Okay.

Call the meeting to order.

Today is Tuesday, December 2nd.

This is a Vaisalia City Council work session.

Public comments.

Citizens are now invited to comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the Visalia City Council and items listed on the closed session agenda.

The council asks that you keep your comments concise and positive.

Creative criticism presented with appropriate courtesy is welcome.

Each speaker will be allowed three minutes, and a timer will notify you when your time is expired.

Please begin your comments by stating and spelling your name and providing your city of residence.

Do we have any public comments today?

Seeing none, we'll move on to our work session action items.

First up, presentation by our traffic operations division.

Staff report, please.

Good afternoon, Council.

Nick Barch, Public Works Director.

We're excited to bring you an update presentation tonight on our traffic safety division.

With me I have Danny Galindo, our public works manager over streets maintenance and fleet, and also Tony Pierce, our traffic operations supervisor.

So with that, I will turn it over to staff and uh we'll move on with our presentation.

Good afternoon, Council.

Danny Glindo, Public Works Manager.

Um we're here for the traffic safety division public works uh presentation and uh updates.

And with uh traffic safety operation, we have um six employees.

We have a traffic operation supervisor, which is Tony Pierce, and then uh I'm gonna let him introduce the rest of his staff, which he uh supervises.

So I'll let you take it.

Could they wave when you could you wave we when your name's called so we can uh so uh the senior traffic worker is Michael Ficken?

Uh we have two uh signal technicians, Juan Ramirez and Luis Adano.

Uh utility line locator, Cody Looper.

He couldn't be here this evening.

Uh part-time traffic safety worker Nick Liz Sadame.

The city of Iselia currently has 137 traffic signals, approximately 4,000 street lights, nearly 20,000 regulatory and regulatory and street name signs, an estimated one million square feet of pavement markings and nine to ten thousand annual eight what eight one one USA tickets called in.

Annual traffic signal maintenance and repairs, streetlight repairs, regulatory and street sign, street name sign repair and citywide replacement, school zone flasher maintenance and repairs, pavement markings and curb paint maintenance, marking miles of conduits, storm drains, sanitary sewer lines that require 811 USA response.

Uh we program the controllers and the timing of the traffic signals, an average of 12 signal pull knockdowns and 13 streetlight knockdowns annually, assisting the streets division with after hours call-outs when needed, and managing over 400 annual CSRs, CSR work orders related to traffic signals, street lights, pavement markings, curb paint, and street signs.

Traffic signal maintenance.

Preventative maintenance is performed on 10 to 14 intersections intersections each month.

Each inspection includes thorough check of the electrical systems and components within the signal cabinets as well as testing and cleaning.

We also verify all the vehicle and pedestrian indicator indicators, test pedestrian push buttons, and check vehicle detection systems, including video radar induction loops and EMS preemption.

Lastly, we ensure that the signal timing is correct, current and accurate.

So those pictures are the inside of a signal cabinet.

If you've never seen one of those, there's a quite a bit of equipment in there that keeps the signal operating.

So you can see a number of those are hold the cards that include uh hold the programming for our traffic signals.

Um we also have uh video detection, is that top unit in black that kind of hides in the shadow?

Um, but there's a lot that goes into those, so any time one of those cabinets is hit, it's a fair amount of work to uh obviously replace and correct.

So if you're ever interested in taking a look at one of those, let us know.

Um we'll go into a few more pictures uh for some of the video detection stuff, but a lot of equipment that costs a lot of money.

So that's we appreciate all the approvals that you've given us to uh keep some of those in stock and also to keep our our signals operating.

They do seem to be targets.

They're not yellow like a fire hydrant, but we do lose a couple a year, it seems like it seems like it's the same ones too.

You can pick the intersections of the ones that get hit.

Also with the EMS uh uh preemption, we were talking about it before.

That's where the you know your emergency vehicle, the fire trucks do come through, and they can they can change the sequence of the light as they're rolling up to it so they can get faster response.

All right, uh traffic signal troubleshooting.

Troubleshooting is a sit troubleshooting a traffic signal requires careful thought and years of hands-on experience.

A properly functioning tra signal involves many components working all together from the input files, such as the induction loops, video detection, and radar, to the controller programming, timing, output file, and the field wiring.

Here's a few images replacing a camera.

And that over there on the right is uh the battery backup that we're currently using.

Explain what that does.

Um it it uh anytime there's uh outage, brownout, whatever, the battery backup, it'll immediately give the cabinet uh immediate power, you know, continue running.

So if it has if it has that issue, does that immediately go into a flashing red or is it cycled quick enough to stay as a light?

It's so fast you it's undetectable and it'll continue running.