Active Transportation Commission Meeting 01-22-2026
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| All right, welcome to the active Transportation Commission meeting. | 00:00:00 | |
| January 22nd, 2020. | 00:00:04 | |
| 6. | 00:00:06 | |
| I call this meeting to order at 5:37. | 00:00:08 | |
| PM. | 00:00:13 | |
| I'm so first we'll go through. | 00:00:15 | |
| I don't think we don't have any public comments. | 00:00:21 | |
| We'll go to business item. | 00:00:25 | |
| 4.1. | 00:00:27 | |
| 2026 meeting scheduled discussion and voting. | 00:00:30 | |
| So. | 00:00:35 | |
| Attached to our agenda is the calendar for the year. | 00:00:37 | |
| And it looks like. | 00:00:42 | |
| Anthony, are we planning on the? | 00:00:49 | |
| 2nd. | 00:00:52 | |
| Or the first. | 00:00:54 | |
| So there's a little back story to this before you get into discussions, I'd like to. | 00:00:55 | |
| Update all of us that. | 00:01:04 | |
| City Council. | 00:01:07 | |
| Change their time from first and. | 00:01:09 | |
| 2nd and 4th Wednesdays. | 00:01:13 | |
| To Tuesday 2nd and. | 00:01:15 | |
| You know for Tuesdays, OK. And that affected our. | 00:01:18 | |
| You know, original schedule. So given that and many other meetings that. | 00:01:21 | |
| We have in the city. | 00:01:27 | |
| One that was available for us to vote on. | 00:01:30 | |
| Would be the first Tuesday of every month. | 00:01:33 | |
| And. | 00:01:37 | |
| The third. | 00:01:39 | |
| Thursday, like today. | 00:01:40 | |
| Of every month. | 00:01:43 | |
| And of course on months that we don't have. | 00:01:46 | |
| A lot on our agenda. | 00:01:49 | |
| I will. | 00:01:51 | |
| Proceed to cancel the meeting so we don't just waste our time. That was perfect. Yeah, the way that you did it last time. | 00:01:51 | |
| So we have. | 00:01:58 | |
| Like you said, the first Tuesday, the 1st Tuesday or the third Thursday? Yes, and I have both on the. | 00:02:00 | |
| On the packet you know the Tuesday 1st and behind it is the. | 00:02:07 | |
| Thursday option. | 00:02:12 | |
| OK. | 00:02:13 | |
| So do we have a preference, you guys? | 00:02:16 | |
| Between those. | 00:02:19 | |
| Preferred Thursday. Same. How about you, Neil? | 00:02:22 | |
| Thursday. Thursday. | 00:02:26 | |
| Doug. | 00:02:28 | |
| It's also OK if you prefer Tuesday. | 00:02:30 | |
| OK. | 00:02:34 | |
| 3rd Thursday. | 00:02:36 | |
| Let's go with Third Thursday, then. | 00:02:38 | |
| You'd have to. | 00:02:41 | |
| Make a motion and then have a roll call. | 00:02:42 | |
| OK, we move to move our active transportation meetings through the 3rd Thursday of each month. Can I get a second? | 00:02:44 | |
| I'll second that. | 00:02:52 | |
| OK, perfect. | 00:02:54 | |
| All right, then you need to do a roll call. | 00:02:58 | |
| Roll call. | 00:03:00 | |
| Oh, we just go down the line. | 00:03:02 | |
| Hi, ay. | 00:03:05 | |
| Aye. | 00:03:07 | |
| Perfect. | 00:03:09 | |
| OK. Thanks you guys for being accommodating. | 00:03:11 | |
| Our third Thursday. | 00:03:15 | |
| So item 4.2 voting on the Chair and Vice Chair positions for 2026. | 00:03:19 | |
| Do you want to introduce that, Anthony? Yeah, I can talk a little bit about it. So we have bylaws. | 00:03:27 | |
| You need to be given access to. I'm not sure I've shared it with you, but essentially every year we vote for. | 00:03:33 | |
| Someone on the Commission to be the chair and also do vote for a vice chair as well, so. | 00:03:41 | |
| Having said that. | 00:03:48 | |
| We usually try to do this. | 00:03:49 | |
| Voting. | 00:03:53 | |
| In the last meeting of. | 00:03:54 | |
| The previous year. | 00:03:55 | |
| Just so, we start the meeting. | 00:03:57 | |
| I mean, we start a new year not having to go through all this admin style. | 00:03:59 | |
| Meeting. | 00:04:04 | |
| And, but unfortunately last year we didn't have. | 00:04:05 | |
| A number of us here, I think we had just. | 00:04:09 | |
| Under a horror mode, just yeah. | 00:04:12 | |
| So. | 00:04:15 | |
| Yeah, it's up to you. You know, usually what we. | 00:04:16 | |
| Doing this situation is one of you would recommend. | 00:04:20 | |
| Someone being the chair. | 00:04:24 | |
| Or you can recommend yourself, it's allowed. | 00:04:26 | |
| Last year. | 00:04:28 | |
| We had. | 00:04:29 | |
| You know Martina highly recommended and she did a great job. | 00:04:30 | |
| And you know, we had. | 00:04:34 | |
| Our Vice chair being Jordan. | 00:04:37 | |
| He also did a great job. | 00:04:39 | |
| And. | 00:04:41 | |
| We're here in 2026. We all made it. | 00:04:42 | |
| And we need to make that decision yet again. So it's up to you. | 00:04:46 | |
| If you want to keep it as it is right now, you're welcome to do that if you want to recommend any changes. | 00:04:51 | |
| It's all allowed in this first meeting. | 00:04:58 | |
| To have this outlined and there's not a lot. | 00:05:01 | |
| More than the. | 00:05:03 | |
| That the chair would do. | 00:05:05 | |
| Then you know the other members. | 00:05:08 | |
| I would definitely get in. | 00:05:11 | |
| Touch with the chair more when it comes to decisions like OK, we don't have. | 00:05:12 | |
| Enough agenda items do we need to cancel? | 00:05:17 | |
| And if she says or he says yes, then we do it, you know? | 00:05:20 | |
| Just some. | 00:05:26 | |
| A lot of administration, yeah, very administrative. | 00:05:28 | |
| Type things and it's not an everyday. | 00:05:31 | |
| You know I'm not calling you 5 * a week. | 00:05:33 | |
| Just once a month. | 00:05:36 | |
| So it's something that anyone can take on. | 00:05:41 | |
| And do very well. | 00:05:45 | |
| So. | 00:05:47 | |
| She's really done a great job. | 00:05:51 | |
| So nice, OK. | 00:05:54 | |
| So we need a recommendation. | 00:05:57 | |
| I would recommend Martina for chair. | 00:06:02 | |
| And then if you're interested in doing it again, I thought you did great. Second that for sure. | 00:06:06 | |
| You guys are so nice, then I'll accept. | 00:06:12 | |
| Is there something I need to do? | 00:06:17 | |
| We need to do. | 00:06:19 | |
| Someone needs to make a motion and then a roll call. | 00:06:22 | |
| Based on what has been discussed. | 00:06:24 | |
| I would move. | 00:06:28 | |
| To have Martina be the chair. | 00:06:29 | |
| Of the ATC. | 00:06:32 | |
| And I would second that. | 00:06:35 | |
| Awesome. Thank you. | 00:06:37 | |
| And then I move. | 00:06:39 | |
| For Jordan to be our Vice Chair for 2026. | 00:06:41 | |
| Do we need a vote on? | 00:06:45 | |
| Martina. | 00:06:46 | |
| First, then yes, you need to vote. I'll vote. OK. | 00:06:47 | |
| Aye. | 00:06:53 | |
| You can vote for yourself, aye? | 00:06:56 | |
| Aye as well. Thank you. | 00:07:00 | |
| If some of our new faces on. | 00:07:03 | |
| Our group here wanted to be the vice chair. I would very much support that also. | 00:07:05 | |
| I nominate. | 00:07:11 | |
| Doctor Neil. | 00:07:14 | |
| I but. | 00:07:15 | |
| Yeah. | 00:07:18 | |
| If you're interested, I'd either also support that Disinterested or interested. | 00:07:19 | |
| Neutral. | 00:07:25 | |
| In the middle. | 00:07:27 | |
| Or you just see each other sounding board. | 00:07:28 | |
| Worked really well. | 00:07:31 | |
| Yep, great. | 00:07:35 | |
| Should we? Is that OK? We need to make a motion? | 00:07:37 | |
| You want to make the motion OK. | 00:07:42 | |
| I would move to. | 00:07:44 | |
| Make a motion that. | 00:07:46 | |
| Neil, sorry, what was your last name? | 00:07:48 | |
| Yeah, OK. I would make a motion to. | 00:07:51 | |
| Approve Neil Peterson. | 00:07:53 | |
| As the. | 00:07:56 | |
| Vice Chair. | 00:07:57 | |
| Of the active transportation. | 00:07:58 | |
| Commission. | 00:08:00 | |
| I second that motion. | 00:08:01 | |
| Aye, aye. | 00:08:06 | |
| Aye, aye. | 00:08:09 | |
| OK, so before the chair. | 00:08:12 | |
| Moves on with the rest of the items. | 00:08:14 | |
| I would like to. | 00:08:17 | |
| Just also highlight that. | 00:08:18 | |
| Most of the things we do. | 00:08:21 | |
| Seemed to be very relaxed. | 00:08:23 | |
| OR has been very relaxed. We're gradually ramping up. | 00:08:25 | |
| The ATC has. | 00:08:29 | |
| Come a long way. | 00:08:32 | |
| And. | 00:08:34 | |
| As we continue to grow as a city. | 00:08:36 | |
| There's going to be a lot of changes. | 00:08:38 | |
| In direction, but your role is to. | 00:08:41 | |
| Advice and provide counsel to the City Council. | 00:08:44 | |
| In matters that. | 00:08:49 | |
| Relate to active transportation. | 00:08:51 | |
| On all levels. | 00:08:54 | |
| So. | 00:08:55 | |
| We've moved to this monthly meeting scheduled. | 00:08:58 | |
| Because we want to be able to. | 00:09:02 | |
| Affect. | 00:09:05 | |
| More and more frequently. | 00:09:06 | |
| Through the things that we do. | 00:09:09 | |
| However, on Bike month, which is in May. | 00:09:11 | |
| There's going to be a lot more engagement. | 00:09:15 | |
| So April and May, there's going to be a lot more. | 00:09:17 | |
| What required from you? | 00:09:20 | |
| But it's not something you can't handle. | 00:09:22 | |
| It's just. | 00:09:24 | |
| The usual. | 00:09:26 | |
| Making sure activities are. | 00:09:27 | |
| Lined up well. | 00:09:29 | |
| So that people enjoy. | 00:09:31 | |
| Things that we put out there. | 00:09:32 | |
| And, umm. | 00:09:34 | |
| Pretty much your expertise and. | 00:09:35 | |
| You know. | 00:09:38 | |
| Ideas on making? | 00:09:39 | |
| Show that anything that we have. | 00:09:40 | |
| Planned is executed successfully. | 00:09:42 | |
| So that's just. | 00:09:45 | |
| All that I wanted to remind you. | 00:09:48 | |
| Chair, you already know it. And the new vice chair. | 00:09:51 | |
| Congratulations all of you. | 00:09:54 | |
| But we all work. | 00:09:56 | |
| Collaboratively. | 00:09:57 | |
| To make things happen. | 00:09:59 | |
| So, umm. | 00:10:00 | |
| Nothing's going to change, I believe. | 00:10:02 | |
| Well, thank you. | 00:10:06 | |
| Sorry, just going back to the meeting schedule, so we have. | 00:10:08 | |
| The third Thursdays are. Is there possibility for like second or fourth Thursdays? | 00:10:13 | |
| Or first, I don't know. | 00:10:19 | |
| On the Thursday, it was. | 00:10:21 | |
| It was just the third available. | 00:10:23 | |
| I'm sorry. | 00:10:26 | |
| Just this third Thursday. | 00:10:27 | |
| A schedule was the only one really available. | 00:10:30 | |
| OK, Yeah. | 00:10:32 | |
| It was really tight. | 00:10:34 | |
| The most convenient for. | 00:10:35 | |
| All meetings. | 00:10:37 | |
| Wasn't Tuesday. | 00:10:39 | |
| The first Tuesday. | 00:10:40 | |
| So the third Thursday was something that I had to work through. | 00:10:41 | |
| With the Recorders office a little longer. That's why the agenda came in much later. | 00:10:45 | |
| OK, got you. We had confirmation later last. | 00:10:51 | |
| Last night that. | 00:10:54 | |
| It would work. | 00:10:56 | |
| Just before the. | 00:10:57 | |
| You know, umm. | 00:10:58 | |
| Agenda was posted. | 00:10:59 | |
| OK. | 00:11:01 | |
| Is there a preference that I could potentially push? | 00:11:03 | |
| For in seven days. | 00:11:06 | |
| Or months. | 00:11:08 | |
| Which is the third. | 00:11:10 | |
| Thursday seems to be like a preference for everything else. | 00:11:12 | |
| Let me get back to you on that. I'll I'll message you back. | 00:11:25 | |
| But for now, we have voted for the third Thursday. | 00:11:29 | |
| Right, OK. | 00:11:32 | |
| We can revise that later. | 00:11:33 | |
| So we have up until the end of. | 00:11:38 | |
| Maybe this month. | 00:11:42 | |
| OK, so because. | 00:11:44 | |
| Yes. | 00:11:45 | |
| Because. | 00:11:46 | |
| As you're all aware, we have new administration. | 00:11:48 | |
| And there's a lot of changes happening. | 00:11:51 | |
| Within the city. | 00:11:53 | |
| So. | 00:11:54 | |
| When we. | 00:11:55 | |
| We're able to make. | 00:11:57 | |
| You know, decisions that just lock in things. | 00:11:59 | |
| We will be in a better place. | 00:12:01 | |
| OK. | 00:12:03 | |
| If we needed to periodically do like a special session, that would work as well, yeah. | 00:12:05 | |
| Schedule, yeah, obviously we don't want to do. | 00:12:10 | |
| 12 months of special sessions. I do, yeah. | 00:12:13 | |
| Yeah, I mean today was. | 00:12:19 | |
| Essentially the only time available in. | 00:12:22 | |
| In the schedule for meetings in Vineyard. | 00:12:25 | |
| To have a special session in January. | 00:12:28 | |
| So it was hard. | 00:12:31 | |
| Coming by this day. | 00:12:32 | |
| In the first place. | 00:12:33 | |
| So. | 00:12:35 | |
| They had to cancel. They had a. | 00:12:36 | |
| Library program. | 00:12:39 | |
| That they do up to 530. | 00:12:41 | |
| But sometimes you need to set up the room, so I usually recommend. | 00:12:45 | |
| Get in the room from 5:00, so they have to cancel that to allow us to do the special session. | 00:12:49 | |
| Yeah, yeah, this is just a long explanation to say whatever we decide. | 00:12:55 | |
| We got to decide fast, right? | 00:13:03 | |
| Right, that makes sense. | 00:13:05 | |
| Never. | 00:13:09 | |
| I can make it work if it if Thursdays is better for. | 00:13:14 | |
| People. | 00:13:17 | |
| Is there is there any risk of Planning Commission moving to Tuesdays now that City Council is on Tuesday? | 00:13:23 | |
| It hasn't been. | 00:13:29 | |
| Officially discussed yet? | 00:13:31 | |
| We have talked about. | 00:13:34 | |
| Various ways to make it. | 00:13:36 | |
| Work for anyone that we have on our Commission. | 00:13:37 | |
| And. | 00:13:40 | |
| Discussions I've had so far has been. | 00:13:42 | |
| Moving it to 7:00 PM. | 00:13:44 | |
| Because people. | 00:13:46 | |
| Typically work and would want to. | 00:13:48 | |
| Have. | 00:13:52 | |
| Enough time for driving and probably have dinner before. | 00:13:53 | |
| OK, so even if. | 00:13:57 | |
| Even if they did move to Tuesdays and we also moved to Tuesdays, ours being at 5:30 and there's being at 7:00. | 00:13:58 | |
| Might be OK. | 00:14:04 | |
| That could work. | 00:14:05 | |
| I haven't heard anything about. | 00:14:07 | |
| Day change. | 00:14:09 | |
| I've only heard about time change. | 00:14:11 | |
| OK, Yeah. | 00:14:13 | |
| But. | 00:14:14 | |
| I could get back to the team. | 00:14:15 | |
| Next week. | 00:14:17 | |
| Because I can go and inquire more. | 00:14:19 | |
| I'm not in charge of the schedule for Planning Commission. | 00:14:22 | |
| Or I can go and look into it more and just let you know. | 00:14:24 | |
| The potential. | 00:14:28 | |
| Options that. | 00:14:29 | |
| Maybe. | 00:14:30 | |
| Sounds good, yeah. | 00:14:32 | |
| Do we, I mean, I think do you want to keep the schedule hanging or we should just lock Thursday in? | 00:14:33 | |
| We could just lock it in. | 00:14:41 | |
| That sounds good. | 00:14:42 | |
| Are you sure? | 00:14:44 | |
| The next meeting. | 00:14:46 | |
| If it were the first Tuesday option. | 00:14:47 | |
| Would be. | 00:14:50 | |
| February 3rd. | 00:14:53 | |
| I can block that time off. | 00:14:56 | |
| As a meeting time. | 00:15:00 | |
| For you, oh, that is in. | 00:15:02 | |
| Two weeks. | 00:15:04 | |
| I can block it off as a meeting time. | 00:15:06 | |
| If you'll be willing to go the Tuesday route. | 00:15:09 | |
| Or explore the Tuesday route. | 00:15:12 | |
| Then you make the final decision, then I'll probably talk to the. | 00:15:14 | |
| Recorded just to hold on for two weeks rather than just us. Make a final decision. We'll lock in both days. | 00:15:19 | |
| But. | 00:15:27 | |
| Technically. | 00:15:28 | |
| It's just. | 00:15:29 | |
| I fell off for you guys to make a decision. | 00:15:30 | |
| On February 3rd if you want that. | 00:15:34 | |
| Yes. | 00:15:37 | |
| I do have. | 00:15:40 | |
| A fairly strong preference for Thursdays because. | 00:15:41 | |
| Tuesday nights I generally have to watch the baby. | 00:15:45 | |
| Gotcha. OK, that makes sense. | 00:15:48 | |
| Let's do Thursday. | 00:15:50 | |
| Good Thursday nights. | 00:15:52 | |
| OK. So there's no need coming back to the team? | 00:15:53 | |
| No locking in Thursday, Thursday and again. | 00:15:56 | |
| We're a small and growing team and. | 00:15:59 | |
| I believe we're all flexible. | 00:16:02 | |
| To make things work for everyone. So if we need to move some Thursdays not being necessarily the third, I just need enough notice | 00:16:04 | |
| so I can. | 00:16:08 | |
| Let everyone know. | 00:16:13 | |
| And would make it work. | 00:16:14 | |
| If we say Thursdays, it. | 00:16:17 | |
| It is the third Thursday, but we can make it work for all of us. | 00:16:19 | |
| Sounds good. | 00:16:23 | |
| We got bit nest to handle. | 00:16:25 | |
| I'm happy for you. | 00:16:30 | |
| We OK. | 00:16:33 | |
| So looking forward. | 00:16:36 | |
| To upcoming activities. | 00:16:38 | |
| And projects for ATC. | 00:16:41 | |
| Do you have some things in mind, Anthony? | 00:16:44 | |
| I just wanted this to that's why I had it as a work session. I just wanted this to be an open forum where we just discussed | 00:16:47 | |
| general ideas that we have. We have typically. | 00:16:52 | |
| You know, just thrown out ideas. | 00:16:56 | |
| In the past in that spreadsheet that I shared earlier. | 00:16:59 | |
| With the team, I will reshare that so it comes to everyone's e-mail. | 00:17:02 | |
| Just so. | 00:17:07 | |
| Our new commissioners know. | 00:17:08 | |
| I created this. | 00:17:10 | |
| Like, you know, Google Sheets. | 00:17:13 | |
| That has everyone's. | 00:17:15 | |
| It has everyone's. | 00:17:18 | |
| E-mail contact phone number so you guys can, you know, communicate when you want to. | 00:17:20 | |
| Just don't get through of you together in your house. It's then a courtroom and you should record that. | 00:17:25 | |
| And present it to us. | 00:17:30 | |
| Because you will be violating the meeting. | 00:17:32 | |
| Regulations that the state has put together. | 00:17:36 | |
| But as long as you only have two people, and even if you all meet and you're not talking city business. | 00:17:39 | |
| That's fine. | 00:17:44 | |
| That spreadsheet I can. | 00:17:46 | |
| Probably. | 00:17:49 | |
| Open that up. | 00:17:50 | |
| Has a tab that has. | 00:17:51 | |
| The chance for you to put in ideas and things that you'd like the Commission. | 00:17:54 | |
| To consider discussing or working on. | 00:17:58 | |
| It also gives the chance for. | 00:18:08 | |
| You to make more input on what we need to have. | 00:18:12 | |
| As a discussion. | 00:18:18 | |
| Item for coming meetings. | 00:18:20 | |
| I will share the link with everyone but this is what it looks like. It has everyone's. | 00:18:23 | |
| Phone number and e-mail. | 00:18:27 | |
| It also has. | 00:18:30 | |
| This as you know. | 00:18:33 | |
| Things that. | 00:18:35 | |
| Got inputted by. | 00:18:36 | |
| Commissioners. | 00:18:38 | |
| You know the no names. | 00:18:40 | |
| If you want to have. | 00:18:43 | |
| An item really associated with your name. You can put it there so I reach out to you if I need more information. | 00:18:46 | |
| But. | 00:18:52 | |
| Just throw out ideas on things that. | 00:18:53 | |
| Could be. | 00:18:55 | |
| Discussed and worked on together these most of these have been. | 00:18:56 | |
| I have been accomplished. I need to update this list. | 00:19:02 | |
| To make it more current. | 00:19:05 | |
| And. | 00:19:07 | |
| You have the chance to do that. | 00:19:09 | |
| And typically before I send a meeting agenda. | 00:19:11 | |
| I sort of built the meeting here. | 00:19:15 | |
| So this dashboard becomes one that you visit. | 00:19:17 | |
| I don't know how often you want to, but. | 00:19:20 | |
| I would be pulling things from here. | 00:19:23 | |
| That. | 00:19:26 | |
| Seem relevant enough? | 00:19:27 | |
| For the moment. | 00:19:29 | |
| Up here. | 00:19:30 | |
| Depending on what needs to be done. | 00:19:31 | |
| Right and. | 00:19:34 | |
| Our projects and events. | 00:19:36 | |
| Usually get updated here. | 00:19:39 | |
| This is. | 00:19:41 | |
| What we had for. | 00:19:42 | |
| A Bike Month 2024. | 00:19:45 | |
| Not much of it. | 00:19:48 | |
| Got changed in 2025, so clearly this. | 00:19:49 | |
| Needs to be updated. | 00:19:53 | |
| But I will do this update and share the link again so it's up in everyone's e-mail. | 00:19:54 | |
| And May is a big. | 00:19:58 | |
| Month for the bike Commission. | 00:20:00 | |
| Yeah. | 00:20:02 | |
| Yeah, so some. | 00:20:05 | |
| Some times that we think about, so there's. | 00:20:07 | |
| Bike Month in May and then there's like a couple of conferences that you've been to right for. | 00:20:11 | |
| Different like related. | 00:20:18 | |
| Trends and stuff like that, yeah. | 00:20:21 | |
| And then? | 00:20:23 | |
| Booths that. | 00:20:24 | |
| So yeah. | 00:20:28 | |
| We just kind of spread them out. | 00:20:30 | |
| So you don't have to be at everyone. | 00:20:32 | |
| And then? | 00:20:36 | |
| That's right. I mean, we, we can, we can all be there as long as we're not talking to city business. | 00:20:38 | |
| If we start talking about something in a city, someone has to start recording. | 00:20:47 | |
| Oh, and then there's a grant that we apply for. We have the chance to apply for a grant. | 00:21:00 | |
| Or city related things that can. | 00:21:08 | |
| Could go towards improvements. | 00:21:12 | |
| Related. Yeah. | 00:21:14 | |
| Oh, that's great. And we're not just restricted to that. | 00:21:20 | |
| The arts grant that comes out. | 00:21:23 | |
| Every year. | 00:21:26 | |
| We could look out for other grants. | 00:21:27 | |
| Two years ago I applied for the tag grant. | 00:21:29 | |
| Which is. | 00:21:33 | |
| An MPO Graham. | 00:21:37 | |
| Given from uh uh. | 00:21:38 | |
| Given by Mag. | 00:21:39 | |
| And the tag is a technical. | 00:21:41 | |
| Assistant for Government grant is the planning. | 00:21:43 | |
| Grandad allows cities to plan. | 00:21:47 | |
| Various parts of the city. | 00:21:51 | |
| And we were awarded about 100 and. | 00:21:53 | |
| $29,000. | 00:21:55 | |
| And we used that. | 00:21:57 | |
| To prepare. | 00:21:59 | |
| A wayfinding master plan for the city. | 00:22:02 | |
| And also update. | 00:22:04 | |
| The transportation master plan. | 00:22:06 | |
| So I have a final draft. It's ready. | 00:22:09 | |
| Last year. | 00:22:12 | |
| We did. We gave the public the chance to just make inputs. Every month we had a meeting. We. | 00:22:14 | |
| Give updates on the project. | 00:22:22 | |
| I just last week received a final. | 00:22:25 | |
| Draft document that I can share with you to review. | 00:22:28 | |
| The next steps for that project is for it to just go to. | 00:22:32 | |
| Planning Commission. | 00:22:37 | |
| Officially. | 00:22:41 | |
| Presented here and discussed at ATC and then. | 00:22:42 | |
| Go over to. | 00:22:48 | |
| City Council for adoption. | 00:22:52 | |
| Approval and adoption, that's the only thing left. Now I've put some brakes on it because you recognize we have a new council. | 00:22:54 | |
| There's a lot of. | 00:23:02 | |
| Administrative things that needs to be done. | 00:23:04 | |
| And as they work through things, we. | 00:23:07 | |
| We as staff have to be supportive and. | 00:23:10 | |
| Be cognizant of the fact that. | 00:23:14 | |
| We don't want to just drop a plan in front of them. | 00:23:16 | |
| In the first few meetings. | 00:23:19 | |
| Even though this has been ready for a while. | 00:23:20 | |
| My plan is to. | 00:23:23 | |
| Have them more educated on the. | 00:23:25 | |
| On the plan that we have, we've worked so hard on it. You know, the consultant did a lot of outreach, came here, spoke to us a | 00:23:27 | |
| couple of times. We decided on even how. | 00:23:32 | |
| Signs should look on our trails. | 00:23:38 | |
| All of that work. | 00:23:41 | |
| Could. | 00:23:42 | |
| Be put on the back bench. | 00:23:44 | |
| If they don't understand. | 00:23:46 | |
| So the strategy. | 00:23:47 | |
| I've taken a staff or we have taken a staff is. | 00:23:50 | |
| To allow them to get settled in. | 00:23:54 | |
| Have a couple of meetings introduce the project to them better. | 00:23:58 | |
| Where? | 00:24:02 | |
| They they, they feel they have that ownership of. | 00:24:02 | |
| Ownership and understanding of all the hard work that's gone into it. | 00:24:07 | |
| Then when it goes to City Council, we don't have an hour discussion about why didn't we do this or when did it. | 00:24:11 | |
| You know what? Did you do this? You know we don't. We want to avoid all those questions. | 00:24:17 | |
| That could deter. | 00:24:22 | |
| All the hard work. | 00:24:24 | |
| You know, you turn them from approving all, you know, all the hard work that you guys have put in. | 00:24:26 | |
| So that's the strategy. So that project is not just. | 00:24:30 | |
| Laying somewhere. | 00:24:34 | |
| My intention was after this meeting. | 00:24:38 | |
| I will. | 00:24:41 | |
| Send, you know. | 00:24:42 | |
| The new final draft that we have. | 00:24:44 | |
| Out. It's basically done. It has. | 00:24:47 | |
| All your comments and things that needs to go in. | 00:24:51 | |
| And the next thing. | 00:24:55 | |
| With that same project is. | 00:24:57 | |
| The Wayfinding master plan. It's within the. | 00:25:01 | |
| Excuse me? | 00:25:05 | |
| The wayfinding is within the. | 00:25:07 | |
| Active transportation plan update. | 00:25:10 | |
| However. | 00:25:13 | |
| We want to create. | 00:25:14 | |
| A separate document. | 00:25:16 | |
| That makes it easy. | 00:25:18 | |
| For someone who's just looking for the wayfinding. | 00:25:21 | |
| Information. | 00:25:24 | |
| To just go straight to it. | 00:25:25 | |
| Rather than having to comb through the. | 00:25:27 | |
| Active transportation plan to Chapter 6 or 7 to go find it. So we want to just pull that component out. | 00:25:29 | |
| And add a few more specifications that would help people coming into our city. | 00:25:37 | |
| That are doing business to to just grab. | 00:25:41 | |
| And go like, OK, we need to put a sign on the trail that says we have hot dogs ahead. | 00:25:44 | |
| And this is how it's supposed to look. | 00:25:49 | |
| You know so. | 00:25:51 | |
| It's just a plan that I. | 00:25:52 | |
| Been thinking about that we should have in addition to the whole project which shouldn't cost us any extra. | 00:25:54 | |
| Potentially. | 00:26:02 | |
| So even if it does, I have to do it. | 00:26:03 | |
| Internally I can do that. | 00:26:06 | |
| Sure. So. | 00:26:07 | |
| So that's the update on the plan. | 00:26:09 | |
| Next steps for that would be me sending you the draft. | 00:26:11 | |
| And I'll be updating you on. | 00:26:15 | |
| How Council is receiving it so far? | 00:26:19 | |
| Because my plan is to meet. | 00:26:21 | |
| With each council member. | 00:26:23 | |
| So they know. | 00:26:26 | |
| This is how far we've come and this is what we've produced. | 00:26:28 | |
| And you know. | 00:26:32 | |
| Share that, you know, hear their concerns. | 00:26:33 | |
| Try to answer their questions even before the day it's presented to them for adoption. | 00:26:36 | |
| Then once I've been able to go through that process, I will just kick it into Planning Commission. | 00:26:41 | |
| And ATC. | 00:26:48 | |
| And then? | 00:26:49 | |
| You know. | 00:26:50 | |
| City Council. | 00:26:51 | |
| So I know it's a long explanation for next steps for one project, but. | 00:26:52 | |
| It's worth understanding the logic behind it. | 00:26:57 | |
| So that's all I have. | 00:27:00 | |
| That's great. Thanks, Anthony. | 00:27:04 | |
| So we'll look forward to that, see this project all the way through. | 00:27:06 | |
| And when on the day that it goes to City Council? | 00:27:11 | |
| Would need to have at least one or two of you. | 00:27:15 | |
| Available to like. You don't have to make a presentation, but you have to put in a word. | 00:27:18 | |
| To just. | 00:27:23 | |
| Affirm all the good work and you know. | 00:27:24 | |
| How you're excited to use this to make the city better? | 00:27:27 | |
| There are other things that. | 00:27:30 | |
| Could be included. | 00:27:33 | |
| That we could consider as you review that, but I'm not going to bring those up until you've gone through it and. | 00:27:35 | |
| We all brainstorm on next steps for that. And it could. | 00:27:42 | |
| Potentially be beneficial to. | 00:27:46 | |
| Guiding the discussions with the new council because they're excited to make the city good. | 00:27:49 | |
| But they need to understand. | 00:27:55 | |
| And that's. | 00:27:57 | |
| You know, taking up any new role. | 00:27:59 | |
| That's what happens, right? It's a lot of information thrown at you. | 00:28:01 | |
| I don't want all our hardware to be thrown. | 00:28:05 | |
| At them. | 00:28:07 | |
| I want them to feel part of it. | 00:28:08 | |
| Gradually, so we might not be. | 00:28:11 | |
| Having this adopted. | 00:28:13 | |
| In the next month. | 00:28:16 | |
| Or two, it's on purpose, even though it's ready to go. | 00:28:17 | |
| I just wanted to be received on a different level. | 00:28:22 | |
| It would be nice. | 00:28:24 | |
| To have it for bike month but I don't know how. | 00:28:25 | |
| Long it takes to implement but. | 00:28:29 | |
| If it takes longer than maybe we roll it out. | 00:28:33 | |
| Towards the end of the year. | 00:28:37 | |
| Since oh, that's that's too far for finished document. | 00:28:39 | |
| We can once we have, because there's still a lot of things in the air. | 00:28:42 | |
| Regards to roles in the city and. | 00:28:48 | |
| Basically. | 00:28:52 | |
| The direction that the Council wants to go. | 00:28:53 | |
| So once all those things are clear to staff. | 00:28:57 | |
| We can just move forward with. | 00:29:00 | |
| Getting it in, but in the meantime while the new council and administration figure out. | 00:29:03 | |
| What they're doing? | 00:29:08 | |
| I will be scheduling meetings. I already had one meeting with Councilmember Loray and Council member. | 00:29:11 | |
| Would They both came in, we talked. | 00:29:19 | |
| Extensively about the. | 00:29:23 | |
| Plan and I felt like that was a win. | 00:29:24 | |
| So that's great. Gradually is going to creep onto the others and. | 00:29:27 | |
| Would get there. | 00:29:32 | |
| So the plan is to do it before the. | 00:29:34 | |
| You know, before the end of second quarter. | 00:29:37 | |
| But you bring up a good point. | 00:29:40 | |
| Doing it before bike month so we can call, you know we can. | 00:29:42 | |
| It gives us more bragging rights, you know. | 00:29:46 | |
| We usually do like a bike tour with the community. | 00:29:48 | |
| And so we just like. | 00:29:52 | |
| Everybody on wheels and we're just going around and it would be nice to have these wayfinders out. | 00:29:54 | |
| So it's like, hey. | 00:30:00 | |
| Like, yeah, this is brand new. Yeah, it's implementation though. | 00:30:01 | |
| We probably need to go get some grant. | 00:30:06 | |
| Or if we could sell it well. | 00:30:09 | |
| Which you have the power to do that if you could sell it well to the. | 00:30:12 | |
| New council, they could give the direction. | 00:30:16 | |
| To have some money. | 00:30:20 | |
| Allocated to make this happen. | 00:30:22 | |
| But in the meantime. | 00:30:24 | |
| We could be looking out for grants. I'm always looking and if anyone finds any grants out there. | 00:30:26 | |
| That we can apply for. | 00:30:32 | |
| If we get that, we can straight up get it installed. | 00:30:34 | |
| As long as. | 00:30:38 | |
| The Council agrees that they are installed. | 00:30:40 | |
| So. | 00:30:43 | |
| We all have some homework to do. | 00:30:45 | |
| Go find the money. | 00:30:48 | |
| Yeah. | 00:30:52 | |
| OK, I think. | 00:30:56 | |
| We've reached the end of our items. | 00:30:58 | |
| Yeah. | 00:31:01 | |
| So. | 00:31:04 | |
| I would also send the link to. | 00:31:07 | |
| This item that I have here this spreadsheet. | 00:31:11 | |
| And please feel free, I'll update it before I do it, but. | 00:31:14 | |
| Feel free to put in things and if you have any ideas. | 00:31:18 | |
| Just e-mail me, I'll give me a call. | 00:31:22 | |
| That works. | 00:31:25 | |
| As well. Umm. | 00:31:25 | |
| Great. All right, then I moved to. | 00:31:26 | |
| Adjourn our meeting. | 00:31:31 | |
| At 6:09 PM. | 00:31:33 | |
| Fantastic. | 00:31:35 | |
| Do I need a second? | 00:31:36 | |
| You're the chair. We can close. Everybody go home. | 00:31:40 | |
| Thanks. | 00:31:46 | |
| Yeah. | 00:31:52 |
Transcript
| All right, welcome to the active Transportation Commission meeting. | 00:00:00 | |
| January 22nd, 2020. | 00:00:04 | |
| 6. | 00:00:06 | |
| I call this meeting to order at 5:37. | 00:00:08 | |
| PM. | 00:00:13 | |
| I'm so first we'll go through. | 00:00:15 | |
| I don't think we don't have any public comments. | 00:00:21 | |
| We'll go to business item. | 00:00:25 | |
| 4.1. | 00:00:27 | |
| 2026 meeting scheduled discussion and voting. | 00:00:30 | |
| So. | 00:00:35 | |
| Attached to our agenda is the calendar for the year. | 00:00:37 | |
| And it looks like. | 00:00:42 | |
| Anthony, are we planning on the? | 00:00:49 | |
| 2nd. | 00:00:52 | |
| Or the first. | 00:00:54 | |
| So there's a little back story to this before you get into discussions, I'd like to. | 00:00:55 | |
| Update all of us that. | 00:01:04 | |
| City Council. | 00:01:07 | |
| Change their time from first and. | 00:01:09 | |
| 2nd and 4th Wednesdays. | 00:01:13 | |
| To Tuesday 2nd and. | 00:01:15 | |
| You know for Tuesdays, OK. And that affected our. | 00:01:18 | |
| You know, original schedule. So given that and many other meetings that. | 00:01:21 | |
| We have in the city. | 00:01:27 | |
| One that was available for us to vote on. | 00:01:30 | |
| Would be the first Tuesday of every month. | 00:01:33 | |
| And. | 00:01:37 | |
| The third. | 00:01:39 | |
| Thursday, like today. | 00:01:40 | |
| Of every month. | 00:01:43 | |
| And of course on months that we don't have. | 00:01:46 | |
| A lot on our agenda. | 00:01:49 | |
| I will. | 00:01:51 | |
| Proceed to cancel the meeting so we don't just waste our time. That was perfect. Yeah, the way that you did it last time. | 00:01:51 | |
| So we have. | 00:01:58 | |
| Like you said, the first Tuesday, the 1st Tuesday or the third Thursday? Yes, and I have both on the. | 00:02:00 | |
| On the packet you know the Tuesday 1st and behind it is the. | 00:02:07 | |
| Thursday option. | 00:02:12 | |
| OK. | 00:02:13 | |
| So do we have a preference, you guys? | 00:02:16 | |
| Between those. | 00:02:19 | |
| Preferred Thursday. Same. How about you, Neil? | 00:02:22 | |
| Thursday. Thursday. | 00:02:26 | |
| Doug. | 00:02:28 | |
| It's also OK if you prefer Tuesday. | 00:02:30 | |
| OK. | 00:02:34 | |
| 3rd Thursday. | 00:02:36 | |
| Let's go with Third Thursday, then. | 00:02:38 | |
| You'd have to. | 00:02:41 | |
| Make a motion and then have a roll call. | 00:02:42 | |
| OK, we move to move our active transportation meetings through the 3rd Thursday of each month. Can I get a second? | 00:02:44 | |
| I'll second that. | 00:02:52 | |
| OK, perfect. | 00:02:54 | |
| All right, then you need to do a roll call. | 00:02:58 | |
| Roll call. | 00:03:00 | |
| Oh, we just go down the line. | 00:03:02 | |
| Hi, ay. | 00:03:05 | |
| Aye. | 00:03:07 | |
| Perfect. | 00:03:09 | |
| OK. Thanks you guys for being accommodating. | 00:03:11 | |
| Our third Thursday. | 00:03:15 | |
| So item 4.2 voting on the Chair and Vice Chair positions for 2026. | 00:03:19 | |
| Do you want to introduce that, Anthony? Yeah, I can talk a little bit about it. So we have bylaws. | 00:03:27 | |
| You need to be given access to. I'm not sure I've shared it with you, but essentially every year we vote for. | 00:03:33 | |
| Someone on the Commission to be the chair and also do vote for a vice chair as well, so. | 00:03:41 | |
| Having said that. | 00:03:48 | |
| We usually try to do this. | 00:03:49 | |
| Voting. | 00:03:53 | |
| In the last meeting of. | 00:03:54 | |
| The previous year. | 00:03:55 | |
| Just so, we start the meeting. | 00:03:57 | |
| I mean, we start a new year not having to go through all this admin style. | 00:03:59 | |
| Meeting. | 00:04:04 | |
| And, but unfortunately last year we didn't have. | 00:04:05 | |
| A number of us here, I think we had just. | 00:04:09 | |
| Under a horror mode, just yeah. | 00:04:12 | |
| So. | 00:04:15 | |
| Yeah, it's up to you. You know, usually what we. | 00:04:16 | |
| Doing this situation is one of you would recommend. | 00:04:20 | |
| Someone being the chair. | 00:04:24 | |
| Or you can recommend yourself, it's allowed. | 00:04:26 | |
| Last year. | 00:04:28 | |
| We had. | 00:04:29 | |
| You know Martina highly recommended and she did a great job. | 00:04:30 | |
| And you know, we had. | 00:04:34 | |
| Our Vice chair being Jordan. | 00:04:37 | |
| He also did a great job. | 00:04:39 | |
| And. | 00:04:41 | |
| We're here in 2026. We all made it. | 00:04:42 | |
| And we need to make that decision yet again. So it's up to you. | 00:04:46 | |
| If you want to keep it as it is right now, you're welcome to do that if you want to recommend any changes. | 00:04:51 | |
| It's all allowed in this first meeting. | 00:04:58 | |
| To have this outlined and there's not a lot. | 00:05:01 | |
| More than the. | 00:05:03 | |
| That the chair would do. | 00:05:05 | |
| Then you know the other members. | 00:05:08 | |
| I would definitely get in. | 00:05:11 | |
| Touch with the chair more when it comes to decisions like OK, we don't have. | 00:05:12 | |
| Enough agenda items do we need to cancel? | 00:05:17 | |
| And if she says or he says yes, then we do it, you know? | 00:05:20 | |
| Just some. | 00:05:26 | |
| A lot of administration, yeah, very administrative. | 00:05:28 | |
| Type things and it's not an everyday. | 00:05:31 | |
| You know I'm not calling you 5 * a week. | 00:05:33 | |
| Just once a month. | 00:05:36 | |
| So it's something that anyone can take on. | 00:05:41 | |
| And do very well. | 00:05:45 | |
| So. | 00:05:47 | |
| She's really done a great job. | 00:05:51 | |
| So nice, OK. | 00:05:54 | |
| So we need a recommendation. | 00:05:57 | |
| I would recommend Martina for chair. | 00:06:02 | |
| And then if you're interested in doing it again, I thought you did great. Second that for sure. | 00:06:06 | |
| You guys are so nice, then I'll accept. | 00:06:12 | |
| Is there something I need to do? | 00:06:17 | |
| We need to do. | 00:06:19 | |
| Someone needs to make a motion and then a roll call. | 00:06:22 | |
| Based on what has been discussed. | 00:06:24 | |
| I would move. | 00:06:28 | |
| To have Martina be the chair. | 00:06:29 | |
| Of the ATC. | 00:06:32 | |
| And I would second that. | 00:06:35 | |
| Awesome. Thank you. | 00:06:37 | |
| And then I move. | 00:06:39 | |
| For Jordan to be our Vice Chair for 2026. | 00:06:41 | |
| Do we need a vote on? | 00:06:45 | |
| Martina. | 00:06:46 | |
| First, then yes, you need to vote. I'll vote. OK. | 00:06:47 | |
| Aye. | 00:06:53 | |
| You can vote for yourself, aye? | 00:06:56 | |
| Aye as well. Thank you. | 00:07:00 | |
| If some of our new faces on. | 00:07:03 | |
| Our group here wanted to be the vice chair. I would very much support that also. | 00:07:05 | |
| I nominate. | 00:07:11 | |
| Doctor Neil. | 00:07:14 | |
| I but. | 00:07:15 | |
| Yeah. | 00:07:18 | |
| If you're interested, I'd either also support that Disinterested or interested. | 00:07:19 | |
| Neutral. | 00:07:25 | |
| In the middle. | 00:07:27 | |
| Or you just see each other sounding board. | 00:07:28 | |
| Worked really well. | 00:07:31 | |
| Yep, great. | 00:07:35 | |
| Should we? Is that OK? We need to make a motion? | 00:07:37 | |
| You want to make the motion OK. | 00:07:42 | |
| I would move to. | 00:07:44 | |
| Make a motion that. | 00:07:46 | |
| Neil, sorry, what was your last name? | 00:07:48 | |
| Yeah, OK. I would make a motion to. | 00:07:51 | |
| Approve Neil Peterson. | 00:07:53 | |
| As the. | 00:07:56 | |
| Vice Chair. | 00:07:57 | |
| Of the active transportation. | 00:07:58 | |
| Commission. | 00:08:00 | |
| I second that motion. | 00:08:01 | |
| Aye, aye. | 00:08:06 | |
| Aye, aye. | 00:08:09 | |
| OK, so before the chair. | 00:08:12 | |
| Moves on with the rest of the items. | 00:08:14 | |
| I would like to. | 00:08:17 | |
| Just also highlight that. | 00:08:18 | |
| Most of the things we do. | 00:08:21 | |
| Seemed to be very relaxed. | 00:08:23 | |
| OR has been very relaxed. We're gradually ramping up. | 00:08:25 | |
| The ATC has. | 00:08:29 | |
| Come a long way. | 00:08:32 | |
| And. | 00:08:34 | |
| As we continue to grow as a city. | 00:08:36 | |
| There's going to be a lot of changes. | 00:08:38 | |
| In direction, but your role is to. | 00:08:41 | |
| Advice and provide counsel to the City Council. | 00:08:44 | |
| In matters that. | 00:08:49 | |
| Relate to active transportation. | 00:08:51 | |
| On all levels. | 00:08:54 | |
| So. | 00:08:55 | |
| We've moved to this monthly meeting scheduled. | 00:08:58 | |
| Because we want to be able to. | 00:09:02 | |
| Affect. | 00:09:05 | |
| More and more frequently. | 00:09:06 | |
| Through the things that we do. | 00:09:09 | |
| However, on Bike month, which is in May. | 00:09:11 | |
| There's going to be a lot more engagement. | 00:09:15 | |
| So April and May, there's going to be a lot more. | 00:09:17 | |
| What required from you? | 00:09:20 | |
| But it's not something you can't handle. | 00:09:22 | |
| It's just. | 00:09:24 | |
| The usual. | 00:09:26 | |
| Making sure activities are. | 00:09:27 | |
| Lined up well. | 00:09:29 | |
| So that people enjoy. | 00:09:31 | |
| Things that we put out there. | 00:09:32 | |
| And, umm. | 00:09:34 | |
| Pretty much your expertise and. | 00:09:35 | |
| You know. | 00:09:38 | |
| Ideas on making? | 00:09:39 | |
| Show that anything that we have. | 00:09:40 | |
| Planned is executed successfully. | 00:09:42 | |
| So that's just. | 00:09:45 | |
| All that I wanted to remind you. | 00:09:48 | |
| Chair, you already know it. And the new vice chair. | 00:09:51 | |
| Congratulations all of you. | 00:09:54 | |
| But we all work. | 00:09:56 | |
| Collaboratively. | 00:09:57 | |
| To make things happen. | 00:09:59 | |
| So, umm. | 00:10:00 | |
| Nothing's going to change, I believe. | 00:10:02 | |
| Well, thank you. | 00:10:06 | |
| Sorry, just going back to the meeting schedule, so we have. | 00:10:08 | |
| The third Thursdays are. Is there possibility for like second or fourth Thursdays? | 00:10:13 | |
| Or first, I don't know. | 00:10:19 | |
| On the Thursday, it was. | 00:10:21 | |
| It was just the third available. | 00:10:23 | |
| I'm sorry. | 00:10:26 | |
| Just this third Thursday. | 00:10:27 | |
| A schedule was the only one really available. | 00:10:30 | |
| OK, Yeah. | 00:10:32 | |
| It was really tight. | 00:10:34 | |
| The most convenient for. | 00:10:35 | |
| All meetings. | 00:10:37 | |
| Wasn't Tuesday. | 00:10:39 | |
| The first Tuesday. | 00:10:40 | |
| So the third Thursday was something that I had to work through. | 00:10:41 | |
| With the Recorders office a little longer. That's why the agenda came in much later. | 00:10:45 | |
| OK, got you. We had confirmation later last. | 00:10:51 | |
| Last night that. | 00:10:54 | |
| It would work. | 00:10:56 | |
| Just before the. | 00:10:57 | |
| You know, umm. | 00:10:58 | |
| Agenda was posted. | 00:10:59 | |
| OK. | 00:11:01 | |
| Is there a preference that I could potentially push? | 00:11:03 | |
| For in seven days. | 00:11:06 | |
| Or months. | 00:11:08 | |
| Which is the third. | 00:11:10 | |
| Thursday seems to be like a preference for everything else. | 00:11:12 | |
| Let me get back to you on that. I'll I'll message you back. | 00:11:25 | |
| But for now, we have voted for the third Thursday. | 00:11:29 | |
| Right, OK. | 00:11:32 | |
| We can revise that later. | 00:11:33 | |
| So we have up until the end of. | 00:11:38 | |
| Maybe this month. | 00:11:42 | |
| OK, so because. | 00:11:44 | |
| Yes. | 00:11:45 | |
| Because. | 00:11:46 | |
| As you're all aware, we have new administration. | 00:11:48 | |
| And there's a lot of changes happening. | 00:11:51 | |
| Within the city. | 00:11:53 | |
| So. | 00:11:54 | |
| When we. | 00:11:55 | |
| We're able to make. | 00:11:57 | |
| You know, decisions that just lock in things. | 00:11:59 | |
| We will be in a better place. | 00:12:01 | |
| OK. | 00:12:03 | |
| If we needed to periodically do like a special session, that would work as well, yeah. | 00:12:05 | |
| Schedule, yeah, obviously we don't want to do. | 00:12:10 | |
| 12 months of special sessions. I do, yeah. | 00:12:13 | |
| Yeah, I mean today was. | 00:12:19 | |
| Essentially the only time available in. | 00:12:22 | |
| In the schedule for meetings in Vineyard. | 00:12:25 | |
| To have a special session in January. | 00:12:28 | |
| So it was hard. | 00:12:31 | |
| Coming by this day. | 00:12:32 | |
| In the first place. | 00:12:33 | |
| So. | 00:12:35 | |
| They had to cancel. They had a. | 00:12:36 | |
| Library program. | 00:12:39 | |
| That they do up to 530. | 00:12:41 | |
| But sometimes you need to set up the room, so I usually recommend. | 00:12:45 | |
| Get in the room from 5:00, so they have to cancel that to allow us to do the special session. | 00:12:49 | |
| Yeah, yeah, this is just a long explanation to say whatever we decide. | 00:12:55 | |
| We got to decide fast, right? | 00:13:03 | |
| Right, that makes sense. | 00:13:05 | |
| Never. | 00:13:09 | |
| I can make it work if it if Thursdays is better for. | 00:13:14 | |
| People. | 00:13:17 | |
| Is there is there any risk of Planning Commission moving to Tuesdays now that City Council is on Tuesday? | 00:13:23 | |
| It hasn't been. | 00:13:29 | |
| Officially discussed yet? | 00:13:31 | |
| We have talked about. | 00:13:34 | |
| Various ways to make it. | 00:13:36 | |
| Work for anyone that we have on our Commission. | 00:13:37 | |
| And. | 00:13:40 | |
| Discussions I've had so far has been. | 00:13:42 | |
| Moving it to 7:00 PM. | 00:13:44 | |
| Because people. | 00:13:46 | |
| Typically work and would want to. | 00:13:48 | |
| Have. | 00:13:52 | |
| Enough time for driving and probably have dinner before. | 00:13:53 | |
| OK, so even if. | 00:13:57 | |
| Even if they did move to Tuesdays and we also moved to Tuesdays, ours being at 5:30 and there's being at 7:00. | 00:13:58 | |
| Might be OK. | 00:14:04 | |
| That could work. | 00:14:05 | |
| I haven't heard anything about. | 00:14:07 | |
| Day change. | 00:14:09 | |
| I've only heard about time change. | 00:14:11 | |
| OK, Yeah. | 00:14:13 | |
| But. | 00:14:14 | |
| I could get back to the team. | 00:14:15 | |
| Next week. | 00:14:17 | |
| Because I can go and inquire more. | 00:14:19 | |
| I'm not in charge of the schedule for Planning Commission. | 00:14:22 | |
| Or I can go and look into it more and just let you know. | 00:14:24 | |
| The potential. | 00:14:28 | |
| Options that. | 00:14:29 | |
| Maybe. | 00:14:30 | |
| Sounds good, yeah. | 00:14:32 | |
| Do we, I mean, I think do you want to keep the schedule hanging or we should just lock Thursday in? | 00:14:33 | |
| We could just lock it in. | 00:14:41 | |
| That sounds good. | 00:14:42 | |
| Are you sure? | 00:14:44 | |
| The next meeting. | 00:14:46 | |
| If it were the first Tuesday option. | 00:14:47 | |
| Would be. | 00:14:50 | |
| February 3rd. | 00:14:53 | |
| I can block that time off. | 00:14:56 | |
| As a meeting time. | 00:15:00 | |
| For you, oh, that is in. | 00:15:02 | |
| Two weeks. | 00:15:04 | |
| I can block it off as a meeting time. | 00:15:06 | |
| If you'll be willing to go the Tuesday route. | 00:15:09 | |
| Or explore the Tuesday route. | 00:15:12 | |
| Then you make the final decision, then I'll probably talk to the. | 00:15:14 | |
| Recorded just to hold on for two weeks rather than just us. Make a final decision. We'll lock in both days. | 00:15:19 | |
| But. | 00:15:27 | |
| Technically. | 00:15:28 | |
| It's just. | 00:15:29 | |
| I fell off for you guys to make a decision. | 00:15:30 | |
| On February 3rd if you want that. | 00:15:34 | |
| Yes. | 00:15:37 | |
| I do have. | 00:15:40 | |
| A fairly strong preference for Thursdays because. | 00:15:41 | |
| Tuesday nights I generally have to watch the baby. | 00:15:45 | |
| Gotcha. OK, that makes sense. | 00:15:48 | |
| Let's do Thursday. | 00:15:50 | |
| Good Thursday nights. | 00:15:52 | |
| OK. So there's no need coming back to the team? | 00:15:53 | |
| No locking in Thursday, Thursday and again. | 00:15:56 | |
| We're a small and growing team and. | 00:15:59 | |
| I believe we're all flexible. | 00:16:02 | |
| To make things work for everyone. So if we need to move some Thursdays not being necessarily the third, I just need enough notice | 00:16:04 | |
| so I can. | 00:16:08 | |
| Let everyone know. | 00:16:13 | |
| And would make it work. | 00:16:14 | |
| If we say Thursdays, it. | 00:16:17 | |
| It is the third Thursday, but we can make it work for all of us. | 00:16:19 | |
| Sounds good. | 00:16:23 | |
| We got bit nest to handle. | 00:16:25 | |
| I'm happy for you. | 00:16:30 | |
| We OK. | 00:16:33 | |
| So looking forward. | 00:16:36 | |
| To upcoming activities. | 00:16:38 | |
| And projects for ATC. | 00:16:41 | |
| Do you have some things in mind, Anthony? | 00:16:44 | |
| I just wanted this to that's why I had it as a work session. I just wanted this to be an open forum where we just discussed | 00:16:47 | |
| general ideas that we have. We have typically. | 00:16:52 | |
| You know, just thrown out ideas. | 00:16:56 | |
| In the past in that spreadsheet that I shared earlier. | 00:16:59 | |
| With the team, I will reshare that so it comes to everyone's e-mail. | 00:17:02 | |
| Just so. | 00:17:07 | |
| Our new commissioners know. | 00:17:08 | |
| I created this. | 00:17:10 | |
| Like, you know, Google Sheets. | 00:17:13 | |
| That has everyone's. | 00:17:15 | |
| It has everyone's. | 00:17:18 | |
| E-mail contact phone number so you guys can, you know, communicate when you want to. | 00:17:20 | |
| Just don't get through of you together in your house. It's then a courtroom and you should record that. | 00:17:25 | |
| And present it to us. | 00:17:30 | |
| Because you will be violating the meeting. | 00:17:32 | |
| Regulations that the state has put together. | 00:17:36 | |
| But as long as you only have two people, and even if you all meet and you're not talking city business. | 00:17:39 | |
| That's fine. | 00:17:44 | |
| That spreadsheet I can. | 00:17:46 | |
| Probably. | 00:17:49 | |
| Open that up. | 00:17:50 | |
| Has a tab that has. | 00:17:51 | |
| The chance for you to put in ideas and things that you'd like the Commission. | 00:17:54 | |
| To consider discussing or working on. | 00:17:58 | |
| It also gives the chance for. | 00:18:08 | |
| You to make more input on what we need to have. | 00:18:12 | |
| As a discussion. | 00:18:18 | |
| Item for coming meetings. | 00:18:20 | |
| I will share the link with everyone but this is what it looks like. It has everyone's. | 00:18:23 | |
| Phone number and e-mail. | 00:18:27 | |
| It also has. | 00:18:30 | |
| This as you know. | 00:18:33 | |
| Things that. | 00:18:35 | |
| Got inputted by. | 00:18:36 | |
| Commissioners. | 00:18:38 | |
| You know the no names. | 00:18:40 | |
| If you want to have. | 00:18:43 | |
| An item really associated with your name. You can put it there so I reach out to you if I need more information. | 00:18:46 | |
| But. | 00:18:52 | |
| Just throw out ideas on things that. | 00:18:53 | |
| Could be. | 00:18:55 | |
| Discussed and worked on together these most of these have been. | 00:18:56 | |
| I have been accomplished. I need to update this list. | 00:19:02 | |
| To make it more current. | 00:19:05 | |
| And. | 00:19:07 | |
| You have the chance to do that. | 00:19:09 | |
| And typically before I send a meeting agenda. | 00:19:11 | |
| I sort of built the meeting here. | 00:19:15 | |
| So this dashboard becomes one that you visit. | 00:19:17 | |
| I don't know how often you want to, but. | 00:19:20 | |
| I would be pulling things from here. | 00:19:23 | |
| That. | 00:19:26 | |
| Seem relevant enough? | 00:19:27 | |
| For the moment. | 00:19:29 | |
| Up here. | 00:19:30 | |
| Depending on what needs to be done. | 00:19:31 | |
| Right and. | 00:19:34 | |
| Our projects and events. | 00:19:36 | |
| Usually get updated here. | 00:19:39 | |
| This is. | 00:19:41 | |
| What we had for. | 00:19:42 | |
| A Bike Month 2024. | 00:19:45 | |
| Not much of it. | 00:19:48 | |
| Got changed in 2025, so clearly this. | 00:19:49 | |
| Needs to be updated. | 00:19:53 | |
| But I will do this update and share the link again so it's up in everyone's e-mail. | 00:19:54 | |
| And May is a big. | 00:19:58 | |
| Month for the bike Commission. | 00:20:00 | |
| Yeah. | 00:20:02 | |
| Yeah, so some. | 00:20:05 | |
| Some times that we think about, so there's. | 00:20:07 | |
| Bike Month in May and then there's like a couple of conferences that you've been to right for. | 00:20:11 | |
| Different like related. | 00:20:18 | |
| Trends and stuff like that, yeah. | 00:20:21 | |
| And then? | 00:20:23 | |
| Booths that. | 00:20:24 | |
| So yeah. | 00:20:28 | |
| We just kind of spread them out. | 00:20:30 | |
| So you don't have to be at everyone. | 00:20:32 | |
| And then? | 00:20:36 | |
| That's right. I mean, we, we can, we can all be there as long as we're not talking to city business. | 00:20:38 | |
| If we start talking about something in a city, someone has to start recording. | 00:20:47 | |
| Oh, and then there's a grant that we apply for. We have the chance to apply for a grant. | 00:21:00 | |
| Or city related things that can. | 00:21:08 | |
| Could go towards improvements. | 00:21:12 | |
| Related. Yeah. | 00:21:14 | |
| Oh, that's great. And we're not just restricted to that. | 00:21:20 | |
| The arts grant that comes out. | 00:21:23 | |
| Every year. | 00:21:26 | |
| We could look out for other grants. | 00:21:27 | |
| Two years ago I applied for the tag grant. | 00:21:29 | |
| Which is. | 00:21:33 | |
| An MPO Graham. | 00:21:37 | |
| Given from uh uh. | 00:21:38 | |
| Given by Mag. | 00:21:39 | |
| And the tag is a technical. | 00:21:41 | |
| Assistant for Government grant is the planning. | 00:21:43 | |
| Grandad allows cities to plan. | 00:21:47 | |
| Various parts of the city. | 00:21:51 | |
| And we were awarded about 100 and. | 00:21:53 | |
| $29,000. | 00:21:55 | |
| And we used that. | 00:21:57 | |
| To prepare. | 00:21:59 | |
| A wayfinding master plan for the city. | 00:22:02 | |
| And also update. | 00:22:04 | |
| The transportation master plan. | 00:22:06 | |
| So I have a final draft. It's ready. | 00:22:09 | |
| Last year. | 00:22:12 | |
| We did. We gave the public the chance to just make inputs. Every month we had a meeting. We. | 00:22:14 | |
| Give updates on the project. | 00:22:22 | |
| I just last week received a final. | 00:22:25 | |
| Draft document that I can share with you to review. | 00:22:28 | |
| The next steps for that project is for it to just go to. | 00:22:32 | |
| Planning Commission. | 00:22:37 | |
| Officially. | 00:22:41 | |
| Presented here and discussed at ATC and then. | 00:22:42 | |
| Go over to. | 00:22:48 | |
| City Council for adoption. | 00:22:52 | |
| Approval and adoption, that's the only thing left. Now I've put some brakes on it because you recognize we have a new council. | 00:22:54 | |
| There's a lot of. | 00:23:02 | |
| Administrative things that needs to be done. | 00:23:04 | |
| And as they work through things, we. | 00:23:07 | |
| We as staff have to be supportive and. | 00:23:10 | |
| Be cognizant of the fact that. | 00:23:14 | |
| We don't want to just drop a plan in front of them. | 00:23:16 | |
| In the first few meetings. | 00:23:19 | |
| Even though this has been ready for a while. | 00:23:20 | |
| My plan is to. | 00:23:23 | |
| Have them more educated on the. | 00:23:25 | |
| On the plan that we have, we've worked so hard on it. You know, the consultant did a lot of outreach, came here, spoke to us a | 00:23:27 | |
| couple of times. We decided on even how. | 00:23:32 | |
| Signs should look on our trails. | 00:23:38 | |
| All of that work. | 00:23:41 | |
| Could. | 00:23:42 | |
| Be put on the back bench. | 00:23:44 | |
| If they don't understand. | 00:23:46 | |
| So the strategy. | 00:23:47 | |
| I've taken a staff or we have taken a staff is. | 00:23:50 | |
| To allow them to get settled in. | 00:23:54 | |
| Have a couple of meetings introduce the project to them better. | 00:23:58 | |
| Where? | 00:24:02 | |
| They they, they feel they have that ownership of. | 00:24:02 | |
| Ownership and understanding of all the hard work that's gone into it. | 00:24:07 | |
| Then when it goes to City Council, we don't have an hour discussion about why didn't we do this or when did it. | 00:24:11 | |
| You know what? Did you do this? You know we don't. We want to avoid all those questions. | 00:24:17 | |
| That could deter. | 00:24:22 | |
| All the hard work. | 00:24:24 | |
| You know, you turn them from approving all, you know, all the hard work that you guys have put in. | 00:24:26 | |
| So that's the strategy. So that project is not just. | 00:24:30 | |
| Laying somewhere. | 00:24:34 | |
| My intention was after this meeting. | 00:24:38 | |
| I will. | 00:24:41 | |
| Send, you know. | 00:24:42 | |
| The new final draft that we have. | 00:24:44 | |
| Out. It's basically done. It has. | 00:24:47 | |
| All your comments and things that needs to go in. | 00:24:51 | |
| And the next thing. | 00:24:55 | |
| With that same project is. | 00:24:57 | |
| The Wayfinding master plan. It's within the. | 00:25:01 | |
| Excuse me? | 00:25:05 | |
| The wayfinding is within the. | 00:25:07 | |
| Active transportation plan update. | 00:25:10 | |
| However. | 00:25:13 | |
| We want to create. | 00:25:14 | |
| A separate document. | 00:25:16 | |
| That makes it easy. | 00:25:18 | |
| For someone who's just looking for the wayfinding. | 00:25:21 | |
| Information. | 00:25:24 | |
| To just go straight to it. | 00:25:25 | |
| Rather than having to comb through the. | 00:25:27 | |
| Active transportation plan to Chapter 6 or 7 to go find it. So we want to just pull that component out. | 00:25:29 | |
| And add a few more specifications that would help people coming into our city. | 00:25:37 | |
| That are doing business to to just grab. | 00:25:41 | |
| And go like, OK, we need to put a sign on the trail that says we have hot dogs ahead. | 00:25:44 | |
| And this is how it's supposed to look. | 00:25:49 | |
| You know so. | 00:25:51 | |
| It's just a plan that I. | 00:25:52 | |
| Been thinking about that we should have in addition to the whole project which shouldn't cost us any extra. | 00:25:54 | |
| Potentially. | 00:26:02 | |
| So even if it does, I have to do it. | 00:26:03 | |
| Internally I can do that. | 00:26:06 | |
| Sure. So. | 00:26:07 | |
| So that's the update on the plan. | 00:26:09 | |
| Next steps for that would be me sending you the draft. | 00:26:11 | |
| And I'll be updating you on. | 00:26:15 | |
| How Council is receiving it so far? | 00:26:19 | |
| Because my plan is to meet. | 00:26:21 | |
| With each council member. | 00:26:23 | |
| So they know. | 00:26:26 | |
| This is how far we've come and this is what we've produced. | 00:26:28 | |
| And you know. | 00:26:32 | |
| Share that, you know, hear their concerns. | 00:26:33 | |
| Try to answer their questions even before the day it's presented to them for adoption. | 00:26:36 | |
| Then once I've been able to go through that process, I will just kick it into Planning Commission. | 00:26:41 | |
| And ATC. | 00:26:48 | |
| And then? | 00:26:49 | |
| You know. | 00:26:50 | |
| City Council. | 00:26:51 | |
| So I know it's a long explanation for next steps for one project, but. | 00:26:52 | |
| It's worth understanding the logic behind it. | 00:26:57 | |
| So that's all I have. | 00:27:00 | |
| That's great. Thanks, Anthony. | 00:27:04 | |
| So we'll look forward to that, see this project all the way through. | 00:27:06 | |
| And when on the day that it goes to City Council? | 00:27:11 | |
| Would need to have at least one or two of you. | 00:27:15 | |
| Available to like. You don't have to make a presentation, but you have to put in a word. | 00:27:18 | |
| To just. | 00:27:23 | |
| Affirm all the good work and you know. | 00:27:24 | |
| How you're excited to use this to make the city better? | 00:27:27 | |
| There are other things that. | 00:27:30 | |
| Could be included. | 00:27:33 | |
| That we could consider as you review that, but I'm not going to bring those up until you've gone through it and. | 00:27:35 | |
| We all brainstorm on next steps for that. And it could. | 00:27:42 | |
| Potentially be beneficial to. | 00:27:46 | |
| Guiding the discussions with the new council because they're excited to make the city good. | 00:27:49 | |
| But they need to understand. | 00:27:55 | |
| And that's. | 00:27:57 | |
| You know, taking up any new role. | 00:27:59 | |
| That's what happens, right? It's a lot of information thrown at you. | 00:28:01 | |
| I don't want all our hardware to be thrown. | 00:28:05 | |
| At them. | 00:28:07 | |
| I want them to feel part of it. | 00:28:08 | |
| Gradually, so we might not be. | 00:28:11 | |
| Having this adopted. | 00:28:13 | |
| In the next month. | 00:28:16 | |
| Or two, it's on purpose, even though it's ready to go. | 00:28:17 | |
| I just wanted to be received on a different level. | 00:28:22 | |
| It would be nice. | 00:28:24 | |
| To have it for bike month but I don't know how. | 00:28:25 | |
| Long it takes to implement but. | 00:28:29 | |
| If it takes longer than maybe we roll it out. | 00:28:33 | |
| Towards the end of the year. | 00:28:37 | |
| Since oh, that's that's too far for finished document. | 00:28:39 | |
| We can once we have, because there's still a lot of things in the air. | 00:28:42 | |
| Regards to roles in the city and. | 00:28:48 | |
| Basically. | 00:28:52 | |
| The direction that the Council wants to go. | 00:28:53 | |
| So once all those things are clear to staff. | 00:28:57 | |
| We can just move forward with. | 00:29:00 | |
| Getting it in, but in the meantime while the new council and administration figure out. | 00:29:03 | |
| What they're doing? | 00:29:08 | |
| I will be scheduling meetings. I already had one meeting with Councilmember Loray and Council member. | 00:29:11 | |
| Would They both came in, we talked. | 00:29:19 | |
| Extensively about the. | 00:29:23 | |
| Plan and I felt like that was a win. | 00:29:24 | |
| So that's great. Gradually is going to creep onto the others and. | 00:29:27 | |
| Would get there. | 00:29:32 | |
| So the plan is to do it before the. | 00:29:34 | |
| You know, before the end of second quarter. | 00:29:37 | |
| But you bring up a good point. | 00:29:40 | |
| Doing it before bike month so we can call, you know we can. | 00:29:42 | |
| It gives us more bragging rights, you know. | 00:29:46 | |
| We usually do like a bike tour with the community. | 00:29:48 | |
| And so we just like. | 00:29:52 | |
| Everybody on wheels and we're just going around and it would be nice to have these wayfinders out. | 00:29:54 | |
| So it's like, hey. | 00:30:00 | |
| Like, yeah, this is brand new. Yeah, it's implementation though. | 00:30:01 | |
| We probably need to go get some grant. | 00:30:06 | |
| Or if we could sell it well. | 00:30:09 | |
| Which you have the power to do that if you could sell it well to the. | 00:30:12 | |
| New council, they could give the direction. | 00:30:16 | |
| To have some money. | 00:30:20 | |
| Allocated to make this happen. | 00:30:22 | |
| But in the meantime. | 00:30:24 | |
| We could be looking out for grants. I'm always looking and if anyone finds any grants out there. | 00:30:26 | |
| That we can apply for. | 00:30:32 | |
| If we get that, we can straight up get it installed. | 00:30:34 | |
| As long as. | 00:30:38 | |
| The Council agrees that they are installed. | 00:30:40 | |
| So. | 00:30:43 | |
| We all have some homework to do. | 00:30:45 | |
| Go find the money. | 00:30:48 | |
| Yeah. | 00:30:52 | |
| OK, I think. | 00:30:56 | |
| We've reached the end of our items. | 00:30:58 | |
| Yeah. | 00:31:01 | |
| So. | 00:31:04 | |
| I would also send the link to. | 00:31:07 | |
| This item that I have here this spreadsheet. | 00:31:11 | |
| And please feel free, I'll update it before I do it, but. | 00:31:14 | |
| Feel free to put in things and if you have any ideas. | 00:31:18 | |
| Just e-mail me, I'll give me a call. | 00:31:22 | |
| That works. | 00:31:25 | |
| As well. Umm. | 00:31:25 | |
| Great. All right, then I moved to. | 00:31:26 | |
| Adjourn our meeting. | 00:31:31 | |
| At 6:09 PM. | 00:31:33 | |
| Fantastic. | 00:31:35 | |
| Do I need a second? | 00:31:36 | |
| You're the chair. We can close. Everybody go home. | 00:31:40 | |
| Thanks. | 00:31:46 | |
| Yeah. | 00:31:52 |