* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:07:55] I [00:07:55] HAD LIKE TO START THIS, UM, OUR STUDY SESSION. PLEASE CALL THIS [CALL TO ORDER] MEETING TO ORDER. IF WE COULD PLEASE TAKE ROLE. COUNCILWOMAN ZENDEJAS. PRESENT. COUNCILWOMAN ALLEN. PRESENT. COUNCIL MEMBER DUGGAN. HERE. COUNCILMAN SUPER NA COUNCILWOMAN KERR. PRESENT COUNCILWOMAN SORROW. PRESENT VICE MAYOR URANGA. COUNCILMAN THRASH INTO COUNCIL MEMBER RICK SODI. HERE. MAYOR RICHARDSON. WE HAVE A QUORUM. FIRST ITEM, PLEASE. YES. THANK YOU. UH, MADAM CHAIR. SO, [ROLL CALL] UM, THIS WAS AN ITEM THAT CAME TO COUNCIL ASKED, CAN I READ THE RECOMMENDATION? WERE YOU ASKED? I'M SORRY. READ THE RECOMMENDATION INTO THE, UH, OKAY. ITEM ONE RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE AN UPDATE REGARDING SOURCES, STAFFING AND PROGRESS OF CITY OF LONG BEACH'S TRAFFIC SAFETY PROGRAMS CITYWIDE. OKAY, STAFF. YOU READY, SIR? LET'S HAVE OUR STUDY SESSION. ALRIGHT. ALRIGHT. SO THIS WAS AN ITEM, UH, THAT, UH, THE COUNCIL, UH, HAD IN FRONT OF YOU A COUPLE [1. 26-55340 Recommendation to receive and file an update regarding resources, staffing, and progress of the City of Long Beach’s traffic safety programs. (Citywide) ] MONTHS AGO WHERE YOU ASKED US TO DIVE EVEN DEEPER INTO TRAFFIC. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A COUPLE OF TIMES. UH, SO, UH, WE HAVE COME BACK WITH A LOT OF THE DATA THAT YOU'VE ASKED FOR, UH, TO BE ABLE TO TALK THROUGH SOME OF THE PROGRESS MADE OVER THE LAST, UH, SIX MONTHS. UH, AND ALSO SOME OF THE CHALLENGES AHEAD OF US, AND ALSO SOME OF THE OPPORTUNITIES. UH, SO, UH, WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE OPPORTUNITIES WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS ON, ON OUR STREETS, UH, AND ON THE REQUESTS THAT WE GET FROM COMMUNITY. UH, AND SO I WILL TURN THAT OVER. WE DECIDED TO SET UP A STUDY SESSION GIVEN HOW, UH, HOW MUCH WE HAVE TO COVER TONIGHT. UH, BUT, SO THERE'S NO REAL ACTION REQUIRED ON THIS. THIS IS MORE OF A, A DISCUSSION ITEM. AND THEN, UH, YOU'RE GONNA SEE MORE ON TRAFFIC IN THE FY 27 BUDGET, UH, THAT WE'LL GET INTO LATER. SO, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO OUR TEAM TO GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MR. CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. WE'RE HAPPY TO BE HERE THIS AFTERNOON TO GO THROUGH A CONDENSED VERSION, ROUGHLY, UH, 33 SLIDES THAT ARE GOING TO GO OVER THE TFF OR THE MEMO THAT WAS JUST RELEASED ON MAY 29TH, WHICH IS ITSELF AN UPDATE ON A MEMO THAT WE [00:10:01] PROVIDED AT THE END OF LAST YEAR, DECEMBER 30TH. SO, UH, THIS WAS PER THE, THE REQUEST OF CITY COUNCIL BACK IN MARCH. AND WE WILL GO START GOING THROUGH THE UPDATE HERE. SO, THE COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS BACK IN MARCH INCLUDED, UH, WE SUMMED IT UP INTO SIX DIFFERENT ITEMS. YOU CAN SEE THEM HERE ON THE SCREEN. EXPLORE SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACTING OPTIONS. DEVELOP A PLAN TO CREATE A SIX MONTH REVIEW STANDARD, BRINGING ALL MINOR SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS BEFORE CITY COUNCIL QUARTERLY. HENCE THIS, UH, UPDATE THAT YOU'RE SEEING THIS AFTERNOON. UH, PROVIDING A PRESENTATION ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TEAM AND STAFFING, UH, AGAIN, INCLUDED WITHIN THIS ITEM HERE TODAY. UH, PROVIDING A PRESENTATION ON UPDATING THE VISION ZERO GOALS TO THE MPI OR MOBILITY PORTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE, UH, THAT IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING SCHEDULED NOW. AND IDENTIFYING FUNDING TO IMPROVE OUR TRAFFIC SAFETY AND EXPEDITE OUR STUDY PROCESS. SO, YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT MUCH OF THAT TODAY. UH, WE BROKE IT DOWN INTO THESE DIFFERENT SECTIONS. SO WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT OUR RECENT SUCCESSES. WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT OUR STAFFING AND BUDGET. UH, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT OUR PROJECT STATUS UPDATES. THOSE ARE RELATED TO ALL OF THE DIFFERENT ITEMS THAT WE HAD CALLED OUT BACK IN DECEMBER. AND AGAIN, IN OUR, UH, MORE RECENT UPDATE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM AND SOME NEXT STEPS THERE, UH, AS WELL AS JUST NEXT STEPS OVERALL. SO, TO KICK THINGS OFF WITH OUR SUCCESSES, 'CAUSE WE, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO CELEBRATE SOME OF THE WINS. SO WE DO HAVE A NEW TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM REQUEST PROCESS. UH, YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE. UH, ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE'RE SAYING HERE IS THAT WE'VE REFINED THE PROCESS. WE'VE STREAMLINED THE PROCESS TO GET THE REQUEST IN TO GATHER THE DATA, TO PROCESS THE INFORMATION, DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S A COUNTERMEASURE THAT SHOULD BE APPLIED, AND THEN HOW DO WE DEPLOY THAT. WE'VE ALSO ENHANCED OUR COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSPARENCY, UH, ACROSS THE BOARD. UH, NAMELY WE HAVE OUR NEW WEBSITE THAT HAS, UH, UPDATES ON IT. WE UPDATE THIS WITH NOT ONLY ALL THE MEMOS, BUT ALSO THE DATA THAT HELPS SUPPORT SOME OF THOSE MEMOS THAT WE, THAT WE RELEASE. SO THAT WAS UPDATED, UH, BACK IN DECEMBER. AND THEN WE'VE SINCE UPDATED IT AGAIN BASED ON THIS MOST RECENT UPDATE, UH, THE MOST RECENT MEMO THAT CAME OUT LAST WEEK, UH, WHICH INCLUDES THE TRAFFIC CALMING PROJECTS, UH, SUCCESSFUL CALMING PROJECTS. AND WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO UPDATE THAT WITH OTHER EXAMPLES. WE'RE ALSO GETTING OUT INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SO WE REALIZE THAT NOT EVERYBODY'S JUST GONNA LOG IN AND FIND OUR WEBSITE AND WONDER WHAT IT IS THAT WE'RE DOING. SO WE'VE PRODUCED THESE, UH, LITTLE POSTCARDS THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE AT DIFFERENT EVENTS. UH, SO YOU'LL START TO SEE THESE SHOWING UP IN A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU. AND WE'VE ALSO GOT A BEAUTIFUL YARD SIGN THAT WAS BROUGHT DOWN, UH, BY, BY THE TEAM AS WELL. SO YOU'LL START TO SEE THESE OUT IN A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU IN AND AROUND THE 17 PRIORITY LOCATIONS, UH, IN ADDITION TO SOME OTHER LOCATIONS THAT WE'RE DEPLOYING SOME OF OUR TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES. UH, ALSO WANNA FOCUS A LITTLE BIT ON A BRAND NEW PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING STRATEGY THAT WE'VE ROLLED OUT, AND THAT YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT LATER THIS EVENING. UH, THERE WILL BE AN ITEM BEFORE YOU TO APPROVE A, AN OVERALL ON-CALL CONTRACT FOR DIFFERENT ELEMENTS RELATED TO TRAFFIC, CALMING TRAFFIC SIGNALS, TRAFFIC STRIPING, UH, FIBER OPTICS, AND A NUMBER OF THE OTHER DIFFERENT DEVICES THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, AND THAT WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT TODAY. UH, THIS IS REALLY A, SOMETHING NEW THAT WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT, IS GONNA ALLOW US TO MOVE A LOT FASTER. IT'S GONNA ALLOW US TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT YOU'VE HAD, UH, RELATED TO DEPLOYING THESE ITEMS IN ADDITION TO, UH, SOME OF THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS THEMSELVES. SO, HISTORICALLY, UH, WE'LL GET INTO THIS A LITTLE BIT DEEPER IN THE PRESENTATION, BUT HISTORICALLY, WE WOULD CAPTURE A LOT OF THESE TRAFFIC CALMING ELEMENTS AS PART OF OUR LARGER CIP PROJECTS. AND THERE WASN'T A MECHANISM TO DO THESE ON A ONE-OFF BASIS. THIS IS GONNA ALLOW US TO DO THAT. UH, SO THAT ITEM WILL BE BEFORE YOU LATER THIS EVENING. WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT ENHANCING OUR, OUR DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY. SO WE HAVE AI, WE HAVE AUTOMATION, UH, WE'VE GOT DIFFERENT SOURCES THAT WE CAN GATHER, UH, DATA FROM. UH, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF FOLKS THAT ARE PITCHING US ON DIFFERENT IDEAS NOW, AND WE'RE TRYING TO EVALUATE WHICH ONE WOULD WORK BEST FOR US, WHICH ONE'S COMPATIBLE WITH WHAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING, UH, AS WELL AS USING OUR CO-PILOT, OUR OTHER AI TOOLS THAT, THAT WE CAN DO USE TO JUST SIMPLY AUTOMATE OUR INTERNAL PROCESSES AS WELL. SO MAKING OUR INTERNAL PROCESSES MORE EFFICIENT, ALLOWING US TO GATHER DATA A LITTLE BIT MORE EFFICIENT, ALLOWS US [00:15:01] ULTIMATELY TO MAKE BETTER DATA BASED DECISIONS FASTER. A LITTLE BIT ON STAFFING AND BUDGET. WE LOVE ORG CHARTS AND PUBLIC WORKS, SO WE USE THEM IN EVERY PRESENTATION . SO, UH, WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS OUR OVERALL DEPARTMENT ORG STRUCTURE. UH, WE DO HAVE SIX DIFFERENT BUREAUS. WE'VE GOT, UH, 23 DIFFERENT DIVISIONS. THIS IS, UH, SOME OF 'EM GOT CUT OFF JUST TO, FROM A VISIBILITY STANDPOINT. UM, BUT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO HIGHLIGHT ON THIS SLIDE AND WHAT YOU SEE ARE FIVE DIFFERENT DIVISIONS. THOSE ARE REPRESENTED IN GREEN WITH THE YELLOW HIGHLIGHT AROUND THEM, UH, THAT ARE REALLY FOCUSED IN ON TRAFFIC SAFETY ELEMENTS. AND WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, HERE IN THE FOLLOWING SLIDES. THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE REALLY INCORPORATING A LOT OF THIS, UM, UH, A LOT OF THESE PARAMETERS AND A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS. SO, IN OUR ENGINEERING BUREAU, WE'VE GOT, UH, THE TEAM HERE, UH, REPRESENTED WITH ME. UH, WE'VE GOT KEITH AND PAUL, OUR CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER AND CITY ENGINEER. UH, THEY'RE REALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR A LOT OF THE WORK AS IT RELATES TO THE ENGINEERING, MAKING SURE WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS IN THE RIGHT OF WAY, DEPLOYING THOSE TOOLS AND, UM, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT VENDORS IN PLACE TO BE ABLE TO INSTALL THESE, THESE ITEMS. WE ALSO HAVE OUR TRANSPORTATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT BUREAU, AND THEY'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON DELIVERING THE CITY'S CIP PROJECTS, OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS. SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT SOME OF OUR MAJOR ARTERIALS, WHETHER IT'S ARTESIA OR STUDEBAKER, OR THE LIKES OF THOSE, UH, THEY'RE THE, THEY'RE THE TEAM THAT'S OUT THERE DEPLOYING, UH, THIS INFORMATION AND, AND THESE, UM, THESE TREATMENTS OUT THERE ON THOSE MAJOR CORRIDOR PROJECTS. AND THEN WE HAVE OUR PUBLIC SERVICES BUREAU. SO BETWEEN OUR STREET MAINTENANCE TEAM AND OUR TRAFFIC OPERATIONS TEAM, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE DOING A LOT OF THE ROUTINE MAINTENANCE OUT THERE AND PUTTING THINGS UP THAT ALREADY EXIST TODAY. A SO DIVING A LITTLE BIT INTO THE BUDGET, HISTORICALLY, THERE HASN'T BEEN ANY DEDICATED STRUCTURAL FUNDING FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING TYPE ELEMENTS. WE FUNDED THESE ON A ONE-TIME BASIS, UM, PARTIALLY WITH THE CIP PROJECTS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, AND PARTIALLY WITH, UH, SMALL ALLOCATIONS OF FUNDING, UH, ALONG THE WAY. SO WE'D GET A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND HERE, A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND THERE. THAT'S WHAT ALLOWED US TO, UH, GATHER UP SOME, SOME MONEY. AND AS YOU SAW ON A PREVIOUS PRESENTATION, UH, ALLOCATE THAT OUT TO, TO A LOT OF THESE, UM, PROJECTS WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. UM, OOPS, ONE OTHER THING TO TO NOTE IS THAT WHILE WE HAVEN'T HAD A LOT OF FUNDING, FUNDING, HISTORICALLY, WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT OUR NEW AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM. UH, WE'RE, WE'RE ANTICIPATING THAT TO BE ROLLING OUT HERE IN THE COMING MONTHS AND WE'RE, THAT WILL ALLOW US TO GENERATE ADDITIONAL REVENUE. AND THAT REVENUE THEN NEEDS TO BE SPENT ON TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SO WE'RE, WE'RE HOPEFUL AND OPTIMISTIC THAT BY ROLLING OUT OUR AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM, AS WELL AS SOME OF THESE EFFICIENCIES THAT WE'VE HAD IN OUR, UM, IN OUR PROCESS, IT'S GOING TO ALLOW US TO BE A, A LITTLE BIT MORE EFFICIENT, INVEST MORE TIME, UH, AND INVEST MORE, MORE RESOURCES INTO OVERALL TRAFFIC CALMING CITYWIDE. UM, SO WE DO HAVE SOME CHALLENGES THOUGH, UH, THE, THE CURRENT STAFFING AND WE'LL, WE'LL PROVIDE SOME SPECIFIC NUMBERS AS WE GO THROUGH THE SLIDE DECK. BUT THE CURRENT STAFFING HAS HAD SOME DIFFICULTY KEEPING UP WITH THE VOLUME OF REQUESTS. I DON'T THINK THAT COMES AS ANY SURPRISE GIVEN WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT OVER THE RECENT MONTHS. UM, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE. WE ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE VOLUME HAS INCREASED. UH, WE'LL SHOW YOU A, A GRAPH HERE SHORTLY. UM, THE, AS WE GET SOME OF THOSE REQUESTS IN, WE'RE STILL HAVING TROUBLE, UH, KEEPING UP WITH ALL OF THE REQUESTS. WE HAVE, THOUGH HIRED SOME OUTSIDE FOLKS TO HELP WITH THAT. SO WE HAVE SOME ENGINEERS, WE HAVE SOME CONSULTANTS, WE HAVE SOME TEAMS THAT ARE HELPING US GET THROUGH THIS BACKLOG. UH, WE, THE, WE HAVE THE GOAL OF MEETING THE REQUESTS WITHIN A SIX MONTH TIMEFRAME. WE'RE, WE'RE NOT QUITE THERE YET, BUT WE'RE MAKING A LOT OF GREAT PROGRESS. UH, WE, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF THE BACKLOG OF EVERY TRAFFIC CALMING REQUEST THAT'S COME IN, UH, UP THROUGH 2025. SO I KNOW WE'RE HALFWAY THROUGH 26. UH, AND THAT'S WHAT THE TEAM'S FOCUSED ON NOW. UH, MANAGING A NETWORK OF OVER 620 TRAFFIC SIGNALS, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S QUITE EXTENSIVE. AND WE'VE ONLY GOT, UH, A SMALL TEAM THAT HANDLES THAT IN ADDITION TO THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER ITSELF. SO, SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS, UH, WE TRY TO NOT ONLY COME WITH PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES, BUT ALSO HOW, HOW ARE WE ADDRESSING THESE? [00:20:01] UM, AS NOTED, WE HAVE ONBOARDED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TEAMS TO HELP ON THE ENGINEERING FRONT. UH, WE'VE ALSO GOT A BENCH AS NOTED. UH, IF THE ITEM'S APPROVED, HOPEFULLY LATER THIS EVENING, WE'LL HAVE, UH, SOME FOLKS ON THE BENCH THAT WE CAN DEPLOY TO GET SOME OF THESE ITEMS COMPLETED. UH, WE'VE ALSO ARE, WILL BE PROPOSING SOME, SOME ADDITIONAL SOLUTIONS AS PART OF THE FY 27 BUDGET. AND, UH, WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL OPTIONS TO, UM, TO GET THROUGH THIS BACKLOG FASTER. UH, ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS EMPHASIZING AND REALLY HONING IN AND ON OUR STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES AND MAKING SURE THAT WHERE WE CAN FIND THOSE LITTLE WINS, FIND THOSE EFFICIENCIES WE DO, AND THEN WE ROLL IT OUT ACROSS OUR TEAMS. SO WE MAKE SURE TO, TO CONTINUE IN A CONSISTENT PROCESS THAT'S EFFICIENT THAT EVERYBODY, UH, KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS AND IT'S REPEATABLE. UM, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE, THE NEW PROCUREMENT FOR THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING, UH, UM, PROCUREMENT EFFORT, UM, IN ADDITION TO OUR PROCUREMENT EFFORTS FOR OUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES THEMSELVES. SO WE CALL THAT OUR ON-CALL BENCH OF SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS. SO WE BRING THEM IN WHEN WE HAVE SPECIALIZED PROJECTS OR NEEDS. UH, THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE FOLKS THAT ARE ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK. THIS IS THE ENGINEERING TEAM THAT HELPS, UH, UH, HELPS US DETERMINE WHAT SHOULD ACTUALLY BE DEPLOYED OUT THERE. SO, TO JUMP A LITTLE BIT INTO THE, THE STATUS UPDATES, WE'RE GONNA INCLUDE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UH, BUT WE'RE ALSO GONNA TALK ABOUT SOME NEWER ITEMS THAT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN YET, UH, BASED ON THE REQUEST BACK IN MARCH. SO THIS FIRST SLIDE HERE RELATES TO THE MAINTENANCE REQUESTS. SO WHEN WE GET A REQUEST IN FOR A, UH, REPLACEMENT SIGN OR A REFRESH OF CURB PAINTING, WE PUT THAT INTO MORE OF OUR MAINTENANCE TYPE BUCKET, MEANING THERE'S NO NEW REQUEST FOR ITEMS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S A REFRESH, DOESN'T REQUIRE AN ENGINEER TO GO IN AND, AND LOOK AT THESE THINGS AND REVIEW AND APPROVE THEM. UH, IT'S BASICALLY GET OUT THERE AND, AND REPAINT OR REPLACE A SIGN. SO THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE'VE DONE, UH, PRETTY WELL OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. THERE'S BEEN A NUMBER OF REQUESTS 4,416 THAT HAVE COME IN, UH, SINCE 2023. UM, AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ADDRESS 83% OF THOSE. SO PRETTY, PRETTY GOOD MARKS. YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT A STUDENTS, BUT WE'RE B STUDENTS. AND WE'RE, WE'RE, UM, YOU KNOW, STILL WORKING THROUGH THE REST OF THE BACKLOG HERE. UH, WE, WE STRIVE TO BE A STUDENTS SHORTLY, . THERE WE GO. UM, AND THE, THE OTHER HIGHLIGHT HERE IS THAT PART OF OUR PUBLIC SERVICES TEAM IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SLURRY SEAL AS PART OF THE STREET MAINTENANCE TEAM. AND WHEN THEY'RE OUT, THEY'RE DOING THAT. THEY'RE ALSO REPLACING SOME OF OUR CROSSWALKS. SO SINCE THE SLURRY TEAM HAS, HAS STARTED, UM, THIS LAST YEAR, WE'VE HAD 79 NEW CROSSWALKS THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED AS WELL. SO JUST KIND OF AN ADDED BENEFIT TO THAT PROGRAM. UM, ON THE, ON THIS, UH, SLIDE, I ALSO JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THIS TEAM IN PUBLIC SERVICES BUREAU THAT HANDLES ALL THE STREET LINES, THE, UH, STREET SIGNS, THE MAINTENANCE, AND THOSE, WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 15 FTES, AND THEY ARE A HUNDRED PERCENT FILLED. AND THAT'S IN PART WHY WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO, UH, MAINTAIN THAT 83% SUCCESS RATE. SO, JUMPING DOWN TO OUR ENGINEERING TEAM AND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD SECTION, THIS TEAM, UH, OVER THE NEXT FEW SLIDES IS COMPRISED OF THREE FTES, TWO OF WHICH ARE FILLED. UH, SO WE DO HAVE ONE VACANCY ON THIS TEAM, UH, THAT HANDLES ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD TYPE TRAFFIC CALMING ELEMENTS, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE OTHER ELEMENTS WE'LL GET INTO ON THE, UM, COUPLE SLIDES. SO THESE, UH, WHAT'S REPRESENTED ON THIS SLIDE HERE ARE THE 17 PRIORITY LOCATIONS THAT WERE CALLED OUT IN THE DECEMBER 30TH MEMO AND OUTLINED, UM, PREVIOUSLY THIS YEAR. SO THOSE 17, UH, LOCATIONS SHOULDN'T BE NEW TO ANYBODY. THEY'VE BEEN ON OUR WEBSITE FOR A WHILE. NINE OF THOSE HAVE SINCE BEEN COMPLETED, MEANING THAT THE COUNTERMEASURES THAT WERE PROPOSED HAVE SINCE BEEN INSTALLED. UH, TWO ARE IN PROGRESS AS OF TODAY, AND THE SIX REMAINING WILL BE COMPLETED THIS SUMMER. SO I KNOW THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, UH, THAN WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SLIDE. THAT'S BECAUSE THE TEAM CONTINUES TO WORK ON THESE. AND, AND THAT'S THE REAL TIME INFORMATION. NINE COMPLETE, UH, TWO IN PROGRESS, AND SIX REMAINING. SO THESE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THAT WORK THAT'S TAKING PLACE OUT THERE. YOU CAN SEE SOME, UH, HIGH CONTRAST CROSSWALKS AND SOME, UM, UH, INTERSECTION CALMING AROUND SCHOOLS. SO [00:25:02] WE DIDN'T STOP AFTER THAT FIRST ROUND AND AFTER THAT FIRST QUARTER OF, UH, REVIEWS. SO WE WENT BACK IN AND, AND AS NOTED PREVIOUSLY, THE TEAM HAS GONE THROUGH ALL OF THE REMAINING REQUESTS THAT HAD COME IN AND CALENDAR YEAR 2025. SO OF ALL THOSE REQUESTS THAT HAD COME IN AN ADDITIONAL FOUR LOCATIONS ARE BEING PRIORITIZED, UH, BASED ON THE TRAFFIC CALMING PRIORITY INDEX. SO NOW WE'LL HAVE THIS 17 ORIGINAL LOCATIONS THAT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT. UH, PLUS THE FOUR NEW LOCATIONS FOR A TOTAL OF 21 PRIORITY LOCATIONS THAT WILL RECEIVE SOME SORT OF TRAFFIC CALMING TREATMENT. IN ADDITION TO THE TRAFFIC CALMING TREATMENTS THEMSELVES, UH, WE HAD HIGHLIGHTED 77 LOCATIONS THAT WOULD RECEIVE SPEED LIMIT REDUCTIONS. AND SINCE THAT PREVIOUS REPORT, UH, THERE'S BEEN AN ADDITIONAL 24 LOCATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED. SO I KNOW THIS, THIS MAP CAN GET, UH, A LITTLE OVERWHELMING GIVEN THAT THERE'S 101 LOCATIONS ON HERE. UM, BUT, BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU THERE, THERE ARE 101 DIFFERENT SEGMENTS, UH, THAT ARE NOW CALLED OUT FOR, UH, SPEED LIMIT REDUCTIONS. AND AGAIN, THIS WILL BE ANOTHER ITEM BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING. UH, ASSUMING THAT ITEM, UH, THAT THAT'LL BE BEFORE CITY COUNCIL THIS EVENING IS PASSED, WE WILL THEN BE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE SIGN INSTALLATIONS FOR THOSE REDUCED SPEEDS LATER THIS YEAR. MOVING ON TO THE RECTANGULAR RAPID FLASHING BEACONS OR, OR RFPS, UH, WE DID CALL OUT 25 LOCATIONS THAT WE WOULD, UM, PROCURE DEVICES FOR, WHICH, THANKS FOR, FOR CITY COUNCIL'S APPROVAL. UM, EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE WERE ABLE TO GET THAT PROCUREMENT GOING. UH, WE WERE ABLE TO, UH, GET ALL OF THOSE 56 OR SO RFPS DELIVERED. UH, WE HAVE THEM IN HAND AND WE'RE STARTING TO INSTALL THEM. NOW. TWO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED AND WE'RE LOOKING AT ANOTHER 10 OR SO WILL BE INSTALLED THIS SUMMER. THE REMAINING HALF WILL BE INSTALLED, UH, LATER THIS YEAR INTO NEXT YEAR. SOME OF THEM ARE GONNA BE GROUPED WITH, UH, CAPITAL PROJECTS AND SOME OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE, UM, ADDRESSED INDIVIDUALLY. BUT THEY DO REQUIRE CURB RAMPS, BALL VAULTS, AND SOME OTHER HARDSCAPE WORK IN ORDER TO, UH, MAKE THEM WORK PROPERLY. SO, IN ADDITION TO THE MAINTENANCE REQUESTS THAT YOU SAW PREVIOUSLY, UH, THAT OTHER SLIDE THAT SHOWED THE 83%, THOSE WERE ALL THE MAINTENANCE ITEMS. WHAT YOU SEE HERE ON THIS SLIDE ARE ALL OF THE REQUESTS THAT COME IN THAT REQUIRE SOME KIND OF CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER INVOLVEMENT TO REVIEW, APPROVE A NEW INSTALLATION. SO THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A BACKLOG. UH, THE TEAM HAS REALLY BEEN FOCUSED IN ON THE TRAFFIC CALMING EVALUATIONS. SO I KNOW THAT NUMBER LOOKS PRETTY LOW, 27%. UM, THAT'S PARTIALLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO CLOSE OUT THOSE 17 PRIORITY LOCATIONS YET. THEY'RE IN THE WORKS, BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA CLOSE 'EM OUT UNTIL WE GET THE INSTALLATIONS COMPLETED. UH, IN ADDITION TO A NUMBER OF NEW REQUESTS, WE RECEIVED OVER 120 NEW REQUESTS THIS LAST QUARTER ALONE. SO WE'RE SEEING A HUGE UPTICK IN THE NUMBER OF REQUESTS FOR TRAFFIC CALMING EVALUATIONS. UM, BUT WE HAVE, UH, BROUGHT ON BOARD ADDITIONAL FOLKS FROM OUR ENGINEERING BENCH TO HELP SUPPORT US GET THROUGH THIS BACKLOG. UM, BUT IT IS GOING TO REQUIRE A, A LONGER, LONGER TERM EFFORT TO, UM, ADD ADDITIONAL RESOURCES IF WE WANT TO STRUCTURALLY GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE CAN KEEP UP WITH THE DEMAND AND THE REQUESTS THAT ARE COMING IN. AGAIN, THIS TEAM HAS THREE FTES, TWO OF WHICH ARE, ARE FILLED. AND SO WHAT DO THOSE ADDITIONAL REQUESTS LOOK LIKE IN GRAPH FORM? 'CAUSE I THINK THAT ALWAYS SHOWS, KINDA TELLS A BIG STORY HERE. SO, HISTORICALLY, WE'VE SEEN 20 ISH LOCATIONS, UH, OR REQUESTS THAT HAVE COME IN ON A QUARTER EACH QUARTER. AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN AS PART OF OUR ROLLOUT WITH OUR NEW PROGRAM, OUR NEW TRANSPARENCY, OUR, OUR POSTCARDS, OUR WEBSITE, WE'RE SEEING, UH, THAT THIS LAST QUARTER WE HAD OVER 120 REQUESTS. SO 129, UH, DIFFERENT REQUESTS THAT HAD COME IN AND OF THIS WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT GETTING AND DEPLOYING THE TEAM OUT THERE TO EVALUATE ALL THESE NOW, UM, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT'S, IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN WE'VE SEEN IN THE PAST. AND WHILE WE ANTICIPATED A SPIKE, I DON'T THINK WE ANTICIPATED A SPIKE QUITE THIS LARGE. UM, WE DO ANTICIPATE THAT OR PREDICT THAT THIS WILL START TO COME DOWN A LITTLE BIT NOW THAT WE'VE SEEN THAT INITIAL, UM, THAT INITIAL SPIKE. BUT I DON'T [00:30:01] SEE A POINT WHERE WE'RE GONNA GET BACK DOWN TO THE PREVIOUS NUMBERS. SO IT'S PROBABLY STILL GONNA REMAIN ELEVATED BASED ON THE FACT THAT THERE'S A FOCUS ON TRAFFIC SAFETY, UM, AND JUST THE EASE OF WHICH THAT FOLKS CAN MAKE THESE REQUESTS NOWADAYS. SO, SHIFTING GEARS A LITTLE BIT, THIS TEAM ALSO HANDLES, IN ADDITION TO THOSE LAST FEW SLIDES, UH, THEY HANDLE THE SAFE ROUTE TO SCHOOLS AND THE SCHOOL AUDITS WITH OUR, OUR DIFFERENT SCHOOL, UM, COLLEAGUES. SO THE FOCUS HERE IS REALLY TO GET OUT, OBSERVE, DISCUSS CONCERNS, IDENTIFY SOLUTIONS, ASSESS THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE, AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP SUPPORT, UH, SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS. SO SINCE, UH, 2025, THERE WERE 15 AUDITS COMPLETED, AND THE TEAM'S BEEN ABLE TO TACKLE AN ADDITIONAL FOUR HERE IN 2026, OUR TRAFFIC SIGNAL UPGRADE TEAM, UH, AGAIN HOUSED WITHIN OUR ENGINEERING TEAM, UH, THERE'S FIVE FTES, FOUR OF WHICH ARE FILLED. UH, THEY HANDLE A NETWORK OF OVER 620 DIFFERENT SIGNALED INTERSECTIONS. UH, THEY ALSO OPERATE THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER OR TMC, AND THEY MANAGE THE CIP PROJECTS. SO THOSE ARE ALL OF THE STANDALONE, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE, THE ONE-OFF LOCATIONS THAT TRAFFIC SIGNALS ARE BEING UPGRADED, WHICH ARE SHOWN ON THIS SLIDE. SO THIS SLIDE HERE HIGHLIGHTS THE 20 DIFFERENT STANDALONE SIGNAL, CIP PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE UNDERWAY BEING MANAGED BY OUR ENGINEERING TEAM. AGAIN, THESE ARE IN ADDITION TO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT ARE FUNDED VIA THE CORRIDOR TYPE, UM, UH, THE CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENTS, THE CIP CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE HANDLED BY OUR TRANSPORTATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT BUREAU. SO THESE ARE 20 STANDALONE IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THE OTHER SIGNALS THAT ARE HAPPENING OUT THERE IN THE CITIES RIGHT OF WAY. UM, ALSO, ALSO WANT TO JUST HIGHLIGHT ON THIS SLIDE, PART OF THE ITEM THAT'LL BE BEFORE YOU LATER THIS EVENING IS TO ALLOW FOR US TO IMPLEMENT THESE PROJECTS OUTSIDE OF THAT LARGER CIP PROGRAM AND ALLOW US TO GET THESE DONE FASTER, MORE EXPEDIENTLY, AND, UM, GET 'EM DONE WITHOUT HAVING TO DO ALL OF THE ADDITIONAL WORK RELATED TO THE RIGHT OF WAY COMPLETE STREETS TYPE PROJECTS. SO THIS SLIDE HERE REPRESENTS AN, AN OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE RECENTLY, RECENTLY COMPLETED AN UPCOMING ELEVATE 28 CIP PROJECTS, AND THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS THAT ARE INCORPORATED WITHIN ALL OF THOSE PROJECTS. UM, I WANTED TO JUST HIGHLIGHT ANOTHER ITEM THAT'LL BE BEFORE YOU LATER THIS EVENING. WE ARE SHOWING HERE THE ORANGE AVE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AS ONE OF THE LINE ITEMS IN THE ASSOCIATED TRAFFIC CALMING IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE PART OF THAT PROJECT. UH, WHAT'S AND WHAT'S NEXT. SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM. UH, TEAM'S BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD. WE'VE GOT A TEAM OF FOUR, UH, FTES, TWO OF WHICH ARE FILLED. UH, SO WE ARE STILL LOOKING AT FILLING A COUPLE OF VACANCIES THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOT ONLY ROLL OUT THIS PROGRAM, BUT ALSO RUN IT LONG TERM, UH, AS WELL AS ONBOARDING SOME, UH, SOME OTHER FOLKS THAT ARE GONNA HELP WITH THE INITIAL STANDUP OF THE PROGRAM ITSELF. SO THE AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT UPDATE AND THE, UM, UH, IS SHOWN HERE ON THIS SLIDE. WE'RE GONNA BE INSTALLING THE SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS THEMSELVES. UH, THOSE ARE THE, THE DEVICES THAT BLINK AND SHOW YOU THE SPEED THAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING. WE'RE STARTING TO ROLL THOSE OUT AT THE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. WE HAVE 18 LOCATIONS WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO BE DEPLOYED. WE DO HAVE THOSE DEVICES, UH, IN HAND AND WE'RE STARTING TO INSTALL THEM, INSTALL THEM. NOW, UH, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE INSTALLING TRAFFIC DEVICES SO WE CAN MEASURE WHAT IT IS THAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE. SO WE HAVE A BASELINE, UH, AS WELL AS STARTING OUR COMPREHENSIVE OUTREACH PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO BE SHOWING UP ON CITY BUSES. AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE OTHER POSTCARDS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S GONNA, UH, HIGHLIGHT WHAT IT IS THAT'S COMING AND HELP, HELP EVERYBODY UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE WE DOING, WHY ARE WE DOING IT, AND GET THEM BACK TO OUR WEBSITE. SO OVERALL NEXT STEPS. UM, WE'VE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO AND WE'RE GONNA KEEP PLUGGING AWAY AT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS. UH, WE'RE GOING TO BE INSTALLING AND ROLLING OUT THE AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM. THAT'S KIND OF STEP ONE. AS WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, WE'RE REALLY FOCUSING IN ON THE SPEED ENFORCEMENT, UM, PROGRAM AND THE SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS, THE, THE DEVICES ON THE POLES THEMSELVES, IN SOME CASES, GETTING [00:35:01] THE POLES INSTALLED SO WE CAN GET THAT PROGRAM ROLLED OUT. SO WE CAN START, UH, CALMING DOWN THE TRAFFIC, HOPEFULLY STOP PEOPLE FROM SPEEDING SO MUCH, BUT ALSO START TO, UH, CAPTURE SOME OF THAT REVENUE SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO REINVEST IN TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES. UH, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE 20 STANDALONE TRAFFIC SIGNAL UPGRADES. WE'RE GOING TO FINISH INSTALLING THE 21. SO WE HAD THE 17 PLUS THE FOUR NEW NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING PRIORITY LOCATIONS. WE'RE GOING TO ONBOARD ADDITIONAL SUPPORT. WE'VE ALREADY DONE SOME ONBOARDING, BUT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO ONBOARD AS NEEDED. SO WE CAN GET THROUGH THE BACKLOG THAT, THAT WE JUST HIGHLIGHTED HERE IN THIS PRESENTATION. UM, FINALIZING THE ORDINANCE FOR OUR SPEED REDUCTIONS, UH, THAT'LL BE BEFORE YOU LATER THIS EVENING. SO IF ALL, ALL GOES WELL THERE, WE'LL BE FINALIZING THAT ORDINANCE AND THAT WILL ALLOW US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SWAPPING OUT THE EXISTING SPEED LIMIT SIGNS WITH THE REDUCED SPEED LIMIT SIGNS. WE'RE GONNA COMPLETE THE DESIGN AND INSTALL THE 2020, THE 25 RFPS THAT WERE PRIORITIZED. UH, OVER THE NEXT YEAR OR SO, UH, COMPLETE THE UPCOMING CIP PROJECTS, CONTINUE ENHANCING OUR COMMS AND, AND TRANSPARENCY AND OUTREACH STRATEGY, AND, AND CONTINUE TO UTILIZE, UH, TECHNOLOGY WHERE WE CAN TO IMPROVE WHAT WE'RE DOING, MAKE OURSELVES MORE EFFICIENT, UH, AND CONTINUE TO, TO DO WHAT WE CAN WITH, UM, GETTING DATA IN SO WE CAN MAKE DATA INFORMED DECISIONS MORE QUICKLY. AND, AND THEN WE'LL BE PROPOSING SOME ADDITIONAL SOLUTIONS AS PART OF THE FY 27 BUDGET THAT YOU'LL SEE, UH, BEFORE YOU IN A COUPLE MONTHS. THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION AND AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. ALL RIGHT, WELL, WELL, THANKS TEAM FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THANKS TO THE COUNCIL FOR, UH, REQUESTING THIS UPDATE. UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE IN A, WE'RE IN A, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A KEY PRIORITY. IT'S GONNA BECOME, CONTINUE TO BECOME AN, AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT PRIORITY FOR US MOVING FORWARD. UH, WE KNOW WE HAD SOME STAFFING CHALLENGES AND SOME, YOU KNOW, WE SAW POST COVID, UH, TRAFFIC INCIDENTS INCREASED ALL ACROSS AMERICA, BUT WE FOCUSED ON THE VERY BASIC THINGS, GETTING THOSE THINGS TO WORK IN TERMS OF HIRING STAFF AND GETTING IN A BETTER PLACE AS A CITY TO WHERE NOW WE CAN TAKE ON THESE QUALITY OF LIFE AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AS A, AS, AS, AS A HIGHER PRIORITY MOVING FORWARD. UH, IT'S GREAT TO SEE ALL THE THOUGHT, ALL THE THINKING THROUGH WHERE THE IMP IMPROVEMENTS WILL TAKE PLACE BASED ON DATA, WHAT THE STRATEGIES ARE. IT'S ALL, IT'S ALL OUTLINED. IT'S ABOUT, UM, HAVING THE CAPACITY TO IMPLEMENT THEM IN A TIMELY MANNER. ALSO, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WE WILL HAVE SOME GENERAL FUND IMPACT NEUTRAL SOLUTIONS IN THIS UPCOMING BUDGET TO PROPOSE THAT WE WILL BE BRINGING FORWARD, UH, AROUND THE END OF JULY. THAT WILL ALLOW US TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THESE THINGS, BUT ALSO ADD SOME NEW SOLUTIONS. AND SO WE CERTAINLY LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. WE HAVE ABOUT 45 MINUTES. VERY NOT A LOT OF PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY. SO THIS IS REALLY THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO HAVE THEIR, UH, GET THEIR QUESTIONS ANSWERED, UH, QUESTIONS THAT THEIR CONSTITUENTS MAY HAVE BEEN ASKING OF THEM. UH, BUT I DO WANNA SAY THAT WE WANNA, WE WANNA BE, UM, UH, TIGHT ON, UM, ON THE TIMELINE. 'CAUSE WE HAVE A VERY LONG COUNCIL MEETING. SO WE WANNA WRAP THIS UP BY FIVE. SO AT THIS POINT, I'M GONNA TAKE THE VERY LITTLE PUBLIC COMMENT THAT WE DO HAVE AND GET THAT OUTTA THE WAY. SO ALL WE HAVE LEFT IS THE COUNCIL DELIBERATION. SO LET'S HANDLE PUBLIC COMMENT NOW. IF ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, PLEASE LINE UP AT THE PODIUM NOW. IT WOULD BE NOW. YES. HELLO EVERYONE. UM, MY NAME IS MICHELLE AARON ECKHOFF AND I'M THE CO-CHAIR OF CRAFTSMAN VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT. I, IT'S NOT REALLY A COMMENT, IT'S MORE OF, OF A QUESTION. UM, AND MAYBE SOME OF THE COUNCIL WERE THINKING ABOUT THIS. UM, SO FOR THE AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT SIGNS, ARE THEY GOING TO, WE HAVE SOME ON ORANGE AVENUE RIGHT NOW IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. I DON'T THINK THEY COLLECT DATA. WILL THE FUTURE ONES BE COLLECTING DATA? I'LL MAKE SURE THAT THEY CLARIFY BETWEEN THE RAPID FLASHERS AND THE, AND THE, UH, SPEED CAMERAS. THOSE ARE VERY DIFFERENT, SO I'LL MAKE SURE THEY CLARIFY THAT. CORRECT. YEAH. NOT THE, NOT THE SPEED CAMERAS, BUT THE ONES THAT TELL YOU HOW FAST YOU'RE GOING. YEAH, WE'LL CLARIFY THAT. OKAY. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, NEXT. DO MY BEST TO GET THROUGH THIS AS QUICK AS I CAN, BUT, UM, GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR CITY COUNCIL. UM, MY NAME'S KELSEY WISE. I'M A RESIDENT WHO LIVES ON ORANGE AVENUE RIGHT OFF SEVENTH BETWEEN FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. AND ABOUT A YEAR AGO AFTER WITNESSING, UM, YOU KNOW, ONGOING SPEEDING CONCERNS AND MORE IMPORTANTLY TO ME, MULTIPLE NEAR MISSES BETWEEN STUDENTS WALKING HOME AND CARS DRIVING BY, I BEGAN WORKING WITH COUNCILWOMAN ZENDEJAS OFFICE AND PUBLIC WORKS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW TRAFFIC COMING DECISIONS ARE MADE. [00:40:02] FIRST, I WANNA THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN ZENDEJAS AND YOUR WONDERFUL TEAM OF STAFF, UM, FOR THE COLLABORATION. THROUGH THEIR COORDINATION, WE WERE ABLE TO MEET WITH PAUL VAN D**E, THE HEAD OF TRAFFIC ENGINEERING WITHIN PUBLIC WORKS, TO DISCUSS OUR CONCERNS, UM, ON MARCH 26TH. DURING THAT MEETING, WE WERE TOLD PUBLIC WORKS IS DEDICATED TO MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON DATA. I'VE HEARD IT MANY TIMES TODAY. UM, I WANNA BE VERY CLEAR, I SUPPORT THAT APPROACH. IT'S THE RIGHT APPROACH. EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD DESERVES TO BE EVALUATED FAIRLY AND CONSISTENTLY USING OBJECTIVE DATA. BUT IF DECISIONS ARE GOING TO BE MADE USING DATA, THE DATA ITSELF MUST BE RELIABLE. AFTER REVIEWING THE PUBLIC, THE DATA PUBLIC WORKS IS UTILIZING AND DISCUSSING THE METHODOLOGY. DURING OUR MEETING, I SHARED CONCERNS WITH EACH OF THE THREE DATA POINTS BEING USED TO MAKE THESE CRITICAL AND IMPACTFUL DECISIONS WITH COUNCILMAN ZENDAY HOUSE'S OFFICE. AND I BELIEVE SHE SHARED THEM WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS. I HAVE NOT HEARD BACK AT THIS TIME FROM THAT, BUT I DO WANNA MAKE SURE I GET A CHANCE TO SHARE MY CONCERNS WITH EVERYONE HERE. FIRST, SPEED DATA. DURING OUR MEETING WITH PUBLIC WORKS, I MENTIONED A TRAFFIC CAMERA HAD BEEN PLACED IN FRONT OF MY HOME THE DAYS PRIOR. I WAS TOLD THAT WAS CORRECT. THEY WERE COLLECTING THE DATA WHEN I PRESSED THEM ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT DATA WAS BEING USED AND SPEED, I, I MENTIONED MY CONCERN, IT WAS ABOUT 150 FEET FROM THE INTERSECTION OF SEVENTH AND ORANGE FACING THE INTERSECTION. I LET THEM KNOW MY CONCERNS AROUND DECELERATION AND ACCELERATION COUNTS THERE. UM, AND THEY COMMITTED, ADMITTED, AND COMMITTED TO REDOING THE STUDY. TO DATE THAT HASN'T OCCURRED. BUT GIVEN THAT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW PUBLIC WORKS IS ASSESSING CONFIDENCE IN PREVIOUSLY COLLECTED DATA GIVEN THIS KNOWN MISSTEP, AND ASK THE QUESTION, DO CONTRACTORS PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION ON CAMERA SETUP, PLACEMENT, ORIENTATION, TIMING FOR EACH STUDY? AND IS THAT AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW? I DID SUBMIT PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST. I HAVE NOT HEARD BACK, UM, OH, 30 SECONDS TRAFFIC COUNTS. UM, WE'RE USING MIDDAY TRAFFIC COUNTS. I THINK THERE'S SOME SERIOUS CONCERNS ON EQUITY WITH THAT, GIVEN THE FACT THAT WORKING FAMILY NEIGHBORHOODS SEE LESS MIDDAY TRAFFIC THAN SOME MORE AFFLUENT NEIGHBORHOODS WITH RETIREES AND PEOPLE WORKING FROM HOME. AND THEN CRASH DATA. UM, HEAD OF TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE RECOGNIZING THAT THE LONG BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT IS RESPONDING MOSTLY TO NON-INJURY CRASHES, WHICH MEANS WE'RE, WE'RE MISSING THAT DATA. UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS, YOUR TIME HAS CONCLUDED HAPPENS AND SOMEONE IS HURT. SO UNDERSTOOD. UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, BEFORE WE GO TO THE DAIS, UH, JOSHUA, COULD YOU, UH, SPEAK TO, SOMETIMES WE GO THROUGH AND WE EXPLAIN WHAT THESE DIFFERENT, UH, DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS ARE, BUT IF YOU COULD JUST EXPLAIN WHAT A RAPID FLASHING BEACON, THE FEEDBACK THAT YOU GET FROM THAT. IS THERE ANY ENFORCEMENT TIED TO IT OR, UH, VERSUS THE CAMERAS SO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND MIGHT LEAN ON THE TEAM FOR SOME SPECIFICS. BUT THE, AS FAR AS THE DIFFERENT ITEMS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, WE DO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE INTO THE WEEDS OF THESE IN PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS, UH, THAT WE, THAT WE PUBLISHED, UH, THE MEMO BACK IN DECEMBER AND THEN WE DID A PRESENTATION TO, TO CITY COUNCIL, UM, BACK IN MARCH, I BELIEVE. SO WE DID GET INTO A LITTLE MORE SPECIFICS THERE IF, IF ANYBODY'S INTERESTED IN LOOKING THOSE UP. UM, BUT AS FAR AS WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT ITEMS? SO THE SPEED FEEDBACK SIGN IS A SIGN THAT FLASHES YOUR SPEED AS YOU'RE GOING THROUGH, UH, WHAT IS GOING TO ULTIMATELY BE THE AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT AREA. SO THAT'S TO WARN EVERYBODY, LET YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING OVER THE SPEED LIMIT AND YOU SHOULD SLOW DOWN BEFORE YOU GET TO THE DEVICE ITSELF. THAT WILL CAPTURE SOME INFORMATION. UM, IT'S NOT GONNA CAPTURE, UH, ANYTHING BEYOND YOUR SPEED, YOUR LICENSE PLATE. AND IT'S GOING TO THEN SEND OUT THOSE, THOSE CITATIONS ACCORDINGLY. WE'RE NOT CAPTURING MORE STUFF. WE'RE NOT DELIVERING IT TO, UM, TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. THE RECTANGULAR RAPID FLASHING BEACONS ARE ANOTHER COMPLETELY SEPARATE ELEMENT THAT ARE INSTALLED AT CROSSWALKS THAT ARE GENERALLY IN THE MID-BLOCK AREA. SO FOLKS CAN, UM, CROSS SAFELY IN THOSE AREAS. SO THEY FLASH RAPIDLY TO SHOW THAT THERE'S A PEDESTRIAN PRESENT OR SOMEBODY PRESENT. UH, THAT HOPEFULLY PROVIDES A LITTLE MORE CLARITY. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU. AND, UH, ALVIN OR, OR SOMEONE ELSE, JUST SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, HOW YOU RANDOMIZE OR, OR GATHER DATA IN YOUR STUDIES THAT'S REFLECTIVE OF TRENDS AT DIFFERENT TIMES WHEN PEOPLE GET OUTTA SCHOOL, WHEN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO WORK. YOU KNOW HOW ALL THAT IS FACTORED IN WHEN YOU DO YOUR STUDIES? DO YOU MEAN KEY OR? YEAH, SO HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT OUR [00:45:01] TRAFFIC COUNTS AND PRACTICES. ALSO WANT TO, UM, CLARIFY THAT NOT EVERY SPEED FEEDBACK SIGN IS AT A LOCATION WHERE WE'LL HAVE AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT. UM, EVERY ENFORCEMENT LOCATION WILL HAVE A FEEDBACK SIGN, BUT WE DO HAVE A LOT OF THOSE, UH, YOUR SPEED SIGNS LOCATED IN DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS AND ON DIFFERENT ARTERIALS THAT AREN'T CURRENTLY PLANNED FOR ENFORCEMENT. SO I JUST WANNA POINT, POINT A CLARIFICATION THERE. UM, WHEN WE ARE COLLECTING DATA ON HOW MANY CARS AND HOW FAST THEY'RE GOING, UH, ARE ON THESE STREETS WHERE WE'RE DOING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC ASSESSMENTS, UH, THEY'RE TYPICALLY, UH, IN PLACE FOR OVER 24 HOURS. SO, UH, WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT JUST, UH, OFF PEAK PERIODS OR, UM, FOR A CERTAIN HOUR OF THE DAY, THESE ARE 24 HOUR COUNTS OR WE CAN OBSERVE WHERE, UM, AND WHEN, UH, THOSE VOLUMES ARE GREATEST. SO. GREAT. AND I MEANT KEITH, NOT ALVIN. SORRY ABOUT THAT. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE COUNCIL. WE'RE GONNA START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER SORROW. YES. UM, THANK YOU DIRECTOR HICKMAN FOR THE PRESENTATION. I APPRECIATE YOU COMING BACK AND, UM, GIVING US UPDATE, BUT ALSO WHAT WAYS THAT STEPS THAT PUBLIC WORKS AND THE TEAM HAVE TAKEN TO ENHANCE, UM, COMMUNICATION AS WELL AS USE UTILIZING TECHNOLOGY. THERE'S TWO AREAS THAT I, I'LL SPEND MY TIME ON FOCUSING. AND ONE OF THAT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE INDICATION OF THE ROLLOUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC PROGRAM ON AN AMOUNT OF, I THINK THAT'S BEEN SUBMITTED AS FAR AS REQUESTS GOES, SHOWS THAT IT'S STARTING. PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO KNOW THAT THAT'S THE WAY THEY SUBMIT IT. BUT I DID THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. THE, THE THING THAT I DID WANNA ASK IS, AS YOU'RE STARTING TO ROLL THE PROGRAM OUT AND NOT JUST GETTING THE INTAKE, IS THE WAY THAT YOU COMMUNICATE WITH THE PERSON SUBMITTING IT. BECAUSE I BET YOU, OR I SHOULDN'T SAY I BET YOU, BUT I DO KNOW FROM A RESPONSE FROM RESIDENT WHEN IT'S DENIED OR IT'S, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A RESPONSE THAT IT DOESN'T REQUIRE A CERTAIN CALMING MEASURE IS WHAT LEVEL OF WARM CONTACT IS MADE TO PROVIDE EXPLANATION. 'CAUSE SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING JARGON THAT I DON'T THINK I UNDERSTAND AND I'M ASSUMING MY RESIDENTS DON'T. UM, AND SO THAT'S ALSO WHERE THERE ARE POINTS OF EDUCATION AND THAT'S WHERE THE SIGN IS GREAT. BUT I, I JUST WONDER WHERE, HOW ARE YOU UTILIZING MAYBE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO NOT ONLY DO INDIVIDUAL ONE-ON-ONE, BUT ALSO MAYBE OTHERS WHO MAY SUBMIT SIMILAR REQUESTS TO DO MORE? MAYBE LIKE A, UH, I KNOW THAT YOU GET INVITED TO COMMUNITY MEETINGS, BUT BEING ABLE TO CONTINUE TO EDUCATE THE DIFFERENT CALMING MEASURE AND WHAT MEASURES YOU USE, RIGHT, TO DETERMINE, UM, WHAT GETS INSTALLED OR NOT. SO THAT'S A LONG-WINDED QUESTION, BUT BASICALLY, ARE YOU USING THIS PROGRAM AS A WAY TO ENHANCE ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION? YOU'RE, YOU'RE STEALING OUR THUNDER FOR OUR NEXT QUARTERLY UPDATE , UM, SHORT ANSWER, YES. YES. OKAY. WE ARE, AND WHAT WE'RE INTENDING TO DO IS, UH, ROLL OUT A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION, UH, ON OUR WEBSITE. SO HOPEFULLY FOLKS WILL SEE THE POSTCARDS, THEY'LL SEE THE, UH, YARD SIGNS AND THEY'LL GO OUT AND GO TO THE WEBSITE THAT WILL HAVE A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION THAT WILL BE MORE IN LAY TERMS SO FOLKS CAN UNDERSTAND IT MAYBE A LITTLE BIT, A LITTLE BIT EASIER. AND THEN EVERYBODY CAN BE MORE OF A ARMCHAIR ENGINEER IF YOU'D LIKE TO BE. SO THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. AND, UH, I'M GONNA BE ROLLING OUT MY, MY GOAL WAS TO HAVE THAT AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE SO WE COULD SHOWCASE IT AS PART OF OUR, OUR NEXT QUARTERLY UPDATE. SO NOW, NOW I GUESS I HAVE TO, NOW THAT I SAID IT OUT LOUD, WELL, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, UM, I READ THROUGH YOUR REPORT SOMEHOW . SO THAT SECOND QUESTION IS AROUND THE SAVE ROUTES TO SCHOOL AUDIT, BECAUSE, UM, THAT IS A, THE OTHER, UM, REQUESTS OR CONCERN THAT COMES INTO OUR OFFICE ARE ALWAYS RELATED TO, UM, OTHER, UH, CENTERS OR INSTITUTION OR EDUCATIONAL CENTERS WHERE THERE ARE HIGH TRAFFIC, UH, AT CERTAIN TIMES. I'M JUST WONDERING, UM, HOW ARE YOU GONNA ENHANCE IN COMMUNICATING WITH L-B-U-S-D, BETWEEN PUBLIC, UH, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT TOO, TO COORDINATE, BECAUSE I HAVE SHARED STORIES IN WHERE WE HAVE HAD CHILDREN, UM, HIT OR ALMOST HIT MANY TIMES, AND PARENTS ALSO DOUBLE PARKING, CREATING CERTAIN CONDITIONS. UM, AND IT'S ALWAYS VERY STRESSFUL NOT ONLY FOR PARENTS, BUT THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR NOT KNOWING HOW TO ENFORCE A PROCESS. UH, SO I FEEL THAT IF WE CAN BE PROACTIVE IN WAYS TO COORDINATE COMMUNICATION, UH, TOGETHER BETWEEN PUBLIC WORKS, PD, SCHOOL SAFETY TO COORDINATE THESE DROP OFF AND PICKUPS BETTER, WE MAY DECREASE THESE ACCIDENTS. [00:50:01] SO JUST WONDERING WHAT, WHAT'S COMING UP FOR THAT? THANKS FOR THE QUESTION. UH, REALLY AS A, AS A PARENT, REALLY IMPORTANT, UH, QUESTION FOR ME TO ANSWER. UM, I WILL SAY THAT, UH, WE DO, UH, HAVE A GREAT PARTNERSHIP WITH UNIFIED, UH, AND THEIR TRANSPORTATION TEAM, UM, TO DIAGNOSE, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON AND FIND SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THAT. UM, MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE LOCATED ON LOCAL STREETS, AND SO SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS THAT WE'RE PILOTING UNDER THIS NEW PROGRAM, WE EXPECT TO BE APPLICABLE AT A NUMBER OF LOCATIONS WHERE, WHERE SCHOOLS ARE PRESENT. UM, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF SCHOOLS THAT ARE ON ARTERIAL ROADS AS WELL, RIGHT? SO, UM, WE'VE BEEN PLAYING PAYING IT SPECIAL ATTENTION TO STREETS LIKE ATLANTIC, UH, OUTSIDE OF, UH, PAULY AND ROOSEVELT OVER THERE, AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE WE HAVE A SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL NEXUS, UH, PACIFIC AVENUE PROJECT, UH, NEXT TO WASHINGTON. SO, UM, WE DO MAKE A BIG PRIORITY TO DESIGN THINGS DIFFERENTLY, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS ARRIVING AT SCHOOL. UM, I ALWAYS GET A KICK OUTTA THE NUMBER OF ICE CREAM TRUCKS THAT SHOW UP OUTSIDE SCHOOL . THAT'S A DIFFERENT TYPE OF TRAFFIC PROBLEM. BUT, UM, WE DO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO OUR SCHOOLS AND HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT, UH, TO FIND SOLUTIONS. YEAH, AND I ALSO WILL ADD THAT OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS ALSO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES LIKE SUCH AS PACIFIC AVENUE THAT PAUL MENTIONED WITH WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL. AND SO AS PART OF THAT CAPITAL PROJECT, WE'RE WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL TO KIND OF DEVELOP AND AFFECT THE DESIGN BY INCORPORATING SOME, SOME BUS LOADING ZONES WHERE THEY COULD DROP OFF AND, YOU KNOW, ACCOMMODATE THEIR, THEIR SCHOOL BUSES, UH, FOR SPECIAL PICKUPS DROP OFFS, AND THEN ALSO LIKE WORKING WITH LB TRANSIT AND WHATNOT. SO OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS ON ARTERIALS ARE ALSO A MAJOR OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO INCORPORATE NEEDS INTO THE PROJECT DESIGNS. THANK YOU. UH, LET'S SEE. COUNCILMAN BRIGGS, OTI. THANK YOU MAYOR. UM, AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. UM, AND THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN SORROW FOR THOSE, UH, GREAT, UH, GREAT COMMENTS. UH, I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT A COUPLE OF THE SLIDES. SO SUPPOSEDLY, UH, SIDE NUMBER FIVE, TALKING ABOUT THE REQUEST PROCESS. UM, I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA BE DOING A REQUEST, LIKE AN UPDATE TO US QUARTERLY, BUT FOR THE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDED TODAY, OUTSIDE OF THE, LIKE THE REPORT, IS THAT INFORMATION THAT, ARE WE GONNA BE UP, ARE WE GONNA BE UPDATING THE WEBSITE AS WELL WITH THAT INFORMATION, UH, TOO? YES. UH, AND THEN QUESTION, UM, AND I'LL SAY THIS AS, UH, AS YOUR, UM, CALL ME YOUR, UH, LOCAL, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILWOMAN TESTER. 'CAUSE I PUT IN A REQUEST TOO, UM, A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. SO WHEN YOU PUT IN A REQUEST, YOU KNOW, YOU GET THE, THE, THE ITEM NUMBER BACK, RIGHT? AND THEN HOW DO WE GET COMMUNICATED WITH, 'CAUSE I HEAR, I SEE HERE IT'S LIKE NEIGHBORHOOD, NEIGHBORHOOD NOTIFICATION. AND SO I WAS WONDERING LIKE, IS NEIGHBORHOOD NOTIFICATION LIKE, IS THAT I'M NOTIF LIKE I'M EMAILING PEOPLE, LIKE I WASN'T QUITE SURE WHAT THAT MEANT. AND IF IT'S A, IF IT'S A REQUEST I MADE, DO I GET NOTIFIED AS WELL? YEAH, I KNOW THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT TO UNPACK ON SLIDE FIVE. UM, IF WE COULD PULL THE, PULL THE PRESENTATION BACK UP PLEASE. UH, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR, FOR THE CONTEXT OF THIS. UM, BUT THERE IS, THERE IS A LOT TO UNPACK. SO THERE'S, UM, THE ORIGINAL SUBMITTAL OF THE REQUEST THAT COMES IN AND THERE SHOULD BE SOME, SOME BACK AND FORTH. WHEN THE SUBMITTAL COMES IN, YOU GET THE REQUEST NUMBER, UH, THE TEAM WILL THEN BE GOING OUT AND WE BUNDLE ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT REQUESTS TOGETHER. 'CAUSE IT'S NOT REALLY EFFECTIVE WITH OUR, WITH OUR SMALL STAFF, IF WE JUST SEND ONE PERSON OUT EVERY TIME WE GET A REQUEST THAT THAT'S NOT ALL THAT, UH, IT'S NOT ALL THAT HELPFUL. APOLOGIES. GIMME, UH, TWO SECONDS WHILE I FLIP BACK TO THE SLIDE WE'RE REFERRING TO HERE. OOPS. YEAH, SLIDE NUMBER FIVE. THERE WE GO. YEAH. SO THE, SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE, SO THE TOP ROW OR THOSE DARK BLUE BOXES REPRESENT THE, THE REQUEST THAT COMES IN MM-HMM . SO SOMEBODY SUBMITS A REQUEST, THOSE ALL GET BUNDLED UP. UH, WE THEN SEND THE TEAM OUT OR SEND SOME CONSULTANTS OUT TO GO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT, UH, THERE THERE'S A NEED OR A REQUIREMENT OR, OR SO ON AND SO FORTH TO REQUIRE OR, UM, INSTALL SOME SORT OF COUNTERMEASURE. ONCE THAT'S CONFIRMED, IF THERE IS GOING TO BE A PATH FORWARD, IF WE ARE GOING TO PRIORITIZE IT. SO IF IT'S ONE OF THOSE 17 OR PLUS THE, THE NOW FOUR, THAT'S WHEN WE GET DOWN TO THE BLUE, UH, THE LIGHT BLUE ROW OR THE BOTTOM ROW THAT SHOWS DESIGNING THE COUNTERMEASURES AND THEN REACHING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY FOR THE NOTIFICATION. AND THAT'S WHERE THESE POSTCARDS [00:55:01] COME IN PLACE, THAT'S WHERE THE YARD SIGNS COME IN. UH, SO WE'RE GONNA BE DEPLOYING THOSE SO FOLKS KNOW AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS THAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD SO THEY HAVE AN IDEA, UH, BEFORE SOMETHING JUST POPS UP. UNDERSTOOD. AND THEN I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY THE SAME THING THAT COUNCILWOMAN WAS ASKING. SO THEN IF WE ARE NOT MOVING FORWARD WITH SOMEONE'S REQUEST, IS IT INCUMBENT UPON THE RESIDENT THEN TO LIKE TO, FOR US MAYBE TO NOTIFY RESIDENTS TO GO ON THE WEBSITE AFTER A CERTAIN NUMBER OF MONTHS AND CHECK THE STATUS OF THE REQUEST THAT THEY'VE MADE? SO YOU CAN DO IT THAT WAY. YOU CAN GO BACK ONTO THE WEBSITE. SO THE PREVIOUS, UM, MEMO AND ALL OF THE DIFFERENT, UM, 180 OR SO LOCATIONS THAT WE HAD ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE RATING FOR EVERY, EVERY TCPI RATING FOR ALL THOSE LOCATIONS ARE ON THE WEBSITE NOW. AND THERE WILL BE, WE'LL BE UPDATING THAT QUARTERLY WITH EACH MEMO. WE'LL BE ADDING MORE LOCATIONS TO IT, BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE INDIVIDUAL REQUESTER, UH, WILL BE OR SHOULD BE GETTING A RESPONSE BACK AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THIS WAS REQUIRED OR NOT. AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT, UH, YOUR, YOUR COLLEAGUE, UH, COUNCILWOMAN SORO HAD MENTIONED THAT SOMETIMES I THINK WE CAN BE OVER-ENGINEERING IN THE WAY THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATE BACK AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING ON INTERNALLY TO HELP FOLKS UNDERSTAND WHY AND HOW WE DO WHAT WE DO. UNDERSTOOD. AND ALSO, IF I COULD ADD TOO, THAT WHEN THE, OUR WORK ORDER SYSTEM, UM, AND THESE REQUESTS COME IN, THEY HAVE THE CONTACT INFORMATION, UH, WHICH INCLUDES EMAILS AND WHATNOT. AND SO, UH, OUR STAFF ARE TRAINED TO RESPOND USING THAT CONTACT INFORMATION THAT THEY HAVE AS WELL. OKAY, THAT'S GREAT. UM, AND THEN I WANTED TO, THE, THE COMMENT, THE BOX YOU PUT AT THE BO BOTTOM HERE WHERE YOU SAID A THRESHOLD NOT MET FOR COUNTERMEASURE IMPLEMENTATION RECOMMENDATION, AND IT SAYS LOWER SCORING SEGMENTS ARE NOT PRIORITIZED, HOWEVER, THEY MAY BE REVIEWED ALONGSIDE NEW REQUESTS IN THE FUTURE. SO MY UNDERSTANDING OF THAT IS EVEN IF AT THAT TIME YOU MAY NOT HAVE EVALUATED THAT AT RACE OR THE THRESHOLD FOR IMMEDIATE KIND OF IMPLEMENTATION, YOU DO, WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO REVISIT PREVIOUSLY REQUESTED SEGMENTS FOR RE-REVIEW. UM, AND DOES THAT RERE REVIEW, DOES THAT REVIEW, UH, MEAN THAT SOMEBODY MAY GO BACK OUT AND THEN REASSESS? I THINK IT'S KIND OF RELATED TO A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT ONE OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTERS ARE SAYING IS THAT IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DATA, WE THINK THEY HAVE CHANGED, CAN THAT THEN BE REEVALUATED? SHORT ANSWER IS YES, BUT, UH, WE DON'T WANNA BE SENDING OUT OUR TEAMS TO GO REVIEW EVERY, EVERY WEEKEND BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE WAS ANOTHER REQUEST. UH, GENERALLY THE EVALUATION IS GOOD FOR A COUPLE YEARS, BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN REASONS OR, UH, TRIGGERS THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO GO BACK OUT. SO WHEN YOU TOUCH ON THAT, YEAH. UH, SO WE DO OUR BEST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COLLECTING DURING KIND OF NOMINAL CIRCUMSTANCES, RIGHT? WHEN WE ARE EXPECTING NORMAL TRAFFIC PATTERNS. BUT, UM, IF FOLKS ARE LOOKING AT OUR INFORMATION AND THINKING, OH, THAT DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT, UH, WE'RE OPEN TO HAVING CONVERSATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CAPTURING, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S A SPECIAL TRIP GENERATOR NEARBY THAT HAS DIFFERENT PATTERNS AND WE ARE OUT THERE AT THE WRONG TIME. UH, WE'RE, WE'RE OPEN TO REVISITING THAT. UM, BUT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT HOW IT GETS RECYCLED. UM, EACH QUARTER, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING OUT AND MAKING IMPROVEMENTS TO TRY AND MITIGATE THESE PROBLEMS. AND SO OUR EXPECTATION IS THAT THE LOCATIONS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES, WHEN THEY'RE REEVALUATED, THEY'RE GONNA MOVE DOWN THE RANKING AND THAT'S GONNA CHANGE THE OVERALL PERCENTILE FOR THE OTHER LOCATIONS. SO AS WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS, AS THIS PROGRAM GOES ON THE, THE BUSIER STREETS AS THEY ARE ADDRESSED, THE OTHER ONES THAT ARE KIND OF ON THAT BUBBLE ARE GONNA GET MOVED UP INTO THE PRIORITY ZONE. SO WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE, UM, THESE CONDITIONS GET STALE. SO THEY WILL BE ON THE LIST FOR FIVE YEARS BEFORE WE START TO REDO SOME OF THE STUDIES, BUT WE DO EXPECT THAT THINGS ARE GONNA KIND OF BUBBLE UP AS WE'RE EFFECTIVE IN CALMING TRAFFIC ON THE WORST STREETS. SO. UNDERSTOOD. OKAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT. ALRIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBER ALLEN. I THANK YOU MAYOR. UM, SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, JOSH. UM, THE MEMO STATES, UH, THAT ADDITIONAL STAFFING IS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE A SIX MONTH REVIEW GOAL, UM, BUT DOES NOT CLEARLY OUTLINE, UM, WHEN THAT STANDARD WOULD BEGIN. IS THERE AN ANTICIPATED TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SIX MONTH REVIEW STANDARD FOR TRAFFIC EVALUATIONS? YEAH, SO WE'RE, UH, WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT IMPLEMENTING THAT IN THE FY 27 BUDGET. SO, UH, WE WILL BRING YOU A FULL DETAILED PROPOSAL OF, UH, WHAT KIND OF REVENUE WE'RE GONNA BE RECEIVING FROM THE NEW SPEED CAMERAS, HOW THAT WILL TRANSLATE INTO STAFFING, HOW MANY STAFFING WOULD BE NEEDED, AND ALSO SOME IDEAS ON HOW TO RESTRUCTURE AND REORGANIZE IF WE WERE TO GET THOSE DOLLARS. SO, UH, WE EXPECT THAT TO BE AVAILABLE IN AUGUST AND THEN IMPLEMENTING SHORTLY THEREAFTER. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, AND THEN HOW WILL PUBLIC WORKS DEFINE, [01:00:01] UM, REVIEW UNDER THE SIX MONTH STANDARD? UH, DOES IT MEAN THAT, UM, IT'S BEEN EVALUATED, DESIGNED, PRIORITIZED, FUNDED, OR FULLY IMPLEMENTED? SO WE, WE KIND OF PUT THAT OUT THERE AS A GOAL AND PART OF THAT WAS THE, THE REQUEST, UH, OF CITY COUNCIL TO COME BACK AND FIGURE OUT HOW WE COULD GET TO A SIX MONTH STANDARD. SO FOR STARTERS, WE WANTED TO ROLL OUT THE PROCESSES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY. UH, A AS WE SHOWED, WE'VE SEEN A, A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN REQUESTS AS PART OF THAT FIRST, UH, QUARTER OF THAT. NOW WE'RE STARTING TO CALCULATE. SO WE'RE STILL IN A LITTLE BIT OF, OF BALANCING TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT DO WE NEED AND, AND HOW CAN WE DO THIS TO GET WITHIN THAT SIX MONTH WINDOW. AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE ONBOARDING ADDITIONAL OUTSIDE FOLKS TO HELP. SO WE CAN FIGURE OUT KIND OF RIGHT SIZE THE TEAM, RIGHT SIZE THAT PROCESS. BUT WE ALSO REALIZE WE MAY BE IN A SITUATION WHERE THIS FIRST QUARTER MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BIG SPIKE BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT IT. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, UM, ROLLING OUT NEW WAYS THAT FOLKS CAN GET THIS INFORMATION TO US. SO WE WANNA STABILIZE UNDERSTAND WHERE THAT STABLE LEVEL, SO AS, UH, THE CITY MANAGER HAD HAD NOTED, WE CAN COME BACK WITH A, WITH A PLAN THAT'S BASED ON NOT JUST THE, THE SPIKES AND THE EBBS AND FLOWS, BUT MORE OF A A LEVEL SET STRUCTURAL TYPE BALANCE. THANK YOU. AND THEN, UM, HOW WILL COUNCIL OFFICES BE NOTIFIED WHEN TRAFFIC SAFETY REQUESTS AND THEIR DISTRICTS MOVE FROM, UM, EVALUATION TO IMPLEMENTATION? SO, UM, SEPARATE FROM, FROM WHAT WE SHOWED TODAY, WE DO HAVE A BRAND NEW BRIEFING PROCESS THAT WE'VE BEEN ROLLING OUT THAT INCLUDES NOT ONLY OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, UH, THIS EVENING AND, AND SOME OF THESE, SOME OF THESE OTHER REQUESTS, BUT ALL OF THE SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING PRIORITY PROJECTS, UH, AS WELL AS THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL PROJECTS ARE NOW ALL BEING INCLUDED IN THOSE MONTHLY PACKAGES. SO, UH, YOU'LL, YOU'LL BE AWARE OF THE STATUS OF EACH LOCATION WITHIN YOUR DISTRICT, UH, ON A MONTHLY BASIS. THAT'S WONDERFUL. UM, AND THEN IF YOU CAN ANSWER THIS, HOW MANY ADDITIONAL POSITIONS WILL BE NEEDED TO FULLY MEET COUNCIL'S GOALS FOR FASTER TRAFFIC EVALUATIONS, QUICK BUILD IMPLEMENTATION, UM, AND, UH, THE VISION ZERO MODERNIZATION. SO WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE ARE WE GOING TO STABILIZE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE QUARTERS. SO WE'VE, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A BIG BACKLOG, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK TO TRY TO GET CAUGHT UP. WE'VE ONBOARDED A NUMBER OF OUTSIDE RESOURCES TO HELP GET US CAUGHT UP, UM, AND TO GET THROUGH THIS SPIKE. IF WE SEE THAT THIS SPIKE CONTINUES, WELL THEN MAYBE THAT'S THE NEW NORM, BUT WE'RE NOT QUITE SURE THERE, UH, NOT QUITE SURE YET. 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, ONE, ONE DATA POINT DOESN'T QUITE MAKE THE TREND, SO WE WANNA SEE HOW THIS GOES OVER THE NEXT QUARTER OR TWO AND THEN COME AND BRING, BRING TO COUNCIL A A FULLY BAKED PLAN AS TO HOW WE WOULD DO THAT. UH, WE ANTICIPATE DOING THAT AS PART OF THE FY 27 BUDGET. OKAY. UM, AND THEN, UM, ARE THERE GONNA BE CONSULTANT CONTRACTS INTENDED TO BE, ARE THEY INTENDED TO BE A TEMPORARY BACKLOG SOLUTION OR WILL THEY BE A PART OF THE, OF THE UH, UM, THE LONG-TERM DELIVERY UM, MODEL? UM, SHORT ANSWER IS BOTH. UH, SO WE CERTAINLY ANTICIPATE USING, UH, OUR OUTSIDE VENDORS FOR SPECIALIZED CIRCUMSTANCES. UH, ONE-OFF REQUESTS IF WE HAVE, UH, LET'S SAY WE GET THROUGH THE BACKLOG, BUT THEN WE SEE ANOTHER BIG SPIKE FOR SOME REASON, UH, WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH THAT AS WELL AS UTILIZE OUR, UM, OUR OTHER ON-CALL VENDORS TO BE ABLE TO DEPLOY THEM OUT TO GET SOME OF THESE DELIVERED. SO THE ITEM THAT'LL BE BEFORE YOU LATER THIS EVENING IS AN ON-CALL CONTRACT WITH A COUPLE VENDORS TO BE ABLE TO GET OUT THERE AND ACTUALLY DO THE WORK THAT'S NECESSARY TO DELIVER ON THESE PROJECTS. OKAY, GREAT. AND THEN, UM, IF YOU, IF YOU ADDRESS THIS, I MISSED IT, BUT THE MEMO SHOWED THAT, UM, THERE WERE, UH, THE TRAFFIC CALMING EVALUATIONS HAD A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF OPEN REQUEST. UM, WHAT IS THE, DID DID YOU TALK ABOUT A TARGET DATE FOR CLEARING OUT THOSE OPEN REQUESTS? UM, WE DID NOT TALK ABOUT, UH, A TARGET DATE FOR OPENING THOSE OR, OR CLEARING THROUGH THOSE BACKLOG OF REQUESTS. SO APOLOGIES. I'M FLIPPING THROUGH THE, THE SLIDES HERE. LET'S SEE. ALL RIGHT, SO I THINK YOU'RE REFERRING TO SLIDE 24. YES. . [01:05:02] SO, SO THIS SLIDE HERE, WHAT, WHAT'S BEING SHOWN ON THIS SLIDE ARE ALL OF THE NEW REQUESTS THAT, THAT REQUIRE SOME AMOUNT OF ENGINEERING TO SUPPORT, TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THESE REQUESTS SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED OR THEY SHOULD NOT BE IMPLEMENTED FOR WHATEVER REASON. SO OUR TEAM IS, IS GOING THROUGH ALL OF THESE. UM, YOU COULD SEE THE, SOME OF THE PARKING SIGNS HAVE A HIGHER PERCENT CLOSED OUT, AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, SOME OTHER ONES THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT LOWER. THE BIG FOCUS RECENTLY IS ON THE TRAFFIC CALMING EVALUATIONS. SO YOU SEE IT LOOKS LIKE A FAIRLY LOW, LOW PERCENTAGE RATE, RIGHT? 27% MM-HMM . AND PART OF THAT IS THE 130 REQUESTS THAT WE JUST RECEIVED AS PART OF THIS FIRST QUARTER, AS WELL AS THE 21 PRIORITY LOCATIONS THAT ARE STILL OPEN THAT WE INTEND TO COMPLETE AND CLOSE OUT IN THE NEXT, UH, IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS. SO TO GET THROUGH THE BACKLOG IN ITS ENTIRETY WILL REQUIRE SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND THAT'S PART OF WHY WE BROUGHT ON BOARD, UH, FOLKS FROM, FROM, UM, UH, THE CONSULTANT BENCH TO HELP US GET THROUGH SOME OF THIS BACKLOG. SO THEY'RE EACH GONNA HAVE THEIR OWN KIND OF MILESTONES AS WE GET THROUGH THESE. UM, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT GETTING THROUGH THE MAJORITY OF THE TRAFFIC CALMING EVALUATIONS. WE'RE ALREADY OUT THERE DOING THE EVALUATIONS ON 130 LOCATIONS THAT WERE JUST SUBMITTED THIS LAST QUARTER. AND GETTING THROUGH THOSE HERE AND PROVIDING A MUCH, WE'LL BE BACK IN THE B STUDENT LEVEL AS PART OF FUTURE, UH, UPGRADES OR, UH, FUTURE UPDATES. AND, AND THEN DO YOU GUYS WANNA COMMENT ON ANY OF THE OTHER SPECIFIC ITEMS HERE? UH, JUST TO FURTHER EXPLAIN HOW WE'RE COMMUNICATING WITH FOLKS? SO, UH, IF SOMEONE, UM, WERE TO MAKE A REQUEST, UH, IN ONE QUARTER, UH, WE GO OUT AND WE COLLECT THE DATA AND THEN THE NEXT QUARTER WE RESPOND WITH HOW THEY RANK. SO, UH, WE ARE STILL IN THE, THE FIRST COUPLE DAYS OF JUNE, UH, WHICH IS THE VERY START OF A QUARTER, UH, THE STAFF WILL BE REACHING OUT TO FOLKS USING THE MEDIA THAT WE WERE FIRST CONTACTED WITH, EITHER BY PHONE OR EMAIL, UM, TO CLOSE THAT CIRCUIT. SO, UH, LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS RIGHT NOW IS, SHOULD REALLY BE THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF OPEN REQUESTS BECAUSE WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF CLOSING ONES WHERE WE RAN THE NUMBERS AND WE'RE STILL CONTACTING PEOPLE TO LET THEM KNOW THE RESULTS. SO, UM, THAT'S IN PROCESS, UH, AS WE CALL PEOPLE, WE CLOSE IT OUT. UH, SO I EXPECT THAT NUMBER TO DROP PRETTY QUICKLY, UH, IN THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. THANK YOU. AND YOU ALREADY TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE PUBLIC FACING, I GUESS, DASHBOARD THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE BE LAUNCHING. SO I JUST, UM, I'LL JUST SAY WITH REGARDS TO THAT, YOU KNOW, IS, UH, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN, IF THERE'S A, A WAY THAT WE CAN SHOW THE REQUEST AND, AND WHERE THEY'RE AT IN THE PROCESS. I MEAN, ALL OF THAT IS JUST VERY HELPFUL, UH, TO OUR COUNCIL OFFICES, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, HELPFUL, UH, TO THE COMMUNITY SO THEY CAN TRACK THEIR REQUEST IF THAT'S POSSIBLE. AND THEN MY VERY LAST QUESTION, UM, THE MEMO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE CITY HAS NOT MET ITS, UH, VISION ZERO GOAL OF REDUCING TRAFFIC RELATED FATALITIES AND SERIOUS AND INJURIES BY, UH, 2026. SO MY QUESTION TO YOU IS, WHAT IS THE PROPOSED TIMELINE FOR UPDATING THE SAFE STREETS LONG BEACH VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN? SO OUR, OUR CURRENT PRIORITY HAS REALLY BEEN TO FOCUS IN ON ROLLING OUT THE AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM AND GETTING THROUGH THESE, UH, TOP PRIORITY NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING ELEMENTS. UM, BUT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF SCHEDULING A MOBILITY PORTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING. SO WE CAN GO OVER KIND OF OUTLINE THE VISION ZERO PLAN, UH, IN ITS ENTIRETY, AND WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS TO, UH, UPDATE THAT. IT WILL REQUIRE ONBOARDING A SPECIALIST TO HELP US, UH, NAVIGATE THAT PROCESS, FIGURE OUT WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING? HOW CAN WE UPDATE, UH, THE ENTIRE VISION ZERO PROGRAM. OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU KINDLY FOR ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MAYOR. THANK YOU. UH, AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT VISION ZERO IN THE BUDGET AS WELL. COVID CHANGED EVERYTHING. THAT WAS AN EXPECTATION THAT WAS SET PRE COVID AND I THINK WE'RE GONNA NEED NEW FRAMING AND A RE AND REALISTIC GOALS THAT WE CAN WORK TOWARD. AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT IN THE BUDGET. UM, NEXT COUNCIL MEMBER, THRASS IN TOOK. THANK YOU. UM, THANK YOU MAYOR, AND THANK YOU TO THE TEAM. UM, I KNOW I WASN'T ABLE TO BE HERE FOR THE ENTIRE TIME, UM, BUT CERTAINLY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE WORK THAT YOU'VE TAKEN CARE OF. UM, SEVERAL ITEMS THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE GONE OVER, I CERTAINLY WANNA UNDERSCORE SO THAT IT'S CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE A SENSE, UM, OF HOW THE COUNCIL, UM, MIGHT BE FEELING. SO ONE OF THE AREAS THAT I WANTED TO UNDERSCORE IS, UM, COUNCIL VISIBILITY, UM, INTO THE REQUESTS THAT ARE MADE, UH, BY THE PUBLIC. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE A SENSE, AND I WAS GLAD TO HEAR THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME OTHER EFFORTS THAT'LL BE MADE, UM, TO ENSURE THAT COUNCIL OFFICES ARE AWARE OF WHAT REQUESTS WERE MADE, SOME LEVEL OF SENSE OF STATUS, AND ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT, UM, RESULT IN, UM, NOT MEETING THE THRESHOLD. I THINK THAT THAT'LL BE, [01:10:01] UM, REALLY IMPORTANT, UH, FOR THE COUNCIL OFFICES. SO THE NEXT, UM, THREE TOPICS THAT I WANNA GO OVER, WE'RE GONNA START WITH THE FIRST, UM, WHICH IS RELATED TO, UM, THE IDEA OR THE CONCEPT OF WHAT HAPPENS. 'CAUSE WE HEAR ALL TOO OFTEN FROM RESIDENTS THAT THEY, AND SOME OF THEM ARE, ARE TRYING OUT THE NEW PROCESS, WHICH IS GREAT. UM, BUT THEY'VE PUT IN A REQUEST, UM, AND THE REQUEST DOES NOT MEET THE THRESHOLD. SO THANK YOU FOR SHARING HERE TODAY THAT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT FALLS OFF OF THE RADAR OF THE DEPARTMENT, BUT THAT IT'LL REMAIN THERE FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK I'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO HELP OUR CONSTITUENTS UNDERSTAND AND WORK WITH THEM ON IS AFTER THEY'VE PUT IN THE REQUEST, IT'S BEEN DENIED. UM, AND THEN SOMETHING HAPPENS IN THAT SAME INTERSECTION OR SPACE. SO WHILE THERE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, A SPEEDING INCIDENT OR, YOU KNOW, CAPTURED ENOUGH IN THAT DATA, THE COMMUNITY IS EXPERIENCING THE INTERSECTION IN THE STREET TRAFFIC IN A CERTAIN WAY, AND THEN MAYBE AN EVENT HAPPENS. SO AS WE THINK ABOUT WHAT IS THE, THE RIGHT KIND OF THRESHOLD TO COME BACK AND ASK FOR A RE-REVIEW OF AN INTERSECTION, UM, YOU KNOW, IS IT THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT, UH, SOMETHING HAPPENING AND A POLICE REPORT IS TAKEN? UM, YOU KNOW, IS THERE ANY OTHER EVIDENCE THAT PEOPLE CAN COLLECT AND INCLUDING TAKING PICTURES OF INCIDENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN THEIR COMMUNITY? SO WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE FOR PEOPLE TO TRULY BE ABLE TO HAVE A CHANCE TO REOPEN AND HAVE ANOTHER CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE EXPERIENCING THAT, UM, ALLOWS FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF DATA TO ENTER INTO THE CONVERSATION? UH, YES, UH, ABSOLUTELY. WE DO RESPOND WHEN CONDITIONS CHANGE. UH, I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT IF SOMEONE RECOGNIZES THAT THE DATA THAT WE SHOW ON THE WEBSITE DOESN'T APPEAR TO MATCH WITH WHAT THEY'VE OBSERVED, WE DEFINITELY WANNA RECONCILE ANY OF THOSE DIFFERENCES. SO, UH, IF WHAT WE HAVE ON THE TABLE DOESN'T APPEAR TO COMPARE WELL WITH REALITY, UH, CERTAINLY WE'D WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE INFORMATION WE HAVE IS ACCURATE. SO, UH, PICTURES ARE ALWAYS SUPER HELPFUL, UH, BECAUSE THEY HELP TO COMMUNICATE TIME OF DAY. UM, OTHER FACTORS THAT CAN SOMETIMES GET MISSED IN A PHONE CALL OR A EMAIL. SO, UH, WE DO APPRECIATE ADDITIONAL PICTURES, BUT, UH, WE DO WANNA REC ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, UH, WE'RE TRYING TO BE DATA DRIVEN HERE AND HAVE A THRESHOLD. UM, AND OPENING UP TO QUALITATIVE MEASURES IS OFTEN IMPORTANT, BUT CAN KIND OF UNDERMINE OUR, OUR NUMERICAL PROCESS THAT WE HAVE. BUT WE ARE OPEN TO, UM, APPEALS. ABSOLUTELY. SO PROBABLY NOT, WE PROBABLY WON'T HAVE AN ANSWER TODAY, BUT I DO THINK THAT WE NEED TO COME BACK WITH MORE IDEAS ON WHAT SOME OF THOSE THRESHOLD ITEMS COULD BE. UM, I, I DON'T THINK I INTRODUCED ANYTHING THAT WAS QUANT QUALITATIVE RELATED. I WAS TRYING TO MENTION QUANTITATIVE, UH, OPTIONS. UM, SO IF, IF THERE IS A CRASH THAT HAPPENS IN A POLICE REPORT, THAT'S A QUANTITATIVE RESULT OF SOMETHING HAPPENING IN THAT INTERSECTION. SO I THINK THAT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN, UH, PROVIDE SOME LEVEL OF, UM, DIRECTION, A PATHWAY TO HELP REOPEN THINGS WHEN THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING THEY'RE EXPERIENCING INTERSECTIONS A CERTAIN WAY. I CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM. JUST, JUST ONE THING REAL QUICKLY. UH, YOU MENTIONED CRASHES AND I WANT TO ADDRESS THAT. SO, UM, THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DO OUTLINE THRESHOLDS FOR WHEN A RESPONSE SHOULD BE APPLIED WITH A TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE BASED ON THE NUMBER OF CRASHES. UM, OF ALL THE HUNDREDS OF LOCATIONS WE'VE EVALUATED THUS FAR THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS PROGRAM, NOT A SINGLE LOCATION HAS MET THAT MINIMUM THRESHOLD FOR A DEVICE. SO WE DO WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, UH, TRAFFIC SAFETY, UH, IS REALLY IMPORTANT ON NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS, BUT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT STATE AND AND FEDERAL STANDARDS, WE'RE NOT SEEING THE VOLUMES OF COLLISIONS ON LOCAL STREETS THAT WOULD PROMPT AN IMMEDIATE ACTION. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I BET IS THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT REPORTING THAT THOSE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. SO KNOWING THAT THAT'S A THRESHOLD MATTER COULD ALSO HELP WITH THAT. UM, SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT STREET TAKEOVERS, UM, IN YOUR ANALYSIS. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS FACTORED IN. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN ISSUE OF DONUTS, UM, AND IT'S LIKE IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT GONNA CAPTURE SPEEDING DATA THERE, BUT PEOPLE, UM, ARE USING OUR INTERSECTIONS ACCORDINGLY. IS THAT, UM, INCLUDED, UM, AS A, AS A CONSIDERATION? YES. UH, THROUGH OUR OTHER CHANNELS, NOT THROUGH THE PRIORITY INDEX THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, WHERE WE'RE RANKING ALL OF THE LOCATIONS. UM, I'M GLAD WE'RE STILL ON THIS SLIDE, UH, BECAUSE THIS TALKS ABOUT A NUMBER OF THE DIFFERENT RESPONSES THAT WE HAVE. THE RANKING PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE FOR TRAFFIC CALMING EVALUATIONS DOES ITS BEST TO BE DATA-DRIVEN, BUT WE [01:15:01] RECOGNIZE THAT EVEN ONE STREET TAKEOVER IS TOO MANY. UH, AND SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE APPLYING, UH, APPROPRIATE DEVICES TO THAT SPECIFIC BEHAVIOR WHEREVER WE CAN. SO IF PEOPLE ARE OBSERVING THOSE, PLEASE CALL OUR OFFICE SO WE CAN COMPILE A DATABASE OF WHERE THE TAKEOVERS ARE, ARE TAKING PLACE AND APPLY THE APPROPRIATE COUNTERMEASURES THERE. THOSE ARE GONNA REALLY, UH, REQUIRE DIFFERENT DEVICES THAN THE NORMAL SPEEDING, UM, TYPE OF RESPONSES. BUT ABSOLUTELY, UH, YEAH, WE INTEND TO TAKE ACTION ON THE STREET. OH, RIGHT. I'M BRINGING IT UP. 'CAUSE I'M, I KNOW PD IS AWARE OF WHERE THOSE ARE, BUT NOW I'M REALIZING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW WHERE THOSE ARE. AND WE DO NEED TRAFFIC CALMING MITIGATIONS WITHIN THOSE PLACES, AND WE THINK THAT SOME, UH, PHYSICAL, UM, INVESTMENTS COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE. LET'S MOVE ON TO THE AREA NUMBER TWO. UM, AREA NUMBER TWO, UH, BRINGS ME GREAT SADNESS TO SAY THAT WE HAD A, A LOSS OF LIFE OF A 8-YEAR-OLD LITTLE BOY, UM, IN MY COMMUNITY. AND, UM, I'M WONDERING WHEN IT COMES TO, UM, AND HE WAS, YOU KNOW, A A CAR STRUCK HIM AND, AND UNFORTUNATELY HE PASSED AWAY, WHEN THE, WHEN THERE IS A MATTER OF LOSS OF LIFE, UM, DOES THAT RAISE THE LEVEL OF PRIORITY OF AN INTERSECTION IN A DIFFERENT WAY, UM, THAN SIMPLY JUST TAKING IN SPEEDING DATA ONCE THAT, YOU KNOW, CAN THAT TRIGGER SOMETHING ADDITIONAL TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS, UM, YOU KNOW, A PRIORITY ON THAT INTERSECTION? ABSOLUTELY, YEAH. SHORT ANSWER IS YES. AND, AND WE DO COORDINATE CLOSELY WITH OUR COLLEAGUES IN PD TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SHARING SOME OF THAT INFORMATION. AND WHAT YOU DON'T SEE WITHIN THIS REPORT, BECAUSE AS, UM, PAUL HAD MENTIONED, IT'S, IT'S SORT OF A SEPARATE AVENUE THAT WE'RE EXPLORING IS PILOTING SOME OTHER TYPES OF DEVICES THAT WE COULD DEPLOY OUT THERE TO HELP MITIGATE SOME OF THAT STREET TO TAKEOVER AND RACING TYPE STUFF. SO, UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT, UM, IN ADDITION TO EVERYTHING WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TODAY, UH, LOOKING AT OTHER DEVICES THAT COULD BE DEPLOYED FOR THAT, UH, BUT IT'S A LITTLE TOO SOON. WE WERE HOPING, UH, THAT, THAT WE WERE GONNA INCLUDE THAT IN OUR NEXT QUARTERLY UPDATE AS WELL, HOW WE'RE GONNA ADDRESS SOME OF THAT STUFF. SO YOU'RE ANSWERING THAT OTHER QUESTION, BUT REGARDING LOSS OF LIFE, DOES THAT TRIGGER ADDITIONAL PRIORITY FOR AN INTERSECTION? YES. OKAY. SO WHEN THAT HAPPENS, UH, WE GET OUT THERE, OUR TEAMS GET OUT, EVALUATE. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE COULD HAVE DONE MAYBE MISSED BEFORE OR, OR HAS ANYTHING CHANGED SINCE WE LAST DID THE REPORT? AND UNDERSTAND IF WE CAN, UH, UPDATE IN ANY WAY AND TRANSPARENCY BACK TO THE COUNCIL OFFICE ON THAT WOULD ALSO BE CRITICAL. OKAY. SO THEN MY FINAL AREA IS RELATED TO, UM, L-B-U-S-D. UM, SO, UH, MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT IT. I, I, I'M RAISING CHILDREN IN THE COMMUNITY. I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE. UM, MY ISSUE IS THAT I FEEL, NOT FEEL, I, I AM, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO IDENTIFY, UH, SCHOOLS WITHIN RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES IN MY DISTRICT THAT HAVE SIMILAR TRAFFIC COMBING, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE. AND SO I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S A CONSISTENT APPLICATION OF TRAFFIC CALMING, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGHOUT THE CITY. IS THERE SOME, UM, LEVEL OF THRESHOLD THAT WE MAKE SURE IS IN PLACE EVERYWHERE IN THE CITY? 'CAUSE I, I CAN'T SAY THAT I'M SEEING THAT AROUND MY SCHOOLS. UH, YEAH, EV EVERY SCHOOL'S DEFINITELY UNIQUE. UH, RIGHT. SOME ARE IN NEIGHBORHOODS, SOME ARE CLOSER TO OUR ARTERIALS, AND WE DO TRY TO APPLY THAT SAME, UM, EQUAL METRIC ACROSS ALL THE DIFFERENT REQUESTED LOCATIONS. SO MANY OF THE TRAFFIC CALMING LOCATIONS ARE ON STREETS THAT ARE ADJACENT TO SCHOOL CAMPUSES. BUT, UH, WE DO COORDINATE AGAIN WITH THE, THE UNIFIED, UM, DISTRICT AND THEIR TRANSPORTATION TEAM TO IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE COUNTERMEASURES. BUT, UH, I WILL SAY ALSO THAT A LOT OF THE PROGRAMMING AROUND OUR CAMPUSES DATES BACK DECADES AND DECADES AND DECADES. UH, WE'RE TRYING A LOT OF NEWER THINGS, UM, WITH OUR COUNTERMEASURES HERE. SO IT, IT WILL TAKE US SOME TIME TO DISPERSE THESE ACROSS THE CITY ENTIRELY. BUT WE ARE TRYING TO DO SO IN A PRIORITIZED MANNER. I'D LOVE TO TAKE THIS CONVERSATION OFFLINE AND BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT THE MINIMUM THRESHOLDS ARE REGARDING, UM, INVESTMENT IN TRAFFIC, CALMING INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THE SCHOOLS, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT I HAVE A CLEAR SENSE THAT IT'S BEING APPLIED AS EQUITABLY AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, BEFORE WE GO TO THE NEXT TWO SPEAKERS, I WANNA REMIND THE COUNCIL, UM, THAT WE HAD UNTIL 4 45. WE HAVE HOUSING AUTHORITY IN CLOSED SESSION, AND THE COUNCIL MEETING STARTS AT FIVE. EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER'S GONE ABOUT FOUR MINUTES OVER THEIR TIME, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN ANYMORE. SO WE HAVE TWO MORE SPEAKERS AND THEN WE HAVE TO WRAP IT UP. COUNCIL MEMBERS, ZENDEJAS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR HICKMAN AND TEAM FOR THAT PRESENTATION. I ALSO WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH MY RESIDENTS IN DISTRICT ONE. UM, [01:20:01] IN DISTRICT ONE, WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT, UM, CHALLENGES WITH, UM, SPEED, WHETHER IT MAY BE IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS OR IN ULTERIOR AREAS, BUT, UM, WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THOSE ISSUES. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY, UM, THAT'S REALLY CONCERNING TO ME IS THE NEAR MISSES. AND I KNOW WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK, UM, YOU KNOW, IN PROVIDING THE MEMO THAT YOU SENT OUT, WHICH WAS GREAT. UH, I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR. UM, BUT CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT IF THERE'S PLANS OF DOING SOME KIND OF PREVENTATIVE MEASURES? I KNOW WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, VISION ZERO. WE'LL, WE'RE RE-LOOKING AT THAT AND RE-ANALYZING THAT, BUT IT DO WE HAVE LIKE A PLAN TO KIND OF LIKE, UM, SEE WHERE THOSE NEAR MISSES ARE AND KIND OF LIKE HAVE A PREVENTATIVE MEASURE. UH, ONE OF OUR SLIDES IN THE PRESENTATION SHOWED A A BUNCH OF WIRES AND, AND BOXES, UH, SHOWING WHAT OUR TRAFFIC SIGNALS LOOK LIKE WHEN YOU OPEN THEM UP. UM, WHEN IT COMES TO NEAR MISSES, TECHNOLOGY IS GETTING VERY CLOSE, UH, TO ALLOWING US TO DIAGNOSE NEAR MISSES. UH, WE'RE WORKING ON DEPLOYING THAT TECHNOLOGY NOW, UM, WHERE WE CAN BUILD A MORE ROBUST DATA SET OF THAT. UM, JUST RIGHT NOW WITH THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE ON HAND, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO EQUITABLY APPLY A NEAR MISS ASSESSMENT, UM, ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY. UH, WE'RE MODERNIZING A LOT OF OUR MAJOR CORRIDORS WITH THE DETECTORS THAT ALERT US TO NEAR MISSES, BUT, UM, THOSE ARE ONLY ON A SELECT SMALL NUMBER OF CORRIDORS RIGHT NOW, UNFORTUNATELY. YEAH. THANK YOU. AND VICE MAYOR . OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT. UH, LOOKING THROUGH IT. I SEE, UH, I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THE, UH, INSTALLATION WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION THAT THINGY PLACE, UH, MAGNOLIA AND WILLOW FOR A STANDALONE SIGNAL PROJECT. BUT ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE, THAT, THAT WE REQUESTED THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THE LEVEL OF SPEEDS THAT PEOPLE GO THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION MAY START COMING OFF THE FREEWAY. COMING OFF THE SEVEN 10, IS THERE AN UPDATE AS TO WHAT'S TAKING PLACE BETWEEN THE, UH, EASTBOUND WILLOW, BETWEEN THE FREEWAY AND LONG BEACH BOULEVARD OR THE WILLOW MAGNOLIA INTERSECTION? UH, ANSWER. UH, SO WE DO HAVE A NUMBER OF EFFORTS IN PLACE, UH, ON WILLOW, UM, WILLOW STREET'S, ONE OF THE CORRIDORS THAT'S GOING TO HAVE AN AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT DEPLOYMENT. UM, ALSO, UH, WE HAVE PROJECTS, UH, IN ELEVATE 28 TO ADDRESS SPEEDING NEAR THE WILLOW BRIDGE. AND THEN YES, ON THIS LIST WE HAVE THAT TRAFFIC SIGNAL TO AFFORD A, A PROTECTED LEFT TURN. SO, UH, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF, UH, IRONS IN THE FIRE ON WILLOW, INCLUDING A DESIGN EFFORT TO RE-ENVISION WILLOW WITH MORE PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SHOULD HELP CALM TRAFFIC, UM, NEAR TERM. UM, THE LOOMING IMPROVEMENTS ARE THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL, UM, AND THE TRAFFIC CALMING OVER THE LA RIVER BRIDGE, BUT THAT IS COMPLICATED BY PERMITTING, UM, WITH CALTRANS, UH, AROUND THE SEVEN 10. SO, UH, BOTH OF THOSE ARE BEING ADVANCED, UH, EXPECT THOSE TO BE DONE, UM, IN THE NEAR FUTURE. UM, BUT LONGER TERM WE'RE THINKING OF A MORE COMPREHENSIVE RE-ENVISIONING OF WILLOW. OKAY. WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS LOOKING AT HERE IS THAT YOU HAVE A, UH, AUTOMATED, WHAT ARE THEY CALLED? AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT OF THINGS. IF YOU COULD PUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN THAT, IN THAT, IN THAT, UH, CORRIDOR, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL, VERY HELPFUL, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO WAIT FOR ANY OTHER KIND OF PROJECT YOU HAVE IN MIND. AND THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. FINALLY, COUNCIL MEMBER CARR. YES, THANK YOU. I KNOW WE'RE RUNNING SHORT ON TIME, SO IF I COULD JUST GIVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THAT, UM, YOU COULD INCLUDE ANSWERS ON, ON YOUR REPORT THAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE MOBILITY PORTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE. UM, I DON'T EXPECT AN ANSWER TONIGHT, BUT IF YOU COULD PREPARE THOSE FOR THE NEXT MEETING WOULD BE GREAT. UM, YOU TALKED ABOUT YOUR ORG CHART AND THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING TO STANDARDIZE THINGS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT. IT SOUNDS LIKE THE TRAFFIC STUDIES THAT YOU'VE DONE AND THIS ONLINE FORM, UM, HAVE, I THINK BORNE OUT IN REAL TIME WHAT SOME OF OUR COUNCIL OFFICES HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED THAT I, I AM NOT THE LEAST BIT SURPRISED THAT YOU GOT 130 IN THE FIRST QUARTER AT ALL. SO I THINK, UH, THE STREAMLINING OF THAT SYSTEM HAS HELPED. PROBABLY SOME REQUESTS THAT HAVE COME FROM COUNCIL [01:25:01] OFFICES THAT HAVE FALLEN THROUGH THE CRACKS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS ARE NOW SHOWING UP BECAUSE OF YOUR NEW SYSTEM. SO I WANNA APPLAUD YOU, UH, FOR DOING THAT WORK INTERNALLY TO HELP US ALL BE ON THE SAME PAGE ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING. UH, SO YOU TALKED ABOUT, UM, KIND OF THE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES THAT YOU'RE DOING. I THINK SOMETHING IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO INCLUDE IN YOUR REPORT TO THE COMMITTEE WOULD BE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT SOME OF THOSE STANDARDS ARE IN TERMS OF TRAFFIC SAFETY AND TRAFFIC MITIGATION, ESPECIALLY ON NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS. UM, OFTENTIMES I KNOW WHEN I TRAVEL, I FIND LOTS OF PICTURES OF INFRASTRUCTURE ON MY PHONE WHEN I COME BACK IN TERMS OF SOMETHING SOME OTHER CITY IS USING TO MITIGATE ISSUES, TO ENCOURAGE GOOD BEHAVIOR. UM, SO IF YOU COULD TALK TO US IN THAT REPORT ABOUT WHAT ARE OUR STANDARDS HERE IN LONG BEACH AND WHY? UM, WAYS FOR FOR US TO SUBMIT SUGGESTIONS OF THINGS WE HAVE SEEN IN OTHER PLACES. WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE NEIGHBORING JURISDICTIONS AND SOMETIMES IF THEY'VE APPROVED SOMETHING FOR USE, WE CAN SORT OF PIGGYBACK ON THAT, BUT WE CAN'T ALWAYS, SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO DO THE DATA HERE. UM, BUT REALLY TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT, THAT PROCESS WOULD BE. IF SOMEONE COMES AND SAYS, I SAW THIS THING WHEN I WAS TRAVELING, IT SEEMED TO WORK WELL, IT WOULD LOOK, IT WOULD WORK WELL IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. UM, KIND OF WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO, WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING. WE KNOW PEOPLE TALK A LOT ABOUT SPEED BUMPS. WE KNOW YOU DON'T PUT THEM NEAR SCHOOLS, BUT NOT EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT YOU DON'T PUT THEM NEAR SCHOOLS. SO I THINK JUST UNDERSTANDING THOSE, UM, STANDARD THINGS THAT ARE ROUTINE TO YOU MAY NOT BE ROUTINE TO OUR COMMUNITIES. UM, AND IF YOU COULD TELL US WHAT SOME OF THOSE ARE IN THAT REPORT, UH, WOULD BE GREAT. UM, AND THE OTHER THING, JUST ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WE ARE TRYING TO OVERCORRECT FOR THE BAD BEHAVIOR OF DRIVERS AND THE BAD BEHAVIOR OF FOLKS IN OUR COMMUNITIES DRIVING THROUGH OUR COMMUNITIES, PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN OUR COMMUNITIES. UM, AND IT'S EXPENSIVE AND WE'RE PLAYING CATCH UP. UM, AND I APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS THAT WE'RE DOING, BUT IT HAS TO BE THIS COLLECTIVE SENSE OF SAFETY THAT WE ALL CHOOSE TO DRIVE SLOWER AND BE BETTER. UM, BUT I THINK BEING CLEAR IN THE REPORT OUT TO MOBILITY AND I'M HAPPY TO TALK OFFLINE ABOUT SOME OTHER ITEMS THAT YOU COULD INCLUDE IN THAT REPORT. UH, SO WE CAN GET ON WITH OUR MEETING TONIGHT, BUT THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES THIS STUDY SESSION. THERE'S A MOTION IN A SECOND. MEMBERS, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE RECEIVING FILE. MOTION IS CARRIED. THANK YOU. UH, THIS, THIS, UH, SPECIAL MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED. NOW, UM, WE HAVE A CLOSED SESSION AND A HOUSING AUTHORITY. WHAT SHOULD WE DO FIRST? MADAM CLERK HOUSING [ADJOURNMENT] AUTHORITY? OKAY, LET'S MOVE. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.