just a statement from the commission that we can use for all the recipients.

And then when you're presenting the ward I think in public comment then you can kind of say what you'd like to say about that particular recipient.

It's kind of what I think in in the past when we had you know fewer recipients I worked with each commissioner to do a write up.

And that was pretty time consuming.

But it was nice to have that on this actual certificate.

But I think to handle the number that we're dealing with now it might be nice.

I can work with the chair and vice chair come up with this just kind of a kind of a declaration of.

You know that the commission recognizes them and they're receiving the award for their contribution to the community.

Essentially is what I would say in that.

That's the one we would pass out and then for like the more personalized remarks you could do it at the.

You could do the day of and on public comment.

So is there anything on our end ahead of time that is needed for the site show is I think that she was speaking about maybe photograph and the right up that maybe not this time.

Yeah no so for presenting the awards at May 7th.

So by April 11th.

There me at this point and I need to settle on the language that's going to be in their certificate.

The picture.

Brandy usually puts that together and I think the sooner the better so I would say the latest would probably be April 30th.

So she has time to put that together and she does a really good job with that.

And so what I'll do is I'll send an email out to with this information.

I would only request some email systems don't do attachments very well.

So if there's a number we can text a photo to to send that goes through much easier and more seamlessly.

Yeah and that's fine and also check your junk box because a lot of my emails can I've heard they can go to your junk for whatever reason.

But yeah I'll give you a phone number you can text me a picture too.

I think we will move to commission commission.

Sorry.

I was just waiting.

So as someone who's done several of these since its initiation I wanted to give some context.

So I think the first thing I would like to do is at our last meet or two meetings ago the commissioners were instructed to inform their nominees after the vote to 10 May 7.

So based on that information should have already been verbally communicated at least.

So what I would like to do is if you look to the 2021 Tim Haley Awards the blurb or narrative if you will it's three to four sentences.

So it's the comments of public record for the Tim Haley Award on that day the 2021 Tim Haley Award reference is a good one.

So I would like to move forward that to Jesse as for ease to disseminate as a sample because the cities it's like a chart you know name comment name commissioner comment name commissioner something like that.

It may or may not be done but for organization purposes it helps the clerk it helps the person who's putting this power point together it helps the chair state organized in the vice chair.

So it's a blurb. So therefore splitting the day since it's been to this is the second month so March and April technically the public who is being informed they're expecting may seven not to say the change of date doesn't it's within our purview but the reason I recommend that we do it on the same day with the declaration or say you know not to have individualized but what's happening is that it's

growing right the deck has grown the recognition of citizens have grown and the time spent by the chair and vice chair with staff on coming up with a declaration won't make it easier moving forward for any

back to explain the citizenship award that this is because it ties right into that the cities citizens academy or other programs and other commissions all feed into the purpose of

a commission like this the other thing I wanted to share was that during when there were less nominees for example right as the commission grows there's no set rules because it's an

acknowledgement of service and the clerk has their own criteria which is very basic right if everyone was to come to the podium to say thank you they technically have two minutes so two

minutes times 15 people times that plus the time to go up and down to do that sort of thing becomes two hours which is a whole meeting so we don't I

would recommend that the commissioners all decide that the comment summary to the clerk in the and the chair and vice chair is succinct in the body of an

email so that clerk's office and staff can cut and paste in the format that they need and that the personal recognition or any other

additional comments are personalized to that individual so that when the chair makes the comment and people are invited to come for their acceptance of the

award some of these are very it's very prestigious to be in council chamber and because of the way that we're redesigned making our council member know and

that we're not copying the nominee to the district that's much more impactful than being on video here some of the nominees are grateful but they're not public

speakers and we don't want to give the form of an award recognition to be an agenda item so for example when people were nominated and they had a

program to be promoted it could get agendas and it happens to be on the day that they are coming to make a presentation but to separate the award and the

picture opportunity and who knows if a council member will be present or family will be present to keep that in the spirit of

recognition and something else can be either agendas items not on the agenda a commissioner comment so that when they come and the 10 after quorum is

established it's better that they get to leave so to do a presentation in conjunction to saying thank you it's not going to do justice to

be a part of our part of how we want to welcome the public to make comment so I'll leave that to the chair and vice chair to work on the agenda but just to keep that

perspective so that in an hour 15 to 17 people plus the number of commissioners plus cell phone cell phone pictures or whatever people want to do that

and then the first at the head of the meeting and then dismissed for those who want to stay and learn about government or whatever and I'm not highlighting just one person I'm just in general in the past some people do stay and they bring their families and they get excited about

participating and then they're free to leave so that they're not caught up with a presentation or something because we won't know as commissioners the chair and vice chair will know if there's something that has to be

brought to the deck because of some time line so I just wanted to say that in the context of the four years rather than separating out the people because there is momentum and presence and celebration that happens with everyone on the same time I would consider for the chair and vice chair to think through that we can say the name and congratulations because we nominated or it can just be something the chair vice chair divides among them because we can personalize it we can

get the council member involved we can make it special for them separate from here off the record because the record when you look at the 2021 Tim Halley awards it's so nicely presented it's recall that it's a reference for that it's a public reference for that individual that they want it to

and disseminate, which highlights the city and all the great things.

So when we talk about community engagement and marketing and all of that stuff, we have

to be mindful that the presentations that we've seen is the bandwidth of what people need

to find, it'll be at the top of the hour, right?

And then we could take a natural break.

I'm sorry, Commissioner Crowley-Bam is now 727.

So if we want to extend this meeting, we will need to pass a vote.

Okay, clerk.

So we will need a motion and a second to continue the meeting pass the two hour mark.

I move that we continue the meeting pass the two hour mark.

Do we have a second?

Second to the maximum time allowed as needed.

Thank you.

So we have a motion by Commissioner Barnbaum and a second by Commissioner Crowley.

Commissioners, if you can please unmute your microphones for the vote.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Patel?

Aye.

Commissioner Wilson?

Aye.

Aye.

Commissioner Dyson is absent.

Commissioner Sussan Void is also absent.

Commissioner Mercer?

Aye.

Vice Chair Ellis?

Aye.

Commissioner Carr is absent.

Commissioner Crowley?

Aye.

And Chair Kramer?

Aye.

Thank you, the motion passes.

Thank you, Chair.

That was my comment.

Just for the Chair and Vice Chair to consider and for the commissioners to think about how

to make it special for the individual.

If I'm not mistaken, there's 15 to 17 names.

Thank you, Commissioner Crowley.

Mr. Gothen?

Yeah, thank you for helping me think it through, procedurally.

But I think that could work.

So I'll work with Chair Kramer and Vice Chair Ellis to come up with a schedule for when.

So I think the Tim Haley ceremonial documents will appear on the agenda for a couple of meetings

as we take time to recognize those recipients.

And so I'll work with Sylvia and Keith on just on scheduling that.

But I think on your part, if you can get me, you're in the names spelled correctly.

And in the meantime, I'll work on the language that'll go on the certificate.

Then that could be our means forward.

And then Brandy will help me with the PowerPoint for each of those ceremonies so we can have that at each of them as well.

So thank you, Bill.

Thank you all.

With that being said, I believe we can now move to Commissioner Comet.

Are there any members of the commission who wish to speak on the site?

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Yes, really quick.

Welcome to April.

April is Autism Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month.

April, second specifically is World Autism Day.

Last night, I presented comments to the council on matters not on the agenda and have been invited back on April 22nd,

birthday by council member Maivang for a formal resolution and proclamation that will be at the 5 p.m.

council meeting.

But I wanted to just stand up and show everyone this shirt I'm wearing.

I ordered online.

It says, I believe in a spectrum of possibilities, Autism Awareness.

And what inspired me to get that shirt, especially for recognition of this month,

was the word possibilities and the motto, more is possible.

Which many of you might remember during the campaign was the slogan or moniker for Dr.

Flo Cofa for mayor.

So that alone was the inspiration to get this.

I even got her some stuff to recognize this month because she's into the topic as well.

I'm going to be attending the greater Sacramento Autism Festival.

That's on the 19th from noon to three.

And it's at an elementary school near Galbreath and Wollerga in Northern Sacramento County.

So yes, it's outside city limits, but wanted to let people know that.

And I'll be there for a big festival on behalf of myself and Dr.

Flo who will be out of town over that weekend attending to some family business.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

That's Commissioner Crowley.

Same, it's April and I wanted to encourage everyone to remember with all of these pedestrian

walkways and corridors that are being improved.

The Del Rio Trail is active.

All that construction is done.

Remember to plug in this weekend to your local farmer's markets, to the high school programs

that are happening the spring sports, just as a reminder to show representation in your

neighborhood.

It's happening this weekend.

These Academy, Peter and Barbara Sterling are part of those who are coming.

They have an Academy at the Clara Studios in Midtown, along where the Sac Ballet and

Allie Enselville say.

And the theater is there.

I forget their name and pardon me.

And then seasons cafe and other things.

So Midtown's hopping outside of the farmer's market also.

And so May 31st is going to be a kite event at one of the local schools.

So I thought it was an important topic as we have the presentation.

Check in with your school programs, figure out what they're doing for summer academies

in the neighborhood.

Reach out to the council member to see if there's any neighborhood associations.

We don't do enough, I think, for the how the DAC and district are really represented

in the neighborhood associations.

So if you go to the city website, if you haven't recently, some of those neighborhood associations

have new representation, but we won't know.

The city won't know until somebody updates it.

So check in with your neighborhood associations and see what needs to be updated, just a reminder.

And then since we don't have the DAC doesn't have a role in May, I wanted to revisit that

this would be a good time if there are things to put on the agenda for the upcoming fall.

Because meetings tend to get canceled.

July is one of those months that people get passionate about.

And then people staff take vacations and other things happen.

So that we will lose about two meetings typically in the time that I've been here.

Typically there's two opportunities where a full quorum might be present.

But there's nothing to speak on per se.

So if there's things that are coming up, this would be a good time to forward it to the chair and vice chair.

I mean, to the staff so that it can be planned accordingly.

And then I wanted to lastly say, I heard what, that one of, I heard and

it's important that if somebody was told something from us and that there's an opportunity to speak to make the expectations realistic.

So I defer to the chair and vice chair just to make sure if there's somebody from the public who wants to make a comment.

That the, when you have that meeting, I appreciate that we already talked about it, but just as a reminder,

because it felt like it fell off.

If there is somebody who's getting an award.

And there's only one of all of us who nominated.

There's only one person who wanted to speak on the day they were here.

To give clear instructions to the commissioners so that we can communicate that better so that they're not off put by the time limits when public comment happens and where it would fit.

So just that's something we're not going to have a chance to talk about it here.

But if staff and the chair and vice chair has that succinct language and if it could go to all of us, I personally had not expected anyone to do anything,

but enjoy their recognition.

So that's the spirit with which I'm coming that day.

And to have people get excited about the volunteer effort, it highlights the DAC.

And so if we can keep that as a unified voice, then the expectation of being part of this aspect of government can then be managed better and heard.

But if there's some passion behind it that we don't squelch that and then to just to, you know, all of us have that voice to say your passion is very admirable.

We want to hear more about it at a proper time where you have a full, our full attention type of thing.

Just a thought.

I'm not telling us what we should say.

I'm just saying expectations to be to have expectations unmet when we're trying to give recognition.

It's a mismatch of goals.

And so I just wanted to share since the majority of the names came from my nomination.

And I'm grateful for everyone to say that it was approved.

I plan to just encourage getting more knowledge about how city government works if they wanted to expand their communications with

their district and community involvement.

That's the, and I'll share comments separate with staff so that some of that language that has been coming through these conversations will maybe summarize better so that there's a bigger scope than just who we know or who we like or so it doesn't come across as just happened to be we know someone.

This is wanted to share that as a follow up to my comments earlier.

Thanks.

Thank you, Commissioner Crowley, Vice Chair Ellis.

Thank you.

I just, again, I really appreciate today's, these two presentations for me at least in the time that I've returned back to the DAC.

In particular, these two presentations today kind of stand out to me as examples that can be pointed to as what I would expect.

Like the first one I really like the fact that they talked about the outreach but also how that outreach informed the planning.

You know, we talked about that.

I think I feel like our last meeting, the agenda items really kind of fell flat for me in that meeting overall.

And, you know, we had a lot of unanswered questions and dialogue about issues.

I don't, it just the five of that meeting in particular just wasn't there.

I'll say.

But today these two in particular presentations, I could tell there was a lot of information conveyed.

And I appreciate the honesty when a presenter doesn't know that's fine.

I appreciate the vulnerability than giving us potentially incorrect information.

So I do appreciate that.

If you don't know, you don't know.

We can always, it doesn't have to be today.

We can always get the information later or have them come back and do an update.

There's always those options.

So, but again, these were really robust, rather detailed in my opinion.

And so I really do appreciate what we got today in terms of quality.

Others may disagree and by all means please do.

Because this is my opinion, my perspective, you know, and you may have other points that

I didn't realize.

So, but with that as other commissioners have referenced about, you know, the weather's

hopefully getting nicer, I hope, and we're going to, you know, have more things going

on in the community, more events.

And this, of course, I brought this up previous, previous meetings is about how the city

really supports accessibility in our community events, going on second Saturdays, the

farmers markets, all that good stuff is, you know, a lot of times the planners, they just

don't know what they don't know.

And I think that's an area where we need to really kind of interweave as we move forward.

And how the city can support and making sure, you know, just as we're talking about getting

access, full access to the river as best as we can, I think it's just the same to be

fully, to get full access into any, you know, community event, whether it's going on

on Capitol Mall or anywhere else out in the city in the Thomas or where have you, South

Sack.

So I definitely look forward to a lot of the events that are coming up.

And hopefully we all can partake and enjoy and report back and even give feedback as it

becomes relevant here.

But with that, that's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Chair Ellis.

Commissioner Patel.

I have my blue one for today as well.

I'm wearing lots of colors.

We had purple day last week.

It's a lot of celebration days for some of our folks.

I wanted to share spring and all the things and wasn't sure if it was the right place until

Commissioner Crowley shared something that this commission or your friends against the

residents might be interested in as the best buddy walk.

It's in North Natomas this year and it's on April 26th, so it's still not too late to register

or volunteer or be part of it or donate or, you know, whatever way that you want, but they

have a friendship walk.

They've only been doing it a couple of years because it's still a new chapter, the Sacramento

chapter, but it is happening that morning with opening ceremonies at 8.30.

So it might be something that is of interest.

Get out in the community, enjoy the weather.

It's getting really warm next week, so hopefully it'll stay that way.

It's kind of going back and forth.

I don't know where to put this.

Maybe this is an email, but you said something that's been in my brain so much around access.

I recently got to connect with our youth park and recreation.

One of the people who kind of are leading that and they have expanded so many amazing programs

are city for our kids and I got to kind of think them and say, you know, like our community

sees it.

I hear the parents like, wow, there's so many offerings.

I think about access.

I mentioned Sacramento State Aquatic Center.

Earlier my children have gone there for years.

A friend of mine was like, can my kid go?

And she called and shared what access would look like for her child and they were very

accommodating.

It's not really forward facing on their site, but she was one of those parents who's

like, let me find out where we have a lot of families who are like, I just don't think

that's the place for my kid and they don't know.

So I wonder, I wonder as, you know, and I think it's the speaker next.

The lines open up to try to get into those summer camps for our city parks and rec and

it's probably too late to do it now, but I do wonder what does access look like for

so many families in those programs and is it already planned and just not forward

facing?

And if it's not planned, how does this, how do we help that along and how do we make

it forward facing so that our families open that up and go, oh, my kid is welcome here

to and they will accommodate.

So just a thought and, you know, thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Patel.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you.

To echo Commissioner Patel's thoughts, I immediately and I have for actually quite some

time think about accessibility at our farmers markets and in terms of the mechanisms of how

we can address that.

And with regards to the midtown farmers market, I've reached out before and haven't had

the best response.

And so I echo Commissioner Patel just with regards to certain mechanisms and making sure

that the city organizations include a vision and then do it at these farmers markets and

other events that occur on top of the mall.

Especially what I think of.

Thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum.

If there's no more Commissioner comments, we will move to public comment.

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

We do not have any speakers, too.

With that, I can now bring this meeting to adjournment.

Adjourment.

Thank you again to members of the public for attending and thank you to our presenters and

to our commissioners for their feedback and comments.

This meeting is now adjourned.