Jan 17, 2018 Mobility Committee on 2018-01-17 11:30 AM

mobility committee that's Wednesday January 17th 2018 it's 1134 we do have a quorum so we'll go ahead and convene our regular meeting with item a which is consider approval of the mobility committee of the Dutton City Council meeting minutes of November 14 2017 I'll entertain a motion I'll move approval okay motion and second all in favor please raise your hand passes unanimously item two is receive a report hold a discussion I'm sorry item B is receive a report hold a discussion and provide direction regarding Texas Department of Transportation on system projects in the Denton area to include the 35 Express project okay we have with us madam chair Jim Klein president of DCTA well did you want to start with the DCTA item first and then go to on system that would be our request yes sir permission so we'll skip item B and then we'll go to item C which is receive a report from DCTA staff to include state of the agency passenger enhancements bus operations and DCTA capital projects and provide direction regarding strategic initiatives in the Denton County Transportation Authority service plan so so we do have with us this morning Jim Klein who's president of DCTA with him we also have the city of Denton representative who serves on the board for DCTA and that is Richard Huckabee so with that I'd like to turn it over to Jim Klein just a hello for mr. Huckabee for the record thanks Jim yes ma'am thank you all for having us by the way we're always happy to come here to the mobility committee the City Council or any of your public meetings I know we've been active in the neighborhood study around the University there's two of us that sit on that committee so the that's been it's been very interesting in terms of how maybe we can be a part of that and at least getting certainly gives us a lot of insight into the community and how people how that how the people we serve see the future of the area so a little bit about DCTA y'all know us pretty well our vision you know we want to be leaders in what we do and as a part of our region which is really important that we are part of what happens with DART and the forward transportation authority that we bring forward first of all safe and serve our customers and be as efficient as we can and so see a lot of the strategic drivers higher education is probably the thing that drives that actually is the biggest driver of our ridership and so our partnerships with the University of North Texas Texas Women's University and NCTC are incredibly important to the future of our agency and we always the second from the bottom we're always seeking opportunities for any additional partners that we can find to enhance service and make it better for our community we always talk about you know why why do we have transit you know there's we'll talk about ridership and some of those things that are going on but you know we want to make sure that we do provide you know it'd be ridiculous for me to say that we're going to be able to provide an opportunity for everybody in Denton County to not own a car but if we can get more a lot get and provide an alternative to that single occupant vehicle maybe a family could have one car instead of two I think those are things and particularly development around stations where we can really make a difference in that and then we talked about access to education to work independent mobility I pitch a lot of times that when you look at a senior as we all and the same thing I'm facing as we all get older how do we maintain our independent mobility and could we through transit extend independent mobility for another ten years is that an option and how do we do that in a low density area and we found that by doing some different things through Lyft domain responsive service taxis we've done a lot of things who are experimenting with a lot of things and having some success and so you know how can we keep people from in their neighborhoods in their homes for the longest period possible so there's a real social benefit I think societal benefit to what we do had an interesting experience with the I think everybody had an interesting experience with the whole Amazon deal I was approached by the city of Denton many communities both in and out of the service area for what are you gonna do about transit if Amazon comes well I sent the same we basically the same response is of course we're gonna be part of the region and we'll be happy to to work with that and work with our funding partners to make that happen but it was interesting to see the interest of the business community and what kind of transit service is available and what options exist for their employees so we 're hearing a lot about that but that was certainly one thing that's anecd otal in terms of the headquarters to site selection process it was that we went through with our partners so when we look at regional growth a lot of opportunities in our member cities to expand service we've just completed some service changes here in the city of Denton with route 4 extending route 6 off to Discovery Park a lot of it has to do with how we coordinated with the University of North Texas to streamline our services and bring about that a long-term arrangement with the University to continue our long-term arrangement with University of North Texas we currently do you know while we were focused on our three service sales tax contributing member cities Corinth and Flower Mound NCTC pays us to provide service in those communities to tie it to the University we're partnering with the city of with the Fort Worth Transportation Authority to link downtown Denton to downtown Fort Worth they provide one they provide a bus and we do and we run opposite so they've been so we share the service and it provides another opportunity for education and for workers and so we're in a lot of conversations with certainly UNT Alliance Frisco Flower Mound on the colony and others and looking at how we can continue to grow these partnerships and you guys stop me if you got any questions because I'm this is some of this is old hat for you know some of y'all have heard some of these things before but as we go through just please interrupt me is no worries go ahead yes sir I'll turn my microphone I had a citizen to raise some concerns and I'm sure you can answer these about the efforts that Denton County Transit Authority is doing to provide service for other parts of Denton County like Frisco and Flower M ound and suppose the colony I don't know and the question was how do you do that and not divert funds from the three contributing cities sales tax to to to do that let me give you an example of how we do that and you know we're for the last year and a half we've been providing service in Frisco it's an area of growth for us in terms of they wanted to provide elderly and disabled service so we calculate all the costs for fuel the vehicle maintenance the driver everything that goes into that and they we charge them 20% additional a 20% surcharge to cover our overhead costs and so they we also do a taxi voucher not a taxi voucher program we did dispatch taxis in that's where our dispatch er actually calls a taxi or to expand their service without using more of our vehicles and we do the same thing we bill them and they pay us bill us every we bill them every month and they've been paying the bill so that's how we keep that right so they're paying for the actual cost of service plus 20% which it would be an administrative fee so that the money that we're paying in to help cover your salary and the other salaries of the general staff are offset somewhat by yes by that administrative fee that you're charging and then we have and we do it and we do different areas I mean we have a voucher program that's very simple for us to do and it's 5% from McKinney as an example because in that area it's all we don't dispatch cabs actually the individual participants do it's all basically we're just flowing a process through the Irving Holdings Company in terms of providing cab voucher system for their so we're paying the directs we're paying a surcharge they are to make that happen because we want to stay true you know faithful to our contributing member cities and how we do that so I think that as we look at some of the things that will be challenges as we go to the future is when we look at you know one of the things that we've got you'll see in the future slide here as it goes but should we be providing service across 380 right the links Denton to say McKinney and prosper how can we tie that together I think there's a very logical link on from Lewisville out to the area near 121 in the toll road and actually out to McKinney maybe even to prosper they're having trouble getting people to work getting employees to come in there struggle is that people that in the five billion dollar mile or whatever it is and I forget now how many billions it is in Frisco the people that if you're the CEO you can you live down the street if you're not you're traveling a good distance to get there and so is there a way that we could find a way to do commuter bus as an example that would link you know I think it was chase JP Morgan Chase that left Lewisville and went to Plano legacy area a lot of the folks that you used to work I think it's Jason JP Morgan Chase I could be wrong on the name but it was a large financial company that left Lewisville those people still live there how are they gonna get there we've got challenges with Mary Kay Cos metics move their their their manufacturing facility from Regal Row up into near run convergence in Lewisville not a dent in issue but you know how can we work with them to help that happen is that van pools passes I mean we're and we're being and I think you can tell by the tenor of what I said about cab vouchers dispatch cabs we're using we have a contract with Lyft right now that's providing service in Highland Village it's a very low density area just seems that it's actually works fairly well for us we're we're set now we'll be implementing the next week or so using Lyft service for the 2 to 7 a.m. safe ride home for the University of North Texas under that contract and so we're trying we're open to trying everything and being as innovative as we can be to provide very efficient service and address the true need right so instead of saying kind of the traditional I don't want to say traditional transit but it 's traditional transit way it goes is I have a solution let me desperately seek a problem and I'd like to flip that around and say let me take your problem and then let me see if I can find you a good solution so all these things that we're testing I believe will have well example is the Lyft will be operating and Denton will be for the University but is there something that could happen with that could we make a better answer or develop a better answer going forward and so a lot of opportunity so that's part of what I want the feedback from you guys to be we know we need to make sure we stay true to as I guess dance with who brought you so to speak in terms of the communities that are paying the sales tax and how but how do we add with that context how do we also maintain our role as a regional partner and bring in new people into this into the new services into the arena because if we can provide opportunities for people in Denton to get to work somewhere else wow that's a big one that's a big benefit I think and how can we do that in a way that's fair to the taxpayers in that so just to follow up on that so I think what I hear you saying is that you have the three member cities and they all pay taxes this didn't Highland Village in Louisville and so those monies are kind of siloed right yeah we're very careful when we provide a service outside our area that we make sure that those are trapped captured in a separate organization separate org in our accounting system so we can track those expenditures and then look at where we need to you know what makes sense in terms of an administrative fee to bring to again provide that pay for you know there's a lot of things we do we you know I I there's one president there's not a president for Frisco and a president for McKinney there's but one of us and we're leveraging that and same with procurement so how can we do those things fairly inequit ably to to them as well as our member cities so we're very careful about that so I see on the on the next slide under the financial there's just a general overall breakdown but can we go on your website or a taxpayer and see exactly what each member city contributes and how that is spent probably not that level of specificity we do get the way part of it and it's important to keep in mind that when you look at our overall budget we have I treat the and this is I hope this answered your question but Denton Highland village Lewis ville because of the a train really is it's is a is a business unit unto itself so we keep those make sure we track those funds for that project so allocation between bus and rail we know what they are how much of that is Denton so much of that is Lewisville you know and unfortunate party goes to some areas that it doesn't stop right do Corinth and the Lake Cities which would be a good thing if we could get that to happen and get them contributing that's on the plan we want that I think there's a good thing there but we could we have all the information we put in our board reports on exactly what the contributions are from each of the agencies so I'd be happy to walk you through that we have all that on our website we have our budget on the website that shows all these different units and so and if there's any additional detail you'd like I'd be happy to provide that or come with some more detail I didn 't bring a complete detail breakdown today but we we have our CAFR we have her all that all of our information we try to be as transparent as possible you can look at our check register too yeah I just wanted to let the people watching are the people that do watch that there is a place they can go find that which is on your website just because it's not presented here today and if someone has a question please call us and we'll be happy to help them walk through that okay thank you so that's a nice segue into my next slide which is financial stewardship we are one of the things we just got our audit report yesterday from 2017 FY 2017 allocated two hours for the meeting and good news is we were done it less than an hour no management comments no issues and was an unmod ified opinion leaves the right word now it used to be unqualified the good one so we've been taking care of business with your money and I want to make sure that's that's an approach we take is it is we do see ourselves we do see our agency as stewards of the money that is given to us but it is our is the our community's money that we're being stewards of not something that we control we do have strong reserves this is our FY 18 budget numbers we we maintain an operating reserve of 90 days meaning that we could do all of our operating expenses for 90 days if our if we received no additional income which is not for something we foresee is thing that would happen really not a rainy day fund this is the hurricane fund this is the earthquake fund this is if we reach true true problems this gives us that level of comfort knowing that we can have continuity of operations now on a lesser level we have 3% of our sales tax we set aside to help buffer any changes one of the things that's different between DCTA in a city is that we have no ad valorem taxes so we're subject to the the vast majority of our budget is based on sales tax and so we have to be ready for a dip in sales tax and so by having we by having this 3% that gives us a chance to slowly work into if we have to have a reduction in service we have to cut that cost somehow or maybe right out of storm we have a you know occasionally and you guys see this in your reports it'll be in a big adjustment sometimes based on a boundary issue with another area so we may have a drop in sales tax in a given month so this helps us get through that fuel yes ma'am so sorry it might be a staff question so one when we have like a tax abatement agreement for economic development how does that affect our sales tax is going to DCTA it doesn't have any effect okay it's just it's just a city's portion of the sales tax not DCTAs okay thanks no no no I want you guys to this is I want this to be a discussion not just a me talking to you we also fuels an area that we've been very fortunate in in terms of we've been budgeting three three fifty four dollars a gallon for fueling in years past and so we've been coming in at under two dollars a gallon in some cases we have a partnership with the city of Denton for the purchase of fuel for our on-road vehicles and then we also purchase red dye diesel for our off-road vehicles which is our trains but with that we still have to watch that that is an area where when you buy eight hundred thousand gallons of fuel a year a small change in your fuel rate can be incredibly impactful to your overall budget so we want to make sure we 've got some money set aside out there that the board can allocate if we have an increase in fuel costs a question for you I know that for some time now you have gone from a larger train set to a smaller train set so that means less fuel how much less fuel what percentage we're saving it all in about a half a million dollars a year we still have the engineer and the conductor on board what we found with the conductor and and you'll see that and if you go to Austin who runs very similar actually the same trains we do they don't have a conductor we had we had a conductor because of the second car to start with what we found is that the customer service the order on the trains the lack you get on our trains we don't have graffiti minimal amounts of trash good behavior and having that and just from a customer service standpoint the conductors help a great deal so in terms of the crew the crew didn't change but the wear and tear on the vehicles and the fuel changed and that's about a half million dollar a year savings so yes ma'am you're talking about Austin which reminded me my understanding is that there is some movement there to utilize or leverage the Volkswagen settlement funds to create an electric bus system or at least a component of their bus system being electric is that something that could be feasible for Denton it could be I have you know I tell you the trend that we've looked at in buses in terms of alternate fuels alternate fuels is the diesel has been getting better and better and better and a progression that other agencies have done has gone to natural gas I've got a couple of concerns with that one is we're not quite big enough we're getting close but we're not quite big enough to justify the cost of the compression you know the compressor that has to be located or fueling facility potential to share facilities that's an answer possibly I'm concerned about the noise in the neighborhood where our bus facility is I don't want to I think making that happen would be awkward at best so I see the best benefit for the agency is making the jump from diesel to electric that's the long-term plan what we're watching very carefully is what's happening in California California is mandated that all transit buses have to be electric over the next several years right now electric bus is about trouble what a diesel bus cost so you make up a lot of that and maintenance costs because you don't have to change the oil it's still got the same brakes it's still got the same air conditioner but you can save quite a bit of money on maintenance but the charging facilities are interesting on how you have to do that because you need it right now the technology is you really have to charge a midday there are some that can maybe go all day they're getting the battery technology is getting better and better and with more and more buses being sold that are electric we're gonna see the I believe we'll see the cost go down the differential between a diesel bus and electric bus getting much closer so my my guidance to the staff and what we've developed is that long-haul making the move from diesel to electric will make the most sense and we're open to the idea of trying that I think we've got it we just have to weigh getting our mechanic skill set right getting enough critical mass in terms of the buses to where it makes sense so I hope that was it I told you how to make a watch when I should have said yes but anyway that's where we are a couple other things just internal coverage ratio that's our that's our amount of money at the end of the month we have left over to pay our debt so we're at two and a half almost two and a half times what that you know when we we don't run out of month for running money we're good on that and then solid cash flow model I've already talked to you about audits I'm sure you all see the same thing with the GFA awards we've been consistent in that for the last several years and the procurement award to of excellence in 2016 we're pursuing that further now this gets into some of the cost size cost savings opportunities we are looking at right sizing our bus fleet we have we're running all big buses in Denton we may we're gonna dial some of those back to medium-sized buses that'll be more efficient with fuel cost of buses and from a city perspective lighter vehicles that will put less wear and tear on your roads now we need the bigger buses up to TW up to Denton that's five six seven and eight routes five six and seven and eight and so we're making that happen we've done some modifications to our to our routes in fact done some as recently as yesterday one of the things just a small thing but we've consolidated all of our electric providers outside of the Denton municipal electric so we can have greater bidding power on that so that's a positive thing and you've seen yes ma'am on the right sizing of buses you said smaller buses does that mean shorter or not as wide I mean I'm just curious because you know generally it's gonna be a little bit of both and it will you know we run the full- size transit buses right now so we'd want to probably look at something a little bit shorter not the full you know not the not the very small buses that we run sometimes for like the ADA service but a medium-size it's kind of halfway in between because we we don't run if we're running to the university where those buses are full a lot of the time or and but in some of the areas routes four one two and three when we aren't quite as full it doesn't make a lot of consistently on some of those routes are not utilizing the capacity of that big bus it's a big cost to it's a big cost to you to run those buses right I'm also thinking that we have several streets in Denton that are smaller streets which make the bigger buses more difficult especially when there's cars parked on the road and cyclists so getting everybody on the street safely is a concern so this is interesting thank you well and having been a public works director in the past in my previous engagement with the city of Irving the the heavy vehicles in the right lane puts a lot of damp mean it is a an impact to streets I mean that's just where we have trucks large trucks buses so if we can light en that load that helps reduce cost to the community as well we did get a lot of federal funding oh I'm sorry positive train control which we're moving forward on that's that's happening we did save a lot of money by going with the different technology same with rail ops we rebid our we sent out for procurement our rail operations and saved amount of me in a year a little over a million dollars a year with the new procurement and we're always in the pursuit of other people 's money particularly the federal government and for trails positive train control transportation development credits which are credits for tolls paid we get it's a long story kind of a roundabout way but it keeps us from having to pay matching funds and we did get the bus maintenance facility paid for 80% so we're the city of her in the city of Denton we might just talk a little bit more about positive train controls in the news last month that the train in the so Washington Washington so very short answer to what is the purpose of positive train control positive train control provides a that will stop the train outside the control the engineer if one of four things happens this overspeed it's incurring into a temporary speed restriction like a for a great crossings out that's this out of operation it will stop a train if it violates a work zone and we'll stop the train if it viol ates if it if a switch is misaligned so you have a train that's coming at 60 that hits a quick switch that can cause a derailment and so those are the things that are out there now the agencies that have to operate on the general rail system have to also be interoperable meaning they have to be able to any railroad can come in and use the system we're somewhat on an island that's one of the reasons why the alternate technology work part of it is is if it's the person driving the train I don't know what you call that person engineer is not paying attention and for whatever reason if and you've seen a lot of them where the reports are right that the engineers have lost situational awareness and they've lost where they are because you know I mean if you make the bold presum ption that the engineer has the same will to survive as the passengers do you know when they that one particular incident as reported hit a we're going basically about 80 miles an hour and hit a point appropriately to go 80 and then didn't slow down when they got to the point where it should have been going 30 now on our tracks we've basically got a straight track from one end to the other there are a few curves and we run at a maximum speed of 60 so our train we think that's a fairly de minimis risk for us but our PTC system will enforce all of those things that it said well you also have on the trains I saw this when we did a field trip out there the engineer every 30 seconds has to and they are a case I think it notifies the dispatcher and then they go stop and pricing how we can do thing because you know during the construction it hurt and be very specific about that almost 500 riders that showed a positive thing so on the table for discussion I think we need to look at a dramatic too also is what are we trying to do in terms of how do we get the best bang for a buck sure you know and I'd be honest the best riders for us are 250 days a year rock workers or students coming in those weekdays every every day every week or three days a week those are the ones that actually the backbone of a ridership yes well speaking of students and it's jumping down on your list with NCTC planning to have a downtown campus by those are areas where we saw where is that just that get on a train or a bus now if they ride now it's not linked trips meaning that if you ride the train and then you ride a bus that would be separate boardings that's how we do the numbers okay so one to your that other and it has we wanted to go through and say gosh what are the benefit at all of these things and what's happens make a big difference even people did this says Lake City's completion or final throws of that right now that was it should be we're going out to bid short the county so I think there's two pieces to go with that one DW that's a very logical route I mean things in Austin where they had you know torn up and and I know y'all are you know the the v-ride bikes and all them but if we had bikes that were say Dalton's bike that wanted to leave his bike overnight about how do we facilitate bike training that we already have so future I'm just gonna keep up with that I tend to I mean having having been ability and then that nuts to me is a natural low income what we typically do is we bore those to sell passes at a very reduced rate they may then choose to give those to people or sell them and then they sell them at a further discount right now well in a I guess on the 25th there's a point in time that's it thank you so much for thank you and discuss meeting times and dates for future was was held of recent those meetings of back I mean maya culpa it's me I don't want meetings on Tuesdays it's better to have a back-to-back meeting so I someone to handle my kids for a certain day instead of having something every single day but I'm okay with not having them on Tuesdays what I would like for you guys to consider is that there's economic development there's out of you definitely can't eating for economic development or be blocked off on my schedule as me our Tuesdays were just just thing that made for long days but but but that's why we ended up with them you know you need to get set that yeah I think I've told you when I can't come with with with schedule or some of the other committees is those meetings end up getting moved over to set date and then and then something happens in the second Wednesday of the month which is one of the Wednesdays you were out so we're all here on the third Wednesday of the month it appears open it also provides in the past to do an RTC and with Commissioner Mitchell on those staff direction to frame if it works maybe okay so I think that's it for agenda the third Wednesday at 1130 or noon meetings until May then we're gonna go back up to the discussion and provide direction regarding Texas Department of Transportation include the 35 Express project and I believe mr. Polster will be doing that that's correct just madam sure what and we'll probably move through this a little bit quickly based on the fact that we we heard quite a bit of about some of the transportation product I'd have to go up to the podium is it the handout from yesterday I think most of y'all remembered a lot of what we covered yesterday but this is a project that starts we're the 2499 hang on are we just going over what we went over yesterday essentially well John's here and he blazer and hat what he was gonna do is hit these first three very quickly and then roll on to the back side of the report which okay so on 2181 the north-south segment project this is the project that is being done by MCM the main issue I wanted to point out is that it has a construction time frame between now and January 2020 phases of the project there will be that they can really give you a notice on because they do it up and down the group clearing the drainage areas and the and beginning substructure improvement so the main some impacts to traffic foreseeable future with the one traffic one lane going for both directions using flaggers that's the main point on that one three studies yesterday this project is going to be ready to let by Malibu have the exhibit a executed road with a may let day and once we get that project let we'll have the number of days in the contract that the contractor bid we'll be able to tell you what the contract completion date is the item and the rest of them have been really Pacific Rail road to let it that's a sense of what this sheet says is on the utilities 2199 section 5 this road is partially open except for in and around Robinson Road the Stots contractors subcontinent to install the signal so we went with another firm that the city uses regularly as well and we're anticipating them being out there and having the signal installed within 30 days so it hits that February time frame these are the ultimate improvements LTR Campbell will be removing David Lavelle off the report he's no longer 1c on our project that the schedule the time frame on this project and right away is not necessary because we're making improvements within our utilities should be minimal given that everything's out there's been torn up over the last three years so we think that once we get LTR a on contract top fairly quickly and have these improvements on the ground sooner than one would normally think it on the issues with where I'm reporting December to January is what OHL is saying they're gonna do but Texas not accepting that schedule so I mean because even if we don't I December I think we can have done by August of 2018 because they were gonna want to try to be open that fall of 2018 so they're open and we're not completely not unusual or unaware of because we did the same thing at the one the 114 and when they're supposed to open yet I mean I 've seen signs that say 2019 but do we have any idea when we were doing the negotiations Jill we were given was we needed to have our our improvements done sometime in the summer of 2018 because that's when they 2019 they may be hedging their bets but but I can't because I'm actually working with them on an honest job I'll be seeing them tomorrow I can ask that yeah I think there's a lot of interest in if that roads gonna be finished or what the overlap might be yes there is and so with this project yesterday mark of very eloquently went over all the up and down the corridor issues with your secondary streets that are going to be stuff that they have to we have to maintain and pay attention to so this is a 35 project from 380 north to the county line this is a project we are almost done with the value engineering and once we get through the value engineering then the district will basically meet with the division headquarters folks about looking at the timing for funding this project and it is currently estimated it's just about 860 million bucks that's not a lot we can that's a rounding area for those guys in Austin we can work that out so once we get the value engineering done the critical path item on this project right now on the schedule is the environmental clearance for for the end of this year and we're on track for that if we get the value engineering done once we get the environmental clearance done then it allows us to begin the right away acquisition and those funds are paid for out of a different bucket than the construction dollar so they can go ahead and start acquiring the right away in that corridor so you'll start to see this project schedule mature fairly quickly after the December 2018 environmental clearance date so in town you know it I just left it in there they're doing punch list items TDLR but it's completed and open to traffic you will not see this in your report next month because we take them out once we're done 288 this is a project that Miss Briggs was talking about this is a project that's basically going to be a maintenance job and Tina's telling us that during the summer when it's warmer she'll come back in and do these improvements and they'll do she's going to do them to the inside so it won't require any additional work for the drainage it's on the outside of 288 there at 380 so we should start to see something happen on this project during this summer time frame just do maintenance work just for clarification for those who are participating via video confer video Tina is Tina Massey the area engineer here and the Denton office okay and just to confirm there's going to be a separate right-hand lane in that area what's happening is the traffic coming on right that lane is actually we're gonna do if you look at it on the inside where we can come in and add another lane a u-turn left so you had because it's very low volume u-turn movement there literally go through because there's no point right can you not going back on the highway unless you got lost but you still have to have okay just getting confirmation for that right turn lane again yes that's the whole point these project this is a project that's a basically trail into the green belt it's done and they've got two firms doing should be done sometime in the spring for the plans as those plans come together we we bring those to the city engineers and let them review make sure that it's consistent with what they have Oh Teal and like it's a super Street well you heard it here first that's what I usually tell people when we're doing a project in the current document which is expedite the environmental clearance so we should have this project schematic approved and once the environmental document is cleared elements can be moved up 2045 plans update and with text that the county originally and text that said look you keep your powder dry we'll pick them up to do so we have to wait again till the mobility 2045 plan is a firm for a project that's not in the plan and it will be in the plan this summer so again again on 288 I do that the environment is done on that it is not okay we have what we call a locally and technically preferred alternative what the city wants what our mental process and we were starting about four months ago from the county stand to spend the money on environmental let them do it and 15 I'm not sure exactly why is there's two maps and I am technically I'm wording underneath it says that we've got LTR it's the timing on 15 so we just got them on contract this past commission's us a fee they've already submitted some fee we got them on contract we're gonna go meet with text dot part of February and get the time schedule again primarily y'all y'all will be the driver on what it is 1515 but it's for the businesses out there getting we feel need so we are way of issue for the city is to make sure that why doesn't shut some of these guys down during their shift changes so that'll be like a zing of the project to keep changes in mind there are improvements that are on 1830 this is up text that also will start to segment out room and on 1830 where they're going to be coming making into a slash rural is a unique animal in some areas dance although the traffic warrants a raised median the time 1830 are more rural in nature and so we're either looking at areas that will have a contract on engineering contract will work with the city on what segments of that project or what type of crossing over to e which is the last item staff reports we have a memo for bike share permit Texas trails and active transportation see a permit policy as it relates to dockless bike shares in fact here momentarily also wanted to bring your attention to the Texas trails and active active transportation conference that'll be down on the UT campus I'm sorry May 2nd through I've gone ahead and reserved to ensure that we have represent we're determining which which of the engineers will go I assume that I'll probably go and then we can also read all of them have been on but since bidding fine to do it probably isn't worthy for me to go it could very well be that other folks also right so we'll keep those hotel reservations open until keep you updated as to who will be attending that particular conference but it's been it's been a positive conference that we've attended I know city staff has attended the 16 event in Houston and the 14 event in full sorry I wasn't on mic question of clarification regarding councilwoman Briggs request for a left turn discussion on left turn off old 18 did we already get that we were gonna do a verbal here at this particular meeting okay and so yeah the reason it's a verbal it was on one of the projects on the small project list that was approved by council for funding so this the RFQ is out we're in the process of selecting design consultant for one of this part of the six projects so this will be designed and constructed this year I think yeah you addressed that with a small quick projects presentation okay I think that's it question about we late those come through the mobility committee before they go to council did that one come through us before we changed we passed something last weekend on the consent agenda councilmember typically those will go through the traffic safety Commission okay and then they'll make a recommendation to committee of the whole and I believe that anyhow there was a question about about that a speed limits were maybe too high and I've sent I answered her but it may be appropriate tentatively to just put an explanation on our next agenda how the steps that happen to in process and the rules at the state level that that sort of direct that but she also raised the concern that there is a school located at the corner of Nottingham and University Drive Calvary Calvary Christian Academy and we've actually passed a rezoning for that for that location so it 's it's an official school location and I don't know that they've requested a school zone I don't know that it's needed but I'm very curious about if there's a school there do they even have to request it or is that an automatic trigger for some other type of speed limit in that area so if y'all would check into that and make that part of the report very well we can do that the the other thing is regarding the May 2nd through 4th Texas Trails and Transportation Conference I'm just wondering if we think we're gonna have a bike coordinator hired by that time so that that person could attend the conference do we know what the time frame is for that I don't have a specific time frame for that but but I think that would be our hope is to have somebody on board it's January in place that's four months away so we certainly should have somebody on board by then okay okay I think that's it just well if with the traffic calming art presentation next week if we can be sure to include funding options very well okay no new business besides what you brought up okay that will conclude this meeting and we are adjourned at 1259