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Thursday, May 19, 2022

6:00 PM · 2h 1m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Transportation Improvement Program 6/10
Chair and Vice-Chair Nominations & Elections (A) 1/10
Intelligent Transportation System Plan Update COM 0167 1/4
Section
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Minutes of April 21, 2022
packet pp.3–5
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 04-21-22 Transportation Advisory Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Transportation Advisory Board 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting April 21, 2022 MINUTES
4. REGULAR BUSINESS
4a
Chair and Vice-Chair Nominations & Elections (A)
Isabel Diaz, Traffic Signal Operations Engineer · packet pp.7
Staff report:
Public Works 670 – 1st Ave NE | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3400 issaquahwa.gov
4b
6:30 PM
John Mortenson, Transportation Engineering Manager · packet pp.17–23
Staff report:
The Mobility Master Plan (MMP) automobile goals included reviewing and applying Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that adapt to changes in travel behavior and prioritizes the safety of people using the system. ITS is the use of technology and data for traffic management, operations, and maintenance.
4c
Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Plan (D)
Isabel Diaz, Traffic Signal Operations Engineer · packet pp.25–38
Topics: Transportation
Staff report:
The City of Issaquah is required to comply with the State Growth Management Act (GMA) by “prohibiting development approval if the development causes the level of service on a transportation facility to decline below the standards adopted in the Transportation Element of the Comprehensive Plan, unless transportation improvements or strategies to accommodate the impacts of development are made concurrent with the development”. Transportation concurrency is defined as the provision of those improvements or strategies to accommodate motorized and nonmotorized transportation impacts of development at the adopted level of service concurrent with the development.
4d
Concurrency Update
Information · Isabel Diaz, Traffic Signal Operations Engineer · packet pp.39–50
Staff report:
RCW 35.77.010 requires all cities to develop and adopt a six-year Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) consistent with the comprehensive plan. State law requires the City review and update its TIP every year, following one or more public hearings. The deadline for adoption is July 1. Within 30 days of adoption, the TIP is required to be filed with the Washington State Secretary of Transportation. The TIP is a planning document that allows the State to identify the financial needs to support transportation within the state.
4e
Transportation Improvement Program
John Mortenson, Transportation Engineering Manager
Topics: Transportation
5. REPORTS
5a
Board Work Plan
packet pp.51
Staff report:
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Update Equity Update Transit Study Intro Update Performance Metrics Intro Update ADA Transition Plan Intro Concurrency Update ITS Study Intro Parks Projects Update Metro Update Parks Wayfinding Update 2023 Comprehensive Plan Update Mobility Master Plan (MMP) Review 2023 Board Work Plan Review Open Public Meetings & Public Records Act Training
5b
Staff Report
5c
Chair Report
5d
Youth Report
0:06 usually i get a little thing that says
0:08 recording but i'm on a different
0:11 on a web-based version this time does
0:13 that mean it's recording event
0:14 recordings in progress okay
0:17 okay great uh so my name is cynthia
0:19 krass uh welcome to the
0:22 let's see may 19th um meeting of the
0:24 issaquah transportation advisory board
0:27 of course it's the sequoia we see the
0:28 whole thing i'm currently the interim
0:30 chair of this board um due to a funky
0:33 gap in the timing for um electing chair
0:37 and vice chair uh i also wanted to thank
0:39 micah for taking over for me and joseph
0:43 neither of us was able to attend last
0:46 in april and i appreciate mike covering
0:48 for us
0:49 um there is a change in the agenda um
0:53 isabel would you just maybe reorder the
0:56 normal business for us tell us what
0:58 order we're going to be doing that in
1:02 yes um we will be starting with uh
1:07 we can start with the share and vice
1:09 chair nominations or elections um and
1:11 then we will have john's item following
1:15 that with the ada self transition
1:18 evaluation and transition plan
1:21 and the transportation improvement
1:23 program
1:24 and
1:26 and then israel you're doing concurrence
1:28 who's doing con currency and then you're
1:30 doing its right
1:32 i will be doing its
1:34 following that and then concurrency
1:37 okay excellent so we're really all we're
1:39 doing is moving the tip up to after the
1:41 ada correct
1:43 yes that's correct very good
1:45 um okay i'm gonna have to toggle back
1:47 and forth um
1:49 see if i can find my agenda oh this is
1:52 terrible
1:54 okay so
1:57 we uh normally so now it's time for item
2:00 number two approval of the minutes
2:02 normally i drew that by unanimous
2:04 consent to make it more efficient since
2:05 i wasn't here in april i would like to
2:07 entertain a motion from someone else to
2:11 approve the minutes as presented
2:14 and i'll be looking for a motion in a
2:16 second
2:17 i'm moved that minutes be approved as
2:20 written
2:21 and
2:23 second from jerry everybody approve
2:26 i do not approve ah okay
2:30 my last name is spelled wrong um oh
2:34 yeah so that's fine
2:36 m-y-d-l-i-l
2:40 just for future reference
2:42 it's probably a more formal way to do
2:44 this but uh how about if we redo the
2:45 motion with the said noted change and i
2:48 do think it's important and i love it
2:50 when people tell me that they've spelled
2:52 the name wrong even though i didn't
2:53 write this but so i do appreciate that
2:55 julian um i think i can call for the
2:57 motion again with that um minor change
3:00 and i also
3:02 asked
3:03 so i think i'm listed as an unexcused
3:05 absence but i did email i think a day or
3:08 so in advance i had a work uh event i
3:12 don't know what like designates like
3:14 excuse which is unexcused so i don't
3:16 know if like we need to clarify that or
3:18 if it just stays as unexcused
3:20 yes and thank you for that erica i will
3:23 uh check on that email and and
3:27 if it is an email it would be an excuse
3:30 substance
3:32 so why don't we table that can we just
3:34 bring can in june can we just do may and
3:36 april is everyone okay with that
3:41 um because with that that's fine it's
3:43 not it sounds like isabel wanted to look
3:45 something up and
3:47 john being the um
3:49 textualist probably tells it can tell us
3:51 what excused is do you know what
3:53 discusses john
3:57 i do not
3:58 okay and uh i don't want to be uh a
4:00 super you know hard nose about it i
4:02 think the main thing to keep in mind for
4:04 all of us to remember is of course where
4:06 volunteers and life happens and eric i
4:08 don't want to pick on you but the reason
4:10 is because the meeting if we don't have
4:11 a quorum the effort would be to go to
4:13 mist to reschedule you probably already
4:15 know that but um so uh anyway
4:19 does anybody object to tabling that to
4:21 the next round so she can just
4:24 not that anything happens if it's on an
4:26 excuse but
4:29 okay seeing as there are no objections
4:32 to that why don't we move on to uh
4:34 public comment
4:36 uh i do have a brief
4:39 i want to mention a comment that came in
4:42 but other than that do we have anybody
4:43 on tonight who wants to make a public
4:45 comment
4:48 i don't see anyone
4:50 listed out to bring public comments
4:54 okay
4:55 um i just wanted to make sure so some of
4:58 you may have seen or you may have not
5:00 had a chance to see there was an email
5:02 from corey christensen about the squawk
5:05 mountain sidewalk
5:07 and i just want to make sure that you
5:08 guys i don't want to call it to your
5:10 attention and if you haven't had a
5:11 chance to look at it uh please go ahead
5:13 and do so at your own leisure i'm not
5:16 gonna summarize um
5:19 that i
5:20 do that i don't like to summarize
5:22 because i don't
5:23 ever feel confident
5:25 summarizing distilling somebody else's
5:28 point of view and uh it wasn't super
5:30 long but it was long enough that um so i
5:32 like to just make sure people know that
5:34 it's there and i would encourage
5:35 everybody to make sure you take the time
5:37 to read through the detailed comments
5:39 and we appreciate um
5:41 corey christensen submitting that as
5:44 well
5:44 um okay well that brings us to
5:48 i think regular business i guess i'll
5:50 make last call for a public comment
5:52 there was none correct
5:55 okay
5:57 that brings us to i believe the um
6:01 oh the chair and vice chair
6:04 nomination right
6:06 yes
6:08 and during last meeting cynthia uh you
6:11 may have known that we have received a
6:14 nomination for
6:16 your you cynthia cruz as a our chair and
6:20 another nomination for julian for device
6:23 chair position
6:25 and and what we would like to do before
6:28 proceeding uh with the the formal
6:31 process is to
6:33 ask if there are any other dominations
6:36 before we continue
6:46 hearing none nominations are close
6:50 and
6:51 cynthia just to
6:53 make sure we uh you had expressed
6:56 earlier that you would be accepting your
6:58 nomination and just wanted to make sure
7:00 that it's still the case
7:03 yes
7:05 okay
7:06 got it
7:07 and
7:11 so um do we still want to since we have
7:15 only one domination do we would still
7:18 want to express the interest from the
7:21 nominees or we can proceed with
7:24 just
7:25 announcing
7:29 would
7:30 would you
7:32 i wouldn't mind sharing a few comments i
7:35 think it will help me feel accountable
7:37 and i don't know if julian feels the
7:38 same way
7:39 are you talking about our our
7:41 expressions of interest
7:43 julian how do you feel about it
7:46 i mean i don't really have much of a
7:47 statement per se so
7:50 i mean i can deliver some offhand
7:52 remarks
7:54 but yeah
7:56 i don't like to put people on the spot
7:57 but i guess we are on the spot um
8:02 isabel then would we do that now
8:06 if you want to yes if you are yes you up
8:09 to it yes
8:10 if not we can continue
8:13 i was just gonna say that um real quick
8:15 that i would be very happy to continue
8:18 serving um i am happy to serve on this
8:20 board
8:21 whether or not i'm in a leadership role
8:23 or not i really like it a lot um i do
8:26 think rotation of leadership is
8:27 important so i'm hoping that we can um
8:30 you know i wouldn't be doing i don't
8:32 intend to do this forever um i do think
8:35 that there were there's two things i
8:36 wanted to share that i'm interested in
8:39 and then you can maybe hold me
8:41 accountable if you think i've forgotten
8:43 um you can help me remember and one is
8:45 um we are starting to see some vacancies
8:48 and i want to make sure that we're
8:49 recruiting um so that we and i don't
8:51 know if we'll be able to fill those
8:53 vacancies prior to
8:55 the next go around but uh even if we
8:58 can't i mean i think we still
9:00 are going to have no trouble getting to
9:01 a quorum every time
9:03 hopefully but um
9:05 we just need to make this a robust
9:07 um and i i think i just thought that
9:09 they would come rolling in and i didn't
9:11 really do as much last time as i would
9:13 have hoped um and the other thing is i
9:15 just i think there's all uh i looked
9:17 back
9:19 at john's suggestion at the um
9:21 whatever the formation
9:23 legislation is that the imc 2 9 205 0
9:26 that just says what our responsibilities
9:28 are and i would like there are a couple
9:30 of things where we connect our work back
9:32 to council both in the form of
9:33 recommendations and also meeting with
9:35 them and i think we've kind of
9:38 let go of that and so i'm glad that you
9:40 want to give me another chance to help
9:42 this board deliver against all of our
9:45 objectives
9:48 and
9:49 now that i've been kind of figured out
9:50 how to run a meeting now i'd like to set
9:52 my sights on just us those two
9:55 objectives in the next year and i just
9:57 wanted to share that uh and i also just
9:59 want to say thank you i appreciate um i
10:01 think julian
10:02 nominated me and maybe somebody else
10:04 seconded i'm not sure oh i forgotten i
10:06 read the notes but and i just want to
10:07 say thank you and i'm happy to serve and
10:09 i'm um
10:10 uh it just sort of works in my life
10:12 right now but i also want to make sure
10:13 that um
10:15 obviously we don't want to keep having
10:17 the same person in leadership for a long
10:19 time so rotation of leadership is
10:20 important
10:21 um in the future so that's all i had to
10:23 share and thank you so much
10:27 thank you cynthia
10:28 and
10:30 julian just to be safe sure
10:32 you would wouldn't
10:35 make an expression
10:37 a couple
10:38 comments so i guess um
10:40 i pretty much agree with what cynthia
10:43 was saying about you know making our
10:45 connection to council much more solid
10:48 and trying to
10:49 collaborate and trying to understand
10:52 connect with the city council as much as
10:54 we can especially
10:55 with the new committee formats that
10:58 they've established
10:59 and trying to make clear you know what
11:01 our recommendations are and what we're
11:02 thinking about
11:04 and
11:05 i think that we can do a lot better job
11:07 you know in terms of reaching out to
11:09 various
11:10 um mobility
11:12 related communities in issaquah
11:16 for the recruitment process
11:18 as we go forward i think having a full
11:21 board is very important
11:23 to be a representational of the city of
11:26 issaquah and that's basically my solid
11:31 attendance right there
11:33 and
11:34 i think i really want our agenda items
11:36 to be
11:37 reflective of you know trying to become
11:40 more of a multi-modal friendly
11:42 uh city and not just in words but in
11:45 action and so
11:47 i'm looking forward to serving as vice
11:48 chair
11:51 thank you julian and to make this
11:54 official
11:55 cynthia you have been elected as the
11:58 chair
12:00 through
12:00 the end of april of next year
12:03 congratulations
12:05 and julian you have been elected as vice
12:08 chair through the end of april next year
12:10 congratulations
12:15 [Music]
12:17 so we don't have to vote if it's only
12:19 one nominee
12:21 no i mean that would be silly but what
12:22 if nobody liked either of us
12:25 no we don't we don't need to do it then
12:27 no okay
12:30 very good uh
12:32 i believe
12:34 are we closed on that item
12:36 yes
12:37 okay
12:38 uh very good now it sounds like we're on
12:40 to uh item the next item in our regular
12:44 business the ada transition plan
12:50 good evening tab members i'm john
12:52 martinson transportation engineering
12:53 manager
12:54 tonight i'm going to give a brief update
12:57 on the work we're doing for the city's
12:59 ada transition self-evaluation and
13:01 transition plan
13:03 this is an item that we
13:05 had on the agenda in april but there are
13:07 a number of absences and this is a
13:09 really important project so i wanted to
13:11 do an abbreviated presentation on it
13:15 at tonight's meeting
13:32 are you able to see the
13:34 notes page or the presentation
13:39 okay good
13:40 we're seeing we're seeing uh
13:42 not the presentation slide it's like if
13:45 there were notes they would be
13:58 that fix it
14:03 no interesting okay
14:06 let me stop we can see it
14:09 well there's a different way i can share
14:11 it i tried sharing the application i'll
14:13 share the screen
14:21 how about now
14:24 all right perfect
14:28 a little bit of
14:29 background the americans with
14:31 disabilities act
14:33 was passed i want to say
14:35 1990 and
14:38 with the americans with disabilities act
14:41 the intent is to remove barriers for
14:42 people with disabilities
14:45 as part of the city's requirement for
14:47 the americans with disabilities act
14:49 we're required to do a self-evaluation
14:52 and transition plan which
14:54 is where we identify the barriers
14:57 whether it's a physical barrier to
14:59 someone with a mobility disability
15:01 or a communication barrier
15:05 and then
15:08 look at how we can make the
15:12 remove the barriers and provide a
15:14 schedule to go ahead and remove the
15:16 barrier so for an example
15:19 since this is the transportation
15:20 advisory board
15:22 on our public sidewalk if you get to an
15:24 intersection and there's not a curb ramp
15:27 that would be a barrier to someone with
15:28 a mobility disability
15:30 and we would want to put in a curb ramp
15:34 make the to remove the barrier another
15:36 one if you're at a traffic signal when
15:39 you're at an older one you push the
15:41 pedestrian push button
15:43 it won't help someone who's visually
15:46 impaired but if you're at a newer
15:48 traffic signal with the newer type of
15:49 pedestrian push buttons if you push and
15:52 hold it for about three seconds it'll
15:54 start giving voice commands for when a
15:56 person can cross the intersection
16:00 this project though it looks at more
16:02 than just
16:03 the public right-of-way it looks at city
16:05 facilities the city's parks services and
16:09 number of other
16:11 services that the city has
16:18 the project schedule so from february
16:21 through april 20 of this year
16:25 we worked with a consultant to look at
16:28 the 2014
16:31 ada self-evaluation transition plan that
16:33 was put together and to look at what
16:36 from that needed to be updated and
16:40 develop a scope of work
16:42 starting this month the consultant is
16:45 working to
16:47 develop the plan
16:49 they will be assessing the city's
16:51 facility facilities
16:54 prioritizing
16:56 the improvements
16:58 and developing a barrier and removal
17:02 financial plan for the public
17:04 right-of-way
17:05 city buildings parks trails and
17:07 programmatic components
17:11 from november through january the draft
17:14 plan will be reviewed by the what we're
17:17 calling the ada advisory group the city
17:20 council as well as the general public
17:22 with the intent to have council adopt
17:24 the plan
17:25 in february 2023
17:35 the final thing that i have is
17:38 we are hoping to or we're going to put
17:40 together an ada advisory group
17:43 the ada advisory group will
17:46 consist of
17:48 members from the transportation advisory
17:50 board and what invited as well as the
17:52 city's equity board and members of the
17:55 disability community in istaq
17:58 the
18:00 commitment is three to five virtual
18:02 meetings on
18:04 probably webex or similar type setting
18:07 to advise the team on accessibility
18:09 barriers refine the project
18:12 the removal prioritization
18:15 and the recommendations
18:17 and help promote the project
18:20 through relationships with other
18:21 organizations
18:24 and fast that i have is if anyone from
18:27 the transportation advisory board would
18:29 like to be a part of the
18:31 ada advisory oops
18:34 trying to
18:35 stop sharing the screen
18:37 there we go if anyone from the
18:39 transportation advisory board would like
18:41 to be a part of the
18:43 ada advisory group please reach out to
18:45 me also if you know of anyone who would
18:50 be a good member of the ada advisory
18:53 group
18:54 please
18:55 refer to that person to me so that way
18:57 we can get a good group to help guide
19:00 this project
19:01 and with that are there any questions
19:09 it's like julian you had one
19:12 yeah i had one um
19:14 so you presented
19:17 this was presented like last month i
19:20 believe um
19:21 what has changed since then or what
19:24 progress has been made since
19:26 the last time that you presented it
19:30 the
19:32 probably the primary thing is that we
19:34 got the contract signed with the
19:36 consultant to do the the phase two of
19:38 the work and
19:41 we're still in the process of gathering
19:43 or working to
19:45 build up the ada advisory group
19:49 and if i can chime into that jillian on
19:53 our
19:53 last meeting also
19:55 while micah was
19:58 leading the meeting he did ask that we
20:02 bring the question back to the tap since
20:05 there were some members
20:07 that were
20:09 missing and in case any other members
20:12 wanted to
20:13 [Music]
20:16 express their interest in being part of
20:18 the committee
20:24 cynthia i have a question um is there
20:27 anyone on this board who has um
20:31 stepped up because i think the first
20:34 question is are there volunteer i mean
20:35 is anyone interested and then if not
20:38 i don't think we should
20:40 let that go by i think we should do a
20:41 little recruiting
20:44 i believe we do have one volunteer
20:47 is that appropriate to share that now i
20:50 have a
20:52 suspicion i know
20:53 who it is
20:54 but is there any reason not to share i
20:56 mean i i just want to move along on this
20:57 and make sure you get what you need and
20:59 um i'm not i'm not seeing why we would
21:02 want to hold off on that
21:06 so i have just a quick question was that
21:08 a volunteer or a draftee
21:12 [Laughter]
21:16 i just can't think of any better anybody
21:17 better to to help us out with this
21:20 thank you and i did volunteer last
21:23 meeting if you remember right um i
21:26 wasn't here
21:29 uh thank you
21:32 that's excellent if that was in the
21:34 notes um and i did read them i forgot
21:36 but i um
21:37 i wasn't here and i couldn't find the
21:39 video uh
21:41 to watch so i missed that i really
21:43 really appreciate that and i'm just
21:45 wondering john
21:46 i i'm guessing that folks are
21:49 either some combination of busy or feel
21:51 unqualified
21:54 do you need more than one person from
21:56 the tab it sounds like there's a spot if
21:58 somebody else wants to but are you
22:00 looking for more draftees
22:03 i don't need more but
22:05 at the same time more would be welcome
22:07 in i think david would do a great job
22:09 representing the tab i do too yeah
22:13 um i do too uh okay i just i feel
22:18 like it would be too hard for me to
22:20 i just don't think i would bring much to
22:23 it so that's my hesitation personally
22:25 but um
22:26 great well i think david will do an
22:27 excellent job all right just uh i only
22:30 had one other question um but before i
22:32 ask that does anybody else have any
22:33 questions for john on this topic
22:36 i was like david's got one
22:40 thanks cynthia um hey john i've already
22:43 got one barrier that needs to be
22:46 addressed uh and i can do that offline
22:49 with you but it's something that really
22:52 needs to be addressed i already stumbled
22:54 on it in this past month
22:57 not literally but i stumbled on it and
23:01 it's an important
23:03 um barrier for the city and we need to
23:06 overcome it i appreciate that look
23:09 forward to
23:10 having you let me know about it
23:16 yes it looks like julian's got a
23:18 question so at the last meeting when you
23:21 were discussing this there was talk of
23:23 the um
23:24 the coverage or i don't know what was
23:27 officially called it was last done in
23:29 2014
23:32 is that still on the time is it still on
23:34 the timeline of of
23:36 how it was said last time around
23:42 for completing the project
23:44 or not completing the project the um
23:46 what was it called just like
23:48 just a report of the current conditions
23:52 and current gaps
23:55 i think it was oh yeah
23:57 so the in the phase one the consultant
24:00 really dove into looking
24:02 at what are the date what data from 2014
24:07 they could reuse and what data from 2014
24:11 really needed to be updated
24:13 and i don't remember off the top of my
24:14 head but
24:16 i think generally a lot of it we still
24:18 will be able to use
24:19 did that answer your question
24:23 yeah and i guess
24:24 you won't
24:26 they'll still be making a new one right
24:30 over go for their prioritization yeah
24:33 yes
24:34 yeah
24:37 and i guess through the process we'll
24:38 see it could be that the
24:40 original prioritization still applies
24:43 there could be changes but there's
24:45 nothing to say that it couldn't change
24:46 this time
24:51 john i had a question um
24:54 you might have said this and i've read
24:56 all my materials at once so forgive me
24:58 if i'm if you've already said this but i
25:00 was a little confused about how this
25:01 gets um then the i assume that it leads
25:04 to a series of projects that need to be
25:06 implemented and i assume those are
25:07 essentially capital projects um does it
25:10 end up having to compete with all other
25:11 capital projects is there a separate
25:13 funding source how does that work
25:17 that's a good question and
25:22 lots of different ways to answer it so
25:25 it could be as a separate project for
25:28 example we have an annual
25:30 ada improvement project where
25:33 we go about and this is a transportation
25:36 project where we upgrade curb ramps and
25:38 pedestrian push buttons
25:41 it could be part of a facility project
25:43 but part of the transition plan is also
25:45 looking at
25:47 what will other projects construct and
25:50 if we have
25:52 a project
25:53 along a corridor we know that project
25:55 would be will be upgrading the curb
25:57 ramps and we'll take that into
25:59 consideration
26:01 as another a big player in
26:04 upgrading a lot of the curb ramps will
26:06 be development as
26:08 they build things the facilities
26:11 i think it would be a similar type thing
26:13 in the parks where we have a
26:17 parks project that the upgrades would be
26:20 during then or during that time it also
26:23 could be a separate project i don't want
26:26 speculate too much on parks because i
26:28 don't
26:29 have a role to play in how they
26:31 prioritize their projects
26:33 but
26:34 i guess to answer your question it'll be
26:36 an existing project that we have
26:39 it could potentially be a new project
26:41 and
26:42 it'll also be other projects and
26:44 development that'll help remove the
26:46 barriers
26:49 thank you
26:54 john did you get what you needed on this
26:56 topic so i think we might be nearing the
26:59 close okay
27:01 um thanks again david like i said i
27:03 can't think of a better person to help
27:05 us out with that
27:08 sounds like we're on to tip
27:12 okay go ahead and share my screen again
27:27 okay do a quick check to make sure it's
27:29 sharing
27:30 the
27:31 slide and not the notes page
27:37 yes it's the correct one
27:39 okay
27:40 all right
27:42 welcome to transportation advisory board
27:44 meeting our members i'm here to give a
27:47 brief update on the work that we've been
27:50 doing for the transportation improvement
27:52 program
27:54 the
27:55 purpose is really to provide an update
27:57 because
27:58 as a board you have put in a lot of time
28:00 and effort into the transportation
28:02 improvement program and i want to give
28:03 an update for where things are at in the
28:05 process
28:07 the background
28:10 last summer slash
28:12 fall
28:13 my tab worked to update project
28:17 descriptions
28:19 and then
28:20 at the
28:21 tab meeting last february
28:24 worked with the tab to confirm that we
28:27 did receive the right feedback
28:30 we also
28:31 met with the environmental board
28:34 at their april meeting to talk about the
28:36 transportation improvement program as it
28:39 relates to the natural environment and
28:41 based on the feedback that
28:43 we received from the tab and the
28:45 environmental board that proposed
28:48 six-year transportation improvement
28:50 program was put together
28:52 i i do want to say that
28:54 because the city is not also updating
28:57 the capital improvement plan
29:00 this update is a minor update to the
29:02 transportation improvement program that
29:06 when the city updates the
29:09 capital improvement plan we do a bigger
29:11 update to the transportation improvement
29:13 program so
29:14 when you look at it it
29:16 not a whole lot will be have changed
29:20 the
29:21 transportation improvement program is
29:22 presented to the new council mobility
29:25 and infrastructure committee at their
29:27 meeting on may 10th
29:29 the committee recommended
29:32 setting a public hearing with and not
29:34 making changes to the transportation
29:36 improvement program the public hearing
29:39 is scheduled for june 6th
29:42 with the anticipation of council
29:45 adopting the transportation improvement
29:47 program
29:48 at their meeting on june 20th
29:52 the environmental board
29:55 provided quite a bit of feedback on the
29:57 transportation improvement program
30:00 a lot of it was
30:01 regarding one to better understand the
30:03 project selection and prioritization
30:05 criteria as well as
30:09 working with the transportation advisory
30:11 board to incorporate the bisquas new
30:14 climate action plan
30:16 into
30:17 how we prioritize transportation
30:19 projects
30:20 the environmental board was also
30:22 interested in
30:23 how the city evaluates environmental
30:26 impacts for projects
30:28 they would like to see
30:30 greenhouse gas emissions generated from
30:33 a transportation improvement as we
30:36 consider the different projects that we
30:38 were comparing to projects
30:40 we'd know
30:41 how much
30:42 greenhouse gas emissions would result
30:45 from the different alternatives
30:49 the environmental board is
30:52 commented about promoting alternative
30:55 modes of transportation
30:57 and
30:58 as well as considering wildlife
30:59 corridors as we design our
31:02 transportation projects
31:06 during the mobility and infrastructure
31:08 committee
31:10 there are questions about the timing and
31:12 process
31:13 with the state requirement of adopting
31:16 the pip
31:19 this summer
31:22 i think the committee felt like is a
31:23 little bit rushed but part of the reason
31:26 is this is a minor update and
31:28 there's not much changing
31:30 compared to what would happen
31:33 if the cip was also getting updated
31:35 there's a number of concerns from the
31:38 audience comments as well as members of
31:41 the committee about some of the future
31:43 year projects that
31:45 have roadway widening
31:48 the
31:50 another discussion was there were
31:52 upcoming recommendations from the
31:54 capital finance
31:57 plan and so that's going to be updated
32:00 in june but as part of the tip there was
32:03 a little bit of a sneak peek and that
32:05 the tip did include a recommendation
32:09 do a planning study for the centralized
32:12 multimodal i-90 crossing that's a name
32:15 change for the project
32:17 originally it
32:19 was a i-90 over under crossing
32:22 between i want to say 10th and 12th
32:25 but
32:26 it's
32:27 this project is to
32:29 create a
32:31 new not a new crossing of i-90 that
32:34 would incorporate
32:36 so hopefully sound transits light rail
32:38 as well as metro bus vehicles bicycles
32:42 and pedestrians
32:43 and that project was listed in the
32:46 cip to begin work
32:50 another thing that was discussed at the
32:53 mobility and infrastructure committee
32:56 with staff capacity that there were some
32:59 changes from last year's tip
33:01 where
33:03 work was reduced to reflect
33:05 current staff capacity to actually get
33:07 the work done
33:09 another new project was to do a seismic
33:12 retrofit on the gilman bridge that goes
33:14 over
33:15 front street
33:17 the city recently had a bridge engineer
33:21 do a seismic evaluation and
33:24 we'd like to upgrade the bridge to meet
33:27 seismic criteria it also will need a
33:30 load rating until we can do some work
33:34 heavy emergency vehicles
33:36 this year we put in an
33:38 application
33:39 to get funds
33:41 to do the rehabilitation of the bridge
33:45 there is also talk about
33:47 transit and other things that
33:50 the
33:51 city is doing to help mobility in the
33:53 community and then the final thing that
33:55 was discussed is asking the question is
33:58 the community aware of the mobility
34:00 master plan's vision
34:01 that with the direction to go
34:04 to a more multimodal direction
34:07 and that was one of the questions that
34:09 the committee had asked
34:12 the timing and next steps
34:14 the public hearing is
34:16 set for june 6th
34:18 where the public will be able to make
34:19 comments on the proposed vip
34:23 the
34:24 schedule has the tip getting adopted at
34:26 the june 20th meeting
34:28 before the
34:30 next round when the
34:32 cip and pip will be updated
34:36 the work will be done to incorporate the
34:39 dysapp climate action plan with the
34:41 mobility master plan
34:44 and with that are there any questions
34:57 go ahead john just uh david's waving his
35:00 arm there okay yeah david
35:04 john uh could you repeat those transit
35:06 priorities that i saw on the screen
35:11 that was just i guess more of the
35:13 mobility committee talking about
35:15 different things that like the shuttle
35:17 program that we're working to design
35:20 and the transit study that
35:23 the city is doing not necessarily
35:24 capital projects if i remember craig
35:27 and i'm mistaken i do see julian's got
35:30 his hand raised he was there too
35:32 yeah i i remember
35:34 um quite specifically what
35:36 they were referring to because i was at
35:38 the meeting i was listening in
35:40 um it was a conversation about how
35:44 the
35:46 this this is like more of a capital plan
35:48 right and it's kind of tricky to think
35:50 about
35:51 what the city of issaquah could be
35:53 funding in terms of capital transit
35:55 projects
35:57 uh versus just operations which is more
35:59 typical for a municipal
36:01 government you know in terms of the
36:03 um shell 200
36:05 or anything else that we might be doing
36:08 so i think that's basically what the
36:10 question was down to um but i feel like
36:13 we could be doing some capital stuff i
36:15 mean i'm not sure how much
36:18 jurisdiction we have over like the bus
36:20 shelters
36:22 or you know the bus stops um you know
36:26 providing shelter there for
36:28 for the people who are stopping there
36:31 that's something to be explored you know
36:33 amenities at transit stops
36:36 i think that'd be an interesting thing
36:38 to consider for capital projects
36:46 i think jerry had a comment
36:51 yes yes i did i'm not sure if this is
36:54 the place but last year i was always
36:57 wondering about this too before the i-90
37:00 crossing was called a multimodal
37:02 crossing
37:05 i i was curious
37:08 issaquah had done a study
37:11 and was convinced we really needed that
37:14 extra crossing
37:16 maybe when i drive around issaquah i'm
37:19 fine with that new crossing by
37:22 the post office i think it works fine
37:26 and so i'm just
37:27 surprised that issaquah needs another
37:30 one and i thought
37:32 you know maybe our funds could be going
37:35 somewhere else so
37:37 i guess
37:38 you have that on the list because the
37:40 studies been done and in the future
37:42 you're going to need it
37:44 and so that's my question
37:48 i will briefly answer it without
37:50 giving too much away because it actually
37:52 has relates to our transportation
37:54 concurrency
37:56 that the city has a transportation
37:58 concurrency model
38:01 which is where the need for the i-90
38:03 crossing originated from where the city
38:06 has a level of service
38:08 and
38:10 in order to accommodate the growth
38:11 especially with the
38:14 concentration of growth on the valley
38:16 floor and in particular within the
38:19 regional growth center
38:21 that there'll be a lot of growth in that
38:24 vicinity another thing also is
38:27 there's a big benefit to improving a
38:31 grid especially in a denser setting and
38:34 right now the i-90
38:37 really divides the regional growth
38:38 center
38:39 which is
38:40 where the most intensive growth will
38:42 occur
38:43 and
38:44 so by having the extra crossing that
38:46 helps put in a little bit more of a grid
38:49 where right now the freeway is a barrier
38:52 and also
38:53 there's only one crossing within
38:56 the regional growth center and that is
38:59 at sr 900 because the other crossing at
39:02 fourth is outside the regional growth
39:03 center and
39:06 this is the only location that in my
39:08 opinion makes sense to have
39:10 multimodal for bicycles and
39:12 pedestrians because
39:15 at the interchange
39:17 it's
39:18 very much an area of cars trying to get
39:20 on and off the freeway
39:22 did that answer your question
39:28 i i do
39:30 but when you're talking concurrency so
39:33 you're you're saying we don't
39:35 need it now but we'll need it in the
39:38 future
39:39 is is that what you're
39:41 saying
39:42 okay because of the increased population
39:45 you expect in the valley floor
39:48 basically
39:49 right but we don't need it now
39:51 but it's good to plan for it
39:54 10 years from now
39:56 right or or 15 or
39:59 something like whatever happens
40:01 it's in the tip
40:03 but it's not going to be
40:05 implemented for quite a while
40:08 so right it'll take a while to
40:12 develop a funding package to construct a
40:14 project like that
40:16 okay and by then we'll be needed
40:18 some of the long-range design is in the
40:21 current tip is that correct john
40:24 it's not the construction's not in the
40:26 current tip right constructions in the
40:28 future years and in the tip that was
40:31 adopted last year
40:33 it included
40:34 funding to do a planning study
40:37 and
40:40 we've since refined what we need to do
40:42 for this project
40:47 jerry you're nodding so i'm going to
40:48 assume you got your question answered
40:50 and i'm actually really happy to hear
40:51 christy is got a comment because i know
40:54 uh this is something she knows a lot
40:55 about so uh christy uh is this a comment
40:58 on this topic
41:00 yes it is i just wanted to weigh in on
41:03 maybe from more of an old-timer
41:04 perspective in the community and someone
41:07 who's gone to
41:09 many many meetings um when
41:12 back as far as 2007 2008 when the
41:16 centralist claw planning task force
41:18 first met
41:19 one of the
41:21 conversations amongst the group but also
41:24 continually from public comment was
41:27 i-90 really has bifurcated our community
41:30 if you think about we've got the north
41:32 and the south and they're really not
41:34 well connected from a circulation
41:37 perspective whether that be car
41:40 bike peds
41:42 so that was one comment the other was
41:45 the community asked
41:47 how can we find a way to kind of stitch
41:49 back our community in a way that makes
41:51 sense and is integrated
41:54 and when um
41:56 so there was a lot of factors that went
41:58 into
42:00 sort of the thoughtfulness and and the
42:02 placement of that location and what it
42:05 and
42:06 what our general residents needed in
42:09 terms of local circulation
42:13 so it was studied back then in the
42:15 concurrency run it was also looked at as
42:18 a potential for future light rail when
42:21 the conversations had um
42:24 happened
42:25 i think what else can i share with you
42:27 but there's there's been a lot of study
42:29 in terms of
42:30 how do you
42:31 support our community
42:34 and also at the same point in time do
42:37 something that really helps facilitate
42:39 connectivity so if you think about you
42:42 know a lot of people referenced the lids
42:45 at mercer island and said why can't we
42:47 have something like that
42:49 or you know why can't we do something
42:51 different and so this was a solution to
42:57 accommodate that but at the same time
42:59 also not compromise the business
43:02 district or have a major situation where
43:05 there's a property taking so how do you
43:07 add to your community as opposed to
43:09 detracting from it
43:11 does that make sense
43:20 yes
43:21 it does make sense thank you chrissy
43:26 you're welcome
43:28 but i think the community still there's
43:30 opportunity for communication um there
43:32 has been study i think a lot of people
43:35 are excited about the potential but
43:37 it's a concept that needs further
43:41 planning and study as john had mentioned
43:51 it's like julian's got a question
43:54 um yeah so
43:57 i was looking at the future projects and
44:00 i definitely saw a lot of the
44:02 new roads there i i think those are
44:05 good in the sense that you know they're
44:07 going to help facilitate
44:09 a new
44:10 system in
44:12 the central issaquah area
44:15 but there's still a number of roadway
44:18 expansions as you said earlier um and
44:22 i'm just really trying to derive like
44:23 what the premise
44:25 is of
44:26 all of these is it mostly derived from
44:29 the concurrency idea or
44:31 or what else
44:33 yes it comes from the concurrency that
44:35 those are projects that
44:37 our concurrency model have said we need
44:40 to do in order to maintain the level of
44:42 service that the city has set as the
44:43 standard
44:46 and we do have a multi-modal concurrency
44:48 standard right
44:51 it's a multi well
44:53 i'll let isabelle's presentation
44:56 yeah
44:56 it's not bad
44:58 yeah
45:02 in the infeasible or
45:04 implausible
45:07 suggestion that we might drop our level
45:09 of service
45:11 would these projects still be happening
45:15 i would say depends on the project and i
45:18 think it would take a lot of work to
45:20 evaluate to see
45:21 what we could do there's
45:24 ways so when they
45:26 the
45:27 traffic modeler models the concurrency
45:30 system there are a number of inputs
45:33 which
45:34 the number of trips generated which is
45:36 based on the land use
45:38 the assumed percentage of multimodal
45:41 transportation i believe
45:43 the current model
45:45 had it where the
45:47 multimodal percentage would
45:49 double
45:50 but
45:51 there are ways to play with it
45:54 and
45:56 i will and i don't want to give away too
45:58 much for the
46:00 presentation later on tonight
46:02 that
46:03 the update that we're doing this year is
46:05 more of a technical nature not really
46:07 getting into those details in the long
46:09 run
46:10 i think it and i remember right mobility
46:13 master plan actually talked about
46:14 revisiting the city's concurrency system
46:17 for how to
46:19 make it better for multimodal and
46:20 there's a number of ways to do it but
46:23 that's not what the current project is
46:26 it's something that i anticipate will be
46:28 done sometime in the future
46:38 so i'm not seeing anybody else in the
46:39 comment or anybody else raising their
46:40 hand i just wanna um
46:42 it sounds like we're getting ready to
46:44 conclude on this topic but i just wanna
46:47 put this out there and it's sort of
46:48 related to the comment that i made
46:50 earlier
46:51 in um accepting a nomination for chair
46:53 and that's that
46:55 i think this is one of those really
46:56 really the 2023
46:58 tip
46:59 cip
47:01 is really something this group is going
47:02 to want to sink their teeth into
47:04 so um you know maybe we should have like
47:06 a a good sit down with um julian me you
47:10 isabelle you know and map out the year
47:13 with a lot of thought and we always do
47:15 that we always look at the year we
47:16 always have a meeting before the meeting
47:17 but i think we want to um
47:20 and then we've got to think about who
47:21 we're advising we're advising council
47:22 what does council want from the tab like
47:24 i just i want to
47:26 i think there's some of these comments
47:28 are getting at this sense that we we
47:30 don't necessarily feel ownership of
47:32 these pro these see these programs these
47:35 um plans and i think it would be a nice
47:38 goal for the 2023
47:41 cip tip to to feel like that was
47:45 a recommendation was a product from this
47:47 board where we had a chance to really um
47:50 dig into it and and understand the whys
47:54 and not certainly revisit everything but
47:56 just really feel like we've had um a
48:00 chance to dig into the details and um
48:03 be involved and then some
48:06 uh owner i don't think ownership because
48:08 you guys do all the work but yeah i
48:09 think you get what i'm saying um so i
48:11 just kind of want to note that
48:13 um and then we can uh talk about that
48:16 further
48:17 yeah like just based on what i've been
48:20 hearing
48:21 here and you know in the
48:23 council committee session
48:26 it does seem like
48:27 a lot of it seems inevitable
48:30 with all this
48:32 all these projects and the plans so i
48:34 think it'd be very useful to set up a
48:35 meeting
48:37 and
48:38 make sure that we know what's going on
48:40 in 2023 and how we can best
48:42 coordinate that for the best outcomes
48:47 without throwing any babies out with
48:49 bath water i mean obviously like christy
48:50 just reminded us like how much history
48:52 had gone into that so i think some of
48:54 it's some of it's gonna be education and
48:56 anyway i don't think we want to hash
48:57 that out in too much detail right now
48:59 but um i don't have any more questions
49:01 about
49:02 the interim uh tip does anybody else
49:05 have any thing or john do anything else
49:06 from this group
49:08 nope i'm good
49:13 okay good thanks
49:16 um thank you john and um i hope you feel
49:18 better soon
49:20 i appreciate it thanks catch you loose
49:29 looks like we're on to um its right
49:33 yes and before we do that i would like i
49:37 know we we talked about introducing her
49:39 at the beginning of the meeting but we
49:41 forgot so before we continue any further
49:44 i will be introducing
49:46 to the tab our new member uh to our
49:50 transportation team which is
49:52 sure one she is joining us from
49:55 minnesota and we are very excited to
49:58 have her she will be um
50:01 filling my
50:03 position as a senior transportation
50:06 engineer and she started with us at the
50:08 beginning of this month
50:09 um so yeah you will be seeing
50:13 uh a new face
50:15 soon
50:18 well welcome
50:20 yeah welcome show
50:23 thank you
50:25 yes welcome
50:28 welcome
50:29 okay
50:31 and with that i will
50:34 start sharing
50:36 [Music]
50:38 my screen with the presentation let me
50:41 know when you can see everything
50:47 can't see it we can see you can't
50:51 okay thank you um jerry so um before i
50:56 start with the its plan i just want to
50:59 clarify that uh this is only just a very
51:04 short uh descript
51:07 very brief
51:09 summary of what we presented during the
51:11 last meeting and the reason why we're
51:13 doing this is because we were
51:17 wrapping up the agenda
51:20 and we talked about bringing the ata ada
51:23 transition plan question we also thought
51:26 yes it might be a good idea since both
51:29 topics we presented them for the very
51:31 first time um during last meeting we
51:34 want to just briefly summarize the key
51:37 items from
51:38 each of these two and
51:40 provide up
51:42 an opportunity especially for those who
51:43 didn't get the chance to provide uh
51:46 their feedback during the last meeting
51:48 to this
51:49 uh tonight
51:50 and
51:52 guess so i'm again sorry for without
51:55 introducing myself it's about bs traffic
51:57 signal operations engineer and i will
51:59 briefly be speaking about the its plan
52:08 okay so um its first of all uh it stands
52:13 for intelligent transportation systems
52:15 and it can uh it is considered uh
52:19 the use of technology uh for to
52:22 integrate communications and into the
52:25 transportation infrastructure and with
52:28 vehicles as well uh some of the
52:31 traditional its solutions that exist
52:35 we are providing a few examples of those
52:38 one of those is communications network
52:41 fiber is basically the standard in
52:43 communications from the equipment that
52:46 assists on the road to a traffic
52:49 management center
52:52 vehicle detection technologies such as
52:55 pavement loops radar and video
52:59 traffic signal controllers
53:01 though these advanced traffic signal
53:03 controllers leverages the operating
53:05 system to log signal detector events
53:08 such as vehicle presence
53:10 phase changes
53:13 preemption
53:14 transit priority and variable lanes
53:18 cctv cameras those are used to observe
53:23 transportation network from a remote
53:25 location
53:26 such as a traffic management center
53:29 and
53:30 they are also used to provide proactive
53:33 safety applications
53:35 dynamic message signs you have seen
53:37 those we have four we have about four uh
53:40 throughout the city
53:43 traffic management centers
53:45 this can be an operator operator
53:47 computer station or a video wall
53:49 depending on the
53:51 size of the agency to better observe
53:54 signal operations or connect with other
53:56 agencies
53:58 um the city has basically
54:01 already invested in all of these its
54:05 solutions all on or or i should say
54:08 basically most of these its solutions
54:11 the only
54:12 ones that i have mentioned that we have
54:14 not yet been based invested on are
54:17 transit priority and variable
54:20 lanes so those are two technologies that
54:23 we don't currently have
54:30 do you have a question
54:33 no i'm sorry there was a goof tom was
54:36 struggling and um we were
54:39 private messaging but obviously not very
54:41 private sorry about that
54:42 having technical difficulties and i'm
54:45 offering suggestions so i'm a little
54:47 embarrassed but it's nothing no worries
54:49 i thought uh that you might have a
54:51 question
54:53 so these are
54:54 only the traditional its technology that
54:57 exists but one of the things that or the
55:00 main goal of the its plan is that it
55:03 will be evaluating that new technology
55:06 that we
55:07 that what is that new technology that
55:09 exists out there that the city should be
55:12 invested in
55:16 and
55:17 to bring just an example of some of the
55:20 new its technologies that we currently
55:23 don't have
55:24 there's the automatic traffic signal
55:27 performance measures and this is
55:29 basically combining the detection with
55:31 advanced signal controllers data sharing
55:34 can be used to identify the measure of
55:37 performance of our system
55:39 also the connected and autonomous
55:41 vehicles our agencies are already
55:44 looking at initiatives and policies of
55:47 technologies like connected and electric
55:49 uh vehicles
55:52 third-party data providers these can
55:54 help with providing an insight on how
55:58 the overall network of our system is
56:01 performing without the need to net to
56:04 invest in heavy equipment without need
56:06 of being these uh huge
56:09 um in investments
56:12 video analytics this is something very
56:14 interesting that the cities of bellevue
56:17 and sierra are currently
56:19 piloting with the use of cameras to
56:22 identify conflicts uh that exists uh
56:25 with between movements so i think we
56:28 touch base a little bit on on that on
56:32 on some
56:33 uh ideas that we have presented with
56:35 technology in the past uh briefly um
56:39 for this application an example with
56:41 this with what currently the city of
56:44 bellevue is doing they are providing
56:46 video feeds to a third-party vendor that
56:48 would identify
56:50 the occurrence of near misses and their
56:53 frequency so that the city staff can
56:56 identify those locations where with
56:58 highest potentials of conflict and
57:01 make sure they are providing safety
57:04 improvements at the right locations
57:10 in terms of the schedule uh we
57:14 this program this plan has already
57:17 kicked off um we will be we we we kicked
57:20 off with
57:21 uh starting with us
57:23 uh with an inventory of the exit
57:26 of the existing conditions
57:29 parts of the inventory just take care of
57:32 is the
57:33 inventory of our
57:35 current traffic signal system document
57:38 how the communications network is doing
57:41 the the equipment on the field as
57:43 related is related to signals and
57:45 technology and data platforms and
57:48 sources
57:49 in the in later during in fall we will
57:53 be starting with some stakeholder
57:56 engagement when we say stakeholder we
57:58 are speaking about both internal and
58:01 external stakeholders
58:03 it would be different departments from
58:05 the city like fire
58:07 emergencies and police departments and
58:10 also
58:12 community development departments and
58:15 we will also be
58:17 engaging external
58:19 stakeholders including washdown
58:21 including king county and the city of
58:23 samamish which also have a fish
58:26 coordination with
58:28 our city as well
58:30 part of this engagement this stakeholder
58:33 engagement
58:34 the the main goal to this is to to so we
58:38 can identify what the goals and the
58:40 objectives of our of our plan are going
58:43 to be and also uh to make sure that we
58:47 identify those those needs from the
58:50 users and
58:52 well one one other thing that i should
58:53 mention is that
58:56 the child would also be part of of this
58:59 uh later on during this
59:01 timing in fall that we will be doing
59:03 state holder engagement we will also be
59:05 engaging the tag as the community
59:08 members
59:09 to rep to provide that feedback from
59:12 community members of what are what are
59:15 uh the city needs in terms of technology
59:19 then during winter um we will be working
59:22 on the implementation plan and this is
59:24 also another
59:26 part where we will be engaging the tab
59:28 but in something differently is because
59:30 we will be providing a list of projects
59:33 the one of the outputs of the
59:35 of the plan would be this list of uh its
59:38 project to be included
59:40 later on the c on on the cip uh
59:45 the capital improved in the next capital
59:47 improvement plan and we will be engaging
59:51 in the tab so we can prioritize those
59:53 projects uh so you can help us determine
59:57 which projects uh we should be investing
1:00:02 what we want to do with these projects
1:00:05 that we can identify
1:00:06 projects into
1:00:08 possibly like three categories uh
1:00:11 what are those quick wins or those
1:00:13 projects that are
1:00:15 pretty easy to accomplish
1:00:18 and can be done
1:00:20 quickly and without major investments
1:00:22 and also we'll be identifying those
1:00:24 projects that will be considered like
1:00:27 long-term projects
1:00:28 projects that will be uh considered with
1:00:31 like a huge investments our projects
1:00:33 that we will need some grants grant
1:00:35 support as well and
1:00:38 those
1:00:39 projects that will be considered program
1:00:41 program projects project that will be
1:00:43 continuous and the idea is that we we
1:00:45 can continue
1:00:46 the its program with the the beginning
1:00:49 of the of this roadmap that the its plan
1:00:52 will be that we can continue um and uh
1:00:56 year by year with the its program
1:01:03 and with that and having um
1:01:06 kind of
1:01:07 giving you a brief idea of what
1:01:11 type of technology exists out there and
1:01:13 we will be we will have the opportunity
1:01:15 to dive a little bit more into this
1:01:17 technology later
1:01:19 but for now to make it simple from the
1:01:21 tab what we would like to know is what
1:01:25 is the number one transportation related
1:01:28 issue or concern
1:01:31 technology could have could address and
1:01:34 if we can hear from those uh that didn't
1:01:37 have the opportunity to
1:01:39 speak on the last meeting would be
1:01:42 would be
1:01:43 uh desirable
1:01:46 let me open
1:01:48 did i lose everyone or
1:01:51 can we see our faces
1:01:56 we're still seeing your desktop
1:01:58 oh really
1:02:00 yeah we're seeing your chat with john
1:02:02 i won't read it
1:02:05 sorry about that um
1:02:08 now we're seeing all your emails there
1:02:10 it is
1:02:11 stop sharing
1:02:15 are we all getting worse at this i think
1:02:17 it's time to go back to in person not
1:02:20 not just you as well i'm not picking on
1:02:22 you i feel like the same thing i think
1:02:24 your rough time
1:02:25 [Laughter]
1:02:34 i've seen dave waving uh raising waving
1:02:36 gravy raising his hand go ahead
1:02:42 thanks cynthia just a quick question
1:02:45 isabel so you're asking what you think
1:02:48 the number one
1:02:51 priority
1:02:53 for its solutions
1:02:57 when you look at that list that you gave
1:02:59 us or are you asking
1:03:01 what transportation problem
1:03:04 is number one that we can apply
1:03:07 this its solution to
1:03:10 yes that would be the one what is the
1:03:13 problem that we can identify
1:03:16 as the main problem that we could solve
1:03:21 technology
1:03:32 are you guys all just being polite or
1:03:34 did you uh you know i i gotta say um
1:03:37 i had i have a little bone to pick with
1:03:39 the uh video department at city of a
1:03:41 school i tried a couple times to watch
1:03:43 the meeting last time and then isabella
1:03:45 once you told me how to find it on
1:03:47 youtube i didn't have time anymore so i
1:03:49 feel a little at a loss because it
1:03:50 sounds like
1:03:52 there were some ideas put forth last
1:03:53 time but um
1:03:56 uh i'm kind of just looking to see if
1:03:58 anybody else has a comment um erica you
1:04:02 do you already have your comment it was
1:04:04 two minutes ago go ahead if that yes
1:04:08 um i was gonna say i guess if you're
1:04:10 looking for feedback i feel like the
1:04:12 number one thing would be
1:04:14 safety um that's often you know the
1:04:17 number one thing
1:04:18 um that's addressed via like any of the
1:04:20 things that we review or give and put on
1:04:23 right um
1:04:24 and so i think uh you showed some
1:04:26 examples of like those near misses or
1:04:28 like they calculate like down to the
1:04:30 second even of um
1:04:32 like what how much time it would take
1:04:33 for it to be an actual collision um
1:04:35 that's fascinating to me
1:04:38 i'm also wondering i don't know if this
1:04:40 is a solution to a problem
1:04:42 i'm curious about how
1:04:44 if we invest in things like that
1:04:47 does it make us more competitive for
1:04:49 different grants like where we would now
1:04:51 have like almost like video evidence of
1:04:53 things i don't know if that's possible
1:04:55 like i'm not in the transportation
1:04:57 planning universe um and like how that
1:04:59 works i guess government grant wise but
1:05:00 like if you could like
1:05:02 i think it you know helps build the case
1:05:04 like look we have all these different
1:05:06 like video feeds on how if you give us x
1:05:09 amount of dollars we'll use it to
1:05:10 correct this
1:05:15 i don't know specifically with uh the
1:05:19 video like having the video phase that
1:05:21 would be more competitive with the grass
1:05:23 but i
1:05:25 i do know that this start what we are
1:05:28 doing the its plan having having this
1:05:31 plan in place uh that we are considering
1:05:34 projects these would be this is a start
1:05:37 putting us in a competitive site to
1:05:41 apply for grants related to its
1:05:50 david dave go ahead yeah
1:05:53 um thanks i unmuted um
1:05:56 one thing that i can think of
1:05:58 that's huge and has been with us for
1:06:01 years
1:06:04 it's the queuing
1:06:06 off of second avenue
1:06:08 front street and newport
1:06:11 where we funnel
1:06:12 three roads
1:06:15 into one road i get it that it's pass
1:06:19 through traffic
1:06:21 but that's a huge thing
1:06:24 that's been
1:06:26 bounced back and forth for years on how
1:06:29 we address
1:06:30 that especially
1:06:32 evening traffic
1:06:34 morning traffic you're going the other
1:06:36 way so the queuing
1:06:38 really is outside issaquah
1:06:42 if you're going home in the evening
1:06:45 that's a real
1:06:47 uh issue
1:06:49 to resolve is to get that cueing
1:06:51 straight straightened out with either
1:06:54 signal control
1:06:58 something
1:06:59 because it's never really gone away
1:07:01 still there in fact if we just go down
1:07:05 town right now
1:07:06 you'll still see the residual of that
1:07:09 and we're at 7 15 p.m
1:07:12 do you understand what i mean by the
1:07:14 cueing of those three roads
1:07:18 it's a military term
1:07:21 you're funneling
1:07:22 three roads into one
1:07:25 and it's causing congestion massive
1:07:29 congestion
1:07:31 in the core of the city
1:07:33 newport gets backed up front street gets
1:07:36 backed up second avenue gets backed up
1:07:40 i get it that it's all passed through
1:07:42 traffic
1:07:44 but it's still queuing
1:07:46 and i'm wondering
1:07:47 if technology can't help us get out of
1:07:53 light signal
1:07:59 getting the lights to figure out a way
1:08:02 that they're feeding in so that that
1:08:05 traffic keeps moving
1:08:07 i don't speed the change
1:08:10 coming because i know long term the
1:08:14 county is not going to uh widen
1:08:17 the physical hobart road
1:08:20 i think we all know that
1:08:22 but the cueing in the city
1:08:25 that uh
1:08:26 backs it up i i think i've explained it
1:08:29 to death here
1:08:30 i think that's a major problem
1:08:34 never to be
1:08:35 uh gone away
1:08:37 remember the bypass thing that we were
1:08:39 going to do several years ago which
1:08:41 turned into a nightmare
1:08:45 i'm just wondering if technology can't
1:08:48 help us with this
1:08:52 and just to give you a little bit just
1:08:54 to give you a little history
1:08:56 i used to worry about getting home from
1:08:59 football practice on front street that
1:09:02 there wouldn't be any cars coming out of
1:09:04 issaquah going south on the hobart road
1:09:07 and that's the honest to god truth
1:09:10 that that is not a worry today
1:09:15 julian go ahead
1:09:17 i kind of want to
1:09:19 engage in this discussion like
1:09:21 if technology would actually be
1:09:24 any sort of so it would alleviate the
1:09:26 fact you know that you have
1:09:28 basically
1:09:30 how many lanes four
1:09:32 three lanes going basically all into
1:09:34 just one lane
1:09:36 it just seems implausible
1:09:39 that you could
1:09:41 um you could fix that sort of situation
1:09:43 even with technology i mean
1:09:48 i don't know i do know that highway 18
1:09:50 of course is being widened um
1:09:54 this pass-through issue is
1:09:56 going to be perennial
1:09:59 with all the growth that's still
1:10:00 happening
1:10:01 in the south end so
1:10:04 i don't know
1:10:09 i'm glad you said it about engaging
1:10:11 julian because i was kind of thinking
1:10:12 the same thing i i actually had
1:10:15 a similar
1:10:17 issue but a kind of a different approach
1:10:19 than dave um and i'm but i'm also going
1:10:21 to read tom's just so we got put into
1:10:23 the record would likely need to
1:10:24 coordinate signals between front and
1:10:26 sunset through state route 18 signal so
1:10:30 uh tom was having technical issues and
1:10:32 so he weighed in on the chat with that
1:10:34 comment i was just going to say um
1:10:37 i mean i i think
1:10:39 that it's very difficult and technology
1:10:41 is probably not going to solve that
1:10:42 problem like you said julian but i was
1:10:44 just sort of wondering
1:10:46 i don't know how blue sky this
1:10:48 discussion is supposed to be but
1:10:50 i so i wasn't really sure what's on the
1:10:51 table but i wrote a note when i was
1:10:53 preparing for this like is there
1:10:56 some way for people maybe who aren't
1:10:58 passed through or have
1:11:00 more discretion over when they can
1:11:02 travel to do like cameras so that you
1:11:05 can see how terrible it is and if you
1:11:08 need to run an errand you can look at
1:11:10 this camera and say oh i think i'll go
1:11:12 tomorrow or i'll go at seven or nine or
1:11:15 you know like obviously a huge
1:11:17 percentage of the traffic doesn't have
1:11:19 that choice but
1:11:20 um you know maybe some people do so so
1:11:23 there was just this idea that is camera
1:11:27 technology a way to help people make
1:11:30 better decisions because really
1:11:32 what we hope to do is increase mobility
1:11:34 in issaquah right and we can't
1:11:36 necessarily reduce vehicular congestion
1:11:38 but we ca i mean we should make the
1:11:43 system we have the network we have work
1:11:44 as strong and as hard as it can through
1:11:47 through
1:11:48 technology solutions um and erica has a
1:11:51 comment but i just want to say one more
1:11:53 thing it's a little bit different than
1:11:54 that comment
1:11:57 i i don't
1:11:58 have the i know you just went through
1:12:00 the schedule i don't have it committed
1:12:01 to memory but
1:12:02 this sort of feels to me
1:12:04 like something the community would be
1:12:06 super interested
1:12:08 in blue sky like just like survey or
1:12:11 something this seems like
1:12:13 uh both based on our community and the
1:12:16 nature of this
1:12:17 it feels a little more blue sky than
1:12:19 some of the other kinds of like hey
1:12:20 build a tram that goes up to telus or
1:12:22 you know like it kind of just seems like
1:12:24 maybe a good chance to really broaden
1:12:27 this and put it out there but i don't
1:12:29 know what that does to i mean as an its
1:12:31 professional that might seem a little
1:12:34 i don't know like
1:12:35 blue sky might be not super useful like
1:12:38 um but i just wanted to ask that
1:12:40 question because of all the things we
1:12:41 talk about
1:12:43 this question seems
1:12:45 really um suited for
1:12:49 a broad audience of people that might
1:12:51 have good ideas that none of us has
1:12:52 thought of
1:12:53 um so i just wanted to throw that out
1:12:55 there as well and
1:12:58 then hand it over to erica who had a
1:13:00 comment
1:13:04 i actually realized this was probably
1:13:05 more of a question um i first want to
1:13:08 definitely second what cynthia just said
1:13:10 about this seems like a topic that's
1:13:11 right for um people would have a lot of
1:13:14 opinions on it um and i know like
1:13:16 one of our jobs is to be able to channel
1:13:19 you know like it what issaquah thinks
1:13:21 and then pass it on up to city council
1:13:23 but i think that um yeah expanding you
1:13:26 know who you're asking that question to
1:13:28 is important um
1:13:31 because one of the things this is a
1:13:33 segue into my comment slash question is
1:13:35 how um
1:13:36 how are
1:13:39 the how is the city addressing you know
1:13:41 folks just concerned about like
1:13:43 i think it's like ever creeping
1:13:45 technology like you know paying
1:13:46 attention to like where what you're
1:13:48 doing and where you're going and um that
1:13:50 that's something i can just like picture
1:13:52 coming up you know like oh like is this
1:13:54 a claw tracking me now and like my daily
1:13:57 driving habits or whatnot i guess um i
1:14:00 i'm i'm not concerned about that
1:14:01 obviously there's red light cameras and
1:14:03 uh if you have a
1:14:05 go pass for 405 or whatever like that's
1:14:07 you know that's just the world we're in
1:14:08 today but i
1:14:10 i just anticipate that question coming
1:14:12 up so
1:14:19 julian
1:14:21 yeah i mean
1:14:23 when it comes to its i mean i haven't
1:14:25 been through
1:14:26 civil engineering or traffic engineering
1:14:28 classes at school but
1:14:30 i'm just wondering how
1:14:32 much can we in how much can we use
1:14:35 technology to
1:14:37 um kind of create
1:14:40 how can we use technology to resolve the
1:14:42 issue of just the space
1:14:45 cars take up they just take up a lot of
1:14:48 space
1:14:49 and in a totally congested environment
1:14:51 as is front street
1:14:53 um during the evenings i'm just
1:14:57 kind of skeptical about how much we can
1:15:00 actually resolve that issue of
1:15:03 of space and how much
1:15:06 how many cars i-90 just dumps onto
1:15:09 onto the front street and especially if
1:15:11 that front street interchange is still
1:15:12 being planned i just don't know
1:15:15 how that issue of space can be resolved
1:15:19 my idea of its is something that can
1:15:21 help us
1:15:22 you know use image animal analytics and
1:15:24 stuff like that
1:15:25 helping
1:15:26 people get around town and modes that
1:15:28 are not
1:15:30 by car
1:15:32 but i guess that's just a question like
1:15:34 how how can we
1:15:35 resolve that issue of space with
1:15:38 technology
1:15:40 and those are really good questions i i
1:15:44 i can't say that i have an answer to
1:15:49 that um
1:15:50 on how the technology could be used for
1:15:53 specifically for space uh but that is
1:15:57 something that we uh
1:15:59 can definitely ask to our consultants
1:16:12 uh i'm not seeing any other comments and
1:16:15 um it's about
1:16:17 did do you have any
1:16:18 more specific did you want to probe on
1:16:21 anything or did you get useful
1:16:23 information
1:16:24 no no i would just only add i know we
1:16:27 have uh mentioned uh during what i
1:16:30 uh we have heard uh
1:16:32 i heard the desire to
1:16:35 providing uh maybe expanding these uh to
1:16:41 to provide
1:16:42 input
1:16:44 more of a a fight
1:16:46 community level um it's
1:16:49 it's that that is not
1:16:51 currently part of the scope of the plan
1:16:54 but this is something we can
1:16:56 uh evaluate and discuss
1:16:58 if it's something that we uh
1:17:01 would be able to accomplish too so this
1:17:04 is something uh good for further
1:17:06 discussion too
1:17:12 yes and other than that yeah if there if
1:17:15 there aren't any other questions
1:17:19 i mean like i said i just really want to
1:17:22 get at the
1:17:23 premise of
1:17:24 the its projects and
1:17:27 making sure that we're actually trying
1:17:30 that the
1:17:31 issues that are being or like the
1:17:33 challenges that we're facing
1:17:35 can actually be resolved with
1:17:37 the use of
1:17:39 technology and making sure that
1:17:41 you know it's not intrusive or too
1:17:44 expensive for what the benefits will be
1:17:47 especially in such a congested
1:17:48 environment so i feel like if we engage
1:17:51 the community a lot of them will be
1:17:52 saying it's called hobart it's called
1:17:54 hobart it's called hobart
1:17:55 but i'm just not convinced that
1:17:58 technology can solve that conundrum
1:18:04 just before we close i'm just going to
1:18:05 say i i totally agree with you julian
1:18:08 but um
1:18:09 it's not going to solve the problem but
1:18:11 i still think that
1:18:13 if there are
1:18:14 inexpensive ways and i think technology
1:18:16 falls into that general bucket where
1:18:17 people think it's a lot less expensive
1:18:19 than capital projects to maximize the
1:18:22 what we do have
1:18:25 i think that that's something to
1:18:26 consider but i you're right you
1:18:29 if you alleviate the congestion it's
1:18:30 just going to fill up again with new
1:18:32 people i mean it's not going to go away
1:18:34 but i still think that there's um
1:18:37 i think that
1:18:38 i think if there is a way to
1:18:42 um make it get the most of what we have
1:18:44 i i think that that's worth pursuing um
1:18:47 but i don't think it should be done
1:18:49 at the exclusion of other kinds of um
1:18:52 its used for
1:18:54 pedestrian safety you know um bicycle
1:18:56 safety other other of our mobility goals
1:18:59 so i see you struggling with this and
1:19:01 i'm struggling with it too because i
1:19:02 just don't believe we can build our way
1:19:04 or smart our way out of congestion
1:19:07 um i think we're all struggling with
1:19:08 that all the time but i also think that
1:19:10 any win um to maximize the use of the
1:19:13 infrastructure is
1:19:15 you know i i don't know why we'd be
1:19:16 opposed to that
1:19:18 um all comes down to priorities i
1:19:20 suppose
1:19:21 yeah i mean i don't have any objections
1:19:23 to what you said i i just think that we
1:19:25 need to be
1:19:26 that the team has to know
1:19:28 like what the benefits will be against
1:19:30 the costs and stuff like that so yeah
1:19:37 thanks
1:19:44 and sounds like we're ready to move on
1:19:46 to um to concurrency
1:19:49 yes the last regular midi
1:19:52 substantive topic for the evening right
1:19:54 yes but before we do that
1:19:58 uh i noticed there is someone on the
1:20:02 attendee list that seems to be uh
1:20:05 someone from the public and i don't know
1:20:08 at what moment uh this person joined but
1:20:12 uh i i just want to ask uh if we wanted
1:20:16 to give the opportunity to provide a
1:20:18 public comments if that's the case
1:20:26 are you asking if we think it's okay to
1:20:27 stop and accept public comment now yeah
1:20:29 that's fine we want more and more is
1:20:31 always better but i have a feeling it's
1:20:35 yes it was tom but then when i uh
1:20:38 accepted tom i noticed someone else was
1:20:43 on the call so
1:20:46 okay so i guess that's since i so yes we
1:20:49 are reopening public comment and if
1:20:52 there's somebody online that would make
1:20:53 like to make a public comment we are um
1:20:55 happy to make an exception and reopen
1:20:57 public comment okay so
1:21:00 okay mary lynch i am going to unmute you
1:21:03 now uh if you
1:21:05 are willing to provide a public comment
1:21:07 you can do so now
1:21:11 hi thank you um this is mary lynch and i
1:21:14 um like christy served on the central
1:21:17 area plan
1:21:18 so i also just want to support what she
1:21:22 was saying about the
1:21:24 overpass
1:21:25 uh you know project that's planned or
1:21:28 projected for i-90
1:21:30 and also something that didn't come up
1:21:32 is even though
1:21:34 the uh
1:21:35 pedestrian pathway along s 900 was
1:21:39 commented on that is not a safe
1:21:43 passage
1:21:44 uh with boardwalks and also because you
1:21:46 have to cross
1:21:49 exit coming off of uh west or eastbound
1:21:52 i-90 that is a very dangerous crossing
1:21:55 and then also the interchange and even
1:21:58 though they're supposed to be redoing it
1:22:00 over by
1:22:02 where s 900 goes into east lake
1:22:04 sammamish
1:22:05 so because of what the density of the
1:22:08 downtown area and all that's why that
1:22:11 was proposed as part of the central area
1:22:14 the other thing you were just talking
1:22:16 about is the electronic systems
1:22:19 i was a proponent of that and have been
1:22:21 for a long time
1:22:23 if any of you uh
1:22:25 use the newport way
1:22:28 lakemod interchange bellevue a
1:22:31 number of years ago
1:22:33 put their system to work there
1:22:36 and if you use that you'll realize that
1:22:38 you don't wait long if there is nobody
1:22:42 at the opposing lights
1:22:44 you get a green light and can go
1:22:46 where most the time when i'm going to
1:22:49 work in the morning
1:22:50 trying to cross front street is
1:22:52 impossible i sit there and there's no
1:22:55 cars or a lot of times there's no cars
1:22:57 coming the other way and if i want to go
1:22:59 straight on suns that i have to wait
1:23:04 you know sometimes almost a minute to
1:23:06 two minutes which again when there's no
1:23:08 opposing traffic seems ridiculous
1:23:11 and there's a lot of lights like that
1:23:13 within the city that what that will do
1:23:16 for you is
1:23:17 you know for the local people uh is to
1:23:21 eliminate that wait time and that
1:23:23 frustration
1:23:24 um so that's one of the reasons i've
1:23:26 been a proponent of this for a long time
1:23:29 in getting the city updated
1:23:31 um also i do use the camera system and i
1:23:34 wish the city did have more cameras
1:23:37 uh on their interchange because
1:23:40 especially when it snows i go on and use
1:23:44 that and i actually drive school bus
1:23:46 right now for the issaquah school
1:23:48 district and it's really convenient to
1:23:51 go on there if there's snow or been an
1:23:53 accident you can get on those cameras
1:23:56 and you i do plan on how and i give that
1:23:59 input to the transportation
1:24:01 routers letting them know where traffic
1:24:04 is backed up or where there's been an
1:24:06 accident so you know
1:24:08 enhancing the cameras around the city i
1:24:11 think people already are using that and
1:24:13 if more they were made easier to access
1:24:16 uh for the public i think they would use
1:24:18 them more and would help the local
1:24:21 traffic get around more um
1:24:25 so in the future so i think some of the
1:24:27 things you're talking about are good
1:24:29 the other thing i wanted to bring up um
1:24:31 unfortunately i thought the tip was
1:24:32 going to be discussed uh later versus
1:24:35 earlier so that's messed me up so i
1:24:38 really didn't hear a lot about that
1:24:40 discussion
1:24:41 but one of the things i really hope that
1:24:43 the city stresses is to improve
1:24:47 bring sidewalks to areas where they've
1:24:50 been promised for years
1:24:52 versus redoing sidewalks and
1:24:54 intersections
1:24:56 i.e the intersection it's
1:24:58 second
1:24:59 and um sunset has been redone i think
1:25:02 five or six times in the last
1:25:05 uh 15 years
1:25:07 um and sidewalks have been redone
1:25:10 um and no priority given to those areas
1:25:13 where there are no sidewalks i.e there's
1:25:16 proposed to redo the sidewalk
1:25:19 from the skate park to 12th
1:25:21 well those are existing sidewalks that
1:25:24 are working well but there's a lot of
1:25:26 places in the city where we don't have
1:25:28 sidewalks or bicycle paths that i hope
1:25:31 that the priority for funding is given
1:25:34 to those
1:25:36 redoing intersections and redoing
1:25:39 you know sidewalks um to bring them up
1:25:42 to some sort of standard if they're
1:25:44 already exist
1:25:45 but i just want to thank you all for
1:25:47 your time and volunteerism i've been
1:25:49 around here and trying to you know
1:25:51 improve mobility um by foot and bicycle
1:25:54 and safety for years so i appreciate
1:25:57 your volunteering on this board
1:25:59 thank you for letting me talk
1:26:04 thank you aaron thank you for noticing
1:26:12 all right sounds like that we're on to
1:26:13 concurrency
1:26:16 we are
1:26:19 [Music]
1:26:26 i'll go back again to sharing my screen
1:26:42 can you see my screen
1:26:45 the right one
1:26:53 then for the record again i'm isabel
1:26:55 diaz traffic signal operations engineer
1:26:57 and now i will be speaking about the
1:27:00 concurrency update that the city
1:27:03 will be doing this year
1:27:05 um as part of the topic that i'll be
1:27:08 discussing one uh i'll first give a
1:27:11 brief overview of what concurrency is
1:27:15 what our
1:27:16 concurrency requirements and
1:27:18 policies are and what the update process
1:27:22 for concurrency looks like and then we
1:27:24 would uh provide a very brief
1:27:27 um overview of the next steps for the
1:27:29 concurrency update
1:27:34 what is concurrency
1:27:37 i'll i'm
1:27:38 i am going to give my best shot of
1:27:41 explaining what concurrency is i know
1:27:43 there is there is a lot of technical
1:27:45 information here so if there's anyone
1:27:47 with any questions i will try my best to
1:27:50 answer those and let me know if
1:27:53 anyone needs to s anything to um
1:27:56 be explained further
1:27:58 um concurrency is defined as the timely
1:28:01 provision of improvements or strategy
1:28:04 push strategies to accommodate
1:28:06 accommodate development impacts to adapt
1:28:09 to an adopted level of service standards
1:28:12 concurrent with development
1:28:14 what we mean with concurrent with
1:28:16 development hence the name for
1:28:18 concurrency is at the time that the
1:28:21 development occurs
1:28:23 within a specified period of time which
1:28:26 is typically six years in alignment with
1:28:29 our cip or tip process
1:28:32 concurrency is required by step state
1:28:36 as one of the goals of the
1:28:38 growth management act
1:28:40 um some local gold uh some old local
1:28:43 governments have the flexibility on how
1:28:47 uh we apply concurrency requirements
1:28:50 and to that node uh the city in isaac
1:28:53 our code we do have some extensions of
1:28:57 the type of developments that
1:28:59 need to be required from concurrency and
1:29:02 those exceptions are
1:29:05 low income housings
1:29:07 buildings or
1:29:09 or structures that are construed
1:29:11 constructed by regional transit
1:29:14 city projects
1:29:17 reconstruction of a building that is
1:29:19 destroyed by an accident like an example
1:29:22 of fire an explosion or any other type
1:29:24 of accident
1:29:27 there is a
1:29:30 caveat to that it is when the number of
1:29:33 trips that are generated after the
1:29:35 reconstruction is equal to or less
1:29:39 than it was uh before
1:29:44 and also the change of use to an
1:29:46 existing building yeah the building is
1:29:48 already
1:29:49 built and it's just uh changing from one
1:29:54 business to another uh we
1:29:57 they are not
1:29:58 uh required uh for they are not abiding
1:30:02 but uh they are they should not be
1:30:04 by the concurrency requirements um
1:30:07 however
1:30:09 uh we
1:30:10 we need to know that
1:30:12 even though though these are extensions
1:30:15 uh one thing that is important to
1:30:18 remind is that we still adjust the
1:30:21 available capacity generated by those
1:30:24 developments
1:30:26 uh even when they are extend
1:30:28 uh they are exempt from paying the fees
1:30:30 and and things like that but
1:30:33 that doesn't mean that we don't
1:30:35 or we won't be tracking
1:30:37 the uh the growth that occurs with these
1:30:40 type of developments this
1:30:42 this growth still need to be considered
1:30:45 with the um with concurrency
1:30:48 we still need to track them
1:30:53 uh so a little bit of the concurrency
1:30:57 history in issaquah in the early 2000s
1:31:02 concurrency was measured based on
1:31:05 on link
1:31:10 measurement that we call v over c which
1:31:13 means volume to capacity um this would
1:31:16 means that we will be
1:31:18 getting a roadway segment
1:31:21 and doing that in for that segment we
1:31:24 will be measuring the volume that goes
1:31:27 through that segment again the capacity
1:31:30 and and that's what we typically call it
1:31:33 uh the oversea uh because of that back
1:31:36 back then uh this concurrency
1:31:42 method of of measurement that we used to
1:31:44 have was considered multi-modal
1:31:47 and the level of service of
1:31:51 of the the
1:31:53 the links or of the roadways
1:31:56 was based on
1:31:57 the functional classification of it that
1:32:00 that would measure the level of survey
1:32:02 standard and
1:32:04 the one
1:32:07 thing uh the one problem that we had
1:32:10 with the currency system back then is
1:32:13 the standards and the mitigation
1:32:15 requirements were not consistent with
1:32:18 the cpa process
1:32:21 then the other thing was that multiple
1:32:23 models were
1:32:25 needed to be run inevitable uh on a
1:32:28 regular basis and so it made seem it
1:32:31 made it a little bit complicated uh this
1:32:34 concurrency
1:32:35 process was a little bit a lot a lot of
1:32:38 work and it was a a little bit
1:32:40 complicated and hard to track not having
1:32:44 uh that consistency with the cpa process
1:32:48 then we moved uh in the 2000 between
1:32:51 2000 in the 2000 a new concurrency
1:32:54 methodology was approved and and which
1:32:57 started to be applied on
1:32:59 in 2010
1:33:02 the new things that we did with the
1:33:04 other concurrency system is that we
1:33:07 change from a link base to an
1:33:09 intersection
1:33:11 based level of service uh the way that
1:33:14 we uh the reason why we did that is also
1:33:17 to be consistent with the highway
1:33:18 capacity manual
1:33:20 um system as well
1:33:24 the but the the problem that we had with
1:33:28 with um this of this this new system
1:33:31 helped us to uh have the cpa and the
1:33:34 concurrency processes combined so that
1:33:36 would solve the issue that we have with
1:33:39 the initial system
1:33:41 but then
1:33:42 by doing that and and only having this
1:33:45 intersection
1:33:47 level of service capacity we've lost the
1:33:49 multimodal element
1:33:51 of the concurrency system
1:33:53 so this is why we changed into this
1:33:56 newer system under 2000 between the
1:33:59 2013 and 17 and it's
1:34:02 the current system that we are using
1:34:04 right now uh this current system is
1:34:07 multimodal and i'll explain a little bit
1:34:10 uh more into that later what what why is
1:34:13 that and
1:34:15 we are keeping the intersection at a
1:34:17 level of service which is something that
1:34:20 i'll explain later a little bit more uh
1:34:22 what this intersection level of service
1:34:26 means
1:34:27 and and we kept it to be consistent with
1:34:30 the highway capacity
1:34:32 manual uh the difference what made it
1:34:36 bringing it back to multimodal is that
1:34:40 included new impact fees that are based
1:34:42 on non-use
1:34:43 and i will share a little bit more of
1:34:45 that as well uh later on
1:34:49 the uh one of the things of this
1:34:51 newer concurrency system is that it was
1:34:54 easier to implement where
1:34:57 with the with what we would be basing
1:35:00 the traffic impact fees based on the
1:35:02 land use that the development will be uh
1:35:06 using
1:35:10 the fundamentals for the existing
1:35:13 concurrency system that is in place
1:35:15 right now
1:35:16 includes as i mentioned before the multi
1:35:19 a multimodal component
1:35:22 an intersection based level of service
1:35:25 based on the highway capacity
1:35:27 uh it helps it helps that it it helps us
1:35:31 with providing periodic model updates
1:35:34 and the city uh with this new system the
1:35:38 city does the analysis to determine the
1:35:41 improvements and the available uh trips
1:35:44 for capacity
1:35:45 uh instead of having the developer uh
1:35:48 instead of instead of having a developer
1:35:53 improvement based on traffic impact
1:35:56 analysis then the developer would simply
1:35:59 be paying fees
1:36:00 and the fees are on a first-come
1:36:02 first-served basis on available trips
1:36:06 then again uh
1:36:08 instead of having that developer
1:36:10 dictating what the impacts or
1:36:12 improvements uh are needed to be done
1:36:15 and how much they would cost so we are
1:36:18 the ones uh determining that
1:36:23 the caveat to that though is that the
1:36:26 development must be consistent with the
1:36:29 model assumptions with the model
1:36:31 assumptions in terms of its size the
1:36:34 type and location of assumed growth
1:36:42 in addition to the concurrency
1:36:45 management section in our code
1:36:47 the ordinance
1:36:50 77 includes the latest adopted in fact b
1:36:54 and bicycle pedestrian mitigation fees
1:36:58 and this is what allows us to
1:37:02 provide
1:37:04 improvement that also accounts for the
1:37:07 bicycle and pedestrian
1:37:09 traffic
1:37:12 two years ago uh the tap has helped the
1:37:16 directing
1:37:17 staff through the mobility master plan
1:37:19 and to update the transportation element
1:37:22 of the comprehensive plan and among the
1:37:24 policies that are related to concurrency
1:37:28 one of them was to build the central
1:37:31 e-support plan using concurrency fees
1:37:33 collected from development
1:37:36 and to make improvements to concurrency
1:37:38 intersections to ensure that they
1:37:40 operate at the level of service
1:37:43 standards and this is providing that
1:37:45 these improvements will degrade
1:37:47 conditions for the travelers and are
1:37:49 affordable to the city
1:37:56 why do we need an update for concurrency
1:38:00 the city manages concurrency by
1:38:03 determining the available capacity
1:38:06 and recording the remaining capacity in
1:38:09 a truth bank what we call a chip bank
1:38:12 with each approved application that
1:38:15 means that every time that
1:38:19 first and foremost the available
1:38:22 capacity is
1:38:24 recorded
1:38:25 every time we do an update we we have
1:38:28 this available capacity and
1:38:30 with every new application that comes in
1:38:33 and it gets approved concurrency this
1:38:35 available capacity will be
1:38:37 removed from the trip bank or reserve we
1:38:41 can we can say that it is reserved for
1:38:44 development as more development comes in
1:38:48 we are
1:38:50 slowly accumulating that capacity that
1:38:53 was available at the time of the update
1:38:57 ferraro code the city has to update
1:39:01 or make uh that available capacity of
1:39:03 made concurrency updates uh uh when one
1:39:07 of the three uh things occurred uh that
1:39:11 are presenting on on this slide one of
1:39:14 them is is because of changes in the
1:39:16 transfer transportation element of the
1:39:18 comprehensive plan
1:39:20 and that would trigger a change in the
1:39:24 a concurrency update
1:39:27 uh and and it's
1:39:28 specifically when these changes are
1:39:31 related to concurrency management
1:39:34 when more than 50
1:39:36 of that cumulative capacity has been
1:39:38 reserved with the most recent approved
1:39:41 concurrency application
1:39:44 or after three years of the most recent
1:39:47 update
1:39:48 our latest update was done in 2017
1:39:52 so it was about time that we
1:39:55 did a concurrency update right
1:39:59 when the pandemic started
1:40:02 uh so this is this is probably this is
1:40:05 main the main reason why we did were not
1:40:08 we wouldn't or wouldn't make sense to
1:40:11 do an update on back in 2020
1:40:18 when the pandemic started uh traffic
1:40:21 volumes were significantly different we
1:40:23 didn't know
1:40:24 what how traffic would look like it
1:40:28 wouldn't reflect uh what our
1:40:30 normal conditions would be and now that
1:40:34 traffic is getting kind of back to speed
1:40:37 uh we are in this place that we are
1:40:42 ready to
1:40:45 do the concurrency update now
1:40:52 we have mentioned
1:40:54 we have heard a lot of what
1:40:56 level of service is intersection level
1:40:59 of service and to
1:41:01 kind of
1:41:02 give a brief
1:41:04 idea of what this level of service means
1:41:08 uh the dev level of service is defined
1:41:11 by the highway capacity manual but
1:41:14 assigning a grade that ranges from a to
1:41:19 based on average delay of the
1:41:21 intersections and these
1:41:23 average delay ranges in values depending
1:41:27 on whether the intersection is
1:41:29 controlled by a traffic signal or a stop
1:41:31 sign so the values of the average delays
1:41:36 bring up
1:41:37 or give a level of service would depend
1:41:41 or or vary if it's controlled by a
1:41:44 signal or a stop sign
1:41:47 from level of service a are ideal
1:41:50 conditions
1:41:51 we could say free flow um any and
1:41:54 changing from level service a
1:41:58 c and d uh would be
1:42:01 would still be
1:42:03 tolerable conditions or stable flows
1:42:07 for this level of service if you
1:42:10 put it on an example like if you were on
1:42:13 an inter signalized intersections
1:42:15 vehicles are probably getting through
1:42:17 the intersection without having to wait
1:42:20 through more than one cycle this is kind
1:42:22 of the example the the day-to-day
1:42:24 example that we could give
1:42:26 of what on a traffic signal the level
1:42:29 service a through d would look like
1:42:33 with the level service e uh the you can
1:42:36 say that the intersection is approaching
1:42:38 capacity
1:42:40 some of the movements may be waiting
1:42:42 through more than one signal cycle to be
1:42:44 able to get through the signal
1:42:47 for level service f
1:42:49 it means that the intersection is over
1:42:51 capacity
1:42:52 and we are starting to experience
1:42:55 congestion conditions
1:42:57 we are waiting more than
1:43:00 one signal
1:43:01 cycle perhaps and we are having
1:43:04 long queues uh a term that
1:43:08 they may have
1:43:09 mentioned before um
1:43:11 which is the it's kind of like the lines
1:43:14 of vehicles that we can have on
1:43:17 on on the traffic
1:43:23 isaqua has 84 concurrency intersections
1:43:29 the intersection level of service
1:43:31 standard is level of service d
1:43:35 except for six intersection that can
1:43:37 operate at a lower level service as long
1:43:41 and this is the
1:43:43 kind of complicated term uh they there
1:43:45 are six intersections that can operate
1:43:47 at lower level service as long
1:43:50 as the weighted average of all the other
1:43:54 of all the not the other but all the
1:43:57 concurrency intersections citywide
1:43:59 is maintained at level of service d
1:44:03 and the
1:44:05 those intersections the six
1:44:06 intersections that could operate at the
1:44:08 lower level of service are already
1:44:11 identified those are
1:44:14 northwest samamish road with uh 12 and
1:44:18 avenues
1:44:20 sr 900 with i-90 eastbound ramps
1:44:24 sr 900 and titles drive
1:44:29 sunset way and front street
1:44:33 issaquah falls city road and black
1:44:35 nugget
1:44:36 and issaquah falls city road and
1:44:38 highlands
1:44:41 those are the
1:44:43 six intersections that could operate at
1:44:45 level of service d or e based on
1:44:47 issaquah
1:44:49 concurrency
1:44:51 standards
1:44:52 as long as the
1:44:54 combined
1:44:56 level of service for all the
1:44:57 intersections
1:44:59 remains as
1:45:01 d at the standard level of service
1:45:03 standard
1:45:10 when we do a concurrency
1:45:13 model update we
1:45:15 evaluate
1:45:17 three different scenarios
1:45:20 one of these scenarios is the existing
1:45:22 where we would be getting the
1:45:25 2022 uh
1:45:27 traffic volumes this year
1:45:30 and this
1:45:33 model would
1:45:35 take the existing traffic volumes but
1:45:39 the existing land use what is currently
1:45:43 on the city what the the different uses
1:45:47 developments that are currently at the
1:45:50 this existing model would also include a
1:45:53 percentage
1:45:54 of other modes of
1:45:56 travel and and this is the percentage
1:46:00 that john was
1:46:01 mentioning uh earlier on his
1:46:03 presentation this percentage is based on
1:46:06 psrc data
1:46:08 and these other modes percentage
1:46:11 is used not only for the existing it's
1:46:14 it is also
1:46:15 used for this future or base that i will
1:46:19 talk a little bit more about and we also
1:46:21 do calibration for the existing model um
1:46:24 and uh and i'll talk a little bit more
1:46:28 on what calibration means um later
1:46:31 during the presentation
1:46:35 i noticed is 7 54
1:46:38 cynthia i don't know if you have been
1:46:41 wanting to tell me that
1:46:44 i was just wondering how we were doing
1:46:49 i was actually just going to go back and
1:46:51 look at the
1:46:53 work program and just see like yeah so
1:46:56 maybe do a time checking and tell me
1:46:57 what you're thinking
1:47:03 i have three slides including this one
1:47:09 let me know if
1:47:10 you would rather go like quickly through
1:47:13 them or
1:47:14 just stop
1:47:16 and and go through the work plan and
1:47:18 other items
1:47:21 i just have um
1:47:23 a pretty close to heart stop at eight i
1:47:25 don't know what the rest of the crew has
1:47:27 so i have a philosophy but also today i
1:47:29 have a close to a pretty hard stop i can
1:47:31 maybe go five more minutes but um i try
1:47:34 hard to uh stick to the plan i saw an
1:47:37 odd or two but um yeah and i have no
1:47:40 wishes coming back on our next meeting
1:47:42 and and
1:47:43 try to
1:47:45 briefly
1:47:46 go through this
1:47:48 i i guess the other thing is i feel like
1:47:50 there's a lot of really interesting
1:47:52 stuff in here some of which may be some
1:47:54 policy stuff that we might have
1:47:57 and i was just kind of going back to see
1:47:58 was this informational
1:48:00 could you tell us
1:48:03 maybe just
1:48:04 remind us
1:48:09 we can
1:48:11 what our
1:48:12 contribution is here
1:48:14 what the timing is for needing that and
1:48:16 if there's the time to bring it back as
1:48:19 i have a bunch of questions and i bet
1:48:21 other people have questions and then
1:48:23 there's just our opinions and i feel
1:48:24 like we're just yeah to do this justice
1:48:27 it'd take a lot more than the next five
1:48:29 minutes
1:48:30 okay and that would be better explained
1:48:34 this this slide here and and
1:48:38 as you mentioned this is uh an
1:48:40 informational item and we will be doing
1:48:43 like model updates but one of the things
1:48:45 that we will do is assess the status
1:48:48 this is where we compare
1:48:51 the level of service conditions city on
1:48:54 on on the city with the the most recent
1:48:57 update that was done this is the time
1:49:00 that we uh would
1:49:02 depending on what the results are this
1:49:05 is the time that
1:49:06 decisions need to be made
1:49:08 um like where and and and if needed if
1:49:12 and this is only if we get worse than
1:49:15 what we currently are if we if if that's
1:49:18 not the case
1:49:19 then we don't we don't we don't have any
1:49:21 any any problem we can continue we don't
1:49:23 have any action to take but
1:49:26 if we do get uh with the results we do
1:49:30 find that more
1:49:31 intersections are
1:49:33 not at level of service then
1:49:36 this is the time that we will need to
1:49:37 get uh
1:49:39 back to the board uh report and get uh
1:49:43 feedback on how to uh
1:49:46 move on
1:49:47 before uh
1:49:49 and when would that happen
1:49:51 when would that be happening
1:49:54 well that that's a tricky one because we
1:49:57 uh right now we are currently gathering
1:49:59 information we can work on the existing
1:50:01 model but for the future model uh to do
1:50:05 to do the future once we need we are
1:50:08 awaiting for information from the psrc
1:50:11 model
1:50:12 um and
1:50:13 it would happen sometime this year but
1:50:16 we don't know for sure when is that
1:50:18 gonna be so we will be working on we
1:50:21 will start working on the uh existing
1:50:24 uh we
1:50:25 we think a couple of months uh we
1:50:30 put that data but we don't
1:50:32 know exactly
1:50:38 so if this could be an item that uh we
1:50:41 depending on our we we could either come
1:50:44 back to report the uh to provide an
1:50:47 update
1:50:49 and do a report and
1:50:51 if we need to make decisions
1:50:53 then uh
1:50:55 we will definitely come back with uh
1:50:58 with that feedback from the top
1:51:02 i feel like this concept
1:51:04 like would require a whole retreat or
1:51:06 something
1:51:09 it is very complicated and and it was
1:51:13 and to be honest it was really difficult
1:51:15 to try to put this on a presentation
1:51:18 because there is a lot of information it
1:51:22 it's also super loaded and i bet
1:51:24 everybody has a lot of opinions about
1:51:27 level of service
1:51:30 yeah and and um and i better in the
1:51:33 community has
1:51:34 opinions even if they don't know what
1:51:36 these technical terms mean so um do we
1:51:40 can can we can we pick up where we left
1:51:42 off in the next meeting i don't i don't
1:51:44 remember what's on the agenda for the
1:51:45 next meeting but would we be able to do
1:51:49 we could that we we have a couple of
1:51:51 items on the board uh work plan but
1:51:54 those are floating these
1:51:57 are items that are
1:51:59 can still flow around and we need
1:52:01 confirmation from other staff members as
1:52:04 well so this is something that we can
1:52:05 accommodate on our next meeting
1:52:09 um i only because the presentation
1:52:11 itself i can't see everyone at the same
1:52:13 time oh sorry but no that's okay that's
1:52:15 okay i just
1:52:16 i wanted to know how others were feeling
1:52:18 about this
1:52:19 some people may feel the time constraint
1:52:21 is arbitrary but i am fairly
1:52:24 committed to ending on time but um i'm
1:52:26 wondering on the other hand we just got
1:52:28 to the like really good stuff there uh
1:52:31 tom you're talking but i can't hear you
1:52:34 i can see your lips moving
1:52:38 and i can see you smiling
1:52:42 is anyone else hearing tom
1:52:48 you can hear us
1:52:50 that perk now
1:52:51 oh yeah i can hear you oh no okay
1:52:54 i have five choices so i just going
1:52:55 through each one of the choices i think
1:52:58 this would be um
1:53:01 good for following up with the next
1:53:02 meeting and so that everybody also knows
1:53:04 is the concurrency is also tied to the
1:53:07 psrc and all the other communities are
1:53:09 all tied together
1:53:10 with the forecast so what we do in our
1:53:12 city also affects some of the other
1:53:14 cities in the whole transportation
1:53:16 component as a whole so
1:53:21 yes we'll bring we'll bring it again oh
1:53:24 on the next meeting
1:53:27 so in terms of
1:53:28 policy
1:53:30 are we going to make any like
1:53:32 recommendations at some point or
1:53:36 anything like that
1:53:38 no what we are doing right now is the
1:53:40 only the capacity update that that
1:53:43 update that we are
1:53:44 required to do
1:53:48 but uh having said that that doesn't
1:53:50 mean that we might not need to make some
1:53:53 decisions or go with counsel to counsel
1:53:55 for recommendations depending on what we
1:54:00 find out with the results
1:54:07 but in 2023 plus
1:54:09 there might be at some point
1:54:11 you know some kind of recommendation
1:54:13 about los standard or something like
1:54:15 that right
1:54:18 really well
1:54:20 well not for the standard update what we
1:54:23 are doing is the uh
1:54:25 capacity if at some point we we feel
1:54:29 like we need to
1:54:34 update uh the the standard that's much
1:54:38 more of a broader conversation that we
1:54:40 need to um and
1:54:42 wouldn't
1:54:43 be part of this concurrency update it
1:54:45 would be uh for something else
1:54:48 i think
1:54:51 yeah i think we should um
1:54:53 have a conversation about what we want
1:54:54 from the tab um in this update and then
1:54:58 also acknowledge that i'm sensing and um
1:55:01 julian
1:55:02 and i are probably not the only ones
1:55:03 that wear this leads in the future
1:55:06 like it wouldn't be nice if we really
1:55:08 understood this update so we take time
1:55:10 to really understand it but then really
1:55:12 be kind of um
1:55:13 noodling on
1:55:15 the future um so i think that's why we
1:55:17 don't want to just kind of blow past it
1:55:19 because we i think we're all sensing
1:55:21 that maybe
1:55:22 this isn't the last time important
1:55:24 decisions are going to have to be made
1:55:25 about uh policies and
1:55:35 concurrency is like the central piece of
1:55:37 transportation policy so it's
1:55:40 super important that we don't blow past
1:55:42 it so
1:55:46 yes you are you are all very correct and
1:55:50 and this is why we want to make sure or
1:55:55 to do the best are of of try to do our
1:55:57 best to
1:55:59 the tab can understand
1:56:01 the topic uh in case that
1:56:04 important decisions need to be made in
1:56:06 the future
1:56:09 you're doing a good job it's just a
1:56:11 really hard this is a dense thing and we
1:56:12 kind of left it to the end so don't uh
1:56:15 don't be discouraged um
1:56:18 and i think people are just really
1:56:19 interested um but we want to give it the
1:56:21 due time so
1:56:23 yeah thank you
1:56:32 would it be okay did we have did we stop
1:56:33 at an okay stopping point could we go
1:56:35 ahead and
1:56:36 come back okay
1:56:38 um if that's the case then
1:56:40 um now i have to bounce to my other
1:56:44 i'm missing my extra screens uh oh so
1:56:47 that brings us to the board work plan
1:56:48 then do you have anything you want to
1:56:50 say about that
1:56:52 yes about that now we are
1:56:54 bringing back the concurrency topic
1:56:57 on june um on
1:57:00 june there are a couple of things we
1:57:03 have like
1:57:04 uh title they have still on the shelf to
1:57:07 discuss which is title 18 parking and
1:57:10 secret circulation
1:57:12 uh northwestern management project and
1:57:14 those are
1:57:15 and the transit study those are things
1:57:17 that i'll need to check in with other
1:57:19 staff members to
1:57:22 see if we have an update to provide
1:57:26 the other interesting topic that we were
1:57:29 planning on bringing hoping
1:57:32 have that in person but maybe not gonna
1:57:35 be the case was the open public meetings
1:57:38 and public records act um training which
1:57:43 a good reminder that we even though we
1:57:45 are not having new members on the top it
1:57:47 would be a good opportunity to provide
1:57:49 these reminders uh for training
1:57:53 hey real quick i wonder if we could all
1:57:55 just recertify that we do the
1:57:57 self-certified one and then take that
1:57:59 off um i don't know what the what the
1:58:01 clerk says about that but i remember
1:58:02 there's a self-certify and um
1:58:05 that you've you're looking maybe
1:58:07 i did that for a different government
1:58:10 job but uh i thought there was a way to
1:58:12 self-certify that you've read everything
1:58:14 and in july it looks pretty light so
1:58:16 maybe that's a month that we could do
1:58:19 public records act information and an
1:58:21 update too
1:58:24 i haven't heard about that
1:58:25 self-certified but that's something i
1:58:28 can ask
1:58:36 anything else on the board work plan
1:58:39 that's okay that's my thing
1:58:44 oh go ahead i asked the question so if
1:58:46 we're delaying the concurrency to
1:58:49 june it seems like it's going to be even
1:58:50 a much busier meeting
1:58:52 in june
1:58:54 is there going to be any delays
1:58:56 no no no worries not necessarily because
1:58:59 those topics we still need to
1:59:01 check with staff which has been the case
1:59:04 that might not be ready for uh to
1:59:06 present at this time
1:59:08 i don't
1:59:09 i wouldn't think that
1:59:12 anything would be delayed or
1:59:15 not being discussed and we're not we
1:59:18 won't try to pack the the meeting
1:59:21 either with topics to discuss
1:59:23 yeah there's a couple items on there
1:59:24 which really should not be delayed
1:59:35 do you have a staff report
1:59:38 oh for this staff report uh the only
1:59:41 thing i had well we already introduced
1:59:43 you all to the team uh but the only
1:59:45 thing i have is you may have already
1:59:47 seen that email that we were hoping to
1:59:50 start our in-person meetings on june but
1:59:54 given the high
1:59:56 currency of public cases that we have
2:00:01 almost everywhere um we will be delaying
2:00:04 that for another month and we will be
2:00:07 starting to meet in person in july now
2:00:17 thank you um
2:00:19 boy that's toggling back for this not
2:00:21 how i like to do things okay so uh i
2:00:24 don't have a report i already shared all
2:00:26 the remarks i want to share with you all
2:00:27 and um joseph is not here so i assume
2:00:29 there is no
2:00:31 youth report um do we have any other
2:00:33 business or announcements
2:00:35 i just want to say thanks cynthia thanks
2:00:37 isabel for getting the connection to
2:00:39 hook up
2:00:42 thank you
2:00:51 we can't hear you
2:00:53 yeah sorry sorry i
2:00:55 too many buttons uh
2:00:57 did you have any other announcements
2:00:58 anyone else any other announcements
2:01:02 okay welcome show
2:01:07 thank you all for your time and your
2:01:09 energy
2:01:10 um i look forward to
2:01:13 one more meeting i
2:01:15 i didn't realize we were kicking to july
2:01:17 um that's a bummer but
2:01:19 we can do it
2:01:21 we've done it before
2:01:22 just one more
2:01:23 one more month okay thank you guys
2:01:25 thanks everyone so much have a good
2:01:27 evening and um we'll see you next time
2:01:29 thank you bye have a great evening
2:01:31 everyone take care
2:01:34 bye am