The Tualatin City Council held a work session on September 8, 2025, to discuss the Neighborhood Transportation Safety Program (NTSP) update, preparation of the 2026 state and federal legislative agendas, allocation of $50,000 in outside agency funds, and a request to review tow ordinance rates. The meeting also included a manager's report and council round table.
Good evening and welcome to the September 8th, 2025 Towalta City Council work session. Our first time on the agenda tonight, it's an update on a neighborhood uh transportation safety program. Who's pitching that one? All right. No. I knew it was Mike, but you never know. Yeah. So you can roam the room and work the room. We don't have wireless mics anymore. This is Mike. And your mics are off too. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm Abby McFetcher to engineering associate with the city. And good evening. I am Mike McCarthy, a city engineer. Go for it, Eddie. So tonight we're going to be giving you an update on the neighborhood transportation safety program, otherwise known as the NTSP. Gotta have an anchor. Okay, so tonight you can expect an update on the recently completed projects, the one ongoing project, the 2025-2026 cycle, how to submit a project this cycle, and then at the end we'll have time for questions. So first up, we have the IBOC in Columbia Flashing Light Crosswalk, otherwise known as a rectangular rapid flashing beacon. Or RFP. RFB. So as you can see in the lower right hand corner, it was installed on IBOC in Columbia. And then in the two pictures, our engineering internerously posed for some photos. He was a very good sport about it. And you can see a car waiting, so it works. Next we have the Boons Ferry signal upgrades. So it's a little bit hard to see with the lighting, but as you can see, the arrow pointing to the red arrow. So that's a change from what it previously was. Drivers would see a green circular, the green circular light, and it would basically rely on drivers to see the pedestrians. So we wanted to decrease the PED and driver conflicts. And so that's also on the other side. So we're just taking the choice slightly away from the driver, making it safer for pedestrians. And then on the right hand side, you can see the map of where the RRFB was installed, and so it gives pedestrians a better walking route specifically to and from the high school. And the idea there is that high scrollers will only have to cross one leg of Boons Ferry and IBOC. So next we have Nyberg and 65th. As you can see on the right hand side, the it's a little bit hard to see, but I promise the green arrow is on, so the walk sign is off. And then this one is just slightly different depending on when the push button is pressed. The driver will either see a yellow flashing arrow or the red arrow. Alright, so the one we have currently going is an RFB on Hazelbrook. So this connects the recently completed trail project under Highway 99 to existing sidewalk, as you can see in the left-hand picture. It's a really great section of trail, but pedestrians when they come out of it are still a little bit isolated, so it just gets pedestrians back to sidewalks. And then this also gets middle schoolers back on the same side as Hazelbrook Middle School. So hopefully we're decreasing any unsafe crossings along that road. Okay, so the 2025-2026 cycle, a couple reminders about the program. We have 150,000 per fiscal year. So that's design, construction, any data collection we need, that all goes for the 150,000. The guiding principles on which the suggestions are evaluated are safety, equity, feasibility, and impact. And then the advertising phase is September 2025. So right now, um, I would encourage all of you to submit any ideas that you have and encourage others to do so.