Good evening and welcome to the October 8th, 2025 Disabilities Advisory Commission meeting.

The meeting is now called to order.

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

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioners, please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Here.

Commissioner Barnbaum.

Here.

Commissioner Cattel.

Here.

Commissioner Wilson.

Here.

Commissioner Dyson is absent.

Commissioner Napper is absent.

Commissioner Eguebe.

Here.

Commissioner Alice is absent.

Commissioner Carr is absent.

And Chair Kramer?

Here.

Thank you.

We have a quorum.

I would like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you would like to speak on an agenda item, please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins.

You will have two minutes to speak once you are called on.

After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker slips.

We will now proceed with today's agenda.

Will you please rise for the land acknowledgement and pledge of allegiance?

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu Valley and Plains Miwok, Pat Wynne Wintham Pupils, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous People's History, contributions, and lives.

Thank you.

And now if you can still I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisibility, liberty, and justice for all.

Yes.

Yeah.

Um before we begin begin with with before we begin with approval of the consent calendar, I would like to welcome our our newest commissioner.

If you could please please say hello and introduce yourself.

Thank you, and we're glad to have you here here on the board with us.

Our first order of business today is the approval of the consent calendar.

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

I don't have any speaker slips on this item.

Uh thank you.

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

Madam Chair, if there are no uh commissioners that wish to speak on the consent calendar, uh, Commissioner Michael Barnbaum District 2 uh make a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Can I get a second?

I second that motion.

Alexa Greenbaum.

And we got a second.

Will the clerk please call roll for the vote?

Yes, Chair.

Commissioners, please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Aye.

Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes.

Commissioner Patel?

Yes.

Commissioner Wilson.

Okay.

Commissioner Dyson is absent.

Commissioner Knapper is absent.

Commissioner Agwe.

Yes.

Commissioner Ellis is absent.

Commissioner Carr is absent.

Chair Kramer.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

The first item on our agenda tonight is the ninth street separated bikeway.

James Cole.

Advisory commission.

My name is James Craig, and I am here to present the Ninth Street separated bikeway project.

The goal of this project is to close a gap in the city's enhanced bikeways network.

This corridor was selected based on its alignment with the bikeway master plan and the Central City Mobility Project.

This separated bikeway will function alongside the existing 10th Street separated bikeway to allow more symmetrical north-south access to and within the central city.

Funding for this project is provided through the Active Transportation Program, which supports infrastructure improvements designed to increase the use of active modes of transportation.

Located in District 4, this section of the 9th Street separated bikeway continues south along 9th Street, starting from the existing left side parking separated bikeway terminus at Q Street to close the half mile gap to Broadway.

When completed, the 9th Street separated bikeway will be the only southbound class 4 facility that connects the neighborhoods of South Side Park, Land Park, and downtown.

The drawing on this slide slide shows a cross section describing the existing conditions on 9th Street.

Ninth Street is classified as a one-way arterial road with two southbound 30 mile per hour vehicle travel lanes.

The street also has Class 2 bike lanes and curbside parking on both sides of the road.

These bike lanes lack physical separation from drivers, which can discourage less confident riders.

Ninth Street has sidewalks on both sides of the road, but curb ramps, some curb ramps, don't meet current ADA standards.

To address these issues, my team has suggested the following improvements.

Narrowing the vehicle path to reduce crossing exposure, ADA compliant curb ramps at intersections to ensure accessibility for all users, and turn wedges to slow turning vehicles and improve crossing safety.

This is a young project, not even six months old.

The concepts I've presented here today are preliminary to formal design.

Thank you so very much for your presentation, Mr.

Craig.

Any curb ramps along this alignment will be adjusted to meet current ADA standards.

And how will these bikeways impact traffic, especially during high traffic activity?

Currently, Ninth Street already has a class two bike lanes on both sides of the street.

I don't expect traffic to be significantly impacted by this because there aren't right now with this concept, there are no signal modifications.

If there are signal modifications, uh those impacts would be investigated during design.

Thank you very much.

I'll now turn it to my fellow commissioners.

Uh Commissioner Bornbaum.

Uh thank you, Chair Kramer.

Um this is a v very good uh project and presentation you've made.

Um just on a related note.

Um I think uh a lot of the city grid, um, especially, you know, with a lot of nightlife in the city.

Um now we've had a season of major league baseball um next door um across the river, uh and people are using our um city uh sidewalks to uh walk as pedestrians whether uh they were first automobile users or uh transit users uh but a lot of complications come in uh with uh, you know, pedestrians having conflicts with bicycles and now scooters, uh especially electrical scooters.

Um I recently attended an ace game against the Royals uh and walking back to uh into the city grid and to the um eighth and capital station almost got uh smacked by a scooter on the sidewalk of um the south side of Capitol Mall.

Um uh coming behind me and I didn't see or notice them because I'm only looking ahead um at uh what's c what's coming my way and you know no one has of course eyes but uh eyes in the back of their head.

Um we need to do some things to assist the disability population uh particularly um to keep bicycles and scooters off the sidewalks and uh on uh streets with the cars, um, so that there are not conflicts.

I hope that this 9th Street project um that you presented is going to address that, um, but that there are probably uh here requests for information back to the commission, uh, more projects coming in the grid uh, particularly with an increase in nightlife um and activity um that modes of transportation be separated uh to protect uh people with disabilities using uh our our sidewalks exclusively and that there be no vehicle of any type using the sidewalks at all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Barn Greenbaum?

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum, uh Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you, Chair Kramer.

Um I just wanted to thank you for your presentation.

Um, you know, Sacramento, this beautiful city, it's it's flat, so it's a bikeable city, you know, and um so many trees to keep it cool.

Um, and so I think that this serves as a good example to um make bice bike biking accessible, um, especially for less experienced bikers like you mentioned, who um perhaps are deterred with you know um by traffic and not enough room.

So I um thank you for your presentation and I hope that this um you know serves as an example that we have a lot of different other fairways, you know, um well traffic fairways to go, but thank you very much.

Thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum.

Uh Commissioner Wilson.

What's it got just called it uh just kind of part of it?

Because like uh great project.

Because it's a street saver of our body color.

Especially where the design of the street.

Because we're the other wheelchair vehicles cover up to the lower time.

Cause of the roadside.

Because I have to talk.

It's difficult to park.

Because you know, sometimes they're trying to cover the rim to go.

So sounds a cube hall, isn't it so there should be uh still have a third days for our do solve with uh accessible vehicles, to park on the street.

So as long as there's like carriers for that, really.

So that's probably a good idea.

Thank you.

Um I will definitely look into how accessible vehicle parking will be integrated.

Thank you, Commissioner Wilson.

Uh, Commissioner Patel.

Um, yeah, I wanted to, you know, first off, just commend the design here and what is being proposed because I think it's as the other commissioners have shared, it's super needed.

Um as it relates to the growing issue and you know, desire of the e-scooters.

I think what I see when I am downtown and what I predict for the future of this is that we're still gonna have um bicyclist on the sidewalk or scooterist, I don't know if that's word, on the sidewalk, because the singular lane for them is uh it's a speed competition.

So if the scooters are on the bike lane, then the bicyclists are like they're gonna run me over, I'm gonna go on the sidewalk and sort of that vice versa.

Um, and I think all of these improvement projects for our city, part of it is to encourage the other modes of transportation.

I know that you are working in this constrainted space, right?

And I'm looking at the design.

Um I have seen other cities out there who are designing double lanes, a slow lane and a fast lane.

Um, and I, you know, I'm looking at your um what you attach to the packet.

I think it's your slide five, and it's allowing for still parking on both sides of the street.

So I just wonder if we think about knowing how long these projects take.

Um, if we think about our city four years from now, and maybe we are encouraging people to use those other modes of transportation instead of the parking, and so we are designing forward for that and thinking about how we really give that public right of way on the sidewalk and design for all of these other electrical transportation modes because I think they're they're coming, they're we saw how fast they've come to our city in exponential numbers in just a couple short years.

So if we think five years ahead, this project might be finished, and then we're gonna might be sitting here going, gosh, we need second lane for for that.

So I just wonder if planning forward and thinking about both what that lane is designed for might make it live longer as a project and be more um utilized and also support what those sidewalks are for.

Okay, yes, I I appreciate that, and we can look into the size and width of the bike lane and what uh other treatments we could do to encourage uh scooterists to also use their their uh dedicated lane.

I think um I I was abroad, but one of the things I saw were like these very clear, distinct different color lanes, right?

They're side by side, but one is bike and one is um for those electrical vehicles, whatever they're their e-bikes or e-scooters, um, and something like that for our city would would really kind of move people forward and understand.

Yep, don't be on the sidewalk and keep it more safe for for all our walkers, our bikers, everybody.

Just the thought, just the thought.

I'll look into that, thank you.

Thank you so much again for your presentation.

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

I do not have any speaker slips for this item.

Thank you so very much.

Thank you for your feedback.

Uh reach out to me if you have any questions.

We will now move on to our next item, which is the highway safety improvement program, HSIP follow-up.

Thank you, Chair Kramer and members of the DAC.

My name is Bill Schunk, and I'm a senior engineer with the Department of Public Works.

And I am here tonight to give you a follow-up on your annual report work plan, specifically a letter to Caltrans regarding the HSIP project, right?

So as a quick recap, HSIP stands for Highway Safety Improvement Program.

It is a grant program the city has had a lot of success with recently, funding safety improvements.

It is exclusive to safety.

It is managed by Caltrans, but when you track the funding for it, it actually is a federal grant program through FHWA.

And what makes the program unique is that it is very analytical.

It is data driven.

You are judged on quantitative numbers as opposed to most grants which are qualitative.

For the purpose of a letter to Caltrans, I do think it's important to note that they are under federal requirements for the grant program.

I included some code here from the federal regulations.

And in layman terms, what this is saying is that by code, the program is a bang for your buck grant application, which is saying that if you have two projects that are having equal collision history with equal improvements, by code, the program prioritizes the less expensive project over a more expensive project.

And so that's how things are scored.

So that does come into play with accessibility improvements, which is what was in your action plan, where accessibility improvements do add cost, but it's not exclusive to accessibility.

We see this across the board with any grant application through the HSIP program, whether it's ride-away or utilities or permitting, things that add cost do add complications and make things less competitive.

We see it a lot in particular with our aging infrastructure.

I mean, the program funds a lot of signal improvements, but with our aging signals, a very inexpensive signal head that triggers a new mast arm or a new traffic controller box or a new interconnect system, makes these grants challenging.

And so we have to take that into consideration when we are RPDO applications.

That's not to say we can't send a letter to Caltrans, and I have an example that I do want to run by you for a motion tonight.

But before we do that, I do think it's important to kind of walk through the application project process and kind of give you some context to what goes into an HSIP application so you know what you're voting on.

When staff starts with an HSIP application, the first thing we do is we look at roadway segments and intersections that have a disproportionate amount of collisions.

Because that's kind of the crux of the whole program is to address safety concerns.

The second thing we do is we try to identify countermeasures that have been proven by FHWA to address the collision history we're seeing.

We can't just go into the program and say we want to make this improvement.

It has to be one of I think 84 Caltrans approved countermeasures that address collisions in a data-driven method.

And so here's an example of a countermeasure that we've had a lot of success with recently.

I think it's pertinent to your request and the plan, and it is the improvement to install or upgrade pedestrian crossings.

Now, this came directly from the Caltrans local roadway safety manual, which is kind of the playbook for the HSIP program.

If you go to the manual, there is quite extensive write-up on what this would be used for that I have boiled down to basically it is for this countermeasure curve extensions, raised medians, flashing beacons, lighting, and other pedestrian safety elements.

So if we were to apply this to a collision, that's what would be an acceptable countermeasure.

After that, we have a lot of the analytics.

Um the first one on the screen is funding eligibility.

That is really important to our fiscal people.

If this countermeasure were selected, the program will fund up to 90% of your eligible expenses, which is another way of saying that for every dollar that the project spends, the program will pick up 90 cents for the city's 10 cents.

That's a really good reimbursement ratio, which is why we like applying for this program.

Those funding eligibilities range from 50% for some countermeasures on up to 100% for other ones.

And so it kind of depends on what you pick.

Looking at the other analytics, one of the important things per countermeasure is you have to address what crashes is the kind of measures for.

So in this case, upgrading pedestrian crossings, it is specifically addressing pedestrian and bicycle collisions.

You wouldn't use this countermeasure for broadsides or side swipes or driving out of the influence.

This would be specific to bikes and pets, which makes sense for upgrading pedestrian crossing.

And then the important numbers are the crash reduction factor and the expected life.

So of those collisions that you're trying to address are the bikes and PEDs.

The FHWA has settled on studies that say that you could expect up to a 35% reduction in crashes, and that the improvement would last for about 20 years.

So getting back to the application process, once we've looked at our our high collision locations and identified countermeasures to address those collisions, we calculate a benefit of the project.

And again, it's taking the collisions that would be addressed by the countermeasure, looking at the severity, looking at the number and the reduction, and coming up with a cost benefit.

And we can look at like fatalities or look at serious injuries, and there's an economic benefit to reducing those collisions, and that goes into the benefit calculation, and that's fixed.

You know, we don't touch that, that is a hard number.

Then we get to the hard part for staff, which is calculating the project cost.

This is hard for any grant application, but it's particularly hard for the HZIP program, because we have to look out into the future and we have to guess what utility impacts we might see, what right-of-way costs there might be, what the existing payment you know is in, and what we're gonna fix, and come up with what we expect the cost to be.

And we typically underestimate that's just kind of what we do as engineers.

But what makes this challenging for the HSIP project or HIP program is there is kind of a pressure to lower that cost that you're guessing, because at the end of the day, step five is we put that into a benefit to cost ratio, where the benefit was the savings we're seeing for implementing the project, the cost is what the engineer says the project is going to cost, and we get a ratio.

And the way the program works is we submit that ratio to Caltrans.

Caltrans scores all the ratios they get on any given funding cycle.

The highest rated BC starts getting money and they work down the list.

They go from the first one to the second one, the third one, and they work down that list until they run out of money, and when they run out of money, that is the cutoff for your BC ratio, and they fund everything above it.

So, where does accessibility come into the program, which is I think what this group is most focused on.

For starters, it is a federal program, and so all projects must meet ADA requirements, that's a given.

What's neat about this project program though is that any accessibility improvements that are triggered by the countermeasure are eligible for funding.

So if you're putting in a new crosswalk and it means you have to upgrade the curb ramps, those are all eligible expenses under the program, even if it does tweak your benefit to cost ratio.

That being said, Caltrans and the feds do recognize the importance of accessibility improvements, and they do have provisions in the program to account for that, specifically with systematic improvements.

So I took this, this is now from the Caltrans local roadway safety manual instead of the feds, that kind of talks about what the systematic approach is.

So there are two ways you can fund projects in the HCP.

One is you identify a location and calculate a benefit to cost ratio.

The other is you look at things systemically, where especially with accessibility, Caltrans and the Feds, they would want you to build not one crosswalk, but five, ten, fifteen, twenty and group it together in one application.

That does a lot of things for you.

The biggest one is you kind of get an economy of scale, you know, when you're doing multiple projects, and so they encourage you to group projects together into one application that will still get a high enough benefit to cost ratio to be funded, where you're gonna have some projects that are carrying the load that kind of have a high benefit to cost ratio, but you might have other locations that have more cost, you know, where you might need to do more accessibility improvements.

You might have other locations that don't quite have the collision history to justify an improvement, but collectively doing all of them together, you can still come up with a benefit to cost ratio that is fundable and is meeting the needs to get as much safety improvements as you can for the funding you do.

So I put that into this chart here.

Um, and for those looking at the chart going left to right in the rows, I have your cost.

So a low-cost project would be on the left and a higher cost project to be on the right.

In your columns, you have a collision matrix where you have lower collisions on the bottom and higher collisions on the right.

And if you're looking at just an individual project, what the program is meant to fund are those high collision locations that have a low cost.

That's where you get your best benefit to cost ratio.

But when it comes to accessibility and a systematic approach, Caltrans encourages you to lump in projects that might have a higher cost and a higher collision rate with projects that also might have a lower collision rate but a higher cost to collectively make a project that is meeting the best need for the money you have.

And the text there at the bottom is something that staff has gotten really good at.

When you're putting together an HZIP application, it doesn't matter if you have the highest score or the cutoff score.

You know, once you meet that threshold, you are funded.

And so the trick and kind of the art behind the HSIP program is combining those projects, you know, specifically ones with accessibility, where you're funding the accessible projects and still meeting that cutoff score for the program.

So speaking specific to your work plan, there was an action item to put together a letter to Caltrans on how to address accessibility.

And in going through the program and kind of rushing up for this presentation, something I did notice in the Caltrans documents is they really haven't caught up yet to accessible pedestrian signals.

I think it's kind of there in passing, but I do think there is value in noting that to them and send the letter and seeing if that can be an approved countermeasure moving forward, because that would give staff just extra tools when you're doing the systematic approaches to fund projects.

If we can point to the accessible pedestrian signals as an important safety improvement for the disabled community, and so that is the letter that is in the staff report.

I do think it needs a motion tonight to be sent to Caltrans.

But before we get to that, I do just want to kind of summarize the key takeaways from uh the the presentation tonight.

The first is that HSIP is data driven.

You know, it is a bang for your buck application that is all analytical.

Um to address your concerns about accessibility, the program does take into account accessible improvements, and there are tools that staff use to be able to fund accessible improvements with the HCP program.

But I do think in that third bullet formal recognition of accessible pedestrian signals as an improved countermeasure would help staff and other jurisdictions moving forward, making sure that gets incorporated in the program and that we can use that as an approved countermeasure in the future.

So with that, that's my contact information.

I'll open things up to questions.

Thank you so very much for your presentation, Mr.

Schunk.

Uh Commission Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes, um, one of the slides indicated a page about the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the rehabilitation act of 1973.

Um was anything looked at the only other law I can think of from memory is the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Act, and that was not a federal law, that's a state law.

Um what as far as this project is concerned?

Uh, can you talk about as it would relate to the Lanterman developmental disabilities law?

I can't speak to that from the state perspective.

Those two acts were taken from the federal requirements.

Oh, those are okay.

And so again, that's an important distinction to make.

You know, we're writing a letter to Caltrans.

Caltrans is the one that is administering the funds, but the rules for the funds are coming from FHWA and the federal government, and the federal government.

And federal government.

Okay.

Um, Madam Chair, if you need assistance and staff uh in uh the letter writing uh assistance or campaign and to get us to sign it or co-sign it, um I'd be happy to help in any way possible.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much, Greenbaum, and I'll we'll definitely look in into that.

Okay.

Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you, um, Chair.

I believe you answered my question.

Um the money's not coming from the feds, or it comes from Caltrans.

It comes from the feds through Caltrans.

Okay, so then my um follow up is it's not yet been secured, or does it does San Does Caltrans already have the funds and then they distribute it, or in terms of how it, you know.

So it it comes in cycles.

Um in past cycles, we already have the money.

Um there are some cycles that we're trying to get money for that we're running into issues just with the the current situation with um with the federal government.

But moving forward, it it comes in tranches.

Okay.

That answers your question.

And well, my question is is it sounds like there has been some discussion of a clear concern with regards to securing federal aid, um, given you know the current situation, us being the capital city of California, um, you know, and it's so it sounds like that is kind of a factor.

And how does that impact um well?

I guess this is a okay, I understand.

Um, so that has been a concern.

It is a concern in that we currently have two projects in the HCP program that we're trying to get construction funding for, and we can't get the construction funding until we get blessing from FHWA, and we can't get blessing from FHWA until things get resolved.

That's what I um was afraid of, but thank you.

I um wanted to add um chair.

There looks like is this the letter that we would like to pass tonight or motion to send tonight?

The one that's presented um in the minute or in the agenda.

Do you see this one?

I'll see that.

Um when I clicked on when I clicked on um, you know, item four, it went up to the end of the presentation and the last page of the presentation is this is a letter.

Is that the one that we would be sending?

I I was discussed with Jesse.

Um, uh Yeah, maybe I'll defer to uh Mr.

Shunk.

But yeah, we're all uh.

Yeah, okay.

Um that's what I thought.

And so one thing I'd I would you know suggest adding, um, although I think it's um drafted um very well and I appreciate those who you know worked on it, um, is perhaps some sort of sentiment that you know while we're making these improvements, what's the harm in making them accessible?

Um I don't know, something like that um in terms of then and now in 20 years having to go back or maybe not even I guess the life cycles 20 years, so even in 10 years having to go back and perhaps you know, and if we're already working on them, you know, construction's already you know um augmenting them, then I mean I I and I again I'm not the engineer nor am I accounted, I'm an attorney, but um uh it seems to me that that would be a good cost benefit, you know, in terms of incorporating them in the first phase of any such projects.

So a few thoughts on that.

First off, this is your letter.

Um it's important to not come from staff because we're the ones that are applying for grants, and that is a conflict of interest with Caltrans.

Okay.

So it is your letter.

I'll defer to Paul on what can be done with the modifications to the letter, or maybe the the clerk's office, but if there are changes by all means, this this is your letter to Caltrans.

Um, this is not project-specific.

Yes, this is this is just giving staff, whether it's at the city of Sacramento or other jurisdictions, additional tools in the H SIP program to be able to make sure that accessibility improvements are funded.

Yeah, no, I I understand that, so thank you very much.

And um, I guess I would just put that to us on in terms of just common sense type of um reasons for to bolster the letter.

But uh thank you very much.

I appreciate your presentation and coming back to us.

Thank you.

If I could just comment real quickly, if there's a draft letter, uh, there's a motion to approve the letter.

If if there's some desire to change any of the terms of the letter, um, they the motion could be to approve the letter with specific language is probably the easiest, or it could be to uh direct staff to add some kind of specific concept if if that's what uh the commission's comfortable with, but that would be what you'd be voting on.

Thank you.

I read the letter, thank you.

Thanks very much.

Thanks very much.

Um Mr.

Gotham.

Yes, I was just gonna note that um the city and Bill's been uh part of many of these projects has delivered about 30 million dollars worth of HSIP projects in the last 10 years, I think Bill Wright, last time we counted.

And um one thing, I was at the California Transportation Commission meeting um in June, and they gave an update on the federal formula programs, and there hasn't been any disruption in the federal formula programs come into California, um, and that that's relevant for this HCP.

HCP is a is a federal uh formula program, so we haven't seen any um disruption in in the in the disbursement of those grants.

It's mainly been on the some of the discretionary grants that are issued at the federal level.

So thank thank you, Mr.

Cotton.

Uh Commissioner Carr.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

Um, and I'm so glad that this was the part of the presentation today.

I just saw an accident that happened right at the exit uh at the um as soon as the ramp got uh someone got off the ramp.

So I was just wondering, is a ramp a part of the highway safety improvement plan as well, or just like what is involved in it?

All streets and roads.

So yeah, but the ramp is included in the the program.

Okay, because most exigence do happen at the ramps, and and highways and the serious ones too.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Carr.

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes, uh thank you to Commissioner uh Greenbaum next to me.

Uh we have access to a laptop, and I was able to read the letter in its entirety.

Um due to the seriousness of accessible pedestrian signal uh activations and that being a very main topic in in the letter, um, I would like to make a motion to approve the letter as written.

Uh I think it sends Caltrans a strong message about uh what the needs of this commission and our community is is gonna be about as it relates to the presentation, and so I put that um motion on the table.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commission Commissioner Bornbaum.

Um Commissioner Patel.

Um I would I would agree with that motion, but with some edits to the language.

Um when I when I read and I had I was playing with some suggestions, um reason is that the APS systems, yes, they help our visually impaired, they help our hearing impaired, they also give better access to uh a host of our community members who may be cognitively impaired and need that access point.

And I think that part of our role here is to make sure we are including all constituents who would benefit, and I think that it um makes the letter stronger if we are really inclusive in who we are talking about benefits.

It is a much greater piece of our community when we talk about it in that way.

Um, so in the second paragraph, um in the second paragraph, the first sentence kind of talks about vision and hearing, but then the second third sentence really specifically speaks about our vision impairment um community.

And so I I wonder if the motion is to uh um edit that second paragraph where it says um accessible pedestrian.

Let me go back to what I wrote.

Um accessible pedestrian signals significantly enhance safety per for pedestrians in our disability community with vision, hearing or cognitive impairment.

And then in the second third line where it says without APS, I think that that one should should be enhanced.

It really just currently speaks to vision, um, but something that speaks more holistically to all those who would benefit.

Um without APS pedestrians who are part of our disability community, such as, but not limited to our hearing impaired, vision impaired, and cognitive impaired community members may not have access to signal information.

Madam Chair, I'll accept the friendly amendments, those are good points.

And I appreciate all the work here, so thank you for that.

Before we before I continue, I would like to ask if we could hear here uh if there are any members of the public who wish to speak on this item.

For the record, I have no speaker slips for this item.

Thank you, Clerk.

Uh Commissioner Commissioner Green or Commissioner Patel, if if there's more you wish to discuss, you may continue.

Uh I would definitely make a motion for the letter with those adjustments.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Patel.

Uh Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you, Chair.

Um I like those amendments.

Thank you, um, Commissioner Patel.

Um is there a way, and I think in actually that sentence um to um put with regards to speech messages in English and Spanish.

You know, um, as an edit there, uh, because I think of course, you know, uh we have a very large amount of people in um the city that you know are Spanish-speaking.

Um Jesse, is just uh Commissioner uh Mr.

Scotland.

Are are there ways we can have have this with multiple languages?

Stated this is this is your letter to um Caltrans.

And so um if there's some text revisions related to them, I think the best the easiest way for us to proceed is if the motion includes those text revisions, and then we can incorporate that into the letter.

Um that would be just my you know um addition and um because where I live um there is one, you know, that's in Spanish, uh, but they're not consistent throughout the city.

And again, me know why you're already making these improvements.

Why not you know also put them um the speech message in um Spanish.

I think thank you so much, Commissioner Greenbaum.

Um Commissioner Carr.

Um I agree with Commissioner Patel's um uh amendment, but however, um it has to be within the limitations of the um accessible pedestrian signal that it can offer.

So for now, what I my understanding is it is um the current ones are uh for auditory and um uh vision impaired.

So like the letter should indicate exactly like you know, should not go beyond what it can cover, or at least write the if we are going to cover cognitive or going to add that word at least it should have some kind of you know um within the limitations of the device that we are using.

That's my input.

Thank you, Commissioner Carr.

Uh Commissioner Knapper?

Well, hello.

Thank you.

Thank you for your presentation.

Um I agree with um Commissioner Patel.

I think um I'm curious the language, um, it's not particularly disability-friendly.

I know it's visually impaired, I know that's maybe technical language still used, but um disability community would prefer more disability-friendly language, such as blind, low vision, DDF, right?

I think those that's language that's more consistent with community, people living with cognitive disabilities or intellectual developmental disabilities who would benefit from these wonderful tools, accessible tools.

Also, um Commissioner Greenbaum, when you mention language, I heard you with that.

I receive you.

I know we have every threshold communities if these are going to be placed, and I'm thinking about these collision, how you know the data may show that there may be more, you know, places that are impacted that may be more language diverse.

Interesting.

But also within the letter itself, are we looking at language accessibility?

Maybe not for this letter to Caltrans versus towards like a city as promotion to make sure that it's accessible to all people once whatever it is will help.

But thank you for your time.

Thank you so very much, Commissioner Knapper.

Um I would like to ask Commissioner Barnbaum if he accepts the friendly terms.

Uh I do.

Um thank you, uh Chair Kramer for um for that question, and that can be included in the amended motion.

Can I get a second?

I'll uh I'll second that with the friendly amendments from Commissioner Patel and myself with regard to the bilingual um language.

Clerk, I believe we can put this to a vote.

Yes.

Um commissioners, will you unmute your microphones?

Commissioner Greenbaum, aye.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Yes.

Commissioner Patel, yes.

Commissioner Wilson, Commissioner Dyson is absent.

Commissioner Knapper, aye.

Commissioner Iguebe?

Yes.

Commissioner Ellis is absent.

Commissioner Carr?

Yes.

And Chair Kramer.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

Thank thank you so very much again for your pre presentation, and we look forward to work working more in the future.

And since we already asked for if there were any members of the public who wish to speak on this item, if there's if there's none that that have filled in since we will now move on to our final item of the day, which is the bike separation treatments project.

Hello, good evening, commissioners.

My name is Jeff Jelzma.

I'm an associate planner with the Mobility and Sustainability Division of Public Works.

I'm joined tonight by Joey Garcia Long, Senior Engineer with the Public Works as well, and um Andrew Kotolik with Tool Design who is helping with this project.

So tonight we are presenting on the bikeway separation treatments project, which has two facets of it, which we'll discuss tonight, including the um actual bikeway separation treatments, some background deliverables that we have on that, as well as um shared use path entry treatments, a little background on that, and as well as some deliverables that we have, draft deliverables.

So quickly um how we got here.

So the city supports and pursues complete streets policy through a variety of planning documents and policies and is working to increase active transportation citywide to help meet its equity goals, it's reduced vehicle miles travel goals as well as sustainability and climate action goals.

So this is a list of various plans, not inclusive of everyone, but um some of the major ones like the Vision Zero Action Plan, our Complete streets policy, as well as our 24 general plan and climate action adaptation plan.

So why does Sacramento have these goals?

Um so a quick look at some of these key active transportation statistics.

So I'm almost half of Sacramento's short trips are under three miles, um, with most of those being completed in a car.

So um trips under three miles could be made by walking and bicycling if the environment were supportive.

57% of greenhouse gas emissions in the city are from transportation, which is the largest sector for greenhouse gas emissions in the city.

Around 1.9% of trips in Sacramento are completed by bike, around 2.8 by walking, and so the climate action adaptation plan, which I had mentioned earlier, has some set some goals for increasing those modes to 6% by 2030, 12% by 2045.

So those are coming fast.

And then Sacramento is one of the top California cities for bicycle crashes, averaging around 205 crashes annually in the last five years.

So Sacramento has also one of the highest rates of fatalities per population compared to peer cities in the in the state.

So why separated bikeways?

So separated bikeways include some kind of vertical separation between people who are bicycling or scootering and adjacent motor vehicles.

And so it helps eliminate stress and increase comfort, which encourages more people to use those modes, especially traditionally underrepresented groups like women, children and seniors.

We would like to increase those populations and using active modes, which also helps us reduce vehicle miles traveled, reducing therefore reducing greenhouse gas emissions to help us reach those climate goals.

Also, separated bikeways result in increased safety for all street users, that's including people driving, not just bicyclists, and a study that analyzed crash data over the last over a 13-year period found that areas with separated bikeways on city streets resulted in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serious injuries.

That's for all users, including people who are driving.

Also, communities across the city have expressed desire for these separated bikeways.

So quick kind of overview of how we got here.

So in 2018, the first separated bikeway was installed on J Street, using those posts that you see, as well as parking parking separation.

They were flex posts that were installed using some kind of epoxy that could not withstand the Sacramento summers, and so they subsequently failed pretty quickly.

So in 2022, we did a battle of the ballards, which we slid solicitated community input on their preferred bollard or flex post or delineator.

And there was a strong preference towards these K-71s, which is kind of short, fat little posts, as well as having a different color so that they really stood out.

So we chose the green color because that's kind of the de facto color of the green way like bikeways.

Now we're here with 2024.

So as you've seen, we have those green K-71s kind of rolling out in the central city and elsewhere in the city.

So we can increase comfort even more for folks walking and biking.

So some objectives of the project, we're uh exploring separation treatments, like I mentioned.

So I'm further more robust than the K71s, so concrete curbs and the like.

Here we are today to talk with you all with the Disabilities Advisory Commission about these um various treatments.

And um, we'll get into the deliverables right now.

Pass it over to Andrew.

Thanks, Jeff.

Um, so this project identifies identifies which bikeway separation treatment details uh are to be applied, giving different project contexts, uh, the city's uh stated goals and safety priorities, uh, while creating consistent and accessible user experience while maximizing the durability of the barrier for long term and minimizing the cost to the city.

One of the deliverables was a decision-making flow chart, which incorporates all these separation treatments and it breaks down.

You can follow it depending on the project context and it helps determine which type of separation treatment to use.

And with those, we uh develop separated details, the details of these treatments, which can be then constructed, along with some supporting details that shows how these treatments are used in specific contexts within the roadway.

So for default treatment, the recommendation is extrude a curb.

Due to its low installation cost, it provides a high level of separation and comfort for the users and provides minimal or its low maintenance cost for the city.

For projects without resurfacing, the recommendation is a precast curb.

The city is familiar with this treatment as it's been used previously in some other projects in the city.

Similar to the extruder curb, it has a high level of separation safety and comfort and minimal and minimal maintenance, but the benefit is that you can also move and alter these barriers after the fact after they're installed and repurpose them.

So for streets that have higher speeds and no parking, the recommendation recommended treatment are uh these precast concrete barriers.

These are shorter than the Caltrans typical uh concrete barrier at 18 to 37 inches in height, just like the other barriers, it creates a high level separation of uh safety and comfort.

Um this would only be used for locations that are not directly adjacent to buildings of three-plus stories, and that was a fire uh department request for them to get access to the building.

So for full reconstruction projects, and these would be typically at um new developments around the city.

The recommendation for the treatment for bikeways here are intermediate level bikeways, and this is where the bikeway sits between the sidewalk and the roadway at about two to four inches.

And this design is a really good design for accessibility because it creates a cane detectable strip and edge naturally with between the bikes and the sidewalk zones.

So that's it.

Um that's our recommendation for uh new developments here.

Uh I mentioned that there's some supporting details that show how to use these details in different project contexts, uh such as accessible parking spaces, which I will get further into in the next slide.

Um driveway treatments, how to you how to design a separate bikeway at design at um excuse me, at driveways, as well as at signalized intersections.

So for accessible parking spaces, there are two standard details that we have developed.

One using quick build materials on the top in the slide here.

Um those use the K-71 bollards within the striping stripe area, and the bottom image is the other detail utilizing concrete, and um that includes a pedestrian refuge and an accessible uh accessible path to the accessible parking space.

Uh both of these details do uh meet and exceed ProAG requirements, which is a federal guideline for accessible parking spaces.

Um, there's some drawback to this is that at the bikeway cross section you have to narrow it down to four feet uh in order to um allow this the new uh standard size accessible parking space to fit.

So it's a 24 by 13 foot parking space now for accessibility.

Um, back to you have one.

So okay, I'll take it.

Uh so for shared use path entry treatments.

The purpose of this part of the project was to um design new and upgraded shared use path entry points.

There have been issues currently throughout the city where um there's been camping and waste dumping uh occurring and unauthorized vehicles have been accessing shared use paths through the current entry points so the goals of this this part of the project was to deter this unauthorized vehicle entry while still allowing emergency and um maintenance vehicles access to the shared use paths um while still maintaining that level of comfort and accessibility for shared use path users uh so with that our recommendations are it it goes in a hierarchy so the first recommendation is the best recommend is where there's no unauthorized vehicles currently um accessing shared use path the recommendation is just a sign so from that if there is unintentional vehicle access to the shared use path um we want to visually deter motorists from entering or thinking the shared use path is a roadway so to do that you either add a flush landscape strip or a um or just a simple painted median at the entryway of the shared use path however if there is intentional unauthorized motor vehicle access um there are three recommendations and they're in order of preference the first being a raise center islands at the entry of the shared use path um this island would not be mountable by vehicles and you can and or cannot include a permanent bollard on top of this median island to further um force vehicles to not not be allowed to enter the the shared use path and this shared use path would split in half right where that median is for uh the second treatment that we could go down to is um including a mountable median so if we want to allow access vehicles emergency vehicles in to uh the shared use path at this entry point we can do so by allowing by creating a mountable island and you can include removal bollard and I forgot something on the previous one this the first treatment if you cannot allow any vehicles in the shared use path you still have to create an alternate access point for emergency and maintenance vehicles that's a big big uh uh caveat and for the third uh recommendation for shared use path entry treatments is in constraint conditions so when you can't physically place the median you can put we don't this is not our number one um recommendation for uh reason because uh just installing a uh a bollard at the entryway can create some hazards for the users of the shared use path especially under low light conditions or at night so um we recommend installing a bollard only if there is high visibility markings on the bollard itself as well as on the uh the shared use path of entry with that that is it for me thank you very much.

Thank you so very much for your for your you and your team's presentation and I know you already went over it I just want to make sure that that these ballards are not blocking hand handicap parking and spaces for them to load and and unload as well as the regular truck loading and unloading unloading areas I know especially I've seen near the golden one center that the trucks will sometimes park on on the road in like almost in the middle of the road to to drop off drop off their shipments and I just want to make sure that that the that these ballards will not interfere or or cause trouble with with these areas.

Yeah yeah absolutely that's a great question um the detail I'm showing here the accessible parking space, there is um we follow we are following ProAG um requirements.

So uh at the accessible parking spaces and at other accessible loading spaces, there is no to be no vertical elements between the sidewalk and the parking uh space.

So there would be no impediments to uh loading and unloading and accessible parking.

And that includes any any any ramps ramps, like let's say if someone is in a mobility device and they need need to use that to get get in and out of the vehicle.

Absolutely, yeah, it does.

Thank you.

Um, Barnbaum, thank you.

Um in one of the early slides in this presentation, uh you talked about mode split.

Um, I was like, whoa, um the number of trips that are by car, but just how many few miles it is, and then the split that came up, uh, what 74% of users are in cars, three points something is in transit, and it was making me think when when you made that uh presentation, um, and discussed it.

Have you had a discussion on that particular subtopic of this presentation with the planning department at SACRT and their staff, their counterpart to us, the mobility advisory commission, and their newly formed capital transit alliance, which is a mix of staff and public uh focusing on the work called the comprehensive operational analysis, which is divided into a short range transit plan and a long-range transit plan.

Part of the reason I asked this is if there's maybe something that they're not running a route very effectively, and maybe some major significant uh alterations to their network on the bus side need to be made.

May that encourage uh folks not using transit today to perhaps consider using transit if such a change was made.

Thank you.

Yeah, um thanks for your comment.

I so um we have been working with SAC RT um in terms of our transportation planning team with Department of Public Works, we work with SACRT, um, namely with the Streets for People active transportation plan, which is gonna go to council later this year for adoption.

Um so that'll be a citywide active transportation plan, sort of rolling out these separated bikeways in a citywide fashion where feasible, um, so that we can really increase that mode share of people walking and biking and rolling, and also accessing transit.

That was part of the plan.

So we're really looking at high frequency transit and how we can better connect folks to that so that it makes it easier, less act um less barriers to access those services in the effort so that we can encourage folks to use those.

Um in terms of uh also ongoing um engagement with SACRT, we we are on the COA or comprehensive operational analysis um project, and so we are on the technical advisory committee on that, helping steer that um in coordination and partnership with SEGRT.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you, thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Uh Commissioner Carr.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

And I'm one of those parents who would rather have that barrier than then just about your cards.

I mean, for the safety of the vehicles as well, where the um kids can dart into the traffic as well.

My concern is uh about the same um same as uh what um commissioner uh sor uh chair Kramer mentioned about the accessible parking.

For example, my my concern is that say I'm a biker and I'm like I'm lulled into safety, like you know, false false uh sense of security that you know there's no one's gonna get in my lane and I'm riding my bike at full speed, and I may not pay attention to that there's an accessible vehicle park there, right?

And then you know they have to get out and they need the it's for their safety that we need to give them enough space and you know slow down the uh vehicle and whatnot.

So I was wondering if there's some kind of signals like you know, like a maybe a speed breaker for the bike.

I don't know if that means anything just before they enter that safety zone for the accessible vehicle or flashing lights or some kind of signals so that they know they need to uh slow down especially with the um motorized bicycles now it's a huge concern I see kids like starting past the lights and stuff so it's it's a huge concern and I feel like there might be something that needs to be done to um secure to make sure that both the bike riders and the um people in the car are secure thank you uh yeah thank you for that question um that is a tricky tricky uh question because uh the detail that I'm showing here is at the near side of a signal already so you can um include bike signals to further enhance the uh the bike users to comply and slow down the intersection um I've I've personally seen and I've used um bike rumble strips like how there's rumble strips in for uh vehicles or like speed humps you could do in paint make uh a rumble strip and for the bikes to at least make them physically feel like something is coming up ahead so that's one treatment I can think of on the top of my head um and also including the green paint that is shown here is another it's supposed to be uh showing a a conflict point or a potential uh heads up point because it you know some a lot of cyclists can put their heads down and I can understand the safety issues there so um yeah point definitely point taken um that is all I can think about the top of my head is there any other treatments yeah it's uh it's a tricky situation there's there's always uh some um back and forth uh yeah it's tight yeah thank you thank you Commissioner Carr uh Commissioner Greenbaum thank you Chair um I wanted to thank you um all three of you for the presentation it's very detailed and I think very important again you know this is a very bikeable city and the way we can make it more accessible and safe is is great at the same time of course you know um I I'm increase decreasing significantly um uh harm to the environment you know I think it's important so thank you.

Thank you Commissioner Greenbaum and Commissioner Patel.

Um yeah I would second the commissioners in in saying thank you and I like Commissioner Carr like the safety piece and the division so I I love this and I have a question.

Um and the questions around like the impact on future projects uh so I think about uh my son goes to a charter on the other side of Del Paso so if you're familiar with the Del Paso the upgrade is that beautiful green paint like you showed and uh and he's like Mom you know I'm gonna bike to school and I'm like you are not riding your bike across Del Paso.

And then we saw the new green paint in the lane and we went and we we gave it a try and we were like this is still terrifying these cars are driving really fast.

Um and so I know many families right as an example and you know w we thought about that and said well ask your ask your friends will their parents let them you can all go together and they all feel the same way so I'm seeing that three mile impact and like yes there's tons of cars and there's this safety revision in this section as an example um but it's not enough and so this division piece is is huge and my question um is how does this project um impact the future uh updates for any intersection that we have so if if this project were in place what two, three years ago when that was upgraded, would it have had this inclusion in it?

And so therefore, will it do that for future projects down the line.

Yeah, the intent is with these guidelines to implement it now future CIP projects and development projects and incorporate them where we can.

Thank you, Commissioner Patel.

And I just wanted to add one more thing.

Is that I know that there's been or I've known people who've gotten confused, especially because just because the cars are now have to park out a little more outwards from the bullions.

And I just want to know if there can be any chance of maybe painting, having an air the area where they park out painted that way it can kind of tell let other drivers who are driving know that the cars are not part that are not waiting in traffic or not waiting at a light and at their their parked so that that way they don't have to wait behind the line thinking thinking that everybody else is waiting.

Yeah, so that's a great comment.

Um we can include that in the standard detail and and mark out the parking lines.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much, and thank you so very much again for taking the time to come and present today.

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

I don't have any speaker slips for this item.

Thank you.

Um we'll now open to public public comment.

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

No, I don't have any speaker slips for this item.

Thank you.

Um we'll now open commit commissioner comments.

Thank you.

Okay.

Is there oh a commit a commissioner carr?

Thank you, Chair.

Um I just wanted to acknowledge um this month as um, not this month actually, and the wali, which has been just recognized as a state holiday by the state of California, which is post in the in on the vestibules.

Um it is a festival of lights and which celebrates the victory of light over darkness and good over evil, and it's observed by by Hindus, Sikhs, Jans, and other some Buddhists as well, which they're each with their own traditions and meanings, and um I just wanted to uh acknowledge that festival um in this month.

Thank you.

And happy the value of the one who celebrates it.

Thank you so very much, Commissioner Carr.

Um Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes, since our last meeting.

Um it looked like there was a draft report uh that went before the city council for every board and commission and the council itself.

And I took notice for the DAC, the draft uh document showed in 2026 uh fairly consistent with the first Wednesday of the month at 5 30 p.m.

Except in January, it would be the second Wednesday, January 14th.

In April, the fourth Wednesday, April 22nd.

And then two weeks later, back to the first Wednesday of the month for May, May 6th, and then no meeting in July or December due to recesses or the holiday season.

Could I request for the November meeting this year?

Um what I'm mentioning, uh, if that could be officially confirmed, uh, just provided as information to every commissioner so we could set our calendars straight and block off the confirmed dates of what the council actually approved.

Uh again, the dates I gave you, I'm just going off of a draft of what was on the agenda um prior to them formally adopting it, but they have formally adopted all of the commission meeting calendars for next year.

Um second thing is I wanted to provide some information to everybody.

Uh so our next meeting is in November, and if you use regional transit, please note there will be a planned bus bridge between Marconi Arcade and K Street Mall, so that regional transit and their contractors can do major heavy work in and around the Dos Rios light rail station located across from the Marisol Village housing development.

Contractors will be aligning new tracks to existing tracks and performing work on the OCS or overhead catenary system.

This 15-day shutdown between Marconi Arcade and K Street Mall is set to take place from November 1st through November 15th, and there will be a bus bridge and alternate regular routes in place.

Please plan ahead.

Please plan accordingly and allow extra time to get to wherever you're going, including but not limited to the November meeting of the disability advisory commission.

Uh just want to put that on the record so we can get a quorum and on time to begin our meeting in November.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Um I believe uh Jesse wanted to speak speak on.

Yes, that sounds good.

Uh thank you again, Commissioner.

Commissioner uh Barnbaum, uh Commission Commissioner Knapper.

Yes, thank you, Chair.

Appreciate you.

Um thank you for a wonderful presentation today.

Thank you.

Um to the presenters, um, every October 10th is World Mental Health Day, and since we have the disability advisory commission, I wanted to uh put that out there, so um please be gentle to yourself.

Self-care is important, um, and do what you can to be well and share with your friends, and it is the same time every year, October 10th.

And if you have a holiday on Monday, for example, we'll be out celebrating um gathering day.

And um it's an interesting thing just to carry into the weekend this restoration, restorative, rejuvenation type of modality as we fly into the weekend.

Thank you so very much, Commissioner Knapper.

Um Clerk?

Yes, I this is Haley with the clerk's office.

Um wanted to respond about the the um schedule for next year.

The council did approve the schedule on September 9th at their 5 p.m.

meeting.

So the resolution that was passed for that with the schedule um attached to it is approved for next year.

So if you want to plan accordingly, but the clerk's office will be reaching out before the end of the year as we set the schedules for all of the commissions.

So you can look for an email for us, or if you have specific questions, you can always reach out to us as well.

I can take that feedback.

Um I won't necessarily be at this, but we will take that feedback for you.

There are no commissioners who wish who wish to speak.

I will move this conversation to I'll allow um Mr.

Gotham to speak.

So thank you, Chair Kramer.

Uh just give my staff oral report.

Uh I just want to announce that um we were able to open our Auburn Boulevard bridge replacement project on October 2nd.

Um we were out at Del Paso Park.

Um, it's on the border of the city and the county.

And if you're familiar with that um intersection, we were able to provide a lot of accessibility improvements as part of that project.

So um, you know, these projects are eight to ten years in the making.

So um it's a really um um it's a great achievement for the for the department and the division to get that project uh successfully uh completed.

So I just go out and check it out if you're in that part of town, and then um I did want to announce that uh the SAC Sacramento River Parkway project will be going to the city council for approval uh this Tuesday.

It'll be that the 2 p.m.

meeting.

This was heard by the commission on August 7th of last year in 2024, and uh, you know, it's part of our uh regional trails network that we've been working on.

Also, uh they will there will be a presentation on our shared use paths in general, a broader presentation.

So if you would like to follow that project, um, I would encourage you to go to that go to that um meeting on uh this this coming Tuesday, and it's the 2 p.m.

So it's an afternoon meeting, and then last uh we were uh we were invited by the racial equity committee.

I would I should say we the the DAC was invited, and this was also part of the annual uh work plan.

And so I would just um uh say great job.

I mean you're doing a lot of good work on the annual report that we passed, and so there's been a lot of work plan items that have come before the commission, including the HSIP letter tonight.

So uh really just uh working uh great on on going through responding to these these items that have that have been on the books for quite a while, and so this was another one, and so this was um made possible through my Vang's office reaching out and working with the staff at the racial equity committee, and so um at the last commission meeting we discussed participation, and I know uh Commissioner Greenbaum, Commissioner Dyson, Vice Chair Ellis, and um Chair Kramer are kind of our designees to go and participate um at the meeting, and I have to bring that up because the Brown Act requires you can't have a quorum there, so um you know that it's uh we have our I think we're good four, we're good.

You know, six would be I think too many, but um, you know, I think if you have some comments, pass those along to those four, and um and and so along with that, we I have a meeting with the four commissioners and the staff for the racial equity committee.

It's Thursday, October 16th at 11, and it's a virtual meeting.

So that'll be an opportunity to meet with the rec staff, and also I invited some of the former um chairs to participate.

So if you have questions or um want to get some background, uh you know that will be the opportunity, and so that is on the 16th, October 16th at 11, and then the presentation to the racial equ equity committee will be October 21st here.

That's Tuesday at 11 a.m.

So we can we can I'll I'll work with um Chair Kramer on that too.

But so that'll be that'll be a great opportunity.

And that concludes my oral report.

You Chair Kramer, do you need a motion to receive and file the oral report?

No.

No commissioners who wish who wish to speak.

We will now move on to items not on the agenda.

Clerk, are there any items on not on our not listed on our agenda?

Uh yes, I do have public comment for matters not on the agenda.

The first speaker is Janet.

Thank you for seeing us so much.

We have it all day yesterday, and somebody told us it was today.

So I'm so excited to see you guys.

Thank you for that.

Goodness this chance to talk.

Okay, I better hurry up.

Um, good evening, council.

It's council, correct?

You guys are council, because I don't want to say mission.

Sorry.

Okay, I'm uh well, um, somebody, my sister wrote a script, so well, we were supposed to read it yesterday.

I'm sorry, I'm really nervous.

So I'm here on behalf of my sister who has been homeless for over 10 years.

She has um, she was selected for housing through SHRA, um, multiple, and she has multiple T codes um and a Section A confirmation number.

Yet no one has the or can explain why she has not been placed.

Um right now she's at Hotel Barrie um through cooperative and um the conditions there are unsafe, unhabitable, and unlivable.

There is flooding that's caused a terrible black mode, uh very terrible black mode.

It's um sorry, I've lost my way.

Okay, so there's um there's been uh rat rats, roaches that are, you know, the there's rats, roaches, bedbugs, there's um there's uh like swarm of gnats um constantly swarming around, and there's been um and also she's been assaulted.

Um two other uh my sisters was assaulted a couple weeks ago, and um manager turned it around on her as um she gave her eviction um for you know um I don't know why, but um it's really a lot.

She's pregnant, currently pregnant right now, um, and fleeing from domestic violence.

Um, and there are rules also.

Uh there's also um, you know, there's rules to that, you know.

Um, from you know, and then also it's been uh she's been prevented from reuniting with her children, her five children being at Hotel Barry for the last two years.

You know, Hotel Barry dropped off there, you know, a couple years ago and said we'll just be a three-month, you know, type of situation to get you, you know, back with the children.

And so she has been um going through a lot of it's she's been ignored, um, discriminated against and feels like um, you know, she's been blacklisted um from getting any help.

Um I'm asking you guys to uh please help um shine some light on her case and get her, you know, get her to somewhere where it's safe and clean and livable and suitable for her and her children to be reunited.

Um, thank you for your comments.

Your time is up.

Okay, thank you for listening.

You guys, thank you so much.

The next speaker is Danielle.

Okay.

That's just kind of like what I spoke about.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for your comment.

Um and for and for speaking up, you know, we as a DSC, we want to make sure that especially from I perspective, I always wanna make sure that people with disabilities have if they're not able to get any place on their own that they or through their own means that they have somewhere where they can go that that's safe, where they do not have where they did not have to be afraid, and that's and that.

That's safe and that that's clean that makes them makes them feel that doesn't degrade them.

Yes, that's the best way I can put it, doesn't degrade them or put them in any danger.

I think that's something we sh be worked talked on more.

Um commissioner Greenbaum.

Um I want to thank you very much for coming and speaking to us.

I very much appreciate it.

Um I hear you, we hear you.

Uh this city and the current council has failed and is continuing to fail to um to keep safe our unhoused neighbors and constituents, and especially those, including those that are disabled.

One resource um that I can suggest is um reaching out to Lisnick Legal Services of Northern California, the Sacramento chapter.

Um they're on 12th, I believe, in E.

Um, I actually way back when was in there worked with their landlord tenant clinic, and they may be able to provide resources in terms of just fair housing practices and thus um put pressure on the landlord, the motel to, of course, at least at a bare minimum, comply with uh state and federal regulations, with uh including the ADA, but also just basic living accommodations.

Um if you Google them, you know, their number will come out up.

Um let's Legal Services of Northern California and the Sacramento division.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

And I'm I'm sorry they're you know, so impacted as well because of you know um the feeling of our of partners.

Uh but thank you for coming to us and we we hear you.

Thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum.

Uh Commissioner Knapper.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you for coming to speak with us this evening.

Um, sharing your sister's just story, sending positive energy her way.

Um other resources are available, my sister's house, St.

John's shelter for women and children, whole cooperative, you know, um they do have good case workers there, my case managers, personal service coordinators.

Um also there's disability rights California.

We don't do housing, but as um my commissioner colleague was speaking, if there's a disability, if the person identifies as having a disability and they feel they've been discriminating against, including in housing, you can call it disability rights california.

And that number is 800 seven seven six five seven four six.

Well, she she has it, but she doesn't have that.

That'd be somebody I would have somebody else I can uh talk to about T codes, which is what they are or they what they are or their voucher or their voucher or if you'd like to come up to the podium you can't, yeah.

That's okay for providing resources, maybe better to hear.

Okay.

I just want to know she's been given letters from SHRA to throughout the years.

And they have now we have um got the T codes as three of them.

We're we're she was put on excuse me, they had her on to a list, you know, SHRA, you know, at the top of the list for Marisol and a couple other places, um, and then all of a sudden they they take her off.

Um so I and then Hope Cooperative, um she does have Hope Cooperative as her um as the person that's you know, but she had a um a case manager, her name was um gosh, Nicole, and um this was like two years ago, and Nicole only did hardly anything.

I mean, and she has a case manager now has only seen her like maybe once out of this year.

Um there's two other residents in Hotel Barrie that have hope property as a case case managers, and the poor guy, he doesn't even have um uh SSI application in or he has no income and it's really sad to see him.

He's in and out of the hospital because of the black mold now.

And there's another resident that has hope cooperative and she has no income, nothing neither, she qualifies.

Um there's a veteran, he he has no income and he's a vet, and I don't understand that.

I'm sorry, I'm just speaking out because honestly, they don't they're scared to speak out.

I don't know how so and I know it came on the wrong day, I'm sorry, but it's just a lot for them.

And right now it's currently they have um it's decamined uh the tents and throughout the whole cooperative.

Oh god, I'm so sorry.

Throughout Hotel Barrie.

And I was uh we looked it up as uh tents for decamination to come I'm sorry, it's and it's used for lag mold.

And so um I go over there and I love to help everybody else as I can, but it the symptoms um have uh terrible lately here.

So thank you.

Yes, thank you for your comment.

I I do just want to make sure we don't have this.

Okay, I'm sorry.

I don't know if you guys are in a point of order, but I do think um maybe Jesse with staff can connect after, and I know that Commissioner Knapper Thank you very much.

Right after this is the commission will be wrapping up so we're gonna stay afterwards, yeah.

Thank you.

Appreciate you guys, thank you.

Very important.

And again, thank you so much for for your com comment.

Um commissioner Patel.

I just wanted to maybe it's not the housing piece, but it's something that might relieve some stress as you are sharing the income piece too.

Um South Notomas, uh, I believe it's Friday afternoon, has Joey's food locker that is open.

Um a community-based go and take what you need.

Um you can it's it's over at uh Notomas High School, um, on the back side.

But if you look up Joey's food locker, um they are a great resource and potentially change to Thursday, but check that schedule.

Um it's in the afternoon.

If you have the means, that might be another piece of resource to alleve some of the stress.

Okay, um I'd like to uh again th thank thank you and thank you, Commissioner Patel.

Um we we will need to start wrapping this up as it's already 707.

Yeah, uh Clerk I'm I would like to move to adjournment, adjournment, and if that's all right, okay.

Uh with with that the meeting is adjourned.

Thank you so much for coming out tonight and participating in in our meeting.