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 Good morning. Welcome to this first virtual meeting of the Mobility Committee. We have

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 a quorum present, so let's move right into our items for individual consideration. Item

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 A is considered the approval of the meeting minutes of February 11th. I'll entertain a

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 little bit. It's not that entertaining, but I can't see anyone, by the way. Move approval.

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 This is Councilmember Ryan. Hey, Councilmember Ryan. Second? I'll second. Keely Briggs. All

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 in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Minutes are approved. Now we have an issue in that I can't

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 or maybe I can adjust this so I can see everyone. Okay. Well, I can see some people. I gotta

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 make sure I can see. Councilmember, do you have a gallery view that you can see? I just

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 moved it to that. I can see John and two staff members or you and two staff members. So I

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 guess I'll just flip between them periodically. Chair, are you full screen? I'm sorry, are

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 you asking me? Yes, sir. Sorry. I just switched to gallery. Sorry, trying to address you as

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 chair. You have it full screen on your screen right now, because sometimes that'll expand

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 the gallery that you can see. Yeah, it's full screen on my device. If you don't mind, members,

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 if you wouldn't just mind verbalizing request to speak, just so I don't miss you, I won't

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 be offended. Okay. So moving on to item B, receive a report and hold the discussion regarding

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 updates from the Denton County Transportation Authority. Nicole is having a connection problem.

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 She should be on momentarily. Okay. I just, I just messaged her. Okay. Well, we'll give

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 it a minute. Okay. So, I just want to make sure that I'm not missing anything. I'm just,

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 is Brian connected? It's him in the meeting, but currently on mute. I'm here. Are you suggesting

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 that we go to item E? If we could just move forward and Nicole, Nicole just connected.

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 I am. Hello, everyone. Morning. I apologize for my delay. I was having some email issues

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 last week and I think that that caused the email to go get lost in the stratosphere.

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 So, well, I am very glad to be back with this group and to be providing some updates. As

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 you all know, the impacts of COVID. Excuse me, Nicole. Yes. Can you turn your camera on

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 please? Oh, sure. Yeah, that's a rule, isn't it? Get to be visible. Hey, there she is.

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 I have a little one at home. We're homeschooling. So, bear with me here as I try to complete

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 both roles. So, as you all know, the impacts of COVID definitely hit us hard being a transit

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 agency. And so, we originally cut our service by about 50%, modifying our service to a 60

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 headway just due to the lack of ridership and obviously all of the stay at home orders.

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 But we also increased all of our cleaning and our check-in processes. And that really

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 enabled us to kind of look at how we were doing things differently and kind of modifying

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 those processes. And we found that those processes that we were putting in place were actually

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 extremely successful. So, not only were we kind of doing an extra set of cleaning and

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 using new products on our vehicles, but we also had our operators check in in a different

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 way to maintain social distancing and also to deliver PPE at the beginning of each of

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 their shift. In addition, we put signage on all of our vehicles and regular email messaging

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 to passengers. And then from an administrative perspective, we have been staying on top of

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 local, regional and national alerts and mandates. And I am proud to say that DCTA is the only

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 transit agency in Texas without a single operator case of COVID-19. So, those precautionary

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 measures are definitely working. And I think we are learning new things every single day

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 and putting those new things into place to ensure the safety of not only our passengers,

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 but also our staff. On August 24th, we had our most recent service change. We have had

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 several service changes since the onset of COVID. But most recently, on August 24th,

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 we brought back frequency on routes 47, 21 and 22, bringing those back to a 30-minute

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 headway. And then we also added a permanent addition of an evening on-demand zone at the

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 Denton Transit Center. And that really is to address some of those services in Denton

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 that have truncated service hours. And so that on-demand zone can take you from the

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 DDTC to anywhere that we would serve with a fixed route so that passengers can get where

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 they need to go. We did permanently remove routes 5 and 8 simply because they are duplicates

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 of route 6 and 7. And so after a Title VI analysis, we determined that any place someone

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 was using 5 and 8 to get to that they could utilize 6 and 7 without any issues. And so

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 those are the main changes that we made August 24th. Our board did just recently approve

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 some increased frequency on the A train. And those services will be going into place on

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 September 21st. Fixed route ridership, we were down at the beginning of COVID a little

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 bit more than 50%. I think that that was expected just simply due to the stay-at-home orders.

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 But we are slowly seeing increases as the spread of COVID-19 slows down. And so we are

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 monitoring that. Again, we are putting as many precautionary measures into place as

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 possible to make sure that passengers feel safe. So masks are required on our vehicles.

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 We have hand sanitizer dispensers on all of our vehicles. Those should all be installed

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 by the end of this week. We are maintaining social distancing. We have placed protective

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 barriers between our operator and the entryway to the vehicles, as well as the fare box,

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 so that our operators feel safe as well. And so we are seeing positive effects from all

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 of those precautionary measures that we put in place. And we're very hopeful. I think

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 from a national level and an industry-wide level, we expect the increase in ridership

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 to be very slow. And I think that people are still going to have some fear related to COVID

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 about being in an enclosed space like a vehicle with others, not knowing what their precautionary

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 measures are. And so we're just trying to take that into account and look at ridership

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 on a monthly basis to see how we are reporting ridership. And again, we have seen a pretty

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 slow increase, but an increase nonetheless on ridership. And so right now, we're just

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 really focusing on those precautionary measures. We're focusing on bringing back the A-train

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 service to see how that helps. And then from that point, we'll continue to just modify

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 service as needed based on demand. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

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 Council Member Briggs. Thank you. I'm glad to be back here. I have a few questions. One

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 has DCTA or the DCTA Board considered during a time such as this as offering a free fare?

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 So free fares has been a topic of discussion, I think, amongst a lot of transit agencies.

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 We opted not to offer the free fare because with free fare comes potential increased ridership.

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 Increased ridership creates a capacity issue where social distancing cannot be maintained.

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 And based on our ridership needs and the vehicles that we had available, we felt that our normal

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 discount programs that were helping maybe those who needed some assistance with a lower

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 fare were working at that time. A lot of the transit agencies that did go to a free fare

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 for a period of time have actually pulled that back because they are seeing capacity

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 issues becoming a concern. So that is not something that we opted. The Board did have

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 a discussion about it. But we opted not to go that route just due to capacity issues.

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 May I have a few more questions? During my Dallas Regional Mobility Committee, there was

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 an update on a grant that was received to study expansion and development. Is that anything

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 that you can speak to today to us? Do you know which grants, what the name of it was?

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 Not off the top of my head, but it was to expand the A train and to do transit oriented

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 development around? Around the KCS line? Yes. Yes. So we did receive a grant and I have

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 not been on that project team, but we did receive a grant to do some preliminary planning.

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 I can certainly follow up with the project manager on that and get back to you with more

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 details. Okay. I think it would be helpful for this committee to get an update on that.

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 Absolutely. And the last thing I wonder is the Bonnie Bray route open yet or the stop?

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 I know that we had individuals come and speak to us for a while that it was difficult to

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 get to work over in that area. And so I didn't know if all of those had been reopened. Due

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 to the construction, everything has been reopened. Okay. All right. Thank you. Councilmember

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 Ryan, anything? No, I'm good. All right. Nicole, I was a little curious. This is a bit of a

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 nitty gritty detail of when service was canceled on routes five and eight. What was the notification

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 procedure for people who might have shown up to, you know, looking for those? Sure.

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 So because we were at first, we were temporarily removing the services. We actually did a full

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 public involvement process. And so we not only contacted the businesses and apartment

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 complexes along those corridors, but we also put ads in the paper as well as our normal

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 digital outreach for public involvement. We did collect quite a bit of public involvement,

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 but based on the Title VI analysis, we reached out to individuals who had some concerns about

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 it and we helped them trip plan around the removal of those two routes. And once they

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 recognized that they could get where they needed to go, they were satisfied. And so

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 we were able to kind of move forward and our board approved the removal of those routes.

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 Yeah. Portmanteau Grants, I don't know if they actually hit different stops than six

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 and seven. But if there are some stops that are unique, was there signage put at the stops?

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 The reason I'm asking this is just because, you know, we've had complaints brought in

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 the same individual. Absolutely. So typically anytime we remove a route or even if we just

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 move it, we will put signage at all the stops about two weeks prior to the actual removal

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 to let people know. And then we go back and we switch out that signage to let them know

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 that the route, that specific stop has been changed. And then we locate on that sign what

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 the closest stop it would be to them just in case they didn't, you know, see the information

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 or didn't see the postings at the bus stop. But if there's an individual that you're hearing

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 from who has some questions or concerns, they can absolutely reach out to us and we can

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 help them trip plan. Yeah, not currently. I'm going way back. Yeah, thanks for the update

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 and for our conscientious and thorough. Sounds like DCTA is being just with everybody with

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 everything, given all the challenges. Thanks for coming. Absolutely. I hope the drive is

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 okay. Yes. Yeah. Okay. And I'm good to turn I'm good to turn my camera off. Yeah. Yeah.

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 Okay. And just in case you want to see a little one. All right. We're still a little early

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 for john. So do you want to discuss item D then receive a report hold the discussion

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 and receive direction regarding future mobility committee meeting schedule dates and times?

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 What do you all have on that? Anyone requests the request there, Paul is to receive input

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 from you all as committee members. We previously set the mobility committee meetings to be

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 on the same day as counsel. And now that we've gone to the virtual format, there can be no

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 other committee meetings on the same day as counsel. It's it's pretty overwhelming for

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 DTV to shuffle the setup. Council is a much more complex meeting. So the request is to

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 choose another date, because going forward in October, November and December, for sure,

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 we have a conflict with the council schedule date. I'll have to review the available time

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 slots but just looking for some input from you all on if there's a certain day of the

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 week or a certain time period that fits with your schedules that we can target. I'll rule

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 out Monday mornings, please. Anyone else that got some breaks? You have some good times

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 or bad times? Um, well, I was just going to throw out that maybe we wait until after November

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 to find a date and time, but we can work on or just suggest a time for next month, maybe

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 if we meet. And then and then we can set a time for regular meetings and days after that

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 that would be continuation in case somebody's schedule changes. Any guidance on the the

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 next one next meeting? That's what we're bringing some good days of the week or bad days of

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 the week or day parts or anything like that. Well, I know that you said Monday mornings

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 are out usually on one of the Mondays, I think it's the first Monday that it's a COE at one

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 is generally our meeting. So if probably not Mondays, no Tuesdays. So I get it just depends

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 on the day of the week. Any other time I can I can fit in I can fit in a meeting. That's

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 what Brian any problems on Wednesdays, Thursdays or Fridays? Thursdays tend to be a busy day

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 for me, but Wednesdays would be fun. Well, when we when we shoot for a Wednesday. Obviously,

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 we'll communicate on email to help. Yes, thank you. Okay, but still tap dancing got 12 minutes

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 till till on system. So why don't we open item E? Yeah, why don't we just go ahead and

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 go through item E then staff update regarding safe routes to schools, bike scooter share

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 programs, community input on mobility plan, future items for consideration and the street

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 construction report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is Brian Young, the city traffic engineer.

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 Just a quick update on the three items. Safe routes to school, I'm going to give the good

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 the bad news first rather we were not successful with our two applications on the latest call

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 from cog city of Dallas took all of the safe route to school money this year. So nobody

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 else got any. The good news is we do have two safe route to school projects for Jennings

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 and Alexander and pecan Creek and Wilson that we will be our current schedule has us completing

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 design mid 2021 and moving to construction and construction being completed in 2023.

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 So we have those two, there is two projects that encompass four schools and those are

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 moving forward. Why don't we stop and take questions on each item. Councilmember Briggs.

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 So I have a question and a comment really on the safe schools. I wonder if one reason

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 we did not get it and I don't know if this has anything to do with it. But I know that

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 we have been trying to get that sidewalk, the one, the first one implemented for over

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 six years. When I was first elected to council, we were discussing that implementation. So

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 I don't know why it's taken so long. But I mean, if individuals are looking at who to

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 give grant money to and they see that we've had a project sitting on sidewalks for over

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 for six years, I mean, does that take, do they take that into account?

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 I would not be surprised if they did. So that's one of the reasons why we're trying to accelerate

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 the design portion so we can get into construction on all four campuses. It's you're correct.

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 And if you if you continue to let the money sit there, at some point, they're going to

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 say you don't need that money anymore. And so we're actively pursuing the completion

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 of all those projects. We also have another project with cog. It's not a safe route, although

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 it serves a school. It's the side path between the transit center and UNT on sycamore. And

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 that's moving forward moving that forward as well. So we'll have three active sidewalk

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 design projects, in addition to our 2018 and 2019 bundles, that will be moving through

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 design and into construction the next 12 months.

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 Just to follow up on that, is there a reason why it's still going to take a year or two

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 to implement those the sidewalks, so it'll be, you know, almost 10 years from the original.

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 So those are estimates right now, the design is going to will probably still take at least

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 a four month period. But there's about three or four miles worth of sidewalk. And it just

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 depends on how fast we can get a contractor and what their construction schedule is. And

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 hopefully we can trim some time off of that the the side path along sycamore is going

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 to be a little bit more difficult than I know that's not a safe route. But that's because

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 it's going to take some real estate involvement. And I think we have limited real estate involvement

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 in the first two those those four campuses, the two safe route to school projects. But

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 that is one of the things that can really slow you down is if you have to go out and

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 acquire property. And so again, it's limited on those safe route to school. But we just

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 we don't know. So it's a matter of if we can get the limited properties that we need and

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 the construction easements that we need and the timely manner, and the contractors got

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 enough crews to throw at it, we can we can significantly reduce the construction time.

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 Okay, yeah, it's that the path on the way to Jennings is the one that's concerning to

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 me that I was looking into maybe discussing more. But thank you. Thank you for that. And

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 Chair, we're going to hear other updates before we ask questions.

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 Well, yeah, I thought we took each item at a time. Councilmember Ryan, did you have any

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 questions on the safe routes to schools? No.

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 I wonder if you can give us any insight on what criteria we didn't meet? Why? Why? Why

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 didn't? Why did Dallas get everything? Why did we get nothing? And if we don't know,

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 can we ask? We can and I have not. They do typically send out with the results, some

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 of their scoring, I have not seen that yet. But we'll certainly we can get that and provide

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 that to the committee. Great. And, you know, more more importantly,

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 for you, sir. Great. All right, why don't we go ahead and talk about that bike share?

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 Okay, so they ride is our current bike share provider, they have notified that they will

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 be pulling out all of their bikes by the end of the calendar year. However, I got a I've

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 got an email from UNT, their director of transportation that all of the bikes are gone from campus

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 already. So as far as the bike and scooter share, I think we're now in the in the market

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 for a new provider. So we will be working with Chris Phelps at UNT to identify those

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 providers, the potential providers and, and go through a selection process. But I have

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 not. I have not driven around town to see if all the bikes are gone from town, or if

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 it was just from UNT campus. Perhaps you've seen if you still see bikes laying around,

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 and literally sometimes they are laying around. If you still see bikes on the right away or

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 near businesses or apartment complexes, then they're not gone completely. They said they

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 would stay through the end of December. However, UNT seems to think they pulled out early.

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 And UNT continues to be opposed to any scooters on campus. So we still have an issue with

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 potential scooter program in the city, if they're not allowed to utilize the UNT campus

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 area.

00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:10.680
 I heard that Dallas just undid their scooter program.

00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:17.800
 Yes, they did. The scooters were very popular. But they continue to have safety issues. I

00:24:17.800 --> 00:24:24.120
 personally saw a lady get mowed down when we were in Austin. And the girl said she just

00:24:24.120 --> 00:24:29.360
 lost control just she was cutting across Sixth Street. She was not inebriated. It was daytime.

00:24:29.360 --> 00:24:35.800
 So but she just hit the curb and knocked an elderly lady down to the ground. So they're,

00:24:35.800 --> 00:24:42.400
 they do have outlying issues as far as safety. But they still they remain popular in many

00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:43.400
 cities.

00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:47.600
 That's one of her pricks.

00:24:47.600 --> 00:24:53.360
 Yeah, I would like to explore to make sure that there are other companies. I know I've

00:24:53.360 --> 00:25:00.720
 seen individuals using the bikes, not extremely frequently, but I have seen them being used.

00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:08.000
 And I think it's a benefit to our community. The way that we had it, I thought. So is that

00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:14.600
 is that an RFQ process RFP? Or do or does UNT just kind of do the heavy lifting and

00:25:14.600 --> 00:25:24.840
 then because we have that, I think MOU or understanding, right? The other question is,

00:25:24.840 --> 00:25:31.200
 I thought TWU also had bikes. Is that through somebody different?

00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:37.760
 I'm not aware of TWU having their own program. My understanding was a very ride with citywide.

00:25:37.760 --> 00:25:41.200
 But you and to answer your first question, UNT does most of the heavy lifting, we work

00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:46.360
 with their transportation group in the selection process. So we can certainly bring that before

00:25:46.360 --> 00:25:50.320
 this group and identify once we've identified some potential candidates, or if you want

00:25:50.320 --> 00:25:59.040
 to be part of the process, we can also, whether it be an RFQ or an RFP, bring that before

00:25:59.040 --> 00:26:06.760
 you and have this committee play a part of the role in at least identifying criteria.

00:26:06.760 --> 00:26:13.000
 Maybe a good time if we want to revisit docked or dockless. There are a lot of difference.

00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:20.400
 I've seen the docked bike shares, they seem to work a little bit better, just because

00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:26.440
 you can't leave the bike in the sidewalk or in somebody's yard. However, they're limited

00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:30.000
 to where you can only go to where you can only leave the bike in a dock and it may not

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:36.960
 be where you want to go. So there's pros and cons. And if with the excuse me, if the city

00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:42.240
 wants to revisit docked or dockless, we can certainly entertain that. Or we can just bring

00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:51.520
 back a list of providers who are eligible to are interested in providing bike shares

00:26:51.520 --> 00:27:00.040
 to the city. I imagine that conversation can be sort of simultaneous that once you have

00:27:00.040 --> 00:27:05.280
 your short list of providers, some may be docked and some may be dockless. Right. There's

00:27:05.280 --> 00:27:12.720
 a new animal out there that also that the e-cycles. So you've got the motor assist.

00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:16.120
 I don't know that we had any of that before, but those are certainly some criteria that

00:27:16.120 --> 00:27:19.720
 if we wanted to throw away that as a requirement or at least that they should be able to provide

00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:27.200
 again, so consideration. You got a comment, Councilmember Pritz? A question. Yeah, just

00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:32.440
 when because it is COVID and I know that there's a lot we just had a presentation about how

00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:38.640
 much cleaning needs to be done on buses. Is that something that these companies are taking

00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:44.800
 into account now? And I mean, if not, is that something we can ask about as we're going

00:27:44.800 --> 00:27:50.560
 through the process? I certainly can ask. I do not believe that Vail was cleaning the

00:27:50.560 --> 00:27:57.480
 bikes. Not that I mean, I have not seen that happening. That can certainly be part of the

00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:05.080
 criteria that they provide that service, which, again, might lend itself to a docked alternative

00:28:05.080 --> 00:28:09.800
 because it's a lot easier for them to maintain those bikes. If they're in a single location,

00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:14.200
 they just deploy one person instead of having to wrangle them up and then you'll clean them.

00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:24.680
 We can certainly fold that into the criteria. Councilmember Ryan, anything? Yeah, I would

00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:30.640
 just say that it's probably with the clinging issue that the current company has decided

00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:35.600
 to pull out, that was probably a large part of their decision in doing that, is the cost

00:28:35.600 --> 00:28:42.720
 effectiveness of that and not having students on campuses as much right now is probably

00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:52.280
 also added to the economy of scale was not there for them. Yeah, sounds right. Now, one

00:28:52.280 --> 00:28:59.480
 of our goals in doing the program was learning, right? It was to some degree a trial basis.

00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:06.360
 I mean, there's checking points contractually. As I recall, are we owed any updates on how

00:29:06.360 --> 00:29:17.800
 it went pre-COVID, since our goal was learning? Okay, well, pre-COVID and post-COVID. Let

00:29:17.800 --> 00:29:24.120
 me circle back with UNT and see if they received any reports. Kind of a closure departure report

00:29:24.120 --> 00:29:33.600
 from the very outright people. I'm not aware of any responses that we were owed, but that's

00:29:33.600 --> 00:29:40.240
 just because I don't know. I mean, I'll circle back with UNT and see if they've got anything.

00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:46.920
 I appreciate that. Yes. Because I think we should have a clear takeaways to the extent

00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:54.440
 possible on what worked, what didn't work so that if we do it again, hopefully we build

00:29:54.440 --> 00:30:02.080
 on what worked. Yeah, I'd be interested in some community response as well. As far as

00:30:02.080 --> 00:30:07.160
 did the dockless, was that acceptable? Were they rather have a different kind of program?

00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:14.380
 Were there enough bikes? Were they easy to acquire? That would be more of a user response

00:30:14.380 --> 00:30:19.000
 than an operational response. Well, I think knowing why they pulled out, whether it was,

00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:25.280
 as Council Member Ryan suggested, kind of all COVID related, or was the adoption not

00:30:25.280 --> 00:30:31.240
 there? If it wasn't there, that'd be kind of important for us to know. Okay. Chair?

00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:37.120
 Yep, Council Member Briggs. Just a comment on your comment. I do believe that in the

00:30:37.120 --> 00:30:44.240
 updates or in the presentations, they did say that data would be shared with us and

00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:49.680
 that was one of the reasons we were interested in continuing on because of the data that

00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:56.440
 would be shared. And I'm trying to think back, last time Mark had a presentation, there was

00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:01.160
 some pretty good data. And if we could just get an update on that, that would be great.

00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:06.680
 And I thought that I read they pulled out because we weren't going to allow scooters,

00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:10.760
 which COVID may have had something to do with it, but I thought it was also scooter based.

00:31:10.760 --> 00:31:16.480
 I could be wrong in what I read. That was in the materials provided to us. But, you

00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:24.360
 know, let's see what else we have to say too. Is this tenable or not? Right. Bear Ride did

00:31:24.360 --> 00:31:31.520
 say that they were no longer going to support bike only programs. So I understand that.

00:31:31.520 --> 00:31:35.240
 That's the reason they're pulling out by the end of the year. My question is, did they

00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:43.080
 actually pull out in September or August and does that constitute a failure to fulfill

00:31:43.080 --> 00:31:48.200
 the contract or the agreement that we had in place? Right now, we don't have anything

00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:54.080
 at all. It appears on campus and possibly citywide. So, but we can certainly, back to

00:31:54.080 --> 00:32:00.640
 the point of the data, I know we were getting usage and ridership data. So also, even if

00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:06.520
 it's exactly as stated, that they pulled out because we wouldn't do scooter, that implies

00:32:06.520 --> 00:32:11.920
 that bike alone isn't tenable. So it'd be good for us to understand why bike alone is

00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:17.880
 tenable. Is it ridership or is it the way that they operate it required, you know, too

00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:26.240
 much cost? So, you know, we have a golden opportunity to become smarter. Exactly. Very

00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:40.240
 good. Okay. Wanna keep going to the next item? Yes. So the last item is the community input

00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:49.280
 on mobility plan. And we have outlined a series of five over the next several weeks. It starts

00:32:49.280 --> 00:32:57.080
 tomorrow at six p.m. We'll be using the same Zoom platform that we used for our Lakeview

00:32:57.080 --> 00:33:02.880
 traffic calming meeting. So it's just like this one. We'll have a virtual host and staff

00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:11.080
 support and then we'll go through our presentation. Again, lessons learned. We did in our Lakeview

00:33:11.080 --> 00:33:17.000
 traffic calming, we learned that you don't ask for a show of hands if they have a question

00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:22.480
 and the Q&A becomes very difficult to bounce back and forth. So if you ever run one of

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:28.960
 those, we recommend using the written question and answer format only so that, one, it helps

00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:35.040
 document all of the requests and inquiries and you can capture that either using screenshots

00:33:35.040 --> 00:33:41.880
 or I forget how Stephanie saved those. I think she was using screenshots. And then we have

00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:46.320
 then you have a record of every question that was asked and answered. So those will be the

00:33:46.320 --> 00:33:52.680
 9th, 10th, 14th, 17th, and 24th of this month. Again, following the same format we did with

00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:58.120
 council focusing on a geographic area starting with downtown and then moving through north,

00:33:58.120 --> 00:34:04.000
 south, east, and west the other four. We're ending with I believe the last one on the

00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:09.400
 24th is the southern section. So we'll be starting with downtown tomorrow. Very similar

00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:15.600
 format explaining what we've done as far as the mobility plan, the process, and the draft

00:34:15.600 --> 00:34:23.240
 plan and council input from those previous meetings and then requesting community input

00:34:23.240 --> 00:34:33.720
 following that presentation. Great. Comments, questions? Okay. Now, are you going to tee

00:34:33.720 --> 00:34:40.060
 up future items for consideration or this is a placeholder to ask if we have some? Good

00:34:40.060 --> 00:34:44.560
 question. I don't have a copy of that, Becky. I know there was one circulated, but I'm not

00:34:44.560 --> 00:34:52.320
 sure if it was for this committee. Do you have a? I have the street closure report,

00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:59.320
 but I do not have the future items for consideration. Right. Exhibit two. I got it. Okay. So that's

00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:15.800
 the grid. I don't know if you have, I guess you would need to see it to make any comments.

00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:24.680
 Does everyone have a copy of that? We do. Okay, great. I just downloaded it off the

00:35:24.680 --> 00:35:38.880
 internet, so I do as well. Any questions? Share that to the screen. I can try. Brian,

00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:42.800
 if you share it and we just use it as an overview, that's fine, but then you'll have to take

00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:48.360
 your screen down when we talk through it. Correct. So if we want to just, and I've done

00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:58.480
 this, can you see it? Okay. So we've got, it looks like 14 items. You've seen it. This

00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:03.520
 is for the benefit of those who don't have a copy in front of them, but a lot of the

00:36:03.520 --> 00:36:10.900
 items are carryovers from pre-COVID. So if they're still pertinent, we'll allow the committee

00:36:10.900 --> 00:36:15.080
 to decide whether or not we want to move those forward. And if we want to add any additional

00:36:15.080 --> 00:36:22.920
 items, now is the time. So I'm going to stop sharing. Why don't we take them in order?

00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:29.080
 Council Member Briggs, the first three items are yours. Do you have any changes or anything

00:36:29.080 --> 00:36:41.640
 you want to withdraw or adjust? Well, the one way versus two way, I feel like that came

00:36:41.640 --> 00:36:50.080
 to council and I'm not sure it was difficult then to understand what was going on. And

00:36:50.080 --> 00:36:54.240
 I don't know if it wants to come back here, but I feel like during the mobility plan,

00:36:54.240 --> 00:37:01.600
 it didn't seem like that conversation was ready to end, but overall, so we can just

00:37:01.600 --> 00:37:08.040
 keep that on there as just a reminder, I guess, unless any other council members here have

00:37:08.040 --> 00:37:16.880
 an idea on that. The road diet on Carroll, that actually was mentioned during the one

00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:23.680
 way, two way conversation. I'd like to keep that on as long as the city is looking at

00:37:23.680 --> 00:37:30.840
 it with the mobility plan. And Alice sidewalk, an update on that. I know there were some

00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:36.900
 issues, a few issues there with the property owner. I don't know if those have been corrected

00:37:36.900 --> 00:37:45.000
 or not, but I know that has been an ongoing issue for accessibility for a long time. So

00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:51.240
 a quick update there, we actually have resolved the issues with the property owner and we

00:37:51.240 --> 00:37:58.600
 have text on approval. So we can move forward with a permit application and some minor sidewalk

00:37:58.600 --> 00:38:07.200
 construction to at least provide a viable connection into the parking lot.

00:38:07.200 --> 00:38:13.700
 That's fantastic. Thank you. So do you want us to hold our new request till the end after

00:38:13.700 --> 00:38:20.080
 the old requests are gone through? Yeah, let's do that. Okay. So I think you can take item

00:38:20.080 --> 00:38:26.400
 four off. I don't even know what action I would have been looking for on item six. That's

00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:35.920
 a comment that I made while discussing the issue of the roller coaster ride of West Hickory

00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:46.480
 west of Bradley to Bonnie break. And I understood that there were core samples that were going

00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:52.320
 to be taken or some kind of investigation. And I just never heard anything about it.

00:38:52.320 --> 00:39:02.640
 The road remains something that raises questions about our competence. That's why the constituent

00:39:02.640 --> 00:39:07.840
 comments to me like, are we just using bad standards? We need to understand why it is

00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:15.680
 the way it is as well as determining whether we can fix it. But the understanding of what

00:39:15.680 --> 00:39:20.960
 enabled us to build a road that so quickly turned into a roller coaster ride, I think

00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:28.240
 is an important question. So it's really about roller coaster ride, West Hickory suit. I'm

00:39:28.240 --> 00:39:35.800
 sorry. You said West Oak, Bonnie, Bradley to Bonnie brain. So with that clarification,

00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:49.360
 any comments, any next steps? Councilmember Meltzer, we can absolutely look into the ride

00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:55.720
 with quality and standards that were used in that roadway from Bradley to Bonnie Bray

00:39:55.720 --> 00:40:05.320
 along Oak and report back at the next meeting. I can tell you the result of that. It's a

00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:10.400
 roller coaster ride. The question is underlying cause. How do we allow it to happen? Sure.

00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:16.000
 We'll look into the standards that were used to construct that roadway in comparison to

00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:21.840
 our city standards and details and see if there's anything we can find out that might

00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:27.420
 be the cause of the roadway quality you're discussing. And if it turns out that it's

00:40:27.420 --> 00:40:31.640
 exactly the same standards we use everywhere, then I would call those into question. There's

00:40:31.640 --> 00:40:39.360
 some other factor then. So let's wait and see. But if we just go, nope, it was all good.

00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:45.320
 It's not all good. Sure. I completely understand. Let us look into that and we'll get back with

00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:53.920
 you. Thank you. Councilmember Briggs, anything on seven? I believe that can be taken off

00:40:53.920 --> 00:41:04.000
 because of the all walk that we just recently discussed. Councilmember Ryan, anything on

00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:10.400
 11? No, still looking forward to it. I know probably they started working on this pre-COVID

00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:14.760
 and I'm guessing that it just kind of stalled out for the time being, but I'm still looking

00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:19.160
 forward to this. Basically, what I was asking for was reports on our major projects like

00:41:19.160 --> 00:41:25.300
 we get on textile projects, where it gets a little more in depth as to what the completion

00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:32.800
 dates are and more of a map included. We have phased projects that are coming up, like Bonnie

00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:38.920
 Bray, where do we stand on the last part of May Hill, getting the bridge in, those types

00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:43.840
 of things that require a little more in depth reporting. And it's going to start this date,

00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:52.080
 it's going to end this date. I'll add my name to that item. 12 can be removed. That's been

00:41:52.080 --> 00:41:59.760
 addressed. Councilmember Briggs, anything on 13 and 14? Well, the cycling event, I guess,

00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:08.600
 can be taken off and I would like to leave the downtown retractable and removable bollards

00:42:08.600 --> 00:42:17.800
 on there until we can decide if that's feasible or not for when we have the festivals and

00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:26.520
 when we close off the square for events. I think that would be helpful to have. So just

00:42:26.520 --> 00:42:33.200
 to leave that on there. I guess as far as scheduling cycling events, that kind of goes

00:42:33.200 --> 00:42:40.720
 in line with my request or question about the update on our bike and pedestrian coordinator

00:42:40.720 --> 00:42:50.220
 as we're going through the sidewalk questions and things like that. So just a small update

00:42:50.220 --> 00:42:55.040
 on that. And also the light at the loop in Sherman, it was my understanding that that

00:42:55.040 --> 00:43:01.080
 would be coming in soon, like at the end of this year. So how close are we on target for

00:43:01.080 --> 00:43:10.720
 that as development comes in? So those are those are two things. Yeah, additional items.

00:43:10.720 --> 00:43:18.800
 And customer Ryan, do you have additional items, future items for consideration? No,

00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:28.280
 not at this time. You're kind of freezing a little. You're still there. Okay, you're

00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:35.280
 right. I have one that I would just like an update on at some point in the future. I had

00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:45.200
 an exchange with with the city manager and he looked in Ethan Cox, just I made a suggestion

00:43:45.200 --> 00:43:51.840
 that there be some kind of a lookup tool could be on the city website where you put in a

00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:56.920
 street name and you get the status either it's under construction. This is happening.

00:43:56.920 --> 00:44:03.280
 That's happening. It's on a future bond program. It's set for, you know, some point in the

00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:13.140
 future or no, no work plan. Because I don't know about y'all, but I get that's the most

00:44:13.140 --> 00:44:17.280
 constant type of question that I get from constituents. It's kind of difficult to answer

00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:22.200
 because you got to either go through a bunch of well-prepared reports, but you know this,

00:44:22.200 --> 00:44:26.960
 the item may or may not be on there. You don't know if it's kind of contemplated. It's in

00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:30.680
 a bond program, but not in this pre-construct report. There's a lot to go through to answer

00:44:30.680 --> 00:44:38.520
 that question, but if it's all in one place and Todd liked the idea and looked Ethan in

00:44:38.520 --> 00:44:45.000
 who said they're working on something that would have essentially result in exactly that.

00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:53.360
 So that's the extent of it like to know how real is that? When can we expect it? You know,

00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:59.840
 you have a way to put that in like five, four or five words, put a little line.

00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:04.600
 Sure. Thank you for the question. Absolutely. We're looking into that. There's a mapping

00:45:04.600 --> 00:45:10.920
 program that we're looking at to incorporate all of the current capital projects along

00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:16.560
 with all of the development projects, whether it be a bond program or something that's even

00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:22.240
 being done by internal construction crews. It's through an IT Nexus map program. And

00:45:22.240 --> 00:45:26.360
 so that is something that's supposed to be rolled out and we're working through throughout

00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:30.840
 the month. So we're hoping that we'll, we'll have that fairly soon. That was already kind

00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:38.280
 of in the works when you asked the question. And so lucky job. So definitely we're working

00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:42.480
 through that. And so we can bring you an update. Hopefully by the time we meet again, we'll

00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:47.040
 have some kind of platform that's moving forward. But it's definitely something that we hear

00:45:47.040 --> 00:45:52.600
 quite a lot as we would like to make sure that logistically we're coordinating all of

00:45:52.600 --> 00:46:00.800
 the projects amongst the city. So great idea. Well, of course, it's already working. You

00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:06.560
 know, different people learn differently, right? When you take like math classes, they

00:46:06.560 --> 00:46:11.000
 kind of show some people information in a table, some in a graph, some in text, you

00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:17.480
 know, if you know where all the streets are and you think that way, map's good. If it's

00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:25.360
 even just alphabetical list by street of the same data, for me, that would be quicker.

00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:28.600
 And I don't mean instead, I mean, it seems like if you have the same data, you might

00:46:28.600 --> 00:46:37.200
 be able to access a different ways. Okay. Anything else on future items? We're ready

00:46:37.200 --> 00:46:45.440
 for on system. I would like to follow up real quick if I could on the question number 15

00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:50.920
 that Councilmember Briggs mentioned. Please. I just wanted to let you know, we are currently

00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:59.720
 working on a transportation ADA planner position. And the city has worked on a new updated job

00:46:59.720 --> 00:47:06.000
 description that also coordinates with our parks department. And we'll be moving forward

00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:11.520
 with that through our human resources department and then possibly getting outside help to

00:47:11.520 --> 00:47:16.760
 advertise that position as it's very unique as to exactly what we're looking for. So we

00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:22.360
 can bring more information back, but please know it is on our radar. I love hearing that

00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:27.600
 ADA is part of the description, which I presume means some background or expertise in that.

00:47:27.600 --> 00:47:32.840
 I know that's been a kind of a sore point from the committee that they want someone

00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:40.600
 to actually, you know, has a background in that. So that's great. Absolutely. Okay. Please.

00:47:40.600 --> 00:47:50.280
 Okay. So yeah, no, that's really great to hear. But would they also have background in like

00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:56.480
 bike lanes and cycling and so just well rounded that that's still part of the description

00:47:56.480 --> 00:48:02.120
 to work on? Yes, ma'am. That's all kind of an inclusive trying to get all the different

00:48:02.120 --> 00:48:07.240
 areas of what we're looking for. ADA, bike lane, transportation type planner, where we're

00:48:07.240 --> 00:48:17.560
 looking at how people get around from a pedestrian aspect or a bicycle aspect. Okay. Thank you.

00:48:17.560 --> 00:48:24.000
 No problem. Okay. Call item C and see what happens. Receive a report and hold a discussion

00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:31.440
 regarding Texas Department of Transportation on system projects in the Denton area. So

00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:36.840
 is this where I start talking? It is. Okay. I'm going to try to share. I'm going to try

00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:56.360
 to share my screen and do the report. Okay, hopefully, I'll see that. Okay. Let me guys

00:48:56.360 --> 00:49:04.200
 size it up a little bit better. So our first report sheet shows the project summaries and

00:49:04.200 --> 00:49:15.720
 what we've we've revamped it a little bit to show basically what that's my apologies.

00:49:15.720 --> 00:49:22.960
 I'm driving while I'm doing all this to show the the projects the let dates and then the

00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:29.560
 construction dollars and then if there's any additional information related to the funding

00:49:29.560 --> 00:49:35.400
 and it'll be in individual reports on the individual report sheets. But this just covers

00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:45.480
 the construction of the projects. So our 2181 North South project is the the first project

00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:51.840
 I like to go over. You've got a a monthly status report from Stacey Clack at TXDOT.

00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:59.380
 And again, they are working through the final stages of the utilities with the city and

00:49:59.380 --> 00:50:08.000
 are starting to move into the general work on the on pavement preparation and the asphalt

00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:12.040
 detours and stuff like that. So we're we're getting close to the end of the beginning

00:50:12.040 --> 00:50:18.800
 and we're fixing to start the roadway improvements on that project. And I'll continue unless

00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:25.000
 I hear somebody asked me to ask me a question. But we're on track to still meet the November

00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:34.880
 2021 second completion date that we've have on this project. Then on Fort Worth Drive,

00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:42.240
 I'll move on to the construction report from Barry Smithy. And I'd like to say that this

00:50:42.240 --> 00:50:47.480
 is a project that the city worked with TXDOT to get back on track by allowing them a period

00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:54.280
 of time that they worked at night. And that that was able to get the project back to being

00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:59.480
 completed on February 2021. So just after the first of the year, this project should

00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:05.800
 be completely open to traffic and we should probably sometime a little after Christmas

00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:13.360
 being able to drive on it is what we call substantially complete. So yeah, that that

00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:18.000
 work that the city allowed the contractor to do at night for that couple of weeks really

00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:23.040
 helped us get back on track on our schedule. So I just wanted to give a shout out to the

00:51:23.040 --> 00:51:32.520
 city on that. Next project that we're going to cover is the 35 Mayhill. We changed the

00:51:32.520 --> 00:51:39.040
 exhibit to show that the project also includes the frontage road from Mayhill North to Luke

00:51:39.040 --> 00:51:45.320
 288. And we're we're in the utility coordination process with all of these utility providers

00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:54.200
 you see listed there. And we're still on track for a April 22 ready to let and then the let

00:51:54.200 --> 00:52:01.400
 currently is scheduled for June. But if we get the utilities completed in time, then

00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:08.080
 we can move up the let date because it is fully funded. So if you'll note that funding

00:52:08.080 --> 00:52:14.920
 on those reports shows 46 million in category two, but a $62 million estimated construction

00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:20.720
 cost because of the addition of that frontage road. And in the current 10 year UTP that

00:52:20.720 --> 00:52:27.960
 is being approved, the category two will cover that cost overrun or that difference in price.

00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:34.640
 So by September into September, first part of October, we'll be able to adjust that number

00:52:34.640 --> 00:52:44.900
 to be equal to what the estimated construction cost is. This is the Dallas drive inner improvement

00:52:44.900 --> 00:52:49.960
 that the purple at the bottom where it kind of shoots off towards the corner. That's Dallas

00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:58.000
 Drive. The intention on this project is to make the frontage road in this area 35 continuous.

00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:04.440
 Right now you exit Dallas Drive and you have to make a left turn across traffic and then

00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:12.360
 come back onto the frontage road. We're pulling out a portion of the ultimate and we're going

00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:21.280
 to be working with tech slot to have a design done that allows the frontage road to be continuous

00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:29.600
 and access the Dallas drive to be more intuitive. And it's got $50 million worth of category

00:53:29.600 --> 00:53:36.480
 two funds on it. And we're not sure that that's going to actually be the actual cost, but

00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:41.280
 that's what we have anticipated. And so that's what we're allocating. And by the end of the

00:53:41.280 --> 00:53:46.600
 year, we should have a consultant on board to begin the design work on this project.

00:53:46.600 --> 00:53:51.280
 And remember, this was already environmental declared back in 2012. So all we're going

00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:56.240
 to be doing is the design and checking out what right of way is needed to be acquired

00:53:56.240 --> 00:54:08.720
 there. Okay. Then your big project, the 35E, 35, 35W merge. We are looking at having the

00:54:08.720 --> 00:54:14.740
 right of way completed at the end of this year. And they are still saying that they

00:54:14.740 --> 00:54:19.280
 believe that with the number of parcels and eminent domain, which is a set schedule, that

00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:28.380
 they will meet that December timeframe. Again, the dollar amount is 319 is what we have currently

00:54:28.380 --> 00:54:35.560
 funded, but it's 335 million now. And again, during that 10 year UTP modification that

00:54:35.560 --> 00:54:41.320
 should happen by the end of September, first part of October, it'll be adjusted to cover

00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:49.600
 the difference in that. We'll report that change in the funding once we have it approved.

00:54:49.600 --> 00:54:55.760
 And this is a project that's critical for Bonnie Bray, because from 380 all the way

00:54:55.760 --> 00:55:02.520
 up to 77, and then we've got the Bonnie Bray South. But once 35 goes under construction

00:55:02.520 --> 00:55:08.160
 in this segment, Bonnie Bray is going to be an alternate route. And so you'll see that

00:55:08.160 --> 00:55:14.200
 we're working on getting Bonnie Bray funded, designed, and constructed hopefully before

00:55:14.200 --> 00:55:29.400
 this January 23 let date. Okay. The northern segments, again, they're fully funded at 546

00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:33.760
 million. We'll cover the difference in the 10 year plan. And this takes it basically

00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:43.120
 from 77 all the way out to the Grayson Ditton County line. And it's got a little bit sooner

00:55:43.120 --> 00:55:48.520
 date because the utilities are a little less complicated in this area. So it's got a December

00:55:48.520 --> 00:55:55.160
 22 let date, which is about a year or so ahead of the other project.

00:55:55.160 --> 00:56:05.440
 All right, your 35W main lanes. The only thing really to point out here is that we continue

00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:11.480
 to move on the schematic for this project in its ultimate. And the reason we're doing

00:56:11.480 --> 00:56:17.160
 that is because of the next project, which is the frontage roads. HNTB has been picked

00:56:17.160 --> 00:56:23.200
 up to be the designer of the frontage roads in this corridor. So they're going to be designing

00:56:23.200 --> 00:56:34.160
 the frontage roads from 114 all the way to the merge. And we are working with staff to

00:56:34.160 --> 00:56:39.960
 identify areas that are critical to the city where they want to start with frontage roads

00:56:39.960 --> 00:56:44.360
 first. So in other words, they don't have to go from north to south or south to north

00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:52.160
 or build it all at one time. They can do segments that promote development as we know where

00:56:52.160 --> 00:56:57.880
 that development goes. So we'll be working with your city staff to identify those areas

00:56:57.880 --> 00:57:04.480
 and to focus on those areas. And again, just recently in June, the project was environmentally

00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:11.520
 cleared. So we are now able to begin the right away parcel acquisition. They're doing the

00:57:11.520 --> 00:57:24.520
 mapping now and we currently have 113 parcels identified to acquire. Then your US 380 project

00:57:24.520 --> 00:57:34.040
 from 288 out to 377, that project let just recently and y'all are taking action. I think

00:57:34.040 --> 00:57:43.160
 y'all approved the the AFA and the and the agreement with text that on on September 1st,

00:57:43.160 --> 00:57:49.480
 it looks like yeah, you did. And so the county's paying it's a $95,000 commitment that the

00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:56.440
 city has towards this 10 foot trail. But the county has agreed to pick up 55,000 of the

00:57:56.440 --> 00:58:06.200
 95. So net net, you certainly only be out to $40,000 for that, for that improvement.

00:58:06.200 --> 00:58:13.280
 And I think that's on Commissioner's Court agenda next week, is my understanding. And

00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:24.120
 again, this project is was awarded to regal construction. And they've got we're waiting

00:58:24.120 --> 00:58:31.840
 up the work authorization contingent upon when the city turns in their $95,000. That's

00:58:31.840 --> 00:58:40.160
 why we wanted to go ahead and do it quickly so that we could get the project led and be

00:58:40.160 --> 00:58:49.200
 awarded. Then your US 380 East project. This is the one east of 377 out to the county line.

00:58:49.200 --> 00:58:58.080
 We're in utility relocation, we expect the right of acquisition was completed in August.

00:58:58.080 --> 00:59:02.880
 And so we are dealing with utilities and this is a significant corridor for utility. So

00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:08.380
 we're really pressing all these providers to make sure you get ready. Our let date is

00:59:08.380 --> 00:59:14.000
 May 21, which is next year right around the corner. So we're, we're pushing hard with

00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:20.240
 these utility providers to make sure that we could meet that date.

00:59:20.240 --> 00:59:30.800
 Lutrede West project. We are awaiting environmental clearance. We've done all of the leg work

00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:35.880
 we needed to do for the public involvement. And we should know by the end of this month,

00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:43.000
 the the environmental clearance on this project. And this project is being included in what

00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:49.440
 the North Central Texas area is calling the integrated corridor. And we'll go over that

00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:56.840
 a little bit. But essentially, Luke 288 West, adding frontage roads to Luke 288 on the north

00:59:56.840 --> 01:00:06.960
 side out to 428. And then 428 out to the outer loop is being included in the integrated corridor.

01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:11.960
 And we'll, we'll be getting that information to your staff fairly quickly on what that

01:00:11.960 --> 01:00:18.280
 looks like. So there's a good chance that we'll get the money for the frontage roads

01:00:18.280 --> 01:00:24.480
 at least. Because now it's not just city and the county interested in this loop. It's now

01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:34.320
 the region and the and text that district. So then your FM 1515 project, this project

01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:39.640
 was environmentally cleared in August. And now we're doing the right away mapping. And

01:00:39.640 --> 01:00:45.360
 we'll be beginning the right away acquisition soon thereafter in our 30. There are currently

01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:51.520
 20 parcels on this project to be acquired. And that's pretty much the only difference

01:00:51.520 --> 01:00:56.080
 since we last met is it's been environmentally cleared. And now we're moving into design

01:00:56.080 --> 01:01:05.520
 and right away acquisition, hilly relocations. And then FM 1173 to the north, we continue

01:01:05.520 --> 01:01:11.760
 to work on the environmental efforts, we had a meeting with crumb. And they had some concerns

01:01:11.760 --> 01:01:17.600
 about how it ties into their old town area. And so we're looking at the term and I the

01:01:17.600 --> 01:01:23.280
 westerly terminal on this project to see what we can do to tweak some of those things, but

01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:27.240
 we continue to move forward on an environmental clearance and we expect to get that first

01:01:27.240 --> 01:01:36.400
 quarter of next year. And then 428, that's that let me see what's on the next one. So

01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:42.040
 on 428, this is that part of that integrated corridor that I think by our by our next meeting,

01:01:42.040 --> 01:01:47.200
 I'll be able to have an exhibit for you to look at. But essentially loop 288 on the West

01:01:47.200 --> 01:01:54.800
 will tie in to 35 here, where you see the loop 28 across the northern part of the city

01:01:54.800 --> 01:02:01.520
 come across loop by the infringe roads and go out for 28 as a freeway. And then somewhere

01:02:01.520 --> 01:02:08.300
 between the outer loop, which is that northern purple line, and loop 28, they're proposing

01:02:08.300 --> 01:02:15.160
 a another east west corridor that would cross over the green belt area and hit the toll

01:02:15.160 --> 01:02:21.560
 road in Collin County. So as soon as we can get that map, we'll get that to you before

01:02:21.560 --> 01:02:27.680
 28 will be absorbed into that concept. So we'll be showing that integrated corridor

01:02:27.680 --> 01:02:35.640
 to you as opposed to this is a standalone project. And then body break phase seven,

01:02:35.640 --> 01:02:41.760
 your staff has been working with the cog and the MPO to get funding for all these phases

01:02:41.760 --> 01:02:49.360
 of body break. And this is a phase that Michael Morris and the RTC continue with our last

01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:58.560
 meeting to communicate their support for funding this project through funding. So we're reporting

01:02:58.560 --> 01:03:05.860
 that to you. Because it's the last tie in on this is the phase six project. So this

01:03:05.860 --> 01:03:12.560
 is what we're working with Michael on to get the funding to get it fully funded. So we

01:03:12.560 --> 01:03:19.440
 get all Bonnie Bray done in time for the 35 projects. I jumped one. I don't know my Roman

01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:23.200
 numerals that well, I guess. So this is the phase seven that I was talking about, where

01:03:23.200 --> 01:03:32.080
 Michael has said that he continues to state the cog and textile fund that segment from

01:03:32.080 --> 01:03:41.200
 that last segment up to 2877 to 288. And that I think is it today. And here's our glossary

01:03:41.200 --> 01:03:49.920
 of terms. And I'm open for any questions if you have any. Okay, if you can pull the screen

01:03:49.920 --> 01:04:03.440
 share down. See if I can spot our council members. Councilmember Briggs. Thank you chair.

01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:08.600
 I have a few questions. The first one, I just want to make a comment and see if you have

01:04:08.600 --> 01:04:14.960
 any updates or answers. Since we met last we've had several people email us about the

01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:22.000
 380 exit off of 35. And I know that that was included in one of these updates, but it wasn't

01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:27.840
 mentioned how that affects the process. And I think you mentioned before there were some

01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:35.560
 temporary things that were going to be done. And we also have received suggestions from

01:04:35.560 --> 01:04:40.840
 individuals on things that may could be done there. Could you address that intersection

01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:46.640
 a little bit? Yes, ma'am. So that's that's going to be improved on the it's where it

01:04:46.640 --> 01:04:58.000
 shows up on the report is the 3535 35 W merge. And that will be ultimately fixed. But on

01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:03.440
 that project, but in the interim, what the district has we've gotten a lot of the district's

01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:07.600
 got a lot of complaints, cities got a lot of complaints, the county's got a lot of complaints.

01:05:07.600 --> 01:05:13.360
 And so what we're trying to do is take what we're proposing in the ultimate, and then

01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:19.680
 do an interim breakout job to try to fix that in the short term. And so I would say probably

01:05:19.680 --> 01:05:26.000
 in the next 60 days, we should have a better idea on what we think we're going to do there.

01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:29.600
 And it's our intent to try to do that as a breakout job. Some of these other ones you've

01:05:29.600 --> 01:05:40.200
 seen us do. Okay, thank you. And if you need us to send you the suggestions that we received,

01:05:40.200 --> 01:05:47.680
 we'll be happy, happy to do that as well. On Sherman on 428, I don't know you may have

01:05:47.680 --> 01:05:54.280
 been aware, with the expansion of the development, there were some painting issues and the shoulder

01:05:54.280 --> 01:06:04.800
 went away. Or is that something that you're familiar with? And do we have a timing on

01:06:04.800 --> 01:06:10.800
 on how that will be fixed where it's not safe anymore for individuals riding bicycles through

01:06:10.800 --> 01:06:17.720
 that section? Are you saying that some of the striping is gone? In that second? Yes,

01:06:17.720 --> 01:06:24.200
 the striping was allowed to be expanded to add a middle lane, which reduced the shoulder.

01:06:24.200 --> 01:06:30.240
 There's no, hey, there's our city engineer who may want to weigh in on that. I'm just

01:06:30.240 --> 01:06:35.920
 wondering if there is information on that because it wasn't on the update. Yeah, I'm

01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:41.440
 not familiar with that. But hopefully some of the city can answer that. And then if not,

01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:47.240
 we can track it down and get it looked at fairly quickly. I can. This is Brian on traffic

01:06:47.240 --> 01:06:52.880
 engineer I can answer a little bit. We are currently working with the developer to amend

01:06:52.880 --> 01:06:57.840
 their permit. We've talked with Tina and she said if they will just amend the permit, they'll

01:06:57.840 --> 01:07:04.920
 prove it to add a couple of feet of pavement to those existing shoulders. I think they're

01:07:04.920 --> 01:07:11.880
 probably three feet or less is what was left after that widening was done. So we are currently

01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:18.440
 working with I believe it is Stark Farms is that development. And so we are working towards

01:07:18.440 --> 01:07:28.920
 a solution with developer and textile at this time. Okay, um, I didn't know if Mr. Pulsar

01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:35.820
 wanted to come and I have another question not about that. Um, on the loop loop west,

01:07:35.820 --> 01:07:42.440
 the date is still 2026. Is that still the date you think or is that going to be moved

01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:48.520
 up a little bit? So the 2026 date is there because it's not funded and that puts it outside

01:07:48.520 --> 01:07:56.880
 the four year window. So that's just there for a placeholder. But the when we get the

01:07:56.880 --> 01:08:05.040
 integrated corridor study back, part of what we'll do then is it'll be the city, the county,

01:08:05.040 --> 01:08:10.560
 the cities in the corridor between 428 and the toll road and the district. And we're

01:08:10.560 --> 01:08:17.560
 going to be talking about timing and funding. And once we get that conversation had, we'll

01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:25.400
 have a better idea on on what type of money will loop to it yet. So that 2026 is just

01:08:25.400 --> 01:08:31.120
 because they put it outside the four year, uh, step window, but they want to keep it

01:08:31.120 --> 01:08:36.360
 on the books. And so they just put it in an out year. But yes, we'll update that as, as

01:08:36.360 --> 01:08:44.400
 we can. But remember, this also is the corridor where if you pull up your GIS mapping, you'll

01:08:44.400 --> 01:08:52.960
 see that there are a ton of gas wells, transmission lines, distribution lines. And so the part

01:08:52.960 --> 01:08:58.760
 of the timeframe that they're allowing is, is that they've had a couple of projects in

01:08:58.760 --> 01:09:04.360
 other places in the district that took a lot longer to do the utilities on that were similar

01:09:04.360 --> 01:09:08.880
 in nature to what Luke 288 is. So they're just hedging their bet on how long it's going

01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:15.600
 to take to do the utilities. But now that we've got, um, like I say, an emphasis on

01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:21.400
 this project, it's not just the city and the county. I think that there'll be more resources

01:09:21.400 --> 01:09:26.520
 brought to bear on this project and we'll be able to expedite the schedule.

01:09:26.520 --> 01:09:31.640
 Thank you. And chair, last, last comment, or I guess question, um, Mr. Polster, you

01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:38.020
 mentioned something about a road going through the greenbelt. Um, what I, that's makes me

01:09:38.020 --> 01:09:44.880
 really uncomfortable. I'm not sure what, um, what road is that you're, you're talking about.

01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:50.760
 So when I get to the outer loop, I mean, the integrated corridor concept and, and text

01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:54.560
 that's still working with cog on some traffic modeling. And that's the reason why we don't

01:09:54.560 --> 01:10:03.520
 have it to distribute, but essentially it's a East West corridor South of the outer loop,

01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:13.040
 which is four 28, the Northern four 28 and North of three 80. And the core of engineers

01:10:13.040 --> 01:10:22.200
 has communicated that they won't allow anything to cross the cream greenbelt other than a

01:10:22.200 --> 01:10:28.440
 regionally significant facility. And so this integrated corridor is a road that goes from

01:10:28.440 --> 01:10:38.080
 35 in Denton, ultimately in the inner first phase to 30 in Rockwall and then from 30 in

01:10:38.080 --> 01:10:46.200
 Rockwall all the way back to Ennis in Ellis County at 45 and 287. So it is a regionally

01:10:46.200 --> 01:10:58.340
 significant arterial. And before we, before cog ventures into those waters, um, they want

01:10:58.340 --> 01:11:03.520
 to make sure that, um, they know what the traffic is going to do.

01:11:03.520 --> 01:11:11.640
 Um, Brian, I'll pause that. I'll just, just going to ask, is that something that we've

01:11:11.640 --> 01:11:15.000
 been looking at in our mobility plan? Is that on there?

01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:19.000
 We actually do have a placeholder. I think a lot of the residents have been calling it

01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:25.400
 the Ganser freeway. So we're showing an intermediate facility tying into four 28, approximately

01:11:25.400 --> 01:11:32.000
 where our Ganser road extension was. So we're, yes, we are in fact, including that at, and

01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:39.120
 we got this information from John as a, just was a pop up a couple of months ago. So we've,

01:11:39.120 --> 01:11:44.920
 we've had it on the mobility plan as a placeholder, a controlled access facility for about two

01:11:44.920 --> 01:11:49.220
 months, three months. I'm, I'm pretty concerned about it. Okay.

01:11:49.220 --> 01:11:54.280
 That's all my questions. Thank you. Do you want us, when we get it to have it as a, maybe

01:11:54.280 --> 01:11:59.360
 an item that we discuss at the mobility committee, once we get the graphics?

01:11:59.360 --> 01:12:05.640
 John, I think there's, there are three items that would probably resonate with, you know,

01:12:05.640 --> 01:12:09.860
 our constituents, the kinds of things we'd get questions on. I mean, that would be one,

01:12:09.860 --> 01:12:15.040
 the widening of the bike lane that we discussed before would be the other end. The thing we

01:12:15.040 --> 01:12:21.500
 probably hear about the most is that, you know, the 35 merge onto 380, you know, whatever

01:12:21.500 --> 01:12:28.540
 intermediate helps are coming there. So I would encourage you to just build those into

01:12:28.540 --> 01:12:31.040
 your discussion. Yes, sir.

01:12:31.040 --> 01:12:37.800
 Anything else? Council member Briggs? No, thank you. Thank you for letting me take

01:12:37.800 --> 01:12:41.480
 the time to ask my questions. Hey, that's what we're here. Council member

01:12:41.480 --> 01:12:52.080
 Ryan, anything at this time? Well, I'll just say that Michael Moore with,

01:12:52.080 --> 01:12:57.440
 with cog has talked about a green bridge. It's something not ever used before for crossing

01:12:57.440 --> 01:13:04.080
 that green belt area. That's going to be significantly unique in the way that it's built and protection

01:13:04.080 --> 01:13:09.880
 of the, the area. That's, that's intriguing. Certainly sounds

01:13:09.880 --> 01:13:15.840
 better than just clowning our way through it. Yeah. So just for your, for reference, there's

01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:24.840
 currently $50 million earmarked in Denton County and category two funds for that green

01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:32.560
 belt crossing. So just the crossing of the green belt, they're, they allocated 50 million

01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:38.680
 bucks because they know it's not going to be a normal, you know, pier and beam type

01:13:38.680 --> 01:13:45.880
 structure. It's, it's going to have to be environmentally sensitive and you know, the

01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:50.400
 Corps of Engineers, they're going to, they're going to get their pound of flesh either way.

01:13:50.400 --> 01:13:57.200
 So we know that it's a, it's not just a standalone type of thing. It's going to be a context

01:13:57.200 --> 01:14:04.820
 sensitive approach. Very interested in hearing more. I have just

01:14:04.820 --> 01:14:10.240
 a general question. You know, we see with all these projects, one of the big, you know,

01:14:10.240 --> 01:14:14.800
 kind of gating items is the environmental clearance. And I wonder if you could just

01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:21.600
 say at a very high level, what are the criteria that are evaluated and does any project ever

01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:27.840
 fail environmental clearance? Okay. So the environmental clearance process

01:14:27.840 --> 01:14:35.800
 includes not only the environmental impact of a project, but the mitigation required

01:14:35.800 --> 01:14:43.240
 in order for it to be approved. So what typically the way it's supposed to work is you look

01:14:43.240 --> 01:14:51.640
 at a project and if it has, if it meets a certain criteria, number of displacements,

01:14:51.640 --> 01:14:58.360
 environmentally sensitive issues, historically sensitive issues, then it, they do a checklist

01:14:58.360 --> 01:15:03.040
 and then they start with what's called a, with a categorical exclusion, which means

01:15:03.040 --> 01:15:10.420
 that it's in an area that's been disturbed multiple times before. And so they're fairly

01:15:10.420 --> 01:15:17.120
 competent of what's in that area and that there's very limited sensitive receptors,

01:15:17.120 --> 01:15:21.480
 for lack of a better word, so they can, they can move into what's that categorical exclusion,

01:15:21.480 --> 01:15:26.440
 which is a lower level of environmental clearance based on what's been done in the past. Then

01:15:26.440 --> 01:15:32.240
 it moves up to an environmental assessment and the environmental assessment goes into

01:15:32.240 --> 01:15:38.600
 in-depth detail on flora and fauna. So it's going to find out if there's endangered species,

01:15:38.600 --> 01:15:46.880
 it's going to do waters of the US, it's going to do air quality, noise, all of the things

01:15:46.880 --> 01:15:52.360
 that you would in your mind understand environmental issues to address. And then it identifies

01:15:52.360 --> 01:15:59.800
 those impacts. And if that impact has a certain level to it, then there has to be a mitigation

01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:05.640
 program. So if there's noise above a certain level and it's, and it's medicable, if that's

01:16:05.640 --> 01:16:11.920
 a word, then the sound will have to be put in. If there are wetlands of the US that are

01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:18.360
 impacted, they have to be replaced somewhere, whether it's on the corridor itself or in

01:16:18.360 --> 01:16:23.840
 some other location that can be found. And then if there are a certain number of trees

01:16:23.840 --> 01:16:30.220
 or whatever they're impacted, they're replaced typically seven to one. So the mitigation,

01:16:30.220 --> 01:16:35.280
 so if you can't, if you can achieve the mitigation, then you're environmentally cleared. So there

01:16:35.280 --> 01:16:42.440
 are, there are times that projects are not cleared. And what happens when a project that's

01:16:42.440 --> 01:16:47.680
 going for an environmental assessment that doesn't get cleared, it doesn't have a finding

01:16:47.680 --> 01:16:52.440
 of no significant impact. It has a finding of significant impact. And so the next step

01:16:52.440 --> 01:17:01.120
 is what's called an environmental impact study or statement, which is a tenfold greater process

01:17:01.120 --> 01:17:08.800
 you have to follow to move forward on a project if you so choose. Typically, if you get a

01:17:08.800 --> 01:17:16.600
 finding of significant impact, nobody goes to the EIS after that because it's terminal.

01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:23.120
 And so the project typically stops. So I've been doing this for 30 years and no, sir,

01:17:23.120 --> 01:17:28.360
 I haven't found any project that hasn't been able to be mitigated once those impacts were

01:17:28.360 --> 01:17:35.260
 identified. I really appreciate that overview. Thank you very much. I think that's all we

01:17:35.260 --> 01:17:45.320
 have of the concluding items. Anybody, anybody caught anything I missed? Hearing no objection,

01:17:45.320 --> 01:17:51.840
 I'm going to move on to concluding items. Councilmember Briggs, do you have anything?

01:17:51.840 --> 01:17:56.240
 I mentioned them before in the matrix, the concluding items, but there was one thing

01:17:56.240 --> 01:18:02.680
 that I would like this committee to review and it's the update on the small transportation

01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:09.120
 projects. I know there were a few still going on and so if we can have kind of updates on

01:18:09.120 --> 01:18:18.240
 this committee regularly about how those are going, that would be helpful. Anything Councilmember

01:18:18.240 --> 01:18:32.400
 Ryan for concluding items? No. I will entertain a move to adjourn. Do we do that or we just

01:18:32.400 --> 01:18:39.800
 adjourn? I'm going to just adjourn. I'm going to adjourn Executive Authority and adjourn

01:18:39.800 --> 01:18:42.720
 this meeting at 10.19 a.m. Thank you very much, everyone.