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          [Bicycle Advisory Committee on July 23, 2025.]
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UM, WELCOME EVERYBODY THAT CAME OUT TODAY. 
          UM, SWIMMING RESTAURANT LIGHT. 
          THAT'S OKAY. 
          I HAD TO GO AROUND THE TRAIN TOO, SO THAT'S WHY IT TOOK ME A LITTLE WHILE TO GET HERE. 
          UM, UH, SO LET'S CALL, LET'S DO THE . 
          YES. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UH, VICE CHAIR, ALEJANDRO HERE. 
          S ALEXANDER. 
          UH, YES. 
          ADAM WILLIAMS HERE. 
          CARL SALAZAR. 
          JOE AU TFO. 
          PRESENT. 
          HE SCR HERE. 
          TREVOR REMAN HERE. 
          I AMONG SEN HERE. 
          ROBIN HOLZER. 
          PRESENT AL NICK REYNOLDS HERE. 
          AND I AM SERVING AS THE EX OFFICIO FOR PLANNING. 
          I'M MS. WILSON CALWORKS. 
          SO I AM HERE AS WELL. 
          3 4, 5, 6, 7 8. 
          I HAVE, WE HAVE FORUMS SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD. 
          HEY, QUESTION YOU, DID I MISS YOU BEING NICK? OH YEAH. 
          SORRY. 
          I WROTE THAT ON THERE. 
          NIKKI MAG ALSO. 
          YES. 
          NOT PRESENT. 
          OKAY. 
          YES. 
          SORRY. 
          I I I LITERALLY HAND WROTE THAT TO REMIND MYSELF. 
          YES. 
          IF YOU'VE EVER WONDERED WHY THESE ARE IN THE ORDER. 
          THEY ARE. 
          BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE SAME THING. 
          BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE POSITIONS THAT EVERYBODY IS IN. 
          SO YOU HAVE LOOK AT POSITION SLOT. 
          SO YOU EVER WONDERING WHY IT'S NOT OUT? THAT QUESTION? OKAY. 
          HERE'S THE AGENDA. 
          UM, FIRST THING UP WILL BE THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT. 
          SO I TAKE IT AHEAD. 
          OH, SORRY. 
          DIRECTOR'S REPORT. 
          THERE IS, THERE IS NO DIRECTOR'S REPORT. 
          NOW GO REPORT NOW THAT FOR ALL, UM, CHURCH REPORT. 
          UM, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? UM, IT'S A QUESTION, RIGHT? YES. 
          SO PIECES OF THE AGENDA WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT CAN WE TALK ABOUT? WHAT CAN WE MOVE FORWARD? I KNOW WE ARE IN THE, INTO THE MORE RURAL COMPLIANT PART OF THIS COMMITTEE. 
          UM, SO YOUR, YOUR PRESENCE MEANS A LOT IN ORDER FOR US TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND START BRINGING UP THINGS THE RIGHT WAY. 
          AND, AND HOPEFULLY, UM, WE GET SOME, SOME, SOME GUIDELINES ON WHERE TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          UM, SEEING HOW WE ARE KIND OF, I DON'T SAY HOW WE'RE LIKE NAVIGATING THROUGH THIS. 
          UM, I GUESS THE BEST RECOURSE THAT I SEE THAT WE CAN GO MORE MOVE FORWARD IS TO, UM, UM, AND MOVE FORWARD AND ALSO BE MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT, UM, WORKING WITH HOUSTON PARK SPORT AND LIKE RECREATIONAL TRAILS, UM, I, I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, TRY TO SEE WHAT WE CAN HELP THEM WITH PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS OR, OR, OR IDEAS ABOUT WHAT PROJECTS THEY WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD, PRIORITIZING THOSE PROJECTS. 
          UM, AND, UM, FROM THERE, WE'LL, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE, SOME OF Y'ALL MAY HAVE RECEIVED THE EMAIL ABOUT, UM, THAT WILSON SENT WAS THAT HPD WANTED TO PRESENT, UM, BUT THEY JUST MISSED THE MARK ON THE DATE. 
          SO IF YOU CAN HAVE THEM HERE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THEY'RE NOT PART OF THE VAC, BUT YOU KNOW, IF IT, UM, IN THE NEXT MEETING, THE NEXT FULL MEETING THAT WE HAVE, THAT THEY PRESENT, UM, THEIR, THEIR STATISTICS THAT, THAT WE'VE KIND OF DRAWN ACCUSTOMED TO AND HELP US, UH, VIEW WHERE THEY ARE AS, AS, AS, AS A CITY AND, AND HOW WE'RE DOING. 
          I KNOW THAT ACTUALLY HAS JUST PUBLISHED A, A REPORT ABOUT, UM, THE, WHAT IS IT? TRAFFIC DESK, I THINK I WAS JUST READING EARLIER TODAY AND WE'RE LIKE SLIGHTLY UNDERNEATH WHAT, WHAT IT WAS LAST YEAR, WHICH IS NOT GOOD, BUT NOT BAD EITHER. 
          BUT WE ALWAYS WANT TO LIKE MOVE FORWARD AND DO BETTER THAN WE ALWAYS, THE GOAL IS ZERO, RIGHT? THERE'S DIVISION ZERO, WHETHER IT'S RIGHT NOW IN THE FUTURE. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT EVERY DAVID WOULD DESCRIBE TO BE. 
          UM, AND THEN, UH, WHAT WAS THAT THIRD LINE THINK? UM, YEAH, UM, , UM, WE WILL GET AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OUR, UM, UHD BIKE CLUB AND UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON HAS SUBMITTED THEIR, UH, I GUESS ONE OF THE GOOD NEWS AS THEY, WE SUBMITTED OUR BICYCLE PANEL UNIVERSITY AND WE WILL GET RIGHT ON THAT IN LATE AUGUST IS LIKE US PROBABLY USUALLY THEIR SCIENCE AND STUFF. 
          UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE UM, HOPEFULLY 
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FROM THERE WE CAN GET, UM, MORE SUPPORT FROM THE UNIVERSITY ABOUT, UM, GETTING A CHAMPIONS, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY FORWARD AND BECOME KIND OF LIKE, WELL, RICE UNIVERSITY IS THE ONLY UNIVERSITY THAT  IN THE CITY UNIVERSITY. 
          UM, SO, YOU KNOW, BEING, BEING ALONGSIDE THEM AS AS A, A COMMUTER CAMPUS, I THINK IT WOULD MEAN A LOT TO BE THERE. 
          AND HOPEFULLY LIKE BEING IN DOWNTOWN, WORKING WITH THE DOWNTOWN MANAGER DISTRICT, SEEING HOW THEY'RE CREATED THE NEW MAIN STREET THAT'S ON LIKE, PEDESTRIAN CORRIDOR NOW. 
          UM, AND WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW THAT CAN, CAN TIE INTO THE UNIVERSITY. 
          UM, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT I HAVE SO FAR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          I DID EMAIL ALSO THE, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBERS AHEAD OF TIME, THE, UH, COPY OF THE DRAFT MINUTES FROM APRIL'S MEETING. 
          DID ANYBODY HAVE ANY CORRECTIONS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? OH, PERFECT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          TRACY ARRIVES, SO THAT'S FINE. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          WELCOME. 
          UM, SO YEAH, SO DID, DID ANYBODY ON, UM, THE VAC HAVE ANY CORRECTIONS FOR THOSE MINUTES OR DID ANYBODY WANTS TO MAKE A  TO APPROVE THOSE MINUTES? I'LL MOTION. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          SICK. 
          OKAY. 
          ONE OF US, ROBIN FIRST AND I GUESS ALL IN FAVOR A AYE, . 
          AND THEN, BUT DO YOU WANNA TAKE THIS, UH, BACK OVER THE, UH, DISCUSSION OF THE, THE A C SUBCOMMITTEES AND TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED BY THOSE SUBCOMMITTEE? SOUNDS GOOD. 
          ALRIGHT, SO ITEM THREE, FOUR. 
          UM, I DID MENTION IN SHOWS REPORT, LIKE WHAT WE CAN DO. 
          UM, I MEAN, WHAT WE'VE IN THE PAST IS KIND OF LIKE GENERAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE WILL, WE KNOW WHERE THAT'S GOING NOW AND, UM, IT'S STILL A POSSIBILITY EDUCATION WISE. 
          UM, I APPRECIATE LISA FOR HITTING THAT AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT CHALLENGE WITH THAT COME, THAT COMES WITH THAT. 
          UM, I, BUT I THINK NOW IS, IS, IS IS MAYBE JUST HAVE A HOUSTON PARKS OR SUBCOMMITTEE WHERE THERE'S JUST KIND OF TO REPLACE THE INFRASTRUCTURE, I GUESS, OR THE EDUCATION, SO THAT WAY WE CAN, UM, COORDINATE WITH THEM ON THE RECREATIONAL BIKEWAYS AND HOW WE CAN BOOST OUR CONNECTIONS AND, YOU KNOW, AND, AND I THINK WHAT I, WHAT I FEEL LIKE WE CAN PROBABLY WORK ON IS, IS MAYBE THE CONNECTIONS IN, UH, THE CONNECTION ON THESE TRAILS WHERE THEY CROSS PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY AND HOW WE CAN MAKE THOSE INTERSECTIONS SAFER. 
          UM, WE HAVE A NEW IBM, SO WE HAVE THESE NEW TOOLS THAT WE CAN USE, UM, AND HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN USE THESE TO IMPLEMENTS THEIR NEW INFRASTRUCTURE GUIDE INFRASTRUCTURE TO MAKE THESE CROSSWAYS SAFER. 
          UM, AND OTHER THAN THAT, I MEAN, IF ANYONE HAS ANY OTHER IDEAS OR SUGGESTIONS AND OPENING FLOOR FOR THAT  IN THE SPIRIT OF SIMPLICITY, WOULD YOU BE OPEN TO JUST CONTINUING TO CALL IT THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE AND ITS FOCUS THIS YEAR MIGHT BE ON TRAILS AND RECREATION? I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED A NEW COMMITTEE FOR THAT. 
          YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          AND THAT'S WHY I WAS LIKE BRINGING IT UP. 
          YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          SO IT JUST MEANT PARKS BOARD MORE OF A FREQUENT VISITOR YEAH. 
          FOR THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH, THAT'S FINE. 
          AND IS THE, THE EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE, IS THAT THEN RESURRECTED? UH, WELL, I STILL, YEAH, IT'S STILL, I MEAN, PLACES DOWN. 
          SO WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE A CHAIR FOR THAT COMMITTEE. 
          UM, SO IF ANYBODY WANTS TO HEAD THAT OR VOLUNTEER FOR, FOR LEADING THOSE CONVERSATIONS, UM, IT'S, IT'S OPEN FOR ANYBODY THAT NEEDS TO NOMINATED AN IDEA OR A POSSIBLE PIVOT FOR THE EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE. 
          YOU KNOW, AS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED, THE EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE WAS MEANT TO HELP US ADDRESS A DEFICIENCY IN THE CITY'S SCORING AS A BICYCLE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY THAT WHEN IT CAME TO THE FIVE E OF ENGINEERING AND ENCOURAGEMENT AND EDUCATION AND SO ON, ENFORCEMENT, WHO'S GOT THE 50, ALL RIGHT, NEVERMIND, JUST PUT ME A TEST LATER. 
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GET ON THE EDUCATION PIECE. 
          THE WAY THE LEAGUE ASSESSES A MUNICIPALITY, LIKE THE CITY OF HOUSTON, IS TO SCORE THINGS LIKE, HOW MANY LEAGUE CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS DO YOU HAVE PER CAPITA? HOW MANY YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS DO YOU HAVE PER CAPITA? AND BECAUSE OUR POPULATION IS VAST, THAT MEANS ONE GREAT LITTLE GROUP, OR TWO GREAT LITTLE GROUPS DON'T GET US VERY FAR. 
          SO THE ORIGINAL INCARNATION OF THE EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE WAS TO HELP US FIGURE OUT WHO ELSE IN OUR, IN OUR CITY IS DOING BICYCLE EDUCATION WORK. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT COULD BE A THING, PARTICULARLY IF WE HAD FOLKS THERE WAS A, LIKE MISS YOLANDA FROM HOUSTON, IFP, LIKE THERE WE HAD SOME LEADS ON SOME PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY WHO MIGHT HELP US DO THAT BETTER. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, SO THAT, THAT'S ONE PIECE. 
          THE, AND THEN THE SECOND PIECE I WOULD OFFER IS IN KEEPING WITH THE EDUCATION THEME FROM THIS POINT, WE MIGHT ALSO PIVOT IT TO BE FOCUSED MORE ON EDUCATING OURSELVES AND THE CONSTITUENTS OF THE BAC. 
          SO WE COULD POTENTIALLY RECRUIT NATIONAL SPEAKERS OR REGIONAL EXPERTS, RESEARCHERS THAT THERE ARE, WHETHER ON BIKEWAY DESIGN OR BIKEWAY POLICY OR CRASH SAFETY, LIKE CRASH REDUCTION, THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF TOPICS THAT ARE FOR PARTICULAR INTERESTS TO THE BAD. 
          I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE ARE THE ONLY COMMITTEE, UM, OF THE CITY THAT IS FOCUSED ON STREET SAFETY AND CRASH REDUCTION. 
          SO THERE, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM FOR US TO USE THAT COMMITTEE MAYBE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THAN WE HAVE. 
          AND I'LL THROW IT BACK TO THE BOARD. 
          IF I COULD ADD, I THINK EDUCATING OURSELVES AND THE FOLKS WHO WATCH THESE MEETINGS AND PARTICIPATE IN THESE MEETINGS IN PERSON, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVING, HAVING AN ADDITIONAL, HAVING THAT RHYTHM OF A MONTHLY MEETING, UH, REGARDING THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S NAME IS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALWAYS AN EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT FOR SOMEBODY. 
          AND IF WE WANTED TO INVITE SOMEBODY WHO WAS BUILDING SOME INFRASTRUCTURE SOMEWHERE AND THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE, I THINK THE EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE OPPORTUNITIES WOULD EDUCATE OTHER DECISION MAKERS AND OTHER FOLKS IN ABOVE THE WORK THAT AS A WAY TO GARNER MORE INTEREST FROM THE PUBLIC. 
          I SAY SO, AND MEETINGS AND, AND NOT JUST THE BROADER PUBLIC, BUT AT THIS PARTICULAR UNIQUE POINT IN TIME, OUR, OUR ORIGINAL BODY OF 23 PEOPLE IS SMALLER. 
          AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT'LL BE TRUE, BUT IT'LL BE EASIER FOR ALL OF US TO COME IF WE REALLY MAKE AN EFFORT TO HAVE COMPELLING AGENDAS. 
          AND I THINK, AND, AND A GREAT SPEAKER COULD BE PART OF HOW WE KEEP OUR MEETINGS COMPELLING FOR OURSELVES AND FOR THE PUBLIC AND FOR DECISION MAKERS. 
          VERY WELL PUT. 
          YEAH, I, I MEAN, THE THOUGHT OF BRINGING THESE, THE SUBIES WAS BASICALLY, UM, YEAH, FUTURE TOPICS. 
          SO I I, I WASN'T, I DIDN'T MEAN TO BY MAYBE REMOVING OR REPLACING OF, I LIKED THE WAY THEY ARE IN CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION AND, AND THE REMINDER OF, OF HOW THE EDUCATION CAN ALLOW, BECAUSE I WAS A LOT MORE FOCUSED THAN THE INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          UM, IT'S A GOOD, IT'S A BIG DEAL. 
          AND THE POINTS YOU BROUGHT UP ARE TOTALLY, I LIKE TO BRINGING 'EM NATIONAL SPEAKERS UP, TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING. 
          YEAH. 
          AND SPEAKING OF EDUCATION, YOU MENTIONED THAT THE ONLY UNIVERSITY IN HOUSTON THAT IS RECOGNIZED AS BICYCLE FRIENDLY, UNIVERSITY OF RICE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          TSU NOT RIGHT STORY. 
          U OF H, NOT UHD IS NOT MM-HMM . 
          UNIVERSITY TAX IS NOT MM-HMM . 
          SO ALL THESE UNIVERSITIES CLOSE INTO THE URBAN CORE DOESN'T EVEN MENTION HOUSTON, CHRISTIAN, WHATEVER ELSE MIGHT BE UP THERE. 
          ST. 
          THOMAS. 
          YEAH. 
          MENTIONED ST. 
          THOMAS. 
          YEAH. 
          ANYBODY GET THEM? TOTALLY. 
          OKAY. 
          EDUCATION. 
          AND WE ACTUALLY DO HAVE SOMEONE, MY NEW AT TSC, IS THERE A POSSIBILITY OF PUBLICATION OR PUTTING OUT INFORMATION FOR PEOPLE TO SEE AND COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS, YOU KNOW, TO, YOU KNOW, PUBLICATIONS SO THAT WE COULD GET OUT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE PRESSING ISSUES THROUGH SOME OTHER ENTITIES THAT THEY DON'T COME TO THE MEETING OR, YOU KNOW, SEE IT ON THE, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T ATTEND TO MEETING. 
          SO IDEAL TO BE, YEAH. 
          YOU KNOW, LIKE, JUST LIKE, HERE IT IS WHAT WE THINK IS A GOOD BIKE LANE HERE. 
          THIS IS, UH, YOU KNOW, THE AUSTIN STREET, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S OUR POSITION ON AUSTIN STREET? UH, HOW ARE WE, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, RELATING WITH THE COLUMBIA STAFF, YOU KNOW, A BIG ENTITY THERE. 
          YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? 
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HOW CAN YOU HELP, YOU KNOW, OTHER THAN, YOU KNOW, COME TO THIS MEETING, SHARE IDEAS AND I'M NOT SO SURE HOW FAR WE GONNA, SO THEN KIND OF GOING ON THAT EDUCATION, RIGHT, AS WE DEFINE A SUBCOMMITTEE, COULD ALSO APPLY TO OUTREACH, RIGHT? NOT, NOT JUST EDUCATION TO MEET A STANDARD OR EDUCATION INTERNALLY, BUT EDUCATING THE GREATER EASTERN PUBLICLY, RIGHT? PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THESE ISSUES. 
          I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WOULD LEARN ABOUT THEM IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW SOMEONE IN THIS ROOM. 
          YOU KNOW? SO YOURSELF, SIMPLE IDEA OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH. 
          I MEAN, YOU GET ON ANY SOCIAL MEDIA OR NEXT DOOR PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT BIKES AND MOBILITY. 
          YEAH. 
          AND I THINK IF WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW TO KIND OF SHARPEN THE SUBCOMMITTEES A LITTLE BIT, OUTREACH I THINK COULD BE A MISSION THAT APPLIES TO INFRASTRUCTURE AND EDUCATION. 
          SO I KNOW THAT, UH, SOME OF THESE BAC MEETINGS WERE UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE. 
          WAS THAT STILL BEING NOT DONE? THE WHOLE BC MEETINGS ARE BEING BROADCAST ON HTV. 
          RIGHT? AND SO THEY HAVE A REPOSITORY AS WELL. 
          INITIALLY I'M RECORDING 'EM SO THAT I HAVE ONE ON ONE BACKUP COPY. 
          AND THEN THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS ARE GENERALLY RECORDED AS WELL, JUST IN TEAMS AND VIA LIKE, JUST CAMERA INSIDE THE ROOM. 
          UM, SO YEAH, SO THOSE ARE ALSO AVAILABLE. 
          AND I, WE HAVE BEEN POSTING UP TO THE WEBSITE. 
          MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TRANSITIONING THE WEBSITE TO BASICALLY ALL THE CITY WEBSITES WILL BE MOVING TO THE HOUSTON PI.GOV DOMAIN. 
          SO I THINK THAT THE, EVENTUALLY THE NEAR TERM PLAN SHOULD EACS PAGE, INSTEAD OF HAVING A SEPARATE WEBSITE WILL BECOME PART OF THE ACTUAL PLANNINGS WEBSITES. 
          WE'RE GONNA BE READ JOLY THINGS ANYWAY, SO ANY RECORDINGS THAT Y'ALL WANT TO PRODUCE AND TALKING LIKE PUBLISHING, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THERE, LIKE IN THE PAST, LIKE THERE'S BEEN LIKE USING LETTERHEAD, WE HAVE THE JC LETTERHEAD, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S, YOU KNOW, DOLLAR IN SEPARATE ENTITY THAN THE PLANNING, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT JUST KIND OF HELPS FACILITATE THE COMMITTEE. 
          SO THE SAME WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS EXACTLY, YEAH. 
          THEY, THEY'RE THEIR OWN ENTITY GREATER WITH CITY COUNCIL, YOU KNOW? YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          YEP. 
          I WOULD ALSO SAY, I THINK THE ORDINANCE IS VERY FLEXIBLE ON SUBCOMMITTEES AND THAT THEY'RE NOT REQUIRED, THERE'S NO NAMES, THERE'S NO REQUIREMENT ON HOW FREQUENTLY THEY MEET OR HOW OFTEN OR WHAT THE TOPICS ARE. 
          YOU KNOW, KIND OF JUST THINK IT'S THE ONLY TIME IT'S MENTIONED IS THAT YOU CAN CREATE THEM, IS BASICALLY HOW THAT, HOW THAT WORKS. 
          AND THEY DON'T REQUIRE IT AT ALL. 
          IF I MAY, TO THAT SAME POINT IN TERMS OF FLEXIBILITY, THE ORDINANCE REQUIRES US TO CONVENE AS A BA, C FOUR TIMES A YEAR, BUT THAT'S A MINIMUM, NOT A MAXIMUM. 
          SO IF THERE WERE A PRESSING ISSUE THAT THIS GROUP THOUGHT WE NEED TO COME BACK TOGETHER NEXT MONTH WITH AN AGENDA THAT ALLOWS US TO TAKE ACTION ON A, B AND C, WE COULD DO THAT. 
          AND BASICALLY JUST THE OPEN, YOU KNOW, STANDARD STUFF FOR THE STATE. 
          I DIDN'T NEED TO POST AN AGENDA 72 HOURS ADVANCE. 
          SO WE HAVE TO GIVE PUBLIC NOTICE THAT WAY ON THE CITY HALL WALLS AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, WE DO IT ONLINE. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN FACILITATE AS SPECIFIC AND OKAY. 
          SO A LITTLE BIT OF, I GUESS EXPANDING A LITTLE BIT ON THAT. 
          UM, 'CAUSE I THINK I WAS MISSING YOU LIKE LAST WEEK OR SOMETHING. 
          I'M TRYING TO PUT ITEMS ON THE AGENDA, RIGHT? SO, UM, SO THAT WOULD BE, I GUESS THAT'S WHAT THIS, THIS, THIS LINE ITEM IS FOR, IS TO KIND OF LIKE, TALK ABOUT IT, OKAY, DO WE WANT THIS ON THE AGENDA NEXT IN FULL MEETING, RIGHT? IS THAT WHAT WE  TO POTENTIALLY WHAT? SO IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE, IF THE, THE IDEA IS TO, YOU KNOW, CALL INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING OR EVEN REBRAND OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT REQUIRES AN ACTUAL MOTION TO DO THAT. 
          LIKE I SAID, I DON'T, I HAVE TO GO AND SEE HOW THEY WERE CREATED MAYBE ORIGINALLY. 
          MM-HMM . 
          YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT AGAIN, YOU WANTED TO CONVENE A SUBCOMMITTEE AS LONG AS THERE'S 72 HOURS NOTICE OF THAT SUBCOMMITTEE BECAUSE THEY DON'T TAKE ANY ACTUAL ACTIONS. 
          SO THEY CAN'T, YOU KNOW, DO, DO ANYTHING. 
          YOU TALK ABOUT THINGS, RECORD THINGS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOT THE, THE LEVEL OF SCRUTINY THERE. 
          SO, UM, IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT VERSUS THE FULL AND BETTER. 
          IF, IF I MAY WILSON MM-HMM . 
          JUST IN THE FULLNESS OF THE WAY YOU DESCRIBED THE LAST BIT ISN'T EXACTLY HOW THEY WERE CONCEIVED. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT VERY SPECIFICALLY, THE VAC MADE A DECISION IN CONTACT PATIENT WITH KIM MM-HMM . 
          AT THE OUTSET WHEN WE CREATED THE SUBCOMMITTEES THAT WE WERE GOING TO TREAT THEM, LIKE MEETINGS AS A WHOLE, WE WERE GOING TO COMPLY WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT, THAT WE COULD HAVE ACTION ITEMS, WE COULD VOTE ON THEM IF WE HAD A QUORUM. 
          THAT THEY, I THINK THAT THAT'S A FAIR ASSESSMENT, THAT THE FOCUS IS DIFFERENT OR IS NOMINALLY DIFFERENT, BUT THEY WERE GONNA 
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OPERATE THE SAME WAY. 
          SO THAT IT WAS PART OF OUR MISSION TO ALWAYS BE THE TRANSPARENT WORK WHERE, WHERE YOU EXPECT US TO BE WHEN YOU EXPECT US TO BE. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE ALL THE SAUSAGE MAKING OR WHAT HAVE YOU. 
          I, I'M HAPPY TO DO THE HOMEWORK THERE AND WE CAN FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT LEVELS AND IF THEY COULD BE EITHER OR AS YOU GO. 
          IF YOU DON'T, YOU HAVE A FORUM KIND OF HOW THAT WORKS IF YOU CAN. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I'LL TALK. 
          YEAH. 
          OTHER THING IS IF WE NEED TO TAKE ACTIONS AND WE NEED TO, THIS GOING TO ROBIN'S POINT, IF WE NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER BA SCENARIO, TAKE CERTAIN ACTIONS, THEN WE CAN USE THE NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING AS A WHOLE DC MEETING BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING THAT PROHIBITS US TO HAVE ANOTHER PIECE THIS MM-HMM . 
          AND TAKE THAT ACTION THIS. 
          SO THEN YOU CAN PUT THOSE, THAT ACTION, WE CAN DISCUSS WHAT NEEDS TO BE PUT ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE WE HAVE AN AGENDA, SET UP DECISION THAT NEED TO BE MADE, PUT IT ON THE NEXT COMPANY, THE AGENDA, MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE MEMBERS ARE AWARE WHAT ACTION THAT GOING TO BE TAKEN UPFRONT. 
          AND THEN THEY CAN ACTUALLY BE PERSON, THEY WOULD WANT TO BE THERE IN PERSON. 
          WE TAKE ACTUALLY HAVE BETTER AGENDA. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S THE THINGS WE CAN STILL MOVE FORWARD WITH THE DISCUSSION OF THOSE ITEMS AND THE, THIS AGENDA ITEM. 
          AND THEN AS A PART OF THIS COMMITTEE, MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO ADD THOSE ITEMS TO THE NEXT, UH, NEXT VAC , IF WE CHOOSE TO MAKE, MAKE THAT OPTION MM-HMM . 
          UH, THAT, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE, HAVE A DISCUSSION OF WHAT ARE THE ITEMS, DO WE NEED TO, UH, WE NEED TO DISCUSS ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT, MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE NEED TO HAVE A SECOND VICE CHAIR, UH, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE ALL HAVE, UH, WE NEED TO HAVE SECOND VICE CHAIR SO THAT WE CAN RUN A MEETING. 
          SO SOME CASE THERE'S AN EMERGENCY AND WE'RE NOT ABLE TO. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH, DEFINITELY. 
          WHICH IS NOT AN INDICTMENT OF YOU. 
          ANY ORGANIZATION IS FRAGILE IF EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON JUAN PART WITH, SO WE DO NOT, NICOLE ENCOURAGED US TO, TO DO THAT LAST IN APRIL. 
          SHOULD WE HAVE A VOTE ON A NOMINATION FOR ANY ONE? OH, COOL. 
          VICE CHAIR. 
          ANOTHER VICE CHAIR. 
          YEAH. 
          THE RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO A, UH, YEAH, TO HAVE A SECOND VICE CHAIR. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I GUESS I CAN OPEN THAT FLOOR. 
          DO WE WANNA TALK ABOUT THAT NOW OR OPEN NOMINATION FOR THAT? I STILL, IT, IT IS NOT AN AGENDA ITEM ON TODAY'S AGENDA, SO WE CAN'T, IT DOESN'T, I DON'T KNOW. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE HAVE, YOU CAN'T CHOOSE ANYTHING, BUT YOU COULD TALK ABOUT DO I, I WANNA SAY YOU BY INTEREST. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH, THAT'S FAIR. 
          UM, JUST AS A, A REMINDER FOR, FOR CLARITY, DO OUR, UH, DECISIONS, UM, OR VOTE FOR CHAIR OF VICE CHARITY ADMINISTRATION APPROVAL? OR IS THAT COMPLETELY HONOR? I DON'T, DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT. 
          I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THE ADMINISTRATION APPROVAL WILL COME TO TIME OF AN AGENDA ITEM. 
          OKAY. 
          WHAT, WHAT YOU, I GUESS I THOUGHT IT WAS NICOLE WHO SAID IT WAS THAT THAT WAS UP TO US, THAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS TO APPOINT THE FIRST POSITION PERSON, WHICH IS THE CHAIR, AND THAT THIS BODY GETS TO SELECT THE VICE CHAIR, AND IN THIS CASE, THE SECOND VICE CHAIR. 
          NO, AND I AGREE WITH THAT. 
          I'M JUST SAYING IT PRO IT NEEDS TO BE AN AGENDA ITEM. 
          AGREED. 
          AND THAT IS, THAT IS THE ADMINISTRATION CONTROL. 
          EXACTLY. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK THAT'S, HOW DO WE HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION DECIDES NOT TO HAVE AN AGENDA ITEM. 
          WE HAVE LEGAL, WE HAVE A, A CITY OF HOUSTON LEGAL, IN YOUR WORDS, RECOMMENDING THAT WE HAVE SECOND VICE CHAIR MM-HMM . 
          HOW WILL WE KNOW THAT BEFORE WE GET TO THE NEXT MEETING? OKAY, THIS ITEM IS NOT ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE WE NEED, WE ARE MAKING DECISIONS TODAY MM-HMM . 
          AND SO THERE IS FOUR WEEKS BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT MEETING. 
          AND SO HOW DO WE ENSURE WE UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION ON THESE THINGS? SO WHAT I'LL SAY IS THAT I'M HAPPY TO RELAY ANY REQUESTS AS I RECEIVE THEM. 
          AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, I GUESS THE ULTIMATE LINE IN THE SAND, OF COURSE IS THAT THE AGENDA HAS TO BE POSTED 72 HOURS BEFORE THE MEETING. 
          SO YOU WOULD KNOW IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING WHAT IS ON THE AGENDA, LIKE THE GENERAL PUBLIC. 
          WITH ALL DUE RESPECT THOUGH, YES, THAT'S A VERY PROBLEMATIC APPROACH. 
          IF WE HAVE THREE AND A HALF WEEKS BETWEEN NOW AND THEN, DURING WHICH WE COULD FIND OUT IF OUR FLOATED AGENDA ITEM IS GOING TO MEET WITH THIS FAVOR FROM THE ADMINISTRATION, THAT MEANS WE HAVE THREE AND A HALF WEEKS TO HAVE TO COME BACK, HAVE A CONVERSATION AND PROPOSE A DIFFERENT AGENDA ITEM. 
          IT LIKE, UM, I KNOW I EXPRESSED FRUSTRATION LAST TIME, AND I WANNA BE CLEAR, MY FRUSTRATION IS NOT, IS NOT THAT DIRECTOR TRAN SHOT DOWN AN AN AGENDA ITEM. 
          IT'S THAT THERE WAS NO WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY BETWEEN WHEN SHE MADE THAT DECISION AND THE DEADLINE TO POST THE AGENDA. 
          THAT EVERYONE, THAT 
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THE TI THE VALUE OF THE TIME IN THIS ROOM AND THE EXPERTISE IN THIS ROOM AT EVERY MEETING IS SIGNIFICANT. 
          AND SO OUT OF RESPECT TO THE PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE, WHO VOLUNTEER TO SERVE, I RESPECTFULLY ASK THE DIRECTOR AND THROUGH YOU TO ENSURE THAT THAT ASSESSMENT IS MADE EARLY AND THAT IT'S COMMUNICATED BACK TO OUR, OUR ACTING CHAIR, WHAT TIME THAT THE VAC CAN ACT ON IT WAY BEFORE THE FRIDAY POST. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU, WILSON. 
          YES. 
          SO TODAY WE DECIDED TO SAY, OKAY, LIKE NEXT MONTH WE WON'T HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT WE HAVE ANOTHER FULLING MEETING WHERE WE DECIDE IF A SECOND VICE CHAIR CAN WE LIKE ANNOUNCE THAT AND WE VOTED, AND THEN I GUESS IT WILL BE LIKE PUT INTO THE BLOW OF, OKAY, THIS GONNA BE SUCH AGENDA. 
          UM, RIGHT. 
          I IF YOU, SO I, I'M KIND OF LEANING ON WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE WHERE THAT IF THE INTENT WAS THAT THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING COULD ACT AS A FULL MEETING WITH A FORUM AND WITH A POSTED AGENDA, I DON'T KNOW WHAT MODIFICATION NEEDS TO BE MADE. 
          LIKE YOU'RE NOT HAVING TO DECLARE THE NEXT MEETING AS JUST A FULL BAC MEETING, EXCEPT THAT THE CURRENT CITY, YOU KNOW, REQUIREMENTS ARE THAT THESE MEETINGS TAKE PLACE IN PERSON MM-HMM . 
          THAT AND THE SUBCOMMITTEES ARE TYPICALLY DONE VIRTUALLY BECAUSE THERE ARE NO VOTES. 
          I GUESS ANY VOTES THEY HAVE TO BE DONE IN PERSON. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND SO I CAN, I, I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING, MY THOUGHT IS NOTHING ACTUALLY NEEDS NECESSARILY TO CHANGE RIGHT NOW. 
          LIKE THERE'S NO LIKE MOTION THAT HAS TO BE MADE MM-HMM . 
          BUT IF YOU ARE INTENDING TO MEET IN PERSON NEXT TIME TO PASS A VOTE, THAT'S PART OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING. 
          THEN I SAID, I DON'T THINK ANY DIFFERENCE IN ACTION HAPPENS RIGHT NOW, IT'S JUST THAT YOU ALL NEED TO COME HERE AND IT NEEDS TO BE CLEAR ON AGENDA AT THAT TIME THAT THOSE ARE THE ACTIONS I TAKE. 
          RIGHT. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT'S, I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO GET TO. 
          AND IN TERMS OF LIKE SCHEDULING MEETINGS, AGAIN, I JUST HAVE TO LIKE, WE HAVE TO MAKE PUBLIC NOTICE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          YOU'RE NOT LIMITED ON THE NUMBER, THE MAXIMUM NUMBER. 
          IT'S JUST THE ON NUMBER. 
          I THINK IT'S ACTUALLY ONE PER QUARTER, NOT FOUR PER YEAR. 
          THAT'S PROBABLY, YEAH. 
          YEAH, YEAH. 
          SO LIKE, SO THOSE ARE THE, YOU KNOW, SO THE GUARDRAILS ARE VERY KIND OF WIDE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO YEAH. 
          LIKE, SO INSTEAD OF HAVING THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING, WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER FULL MEETING YEAH. 
          WHERE WE CAN HAVE A VOTE FOR A SECOND VICE CHAIR. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND WE'LL COMMUNICATE IT PLAINLY THAT THIS IS ANOTHER MEETING OF THE WHOLE YES. 
          OR IT'S ALWAYS MEETING OF THE WHOLE. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO THAT WOULD, AND THERE'LL BE SOME AGENDA ITEMS. YEAH. 
          AND THAT WE NEED TO BE IN PERSON AND WE'LL NEED TO ALERT THE HPV PEOPLE MM-HMM . 
          AND SO ON. 
          RIGHT? YEAH. 
          SO, UM, IS THAT OKAY THAT WE DO THAT? DOES EVERYBODY AGREE WITH THAT? YEAH, I THINK SO. 
          WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO DO THAT. 
          THAT'S JUST THE OPERATIONAL ISSUE THAT WE HAVE THAT FOR SURE. 
          SO MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE THAT IS ONE AGENDA ITEM THAT GETS ADDED TO THE NEXT, UH, BC SUB MM-HMM . 
          THE SECOND VICE SHARE, SECOND VICE CHAIR NOMINATION, THE SECOND VICE CHAIR MM-HMM . 
          THEN I THINK, SO THE ONE THING WE DO NEED TO DO IS REACH OUT TO ALL THE MEMBERS TO, TO BE READY AND TO SUBMIT THEIR NOMINATIONS. 
          AND SO THAT EVEN TO GO, ANYONE INTERESTED IN NOMINATE BEING THE NOMINATED FOR THE VICE CHAIR, UH, SUBMIT, SUBMIT DENOMINATION PRIOR TO OUR NEXT MEETING, UM, THEN PEOPLE CAN PREPARE TO THAT DISCUSSION. 
          RIGHT. 
          RIGHT. 
          RIGHT. 
          THAT'S THE IDEA. 
          WILSON, WHAT WOULD BE A REASONABLE TIMEFRAME FOR LIKE, IF WE DECIDED THAT TODAY FOR YOU TO SEND BASICALLY A, AN EMAIL BLAST TO THE WHOLE BAB THAT, THAT AT THE MEETING TODAY, THE BAC DECIDED TO HAVE ANOTHER MEETING OF THE WHOLE ON AUGUST 27TH. 
          TWO MORE YOUR CALENDAR NOW. 
          LIKE EVEN LIKE SAVE, SAVE THE DATE AND THIS IS WHAT WE'LL BE DOING. 
          OR THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE INTEND TO DO. 
          SURE. 
          LIKE YOU TIME TO IT AS AN INTENT. 
          SURE. 
          YEAH. 
          NO, UM, I WOULD SAY JUST HONESTLY ON A PERSONAL BASIS, 'CAUSE I'M MANAGING THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE MEETING TOMORROW AND A COUPLE OTHER THINGS LIKE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK, IS THAT A BALLPARK? YES. 
          AND WE CAN FIGURE OUT THE LOGISTICS AND MAKE SURE WITH LEGAL EVERYTHING IS LIKE DONE PROPERLY AND THEN PROVIDE OUT THAT WAY AND UPDATE ALL OF YOU. 
          AND THEN Y'ALL CAN, YOU KNOW, COMMUNICATE IN TERMS OF THE NOMINATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          THAT SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. 
          WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK? OKAY. 
          SO WOULD THAT BE THE, THE DATE THAT, WHAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE THE INFRASTRUCTURE? YEAH. 
          OUR, OUR STANDING, OUR STANDING PATTERN IS THE FOURTH WEDNESDAY AT TWO. 
          YEAH, THAT THAT'D BE GREAT. 
          EVERYBODY CALENDAR FOR THAT? I'LL BE HERE. 
          NO, SO LIKE, SO WE'RE IN THIS ROOM. 
          'CAUSE THERE WAS A, A COMPLEX, THAT'S THE, THE RAYA ROOM IS THE LARGEST CONFERENCE ROOM IN ALL PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING. 
          AND SO IT OCCASIONALLY GETS BOOKED WAY IN ADVANCE FOR LARGE MEETINGS. 
          SO THIS WAS A ONE-OFF. 
          THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS ARE TYPICALLY IN HERE 'CAUSE IT'S SOMETIMES JUST ME AND A COMPUTER AND EVERYBODY'S VIRTUAL AND THE AUDIO IS SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER IN HERE. 
          SO TYPICALLY THE FULL BBCS WOULD BE IN RAYA. 
          AND SO I WOULD BOOK RAYA FOR THAT. 
          AND 
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THIS IS, UM, BUT THIS IS THE BUILDING. 
          YES. 
          IT'S LITERALLY JUST LIKE THE BIGGER CONFERENCE ROOM IS 30 FEET THAT DIRECTION VERSUS HERE. 
          SO FOR PEOPLE LIKE THE ARE, UM, YOU HAD DIFFERENT DIRECTION CHALLENGE . 
          UM, IS THERE A WAY THAT WE COULD PARK IN THIS BUILDING? ? NO, UNFORTUNATELY NOT. 
          MOST EMPLOYEES DO NOT PARK IN THIS BUILDING. 
          BUT I'LL TAKE YOU OFFLINE AND I'LL SHOW YOU AN APP. 
          WE'LL DO IT AFTER THIS ROOM. 
          JUST SLANT, LIKE THAT'S WHERE MOTIVATED BY MY BED. 
          OKAY. 
          SO DO WE VOTE ON THAT TO APPROVE THAT FOR NEXT MONTH? I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATION, WHICH IS A REQUEST, UH, BY THE REQUEST BY THE CHAIR TO CONVERT NEXT MONTH. 
          SO IT FULL BAC AND FACILITATE AND THEN YOU CAN ONLY VOTE WHEN IT'S ON CHAIR. 
          YEAH, EXACTLY. 
          OKAY. 
          EXACTLY. 
          YEAH. 
          I DON'T HAVE MUCH EXPERIENCE AS CHAIRMAN. 
          THAT'S OKAY. 
          IT'S OKAY. 
          UM, IN THAT SAME SPIRIT, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS I REALLY APPRECIATED IS THAT THIS AGENDA DID INCLUDE A SPECIFIC ITEM GEARED TOWARDS DISCUSSING FUTURE TOPICS, FRIENDLY REQUESTS. 
          CAN WE HAVE THAT AS AN AGENDA ITEM AT EVERY MEETING FOR THE REST OF FOREVER? SO BECAUSE THIS IS, THIS IS THE ONE TIME A MONTH WHEN WE CAN BE TOGETHER TO TALK AND NOT BE IN VIOLATION OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETING. 
          ZACH? YEAH, NO, I DEFINITELY, WE CAN DEFINITELY PUT THAT DOWN AND I WILL, YOU KNOW, IF NOT TO ME, I'LL ASK, BUT YES, I WOULD ASSUME THAT SHOULD BE PROBABLY FINE. 
          OKAY, COOL. 
          I AGREE WITH THE SPIRIT OF THAT BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES ONCE WE LEAVE THIS ROOM, WE KIND OF LOSE MOMENTUM IF, IF WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT LIKE A SPECIFIC THING THAT WE'RE GONNA ADDRESS WHEN WE NEED X. 
          RIGHT. 
          IF THERE'S A BUNCH OF OPEN-ENDED ITEMS. OKAY. 
          THAT'S ONE THING. 
          IF, IF WHERE I LIKE THIS FUTURE TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED, IT'S SOMETHING WE ALL CAN TAKE A NOTE ON AND THINK ABOUT FOR THREE WEEKS UNTIL WE START GETTING READY FOR THE NEXT AGREE WITH THAT. 
          WE NEED A NEW CHAIR FOR THE EDUCATION. 
          WE DO THING FOR THE AGENDA NEXT TIME. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          BOTH OF THAT RIGHT. 
          FEATURE GOOD CATCH. 
          SO A NEW SECOND VICE CHAIR AND A NEW CHAIR. 
          EDUCATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE TAKEN CARE OF. 
          SOMEBODY BE TAKEN CARE OF. 
          YEAH, THOSE ABSOLUTELY. 
          I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S VICE CHAIR. 
          IS THERE? THERE IS NOT, NOT DEFINITELY. 
          I THINK I TRIED TO NOMINATE YOU AND YOU SAID I NEED ANOTHER JOB, LIKE A WHOLE HEAD THAT . 
          BUT WE NEED A VICE CHAIR AND CHAIR FOR THE SUBCOMMITTEE. 
          DO WE? YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT'S NOW GOT REQUEST FOR, I GUESS GIVE JOE SOME SUPPORT TOO, LIKE A REQUEST FOR THAT IF HE'S CHAIR? NO, NO. 
          WHO'S CHAIR FOR THE WHOLE AND IT'S CHAIR FOR THE SUBCOMMITTEE, BUT OKAY. 
          THE SUBCOMMITTEES DON'T MEAN VICE CHAIR. 
          THEY DON'T EVEN, THERE'S NO CHAIR FOR EDUCATION. 
          LIKE THERE'S CHAIR FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT THERE'S NO CHAIR. 
          RIGHT. 
          AH, AND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT INFRASTRUCTURE AND EDUCATION COULD USE A VICE CHAIR FOR EACH, BUT WE HAVEN'T HAD THAT BEFORE. 
          RIGHT? RIGHT THERE, THOSE MEETINGS BECAUSE THEIR SUBCOMMITTEE DID NOT REQUIRE THE THERE TO BE PRESENT IN ORDER FOR THE MEETING TO HAPPEN. 
          OH. 
          SO THEY'LL STILL HAPPEN REGARDLESS OF THEY THERE YES. 
          JUST ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE. 
          EXACTLY. 
          BUT WE COULDN'T BE MEETING IF YOU WEREN'T. 
          YOU READ NO. 
          YEAH, YEAH. 
          THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I UNDERSTAND. 
          YEAH. 
          FIVE, REMEMBER CORRECTLY, WHEN THE SUBCOMMITTEES WERE CREATED, THE INTENT WAS THAT THE SUBCOMMITTEES WOULD BE ADVISORY TO THE GENERAL COMMITTEE, RIGHT? THE ADVISOR ADVISORY. 
          WELL, OF COURSE, YEAH. 
          IT'S JUST, YEAH. 
          AND THAT'S THING TO ALL YOUR HONOR, UH, WE SERVE WITH THEIR PLEASURE, RIGHT? YES. 
          SO FUTURE TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED, IS THAT OPEN ENOUGH TO ACT, SERVE AS AN OPEN FORUM? OR IS THAT, UH, ALSO PUBLIC COMMENT? UM, I THINK THAT THE INTENT WITH NUMBER FOUR WAS TO TALK ABOUT TOPICS FOR THE SUBCOMMITTEES TO DISCUSS THAT, RIGHT? THERE'S, THAT'S A OKAY. 
          VERY CIRCLE ASPECT DIAGRAM. 
          . 
          SO, UH, IT'S UP TO THE CHAIRS. 
          TION, I WOULD SAY. 
          YEAH. 
          I MEAN, I'M OPEN TO BRINGING LIKE TOPICS UP FOR THOSE SO THAT WAY WE CAN PUT THEM LIKE THE AGENDA IN ORDER BRING PUBLIC SPEAKER, LIKE THAT WAY WE CAN REACH OUT TO THEM. 
          WE DON'T HAVE TIME. 
          SO YEAH. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S TOTALLY UP TO LIKE, IT'S, THIS IS WHAT THIS, UH, ITEMS FOR TALK ABOUT TOPIC THAT WE CAN BRING UP AT THE 
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NEXT INFRASTRUCTURE OR MAYBE NOT THE NEXT, BUT IF WE GET APPROVED FOR THE FULL MEETING NEXT MONTH, THEN WE WON'T HAVE AN INFRASTRUCTURE AFTER THAT. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO LIKE IF YOU DO, UH, A FULL COMMITTEE, I MEAN, JUST BECAUSE, I MEAN, THIS WAS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW I THINK, UH, WHAT I, I JUST, I LEARNED IS THAT YOU CAN CALL LIKE FULL MEETING TIME OF  ON THIS BOARD, RIGHT? SO I, IN THE SITUATION WHERE VICE CHAIR, IN ORDER TO HAVE A FORUM FOR THIS COMMITTEE THAT, UH, WE COULD BYPASS OR, OR OVER OVERRIDE A INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING OR EDUCATION COMMUNITY TO HAVE A VOTE ON UNDER THE VICE CHAIR FOR THE EXAMPLE. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, UM, BUT YEAH, TOPICS STILL, LIKE WE CAN STILL TALK ABOUT TOPICS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND EDUCATION. 
          SO THAT WAY WE CAN KIND OF LIKE, KIND OF LET PUT A DUCKS IN A ROW AND LIKE, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT WE TALK ABOUT, BUT THESE ITEMS AND, AND THAT WAY, UM, WE GIVE, WE GIVE WILSON ENOUGH TIME TO KIND OF LIKE THROW IT DOWN THE PIPELINE AND SEE IF WE GOT APPROVED OF THESE ITEMS. SO THAT WAY THERE'S NO LAST MINUTE LIKE CALLBACKS. 
          SO WE CAN DO THE SIGN NOW TO DISCUSS YES. 
          TOPICS FOR BOTH. 
          YEAH. 
          IT'S A CHAIR . 
          SO DO LIKE, YEAH, I OPEN THAT TO, DO I OPEN THAT UP TO RECOMMENDATIONS TO GET PEOPLE LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE? I, YEAH. 
          I DON'T, IT'S, IT'S NOT MY MEETING. 
          YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S THAT'S THE, LIKE THE QUESTION. 
          I CAN DO THAT. 
          RIGHT? JUST OPEN IT UP. 
          SO LIKE, YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          ANYBODY'S OPEN TO SPEAK UP. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I HAVE A, ANOTHER PROPOSAL FOR OUR NEXT MEETING IN AUGUST. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND EVERY MEETING OF THE WHOLE THEREAFTER. 
          BUT I WANNA START WITH THE PROP. 
          I WAS GOING THROUGH MY BAZ FOLDER. 
          CAN Y'ALL, CAN Y'ALL SEE THIS MAP A LITTLE BIT? AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY'RE LIKE RED BLOTCHY BITS, RIGHT. 
          TURN AROUND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE, IT'S NOT GONNA BE VISIBLE. 
          THIS IS A CRASH DENSITY HEAT MAP FROM 10 YEARS AGO. 
          MM-HMM . 
          IT, IT LOOKED LIKE THIS 10 YEARS AGO. 
          I DON'T HAVE ANY REASON TO THINK IT'S GOTTEN BETTER. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND THAT, AND IT THEN IDENTIFIES SOME OF THE, THE MOST DANGEROUS INTERSECTION CITY. 
          THAT DATA WAS WHAT DR. 
          PART OF WHAT DROVE THE INVITATION TO THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          BUT THE ORDINANCE SAYS HPD SHOULD HAVE A LIAISON TO THE BAC AND THEN BAC INVITED THAT LIAISON TO COME AND SHARE WHATEVER THEIR LATEST CRASH DATA LIKE THE LATEST CRASH DATA WAS. 
          SO I, I WOULD OFFICIALLY INVITE US FOR NEXT MONTH AND EVERY FEATURE, MEANING OF THE WHOLE NEXT MONTH IN PARTICULAR, INVITE HPD WITH LOTS OF LEAD TIME TO INTRODUCE THEIR NEW LIAISON TO THE BAC AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION. 
          LIKE FIGURE OUT WHO THAT IS AND HOW TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN ALSO TO SHARE THEIR LATEST UPDATE ON FATALITIES AND SERIOUS CRASHES. 
          AND, AND THEN A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO THAT IS HISTORICALLY, I MEAN, WE HAVEN'T HAD THAT THIS YEAR, UM, IN THE PAST IT WAS FOCUSED ON PEOPLE WALKING AND PEOPLE BIKING. 
          I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE, I THINK THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE SERIOUSLY INJURED AND KILLED ON OUR STREETS ARE PEOPLE IN CARS. 
          AND THEY ARE PART OF THE STORY THAT WE NEED TO NOT LOSE SIGHT OF. 
          SO IF WE COULD GET SERIOUS INJURIES AND FATALITIES, WALKING, BIKING AND DRIVING. 
          SO EVERY, EVERY FULL MEETING. 
          RIGHT? EVERY FULL MEETING. 
          ANYONE WANNA PLAY WITH MY COP? QUESTION PASS LISA. 
          MY . 
          UM, SO ANOTHER, ANOTHER TOPIC I THINK WOULD BE, I MEAN THIS IS A BROAD TOPIC, BUT GUEST SPEAKERS WHO WE WOULD WANT TO BE HERE. 
          I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT TECH STOP POTENTIALLY SENDING A REPRESENTATIVE, UM, PRETTY MILD THAT THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE BIGGEST CITY IN TEXAS,  REPRESENTATIVE ON IT. 
          WE TEXT MM-HMM . 
          WE HAD AT ONE POINT TRANSPORTATION THAT LOVES THE PERSON. 
          SO YEAH. 
          I MEAN, SO SEND OUT ON HERE I THINK, OR, OR ANYBODY WE CAN GET. 
          BUT OBVIOUSLY THE, THE, THE BEST PERSON WHO CAN TALK ABOUT, UH, BRIDGE CLOSURES, TRAIL CLOSURES. 
          RIGHT NOW THERE'S A TEXT OUT PROJECT THAT'S CLOSED THAT RAISED BY A GREENWAY NEAR U OF H. 
          UM, I JUST LEARNED THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER YEAR. 
          WE'RE SUPPOSED TO OPEN THIS PAST SPRING. 
          IT'S GOING TO BE NEXT SPRING. 
          NOW IS THEIR BEST GUESS. 
          UM, IF THERE'S NOT A BRA BY A GREENWAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BAYOU THERE. 
          SO THERE'S A, THERE'S A, 
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A SIDEWALK DETOUR, THE PARK PORT, BUT THERE'S, UH, THE BRIDGE THAT WAS KNOCKED OUT BECAUSE OF SOME TEXTILE EQUIPMENT FLOATING DOWNSTREAM THAT TEXTILE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FIXING. 
          THEY HAVE NOT ADDRESSED THIS GROUP. 
          UM, I CAN THINK OF A HANDFUL OF OTHER FOLKS THAT WE'D LOVE TO GET, I COULD BE CURIOUS TO GET YOUR IDEAS. 
          I THINK, UM, UH, THE TEAM FROM PRECINCT FOUR OR DOING UNDERPASSES ON RACE BY YOU, AMONG OTHER THINGS RELATED TO THE PLACES FOR PEOPLE WORK WOULD BE REALLY INTERESTING. 
          UM, ANY OTHER IDEAS FOR GUEST SPEAKERS WHO, WHO YOU'D WANNA BRING INTO THE ROOM? I HAVE AN IDEA. 
          UM, THIS IS MORE OF A TOPIC. 
          I, I COULD BE ONE OF THE SPEAKERS, BUT JAMES BLUE PARK AND THE VARIOUS TRIAL CONNECTIONS THAT ARE CONVERGING THERE. 
          THAT COULD BE A TOPIC. 
          , ALSO BUFFALO VALUE PARTNERSHIP, HOUSTON PARKS BOARD. 
          SO A FEW THINGS HAPPENING ALL IN THAT AREA. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          JUST TO, YEAH. 
          EXPAND ON THAT. 
          SO BUFFALO BAYOU PARK IS, HAS THE BUFFALO BAY EAST PLAN, WHICH I KNOW THEIR INTENTION IS A LOT OF MULTI-LEVEL ACCESS THERE. 
          I THINK THAT'S A GROUP THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL FOR US TO COMMUNICATE WITH SOMEONE. 
          YEAH. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO ADD DETOUR EFFECTIVE DETOURS WITH CONSTRUCTION. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NONE ON AUSTIN. 
          THERE'S RIGHT HERE ON BAGBY UNDERNEATH. 
          YEP. 
          DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, WHATEVER. 
          THAT'S HOUSTON BAYOU PLACE, WHATEVER IT'S CALLED. 
          YEAH. 
          FIGHT OAK. 
          YOU DON'T KNOW UNTIL YOU GET RIGHT THERE TO, TO THE BRIDGE. 
          AND I, WELL, I DIDN'T GO THERE, BUT, AND I SAW THIS THING, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL I WENT WAY DOWN THE TRAIL, THEN I HAD TO TURN AROUND BECAUSE THERE'S NO OTHER ROUTE TO COME BACK OUT. 
          YOU KNOW, SOME SOMETHING, A GOOD DETOUR. 
          NOT LIKE THE ONE THAT'S SOBER BY U OF A TYPE THING. 
          THAT'S A BAD THING. 
          I KNOW. 
          WE DID HAVE SOME CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT. 
          'CAUSE WE UNFORTUNATELY HAD SOMEBODY DIED BY LIKE, BY THE WAY, THEY WERE USING THAT, SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION LIKE CLOSURE EQUIPMENT AND UH, OH YEAH. 
          UM, SO I, I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT I COULDN'T REMEMBER. 
          BUT I, I WANTED TO BRING THAT UP AND MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW, THE NEXT INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING WAS LIKE, LIKE UPDATE. 
          BECAUSE I THINK SOME OF ONE OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS I THINK WAS BUFFALO. 
          I, I THINK THAT SAID THEY WEREN'T USING NETTING ANYMORE, BUT I BRACELET EVALUATION. 
          THERE WAS NETTING, I THINK I WAS TRYING TO, UH, MESSAGE YOU THIS, UH, VIA EMAIL. 
          WAS IS THAT LIKE THERE WERE THREE OTHER INSTANCES, LIKE AFTER THAT MEETING WHERE THEY SAID THEY, THEY WEREN'T USING THAT ANYMORE AND IT'S STILL BEING USED. 
          AND MAYBE THAT'S CONTRACTORS THAT DON'T KNOW THE RULES, BUT WHICH, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST LIKE THE, THE, THE COMMUNICATION FELL THROUGH DOWN CHANNEL THAT MAYBE THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          BUT THE REINFORCEMENT OF LIKE, OKAY, LIKE, UH, OF FINDING OUT WHAT CONSTRUCTION COMPANY THAT IS AND THEY'RE LIKE, OKAY, LIKE I, IF WE KNOW WHO'S ENTITY THAT IS, THEN HEY, LIKE THIS, YOU KNOWS JUST HERE WHO'S REACH OUT TO, UM, WHO TO REACH OUT TO AND SAY THERE'S LIKE, INSTEAD OF LIKE FIGURING, YOU KNOW, WHY IS IT STILL THERE? LIKE FIND THE, FIND ME THE EMAIL AND HE STARTS TO SAY THIS, THIS PERSON'S IN CHARGE. 
          HEY, LIKE, UM, THERE'S WE'RE NET NETTING HERE. 
          WE NEED TO, UH, MAKE SURE THEY DON'T USE THAT OR FIND ANOTHER WAY, UM, TO KIND OF WALK OFF THE ROAD WAY BEFORE YOU GET TO THE EXACTLY. 
          UH, I THINK, UH, ALSO THAT'S PART OF SOMETHING THAT WE UPDATED, RIGHT? LIKE THAT LIKE IF THERE WERE IN CHOP SHOW CLOSURE, THAT SHOULD PROVIDE DETOURS TO THE END. 
          YEAH. 
          IT'S NOT S**T. 
          IT'S MUST IT AFFECTED D TWO. 
          YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. 
          SO, SO THE TALKING ABOUT REALLY IS WHAT DOES THE IDM REQUIRE? THE SECOND PART IS WHAT ARE AGENCIES THAT, WHO ARE THE AGENCIES THAT ARE PERMITTING THE G TWO? BUT IT COULD BE DISTRICT OR DISTRICT LINE, RIGHT? IT COULD BE  WHO FROM THE CORE PERMITING AGENCY THAT ARE ING THOSE DETAILS. 
          UH, AND THEN, UH, MAYBE THAT'S A FIRST STEP TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE REQUIREMENT. 
          MAYBE THERE IS A, UH, MAYBE SINCE YOU ARE HERE, UH, WE CAN ASK YOU AS TO WHAT YOU WANT TO, SO THAT I DON'T ANY CONTRACTOR IS TO, OR OUR AGENCY IMPLEMENT. 
          WE DON'T HAVE TOO MANY IMPLEMENTATION AGENCIES WHO MAY WANT TO BE HERE. 
          SO WE MAY THINK ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION AGENCY THAT DO IMPLEMENTATIONS TO WHAT ARE THEY DOING RELATED TO. 
          SO YOU HAVE THREE SIDES OF THE EQUATION. 
          ONE GOVERNANCE. 
          THE REQUIREMENTS INSIDE THE CITY OF HOUSTON. 
          THE REQUIREMENTS FOR  DISTRICT IS HAVING, UH, IF TECH START WAS A PERMANENT MEMBER OF THIS BODY, THEN IT 
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WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL TO HAVE WHAT DOES TECHSTAR REQUIRE? SO IT COULD BASICALLY PUTTING A MORE EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT OF, OKAY, WHAT IS THE REQUIREMENT? WELL, WHERE ARE THE GAPS AT THE END OF THE DAY, AGENCIES ARE DOING, AT LEAST WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT AGENCIES ARE DOING. 
          WHAT ARE THE GAPS WHERE WE START. 
          OTHERWISE WE ARE WAITING EVERY TIME FOR SOMETHING GOING WRONG TO BLAME FINGERS THAT PEOPLE, THAT MAY BE A BETTER APPROACH. 
          AND REALLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT IS NOT WORKING. 
          'CAUSE I DON'T THINK SO ANY IMPLEMENTATION AGENCIES REALLY WANT SOMETHING LIKE THAT FROM THEIR IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT EITHER. 
          I KNOW WE USED FLIGHT CONTROLS, UM, EACH, THEY CAME UP WITH A WHOLE NEW DETOUR AFTER. 
          SO GUYS ON , SO WE USED THAT CAN REQUEST  COUNTY AND UH, AND THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, WE PRESENTED THAT TO HAVE A ROBUST DISCUSSION OF BACKGROUND EDUCATION. 
          NO, I HAD ANY OF THE COMMITTEE ITEMS. SO ONE OF THE DISCUSSION ITEMS SHOULD BE RELATED TO THAT. 
          WE NEED TO BRING IN THE RIGHT RIGHT RISK, RIGHT. 
          PEOPLE AND ENTITIES TO HAVE A ROBUST DISCUSSION AND MEANINGFUL DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT. 
          AT LEAST INTERESTINGLY, I LIKE IT. 
          SO WHAT ONE POSSIBILITY, LIKE A SIMPLE ONE COULD BE, I JUST HEARD LISA SAY PARKS BOARD HAS A NEW EFFECTIVE DETOUR PROCESS THAT YOU FOLLOW INTERNALLY THAT WAS INFORMED BY THIS THING THAT HAPPENED. 
          SO THERE COULD BE SOMEONE FROM THE DESIGN SIDE WHO COULD BE A SPEAKER. 
          LIKE THAT WOULD BE LOW HANGING FRUIT. 
          AND THEN A MORE, A MORE GRABBY SORT OF BIGGER VERSION WOULD BE AT THAT SAME COMMITTEE. 
          COULD WE ALSO GET SOMEBODY FROM PUBLIC WORKS AND SOMEBODY FROM  PERHAPS, OR SOMEBODY FROM GIMME ANOTHER AGENCY. 
          WE CAN FLIGHT CONTROL. 
          BOTH ARE THE AGENTS THAT MAKES SENSE THAT INFRASTRUCTURE T IS ANOTHER THIRD ONE. 
          MAJORITY OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON, THOSE ARE THE BY THE TRAILS GENERALLY OVERLAP. 
          WE ARE GOING ACROSS THE HIGHWAY, GOING ACROSS THE FACILITY, THEN WE ARE GOING ACROSS CRITICAL. 
          OKAY. 
          SO IN THE SPIRIT OF MAKING WILSON'S JOB EASIER OR NOT HARDER RIGHT NOW IN THIS ROOM, DO WE HAVE NAMES OF PEOPLE IN MIND THAT WOULD BE A GOOD FIRST PERSON TO ASK? AND IF THEY'RE NOT THE RIGHT PERSON, THEY GET US TO THE RIGHT PERSON. 
          LIKE WHO WOULD BE ASKED, WHO WOULD BE ASKED AT PARKS BOARD? WHO WOULD BE ASKED AT FLOOD CONTROL? WHO WOULD WE ASK AT TDO? HUR  OUT. 
          YEAH. 
          SAID YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHO'S, UH, CAN REACH OUT TO SCOTT AND SCOTT CAN GET US CAN RIGHT PERSON. 
          THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 
          MAYBE SOMEONE FROM DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, BECAUSE DOWNTOWN IS A MEMBER OF, OF FACULTY TORCH RIGHT NOW. 
          ARE THEY THE OWNER OF THIS OR ARE THEY JUST HAPPEN TO BE DOWNTOWN? UM, I'M NOT, I'M NOT SURE. 
          ME TOO. 
          WELL I THINK THE MAIN STREET ONES, THAT'S DEFINITELY NOT VERY  BUS SUPERVISION, BUT I BAG IS NOT DOWNTOWN. 
          MAYBE IF THAT WAS THE FIRST EDUCATION PIECE. 
          THEN THE SECOND PIECE IS WE BRING IN THESE OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND OTHER PLACES WHERE THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING AND MAYBE THE DISCUSSION IS WHAT IS HAPPENING? IF THESE ARE THE RULES, IF WE ARE EDUCATED ABOUT WHAT THE , MAYBE WE CAN ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS TO THESE ENTITIES AND SAY, HEY, HOW CAN WE ENSURE THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE OPERATING WITHIN YOUR, 'CAUSE PEOPLE ARE OPERATING IN DOWNTOWN, BUT THE CITY'S ING THOSE PEOPLE TO OPERATE. 
          WE CAN ASK SOME RIGHT QUESTIONS AND EMPOWER PEOPLE TO PUT SOME FACTS OUT THERE AND ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. 
          BUT UNDER ENTITY WE'D WANT TO INVITE AT SOME POINT IS PERHAPS A COMBINATION DOWNTOWN PLUS HOUSTON FIRST. 
          UM, PERHAPS ALSO WITH THE CITY OF HOUSTON. 
          ONCE THERE'S A PLAN FOR WHEN POLK STREET IS CLOSED. 
          AND I WOULD JUST SAY THE CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION IN GENERAL, HOW MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IS BEING INVESTED THERE? RIGHT? I THINK WE AS THE ADVOCACY GROUP WANNA MAKE SURE THAT NEEDS ARE BEING MET FOR SAFE ABILITY AROUND WHEN ALL THAT MONEY IS BEING SPENT IN . 
          I GUESS THAT'S USEFUL FIRST, IF I MAY FRIENDLY AMEND THAT IN SOME WAYS OUR RULE ON THAT ONE COULD BE MORE CONCRETE. 
          THE ORDINANCE SET TASKS, THE PLANNING, THE ORDINANCE AMENDED THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE PLAN PROCESS TO REQUIRE ALIGNMENT WITH THE BICYCLE MASTER PLAN. 
          SO IT COULD BE MUCH MORE FOCUSED OF, OF LIKE REQUEST AN UPDATE. 
          SHOW US HOW, SHOW US HOW THE CONVENTION CENTER 
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EXPANSION PLAN ALIGNS WITH THE MASTER PLAN AND THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE AND FREEWAY PLAN, WHICH ALL OF WHICH IS REQUIRED ANYWAY. 
          AND IT WOULD JUST BE A WALK US THROUGH WHAT'S HAPPENING, LIKE AN EDUCATION, AN INFORMATIONAL THAT KIND OF LEADS ME PERFECTLY INTO MY NEXT PROPOSED FUTURE TOPIC TO ADDRESS MIGHT BE HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHERE ARE OUR TEETH, WHAT IS THE BEST USE OF THIS COMMITTEE'S INFLUENCE AND TO KIND OF ACTUALLY AFFECT SOME POWER OR, YOU KNOW, BRING, BRING THESE VERY REAL THINGS TO, TO ACCOUNT. 
          UM, AS A, AS OF COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE, WE ARE MAYBE MORE AWARE OF THINGS THAT ARE IN THE ORDINANCE TO ADHERE TO THE BIKE PLAN THAT NOT EVERYONE DOES. 
          NO, NO. 
          NOT EVERYONE READS EVERY SINGLE WORD OF EVERY ORDINANCE. 
          YOU LIKE SOME US UM, SO MY, MY, MY TOPIC WOULD BE CAN WE AS A GROUP KIND OF FINE TUNE OUR MESSAGING ON LIKE, HOW DO WE MAKE CHANGES HAPPEN WHEN WE HAVE DETERMINED OR VOTED AS A BODY THAT UM, EITHER A, A MESSAGE NEEDS TO BE SENT OR A COMMUNICATION NEEDS TO HAPPEN BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS? WHAT KIND OF TOOLS DO WE HAVE AT OUR DISPOSAL TO PUT A LITTLE MORE GRAVITY ONTO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? SO I THINK THAT MAYBE THAT'S . 
          SO REALLY TALKED ABOUT LIKE SETTING GOALS FOR SETTING, IDENTIFYING THE TOOLS AT OUR DISPOSAL BECAUSE WE ARE ALL KIND OF PREACHING TO THE CHOIR, UH, AMONGST OURSELVES. 
          AND IF, IF I COULD WALK OUT OF THIS IF MEETING KNOWING, HEY, WE PUT TOGETHER A MEMO THAT'S GONNA BE DIRECTED TO HOUSTON FIRST THAT SAYS PER ORDINANCE X, Y, Z, WE EXPECT COMPLIANCE AND IN, IN NO SOCK TERMS ABOUT IT. 
          LIKE GIVE, GIVE OURSELVES A LITTLE, A LITTLE BIT OF TEETH. 
          THAT'S MY REQUEST FOR TOPIC. 
          TOPIC. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          SO I THINK WE TRIED TO DO THAT, OR MAYBE THAT WAS TOO SOON. 
          OR, OR, OR I DON'T KNOW. 
          IT HAS TO HAVE ENOUGH TIME IN ORDER FOR IT TO GET APPROVED AND THEY DIDN'T GET APPROVED. 
          I, SO I AGREE WITH THAT. 
          UM, UH, THROW OUT MEMOS AND, AND PUT A RECORD OUT THAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO THESE THINGS. 
          UM, SO I I LIKE THAT IDEA. 
          UM, RON, I, I'M WONDERING IF A STEP BEFORE THAT IS LIKE WHERE, WHERE WE RAN INTO TROUBLE IN MARCH, I BELIEVE IT WAS THE INFRASTRUCTURE, ONE OF OUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS IN MARCH SUGGESTED A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR A PARTICULAR PROJECT TO MAKE SURE IT ACCOMMODATED ALL USERS AND FOR A CONCEPT OF SUPPORT FOR SAFE STREETS FOR ALL MM-HMM . 
          AND WE PROPOSED TO HAVE THAT ON OUR AGENDA IN APRIL AND THEY WEREN'T. 
          BUT WHAT DIRECTOR TRANS SAID, AS I UNDERSTOOD IT, WAS SHE HAD NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO EITHER LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT OR TO TALK WITH US AND GET QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
          SO I I HEARD THAT THERE WAS A MISCOMMUNICATION OPPORTUNITY. 
          DOES THAT, DOES THAT SOUND FAIR? YES. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE COULD DO, AND AGAIN, WE'VE, WE HAVE ONLY SEEN DIRECTOR TRAN. 
          SHE, UM, SHE INVESTED 30 OR 45 MINUTES WITH US MAYBE A YEAR AGO, LIKE WHEN SHE WAS BRAND NEW. 
          AND I TOTALLY GET WHAT IT'S LIKE TO DRINK FROM THE FIRE HOSE OF BEING IN A NEW ROLE. 
          SO I, I DON'T FALTER FOR THAT. 
          I WONDER IF A YEAR LATER IF IT'S REASONABLE FOR US TO EXPLICITLY INVITE DIRECTOR TRAN TO COME TO OUR NEXT MEETING AND OR THE MEETING AFTER THAT AND PROVIDE A DIRECTOR'S REPORT AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK US QUESTIONS. 
          SHE HAS, I I CAN'T IMAGINE SHE'S AN EXPERT IN SAY, STREET'S POLICY, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHO ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE AT THIS TABLE. 
          YES. 
          SO I, I WOULD, I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO EXPLICITLY INVITE HER AND WITH THE FOLLOW ON OF, IF THAT SOUNDS GOOD TO HER, GREAT. 
          LET'S GET HER ON THE AGENDA. 
          AND IF HER SCHEDULE IS SUCH THAT SHE'D RATHER PICK, PICK US A GROUP OF FOUR TO FIVE, LIKE A SOME NON QUORUM SUBSET OF FOUR TO FIVE PEOPLE FROM THIS GROUP TO MEET WITH HER AT A DIFFERENT TIME. 
          I ASSUME WE WOULD WELCOME THAT AS WELL. 
          YEAH. 
          WE'RE JUST, YEAH, FLEXIBILITY IS, IS IS PROBABLY WHAT WE WANT TO BE WITH DIRECTOR TRYING RIGHT NOW. 
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OR MAYBE BOTH. 
          LIKE A PRE-MEETING AND THEN THEN COME GET A DIRECTOR'S REPORT. 
          YEAH, EXACTLY. 
          BUT IF WE'RE GONNA HAVE A FULL MEETING, WE'RE APPROVED TO HAVE A FULL MEETING, UH, WITH YEAH. 
          EXTENDED INVITATION SERVICE TO GIVE A DIRECTOR'S REPORT. 
          I, SORRY, I THE RISK OF SOUNDING STRAIGHT. 
          I WANNA MAKE SURE WE DON'T FRAME IT THAT WAY. 
          WE OPEN CONVERSATION NO, NO. 
          AS THE BAC C AND AS THE CHAIR YOU CAN CALL A MEETING MM-HMM . 
          AND STAFF'S ROLE IS TO LOGISTICALLY SUPPORT THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          YOU PUT FORWARD AGENDA ITEMS AND STAFF IS VETTING THAT WITH THE DIRECTOR AND I AND I HEAR GETTING SOME GUIDANCE ABOUT WHAT'S GOOD AND WHAT'S NOT GOOD. 
          SO I'M, I'M TRYING TO CREATE SPACE WHERE WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER MORE DELIBERATELY ABOUT THAT. 
          RIGHT. 
          BUT I, I DON'T, MY UNDERSTANDING FROM THE ORDINANCE IS YOU DO NOT NEED PERMISSION TO CALL THE BAC NEXT MONTH. 
          DOES THAT SOUND FAIR? YEAH. 
          I THINK THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          YOU GIVE IT BACK TO THE CALL MEETING TIME AS LONG AS WELL WE COMPLY AS LONG AS YOU HAVE AGENDA THINGS. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND, AND WILSON GRACES, WE MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T VIOLATE THE OPEN MEETING. 
          THAT'S BY DOING IT WITHOUT THERE'S A SPACE. 
          YEAH. 
          YOU DON'T HAVE TO HERE. 
          OKAY, NEXT MEETING DIRECTOR. 
          WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT OUR, WE HAD GOALS PREVIOUSLY, OUR PURPOSE AND SCOPE, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE WANNA SUPPORT THE GOALS OF THE CITY OF HOUSTON AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE ARE. 
          SO WE CAN SEE HOW WE CAN SEE EFFECTIVE AS WELL IN THAT WAY. 
          SO MM-HMM . 
          THAT WOULD BE INTRO. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK ALSO, ESPECIALLY IF WE, YOU KNOW, OFFER OURSELVES TO PLANNING DIRECTOR SAYING WE ARE A RESOURCE, WE WANT YOU TO USE US. 
          LIKE GIVE US EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT. 
          LET US HELP YOU. 
          AND WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOUR VISION IS FOR US, FOR US TO HELP THAT. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND THAT'S WHY WE WOULD EXPECT A DIRECTOR SUPPORT. 
          YEAH, THAT'S THE IDEA. 
          I MEAN, NOT THAT LIKE WHAT'S GOING ON . 
          WELL, ARE THERE OTHER, HOW MANY OTHER COMMITTEES, LIKE ON THE SAME PLANE AS US REPORT UP TO OR, OR ADVISE THE, UH, PLANNING COMMISSION OR, UM, SO ON THE SAME LEVEL, IT'S TRICKY. 
          SO THEY CALL PLANNING COMMISSION CALLS, UH, SUBCOMMITTEES KIND OF ON DEMAND, THEY SAY, OR KIND OF NEEDED. 
          SO LIKE WHEN WE DID WALKABLE PLACES, CHAPTER 42, UM, OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT, THOSE WERE, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY UNE EQUIVALENCY. 
          THOSE ARE AD HOC COMMITTEES UNDER THE PLANNING COMMISSION, RIGHT? CORRECT. 
          YEAH. 
          AND SO THAT'S, THOSE ARE ONLY MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT, SORRY. 
          YEAH. 
          MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TOO. 
          THAT'S THAT'S TRUE. 
          SORRY, IT'S BEEN A BEEN A MINUTE. 
          UM, BUT THEY, THEY WERE LIKE A SINGLE TASK ORIENTED. 
          EXACTLY. 
          ONCE WE GET THE ORDINANCE WRITTEN FOR WALKABLE PLACES. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND SO WE HAVE DONE SIMILAR TYPE OF THINGS FOR, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, SINGLE TASKS. 
          SO I'M NOT AWARE OF MANY, BUT PERMANENT COMMITTEES, THEY ACT LIKE US. 
          SO PLANNING COMMISSION IS THE TOWER COMMISSION IS ANOTHER THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PEOPLE OR, OR YES. 
          DAC. 
          SO THOSE ARE ALL COUNCIL CREATED RIGHT. 
          COMMISSIONS AND, BUT WE'RE ASKING ABOUT COMMITTEES, ADVISORY COMMITTEES, RIGHT. 
          THAT THE QUESTION WE ON THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE,   COUNCIL, THAT, OKAY. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO I AM NOT AWARE IF ANY OTHER COUNCIL CREATED A COMMITTEE UNDER PLANNING COMMISSION OR UNDER THE OTHER COMMISSIONS EITHER I THAT AND THEN THE REASON IT WAS DONE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO CREATE ANOTHER COMMITTEE AND THE CITY COUNCIL. 
          AND THAT'S WHY THE WAY THIS WAS STRUCTURED WAS THIS WAS . 
          GOT IT. 
          AND I GUESS THE REASON I ASK IS BECAUSE LIKE WE HAVE NOT HAD A DIRECTOR'S REPORT IN SOME TIME, AND I'M JUST CURIOUS IF THESE OTHERS GET THE SAME LEVEL OF THAT WE DON'T GET, AND WHAT I WOULD SAY IS EVEN DIRECTORS REPORTS THAT TO BOTH ADMISSIONS THERE CAN BE EXTREMELY SURE. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT ALSO IT, IT, IT VARIES WHEN THERE ARE THINGS THAT SAY THINGS YOU'VE SAID. 
          GOTCHA. 
          BUT THAT SOMETIMES, YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU TREVOR. 
          UM, TO, UH, KIND OF PIGGYBACK ON CLARIFYING OUR, OUR BROADER MISSION, UM, AS A, AS A FUTURE TOPIC TO BE ADDRESSED IN LESSON, BECAUSE IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP A FEW TIMES RECENTLY AND MEETING IS TO, UM, EXPAND OUR MISSION STATEMENTS AND INCLUDE MICRO MOBILITY AND THE CHAMBERS HAVE A, AN ISSUE STARTED IN MACHINE THAT CONVERSATION BECAUSE SHE RIDES A SCOOTER TO, SHE COULD BE THE BUS SCOOTER 
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TO DOWNTOWN ON HEIGHTS, UM, AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS. 
          AND THIS COULD BE A REALLY GOOD UP UPGRADE TIME TO START INCORPORATING MY MOBILITY TO DO, UH, WHAT  HERE BECAUSE WE SHARE THE SAME CHALLENGES BUT SHARE THE SAME INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          THEY CAN CERTAINLY SOME REPRESENTATION, YOU KNOW, BUT YEAH. 
          I, I, I AGREE. 
          UM, ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE STUFF, I MEAN, AND WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE IMPLEMENT PIPELINES MEAN IT'S, IT'S NOT REALLY, OR DOES THE IBM LIKE ACCOMMODATE LIKE SCOOTERS? I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE, THE ENGINEERING ASPECT PARAMETERS OF HAVING A SCOOTER ON A BIKE AND WE TAIL RIGHT. 
          OTHER THAN LIKE, NOT SO BIG LEASES ON THE CONCRETE BIKE, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING SCOOTERS SPECIFICALLY. 
          YEAH, WE CAN AND, AND, AND THE ORDINANCE, IF I'M OKAY CHAIR, THE, THE ORDINANCE SPECIFICALLY CLASSIFIES EBIS AND E SQUARES AS NEIGHBORHOOD ELECTRIC VEHICLE DENTIST. 
          SO THEY, THEY'RE SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTED FROM RULES OF AGAINST MOTORIZED VEHICLES UNTIL NOW. 
          THE RETHINKING THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY MEETING TOMORROW IS. 
          AND I HAD A MEETING WITH A CITY STAFF YESTERDAY AND MAYBE WILSON KNOW SOMETHING CONTRARY TO THIS, BUT I THINK THEY'RE LOOKING AT, THEY'RE RELOOKING ALSO AT THE RULE ABOUT BICYCLES, UM, USING SIDEWALKS TOO. 
          UM, SO I THINK THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT JUST LOOKING AT THAT SCOOTERS. 
          THEY'RE LOOKING AT SOME OTHER ORDINANCE CHANGES. 
          ALSO SOMETHING ABOUT INSTEAD OF JUST NOT BEING IN BUSINESS DISTRICTS, NOT BEING 30 FEET FROM ANY BUSINESS IN THE CITY, UM, BICYCLE, E-BIKES, E SCOOTERS, YOU, IT'S KIND OF A REVELATION. 
          IT'S A FUNNY TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION, ESPECIALLY WHEN, WHEN WE KEEP ON HEARING, OH, I SHOULD NOT BE ON THE STREETS AND THE ORDINANCE EXPECTS BIKE TO BE ON STREETS AND THEN THERE ARE NO SAFE, SAFE HIKING ON STREET AND SO, OR WHY THEY SHOULD BE ON SIDEWALK. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE NOW OUR  FROM BEING ON SIDEWALK. 
          NOT THAT BIKE SHOULD BE ON SIDEWALK, BUT MY KID WAS ON THE SIDEWALK AND SHE WAS STILL DEAD BUYING A PERSON IN THAT IN INNOVATIVE. 
          SO, FUTURE TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION. 
          CAN WE GET SOMEONE FROM THE, UH, LAWMAKING LAW WRITING ORIGINS WRITING BY HERE TO DISCUSS WHY WE HAVE WORKING? I THINK HE WANTED TO SAY I  ABOUT THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT. 
          I, I JUST THROUGH SOME MEETING NOTES LAST JULY, WE HAD A DIRECTOR'S REPORT. 
          JENNIFER . 
          YEAH, SHE WAS A INTERIM, SHE HAD A REPORT HER, SO A YEAR AGO. 
          SHE DOESN'T WORK HERE ANYMORE. 
          , I WANNA TAKE THIS CONVERSATION BACK A STEP TO THE DISCUSSION OF GOALS AND WHY I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO MEET WITH THE CHAIR. 
          AND I'M GONNA COME BACK TO MY PROP NOW A MINUTE. 
          DO Y'ALL SEE THIS BRIGHT RED SPOT? YEAH. 
          WE'RE IS , IT'S THE THUNDERSTORM OF SERIOUS AND FATAL CRASHES. 
          RIGHT? AND AGAIN, THIS MAP IS TENURED. 
          YOU WANNA ELABORATE? SORRY. 
          IT'S 'CAUSE PEOPLE CAN'T SEE ONLINE. 
          OH, SURE, SURE, SURE. 
          POINT IT DOWN. 
          I AM POINTING TO A MAP OF HOUSTON AND THERE'S A BRIGHT RED AREA IN ENCOMPASS OF MIDTOWN IN DOWNTOWN. 
          AND THIS IS CRASH DATA FROM 10 YEARS AGO. 
          AND THE POINT OF THAT IS, WE ALREADY HAD A SERIOUS AND FATAL TRASH PROBLEM WITH UNSAFE STREET IN MIDTOWN EAST DOWNTOWN IN DOWNTOWN 10 YEARS AGO BEFORE THE ADVENT OF ELECTRIC SCOOTERS AND E-BIKES AND THE TOPIC THAT'S IN PLAY THIS WEEK. 
          WE, WE ALREADY HAD A NEED FOR SAFER TRAILS, SAFER TRAIL CONNECTIONS, OFF STREET AND ON STREET PATHS AND BIKEWAYS FOR MICRO MOBILITY VEHICLES. 
          THAT IS COMPLETELY NOT ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING OR NOT WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED AS A POLICY SOLUTION THAT COUNCIL THIS WEEK. 
          AND I THINK IT'S, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF WE COULD HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE DIRECTOR ABOUT, OKAY, THE ECONOMIC BURDEN, THE AVOIDABLE ECONOMIC BURDEN OF VEHICLE CRASHES IN HOUSTON IS MEASURED IN THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. 
          AND IT'S FINE IF THERE IS SOME SUBSET OF TOOLS THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS NOT CURRENTLY COMFORTABLE WITH, THAT'S OKAY. 
          THERE'S STILL 57 OTHER POLICY TOOLS, INFRASTRUCTURE TOOLS, PROGRAM TOOLS THAT PERHAPS WE CAN WORK ON AT THIS TIME. 
          BUT WE, WE OWE A DUTY 
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TO THE PEOPLE OF HOUSTON TO MAKE IT SO EVERYONE GETS HOME SAFELY TONIGHT AND, HEY, I'M JUST GONNA BAN SOME DEVICE IS NOT HOW WE'RE GOING TO GET THERE. 
          THEY LIKE, IF IT WERE ME, I, I LITERALLY, THERE WAS A ROLLOVER CRASH, A BLOCK FROM MY HOUSE ON VAN DUREN ON A PAVEMENT SECTION THAT IS 18 FEET WIDE ON A STREET THAT PEOPLE ROUTINELY TEACH THEIR TODDLERS TO WALK. 
          THEY WALK THEIR DOGS. 
          THIS IS A QUIET, SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD STREET, BUT THE SPEEDING AND THE RUNNING OF RED LIGHTS, SORRY, BUT STOP SIGNS CAME TOGETHER AND THERE IS A ROLLOVER CRASH IN THE LAST WEEK. 
          SURELY WE CAN WORK TOGETHER WITH THE ADMINISTRATION TO FIND SOME PATH FORWARD THAT IS ACCEPTABLE FOR US TO ADDRESS THIS SERIOUS SAFETY PROBLEM THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON. 
          ANYWAY, I'LL STOP RANTING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IF I MAY HOLD UP YOUR MAP AGAIN FOR THE CAMERA OR FOR YOU GUYS? WELL, FOR THE CAMERA FIRST. 
          SO THAT, THAT DARK RED SPOT, UH, THAT HOTSPOT IN THE CENTER OF THE CITY, UM, HOUSTON'S A BIT OF AN OUTLIER HERE. 
          SO I REWATCHED A PRESENTATION THAT THE, UH, FAMOUS PLANNER DESIGNER JEFF SPEC GAVE IN HOUSTON IN 2016. 
          UM, IT'S KIND OF FUNNY, YOU COULD SEE SOME FAMILIAR FACES WHEN THEY WERE NINE YEARS YOUNGER HERE. 
          , THEY'RE ASKING QUITE, UM, JEFF POINTED OUT THAT NOT ONLY DOES HOUSTON HAVE THIS PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC CRISIS, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR PEDESTRIAN DEATH RATE IS THREE TIMES THAT OF NEW YORK CITY. 
          THE RATE AND THE TOTAL NUMBER IS THE SAME IN A CITY WHERE FAMOUSLY NOBODY WALKS. 
          WE SOMEHOW HAVE THE SAME NUMBER OF PEOPLE GETTING KILLED BY DRIVERS AS NEW YORK CITY WHERE EVERYBODY WALKS. 
          UH, BUT THE, BUT THE, THE, WHERE HOUSTON IS AN OUTLIER IS THAT DOWNTOWN IS NOT SAFER. 
          SO TYPICALLY YOU WOULD SEE HIGHER, MORE, MORE OF YOUR PEDESTRIAN IN PLACES WHERE IT'S PEDESTRIAN UNFRIENDLY BECAUSE PE IN THE SUBURBAN AREAS AND THEATER ROAD WHERE PEOPLE ARE CROSSING HIGH SPEEDS, BECAUSE IF YOU'RE HIT AT 20 MILES AN HOUR, CHANCES ARE YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE. 
          BUT IF YOU'RE HIT FOUR OR 50 AND FARTHER FLU PLACES WHERE YOU CAN GO 40 AND 50 EASILY, PEOPLE OFTEN DO MORE LIKELY TO DIE. 
          BUT OUR DOWNTOWN AREA HAS THESE FOUR OR FIVE LAND, ONE WAY HIGHWAYS RUNNING THROUGH THEM AND PEOPLE ARE ROUTINELY KILLED THEIR NOSE AS WELL. 
          THAT'S PART OF WHY THAT IS. 
          SO A THUNDERSTORM DOWNTOWN IS THERE BECAUSE THE DENSITY OF PEOPLE, THE DENSITY CRASHES AND THE DENSITY OF DEATHS, WHICH WE SHOULDN'T HAVE IN THE DEATHS PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY PART TOWN ROBINS AREN'T UPDATED IN THAT. 
          BUT ABOUT 10 YEARS LATER, NOT, NOT TO WAVE ABOUT IN MEETING FASCINATING, BUT, BUT TEXT A IS ABSOLUTELY CONTINUING TO CAPTURE CRITERIA. 
          AND IT CAN BE THAT VISION ZERO. 
          VISION ZERO HAS UPDATED MAPS ON THOSE. 
          ELABORATE WAS ACTION PLANS. 
          WE'LL SEE IF  LAC ON RECENTLY AGO RESTRICTION. 
          UH, AND SO , THE DATA IS . 
          THE OTHER POINT I WOULD SAY IS WE HAVE NOT HAD THE BACK AL REPORTS. 
          THE LAST ONE I FOUND WAS 2019. 
          SO IT'S SOME TIME AND ALL THE OTHERS HAD DROPPED, SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THOSE REPORTS ARE. 
          AND THAT'S JUST PULLING UP A PRESENTATION THAT MELISSA  WHEN SHE WAS HERE. 
          IT SAYS THE, UH, THE PURPOSE, UH, PURPOSE AND SCORE TO SUPPORT AND ASSESS PERFORMANCE OF PLAN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN RECOMMENDS THE REPORT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING, ALIGN WITH PLAN, PLAN INSTANCE GOAL AND APPROACH FOR IMPLEMENTATION. 
          HIGHLIGHT PROGRESS MADE ON IMPLEMENTATION WITH MIND RELATIVE PERFORMANCE AGAINST PREVIOUS TWO YEARS WHEN THE FIRST TRENDS MAKE MAP MAP EXPERTS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ONLINE. 
          DETERMINE THAT NEW METRICS MAY BE MORE RELEVANT. 
          ADJUST METRICS IF NOT ALIGNED WITH OVERALL GOAL AND IDENTIFY PRIORITY OPPORTUNITIES TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE AS CITY OR OH, YOU'RE NOT BY PLAN. 
          IT'S JUST, UH, THE HOUSTON BY PLAN. 
           REPORT. 
          . 
          AND WILL YOU APPLY, UM, FOR BICYCLE PERFORM TO THE CITY, APPLY FOR WEST FUNDS TO BE RESELLING? NO, NO. 
          ANY PLANS TO APPLY? IT'S NOT, IS THERE ANY WAY TO LIKE ORIENT TO DIRECT TRAVIS WHERE I GUESS YEAH, IT'S, IT'S QUITE A BIT OF WORK YEAH. 
          TO DO THAT. 
          I KNOW, I KNOW DURING THE PREVIOUS MEDICATION LAST HAD TO PLAY WITH THIS, UH, THERE WERE, IF PLANNING WAS THE LEAD APPLICANT, BUT THEY ASKED OTHERS FOR INPUT ON IT AND ESPECIALLY NOT EDUCATION 
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ELECTION. 
          WE'RE THE, IT, IT LOOKS LIKE IN JANUARY OF 2023, THERE'S A STORY ABOUT RENEWING OUR BRONZE LEVEL STATUS, WHICH SHOULD THEN BE, SO IT'S PROBABLY THE END OF 22, WHICH ON A FOUR YEAR CYCLE WOULD GIVE IT STILL BE END OF 26 TO APPLY FOR THE NEXT. 
          OKAY. 
          RENEWAL. 
          I SAID WHERE YOU ARE NOW, BRONX. 
          BRONX, THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES THAT ARE HERE THAT ARE REALLY GONNA WANNA DRIVE AND PROBABLY WANNA TAKE TRANSPORTATION OR WALK OR BIKE. 
          AND SO I WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT  ARE FOR THAT. 
          A BIKE SHARE SYSTEM. 
          THERE IS TRANSPORTATION SUBCOMMITTEE FOR THE WORLD CUP THAT HAS, HAS MEETINGS HAPPENING THAT THE CITY TRENDSTAR AND PUBLIC WORKS. 
          IS THAT AN UPDATE WE WANNA REQUEST FOR? MAYBE, MAYBE THAT GETS TOO LONG FOR AUGUST, BUT IT COULD BE THE OCTOBER MEETING OF THE WHOLE, THAT DOESN'T LEAVE US A LOT OF TIME. 
          YEAH, THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME EITHER. 
          I THINK A LOT OF THE EFFORT THAT WAS FUNDED THROUGH A GSC WAS FOCUSED ON MORE REGIONAL SORT OF TRAFFIC CONTROL PLANS, REGIONAL COORDINATION AND THAT, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT SAME COMMITTEE IS LOOKING AT LOCALIZED CIRCULATION, BUT I DON'T, METRO AND OTHERS THAT ARE PART OF THAT COMMITTEE, UH, THERE WAS A BIG DISCUSSION AT HGC AS TO WHAT KIND OF TRAFFIC ANALYSIS NEEDS TO HAVE, BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. 
          BUT THE FACT THE TRAFFIC COUNTS CAME DOWN THINK IT'S WOULD NOT HAVE TIME. 
          SO IT MAY BE WORTH UNDERSTANDING WHAT, WHAT IS BEING COVERED AND THEN MAYBE ENGAGE WITH DOWNTOWN, WITH, UM, AND OTHER ENTITIES, ESPECIALLY IN THE, IN URBAN GOLD CENTER. 
          WHAT IF, YEAH, WHAT IF IN THE FULL BAC OCTOBER WE HAVE DOWNTOWN HOUSTON AS A GUEST SPEAKER, HOW THEY'RE PLANNING FOR EVERYTHING AND WE COULD INVITE, UH, NICK KNIGHT AND HOUSTON SOUTHEAST BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO SUPPORTING A GREEN, OR MAYBE I CAN SAY MORE ABOUT THAT, PROBABLY, BUT A, A GREEN CORRIDOR OR BETWEEN THE FAN FEST AREA AND THE AVIUM? YEAH, THEIR, THEIR PROJECT IS ALIGNED WITH THE GREEN CORRIDOR. 
          NIKKI'S BEEN ATTENDING THE GREEN CORRIDOR MEETINGS, BUT OKAY. 
          IF SHE'S FOCUSED ON THE, LIKE, SO SOMETHING GET DOWNTOWN, WE CAN'T HAVE, UH,  OR  FOR OCTOBER. 
          DOWNTOWN HOUSTON WOULD PROBABLY BE A GOOD, SEE WHAT THEY'RE DOING NOW OR MAYBE LIKE UPDATES ON THE PEDESTRIAN FOR, OR THAT THEY HAVE GOING ON. 
          AND SO FOR THE, THE BANK BEST ALSO TAP TRIAL THAT, THAT'S MORE ON THE EAST  SIDE. 
          SO IT WOULD BE ELIZABETH WHITTEN. 
          THESE ARE A LOT OF TOPICS IN THE, FOR THE NEAR TERM I THINK. 
          SO WE SHOULD HAVE A DISCUSSION OF WHAT IS THE PRIORITY FOR US. 
          BECAUSE IF EVERYTHING CANNOT BE A PRIORITY, WE JUST NEED TO FOCUS ON WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE THE PRIORITY FOR THE, WHAT WOULD BE A PRIORITY FOR OFFICE  TOPICS A PRIORITY FOR OFFICE AND SEE, UH, CAN GIVE US AN UPDATE ON WHAT IS DISCUSSION WITH ADMINISTRATIONS ARE ABOUT SO THAT WE CAN LINE UP APPROPRIATE SPEAKER. 
          YEAH, THERE IS, UH, THERE IS SOME WORK THAT HAPPENED BEFORE. 
          CAN SPEAK . 
          THAT COULD BE A GOOD TOPIC FOR THE PRE-MEETING WITH THE DIRECTOR IS TO SAY, HERE'S A BUNCH OF TOPICS THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN. 
          LET'S TALK THROUGH THEM WITH YOU. 
          SO YEAH, BECAUSE WHAT I HAVE FOR THE 27TH IS JUST THE CHAIR VOTE AND THE INVITATION TO THE DIRECTOR TO LIKE EDUCATION. 
          YES. 
          CHAIR VOTE. 
          YES. 
          CHAIR. 
          CHAIR. 
          TALK CHAIR. 
          UM, WILL YOU BE SPEAKING TO THAT ISSUE OF WHAT JEFF SPEC SAID TOMORROW? OR WILL SOMEONE, OR SHOULD I INCLUDE IT IN MY REMARKS? YOU SHOULD INCLUDE. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, I THINK ALSO THIS IS JUST A THEORY OF MINE THAT THIS WHOLE BAN IS A WAY ALSO TO GET SOME MEMBERS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION TO PUSH FOR ELECTRIC BIKE AND SCOOTER SHARE. 
          UM, SO JUST KEEP THAT ON YOUR RADAR WITH, WITH LIKE A COMPANY LIKE BLIND OR LYFT, BECAUSE THEY'RE SAYING THAT'S A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM 
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AND IT, THE MAYOR TO ALLOW IT. 
          WE HAD A PRESENTATION WITH BLIND. 
          WE DID, WHICH I'M NOT SAYING IS A BAD THING. 
          I'M JUST SAYING STRATEGY WISE, THIS THIS ISN'T JUST A SCOOTER. 
          IS IT, IS IT SOMETHING FOR ? THAT'S THAT'S MY, THAT'S MY THIS VAN IS FOR SCOOTERS NOT ELECTRIC DEVICE. 
          YEAH, THAT'S WHAT IT'S IT'S NOT, BUT I THINK THEY'RE USING THIS WHOLE ISSUE OF THESE POPUP VENDORS OF RENTAL DEVICES. 
          AND IT'S NOT JUST SCOOTERS, IT'S THESE THINGS. 
          YOU SIT ON THREE WHEELERS. 
          YEAH, THERE'S THREE WHEELERS, THERE'S SLINGSHOTS, THEY'RE, THEY'RE RENTING ALL KINDS OF THINGS. 
          THEY LIKE, IT'S TARGETED. 
          BUT I THINK, I THINK WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO SAY IS, THE REASON FOR ALL THIS PROBLEM IS THAT THERE, THIS MOM AND POP POP UP VENDORS, WE NEED TO GET SOMETHING IN LIKE LINE OR LYFT TO DO ELECTRIC SCOOTER AND BIKE SHARE THAT COULD BE REGULATED WITH GOVERNORS AND GEO OFFENSIVE THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          WHICH I'M NOT SAYING FOR OUR GUESTS, I'M JUST SAYING I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE DISTRACTING AS FAR AS BEING . 
          THERE ARE MEMBERS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION THAT ARE, I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO USE THIS TO AGAINST US, THE MAYOR COUNCILOR TO CONSIDER AUSTRALIA. 
          I AGREE WITH THIS CURRENT PUSH BACK FOCUS FEELS LIKE IT'S REACTING TO THE LOOSELY REGULATED RENTAL OPERATIONS THAT, YOU KNOW, ARM BEHOLDEN IN THE SAME WAY THAT LIME OR THE OTHER GROUPS ARE, WHERE THEY, THEY GET OFFICIAL, ET CETERA. 
          UM, WHEN YOU SEE PEOPLE RIDING A  SCOOTER ON A SIDEWALK THAT THEY GOT FROM E SCOOTER ON THE CORNER, THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM SOMETHING ON A EFFICIENT PLATFORM THAT HAS BEEN VETTED BY THE CITY. 
          SO I I I WOULD CAUTION AS NOT TO THINK THE WORST ABOUT THIS DISCUSSION OF QUOTE UNQUOTE BANNING SPEAKERS DOWNTOWN DOESN'T FEEL TO ME LIKE THE INCENTIVES IS TO NOT HAVE PEOPLE RIDING THESE THINGS, BUT ALSO TO, TO HAVE  AND THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING. 
          YEAH. 
          I MEAN IT'S PUBLIC INFORMATION, BUT THERE'S BEEN LOBBYISTS FOR YEARS, UM, FOR THESE CONTENTS. 
          YEAH. 
          AND I THINK THEY'RE GONNA USE THIS, OH, ANOTHER ITEM FOR THE 27TH WAS THE, UH, PRESENTATION BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I, WE SENT REQUEST DIDN'T GET ANYBODY THIS MEETING. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO THAT'S OKAY. 
          NEXT MONTH MAY BE FEASIBLE AND, AND THE WORST CASE SITUATION AND MAYBE THAT I CAN PRESENT CRYSVITA MM-HMM . 
          AND, UM, WE CAN WORK ON GETTING A MORE PERMANENT, YOU KNOW, HP PARTNERSHIP. 
          YEAH, DEFINITELY STARTING THE YEAH. 
          THAT PROCESS. 
          I APPRECIATE THE SPIRIT IN WHICH YOU OFFERED TO DO THAT. 
          MM-HMM . 
          OH, WELL, I MEAN I ALREADY, I'M ALREADY ON THAT FIRST WEBSITE. 
          IT'S FUNNY, BUT BUT PART OF IT IS FROM A POLICY STANDPOINT YES. 
          IF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A COST TO THEM OF A CRASH PROBLEM BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT EVEN LOOKING AT A CRASH PROBLEM. 
          YEAH. 
          LIKE, THAT'S PART OF OUR OPPORTUNITY TO EDUCATE THEM ON THE POLICY. 
          SURE. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S BETTER IF YOU CAN GET THEM. 
          OF COURSE. 
          YEAH. 
          YES. 
          I HAVE ANOTHER POSSIBLE SPEAKER TOPIC COMING YOUR WAY IN A MINUTE. 
          UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I, I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY KNOWS TRACY WITH A A RP. 
          I'M TRACY, NATIONALLY, A A RP HAS REALLY DUG INTO AND MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS THINKING ABOUT HOW CAN COMMUNITIES BE MORE LIVABLE FOR SENIORS FOR, YOU KNOW, AGE AND PLACE. 
          AND THAT INCLUDES SAFE WALKING ACCESS AND SAFE PIPING ACCESS. 
          IF, IF YOU COULD HELP US FIND A PERSON WHO'S LIKE UP THE FOOD TREE AT STATEWIDE OR NATIONALLY, BUT A LEADER WHO COULD COME TALK ABOUT WHAT, WHAT IS AARP'S WORK IN THE SAFE BIKING SPACE AND BIKE AUDITS. 
          I KNOW YOU HAVE A TOOLKIT AND YOU TRAIN PEOPLE ALL OVER. 
          UM, AND IT COULD BE WALK AUDITS TOO. 
          LIKE I, I THINK OF US AS THE STATE STREETS PEOPLE AND I DON'T ONLY CARE ABOUT PEOPLE ON TWO WHEELS. 
          UM, COOL. 
          SO IF YOU HAVE TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO COULD COME AND THEY COULD HELP US EDUCATE ABOUT WHY AR P'S DOING THIS WORK AND WHAT THE POSSIBILITIES ARE MONTHLY, WHAT WOULD FIND, DO WE SAY THAT HERE? THINKING ABOUT, UH, LIV LIVABLE COMMUNITIES, UH, WHICH WE HAVE OUR WHOLE DEPARTMENT AND WE JUST HAD A MEETING WITH THEM, UH, LAST WEEK. 
          AND I THINK I AM ON A COMMITTEE HERE IN HOUSTON, UM, WHERE WE GOT THE MAYOR TO SIGN INTO THIS LIVABLE COMMITTEE YEARS AGO. 
          THERE'S A, SO, UM, YEAH. 
          DOING THAT, THAT WOULD BE MEETING, ARE WE WITH THE A RC? YES. 
          BUT THEY HAVE A MEETING IN CLEAR LAKE. 
          SO I HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT. 
          I'M, I'M WITH THE FOUNDATION, RIGHT. 
          YEAH. 
          AND WE DO A WHOLE DIFFERENT TYPE 
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OF WORK. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, BUT, BUT I, THOSE PEOPLE ARE STILL MY COWORK. 
          YEAH. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UH, WE HAVE, WE ALSO STILL HAVE BRANDON HAS, WE HAVE FOR HC FROM AN ANNOUNCEMENT. 
          WE'LL, PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          LET'S DO THAT. 
          AND THEN, LIKE I SAID, BRANDON HAS A COUPLE SLIDES TO SHOW FOR HVC AS WELL. 
          UM, I DID NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS AHEAD OF TIME. 
          UM, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC SPEAKERS YOU WANNA MAKE A COMMENT, ED? SURE. 
          UM, WELL, I, I WANNA INVITE YOU ALL TO COME TOMORROW TO SPEAK ABOUT THE SCOOTER BAND. 
          I THINK THERE'S LOTS OF POLICY TOOLS THAT CAN BE USED TO CRACK DOWN ON THE LATE NIGHT JOY RIDING THAT'S VERY DISRUPTIVE AND RECKLESS, UH, WITHOUT BANNING SCOOTERS ACROSS THE BOARD AS A BLOOD POLICY INSTRUMENT TOOL. 
          SO, UM, IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION, FEEL FREE TO ASK ME ON THE COLUMBIA TAP TRIAL. 
          UH, WE HAVE ALREADY SCHEDULED OUR NEXT, UM, FESTIVAL NEXT MARCH AGAINST MARCH 26TH SATURDAY. 
          AND SO WE WANTED TO PLAN EARLIER THAN USUAL THIS, THIS TIME AROUND SO WE CAN GET SOME OTHER VENDORS COME IN WITH SOME NICE BIG ACTIVITIES. 
          AND WE'RE PLANNING TO HOST IT AT THE NEW TOUR, THE COMPOUND. 
          SO YES. 
          SO, SO THAT'S, SO THAT'S, THAT'S OUR GOAL TO GET TO, TO GET THAT NICE AND OPEN AND PRETTY. 
          UM, AND THEN WITH JAMES BUTTE PARK, UM, WE, I JUST, THE REASON I WAS LATE IS I CAME FROM A MEETING WITH CENTERPOINT. 
          WE ARE REALLY TRYING TO GET CENTERPOINT TO ALLOW THE EASEMENT TO LET THAT SOUTH, THOSE SOUTH TRAILS ALONG THE BUFFALO BAYOU TO GO AROUND THEIR, UM, THEIR SUBSTATION, WHICH USED TO HAPPEN 20 YEARS AGO BEFORE IT WAS CENTERPOINT, BUT THAT ONE WAS HLP. 
          THEY HAD AN EASEMENT FOR THE COUNTY TO HAVE A NATURE TRIAL BACK THERE. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO GET THAT EASEMENT BACK SO THAT THOSE TRIALS CAN BE CONNECTED BECAUSE BUFFALO BAYOU PARTNERSHIP IS BRINGING NEW TRAIL WITH EAST END AND THE USE OF PARK BOARD IS EXTENDING THE AUSTIN STREET SOUTH BUFFALO BAYOU TRAIL UP ALONG THE BAYOU TO THE HEIGHTS BRIDGE CROSSING. 
          SO THE ONLY PIECE THAT'S MISSING IS THE AREA AROUND THE BEND WHERE THE SUBSTATION WAS. 
          SO THAT WAS ANCE CITY COUNCIL QUALITY OF LIFE. 
          YEAH. 
          SO IT'S HOUSTON CITY COUNCIL QUALITY OF LIFE SUB AT THE MAIN COST OF CHAMBER. 
          WHAT THAT DIANE? YEAH. 
          THE  BY IT DIDN'T SAY A DEADLINE ON THE FORM, SO, BUT DO IT TODAY. 
          WAS IT OPEN FOR PUBLIC RETURNS? YES. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK, YOU SHOULD SIGN UP THIS WEEK. 
          LIKE YOU CAN GO ONLINE AND PLAN UP SPEAK, AND THERE'S INFORMATION ABOUT IT ON THE PARK HOUSTON WEBSITE. 
          SO IT'S THE PARK HOUSTON TEAM UNDER A RA ACTING UPON THE HOTELS THAT ARE COMPLAINING DOWNTOWN, LIKE THE FOUR SEASONS, WHICH HATES THAT BIKE TRAIL. 
          BY THE WAY, THAT BIKE LANE LAMAR ON LAMAR. 
          SO THEY'RE THE ONES BEHIND US. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WE'LL GO TO ANNOUNCE MASS. 
          WE HAVE ME, MR. BRANDON MO? YES, PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND SEND YOUR SLIDES OFF. 
          WELL, YEAH. 
          WELL, I GUESS LET ME REINTRODUCE MYSELF. 
          . 
          I'M BRANDON MOSLEY. 
          I HERE WITH, UH, HGAC, HOUSTON GALVES AREA COUNCIL, PRINCIPAL PLANNER THERE WHERE I WORK ON THE RTP, WHICH IS THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN. 
          UM, SO I GOT A COUPLE SLIDES I WANT TO, UH, GET TO YOU GUYS, UM, AS WE BUILD OUT OUR UP TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THE, WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON IS THE 2050, UH, RTP, UH, WHICH IS A STRATEGIC PLAN THAT GUIDES THE FUTURE POLICIES, INVESTMENTS, AND DEVELOPMENT FOR, UH, TRANSPORTATION IN THE REGION. 
          UH, THIS IS FOR THE NEXT 20 PLUS YEARS. 
          IT TARGETS FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL FUNDING RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THE REGIONAL VISION THROUGH TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS. 
          AND THIS MUST BE UPDATED EVERY FOUR YEARS, UH, FOR, UH, FOR FEDERAL LAW. 
          UH, THE TERM RTP, UH, WAS JUST LAST ADOPTED IN 2023 AND IS SET TO EXPIRE ON NOVEMBER 1ST, 2027. 
          UH, THIS PROGRAMMING DOCUMENT CONTAINS THE LATEST FRAMEWORK OF EXISTING AND FORECASTING, UH, CONDITIONS ALONG WITH REGIONAL GOALS AND OBJECTS THAT GUIDE THE PRIORITIZATION OF FEDERALLY FUNDED, UH, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS. UM, THIS INCLUDES A FISCAL CONSTRAINED, UH, ACTION PLAN FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 20 PLUS YEARS. 
          DEVELOPMENT OF RSP MUST BE DONE IN COORDINATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND THE PUBLIC. 
          GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THIS IS KIND OF WHERE WE ARE. 
          WE ARE IN OUR INITIAL PHASE RIGHT NOW OF THE, UH, PROCESS, UH, WHICH INCLUDES PUBLIC OUTREACH TO COLLECT DATA ON EXISTING CONDITIONS. 
          AND WE NEED TO DEVELOP A, UH, VISION FOR THE RCPH. 
          CAC IS CONDUCTING INITIAL PHASE OF DEPARTMENT OUTREACH UNTIL A CONSULTANT IS, UH, SELECTED, UM, BETWEEN NOW AND AND MID AUGUST. 
          UM, SO THE FIRST PHASE OF OUTREACH, UM, WILL TARGET, UH, THE, THE PLAN'S VISION, UM, AND THEN WOULD CONTINUE 
          [01:25:01]
THIS VISION UNTIL, UH, MID AUGUST. 
          THIS PHASE, WE UTILIZES OUR, UH, HVAC, UH, GAUGE WEBSITE, UH, TO HAVE THE PLAN GO FORTH. 
          UH, WE ALSO USING PUBLIC MEETINGS AND WE'RE ALSO USING OUR, UH, PARTNER TOOL, WHAT Y'ALL TALK ABOUT HERE. 
          SECOND, NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THE REASON WHY I'M HERE FOR YOU TODAY IS BECAUSE WE NEED EVERYONE'S VOICE. 
          UM, YOU GUYS ARE PRIVILEGING YOUR COMMUNITY. 
          UM, YOU ARE A GIANT IN YOUR A DIFFERENT FIELD. 
          AND SO WHEN I'M COMING TO YOU BEFORE TODAY IS, AND HAVING WORKED, YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THE BLACK COMMUNITY REALLY ISN'T REPRESENTED. 
          AND SO THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES WE, WE REALLY GET ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF GETTING PLANNING, UH, IN. 
          AND SO AS THE RT SD WE GO TO PULL THE CALL TO PROJECTS, UM, WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE CYCLING COMMUNITY NEEDS. 
          UH, WHAT, WHAT DO YOU EXPANSION RIGHT NOW? WHAT DO YOU ENVISION, UM, CYCLING SYSTEM TO BE REGIONWIDE, YOU KNOW, SO NOT JUST CITY OF HOUSTON, BUT JUST, YOU KNOW, YOU MAY HAVE SOME PARTNERS OUTSIDE OF THAT. 
          SO, UM, WE'VE JUST CONCLUDED, UM, ACTUALLY WE JUST HAD STARTED LAST WEEK. 
          SO, UM, JULY 10TH, WE AT LIBERTY COUNTY CHAMBERS AND WALL COUNTY. 
          UM, AND SO TOMORROW WE GEARING, THAT'S WHY IT'S A LITTLE LATE. 
          WE GEARING UP FOR GALVESTON COUNTY AT TWO LOCATIONS AT, UH, NORTH COUNTY AND MID COUNTY. 
          UM, THE MISSOURI COUNTY COMING UP ON THE 29TH. 
          WE HAVE TWO LOCATIONS FOR HARRIS COUNTY, AND I KNOW THAT'S MORE IMPORTANT, YOU GUYS, AS YOU GUYS ARE RESIDENTS HERE. 
          WE HAVE ONE AT OUR HGAC OFFICES. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE A, UM, AND THAT ON JULY 31ST AND OUR SECOND ONE WILL BE, UH, HELD AT METRO RIGHT HERE, DOWNTOWN. 
          AND THAT'S GONNA BE ON AUGUST 14TH. 
          THESE MEETINGS WILL BE HELD, UM, 6:30 PM TO 8:00 PM UM, IF YOU AREN'T ABLE TO COME, OR, OR IF YOU, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE AREN'T ABLE TO COME, NO WORRIES. 
          WE HAVE A VIRTUAL OPTION. 
          UM, YOU CAN JUST VISIT US@RTPTWENTYFIFTY.COM. 
          UM, ON THERE YOU WILL FIND, UM, MYRIAD OF, OF TOOLS AND INFORMATION THAT'S THERE. 
          BUT ONCE, UM, ONCE YOU GO ON, YOU CAN EITHER TAKE OUR SURVEY, THAT'S THE FIRST THING, AND SECOND YOU CAN JOIN US ONLINE. 
          SO ALL YOU NEED IS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE SELLING INVITE WITH, UM, INTERNET ACCESS, AND YOU'LL BE, YOU'LL BE GOOD TO GO. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND SO HERE, UM, WE ASK HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED. 
          YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A PARKING TOOLKIT THAT'S HERE ON THE LINE. 
          SO YOU CAN GO RIGHT THERE ON THE STUFF, AND YOU LOOK ON THE SIDE OF THE PAGE, UH, YOU'LL SEE THE PARTNER TOOLKIT AND WHAT'S IN THERE. 
          THIS TO HELP YOU, UM, UH, ACTUALLY PASS THIS ALONG. 
          IT HELP YOU PROMOTE, UM, OUR PUBLIC THAT ARE COMING UP AND PROMOTE SURVEY AS WELL, AND ENCOURAGE THE STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION. 
          WHAT'S INCLUDED IS A SAMPLE LETTER. 
          SO YOU, WE'VE DONE ALL THE WORK FOR ALREADY, JUST COPY AND PASTE TO SEND IT OUT. 
          UM, IT'S ALSO A NEWSLETTER. 
          FLYERS ARE THERE AS WELL. 
          UM, UH, FOR THE SPECIFIC SCHEDULE OF THE MEETINGS. 
          UH, WE ALSO HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA CAPTION AND GRAPHIC THAT YOU CAN ALSO POST ON, YOU KNOW, LINKING ON FACEBOOK OR YOUR, UH, COMMUNITY, UH, DURING STUFF. 
          SO WE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, UM, UH, WANT CYCLING COMMUNITY TO, TO BE, UH, CAPTURED, UM, IN THIS PLAN. 
          FOR SURE. 
          IN THE PAST, THERE HASN'T REALLY BEEN A STRONG SUIT, BUT I KNOW, YOU KNOW, WORKING HERE, UM, UH, HERE AT THE CITY AND ALSO, UM, SERVING WITH YOU GUYS. 
          I KNOW THE BOYS, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS ARE STRONG HERE, BUT REGIONALLY WIDE, THE VOICE GETS, IT'S A LITTLE DENSER AS YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU GO OUT. 
          SO WANNA MAKE SURE YOU GUYS ARE TAPPING INTO YOUR NETWORKS AND PLEASE TELL 'EM COME OUT. 
          UM, IF THEY CAN'T MAKE IT, NO WORRIES. 
          AGAIN, WE HAVE A LOT OF ONLINE, UM, FEATURES WHERE THEY CAN JUST TAKE THE SURVEY. 
          THE COURSE CAN BE CAPTURED THAT WAY. 
          UM, SO THANKS. 
          SO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UM, OR ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS? MY, MY CONTACT INFORMATION IS HERE. 
          YOU CAN ALSO REACH OUT TO OUR RTP SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR, WHICH IS FOR . 
          UM, OR, I KNOW YOU KNOW HIM FONDLY , BUT, UM, HE WORKS AT HERA. 
          UM, BUT IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, FEEL FREE TO JUST GIMME A CALL, SHOOT ME AN EMAIL. 
          YOU CAN, UM, VISIT THE WEBSITE AGAIN. 
          UM, THAT'S WHERE MOST OF EVERYTHING'S BEING HOUSED. 
          UH, BUT, UM, MY, MY PARTNER, YOU GUYS ALWAYS, EVEN THOUGH I GREW TO A DIFFERENT AGENCY, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS BODY IS TRULY BEING HEARD AND CAPTURED. 
          UM, NOT ONLY CONSENT ABUSE, BUT . 
          SO THAT'S WHAT I HAVE. 
          IS THAT A PERIOD AFTER? IS THAT, IS THAT DOT YEAH, BRANDON DOT MOSTLY? YES, SIR. 
          MAKE SURE YOU, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU PUT THAT HYPHEN IN HGAC, BECAUSE BOUNCE BACK TO ME. 
          UH, . 
          SO, UH, YES. 
          WHAT TIME IS THE MEETING TOMORROW AT THE NORTH ? YES, HE'S AT 6:30 PM WE'LL START AT 6:30 PM AND SO THIS IS THE FIRST ROUND. 
          WE HAVE THREE ROUNDS SCHEDULED. 
          UM, WE PLAN TO, ONCE THIS ROUND IS OVER, UM, WE PLAN TO COME BACK OUT TO THE, UH, TO PUBLIC AND, AND, UH, EXPRESS WHAT WE'VE HEARD AND ALSO HAVE SOME FUTURE FORECASTING CONDITIONS. 
          UM, AND THEN WE'LL DO A CALL FOR PROJECTS TO SEE WHAT THOSE PROJECTS ARE, HOW THEY ALIGN, WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS, MAKE SURE WE PUT THOSE AS A PRIORITY. 
          AND WE'LL COME BACK AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE FORECAST. 
          THESE ARE THE PROJECTS THAT, THAT HAVE COME FORTH. 
          SO WE'LL PUT 'EM ALL 
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IN THE DOCUMENT AND WE'LL BE READY FOR 2050 AND BEYOND. 
          , ROBIN, WE'VE GOT, I GUESS, THREE ITEMS. YES. 
          THE FIRST HERE, WHICH YES. 
          THANK YOU FOR COMING, BRANDON TO THE VAC TO TELL US ABOUT THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN. 
          I'M DELIGHTED YOU'RE HERE, AND THANKS FOR HELPING ME GET THE WORD OUT. 
          OF COURSE. 
          AND THEN STEP TWO IS, CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT THIS INFORMATION GOES INTO THE POST MEETING RECAP NEXT? I DON'T KNOW, NEXT FEW, OR ACTUALLY COME BACK AFTER ITEM THREE, AND THEN IT'LL BE ONE MORE TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I CAN INCLUDE THIS IN SLIDES OR POST ONLINE AS WELL. 
          AWESOME. 
          SO THEY'RE ALREADY GOOD. 
          AWESOME. 
          COOL. 
          AND I GUESS AN ADMONITION TO ALL OF US, IF YOU TOUCH OTHER GROUPS, HELP SPREAD THE WORD THAT THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PUBLIC MEETINGS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN PROCESS IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS IS, WE'RE GONNA SET THE GOAL AND THE VISION AND THE VALUES FOR EVERY FEDERAL DOLLAR WE SPENT FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS. 
          MM-HMM . 
          THAT BEING SAID, I HAVE A REQUEST. 
          YES. 
          CHAMBERS COUNTY. 
          MM-HMM . 
          GETS A MEETING MM-HMM . 
          FOR 53,000 PEOPLE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          LIBERTY COUNTY GETS A WHOLE MEETING FOR 108,000 PEOPLE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          YOU SEE WHERE IT GOING? YES, YES. 
          QUESTION. 
          I LOVE THAT. 
          IN THE LAST 10 DAYS, YOU HAVE A SECOND MEETING IN HERE. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, BUT WE'RE STILL AT 90 TO ONE ON REPRESENTATION. 
          SO WE NEED, WE NEED MORE. 
          BUT COUNTY MEETINGS  WAY, WAY. 
          THE UNFORTUNATE THING IS THAT, THAT WHEN I JOINED THE ORGANIZATION, WE WERE ALREADY BEHIND. 
          SO WE WE'RE, WE'RE A LITTLE BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL. 
          UM, WE ARE, WAIT, WE HAVE A CONSULTANT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BRING ON TO BRING US UP TO SPEED A LITTLE MORE. 
          SO IN THAT NEXT ROUND, IT WILL BE A MORE ROBUST, BUT BECAUSE IT'S JUST ME RIGHT NOW, UM, I'M ONLY ONE PERSON. 
          I CAN ONLY HAVE SO MANY MEETINGS. 
          UH, THE THE UNFORTUNATE THING, THE UNFORTUNATE THING IS WHEN WE, WHEN WE PUT THE SCHEDULE TOGETHER, UH, WE REACHED OUT TO OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND OUR CONSTITUENTS AND, AND, AND OUR BOARDS, AND WE ASKED THEM, HEY, WE NEED LOCATIONS AND TIMES WHERE WE CAN COME OUT TO THESE COUNTIES. 
          WELL, I DIDN'T REALLY HEAR MUCH BACK, SO I HAD TO JUST GO OFF WHAT WE DID HISTORICALLY AT THE AGENCY, ONCE THE LIST CAME OUT, THEN THE, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE WAS LIKE, OH, I GOTTA LOCATION, I GOT A LOCATION. 
          SO ONCE THAT HAPPENED, THAT'S WHY YOU STARTED TO SEE ADDITIONAL, UH, PLACES SO YOU CAN CAPTURE MORE. 
          BUT JUST UNFORTUNATELY, WE, UM, BUT WE ARE CONSIDERING REVISITING LIBERTY AND CHAMBERS AGAIN. 
          UM, THAT'S NOT TIMES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE. 
          I UNDERSTAND. 
          RIGHT. 
          WE STARTED WITH ONE MEETING FOR EACH, RIGHT? YES, YES, YES. 
          I UNDERSTAND. 
          WHAT I WOULD ASK IS LIKE, WOULD IT HELP IF, IF HYPOTHETICALLY MM-HMM . 
          PRECINCT ONE, PRECINCT TWO, PRECINCT THREE, AND PRECINCT FOUR, I HAVE A COMMUNITY CENTER, I HAVE A DATE. 
          ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS BRING YES, YES INFORMATION. 
          THEY COULD DO THAT IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. 
          AND YOU ADD MORE MEETINGS. 
          MY APOLOGIES. 
          I, I MISUNDERSTOOD THAT. 
          NOW, IF THAT, THAT, NOW THESE MEETINGS HERE, THESE ARE THE ONES I'M LEADING RIGHT. 
          THAT I HAVE TO PUT ON. 
          BUT IF YOU HAVE A COMMUNITY MEETING OF MEETING'S ALREADY SET OR IN PLACE, OR A TIME, IF I'M AVAILABLE, I WILL BE THERE. 
          MY TEAM WILL BE, WE, WE'LL JUMP ON IT AND COME PRESENT. 
          SO WE HAVE NO PROBLEM. 
          I'M GOING TO PRAIRIE VIEW, UM, MONDAY NIGHT, I'M GONNA SPEAK AT THEIR CITY HALL. 
          I'M GOING TO NANDO HALL NEXT WEEK. 
          I'M ALSO GOING, UH, I'M GOING TO THE BOARD OF METRO ON THE 30TH. 
          SO I HAVE NO PROBLEM COMING OUT. 
          I JUST NEED TO KNOW WHERE THEY, WHERE, WHERE I, WHERE I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT PART AND, AND THIS IS A DIFFERENT ISSUE THAT'S BEEN AN ISSUE FOR US. 
          LIKE, MY FIRST HD, MY FIRST RTP MEETING WAS 22 YEARS AGO. 
          MM-HMM . 
          I, IT'S A THING, RIGHT? RIGHT. 
          IS THAT WE LOOK UP AND GO, OH, THERE WASN'T ENOUGH DISCUSSION OF SAFE FACILITIES FOR PEOPLE WHO WALK AND BIKE AND RIDE TRANSIT MM-HMM . 
          MM-HMM . 
          THAT IS AN OBVIOUS AND PREDICTABLE OUTCOME. 
          MM-HMM . 
          IF THE MEETINGS ONLY HAPPEN IN SUBURBAN AUTO, ONLY COUNTY AGREE. 
          SO IF WE WANT TO HEAR MORE FROM THE PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON MM-HMM . 
          KINDER'S, KINDER'S DATA FROM LAST YEAR MM-HMM . 
          IS THAT IN HARRIS COUNTY, UNLIKE IN LIBERTY COUNTY OR MISSOURI OR CHAMBERS MM-HMM . 
          13% OF HARRIS COUNTY RESIDENTS USE TRANSIT, PUBLIC TRANSIT AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. 
          RIGHT. 
          WE'RE NOT GOING TO HEAR FROM THEM IF WE ONLY HAVE TWO MEETINGS IN HARRIS COUNTY. 
          AGREED. 
          SO LET'S, LET'S FIGURE OUT ONE, WHICH IS NOT EASY TO GET TO ONE. 
          RIGHT. 
          RIGHT. 
          I, I DON'T, MY HOUSE, THAT'S ABOUT A TWO HOUR PROCESS. 
          RIGHT. 
          I, I DEFINITELY HEAR YOU. 
          THAT THAT IS A CONVERSATION WE ARE HAVING AT THE AGENCY AND WE'RE TRYING TO RECTIFY THAT. 
          THAT'S ONE I WAS BROUGHT ON. 
          YEAH. 
          WHICH MY, YEAH. 
          UM, BUT WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, WHAT THEY'VE DONE IS WE'VE HAD OUR COMMUNITY MEETINGS, OUR PUBLIC MEETINGS, AND THAT'S IT. 
          WELL, WE, WE ARE EXTENDING OURSELVES. 
          RIGHT. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO EXTEND OURSELVES NOW OF BEING . 
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RECENTLY IN THE PAST, IF YOU GO MORE MEETING, HTC USED TO HAVE MORE MEETINGS. 
          I UNDERSTAND. 
          YEAH, YEAH, OF COURSE. 
          BUT I'M SAYING IS FOR THIS ROUND, I JOINED LATE, IT WAS MORE SO LIKE, HEY, WE GOTTA GET THESE MEETINGS GOING. 
          THAT'S WHERE WE, IF I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY YES, SIR. 
          RECEIPT TO IF THEY REQUEST MM-HMM . 
          A MEETING. 
          YEAH. 
          SOME LOCAL COMMUNITY CENTER, LIKE LAKE RIGHT. 
          INSTANCE. 
          I GUESS THAT'S AN EXAMPLE YOU WOULD BE OPEN TO COME. 
          YES, SIR, I AM. 
          FANTASTIC. 
          OKAY. 
          YES, COURSE. 
          OKAY. 
          BRANDON, I, WE ANNOUNCEMENTS STILL, UH, YEAH, WE WERE ON THE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
          I WAS THE ONLY ONES I HAD US ON THE SLIDE WAS THE UPCOMING MEETINGS. 
          AND SO PLEASE, OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
          GO FOR IT. 
          SO, UH, I THINK WE ALL INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLECTIVELY TALKED ABOUT HOW NATIONAL BIKE MONTH IS MAY AND MAY IS ALREADY PRETTY HOT HERE IN HOUSTON AND HOUSTON NEEDS A DIFFERENT BIKE MONTH. 
          AND I THINK BY OCTOBER, OCTOBER IS REALLY LIKE OUR BEST TO BIKE MONTH. 
          AND SO, UH, THIS YEAR BIKE, HOUSTON IS LEANING A LITTLE BIT HARDER INTO BIKE OCTOBER. 
          AND WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF THINGS ON THE CALENDAR. 
          YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE FIRST ANNUAL HOUSTON BIKE FEST, WHICH IS HAPPENING ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25TH OFF ST. 
          ARNOLD BREWING. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          , SHE'LL BE THERE THEN 11 THREE AT ST. 
          ARNOLD. 
          YOU CAN EXPECT TO SEE SOME BIKE DEMOS, A VENDOR EXPO BIRTHDAY. 
          UM, WE'LL BE INVITING, UH, FOLKS WHO BUILD AND DESIGN, UM, TRAILS AND THINGS TO BE PART OF IT. 
          UM, LOCAL BIKE SHOPS, NATIONAL, UM, INDUSTRY FOLKS AND ALL, EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. 
          SO, UH, SHOULD BE A GOOD TIME. 
          BIG 10 RANGE. 
          UH, WE ALSO HAVE FIGHT OCTOBER FEST HAPPENING ON, UH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3RD THAT'S AT THE ION. 
          THERE'LL BE ARRIVE AND, UH, LIVE MUSIC ON THE ION PLAZA AND, UH, BEER AND FOOD AND THAT KIND. 
          OCTOBER 3RD. 
          OCTOBER 3RD. 
          OH NO. 
          UM, AND, UH, I DO HAVE ONE, UM, TOTALLY DIFFERENT TONE AND TENOR OF COMMENT. 
          AND, AND JOE MAY WANNA, OR SOMEONE ELSE MAY WANNA JUMP IN HERE TOO. 
          UM, ON A, I GUESS POSSIBLY ENDING ON A SOMBERG NOTE, HOUSTON'S BICYCLE COMMUNITY LOST A GIANT LAST WEEK IN THE FORM OF BOB STEIN. 
          ROBERT STEIN, WHO WAS A PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AT RICE UNIVERSITY, BUT WHO ALSO WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY AND NEVER GOT A LICENSE OR DROVE A CAR. 
          SO HE TOOK ALL OF HIS MEETINGS AND ALL OF HIS COMMUTES AND ALL OF THOSE, EVERYTHING BY BICYCLE IN HOUSTON FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS. 
          AND AS HIS MEMORIAL SERVICE YESTERDAY, ONE OF HIS RIDING BUDDIES TWO, I GUESS TWO. 
          SO COMMISSIONER ELLIS SPOKE AT HIS MEMORIAL, BUT ALSO JEFF FLEISCHER AND JEFF DID SOME MATH ON IT. 
          AND HIS ESTIMATE WAS THAT JEFF, SINCE 2018, THAT BOB HAD PEDALD MORE THAN 54,000 MILES COMMUTE NO, NO. 
          SINCE 2018. 
          SINCE 2018. 
          SINCE 2018. 
          YEAH. 
          AND SO A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN THAT OVER HIS LIFETIME. 
          AND THAT, THAT WAS THE SOURCE OF EXERCISE'S OBVIOUS, BUT CONNECTEDNESS AND FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT AND ALL KINDS KNOWING THE COMMUNITY AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND SO I WOULD A INVITE ANYONE WHO HAS SOMETHING ELSE TO SAY ABOUT BOB STEIN TO LIFT UP HIS AWESOME SAUCE TO DO THAT. 
          AND, AND THEN OTHERWISE I WOULD ASK US TO TAKE A MOMENT, TIME FOR A MOMENT OF SILENCE. 
          UH, I WAS THERE YESTERDAY. 
          WERE YOU THERE? YEAH, WE SOMEHOW DID THIS YESTERDAY. 
          YEAH, THAT'S OKAY. 
          UM, I'LL ALSO ADD THAT I'VE SPOKEN WITH A FEW FOLKS YESTERDAY AT THE SERVICE, UM, ABOUT DOING A RIDE IN HONOR OF BOB. 
          AND THERE'S NO DATE SET FOR THAT YET. 
          WE WANNA GET MARTY'S, UH, BOSS WIDOW'S, UH, BLESSING, UH, ON THAT AND PERHAPS INVOLVED, UH, MR. FLEISCHER, DR. 
          FLEISCHER. 
          UH, BUT YEAH, IT'S A BIG BOSS. 
          BOSS SERVED UP BY HOUSTON'S BOARD FOR SIX YEARS. 
          HE WAS TERMIN LIMITED OFF AT THE END OF THIS PAST, UH, 2024. 
          UM, AND IT JUST TO FILL, I GUESS IT'S A GOOD IDEA. 
          I, AND THEN ONE MORE DATE, IF YOU HAVE EXTENSION IN THE RIGHTS COMMUNITY, THAT THE DEPARTMENT'S 
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GOING TO CELEBRATE HIM ON SEPTEMBER 5TH. 
          I'M SORRY, THAT, DID YOU MENTION BACK AROUND THE DAY IN OCTOBER? I DID. 
          THAT'S THE WEEKEND BEFORE. 
          SO DON'T, DON'T A CONFLICT. 
          THE WEEKEND BEFORE THE MEETING THAT YOU MENTIONED. 
          THE WEEKEND. 
          BRING THAT UP. 
          SO COORDINATE, WHAT'S THE DATE BY AROUND THE DAY? WELL, BACK AROUND THE DAY IS THE WEEKEND BEFORE 18TH ISN'T, YEAH, 18TH AND 19TH. 
          OKAY. 
          AND IT'S A BIG, BIG EVENT FOR ME. 
           JUST, UH,  BOB, BOTH, THEY BOTH HAVE BEEN GREAT. 
          UH, CHAIR. 
          SO BOTH SERVED  LOCKDOWN. 
          UH, SHE'S STILL PLANNING COMMISSION. 
          STILL PLANNING COMMISSION. 
          UH, BOB ALSO BEHIND THE SCENES HAD BEEN CRAWL SAFE STREETS. 
          HE WAS BEHIND SHEPHERD. 
          SHEPHERD. 
          HE WAS BEHIND, UH, POSTING BEHIND . 
          ALL OF THAT STUFF THAT HAPPENS THAT WE DON'T, NOT, PEOPLE DON'T SEE ON DAILY TO DAY BASIS. 
          SO IT'S LIKE, UH, HE WAS A CHILD. 
          SO LAST TIME I SAW HIM WAS WITH HIS, UH, GRANDSON COMING FROM THE STREET MEETING OR HAVING, UH, MEETING AND UH, ON FOCUS NEXT SESSION, LISTENING SESSION. 
          SO IT IT GOOD TO SEE IF WE SHARED THE, THERE'S A REALLY NICE ARTICLE FROM RICE NEWS. 
          COULD WE PUT THAT IN THE ? SURE, SURE. 
          ABOUT, SO, UH, OCTOBER PARK, HOUSTON PARK SPORTS, WHEN LAST YEAR WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE HAD A BIKE, UH, THAT A FEW PEOPLE FOR THEIR BIKE AND WE HAD A STATION. 
          BUT, SO I HAVE OFFERED FOR A SECOND YEAR STRAIGHT FOR BIKE HOUSTON TO PROVIDE VALET. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          BIKE PARKING AT NO CHARGE. 
          AWESOME. 
          AND THIS CLIENT, HONOR, CAN WE TAKE OUR MOMENT FOR BOB? YOU ALL, THANKS . 
          SET. 
          CLOSE THIS UP IF WE'RE LUCKY. 
          WE'LL HAVE OUR FULL MEETING NEXT MONTH. 
          MM-HMM . 
          FACILITATE. 
          WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOME MORE QUESTIONS AND COLLABORATE WITH YOU. 
          WE CAN. 
          AND THEN IF WE DON'T HAVE IT, WE'LL UH, WORK ON INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING, UH, ITEMS. EXACTLY. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU ALL. 
          UH, 4 0 6. 
          LITTLE OVER. 
          BUT THANK Y'ALL FOR COMING OUT.
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