Good evening and welcome to the September 3rd, 2025 Disabilities Advisory Commission meeting.

The meeting is now called to order.

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

Thank you, Chair.

Members please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

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Commissioner Barnbaum?

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Commissioner Patel?

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Commissioner Wilson?

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Commissioner Dyson?

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Commissioner Knapper.

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Commissioner Igwebe is currently absent.

Vice Chair Ellis.

Present.

Member Carr.

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And Chair Kramer.

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To the original people of this land, the Nice Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, Valley, and Plains Miwok, Patwin Winton peoples, and the people of the Winton Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

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Motion to approve the consent calendar.

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

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips for the consent calendar.

Is there a motion and a second for the consent calendar?

We did.

We just received those from uh Vice Chair Ellis and Commissioner Barnbaum.

Thank thank you, Clerk.

Um we will now move on.

Do you need a roll call vote or just uh everyone at Unisonda voice their uh vote?

Um I can do the roll call vote chair.

Yes.

All right, thank you.

Um, Commissioner Barnbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Patel.

Aye.

Commissioner Wilson, Commissioner Dyson, aye.

Commissioner Knapper?

Aye.

Commissioner Gwebe is absent.

Vice Chair Ellis?

Aye.

Commissioner Carr.

Aye.

And Chair Kramer.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

We will now proceed to the discussion calendar.

Our first item on the list is the Marysville Boulevard Vision Zero Safety Project.

Hello, Commission.

It's nice to see you again.

I'm Luke Thuwson, a senior engineer in public works.

I'm here today to talk about the Marysville Boulevard Vision Zero Safety Project.

On the screen you'll see a project project map.

The yellow line on the screen is are the limits of our project.

Marysville Boulevard is located in the northeast corner of Sacramento in the Del Paso Heights and Hagenwood neighborhoods, bound to the north by Interstate 80 and to the east by high uh State Rail 51.

Historically, Marysville Boulevard was a two-lane street lined with businesses serving nearby residents in the mid-20th century.

It was widened to five traveled lanes.

This area became part of the city of Sacramento in the 1960s.

Our project specifically begins to the south at Arcade Boulevard and then proceeds north past Hagenwood Park and Grant Union High School and ends up by A80 at North Avenue.

A little bit of a background.

In 2018, the city adopted its Vision Arrow Vision Zero Action Plan, which identified the high injury network within the city of Sacramento and put in a lot of work to develop some countermeasures to help address some of the areas that are hot spots for collisions throughout the city.

And we'll get a little bit more into that.

After the Vision Zero Action Plan in 2021 came the top five corridors plan.

That plan identified the five the five corridors within Sacramento with the highest number of traffic fatalities and serious injuries.

And this Marysville project is one of those top five corridors within the city that have the highest number of fatalities and serious injuries.

So the purpose of the project is to calm traffic and improve safety.

To do that, the project will construct improvements that correspond to some of those countermeasures that were described in the previous Vision Zero documents.

Some of the some of the countermeasures, and we'll talk more about this within this project include a road diet, reducing the number of lanes from four to two in each direction to one in each direction, including accessible pedestrian traffic signals, ADA curb ramps, separated bikeways, high visibility crosswalks, and other features.

A little snapshot of the collision history, and this comes from the Vision Zero documents.

Between 2009 and 2017, which was the study period, there were set 19 severe collisions documented, and unfortunately 11 of those involved the pedestrian, and three of those involved a bicyclist.

And some of the data shown on the screen.

It's a little bit hard to see, but the graph on the right shows that um unsafe speeds was a big factor and right-of-way violations, and you can see you can notice some of these uh accidents on the screen are isolated around some of these some of these intersections.

Talk a little bit about the community.

The project is within the Hagenwood and Del Paso Heights neighborhoods in in northern Sacramento.

A little bit of a background, you know, in the mid-20th century, the neighborhood around Marysville Boulevard became a largely African American community.

Job opportunities with Southern Pacific Railroad and the McClellan Air Force base spurred a lot of employment within this community, and that's kind of how that uh community was formed.

In the 1980s, uh Latino and Asian communities started to come into the neighborhood as well.

And um there used to you know, there was a lot of employment and and things to do back in those days, but in the late 70s and through the early 2000s, challenges were brought to the communities.

The the Southern Pacific Railroad employment went away, unfortunately, and the McLuhan Air Force Base closed, and the new freeways that I've mentioned, I-80 and State Route 51 really created this physical physical barrier around the area.

And so the community became economically isolated and underserved throughout that time period.

You know, I do think this project will improve the physical conditions out there and provide much needed investment to this area of Sacramento, as well as providing those safety improvements, slow slow speeds down, and maybe bring back some of that main street fill, if you will.

There are still a lot of amenities in the area.

Hagenwood Community Center, Hagenwood Park.

There's quite a few places of worship.

Lots of lots of different markets, and if you're if you're ever out there on a weekend, there are farmers markets and community events, street fair type type of type of things that are going on in the community.

In fact, we've been out there recently.

I'll just uh list off a few of the a few of the uh community events that the city's been been attending over the over the past months and some that we'll get into a little bit more.

But there was the Del Paso Heights Community Association meeting, um, that was on April 5th, the Hagenwood Community Association meeting uh May 7th.

There was May Day on May 10th.

Um we're currently planning on uh talking to business owners, going door to door meeting or meeting in small groups to talk to business owners and residents along Marysville Boulevard.

Um today we're uh presenting to the disabilities advisory commission.

We'll also this month, shortly here, uh, be presenting to the Active Transportation Commission, and we do plan to have hold a uh uh open house for the greater community out there within the next month or two.

There's an active transit corridor along this project.

Uh SAC SAC RT has bus routes 86 and 15, which are um it's an active corridor with high ridership.

This project is coordinating with Sacramento RT and the City Council to make uh bus stop improvements.

There's some that are under consideration with this project.

There are others that are in the same area being considered possible potentially as separate efforts, but we are coordinating with SAC RT and the council on transit for this project, and um it's a little bit hard to see there, but after the project's completed, with what we'll get into next is talking about some of the traffic signals is that distance between crosswalks and bus stops actually goes down by a third.

Um really the the project um makes a makes a lot of improvement with regard to traffic signals, and I know with the with the commission this is probably an important topic.

Um the map on the left shows the project area with nine little traffic signal symbols, and what that what that is meant to show is that uh the project will either upgrade or modify um the traffic signals throughout the pro that currently exist throughout the project, and and it will also build uh three new traffic signals.

Um all the traffic signals will be um accessible pedestrian signals that have you know the walk-don't walk, audible functionality, uh pedestrian countdown heads, um, high visibility crosswalks and uh updated curb ramps, ADA curb ramps.

So, and a lot of those traffic signals out there currently are are old and out of date.

So that the idea is to bring all those up to current standards, and then um it construct three new traffic signals going from the south to the north.

The modified traffic signals will be at Arcade Boulevard, Lith Roblox Boulevard, South Avenue, Roanoke Avenue, Grand Avenue, and North Avenue.

There'll be a new um fully accessible pedestrian signal that connects Hagenwood Park to the Bin Alley Shriners across the street, and then two currently unsignalized intersections, Rosalind Street and Harris Avenue will get new traffic signals.

And the little graphic here shows that the distance between crosswalks after the project is finished will be two-thirds.

Um, two-thirds of the existing crossing distance.

This next slide is meant to give you a snapshot of the typical improvements or design elements that you'll see at these intersections throughout the project.

This is just an example.

I'll run quickly through the entire corridor to show the show you where these are going to be constructed.

But all of the intersections will have as I mentioned, the accessible curb ramps, the newer modified APS traffic signal, high visibility ladder crosswalks, the accessible pedestrian signal push buttons, and the pedestrian countdown heads.

And each one's a little bit different.

You can also see here is the road diet, and the project will implement the green green paint for bikes and those type of things.

So the project starts to the south at Arcade Boulevard.

In the existing condition, there is a non-accessible traffic signal at arcade.

There are no bike lanes along this stretch of the project, non-compliant curb ramps.

This project will make a traffic signal modification at Arcade Boulevard to include the full APS traffic signal as I described.

And then it'll continue, then the project continues north across Art Craig Key, Art Creek Creek, and Hagenwood Park, till we get to then we get to uh Hagenwood Park.

At Hagenwood Park, this along along Marysville Boulevard, there's a little traffic traffic signal symbol on the lower left-hand corner with a with a ladder crosswalk.

That's where the new pedestrian signal will go.

And it again connects Ben Ali Shriners to Hagenwood Park, and there's some other Class One facilities, class one pedestrian bike facilities in that location that this will provide service to.

At the main entrance to Hagenwood Park, there'll be a modified traffic signal.

And this is currently a non-standard, non-standard traffic signal.

It'll be upgraded with APS, it'll have the ladder crosswalks, and at this location, it will construct bull belts as well at the entrance to the park to make crossing the street a shorter distance.

Along Marysville Boulevard between Rosalind Avenue and South Avenue, there's currently no traffic signal at Rosalind Avenue, and a non-accessible traffic signal or non-standard traffic signal at South Avenue, non-compliant curb ramps, and narrow class tune class two bike lanes.

So the project will put in the brand new APS traffic signal at Rosa Lind Avenue, construct all the new ADA curb ramps.

You can see the modified traffic signal at South Avenue.

And then again, the separated protected uh bike lanes and green complex striping within the street, and of course the road diet.

Marysville Boulevard between Roe and Oak Avenue and Grand Avenue.

At Roe and Oak Avenue, the current condition is what one of uh what we call the pedestrian hybrid beacon.

Um it is it is a it is a signal, it is a beacon that uh facilitates uh people crossing the street, however, those are a bit out of date.

The city's not really implementing those these days.

So we're gonna go ahead and take that pedestrian hybrid beacon out and replace it with a new traffic signal with all the features that I've been discussing in that Grand Avenue.

Um that traffic signal will be uh modified as well.

This is an important location.

Um, Grant Union High School sits kind of in the middle of the project, so both and just to the west of Marysville Boulevard.

So Roanoke Avenue and Grand Avenue both provide direct access to the to the to the high school.

And I guess mentioning that, uh, Grant Union High School was recently on ESPN playing Folsom High, and that was a that was a big community event out there.

I watched I know I watched it on TV.

Um so these are these are the two main streets that go right into the football stadium.

Um next, this is the northern end of the project, Harris Avenue.

There's currently no traffic signal there.

We're gonna put a new traffic signal in.

Um there's a there's a non-standard traffic signal, non-accessible at North Avenue.

That signal will also be upgraded.

Again, with all the same stuff APS, ladder crosswalks, ADA curb ramps.

So a little bit about funding and schedule on this project.

You know, this is an expensive project, it's uh the total project cost is $18 million.

Um the city has been trying to fund this project now for several years, and um we the we previously applied for two safe routes, uh safe streets for all grants, federal federal grants.

Um we are unsuccessful on both of those previous grant grant applications.

So that's been in the process for a while.

Um recently, SACOG is approved 9.1 million dollars uh for this project, and we're we're currently pursuing additional uh funding for construction.

All that to say is these projects can take a long time and they're very expensive.

Um we're currently in preliminary design and environmental clearance phase.

Uh, we expect to hopefully complete that first phase this year.

That that phase is currently being funded with local, local money, local dollars, since those grant previous grant applications were not successful.

Um, next year we'll get into the design year and a year and a half for design, and then move into construction around that 2728 window.

Um, hoping, you know, with with a with the goal of securing a completely funded project.

Um, other things with these projects that could take some time is you know, right-of-way acquisition.

The Marysville Boulevard Vision Zero Safety Project will have to.

It's in an area of northern Sacramento where a lot of the right-of-way, the city right-of-way was never perfected when that area became part of the city.

So part of the project is rectifying the right-of-way, making sure all those new improvements, traffic signal poles and everything else are actually within city right away, and all of that's uh all that's kind of perfected through the process.

And then it and then another long lead item is the traffic signal poles.

It currently takes us about a year or so, six months to a year from the time we order them to get them.

All that being said, it's an expensive project and complex project, which is why I wanted to talk next a little bit about the uh Marysville Boulevard quick build project.

Um the city the city recently adopted the uh quick build safety program.

Um, this is a uh tier two quick build project, and there's there's a part of that quick build program that specifically wants to address some of the near-term improvements that we can make on the high injury network as part of some of these larger projects that take a lot a lot of time and a lot of money to see what we can actually implement implement in the short term.

So, Marysville Boulevard will be one of the first projects to move forward in the quick build program.

Um again, focusing on some of those near-term safety improvements.

The tier two design improvements in general uh consist of things like lane reductions, pedestrian islands, medians, and enhanced crossings.

Uh this Marysville quick build project is based on the same plan lines that are shown in the overall project, but it takes a segment, and I showed a little bit of a project map here.

Um, the yellow line again is that overall Marysville, Marysville Boulevard safety project, which goes from the south at Arcade Boulevard to the north to North Avenue.

Uh, the quick build project is shown in white, and it will go through from uh Loth Robles Boulevard to the south up to Grand Avenue to the north.

Um, and it is it is then it is in that same area of Grant Union High School.

So we're hoping to implement some of these uh near-term safety features while the other project continues to develop.

Uh the total cost of the quick build project is around a million, just under a million 900,000 there, and it's funded through the uh uh funded through the quick build program, the new program the city just uh approved.

We're currently designing the quick build project with design um wrapping up here in the next month or two.

Uh we'll be advertising that construction in fall, and we'll be building those quick build improvements in 2026.

So, with that, um happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank thank you so very much for your presentation, Mr.

Fusan.

Um, I guess just one of my concerns would be the visit visibility at Roslyn and South Street.

I know those those two streets from what I've seen have unique curvatures.

So it's just making sure that anyone coming off of Marysville onto Rosalind and South, are able to see see or any drivers turning right onto onto those streets, can see any any pedestrians crop crossing.

Okay.

And also if there is any consideration of implying any speed rate regulations or any speed meters.

I know as part of the some of the quick uh division zero um goals is enforcement education are are parts of are parts of the are parts of that program.

I will say that you know the purpose of this project is really to slow drivers down, and some of the traffic signal upgrades that we're making, you know, those will adjust, you know, include things like timing the signals to you know keep keep the traffic moving at you know hopefully a slower speed, and all the obvious, I mean removing the the lanes of traffic will really um serve to serve to slow slow vehicles down.

Um the project doesn't necessarily change the curvature of the road.

Um it stays within its its current right-of-way, but I think the other features are are gonna be helpful for for those type of things, and um the the signals are there they're gonna be both uh visual and audio cues.

Yes, great.

Uh thank you so much.

I will now turn it to my fellow commissioners.

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum.

Uh thank you, uh Chair uh Kramer.

Um so this uh is in my council district, uh district two.

Um thank you for bringing the project uh to uh the disability advisory commission and for mentioning that you're also going to, because it was one of the questions I had, but you answered it already.

You're gonna also take this to the active transportation commission.

Um I heard.

Um just so that everybody knows, um, in the audience with us today is District 2 Chief of Staff Brian DeBlanc.

Uh Brian is in the back.

Um thank you for coming.

Um so want to acknowledge that.

Um so here's my first question.

Uh, this is gonna be important for our constituents in the district.

At the nine total traffic signals you showed in the slides, will pedestrians be required to activate the ability to change the signal via a button on the pole, or will some, if not all of the signals, rotate automatically without the requirement to push a button?

There'll be the pedestrian push button to actuate the pedestrian phase of the signals at each each corner of each of each intersection.

Yeah.

And if they other when it's not act actuated by a pedestrian, it'll go through its normal cycle and it's still it still provides uh a pedestrian phase.

Okay, because I asked that because at some signals in cities, Sacramento, no exception, there might be some signalized intersections where each light is like on a 30 to 45 second cycle, and there is no requirement to push a button.

You know, when you wait there, it'll just automatically change and there's no additional effort on anyone's part to to push a button.

But even these days, those are rare.

Yeah.

No, these will all be in our the traffic signals will all be interconnected and connected to our traffic operations center, so we'll be able to monitor monitor on them all in real time and it'll be you know have all that all those functions.

Okay.

Um second question.

Will each signal have the ability to speak to the pedestrian when it is their turn to cross, like walk sign is on to cross Marysville Boulevard at Roanoke.

This is especially important for the population with visual impairments.

Yes, and I could confirm that they will have that function.

Yes.

It will, yeah, okay, yeah.

Um what do you mean by tier two?

And how is that similar and or different from other tiers?

Oh.

I can chime in on that.

If you want to, yeah.

Okay, yeah.

Um so w the quick build program had two tiers, tier one, tier two.

Uh tier two um includes um projects that would essentially still be bid out and built by contractors, um, larger than the tier one, which I believe would be um done with city crews.

So the tier two are like um a little bit more dollar wise and and effort in terms of their implementation versus, you know, striping updates that a tier one project might include.

Okay.

Okay.

Um second to last question.

Um, what are the impacts to the rest of the corridor?

North on to Rayleigh Boulevard and south onto Del Paso Boulevard.

Uh the impacts well, they're we we're not constructing down down as far south as Del Paso or further north to to IA80.

So the improvements will be will be complete by then.

We do we do have a traffic study that shows uh how traffic will operate throughout the whole corridor, um both you know, pre and post post-project.

And so we show that you know we show that those intersections that are outside of the uh immediate project area um will still operate.

Okay.

Cause I want people understand here and those watching at home that the corridor isn't just subject solely to Marysville Boulevard.

Uh an automobile really doesn't take notice of that.

And if they're driving straight, you know, the r that road in particular is one with three different names to attach to it.

Uh if you're driving the whole corridor north and south of Interstate 80.

So just wanna make everyone aware to to that point.

Then when are the potential dates for the open houses and are some planned for evenings and weekends, are they of available and accessible to people that have internet access at the city website?

We're we're currently uh still planning on on the specific date for um for the open house.

Um we're planning on it over the next month or two.

Um, I could provide a date for that.

Uh wouldn't once we know.

Um the current plan is we were looking at Wednesdays at around 6 p.m.

for for that meeting.

Um we did we did plan it around the actually one of the around this meeting, um we've taken that into consideration, but we're still we're still working on an exact date and finalizing that plan for that open house.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Uh no.

The moment um madam chair, those are the questions I have.

If I have any follow-up questions, I'll chime it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Commissioner Bornbaum and Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you, Chair Cameron.

Um, well, I first want to thank you for your presentation.

Um, you know, although improvements are to this area are overdue, um, it is it's great to hear the city um, you know, um now paying attention to it and putting, you know, the funds for the improvements in there.

Um it's been exciting to see Del Paso um grow and flourish.

And as you mentioned at the beginning, the farmers market and those are great events um where I that I've attended, and I encourage everyone to um to support you know the local businesses in the area, which which have grown too in the past, you know, decade and thus, you know, the traffic in the area um becoming much more.

Uh um to echo um Commissioner Barnbaum regarding the uh traffic singles.

I um I think I've a I've asked this a on different projects before.

Are there standards or guidelines in term for Spanish as well in terms of the the voice?

I'm not, you know, I I'm that maybe that may be out there that you know the technology may be out there and available.

Um I'm not sure.

I'm not sure exactly on this project if that's you know gonna be implemented on this project or if it's exact city policy to do so.

I'll need to check on that.

Okay, yeah, thanks.

Um, because you know, set there there's they seem to be sporadic throughout the city in terms of where where they are.

They're they're in um my neighborhood in um Tahoe Park and Oak Park, but um, you know, I it's important, I think.

Um, and then when with regards to the open house, um, what type of um marketing or you know, to promote to, you know, make sure that um all neighbors and community members are aware of the event.

Um, we have a specialized um specialized public public outreach, public relations team on this project that works quite a bit with the city, and so we'll be doing things like notifications, uh mailers, um, have that have phone numbers, and we have uh we have a specialized consultant on board to help us help us with all that and get all the word out.

Great.

And I I I probably would think then that consultant would um also would include um social media, perhaps too, like the just um the um neighborhood associations that have their own um Instagram or absolutely, absolutely.

And we've been in contact with the neighborhood associations and neighborhood groups on through some of the outreach we've been doing this uh throughout this year.

Um so we've already had a few things on their Facebook pages, and I'm sure there'll be more.

Great, great.

And um the the last questions in terms of the phases of construction and when, you know, as you mentioned, um grant football, uh, you know, I've been watching them my whole life.

Um, and obviously, you know, on Friday nights there's more traffic, um, and and then of course when school starts to uh do um in terms of the the construction does that take into account the school year or the C, you know, when students are arriving in the morning or leaving in the afternoon in terms of um, yeah.

We always we try always try to accommodate as much as we can.

There's not you know when it comes to project specifications and construction timelines um when we get to that certain certain timeline.

Um, you know, a lot of it is kind of up to the contractor, and we don't want to kind of dictate when when and where he does things, but we do communicate with schools and things like that early on in the pro in the process and make sure they're if they're fully aware of the project, and we typically will you know, we'll make sure there's a plan to coordinate with the principal, whoever it may be.

Um we also um do things like in our project specifications, show the show the bell schedules of the schools, um, show we provide the school contact to the contractor typically in those in those, and then we also have a construction management team as well that usually works on the project and helps handle some of that coordination.

Great, because that was my question just in terms of the communication with the schools and um so I'm sure they would also be included on communications and marketing for the open house too.

Absolutely.

Awesome, great.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Commissioner Greenbelt.

Um, Commissioner Knapper.

Thank you, Chair Kramer.

Um, thank you so much for your presentation, and I'm excited for Adult Passal Heights.

Um I'm a little nervous around going down to one lane though, because I know it is getting downtown from there, down Marysville Boulevard, trying to get through.

It's gonna be a bit of a bear.

Um, but I you did mention that you've done community outreach and you mentioned churches.

Have community outreach included the churches.

They'll be included on the on the upcoming open house.

Um as of as of recently, we've been meeting with the neighborhood associations and those type of those type of organizations.

Um you know, so we haven't we haven't met specifically with the church.

I think there's been there's been representatives of churches at those meetings.

Um not not a not a church specific um event until now, but we will make sure that everybody is aware of the project and and invited, especially to that bigger bigger open house.

Thank you.

Does the construction project also include um fixing some of the sidewalks and the barriers that are more easily accessible?

The concrete improvements on this project are more so at the at the traffic signal intersections rather than doing the the kind of the overall length of you know, which would be a couple miles in each direction of sidewalk.

So this project doesn't specifically reconstruct the sidewalk throughout the whole project limits, but it makes improvements at the intersections.

Is there a sidewalk project coming up in the area?

It would be sad not to also have that.

I'm gonna chip over a sidewalk if I'd get to an accessible curve, right?

It's very very cost, it'd be very costly to do all the sidewalk.

I agree, I agree that you know that would be a great improvement.

Um there's there's some segments that near the intersections that are that are that will be reconstructed, but the project isn't scoped to do the whole sidewalk length.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Knapper.

Uh Vice Chair Ellis.

Uh thank you.

Just like to echo and support much of the great comments that have come before me.

Um, because while I think as you noted, this is a part of the city that was kind of added and annexed later, given the amount of time since that's happened.

I think that as a city we just have to own it that it's now our problem and we need to fix it, and it's long overdue.

And, you know, as you're describing the communities that are there, it's you know, it's predominantly communities of color that have been often overlooked.

So I'm really glad that we're finally looking at this area of our city um and putting in the investments needed.

Um, and I would yeah, echo um the previous comments about the sidewalks, seeing, I mean, granted, maybe can't do the whole thing, but you know, looking at where it's needed and seeing if what can be done, you know, granted, yes, it is a lot of money.

Um the one thing I would note when you're looking at the road diet part of it and everything.

I know here in downtown midtown, when that was done with the parking protected bike lanes, I think something that was somewhat overlooked is about the visibility of pedestrians and the ability to cross the road when there's a line of cars parked there, you know.

Yeah, they get the the bike lane gets the protection, but then now a pedestrian trying to cross the street isn't a lot is less visible.

So looking at some of those kinds of things in this project, I think is important, um, and so that way we're not creating another problem.

Um, and um, and then I would echo everything that's been said about outreach.

I think that's critical.

The the communities that are there need to know what's going on and need to have you know input on these improvements.

Uh one thing I would want to add as well that came up in the news recently.

I want to say it was an oak park, but I could have gotten it wrong.

Um the new mural crosswalk pilot, um, if since we're this far out, it sounds like from this project coming to fruition.

I think that's something that would be really really cool to see come in around Grant High School, though if those crosswalks can be done in that same way.

You know, I'm of the mindset better visibility, and I could see some really cool art going in along this corridor that is representative of the community in several key spots along this.

So I would just throw that in as that program develops.

I think there's a good synergy of bringing that into into this program or into this pro into the larger project.

The quick build maybe not, but the larger project maybe as those things come through.

So just wanted to add those comments.

Thank you so much, Vice Chair Ellis.

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum.

Uh yes, um, thank you, Vice Chair Ellis, for those great comments.

Uh uh, I will second your idea about the uh which you just mentioned about colorful and uh having something uh at intersections that make them notable and recognizable that that adds to the high visibility um part of the intersection.

Um I do want to put on my regional transit hat for a moment, um, full disclosure, that's my employer.

And you did bring them up in a slide about Route 15 and Route 86.

So I just want to mention to staff in case staff might be out of the loop on this part of it.

Uh we are currently doing a project called a comprehensive operational analysis post-COVID 19, uh, looking at the entire um system network, but the comprehensive operational analysis is in two parts, which covers both a long range transportation plan and a short range transportation plan.

The short-range transportation plan specifically looks at route effectiveness and a lot of characteristics about about routes.

So just kind of fair fair warning, there may and there may not.

So can I see Route 15 and Route 86 five years from now operating exactly on the same schedules days of the week and route alignment as they do today?

I can't say for sure.

I have to follow a process through the planning department, and I could say I could put you in touch with Anthony Adams, James Drake, or Rowan Brandt, for uh further details, or if you wanted to participate with them in a conference call or just a phone call uh about where they're at with that process and their consultant Nelson Nigard of Seattle, Washington.

Uh but it's currently a work in progress right now, and work continues to be ongoing, and there have been no final decisions at the moment.

Okay.

Yeah, no, thank thanks for providing the information.

I appreciate it.

Yeah.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Um Jesse Gotham.

Yeah, I just I may have uh missed it in Luke's presentation, but I did get an announcement that there is the open house for the quick build um on September 10th, uh between 6 and 7 p.m.

And it's at Hagenwood Auditorium 3271 Marysville Boulevard, Sacramento, California.

So and that is the focus of that one is the quick build project.

We're gonna talk about both, okay.

Commissioner Knapper.

Oh, thank you so much, Chair Kramer.

That was actually an accident.

But I did have a question around the quick build.

And if the quick build, I'm sorry, maybe I'm I'm confused.

I think I have a conflict, but if I don't, I'm gonna be at this meeting.

Um on the 10th.

Is the quick build to take that section and quickly do what you're talking about, or are you gonna add traffic circles and other things?

It's it's going to be the same roadway improvements um with the with the signing and striping and the road guy and the bike lanes.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Knapper.

Commissioner Carr.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Uh, thank you, Chair.

Um it was a wonderful presentation.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Um.

Uh my question is not, it's just an um, you know, suggestion probably in the far future, probably.

I don't know how it could play out, but a lot of these accidents uh on these intersections are anywhere else.

They probably happen because of distractions a lot of times and electronic uh uh you know you're distracted by electronics.

So I was wondering if there's any um any plans to use those electronics as uh as a prevention things, for example, like you know, in a on small like on cross crosswalks, is there any way to uh broadcast on that small region that you know that the participant signal is on?

Please do not uh move forward or something like that.

That'll be very helpful.

I feel like for the people like I don't know how feasible it is, but I feel like that can be um a good addition to that.

And then my second um uh observation was that since the roundabouts are more effective in preventing accidents are more effective um tools.

Um when you guys decide about renovating or like um moving these uh a change like um uh fixing up these um um the accident prone areas is there any research done on those like it signals versus the roundabouts.

Are there any have ever been looked at?

Not on these specific intersections included in this project.

I mean, those it can be considered a lot of these um intersection, there's there's writ limited right-of-way in businesses and things right right around the right-of-ways, you know, tend to be have a wider footprint.

Um is would be one of the reasons, but um the goals identified in this project kind of you know, were identified in the the top five corridor study and was really looking at um slowing speeds down through the through the the road diet and making the traffic signal upgrades um throughout the whole corridor.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Carr.

Commissioner Patel.

Hey, uh thank you.

I um I just I was thinking about the schools.

I always think a lot about things as they positively affect the school, which that's what this project is, but then the effect during that uh construction phase.

I know there was some questions about it.

Um in my experience with students, especially high school students.

You know, we've got um a big school with a lot of students, and given their age, they're taking themselves home, they're on their bike, they're walking there, um, they're they're getting there in some way.

And so during the construction phase, is there thought about putting in traffic uh um pedestrian uh crossing guards during construction phase?

Because what I have seen, the reason I'm asking is as you're constructing a lot of times it's blocking the natural right-of-way, and kids might be impulsive.

They are just trying to get home or they're just trying to get to school.

Some are worried about that bell that's about to ring.

Um, and so if there isn't someone guiding them, we could be inadvertently causing problems as well and putting kids in danger.

Yeah, that's interesting.

Um something to think about, I suppose, um, as we move forward.

Construction's quite a ways away.

Um, but it's it's a good thought, and maybe even working with working with the schools um to provide additional crossing, you know, help there.

It's something to think about, something I could look into.

And I as you work with the schools, I think it's important to note.

I think when we were all younger, we were used to crossing guards being everywhere.

Um there isn't a budget for crossing guards, and so when, which is why we don't see them anywhere.

Um it's not part, so when schools do put in crossing guards, it directly takes out of the student pocket, which is why we don't see them very often, but in that vein, it would be something to think about with the project costs so that it doesn't go on to the school's responsibility.

Okay.

Thanks.

Yeah, again, thank you so very much for your for your pres presentation.

We hope that the commission is able was able to provide help helpful feedback and suggestions.

Okay, we'll uh oh right, um that will uh have uh okay.

Um sorry.

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

Thank you, Chair.

I was getting ready to jump in.

Uh we have no speaker slips on this item.

Thank thank you so very much.

All right, thank you.

Um our next item on the agenda is the disabilities advisory commission's invitation to present at the at the racial equity committee.

Okay, so um uh as jet Jesse Vice Chair Ellis and I and and a few other members had discussed of of the DAC uh cut uh coming together for the racial equity meeting on is it October?

I believe it's October 21st Tuesday okay thank you on October 21st uh and just being a part a part of the committee and and vice versa because uh what I was gonna uh tell tell the racial equity committee is that disabilities you know they it does not matter who you are born born at what race you're born at country cla class religion you know disabilities can affect ever everyone at any time at any time you could be born with it or you can get it later on in life and even too you can go through your even if you go through your whole life perfectly healthy eventually we will get older and that's where we can experience pro problems that do that we can be considered with considered part of the disability committee committee so I would like all of if all of us can to go there in October to present present oh what what time we'll confirm the time I believe it's at 11 a.m.

And maybe just a little more background um so council member my bank's office reached out as um as this is part of the recommendations that were included in the annual work plan and so it was in that um context that they reached out to myself and wanting to arrange a meeting with Sylvia Chair Kramer yeah I think this um my memory serves um the last couple of chairs have tried to bring this around to fruition right if I'm yeah so this has been kind of a long time coming so um and trying to get um disability and inclusion to kind of accessibility and inclusion to really be infused together in the work of that commission in particular.

Come Commissioner Knapper Kramer and thank you Vice Chair Ellis um I was looking through some of the wonderful work of the Racial Equity Commission.

And I noticed that disability was kind of missing.

I also noticed accessibility was also missing and I found that quite fascinating and some of the documents um were very gender specific and it didn't it wasn't expansive and to include um you know beyond male female and so I thought um that was interesting and I'm that's not a judgment because the work is great if they would just tweak it a little bit to be more inclusive um that would I would I think that would be great Chair Kramer.

Thank you Commissioner and that that is great because like I said earlier it disabilities include include everyone it doesn't mat doesn't matter about about who who or what you what you are heck even at animals can become become dis disabled.

Right the one thing that does not discriminate look at and um in disability thank you Chair Kramer thank you so much Commissioner Knapper um Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you Chair Kramer uh I will certainly plan to be there and I've put it in my um calendar I do think it's quite important um in terms of you know preparation is there certain preparation we I should be you know that I can be a make sure I'm prepared or certain things that something I can do in advance, and just in terms of so I I and I guess this question stems from if and when or and I would assume we are expected to make you know comments or um I I'm I'm sorry if my questions it's not doesn't make sense.

Um I guess in um well and I I'm I'm I'm happy myself to do my own research, of course, regarding um the committee and um whatnot.

I'm just curious are if there's any materials they've invited us to you know read or for in preparation for it.

I think you might uh review some of the past annual reports, I think, and also um former chair Alan McMillan uh spoke about this issue um I think at the presentation to the uh PNP committee when the DAC's first annual report was approved.

You know, I think that would probably be um a good resource, and I I'd be willing to send an email out to um Chair Kramer, Vice Chair Ellis, and then um uh Commissioner Greenbaum if you're planning on to be there and whoever else may want to join, uh and just give you kind of some of that background um too.

Um other than um you know looking at the rec's pass agendas.

Great.

Yeah, that would be awesome.

Thank you.

Correct me if I'm misremembering.

I thought we got some sort of communication about this last fall.

And I couldn't find it in my email um leading up to this.

I did send out an email from staff regarding uh some of the other recommendations.

Okay, uh, kind of in the in the same um context as the request to present at the REC.

So okay, so like that we did get some.

I just couldn't find it leading up to this meeting because I was like the yeah, yeah.

Okay, cool.

Thank you.

Commissioner Dyson.

Um, thank you.

And I I just want to say I would uh attend the meeting as well.

Um district eight, I do represent uh district eight on this board, and I I didn't know about this particular uh committee.

Uh so I will be contacting and um Susan Kahn is the staff.

Yes, I I know Susan.

I know Susan.

So I will definitely attend and and get more information as to what they're expecting.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Dyson.

And too, I just want to point out that I think it's important that we come and represent because there might be fan family families or people that don't know about this commission and that may want to be part of it in the future, and it's it'd be great to be able to be able to spread that out.

So we we can get so we can get different point of points of views, differ education and just more people to help better better Sacramento, and if if not, if they're from out of town, then maybe hopefully better better other parts of the country or or the world if they if they can.

As I always say, a lot more is possible for Sacramento.

If there are no other commissioners who wish to speak on this subject, I would like to move to public com comment.

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips on this item.

Uh that was our that was our final oh uh vice.

Uh that that was our final our final objective on for this meeting, so I I believe the I mean the since we f finished the final item.

Yeah, we can have more final report out.

Uh we we have still a few more few more items.

Uh next is Commissioner Staff report.

So I will uh do a brief report out.

Um did want to emphasize the Marysville public outreach meeting we talked about earlier, September 10th, and also uh just kind of give a heads up that we're getting to that time of year.

We're gonna work on the annual report.

And so I'll meet with uh Chair Kramer and Vice Chair Ellis about bringing that forward this fall.

We might start in the October agenda to go through that.

And along with that, I just wanted to kind of go over the role of the commission.

And you know, I've done this in the past when we kick off the annual report, it's like an opportunity to uh go over you know the role of the commission and kind of the value that it provides to public works, and particularly I think tonight was a great example of the feedback that you gave on the Marysville projects and um similar to the other projects that have been before the commission.

And so there's items that we'll look at on the work plan that just due to the limited number of times we meet in a year and the time we have that um you know we're we're we've been um bringing them forward as we are able, and so um examples continuing work on like the special events, the presentation to the racial equity committee, um those are the items that I I keep on the the follow-up log.

And then there's new items.

So I know um uh Chair Kramer's brought up you know kind of the issue of emergency response and getting the word out.

There's been um other items uh discussed, and so we kind of have to put that through the lens of um, you know, the Department of Public Works and you know our role in managing the commission and where we get um that advice and how it meets the the uh our goals of you know creating a city um with um streets that are accessible for all ages and abilities, so um kind of look forward to that process, and so I did have um some conversations with um uh our city attorney uh Paul Gale, just about um you know how we agendize items.

You know, I know there's been a desire.

Hey, can we put um items on the next agenda?

And um, you know, I think uh we welcome ideas, and I can I can include those as you know potential items, but part of what I want to do is really emphasize the value that the commission provides to public work staff when when we're bringing projects forward, and so I really want to keep that the focus of the DAC.

I believe that's why I've been asked to to manage the DAC is to keep the emphasis on accessibility and projects in the in the that we're delivering, and because it's it is of such value, and even the nuanced feedback that we get can often make the difference between a good project and a great project.

So while there's a myriad of issues out there that other um committees are hearing or commissions are reviewing, or even the city council, I would encourage you all in your own personal capacities to you know advocate for those, and that's why they have their meetings and they have their agendas, but you know the real focus of the DAC for public works and and from my perspective and from the value it brings is that our accessibility in the public right away and really um keeping the main thing the main thing, so um that's that's my perspective.

Not that we're willing to entertain other items, but I also have a limited sphere of influence, right?

I cannot order the police department to come present or the parks department for that matter.

Um what we do control is our project delivery, and so um I can send requests, but um there's a whole myriad of issues out there, but if we can focus on um uh public improvements in the right-of-way, it really um uh keeps us, keeps in my percept perspective us on the right path.

So with that, that's my oral report out.

Thank you, Jesse.

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yeah, just uh follow up on and on one thing you said about Marysville Boulevard and during the presentation today.

Remind me that there are and have been uh in the history of the commission, a lot of presentations on road infrastructure, sidewalks, curb cuts, accessible signals, and exactly from what we heard today, uh, and I had in mind coming in, and the presenter mentioned it, that the item is also gonna go before the active transportation commission.

So what I've seen at least in the small sample size of meetings that that I've been a commissioner, there are a lot of related items um that this commission and and the um ATC are hearing, and it's great that there are more citizens that have um now the capacity of you know having that commissioner name on them that are hearing this, and that allows more um bodies going to the city council um to stand in a unified voice to the council um when there's a project that we've both heard.

And so, you know, I know, like for instance, you know, Sacramento has sister cities.

I would say our maybe sister or companion commission to us, and a lot of what it happens here happens also at ATC.

Uh, I've I've noticed.

Um, do you need some of us, as we heard from the presenter earlier about Marysville Boulevard, for example.

Do you need some of us to go to the next ATC meeting and provide uh our comments to them to help them come to a better decision that would get forwarded to the council about this project in addition to the open house that you mentioned a week from today?

Thank you.

Vice Chair Ellis.

Thank you.

Um I just really want to support Jesse's comments.

Um I've served on the DAC before, I've served on other city commissions before, and I've served on other advisory bodies for other entities, and what we say what we do as a commission does really fall uh squarely on the shoulders of the staff.

You know, uh Jesse has a supervisor or manager or whatnot, and you know it it does, you know, this is part of his job.

So I do really respect and appreciate everything you're you do for us.

Um and while you know, I think the whole purpose of why this commission was established was about um inaccessibility in the public right-of-way.

That's why there was the lawsuit and everything that got this going.

And that's, you know, we're one of the I think we're one of the unique cities and one of the few cities that has a commission like this, squarely focused on these issues.

And so, yeah, that is that needs to, in my mind, that's why I got here.

This needs to be our North Star.

And that's not to say there aren't, you know, we're that there aren't other issues, like Commissioner Barnbaum was just saying that touch other parts, other commissions and whatnot, right?

Uh, there is definitely overlap on across a lot of issues and areas.

Um, but again, you know, I kind of mentioned this in our last meeting, you know, as long as the city sees value in what we do and what we're doing here, then I see the commission being a positive asset to the city when that if that changes, and they don't see us to be as valuable, you know, that could change the perception of how we're viewed, and that that as a as somebody in leadership of the commission and has been here, that's kind of the thing that I balance is like, you know, we need to provide that value to the city, and I think we've been doing that, and things have evolved.

Uh, when I first, as um, because a lot of you are fairly new to the commission.

Uh, when I first was on the commission in 2016, we weren't meeting here on the dais.

We weren't meeting in council chambers.

We were meeting in a very small and rather inaccessible room when at the time um I was one of the in the minority that um was able-body that wasn't in a um uh uh mobility device, like a wheelchair.

There were multiple people on the commission at that time, and it was really hard for us to meet in this small cramped room when the majority of the commission is in a wheelchair or mobility device.

So um things have evolved, things have changed because the city saw the value of what we were providing.

So I don't want things to go backwards.

So um definitely appreciate um everyone's contributions and perspectives.

I agree with a lot of what's said around here, and you know, when it's said it's like, oh, I didn't think of that, but I like that.

So, you know, that means you know, we're all bringing our our unique voice to the table.

So uh thank you again, Jesse, for always uh uh being of you know of keeping our eye on that North Star of you know, the public the accessibility in the public right of way and what you know we're here to do.

And again, we try to, you know, go broader, you know, a little bit broader than that here and there, but again, yeah, you know, Jesse can't make the you know, police department come, and that in fact, when we first asked, the answer was no.

But then a few months ago, they asked us to come.

So we're showing our value.

So the kind of what I believe in is being collaborative, being cooperative, and um, you know, trying to find where we're all trying to push the city in the right direction going forward to make it better for everybody.

So and I I think everybody's contributions thus far because it's been uh a very vibrant uh return over the last year that I've been here, so thank you.

Thank you so very much.

Come uh Vice Chair Ellis, uh Commissioner Patel.

Yeah, um, I had some thoughts that I wanted to share, and I'm not sure if we're just making comments on you or if it's the all comment section.

So I'm like, should I share all my things or just that as related here?

But that's next, right, Chair.

Perfect.

It felt like we kind of organically moved through, so I just wanted to make sure.

Um like as it relates to your report out.

Um I had an experience a couple weeks ago that sort of that old saying, like the more you know, the more you know, and continue to add to that information.

Uh two weeks ago uh we had the celebrate in Thomas event um in District One in South Notomas.

It was bigger than it had ever been.

Um, and I was there volunteering for vice mayor Karina Talamantes.

Um, and I happened to have been assigned the role of uh kind of keeping the traffic moving at the circle because people wanted to park because there's no parking.

Um one of the things she did for access that she brought back to that event as it was getting bigger um was uh SAC RT had sort of donated the service of a bus for um the event, and so the parking was down at the high school, which um, you know, part of the learn the committee is actually doing a debrief tonight too, and I was like, Oh, I gotta be in two places at once um was a lot of people like oh we didn't know the bus was there that's great that circle was a drop-off access for so many folks who um you know couldn't park far away but the suck RT bus definitely um was uh you know had all of the access points for wheelchair enabled people or any other other needs um but I had an interesting uh experience by standing there was um some folks that kind of rolled up and I very kindly went to cars as they couldn't tell if they were parking or unloading and said hey do you know we have the bus service um and they said oh you know we heard there's these wonderful bands we just want to listen from our car we can't get out and walk that far um and then so I introduced myself I told her who I was and you know um my my role on this committee and kind of asked like can you do you feel comfortable sharing with me more um you know because of the way that they had arranged the um the setting so she shared some information um you know about you know positions and things that I would share with the committee but I think it's um I share that experience because I think we had uh Judy come here and talk about events and um she was here tonight and her and I are gonna connect offline about some ideas that the commission had had um as they continue to sort of revise that plan and how the how they uh do that and I just think it's so important you talk about the the um public right of way and these folks wanted to hear these bands that we had brought to the community and they were the ones that were creative enough to be like well let's drive up and roll our windows down and see if we can you know they they had it I said please pull your car up right there turn your blinkers on I'm gonna make sure no one kicks you out like sit there and listen and enjoy the music.

So I just think we have a bunch of events coming up and I I think it's important for us to listen and ask folks and learn because Judy's working on something so important that she's coming to our coming back to the committee for and there are so many nuanced pieces to to like help her build the right plan for all events we need to have those multiple lenses and those experiences so just kind of in as it connects but um kind of a call out to the commission too of what are those nuances and how do we help her kind of build a plan forward for all the events.

It seems like we've kind of moved in into commissioner comments yeah yes that seems like it would be appropriate or um oh before we do that Jesse was there anything any more to your report that you you needed to speak about okay so we we can move on to commissioner comments commissioner knapper yes thank you.

Thank you um Commissioner Patel no we had a wonderful um neighbor come to the meeting and just talk about Northgate boulevard Northgate Boulevard and um speaking of how do things get on the agenda how do we bring the attention how do we agendize the discussion around some of the other areas that are inaccessible to our community here in Sacramento.

I think that's important you cannot walk down the sidewalk from Northgate Boulevard at Arden Garden to Rio Tier without hitting a poll or something that's kind of in the way um thank you for the wonderful presentation today.

But at Northgate Boulevard is not included in that, is it?

So I don't I don't know what that means or what that looks like or how the how this commission can influence future projects or what does that look like and this is I know this is not for discussion today, but I would certainly would like to discuss it.

Um and so and that's just one item, right?

But because we had a response uh had a had a neighbor come to the meeting to share with us their concerns, and it is a concern.

Um I thought that would be important for us to figure out a way to lift up.

And so I look forward to the commission's response.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Okay.

Yeah, I'll uh second Commissioner Knapper's uh request for agenda item uh specifically because it was really focused about the public right-of-way um accessibility and just exactly the stuff that um staff member Gotham uh discussed, uh what can be brought back.

I think that's an excellent request for an agenda item.

Uh you know, we talked today about Marysville Boulevard.

Yeah, let's have a discussion and staff presentation on Northgate Boulevard as well, and for the folks in district three, um, so I I second your request uh specifically for that.

I think it's something we need to have.

Um what I was gonna mention, I think I had noticed on the commission's meeting calendar.

Um we're not meeting on the first, but we're meeting instead on the eighth.

And if that's the case, I do want to mention that um here on the basketball side of the river.

Um it there will be a game that night against Toronto at 7 p.m.

So it will be a little uh crowded getting into the downtown and out uh when our meeting is over, um, on the eighth.

Uh there is on the schedule though nothing on the first, um, as that's too early in the month, and I don't know if our regularly scheduled meeting is the eighth.

Um would the wish of the commission to be to move it to the first or to keep it on the eighth.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Um Commissioner Wilson.

So I just thought it uh goodbye.

Just running to break so that the commissioners uh touch it.

So I'm part of a group called the uh disability organizing that work.

Cause a collection of systems change, to catch up all the non-profit, to the living centers.

But they're doing uh three regional critics for Northern California, to Saturday region, could Southern California, cut September, 11th room, 10 to 3.

Because it would go, would be like really valuable.

But uh, is it uh provided feedback on the accessibility issues?

For the Sacramento for our entire region.

Could reach out to uh to me or resources for the living, could we get you uh good to that meeting?

Could there one more just one more announcement?

So uh resources for the resource there, this photo that I take.

It's gonna be uh agencies for the counter.

Because also the private resources, because also we uh get vaccinated, like for the uh to get a vaccinated because I could share those with other commissioners of uh you're interested.

So does it?

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so very much, Commissioner Wilson.

Uh, Vice Chair Ellis.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um, there were a couple things I wanted to bring up.

One thing I just remembered, um, believe it was it was regarding the Marysville project, because there were a number of four number of commissioners asked about the buttons, the pedestrian, the accessible pedestrian buttons.

We had that on um that particular item about the but the buttons that the city is using, believe it was on our agenda back in March or April.

I could be wrong, but I know it was in the spring.

Um, and they talked about the standard that the city uses, it's a single standard, even though it when we're out there, it seems disjointed.

It's because when they go in and they do an upgrade, they bring it to the current standard, but they don't necessarily go back and retrofit, you know, one the standard may have changed a few years ago, and they did that project a few years back, so it's on the old standard, so um I just wanted to mention that when we're talking about um uh the buttons, because that just popped in my head.

Um a couple things that I wanted to talk about um kind of procedurally, um, because I think last meeting, this part of the agenda where we we can kind of say whatever we want, kind of turned into a discussion, which can kind of run afoul of Sydney ordinances and state law, so we kind of have to be careful.

I know um Chair Kramer and I, as we've led, and even uh when Mo was chairing, we didn't necessarily have like a rule of you could only speak once in this time, but we have to be careful of not making it look like we're having a discussion about a topic that's not on the agenda.

So I just wanted to raise that so we're we don't run afoul of that.

Um the other thing I wanted to bring up kind of procedurally, um, and just kind of as a vice chair, and I think Chair Kramer, you probably agree with me on this, but um, standard is this is a two-hour meeting.

I mean, it can be less, but under the city council rules of procedures, the standard meeting time is two hours, and when we're planning with Jesse what the agenda is gonna be, that's kind of our guidepost.

And then if the asterisk on that is um if two thirds of us agree we need more time, we're allowed to extend up to an additional hour.

Any one of us commissioners can make that motion to extend.

Uh in the past, it just me having served on a lot of these kind of boards.

I like to be efficient and just move things, so I've made those motions, but anybody can.

If we're getting between like 7 and 7:30, and it's looking like you know, we're gonna need more time.

Anybody can motion to, you know, but two-thirds of us have to agree.

So I just wanted to kind of bring those kind of dry procedural things up just so that everybody is aware and knows, because you may not know the commissioner orientation packet is extensive, and you know, it it's a lot to read when I got it, so it was overwhelming.

So I'm you know, anyway, and um, but um that stuff aside um the one item that I saw in um the in the SAC B last week.

There was an article, and I don't know exactly what it's called off the top of my head anymore, and I couldn't find the article later, but there's like a pilot project about basically making all the uh traffic lights red for a period of a few seconds when the walk sign changes.

It's still very preliminary, at least from what I read in the SAC B, and Jesse, I don't want to put this as like I want this as an item because it seems very, very early in what they're looking at, and so I don't even know that it would necessarily be ready for our work plan for 26 2026, maybe might be ready in 2027, but it was very promising.

Uh an example of the city really trying to get it right.

They there's this new idea, but the issue that was brought up in the article was around um people like me visually impaired.

Now, if they were to do this, the issue is how do they do it correctly so that way someone who's visually impaired knows they can cross the street because if you're like me, I'm listening for the flow of traffic, not necessarily um the walk sign if it's audible great you know but not all the intersections have that uh feature as we've noted um with the buttons so it's like it's it's a something there it seemed like to me from the article something um that's being explored very early on in its infancy but I'm I'm really glad it's something it seems you know on its surface oh yeah if all four you know lights are red and somebody can cross the street that seems like a start you know a safer way to cross the street on the surface on but then what about the success these accessibility issues how do they know that it's necessarily okay to cross when there's no traffic moving you know so I'm really glad that the staff that are behind that project whoever they are um are really trying to flush this out um and trying to explore options and so I just wanted to highlight it again I don't know that it's even necessary you know that it would be ready for us uh to have an item in the next year but uh really promising work and this is the kind of thing that I think we're having as an impact as a commission where this accessibility and inclusion thinking is kind of permeating the city and the way it's it's it's trying to propose new ideas and new projects so um yeah I'm really excited about it clearly sorry because I can't shut up about it but anyway um again um thank you and um yeah that's all I have for my commissioner comments.

Thank you so very much Vice Chair Ellis uh Commissioner Knapper excuse me for talking so much this evening but I wanted to address two things really quickly if I may um Commissioner Greenbaum thank you for the discussion at our last meeting in regards to our unhouse neighbors and particularly for unhoused neighbors living with disabilities I thought you spoke well to the class I wanted to share an announcement there's a solidarity summit happening here in Sacramento on September 13th and um at the first United Methodist church here on J Street and I think it's from Tim you can Google it at 10 10 a.m and it's a resource for unhoused neighbors and community to come get resources links to services connected to amazing unhouse providers um amazing project um summit and I wanted to share that I'm in solidarity.

And the other thing I wanted to mention really quickly and it may have left that in mind and it may have but I just left it that moment.

Yeah it's gone.

So thank you I think I got nervous for sharing that oh I did want to say this no excuse me all due respect.

I appreciate the mobility access prior prioritization of the DAC.

I think that's really important and I think it's awesome because we're in SACMO um doing good work.

I also really appreciated um working with the staff coming in city staff member coming in regarding accessibility for employees and supporting the accommodations work and lending lending voice to that would love to see the report back on the new software and what does that look like and that may not be for I think that's part of this too right.

And so I I guess I think the priority should be mobility and access in city of Sacramento.

But there's more yeah and I don't know um I don't have two new dates like say yes, don't.

Um, but I think it's important.

We are the disability advisory commission, um, you know, to the mayor and you know, to the city, and I I think we are more and we are here and it should be available to leafland voice or recommendations, but also to um, you know, to be that that group that can advise and recommend and filter through some other pieces.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much, Commissioner Knapper.

Uh Commissioner Patel.

Yes, thank you, Commissioner Knapper.

Um, I would concur a lot of those ideas.

Um I had just a couple of comments for my comment tonight.

Um, I was thinking about the North Gate Bridge, so not a discussion, but I really appreciate Commissioner Ellis kind of uh Vice Chair Alice sharing some of those pieces.

I actually would love four little nuances and rules and pieces to kind of come along over time because I think they're either a good reminders or B like, oh I didn't realize that part of it, and that's really helpful, so thank you for that.

Um I was thinking about the North Great project, and so I was having a same similar sentiment.

I had mentioned it last week, and so if we could just add it to that, if it is coming to the DAC, um last week, it feels like a week ago of uh last month, um just realized what I said last month.

Um the as it connects to the bridge.

So I I think that it is uh it's an urgency because we had a community member come.

Um, but I think it's also an urgency because there's this, as I had shared then, there's this beautiful bridge project that you get from downtown across the bridge, and then what you have all these accessible features of this this bridge that is going to um be there.

So if if it were, for example, a project like they shared today, if it doesn't get us down Northgate enough to where that bridge connects, then we've kind of have a miss or a fail.

And so just um considerations around how that bridge impacts the need for the Northgate improvements that the our fellow commissioners were asking.

Um, and then I think I have two loves, um, my passion for inclusion and my passion for food.

Uh so I just I think it's important as we support our city.

Um we have a really big event coming up this month.

Um, this month is Farm to Fork Month.

Um that those words, the picture, the fork in the dirt, that that is Sacramento.

It is all over our nation.

I I know the gentleman personally who drew it on a napkin and now it's everywhere.

Um, it's it's it's something that we should be really proud of for our city, and as we are thinking about um, you know, with Judy coming back and and working on that piece, it is a huge festival.

And so for those of us who can go and support the city, but also looking at how we can um advise uh doing making it more inclusive and more accessible.

Um the farm to fork festival.

This is the first year, um, and it'll be a bi-yearly that it is terra madris, so it's September 26th through the 28th.

Um the bridge dinner is this Sunday, so if you're out and about, you can kind of walk down, it's accessible.

You can still walk across the bridge and see that even if you're not at the bridge dinner on Sunday the 7th.

Um, but the big festival is September 26 to the 28th.

I think it's uh Mike Testa with VisitSec was on uh MPR the other day talking about how uh some of the climate of that Terra Madres is meaning that some of the vendors and outside of the US people are not able to join, or they have um maybe canceled, so it's it's affected um our city, but uh Terra Madres is a festival that's happened in Italy for decades, and they have been looking for a very long time for a uh city in America to be host, and they picked us a year ago, and so it's the first time, and so we want it to be successful, and it will be bi-yearly after that.

So there's our first go at it, but there's a room for our um commission to make it more accessible over time, and so um kind of supporting that uh really really big event that we were the only city in America that was chosen, so it was a big deal.

Thank you so very much, uh Commissioner Patel uh commissioner barnbaum yeah so um I guess just kind of related to some of the discussion on uh the other project that commissioners are bringing up uh my question is um what is on the pending agenda for the next meeting uh and again what date are we uh formally um meeting uh for next month so it's October eighth right okay eighth okay and then yes what's on the pending agenda then pending on the agenda um that's one of the purposes of the follow up log is just to kind of keep a chronology and look ahead and um I've reached out to the project manager for the Sack Valley station okay which I know was of interest um and then I have to be cognizant of projects that are are at the right phase where there's been enough information developed that you can have a substantive review um just briefly um Northgate um there's there's an effort as large as the Marysville effort on the horizon for Northgate um I can give an update I was thinking maybe I should give an update but it's not ready for like a presentation yet um we don't have the funds yet and that sort of thing but they have been programmed and you know that's something if you uh stick with this commission you'll learn kind of the timeline involved with federal funding and state grants and um and so things things take longer than than people realize but we will uh Northgate has quite an effort um on the horizon so but it's not ready like to bring back at October eighth um there are uh other projects I'd have to um ask um my uh colleague Stephanie um who we coordinate with all the PMs to say okay who who's ready this month but I try to keep a forecast in the um in the follow-up log things like the ninth street bikeways um there's the um our transportation group has um an update they wanted they want to provide on some vertical delineators that have been deployed in the public right-away there's franklin boulevard complete street phase three um these types of projects that are are are our are ready so and that alongside the annual report we want to work on alongside some of these opportunities like um my bank's office contacting us and saying oh would the um DAC like to come so um that's what I mean okay and then Adam Chair I noticed there's no other speakers in the queue so if that's the case I would move to adjourn to 5 30 p.m on October 8th well uh before we adjourn uh we still have public comment clerk are there any members of the public who wish wish to speak thank you chair I have no speakers lips for public comment thank you and that concludes today's agenda that thank you everyone for for for attend attending