1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,580 I'm just curious because I thought that during the work session this was brought to council 2 00:00:16,580 --> 00:00:22,500 and council kind of came to an agreement and so then I see that it's back at traffic safety 3 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:27,820 and then back at mobility so I'm kind of just wondering about what happened with the process. 4 00:00:27,820 --> 00:00:34,520 So I think what it was is there was an ordinance for bike share and there was a specific mention 5 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,920 about bike share. 6 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:43,520 Right now we don't have, we've not tied up the scooter, the electric scooter per se as 7 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:49,480 part of that ordinance so we're trying to make sure that we tie up any loose ends and 8 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:55,080 make sure that our ordinance clearly specifies electric scooters so that in case there are 9 00:00:55,080 --> 00:01:00,960 any inquiries, in case there are any other businesses that want to come in. 10 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,920 What had happened was when we brought this information to council, council clearly gave 11 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:11,400 us direction to prohibit these types of vehicles per se on our rights away. 12 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:16,600 It was just never codified in the ordinance so we've been working under the premise the 13 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:22,600 council does not want this as vendors have come in, made requests of council in recent 14 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,400 weeks about wanting to do business in the city. 15 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,040 We've conveyed to them that's been council's direction to not permit these but now we're 16 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,680 coming back to you with an ordinance to codify it and put it on the books. 17 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,360 So that's why it's coming through this process is the actual ordinance itself. 18 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,080 It's more procedural at this point because I know the council is on board. 19 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:48,240 Yeah, I mean I'm interested in hearing what you'll have to share although just procedurally 20 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:54,320 couldn't have gone from work session to ordinance like rather than going kind of back to committee 21 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:58,520 for ordinance or. 22 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:04,200 Well typically the rule of thumb that we've been playing, you're using is before an item 23 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:11,920 comes before council if there's a whether it's a like a PB related matter or mobility 24 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:19,160 related matter that goes through the respective committee and with just to give that one other 25 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,800 sets of approvals to make sure it's vetted appropriately before it comes to council. 26 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,560 So let's proceed. 27 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:26,720 Good morning. 28 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:27,720 My name's Mark Oliphant. 29 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,560 I am your bicycle and pedestrian coordinator. 30 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:35,280 I'm in the capital projects program and traffic engineering. 31 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,560 So yes, we have discussed this in the past. 32 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:44,280 I'm just going to give you a quick overview knowing that you have some background on this, 33 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,240 but let's get right into it. 34 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,360 So e scooters, they've become very popular I'd say in the last 18 months to two years 35 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,880 here in the United States. 36 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:02,640 They're available both as a shared use of vehicle and as individual vehicles on the 37 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:03,640 left here. 38 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:09,040 These are ones that are available on Amazon high quality electric scooters four to $500 39 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:14,960 very similar to what you would see in other cities such as Dallas that are being shared 40 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:21,800 by various companies on the right is a spin shared scooter spin actually had last summer 41 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:27,360 a deal with TWU to provide shared bikes and then they ended up pulling out because the 42 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:32,000 demand for scooters was so high compared to bikes that they decided it wasn't worth it 43 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,600 for them to stay in that business. 44 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:35,600 Scooters share. 45 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,360 I think we have discussed this in the past as a quick overview. 46 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:44,680 It's like the bike share the parked various places throughout cities public rights of 47 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:51,400 way parks and people check them out with their with an app on a smartphone about a dollar 48 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,320 to check it out. 49 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:58,040 There's a lot of positives about scooters that are incredibly popular. 50 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:59,040 They're small. 51 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:04,080 They take up a lot of space they're very energy efficient compared to using an automobile. 52 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:11,480 If you think about parking that you can park a hundred scooters in the space of an automobile 53 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:15,480 and in a number of different cities they've really taken off very popular. 54 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:20,480 Now there are also some concerns especially safety where they'll be parked where they 55 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,520 will be ridden things like that. 56 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:30,760 Some headlines here I would say that the jury is still out about these scooters and safety. 57 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:38,720 The CDC is actually right now working with Austin to analyze emergency room visits and 58 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:45,600 things like that and see if this truly is a danger. 59 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,000 Here are some other headlines concerning safety. 60 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,640 So just an overview of what might be some of the safety concerns versus say a shared 61 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,720 bike or something you have a very small diameter wheel it doesn't roll over obstacles like 62 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:03,960 a larger diameter wheel you have a high center of gravity that is toward the front tight 63 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:10,480 turning radius with the steering speeds that you can achieve 15 miles an hour is usually 64 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:16,880 the motorized top speed but you can go faster down hills or something conflicts with pedestrians 65 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,960 where you're riding depends and also mixing with vehicular traffic. 66 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:23,640 So within the Texas Code yes sir. 67 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:28,160 Before we go forward do you have a point of view or information contrasting the safety 68 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:34,280 record of electric scooters versus electric power assisted bicycles? 69 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:39,000 No I don't not at this time there really isn't good data yet although I'm looking forward 70 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:44,360 to that CDC report and that should tell us give us some good information but there really 71 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,400 isn't anything good right now. 72 00:05:47,400 --> 00:06:02,400 So municipalities they have the ability within the Texas Code to prohibit motor assisted 73 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:15,120 scooters street highways or sidewalks and so this is this is up to individual municipalities 74 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:19,200 to decide whether they want to do that or not. 75 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:25,040 Other cities have done this specifically Fort Worth does not currently allow scooters inside 76 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:33,760 of their inside of the city although other cities do and they've had various success 77 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,840 with it. 78 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:44,400 Currently our only prohibition is downtown in the square area where they're not allowed 79 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,220 on sidewalks bicycles or scooters toy devices. 80 00:06:48,220 --> 00:06:54,440 So the city has a number of different options there really are good arguments to be made 81 00:06:54,440 --> 00:07:01,320 for allowing scooters but I think we're just not there yet both TWU and UNT have specifically 82 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:05,240 stated that they're not ready to accept these. 83 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:14,120 Now related is the bike share here in the city that is coming up for it's set to expire 84 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:19,360 right now on 31 May and so the City Council will be looking at that again in the next 85 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:25,540 few months to decide what to do do they want to continue that and so my suggestion to the 86 00:07:25,540 --> 00:07:31,920 Council is that we for now prohibit these scooters and we look at them as part of the 87 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:42,020 renewal of the shared bicycle pilot program that we've had for this school year. 88 00:07:42,020 --> 00:07:46,720 So that is the recommendation of staff at this time yesterday we talked to the Traffic 89 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:52,960 Safety Commission and they they did agree that now we're not ready to take scooters 90 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:57,640 but in the future this may be a good idea for Denton and they would like to see further 91 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:02,640 study. 92 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:08,040 I'm in agreement with the recommendation. 93 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:15,040 I think since there's a study being done I would like to also see the outcome of that 94 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,800 when it pertains to injuries because I've read a few articles and you talked about them 95 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:25,320 not going over well on bumps and I know that we're in a this year we're completing a lot 96 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,600 of streets and redoing them and I don't know that they would be that safe right now on 97 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:35,160 our streets anyway and also I've I just kind of glanced through and did a quick search 98 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:40,720 and there are several cities Corpus, Atlanta they're they're looking at this and adding 99 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:46,280 certain restrictions and I'm glad that we are taking time to get ahead of it and think 100 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:52,440 about it before before it just kind of overtakes us. 101 00:08:52,440 --> 00:09:09,600 I know we're short on time but I was hoping for a YouTube video in this presentation. 102 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:16,040 I'm hopeful that we'll learn more in parallel path about the electric power assisted bikes 103 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:24,620 which seem to have all the pluses without the specific minuses associated with scooters. 104 00:09:24,620 --> 00:09:25,620 So I'm in support. 105 00:09:25,620 --> 00:09:32,560 I'm a little curious about whether there is such a thing that can be defined as like recreational 106 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:35,600 use or around the neighborhood use. 107 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:41,000 I'm bringing it up because a member of traffic safety brought the issue up to me. 108 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:46,480 Not clear to me how you could define that differently but maybe you have some thoughts 109 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,720 on that or maybe Councilmember Briggs does. 110 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,640 You just made me think about something because there are electric scooters that kids do have 111 00:09:55,640 --> 00:10:02,840 and you know recently got as gifts for Christmas so it would banning them affect that in any 112 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:11,600 way like I mean it becomes felons okay so this correct as as the ordinance stands currently 113 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:17,440 it does ban all electric scooters from public rights of way so it would it would be both 114 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:24,040 those that are from the shared companies and those owned by private individuals but so 115 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:30,600 they've been still could ride in the street no no so public right away is meeting streets 116 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,200 and sidewalks they can't really ride there but they they're more than welcome to ride 117 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:40,720 in parks and places that there is appropriate okay so so because it's more of a recreational 118 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:45,240 type of use that they're more than in their yards backyards wherever they want to ride 119 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:50,000 that's fine but within public right of ways where there is more liability associated on 120 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:55,000 the city side where our streets and sidewalk system is not ready at this point we want 121 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:02,160 to make sure that we tie that in I think the other thing too that's always conflict is 122 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:09,040 the fact when whether it's these providers you know these for-profit providers you know 123 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:14,600 as far as when they're on the app when they are releasing liability of the company for 124 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,840 injury I mean they're requiring you that user to have a helmet with them well the likelihood 125 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:25,080 of a person wanting to just use just I think I'm just gonna go and try on this new vehicle 126 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:32,360 per se who's gonna have a helmet versus potentially a kid that gets these scooters I'm not saying 127 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,360 that in all cases but in some situations you would think in most situations if they have 128 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:41,600 a parent they would want them to be wearing a helmet so there is a little bit of a difference 129 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:47,140 and so I think having those in the parks again is sort of in a supervised environment not 130 00:11:47,140 --> 00:11:50,760 always but more likely to supervise an environment with the appropriate safety equipment whether 131 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:56,600 it's helmet pads for the hands and knees just like they would if they're riding a bicycle 132 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:04,400 could we put together some kind of a along the same timeline as the ordinance sort of 133 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,600 a public communication of do's and don'ts where you can use them it never occurred to 134 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:13,300 me until you said it that oh people could take them to parks you know we have many miles 135 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:20,240 of trail you know so where can you use them and you know we suggest you use a helmet and 136 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:30,020 you know yeah yeah I just I assumed that this was just about those companies and bringing 137 00:12:30,020 --> 00:12:36,720 them here and so that's a I appreciate you Councilman Councilmember Metzler saying that 138 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,240 because then I was like wait my son is has a ten-year-old friend and rides it to our 139 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:47,140 house with he has a you know a helmet on I just don't I don't yeah so that's not okay 140 00:12:47,140 --> 00:12:56,600 now okay thank you all right anything else on this item thank you very much let's move 141 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:02,000 on to item C receive an updated report hold the discussion and provide direction on the 142 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:19,000 metropolitan sorry miss something yeah okay so I'll articulate okay motion second all 143 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:29,120 in favor okay now moving on everything I just said direction on the MTA excuse me MTP policy 144 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:37,120 bundle a program in which applicants apply to receive transportation development credits 145 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,600 good morning my name is Katie Welch and I work with the capital projects department and 146 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:47,320 I'm going to be giving a status update on this North Central Texas Council of Governments 147 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:53,440 policy bundle program we gave an initial report back in November of 2018 to this committee 148 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:58,560 just going over some basics about the program and in the past month and a half we've gathered 149 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:05,720 more information so have an update for you all I'm sorry for my sniffles I'm so I know 150 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:10,760 we went over the program I just wanted to do a quick overview so basically North Central 151 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:16,840 Texas Council of Governments has a list of 20 recommended transportation policies and 152 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:23,600 if an entity adopts at least 50% of them so in this case 10 10 or more then we are eligible 153 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:28,320 for transportation development credits and these credits basically offset the local match 154 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,680 and federally funded transportation projects so they end up helping the city save some 155 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:44,240 money on some of our transportation infrastructure projects and so yes didn't occur to me to 156 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:49,040 ask this in advance do we know how many credits we would qualify for like what is it is it 157 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:55,800 scaled in some way so each project when you submit a project going forward they have a 158 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:02,520 bank of six hundred seven hundred million dollars worth of these credits and they apply 159 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:06,800 to your project whatever that local match is that's needed for that particular project 160 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:13,800 so it they can award it by project or they can award it by by a program and so typically 161 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,800 with the way the city that submits projects if we would do this it would be our local 162 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:26,480 match requirement per project so but you know would it wipe out all of our local match requirements 163 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:32,040 for a period of time or so just like you'll get a prize so you don't know what it's going 164 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:41,400 to be so remember that these credits are not real money they are if you've had a federal 165 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:48,880 aid project and it's a hundred dollars and you get funded for it the feds will pay for 166 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:54,760 $80 and you got to pay for 20 in this case if you earn these credits right or to be eligible 167 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:59,320 to access those credits they'll simply apply those credits to your project and you can 168 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:04,640 get a hundred dollar project for $80 you don't put anything in the trick is to build a hundred 169 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:12,880 dollar project for $80 so that therein lies the rub so but what happens a lot of times 170 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:22,080 is we negotiate with with the NPO to make it a hundred and twenty dollar project have 171 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,240 the local match be offset by the credits and then we build a hundred dollar project for 172 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:33,120 a hundred dollars so it can work out is as long as you're going into with your eyes open 173 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:41,480 but but we do we have any idea so the region has a whole each because these these toll 174 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:50,280 credits are back when we converted 190 and 121 and 360 all these roads to toll roads 175 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:55,680 the federal government wanted those entities that were aggressive and using those tools 176 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:01,080 to have some benefit other than just getting those roads built sooner and so basically 177 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:06,280 they give you an allocation every five years or so to those areas that had toll roads that 178 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:12,360 they they developed and I think the last time I remember seeing the number it was like 650 179 00:17:12,360 --> 00:17:18,520 million dollars for the North Texas area and you can trade those to other MPOs but it's 180 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:26,920 about 650 million dollars in credits and so they just allocate them by project to each 181 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:34,920 of these entities only if you pass this policy bundle so if you qualify you can play and 182 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:41,700 if you have projects that happen sooner you get you you get to submit the project and 183 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:46,480 make the request to have your local match waived because you've earned these credits 184 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:51,640 or the access to these credits and then the NPO at that point for that project will determine 185 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:56,160 okay we're going to give you you know five million dollars in credits for this project 186 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:04,560 and it'll show up yeah 80% the project is 120 the feds are putting in 100 the locals 187 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,800 batch of 20 dollars is offset by their toll credits so how much you ultimately get depends 188 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,720 on how much we build in the time frame while there's still money in the kitty I don't have 189 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,160 the number on me but I can we can get it to you as follow-up they have examples of cities 190 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:22,120 from last year how much they each got who applied so we can send that and follow up 191 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:28,320 and I believe how many ever credits you get they're good for the year but in order to 192 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:33,360 reuse them let's say in 2020 we'll have to reapply and just show so you have to show 193 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:38,200 every year in order to use the same credits that you're still meeting all of the policies 194 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:45,880 or the 50% okay so we can get that for you and then okay and then so we've got these 195 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:51,400 policies I kind of went over this last time span I believe it's 12 different categories 196 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:58,240 which I have listed up here related to transportation and last time after initial preliminary research 197 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:03,480 we gave you categories that we thought the policies that we thought we were we were meeting 198 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,480 that we are more than likely meeting and then the ones that we still need to do further 199 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:14,040 research on today we've been able to classify them more specifically based on further research 200 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:20,600 and coordination with Council of Governments and internal departments so we've got 12 policies 201 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,280 that we've got confirmation that we're satisfying so that puts us over the 10 marks so we've 202 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:30,760 got the the checks for 12 and then we've got five in the category that we're not meeting 203 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:36,240 but are good for the city like you said last time they benefit the city or just good policy 204 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:40,080 and then we've got three which I'll go over as well that we're still further researching 205 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:47,760 and waiting on some answers back and forth so we'll go through these are the 12 that 206 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:52,380 we are we've gotten confirmation from Council of Governments that we're meeting I can go 207 00:19:52,380 --> 00:19:57,200 into any any of them specifically if y'all have questions but these are the ones that 208 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:04,000 we currently have policy for here at the city I did want to make one note on securing transportation 209 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:13,960 infrastructure this one is one in which they would like local entities to give input onto 210 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:22,560 what the top 10 regionally identified infrastructure infrastructure throughout the region are 211 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:26,560 helping give input onto the top 10 and then helping come up with a plan on how to secure 212 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:34,040 that for this policy as long as we state that we're willing to participate that in that 213 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,000 with cog then we can get that credit so I did want to bring that that to y'all's attention 214 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,240 and just make sure that that's something that we are wanting to participate in whether it's 215 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:50,320 staff council I've got confirmation that Council of Governments will be setting up those sessions 216 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:54,040 in the future to start getting cities input so they just want to know that we're willing 217 00:20:54,040 --> 00:21:01,280 to participate and would staff tend to sort of tee up a draft or you know some options 218 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:07,080 that was my understanding staff coordination council coordination together helping to give 219 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:17,560 input and identify regionally sound a regional regional structures so that's those 12 the 220 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:25,120 next five are the ones that we're not currently satisfying but we have methods and steps in 221 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:29,840 place that we'd like to take in order to meet the policies because they are good and benefit 222 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:36,560 the city I did want to make a note on this first one idling restrictions we have a memorandum 223 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:43,360 of agreement with TCEQ that basically states that were following the state law on idling 224 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:49,600 restrictions however it expired on December 31st of 18 I've spoken with Catherine Barnett 225 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:54,320 and sustainability and she's got it on her agenda to take that to in the environment 226 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,960 committee on the environment and then council hopefully as a consent agenda item to get 227 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:04,640 that back and renewed and that will actually be added to the first list so take us to 13 228 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:12,440 wasn't there a specific dent in city city then specific idling restriction as well well 229 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:19,720 and it's related that is related to our fleet our fleet vehicles internally and so this 230 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:24,520 particular policy with Council of Governments they're referring to any vehicle within the 231 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:31,320 city public or fleet and so this memorandum of agreement states that we're doing that 232 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:38,600 as well in addition to the the fleet city-owned fleet in our clean fleet ordinance be interested 233 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:46,880 in policy options to yes if there's room beyond what the state requires you know that might 234 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:54,880 be worth considering okay I'd love to know you know what those options might be okay 235 00:22:54,880 --> 00:23:02,520 and then the next one is parking management these are policies that are focused on reducing 236 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:08,000 excess traffic circulation and they give some examples of what that what that could possibly 237 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,800 be and I can go into those if y'all like but we've talked internally as staff as this being 238 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:19,720 something we want to work toward I mean I'm interested would you like to hear more about 239 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:29,520 parking management options today we can provide follow-up if you'd like with just more detail 240 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:37,080 how about a little you know sort of isr to the committee and then you know tentatively 241 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:42,080 put it on the agenda for the next time okay does that include zone parking I believe so 242 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,960 they have a bunch of different options on what would qualify and so we can go through 243 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,480 all of them if we do at least one we get the check but I know it's you know we want to 244 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:54,400 do good policy yeah the check we're beyond the check we're beyond the check I just what 245 00:23:54,400 --> 00:24:02,240 you know it this is just inspiration for us totally interested in your you know your responses 246 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:11,160 to this suggestion definitely okay the third one that we're not meeting but we would like 247 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:15,720 to be meeting is complete streets policy and while we do have reference to this in our 248 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:22,320 comprehensive plan they're looking for a citywide policy that states this and that we're going 249 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:29,480 to be applying these type of initiatives to all future and past projects that we're that 250 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:36,160 we're doing however we do have plans to include this in our mobility plan update so something 251 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:41,380 that will be working towards the next one is wrong way driving we talked about this 252 00:24:41,380 --> 00:24:46,900 last time basically they want to see that the city's been making improvements some examples 253 00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:51,480 are improvements to help prevent wrong way driving examples including route markers wrong 254 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,800 way reflective pavement air pavement arrows they provide a long comprehensive list I have 255 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,320 it if you would like to see it I don't know if we have time today just curious to hear 256 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,000 you know well I guess you're already telling us you think this is a good idea that we actually 257 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:12,520 have wrong way driving occurring and that you know this like why wouldn't we address 258 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:18,960 that if that if this problem exists right so yeah they have a lot a lot of comprehensive 259 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:24,880 list of things they recommend to prevent wrong way driving to help curb it yeah these are 260 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:29,440 these are all things that you know we can do keep our agenda full you know keep meeting 261 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:37,760 each month some of these we are actually already doing it's a matter of putting it as a policy 262 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:44,960 putting it as a part of our criteria manuals part of our mobility plans part of our different 263 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:51,480 manuals that we use for traffic so it's not per se that we're not doing this it's more 264 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:58,240 of making it formally known and formalizing it and I think part of the wrong way driving 265 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:03,800 is more educational effort so chair a little bit of history back when this policy was initially 266 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:11,760 adopted there was a very shorter list of policies and initially all of these policies started 267 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:17,880 as incentives if you have these policy in place clean fleet then you can get extra points 268 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:23,720 on your selection criteria and they slowly moved over to the stick that if you don't 269 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:29,640 have the policy in place you can't even apply for the program and so when they put this 270 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:36,680 into the last mobility plan for these TDCs the initial list had only those very difficult 271 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:42,280 items that nobody wanted to do so in order to get it to pass the RTC they added stuff 272 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:47,100 that everybody's doing already to make it a little bit easier to get across the threshold 273 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:56,160 so you feel like you're halfway there and then the last one we have on here is the employer 274 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:02,600 trip reduction strategies are we providing those as a city to both they're looking to 275 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:08,120 see if we're providing them both to our employees you know strategies on how to carpool and 276 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:13,720 reduce trips back and forth to work but also they're also interested in if we are providing 277 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:20,000 those to new businesses that come new employers are we giving them educational pieces options 278 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:27,220 on how to reduce trips carpool and so that's kind of the focus of that one they also ask 279 00:27:27,220 --> 00:27:33,640 I wanted to put this on here something called tryparkingit.com they recommend using this 280 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:39,600 website kind of platform in our SharePoint internal SharePoint to track our employees 281 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,160 side shares that may be another item as well later down the road we have time to get into 282 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:53,020 it today but those are kind of what they're looking at to see if we're doing and recommending 283 00:27:53,020 --> 00:27:59,600 and then last three policies still looking into and gathering further research on still 284 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,400 good policies for the city though regardless if we get the checkmark or not traffic incident 285 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:12,700 management this is looking at do we have a citywide policy regarding traffic incident 286 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:18,520 management are we tracking regional performance metrics and are we doing a major incident 287 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:24,520 review process I did get confirmation from our fire department that they have all attended 288 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,600 traffic incident management training which was one of the checks that we could have gotten 289 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:34,040 to get the credit I'm waiting to get confirmation on that but there's also some good recommendations 290 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:40,800 there past that that the cog is recommending land use strategies I know we talked about 291 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:47,280 this last time they have a lot of different recommendations on policies in place and so 292 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,000 I believe we have them in our debt in 2030 comprehensive plan it's just a matter of going 293 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:57,760 through it and finding all of it and showcasing it to council government and then clean construction 294 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:02,280 this is regarding whether or not we have clean construction standards within some of our 295 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:08,800 contract language and so that's something that I'm still working internally to to determine 296 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:16,220 if we are not back and forth with council of governments as well and then was there 297 00:29:16,220 --> 00:29:22,000 any questions on that past last one I have a little bit more detailed schedule than last 298 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:28,680 time the early application deadline is due March 15th final application deadlines do 299 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,400 April 15th they give that month buffer so that if we submit they can give feedback if 300 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,000 there's something we're missing something we thought we were doing and not or vice versa 301 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:44,440 so they'll give us feedback in that month period and then I was told by council of governments 302 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:50,520 in July is when they typically will grant the transportation development credits and 303 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:55,080 let us know how much we're going to receive and then in order to use those towards projects 304 00:29:55,080 --> 00:30:00,800 we have to go through the transportation improvement program modification process add the project 305 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:06,360 to the transportation improvement plan in order to use the credits so that process I 306 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:13,120 believe starts in August of 19 when we can submit our project but we can be looking into 307 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:19,000 what projects were interested in before that and have that ready to go and that's what 308 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:26,240 I have for you all is there any questions comments questions my suggestion I'm looking 309 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:31,680 for you know confirmation from my colleagues here would be if there are items that are 310 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:39,240 really just for show but that you know don't change any actual behavior I wouldn't put 311 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:46,760 more time into it but but the items where we would really be potentially you know pursuing 312 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:53,760 good new policies I would say you know schedule met into our agenda and let's do deeper dives 313 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:58,880 on them as you're ready okay okay and that kind of one by one yeah so we can take them 314 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:04,840 up as items just like scooters or anything else okay sounds good make sense yes thank 315 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,960 you all for your time thank you and good to know that we're we qualify yeah I was very 316 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:19,440 excited when I got the 12 all right so moving on to item D receive a report and hold the 317 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:24,860 discussion regarding text on system projects in the Denton area to include the 35 express 318 00:31:24,860 --> 00:31:31,800 project and I have a request if we could take like one minute to just look at the big picture 319 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:36,440 I'd love to hear you know your one minute version of what is the overall concept you 320 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,960 know what are we like is it we I we go through the individual projects and and maybe it is 321 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:46,200 just a list of individual projects but is there a sort of thing text out is aiming for 322 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,600 is it that we're going to be ringed by six lane roads or you know what is the big picture 323 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,600 it would help me if you could do it in one minute or less you want to do you want to 324 00:31:54,600 --> 00:32:02,320 put the map up so I'm gonna pull a map that's because then I'll understand each of the projects 325 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,680 you know this can all understand them in the context of what we're trying to build to this 326 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:12,320 message is there a concept good last mobility committee meeting in November this is what 327 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:17,120 was presented and we were trying to overlay some of text up projects these are text up 328 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:23,760 projects in red and then this also these three interchanges along with some of our internal 329 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:29,560 projects that we're working on as far as CIP projects long term as well as some street 330 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:35,920 reconstruct projects that are coming up so we're trying to build this big picture overview 331 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:41,880 of how the city will be under construction with different projects and I think what council 332 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:49,120 member chairs trying to get at is how does text dot look at it long term big picture 333 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:54,560 their individual projects is there anything that they're looking at as far as a big map 334 00:32:54,560 --> 00:33:04,000 in the region or within the city limits and the county so I guess it's on now sorry about 335 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:10,360 that so it's a conglomeration of efforts when we get in it's a conglomeration of efforts 336 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:16,360 it's between the county the metropolitan planning organization the local communities but it's 337 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:22,320 looking at regionally how do people move around the entire community as a network so the state 338 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:27,440 obviously has some goals they have long-term goals are looking statewide how do they move 339 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,880 people to and from and they've got projections on what they foresee their vehicular traffic 340 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:37,560 looking like where do they move heavy freight where they move more the commuter traffic 341 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:43,320 where those pinch points in the area but then they get into the conversation with us as 342 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,400 frequently as possible either through the council of governments or through one-on-one 343 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:53,400 meetings where we get a chance to talk about were the issues that we have associated commuter 344 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:59,000 issues where we exchange items from people getting off the interstate to now they're 345 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:05,360 getting on to the local roads or they're getting on to text dots less traveled highways even 346 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:11,200 though we seem as very highly traveled so their goals and aims are depends on where 347 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,600 they are and where they're getting some of the direction but most of it is very localized 348 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:20,600 so so it's a it is kind of what it looks like it's a set of projects to relieve individual 349 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:25,960 pinch points it's not that there's some master plan that we're their master plan it generally 350 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:31,120 goes in line with whatever the MPO they're working around and with metropolitan planning 351 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:35,440 organizations so if they're working with cog they're gonna they're lockstep with cog and 352 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:40,880 what do you see as the long-term vision in the area so one of the major projects that 353 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:48,360 we we've only really heard about and I know John knows more about it John bolster but 354 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:53,480 it's the outer loop so we've heard the outer loop and what that is is if you look at the 355 00:34:53,480 --> 00:35:00,280 Dallas Fort Worth area as an overall transportation nexus a corridor that so many people come 356 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:06,960 to and then leave a pass through it is the crossroads for a variety of destinations Houston 357 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:12,840 Austin as well as east west El Paso to the west coast all the way through to Shreveport 358 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:18,300 and back east with all of this coming together in one place that outer loop is designed to 359 00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:26,080 provide a faster way of getting people where they want to go so there are a variety of 360 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:31,080 strategies but it's always this constant push of how do I keep up with the aging infrastructure 361 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:36,340 that's always on tech starts mine but then as I'm upgrading the aging infrastructure 362 00:35:36,340 --> 00:35:42,120 and meeting the traffic volumes what does that need to be really the local municipalities 363 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:49,080 the cog whoever they're working with in their localized areas they know better than say 364 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,120 somebody in Austin they know general principles how much money they have where they're getting 365 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,600 federal dollars but as far as was it actually look like what's the purpose that does become 366 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,440 something that's that's worked out with the counties and the local offices the cities 367 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:07,920 those have to be done together thanks for hearing me and explaining that sure let's 368 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:13,320 use the remaining time do your deal you know I'm sorry I cast my brakes you had a comment 369 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:17,880 like I just couldn't hear it I would just like like it if you could email the mobility 370 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,680 committee that map that you just showed just so that we can have it on hand okay for people 371 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:29,720 that ask okay to share with the public yeah it was in the previous so there we go sorry 372 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:49,080 online so okay definitely share with the public all right so let me just pull the reports 373 00:36:49,080 --> 00:37:08,160 good morning again thanks for letting me come back I've been gone a little bit while I was 374 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:14,680 gone it was most of the time I was in Austin working with our friends at the at the headquarters 375 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:20,360 area on the April clear lanes project list that they're going to be putting out and one 376 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:25,920 of the things that's not on this list that we'll talk about is the wishbone between 35w 377 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:31,640 and 35e all the way up to 77 that's the project that there were two projects submitted in 378 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:37,160 the Dallas district this project you know the frontage roads over I-30 in Rockwell County 379 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:43,440 so we'll know it's a 420 million dollar ask on that first project and so we'll know more 380 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:52,120 about that in April but that's why I was gone I wasn't on vacation not that it matters you'd 381 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:58,640 be allowed to have vacation too I think I need you to get that to my wife then okay 382 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:04,800 so what what we do here on this list is just kind of show you an overview of the projects 383 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:09,720 that we are working on that are either under construction have contractors on or engineering 384 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:16,160 working on and the total dollar amount of the infrastructure that's included in these 385 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,400 project lists that we're doing so you see the order of magnitude on what your staff 386 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,960 is working on with the various partners in order to achieve these projects and this one 387 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:30,400 doesn't include the big wishbone project that we're talking about that we submitted for 388 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:36,680 clear lanes yet so that would add another half a billion dollars to that project list 389 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:44,360 so that's the good news we'll start right off with the bad news MCM and 2181 MCM is 390 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:50,400 a contractor that we've had trouble with from day one they had five contracts in the state 391 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:55,200 of Texas four of them were in Denton County and one of them was in Collin County and they 392 00:38:55,200 --> 00:39:20,800 are getting out of the construction business and so at the very end of 393 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:37,680 I'll instruct the universe to hold 11 o'clock for a while so again this is a project that 394 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:46,960 was awarded to MCM they are doing also the city of Denton's water and wastewater reconstruction 395 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,760 as part of this project and that's you look at the text that report if you read the 396 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:56,320 narratives mostly what they're doing is moving temporary pavement around to be able to do 397 00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:02,480 the water line and the city's utilities first and so that's what they've been working on 398 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:09,680 and at the very end of 2018 I got a call from the district to let me know that the district 399 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:15,440 was probably going to be submitting what they call a 10-day letter to MCM at the first of 400 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:21,080 the year and a 10-day letter is the beginning of the late so a lot of times I'll do 10-day 401 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:25,880 letters and they don't mean it and the contract ignores it they just move on but I was communicated 402 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:31,400 by the district that this 10-day letter is a 10-day letter to get them to perform or 403 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:38,920 they were going to begin the process of defaulting MCM on the contract if that's the case what 404 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:44,960 happens is the bonding company is the state puts a claim on the bonding company terminates 405 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:51,160 the contract with MCM and then goes to the bonding company to exercise their rights as 406 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:58,520 a state to get the bonding company to come in and build 2181 for the price negotiated 407 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:03,800 the problem with that is is that you spend about 10 to 12 months arguing with the bonding 408 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:12,080 company about what has been expended what's been constructed what's remaining to be done 409 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:21,280 and so if we go through that process there's a potential that 2181 would go idle for upwards 410 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:28,080 of a year now we're working really hard to avoid that but MCM is not performing they're 411 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,960 clearing out on all of their projects there's several of them that they just walked they 412 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:41,200 started on FM 544 one of my projects in another area of the county at the same time that AGL 413 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:49,800 started on 35 they're still not done they've only got half the road done on 544 and so 414 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:54,560 there's issues related to this contract and I'm certain that I'll either get a question 415 00:41:54,560 --> 00:42:03,560 or comment but if not I'm going to move on all right so it gets better because we have 416 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,840 no control over their contractors right you are correct all right move on but you can't 417 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:12,320 make it as painful as possible yeah so they'll you know they're going to try to get it done 418 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:18,920 as quickly as possible the district is committed to you know doing this as quickly as possible 419 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:23,960 so I haven't heard I've been out of town what that result is but I'll get that to y'all 420 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:29,920 probably the next day or so but that's what I was told at the very end of last year so 421 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:34,960 your Fort Worth drive project this is a project that when I started working on this I didn't 422 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:43,480 have any children and now I got one that just graduated from Texas Tech so the project was 423 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:50,080 awarded to SEMA we awarded it in November we got through the nine or ten year process 424 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:56,000 with UP and it took us between November and January 2nd to get UP to give us a permit 425 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:03,440 to do the work they agreed to let us do in the original agreement so SEMA time has started 426 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:11,140 January 2nd and they are out there doing the yard in the field set up and we will continue 427 00:43:11,140 --> 00:43:18,920 to have constant updates provided both to we have a technical I mean a on system Task 428 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:23,880 Force meeting we do about every three weeks or so this will be on that list to update 429 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:28,240 the city and any issues that come up we'll be able to bring the mobility committee as 430 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:35,320 they come up but this project is finally under construction hallelujah and SEMA is a pretty 431 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:41,520 decent contractor they did all the work for the 114 170 Parrish Lane work for the county 432 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:49,560 back in the southern part of the county your I-35E Mayhill project this is a project that 433 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,960 is fully funded at the forty six point two million dollars we are looking at a ready 434 00:43:53,960 --> 00:44:00,000 to let at the end of this year so about the time we start to see a little bit of relief 435 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:07,120 on 288 we're gonna rip all this stuff out now now that you're seeing what 288 looks 436 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:14,160 like the northbound side that's that 10 lane bridge Mayhill will be 12 underneath it because 437 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:18,240 it's got six lanes of traffic coming to it instead of four so maybe it will actually 438 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:23,200 be a far larger regional movement between the work that the city is doing on Mayhill 439 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:32,320 to get up to 380 and the fact that 2499 hits 35 there that'll be a very large intersection 440 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:38,400 for the city and that project's funded LTR is doing the design work so our environment 441 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:43,920 we cleared and we're looking at a ready to let of December 2019 and there are there were 442 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:49,000 got some other good news on this so there were 12 parcels that we thought we needed 443 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:54,200 we're probably going to have a need additional parcels because I'm going to try to where 444 00:44:54,200 --> 00:45:14,240 did you do the zoom thing see on mine I just use my fingers 445 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:27,200 so your staff pointed out the Mayhill okay so the 288 project does all the frontage roads 446 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:37,720 southbound frontage roads and all in the permanent location in the Mayhill through near to 2181 447 00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:43,080 all the frontage roads are on their their permanent location when we initially did the Mayhill 448 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:50,000 job we stopped past the the ramp in the city brought this to us that we've got this least 449 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:57,760 last little piece that's not part of the project from about here to the 288 intersection where 450 00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:04,520 it was just missed by all three projects and so what textile agreed to do since we have 451 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:11,960 that 361 million dollars to apply to 35 is to go ahead and take LTRA contract and include 452 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:17,760 the northbound frontage road all the way to the tie-in where the permanent frontage road 453 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:22,860 terminates just south 288 on the northbound side so once we're done with Mayhill everything 454 00:46:22,860 --> 00:46:28,960 from just north of 288 to just south of Mayhill will be in its permanent position related 455 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:36,920 to the infrastructure on the ultimate schematic so and because of that okay where am I where's 456 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:47,920 the report so because of that it says right here textile anticipates addition of possible 457 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:53,560 six or more parcels with the expanded project limit so as we go north to the towards 288 458 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:58,760 there may be some parcels we have to acquire there as well in their permanent configuration 459 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:04,840 so good news is December 2019 should go into construction pretty close to that time frame 460 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:10,560 it's fully funded once we're completed everything will be permanently in its permanent location 461 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:17,040 related to the frontage roads that minimizes any improvements that we do in the future 462 00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:27,520 for the ultimate will be inside the right away footprint okay OHL and the I can't say 463 00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:34,080 that here the project that I love to love main point I want to make here is is that 464 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:38,560 they're building the northbound main lanes now they're saying that in February they'll 465 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:44,440 flip all the traffic up to those northbound lanes and start building the southbound main 466 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:52,480 line so it was November then December was January in December now it's February in 467 00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:58,240 January it's like tomorrow right tomorrow never comes because it turns into the day 468 00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:06,720 but this time they really mean it I don't know can I quote you on that it's OHL they're 469 00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:12,600 headquartered out of Madrid so there's a lot of difficulty there but they have had some 470 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:19,960 marine issues so it's only 80 percent their fault but anyway the completion date is saying 471 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:25,880 July 2019 that's probably not the case we're renegotiating or redoing the schedule now 472 00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:32,000 and once we get that we'll provide the stamp and report and let you know what it is some 473 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:37,320 clarification that the brinker underpass will not be complete is that what you're saying 474 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:46,200 or just the so the highway part okay so once we the reason we can't put brinker under is 475 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:51,040 because we have to build the main lanes there first and so that's the whole bridge structure 476 00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:55,520 for brinker has to be there in order for us to use brinker but in order to do that the 477 00:48:55,520 --> 00:49:01,400 whole bridge structure for 288 has to be there as well and so essentially that means that's 478 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:07,560 a long way of saying yes the it won't open till right at the end of the project is when 479 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:15,080 brinker scheduled to open according to OHL they're not going to open it early and we 480 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:24,040 offer the money the county did the Buckees offered money but they are just not interested 481 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:35,160 did they offer beaver nuggets i'll have to get back to you on that i'm not sure so 35 482 00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:39,920 north this project has a schematic approval in january we had to make some changes because 483 00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:46,380 of a historical form in the northern area and keep in mind we need this project cleared 484 00:49:46,380 --> 00:49:53,560 because part of this project is part of our wishbone project because you will note 77 485 00:49:53,560 --> 00:50:00,760 is right in here somewhere i think i think that's 7 1173 our project from the wishbone 486 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:07,800 goes all the way from 35 w all the way to past 380 to it past 288 to 77 so we can tie 487 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:14,640 77 in with 1173 the way your city thoroughfare plan shows because if we don't do anything 488 00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:19,560 but just get past 380 all we're doing is moving the bottleneck further north we got to get 489 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:25,960 past 77 so this project will be cleared by spring of next year which is in the same time 490 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:30,160 we're going to hear about clear lanes on this wishbone project but part of this project 491 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:38,000 is included in that wishbone ask i know we're running out of time but both of us we've heard 492 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:44,120 plenty of complaints about the exit at 380 and i-35 and how it's worse than it's ever 493 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:49,160 been and so i see both of those roads up here on this map now so if this is in the appropriate 494 00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:54,040 time but i remember i recall you mentioning it and saying something was going to happen 495 00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,480 but so what we were initially we're going to do is what we need to do to solve that 496 00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,400 problem is build what's in the ultimate which is your braided rent because what you have 497 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:07,160 is you have at grade on ramps and off ramps in the same location and everybody's fighting 498 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:11,320 to get on while everybody's trying to fighting to get off what the ultimate does is take 499 00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:18,000 those two to those two actions and separates them so the on has a bridge over and off goes 500 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:23,720 under and they don't conflict but that just moves the problem to 380 and so we're going 501 00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:30,600 all the way to 77 with this next phase so yes that's included in this project and remember 502 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:34,840 it's essentially environmentally cleared well it is environmentally cleared it's just a 503 00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:41,400 matter of getting it designed and under construction is there anything that we can do as to help 504 00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:49,720 move that along you say individual parts of the ultimate like the braided or because it's 505 00:51:49,720 --> 00:51:54,120 a problem now right you don't wait five years because i got a i got a church and one of 506 00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:59,040 the lead ushers lives out there and i can't get to church without him telling me 15 minutes 507 00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:04,440 of trauma you know he's church supposed to be uplifting and i'm gonna have to deal with 508 00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:10,520 disgruntled people right yeah if there's anything that we can do currently in the in the process 509 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,960 because the ultimate is great you got a lot of engineers in the room i should they're 510 00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:19,640 probably can answer something first time so it's an excellent question and one of the 511 00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:24,040 chief concerns that we have with that offering up there at 380 is is a lot of that stack 512 00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:29,280 up is that you have a significant amount of residential traffic combined with the commercial 513 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:34,440 traffic trying to get to all the wonderful things that are happening right there so i 514 00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:39,160 know pre tam has been working with text dot as they develop the plan that john's talking 515 00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:44,280 about about putting in another braided ramp just north of that now then nothing's been 516 00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:48,920 finalized on that that's been very preliminary discussions but that ramp would drop off at 517 00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:54,640 windsor so that's something that we're in the process of working with text on that would 518 00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:59,200 separate some of this traffic so the folks that are trying to get to their homes that 519 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,960 live off windsor they would have an alternative rather than getting off at university they 520 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:07,560 could go past in the left-hand lane and then take the next ramp and the folks that are 521 00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:12,960 trying to get to sam's walmart whatever they're getting to they can exit right at university 522 00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:18,840 so that's one effort but it also plays into why we're pushing so hard to get bonnie bray 523 00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:28,320 complete is to have that alternative route for some of this traffic but we were also 524 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:33,040 told that the intersection at 380 and bonnie bray isn't going to be improved and that's 525 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:42,440 where the most congestion is so the intersection at 380 and the interstate do you say interstate 526 00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:47,000 or bonnie bray bonnie bray and 380 like you were saying we're pushing it to bonnie bray 527 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,980 but that's already a congested area there and that's not it is it is something that 528 00:53:50,980 --> 00:53:55,200 we are looking at with both phase five of bonnie bray and phase six how do those two 529 00:53:55,200 --> 00:54:00,280 get adjusted to make that happen more effectively there are some things that will happen to 530 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:05,280 do that now as far as getting extra lanes on university that's not in the cards but 531 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:11,360 we are looking at how do you resolve that situation with some of the other items okay 532 00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:15,800 it's just a big deal yeah i guess you'll be interested in so when you talked about the 533 00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:22,720 overall concept for for dallas district in this northern part of the i would say north 534 00:54:22,720 --> 00:54:28,080 part of the lake you know from the lake north this is their number one problem in their 535 00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:35,080 district is the 35 e 35 w up to 288 trauma and so that's why they submitted it to the 536 00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:40,920 clear lanes and we think we got a pretty good shot at getting it so and what we can do then 537 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:47,840 is once we get it designed if there's some ways to do some breakout jobs at that point 538 00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:54,280 we can maybe look at it that way i'd be very interested in seeing kind of a timeline of 539 00:54:54,280 --> 00:55:00,680 relief you know sure so people are frustrated we're going to put together a exhibit that 540 00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:07,520 shows the wishbone itself and then we'll highlight what we're thinking the plan is and then bring 541 00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:13,640 it back to you but if if there's nothing in the timeline that's feels soonish might want 542 00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:18,440 to think harder about that you know what parts of it could happen sooner than other parts 543 00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:24,840 well so you got it we got defined soon but i know you're not five years right so some 544 00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:28,400 of it will be felt when we do bonnie bray again that's why we're pushing bonnie bray 545 00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:34,440 so hard right now is that we can do something there where we have full control more or less 546 00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:41,440 till you get to right at 380 proper the interstate we have way less control over but we can still 547 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:46,100 communicate i mean yes you know we're interfacing with the public and they just need to understand 548 00:55:46,100 --> 00:55:51,680 that we get it and you know text out we have conversations with them we have conversations 549 00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,800 with you you know yes we ought to be able to say something intelligible back and we'll 550 00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:59,600 put together i'll give you a sheet on it and give you the plan on it and we'll have the 551 00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:04,040 schematic that was in the ultimate so you'll have some information that you can just without 552 00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:10,200 having to just wing it but uh timeline of when things actually hit sure most important 553 00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:14,840 part all right i'm sorry i don't want to belabor it and and who's who's responsible for telling 554 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:20,160 us 11 o'clock you know we turn to a pumpkin i just want to see if i can negotiate a little 555 00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:29,640 can we buy 10 minutes i mean yeah i think i think 10 minutes yeah so uh the other thing 556 00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:37,800 i do want to point out um this particular area panhandle which is i think right south 557 00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:44,800 here this is panhandle going in and this is currently under construction as well as this 558 00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:51,960 portion being connected here and one of the this will definitely add as a relief that 559 00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:57,240 people that really want to get off on this area that don't want to deal with the congestion 560 00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:03,000 can actually get off at panhandle and get off there are other connections that are being 561 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:08,960 made and we're currently working on this signal yeah so once this great answer creates a little 562 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:17,600 bit of natural relief so anyone that's backing off here will start getting shifted into the 563 00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:22,600 retail portion of razor ranch that definitely belongs on the timeline of relief yeah so 564 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:28,200 the other thing i was going to suggest to request is uh just don't let the police enforce 565 00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:32,520 jumping off of the frontage road into the so we just drive over the dirt because every 566 00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:39,960 time i do that there's always cops over there and just like stop enforcing this help the 567 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:46,760 area out a little bit just kidding i would never do that okay so 35 w main lanes this 568 00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:52,560 is the ultimate from basically the railroad track on 35 w all the way to the candle line 569 00:57:52,560 --> 00:58:00,760 it's a it's a six lane divided urban ultimate it's a six lane divided rural ultimate which 570 00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:05,280 means they'll have the wide medians and the wide parkways and the reason we're doing that 571 00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:10,000 is because the managed lane systems that's coming up out of fort worth we want to continue 572 00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:14,960 that at some point in the future when the policy and the paradigm comes back to its 573 00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:21,480 senses and recognize that managed lanes move traffic so if we develop it as a six lane 574 00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:26,820 rural we have a footprint that allow us to convert it to a managed lane project that 575 00:58:26,820 --> 00:58:32,160 project is essentially going through environmental clearance but we have that and i'll bring 576 00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:40,680 a sheet next time on your report from 1171 i guess that's about right here from 1171 577 00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:49,200 all the way to the railroad track uh tex dot is hired jacobs formerly i'll i'll go fast 578 00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:57,080 sorry uh because i have like seven minutes of concluding items so all right all right 579 00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:02,040 i'm done so we got jacobs on contract with tex dot to do the ps and e the construction 580 00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:09,920 plans for 35 w for the frontage roads from 1171 all the way to the railroad track just 581 00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:15,600 south of uh the split and that project is what the city of the county is working with 582 00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:21,360 tex dot to get funded so ultimately in the five to ten year period the city of denton 583 00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:30,120 has a significant frontage on 35 w because of your city limit lines that will be open 584 00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:34,600 for development because frontage roads create development so we're doing the frontage roads 585 00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:39,320 first and so although the schematic for the ultimate is just kind of moving on on its 586 00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:44,400 own we're pulled out the frontage road project and we have somebody doing the design on that 587 00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:48,960 to get it ready to go to construction in the next three to five years which will open up 588 00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:54,400 economic development on your southwest part of the county city 380 east the project is 589 00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:59,720 about 130 something million dollars it's ready to let in may of 2021 we're doing the ps and 590 00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:05,720 e which is construction documents and acquiring right away we have 95 there are 100 parcels 591 01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:10,560 95 have been made we don't have any an ed yet so i'll just keep updating you on that 592 01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:14,440 because the right away acquisition is the critical path on this item because we can't 593 01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:20,520 move the utilities until we get the right away acquired and the utilities are ubiquitous 594 01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:26,400 in this corridor so we got to get on that pretty quick luke 28 west we're talking about 595 01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:33,400 having it cleared um in about 18 months or so two years i don't know why it's taking 596 01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:39,440 so long but it's it is and then uh this is another project where text i was driving us 597 01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:45,080 to move on this we're anticipating it at a minimum doing the northbound frontage road 598 01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:49,760 first because it's on the inside which allows the city to attach its infrastructure to the 599 01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:57,160 ultimate configuration but we're not giving up on the total project as its cost once we 600 01:00:57,160 --> 01:01:05,600 get the project ready to let sometime in 2026 15 15 uh it's a 32 million dollar project 601 01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:12,960 we have ltr working on this the um the 60 schematic was submitted december 21st so we'll 602 01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:17,120 make sure i'm pretty certain they send that out to the city as well if not we're having 603 01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:22,360 our meeting i guess thursday or whatever we'll make sure you'll have it so y'all can make 604 01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:30,760 provide comments 1173 uh this is a project that uh is now in the mobility plan so garver 605 01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:34,460 can move forward with environmental clearance before they were just doing a feasibility 606 01:01:34,460 --> 01:01:38,760 study this county is going to write a letter to the state saying that they will fund this 607 01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:44,440 project as a local locally funded regionally significant corridor which will allow text 608 01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:48,740 dot to extend garver's contract to do the environmental document and the construction 609 01:01:48,740 --> 01:01:56,680 plans and that is it thank you do we have uh we're going to just blast through because 610 01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:01,880 we have three minutes thank you very much uh uh anything you want to say regarding item 611 01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:11,200 e staff report is that you um i know pre tam and others uh had some verbal updates uh the 612 01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:15,920 one only thing that i wanted to cover here on the acm update is the acm update section 613 01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:23,480 correct um on number number six dcta uh as you all know uh former counselor sarah bagheri 614 01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:30,040 is a new dcta board member representing denton uh she did attend their first their first 615 01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:35,400 board meeting in december uh they have an upcoming meeting uh in in january uh just 616 01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:40,920 in a dialogue between myself and her she'd asked for uh the opportunity to come to mobility 617 01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:45,040 at some point in the near future to get some feedback as to what are the the key areas 618 01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:51,340 that the city of denton mobility council would like to get give direction to her so she knows 619 01:02:51,340 --> 01:02:56,920 to represent the community in the best way so and really what mechanism would that be 620 01:02:56,920 --> 01:03:01,000 appropriate for you all would it be just her coming out some scheduled meeting in the near 621 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:06,280 future and just do a verbal discussion with her about some of the key priorities or just 622 01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:15,120 some just be thinking about that so we can communicate that to her um quick one i do 623 01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:20,120 want to set up a walking tour i think we've asked several times i wanted to do it today 624 01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:25,720 but uh we're going to run short of time i do want to take a time and if c we can come 625 01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:31,760 over the time and date that we all can agree and be out of the square and just have a great 626 01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:38,840 agenda is the item and just have a quick walk for an hour so 627 01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:52,920 i don't have an issue um if you do that you can see what time we get out of here tonight 628 01:03:52,920 --> 01:04:07,440 um anything else are coming up concluding items and about 30 seconds yeah uh i have 629 01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:17,480 one where are we on ways ways um do you have an update or we can so um we are currently 630 01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:23,880 working as far as i know we're currently working on the software component integrating it with 631 01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:31,560 our it so we um we have come up with we want to make it in live update but we have come 632 01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:37,480 up with maps that are statically updated it's not live update so we're trying to get to 633 01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:42,800 a point where it's achieved to our software where we constantly update our system in our 634 01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:48,280 softwares where we have different types of software for different departments we're integrating 635 01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:54,160 that information the map that you saw was from different softwares being integrated 636 01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:57,840 and then connecting that to the live update so we're running into some of the issues 637 01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:04,240 technical issues of security what happens what kind of access they get what what type 638 01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:11,440 of information is pushed out so um we're working with it closely on that i think we had some 639 01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:16,400 sort of release date i think katie if you have anything more to add yes 640 01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:26,080 hi again i don't have the release date um but i know that we like you said we've been working 641 01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:30,800 with it to get our street segments from our construction report um into the format that 642 01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:36,560 could be consumed by ways um and i can follow up with more specifics once i get back to the 643 01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:42,000 office if y'all would like we'd love to know projected timing and then who who is on our side specifically 644 01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:49,200 um the liaison two ways so i know is there someone um so i know that uh program management 645 01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:54,560 office my boss hailey salazar is working with communications and coordination with technology 646 01:05:54,560 --> 01:06:02,880 services so i would say point of contact hailey salazar um and todd has so i know the initial 647 01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:08,560 planned work component so the items we knew that were going to go out to construction an initial 648 01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:12,960 push two ways has been there as matter of fact i'm looking at one of them right now you'll see 649 01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:18,560 segments of the roadway on ways that have a circle with a little white line on it so it's a red 650 01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:22,640 circle with a white line and if you click on it it'll tell you i'm looking at this one it's a 651 01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:28,320 water drainage improvement on spencer road so though some of those items are already starting 652 01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:33,280 to populate it's the more dynamic items that we're trying to get our arms wrapped around how we push 653 01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:39,280 but those planned items that we know are happening they are already populating on ways just uh i don't 654 01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:44,960 know if we have like a one-to-one relationship with them uh like we're we're actually negotiating 655 01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:53,040 but uh i'm i'm gonna close this close the meeting in the second year but i just want to reiterate 656 01:06:53,040 --> 01:07:00,320 my suggestion that we pursue a co-branded app i think it'd be awesome for den you know for our 657 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:06,240 communication to just have that one thing to say and then that thing says that all this activity 658 01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:12,880 that's frustrating you as part of improving den i have to request that the hickory street options 659 01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:20,400 come before this committee uh really soon for the bike yes yes so our plan was to have an isr 660 01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:26,880 for this friday packet and then we can come back to city council that way we get enough background 661 01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:31,600 information i think it's been a year and a half or a couple years yeah i see all the work trucks 662 01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:36,640 there at that point and i'm like well we really need to figure out something fast yes so um and 663 01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:42,480 then the next just a timeline on east sherman um what the widening timeline is and what the 664 01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:48,320 improvements are going to be all in one section so that that's available for us as we come up to the 665 01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:55,600 items as they come to us for vote for so this is sherman at the loop yes and then east out on the 666 01:07:55,600 --> 01:08:02,000 north side yeah okay yep thank you that's a large thing uh okay anything else nope good okay i'm 667 01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:13,840 going to uh uh close our our meeting at 10.05 plus four minutes i mean 11.05 plus four minutes