City of Bloomington, Indiana City Council, 21 Oct 2020

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Okay, this meeting will come to order. It is 6 31, and this is the regular session.

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Of the bloomington common council for wednesday october 21st 2020 will the clerk please call roll.

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I am here scandaloury here rosenberger here, sims here volume here, piedmont, smith, here clarity here.

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Smith, here and sandberg here, online members are here.

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And they're welcome and it's good to see them all. uh Here is a summation of tonight's agenda.

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uh We will have approval of several sets of minutes from earlier this year. uh We will hear.

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Reports from council members uh from the mayor and city offices and we are expecting a report from.

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Planning and transportation uh during that segment we will hear reports from council committees.

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And reports from the public 20 minutes will be set aside for each set of reports. If necessary, we will.

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Hear appointments to boards and commissions and then we will hear legislation for second reading.

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We have ordinance 2017 to amend title 15 of the bloomington municipal code entitled vehicles and.

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Traffic regarding amending chapter 15.26 entitled neighborhood traffic safety program by replacing.

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The neighborhood traffic and safety program with the new traffic calming and greenways program.

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Then we will go to legislation for first reading and that will include ordinance.

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2018 to amend title 15 of the bloomington municipal code entitled vehicles and traffic.

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Regarding amending chapters, 15.12.010 stop intersections to add several stop signs.

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15.12.030, pedestrian, hybrid beacon signals to add a hybrid beacon signal, 15.32.080 no parking zones.

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To add several no parking zones 15.32.100 loading zones to delete several loading zones, 15.32.100.

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Loading zones to add a loading zone, 15.37.020 applicability to delete several streets from zone.

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8 and 15.37.050 fees to add provision a provision about the timing of permit sales.

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Ordinance 2020 to amend title ii, administration and personnel of the bloomington municipal code.

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To establish a community advisory on public safety, commission ordinance 2026 an ordinance authorizing.

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The acquisition, construction and installation by the city of bloomington indiana of certain.

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Extensions and improvements to the city, sewage works, utility, the issuance and sale of revenue.

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Bonds to provide funds for the payment of the costs thereof and the collection segregation.

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And distribution of the revenues of such sewage works and other related matters and ordinance 2027.

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To amend title 10 of the wilmington municipal code entitled wastewater, we will then go to.

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Another uh to additional public comment period, we will take up matters of council.

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Schedule and then we will adjourn with that. We will now go to approval of minutes.

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Mr president, I move approval of the minutes of february 19th, as amended.

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March 4th, as amended july 22nd as amended and october 7th 2020.

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Second, we have a motion and a second is there any discussion on the minutes.

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Yes, sorry, I just thought about it. There was there was actually a very small change.

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Made to the minutes of october 7th between the time that I sent them out of the packet and to.

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When I sent them out to you all earlier, is it a scrivener's error or is it a substantive change.

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ah It was a minor change, but since a couple of them were just minor changes.

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I think it might be appropriate to call it as amended with the others. Okay, if that's okay,.

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Madam parliamentarian, yes so I'll just revise my motion to say that the minutes of october 7th.

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2020 were also amended. Thank you, mr stevens. Would you second please.

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You're muted, but uh you can I'm viewed. Thank you somebody thank you. Thank you any other any other.

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Discussion on the minutes, seeing none, we will go to the clerk for a roll call vote on the motion.

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To accept the minutes, as all four minutes is amended with a clerk, please call the roll.

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Yes, council, member scandalory, yes rosenberger, yeah, sims, yes, bowling; yes, piedmont! Yes,.

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Flaherty, yes, smith; yes, sandberg, yes and rolla. Yes, okay, uh that motion is passed. Those minutes.

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Are accepted or approved, we go now to reports from council members. Are there any reports? I'm.

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Going to start in my uh bottom notes right hand corner with councilmember flaherty.

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No report this evening, thank you: councilmember piedmont, smith, no report, council over smith.

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I, like the report, that a great thing happened in our neighborhood, a man named dick scott.

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Turned 99 years old, and so the neighbors got together. We walked over to his house on tuesday.

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And saying happy birthday to him and then he told us he regaled us with stories of his.

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Some of his 99 years- and uh I I think we uh we all we're all so serious a lot of times and talk.

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About hard things, this was a great thing and uh we said next year we told him we're gonna.

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Blow his house up because we're gonna we're going to have a giant party for him next year.

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Because uh this year we had covet so anyway happy birthday, mr scott.

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Thank you, mr smith. The greeks say: may you live to be a hundred, so maybe we should.

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Wish for him to live to be 110 or so, but more power to him. Thank you. Councilman rosenberger.

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No report thanks. Thank you. Councilmember sims.

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I would just like to say happy birthday to mr scott as well. Thank you. Thank you. Council varallo.

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Happy birthday, mr scott and.

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um He was around for the first pandemic by the way. Apparently I I just wanted to mention that.

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Good point he was quite young, he probably doesn't remember.

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Just to say that I think it's a really prudent that we continue uh non-pharmaceutical.

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Interventions, which is a fancy word or phrase for masking up uh social distancing, washing hands.

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Have I frozen? No, we can't hear you fine, good, okay, keep keeping your hands away from your.

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uh Eyes and mouth and uh because the likelihood is high, that with cold weather.

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Bringing people indoors, um you know we, we may experience another wave of cyrus cold leaf too so.

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So it's important to reduce the transmissibility and uh the way.

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To do it is masks and social distancing, so we ought to be uh vigilant about that. That's all.

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Thank you, councilman uh councilmember scandaluri no report this evening. Thank you. Councilwoman.

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Versus sandberg, I can't say your name thank you and uh speaking of birthdays.

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um It's always great to celebrate birthdays, especially ones in the future. As you know,.

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um I was an early supporter of the captain janeway project and that has come to fruition.

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uh The money has been raised and the statue has been carved and it's going to be unveiled.

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Saturday, at 11 o'clock uh right near um wonderlab uh along the beeline trail.

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And, of course, for those of you who are not a star trek, voyager fans, captain janeway will be born in.

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Bloomington on may 20th, 23 36, and so we're going to start that party a little bit early.

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And commemorate the unveiling of the statue that will be done in a socially distant manner. Everyone.

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Will be wearing masks, it will be live stream for people who are not able to attend and for those.

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Of you who do feel comfortable going out along the beeline trail and the beautiful outdoors.

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Feel free to join the celebration. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman sandberg. I want to echo that I have.

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I found myself discussing uh that issue uh at least a year ago, with both groups that.

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Were interested in it, I'm glad they had joined forces and they made that happen so power more.

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Power to us all, uh I've been to riverside iowa, the future birthplace of james t kirk. So, and I.

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Cannot believe that I admitted that anyway, my turn for a report, uh two things I wanted to say one was.

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I appreciate my colleagues covering for my absence last week at the budget. I regret not being able to.

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Be there uh had I been there, I would probably have voted no in the same way that I had voted uh at.

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Committee of the whole- but uh I you know like that, does not mean that I somehow disagree with every.

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Aspect of the administration's policy, in fact, just yesterday I spoke before the county council.

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Questioning the merit of the proposed new budget of the monroe county fire protection district.

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Because uh I compared it to the bloomington fire department's budget and asked the question uh what.

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Are they getting for their money because their budget is similar, if not identical in size, to.

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Ours, but we put at least 10 percent, more personnel on the ground and 30 percent, more firefighters.

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On the ground for the same money, we have an iso rating of two and we're regarded as one of the.

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Top 1 departments in the state, so certainly that is a compliment to the hamilton administration.

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And the fine work done by chief moore, the woman fire department, um I will say that I did not find.

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Chief dillard's responses to my answers uh entirely satisfying. In fact, I I still.

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Believe that uh the budget is excessive for what they're proposing to do, um I was.

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Not proposing that the city actually take over that service, I simply said if they, what, if the.

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Monroe county fire protection district board of trustees were to ask the city to contract.

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You know to to propose a contract for that service. I think that we could put more personnel on the.

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Ground and provide as good or better service out there, that's just to to highlight the differences.

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Between the two entities, so uh you know, if there's anybody who thinks that somehow the I mean it's.

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Not if it's just about taxes, uh I think that this uh that the budget they proposed is misleading. I.

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Think that there's a certain amount of spite that the people outside the city uh want to show us.

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They, you know anything except being an accent to the city is better, even if it means they're.

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Going to spend extra for fire service that we do more efficiently, we do for a better price, so.

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Anyway, I'm looking forward to working with chief moore to you know study the issue more to compare.

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Line by line frankly how their budget works compared to ours, uh I know that there are a.

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Few things that are different but 81 of each budget in the fbd and here bfd, it's devoted to.

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Personnel- and uh you know we have a top-notch department- I can't figure out why um you would.

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Need to spend more on that, not that firefighters don't deserve more, but there's also, uh you know.

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Like the reality of what the it costs to live in this market, not necessarily the same as in other.

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Markets, at any rate, I you know, still continue to question the wisdom of that budget and, in general,.

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I want my kandy colleagues to know that, despite my questioning of it, you know.

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My goal is to work with uh the county uh and not uh against it, and I wish we could come to.

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Some kind of an agreement with respect to fire with respect to any other service between city.

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And county of how we can work together better and cooperate. I said enough, I thank you all for that.

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Let's go now to reports from the mayor and city, mr president, could I add something? Yes, sir.

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Mr ralph please well, I just want to follow on councilmember sandberg comment and.

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I think uh captain janeway was is going to be a significant member of the federation and I hope.

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That we all realize that we're putting ourselves in the sights of the romulans by having that.

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Marker, but I think it's well worth the risk. We got a meeting to run here. Mr vallo, thank you, though,.

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Thank you for that. Those very wise words: yes, live long and prosper. Counselor sandberg.

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Let's go now to reports from the mayor and city offices, uh I believe who is here to present.

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uh From planning is that correct? I understand that there's a comprehensive plan update.

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Yeah tonight sorry beth rosenberger beth rosenbarger. Welcome, please uh state your.

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Position as well, so we know who we're talking to sure beth rosenberger planning.

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Services manager with the planning and transportation department. Thank you and.

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Okay, are you all seeing my great yes all right? So let's get started okay, so I just said: I'm beth.

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Rosenberger planning services, manager, planning and transportation department and we're here tonight.

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To present some data that we have compiled, uh based on recommendations from the comprehensive.

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Plan we have the whole long range planning team with us tonight. So this is a very collaborative.

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Presentation, let me briefly introduce each team member if amir far sheet long range, planner keegan.

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Gulik zoning and long-range planner and mallory rickville, bicycle and pedestrian coordinator.

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As you all know, and are familiar with our favorite long-range city document, the comprehensive.

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Plan is our long-range plan for land use, transportation and development in the city.

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There's a guiding document, we see it come up a lot when we're talking about plan, commission decisions.

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But this is an overarching document that impacts all areas of the city, so we're here tonight.

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To really focus on some metrics within that plan, so the comprehensive plan has 37 goals in it and.

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Those are outlined across six chapters. Each each chapter also has outcomes, so the outcomes tell us.

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If we're on track with the goals, then it should look like this, and this is the outcome we would.

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See in the community the outcomes themselves then have a list of indicators which are metrics. We can.

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Use to measure if we are living up to that outcome so tonight we're going to present 14 indicators.

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And we intend to do this annually um with more indicators as well, and we think this is important.

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To do because this would, if we didn't check in that, would be like setting off on a road trip.

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For the west coast and not checking your google maps until you should have arrived, so you always.

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Check back in to make sure you're following and on path and that's what we're here to do this evening.

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For each of the indicators we have here, we've used a lot of data sources, but mostly the u.s census.

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And the american community survey also monroe county assessor data and some data from the bureau.

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Of labor statistics, if you have any questions about the data happy to answer that, and we will.

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100 make these slides available to you and post them online mallory awesome thanks, beth.

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So the first outcome we'll be looking at is to what extent does the transportation network.

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Support all travel modes for people of all ages and abilities the indicator that we're looking at.

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Is the percentage of people who are walking to work biking to work, taking transit to work and.

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Percentage of people who are driving alone to work, so we created this chart of commute to work trends.

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2000 through 2017, and I should say that these data are from the us census in the american community.

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Survey and they represent over 33 000 workers in bloomington, so these are people who are going to.

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Work and as you can see from this chart, we are seeing um that uh the vast majority of people.

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Are driving alone to work most recently, our data showed that 63 percent of people are doing this.

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We do see smaller incremental change in public use of public transportation.

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Walking taxicab motorcycle bicycle or other means and working from home next slide. Please.

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And so what we have done is we have taken the mode uh data and we have decided to.

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Splice it into uh demographic differences to show how do these compare across.

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Demographics, such as income, like the slide you're, seeing now race and gender, so um this graph shows.

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The commute cup mode by income level for people who are driving alone and people who are taking.

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Transportation or public transportation to work, and so if it were equally distributed, you would.

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Expect the chart on the left to match the chart on the right. However, you can see the bottom three.

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Brackets comprise most of the area of the chart on the right-hand side, and that is because this.

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Has confirms what we had suspect to already be true from national data, which is that public.

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Transportation serves people who have the lowest income in our community and indeed 84 of the.

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People who use public transportation for commuting make less than 25 000 per year next slide. Please.

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Then we've decided to analyze these data by race so um to orient you to the next five charts.

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We do have uh the purple bar the light. Lighter blue bar um the 63 percent.

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Those um that will be acros the same across all of the different slides, so that is the standard to.

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Which um this is the aggregate data, so this is the standard to which we're comparing um the different.

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uh Race, demographics, that we have information for so, as you can see on this chart, white residents.

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Drive alone slightly less, they carpool slightly more than the aggregate data and.

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They have the ability to work from home or telecommute, so this is from 2010.

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Then then, the aggregate data next slide, please our next most populous race. We have asian.

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Residents and we see that there's a significant fewer number of residents who are driving alone to.

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Work and significant more residents who are using public transportation for their daily commute.

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Next slide for black or african american residents, we see there's a significant difference between.

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The use of public transportation and slightly difference in walking and the ability to work.

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From home next slide for hispanic and latino residents, we see a significant difference between.

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A number of people who are walking to work and taking a taxi cab, motorcycle or bicycle.

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Next slide and then finally, um the last demographic for which we have data available.

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Shows two or more races or some other race, as defined by the census.

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And we see that there are slightly more people who are driving to work within this category.

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And significantly lesser people who are are carpooling and working from home next slide. Please.

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So then, we've decided to take these data and look at them of commute mode by sex, gender.

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And we see that carpooling is the category with the largest difference between male and female.

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Women tend to carpool and walk more, whereas men bicycle and take public transportation more.

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Okay thanks, so the next indicator we're looking at is estimated household transportation, cost.

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This data comes from the bureau of labor statistics, consumer expenditure survey and.

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All the following data will be from 2011 estimate numbers, so this is a map of bloomington broken.

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Down by census, block group and broken down in terms of the annual household transportation costs.

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So it goes a little bit from high low to high, so the green areas spend up to six thousand dollars.

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A year blue six to eight, and then we have eight to ten for the mustard yellow ten to twelve. For.

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The orange and twelve to fourteen small magenta slice that doesn't tell us a lot without knowing.

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How much does somebody have to spend so we take that and divide it by annual median income, so the.

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Household income, to see what percentage is going toward transportation in this one again census.

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Block groups and the same source of data, so we see um it changes dramatically in terms of the green.

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Areas spend less than 10 percent of household income on transportation costs. The blue areas.

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11 to 15 and then in the yellow, orange and pink, it's anywhere from 16 to 57 of household income.

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Now so this just gives us a little bit of the basis of that in terms of annual median household.

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Income 2011 data- this is based on u.s census data, and so we see in the pink these households.

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In these areas are median, income is under 21 000 a year foreign 21 to 35. the mustard yellow 35 to 45.

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The blue is 45 to 70, and the green is the highest income category of 70 to 112 000 for.

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Median household income, so this data is a little bit layered. What I'm walking you through so then.

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You look at housing and the cost of housing as a percent of income. It's generally considered that.

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A household is housing costs burdened if they're spending more than 30 percent of household income.

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On housing, typically, we want to actually see that number of housing plus transportation.

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And the best case would be plus energy costs. We don't have that, but there'll be more in a second.

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So a different indicator we've got to list. It is how many households are housing costs burdened.

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So you'll see in this chart actually only the green areas and the blue areas are below 30.

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So, under 30 of the household income going toward housing in the um yellow, we see 31 to 40 percent.

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And in the orange, um through the pink it's from 41 to 118, so more than people are bringing in.

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So finally, we look at housing, plus transportation costs as a percent of income.

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And it's just nice, I think, to be able to break them down each before you see the total.

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But so I think a good rule here would be 40 to 45, so the green areas are 40 percent of income is.

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Going toward housing plus transportation, the blue area is 41 to 56 and then from there the yellow.

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Is 57 to 72 percent um in these areas and the orange is 73 to 107 so already over 100 and the.

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Pink is all over 100, so 108 through 172 compared to the median income for that census. Block group.

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Okay, next, we have amir. Thank you, hello, I'm amir uh for the outcome of public streets and.

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Rights of a uh have positive public health impacts we have one indicator indicator is.

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The percentage of transit stations and vehicles that are ada accessible next slide. Please.

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uh Based on bloomington transit, a bus stop inventory completed over the summer.

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Of 2019 overall accessibility of transit stations are ranked in four categories.

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91 bus stops are ranked fully accessible. 195 pulsar stops are ranked nearly accessible.

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Landing zones with some grass sidewalks with minor cracks lack of shade or sitting are some.

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Of the characteristics of a stop in this ranking 161 bus stops are ranked difficult to access.

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These are often able to be utilized by a person with disability, but pose significant challenges.

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These stops may have a lack of care cut on one side of the sidewalk, a gravel landing zone.

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Or protruding object and making the past of travel difficult, 83 bus stops are ranked inaccessible.

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These are inaccessible to people with disabilities and most often challenging to access for those.

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Without a disability, mainly because of the lack or condition of a sidewalk leading to a stop and.

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A hundred percent of would transit buses are ada accessible next slide, please. The other outcome is.

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Public parking demands are managed efficiently and effectively to an optimum level of 85 percent.

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Of supply next slide, please, the indicator is two active downtown public parking garages.

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And residential neighborhood parking permit zones a utilization rate nexus like this. uh In order to.

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Calculate the monthly parking garage utilization rate, a staff calculated the average number of.

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Occupied spaces in each month and divided it to the total number of parking spaces in each garage.

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Due to their students absence in the city, public works does not conduct parking. Space counts of.

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June july december and conduct partial parking space counts of may august and november, uh the.

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Highest utilization rate in 2019 was in march it was 84 percent for more than a street garage.

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And it was 72 percent for walnuts to read garage in march 2019. next slide. Please.

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uh To calculate the residential neighborhood parking permit zones occupancy the staff use.

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The number of parking permits sold in each zone in fall, semester, 2019 and divided that number.

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To the estimate number of unnecessary parking spaces in its room, each resident of a single.

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Household detached dwelling in a neighborhood zone shall be entitled to apply for one residential.

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Neighborhood's own parking permit zone 4 has 101 percent of residential parking permit occupancy.

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Since the number of resident parking permits uh sold in zone, four was more than.

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The estimated number of honest ring parking spaces in zone four, some eligible residents.

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By neighborhood parking pyramids and they do not always park on unestering parking.

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Spaces sometimes they park on driveways and other parking spots, and the next slide is for kicking.

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There we go sorry about that, okay, so the next outcome we wanted to look at was uh increased.

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Diversity in neighborhoods next slide um and the indicator for that is neighborhood diversity index.

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To view changes to racial and ethnic diversity in neighborhoods over time next, one so.

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Here's the racial composition of bloomington, based on 2010 data. We chose to start with 2010 data to.

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Establish a baseline for future analysis so that we can look at the racial and ethnic changes over.

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Time also, the decennial census is the only time that a complete count is done. So we're really.

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Looking forward to the 2010 census, data it'll be really important for future analysis for looking.

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At how bloomington demographics are changing, but you can see here that we have broken down by race.

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And compared to the city of bloomington, as well as the state of indiana and the united states. As.

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Well, we see that bloomington is 81.4 percent for white alone. Asian alone is 9.9 percent.

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Black or african american 4.3 and 2, plus races or some other race is 3.9 percent. Next slide. Please.

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For the uh ethnic composition of bloomington, we chose to look at the percent of the population.

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That identifies as hispanic or latino- and you can see here that we have bloomington.

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Is 4.1 percent hispanic or latino compared to the state of indiana, which is 7.3.

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And the rest of the united states is at 18.5 next slide. Please and those charts.

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Are important for giving us context for when we look at the um how race is distributed spatially.

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Throughout the city of bloomington- and so here we have the percent of population that is.

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White by census, block group- um and you can see that even though bloomington is 81 percent white.

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We have some block groups that are as high as 98 percent white, which is uh represented.

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By the dark blue color on the map- and we have a few more maps, I'll just uh go through them,.

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And they will be available afterwards as well. um Next slide, please! Oh sorry! It's this slide.

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um This is the percent of population black or african american by census, block group um even.

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Though bloomington is around 4.3 black, we do have some census block groups that are around 13.

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Black, you can see in the dark blue uh census block group on the west side of town next slide. Please.

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For percent of population asian by census, block group, even though bloomington is 9.9 percent asian.

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We have some census block groups that have concentrations at 29.

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Or 51, which is uh the dark blue census block group on the east side of town next.

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Next slide, please, and for the final map we have percent of population native american or american.

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Indian, as the census defines it by census block group, um this population is less than one percent.

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Of uh bloomington's total population, but we do have some census block groups with higher.

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Populations at one to three percent, which is the darkest color next slide.

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For the next outcome, we have improved access of neighborhood housing to community amenities.

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Employment and essential services and the indicator is the number of parks within a half.

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Mile by u.s census block group next slide, please. So this map is just a map of park facilities.

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With a half-mile buffer around them- and I think this map gives us a good idea of what people's.

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Proximity to parks is like throughout the city. um We hope to do more analysis on this in the future.

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To take into account things like the road network or other modes of transportation,.

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To give us a bigger idea of what access to parks looks like throughout the city, but you can see.

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That um you know most parts of the city are within a half mile of a park. So that's definitely really.

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Important I mean this does also have the golf courses in there as well. Just as I know next slide.

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Okay, so I will uh be leading off the next outcome, which is increase. The range of.

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Affordable housing options that are universally designed and environmentally sustainable.

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Next slide, please, the indicator we're looking at is percentage of dwelling units occupied.

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So here we have a map of the city and you can see that that less than or equal to.

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85 of the dwelling units occupied is shown in the northeast side and that's in the gray.

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And then we have 85 between and just 90, which is the orange.

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And then the yellow color is 90 to 95 of dwelling units occupied and finally, the blue indicate.

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Spaces where there's between 95 and 100 percent of dwelling units occupied.

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Thanks valerie, so the next indicator is a neighborhood housing type diversity index.

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Next slide, and so to show this, we wanted to make a map to help visualize. You know what housing type.

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Diversity looks like in bloomington and to help show how we use land for residential purposes and.

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How that might affect the options that people have for housing and this data comes from the monroe.

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County assessor and that's where the categories came from as well, this is a housing type by parcel.

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You can see the blue is a single family. The green is duplex and triplex. The light blue.

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Is a 4 to 19 units per parcel? The yellowish color is 20 to 39 units.

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Orange is 40 plus, and the pink represents condominiums, which have their own category.

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From the assessor, so that's why they appear as separate from the others and another thing.

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To note is that this doesn't show all of the mixed use housing units throughout the city.

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Some of the labeling was inconsistent on the data, um so we did not include it in this, but we still.

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Think that this gives a good idea of what housing type diversity looks like throughout the city.

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um And we zoomed in on a few of the neighborhoods here, just to give you an idea of you know what.

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Housing type diversity looks like in certain parts of the city, so we have the broadview neighborhood.

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Mcdole gardens and bryant park and these boundaries, the red boundaries, come from a gis.

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Layer that just is the neighborhood association boundaries next libraries, so here we have closer.

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To downtown we have a prospect hill near west side and maple heights neighborhoods, for example,.

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And finally, we have the elm heights east side and barkley gardens area.

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And you know we just hope to look at this more in the future to see how housing type diversity.

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um Affects our options for housing throughout the city.

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Next slide: hey! That's our presentation! Thank you so much. um The comprehensive plan is a.

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Living document that we, you know at some point, we'll be happy to update, but we want to keep track.

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Keep track of it it's available online. We will post this presentation and we will directly email.

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It to council also so we're going to continue to attract this. Do you have any questions.

A

Thank you, ms rosenberg, and everybody in planning who and transportation who made that presentation.

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If you could unshare your screen briefly, so I can see who has questions we may have to put.

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The slides back up, if there's a question that relates to it other members with questions for.

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The planning and transportation team about this- I see council members, scandalery piedmont, smith and.

A

Then rollo in that order, country, brisk and blurry. Thank you. um Thank you for the presentation that.

M

Was fascinating and helpful, um could you talk a little bit about how you included how you studied.

M

Campus housing in that mix, for example, I noticed um that the north jordan extension greek houses.

M

Listed household incomes, as I think, greater than a hundred and something thousand um and their.

M

Units occupied was kind of distinctive, so student housing on campus is kind of different and I know.

M

Greek houses are not on campus, but that kind of presents a different kind of um option in this.

M

Town, could you talk about how you approach measuring those measures in that setting.

M

Does that question make sense? Yes, um so it just depends on the census.

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So mainly, students who fill out the census here are counted here and we encourage them to do that.

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As much as possible, you know to count where your residence is nine months or more of the year and.

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Then, um and also I'm sorry, it is a thing I need to find a bit more out about. I know it's discussed in.

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The comp plan, but I would say, if there's not data, then what happens is the other averages.

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For that census, block group would uh prevail, you know. So if somebody doesn't answer, then it's going.

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To be about the other answers that you do get so when we looked at, um let's see this area.

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Kind of the fraternity sorority row on the north side. um There just are other housing groups within.

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That, I guess it was just the census block group so is probably based on those that did answer.

M

Okay, thank you um and can, may I ask another question or do you want me to hold that for.

N

Another go ahead: um can you go back to the slide about public transit stops um and the number.

M

That are ada compliant the number that are that present challenges. um So if I'm understanding this.

M

Correctly, there are 286 stops that are nearly accessible, they might present minor challenges.

M

And 200, and what 46 that actually do present challenges? Am I understanding that correctly.

M

The buses are accessible, but nearly half of our stops are presenting challenges.

K

uh Yeah, actually, uh you know 90 long bus stops are fully accessible and 195 are nearly accessible. So.

K

These two categories are good enough: uh they they try to actually making some progress, but.

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uh And 161 bus stops are ranked difficult to access and 83 bus stops are ranked inaccessible.

K

So these two categories are the main challenges, so 286 versus 244. um Okay, that's a little worrisome.

M

I will probably want to come back to that at some point. Thank you. Thank you. Councilor piedmont, smith,.

D

Yes, I'm just wondering overall what to make of this data. It looks like.

D

Regarding the indicators you've addressed that the data presented tonight is kind of the baseline.

D

And we really need to come back in a few years and see if our comprehensive plan.

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And our policies, enacted on the basis of that plan, have made a positive difference.

D

Is is that am I interpreting that correctly? I mean all this data most of it is from 2010, so it's.

D

Already old, so are we just? Are we going to compare that then to the 2020 census in a couple years, and.

D

See what the trend is, could you give me just an overall.

D

Interpretation of what this is telling us in regard to our goals. Yes, I agree. It's telling.

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Us the baseline, so um you know this: the comp plan was adopted in 2018. um The complement used.

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Some 2010 census data, but the census uh it doesn't provide account for everything we have in the plan.

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But it's the best for a lot of the things, so that's correct that we will want to update it.

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And see where we're moving, so even some of the specific indicators are like changes over time.

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So we need to look at that over time, since the comp plan has been adopted and not just this.

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One snapshot correct, so are there any indicators we can already? I mean not tonight, but if there.

D

Are there any indicators that we could already have some change data on in the last two years.

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Probably yes, and so uh oh I forget the total number 100 or 200 something indicators um here.

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If you know the number that'd be great, uh so what we're trying to do is at least start tracking them.

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And this is just a first round, but yes, we're going to be looking to bring the comp plan indicator.

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Data together to keep it and how is it more in one place in order to report on that, so I think there.

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Are some but these were just honestly, we chose to focus on housing and transportation, because.

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At least as planners, that's our bread and butter, and we can focus on what we know before. We start.

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To also ask other departments to provide us data, because we alone can't get all the data for sure.

D

All right, thank you guys for ello. Well, my question was similar. I guess I noticed that.

B

A lot of the data was three or even 10 years old, and so is it likely that we're going to have.

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Say next year on uh a better view of change, and will it be a future? There was no reference to.

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Goals there were just indicators here. um Is there going to be another report that.

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Refers to whether uh the change is um you know, evolving toward goals.

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Yeah I mean I think so so it will depend when the 2020 census data is available.

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um In terms of when we could do an update on these specific um data and indicators.

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But basically, yes, I would anticipate that we will be making another and more reports to try to keep.

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Track of either where we're starting or where we are or how much has changed, and it depends.

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On the particular data set for each variable honestly, in terms of how much we can measure.

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Change and at what points in time we can measure change um in terms of goals. I mean yes, I think.

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Part of that is that the we need to use the data as a window into our goals, so.

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If one goal in the plan in the transportation chapter is to prioritize non-automotive modes,.

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So when we look at our commute to work trends, that is, it doesn't just say in the comp plan, this is.

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What it will look like if you prioritize non-automotive modes, it says what the outcome.

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Would be and then different ways to measure it, so I think what we can do. Our best on is providing.

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That data and providing an assessment of that, but that um I sort of think it's up to all of us a bit.

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To say: are we really moving toward that goal um and trying to keep track of the two so.

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Can I follow up uh just just to ask um so the bloomington transit data was only was.

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From 2019, so that's real recent and then there was, uh I think, data from the assessor that was.

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Relatively recent, so the data that we're relying on from um census uh is done very relatively.

B

Rarely are, should we prepare to budget for uh our own, uh you know, ms rosenberger. Can I take this one.

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Yeah, I don't feel honestly uh able to answer that you know like, but I think it's a good thing to.

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Consider because the census, uh you know they do their work in the decennial year, they issue the.

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First report, the beginning of the next year: we really don't see data until july of the following.

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Year, like grand dealer, data started to break it like their first goal, is to abortion congress and.

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Then, after that everything else sort of filters down, but it can take two to three years for a.

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Complete data set from a decennial census to be released and what planning and transportation has.

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Done is used some really like this deep dive data here and the last time it was done. This deeply was.

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Basically, between 2010 and 2013, uh the american community survey is kind of a sampling. It's an.

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Estimate of the census, they can't do everybody every year. They can't count everybody in every.

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Place so I mean a good example. Is I guess what I was getting at? uh Is you know? Is it adequate.

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Or are we going to need to have our own means by which we pull or do a census, to determine.

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If we're meeting our goals, because it seems to me, the census is just isn't often enough.

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um Again, you're, I mean they're going to be able to give you better reports in 2022 and 2023.

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When the data, the new data actually becomes available, uh for example, we're not going to.

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Be able to redistrict the city of bloomington until 2022., it takes two years after the census.

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To get the data in order to be able to do it, the county can't re-precinct the county until.

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202 the end of 2021, so this all takes time, uh but what I would say in fact the question I have for.

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Planning staff is more about back to consumers. Gambillary's question about. um I mean if you.

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Look at the can you put up a map again any of the maps that show the red in the center of the city.

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I mean uh the the area that councilman scandalory pointed out about fraternity row, um whether they.

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Have a yeah that that's it right there, the the green uh area that jordan avenue the! What will.

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Soon not be called jordan. Avenue anymore um is an indication of a problem which is that students.

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Whether they're, wealthy or not tend not to report income but they're counted at the census. Where.

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They physically live, so the result is you've got people. I mean we're. Looking at the center of town.

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Which I don't think anybody here thinks is the uh the lowest rent housing in town and it shows, as.

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Far and away as as utterly poverty-stricken when it's really a reflection of students.

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Who don't report income but who can afford the rent there because they their dependents? For.

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The most part- and it skews all the numbers- and I wonder if planning and transportation is thought.

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About a way because this is a perennial problem, because half the town is students.

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And so it it it is it not creating indigestion for planning and transportation stuff.

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Are you concerned about this sort of things I mean like anybody who thinks that.

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Everybody in the center of town is paying 108 to 172 of their income to live and travel there. I.

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Think that that everyone would agree with me that that's not uh that's, probably inaccurate. So what.

A

Do you guys say to that problem because I think that's a bigger problem than the age of the data.

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Sure I mean I think it's a challenge I I guess I would first potentially not agree with the premise.

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I think we tend to tell one narrative of who a student is when there are also lots of narratives.

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Of who students are where um it might be that they have support from family. It might be that.

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Somebody is completely paying for their housing through student loans and, while that's an option.

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I don't know, I don't know how many people on the council have student loan debt. It's.

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It could be frustrating too, so I mean the cost of housing is something they might be paying back for.

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A long time too, so we just don't know and um I'll say I think it's concerning, but I don't know how.

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Concerning it is when um we know other parts of the city see the same challenges when we know we.

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Have the highest cost of housing in the state, and uh so I don't know so I think it matters. I don't.

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Have a solution to how we should look at that right now. um I think it's something we have to.

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Continue to look at but know that uh you know just like we have a diversity of residents, we have a.

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Students, our residents too, and uh there's a really diverse range there as well.

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I do not mean to paint students with a broad brush. Of course I recognize everything that you.

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Said- and I agree that it is relevant and I don't know what to do about it either. But I think that.

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To to address council morale's concern the I don't think the age of the data is the issue. I think.

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That the I mean, one of the things I'd like to see iu do is collect local addresses uh from students.

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For every academic year so that we can figure out where students are actually living because.

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If all the population that downtown area is students, that's one thing: if it's only half.

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Then maybe we're we're missing something, because we assume that they're all students so uh you're.

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Constable roller, I think, you're right that there might be some benefit to a certain.

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Local collection of data. Well, thanks for sharing your opinion, uh president volin, but I'd still like.

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To hear from the planners, maybe not tonight, but whether it would be justifiable to have our own.

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uh Data gathering and whether to budget for that in the future, so that we can keep current.

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I'll follow up, I think that's something I can ask about for sure. Of course, I can't decide that.

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On the spot- and I think of course, particularly for the comp plan- we would almost have to pick out.

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You know, as far as surveys go the shorter the better, so we would really want to pick.

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Out um what are the most important data that we think we want more frequently and that the.

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Census doesn't adequately capture, maybe for us, as a community. That's what I was thinking. um I I.

B

Didn't mean it as any critical judgment, uh you're working with the data that you have, and I just.

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Want to make sure that you have the tools that are necessary for you uh to be able to keep track.

I

Thanks for clarifying, I definitely didn't take it uh as critical to us. I think it's a neat idea.

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Thanks, thank you councilman. Nor did I any other uh members of the council who have questions.

A

I'm having trouble seeing with the screen shared.

A

Accounts over piedmont, smith,.

D

Yeah, how is it possible that a household can spend more money than they take in.

D

I'm sorry I'm looking at you know: households that spend 118 percent of their income on housing and.

D

Transportation, can you just explain how that comes about? I don't I don't know the answer. I mean it.

I

It is possible um student loans help from family. Also, all of these are medians and averages.

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So that means there's a range in there, um but no other than student loans, help from families.

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And uh other situations, those are the best guesses. I have right now.

A

Counselor smith, I don't have a question. I just want to compliment you all on the display of the.

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Data, the review of the data, the analysis of the data. It provides us some really great baselines.

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For informing what we're doing for the future, so thank you very much. I.

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I would this: this is the kind of data in in review that speaks to me as far as making it.

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Giving me information to make just good decisions, so thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman smith,.

A

Any other comments or questions from members customers, customer sims. Thank you.

G

I also want to thank planning and transportation stat our staff for this data um and as um um amir.

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Stated I think, there's 146 indicators, um something like that in the comp plan and we touched on what.

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11 tonight um I I think that was it, um and I guess that was a lot of information and.

G

And I could see um the data you collected, um but I guess I'm wondering trends. What trends do you.

G

See, and what is in fact is this telling us um it's like one of my colleagues said you know 118.

G

Of your income, what does that tell us and then- and you truthfully said well, I don't know I mean.

G

That's just the data we have, but it would mean more to me than to see what this information.

G

What this data is actually telling us, and, and what are some of the trends? How are we.

G

Assessing it, what are the analysis of that data, um and maybe that will take a couple more years.

G

um Or so, but it would make more sense um to me if I could see trends and then where this is.

G

Leading and what is it indicating um and at some point from an income standpoint, I was thinking.

G

How were the effects the financial effects of this pandemic affect this data moving forward.

G

And I know you don't know that right now, but again, if I'm confused now a little bit on what.

G

This is telling us, then, how confusing is it going to be later, um and I see some help that.

G

Some of it's helpful, but it's just not clear to me.

G

And we can talk about it later, I'm sure, but thank you all for the report. No, those were just my.

G

Comments, so thank you. Thank you, mr sims. Further comments or questions from members counselors.

A

Can blurry? Thank you, um ms rosenberger. Can you put this report in context of what we'll hear from you.

M

In the future, there are 146 total indicators. We looked at 14 tonight. Do you envision us.

M

Looking at the same 14 a year from now and two years from now, do you envision covering all 146.

M

At some point, can you put tonight's presentation in that context? Yes, um definitely both. So, yes, we.

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Plan to report back on these indicators, as well as provide more baseline data and potentially trends.

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If available on more indicators from the comp uh from the cop plan, I would say this year was.

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A little we did 14 indicators in this presentation. This year was our first year so we had. um I would.

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Say there was more work that went into us kind of figuring out a process as a team and figuring out.

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um How we were going to do this and that we feel really confident in doing the presentation next.

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Year that has more indicators in it, um so it might not be next year that you see the update to these.

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Indicators depending on when the data is available, but I would say right: yes, we intend to do at least.

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More indicators and updates in terms of all 146. we've also gone through the list and tried to.

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Identify what we think we can't actually measure um and uh we'll try to provide that information.

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As well so we're not even sure that we can measure all 146 but we're identifying what we can measure.

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Either, by getting the data ourselves or with other city departments um or reaching out to community.

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Partners that might be measuring it, but um yes, that's right. That's really helpful. Thank you.

A

Thank you further questions. Final comments: councilmember flaherty. Yes, thank you for.

O

The presentation just a quick uh request, slash um kind of future item. I was talking to a constituent.

O

Recently, who noted that, even when slides are available after um presentation, uh it's it's.

O

A little less useful to both council members and the members of the public. At that point and and.

O

I sort of understand that staff probably wants uh as much time as possible to refine anything.

O

uh Up to the end, but I'm wondering if in the future we could um post any presentation, materials.

O

From staff, whether it's a mayoral, you know administration, report or um report on legislation.

O

Presentation um if we could like post them to as a packet addendum on the council's website, you know.

O

Even 10 minutes before the meeting starts that way. Members of the public council members could have.

O

Downloaded them and be following along uh easier to kind of look back at um you know the details.

O

On a particular slide and and be able to better articulate your question and that sort of thing.

O

um So I don't know if that needs a response. Necessarily it is a request for staff and and.

O

For um council staff as well going forward, but I wanted to highlight it here, uh so I don't forget.

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Thanks we're happy to consider that, or you know figure that out too counselor piedmont, smith.

D

Yeah, I just wanted to thank the staff for all their hard work. I knew when we passed.

D

The comprehensive plan that all those indicators were going to be a lot of work for somebody and.

D

I am glad that that staff has has been able to take time to follow up on some of them.

D

To give us uh a starting point, and um maybe we can, we can talk at some point uh later about you.

D

Know if, if council members have priorities where they want to have data gathered because 146.

D

You know not all of those are going to to get done. It's just not feasible, so um I would be you know.

D

Pleased, if, if council, could somehow uh discuss with plenty of transportation staff, any priorities.

D

That they may have in obtaining data on one one indicator or another so anyway, thank you so much.

A

Thank you any other last minute, uh questions or comments.

A

I I will say I want to echo counselor smith's idea that we had to start somewhere the fact that.

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City staff is doing, this kind of research is fantastic and I'm very, very happy to, and I've.

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Already learned a lot from some of the maps that I saw tonight, I think counselor piedmont, smith's.

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Question justified comes from rollo's query. We would benefit, I think, from uh targeted local data.

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Research in order to make better decisions, certainly for the reason that I cited because.

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uh Students represent an unusual demographic that skews numbers in more ways than one, um but I also.

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Want to emphasize that, even though the census says 2020, the results of the census, usually don't come.

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For a couple of years, so you know don't expect all the answers next year either we might get more.

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uh Fine-Grained data sets like the ones that planning and transportation staff are working.

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Within 22 and 23. um metropolitan area, data is usually delayed until the third year after.

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But uh you're my heroes for doing this. Thank you. Please keep it up and.

A

The one last thing I'm going to say is, I feel, like this year's census was a catastrophe, because.

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The pandemic came right before census day and for a college town like ours. uh The change of you know.

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Like did students fill out the senses here? um When did they fill out the census, uh I'm afraid.

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That our our numbers might fall, even though in say, 2025, we'll be more populous than ever.

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But we won't be represented properly, so I'm uh gritted teeth, hoping that the census uh proves to.

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um I mean because I am quite confident that the population of women has grown and I'm afraid that.

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It will show an apparent shrinkage which will affect us for 10 years because of the way the.

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Census was conducted this year, so I hope that that won't be. My weird fears won't come true, but.

A

We won't know for a couple of years yet so thanks again and it's time to move on. Thank you all for.

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Your presentation, thank you, send us those slides. Yes, it was really a team effort. I know I answered.

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All the questions, but thank you and thanks to the whole long range planning team, thanks team.

A

All right, let's go now to reports from council committees. Do we have any.

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See none will go to reports from the public if there's a member of the public would like to address an item. That's not on tonight's agenda.

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Please use the raise hand, function in zoom or type into the chat, and I think mr lucas tonight will be.

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Acknowledging speakers mr lucas.

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Yes, first up, we have mr jim shelton, who should be uh able to unmute himself. Mr shelton go ahead.

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Good evening castle, jim shelton, with the greater bloomington chamber of commerce, is speaking right.

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Now, on behalf of casa's or court, appointed special advocates want to update you and the.

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Community on our latest training session, which started on monday, I'm very happy to report that.

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The community has really stepped up to all the information that's been provided about the impact.

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Of kobe 19 on stresses to family, and we have 20 people who started training who have signed up.

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For training that started on monday, they should be having their second class right. Now, as we speak, I.

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Want to thank you guys, the county council and the commissioners for letting us speak at your public.

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Comment times to help get people aware of of the need for causes and the situation that we're in.

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Hopefully, this will help take care of the 50 children that are waiting right now for.

Q

Casas but sadly this is just going to be the first step. The stress from covet is going to.

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Continue, we really fear it's going to get worse as things like eviction, freezes, wear off and some.

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Of the special economic helps end and then just the length of time that this has been going on.

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Is really wearing on families and sadly a lot of times. That means the parents will turn.

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To drugs or back to drugs, they will be neglecting their children or they'll, be.

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So frustrated that they take it out on their children and physically abuse them. So with that.

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Bummer I do want to thank everybody who who has helped get this 20 person class together. I want.

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To make sure everybody realizes that we will have a session again in the winter it'll start february.

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9Th so I know there were a number of people who were thinking about this and just couldn't.

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Pull the trigger and do it this time so they've got a couple months to learn a little bit more.

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They can call three two 323-2272 and talk to the staff or go online to monroecountycasa.org.

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Click on the volunteer link and then you'll find a frequently asked question page casas.

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Are really important to children who are in the system because they've been abused and neglected.

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Statistically, if a cause is involved, the cases don't last as long the kids are not.

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In foster home as long they're, far less likely to ever have to come back into the system again.

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So I invite people to please think about this and look into it. Applications will be due sometime in.

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The middle of january, which will be here before we know it, so thank you guys again for letting me use.

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Some of your time to talk to people and thank all the people who volunteered to help recruit these.

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Volunteers, who will actually work with the children? Thank you.

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Thank you, mr shelton appreciated. Are there any members of the public would like to speak.

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On an item not on the agenda, please raise your hand and zoom or type into the chat. Second call.

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Final call for public comment.

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And with that we'll close public comment and move on to appointments to boards and commissions do we have any such.

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Seeing none we'll move on to legislation for second reading. Madam parliamentarian.

D

Yes, mr president, I move uh ordinance.

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2017 be introduced and read by the clerk by title synopsis. Only second, we have a motion in a second.

A

uh Will the clerk please call the role on the motion to introduce.

C

Yes, councilmember rosenberger, yeah, sims.

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Yes, yes, piedmont, smith! Yes, clarity! Yes, smith! Yes, sander! Yes, rollo! Yes, scandalory! Yes,.

N

Thank uh that you is accepted. Will the clerk please read by title and synopsis.

C

Ordinance 2017 to amend title 15 of the bloomington municipal code entitled vehicles.

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And traffic regarding amending chapter 1526 entitled neighborhood trade traffic safety program.

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By replacing the neighborhood traffic and safety program with the traffic calming and greenways.

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Program the synopsis is as follows. This ordinance replaces the city's existing traffic calming.

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Policy, the neighborhood traffic safety program with the traffic calming and greenways program.

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Developed by the planning and transportation department, the traffic calming and greenwoods.

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Program sets the standard for the prioritization and placement of neighborhood traffic calming and.

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Related traffic control devices and requires a consistent procedure for resident, led and staff.

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Led processes, your committee recommendation is: do pass four: zero. Zero. Thank you, mr president. I move.

D

That ordinance 2017 be adopted. Second, uh who is here to present uh that would be me ordinance, 2017.

A

That would be mallory mallory, oh mallory rickfield. Please go ahead, yeah great, um so hi! Yes, my name is.

J

Mallory rick bile, I'm here to let me just start my timer um I'm here to present on the traffic.

J

Calming and greenway program this has been a project. I've been working on for almost two years.

J

So I'm delighted to talk to you about speed cushions tonight so next slide. Please.

J

So here's what we're going to discuss, I'm going to give you.

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Some background information on what exactly we mean by slow streets and I'm going to explain.

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How slow streets are safer and more equitable? I'm going to discuss some of the processes.

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Involved with the current traffic calming program, the ntsb I'm going to talk about.

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The proposed traffic calming program and discuss why we need a resident and a staff-led process.

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And then we'll get into the weeds a little bit and talk about some of the program. Deliverables.

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And internal considerations that we've had in the formation of this policy and then have time.

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For questions and comments, so why do we? What do we mean by slower streets? Essentially, we mean.

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Speed limit compliance or going the lawful speed, not breaking the law, not speeding. So why is that.

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Important um is because um speeding harms people slower streets or safer streets next slide. Please.

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So um many of the principles that I have that discuss how speed affects the.

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Severity and the likelihood of crashes um are principles that stem from the laws of physics.

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So I don't have a background in physics, um but um if you do have any questions on some of these, I'm.

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Happy to provide those information, but to keep it moving along. um Speed affects the severity.

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And likelihood of crashes, which increases harm because they yield more force, more speed.

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Narrows the field of vision for the person who is driving, speeding, vehicles, travel a.

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Greater distance before the brakes are applied, speeding, vehicles, travel at greater distances.

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Before stopping and speeding vehicles are more prone to over and under steering next slide. Please.

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And that's why we see this exponential relationship as to how the impact of speed.

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Affects fatal injury, as you can see on this chart, that is from the u.s department of transportation,.

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At 20 miles per hour, a collision between a car and a pedestrian we'd expect the fatality rate to be.

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At 10 percent, however, um if you increase that by 20 miles per hour, you see the fatality rises.

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To 80 percent- and I also want to point out that, while injuries that are not fatal, they are also.

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Very traumatic and they can seriously impact one's mental, emotional, health, financial, health for the.

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Person who is harmed and their family next slide please. We know that speeding harms people on local.

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Streets- and um this is from the national highway and traffic safety administration, and we see that.

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Speeding is involved in 37 percent of fatal crashes on local streets, which is eight points.

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Higher than any other road typology next speed or next slide, so how did we get here.

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Essentially, um neighborhood design, post 1950 has created the perfect storm where speeding.

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Has become intuitive so the chart that is on the top of the screen. You see a cross section.

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Of an early 1900s residential street, which is characterized by a narrow street, with a sidewalk.

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And houses that are closer to the street um and uh and below you see um the.

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The development that has was born of the post-world war ii economic expansion, um which is.

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Characterized by amplified curves there's lots of parking which is available on the street. However,.

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There isn't a demand for the street, so the res or for the demand for parking, which has resulted.

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In parking that um or has resulted in streets that are very wide, we have setback houses.

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And this picture in particular, has sidewalks included. However,.

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In most divisions, there are no sidewalks and there are no alleyways next slide. Please.

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um So here we have some of this design as it exists in bloomington. um This is in lexington.

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In the park, ridge neighborhood just north of campus- and here you can see the setback, houses.

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The amplified curves the wide streets, the areas for parking that is often not utilized.

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Next slide, please: this is uh on olytic in north bloomington and you can see um we have the same.

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Characteristics and we have the residents who have taken it upon themselves to tell drivers to.

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Drive the speed limit of this area next slide, and this is hawthorne and you can see the difference.

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So we have parking, that's on the side of the streets, but we do have a narrower street and so.

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Cars that are approaching each other will likely slow down, because they see that the road has.

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Become more narrow next slide, please so why are slower streets more equitable streets next slide.

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So incomplete streets, which are the streets that we are discussing here, are known as ones that are.

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Designed with one user in mind, drivers instead of a range of users which we have in our community.

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A single user might- or it might not have been, the intent of the person who designed the.

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Streets, however, that is the outcome that we are seeing and what we see is that the uh incomplete.

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Streets are especially dangerous um for people of color, um the pedestrian fatality rate for latino.

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An african american is over 60 and 75 percent higher, respectively than for white residents.

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We know that low-income communities are disproportionately affected by these streets in.

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Counties where more than 20 percent of households have income below the federal poverty line.

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We see the pedestrian fatality rate is over 80 percent higher in that than the national average.

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In those areas, I'm going to show you some local data in the next two slides that will show how.

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This relationship occurs in bloomington living near a major road or an area of high traffic.

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Density is associated with adverse health outcomes such as asthma, copd and cardiovascular disease.

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These factors are amplified when car centric communities which, having access.

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To nutrition's, nutritious foods, places to be physically active, require the use of the car.

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This will limit the ability for those who can't drive, who can't afford to drive, who don't want.

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A car or who are too young to drive to be able to attain these resources without relying on someone.

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Else to provide them for them and finally, we know that 60 of people who fall into the category of.

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Interested in biking for transportation, but are concerned for their safety, a disproportionate.

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Number of these people who fall into this category are women. What would it mean for equity if we had.

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Streets that allowed two car households to become one car household, thereby reducing the yearly.

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Expenses, which, on average constitutes between seven thousand and nine thousand dollars per year.

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Next slide, please, so this is a map that we've overlaid, housing and transportation cost as a.

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Percent of the median income. You may remember that one from before the areas in red and orange.

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Indicate areas where there is less money at the end of the month once these expenses have been.

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Counted for and the purple dots indicate crashes where a person has been injured. As you can see,.

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The way that these data are dispersed, we see clustered areas in areas where the cost of housing.

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And transportation constitutes a greater percentage of this income next slide. Please.

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I then recently uploaded our third, our 2013 through 2018 crash data for the bloomington.

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And monroe county, where a pedestrian was involved into, what's called the spatial equity tool from.

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The urban institute- and we can see that, based on the spatial assessment of these data, it shows that.

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Census tract where low-income residents live, renters, unemployed, renters and households with.

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Limited english proficiency are over represented in areas where crashes are involving a pedestrian.

J

Next slide, please! um So in 2012 there was a special committee on street design as.

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It relates to the traffic calming policy and they concluded um that some of the key record.

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Recommendations were to rewrite the ntsp to reduce the process to 12 months, to make a review by the.

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Bicycle pedestrian safety commission and to create a scoring system for potential poor potential.

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Prog projects, sorry next slide, please and then our comprehensive plan and our city supported.

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Goals also say that it is time to update the ntsp next slide. Please, and so, when I talk about the.

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Ntsp, um I want to give you a little overview of this process, and um this is more of a summation.

J

I'm happy to go into more detail, however, um just to kind of stay on track with time I'll.

J

I'll point out, the key highlights so um there's only a resident-led process and we know that the.

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Barriers to entry are very high and I'll talk a little bit about that in just one moment.

J

The current requirements, favor residents, who have the time and the privilege and the trust in the.

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Community that they will respond appropriately when they are bringing their concern about.

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Traffic calming to um to the forefront and then metrics are not connected to any sort of outcome.

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Or any indication of the success of the metrics, so just to give you a sense next slide, please.

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I talk about the application process and how that presents barriers. This application requires a.

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Meeting where the residents were had to receive notice that the meeting was happen, it requires.

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Two signatures from city council and it requires 51 percent of affected households to sign the.

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Petition so in it two years ago, when we tried to get traffic homing installed on countryside.

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um This required um 146 signatures from the neighborhood, which would have not been possible.

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Without the efforts of a trade champion within the neighborhood, who had the passion for traffic.

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Calming to be able to organize that group of people next slide, please the next process or the.

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Next process in in this um policy is the public meetings and bpsc approval, and so the meetings.

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Generally start out between the engineering department and the neighborhood residents.

J

And then there's also a meeting between bicycle pedestrian safety, commission and the residents as.

J

Well and in my experience having both lived in an area and being the staff liaison through different.

J

Portions of this in the broadview neighborhood, which was tried to be passed two years ago,.

J

This is a point where it gets to be very difficult to build consensus, because you have a lot of.

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People who are entering at different times in the conversation- and it is the and the expectation.

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That the city might be able to do something that is far more um costly, such as the installation.

J

Of sidewalks, usually, is something that we can't do. Speed cushions are the most cost efficient.

J

Efficient and effective means that we have, and so it is difficult to get people excited about.

J

The idea of installing traffic calming when it is a speed cushion than a sidewalk, and so that made.

J

It difficult to build consensus around the time that is most important in this process and that.

J

Is the next step next slide? Please, and that is the resident ballots, and this is the step that is very.

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Difficult for residents to be able to um meet, and it requires 51 of eligible households to vote in.

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Favor, so this is not 51 of the ballots returning being in favor. This is 51 of all. Households must.

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Return, those ballots and those ballots must say that they are in favor of something that is as.

J

Difficult to capture the hearts and minds of as traffic combing can be, so this exceeds any level.

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Of participation that we would typically see for any presidential election, much less speed, bumps.

J

And finally, this requires the approval from council and from the board of public works. This.

J

Is all theoretical because, as far as the records that we have going back, um I cannot find a project.

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That has made it to this step following the process that I've laid out with fidelity next step.

J

So then, we're creating a new policy and we decide that we want to have two processes.

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A city-led process and a staff led process, and this is to for two reasons, number one. It allows.

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Us to respond quickly to public safety concerns without having to wait for a neighborhood to.

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To be able to organize and have the meetings that are required and also it allows us to implement.

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The high priority byte network, and currently both of these are impossible for the city to do the.

J

Way that the current code and program are written next step, please so that here we're starting with.

J

The resident-led process of the uh proposed policy- and this will run much like a grant.

J

So the um bicycle: pedestrian safety, commission they're the green dots. They will work to release.

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An evaluation methodology in november of every year and this evaluation methodology will have two.

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Main areas that they will be looking at number one: the prevalence of vulnerable road users, so.

J

These are children, these are um people over the age of 65. This is people who live in cost.

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Burden, households, and as well as incidents of behaviors that are likely to cause harm.

J

So that is speed data, that's crash data. That's is there a presence of sidewalk things of that nature.

J

So once this evaluation methodology has been created and released to the public.

J

um Will request projects from the public with a special emphasis on reaching out to neighborhood.

J

Associations and people who have emailed me about speeding in their neighborhood, I tend.

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To get about three to five of these every week or have submitted a you report about illegal speeding.

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Behavior in their residential neighborhood, I will be reaching out to them to let them know.

J

That the grant cycle is opening and we're we're going we're looking for projects.

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When we receive applications, we'll notify affected households, network users and invite them to.

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Attend a project hearing much like the process that we have for a planned commission project.

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And then, from there, the high ranking projects for which we have the resources to fund will go to.

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Installation evaluation and the final stage where there will be a report that will show the trans.

J

In with transparency, the effect of the program has on reducing speeds in residential neighborhoods.

J

And be able to inform other residents of the benefits of these installations next slide, please.

J

The staff led process is a little more streamlined, and, ultimately, that is because the projects that.

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Are intended for this process have been selected through the 2019 transportation plan, which is.

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The high priority bike network there may be cases where we may need to respond to an issue.

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That we find, but in in the large part these these projects are already picked out for us.

J

So in this process um there will we will notify the households will have design meetings where.

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We'll meet with affected house housing units and network users in the instance that it's a.

J

Greenway there will be an open comment period for the public to submit questions, comments, thoughts.

J

And then again much like the resident-led process and any planned commission project. It.

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Goes before a body to review- and in this case it's the bicycle: pedestrian safety, commission.

J

From there uh proposed projects which are able to be funded and installed, eval.

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Will be installed, evaluated and reported upon.

J

Next slide, please um so the program deliverables, I've gotten a lot of questions about what will.

J

This look like on a yearly basis, so um what we envision is that we will spend about fifty.

J

Thousand dollars of our alternative transportation funds on traffic calming, um and so that's um that.

J

Given that um a pair of speed cushions, um if they are installed um in a pair, are about five thousand.

J

Dollars it would suggest, then, that we would be able to install about 10 sets of speed.

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Cushions per year, which we envision will be about two projects per year, with this funding.

J

And I do want to clarify that. There's a difference between the speed cushions that we are seeking to.

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Install and the speed cushions that you find in parking lots, so we have the picture up here.

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On the on the top of the screen that has more of the speed cushions that has been designed for the.

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Space and to curb the behavior that we are seeking to remediate so driving above 20 25 miles per hour,.

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And then below you see your typical parking lot speed cushion where it requires almost a full.

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Stop before creeping over, and so that's not what we are talking about, we're talking about um a more.

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Designed and a more um um a more uh purposeful um installation, given the space and the the behavior.

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That we're trying to um support um and then there will also be the possibility of bump outs pavement.

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Markings and signage changes with the typical resident-led installation next slide. Please so.

J

Then we've had some conversations as staff as to what should this policy look like and just to give.

J

You some ideas of some of the back and forth that we've had. We wanted to include a removal process.

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But we wanted to make sure that the funding that we are putting forth towards traffic calming.

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Was going to be used efficiently, so we wanted to make a process that made it um possible, but not.

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Too easy so that like when we would put in a traffic calming installation it, we didn't.

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Want it to risk it being removed immediately, because change is often difficult to approach.

J

The annual cycle versus on demand, we felt that a consistent process which.

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Would allow for predictability and for staff who are running it to be able to provide.

J

That for protect for potential applicants, there seems to be a seasonality with people who are.

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Worried about speed non-compliance, behaviors that tends to be in the spring and in the fall, and so.

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We felt that we could best serve that um in the beginning of the year for the purposes of funding.

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Or allowing us to um to, I like identify um how much funding we needed for each of these projects.

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As well as to um help provide an uh conduit for action among residents,.

J

And then uh is it too complicated, um so I do feel that the process is nuanced. There.

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Are two processes instead of one, but most residents will only be um have interacting.

J

With the resident led, which has less barriers to entry and implementation than the current.

J

Policy has next slide and that's that's the presentation questions comments. If you could.

A

Unshare that would help. Thank you. Thank you very much for the presentation. uh I understand. There's.

A

At least one amendment uh prepared here, but I'd like to have an initial round of questions. First.

A

Are there any questions for ms rickville.

A

Councilmember piedmont, smith,.

D

Yes, thank you very much for your excellence. Oh I'm! Sorry, uh council, member, piedmont, smith. I.

A

Forgot that there is a committee report uh on this. uh Ms rosenberger, can you.

F

Sure so the transportation committee met october 7th and we went through this presentation. Ask.

F

Questions and then recommended this to council 400.. um The summary of that is in the addendum.

F

That was sent out today, if you want to skim through that or read through that.

F

While we ask questions and talk about this, so we mainly focused on the need to.

F

You know calm illegal speeding. This is about uh cars that are driving too fast, uh with posted.

F

Speed limits you know on streets across the city and that the the existing program hasn't been.

F

Successful in getting any street calming, I think, for the most part, because the barrier.

F

To entry here has been too high, so we for the most part like the changes in it. Let me see, I did say.

F

um I I questioned one of the numbers and I'll talk about that in my amendment, but just that.

F

I wondered if having to get the lesser of 51 or 24 signatures might be too high. The 51.

F

Might be too high for uh places where we might want this? um That don't have.

F

That many homes and I I'll show that later, but so we talked about that a little bit.

F

At at the committee meeting I I would say we all liked that there are two processes here, so that.

F

Staff will be using the bicycle priority network is that it bicycle priority network to select.

F

Traffic calming projects, and then there also be what is essentially a grant application process.

F

The residents lead on their own and I I would say the the rubric that was presented.

F

For um I would again say extreme transparency and how.

F

The resident-led project would be scored is also very good.

A

Thank you. Were you going out of questions? I saw councilwoman piedmont, smith.

D

Yes, um thank you. I wanted to uh just ask about uh you uh miss rickbile. You said there were some.

D

Internal discussions about a removal process um and uh staff decide there should be one.

D

But it shouldn't be too easy. So what is the removal process or is that still in the works.

D

um Let me pull that up quick. um I believe it requires.

J

Signatures from a majority of residents and then it also requires a seven-year waiting period.

J

Between when the traffic calming has been approved to when a neighborhood could.

J

um Take steps in order to have them removed, um and then um let me let me just pull up this could have.

J

Updated, of course, there's like seven files that all have similar names- okay um and.

J

And then I think that also needs to be approved by the bicycle: pedestrian safety, commission.

D

Yeah, I suppose this was in the.

D

In the longer document that we received, so I apologize, I missed it. It's okay, yeah.

D

um Is there any recourse if.

D

You know sooner than seven years, if, within a couple of years there are.

D

Obvious negative traffic impacts, for example, for the neighborhood or emergency vehicle impacts.

D

That were new or unexpected. Is there some way? You know in case of an unusual situation where.

D

An effort could be made sooner for removal. Yes, um so we have another.

J

uh Clause, I guess, within the policy that says, that um the city, uh the planning department,.

J

um We can um make changes if there is a situation which we find is an issue of public safety, so.

J

If, by installing a traffic calming installation, which is something that we don't envision, would.

J

Happen um with much frequency, but it is possible that um that, if we feel that that installation.

J

And it being, there um presents a risk that is higher um or presents a risk to public safety.

J

Then our department staff has the ability to go in and make changes um in a timely way, but it.

J

Requires the um I believe, it's the city engineer, to follow up um within 180 days to present.

J

Why that that change needed to be needed to happen as well as if there are changes and modifications.

J

Just after placement of the traffic calming policy, we do have the ability to make minor changes.

J

Which includes like the location of the cushion devices as well all right. Thank you very much.

A

If you could please unshare, thank you further questions from members. I see it. Councilman vero, rallo.

B

Just to follow up my question was about before implementing some change.

B

uh Will you solicit input from fire ambulance, cmt police uh before something is implemented.

J

Yes, that is in step two of both or step two of the staff led process and then shortly after.

J

The applications of fundable projects come in for the resident-led process.

B

Okay- and I had another question, may I please uh well it had to do with uh we made a change.

B

uh In uh having bicycles uh allowed on sidewalks a couple of years ago, and I know of a couple of.

B

Crashes that involve pedestrians and bicyclists. Do we keep track of that data.

J

um I believe we cyclists and pedestrian crashes, or are you oh, so a cyclist hitting someone who's.

J

Walking, that's right, I that's a good question. I don't think that we do. I know that these are very.

J

Rarely reported, um if at all, um and so any data that we might have if it is between a cyclist and.

J

A pedestrian I would say I would question the representation of that data, given that we know.

J

That there tends to be um people who, who just don't report those those instances.

B

I see um so, in other words, uh that data may not be obtainable.

B

You're implying that, unless it's reported obviously- but um I mean these, two incidences were.

B

Pretty severe, um so uh it would be interesting to know I don't know if it obviously if it goes.

B

Unreported, if the person doesn't report it that's problematic, but um you know I again going back to.

B

You know a bicycle as a vehicle and impacting a person who's walking, especially elderly, can be.

B

Pretty severe, uh but in any case um oh I'll, have to maybe follow up with that with you on that.

B

Thank you sure, I'll add just a little clearly there's beth rosenbarker. um We just have two ways.

I

I mean basically, we get crash data from the state and that is from police, uploaded crashes.

I

So that would be how we could find out about a crash and then otherwise, if someone tells.

I

Us so we have a new report system that could be used for that people also report near misses in.

I

Your report, which is useful as well since um you don't have to have a crash for a situation to be.

I

Dangerous, but yes, somebody we wouldn't have a way of knowing other than those, so it would require.

I

Somebody reaching out to tell us if the police weren't called to report this yeah. Okay, thanks.

A

All right further questions. First round questions I see councilmember sims.

G

Thank you. um Actually, I was just wondering if someone could define.

G

Affected housing units that are impacted by the traffic calming installation. How is that defined.

G

Is that just the residents or housing units in that particular block of the street? Or so it's not.

G

Taking into account sits as part of a neighborhood, so the way that we have affected housing units.

J

Defined is it's the residents and property owners of record that are located within two lots, but not.

J

To exceed 300 feet of streets that are affected by the proposed traffic, calming installation.

I

Okay, it's the same definition for outreach used by the planned commission.

I

And that's kind of how based it in this context.

G

G

All right, thank you.

A

uh Councilmember scandaluri. um Can you yes thank you, um mrs rickfield. Can you put that back up.

J

Sure that's beth, but yeah she's, the one who's coming to me with the slides yeah. Oh thank you.

M

Beth, um I just want to follow up on council member sim's question and double check. My understanding.

M

Here so residents and property owners of record located within two lots not to exceed 300 feet of.

M

Streets affected by the proposed traffic coming. So if xyz street is considering a speed, cushion.

M

Everybody on xyz street is considered an effective housing unit and residents on surrounding or.

M

Adjacent streets as long as they're within two lots are included. Is that correct? um It depends on.

J

The defined area so say, for example, it's just two blocks of a certain street. Then it would.

J

Be with it wouldn't be so say, for example, if it was house street, it wouldn't be if it was just.

J

For one or two blocks of house street, we wouldn't measure all of howe street for the purpose of this.

J

Program just the blocks that are surrounded where that map has been identified in the application.

M

So so in the second part, you would take a speed, cushion and kind of draw a circle around. It.

M

With the 300 foot or 600 foot rating diameter, I guess well, the the neighborhood residents would.

J

Create the map, and then as long as it is on the uh street typology, which is um intended.

J

For this program, so the residential street or the residential connector, then we would be able to.

J

Create a map from there and then determine the boundaries for the affected housing units. Okay,.

M

Thank you for clarifying that, um and also I appreciate I didn't even start by saying this.

M

But thank you. This is very exciting and I so appreciate the hard work you've done on this.

M

um Could you talk a little bit? You mentioned the bike, ped commission, but could you also talk about.

M

um Ways in which you've involved the public in shaping this new policy. um I know that hoas are.

M

Very active in the district I represent, so I would be interested in hearing more about.

M

That yeah the um so in addition to working on writing the policy for the past year and a half.

J

I also worked on two um initiatives to try and have traffic homing, past or or the navigating.

J

The ntsp, which is for the neighborhoods that are surrounding summit elementary school.

J

And then uh the neighborhoods surrounding broadview and I talked about those in the.

J

Presentation I live in broadview, so I was able to kind of see all of these processes from the three.

J

Different um aspects of of how the all of these sort of traffic calming um uh processes are sort.

J

Of revolving around my life, and so I had this really interesting sort of ability to go and.

J

Talk to my neighbors after the fact after we weren't able to get it passed and talk about.

J

um How difficult they felt that the the process was or how they felt that you know getting 146.

J

People to sign signatures just really like for the for merely just installing eight speed cushions it.

J

Just really didn't feel like it matched sort of the level of participation that they felt.

J

That they wanted to have for a process like these. Considering that speeding is the illegal behavior.

J

um So there there was that, and I do talk to about three to five residents in a week. I'm there's.

J

Some seasonality, but that's about 100, to 125 people who are at woods ends and they feel like.

J

They have issues with speed non-compliance in their neighborhoods and they feel like this is.

J

A risk for them, it's a risk for their children and um walking through them through that process.

J

Of everything that needs to happen, you can kind of start to feel the people begin to be.

J

Demoralized and feel like this is this is really onerous, and so, ultimately, it was because of that.

J

I decided that I really wanted to work on on making this process, something that could actually.

J

Work to empower people to to make their streets safer great. Thank you. So much and again, good job.

M

Thank you. Okay. uh First round questions councilman rosenberger thanks. I have a question about that.

F

uh Traffic calling project uh in broadview- I guess two of them. Okay, you said you needed.

F

146 signatures, so there were about 300 households. Yes, there were three.

J

32 146 times two, I'm sorry my math. uh It was almost three but.

F

Just something like that, it would be like under just under 300. I think so.

F

How many did you collect um we collected as far as signatures from broadview.

J

Or not broadview, I'm sorry uh countryside. I believe 1035.. We made that requirement of 146.

F

Oh, you got that many we did get the signatures, it was the um it was the ballot that was.

J

The sinking ship, metaphorically speaking, that um that we were not able to meet that.

J

Criteria in either instance of the neighborhood surrounding summit elementary school and broadview.

I

Okay, clarify really quickly. The current process requires two instances of 51, correct mallory, that.

I

In the beginning, a petition to request the traffic calming with uh 50 plus percent of 51 51 and then.

I

Later, a ballot that has to be returned and that 51 yeses must be returned not just um ballots.

I

Where it could be, that more are still in favor. But yes, so the request for calling and then the voting.

F

Okay, I see so you got 51 of the affected homes to say we are interested in the.

F

Traffic common project, but then 51 did not return ballots. That said, yes, we want it.

F

A

Thank you. Okay, uh if there's no other, oh councilmember smith,.

E

The process begins in this november.

E

uh Miss rick beale, that is correct, um presuming it passes, of course, oh sure, and the the the.

E

Notice to people in the different parts of the city to under know know about this program.

E

How how is that going to happen so that would begin in january, and so um essentially um I.

J

Will be emailing the neighborhood associations? I have a list of everyone who has contacted me.

J

About traffic calming and I've asked them, you know, would you like to be notified in the event that we.

J

Are able to have a new policy and that we're open um for resident-led projects and so sending out.

J

An email blast, of course we have social media and our bicycle pedestrian safety. Commission.

J

Is also really good about getting the word out, so that's how I would approach it, um but then.

J

If there's things that I feel that are oversight, of course, I'd be happy to um to make sure that.

J

We have you know, press releases going out to the the paper and and and as much outreaches as I.

J

uh Could do okay? Well, I I appreciate it. I know, there's some really excited people.

E

Near where I live, that are that are really fired up, so yeah great job. Thank you very much. Thank you.

A

All right any more first round, questions before we go to amendments.

A

Seeing none we'll I'll open the floor to amendments.

F

Thanks, I do, I need to move to introduce it. Yes, yes, you do. Yes, I moved to introduce amendment 1.

F

For ordinance, 20-17, second, is there a second? We have a motion in a second. Please go ahead.

F

Okay, I've made just one little slide because I was talking about numbers and I thought it.

F

Would be easier to see it instead of just hear it so could I share my screen. Please do okay.

F

Okay, let me make it bigger.

N

F

Okay, that's as big as it gets. I think, okay, so this amendment changes.

F

One number- and it is definitely something I want to just- have a discussion about with.

F

My fellow council members, so it's it's the part that says um in order to apply for this process.

F

In the resident-led process, you need the lesser of 51 or 24 signatures, so.

F

I I thought the 51 percent still posed a barrier when you're looking at small projects.

F

And I so I'm recommending to amend that 51 to 30 percent and in this table I just.

F

uh Went ahead and did some examples of what the 51 percent looks like versus the 30 percent, so.

F

If you look at the top table with the requiring 51 or 24 homes, whichever is less, if you look at a.

F

Street, that is, has 25 homes in the affected area. If you had to collect 51, that would be.

F

13 signatures or you could, you know, collect the 24 signatures. You would opt for that 13. I think.

F

And that is still 52 of the affected homes so, based on the existing program that we have.

F

That is a really high barrier to get a resident-led application into.

F

The process and and the numbers still don't look good for a street that is about 50 homes, and we.

F

Had an example of this in the transportation committee meeting 50 homes is about the number.

F

Of homes um from howe street, from rogers to the end to the west end of howell street, that's about.

F

50 homes, so 51 would be, of course, 26 or you could opt to collect the 24 and uh 24 is a.

F

Little less and that would still be 48. So um for those types like smaller projects, it would be.

F

Still a pretty heavy barrier to just be able to submit that application. So if you look at those.

F

Numbers with the 30 percent or 24 homes, whichever is less with the 25 number of of affected homes,.

F

uh You would need eight eight signatures if you were collecting up to 30, and that is about.

F

um That is 30, sorry and then, if you needed 30 of 50, that would be 15 and that looks.

F

A little um better when you compare it to larger street projects, of something like 100 homes or.

F

Something more similar to what miss ricksby was talking about where there were over 200 homes, so.

F

um In the countryside example with, let's just say that was 200: they they only need.

F

24 signatures and that would be 12 of the folks living uh along that affected area, so.

F

I think, by lowering that percentage, you just kind of like level the playing field for smaller.

F

Streets and you don't penalize smaller projects and and just with my bullet points, I just wanted.

F

To make it clear, too, that getting these signatures just gets you into the process and that the.

F

Planning and transportation department has a really, I think, amazing, transparent.

F

Rubric to score these projects and to see what looks best for moving forward, so it's.

F

Really, just being able to submit a grant application with these signatures and.

F

I just kind of compared it to the neighborhood and improvement grant process where those are.

F

Grants up to twenty thousand dollars and you don't have to get neighbor neighbors to sign anything to.

F

Submit an application, so even with us, requiring I think, 30 or 24 homes, you know we're still getting.

F

A good amount of neighbor input here just to try to make sure people follow the speed limit.

F

And um so I like the idea of trying it out with a lower percentage. That's my spiel.

F

Questions about that. Yes, do I call, I don't think I call on you you're on mute.

D

Do you hear me, I can't hear you, I couldn't hear you I'm sorry. I I'm sorry. uh I couldn't hear you.

A

Can I hear, can I hear from staff? um uh The staff responds to the amendment is rick bile.

J

um I we support the so we talked about it today and- um and I mean 30- is an arbitrary number.

J

Just like 50, so um we're happy to to have it 30 percent, um and if we need to change it, we can very.

A

Good uh councilman rallo, you had your hand raised for questions on the amendment yeah. It just goes.

B

Back to um kind of a basic uh confirmation that so we were referencing that speeding is occurring.

B

And planning a transportation you're going to do um you're going you're going to lay counters.

B

And you're going to find out if that is indeed occurring right to validate uh any application.

B

That traffic calling is necessary, correct, correct, well, we'll use uh we'll use traffic speeds and.

J

Counts uh for five years before the application I see and and what is what is the threshold.

B

To confirm that speeding is occurring.

J

Oh, it's um based on the rubric. It is um every mile per hour over the speed limit.

J

And it's it's basically uh times, I think 0.2 points, um and so then that is added with like.

J

Crash data, so if there's a crash within the zone, so that's, I believe, 10 points for every crash.

J

And if there's a crash, that's on the outside of the zone, I believe that's five points and so the.

J

Points um the higher that the speeds go at the both the 85th percentile and the 95th percentile.

J

um Will bring in more points for that part of the rubric that rubric has not yet been established.

J

By the bpsc, um the one that I provided is what we are providing the bpsc as a model to go from. I see.

B

So that's going to be adopted. That model is going to be adopted by us or by you by the.

J

Bicycle pedestrian safety commission in november- I see, will it come before us? um I I don't believe so.

B

Okay, um so we're going on a proposed metric that hasn't been adopted.

J

Well, I think the the rubric that I've provided I mean that we've talked about the main performance.

J

Objectives that we are trying to look at so we've provided both the prevalence of.

J

Vulnerable road users, and how do we find based on census, block data? To what extent does that exist?.

J

In this area, and then we have the prevalence of um of behaviors that are likely to cause harm.

J

To uh road users, and so that is the crash data that is this, you know the speeding, the volume.

J

And um and so those are written into the policy to say that those two things must exist in the rubric.

J

And so we have decided to allow the bpsc to um to define how that looks, because we wanted to.

J

Make sure that, in the event that we feel that the rubric isn't prioritizing projects or if we find.

J

That there are issues like if you know something terrible should happen. You know, how do we.

J

How are we able to respond to that? We felt like the bpsc was the best.

J

Commission to be able to uh deliver that rubric. Okay, so just to I mean.

B

So one difficulty I have is, maybe you could provide assurances is that you know it's a.

B

Difference between a the mean and the median, you know if there are outliers and speeders.

B

If there's an occasional high uh speeds you know vehicle going through, uh does that.

B

As opposed to you know, say the majority of cars coming through or speeding, how is that.

B

How does that affect the evaluation of speeding per se.

J

um Well, if it's an outlier, um you know, there's there's really little that we can do.

J

To um I think that the um the instance that say, there's like some sort of race in the street, like.

J

That's that's not exactly the behaviors that we are attempting like this is an imperfect net that.

J

We're trying to be able to find the areas that are most appropriate for traffic calming and so.

J

The 85 and the 95 tile, based on conversations that I've had with our engineering team, seems.

J

To be the best indicator for how these behaviors exist, barring, you know something that is, you know.

J

As as blatantly um dangerous, as you know, racing down down the street and.

J

And my hope would be that that enforcement would be called in those situations. I do want to point.

A

Out we are, we have an amendment on the table about reducing the percentage of votes. So uh if we, let's.

A

Keep the general discussion after the amendment, mr allah, do you have any questions on the amendment.

B

uh No, I don't, uh I mean other than trying to grapple with exactly.

B

You know what the metric is. Thanks got it. Okay, further questions on amendment, one.

A

Councilmember sims. Thank you. um I think I get um where this amendment is going or trying to go.

G

With regarding the barriers to apply, I guess my question would be if, if we lessen that barrier in.

G

Order to apply then does that take the residents and those affected housing units once it applied.

G

Are they out of the approval process at that point, and then that shifts to staff approval.

G

Does that make sense? Can you repeat the question for me? Well, I guess I'm wondering.

G

If it, if you take lesser folks to even apply and and that gets the application into the.

G

Process then, where does that leave the residents in those housing units once the application's in.

G

Are they no longer basically no longer account, and then staff takes over the approval process.

G

And I get- and I guess where I'm going with that, if the affected housing units.

G

As has been defined are smaller than a neighborhood, and if we make that smaller.

G

Then why not still seek the majority of those within that smaller area, which still.

G

Doesn't include the entire neighborhood, you know what I'm saying, but it still builds a consensus.

G

And it still takes a majority of a smaller area that we're, starting with in the first place,.

G

So what are your thoughts on that and I guess that'd be to council member rosenberger.

G

If, if that makes right, okay, yes yeah, it does yeah, I mean you're asking if it's on two blocks.

F

Why wouldn't we want 51 or something or if it's on four blocks, I mean it's basically up to 80.

F

Households, that's when it flips to being better to do the 24, but um I think that I think it's because.

F

It's important to me that people have a low barrier to get involved and, like I I one reason.

F

I changed it I wanted to. I want to change it to 30. Is that I think about uh sort of where people.

F

Speed and it it can tend to be in places with, like I mean it's like usually wider streets.

F

um More space right where you feel more comfortable moving fast and it might be.

F

In neighborhoods, where you don't know your neighbors very well or.

F

It might be the case that people wanting to make this change don't have a lot of time to knock on.

F

A lot of doors I mean you know, door knocking you tend to get uh uh 15 to 25 people, even opening the.

F

Door, that's from canvassing, but um so it takes. I think it takes a long time and a lot of effort to.

F

Get folks to open the door and I think that getting 30.

F

Of the vote can of the of the folks affected can be a big number anyway, and that, like that's enough.

F

I think to just apply and then have planning and transportation like decide if this is a good.

F

Match right and if this project meets the criteria that would lead to traffic calming installation.

G

30 well so that makes sense but 30 of the residents.

G

Or the folks, within that smaller affected housing unit 30 can now.

G

Make the decision for either 100 of those housing units or not even meet the 51 threshold, which.

G

Which kinds of me in my mind it kind of takes away the input in that smaller area or the majority.

G

In that smaller area, it kind of makes sense if you're talking about an entire neighborhood.

G

And a little short street within that neighborhood. But if you're talking about d street, that you're.

G

Trying to get application in and then reduce those housing units to 30 percent that just don't seem.

G

I don't know yeah, I I think it's because um okay, like I mean if you're only talking about 30 houses,.

G

Then why can't you get 16 for an example in that little small area, whereas that entire neighborhood.

G

May encompass 300 people, so therefore you know the 16 is really deciding.

G

In that smaller street, except for it's, the majority of the folks in that affected.

G

Housing unit and and everyone else in the neighborhood is still left out of that.

G

Decision-Making at least to apply process does that.

G

It just seems like something right like left out is, is what I'm saying like like the the program.

F

In general is focused on those affected areas, so like right, really, people who live outside.

F

The street like on the street right where these things will be installed, so um I'm just talking.

G

About the affected housing units, which is smaller in the first place, if that makes sense right.

F

I think it's helpful for me to look at it both ways on a big street and on a small street.

F

To sort of, I think, make this point that um on the little street right, you have fewer people.

F

So I don't think fewer people necessarily means. Then we need a higher percentage of them to agree.

F

Because when we have a street with 200 people, we have decided, it is okay to only have 24.

F

Agree and that is 12 of the people living in the affected area. And so I think, if we say only 24.

F

Need to agree on a street with 200, then we we should also say it leaves at least the.

F

Same conclusion, that eight people is enough when we have 25 homes, because that is still.

F

30, when we are saying 12 is okay somewhere else well and potentially, when we're talking about.

G

200 units for an example, I thought part of the definition had to do with.

G

300 feet either way or two city lots for an example. So I'm not so sure how that can.

G

Encompass an entire area, that's 400 houses, um I'm not being critical of what you're hearing yeah. I.

G

Just need clarity, and it's now I know we're taking some of the people out of the process.

G

You know not a hundred percent um yeah, but but an additional twenty percent of.

G

Over the majority are being disclo or not being included is what it appears to me.

F

I think um because this is an application like basically a grant application.

F

I think that we should encourage applications and then write like then. The rubric takes over.

F

On where this makes sense, and um so I think it is important to just encourage that engagement and.

F

And involvement with a lower barrier there, similar to our other grant processes.

A

Okay, I think I have thank you. Both uh questions on the amendment council risk and blurry.

M

Thank you. um Thank you for your work on this amendment and I like the idea of empowering.

M

People to take a greater voice in what their neighborhood looks like. So thank you for that.

M

I appreciate council member sims questions though, and I just I want to put a finer point.

M

On it, so 24 people on a street of 200 can move move this project forward. You can get a speed.

M

Cushion or whatever, um so let's look at the flip side, what exactly would it take to stop it.

M

Would it take 30 residents reaching out to planning and transportation saying wait a.

M

Minute, no, those 24 want it, but we 30 don't how what would it take to stop something.

M

Once the 24 signatures are accumulated, does that question make sense? I think that one's for me.

J

We're still on the amendment right and I would I would feel better about the amendment if I knew.

M

That there was a process in place to stop it. If, if a majority president said wait a minute.

F

I think it might be for mr feil that I mean, regardless of how many people.

F

Have to approve it, you are asking, how would it be stopped, and I do want to just say this.

F

Is to apply not to have anything installed so uh but mr file, do you want to talk about that.

F

Part of the process- yeah- that's that's correct, so assuming that the application is received.

J

And- and we can go forth in in collecting the data, um then then, and only then like.

J

Will we be able to fund two projects per year so and and after that there is going to be a hearing.

J

Which uh people who are going to be or who live in affected areas uh will be invited to um to come to.

J

The bpsc hearing, where we're going to talk about the problem and if they feel.

J

That say, for example, a um a traffic homing application that has is a has risen to the level.

J

Where it is likely to be funded, um has been put forth in bad faith um or punitively, then that.

J

Is something that the bpsc can take into account and not um approve that project?.

M

So what if it wasn't done in bad faith or punitively, they just.

M

Disagree with its whether or not it's necessary right, that is, that is information that the bpsc.

J

Would likely take into account thank you uh councilman again on the amendment. Please.

B

uh I think uh councilman people smith- that was before me, but.

A

uh Council rep on smith, you haven't yet asked okay, no go ahead. Mr rolla.

B

Okay, um just to clarify, uh because I'm very interested in this.

B

Discussion uh councilman scandinavia,.

B

uh Voiced my caution about this a little bit. But what.

B

What exactly is the affected area? Could you define that? What does that consist of.

J

That is, uh residents and property owners of records located within two lots, but not.

J

To exceed 300 feet of streets affected by the proposed traffic, calming installation.

A

Okay, uh are there any other questions on the amendment amendment, one.

A

uh I don't see any.

A

Okay: let's go to the public for comment on amendment one.

A

Is there any member of the public who like to comment on this? uh Please uh state your.

A

Name: uh who's our first one, mr lucas, up. We have greg alexander who should be ready to comment.

R

Hi uh thanks, I'm greg alexander, um I mean it's. This is a great amendment.

R

um It's a great proposal around and this amendment improves it. um I mean the the.

R

The risk here that you're a little bit worried about is that what, if just some some anti-car.

R

Nut jobs in the neighborhood, just a small, tiny minority get together and then are able to push.

R

Through a traffic calming plan that wrecks the rest of the neighborhood for everybody else and.

R

I I just, I can't imagine a any scenario, less realistic, because traffic calming I mean.

R

It's literally getting people to obey the speed limit is the goal of this program.

R

If you think that it wrecks the neighborhood to have people following the speed limit.

R

I don't care if you are the majority, you should be disenfranchised from that decision. Safety is.

R

Not something that should be put up by a public referendum. Safety is an essential city service.

R

And if, if 30 percent of neighbors on my street, which it would be very hard for me to get.

R

50 of neighbors on my street that I live on a busy street and accordingly, most of my neighbors.

R

Don't uh interface with the street as pedestrians, they don't uh talk to people that come to the door.

R

They don't um you know, it's I've, canvassed this neighborhood, it's a hard neighborhood to canvas.

R

And- and so I mean why, how much burden do you want to put on neighbors to to say I would like a safe.

R

Street, I think a small group of neighbors should be able to ram down their neighbor's throats.

R

A safe street, I think a safe street is not a an evil that we need to avoid. I I don't understand.

R

Any sort of concern saying that that that some silent majority of neighbors actually prefers.

R

To speed, they probably do if you actually look at their behavior in their cars people when they do.

R

Get in their cars, even people who really support traffic calming when they get in their cars.

R

They speed, especially if the road design encourages it, and I I you know we we had in our.

R

Transportation um plan the draft plan called for calming uh walnut and college.

R

And third street, uh by turning them into streets again, instead of a divided highway and.

R

That got just a little just a little whisper of public opposition uh at the time that was.

R

In the plan commission and that just got yanked out of there we're letting an angry mob take.

R

Safety out of a plan, well, how many pedestrians have died on third street and college and walnut.

R

Since that was yanked out of that plan, three three pedestrians have died. There.

R

We owe people safety and and just the standard process, the the old neighborhood transportation.

R

Safety plan said that we had to have 51 percent of the neighbors say they want safety and then.

R

After they see the design, we need 51 again to say they want safety. That's that's ridiculous. Safety.

R

Is not a four-letter word. Safety is not something we need to carefully avoid.

R

Pushing on the unwilling safety is something we owe to every single member of the city.

R

Safety is not something that is a downside risk to activist policy.

R

So I I really I resent um the the the line of questioning here that that we need to be.

R

Worried about this plan going too far, we need to be worried about more people dying on our streets.

R

Is what I'm worried about and I can't believe, you're worried about anything else.

R

Because we've had three deaths, just in the last, what 15 months, just right downtown and this plan.

R

Will help prevent that from happening in our neighborhoods? It really will and we should do.

R

Everything we can to push this plan along to make it bigger and stronger and more powerful. I just.

R

Cannot believe the suggestion that we are going to inconvenience neighbors by making them take three.

R

Or four more seconds to drive down a neighborhood street and therefore we should we should try to.

R

Limit the scope of this program, uh thanks for your time. Thank you. Next next commenter, mr lucas.

P

Next up, we have katie, who should be unmuted and ready to comment. Can you please state your.

A

Full name, can you say your full name? Please? uh Yes, it's katie yoder um and thank you right now. We are.

S

Only commenting on the amendment- and there will be time later to talk about the whole.

A

That's correct: okay! Okay, um great, my name is, like I said, is katie yoder and I.

S

Am in parkridge east close to morningside drive, um so I'm one of those excited people, council, member.

S

Smith mentioned, um but for now this is you know, of course new to me is I paid really close attention.

S

And just wanted to add a quick comment about um council members, rosenberger's amendment and.

S

Wow that makes me so excited um just in seeking support a long, morningside drive and houses with.

S

In 300 feet that is incredibly daunting and just to make this process more accessible to.

S

Even just start, you know to save some postage stamps or door knocking during a pandemic.

S

I I mean I don't know how else we would do it. um This just sounds so great and lessening the.

S

Barrier is so important, so um just to talk a little bit more about how this amendment could.

S

Affect um you know could help the process is so tonight right before this meeting, probably around.

S

Like 5 45, I was running in my neighborhood with my two-year-old in a stroller and a car came flying.

S

Down probably 40 miles per hour down the street and miss rick biles graphic that she showed at.

S

The beginning of the meeting was just terrifying thinking about the injuries and deaths that happen.

S

You know and increase beyond 20 to 25 miles per hour and living in one of these neighborhoods. That.

S

Are a post, 1965 neighborhood with the streets built for the giant 1970s cars, even with the.

S

Sidewalks, it's so scary to think about are kids becoming the age where they're old enough to bike.

S

In the neighborhood, it's not the stranger danger, it's I'm afraid they're going to get killed by a.

S

Car going 40 miles per hour um and just thinking about what council memberallo said about you know.

S

Outliers in this process, you know doing traffic studies and stuff like that, it's going to be an.

S

Outlier, that's going to kill somebody, not the average of 26 miles per hour or whatever, and I.

S

Think that anecdotal participation for residents is going to be an important part in this process.

S

Just last week, I'm sure council, member smith, saw this in our neighborhood facebook group. It was.

S

Sounding off because somebody was drag racing down, morningside at probably 10 p.m. At night.

S

And I think it's important to note that people are going to know you know. Speeding is more.

S

Concentrated in certain parts of neighborhoods and it's going to be unnoticed by those just.

S

Driving through to get to their neighborhood or their house at the back of the neighborhood.

S

So, to give the people who are out walking on the streets or biking uh a little bit.

S

More even footing in trying to even just start the process is so helpful, like you know me noticing a.

S

40 40 mile per hour driver with my two-year-old on the street, like that. I'm gonna notice that.

S

More than someone who's commuting, just driving through the neighborhood, so I understand why it's.

S

Important to make the process easier to apply, I think about I'm from what I understand the.

S

Neighborhood improvement grants don't have to have input from all the neighbors, so why would.

S

This be any different, it's only an application at this point, and it just takes it just makes it less.

S

Onerous for those just try, all I want to do is start the process and be let let the data show.

S

What should happen next? It's not I'm going to go, install speed bumps once I apply. I want to know. I.

S

Want to say, there's a problem and there aren't many people who care about it yet. But what can.

S

We do to make the process a little bit easier to get there, um but a little bit more later. Thank you.

A

Thank you. Is there any other public comment on amendment? One second call.

P

There there is a public comment, I'm not sure it pertains to amendment one it's from sam dove. It's.

P

A short comment I'll go ahead and read it, I'm not sure if you need it to pertain to this amendment,.

P

um Sam wants to know why the trash people uh throw the trash can on lawns and says: that's.

P

Not okay, to do he's right that! That's that's, not okay, but it is not relevant to this amendment so.

A

We thank him for his comment. um Any other final comment on uh from the public on amendment one.

A

Cnn, we'll come back to the council for follow-up questions.

A

Are there any follow-up questions? Overall, that's a comment. Any questions.

A

All right see no questions we'll go to debate on amendment one councilwoman.

B

I I agree: I'm happy to uh support a threshold of application. That's lower than 51 percent.

B

um It doesn't necessarily mean that the outcome will be assured um and I think there'll be time.

B

In the process, if the objection uh says that it's not necessary or that it is, um I mean.

B

You know just to address mr alexander's comment. I think he's missing the point, and that is that.

B

You know this is a process and you know there are first of all, there are limited resources and.

B

So we need to apply the resources where it's most important, so putting in traffic call me.

B

In a place where it's not necessary would be, you know if it's a zero-sum game, we're.

B

Taking it from somewhere else, um the other is the what the outcome might be, and that is.

B

You know that I've seen traffic coming that have design elements that have made things.

B

Worse, not better and so uh to have people be able to participate in a design process.

B

um And be content with it, I think, is a very important aspect of this, so but the amendment.

B

I think is a good one and I appreciate uh councilman rosenberger, bringing it forward.

B

Thanks. Thank you, mr allo. Further comment on amendment one councilmember smith yeah. I I favor.

E

Lowering that threshold as well, I think it makes it easier for people to participate in government.

E

And their begin to see what happens and to uh try to uh affect some change in in their lives.

E

So I'll be supporting this amendment and uh thank you miss rosenberger for putting it together.

A

Thank you, councilmember smith, further debate from members uh seeing that I'll say briefly that.

A

The fatalities that mr alexander referred to are one of the reasons why I voted against.

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The budget I was dissatisfied with what I thought was uh uh a reduction of focus on transportation.

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In the 2021 budget, I certainly don't think that the staff of the as yet still called planning.

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And transportation department have taken their eyes off the ball and I'm very glad to.

A

To uh see this ordinance coming, um and I also agree with others who have said that.

A

It doesn't make sense to uh have such a high bar an owner's bar for even applying uh for this.

A

Sort of thing I mean in the past, there have been neighborhoods that wanted traffic calming, because.

A

They didn't want anybody passing through their neighborhood. This is different. This is calming.

A

To prevent speeding and there also used to be problems in neighborhoods with people who said.

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That we shouldn't put barriers because we prevent fire trucks from getting to the neighborhood.

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And that, unfortunately, is the way that mr alexander's argument about safety.

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Can be turned on its head uh in the name of fire safety, we made the roads super wide and super fast.

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And a lot more people die from or get injured from uh cars than they do from fires, because we have.

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uh You know a pretty thorough fire response. We shouldn't be widening our roads for fire trucks.

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Anymore, that we should be building our churches for easter sunday, so uh you know, I think that.

A

You know that, uh with that one caveat, I generally agree with him that uh you know. Where are our.

A

Priorities, why are we worried about uh uh about the privilege of cars going through.

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Neighborhoods they should go at the pace that the neighborhood feels you know as long as they.

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Meet uh state law, the minimum standards- uh and you know like this- is what we want our city to.

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Be I think, so I support the amendment. There's no other debate, we'll call for role on amendment. One.

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Okay, will the clerk please call the role and amendment one? Yes, um council, councilmember, sims.

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Pass volun; yes, piedmont! Smith! Yes, flaherty! Yes, smith! Yes, samberg! Yes,.

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Yes, scandalary, yes, rosenberger, yes,.

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By my account, that's an 801 vote that amendment is passed. We come back now to the legislation.

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As amended, unless there's another amendment that I didn't see coming, let's come back to the.

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Ordinance as amended, is there any second round of questions about the ordinance.

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Seeing none we go to the public for comment on the ordinance as a whole, as amended.

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So any member of the public would like to speak to the ordinance as amended. Mr lucas.

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Yes, uh katie and excuse me, I forget your last name, but katie would like to speak again and you should.

P

Be ready to do so. Thank you. It's katie, yoder. Sorry. I could not figure out how to change my name on my.

S

Zoom account so sorry about that. Welcome to 2020., I know um so yeah again, thank you for.

S

Your time and I am excited in our neighborhood we have before we moved in. We, there was a committee.

S

That was seeking to have some traffic calming on morningside drive and we're kind of trying.

S

To we have a small committee trying to revamp those efforts again and so just.

S

Thank you so much to mr bile and the work of the planning department, because this is just.

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I'm so excited that it seems like there might be light at the end of the tunnel in the next.

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I don't know five years when our kids are in elementary school or something, but I I I'm.

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Just I it's it's been really interesting to read, notes past of this committee in our neighborhood.

S

I read a complaint against traffic calming that said no one has ever died or been injured in our.

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Neighborhood due to a speeding car yet so why do we need traffic calming? But I so appreciate the.

S

City being proactive and protecting pedestrians and cyclists, I mean we're just as equally as.

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Important as the cars that are on the road and just as important users of the city street.

S

We in our household strive to be carlos, we are, we have one car and but when we go into town.

S

We think about, should we take third street? Should we take 10th street do what's the best way to get.

S

Downtown and it's those greenways that are a little bit safer than those options and.

S

Morningside drive has sidewalks, but there are currently no protections for cyclists, even with.

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The sharrows that presented as a greenway, but we still have those 40 mile per hour cars flying down.

S

Those wide streets so anything to promote this for us far east siders to get downtown without a car.

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You know all those parking problems downtown um it's just so great um and my husband in.

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Normal life commutes to campus via a greenway, but I'm most fearful when he's biking or when.

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We're biking with the kids and we cross over to smith road onto our own parkridge east.

S

Just it's the speed on morningside drive is insane. um You know it's crazy, walking we're about.

S

Equidistant from the two playgrounds in parkridge and parkridge east and I feel safer, walking.

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Through parkridge, without sidewalk with traffic calming than I do on a sidewalk walking to the.

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Playground in parker g's- oh sorry, then safer than uh in park ridge than parkridge east, which is.

S

Crazy, you think we built these sidewalks they're supposed to keep us safe, but not with cars.

S

And buses flying down, but I think uh the most something that I hadn't even.

S

Taken time to think about that came up tonight in miss rick bile's presentation.

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Is that I've got a whole lot of privilege and time to be able to stay to spend on this.

S

Trying to start the process as a stay-at-home mom, but I hadn't even thought about the inequity.

S

That comes along with the process we have currently in place. It's just incredibly.

S

Onerous on residents and doesn't seem to have a good track record of making improvements.

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And you know who does the current policy hurt the most? Who does it help the most um and it just is.

S

A bit car-centric, and I think that as a city from everything that I've read we're trying.

S

To get away with that or get away from that and try to make you know, pedestrians and cars.

S

Or pedestrians and cyclists as equally important as cars are on our streets so anyway, that was a.

S

Little bit rambling because I didn't know I'd have to uh comment twice, but uh thank you for.

S

Your time and consideration- and this effort is just incredibly important in making our streets.

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Safe and accessible to more than just cars, so I appreciate all the work on this. Thank you, ms yoder.

A

No one has to comment twice, that's advice. I should take myself who's the next person who.

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Wants to speak, mr lucas. Next up, we have greg alexander and should be right here, alexander.

A

Go ahead, hi! Thank you. I'm greg alexander! um This is a uh awesome proposal. um It's I just want to.

R

Highlight how valuable it is to not have a citizen veto of the traffic calming design um safety is an.

R

Essential service, uh you know we shouldn't be taking away safety because of neighbor concerns.

R

um And kind of just an anecdote to to motivate this and the green, a green acres, neighborhood.

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Association, which is where my mom lives, um they have a perennial traffic calming problem on.

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Hillsdale, it basically connects uh third street to the bypass. I think, there's not a single stop sign.

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In between those two and so people cut through there at a high rate of speed um and it's it's.

R

Exactly like the in the photos that that uh mr bile showed with it has a very wide road, it has.

R

Inconsistent or mostly no sidewalks, it has a long sweeping curve across the whole thing.

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And so people drive on that road very fast and in the neighborhood association mailing.

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List they're always complaining about it every six months. Somebody brings it up.

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And so one time they're talking about it and, and they start just hypothetically well what if.

R

The city installed a stop sign at seventh and hillsdale and at that point the conversation.

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Blew up, there were people who said no. If you install a stop sign there, it will take me.

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Extra time to get home in the evening- and I'm not willing to to give that up- and you know this- this.

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Program, probably wouldn't even really install stop signs, so I'd like to think that it it might at the.

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Fringes, um but at that point they lost the support of those members who said this: stop sign will be a.

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Bit a big inconvenience in my life and so on. On the one hand, we've got my mom, she doesn't drive.

R

And so to her, it's it's. A no-brainer she's got a different material interest, her material interest.

R

Is I want to survive the walk to the grocery store? That's very selfish of her because it's not about.

R

Her neighbors or the neighborhood she simply wants her own self to survive the walk to the.

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Grocery store and her other neighbor who drives has a different interest. He wants to get home.

R

About five seconds faster and that's a selfish interest, also, he doesn't care about killing. My.

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Mother, he only cares about getting home five seconds faster and you, as city government, have.

R

To weigh these two interests, one man wants to get home five seconds faster and one woman wants to.

R

Not die on the way to the grocery store. Well, it's even trickier than that because at the beginning.

R

Of the conversation when people are saying, oh yeah somebody's got to do something about it.

R

That guy, who wants to speed, who doesn't want to stop at the stop sign that same guy, said, there's.

R

Too many speeding people on my street. We need to slow this street down people in the abstract.

R

Always say you need to slow this street down. The speeding is too much, but then, when you it starts.

R

Getting into this more physical process, they're like oh, wait, no you're going to slow me down and.

R

They're suddenly against it, and so we just it is absolutely essential that we replace the old.

R

Process where once people had that knee-jerk reaction- oh my goodness, don't slow me down.

R

That they then get to derail the process, so I'm so excited for this, and I hope you are too thank you.

A

Thank you is there further public comment on this ordinance? Yes, lucas, uh jim shelton.

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Please go ahead hi castle again jim shelton, just speaking for myself,.

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I know this is anecdotal, but my son's best friend and the young woman who introduced him to his wife.

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Lost their one-year-old, her one-year-old daughter.

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Who was being towed by her partner's bicycle up in ypsilanti michigan just a couple months ago,.

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I I support this. I think this is a really good uh approach. I was here when we put the initial one in.

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Into effect- and I know it was really controversial, but it's calmed down and.

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Everybody's used to it, but it's too hard to use, but one thing I want to say is there needs to be.

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Some upkeep of whatever it is you do. I drive on covenanter a lot. Those speed bumps. I know where.

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They all are so it doesn't bother me but they're, the paint's all gone. You can't tell where they.

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Are I'd hate to be driving a some kind of a big rig through there? You know moving somebody.

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You can't there are people who who need to almost come to a stop to go over those things.

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And they need to know they're there and we're not keeping them up, and that's probably not your.

Q

Problem, maybe that's adam watson's problem. I don't know who it is, but uh that's something that needs.

Q

To be addressed, if you're going to do a bunch of this, they need to be kept up, but this is a.

Q

Really good proposal- and I encourage you uh to to do it in memory of this little girl thanks.

A

Thank you. Do any other public comment on this ordinance.

A

I'm afraid I don't have the numbers in front of me. What is this ordinance 2017.

A

Yeah ordinance, 2017 last call for public comment and we'll bring it back to the council for final.

A

Questions or debate are there any final questions, questions councilmember scandaloury. Thank you.

M

I, mr I appreciate mr shelton's question about the need for upkeep um and I was.

M

Wondering if our planning staff playing transportation staff could comment on that.

M

Once we install a speed, cushion or whatever, how do we budget for that and how do we plan for that.

J

um So I believe, we've talked with adam wayson and um he has said that we would need a separate fund.

J

For upkeep, because this is an additional expense, I'll clarify real quick, it's just something that.

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We have discussed uh and public works is aware of the process, we've vetted with them and they know.

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Anything part of the streets in public realm has to be maintained.

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um Covenanter in particular, is one where those are sort of not the best representation.

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Of a speed cushion we would install today and it needed some upkeep, but that street probably is.

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One we would also redesign in terms of the traffic calming there and that might be part of the delay.

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When we're debating, do we improve what's there while we can or.

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Since we know we, we want to change it a bit um wait to do that, but yes, public works.

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They're on board and funding will get figured out thanks. Thank you. Further final questions.

A

Seeing then we'll go to debate, is there any final comment on ordinance 2017 as amended.

A

Councilmemberallo, uh yes, I want to express my appreciation, uh miss rick bell and ms rosenberger.

B

For your work on this, I think this is a really important step forward, because in my years I've.

B

Seen some neighborhood traffic calming uh been turned away when it was needed and.

B

um I think this process is going to be much less onerous in the words of ms yoder.

B

For bringing proposals forward, I think we're going to have to anticipate more resources brought to it.

B

I think that speed tables are one method or I think there are more expensive ones, probably.

B

um And so I'm curious to see what the volume is and what the proposals will be and.

B

And making sure that we accommodate budgeting for it, um but I overall, I think this is.

B

An excellent strategy, so thanks for your work on it, thank you, mr rallo councilmember sims.

A

Thank you. um I want to thank plan and transportation staff and ms rick.

G

Bill did I announced that correctly, rick bile, I'm sorry as well for all your hard work.

G

And this is a needed ordinance um and something I think we all look forward to.

G

With some of the comments, uh maybe some others out in the community don't realize that.

G

All of us live in neighborhoods as well. um My discussion with the amendment.

G

um All the well-intentioned- and I think, was headed in the right direction- was more process based.

G

Having to do with individuals in that affected area, um so was it against that.

G

um There was a couple comments. um I just won't repeat them because I don't think they add any.

G

Value to this conversation, um but it had to do with in my mind the process, um including those.

G

That are in the affected areas. It made sense to to to not include the others where that don't affect.

G

Right now, but to have a minimum amount of folks in an already reduced area as far as a process.

G

Didn't make sense to me um with that amendment, but the ordinance itself, I think, is right on.

G

Spot on um it will and get more people involved in the process, as some of my colleagues have said,.

G

um And I still think that uh we'll have further discussion about it. um I thought there was one.

G

Thing that was brought up like you can get it started, but how can you stop it or how.

G

Can you have other discussions about it? I think that'll come up in the future as well.

G

But I think this is well-meaning. I think it will help the neighborhoods and um I look forward to.

G

Supporting ordinance 20-17. Thank you. Thank you. Further debate on 2017.

A

That's over flaherty. Yes, thanks. Actually the question as well: I popped my hand up kind of at.

O

The very end go ahead. Sorry, go ahead. uh It's okay! I'll start with the comment which is uh thank. You.

O

uh Miss rickpile and planning of transportation staff. uh I really appreciate your initiative here.

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In identifying um a barrier and and a shortcoming in our process and working to fix that, so thank.

O

You um my question is: uh with kind of in the vein of what um customer was asking or.

O

Commenting on about uh resources and and need, and I'm wondering in particular if if we can keep the.

O

Council or the transportation committee, I guess all of us um abreast of the process in terms of.

O

How many applications there are, what staff identifies as need and what that funding gap.

O

Or shortfall is from what we were able to budget each year, just so that we're aware of um you know.

O

Unfunded uh safety improvements uh and how we might be able to address those in future budgets.

O

So I don't know if there's a particularly like good way to do that.

O

But if we can build that into the um process and approach in some way, some sort of you know if it's.

O

An annual circle back with council or whatever it is to let us know um on that front that'd, be.

O

Great um yes, so the current policy has us evaluating um our traffic calming so with.

J

New speed data after the installations have been provided, as well as to share information.

J

About what projects applied but were unfunded, and so all of that information will be shared.

J

Openly and we'll make sure that you get that as well. Thank you. Thank you. Counselor piedmont, smith,.

D

Yes, I'm also excited about this new program, and I think this is a an excellent example of you.

D

Know identifying a problem and changing the system in order to address that problem in a better way.

D

Safety really should be our top priority, especially for.

D

Vulnerable road users or users of the right of way.

D

I also really like the aspect that there's going to be some set criteria and methodology.

D

Those are going to be announced publicly and those are going to be applied equally to all proposals.

D

That come forward and so we're really using a methodical data driven method to determine whether.

D

Traffic calming is warranted, and I also appreciate the lower threshold for just bringing an issue of.

D

Safety on our streets to the city, um as was mentioned many times, the the current process is.

D

Very onerous- and this way I think, if two or more neighbors feel that there's a problem they can.

D

Relatively easily bring it to our attention and it can be analyzed and acted upon.

D

Just within district five, I know that allendale drive has been problematic with the speeds in.

D

That in sherwood oaks- and so I think, there'll be a lot of interest when this is launched in january.

D

As we've heard from other neighborhoods as well, so thank you very much. Thank you. Any other debate.

A

Council for scam bully. Thank you um thanks and bravo to all of you for this. For this.

M

Very good work, um I'm actually writing it into my constituent newsletter. Right now and.

M

Miss rick bile, I just sent you a message. Can you come to my constituent meeting in a couple weeks.

M

um Because you don't have enough to do so, absolutely any time. Thank you for that.

M

And it's not often I just echo what uh one of my colleagues says, without necessarily adding.

M

To it, but I just really appreciate council member sims comment um that as council.

M

Members we have to attend to process and we have to ensure that even those who may have.

M

Different priorities here, who may disagree with us- can have a voice too, uh and please know that.

M

That I think in most cases here at least, if not all, then that's the ques, that's what was driving.

M

Our interest in the process and how people might express different opinions around a particular.

M

That said, well done all of you who worked on this um and I look forward to supporting it thanks. You.

A

Further debate, anybody else have a comment.

A

uh I want to say just a couple things. First of all, thanks to ms rickball, for remembering the.

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Special committee on street design and engineering standards from 2012- uh I forgotten how much we.

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We had uh you know concluded when we did that work. It was a summer's work council, members, ruff and.

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Speckler and I and uh I'm glad that it has come to something good, because this program was so god.

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Forsaken for so long, my god, the bureaucracy um I mean any update- would have been better.

A

This is a very good update and it's being done for the right reasons in the framework of a new.

A

Transportation plan, which is in turn, part of the framework of a new comprehensive plan.

A

uh But just the regardless of what side you were on the sheer bureaucracy of the program.

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Was eye glazing to any council member that I knew and uh I mean I'm happy to say that.

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To see what I see is a much more efficient program that does what councilmember, sims and scandaluri.

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Pointed out, which is make sure that it protects people's interests, uh whether they agree with the.

A

The calming or not, um I think, one of the reasons that this program had such a problem.

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In the past is because, uh as mr alexander said, there were people who opposed traffic calming.

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Because of uh you know, wanting to get somewhere a little faster didn't want their cars to be stopped.

A

And I don't think that that's where anybody who spoke tonight was coming from.

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I don't hear that kind of argument anymore. I think people get the idea that you know.

A

Cars maybe uh dominate streets a little too much that they go a little too fast. uh I think.

A

More stronger than that, but at the very least, most people think at least that much today so uh kudos.

A

And thank you and I look forward to supporting it. Any other comments before we take a vote.

A

Seeing none will the clerk, please call the role in ordinance 2017 as amended. Yes, and before I.

C

Call the role, if I can just say hello to one of our young watchers, kendall, hi, kendall, okay and.

C

Next, we'll start with councilmember: yes, piedmont, smith; yes, flaherty, yes, smith! Yes, sandberg.

C

Yes, rallo, yes, scandalory.

M

Yes, rosenberger.

C

Yeah ann sims. Yes, thank you I'll. Look at nine, oh vote to me. Thank you, ms rick bile.

A

Miss rosenberger uh good luck, implementing the new program and burying the old one. All.

A

Right: let's go now to legislation for first reading, madam parliamentarian. Mr president,.

D

I move that ordinance, 20-18 be introduced and read by the clerk by title and synopsis. Only.

D

Okay, we have a motion in a second with a clerk piece called the role in the motion to introduce.

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Yes, councilmember, piedmont; smith; yes, clarity! Yes, smith! Yes,.

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Samber, yes, rollo, hello, I'm sorry! I didn't catch that.

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Yes, scandalary, yes, rosenberger yeah, sims, yes and bowling.

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Yes, that's uh that motion carries. Will the clerk please read by title and synopsis.

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Ordinance 2018 to men, title 15 of the bloomington municipal code entitled vehicles and traffic.

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Regarding amending chapters, 15 12, 0, 1 0 to add several stop signs, 15, 12, 0, 3 0 to add a hybrid.

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Beacon signal 15, 32 080, to add several no parking zones, 1532 100, to delete several loading zones.

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1532 100 to add a loading zone 1537.020 to delete several streets from zone 8 and 1537.050.

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To add provision about the timing of permit sales, the synopsis is as follows:.

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This ordinance amends title 15 vehicles and traffic of the bloomington municipal code.

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And comes forth at the request of city staff and the traffic commission, the ordinance makes.

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The following changes: it adds stop intersections to south addison lane at west countryside lane.

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And at south delia star drive to south the alias star drive at west countryside lane and at west.

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Sunstone drive to even west even tide drive at south addison lane and at south dalia star drive.

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To south flatlock flat rock road at south addison lane and to west sunstone drive at south adams.

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Street it adds a new pedestrian hybrid beacon signal at the crossing of south walnut street.

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And the b-line trail, it adds a new, no parking zone on west pinewood drive from south walnut street to.

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South pinewood lane on both sides of the street, it deletes several loading zones from the municipal.

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Code that are no longer in existence and corrects the time restrictions for a loading zone on west.

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4Th street it deletes the current residential neighborhood zone 8, as that zone was absorbed by.

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Other zones by previous ordinance it clarifies that the parking services division has the.

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Authority to begin the neighborhood parking permit sales process for the upcoming year at any time,.

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D

Mr president, I move that ordinance 20-20 be introduced and read by the clerk by title and.

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Synopsis only second in a second will the clerk. Please call the role on the motion to introduce.

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Yes, councilmember flaherty.

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Yes, smith, yes, samber! Yes, rallo! Yes, scandalory, yes, rosenberger! Yes, I'm sorry! I didn't hear you.

C

Yes, thank you. Sims, yes, bolin. Yes, mp, not piedmont, smith,.

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Yes, will the clerk please read by title and synopsis, yes, ordinance, 2020 to amend title ii.

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Of the bloomington municipal code to establish a community advisory on public safety, commission, the.

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Synopsis is as follows: this ordinance is authored by council members, piedmont, smith, rosenberger and.

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Flaherty and amends title ii of the bloomington municipal code to create an 11-member community.

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Advisory on public safety commission, this commission would, among other duties, research.

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And make recommendations to the common council and the mayor on pub on matters of public safety.

A

Thank you, mr president, I move that ordinance 20-26, be introduced and read by the clerk by title and.

D

Synopsis only thank him. We have a motion in a second will. The clerk please call the role and.

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The motion introduced: yes, councilmember smith, yes, sander; yes, rallo, yes, scandaloury, yes, rosenberger.

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Yeah sims, yes, volun, yes, matt smith, yes and flaherty. Yes,.

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Thank you. Thank you. Will the clerk please read by title and synopsis? Yes, ordinance, 2026 an ordinance.

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Authorizing the acquisition, construction and installation by the city of bloomington, indiana.

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With certain extensions and improvements to the city, sewage works utility, the issuance and.

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Sale of revenue, bonds to provide funds for the payment of the costs thereof and the collection.

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Segregation and distribution of the revenues of such sewage works and other related matters. The.

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Synopsis is as follows: this ordinance authorizes the city of bloomington to issue its sewage.

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Works revenue, bonds of 2020 and the aggregate principal amount not to exceed 32 million dollars.

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The 2020 bonds will be issued to finance the first phase of modernizing the dilman road.

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Wwtp, you know my apologies, I don't know what that stands for the replacement of.

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The existing storm culvert system of the jordan culvert and pay costs of the issuance of bonds.

D

I believe it's waste water treatment plant yeah. I just sounded that out. I got it yes,.

D

Thank you, um mr president, I moved that.

D

Ordinance 20-27 be introduced and read by the clerk by title and synopsis. Only second.

G

You mute it steve. Well, sorry, the motion, a second will, the clerk please.

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uh Call the role and the motion to introduce yes, councilmember sandberg, yes, rollo, yes, scandaloury.

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Yes, rosenbarker, yes, sims, yes, bowling; yes, piedmont, smith; yes, clarity, yes and smith. Yes,.

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Motion passes: will the clerk please read by title and synopsis.

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Ordinance 2027 to amend title 10 of the bloomington municipal code entitled wastewater. The.

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Synopsis is as follows: this ordinance amends the bloomington municipal code, title 10 and chapter.

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17 to expand the types of fats, oils and grease, also known as fog devices acceptable to cpu in.

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Its fog program in an effort to reduce the overall economic impact to the food service industry for.

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Complying with the fog program, while increasing cooperation in the fog program, these amendments.

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Also establish a new program new permit program, which requires all fog, hauling services to first.

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Apply for and receive a permit from the cbu before engaging in any hauling of fog waste in the city.

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The permit program is free and contains an educational component to educate the.

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Fall calling industry on best practices for cleaning and maintaining maintaining.

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Fog retention devices, as well as best practices for hauling and disposing of fog, waste.

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This program is intended to increase the effective effectiveness of fog retention device.

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Maintenance, which will in turn, increase the effective effectiveness of the fog retention.

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Device in keeping fog waste material from entering the wastewater collection.

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System, thank you with that. We now go to uh additional public comment. If there is anyone.

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Who has not yet spoken would like to speak on an item that was not on tonight's agenda. This is an.

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Opportunity to do so, I see uh at least one person who would like to do that. Mr lucas, would you.

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Yes, uh first up, we have mcquee baris, who should be able to unmute herself.

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Okay hi, my name is maquila reese. I am an advocate in the community and I work for iu.

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Kelly school of business and I'm happy to be here- I just wanted to talk in regards to ordinance 2020.

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That was introduced tonight, so I share.

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I share it. I'm sorry ma'am I'd hate to interrupt, but uh that is an item that is on the agenda.

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We're not talking about it at all tonight that we're not going to bring it up until.

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Committee next week.

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So I'm not sure it's appropriate to speak about it tonight. I was told that I can speak about anything.

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Except if it's an item, that's on the agenda.

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Do you understand, like this was an item that was on the agenda first read now: okay! Well, I.

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Can clarify what I would like to share and just in general I could just make a general statement.

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Thank you so generally, I would like to address the fact that including minority voices is really.

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Imperative in the infrastructure of any initiative, if it's specifically for people of color and so.

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That's my main concern with a couple of different initiatives: that's taking place in bloomington.

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A lot of people like to use black black indigenous and people of color without actually including us.

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In the infrastructure of creating any type of initiative- and it's very vital that we're part.

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Of the infrastructure, meaning the beginning planning stages before thinking of us as an.

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Afterthought and I'm really wanting to make sure that we clearly do that in part of my.

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Position as a diversity, equity inclusion, justice practitioner is that we include people's voices.

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Before we actually make any type of initiative, because that is what we call white centeredness.

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And I we need to no longer move in that direction. We need to make sure that we create spaces.

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For people such as black indigenous people of color, and not just use us as a tool or try to.

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Only speak to one person and not an entire group of us just because we might.

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um Disagree with someone's um suggestions, so my thought is that we make sure that initiatives.

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Are not white centered in the way that you do, that is by looking around you and making sure.

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That we're part of the part of the solution and not an afterthought. Thank you. Thank you.

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Is there any other further additional public comment.

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Yes, uh we have alex goodlad next, who should be ready to comment. Thank you, okay. So um I.

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Want to speak kind of uh last week and uh recap uh the I guess the budget that was passed and I.

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Guess, first off I want to thank everyone that um did end up replying to my emails, and uh I I owe.

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You guys a reply, I'm glad it's not the other way around. um So uh so I want to kind of just express.

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My disappointment, let's say um I don't want it to be all doom and gloom, um especially in.

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These times, but I I'm very kind of disappointed on how um you know we we all agreed. I think that.

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Especially when um back in, like rewind to when um we talked about you know, gas masks with.

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Chief decoff trying to make the case for them that you know there wasn't a reason to have them and.

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um I don't think there was a good reason to have uh rubber bullets either um and but anyways. I.

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Think we all agreed that gas masks were kind of dumb because we agreed that uh crowd control uh in.

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In that sense is, is it's jus, it's just a danger to the public it and it doesn't create public safety.

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um So the fact that there wasn't even an amendment that got rid of them made no sense, even if um were.

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Going to have an ordinance that um bans the the use of uh tear gas uh in.

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On on protesters- and I would uh very much um I very much urge um uh I I I would very.

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Much urge isabel piedmont, smith and uh matt flaherty to um hold that end of the deal.

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And uh I'll be like I'm gonna reply to um the email shortly, we'll we'll kind of look forward on.

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On this, and not too much into the past, um but I do want to express my disappointment um on that and.

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And also um on this ordinance, bang the use of tear gas- I don't just want it to be an ordinance quote.

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Unquote banning use, I want it to be something that is, you know, a blanket ban on crowd, control.

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In general has uh no um loopholes like with the loopholes with the um with the mask ordinance. I'm.

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Not talking about the gas masks, I'm talking about actual face coverings for kovid seems like.

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Blue poles are abused, so so we don't want loopholes with uh with this ordinance um that.

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That we bring up and uh one more thing, sorry for rambling a bit. um I want to um uh kind of.

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Second, what um mcqueen was saying- and uh I I think that we do have to bring um people.

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Of color voices to this conversation, especially it's it's important for their rights um to.

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Protest and uh to you know to speak on reform of the police, which is a very touchy subject and.

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And and we need, we need their voices and we need them to feel welcome in the process which.

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uh It hasn't been good on both the city and the county level um in in the past, so I I hope that.

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They're involved in the process and uh and and we get you know some real tangible policy uh together.

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um In light of uh you know, the unfortunate killings of george floyd and uh brianna taylor.

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And uh I yield my time thanks for listening. Thank you. Is there any other public comment.

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Seeing on just uh a couple procedural points, first of all,.

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It's important to note that, because nobody is discussing a given ordinance.

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uh This evening, since it was simply introduced that uh we're trying to.

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There is I neglected to refer the new legislation to committee. Ordinance 2018 will be referred.

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To the transportation committee, which will be meeting at 6 30 next wednesday um ordinances, 2026.

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And 2027 will be referred to the utilities and sanitation committee, which will be meeting at 5 30.

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Next wednesday and ordinance 2020 will be referred to the public safety committee, which will meet.

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At uh 8 pm next wednesday, so uh 5 30 for utilities and sanitation, 6 30 for transportation.

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8 p.m: for public safety to get plenty of time. For that discussion.

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um With that we go now to matters of council schedule. Mr lucas.

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Just two upcoming coming to uh remind the council of uh this week. The first is a jack.

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Hopkins committee meeting uh tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. That committee will be.

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Going through a second review of applications and making pre-allocation decisions ahead of the.

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Allocation meeting, which is scheduled for monday of the following week on friday, we also have a.

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Council work session currently scheduled. There are two possible items the council could hear.

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About at that work session, and as always I'd like to hear from council members whether they would.

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Like to hold that work session and whether they can attend the two items are the end of the year.

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Appropriation ordinance, which is an annual piece of legislation that comes forward to the council,.

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That essentially allows the departments to balance their books move money around.

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And many of those actions require council approval. The other item is the creation.

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Of an engineering department that follows from the budget discussion that the council just had.

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And, as far as I know, that's those are the only two items that are ready for discussion.

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So perhaps council members could indicate by show of hands whether they might want.

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To attend a work session to hear about those items who would like to attend a work session.

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I see a majority, so let's go ahead and schedule that meeting for it's this friday at noon,.

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And those are the only matters of schedule that I've got tonight.

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uh Councilmember scandaloury. Yes, could you repeat the times for the committee meetings? I missed the.

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Transportation, one yes, uh utilities and sanitation will meet at 5 30. not to exceed 45 minutes.

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Transportation will meet at 6 30 not to exceed an hour and 15 minutes. Although states will meet.

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At 8 pm and they have as much time as they need. Thank you. It's up to the chairs of each.

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Committee to bring it in on time or take as much time as they need if they're not limited any other.

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Questions or concerns, if not, I want to thank everybody, and I call for motion to adjourn.

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All in favor signify by saying aye hi, hi hi, we are adjourned. Thank everyone, good.

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