* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:14] WAIT A FEW MORE MINUTES. TWO MORE DROP. YEAH, THERE'S AND HONESTLY, WE, I GUESS WE COULD START BECAUSE THE QUORUM WOULDN'T BE NEEDED FOR, UM, UNTIL THE AGENDA. I DON'T LIKE, WHAT IS IT, FIVE OR SO? OH, THE MINUTES. UH, YES. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. YES, OF COURSE. PROBABLY DO YOUR MUTUAL INTRO. PRIMARY. SURE. LIVING FAR. OKAY. OKAY. THAT'S A LOT BETTER. WOULD YOU LIKE TO OFFICIALLY PAUSE THE BE ORDER? ALRIGHT, LET'S BE 13. I'VE GOT IN ORDER. SO, HELLO . UM, WE'RE GONNA JUMP TO, UH, ROLL CALL. SO, UH, HERE, NOT HERE. BASICALLY WHAT I SAY. TRACY ALEXANDER, PRESENT A . CARL AZAR. JOE, YES. SECURITY. GOTCHA. LISA ION NOT HERE. REMAN. YEAH. HANG ON. ON MOVE. HI. HOW'S A HUNDRED FOGGER STANDING IN ON HER POSTER? SHE'S FOR US TODAY, BUT SHE CANNOT COUNT FOR, FOR HER FOLKS. SO, NICE. HI. NICE MEET YOU. WELCOME. THANK YOU FOR COMING. WELCOME. UH, NICK. NOT HERE. UH, S HERE. OMAR? I'M HERE. MIKE SEN? HERE. VICKY KNIGHT. B MCREYNOLDS. HE'S HERE. GREAT. ALRIGHT. SO I HAVE SEVEN AT THE MOMENT FOR WAITING. COUPLE MORE. SO, OH, SORRY. NICOLE ARDIO VENT. UH, PATRICK IS, UH, NO LONGER WITH SYDNEY, MY UNDERSTANDING. SO WE WILL DO LOOKING FOR A NEW EX OFFICIO FROM PARKS. SO WE HAVE A REQUESTING FOR THAT. UM, AND HE'S STILL AROUND, BUT, UH, VERY BUSIEST MAN AND SITS A LOT WATER. SO, UM, YOU THERE MAY HEY, WHAT I TODAY? YES. SO WE NEED SOMEONE NEW FROM . MM-HMM . AND WE ALSO NEED SOMEBODY NEW , RIGHT? YES. SO WE DO HAVE, YES, THAT'S CORRECT. UM, I KNOW THAT WE HAVE REQUESTED THAT PREVIOUSLY AND SO, UM, YES, I CAN FOLLOW UP ON THAT TO SEE. YEAH. PATRICK'S EX OFFICIO, IS THAT, IS THAT A DESIGNATED POSITION FOR H PART TO BE ONE? YES, THAT'S CORRECT. BUT THAT WENTS A LOT EASIER. H HPDS IS A DESIGNATED PERSON, SO IT'S THE SAME THING AND I THINK THE MAYOR WOULD'VE TO DESIGNATE THAT, UM, WHERE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT . OKAY. SO THAT ONE MAY BE MORE THE MAYOR DOES NOT FEEL THEN, UH, BASICALLY IT'S DEPARTMENT IT DESIGNATED. OKAY. INSTEAD OF AN INDIVIDUAL PERSON PI FORUM TWO 16. PERFECT. UM, WHERE, YEAH, SO FORUM IS PRESENT. UM, SO Y'ALL, I COPY THE AGENDA IN FRONT OF YOU AND THEN I'VE ALSO INCLUDED PRINT OUT COPY OF THE, UH, RESOLUTION LETTER SUPPORT THAT WE'LL BE DISCUSSING HERE ON AGENDA ITEM, UH, SHORTLY. SO NEXT WE'LL HEAD TO THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT AND WE'LL BY NICOLE. AND SHE HAS, SHE'S GONNA GIVE US AN UPDATE ON THE MKT FOCUS. HELLO. GONNA SEND EVERYONE ON NICOLE THAT WE, THE DIRECTOR HERE IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND THE CURRENT, UH, ASSIGNED, UH, DIRECTOR FOR THIS COMMITTEE. SO MY DIRECTOR'S REPORT IS AN UPDATE THAT WE RECEIVED FROM HPW CAPITAL PROJECT GROUP, UH, FOR THE REQUEST OF THE BAC. UM, WE FOLLOWED UP ON THE STATUS OF THE REOPENING OF THE MKP HOLD STREET BRIDGE. AND WHILE PUBLIC WORKS NOT ABLE TO MAKE THIS MEETING TODAY, THEY HAVE PROVIDED THIS WRITTEN UPDATE. WE AS F CONSULTING WILL BE STARTING THEIR ASSESSMENT ON THE BRIDGE NEXT WEEK. AND IT IS EXPECTED TO LAST APPROXIMATELY FIVE WEEKS. A STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED ON THE REMOVAL OF THE BLIND TURN ALONG AN MKT TRAIL BRIDGE. OKAY. [00:05:01] UPON COMPLETION OF THE STUDY, AN INVITATION WILL BE SENT FOR A PRESENTATION, A BLIND TURN ON THE MKT BRIDGE GO UNDERNEATH. SO THE WEIGHT OF VALUE? YES. YES. UNDERNEATH AND TAKING GOTCHA. YEAH. UM, CFS CONSULTING PLAN TO PRESENT ITS FINDINGS ON THE BRIDGE ASSESSMENT ON APRIL 14TH, 2025, THE UPCOMING TASKS THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED INCLUDE REACHING A CONSENSUS AMONG ALL STAKEHOLDERS REGARDING THE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT OF THE BRIDGE. AND THAT A TIMELINE WILL BE SHARED AFTER A NOTICE OF PROCEED HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE ENGINEER OF RECORD TO PROCEED ON THE DESIGN A CRITICAL REPORT. OKAY. I'M GLAD TO HEAR THEY'RE ADDRESSING THAT FLYING CURVE UNDERNEATH. I THAT'S, SO, IS IS THERE ANYTHING YOU MENTIONED ABOUT, UH, DETOURS DURING THE, THAT WE GOT ? YEAH, I BELIEVE THEY DO HAVE DETOUR INFORMATION. THEY HAVE A CREATED WEBSITE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THIS BRIDGE. AND SO IT'S MY RECOLLECTION, I LOOKED AT IT LAST WEEK THAT THEY HAD WRITTEN DETOUR INFORMATION. CAN I SAY THAT WHAT I HEARD? SURE. SO WHAT I HEARD WAS A CONSULTANT HAS BEEN SELECTED, THEY'RE GONNA DO A FIVE WEEK ASSESSMENT, THEY'VE GOT A PRESENTATION SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 14TH, AT WHICH TIME THEY WILL GATHER CONSENSUS FROM THE STAKEHOLDERS TO MAKE A DECISION. ARE WE GOING TO REPAIR THIS BRIDGE AT HOGAN STREET OR REPLACE IT? AT WHICH POINT THEY'LL GET NOTICE TO PROCEED TO BEGIN DESIGN OF EITHER REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT. MM-HMM . DID THEY SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE LIKELY DURATION OF THE DESIGN PHASE ONCE THAT DECISION IS MADE? I THINK THAT THAT'S THE PART OF WHY THERE'S NOTHING IN LINE RIGHT NOW IS THAT THEY SAID BASICALLY THAT THEY DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY THEY NEED TO GO. OKAY. AND SO A TIMELINE IS KIND OF CONTINGENT UPON A REPAIRABLE REPLACEMENTS, YOU VERY MUCH FORGETTING THAT. YES. YOU KNOW, THE THING THAT THEY HAD SAID PREVIOUSLY WAS THE PERMITTING PROCESS, YOU KNOW, REQUIRED BECAUSE, UH, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT ARMY BOARD ENGINEERS WILL HAVE TO, UM, YOU KNOW, GRANT A PERMIT BECAUSE YOU HAVE PIPELINES GOING INTO THE BAYOU YEAH. THE FLOOD. YEAH. AND SO THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, PROCESSED AS AMBIGUOUS LINK AND WILL BE REQUIRED. SO I KNOW THAT TALKING WITH SOME OF THE BUFFALO BAYOU PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE THE YOU OF THE OTHER PLANNED NATIONAL BRIDGES, YOU KNOW, THAT PROCESS CAN TAKE, IT'S GONNA TAKE LONGER NOW TOO, BECAUSE FORESTS FACING THE SAME CUTBACKS THAT OTHER FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS ARE FACING. SO NORMALLY BE MAYBE A SIX TO NINE, NINE MONTH PROCESS IS GOING TO BE WHO KNOWS WHAT, AND IT'S AN OLD BRIDGE, YOU KNOW, OR THE REMEDIATION OF THE LINE CURVE. MM-HMM . THAT'LL BE ITS OWN PROJECT. AND THAT'LL CORRECT THE, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'LL BE ITS OWN PROJECT BECAUSE IT KIND OF CURVES BECAUSE OF THE TRESTLES ON THE EXISTING BRIDGE. SO THAT'LL WAIT TILL THE YEAH, I THINK THAT THE, IT'LL BE, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THAT WOULD BE ADDRESSED AS PART OF THE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT, YOU KNOW, IT DEPENDS ON THE DESIGN THAT THEY GO WITH, BUT DEFINITELY KIND OF WOULD BE WAY SLEEPER. YEAH. MM-HMM . BUT WE MAY KNOW QUICKLY WHAT THE RECOMMENDATION IS YOU NEXT MONTH. SO THAT PRESENTATION THOUGHT COULD BE TO, IT SOUNDED LIKE THAT THAT WOULD BE TO PUBLIC WORKS AND THEN THEY WOULD THEN HAVE A, SOME TYPE OF YEAH, I LITERALLY COPY AND PAST IT. WHAT PUBLIC WORKS TO ME, A STUDY, AN INVITATION WILL BE SENT FOR REPRESENTATION. I CAN SPECIFICALLY SAY THIS IN THE AUDIENCE IS THE VICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THE ASSUMPTION THAT I'M MAKING IS THAT AN INVITATION WE PRESENTED TO MEMBERS, THEREFORE HAVE A COLLEGE TO BEING BRIEFED ONCE THEY HAVE THAT, UM, DECISION. AND SO, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE SCOPE IS, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE YOU SO UNFORTUNATELY BE AN OPTION. YEAH. I WOULD SAY THAT, UH, THERE'S SOME NEIGHBORHOODS AROUND IDENTIFY SOMETHING TO SAY IN SUPPORT OF WHATEVER MM-HMM . . MM-HMM . VERY IMPORTANT COURT ORDER. YES. PLEASE. CAN WE FORMALLY INVITE THEM TO MAKE THAT PRESENTATION AT THE NEXT FULL MEETING OF THE VAC ON APRIL 23RD? I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, I CAN, I COULD DEFINITELY SAY THERE IS A MEETING ON APRIL 23RD IN THAT THE LINES, YOU KNOW, OR A SHORT VERSION OF THE PRESENTATION. THEY SAID AN INVITATION WILL BE SENT TO US NOW THAT WE WILL INVITE THEM TO I'M, I'M HAPPY. GREAT. YEAH. YEAH. ALWAYS THE EXAMPLE. WHO IS THE VE PUBLIC WORKS? IT'S PUBLIC WORKS CAPITAL PROJECT. YEAH. AND WHO IS, HOW DO WE DEFINE STAKEHOLDERS ON, SO IT WOULD BE STAKEHOLDERS WHO FIND CONSENSUS. IS THAT PUBLIC WORKS? ARMY CORPS PARKS BOARD? I, YES. THEY WERE NICE ENOUGH TO, YOU KNOW, GIVE US SOME MORE, YOU KNOW, UPDATES AND STUFF. WE'RE ALSO, YOU KNOW, ENGINEER [00:10:01] WAS THE PERSON THAT ENGINEERS OVER THERE. YEAH. OH YEAH. YEAH, THEY DO. YEAH, WE DO REDIRECTOR. UM, THIS GROUP HAVE THREE TO FIVE STAKEHOLDERS IN MIND THAT YOU WANT TO ASK WILSON TO COMMUNICATE ACTIVE PUBLIC WORKS. THIS SHOULD BE ESSENTIAL TO THAT PROCESS. WE COULD OFFER, I MEAN, WE CAN OFFER RECOMMENDATIONS. THEY DON'T, AGAIN, THEY DON'T HAVE TO TAKE THEM, BUT WE CAN STILL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION. MIKE, YOU MENTIONED THE NEIGHBORHOODS. SO ONLY TWO AND 15, THAT 7 22, THAT 7 15, 15 SITES. AND, YOU KNOW, THE TEXTILE PROJECT THAT'S GOING ON THERE, NOW'S GONNA HAVE, YOU KNOW, NEW PROXIMITY. THERE'S GONNA BE VERY CONNECTIVITY IF THEY DO WHAT THEY'VE SAID FOR . AND THEY'VE ALREADY STARTED OFF THAT. SO DURATION AND THEN THEY GOT THE NORTH PINAL PROFIT ALSO. ANYTHING ELSE? UH, NICOLE? NO, THAT'S IT. , WERE THERE, IS THERE ANY UPDATE FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ON RESTAFFING STAFFING? THE, THIS COMMITTEE? THAT COMMITTEE OR THE OTHER COMMITTEE? SO, I MEAN, THEY HAVE NOT ACTED ON ANY OF THE COMMISSIONS OR ANY BOARDS. NO. AND THEY'RE EXPIRAL, WE'RE A YEAR AND THREE MONTHS NOW TO THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. WE'RE, WE'RE NOT A BUDGET ISSUE EITHER. UM, WELL, THAT MAY BE A GOOD LEAD INTO MY REPORT. I'M SORRY, WE, I HAVE A PUBLIC, WE COULD WE DO SPREADSHEET? NO, NO, THAT'S ACTUALLY AFTER THE CHAIRS CHAIR PUBLIC TIME. OKAY. YOU'RE OKAY. OKAY. UH, I JOINED THIS COMMITTEE IN 2020 AND THE THEREAFTER, THE CHAIR AT THE THAT TIME INVITED ME TO TAKE HER PLACE THROUGH HER FRUSTRATION FOR CASE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF FLIGHT PLAN. UM, AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WANTED THINGS TO HAPPEN FASTER, BUT AT LEAST THEY WERE HAPPENING AND THEY WEREN'T BEING ROLLED BACK. UM, I STAYED ON, EVEN IN FULL VIEW WHAT WAS LIKELY AND THEN HAS HAPPENED UNDER THE, THE ADMINISTRATION. 'CAUSE I THOUGHT THAT CONTINUITY WAS IMPORTANT FOR THIS COMMITTEE IN THAT CHANGE AT THE ADMINISTRATION. UM, UH, WE'RE HERE IN THREE MONTHS NOW AND, UM, I THINK IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE AT LEADERSHIP FOR THIS COMMITTEE. UH, I, I AM BY NATURE A COLLABORATIVE PERSON. I'M MODIFIED OR I THINK THERE'S NOBODY TO COLLABORATE WITH THE CITY OWNER. IT'S JUST THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT LOOKING TO IT. AND I THINK AT THIS TIME, AND THIS IS JUST ME, AND IT'LL DEPENDENT ON WHAT YOU ALL DO, BUT, UH, MAYBE IT'S FINE ME THAT SOMEONE WHO'S NOT AFRAID TO STAND UP, UH, TO THE MAYOR AND THE POWER. I MEAN, I HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE. I'M RETIRED , YOU KNOW, BUT IT'S JUST NOT MY NATURE, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S, IT'S FOR SOMEONE WHO MAY BE MORE ORIENTED THAT WAY. MAYBE IT'S TIME FOR THAT PERSON TO STEP UP. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LOGISTICS ARE. I THINK THE MAYOR APPROVES OR APPOINTS THE CHAIR AND AS ANXIOUS AS THE MAYOR HAS BEEN TO FILL ANY OF THE OTHER OPENINGS, I'M NOT SURE WHEN THAT WILL HAPPEN. UM, IN THE MEANTIME, I WOULD ASSUME ALEJANDRO WILL TAKE OVER AS VICE CHAIR. I WILL, I'LL SAY. SO I READ THE ORDINANCE TODAY RESEARCHING QUORUM ABOUT THE COMMITTEE, AND YES, THE, THE, THE GROUP APPOINTS THE VICE CHAIR AND THE MAYOR IS THE ONE THAT DESIGNATES THE CHAIR. AND SO WE WILL TALK WITH OUR, UM, YOU KNOW, LEGAL PERSON ABOUT HOW THAT WORKS AND IF THE RESPONSIBILITIES FALL FROM YEAH. THE CHAIR TO THE VICE CHAIR AT THAT TIME. AND SO YOU, UH, YOU KNOW, I CAN HAVE AN UPDATE TO YOU, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THE NEXT PHASE VIA EMAIL OUT TO APPROVE AND FIND OUT WHAT THE PROCESS LOOKS LIKE. RIGHT? ALRIGHT. MM-HMM . AND IN THE MEANTIME, IT, IT APPEARS THAT, AGAIN, UNDER THE MAYOR IN ACTIVITY, THAT WE ARE ESSENTIALLY ON THE COMMITTEE FOR LIFE. THAT'S BECAUSE HE'S NOT DOING ANYTHING TO REPLACE THAT. I'LL, I'LL REMAIN AVAILABLE, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR ATTENDANCE AS PART OF THE COMMITTEE. AT LEAST THAT'S MY CURRENTLY, UM, TODAY EXTENT THAT'S NEEDED. AND I'M ALSO, UH, LEAH IS ALSO GOING TO, UH, RESIGN FROM HER POSITION AS A CHAIR OF THE EDUCATION SUN COMMITTEE. SO I'LL HAVE THAT, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT THE GROUP , YOU KNOW, SO MM-HMM . YOU ALL COULD GO AHEAD AND CAN DO THAT. YOU CAN DO IT DIFFERENT NOW. MEAN AT THIS MEETING? OR MAYBE WE ALL, I WOULD RECOMMEND LET'S WAIT [00:15:01] TILL THE NEXT ONE. IF PEOPLE, INCLUDING THOSE WHO AREN'T HERE NOW, A CHANCE TO KNOW ABOUT THAT, IT GIVES US SOME THOUGHT AS AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, MAYBE AS THE NEXT COMMITTEE WORK ON FILLING THAT POSITION OR VOTE FOR THAT. SO THAT IS MY REPORT. JUST TO BE CLEAR, MY RESIGNATION FOR THE COMMITTEE OR JUST AS CHAIR, JUST LET ME START BY SAYING I RESPECT YOU AS A PERSON AND YOU SHOULD DECIDE WHAT YOU'RE DOING OR NOT DOING NEXT. I'M TRYING TO THINK THROUGH PROCEDURALLY TWO SCENARIOS. ONE IS, IF YOU WERE TO NOT COME, IF YOU WERE TO STAY ON YOUR ROLE AS BAC CHAIR, THAT YOU DID NOT ATTEND A MEETING, WE HAVE A PROCESS THAT WOULD SAY THE VICE CHAIR RUNS THE MEETING AND THEN YOU EXIST. MAYBE YOU'RE NOT MEETING A CHARGE, BUT YOU EXIST ON, ON MC. DOES THAT SOUND RIGHT? SO FAR THAT'S WHAT MY INTENT WAS, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S, THAT SQUARES WITH WHATEVER HE'S GOING TO RESEARCH. WELL, SO MY FOLLOW UP QUESTION IS, DOES YOUR RESIGNATION, DOES YOUR EXPLICIT RESIGNATION FROM THE BAC BECOME THE IMPETUS THAT TRIGGERS THE MERIT DEPICT A NEW HUMAN? I, I DID NOT READ MUCH IMPETUS IN THE COORDINATE. OKAY. IN TERMS OF FORCING TYPE OF ACTION. OKAY. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, WE SAID THIS HAS BEEN AN ONGOING DISCUSSION, NOT LIMITED TO THE BAC. OKAY. AND SO WE CAN, UM, YOU KNOW, FIND OUT KIND OF WHAT HAPPENS AND IF THERE'S A SITUATION WHERE HE NEEDS NOT HERE FOR A MEETING, HOW TO, YOU KNOW, THE MEETINGS OPERATE AS THE VICE CHAIR OR VERSUS LIKE AN ACTUAL FULL RESIGNATION. YOU KNOW, WE CAN KIND OF, KIND OF WALK THROUGH THAT AND FIND OUT THE OPTIONS. YEAH. AND TO REACT. I HAVE A FOLLOW UP. WHY STOP ABOUT IF YOU THEY TAKE CHAIR MM-HMM . AND LEAVE THE COMMITTEE, ALL THE OTHER, THAT'S AN EMPTY SLOT, WHICH REDUCES THE CORE PERFORMANCE. CORRECT. BASED ON WHAT YOU, OKAY. YES. SO I MEAN THAT'S, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. WE NEED TO THINK THIS THING THROUGH PROOF. WELL, MAYBE YOU BETTER FOR ME TO DO THAT THEN. UH, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IT'S IT'S YOUR DECISION. UM, YEAH. BUT AGAIN, JUST TO, YEAH. TO FACILITATE THE ONGOING FUNCTION AND EVERYTHING. I MEAN, BASICALLY THE, THE COMMITTEE'S GETTING SMALLER. HONESTLY, THE MAP DOESN'T REALLY CHANGE PHYSICALLY. LEAH, WE RESIGNING. SO CURRENTLY MY ACCOUNT WAS THEIR 16 BUILD SEATS. SO FARM FARMERS ARE NINE. SO IF THAT DROPS FROM 16 TO 15, THEN THE FARM FARMERS DROP TO EIGHT. AND THEN IF WE DRIVE IT AGAIN BY ONE MORE. AND SO, UM, ANYWAY, YES. SO WHERE DO THE RULES SAY IF THE MAYOR CHURCH HIS DUTIES, UH, PUBLICLY AS FAR AS LIKE APPOINTING COMMITTEES, IF HE'S JUST GONNA DISREGARD EVERY SINGLE COMMITTEE, IS THERE SOME SORT OF RULE SET OF HOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO ACT IN THIS SITUATION? IF THEY DON'T WANNA APPOINT CHAIRS, THEY DON'T WANNA APPOINTING MEMBERS, BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT'S KIND OF RIDICULOUS TO BE SPENDING MONEY ON OUR ROOM AND PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER TO TRY TO FIX THINGS AND MAKE OUR CITY BETTER. AND HE'S REFUSING TO BE A PART OF THIS PROCESS SO THAT WE APPOINT OUR OWN CHAIR IN THE ABSENCE OF THAT LEADERSHIP. BECAUSE IF HE DOESN'T WANNA LEAD, THEN OKAY, LET'S, LET'S THIS COMMITTEE NEEDS DONE. I MEAN, WHAT ARE THE RULES SAY WHEN THE MAYOR DOESN'T DO HIS DUE DILIGENCE IN HIS JOB? AND I HOPE WE'RE BEING REPORTED. SO, SO I'LL SAY THAT THE COORDINATES, I THINK IS, UH, RELATIVELY CLEAR IN TERMS OF WHO CAN APPOINT MEMBERS AND WHO CAN APPOINT THE CHAIR. AND THAT'S THE MAYOR. AND THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, MY EXPERIENCE ALSO WITH PLANNING COMMISSION, SO LIKE STATE LAW REGULATES THAT PLANNING COMMISSION, IF THEY DON'T ACT ON PLAS WITHIN 30 DAYS, 13 DEFERRED. AND SO THERE IS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING LE LIKE THE BAC IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, NOT APPROVING PLAN OR PERMITS. AND SO THERE'S NOT AS MUCH, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY REPERCUSSIONS. AND SO, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT'S LIKE THE VOTERS ARE THE ONES THAT DO THE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE ELECTED OFFICIALS DUTY TO ACT ON, YOU KNOW, THEIR KIND RESPONSIBILITIES. AND SO, UM, YEAH. SO I THINK YOU KIND OF LEAVE IT AT THAT. SO THERE'S NOTHING THAT EVEN THESE MEMBERS EMPLOYEES, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE ALL, YOU KNOW, GUESS THE MAYOR'S THE ONE THAT HAS THE POWER OF THE ORDINANCE TO DO THOSE. THAT THE YES. JUST A REMIND YOU FOLKS, THE VAC EXISTS BECAUSE THE CITY COUNCIL PASSED AN ORDINANCE YES. IN CONCERT WITH THE HOUSTON, BY WE EXIST BECAUSE OF ORDINANCE. WE DON'T GO AWAY WITHOUT MAJORITY OF CITY COUNCIL VOTING TO MEXICO GO AWAY. CORRECT. [00:20:01] AND AGAIN, I THINK WHAT WE'RE KIND OF ALLUDING TO IS WHAT HAPPENS IF THE SEEDS PERPETUALLY, YOU KNOW, BECOME VACANT AND THEY DWINDLE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE OTHER SIDE OF IT. SO, SO THAT'S SOMETHING I'VE IN ALL YEARS SEEN IN THE TERRITORY. SO I HAVE TO, YOU'VE NOT SEEN THAT IN NEARLY TWO DECADES, RIGHT? HERE IN HOUSTON AND IN YEAH. IN NEW ORLEANS BEFORE THAT, NEVER SEEN THIS HAPPEN. SO I, UH, WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO OUR LEGAL EXPERT ON WHAT THE POSSIBILITIES ARE, WHAT THE ANSWERS ARE TO YOUR QUESTION, BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA MM-HMM . MISSPEAK MS. BETTER TO ASK FORGIVENESS AND PERMISSION. WE GO THE THAT'S ON SALARY, YOU KNOW, MAKING BE VALID. THAT, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I WAS GONNA STICK. NO, FAIR. I GET IT. BUT I'M JUST LIKE, I BEEN, STAGNATION IS THE DEATH OF THINGS REALLY. WE WANNA SAY THAT IT, WE NOT STAGNATION IS DEAF POSITION. YEAH. SO, LIKE I SAID, THIS IS NOT UNIQUE TO THE BEAST. NO, I KNOW. SO I TO BRING THAT BACK AROUND AND, AND LAY IT AT SOME SPEED. AGAIN, NOT TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO. IF, IF YOU NEED TO BE OFF THE COMMITTEE, THEN RESIGN. IF YOU'RE OPEN TO EXPLORING, I WOULD PROPOSE YOU MIGHT PUT A REQUEST TO STAFF THAT SAYS, PLEASE GIVE US A FRAMEWORK OF IF THE CHAIR RESIGNED, THEN THIS HAPPENED, IF THE CHAIR EXISTS. BUT IS IT PRESENT THAT THIS HAPPENS? LIKE, DO YOU WANT AN ANSWER TO THAT SET OF QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU DECIDE? IS WHAT I'M ASKING? WELL, I'M GONNA RESIGN AS CHAIR REGARDLESS. IT SOUNDS LIKE RIGHT NOW IT WOULD NOT BE HARMFUL FOR ME TO STAY ON THE COMMITTEE FROM A FORUM STANDPOINT AND JUST, YOU KNOW, IN CASE OTHER PEOPLE CHOOSE TO DO SOMETHING ELSE TOO AND LOSE, I MEAN, I AM CONCERNED THAT THE MAYOR MIGHT HAVE AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE AND JUST WATCHING THE COMMITTEES, I DON'T KNOW WHY HE'D HAVE AN ONUS AGAINST OTHER COMMITTEES. THIS ONE, I COULD UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD, WOULD LOVE TO JUST SEE IT. YOUR KIND, THE TRICK DWINDLE DOWN. UH, OTHERS. I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU WOULD HAVE THAT MOTIVATION. WHO KNOWS. UM, BUT SO I, I'D REFER NOW AND CORRECT, YOU KNOW, ANYONE, CORRECT ME IF YOU SEE, OTHERWISE IT SEEMS LIKE THERE MAY BE VALUE TO STATING AROUND JUST TO HELP THE COMMITTEE CONTINUE, YOU KNOW, IN SOME FORM. AND WE CAN SPEAK FOR EVERYONE THAT WOULD, WHAT'S THAT? I THINK I CAN SPEAK FOR, FOR EVERYONE THAT WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO STAY ON THAT COMMITTEE FOR, FOR THOSE READINGS AS WELL. WE ALL, IF WE ALL FOLLOW ONE BY ONE OVER PERIOD OF TIME, I DO PLAN TO, UH, UH, SEND A LETTER TO THE MAYOR EXPLAINING WHY BE SO MORE RELEVANT OF WHAT NOW DO HERE PERSON THAT ESSENTIALLY THE FRUSTRATION THAT THE NEED FOR CHANGE. I THINK I WILL ALSO, UM, THE WAY THAT SEATS ARE, LIKE THE SLOTS ARE KIND OF BUILT, UM, I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NOT IN A SEAT THAT IS LIKE THE CHAIR ONLY KIND OF, BECAUSE THERE MAY BE A SITUATION BASED ON HOW IT'S ALL WRITTEN THAT LIKE YOU CAN, YOU CAN'T BE A NON-AIR AND BE ON COMMITTEE. 'CAUSE YOU'RE SITTING IN LIKE THE CHAIR'S PORTION ON THE PAC. AND SO HE SAID WE'LL HAVE SPECIAL LEGAL WE'LL RUN THROUGH THE PERMUTATIONS OKAY. AND KIND OF PRESENT YOU OPTIONS BEFORE YOU OFFICIALLY MAKE YOU KNOW ACTION. OKAY. METAPHOR, LIKE WITH RECORD, YOU KNOW, PLEASE, I KNOW YOU SAID YOU SAYING LIKE, YOU KNOW, A WRITTEN, YOU KNOW, WOULD BE GOOD JUST TO MAKE THINGS, YOU KNOW, UNCLEAR LETTER. YEAH. A LETTER WOULD BE, WOULD BE GOOD. YOU KNOW, I'LL HOLD OFF UNTIL I, ONE SECOND. WE RETURNING THAT, MY UNDERSTANDING PROCEDURALLY IS THAT THE WAY PEOPLE COME TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OR ANY OTHER BOARD OF COMMISSION IS THEY SUBMIT AN ONLINE APPLICATION FOR BOARDS AND COMMISSION FOLKS. IS IT POSSIBLE TO SPEAK AND REVIEW A LIST OF LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE THERE WHO HAVE APPLIED TO THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE? WE'VE REQUESTED THAT FOR CONSIDERATION. LIKE IF WE KNOW HOW IT COULD, ARE YOU GUYS ALLOWED TO SEE THAT LIST? AND OR, AND OR ADJACENT TO THAT, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR TOM TO, OR SOMEBODY, OR MAYBE IT'S, MAYBE IT'S THE PAP, BUT TO LIKE MAKE RECOMMENDATION HERE ARE GOOD LEADERS WHO ARE, WHO HAVE REQUESTED TO THE OFFICE AND WE WANT TO SEE YOU APPOINT THEM. LIKE, AND WE MAKE HER THEIR JOBS EASIER, RIGHT? I, I SAY I'VE NEVER ASKED TO SEE ALL THIS, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE A YES OR NO. HOW THEY WOULD BE IN BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, UH, WHICH IS NOT PLAIN, BUT IT'S SOMEONE THERE, SCOUT, I CAN'T THINK OF HER LAST [00:25:01] NAME. DARN. . UH, YOU SAID SCOTT. SCOTT. UM, SO THAT IT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, A QUESTION FOR OUR OFFICE. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S PROTECTED FROM OF THE RECORDS REQUEST. UM, AND IF IT'S NOT, THEN YOU COULD FILE THE RECORDS REQUEST TO GET, UH, TO GIVE A LOOK AT THAT. UH, BUT THAT WOULD BE THE LAW ENFORCE THAT WILL COME TO MIND IF THEY SAY NO, I, I DON'T KNOW. I I HAVE A FEELING SHE'D SAY THERE'S NO INFORMATION TO SHARE. AND IF COULD STOP MAKING ANY MOVEMENT ON US, IT PROBABLY WOULD'VE TO FOLLOW OVER THE RECORDS. OKAY. PREVIOUSLY , I MEAN, FROM AL STANDPOINT MEAN TECHNICALLY WE'VE BEEN REAPPOINTED BECAUSE YOU AND I WERE APPOINTED AT THE SAME TIME. SO KNOW WE'RE AT THE SAME TIMELINE. WE'RE TECHNICALLY NOT ON THE VA WE NO, NO, YOU ARE. SO STAY ON THE HUNDRED EXPIRES TECHNICALLY, BUT IT'S, YOU'RE STILL PLACE YES. UNDER THE IT IS THE SAME UNDER, SORRY. YEAH. YEAH, WE JUST DID. NO, I'M, SO THAT'S EVERYBODY'S INSPIRED ON BOTH COMMISSIONS AND THIS, WE'RE ALL VERY BREAKTHROUGH . SO BE PREPARED FOR ANOTHER FEW UNTIL WE OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THE DETAILS AND HELPING JUST NAVIGATE A UNUSUAL PROCESS. YEAH, MY IRRITATION WAS MAINLY AGO. I'M SORRY. I CAN, BUT IT'S, IT'S VERY MUCH SINGULAR. OUR MIRROR. WE HAVE FIXED IT. . UM, ALL RIGHT, SO NOW LET'S MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR NEED MINUTES. WE STILL MINUTES. OH, SORRY. RULE THE MINUTES. UM, YES. SO I EMAILED THESE OUT AHEAD OF TIME TO EVERYONE. ROBIN HAD A TYPO ON ONE OF THE WORDS. UM, THAT, OH, YOU'RE AHEAD. NO, I ACTUALLY BRIAN WROTE THAT ONE BEFORE. IT WAS FROM OCTOBER. UM, AND SO, YEAH, SO THIS WAS ORIGINALLY GONNA BE DONE AT THE JANUARY. UM, I DID NOT PRINT THE MINUTES, BUT I SAID DID EMAIL THEM TO EVERYONE. DID ANYBODY HAVE ANY, ANY, UM, EDITS BESIDES PROVINCE TYPO OR, I THOUGHT I TALKED ABOUT MORE THAN TRAVERSE CITY, BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER . IT WAS SIX MONTHS AGO. I SORRY. WE, I DO REMEMBER YOU TALKING ABOUT THE TRAILS AND EVERYTHING THAT WAS SPENT. YEAH, I THINK PART OF IT WAS THE SIGNAGE AND SO FORTH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE TRAIL WAY TO GET, WE COULD DO THAT DOWN HERE, BUT LIKE EVERYTHING DOWN HERE, IT'S NOT AS SIMPLE AS JUST MAKING SIGNS AND PUTTING 'EM OUT THERE. I'LL UNDERSTAND THE WAY LIFE IS IN HOUSTON. UM, YEAH. SO WE WOULD BE THE BROCHURE, BUT MOTION TO ACCEPT TOM'S ION AND FREE. YES. SECOND. ALL FAVOR. AYE. NOW WE MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT. ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS TODAY? WHICH ONE? OFFICE. ALL VERY GOOD. SO THE PUBLIC COMMENTS, UM, PEOPLE AREN'T ELIGIBLE TO SEND THESE IN AHEAD OF TIME VIA EMAIL. UM, I RECEIVED NONE. SO NOW TO BE RECOMMENDED FOR THE RESOLUTION FOR THE REPORT OF STATE STREET. SO THIS IS, UH, ROBIN, EMAIL ME THESE, UH, COPIES. SO THERE ARE TWO. SO THIS IS THE FIRST OF THE, THE TWO HERE. YOU WANT LOOK BROKE. UM, SO EVERY APOLOGIES IF ANYONE WATCHING A HILLMAN IF WE NEED TO. WHAT, WHAT DO YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU IS A DRAFT OF A POSSIBLE RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT IN FAVOR OF SAFE STREETS FOR ALL, UM, WHICH WE DISCUSSED AT THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE DATE. DOES THAT SOUND RIGHT? AND CONCEPTUALLY, A RESOLUTION IS LIKE A LETTER, BUT IT'S FORMALLY ADOPTED BY A BODY. SO IT'S NOT A LETTER FROM A PERSON TO A PERSON, BUT IT'S SAYING, HERE ARE OUR FACTS THAT WE STIPULATE THAT WE RECOGNIZE CASE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PRINCIPLES. AND THIS ONE BEGINS WITH AN OBSERVATIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, I, I PROPOSE THAT WE OBSERVE THAT EVERY PERSON DESERVES ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY, INCLUDING ACCESS TO JOB, EDUCATION AND HOUSING. EVERY PERSON DESERVES FREEDOM TO CHOOSE TO WALK OR BIKE OR RIDE TRANSIT OR DRIVE AS BEST MEETS THEIR NEEDS, ABILITY AND HOUSEHOLD BUDGET. EVERY PERSON DESERVES TO RETURN HOME SAFELY AT THE END OF EACH AND EVERY DAY. THEY'RE CONCEPTUALLY STATEMENTS FOR PRINCIPLES. THE NEXT SECTION NEEDS SOME, SOME NUMBERS STILL IN. AND MY HOPE IS THAT EITHER [00:30:01] SOMEONE ON THE COMMITTEE OR STAFF CAN HELP ME WITH THE FINAL NUMBER. THIS FATAL TRAFFIC CRASHES CLAIM 345. 3 45. IT, IT MANY WE, I WANNA GET THAT NUMBER. LET'S VERIFY IT. AND THEN SITE UP SOURCE. SO THINGS THAT HAVE FACTOR WHERE WANT TO HAVE A SOURCE. SO WE NEED TO ADD SOURCE FOR THAT. THAT'S ALL TERMS SECURITY. YES. SORRY, ON STREETS OR THIS COULD BE ON CITY OF HOUSTON STREETS. IT'S NOT CITY OF HOUSTON STREET. SORRY. IT'S STREETS IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON, BUT NOT ONLY BY THE CITY. OKAY. OKAY. SO IS THAT A PERHAPS FRIENDLY AMEND TO REFRAME THAT ONE AS ON STREET IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON? DOES THAT WORK? THANKS SHANNON. GREAT. IN 2024. SO THAT WANTS TO BE A CITABLE VERIFIABLE NUMBER FOR 2024. AND LYN ONE OTHER THING. YEAH. UH, IN DEFINING AND DIFFERENT OR DISTINCTION BETWEEN STREETS AND ROADS, SOME OF THOSE ARE LIKELY ON SOME HA STATE HIGHWAYS, WHICH ARE NOT STREETS TO THE, YOU KNOW, FROM CHINA NARROW DOWN. YEAH. AND GO GO WITH RIDE OF PLACE. YEAH. PERHAPS LIKE THIS OR JUST IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON IN GENERAL. YEAH. SO WE JUST, SO JUST, OKAY. WE'RE THINKING STREET CITY. SO, SO BACK WHERE WE STARTED. OKAY. SO WE STATE AND ER AND THEN A SOURCE. SO MY GUESS IS TECH STACK, CHRIS FOR THAT. THEN THE NEXT ONE IS SERIOUS TRAFFIC CRASHES, CRITICALLY INJURED OR IMPAIRED. ANOTHER THOUSANDS. SO WE NEED A NUMBER FOR THAT IN HOUSTON IN AGAIN IN 2024. AND THEN TECH STACK HAS A METHODOLOGY FOR ASSIGNING VALUE TO FATALITY NEEDS OR CRASHES. SO WE NEED THAT NUMBER, BUT IT IS, IT WILL BE MEASURED IN MILLIONS. NOT THAT THE TECH F MADE THESE CRASHES INFLICTED AN AVOIDABLE COST BURDEN. THAT'S A, WE RAISED OF SOME NUMBER OF MILLIONS PER YEAR ON OUR COMMUNITY. HOLD ON MATT, YOU JUST SAY IN 2024 . SO INSTEAD OF PER YEAR, JUST SAY IN 2024, UM, SURE. GOOD CATCH. IN THE FORM OF MEDICAL BILLS, LOST WAGES, HIGHER AUTO INSURANCE RATES, AND MUNICIPAL CRASH RESPONSE BUDGET. SO THOSE, THOSE THREE ARE DATA POINTS BETTER VERIFIED. THE NEXT SECTION IS BEGINNING TO BE ADVOCACY. SO THE, THE CITY OF HOUSTON'S CRITICAL EPIDEMIC OF SERIOUS AND FATAL TRAFFIC CRASHES CONTINUES TO OUTPACE THE STATE OF TEXAS AS WELL AS OTHER US CITIES. HOW DO YOU MEASURE THAT? MAYBE THAT'S A DATA. DOES IT NEED A DATA POINT? WELL, IF YOU'RE GONNA SAY THAT, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? YOU KNOW, IF YOU MEAN OUTPACING, BUT IS THAT LIKE BIRD VEHICLE MILES, YOU KNOW, VEHICLE? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. OR WHAT HAVE, SO WE NEED A NUMBER FROM NSA PROBABLY ONLY PER HUNDRED THOUSAND. HOW MANY LIKE IN AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO, DALLAS. THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. YEAH. . HOW, SO THAT'S A QUESTION TO ANSWER. JUST IF YOU'RE GONNA STAY OUT BASE JUST AS IT SAYS YOU WANT, YOU CONSIDER MULTI-YEAR DATA IN CASE IS THAT WE WANNA SEE THE TREND IN HOUSTON. I TELL OUR PEOPLE DAY. IT'S LOGICALLY SAYING IT WAY WE'RE GOING YEAH. SHOULD BE OUT. WE COULD ALSO CHOOSE THE DIFFERENT BIRD. BUT I TAKE YOUR POINT THAT THE BIRD FLYING THE DATA FOR SURE. OKAY. THE CITY OF HOUSTON'S HIGH INJURY NETWORK IDENTIFIES THAT ACTUALLY WE MIGHT WANNA BE IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ORDER THE NEXT YOU MIGHT WANT TO BE REVERSED. OKAY. UM, SO THE CITY OF HOUSTON'S HIGH INJURY NETWORK IDENTIFIES THE 9% OF HOUSTON STREETS, WHICH ACCOUNT FOR 58% OF TRAFFIC, DEATH AND SERIOUS INJURY. AND THE SUBSET OF STREETS ALLOWS THE CITY AND ITS FUNDING PARTNERS TO IDENTIFY AND PRIORITIZE SOLUTIONS TO PREVENT FUTURE SEVERE CRASHES. AND THEN KING CITY COUNCIL RECOGNIZED THAT TRAFFIC CRASHES ARE PREVENTABLE AND ADOPTED A VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN, WHICH SETS A TARGET OF ELIMINATING SERIES OF FATAL CRASHES BY IS 2030 THE RIGHT TARGET? YES. OKAY. I LOVE THAT. THE CITY OF HOUSTON'S LICENSED ENGINEERS HOLD THE PUBLIC TRUST AND HAVE A LEGAL DUTY TO MAKE HOUSTON'S STREETS SAFER FOR ALL USERS. AND FINALLY, CITY OF HOUSTON ORDINANCE 2017 DASH 2 0 8 CREATED A BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE WHO ADVISE AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE PLANNING AND THE DIRECTOR ON ACHIEVE RELATED TO BICYCLING, INCLUDING SAFETY EDUCATION, IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BICYCLE MASTER PLAN DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIES FOR FUNDING PROJECTS [00:35:01] AND PROMOTING PUBLIC PURIFICATION. SO THAT ALL OF THAT IS MEANT TO BE A PREMISE PER TAKING SOME SORT OF ACTION. AND THEN ON THE BACK, I HAVE SOME POSSIBILITIES FOR WHAT ACTION WE MIGHT BE URGING BASED ON THAT SET OF FACTS. SO BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY OF HOUSTON SHALL COMMIT TO MAKE SAFETY FOR PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, RIDE IN TRANSIT, AND DRIVING A PRIORITY. EVERY TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND PROJECT DESIGN, INCLUDING BOTH MAINTENANCE AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT CITY SHALL CEASE AND DESIST FROM REMOVAL OF PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED SAFE MULTIMODAL STREET INFRASTRUCTURE WITHOUT AN AFFIRMATIVE PLAN TO INSTALL PROVEN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES WITH AN EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE CRASH MODIFICATION FACTOR THAT MIGHT NEED A SOURCE. IT COULD, CONCEPTUALLY THAT'S A THING WE SHOULD RELEASE OR ANY AND ALL OF THE FULLY DESIGNED AND FULLY FUNDED MULTIMODAL STREET SAFETY PROJECTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON HOLD FOR REVIEW BY MAYOR WHI WHIT MEYER'S ADMINISTRATION. AND THEN THE LAST TWO SPEAK TO, DON'T TELL ME WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT, SHOW ME YOUR BUDGET AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT. SO IF STREET SAFETY AND NOT TELLING IAN IS IMPORTANT, THEN THE CITY SHOULD HAVE MONEY ASSIGNED IN THE FUTURE BUDGET TO FUND STREET SAFETY PROJECTS. AND WE SHOULD HAVE MONEY IN THE BUDGET TO PAY FOR PEOPLE LIKE WILSON AND NICOLE AND BUDGET AND A BUNCH OF OTHERS. YOU KNOW, FIND PEOPLE AT THE CITY TO DO THIS. VERY IMPORTANT. SO THAT'S THE CONCEPT. AND I THROW IT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE FOR OKAY. VERY WELL PUT TOGETHER OF COURSE WITH SOME SLIGHT OBLIGATIONS, BUT I AGREE HOLISTICALLY WITH IT, THE IDEA WHERE IT'S GOING AND WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR. OKAY? MM-HMM . AND I SUGGEST THAT THE BUDGET PIECE, UM, WOULD BE BASED ON PREVIOUS YEARS, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, PLUS INFLATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT SO THAT WE'RE NOT PULLING A NUMBER THIN AGREED. IT WAS LIKE 1.1 BILLION. RIGHT. THAT'S THE BIKES. BUT SO I THINK THERE, I DON'T KNOW IF SHOULD BE BIGGER THAN THAT. YEAH. THE, THE GROUP AT PUBLIC WORKS. I'M NOT SURE IF UM, IF THEY IT SAFETY AND MOBILITY GROUP AT PUBLIC WORKS. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE A SEPARATE LINE ITEM FOR THOSE SORTS OF THINGS. I THINK IT'S TRICKY IF IT'S, A LOT OF THEM ARE JUST PART OF STREET PROJECTS, SO IT'S HARD TO QUANTIFY EXACTLY. OKAY. ON IT. THAT'S SAFER. YEAH. WELL I THINK, I DON'T KNOW. THE ONE THING, ME, I'VE NEVER SEEN THE STATISTICS. FIRST I'M SEEING THIS BECAUSE, EXCUSE ME, 9% OF THE HOUSTON STREETS ACCOUNT FOR 58% MM-HMM . BUT WE KNOW THAT 9%, HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD IT TAKE TO FIX 9% OF OUR STREETS AND MAKE THEM SAFE OVERALL? AND THEN THE AMOUNT OF LIVES THAT WOULD BE SAVED AT THE ACTUAL, I MEAN, MY GOD, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN MAKE THAT BIGGER. THAT'S, I'M SORRY, I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT. I'VE NEVER SEEN A HOLY SMOKES. 9%, 58%. YOU KNOW THAT. YEAH. AND YOU'RE DOING NOTHING. THAT IS WHAT THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN IS FOR BE. AND BY HOW YOU COULD SAY MARK THAT OUT, MIKE. AND I'LL ADD IT USED TO BE WHEN THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN WAS PASSED IN 2020, IT WAS 6% ACCOUNTED FOR 60%. SO THE CHANGES THAT WE'VE MADE HAVE ACTUALLY LED TO, UH, THEY MOVED THE NEEDLE. WE MOVED THE NEEDLE, EXACTLY. YEAH. IT USED TO BE A SMALLER PERCENT ACCOUNTING FOR MORE, AND NOW IT'S A SLIGHTLY SMALLER PERCENT HAPPENING OF A LARGER SWATH IN DISTRICT. I WANNA ADD ONE MORE THING FROM A THINK A STEP BACK FROM THE SPECIFICS OF THIS TO A BIGGER PICTURE PROCESS. ONE OF THE IDEAS BEHIND A RESOLUTION VERSUS A LETTER IS THAT IT CAN BE ADOPTED BY MORE THAN ONE ORGANIZATION. SO THIS IS WRITTEN AS A RESOLUTION THAT CAN BE ADOPTED BY, ADOPTED BY VAC ON SOME DATE, WHICH IS PROBABLY NOT TODAY BECAUSE WE'VE GOT SOME HOLES, BUT MAYBE IT'S THE APRIL MEETING OKAY. AS A POSSIBILITY. BUT IF WE STRUCTURE IT IN A WAY THAT IS NOT SPECIFIC TO THE VAC, THIS ALSO BECOMES SOMETHING THAT'S SUPER IN 22 TED ADOPT OR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 15 TED ADOPT, OR THERE IS OTHER ORG. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YEAH, YEAH. SO AS YOU REVIEW IT, THINK BOTH IN TERMS OF IS THERE SOMETHING WE NEED TO REFINE FOR, TO MAKE SENSE FOR BAC, BUT IS THERE ALSO SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD REFINE TO MAKE IT RELEVANT TOWARD OTHERS CIVIC INSTITUTIONS, AN ORGANIZATION, SOMETHING I'LL ADD TO THIS, UH, SAFE STREETS FOR ALL THE FUNDING PROGRAM OUT THE FEDERAL HEALTH. [00:40:01] YES. SO IT SOUNDS, GIVEN THAT THE NAME IS THE SAME YES. ARE WE SUPPORTING THAT FEDERAL PROGRAMS OR WE SUPPORTING RIGHT? YES. IN, IN THIS INFORMATION OF SAFE STREETS SPELLING. RIGHT. I I WOULD EXCLUDE, I I THINK SPEAKING ONLY FOR MYSELF, YOUR QUESTION IS A VALID QUESTION. I CONSIDERED A NUMBER OF WAYS TO NAME THIS AND WHAT I ULTIMATELY DECIDED IS THAT THE FINE PEOPLE AT THE FEDERAL POT NAMED THAT PROGRAM THAT WE FOR LEAVE, THAT IS WHAT WE CARE ABOUT. WE WANT SAFE STREETS FOR ALL. I THINK IT IS OKAY THAT IT IS ALSO A FUNDING ROAD. UM, YOU REMIND ME THOUGH, THAT COULD BE ANOTHER RESOLUTION THAT'S NOT HERE, BUT MIGHT WANT TO BE. AND OR MAYBE IT'S WHERE I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE CITY OF HOUSTON DID REALLY WELL OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS IS STAFF AND PLANNING AND STAFF AND PUBLIC WORKS RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS NO SCENARIO WHERE THE CITY OF HOUSTON MUNICIPAL BUDGET HAS THE FUNDS REQUIRED TO MAKE THE IMPROVEMENTS MEANING TO OUR STREETS. AND SO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT DID WORK THAT WAS GEARED EXPLICITLY TOWARDS SETTING UP STUDIES THAT WOULD HELP US COMPETE WELL FOR FEDERAL, STATE DOLLARS AND PUBLIC WORKS SPECIFICALLY HIRED GRANTS PEOPLE TO GO CHASE THOSE PUBLIC STATE AND FEDERAL DOLLARS. AND THE CITY OF HOUSTON COMPETED REALLY WELL. WE WON RADIUS GRANTS, WE WON BUILD GRANTS, WE WON SAFETY FOR ALL GRANTS. WE RUN B WON HFA. YEAH, I SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM GRANTS. WE WON, UH, $10 TO REACH GAC. THAT COULD BE ANOTHER THING THAT WE SAY LIKE WE COULD, WE COULD OBSERVE THAT THIS IS NOT A THING WE CAN DO WITH A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY FROM THE CITY BUDGET, THAT IT MOVES THE CITY TO GO COMPETE AND WIN DOLLARS FROM OTHER FUNDATIONS. I THINK THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE. AND MAYBE YOU COULD PUT IT IN TERMS OF LEVERAGING THE CITY'S RESOURCES TO YES. SECURE MULTIPLES THEREOF THE FUNDING SPACE SOURCE. YES. AND I'LL ADD A QUESTION FOR YOU, WILSON. IS THERE AN A WAY THAT WON'T TAKE A WHOLE DAY OF YOUR LIFE TO DO, BUT IS THERE A WAY TO SAY, CITY OF HOUSTON DURING ANY GIVEN TIME PERIOD BROUGHT IN X NUMBER OF FEDERAL DOLLARS FROM THESE SPECIFIC PROGRAMS AND THEN ANOTHER SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD BROUGHT IN X NUMBER OF FEDERAL DOLLARS FOR PRO SE SPECIFIC PROGRAMS BEFORE AND AFTER? YEAH, I DON'T HONESTLY DON'T KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS. UM, I ALSO KNOW THAT ON EFFICIENCY STUDY DID A GRANT ANALYSIS FOR THE CITY. I DON'T REMEMBER. IT WAS ONE OF THE PAGES. AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF IT BROKE IT DOWN BY TRANSPORTATION. 'CAUSE THERE'S MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF WHICH DEPARTMENTS IT BE. SO THE THE THIRD PARTY EFFICIENCY STUDY THAT WHAT MEYER HIRED THE ACCOUNTING FIRM ERN AND KNOWN TO DO, THEY TALKED, THEY HAD A SPECIFIC PAGE THAT TALKED ABOUT THE CITY'S UTILIZATION OF GRANTS. I HONESTLY DON'T REMEMBER WHAT IT SAYS, BUT THEY MAY HAVE BROKEN DOWN TRANSPORTATION SPECIFIC. LIKE I SAID, THERE'S HEALTH GRANTS AND HOUSING GRANTS AND, YOU KNOW, OTHER THINGS I, I DON'T KNOW IF IT GOT THAT DETAILED, BUT I KNOW THAT THERE WAS AT LEAST A ASSESSMENT OF GRANTS. SO THAT MAY ALREADY EXIST. AND I HONESTLY DON'T WORK WITH MANY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS BECAUSE THAT'S MORE PUBLIC WORKS. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S A QUESTION I CAN ASK. SURE, YEAH. SO I COULD, IF I COULD FORMALIZE THAT REQUEST, IF YOU COULD, IF YOU'VE SEEN A REPORT THAT MIGHT HAVE IT, IF YOU COULD FIND THAT MM-HMM . AND THEN THE OTHER PERSON THAT I WOULD TALK TO IS, MY GUESS IS CATHERINE SUMMERLAND AND PUBLIC WORKS. NO, I WORKS AT THE CITY. YOU SAY, OH, OKAY. LEFT AS IN TUESDAY. I FEELING MM-HMM . OKAY. OKAY. I, I DID HAVE, UM, A, A THOUGHT ON THE, ONE OF THE, THE FIRST RESOLUTION, UM, BECAUSE DRIVING THROUGH THERE, OR SAFETY AND DRIVING THING IS A LOT OF TIMES WHEN ROAD PROJECTS GO IN, IT IS OFTEN GEARED TOWARDS CAR. YOU KNOW, MAKING IT MORE EFFICIENT, MAKING IT MORE SAFE THEN TO THE DETRIMENT OF OTHERS. SO I DON'T KNOW THAT NECESSARILY SAFETY AND DRIVING TO BE IN THERE. I THINK IT SHOULD. YEAH. BECAUSE THIS CASE IN POINT YEAH. CAN ADD, I MEAN, 11TH STREET WAS DENIGRATED AS THIS IS A PROJECT. IT'S MORE THAN THAT. IT IS SAFETY FOR EVERYBODY, INCLUDING PEOPLE DRIVING THEIR CARS BECAUSE IT'S BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN STREETS ARE DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE TO GO FASTER THAN IT'S WHAT'S SAFE TO DO. AND THAT'S WHAT THE OLD PHE DID. MM-HMM . SO PART OF IT WAS TO MAKE IT SAFER FOR, FOR PEOPLE IN CARS AS WELL AS PEOPLE WALKING, PEOPLE RIDING BIKES, WHETHER ALONG 11TH [00:45:01] OR CROSSING IT. AND, AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE REALLY, REALLY TRIED TO STRESS OVER THE PAST COUPLE YEARS. BUT NO, THIS, WE'RE NOT, AND YES, WE ARE THE BAC, OUR FOCUS IS ON BIKES, BUT OUR FOCUS IS BROADER THAN THAT. IT'S ON SAFETY FOR ALL PEOPLE IN THE STREETS. SHARE YOUR ENTHUSIASM, TOM. UM, I CAN PUT LIKE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT POINT ON IT. ONE IS THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO DIE AND ARE INJURED ON HOUSTON STREETS, OUR DRIVERS AND PEOPLE IN CARS. SO WE, WE HAVE A SERIOUS CRASH PROBLEM, NOT JUST ONE. NUMBER TWO, IN ORDER TO MOVE THE NEEDLE POLITICALLY ON THIS, WE MUST HAVE THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA STOP HAVING CRASHES IN THEIR CAR. RIGHT? THE THIRD IS, THE VERY SPECIFIC PROBLEM WE'RE UP AGAINST RIGHT NOW IS THIS ADMINISTRATION IS TAKING ADVICE FROM PEOPLE WHO SAY WORDS ABOUT MOVING CARS MORE EFFICIENTLY. RIGHT. WHEN WHAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY DOING IS MAKING STREETS MORE DANGEROUS FOR PEOPLE WHO DRIVE. AND EVERYBODY ELSE, FOR EXAMPLE, ANTOINE AND, AND MONTROSE WERE BOTH ORIGINALLY DESIGNED TO HAVE RIGHT SIZE 10 AND 11 FOOT LENGTH, WHICH WE KNOW WILL REDUCE THE CRASH RISK ON THOSE STREETS BY AS MUCH AS 10%. BUT THE ADMINISTRATION IS LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHO SAY, NO, NO, NO, WE NEED 12 BRICK HIGHWAY LANES ON STREET BECAUSE THAT'S GOOD FOR DRIVE, THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR DRIVERS IN TERMS OF . IT, IT ALLOWS, IT, IT ENABLES EXCESSIVE SPEEDING, WHICH LEADS TO MORE AGGRESSIONS, WHICH IS THAT FOR EVERYONE STUDYING TO DRIVERS. SO THAT, THAT'S, I GUESS THAT'S THE, THE CONTEXT FOR WHICH I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE SAY WE CARE ABOUT THE SAFETY OF DRIVERS AND THAT WE'RE, THIS IS, THESE ARE NOT WHITE PROJECTS, THESE ARE SAFETY PROJECTS. YEAH. IT'S MEANT TO BE INCLUSIVE MAP. I JUST, I THINK THE RESO THE OTHER RESOLUTIONS ARE JUST SO THEY'RE VERY CLEAR AND HAVE VERY CLEAR GOAL. LIKE, LIKE VERY CLEAR, LIKE RELEASE ALL THESE PROJECTS COMMIT TO THIS PARTICULAR AMOUNT OF FUNDS. BUT THIS ONE, I FEEL IT IS STILL VERY BROAD. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A WAY TO MAKE, MAKE IT MORE MAYBE. YEAH. I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW IS IT TOP ONE ON THE SECOND PITCH? IS THAT ONE THE TOP ONE? YEAH. WOULD YOU WANNA SAY COMMIT TO MAKING SAFETY THE TOP PRIORITY FOR PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, DRIVING TRANSIT, AND DRIVING IN A DIFFERENT ORDER? YEAH. SO THE, THE IDEA IS THAT LIKE, I LIKE IT. IT'S THAT YOU'RE MAKING SAFETY THE PRIORITY. THAT'S ACTUALLY THE POINT, RIGHT? INSTEAD OF MOVEMENT OR WHATEVER. YEAH. AND IT'S JUST A SMALL ORDER CHANGE, BUT I THINK LIKE THAT'S THEN THE REQUEST. YEAH. MAKE SAFETY THE PRIORITY. I LIKE IT. I GUESS SAY SAFETY'S NOT THE PRIORITY BECAUSE I UNFORTUNATELY TO LIVE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THEY HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE, THEY HAVE THINGS AND EVERY MORNING I WATCH MY KID THERE GET MURDERED BY EITHER THE METRO CARS RUNNING LIGHTS AT SPEED ON MEMORIAL BECAUSE THE LANES ARE WIDE ENOUGH, RIGHT. TO MOVE TRAFFIC EFFICIENTLY. RIGHT. AND PEOPLE ARE DOING SPEEDS THAT ARE IN EXCESS AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. I GOT PASSED BY SOMEONE GOING 65 ON INDIVIDUAL DRIVE THE OTHER DAY. GARY ASKED FOR A RACE TRACK AS WELL. YEAH. ALL THESE STREETS ARE NOT DESIGNED. THE DRIVERS ARE INDIVIDUALS CREDIT. IT'S THE INDIVIDUALS OUTSIDE THE CAR THAT PAY THE CONSEQUENCE NOT TO DRIVE IN THAT CAR. NOW WE GET TOO, THINK IT WAS VEHICLE VEHICLE, BUT FOR THE MOST PART THEY HAVE A HIGHER PROBABILITY OF SURVIVAL IN A CAR THAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE SIZE. SO I THINK IT'S SAFETY ON EVERYBODY'S POINT, BUT SPECIFICALLY IT IS THAT PERSON OUTSIDE OF THAT CAR WHO IS AT THE GREATEST RISK IN THOSE SITUATIONS. THAT'S COMING FROM A GUY OUT TO THREE QUARTER TIME JACK TO DECENT. I CAN'T SAY IT'S NOT SAFE. THANK YOU. ESPECIALLY FOR GOLD RESOLUTION THAT ONGOING. YEAH. SINCE I FUNDED PROJECT, BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A YEAR, MY GIRL AND JEAN , IT'S BEEN A YEAR AND THIS IS THE MAYOR'S, UH, OFFICE FIRST LOAN REVIEW OF THESE PROJECTS. AND THAT I THINK BEFORE NOW, THERE'S NEVER BEEN, IT'S NEVER BEEN ON PUBLIC RECORD. WHAT OUR STANCE OF WRITTEN IS PROJECT. SO PUBLIC RECORD AND MAYBE, UM, A WAY TO REWORD THAT IS RECENTLY INVOLVED POLICY PROJECTS. ALTHOUGH I DO LIKE WORK ON POLICY. I, FOR ME, THERE WAS A REASON WHY YOU HAD CERTAIN ONE'S POLICY YOU YEAH. LEAST NOT SPECIFIC FEEDBACK. OBJECTION. THEY'RE JUST, THEY'RE JUST PAUSE. WE'LL KNOW WHY FOR THEM TO COME ON. YEAH. YEAH. HAVE OTHER, I GUESS ONE MORE THAT THAT DIDN'T OCCUR TO ME WHILE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT IS BEN MENTIONED SPEED WITH SERIOUS MEMORIAL AND ON ALMOST HOUSTON STREET, THE, THE, THE DESIGN WE NEED ARE INTENDED TO REDUCE DRIVER SPEED [00:50:01] BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT AT 20 MILES AN HOUR A PEDESTRIAN OR SOMEONE OUTSIDE OF VILLE HAS A 90% CHANCE OF SURVIVING, BUT AT 40 MILES AN HOUR THEY HAVE A 10% CHANCE OF SURVIVING. RIGHT. DOES THAT WANT TO BE ITS OWN, ITS OWN THING HERE? BOTH. UH, WHEREAS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF SPEED ON THE FACT SEVERITY AND THEN A RESOLUTION THAT BEST SPEED MANAGEMENT MUST BE ONE OF THE ACTIC THAT WE PRIORITIZE. YEAH, I THINK, I THINK WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THE CULTURAL ISSUE THAT WE HAVE USED. THE IDEA THAT WE MUST GO A HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR EVERYWHERE WE GO, AS FAST AS WE POSSIBLY CAN GO. AND THE ISSUE WITH THOSE LANES BEING AS WIDE AS THEY ARE, PEOPLE CAN TALK ON THEIR PHONE TEXT, THEY CAN WATCH, I'M WATCHED PEOPLE WATCHING YOUTUBE AND PRIME VIDEO IN FRONT OF ME WHILE GOING, YOU KNOW, SPEED. AND SO I THINK TO YOUR POINT, CHANGING THE CULTURE AND PRIORITIZING THAT, HEY, LEAVE EARLIER. DON'T GO , WATCH ALL THE TV. YOU WANT DATA THAT YOU ALLUDED TO. UM, YOU MAY FIND, I, I KNOW THAT SOME OF THE NUMBERS THAT WE'VE BEEN USING FOR MANY YEARS CAME FROM THE UK IN THE 1980S. OKAY. UM, CARS IN THESE UNITED STATES IN THE 2020S, TWICE IT SIZE. UH, SO I THINK WE MAY UPDATED NUMBERS. DON'T LOOK AT ME. I SAW YOU LOOKING AT ME. I'D LIKE THAT. I'VE SEEN YEAH. YEAH. BUT THE NUMBERS FROM THEN ARE HEROIN EVEN STILL, RIGHT? YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. AND MAYBE THAT SECOND RESOLUTION IS ABOUT LIKE DESIGNING, DESIGNING FOR SAFETY. NOT SO MUCH LIKE IN YOUR FACE ABOUT LIKE REDUCING SPEEDS OR WHATEVER. BUT IT'S LIKE DESIGNING FOR, BECAUSE IF YOU TALK ABOUT SAFETY AS THE TOP PRIORITY. OH, OKAY. AND THEN ENSURE THAT DESIGNS OR WHATEVER DESIGN INCLUDING YEAH. OUR PRIORITIZE SAFETY AS THE TOP PRIORITY, YOU KNOW? YEAH. WELL THAT'S NOT GOOD CHOICE, BUT EITHER WAY, LIKE YEAH. AND I MENTIONED THIS IN THE TOO, BUT IF WE COULD SNEAK THE WORD LIKE SHARE AND, AND THIS IS A DIFFERENT, THAT'S A DIFFERENT ONE. DIFFERENT. I THINK THIS IS SEEMS SO ALL ENCOMPASSING SIMILAR BEHAVIOR, BUT IT'S, THIS ONE'S MORE ABOUT DESIGN. YEAH. YEAH. SO, SO YOUR POINT ABOUT BIKE SHARE, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THE BAC SHOULD HAVE A POSITION ON. AND IT'S BEEN YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS SINCE WE DID THE RFI AND ALL WE DID LIKE THE BAC DONE PLAN RESEARCH ON BIKE SHARE AND BEST PRACTICE. I THINK WE COULD LEVERAGE THAT ORIGINAL WORK EVEN THOUGH IT'S YEARS LATER AND BRING IT INTO A MODERN CONTEXT AND TURN IT INTO A LETTER OF SUPPORT. OKAY. AND HAPPY TO HELP WITH THAT. , DO MY BUDDY WORKS? YEAH, PLEASE, PLEASE. SOMETHING MODEL ON THE CITY COUNCIL LETTER THAT THE BAC COULD ADOPT MAYBE AT THE APRIL MEETING. OKAY. WHY ARE WE ADOPTING IT TO TRAVIS TRAVIS'S REQUEST? SORRY, THERE IS A QUESTION TO CHAIR OR VICE CHAIR. THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY THAT MADE BEFORE US PUTTING WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH. WE HAVE A VICE CHAIR. WE CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE A VICE CHAIR SYSTEM. HE SAID MUST HAVE A CHAIR SYSTEM. DO WE WANT TO DO THE LEGWORK IN THE NEXT MONTH TO HAVE TO TAKE A FORMAL POSITION IN SUPPORT OF BY CHAIR? UM, I THINK WE HAVE TO. OKAY. AND THERE ARE REASONS FOR THAT. UH, AND I, I DON'T HAVE MORE THAT I KNOW AS FACT THAT I COULD SHARE, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD FIND THAT PROCUREMENT. IS THERE ANY UPDATE PROBABLY THAT BELONGS IN THE OPEN FORUMS. THE AGENDA. THERE IS NOTHING FOR THIS MEETING THAT, UM, WE HAVE TO SHARE RIGHT NOW FOR THE BETTER PEOPLE BEFORE EVEN FORGETS WHAT THE LECTURE IS. WHAT NOW? I SAID THE SOONER THE KIND OF BEFORE EVEN FORGETS WHAT, BECAUSE MY MOM DOING THAT LECTURE. SO, UM, THIS DRAFT RESOLUTION, I KNOW HOW SOME OF THESE STAT KIND OF LIKE ENCOMPASS SAFETY AND DID BRING UP THE PART ABOUT, UM, HOW FAST THE CARS ARE, UH, A PROBLEM. UM, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A FASTER CARS OR FASTER SPEEDS IN GENERAL HERE IN OUR FIRST PART OF THE CRASH. SO RIGHT. MAYBE ADD STEP FOR THAT. RIGHT. AGREE. OKAY. AGREE. LIKE HOW, LIKE DROPPING THE SPEED OR JUST WHATEVER PERCENTAGE I CAN SAVE SO MANY MORE LIVES. I LIKE IT BASED ON CRASH THAT SOMEONE ELSE . YOU ALSO MAKE ME WONDER, THERE'S A BILL BEFORE THAT HAS BEEN BEFORE THE HOUSE BEFORE, BEFORE THE TEXAS HALF. AGAIN, THAT WOULD ALLOW CITIES TO REDUCE THEIR . THAT COULD ALSO BE A RESOLUTION SUBMITTED. [00:55:01] I MISSED THAT. YEAH. LAST WEEK. I THINK IT'S BEEN SPLIT. YEAH, IT'S, SORRY, WE, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S STILL MAYBE NOT. I NOT I'VE SEEN IT. YEAH, I SAW IT TWO YEARS AGO. I DIDN'T SEE IT THIS YEAR YET. SO I THINK ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE REPS FROM HOUSTON AREA AND SPONSORED IT, AND I FORGET THE , BUT I THINK IT'S, I I, I COULD REACH OUT TO SOMEBODY WHO, WHO TRACKS THAT. BUT WE CAN NICOLE'S LIKE HISTORY WITH THIS DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN OVER, UH, LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO I, ONE OF MY JOB TASKS IS I READ EVERY SINGLE TRANSPORTATION BILL AND HOUSES THE CITY. THANK YOU. I'VE OVER A HUNDRED ANALYSIS THIS YEAR. WOW. UM, SO I MI I HAVE MISSED IT. I, BUT THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN 8,000 THINGS, SO. OUCH. UM, I, I, FORTUNATELY THEY PROVIDE WITH ONE SENTENCE JUST, AND SO SOMETIMES THEY DON'T PUT, YOU KNOW, RANGE PRETTY MUCH SPEED, YOU KNOW, SPEED LIMIT. IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING GENERIC. SO YEAH. BUT AS YOUR, AS YOUR SUGGESTION, ROBIN HAS SAID, IF THAT WON'T PASSES THAT WE'RE ASKING CITY TO PRODUCE. WELL IT'S IN RECOGNITION THAT THAT IS AN EFFORT THAT'S HAPPENING. WE CAN GO AHEAD. YOU'LL HAVE RESOLUTION AND IF THERE WE COULD RECOMMEND REDUCING THE PRIMARY. THEY'RE GOING FROM 35 TO 30 OR EVEN 25. 25. YEAH. YEAH. 20. YEAH. 25 ALIVE. LIKE WE CAN YEAH. YEAH. I, I'M STILL A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE IT'S A, IF THE BILL IS NOT PASSED AND WHAT CAN THE CITY DO? THEY CAN SIGN IT. THEY CAN WHAT? THEY CAN ELIMINATE. THEY CAN. THAT'S THE PROBLEM. THAT'S THE PROBLEM. THAT ANSWER PROBLEM. THAT'S, THAT'S WE CAN THAT I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING THAT THERE'S ABOUT 10,020 MILES OR SOMETHING. I THINK THE COUNTY CAN DO CAN DO IT, BUT NOT THE CITY STREETS. WHAT IF THE WORDING HAS TO BE RIGHT ON THIS, BUT IT'S SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW. MM-HMM . UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW CURRENTLY AND THE STATE LAW CHANGES, THEN WE CAN LOWER IT. SO IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW, UM, SET THE PREMIUM FLASH OF SPEED LIMIT BASED ON BEST PRACTICES OR SOMETHING THAT, THAT KEEP IT, YOU KNOW, BIG ENOUGH SO THAT WE CAN EVEN IF IT DOESN'T PASS OR IT DOESN'T PASS UNTIL NEXT TIME. EXACTLY. I LIKE THAT. WELL I THINK ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE STRATEGIES ON THAT, 'CAUSE I WAS BASED A COUPLE YEARS AGO, NEVER CAME DEVELOPMENT WAS THAT LARGELY MUNICIPALITIES FOR BEING SINGLE OUT. I, I KNOW, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A GUY PIECE THEM THAT UH, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE THINGS AHEAD OF HIM, HE DIDN'T LIKE IT FOR SOME REASON HE, THEY DIDN'T VOTE ON THAT. PUT IT IN. UH, THEY SINGLE OUT THE LARGE MUNICIPALITIES. 'CAUSE NOT EVERYBODY WANTS IT. AND IF YOU GOTTA GET BUY IN FOR ALL LITTLE MUNICIPALITIES, THEY'LL KILL IT. SO HOUSTON AND A FEW OTHERS WERE SINGLED OUT. THEY WERE GONE FOR 25 AND UH, IT HAD, IT CAME OUT COMMITTEE, BUT IT HAD SUPPORT AND THE CITY HAS SUPPORTED IT FOR THE LAST COUPLE TIMES. HOUSTON SUPPORTED IT. IT'S STILL BY THE SMALLER. YEAH. LIKE WAY TO SELL IT IN CITY OF COURSE. IS THAT IT SAVES MONEY. YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP SIGNAGE. YEAH, RIGHT. THEY SAY WILL SAVE THE MONEY. IT IS NOT PUT SIGNAGE REGARDLESS. RIGHT NOW IT'S 30 ALL IS A, IT'S A, YOU KNOW, CITY ADOPT. IT DOESN'T APPEAR THAT BILL SUBMIT LAST, AT LEAST THE SENATE. OKAY. IT DOES APPEAR THAT THERE WAS ONE. WE JUST HAVE, I THINK THERE WERE 2000 SOMETHING BILLS SUBMITTED JUST LAST WEEK. SO THERE'S UH, I THINK I'M ON WEDNESDAY BOOK, SO WE'LL, WE'LL GET THERE. YES. UM, ON THE TOPIC LEGISLATION. MM-HMM . TEXAS SAFETY STUFF IS ACROSS INVESTIGATOR. UH, YEAH. YEAH. ABOUT I HAVE TO STOP. YEAH, NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT TEXAS SAFETY STUFF. YEAH. SORRY, WHAT? LIKE TEXAS SAFETY. TEXAS SAFETY YIELD. THAT ONE DID COME ACROSS. I ONLY IN HOUSE. I DON'T, I DON'T REMEMBER IF THE SENATE ONE CAME AS WELL, BUT UM, YOU KNOW, YES. THAT ONE DID COME ACROSS. THERE WAS ALSO ONE ABOUT LOWERING SPEED LIMITS NEAR INCLUDING THREE KINDERGARTENS. AS PART OF SPEED LIMIT. THERE'S SCHOOL ZONES. THAT ONE CAME THROUGH LIKE I THINK TWO WEEKS AGO. SO ONE, ONE, MAYBE, MAYBE LAST QUESTION ON LEGISLATION. YES. [01:00:01] ANYTHING ABOUT A HANDS FREE LOG? GET US IN THE, TO GET US IN THE REALM OF ALL THE OTHER STATES THAT HAVE WE'RE OF TEXAS, WINWOOD, NUMBER OF STATES. WE'RE DAMN PROUD OF THAT. YES. IT'S REALLY YOU LIKE 85 OUTTA 10, YOU LOOK OVER THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU'S JUST LIKE DAMN GO. REALLY? YEAH. AS LONG AS YOU'RE NOT TEXTING. IT'S ILLEGAL. RIGHT? ONLY, ONLY WAY TEXTING IS ILLEGAL. CURRENTLY ABOUT SHOULD EVEN SO I CAN WATCH YOUTUBE. YOU TELL I CAN WATCH YOUTUBE ON THE WAY HOME TODAY, BUT I CANNOT TEXT. I THINK IT'S NOT NOT IN SCHOOL ZONE, RIGHT? SCHOOL ZONE. WELL IT DEPENDS IF IT'S MARKED, IT HAS TO BE MARKED. IT'S NOT MARKED. BUT YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY YOU PHONE. YEAH. IT HAS TO BE PHYSICALLY SIGNED AND MAYBE IT'S BE EASIER. WE CAN TALK ABOUT LEGISLATION OR 'CAUSE IT THINGS ADVANCE AND PEOPLE HAVE ANOTHER MONTH WORTH OF PROCESSING MY MIND. WELL, YEAH. FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO READ TIME ON IT. LIKE OTHER PEOPLE CARE. SO FOR NEXT MONTH'S MEETING, YEAH, I CAN MAYBE DO, YEAH. AGENDA ITEM. I'LL DO LIKE A QUICK WHERE THE BUILD ARE AT THAT POINT. THAT'D GREAT. MAN'S GONNA SPEND ALL THIS TIME. WE MAY AS WELL . SO WE TO AGENDA ITEM FIVE, THE DRAFT RESOLUTION OF COURT THESE WEEKS FOR ALL CONCEPTUALLY. DO PEOPLE, HOW DO PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT REFINING IT FOR THE SUGGESTIONS FROM TODAY'S MEETING AND BRINGING THE BACK FOR ADOPTION AT THE APRIL MEETING? FIVE. ONCE TWO. WE'RE GOOD. WHO, WHO THE MOTION? JOE AND I I'LL MOVE SECOND. I MEAN, DO WE NEED TO OR ARE WE GONNA ACTUALLY VOTE ON IT? WE'RE NOT GONNA VOTE TODAY. WE'RE NOT SIGNING TODAY. WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE NOT VOTING TODAY. WE'RE, WE'RE WE'RE GIVING THREE VOTE TO VALIDATION. YES. WE JUST JUMPED STRAIGHT TO I I'M NOT GONNA BE AT THE APRIL MEETING, BE IN BIG BEND. SO UNLESS Y'ALL WANT TO HAVE A MEETING, BIG BEN. OH. OR YEAH, COME OR HAVE IT IN MAY. IF YOU WANNA SPREAD OUT THE, THE MEETINGS, IT'S PROBABLY HARD TO CHANGE. YEAH, NO, WE, WE, YEAH, WE WILL, WE WILL FIGURE OUT THE, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY ELSE HAS SAID ABOUT BANK. OKAY, SO YOU'LL HAVE FORM. YEAH, THERE'S A REGULAR FORM. DOES OUR TI CHAIR, I THINK WE DON'T HAVE ANY PROXY VOTING DO WE? HAVE I SENT YOU? LIKE CAN YOU, CAN HE SEND NOTHING THAT SAYS I VOTE I ON THIS ITEM IN AN EMAIL? WELL, LY WILL, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE CASE. OKAY. I THINK THAT IT HAS TO BE, THINK THEIR FORMAT HAS TO BE MET AND THEN THE FORUM IS THE ONE . OKAY. SO I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT HAPPEN IN ANY OTHER, YOU KNOW, SO HANDS FACETIME? NO, I, NEXT ONE ALL THAT'S NUMBER ONE. THANK YOU GUYS FOR HUMORING ME ON THAT. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . SO, UH, ACTUALLY, OKAY, SO THAT WAS FIVE AGENDA IS THE SUPPORT. THE WANTS TO KNOW THIS CONTEXTUALLY REMIND ME, WILSON, I KNOW WE ASKED ABOUT HAVING SOMEONE FROM CAPITAL PROJECTS PROBABLY GIVE US AN UPDATE. WHAT DID YOU HEAR BEFORE ANON? FOR ANON? UH, OOPS. I, MY APOLOGIES. I DID NOT MAKE A REQUEST FOR ANON. I, MR. , I ONLY ASKED ABOUT THE FROM ME. SO THAT'S MY, I CAN THE NEXT MEETING REQUEST? YES. THE REASON CAPITAL COME TALKING THIS WITH THE APRIL MEETING. SO THAT WAS A PIECE OF IT. AND THEN THE SECOND PIECE OF IT WAS TO SPECIFICALLY REQUEST THE TRAFFIC COUNTS. OKAY. BUT THE MULTIMODAL TRAFFIC COUNTS FOR ANTOINE. OKAY. MEANING YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BIKE COUNTS OR YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BUS COUNTS OR TALKING. IT'S ALL, IT'S ALL MY UNDERSTANDING FROM THE IBM IS THAT ALL TRACK ACCOUNTS IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON CENTER REQUIRED BE MULTIMODAL, INCLUDING BLOCK BIKE AND APRIL. OKAY. WHAT DID THAT HAPPEN? UH, UH, IN NOVEMBER OF OCTOBER 23 WAS A LAST ONE OF IDM WHERE REASON I'M SAYING IS NOT ATTENDING FEMALE EDUCATION CLASS ON, UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ACCOUNT. YEAH. WHICH IS NOT LIKE COUNTING BIG PIECES OF STEEL. AGREED. PEOPLE AGREED. AND, UH, THAT THAT WASN'T THE CASE THEN. THIS IS ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO. MY IMPRESSION IS THAT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE MULTIMODAL TEAM PUT THROUGH IN THE I IBM M REVISIONS THAT WERE ADOPTED IN NOVEMBER 23. AND THEN IT SPECIFICALLY SAID THEY NEEDED TO DO CAMERA REFLECT ON ALL THE TIAS COMING IN FROM ABSOLUTELY. AND WELL, THERE WERE NEW RULES FOR TIAS TOO. YEAH, WELL, YEAH. IT WOULD NEED TO GET REFLECT. YEAH. YEAH, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, THE ONES THAT I'VE SEEN, THEY HAVE OKAY, JUST, JUST CARS . YEAH. OKAY. [01:05:01] SO THAT'S, UM, I HAVE THE GAS, IT INCLUDES BIKES, CARS AND TRUCKS. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE, INCLUDES HUMANS WALKING, SAID BIKE, IT HAS BIKES, CARS, TRUCKS. OKAY. SO BUSES GO WITH THE TRUCKS. IT DIDN'T HAVE, OKAY, SET THAT ASIDE FOR A MINUTE, BUT WE STILL WANT THAT REQUEST FOR APRIL. UM, AGAIN, THE LAST MEETING WE HAD JUST SEEN, I THINK JUST SEEN THE PRESENTATION FROM CAPITAL PROJECTS OR THE ANTOINE DRIVE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. WHAT WE KNOW FROM TWO YEARS AGO WAS WITH THE CITY HAD PROGRAM MORE THAN $130 MILLION FOR CONSTRUC, A FIVE MILE SEGMENT OF ANTOINE DRIVE FROM US TWO 90 NORTH TO WEST . THE CITY'S TEAM CONDUCTED A FULL DESIGN CONCEPT REPORT FOR GCR OR BACK IN THE DAY, WE WOULD'VE CALLED IT A PRE-ENGINEERING STUDY THAT LOOKED AT LAND USES AS WELL AS UTILITIES AND SO ON. AND THAT'S A RECOMMENDATION FOR ANTOINE INCLUDED SAFETY FEATURES FOR ALL USERS. SO IT, IT PROPOSED MAINTAINING THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION OF FOUR LANES, TWO LANES IN EACH DIRECTION. THE TRAFFIC VOLUMES WERE NOT HIGH ENOUGH AND THE FORECAST WAS NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO GENERATE, TO JUSTIFY WIDE WIDTH FROM THE ONE AND ADDING TWO ADDITIONAL LANES. RIGHT. ADDING LANES WAS NOT WARRANTED. IT PROPOSED RIGHT SIZING THOSE LANES AT 11 FEET AND IT PROPOSED INSTALLING 10 FOOT SHARED PATH ON BOTH SIDES TO ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE COMING AND GOING TO THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND SHOPPING AND HEALTHCARE AND TOO MUCH LEATHER TRUCKS ENTRANCE THE BIG TRANSIT QUARTER A MONTH AGO. THAT PROJECT HAS NOW HANDED OFF FROM PUBLIC WORKS AND PLANNING PEOPLE TO CAPITAL PROJECTS IMPLEMENTATION PEOPLE, AND THEY GAVE A PRESENTATION IN WHICH THEY SAID, WE'RE GONNA MAKE THE LANE BIGGER, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE HIGHWAY LANES, NOT SAFETY LANES, WHICH IS GOING TO ADD A HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO THE PROJECT COST BECAUSE 11 INCH CONCRETE IS EXPENSIVE. THEY DID NOT TALK ABOUT THAT, BUT THAT'S A FACT. WE'RE SAYING WE WANNA SPEND A HALF MILLION MORE ON THIS PROJECT AND THEY REMOVED THE SHARED USE PASS AND ARE PROPOSING ONLY SIDEWALKS INSTEAD. SO AT OUR MEETING A MONTH AGO, PEOPLE HAD FEELINGS ABOUT THAT AND WE TALKED ABOUT CONCEPTUALLY SENDING A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THE ORIGINAL MULTIMODAL STREET DESIGN. AND SO WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU IS A DRAFT LETTER. IT PROBABLY NEEDS SOME POLISHING, BUT CONCEPTUALLY A DRAFT LETTER OF SUPPORT TO IMPLEMENT MOVE FORWARD WITH THE ORIGINAL AND SOME REASONS FOR WHY WE SHOULD DO THAT. AND THAT'S PROBABLY ENOUGH. UM, I COULD READ IT OR PEOPLE CAN READ IT I ALREADY SHARED WITH YOU, BUT I'LL SHARE IT AGAIN. I WOULD JUST ADD EVERYWHERE THAT YOU SAY SHARED USE PATH, I WOULD ADD I THINK EVERYWHERE. I WOULD SAY ON BOTH SIDES. SO IN THAT FIRST PARAGRAPH INCLUDE SHARED USE PATH ON BOTH SIDES AND THEN IT JUST BULLET POINT, LEFT THOSE SIDES, ET CETERA. SEE YEAH. HAS TO ADD THAT CURRENTLY. HOW, THAT'S WHY NO, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME, BUT WE CAN VERIFY THAT THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO INCLUDE. UM, YEAH, I THINK OFTENTIMES, YOU KNOW, IF, IF YOU'RE WIDENING OR ANYTHING, THERE'S ALSO AN INCREASING IMPERVIOUS SURFACE, WHICH THEN LEADS TO THE NEED FOR DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS. YES. THEN ALSO INCREASED COSTS. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE ANOTHER POINT THAT I DON'T KNOW IF THE CURRENT THAT IS TWO STREET DESIGN STAYED WITHIN THAT EXISTING FOOTPRINT BECAUSE IT, THE MINUTE YOU WIDE IT THEN KICK IN DRAINAGE REQUIREMENTS. AND A LOT OF TIMES THAT IS ALSO THE REASON WHY YOU WIDEN. SO LIKE THAT, OH, WELL ON TOP OF THAT WE CAN THEN DO DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS. YAY. BUT DOES ALSO APPLY TO THAT SHARED USE. IT'S CONSIDERED NOTHING PRETTY. YES. WELL THE OTHER THING BE THAT ANTOINE HAS THE, THE LINEAR LANES, RIGHT. THOSE THREE FOOT LANES THAT THEY CENTRIC PUSHED OVER, SO THE QUOTE UNQUOTE TRAFFIC LANES MAY BE 11 FEET DOWN. YEAH. BUT BECAUSE YOU TOOK THREE FEET OUT, SO IF RIGHT. YOU LOOK AT THE TOTAL CONCRETE CONCRETE SECTION. YEAH. I, I WONDER JUST LIKE THERE ARE BULLETS SORT OF ABOUT WHY WE LIKE THE OLD DESIGN. I WONDER IF THERE, AND THEN THERE'S [01:10:01] A PARAGRAPH THAT SAYS, I SHOULDN'T THINK IT WRONGLY. THE LAST PARAGRAPH ON THE FIRST PAGE IS ABOUT THINGS THAT HAVE CHANGED, BUT I WONDER IF THERE WANT TO BE BULLETS. LET'S GO OVER AFTER THAT, THAT'S SUMMARIZED. WHAT ARE THE THE UNDESIRABLE, LIKE THE IMPACTS? SO THE WORK MENT ADDS CROSSED THE INCREASE IN DRAINAGE REQUIREMENTS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THE EXISTING LANES ARE 10 FEET AND THEN THEY HAVE THEIR THREE TO FOUR FOOT . OKAY. SO YEAH, I BET IT IS FOUR. SO THAT WOULD BE 24 FEET. RIGHT. SO THEN THEY'D BE GO BACK TO TWO 12 FOOT LENGTHS. SO 11 FEET ACTUALLY BE ONE. ACTUALLY BE, YEAH. WELL, IT'D BE AN INCREASE FROM WHAT'S THERE NOW AS FAR AS WHERE THE PAINT IS 10 PLUS 10 PLUS 4 24 WOULD, WHICH IS SAME AS TWO 12. RIGHT. THE CURVE COVERS THE COVERED SAME. DON'T FORGET IT'S A FULL RECONSTRUCTION. IT'S NOT LIKE THE EXACT SAME CURVE WILL STAY THERE. A NEW CURVE WILL DO THE SECOND ROUGHLY THE SAME AND IT'S GOTTA BE, UH, YEAH, NOT CURVE. I THINK THIS WOULD PROBABLY BE A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY TO THEN TIE IT BACK INTO THE C STREET. THE, FOR 2025 NO THEN DOESN'T MEET WITH THIS . AGREED. WE'LL ALSO VIOLATE THE IBM REQUIREMENTS. SPEEDS, WHICH INCREASE CRASH RISK AND SEVERITY. REALLY LIKE HOW YOU SAID IT VERBALLY, WHERE YOU SAID THE 2022 DESIGN WILL, WILL, UM, HAVE SAFETY FEATURES FOR ALL USERS. MM-HMM . AND THEN YOU WENT INTO LIKE IT'LL MAINTAIN FOREFOOT FOR RIGHT SIZE TRAVELINGS, UM, SHARED, SHARED IF, BUT ALSO INCLUDES SHARED YOUTH PATH. I WAS THINKING THIS WOULD THE PART WHERE YOU WOULD SAY PEOPLE, FAMILIES AND CHILDREN LIKE PUT CHILDREN UP HIGH AS OPPOSED TO IN THE WOODS. OH, OH, OH, OH, OH. SO RIGHT THERE. SO FOR MAYBE YOU SAY FAMILIES AND KIDS OR SOMETHING, BUT I THINK FEATURING CHILDREN IN THIS TOO YEAH. BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE SCHOOLS AND THINGS LIKE THAT WOULD BE REALLY GOOD IN . SO AFTER, RIGHT. AFTER IMPROVED MOBILITY AND SAFETY FOR ALL USERS, INCLUDING PEOPLE, FAMILIES, AND CHILDREN. UH, NO, IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH. HOW SO? THE 2022 DESIGN WILL, WILL, UM, CONTAIN SAFETY FEATURES FOR ALL USERS CONTEXT. IT WILL MAINTAIN FOUR RIGHTSIZED TRAVELINGS FROM SAFETY, BUT ALSO INCLUDES SHARE, SHARE THESE PATHS ON BOTH SIDES. RIGHT. GOT IT. FAMILIES, PEOPLE FAMILIES AND CHILDREN WALKING AND BIKING TO SCHOOL SHOPPING IN, IN IMPORTANT ESSENTIAL COMMUNITY DESTINATIONS GOT ESSENTIALLY THAT SECTION UP THERE. LIKE THAT'S KIND OF OUR BIG THING PROBABLY THAT YEAH. I THINK BE HELPFUL TO MENTION. BUT LAST YEAR I JUST REALIZED THAT'S INSIDE THEIR SCHOOL DISTRICT. MM-HMM . LAST YEAR THEY CUT, UH, SCHOOL BUS SERVICES, UH, IF YOU LIVED FOUR MILES, UH, AND CLOSER. YEAH. AND REALLY QUICKLY THEY LEARNED THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THE KIDS CROSSING DANGER INTERSECTIONS. AND ONE PARTICULAR WEEK, THREE KIDS BACK TO BACK TO BACK DAYS HIT BY CARS. TWO WERE ON BICYCLE, ONE WAS WALKING, ONE CITATION ISSUED FOR AN UNINSURED DRIVER. ABSOLUTELY NO PENALTIES TOWARDS DRIVERS, BUT, SO I THINK YOU MAY WANT TO MENTION THAT IN THERE BECAUSE THOSE SCHOOLS FOUND OUT REALLY QUICKLY AND ONCE PARENTS REACHED TRAFFIC AT THE OFFS AND THEN PUT KIDS IN DANGEROUSLY HOT SITUATIONS, WALKING BACK AND FORTH AGAIN, NO SAFE PASSAGE WATCHING WALKING IN DITCHES AND ACROSS BUSY INTERSECTIONS. SO MM-HMM . THAT, WOW. GET THE BUS THAT TAKES FOR IT'S A QUARTER MILE FOR MY HANDS. THEY MAKE THIS UP, PUT IN THE CHARLE OR THE HORSE, ALL OF YOU WALK HOW WE HAVE NO SIDE BOX FOR, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S, IF THIS IS WORTH INCLUDING A, UH, IS ON THE RECORD SAYING IN REGARD TO VISION ZERO, WHY WAIT UNTIL 2030 THE THE LOSS OF LIVESTOCKS NOW OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT. AND THAT LANGUAGE COULD POTENTIALLY BE USEFUL IN, IN BOTH OF THESE RESOLUTIONS, THE LIFE, THE LOSS OF LIVES, UM, STARTS RIGHT NOW OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT. WE CAN FIND THE EXACT QUOTE. UM, NOT THAT 2030 WAS WHEN WE WERE GOING TO BEGIN REDUCING THE SALARY. RIGHT. ZERO. UM, THEY WERE WORKING THE QUOTE ABOUT NOT HAVING A BICYCLE SENT UP IN HIS WINDSHIELD. THEY 60 MILES AN HOUR. NO, I THINK ALL OF US FEEL THE SAME WAY AT TIMES. THAT AFFECT [01:15:01] WINDSHIELD IS VERY ME, BUT YOU'RE NOT USUALLY DRIVING 62 DRIVING. SO YEAH, HE STARTS ME. I'M DRIVEN WHEN I'M ON BUS. FINAL COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS ON THE LETTER REPORT, BUT EVERYONE YEAH. AND HAPPY TO EDIT. THANK WE PLAN IT UP 20 ON STATE STREET. YES. FOR ALL. JUST ONE LITTLE THING. SHOULD WE ADD ONLINE TO THE, UH, MICRO MOBILITY? I, UM, SCOOT YESTERDAY. I DON'T IF YOU SAW ME. OH, MIGHT SO FAST. SORRY. THERE'S AT LEAST TWO SCOOTER RIDERS IN THE ROOM. YEAH. MM-HMM . I WAS LIKE, OH, TODAY SCOOTER PLUS HAVE FLAG. I DID. THANKS. GOOD. THANKS PAUL. AND SO YEAH, I'M SCOOTER TO METRO ALMOST EVERY DAY THIS MONTH. YOU . WE'RE GONNA NEED A PULP RESOLUTION TOO. YEAH, I HAVE THAT ON MY FORM. DO WE HAVE A, I KNOW WE DID A MOTION TO KICK THE LAST ONE TO NEXT MONTH. DO YOU WANNA DO ANOTHER MOTION FOR THIS ONE TO KICK IT TO NEXT MONTH? YEAH. CO I'LL ERIC LEAVE AND JOE, THAT'S FINE. YEAH. WE ALL, I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED ONE, BUT WE'RE, WE DO USE IT WHILE YOU HAVE. YEAH. SO THAT WHAT THIS ONE MORE THING ON THE ? YEAH. WE'RE ESSENTIALLY FOCUSING THE DESIGN. MM-HMM . WE NEED TO MENTION POST LACK THERE. I MEAN YOU POINTED OUT ON THERE'S SO MANY OF 'EM WHERE THAT DRIVER'S GETTING AWAY. KELLY, IF NOT , UH, SPECIFIC COUNSEL I SPOKE WITH ON MONDAY AND EXPLICITLY SAID, IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SHOW CONSEQUENCES FOR ACTIONS, BECAUSE I'M NOT SAYING PEOPLE SHOULD SPEND THE REST OF LIFE IN JAIL FOR STUFF. AND DEPENDING ON THE SITUATION, MAYBE THEY SHOULD, I DON'T KNOW. BUT LIKE, IF WE'RE ON GIVING TICKETS, THERE'S NO POINT. SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE SHOULD ADDRESS THAT IN I WOULD SUGGEST I AGREE. ENFORCEMENT IS GREAT. THE AUDIENCE FOR THIS IS AN AGENCY THAT S INFRASTRUCTURE, THE DECISION OF WHETHER TO PROSECUTE ADDRESS WITH THE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, WHICH IS A DIFFERENT FIRST ONE LETTER. CAN I, ALEX RESOLUTION FIRST ONE, SORRY. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MOSTLY, UH, THE FIRST ONE, LIKE FHW PROVEN COUNTER MEASURES. MM-HMM . WE'RE TALKING ABOUT STATISTICS THAT WE KNOW CERTAINLY INVESTMENTS YIELD CERTAIN RESULTS. YEAH. AND UNFORTUNATELY THERE'S NOT A LOT OF REALLY GOOD DATA TO BACK UP WHAT ENFORCEMENT CAN ACTUALLY DO. THERE'S A FEELING THAT WE MAY ALL SHARE THAT SAYS IF THERE ARE MORE COSTS, IF MORE PEOPLE GET PULLED OVER, IF MORE PEOPLE ARE TICKETED, ARRESTED, ET CETERA, LIVES WILL BE SAVED. BUT THE DATA ON THAT IS SPARSE OF THE NEW YORK SPARSE BIRD AND OF THE NEW YORK SPEED CAMERAS. UH, THAT'S MUCH BETTER. BUT I'M JUST ASKING, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT POLICE ENFORCEMENT. SO SAY RED. I FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES PEOPLE USE ENFORCEMENT AS LIKE, OH, OKAY, WELL WE DON'T NEED TO DO THE DESIGN. WE'LL JUST ENFORCE INSTEAD AND IT FEELS LIKE AN EITHER OR AND NOW PUSH IT TO ENFORCEMENT AND IT'S THAT'S WHAT THE MAYOR WAS SENDING. YES. RIGHT. I THINK THAT'S CAVEAT IS I I AGREE. AND I DON'T THINK THAT SOLVES A PROBLEM. YEAH. BUT YOU'RE DEFINITELY SENDING A MESSAGE BY NOTHING HAPPENING. YOU WERE SENDING THE SAME MESSAGE BY NOT DOING ANYTHING AT ALL. AND I THINK THAT'S THING IS, I AGREE THERE MAYBE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THERE, BUT IF THESE DRIVERS ARE DRIVING AWAY, THAT'S ANOTHER DRIVER THAT'S ON THE STREET THAT NOW GOES HOME. OKAY. HIT KIDS WITH A CAR. COOL. ALL RIGHT. WELL, DON'T NEED TO PAY ATTENTION OR PUTTING DOWN MY CELL PHONE OR TAKING IT. SO I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL CHANGE ANYTHING TO YOUR POINT. AND IT DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULD STOP THE STATE STREETS, BUT THEY, IF IF PEOPLE STARTED GIVING TICKETS, THEY MIGHT START TALKING A LITTLE MORE AND HAVE A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION AND WHAT THAT TICKET LOOKS LIKE. WHAT THE, I DON'T KNOW , BUT LIKE DOING NOTHING IS SAYING WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT. GETTING THAT CROSSWALK AND THAT'S THE WRONG MESSAGE FRIENDLY EVENT THERE THE TIME. AND WHAT WE DID AT BC IS WE LIKE ESTABLISHED PRINCIPLES AND WE WEIGHED IN ON PROJECTS FOR HOW WE WERE GONNA SPEND A MILLION DOLLARS FOR TO MAKE STUFF, WHICH IS NOT A THING WE GET TO DO THIS YEAR. I'M, I'M OPEN TO THAT. I TELL MEAN THIS ISN'T WHAT WE WANNA DO. BUT WE COULD HAVE SOME, LIKE WE COULD MAKE POLICY DATA, WE COULD HAVE RESOLUTIONS, WE COULD HAVE A RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF EFFICIENT, YOU KNOW, COST EFFECTI EFFECTIVELY BEEN EFFICIENT ENFORCEMENT, THAT WE COULD INCLUDE B HAMMER, THE RED LIGHTS, CAMERAS, AND HOW YOU ALLOCATE . WHY HUMANS, WHERE WHERE DO THEY MAKE SENSE? TARGET STINGS CROSSWALKS OR SOMETHING. TARGET THINGS LIKE WE, AND WE CAN PULL THAT THERE IS DATA ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF SOME OF THOSE MEASURES AND [01:20:01] WE CAN AGGREGATE THAT YOU HAVE INTEREST IN LIKE POINT SOME DATA POSSIBLY. I'M A HORRIBLE DATA PERSON THOUGH, BUT I, I WILL SAY THIS FROM A STANDPOINT. I, I THINK, I THINK THERE'S VALUE IN LOOKING AT DATA WHEN COPS ARE WASTING THEIR TIME ON JUST WHAT IS EVERYONE AFRAID OF IN THE CITY CRIME? OH MY GOD. EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT ALL THE CRIME CRIME'S. HORRIBLE. OKAY, WELL COPS ARE WASTING THEIR TIME. RIGHT. FAIR ENOUGH. FAIR ENOUGH. I I WON'T, I WON'T GO MORE THAN THAT, BUT I LIVE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE EVERYONE, THE LITTLE LADIES ARE SCARED TO DEATH EVEN THOUGH NOTHING IS HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY'RE, THEY'RE BRIGHT SCARED. BUT THE THING IS, IF YOU'RE LAW ENFORCEMENT IS SPENDING TIME HAVING POLICE SET SPEED AND REALLY STUPID STUFF THAT THERE'S ALL KINDS OF TOOLS AND METHODOLOGY AND WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE SLOW DOWN AND DRIVE SAFER AND BE SMARTER AND MORE TENANT, THEN MAYBE THOSE COPS COULD ACTUALLY SPEND THEIR TIME ON QUOTE UNQUOTE THE CRIME THAT EVERYONE'S AFRAID OF. SO MAYBE IT BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID OF THIS CRIME TO ACTUALLY PUSH FOR SAFE STREETS AND THE THOUGHT SO WE COULD YEAH. HAVE, HAVE LOOK. SO I'M JUST, THAT'S A STIGMA I THINK. YEAH. EXCELLENT. NEXT IS A OPEN FORM. OKAY. YOU MENTIONED LK STREET AND I THINK WE SHOULD , I CAN WORK ON A RESOLUTION FOR NEXT MONTH FOR PULSE STREET FOR ASSISTANCE, BUT UH, YEAH, I THINK WHAT'S GOING ON THERE, IT'S JUST RIDICULOUS IN THE FACT, I JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE I GET MY FACTS STRAIGHT. AND I KNOW IT, THE TRANSIT COLUMBIA TAB HAS BEEN WORKING ON IT. UM, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT HOUSTON VERSUS WANTING TO CLOSE THE STREET DOWN TO EXPAND THE CONVENTION CENTER AND THE CLOSURE COULD BE GETTING NEXT YEAR. IS THAT CORRECT? 2026. I THINK. I'M NOT A GREAT SOURCE OF ATTEMPTING TO ANYONE ELSE. THAT BETTER YOU? YEAH. YEAH. SO THEY WANT TO CLOSE PULP BY THIS OCTOBER. YEAH. WAS THIS OCTOBER? YEAH. AND, AND OF COURSE HAD A LONG TERM PLAN, WHICH WOULD ALSO CLOSE POLL, BUT AS I UNDERSTAND, TEXT DOTS PLAN WOULD FIND, WOULD PRO PROVIDE AN ALTERNATE ACCESS TEXT DOTS PLAN WOULDN'T CLOSE PO IF IF THE CONVENTION CENTER THING WEREN'T HAPPENING, TDOT WOULDN'T CLOSE POKE UNTIL 2031. YEAH, OKAY. BUT AGAIN, YEAH, I WAS GONNA GET TO THAT TEXT DO PLAN IS YEARS LATER, BUT THEY ALSO, IN CLOSING POLK, WERE GOING TO PROVIDE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE 'CAUSE OH, THERE'S LIKE A U-TURN THAT YOU WOULD MAKE, LIKE A FEEDER ROAD U-TURN. YEAH. YES. . SO POLK WOULD NOT BE A THROUGH STREET, BUT THE SECTION NEXT TO THE, YOU COULD STILL GET TO THE SECTION NEXT TO THE CONVENTION CENTER BY USING THAT U-TURN. BUT UM, BUT REGARDLESS, THE, THE ISSUE REALLY IS THE TIME RIGHT. OF IT BEING CLOSED PREMATURELY. NO ALTERNATIVE. YEAH. WELL ANYWAY, I THINK WE, I THINK WE MISSED SOMETHING WE DEFINITELY SHOULD HAVE PLANNED. THAT'S JUST RIDICULOUS. RIGHT. JUST TO TAKE THAT OUT, YOU KNOW, UH, TALK THAT OPTION. IT'S ONE THING THAT DEVELOP THE CITY, ASK THE CITY TO CREATE AND DESIGN AND BUILD AN ALTERNATIVE BY 2031. IT'S A TOTALLY ANOTHER THING TO EXPECT THEM TO BE ABLE TO DO BY THIS OCTOBER. RIGHT? YEAH. YEAH. THAT'S OKAY. I I'LL WORK ON THAT. YEAH. AND I KNOW A FEW PEOPLE HAVE COME TO THE METRO BOARD TO SPEAK ABOUT THAT. UM, WHEN I KNOW THERE'S CONCERNS ABOUT THE FACT THAT ONE OF OUR OPERATING FACILITIES INVOLVED WITH POLK. SO, UM, THERE'S ALSO THE 40, THE ROUTE 41 I THINK HAS STOPS RIGHT THERE TOO. YEAH. AND 40, 40 AND 41. YEAH. AND SO, UM, YEAH, I KNOW METRO HAS SOME AS WELL ALSO THE ONLY PROTECTED BIKE LINK ONLY CONNECTION TO THE QUALITY ATTACK. CORRECT. UH, SO THEY'RE HAVING THE HOUSTON FIRST BOARD MEETING TOMORROW AT 8:00 AM AT THE PARTNERSHIP TOWERS ON, ON SPEAKER. EVERYONE ELSE WANTS TO SPEAK YOU UDE. WHERE IT'S IN PARTNERSHIP TOWER YES. AT SPEAKING. AND THERE'S A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. YES. OKAY. YEP. THEY ARE. CORPORATION SAYS WE'RE REQUIRED TO ALLOW PUBLIC POWER AND THEY'RE REQUIRED POST THE MEETING MINUTES AND ALL KINDS OF EVENTS. AN ANALOGY I WOULD, AFTER THE COMMON PEOPLE THAT WE CAN THINK TO ASK FOR IS MAYBE WE, MAYBE YOU DO WANNA LIVE IN A, IN A MODERN REVITALIZE HOUSE. MAYBE YOU WANNA DO A GOOD JOB RENOVATION OF YOUR HOUSE, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE THE CONTRACTORS TO GET ALL OF THE BATHROOMS ON THE FIRST DAY OF WHAT STUFF. AND THEN YOU HAVE NO BATHROOMS FOR THE REST. LIKE'S BEEN GOING ON A BETTER LEVEL, HUH? YOU CAN THROW EVERYTHING OUT AND JUST HOPE FOR THE BEST IN THE END. YEAH. THERE [01:25:01] ARE PEOPLE WHO USE COLD EVERY DAY AND THEY CAN'T WAIT SIX OR EIGHT YEARS ON ALTERNATIVE PROJECT MAKES A HUGE PROJECT WILL BE 2031 LITER ACCORDING TO THE AXIO STORY. AND AT THAT POINT THEY WOULD HAVE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE IN PLACE. I THINK LELAND STREET MIGHT, MIGHT BE READY BY THEN IN PART BECAUSE WE HAVE A WORLD CUP HAPPENING. THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY, CLOSING WORLD BEFORE THE WORLD CUP. WHEN THE EAST END IS GONNA BE THE FAN FEST. OH, THAT TOO, RIGHT? YES. THANK YOU. OH, GOT IT. YEAH. FAN FEST. WE WERE THERE. SO CONNECTIONS, THE WORLD CUP IS A HUGE MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS CITY TO SHOW WHAT WE COULD SHOWING WHAT WE SHOWING THEM WHAT THEY, WHAT WE ARE, EXACTLY WHAT THEY EXPECT. WE, WE ARE THE PETRO METRO. ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS CARS MOVING AS FAST AS WE POSSIBLY CAN AND THAT'S IT. AND YOU EXPECT IT ANY DIFFERENT THAN YOU. AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE 'CAUSE WE WERE HEADING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECT, MY UBER DRIVER LABS MORE, UH, LAST YEAR I TALKING ABOUT THE WORLD CUP AND OUR TRANSPORTATION JUST STARTED CRYING UP. HE'S LIKE, YEAH, THAT'S GONNA BE A HORRIBLE UBER DRIVERS IN TOWN. YEAH. NATIONAL TRAVEL AREAS WERE GONNA BE GETTING OFF AT IH AND LOOKING AROUND FOR THE BUS AND THERE'S THE ONE THAT RUNS OR THE, NOT HERE, NOT HERE TO KNOCK METRO, BUT LIKE THAT FUSS IS NOT GONNA BE ENOUGH TO MOVE ON. OH NO, IT'S NOT TEMPORARY. ONCE, YEAH, I WENT TO THE W CUP IN BRAZIL IN 24. THEY HAD A WHOLE, THEY WERE LIKE, YOU DON'T DO IT, THEY'LL NEVER FIGURE IT OUT. YEAH. WHAT I WENT TO THE SERVICE. YEAH. DEDICATING LEADS WOULD BE WISE. AND THIS WHAT OTHER FAITH HAD DONE AT THE INAUGURAL TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE HOSTED BY THE HOST COMMITTEE. METRO WAS MENTIONED ONLY ONCE AND SAID NOTHING'S GONNA BE DIFFERENT. AND BICYCLES WERE NOT MENTIONED IN THAT COMMUNITY AT ALL. THERE WAS NO RECOGNITION OF OPTIONS. ALTERNATIVES TO ANY OF THAT. VICE SHARE DOES NOT MENTION THAT THERE ARE RENTAL GUARD THERE. THIS STORM, ANOTHER NOTE FOR OPEN FORUM. ARE WE COMFORT THAT ONE? UM, WE HAVE A EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK. I DO NOT HAVE ANY AGENDA ITEMS. SO DOES ANYONE WANT TO CONTINUE HAVING THAT EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE OR DO YOU WANNA WAIT, CANCEL IT AND WAIT FOR THE FALL IN OC OR IN APRIL QUESTION, IS THERE A VICE CHAIR? ARE YOU STEPPING DOWN IMMEDIATELY OR? I WAS THINKING THAT I'D STAND FOR THE, FOR THE APRIL MEETING AND THEN VERY GOOD. THAT'D BE DONE. THIS YOU'RE HAVING TOO MUCH FUN. I KNOW TOO. GOOD. I GUESS THE MAIN THING THAT COULD BE AN AGENDA ITEM, BUT EDUCATION MADE SENSE IS NATIONAL WALK-IN BIKE FOR SCHOOL DAY IS COMING UP THE FIRST SECOND WEDNESDAY DAY. AND SO INVITING PEOPLE TO DO SOMETHING. WHEN I LOOKED AT THE WEBSITE LAST WEEK, THERE WAS ONLY ONE SCHOOL PROGRAM PLANNED. THAT'S SINCLAIR ELEMENTARY. WELL, WE HAVEN'T DAWSON. I WERE WORKING, I MEAN IT WAS A BIT AMBITIOUS. I THINK WE COULD DO THE WHOLE SBIC DISTRICT, BUT WE'RE GONNA DO INGHAM FOREST, MEADOW ELEMENTARY, UH, BROEL CREEK AND I CAN'T REMEMBER THE WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR TWO PEOPLE. YEAH, WELL I KNOW WE'VE GOT MULTIPLE, I I HAVE FAMILIES BECAUSE WE DO OUR FAMILY RIDES OF MY NICE MAN HILL. SO I'VE GOT VOLUNTEERS IN SCHOOL, I JUST GOTTA GET EVERYTHING COORDINATED AND WE CAN GET THE REGISTER SIGNED. SOMEBODY MIGHT HAVE ST. CLAIRE'S ALL ON WAYSIDE, RIGHT? THE SPEAK V CV. YEAH. PREVIOUSLY. YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. GEORGE. BRYAN. YEAH. SO HE'S A BIGGER NOW , SO I THINK HE'S GONNA RUN. OH, BECAUSE THAT'S ONE. YEAH. SO I, BY SCHOOL DAY. OKAY. WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL COME OUT OF THAT MEETING OR WHAT YOU WANT COME OUT? IT COULD BE A PRESENTATION FROM SOMEBODY WHO'S DONE FIVE TO SCHOOL DAY OR REREAD AN OLD, LIKE WE COULD PRESENTED LIKE SCHOOL DAY BEFORE FOUR. I'M JUST THINKING IT'S ONE WEEK FROM TODAY. SO JUST, I WAS THINKING IT WAS FURTHER MY HEAD. SO IT'S LIKE WE CAN HAVE SOMEBODY DO A PRESENTATION, BUT IT'S ONLY, IT'S NEXT WEEK. THE REQUIREMENT FOR HAVING FOUR MEETINGS IS ONLY FOR THE FULL COMMUNITY. THAT'S FOR THE, SO THOSE NECESSARY. AND WHEN IS THE LIKE SCHOOLING SEVENTH . OH, WE SEVENTH FIRST. SEVENTH. I THINK SEVENTH. I THINK THAT'S CORRECT. THE VICE, [01:30:01] THERE'S NO VICE CHAIR. IT WAS, UH, IT WAS JESSICA WIGGINS AND I WERE THE EDUCATION, IT WASN'T , IT'S UP TO THE BC SUBCOMMITTEES ARE THE DIRECTION OF THE, HMM. ANGRY MOM COMMITTEE. COMMITTEE ALSO RENAMED SUBCOMMITTEE BE P RENAMED SUBCOMMITTEE. MAYBE IT'S MORE, WE DON'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT NOW DONE. BUT THE GENESIS OF THOSE COMMITTEES WAS ROOTED IN THE CITY'S APPLICATION TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN FIVE AS A FIVE YEARS OLD FRIENDLY. AND THEY GAVE US FEEDBACK ON THE FIVE B THAT SAID, HERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS Y'ALL DID ARE RIGHT WITH. AND THEN HERE ARE A BUNCH OF THINGS THAT WE NEEDED TO DO BETTER UPON. AND ONE OF THE BIG CATEGORIES THAT WERE WEAK ON WAS EDUCATION IN, IN A VARIETY OF FORMATS, BUT INCLUDING, UH, BICYCLING CLASSES FOR LIKE HOW, WHAT, HOW MANY LEAD CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS DO WE HAVE? WHAT ARE THE CLASS OFFERINGS FOR ADULTS? WHAT ARE THE CURRICULUM OFFERINGS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN? AND, AND, AND SO THERE HAVE BEEN PEOPLE FROM SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHO CAME TO MEETINGS BRIEFLY, LIKE THERE WAS A HUMAN FROM HOUSTON ISV, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S STILL OKAY. IS BRYCE ACTIVELY GAUGING OR STILL UM, UH, BICYCLE FRIENDLY UNIVERSITY? YES. OKAY. SO I'M FINALLY MAKING PROGRESS WITH JEWISH DOWNTOWN. UM, I'M HAVING MEETINGS WITH SOMEBODY FROM THE ADMINISTRATION. I STARTED GOING TO THE APPLICATION NOW. OKAY. UM, LET ME KNOW. I CAN GIVE YOU THE CONTACT I'VE GOT AND SHE CAN PROBABLY POINT YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. RIGHT, RIGHT. AND LIKE I WAS THINKING MAYBE IF WANT, IF WE CAN KIND OF LIKE ASK HER TO LIKE JOIN A MEETING PROBABLY LIKE IN WITH UHD SO THAT WAY SHE CAN HELP US LIKE HEY, LIKE OKAY, WELL THIS IS WHAT WE DID OR WHATEVER. RIGHT. 'CAUSE UM, IT'S ME OR THE ADVISOR FOR THE BIKE CLUB AND UM, SHE WORKS WITH THE PROVOST OFFICE. SO IT'S ALL, SO IT'S THE THREE OF US NOW. UM, SOME MEMBERS OF THE MIC CLUB, BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE LIKE GOING THROUGH REPLICATION. BUT YEAH, HAVING A UH, A RACE ON WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HELP US KIND OF LIKE NAVIGATE THAT UPDATE. OKAY. SWEET. UM, BUT YEAH, I'M EXCITED 'CAUSE I'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR, UH, ONCE I STARTED THE BLACK CLUB 2018. SO FINALLY GETTING TO THE UNIVERSITY, UH, MAKING THEIR BACK UP MONEY AND THEY'RE OPENING THEIR EYES A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OH, THEY'RE WELL SITUATED FOR YEAH. DIVERGING THERE. AND THEY, THEY RELEASED A MASSIVE TIME FOR . SO, UM, IT'S PRETTY AGGRESSIVE. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, NOW THAT THEY RELEASED THAT MASTER PLAN, HAVING THIS APPLICATION IN MIND HELPS THEM PROBABLY, UH, BOOST THEIR, UH, THEIR DESIGN OR IDEAS FOR THE CANVAS. YEAH. YEAH. THAT'S VERY GOOD. AND YEAH, SO YEAH, SEND ME THE INFORMATION FOR THE RESPONSE. SO, SO, SO THERE'S, THERE'S A QUESTION RIGHT THERE, RIGHT? SO WE'VE GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAYBE GO FORWARD WITH AN EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING NEXT WEDNESDAY AND THAT COULD INCLUDE ANNOUNCING, PRESENTING, SAYING THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN IS WORKING TOWARDS, UH, PURSUING A BICYCLE FRIENDLY UNIVERSITY STATIC WHERE YOU FRAME UP, THIS IS A TIMEFRAME, THIS IS WHEN WE'RE PLANNING TO APPLY. THIS IS THE SORT OF SUPPORT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. LIKE YOU COULD INVITE PEOPLE TO HELP YOU WITH THAT THING. OKAY. YOU'RE, I'M NOT TELLING US WE HAVE TO HAVE IT. WELL THAT'S FURTHER ALONG AND SHARE IT LATER. LIKE NEXT WEEK'S NOT NECESSARILY THE RIGHT TIME. NEXT. YEAH, WE HAVE, I HAVE A MEETING HER WITH NEXT WEEK THAT THINK TOO. SO IT'S GONNA DO YOU KNOW, DO YOU KNOW WHAT, WHICH THE ONLY TWO APPLICATIONS BE GET ABOUT. UH, IT'S IN AUGUST I THINK THE DEADLINE. SO YOU GOT TIME. IT'S EARLY. YEAH. SO LEMME CHANGE. SO MAYBE DO YOU WANT IN FOR THE JUNE EDUCATION C? FOR SURE. FOR SURE. YEAH. UM, SEE HOW MUCH WE GET DONE THIS. YEAH. THAT INFORMATION IS LIKE CARDS TO KIND OF PUNCHED DOWN A LOT OF ENGINEERING QUESTION RIGHT. BROUGHT AWAY STUFF WE THINK ARE COMING UP BUT UH, YEAH. UM, SENSATION WOULD BE GREAT AND HOPEFULLY, YEAH. SO COMING BACK TO YOUR QUESTION ON THE FLOOR, UNLESS SOMEONE WANTS TO DO A PRESENTATION, LIKE VOLUNTEERS COULD JUST GO FORWARDS AND DO BIKE AND WORK IN SCHOOL DAY, TALK ABOUT IT AT OUR NEXT FULL MEETING. WE WANNA TABLE TO SPEND THE MARCH MEETING AND [01:35:03] IT FEELS LIKE WE HAVE SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT TODAY. I DON'T KNOW THAT BE READY TO YEAH. TALK ABOUT IT. IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S STILL SOME WORK TO BE DONE BEFORE WE'RE READY TO YEAH, I THINK FUNCTIONALLY SPEAKING IT MAKES SENSE TO TALK DO IT NEXT. YEAH. BUT I DO WONDER IF THAT THE FULL BAC IN APRIL, IF THERE IS SOMEBODY WHO HAS EXPERIENCED EXAMPLES SLIDESHOW, UH, A GOOD PRESENTER WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT HERE'S HOW TO PULL OFF A REALLY GOOD BUG OR SCHOOL DAY DON'T HAVE TO DURING EDUCATION SUBJECT. YEAH. YEAH. AND THAT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR ME PERSONALLY. AND I THINK OTHERS WOULD BE, YEAH, HE'S GOT KIDS IN SCHOOL AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. YEAH. I'VE GOT SOME OLD TISSUES. I'M NOT RECOMMENDING SOMEONE FROM THIS ROOM. SO LIKE IF YEAH. IF OUR FRIENDS FROM THESE SCHOOLS HAVE UH, BANDWIDTH, THE APPETITE BOARD. I UNDERSTAND. I SAID I'VE DONE TWO OR THREE OF 'EM NOW. I THOUGHT WE COULD GIVE A SHORT PRESENTATION TOGETHER AND JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT I'VE DONE. 'CAUSE BRIAN DIDN'T HOW TO REACH OUT INTO SCHOOLS. 'CAUSE I TRIED AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. SUPERINTENDENT DON'T DO THAT. BUT YOUR PIZZA ANSWER ARE GREAT PLACE. BUT YEAH, I CAN PUT TOGETHER JUST TALK AND I'M SAYING HOW I, HOW I DID IT. MM-HMM . AND WHAT I USED AND THE IDEAS THAT I THINK TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL RIDE AND JUST PUT THAT TOGETHER BRIEFLY GO OVER THAT AND I CAN COMMIT TO THAT FOR THE NEXT DAY, NEXT WEEK. SWEET. THAT WOULD BE GREAT DAY. GREAT. AND OR DID Y'ALL HAVE TO CANCEL NEXT WEEK? CERTIFICATION SUBCOMMITTEE I THINK. YES. OKAY. DO WE HAVE VOTE THEM? I THINK THAT'S LIKE, I THINK THE CHAIR COULD JUST SECOND WE NOT DOING. YEAH. OKAY. LIKE I'M NOT BE HERE SO IT HAS MORE ME, IT'S NOT YEAH, NO PROBLEM. WELL WE'LL PUT UP THAT CANCEL OKAY. TO BULLET. YEAH. YEAH. OH FAIR. YEAH. PEOPLE WILL JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS THAT ARE WARRANTED BUT NOT NECESSARILY CORRECT. UM, I JUST WANNA MENTION, I'VE BEEN ATTENDING THE MONTHLY, UH, PROJECT MEETINGS FOR THE NORTH CANAL PROJECT, WHICH IMPACTS THE M KT WIFI TRAILS AND YEAH. BETWEEN THEM AND I 10, THE TEXTILES I 10 PROJECT, IT ONLY IMPACTS ON THOSE TRAILS FOR A COUPLE YEARS. AND THEN OF COURSE NOW WE HAVE A COUPLE OF WOULD BE TWO OR FIGURATIVE CAMP USE BECAUSE OF BRIDGES ARE AROUND. BUT, UM, ONE BRIDGE THAT COULD BE USED, IT WAS IN PLACE WAS VERSION TEXTILES PLAYING DEVELOP WIFI. WHAT ONE AND I GOT AN UPDATE OR WE ALL GOT AN UPDATE, YESTERDAY'S MEETING ON THAT AND ESSENTIALLY BY MY PARENTS. SCARY. UM, THEY'RE STILL IN, THEY'RE WORKING TOWARDS THEIR 60 AND 90% OF THE TIME ON THE, ON THAT BRIDGE. SO IT'S NOT READY YET. THEY ARE, THEY'RE ALREADY WORKING WITH FLOOD CONTROL, UM, RUNNING IT PAST THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE SEQUENCE SIMILARLY TO THE, IF THEY GOTTA GO TO FLOOD CONTROL AND GET THEM TO SIGN OFF, THEN THEY GO TO THE COURT FOR WHAT THEY CALL A SECTION FOUR OH EIGHT PERMIT. THAT'S WHERE THEY SAID NORMALLY IT WOULD TAKE SIX TO NINE MONTHS. BUT YOU KNOW, UM, YOU STAFF CUTS THAT'LL PROBABLY TAKE LONGER. THEY WOULD, THEY WERE HOPING THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO LET THE CONSTRUCTION BID NEXT SUMMER. SO SUMMER SIX, USUALLY IT TAKES ABOUT A YEAR TO BUILD IT. RIGHT. SO THERE'D BE 27. UM, THE RUTLAND, THAT'S FOR THE RUTLAND BRIDGE, THE NORTH CANAL PROJECT RIGHT NOW THEY KIND HAVE A LINE OF SAND BUT THE TARGET START CONSTRUCTION DATE OF SEPTEMBER 26TH OF NEXT YEAR. SO THEY WOULD BE GETTING WORK BEFORE, BEFORE THE BRIDGE, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THEN, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE TO WAIT ON THE QUA SO THEY COULD ALSO BE GETTING DELAYED FROM THAT. SO, UM, WHETHER THE RELEVANT BRIDGE WILL BE READY IN TIME BEFORE THEY STARTED TO WORK ON WORKING IN ALABAMA. UNCLEAR. BUT I THINK THAT PROBABLY'S GONNA TAKE SOME TIME TOO. I'M NOT SURE. IT'S A TWO YEAR CONSTRUCTION PERIOD. THEY NOW LOT OF DIRT TO MOVE AND BUILDING TO DO. SO I THAT'S A GUESS THAT'S A TWO YEAR CONSTRUCTION. I'M BRING MY, SO ANYWAY, THAT, THAT, YEAH, MAYBE, MAYBE WAY. THAT'S GOOD. BUT IT IS JUST REALLY FOR INFORMATION FOR EVERYBODY TO KNOW ABOUT. BUT UH, FASTER LATER, THEY'RE MOVING FORWARD. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING THEY CAN DO TO EXPEDITE THEIR PROCESS, GET THE PERMITS WHILE [01:40:01] SOONER. I KNOW ONCE IT GOES FOR THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT YOU CAN DO. UH, ARE THOSE NORTH CANAL MEETINGS STILL BEING HELD? LIKE THE NORTH CANAL MEETINGS TODAY? WHEN WE ATTENDED YESTERDAY, SO IT, IT WAS YESTERDAY SO IT'S MONTHLY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IF IT TUESDAY OF MONTH THAT WAS BUT THAT I SHOULD SEND IT YOU. YEAH. LET SEE IF I GET SOME OF THE PEOPLE BECAUSE YEAH, EXACTLY. SHOULD DEFINITELY, YEAH. THEY KEEP BRINGING UP Q HC. YEAH, EXACTLY. MARKETING IMPACTS AND OTHER YEAH, EXACTLY. BE THAT'S THE IDEA. NO, VERY CLOSE ON TIME. I KNOW IT HAS ANNOUNCED ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR AND EVENTS. DO YOU WANNA START WITH ED? HI. HI. UH, WE HAD A GREAT BLACK HISTORY BIKE RIDE LAST WEEKEND. IT WAS POSTPONED FEBRUARY, BUT WE'RE GLAD WE DID 'CAUSE OF, 'CAUSE IT WAS BEAUTIFUL WEATHER. IT WAS MORE THAN GREAT. YEAH. , WE HAD OVER 160 RIDERS IN THE BEGINNING. NICE JOB. YEAH, I WAS ON MY BICYCLE TOO. I COULD STILL RIDE A BIKE. UM, AND, AND EVEN DR B STILL RIDING A BIKE WITH HIS LEG AND EVERYTHING. MOBILITY TOOL. YEAH, EXACTLY. WELL, UH, WELL WE, WE, WE GOT OUR EVOLVED HOUSTON, UH, ELECTRIC TRIABLE MICRO GRANT JUST IN TIME FOR DR. V. RIGHT. UH, AND SO IT WAS, IT WAS A GREAT RIDE. WE ARE STILL DOING ACTUALLY, UM, ELECTRIC TRICYCLE RIDES WITH SENIORS, UH, AT DIFFERENT SENIOR CONFERENCES AROUND THIRD WARD. SO THAT'S BEEN A GREAT PROGRAM. MM-HMM . THIS SATURDAY IS OUR FOURTH ANNUAL THIRD WARD ON TAP FESTIVAL FROM 10:00 AM TO 2:00 PM UH, WE'LL HAVE VOLUNTEERED THERE A LOT EARLIER IF YOU ACTUALLY WANNA VOLUNTEER AT ALL THE SILENCE FOR THAT AROUND PRESENCE OF TAP.COM. AS OF THIS MORNING, WE HAD OVER 300 PEOPLE. RSVP. WOW. UM, SO WE HAVE FREE FOOD, UH, WE HAVE MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT, UM, INCLUDING A YOUTH SHOWCASE WITH WORKSHOP HOUSTON AND THEIR YOUTH, UH, PARTICIPANTS. WE'RE DOING A POPUP, UH, BIKE LANE, UH, POPUP, UH, AL URBAN AND DEMONSTRATION AT ELGIN. SO THE FESTIVAL ITSELF WILL BE ON ALASKA, WHICH WILL BE CLOSED FOR THE FESTIVAL FROM HALMAN WHERE WORKSHOP HOUSTON IS ALL THE WAY TO ELGIN AT THE ELGIN INTERSECTION. WE'LL BE DEMONSTRATING WHAT CLOSING OFF THE UTURN, UH, MEDIAN WOULD LOOK LIKE AND JUST HAVE IT AS A PEDESTRIAN REFUGE FOR THE TRAIL USERS. AND, UH, THAT WILL, UH, START IN THE MORNING AND WE'LL BE THERE ALL DAY WITH BIKE HOUSTON AND THEIR SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE FOR BIKES. UM, AND WE'LL HAVE OVER 45, UH, EXHIBITORS WITH RESOURCES AND GIVEAWAYS AND, UH, WE'LL HAVE FAMILY FUN KIDS ZONE AND ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS. UM, AND SO WE WILL LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING YOU OUT THERE. UH, ALSO, UH, WE WROTE OUT WORD THAT, UH, PUBLIC WORKS HAS APPROVED THE FINAL DESIGN THAT THE HARRISBURG TUR WILL BE IMPLEMENTING FOR THE MCKINNEY CROSSING OF IT FROM THE ATTACK. OH. UM, IT BASICALLY INCLUDES A LITTLE BIT OF A PEDESTRIAN REFUGE AND NEW CROSS STRIPING. UM, IT DOES, IT'S STILL FOUR LANES, ALTHOUGH I THINK THE OTHER LANES ARE A LITTLE BIT REDUCED BECAUSE OF THE ADDITIONAL PEDESTRIAN REFUGE. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE A BALL BATTLE, WHICH WAS PART OF THE ORIGINAL DESIGN, WHICH WOULD'VE, UM, CHANNELED INTO TWO LANES CROSSING THE, UH, COLUMBIA TAP AND THE LIGHT PURPLE LEFT LINE RIGHT. LIGHT RAIL. UM, BUT OF COURSE THOSE LANE REDUCTIONS AREN'T AN OPTION RIGHT NOW. SO, WE'LL, WE'LL TAKE WHAT WE CAN GET FOR NOW. I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN AT LEAST TALK TO METRO, UM, ABOUT LIGHTS BECAUSE THEIR LIGHT RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE IS WHAT MAKES THAT INTERCEPTION VERY CONFUSING FOR DRIVERS. DRIVERS THINK THAT THEY'RE ONLY CROSSING THE RAIL AND NOT A BIKE LANE. AND SO AS LONG AS THE ARMS ARE UP, THEY GO FULL SPEED AND, AND, AND THEY DON'T REALLY SEE THE RAIL BECAUSE OF ALSO HOW THE BUILDINGS ARE PLACED THERE. SO BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE WAY THE WAREHOUSES ARE PLACED, THEY CAN'T SEE PEOPLE COMING. AND THERE'S ALREADY A LOT OF SIGNAGE THERE THAT EVEN IF WE INCLUDE ADDITIONAL SIGNAGE AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, WE NEED FLASHING LIGHTS BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY DIFFERENT INTERSECTION THAN WHAT PEOPLE ARE USED TO BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT RAIL. SO, UM, AND, AND METRO, UM, HAS ALSO GOTTEN A LOT OF, OF DAMAGE FROM CARS YEAH. GOING THROUGH THOSE ARMS. AND ALSO IT HIT A, A METRO RIDE VEHICLE, ONE OF THE COMMUNITY CONNECTORS AND SENT A A, A COLLEGE STUDENT IN THAT, UH, PASSENGER INTO ICU FOR A FEW, A FEW WEEKS. SO, SO IT'S AND AND AND AND BASICALLY DEATHS. YEAH. SO, SO YEAH, TWO DEATHS ON, UH, THREE DEATHS. WELL YEAH, WE, I'M NOT SURE MOST RECENT. MOST, YEAH. BUT THERE WERE TWO DEATHS IN THE FIRST ACT OF SEVERE ACCIDENT AND THEN A LAST MONTH THERE WAS ANOTHER SEVERE ACCIDENT THAT WET SHARED FOR THE GUY SURVIVE. I KNOW WE CAN, WE FIND THAT FROM THE ASK COURSE STATED THEY THEY HAVE IT IN 30 DAYS TO SUBMIT THAT TO THE STATE SO [01:45:01] WE CAN PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. DON'T HAVE A SOCIAL FIND OUT, BUT YEAH. SO, YOU KNOW, VERY SEVERE ACCIDENTS. UM, SO, WELL, SO CASEY BROWN WITH EVOLVE IS TRYING TO GET A MEETING WITH ELIZABETH BROCK TO SPEAK DIRECTLY, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT MCKAY ON HIS BOARD, SO OH YEAH. UM, TO A QUESTION MCCOMB IN THAT YOU SAID THERE'D BE A LITTLE BIT OF A CROSSING ISLAND. YEAH. MC, HOW, HOW LITTLE BIT OF A CROSSING ISLAND. CAN YOU DESCRIBE IT ANYMORE? DO YOU UH, I CAN, I CAN SHOW A PICTURE OF IT. OKAY. SO, BUT FEEL FREE TO MOVE ON WITH LITTLE ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MY ONE COMMENT THAT, UH, MY, MY FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO YOUR COMMENTS MIGHT BE, UM, MCKINNEY AND COLUMBIA HAVEN'T SEEN LOTS OF CRASHES, NOT ACCIDENTS. YES. YES. I WAS WONDER OH, GO AHEAD. OH NO, NO, GO AHEAD, GO AHEAD. THIS IS A LITTLE MORE OPEN FORUM, BUT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT AUSTIN THE OTHER DAY AND UM, THE CITY OVER THE STREET, THE STREET, THE AUSTIN STREET BIKE LANE, UM, IT IS CLEARED NOW, BUT I'VE STARTED TAKING IT EVERY DAY AND THE AMOUNT OF CARS DRIVING DOWN THAT BIKE LANE REALLY IS IN, I HAVE ALMOST BEEN HIT MULTIPLE TIMES AS I'M SITTING AND PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO TURN INTO IT. I'VE LITERALLY NOT BEEN ABLE TO GO 'CAUSE PEOPLE ARE SITTING IN THE LANE THEY TURN DOWN SO THEY'RE COMING CLOSE . NO. SO THEY'RE COMING FROM DOWNTOWN ABOUT THE STREET'S CLOSED STILL PEOPLE. YEAH. PLE BALLERS MISSING. SO THEY'RE COMING FROM DOWNTOWN AND THEY'RE TURNING LEFT ONTO AUSTIN EXCEPT THEY'RE TURNING FULLY INTO THE BIKE LANE. SO THERE'S LIKE MULTIPLE CARS DRIVING DOWN. SO WE, WE UH, WE NEED A BALLER. WE NEED THE FLEXIBLE WALL ALERTS BACK. WE'RE NOT FLEXIBLE. WE'RE NOT FLEXIBLE. WE NEED BALLERS BACK. MOST OF THEM IF THEY'RE STILL THERE, THEY'RE LIKE MOSTLY BENT OVER BECAUSE I THINK THIS , SO I'M UNCLEAR WHAT THE 3 0 1 SITUATION IS FOR REPLACE OUT OF FLEXIBLE BALLARD SO I CAN START APPROVING OR SUBMITTING THOSE. YEAH. I WOULD LIKE THE MIDDLE OF THE OTHER THINGS. I SUBMITTED A WHOLE MOVING TRUCK THAT WAS BLOCKING THE ENTIRE BIKE WAY AND HALF THE LENGTHS SEND THOSE STRIPS THAT THEY PUT DOWN WITH BULLET ON TIRES, MY MEMORY ERASE FAT TIRE. I THINK THAT'S CAPTURED ME SPONGE. BUT NO, I THINK THAT IF YOU'RE SPECIFIC WITH YOUR FUNERAL REQUEST, NOT THAT THERE'S PEOPLE IN THE BIKE LANE BECAUSE THEY WILL GO OUT TO TRY AND FORCE THAT FEW WEEKS LATER. MM-HMM . THEY UM, YOU KNOW, SAY THAT THERE'S A PROXY BALLER MISSING AND PEOPLE ARE BARKING AS A RESULT. MAKE THAT VERY CLEAR. OKAY. I THINK THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME SUCCESS IN THE PAST SINCE I THINK THEY'RE CURRENT MOST OF THE TIME. I'M TRYING TO GET MY PHONE OUT TO TAKE, BUT I'M ON MY SCOOTER. YEP. OKAY. THAT THAT BE CLOSE TO WHAT? AROUND THE CORNER HILL. YOU STORING STUFF BEHIND THE JANE LAKE BUS. RIGHT, RIGHT BY YOU PLACE ALL PICK THAT UP SO SANDRA CAN CAN'T MAKE UH, 10 TO AMOUNT SATURDAY BECAUSE WE HAVE COMPETING NET. SO WE'RE DOING THE FOURTH ANNUAL, UH, WEST HOUSTON TRAIL FEST, UH, FROM 12 TO FOUR. MM-HMM. SO IF YOU CAN RACE OVER AFTERWARDS AS WELL, UH, ON THE AN HILLS THERE AT THE SOUTH AREA ASTRO PARKING LOT, JUST SOUTH BAYOU, WE'LL HAVE A NICE SIX FOOT KICK AROUND AN AIRBAG. UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE DIRT SISTERS OF GOBA ARE GONNA BE THERE GIVING WOMEN ONLY CLINICS AS WELL IF YOU'RE I REMEMBER THE FOUR. I LOVE THAT. YEAH. UH, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE KID FAMILY RIDES AS WELL AND THEN TOWARDS THE END OF THE DAY WE'LL HAVE A JUMP CONTEST AND COUPLE OTHER THINGS AND JUST BASICALLY FITS NOT BIKERS AND OTHER PEOPLE OUT THROWING US OUT TO HAVE A GOOD TIME. AND COMING UP IKIN BIKE, HOUSTON 2025, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF IKIN BIKE? THEY ARE A NONPROFIT THAT BASICALLY HELPS FOLKS WITH DISABILITIES AND OTHER CHALLENGES LEARN HOW TO RE RIDE BIKES. THEY NEED VOLUNTEERS, THEY LIKE PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO BE THERE FIVE DAYS A WEEK AT A CERTAIN ONE HOUR SEGMENT THAT YOU CAN KIND OF BOND WITH YOUR RIDER AND THEY HAVE THESE HIGHLY SPECIALIZED BIKES TO HELP THESE KIDS AND ADULTS LEARN HOW TO RIDE. SO IF YOU HAVE TIME, IT'S JUNE 9TH THROUGH 13TH 2025 AND THE SLOTS ARE FROM EIGHT 30 TO FOUR 50. I HAVE EMAILED THAT TO YOUR EMAIL EARLIER. BOTH THE ANNUAL FLYER AND THE UM, I CAN BIKE. SO, GREAT. QUICK QUESTION ABOUT HANDHELDS. MY RECOLLECTION IS THAT THEY WERE GONNA BE GOING AWAY DUE TO FLOOD PROJECTS OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES. NO, NO. CRAZY ENOUGH, THE NEIGHBORHOODS GOT TOGETHER TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE AND THEY SAY THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN SIDE THE LINE. WOW. SO THAT'S WHY GREAT. YES SIR. RECORD IS SAYING IF YOU WANT TO SLOW DOWN TRAFFIC, PUT IN A SPEED BUMP OR SEVERAL SPEED BUMPS WHEEL DEFINITELY SLOWED DOWN THE . MM-HMM . ALRIGHT. YEAH, THERE'S A PROCESS. I LEARNED A BIT ABOUT THAT, THE SPEED CUSHION THERE, THAT SITUATION THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY COST A FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS AND SO A LOT OF TIMES [01:50:01] CITY HOUSE AND SERVICE FUNDS ARE USED, BUT THERE'S APPLICATION PROCESS AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING I THINK THAT EVEN FIRES ON BOARD WITH BECAUSE THEY DESIGN US THE FIRE TRUCKS FROM DRIVE THERE. SO, YOU KNOW, THAT ONE'S KIND OF A, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK EVERYBODY'S KIND OF ON BOARD WITH THE, WITH THE SPEED CUSHION HEADS. THE SRIN ALLOWS IT. SO. WELL YOU'VE ALSO SUGGESTED DR. V IN THE PAST STRIPS. MM-HMM . I MEAN, YOU, YOU GET THE RUMBLE SCRIPT BEFORE, RIGHT? YES. YEAH, EXACTLY. THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING LIKE THIS AND THEY ACTUALLY HEAR SOMETHING AND YOU KNOW, JUST, I, I'M JUST TALKING NATALIE, IT'S AMAZING THAT SOUTH OF THE BORDER, YOU KNOW, I CAN SEE ALL THIS STUD THAT PROTECTS, YOU KNOW, RIDING AND I RIDE FROM CANCUN ALL THE WAY TO THE BORDER AND I HAVE A STRIP ABOUT THIS WIDE, ALL THE WAY FROM CANCUN TO THE BORDER THAT I CAN RIDE ALONG THE HIGHWAY. AND YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE TIME THERE'S NOTHING, YOU KNOW. COOL. ARE YOU ANNOUNCING A BIKE TOWARDS JOSE? YES. THE YUAN. ONE MORE, ONE MORE QUICK UPDATE. SO THE $7.5 MILLION IMPROVEMENT BRANCH FROM H FOR THE COLUMBIA TAP. UM, THE HOUSTON, HOW MANAGE DISTRICT HAS PUT FORWARD THEIR RECOMMENDED TEAM FROM THAT. ALL THE APPLICANTS, UM, IT STILL HAS TO BE APPROVED BY THEIR BOARD, BUT THIS IS THE LEAD. THE LEAD ON THE TEAM IS LGA ENGINEERING, WHICH I HAD NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. AND THEIR, THEIR TEAM MEMBERS ARE AGILITY ENGINEERING, LGA SURVEY, BERGIT CONSULTANTS, BR, M-B-R-O-H, ENGINEERING, TERRACON, THE RIOS GROUP, UNITED ENGINEERS AND TESTED ACCESSIBILITY GROUP. SO IF ANYONE KNOWS ABOUT THOSE GROUPS, I'D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH, THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE. PLEASE BE CURIOUS. NO, WE'RE COMPLETED. NO. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.