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      "rawSrt": "1\n00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,440\nI'm going to call to order today's meeting of the,\n\n2\n00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:08,020\nwork session, sorry, for the Corvallis City Council and joint with\n\n3\n00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,540\nthe Charter Review Task Force Phase Two.\n\n4\n00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,260\nCall to order. And I just want to start by welcoming our citizen members of the\n\n5\n00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,720\nphase two of our task force to review the charter.\n\n6\n00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:20,920\nI think this might be the first we've all been in the same\n\n7\n00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,360\nroom.\n\n8\n00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,770\nUm, so I guess we'll dive in. We have our, our update to the rest of the\n\n9\n00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:31,810\ncouncil. So let's just go ahead and get\n\n10\n00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,720\nstarted.\n\n11\n00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,830\nStart with presentations.\n\n12\n00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,360\nPresentations always seem to be the most\n\n13\n00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,940\ntrouble.\n\n14\n00:00:45,020 --> 00:00:48,589\nSo, just a little background on the Charter Review,\n\n15\n00:00:49,060 --> 00:00:52,230\nPhase Two Task Force formed in December twenty twenty-five when\n\n16\n00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,080\nthe first phase of the Charter Review Task Force concluded its work.\n\n17\n00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,980\nUm, again, charged to evaluate form of government, charter provisions,\n\n18\n00:01:00,020 --> 00:01:03,540\nconsider, additions to align with the legal organizations model charter and\n\n19\n00:01:03,580 --> 00:01:05,720\nother miscellaneous charter provisions.\n\n20\n00:01:05,820 --> 00:01:09,600\nUm, we-- So far, our work so far has been mainly focused, on the form of\n\n21\n00:01:09,660 --> 00:01:13,060\ngovernment, due to the impact and effort required to\n\n22\n00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:16,700\nget them on the ballot, essentially.\n\n23\n00:01:17,780 --> 00:01:21,600\nThese are the guiding principles that we adopted as for phase two of the Charter\n\n24\n00:01:21,610 --> 00:01:25,550\nReview Task Force. Um, to me, it's all kind of obvious things that\n\n25\n00:01:25,580 --> 00:01:29,320\nwe should always do. Fair and effective representation, effective and efficient\n\n26\n00:01:29,380 --> 00:01:32,260\nlegislative function, accountability to voters and democratic\n\n27\n00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:35,840\nresponsiveness, continuity and, and institutional\n\n28\n00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:39,720\nstability, cost and administrative impact, long-term governance alignment, and\n\n29\n00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,240\naccessibility to elected leaders and public service.\n\n30\n00:01:42,260 --> 00:01:46,080\nI really felt that these things are core of\n\n31\n00:01:46,140 --> 00:01:49,550\nhow we operate as a government and what, what the community\n\n32\n00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,720\ndeserves. We-- Uh, so we've made a few-- have a few\n\n33\n00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,710\nrecommendations for you. The first one is, lowering\n\n34\n00:01:57,740 --> 00:02:00,860\nour number of wards and councilors from nine to seven.\n\n35\n00:02:00,940 --> 00:02:02,420\nUh, we actually had a really good discussion on this.\n\n36\n00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,420\nThere were some, interesting suggestions of even or odd, but we\n\n37\n00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,450\nended up with seven, to keep it odd, and that between,\n\n38\n00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,100\ncouncilors to be nominated and elected by ward as we currently\n\n39\n00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:14,760\ndo.\n\n40\n00:02:15,940 --> 00:02:19,609\nWe have the highlights there. Improved operational efficiencies, governmental\n\n41\n00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:22,280\nproduct-productivity, resources for councilors.\n\n42\n00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:25,360\nAnd I want to point out, it's interesting, I, I didn't think going from nine to\n\n43\n00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,720\nseven would make a big difference, but we've had a few meetings recently, we're\n\n44\n00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:30,940\njust down by one councilor, and it made a difference.\n\n45\n00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,300\nSo it, it does show sometimes just\n\n46\n00:02:34,300 --> 00:02:37,320\na little more focus instead of broader focus.\n\n47\n00:02:37,420 --> 00:02:40,680\nUm, it maintains the neighborhood identities, which is important to a lot of us,\n\n48\n00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,900\ngeographic representation and accountability to wards.\n\n49\n00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,520\nAs we know, Corvallis has some very unique areas, whether you live in the north\n\n50\n00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,260\nside or the south side or right in the middle, we want to maintain\n\n51\n00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:55,160\nthat. But it pre-preserves the mayor's primary role as a facilitator and consensus\n\n52\n00:02:55,220 --> 00:02:59,030\nbuilder. We didn't want to make any changes to where I'd have a regular voter or\n\n53\n00:02:59,180 --> 00:02:59,900\nanything like that.\n\n54\n00:03:00,860 --> 00:03:01,070\nUm,\n\n55\n00:03:02,220 --> 00:03:05,780\nthe considerations. Reduces opportunities to run for office, perception of\n\n56\n00:03:05,860 --> 00:03:09,580\naccess to city. Um, mayor votes less frequently due to fewer tie\n\n57\n00:03:09,660 --> 00:03:11,980\nvotes among odd number of councilors.\n\n58\n00:03:12,020 --> 00:03:15,790\nEven the wards only vote every four years, while odd votes--\n\n59\n00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,640\nward votes vote every two years.\n\n60\n00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:19,070\nOh.\n\n61\n00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:20,020\nThat would be initially.\n\n62\n00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:21,290\nYeah.\n\n63\n00:03:21,290 --> 00:03:22,740\nSomething to be discussed.\n\n64\n00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:23,020\nLet's-\n\n65\n00:03:23,380 --> 00:03:24,080\nYeah.\n\n66\n00:03:24,140 --> 00:03:27,300\nWe can, maybe get into it a little bit more on the next slide, 'cause it has to\n\n67\n00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:29,410\ndo when the mayor is elected.\n\n68\n00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,350\nYeah. Um, at-large elections could allow representation\n\n69\n00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,100\nof a geographically spread interest group.\n\n70\n00:03:35,140 --> 00:03:38,780\nSo we did discuss whether we wanted to have all councilors just be at large, like\n\n71\n00:03:38,860 --> 00:03:42,680\nsome cities do. Um, and at-large elections of, two councilors per\n\n72\n00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,380\nward could limit voter ability to, check and balance.\n\n73\n00:03:46,740 --> 00:03:48,820\nSo again, we considered a lot of different models.\n\n74\n00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,640\nUm, city manager did talk a lot about, you know, you could have three\n\n75\n00:03:52,740 --> 00:03:56,090\nwards and still have six councilors. You can have one in one councilor per ward.\n\n76\n00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:58,920\nBut what we ended up going with was those recommendations at the\n\n77\n00:03:58,980 --> 00:04:02,640\ntop. Term limits. We suggested\n\n78\n00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,140\nfour-year terms. Um, that way they could be staggered, so you wouldn't have\n\n79\n00:04:06,260 --> 00:04:09,520\nall, councilors come to ballot at once,\n\n80\n00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,980\nideally. Um, odd wards would be elected in presidential election years and even\n\n81\n00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,840\nwards .\n\n82\n00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:16,130\nUh,\n\n83\n00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:20,519\nagain, this brings continuity, experience, focus on long-term goals,\n\n84\n00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,900\ndevelopment of positive relationships.\n\n85\n00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:23,160\nUm,\n\n86\n00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:27,460\none of the challenges we, as we all experienced, we've been on council long\n\n87\n00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,600\nenough, is when a co-council has a big change, then we have a strategy that,\n\n88\n00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:35,400\nyou know, hard to make-- fulfill. Uh,\n\n89\n00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,760\nit reduces the potential for significant turnover and loss of that institutional\n\n90\n00:04:38,820 --> 00:04:42,140\nknowledge. Again, when we're in the middle of our strategic\n\n91\n00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:46,120\nplan. Um, majority council, only refreshed every four\n\n92\n00:04:46,180 --> 00:04:48,420\nyears due to odd numbers of councilors.\n\n93\n00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:52,080\nEven though odd wards, voter frequency, opportunities to run for mayor.\n\n94\n00:04:52,140 --> 00:04:56,130\nThese are the things we really considered, is how do, how do these play out in\n\n95\n00:04:56,180 --> 00:04:57,540\nelections to where\n\n96\n00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,780\neveryone's kind of equal. And there was concerns\n\n97\n00:05:02,820 --> 00:05:05,720\nover the longer term may discourage community members from, from running from\n\n98\n00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,170\noffice. Um, but when we looked at the data, it kind of disagreed with\n\n99\n00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:10,540\nthat. Uh,\n\n100\n00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,960\nfor, for me, there's been really no changes, so, the recommendation is to keep\n\n101\n00:05:15,980 --> 00:05:19,020\nthe way it is where only-- the mayor only votes to break a tie.\n\n102\n00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,360\nStill has a four-year term, and elected at large during midterm election\n\n103\n00:05:22,420 --> 00:05:26,250\nyear. Um, again, you can read through the, the key considerations we have\n\n104\n00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:30,240\nthere. And then the, highlights of those considerations\n\n105\n00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:33,400\nand the concerns and what we kinda talked through every\n\n106\n00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,530\ntime. Term limits. This one I thought was\n\n107\n00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:38,980\nmore interesting. Um,\n\n108\n00:05:39,860 --> 00:05:42,920\nhas to do with three-term limit for councilors and the three-term limit for mayor.\n\n109\n00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:47,060\nSo essentially twelve years, assuming everything passes.\n\n110\n00:05:47,580 --> 00:05:50,920\nUh, limits apply to consecutive terms, not to the lifetime of an individual.\n\n111\n00:05:50,980 --> 00:05:54,910\nSo if someone served three full terms, you know, spent twelve years as a\n\n112\n00:05:54,940 --> 00:05:56,910\ncity councilor and decided to run for mayor, they can do that.\n\n113\n00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,380\nIt's a different position. Um, if they took a break, served two\n\n114\n00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:04,480\nterms, left council for whatever reason, and ran again, they can do\n\n115\n00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,356\nthat as well. They're just not in a second.Um, and we're, we're trying-- we worked\n\n116\n00:06:08,376 --> 00:06:11,996\nout that partial terms would, less than 50% would not count to a term\n\n117\n00:06:12,056 --> 00:06:13,136\nlimit.\n\n118\n00:06:14,456 --> 00:06:17,556\nAnd we have the main considerations there.\n\n119\n00:06:17,566 --> 00:06:21,456\nBalanced and competitive renewal, provides stability,\n\n120\n00:06:22,076 --> 00:06:25,316\nlimits the incumbent advantage, which is talked\n\n121\n00:06:25,376 --> 00:06:26,606\nabout. Um,\n\n122\n00:06:27,916 --> 00:06:28,816\nthings to that effect.\n\n123\n00:06:30,856 --> 00:06:33,636\nNext steps. Um, you can see here we are today in March.\n\n124\n00:06:33,756 --> 00:06:37,576\nUh, we're looking for feedback, direction, so we can continue the work.\n\n125\n00:06:37,676 --> 00:06:41,576\nUm, in April, we developed more of the red line language concrete with\n\n126\n00:06:41,616 --> 00:06:43,856\nphase one of the charter study task force.\n\n127\n00:06:44,696 --> 00:06:48,656\nUm, we'll come back in May, look for more final, feedback if there's\n\n128\n00:06:48,676 --> 00:06:51,316\nanything that's changed on the strategy.\n\n129\n00:06:51,416 --> 00:06:54,836\nUm, and June, we'll finalize ballot titles and summary\n\n130\n00:06:54,896 --> 00:06:58,816\nstatement. And hopefully July, we'll refer to the November ballot,\n\n131\n00:06:58,836 --> 00:07:01,816\nand that's when the real fun begins.\n\n132\n00:07:03,096 --> 00:07:06,236\nHere are the questions we have for all of you, councilors you should\n\n133\n00:07:06,296 --> 00:07:09,956\nsay. To move on. Do the draft recommendations align with the guiding\n\n134\n00:07:10,016 --> 00:07:11,416\nprinciples?\n\n135\n00:07:12,896 --> 00:07:16,316\nTwo, are there any governance models from comparative cities that the task force\n\n136\n00:07:16,336 --> 00:07:17,826\nshould be examining more closely?\n\n137\n00:07:19,276 --> 00:07:22,256\nThree, from a governance perspective, do the draft recommendations work well\n\n138\n00:07:22,276 --> 00:07:25,356\ntogether and independently, regardless of how they are grouped on the ballot?\n\n139\n00:07:26,996 --> 00:07:30,576\nYou have a lighter pack as well. And do the draft recommendations address problems\n\n140\n00:07:30,676 --> 00:07:33,216\nthe council is looking to solve?\n\n141\n00:07:35,296 --> 00:07:38,256\nSo again, we're trying to keep it pretty high level today because we will come back\n\n142\n00:07:38,316 --> 00:07:41,986\nagain with those more detailed, red\n\n143\n00:07:42,036 --> 00:07:44,736\nlines to get into the weeds, so to speak.\n\n144\n00:07:44,776 --> 00:07:47,296\nSo really today we're just open to\n\n145\n00:07:48,476 --> 00:07:51,616\ngive you the update of where we, where we're landing currently and get feedback on\n\n146\n00:07:51,656 --> 00:07:55,116\nthese questions so we can move forward.\n\n147\n00:07:56,156 --> 00:08:00,026\nOkay, I just have a question. Can you explain what you mean by odds-- by\n\n148\n00:08:00,056 --> 00:08:02,436\nthe comment about,\n\n149\n00:08:05,216 --> 00:08:08,636\neven ward voters only vote every four\n\n150\n00:08:08,736 --> 00:08:12,276\nyears, and odd ward voters vote every\n\n151\n00:08:12,436 --> 00:08:12,876\ntwo?\n\n152\n00:08:14,076 --> 00:08:15,996\nI'll look to Alex or somebody else for that.\n\n153\n00:08:16,036 --> 00:08:16,166\nYeah.\n\n154\n00:08:16,236 --> 00:08:17,276\nThat confused me.\n\n155\n00:08:17,456 --> 00:08:21,185\nYeah. So, each... Since, since the\n\n156\n00:08:21,276 --> 00:08:23,776\nmodel is one ward\n\n157\n00:08:24,496 --> 00:08:28,306\nper-- o-one counselor per ward, you're actually\n\n158\n00:08:28,336 --> 00:08:31,636\nonly voting for a counselor every four years.\n\n159\n00:08:31,656 --> 00:08:35,636\nBut because the mayor is on, the,\n\n160\n00:08:35,736 --> 00:08:36,896\num-\n\n161\n00:08:36,976 --> 00:08:37,696\nOdd year\n\n162\n00:08:39,656 --> 00:08:43,536\n... odd year, some of those wards you'll line up where you, you\n\n163\n00:08:43,616 --> 00:08:47,476\nget to vote for a mayor in one, you know, at one\n\n164\n00:08:47,596 --> 00:08:49,816\npoint, and then two years later, you're voting for your counselor.\n\n165\n00:08:49,856 --> 00:08:52,036\nThen two years later, you're voting for your mayor.\n\n166\n00:08:52,676 --> 00:08:56,636\nThe other wards, you're voting for mayor and counselor every\n\n167\n00:08:56,676 --> 00:08:58,156\nfour years, and you're not voting\n\n168\n00:08:59,516 --> 00:09:03,376\nin the, in between. So you're only voting, only get a vote every\n\n169\n00:09:03,436 --> 00:09:04,316\nfour years, which-\n\n170\n00:09:04,416 --> 00:09:06,236\nYeah, so I was confused by the way I think it was worded.\n\n171\n00:09:06,576 --> 00:09:06,706\nYeah.\n\n172\n00:09:07,056 --> 00:09:10,956\nSo basically, it depends on where you live in the city will be-- depend on how long\n\n173\n00:09:10,976 --> 00:09:12,756\nyou get, how often you get to vote.\n\n174\n00:09:12,796 --> 00:09:14,956\nBut you still get to vote every four years for your counselor.\n\n175\n00:09:14,996 --> 00:09:15,896\nYes, for your counselor-\n\n176\n00:09:15,916 --> 00:09:16,456\nFor mayor\n\n177\n00:09:16,516 --> 00:09:17,185\n... no matter where you live.\n\n178\n00:09:17,216 --> 00:09:18,056\nOr for your mayor.\n\n179\n00:09:18,076 --> 00:09:21,716\nBut sometimes you'll get to vote, you know, like say this November, you'd get to\n\n180\n00:09:21,726 --> 00:09:24,316\nvote. And if this is already implemented, then in two years, you'd have a different\n\n181\n00:09:24,356 --> 00:09:27,356\nvote if you lived in one of the ones where you're now voting for mayor.\n\n182\n00:09:27,376 --> 00:09:29,716\nAnd then the next two years again, you'd vote for your counselor.\n\n183\n00:09:29,756 --> 00:09:32,116\nSo it is a disadvantage, but-\n\n184\n00:09:32,126 --> 00:09:34,436\nI'm not really-- I'm not sure I see that as a\n\n185\n00:09:34,756 --> 00:09:38,526\ndisadvantage. If I'm, I'm even number\n\n186\n00:09:38,716 --> 00:09:42,256\nward, I get to vote for the mayor and the counselor. Okay.\n\n187\n00:09:42,276 --> 00:09:45,456\nSo I get-- I'm voting for two elected officials.\n\n188\n00:09:45,496 --> 00:09:49,185\nBut then in the next two-year period, I get to vote for no elected\n\n189\n00:09:49,185 --> 00:09:50,016\nofficial.\n\n190\n00:09:50,196 --> 00:09:50,436\nRight.\n\n191\n00:09:50,476 --> 00:09:50,896\nCorrect.\n\n192\n00:09:50,936 --> 00:09:51,096\nYeah.\n\n193\n00:09:51,136 --> 00:09:51,556\nCorrect.\n\n194\n00:09:51,616 --> 00:09:53,696\nSo what's... I don't get the distinction.\n\n195\n00:09:53,736 --> 00:09:57,726\nIt, it's, you know, it... Well, the only negative we could think of\n\n196\n00:09:57,756 --> 00:10:01,136\nwe were talking about it was around, civic\n\n197\n00:10:01,196 --> 00:10:01,996\nengagement.\n\n198\n00:10:02,036 --> 00:10:02,896\nMm-hmm.\n\n199\n00:10:02,936 --> 00:10:04,916\nYou know, some people like to be able to vote every two years, and this would\n\n200\n00:10:04,996 --> 00:10:08,806\nremove, certain wards from being able to vote every s- every two years.\n\n201\n00:10:08,836 --> 00:10:11,796\nSome, some of them would only vote every four years. It's not really a negative.\n\n202\n00:10:11,816 --> 00:10:15,596\nThey're still voting for the same number of people, but just not\n\n203\n00:10:15,676 --> 00:10:16,386\nevery two years.\n\n204\n00:10:16,456 --> 00:10:16,996\nYeah.\n\n205\n00:10:17,036 --> 00:10:17,056\nYeah.\n\n206\n00:10:17,176 --> 00:10:21,156\nI think it also kinda goes back to the mindset of where we went\n\n207\n00:10:21,216 --> 00:10:25,176\nto, vote for the whole council every two years was that idea\n\n208\n00:10:25,236 --> 00:10:28,715\nof accountability. As, you know, I wasn't here for\n\n209\n00:10:28,796 --> 00:10:32,576\nthat, that charter change, but the understanding was they would wanna be able to\n\n210\n00:10:32,636 --> 00:10:35,576\nmake a change on the council every two years,\n\n211\n00:10:35,696 --> 00:10:39,536\nwhere, I mean, the way to accomplish that with\n\n212\n00:10:39,616 --> 00:10:40,776\nfour-year terms would be\n\n213\n00:10:41,996 --> 00:10:43,516\nmultiple counselors per ward\n\n214\n00:10:44,696 --> 00:10:45,036\nor\n\n215\n00:10:45,996 --> 00:10:48,446\nsome sort of at large type of...\n\n216\n00:10:49,196 --> 00:10:51,556\nYeah. I mean, I understand, I understand the comment.\n\n217\n00:10:51,616 --> 00:10:53,696\nI'm really not sure I see that as a\n\n218\n00:10:54,996 --> 00:10:57,416\nnegative or an inequity, but that doesn't matter.\n\n219\n00:10:57,436 --> 00:11:00,296\nTo keep it back to the high level, I think the\n\n220\n00:11:00,396 --> 00:11:04,276\nonly comment I would say is,\n\n221\n00:11:05,596 --> 00:11:06,706\nit is true that\n\n222\n00:11:07,856 --> 00:11:11,236\nyou can't run for two offices at the same\n\n223\n00:11:11,296 --> 00:11:11,976\ntime.\n\n224\n00:11:12,796 --> 00:11:16,526\nUm, so yes, if you're in a ward that is not up for election, you can run for\n\n225\n00:11:16,556 --> 00:11:20,516\nmayor. But we can solve that problem pretty simply by making somebody\n\n226\n00:11:20,556 --> 00:11:23,636\nresign. We can, we can make that change.\n\n227\n00:11:23,696 --> 00:11:25,416\nIf you wanna run for mayor, you have to resign.\n\n228\n00:11:25,476 --> 00:11:28,676\nYou have to plan to resign your city councilor\n\n229\n00:11:28,836 --> 00:11:32,576\nposition. Does that, does that come up at all as you-\n\n230\n00:11:32,596 --> 00:11:36,396\nNo, we didn't talk about that. You're saying we get to just plan to retire\n\n231\n00:11:36,456 --> 00:11:40,416\nbut not-- or resign, but not actually resign until-\n\n232\n00:11:40,456 --> 00:11:44,016\nNo, you'd have to actually-- To make it fair, you'd have to actually resign.\n\n233\n00:11:44,056 --> 00:11:48,036\nBecause if I'm in a-- If my term is ending, and I want to run\n\n234\n00:11:48,076 --> 00:11:51,996\nfor mayor, but I also-- I can't run for mayor and for my expiring\n\n235\n00:11:52,036 --> 00:11:52,496\nterm.\n\n236\n00:11:53,456 --> 00:11:57,236\nSo if I run for mayor, I'm not ever gonna be a councilor\n\n237\n00:11:57,336 --> 00:12:00,036\nthat, the next term. So-\n\n238\n00:12:00,096 --> 00:12:03,296\nYou would have to leave your chair until the end of the term.\n\n239\n00:12:03,336 --> 00:12:05,616\nYou'd have to wait another two years to run again.\n\n240\n00:12:05,656 --> 00:12:05,766\nSo-\n\n241\n00:12:05,776 --> 00:12:06,516\nIt's a forfeit\n\n242\n00:12:06,716 --> 00:12:10,636\n... are you saying if you decided to run for mayor\n\n243\n00:12:10,912 --> 00:12:14,692\nIn July, then when you made that decision to run for mayor\n\n244\n00:12:14,792 --> 00:12:18,552\nin July, you would not finish out your term?\n\n245\n00:12:18,612 --> 00:12:19,102\nNo, no.\n\n246\n00:12:19,112 --> 00:12:21,362\nOr you would just say, \"In December, I am done.\"\n\n247\n00:12:21,362 --> 00:12:24,892\nNo, I'm saying it for the people that are in even-numbered\n\n248\n00:12:25,732 --> 00:12:26,532\nterms.\n\n249\n00:12:26,552 --> 00:12:26,702\nMm.\n\n250\n00:12:27,192 --> 00:12:31,132\nWhen they... If they chose to run for mayor, and their term\n\n251\n00:12:31,192 --> 00:12:35,132\nis going to be expiring, at the end of that year-\n\n252\n00:12:35,212 --> 00:12:35,242\nMm-hmm\n\n253\n00:12:35,242 --> 00:12:38,862\n... they know they won't be able to run for their council position again.\n\n254\n00:12:38,862 --> 00:12:38,862\nMm-hmm.\n\n255\n00:12:38,892 --> 00:12:40,922\nSo they're, they won't, they won't...\n\n256\n00:12:40,932 --> 00:12:44,012\nIf they lose the mayor race, they're, they're out of council.\n\n257\n00:12:44,832 --> 00:12:44,952\nRight.\n\n258\n00:12:44,972 --> 00:12:48,952\nIf we wanted to make it fair for the odd-numbered terms, and you wanna\n\n259\n00:12:48,992 --> 00:12:51,602\nrun for mayor, then what you're...\n\n260\n00:12:51,602 --> 00:12:55,582\nYou, we could say, you're making a decision similar to our\n\n261\n00:12:55,872 --> 00:12:59,732\neven-numbered cohorts, that you\n\n262\n00:12:59,752 --> 00:13:02,252\nwanna run for mayor. If you get elected mayor, you're mayor.\n\n263\n00:13:02,262 --> 00:13:06,032\nAnd if you're, don't get elected mayor, you, you effectively are\n\n264\n00:13:06,092 --> 00:13:09,572\nsaying, \"I'm gonna resign at the end of my, of that council\n\n265\n00:13:09,692 --> 00:13:10,182\nterm.\"\n\n266\n00:13:10,182 --> 00:13:11,222\nDecember, yeah. Okay.\n\n267\n00:13:11,272 --> 00:13:14,172\nI mean, that would make it the same, that would make it equivalent.\n\n268\n00:13:14,192 --> 00:13:14,782\nAnd it wouldn't really-\n\n269\n00:13:15,132 --> 00:13:15,412\nFor example-\n\n270\n00:13:15,472 --> 00:13:18,752\nIt wouldn't really be resigning, it would just be you would not be able to run for\n\n271\n00:13:18,792 --> 00:13:19,402\ncity council.\n\n272\n00:13:19,412 --> 00:13:20,282\nFor...\n\n273\n00:13:20,312 --> 00:13:21,232\nCan I rephrase it?\n\n274\n00:13:21,272 --> 00:13:22,332\nYou'd have to resign.\n\n275\n00:13:22,352 --> 00:13:23,112\nYou'd have to resign, sure.\n\n276\n00:13:23,132 --> 00:13:23,912\nYou'd have to resign.\n\n277\n00:13:23,932 --> 00:13:24,072\nYeah.\n\n278\n00:13:24,112 --> 00:13:24,422\nOkay.\n\n279\n00:13:24,432 --> 00:13:27,472\nSo this resignation would be submitted, but not effective until the end of the\n\n280\n00:13:27,532 --> 00:13:27,912\nyear?\n\n281\n00:13:27,952 --> 00:13:28,242\nYeah.\n\n282\n00:13:28,242 --> 00:13:28,242\nYeah.\n\n283\n00:13:28,432 --> 00:13:29,012\nOkay.\n\n284\n00:13:29,022 --> 00:13:32,772\nAnd then who... Then that means that during that election cycle, you would\n\n285\n00:13:32,832 --> 00:13:36,812\nalso have to have an election to replace that person running for mayor and city\n\n286\n00:13:36,852 --> 00:13:37,392\ncouncilor.\n\n287\n00:13:37,532 --> 00:13:39,672\nBecause by definition, they've resigned already.\n\n288\n00:13:39,682 --> 00:13:40,942\nThey would have, they have, they would be resigned.\n\n289\n00:13:40,942 --> 00:13:41,582\nIf they chose to run for mayor.\n\n290\n00:13:42,692 --> 00:13:46,472\nSo you can't... So you just can't lose the mayor election and stay on council for\n\n291\n00:13:46,512 --> 00:13:47,132\ntwo years.\n\n292\n00:13:47,212 --> 00:13:47,512\nRight.\n\n293\n00:13:47,532 --> 00:13:48,812\nYeah, I, I, I think-\n\n294\n00:13:49,092 --> 00:13:49,792\nI like that.\n\n295\n00:13:50,032 --> 00:13:51,212\nI, I think, I think that's\n\n296\n00:13:52,232 --> 00:13:54,592\nslightly a discount. It's not a disadvantage.\n\n297\n00:13:54,932 --> 00:13:55,052\nMm.\n\n298\n00:13:55,232 --> 00:13:56,242\nYeah, I guess that would work.\n\n299\n00:13:56,312 --> 00:13:58,912\nNo, it's not dis- it's the same disadvantage for the,\n\n300\n00:13:59,632 --> 00:14:02,892\neven-numbered boards. If I wanna run for mayor, and now I'm not\n\n301\n00:14:02,952 --> 00:14:02,962\nMm-hmm.\n\n302\n00:14:02,992 --> 00:14:04,732\ngoing to council, I can't re-\n\n303\n00:14:05,332 --> 00:14:05,342\nMm\n\n304\n00:14:05,342 --> 00:14:06,772\n... I can't run for re-election.\n\n305\n00:14:06,832 --> 00:14:10,532\nSo clearly this is a feedback for the task force, they need to figure this out.\n\n306\n00:14:10,592 --> 00:14:11,702\nExactly. That's what I-\n\n307\n00:14:11,732 --> 00:14:12,552\nI made a note.\n\n308\n00:14:12,572 --> 00:14:12,582\nOkay.\n\n309\n00:14:12,612 --> 00:14:15,592\nI have another suggestion to try to make it-\n\n310\n00:14:16,052 --> 00:14:19,842\nAnother solution that was suggested by Brennan, that\n\n311\n00:14:19,892 --> 00:14:21,112\ncame out today-\n\n312\n00:14:21,132 --> 00:14:21,282\nYeah\n\n313\n00:14:21,282 --> 00:14:23,612\n... was to have a two-year term for the mayor.\n\n314\n00:14:23,652 --> 00:14:24,832\nRight. Mm.\n\n315\n00:14:24,872 --> 00:14:28,192\nAnd that would actually get rid of the inequities, and it would also get rid of-\n\n316\n00:14:28,252 --> 00:14:28,812\nThat's great\n\n317\n00:14:28,852 --> 00:14:29,802\n... collect extra money for elections.\n\n318\n00:14:29,832 --> 00:14:33,372\nYeah. But, please no comments from the audience, thank you.\n\n319\n00:14:33,452 --> 00:14:33,632\nUm,\n\n320\n00:14:34,812 --> 00:14:38,532\nthat would solve the problem, although as someone who's done that campaign,\n\n321\n00:14:38,692 --> 00:14:40,122\nI would not wanna do that every two years.\n\n322\n00:14:40,272 --> 00:14:40,532\nMm.\n\n323\n00:14:40,572 --> 00:14:43,392\nYeah, I think that's the... It's a lot of money, it's a lot, it's a lot of work,\n\n324\n00:14:43,452 --> 00:14:46,712\nand it would be a distraction for the mayor to try to do that every other year.\n\n325\n00:14:46,722 --> 00:14:50,652\nAnd, and I, yeah, I get the... I can see where\n\n326\n00:14:50,852 --> 00:14:53,032\nit can be...\n\n327\n00:14:53,912 --> 00:14:55,942\nIt solves one problem and creates another.\n\n328\n00:14:56,172 --> 00:14:57,922\nIt just doesn't help the continuity issue.\n\n329\n00:14:57,972 --> 00:14:58,312\nYeah.\n\n330\n00:14:58,332 --> 00:14:59,892\nSo.\n\n331\n00:14:59,932 --> 00:15:03,312\nWell, I have to look into how the other cities do it, because most, some, you know,\n\n332\n00:15:03,372 --> 00:15:06,092\nthere are others that have wards, like us-\n\n333\n00:15:06,172 --> 00:15:06,252\nMm\n\n334\n00:15:06,392 --> 00:15:08,552\n... that have a four-year term mayor.\n\n335\n00:15:09,172 --> 00:15:12,792\nSo somebody has to have figured something out, 'cause on that\n\n336\n00:15:12,852 --> 00:15:14,412\nchart...\n\n337\n00:15:14,472 --> 00:15:18,312\nYou know, another thing discussed, but we didn't\n\n338\n00:15:18,432 --> 00:15:22,292\nput in this proposal, is having all the councilors, running at once, and then\n\n339\n00:15:22,492 --> 00:15:24,392\nthe mayor on the separate election.\n\n340\n00:15:24,412 --> 00:15:26,972\nWhich still has the same issue we have now with the turnover\n\n341\n00:15:27,032 --> 00:15:28,812\nrate.\n\n342\n00:15:28,821 --> 00:15:28,842\nMm.\n\n343\n00:15:28,852 --> 00:15:30,552\nYeah, no.\n\n344\n00:15:30,562 --> 00:15:30,562\nMm.\n\n345\n00:15:31,772 --> 00:15:33,552\nWe on number two yet?\n\n346\n00:15:33,572 --> 00:15:36,612\nWell, we haven't even really answered number one fully, so.\n\n347\n00:15:37,332 --> 00:15:38,472\nWell, I would-\n\n348\n00:15:38,512 --> 00:15:42,342\nGuiding principles, yeah. I would, I would\n\n349\n00:15:42,412 --> 00:15:45,572\njust like to point out that I've been uncomfortable with\n\n350\n00:15:45,672 --> 00:15:49,392\nthe, you know, the odd/even,\n\n351\n00:15:51,692 --> 00:15:54,472\nswitcheroos, and this, that, and the other thing.\n\n352\n00:15:54,552 --> 00:15:57,952\nUm, so the, the memo this morning from\n\n353\n00:15:58,532 --> 00:15:59,062\nMr.,\n\n354\n00:16:01,412 --> 00:16:02,272\nwhat's his name?\n\n355\n00:16:02,282 --> 00:16:03,252\nBrand.\n\n356\n00:16:03,261 --> 00:16:03,261\nBrand.\n\n357\n00:16:03,272 --> 00:16:03,892\nCool.\n\n358\n00:16:04,312 --> 00:16:08,192\nYeah. Um, crystallized in my\n\n359\n00:16:08,292 --> 00:16:11,541\nmind what I had been uncomfortable with.\n\n360\n00:16:11,552 --> 00:16:11,872\nMm.\n\n361\n00:16:13,912 --> 00:16:14,142\nAnd, and\n\n362\n00:16:15,392 --> 00:16:18,152\nwhat's presented here is a little more elegant than what we've\n\n363\n00:16:19,412 --> 00:16:21,992\npresented in phase two task force.\n\n364\n00:16:22,672 --> 00:16:26,312\nSo even, let's say, we went with 66 terms instead of seven,\n\n365\n00:16:28,012 --> 00:16:30,872\nwe would not have that odd/even thing going on.\n\n366\n00:16:30,972 --> 00:16:34,732\nUm, or would we? I don't know. But anyway, if we look at\n\n367\n00:16:34,752 --> 00:16:36,912\nnumber two, governance models,\n\n368\n00:16:37,832 --> 00:16:40,892\nand we find out what's negative about those governance\n\n369\n00:16:40,992 --> 00:16:44,752\nmodels, you know, we, we're, we're putting up a lot of\n\n370\n00:16:44,812 --> 00:16:47,532\nnegatives in what we've presented or what we've\n\n371\n00:16:48,352 --> 00:16:51,792\ncome up with so far. And those negatives, maybe it's, what is\n\n372\n00:16:51,852 --> 00:16:54,332\nit? All the, the slides you had before.\n\n373\n00:16:55,232 --> 00:16:55,602\nUm,\n\n374\n00:16:56,532 --> 00:16:57,352\nthose negatives\n\n375\n00:16:58,712 --> 00:17:02,572\nI think are enough that will dissuade people from voting\n\n376\n00:17:02,672 --> 00:17:03,632\nfor any of them.\n\n377\n00:17:03,702 --> 00:17:03,862\nMm.\n\n378\n00:17:03,862 --> 00:17:07,792\nOr some of them. One of them, two of them.\n\n379\n00:17:08,972 --> 00:17:09,652\nAnd the problem-\n\n380\n00:17:09,672 --> 00:17:13,432\nThat's the other thing we have to look at, if one passes and the other one doesn't,\n\n381\n00:17:13,472 --> 00:17:15,853\nwhat do we do?\n\n382\n00:17:16,133 --> 00:17:17,772\nEzra.\n\n383\n00:17:19,873 --> 00:17:23,162\nCould I ask... Now, I knew we were talking\n\n384\n00:17:23,272 --> 00:17:26,902\nabout reducing the number of councilors and the number of\n\n385\n00:17:26,952 --> 00:17:30,502\nterms, and I don't need to weigh in on my opinion of that right now, because I\n\n386\n00:17:30,532 --> 00:17:32,562\nthink I've been clear for the last 10 years.\n\n387\n00:17:32,892 --> 00:17:36,332\nUm, what is the problem we're trying to solve with the term\n\n388\n00:17:36,372 --> 00:17:39,952\nlimits? What? There was... I mean, the only person who\n\n389\n00:17:40,032 --> 00:17:43,922\nsucceeded that was Hal Bronner. Um, and Hal was, was\n\n390\n00:17:43,952 --> 00:17:47,072\nsuch a resource to me, as a, as a new\n\n391\n00:17:47,152 --> 00:17:48,572\ncouncilor.\n\n392\n00:17:48,612 --> 00:17:51,472\nI think the idea of the term limits was kind of a response to the\n\n393\n00:17:51,532 --> 00:17:55,352\nconcern, the reason why we ended up with two-year term limits to\n\n394\n00:17:55,372 --> 00:17:59,172\nbegin with. You know, so people would have six, not that\n\n395\n00:17:59,212 --> 00:18:03,092\nthat's generally, but it's, and I, I think that's why it\n\n396\n00:18:03,112 --> 00:18:05,832\nwas, brought up as a suggestion at-\n\n397\n00:18:05,912 --> 00:18:07,992\nSo, so really what is the problem?\n\n398\n00:18:08,912 --> 00:18:11,642\nYou know, we, we talk about addressing problems that councils looking...\n\n399\n00:18:11,692 --> 00:18:15,432\nSo what is the problem with somebody running-\n\n400\n00:18:15,856 --> 00:18:16,456\nFour terms.\n\n401\n00:18:16,476 --> 00:18:19,776\nFour terms, nine terms. Hal was here for eight, 10 years.\n\n402\n00:18:19,936 --> 00:18:20,316\nUm,\n\n403\n00:18:22,536 --> 00:18:24,956\nwhat, what, where, where's the problem?\n\n404\n00:18:25,056 --> 00:18:26,656\nI think, I think we need fresh-\n\n405\n00:18:26,726 --> 00:18:30,676\nIf... And, but if the, if the community, if the people who are electing him feel\n\n406\n00:18:30,736 --> 00:18:34,376\nlike, or her, the pe-people who are electing the counselor\n\n407\n00:18:34,816 --> 00:18:38,516\nfeel like they're doing a good job representing, and the counselor\n\n408\n00:18:38,576 --> 00:18:42,416\nfeels comfortable and like they're still able to do the\n\n409\n00:18:42,456 --> 00:18:45,596\njob, what, where is the problem?\n\n410\n00:18:47,016 --> 00:18:47,856\nI agree.\n\n411\n00:18:47,896 --> 00:18:48,696\nYes. I-\n\n412\n00:18:48,736 --> 00:18:52,216\nI mean, I guess we could put it out to the, the community and have them vote on it\n\n413\n00:18:52,276 --> 00:18:55,716\nand say, \"We don't see this as a problem,\" then it goes down.\n\n414\n00:18:55,736 --> 00:18:57,076\nBut it seems like-\n\n415\n00:18:57,096 --> 00:18:57,446\nYeah.\n\n416\n00:18:57,556 --> 00:18:58,706\nI don't, I don't see the problem\n\n417\n00:18:58,716 --> 00:19:01,576\n... Chris, I, Chris, I agree with you. I don't see there being an actual problem.\n\n418\n00:19:01,616 --> 00:19:01,856\nMm-hmm.\n\n419\n00:19:01,876 --> 00:19:05,856\nIt's more of a perceived problem, perceiving that community members might have\n\n420\n00:19:05,896 --> 00:19:09,856\nconcerns over four-year terms because of, you know, getting ingrained\n\n421\n00:19:09,876 --> 00:19:13,596\nand stuck in their seat and serving forever and not doing good work, which from our\n\n422\n00:19:13,696 --> 00:19:15,996\nunderstanding is part of the reason why two-year terms were created in the first\n\n423\n00:19:16,096 --> 00:19:18,616\nplace, because I guess they used to be six, so.\n\n424\n00:19:19,256 --> 00:19:23,056\nAnd from a certain level too, there's, like a\n\n425\n00:19:23,096 --> 00:19:26,996\nlevel of the longer you're in your seat, the more of an incumbent advantage\n\n426\n00:19:27,036 --> 00:19:29,896\nyou might have. And so that also-\n\n427\n00:19:29,936 --> 00:19:29,975\nYeah\n\n428\n00:19:30,096 --> 00:19:33,736\n... also prevents the turnover. I know it's more of a problem seeing that like the\n\n429\n00:19:33,856 --> 00:19:35,586\nstate and national level than it is-\n\n430\n00:19:35,596 --> 00:19:35,726\nMm-hmm\n\n431\n00:19:35,756 --> 00:19:39,676\n... on the city council level. But it, we talked about it a little\n\n432\n00:19:39,716 --> 00:19:42,686\nbit as like an anti-corruption measure, so that was part of it.\n\n433\n00:19:42,736 --> 00:19:45,016\nSo my feedback to the board-\n\n434\n00:19:45,076 --> 00:19:45,106\nYeah\n\n435\n00:19:45,136 --> 00:19:48,646\n... or the task force on this would be, take a look to\n\n436\n00:19:48,756 --> 00:19:52,516\nsee if other cities have moved in this direction and what was the basis\n\n437\n00:19:52,676 --> 00:19:55,876\nfor their direction. I, I think there's probably a general\n\n438\n00:19:57,856 --> 00:20:01,806\nsense that term limits are a good thing, but I don't,\n\n439\n00:20:01,916 --> 00:20:03,346\nI don't know what the trend is.\n\n440\n00:20:03,346 --> 00:20:03,376\nYeah.\n\n441\n00:20:03,416 --> 00:20:07,256\nSo that might be useful. By the way, I do have some data\n\n442\n00:20:07,266 --> 00:20:11,176\nthat came from the League of Oregon Cities that is not a\n\n443\n00:20:11,196 --> 00:20:15,086\npublished report. It's a spreadsheet of a comm- of a survey that\n\n444\n00:20:15,156 --> 00:20:18,976\nthey did that talks about term limits and stuff like that, so I'll send\n\n445\n00:20:19,056 --> 00:20:20,316\nthat to you.\n\n446\n00:20:20,356 --> 00:20:20,746\nGood.\n\n447\n00:20:20,776 --> 00:20:21,376\nYeah.\n\n448\n00:20:21,516 --> 00:20:24,656\nCan I just comment that I think the term limits sentiment may\n\n449\n00:20:24,776 --> 00:20:28,116\nbe, influenced by the federal\n\n450\n00:20:28,196 --> 00:20:29,236\nsituation-\n\n451\n00:20:29,616 --> 00:20:29,746\nMm-hmm\n\n452\n00:20:29,956 --> 00:20:31,075\n... and people seeing this\n\n453\n00:20:31,876 --> 00:20:35,196\nwith long, long sitting, perceived to be\n\n454\n00:20:35,276 --> 00:20:38,736\nineffective people at the federal level.\n\n455\n00:20:38,856 --> 00:20:39,786\nUm, and\n\n456\n00:20:41,416 --> 00:20:45,316\nit's just a totally different animal serving at the local level, and hard\n\n457\n00:20:45,416 --> 00:20:48,896\nto find really good people who are willing to serve for a long time.\n\n458\n00:20:49,656 --> 00:20:53,576\nSo I, I mean, my op- my, not really stake in the ground,\n\n459\n00:20:53,596 --> 00:20:56,926\nbut it's let the voters decide. If they don't think they're effective anymore, they\n\n460\n00:20:56,976 --> 00:20:58,626\nwon't be voted back in.\n\n461\n00:20:58,816 --> 00:20:59,676\nMm-hmm.\n\n462\n00:20:59,716 --> 00:21:03,036\nAnd you have councilors who are losing effectiveness\n\n463\n00:21:03,736 --> 00:21:05,696\nwho were voted out.\n\n464\n00:21:05,716 --> 00:21:07,036\nRight.\n\n465\n00:21:07,116 --> 00:21:10,796\nThe history of the two-year term was\n\n466\n00:21:10,856 --> 00:21:13,556\nbased on the fact that there had been councilors in office\n\n467\n00:21:13,636 --> 00:21:15,325\nforever.\n\n468\n00:21:15,356 --> 00:21:17,516\nWell, then we can decide to change the charter again.\n\n469\n00:21:17,696 --> 00:21:18,976\nSo we're gonna try-\n\n470\n00:21:19,096 --> 00:21:21,386\nIt doesn't, you know, make people happy, but-\n\n471\n00:21:21,396 --> 00:21:23,256\nWe're trying to assuage that issue.\n\n472\n00:21:23,265 --> 00:21:26,716\nI know. I get it. But what problem are we-\n\n473\n00:21:26,736 --> 00:21:28,436\nBut what problem are we trying to solve here?\n\n474\n00:21:28,476 --> 00:21:30,076\nExactly. It doesn't exist now.\n\n475\n00:21:30,116 --> 00:21:30,756\nYeah.\n\n476\n00:21:30,816 --> 00:21:34,556\nIf I, I go back to the guiding principles, and the last guiding principle is\n\n477\n00:21:34,596 --> 00:21:37,966\naccessibility to elected leaders and public service.\n\n478\n00:21:37,996 --> 00:21:41,956\nThe idea is giving people a chance to step up and serve as a\n\n479\n00:21:42,016 --> 00:21:45,736\ncouncilor where it's an... Running for office your\n\n480\n00:21:45,796 --> 00:21:49,516\nfirst time is, I think, can be intimidating and challenging.\n\n481\n00:21:49,636 --> 00:21:53,456\nWhen you, you have an incumbent that continuously comes back,\n\n482\n00:21:53,616 --> 00:21:56,856\nit could discourage people from stepping up.\n\n483\n00:21:56,976 --> 00:21:58,796\nUm, so I think, I think that's\n\n484\n00:21:59,916 --> 00:22:03,176\npart of it. I don't, I don't want to talk for the task force, but I do remember us\n\n485\n00:22:03,216 --> 00:22:05,196\ntalking about that.\n\n486\n00:22:06,436 --> 00:22:08,016\nPart of it is also a diversification\n\n487\n00:22:08,976 --> 00:22:11,856\nof knowledge. If you have someone who's a city councilor for\n\n488\n00:22:12,836 --> 00:22:15,776\n20 years or something, they're, they're gonna have a tremendous amount of\n\n489\n00:22:15,816 --> 00:22:16,306\nknowledge.\n\n490\n00:22:16,376 --> 00:22:16,846\nMm-hmm.\n\n491\n00:22:16,856 --> 00:22:20,456\nBut we need to be considering about the city as a long-term\n\n492\n00:22:20,536 --> 00:22:24,016\norganism, which means, you know, cycling this knowledge\n\n493\n00:22:24,036 --> 00:22:27,636\nthrough, making people, making sure people are engaged and active.\n\n494\n00:22:27,676 --> 00:22:30,476\nSo it's not just turnover, it's also about-\n\n495\n00:22:30,776 --> 00:22:31,316\nThings changing\n\n496\n00:22:31,356 --> 00:22:33,045\n... building the bench, so to speak.\n\n497\n00:22:33,396 --> 00:22:33,996\nMm-hmm.\n\n498\n00:22:34,036 --> 00:22:36,115\nSo I do, I, I think the,\n\n499\n00:22:37,016 --> 00:22:40,716\nat a high level, I think the, the four-year terms makes a lot of\n\n500\n00:22:40,756 --> 00:22:43,296\nsense to me, and I think staggered.\n\n501\n00:22:43,456 --> 00:22:44,596\nUm, I think that\n\n502\n00:22:45,636 --> 00:22:49,256\nI, if you look at, either actual\n\n503\n00:22:49,596 --> 00:22:53,506\nexamples of turnover with two-year terms versus four-year terms,\n\n504\n00:22:54,316 --> 00:22:57,816\nor even, or even if I remember my probability, I could\n\n505\n00:22:57,856 --> 00:23:00,316\nprobably demonstrate to you mathematically\n\n506\n00:23:01,176 --> 00:23:04,836\nthat when you have two-year term, four-year terms staggered, you're gonna get less\n\n507\n00:23:04,846 --> 00:23:05,556\nturnover.\n\n508\n00:23:06,416 --> 00:23:10,086\nAnd so I think that is the benefit of,\n\n509\n00:23:10,656 --> 00:23:12,896\nmoving away from two-year terms.\n\n510\n00:23:12,996 --> 00:23:16,536\nUh, and I think that the data that Jan put together showed we have a\n\n511\n00:23:17,256 --> 00:23:20,496\nfairly significant turnover rate-\n\n512\n00:23:20,716 --> 00:23:21,156\nMm-hmm\n\n513\n00:23:21,196 --> 00:23:24,656\n... that doesn't help with longer term\n\n514\n00:23:24,756 --> 00:23:27,876\ndecision-making and, and maintaining momentum on larger terms.\n\n515\n00:23:27,916 --> 00:23:31,616\nSo I think that aspect of it is, definitely fits with\n\n516\n00:23:31,676 --> 00:23:35,356\nthe, rough draft recommendations.\n\n517\n00:23:35,536 --> 00:23:39,336\nUm, I think, I'm happy to have you guys look at a\n\n518\n00:23:39,396 --> 00:23:42,456\ncouple other factors out there in terms of the term limits per\n\n519\n00:23:42,576 --> 00:23:44,046\nse. Um,\n\n520\n00:23:45,376 --> 00:23:49,256\nI don't resonate as much with the every four years I get to vote\n\n521\n00:23:50,416 --> 00:23:53,676\nas I get to vote every two years. That's, that could be my own personal\n\n522\n00:23:53,696 --> 00:23:55,286\napproach. Um,\n\n523\n00:23:56,576 --> 00:24:00,346\nand I do think the issue of, councilors running for\n\n524\n00:24:00,396 --> 00:24:04,176\nmayor and also having to be able to retain their seat is a, is a,\n\n525\n00:24:04,716 --> 00:24:06,616\nis an inequity between\n\n526\n00:24:07,436 --> 00:24:08,576\nthe odd and even.\n\n527\n00:24:08,596 --> 00:24:08,646\nMm-hmm.\n\n528\n00:24:08,646 --> 00:24:10,676\nSo I think that should be addressed.\n\n529\n00:24:10,716 --> 00:24:10,956\nUm,\n\n530\n00:24:12,856 --> 00:24:13,196\nand\n\n531\n00:24:14,236 --> 00:24:16,776\nI, I just have a question. I know\n\n532\n00:24:16,836 --> 00:24:20,688\nthat-Um, saying not to go down the path of\n\n533\n00:24:20,748 --> 00:24:23,888\nthree wards and two councilors\n\n534\n00:24:24,068 --> 00:24:25,328\nper ward.\n\n535\n00:24:26,728 --> 00:24:27,738\nLike, was there,\n\n536\n00:24:28,548 --> 00:24:31,328\nis there-- is that just considered too big a change?\n\n537\n00:24:31,348 --> 00:24:32,688\nWhat was the logic behind it?\n\n538\n00:24:33,688 --> 00:24:37,488\nFor me, it's the, the\n\n539\n00:24:37,528 --> 00:24:40,968\nelection issue. Running in a ward\n\n540\n00:24:41,848 --> 00:24:45,768\nthat's a third of the city is different than running in a ward that's a seventh of\n\n541\n00:24:45,828 --> 00:24:48,668\nthe city, or a ninth of the city now.\n\n542\n00:24:48,728 --> 00:24:52,668\nSo when I ran for city council, I knocked on every door in my ward.\n\n543\n00:24:52,688 --> 00:24:56,198\nIf there were only three wards, there's no way I'd do that, in my\n\n544\n00:24:56,308 --> 00:24:58,948\nopinion.\n\n545\n00:24:59,388 --> 00:25:02,798\nAnyone else want to weigh in? I believe there's been some\n\n546\n00:25:02,908 --> 00:25:03,468\nmore.\n\n547\n00:25:03,788 --> 00:25:07,448\nYeah. I also wasn't a big fan of the two councilors per ward system,\n\n548\n00:25:07,508 --> 00:25:11,388\nbecause then you end up often in situations where,\n\n549\n00:25:12,728 --> 00:25:15,628\nyou have one, one councilor canceling out the vote of\n\n550\n00:25:15,668 --> 00:25:17,048\nanother.\n\n551\n00:25:17,058 --> 00:25:20,228\nPotentially, yeah.\n\n552\n00:25:20,268 --> 00:25:20,298\nYeah.\n\n553\n00:25:20,298 --> 00:25:22,688\nYeah, I'll say I, I like the concept,\n\n554\n00:25:25,268 --> 00:25:29,248\na lot actually. Um, but, but when we went through the discussion and raised\n\n555\n00:25:29,268 --> 00:25:33,048\nsome of the concerns of what that would do, is how there's also what was\n\n556\n00:25:33,088 --> 00:25:35,728\ntalked about keeping the identity of the ward system.\n\n557\n00:25:35,788 --> 00:25:37,538\nBecause there is, you know-\n\n558\n00:25:37,968 --> 00:25:37,978\nRight\n\n559\n00:25:38,008 --> 00:25:41,628\n...if you made it only three wards, that would really combine\n\n560\n00:25:41,748 --> 00:25:45,208\nareas of the city that haven't really been, that don't have the same issues.\n\n561\n00:25:45,228 --> 00:25:45,888\nMm-hmm.\n\n562\n00:25:45,928 --> 00:25:48,698\nNot, not that that would create more, maybe some more understanding of the\n\n563\n00:25:48,748 --> 00:25:49,618\ndifferent parts of the community.\n\n564\n00:25:49,648 --> 00:25:52,078\nBut we feel that, that,\n\n565\n00:25:53,448 --> 00:25:56,588\nthe voters in Corvallis really like our, their identities of their neighborhoods\n\n566\n00:25:56,688 --> 00:26:00,638\nand their wards. And although we'd be reducing to seven, I think\n\n567\n00:26:00,748 --> 00:26:04,678\nthat would, the shift would still work and keep those different segments of\n\n568\n00:26:04,708 --> 00:26:07,238\nthe city. I can, I can understand that.\n\n569\n00:26:07,288 --> 00:26:10,748\nI, I think as to, as to counseling the votes, say,\n\n570\n00:26:11,048 --> 00:26:14,978\nevery, when you get on the council you're, both represent your ward and\n\n571\n00:26:15,028 --> 00:26:15,688\nthe city, so-\n\n572\n00:26:15,828 --> 00:26:16,138\nMm-hmm.\n\n573\n00:26:16,148 --> 00:26:16,178\nMm-hmm\n\n574\n00:26:16,178 --> 00:26:20,008\n...you cancel each other out all the time. So, but it's just not within our ward.\n\n575\n00:26:20,018 --> 00:26:23,948\nTrue, but then you're also gonna run into the, the situation where\n\n576\n00:26:24,148 --> 00:26:27,667\nthere's two councilors, even if they're on the same ward technically, like, even if\n\n577\n00:26:27,677 --> 00:26:31,068\nthey're technically on the same ward, they'll have such dif-- you can end up with\n\n578\n00:26:31,108 --> 00:26:33,927\nsuch differing opinions that you'll split that ward down the middle.\n\n579\n00:26:33,948 --> 00:26:34,368\nMm-hmm.\n\n580\n00:26:34,408 --> 00:26:35,968\nSo it would end up being like-\n\n581\n00:26:36,348 --> 00:26:36,808\nAlmost like-\n\n582\n00:26:36,818 --> 00:26:38,168\n... almost like two different wards in the first place.\n\n583\n00:26:38,208 --> 00:26:42,108\nOr the opposite, where you get two councilors for one ward that have the exact\n\n584\n00:26:42,168 --> 00:26:43,708\nsame opinion on everything.\n\n585\n00:26:43,718 --> 00:26:43,718\nRight.\n\n586\n00:26:43,748 --> 00:26:46,968\nWhich then you end up with a ward that gets no\n\n587\n00:26:47,008 --> 00:26:49,478\nrepresentation of the population.\n\n588\n00:26:49,478 --> 00:26:49,478\nRight. Yeah.\n\n589\n00:26:49,528 --> 00:26:53,457\nLike, there's a lot of wards where simply people with a lot of\n\n590\n00:26:53,468 --> 00:26:57,318\nmoney or retirees would be able to take the seats every single time.\n\n591\n00:26:57,368 --> 00:27:01,278\nAnd while that's not, it's not as much of a problem when you have\n\n592\n00:27:01,308 --> 00:27:05,128\nseven or nine wards, as it is when you have, like, two\n\n593\n00:27:05,168 --> 00:27:05,808\ncouncilors.\n\n594\n00:27:05,818 --> 00:27:06,318\nSure.\n\n595\n00:27:06,368 --> 00:27:06,908\nYeah.\n\n596\n00:27:06,928 --> 00:27:10,457\nWell, two comments on that. One is, I think if, if you believe that rep- the\n\n597\n00:27:10,488 --> 00:27:14,117\nelection is representative of, people in the ward, I think that kind of\n\n598\n00:27:14,148 --> 00:27:17,948\naddresses that issue. Uh, I would encourage you to look at the League of\n\n599\n00:27:18,008 --> 00:27:20,068\nOregon Cities to see,\n\n600\n00:27:21,148 --> 00:27:22,448\nhow,\n\n601\n00:27:23,888 --> 00:27:27,428\nkind of what other cities do. And not that we have to copy other cities, but-\n\n602\n00:27:27,468 --> 00:27:27,688\nOkay\n\n603\n00:27:27,698 --> 00:27:31,348\n...the point is, we have, the hundred and twenty-one\n\n604\n00:27:31,408 --> 00:27:32,788\ncities in Oregon.\n\n605\n00:27:32,828 --> 00:27:33,938\nTwo hundred and forty-one.\n\n606\n00:27:33,948 --> 00:27:34,388\nPardon me?\n\n607\n00:27:34,488 --> 00:27:35,288\nTwo hundred and forty-one.\n\n608\n00:27:35,308 --> 00:27:36,348\nTwo hundred and forty-two.\n\n609\n00:27:36,368 --> 00:27:37,328\nIt keeps happening.\n\n610\n00:27:37,348 --> 00:27:41,328\nSo we have two hundred and forty-one experiments that have happened over decades,\n\n611\n00:27:41,388 --> 00:27:45,308\nand sometimes centuries. Um, but it'd be good to at\n\n612\n00:27:45,348 --> 00:27:49,168\nleast understand what other people have learned and, and learned from that.\n\n613\n00:27:49,248 --> 00:27:53,118\nSo, I'll send you, it's kind of dated, but it's, it,\n\n614\n00:27:53,188 --> 00:27:57,098\nit's the last survey that they did for cities, kind of what, how they operate.\n\n615\n00:27:57,128 --> 00:27:59,568\nSo I would encourage you to reach out to League of Oregon Cities.\n\n616\n00:28:00,088 --> 00:28:03,968\nIf, if I could just-- In your packet, you do have comparison of 10\n\n617\n00:28:03,988 --> 00:28:04,548\ncities.\n\n618\n00:28:04,628 --> 00:28:05,008\nYeah.\n\n619\n00:28:05,048 --> 00:28:08,908\nAnd there's, there are two cities that are\n\n620\n00:28:08,988 --> 00:28:12,698\none councilor per ward, elected by wards, and\n\n621\n00:28:12,748 --> 00:28:15,108\nthat's Corvallis and Springfield.\n\n622\n00:28:15,128 --> 00:28:18,828\nThe rest have either two councilors per ward, or they\n\n623\n00:28:18,908 --> 00:28:21,828\nmay, they may nominate by ward, but they elect at\n\n624\n00:28:21,928 --> 00:28:25,498\nlarge. Um, so I think there's...\n\n625\n00:28:26,248 --> 00:28:29,528\nWe would remain an outlier for one councilor per\n\n626\n00:28:29,568 --> 00:28:30,548\nward.\n\n627\n00:28:30,568 --> 00:28:32,188\nBut actually, are those\n\n628\n00:28:33,028 --> 00:28:34,468\nparent councilors,\n\n629\n00:28:36,548 --> 00:28:37,928\nelected at the same time?\n\n630\n00:28:38,647 --> 00:28:40,528\nNo. Generally, they're staggered.\n\n631\n00:28:40,588 --> 00:28:42,128\nOh, okay. Good.\n\n632\n00:28:42,188 --> 00:28:43,138\nThat's what I thought.\n\n633\n00:28:43,368 --> 00:28:44,248\nMm-hmm.\n\n634\n00:28:44,468 --> 00:28:48,128\nThere are certain advantages and reasons why I kind of like the concept of that\n\n635\n00:28:48,168 --> 00:28:48,998\nmodel, but...\n\n636\n00:28:50,748 --> 00:28:54,588\nOne of the things I had noticed a few years ago, I was following, city council\n\n637\n00:28:54,628 --> 00:28:58,568\nelections in Albany, you know, where they have a small number of wards\n\n638\n00:28:58,608 --> 00:29:01,908\nand it's two per ward. And, and the thing that was,\n\n639\n00:29:02,988 --> 00:29:05,988\nreally out of the ordinary just from my experience\n\n640\n00:29:06,028 --> 00:29:09,618\nin Corvallis, how much money people were spending on council elections\n\n641\n00:29:09,628 --> 00:29:10,208\nthere.\n\n642\n00:29:10,228 --> 00:29:10,258\nMm-hmm.\n\n643\n00:29:10,328 --> 00:29:14,168\nI, I don't remember the numbers anymore, but it was more like a mayor's\n\n644\n00:29:14,208 --> 00:29:16,288\nrace in Corvallis, that kind of number.\n\n645\n00:29:16,328 --> 00:29:16,388\nMm-hmm.\n\n646\n00:29:16,428 --> 00:29:19,618\nIt was number of thousands, you know, and,\n\n647\n00:29:21,248 --> 00:29:23,028\nand I,\n\n648\n00:29:23,888 --> 00:29:27,428\nI like the idea that you can, you can, run an, an\n\n649\n00:29:27,468 --> 00:29:31,428\neffective campaign like Steve was talking about, you know, without\n\n650\n00:29:31,468 --> 00:29:32,748\nhaving to spend a lot of money.\n\n651\n00:29:32,768 --> 00:29:33,368\nMm-hmm.\n\n652\n00:29:33,508 --> 00:29:37,428\nUm, so that helps. The, the one question that we haven't touched on that\n\n653\n00:29:37,528 --> 00:29:41,228\nI would just like to hear, task for- task force\n\n654\n00:29:41,328 --> 00:29:44,768\nmembers, talk about a little bit is the\n\n655\n00:29:44,948 --> 00:29:48,828\nnumber of count- council members being even or odd, and\n\n656\n00:29:48,848 --> 00:29:51,408\nits relationship to the mayor's role.\n\n657\n00:29:51,688 --> 00:29:51,928\nMm-hmm.\n\n658\n00:29:52,648 --> 00:29:56,508\nI mean, I, I read the, what it said the strengths and weaknesses of it are,\n\n659\n00:29:56,608 --> 00:29:57,688\num. But\n\n660\n00:29:58,508 --> 00:30:02,408\nI was struck by the comparator cities and how many of them had an even s- number\n\n661\n00:30:02,448 --> 00:30:06,388\nof council members, with still a mayor that only votes\n\n662\n00:30:06,428 --> 00:30:08,088\nin a tie. Um-\n\n663\n00:30:08,108 --> 00:30:09,888\nYeah, I didn't see that as a particular issue\n\n664\n00:30:10,068 --> 00:30:10,918\n... so I was wondering.\n\n665\n00:30:10,918 --> 00:30:12,448\nI would've voted for six.\n\n666\n00:30:12,488 --> 00:30:13,148\nAh, good.\n\n667\n00:30:13,488 --> 00:30:15,668\nDo you think maybe-\n\n668\n00:30:15,678 --> 00:30:19,348\nMaybe we, you know, to hear from the people who thought seven was a better number.\n\n669\n00:30:19,408 --> 00:30:22,488\nNo, six. I think we said six, seven.\n\n670\n00:30:22,548 --> 00:30:23,607\nOh, did we?\n\n671\n00:30:27,820 --> 00:30:31,070\nUm, yeah, so in this conversation I preferred that I, my opinion\n\n672\n00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,680\nstayed out of it for obvious reasons.\n\n673\n00:30:33,740 --> 00:30:34,080\nSure.\n\n674\n00:30:34,180 --> 00:30:34,730\nUm, 'cause\n\n675\n00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:39,440\nnot voting in the ties is not working already, but so-\n\n676\n00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,360\nSo, so I'm, I'm hearing that there was no, \"We need to keep\n\n677\n00:30:43,420 --> 00:30:45,100\nthis an odd number.\"\n\n678\n00:30:45,140 --> 00:30:48,560\nWe thought there would be a few times that the mayor would have to vote if there\n\n679\n00:30:48,580 --> 00:30:51,760\nwas an odd number. That was the primary issue.\n\n680\n00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:52,100\nI see.\n\n681\n00:30:52,260 --> 00:30:54,720\nThe only one that's been three in three years.\n\n682\n00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:59,160\nYeah, it wasn't to heal any of us or speak\n\n683\n00:30:59,859 --> 00:31:00,359\nup.\n\n684\n00:31:00,369 --> 00:31:00,369\nRight.\n\n685\n00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:01,130\nIt's, you know, it's-\n\n686\n00:31:01,140 --> 00:31:02,760\nWe want to go on that hour.\n\n687\n00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,780\nYeah. I, I do remember that the task force said six or seven, then we came back\n\n688\n00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,970\nthe next meeting and had specific discussion about odd or\n\n689\n00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,860\neven. And it's the reasons that are stated in the summary, and it\n\n690\n00:31:13,940 --> 00:31:17,060\nreally relied on the mayor's voting-\n\n691\n00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:17,760\nMm-hmm.\n\n692\n00:31:17,829 --> 00:31:21,580\nAnd a decision to keep that as an infrequent voter and more of a\n\n693\n00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,810\nneutral facilitator.\n\n694\n00:31:23,860 --> 00:31:24,300\nMm-hmm.\n\n695\n00:31:24,380 --> 00:31:24,480\nOkay.\n\n696\n00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,460\nI found myself thinking, I was looking at this packet and I, I thought I'd\n\n697\n00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:29,500\nnever had before\n\n698\n00:31:30,340 --> 00:31:34,220\nwhich is maybe I kinda like the idea that the mayor has to break ties\n\n699\n00:31:34,260 --> 00:31:34,960\nmore often.\n\n700\n00:31:35,020 --> 00:31:35,620\nYeah.\n\n701\n00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:36,080\nUm-\n\n702\n00:31:36,340 --> 00:31:36,820\nMm-hmm.\n\n703\n00:31:36,860 --> 00:31:40,790\nYou know, because it's a different, it's additional engagement on the part of\n\n704\n00:31:40,820 --> 00:31:44,180\nthe mayor and someone we've elected\n\n705\n00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:45,600\ncitywide-\n\n706\n00:31:45,620 --> 00:31:45,680\nMm-hmm.\n\n707\n00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:49,380\nAs a leader and, and, it gives, more of a\n\n708\n00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,980\nvoice to the mayor, more of an active role.\n\n709\n00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:52,280\nAnd\n\n710\n00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,160\nI, I certainly understand the impulse to keep it, it primarily as\n\n711\n00:31:57,260 --> 00:31:58,480\na facilitator-\n\n712\n00:31:59,460 --> 00:31:59,470\nMm-hmm.\n\n713\n00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:01,180\nOf, of business. Um,\n\n714\n00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:03,120\nyou know,\n\n715\n00:32:03,980 --> 00:32:07,170\nI would, I would encourage you to just think a little bit more deeply about that,\n\n716\n00:32:07,420 --> 00:32:10,440\nabout whether that's, you know, a priority,\n\n717\n00:32:11,580 --> 00:32:15,440\nor maybe have a second thoughts about it, and then maybe it would be\n\n718\n00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,390\ngood to have a mayor as break ties more.\n\n719\n00:32:17,420 --> 00:32:17,550\nSure.\n\n720\n00:32:17,580 --> 00:32:21,360\nI know one of the things we talked about a- throughout the process is we've really\n\n721\n00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,180\nfocused on how the mayor's role and the councilor's role\n\n722\n00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,000\nare different. And so when we were talking about the mayor or councilors, that was\n\n723\n00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,020\nsomething we focused on, was if we went to a six or a, you know, an\n\n724\n00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:36,999\neven number councilor system, that would make the mayor's role sim- too similar\n\n725\n00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,820\nto that of the councilor. And since we are already factoring in the\n\n726\n00:32:40,860 --> 00:32:43,900\ndifference between being a mayor and being a councilor into a lot of our other\n\n727\n00:32:43,940 --> 00:32:47,780\ndecisions, that's where the focus on seven councilors came from.\n\n728\n00:32:47,820 --> 00:32:47,950\nYeah.\n\n729\n00:32:47,980 --> 00:32:48,300\nSo.\n\n730\n00:32:48,340 --> 00:32:48,640\nYeah.\n\n731\n00:32:48,660 --> 00:32:52,240\nI would say looking back at the average votes that the council\n\n732\n00:32:52,340 --> 00:32:56,180\ntakes, it's not too often that it's even close to a\n\n733\n00:32:56,340 --> 00:32:56,430\ntie.\n\n734\n00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:56,849\nMm-hmm.\n\n735\n00:32:56,980 --> 00:32:59,530\nUm, even if we were voting, had a different, an even number.\n\n736\n00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,140\nSo I don't, I don't think it would increase mayor voting that much, but it\n\n737\n00:33:03,180 --> 00:33:05,800\nwould obviously increase the side of him.\n\n738\n00:33:05,860 --> 00:33:09,720\nWell, could I also... I, I, I just would also chime in that I'm\n\n739\n00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,680\ntrying to imagine myself facilitating the meeting and processing all of\n\n740\n00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,880\nthe comments and deciding how I'm going to vote on something-\n\n741\n00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:17,490\nMm-hmm.\n\n742\n00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:20,960\nWould complicate how I would facilitate the meeting.\n\n743\n00:33:21,020 --> 00:33:23,360\nI've done it. It doesn't work out.\n\n744\n00:33:23,420 --> 00:33:24,620\nSure.\n\n745\n00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:27,280\nUm, so real quick, 'cause we're, we're, we're essentially at time, so I just really\n\n746\n00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,740\nquick wanna go through these questions that are on the screen and have kind of a\n\n747\n00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:34,400\nquick roundtable of councilors provide their,\n\n748\n00:33:34,820 --> 00:33:36,620\ntheir answers to them essentially.\n\n749\n00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:40,400\nSo number one, do, do, do the recommendations meet\n\n750\n00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:41,920\nthe guiding principles?\n\n751\n00:33:43,260 --> 00:33:47,069\nMostly, but not entirely. For other things\n\n752\n00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,140\nwe already said.\n\n753\n00:33:48,580 --> 00:33:51,900\nYeah. I would say the things that we do.\n\n754\n00:33:52,780 --> 00:33:53,840\nAnyone else?\n\n755\n00:33:53,980 --> 00:33:57,050\nI would agree with Tony. We may be thinking about differently sides.\n\n756\n00:34:01,060 --> 00:34:03,200\nAnd number two.\n\n757\n00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,580\nThe s- s- similar.\n\n758\n00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:04,910\nSo we kinda-\n\n759\n00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,060\nSort of the same answer.\n\n760\n00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:07,170\nYeah, we kind of already covered it.\n\n761\n00:34:07,180 --> 00:34:10,560\nI figure, you know, looking at similar cities for other senior quorum maps,\n\n762\n00:34:11,801 --> 00:34:15,180\nJim's already expressed he'd prefer not an even n- number of councilors.\n\n763\n00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:20,540\nAnd then look at other, to see if other cities have term limits, so we kind of,\n\n764\n00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,781\nkind of already answered that. Um, number three, from a governance perspective, do\n\n765\n00:34:23,841 --> 00:34:26,301\nthe draft recommendations work well together?\n\n766\n00:34:26,460 --> 00:34:29,960\nUm, if you tie, pack it in front of you, that starts\n\n767\n00:34:30,420 --> 00:34:34,380\non electronic package page six, you can see there's this\n\n768\n00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,761\npotential ballot that measure one, and that's putting number of council positions,\n\n769\n00:34:37,841 --> 00:34:40,361\nnumber of wards together. That one's almost just\n\n770\n00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,940\nobvious. Uh, measure two, council term lengths,\n\n771\n00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:47,319\nstaggered/concurrent terms, and election\n\n772\n00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:51,460\ncycle of councilors, and term\n\n773\n00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:52,500\nlengths, term\n\n774\n00:34:52,540 --> 00:34:55,560\nlimits.\n\n775\n00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,580\nAnd I'll just make a note here. When this group comes back to the city council for\n\n776\n00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,600\nyour next work session in May, we'll dive deeper into election strategy\n\n777\n00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:06,880\nat that point.\n\n778\n00:35:06,980 --> 00:35:07,070\nMm-hmm.\n\n779\n00:35:07,070 --> 00:35:09,260\nUm, this is more from a, a good governance lens.\n\n780\n00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:09,480\nMm-hmm.\n\n781\n00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,470\nLike how do these things look to you?\n\n782\n00:35:11,540 --> 00:35:15,060\nI think the answer is yes.\n\n783\n00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:15,500\nYeah.\n\n784\n00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:16,680\nYeah.\n\n785\n00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:17,980\nAnyone disagree?\n\n786\n00:35:21,620 --> 00:35:21,630\nNo.\n\n787\n00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:24,730\nAnd before we get into the draft recommendations, address problems the council is\n\n788\n00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,250\nlooking to solve. We had a yes earlier from Tony.\n\n789\n00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:29,740\nDoes anyone disagree?\n\n790\n00:35:29,780 --> 00:35:33,539\nNo. I'm, I'm still trying to figure out the problem with the term limits and-\n\n791\n00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:34,640\nYes, can I have your notes?\n\n792\n00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:34,830\nYeah.\n\n793\n00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:38,400\nYour recommendation. So, so it's yes but\n\n794\n00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:39,860\neh.\n\n795\n00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,480\nIt addresses the big one.\n\n796\n00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,420\nSure. Yes. That's good.\n\n797\n00:35:44,430 --> 00:35:46,459\nUm, it's the little ones that it solve.\n\n798\n00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:47,360\nThe little\n\n799\n00:35:48,420 --> 00:35:49,260\ngood problems.\n\n800\n00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,080\nI think that gives us enough to work on, and we'll look at refining,\n\n801\n00:35:54,940 --> 00:35:58,020\nwhere we are with that. With those\n\n802\n00:35:58,060 --> 00:35:59,580\ndetails, we'll go into a-\n\n803\n00:35:59,720 --> 00:35:59,860\nSure.\n\n804\n00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:00,740\nHarder conversation.\n\n805\n00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,080\nReason one, three-year terms?\n\n806\n00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:06,290\nUm.\n\n807\n00:36:06,340 --> 00:36:07,480\nTechnically, no.\n\n808\n00:36:07,620 --> 00:36:08,980\nWell, how could you do-\n\n809\n00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:09,970\nExcept for the cost election-\n\n810\n00:36:09,970 --> 00:36:10,650\nThe cost of elections\n\n811\n00:36:10,650 --> 00:36:11,320\nIn between.\n\n812\n00:36:11,380 --> 00:36:12,740\nCost of election, yeah.\n\n813\n00:36:12,780 --> 00:36:12,990\nYeah.\n\n814\n00:36:12,990 --> 00:36:16,340\nSo you have to pay for the second election. That's really, it's money.\n\n815\n00:36:16,380 --> 00:36:17,220\nWell, the other issue-\n\n816\n00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:17,990\nIn turn, yeah\n\n817\n00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,870\nIs it doesn't have staggered. And so, and the whole council would be elected every\n\n818\n00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:22,480\nthree years.\n\n819\n00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:22,880\nMm-hmm.\n\n820\n00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,430\nAnd therefore, you'd have that s- turnover issue just like you'd have it currently.\n\n821\n00:36:26,460 --> 00:36:27,050\nExcept for the-\n\n822\n00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,380\nSo it wouldn't solve that issue\n\n823\n00:36:28,792 --> 00:36:29,512\nWhat's that?\n\n824\n00:36:29,532 --> 00:36:30,672\nIt would just be an extra year.\n\n825\n00:36:30,952 --> 00:36:33,732\nFrom a technical point, no, there's no reason why you couldn't.\n\n826\n00:36:34,892 --> 00:36:36,632\nSo you didn't consider one-year terms?\n\n827\n00:36:36,652 --> 00:36:37,142\nEach.\n\n828\n00:36:38,292 --> 00:36:38,792\nFor you-\n\n829\n00:36:38,832 --> 00:36:41,772\nYou be quiet. Donny said-\n\n830\n00:36:41,792 --> 00:36:42,832\nYou're not allowed.\n\n831\n00:36:42,872 --> 00:36:44,012\nTo remove someone-\n\n832\n00:36:44,022 --> 00:36:47,392\nSomeone's gonna write down. Yeah.\n\n833\n00:36:48,472 --> 00:36:49,772\nNo, I think it's done.\n\n834\n00:36:50,852 --> 00:36:53,872\nWell, thank you all for coming. We appreciate it, and I look forward to-\n\n835\n00:36:53,882 --> 00:36:54,632\nThank you very much.\n\n836\n00:36:54,672 --> 00:36:58,152\nYeah. Thanks for all your work.\n\n837\n00:37:03,972 --> 00:37:06,952\nTransition.\n\n838\n00:37:06,972 --> 00:37:06,981\nOkay.\n\n839\n00:37:07,232 --> 00:37:07,622\nI drove.\n\n840\n00:37:07,622 --> 00:37:08,782\nDefinitely. Definitely.\n\n841\n00:37:09,572 --> 00:37:13,301\nYeah. We're gonna talk next slide on the Safe Streets and Roads for All and\n\n842\n00:37:13,332 --> 00:37:14,452\nTransportation Safety Action\n\n843\n00:37:14,532 --> 00:37:19,392\nPlan.\n\n844\n00:37:19,752 --> 00:37:20,672\nHold on.\n\n845\n00:37:21,852 --> 00:37:34,972\nCan\n\n846\n00:37:35,132 --> 00:37:35,252\nshe\n\n847\n00:37:35,332 --> 00:37:39,802\ngive\n\n848\n00:37:39,832 --> 00:37:43,202\nall of them involved? It depends where I would...\n\n849\n00:37:43,212 --> 00:37:45,532\nThat was when they did the watching their December.\n\n850\n00:37:45,732 --> 00:37:46,572\nI'm hearing it more\n\n851\n00:37:46,792 --> 00:37:49,892\ntoday.\n\n852\n00:37:50,312 --> 00:37:52,562\nI'll assume I'm just kicking this off to you, Dan.\n\n853\n00:37:52,572 --> 00:37:53,072\nExcuse me?\n\n854\n00:37:53,192 --> 00:37:55,132\nI assume I'm just kicking this off to you.\n\n855\n00:37:55,252 --> 00:37:57,652\nI'm kicking it off to Adam.\n\n856\n00:37:57,692 --> 00:37:59,812\nOkay. Adam.\n\n857\n00:38:00,012 --> 00:38:03,512\nAll right. Uh, since it got kicked off to me, we'll go ahead and get\n\n858\n00:38:03,552 --> 00:38:05,872\nstarted. Thank you so much for having us here today.\n\n859\n00:38:05,892 --> 00:38:09,672\nI can say the project team is, very excited\n\n860\n00:38:09,772 --> 00:38:10,312\nto,\n\n861\n00:38:11,932 --> 00:38:15,872\nbe able to come to you and talk about all of the work products that came out\n\n862\n00:38:15,952 --> 00:38:19,632\nof the SS forty project that we started, almost two years\n\n863\n00:38:19,672 --> 00:38:22,592\nago. And, we're just gonna dig right into\n\n864\n00:38:22,632 --> 00:38:24,532\nit.\n\n865\n00:38:25,492 --> 00:38:29,352\nSo just a quick recap. As you may recall, we got a, we got a very nice grant\n\n866\n00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:33,382\nfrom, the federal government, to-- through their Safe Streets and\n\n867\n00:38:33,412 --> 00:38:35,652\nRoads For All program. And\n\n868\n00:38:36,552 --> 00:38:40,272\nthe, the real, advantage to the city of Corvallis in this is it, it\n\n869\n00:38:40,332 --> 00:38:43,882\ndoes really help us moving, moving the\n\n870\n00:38:43,952 --> 00:38:47,492\ngoalposts toward that continuing Vision Zero goal that the\n\n871\n00:38:47,532 --> 00:38:51,162\ncouncil, put in place through Resolution twenty twenty\n\n872\n00:38:51,292 --> 00:38:54,852\nsixteen. Priority is safety for all users.\n\n873\n00:38:54,872 --> 00:38:58,852\nIt supports the existing TSP that we have in place that was adopted\n\n874\n00:38:58,892 --> 00:39:02,732\nseveral years ago, and it, it identifies\n\n875\n00:39:02,852 --> 00:39:06,632\nour highest, most severe crash locations, so we can\n\n876\n00:39:06,652 --> 00:39:09,912\nfocus our efforts on that.\n\n877\n00:39:12,032 --> 00:39:16,012\nSo since, since we got to drop over a thousand pages on you- ...uh, you\n\n878\n00:39:16,092 --> 00:39:20,082\nprobably know that there was a lot of, a lot of, work effort put into\n\n879\n00:39:20,132 --> 00:39:23,462\nthis, this project. And, and, you know,\n\n880\n00:39:23,512 --> 00:39:26,981\nthe, the, the big, the big component was the Traffic--\n\n881\n00:39:26,992 --> 00:39:30,772\nTransportation Safety Action Plan that we're gonna go through with you some today.\n\n882\n00:39:30,832 --> 00:39:34,372\nIn addition to that, we had some supplementa-supplementary planning\n\n883\n00:39:34,832 --> 00:39:38,462\nprojects that we did. We did three road safety audits, Walnut, Circle, and Ninth\n\n884\n00:39:38,572 --> 00:39:42,272\nStreet. We looked at Walnut for a lane reconfiguration\n\n885\n00:39:42,352 --> 00:39:46,252\nfeasibility study. We looked at our neighborhood traffic\n\n886\n00:39:46,352 --> 00:39:50,212\nmanagement program to get some recommendations on how to potentially improve\n\n887\n00:39:50,272 --> 00:39:54,261\nthat. Same thing with speed limit investigation framework, kind\n\n888\n00:39:54,312 --> 00:39:58,112\nof looking at recommendations for staff to maybe use some different\n\n889\n00:39:58,172 --> 00:40:01,532\ntools to help organize speed limit,\n\n890\n00:40:02,252 --> 00:40:04,981\nlooks in the, in the community. We'll go through all of this in the\n\n891\n00:40:05,012 --> 00:40:08,832\npresentation. And then an-another internal, supplemental\n\n892\n00:40:08,912 --> 00:40:12,062\nplanning effort to give us some,\n\n893\n00:40:12,632 --> 00:40:16,352\nguidelines around, standardizing some pedestrian treatments\n\n894\n00:40:16,412 --> 00:40:18,022\nat, at different intersections.\n\n895\n00:40:19,492 --> 00:40:22,572\nSo with that, I'm gonna hand it off to John Bosket with DKS.\n\n896\n00:40:22,632 --> 00:40:26,392\nUh, John's helped, was the project manager on this from DKS,\n\n897\n00:40:26,512 --> 00:40:29,832\nand also was our project manager when we did TSP a few years ago.\n\n898\n00:40:31,512 --> 00:40:35,502\nHello. Thanks for having me. Um, so I'm gonna give you\n\n899\n00:40:35,512 --> 00:40:39,432\nan overview, and there's a whole-- almost as many slides as pieces of paper you\n\n900\n00:40:39,492 --> 00:40:43,012\ngot here. So I'm gonna try to move through it quickly.\n\n901\n00:40:43,172 --> 00:40:47,162\nUm, and I'm ending with the Transportation Safety Action Plan,\n\n902\n00:40:47,171 --> 00:40:50,972\nor the TSAP, as we call it. That's the only piece of this that,\n\n903\n00:40:51,992 --> 00:40:53,812\nstaff will be coming back next month\n\n904\n00:40:54,692 --> 00:40:58,592\nand asking you to approve. The rest of the, supplemental planning\n\n905\n00:40:58,672 --> 00:41:02,452\nactivities, are really more internal operational documents for\n\n906\n00:41:02,492 --> 00:41:05,852\ncity staff, but I'm gonna give you an overview of what we, what we did and\n\n907\n00:41:06,352 --> 00:41:08,912\nkinda what we're hand-we're handing over to them as well.\n\n908\n00:41:08,972 --> 00:41:11,332\nSo I'll go through those first. Um,\n\n909\n00:41:12,652 --> 00:41:15,652\nand of course, you-- I actually got a little bit of a process overview\n\n910\n00:41:15,752 --> 00:41:19,652\nfirst. Uh, as I go, you can ask questions at\n\n911\n00:41:19,692 --> 00:41:23,592\nany time, but, I'll make, I'll make a point to pause as I kinda hit the\n\n912\n00:41:23,672 --> 00:41:26,602\nbreaks between each of those items too, just to see if there are any\n\n913\n00:41:26,632 --> 00:41:30,412\nquestions. Um, so first is kinda the\n\n914\n00:41:30,492 --> 00:41:33,012\noverall SS four A project timeline.\n\n915\n00:41:33,052 --> 00:41:36,932\nAgain, we had all these kinda one big project and\n\n916\n00:41:37,012 --> 00:41:40,592\nso a bunch of mini supplemental projects going kind of all at the same time.\n\n917\n00:41:40,632 --> 00:41:43,822\nWe started in, I think it was November of, twenty\n\n918\n00:41:43,932 --> 00:41:47,252\ntwenty-four. This is about a seventeen-month-ish\n\n919\n00:41:47,332 --> 00:41:51,132\nprocess. We went through kind of those different phases that, that are\n\n920\n00:41:51,172 --> 00:41:54,292\nshown at the top of the diagram, where first we spent some time just\n\n921\n00:41:54,332 --> 00:41:58,252\nunderstanding, what are the crash issues, where do people feel\n\n922\n00:41:58,332 --> 00:42:01,872\nunsafe, really understanding what the problems are, and\n\n923\n00:42:01,932 --> 00:42:05,922\nthen, working with the task force and analyzing the data and listening to\n\n924\n00:42:05,992 --> 00:42:09,732\nthe community feedback to, identify\n\n925\n00:42:09,852 --> 00:42:13,692\nhigh-priority locations, develop solutions for those, and refine\n\n926\n00:42:13,732 --> 00:42:16,632\nthose, and ultimately develop our plan.\n\n927\n00:42:16,652 --> 00:42:20,212\nWhat you see is in the middle, we had, six meetings with our task\n\n928\n00:42:20,292 --> 00:42:23,692\nforce and two major kinda milestones for public\n\n929\n00:42:23,752 --> 00:42:25,952\noutreach.\n\n930\n00:42:27,892 --> 00:42:31,572\nUh, so just kind of a brief word on just the overall public\n\n931\n00:42:31,652 --> 00:42:35,424\nengagement process.Um, you know,\n\n932\n00:42:35,504 --> 00:42:39,284\nobviously a big part of this is one of the, the federal requirements of doing this\n\n933\n00:42:40,164 --> 00:42:43,964\nis we want to make sure we're getting community input, not only on kind of what the\n\n934\n00:42:43,984 --> 00:42:47,694\nchallenges and issues are, but then on the types of\n\n935\n00:42:47,784 --> 00:42:49,254\nsolutions that we're, we're\n\n936\n00:42:49,304 --> 00:42:52,814\nrecommending. And,\n\n937\n00:42:54,024 --> 00:42:56,904\nwe really attempted to engage the community\n\n938\n00:42:56,944 --> 00:43:00,504\nin a lot of different ways and kind of changing up our approach as we went to make\n\n939\n00:43:00,544 --> 00:43:04,204\nit more effective. Had a lot of good help from your public information\n\n940\n00:43:04,284 --> 00:43:08,104\nofficer, from your task force members, and, you know, Benton County and else\n\n941\n00:43:08,184 --> 00:43:12,064\nto really, I think, reach, a lot of different groups in the\n\n942\n00:43:12,104 --> 00:43:15,164\ncommunity. Uh, there was tools like, you know, there was a project\n\n943\n00:43:15,264 --> 00:43:19,104\nwebsite, you know, email lists,\n\n944\n00:43:19,744 --> 00:43:21,744\na number of different newsletters, press\n\n945\n00:43:21,844 --> 00:43:25,224\nreleases, flyers were distributed over twenty\n\n946\n00:43:25,284 --> 00:43:29,204\nlocations. Uh, we even had an ad at the Majestic Theatre, which is\n\n947\n00:43:29,244 --> 00:43:32,504\nshown there in the, the picture. Uh, we had ads,\n\n948\n00:43:32,844 --> 00:43:36,044\ninside on, on the buses on the interior monitors.\n\n949\n00:43:36,084 --> 00:43:40,064\nOregon State University was really helpful in helping outreach to students,\n\n950\n00:43:40,314 --> 00:43:44,044\nas well, and social media, and then there were, six different\n\n951\n00:43:44,104 --> 00:43:46,344\ntabling events, that we used to get\n\n952\n00:43:46,424 --> 00:43:49,984\ninput. And as I mentioned, there were two\n\n953\n00:43:50,064 --> 00:43:53,964\nmajor kind of milestones where we were really trying to engage the community, and\n\n954\n00:43:54,344 --> 00:43:58,164\nthe first one was, again, just getting an understanding of,\n\n955\n00:43:58,924 --> 00:44:01,194\nwhat, what transportation safety issues they were\n\n956\n00:44:01,224 --> 00:44:05,144\nencountering. And, we had an interactive online comment map that's shown there\n\n957\n00:44:05,164 --> 00:44:08,774\nin the, the upper right, that got a lot of activity.\n\n958\n00:44:08,804 --> 00:44:12,064\nThere were over sixty-five hundred, views on the comment map\n\n959\n00:44:12,784 --> 00:44:15,304\nand over eight hundred, submissions.\n\n960\n00:44:15,424 --> 00:44:15,784\nUm,\n\n961\n00:44:16,604 --> 00:44:20,484\nand, in addition to that, we had an in-person, open house and\n\n962\n00:44:20,504 --> 00:44:24,124\nan online open house. The in-person open house was at the library.\n\n963\n00:44:24,184 --> 00:44:27,864\nUh, it was very well-attended. Um, and then there was a Corvallis\n\n964\n00:44:27,924 --> 00:44:31,684\nTown Hall, Sustainability Town Hall and Fair, you know, open\n\n965\n00:44:31,784 --> 00:44:34,264\nstreets. We had, you know, a pop-up tent.\n\n966\n00:44:34,364 --> 00:44:38,344\nUm, task force meetings, and then, a public works and focus\n\n967\n00:44:38,404 --> 00:44:40,684\ngroup with, parents at Garfield\n\n968\n00:44:41,564 --> 00:44:43,124\nand Lincoln Elementaries.\n\n969\n00:44:44,244 --> 00:44:48,144\nAnd then the second round, this would have been fall/winter twenty\n\n970\n00:44:48,244 --> 00:44:50,384\ntwenty-five, twenty twenty-six.\n\n971\n00:44:50,444 --> 00:44:54,364\nThis was where we came back with, some draft solutions, and those\n\n972\n00:44:54,404 --> 00:44:58,144\nwere kind of framed up as, some high-priority projects,\n\n973\n00:44:58,564 --> 00:45:02,454\na-as well as kind of some, overarching strategies that the, the\n\n974\n00:45:02,504 --> 00:45:06,493\ncity could pursue. Uh, and again, really had\n\n975\n00:45:06,504 --> 00:45:09,074\nan in-person, online open house again.\n\n976\n00:45:09,164 --> 00:45:13,004\nUm, more tabling events. There was a, a mayoral town hall where\n\n977\n00:45:13,024 --> 00:45:16,944\nthis was discussed. Uh, Corvallis had more\n\n978\n00:45:17,064 --> 00:45:19,964\npop-ups, the Corvallis Farmers Market, as well as their task force\n\n979\n00:45:20,044 --> 00:45:23,984\nmeetings. Uh, and, we had an online survey as part\n\n980\n00:45:24,044 --> 00:45:27,493\nof the online open house to try to, you know, get more input. Yes.\n\n981\n00:45:27,924 --> 00:45:31,464\nDo you know why the engagement dropped so much between these two rounds?\n\n982\n00:45:32,304 --> 00:45:35,644\nUm, the, the, the open houses were similar.\n\n983\n00:45:35,664 --> 00:45:37,954\nThey're still pretty good on just in the in-person open house.\n\n984\n00:45:37,964 --> 00:45:41,424\nThey've got that online comment map where people could go and say, \"Yeah, I have a\n\n985\n00:45:41,464 --> 00:45:44,364\nproblem here, I have a problem, I have a problem here.\" Uh,\n\n986\n00:45:45,324 --> 00:45:47,944\nvery popular. Yeah. Um,\n\n987\n00:45:50,184 --> 00:45:52,824\nyeah, I think the, the engagement I felt was pretty good.\n\n988\n00:45:52,844 --> 00:45:56,204\nIt's just, it was-- it's really extensive, very effective the first\n\n989\n00:45:56,224 --> 00:45:57,664\ntime. Um-\n\n990\n00:45:57,704 --> 00:45:58,394\nThat map.\n\n991\n00:45:58,544 --> 00:46:00,644\nYeah. So I don't think it was really... Yeah, I think that was the big thing.\n\n992\n00:46:00,664 --> 00:46:01,534\nIt was the online comment map-\n\n993\n00:46:01,534 --> 00:46:01,534\nYeah.\n\n994\n00:46:01,534 --> 00:46:03,084\n-that really got a lot of attention.\n\n995\n00:46:03,644 --> 00:46:06,584\nAnd once you put your comment on the map, you feel like you're done.\n\n996\n00:46:06,664 --> 00:46:06,784\nYeah.\n\n997\n00:46:06,824 --> 00:46:08,224\nYou've done your first level.\n\n998\n00:46:09,204 --> 00:46:10,354\nPeople like to be questioned.\n\n999\n00:46:11,424 --> 00:46:14,604\nI put on a positive comment just to balance it out.\n\n1000\n00:46:16,224 --> 00:46:16,864\nThat's where that one.\n\n1001\n00:46:19,944 --> 00:46:23,644\nThe one about Harrison, the really nice paving job, that was me.\n\n1002\n00:46:25,164 --> 00:46:25,464\nUm,\n\n1003\n00:46:26,344 --> 00:46:30,104\nanother note is Benton County, received a similar\n\n1004\n00:46:30,184 --> 00:46:33,284\ngrant, so they were doing a transportation safety action plan at the same\n\n1005\n00:46:33,364 --> 00:46:37,284\ntime. And, we really made a point to coordinate the\n\n1006\n00:46:37,344 --> 00:46:41,174\ntwo projects very heavily, just for efficiency of work and\n\n1007\n00:46:41,244 --> 00:46:41,874\nresources.\n\n1008\n00:46:42,764 --> 00:46:46,304\nAlso, just to make this, easier to follow by the public, so they get confused\n\n1009\n00:46:46,344 --> 00:46:50,224\nby two different TSAPs going on at the same time in the same area.\n\n1010\n00:46:50,344 --> 00:46:54,024\nUm, and hopefully to, you know, we find some synergy to strengthen,\n\n1011\n00:46:55,044 --> 00:46:57,264\napplications for grants in the future.\n\n1012\n00:46:58,664 --> 00:47:02,104\nUm, there's some key ways. Probably the, one of the most prominent ways we did this\n\n1013\n00:47:02,224 --> 00:47:05,404\nis the, the project managers for the city and the county projects\n\n1014\n00:47:05,464 --> 00:47:09,444\nwere, on each other's project management teams, and we, we literally met\n\n1015\n00:47:09,504 --> 00:47:13,204\nevery week, and discussed, issues, upcoming\n\n1016\n00:47:13,214 --> 00:47:17,164\ntasks, and kind of collaborated on, on solutions.\n\n1017\n00:47:17,244 --> 00:47:21,004\nSchedules were aligned. In fact, I was presenting to the board of commissioners,\n\n1018\n00:47:21,084 --> 00:47:24,624\nhaving this discussion, just on Tuesday, so we're hopefully ending at the same\n\n1019\n00:47:24,684 --> 00:47:28,584\ntime. Shared all of our data. Analysis was done at the\n\n1020\n00:47:28,644 --> 00:47:32,064\nsame time. And again, the public engagement was heavily coordinated, so they had\n\n1021\n00:47:32,084 --> 00:47:36,074\nthe same two major milestones, and we did advertisements together and\n\n1022\n00:47:36,224 --> 00:47:39,524\nreally shared some events just to try to make it easier for people\n\n1023\n00:47:39,584 --> 00:47:42,424\nto not have to go to two different places to provide\n\n1024\n00:47:42,484 --> 00:47:45,424\ncomments.\n\n1025\n00:47:46,884 --> 00:47:50,844\nOn our project task force, so they were definitely our,\n\n1026\n00:47:50,904 --> 00:47:54,764\nour, our sounding board and provided, really good feedback and\n\n1027\n00:47:54,844 --> 00:47:58,004\nguidance, especially at key decision points.\n\n1028\n00:47:58,124 --> 00:47:58,644\nUm,\n\n1029\n00:47:59,704 --> 00:48:02,944\nand, really kind of helped provide, the local\n\n1030\n00:48:03,044 --> 00:48:05,784\nperspective on, on the safety plan.\n\n1031\n00:48:05,884 --> 00:48:09,764\nUh, so this, we had a number of kind of really pivotal ways, you know,\n\n1032\n00:48:09,784 --> 00:48:13,244\nwhen we, had to create prioritization criteria, right?\n\n1033\n00:48:13,284 --> 00:48:16,934\nTo come up with our high-priority locations and figure out where, where sh-should\n\n1034\n00:48:17,004 --> 00:48:20,764\nwe invest first. Uh, they gave us a lot of good feedback\n\n1035\n00:48:20,844 --> 00:48:24,404\non, on that. Uh, helped us really narrow that list down,\n\n1036\n00:48:24,464 --> 00:48:26,994\nidentify the priority spots and,\n\n1037\n00:48:28,164 --> 00:48:32,104\nstrategies to pursue. Um, gave us great feedback on the projects\n\n1038\n00:48:32,124 --> 00:48:35,804\nthemselves. Um, helped us with public\n\n1039\n00:48:35,884 --> 00:48:39,864\nengagement, and then even refining the final copy, we sent that\n\n1040\n00:48:39,904 --> 00:48:40,204\nback to\n\n1041\n00:48:40,244 --> 00:48:44,220\nthem.On our\n\n1042\n00:48:44,300 --> 00:48:48,080\nfinal meeting, the task force members, did, unanimously\n\n1043\n00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:52,060\nsupport our plan with, with one note I added at the bottom.\n\n1044\n00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,940\nThey had one thing they wanted us to change, and we took care of that on page\n\n1045\n00:48:55,020 --> 00:48:58,800\nthirty. And that was-- One thing I'll note when we get to the, the TSAP is it has a\n\n1046\n00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,830\nbig emphasis on lower cost things you could do fairly quickly because we want to\n\n1047\n00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:03,980\nmake change fast.\n\n1048\n00:49:04,820 --> 00:49:08,540\nUm, but there was some concern that because of that, we wanted to be clear that we\n\n1049\n00:49:08,580 --> 00:49:12,200\nweren't precluding higher cost projects that still have a lot of safety benefits,\n\n1050\n00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:15,490\nyou know, like, you're, you know, doing roundabouts at intersections or\n\n1051\n00:49:15,580 --> 00:49:19,420\nprotected bike facilities. And so we ha-- Which is not\n\n1052\n00:49:19,540 --> 00:49:21,700\nthe intent of the plan is to preclude that stuff.\n\n1053\n00:49:21,740 --> 00:49:24,680\nSo we talked more about that on page thirty, and,\n\n1054\n00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,440\nwhich I will talk about later in the, the presentation.\n\n1055\n00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:32,460\nSo we addre-addressed that. Uh, and they also,\n\n1056\n00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:37,400\npassed a motion, which was the top, paragraph I\n\n1057\n00:49:37,460 --> 00:49:39,960\nhave there that I'll share with you.\n\n1058\n00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:43,940\nUh, and that was, \"The members of the SS4A Task Force request that\n\n1059\n00:49:43,980 --> 00:49:47,560\nthe City Council prioritize funding and construction of the\n\n1060\n00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,380\nsafety enhancements identified in the TSAP such that the\n\n1061\n00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,800\ntreatments are prioritized to the fullest extent\n\n1062\n00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,700\npossible.\"\n\n1063\n00:50:00,140 --> 00:50:03,660\nI will pause before I get into the first of the supplemental planning\n\n1064\n00:50:03,700 --> 00:50:05,460\nactivities.\n\n1065\n00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,920\nI'll move forward. Uh-\n\n1066\n00:50:10,940 --> 00:50:14,880\nI was confused by that statement that you just read, the task force\n\n1067\n00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:15,320\nmade.\n\n1068\n00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:18,600\nI, I can probably clarify that-\n\n1069\n00:50:18,660 --> 00:50:18,710\nYeah\n\n1070\n00:50:18,710 --> 00:50:22,320\n... Councilor. I-- The-- There was some pretty good\n\n1071\n00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:26,120\ndiscussion around the task force definitely, definitely wanted to emphasize\n\n1072\n00:50:26,140 --> 00:50:30,040\nsupport for the TSAP and to encourage the City\n\n1073\n00:50:30,140 --> 00:50:34,010\nCouncil to prioritize, completion of\n\n1074\n00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,580\nthe projects. And I think maybe where it says, maybe the\n\n1075\n00:50:37,620 --> 00:50:40,360\nconfusing part is to the fullest extent possible.\n\n1076\n00:50:40,370 --> 00:50:43,040\nAnd then I think that really refers back to the funding component-\n\n1077\n00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:43,400\nUh-huh\n\n1078\n00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:45,520\n... where the-- there was,\n\n1079\n00:50:46,980 --> 00:50:50,620\na lot of discussion that the task force wasn't intending to\n\n1080\n00:50:50,660 --> 00:50:53,460\ndirect the City Council how to spend City Council\n\n1081\n00:50:53,499 --> 00:50:57,440\nresources. It was just the resources that\n\n1082\n00:50:57,460 --> 00:50:59,380\nthe council deemed available for\n\n1083\n00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,950\nsafety improvements to look to the TSAP to\n\n1084\n00:51:04,020 --> 00:51:04,849\nprioritize those.\n\n1085\n00:51:04,940 --> 00:51:05,080\nOkay.\n\n1086\n00:51:05,100 --> 00:51:07,140\nSo there was, there was a, a definite...\n\n1087\n00:51:07,780 --> 00:51:11,480\nThey, they, they didn't wanna overstep, how the council s-spends the\n\n1088\n00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:15,440\nresources, but they, the resources that were, the council would deem\n\n1089\n00:51:15,460 --> 00:51:19,380\nappropriate to spend on transportation safety, they, they wanted to emphasize\n\n1090\n00:51:19,860 --> 00:51:23,280\nu-using the TSAP as a resource on where to put, where to put those funds.\n\n1091\n00:51:23,340 --> 00:51:26,600\nI understand. Code word for don't get too creative with it.\n\n1092\n00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:30,160\nWe did a lot of hard work, and these are the priorities we found.\n\n1093\n00:51:30,220 --> 00:51:31,120\nSomething like that?\n\n1094\n00:51:31,620 --> 00:51:32,580\nWell, so I think-\n\n1095\n00:51:32,620 --> 00:51:33,950\nSomething, yeah.\n\n1096\n00:51:34,220 --> 00:51:36,860\nWhere we, we had a similar discussion with the task force-\n\n1097\n00:51:36,940 --> 00:51:37,260\nOkay\n\n1098\n00:51:37,300 --> 00:51:41,140\n... which is what I've had with you all, where, you know, we went\n\n1099\n00:51:41,180 --> 00:51:45,090\nthrough an effort a couple years back now, to\n\n1100\n00:51:45,140 --> 00:51:49,100\nidentify priorities for funding in the transportation system.\n\n1101\n00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:49,680\nMm-hmm.\n\n1102\n00:51:49,720 --> 00:51:53,590\nAnd as I've, as I've told you all before, we're getting a\n\n1103\n00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,460\nlot of new information now, whether it be this TSAP or\n\n1104\n00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:01,300\nsignal investment plans or our bridge investment plans or some of the supplemental\n\n1105\n00:52:01,340 --> 00:52:05,250\nplanning activities. There's a whole other conversation that has to\n\n1106\n00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,520\nhappen around, how much money do we\n\n1107\n00:52:08,620 --> 00:52:11,780\nhave? What are we gonna prioritize for investment?\n\n1108\n00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,610\nWe have restrictions on different funds and those sorts of things, and what are we\n\n1109\n00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:15,960\ngonna try to accomplish.\n\n1110\n00:52:16,780 --> 00:52:20,200\nAnd that's obviously not within the task\n\n1111\n00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,360\nforce, purview.\n\n1112\n00:52:22,460 --> 00:52:22,470\nI see.\n\n1113\n00:52:22,540 --> 00:52:25,320\nUh, that's council's, and they're just respecting that boundary.\n\n1114\n00:52:25,330 --> 00:52:25,330\nOkay.\n\n1115\n00:52:25,340 --> 00:52:26,880\nThe council needs to go through that.\n\n1116\n00:52:26,900 --> 00:52:27,210\nOkay.\n\n1117\n00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:31,180\nThey like what's in the plan. They see the, the need to invest in the\n\n1118\n00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:32,140\nsafety improvements,\n\n1119\n00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:36,880\nand they are endorsing what's proposed, but they recognize that they\n\n1120\n00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:38,040\ndon't have all the information.\n\n1121\n00:52:38,100 --> 00:52:38,430\nOkay. I see.\n\n1122\n00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:42,080\nAnd council has more. And on the second part, it's, it's\n\n1123\n00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,420\njust, they wanted inclusion of an acknowledgement\n\n1124\n00:52:45,540 --> 00:52:46,440\nthat,\n\n1125\n00:52:48,020 --> 00:52:51,930\nthere are other investments that can be made at a larger scale that\n\n1126\n00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,890\nmight have even greater safety benefits, and that's not necessarily\n\n1127\n00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:57,629\nwhat's, what's identified in the plan.\n\n1128\n00:52:57,660 --> 00:52:59,680\nSo just as John said, clarifying that\n\n1129\n00:53:00,700 --> 00:53:03,060\nthe improvements that are identified in, in there\n\n1130\n00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:08,060\ndon't pro-- don't prevent or preclude the council from going above and beyond that.\n\n1131\n00:53:08,140 --> 00:53:09,960\nI see. Okay. Thank you.\n\n1132\n00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:11,500\nYeah.\n\n1133\n00:53:11,580 --> 00:53:15,060\nSo they understand the work is within this greater-\n\n1134\n00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:15,130\nYes\n\n1135\n00:53:15,130 --> 00:53:16,220\n... work the city's doing-\n\n1136\n00:53:16,300 --> 00:53:16,720\nCorrect\n\n1137\n00:53:16,790 --> 00:53:20,550\n... whether it's paving local streets or bridges or signal, all of\n\n1138\n00:53:20,550 --> 00:53:21,120\nthem.\n\n1139\n00:53:21,140 --> 00:53:21,440\nYeah.\n\n1140\n00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:21,740\nYeah.\n\n1141\n00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:22,770\nYeah.\n\n1142\n00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:26,780\nWe would really like to put a lot of money on this.\n\n1143\n00:53:28,420 --> 00:53:28,430\nYeah.\n\n1144\n00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:29,560\nAs, as the task force.\n\n1145\n00:53:31,100 --> 00:53:34,940\nAll right. The first of the five supplemental planning activities,\n\n1146\n00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,900\nroad safety audits or RSAs. So we did\n\n1147\n00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:42,250\nthree of these. Uh, it was Ninth Street, Walnut\n\n1148\n00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,760\nBoulevard, and Circle Boulevard.\n\n1149\n00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,610\nAnd road safety audits, it's, it's, it's a very kind of defined pr-prescribed\n\n1150\n00:53:48,660 --> 00:53:52,320\nprocess by, USDOT. And,\n\n1151\n00:53:52,780 --> 00:53:55,660\nso we very much patterned our approach after that prescribed\n\n1152\n00:53:55,700 --> 00:53:59,620\nprocess. And these are really gonna focus, technical\n\n1153\n00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,600\nefforts where we, you know, pull together a, a multidisciplinary team.\n\n1154\n00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:07,740\nIn, in this case, we're really leaning on, public works, police,\n\n1155\n00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,460\nfire department, ODOT participated, Corvallis School District.\n\n1156\n00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:15,110\nWe even invited a few Oregon State University students out of the,\n\n1157\n00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:16,980\ncivil engineering department.\n\n1158\n00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,460\nThey're interested in transportation to participate in these as\n\n1159\n00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,110\nwell. But, what they're really doing is they're just-- they're\n\n1160\n00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:28,050\nwalking the corridor pretty much all day, so they can see what's\n\n1161\n00:54:28,060 --> 00:54:29,880\nhappening at different times of day.\n\n1162\n00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:34,060\nAnd they're looking at safety issues, and potential\n\n1163\n00:54:34,140 --> 00:54:37,720\nfixes, through the lens of all the different users.\n\n1164\n00:54:37,740 --> 00:54:41,280\nSo whether you're, you're walking, biking, rolling, using transit, driving down the\n\n1165\n00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:45,050\ncorridor, you know, being there different times of day gives them the\n\n1166\n00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,040\nadvantage. If you have things like schools, you can see what's happening when\n\n1167\n00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,989\nschools are, you know, getting in or letting out, which you might not see if you're\n\n1168\n00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:52,420\nonly there for a couple of hours.\n\n1169\n00:54:52,460 --> 00:54:53,220\nMm-hmm.\n\n1170\n00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:55,440\nUm, but it's a lot of qualitative assessment.\n\n1171\n00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:59,206\nSo they're, they're not-Out there collecting data and analyzing it.\n\n1172\n00:54:59,216 --> 00:55:01,936\nThey're not, doing alternatives analysis.\n\n1173\n00:55:01,996 --> 00:55:05,236\nIt's, it's-- and they're really usually emphasizing\n\n1174\n00:55:06,296 --> 00:55:10,056\nkind of the low-hanging fruit and lower-cost solutions that the city can get\n\n1175\n00:55:10,076 --> 00:55:12,896\ndone quickly.\n\n1176\n00:55:14,896 --> 00:55:17,376\nIs it acting up?\n\n1177\n00:55:18,476 --> 00:55:18,976\nOh.\n\n1178\n00:55:18,986 --> 00:55:22,956\nThere we go. Um, and kinda one note,\n\n1179\n00:55:23,016 --> 00:55:23,166\nthese,\n\n1180\n00:55:24,536 --> 00:55:27,736\nthe, the recommendations that you may have seen in the road safety\n\n1181\n00:55:27,876 --> 00:55:29,736\naudits, they're, they're preliminary.\n\n1182\n00:55:29,756 --> 00:55:33,476\nSo what those are, they're really recommendations from these groups back to the\n\n1183\n00:55:33,556 --> 00:55:37,246\ncity. And as I'll touch on later, this--\n\n1184\n00:55:37,256 --> 00:55:40,696\nthe city still needs to go through that l- those lists\n\n1185\n00:55:41,196 --> 00:55:45,036\nand kind of vet those ideas, because some of them may not be feasible for different\n\n1186\n00:55:45,096 --> 00:55:49,076\nreasons, and identify kind of which ones they think they can move\n\n1187\n00:55:49,156 --> 00:55:52,976\nforward and hopefully incorporate into maybe, you know, CIP projects\n\n1188\n00:55:53,036 --> 00:55:56,976\ncoming up, and which ones just may not be, they might not be\n\n1189\n00:55:57,016 --> 00:55:58,136\nable to do.\n\n1190\n00:55:59,196 --> 00:55:59,896\nUm,\n\n1191\n00:56:00,796 --> 00:56:01,116\nlet's\n\n1192\n00:56:01,126 --> 00:56:05,816\nsee.\n\n1193\n00:56:08,376 --> 00:56:10,876\nWhere'd it go? So, quick highlights,\n\n1194\n00:56:12,376 --> 00:56:15,616\non some of the findings, and these, they're similar findings.\n\n1195\n00:56:15,756 --> 00:56:19,116\nUm, I mean, they're all arterial corridors with still a lot of similar\n\n1196\n00:56:19,156 --> 00:56:22,476\nissues. But, in Ninth Street, you'll see\n\n1197\n00:56:22,516 --> 00:56:26,356\nrecommendations in there. There's corridor-wide things like, you\n\n1198\n00:56:26,376 --> 00:56:30,356\nknow, access management, which can be, trying to eliminate conflicts between\n\n1199\n00:56:30,376 --> 00:56:31,936\nall the driveways that are out there.\n\n1200\n00:56:32,036 --> 00:56:35,896\nUm, no specific solutions, it's just a general recommendation to\n\n1201\n00:56:35,916 --> 00:56:39,716\nimprove it. Um, curb extensions to shorten\n\n1202\n00:56:39,756 --> 00:56:42,076\ncrossings on select side streets.\n\n1203\n00:56:42,176 --> 00:56:45,816\nUh, things like, doing leading pedestrian intervals at\n\n1204\n00:56:45,876 --> 00:56:49,256\ntraffic signals, which is basically when you get a walk signal, it's giving the\n\n1205\n00:56:49,296 --> 00:56:52,956\npedestrian a few seconds head start before the light turns green-\n\n1206\n00:56:52,966 --> 00:56:55,916\n-hard, so they can establish their presence and be\n\n1207\n00:56:55,936 --> 00:56:59,886\nseen. Um, and, possibly even looking at,\n\n1208\n00:57:00,216 --> 00:57:03,846\na lane reconfiguration, in, on part of\n\n1209\n00:57:03,936 --> 00:57:05,956\nNinth Street.\n\n1210\n00:57:07,696 --> 00:57:11,276\nUm, and then more specifically in each, in each of these road safety\n\n1211\n00:57:11,376 --> 00:57:14,936\naudits, the application-specific recommendations are\n\n1212\n00:57:14,996 --> 00:57:18,076\nseparated into low, medium, and high complexity.\n\n1213\n00:57:18,096 --> 00:57:20,896\nAnd again, you know, the low complexity are things that are probably easier to get\n\n1214\n00:57:20,936 --> 00:57:24,716\ndone quickly. When you get to the, the high complexity, more\n\n1215\n00:57:24,836 --> 00:57:28,726\nchallenging, maybe more costly. Um, some of those may be things that,\n\n1216\n00:57:29,256 --> 00:57:32,596\nmight need to get referred to, a transportation system plan update or\n\n1217\n00:57:32,656 --> 00:57:36,096\nsomething like that. Like a, things that go on there, like there might be,\n\n1218\n00:57:36,236 --> 00:57:39,616\nconsider doing a roundabout in an intersection at some point in the future.\n\n1219\n00:57:41,436 --> 00:57:45,236\nUm, so low complexity stuff you'll see, like at Ninth Street, it's typically things\n\n1220\n00:57:45,316 --> 00:57:47,456\nlike it could be restriping, signing improvements.\n\n1221\n00:57:47,476 --> 00:57:50,776\nHere's adding bicycle conflict markings at, at some\n\n1222\n00:57:50,816 --> 00:57:54,456\nlocations. Um, medium complexity\n\n1223\n00:57:54,576 --> 00:57:58,396\nthings, this o- in this one it was between Garfield and\n\n1224\n00:57:58,476 --> 00:58:01,596\nSpruce, adding a mid-block crossing.\n\n1225\n00:58:01,716 --> 00:58:05,685\nUm, and high complexity, this was,\n\n1226\n00:58:06,376 --> 00:58:10,316\nlike sidewalk, cur- you know, and ramp improvements which can affect\n\n1227\n00:58:10,356 --> 00:58:12,936\ndrainage, and that gets a little more complicated, might be harder to\n\n1228\n00:58:12,976 --> 00:58:14,836\ndo.\n\n1229\n00:58:14,916 --> 00:58:15,836\nOkay.\n\n1230\n00:58:16,016 --> 00:58:19,465\nUh, Circle Boulevard, similar types of things.\n\n1231\n00:58:19,476 --> 00:58:22,276\nYou know, the curb extensions on side streets again.\n\n1232\n00:58:22,376 --> 00:58:25,936\nUm, improving traffic signal hardware, so that's usually lower\n\n1233\n00:58:26,036 --> 00:58:29,536\ncost things you can do, just to kinda make sure that maybe they're up to\n\n1234\n00:58:29,616 --> 00:58:32,676\nstandard or maybe the, the latest safety practices,\n\n1235\n00:58:32,796 --> 00:58:36,436\nrecommendations. Um, and, adding,\n\n1236\n00:58:36,976 --> 00:58:40,376\nhaving hardened, hardened center line to prevent left turns.\n\n1237\n00:58:40,396 --> 00:58:43,816\nSo again, this is kinda the access management, trying to eliminate some\n\n1238\n00:58:43,876 --> 00:58:45,986\nconflicts with maybe signals and\n\n1239\n00:58:46,036 --> 00:58:49,176\ndriveways. And again,\n\n1240\n00:58:49,216 --> 00:58:52,016\nlocation-specific. Again, it's the lower cost stuff.\n\n1241\n00:58:52,136 --> 00:58:55,736\nSignal repair, signing upgrades, some green striping in\n\n1242\n00:58:55,976 --> 00:58:59,136\nbi-bicycle conflict zones. The medium\n\n1243\n00:58:59,216 --> 00:59:02,956\ncomplexity is evaluate, removing eastbound left turns\n\n1244\n00:59:03,056 --> 00:59:06,826\nand to add a pedestrian median refuge island to the marked\n\n1245\n00:59:06,826 --> 00:59:08,336\ncrossing at Seventeen.\n\n1246\n00:59:08,356 --> 00:59:08,696\nMm-hmm.\n\n1247\n00:59:08,736 --> 00:59:12,665\nAgain, like a lot of these, more investigation needs to happen\n\n1248\n00:59:12,696 --> 00:59:15,426\nto make sure that there aren't other consequences or it's feasible.\n\n1249\n00:59:15,436 --> 00:59:19,016\nBut that's just a recommendation for the group to look into.\n\n1250\n00:59:19,136 --> 00:59:22,376\nUh, and again, you know, higher complexity is replacing all way stop control at\n\n1251\n00:59:22,416 --> 00:59:24,545\nTwenty-ninth with like a signal or a roundabout.\n\n1252\n00:59:24,596 --> 00:59:27,476\nObviously that's a much bigger project.\n\n1253\n00:59:28,436 --> 00:59:32,156\nUh, in Walnut Boulevard, a-again,\n\n1254\n00:59:32,296 --> 00:59:35,956\ncorridor-wide recommendations again could be opportunities for leading\n\n1255\n00:59:36,036 --> 00:59:38,536\npedestrian intervals at those signals.\n\n1256\n00:59:38,636 --> 00:59:42,596\nUh, some opportunity to improve street lighting, curb extensions on\n\n1257\n00:59:42,676 --> 00:59:45,536\nto short crossings on some side streets.\n\n1258\n00:59:45,656 --> 00:59:49,546\nUh, and then obviously this is the next topic coming up, is, further\n\n1259\n00:59:49,596 --> 00:59:52,496\nevaluation of, trade-offs associated with lane\n\n1260\n00:59:52,536 --> 00:59:56,376\nreconfiguration, where you'd have one vehicle lane in each direction instead\n\n1261\n00:59:56,436 --> 00:59:58,136\nof two.\n\n1262\n00:59:59,296 --> 01:00:03,256\nUh, and then some of the location-specific things, down\n\n1263\n01:00:03,296 --> 01:00:06,346\ntowards the, the east end, there may be an opportunity to restripe to create\n\n1264\n01:00:06,356 --> 01:00:10,076\nbuffered bike lanes, from Circle to Jack London.\n\n1265\n01:00:10,146 --> 01:00:13,396\nAs you get more complex, there's some\n\n1266\n01:00:13,456 --> 01:00:17,235\nreconfiguring of the north leg of Aspen Street, so it matches the, the\n\n1267\n01:00:17,316 --> 01:00:21,196\nsouth side. Uh, and higher complexity, again, that's where we\n\n1268\n01:00:21,236 --> 01:00:24,856\nget into, you know, you need to replace a signal someday, consider doing a\n\n1269\n01:00:24,876 --> 01:00:26,256\nprotected intersection or a\n\n1270\n01:00:26,396 --> 01:00:29,296\nroundabout.\n\n1271\n01:00:30,736 --> 01:00:34,496\nUh, and so kinda the next steps for the road safety audits, as I mentioned before,\n\n1272\n01:00:35,056 --> 01:00:38,436\nstaff have those recommendations, so they need to go through and kinda,\n\n1273\n01:00:38,476 --> 01:00:42,416\nkinda vet those and provide a formal response letters, kind of, you\n\n1274\n01:00:42,456 --> 01:00:46,276\nknow, indicating which of those they think they can implement and maybe\n\n1275\n01:00:46,356 --> 01:00:49,926\nintegrate into some future projects and which ones they may not be able\n\n1276\n01:00:49,956 --> 01:00:51,876\nto.\n\n1277\n01:00:54,356 --> 01:00:56,816\nPausing briefly before I move on.\n\n1278\n01:00:56,856 --> 01:01:00,596\nSo I've noticed patterns in your recommendations.\n\n1279\n01:01:00,676 --> 01:01:04,036\nUm, could we safely assume that those patterned\n\n1280\n01:01:04,116 --> 01:01:07,736\nrecommendations could then also be applied to other streets that you didn't do the\n\n1281\n01:01:07,776 --> 01:01:11,196\nroad safety audit on, just, just good practice?\n\n1282\n01:01:12,328 --> 01:01:16,188\nThey certainly could, yeah. Yeah, it's kinda, similar to some of the\n\n1283\n01:01:16,248 --> 01:01:19,768\nnecessary strategies we'll talk about later, where there's sometimes there's just,\n\n1284\n01:01:19,788 --> 01:01:23,288\nthere's safety improvements you can do that are low cost, but you can apply them to\n\n1285\n01:01:23,328 --> 01:01:25,668\na broad spectrum of places.\n\n1286\n01:01:25,688 --> 01:01:29,408\nMm-hmm. Because there were-- there's definitely streets that you didn't\n\n1287\n01:01:29,448 --> 01:01:30,168\ndo.\n\n1288\n01:01:30,208 --> 01:01:30,308\nMm-hmm.\n\n1289\n01:01:30,368 --> 01:01:33,618\nAnd I can see some of these applying just as nicely as\n\n1290\n01:01:33,628 --> 01:01:34,368\nthat.\n\n1291\n01:01:34,468 --> 01:01:34,728\nUm-\n\n1292\n01:01:34,748 --> 01:01:37,848\nYes. And one of the distinctions is you're doing a\n\n1293\n01:01:37,888 --> 01:01:39,488\nmulti-lane-\n\n1294\n01:01:39,548 --> 01:01:40,468\nArterials\n\n1295\n01:01:40,478 --> 01:01:44,068\n... arterials list. So that you're seeing that one, seeing consistent\n\n1296\n01:01:44,128 --> 01:01:46,128\nrecommendations for a consistent-\n\n1297\n01:01:46,168 --> 01:01:46,308\nYeah\n\n1298\n01:01:46,388 --> 01:01:47,528\n... category of street.\n\n1299\n01:01:47,548 --> 01:01:49,148\nMm-hmm.\n\n1300\n01:01:49,228 --> 01:01:52,468\nUh, one comment on the... Well, that's an\n\n1301\n01:01:52,508 --> 01:01:54,538\ninteresting street. Um,\n\n1302\n01:01:55,988 --> 01:01:58,548\nseems like-- I, I think there's a, there's a real,\n\n1303\n01:02:00,808 --> 01:02:04,048\nlike to s- see, us address it very holistically,\n\n1304\n01:02:04,128 --> 01:02:07,508\nthe safety challenges. Because all, well, that's not\n\n1305\n01:02:07,608 --> 01:02:10,968\nparticular, right? People don't feel safe, that's for\n\n1306\n01:02:11,028 --> 01:02:12,418\nsure. Maybe.\n\n1307\n01:02:13,568 --> 01:02:13,888\nUm,\n\n1308\n01:02:15,268 --> 01:02:18,868\nwhen we look at the, transportation safety\n\n1309\n01:02:19,148 --> 01:02:21,858\naction plan, Walnut doesn't show up super\n\n1310\n01:02:21,928 --> 01:02:25,808\nhigh. Uh, but it seems to me that in Walnut in\n\n1311\n01:02:25,868 --> 01:02:29,738\nparticular, the challenge of,\n\n1312\n01:02:30,328 --> 01:02:32,568\nthis, the further analysis that was talked\n\n1313\n01:02:32,648 --> 01:02:36,568\nabout, I think needs to happen, about\n\n1314\n01:02:37,288 --> 01:02:40,568\nhow do you, how do you address congestion,\n\n1315\n01:02:40,968 --> 01:02:44,478\ntraffic safety, road con- reconfiguration, et cetera.\n\n1316\n01:02:44,548 --> 01:02:48,048\nI think that kind of further analysis does need\n\n1317\n01:02:48,108 --> 01:02:49,948\nto, to happen.\n\n1318\n01:02:50,368 --> 01:02:53,948\nThere'll be an opportunity. So as far as\n\n1319\n01:02:55,348 --> 01:02:59,208\nthey were reviewing the documents, and we'll accept TSAP, it's\n\n1320\n01:02:59,248 --> 01:03:02,768\nnot an action to take on, on the supplemental planning activities, but\n\n1321\n01:03:02,828 --> 01:03:03,988\nthere, there will be a\n\n1322\n01:03:04,968 --> 01:03:08,448\nconversation later about, you know, you only have so many\n\n1323\n01:03:08,508 --> 01:03:10,408\nstaff, and you only have\n\n1324\n01:03:11,268 --> 01:03:13,728\nso much money to do whatever work you wanna do.\n\n1325\n01:03:13,748 --> 01:03:17,508\nAnd if you decided that, you know, the benefit of a TSAP is\n\n1326\n01:03:17,568 --> 01:03:19,308\nit's, it's a data-driven-\n\n1327\n01:03:19,348 --> 01:03:19,648\nYeah\n\n1328\n01:03:19,668 --> 01:03:21,588\n... exercise, identifying safety.\n\n1329\n01:03:21,628 --> 01:03:25,008\nIf you decided that something else that,\n\n1330\n01:03:26,248 --> 01:03:28,788\nhas a, a legitimate safety\n\n1331\n01:03:28,828 --> 01:03:32,348\nbenefit, but didn't yet have, the\n\n1332\n01:03:32,448 --> 01:03:36,418\naccidents associated with them was a higher priority to focus on than\n\n1333\n01:03:36,448 --> 01:03:40,268\nthe areas that are already experiencing accidents, you can do that.\n\n1334\n01:03:40,308 --> 01:03:44,128\nOr you might say, \"We need to invest in signals, or we need to do more\n\n1335\n01:03:44,348 --> 01:03:47,958\nsafety work.\" That, that'll be a future conversation, and, and you will\n\n1336\n01:03:48,708 --> 01:03:52,128\nhave that opportunity to prioritize and provide some guidance.\n\n1337\n01:03:52,168 --> 01:03:56,128\nYeah. Okay. So to be clear, I wasn't suggesting we prioritize.\n\n1338\n01:03:56,168 --> 01:03:59,248\nI think the TSAP is, is a great place to\n\n1339\n01:03:59,348 --> 01:04:02,648\nstart, and I just was commenting that Walnut as a\n\n1340\n01:04:03,228 --> 01:04:06,608\nparticular... I wouldn't, I wouldn't want us to see-- to do some things that appear\n\n1341\n01:04:06,648 --> 01:04:10,268\nto be low-hanging fruit, but were just likely we looked at a\n\n1342\n01:04:10,488 --> 01:04:12,538\nbigger experiment throwaway investment.\n\n1343\n01:04:12,888 --> 01:04:16,708\nYeah. Absolutely.\n\n1344\n01:04:18,968 --> 01:04:22,848\nSpeaking of Walnut Boulevard, so the, the\n\n1345\n01:04:22,988 --> 01:04:26,368\nnext supplemental planning activity, was a\n\n1346\n01:04:26,508 --> 01:04:29,988\nfeasibility assessment of doing a lane\n\n1347\n01:04:30,048 --> 01:04:33,128\nreconfiguration on Walnut Boulevard.\n\n1348\n01:04:33,148 --> 01:04:36,488\nAnd so, a-again, I'll emphasize, it's like if you, if you read this, there are no\n\n1349\n01:04:36,548 --> 01:04:39,638\nspecific recommendations, and I'm sure there are a lot more questions that have to\n\n1350\n01:04:39,638 --> 01:04:43,328\nbe answered. This is really taking that first step and saying, you know,\n\n1351\n01:04:43,648 --> 01:04:46,448\nkinda like, is this fatally flawed? Does this look like it could work?\n\n1352\n01:04:46,488 --> 01:04:48,348\nIs it, you know, worth further conversation,\n\n1353\n01:04:48,368 --> 01:04:50,488\npotentially?\n\n1354\n01:04:50,588 --> 01:04:52,868\nUm,\n\n1355\n01:04:54,568 --> 01:04:57,898\nand so kinda the, you know, the, the why, you know, we would consider this, and,\n\n1356\n01:04:57,928 --> 01:05:00,608\nyou know, why is it part of this SS four A project?\n\n1357\n01:05:00,688 --> 01:05:04,608\nUh, there are pretty significant potential safety benefits of, you know,\n\n1358\n01:05:04,668 --> 01:05:08,328\nconversions like that, where you're going from, you know, particularly in the\n\n1359\n01:05:08,368 --> 01:05:11,888\nsection where you have four lanes, you're going down to, to three.\n\n1360\n01:05:11,988 --> 01:05:12,968\nUh,\n\n1361\n01:05:14,168 --> 01:05:17,968\nand, you know, one of them is just addressing speeding.\n\n1362\n01:05:18,448 --> 01:05:20,988\nUh, speeds themselves don't always drop a lot.\n\n1363\n01:05:21,008 --> 01:05:24,548\nThe speeding certainly gets curved because now the slowest people in the platoon\n\n1364\n01:05:24,728 --> 01:05:28,108\ncontrol how fast everybody goes. You know, there's no passing.\n\n1365\n01:05:28,308 --> 01:05:31,767\nUm, let's say the similar conversions when you go from, like a four-lane\n\n1366\n01:05:31,848 --> 01:05:34,828\nsection like is shown there, to one where you have one lane each direction with a\n\n1367\n01:05:34,848 --> 01:05:38,508\ncenter turn, a center turn lane, they see a\n\n1368\n01:05:38,548 --> 01:05:41,858\ntwenty-nine percent reduction in all crashes, which is pretty significant.\n\n1369\n01:05:41,868 --> 01:05:42,848\nMm-hmm.\n\n1370\n01:05:42,948 --> 01:05:46,928\nUm, there's obviously more room for doing like protected bike lanes or,\n\n1371\n01:05:46,948 --> 01:05:49,898\nyou know, other kinds of accommodations for, you know, people walking and\n\n1372\n01:05:49,908 --> 01:05:53,668\nbiking. Uh, it's easier and safer to cross the\n\n1373\n01:05:53,728 --> 01:05:57,568\nstreet. Uh, not only sometimes is it shorter distance to\n\n1374\n01:05:57,608 --> 01:06:01,428\ncross, but as illustrated in that graphic, you eliminate what's\n\n1375\n01:06:01,468 --> 01:06:05,388\nnow referred to as the multiple threat issue, where one car stops for\n\n1376\n01:06:05,448 --> 01:06:09,288\na pedestrian, but they create a visual obstruction when they do\n\n1377\n01:06:09,348 --> 01:06:13,308\nthat, and another oncoming car may not see the pedestrian and, you know,\n\n1378\n01:06:13,348 --> 01:06:15,688\nstill, still stop the car.\n\n1379\n01:06:16,808 --> 01:06:20,608\nUm, and also, you know, as you-- we'll get into a little bit later, whether you do\n\n1380\n01:06:20,628 --> 01:06:24,508\nright turn lanes or not, those can have additional, safety benefits\n\n1381\n01:06:24,548 --> 01:06:28,338\nand give you some options on how to, eliminate conflicts\n\n1382\n01:06:28,408 --> 01:06:31,318\nor improve, conflicts with, bikes and\n\n1383\n01:06:31,408 --> 01:06:35,388\ncars. Um, and this also gives us opportunities\n\n1384\n01:06:35,408 --> 01:06:38,278\nto potentially use a kind of conflict marking.\n\n1385\n01:06:38,388 --> 01:06:41,768\nUh, so kinda what did we evaluate when we did this?\n\n1386\n01:06:41,788 --> 01:06:43,748\nThere are a few different scenarios.\n\n1387\n01:06:43,868 --> 01:06:47,488\nUh, one was, obviously keeping the current four/five-lane\n\n1388\n01:06:47,528 --> 01:06:50,808\nlayouts. We, you know, leave it as it is. We looked at the no-build.\n\n1389\n01:06:50,848 --> 01:06:54,488\nOne was, what if we change it to one lane each direction with a center turn lane,\n\n1390\n01:06:54,608 --> 01:06:58,428\nso I call the three lane. Uh, and then these other ones are saying,\n\n1391\n01:06:58,468 --> 01:07:01,848\nokay, well, at least at the intersections, what if we add right turn lanes,\n\n1392\n01:07:01,908 --> 01:07:03,978\nespecially where we have heavier right turn volumes.\n\n1393\n01:07:04,008 --> 01:07:07,948\nSo it's not a pure three lane, at least the intersections, we're doing that to\n\n1394\n01:07:08,128 --> 01:07:09,628\nrelieve a little bit of congestion.\n\n1395\n01:07:10,288 --> 01:07:14,268\nAnd then the last one mentioned there, it would have been that scenario, plus we\n\n1396\n01:07:14,308 --> 01:07:18,016\ndiscoveredThrough this, you probably don't want to reduce the\n\n1397\n01:07:18,036 --> 01:07:21,936\nlanes between 9th Street and NFW because they're so\n\n1398\n01:07:21,996 --> 01:07:25,256\nclose together, we need the lanes just to store vehicles, or they're end up\n\n1399\n01:07:25,276 --> 01:07:28,216\nspilling back into both intersections.\n\n1400\n01:07:28,256 --> 01:07:29,716\nThis creates a huge conflict.\n\n1401\n01:07:30,996 --> 01:07:33,976\nSo what did we consider in this feasibility assessment?\n\n1402\n01:07:34,096 --> 01:07:37,556\nUh, one thing we did was we thought we would use the TSP\n\n1403\n01:07:37,616 --> 01:07:40,896\ngoals, to kind of s-frame up evaluation\n\n1404\n01:07:40,916 --> 01:07:44,696\ncriteria. So we, we referred to the goals in the transportation system\n\n1405\n01:07:44,776 --> 01:07:48,536\nplan related to safety, viable automobile\n\n1406\n01:07:48,596 --> 01:07:52,546\nalternatives, and efficient movement of people, and goods,\n\n1407\n01:07:52,636 --> 01:07:56,436\nor maybe more simply, I would state the last two are kind of people that are\n\n1408\n01:07:56,476 --> 01:07:59,296\nwalking, biking, using transit, and the last one is, you know, people\n\n1409\n01:07:59,316 --> 01:08:02,956\ndriving. Um, and then on the\n\n1410\n01:08:03,016 --> 01:08:06,796\nright there, I show kind of the more specific evaluation criteria that we\n\n1411\n01:08:06,816 --> 01:08:10,276\nlooked at, like potential crash reduction, you know, how much\n\n1412\n01:08:10,336 --> 01:08:13,556\nseparation can we get between, cars and people walking and\n\n1413\n01:08:13,576 --> 01:08:17,396\nbiking, potential speed reduction, comfort for people\n\n1414\n01:08:17,436 --> 01:08:20,556\nwalking and biking, what it can do for,\n\n1415\n01:08:21,376 --> 01:08:24,576\npedestrian crossings, obviously auto\n\n1416\n01:08:24,656 --> 01:08:28,196\ndelay, and then potential for traffic diversion.\n\n1417\n01:08:28,217 --> 01:08:29,406\nAnd what I mean by that is\n\n1418\n01:08:30,337 --> 01:08:33,896\nif we do create some congestion, more delay on Walnut,\n\n1419\n01:08:34,337 --> 01:08:37,596\nhonestly, what we don't wanna have happen is people try to bypass that and go\n\n1420\n01:08:37,616 --> 01:08:40,576\nthrough neighborhoods, right? And bypass through there.\n\n1421\n01:08:40,637 --> 01:08:44,156\nSo we did some, some modeling and testing to see what the potential was for\n\n1422\n01:08:44,217 --> 01:08:48,076\nthat. Um, obviously in exercises like this, as you would\n\n1423\n01:08:48,116 --> 01:08:51,706\nexpect to see is, you know, some modes like\n\n1424\n01:08:51,717 --> 01:08:55,326\nwalking, biking are probably really gonna benefit from a lot of this stuff.\n\n1425\n01:08:55,416 --> 01:08:58,896\nUh, driving, they're giving something up, right? They're giving up some capacity.\n\n1426\n01:08:58,936 --> 01:09:02,776\nSo it's, it's really a big question of-- or understanding what the trade-offs\n\n1427\n01:09:02,936 --> 01:09:06,316\nare, and then for the community to decide what the appropriate balance\n\n1428\n01:09:06,396 --> 01:09:08,677\nis.\n\n1429\n01:09:09,556 --> 01:09:13,467\nUh, so from that, that first kind of major, criteria, safety, and\n\n1430\n01:09:13,516 --> 01:09:17,177\nI really kind of touched on this already, there are\n\n1431\n01:09:17,236 --> 01:09:20,856\nsignificant safety, benefits, potentially by doing this\n\n1432\n01:09:20,896 --> 01:09:22,946\nconversion. Um,\n\n1433\n01:09:24,797 --> 01:09:27,896\nand like, I won't touch anymore 'cause I'm probably short on time.\n\n1434\n01:09:27,916 --> 01:09:31,056\nBut yes, that one's a clear winner overall safety to do this\n\n1435\n01:09:31,096 --> 01:09:33,837\nconversion. A lot of potential for\n\n1436\n01:09:33,856 --> 01:09:37,656\nimprovement. Uh, now when you get to the, active\n\n1437\n01:09:37,717 --> 01:09:40,996\ntransportation modes, so walking, biking,\n\n1438\n01:09:41,016 --> 01:09:44,816\ntransit. Uh, one key assumption that we, we did, I highlighted in\n\n1439\n01:09:44,856 --> 01:09:48,137\nyellow there, is that if we're doing this, we're probably gonna leave the curbs\n\n1440\n01:09:48,236 --> 01:09:52,177\nwhere they are. Um, just 'cause it makes it way more affordable, right?\n\n1441\n01:09:52,217 --> 01:09:56,066\nWe could do it much, much faster. Um, so if\n\n1442\n01:09:56,156 --> 01:10:00,096\nyou do that, obviously with that extra width, there's a lot of\n\n1443\n01:10:00,196 --> 01:10:02,636\noptions you have for what you do with the bicycles.\n\n1444\n01:10:02,696 --> 01:10:05,536\nWe did not go through different design treatments.\n\n1445\n01:10:05,576 --> 01:10:09,216\nWe assumed if you pursue this further, that stuff can be discussed\n\n1446\n01:10:09,316 --> 01:10:12,836\nmore. But it could be something, right, that's shown in that illustration, 'cause\n\n1447\n01:10:12,876 --> 01:10:14,876\nyou, you know, that's the kind of room you would have.\n\n1448\n01:10:14,936 --> 01:10:17,936\nSo it could be some kind of protected facility.\n\n1449\n01:10:18,056 --> 01:10:21,696\nUm, for people walking,\n\n1450\n01:10:21,916 --> 01:10:24,896\nbecause we're not moving the curbs, the sidewalks aren't gonna get bigger, wider,\n\n1451\n01:10:24,996 --> 01:10:28,676\nbut there is now probably more of a buffer between the cars and them, right?\n\n1452\n01:10:28,716 --> 01:10:31,796\nIf we have more space being preserved for the bikes.\n\n1453\n01:10:32,516 --> 01:10:36,416\nUh, also, as I mentioned before, your crossings are gonna probably get easier\n\n1454\n01:10:36,456 --> 01:10:40,236\nand safer. So, you know, it's a, it's a win for\n\n1455\n01:10:40,296 --> 01:10:43,656\npeople walking. Transit, I got the question mark there,\n\n1456\n01:10:44,256 --> 01:10:47,556\nkind of depends on the design choices you make going forward.\n\n1457\n01:10:47,576 --> 01:10:51,516\nThe thing about transit is access to transit, same with people walking and biking\n\n1458\n01:10:51,576 --> 01:10:55,536\nfor all the reasons I mentioned before, it's probably gonna get better and, and be\n\n1459\n01:10:55,556 --> 01:10:59,216\neasier and safer. But, but buses also\n\n1460\n01:10:59,256 --> 01:11:02,576\ndrive right in the travel lanes, and so some of the things that, the\n\n1461\n01:11:02,756 --> 01:11:06,016\ndetractions from people that are driving, buses also have to deal with.\n\n1462\n01:11:06,076 --> 01:11:09,516\nSo if there's more congestion, that's gonna affect their travel times as\n\n1463\n01:11:09,576 --> 01:11:13,396\nwell. Or if you choose to do bus stops in lane versus\n\n1464\n01:11:13,756 --> 01:11:17,616\nhaving them pull out, it's probably gonna be harder for them to get into the\n\n1465\n01:11:17,676 --> 01:11:21,536\nnew three-lane section. So there are some trade-offs for transit,\n\n1466\n01:11:21,576 --> 01:11:25,116\nand usually it's a positive change, but could depend on the design\n\n1467\n01:11:25,176 --> 01:11:26,776\nchoices you ultimately make.\n\n1468\n01:11:26,796 --> 01:11:28,216\nMm.\n\n1469\n01:11:30,116 --> 01:11:34,016\nUh, so with that said, the last category is really kind of how does\n\n1470\n01:11:34,136 --> 01:11:37,175\nthis, this affect, you know, driving through the corridor.\n\n1471\n01:11:37,295 --> 01:11:40,436\nUh, and I will say just for this feasibility assessment, we only looked at the\n\n1472\n01:11:40,476 --> 01:11:44,456\np.m./p.m. hour. So if there's morning issues with, you know, schools or whatnot,\n\n1473\n01:11:44,476 --> 01:11:48,376\nwe didn't look at that for this. Uh, we looked at what happens in twenty\n\n1474\n01:11:48,456 --> 01:11:52,196\ntwenty-five, so if you did it right away, versus what happens in twenty years, so\n\n1475\n01:11:52,236 --> 01:11:56,176\nyear twenty forty-five. And to kind of assess\n\n1476\n01:11:56,836 --> 01:12:00,576\nif, you know, the acceptable level of congestion, we used Corvallis's\n\n1477\n01:12:00,616 --> 01:12:04,596\nadopted mobility standards. This, you know, same thing a developer would\n\n1478\n01:12:04,636 --> 01:12:08,276\nuse if they do a transportation, you know, impact study.\n\n1479\n01:12:08,396 --> 01:12:09,416\nUh, and so\n\n1480\n01:12:10,416 --> 01:12:14,156\nfrom the no-build scenario, what we found was congestion\n\n1481\n01:12:14,216 --> 01:12:18,036\nlevels at all the intersections are within adopted standards today,\n\n1482\n01:12:18,096 --> 01:12:22,076\nand all but Highland Drive intersection would be in twenty forty-five.\n\n1483\n01:12:23,256 --> 01:12:26,976\nUm, so now if we go to the three-lane, this is with no right turn\n\n1484\n01:12:27,016 --> 01:12:30,116\nlanes, pure three-lane, now Highland and\n\n1485\n01:12:30,196 --> 01:12:33,976\nTwenty-Ninth, they get fairly congested today, so they wouldn't meet your mobility\n\n1486\n01:12:34,116 --> 01:12:37,916\nstandards, and they'd get, you know, fairly worse by twenty\n\n1487\n01:12:38,036 --> 01:12:41,516\nforty-five. But really no other intersections, have that\n\n1488\n01:12:41,556 --> 01:12:45,316\nproblem. So then if we go back, and we add some right turn\n\n1489\n01:12:45,326 --> 01:12:49,156\nlanes in at the congested locations, now Highland\n\n1490\n01:12:49,216 --> 01:12:53,036\nDrive is congested today as well as in twenty forty-five, but\n\n1491\n01:12:53,176 --> 01:12:54,976\nTwenty-Ninth isn't a problem anymore.\n\n1492\n01:12:55,516 --> 01:12:59,446\nUm, and while it varies from place to place, the levels of\n\n1493\n01:12:59,496 --> 01:13:03,446\ncongestion are fairly comparable to the no-build condition.\n\n1494\n01:13:03,496 --> 01:13:07,336\nSo right turn lanes added strategically where they're needed can certainly\n\n1495\n01:13:07,376 --> 01:13:09,696\nhelp with congestion at the intersections.\n\n1496\n01:13:09,796 --> 01:13:12,976\nUh, but again, a lot of this is gonna come down ultimately, if this were to be\n\n1497\n01:13:13,016 --> 01:13:15,916\npursued, is what design choices you end up making in the future.\n\n1498\n01:13:16,196 --> 01:13:17,316\nCan I ask a question?\n\n1499\n01:13:17,356 --> 01:13:17,616\nYeah.\n\n1500\n01:13:17,656 --> 01:13:21,566\nWhat-- How do you determine the number of cars twenty\n\n1501\n01:13:21,616 --> 01:13:24,516\nyears out? What kind of da-- How do you pull that data?\n\n1502\n01:13:24,772 --> 01:13:28,392\nUh, so it's, it's using, the, regional\n\n1503\n01:13:28,472 --> 01:13:31,902\ntravel demand model, that, is,\n\n1504\n01:13:32,672 --> 01:13:34,822\nmanaged by the Oregon Department of Transportation.\n\n1505\n01:13:34,852 --> 01:13:38,092\nSo it's the same forecasting model that's used for your\n\n1506\n01:13:38,132 --> 01:13:41,952\ntransportation system plan and for the, the regional transportation\n\n1507\n01:13:42,012 --> 01:13:45,912\nplan. And it, it, has coordinated\n\n1508\n01:13:46,012 --> 01:13:49,892\npopulation, you know, employment, right, housing projections,\n\n1509\n01:13:50,452 --> 01:13:53,182\nthat have been coordinated with the, the cities, the counties\n\n1510\n01:13:54,072 --> 01:13:57,932\nbuilt into this. So it's, it's based on the long-term projection\n\n1511\n01:13:57,992 --> 01:14:00,592\nfor, the city and its surroundings.\n\n1512\n01:14:00,652 --> 01:14:03,712\nOkay. Do you know how current it is?\n\n1513\n01:14:03,812 --> 01:14:05,852\nUm, they updated it\n\n1514\n01:14:06,872 --> 01:14:07,692\na few years ago.\n\n1515\n01:14:08,532 --> 01:14:09,252\nOkay. That'll work.\n\n1516\n01:14:09,292 --> 01:14:13,132\nYeah. We did a little bit of refinement based on kind of what we know now\n\n1517\n01:14:13,192 --> 01:14:15,892\nabout where development is or isn't likely gonna happen, but\n\n1518\n01:14:15,912 --> 01:14:18,452\nit's fairly true.\n\n1519\n01:14:18,532 --> 01:14:19,292\nThank you.\n\n1520\n01:14:19,352 --> 01:14:23,181\nYes. Um,\n\n1521\n01:14:23,392 --> 01:14:26,792\nso looking at travel time, so I don't know how many people drive the whole length,\n\n1522\n01:14:26,812 --> 01:14:29,882\nbut, you know, instead of just looking at the intersections, we said, \"Well, what\n\n1523\n01:14:29,892 --> 01:14:33,182\nif you drove the whole corridor? How much difference does it make?\"\n\n1524\n01:14:33,272 --> 01:14:37,232\nUh, and this was, with the right turn lanes in place,\n\n1525\n01:14:37,332 --> 01:14:41,312\nif you'd went, end to end, increased travel time by one to\n\n1526\n01:14:41,372 --> 01:14:44,552\ntwo minutes, depending on if you're going with the, the peak flow of direction or\n\n1527\n01:14:44,652 --> 01:14:47,772\nnot. And that's about a fifteen to thirty percent\n\n1528\n01:14:47,812 --> 01:14:51,712\nincrease. Uh, so that's about, I think it was like seven minutes in the\n\n1529\n01:14:51,752 --> 01:14:54,912\nno build scenario.\n\n1530\n01:14:55,052 --> 01:14:58,952\nUm, so again, on the diversion issue, and again, this is\n\n1531\n01:14:59,012 --> 01:15:02,112\nwhere we used that, that travel demand model I referenced,\n\n1532\n01:15:03,532 --> 01:15:05,572\nand kind of tested, okay, if we have this\n\n1533\n01:15:05,642 --> 01:15:06,392\ncongestion,\n\n1534\n01:15:07,272 --> 01:15:10,332\nwhere... are we gonna lose any traffic to another route?\n\n1535\n01:15:10,432 --> 01:15:13,072\nAnd again, this was done kind of with the worst case\n\n1536\n01:15:13,152 --> 01:15:16,172\nscenario, I believe. Um,\n\n1537\n01:15:16,212 --> 01:15:19,852\nso, there is some diversion around Highland, right?\n\n1538\n01:15:19,892 --> 01:15:22,852\nBecause that's really the main congestion point.\n\n1539\n01:15:22,872 --> 01:15:25,832\nBut if, you know, you're familiar with the area, we don't really have a strong\n\n1540\n01:15:25,892 --> 01:15:29,672\nstreet grid, right? So there's not a lot of other places to go.\n\n1541\n01:15:29,712 --> 01:15:33,552\nAnd so Circle Boulevard, you know, is probably likely\n\n1542\n01:15:33,631 --> 01:15:37,262\nto pick up, just as another parallel arterial, about a hundred and\n\n1543\n01:15:37,392 --> 01:15:41,332\nfifty vehicles. That's about a twenty, twenty-five percent increase.\n\n1544\n01:15:41,412 --> 01:15:44,712\nUh, now again, it's just during the peak hour. That's the only time we've analyzed.\n\n1545\n01:15:44,792 --> 01:15:47,972\nUh, but that was in the twenty forty-five scenario with no right turn lane.\n\n1546\n01:15:48,012 --> 01:15:50,612\nSo that's our worst case scenario.\n\n1547\n01:15:50,732 --> 01:15:53,852\nUh, and then looking at local\n\n1548\n01:15:53,992 --> 01:15:57,652\nstreets, was really the place where you really don't want a lot of that\n\n1549\n01:15:57,672 --> 01:16:01,552\ndiversion. Thirteenth and Garriana are, you know, the likely\n\n1550\n01:16:01,612 --> 01:16:04,861\nplaces where if you're gonna see some diversion like that, that's probably where it\n\n1551\n01:16:04,872 --> 01:16:08,332\nwould happen, people trying to get around, you know, Highland.\n\n1552\n01:16:08,592 --> 01:16:12,192\nThat was more on the order of, you know, less than fifty total between the\n\n1553\n01:16:12,232 --> 01:16:15,932\ntwo. So it's not really bad, but again, it could\n\n1554\n01:16:15,972 --> 01:16:17,792\ndepend on the design choices that you make.\n\n1555\n01:16:17,852 --> 01:16:20,992\nIf you do the right turn lanes, alleviate some of that congestion, maybe\n\n1556\n01:16:21,692 --> 01:16:25,292\nthat demand really drops, or maybe there's some traffic calming treatment that\n\n1557\n01:16:25,352 --> 01:16:28,322\ncould be done as well as that to help curb that.\n\n1558\n01:16:28,392 --> 01:16:31,542\nUh, but at least from our preliminary assessment, that's what we're\n\n1559\n01:16:31,572 --> 01:16:35,312\nseeing. Um, so my last slide\n\n1560\n01:16:35,372 --> 01:16:38,372\nhere, it's, it's kind of-- So that's kind of what we have framed up.\n\n1561\n01:16:38,472 --> 01:16:42,452\nUm, and like I said, my kind of take on that is it doesn't seem\n\n1562\n01:16:42,512 --> 01:16:46,352\nfatally flawed. It seems feasible to continue exploring, but a\n\n1563\n01:16:46,412 --> 01:16:50,162\nlot of it's gonna depend on design choices that you make, and\n\n1564\n01:16:50,192 --> 01:16:53,552\nagain, community, preferences and decisions\n\n1565\n01:16:53,592 --> 01:16:57,452\nabout balancing out kind of those different modes, right?\n\n1566\n01:16:57,512 --> 01:17:00,892\nHow much you give in one area to get in another, and what's the acceptable\n\n1567\n01:17:00,912 --> 01:17:02,792\nbalance. Um,\n\n1568\n01:17:04,252 --> 01:17:07,872\nand, and certainly, hopefully, this, you know, stimulates the conversation if this\n\n1569\n01:17:07,932 --> 01:17:11,852\nis gonna go forward. It highlights more questions that need to be answered if\n\n1570\n01:17:11,892 --> 01:17:14,492\nyou take this to another step.\n\n1571\n01:17:14,512 --> 01:17:14,652\nMm-hmm.\n\n1572\n01:17:14,662 --> 01:17:15,252\nYes, sir.\n\n1573\n01:17:15,312 --> 01:17:16,012\nYes.\n\n1574\n01:17:16,052 --> 01:17:19,822\nJust two quick things to keep in mind as we leave this\n\n1575\n01:17:19,832 --> 01:17:23,752\ntopic. Um, there's a couple things that were happening at the same\n\n1576\n01:17:23,852 --> 01:17:27,242\ntime that we were doing this evaluation that I just wanna touch on for a\n\n1577\n01:17:27,272 --> 01:17:31,092\nmoment. Uh, one was, the school district talked about\n\n1578\n01:17:31,672 --> 01:17:35,252\nschool, school closures and redistribution of, children.\n\n1579\n01:17:35,292 --> 01:17:39,152\nOne of the things that we heard from community members, in the\n\n1580\n01:17:39,192 --> 01:17:43,152\nmiddle of the project was concern about what impact that might\n\n1581\n01:17:43,252 --> 01:17:47,072\nhave on the analysis that we were, we're doing here.\n\n1582\n01:17:47,192 --> 01:17:50,501\nUh, so we, we put our heads together and\n\n1583\n01:17:51,092 --> 01:17:54,172\ncrammed more work into an already tight schedule,\n\n1584\n01:17:55,452 --> 01:17:59,432\nand got, got with the school district, got information from them, on\n\n1585\n01:17:59,512 --> 01:18:02,912\nenrollment projections, did some analysis,\n\n1586\n01:18:03,032 --> 01:18:05,852\nand, found that the numbers\n\n1587\n01:18:06,092 --> 01:18:10,012\nas, projected didn't change the results of what we\n\n1588\n01:18:10,132 --> 01:18:13,342\nlooked at and would recommend, in the study here.\n\n1589\n01:18:13,372 --> 01:18:16,312\nSo didn't have a meaningful impact on intersection performance, for\n\n1590\n01:18:16,372 --> 01:18:20,352\nexample. Where, where we communicated with the\n\n1591\n01:18:20,412 --> 01:18:23,732\ntask force members where that still might be important to\n\n1592\n01:18:23,792 --> 01:18:27,392\npeople is when we have that funding discussion,\n\n1593\n01:18:27,912 --> 01:18:31,072\nlater about where do we want to invest and, and not invest\n\n1594\n01:18:31,192 --> 01:18:33,512\nwhen, what do, what do we invest in first.\n\n1595\n01:18:34,092 --> 01:18:36,312\nUh, that might be something that people point to.\n\n1596\n01:18:36,352 --> 01:18:39,752\nYou already have more kids, attending the school, that might\n\n1597\n01:18:39,792 --> 01:18:43,542\nbe a reason to invest in additional safety,\n\n1598\n01:18:43,882 --> 01:18:47,612\nimprovements sooner in one location over another that might have data\n\n1599\n01:18:47,672 --> 01:18:50,012\nthat's, that's, that's showing a problem.\n\n1600\n01:18:50,052 --> 01:18:53,452\nThat'll be a conversation to have later.\n\n1601\n01:18:53,532 --> 01:18:57,272\nUh, the other thing that was happening at the same time, was a\n\n1602\n01:18:57,332 --> 01:18:59,372\nconversation about,\n\n1603\n01:19:02,092 --> 01:19:05,212\nstreets SDCs, and there was concern about removal of\n\n1604\n01:19:05,272 --> 01:19:08,752\na recreational path, parallel\n\n1605\n01:19:09,112 --> 01:19:12,492\nWalnut in the near term, funding, their,\n\n1606\n01:19:13,332 --> 01:19:15,332\nall, all, for their projects as well.\n\n1607\n01:19:15,352 --> 01:19:17,972\nThat wasn't needed from a transportation perspective.\n\n1608\n01:19:17,992 --> 01:19:21,052\nIt's not like a TSP, pedestrian\n\n1609\n01:19:21,592 --> 01:19:24,712\npath. So it is, was, was there from a recreational\n\n1610\n01:19:24,792 --> 01:19:28,784\nperspectiveBut there again, it was another thing that, if\n\n1611\n01:19:28,844 --> 01:19:32,784\nconstructed, might have provided another alternative,\n\n1612\n01:19:33,204 --> 01:19:36,664\nfor people, and that might be another reason why,\n\n1613\n01:19:37,084 --> 01:19:40,184\nsomeone might look at improvements on, on Walnut\n\n1614\n01:19:40,724 --> 01:19:44,484\neven though the data isn't there. I'm not advocating one way or another,\n\n1615\n01:19:44,844 --> 01:19:47,704\nand I'm not trying to argue one way or the\n\n1616\n01:19:47,804 --> 01:19:51,244\nother. Um, but there are some real things\n\n1617\n01:19:51,344 --> 01:19:54,594\nthat are gonna come, that are gonna come up\n\n1618\n01:19:54,844 --> 01:19:58,724\nthat, warrant consideration when you do get to the point of\n\n1619\n01:19:58,764 --> 01:20:01,784\nweighing those things. And we tried to be mindful of the ones that we\n\n1620\n01:20:01,844 --> 01:20:05,544\ncould, put numbers to, like the school district, in\n\n1621\n01:20:05,584 --> 01:20:09,304\nthis, in this analysis so we were current with the times.\n\n1622\n01:20:09,864 --> 01:20:13,344\nThat's actually gonna be very helpful with some of the\n\n1623\n01:20:13,384 --> 01:20:16,673\nconversations, you having done that, so thanks for taking the extra time.\n\n1624\n01:20:16,684 --> 01:20:17,564\nYeah. Yeah.\n\n1625\n01:20:17,584 --> 01:20:19,904\nThanks to John. It wasn't, it wasn't easy to\n\n1626\n01:20:19,944 --> 01:20:21,764\naccommodate.\n\n1627\n01:20:21,784 --> 01:20:24,673\nWho ever did that?\n\n1628\n01:20:26,724 --> 01:20:30,484\nI'll move on. Uh, I'm probably gonna have to hit the\n\n1629\n01:20:30,524 --> 01:20:32,564\naccelerator here a little bit too.\n\n1630\n01:20:32,724 --> 01:20:33,104\nUm,\n\n1631\n01:20:34,244 --> 01:20:36,304\nthird supplemental planning activity.\n\n1632\n01:20:36,344 --> 01:20:39,504\nSo Neighborhood Traffic Management Program Assessment.\n\n1633\n01:20:39,604 --> 01:20:43,204\nUh, so what we did is essentially we audited the city's\n\n1634\n01:20:43,264 --> 01:20:46,764\ncurrent, you know, neighborhood traffic calming program, which is very well\n\n1635\n01:20:46,904 --> 01:20:50,624\ndocumented. Um, and, kind of looked at that\n\n1636\n01:20:50,704 --> 01:20:53,454\ncompared to best practices, and, and,\n\n1637\n01:20:54,384 --> 01:20:58,084\ntalked to staff about kind of their experiences with it and,\n\n1638\n01:20:58,514 --> 01:21:02,034\nprovided some recommendations to look into to, improve the\n\n1639\n01:21:02,104 --> 01:21:05,904\nprogram. Uh, looking at, kind of key things like how\n\n1640\n01:21:06,044 --> 01:21:09,154\ncommunity requests are processed and your roles and\n\n1641\n01:21:09,204 --> 01:21:12,764\nresponsibilities between community members and staff.\n\n1642\n01:21:12,844 --> 01:21:16,514\nYou know, how satisfied, staff and the city have been with the outcomes they've\n\n1643\n01:21:16,544 --> 01:21:20,474\nbeen getting. Uh, and then just, you know, kind of equitable access and,\n\n1644\n01:21:20,484 --> 01:21:22,564\nand outcomes.\n\n1645\n01:21:23,604 --> 01:21:27,204\nUm, so the current program, if you're not\n\n1646\n01:21:27,244 --> 01:21:31,234\nfamiliar with it, it's, it's a very structured process, and it's for\n\n1647\n01:21:31,284 --> 01:21:34,224\nreducing speeds and cut-through traffic on neighborhood streets.\n\n1648\n01:21:34,244 --> 01:21:37,524\nSo this is specifically applicable to local streets, so not arterials and\n\n1649\n01:21:37,564 --> 01:21:41,124\ncollectors. Um, and it emphasizes goals.\n\n1650\n01:21:41,164 --> 01:21:44,784\nYou know, it's trying to achieve neighborhood livability, create broad\n\n1651\n01:21:44,864 --> 01:21:47,764\ncommunity involvement. You know, you have efficient uses of city\n\n1652\n01:21:47,784 --> 01:21:51,584\nresources, and involve periodic assessment\n\n1653\n01:21:51,704 --> 01:21:55,444\nof effectiveness. Uh, and so this is where I might\n\n1654\n01:21:55,464 --> 01:21:59,124\nl-move a little bit quickly. Um, so I'll kind of\n\n1655\n01:21:59,204 --> 01:22:01,524\nquickly run through the process as it is.\n\n1656\n01:22:01,584 --> 01:22:04,854\nSo requests can be submitted any time right now.\n\n1657\n01:22:04,964 --> 01:22:08,784\nUh, when the city gets requests, first they try to do enforcement strategies\n\n1658\n01:22:08,844 --> 01:22:10,864\nto see if that will fix the problem.\n\n1659\n01:22:10,904 --> 01:22:14,444\nThat doesn't work, then the requester must\n\n1660\n01:22:14,504 --> 01:22:18,044\ncirculate a petition to study to demonstrate they have neighborhood\n\n1661\n01:22:18,104 --> 01:22:21,524\nsupport, and they have to get a majority of support through this.\n\n1662\n01:22:21,534 --> 01:22:25,053\nI think the situation is the city provides the boundary of what they determine the\n\n1663\n01:22:25,053 --> 01:22:28,824\naffected area is, and then the-- whoever put the request in the neighborhood\n\n1664\n01:22:28,884 --> 01:22:30,194\nhas to do the legwork.\n\n1665\n01:22:31,044 --> 01:22:34,634\nCity determines also the, you know, look at the contacts and data to see if the\n\n1666\n01:22:34,664 --> 01:22:38,634\nlocation would even qualify for, you know, like a traffic calming improvement.\n\n1667\n01:22:40,004 --> 01:22:43,824\nThen the, neighborhood has to form a neighborhood traffic committee and\n\n1668\n01:22:43,924 --> 01:22:47,524\norganize that. They work with the city to create a plan and identify\n\n1669\n01:22:47,564 --> 01:22:51,324\nperformance measures to see what they're gonna do is effective.\n\n1670\n01:22:51,344 --> 01:22:54,814\nThe neighborhood then has to fund a test installation.\n\n1671\n01:22:56,204 --> 01:23:00,024\nUh, if that's found to be effective, city again\n\n1672\n01:23:00,064 --> 01:23:02,864\nconfirms neighborhood support with the confidential\n\n1673\n01:23:02,884 --> 01:23:06,474\nballots. Uh, if that comes out positive, they have\n\n1674\n01:23:06,504 --> 01:23:09,964\ndemonstrated support, city council then, can approve,\n\n1675\n01:23:10,024 --> 01:23:13,624\nmodify, or reject the proposal. The\n\n1676\n01:23:13,664 --> 01:23:17,564\nneighborhood then has to fund the project, but the city will design\n\n1677\n01:23:17,604 --> 01:23:21,324\nit and construct it. Uh, improvements are evaluated by the\n\n1678\n01:23:21,384 --> 01:23:24,934\ncity through another neighborhood survey.\n\n1679\n01:23:25,484 --> 01:23:29,014\nUh, city staff give the final report to city council, and then city council can\n\n1680\n01:23:29,044 --> 01:23:32,864\napprove it, modify it, extend the evaluation further,\n\n1681\n01:23:32,964 --> 01:23:36,624\nor even order it to be removed.\n\n1682\n01:23:37,664 --> 01:23:41,524\nUh, and so, kind of the recommendations, kind of looking through that\n\n1683\n01:23:41,604 --> 01:23:45,164\nand other best practices, the main things we're focused on are things like\n\n1684\n01:23:45,183 --> 01:23:48,604\ntransparency and accountability, equitable access for\n\n1685\n01:23:48,704 --> 01:23:52,464\nsure, and just kind of, ability to delivery-- deliver\n\n1686\n01:23:52,524 --> 01:23:56,364\nefficiently. Although there were some\n\n1687\n01:23:56,374 --> 01:23:59,634\nthings about the program that do align with best practices that are positive, and\n\n1688\n01:23:59,684 --> 01:24:02,804\nthat's using before and after data collection, doing measured\n\n1689\n01:24:02,924 --> 01:24:05,104\ntests, and having formal city council\n\n1690\n01:24:05,164 --> 01:24:08,594\ninvolvement. So the biggest,\n\n1691\n01:24:08,924 --> 01:24:12,284\nrecommended change, it's really a fundamental one, would be to move to a\n\n1692\n01:24:12,364 --> 01:24:16,354\ncity-funded program. So right now, if you notice in my run-through, a\n\n1693\n01:24:16,404 --> 01:24:18,204\nlot of this is all paid by the neighborhoods.\n\n1694\n01:24:18,244 --> 01:24:18,614\nMm-hmm.\n\n1695\n01:24:18,644 --> 01:24:21,164\nAnd a lot of the work is done by them too.\n\n1696\n01:24:21,224 --> 01:24:21,724\nMm-hmm.\n\n1697\n01:24:21,824 --> 01:24:25,414\nUm, obviously that, that would address the inequity where only the neighborhoods\n\n1698\n01:24:25,464 --> 01:24:29,344\nwith financial resources, and frankly time, can afford to\n\n1699\n01:24:29,384 --> 01:24:32,534\nhave any improvements made in their commu-- in their neighborhoods.\n\n1700\n01:24:32,644 --> 01:24:36,524\nUh, it'd make the process, I think, easier and more predictable for everyone,\n\n1701\n01:24:36,604 --> 01:24:40,344\nstaff included, because I would imagine now, not only is there a big barrier to\n\n1702\n01:24:40,464 --> 01:24:43,844\nentry, but if the neighborhood has to keep coming up with funding at different\n\n1703\n01:24:43,884 --> 01:24:47,644\npoints, project could disappear for years and then\n\n1704\n01:24:47,704 --> 01:24:51,664\ncome back at a time when staff may not expect it or have the bandwidth to even deal\n\n1705\n01:24:51,684 --> 01:24:55,544\nwith it. Uh, so it'd be, much more efficient and predictable\n\n1706\n01:24:55,604 --> 01:24:58,124\nif that was just, a city program.\n\n1707\n01:24:58,224 --> 01:25:00,184\nGreat.\n\n1708\n01:25:00,304 --> 01:25:04,044\nUm, other recommendations involving simplifying the\n\n1709\n01:25:04,064 --> 01:25:07,884\nprocess. Um, and that's things like using a, a\n\n1710\n01:25:07,924 --> 01:25:11,664\nprogram webpage with information about the program to help people understand how to\n\n1711\n01:25:11,684 --> 01:25:15,584\nengage with it. You can even show the eligibility of projects that are in\n\n1712\n01:25:15,624 --> 01:25:19,144\nthe-- or what's an eligible project and show what the status of projects in the\n\n1713\n01:25:19,324 --> 01:25:23,104\nqueue, are. Uh, and then\n\n1714\n01:25:23,144 --> 01:25:25,324\nconsider applications on a regular cycle.\n\n1715\n01:25:25,364 --> 01:25:29,164\nSo maybe you could still apply any time, but make it clear that\n\n1716\n01:25:29,204 --> 01:25:32,284\nmaybe once a year they'll be processed.\n\n1717\n01:25:32,384 --> 01:25:36,278\nUm-And then creating standardized requirements for\n\n1718\n01:25:36,328 --> 01:25:40,068\neligibility, which is to help with screening and prioritizing.\n\n1719\n01:25:40,188 --> 01:25:44,178\nUm, and then right now there's a very prescribed outreach process, you\n\n1720\n01:25:44,228 --> 01:25:48,188\nnoticed. I think since then, I think the, the city has discovered\n\n1721\n01:25:48,208 --> 01:25:51,968\na lot of more effective and creative ways to do community engagement.\n\n1722\n01:25:51,988 --> 01:25:55,768\nAnd so maybe not making that so prescriptive and letting you customize that would\n\n1723\n01:25:55,868 --> 01:25:59,508\nprobably be beneficial. Uh, having city council\n\n1724\n01:25:59,628 --> 01:26:02,798\nconfirmation on the prioritized list of projects once per\n\n1725\n01:26:02,908 --> 01:26:06,878\ncycle. Uh, making tests not mandatory but\n\n1726\n01:26:06,908 --> 01:26:09,608\noptional, 'cause sometimes there are things the city may already have experience\n\n1727\n01:26:09,668 --> 01:26:13,177\nwith. They, they know they're gonna be effective.\n\n1728\n01:26:13,328 --> 01:26:13,828\nUm,\n\n1729\n01:26:14,908 --> 01:26:18,488\ncreating project eligibility criteria and a prioritization\n\n1730\n01:26:18,568 --> 01:26:19,928\nprocess,\n\n1731\n01:26:21,308 --> 01:26:25,248\nwhich, you know, popularity in the program increases because now it's easier\n\n1732\n01:26:25,268 --> 01:26:28,888\nto get access to. That would probably help process all the requests.\n\n1733\n01:26:29,008 --> 01:26:32,628\nUm, and another idea is, you could do a rotating,\n\n1734\n01:26:33,128 --> 01:26:36,988\nproject cycle through geographic areas of the city to kinda\n\n1735\n01:26:37,028 --> 01:26:40,508\nhelp with, equitable distribution, much like the sidewalk safety\n\n1736\n01:26:40,608 --> 01:26:42,048\nprogram.\n\n1737\n01:26:43,048 --> 01:26:46,828\nUh, and then I think the last recommendation was centralizing all that\n\n1738\n01:26:46,888 --> 01:26:49,808\ntechnical work back with city staff and not putting it on the\n\n1739\n01:26:49,848 --> 01:26:51,768\nneighborhood.\n\n1740\n01:26:51,828 --> 01:26:55,708\nSo I thought this was very well described in the-- I\n\n1741\n01:26:55,748 --> 01:26:57,488\nthought the recommendation was\n\n1742\n01:26:59,488 --> 01:27:00,168\nreally nice.\n\n1743\n01:27:00,248 --> 01:27:00,638\nYeah.\n\n1744\n01:27:00,768 --> 01:27:04,128\nI thought it was spot on. Uh, totally like it, too.\n\n1745\n01:27:04,188 --> 01:27:07,508\nI've always had a problem with this pro-- the old process\n\n1746\n01:27:07,868 --> 01:27:11,848\nbecause it's so geared to the neighborhoods that have long-term\n\n1747\n01:27:11,928 --> 01:27:15,708\nresidents who own their homes, have money, and have those connections,\n\n1748\n01:27:15,768 --> 01:27:15,928\nwhere\n\n1749\n01:27:16,808 --> 01:27:20,108\nsome of the neighborhoods that really need this work don't.\n\n1750\n01:27:20,248 --> 01:27:20,388\nSo\n\n1751\n01:27:21,308 --> 01:27:24,767\nI was glad to spend the time looking into this.\n\n1752\n01:27:33,288 --> 01:27:35,968\nUh, moving on. Speed limit investigation framework.\n\n1753\n01:27:35,988 --> 01:27:36,228\nThe\n\n1754\n01:27:37,048 --> 01:27:40,648\nnext of the supplemental planning activities. Uh, so what is this?\n\n1755\n01:27:40,708 --> 01:27:43,548\nSo essentially this is an approach to reviewing and setting\n\n1756\n01:27:44,048 --> 01:27:47,818\ncontact, context-sensitive speed limits on arterials and\n\n1757\n01:27:47,848 --> 01:27:49,568\ncollectors throughout Corvallis.\n\n1758\n01:27:49,608 --> 01:27:52,588\nSo now we're not, not the neighborhood streets, now we're focused more on arterials\n\n1759\n01:27:52,608 --> 01:27:56,448\nand collectors. Uh, key here, context-sensitive,\n\n1760\n01:27:56,468 --> 01:27:58,268\nso and I'll touch on this a little bit more.\n\n1761\n01:27:58,288 --> 01:28:00,788\nSo that's not simply just the statutory speed.\n\n1762\n01:28:00,828 --> 01:28:04,728\nSo that is something that may align better with the actual land use and\n\n1763\n01:28:04,768 --> 01:28:06,848\nthe, the street design itself, if those are\n\n1764\n01:28:07,788 --> 01:28:08,708\nnot in sync.\n\n1765\n01:28:09,808 --> 01:28:13,668\nUm, and then again, focus on arterials and collectors.\n\n1766\n01:28:13,768 --> 01:28:17,668\nAnd, emphasize the-- what are our recommendations here?\n\n1767\n01:28:17,688 --> 01:28:21,348\nThis still works within current, regulations, so we're not changing state\n\n1768\n01:28:21,408 --> 01:28:24,888\nlaw. It's pretty consistent already, with the city's current\n\n1769\n01:28:24,928 --> 01:28:28,908\npractice. It's, really just provides more of a screening process to look at\n\n1770\n01:28:28,948 --> 01:28:32,448\nthe whole network at once, rather than being maybe more ad hoc in\n\n1771\n01:28:32,508 --> 01:28:36,368\nidentifying where the opportunities might be to then go and proactively do\n\n1772\n01:28:36,428 --> 01:28:39,448\nthis.\n\n1773\n01:28:40,408 --> 01:28:41,878\nUm, so kind of the why is it important?\n\n1774\n01:28:41,928 --> 01:28:45,417\nObviously, speed is a big factor, right, in safety and, and the,\n\n1775\n01:28:45,857 --> 01:28:49,668\nseverity of outcomes in a crash. Uh, especially if you're, you know,\n\n1776\n01:28:49,728 --> 01:28:53,328\na vulnerable, you know, traveler, so you're walking or biking.\n\n1777\n01:28:53,428 --> 01:28:57,108\nUm, and speeds, you know, that don't align with what people expect 'cause the\n\n1778\n01:28:57,168 --> 01:29:00,328\ncontext is very different, can sometimes be\n\n1779\n01:29:00,368 --> 01:29:03,448\nconfusing. And you end up with some people that are really trying to be rule\n\n1780\n01:29:03,528 --> 01:29:06,428\nfollowers and drive the posted speed, and other people that are following what\n\n1781\n01:29:06,468 --> 01:29:10,338\ntheir brain is telling them because the context and those big differences\n\n1782\n01:29:10,348 --> 01:29:13,388\nin speeds, can create safety problems of their\n\n1783\n01:29:13,448 --> 01:29:14,388\nown.\n\n1784\n01:29:15,208 --> 01:29:18,718\nAnd then my, my big warning, simply changing posted\n\n1785\n01:29:18,848 --> 01:29:22,828\nspeeds, won't be effective unless the roadway design and context\n\n1786\n01:29:22,868 --> 01:29:26,848\nsupport it. Uh, in some cases, companion strategies, like\n\n1787\n01:29:26,888 --> 01:29:30,368\nchanges to the street design may be needed, otherwise you could be making the\n\n1788\n01:29:30,408 --> 01:29:34,388\nproblem worse. But this is a common thing, is people think, \"Well, let's just\n\n1789\n01:29:34,408 --> 01:29:38,048\nchange the posted speed.\" If it's out of sync with the context, it\n\n1790\n01:29:38,248 --> 01:29:41,848\nprobably isn't going to work.\n\n1791\n01:29:42,328 --> 01:29:44,528\nUm, so how are posted speeds set now?\n\n1792\n01:29:44,568 --> 01:29:48,488\nSo ODOT has all the responsibility for setting speed limits on all public\n\n1793\n01:29:48,548 --> 01:29:52,268\nroadways. Um, there's two kinds of, posted\n\n1794\n01:29:52,348 --> 01:29:55,808\nspeeds. I mentioned statutory, so it's kinda like the default.\n\n1795\n01:29:55,948 --> 01:29:59,668\nUm, those are specified by, you know, state law and by road types,\n\n1796\n01:29:59,748 --> 01:30:02,728\nillustrated on the chart there. And then you have\n\n1797\n01:30:02,948 --> 01:30:06,888\ndesignated, and so, that's where you're obviously deviating\n\n1798\n01:30:06,908 --> 01:30:10,628\nfrom the default. Um, and that involves, you know, the speed\n\n1799\n01:30:10,748 --> 01:30:14,138\nstudy typically. But there is the ability, as you notice on this\n\n1800\n01:30:14,148 --> 01:30:17,988\ntable, you can kinda better align it with your context.\n\n1801\n01:30:18,028 --> 01:30:21,388\nSo if you're urban core, if you can read the numbers on the table up there,\n\n1802\n01:30:21,908 --> 01:30:25,488\nyou'll notice there are allowable speeds for arterials and collectors that are\n\n1803\n01:30:25,508 --> 01:30:28,608\nlower than if you're in a suburban fringe area.\n\n1804\n01:30:28,628 --> 01:30:32,328\nBut there are still kind of windows of allowed ranges, and they're fairly tight,\n\n1805\n01:30:32,368 --> 01:30:34,088\nyou know, five-to-ten-mile-an-hour windows.\n\n1806\n01:30:34,128 --> 01:30:34,328\nSo\n\n1807\n01:30:35,448 --> 01:30:39,078\nI would, you know, setting expectations appropriately, if you're thinking-- looking\n\n1808\n01:30:39,108 --> 01:30:41,768\nat opportunities to lower posted speeds, it's probably not gonna be a\n\n1809\n01:30:41,808 --> 01:30:45,148\ntwenty-mile-per-hour drop. It's probably gonna be a five-mile-per-hour drop,\n\n1810\n01:30:45,188 --> 01:30:45,968\nsomething like that.\n\n1811\n01:30:48,008 --> 01:30:51,948\nUh, so how is it done now? So ODOT, while they do have the-- they still hold\n\n1812\n01:30:51,968 --> 01:30:55,268\nthe authority and have to make the decisions, they can delegate authority to\n\n1813\n01:30:55,328 --> 01:30:59,028\ncities. Uh, but, the process and the\n\n1814\n01:30:59,088 --> 01:31:03,068\ncriteria are still the same. Um, and ODOT\n\n1815\n01:31:03,128 --> 01:31:07,088\nstill has to make the decisions. Really, what they're delegating to the city is,\n\n1816\n01:31:07,708 --> 01:31:11,108\nyou do the legwork, you perform the investigation, rather than requesting\n\n1817\n01:31:11,248 --> 01:31:14,168\nODOT to do it. But you still have to give that to\n\n1818\n01:31:14,228 --> 01:31:17,578\nODOT. They're gonna make sure you did it to their standards, and they're still\n\n1819\n01:31:17,608 --> 01:31:19,228\nmaking the decision. So\n\n1820\n01:31:20,168 --> 01:31:23,028\nyou still have, you, you have to have the time and the resources to do it for that\n\n1821\n01:31:23,048 --> 01:31:25,688\nto really be beneficial.\n\n1822\n01:31:27,768 --> 01:31:31,728\nUh, so the proposed approach, and again, still working within the same regulations.\n\n1823\n01:31:31,738 --> 01:31:35,208\nWe're not changing the laws. ODOT still has authority, but it's rather than kind of\n\n1824\n01:31:35,308 --> 01:31:38,948\nad hoc looking at maybe when a request comes up or if you're doing a CIP\n\n1825\n01:31:38,988 --> 01:31:42,888\nproject and you notice maybe there's an opportunityIt's kind of screening the whole\n\n1826\n01:31:42,948 --> 01:31:46,808\nnetwork and then seeing what pops up, where the context and the,\n\n1827\n01:31:46,848 --> 01:31:50,008\nthe current posted speed, there might be some wiggle room.\n\n1828\n01:31:50,108 --> 01:31:53,208\nUm, so really that's, you know, doing some GIS analysis.\n\n1829\n01:31:53,228 --> 01:31:57,088\nSo right, just kind of coding in there in GIS what your land use\n\n1830\n01:31:57,148 --> 01:32:01,088\ncontact zones are, what the current posted speeds are,\n\n1831\n01:32:01,128 --> 01:32:05,008\nand then kind of knowing where there's flexibility, seeing where the\n\n1832\n01:32:05,068 --> 01:32:08,628\ncandidate locations are.\n\n1833\n01:32:09,388 --> 01:32:09,528\nUm,\n\n1834\n01:32:10,728 --> 01:32:14,628\nand then a note on residential streets, while we said\n\n1835\n01:32:14,688 --> 01:32:16,808\nwe were focused on arterials and collectors.\n\n1836\n01:32:16,908 --> 01:32:20,708\nUh, Oregon cities are permitted to designate twenty mile per hour speed\n\n1837\n01:32:20,788 --> 01:32:24,688\nlimits on residential streets without any investigation.\n\n1838\n01:32:24,808 --> 01:32:28,418\nUm, however, right now, I believe in Corvallis, this is pretty\n\n1839\n01:32:28,508 --> 01:32:31,878\ncommon. It's-- a lot of your residential streets, they're not posted twenty-five\n\n1840\n01:32:31,948 --> 01:32:35,148\nmiles per hour because that's the statutory speed already.\n\n1841\n01:32:35,168 --> 01:32:38,248\nAnd so if you're gonna make a change like that, people aren't gonna know you did\n\n1842\n01:32:38,288 --> 01:32:42,208\nit. Probably unless you do a pretty extensive outreach campaign, and then probably\n\n1843\n01:32:42,288 --> 01:32:45,828\nalso need to post all those streets twenty miles per hour,\n\n1844\n01:32:46,188 --> 01:32:48,108\nwhich comes with a lot of extra costs.\n\n1845\n01:32:48,208 --> 01:32:51,728\nUm, especially, you got to maintain all those things now that you've put them in.\n\n1846\n01:32:51,808 --> 01:32:55,688\nSo an alternative to that is y-you could think about\n\n1847\n01:32:55,708 --> 01:32:59,348\ndoing it on select streets, like maybe, you know, neighborhood bikeways that are\n\n1848\n01:32:59,388 --> 01:33:02,728\nlocal streets, if you wanted to drop those to twenty miles an hour.\n\n1849\n01:33:02,768 --> 01:33:06,638\nSo it's like kind of that, that cost barrier may be more feasible, but\n\n1850\n01:33:07,128 --> 01:33:10,248\nstill something to look into and consider.\n\n1851\n01:33:12,848 --> 01:33:15,468\nSo that is what we've provided for the Speed Limit Investigation\n\n1852\n01:33:15,568 --> 01:33:19,188\nFramework.\n\n1853\n01:33:20,128 --> 01:33:23,528\nThe last supplemental planning activity, and this will be the shortest and sweetest\n\n1854\n01:33:23,588 --> 01:33:26,728\none of all, Pedestrian Crossing Treatments\n\n1855\n01:33:26,848 --> 01:33:29,888\nMatrix. I, I don't think you had a hand up for this one 'cause we're still tweaking\n\n1856\n01:33:29,948 --> 01:33:32,548\nsome stuff with, with city staff on this.\n\n1857\n01:33:32,568 --> 01:33:36,408\nBut really what this is, is, providing some criteria\n\n1858\n01:33:37,108 --> 01:33:40,378\nso the city can, I think, more consistently a-and\n\n1859\n01:33:40,448 --> 01:33:44,228\nobjectively evaluate, requests or opportunities to do\n\n1860\n01:33:44,288 --> 01:33:47,868\nmarked or enhanced pedestrian crossings at what are currently\n\n1861\n01:33:47,928 --> 01:33:51,727\nunmarked locations. And so obviously we're drawing\n\n1862\n01:33:51,787 --> 01:33:55,708\nagain from a lot of kind of, you know, standardized or best practices, what other\n\n1863\n01:33:55,748 --> 01:33:59,328\ncommunities have done. There's good, you know, state and federal guidelines for\n\n1864\n01:33:59,368 --> 01:34:02,828\nkind of when to not mark a crossing or when it would, would be an eligible\n\n1865\n01:34:02,888 --> 01:34:06,508\ncandidate. And then once you've deserm-- determined something's an\n\n1866\n01:34:06,568 --> 01:34:10,268\neligible candidate, considering things like, you know, traffic volume,\n\n1867\n01:34:10,308 --> 01:34:13,928\nspeeds, crossing distances, visibility,\n\n1868\n01:34:14,388 --> 01:34:17,648\nyou know, route continuity, lighting, you know, crossing demand, and the\n\n1869\n01:34:17,708 --> 01:34:21,468\ncontext is, then helping you figure out,\n\n1870\n01:34:21,488 --> 01:34:24,768\nokay, well, what types of treatments would be appropriate?\n\n1871\n01:34:24,788 --> 01:34:28,508\nYou know, from the most basic to striping it, to putting\n\n1872\n01:34:28,608 --> 01:34:32,368\nin, you know, refuge islands or flashing beacons or\n\n1873\n01:34:32,568 --> 01:34:35,988\nfull traffic signals right as you go up in progression.\n\n1874\n01:34:36,048 --> 01:34:39,888\nSo that's what we're ironing out some of the details with staff now, but that's\n\n1875\n01:34:39,928 --> 01:34:42,788\nwhat we're providing. It's just a tool to help them when they get those\n\n1876\n01:34:42,868 --> 01:34:45,888\nopportunities or requests, they can run it through then and kind of have more\n\n1877\n01:34:45,928 --> 01:34:49,628\nconsistency and objectivity to that.\n\n1878\n01:34:55,388 --> 01:34:58,498\nAnd now, now the big one, right? The\n\n1879\n01:34:58,588 --> 01:35:00,868\nTransportation Safety Action Plan.\n\n1880\n01:35:00,908 --> 01:35:04,008\nSo I'm gonna give you an overview of that.\n\n1881\n01:35:04,088 --> 01:35:05,738\nUm, again, that was-- that's the major effort.\n\n1882\n01:35:05,788 --> 01:35:09,478\nThat's the one where staff will be coming back next month and, and asking you to,\n\n1883\n01:35:09,528 --> 01:35:12,908\nto approve this document, not the other ones.\n\n1884\n01:35:12,988 --> 01:35:16,738\nSo just kind of off the bat, s-so there are requirements and\n\n1885\n01:35:16,768 --> 01:35:20,468\nspecific requirements from the, SS4A program on what TSAPs\n\n1886\n01:35:20,808 --> 01:35:24,648\nhave to do or include. So obviously, that guided our\n\n1887\n01:35:24,668 --> 01:35:28,398\napproach to this, and we made sure that we incorporated these elements.\n\n1888\n01:35:28,468 --> 01:35:32,308\nOne of those is they want to see a leadership commitment, to a zero\n\n1889\n01:35:32,408 --> 01:35:35,968\ngoals. That's, reaching zero pe-- crashes resulting in\n\n1890\n01:35:36,008 --> 01:35:38,948\nfatalities and serious injuries.\n\n1891\n01:35:39,068 --> 01:35:42,308\nUh, we need to use a committee or task force, and that's, that's both in the\n\n1892\n01:35:42,368 --> 01:35:45,278\ndevelopment of the plan and later when it comes to implementing the\n\n1893\n01:35:45,328 --> 01:35:48,448\nplan. To monitoring, I should say.\n\n1894\n01:35:48,588 --> 01:35:51,788\nUm, they want data-driven safety analysis.\n\n1895\n01:35:51,888 --> 01:35:55,448\nUh, they want to see public engagement being a part of the process.\n\n1896\n01:35:55,568 --> 01:35:59,508\nUm, equity considerations. That was, that was, that was a requirement when we,\n\n1897\n01:35:59,548 --> 01:36:02,147\nwhen we got the grant. Uh, we kept it in there.\n\n1898\n01:36:02,168 --> 01:36:04,128\nBut-- So we, we-- I'll talk about that later.\n\n1899\n01:36:04,148 --> 01:36:07,468\nWe kind of use that as part of our prioritization process.\n\n1900\n01:36:07,588 --> 01:36:10,968\nUm, in addition to-- The second to last bullet is\n\n1901\n01:36:11,828 --> 01:36:15,688\nnot only hotspot projects and then kind of more broad reaching strategies\n\n1902\n01:36:15,788 --> 01:36:19,488\nyou could apply, but also looking to see if there's any\n\n1903\n01:36:19,588 --> 01:36:23,228\nchanges the city can make to like, you know, policies, design standards,\n\n1904\n01:36:23,328 --> 01:36:27,248\noperating procedures, just to keep safety kind of always in the\n\n1905\n01:36:27,288 --> 01:36:30,068\nconversation when you're, you're doing things.\n\n1906\n01:36:30,988 --> 01:36:33,928\nUh, and then progress and transparency.\n\n1907\n01:36:33,948 --> 01:36:37,668\nThat's, that's all at the end, you need to do annual monitoring\n\n1908\n01:36:37,708 --> 01:36:39,628\nreporting, and that has to be made publicly\n\n1909\n01:36:39,668 --> 01:36:43,448\navailable. Um, and so kind\n\n1910\n01:36:43,508 --> 01:36:47,448\nof, the safe system approach was what we used, and that's\n\n1911\n01:36:47,488 --> 01:36:51,108\nkinda again one of the really the requirements and emphasis of doing these\n\n1912\n01:36:51,168 --> 01:36:55,048\nTSAPs. And really the, the, in maybe simple terms, is\n\n1913\n01:36:55,108 --> 01:36:58,628\nthat's taking a holistic approach and not just relying on maybe\n\n1914\n01:36:58,648 --> 01:37:01,728\ntraditionally doing engineering improvements to fix safety problems, but\n\n1915\n01:37:01,768 --> 01:37:04,628\nconsidering kind of the full spectrum of things that can affect\n\n1916\n01:37:05,608 --> 01:37:09,258\nsafety and safety outcomes. And that's, you know, the people, you know,\n\n1917\n01:37:09,268 --> 01:37:13,248\nvulnerability of people, their, the, their behavior and choices they make,\n\n1918\n01:37:13,268 --> 01:37:17,228\nyou know, vehicle capabilities, speeds, as well\n\n1919\n01:37:17,248 --> 01:37:20,918\nas even post-crash care. So, you know, emergen-- helping emergency services not\n\n1920\n01:37:20,948 --> 01:37:24,668\nonly respond faster, but, you know, get people to\n\n1921\n01:37:24,828 --> 01:37:28,748\nget people care more quickly, so we can reduce the severity outcomes\n\n1922\n01:37:28,768 --> 01:37:29,408\npotentially.\n\n1923\n01:37:30,928 --> 01:37:34,138\nSo those are kind of lenses that we, we're kind of continuously looking at when\n\n1924\n01:37:34,138 --> 01:37:35,928\nwe're looking through solutions.\n\n1925\n01:37:37,368 --> 01:37:41,048\nUm, so the executive summary is, is as most executive\n\n1926\n01:37:41,088 --> 01:37:44,788\nsummaries are. Uh, it summarizes the document, the key points of\n\n1927\n01:37:44,848 --> 01:37:48,558\nthat. One thing I'm highlighting here that, shows up, I think in, in the\n\n1928\n01:37:48,648 --> 01:37:52,456\nintro section as well-Is, the, the\n\n1929\n01:37:52,616 --> 01:37:56,356\nstatement again, and I think this is where, you know, when, FHWA is\n\n1930\n01:37:56,396 --> 01:37:59,496\nlooking through now looking for that leadership commitment, that first thing I\n\n1931\n01:37:59,536 --> 01:38:02,896\nmentioned is, is this states that clearly.\n\n1932\n01:38:02,916 --> 01:38:06,786\nAnd we-- the, statement we have in here is that City of Corvallis aims to\n\n1933\n01:38:06,836 --> 01:38:10,636\nmake our transportation system as safe as possible and move towards\n\n1934\n01:38:10,656 --> 01:38:14,356\nzero traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries in the next twenty\n\n1935\n01:38:14,396 --> 01:38:17,696\nyears, or next ten years, not twenty.\n\n1936\n01:38:17,816 --> 01:38:18,076\nUm,\n\n1937\n01:38:19,076 --> 01:38:22,696\nand that's different than some other long-range planning studies we do, is which\n\n1938\n01:38:22,756 --> 01:38:23,876\noften have twenty-year horizons.\n\n1939\n01:38:24,736 --> 01:38:27,856\nThere's really an emphasis in this plan to do things we can get done a lot more\n\n1940\n01:38:27,896 --> 01:38:31,696\nquickly because we want to make safety improvements fast, not wait ten years to\n\n1941\n01:38:32,056 --> 01:38:35,216\nfund them and get them.\n\n1942\n01:38:37,236 --> 01:38:41,196\nUh, so the first few chapters are-- it's a lot of introductory stuff.\n\n1943\n01:38:41,236 --> 01:38:45,056\nIt kind of introduces, you know, about the project, the process we went\n\n1944\n01:38:45,096 --> 01:38:48,196\nthrough, the safe-- what's the safe system approach,\n\n1945\n01:38:49,576 --> 01:38:53,546\ntalks about the coordination we did with Benton County, and,\n\n1946\n01:38:54,676 --> 01:38:57,556\nkind of summarizes our public engagement approach.\n\n1947\n01:38:57,616 --> 01:38:58,666\nIt also splits up,\n\n1948\n01:38:59,956 --> 01:39:03,776\ndoes some intro of some of the crash data and trends that we saw to kind of support\n\n1949\n01:39:03,816 --> 01:39:07,636\nthe, the problem, right? Or the where are we starting from, why do we need to do\n\n1950\n01:39:07,676 --> 01:39:11,456\nthis. Especially 'cause if, if that goal is to\n\n1951\n01:39:11,536 --> 01:39:15,396\nget to zero fatalities and serious injuries, you need to know where you're starting\n\n1952\n01:39:15,436 --> 01:39:18,156\nfrom.\n\n1953\n01:39:19,576 --> 01:39:23,276\nUm, so as we get to chapter four, that's gonna kind of pick up that conversation\n\n1954\n01:39:23,316 --> 01:39:27,296\nagain. There's more in-depth conversation about kind of what are the issues,\n\n1955\n01:39:27,396 --> 01:39:30,536\nright? So it's, what's analyzing that crash data.\n\n1956\n01:39:30,676 --> 01:39:34,496\nUm, and so from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty-two was the\n\n1957\n01:39:34,616 --> 01:39:38,566\nspan of crash data we got, simply 'cause that was the most recent data we could\n\n1958\n01:39:38,596 --> 01:39:42,356\nget when we started. Um, there was an average of fifteen crashes per\n\n1959\n01:39:42,476 --> 01:39:45,516\nyear resulting in fatalities and serious injuries.\n\n1960\n01:39:45,576 --> 01:39:49,256\nAnd the proportion of fatal and serious injury crashes,\n\n1961\n01:39:49,976 --> 01:39:53,756\nnearly doubled from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty-two.\n\n1962\n01:39:53,796 --> 01:39:56,906\nSo you can kind of see that on that graph. It's been, it's been climbing.\n\n1963\n01:39:56,956 --> 01:40:00,875\nUh, obviously in twenty twenty, where the pandemic hit, all the crashes went\n\n1964\n01:40:00,916 --> 01:40:02,656\nway down 'cause people weren't driving as much.\n\n1965\n01:40:02,676 --> 01:40:06,396\nWell, in a lot of places, Corvallis included, they've been climbing right back up.\n\n1966\n01:40:06,416 --> 01:40:09,766\nAnd in fact, the proportion of the fatal and serious injury crashes has been\n\n1967\n01:40:09,796 --> 01:40:13,376\ngetting worse. Um, so again, if our goal is to get to\n\n1968\n01:40:13,436 --> 01:40:16,836\nzero, it's like that's, that's telling us what our baseline is and what we're, what\n\n1969\n01:40:16,856 --> 01:40:20,616\nwe're starting from. Um, chapter\n\n1970\n01:40:20,696 --> 01:40:23,536\nfour also identifies the high-priority network.\n\n1971\n01:40:23,556 --> 01:40:27,276\nAnd so again, this was an exercise we went through, with the task\n\n1972\n01:40:27,356 --> 01:40:30,856\nforce to help identify this. And those are intersections and road\n\n1973\n01:40:30,976 --> 01:40:34,856\nsegments where, based on crash history and trends, we believe have the\n\n1974\n01:40:34,896 --> 01:40:38,586\nmost, for improvements, have the greatest potential to\n\n1975\n01:40:38,616 --> 01:40:40,936\neliminate high-severity crashes.\n\n1976\n01:40:41,056 --> 01:40:45,036\nUm, and a note here, we kept the focus on city facilities with a\n\n1977\n01:40:45,096 --> 01:40:48,776\nlot of this. So we did identify state highway corridors because\n\n1978\n01:40:49,076 --> 01:40:52,356\nthere's a lot of crashes on those, but we separated those out and listed\n\n1979\n01:40:52,366 --> 01:40:56,266\nthem. So you can still have conversations with ODOT about\n\n1980\n01:40:56,296 --> 01:41:00,056\nmaking improvements there. But as far as investing city resources, we wanted to\n\n1981\n01:41:00,096 --> 01:41:02,436\nkeep it on the city facilities, so we split the two\n\n1982\n01:41:02,496 --> 01:41:04,156\napart.\n\n1983\n01:41:05,336 --> 01:41:08,856\nUh, so kinda a little bit on how we got to that high-priority network.\n\n1984\n01:41:08,936 --> 01:41:12,916\nUh, considered a lot of inputs. So it was, you know, the data analysis, you know,\n\n1985\n01:41:12,936 --> 01:41:16,526\nwhat's the crash data telling us? Um, not only\n\n1986\n01:41:16,616 --> 01:41:20,605\nspecifically where the crashes and most severe crashes are happening, but what are\n\n1987\n01:41:20,656 --> 01:41:24,546\nkind of the overall, overall trends that are most prevalent in the most,\n\n1988\n01:41:24,776 --> 01:41:28,036\nserious crashes, and how-- per\n\n1989\n01:41:28,116 --> 01:41:31,856\nlocation. Uh, but then we also considered,\n\n1990\n01:41:32,096 --> 01:41:35,416\ncommunity feedback. Uh, we used like Oregon Social\n\n1991\n01:41:35,816 --> 01:41:38,856\nEquity Index to identify where there's,\n\n1992\n01:41:39,456 --> 01:41:43,216\ncensus tracts within the city with, higher disparities in people that may\n\n1993\n01:41:43,296 --> 01:41:43,996\nbe,\n\n1994\n01:41:45,196 --> 01:41:49,096\nyou know, more traditionally underserved and kind of, looked at\n\n1995\n01:41:49,156 --> 01:41:52,856\nthat to see where those high-priority locations were, in\n\n1996\n01:41:52,896 --> 01:41:56,596\nalignment with those to, to make sure we're getting good coverage.\n\n1997\n01:41:56,676 --> 01:42:00,656\nAnd we kind of pulled all that together with our task force, and,\n\n1998\n01:42:01,616 --> 01:42:03,356\nthey helped us make the decisions.\n\n1999\n01:42:03,456 --> 01:42:07,056\nUh, fir-first of all, they supported our prioritization process and criteria, but\n\n2000\n01:42:07,096 --> 01:42:11,076\nthen they also helped us kind of make the decisions on which projects\n\n2001\n01:42:11,086 --> 01:42:14,586\nthey thought were rising to the top and were the high-priority ones.\n\n2002\n01:42:14,676 --> 01:42:14,986\nUm,\n\n2003\n01:42:16,136 --> 01:42:17,996\nand again, that's at this moment in time.\n\n2004\n01:42:18,036 --> 01:42:21,756\nIt's not to say, you know, that there aren't other locations that could benefit\n\n2005\n01:42:21,776 --> 01:42:24,556\nfrom safety improvements. It's just these were the highest in priority at this\n\n2006\n01:42:24,616 --> 01:42:28,336\ntime. Uh, also sets up what we call\n\n2007\n01:42:28,476 --> 01:42:32,436\nemphasis areas. So these are not specific locations, but\n\n2008\n01:42:32,516 --> 01:42:36,126\nit's factors that are most frequently involved in fatal and serious injury crashes.\n\n2009\n01:42:36,876 --> 01:42:40,856\nUh, again, the task force helped us kind of look through that data and identify\n\n2010\n01:42:40,896 --> 01:42:43,956\nwhich we thought were the ones we wanted to focus on for this.\n\n2011\n01:42:44,036 --> 01:42:47,816\nAnd we chose five of those for Corvallis, those being\n\n2012\n01:42:47,896 --> 01:42:51,776\nintersections, so that's a place where we were having the most of those\n\n2013\n01:42:51,896 --> 01:42:55,856\nmore serious crashes. Uh, people walking, people biking.\n\n2014\n01:42:55,896 --> 01:42:59,836\nWe, risky behaviors, we lumped in things like drug and\n\n2015\n01:42:59,856 --> 01:43:03,196\nalcohol impairment, distracted driving, and speeding.\n\n2016\n01:43:03,216 --> 01:43:06,176\nAnd then younger drivers, so twenty-one and under.\n\n2017\n01:43:06,236 --> 01:43:09,976\nThat-- those were where we were seeing, more\n\n2018\n01:43:09,986 --> 01:43:13,716\nlinkages to those serious crashes.\n\n2019\n01:43:13,756 --> 01:43:17,436\nSo as soon as we get to chapter five, we get into the, solutions\n\n2020\n01:43:17,476 --> 01:43:21,236\nthemselves. Um, and so we have the systemic emphasis area\n\n2021\n01:43:21,336 --> 01:43:24,116\nstrategies, and those are things we can apply broadly.\n\n2022\n01:43:24,136 --> 01:43:27,036\nThey're not spot, you know, location-specific.\n\n2023\n01:43:27,136 --> 01:43:30,796\nUh, if the city has a CIP project, they can look at tools in this\n\n2024\n01:43:30,836 --> 01:43:34,276\ntoolkit we've given them to potentially apply in that.\n\n2025\n01:43:34,296 --> 01:43:38,126\nThey could apply for a grant to apply some of these things, you know, in,\n\n2026\n01:43:38,176 --> 01:43:41,876\nin multiple corridors or areas in comparison to high-priority\n\n2027\n01:43:41,936 --> 01:43:45,536\nprojects which are obviously very specific to a location.\n\n2028\n01:43:46,636 --> 01:43:49,616\nAnd then here, this is the page thirty.\n\n2029\n01:43:49,636 --> 01:43:53,620\nThis is where we-Wanted to more specifically address the input from\n\n2030\n01:43:53,660 --> 01:43:56,890\nthe task force where they didn't want to preclude,\n\n2031\n01:43:57,260 --> 01:44:00,980\nlarger scale projects from this. And so we've\n\n2032\n01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:04,860\nincluded, this consideration for really kind of all, you\n\n2033\n01:44:04,900 --> 01:44:08,810\nknow, projects to kind of continuously keep the kind of\n\n2034\n01:44:08,860 --> 01:44:12,340\nthe, the safe system approach embedded in, the thought\n\n2035\n01:44:12,360 --> 01:44:16,240\nprocess. Since it's tiered system where you start, you're looking for\n\n2036\n01:44:16,280 --> 01:44:18,850\nthe types of solutions that remove conflicts, right?\n\n2037\n01:44:18,980 --> 01:44:22,490\nSo you're separating people in space. If you, if you...\n\n2038\n01:44:22,500 --> 01:44:25,720\nThat's not feasible to do, right? Because there's always constraints, whether it's\n\n2039\n01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:27,700\nfunding, environmental, whatever.\n\n2040\n01:44:27,720 --> 01:44:30,690\nThen you kind of go down the list and say, \"Well, what can we do to reduce\n\n2041\n01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:34,640\nspeeds?\" If you can't do that, you move down the list.\n\n2042\n01:44:34,720 --> 01:44:38,020\nHow can we manage conflicts and time, right? So think traffic signals, right?\n\n2043\n01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:40,150\nThey're separating conflicts and time.\n\n2044\n01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:44,120\nAnd if we can't do that, then it's just increasing awareness of the location\n\n2045\n01:44:44,140 --> 01:44:48,060\nor the situation. And so, that process\n\n2046\n01:44:48,160 --> 01:44:51,840\nand recommendations provided in there, we also acknowledged,\n\n2047\n01:44:52,460 --> 01:44:55,860\nor explains how you could use that process for intersection or bicycle\n\n2048\n01:44:55,900 --> 01:44:59,800\nfacility improvements. So if you're kind of like, one of the RSAs, it says,\n\n2049\n01:44:59,810 --> 01:45:03,360\n\"If you ever need to replace this traffic signal, consider doing protected\n\n2050\n01:45:03,380 --> 01:45:07,250\nintersections and roundabouts.\" That should be part of the conversation.\n\n2051\n01:45:07,280 --> 01:45:08,850\nSimilarly, bike facilities, right?\n\n2052\n01:45:08,880 --> 01:45:11,990\nThere, there should be a preference for something like protected facility, because\n\n2053\n01:45:12,020 --> 01:45:15,560\nthat would be tier one. But, you know, if you can't do that for whatever reason,\n\n2054\n01:45:15,620 --> 01:45:18,940\nyou move kinda down the tiers. So we do have some guidance\n\n2055\n01:45:19,080 --> 01:45:22,740\nfor, you know, other capital projects.\n\n2056\n01:45:23,620 --> 01:45:26,180\nAnd then the necessary strategies.\n\n2057\n01:45:26,240 --> 01:45:29,880\nAgain, we have infrastructure-based and non-infrastructure based things.\n\n2058\n01:45:30,560 --> 01:45:33,860\nUh, the infrastructure based things, again, we're looking for kind of lower cost\n\n2059\n01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:37,220\nthings you can do a lot of quickly. Intersection hardware\n\n2060\n01:45:37,240 --> 01:45:40,280\nimprovements, street lighting improvements, pedestrian crossing\n\n2061\n01:45:40,320 --> 01:45:43,980\nenhancements, green bike lane painting in conflict\n\n2062\n01:45:44,060 --> 01:45:47,980\nareas, buffered bike lanes, radar speed feedback signs are just some of\n\n2063\n01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:51,740\nthe examples. On the non-infrastructure based\n\n2064\n01:45:51,800 --> 01:45:55,560\nexamples, you'll see things are-- start to get into more of the, the\n\n2065\n01:45:55,660 --> 01:45:59,449\neducation enforcement realms. Um, pedestrian safety\n\n2066\n01:45:59,620 --> 01:46:03,140\nzones is one that was, popular with the task force.\n\n2067\n01:46:03,180 --> 01:46:06,360\nThat's where you can designate an area, maybe it's, you know, around a school or a\n\n2068\n01:46:06,420 --> 01:46:10,080\ndowntown or something. But then you're, you're focusing\n\n2069\n01:46:11,080 --> 01:46:14,860\neducation, engineering, and enforcement strategies specifically on pedestrian\n\n2070\n01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:17,440\nsafety in that, in that zone.\n\n2071\n01:46:18,320 --> 01:46:22,060\nUm, educational campaigns, not only for, for safe biking behavior, but\n\n2072\n01:46:22,140 --> 01:46:25,970\nalso for drivers around bikes. Um, high visibility saturation\n\n2073\n01:46:26,020 --> 01:46:28,440\npatrols, again, on the enforcement side.\n\n2074\n01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:32,220\nUm, and then more kinda educational campaigns and assistance for some of those\n\n2075\n01:46:32,300 --> 01:46:36,120\nrisky behaviors and parents that have young drivers.\n\n2076\n01:46:36,140 --> 01:46:38,970\nThe nice thing about a lot of, a lot of these educational things is you don't have\n\n2077\n01:46:38,980 --> 01:46:42,310\nto reinvent the wheel, 'cause a lot of great resources are already out there.\n\n2078\n01:46:42,460 --> 01:46:44,910\nODOT's-- you get access through a lot of these through\n\n2079\n01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:46,660\nODOT.\n\n2080\n01:46:48,420 --> 01:46:52,020\nAnd then the high priority projects, just listed\n\n2081\n01:46:52,080 --> 01:46:55,960\nthere. These were the locations that, rose to our-- got on\n\n2082\n01:46:56,020 --> 01:46:59,490\nthe high priority list. Um, Ninth Street had a lot.\n\n2083\n01:46:59,490 --> 01:47:02,740\nIt's five, five different projects just on Ninth Street.\n\n2084\n01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:06,410\nUh, we've got Harrison Boulevard at Twenty-Ninth, Kings Circle, Thirty-Fifth and\n\n2085\n01:47:06,420 --> 01:47:10,340\nWestern, Garfield Highland, a segment of Circle Boulevard\n\n2086\n01:47:10,380 --> 01:47:14,080\nfrom Highland to Porter Place, segment of Circle between\n\n2087\n01:47:14,300 --> 01:47:18,120\nNinth Street and Nine-Nines W. Uh, Circle at,\n\n2088\n01:47:18,520 --> 01:47:21,740\nKings, Eleventh and Grant, Tenth and Buchanan, Thirty-Fifth and\n\n2089\n01:47:21,800 --> 01:47:25,470\nJackson, and then Conifer, there's a segment from Nine-Nine to\n\n2090\n01:47:25,580 --> 01:47:28,980\nCambridge, where there's kind of a, a sight distance issue in the\n\n2091\n01:47:29,040 --> 01:47:29,930\ncorner.\n\n2092\n01:47:32,040 --> 01:47:35,800\nUm, and so if you kinda look through those, kind of the, the general pattern of the\n\n2093\n01:47:35,840 --> 01:47:39,240\ninformation we're providing for each of those, there's a location\n\n2094\n01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:43,200\ndescription, a discussion of the crash patterns and trends that were\n\n2095\n01:47:43,220 --> 01:47:47,140\nin that data, project recommendations that also include\n\n2096\n01:47:47,200 --> 01:47:50,720\nwhat, you know, crash reduction potential, where there's research to, to back that\n\n2097\n01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:54,680\nup. Um, project costs, potential funding sources to\n\n2098\n01:47:54,700 --> 01:47:58,360\nconsider, benefit-cost ratios. Um, and then we\n\n2099\n01:47:58,440 --> 01:48:01,880\nnoted any other related planning projects, 'cause sometimes there's a, a\n\n2100\n01:48:01,940 --> 01:48:05,180\nCIP or a transportation system plan project,\n\n2101\n01:48:05,860 --> 01:48:07,900\nthat's related to that location that'd be good to\n\n2102\n01:48:07,940 --> 01:48:11,820\nknow. Uh, and the last\n\n2103\n01:48:11,860 --> 01:48:15,200\nchapter, chapter six, has three kind of sections to it.\n\n2104\n01:48:15,820 --> 01:48:17,940\nAgain, the first one is what I mentioned before.\n\n2105\n01:48:18,000 --> 01:48:21,860\nIt's some opportunities where the city can change operating procedures,\n\n2106\n01:48:21,900 --> 01:48:24,960\ndesign standards, to kind of\n\n2107\n01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:28,960\ncontinue, discussing safety improvements\n\n2108\n01:48:28,980 --> 01:48:32,540\nand keeping those in mind in kind of, you know, day-to-day operations.\n\n2109\n01:48:32,550 --> 01:48:36,160\nAnd that covers, also things like, you know, some maintenance,\n\n2110\n01:48:36,200 --> 01:48:40,140\nfunding, discussions, you know, capital projects, and obviously the\n\n2111\n01:48:40,340 --> 01:48:43,900\nmonitoring evaluation process, which is the last section of the\n\n2112\n01:48:43,940 --> 01:48:47,860\nthree. Uh, there's a discussion on funding\n\n2113\n01:48:47,940 --> 01:48:51,460\nsources. So it's just identifying federal, state,\n\n2114\n01:48:51,520 --> 01:48:54,990\nlocal, potential sources for funding safety\n\n2115\n01:48:55,060 --> 01:48:58,580\nprojects. Obviously, those change over time, so this is a\n\n2116\n01:48:58,660 --> 01:49:00,920\nsnapshot of today and what's available.\n\n2117\n01:49:02,160 --> 01:49:05,900\nUm, and then this table, which is included, and you can hopefully\n\n2118\n01:49:05,980 --> 01:49:08,700\nactually read it in the plan, not on the slide.\n\n2119\n01:49:08,720 --> 01:49:12,350\nBut re- It's just taking kind of an exercise and saying, \"Okay, given all these\n\n2120\n01:49:12,420 --> 01:49:16,400\nfunding sources and kind of the nature of what they are typically geared for,\n\n2121\n01:49:16,420 --> 01:49:20,380\nthen as you look at high priority projects across the, the columns, which\n\n2122\n01:49:20,480 --> 01:49:24,030\nones might they be decent candidates for?\" So it's kinda helping to start that\n\n2123\n01:49:24,120 --> 01:49:28,100\nprocess of looking for funding sources.\n\n2124\n01:49:29,140 --> 01:49:33,020\nAnd then the last section, performance measures and monitoring.\n\n2125\n01:49:33,060 --> 01:49:36,840\nSo again, one of the requirements of the program is do the plan, then\n\n2126\n01:49:36,980 --> 01:49:40,880\nannually, you need to have some performance measures set, and you need to go and\n\n2127\n01:49:40,940 --> 01:49:44,800\nsee how did we do every year? Are we making progress on that goal to get\n\n2128\n01:49:44,840 --> 01:49:48,430\nto zero? Um, and so, and\n\n2129\n01:49:48,480 --> 01:49:52,440\nagain, that has to-- the results need to be made publicly available, so most\n\n2130\n01:49:52,480 --> 01:49:56,200\nlikely just posting them on your website once you've kind of made that report.\n\n2131\n01:49:57,080 --> 01:50:00,800\nAnd so the performance measures that we've identified for Corvallis...\n\n2132\n01:50:01,370 --> 01:50:05,200\nAgain, this is on city roadways. So it's looking at the number of\n\n2133\n01:50:05,290 --> 01:50:09,150\nall the crashes, the number of serious injury crashes,\n\n2134\n01:50:09,210 --> 01:50:12,410\nnumber of fatal crashes, number of pedestrians involved\n\n2135\n01:50:12,430 --> 01:50:16,130\ncrashes, number of bicycle involved crashes, and the number of\n\n2136\n01:50:16,150 --> 01:50:19,750\nfatal and serious injury crashes involving pedestrians and bicycles.\n\n2137\n01:50:19,790 --> 01:50:23,090\nSo those would be the key performance measures they'd be looking at, comparing that\n\n2138\n01:50:23,170 --> 01:50:25,390\nyear over year to see how that trend is\n\n2139\n01:50:25,430 --> 01:50:27,690\nchanging.\n\n2140\n01:50:29,610 --> 01:50:32,730\nAnd then another part of the reporting is,\n\n2141\n01:50:36,070 --> 01:50:36,730\njust accounting\n\n2142\n01:50:36,770 --> 01:50:39,870\nfor, okay, well, what did we do like last year? What were the actions?\n\n2143\n01:50:39,890 --> 01:50:43,790\nMaybe we did two of the high priority projects, or we did two\n\n2144\n01:50:43,870 --> 01:50:47,650\neducational campaigns. So it's just so you can see what did we\n\n2145\n01:50:47,770 --> 01:50:50,550\ndo kind of compared to, outcomes.\n\n2146\n01:50:50,590 --> 01:50:53,610\nBut I will acknowledge there's a lag in getting crash data.\n\n2147\n01:50:53,650 --> 01:50:57,310\nSo you do something next year, maybe two years before you get the crash\n\n2148\n01:50:57,390 --> 01:51:00,770\ndata to actually align with that. So that is one trick to\n\n2149\n01:51:00,810 --> 01:51:03,090\nthis.\n\n2150\n01:51:04,790 --> 01:51:08,530\nUm, so again, I've said this a couple of times now, but the next steps for the\n\n2151\n01:51:08,570 --> 01:51:12,250\nTSAP is, requesting city council acceptance\n\n2152\n01:51:12,430 --> 01:51:16,290\nof the Transportation Safety Action Plan through resolution\n\n2153\n01:51:16,300 --> 01:51:18,130\nat the April twentieth city council\n\n2154\n01:51:18,150 --> 01:51:22,140\nmeeting. I believe that is the end of\n\n2155\n01:51:22,190 --> 01:51:24,770\nmy very long presentation. On\n\n2156\n01:51:26,470 --> 01:51:27,430\nto you.\n\n2157\n01:51:27,530 --> 01:51:31,230\nBefore we go any further and, and maybe take some, some, some\n\n2158\n01:51:31,250 --> 01:51:34,370\nquestions here, I did want to acknowledge someone else that's joined us today,\n\n2159\n01:51:34,410 --> 01:51:36,510\nwhich is Nick from Federal Highways.\n\n2160\n01:51:36,550 --> 01:51:40,230\nHe's been our grant administrator from the federal side, and I can't\n\n2161\n01:51:40,270 --> 01:51:43,890\nemphasize-- And he's attended many task force meetings, for\n\n2162\n01:51:43,990 --> 01:51:47,370\nus and put us in touch with other federal resources,\n\n2163\n01:51:47,870 --> 01:51:50,400\nwhen we had questions, and has really,\n\n2164\n01:51:51,270 --> 01:51:55,250\ndemonstrated, above\n\n2165\n01:51:55,270 --> 01:51:57,970\nand beyond commitment to our project.\n\n2166\n01:51:58,050 --> 01:52:01,220\nAnd I just wanted to acknowledge Nick being here,\n\n2167\n01:52:01,290 --> 01:52:04,970\nand, a-as the grant\n\n2168\n01:52:05,010 --> 01:52:07,990\nadministrator on our side, I've leaned on him, many times.\n\n2169\n01:52:08,010 --> 01:52:08,410\nMm-hmm.\n\n2170\n01:52:08,490 --> 01:52:10,729\nAnd, and he's come through every time for us.\n\n2171\n01:52:10,770 --> 01:52:14,250\nAnd, it's just-- it's been a very, I have to say, it's been a very\n\n2172\n01:52:14,370 --> 01:52:18,100\npositive experience from our side working, working with Federal\n\n2173\n01:52:18,150 --> 01:52:22,090\nHighways on this. And, I'm not sure every community gets to say that, but,\n\n2174\n01:52:22,130 --> 01:52:24,560\nbut we certainly can, and, and just wanted to,\n\n2175\n01:52:26,130 --> 01:52:28,940\ngive our appreciation for him. Thanks, Nick.\n\n2176\n01:52:30,970 --> 01:52:31,570\nYou're welcome.\n\n2177\n01:52:31,590 --> 01:52:35,550\nJust real, real quick, adding on to that, you know, this is, this\n\n2178\n01:52:35,610 --> 01:52:39,350\nwas a pretty rewarding project to be part of.\n\n2179\n01:52:39,390 --> 01:52:43,330\nWe had really strong task force participation and\n\n2180\n01:52:43,390 --> 01:52:47,250\nsupport. We had very strong consultant support,\n\n2181\n01:52:48,530 --> 01:52:50,810\nboth from a technical standpoint and a public\n\n2182\n01:52:50,910 --> 01:52:54,610\nengagement standpoint. Uh, and we had really good\n\n2183\n01:52:54,670 --> 01:52:58,090\nbuy-in and engagement from, from staff that this\n\n2184\n01:52:58,170 --> 01:53:01,410\nrepresented extra work for, was\n\n2185\n01:53:01,830 --> 01:53:05,290\npainful to incorporate at times. Uh,\n\n2186\n01:53:06,290 --> 01:53:09,570\nbut the neat thing about it is that it fills, fills a real\n\n2187\n01:53:09,670 --> 01:53:12,670\ngap that I don't know that we knew that we had.\n\n2188\n01:53:12,710 --> 01:53:13,470\nMm-hmm.\n\n2189\n01:53:13,610 --> 01:53:17,280\nAnd, when you think about what's in a traditional\n\n2190\n01:53:18,650 --> 01:53:22,470\ntransportation system plan, or a TSP, you don't have\n\n2191\n01:53:22,490 --> 01:53:26,370\nthis type of safety analysis incorporated in\n\n2192\n01:53:26,410 --> 01:53:29,870\nthat study. You don't do a separate action like this.\n\n2193\n01:53:29,910 --> 01:53:33,770\nAnd so, it's filling a gap, a real gap that we have\n\n2194\n01:53:33,830 --> 01:53:36,630\nwith meaningful, data-driven\n\n2195\n01:53:37,430 --> 01:53:41,110\nprojects that we can consider implementing to make a real\n\n2196\n01:53:41,170 --> 01:53:44,390\ndifference in our community. So we look forward to continuing the\n\n2197\n01:53:44,450 --> 01:53:47,430\nconversation about how to move projects\n\n2198\n01:53:47,470 --> 01:53:51,110\nforward. But also one, one of the recommendations is, and the plan\n\n2199\n01:53:51,250 --> 01:53:54,690\nis, you know, when you, when you haven't done one of these for a\n\n2200\n01:53:54,730 --> 01:53:58,130\nwhile, like, we have a t-- minor TSP update that we have to do soon, so you\n\n2201\n01:53:58,170 --> 01:54:01,160\nwouldn't redo this again in, like, two years.\n\n2202\n01:54:01,230 --> 01:54:05,130\nBut in the future, when we do TSP updates, to coordinate updates\n\n2203\n01:54:05,590 --> 01:54:08,530\nto the Transportation Safety Action Plan at the same time.\n\n2204\n01:54:08,550 --> 01:54:12,250\nSo when you're identifying all your improvements, you're considering, these\n\n2205\n01:54:12,290 --> 01:54:16,210\nmore detailed safety elements, at the same time.\n\n2206\n01:54:16,290 --> 01:54:20,270\nUh, in addition to a recommendation to continue to do the road safety audits,\n\n2207\n01:54:20,690 --> 01:54:24,260\nin conjunction with our, our larger, street projects\n\n2208\n01:54:24,310 --> 01:54:27,650\nthat, that we take on. So the intention is to\n\n2209\n01:54:28,130 --> 01:54:32,110\ncontinue to build on, on what we learned and incorporate this in future\n\n2210\n01:54:32,120 --> 01:54:35,590\nplanning activities as, as well.\n\n2211\n01:54:36,510 --> 01:54:40,370\nAnd we should thank Jeff for writing the, the original grant,\n\n2212\n01:54:40,390 --> 01:54:43,510\nand he went above and beyond to, to do that.\n\n2213\n01:54:43,570 --> 01:54:43,890\nYeah.\n\n2214\n01:54:43,900 --> 01:54:46,650\nSo it's given us some really good information.\n\n2215\n01:54:46,690 --> 01:54:50,680\nYeah. Thanks for that. A little, an au-acknowledgment that some of\n\n2216\n01:54:50,710 --> 01:54:53,870\nyou would appreciate was, some of you had\n\n2217\n01:54:55,330 --> 01:54:59,230\npersonal working relationships with Marge Stevens, and\n\n2218\n01:54:59,310 --> 01:55:03,190\nI didn't know her as well as many of, as you did, but,\n\n2219\n01:55:03,770 --> 01:55:04,010\nshe\n\n2220\n01:55:04,950 --> 01:55:08,190\nhad made me aware of, of this grant that led to\n\n2221\n01:55:08,250 --> 01:55:11,570\nthe, conversations, led to us\n\n2222\n01:55:11,710 --> 01:55:12,350\napplying.\n\n2223\n01:55:12,360 --> 01:55:12,360\nYeah.\n\n2224\n01:55:12,410 --> 01:55:15,970\nSo I've always kind of thought of this as, as Marge's project.\n\n2225\n01:55:16,070 --> 01:55:16,660\nThat's so cool.\n\n2226\n01:55:16,660 --> 01:55:16,780\nSo I'm glad to\n\n2227\n01:55:17,690 --> 01:55:18,100\nbring it forward.\n\n2228\n01:55:18,100 --> 01:55:20,730\nThank you for sharing that.\n\n2229\n01:55:20,770 --> 01:55:22,320\nYeah. Great, great presentation.\n\n2230\n01:55:22,350 --> 01:55:22,860\nAwesome.\n\n2231\n01:55:22,890 --> 01:55:26,880\nGreat work, and, if you have any questions, there'll\n\n2232\n01:55:26,950 --> 01:55:29,890\nalso be an opportunity to have some time.\n\n2233\n01:55:30,930 --> 01:55:32,880\nSo I just think it's-- I think it does fill a gap.\n\n2234\n01:55:32,890 --> 01:55:36,230\nIt's amazing, the, the qu- quality of the information.\n\n2235\n01:55:36,290 --> 01:55:40,060\nIt's gonna be very helpful in decision-making for\n\n2236\n01:55:40,090 --> 01:55:43,270\nsure. Thank you very much.\n\n2237\n01:55:44,150 --> 01:55:44,700\nI just want to--\n\n2238\n01:55:45,550 --> 01:55:49,090\nGiven all the work that happened to do\n\n2239\n01:55:49,210 --> 01:55:52,790\nthis, you mentioning future planning cycles and\n\n2240\n01:55:53,010 --> 01:55:53,550\naligning\n\n2241\n01:55:54,550 --> 01:55:55,460\nupdates for--\n\n2242\n01:55:56,410 --> 01:56:00,330\nto the TSP unit, which makes sense.\n\n2243\n01:56:00,370 --> 01:56:02,970\nThe, the scale of this work\n\n2244\n01:56:04,450 --> 01:56:05,070\nOkay.\n\n2245\n01:56:05,110 --> 01:56:09,030\nIs, is something happening through all this that makes it replicable at less\n\n2246\n01:56:09,070 --> 01:56:11,670\nexpense in the future? Um,\n\n2247\n01:56:12,630 --> 01:56:16,290\nin other words, if you- every time we do this, we would be\n\n2248\n01:56:16,330 --> 01:56:19,490\ndependent on a six, seven hundred thousand dollar grant?\n\n2249\n01:56:19,530 --> 01:56:22,080\nWell, I, you know, I think we, we did a lot...\n\n2250\n01:56:22,130 --> 01:56:24,810\nAs you saw, we did a lot of supplemental planning activities.\n\n2251\n01:56:24,820 --> 01:56:24,820\nYeah.\n\n2252\n01:56:24,830 --> 01:56:27,790\nAnd there was a lot of cost, associated with those.\n\n2253\n01:56:27,830 --> 01:56:30,090\nSo I think, you know, going back to,\n\n2254\n01:56:31,490 --> 01:56:35,450\ngoing back to just, the transportation safety action plan component of it will\n\n2255\n01:56:36,090 --> 01:56:39,530\nin itself limit the, the level of\n\n2256\n01:56:39,570 --> 01:56:43,400\ninvestment. Um, but there's a lot of work that goes,\n\n2257\n01:56:43,670 --> 01:56:46,970\ngoes into that. So I, I still think it'll be a\n\n2258\n01:56:47,010 --> 01:56:49,030\nsignificant dollar amount.\n\n2259\n01:56:49,070 --> 01:56:49,470\nYeah.\n\n2260\n01:56:49,510 --> 01:56:52,970\nYou know, the formats of master plans or TSPs don't necessarily change\n\n2261\n01:56:53,510 --> 01:56:56,510\ndramatically, cycle to cycle.\n\n2262\n01:56:56,520 --> 01:56:58,230\nBut you still spend a heck of a lot of money-\n\n2263\n01:56:58,270 --> 01:56:59,010\nYeah\n\n2264\n01:56:59,030 --> 01:57:03,010\n... to, to refresh them and bring in new regulations, and in this case, new\n\n2265\n01:57:03,350 --> 01:57:05,050\ntraffic data and things like that.\n\n2266\n01:57:05,610 --> 01:57:08,090\nI, I can, I can add on just a little bit to that.\n\n2267\n01:57:08,110 --> 01:57:11,470\nI think also if you do this concurrently with a T-TSP-\n\n2268\n01:57:11,490 --> 01:57:11,670\nMm-hmm\n\n2269\n01:57:11,750 --> 01:57:15,490\n... you have, there's, there's efficiencies there if you have, like, the same,\n\n2270\n01:57:15,510 --> 01:57:18,550\nlike, the same consulting team perhaps is doing both.\n\n2271\n01:57:18,650 --> 01:57:21,220\nAlso, if you're doing your public outreach at the same time.\n\n2272\n01:57:21,270 --> 01:57:24,820\nLike, there's considerable costs to...\n\n2273\n01:57:24,830 --> 01:57:27,310\nThe public engagement in this was a considerable effort-\n\n2274\n01:57:27,570 --> 01:57:27,720\nMm-hmm\n\n2275\n01:57:27,720 --> 01:57:29,470\n... and required considerable resources.\n\n2276\n01:57:29,490 --> 01:57:33,230\nAnd when, when you do a TSP, it's, it's even more as far\n\n2277\n01:57:33,310 --> 01:57:37,050\nas, the cost component to engage the community in that.\n\n2278\n01:57:37,090 --> 01:57:40,070\nSo if you can engage the community with multiple things-\n\n2279\n01:57:40,150 --> 01:57:40,700\nAt the same-\n\n2280\n01:57:40,700 --> 01:57:41,180\n... multiple\n\n2281\n01:57:42,470 --> 01:57:46,110\nco-concurrent efforts that are, you know, married together-\n\n2282\n01:57:46,150 --> 01:57:46,220\nMm-hmm\n\n2283\n01:57:46,290 --> 01:57:50,190\n... I think there is a lot of efficiencies there, where if we look at\n\n2284\n01:57:50,250 --> 01:57:54,150\njust what it cost us to do this TSAP versus what it would cost to incorporate\n\n2285\n01:57:54,210 --> 01:57:57,390\nas part of a TSP project, you're gonna gain some on it.\n\n2286\n01:57:57,430 --> 01:58:01,010\nThe same way we gained by working with Benton County on our\n\n2287\n01:58:01,090 --> 01:58:04,260\ncollective efforts on our outreach and sharing data and everything.\n\n2288\n01:58:04,310 --> 01:58:08,250\nThat, that provided a, a great s- resource savings to both\n\n2289\n01:58:08,330 --> 01:58:11,710\nof us by sharing. So.\n\n2290\n01:58:11,790 --> 01:58:15,470\nI'll add quickly if, if I can. I'll say even if all you want to do within a few\n\n2291\n01:58:15,550 --> 01:58:18,710\nyears, let's say you've finished some of your high priority projects, and you just\n\n2292\n01:58:18,750 --> 01:58:22,270\nwant to refresh that list, 'cause that's gonna change over time\n\n2293\n01:58:22,330 --> 01:58:26,230\ntoo. Um, we're giving the city as part of this a tool now that\n\n2294\n01:58:26,290 --> 01:58:29,880\nwe've set up the analysis framework for identifying that, right?\n\n2295\n01:58:29,910 --> 01:58:32,970\nRemember the prioritization criteria I talked about that?\n\n2296\n01:58:32,979 --> 01:58:32,979\nYeah.\n\n2297\n01:58:33,010 --> 01:58:36,950\nWe're doing a training session with them next month and handing over this tool so\n\n2298\n01:58:36,990 --> 01:58:38,680\nthey can update that periodically.\n\n2299\n01:58:38,830 --> 01:58:41,870\nSo that's, a lot of the work to set that piece up is done.\n\n2300\n01:58:41,910 --> 01:58:45,730\nSo with fairly low effort, they can at the very\n\n2301\n01:58:45,770 --> 01:58:49,250\nleast refresh that prioritization list every so often.\n\n2302\n01:58:50,690 --> 01:58:52,900\nGreat. Anyone\n\n2303\n01:58:53,010 --> 01:58:54,750\nelse?\n\n2304\n01:58:55,350 --> 01:58:56,010\nYeah.\n\n2305\n01:58:56,050 --> 01:58:59,750\nWell, thank you very much. And again, all the work's really appreciated, and-\n\n2306\n01:58:59,930 --> 01:59:00,139\nSure\n\n2307\n01:59:00,139 --> 01:59:02,590\n... we'll see you on the twentieth.\n\n2308\n01:59:02,610 --> 01:59:08,330\nGreat.\n\n2309\n01:59:08,370 --> 01:59:12,110\nOkay. Move on. Um, I'm sure you also did see, received\n\n2310\n01:59:12,170 --> 01:59:16,090\nsome written comments, so wanna be sure to get\n\n2311\n01:59:16,150 --> 01:59:19,950\nto those. Um, I'm just gonna kinda skip them and hand it off to Tony\n\n2312\n01:59:20,670 --> 01:59:22,270\nfor his questions, and going after we'll get-\n\n2313\n01:59:23,110 --> 01:59:26,750\nRight. So I did say that as the update regarding\n\n2314\n01:59:26,830 --> 01:59:30,570\nthe, use the RFP process for,\n\n2315\n01:59:31,110 --> 01:59:34,550\ncity manager evaluation. Um, I\n\n2316\n01:59:34,590 --> 01:59:35,130\nthink that\n\n2317\n01:59:36,770 --> 01:59:40,710\nwe got some feedback from, Counselor Schaefer, who felt\n\n2318\n01:59:40,790 --> 01:59:41,870\nthat it was a,\n\n2319\n01:59:43,450 --> 01:59:47,370\nconsistent with what we had previously discussed and saw it as a valuable\n\n2320\n01:59:47,470 --> 01:59:48,890\nexercise.\n\n2321\n01:59:49,990 --> 01:59:53,770\nI think the way I would frame the question for all of you is, there's,\n\n2322\n01:59:53,810 --> 01:59:57,490\nthere's no doubt we will get something from using a consultant.\n\n2323\n01:59:57,610 --> 02:00:01,150\nUm, to put it in stark relief, perhaps\n\n2324\n02:00:02,010 --> 02:00:02,810\nif, if this\n\n2325\n02:00:03,910 --> 02:00:07,810\ncost of this was a thousand dollars, we would, it would be a no-brainer to do\n\n2326\n02:00:07,830 --> 02:00:11,670\nit. If the cost, if the cost of it were twelve\n\n2327\n02:00:11,790 --> 02:00:13,610\nthousand, which is kind of a little gateway,\n\n2328\n02:00:14,970 --> 02:00:18,670\nwe would probably do it. The costs are probably gonna be about twenty-five\n\n2329\n02:00:18,710 --> 02:00:22,459\nK. So, and it's really a manner, it's really a practical matter\n\n2330\n02:00:22,550 --> 02:00:24,310\nof, um-\n\n2331\n02:00:24,329 --> 02:00:24,710\nIt's a-\n\n2332\n02:00:24,750 --> 02:00:28,450\nIt's a pain in the extreme. If this costs a hundred K, is it still worth the\n\n2333\n02:00:28,510 --> 02:00:32,220\neffort? So I, I just... Really the question is, and I, like I\n\n2334\n02:00:32,290 --> 02:00:35,850\nsaid, I'm happy to proceed and manage whatever,\n\n2335\n02:00:36,290 --> 02:00:37,950\nprocess the council would decide.\n\n2336\n02:00:38,030 --> 02:00:41,830\nUm, but I do invite your comments as to how you'd like, how you'd like to\n\n2337\n02:00:41,850 --> 02:00:42,990\nproceed.\n\n2338\n02:00:44,010 --> 02:00:44,270\nUm,\n\n2339\n02:00:45,210 --> 02:00:48,950\nI'm gonna say that I would like to proceed, but we're also down\n\n2340\n02:00:48,970 --> 02:00:52,950\nthree counselors, two of whom argued strongly in favor of the\n\n2341\n02:00:52,970 --> 02:00:56,910\nevaluation last time. So I feel like, we're missing\n\n2342\n02:00:56,970 --> 02:01:00,410\nsome voices at the table.\n\n2343\n02:01:00,450 --> 02:01:02,930\nWell, let's start with you.\n\n2344\n02:01:06,010 --> 02:01:09,830\nYou... Go ahead. You said you felt like\n\n2345\n02:01:09,950 --> 02:01:13,790\nfor sure we would gain something. Uh, when I\n\n2346\n02:01:13,870 --> 02:01:15,670\nread through it, I was not\n\n2347\n02:01:17,450 --> 02:01:21,230\nespecially convinced that we would gain, that the process would\n\n2348\n02:01:21,290 --> 02:01:24,830\nbe measurably all that different than what we did\n\n2349\n02:01:24,990 --> 02:01:25,690\nourselves.\n\n2350\n02:01:26,090 --> 02:01:26,430\nI did-\n\n2351\n02:01:26,450 --> 02:01:26,460\nSo-\n\n2352\n02:01:26,470 --> 02:01:29,430\nI didn't, I didn't quantify how much we would gain.\n\n2353\n02:01:29,470 --> 02:01:29,710\nMm-hmm.\n\n2354\n02:01:30,650 --> 02:01:34,550\nI s- I... Obviously, seeing how someone else does\n\n2355\n02:01:34,650 --> 02:01:38,570\nthis, who does this in different settings, there's something\n\n2356\n02:01:38,630 --> 02:01:39,230\nto be learned.\n\n2357\n02:01:39,240 --> 02:01:39,240\nRight.\n\n2358\n02:01:39,270 --> 02:01:42,710\nI don't know that I can speak to the magnitude.\n\n2359\n02:01:42,730 --> 02:01:42,740\nOkay.\n\n2360\n02:01:42,770 --> 02:01:45,020\nSo I'm not saying it's small or large.\n\n2361\n02:01:45,090 --> 02:01:45,590\nOkay.\n\n2362\n02:01:45,610 --> 02:01:46,450\nDifferent.\n\n2363\n02:01:46,490 --> 02:01:49,550\nNo, I just didn't know if you had a particular,\n\n2364\n02:01:51,350 --> 02:01:53,490\nsegment of what we did that you thought might\n\n2365\n02:01:53,570 --> 02:01:56,770\nbe better or, you know, what gain\n\n2366\n02:01:57,330 --> 02:01:58,230\nmight be gained.\n\n2367\n02:01:58,370 --> 02:01:58,580\nI agree.\n\n2368\n02:01:58,610 --> 02:02:01,750\nYou know, I just, that's all. I, i-if you don't have a particular thing, that's\n\n2369\n02:02:01,830 --> 02:02:04,060\nfine. Okay.\n\n2370\n02:02:04,110 --> 02:02:05,210\nYou, um-\n\n2371\n02:02:05,542 --> 02:02:09,422\nYeah, I was gonna say I think that I still think that this is a\n\n2372\n02:02:09,922 --> 02:02:13,682\ngood idea. I mean, if we were looking at this for every year,\n\n2373\n02:02:13,742 --> 02:02:16,542\ntwenty years into the future, I would have a lot more questions.\n\n2374\n02:02:16,562 --> 02:02:20,272\nBut considering the amount of discussion that has gone into\n\n2375\n02:02:20,322 --> 02:02:22,822\nhaving an outside person doing this over the past\n\n2376\n02:02:24,142 --> 02:02:27,942\nmany, many years, since probably before both of us were\n\n2377\n02:02:28,002 --> 02:02:31,692\non the council, I think that having...\n\n2378\n02:02:31,742 --> 02:02:35,142\nI, I think that having someone come in and kind of\n\n2379\n02:02:35,842 --> 02:02:39,642\nstreamline and optimize our process would be\n\n2380\n02:02:40,342 --> 02:02:44,202\nideal because it allows us to use as an investment for years in the\n\n2381\n02:02:44,242 --> 02:02:46,431\nfuture. So...\n\n2382\n02:02:46,442 --> 02:02:48,222\nJim.\n\n2383\n02:02:48,362 --> 02:02:48,611\nUm,\n\n2384\n02:02:50,382 --> 02:02:51,682\nI don't want to go through what we did\n\n2385\n02:02:52,782 --> 02:02:55,502\nlast year again. So,\n\n2386\n02:02:56,602 --> 02:03:00,282\npriority mine is that we establish\n\n2387\n02:03:01,082 --> 02:03:04,882\na framework protocol, content\n\n2388\n02:03:05,722 --> 02:03:09,562\nthat's replicable and that, that successive\n\n2389\n02:03:10,382 --> 02:03:13,722\ncity councils can look at and go, \"That, that's, that's good.\n\n2390\n02:03:13,762 --> 02:03:15,442\nWe don't have to reinvent the wheel.\n\n2391\n02:03:15,482 --> 02:03:19,402\nWe got something that, that is, based on best practices and\n\n2392\n02:03:19,462 --> 02:03:21,362\nworks.\" Um,\n\n2393\n02:03:23,482 --> 02:03:27,232\nif we can do it, we can accomplish that without a consultant, then why\n\n2394\n02:03:27,302 --> 02:03:30,202\nspend the money? I'm not sure that we would, though,\n\n2395\n02:03:31,102 --> 02:03:34,692\nbecause we-- it was such a struggle, trying to figure out what we\n\n2396\n02:03:34,982 --> 02:03:38,422\nwanted. If, if it's a, you know, one-time\n\n2397\n02:03:38,482 --> 02:03:41,942\nexpenditure of twenty-five thousand dollars and we get an excellent\n\n2398\n02:03:42,142 --> 02:03:45,502\nproduct out of it that's going to remove, you\n\n2399\n02:03:45,542 --> 02:03:49,452\nknow, conflicts in the future about, you know, reinventing\n\n2400\n02:03:49,482 --> 02:03:53,112\nit every time and, and, then I think it's money well\n\n2401\n02:03:53,282 --> 02:03:55,502\nspent.\n\n2402\n02:03:55,542 --> 02:03:56,262\nRita.\n\n2403\n02:03:56,362 --> 02:03:59,142\nUm, yeah, no, I, I agree. I,\n\n2404\n02:03:59,182 --> 02:04:02,962\nI... The, the, the, the price tag\n\n2405\n02:04:03,142 --> 02:04:07,062\nis getting to me a little bit, but because it is a one-- it\n\n2406\n02:04:07,122 --> 02:04:10,822\nfeels like it will be a one-time expenditure, I think we should go for\n\n2407\n02:04:10,882 --> 02:04:13,222\nit. Um, I just,\n\n2408\n02:04:14,222 --> 02:04:17,342\nI think it's just like for the future, I just hope we don't have to do it again\n\n2409\n02:04:17,422 --> 02:04:20,802\nbecause then it's like, then why did we spend twenty-five K in the first place-\n\n2410\n02:04:20,842 --> 02:04:20,872\nYeah\n\n2411\n02:04:20,942 --> 02:04:22,202\n... if we're just gonna keep doing it?\n\n2412\n02:04:22,262 --> 02:04:24,062\nSo I, I say\n\n2413\n02:04:24,902 --> 02:04:28,442\nwe go with it and, and just see how it goes.\n\n2414\n02:04:29,142 --> 02:04:31,831\nUh, okay, let me say we'll have...\n\n2415\n02:04:31,922 --> 02:04:32,182\nUh,\n\n2416\n02:04:33,342 --> 02:04:34,942\ndid you?\n\n2417\n02:04:34,982 --> 02:04:38,242\nWell, I think that when I hear about one-time expense versus\n\n2418\n02:04:38,262 --> 02:04:42,242\nongoing, what I recall one\n\n2419\n02:04:42,262 --> 02:04:46,062\nof the driving factors was having an outside person rather than our\n\n2420\n02:04:46,202 --> 02:04:50,122\nHR director run this process. So that would mean this would be an ongoing\n\n2421\n02:04:50,222 --> 02:04:51,322\nprocess.\n\n2422\n02:04:51,362 --> 02:04:52,202\nFor groups.\n\n2423\n02:04:52,742 --> 02:04:56,122\nBut, but I, I don't want to\n\n2424\n02:04:56,182 --> 02:04:59,422\npresuppose the outcome. I think likely the\n\n2425\n02:04:59,502 --> 02:05:00,402\nquestions\n\n2426\n02:05:01,802 --> 02:05:05,402\ngenerally that you saw last time aren't gonna be wildly\n\n2427\n02:05:05,502 --> 02:05:09,182\ndifferent with a consultant, but what you'll have is just an outside person\n\n2428\n02:05:10,002 --> 02:05:12,432\nrunning the process. Um,\n\n2429\n02:05:13,282 --> 02:05:16,902\nwhich maybe that's good confirmation for the council.\n\n2430\n02:05:16,922 --> 02:05:20,302\nAgain, is that worth the money? That's for you to determine.\n\n2431\n02:05:20,342 --> 02:05:24,262\nRight. So a couple comments. Uh, because we did get six proposals and we did rank\n\n2432\n02:05:24,322 --> 02:05:24,742\nthem,\n\n2433\n02:05:27,082 --> 02:05:30,272\nI know that Councilor Ellis, you said we have voices we haven't heard from.\n\n2434\n02:05:30,322 --> 02:05:34,002\nI, I must point out that one of the voices\n\n2435\n02:05:34,122 --> 02:05:37,342\nwas-- should have been part of the ranking process and was not.\n\n2436\n02:05:38,122 --> 02:05:40,922\nUm, so I think that,\n\n2437\n02:05:41,942 --> 02:05:45,782\nthe, the ones that were ranked high did tend to converge with the\n\n2438\n02:05:45,842 --> 02:05:47,442\nICMA,\n\n2439\n02:05:49,522 --> 02:05:50,302\nframework.\n\n2440\n02:05:50,322 --> 02:05:50,742\nMm-hmm.\n\n2441\n02:05:50,822 --> 02:05:54,042\nUm, the highest rated one right now, definitely-\n\n2442\n02:05:54,062 --> 02:05:56,122\nWhich one we would wanna be a little careful about.\n\n2443\n02:05:56,162 --> 02:05:59,502\nI'm not, I'm not gonna say anything more other than to say\n\n2444\n02:05:59,642 --> 02:06:03,532\nthat, I think there's-- we-- a lot of our questions that\n\n2445\n02:06:03,562 --> 02:06:06,822\nwe, we used in the last evaluation do align with the ICMA\n\n2446\n02:06:06,862 --> 02:06:09,582\nframework. There could be some refinement there.\n\n2447\n02:06:09,602 --> 02:06:12,882\nThe answer to, what Council-- what Jim said was that,\n\n2448\n02:06:15,522 --> 02:06:19,182\nI, I feel this-- I-I am like, like I said, I'm willing to support whatever process\n\n2449\n02:06:19,202 --> 02:06:21,542\nthe council wants. I feel confident that we could\n\n2450\n02:06:22,361 --> 02:06:26,152\nimprove the process that we had last year, incorporate three hundred and sixty\n\n2451\n02:06:26,222 --> 02:06:29,572\ndegree feedback with a similar but slightly different set of\n\n2452\n02:06:29,622 --> 02:06:33,532\nquestions, is still lush. Uh, and\n\n2453\n02:06:33,582 --> 02:06:37,412\nthere's-- I think that I have no, doubt that I could\n\n2454\n02:06:37,412 --> 02:06:41,182\ndrive a process with council input that would get us there.\n\n2455\n02:06:41,242 --> 02:06:42,102\nSo-\n\n2456\n02:06:42,162 --> 02:06:42,762\nI guess I wanna-\n\n2457\n02:06:42,802 --> 02:06:46,442\nThat's, that's my, that's my own observation\n\n2458\n02:06:46,602 --> 02:06:49,782\nof, what I think, could be delivered, but I'm happy.\n\n2459\n02:06:49,822 --> 02:06:52,802\nWe will, we will get another shot at this because we have a council\n\n2460\n02:06:52,862 --> 02:06:56,202\nmeeting, the day before\n\n2461\n02:06:56,542 --> 02:07:00,282\nwe award the contract, according to the timeline we have.\n\n2462\n02:07:00,382 --> 02:07:02,692\nI will bring this up again, for a\n\n2463\n02:07:02,822 --> 02:07:06,342\ndiscussion. But I\n\n2464\n02:07:06,422 --> 02:07:10,252\nalso-- I'm also a little, um...\n\n2465\n02:07:10,302 --> 02:07:13,372\nThat being said, I don't like the idea of spending a lot of\n\n2466\n02:07:13,422 --> 02:07:16,862\nenergy on something and, and asking folks\n\n2467\n02:07:16,942 --> 02:07:20,282\nto... I, I mean, frankly, they're consultants, they're used to\n\n2468\n02:07:20,742 --> 02:07:23,922\ns-getting nos as well. It doesn't bother me so much.\n\n2469\n02:07:23,962 --> 02:07:27,622\nBut our own time, we've, we've spent a lot of time\n\n2470\n02:07:28,242 --> 02:07:31,722\non this and, so I,\n\n2471\n02:07:31,802 --> 02:07:35,482\nI, I realize that's all in the past, but I would\n\n2472\n02:07:35,562 --> 02:07:39,122\nlike us to not-- like us to be more effective, more\n\n2473\n02:07:39,462 --> 02:07:41,822\nclear in our decision-making. Yes.\n\n2474\n02:07:43,082 --> 02:07:46,842\nIt just occurs to me that maybe, I mean, one thing we\n\n2475\n02:07:46,942 --> 02:07:50,922\ndon't ever look at very carefully is trending on\n\n2476\n02:07:51,002 --> 02:07:53,322\nhow much council is spending over time.\n\n2477\n02:07:54,122 --> 02:07:54,782\nMm-hmm.\n\n2478\n02:07:54,792 --> 02:07:58,402\nAnd I just thought that might be useful information in this decision because I'm\n\n2479\n02:07:58,642 --> 02:08:01,742\npretty sure we're spending more this year than we spent the year before already,\n\n2480\n02:08:01,782 --> 02:08:05,542\nbefore we even think about the twenty-five thousand dollars.\n\n2481\n02:08:05,562 --> 02:08:07,982\nBut I could be wrong. Does that-\n\n2482\n02:08:08,958 --> 02:08:12,798\nResonate with anyone as a matter of importance, given our budget\n\n2483\n02:08:12,858 --> 02:08:16,738\nconstraints that we're facing and all of that business or-\n\n2484\n02:08:16,778 --> 02:08:20,438\nWell, I think that's partially what weighs into, I was even asking this\n\n2485\n02:08:20,558 --> 02:08:21,238\nquestion.\n\n2486\n02:08:21,278 --> 02:08:21,518\nYeah.\n\n2487\n02:08:21,638 --> 02:08:22,138\nIf we were\n\n2488\n02:08:22,998 --> 02:08:26,298\nnot having a budget strain, we're sitting just fine. I don't think...\n\n2489\n02:08:26,318 --> 02:08:29,238\nI mean, in the grand scheme of things, twenty-five thousand dollars isn't a lot of\n\n2490\n02:08:29,278 --> 02:08:33,148\nmoney from a, a, a city budget. But considering where\n\n2491\n02:08:33,158 --> 02:08:37,038\nwe are, is why like when, when I was looking at the proposals like that, I had\n\n2492\n02:08:37,078 --> 02:08:38,058\nsome sticker shock.\n\n2493\n02:08:38,078 --> 02:08:38,738\nMm-hmm.\n\n2494\n02:08:38,758 --> 02:08:42,198\nI was like, \"Whoa, that's not what I was expecting to see.\" Um, but it is what it\n\n2495\n02:08:42,258 --> 02:08:42,698\nis.\n\n2496\n02:08:42,718 --> 02:08:42,727\nYeah.\n\n2497\n02:08:42,738 --> 02:08:44,638\nSo that's why we want to-\n\n2498\n02:08:44,698 --> 02:08:48,598\nI think the short... My recollection is that we, we have adjusted county\n\n2499\n02:08:48,638 --> 02:08:52,458\nmayor council budget up. We've done things for add- additional training.\n\n2500\n02:08:52,498 --> 02:08:56,008\nWe've done things like the Mayor's Innovation Conference, that Charles just\n\n2501\n02:08:56,008 --> 02:08:56,878\nspoke to.\n\n2502\n02:08:56,888 --> 02:08:57,508\nThe office-\n\n2503\n02:08:57,508 --> 02:09:01,238\nPotentially, joining, that as, as an\n\n2504\n02:09:01,278 --> 02:09:03,478\nactivity. I can't speak to fifteen years\n\n2505\n02:09:04,618 --> 02:09:07,438\nof- ... or twenty years of trend.\n\n2506\n02:09:07,458 --> 02:09:07,758\nMm-hmm.\n\n2507\n02:09:07,778 --> 02:09:10,498\nUm, but certainly in my time on the council, I would bet-\n\n2508\n02:09:10,898 --> 02:09:13,438\nRight now we have the office now too, so I would think-\n\n2509\n02:09:13,498 --> 02:09:13,568\nYeah\n\n2510\n02:09:13,598 --> 02:09:15,338\n... the first line is fairly high.\n\n2511\n02:09:15,358 --> 02:09:18,898\nTwenty-five, 25K is a, is a very big increment though-\n\n2512\n02:09:18,958 --> 02:09:18,998\nYeah\n\n2513\n02:09:19,018 --> 02:09:20,898\n... to whatever that growth has been.\n\n2514\n02:09:20,958 --> 02:09:24,898\nWe, we can pull together where the council is right\n\n2515\n02:09:24,978 --> 02:09:28,938\nnow, in the, our biennium versus what your\n\n2516\n02:09:28,978 --> 02:09:32,358\nbudget is, so you have an idea of are you ahead or behind.\n\n2517\n02:09:33,298 --> 02:09:36,138\nUm, you know, there's multiple things that play into that.\n\n2518\n02:09:36,198 --> 02:09:39,888\nAs you said, training. Um, city attorney\n\n2519\n02:09:39,958 --> 02:09:41,558\ncost is one of the highest,\n\n2520\n02:09:43,338 --> 02:09:47,238\nvariables for the council. So we can, I can work\n\n2521\n02:09:47,278 --> 02:09:50,638\nto provide that before the next council meeting.\n\n2522\n02:09:50,678 --> 02:09:50,958\nAll right.\n\n2523\n02:09:50,968 --> 02:09:50,968\nThank you.\n\n2524\n02:09:50,978 --> 02:09:52,418\nWell, at this point, we're-\n\n2525\n02:09:52,428 --> 02:09:52,428\nYeah\n\n2526\n02:09:52,428 --> 02:09:54,868\n... go through the process of, uh-\n\n2527\n02:09:55,498 --> 02:09:55,938\nPardon?\n\n2528\n02:09:55,998 --> 02:09:57,118\nWell, continuing to move forward.\n\n2529\n02:09:57,138 --> 02:09:59,898\nWe'll continue moving forward. Uh, I'm probably gonna\n\n2530\n02:09:59,938 --> 02:10:03,748\nbe, uh... We're gonna continue moving\n\n2531\n02:10:04,018 --> 02:10:04,318\nforward.\n\n2532\n02:10:04,338 --> 02:10:04,668\nOkay.\n\n2533\n02:10:04,938 --> 02:10:06,698\nWe'll talk about it again at the next\n\n2534\n02:10:06,708 --> 02:10:09,398\nmeeting.\n\n2535\n02:10:10,578 --> 02:10:12,598\nUh, we adjourned?\n\n2536\n02:10:12,678 --> 02:10:16,338\nOh, sorry. Distracted. Yes, I thought we're adjourned.\n\n2537\n02:10:16,538 --> 02:10:16,938\nDid you care?\n",
      "text": "I'm going to call to order today's meeting of the,\nwork session, sorry, for the Corvallis City Council and joint with\nthe Charter Review Task Force Phase Two.\nCall to order. And I just want to start by welcoming our citizen members of the\nphase two of our task force to review the charter.\nI think this might be the first we've all been in the same\nroom.\nUm, so I guess we'll dive in. We have our, our update to the rest of the\ncouncil. So let's just go ahead and get\nstarted.\nStart with presentations.\nPresentations always seem to be the most\ntrouble.\nSo, just a little background on the Charter Review,\nPhase Two Task Force formed in December twenty twenty-five when\nthe first phase of the Charter Review Task Force concluded its work.\nUm, again, charged to evaluate form of government, charter provisions,\nconsider, additions to align with the legal organizations model charter and\nother miscellaneous charter provisions.\nUm, we-- So far, our work so far has been mainly focused, on the form of\ngovernment, due to the impact and effort required to\nget them on the ballot, essentially.\nThese are the guiding principles that we adopted as for phase two of the Charter\nReview Task Force. Um, to me, it's all kind of obvious things that\nwe should always do. Fair and effective representation, effective and efficient\nlegislative function, accountability to voters and democratic\nresponsiveness, continuity and, and institutional\nstability, cost and administrative impact, long-term governance alignment, and\naccessibility to elected leaders and public service.\nI really felt that these things are core of\nhow we operate as a government and what, what the community\ndeserves. We-- Uh, so we've made a few-- have a few\nrecommendations for you. The first one is, lowering\nour number of wards and councilors from nine to seven.\nUh, we actually had a really good discussion on this.\nThere were some, interesting suggestions of even or odd, but we\nended up with seven, to keep it odd, and that between,\ncouncilors to be nominated and elected by ward as we currently\ndo.\nWe have the highlights there. Improved operational efficiencies, governmental\nproduct-productivity, resources for councilors.\nAnd I want to point out, it's interesting, I, I didn't think going from nine to\nseven would make a big difference, but we've had a few meetings recently, we're\njust down by one councilor, and it made a difference.\nSo it, it does show sometimes just\na little more focus instead of broader focus.\nUm, it maintains the neighborhood identities, which is important to a lot of us,\ngeographic representation and accountability to wards.\nAs we know, Corvallis has some very unique areas, whether you live in the north\nside or the south side or right in the middle, we want to maintain\nthat. But it pre-preserves the mayor's primary role as a facilitator and consensus\nbuilder. We didn't want to make any changes to where I'd have a regular voter or\nanything like that.\nUm,\nthe considerations. Reduces opportunities to run for office, perception of\naccess to city. Um, mayor votes less frequently due to fewer tie\nvotes among odd number of councilors.\nEven the wards only vote every four years, while odd votes--\nward votes vote every two years.\nOh.\nThat would be initially.\nYeah.\nSomething to be discussed.\nLet's-\nYeah.\nWe can, maybe get into it a little bit more on the next slide, 'cause it has to\ndo when the mayor is elected.\nYeah. Um, at-large elections could allow representation\nof a geographically spread interest group.\nSo we did discuss whether we wanted to have all councilors just be at large, like\nsome cities do. Um, and at-large elections of, two councilors per\nward could limit voter ability to, check and balance.\nSo again, we considered a lot of different models.\nUm, city manager did talk a lot about, you know, you could have three\nwards and still have six councilors. You can have one in one councilor per ward.\nBut what we ended up going with was those recommendations at the\ntop. Term limits. We suggested\nfour-year terms. Um, that way they could be staggered, so you wouldn't have\nall, councilors come to ballot at once,\nideally. Um, odd wards would be elected in presidential election years and even\nwards .\nUh,\nagain, this brings continuity, experience, focus on long-term goals,\ndevelopment of positive relationships.\nUm,\none of the challenges we, as we all experienced, we've been on council long\nenough, is when a co-council has a big change, then we have a strategy that,\nyou know, hard to make-- fulfill. Uh,\nit reduces the potential for significant turnover and loss of that institutional\nknowledge. Again, when we're in the middle of our strategic\nplan. Um, majority council, only refreshed every four\nyears due to odd numbers of councilors.\nEven though odd wards, voter frequency, opportunities to run for mayor.\nThese are the things we really considered, is how do, how do these play out in\nelections to where\neveryone's kind of equal. And there was concerns\nover the longer term may discourage community members from, from running from\noffice. Um, but when we looked at the data, it kind of disagreed with\nthat. Uh,\nfor, for me, there's been really no changes, so, the recommendation is to keep\nthe way it is where only-- the mayor only votes to break a tie.\nStill has a four-year term, and elected at large during midterm election\nyear. Um, again, you can read through the, the key considerations we have\nthere. And then the, highlights of those considerations\nand the concerns and what we kinda talked through every\ntime. Term limits. This one I thought was\nmore interesting. Um,\nhas to do with three-term limit for councilors and the three-term limit for mayor.\nSo essentially twelve years, assuming everything passes.\nUh, limits apply to consecutive terms, not to the lifetime of an individual.\nSo if someone served three full terms, you know, spent twelve years as a\ncity councilor and decided to run for mayor, they can do that.\nIt's a different position. Um, if they took a break, served two\nterms, left council for whatever reason, and ran again, they can do\nthat as well. They're just not in a second.Um, and we're, we're trying-- we worked\nout that partial terms would, less than 50% would not count to a term\nlimit.\nAnd we have the main considerations there.\nBalanced and competitive renewal, provides stability,\nlimits the incumbent advantage, which is talked\nabout. Um,\nthings to that effect.\nNext steps. Um, you can see here we are today in March.\nUh, we're looking for feedback, direction, so we can continue the work.\nUm, in April, we developed more of the red line language concrete with\nphase one of the charter study task force.\nUm, we'll come back in May, look for more final, feedback if there's\nanything that's changed on the strategy.\nUm, and June, we'll finalize ballot titles and summary\nstatement. And hopefully July, we'll refer to the November ballot,\nand that's when the real fun begins.\nHere are the questions we have for all of you, councilors you should\nsay. To move on. Do the draft recommendations align with the guiding\nprinciples?\nTwo, are there any governance models from comparative cities that the task force\nshould be examining more closely?\nThree, from a governance perspective, do the draft recommendations work well\ntogether and independently, regardless of how they are grouped on the ballot?\nYou have a lighter pack as well. And do the draft recommendations address problems\nthe council is looking to solve?\nSo again, we're trying to keep it pretty high level today because we will come back\nagain with those more detailed, red\nlines to get into the weeds, so to speak.\nSo really today we're just open to\ngive you the update of where we, where we're landing currently and get feedback on\nthese questions so we can move forward.\nOkay, I just have a question. Can you explain what you mean by odds-- by\nthe comment about,\neven ward voters only vote every four\nyears, and odd ward voters vote every\ntwo?\nI'll look to Alex or somebody else for that.\nYeah.\nThat confused me.\nYeah. So, each... Since, since the\nmodel is one ward\nper-- o-one counselor per ward, you're actually\nonly voting for a counselor every four years.\nBut because the mayor is on, the,\num-\nOdd year\n... odd year, some of those wards you'll line up where you, you\nget to vote for a mayor in one, you know, at one\npoint, and then two years later, you're voting for your counselor.\nThen two years later, you're voting for your mayor.\nThe other wards, you're voting for mayor and counselor every\nfour years, and you're not voting\nin the, in between. So you're only voting, only get a vote every\nfour years, which-\nYeah, so I was confused by the way I think it was worded.\nYeah.\nSo basically, it depends on where you live in the city will be-- depend on how long\nyou get, how often you get to vote.\nBut you still get to vote every four years for your counselor.\nYes, for your counselor-\nFor mayor\n... no matter where you live.\nOr for your mayor.\nBut sometimes you'll get to vote, you know, like say this November, you'd get to\nvote. And if this is already implemented, then in two years, you'd have a different\nvote if you lived in one of the ones where you're now voting for mayor.\nAnd then the next two years again, you'd vote for your counselor.\nSo it is a disadvantage, but-\nI'm not really-- I'm not sure I see that as a\ndisadvantage. If I'm, I'm even number\nward, I get to vote for the mayor and the counselor. Okay.\nSo I get-- I'm voting for two elected officials.\nBut then in the next two-year period, I get to vote for no elected\nofficial.\nRight.\nCorrect.\nYeah.\nCorrect.\nSo what's... I don't get the distinction.\nIt, it's, you know, it... Well, the only negative we could think of\nwe were talking about it was around, civic\nengagement.\nMm-hmm.\nYou know, some people like to be able to vote every two years, and this would\nremove, certain wards from being able to vote every s- every two years.\nSome, some of them would only vote every four years. It's not really a negative.\nThey're still voting for the same number of people, but just not\nevery two years.\nYeah.\nYeah.\nI think it also kinda goes back to the mindset of where we went\nto, vote for the whole council every two years was that idea\nof accountability. As, you know, I wasn't here for\nthat, that charter change, but the understanding was they would wanna be able to\nmake a change on the council every two years,\nwhere, I mean, the way to accomplish that with\nfour-year terms would be\nmultiple counselors per ward\nor\nsome sort of at large type of...\nYeah. I mean, I understand, I understand the comment.\nI'm really not sure I see that as a\nnegative or an inequity, but that doesn't matter.\nTo keep it back to the high level, I think the\nonly comment I would say is,\nit is true that\nyou can't run for two offices at the same\ntime.\nUm, so yes, if you're in a ward that is not up for election, you can run for\nmayor. But we can solve that problem pretty simply by making somebody\nresign. We can, we can make that change.\nIf you wanna run for mayor, you have to resign.\nYou have to plan to resign your city councilor\nposition. Does that, does that come up at all as you-\nNo, we didn't talk about that. You're saying we get to just plan to retire\nbut not-- or resign, but not actually resign until-\nNo, you'd have to actually-- To make it fair, you'd have to actually resign.\nBecause if I'm in a-- If my term is ending, and I want to run\nfor mayor, but I also-- I can't run for mayor and for my expiring\nterm.\nSo if I run for mayor, I'm not ever gonna be a councilor\nthat, the next term. So-\nYou would have to leave your chair until the end of the term.\nYou'd have to wait another two years to run again.\nSo-\nIt's a forfeit\n... are you saying if you decided to run for mayor\nIn July, then when you made that decision to run for mayor\nin July, you would not finish out your term?\nNo, no.\nOr you would just say, \"In December, I am done.\"\nNo, I'm saying it for the people that are in even-numbered\nterms.\nMm.\nWhen they... If they chose to run for mayor, and their term\nis going to be expiring, at the end of that year-\nMm-hmm\n... they know they won't be able to run for their council position again.\nMm-hmm.\nSo they're, they won't, they won't...\nIf they lose the mayor race, they're, they're out of council.\nRight.\nIf we wanted to make it fair for the odd-numbered terms, and you wanna\nrun for mayor, then what you're...\nYou, we could say, you're making a decision similar to our\neven-numbered cohorts, that you\nwanna run for mayor. If you get elected mayor, you're mayor.\nAnd if you're, don't get elected mayor, you, you effectively are\nsaying, \"I'm gonna resign at the end of my, of that council\nterm.\"\nDecember, yeah. Okay.\nI mean, that would make it the same, that would make it equivalent.\nAnd it wouldn't really-\nFor example-\nIt wouldn't really be resigning, it would just be you would not be able to run for\ncity council.\nFor...\nCan I rephrase it?\nYou'd have to resign.\nYou'd have to resign, sure.\nYou'd have to resign.\nYeah.\nOkay.\nSo this resignation would be submitted, but not effective until the end of the\nyear?\nYeah.\nYeah.\nOkay.\nAnd then who... Then that means that during that election cycle, you would\nalso have to have an election to replace that person running for mayor and city\ncouncilor.\nBecause by definition, they've resigned already.\nThey would have, they have, they would be resigned.\nIf they chose to run for mayor.\nSo you can't... So you just can't lose the mayor election and stay on council for\ntwo years.\nRight.\nYeah, I, I, I think-\nI like that.\nI, I think, I think that's\nslightly a discount. It's not a disadvantage.\nMm.\nYeah, I guess that would work.\nNo, it's not dis- it's the same disadvantage for the,\neven-numbered boards. If I wanna run for mayor, and now I'm not\nMm-hmm.\ngoing to council, I can't re-\nMm\n... I can't run for re-election.\nSo clearly this is a feedback for the task force, they need to figure this out.\nExactly. That's what I-\nI made a note.\nOkay.\nI have another suggestion to try to make it-\nAnother solution that was suggested by Brennan, that\ncame out today-\nYeah\n... was to have a two-year term for the mayor.\nRight. Mm.\nAnd that would actually get rid of the inequities, and it would also get rid of-\nThat's great\n... collect extra money for elections.\nYeah. But, please no comments from the audience, thank you.\nUm,\nthat would solve the problem, although as someone who's done that campaign,\nI would not wanna do that every two years.\nMm.\nYeah, I think that's the... It's a lot of money, it's a lot, it's a lot of work,\nand it would be a distraction for the mayor to try to do that every other year.\nAnd, and I, yeah, I get the... I can see where\nit can be...\nIt solves one problem and creates another.\nIt just doesn't help the continuity issue.\nYeah.\nSo.\nWell, I have to look into how the other cities do it, because most, some, you know,\nthere are others that have wards, like us-\nMm\n... that have a four-year term mayor.\nSo somebody has to have figured something out, 'cause on that\nchart...\nYou know, another thing discussed, but we didn't\nput in this proposal, is having all the councilors, running at once, and then\nthe mayor on the separate election.\nWhich still has the same issue we have now with the turnover\nrate.\nMm.\nYeah, no.\nMm.\nWe on number two yet?\nWell, we haven't even really answered number one fully, so.\nWell, I would-\nGuiding principles, yeah. I would, I would\njust like to point out that I've been uncomfortable with\nthe, you know, the odd/even,\nswitcheroos, and this, that, and the other thing.\nUm, so the, the memo this morning from\nMr.,\nwhat's his name?\nBrand.\nBrand.\nCool.\nYeah. Um, crystallized in my\nmind what I had been uncomfortable with.\nMm.\nAnd, and\nwhat's presented here is a little more elegant than what we've\npresented in phase two task force.\nSo even, let's say, we went with 66 terms instead of seven,\nwe would not have that odd/even thing going on.\nUm, or would we? I don't know. But anyway, if we look at\nnumber two, governance models,\nand we find out what's negative about those governance\nmodels, you know, we, we're, we're putting up a lot of\nnegatives in what we've presented or what we've\ncome up with so far. And those negatives, maybe it's, what is\nit? All the, the slides you had before.\nUm,\nthose negatives\nI think are enough that will dissuade people from voting\nfor any of them.\nMm.\nOr some of them. One of them, two of them.\nAnd the problem-\nThat's the other thing we have to look at, if one passes and the other one doesn't,\nwhat do we do?\nEzra.\nCould I ask... Now, I knew we were talking\nabout reducing the number of councilors and the number of\nterms, and I don't need to weigh in on my opinion of that right now, because I\nthink I've been clear for the last 10 years.\nUm, what is the problem we're trying to solve with the term\nlimits? What? There was... I mean, the only person who\nsucceeded that was Hal Bronner. Um, and Hal was, was\nsuch a resource to me, as a, as a new\ncouncilor.\nI think the idea of the term limits was kind of a response to the\nconcern, the reason why we ended up with two-year term limits to\nbegin with. You know, so people would have six, not that\nthat's generally, but it's, and I, I think that's why it\nwas, brought up as a suggestion at-\nSo, so really what is the problem?\nYou know, we, we talk about addressing problems that councils looking...\nSo what is the problem with somebody running-\nFour terms.\nFour terms, nine terms. Hal was here for eight, 10 years.\nUm,\nwhat, what, where, where's the problem?\nI think, I think we need fresh-\nIf... And, but if the, if the community, if the people who are electing him feel\nlike, or her, the pe-people who are electing the counselor\nfeel like they're doing a good job representing, and the counselor\nfeels comfortable and like they're still able to do the\njob, what, where is the problem?\nI agree.\nYes. I-\nI mean, I guess we could put it out to the, the community and have them vote on it\nand say, \"We don't see this as a problem,\" then it goes down.\nBut it seems like-\nYeah.\nI don't, I don't see the problem\n... Chris, I, Chris, I agree with you. I don't see there being an actual problem.\nMm-hmm.\nIt's more of a perceived problem, perceiving that community members might have\nconcerns over four-year terms because of, you know, getting ingrained\nand stuck in their seat and serving forever and not doing good work, which from our\nunderstanding is part of the reason why two-year terms were created in the first\nplace, because I guess they used to be six, so.\nAnd from a certain level too, there's, like a\nlevel of the longer you're in your seat, the more of an incumbent advantage\nyou might have. And so that also-\nYeah\n... also prevents the turnover. I know it's more of a problem seeing that like the\nstate and national level than it is-\nMm-hmm\n... on the city council level. But it, we talked about it a little\nbit as like an anti-corruption measure, so that was part of it.\nSo my feedback to the board-\nYeah\n... or the task force on this would be, take a look to\nsee if other cities have moved in this direction and what was the basis\nfor their direction. I, I think there's probably a general\nsense that term limits are a good thing, but I don't,\nI don't know what the trend is.\nYeah.\nSo that might be useful. By the way, I do have some data\nthat came from the League of Oregon Cities that is not a\npublished report. It's a spreadsheet of a comm- of a survey that\nthey did that talks about term limits and stuff like that, so I'll send\nthat to you.\nGood.\nYeah.\nCan I just comment that I think the term limits sentiment may\nbe, influenced by the federal\nsituation-\nMm-hmm\n... and people seeing this\nwith long, long sitting, perceived to be\nineffective people at the federal level.\nUm, and\nit's just a totally different animal serving at the local level, and hard\nto find really good people who are willing to serve for a long time.\nSo I, I mean, my op- my, not really stake in the ground,\nbut it's let the voters decide. If they don't think they're effective anymore, they\nwon't be voted back in.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd you have councilors who are losing effectiveness\nwho were voted out.\nRight.\nThe history of the two-year term was\nbased on the fact that there had been councilors in office\nforever.\nWell, then we can decide to change the charter again.\nSo we're gonna try-\nIt doesn't, you know, make people happy, but-\nWe're trying to assuage that issue.\nI know. I get it. But what problem are we-\nBut what problem are we trying to solve here?\nExactly. It doesn't exist now.\nYeah.\nIf I, I go back to the guiding principles, and the last guiding principle is\naccessibility to elected leaders and public service.\nThe idea is giving people a chance to step up and serve as a\ncouncilor where it's an... Running for office your\nfirst time is, I think, can be intimidating and challenging.\nWhen you, you have an incumbent that continuously comes back,\nit could discourage people from stepping up.\nUm, so I think, I think that's\npart of it. I don't, I don't want to talk for the task force, but I do remember us\ntalking about that.\nPart of it is also a diversification\nof knowledge. If you have someone who's a city councilor for\n20 years or something, they're, they're gonna have a tremendous amount of\nknowledge.\nMm-hmm.\nBut we need to be considering about the city as a long-term\norganism, which means, you know, cycling this knowledge\nthrough, making people, making sure people are engaged and active.\nSo it's not just turnover, it's also about-\nThings changing\n... building the bench, so to speak.\nMm-hmm.\nSo I do, I, I think the,\nat a high level, I think the, the four-year terms makes a lot of\nsense to me, and I think staggered.\nUm, I think that\nI, if you look at, either actual\nexamples of turnover with two-year terms versus four-year terms,\nor even, or even if I remember my probability, I could\nprobably demonstrate to you mathematically\nthat when you have two-year term, four-year terms staggered, you're gonna get less\nturnover.\nAnd so I think that is the benefit of,\nmoving away from two-year terms.\nUh, and I think that the data that Jan put together showed we have a\nfairly significant turnover rate-\nMm-hmm\n... that doesn't help with longer term\ndecision-making and, and maintaining momentum on larger terms.\nSo I think that aspect of it is, definitely fits with\nthe, rough draft recommendations.\nUm, I think, I'm happy to have you guys look at a\ncouple other factors out there in terms of the term limits per\nse. Um,\nI don't resonate as much with the every four years I get to vote\nas I get to vote every two years. That's, that could be my own personal\napproach. Um,\nand I do think the issue of, councilors running for\nmayor and also having to be able to retain their seat is a, is a,\nis an inequity between\nthe odd and even.\nMm-hmm.\nSo I think that should be addressed.\nUm,\nand\nI, I just have a question. I know\nthat-Um, saying not to go down the path of\nthree wards and two councilors\nper ward.\nLike, was there,\nis there-- is that just considered too big a change?\nWhat was the logic behind it?\nFor me, it's the, the\nelection issue. Running in a ward\nthat's a third of the city is different than running in a ward that's a seventh of\nthe city, or a ninth of the city now.\nSo when I ran for city council, I knocked on every door in my ward.\nIf there were only three wards, there's no way I'd do that, in my\nopinion.\nAnyone else want to weigh in? I believe there's been some\nmore.\nYeah. I also wasn't a big fan of the two councilors per ward system,\nbecause then you end up often in situations where,\nyou have one, one councilor canceling out the vote of\nanother.\nPotentially, yeah.\nYeah.\nYeah, I'll say I, I like the concept,\na lot actually. Um, but, but when we went through the discussion and raised\nsome of the concerns of what that would do, is how there's also what was\ntalked about keeping the identity of the ward system.\nBecause there is, you know-\nRight\n...if you made it only three wards, that would really combine\nareas of the city that haven't really been, that don't have the same issues.\nMm-hmm.\nNot, not that that would create more, maybe some more understanding of the\ndifferent parts of the community.\nBut we feel that, that,\nthe voters in Corvallis really like our, their identities of their neighborhoods\nand their wards. And although we'd be reducing to seven, I think\nthat would, the shift would still work and keep those different segments of\nthe city. I can, I can understand that.\nI, I think as to, as to counseling the votes, say,\nevery, when you get on the council you're, both represent your ward and\nthe city, so-\nMm-hmm.\nMm-hmm\n...you cancel each other out all the time. So, but it's just not within our ward.\nTrue, but then you're also gonna run into the, the situation where\nthere's two councilors, even if they're on the same ward technically, like, even if\nthey're technically on the same ward, they'll have such dif-- you can end up with\nsuch differing opinions that you'll split that ward down the middle.\nMm-hmm.\nSo it would end up being like-\nAlmost like-\n... almost like two different wards in the first place.\nOr the opposite, where you get two councilors for one ward that have the exact\nsame opinion on everything.\nRight.\nWhich then you end up with a ward that gets no\nrepresentation of the population.\nRight. Yeah.\nLike, there's a lot of wards where simply people with a lot of\nmoney or retirees would be able to take the seats every single time.\nAnd while that's not, it's not as much of a problem when you have\nseven or nine wards, as it is when you have, like, two\ncouncilors.\nSure.\nYeah.\nWell, two comments on that. One is, I think if, if you believe that rep- the\nelection is representative of, people in the ward, I think that kind of\naddresses that issue. Uh, I would encourage you to look at the League of\nOregon Cities to see,\nhow,\nkind of what other cities do. And not that we have to copy other cities, but-\nOkay\n...the point is, we have, the hundred and twenty-one\ncities in Oregon.\nTwo hundred and forty-one.\nPardon me?\nTwo hundred and forty-one.\nTwo hundred and forty-two.\nIt keeps happening.\nSo we have two hundred and forty-one experiments that have happened over decades,\nand sometimes centuries. Um, but it'd be good to at\nleast understand what other people have learned and, and learned from that.\nSo, I'll send you, it's kind of dated, but it's, it,\nit's the last survey that they did for cities, kind of what, how they operate.\nSo I would encourage you to reach out to League of Oregon Cities.\nIf, if I could just-- In your packet, you do have comparison of 10\ncities.\nYeah.\nAnd there's, there are two cities that are\none councilor per ward, elected by wards, and\nthat's Corvallis and Springfield.\nThe rest have either two councilors per ward, or they\nmay, they may nominate by ward, but they elect at\nlarge. Um, so I think there's...\nWe would remain an outlier for one councilor per\nward.\nBut actually, are those\nparent councilors,\nelected at the same time?\nNo. Generally, they're staggered.\nOh, okay. Good.\nThat's what I thought.\nMm-hmm.\nThere are certain advantages and reasons why I kind of like the concept of that\nmodel, but...\nOne of the things I had noticed a few years ago, I was following, city council\nelections in Albany, you know, where they have a small number of wards\nand it's two per ward. And, and the thing that was,\nreally out of the ordinary just from my experience\nin Corvallis, how much money people were spending on council elections\nthere.\nMm-hmm.\nI, I don't remember the numbers anymore, but it was more like a mayor's\nrace in Corvallis, that kind of number.\nMm-hmm.\nIt was number of thousands, you know, and,\nand I,\nI like the idea that you can, you can, run an, an\neffective campaign like Steve was talking about, you know, without\nhaving to spend a lot of money.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, so that helps. The, the one question that we haven't touched on that\nI would just like to hear, task for- task force\nmembers, talk about a little bit is the\nnumber of count- council members being even or odd, and\nits relationship to the mayor's role.\nMm-hmm.\nI mean, I, I read the, what it said the strengths and weaknesses of it are,\num. But\nI was struck by the comparator cities and how many of them had an even s- number\nof council members, with still a mayor that only votes\nin a tie. Um-\nYeah, I didn't see that as a particular issue\n... so I was wondering.\nI would've voted for six.\nAh, good.\nDo you think maybe-\nMaybe we, you know, to hear from the people who thought seven was a better number.\nNo, six. I think we said six, seven.\nOh, did we?\nUm, yeah, so in this conversation I preferred that I, my opinion\nstayed out of it for obvious reasons.\nSure.\nUm, 'cause\nnot voting in the ties is not working already, but so-\nSo, so I'm, I'm hearing that there was no, \"We need to keep\nthis an odd number.\"\nWe thought there would be a few times that the mayor would have to vote if there\nwas an odd number. That was the primary issue.\nI see.\nThe only one that's been three in three years.\nYeah, it wasn't to heal any of us or speak\nup.\nRight.\nIt's, you know, it's-\nWe want to go on that hour.\nYeah. I, I do remember that the task force said six or seven, then we came back\nthe next meeting and had specific discussion about odd or\neven. And it's the reasons that are stated in the summary, and it\nreally relied on the mayor's voting-\nMm-hmm.\nAnd a decision to keep that as an infrequent voter and more of a\nneutral facilitator.\nMm-hmm.\nOkay.\nI found myself thinking, I was looking at this packet and I, I thought I'd\nnever had before\nwhich is maybe I kinda like the idea that the mayor has to break ties\nmore often.\nYeah.\nUm-\nMm-hmm.\nYou know, because it's a different, it's additional engagement on the part of\nthe mayor and someone we've elected\ncitywide-\nMm-hmm.\nAs a leader and, and, it gives, more of a\nvoice to the mayor, more of an active role.\nAnd\nI, I certainly understand the impulse to keep it, it primarily as\na facilitator-\nMm-hmm.\nOf, of business. Um,\nyou know,\nI would, I would encourage you to just think a little bit more deeply about that,\nabout whether that's, you know, a priority,\nor maybe have a second thoughts about it, and then maybe it would be\ngood to have a mayor as break ties more.\nSure.\nI know one of the things we talked about a- throughout the process is we've really\nfocused on how the mayor's role and the councilor's role\nare different. And so when we were talking about the mayor or councilors, that was\nsomething we focused on, was if we went to a six or a, you know, an\neven number councilor system, that would make the mayor's role sim- too similar\nto that of the councilor. And since we are already factoring in the\ndifference between being a mayor and being a councilor into a lot of our other\ndecisions, that's where the focus on seven councilors came from.\nYeah.\nSo.\nYeah.\nI would say looking back at the average votes that the council\ntakes, it's not too often that it's even close to a\ntie.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, even if we were voting, had a different, an even number.\nSo I don't, I don't think it would increase mayor voting that much, but it\nwould obviously increase the side of him.\nWell, could I also... I, I, I just would also chime in that I'm\ntrying to imagine myself facilitating the meeting and processing all of\nthe comments and deciding how I'm going to vote on something-\nMm-hmm.\nWould complicate how I would facilitate the meeting.\nI've done it. It doesn't work out.\nSure.\nUm, so real quick, 'cause we're, we're, we're essentially at time, so I just really\nquick wanna go through these questions that are on the screen and have kind of a\nquick roundtable of councilors provide their,\ntheir answers to them essentially.\nSo number one, do, do, do the recommendations meet\nthe guiding principles?\nMostly, but not entirely. For other things\nwe already said.\nYeah. I would say the things that we do.\nAnyone else?\nI would agree with Tony. We may be thinking about differently sides.\nAnd number two.\nThe s- s- similar.\nSo we kinda-\nSort of the same answer.\nYeah, we kind of already covered it.\nI figure, you know, looking at similar cities for other senior quorum maps,\nJim's already expressed he'd prefer not an even n- number of councilors.\nAnd then look at other, to see if other cities have term limits, so we kind of,\nkind of already answered that. Um, number three, from a governance perspective, do\nthe draft recommendations work well together?\nUm, if you tie, pack it in front of you, that starts\non electronic package page six, you can see there's this\npotential ballot that measure one, and that's putting number of council positions,\nnumber of wards together. That one's almost just\nobvious. Uh, measure two, council term lengths,\nstaggered/concurrent terms, and election\ncycle of councilors, and term\nlengths, term\nlimits.\nAnd I'll just make a note here. When this group comes back to the city council for\nyour next work session in May, we'll dive deeper into election strategy\nat that point.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, this is more from a, a good governance lens.\nMm-hmm.\nLike how do these things look to you?\nI think the answer is yes.\nYeah.\nYeah.\nAnyone disagree?\nNo.\nAnd before we get into the draft recommendations, address problems the council is\nlooking to solve. We had a yes earlier from Tony.\nDoes anyone disagree?\nNo. I'm, I'm still trying to figure out the problem with the term limits and-\nYes, can I have your notes?\nYeah.\nYour recommendation. So, so it's yes but\neh.\nIt addresses the big one.\nSure. Yes. That's good.\nUm, it's the little ones that it solve.\nThe little\ngood problems.\nI think that gives us enough to work on, and we'll look at refining,\nwhere we are with that. With those\ndetails, we'll go into a-\nSure.\nHarder conversation.\nReason one, three-year terms?\nUm.\nTechnically, no.\nWell, how could you do-\nExcept for the cost election-\nThe cost of elections\nIn between.\nCost of election, yeah.\nYeah.\nSo you have to pay for the second election. That's really, it's money.\nWell, the other issue-\nIn turn, yeah\nIs it doesn't have staggered. And so, and the whole council would be elected every\nthree years.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd therefore, you'd have that s- turnover issue just like you'd have it currently.\nExcept for the-\nSo it wouldn't solve that issue\nWhat's that?\nIt would just be an extra year.\nFrom a technical point, no, there's no reason why you couldn't.\nSo you didn't consider one-year terms?\nEach.\nFor you-\nYou be quiet. Donny said-\nYou're not allowed.\nTo remove someone-\nSomeone's gonna write down. Yeah.\nNo, I think it's done.\nWell, thank you all for coming. We appreciate it, and I look forward to-\nThank you very much.\nYeah. Thanks for all your work.\nTransition.\nOkay.\nI drove.\nDefinitely. Definitely.\nYeah. We're gonna talk next slide on the Safe Streets and Roads for All and\nTransportation Safety Action\nPlan.\nHold on.\nCan\nshe\ngive\nall of them involved? It depends where I would...\nThat was when they did the watching their December.\nI'm hearing it more\ntoday.\nI'll assume I'm just kicking this off to you, Dan.\nExcuse me?\nI assume I'm just kicking this off to you.\nI'm kicking it off to Adam.\nOkay. Adam.\nAll right. Uh, since it got kicked off to me, we'll go ahead and get\nstarted. Thank you so much for having us here today.\nI can say the project team is, very excited\nto,\nbe able to come to you and talk about all of the work products that came out\nof the SS forty project that we started, almost two years\nago. And, we're just gonna dig right into\nit.\nSo just a quick recap. As you may recall, we got a, we got a very nice grant\nfrom, the federal government, to-- through their Safe Streets and\nRoads For All program. And\nthe, the real, advantage to the city of Corvallis in this is it, it\ndoes really help us moving, moving the\ngoalposts toward that continuing Vision Zero goal that the\ncouncil, put in place through Resolution twenty twenty\nsixteen. Priority is safety for all users.\nIt supports the existing TSP that we have in place that was adopted\nseveral years ago, and it, it identifies\nour highest, most severe crash locations, so we can\nfocus our efforts on that.\nSo since, since we got to drop over a thousand pages on you- ...uh, you\nprobably know that there was a lot of, a lot of, work effort put into\nthis, this project. And, and, you know,\nthe, the, the big, the big component was the Traffic--\nTransportation Safety Action Plan that we're gonna go through with you some today.\nIn addition to that, we had some supplementa-supplementary planning\nprojects that we did. We did three road safety audits, Walnut, Circle, and Ninth\nStreet. We looked at Walnut for a lane reconfiguration\nfeasibility study. We looked at our neighborhood traffic\nmanagement program to get some recommendations on how to potentially improve\nthat. Same thing with speed limit investigation framework, kind\nof looking at recommendations for staff to maybe use some different\ntools to help organize speed limit,\nlooks in the, in the community. We'll go through all of this in the\npresentation. And then an-another internal, supplemental\nplanning effort to give us some,\nguidelines around, standardizing some pedestrian treatments\nat, at different intersections.\nSo with that, I'm gonna hand it off to John Bosket with DKS.\nUh, John's helped, was the project manager on this from DKS,\nand also was our project manager when we did TSP a few years ago.\nHello. Thanks for having me. Um, so I'm gonna give you\nan overview, and there's a whole-- almost as many slides as pieces of paper you\ngot here. So I'm gonna try to move through it quickly.\nUm, and I'm ending with the Transportation Safety Action Plan,\nor the TSAP, as we call it. That's the only piece of this that,\nstaff will be coming back next month\nand asking you to approve. The rest of the, supplemental planning\nactivities, are really more internal operational documents for\ncity staff, but I'm gonna give you an overview of what we, what we did and\nkinda what we're hand-we're handing over to them as well.\nSo I'll go through those first. Um,\nand of course, you-- I actually got a little bit of a process overview\nfirst. Uh, as I go, you can ask questions at\nany time, but, I'll make, I'll make a point to pause as I kinda hit the\nbreaks between each of those items too, just to see if there are any\nquestions. Um, so first is kinda the\noverall SS four A project timeline.\nAgain, we had all these kinda one big project and\nso a bunch of mini supplemental projects going kind of all at the same time.\nWe started in, I think it was November of, twenty\ntwenty-four. This is about a seventeen-month-ish\nprocess. We went through kind of those different phases that, that are\nshown at the top of the diagram, where first we spent some time just\nunderstanding, what are the crash issues, where do people feel\nunsafe, really understanding what the problems are, and\nthen, working with the task force and analyzing the data and listening to\nthe community feedback to, identify\nhigh-priority locations, develop solutions for those, and refine\nthose, and ultimately develop our plan.\nWhat you see is in the middle, we had, six meetings with our task\nforce and two major kinda milestones for public\noutreach.\nUh, so just kind of a brief word on just the overall public\nengagement process.Um, you know,\nobviously a big part of this is one of the, the federal requirements of doing this\nis we want to make sure we're getting community input, not only on kind of what the\nchallenges and issues are, but then on the types of\nsolutions that we're, we're\nrecommending. And,\nwe really attempted to engage the community\nin a lot of different ways and kind of changing up our approach as we went to make\nit more effective. Had a lot of good help from your public information\nofficer, from your task force members, and, you know, Benton County and else\nto really, I think, reach, a lot of different groups in the\ncommunity. Uh, there was tools like, you know, there was a project\nwebsite, you know, email lists,\na number of different newsletters, press\nreleases, flyers were distributed over twenty\nlocations. Uh, we even had an ad at the Majestic Theatre, which is\nshown there in the, the picture. Uh, we had ads,\ninside on, on the buses on the interior monitors.\nOregon State University was really helpful in helping outreach to students,\nas well, and social media, and then there were, six different\ntabling events, that we used to get\ninput. And as I mentioned, there were two\nmajor kind of milestones where we were really trying to engage the community, and\nthe first one was, again, just getting an understanding of,\nwhat, what transportation safety issues they were\nencountering. And, we had an interactive online comment map that's shown there\nin the, the upper right, that got a lot of activity.\nThere were over sixty-five hundred, views on the comment map\nand over eight hundred, submissions.\nUm,\nand, in addition to that, we had an in-person, open house and\nan online open house. The in-person open house was at the library.\nUh, it was very well-attended. Um, and then there was a Corvallis\nTown Hall, Sustainability Town Hall and Fair, you know, open\nstreets. We had, you know, a pop-up tent.\nUm, task force meetings, and then, a public works and focus\ngroup with, parents at Garfield\nand Lincoln Elementaries.\nAnd then the second round, this would have been fall/winter twenty\ntwenty-five, twenty twenty-six.\nThis was where we came back with, some draft solutions, and those\nwere kind of framed up as, some high-priority projects,\na-as well as kind of some, overarching strategies that the, the\ncity could pursue. Uh, and again, really had\nan in-person, online open house again.\nUm, more tabling events. There was a, a mayoral town hall where\nthis was discussed. Uh, Corvallis had more\npop-ups, the Corvallis Farmers Market, as well as their task force\nmeetings. Uh, and, we had an online survey as part\nof the online open house to try to, you know, get more input. Yes.\nDo you know why the engagement dropped so much between these two rounds?\nUm, the, the, the open houses were similar.\nThey're still pretty good on just in the in-person open house.\nThey've got that online comment map where people could go and say, \"Yeah, I have a\nproblem here, I have a problem, I have a problem here.\" Uh,\nvery popular. Yeah. Um,\nyeah, I think the, the engagement I felt was pretty good.\nIt's just, it was-- it's really extensive, very effective the first\ntime. Um-\nThat map.\nYeah. So I don't think it was really... Yeah, I think that was the big thing.\nIt was the online comment map-\nYeah.\n-that really got a lot of attention.\nAnd once you put your comment on the map, you feel like you're done.\nYeah.\nYou've done your first level.\nPeople like to be questioned.\nI put on a positive comment just to balance it out.\nThat's where that one.\nThe one about Harrison, the really nice paving job, that was me.\nUm,\nanother note is Benton County, received a similar\ngrant, so they were doing a transportation safety action plan at the same\ntime. And, we really made a point to coordinate the\ntwo projects very heavily, just for efficiency of work and\nresources.\nAlso, just to make this, easier to follow by the public, so they get confused\nby two different TSAPs going on at the same time in the same area.\nUm, and hopefully to, you know, we find some synergy to strengthen,\napplications for grants in the future.\nUm, there's some key ways. Probably the, one of the most prominent ways we did this\nis the, the project managers for the city and the county projects\nwere, on each other's project management teams, and we, we literally met\nevery week, and discussed, issues, upcoming\ntasks, and kind of collaborated on, on solutions.\nSchedules were aligned. In fact, I was presenting to the board of commissioners,\nhaving this discussion, just on Tuesday, so we're hopefully ending at the same\ntime. Shared all of our data. Analysis was done at the\nsame time. And again, the public engagement was heavily coordinated, so they had\nthe same two major milestones, and we did advertisements together and\nreally shared some events just to try to make it easier for people\nto not have to go to two different places to provide\ncomments.\nOn our project task force, so they were definitely our,\nour, our sounding board and provided, really good feedback and\nguidance, especially at key decision points.\nUm,\nand, really kind of helped provide, the local\nperspective on, on the safety plan.\nUh, so this, we had a number of kind of really pivotal ways, you know,\nwhen we, had to create prioritization criteria, right?\nTo come up with our high-priority locations and figure out where, where sh-should\nwe invest first. Uh, they gave us a lot of good feedback\non, on that. Uh, helped us really narrow that list down,\nidentify the priority spots and,\nstrategies to pursue. Um, gave us great feedback on the projects\nthemselves. Um, helped us with public\nengagement, and then even refining the final copy, we sent that\nback to\nthem.On our\nfinal meeting, the task force members, did, unanimously\nsupport our plan with, with one note I added at the bottom.\nThey had one thing they wanted us to change, and we took care of that on page\nthirty. And that was-- One thing I'll note when we get to the, the TSAP is it has a\nbig emphasis on lower cost things you could do fairly quickly because we want to\nmake change fast.\nUm, but there was some concern that because of that, we wanted to be clear that we\nweren't precluding higher cost projects that still have a lot of safety benefits,\nyou know, like, you're, you know, doing roundabouts at intersections or\nprotected bike facilities. And so we ha-- Which is not\nthe intent of the plan is to preclude that stuff.\nSo we talked more about that on page thirty, and,\nwhich I will talk about later in the, the presentation.\nSo we addre-addressed that. Uh, and they also,\npassed a motion, which was the top, paragraph I\nhave there that I'll share with you.\nUh, and that was, \"The members of the SS4A Task Force request that\nthe City Council prioritize funding and construction of the\nsafety enhancements identified in the TSAP such that the\ntreatments are prioritized to the fullest extent\npossible.\"\nI will pause before I get into the first of the supplemental planning\nactivities.\nI'll move forward. Uh-\nI was confused by that statement that you just read, the task force\nmade.\nI, I can probably clarify that-\nYeah\n... Councilor. I-- The-- There was some pretty good\ndiscussion around the task force definitely, definitely wanted to emphasize\nsupport for the TSAP and to encourage the City\nCouncil to prioritize, completion of\nthe projects. And I think maybe where it says, maybe the\nconfusing part is to the fullest extent possible.\nAnd then I think that really refers back to the funding component-\nUh-huh\n... where the-- there was,\na lot of discussion that the task force wasn't intending to\ndirect the City Council how to spend City Council\nresources. It was just the resources that\nthe council deemed available for\nsafety improvements to look to the TSAP to\nprioritize those.\nOkay.\nSo there was, there was a, a definite...\nThey, they, they didn't wanna overstep, how the council s-spends the\nresources, but they, the resources that were, the council would deem\nappropriate to spend on transportation safety, they, they wanted to emphasize\nu-using the TSAP as a resource on where to put, where to put those funds.\nI understand. Code word for don't get too creative with it.\nWe did a lot of hard work, and these are the priorities we found.\nSomething like that?\nWell, so I think-\nSomething, yeah.\nWhere we, we had a similar discussion with the task force-\nOkay\n... which is what I've had with you all, where, you know, we went\nthrough an effort a couple years back now, to\nidentify priorities for funding in the transportation system.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd as I've, as I've told you all before, we're getting a\nlot of new information now, whether it be this TSAP or\nsignal investment plans or our bridge investment plans or some of the supplemental\nplanning activities. There's a whole other conversation that has to\nhappen around, how much money do we\nhave? What are we gonna prioritize for investment?\nWe have restrictions on different funds and those sorts of things, and what are we\ngonna try to accomplish.\nAnd that's obviously not within the task\nforce, purview.\nI see.\nUh, that's council's, and they're just respecting that boundary.\nOkay.\nThe council needs to go through that.\nOkay.\nThey like what's in the plan. They see the, the need to invest in the\nsafety improvements,\nand they are endorsing what's proposed, but they recognize that they\ndon't have all the information.\nOkay. I see.\nAnd council has more. And on the second part, it's, it's\njust, they wanted inclusion of an acknowledgement\nthat,\nthere are other investments that can be made at a larger scale that\nmight have even greater safety benefits, and that's not necessarily\nwhat's, what's identified in the plan.\nSo just as John said, clarifying that\nthe improvements that are identified in, in there\ndon't pro-- don't prevent or preclude the council from going above and beyond that.\nI see. Okay. Thank you.\nYeah.\nSo they understand the work is within this greater-\nYes\n... work the city's doing-\nCorrect\n... whether it's paving local streets or bridges or signal, all of\nthem.\nYeah.\nYeah.\nYeah.\nWe would really like to put a lot of money on this.\nYeah.\nAs, as the task force.\nAll right. The first of the five supplemental planning activities,\nroad safety audits or RSAs. So we did\nthree of these. Uh, it was Ninth Street, Walnut\nBoulevard, and Circle Boulevard.\nAnd road safety audits, it's, it's, it's a very kind of defined pr-prescribed\nprocess by, USDOT. And,\nso we very much patterned our approach after that prescribed\nprocess. And these are really gonna focus, technical\nefforts where we, you know, pull together a, a multidisciplinary team.\nIn, in this case, we're really leaning on, public works, police,\nfire department, ODOT participated, Corvallis School District.\nWe even invited a few Oregon State University students out of the,\ncivil engineering department.\nThey're interested in transportation to participate in these as\nwell. But, what they're really doing is they're just-- they're\nwalking the corridor pretty much all day, so they can see what's\nhappening at different times of day.\nAnd they're looking at safety issues, and potential\nfixes, through the lens of all the different users.\nSo whether you're, you're walking, biking, rolling, using transit, driving down the\ncorridor, you know, being there different times of day gives them the\nadvantage. If you have things like schools, you can see what's happening when\nschools are, you know, getting in or letting out, which you might not see if you're\nonly there for a couple of hours.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, but it's a lot of qualitative assessment.\nSo they're, they're not-Out there collecting data and analyzing it.\nThey're not, doing alternatives analysis.\nIt's, it's-- and they're really usually emphasizing\nkind of the low-hanging fruit and lower-cost solutions that the city can get\ndone quickly.\nIs it acting up?\nOh.\nThere we go. Um, and kinda one note,\nthese,\nthe, the recommendations that you may have seen in the road safety\naudits, they're, they're preliminary.\nSo what those are, they're really recommendations from these groups back to the\ncity. And as I'll touch on later, this--\nthe city still needs to go through that l- those lists\nand kind of vet those ideas, because some of them may not be feasible for different\nreasons, and identify kind of which ones they think they can move\nforward and hopefully incorporate into maybe, you know, CIP projects\ncoming up, and which ones just may not be, they might not be\nable to do.\nUm,\nlet's\nsee.\nWhere'd it go? So, quick highlights,\non some of the findings, and these, they're similar findings.\nUm, I mean, they're all arterial corridors with still a lot of similar\nissues. But, in Ninth Street, you'll see\nrecommendations in there. There's corridor-wide things like, you\nknow, access management, which can be, trying to eliminate conflicts between\nall the driveways that are out there.\nUm, no specific solutions, it's just a general recommendation to\nimprove it. Um, curb extensions to shorten\ncrossings on select side streets.\nUh, things like, doing leading pedestrian intervals at\ntraffic signals, which is basically when you get a walk signal, it's giving the\npedestrian a few seconds head start before the light turns green-\n-hard, so they can establish their presence and be\nseen. Um, and, possibly even looking at,\na lane reconfiguration, in, on part of\nNinth Street.\nUm, and then more specifically in each, in each of these road safety\naudits, the application-specific recommendations are\nseparated into low, medium, and high complexity.\nAnd again, you know, the low complexity are things that are probably easier to get\ndone quickly. When you get to the, the high complexity, more\nchallenging, maybe more costly. Um, some of those may be things that,\nmight need to get referred to, a transportation system plan update or\nsomething like that. Like a, things that go on there, like there might be,\nconsider doing a roundabout in an intersection at some point in the future.\nUm, so low complexity stuff you'll see, like at Ninth Street, it's typically things\nlike it could be restriping, signing improvements.\nHere's adding bicycle conflict markings at, at some\nlocations. Um, medium complexity\nthings, this o- in this one it was between Garfield and\nSpruce, adding a mid-block crossing.\nUm, and high complexity, this was,\nlike sidewalk, cur- you know, and ramp improvements which can affect\ndrainage, and that gets a little more complicated, might be harder to\ndo.\nOkay.\nUh, Circle Boulevard, similar types of things.\nYou know, the curb extensions on side streets again.\nUm, improving traffic signal hardware, so that's usually lower\ncost things you can do, just to kinda make sure that maybe they're up to\nstandard or maybe the, the latest safety practices,\nrecommendations. Um, and, adding,\nhaving hardened, hardened center line to prevent left turns.\nSo again, this is kinda the access management, trying to eliminate some\nconflicts with maybe signals and\ndriveways. And again,\nlocation-specific. Again, it's the lower cost stuff.\nSignal repair, signing upgrades, some green striping in\nbi-bicycle conflict zones. The medium\ncomplexity is evaluate, removing eastbound left turns\nand to add a pedestrian median refuge island to the marked\ncrossing at Seventeen.\nMm-hmm.\nAgain, like a lot of these, more investigation needs to happen\nto make sure that there aren't other consequences or it's feasible.\nBut that's just a recommendation for the group to look into.\nUh, and again, you know, higher complexity is replacing all way stop control at\nTwenty-ninth with like a signal or a roundabout.\nObviously that's a much bigger project.\nUh, in Walnut Boulevard, a-again,\ncorridor-wide recommendations again could be opportunities for leading\npedestrian intervals at those signals.\nUh, some opportunity to improve street lighting, curb extensions on\nto short crossings on some side streets.\nUh, and then obviously this is the next topic coming up, is, further\nevaluation of, trade-offs associated with lane\nreconfiguration, where you'd have one vehicle lane in each direction instead\nof two.\nUh, and then some of the location-specific things, down\ntowards the, the east end, there may be an opportunity to restripe to create\nbuffered bike lanes, from Circle to Jack London.\nAs you get more complex, there's some\nreconfiguring of the north leg of Aspen Street, so it matches the, the\nsouth side. Uh, and higher complexity, again, that's where we\nget into, you know, you need to replace a signal someday, consider doing a\nprotected intersection or a\nroundabout.\nUh, and so kinda the next steps for the road safety audits, as I mentioned before,\nstaff have those recommendations, so they need to go through and kinda,\nkinda vet those and provide a formal response letters, kind of, you\nknow, indicating which of those they think they can implement and maybe\nintegrate into some future projects and which ones they may not be able\nto.\nPausing briefly before I move on.\nSo I've noticed patterns in your recommendations.\nUm, could we safely assume that those patterned\nrecommendations could then also be applied to other streets that you didn't do the\nroad safety audit on, just, just good practice?\nThey certainly could, yeah. Yeah, it's kinda, similar to some of the\nnecessary strategies we'll talk about later, where there's sometimes there's just,\nthere's safety improvements you can do that are low cost, but you can apply them to\na broad spectrum of places.\nMm-hmm. Because there were-- there's definitely streets that you didn't\ndo.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd I can see some of these applying just as nicely as\nthat.\nUm-\nYes. And one of the distinctions is you're doing a\nmulti-lane-\nArterials\n... arterials list. So that you're seeing that one, seeing consistent\nrecommendations for a consistent-\nYeah\n... category of street.\nMm-hmm.\nUh, one comment on the... Well, that's an\ninteresting street. Um,\nseems like-- I, I think there's a, there's a real,\nlike to s- see, us address it very holistically,\nthe safety challenges. Because all, well, that's not\nparticular, right? People don't feel safe, that's for\nsure. Maybe.\nUm,\nwhen we look at the, transportation safety\naction plan, Walnut doesn't show up super\nhigh. Uh, but it seems to me that in Walnut in\nparticular, the challenge of,\nthis, the further analysis that was talked\nabout, I think needs to happen, about\nhow do you, how do you address congestion,\ntraffic safety, road con- reconfiguration, et cetera.\nI think that kind of further analysis does need\nto, to happen.\nThere'll be an opportunity. So as far as\nthey were reviewing the documents, and we'll accept TSAP, it's\nnot an action to take on, on the supplemental planning activities, but\nthere, there will be a\nconversation later about, you know, you only have so many\nstaff, and you only have\nso much money to do whatever work you wanna do.\nAnd if you decided that, you know, the benefit of a TSAP is\nit's, it's a data-driven-\nYeah\n... exercise, identifying safety.\nIf you decided that something else that,\nhas a, a legitimate safety\nbenefit, but didn't yet have, the\naccidents associated with them was a higher priority to focus on than\nthe areas that are already experiencing accidents, you can do that.\nOr you might say, \"We need to invest in signals, or we need to do more\nsafety work.\" That, that'll be a future conversation, and, and you will\nhave that opportunity to prioritize and provide some guidance.\nYeah. Okay. So to be clear, I wasn't suggesting we prioritize.\nI think the TSAP is, is a great place to\nstart, and I just was commenting that Walnut as a\nparticular... I wouldn't, I wouldn't want us to see-- to do some things that appear\nto be low-hanging fruit, but were just likely we looked at a\nbigger experiment throwaway investment.\nYeah. Absolutely.\nSpeaking of Walnut Boulevard, so the, the\nnext supplemental planning activity, was a\nfeasibility assessment of doing a lane\nreconfiguration on Walnut Boulevard.\nAnd so, a-again, I'll emphasize, it's like if you, if you read this, there are no\nspecific recommendations, and I'm sure there are a lot more questions that have to\nbe answered. This is really taking that first step and saying, you know,\nkinda like, is this fatally flawed? Does this look like it could work?\nIs it, you know, worth further conversation,\npotentially?\nUm,\nand so kinda the, you know, the, the why, you know, we would consider this, and,\nyou know, why is it part of this SS four A project?\nUh, there are pretty significant potential safety benefits of, you know,\nconversions like that, where you're going from, you know, particularly in the\nsection where you have four lanes, you're going down to, to three.\nUh,\nand, you know, one of them is just addressing speeding.\nUh, speeds themselves don't always drop a lot.\nThe speeding certainly gets curved because now the slowest people in the platoon\ncontrol how fast everybody goes. You know, there's no passing.\nUm, let's say the similar conversions when you go from, like a four-lane\nsection like is shown there, to one where you have one lane each direction with a\ncenter turn, a center turn lane, they see a\ntwenty-nine percent reduction in all crashes, which is pretty significant.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, there's obviously more room for doing like protected bike lanes or,\nyou know, other kinds of accommodations for, you know, people walking and\nbiking. Uh, it's easier and safer to cross the\nstreet. Uh, not only sometimes is it shorter distance to\ncross, but as illustrated in that graphic, you eliminate what's\nnow referred to as the multiple threat issue, where one car stops for\na pedestrian, but they create a visual obstruction when they do\nthat, and another oncoming car may not see the pedestrian and, you know,\nstill, still stop the car.\nUm, and also, you know, as you-- we'll get into a little bit later, whether you do\nright turn lanes or not, those can have additional, safety benefits\nand give you some options on how to, eliminate conflicts\nor improve, conflicts with, bikes and\ncars. Um, and this also gives us opportunities\nto potentially use a kind of conflict marking.\nUh, so kinda what did we evaluate when we did this?\nThere are a few different scenarios.\nUh, one was, obviously keeping the current four/five-lane\nlayouts. We, you know, leave it as it is. We looked at the no-build.\nOne was, what if we change it to one lane each direction with a center turn lane,\nso I call the three lane. Uh, and then these other ones are saying,\nokay, well, at least at the intersections, what if we add right turn lanes,\nespecially where we have heavier right turn volumes.\nSo it's not a pure three lane, at least the intersections, we're doing that to\nrelieve a little bit of congestion.\nAnd then the last one mentioned there, it would have been that scenario, plus we\ndiscoveredThrough this, you probably don't want to reduce the\nlanes between 9th Street and NFW because they're so\nclose together, we need the lanes just to store vehicles, or they're end up\nspilling back into both intersections.\nThis creates a huge conflict.\nSo what did we consider in this feasibility assessment?\nUh, one thing we did was we thought we would use the TSP\ngoals, to kind of s-frame up evaluation\ncriteria. So we, we referred to the goals in the transportation system\nplan related to safety, viable automobile\nalternatives, and efficient movement of people, and goods,\nor maybe more simply, I would state the last two are kind of people that are\nwalking, biking, using transit, and the last one is, you know, people\ndriving. Um, and then on the\nright there, I show kind of the more specific evaluation criteria that we\nlooked at, like potential crash reduction, you know, how much\nseparation can we get between, cars and people walking and\nbiking, potential speed reduction, comfort for people\nwalking and biking, what it can do for,\npedestrian crossings, obviously auto\ndelay, and then potential for traffic diversion.\nAnd what I mean by that is\nif we do create some congestion, more delay on Walnut,\nhonestly, what we don't wanna have happen is people try to bypass that and go\nthrough neighborhoods, right? And bypass through there.\nSo we did some, some modeling and testing to see what the potential was for\nthat. Um, obviously in exercises like this, as you would\nexpect to see is, you know, some modes like\nwalking, biking are probably really gonna benefit from a lot of this stuff.\nUh, driving, they're giving something up, right? They're giving up some capacity.\nSo it's, it's really a big question of-- or understanding what the trade-offs\nare, and then for the community to decide what the appropriate balance\nis.\nUh, so from that, that first kind of major, criteria, safety, and\nI really kind of touched on this already, there are\nsignificant safety, benefits, potentially by doing this\nconversion. Um,\nand like, I won't touch anymore 'cause I'm probably short on time.\nBut yes, that one's a clear winner overall safety to do this\nconversion. A lot of potential for\nimprovement. Uh, now when you get to the, active\ntransportation modes, so walking, biking,\ntransit. Uh, one key assumption that we, we did, I highlighted in\nyellow there, is that if we're doing this, we're probably gonna leave the curbs\nwhere they are. Um, just 'cause it makes it way more affordable, right?\nWe could do it much, much faster. Um, so if\nyou do that, obviously with that extra width, there's a lot of\noptions you have for what you do with the bicycles.\nWe did not go through different design treatments.\nWe assumed if you pursue this further, that stuff can be discussed\nmore. But it could be something, right, that's shown in that illustration, 'cause\nyou, you know, that's the kind of room you would have.\nSo it could be some kind of protected facility.\nUm, for people walking,\nbecause we're not moving the curbs, the sidewalks aren't gonna get bigger, wider,\nbut there is now probably more of a buffer between the cars and them, right?\nIf we have more space being preserved for the bikes.\nUh, also, as I mentioned before, your crossings are gonna probably get easier\nand safer. So, you know, it's a, it's a win for\npeople walking. Transit, I got the question mark there,\nkind of depends on the design choices you make going forward.\nThe thing about transit is access to transit, same with people walking and biking\nfor all the reasons I mentioned before, it's probably gonna get better and, and be\neasier and safer. But, but buses also\ndrive right in the travel lanes, and so some of the things that, the\ndetractions from people that are driving, buses also have to deal with.\nSo if there's more congestion, that's gonna affect their travel times as\nwell. Or if you choose to do bus stops in lane versus\nhaving them pull out, it's probably gonna be harder for them to get into the\nnew three-lane section. So there are some trade-offs for transit,\nand usually it's a positive change, but could depend on the design\nchoices you ultimately make.\nMm.\nUh, so with that said, the last category is really kind of how does\nthis, this affect, you know, driving through the corridor.\nUh, and I will say just for this feasibility assessment, we only looked at the\np.m./p.m. hour. So if there's morning issues with, you know, schools or whatnot,\nwe didn't look at that for this. Uh, we looked at what happens in twenty\ntwenty-five, so if you did it right away, versus what happens in twenty years, so\nyear twenty forty-five. And to kind of assess\nif, you know, the acceptable level of congestion, we used Corvallis's\nadopted mobility standards. This, you know, same thing a developer would\nuse if they do a transportation, you know, impact study.\nUh, and so\nfrom the no-build scenario, what we found was congestion\nlevels at all the intersections are within adopted standards today,\nand all but Highland Drive intersection would be in twenty forty-five.\nUm, so now if we go to the three-lane, this is with no right turn\nlanes, pure three-lane, now Highland and\nTwenty-Ninth, they get fairly congested today, so they wouldn't meet your mobility\nstandards, and they'd get, you know, fairly worse by twenty\nforty-five. But really no other intersections, have that\nproblem. So then if we go back, and we add some right turn\nlanes in at the congested locations, now Highland\nDrive is congested today as well as in twenty forty-five, but\nTwenty-Ninth isn't a problem anymore.\nUm, and while it varies from place to place, the levels of\ncongestion are fairly comparable to the no-build condition.\nSo right turn lanes added strategically where they're needed can certainly\nhelp with congestion at the intersections.\nUh, but again, a lot of this is gonna come down ultimately, if this were to be\npursued, is what design choices you end up making in the future.\nCan I ask a question?\nYeah.\nWhat-- How do you determine the number of cars twenty\nyears out? What kind of da-- How do you pull that data?\nUh, so it's, it's using, the, regional\ntravel demand model, that, is,\nmanaged by the Oregon Department of Transportation.\nSo it's the same forecasting model that's used for your\ntransportation system plan and for the, the regional transportation\nplan. And it, it, has coordinated\npopulation, you know, employment, right, housing projections,\nthat have been coordinated with the, the cities, the counties\nbuilt into this. So it's, it's based on the long-term projection\nfor, the city and its surroundings.\nOkay. Do you know how current it is?\nUm, they updated it\na few years ago.\nOkay. That'll work.\nYeah. We did a little bit of refinement based on kind of what we know now\nabout where development is or isn't likely gonna happen, but\nit's fairly true.\nThank you.\nYes. Um,\nso looking at travel time, so I don't know how many people drive the whole length,\nbut, you know, instead of just looking at the intersections, we said, \"Well, what\nif you drove the whole corridor? How much difference does it make?\"\nUh, and this was, with the right turn lanes in place,\nif you'd went, end to end, increased travel time by one to\ntwo minutes, depending on if you're going with the, the peak flow of direction or\nnot. And that's about a fifteen to thirty percent\nincrease. Uh, so that's about, I think it was like seven minutes in the\nno build scenario.\nUm, so again, on the diversion issue, and again, this is\nwhere we used that, that travel demand model I referenced,\nand kind of tested, okay, if we have this\ncongestion,\nwhere... are we gonna lose any traffic to another route?\nAnd again, this was done kind of with the worst case\nscenario, I believe. Um,\nso, there is some diversion around Highland, right?\nBecause that's really the main congestion point.\nBut if, you know, you're familiar with the area, we don't really have a strong\nstreet grid, right? So there's not a lot of other places to go.\nAnd so Circle Boulevard, you know, is probably likely\nto pick up, just as another parallel arterial, about a hundred and\nfifty vehicles. That's about a twenty, twenty-five percent increase.\nUh, now again, it's just during the peak hour. That's the only time we've analyzed.\nUh, but that was in the twenty forty-five scenario with no right turn lane.\nSo that's our worst case scenario.\nUh, and then looking at local\nstreets, was really the place where you really don't want a lot of that\ndiversion. Thirteenth and Garriana are, you know, the likely\nplaces where if you're gonna see some diversion like that, that's probably where it\nwould happen, people trying to get around, you know, Highland.\nThat was more on the order of, you know, less than fifty total between the\ntwo. So it's not really bad, but again, it could\ndepend on the design choices that you make.\nIf you do the right turn lanes, alleviate some of that congestion, maybe\nthat demand really drops, or maybe there's some traffic calming treatment that\ncould be done as well as that to help curb that.\nUh, but at least from our preliminary assessment, that's what we're\nseeing. Um, so my last slide\nhere, it's, it's kind of-- So that's kind of what we have framed up.\nUm, and like I said, my kind of take on that is it doesn't seem\nfatally flawed. It seems feasible to continue exploring, but a\nlot of it's gonna depend on design choices that you make, and\nagain, community, preferences and decisions\nabout balancing out kind of those different modes, right?\nHow much you give in one area to get in another, and what's the acceptable\nbalance. Um,\nand, and certainly, hopefully, this, you know, stimulates the conversation if this\nis gonna go forward. It highlights more questions that need to be answered if\nyou take this to another step.\nMm-hmm.\nYes, sir.\nYes.\nJust two quick things to keep in mind as we leave this\ntopic. Um, there's a couple things that were happening at the same\ntime that we were doing this evaluation that I just wanna touch on for a\nmoment. Uh, one was, the school district talked about\nschool, school closures and redistribution of, children.\nOne of the things that we heard from community members, in the\nmiddle of the project was concern about what impact that might\nhave on the analysis that we were, we're doing here.\nUh, so we, we put our heads together and\ncrammed more work into an already tight schedule,\nand got, got with the school district, got information from them, on\nenrollment projections, did some analysis,\nand, found that the numbers\nas, projected didn't change the results of what we\nlooked at and would recommend, in the study here.\nSo didn't have a meaningful impact on intersection performance, for\nexample. Where, where we communicated with the\ntask force members where that still might be important to\npeople is when we have that funding discussion,\nlater about where do we want to invest and, and not invest\nwhen, what do, what do we invest in first.\nUh, that might be something that people point to.\nYou already have more kids, attending the school, that might\nbe a reason to invest in additional safety,\nimprovements sooner in one location over another that might have data\nthat's, that's, that's showing a problem.\nThat'll be a conversation to have later.\nUh, the other thing that was happening at the same time, was a\nconversation about,\nstreets SDCs, and there was concern about removal of\na recreational path, parallel\nWalnut in the near term, funding, their,\nall, all, for their projects as well.\nThat wasn't needed from a transportation perspective.\nIt's not like a TSP, pedestrian\npath. So it is, was, was there from a recreational\nperspectiveBut there again, it was another thing that, if\nconstructed, might have provided another alternative,\nfor people, and that might be another reason why,\nsomeone might look at improvements on, on Walnut\neven though the data isn't there. I'm not advocating one way or another,\nand I'm not trying to argue one way or the\nother. Um, but there are some real things\nthat are gonna come, that are gonna come up\nthat, warrant consideration when you do get to the point of\nweighing those things. And we tried to be mindful of the ones that we\ncould, put numbers to, like the school district, in\nthis, in this analysis so we were current with the times.\nThat's actually gonna be very helpful with some of the\nconversations, you having done that, so thanks for taking the extra time.\nYeah. Yeah.\nThanks to John. It wasn't, it wasn't easy to\naccommodate.\nWho ever did that?\nI'll move on. Uh, I'm probably gonna have to hit the\naccelerator here a little bit too.\nUm,\nthird supplemental planning activity.\nSo Neighborhood Traffic Management Program Assessment.\nUh, so what we did is essentially we audited the city's\ncurrent, you know, neighborhood traffic calming program, which is very well\ndocumented. Um, and, kind of looked at that\ncompared to best practices, and, and,\ntalked to staff about kind of their experiences with it and,\nprovided some recommendations to look into to, improve the\nprogram. Uh, looking at, kind of key things like how\ncommunity requests are processed and your roles and\nresponsibilities between community members and staff.\nYou know, how satisfied, staff and the city have been with the outcomes they've\nbeen getting. Uh, and then just, you know, kind of equitable access and,\nand outcomes.\nUm, so the current program, if you're not\nfamiliar with it, it's, it's a very structured process, and it's for\nreducing speeds and cut-through traffic on neighborhood streets.\nSo this is specifically applicable to local streets, so not arterials and\ncollectors. Um, and it emphasizes goals.\nYou know, it's trying to achieve neighborhood livability, create broad\ncommunity involvement. You know, you have efficient uses of city\nresources, and involve periodic assessment\nof effectiveness. Uh, and so this is where I might\nl-move a little bit quickly. Um, so I'll kind of\nquickly run through the process as it is.\nSo requests can be submitted any time right now.\nUh, when the city gets requests, first they try to do enforcement strategies\nto see if that will fix the problem.\nThat doesn't work, then the requester must\ncirculate a petition to study to demonstrate they have neighborhood\nsupport, and they have to get a majority of support through this.\nI think the situation is the city provides the boundary of what they determine the\naffected area is, and then the-- whoever put the request in the neighborhood\nhas to do the legwork.\nCity determines also the, you know, look at the contacts and data to see if the\nlocation would even qualify for, you know, like a traffic calming improvement.\nThen the, neighborhood has to form a neighborhood traffic committee and\norganize that. They work with the city to create a plan and identify\nperformance measures to see what they're gonna do is effective.\nThe neighborhood then has to fund a test installation.\nUh, if that's found to be effective, city again\nconfirms neighborhood support with the confidential\nballots. Uh, if that comes out positive, they have\ndemonstrated support, city council then, can approve,\nmodify, or reject the proposal. The\nneighborhood then has to fund the project, but the city will design\nit and construct it. Uh, improvements are evaluated by the\ncity through another neighborhood survey.\nUh, city staff give the final report to city council, and then city council can\napprove it, modify it, extend the evaluation further,\nor even order it to be removed.\nUh, and so, kind of the recommendations, kind of looking through that\nand other best practices, the main things we're focused on are things like\ntransparency and accountability, equitable access for\nsure, and just kind of, ability to delivery-- deliver\nefficiently. Although there were some\nthings about the program that do align with best practices that are positive, and\nthat's using before and after data collection, doing measured\ntests, and having formal city council\ninvolvement. So the biggest,\nrecommended change, it's really a fundamental one, would be to move to a\ncity-funded program. So right now, if you notice in my run-through, a\nlot of this is all paid by the neighborhoods.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd a lot of the work is done by them too.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, obviously that, that would address the inequity where only the neighborhoods\nwith financial resources, and frankly time, can afford to\nhave any improvements made in their commu-- in their neighborhoods.\nUh, it'd make the process, I think, easier and more predictable for everyone,\nstaff included, because I would imagine now, not only is there a big barrier to\nentry, but if the neighborhood has to keep coming up with funding at different\npoints, project could disappear for years and then\ncome back at a time when staff may not expect it or have the bandwidth to even deal\nwith it. Uh, so it'd be, much more efficient and predictable\nif that was just, a city program.\nGreat.\nUm, other recommendations involving simplifying the\nprocess. Um, and that's things like using a, a\nprogram webpage with information about the program to help people understand how to\nengage with it. You can even show the eligibility of projects that are in\nthe-- or what's an eligible project and show what the status of projects in the\nqueue, are. Uh, and then\nconsider applications on a regular cycle.\nSo maybe you could still apply any time, but make it clear that\nmaybe once a year they'll be processed.\nUm-And then creating standardized requirements for\neligibility, which is to help with screening and prioritizing.\nUm, and then right now there's a very prescribed outreach process, you\nnoticed. I think since then, I think the, the city has discovered\na lot of more effective and creative ways to do community engagement.\nAnd so maybe not making that so prescriptive and letting you customize that would\nprobably be beneficial. Uh, having city council\nconfirmation on the prioritized list of projects once per\ncycle. Uh, making tests not mandatory but\noptional, 'cause sometimes there are things the city may already have experience\nwith. They, they know they're gonna be effective.\nUm,\ncreating project eligibility criteria and a prioritization\nprocess,\nwhich, you know, popularity in the program increases because now it's easier\nto get access to. That would probably help process all the requests.\nUm, and another idea is, you could do a rotating,\nproject cycle through geographic areas of the city to kinda\nhelp with, equitable distribution, much like the sidewalk safety\nprogram.\nUh, and then I think the last recommendation was centralizing all that\ntechnical work back with city staff and not putting it on the\nneighborhood.\nSo I thought this was very well described in the-- I\nthought the recommendation was\nreally nice.\nYeah.\nI thought it was spot on. Uh, totally like it, too.\nI've always had a problem with this pro-- the old process\nbecause it's so geared to the neighborhoods that have long-term\nresidents who own their homes, have money, and have those connections,\nwhere\nsome of the neighborhoods that really need this work don't.\nSo\nI was glad to spend the time looking into this.\nUh, moving on. Speed limit investigation framework.\nThe\nnext of the supplemental planning activities. Uh, so what is this?\nSo essentially this is an approach to reviewing and setting\ncontact, context-sensitive speed limits on arterials and\ncollectors throughout Corvallis.\nSo now we're not, not the neighborhood streets, now we're focused more on arterials\nand collectors. Uh, key here, context-sensitive,\nso and I'll touch on this a little bit more.\nSo that's not simply just the statutory speed.\nSo that is something that may align better with the actual land use and\nthe, the street design itself, if those are\nnot in sync.\nUm, and then again, focus on arterials and collectors.\nAnd, emphasize the-- what are our recommendations here?\nThis still works within current, regulations, so we're not changing state\nlaw. It's pretty consistent already, with the city's current\npractice. It's, really just provides more of a screening process to look at\nthe whole network at once, rather than being maybe more ad hoc in\nidentifying where the opportunities might be to then go and proactively do\nthis.\nUm, so kind of the why is it important?\nObviously, speed is a big factor, right, in safety and, and the,\nseverity of outcomes in a crash. Uh, especially if you're, you know,\na vulnerable, you know, traveler, so you're walking or biking.\nUm, and speeds, you know, that don't align with what people expect 'cause the\ncontext is very different, can sometimes be\nconfusing. And you end up with some people that are really trying to be rule\nfollowers and drive the posted speed, and other people that are following what\ntheir brain is telling them because the context and those big differences\nin speeds, can create safety problems of their\nown.\nAnd then my, my big warning, simply changing posted\nspeeds, won't be effective unless the roadway design and context\nsupport it. Uh, in some cases, companion strategies, like\nchanges to the street design may be needed, otherwise you could be making the\nproblem worse. But this is a common thing, is people think, \"Well, let's just\nchange the posted speed.\" If it's out of sync with the context, it\nprobably isn't going to work.\nUm, so how are posted speeds set now?\nSo ODOT has all the responsibility for setting speed limits on all public\nroadways. Um, there's two kinds of, posted\nspeeds. I mentioned statutory, so it's kinda like the default.\nUm, those are specified by, you know, state law and by road types,\nillustrated on the chart there. And then you have\ndesignated, and so, that's where you're obviously deviating\nfrom the default. Um, and that involves, you know, the speed\nstudy typically. But there is the ability, as you notice on this\ntable, you can kinda better align it with your context.\nSo if you're urban core, if you can read the numbers on the table up there,\nyou'll notice there are allowable speeds for arterials and collectors that are\nlower than if you're in a suburban fringe area.\nBut there are still kind of windows of allowed ranges, and they're fairly tight,\nyou know, five-to-ten-mile-an-hour windows.\nSo\nI would, you know, setting expectations appropriately, if you're thinking-- looking\nat opportunities to lower posted speeds, it's probably not gonna be a\ntwenty-mile-per-hour drop. It's probably gonna be a five-mile-per-hour drop,\nsomething like that.\nUh, so how is it done now? So ODOT, while they do have the-- they still hold\nthe authority and have to make the decisions, they can delegate authority to\ncities. Uh, but, the process and the\ncriteria are still the same. Um, and ODOT\nstill has to make the decisions. Really, what they're delegating to the city is,\nyou do the legwork, you perform the investigation, rather than requesting\nODOT to do it. But you still have to give that to\nODOT. They're gonna make sure you did it to their standards, and they're still\nmaking the decision. So\nyou still have, you, you have to have the time and the resources to do it for that\nto really be beneficial.\nUh, so the proposed approach, and again, still working within the same regulations.\nWe're not changing the laws. ODOT still has authority, but it's rather than kind of\nad hoc looking at maybe when a request comes up or if you're doing a CIP\nproject and you notice maybe there's an opportunityIt's kind of screening the whole\nnetwork and then seeing what pops up, where the context and the,\nthe current posted speed, there might be some wiggle room.\nUm, so really that's, you know, doing some GIS analysis.\nSo right, just kind of coding in there in GIS what your land use\ncontact zones are, what the current posted speeds are,\nand then kind of knowing where there's flexibility, seeing where the\ncandidate locations are.\nUm,\nand then a note on residential streets, while we said\nwe were focused on arterials and collectors.\nUh, Oregon cities are permitted to designate twenty mile per hour speed\nlimits on residential streets without any investigation.\nUm, however, right now, I believe in Corvallis, this is pretty\ncommon. It's-- a lot of your residential streets, they're not posted twenty-five\nmiles per hour because that's the statutory speed already.\nAnd so if you're gonna make a change like that, people aren't gonna know you did\nit. Probably unless you do a pretty extensive outreach campaign, and then probably\nalso need to post all those streets twenty miles per hour,\nwhich comes with a lot of extra costs.\nUm, especially, you got to maintain all those things now that you've put them in.\nSo an alternative to that is y-you could think about\ndoing it on select streets, like maybe, you know, neighborhood bikeways that are\nlocal streets, if you wanted to drop those to twenty miles an hour.\nSo it's like kind of that, that cost barrier may be more feasible, but\nstill something to look into and consider.\nSo that is what we've provided for the Speed Limit Investigation\nFramework.\nThe last supplemental planning activity, and this will be the shortest and sweetest\none of all, Pedestrian Crossing Treatments\nMatrix. I, I don't think you had a hand up for this one 'cause we're still tweaking\nsome stuff with, with city staff on this.\nBut really what this is, is, providing some criteria\nso the city can, I think, more consistently a-and\nobjectively evaluate, requests or opportunities to do\nmarked or enhanced pedestrian crossings at what are currently\nunmarked locations. And so obviously we're drawing\nagain from a lot of kind of, you know, standardized or best practices, what other\ncommunities have done. There's good, you know, state and federal guidelines for\nkind of when to not mark a crossing or when it would, would be an eligible\ncandidate. And then once you've deserm-- determined something's an\neligible candidate, considering things like, you know, traffic volume,\nspeeds, crossing distances, visibility,\nyou know, route continuity, lighting, you know, crossing demand, and the\ncontext is, then helping you figure out,\nokay, well, what types of treatments would be appropriate?\nYou know, from the most basic to striping it, to putting\nin, you know, refuge islands or flashing beacons or\nfull traffic signals right as you go up in progression.\nSo that's what we're ironing out some of the details with staff now, but that's\nwhat we're providing. It's just a tool to help them when they get those\nopportunities or requests, they can run it through then and kind of have more\nconsistency and objectivity to that.\nAnd now, now the big one, right? The\nTransportation Safety Action Plan.\nSo I'm gonna give you an overview of that.\nUm, again, that was-- that's the major effort.\nThat's the one where staff will be coming back next month and, and asking you to,\nto approve this document, not the other ones.\nSo just kind of off the bat, s-so there are requirements and\nspecific requirements from the, SS4A program on what TSAPs\nhave to do or include. So obviously, that guided our\napproach to this, and we made sure that we incorporated these elements.\nOne of those is they want to see a leadership commitment, to a zero\ngoals. That's, reaching zero pe-- crashes resulting in\nfatalities and serious injuries.\nUh, we need to use a committee or task force, and that's, that's both in the\ndevelopment of the plan and later when it comes to implementing the\nplan. To monitoring, I should say.\nUm, they want data-driven safety analysis.\nUh, they want to see public engagement being a part of the process.\nUm, equity considerations. That was, that was, that was a requirement when we,\nwhen we got the grant. Uh, we kept it in there.\nBut-- So we, we-- I'll talk about that later.\nWe kind of use that as part of our prioritization process.\nUm, in addition to-- The second to last bullet is\nnot only hotspot projects and then kind of more broad reaching strategies\nyou could apply, but also looking to see if there's any\nchanges the city can make to like, you know, policies, design standards,\noperating procedures, just to keep safety kind of always in the\nconversation when you're, you're doing things.\nUh, and then progress and transparency.\nThat's, that's all at the end, you need to do annual monitoring\nreporting, and that has to be made publicly\navailable. Um, and so kind\nof, the safe system approach was what we used, and that's\nkinda again one of the really the requirements and emphasis of doing these\nTSAPs. And really the, the, in maybe simple terms, is\nthat's taking a holistic approach and not just relying on maybe\ntraditionally doing engineering improvements to fix safety problems, but\nconsidering kind of the full spectrum of things that can affect\nsafety and safety outcomes. And that's, you know, the people, you know,\nvulnerability of people, their, the, their behavior and choices they make,\nyou know, vehicle capabilities, speeds, as well\nas even post-crash care. So, you know, emergen-- helping emergency services not\nonly respond faster, but, you know, get people to\nget people care more quickly, so we can reduce the severity outcomes\npotentially.\nSo those are kind of lenses that we, we're kind of continuously looking at when\nwe're looking through solutions.\nUm, so the executive summary is, is as most executive\nsummaries are. Uh, it summarizes the document, the key points of\nthat. One thing I'm highlighting here that, shows up, I think in, in the\nintro section as well-Is, the, the\nstatement again, and I think this is where, you know, when, FHWA is\nlooking through now looking for that leadership commitment, that first thing I\nmentioned is, is this states that clearly.\nAnd we-- the, statement we have in here is that City of Corvallis aims to\nmake our transportation system as safe as possible and move towards\nzero traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries in the next twenty\nyears, or next ten years, not twenty.\nUm,\nand that's different than some other long-range planning studies we do, is which\noften have twenty-year horizons.\nThere's really an emphasis in this plan to do things we can get done a lot more\nquickly because we want to make safety improvements fast, not wait ten years to\nfund them and get them.\nUh, so the first few chapters are-- it's a lot of introductory stuff.\nIt kind of introduces, you know, about the project, the process we went\nthrough, the safe-- what's the safe system approach,\ntalks about the coordination we did with Benton County, and,\nkind of summarizes our public engagement approach.\nIt also splits up,\ndoes some intro of some of the crash data and trends that we saw to kind of support\nthe, the problem, right? Or the where are we starting from, why do we need to do\nthis. Especially 'cause if, if that goal is to\nget to zero fatalities and serious injuries, you need to know where you're starting\nfrom.\nUm, so as we get to chapter four, that's gonna kind of pick up that conversation\nagain. There's more in-depth conversation about kind of what are the issues,\nright? So it's, what's analyzing that crash data.\nUm, and so from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty-two was the\nspan of crash data we got, simply 'cause that was the most recent data we could\nget when we started. Um, there was an average of fifteen crashes per\nyear resulting in fatalities and serious injuries.\nAnd the proportion of fatal and serious injury crashes,\nnearly doubled from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty-two.\nSo you can kind of see that on that graph. It's been, it's been climbing.\nUh, obviously in twenty twenty, where the pandemic hit, all the crashes went\nway down 'cause people weren't driving as much.\nWell, in a lot of places, Corvallis included, they've been climbing right back up.\nAnd in fact, the proportion of the fatal and serious injury crashes has been\ngetting worse. Um, so again, if our goal is to get to\nzero, it's like that's, that's telling us what our baseline is and what we're, what\nwe're starting from. Um, chapter\nfour also identifies the high-priority network.\nAnd so again, this was an exercise we went through, with the task\nforce to help identify this. And those are intersections and road\nsegments where, based on crash history and trends, we believe have the\nmost, for improvements, have the greatest potential to\neliminate high-severity crashes.\nUm, and a note here, we kept the focus on city facilities with a\nlot of this. So we did identify state highway corridors because\nthere's a lot of crashes on those, but we separated those out and listed\nthem. So you can still have conversations with ODOT about\nmaking improvements there. But as far as investing city resources, we wanted to\nkeep it on the city facilities, so we split the two\napart.\nUh, so kinda a little bit on how we got to that high-priority network.\nUh, considered a lot of inputs. So it was, you know, the data analysis, you know,\nwhat's the crash data telling us? Um, not only\nspecifically where the crashes and most severe crashes are happening, but what are\nkind of the overall, overall trends that are most prevalent in the most,\nserious crashes, and how-- per\nlocation. Uh, but then we also considered,\ncommunity feedback. Uh, we used like Oregon Social\nEquity Index to identify where there's,\ncensus tracts within the city with, higher disparities in people that may\nbe,\nyou know, more traditionally underserved and kind of, looked at\nthat to see where those high-priority locations were, in\nalignment with those to, to make sure we're getting good coverage.\nAnd we kind of pulled all that together with our task force, and,\nthey helped us make the decisions.\nUh, fir-first of all, they supported our prioritization process and criteria, but\nthen they also helped us kind of make the decisions on which projects\nthey thought were rising to the top and were the high-priority ones.\nUm,\nand again, that's at this moment in time.\nIt's not to say, you know, that there aren't other locations that could benefit\nfrom safety improvements. It's just these were the highest in priority at this\ntime. Uh, also sets up what we call\nemphasis areas. So these are not specific locations, but\nit's factors that are most frequently involved in fatal and serious injury crashes.\nUh, again, the task force helped us kind of look through that data and identify\nwhich we thought were the ones we wanted to focus on for this.\nAnd we chose five of those for Corvallis, those being\nintersections, so that's a place where we were having the most of those\nmore serious crashes. Uh, people walking, people biking.\nWe, risky behaviors, we lumped in things like drug and\nalcohol impairment, distracted driving, and speeding.\nAnd then younger drivers, so twenty-one and under.\nThat-- those were where we were seeing, more\nlinkages to those serious crashes.\nSo as soon as we get to chapter five, we get into the, solutions\nthemselves. Um, and so we have the systemic emphasis area\nstrategies, and those are things we can apply broadly.\nThey're not spot, you know, location-specific.\nUh, if the city has a CIP project, they can look at tools in this\ntoolkit we've given them to potentially apply in that.\nThey could apply for a grant to apply some of these things, you know, in,\nin multiple corridors or areas in comparison to high-priority\nprojects which are obviously very specific to a location.\nAnd then here, this is the page thirty.\nThis is where we-Wanted to more specifically address the input from\nthe task force where they didn't want to preclude,\nlarger scale projects from this. And so we've\nincluded, this consideration for really kind of all, you\nknow, projects to kind of continuously keep the kind of\nthe, the safe system approach embedded in, the thought\nprocess. Since it's tiered system where you start, you're looking for\nthe types of solutions that remove conflicts, right?\nSo you're separating people in space. If you, if you...\nThat's not feasible to do, right? Because there's always constraints, whether it's\nfunding, environmental, whatever.\nThen you kind of go down the list and say, \"Well, what can we do to reduce\nspeeds?\" If you can't do that, you move down the list.\nHow can we manage conflicts and time, right? So think traffic signals, right?\nThey're separating conflicts and time.\nAnd if we can't do that, then it's just increasing awareness of the location\nor the situation. And so, that process\nand recommendations provided in there, we also acknowledged,\nor explains how you could use that process for intersection or bicycle\nfacility improvements. So if you're kind of like, one of the RSAs, it says,\n\"If you ever need to replace this traffic signal, consider doing protected\nintersections and roundabouts.\" That should be part of the conversation.\nSimilarly, bike facilities, right?\nThere, there should be a preference for something like protected facility, because\nthat would be tier one. But, you know, if you can't do that for whatever reason,\nyou move kinda down the tiers. So we do have some guidance\nfor, you know, other capital projects.\nAnd then the necessary strategies.\nAgain, we have infrastructure-based and non-infrastructure based things.\nUh, the infrastructure based things, again, we're looking for kind of lower cost\nthings you can do a lot of quickly. Intersection hardware\nimprovements, street lighting improvements, pedestrian crossing\nenhancements, green bike lane painting in conflict\nareas, buffered bike lanes, radar speed feedback signs are just some of\nthe examples. On the non-infrastructure based\nexamples, you'll see things are-- start to get into more of the, the\neducation enforcement realms. Um, pedestrian safety\nzones is one that was, popular with the task force.\nThat's where you can designate an area, maybe it's, you know, around a school or a\ndowntown or something. But then you're, you're focusing\neducation, engineering, and enforcement strategies specifically on pedestrian\nsafety in that, in that zone.\nUm, educational campaigns, not only for, for safe biking behavior, but\nalso for drivers around bikes. Um, high visibility saturation\npatrols, again, on the enforcement side.\nUm, and then more kinda educational campaigns and assistance for some of those\nrisky behaviors and parents that have young drivers.\nThe nice thing about a lot of, a lot of these educational things is you don't have\nto reinvent the wheel, 'cause a lot of great resources are already out there.\nODOT's-- you get access through a lot of these through\nODOT.\nAnd then the high priority projects, just listed\nthere. These were the locations that, rose to our-- got on\nthe high priority list. Um, Ninth Street had a lot.\nIt's five, five different projects just on Ninth Street.\nUh, we've got Harrison Boulevard at Twenty-Ninth, Kings Circle, Thirty-Fifth and\nWestern, Garfield Highland, a segment of Circle Boulevard\nfrom Highland to Porter Place, segment of Circle between\nNinth Street and Nine-Nines W. Uh, Circle at,\nKings, Eleventh and Grant, Tenth and Buchanan, Thirty-Fifth and\nJackson, and then Conifer, there's a segment from Nine-Nine to\nCambridge, where there's kind of a, a sight distance issue in the\ncorner.\nUm, and so if you kinda look through those, kind of the, the general pattern of the\ninformation we're providing for each of those, there's a location\ndescription, a discussion of the crash patterns and trends that were\nin that data, project recommendations that also include\nwhat, you know, crash reduction potential, where there's research to, to back that\nup. Um, project costs, potential funding sources to\nconsider, benefit-cost ratios. Um, and then we\nnoted any other related planning projects, 'cause sometimes there's a, a\nCIP or a transportation system plan project,\nthat's related to that location that'd be good to\nknow. Uh, and the last\nchapter, chapter six, has three kind of sections to it.\nAgain, the first one is what I mentioned before.\nIt's some opportunities where the city can change operating procedures,\ndesign standards, to kind of\ncontinue, discussing safety improvements\nand keeping those in mind in kind of, you know, day-to-day operations.\nAnd that covers, also things like, you know, some maintenance,\nfunding, discussions, you know, capital projects, and obviously the\nmonitoring evaluation process, which is the last section of the\nthree. Uh, there's a discussion on funding\nsources. So it's just identifying federal, state,\nlocal, potential sources for funding safety\nprojects. Obviously, those change over time, so this is a\nsnapshot of today and what's available.\nUm, and then this table, which is included, and you can hopefully\nactually read it in the plan, not on the slide.\nBut re- It's just taking kind of an exercise and saying, \"Okay, given all these\nfunding sources and kind of the nature of what they are typically geared for,\nthen as you look at high priority projects across the, the columns, which\nones might they be decent candidates for?\" So it's kinda helping to start that\nprocess of looking for funding sources.\nAnd then the last section, performance measures and monitoring.\nSo again, one of the requirements of the program is do the plan, then\nannually, you need to have some performance measures set, and you need to go and\nsee how did we do every year? Are we making progress on that goal to get\nto zero? Um, and so, and\nagain, that has to-- the results need to be made publicly available, so most\nlikely just posting them on your website once you've kind of made that report.\nAnd so the performance measures that we've identified for Corvallis...\nAgain, this is on city roadways. So it's looking at the number of\nall the crashes, the number of serious injury crashes,\nnumber of fatal crashes, number of pedestrians involved\ncrashes, number of bicycle involved crashes, and the number of\nfatal and serious injury crashes involving pedestrians and bicycles.\nSo those would be the key performance measures they'd be looking at, comparing that\nyear over year to see how that trend is\nchanging.\nAnd then another part of the reporting is,\njust accounting\nfor, okay, well, what did we do like last year? What were the actions?\nMaybe we did two of the high priority projects, or we did two\neducational campaigns. So it's just so you can see what did we\ndo kind of compared to, outcomes.\nBut I will acknowledge there's a lag in getting crash data.\nSo you do something next year, maybe two years before you get the crash\ndata to actually align with that. So that is one trick to\nthis.\nUm, so again, I've said this a couple of times now, but the next steps for the\nTSAP is, requesting city council acceptance\nof the Transportation Safety Action Plan through resolution\nat the April twentieth city council\nmeeting. I believe that is the end of\nmy very long presentation. On\nto you.\nBefore we go any further and, and maybe take some, some, some\nquestions here, I did want to acknowledge someone else that's joined us today,\nwhich is Nick from Federal Highways.\nHe's been our grant administrator from the federal side, and I can't\nemphasize-- And he's attended many task force meetings, for\nus and put us in touch with other federal resources,\nwhen we had questions, and has really,\ndemonstrated, above\nand beyond commitment to our project.\nAnd I just wanted to acknowledge Nick being here,\nand, a-as the grant\nadministrator on our side, I've leaned on him, many times.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd, and he's come through every time for us.\nAnd, it's just-- it's been a very, I have to say, it's been a very\npositive experience from our side working, working with Federal\nHighways on this. And, I'm not sure every community gets to say that, but,\nbut we certainly can, and, and just wanted to,\ngive our appreciation for him. Thanks, Nick.\nYou're welcome.\nJust real, real quick, adding on to that, you know, this is, this\nwas a pretty rewarding project to be part of.\nWe had really strong task force participation and\nsupport. We had very strong consultant support,\nboth from a technical standpoint and a public\nengagement standpoint. Uh, and we had really good\nbuy-in and engagement from, from staff that this\nrepresented extra work for, was\npainful to incorporate at times. Uh,\nbut the neat thing about it is that it fills, fills a real\ngap that I don't know that we knew that we had.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd, when you think about what's in a traditional\ntransportation system plan, or a TSP, you don't have\nthis type of safety analysis incorporated in\nthat study. You don't do a separate action like this.\nAnd so, it's filling a gap, a real gap that we have\nwith meaningful, data-driven\nprojects that we can consider implementing to make a real\ndifference in our community. So we look forward to continuing the\nconversation about how to move projects\nforward. But also one, one of the recommendations is, and the plan\nis, you know, when you, when you haven't done one of these for a\nwhile, like, we have a t-- minor TSP update that we have to do soon, so you\nwouldn't redo this again in, like, two years.\nBut in the future, when we do TSP updates, to coordinate updates\nto the Transportation Safety Action Plan at the same time.\nSo when you're identifying all your improvements, you're considering, these\nmore detailed safety elements, at the same time.\nUh, in addition to a recommendation to continue to do the road safety audits,\nin conjunction with our, our larger, street projects\nthat, that we take on. So the intention is to\ncontinue to build on, on what we learned and incorporate this in future\nplanning activities as, as well.\nAnd we should thank Jeff for writing the, the original grant,\nand he went above and beyond to, to do that.\nYeah.\nSo it's given us some really good information.\nYeah. Thanks for that. A little, an au-acknowledgment that some of\nyou would appreciate was, some of you had\npersonal working relationships with Marge Stevens, and\nI didn't know her as well as many of, as you did, but,\nshe\nhad made me aware of, of this grant that led to\nthe, conversations, led to us\napplying.\nYeah.\nSo I've always kind of thought of this as, as Marge's project.\nThat's so cool.\nSo I'm glad to\nbring it forward.\nThank you for sharing that.\nYeah. Great, great presentation.\nAwesome.\nGreat work, and, if you have any questions, there'll\nalso be an opportunity to have some time.\nSo I just think it's-- I think it does fill a gap.\nIt's amazing, the, the qu- quality of the information.\nIt's gonna be very helpful in decision-making for\nsure. Thank you very much.\nI just want to--\nGiven all the work that happened to do\nthis, you mentioning future planning cycles and\naligning\nupdates for--\nto the TSP unit, which makes sense.\nThe, the scale of this work\nOkay.\nIs, is something happening through all this that makes it replicable at less\nexpense in the future? Um,\nin other words, if you- every time we do this, we would be\ndependent on a six, seven hundred thousand dollar grant?\nWell, I, you know, I think we, we did a lot...\nAs you saw, we did a lot of supplemental planning activities.\nYeah.\nAnd there was a lot of cost, associated with those.\nSo I think, you know, going back to,\ngoing back to just, the transportation safety action plan component of it will\nin itself limit the, the level of\ninvestment. Um, but there's a lot of work that goes,\ngoes into that. So I, I still think it'll be a\nsignificant dollar amount.\nYeah.\nYou know, the formats of master plans or TSPs don't necessarily change\ndramatically, cycle to cycle.\nBut you still spend a heck of a lot of money-\nYeah\n... to, to refresh them and bring in new regulations, and in this case, new\ntraffic data and things like that.\nI, I can, I can add on just a little bit to that.\nI think also if you do this concurrently with a T-TSP-\nMm-hmm\n... you have, there's, there's efficiencies there if you have, like, the same,\nlike, the same consulting team perhaps is doing both.\nAlso, if you're doing your public outreach at the same time.\nLike, there's considerable costs to...\nThe public engagement in this was a considerable effort-\nMm-hmm\n... and required considerable resources.\nAnd when, when you do a TSP, it's, it's even more as far\nas, the cost component to engage the community in that.\nSo if you can engage the community with multiple things-\nAt the same-\n... multiple\nco-concurrent efforts that are, you know, married together-\nMm-hmm\n... I think there is a lot of efficiencies there, where if we look at\njust what it cost us to do this TSAP versus what it would cost to incorporate\nas part of a TSP project, you're gonna gain some on it.\nThe same way we gained by working with Benton County on our\ncollective efforts on our outreach and sharing data and everything.\nThat, that provided a, a great s- resource savings to both\nof us by sharing. So.\nI'll add quickly if, if I can. I'll say even if all you want to do within a few\nyears, let's say you've finished some of your high priority projects, and you just\nwant to refresh that list, 'cause that's gonna change over time\ntoo. Um, we're giving the city as part of this a tool now that\nwe've set up the analysis framework for identifying that, right?\nRemember the prioritization criteria I talked about that?\nYeah.\nWe're doing a training session with them next month and handing over this tool so\nthey can update that periodically.\nSo that's, a lot of the work to set that piece up is done.\nSo with fairly low effort, they can at the very\nleast refresh that prioritization list every so often.\nGreat. Anyone\nelse?\nYeah.\nWell, thank you very much. And again, all the work's really appreciated, and-\nSure\n... we'll see you on the twentieth.\nGreat.\nOkay. Move on. Um, I'm sure you also did see, received\nsome written comments, so wanna be sure to get\nto those. Um, I'm just gonna kinda skip them and hand it off to Tony\nfor his questions, and going after we'll get-\nRight. So I did say that as the update regarding\nthe, use the RFP process for,\ncity manager evaluation. Um, I\nthink that\nwe got some feedback from, Counselor Schaefer, who felt\nthat it was a,\nconsistent with what we had previously discussed and saw it as a valuable\nexercise.\nI think the way I would frame the question for all of you is, there's,\nthere's no doubt we will get something from using a consultant.\nUm, to put it in stark relief, perhaps\nif, if this\ncost of this was a thousand dollars, we would, it would be a no-brainer to do\nit. If the cost, if the cost of it were twelve\nthousand, which is kind of a little gateway,\nwe would probably do it. The costs are probably gonna be about twenty-five\nK. So, and it's really a manner, it's really a practical matter\nof, um-\nIt's a-\nIt's a pain in the extreme. If this costs a hundred K, is it still worth the\neffort? So I, I just... Really the question is, and I, like I\nsaid, I'm happy to proceed and manage whatever,\nprocess the council would decide.\nUm, but I do invite your comments as to how you'd like, how you'd like to\nproceed.\nUm,\nI'm gonna say that I would like to proceed, but we're also down\nthree counselors, two of whom argued strongly in favor of the\nevaluation last time. So I feel like, we're missing\nsome voices at the table.\nWell, let's start with you.\nYou... Go ahead. You said you felt like\nfor sure we would gain something. Uh, when I\nread through it, I was not\nespecially convinced that we would gain, that the process would\nbe measurably all that different than what we did\nourselves.\nI did-\nSo-\nI didn't, I didn't quantify how much we would gain.\nMm-hmm.\nI s- I... Obviously, seeing how someone else does\nthis, who does this in different settings, there's something\nto be learned.\nRight.\nI don't know that I can speak to the magnitude.\nOkay.\nSo I'm not saying it's small or large.\nOkay.\nDifferent.\nNo, I just didn't know if you had a particular,\nsegment of what we did that you thought might\nbe better or, you know, what gain\nmight be gained.\nI agree.\nYou know, I just, that's all. I, i-if you don't have a particular thing, that's\nfine. Okay.\nYou, um-\nYeah, I was gonna say I think that I still think that this is a\ngood idea. I mean, if we were looking at this for every year,\ntwenty years into the future, I would have a lot more questions.\nBut considering the amount of discussion that has gone into\nhaving an outside person doing this over the past\nmany, many years, since probably before both of us were\non the council, I think that having...\nI, I think that having someone come in and kind of\nstreamline and optimize our process would be\nideal because it allows us to use as an investment for years in the\nfuture. So...\nJim.\nUm,\nI don't want to go through what we did\nlast year again. So,\npriority mine is that we establish\na framework protocol, content\nthat's replicable and that, that successive\ncity councils can look at and go, \"That, that's, that's good.\nWe don't have to reinvent the wheel.\nWe got something that, that is, based on best practices and\nworks.\" Um,\nif we can do it, we can accomplish that without a consultant, then why\nspend the money? I'm not sure that we would, though,\nbecause we-- it was such a struggle, trying to figure out what we\nwanted. If, if it's a, you know, one-time\nexpenditure of twenty-five thousand dollars and we get an excellent\nproduct out of it that's going to remove, you\nknow, conflicts in the future about, you know, reinventing\nit every time and, and, then I think it's money well\nspent.\nRita.\nUm, yeah, no, I, I agree. I,\nI... The, the, the, the price tag\nis getting to me a little bit, but because it is a one-- it\nfeels like it will be a one-time expenditure, I think we should go for\nit. Um, I just,\nI think it's just like for the future, I just hope we don't have to do it again\nbecause then it's like, then why did we spend twenty-five K in the first place-\nYeah\n... if we're just gonna keep doing it?\nSo I, I say\nwe go with it and, and just see how it goes.\nUh, okay, let me say we'll have...\nUh,\ndid you?\nWell, I think that when I hear about one-time expense versus\nongoing, what I recall one\nof the driving factors was having an outside person rather than our\nHR director run this process. So that would mean this would be an ongoing\nprocess.\nFor groups.\nBut, but I, I don't want to\npresuppose the outcome. I think likely the\nquestions\ngenerally that you saw last time aren't gonna be wildly\ndifferent with a consultant, but what you'll have is just an outside person\nrunning the process. Um,\nwhich maybe that's good confirmation for the council.\nAgain, is that worth the money? That's for you to determine.\nRight. So a couple comments. Uh, because we did get six proposals and we did rank\nthem,\nI know that Councilor Ellis, you said we have voices we haven't heard from.\nI, I must point out that one of the voices\nwas-- should have been part of the ranking process and was not.\nUm, so I think that,\nthe, the ones that were ranked high did tend to converge with the\nICMA,\nframework.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, the highest rated one right now, definitely-\nWhich one we would wanna be a little careful about.\nI'm not, I'm not gonna say anything more other than to say\nthat, I think there's-- we-- a lot of our questions that\nwe, we used in the last evaluation do align with the ICMA\nframework. There could be some refinement there.\nThe answer to, what Council-- what Jim said was that,\nI, I feel this-- I-I am like, like I said, I'm willing to support whatever process\nthe council wants. I feel confident that we could\nimprove the process that we had last year, incorporate three hundred and sixty\ndegree feedback with a similar but slightly different set of\nquestions, is still lush. Uh, and\nthere's-- I think that I have no, doubt that I could\ndrive a process with council input that would get us there.\nSo-\nI guess I wanna-\nThat's, that's my, that's my own observation\nof, what I think, could be delivered, but I'm happy.\nWe will, we will get another shot at this because we have a council\nmeeting, the day before\nwe award the contract, according to the timeline we have.\nI will bring this up again, for a\ndiscussion. But I\nalso-- I'm also a little, um...\nThat being said, I don't like the idea of spending a lot of\nenergy on something and, and asking folks\nto... I, I mean, frankly, they're consultants, they're used to\ns-getting nos as well. It doesn't bother me so much.\nBut our own time, we've, we've spent a lot of time\non this and, so I,\nI, I realize that's all in the past, but I would\nlike us to not-- like us to be more effective, more\nclear in our decision-making. Yes.\nIt just occurs to me that maybe, I mean, one thing we\ndon't ever look at very carefully is trending on\nhow much council is spending over time.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd I just thought that might be useful information in this decision because I'm\npretty sure we're spending more this year than we spent the year before already,\nbefore we even think about the twenty-five thousand dollars.\nBut I could be wrong. Does that-\nResonate with anyone as a matter of importance, given our budget\nconstraints that we're facing and all of that business or-\nWell, I think that's partially what weighs into, I was even asking this\nquestion.\nYeah.\nIf we were\nnot having a budget strain, we're sitting just fine. I don't think...\nI mean, in the grand scheme of things, twenty-five thousand dollars isn't a lot of\nmoney from a, a, a city budget. But considering where\nwe are, is why like when, when I was looking at the proposals like that, I had\nsome sticker shock.\nMm-hmm.\nI was like, \"Whoa, that's not what I was expecting to see.\" Um, but it is what it\nis.\nYeah.\nSo that's why we want to-\nI think the short... My recollection is that we, we have adjusted county\nmayor council budget up. We've done things for add- additional training.\nWe've done things like the Mayor's Innovation Conference, that Charles just\nspoke to.\nThe office-\nPotentially, joining, that as, as an\nactivity. I can't speak to fifteen years\nof- ... or twenty years of trend.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, but certainly in my time on the council, I would bet-\nRight now we have the office now too, so I would think-\nYeah\n... the first line is fairly high.\nTwenty-five, 25K is a, is a very big increment though-\nYeah\n... to whatever that growth has been.\nWe, we can pull together where the council is right\nnow, in the, our biennium versus what your\nbudget is, so you have an idea of are you ahead or behind.\nUm, you know, there's multiple things that play into that.\nAs you said, training. Um, city attorney\ncost is one of the highest,\nvariables for the council. So we can, I can work\nto provide that before the next council meeting.\nAll right.\nThank you.\nWell, at this point, we're-\nYeah\n... go through the process of, uh-\nPardon?\nWell, continuing to move forward.\nWe'll continue moving forward. Uh, I'm probably gonna\nbe, uh... We're gonna continue moving\nforward.\nOkay.\nWe'll talk about it again at the next\nmeeting.\nUh, we adjourned?\nOh, sorry. Distracted. Yes, I thought we're adjourned.\nDid you care?",
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          "text": "Um,",
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          "text": "the considerations. Reduces opportunities to run for office, perception of",
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          "text": "access to city. Um, mayor votes less frequently due to fewer tie",
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          "text": "votes among odd number of councilors.",
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          "text": "Even the wards only vote every four years, while odd votes--",
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          "index": 59,
          "text": "ward votes vote every two years.",
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        {
          "index": 60,
          "text": "Oh.",
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        {
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          "text": "That would be initially.",
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        {
          "index": 62,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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        {
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          "text": "Something to be discussed.",
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        {
          "index": 65,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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        {
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          "text": "We can, maybe get into it a little bit more on the next slide, 'cause it has to",
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          "index": 67,
          "text": "do when the mayor is elected.",
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        {
          "index": 68,
          "text": "Yeah. Um, at-large elections could allow representation",
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          "index": 69,
          "text": "of a geographically spread interest group.",
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        {
          "index": 70,
          "text": "So we did discuss whether we wanted to have all councilors just be at large, like",
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          "index": 71,
          "text": "some cities do. Um, and at-large elections of, two councilors per",
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          "index": 72,
          "text": "ward could limit voter ability to, check and balance.",
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          "index": 73,
          "text": "So again, we considered a lot of different models.",
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          "text": "Um, city manager did talk a lot about, you know, you could have three",
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          "text": "wards and still have six councilors. You can have one in one councilor per ward.",
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          "text": "But what we ended up going with was those recommendations at the",
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          "index": 77,
          "text": "top. Term limits. We suggested",
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          "text": "four-year terms. Um, that way they could be staggered, so you wouldn't have",
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          "index": 79,
          "text": "all, councilors come to ballot at once,",
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          "text": "ideally. Um, odd wards would be elected in presidential election years and even",
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          "text": "wards .",
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        {
          "index": 82,
          "text": "Uh,",
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          "index": 83,
          "text": "again, this brings continuity, experience, focus on long-term goals,",
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        {
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          "text": "development of positive relationships.",
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        {
          "index": 85,
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          "index": 86,
          "text": "one of the challenges we, as we all experienced, we've been on council long",
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          "text": "enough, is when a co-council has a big change, then we have a strategy that,",
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          "index": 88,
          "text": "you know, hard to make-- fulfill. Uh,",
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          "index": 112,
          "text": "city councilor and decided to run for mayor, they can do that.",
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          "text": "It's a different position. Um, if they took a break, served two",
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          "text": "that as well. They're just not in a second.Um, and we're, we're trying-- we worked",
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          "text": "limit.",
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        {
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          "text": "Balanced and competitive renewal, provides stability,",
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          "text": "limits the incumbent advantage, which is talked",
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          "index": 121,
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          "text": "Next steps. Um, you can see here we are today in March.",
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          "text": "Uh, we're looking for feedback, direction, so we can continue the work.",
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          "text": "Um, in April, we developed more of the red line language concrete with",
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          "text": "Um, we'll come back in May, look for more final, feedback if there's",
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          "text": "anything that's changed on the strategy.",
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        {
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          "text": "Um, and June, we'll finalize ballot titles and summary",
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          "text": "statement. And hopefully July, we'll refer to the November ballot,",
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        {
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          "text": "and that's when the real fun begins.",
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          "text": "Here are the questions we have for all of you, councilors you should",
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          "text": "say. To move on. Do the draft recommendations align with the guiding",
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          "index": 134,
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          "text": "together and independently, regardless of how they are grouped on the ballot?",
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          "text": "You have a lighter pack as well. And do the draft recommendations address problems",
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          "index": 140,
          "text": "the council is looking to solve?",
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          "index": 141,
          "text": "So again, we're trying to keep it pretty high level today because we will come back",
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        {
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          "index": 143,
          "text": "lines to get into the weeds, so to speak.",
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          "index": 145,
          "text": "give you the update of where we, where we're landing currently and get feedback on",
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          "text": "Okay, I just have a question. Can you explain what you mean by odds-- by",
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          "index": 148,
          "text": "the comment about,",
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        {
          "index": 150,
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        {
          "index": 151,
          "text": "two?",
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          "text": "I'll look to Alex or somebody else for that.",
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          "index": 153,
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          "index": 154,
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          "index": 155,
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          "index": 157,
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        {
          "index": 158,
          "text": "only voting for a counselor every four years.",
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        {
          "index": 160,
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        {
          "index": 162,
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          "index": 163,
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          "index": 164,
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        {
          "index": 168,
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          "index": 170,
          "text": "Yeah, so I was confused by the way I think it was worded.",
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        {
          "index": 171,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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          "text": "So basically, it depends on where you live in the city will be-- depend on how long",
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        {
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          "text": "you get, how often you get to vote.",
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        {
          "index": 174,
          "text": "But you still get to vote every four years for your counselor.",
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        {
          "index": 175,
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        {
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          "text": "For mayor",
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          "endTime": "00:09:16,456"
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          "index": 177,
          "text": "... no matter where you live.",
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          "endTime": "00:09:17,185"
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          "index": 178,
          "text": "Or for your mayor.",
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          "endTime": "00:09:18,056"
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          "index": 179,
          "text": "But sometimes you'll get to vote, you know, like say this November, you'd get to",
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          "index": 180,
          "text": "vote. And if this is already implemented, then in two years, you'd have a different",
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          "endTime": "00:09:24,316"
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          "index": 181,
          "text": "vote if you lived in one of the ones where you're now voting for mayor.",
          "startTime": "00:09:24,356",
          "endTime": "00:09:27,356"
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        {
          "index": 182,
          "text": "And then the next two years again, you'd vote for your counselor.",
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          "text": "So it is a disadvantage, but-",
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          "text": "I'm not really-- I'm not sure I see that as a",
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          "index": 185,
          "text": "disadvantage. If I'm, I'm even number",
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        {
          "index": 186,
          "text": "ward, I get to vote for the mayor and the counselor. Okay.",
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          "endTime": "00:09:42,256"
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        {
          "index": 187,
          "text": "So I get-- I'm voting for two elected officials.",
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          "endTime": "00:09:45,456"
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          "index": 188,
          "text": "But then in the next two-year period, I get to vote for no elected",
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          "index": 189,
          "text": "official.",
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        {
          "index": 190,
          "text": "Right.",
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          "endTime": "00:09:50,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 191,
          "text": "Correct.",
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        {
          "index": 192,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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        {
          "index": 193,
          "text": "Correct.",
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          "text": "So what's... I don't get the distinction.",
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          "index": 195,
          "text": "It, it's, you know, it... Well, the only negative we could think of",
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          "text": "we were talking about it was around, civic",
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          "index": 197,
          "text": "engagement.",
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        {
          "index": 198,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
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          "text": "You know, some people like to be able to vote every two years, and this would",
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          "index": 200,
          "text": "remove, certain wards from being able to vote every s- every two years.",
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          "endTime": "00:10:08,806"
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          "text": "Some, some of them would only vote every four years. It's not really a negative.",
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          "text": "They're still voting for the same number of people, but just not",
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          "text": "every two years.",
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        {
          "index": 204,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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          "endTime": "00:10:16,996"
        },
        {
          "index": 205,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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          "endTime": "00:10:17,056"
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          "index": 206,
          "text": "I think it also kinda goes back to the mindset of where we went",
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          "index": 207,
          "text": "to, vote for the whole council every two years was that idea",
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          "index": 208,
          "text": "of accountability. As, you know, I wasn't here for",
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          "index": 209,
          "text": "that, that charter change, but the understanding was they would wanna be able to",
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          "endTime": "00:10:32,576"
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          "index": 210,
          "text": "make a change on the council every two years,",
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          "text": "where, I mean, the way to accomplish that with",
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          "text": "four-year terms would be",
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          "text": "multiple counselors per ward",
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          "text": "or",
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          "index": 215,
          "text": "some sort of at large type of...",
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          "index": 216,
          "text": "Yeah. I mean, I understand, I understand the comment.",
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          "endTime": "00:10:51,556"
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          "index": 217,
          "text": "I'm really not sure I see that as a",
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          "endTime": "00:10:53,696"
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          "text": "negative or an inequity, but that doesn't matter.",
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          "endTime": "00:10:57,416"
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          "index": 219,
          "text": "To keep it back to the high level, I think the",
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          "index": 220,
          "text": "only comment I would say is,",
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          "text": "it is true that",
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          "text": "you can't run for two offices at the same",
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          "index": 223,
          "text": "time.",
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          "text": "Um, so yes, if you're in a ward that is not up for election, you can run for",
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          "text": "mayor. But we can solve that problem pretty simply by making somebody",
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          "endTime": "00:11:20,516"
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          "index": 226,
          "text": "resign. We can, we can make that change.",
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          "endTime": "00:11:23,636"
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        {
          "index": 227,
          "text": "If you wanna run for mayor, you have to resign.",
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          "endTime": "00:11:25,416"
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        {
          "index": 228,
          "text": "You have to plan to resign your city councilor",
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          "text": "position. Does that, does that come up at all as you-",
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          "text": "No, we didn't talk about that. You're saying we get to just plan to retire",
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          "text": "but not-- or resign, but not actually resign until-",
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          "index": 232,
          "text": "No, you'd have to actually-- To make it fair, you'd have to actually resign.",
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          "text": "Because if I'm in a-- If my term is ending, and I want to run",
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          "text": "for mayor, but I also-- I can't run for mayor and for my expiring",
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          "text": "term.",
          "startTime": "00:11:52,036",
          "endTime": "00:11:52,496"
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          "index": 236,
          "text": "So if I run for mayor, I'm not ever gonna be a councilor",
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          "text": "that, the next term. So-",
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          "text": "You would have to leave your chair until the end of the term.",
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          "index": 239,
          "text": "You'd have to wait another two years to run again.",
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          "text": "So-",
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          "text": "It's a forfeit",
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          "text": "... are you saying if you decided to run for mayor",
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          "index": 243,
          "text": "In July, then when you made that decision to run for mayor",
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          "text": "in July, you would not finish out your term?",
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        {
          "index": 245,
          "text": "No, no.",
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          "endTime": "00:12:19,102"
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          "text": "Or you would just say, \"In December, I am done.\"",
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          "text": "No, I'm saying it for the people that are in even-numbered",
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        {
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          "text": "terms.",
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          "endTime": "00:12:26,532"
        },
        {
          "index": 249,
          "text": "Mm.",
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          "endTime": "00:12:26,702"
        },
        {
          "index": 250,
          "text": "When they... If they chose to run for mayor, and their term",
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          "text": "is going to be expiring, at the end of that year-",
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          "text": "Mm-hmm",
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          "endTime": "00:12:35,242"
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          "text": "... they know they won't be able to run for their council position again.",
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        {
          "index": 254,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
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          "endTime": "00:12:38,862"
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          "text": "So they're, they won't, they won't...",
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          "index": 256,
          "text": "If they lose the mayor race, they're, they're out of council.",
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        {
          "index": 257,
          "text": "Right.",
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          "index": 258,
          "text": "If we wanted to make it fair for the odd-numbered terms, and you wanna",
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          "text": "run for mayor, then what you're...",
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          "text": "You, we could say, you're making a decision similar to our",
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          "text": "wanna run for mayor. If you get elected mayor, you're mayor.",
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          "index": 263,
          "text": "And if you're, don't get elected mayor, you, you effectively are",
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          "text": "saying, \"I'm gonna resign at the end of my, of that council",
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          "text": "term.\"",
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          "text": "December, yeah. Okay.",
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          "text": "I mean, that would make it the same, that would make it equivalent.",
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          "text": "And it wouldn't really-",
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          "text": "It wouldn't really be resigning, it would just be you would not be able to run for",
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          "text": "city council.",
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        {
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          "text": "For...",
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          "index": 273,
          "text": "Can I rephrase it?",
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          "text": "You'd have to resign.",
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          "endTime": "00:13:22,332"
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        {
          "index": 275,
          "text": "You'd have to resign, sure.",
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        {
          "index": 276,
          "text": "You'd have to resign.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 277,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:13:23,932",
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        },
        {
          "index": 278,
          "text": "Okay.",
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          "endTime": "00:13:24,422"
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          "text": "So this resignation would be submitted, but not effective until the end of the",
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        {
          "index": 280,
          "text": "year?",
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        {
          "index": 281,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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          "endTime": "00:13:28,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 282,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:13:28,242",
          "endTime": "00:13:28,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 283,
          "text": "Okay.",
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          "index": 284,
          "text": "And then who... Then that means that during that election cycle, you would",
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          "index": 285,
          "text": "also have to have an election to replace that person running for mayor and city",
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        {
          "index": 286,
          "text": "councilor.",
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        {
          "index": 287,
          "text": "Because by definition, they've resigned already.",
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          "text": "They would have, they have, they would be resigned.",
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          "endTime": "00:13:40,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 289,
          "text": "If they chose to run for mayor.",
          "startTime": "00:13:40,942",
          "endTime": "00:13:41,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 290,
          "text": "So you can't... So you just can't lose the mayor election and stay on council for",
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        {
          "index": 291,
          "text": "two years.",
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          "endTime": "00:13:47,132"
        },
        {
          "index": 292,
          "text": "Right.",
          "startTime": "00:13:47,212",
          "endTime": "00:13:47,512"
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        {
          "index": 293,
          "text": "Yeah, I, I, I think-",
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          "endTime": "00:13:48,812"
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        {
          "index": 294,
          "text": "I like that.",
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        {
          "index": 295,
          "text": "I, I think, I think that's",
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          "endTime": "00:13:51,212"
        },
        {
          "index": 296,
          "text": "slightly a discount. It's not a disadvantage.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 297,
          "text": "Mm.",
          "startTime": "00:13:54,932",
          "endTime": "00:13:55,052"
        },
        {
          "index": 298,
          "text": "Yeah, I guess that would work.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 299,
          "text": "No, it's not dis- it's the same disadvantage for the,",
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          "endTime": "00:13:58,912"
        },
        {
          "index": 300,
          "text": "even-numbered boards. If I wanna run for mayor, and now I'm not",
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          "endTime": "00:14:02,892"
        },
        {
          "index": 301,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:14:02,952",
          "endTime": "00:14:02,962"
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        {
          "index": 302,
          "text": "going to council, I can't re-",
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        {
          "index": 303,
          "text": "Mm",
          "startTime": "00:14:05,332",
          "endTime": "00:14:05,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 304,
          "text": "... I can't run for re-election.",
          "startTime": "00:14:05,342",
          "endTime": "00:14:06,772"
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        {
          "index": 305,
          "text": "So clearly this is a feedback for the task force, they need to figure this out.",
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        {
          "index": 306,
          "text": "Exactly. That's what I-",
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        {
          "index": 307,
          "text": "I made a note.",
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          "endTime": "00:14:12,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 308,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "00:14:12,572",
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        },
        {
          "index": 309,
          "text": "I have another suggestion to try to make it-",
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          "index": 310,
          "text": "Another solution that was suggested by Brennan, that",
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          "index": 311,
          "text": "came out today-",
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          "endTime": "00:14:21,112"
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        {
          "index": 312,
          "text": "Yeah",
          "startTime": "00:14:21,132",
          "endTime": "00:14:21,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 313,
          "text": "... was to have a two-year term for the mayor.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 314,
          "text": "Right. Mm.",
          "startTime": "00:14:23,652",
          "endTime": "00:14:24,832"
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        {
          "index": 315,
          "text": "And that would actually get rid of the inequities, and it would also get rid of-",
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        {
          "index": 316,
          "text": "That's great",
          "startTime": "00:14:28,252",
          "endTime": "00:14:28,812"
        },
        {
          "index": 317,
          "text": "... collect extra money for elections.",
          "startTime": "00:14:28,852",
          "endTime": "00:14:29,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 318,
          "text": "Yeah. But, please no comments from the audience, thank you.",
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          "endTime": "00:14:33,372"
        },
        {
          "index": 319,
          "text": "Um,",
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          "endTime": "00:14:33,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 320,
          "text": "that would solve the problem, although as someone who's done that campaign,",
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          "index": 321,
          "text": "I would not wanna do that every two years.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 322,
          "text": "Mm.",
          "startTime": "00:14:40,272",
          "endTime": "00:14:40,532"
        },
        {
          "index": 323,
          "text": "Yeah, I think that's the... It's a lot of money, it's a lot, it's a lot of work,",
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        {
          "index": 324,
          "text": "and it would be a distraction for the mayor to try to do that every other year.",
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        {
          "index": 325,
          "text": "And, and I, yeah, I get the... I can see where",
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          "endTime": "00:14:50,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 326,
          "text": "it can be...",
          "startTime": "00:14:50,852",
          "endTime": "00:14:53,032"
        },
        {
          "index": 327,
          "text": "It solves one problem and creates another.",
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        {
          "index": 328,
          "text": "It just doesn't help the continuity issue.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 329,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:14:57,972",
          "endTime": "00:14:58,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 330,
          "text": "So.",
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        {
          "index": 331,
          "text": "Well, I have to look into how the other cities do it, because most, some, you know,",
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        {
          "index": 332,
          "text": "there are others that have wards, like us-",
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        {
          "index": 333,
          "text": "Mm",
          "startTime": "00:15:06,172",
          "endTime": "00:15:06,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 334,
          "text": "... that have a four-year term mayor.",
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          "index": 335,
          "text": "So somebody has to have figured something out, 'cause on that",
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        {
          "index": 336,
          "text": "chart...",
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          "index": 337,
          "text": "You know, another thing discussed, but we didn't",
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          "endTime": "00:15:18,312"
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        {
          "index": 338,
          "text": "put in this proposal, is having all the councilors, running at once, and then",
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          "endTime": "00:15:22,292"
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        {
          "index": 339,
          "text": "the mayor on the separate election.",
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        {
          "index": 340,
          "text": "Which still has the same issue we have now with the turnover",
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        {
          "index": 341,
          "text": "rate.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 342,
          "text": "Mm.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 343,
          "text": "Yeah, no.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 344,
          "text": "Mm.",
          "startTime": "00:15:30,562",
          "endTime": "00:15:30,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 345,
          "text": "We on number two yet?",
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        {
          "index": 346,
          "text": "Well, we haven't even really answered number one fully, so.",
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        {
          "index": 347,
          "text": "Well, I would-",
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        {
          "index": 348,
          "text": "Guiding principles, yeah. I would, I would",
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        {
          "index": 349,
          "text": "just like to point out that I've been uncomfortable with",
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        {
          "index": 350,
          "text": "the, you know, the odd/even,",
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          "endTime": "00:15:49,392"
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        {
          "index": 351,
          "text": "switcheroos, and this, that, and the other thing.",
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        {
          "index": 352,
          "text": "Um, so the, the memo this morning from",
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        {
          "index": 353,
          "text": "Mr.,",
          "startTime": "00:15:58,532",
          "endTime": "00:15:59,062"
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        {
          "index": 354,
          "text": "what's his name?",
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        {
          "index": 355,
          "text": "Brand.",
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        },
        {
          "index": 356,
          "text": "Brand.",
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        {
          "index": 357,
          "text": "Cool.",
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        {
          "index": 358,
          "text": "Yeah. Um, crystallized in my",
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        {
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          "text": "mind what I had been uncomfortable with.",
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        {
          "index": 360,
          "text": "Mm.",
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          "text": "And, and",
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          "text": "what's presented here is a little more elegant than what we've",
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          "text": "presented in phase two task force.",
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          "text": "So even, let's say, we went with 66 terms instead of seven,",
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          "text": "we would not have that odd/even thing going on.",
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          "text": "Um, or would we? I don't know. But anyway, if we look at",
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          "text": "number two, governance models,",
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          "text": "and we find out what's negative about those governance",
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          "text": "models, you know, we, we're, we're putting up a lot of",
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          "text": "negatives in what we've presented or what we've",
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          "text": "come up with so far. And those negatives, maybe it's, what is",
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        {
          "index": 372,
          "text": "it? All the, the slides you had before.",
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        {
          "index": 373,
          "text": "Um,",
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          "index": 374,
          "text": "those negatives",
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          "text": "I think are enough that will dissuade people from voting",
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        {
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          "text": "for any of them.",
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        {
          "index": 377,
          "text": "Mm.",
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        {
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          "text": "Or some of them. One of them, two of them.",
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          "text": "And the problem-",
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        {
          "index": 380,
          "text": "That's the other thing we have to look at, if one passes and the other one doesn't,",
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        {
          "index": 381,
          "text": "what do we do?",
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        },
        {
          "index": 382,
          "text": "Ezra.",
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        {
          "index": 383,
          "text": "Could I ask... Now, I knew we were talking",
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          "index": 384,
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          "text": "terms, and I don't need to weigh in on my opinion of that right now, because I",
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          "text": "think I've been clear for the last 10 years.",
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          "index": 387,
          "text": "Um, what is the problem we're trying to solve with the term",
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          "text": "limits? What? There was... I mean, the only person who",
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          "text": "succeeded that was Hal Bronner. Um, and Hal was, was",
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        {
          "index": 390,
          "text": "such a resource to me, as a, as a new",
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        {
          "index": 391,
          "text": "councilor.",
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          "text": "begin with. You know, so people would have six, not that",
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          "text": "So, so really what is the problem?",
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          "index": 398,
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          "text": "Four terms.",
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        {
          "index": 402,
          "text": "Um,",
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        {
          "index": 403,
          "text": "what, what, where, where's the problem?",
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          "index": 408,
          "text": "feels comfortable and like they're still able to do the",
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          "index": 409,
          "text": "job, what, where is the problem?",
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        {
          "index": 410,
          "text": "I agree.",
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        {
          "index": 411,
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          "text": "and say, \"We don't see this as a problem,\" then it goes down.",
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          "text": "But it seems like-",
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        {
          "index": 415,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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          "text": "I don't, I don't see the problem",
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          "index": 417,
          "text": "... Chris, I, Chris, I agree with you. I don't see there being an actual problem.",
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        {
          "index": 418,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
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          "text": "It's more of a perceived problem, perceiving that community members might have",
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          "text": "concerns over four-year terms because of, you know, getting ingrained",
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          "text": "and stuck in their seat and serving forever and not doing good work, which from our",
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          "text": "understanding is part of the reason why two-year terms were created in the first",
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          "text": "place, because I guess they used to be six, so.",
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          "text": "And from a certain level too, there's, like a",
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        {
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          "text": "level of the longer you're in your seat, the more of an incumbent advantage",
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          "text": "you might have. And so that also-",
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        {
          "index": 427,
          "text": "Yeah",
          "startTime": "00:19:29,936",
          "endTime": "00:19:29,975"
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        {
          "index": 428,
          "text": "... also prevents the turnover. I know it's more of a problem seeing that like the",
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        {
          "index": 429,
          "text": "state and national level than it is-",
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        {
          "index": 430,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "00:19:35,596",
          "endTime": "00:19:35,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 431,
          "text": "... on the city council level. But it, we talked about it a little",
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          "index": 432,
          "text": "bit as like an anti-corruption measure, so that was part of it.",
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          "endTime": "00:19:42,686"
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        {
          "index": 433,
          "text": "So my feedback to the board-",
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        {
          "index": 434,
          "text": "Yeah",
          "startTime": "00:19:45,076",
          "endTime": "00:19:45,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 435,
          "text": "... or the task force on this would be, take a look to",
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        {
          "index": 436,
          "text": "see if other cities have moved in this direction and what was the basis",
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          "endTime": "00:19:52,516"
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        {
          "index": 437,
          "text": "for their direction. I, I think there's probably a general",
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          "index": 438,
          "text": "sense that term limits are a good thing, but I don't,",
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        {
          "index": 439,
          "text": "I don't know what the trend is.",
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          "endTime": "00:20:03,346"
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        {
          "index": 440,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:20:03,346",
          "endTime": "00:20:03,376"
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        {
          "index": 441,
          "text": "So that might be useful. By the way, I do have some data",
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          "endTime": "00:20:07,256"
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        {
          "index": 442,
          "text": "that came from the League of Oregon Cities that is not a",
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          "endTime": "00:20:11,176"
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        {
          "index": 443,
          "text": "published report. It's a spreadsheet of a comm- of a survey that",
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          "endTime": "00:20:15,086"
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          "index": 444,
          "text": "they did that talks about term limits and stuff like that, so I'll send",
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          "index": 445,
          "text": "that to you.",
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          "endTime": "00:20:20,316"
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        {
          "index": 446,
          "text": "Good.",
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          "endTime": "00:20:20,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 447,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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          "text": "Can I just comment that I think the term limits sentiment may",
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          "index": 449,
          "text": "be, influenced by the federal",
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          "index": 450,
          "text": "situation-",
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          "endTime": "00:20:29,236"
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        {
          "index": 451,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
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          "endTime": "00:20:29,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 452,
          "text": "... and people seeing this",
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          "endTime": "00:20:31,075"
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        {
          "index": 453,
          "text": "with long, long sitting, perceived to be",
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        {
          "index": 454,
          "text": "ineffective people at the federal level.",
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          "endTime": "00:20:38,736"
        },
        {
          "index": 455,
          "text": "Um, and",
          "startTime": "00:20:38,856",
          "endTime": "00:20:39,786"
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        {
          "index": 456,
          "text": "it's just a totally different animal serving at the local level, and hard",
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          "endTime": "00:20:45,316"
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          "index": 457,
          "text": "to find really good people who are willing to serve for a long time.",
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          "index": 458,
          "text": "So I, I mean, my op- my, not really stake in the ground,",
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          "text": "but it's let the voters decide. If they don't think they're effective anymore, they",
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          "index": 460,
          "text": "won't be voted back in.",
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        {
          "index": 461,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:20:58,816",
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          "index": 462,
          "text": "And you have councilors who are losing effectiveness",
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          "text": "who were voted out.",
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          "endTime": "00:21:05,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 464,
          "text": "Right.",
          "startTime": "00:21:05,716",
          "endTime": "00:21:07,036"
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        {
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          "text": "The history of the two-year term was",
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        {
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          "text": "forever.",
          "startTime": "00:21:13,636",
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          "text": "Well, then we can decide to change the charter again.",
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          "index": 469,
          "text": "So we're gonna try-",
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          "index": 470,
          "text": "It doesn't, you know, make people happy, but-",
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          "text": "We're trying to assuage that issue.",
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          "text": "I know. I get it. But what problem are we-",
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          "text": "But what problem are we trying to solve here?",
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        {
          "index": 474,
          "text": "Exactly. It doesn't exist now.",
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          "endTime": "00:21:30,076"
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        {
          "index": 475,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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          "text": "If I, I go back to the guiding principles, and the last guiding principle is",
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          "text": "accessibility to elected leaders and public service.",
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          "index": 479,
          "text": "councilor where it's an... Running for office your",
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        {
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          "text": "through, making people, making sure people are engaged and active.",
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        {
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          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
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        {
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          "index": 504,
          "text": "or even, or even if I remember my probability, I could",
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        {
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          "startTime": "00:23:20,716",
          "endTime": "00:23:21,156"
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        {
          "index": 513,
          "text": "... that doesn't help with longer term",
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          "index": 514,
          "text": "decision-making and, and maintaining momentum on larger terms.",
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          "index": 516,
          "text": "the, rough draft recommendations.",
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          "text": "Um, I think, I'm happy to have you guys look at a",
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        {
          "index": 518,
          "text": "couple other factors out there in terms of the term limits per",
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        {
          "index": 519,
          "text": "se. Um,",
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          "text": "as I get to vote every two years. That's, that could be my own personal",
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          "index": 523,
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          "index": 524,
          "text": "mayor and also having to be able to retain their seat is a, is a,",
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          "text": "is an inequity between",
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        {
          "index": 526,
          "text": "the odd and even.",
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        {
          "index": 527,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:24:08,596",
          "endTime": "00:24:08,646"
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        {
          "index": 528,
          "text": "So I think that should be addressed.",
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        {
          "index": 529,
          "text": "Um,",
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        {
          "index": 530,
          "text": "and",
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          "index": 531,
          "text": "I, I just have a question. I know",
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          "index": 532,
          "text": "that-Um, saying not to go down the path of",
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        {
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          "text": "per ward.",
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        {
          "index": 535,
          "text": "Like, was there,",
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        {
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          "text": "is there-- is that just considered too big a change?",
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        {
          "index": 537,
          "text": "What was the logic behind it?",
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          "text": "For me, it's the, the",
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          "text": "election issue. Running in a ward",
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          "text": "that's a third of the city is different than running in a ward that's a seventh of",
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        {
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          "text": "the city, or a ninth of the city now.",
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        {
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          "text": "So when I ran for city council, I knocked on every door in my ward.",
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          "text": "opinion.",
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          "text": "Anyone else want to weigh in? I believe there's been some",
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        {
          "index": 546,
          "text": "more.",
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        {
          "index": 547,
          "text": "Yeah. I also wasn't a big fan of the two councilors per ward system,",
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        {
          "index": 548,
          "text": "because then you end up often in situations where,",
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        {
          "index": 549,
          "text": "you have one, one councilor canceling out the vote of",
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        },
        {
          "index": 550,
          "text": "another.",
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          "index": 551,
          "text": "Potentially, yeah.",
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        {
          "index": 552,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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        {
          "index": 553,
          "text": "Yeah, I'll say I, I like the concept,",
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          "endTime": "00:25:22,688"
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        {
          "index": 554,
          "text": "a lot actually. Um, but, but when we went through the discussion and raised",
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        {
          "index": 555,
          "text": "some of the concerns of what that would do, is how there's also what was",
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        {
          "index": 556,
          "text": "talked about keeping the identity of the ward system.",
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        {
          "index": 557,
          "text": "Because there is, you know-",
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          "endTime": "00:25:37,538"
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        {
          "index": 558,
          "text": "Right",
          "startTime": "00:25:37,968",
          "endTime": "00:25:37,978"
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        {
          "index": 559,
          "text": "...if you made it only three wards, that would really combine",
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          "endTime": "00:25:41,628"
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          "index": 560,
          "text": "areas of the city that haven't really been, that don't have the same issues.",
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        {
          "index": 561,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:25:45,228",
          "endTime": "00:25:45,888"
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        {
          "index": 562,
          "text": "Not, not that that would create more, maybe some more understanding of the",
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        {
          "index": 563,
          "text": "different parts of the community.",
          "startTime": "00:25:48,748",
          "endTime": "00:25:49,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 564,
          "text": "But we feel that, that,",
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          "endTime": "00:25:52,078"
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        {
          "index": 565,
          "text": "the voters in Corvallis really like our, their identities of their neighborhoods",
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          "index": 566,
          "text": "and their wards. And although we'd be reducing to seven, I think",
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        {
          "index": 567,
          "text": "that would, the shift would still work and keep those different segments of",
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          "endTime": "00:26:04,678"
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        {
          "index": 568,
          "text": "the city. I can, I can understand that.",
          "startTime": "00:26:04,708",
          "endTime": "00:26:07,238"
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        {
          "index": 569,
          "text": "I, I think as to, as to counseling the votes, say,",
          "startTime": "00:26:07,288",
          "endTime": "00:26:10,748"
        },
        {
          "index": 570,
          "text": "every, when you get on the council you're, both represent your ward and",
          "startTime": "00:26:11,048",
          "endTime": "00:26:14,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 571,
          "text": "the city, so-",
          "startTime": "00:26:15,028",
          "endTime": "00:26:15,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 572,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:26:15,828",
          "endTime": "00:26:16,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 573,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "00:26:16,148",
          "endTime": "00:26:16,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 574,
          "text": "...you cancel each other out all the time. So, but it's just not within our ward.",
          "startTime": "00:26:16,178",
          "endTime": "00:26:20,008"
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        {
          "index": 575,
          "text": "True, but then you're also gonna run into the, the situation where",
          "startTime": "00:26:20,018",
          "endTime": "00:26:23,948"
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        {
          "index": 576,
          "text": "there's two councilors, even if they're on the same ward technically, like, even if",
          "startTime": "00:26:24,148",
          "endTime": "00:26:27,667"
        },
        {
          "index": 577,
          "text": "they're technically on the same ward, they'll have such dif-- you can end up with",
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          "endTime": "00:26:31,068"
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        {
          "index": 578,
          "text": "such differing opinions that you'll split that ward down the middle.",
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          "endTime": "00:26:33,927"
        },
        {
          "index": 579,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:26:33,948",
          "endTime": "00:26:34,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 580,
          "text": "So it would end up being like-",
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          "endTime": "00:26:35,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 581,
          "text": "Almost like-",
          "startTime": "00:26:36,348",
          "endTime": "00:26:36,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 582,
          "text": "... almost like two different wards in the first place.",
          "startTime": "00:26:36,818",
          "endTime": "00:26:38,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 583,
          "text": "Or the opposite, where you get two councilors for one ward that have the exact",
          "startTime": "00:26:38,208",
          "endTime": "00:26:42,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 584,
          "text": "same opinion on everything.",
          "startTime": "00:26:42,168",
          "endTime": "00:26:43,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 585,
          "text": "Right.",
          "startTime": "00:26:43,718",
          "endTime": "00:26:43,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 586,
          "text": "Which then you end up with a ward that gets no",
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          "endTime": "00:26:46,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 587,
          "text": "representation of the population.",
          "startTime": "00:26:47,008",
          "endTime": "00:26:49,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 588,
          "text": "Right. Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:26:49,478",
          "endTime": "00:26:49,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 589,
          "text": "Like, there's a lot of wards where simply people with a lot of",
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          "endTime": "00:26:53,457"
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        {
          "index": 590,
          "text": "money or retirees would be able to take the seats every single time.",
          "startTime": "00:26:53,468",
          "endTime": "00:26:57,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 591,
          "text": "And while that's not, it's not as much of a problem when you have",
          "startTime": "00:26:57,368",
          "endTime": "00:27:01,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 592,
          "text": "seven or nine wards, as it is when you have, like, two",
          "startTime": "00:27:01,308",
          "endTime": "00:27:05,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 593,
          "text": "councilors.",
          "startTime": "00:27:05,168",
          "endTime": "00:27:05,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 594,
          "text": "Sure.",
          "startTime": "00:27:05,818",
          "endTime": "00:27:06,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 595,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:27:06,368",
          "endTime": "00:27:06,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 596,
          "text": "Well, two comments on that. One is, I think if, if you believe that rep- the",
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          "endTime": "00:27:10,457"
        },
        {
          "index": 597,
          "text": "election is representative of, people in the ward, I think that kind of",
          "startTime": "00:27:10,488",
          "endTime": "00:27:14,117"
        },
        {
          "index": 598,
          "text": "addresses that issue. Uh, I would encourage you to look at the League of",
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          "endTime": "00:27:17,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 599,
          "text": "Oregon Cities to see,",
          "startTime": "00:27:18,008",
          "endTime": "00:27:20,068"
        },
        {
          "index": 600,
          "text": "how,",
          "startTime": "00:27:21,148",
          "endTime": "00:27:22,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 601,
          "text": "kind of what other cities do. And not that we have to copy other cities, but-",
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          "endTime": "00:27:27,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 602,
          "text": "Okay",
          "startTime": "00:27:27,468",
          "endTime": "00:27:27,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 603,
          "text": "...the point is, we have, the hundred and twenty-one",
          "startTime": "00:27:27,698",
          "endTime": "00:27:31,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 604,
          "text": "cities in Oregon.",
          "startTime": "00:27:31,408",
          "endTime": "00:27:32,788"
        },
        {
          "index": 605,
          "text": "Two hundred and forty-one.",
          "startTime": "00:27:32,828",
          "endTime": "00:27:33,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 606,
          "text": "Pardon me?",
          "startTime": "00:27:33,948",
          "endTime": "00:27:34,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 607,
          "text": "Two hundred and forty-one.",
          "startTime": "00:27:34,488",
          "endTime": "00:27:35,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 608,
          "text": "Two hundred and forty-two.",
          "startTime": "00:27:35,308",
          "endTime": "00:27:36,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 609,
          "text": "It keeps happening.",
          "startTime": "00:27:36,368",
          "endTime": "00:27:37,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 610,
          "text": "So we have two hundred and forty-one experiments that have happened over decades,",
          "startTime": "00:27:37,348",
          "endTime": "00:27:41,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 611,
          "text": "and sometimes centuries. Um, but it'd be good to at",
          "startTime": "00:27:41,388",
          "endTime": "00:27:45,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 612,
          "text": "least understand what other people have learned and, and learned from that.",
          "startTime": "00:27:45,348",
          "endTime": "00:27:49,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 613,
          "text": "So, I'll send you, it's kind of dated, but it's, it,",
          "startTime": "00:27:49,248",
          "endTime": "00:27:53,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 614,
          "text": "it's the last survey that they did for cities, kind of what, how they operate.",
          "startTime": "00:27:53,188",
          "endTime": "00:27:57,098"
        },
        {
          "index": 615,
          "text": "So I would encourage you to reach out to League of Oregon Cities.",
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          "endTime": "00:27:59,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 616,
          "text": "If, if I could just-- In your packet, you do have comparison of 10",
          "startTime": "00:28:00,088",
          "endTime": "00:28:03,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 617,
          "text": "cities.",
          "startTime": "00:28:03,988",
          "endTime": "00:28:04,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 618,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:28:04,628",
          "endTime": "00:28:05,008"
        },
        {
          "index": 619,
          "text": "And there's, there are two cities that are",
          "startTime": "00:28:05,048",
          "endTime": "00:28:08,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 620,
          "text": "one councilor per ward, elected by wards, and",
          "startTime": "00:28:08,988",
          "endTime": "00:28:12,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 621,
          "text": "that's Corvallis and Springfield.",
          "startTime": "00:28:12,748",
          "endTime": "00:28:15,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 622,
          "text": "The rest have either two councilors per ward, or they",
          "startTime": "00:28:15,128",
          "endTime": "00:28:18,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 623,
          "text": "may, they may nominate by ward, but they elect at",
          "startTime": "00:28:18,908",
          "endTime": "00:28:21,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 624,
          "text": "large. Um, so I think there's...",
          "startTime": "00:28:21,928",
          "endTime": "00:28:25,498"
        },
        {
          "index": 625,
          "text": "We would remain an outlier for one councilor per",
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          "endTime": "00:28:29,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 626,
          "text": "ward.",
          "startTime": "00:28:29,568",
          "endTime": "00:28:30,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 627,
          "text": "But actually, are those",
          "startTime": "00:28:30,568",
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        },
        {
          "index": 628,
          "text": "parent councilors,",
          "startTime": "00:28:33,028",
          "endTime": "00:28:34,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 629,
          "text": "elected at the same time?",
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          "endTime": "00:28:37,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 630,
          "text": "No. Generally, they're staggered.",
          "startTime": "00:28:38,647",
          "endTime": "00:28:40,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 631,
          "text": "Oh, okay. Good.",
          "startTime": "00:28:40,588",
          "endTime": "00:28:42,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 632,
          "text": "That's what I thought.",
          "startTime": "00:28:42,188",
          "endTime": "00:28:43,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 633,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:28:43,368",
          "endTime": "00:28:44,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 634,
          "text": "There are certain advantages and reasons why I kind of like the concept of that",
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          "endTime": "00:28:48,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 635,
          "text": "model, but...",
          "startTime": "00:28:48,168",
          "endTime": "00:28:48,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 636,
          "text": "One of the things I had noticed a few years ago, I was following, city council",
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          "endTime": "00:28:54,588"
        },
        {
          "index": 637,
          "text": "elections in Albany, you know, where they have a small number of wards",
          "startTime": "00:28:54,628",
          "endTime": "00:28:58,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 638,
          "text": "and it's two per ward. And, and the thing that was,",
          "startTime": "00:28:58,608",
          "endTime": "00:29:01,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 639,
          "text": "really out of the ordinary just from my experience",
          "startTime": "00:29:02,988",
          "endTime": "00:29:05,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 640,
          "text": "in Corvallis, how much money people were spending on council elections",
          "startTime": "00:29:06,028",
          "endTime": "00:29:09,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 641,
          "text": "there.",
          "startTime": "00:29:09,628",
          "endTime": "00:29:10,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 642,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:29:10,228",
          "endTime": "00:29:10,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 643,
          "text": "I, I don't remember the numbers anymore, but it was more like a mayor's",
          "startTime": "00:29:10,328",
          "endTime": "00:29:14,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 644,
          "text": "race in Corvallis, that kind of number.",
          "startTime": "00:29:14,208",
          "endTime": "00:29:16,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 645,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:29:16,328",
          "endTime": "00:29:16,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 646,
          "text": "It was number of thousands, you know, and,",
          "startTime": "00:29:16,428",
          "endTime": "00:29:19,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 647,
          "text": "and I,",
          "startTime": "00:29:21,248",
          "endTime": "00:29:23,028"
        },
        {
          "index": 648,
          "text": "I like the idea that you can, you can, run an, an",
          "startTime": "00:29:23,888",
          "endTime": "00:29:27,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 649,
          "text": "effective campaign like Steve was talking about, you know, without",
          "startTime": "00:29:27,468",
          "endTime": "00:29:31,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 650,
          "text": "having to spend a lot of money.",
          "startTime": "00:29:31,468",
          "endTime": "00:29:32,748"
        },
        {
          "index": 651,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:29:32,768",
          "endTime": "00:29:33,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 652,
          "text": "Um, so that helps. The, the one question that we haven't touched on that",
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          "endTime": "00:29:37,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 653,
          "text": "I would just like to hear, task for- task force",
          "startTime": "00:29:37,528",
          "endTime": "00:29:41,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 654,
          "text": "members, talk about a little bit is the",
          "startTime": "00:29:41,328",
          "endTime": "00:29:44,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 655,
          "text": "number of count- council members being even or odd, and",
          "startTime": "00:29:44,948",
          "endTime": "00:29:48,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 656,
          "text": "its relationship to the mayor's role.",
          "startTime": "00:29:48,848",
          "endTime": "00:29:51,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 657,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:29:51,688",
          "endTime": "00:29:51,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 658,
          "text": "I mean, I, I read the, what it said the strengths and weaknesses of it are,",
          "startTime": "00:29:52,648",
          "endTime": "00:29:56,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 659,
          "text": "um. But",
          "startTime": "00:29:56,608",
          "endTime": "00:29:57,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 660,
          "text": "I was struck by the comparator cities and how many of them had an even s- number",
          "startTime": "00:29:58,508",
          "endTime": "00:30:02,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 661,
          "text": "of council members, with still a mayor that only votes",
          "startTime": "00:30:02,448",
          "endTime": "00:30:06,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 662,
          "text": "in a tie. Um-",
          "startTime": "00:30:06,428",
          "endTime": "00:30:08,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 663,
          "text": "Yeah, I didn't see that as a particular issue",
          "startTime": "00:30:08,108",
          "endTime": "00:30:09,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 664,
          "text": "... so I was wondering.",
          "startTime": "00:30:10,068",
          "endTime": "00:30:10,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 665,
          "text": "I would've voted for six.",
          "startTime": "00:30:10,918",
          "endTime": "00:30:12,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 666,
          "text": "Ah, good.",
          "startTime": "00:30:12,488",
          "endTime": "00:30:13,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 667,
          "text": "Do you think maybe-",
          "startTime": "00:30:13,488",
          "endTime": "00:30:15,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 668,
          "text": "Maybe we, you know, to hear from the people who thought seven was a better number.",
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          "endTime": "00:30:19,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 669,
          "text": "No, six. I think we said six, seven.",
          "startTime": "00:30:19,408",
          "endTime": "00:30:22,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 670,
          "text": "Oh, did we?",
          "startTime": "00:30:22,548",
          "endTime": "00:30:23,607"
        },
        {
          "index": 671,
          "text": "Um, yeah, so in this conversation I preferred that I, my opinion",
          "startTime": "00:30:27,820",
          "endTime": "00:30:31,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 672,
          "text": "stayed out of it for obvious reasons.",
          "startTime": "00:30:31,600",
          "endTime": "00:30:33,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 673,
          "text": "Sure.",
          "startTime": "00:30:33,740",
          "endTime": "00:30:34,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 674,
          "text": "Um, 'cause",
          "startTime": "00:30:34,180",
          "endTime": "00:30:34,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 675,
          "text": "not voting in the ties is not working already, but so-",
          "startTime": "00:30:36,460",
          "endTime": "00:30:39,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 676,
          "text": "So, so I'm, I'm hearing that there was no, \"We need to keep",
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          "endTime": "00:30:43,360"
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        {
          "index": 677,
          "text": "this an odd number.\"",
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          "endTime": "00:30:45,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 678,
          "text": "We thought there would be a few times that the mayor would have to vote if there",
          "startTime": "00:30:45,140",
          "endTime": "00:30:48,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 679,
          "text": "was an odd number. That was the primary issue.",
          "startTime": "00:30:48,580",
          "endTime": "00:30:51,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 680,
          "text": "I see.",
          "startTime": "00:30:51,800",
          "endTime": "00:30:52,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 681,
          "text": "The only one that's been three in three years.",
          "startTime": "00:30:52,260",
          "endTime": "00:30:54,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 682,
          "text": "Yeah, it wasn't to heal any of us or speak",
          "startTime": "00:30:55,700",
          "endTime": "00:30:59,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 683,
          "text": "up.",
          "startTime": "00:30:59,859",
          "endTime": "00:31:00,359"
        },
        {
          "index": 684,
          "text": "Right.",
          "startTime": "00:31:00,369",
          "endTime": "00:31:00,369"
        },
        {
          "index": 685,
          "text": "It's, you know, it's-",
          "startTime": "00:31:00,520",
          "endTime": "00:31:01,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 686,
          "text": "We want to go on that hour.",
          "startTime": "00:31:01,140",
          "endTime": "00:31:02,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 687,
          "text": "Yeah. I, I do remember that the task force said six or seven, then we came back",
          "startTime": "00:31:02,840",
          "endTime": "00:31:06,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 688,
          "text": "the next meeting and had specific discussion about odd or",
          "startTime": "00:31:06,800",
          "endTime": "00:31:09,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 689,
          "text": "even. And it's the reasons that are stated in the summary, and it",
          "startTime": "00:31:10,080",
          "endTime": "00:31:13,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 690,
          "text": "really relied on the mayor's voting-",
          "startTime": "00:31:13,940",
          "endTime": "00:31:17,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 691,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:31:17,100",
          "endTime": "00:31:17,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 692,
          "text": "And a decision to keep that as an infrequent voter and more of a",
          "startTime": "00:31:17,829",
          "endTime": "00:31:21,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 693,
          "text": "neutral facilitator.",
          "startTime": "00:31:21,680",
          "endTime": "00:31:23,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 694,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:31:23,860",
          "endTime": "00:31:24,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 695,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "00:31:24,380",
          "endTime": "00:31:24,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 696,
          "text": "I found myself thinking, I was looking at this packet and I, I thought I'd",
          "startTime": "00:31:24,560",
          "endTime": "00:31:28,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 697,
          "text": "never had before",
          "startTime": "00:31:28,520",
          "endTime": "00:31:29,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 698,
          "text": "which is maybe I kinda like the idea that the mayor has to break ties",
          "startTime": "00:31:30,340",
          "endTime": "00:31:34,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 699,
          "text": "more often.",
          "startTime": "00:31:34,260",
          "endTime": "00:31:34,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 700,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:31:35,020",
          "endTime": "00:31:35,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 701,
          "text": "Um-",
          "startTime": "00:31:35,680",
          "endTime": "00:31:36,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 702,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:31:36,340",
          "endTime": "00:31:36,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 703,
          "text": "You know, because it's a different, it's additional engagement on the part of",
          "startTime": "00:31:36,860",
          "endTime": "00:31:40,790"
        },
        {
          "index": 704,
          "text": "the mayor and someone we've elected",
          "startTime": "00:31:40,820",
          "endTime": "00:31:44,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 705,
          "text": "citywide-",
          "startTime": "00:31:44,240",
          "endTime": "00:31:45,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 706,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:31:45,620",
          "endTime": "00:31:45,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 707,
          "text": "As a leader and, and, it gives, more of a",
          "startTime": "00:31:45,700",
          "endTime": "00:31:49,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 708,
          "text": "voice to the mayor, more of an active role.",
          "startTime": "00:31:49,440",
          "endTime": "00:31:51,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 709,
          "text": "And",
          "startTime": "00:31:52,040",
          "endTime": "00:31:52,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 710,
          "text": "I, I certainly understand the impulse to keep it, it primarily as",
          "startTime": "00:31:53,200",
          "endTime": "00:31:57,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 711,
          "text": "a facilitator-",
          "startTime": "00:31:57,260",
          "endTime": "00:31:58,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 712,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:31:59,460",
          "endTime": "00:31:59,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 713,
          "text": "Of, of business. Um,",
          "startTime": "00:31:59,500",
          "endTime": "00:32:01,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 714,
          "text": "you know,",
          "startTime": "00:32:02,420",
          "endTime": "00:32:03,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 715,
          "text": "I would, I would encourage you to just think a little bit more deeply about that,",
          "startTime": "00:32:03,980",
          "endTime": "00:32:07,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 716,
          "text": "about whether that's, you know, a priority,",
          "startTime": "00:32:07,420",
          "endTime": "00:32:10,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 717,
          "text": "or maybe have a second thoughts about it, and then maybe it would be",
          "startTime": "00:32:11,580",
          "endTime": "00:32:15,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 718,
          "text": "good to have a mayor as break ties more.",
          "startTime": "00:32:15,520",
          "endTime": "00:32:17,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 719,
          "text": "Sure.",
          "startTime": "00:32:17,420",
          "endTime": "00:32:17,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 720,
          "text": "I know one of the things we talked about a- throughout the process is we've really",
          "startTime": "00:32:17,580",
          "endTime": "00:32:21,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 721,
          "text": "focused on how the mayor's role and the councilor's role",
          "startTime": "00:32:21,400",
          "endTime": "00:32:25,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 722,
          "text": "are different. And so when we were talking about the mayor or councilors, that was",
          "startTime": "00:32:25,280",
          "endTime": "00:32:29,000"
        },
        {
          "index": 723,
          "text": "something we focused on, was if we went to a six or a, you know, an",
          "startTime": "00:32:29,040",
          "endTime": "00:32:33,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 724,
          "text": "even number councilor system, that would make the mayor's role sim- too similar",
          "startTime": "00:32:33,100",
          "endTime": "00:32:36,999"
        },
        {
          "index": 725,
          "text": "to that of the councilor. And since we are already factoring in the",
          "startTime": "00:32:37,040",
          "endTime": "00:32:40,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 726,
          "text": "difference between being a mayor and being a councilor into a lot of our other",
          "startTime": "00:32:40,860",
          "endTime": "00:32:43,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 727,
          "text": "decisions, that's where the focus on seven councilors came from.",
          "startTime": "00:32:43,940",
          "endTime": "00:32:47,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 728,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:32:47,820",
          "endTime": "00:32:47,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 729,
          "text": "So.",
          "startTime": "00:32:47,980",
          "endTime": "00:32:48,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 730,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:32:48,340",
          "endTime": "00:32:48,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 731,
          "text": "I would say looking back at the average votes that the council",
          "startTime": "00:32:48,660",
          "endTime": "00:32:52,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 732,
          "text": "takes, it's not too often that it's even close to a",
          "startTime": "00:32:52,340",
          "endTime": "00:32:56,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 733,
          "text": "tie.",
          "startTime": "00:32:56,340",
          "endTime": "00:32:56,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 734,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:32:56,440",
          "endTime": "00:32:56,849"
        },
        {
          "index": 735,
          "text": "Um, even if we were voting, had a different, an even number.",
          "startTime": "00:32:56,980",
          "endTime": "00:32:59,530"
        },
        {
          "index": 736,
          "text": "So I don't, I don't think it would increase mayor voting that much, but it",
          "startTime": "00:32:59,560",
          "endTime": "00:33:03,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 737,
          "text": "would obviously increase the side of him.",
          "startTime": "00:33:03,180",
          "endTime": "00:33:05,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 738,
          "text": "Well, could I also... I, I, I just would also chime in that I'm",
          "startTime": "00:33:05,860",
          "endTime": "00:33:09,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 739,
          "text": "trying to imagine myself facilitating the meeting and processing all of",
          "startTime": "00:33:09,760",
          "endTime": "00:33:13,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 740,
          "text": "the comments and deciding how I'm going to vote on something-",
          "startTime": "00:33:13,720",
          "endTime": "00:33:16,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 741,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:33:17,480",
          "endTime": "00:33:17,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 742,
          "text": "Would complicate how I would facilitate the meeting.",
          "startTime": "00:33:17,500",
          "endTime": "00:33:20,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 743,
          "text": "I've done it. It doesn't work out.",
          "startTime": "00:33:21,020",
          "endTime": "00:33:23,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 744,
          "text": "Sure.",
          "startTime": "00:33:23,420",
          "endTime": "00:33:24,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 745,
          "text": "Um, so real quick, 'cause we're, we're, we're essentially at time, so I just really",
          "startTime": "00:33:24,700",
          "endTime": "00:33:27,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 746,
          "text": "quick wanna go through these questions that are on the screen and have kind of a",
          "startTime": "00:33:27,320",
          "endTime": "00:33:30,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 747,
          "text": "quick roundtable of councilors provide their,",
          "startTime": "00:33:30,900",
          "endTime": "00:33:34,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 748,
          "text": "their answers to them essentially.",
          "startTime": "00:33:34,820",
          "endTime": "00:33:36,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 749,
          "text": "So number one, do, do, do the recommendations meet",
          "startTime": "00:33:36,700",
          "endTime": "00:33:40,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 750,
          "text": "the guiding principles?",
          "startTime": "00:33:40,800",
          "endTime": "00:33:41,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 751,
          "text": "Mostly, but not entirely. For other things",
          "startTime": "00:33:43,260",
          "endTime": "00:33:47,069"
        },
        {
          "index": 752,
          "text": "we already said.",
          "startTime": "00:33:47,160",
          "endTime": "00:33:48,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 753,
          "text": "Yeah. I would say the things that we do.",
          "startTime": "00:33:48,580",
          "endTime": "00:33:51,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 754,
          "text": "Anyone else?",
          "startTime": "00:33:52,780",
          "endTime": "00:33:53,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 755,
          "text": "I would agree with Tony. We may be thinking about differently sides.",
          "startTime": "00:33:53,980",
          "endTime": "00:33:57,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 756,
          "text": "And number two.",
          "startTime": "00:34:01,060",
          "endTime": "00:34:03,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 757,
          "text": "The s- s- similar.",
          "startTime": "00:34:03,240",
          "endTime": "00:34:04,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 758,
          "text": "So we kinda-",
          "startTime": "00:34:04,600",
          "endTime": "00:34:04,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 759,
          "text": "Sort of the same answer.",
          "startTime": "00:34:04,920",
          "endTime": "00:34:06,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 760,
          "text": "Yeah, we kind of already covered it.",
          "startTime": "00:34:06,100",
          "endTime": "00:34:07,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 761,
          "text": "I figure, you know, looking at similar cities for other senior quorum maps,",
          "startTime": "00:34:07,180",
          "endTime": "00:34:10,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 762,
          "text": "Jim's already expressed he'd prefer not an even n- number of councilors.",
          "startTime": "00:34:11,801",
          "endTime": "00:34:15,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 763,
          "text": "And then look at other, to see if other cities have term limits, so we kind of,",
          "startTime": "00:34:16,720",
          "endTime": "00:34:20,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 764,
          "text": "kind of already answered that. Um, number three, from a governance perspective, do",
          "startTime": "00:34:20,560",
          "endTime": "00:34:23,781"
        },
        {
          "index": 765,
          "text": "the draft recommendations work well together?",
          "startTime": "00:34:23,841",
          "endTime": "00:34:26,301"
        },
        {
          "index": 766,
          "text": "Um, if you tie, pack it in front of you, that starts",
          "startTime": "00:34:26,460",
          "endTime": "00:34:29,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 767,
          "text": "on electronic package page six, you can see there's this",
          "startTime": "00:34:30,420",
          "endTime": "00:34:34,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 768,
          "text": "potential ballot that measure one, and that's putting number of council positions,",
          "startTime": "00:34:34,400",
          "endTime": "00:34:37,761"
        },
        {
          "index": 769,
          "text": "number of wards together. That one's almost just",
          "startTime": "00:34:37,841",
          "endTime": "00:34:40,361"
        },
        {
          "index": 770,
          "text": "obvious. Uh, measure two, council term lengths,",
          "startTime": "00:34:40,640",
          "endTime": "00:34:43,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 771,
          "text": "staggered/concurrent terms, and election",
          "startTime": "00:34:44,020",
          "endTime": "00:34:47,319"
        },
        {
          "index": 772,
          "text": "cycle of councilors, and term",
          "startTime": "00:34:47,720",
          "endTime": "00:34:51,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 773,
          "text": "lengths, term",
          "startTime": "00:34:51,500",
          "endTime": "00:34:52,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 774,
          "text": "limits.",
          "startTime": "00:34:52,540",
          "endTime": "00:34:55,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 775,
          "text": "And I'll just make a note here. When this group comes back to the city council for",
          "startTime": "00:34:57,680",
          "endTime": "00:35:01,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 776,
          "text": "your next work session in May, we'll dive deeper into election strategy",
          "startTime": "00:35:01,640",
          "endTime": "00:35:05,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 777,
          "text": "at that point.",
          "startTime": "00:35:05,640",
          "endTime": "00:35:06,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 778,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:35:06,980",
          "endTime": "00:35:07,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 779,
          "text": "Um, this is more from a, a good governance lens.",
          "startTime": "00:35:07,070",
          "endTime": "00:35:09,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 780,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:35:09,280",
          "endTime": "00:35:09,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 781,
          "text": "Like how do these things look to you?",
          "startTime": "00:35:09,520",
          "endTime": "00:35:11,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 782,
          "text": "I think the answer is yes.",
          "startTime": "00:35:11,540",
          "endTime": "00:35:15,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 783,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:35:15,120",
          "endTime": "00:35:15,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 784,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:35:15,560",
          "endTime": "00:35:16,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 785,
          "text": "Anyone disagree?",
          "startTime": "00:35:16,740",
          "endTime": "00:35:17,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 786,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "00:35:21,620",
          "endTime": "00:35:21,630"
        },
        {
          "index": 787,
          "text": "And before we get into the draft recommendations, address problems the council is",
          "startTime": "00:35:21,700",
          "endTime": "00:35:24,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 788,
          "text": "looking to solve. We had a yes earlier from Tony.",
          "startTime": "00:35:24,760",
          "endTime": "00:35:28,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 789,
          "text": "Does anyone disagree?",
          "startTime": "00:35:28,280",
          "endTime": "00:35:29,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 790,
          "text": "No. I'm, I'm still trying to figure out the problem with the term limits and-",
          "startTime": "00:35:29,780",
          "endTime": "00:35:33,539"
        },
        {
          "index": 791,
          "text": "Yes, can I have your notes?",
          "startTime": "00:35:33,560",
          "endTime": "00:35:34,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 792,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:35:34,680",
          "endTime": "00:35:34,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 793,
          "text": "Your recommendation. So, so it's yes but",
          "startTime": "00:35:34,900",
          "endTime": "00:35:38,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 794,
          "text": "eh.",
          "startTime": "00:35:38,700",
          "endTime": "00:35:39,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 795,
          "text": "It addresses the big one.",
          "startTime": "00:35:40,680",
          "endTime": "00:35:42,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 796,
          "text": "Sure. Yes. That's good.",
          "startTime": "00:35:42,520",
          "endTime": "00:35:44,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 797,
          "text": "Um, it's the little ones that it solve.",
          "startTime": "00:35:44,430",
          "endTime": "00:35:46,459"
        },
        {
          "index": 798,
          "text": "The little",
          "startTime": "00:35:47,120",
          "endTime": "00:35:47,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 799,
          "text": "good problems.",
          "startTime": "00:35:48,420",
          "endTime": "00:35:49,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 800,
          "text": "I think that gives us enough to work on, and we'll look at refining,",
          "startTime": "00:35:50,520",
          "endTime": "00:35:54,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 801,
          "text": "where we are with that. With those",
          "startTime": "00:35:54,940",
          "endTime": "00:35:58,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 802,
          "text": "details, we'll go into a-",
          "startTime": "00:35:58,060",
          "endTime": "00:35:59,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 803,
          "text": "Sure.",
          "startTime": "00:35:59,720",
          "endTime": "00:35:59,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 804,
          "text": "Harder conversation.",
          "startTime": "00:35:59,900",
          "endTime": "00:36:00,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 805,
          "text": "Reason one, three-year terms?",
          "startTime": "00:36:00,800",
          "endTime": "00:36:04,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 806,
          "text": "Um.",
          "startTime": "00:36:05,920",
          "endTime": "00:36:06,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 807,
          "text": "Technically, no.",
          "startTime": "00:36:06,340",
          "endTime": "00:36:07,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 808,
          "text": "Well, how could you do-",
          "startTime": "00:36:07,620",
          "endTime": "00:36:08,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 809,
          "text": "Except for the cost election-",
          "startTime": "00:36:09,000",
          "endTime": "00:36:09,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 810,
          "text": "The cost of elections",
          "startTime": "00:36:09,970",
          "endTime": "00:36:10,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 811,
          "text": "In between.",
          "startTime": "00:36:10,650",
          "endTime": "00:36:11,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 812,
          "text": "Cost of election, yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:36:11,380",
          "endTime": "00:36:12,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 813,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:36:12,780",
          "endTime": "00:36:12,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 814,
          "text": "So you have to pay for the second election. That's really, it's money.",
          "startTime": "00:36:12,990",
          "endTime": "00:36:16,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 815,
          "text": "Well, the other issue-",
          "startTime": "00:36:16,380",
          "endTime": "00:36:17,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 816,
          "text": "In turn, yeah",
          "startTime": "00:36:17,240",
          "endTime": "00:36:17,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 817,
          "text": "Is it doesn't have staggered. And so, and the whole council would be elected every",
          "startTime": "00:36:18,040",
          "endTime": "00:36:21,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 818,
          "text": "three years.",
          "startTime": "00:36:21,920",
          "endTime": "00:36:22,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 819,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:36:22,520",
          "endTime": "00:36:22,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 820,
          "text": "And therefore, you'd have that s- turnover issue just like you'd have it currently.",
          "startTime": "00:36:22,920",
          "endTime": "00:36:26,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 821,
          "text": "Except for the-",
          "startTime": "00:36:26,460",
          "endTime": "00:36:27,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 822,
          "text": "So it wouldn't solve that issue",
          "startTime": "00:36:27,080",
          "endTime": "00:36:28,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 823,
          "text": "What's that?",
          "startTime": "00:36:28,792",
          "endTime": "00:36:29,512"
        },
        {
          "index": 824,
          "text": "It would just be an extra year.",
          "startTime": "00:36:29,532",
          "endTime": "00:36:30,672"
        },
        {
          "index": 825,
          "text": "From a technical point, no, there's no reason why you couldn't.",
          "startTime": "00:36:30,952",
          "endTime": "00:36:33,732"
        },
        {
          "index": 826,
          "text": "So you didn't consider one-year terms?",
          "startTime": "00:36:34,892",
          "endTime": "00:36:36,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 827,
          "text": "Each.",
          "startTime": "00:36:36,652",
          "endTime": "00:36:37,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 828,
          "text": "For you-",
          "startTime": "00:36:38,292",
          "endTime": "00:36:38,792"
        },
        {
          "index": 829,
          "text": "You be quiet. Donny said-",
          "startTime": "00:36:38,832",
          "endTime": "00:36:41,772"
        },
        {
          "index": 830,
          "text": "You're not allowed.",
          "startTime": "00:36:41,792",
          "endTime": "00:36:42,832"
        },
        {
          "index": 831,
          "text": "To remove someone-",
          "startTime": "00:36:42,872",
          "endTime": "00:36:44,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 832,
          "text": "Someone's gonna write down. Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:36:44,022",
          "endTime": "00:36:47,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 833,
          "text": "No, I think it's done.",
          "startTime": "00:36:48,472",
          "endTime": "00:36:49,772"
        },
        {
          "index": 834,
          "text": "Well, thank you all for coming. We appreciate it, and I look forward to-",
          "startTime": "00:36:50,852",
          "endTime": "00:36:53,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 835,
          "text": "Thank you very much.",
          "startTime": "00:36:53,882",
          "endTime": "00:36:54,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 836,
          "text": "Yeah. Thanks for all your work.",
          "startTime": "00:36:54,672",
          "endTime": "00:36:58,152"
        },
        {
          "index": 837,
          "text": "Transition.",
          "startTime": "00:37:03,972",
          "endTime": "00:37:06,952"
        },
        {
          "index": 838,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "00:37:06,972",
          "endTime": "00:37:06,981"
        },
        {
          "index": 839,
          "text": "I drove.",
          "startTime": "00:37:07,232",
          "endTime": "00:37:07,622"
        },
        {
          "index": 840,
          "text": "Definitely. Definitely.",
          "startTime": "00:37:07,622",
          "endTime": "00:37:08,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 841,
          "text": "Yeah. We're gonna talk next slide on the Safe Streets and Roads for All and",
          "startTime": "00:37:09,572",
          "endTime": "00:37:13,301"
        },
        {
          "index": 842,
          "text": "Transportation Safety Action",
          "startTime": "00:37:13,332",
          "endTime": "00:37:14,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 843,
          "text": "Plan.",
          "startTime": "00:37:14,532",
          "endTime": "00:37:19,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 844,
          "text": "Hold on.",
          "startTime": "00:37:19,752",
          "endTime": "00:37:20,672"
        },
        {
          "index": 845,
          "text": "Can",
          "startTime": "00:37:21,852",
          "endTime": "00:37:34,972"
        },
        {
          "index": 846,
          "text": "she",
          "startTime": "00:37:35,132",
          "endTime": "00:37:35,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 847,
          "text": "give",
          "startTime": "00:37:35,332",
          "endTime": "00:37:39,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 848,
          "text": "all of them involved? It depends where I would...",
          "startTime": "00:37:39,832",
          "endTime": "00:37:43,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 849,
          "text": "That was when they did the watching their December.",
          "startTime": "00:37:43,212",
          "endTime": "00:37:45,532"
        },
        {
          "index": 850,
          "text": "I'm hearing it more",
          "startTime": "00:37:45,732",
          "endTime": "00:37:46,572"
        },
        {
          "index": 851,
          "text": "today.",
          "startTime": "00:37:46,792",
          "endTime": "00:37:49,892"
        },
        {
          "index": 852,
          "text": "I'll assume I'm just kicking this off to you, Dan.",
          "startTime": "00:37:50,312",
          "endTime": "00:37:52,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 853,
          "text": "Excuse me?",
          "startTime": "00:37:52,572",
          "endTime": "00:37:53,072"
        },
        {
          "index": 854,
          "text": "I assume I'm just kicking this off to you.",
          "startTime": "00:37:53,192",
          "endTime": "00:37:55,132"
        },
        {
          "index": 855,
          "text": "I'm kicking it off to Adam.",
          "startTime": "00:37:55,252",
          "endTime": "00:37:57,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 856,
          "text": "Okay. Adam.",
          "startTime": "00:37:57,692",
          "endTime": "00:37:59,812"
        },
        {
          "index": 857,
          "text": "All right. Uh, since it got kicked off to me, we'll go ahead and get",
          "startTime": "00:38:00,012",
          "endTime": "00:38:03,512"
        },
        {
          "index": 858,
          "text": "started. Thank you so much for having us here today.",
          "startTime": "00:38:03,552",
          "endTime": "00:38:05,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 859,
          "text": "I can say the project team is, very excited",
          "startTime": "00:38:05,892",
          "endTime": "00:38:09,672"
        },
        {
          "index": 860,
          "text": "to,",
          "startTime": "00:38:09,772",
          "endTime": "00:38:10,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 861,
          "text": "be able to come to you and talk about all of the work products that came out",
          "startTime": "00:38:11,932",
          "endTime": "00:38:15,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 862,
          "text": "of the SS forty project that we started, almost two years",
          "startTime": "00:38:15,952",
          "endTime": "00:38:19,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 863,
          "text": "ago. And, we're just gonna dig right into",
          "startTime": "00:38:19,672",
          "endTime": "00:38:22,592"
        },
        {
          "index": 864,
          "text": "it.",
          "startTime": "00:38:22,632",
          "endTime": "00:38:24,532"
        },
        {
          "index": 865,
          "text": "So just a quick recap. As you may recall, we got a, we got a very nice grant",
          "startTime": "00:38:25,492",
          "endTime": "00:38:29,352"
        },
        {
          "index": 866,
          "text": "from, the federal government, to-- through their Safe Streets and",
          "startTime": "00:38:29,432",
          "endTime": "00:38:33,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 867,
          "text": "Roads For All program. And",
          "startTime": "00:38:33,412",
          "endTime": "00:38:35,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 868,
          "text": "the, the real, advantage to the city of Corvallis in this is it, it",
          "startTime": "00:38:36,552",
          "endTime": "00:38:40,272"
        },
        {
          "index": 869,
          "text": "does really help us moving, moving the",
          "startTime": "00:38:40,332",
          "endTime": "00:38:43,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 870,
          "text": "goalposts toward that continuing Vision Zero goal that the",
          "startTime": "00:38:43,952",
          "endTime": "00:38:47,492"
        },
        {
          "index": 871,
          "text": "council, put in place through Resolution twenty twenty",
          "startTime": "00:38:47,532",
          "endTime": "00:38:51,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 872,
          "text": "sixteen. Priority is safety for all users.",
          "startTime": "00:38:51,292",
          "endTime": "00:38:54,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 873,
          "text": "It supports the existing TSP that we have in place that was adopted",
          "startTime": "00:38:54,872",
          "endTime": "00:38:58,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 874,
          "text": "several years ago, and it, it identifies",
          "startTime": "00:38:58,892",
          "endTime": "00:39:02,732"
        },
        {
          "index": 875,
          "text": "our highest, most severe crash locations, so we can",
          "startTime": "00:39:02,852",
          "endTime": "00:39:06,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 876,
          "text": "focus our efforts on that.",
          "startTime": "00:39:06,652",
          "endTime": "00:39:09,912"
        },
        {
          "index": 877,
          "text": "So since, since we got to drop over a thousand pages on you- ...uh, you",
          "startTime": "00:39:12,032",
          "endTime": "00:39:16,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 878,
          "text": "probably know that there was a lot of, a lot of, work effort put into",
          "startTime": "00:39:16,092",
          "endTime": "00:39:20,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 879,
          "text": "this, this project. And, and, you know,",
          "startTime": "00:39:20,132",
          "endTime": "00:39:23,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 880,
          "text": "the, the, the big, the big component was the Traffic--",
          "startTime": "00:39:23,512",
          "endTime": "00:39:26,981"
        },
        {
          "index": 881,
          "text": "Transportation Safety Action Plan that we're gonna go through with you some today.",
          "startTime": "00:39:26,992",
          "endTime": "00:39:30,772"
        },
        {
          "index": 882,
          "text": "In addition to that, we had some supplementa-supplementary planning",
          "startTime": "00:39:30,832",
          "endTime": "00:39:34,372"
        },
        {
          "index": 883,
          "text": "projects that we did. We did three road safety audits, Walnut, Circle, and Ninth",
          "startTime": "00:39:34,832",
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        },
        {
          "index": 884,
          "text": "Street. We looked at Walnut for a lane reconfiguration",
          "startTime": "00:39:38,572",
          "endTime": "00:39:42,272"
        },
        {
          "index": 885,
          "text": "feasibility study. We looked at our neighborhood traffic",
          "startTime": "00:39:42,352",
          "endTime": "00:39:46,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 886,
          "text": "management program to get some recommendations on how to potentially improve",
          "startTime": "00:39:46,352",
          "endTime": "00:39:50,212"
        },
        {
          "index": 887,
          "text": "that. Same thing with speed limit investigation framework, kind",
          "startTime": "00:39:50,272",
          "endTime": "00:39:54,261"
        },
        {
          "index": 888,
          "text": "of looking at recommendations for staff to maybe use some different",
          "startTime": "00:39:54,312",
          "endTime": "00:39:58,112"
        },
        {
          "index": 889,
          "text": "tools to help organize speed limit,",
          "startTime": "00:39:58,172",
          "endTime": "00:40:01,532"
        },
        {
          "index": 890,
          "text": "looks in the, in the community. We'll go through all of this in the",
          "startTime": "00:40:02,252",
          "endTime": "00:40:04,981"
        },
        {
          "index": 891,
          "text": "presentation. And then an-another internal, supplemental",
          "startTime": "00:40:05,012",
          "endTime": "00:40:08,832"
        },
        {
          "index": 892,
          "text": "planning effort to give us some,",
          "startTime": "00:40:08,912",
          "endTime": "00:40:12,062"
        },
        {
          "index": 893,
          "text": "guidelines around, standardizing some pedestrian treatments",
          "startTime": "00:40:12,632",
          "endTime": "00:40:16,352"
        },
        {
          "index": 894,
          "text": "at, at different intersections.",
          "startTime": "00:40:16,412",
          "endTime": "00:40:18,022"
        },
        {
          "index": 895,
          "text": "So with that, I'm gonna hand it off to John Bosket with DKS.",
          "startTime": "00:40:19,492",
          "endTime": "00:40:22,572"
        },
        {
          "index": 896,
          "text": "Uh, John's helped, was the project manager on this from DKS,",
          "startTime": "00:40:22,632",
          "endTime": "00:40:26,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 897,
          "text": "and also was our project manager when we did TSP a few years ago.",
          "startTime": "00:40:26,512",
          "endTime": "00:40:29,832"
        },
        {
          "index": 898,
          "text": "Hello. Thanks for having me. Um, so I'm gonna give you",
          "startTime": "00:40:31,512",
          "endTime": "00:40:35,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 899,
          "text": "an overview, and there's a whole-- almost as many slides as pieces of paper you",
          "startTime": "00:40:35,512",
          "endTime": "00:40:39,432"
        },
        {
          "index": 900,
          "text": "got here. So I'm gonna try to move through it quickly.",
          "startTime": "00:40:39,492",
          "endTime": "00:40:43,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 901,
          "text": "Um, and I'm ending with the Transportation Safety Action Plan,",
          "startTime": "00:40:43,172",
          "endTime": "00:40:47,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 902,
          "text": "or the TSAP, as we call it. That's the only piece of this that,",
          "startTime": "00:40:47,171",
          "endTime": "00:40:50,972"
        },
        {
          "index": 903,
          "text": "staff will be coming back next month",
          "startTime": "00:40:51,992",
          "endTime": "00:40:53,812"
        },
        {
          "index": 904,
          "text": "and asking you to approve. The rest of the, supplemental planning",
          "startTime": "00:40:54,692",
          "endTime": "00:40:58,592"
        },
        {
          "index": 905,
          "text": "activities, are really more internal operational documents for",
          "startTime": "00:40:58,672",
          "endTime": "00:41:02,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 906,
          "text": "city staff, but I'm gonna give you an overview of what we, what we did and",
          "startTime": "00:41:02,492",
          "endTime": "00:41:05,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 907,
          "text": "kinda what we're hand-we're handing over to them as well.",
          "startTime": "00:41:06,352",
          "endTime": "00:41:08,912"
        },
        {
          "index": 908,
          "text": "So I'll go through those first. Um,",
          "startTime": "00:41:08,972",
          "endTime": "00:41:11,332"
        },
        {
          "index": 909,
          "text": "and of course, you-- I actually got a little bit of a process overview",
          "startTime": "00:41:12,652",
          "endTime": "00:41:15,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 910,
          "text": "first. Uh, as I go, you can ask questions at",
          "startTime": "00:41:15,752",
          "endTime": "00:41:19,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 911,
          "text": "any time, but, I'll make, I'll make a point to pause as I kinda hit the",
          "startTime": "00:41:19,692",
          "endTime": "00:41:23,592"
        },
        {
          "index": 912,
          "text": "breaks between each of those items too, just to see if there are any",
          "startTime": "00:41:23,672",
          "endTime": "00:41:26,602"
        },
        {
          "index": 913,
          "text": "questions. Um, so first is kinda the",
          "startTime": "00:41:26,632",
          "endTime": "00:41:30,412"
        },
        {
          "index": 914,
          "text": "overall SS four A project timeline.",
          "startTime": "00:41:30,492",
          "endTime": "00:41:33,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 915,
          "text": "Again, we had all these kinda one big project and",
          "startTime": "00:41:33,052",
          "endTime": "00:41:36,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 916,
          "text": "so a bunch of mini supplemental projects going kind of all at the same time.",
          "startTime": "00:41:37,012",
          "endTime": "00:41:40,592"
        },
        {
          "index": 917,
          "text": "We started in, I think it was November of, twenty",
          "startTime": "00:41:40,632",
          "endTime": "00:41:43,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 918,
          "text": "twenty-four. This is about a seventeen-month-ish",
          "startTime": "00:41:43,932",
          "endTime": "00:41:47,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 919,
          "text": "process. We went through kind of those different phases that, that are",
          "startTime": "00:41:47,332",
          "endTime": "00:41:51,132"
        },
        {
          "index": 920,
          "text": "shown at the top of the diagram, where first we spent some time just",
          "startTime": "00:41:51,172",
          "endTime": "00:41:54,292"
        },
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          "index": 921,
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          "text": "high-priority locations, develop solutions for those, and refine",
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          "text": "those, and ultimately develop our plan.",
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          "index": 929,
          "text": "outreach.",
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          "text": "Uh, so just kind of a brief word on just the overall public",
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          "index": 932,
          "text": "obviously a big part of this is one of the, the federal requirements of doing this",
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          "text": "challenges and issues are, but then on the types of",
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          "index": 938,
          "text": "in a lot of different ways and kind of changing up our approach as we went to make",
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          "index": 939,
          "text": "it more effective. Had a lot of good help from your public information",
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          "text": "officer, from your task force members, and, you know, Benton County and else",
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          "text": "Oregon State University was really helpful in helping outreach to students,",
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          "text": "as well, and social media, and then there were, six different",
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          "text": "in the, the upper right, that got a lot of activity.",
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        {
          "index": 960,
          "text": "Um,",
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          "index": 961,
          "text": "and, in addition to that, we had an in-person, open house and",
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          "text": "And then the second round, this would have been fall/winter twenty",
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          "text": "twenty-five, twenty twenty-six.",
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          "text": "of the online open house to try to, you know, get more input. Yes.",
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          "index": 981,
          "text": "Do you know why the engagement dropped so much between these two rounds?",
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          "index": 982,
          "text": "Um, the, the, the open houses were similar.",
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          "index": 985,
          "text": "problem here, I have a problem, I have a problem here.\" Uh,",
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          "index": 987,
          "text": "yeah, I think the, the engagement I felt was pretty good.",
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          "text": "Yeah. So I don't think it was really... Yeah, I think that was the big thing.",
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          "text": "It was the online comment map-",
          "startTime": "00:46:00,664",
          "endTime": "00:46:01,534"
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        {
          "index": 993,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:46:01,534",
          "endTime": "00:46:01,534"
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        {
          "index": 994,
          "text": "-that really got a lot of attention.",
          "startTime": "00:46:01,534",
          "endTime": "00:46:03,084"
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          "index": 995,
          "text": "And once you put your comment on the map, you feel like you're done.",
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          "endTime": "00:46:06,584"
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        {
          "index": 996,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:46:06,664",
          "endTime": "00:46:06,784"
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        {
          "index": 997,
          "text": "You've done your first level.",
          "startTime": "00:46:06,824",
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          "startTime": "00:46:09,204",
          "endTime": "00:46:10,354"
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        {
          "index": 999,
          "text": "I put on a positive comment just to balance it out.",
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          "endTime": "00:46:14,604"
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        {
          "index": 1000,
          "text": "That's where that one.",
          "startTime": "00:46:16,224",
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          "text": "The one about Harrison, the really nice paving job, that was me.",
          "startTime": "00:46:19,944",
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        {
          "index": 1002,
          "text": "Um,",
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          "startTime": "00:46:37,344",
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        {
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          "text": "resources.",
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        {
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        {
          "index": 1010,
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        {
          "index": 1011,
          "text": "applications for grants in the future.",
          "startTime": "00:46:55,044",
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        {
          "index": 1012,
          "text": "Um, there's some key ways. Probably the, one of the most prominent ways we did this",
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          "startTime": "00:47:02,224",
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          "startTime": "00:47:09,504",
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        {
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        {
          "index": 1022,
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        {
          "index": 1026,
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          "startTime": "00:47:50,904",
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        {
          "index": 1027,
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          "startTime": "00:47:54,844",
          "endTime": "00:47:58,004"
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        {
          "index": 1028,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "00:47:58,124",
          "endTime": "00:47:58,644"
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        {
          "index": 1029,
          "text": "and, really kind of helped provide, the local",
          "startTime": "00:47:59,704",
          "endTime": "00:48:02,944"
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        {
          "index": 1030,
          "text": "perspective on, on the safety plan.",
          "startTime": "00:48:03,044",
          "endTime": "00:48:05,784"
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        {
          "index": 1031,
          "text": "Uh, so this, we had a number of kind of really pivotal ways, you know,",
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        {
          "index": 1032,
          "text": "when we, had to create prioritization criteria, right?",
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          "endTime": "00:48:13,244"
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        {
          "index": 1033,
          "text": "To come up with our high-priority locations and figure out where, where sh-should",
          "startTime": "00:48:13,284",
          "endTime": "00:48:16,934"
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        {
          "index": 1034,
          "text": "we invest first. Uh, they gave us a lot of good feedback",
          "startTime": "00:48:17,004",
          "endTime": "00:48:20,764"
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        {
          "index": 1035,
          "text": "on, on that. Uh, helped us really narrow that list down,",
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          "index": 1036,
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          "startTime": "00:48:24,464",
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        {
          "index": 1037,
          "text": "strategies to pursue. Um, gave us great feedback on the projects",
          "startTime": "00:48:28,164",
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        {
          "index": 1038,
          "text": "themselves. Um, helped us with public",
          "startTime": "00:48:32,124",
          "endTime": "00:48:35,804"
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        {
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          "text": "engagement, and then even refining the final copy, we sent that",
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          "endTime": "00:48:39,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 1040,
          "text": "back to",
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          "endTime": "00:48:40,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1041,
          "text": "them.On our",
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          "endTime": "00:48:44,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 1042,
          "text": "final meeting, the task force members, did, unanimously",
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          "endTime": "00:48:48,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 1043,
          "text": "support our plan with, with one note I added at the bottom.",
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          "endTime": "00:48:52,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 1044,
          "text": "They had one thing they wanted us to change, and we took care of that on page",
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          "endTime": "00:48:54,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 1045,
          "text": "thirty. And that was-- One thing I'll note when we get to the, the TSAP is it has a",
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          "endTime": "00:48:58,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 1046,
          "text": "big emphasis on lower cost things you could do fairly quickly because we want to",
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          "endTime": "00:49:02,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 1047,
          "text": "make change fast.",
          "startTime": "00:49:02,840",
          "endTime": "00:49:03,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 1048,
          "text": "Um, but there was some concern that because of that, we wanted to be clear that we",
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          "endTime": "00:49:08,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 1049,
          "text": "weren't precluding higher cost projects that still have a lot of safety benefits,",
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          "endTime": "00:49:12,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 1050,
          "text": "you know, like, you're, you know, doing roundabouts at intersections or",
          "startTime": "00:49:12,240",
          "endTime": "00:49:15,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 1051,
          "text": "protected bike facilities. And so we ha-- Which is not",
          "startTime": "00:49:15,580",
          "endTime": "00:49:19,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 1052,
          "text": "the intent of the plan is to preclude that stuff.",
          "startTime": "00:49:19,540",
          "endTime": "00:49:21,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 1053,
          "text": "So we talked more about that on page thirty, and,",
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          "endTime": "00:49:24,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 1054,
          "text": "which I will talk about later in the, the presentation.",
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          "endTime": "00:49:28,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 1055,
          "text": "So we addre-addressed that. Uh, and they also,",
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          "endTime": "00:49:32,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 1056,
          "text": "passed a motion, which was the top, paragraph I",
          "startTime": "00:49:33,440",
          "endTime": "00:49:37,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1057,
          "text": "have there that I'll share with you.",
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          "endTime": "00:49:39,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 1058,
          "text": "Uh, and that was, \"The members of the SS4A Task Force request that",
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          "endTime": "00:49:43,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 1059,
          "text": "the City Council prioritize funding and construction of the",
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          "endTime": "00:49:47,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 1060,
          "text": "safety enhancements identified in the TSAP such that the",
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          "endTime": "00:49:51,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 1061,
          "text": "treatments are prioritized to the fullest extent",
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          "endTime": "00:49:53,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 1062,
          "text": "possible.\"",
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          "endTime": "00:49:57,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 1063,
          "text": "I will pause before I get into the first of the supplemental planning",
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          "endTime": "00:50:03,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 1064,
          "text": "activities.",
          "startTime": "00:50:03,700",
          "endTime": "00:50:05,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 1065,
          "text": "I'll move forward. Uh-",
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          "endTime": "00:50:10,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 1066,
          "text": "I was confused by that statement that you just read, the task force",
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          "endTime": "00:50:14,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 1067,
          "text": "made.",
          "startTime": "00:50:14,960",
          "endTime": "00:50:15,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 1068,
          "text": "I, I can probably clarify that-",
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          "endTime": "00:50:18,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 1069,
          "text": "Yeah",
          "startTime": "00:50:18,660",
          "endTime": "00:50:18,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 1070,
          "text": "... Councilor. I-- The-- There was some pretty good",
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          "endTime": "00:50:22,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 1071,
          "text": "discussion around the task force definitely, definitely wanted to emphasize",
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          "endTime": "00:50:26,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1072,
          "text": "support for the TSAP and to encourage the City",
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          "endTime": "00:50:30,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 1073,
          "text": "Council to prioritize, completion of",
          "startTime": "00:50:30,140",
          "endTime": "00:50:34,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 1074,
          "text": "the projects. And I think maybe where it says, maybe the",
          "startTime": "00:50:34,040",
          "endTime": "00:50:37,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 1075,
          "text": "confusing part is to the fullest extent possible.",
          "startTime": "00:50:37,620",
          "endTime": "00:50:40,360"
        },
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          "index": 1076,
          "text": "And then I think that really refers back to the funding component-",
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          "endTime": "00:50:43,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 1077,
          "text": "Uh-huh",
          "startTime": "00:50:43,120",
          "endTime": "00:50:43,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1078,
          "text": "... where the-- there was,",
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          "endTime": "00:50:45,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 1079,
          "text": "a lot of discussion that the task force wasn't intending to",
          "startTime": "00:50:46,980",
          "endTime": "00:50:50,620"
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        {
          "index": 1080,
          "text": "direct the City Council how to spend City Council",
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          "endTime": "00:50:53,460"
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          "index": 1081,
          "text": "resources. It was just the resources that",
          "startTime": "00:50:53,499",
          "endTime": "00:50:57,440"
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          "index": 1082,
          "text": "the council deemed available for",
          "startTime": "00:50:57,460",
          "endTime": "00:50:59,380"
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        {
          "index": 1083,
          "text": "safety improvements to look to the TSAP to",
          "startTime": "00:51:00,480",
          "endTime": "00:51:03,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 1084,
          "text": "prioritize those.",
          "startTime": "00:51:04,020",
          "endTime": "00:51:04,849"
        },
        {
          "index": 1085,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "00:51:04,940",
          "endTime": "00:51:05,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 1086,
          "text": "So there was, there was a, a definite...",
          "startTime": "00:51:05,100",
          "endTime": "00:51:07,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 1087,
          "text": "They, they, they didn't wanna overstep, how the council s-spends the",
          "startTime": "00:51:07,780",
          "endTime": "00:51:11,480"
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          "index": 1088,
          "text": "resources, but they, the resources that were, the council would deem",
          "startTime": "00:51:11,500",
          "endTime": "00:51:15,440"
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        {
          "index": 1089,
          "text": "appropriate to spend on transportation safety, they, they wanted to emphasize",
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          "endTime": "00:51:19,380"
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        {
          "index": 1090,
          "text": "u-using the TSAP as a resource on where to put, where to put those funds.",
          "startTime": "00:51:19,860",
          "endTime": "00:51:23,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 1091,
          "text": "I understand. Code word for don't get too creative with it.",
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          "endTime": "00:51:26,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 1092,
          "text": "We did a lot of hard work, and these are the priorities we found.",
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          "endTime": "00:51:30,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 1093,
          "text": "Something like that?",
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          "endTime": "00:51:31,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1094,
          "text": "Well, so I think-",
          "startTime": "00:51:31,620",
          "endTime": "00:51:32,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 1095,
          "text": "Something, yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:51:32,620",
          "endTime": "00:51:33,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 1096,
          "text": "Where we, we had a similar discussion with the task force-",
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          "endTime": "00:51:36,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 1097,
          "text": "Okay",
          "startTime": "00:51:36,940",
          "endTime": "00:51:37,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 1098,
          "text": "... which is what I've had with you all, where, you know, we went",
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          "endTime": "00:51:41,140"
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        {
          "index": 1099,
          "text": "through an effort a couple years back now, to",
          "startTime": "00:51:41,180",
          "endTime": "00:51:45,090"
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        {
          "index": 1100,
          "text": "identify priorities for funding in the transportation system.",
          "startTime": "00:51:45,140",
          "endTime": "00:51:49,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 1101,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:51:49,120",
          "endTime": "00:51:49,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 1102,
          "text": "And as I've, as I've told you all before, we're getting a",
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          "endTime": "00:51:53,590"
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        {
          "index": 1103,
          "text": "lot of new information now, whether it be this TSAP or",
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          "endTime": "00:51:57,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 1104,
          "text": "signal investment plans or our bridge investment plans or some of the supplemental",
          "startTime": "00:51:57,640",
          "endTime": "00:52:01,300"
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        {
          "index": 1105,
          "text": "planning activities. There's a whole other conversation that has to",
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          "endTime": "00:52:05,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 1106,
          "text": "happen around, how much money do we",
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          "endTime": "00:52:08,520"
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        {
          "index": 1107,
          "text": "have? What are we gonna prioritize for investment?",
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          "endTime": "00:52:11,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 1108,
          "text": "We have restrictions on different funds and those sorts of things, and what are we",
          "startTime": "00:52:11,840",
          "endTime": "00:52:14,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 1109,
          "text": "gonna try to accomplish.",
          "startTime": "00:52:14,680",
          "endTime": "00:52:15,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 1110,
          "text": "And that's obviously not within the task",
          "startTime": "00:52:16,780",
          "endTime": "00:52:20,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 1111,
          "text": "force, purview.",
          "startTime": "00:52:20,280",
          "endTime": "00:52:22,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 1112,
          "text": "I see.",
          "startTime": "00:52:22,460",
          "endTime": "00:52:22,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 1113,
          "text": "Uh, that's council's, and they're just respecting that boundary.",
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          "endTime": "00:52:25,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 1114,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "00:52:25,330",
          "endTime": "00:52:25,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 1115,
          "text": "The council needs to go through that.",
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          "endTime": "00:52:26,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 1116,
          "text": "Okay.",
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          "endTime": "00:52:27,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 1117,
          "text": "They like what's in the plan. They see the, the need to invest in the",
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        },
        {
          "index": 1118,
          "text": "safety improvements,",
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          "endTime": "00:52:32,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 1119,
          "text": "and they are endorsing what's proposed, but they recognize that they",
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          "endTime": "00:52:36,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 1120,
          "text": "don't have all the information.",
          "startTime": "00:52:36,900",
          "endTime": "00:52:38,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 1121,
          "text": "Okay. I see.",
          "startTime": "00:52:38,100",
          "endTime": "00:52:38,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 1122,
          "text": "And council has more. And on the second part, it's, it's",
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        {
          "index": 1123,
          "text": "just, they wanted inclusion of an acknowledgement",
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          "endTime": "00:52:45,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 1124,
          "text": "that,",
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          "endTime": "00:52:46,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 1125,
          "text": "there are other investments that can be made at a larger scale that",
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          "endTime": "00:52:51,930"
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        {
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          "text": "might have even greater safety benefits, and that's not necessarily",
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        {
          "index": 1127,
          "text": "what's, what's identified in the plan.",
          "startTime": "00:52:55,920",
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        {
          "index": 1128,
          "text": "So just as John said, clarifying that",
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        {
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          "text": "the improvements that are identified in, in there",
          "startTime": "00:53:00,700",
          "endTime": "00:53:03,060"
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        {
          "index": 1130,
          "text": "don't pro-- don't prevent or preclude the council from going above and beyond that.",
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          "endTime": "00:53:08,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 1131,
          "text": "I see. Okay. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:53:08,140",
          "endTime": "00:53:09,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 1132,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:53:10,000",
          "endTime": "00:53:11,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 1133,
          "text": "So they understand the work is within this greater-",
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          "endTime": "00:53:15,060"
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        {
          "index": 1134,
          "text": "Yes",
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          "endTime": "00:53:15,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 1135,
          "text": "... work the city's doing-",
          "startTime": "00:53:15,130",
          "endTime": "00:53:16,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 1136,
          "text": "Correct",
          "startTime": "00:53:16,300",
          "endTime": "00:53:16,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 1137,
          "text": "... whether it's paving local streets or bridges or signal, all of",
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          "endTime": "00:53:20,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 1138,
          "text": "them.",
          "startTime": "00:53:20,550",
          "endTime": "00:53:21,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1139,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:53:21,140",
          "endTime": "00:53:21,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 1140,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:53:21,480",
          "endTime": "00:53:21,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 1141,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:53:22,760",
          "endTime": "00:53:22,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 1142,
          "text": "We would really like to put a lot of money on this.",
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          "endTime": "00:53:26,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 1143,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "00:53:28,420",
          "endTime": "00:53:28,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 1144,
          "text": "As, as the task force.",
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          "endTime": "00:53:29,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 1145,
          "text": "All right. The first of the five supplemental planning activities,",
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        },
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          "text": "road safety audits or RSAs. So we did",
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        {
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          "text": "three of these. Uh, it was Ninth Street, Walnut",
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          "endTime": "00:53:42,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 1148,
          "text": "Boulevard, and Circle Boulevard.",
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        {
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          "text": "And road safety audits, it's, it's, it's a very kind of defined pr-prescribed",
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        {
          "index": 1150,
          "text": "process by, USDOT. And,",
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          "endTime": "00:53:52,320"
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        {
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          "text": "so we very much patterned our approach after that prescribed",
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          "text": "process. And these are really gonna focus, technical",
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        {
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          "text": "efforts where we, you know, pull together a, a multidisciplinary team.",
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          "endTime": "00:54:03,600"
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        {
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          "text": "In, in this case, we're really leaning on, public works, police,",
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        {
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          "text": "fire department, ODOT participated, Corvallis School District.",
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          "endTime": "00:54:11,460"
        },
        {
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          "text": "We even invited a few Oregon State University students out of the,",
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          "endTime": "00:54:15,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 1157,
          "text": "civil engineering department.",
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          "endTime": "00:54:16,980"
        },
        {
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          "text": "They're interested in transportation to participate in these as",
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          "endTime": "00:54:20,460"
        },
        {
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          "text": "well. But, what they're really doing is they're just-- they're",
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        {
          "index": 1160,
          "text": "walking the corridor pretty much all day, so they can see what's",
          "startTime": "00:54:24,160",
          "endTime": "00:54:28,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 1161,
          "text": "happening at different times of day.",
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          "text": "And they're looking at safety issues, and potential",
          "startTime": "00:54:30,640",
          "endTime": "00:54:34,060"
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          "text": "fixes, through the lens of all the different users.",
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          "endTime": "00:54:37,720"
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          "text": "So whether you're, you're walking, biking, rolling, using transit, driving down the",
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        {
          "index": 1165,
          "text": "corridor, you know, being there different times of day gives them the",
          "startTime": "00:54:41,360",
          "endTime": "00:54:45,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 1166,
          "text": "advantage. If you have things like schools, you can see what's happening when",
          "startTime": "00:54:45,080",
          "endTime": "00:54:48,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 1167,
          "text": "schools are, you know, getting in or letting out, which you might not see if you're",
          "startTime": "00:54:48,080",
          "endTime": "00:54:50,989"
        },
        {
          "index": 1168,
          "text": "only there for a couple of hours.",
          "startTime": "00:54:51,040",
          "endTime": "00:54:52,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 1169,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:54:52,460",
          "endTime": "00:54:53,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 1170,
          "text": "Um, but it's a lot of qualitative assessment.",
          "startTime": "00:54:53,320",
          "endTime": "00:54:55,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 1171,
          "text": "So they're, they're not-Out there collecting data and analyzing it.",
          "startTime": "00:54:55,480",
          "endTime": "00:54:59,206"
        },
        {
          "index": 1172,
          "text": "They're not, doing alternatives analysis.",
          "startTime": "00:54:59,216",
          "endTime": "00:55:01,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 1173,
          "text": "It's, it's-- and they're really usually emphasizing",
          "startTime": "00:55:01,996",
          "endTime": "00:55:05,236"
        },
        {
          "index": 1174,
          "text": "kind of the low-hanging fruit and lower-cost solutions that the city can get",
          "startTime": "00:55:06,296",
          "endTime": "00:55:10,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 1175,
          "text": "done quickly.",
          "startTime": "00:55:10,076",
          "endTime": "00:55:12,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1176,
          "text": "Is it acting up?",
          "startTime": "00:55:14,896",
          "endTime": "00:55:17,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 1177,
          "text": "Oh.",
          "startTime": "00:55:18,476",
          "endTime": "00:55:18,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1178,
          "text": "There we go. Um, and kinda one note,",
          "startTime": "00:55:18,986",
          "endTime": "00:55:22,956"
        },
        {
          "index": 1179,
          "text": "these,",
          "startTime": "00:55:23,016",
          "endTime": "00:55:23,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 1180,
          "text": "the, the recommendations that you may have seen in the road safety",
          "startTime": "00:55:24,536",
          "endTime": "00:55:27,736"
        },
        {
          "index": 1181,
          "text": "audits, they're, they're preliminary.",
          "startTime": "00:55:27,876",
          "endTime": "00:55:29,736"
        },
        {
          "index": 1182,
          "text": "So what those are, they're really recommendations from these groups back to the",
          "startTime": "00:55:29,756",
          "endTime": "00:55:33,476"
        },
        {
          "index": 1183,
          "text": "city. And as I'll touch on later, this--",
          "startTime": "00:55:33,556",
          "endTime": "00:55:37,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 1184,
          "text": "the city still needs to go through that l- those lists",
          "startTime": "00:55:37,256",
          "endTime": "00:55:40,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1185,
          "text": "and kind of vet those ideas, because some of them may not be feasible for different",
          "startTime": "00:55:41,196",
          "endTime": "00:55:45,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 1186,
          "text": "reasons, and identify kind of which ones they think they can move",
          "startTime": "00:55:45,096",
          "endTime": "00:55:49,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 1187,
          "text": "forward and hopefully incorporate into maybe, you know, CIP projects",
          "startTime": "00:55:49,156",
          "endTime": "00:55:52,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1188,
          "text": "coming up, and which ones just may not be, they might not be",
          "startTime": "00:55:53,036",
          "endTime": "00:55:56,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1189,
          "text": "able to do.",
          "startTime": "00:55:57,016",
          "endTime": "00:55:58,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 1190,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "00:55:59,196",
          "endTime": "00:55:59,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1191,
          "text": "let's",
          "startTime": "00:56:00,796",
          "endTime": "00:56:01,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 1192,
          "text": "see.",
          "startTime": "00:56:01,126",
          "endTime": "00:56:05,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 1193,
          "text": "Where'd it go? So, quick highlights,",
          "startTime": "00:56:08,376",
          "endTime": "00:56:10,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 1194,
          "text": "on some of the findings, and these, they're similar findings.",
          "startTime": "00:56:12,376",
          "endTime": "00:56:15,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 1195,
          "text": "Um, I mean, they're all arterial corridors with still a lot of similar",
          "startTime": "00:56:15,756",
          "endTime": "00:56:19,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 1196,
          "text": "issues. But, in Ninth Street, you'll see",
          "startTime": "00:56:19,156",
          "endTime": "00:56:22,476"
        },
        {
          "index": 1197,
          "text": "recommendations in there. There's corridor-wide things like, you",
          "startTime": "00:56:22,516",
          "endTime": "00:56:26,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 1198,
          "text": "know, access management, which can be, trying to eliminate conflicts between",
          "startTime": "00:56:26,376",
          "endTime": "00:56:30,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 1199,
          "text": "all the driveways that are out there.",
          "startTime": "00:56:30,376",
          "endTime": "00:56:31,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 1200,
          "text": "Um, no specific solutions, it's just a general recommendation to",
          "startTime": "00:56:32,036",
          "endTime": "00:56:35,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1201,
          "text": "improve it. Um, curb extensions to shorten",
          "startTime": "00:56:35,916",
          "endTime": "00:56:39,716"
        },
        {
          "index": 1202,
          "text": "crossings on select side streets.",
          "startTime": "00:56:39,756",
          "endTime": "00:56:42,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 1203,
          "text": "Uh, things like, doing leading pedestrian intervals at",
          "startTime": "00:56:42,176",
          "endTime": "00:56:45,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 1204,
          "text": "traffic signals, which is basically when you get a walk signal, it's giving the",
          "startTime": "00:56:45,876",
          "endTime": "00:56:49,256"
        },
        {
          "index": 1205,
          "text": "pedestrian a few seconds head start before the light turns green-",
          "startTime": "00:56:49,296",
          "endTime": "00:56:52,956"
        },
        {
          "index": 1206,
          "text": "-hard, so they can establish their presence and be",
          "startTime": "00:56:52,966",
          "endTime": "00:56:55,916"
        },
        {
          "index": 1207,
          "text": "seen. Um, and, possibly even looking at,",
          "startTime": "00:56:55,936",
          "endTime": "00:56:59,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1208,
          "text": "a lane reconfiguration, in, on part of",
          "startTime": "00:57:00,216",
          "endTime": "00:57:03,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 1209,
          "text": "Ninth Street.",
          "startTime": "00:57:03,936",
          "endTime": "00:57:05,956"
        },
        {
          "index": 1210,
          "text": "Um, and then more specifically in each, in each of these road safety",
          "startTime": "00:57:07,696",
          "endTime": "00:57:11,276"
        },
        {
          "index": 1211,
          "text": "audits, the application-specific recommendations are",
          "startTime": "00:57:11,376",
          "endTime": "00:57:14,936"
        },
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          "index": 1212,
          "text": "separated into low, medium, and high complexity.",
          "startTime": "00:57:14,996",
          "endTime": "00:57:18,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 1213,
          "text": "And again, you know, the low complexity are things that are probably easier to get",
          "startTime": "00:57:18,096",
          "endTime": "00:57:20,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1214,
          "text": "done quickly. When you get to the, the high complexity, more",
          "startTime": "00:57:20,936",
          "endTime": "00:57:24,716"
        },
        {
          "index": 1215,
          "text": "challenging, maybe more costly. Um, some of those may be things that,",
          "startTime": "00:57:24,836",
          "endTime": "00:57:28,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1216,
          "text": "might need to get referred to, a transportation system plan update or",
          "startTime": "00:57:29,256",
          "endTime": "00:57:32,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 1217,
          "text": "something like that. Like a, things that go on there, like there might be,",
          "startTime": "00:57:32,656",
          "endTime": "00:57:36,096"
        },
        {
          "index": 1218,
          "text": "consider doing a roundabout in an intersection at some point in the future.",
          "startTime": "00:57:36,236",
          "endTime": "00:57:39,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 1219,
          "text": "Um, so low complexity stuff you'll see, like at Ninth Street, it's typically things",
          "startTime": "00:57:41,436",
          "endTime": "00:57:45,236"
        },
        {
          "index": 1220,
          "text": "like it could be restriping, signing improvements.",
          "startTime": "00:57:45,316",
          "endTime": "00:57:47,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 1221,
          "text": "Here's adding bicycle conflict markings at, at some",
          "startTime": "00:57:47,476",
          "endTime": "00:57:50,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1222,
          "text": "locations. Um, medium complexity",
          "startTime": "00:57:50,816",
          "endTime": "00:57:54,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 1223,
          "text": "things, this o- in this one it was between Garfield and",
          "startTime": "00:57:54,576",
          "endTime": "00:57:58,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 1224,
          "text": "Spruce, adding a mid-block crossing.",
          "startTime": "00:57:58,476",
          "endTime": "00:58:01,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 1225,
          "text": "Um, and high complexity, this was,",
          "startTime": "00:58:01,716",
          "endTime": "00:58:05,685"
        },
        {
          "index": 1226,
          "text": "like sidewalk, cur- you know, and ramp improvements which can affect",
          "startTime": "00:58:06,376",
          "endTime": "00:58:10,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 1227,
          "text": "drainage, and that gets a little more complicated, might be harder to",
          "startTime": "00:58:10,356",
          "endTime": "00:58:12,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 1228,
          "text": "do.",
          "startTime": "00:58:12,976",
          "endTime": "00:58:14,836"
        },
        {
          "index": 1229,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "00:58:14,916",
          "endTime": "00:58:15,836"
        },
        {
          "index": 1230,
          "text": "Uh, Circle Boulevard, similar types of things.",
          "startTime": "00:58:16,016",
          "endTime": "00:58:19,465"
        },
        {
          "index": 1231,
          "text": "You know, the curb extensions on side streets again.",
          "startTime": "00:58:19,476",
          "endTime": "00:58:22,276"
        },
        {
          "index": 1232,
          "text": "Um, improving traffic signal hardware, so that's usually lower",
          "startTime": "00:58:22,376",
          "endTime": "00:58:25,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 1233,
          "text": "cost things you can do, just to kinda make sure that maybe they're up to",
          "startTime": "00:58:26,036",
          "endTime": "00:58:29,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1234,
          "text": "standard or maybe the, the latest safety practices,",
          "startTime": "00:58:29,616",
          "endTime": "00:58:32,676"
        },
        {
          "index": 1235,
          "text": "recommendations. Um, and, adding,",
          "startTime": "00:58:32,796",
          "endTime": "00:58:36,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 1236,
          "text": "having hardened, hardened center line to prevent left turns.",
          "startTime": "00:58:36,976",
          "endTime": "00:58:40,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 1237,
          "text": "So again, this is kinda the access management, trying to eliminate some",
          "startTime": "00:58:40,396",
          "endTime": "00:58:43,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 1238,
          "text": "conflicts with maybe signals and",
          "startTime": "00:58:43,876",
          "endTime": "00:58:45,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1239,
          "text": "driveways. And again,",
          "startTime": "00:58:46,036",
          "endTime": "00:58:49,176"
        },
        {
          "index": 1240,
          "text": "location-specific. Again, it's the lower cost stuff.",
          "startTime": "00:58:49,216",
          "endTime": "00:58:52,016"
        },
        {
          "index": 1241,
          "text": "Signal repair, signing upgrades, some green striping in",
          "startTime": "00:58:52,136",
          "endTime": "00:58:55,736"
        },
        {
          "index": 1242,
          "text": "bi-bicycle conflict zones. The medium",
          "startTime": "00:58:55,976",
          "endTime": "00:58:59,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 1243,
          "text": "complexity is evaluate, removing eastbound left turns",
          "startTime": "00:58:59,216",
          "endTime": "00:59:02,956"
        },
        {
          "index": 1244,
          "text": "and to add a pedestrian median refuge island to the marked",
          "startTime": "00:59:03,056",
          "endTime": "00:59:06,826"
        },
        {
          "index": 1245,
          "text": "crossing at Seventeen.",
          "startTime": "00:59:06,826",
          "endTime": "00:59:08,336"
        },
        {
          "index": 1246,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "00:59:08,356",
          "endTime": "00:59:08,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1247,
          "text": "Again, like a lot of these, more investigation needs to happen",
          "startTime": "00:59:08,736",
          "endTime": "00:59:12,665"
        },
        {
          "index": 1248,
          "text": "to make sure that there aren't other consequences or it's feasible.",
          "startTime": "00:59:12,696",
          "endTime": "00:59:15,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 1249,
          "text": "But that's just a recommendation for the group to look into.",
          "startTime": "00:59:15,436",
          "endTime": "00:59:19,016"
        },
        {
          "index": 1250,
          "text": "Uh, and again, you know, higher complexity is replacing all way stop control at",
          "startTime": "00:59:19,136",
          "endTime": "00:59:22,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 1251,
          "text": "Twenty-ninth with like a signal or a roundabout.",
          "startTime": "00:59:22,416",
          "endTime": "00:59:24,545"
        },
        {
          "index": 1252,
          "text": "Obviously that's a much bigger project.",
          "startTime": "00:59:24,596",
          "endTime": "00:59:27,476"
        },
        {
          "index": 1253,
          "text": "Uh, in Walnut Boulevard, a-again,",
          "startTime": "00:59:28,436",
          "endTime": "00:59:32,156"
        },
        {
          "index": 1254,
          "text": "corridor-wide recommendations again could be opportunities for leading",
          "startTime": "00:59:32,296",
          "endTime": "00:59:35,956"
        },
        {
          "index": 1255,
          "text": "pedestrian intervals at those signals.",
          "startTime": "00:59:36,036",
          "endTime": "00:59:38,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1256,
          "text": "Uh, some opportunity to improve street lighting, curb extensions on",
          "startTime": "00:59:38,636",
          "endTime": "00:59:42,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 1257,
          "text": "to short crossings on some side streets.",
          "startTime": "00:59:42,676",
          "endTime": "00:59:45,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1258,
          "text": "Uh, and then obviously this is the next topic coming up, is, further",
          "startTime": "00:59:45,656",
          "endTime": "00:59:49,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1259,
          "text": "evaluation of, trade-offs associated with lane",
          "startTime": "00:59:49,596",
          "endTime": "00:59:52,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 1260,
          "text": "reconfiguration, where you'd have one vehicle lane in each direction instead",
          "startTime": "00:59:52,536",
          "endTime": "00:59:56,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 1261,
          "text": "of two.",
          "startTime": "00:59:56,436",
          "endTime": "00:59:58,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 1262,
          "text": "Uh, and then some of the location-specific things, down",
          "startTime": "00:59:59,296",
          "endTime": "01:00:03,256"
        },
        {
          "index": 1263,
          "text": "towards the, the east end, there may be an opportunity to restripe to create",
          "startTime": "01:00:03,296",
          "endTime": "01:00:06,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1264,
          "text": "buffered bike lanes, from Circle to Jack London.",
          "startTime": "01:00:06,356",
          "endTime": "01:00:10,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 1265,
          "text": "As you get more complex, there's some",
          "startTime": "01:00:10,146",
          "endTime": "01:00:13,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 1266,
          "text": "reconfiguring of the north leg of Aspen Street, so it matches the, the",
          "startTime": "01:00:13,456",
          "endTime": "01:00:17,235"
        },
        {
          "index": 1267,
          "text": "south side. Uh, and higher complexity, again, that's where we",
          "startTime": "01:00:17,316",
          "endTime": "01:00:21,196"
        },
        {
          "index": 1268,
          "text": "get into, you know, you need to replace a signal someday, consider doing a",
          "startTime": "01:00:21,236",
          "endTime": "01:00:24,856"
        },
        {
          "index": 1269,
          "text": "protected intersection or a",
          "startTime": "01:00:24,876",
          "endTime": "01:00:26,256"
        },
        {
          "index": 1270,
          "text": "roundabout.",
          "startTime": "01:00:26,396",
          "endTime": "01:00:29,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 1271,
          "text": "Uh, and so kinda the next steps for the road safety audits, as I mentioned before,",
          "startTime": "01:00:30,736",
          "endTime": "01:00:34,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 1272,
          "text": "staff have those recommendations, so they need to go through and kinda,",
          "startTime": "01:00:35,056",
          "endTime": "01:00:38,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 1273,
          "text": "kinda vet those and provide a formal response letters, kind of, you",
          "startTime": "01:00:38,476",
          "endTime": "01:00:42,416"
        },
        {
          "index": 1274,
          "text": "know, indicating which of those they think they can implement and maybe",
          "startTime": "01:00:42,456",
          "endTime": "01:00:46,276"
        },
        {
          "index": 1275,
          "text": "integrate into some future projects and which ones they may not be able",
          "startTime": "01:00:46,356",
          "endTime": "01:00:49,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 1276,
          "text": "to.",
          "startTime": "01:00:49,956",
          "endTime": "01:00:51,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 1277,
          "text": "Pausing briefly before I move on.",
          "startTime": "01:00:54,356",
          "endTime": "01:00:56,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 1278,
          "text": "So I've noticed patterns in your recommendations.",
          "startTime": "01:00:56,856",
          "endTime": "01:01:00,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 1279,
          "text": "Um, could we safely assume that those patterned",
          "startTime": "01:01:00,676",
          "endTime": "01:01:04,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 1280,
          "text": "recommendations could then also be applied to other streets that you didn't do the",
          "startTime": "01:01:04,116",
          "endTime": "01:01:07,736"
        },
        {
          "index": 1281,
          "text": "road safety audit on, just, just good practice?",
          "startTime": "01:01:07,776",
          "endTime": "01:01:11,196"
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        {
          "index": 1282,
          "text": "They certainly could, yeah. Yeah, it's kinda, similar to some of the",
          "startTime": "01:01:12,328",
          "endTime": "01:01:16,188"
        },
        {
          "index": 1283,
          "text": "necessary strategies we'll talk about later, where there's sometimes there's just,",
          "startTime": "01:01:16,248",
          "endTime": "01:01:19,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 1284,
          "text": "there's safety improvements you can do that are low cost, but you can apply them to",
          "startTime": "01:01:19,788",
          "endTime": "01:01:23,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 1285,
          "text": "a broad spectrum of places.",
          "startTime": "01:01:23,328",
          "endTime": "01:01:25,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 1286,
          "text": "Mm-hmm. Because there were-- there's definitely streets that you didn't",
          "startTime": "01:01:25,688",
          "endTime": "01:01:29,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 1287,
          "text": "do.",
          "startTime": "01:01:29,448",
          "endTime": "01:01:30,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 1288,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "01:01:30,208",
          "endTime": "01:01:30,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 1289,
          "text": "And I can see some of these applying just as nicely as",
          "startTime": "01:01:30,368",
          "endTime": "01:01:33,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 1290,
          "text": "that.",
          "startTime": "01:01:33,628",
          "endTime": "01:01:34,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 1291,
          "text": "Um-",
          "startTime": "01:01:34,468",
          "endTime": "01:01:34,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1292,
          "text": "Yes. And one of the distinctions is you're doing a",
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          "endTime": "01:01:37,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 1293,
          "text": "multi-lane-",
          "startTime": "01:01:37,888",
          "endTime": "01:01:39,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 1294,
          "text": "Arterials",
          "startTime": "01:01:39,548",
          "endTime": "01:01:40,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 1295,
          "text": "... arterials list. So that you're seeing that one, seeing consistent",
          "startTime": "01:01:40,478",
          "endTime": "01:01:44,068"
        },
        {
          "index": 1296,
          "text": "recommendations for a consistent-",
          "startTime": "01:01:44,128",
          "endTime": "01:01:46,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 1297,
          "text": "Yeah",
          "startTime": "01:01:46,168",
          "endTime": "01:01:46,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 1298,
          "text": "... category of street.",
          "startTime": "01:01:46,388",
          "endTime": "01:01:47,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 1299,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "01:01:47,548",
          "endTime": "01:01:49,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 1300,
          "text": "Uh, one comment on the... Well, that's an",
          "startTime": "01:01:49,228",
          "endTime": "01:01:52,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 1301,
          "text": "interesting street. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:01:52,508",
          "endTime": "01:01:54,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 1302,
          "text": "seems like-- I, I think there's a, there's a real,",
          "startTime": "01:01:55,988",
          "endTime": "01:01:58,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 1303,
          "text": "like to s- see, us address it very holistically,",
          "startTime": "01:02:00,808",
          "endTime": "01:02:04,048"
        },
        {
          "index": 1304,
          "text": "the safety challenges. Because all, well, that's not",
          "startTime": "01:02:04,128",
          "endTime": "01:02:07,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 1305,
          "text": "particular, right? People don't feel safe, that's for",
          "startTime": "01:02:07,608",
          "endTime": "01:02:10,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 1306,
          "text": "sure. Maybe.",
          "startTime": "01:02:11,028",
          "endTime": "01:02:12,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 1307,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:02:13,568",
          "endTime": "01:02:13,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 1308,
          "text": "when we look at the, transportation safety",
          "startTime": "01:02:15,268",
          "endTime": "01:02:18,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 1309,
          "text": "action plan, Walnut doesn't show up super",
          "startTime": "01:02:19,148",
          "endTime": "01:02:21,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 1310,
          "text": "high. Uh, but it seems to me that in Walnut in",
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          "endTime": "01:02:25,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 1311,
          "text": "particular, the challenge of,",
          "startTime": "01:02:25,868",
          "endTime": "01:02:29,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 1312,
          "text": "this, the further analysis that was talked",
          "startTime": "01:02:30,328",
          "endTime": "01:02:32,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 1313,
          "text": "about, I think needs to happen, about",
          "startTime": "01:02:32,648",
          "endTime": "01:02:36,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 1314,
          "text": "how do you, how do you address congestion,",
          "startTime": "01:02:37,288",
          "endTime": "01:02:40,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 1315,
          "text": "traffic safety, road con- reconfiguration, et cetera.",
          "startTime": "01:02:40,968",
          "endTime": "01:02:44,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 1316,
          "text": "I think that kind of further analysis does need",
          "startTime": "01:02:44,548",
          "endTime": "01:02:48,048"
        },
        {
          "index": 1317,
          "text": "to, to happen.",
          "startTime": "01:02:48,108",
          "endTime": "01:02:49,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 1318,
          "text": "There'll be an opportunity. So as far as",
          "startTime": "01:02:50,368",
          "endTime": "01:02:53,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 1319,
          "text": "they were reviewing the documents, and we'll accept TSAP, it's",
          "startTime": "01:02:55,348",
          "endTime": "01:02:59,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1320,
          "text": "not an action to take on, on the supplemental planning activities, but",
          "startTime": "01:02:59,248",
          "endTime": "01:03:02,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 1321,
          "text": "there, there will be a",
          "startTime": "01:03:02,828",
          "endTime": "01:03:03,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 1322,
          "text": "conversation later about, you know, you only have so many",
          "startTime": "01:03:04,968",
          "endTime": "01:03:08,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 1323,
          "text": "staff, and you only have",
          "startTime": "01:03:08,508",
          "endTime": "01:03:10,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 1324,
          "text": "so much money to do whatever work you wanna do.",
          "startTime": "01:03:11,268",
          "endTime": "01:03:13,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1325,
          "text": "And if you decided that, you know, the benefit of a TSAP is",
          "startTime": "01:03:13,748",
          "endTime": "01:03:17,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 1326,
          "text": "it's, it's a data-driven-",
          "startTime": "01:03:17,568",
          "endTime": "01:03:19,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 1327,
          "text": "Yeah",
          "startTime": "01:03:19,348",
          "endTime": "01:03:19,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 1328,
          "text": "... exercise, identifying safety.",
          "startTime": "01:03:19,668",
          "endTime": "01:03:21,588"
        },
        {
          "index": 1329,
          "text": "If you decided that something else that,",
          "startTime": "01:03:21,628",
          "endTime": "01:03:25,008"
        },
        {
          "index": 1330,
          "text": "has a, a legitimate safety",
          "startTime": "01:03:26,248",
          "endTime": "01:03:28,788"
        },
        {
          "index": 1331,
          "text": "benefit, but didn't yet have, the",
          "startTime": "01:03:28,828",
          "endTime": "01:03:32,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 1332,
          "text": "accidents associated with them was a higher priority to focus on than",
          "startTime": "01:03:32,448",
          "endTime": "01:03:36,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 1333,
          "text": "the areas that are already experiencing accidents, you can do that.",
          "startTime": "01:03:36,448",
          "endTime": "01:03:40,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 1334,
          "text": "Or you might say, \"We need to invest in signals, or we need to do more",
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          "endTime": "01:03:44,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 1335,
          "text": "safety work.\" That, that'll be a future conversation, and, and you will",
          "startTime": "01:03:44,348",
          "endTime": "01:03:47,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 1336,
          "text": "have that opportunity to prioritize and provide some guidance.",
          "startTime": "01:03:48,708",
          "endTime": "01:03:52,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 1337,
          "text": "Yeah. Okay. So to be clear, I wasn't suggesting we prioritize.",
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          "endTime": "01:03:56,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 1338,
          "text": "I think the TSAP is, is a great place to",
          "startTime": "01:03:56,168",
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          "index": 1339,
          "text": "start, and I just was commenting that Walnut as a",
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          "index": 1340,
          "text": "particular... I wouldn't, I wouldn't want us to see-- to do some things that appear",
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          "index": 1341,
          "text": "to be low-hanging fruit, but were just likely we looked at a",
          "startTime": "01:04:06,648",
          "endTime": "01:04:10,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 1342,
          "text": "bigger experiment throwaway investment.",
          "startTime": "01:04:10,488",
          "endTime": "01:04:12,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 1343,
          "text": "Yeah. Absolutely.",
          "startTime": "01:04:12,888",
          "endTime": "01:04:16,708"
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          "text": "Speaking of Walnut Boulevard, so the, the",
          "startTime": "01:04:18,968",
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          "index": 1345,
          "text": "next supplemental planning activity, was a",
          "startTime": "01:04:22,988",
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        },
        {
          "index": 1346,
          "text": "feasibility assessment of doing a lane",
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        {
          "index": 1347,
          "text": "reconfiguration on Walnut Boulevard.",
          "startTime": "01:04:30,048",
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          "text": "And so, a-again, I'll emphasize, it's like if you, if you read this, there are no",
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        },
        {
          "index": 1349,
          "text": "specific recommendations, and I'm sure there are a lot more questions that have to",
          "startTime": "01:04:36,548",
          "endTime": "01:04:39,638"
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        {
          "index": 1350,
          "text": "be answered. This is really taking that first step and saying, you know,",
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          "text": "kinda like, is this fatally flawed? Does this look like it could work?",
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          "endTime": "01:04:46,448"
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          "text": "Is it, you know, worth further conversation,",
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        {
          "index": 1353,
          "text": "potentially?",
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        },
        {
          "index": 1354,
          "text": "Um,",
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          "endTime": "01:04:52,868"
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        {
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          "text": "and so kinda the, you know, the, the why, you know, we would consider this, and,",
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          "index": 1356,
          "text": "you know, why is it part of this SS four A project?",
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          "endTime": "01:05:00,608"
        },
        {
          "index": 1357,
          "text": "Uh, there are pretty significant potential safety benefits of, you know,",
          "startTime": "01:05:00,688",
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        {
          "index": 1358,
          "text": "conversions like that, where you're going from, you know, particularly in the",
          "startTime": "01:05:04,668",
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        {
          "index": 1359,
          "text": "section where you have four lanes, you're going down to, to three.",
          "startTime": "01:05:08,368",
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        },
        {
          "index": 1360,
          "text": "Uh,",
          "startTime": "01:05:11,988",
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          "index": 1361,
          "text": "and, you know, one of them is just addressing speeding.",
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          "endTime": "01:05:17,968"
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        {
          "index": 1362,
          "text": "Uh, speeds themselves don't always drop a lot.",
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          "text": "The speeding certainly gets curved because now the slowest people in the platoon",
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          "index": 1364,
          "text": "control how fast everybody goes. You know, there's no passing.",
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        {
          "index": 1365,
          "text": "Um, let's say the similar conversions when you go from, like a four-lane",
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        {
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          "text": "section like is shown there, to one where you have one lane each direction with a",
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          "text": "twenty-nine percent reduction in all crashes, which is pretty significant.",
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        {
          "index": 1369,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
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          "text": "Um, there's obviously more room for doing like protected bike lanes or,",
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          "text": "that, and another oncoming car may not see the pedestrian and, you know,",
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          "text": "still, still stop the car.",
          "startTime": "01:06:13,348",
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          "text": "Um, and also, you know, as you-- we'll get into a little bit later, whether you do",
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          "index": 1391,
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          "index": 1397,
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        },
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          "text": "close together, we need the lanes just to store vehicles, or they're end up",
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        },
        {
          "index": 1401,
          "text": "So what did we consider in this feasibility assessment?",
          "startTime": "01:07:30,996",
          "endTime": "01:07:33,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1402,
          "text": "Uh, one thing we did was we thought we would use the TSP",
          "startTime": "01:07:34,096",
          "endTime": "01:07:37,556"
        },
        {
          "index": 1403,
          "text": "goals, to kind of s-frame up evaluation",
          "startTime": "01:07:37,616",
          "endTime": "01:07:40,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1404,
          "text": "criteria. So we, we referred to the goals in the transportation system",
          "startTime": "01:07:40,916",
          "endTime": "01:07:44,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1405,
          "text": "plan related to safety, viable automobile",
          "startTime": "01:07:44,776",
          "endTime": "01:07:48,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1406,
          "text": "alternatives, and efficient movement of people, and goods,",
          "startTime": "01:07:48,596",
          "endTime": "01:07:52,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1407,
          "text": "or maybe more simply, I would state the last two are kind of people that are",
          "startTime": "01:07:52,636",
          "endTime": "01:07:56,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 1408,
          "text": "walking, biking, using transit, and the last one is, you know, people",
          "startTime": "01:07:56,476",
          "endTime": "01:07:59,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 1409,
          "text": "driving. Um, and then on the",
          "startTime": "01:07:59,316",
          "endTime": "01:08:02,956"
        },
        {
          "index": 1410,
          "text": "right there, I show kind of the more specific evaluation criteria that we",
          "startTime": "01:08:03,016",
          "endTime": "01:08:06,796"
        },
        {
          "index": 1411,
          "text": "looked at, like potential crash reduction, you know, how much",
          "startTime": "01:08:06,816",
          "endTime": "01:08:10,276"
        },
        {
          "index": 1412,
          "text": "separation can we get between, cars and people walking and",
          "startTime": "01:08:10,336",
          "endTime": "01:08:13,556"
        },
        {
          "index": 1413,
          "text": "biking, potential speed reduction, comfort for people",
          "startTime": "01:08:13,576",
          "endTime": "01:08:17,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 1414,
          "text": "walking and biking, what it can do for,",
          "startTime": "01:08:17,436",
          "endTime": "01:08:20,556"
        },
        {
          "index": 1415,
          "text": "pedestrian crossings, obviously auto",
          "startTime": "01:08:21,376",
          "endTime": "01:08:24,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 1416,
          "text": "delay, and then potential for traffic diversion.",
          "startTime": "01:08:24,656",
          "endTime": "01:08:28,196"
        },
        {
          "index": 1417,
          "text": "And what I mean by that is",
          "startTime": "01:08:28,217",
          "endTime": "01:08:29,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1418,
          "text": "if we do create some congestion, more delay on Walnut,",
          "startTime": "01:08:30,337",
          "endTime": "01:08:33,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1419,
          "text": "honestly, what we don't wanna have happen is people try to bypass that and go",
          "startTime": "01:08:34,337",
          "endTime": "01:08:37,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 1420,
          "text": "through neighborhoods, right? And bypass through there.",
          "startTime": "01:08:37,616",
          "endTime": "01:08:40,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 1421,
          "text": "So we did some, some modeling and testing to see what the potential was for",
          "startTime": "01:08:40,637",
          "endTime": "01:08:44,156"
        },
        {
          "index": 1422,
          "text": "that. Um, obviously in exercises like this, as you would",
          "startTime": "01:08:44,217",
          "endTime": "01:08:48,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 1423,
          "text": "expect to see is, you know, some modes like",
          "startTime": "01:08:48,116",
          "endTime": "01:08:51,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 1424,
          "text": "walking, biking are probably really gonna benefit from a lot of this stuff.",
          "startTime": "01:08:51,717",
          "endTime": "01:08:55,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1425,
          "text": "Uh, driving, they're giving something up, right? They're giving up some capacity.",
          "startTime": "01:08:55,416",
          "endTime": "01:08:58,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1426,
          "text": "So it's, it's really a big question of-- or understanding what the trade-offs",
          "startTime": "01:08:58,936",
          "endTime": "01:09:02,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1427,
          "text": "are, and then for the community to decide what the appropriate balance",
          "startTime": "01:09:02,936",
          "endTime": "01:09:06,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 1428,
          "text": "is.",
          "startTime": "01:09:06,396",
          "endTime": "01:09:08,677"
        },
        {
          "index": 1429,
          "text": "Uh, so from that, that first kind of major, criteria, safety, and",
          "startTime": "01:09:09,556",
          "endTime": "01:09:13,467"
        },
        {
          "index": 1430,
          "text": "I really kind of touched on this already, there are",
          "startTime": "01:09:13,516",
          "endTime": "01:09:17,177"
        },
        {
          "index": 1431,
          "text": "significant safety, benefits, potentially by doing this",
          "startTime": "01:09:17,236",
          "endTime": "01:09:20,856"
        },
        {
          "index": 1432,
          "text": "conversion. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:09:20,896",
          "endTime": "01:09:22,946"
        },
        {
          "index": 1433,
          "text": "and like, I won't touch anymore 'cause I'm probably short on time.",
          "startTime": "01:09:24,797",
          "endTime": "01:09:27,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1434,
          "text": "But yes, that one's a clear winner overall safety to do this",
          "startTime": "01:09:27,916",
          "endTime": "01:09:31,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 1435,
          "text": "conversion. A lot of potential for",
          "startTime": "01:09:31,096",
          "endTime": "01:09:33,837"
        },
        {
          "index": 1436,
          "text": "improvement. Uh, now when you get to the, active",
          "startTime": "01:09:33,856",
          "endTime": "01:09:37,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 1437,
          "text": "transportation modes, so walking, biking,",
          "startTime": "01:09:37,717",
          "endTime": "01:09:40,996"
        },
        {
          "index": 1438,
          "text": "transit. Uh, one key assumption that we, we did, I highlighted in",
          "startTime": "01:09:41,016",
          "endTime": "01:09:44,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 1439,
          "text": "yellow there, is that if we're doing this, we're probably gonna leave the curbs",
          "startTime": "01:09:44,856",
          "endTime": "01:09:48,137"
        },
        {
          "index": 1440,
          "text": "where they are. Um, just 'cause it makes it way more affordable, right?",
          "startTime": "01:09:48,236",
          "endTime": "01:09:52,177"
        },
        {
          "index": 1441,
          "text": "We could do it much, much faster. Um, so if",
          "startTime": "01:09:52,217",
          "endTime": "01:09:56,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 1442,
          "text": "you do that, obviously with that extra width, there's a lot of",
          "startTime": "01:09:56,156",
          "endTime": "01:10:00,096"
        },
        {
          "index": 1443,
          "text": "options you have for what you do with the bicycles.",
          "startTime": "01:10:00,196",
          "endTime": "01:10:02,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 1444,
          "text": "We did not go through different design treatments.",
          "startTime": "01:10:02,696",
          "endTime": "01:10:05,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1445,
          "text": "We assumed if you pursue this further, that stuff can be discussed",
          "startTime": "01:10:05,576",
          "endTime": "01:10:09,216"
        },
        {
          "index": 1446,
          "text": "more. But it could be something, right, that's shown in that illustration, 'cause",
          "startTime": "01:10:09,316",
          "endTime": "01:10:12,836"
        },
        {
          "index": 1447,
          "text": "you, you know, that's the kind of room you would have.",
          "startTime": "01:10:12,876",
          "endTime": "01:10:14,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 1448,
          "text": "So it could be some kind of protected facility.",
          "startTime": "01:10:14,936",
          "endTime": "01:10:17,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 1449,
          "text": "Um, for people walking,",
          "startTime": "01:10:18,056",
          "endTime": "01:10:21,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1450,
          "text": "because we're not moving the curbs, the sidewalks aren't gonna get bigger, wider,",
          "startTime": "01:10:21,916",
          "endTime": "01:10:24,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1451,
          "text": "but there is now probably more of a buffer between the cars and them, right?",
          "startTime": "01:10:24,996",
          "endTime": "01:10:28,676"
        },
        {
          "index": 1452,
          "text": "If we have more space being preserved for the bikes.",
          "startTime": "01:10:28,716",
          "endTime": "01:10:31,796"
        },
        {
          "index": 1453,
          "text": "Uh, also, as I mentioned before, your crossings are gonna probably get easier",
          "startTime": "01:10:32,516",
          "endTime": "01:10:36,416"
        },
        {
          "index": 1454,
          "text": "and safer. So, you know, it's a, it's a win for",
          "startTime": "01:10:36,456",
          "endTime": "01:10:40,236"
        },
        {
          "index": 1455,
          "text": "people walking. Transit, I got the question mark there,",
          "startTime": "01:10:40,296",
          "endTime": "01:10:43,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 1456,
          "text": "kind of depends on the design choices you make going forward.",
          "startTime": "01:10:44,256",
          "endTime": "01:10:47,556"
        },
        {
          "index": 1457,
          "text": "The thing about transit is access to transit, same with people walking and biking",
          "startTime": "01:10:47,576",
          "endTime": "01:10:51,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1458,
          "text": "for all the reasons I mentioned before, it's probably gonna get better and, and be",
          "startTime": "01:10:51,576",
          "endTime": "01:10:55,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1459,
          "text": "easier and safer. But, but buses also",
          "startTime": "01:10:55,556",
          "endTime": "01:10:59,216"
        },
        {
          "index": 1460,
          "text": "drive right in the travel lanes, and so some of the things that, the",
          "startTime": "01:10:59,256",
          "endTime": "01:11:02,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 1461,
          "text": "detractions from people that are driving, buses also have to deal with.",
          "startTime": "01:11:02,756",
          "endTime": "01:11:06,016"
        },
        {
          "index": 1462,
          "text": "So if there's more congestion, that's gonna affect their travel times as",
          "startTime": "01:11:06,076",
          "endTime": "01:11:09,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1463,
          "text": "well. Or if you choose to do bus stops in lane versus",
          "startTime": "01:11:09,576",
          "endTime": "01:11:13,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 1464,
          "text": "having them pull out, it's probably gonna be harder for them to get into the",
          "startTime": "01:11:13,756",
          "endTime": "01:11:17,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 1465,
          "text": "new three-lane section. So there are some trade-offs for transit,",
          "startTime": "01:11:17,676",
          "endTime": "01:11:21,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1466,
          "text": "and usually it's a positive change, but could depend on the design",
          "startTime": "01:11:21,576",
          "endTime": "01:11:25,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 1467,
          "text": "choices you ultimately make.",
          "startTime": "01:11:25,176",
          "endTime": "01:11:26,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1468,
          "text": "Mm.",
          "startTime": "01:11:26,796",
          "endTime": "01:11:28,216"
        },
        {
          "index": 1469,
          "text": "Uh, so with that said, the last category is really kind of how does",
          "startTime": "01:11:30,116",
          "endTime": "01:11:34,016"
        },
        {
          "index": 1470,
          "text": "this, this affect, you know, driving through the corridor.",
          "startTime": "01:11:34,136",
          "endTime": "01:11:37,175"
        },
        {
          "index": 1471,
          "text": "Uh, and I will say just for this feasibility assessment, we only looked at the",
          "startTime": "01:11:37,295",
          "endTime": "01:11:40,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 1472,
          "text": "p.m./p.m. hour. So if there's morning issues with, you know, schools or whatnot,",
          "startTime": "01:11:40,476",
          "endTime": "01:11:44,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 1473,
          "text": "we didn't look at that for this. Uh, we looked at what happens in twenty",
          "startTime": "01:11:44,476",
          "endTime": "01:11:48,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 1474,
          "text": "twenty-five, so if you did it right away, versus what happens in twenty years, so",
          "startTime": "01:11:48,456",
          "endTime": "01:11:52,196"
        },
        {
          "index": 1475,
          "text": "year twenty forty-five. And to kind of assess",
          "startTime": "01:11:52,236",
          "endTime": "01:11:56,176"
        },
        {
          "index": 1476,
          "text": "if, you know, the acceptable level of congestion, we used Corvallis's",
          "startTime": "01:11:56,836",
          "endTime": "01:12:00,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 1477,
          "text": "adopted mobility standards. This, you know, same thing a developer would",
          "startTime": "01:12:00,616",
          "endTime": "01:12:04,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 1478,
          "text": "use if they do a transportation, you know, impact study.",
          "startTime": "01:12:04,636",
          "endTime": "01:12:08,276"
        },
        {
          "index": 1479,
          "text": "Uh, and so",
          "startTime": "01:12:08,396",
          "endTime": "01:12:09,416"
        },
        {
          "index": 1480,
          "text": "from the no-build scenario, what we found was congestion",
          "startTime": "01:12:10,416",
          "endTime": "01:12:14,156"
        },
        {
          "index": 1481,
          "text": "levels at all the intersections are within adopted standards today,",
          "startTime": "01:12:14,216",
          "endTime": "01:12:18,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 1482,
          "text": "and all but Highland Drive intersection would be in twenty forty-five.",
          "startTime": "01:12:18,096",
          "endTime": "01:12:22,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 1483,
          "text": "Um, so now if we go to the three-lane, this is with no right turn",
          "startTime": "01:12:23,256",
          "endTime": "01:12:26,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1484,
          "text": "lanes, pure three-lane, now Highland and",
          "startTime": "01:12:27,016",
          "endTime": "01:12:30,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 1485,
          "text": "Twenty-Ninth, they get fairly congested today, so they wouldn't meet your mobility",
          "startTime": "01:12:30,196",
          "endTime": "01:12:33,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1486,
          "text": "standards, and they'd get, you know, fairly worse by twenty",
          "startTime": "01:12:34,116",
          "endTime": "01:12:37,916"
        },
        {
          "index": 1487,
          "text": "forty-five. But really no other intersections, have that",
          "startTime": "01:12:38,036",
          "endTime": "01:12:41,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1488,
          "text": "problem. So then if we go back, and we add some right turn",
          "startTime": "01:12:41,556",
          "endTime": "01:12:45,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 1489,
          "text": "lanes in at the congested locations, now Highland",
          "startTime": "01:12:45,326",
          "endTime": "01:12:49,156"
        },
        {
          "index": 1490,
          "text": "Drive is congested today as well as in twenty forty-five, but",
          "startTime": "01:12:49,216",
          "endTime": "01:12:53,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 1491,
          "text": "Twenty-Ninth isn't a problem anymore.",
          "startTime": "01:12:53,176",
          "endTime": "01:12:54,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1492,
          "text": "Um, and while it varies from place to place, the levels of",
          "startTime": "01:12:55,516",
          "endTime": "01:12:59,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 1493,
          "text": "congestion are fairly comparable to the no-build condition.",
          "startTime": "01:12:59,496",
          "endTime": "01:13:03,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 1494,
          "text": "So right turn lanes added strategically where they're needed can certainly",
          "startTime": "01:13:03,496",
          "endTime": "01:13:07,336"
        },
        {
          "index": 1495,
          "text": "help with congestion at the intersections.",
          "startTime": "01:13:07,376",
          "endTime": "01:13:09,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1496,
          "text": "Uh, but again, a lot of this is gonna come down ultimately, if this were to be",
          "startTime": "01:13:09,796",
          "endTime": "01:13:12,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1497,
          "text": "pursued, is what design choices you end up making in the future.",
          "startTime": "01:13:13,016",
          "endTime": "01:13:15,916"
        },
        {
          "index": 1498,
          "text": "Can I ask a question?",
          "startTime": "01:13:16,196",
          "endTime": "01:13:17,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 1499,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:13:17,356",
          "endTime": "01:13:17,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 1500,
          "text": "What-- How do you determine the number of cars twenty",
          "startTime": "01:13:17,656",
          "endTime": "01:13:21,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 1501,
          "text": "years out? What kind of da-- How do you pull that data?",
          "startTime": "01:13:21,616",
          "endTime": "01:13:24,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1502,
          "text": "Uh, so it's, it's using, the, regional",
          "startTime": "01:13:24,772",
          "endTime": "01:13:28,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 1503,
          "text": "travel demand model, that, is,",
          "startTime": "01:13:28,472",
          "endTime": "01:13:31,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 1504,
          "text": "managed by the Oregon Department of Transportation.",
          "startTime": "01:13:32,672",
          "endTime": "01:13:34,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 1505,
          "text": "So it's the same forecasting model that's used for your",
          "startTime": "01:13:34,852",
          "endTime": "01:13:38,092"
        },
        {
          "index": 1506,
          "text": "transportation system plan and for the, the regional transportation",
          "startTime": "01:13:38,132",
          "endTime": "01:13:41,952"
        },
        {
          "index": 1507,
          "text": "plan. And it, it, has coordinated",
          "startTime": "01:13:42,012",
          "endTime": "01:13:45,912"
        },
        {
          "index": 1508,
          "text": "population, you know, employment, right, housing projections,",
          "startTime": "01:13:46,012",
          "endTime": "01:13:49,892"
        },
        {
          "index": 1509,
          "text": "that have been coordinated with the, the cities, the counties",
          "startTime": "01:13:50,452",
          "endTime": "01:13:53,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 1510,
          "text": "built into this. So it's, it's based on the long-term projection",
          "startTime": "01:13:54,072",
          "endTime": "01:13:57,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 1511,
          "text": "for, the city and its surroundings.",
          "startTime": "01:13:57,992",
          "endTime": "01:14:00,592"
        },
        {
          "index": 1512,
          "text": "Okay. Do you know how current it is?",
          "startTime": "01:14:00,652",
          "endTime": "01:14:03,712"
        },
        {
          "index": 1513,
          "text": "Um, they updated it",
          "startTime": "01:14:03,812",
          "endTime": "01:14:05,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 1514,
          "text": "a few years ago.",
          "startTime": "01:14:06,872",
          "endTime": "01:14:07,692"
        },
        {
          "index": 1515,
          "text": "Okay. That'll work.",
          "startTime": "01:14:08,532",
          "endTime": "01:14:09,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 1516,
          "text": "Yeah. We did a little bit of refinement based on kind of what we know now",
          "startTime": "01:14:09,292",
          "endTime": "01:14:13,132"
        },
        {
          "index": 1517,
          "text": "about where development is or isn't likely gonna happen, but",
          "startTime": "01:14:13,192",
          "endTime": "01:14:15,892"
        },
        {
          "index": 1518,
          "text": "it's fairly true.",
          "startTime": "01:14:15,912",
          "endTime": "01:14:18,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 1519,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:14:18,532",
          "endTime": "01:14:19,292"
        },
        {
          "index": 1520,
          "text": "Yes. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:14:19,352",
          "endTime": "01:14:23,181"
        },
        {
          "index": 1521,
          "text": "so looking at travel time, so I don't know how many people drive the whole length,",
          "startTime": "01:14:23,392",
          "endTime": "01:14:26,792"
        },
        {
          "index": 1522,
          "text": "but, you know, instead of just looking at the intersections, we said, \"Well, what",
          "startTime": "01:14:26,812",
          "endTime": "01:14:29,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 1523,
          "text": "if you drove the whole corridor? How much difference does it make?\"",
          "startTime": "01:14:29,892",
          "endTime": "01:14:33,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 1524,
          "text": "Uh, and this was, with the right turn lanes in place,",
          "startTime": "01:14:33,272",
          "endTime": "01:14:37,232"
        },
        {
          "index": 1525,
          "text": "if you'd went, end to end, increased travel time by one to",
          "startTime": "01:14:37,332",
          "endTime": "01:14:41,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 1526,
          "text": "two minutes, depending on if you're going with the, the peak flow of direction or",
          "startTime": "01:14:41,372",
          "endTime": "01:14:44,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 1527,
          "text": "not. And that's about a fifteen to thirty percent",
          "startTime": "01:14:44,652",
          "endTime": "01:14:47,772"
        },
        {
          "index": 1528,
          "text": "increase. Uh, so that's about, I think it was like seven minutes in the",
          "startTime": "01:14:47,812",
          "endTime": "01:14:51,712"
        },
        {
          "index": 1529,
          "text": "no build scenario.",
          "startTime": "01:14:51,752",
          "endTime": "01:14:54,912"
        },
        {
          "index": 1530,
          "text": "Um, so again, on the diversion issue, and again, this is",
          "startTime": "01:14:55,052",
          "endTime": "01:14:58,952"
        },
        {
          "index": 1531,
          "text": "where we used that, that travel demand model I referenced,",
          "startTime": "01:14:59,012",
          "endTime": "01:15:02,112"
        },
        {
          "index": 1532,
          "text": "and kind of tested, okay, if we have this",
          "startTime": "01:15:03,532",
          "endTime": "01:15:05,572"
        },
        {
          "index": 1533,
          "text": "congestion,",
          "startTime": "01:15:05,642",
          "endTime": "01:15:06,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 1534,
          "text": "where... are we gonna lose any traffic to another route?",
          "startTime": "01:15:07,272",
          "endTime": "01:15:10,332"
        },
        {
          "index": 1535,
          "text": "And again, this was done kind of with the worst case",
          "startTime": "01:15:10,432",
          "endTime": "01:15:13,072"
        },
        {
          "index": 1536,
          "text": "scenario, I believe. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:15:13,152",
          "endTime": "01:15:16,172"
        },
        {
          "index": 1537,
          "text": "so, there is some diversion around Highland, right?",
          "startTime": "01:15:16,212",
          "endTime": "01:15:19,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 1538,
          "text": "Because that's really the main congestion point.",
          "startTime": "01:15:19,892",
          "endTime": "01:15:22,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 1539,
          "text": "But if, you know, you're familiar with the area, we don't really have a strong",
          "startTime": "01:15:22,872",
          "endTime": "01:15:25,832"
        },
        {
          "index": 1540,
          "text": "street grid, right? So there's not a lot of other places to go.",
          "startTime": "01:15:25,892",
          "endTime": "01:15:29,672"
        },
        {
          "index": 1541,
          "text": "And so Circle Boulevard, you know, is probably likely",
          "startTime": "01:15:29,712",
          "endTime": "01:15:33,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 1542,
          "text": "to pick up, just as another parallel arterial, about a hundred and",
          "startTime": "01:15:33,631",
          "endTime": "01:15:37,262"
        },
        {
          "index": 1543,
          "text": "fifty vehicles. That's about a twenty, twenty-five percent increase.",
          "startTime": "01:15:37,392",
          "endTime": "01:15:41,332"
        },
        {
          "index": 1544,
          "text": "Uh, now again, it's just during the peak hour. That's the only time we've analyzed.",
          "startTime": "01:15:41,412",
          "endTime": "01:15:44,712"
        },
        {
          "index": 1545,
          "text": "Uh, but that was in the twenty forty-five scenario with no right turn lane.",
          "startTime": "01:15:44,792",
          "endTime": "01:15:47,972"
        },
        {
          "index": 1546,
          "text": "So that's our worst case scenario.",
          "startTime": "01:15:48,012",
          "endTime": "01:15:50,612"
        },
        {
          "index": 1547,
          "text": "Uh, and then looking at local",
          "startTime": "01:15:50,732",
          "endTime": "01:15:53,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 1548,
          "text": "streets, was really the place where you really don't want a lot of that",
          "startTime": "01:15:53,992",
          "endTime": "01:15:57,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 1549,
          "text": "diversion. Thirteenth and Garriana are, you know, the likely",
          "startTime": "01:15:57,672",
          "endTime": "01:16:01,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 1550,
          "text": "places where if you're gonna see some diversion like that, that's probably where it",
          "startTime": "01:16:01,612",
          "endTime": "01:16:04,861"
        },
        {
          "index": 1551,
          "text": "would happen, people trying to get around, you know, Highland.",
          "startTime": "01:16:04,872",
          "endTime": "01:16:08,332"
        },
        {
          "index": 1552,
          "text": "That was more on the order of, you know, less than fifty total between the",
          "startTime": "01:16:08,592",
          "endTime": "01:16:12,192"
        },
        {
          "index": 1553,
          "text": "two. So it's not really bad, but again, it could",
          "startTime": "01:16:12,232",
          "endTime": "01:16:15,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 1554,
          "text": "depend on the design choices that you make.",
          "startTime": "01:16:15,972",
          "endTime": "01:16:17,792"
        },
        {
          "index": 1555,
          "text": "If you do the right turn lanes, alleviate some of that congestion, maybe",
          "startTime": "01:16:17,852",
          "endTime": "01:16:20,992"
        },
        {
          "index": 1556,
          "text": "that demand really drops, or maybe there's some traffic calming treatment that",
          "startTime": "01:16:21,692",
          "endTime": "01:16:25,292"
        },
        {
          "index": 1557,
          "text": "could be done as well as that to help curb that.",
          "startTime": "01:16:25,352",
          "endTime": "01:16:28,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 1558,
          "text": "Uh, but at least from our preliminary assessment, that's what we're",
          "startTime": "01:16:28,392",
          "endTime": "01:16:31,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 1559,
          "text": "seeing. Um, so my last slide",
          "startTime": "01:16:31,572",
          "endTime": "01:16:35,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 1560,
          "text": "here, it's, it's kind of-- So that's kind of what we have framed up.",
          "startTime": "01:16:35,372",
          "endTime": "01:16:38,372"
        },
        {
          "index": 1561,
          "text": "Um, and like I said, my kind of take on that is it doesn't seem",
          "startTime": "01:16:38,472",
          "endTime": "01:16:42,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 1562,
          "text": "fatally flawed. It seems feasible to continue exploring, but a",
          "startTime": "01:16:42,512",
          "endTime": "01:16:46,352"
        },
        {
          "index": 1563,
          "text": "lot of it's gonna depend on design choices that you make, and",
          "startTime": "01:16:46,412",
          "endTime": "01:16:50,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 1564,
          "text": "again, community, preferences and decisions",
          "startTime": "01:16:50,192",
          "endTime": "01:16:53,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 1565,
          "text": "about balancing out kind of those different modes, right?",
          "startTime": "01:16:53,592",
          "endTime": "01:16:57,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 1566,
          "text": "How much you give in one area to get in another, and what's the acceptable",
          "startTime": "01:16:57,512",
          "endTime": "01:17:00,892"
        },
        {
          "index": 1567,
          "text": "balance. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:17:00,912",
          "endTime": "01:17:02,792"
        },
        {
          "index": 1568,
          "text": "and, and certainly, hopefully, this, you know, stimulates the conversation if this",
          "startTime": "01:17:04,252",
          "endTime": "01:17:07,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 1569,
          "text": "is gonna go forward. It highlights more questions that need to be answered if",
          "startTime": "01:17:07,932",
          "endTime": "01:17:11,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 1570,
          "text": "you take this to another step.",
          "startTime": "01:17:11,892",
          "endTime": "01:17:14,492"
        },
        {
          "index": 1571,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "01:17:14,512",
          "endTime": "01:17:14,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 1572,
          "text": "Yes, sir.",
          "startTime": "01:17:14,662",
          "endTime": "01:17:15,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 1573,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "01:17:15,312",
          "endTime": "01:17:16,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 1574,
          "text": "Just two quick things to keep in mind as we leave this",
          "startTime": "01:17:16,052",
          "endTime": "01:17:19,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 1575,
          "text": "topic. Um, there's a couple things that were happening at the same",
          "startTime": "01:17:19,832",
          "endTime": "01:17:23,752"
        },
        {
          "index": 1576,
          "text": "time that we were doing this evaluation that I just wanna touch on for a",
          "startTime": "01:17:23,852",
          "endTime": "01:17:27,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 1577,
          "text": "moment. Uh, one was, the school district talked about",
          "startTime": "01:17:27,272",
          "endTime": "01:17:31,092"
        },
        {
          "index": 1578,
          "text": "school, school closures and redistribution of, children.",
          "startTime": "01:17:31,672",
          "endTime": "01:17:35,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 1579,
          "text": "One of the things that we heard from community members, in the",
          "startTime": "01:17:35,292",
          "endTime": "01:17:39,152"
        },
        {
          "index": 1580,
          "text": "middle of the project was concern about what impact that might",
          "startTime": "01:17:39,192",
          "endTime": "01:17:43,152"
        },
        {
          "index": 1581,
          "text": "have on the analysis that we were, we're doing here.",
          "startTime": "01:17:43,252",
          "endTime": "01:17:47,072"
        },
        {
          "index": 1582,
          "text": "Uh, so we, we put our heads together and",
          "startTime": "01:17:47,192",
          "endTime": "01:17:50,501"
        },
        {
          "index": 1583,
          "text": "crammed more work into an already tight schedule,",
          "startTime": "01:17:51,092",
          "endTime": "01:17:54,172"
        },
        {
          "index": 1584,
          "text": "and got, got with the school district, got information from them, on",
          "startTime": "01:17:55,452",
          "endTime": "01:17:59,432"
        },
        {
          "index": 1585,
          "text": "enrollment projections, did some analysis,",
          "startTime": "01:17:59,512",
          "endTime": "01:18:02,912"
        },
        {
          "index": 1586,
          "text": "and, found that the numbers",
          "startTime": "01:18:03,032",
          "endTime": "01:18:05,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 1587,
          "text": "as, projected didn't change the results of what we",
          "startTime": "01:18:06,092",
          "endTime": "01:18:10,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 1588,
          "text": "looked at and would recommend, in the study here.",
          "startTime": "01:18:10,132",
          "endTime": "01:18:13,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 1589,
          "text": "So didn't have a meaningful impact on intersection performance, for",
          "startTime": "01:18:13,372",
          "endTime": "01:18:16,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 1590,
          "text": "example. Where, where we communicated with the",
          "startTime": "01:18:16,372",
          "endTime": "01:18:20,352"
        },
        {
          "index": 1591,
          "text": "task force members where that still might be important to",
          "startTime": "01:18:20,412",
          "endTime": "01:18:23,732"
        },
        {
          "index": 1592,
          "text": "people is when we have that funding discussion,",
          "startTime": "01:18:23,792",
          "endTime": "01:18:27,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 1593,
          "text": "later about where do we want to invest and, and not invest",
          "startTime": "01:18:27,912",
          "endTime": "01:18:31,072"
        },
        {
          "index": 1594,
          "text": "when, what do, what do we invest in first.",
          "startTime": "01:18:31,192",
          "endTime": "01:18:33,512"
        },
        {
          "index": 1595,
          "text": "Uh, that might be something that people point to.",
          "startTime": "01:18:34,092",
          "endTime": "01:18:36,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 1596,
          "text": "You already have more kids, attending the school, that might",
          "startTime": "01:18:36,352",
          "endTime": "01:18:39,752"
        },
        {
          "index": 1597,
          "text": "be a reason to invest in additional safety,",
          "startTime": "01:18:39,792",
          "endTime": "01:18:43,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 1598,
          "text": "improvements sooner in one location over another that might have data",
          "startTime": "01:18:43,882",
          "endTime": "01:18:47,612"
        },
        {
          "index": 1599,
          "text": "that's, that's, that's showing a problem.",
          "startTime": "01:18:47,672",
          "endTime": "01:18:50,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 1600,
          "text": "That'll be a conversation to have later.",
          "startTime": "01:18:50,052",
          "endTime": "01:18:53,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 1601,
          "text": "Uh, the other thing that was happening at the same time, was a",
          "startTime": "01:18:53,532",
          "endTime": "01:18:57,272"
        },
        {
          "index": 1602,
          "text": "conversation about,",
          "startTime": "01:18:57,332",
          "endTime": "01:18:59,372"
        },
        {
          "index": 1603,
          "text": "streets SDCs, and there was concern about removal of",
          "startTime": "01:19:02,092",
          "endTime": "01:19:05,212"
        },
        {
          "index": 1604,
          "text": "a recreational path, parallel",
          "startTime": "01:19:05,272",
          "endTime": "01:19:08,752"
        },
        {
          "index": 1605,
          "text": "Walnut in the near term, funding, their,",
          "startTime": "01:19:09,112",
          "endTime": "01:19:12,492"
        },
        {
          "index": 1606,
          "text": "all, all, for their projects as well.",
          "startTime": "01:19:13,332",
          "endTime": "01:19:15,332"
        },
        {
          "index": 1607,
          "text": "That wasn't needed from a transportation perspective.",
          "startTime": "01:19:15,352",
          "endTime": "01:19:17,972"
        },
        {
          "index": 1608,
          "text": "It's not like a TSP, pedestrian",
          "startTime": "01:19:17,992",
          "endTime": "01:19:21,052"
        },
        {
          "index": 1609,
          "text": "path. So it is, was, was there from a recreational",
          "startTime": "01:19:21,592",
          "endTime": "01:19:24,712"
        },
        {
          "index": 1610,
          "text": "perspectiveBut there again, it was another thing that, if",
          "startTime": "01:19:24,792",
          "endTime": "01:19:28,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1611,
          "text": "constructed, might have provided another alternative,",
          "startTime": "01:19:28,844",
          "endTime": "01:19:32,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1612,
          "text": "for people, and that might be another reason why,",
          "startTime": "01:19:33,204",
          "endTime": "01:19:36,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 1613,
          "text": "someone might look at improvements on, on Walnut",
          "startTime": "01:19:37,084",
          "endTime": "01:19:40,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 1614,
          "text": "even though the data isn't there. I'm not advocating one way or another,",
          "startTime": "01:19:40,724",
          "endTime": "01:19:44,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 1615,
          "text": "and I'm not trying to argue one way or the",
          "startTime": "01:19:44,844",
          "endTime": "01:19:47,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 1616,
          "text": "other. Um, but there are some real things",
          "startTime": "01:19:47,804",
          "endTime": "01:19:51,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 1617,
          "text": "that are gonna come, that are gonna come up",
          "startTime": "01:19:51,344",
          "endTime": "01:19:54,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 1618,
          "text": "that, warrant consideration when you do get to the point of",
          "startTime": "01:19:54,844",
          "endTime": "01:19:58,724"
        },
        {
          "index": 1619,
          "text": "weighing those things. And we tried to be mindful of the ones that we",
          "startTime": "01:19:58,764",
          "endTime": "01:20:01,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1620,
          "text": "could, put numbers to, like the school district, in",
          "startTime": "01:20:01,844",
          "endTime": "01:20:05,544"
        },
        {
          "index": 1621,
          "text": "this, in this analysis so we were current with the times.",
          "startTime": "01:20:05,584",
          "endTime": "01:20:09,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 1622,
          "text": "That's actually gonna be very helpful with some of the",
          "startTime": "01:20:09,864",
          "endTime": "01:20:13,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 1623,
          "text": "conversations, you having done that, so thanks for taking the extra time.",
          "startTime": "01:20:13,384",
          "endTime": "01:20:16,673"
        },
        {
          "index": 1624,
          "text": "Yeah. Yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:20:16,684",
          "endTime": "01:20:17,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 1625,
          "text": "Thanks to John. It wasn't, it wasn't easy to",
          "startTime": "01:20:17,584",
          "endTime": "01:20:19,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 1626,
          "text": "accommodate.",
          "startTime": "01:20:19,944",
          "endTime": "01:20:21,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 1627,
          "text": "Who ever did that?",
          "startTime": "01:20:21,784",
          "endTime": "01:20:24,673"
        },
        {
          "index": 1628,
          "text": "I'll move on. Uh, I'm probably gonna have to hit the",
          "startTime": "01:20:26,724",
          "endTime": "01:20:30,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 1629,
          "text": "accelerator here a little bit too.",
          "startTime": "01:20:30,524",
          "endTime": "01:20:32,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 1630,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:20:32,724",
          "endTime": "01:20:33,104"
        },
        {
          "index": 1631,
          "text": "third supplemental planning activity.",
          "startTime": "01:20:34,244",
          "endTime": "01:20:36,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 1632,
          "text": "So Neighborhood Traffic Management Program Assessment.",
          "startTime": "01:20:36,344",
          "endTime": "01:20:39,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 1633,
          "text": "Uh, so what we did is essentially we audited the city's",
          "startTime": "01:20:39,604",
          "endTime": "01:20:43,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1634,
          "text": "current, you know, neighborhood traffic calming program, which is very well",
          "startTime": "01:20:43,264",
          "endTime": "01:20:46,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 1635,
          "text": "documented. Um, and, kind of looked at that",
          "startTime": "01:20:46,904",
          "endTime": "01:20:50,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 1636,
          "text": "compared to best practices, and, and,",
          "startTime": "01:20:50,704",
          "endTime": "01:20:53,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1637,
          "text": "talked to staff about kind of their experiences with it and,",
          "startTime": "01:20:54,384",
          "endTime": "01:20:58,084"
        },
        {
          "index": 1638,
          "text": "provided some recommendations to look into to, improve the",
          "startTime": "01:20:58,514",
          "endTime": "01:21:02,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 1639,
          "text": "program. Uh, looking at, kind of key things like how",
          "startTime": "01:21:02,104",
          "endTime": "01:21:05,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 1640,
          "text": "community requests are processed and your roles and",
          "startTime": "01:21:06,044",
          "endTime": "01:21:09,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 1641,
          "text": "responsibilities between community members and staff.",
          "startTime": "01:21:09,204",
          "endTime": "01:21:12,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 1642,
          "text": "You know, how satisfied, staff and the city have been with the outcomes they've",
          "startTime": "01:21:12,844",
          "endTime": "01:21:16,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 1643,
          "text": "been getting. Uh, and then just, you know, kind of equitable access and,",
          "startTime": "01:21:16,544",
          "endTime": "01:21:20,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 1644,
          "text": "and outcomes.",
          "startTime": "01:21:20,484",
          "endTime": "01:21:22,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 1645,
          "text": "Um, so the current program, if you're not",
          "startTime": "01:21:23,604",
          "endTime": "01:21:27,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1646,
          "text": "familiar with it, it's, it's a very structured process, and it's for",
          "startTime": "01:21:27,244",
          "endTime": "01:21:31,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1647,
          "text": "reducing speeds and cut-through traffic on neighborhood streets.",
          "startTime": "01:21:31,284",
          "endTime": "01:21:34,224"
        },
        {
          "index": 1648,
          "text": "So this is specifically applicable to local streets, so not arterials and",
          "startTime": "01:21:34,244",
          "endTime": "01:21:37,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1649,
          "text": "collectors. Um, and it emphasizes goals.",
          "startTime": "01:21:37,564",
          "endTime": "01:21:41,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1650,
          "text": "You know, it's trying to achieve neighborhood livability, create broad",
          "startTime": "01:21:41,164",
          "endTime": "01:21:44,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1651,
          "text": "community involvement. You know, you have efficient uses of city",
          "startTime": "01:21:44,864",
          "endTime": "01:21:47,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 1652,
          "text": "resources, and involve periodic assessment",
          "startTime": "01:21:47,784",
          "endTime": "01:21:51,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 1653,
          "text": "of effectiveness. Uh, and so this is where I might",
          "startTime": "01:21:51,704",
          "endTime": "01:21:55,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 1654,
          "text": "l-move a little bit quickly. Um, so I'll kind of",
          "startTime": "01:21:55,464",
          "endTime": "01:21:59,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1655,
          "text": "quickly run through the process as it is.",
          "startTime": "01:21:59,204",
          "endTime": "01:22:01,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1656,
          "text": "So requests can be submitted any time right now.",
          "startTime": "01:22:01,584",
          "endTime": "01:22:04,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1657,
          "text": "Uh, when the city gets requests, first they try to do enforcement strategies",
          "startTime": "01:22:04,964",
          "endTime": "01:22:08,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1658,
          "text": "to see if that will fix the problem.",
          "startTime": "01:22:08,844",
          "endTime": "01:22:10,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 1659,
          "text": "That doesn't work, then the requester must",
          "startTime": "01:22:10,904",
          "endTime": "01:22:14,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 1660,
          "text": "circulate a petition to study to demonstrate they have neighborhood",
          "startTime": "01:22:14,504",
          "endTime": "01:22:18,044"
        },
        {
          "index": 1661,
          "text": "support, and they have to get a majority of support through this.",
          "startTime": "01:22:18,104",
          "endTime": "01:22:21,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1662,
          "text": "I think the situation is the city provides the boundary of what they determine the",
          "startTime": "01:22:21,534",
          "endTime": "01:22:25,053"
        },
        {
          "index": 1663,
          "text": "affected area is, and then the-- whoever put the request in the neighborhood",
          "startTime": "01:22:25,053",
          "endTime": "01:22:28,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1664,
          "text": "has to do the legwork.",
          "startTime": "01:22:28,884",
          "endTime": "01:22:30,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1665,
          "text": "City determines also the, you know, look at the contacts and data to see if the",
          "startTime": "01:22:31,044",
          "endTime": "01:22:34,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1666,
          "text": "location would even qualify for, you know, like a traffic calming improvement.",
          "startTime": "01:22:34,664",
          "endTime": "01:22:38,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1667,
          "text": "Then the, neighborhood has to form a neighborhood traffic committee and",
          "startTime": "01:22:40,004",
          "endTime": "01:22:43,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1668,
          "text": "organize that. They work with the city to create a plan and identify",
          "startTime": "01:22:43,924",
          "endTime": "01:22:47,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1669,
          "text": "performance measures to see what they're gonna do is effective.",
          "startTime": "01:22:47,564",
          "endTime": "01:22:51,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 1670,
          "text": "The neighborhood then has to fund a test installation.",
          "startTime": "01:22:51,344",
          "endTime": "01:22:54,814"
        },
        {
          "index": 1671,
          "text": "Uh, if that's found to be effective, city again",
          "startTime": "01:22:56,204",
          "endTime": "01:23:00,024"
        },
        {
          "index": 1672,
          "text": "confirms neighborhood support with the confidential",
          "startTime": "01:23:00,064",
          "endTime": "01:23:02,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 1673,
          "text": "ballots. Uh, if that comes out positive, they have",
          "startTime": "01:23:02,884",
          "endTime": "01:23:06,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 1674,
          "text": "demonstrated support, city council then, can approve,",
          "startTime": "01:23:06,504",
          "endTime": "01:23:09,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 1675,
          "text": "modify, or reject the proposal. The",
          "startTime": "01:23:10,024",
          "endTime": "01:23:13,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 1676,
          "text": "neighborhood then has to fund the project, but the city will design",
          "startTime": "01:23:13,664",
          "endTime": "01:23:17,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 1677,
          "text": "it and construct it. Uh, improvements are evaluated by the",
          "startTime": "01:23:17,604",
          "endTime": "01:23:21,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 1678,
          "text": "city through another neighborhood survey.",
          "startTime": "01:23:21,384",
          "endTime": "01:23:24,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1679,
          "text": "Uh, city staff give the final report to city council, and then city council can",
          "startTime": "01:23:25,484",
          "endTime": "01:23:29,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 1680,
          "text": "approve it, modify it, extend the evaluation further,",
          "startTime": "01:23:29,044",
          "endTime": "01:23:32,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 1681,
          "text": "or even order it to be removed.",
          "startTime": "01:23:32,964",
          "endTime": "01:23:36,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 1682,
          "text": "Uh, and so, kind of the recommendations, kind of looking through that",
          "startTime": "01:23:37,664",
          "endTime": "01:23:41,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1683,
          "text": "and other best practices, the main things we're focused on are things like",
          "startTime": "01:23:41,604",
          "endTime": "01:23:45,164"
        },
        {
          "index": 1684,
          "text": "transparency and accountability, equitable access for",
          "startTime": "01:23:45,183",
          "endTime": "01:23:48,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 1685,
          "text": "sure, and just kind of, ability to delivery-- deliver",
          "startTime": "01:23:48,704",
          "endTime": "01:23:52,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 1686,
          "text": "efficiently. Although there were some",
          "startTime": "01:23:52,524",
          "endTime": "01:23:56,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 1687,
          "text": "things about the program that do align with best practices that are positive, and",
          "startTime": "01:23:56,374",
          "endTime": "01:23:59,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1688,
          "text": "that's using before and after data collection, doing measured",
          "startTime": "01:23:59,684",
          "endTime": "01:24:02,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 1689,
          "text": "tests, and having formal city council",
          "startTime": "01:24:02,924",
          "endTime": "01:24:05,104"
        },
        {
          "index": 1690,
          "text": "involvement. So the biggest,",
          "startTime": "01:24:05,164",
          "endTime": "01:24:08,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 1691,
          "text": "recommended change, it's really a fundamental one, would be to move to a",
          "startTime": "01:24:08,924",
          "endTime": "01:24:12,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 1692,
          "text": "city-funded program. So right now, if you notice in my run-through, a",
          "startTime": "01:24:12,364",
          "endTime": "01:24:16,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 1693,
          "text": "lot of this is all paid by the neighborhoods.",
          "startTime": "01:24:16,404",
          "endTime": "01:24:18,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1694,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "01:24:18,244",
          "endTime": "01:24:18,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 1695,
          "text": "And a lot of the work is done by them too.",
          "startTime": "01:24:18,644",
          "endTime": "01:24:21,164"
        },
        {
          "index": 1696,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "01:24:21,224",
          "endTime": "01:24:21,724"
        },
        {
          "index": 1697,
          "text": "Um, obviously that, that would address the inequity where only the neighborhoods",
          "startTime": "01:24:21,824",
          "endTime": "01:24:25,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1698,
          "text": "with financial resources, and frankly time, can afford to",
          "startTime": "01:24:25,464",
          "endTime": "01:24:29,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 1699,
          "text": "have any improvements made in their commu-- in their neighborhoods.",
          "startTime": "01:24:29,384",
          "endTime": "01:24:32,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1700,
          "text": "Uh, it'd make the process, I think, easier and more predictable for everyone,",
          "startTime": "01:24:32,644",
          "endTime": "01:24:36,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1701,
          "text": "staff included, because I would imagine now, not only is there a big barrier to",
          "startTime": "01:24:36,604",
          "endTime": "01:24:40,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 1702,
          "text": "entry, but if the neighborhood has to keep coming up with funding at different",
          "startTime": "01:24:40,464",
          "endTime": "01:24:43,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 1703,
          "text": "points, project could disappear for years and then",
          "startTime": "01:24:43,884",
          "endTime": "01:24:47,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 1704,
          "text": "come back at a time when staff may not expect it or have the bandwidth to even deal",
          "startTime": "01:24:47,704",
          "endTime": "01:24:51,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 1705,
          "text": "with it. Uh, so it'd be, much more efficient and predictable",
          "startTime": "01:24:51,684",
          "endTime": "01:24:55,544"
        },
        {
          "index": 1706,
          "text": "if that was just, a city program.",
          "startTime": "01:24:55,604",
          "endTime": "01:24:58,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1707,
          "text": "Great.",
          "startTime": "01:24:58,224",
          "endTime": "01:25:00,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 1708,
          "text": "Um, other recommendations involving simplifying the",
          "startTime": "01:25:00,304",
          "endTime": "01:25:04,044"
        },
        {
          "index": 1709,
          "text": "process. Um, and that's things like using a, a",
          "startTime": "01:25:04,064",
          "endTime": "01:25:07,884"
        },
        {
          "index": 1710,
          "text": "program webpage with information about the program to help people understand how to",
          "startTime": "01:25:07,924",
          "endTime": "01:25:11,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 1711,
          "text": "engage with it. You can even show the eligibility of projects that are in",
          "startTime": "01:25:11,684",
          "endTime": "01:25:15,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 1712,
          "text": "the-- or what's an eligible project and show what the status of projects in the",
          "startTime": "01:25:15,624",
          "endTime": "01:25:19,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 1713,
          "text": "queue, are. Uh, and then",
          "startTime": "01:25:19,324",
          "endTime": "01:25:23,104"
        },
        {
          "index": 1714,
          "text": "consider applications on a regular cycle.",
          "startTime": "01:25:23,144",
          "endTime": "01:25:25,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 1715,
          "text": "So maybe you could still apply any time, but make it clear that",
          "startTime": "01:25:25,364",
          "endTime": "01:25:29,164"
        },
        {
          "index": 1716,
          "text": "maybe once a year they'll be processed.",
          "startTime": "01:25:29,204",
          "endTime": "01:25:32,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 1717,
          "text": "Um-And then creating standardized requirements for",
          "startTime": "01:25:32,384",
          "endTime": "01:25:36,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 1718,
          "text": "eligibility, which is to help with screening and prioritizing.",
          "startTime": "01:25:36,328",
          "endTime": "01:25:40,068"
        },
        {
          "index": 1719,
          "text": "Um, and then right now there's a very prescribed outreach process, you",
          "startTime": "01:25:40,188",
          "endTime": "01:25:44,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 1720,
          "text": "noticed. I think since then, I think the, the city has discovered",
          "startTime": "01:25:44,228",
          "endTime": "01:25:48,188"
        },
        {
          "index": 1721,
          "text": "a lot of more effective and creative ways to do community engagement.",
          "startTime": "01:25:48,208",
          "endTime": "01:25:51,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 1722,
          "text": "And so maybe not making that so prescriptive and letting you customize that would",
          "startTime": "01:25:51,988",
          "endTime": "01:25:55,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 1723,
          "text": "probably be beneficial. Uh, having city council",
          "startTime": "01:25:55,868",
          "endTime": "01:25:59,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 1724,
          "text": "confirmation on the prioritized list of projects once per",
          "startTime": "01:25:59,628",
          "endTime": "01:26:02,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 1725,
          "text": "cycle. Uh, making tests not mandatory but",
          "startTime": "01:26:02,908",
          "endTime": "01:26:06,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 1726,
          "text": "optional, 'cause sometimes there are things the city may already have experience",
          "startTime": "01:26:06,908",
          "endTime": "01:26:09,608"
        },
        {
          "index": 1727,
          "text": "with. They, they know they're gonna be effective.",
          "startTime": "01:26:09,668",
          "endTime": "01:26:13,177"
        },
        {
          "index": 1728,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:26:13,328",
          "endTime": "01:26:13,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 1729,
          "text": "creating project eligibility criteria and a prioritization",
          "startTime": "01:26:14,908",
          "endTime": "01:26:18,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 1730,
          "text": "process,",
          "startTime": "01:26:18,568",
          "endTime": "01:26:19,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 1731,
          "text": "which, you know, popularity in the program increases because now it's easier",
          "startTime": "01:26:21,308",
          "endTime": "01:26:25,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 1732,
          "text": "to get access to. That would probably help process all the requests.",
          "startTime": "01:26:25,268",
          "endTime": "01:26:28,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 1733,
          "text": "Um, and another idea is, you could do a rotating,",
          "startTime": "01:26:29,008",
          "endTime": "01:26:32,628"
        },
        {
          "index": 1734,
          "text": "project cycle through geographic areas of the city to kinda",
          "startTime": "01:26:33,128",
          "endTime": "01:26:36,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 1735,
          "text": "help with, equitable distribution, much like the sidewalk safety",
          "startTime": "01:26:37,028",
          "endTime": "01:26:40,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 1736,
          "text": "program.",
          "startTime": "01:26:40,608",
          "endTime": "01:26:42,048"
        },
        {
          "index": 1737,
          "text": "Uh, and then I think the last recommendation was centralizing all that",
          "startTime": "01:26:43,048",
          "endTime": "01:26:46,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 1738,
          "text": "technical work back with city staff and not putting it on the",
          "startTime": "01:26:46,888",
          "endTime": "01:26:49,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 1739,
          "text": "neighborhood.",
          "startTime": "01:26:49,848",
          "endTime": "01:26:51,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 1740,
          "text": "So I thought this was very well described in the-- I",
          "startTime": "01:26:51,828",
          "endTime": "01:26:55,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 1741,
          "text": "thought the recommendation was",
          "startTime": "01:26:55,748",
          "endTime": "01:26:57,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 1742,
          "text": "really nice.",
          "startTime": "01:26:59,488",
          "endTime": "01:27:00,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 1743,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:27:00,248",
          "endTime": "01:27:00,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1744,
          "text": "I thought it was spot on. Uh, totally like it, too.",
          "startTime": "01:27:00,768",
          "endTime": "01:27:04,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 1745,
          "text": "I've always had a problem with this pro-- the old process",
          "startTime": "01:27:04,188",
          "endTime": "01:27:07,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 1746,
          "text": "because it's so geared to the neighborhoods that have long-term",
          "startTime": "01:27:07,868",
          "endTime": "01:27:11,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 1747,
          "text": "residents who own their homes, have money, and have those connections,",
          "startTime": "01:27:11,928",
          "endTime": "01:27:15,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 1748,
          "text": "where",
          "startTime": "01:27:15,768",
          "endTime": "01:27:15,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 1749,
          "text": "some of the neighborhoods that really need this work don't.",
          "startTime": "01:27:16,808",
          "endTime": "01:27:20,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 1750,
          "text": "So",
          "startTime": "01:27:20,248",
          "endTime": "01:27:20,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 1751,
          "text": "I was glad to spend the time looking into this.",
          "startTime": "01:27:21,308",
          "endTime": "01:27:24,767"
        },
        {
          "index": 1752,
          "text": "Uh, moving on. Speed limit investigation framework.",
          "startTime": "01:27:33,288",
          "endTime": "01:27:35,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 1753,
          "text": "The",
          "startTime": "01:27:35,988",
          "endTime": "01:27:36,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 1754,
          "text": "next of the supplemental planning activities. Uh, so what is this?",
          "startTime": "01:27:37,048",
          "endTime": "01:27:40,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 1755,
          "text": "So essentially this is an approach to reviewing and setting",
          "startTime": "01:27:40,708",
          "endTime": "01:27:43,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 1756,
          "text": "contact, context-sensitive speed limits on arterials and",
          "startTime": "01:27:44,048",
          "endTime": "01:27:47,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 1757,
          "text": "collectors throughout Corvallis.",
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          "endTime": "01:27:49,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 1758,
          "text": "So now we're not, not the neighborhood streets, now we're focused more on arterials",
          "startTime": "01:27:49,608",
          "endTime": "01:27:52,588"
        },
        {
          "index": 1759,
          "text": "and collectors. Uh, key here, context-sensitive,",
          "startTime": "01:27:52,608",
          "endTime": "01:27:56,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 1760,
          "text": "so and I'll touch on this a little bit more.",
          "startTime": "01:27:56,468",
          "endTime": "01:27:58,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 1761,
          "text": "So that's not simply just the statutory speed.",
          "startTime": "01:27:58,288",
          "endTime": "01:28:00,788"
        },
        {
          "index": 1762,
          "text": "So that is something that may align better with the actual land use and",
          "startTime": "01:28:00,828",
          "endTime": "01:28:04,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1763,
          "text": "the, the street design itself, if those are",
          "startTime": "01:28:04,768",
          "endTime": "01:28:06,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 1764,
          "text": "not in sync.",
          "startTime": "01:28:07,788",
          "endTime": "01:28:08,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 1765,
          "text": "Um, and then again, focus on arterials and collectors.",
          "startTime": "01:28:09,808",
          "endTime": "01:28:13,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 1766,
          "text": "And, emphasize the-- what are our recommendations here?",
          "startTime": "01:28:13,768",
          "endTime": "01:28:17,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 1767,
          "text": "This still works within current, regulations, so we're not changing state",
          "startTime": "01:28:17,688",
          "endTime": "01:28:21,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 1768,
          "text": "law. It's pretty consistent already, with the city's current",
          "startTime": "01:28:21,408",
          "endTime": "01:28:24,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 1769,
          "text": "practice. It's, really just provides more of a screening process to look at",
          "startTime": "01:28:24,928",
          "endTime": "01:28:28,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 1770,
          "text": "the whole network at once, rather than being maybe more ad hoc in",
          "startTime": "01:28:28,948",
          "endTime": "01:28:32,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 1771,
          "text": "identifying where the opportunities might be to then go and proactively do",
          "startTime": "01:28:32,508",
          "endTime": "01:28:36,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 1772,
          "text": "this.",
          "startTime": "01:28:36,428",
          "endTime": "01:28:39,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 1773,
          "text": "Um, so kind of the why is it important?",
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          "endTime": "01:28:41,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 1774,
          "text": "Obviously, speed is a big factor, right, in safety and, and the,",
          "startTime": "01:28:41,928",
          "endTime": "01:28:45,417"
        },
        {
          "index": 1775,
          "text": "severity of outcomes in a crash. Uh, especially if you're, you know,",
          "startTime": "01:28:45,857",
          "endTime": "01:28:49,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 1776,
          "text": "a vulnerable, you know, traveler, so you're walking or biking.",
          "startTime": "01:28:49,728",
          "endTime": "01:28:53,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 1777,
          "text": "Um, and speeds, you know, that don't align with what people expect 'cause the",
          "startTime": "01:28:53,428",
          "endTime": "01:28:57,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 1778,
          "text": "context is very different, can sometimes be",
          "startTime": "01:28:57,168",
          "endTime": "01:29:00,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 1779,
          "text": "confusing. And you end up with some people that are really trying to be rule",
          "startTime": "01:29:00,368",
          "endTime": "01:29:03,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 1780,
          "text": "followers and drive the posted speed, and other people that are following what",
          "startTime": "01:29:03,528",
          "endTime": "01:29:06,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 1781,
          "text": "their brain is telling them because the context and those big differences",
          "startTime": "01:29:06,468",
          "endTime": "01:29:10,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 1782,
          "text": "in speeds, can create safety problems of their",
          "startTime": "01:29:10,348",
          "endTime": "01:29:13,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 1783,
          "text": "own.",
          "startTime": "01:29:13,448",
          "endTime": "01:29:14,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 1784,
          "text": "And then my, my big warning, simply changing posted",
          "startTime": "01:29:15,208",
          "endTime": "01:29:18,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 1785,
          "text": "speeds, won't be effective unless the roadway design and context",
          "startTime": "01:29:18,848",
          "endTime": "01:29:22,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 1786,
          "text": "support it. Uh, in some cases, companion strategies, like",
          "startTime": "01:29:22,868",
          "endTime": "01:29:26,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 1787,
          "text": "changes to the street design may be needed, otherwise you could be making the",
          "startTime": "01:29:26,888",
          "endTime": "01:29:30,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 1788,
          "text": "problem worse. But this is a common thing, is people think, \"Well, let's just",
          "startTime": "01:29:30,408",
          "endTime": "01:29:34,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 1789,
          "text": "change the posted speed.\" If it's out of sync with the context, it",
          "startTime": "01:29:34,408",
          "endTime": "01:29:38,048"
        },
        {
          "index": 1790,
          "text": "probably isn't going to work.",
          "startTime": "01:29:38,248",
          "endTime": "01:29:41,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 1791,
          "text": "Um, so how are posted speeds set now?",
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          "endTime": "01:29:44,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 1792,
          "text": "So ODOT has all the responsibility for setting speed limits on all public",
          "startTime": "01:29:44,568",
          "endTime": "01:29:48,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 1793,
          "text": "roadways. Um, there's two kinds of, posted",
          "startTime": "01:29:48,548",
          "endTime": "01:29:52,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 1794,
          "text": "speeds. I mentioned statutory, so it's kinda like the default.",
          "startTime": "01:29:52,348",
          "endTime": "01:29:55,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 1795,
          "text": "Um, those are specified by, you know, state law and by road types,",
          "startTime": "01:29:55,948",
          "endTime": "01:29:59,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 1796,
          "text": "illustrated on the chart there. And then you have",
          "startTime": "01:29:59,748",
          "endTime": "01:30:02,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1797,
          "text": "designated, and so, that's where you're obviously deviating",
          "startTime": "01:30:02,948",
          "endTime": "01:30:06,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 1798,
          "text": "from the default. Um, and that involves, you know, the speed",
          "startTime": "01:30:06,908",
          "endTime": "01:30:10,628"
        },
        {
          "index": 1799,
          "text": "study typically. But there is the ability, as you notice on this",
          "startTime": "01:30:10,748",
          "endTime": "01:30:14,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 1800,
          "text": "table, you can kinda better align it with your context.",
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          "endTime": "01:30:17,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 1801,
          "text": "So if you're urban core, if you can read the numbers on the table up there,",
          "startTime": "01:30:18,028",
          "endTime": "01:30:21,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 1802,
          "text": "you'll notice there are allowable speeds for arterials and collectors that are",
          "startTime": "01:30:21,908",
          "endTime": "01:30:25,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 1803,
          "text": "lower than if you're in a suburban fringe area.",
          "startTime": "01:30:25,508",
          "endTime": "01:30:28,608"
        },
        {
          "index": 1804,
          "text": "But there are still kind of windows of allowed ranges, and they're fairly tight,",
          "startTime": "01:30:28,628",
          "endTime": "01:30:32,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 1805,
          "text": "you know, five-to-ten-mile-an-hour windows.",
          "startTime": "01:30:32,368",
          "endTime": "01:30:34,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 1806,
          "text": "So",
          "startTime": "01:30:34,128",
          "endTime": "01:30:34,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 1807,
          "text": "I would, you know, setting expectations appropriately, if you're thinking-- looking",
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          "endTime": "01:30:39,078"
        },
        {
          "index": 1808,
          "text": "at opportunities to lower posted speeds, it's probably not gonna be a",
          "startTime": "01:30:39,108",
          "endTime": "01:30:41,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 1809,
          "text": "twenty-mile-per-hour drop. It's probably gonna be a five-mile-per-hour drop,",
          "startTime": "01:30:41,808",
          "endTime": "01:30:45,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 1810,
          "text": "something like that.",
          "startTime": "01:30:45,188",
          "endTime": "01:30:45,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 1811,
          "text": "Uh, so how is it done now? So ODOT, while they do have the-- they still hold",
          "startTime": "01:30:48,008",
          "endTime": "01:30:51,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 1812,
          "text": "the authority and have to make the decisions, they can delegate authority to",
          "startTime": "01:30:51,968",
          "endTime": "01:30:55,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 1813,
          "text": "cities. Uh, but, the process and the",
          "startTime": "01:30:55,328",
          "endTime": "01:30:59,028"
        },
        {
          "index": 1814,
          "text": "criteria are still the same. Um, and ODOT",
          "startTime": "01:30:59,088",
          "endTime": "01:31:03,068"
        },
        {
          "index": 1815,
          "text": "still has to make the decisions. Really, what they're delegating to the city is,",
          "startTime": "01:31:03,128",
          "endTime": "01:31:07,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 1816,
          "text": "you do the legwork, you perform the investigation, rather than requesting",
          "startTime": "01:31:07,708",
          "endTime": "01:31:11,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 1817,
          "text": "ODOT to do it. But you still have to give that to",
          "startTime": "01:31:11,248",
          "endTime": "01:31:14,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 1818,
          "text": "ODOT. They're gonna make sure you did it to their standards, and they're still",
          "startTime": "01:31:14,228",
          "endTime": "01:31:17,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 1819,
          "text": "making the decision. So",
          "startTime": "01:31:17,608",
          "endTime": "01:31:19,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 1820,
          "text": "you still have, you, you have to have the time and the resources to do it for that",
          "startTime": "01:31:20,168",
          "endTime": "01:31:23,028"
        },
        {
          "index": 1821,
          "text": "to really be beneficial.",
          "startTime": "01:31:23,048",
          "endTime": "01:31:25,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 1822,
          "text": "Uh, so the proposed approach, and again, still working within the same regulations.",
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          "endTime": "01:31:31,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1823,
          "text": "We're not changing the laws. ODOT still has authority, but it's rather than kind of",
          "startTime": "01:31:31,738",
          "endTime": "01:31:35,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1824,
          "text": "ad hoc looking at maybe when a request comes up or if you're doing a CIP",
          "startTime": "01:31:35,308",
          "endTime": "01:31:38,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 1825,
          "text": "project and you notice maybe there's an opportunityIt's kind of screening the whole",
          "startTime": "01:31:38,988",
          "endTime": "01:31:42,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 1826,
          "text": "network and then seeing what pops up, where the context and the,",
          "startTime": "01:31:42,948",
          "endTime": "01:31:46,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 1827,
          "text": "the current posted speed, there might be some wiggle room.",
          "startTime": "01:31:46,848",
          "endTime": "01:31:50,008"
        },
        {
          "index": 1828,
          "text": "Um, so really that's, you know, doing some GIS analysis.",
          "startTime": "01:31:50,108",
          "endTime": "01:31:53,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1829,
          "text": "So right, just kind of coding in there in GIS what your land use",
          "startTime": "01:31:53,228",
          "endTime": "01:31:57,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 1830,
          "text": "contact zones are, what the current posted speeds are,",
          "startTime": "01:31:57,148",
          "endTime": "01:32:01,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 1831,
          "text": "and then kind of knowing where there's flexibility, seeing where the",
          "startTime": "01:32:01,128",
          "endTime": "01:32:05,008"
        },
        {
          "index": 1832,
          "text": "candidate locations are.",
          "startTime": "01:32:05,068",
          "endTime": "01:32:08,628"
        },
        {
          "index": 1833,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:32:09,388",
          "endTime": "01:32:09,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 1834,
          "text": "and then a note on residential streets, while we said",
          "startTime": "01:32:10,728",
          "endTime": "01:32:14,628"
        },
        {
          "index": 1835,
          "text": "we were focused on arterials and collectors.",
          "startTime": "01:32:14,688",
          "endTime": "01:32:16,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 1836,
          "text": "Uh, Oregon cities are permitted to designate twenty mile per hour speed",
          "startTime": "01:32:16,908",
          "endTime": "01:32:20,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 1837,
          "text": "limits on residential streets without any investigation.",
          "startTime": "01:32:20,788",
          "endTime": "01:32:24,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 1838,
          "text": "Um, however, right now, I believe in Corvallis, this is pretty",
          "startTime": "01:32:24,808",
          "endTime": "01:32:28,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 1839,
          "text": "common. It's-- a lot of your residential streets, they're not posted twenty-five",
          "startTime": "01:32:28,508",
          "endTime": "01:32:31,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 1840,
          "text": "miles per hour because that's the statutory speed already.",
          "startTime": "01:32:31,948",
          "endTime": "01:32:35,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 1841,
          "text": "And so if you're gonna make a change like that, people aren't gonna know you did",
          "startTime": "01:32:35,168",
          "endTime": "01:32:38,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 1842,
          "text": "it. Probably unless you do a pretty extensive outreach campaign, and then probably",
          "startTime": "01:32:38,288",
          "endTime": "01:32:42,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1843,
          "text": "also need to post all those streets twenty miles per hour,",
          "startTime": "01:32:42,288",
          "endTime": "01:32:45,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 1844,
          "text": "which comes with a lot of extra costs.",
          "startTime": "01:32:46,188",
          "endTime": "01:32:48,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 1845,
          "text": "Um, especially, you got to maintain all those things now that you've put them in.",
          "startTime": "01:32:48,208",
          "endTime": "01:32:51,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1846,
          "text": "So an alternative to that is y-you could think about",
          "startTime": "01:32:51,808",
          "endTime": "01:32:55,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 1847,
          "text": "doing it on select streets, like maybe, you know, neighborhood bikeways that are",
          "startTime": "01:32:55,708",
          "endTime": "01:32:59,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 1848,
          "text": "local streets, if you wanted to drop those to twenty miles an hour.",
          "startTime": "01:32:59,388",
          "endTime": "01:33:02,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1849,
          "text": "So it's like kind of that, that cost barrier may be more feasible, but",
          "startTime": "01:33:02,768",
          "endTime": "01:33:06,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1850,
          "text": "still something to look into and consider.",
          "startTime": "01:33:07,128",
          "endTime": "01:33:10,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 1851,
          "text": "So that is what we've provided for the Speed Limit Investigation",
          "startTime": "01:33:12,848",
          "endTime": "01:33:15,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 1852,
          "text": "Framework.",
          "startTime": "01:33:15,568",
          "endTime": "01:33:19,188"
        },
        {
          "index": 1853,
          "text": "The last supplemental planning activity, and this will be the shortest and sweetest",
          "startTime": "01:33:20,128",
          "endTime": "01:33:23,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 1854,
          "text": "one of all, Pedestrian Crossing Treatments",
          "startTime": "01:33:23,588",
          "endTime": "01:33:26,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1855,
          "text": "Matrix. I, I don't think you had a hand up for this one 'cause we're still tweaking",
          "startTime": "01:33:26,848",
          "endTime": "01:33:29,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 1856,
          "text": "some stuff with, with city staff on this.",
          "startTime": "01:33:29,948",
          "endTime": "01:33:32,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 1857,
          "text": "But really what this is, is, providing some criteria",
          "startTime": "01:33:32,568",
          "endTime": "01:33:36,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 1858,
          "text": "so the city can, I think, more consistently a-and",
          "startTime": "01:33:37,108",
          "endTime": "01:33:40,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 1859,
          "text": "objectively evaluate, requests or opportunities to do",
          "startTime": "01:33:40,448",
          "endTime": "01:33:44,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 1860,
          "text": "marked or enhanced pedestrian crossings at what are currently",
          "startTime": "01:33:44,288",
          "endTime": "01:33:47,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 1861,
          "text": "unmarked locations. And so obviously we're drawing",
          "startTime": "01:33:47,928",
          "endTime": "01:33:51,727"
        },
        {
          "index": 1862,
          "text": "again from a lot of kind of, you know, standardized or best practices, what other",
          "startTime": "01:33:51,787",
          "endTime": "01:33:55,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 1863,
          "text": "communities have done. There's good, you know, state and federal guidelines for",
          "startTime": "01:33:55,748",
          "endTime": "01:33:59,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 1864,
          "text": "kind of when to not mark a crossing or when it would, would be an eligible",
          "startTime": "01:33:59,368",
          "endTime": "01:34:02,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 1865,
          "text": "candidate. And then once you've deserm-- determined something's an",
          "startTime": "01:34:02,888",
          "endTime": "01:34:06,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 1866,
          "text": "eligible candidate, considering things like, you know, traffic volume,",
          "startTime": "01:34:06,568",
          "endTime": "01:34:10,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 1867,
          "text": "speeds, crossing distances, visibility,",
          "startTime": "01:34:10,308",
          "endTime": "01:34:13,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 1868,
          "text": "you know, route continuity, lighting, you know, crossing demand, and the",
          "startTime": "01:34:14,388",
          "endTime": "01:34:17,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 1869,
          "text": "context is, then helping you figure out,",
          "startTime": "01:34:17,708",
          "endTime": "01:34:21,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 1870,
          "text": "okay, well, what types of treatments would be appropriate?",
          "startTime": "01:34:21,488",
          "endTime": "01:34:24,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 1871,
          "text": "You know, from the most basic to striping it, to putting",
          "startTime": "01:34:24,788",
          "endTime": "01:34:28,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 1872,
          "text": "in, you know, refuge islands or flashing beacons or",
          "startTime": "01:34:28,608",
          "endTime": "01:34:32,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 1873,
          "text": "full traffic signals right as you go up in progression.",
          "startTime": "01:34:32,568",
          "endTime": "01:34:35,988"
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          "index": 1874,
          "text": "So that's what we're ironing out some of the details with staff now, but that's",
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          "index": 1875,
          "text": "what we're providing. It's just a tool to help them when they get those",
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          "index": 1876,
          "text": "opportunities or requests, they can run it through then and kind of have more",
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          "text": "consistency and objectivity to that.",
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          "index": 1878,
          "text": "And now, now the big one, right? The",
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          "index": 1879,
          "text": "Transportation Safety Action Plan.",
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          "index": 1880,
          "text": "So I'm gonna give you an overview of that.",
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          "index": 1881,
          "text": "Um, again, that was-- that's the major effort.",
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        {
          "index": 1882,
          "text": "That's the one where staff will be coming back next month and, and asking you to,",
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          "index": 1883,
          "text": "to approve this document, not the other ones.",
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          "text": "So just kind of off the bat, s-so there are requirements and",
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          "text": "specific requirements from the, SS4A program on what TSAPs",
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          "index": 1886,
          "text": "have to do or include. So obviously, that guided our",
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        {
          "index": 1887,
          "text": "approach to this, and we made sure that we incorporated these elements.",
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          "text": "goals. That's, reaching zero pe-- crashes resulting in",
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          "endTime": "01:35:35,968"
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          "index": 1890,
          "text": "fatalities and serious injuries.",
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          "index": 1891,
          "text": "Uh, we need to use a committee or task force, and that's, that's both in the",
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          "index": 1892,
          "text": "development of the plan and later when it comes to implementing the",
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        {
          "index": 1893,
          "text": "plan. To monitoring, I should say.",
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          "text": "Um, equity considerations. That was, that was, that was a requirement when we,",
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          "index": 1897,
          "text": "when we got the grant. Uh, we kept it in there.",
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          "endTime": "01:36:02,147"
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          "index": 1898,
          "text": "But-- So we, we-- I'll talk about that later.",
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          "text": "We kind of use that as part of our prioritization process.",
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          "text": "not only hotspot projects and then kind of more broad reaching strategies",
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          "index": 1902,
          "text": "you could apply, but also looking to see if there's any",
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          "text": "changes the city can make to like, you know, policies, design standards,",
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          "text": "operating procedures, just to keep safety kind of always in the",
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          "text": "conversation when you're, you're doing things.",
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          "endTime": "01:36:30,068"
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          "text": "Uh, and then progress and transparency.",
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          "text": "That's, that's all at the end, you need to do annual monitoring",
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          "text": "reporting, and that has to be made publicly",
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          "index": 1909,
          "text": "available. Um, and so kind",
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          "text": "get people care more quickly, so we can reduce the severity outcomes",
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          "index": 1922,
          "text": "potentially.",
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          "text": "So those are kind of lenses that we, we're kind of continuously looking at when",
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          "index": 1924,
          "text": "we're looking through solutions.",
          "startTime": "01:37:34,138",
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          "text": "Um, so the executive summary is, is as most executive",
          "startTime": "01:37:37,368",
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          "index": 1926,
          "text": "summaries are. Uh, it summarizes the document, the key points of",
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          "endTime": "01:37:44,788"
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          "index": 1927,
          "text": "that. One thing I'm highlighting here that, shows up, I think in, in the",
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          "index": 1928,
          "text": "intro section as well-Is, the, the",
          "startTime": "01:37:48,648",
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          "text": "statement again, and I think this is where, you know, when, FHWA is",
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          "index": 1931,
          "text": "mentioned is, is this states that clearly.",
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          "endTime": "01:38:10,636"
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          "endTime": "01:38:14,356"
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          "text": "years, or next ten years, not twenty.",
          "startTime": "01:38:14,396",
          "endTime": "01:38:17,696"
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        {
          "index": 1936,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:38:17,816",
          "endTime": "01:38:18,076"
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          "index": 1937,
          "text": "and that's different than some other long-range planning studies we do, is which",
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          "endTime": "01:38:22,696"
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          "index": 1938,
          "text": "often have twenty-year horizons.",
          "startTime": "01:38:22,756",
          "endTime": "01:38:23,876"
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        {
          "index": 1939,
          "text": "There's really an emphasis in this plan to do things we can get done a lot more",
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          "endTime": "01:38:27,856"
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          "index": 1940,
          "text": "quickly because we want to make safety improvements fast, not wait ten years to",
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          "endTime": "01:38:31,696"
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          "index": 1941,
          "text": "fund them and get them.",
          "startTime": "01:38:32,056",
          "endTime": "01:38:35,216"
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        {
          "index": 1942,
          "text": "Uh, so the first few chapters are-- it's a lot of introductory stuff.",
          "startTime": "01:38:37,236",
          "endTime": "01:38:41,196"
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        {
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          "text": "It kind of introduces, you know, about the project, the process we went",
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          "endTime": "01:38:48,196"
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          "text": "talks about the coordination we did with Benton County, and,",
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          "endTime": "01:38:53,546"
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        {
          "index": 1946,
          "text": "kind of summarizes our public engagement approach.",
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          "endTime": "01:38:57,556"
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        {
          "index": 1947,
          "text": "It also splits up,",
          "startTime": "01:38:57,616",
          "endTime": "01:38:58,666"
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        {
          "index": 1948,
          "text": "does some intro of some of the crash data and trends that we saw to kind of support",
          "startTime": "01:38:59,956",
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          "index": 1949,
          "text": "the, the problem, right? Or the where are we starting from, why do we need to do",
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          "text": "this. Especially 'cause if, if that goal is to",
          "startTime": "01:39:07,676",
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          "endTime": "01:39:15,396"
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        {
          "index": 1952,
          "text": "from.",
          "startTime": "01:39:15,436",
          "endTime": "01:39:18,156"
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        {
          "index": 1953,
          "text": "Um, so as we get to chapter four, that's gonna kind of pick up that conversation",
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          "endTime": "01:39:23,276"
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        {
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          "endTime": "01:39:27,296"
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        {
          "index": 1955,
          "text": "right? So it's, what's analyzing that crash data.",
          "startTime": "01:39:27,396",
          "endTime": "01:39:30,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1956,
          "text": "Um, and so from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty-two was the",
          "startTime": "01:39:30,676",
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        {
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        {
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          "text": "get when we started. Um, there was an average of fifteen crashes per",
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          "endTime": "01:39:42,356"
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        {
          "index": 1959,
          "text": "year resulting in fatalities and serious injuries.",
          "startTime": "01:39:42,476",
          "endTime": "01:39:45,516"
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        {
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          "endTime": "01:39:49,256"
        },
        {
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          "text": "nearly doubled from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty-two.",
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          "endTime": "01:39:53,756"
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        {
          "index": 1962,
          "text": "So you can kind of see that on that graph. It's been, it's been climbing.",
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          "endTime": "01:39:56,906"
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        {
          "index": 1963,
          "text": "Uh, obviously in twenty twenty, where the pandemic hit, all the crashes went",
          "startTime": "01:39:56,956",
          "endTime": "01:40:00,875"
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        {
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          "text": "way down 'cause people weren't driving as much.",
          "startTime": "01:40:00,916",
          "endTime": "01:40:02,656"
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          "text": "Well, in a lot of places, Corvallis included, they've been climbing right back up.",
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          "text": "getting worse. Um, so again, if our goal is to get to",
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          "text": "zero, it's like that's, that's telling us what our baseline is and what we're, what",
          "startTime": "01:40:13,436",
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          "text": "we're starting from. Um, chapter",
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          "text": "four also identifies the high-priority network.",
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          "startTime": "01:40:27,356",
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        {
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          "startTime": "01:40:30,976",
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        {
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          "text": "most, for improvements, have the greatest potential to",
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          "text": "there's a lot of crashes on those, but we separated those out and listed",
          "startTime": "01:40:49,076",
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        {
          "index": 1979,
          "text": "them. So you can still have conversations with ODOT about",
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        {
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          "text": "making improvements there. But as far as investing city resources, we wanted to",
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          "text": "keep it on the city facilities, so we split the two",
          "startTime": "01:41:00,096",
          "endTime": "01:41:02,436"
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        {
          "index": 1982,
          "text": "apart.",
          "startTime": "01:41:02,496",
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          "text": "Uh, so kinda a little bit on how we got to that high-priority network.",
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          "endTime": "01:41:08,856"
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        {
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          "text": "Uh, considered a lot of inputs. So it was, you know, the data analysis, you know,",
          "startTime": "01:41:08,936",
          "endTime": "01:41:12,916"
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        {
          "index": 1985,
          "text": "what's the crash data telling us? Um, not only",
          "startTime": "01:41:12,936",
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          "index": 1986,
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          "startTime": "01:41:16,616",
          "endTime": "01:41:20,605"
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        {
          "index": 1987,
          "text": "kind of the overall, overall trends that are most prevalent in the most,",
          "startTime": "01:41:20,656",
          "endTime": "01:41:24,546"
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        {
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          "text": "serious crashes, and how-- per",
          "startTime": "01:41:24,776",
          "endTime": "01:41:28,036"
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        {
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          "text": "location. Uh, but then we also considered,",
          "startTime": "01:41:28,116",
          "endTime": "01:41:31,856"
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        {
          "index": 1990,
          "text": "community feedback. Uh, we used like Oregon Social",
          "startTime": "01:41:32,096",
          "endTime": "01:41:35,416"
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        {
          "index": 1991,
          "text": "Equity Index to identify where there's,",
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          "text": "they helped us make the decisions.",
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          "text": "Uh, fir-first of all, they supported our prioritization process and criteria, but",
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          "text": "then they also helped us kind of make the decisions on which projects",
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          "text": "they thought were rising to the top and were the high-priority ones.",
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          "text": "It's not to say, you know, that there aren't other locations that could benefit",
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          "text": "from safety improvements. It's just these were the highest in priority at this",
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          "endTime": "01:42:28,336"
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          "endTime": "01:42:32,436"
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          "text": "it's factors that are most frequently involved in fatal and serious injury crashes.",
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          "text": "which we thought were the ones we wanted to focus on for this.",
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          "endTime": "01:42:55,856"
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          "endTime": "01:43:09,976"
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          "index": 2019,
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          "text": "They could apply for a grant to apply some of these things, you know, in,",
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          "text": "And then here, this is the page thirty.",
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          "text": "the types of solutions that remove conflicts, right?",
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          "endTime": "01:48:36,160"
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        {
          "index": 2110,
          "text": "funding, discussions, you know, capital projects, and obviously the",
          "startTime": "01:48:36,200",
          "endTime": "01:48:40,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 2111,
          "text": "monitoring evaluation process, which is the last section of the",
          "startTime": "01:48:40,340",
          "endTime": "01:48:43,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 2112,
          "text": "three. Uh, there's a discussion on funding",
          "startTime": "01:48:43,940",
          "endTime": "01:48:47,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 2113,
          "text": "sources. So it's just identifying federal, state,",
          "startTime": "01:48:47,940",
          "endTime": "01:48:51,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 2114,
          "text": "local, potential sources for funding safety",
          "startTime": "01:48:51,520",
          "endTime": "01:48:54,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 2115,
          "text": "projects. Obviously, those change over time, so this is a",
          "startTime": "01:48:55,060",
          "endTime": "01:48:58,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 2116,
          "text": "snapshot of today and what's available.",
          "startTime": "01:48:58,660",
          "endTime": "01:49:00,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 2117,
          "text": "Um, and then this table, which is included, and you can hopefully",
          "startTime": "01:49:02,160",
          "endTime": "01:49:05,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 2118,
          "text": "actually read it in the plan, not on the slide.",
          "startTime": "01:49:05,980",
          "endTime": "01:49:08,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 2119,
          "text": "But re- It's just taking kind of an exercise and saying, \"Okay, given all these",
          "startTime": "01:49:08,720",
          "endTime": "01:49:12,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 2120,
          "text": "funding sources and kind of the nature of what they are typically geared for,",
          "startTime": "01:49:12,420",
          "endTime": "01:49:16,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 2121,
          "text": "then as you look at high priority projects across the, the columns, which",
          "startTime": "01:49:16,420",
          "endTime": "01:49:20,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 2122,
          "text": "ones might they be decent candidates for?\" So it's kinda helping to start that",
          "startTime": "01:49:20,480",
          "endTime": "01:49:24,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 2123,
          "text": "process of looking for funding sources.",
          "startTime": "01:49:24,120",
          "endTime": "01:49:28,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 2124,
          "text": "And then the last section, performance measures and monitoring.",
          "startTime": "01:49:29,140",
          "endTime": "01:49:33,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 2125,
          "text": "So again, one of the requirements of the program is do the plan, then",
          "startTime": "01:49:33,060",
          "endTime": "01:49:36,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 2126,
          "text": "annually, you need to have some performance measures set, and you need to go and",
          "startTime": "01:49:36,980",
          "endTime": "01:49:40,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 2127,
          "text": "see how did we do every year? Are we making progress on that goal to get",
          "startTime": "01:49:40,940",
          "endTime": "01:49:44,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 2128,
          "text": "to zero? Um, and so, and",
          "startTime": "01:49:44,840",
          "endTime": "01:49:48,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 2129,
          "text": "again, that has to-- the results need to be made publicly available, so most",
          "startTime": "01:49:48,480",
          "endTime": "01:49:52,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 2130,
          "text": "likely just posting them on your website once you've kind of made that report.",
          "startTime": "01:49:52,480",
          "endTime": "01:49:56,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 2131,
          "text": "And so the performance measures that we've identified for Corvallis...",
          "startTime": "01:49:57,080",
          "endTime": "01:50:00,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 2132,
          "text": "Again, this is on city roadways. So it's looking at the number of",
          "startTime": "01:50:01,370",
          "endTime": "01:50:05,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 2133,
          "text": "all the crashes, the number of serious injury crashes,",
          "startTime": "01:50:05,290",
          "endTime": "01:50:09,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 2134,
          "text": "number of fatal crashes, number of pedestrians involved",
          "startTime": "01:50:09,210",
          "endTime": "01:50:12,410"
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        {
          "index": 2135,
          "text": "crashes, number of bicycle involved crashes, and the number of",
          "startTime": "01:50:12,430",
          "endTime": "01:50:16,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 2136,
          "text": "fatal and serious injury crashes involving pedestrians and bicycles.",
          "startTime": "01:50:16,150",
          "endTime": "01:50:19,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 2137,
          "text": "So those would be the key performance measures they'd be looking at, comparing that",
          "startTime": "01:50:19,790",
          "endTime": "01:50:23,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2138,
          "text": "year over year to see how that trend is",
          "startTime": "01:50:23,170",
          "endTime": "01:50:25,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 2139,
          "text": "changing.",
          "startTime": "01:50:25,430",
          "endTime": "01:50:27,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 2140,
          "text": "And then another part of the reporting is,",
          "startTime": "01:50:29,610",
          "endTime": "01:50:32,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 2141,
          "text": "just accounting",
          "startTime": "01:50:36,070",
          "endTime": "01:50:36,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 2142,
          "text": "for, okay, well, what did we do like last year? What were the actions?",
          "startTime": "01:50:36,770",
          "endTime": "01:50:39,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 2143,
          "text": "Maybe we did two of the high priority projects, or we did two",
          "startTime": "01:50:39,890",
          "endTime": "01:50:43,790"
        },
        {
          "index": 2144,
          "text": "educational campaigns. So it's just so you can see what did we",
          "startTime": "01:50:43,870",
          "endTime": "01:50:47,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 2145,
          "text": "do kind of compared to, outcomes.",
          "startTime": "01:50:47,770",
          "endTime": "01:50:50,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 2146,
          "text": "But I will acknowledge there's a lag in getting crash data.",
          "startTime": "01:50:50,590",
          "endTime": "01:50:53,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 2147,
          "text": "So you do something next year, maybe two years before you get the crash",
          "startTime": "01:50:53,650",
          "endTime": "01:50:57,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 2148,
          "text": "data to actually align with that. So that is one trick to",
          "startTime": "01:50:57,390",
          "endTime": "01:51:00,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2149,
          "text": "this.",
          "startTime": "01:51:00,810",
          "endTime": "01:51:03,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2150,
          "text": "Um, so again, I've said this a couple of times now, but the next steps for the",
          "startTime": "01:51:04,790",
          "endTime": "01:51:08,530"
        },
        {
          "index": 2151,
          "text": "TSAP is, requesting city council acceptance",
          "startTime": "01:51:08,570",
          "endTime": "01:51:12,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2152,
          "text": "of the Transportation Safety Action Plan through resolution",
          "startTime": "01:51:12,430",
          "endTime": "01:51:16,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 2153,
          "text": "at the April twentieth city council",
          "startTime": "01:51:16,300",
          "endTime": "01:51:18,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 2154,
          "text": "meeting. I believe that is the end of",
          "startTime": "01:51:18,150",
          "endTime": "01:51:22,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 2155,
          "text": "my very long presentation. On",
          "startTime": "01:51:22,190",
          "endTime": "01:51:24,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2156,
          "text": "to you.",
          "startTime": "01:51:26,470",
          "endTime": "01:51:27,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 2157,
          "text": "Before we go any further and, and maybe take some, some, some",
          "startTime": "01:51:27,530",
          "endTime": "01:51:31,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2158,
          "text": "questions here, I did want to acknowledge someone else that's joined us today,",
          "startTime": "01:51:31,250",
          "endTime": "01:51:34,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 2159,
          "text": "which is Nick from Federal Highways.",
          "startTime": "01:51:34,410",
          "endTime": "01:51:36,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 2160,
          "text": "He's been our grant administrator from the federal side, and I can't",
          "startTime": "01:51:36,550",
          "endTime": "01:51:40,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2161,
          "text": "emphasize-- And he's attended many task force meetings, for",
          "startTime": "01:51:40,270",
          "endTime": "01:51:43,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 2162,
          "text": "us and put us in touch with other federal resources,",
          "startTime": "01:51:43,990",
          "endTime": "01:51:47,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 2163,
          "text": "when we had questions, and has really,",
          "startTime": "01:51:47,870",
          "endTime": "01:51:50,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 2164,
          "text": "demonstrated, above",
          "startTime": "01:51:51,270",
          "endTime": "01:51:55,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2165,
          "text": "and beyond commitment to our project.",
          "startTime": "01:51:55,270",
          "endTime": "01:51:57,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2166,
          "text": "And I just wanted to acknowledge Nick being here,",
          "startTime": "01:51:58,050",
          "endTime": "01:52:01,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 2167,
          "text": "and, a-as the grant",
          "startTime": "01:52:01,290",
          "endTime": "01:52:04,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2168,
          "text": "administrator on our side, I've leaned on him, many times.",
          "startTime": "01:52:05,010",
          "endTime": "01:52:07,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 2169,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "01:52:08,010",
          "endTime": "01:52:08,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 2170,
          "text": "And, and he's come through every time for us.",
          "startTime": "01:52:08,490",
          "endTime": "01:52:10,729"
        },
        {
          "index": 2171,
          "text": "And, it's just-- it's been a very, I have to say, it's been a very",
          "startTime": "01:52:10,770",
          "endTime": "01:52:14,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2172,
          "text": "positive experience from our side working, working with Federal",
          "startTime": "01:52:14,370",
          "endTime": "01:52:18,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 2173,
          "text": "Highways on this. And, I'm not sure every community gets to say that, but,",
          "startTime": "01:52:18,150",
          "endTime": "01:52:22,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2174,
          "text": "but we certainly can, and, and just wanted to,",
          "startTime": "01:52:22,130",
          "endTime": "01:52:24,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 2175,
          "text": "give our appreciation for him. Thanks, Nick.",
          "startTime": "01:52:26,130",
          "endTime": "01:52:28,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 2176,
          "text": "You're welcome.",
          "startTime": "01:52:30,970",
          "endTime": "01:52:31,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 2177,
          "text": "Just real, real quick, adding on to that, you know, this is, this",
          "startTime": "01:52:31,590",
          "endTime": "01:52:35,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 2178,
          "text": "was a pretty rewarding project to be part of.",
          "startTime": "01:52:35,610",
          "endTime": "01:52:39,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 2179,
          "text": "We had really strong task force participation and",
          "startTime": "01:52:39,390",
          "endTime": "01:52:43,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 2180,
          "text": "support. We had very strong consultant support,",
          "startTime": "01:52:43,390",
          "endTime": "01:52:47,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2181,
          "text": "both from a technical standpoint and a public",
          "startTime": "01:52:48,530",
          "endTime": "01:52:50,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 2182,
          "text": "engagement standpoint. Uh, and we had really good",
          "startTime": "01:52:50,910",
          "endTime": "01:52:54,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 2183,
          "text": "buy-in and engagement from, from staff that this",
          "startTime": "01:52:54,670",
          "endTime": "01:52:58,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2184,
          "text": "represented extra work for, was",
          "startTime": "01:52:58,170",
          "endTime": "01:53:01,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 2185,
          "text": "painful to incorporate at times. Uh,",
          "startTime": "01:53:01,830",
          "endTime": "01:53:05,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 2186,
          "text": "but the neat thing about it is that it fills, fills a real",
          "startTime": "01:53:06,290",
          "endTime": "01:53:09,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 2187,
          "text": "gap that I don't know that we knew that we had.",
          "startTime": "01:53:09,670",
          "endTime": "01:53:12,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 2188,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "01:53:12,710",
          "endTime": "01:53:13,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 2189,
          "text": "And, when you think about what's in a traditional",
          "startTime": "01:53:13,610",
          "endTime": "01:53:17,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 2190,
          "text": "transportation system plan, or a TSP, you don't have",
          "startTime": "01:53:18,650",
          "endTime": "01:53:22,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 2191,
          "text": "this type of safety analysis incorporated in",
          "startTime": "01:53:22,490",
          "endTime": "01:53:26,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 2192,
          "text": "that study. You don't do a separate action like this.",
          "startTime": "01:53:26,410",
          "endTime": "01:53:29,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 2193,
          "text": "And so, it's filling a gap, a real gap that we have",
          "startTime": "01:53:29,910",
          "endTime": "01:53:33,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2194,
          "text": "with meaningful, data-driven",
          "startTime": "01:53:33,830",
          "endTime": "01:53:36,630"
        },
        {
          "index": 2195,
          "text": "projects that we can consider implementing to make a real",
          "startTime": "01:53:37,430",
          "endTime": "01:53:41,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 2196,
          "text": "difference in our community. So we look forward to continuing the",
          "startTime": "01:53:41,170",
          "endTime": "01:53:44,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 2197,
          "text": "conversation about how to move projects",
          "startTime": "01:53:44,450",
          "endTime": "01:53:47,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 2198,
          "text": "forward. But also one, one of the recommendations is, and the plan",
          "startTime": "01:53:47,470",
          "endTime": "01:53:51,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 2199,
          "text": "is, you know, when you, when you haven't done one of these for a",
          "startTime": "01:53:51,250",
          "endTime": "01:53:54,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 2200,
          "text": "while, like, we have a t-- minor TSP update that we have to do soon, so you",
          "startTime": "01:53:54,730",
          "endTime": "01:53:58,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 2201,
          "text": "wouldn't redo this again in, like, two years.",
          "startTime": "01:53:58,170",
          "endTime": "01:54:01,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 2202,
          "text": "But in the future, when we do TSP updates, to coordinate updates",
          "startTime": "01:54:01,230",
          "endTime": "01:54:05,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 2203,
          "text": "to the Transportation Safety Action Plan at the same time.",
          "startTime": "01:54:05,590",
          "endTime": "01:54:08,530"
        },
        {
          "index": 2204,
          "text": "So when you're identifying all your improvements, you're considering, these",
          "startTime": "01:54:08,550",
          "endTime": "01:54:12,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2205,
          "text": "more detailed safety elements, at the same time.",
          "startTime": "01:54:12,290",
          "endTime": "01:54:16,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 2206,
          "text": "Uh, in addition to a recommendation to continue to do the road safety audits,",
          "startTime": "01:54:16,290",
          "endTime": "01:54:20,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 2207,
          "text": "in conjunction with our, our larger, street projects",
          "startTime": "01:54:20,690",
          "endTime": "01:54:24,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 2208,
          "text": "that, that we take on. So the intention is to",
          "startTime": "01:54:24,310",
          "endTime": "01:54:27,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 2209,
          "text": "continue to build on, on what we learned and incorporate this in future",
          "startTime": "01:54:28,130",
          "endTime": "01:54:32,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 2210,
          "text": "planning activities as, as well.",
          "startTime": "01:54:32,120",
          "endTime": "01:54:35,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 2211,
          "text": "And we should thank Jeff for writing the, the original grant,",
          "startTime": "01:54:36,510",
          "endTime": "01:54:40,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 2212,
          "text": "and he went above and beyond to, to do that.",
          "startTime": "01:54:40,390",
          "endTime": "01:54:43,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 2213,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:54:43,570",
          "endTime": "01:54:43,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 2214,
          "text": "So it's given us some really good information.",
          "startTime": "01:54:43,900",
          "endTime": "01:54:46,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 2215,
          "text": "Yeah. Thanks for that. A little, an au-acknowledgment that some of",
          "startTime": "01:54:46,690",
          "endTime": "01:54:50,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 2216,
          "text": "you would appreciate was, some of you had",
          "startTime": "01:54:50,710",
          "endTime": "01:54:53,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 2217,
          "text": "personal working relationships with Marge Stevens, and",
          "startTime": "01:54:55,330",
          "endTime": "01:54:59,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2218,
          "text": "I didn't know her as well as many of, as you did, but,",
          "startTime": "01:54:59,310",
          "endTime": "01:55:03,190"
        },
        {
          "index": 2219,
          "text": "she",
          "startTime": "01:55:03,770",
          "endTime": "01:55:04,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 2220,
          "text": "had made me aware of, of this grant that led to",
          "startTime": "01:55:04,950",
          "endTime": "01:55:08,190"
        },
        {
          "index": 2221,
          "text": "the, conversations, led to us",
          "startTime": "01:55:08,250",
          "endTime": "01:55:11,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 2222,
          "text": "applying.",
          "startTime": "01:55:11,710",
          "endTime": "01:55:12,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 2223,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:55:12,360",
          "endTime": "01:55:12,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 2224,
          "text": "So I've always kind of thought of this as, as Marge's project.",
          "startTime": "01:55:12,410",
          "endTime": "01:55:15,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2225,
          "text": "That's so cool.",
          "startTime": "01:55:16,070",
          "endTime": "01:55:16,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 2226,
          "text": "So I'm glad to",
          "startTime": "01:55:16,660",
          "endTime": "01:55:16,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 2227,
          "text": "bring it forward.",
          "startTime": "01:55:17,690",
          "endTime": "01:55:18,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 2228,
          "text": "Thank you for sharing that.",
          "startTime": "01:55:18,100",
          "endTime": "01:55:20,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 2229,
          "text": "Yeah. Great, great presentation.",
          "startTime": "01:55:20,770",
          "endTime": "01:55:22,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 2230,
          "text": "Awesome.",
          "startTime": "01:55:22,350",
          "endTime": "01:55:22,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 2231,
          "text": "Great work, and, if you have any questions, there'll",
          "startTime": "01:55:22,890",
          "endTime": "01:55:26,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 2232,
          "text": "also be an opportunity to have some time.",
          "startTime": "01:55:26,950",
          "endTime": "01:55:29,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 2233,
          "text": "So I just think it's-- I think it does fill a gap.",
          "startTime": "01:55:30,930",
          "endTime": "01:55:32,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 2234,
          "text": "It's amazing, the, the qu- quality of the information.",
          "startTime": "01:55:32,890",
          "endTime": "01:55:36,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2235,
          "text": "It's gonna be very helpful in decision-making for",
          "startTime": "01:55:36,290",
          "endTime": "01:55:40,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 2236,
          "text": "sure. Thank you very much.",
          "startTime": "01:55:40,090",
          "endTime": "01:55:43,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 2237,
          "text": "I just want to--",
          "startTime": "01:55:44,150",
          "endTime": "01:55:44,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 2238,
          "text": "Given all the work that happened to do",
          "startTime": "01:55:45,550",
          "endTime": "01:55:49,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2239,
          "text": "this, you mentioning future planning cycles and",
          "startTime": "01:55:49,210",
          "endTime": "01:55:52,790"
        },
        {
          "index": 2240,
          "text": "aligning",
          "startTime": "01:55:53,010",
          "endTime": "01:55:53,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 2241,
          "text": "updates for--",
          "startTime": "01:55:54,550",
          "endTime": "01:55:55,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 2242,
          "text": "to the TSP unit, which makes sense.",
          "startTime": "01:55:56,410",
          "endTime": "01:56:00,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 2243,
          "text": "The, the scale of this work",
          "startTime": "01:56:00,370",
          "endTime": "01:56:02,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2244,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "01:56:04,450",
          "endTime": "01:56:05,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 2245,
          "text": "Is, is something happening through all this that makes it replicable at less",
          "startTime": "01:56:05,110",
          "endTime": "01:56:09,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 2246,
          "text": "expense in the future? Um,",
          "startTime": "01:56:09,070",
          "endTime": "01:56:11,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 2247,
          "text": "in other words, if you- every time we do this, we would be",
          "startTime": "01:56:12,630",
          "endTime": "01:56:16,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 2248,
          "text": "dependent on a six, seven hundred thousand dollar grant?",
          "startTime": "01:56:16,330",
          "endTime": "01:56:19,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 2249,
          "text": "Well, I, you know, I think we, we did a lot...",
          "startTime": "01:56:19,530",
          "endTime": "01:56:22,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 2250,
          "text": "As you saw, we did a lot of supplemental planning activities.",
          "startTime": "01:56:22,130",
          "endTime": "01:56:24,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 2251,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:56:24,820",
          "endTime": "01:56:24,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 2252,
          "text": "And there was a lot of cost, associated with those.",
          "startTime": "01:56:24,830",
          "endTime": "01:56:27,790"
        },
        {
          "index": 2253,
          "text": "So I think, you know, going back to,",
          "startTime": "01:56:27,830",
          "endTime": "01:56:30,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2254,
          "text": "going back to just, the transportation safety action plan component of it will",
          "startTime": "01:56:31,490",
          "endTime": "01:56:35,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 2255,
          "text": "in itself limit the, the level of",
          "startTime": "01:56:36,090",
          "endTime": "01:56:39,530"
        },
        {
          "index": 2256,
          "text": "investment. Um, but there's a lot of work that goes,",
          "startTime": "01:56:39,570",
          "endTime": "01:56:43,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 2257,
          "text": "goes into that. So I, I still think it'll be a",
          "startTime": "01:56:43,670",
          "endTime": "01:56:46,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2258,
          "text": "significant dollar amount.",
          "startTime": "01:56:47,010",
          "endTime": "01:56:49,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 2259,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:56:49,070",
          "endTime": "01:56:49,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 2260,
          "text": "You know, the formats of master plans or TSPs don't necessarily change",
          "startTime": "01:56:49,510",
          "endTime": "01:56:52,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2261,
          "text": "dramatically, cycle to cycle.",
          "startTime": "01:56:53,510",
          "endTime": "01:56:56,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 2262,
          "text": "But you still spend a heck of a lot of money-",
          "startTime": "01:56:56,520",
          "endTime": "01:56:58,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2263,
          "text": "Yeah",
          "startTime": "01:56:58,270",
          "endTime": "01:56:59,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 2264,
          "text": "... to, to refresh them and bring in new regulations, and in this case, new",
          "startTime": "01:56:59,030",
          "endTime": "01:57:03,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 2265,
          "text": "traffic data and things like that.",
          "startTime": "01:57:03,350",
          "endTime": "01:57:05,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 2266,
          "text": "I, I can, I can add on just a little bit to that.",
          "startTime": "01:57:05,610",
          "endTime": "01:57:08,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2267,
          "text": "I think also if you do this concurrently with a T-TSP-",
          "startTime": "01:57:08,110",
          "endTime": "01:57:11,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 2268,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "01:57:11,490",
          "endTime": "01:57:11,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 2269,
          "text": "... you have, there's, there's efficiencies there if you have, like, the same,",
          "startTime": "01:57:11,750",
          "endTime": "01:57:15,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 2270,
          "text": "like, the same consulting team perhaps is doing both.",
          "startTime": "01:57:15,510",
          "endTime": "01:57:18,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 2271,
          "text": "Also, if you're doing your public outreach at the same time.",
          "startTime": "01:57:18,650",
          "endTime": "01:57:21,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 2272,
          "text": "Like, there's considerable costs to...",
          "startTime": "01:57:21,270",
          "endTime": "01:57:24,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 2273,
          "text": "The public engagement in this was a considerable effort-",
          "startTime": "01:57:24,830",
          "endTime": "01:57:27,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 2274,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "01:57:27,570",
          "endTime": "01:57:27,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 2275,
          "text": "... and required considerable resources.",
          "startTime": "01:57:27,720",
          "endTime": "01:57:29,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 2276,
          "text": "And when, when you do a TSP, it's, it's even more as far",
          "startTime": "01:57:29,490",
          "endTime": "01:57:33,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2277,
          "text": "as, the cost component to engage the community in that.",
          "startTime": "01:57:33,310",
          "endTime": "01:57:37,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 2278,
          "text": "So if you can engage the community with multiple things-",
          "startTime": "01:57:37,090",
          "endTime": "01:57:40,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 2279,
          "text": "At the same-",
          "startTime": "01:57:40,150",
          "endTime": "01:57:40,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 2280,
          "text": "... multiple",
          "startTime": "01:57:40,700",
          "endTime": "01:57:41,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 2281,
          "text": "co-concurrent efforts that are, you know, married together-",
          "startTime": "01:57:42,470",
          "endTime": "01:57:46,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 2282,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "01:57:46,150",
          "endTime": "01:57:46,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 2283,
          "text": "... I think there is a lot of efficiencies there, where if we look at",
          "startTime": "01:57:46,290",
          "endTime": "01:57:50,190"
        },
        {
          "index": 2284,
          "text": "just what it cost us to do this TSAP versus what it would cost to incorporate",
          "startTime": "01:57:50,250",
          "endTime": "01:57:54,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 2285,
          "text": "as part of a TSP project, you're gonna gain some on it.",
          "startTime": "01:57:54,210",
          "endTime": "01:57:57,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 2286,
          "text": "The same way we gained by working with Benton County on our",
          "startTime": "01:57:57,430",
          "endTime": "01:58:01,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 2287,
          "text": "collective efforts on our outreach and sharing data and everything.",
          "startTime": "01:58:01,090",
          "endTime": "01:58:04,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 2288,
          "text": "That, that provided a, a great s- resource savings to both",
          "startTime": "01:58:04,310",
          "endTime": "01:58:08,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2289,
          "text": "of us by sharing. So.",
          "startTime": "01:58:08,330",
          "endTime": "01:58:11,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 2290,
          "text": "I'll add quickly if, if I can. I'll say even if all you want to do within a few",
          "startTime": "01:58:11,790",
          "endTime": "01:58:15,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 2291,
          "text": "years, let's say you've finished some of your high priority projects, and you just",
          "startTime": "01:58:15,550",
          "endTime": "01:58:18,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 2292,
          "text": "want to refresh that list, 'cause that's gonna change over time",
          "startTime": "01:58:18,750",
          "endTime": "01:58:22,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 2293,
          "text": "too. Um, we're giving the city as part of this a tool now that",
          "startTime": "01:58:22,330",
          "endTime": "01:58:26,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2294,
          "text": "we've set up the analysis framework for identifying that, right?",
          "startTime": "01:58:26,290",
          "endTime": "01:58:29,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 2295,
          "text": "Remember the prioritization criteria I talked about that?",
          "startTime": "01:58:29,910",
          "endTime": "01:58:32,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2296,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:58:32,979",
          "endTime": "01:58:32,979"
        },
        {
          "index": 2297,
          "text": "We're doing a training session with them next month and handing over this tool so",
          "startTime": "01:58:33,010",
          "endTime": "01:58:36,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 2298,
          "text": "they can update that periodically.",
          "startTime": "01:58:36,990",
          "endTime": "01:58:38,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 2299,
          "text": "So that's, a lot of the work to set that piece up is done.",
          "startTime": "01:58:38,830",
          "endTime": "01:58:41,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 2300,
          "text": "So with fairly low effort, they can at the very",
          "startTime": "01:58:41,910",
          "endTime": "01:58:45,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 2301,
          "text": "least refresh that prioritization list every so often.",
          "startTime": "01:58:45,770",
          "endTime": "01:58:49,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2302,
          "text": "Great. Anyone",
          "startTime": "01:58:50,690",
          "endTime": "01:58:52,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 2303,
          "text": "else?",
          "startTime": "01:58:53,010",
          "endTime": "01:58:54,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 2304,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:58:55,350",
          "endTime": "01:58:56,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 2305,
          "text": "Well, thank you very much. And again, all the work's really appreciated, and-",
          "startTime": "01:58:56,050",
          "endTime": "01:58:59,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 2306,
          "text": "Sure",
          "startTime": "01:58:59,930",
          "endTime": "01:59:00,139"
        },
        {
          "index": 2307,
          "text": "... we'll see you on the twentieth.",
          "startTime": "01:59:00,139",
          "endTime": "01:59:02,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 2308,
          "text": "Great.",
          "startTime": "01:59:02,610",
          "endTime": "01:59:08,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 2309,
          "text": "Okay. Move on. Um, I'm sure you also did see, received",
          "startTime": "01:59:08,370",
          "endTime": "01:59:12,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 2310,
          "text": "some written comments, so wanna be sure to get",
          "startTime": "01:59:12,170",
          "endTime": "01:59:16,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2311,
          "text": "to those. Um, I'm just gonna kinda skip them and hand it off to Tony",
          "startTime": "01:59:16,150",
          "endTime": "01:59:19,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 2312,
          "text": "for his questions, and going after we'll get-",
          "startTime": "01:59:20,670",
          "endTime": "01:59:22,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 2313,
          "text": "Right. So I did say that as the update regarding",
          "startTime": "01:59:23,110",
          "endTime": "01:59:26,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 2314,
          "text": "the, use the RFP process for,",
          "startTime": "01:59:26,830",
          "endTime": "01:59:30,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 2315,
          "text": "city manager evaluation. Um, I",
          "startTime": "01:59:31,110",
          "endTime": "01:59:34,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 2316,
          "text": "think that",
          "startTime": "01:59:34,590",
          "endTime": "01:59:35,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 2317,
          "text": "we got some feedback from, Counselor Schaefer, who felt",
          "startTime": "01:59:36,770",
          "endTime": "01:59:40,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 2318,
          "text": "that it was a,",
          "startTime": "01:59:40,790",
          "endTime": "01:59:41,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 2319,
          "text": "consistent with what we had previously discussed and saw it as a valuable",
          "startTime": "01:59:43,450",
          "endTime": "01:59:47,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 2320,
          "text": "exercise.",
          "startTime": "01:59:47,470",
          "endTime": "01:59:48,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 2321,
          "text": "I think the way I would frame the question for all of you is, there's,",
          "startTime": "01:59:49,990",
          "endTime": "01:59:53,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2322,
          "text": "there's no doubt we will get something from using a consultant.",
          "startTime": "01:59:53,810",
          "endTime": "01:59:57,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 2323,
          "text": "Um, to put it in stark relief, perhaps",
          "startTime": "01:59:57,610",
          "endTime": "02:00:01,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 2324,
          "text": "if, if this",
          "startTime": "02:00:02,010",
          "endTime": "02:00:02,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 2325,
          "text": "cost of this was a thousand dollars, we would, it would be a no-brainer to do",
          "startTime": "02:00:03,910",
          "endTime": "02:00:07,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 2326,
          "text": "it. If the cost, if the cost of it were twelve",
          "startTime": "02:00:07,830",
          "endTime": "02:00:11,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 2327,
          "text": "thousand, which is kind of a little gateway,",
          "startTime": "02:00:11,790",
          "endTime": "02:00:13,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 2328,
          "text": "we would probably do it. The costs are probably gonna be about twenty-five",
          "startTime": "02:00:14,970",
          "endTime": "02:00:18,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 2329,
          "text": "K. So, and it's really a manner, it's really a practical matter",
          "startTime": "02:00:18,710",
          "endTime": "02:00:22,459"
        },
        {
          "index": 2330,
          "text": "of, um-",
          "startTime": "02:00:22,550",
          "endTime": "02:00:24,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 2331,
          "text": "It's a-",
          "startTime": "02:00:24,329",
          "endTime": "02:00:24,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 2332,
          "text": "It's a pain in the extreme. If this costs a hundred K, is it still worth the",
          "startTime": "02:00:24,750",
          "endTime": "02:00:28,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 2333,
          "text": "effort? So I, I just... Really the question is, and I, like I",
          "startTime": "02:00:28,510",
          "endTime": "02:00:32,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 2334,
          "text": "said, I'm happy to proceed and manage whatever,",
          "startTime": "02:00:32,290",
          "endTime": "02:00:35,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 2335,
          "text": "process the council would decide.",
          "startTime": "02:00:36,290",
          "endTime": "02:00:37,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 2336,
          "text": "Um, but I do invite your comments as to how you'd like, how you'd like to",
          "startTime": "02:00:38,030",
          "endTime": "02:00:41,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 2337,
          "text": "proceed.",
          "startTime": "02:00:41,850",
          "endTime": "02:00:42,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 2338,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "02:00:44,010",
          "endTime": "02:00:44,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 2339,
          "text": "I'm gonna say that I would like to proceed, but we're also down",
          "startTime": "02:00:45,210",
          "endTime": "02:00:48,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 2340,
          "text": "three counselors, two of whom argued strongly in favor of the",
          "startTime": "02:00:48,970",
          "endTime": "02:00:52,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 2341,
          "text": "evaluation last time. So I feel like, we're missing",
          "startTime": "02:00:52,970",
          "endTime": "02:00:56,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 2342,
          "text": "some voices at the table.",
          "startTime": "02:00:56,970",
          "endTime": "02:01:00,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 2343,
          "text": "Well, let's start with you.",
          "startTime": "02:01:00,450",
          "endTime": "02:01:02,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 2344,
          "text": "You... Go ahead. You said you felt like",
          "startTime": "02:01:06,010",
          "endTime": "02:01:09,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 2345,
          "text": "for sure we would gain something. Uh, when I",
          "startTime": "02:01:09,950",
          "endTime": "02:01:13,790"
        },
        {
          "index": 2346,
          "text": "read through it, I was not",
          "startTime": "02:01:13,870",
          "endTime": "02:01:15,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 2347,
          "text": "especially convinced that we would gain, that the process would",
          "startTime": "02:01:17,450",
          "endTime": "02:01:21,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2348,
          "text": "be measurably all that different than what we did",
          "startTime": "02:01:21,290",
          "endTime": "02:01:24,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 2349,
          "text": "ourselves.",
          "startTime": "02:01:24,990",
          "endTime": "02:01:25,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 2350,
          "text": "I did-",
          "startTime": "02:01:26,090",
          "endTime": "02:01:26,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 2351,
          "text": "So-",
          "startTime": "02:01:26,450",
          "endTime": "02:01:26,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 2352,
          "text": "I didn't, I didn't quantify how much we would gain.",
          "startTime": "02:01:26,470",
          "endTime": "02:01:29,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 2353,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "02:01:29,470",
          "endTime": "02:01:29,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 2354,
          "text": "I s- I... Obviously, seeing how someone else does",
          "startTime": "02:01:30,650",
          "endTime": "02:01:34,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 2355,
          "text": "this, who does this in different settings, there's something",
          "startTime": "02:01:34,650",
          "endTime": "02:01:38,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 2356,
          "text": "to be learned.",
          "startTime": "02:01:38,630",
          "endTime": "02:01:39,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2357,
          "text": "Right.",
          "startTime": "02:01:39,240",
          "endTime": "02:01:39,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 2358,
          "text": "I don't know that I can speak to the magnitude.",
          "startTime": "02:01:39,270",
          "endTime": "02:01:42,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 2359,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "02:01:42,730",
          "endTime": "02:01:42,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 2360,
          "text": "So I'm not saying it's small or large.",
          "startTime": "02:01:42,770",
          "endTime": "02:01:45,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 2361,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "02:01:45,090",
          "endTime": "02:01:45,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 2362,
          "text": "Different.",
          "startTime": "02:01:45,610",
          "endTime": "02:01:46,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 2363,
          "text": "No, I just didn't know if you had a particular,",
          "startTime": "02:01:46,490",
          "endTime": "02:01:49,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 2364,
          "text": "segment of what we did that you thought might",
          "startTime": "02:01:51,350",
          "endTime": "02:01:53,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 2365,
          "text": "be better or, you know, what gain",
          "startTime": "02:01:53,570",
          "endTime": "02:01:56,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2366,
          "text": "might be gained.",
          "startTime": "02:01:57,330",
          "endTime": "02:01:58,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2367,
          "text": "I agree.",
          "startTime": "02:01:58,370",
          "endTime": "02:01:58,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 2368,
          "text": "You know, I just, that's all. I, i-if you don't have a particular thing, that's",
          "startTime": "02:01:58,610",
          "endTime": "02:02:01,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 2369,
          "text": "fine. Okay.",
          "startTime": "02:02:01,830",
          "endTime": "02:02:04,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 2370,
          "text": "You, um-",
          "startTime": "02:02:04,110",
          "endTime": "02:02:05,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 2371,
          "text": "Yeah, I was gonna say I think that I still think that this is a",
          "startTime": "02:02:05,542",
          "endTime": "02:02:09,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 2372,
          "text": "good idea. I mean, if we were looking at this for every year,",
          "startTime": "02:02:09,922",
          "endTime": "02:02:13,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 2373,
          "text": "twenty years into the future, I would have a lot more questions.",
          "startTime": "02:02:13,742",
          "endTime": "02:02:16,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 2374,
          "text": "But considering the amount of discussion that has gone into",
          "startTime": "02:02:16,562",
          "endTime": "02:02:20,272"
        },
        {
          "index": 2375,
          "text": "having an outside person doing this over the past",
          "startTime": "02:02:20,322",
          "endTime": "02:02:22,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 2376,
          "text": "many, many years, since probably before both of us were",
          "startTime": "02:02:24,142",
          "endTime": "02:02:27,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 2377,
          "text": "on the council, I think that having...",
          "startTime": "02:02:28,002",
          "endTime": "02:02:31,692"
        },
        {
          "index": 2378,
          "text": "I, I think that having someone come in and kind of",
          "startTime": "02:02:31,742",
          "endTime": "02:02:35,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 2379,
          "text": "streamline and optimize our process would be",
          "startTime": "02:02:35,842",
          "endTime": "02:02:39,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 2380,
          "text": "ideal because it allows us to use as an investment for years in the",
          "startTime": "02:02:40,342",
          "endTime": "02:02:44,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 2381,
          "text": "future. So...",
          "startTime": "02:02:44,242",
          "endTime": "02:02:46,431"
        },
        {
          "index": 2382,
          "text": "Jim.",
          "startTime": "02:02:46,442",
          "endTime": "02:02:48,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 2383,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "02:02:48,362",
          "endTime": "02:02:48,611"
        },
        {
          "index": 2384,
          "text": "I don't want to go through what we did",
          "startTime": "02:02:50,382",
          "endTime": "02:02:51,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 2385,
          "text": "last year again. So,",
          "startTime": "02:02:52,782",
          "endTime": "02:02:55,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 2386,
          "text": "priority mine is that we establish",
          "startTime": "02:02:56,602",
          "endTime": "02:03:00,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 2387,
          "text": "a framework protocol, content",
          "startTime": "02:03:01,082",
          "endTime": "02:03:04,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 2388,
          "text": "that's replicable and that, that successive",
          "startTime": "02:03:05,722",
          "endTime": "02:03:09,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 2389,
          "text": "city councils can look at and go, \"That, that's, that's good.",
          "startTime": "02:03:10,382",
          "endTime": "02:03:13,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 2390,
          "text": "We don't have to reinvent the wheel.",
          "startTime": "02:03:13,762",
          "endTime": "02:03:15,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 2391,
          "text": "We got something that, that is, based on best practices and",
          "startTime": "02:03:15,482",
          "endTime": "02:03:19,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 2392,
          "text": "works.\" Um,",
          "startTime": "02:03:19,462",
          "endTime": "02:03:21,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 2393,
          "text": "if we can do it, we can accomplish that without a consultant, then why",
          "startTime": "02:03:23,482",
          "endTime": "02:03:27,232"
        },
        {
          "index": 2394,
          "text": "spend the money? I'm not sure that we would, though,",
          "startTime": "02:03:27,302",
          "endTime": "02:03:30,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 2395,
          "text": "because we-- it was such a struggle, trying to figure out what we",
          "startTime": "02:03:31,102",
          "endTime": "02:03:34,692"
        },
        {
          "index": 2396,
          "text": "wanted. If, if it's a, you know, one-time",
          "startTime": "02:03:34,982",
          "endTime": "02:03:38,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 2397,
          "text": "expenditure of twenty-five thousand dollars and we get an excellent",
          "startTime": "02:03:38,482",
          "endTime": "02:03:41,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 2398,
          "text": "product out of it that's going to remove, you",
          "startTime": "02:03:42,142",
          "endTime": "02:03:45,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 2399,
          "text": "know, conflicts in the future about, you know, reinventing",
          "startTime": "02:03:45,542",
          "endTime": "02:03:49,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 2400,
          "text": "it every time and, and, then I think it's money well",
          "startTime": "02:03:49,482",
          "endTime": "02:03:53,112"
        },
        {
          "index": 2401,
          "text": "spent.",
          "startTime": "02:03:53,282",
          "endTime": "02:03:55,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 2402,
          "text": "Rita.",
          "startTime": "02:03:55,542",
          "endTime": "02:03:56,262"
        },
        {
          "index": 2403,
          "text": "Um, yeah, no, I, I agree. I,",
          "startTime": "02:03:56,362",
          "endTime": "02:03:59,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 2404,
          "text": "I... The, the, the, the price tag",
          "startTime": "02:03:59,182",
          "endTime": "02:04:02,962"
        },
        {
          "index": 2405,
          "text": "is getting to me a little bit, but because it is a one-- it",
          "startTime": "02:04:03,142",
          "endTime": "02:04:07,062"
        },
        {
          "index": 2406,
          "text": "feels like it will be a one-time expenditure, I think we should go for",
          "startTime": "02:04:07,122",
          "endTime": "02:04:10,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 2407,
          "text": "it. Um, I just,",
          "startTime": "02:04:10,882",
          "endTime": "02:04:13,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 2408,
          "text": "I think it's just like for the future, I just hope we don't have to do it again",
          "startTime": "02:04:14,222",
          "endTime": "02:04:17,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 2409,
          "text": "because then it's like, then why did we spend twenty-five K in the first place-",
          "startTime": "02:04:17,422",
          "endTime": "02:04:20,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 2410,
          "text": "Yeah",
          "startTime": "02:04:20,842",
          "endTime": "02:04:20,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 2411,
          "text": "... if we're just gonna keep doing it?",
          "startTime": "02:04:20,942",
          "endTime": "02:04:22,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 2412,
          "text": "So I, I say",
          "startTime": "02:04:22,262",
          "endTime": "02:04:24,062"
        },
        {
          "index": 2413,
          "text": "we go with it and, and just see how it goes.",
          "startTime": "02:04:24,902",
          "endTime": "02:04:28,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 2414,
          "text": "Uh, okay, let me say we'll have...",
          "startTime": "02:04:29,142",
          "endTime": "02:04:31,831"
        },
        {
          "index": 2415,
          "text": "Uh,",
          "startTime": "02:04:31,922",
          "endTime": "02:04:32,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 2416,
          "text": "did you?",
          "startTime": "02:04:33,342",
          "endTime": "02:04:34,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 2417,
          "text": "Well, I think that when I hear about one-time expense versus",
          "startTime": "02:04:34,982",
          "endTime": "02:04:38,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 2418,
          "text": "ongoing, what I recall one",
          "startTime": "02:04:38,262",
          "endTime": "02:04:42,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 2419,
          "text": "of the driving factors was having an outside person rather than our",
          "startTime": "02:04:42,262",
          "endTime": "02:04:46,062"
        },
        {
          "index": 2420,
          "text": "HR director run this process. So that would mean this would be an ongoing",
          "startTime": "02:04:46,202",
          "endTime": "02:04:50,122"
        },
        {
          "index": 2421,
          "text": "process.",
          "startTime": "02:04:50,222",
          "endTime": "02:04:51,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 2422,
          "text": "For groups.",
          "startTime": "02:04:51,362",
          "endTime": "02:04:52,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 2423,
          "text": "But, but I, I don't want to",
          "startTime": "02:04:52,742",
          "endTime": "02:04:56,122"
        },
        {
          "index": 2424,
          "text": "presuppose the outcome. I think likely the",
          "startTime": "02:04:56,182",
          "endTime": "02:04:59,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 2425,
          "text": "questions",
          "startTime": "02:04:59,502",
          "endTime": "02:05:00,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 2426,
          "text": "generally that you saw last time aren't gonna be wildly",
          "startTime": "02:05:01,802",
          "endTime": "02:05:05,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 2427,
          "text": "different with a consultant, but what you'll have is just an outside person",
          "startTime": "02:05:05,502",
          "endTime": "02:05:09,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 2428,
          "text": "running the process. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:05:10,002",
          "endTime": "02:05:12,432"
        },
        {
          "index": 2429,
          "text": "which maybe that's good confirmation for the council.",
          "startTime": "02:05:13,282",
          "endTime": "02:05:16,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 2430,
          "text": "Again, is that worth the money? That's for you to determine.",
          "startTime": "02:05:16,922",
          "endTime": "02:05:20,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 2431,
          "text": "Right. So a couple comments. Uh, because we did get six proposals and we did rank",
          "startTime": "02:05:20,342",
          "endTime": "02:05:24,262"
        },
        {
          "index": 2432,
          "text": "them,",
          "startTime": "02:05:24,322",
          "endTime": "02:05:24,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 2433,
          "text": "I know that Councilor Ellis, you said we have voices we haven't heard from.",
          "startTime": "02:05:27,082",
          "endTime": "02:05:30,272"
        },
        {
          "index": 2434,
          "text": "I, I must point out that one of the voices",
          "startTime": "02:05:30,322",
          "endTime": "02:05:34,002"
        },
        {
          "index": 2435,
          "text": "was-- should have been part of the ranking process and was not.",
          "startTime": "02:05:34,122",
          "endTime": "02:05:37,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 2436,
          "text": "Um, so I think that,",
          "startTime": "02:05:38,122",
          "endTime": "02:05:40,922"
        },
        {
          "index": 2437,
          "text": "the, the ones that were ranked high did tend to converge with the",
          "startTime": "02:05:41,942",
          "endTime": "02:05:45,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 2438,
          "text": "ICMA,",
          "startTime": "02:05:45,842",
          "endTime": "02:05:47,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 2439,
          "text": "framework.",
          "startTime": "02:05:49,522",
          "endTime": "02:05:50,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 2440,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "02:05:50,322",
          "endTime": "02:05:50,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 2441,
          "text": "Um, the highest rated one right now, definitely-",
          "startTime": "02:05:50,822",
          "endTime": "02:05:54,042"
        },
        {
          "index": 2442,
          "text": "Which one we would wanna be a little careful about.",
          "startTime": "02:05:54,062",
          "endTime": "02:05:56,122"
        },
        {
          "index": 2443,
          "text": "I'm not, I'm not gonna say anything more other than to say",
          "startTime": "02:05:56,162",
          "endTime": "02:05:59,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 2444,
          "text": "that, I think there's-- we-- a lot of our questions that",
          "startTime": "02:05:59,642",
          "endTime": "02:06:03,532"
        },
        {
          "index": 2445,
          "text": "we, we used in the last evaluation do align with the ICMA",
          "startTime": "02:06:03,562",
          "endTime": "02:06:06,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 2446,
          "text": "framework. There could be some refinement there.",
          "startTime": "02:06:06,862",
          "endTime": "02:06:09,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 2447,
          "text": "The answer to, what Council-- what Jim said was that,",
          "startTime": "02:06:09,602",
          "endTime": "02:06:12,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 2448,
          "text": "I, I feel this-- I-I am like, like I said, I'm willing to support whatever process",
          "startTime": "02:06:15,522",
          "endTime": "02:06:19,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 2449,
          "text": "the council wants. I feel confident that we could",
          "startTime": "02:06:19,202",
          "endTime": "02:06:21,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 2450,
          "text": "improve the process that we had last year, incorporate three hundred and sixty",
          "startTime": "02:06:22,361",
          "endTime": "02:06:26,152"
        },
        {
          "index": 2451,
          "text": "degree feedback with a similar but slightly different set of",
          "startTime": "02:06:26,222",
          "endTime": "02:06:29,572"
        },
        {
          "index": 2452,
          "text": "questions, is still lush. Uh, and",
          "startTime": "02:06:29,622",
          "endTime": "02:06:33,532"
        },
        {
          "index": 2453,
          "text": "there's-- I think that I have no, doubt that I could",
          "startTime": "02:06:33,582",
          "endTime": "02:06:37,412"
        },
        {
          "index": 2454,
          "text": "drive a process with council input that would get us there.",
          "startTime": "02:06:37,412",
          "endTime": "02:06:41,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 2455,
          "text": "So-",
          "startTime": "02:06:41,242",
          "endTime": "02:06:42,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 2456,
          "text": "I guess I wanna-",
          "startTime": "02:06:42,162",
          "endTime": "02:06:42,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 2457,
          "text": "That's, that's my, that's my own observation",
          "startTime": "02:06:42,802",
          "endTime": "02:06:46,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 2458,
          "text": "of, what I think, could be delivered, but I'm happy.",
          "startTime": "02:06:46,602",
          "endTime": "02:06:49,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 2459,
          "text": "We will, we will get another shot at this because we have a council",
          "startTime": "02:06:49,822",
          "endTime": "02:06:52,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 2460,
          "text": "meeting, the day before",
          "startTime": "02:06:52,862",
          "endTime": "02:06:56,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 2461,
          "text": "we award the contract, according to the timeline we have.",
          "startTime": "02:06:56,542",
          "endTime": "02:07:00,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 2462,
          "text": "I will bring this up again, for a",
          "startTime": "02:07:00,382",
          "endTime": "02:07:02,692"
        },
        {
          "index": 2463,
          "text": "discussion. But I",
          "startTime": "02:07:02,822",
          "endTime": "02:07:06,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 2464,
          "text": "also-- I'm also a little, um...",
          "startTime": "02:07:06,422",
          "endTime": "02:07:10,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 2465,
          "text": "That being said, I don't like the idea of spending a lot of",
          "startTime": "02:07:10,302",
          "endTime": "02:07:13,372"
        },
        {
          "index": 2466,
          "text": "energy on something and, and asking folks",
          "startTime": "02:07:13,422",
          "endTime": "02:07:16,862"
        },
        {
          "index": 2467,
          "text": "to... I, I mean, frankly, they're consultants, they're used to",
          "startTime": "02:07:16,942",
          "endTime": "02:07:20,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 2468,
          "text": "s-getting nos as well. It doesn't bother me so much.",
          "startTime": "02:07:20,742",
          "endTime": "02:07:23,922"
        },
        {
          "index": 2469,
          "text": "But our own time, we've, we've spent a lot of time",
          "startTime": "02:07:23,962",
          "endTime": "02:07:27,622"
        },
        {
          "index": 2470,
          "text": "on this and, so I,",
          "startTime": "02:07:28,242",
          "endTime": "02:07:31,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 2471,
          "text": "I, I realize that's all in the past, but I would",
          "startTime": "02:07:31,802",
          "endTime": "02:07:35,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 2472,
          "text": "like us to not-- like us to be more effective, more",
          "startTime": "02:07:35,562",
          "endTime": "02:07:39,122"
        },
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          "index": 2473,
          "text": "clear in our decision-making. Yes.",
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          "text": "It just occurs to me that maybe, I mean, one thing we",
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          "index": 2475,
          "text": "don't ever look at very carefully is trending on",
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          "index": 2476,
          "text": "how much council is spending over time.",
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          "index": 2477,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
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          "text": "And I just thought that might be useful information in this decision because I'm",
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          "text": "pretty sure we're spending more this year than we spent the year before already,",
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          "text": "before we even think about the twenty-five thousand dollars.",
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          "text": "But I could be wrong. Does that-",
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          "index": 2482,
          "text": "Resonate with anyone as a matter of importance, given our budget",
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          "index": 2483,
          "text": "constraints that we're facing and all of that business or-",
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          "index": 2484,
          "text": "Well, I think that's partially what weighs into, I was even asking this",
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          "index": 2485,
          "text": "question.",
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          "index": 2486,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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          "index": 2487,
          "text": "If we were",
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          "index": 2488,
          "text": "not having a budget strain, we're sitting just fine. I don't think...",
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          "text": "I mean, in the grand scheme of things, twenty-five thousand dollars isn't a lot of",
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          "text": "money from a, a, a city budget. But considering where",
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          "index": 2491,
          "text": "we are, is why like when, when I was looking at the proposals like that, I had",
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          "index": 2492,
          "text": "some sticker shock.",
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          "index": 2493,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
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          "text": "I was like, \"Whoa, that's not what I was expecting to see.\" Um, but it is what it",
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          "index": 2495,
          "text": "is.",
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          "index": 2496,
          "text": "Yeah.",
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          "index": 2497,
          "text": "So that's why we want to-",
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          "text": "I think the short... My recollection is that we, we have adjusted county",
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          "index": 2499,
          "text": "mayor council budget up. We've done things for add- additional training.",
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          "text": "We've done things like the Mayor's Innovation Conference, that Charles just",
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          "index": 2501,
          "text": "spoke to.",
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          "index": 2510,
          "text": "... the first line is fairly high.",
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          "text": "budget is, so you have an idea of are you ahead or behind.",
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          "text": "Um, you know, there's multiple things that play into that.",
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          "index": 2522,
          "text": "All right.",
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          "index": 2523,
          "text": "Thank you.",
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          "text": "Well, at this point, we're-",
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          "index": 2525,
          "text": "Yeah",
          "startTime": "02:09:52,428",
          "endTime": "02:09:52,428"
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          "index": 2526,
          "text": "... go through the process of, uh-",
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          "index": 2527,
          "text": "Pardon?",
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          "index": 2528,
          "text": "Well, continuing to move forward.",
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          "index": 2535,
          "text": "Uh, we adjourned?",
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    "text": "I'm going to call to order today's meeting of the,\nwork session, sorry, for the Corvallis City Council and joint with\nthe Charter Review Task Force Phase Two.\nCall to order. And I just want to start by welcoming our citizen members of the\nphase two of our task force to review the charter.\nI think this might be the first we've all been in the same\nroom.\nUm, so I guess we'll dive in. We have our, our update to the rest of the\ncouncil. So let's just go ahead and get\nstarted.\nStart with presentations.\nPresentations always seem to be the most\ntrouble.\nSo, just a little background on the Charter Review,\nPhase Two Task Force formed in December twenty twenty-five when\nthe first phase of the Charter Review Task Force concluded its work.\nUm, again, charged to evaluate form of government, charter provisions,\nconsider, additions to align with the legal organizations model charter and\nother miscellaneous charter provisions.\nUm, we-- So far, our work so far has been mainly focused, on the form of\ngovernment, due to the impact and effort required to\nget them on the ballot, essentially.\nThese are the guiding principles that we adopted as for phase two of the Charter\nReview Task Force. Um, to me, it's all kind of obvious things that\nwe should always do. Fair and effective representation, effective and efficient\nlegislative function, accountability to voters and democratic\nresponsiveness, continuity and, and institutional\nstability, cost and administrative impact, long-term governance alignment, and\naccessibility to elected leaders and public service.\nI really felt that these things are core of\nhow we operate as a government and what, what the community\ndeserves. We-- Uh, so we've made a few-- have a few\nrecommendations for you. The first one is, lowering\nour number of wards and councilors from nine to seven.\nUh, we actually had a really good discussion on this.\nThere were some, interesting suggestions of even or odd, but we\nended up with seven, to keep it odd, and that between,\ncouncilors to be nominated and elected by ward as we currently\ndo.\nWe have the highlights there. Improved operational efficiencies, governmental\nproduct-productivity, resources for councilors.\nAnd I want to point out, it's interesting, I, I didn't think going from nine to\nseven would make a big difference, but we've had a few meetings recently, we're\njust down by one councilor, and it made a difference.\nSo it, it does show sometimes just\na little more focus instead of broader focus.\nUm, it maintains the neighborhood identities, which is important to a lot of us,\ngeographic representation and accountability to wards.\nAs we know, Corvallis has some very unique areas, whether you live in the north\nside or the south side or right in the middle, we want to maintain\nthat. But it pre-preserves the mayor's primary role as a facilitator and consensus\nbuilder. We didn't want to make any changes to where I'd have a regular voter or\nanything like that.\nUm,\nthe considerations. Reduces opportunities to run for office, perception of\naccess to city. Um, mayor votes less frequently due to fewer tie\nvotes among odd number of councilors.\nEven the wards only vote every four years, while odd votes--\nward votes vote every two years.\nOh.\nThat would be initially.\nYeah.\nSomething to be discussed.\nLet's-\nYeah.\nWe can, maybe get into it a little bit more on the next slide, 'cause it has to\ndo when the mayor is elected.\nYeah. Um, at-large elections could allow representation\nof a geographically spread interest group.\nSo we did discuss whether we wanted to have all councilors just be at large, like\nsome cities do. Um, and at-large elections of, two councilors per\nward could limit voter ability to, check and balance.\nSo again, we considered a lot of different models.\nUm, city manager did talk a lot about, you know, you could have three\nwards and still have six councilors. You can have one in one councilor per ward.\nBut what we ended up going with was those recommendations at the\ntop. Term limits. We suggested\nfour-year terms. Um, that way they could be staggered, so you wouldn't have\nall, councilors come to ballot at once,\nideally. Um, odd wards would be elected in presidential election years and even\nwards .\nUh,\nagain, this brings continuity, experience, focus on long-term goals,\ndevelopment of positive relationships.\nUm,\none of the challenges we, as we all experienced, we've been on council long\nenough, is when a co-council has a big change, then we have a strategy that,\nyou know, hard to make-- fulfill. Uh,\nit reduces the potential for significant turnover and loss of that institutional\nknowledge. Again, when we're in the middle of our strategic\nplan. Um, majority council, only refreshed every four\nyears due to odd numbers of councilors.\nEven though odd wards, voter frequency, opportunities to run for mayor.\nThese are the things we really considered, is how do, how do these play out in\nelections to where\neveryone's kind of equal. And there was concerns\nover the longer term may discourage community members from, from running from\noffice. Um, but when we looked at the data, it kind of disagreed with\nthat. Uh,\nfor, for me, there's been really no changes, so, the recommendation is to keep\nthe way it is where only-- the mayor only votes to break a tie.\nStill has a four-year term, and elected at large during midterm election\nyear. Um, again, you can read through the, the key considerations we have\nthere. And then the, highlights of those considerations\nand the concerns and what we kinda talked through every\ntime. Term limits. This one I thought was\nmore interesting. Um,\nhas to do with three-term limit for councilors and the three-term limit for mayor.\nSo essentially twelve years, assuming everything passes.\nUh, limits apply to consecutive terms, not to the lifetime of an individual.\nSo if someone served three full terms, you know, spent twelve years as a\ncity councilor and decided to run for mayor, they can do that.\nIt's a different position. Um, if they took a break, served two\nterms, left council for whatever reason, and ran again, they can do\nthat as well. They're just not in a second.Um, and we're, we're trying-- we worked\nout that partial terms would, less than 50% would not count to a term\nlimit.\nAnd we have the main considerations there.\nBalanced and competitive renewal, provides stability,\nlimits the incumbent advantage, which is talked\nabout. Um,\nthings to that effect.\nNext steps. Um, you can see here we are today in March.\nUh, we're looking for feedback, direction, so we can continue the work.\nUm, in April, we developed more of the red line language concrete with\nphase one of the charter study task force.\nUm, we'll come back in May, look for more final, feedback if there's\nanything that's changed on the strategy.\nUm, and June, we'll finalize ballot titles and summary\nstatement. And hopefully July, we'll refer to the November ballot,\nand that's when the real fun begins.\nHere are the questions we have for all of you, councilors you should\nsay. To move on. Do the draft recommendations align with the guiding\nprinciples?\nTwo, are there any governance models from comparative cities that the task force\nshould be examining more closely?\nThree, from a governance perspective, do the draft recommendations work well\ntogether and independently, regardless of how they are grouped on the ballot?\nYou have a lighter pack as well. And do the draft recommendations address problems\nthe council is looking to solve?\nSo again, we're trying to keep it pretty high level today because we will come back\nagain with those more detailed, red\nlines to get into the weeds, so to speak.\nSo really today we're just open to\ngive you the update of where we, where we're landing currently and get feedback on\nthese questions so we can move forward.\nOkay, I just have a question. Can you explain what you mean by odds-- by\nthe comment about,\neven ward voters only vote every four\nyears, and odd ward voters vote every\ntwo?\nI'll look to Alex or somebody else for that.\nYeah.\nThat confused me.\nYeah. So, each... Since, since the\nmodel is one ward\nper-- o-one counselor per ward, you're actually\nonly voting for a counselor every four years.\nBut because the mayor is on, the,\num-\nOdd year\n... odd year, some of those wards you'll line up where you, you\nget to vote for a mayor in one, you know, at one\npoint, and then two years later, you're voting for your counselor.\nThen two years later, you're voting for your mayor.\nThe other wards, you're voting for mayor and counselor every\nfour years, and you're not voting\nin the, in between. So you're only voting, only get a vote every\nfour years, which-\nYeah, so I was confused by the way I think it was worded.\nYeah.\nSo basically, it depends on where you live in the city will be-- depend on how long\nyou get, how often you get to vote.\nBut you still get to vote every four years for your counselor.\nYes, for your counselor-\nFor mayor\n... no matter where you live.\nOr for your mayor.\nBut sometimes you'll get to vote, you know, like say this November, you'd get to\nvote. And if this is already implemented, then in two years, you'd have a different\nvote if you lived in one of the ones where you're now voting for mayor.\nAnd then the next two years again, you'd vote for your counselor.\nSo it is a disadvantage, but-\nI'm not really-- I'm not sure I see that as a\ndisadvantage. If I'm, I'm even number\nward, I get to vote for the mayor and the counselor. Okay.\nSo I get-- I'm voting for two elected officials.\nBut then in the next two-year period, I get to vote for no elected\nofficial.\nRight.\nCorrect.\nYeah.\nCorrect.\nSo what's... I don't get the distinction.\nIt, it's, you know, it... Well, the only negative we could think of\nwe were talking about it was around, civic\nengagement.\nMm-hmm.\nYou know, some people like to be able to vote every two years, and this would\nremove, certain wards from being able to vote every s- every two years.\nSome, some of them would only vote every four years. It's not really a negative.\nThey're still voting for the same number of people, but just not\nevery two years.\nYeah.\nYeah.\nI think it also kinda goes back to the mindset of where we went\nto, vote for the whole council every two years was that idea\nof accountability. As, you know, I wasn't here for\nthat, that charter change, but the understanding was they would wanna be able to\nmake a change on the council every two years,\nwhere, I mean, the way to accomplish that with\nfour-year terms would be\nmultiple counselors per ward\nor\nsome sort of at large type of...\nYeah. I mean, I understand, I understand the comment.\nI'm really not sure I see that as a\nnegative or an inequity, but that doesn't matter.\nTo keep it back to the high level, I think the\nonly comment I would say is,\nit is true that\nyou can't run for two offices at the same\ntime.\nUm, so yes, if you're in a ward that is not up for election, you can run for\nmayor. But we can solve that problem pretty simply by making somebody\nresign. We can, we can make that change.\nIf you wanna run for mayor, you have to resign.\nYou have to plan to resign your city councilor\nposition. Does that, does that come up at all as you-\nNo, we didn't talk about that. You're saying we get to just plan to retire\nbut not-- or resign, but not actually resign until-\nNo, you'd have to actually-- To make it fair, you'd have to actually resign.\nBecause if I'm in a-- If my term is ending, and I want to run\nfor mayor, but I also-- I can't run for mayor and for my expiring\nterm.\nSo if I run for mayor, I'm not ever gonna be a councilor\nthat, the next term. So-\nYou would have to leave your chair until the end of the term.\nYou'd have to wait another two years to run again.\nSo-\nIt's a forfeit\n... are you saying if you decided to run for mayor\nIn July, then when you made that decision to run for mayor\nin July, you would not finish out your term?\nNo, no.\nOr you would just say, \"In December, I am done.\"\nNo, I'm saying it for the people that are in even-numbered\nterms.\nMm.\nWhen they... If they chose to run for mayor, and their term\nis going to be expiring, at the end of that year-\nMm-hmm\n... they know they won't be able to run for their council position again.\nMm-hmm.\nSo they're, they won't, they won't...\nIf they lose the mayor race, they're, they're out of council.\nRight.\nIf we wanted to make it fair for the odd-numbered terms, and you wanna\nrun for mayor, then what you're...\nYou, we could say, you're making a decision similar to our\neven-numbered cohorts, that you\nwanna run for mayor. If you get elected mayor, you're mayor.\nAnd if you're, don't get elected mayor, you, you effectively are\nsaying, \"I'm gonna resign at the end of my, of that council\nterm.\"\nDecember, yeah. Okay.\nI mean, that would make it the same, that would make it equivalent.\nAnd it wouldn't really-\nFor example-\nIt wouldn't really be resigning, it would just be you would not be able to run for\ncity council.\nFor...\nCan I rephrase it?\nYou'd have to resign.\nYou'd have to resign, sure.\nYou'd have to resign.\nYeah.\nOkay.\nSo this resignation would be submitted, but not effective until the end of the\nyear?\nYeah.\nYeah.\nOkay.\nAnd then who... Then that means that during that election cycle, you would\nalso have to have an election to replace that person running for mayor and city\ncouncilor.\nBecause by definition, they've resigned already.\nThey would have, they have, they would be resigned.\nIf they chose to run for mayor.\nSo you can't... So you just can't lose the mayor election and stay on council for\ntwo years.\nRight.\nYeah, I, I, I think-\nI like that.\nI, I think, I think that's\nslightly a discount. It's not a disadvantage.\nMm.\nYeah, I guess that would work.\nNo, it's not dis- it's the same disadvantage for the,\neven-numbered boards. If I wanna run for mayor, and now I'm not\nMm-hmm.\ngoing to council, I can't re-\nMm\n... I can't run for re-election.\nSo clearly this is a feedback for the task force, they need to figure this out.\nExactly. That's what I-\nI made a note.\nOkay.\nI have another suggestion to try to make it-\nAnother solution that was suggested by Brennan, that\ncame out today-\nYeah\n... was to have a two-year term for the mayor.\nRight. Mm.\nAnd that would actually get rid of the inequities, and it would also get rid of-\nThat's great\n... collect extra money for elections.\nYeah. But, please no comments from the audience, thank you.\nUm,\nthat would solve the problem, although as someone who's done that campaign,\nI would not wanna do that every two years.\nMm.\nYeah, I think that's the... It's a lot of money, it's a lot, it's a lot of work,\nand it would be a distraction for the mayor to try to do that every other year.\nAnd, and I, yeah, I get the... I can see where\nit can be...\nIt solves one problem and creates another.\nIt just doesn't help the continuity issue.\nYeah.\nSo.\nWell, I have to look into how the other cities do it, because most, some, you know,\nthere are others that have wards, like us-\nMm\n... that have a four-year term mayor.\nSo somebody has to have figured something out, 'cause on that\nchart...\nYou know, another thing discussed, but we didn't\nput in this proposal, is having all the councilors, running at once, and then\nthe mayor on the separate election.\nWhich still has the same issue we have now with the turnover\nrate.\nMm.\nYeah, no.\nMm.\nWe on number two yet?\nWell, we haven't even really answered number one fully, so.\nWell, I would-\nGuiding principles, yeah. I would, I would\njust like to point out that I've been uncomfortable with\nthe, you know, the odd/even,\nswitcheroos, and this, that, and the other thing.\nUm, so the, the memo this morning from\nMr.,\nwhat's his name?\nBrand.\nBrand.\nCool.\nYeah. Um, crystallized in my\nmind what I had been uncomfortable with.\nMm.\nAnd, and\nwhat's presented here is a little more elegant than what we've\npresented in phase two task force.\nSo even, let's say, we went with 66 terms instead of seven,\nwe would not have that odd/even thing going on.\nUm, or would we? I don't know. But anyway, if we look at\nnumber two, governance models,\nand we find out what's negative about those governance\nmodels, you know, we, we're, we're putting up a lot of\nnegatives in what we've presented or what we've\ncome up with so far. And those negatives, maybe it's, what is\nit? All the, the slides you had before.\nUm,\nthose negatives\nI think are enough that will dissuade people from voting\nfor any of them.\nMm.\nOr some of them. One of them, two of them.\nAnd the problem-\nThat's the other thing we have to look at, if one passes and the other one doesn't,\nwhat do we do?\nEzra.\nCould I ask... Now, I knew we were talking\nabout reducing the number of councilors and the number of\nterms, and I don't need to weigh in on my opinion of that right now, because I\nthink I've been clear for the last 10 years.\nUm, what is the problem we're trying to solve with the term\nlimits? What? There was... I mean, the only person who\nsucceeded that was Hal Bronner. Um, and Hal was, was\nsuch a resource to me, as a, as a new\ncouncilor.\nI think the idea of the term limits was kind of a response to the\nconcern, the reason why we ended up with two-year term limits to\nbegin with. You know, so people would have six, not that\nthat's generally, but it's, and I, I think that's why it\nwas, brought up as a suggestion at-\nSo, so really what is the problem?\nYou know, we, we talk about addressing problems that councils looking...\nSo what is the problem with somebody running-\nFour terms.\nFour terms, nine terms. Hal was here for eight, 10 years.\nUm,\nwhat, what, where, where's the problem?\nI think, I think we need fresh-\nIf... And, but if the, if the community, if the people who are electing him feel\nlike, or her, the pe-people who are electing the counselor\nfeel like they're doing a good job representing, and the counselor\nfeels comfortable and like they're still able to do the\njob, what, where is the problem?\nI agree.\nYes. I-\nI mean, I guess we could put it out to the, the community and have them vote on it\nand say, \"We don't see this as a problem,\" then it goes down.\nBut it seems like-\nYeah.\nI don't, I don't see the problem\n... Chris, I, Chris, I agree with you. I don't see there being an actual problem.\nMm-hmm.\nIt's more of a perceived problem, perceiving that community members might have\nconcerns over four-year terms because of, you know, getting ingrained\nand stuck in their seat and serving forever and not doing good work, which from our\nunderstanding is part of the reason why two-year terms were created in the first\nplace, because I guess they used to be six, so.\nAnd from a certain level too, there's, like a\nlevel of the longer you're in your seat, the more of an incumbent advantage\nyou might have. And so that also-\nYeah\n... also prevents the turnover. I know it's more of a problem seeing that like the\nstate and national level than it is-\nMm-hmm\n... on the city council level. But it, we talked about it a little\nbit as like an anti-corruption measure, so that was part of it.\nSo my feedback to the board-\nYeah\n... or the task force on this would be, take a look to\nsee if other cities have moved in this direction and what was the basis\nfor their direction. I, I think there's probably a general\nsense that term limits are a good thing, but I don't,\nI don't know what the trend is.\nYeah.\nSo that might be useful. By the way, I do have some data\nthat came from the League of Oregon Cities that is not a\npublished report. It's a spreadsheet of a comm- of a survey that\nthey did that talks about term limits and stuff like that, so I'll send\nthat to you.\nGood.\nYeah.\nCan I just comment that I think the term limits sentiment may\nbe, influenced by the federal\nsituation-\nMm-hmm\n... and people seeing this\nwith long, long sitting, perceived to be\nineffective people at the federal level.\nUm, and\nit's just a totally different animal serving at the local level, and hard\nto find really good people who are willing to serve for a long time.\nSo I, I mean, my op- my, not really stake in the ground,\nbut it's let the voters decide. If they don't think they're effective anymore, they\nwon't be voted back in.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd you have councilors who are losing effectiveness\nwho were voted out.\nRight.\nThe history of the two-year term was\nbased on the fact that there had been councilors in office\nforever.\nWell, then we can decide to change the charter again.\nSo we're gonna try-\nIt doesn't, you know, make people happy, but-\nWe're trying to assuage that issue.\nI know. I get it. But what problem are we-\nBut what problem are we trying to solve here?\nExactly. It doesn't exist now.\nYeah.\nIf I, I go back to the guiding principles, and the last guiding principle is\naccessibility to elected leaders and public service.\nThe idea is giving people a chance to step up and serve as a\ncouncilor where it's an... Running for office your\nfirst time is, I think, can be intimidating and challenging.\nWhen you, you have an incumbent that continuously comes back,\nit could discourage people from stepping up.\nUm, so I think, I think that's\npart of it. I don't, I don't want to talk for the task force, but I do remember us\ntalking about that.\nPart of it is also a diversification\nof knowledge. If you have someone who's a city councilor for\n20 years or something, they're, they're gonna have a tremendous amount of\nknowledge.\nMm-hmm.\nBut we need to be considering about the city as a long-term\norganism, which means, you know, cycling this knowledge\nthrough, making people, making sure people are engaged and active.\nSo it's not just turnover, it's also about-\nThings changing\n... building the bench, so to speak.\nMm-hmm.\nSo I do, I, I think the,\nat a high level, I think the, the four-year terms makes a lot of\nsense to me, and I think staggered.\nUm, I think that\nI, if you look at, either actual\nexamples of turnover with two-year terms versus four-year terms,\nor even, or even if I remember my probability, I could\nprobably demonstrate to you mathematically\nthat when you have two-year term, four-year terms staggered, you're gonna get less\nturnover.\nAnd so I think that is the benefit of,\nmoving away from two-year terms.\nUh, and I think that the data that Jan put together showed we have a\nfairly significant turnover rate-\nMm-hmm\n... that doesn't help with longer term\ndecision-making and, and maintaining momentum on larger terms.\nSo I think that aspect of it is, definitely fits with\nthe, rough draft recommendations.\nUm, I think, I'm happy to have you guys look at a\ncouple other factors out there in terms of the term limits per\nse. Um,\nI don't resonate as much with the every four years I get to vote\nas I get to vote every two years. That's, that could be my own personal\napproach. Um,\nand I do think the issue of, councilors running for\nmayor and also having to be able to retain their seat is a, is a,\nis an inequity between\nthe odd and even.\nMm-hmm.\nSo I think that should be addressed.\nUm,\nand\nI, I just have a question. I know\nthat-Um, saying not to go down the path of\nthree wards and two councilors\nper ward.\nLike, was there,\nis there-- is that just considered too big a change?\nWhat was the logic behind it?\nFor me, it's the, the\nelection issue. Running in a ward\nthat's a third of the city is different than running in a ward that's a seventh of\nthe city, or a ninth of the city now.\nSo when I ran for city council, I knocked on every door in my ward.\nIf there were only three wards, there's no way I'd do that, in my\nopinion.\nAnyone else want to weigh in? I believe there's been some\nmore.\nYeah. I also wasn't a big fan of the two councilors per ward system,\nbecause then you end up often in situations where,\nyou have one, one councilor canceling out the vote of\nanother.\nPotentially, yeah.\nYeah.\nYeah, I'll say I, I like the concept,\na lot actually. Um, but, but when we went through the discussion and raised\nsome of the concerns of what that would do, is how there's also what was\ntalked about keeping the identity of the ward system.\nBecause there is, you know-\nRight\n...if you made it only three wards, that would really combine\nareas of the city that haven't really been, that don't have the same issues.\nMm-hmm.\nNot, not that that would create more, maybe some more understanding of the\ndifferent parts of the community.\nBut we feel that, that,\nthe voters in Corvallis really like our, their identities of their neighborhoods\nand their wards. And although we'd be reducing to seven, I think\nthat would, the shift would still work and keep those different segments of\nthe city. I can, I can understand that.\nI, I think as to, as to counseling the votes, say,\nevery, when you get on the council you're, both represent your ward and\nthe city, so-\nMm-hmm.\nMm-hmm\n...you cancel each other out all the time. So, but it's just not within our ward.\nTrue, but then you're also gonna run into the, the situation where\nthere's two councilors, even if they're on the same ward technically, like, even if\nthey're technically on the same ward, they'll have such dif-- you can end up with\nsuch differing opinions that you'll split that ward down the middle.\nMm-hmm.\nSo it would end up being like-\nAlmost like-\n... almost like two different wards in the first place.\nOr the opposite, where you get two councilors for one ward that have the exact\nsame opinion on everything.\nRight.\nWhich then you end up with a ward that gets no\nrepresentation of the population.\nRight. Yeah.\nLike, there's a lot of wards where simply people with a lot of\nmoney or retirees would be able to take the seats every single time.\nAnd while that's not, it's not as much of a problem when you have\nseven or nine wards, as it is when you have, like, two\ncouncilors.\nSure.\nYeah.\nWell, two comments on that. One is, I think if, if you believe that rep- the\nelection is representative of, people in the ward, I think that kind of\naddresses that issue. Uh, I would encourage you to look at the League of\nOregon Cities to see,\nhow,\nkind of what other cities do. And not that we have to copy other cities, but-\nOkay\n...the point is, we have, the hundred and twenty-one\ncities in Oregon.\nTwo hundred and forty-one.\nPardon me?\nTwo hundred and forty-one.\nTwo hundred and forty-two.\nIt keeps happening.\nSo we have two hundred and forty-one experiments that have happened over decades,\nand sometimes centuries. Um, but it'd be good to at\nleast understand what other people have learned and, and learned from that.\nSo, I'll send you, it's kind of dated, but it's, it,\nit's the last survey that they did for cities, kind of what, how they operate.\nSo I would encourage you to reach out to League of Oregon Cities.\nIf, if I could just-- In your packet, you do have comparison of 10\ncities.\nYeah.\nAnd there's, there are two cities that are\none councilor per ward, elected by wards, and\nthat's Corvallis and Springfield.\nThe rest have either two councilors per ward, or they\nmay, they may nominate by ward, but they elect at\nlarge. Um, so I think there's...\nWe would remain an outlier for one councilor per\nward.\nBut actually, are those\nparent councilors,\nelected at the same time?\nNo. Generally, they're staggered.\nOh, okay. Good.\nThat's what I thought.\nMm-hmm.\nThere are certain advantages and reasons why I kind of like the concept of that\nmodel, but...\nOne of the things I had noticed a few years ago, I was following, city council\nelections in Albany, you know, where they have a small number of wards\nand it's two per ward. And, and the thing that was,\nreally out of the ordinary just from my experience\nin Corvallis, how much money people were spending on council elections\nthere.\nMm-hmm.\nI, I don't remember the numbers anymore, but it was more like a mayor's\nrace in Corvallis, that kind of number.\nMm-hmm.\nIt was number of thousands, you know, and,\nand I,\nI like the idea that you can, you can, run an, an\neffective campaign like Steve was talking about, you know, without\nhaving to spend a lot of money.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, so that helps. The, the one question that we haven't touched on that\nI would just like to hear, task for- task force\nmembers, talk about a little bit is the\nnumber of count- council members being even or odd, and\nits relationship to the mayor's role.\nMm-hmm.\nI mean, I, I read the, what it said the strengths and weaknesses of it are,\num. But\nI was struck by the comparator cities and how many of them had an even s- number\nof council members, with still a mayor that only votes\nin a tie. Um-\nYeah, I didn't see that as a particular issue\n... so I was wondering.\nI would've voted for six.\nAh, good.\nDo you think maybe-\nMaybe we, you know, to hear from the people who thought seven was a better number.\nNo, six. I think we said six, seven.\nOh, did we?\nUm, yeah, so in this conversation I preferred that I, my opinion\nstayed out of it for obvious reasons.\nSure.\nUm, 'cause\nnot voting in the ties is not working already, but so-\nSo, so I'm, I'm hearing that there was no, \"We need to keep\nthis an odd number.\"\nWe thought there would be a few times that the mayor would have to vote if there\nwas an odd number. That was the primary issue.\nI see.\nThe only one that's been three in three years.\nYeah, it wasn't to heal any of us or speak\nup.\nRight.\nIt's, you know, it's-\nWe want to go on that hour.\nYeah. I, I do remember that the task force said six or seven, then we came back\nthe next meeting and had specific discussion about odd or\neven. And it's the reasons that are stated in the summary, and it\nreally relied on the mayor's voting-\nMm-hmm.\nAnd a decision to keep that as an infrequent voter and more of a\nneutral facilitator.\nMm-hmm.\nOkay.\nI found myself thinking, I was looking at this packet and I, I thought I'd\nnever had before\nwhich is maybe I kinda like the idea that the mayor has to break ties\nmore often.\nYeah.\nUm-\nMm-hmm.\nYou know, because it's a different, it's additional engagement on the part of\nthe mayor and someone we've elected\ncitywide-\nMm-hmm.\nAs a leader and, and, it gives, more of a\nvoice to the mayor, more of an active role.\nAnd\nI, I certainly understand the impulse to keep it, it primarily as\na facilitator-\nMm-hmm.\nOf, of business. Um,\nyou know,\nI would, I would encourage you to just think a little bit more deeply about that,\nabout whether that's, you know, a priority,\nor maybe have a second thoughts about it, and then maybe it would be\ngood to have a mayor as break ties more.\nSure.\nI know one of the things we talked about a- throughout the process is we've really\nfocused on how the mayor's role and the councilor's role\nare different. And so when we were talking about the mayor or councilors, that was\nsomething we focused on, was if we went to a six or a, you know, an\neven number councilor system, that would make the mayor's role sim- too similar\nto that of the councilor. And since we are already factoring in the\ndifference between being a mayor and being a councilor into a lot of our other\ndecisions, that's where the focus on seven councilors came from.\nYeah.\nSo.\nYeah.\nI would say looking back at the average votes that the council\ntakes, it's not too often that it's even close to a\ntie.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, even if we were voting, had a different, an even number.\nSo I don't, I don't think it would increase mayor voting that much, but it\nwould obviously increase the side of him.\nWell, could I also... I, I, I just would also chime in that I'm\ntrying to imagine myself facilitating the meeting and processing all of\nthe comments and deciding how I'm going to vote on something-\nMm-hmm.\nWould complicate how I would facilitate the meeting.\nI've done it. It doesn't work out.\nSure.\nUm, so real quick, 'cause we're, we're, we're essentially at time, so I just really\nquick wanna go through these questions that are on the screen and have kind of a\nquick roundtable of councilors provide their,\ntheir answers to them essentially.\nSo number one, do, do, do the recommendations meet\nthe guiding principles?\nMostly, but not entirely. For other things\nwe already said.\nYeah. I would say the things that we do.\nAnyone else?\nI would agree with Tony. We may be thinking about differently sides.\nAnd number two.\nThe s- s- similar.\nSo we kinda-\nSort of the same answer.\nYeah, we kind of already covered it.\nI figure, you know, looking at similar cities for other senior quorum maps,\nJim's already expressed he'd prefer not an even n- number of councilors.\nAnd then look at other, to see if other cities have term limits, so we kind of,\nkind of already answered that. Um, number three, from a governance perspective, do\nthe draft recommendations work well together?\nUm, if you tie, pack it in front of you, that starts\non electronic package page six, you can see there's this\npotential ballot that measure one, and that's putting number of council positions,\nnumber of wards together. That one's almost just\nobvious. Uh, measure two, council term lengths,\nstaggered/concurrent terms, and election\ncycle of councilors, and term\nlengths, term\nlimits.\nAnd I'll just make a note here. When this group comes back to the city council for\nyour next work session in May, we'll dive deeper into election strategy\nat that point.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, this is more from a, a good governance lens.\nMm-hmm.\nLike how do these things look to you?\nI think the answer is yes.\nYeah.\nYeah.\nAnyone disagree?\nNo.\nAnd before we get into the draft recommendations, address problems the council is\nlooking to solve. We had a yes earlier from Tony.\nDoes anyone disagree?\nNo. I'm, I'm still trying to figure out the problem with the term limits and-\nYes, can I have your notes?\nYeah.\nYour recommendation. So, so it's yes but\neh.\nIt addresses the big one.\nSure. Yes. That's good.\nUm, it's the little ones that it solve.\nThe little\ngood problems.\nI think that gives us enough to work on, and we'll look at refining,\nwhere we are with that. With those\ndetails, we'll go into a-\nSure.\nHarder conversation.\nReason one, three-year terms?\nUm.\nTechnically, no.\nWell, how could you do-\nExcept for the cost election-\nThe cost of elections\nIn between.\nCost of election, yeah.\nYeah.\nSo you have to pay for the second election. That's really, it's money.\nWell, the other issue-\nIn turn, yeah\nIs it doesn't have staggered. And so, and the whole council would be elected every\nthree years.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd therefore, you'd have that s- turnover issue just like you'd have it currently.\nExcept for the-\nSo it wouldn't solve that issue\nWhat's that?\nIt would just be an extra year.\nFrom a technical point, no, there's no reason why you couldn't.\nSo you didn't consider one-year terms?\nEach.\nFor you-\nYou be quiet. Donny said-\nYou're not allowed.\nTo remove someone-\nSomeone's gonna write down. Yeah.\nNo, I think it's done.\nWell, thank you all for coming. We appreciate it, and I look forward to-\nThank you very much.\nYeah. Thanks for all your work.\nTransition.\nOkay.\nI drove.\nDefinitely. Definitely.\nYeah. We're gonna talk next slide on the Safe Streets and Roads for All and\nTransportation Safety Action\nPlan.\nHold on.\nCan\nshe\ngive\nall of them involved? It depends where I would...\nThat was when they did the watching their December.\nI'm hearing it more\ntoday.\nI'll assume I'm just kicking this off to you, Dan.\nExcuse me?\nI assume I'm just kicking this off to you.\nI'm kicking it off to Adam.\nOkay. Adam.\nAll right. Uh, since it got kicked off to me, we'll go ahead and get\nstarted. Thank you so much for having us here today.\nI can say the project team is, very excited\nto,\nbe able to come to you and talk about all of the work products that came out\nof the SS forty project that we started, almost two years\nago. And, we're just gonna dig right into\nit.\nSo just a quick recap. As you may recall, we got a, we got a very nice grant\nfrom, the federal government, to-- through their Safe Streets and\nRoads For All program. And\nthe, the real, advantage to the city of Corvallis in this is it, it\ndoes really help us moving, moving the\ngoalposts toward that continuing Vision Zero goal that the\ncouncil, put in place through Resolution twenty twenty\nsixteen. Priority is safety for all users.\nIt supports the existing TSP that we have in place that was adopted\nseveral years ago, and it, it identifies\nour highest, most severe crash locations, so we can\nfocus our efforts on that.\nSo since, since we got to drop over a thousand pages on you- ...uh, you\nprobably know that there was a lot of, a lot of, work effort put into\nthis, this project. And, and, you know,\nthe, the, the big, the big component was the Traffic--\nTransportation Safety Action Plan that we're gonna go through with you some today.\nIn addition to that, we had some supplementa-supplementary planning\nprojects that we did. We did three road safety audits, Walnut, Circle, and Ninth\nStreet. We looked at Walnut for a lane reconfiguration\nfeasibility study. We looked at our neighborhood traffic\nmanagement program to get some recommendations on how to potentially improve\nthat. Same thing with speed limit investigation framework, kind\nof looking at recommendations for staff to maybe use some different\ntools to help organize speed limit,\nlooks in the, in the community. We'll go through all of this in the\npresentation. And then an-another internal, supplemental\nplanning effort to give us some,\nguidelines around, standardizing some pedestrian treatments\nat, at different intersections.\nSo with that, I'm gonna hand it off to John Bosket with DKS.\nUh, John's helped, was the project manager on this from DKS,\nand also was our project manager when we did TSP a few years ago.\nHello. Thanks for having me. Um, so I'm gonna give you\nan overview, and there's a whole-- almost as many slides as pieces of paper you\ngot here. So I'm gonna try to move through it quickly.\nUm, and I'm ending with the Transportation Safety Action Plan,\nor the TSAP, as we call it. That's the only piece of this that,\nstaff will be coming back next month\nand asking you to approve. The rest of the, supplemental planning\nactivities, are really more internal operational documents for\ncity staff, but I'm gonna give you an overview of what we, what we did and\nkinda what we're hand-we're handing over to them as well.\nSo I'll go through those first. Um,\nand of course, you-- I actually got a little bit of a process overview\nfirst. Uh, as I go, you can ask questions at\nany time, but, I'll make, I'll make a point to pause as I kinda hit the\nbreaks between each of those items too, just to see if there are any\nquestions. Um, so first is kinda the\noverall SS four A project timeline.\nAgain, we had all these kinda one big project and\nso a bunch of mini supplemental projects going kind of all at the same time.\nWe started in, I think it was November of, twenty\ntwenty-four. This is about a seventeen-month-ish\nprocess. We went through kind of those different phases that, that are\nshown at the top of the diagram, where first we spent some time just\nunderstanding, what are the crash issues, where do people feel\nunsafe, really understanding what the problems are, and\nthen, working with the task force and analyzing the data and listening to\nthe community feedback to, identify\nhigh-priority locations, develop solutions for those, and refine\nthose, and ultimately develop our plan.\nWhat you see is in the middle, we had, six meetings with our task\nforce and two major kinda milestones for public\noutreach.\nUh, so just kind of a brief word on just the overall public\nengagement process.Um, you know,\nobviously a big part of this is one of the, the federal requirements of doing this\nis we want to make sure we're getting community input, not only on kind of what the\nchallenges and issues are, but then on the types of\nsolutions that we're, we're\nrecommending. And,\nwe really attempted to engage the community\nin a lot of different ways and kind of changing up our approach as we went to make\nit more effective. Had a lot of good help from your public information\nofficer, from your task force members, and, you know, Benton County and else\nto really, I think, reach, a lot of different groups in the\ncommunity. Uh, there was tools like, you know, there was a project\nwebsite, you know, email lists,\na number of different newsletters, press\nreleases, flyers were distributed over twenty\nlocations. Uh, we even had an ad at the Majestic Theatre, which is\nshown there in the, the picture. Uh, we had ads,\ninside on, on the buses on the interior monitors.\nOregon State University was really helpful in helping outreach to students,\nas well, and social media, and then there were, six different\ntabling events, that we used to get\ninput. And as I mentioned, there were two\nmajor kind of milestones where we were really trying to engage the community, and\nthe first one was, again, just getting an understanding of,\nwhat, what transportation safety issues they were\nencountering. And, we had an interactive online comment map that's shown there\nin the, the upper right, that got a lot of activity.\nThere were over sixty-five hundred, views on the comment map\nand over eight hundred, submissions.\nUm,\nand, in addition to that, we had an in-person, open house and\nan online open house. The in-person open house was at the library.\nUh, it was very well-attended. Um, and then there was a Corvallis\nTown Hall, Sustainability Town Hall and Fair, you know, open\nstreets. We had, you know, a pop-up tent.\nUm, task force meetings, and then, a public works and focus\ngroup with, parents at Garfield\nand Lincoln Elementaries.\nAnd then the second round, this would have been fall/winter twenty\ntwenty-five, twenty twenty-six.\nThis was where we came back with, some draft solutions, and those\nwere kind of framed up as, some high-priority projects,\na-as well as kind of some, overarching strategies that the, the\ncity could pursue. Uh, and again, really had\nan in-person, online open house again.\nUm, more tabling events. There was a, a mayoral town hall where\nthis was discussed. Uh, Corvallis had more\npop-ups, the Corvallis Farmers Market, as well as their task force\nmeetings. Uh, and, we had an online survey as part\nof the online open house to try to, you know, get more input. Yes.\nDo you know why the engagement dropped so much between these two rounds?\nUm, the, the, the open houses were similar.\nThey're still pretty good on just in the in-person open house.\nThey've got that online comment map where people could go and say, \"Yeah, I have a\nproblem here, I have a problem, I have a problem here.\" Uh,\nvery popular. Yeah. Um,\nyeah, I think the, the engagement I felt was pretty good.\nIt's just, it was-- it's really extensive, very effective the first\ntime. Um-\nThat map.\nYeah. So I don't think it was really... Yeah, I think that was the big thing.\nIt was the online comment map-\nYeah.\n-that really got a lot of attention.\nAnd once you put your comment on the map, you feel like you're done.\nYeah.\nYou've done your first level.\nPeople like to be questioned.\nI put on a positive comment just to balance it out.\nThat's where that one.\nThe one about Harrison, the really nice paving job, that was me.\nUm,\nanother note is Benton County, received a similar\ngrant, so they were doing a transportation safety action plan at the same\ntime. And, we really made a point to coordinate the\ntwo projects very heavily, just for efficiency of work and\nresources.\nAlso, just to make this, easier to follow by the public, so they get confused\nby two different TSAPs going on at the same time in the same area.\nUm, and hopefully to, you know, we find some synergy to strengthen,\napplications for grants in the future.\nUm, there's some key ways. Probably the, one of the most prominent ways we did this\nis the, the project managers for the city and the county projects\nwere, on each other's project management teams, and we, we literally met\nevery week, and discussed, issues, upcoming\ntasks, and kind of collaborated on, on solutions.\nSchedules were aligned. In fact, I was presenting to the board of commissioners,\nhaving this discussion, just on Tuesday, so we're hopefully ending at the same\ntime. Shared all of our data. Analysis was done at the\nsame time. And again, the public engagement was heavily coordinated, so they had\nthe same two major milestones, and we did advertisements together and\nreally shared some events just to try to make it easier for people\nto not have to go to two different places to provide\ncomments.\nOn our project task force, so they were definitely our,\nour, our sounding board and provided, really good feedback and\nguidance, especially at key decision points.\nUm,\nand, really kind of helped provide, the local\nperspective on, on the safety plan.\nUh, so this, we had a number of kind of really pivotal ways, you know,\nwhen we, had to create prioritization criteria, right?\nTo come up with our high-priority locations and figure out where, where sh-should\nwe invest first. Uh, they gave us a lot of good feedback\non, on that. Uh, helped us really narrow that list down,\nidentify the priority spots and,\nstrategies to pursue. Um, gave us great feedback on the projects\nthemselves. Um, helped us with public\nengagement, and then even refining the final copy, we sent that\nback to\nthem.On our\nfinal meeting, the task force members, did, unanimously\nsupport our plan with, with one note I added at the bottom.\nThey had one thing they wanted us to change, and we took care of that on page\nthirty. And that was-- One thing I'll note when we get to the, the TSAP is it has a\nbig emphasis on lower cost things you could do fairly quickly because we want to\nmake change fast.\nUm, but there was some concern that because of that, we wanted to be clear that we\nweren't precluding higher cost projects that still have a lot of safety benefits,\nyou know, like, you're, you know, doing roundabouts at intersections or\nprotected bike facilities. And so we ha-- Which is not\nthe intent of the plan is to preclude that stuff.\nSo we talked more about that on page thirty, and,\nwhich I will talk about later in the, the presentation.\nSo we addre-addressed that. Uh, and they also,\npassed a motion, which was the top, paragraph I\nhave there that I'll share with you.\nUh, and that was, \"The members of the SS4A Task Force request that\nthe City Council prioritize funding and construction of the\nsafety enhancements identified in the TSAP such that the\ntreatments are prioritized to the fullest extent\npossible.\"\nI will pause before I get into the first of the supplemental planning\nactivities.\nI'll move forward. Uh-\nI was confused by that statement that you just read, the task force\nmade.\nI, I can probably clarify that-\nYeah\n... Councilor. I-- The-- There was some pretty good\ndiscussion around the task force definitely, definitely wanted to emphasize\nsupport for the TSAP and to encourage the City\nCouncil to prioritize, completion of\nthe projects. And I think maybe where it says, maybe the\nconfusing part is to the fullest extent possible.\nAnd then I think that really refers back to the funding component-\nUh-huh\n... where the-- there was,\na lot of discussion that the task force wasn't intending to\ndirect the City Council how to spend City Council\nresources. It was just the resources that\nthe council deemed available for\nsafety improvements to look to the TSAP to\nprioritize those.\nOkay.\nSo there was, there was a, a definite...\nThey, they, they didn't wanna overstep, how the council s-spends the\nresources, but they, the resources that were, the council would deem\nappropriate to spend on transportation safety, they, they wanted to emphasize\nu-using the TSAP as a resource on where to put, where to put those funds.\nI understand. Code word for don't get too creative with it.\nWe did a lot of hard work, and these are the priorities we found.\nSomething like that?\nWell, so I think-\nSomething, yeah.\nWhere we, we had a similar discussion with the task force-\nOkay\n... which is what I've had with you all, where, you know, we went\nthrough an effort a couple years back now, to\nidentify priorities for funding in the transportation system.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd as I've, as I've told you all before, we're getting a\nlot of new information now, whether it be this TSAP or\nsignal investment plans or our bridge investment plans or some of the supplemental\nplanning activities. There's a whole other conversation that has to\nhappen around, how much money do we\nhave? What are we gonna prioritize for investment?\nWe have restrictions on different funds and those sorts of things, and what are we\ngonna try to accomplish.\nAnd that's obviously not within the task\nforce, purview.\nI see.\nUh, that's council's, and they're just respecting that boundary.\nOkay.\nThe council needs to go through that.\nOkay.\nThey like what's in the plan. They see the, the need to invest in the\nsafety improvements,\nand they are endorsing what's proposed, but they recognize that they\ndon't have all the information.\nOkay. I see.\nAnd council has more. And on the second part, it's, it's\njust, they wanted inclusion of an acknowledgement\nthat,\nthere are other investments that can be made at a larger scale that\nmight have even greater safety benefits, and that's not necessarily\nwhat's, what's identified in the plan.\nSo just as John said, clarifying that\nthe improvements that are identified in, in there\ndon't pro-- don't prevent or preclude the council from going above and beyond that.\nI see. Okay. Thank you.\nYeah.\nSo they understand the work is within this greater-\nYes\n... work the city's doing-\nCorrect\n... whether it's paving local streets or bridges or signal, all of\nthem.\nYeah.\nYeah.\nYeah.\nWe would really like to put a lot of money on this.\nYeah.\nAs, as the task force.\nAll right. The first of the five supplemental planning activities,\nroad safety audits or RSAs. So we did\nthree of these. Uh, it was Ninth Street, Walnut\nBoulevard, and Circle Boulevard.\nAnd road safety audits, it's, it's, it's a very kind of defined pr-prescribed\nprocess by, USDOT. And,\nso we very much patterned our approach after that prescribed\nprocess. And these are really gonna focus, technical\nefforts where we, you know, pull together a, a multidisciplinary team.\nIn, in this case, we're really leaning on, public works, police,\nfire department, ODOT participated, Corvallis School District.\nWe even invited a few Oregon State University students out of the,\ncivil engineering department.\nThey're interested in transportation to participate in these as\nwell. But, what they're really doing is they're just-- they're\nwalking the corridor pretty much all day, so they can see what's\nhappening at different times of day.\nAnd they're looking at safety issues, and potential\nfixes, through the lens of all the different users.\nSo whether you're, you're walking, biking, rolling, using transit, driving down the\ncorridor, you know, being there different times of day gives them the\nadvantage. If you have things like schools, you can see what's happening when\nschools are, you know, getting in or letting out, which you might not see if you're\nonly there for a couple of hours.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, but it's a lot of qualitative assessment.\nSo they're, they're not-Out there collecting data and analyzing it.\nThey're not, doing alternatives analysis.\nIt's, it's-- and they're really usually emphasizing\nkind of the low-hanging fruit and lower-cost solutions that the city can get\ndone quickly.\nIs it acting up?\nOh.\nThere we go. Um, and kinda one note,\nthese,\nthe, the recommendations that you may have seen in the road safety\naudits, they're, they're preliminary.\nSo what those are, they're really recommendations from these groups back to the\ncity. And as I'll touch on later, this--\nthe city still needs to go through that l- those lists\nand kind of vet those ideas, because some of them may not be feasible for different\nreasons, and identify kind of which ones they think they can move\nforward and hopefully incorporate into maybe, you know, CIP projects\ncoming up, and which ones just may not be, they might not be\nable to do.\nUm,\nlet's\nsee.\nWhere'd it go? So, quick highlights,\non some of the findings, and these, they're similar findings.\nUm, I mean, they're all arterial corridors with still a lot of similar\nissues. But, in Ninth Street, you'll see\nrecommendations in there. There's corridor-wide things like, you\nknow, access management, which can be, trying to eliminate conflicts between\nall the driveways that are out there.\nUm, no specific solutions, it's just a general recommendation to\nimprove it. Um, curb extensions to shorten\ncrossings on select side streets.\nUh, things like, doing leading pedestrian intervals at\ntraffic signals, which is basically when you get a walk signal, it's giving the\npedestrian a few seconds head start before the light turns green-\n-hard, so they can establish their presence and be\nseen. Um, and, possibly even looking at,\na lane reconfiguration, in, on part of\nNinth Street.\nUm, and then more specifically in each, in each of these road safety\naudits, the application-specific recommendations are\nseparated into low, medium, and high complexity.\nAnd again, you know, the low complexity are things that are probably easier to get\ndone quickly. When you get to the, the high complexity, more\nchallenging, maybe more costly. Um, some of those may be things that,\nmight need to get referred to, a transportation system plan update or\nsomething like that. Like a, things that go on there, like there might be,\nconsider doing a roundabout in an intersection at some point in the future.\nUm, so low complexity stuff you'll see, like at Ninth Street, it's typically things\nlike it could be restriping, signing improvements.\nHere's adding bicycle conflict markings at, at some\nlocations. Um, medium complexity\nthings, this o- in this one it was between Garfield and\nSpruce, adding a mid-block crossing.\nUm, and high complexity, this was,\nlike sidewalk, cur- you know, and ramp improvements which can affect\ndrainage, and that gets a little more complicated, might be harder to\ndo.\nOkay.\nUh, Circle Boulevard, similar types of things.\nYou know, the curb extensions on side streets again.\nUm, improving traffic signal hardware, so that's usually lower\ncost things you can do, just to kinda make sure that maybe they're up to\nstandard or maybe the, the latest safety practices,\nrecommendations. Um, and, adding,\nhaving hardened, hardened center line to prevent left turns.\nSo again, this is kinda the access management, trying to eliminate some\nconflicts with maybe signals and\ndriveways. And again,\nlocation-specific. Again, it's the lower cost stuff.\nSignal repair, signing upgrades, some green striping in\nbi-bicycle conflict zones. The medium\ncomplexity is evaluate, removing eastbound left turns\nand to add a pedestrian median refuge island to the marked\ncrossing at Seventeen.\nMm-hmm.\nAgain, like a lot of these, more investigation needs to happen\nto make sure that there aren't other consequences or it's feasible.\nBut that's just a recommendation for the group to look into.\nUh, and again, you know, higher complexity is replacing all way stop control at\nTwenty-ninth with like a signal or a roundabout.\nObviously that's a much bigger project.\nUh, in Walnut Boulevard, a-again,\ncorridor-wide recommendations again could be opportunities for leading\npedestrian intervals at those signals.\nUh, some opportunity to improve street lighting, curb extensions on\nto short crossings on some side streets.\nUh, and then obviously this is the next topic coming up, is, further\nevaluation of, trade-offs associated with lane\nreconfiguration, where you'd have one vehicle lane in each direction instead\nof two.\nUh, and then some of the location-specific things, down\ntowards the, the east end, there may be an opportunity to restripe to create\nbuffered bike lanes, from Circle to Jack London.\nAs you get more complex, there's some\nreconfiguring of the north leg of Aspen Street, so it matches the, the\nsouth side. Uh, and higher complexity, again, that's where we\nget into, you know, you need to replace a signal someday, consider doing a\nprotected intersection or a\nroundabout.\nUh, and so kinda the next steps for the road safety audits, as I mentioned before,\nstaff have those recommendations, so they need to go through and kinda,\nkinda vet those and provide a formal response letters, kind of, you\nknow, indicating which of those they think they can implement and maybe\nintegrate into some future projects and which ones they may not be able\nto.\nPausing briefly before I move on.\nSo I've noticed patterns in your recommendations.\nUm, could we safely assume that those patterned\nrecommendations could then also be applied to other streets that you didn't do the\nroad safety audit on, just, just good practice?\nThey certainly could, yeah. Yeah, it's kinda, similar to some of the\nnecessary strategies we'll talk about later, where there's sometimes there's just,\nthere's safety improvements you can do that are low cost, but you can apply them to\na broad spectrum of places.\nMm-hmm. Because there were-- there's definitely streets that you didn't\ndo.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd I can see some of these applying just as nicely as\nthat.\nUm-\nYes. And one of the distinctions is you're doing a\nmulti-lane-\nArterials\n... arterials list. So that you're seeing that one, seeing consistent\nrecommendations for a consistent-\nYeah\n... category of street.\nMm-hmm.\nUh, one comment on the... Well, that's an\ninteresting street. Um,\nseems like-- I, I think there's a, there's a real,\nlike to s- see, us address it very holistically,\nthe safety challenges. Because all, well, that's not\nparticular, right? People don't feel safe, that's for\nsure. Maybe.\nUm,\nwhen we look at the, transportation safety\naction plan, Walnut doesn't show up super\nhigh. Uh, but it seems to me that in Walnut in\nparticular, the challenge of,\nthis, the further analysis that was talked\nabout, I think needs to happen, about\nhow do you, how do you address congestion,\ntraffic safety, road con- reconfiguration, et cetera.\nI think that kind of further analysis does need\nto, to happen.\nThere'll be an opportunity. So as far as\nthey were reviewing the documents, and we'll accept TSAP, it's\nnot an action to take on, on the supplemental planning activities, but\nthere, there will be a\nconversation later about, you know, you only have so many\nstaff, and you only have\nso much money to do whatever work you wanna do.\nAnd if you decided that, you know, the benefit of a TSAP is\nit's, it's a data-driven-\nYeah\n... exercise, identifying safety.\nIf you decided that something else that,\nhas a, a legitimate safety\nbenefit, but didn't yet have, the\naccidents associated with them was a higher priority to focus on than\nthe areas that are already experiencing accidents, you can do that.\nOr you might say, \"We need to invest in signals, or we need to do more\nsafety work.\" That, that'll be a future conversation, and, and you will\nhave that opportunity to prioritize and provide some guidance.\nYeah. Okay. So to be clear, I wasn't suggesting we prioritize.\nI think the TSAP is, is a great place to\nstart, and I just was commenting that Walnut as a\nparticular... I wouldn't, I wouldn't want us to see-- to do some things that appear\nto be low-hanging fruit, but were just likely we looked at a\nbigger experiment throwaway investment.\nYeah. Absolutely.\nSpeaking of Walnut Boulevard, so the, the\nnext supplemental planning activity, was a\nfeasibility assessment of doing a lane\nreconfiguration on Walnut Boulevard.\nAnd so, a-again, I'll emphasize, it's like if you, if you read this, there are no\nspecific recommendations, and I'm sure there are a lot more questions that have to\nbe answered. This is really taking that first step and saying, you know,\nkinda like, is this fatally flawed? Does this look like it could work?\nIs it, you know, worth further conversation,\npotentially?\nUm,\nand so kinda the, you know, the, the why, you know, we would consider this, and,\nyou know, why is it part of this SS four A project?\nUh, there are pretty significant potential safety benefits of, you know,\nconversions like that, where you're going from, you know, particularly in the\nsection where you have four lanes, you're going down to, to three.\nUh,\nand, you know, one of them is just addressing speeding.\nUh, speeds themselves don't always drop a lot.\nThe speeding certainly gets curved because now the slowest people in the platoon\ncontrol how fast everybody goes. You know, there's no passing.\nUm, let's say the similar conversions when you go from, like a four-lane\nsection like is shown there, to one where you have one lane each direction with a\ncenter turn, a center turn lane, they see a\ntwenty-nine percent reduction in all crashes, which is pretty significant.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, there's obviously more room for doing like protected bike lanes or,\nyou know, other kinds of accommodations for, you know, people walking and\nbiking. Uh, it's easier and safer to cross the\nstreet. Uh, not only sometimes is it shorter distance to\ncross, but as illustrated in that graphic, you eliminate what's\nnow referred to as the multiple threat issue, where one car stops for\na pedestrian, but they create a visual obstruction when they do\nthat, and another oncoming car may not see the pedestrian and, you know,\nstill, still stop the car.\nUm, and also, you know, as you-- we'll get into a little bit later, whether you do\nright turn lanes or not, those can have additional, safety benefits\nand give you some options on how to, eliminate conflicts\nor improve, conflicts with, bikes and\ncars. Um, and this also gives us opportunities\nto potentially use a kind of conflict marking.\nUh, so kinda what did we evaluate when we did this?\nThere are a few different scenarios.\nUh, one was, obviously keeping the current four/five-lane\nlayouts. We, you know, leave it as it is. We looked at the no-build.\nOne was, what if we change it to one lane each direction with a center turn lane,\nso I call the three lane. Uh, and then these other ones are saying,\nokay, well, at least at the intersections, what if we add right turn lanes,\nespecially where we have heavier right turn volumes.\nSo it's not a pure three lane, at least the intersections, we're doing that to\nrelieve a little bit of congestion.\nAnd then the last one mentioned there, it would have been that scenario, plus we\ndiscoveredThrough this, you probably don't want to reduce the\nlanes between 9th Street and NFW because they're so\nclose together, we need the lanes just to store vehicles, or they're end up\nspilling back into both intersections.\nThis creates a huge conflict.\nSo what did we consider in this feasibility assessment?\nUh, one thing we did was we thought we would use the TSP\ngoals, to kind of s-frame up evaluation\ncriteria. So we, we referred to the goals in the transportation system\nplan related to safety, viable automobile\nalternatives, and efficient movement of people, and goods,\nor maybe more simply, I would state the last two are kind of people that are\nwalking, biking, using transit, and the last one is, you know, people\ndriving. Um, and then on the\nright there, I show kind of the more specific evaluation criteria that we\nlooked at, like potential crash reduction, you know, how much\nseparation can we get between, cars and people walking and\nbiking, potential speed reduction, comfort for people\nwalking and biking, what it can do for,\npedestrian crossings, obviously auto\ndelay, and then potential for traffic diversion.\nAnd what I mean by that is\nif we do create some congestion, more delay on Walnut,\nhonestly, what we don't wanna have happen is people try to bypass that and go\nthrough neighborhoods, right? And bypass through there.\nSo we did some, some modeling and testing to see what the potential was for\nthat. Um, obviously in exercises like this, as you would\nexpect to see is, you know, some modes like\nwalking, biking are probably really gonna benefit from a lot of this stuff.\nUh, driving, they're giving something up, right? They're giving up some capacity.\nSo it's, it's really a big question of-- or understanding what the trade-offs\nare, and then for the community to decide what the appropriate balance\nis.\nUh, so from that, that first kind of major, criteria, safety, and\nI really kind of touched on this already, there are\nsignificant safety, benefits, potentially by doing this\nconversion. Um,\nand like, I won't touch anymore 'cause I'm probably short on time.\nBut yes, that one's a clear winner overall safety to do this\nconversion. A lot of potential for\nimprovement. Uh, now when you get to the, active\ntransportation modes, so walking, biking,\ntransit. Uh, one key assumption that we, we did, I highlighted in\nyellow there, is that if we're doing this, we're probably gonna leave the curbs\nwhere they are. Um, just 'cause it makes it way more affordable, right?\nWe could do it much, much faster. Um, so if\nyou do that, obviously with that extra width, there's a lot of\noptions you have for what you do with the bicycles.\nWe did not go through different design treatments.\nWe assumed if you pursue this further, that stuff can be discussed\nmore. But it could be something, right, that's shown in that illustration, 'cause\nyou, you know, that's the kind of room you would have.\nSo it could be some kind of protected facility.\nUm, for people walking,\nbecause we're not moving the curbs, the sidewalks aren't gonna get bigger, wider,\nbut there is now probably more of a buffer between the cars and them, right?\nIf we have more space being preserved for the bikes.\nUh, also, as I mentioned before, your crossings are gonna probably get easier\nand safer. So, you know, it's a, it's a win for\npeople walking. Transit, I got the question mark there,\nkind of depends on the design choices you make going forward.\nThe thing about transit is access to transit, same with people walking and biking\nfor all the reasons I mentioned before, it's probably gonna get better and, and be\neasier and safer. But, but buses also\ndrive right in the travel lanes, and so some of the things that, the\ndetractions from people that are driving, buses also have to deal with.\nSo if there's more congestion, that's gonna affect their travel times as\nwell. Or if you choose to do bus stops in lane versus\nhaving them pull out, it's probably gonna be harder for them to get into the\nnew three-lane section. So there are some trade-offs for transit,\nand usually it's a positive change, but could depend on the design\nchoices you ultimately make.\nMm.\nUh, so with that said, the last category is really kind of how does\nthis, this affect, you know, driving through the corridor.\nUh, and I will say just for this feasibility assessment, we only looked at the\np.m./p.m. hour. So if there's morning issues with, you know, schools or whatnot,\nwe didn't look at that for this. Uh, we looked at what happens in twenty\ntwenty-five, so if you did it right away, versus what happens in twenty years, so\nyear twenty forty-five. And to kind of assess\nif, you know, the acceptable level of congestion, we used Corvallis's\nadopted mobility standards. This, you know, same thing a developer would\nuse if they do a transportation, you know, impact study.\nUh, and so\nfrom the no-build scenario, what we found was congestion\nlevels at all the intersections are within adopted standards today,\nand all but Highland Drive intersection would be in twenty forty-five.\nUm, so now if we go to the three-lane, this is with no right turn\nlanes, pure three-lane, now Highland and\nTwenty-Ninth, they get fairly congested today, so they wouldn't meet your mobility\nstandards, and they'd get, you know, fairly worse by twenty\nforty-five. But really no other intersections, have that\nproblem. So then if we go back, and we add some right turn\nlanes in at the congested locations, now Highland\nDrive is congested today as well as in twenty forty-five, but\nTwenty-Ninth isn't a problem anymore.\nUm, and while it varies from place to place, the levels of\ncongestion are fairly comparable to the no-build condition.\nSo right turn lanes added strategically where they're needed can certainly\nhelp with congestion at the intersections.\nUh, but again, a lot of this is gonna come down ultimately, if this were to be\npursued, is what design choices you end up making in the future.\nCan I ask a question?\nYeah.\nWhat-- How do you determine the number of cars twenty\nyears out? What kind of da-- How do you pull that data?\nUh, so it's, it's using, the, regional\ntravel demand model, that, is,\nmanaged by the Oregon Department of Transportation.\nSo it's the same forecasting model that's used for your\ntransportation system plan and for the, the regional transportation\nplan. And it, it, has coordinated\npopulation, you know, employment, right, housing projections,\nthat have been coordinated with the, the cities, the counties\nbuilt into this. So it's, it's based on the long-term projection\nfor, the city and its surroundings.\nOkay. Do you know how current it is?\nUm, they updated it\na few years ago.\nOkay. That'll work.\nYeah. We did a little bit of refinement based on kind of what we know now\nabout where development is or isn't likely gonna happen, but\nit's fairly true.\nThank you.\nYes. Um,\nso looking at travel time, so I don't know how many people drive the whole length,\nbut, you know, instead of just looking at the intersections, we said, \"Well, what\nif you drove the whole corridor? How much difference does it make?\"\nUh, and this was, with the right turn lanes in place,\nif you'd went, end to end, increased travel time by one to\ntwo minutes, depending on if you're going with the, the peak flow of direction or\nnot. And that's about a fifteen to thirty percent\nincrease. Uh, so that's about, I think it was like seven minutes in the\nno build scenario.\nUm, so again, on the diversion issue, and again, this is\nwhere we used that, that travel demand model I referenced,\nand kind of tested, okay, if we have this\ncongestion,\nwhere... are we gonna lose any traffic to another route?\nAnd again, this was done kind of with the worst case\nscenario, I believe. Um,\nso, there is some diversion around Highland, right?\nBecause that's really the main congestion point.\nBut if, you know, you're familiar with the area, we don't really have a strong\nstreet grid, right? So there's not a lot of other places to go.\nAnd so Circle Boulevard, you know, is probably likely\nto pick up, just as another parallel arterial, about a hundred and\nfifty vehicles. That's about a twenty, twenty-five percent increase.\nUh, now again, it's just during the peak hour. That's the only time we've analyzed.\nUh, but that was in the twenty forty-five scenario with no right turn lane.\nSo that's our worst case scenario.\nUh, and then looking at local\nstreets, was really the place where you really don't want a lot of that\ndiversion. Thirteenth and Garriana are, you know, the likely\nplaces where if you're gonna see some diversion like that, that's probably where it\nwould happen, people trying to get around, you know, Highland.\nThat was more on the order of, you know, less than fifty total between the\ntwo. So it's not really bad, but again, it could\ndepend on the design choices that you make.\nIf you do the right turn lanes, alleviate some of that congestion, maybe\nthat demand really drops, or maybe there's some traffic calming treatment that\ncould be done as well as that to help curb that.\nUh, but at least from our preliminary assessment, that's what we're\nseeing. Um, so my last slide\nhere, it's, it's kind of-- So that's kind of what we have framed up.\nUm, and like I said, my kind of take on that is it doesn't seem\nfatally flawed. It seems feasible to continue exploring, but a\nlot of it's gonna depend on design choices that you make, and\nagain, community, preferences and decisions\nabout balancing out kind of those different modes, right?\nHow much you give in one area to get in another, and what's the acceptable\nbalance. Um,\nand, and certainly, hopefully, this, you know, stimulates the conversation if this\nis gonna go forward. It highlights more questions that need to be answered if\nyou take this to another step.\nMm-hmm.\nYes, sir.\nYes.\nJust two quick things to keep in mind as we leave this\ntopic. Um, there's a couple things that were happening at the same\ntime that we were doing this evaluation that I just wanna touch on for a\nmoment. Uh, one was, the school district talked about\nschool, school closures and redistribution of, children.\nOne of the things that we heard from community members, in the\nmiddle of the project was concern about what impact that might\nhave on the analysis that we were, we're doing here.\nUh, so we, we put our heads together and\ncrammed more work into an already tight schedule,\nand got, got with the school district, got information from them, on\nenrollment projections, did some analysis,\nand, found that the numbers\nas, projected didn't change the results of what we\nlooked at and would recommend, in the study here.\nSo didn't have a meaningful impact on intersection performance, for\nexample. Where, where we communicated with the\ntask force members where that still might be important to\npeople is when we have that funding discussion,\nlater about where do we want to invest and, and not invest\nwhen, what do, what do we invest in first.\nUh, that might be something that people point to.\nYou already have more kids, attending the school, that might\nbe a reason to invest in additional safety,\nimprovements sooner in one location over another that might have data\nthat's, that's, that's showing a problem.\nThat'll be a conversation to have later.\nUh, the other thing that was happening at the same time, was a\nconversation about,\nstreets SDCs, and there was concern about removal of\na recreational path, parallel\nWalnut in the near term, funding, their,\nall, all, for their projects as well.\nThat wasn't needed from a transportation perspective.\nIt's not like a TSP, pedestrian\npath. So it is, was, was there from a recreational\nperspectiveBut there again, it was another thing that, if\nconstructed, might have provided another alternative,\nfor people, and that might be another reason why,\nsomeone might look at improvements on, on Walnut\neven though the data isn't there. I'm not advocating one way or another,\nand I'm not trying to argue one way or the\nother. Um, but there are some real things\nthat are gonna come, that are gonna come up\nthat, warrant consideration when you do get to the point of\nweighing those things. And we tried to be mindful of the ones that we\ncould, put numbers to, like the school district, in\nthis, in this analysis so we were current with the times.\nThat's actually gonna be very helpful with some of the\nconversations, you having done that, so thanks for taking the extra time.\nYeah. Yeah.\nThanks to John. It wasn't, it wasn't easy to\naccommodate.\nWho ever did that?\nI'll move on. Uh, I'm probably gonna have to hit the\naccelerator here a little bit too.\nUm,\nthird supplemental planning activity.\nSo Neighborhood Traffic Management Program Assessment.\nUh, so what we did is essentially we audited the city's\ncurrent, you know, neighborhood traffic calming program, which is very well\ndocumented. Um, and, kind of looked at that\ncompared to best practices, and, and,\ntalked to staff about kind of their experiences with it and,\nprovided some recommendations to look into to, improve the\nprogram. Uh, looking at, kind of key things like how\ncommunity requests are processed and your roles and\nresponsibilities between community members and staff.\nYou know, how satisfied, staff and the city have been with the outcomes they've\nbeen getting. Uh, and then just, you know, kind of equitable access and,\nand outcomes.\nUm, so the current program, if you're not\nfamiliar with it, it's, it's a very structured process, and it's for\nreducing speeds and cut-through traffic on neighborhood streets.\nSo this is specifically applicable to local streets, so not arterials and\ncollectors. Um, and it emphasizes goals.\nYou know, it's trying to achieve neighborhood livability, create broad\ncommunity involvement. You know, you have efficient uses of city\nresources, and involve periodic assessment\nof effectiveness. Uh, and so this is where I might\nl-move a little bit quickly. Um, so I'll kind of\nquickly run through the process as it is.\nSo requests can be submitted any time right now.\nUh, when the city gets requests, first they try to do enforcement strategies\nto see if that will fix the problem.\nThat doesn't work, then the requester must\ncirculate a petition to study to demonstrate they have neighborhood\nsupport, and they have to get a majority of support through this.\nI think the situation is the city provides the boundary of what they determine the\naffected area is, and then the-- whoever put the request in the neighborhood\nhas to do the legwork.\nCity determines also the, you know, look at the contacts and data to see if the\nlocation would even qualify for, you know, like a traffic calming improvement.\nThen the, neighborhood has to form a neighborhood traffic committee and\norganize that. They work with the city to create a plan and identify\nperformance measures to see what they're gonna do is effective.\nThe neighborhood then has to fund a test installation.\nUh, if that's found to be effective, city again\nconfirms neighborhood support with the confidential\nballots. Uh, if that comes out positive, they have\ndemonstrated support, city council then, can approve,\nmodify, or reject the proposal. The\nneighborhood then has to fund the project, but the city will design\nit and construct it. Uh, improvements are evaluated by the\ncity through another neighborhood survey.\nUh, city staff give the final report to city council, and then city council can\napprove it, modify it, extend the evaluation further,\nor even order it to be removed.\nUh, and so, kind of the recommendations, kind of looking through that\nand other best practices, the main things we're focused on are things like\ntransparency and accountability, equitable access for\nsure, and just kind of, ability to delivery-- deliver\nefficiently. Although there were some\nthings about the program that do align with best practices that are positive, and\nthat's using before and after data collection, doing measured\ntests, and having formal city council\ninvolvement. So the biggest,\nrecommended change, it's really a fundamental one, would be to move to a\ncity-funded program. So right now, if you notice in my run-through, a\nlot of this is all paid by the neighborhoods.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd a lot of the work is done by them too.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, obviously that, that would address the inequity where only the neighborhoods\nwith financial resources, and frankly time, can afford to\nhave any improvements made in their commu-- in their neighborhoods.\nUh, it'd make the process, I think, easier and more predictable for everyone,\nstaff included, because I would imagine now, not only is there a big barrier to\nentry, but if the neighborhood has to keep coming up with funding at different\npoints, project could disappear for years and then\ncome back at a time when staff may not expect it or have the bandwidth to even deal\nwith it. Uh, so it'd be, much more efficient and predictable\nif that was just, a city program.\nGreat.\nUm, other recommendations involving simplifying the\nprocess. Um, and that's things like using a, a\nprogram webpage with information about the program to help people understand how to\nengage with it. You can even show the eligibility of projects that are in\nthe-- or what's an eligible project and show what the status of projects in the\nqueue, are. Uh, and then\nconsider applications on a regular cycle.\nSo maybe you could still apply any time, but make it clear that\nmaybe once a year they'll be processed.\nUm-And then creating standardized requirements for\neligibility, which is to help with screening and prioritizing.\nUm, and then right now there's a very prescribed outreach process, you\nnoticed. I think since then, I think the, the city has discovered\na lot of more effective and creative ways to do community engagement.\nAnd so maybe not making that so prescriptive and letting you customize that would\nprobably be beneficial. Uh, having city council\nconfirmation on the prioritized list of projects once per\ncycle. Uh, making tests not mandatory but\noptional, 'cause sometimes there are things the city may already have experience\nwith. They, they know they're gonna be effective.\nUm,\ncreating project eligibility criteria and a prioritization\nprocess,\nwhich, you know, popularity in the program increases because now it's easier\nto get access to. That would probably help process all the requests.\nUm, and another idea is, you could do a rotating,\nproject cycle through geographic areas of the city to kinda\nhelp with, equitable distribution, much like the sidewalk safety\nprogram.\nUh, and then I think the last recommendation was centralizing all that\ntechnical work back with city staff and not putting it on the\nneighborhood.\nSo I thought this was very well described in the-- I\nthought the recommendation was\nreally nice.\nYeah.\nI thought it was spot on. Uh, totally like it, too.\nI've always had a problem with this pro-- the old process\nbecause it's so geared to the neighborhoods that have long-term\nresidents who own their homes, have money, and have those connections,\nwhere\nsome of the neighborhoods that really need this work don't.\nSo\nI was glad to spend the time looking into this.\nUh, moving on. Speed limit investigation framework.\nThe\nnext of the supplemental planning activities. Uh, so what is this?\nSo essentially this is an approach to reviewing and setting\ncontact, context-sensitive speed limits on arterials and\ncollectors throughout Corvallis.\nSo now we're not, not the neighborhood streets, now we're focused more on arterials\nand collectors. Uh, key here, context-sensitive,\nso and I'll touch on this a little bit more.\nSo that's not simply just the statutory speed.\nSo that is something that may align better with the actual land use and\nthe, the street design itself, if those are\nnot in sync.\nUm, and then again, focus on arterials and collectors.\nAnd, emphasize the-- what are our recommendations here?\nThis still works within current, regulations, so we're not changing state\nlaw. It's pretty consistent already, with the city's current\npractice. It's, really just provides more of a screening process to look at\nthe whole network at once, rather than being maybe more ad hoc in\nidentifying where the opportunities might be to then go and proactively do\nthis.\nUm, so kind of the why is it important?\nObviously, speed is a big factor, right, in safety and, and the,\nseverity of outcomes in a crash. Uh, especially if you're, you know,\na vulnerable, you know, traveler, so you're walking or biking.\nUm, and speeds, you know, that don't align with what people expect 'cause the\ncontext is very different, can sometimes be\nconfusing. And you end up with some people that are really trying to be rule\nfollowers and drive the posted speed, and other people that are following what\ntheir brain is telling them because the context and those big differences\nin speeds, can create safety problems of their\nown.\nAnd then my, my big warning, simply changing posted\nspeeds, won't be effective unless the roadway design and context\nsupport it. Uh, in some cases, companion strategies, like\nchanges to the street design may be needed, otherwise you could be making the\nproblem worse. But this is a common thing, is people think, \"Well, let's just\nchange the posted speed.\" If it's out of sync with the context, it\nprobably isn't going to work.\nUm, so how are posted speeds set now?\nSo ODOT has all the responsibility for setting speed limits on all public\nroadways. Um, there's two kinds of, posted\nspeeds. I mentioned statutory, so it's kinda like the default.\nUm, those are specified by, you know, state law and by road types,\nillustrated on the chart there. And then you have\ndesignated, and so, that's where you're obviously deviating\nfrom the default. Um, and that involves, you know, the speed\nstudy typically. But there is the ability, as you notice on this\ntable, you can kinda better align it with your context.\nSo if you're urban core, if you can read the numbers on the table up there,\nyou'll notice there are allowable speeds for arterials and collectors that are\nlower than if you're in a suburban fringe area.\nBut there are still kind of windows of allowed ranges, and they're fairly tight,\nyou know, five-to-ten-mile-an-hour windows.\nSo\nI would, you know, setting expectations appropriately, if you're thinking-- looking\nat opportunities to lower posted speeds, it's probably not gonna be a\ntwenty-mile-per-hour drop. It's probably gonna be a five-mile-per-hour drop,\nsomething like that.\nUh, so how is it done now? So ODOT, while they do have the-- they still hold\nthe authority and have to make the decisions, they can delegate authority to\ncities. Uh, but, the process and the\ncriteria are still the same. Um, and ODOT\nstill has to make the decisions. Really, what they're delegating to the city is,\nyou do the legwork, you perform the investigation, rather than requesting\nODOT to do it. But you still have to give that to\nODOT. They're gonna make sure you did it to their standards, and they're still\nmaking the decision. So\nyou still have, you, you have to have the time and the resources to do it for that\nto really be beneficial.\nUh, so the proposed approach, and again, still working within the same regulations.\nWe're not changing the laws. ODOT still has authority, but it's rather than kind of\nad hoc looking at maybe when a request comes up or if you're doing a CIP\nproject and you notice maybe there's an opportunityIt's kind of screening the whole\nnetwork and then seeing what pops up, where the context and the,\nthe current posted speed, there might be some wiggle room.\nUm, so really that's, you know, doing some GIS analysis.\nSo right, just kind of coding in there in GIS what your land use\ncontact zones are, what the current posted speeds are,\nand then kind of knowing where there's flexibility, seeing where the\ncandidate locations are.\nUm,\nand then a note on residential streets, while we said\nwe were focused on arterials and collectors.\nUh, Oregon cities are permitted to designate twenty mile per hour speed\nlimits on residential streets without any investigation.\nUm, however, right now, I believe in Corvallis, this is pretty\ncommon. It's-- a lot of your residential streets, they're not posted twenty-five\nmiles per hour because that's the statutory speed already.\nAnd so if you're gonna make a change like that, people aren't gonna know you did\nit. Probably unless you do a pretty extensive outreach campaign, and then probably\nalso need to post all those streets twenty miles per hour,\nwhich comes with a lot of extra costs.\nUm, especially, you got to maintain all those things now that you've put them in.\nSo an alternative to that is y-you could think about\ndoing it on select streets, like maybe, you know, neighborhood bikeways that are\nlocal streets, if you wanted to drop those to twenty miles an hour.\nSo it's like kind of that, that cost barrier may be more feasible, but\nstill something to look into and consider.\nSo that is what we've provided for the Speed Limit Investigation\nFramework.\nThe last supplemental planning activity, and this will be the shortest and sweetest\none of all, Pedestrian Crossing Treatments\nMatrix. I, I don't think you had a hand up for this one 'cause we're still tweaking\nsome stuff with, with city staff on this.\nBut really what this is, is, providing some criteria\nso the city can, I think, more consistently a-and\nobjectively evaluate, requests or opportunities to do\nmarked or enhanced pedestrian crossings at what are currently\nunmarked locations. And so obviously we're drawing\nagain from a lot of kind of, you know, standardized or best practices, what other\ncommunities have done. There's good, you know, state and federal guidelines for\nkind of when to not mark a crossing or when it would, would be an eligible\ncandidate. And then once you've deserm-- determined something's an\neligible candidate, considering things like, you know, traffic volume,\nspeeds, crossing distances, visibility,\nyou know, route continuity, lighting, you know, crossing demand, and the\ncontext is, then helping you figure out,\nokay, well, what types of treatments would be appropriate?\nYou know, from the most basic to striping it, to putting\nin, you know, refuge islands or flashing beacons or\nfull traffic signals right as you go up in progression.\nSo that's what we're ironing out some of the details with staff now, but that's\nwhat we're providing. It's just a tool to help them when they get those\nopportunities or requests, they can run it through then and kind of have more\nconsistency and objectivity to that.\nAnd now, now the big one, right? The\nTransportation Safety Action Plan.\nSo I'm gonna give you an overview of that.\nUm, again, that was-- that's the major effort.\nThat's the one where staff will be coming back next month and, and asking you to,\nto approve this document, not the other ones.\nSo just kind of off the bat, s-so there are requirements and\nspecific requirements from the, SS4A program on what TSAPs\nhave to do or include. So obviously, that guided our\napproach to this, and we made sure that we incorporated these elements.\nOne of those is they want to see a leadership commitment, to a zero\ngoals. That's, reaching zero pe-- crashes resulting in\nfatalities and serious injuries.\nUh, we need to use a committee or task force, and that's, that's both in the\ndevelopment of the plan and later when it comes to implementing the\nplan. To monitoring, I should say.\nUm, they want data-driven safety analysis.\nUh, they want to see public engagement being a part of the process.\nUm, equity considerations. That was, that was, that was a requirement when we,\nwhen we got the grant. Uh, we kept it in there.\nBut-- So we, we-- I'll talk about that later.\nWe kind of use that as part of our prioritization process.\nUm, in addition to-- The second to last bullet is\nnot only hotspot projects and then kind of more broad reaching strategies\nyou could apply, but also looking to see if there's any\nchanges the city can make to like, you know, policies, design standards,\noperating procedures, just to keep safety kind of always in the\nconversation when you're, you're doing things.\nUh, and then progress and transparency.\nThat's, that's all at the end, you need to do annual monitoring\nreporting, and that has to be made publicly\navailable. Um, and so kind\nof, the safe system approach was what we used, and that's\nkinda again one of the really the requirements and emphasis of doing these\nTSAPs. And really the, the, in maybe simple terms, is\nthat's taking a holistic approach and not just relying on maybe\ntraditionally doing engineering improvements to fix safety problems, but\nconsidering kind of the full spectrum of things that can affect\nsafety and safety outcomes. And that's, you know, the people, you know,\nvulnerability of people, their, the, their behavior and choices they make,\nyou know, vehicle capabilities, speeds, as well\nas even post-crash care. So, you know, emergen-- helping emergency services not\nonly respond faster, but, you know, get people to\nget people care more quickly, so we can reduce the severity outcomes\npotentially.\nSo those are kind of lenses that we, we're kind of continuously looking at when\nwe're looking through solutions.\nUm, so the executive summary is, is as most executive\nsummaries are. Uh, it summarizes the document, the key points of\nthat. One thing I'm highlighting here that, shows up, I think in, in the\nintro section as well-Is, the, the\nstatement again, and I think this is where, you know, when, FHWA is\nlooking through now looking for that leadership commitment, that first thing I\nmentioned is, is this states that clearly.\nAnd we-- the, statement we have in here is that City of Corvallis aims to\nmake our transportation system as safe as possible and move towards\nzero traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries in the next twenty\nyears, or next ten years, not twenty.\nUm,\nand that's different than some other long-range planning studies we do, is which\noften have twenty-year horizons.\nThere's really an emphasis in this plan to do things we can get done a lot more\nquickly because we want to make safety improvements fast, not wait ten years to\nfund them and get them.\nUh, so the first few chapters are-- it's a lot of introductory stuff.\nIt kind of introduces, you know, about the project, the process we went\nthrough, the safe-- what's the safe system approach,\ntalks about the coordination we did with Benton County, and,\nkind of summarizes our public engagement approach.\nIt also splits up,\ndoes some intro of some of the crash data and trends that we saw to kind of support\nthe, the problem, right? Or the where are we starting from, why do we need to do\nthis. Especially 'cause if, if that goal is to\nget to zero fatalities and serious injuries, you need to know where you're starting\nfrom.\nUm, so as we get to chapter four, that's gonna kind of pick up that conversation\nagain. There's more in-depth conversation about kind of what are the issues,\nright? So it's, what's analyzing that crash data.\nUm, and so from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty-two was the\nspan of crash data we got, simply 'cause that was the most recent data we could\nget when we started. Um, there was an average of fifteen crashes per\nyear resulting in fatalities and serious injuries.\nAnd the proportion of fatal and serious injury crashes,\nnearly doubled from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty-two.\nSo you can kind of see that on that graph. It's been, it's been climbing.\nUh, obviously in twenty twenty, where the pandemic hit, all the crashes went\nway down 'cause people weren't driving as much.\nWell, in a lot of places, Corvallis included, they've been climbing right back up.\nAnd in fact, the proportion of the fatal and serious injury crashes has been\ngetting worse. Um, so again, if our goal is to get to\nzero, it's like that's, that's telling us what our baseline is and what we're, what\nwe're starting from. Um, chapter\nfour also identifies the high-priority network.\nAnd so again, this was an exercise we went through, with the task\nforce to help identify this. And those are intersections and road\nsegments where, based on crash history and trends, we believe have the\nmost, for improvements, have the greatest potential to\neliminate high-severity crashes.\nUm, and a note here, we kept the focus on city facilities with a\nlot of this. So we did identify state highway corridors because\nthere's a lot of crashes on those, but we separated those out and listed\nthem. So you can still have conversations with ODOT about\nmaking improvements there. But as far as investing city resources, we wanted to\nkeep it on the city facilities, so we split the two\napart.\nUh, so kinda a little bit on how we got to that high-priority network.\nUh, considered a lot of inputs. So it was, you know, the data analysis, you know,\nwhat's the crash data telling us? Um, not only\nspecifically where the crashes and most severe crashes are happening, but what are\nkind of the overall, overall trends that are most prevalent in the most,\nserious crashes, and how-- per\nlocation. Uh, but then we also considered,\ncommunity feedback. Uh, we used like Oregon Social\nEquity Index to identify where there's,\ncensus tracts within the city with, higher disparities in people that may\nbe,\nyou know, more traditionally underserved and kind of, looked at\nthat to see where those high-priority locations were, in\nalignment with those to, to make sure we're getting good coverage.\nAnd we kind of pulled all that together with our task force, and,\nthey helped us make the decisions.\nUh, fir-first of all, they supported our prioritization process and criteria, but\nthen they also helped us kind of make the decisions on which projects\nthey thought were rising to the top and were the high-priority ones.\nUm,\nand again, that's at this moment in time.\nIt's not to say, you know, that there aren't other locations that could benefit\nfrom safety improvements. It's just these were the highest in priority at this\ntime. Uh, also sets up what we call\nemphasis areas. So these are not specific locations, but\nit's factors that are most frequently involved in fatal and serious injury crashes.\nUh, again, the task force helped us kind of look through that data and identify\nwhich we thought were the ones we wanted to focus on for this.\nAnd we chose five of those for Corvallis, those being\nintersections, so that's a place where we were having the most of those\nmore serious crashes. Uh, people walking, people biking.\nWe, risky behaviors, we lumped in things like drug and\nalcohol impairment, distracted driving, and speeding.\nAnd then younger drivers, so twenty-one and under.\nThat-- those were where we were seeing, more\nlinkages to those serious crashes.\nSo as soon as we get to chapter five, we get into the, solutions\nthemselves. Um, and so we have the systemic emphasis area\nstrategies, and those are things we can apply broadly.\nThey're not spot, you know, location-specific.\nUh, if the city has a CIP project, they can look at tools in this\ntoolkit we've given them to potentially apply in that.\nThey could apply for a grant to apply some of these things, you know, in,\nin multiple corridors or areas in comparison to high-priority\nprojects which are obviously very specific to a location.\nAnd then here, this is the page thirty.\nThis is where we-Wanted to more specifically address the input from\nthe task force where they didn't want to preclude,\nlarger scale projects from this. And so we've\nincluded, this consideration for really kind of all, you\nknow, projects to kind of continuously keep the kind of\nthe, the safe system approach embedded in, the thought\nprocess. Since it's tiered system where you start, you're looking for\nthe types of solutions that remove conflicts, right?\nSo you're separating people in space. If you, if you...\nThat's not feasible to do, right? Because there's always constraints, whether it's\nfunding, environmental, whatever.\nThen you kind of go down the list and say, \"Well, what can we do to reduce\nspeeds?\" If you can't do that, you move down the list.\nHow can we manage conflicts and time, right? So think traffic signals, right?\nThey're separating conflicts and time.\nAnd if we can't do that, then it's just increasing awareness of the location\nor the situation. And so, that process\nand recommendations provided in there, we also acknowledged,\nor explains how you could use that process for intersection or bicycle\nfacility improvements. So if you're kind of like, one of the RSAs, it says,\n\"If you ever need to replace this traffic signal, consider doing protected\nintersections and roundabouts.\" That should be part of the conversation.\nSimilarly, bike facilities, right?\nThere, there should be a preference for something like protected facility, because\nthat would be tier one. But, you know, if you can't do that for whatever reason,\nyou move kinda down the tiers. So we do have some guidance\nfor, you know, other capital projects.\nAnd then the necessary strategies.\nAgain, we have infrastructure-based and non-infrastructure based things.\nUh, the infrastructure based things, again, we're looking for kind of lower cost\nthings you can do a lot of quickly. Intersection hardware\nimprovements, street lighting improvements, pedestrian crossing\nenhancements, green bike lane painting in conflict\nareas, buffered bike lanes, radar speed feedback signs are just some of\nthe examples. On the non-infrastructure based\nexamples, you'll see things are-- start to get into more of the, the\neducation enforcement realms. Um, pedestrian safety\nzones is one that was, popular with the task force.\nThat's where you can designate an area, maybe it's, you know, around a school or a\ndowntown or something. But then you're, you're focusing\neducation, engineering, and enforcement strategies specifically on pedestrian\nsafety in that, in that zone.\nUm, educational campaigns, not only for, for safe biking behavior, but\nalso for drivers around bikes. Um, high visibility saturation\npatrols, again, on the enforcement side.\nUm, and then more kinda educational campaigns and assistance for some of those\nrisky behaviors and parents that have young drivers.\nThe nice thing about a lot of, a lot of these educational things is you don't have\nto reinvent the wheel, 'cause a lot of great resources are already out there.\nODOT's-- you get access through a lot of these through\nODOT.\nAnd then the high priority projects, just listed\nthere. These were the locations that, rose to our-- got on\nthe high priority list. Um, Ninth Street had a lot.\nIt's five, five different projects just on Ninth Street.\nUh, we've got Harrison Boulevard at Twenty-Ninth, Kings Circle, Thirty-Fifth and\nWestern, Garfield Highland, a segment of Circle Boulevard\nfrom Highland to Porter Place, segment of Circle between\nNinth Street and Nine-Nines W. Uh, Circle at,\nKings, Eleventh and Grant, Tenth and Buchanan, Thirty-Fifth and\nJackson, and then Conifer, there's a segment from Nine-Nine to\nCambridge, where there's kind of a, a sight distance issue in the\ncorner.\nUm, and so if you kinda look through those, kind of the, the general pattern of the\ninformation we're providing for each of those, there's a location\ndescription, a discussion of the crash patterns and trends that were\nin that data, project recommendations that also include\nwhat, you know, crash reduction potential, where there's research to, to back that\nup. Um, project costs, potential funding sources to\nconsider, benefit-cost ratios. Um, and then we\nnoted any other related planning projects, 'cause sometimes there's a, a\nCIP or a transportation system plan project,\nthat's related to that location that'd be good to\nknow. Uh, and the last\nchapter, chapter six, has three kind of sections to it.\nAgain, the first one is what I mentioned before.\nIt's some opportunities where the city can change operating procedures,\ndesign standards, to kind of\ncontinue, discussing safety improvements\nand keeping those in mind in kind of, you know, day-to-day operations.\nAnd that covers, also things like, you know, some maintenance,\nfunding, discussions, you know, capital projects, and obviously the\nmonitoring evaluation process, which is the last section of the\nthree. Uh, there's a discussion on funding\nsources. So it's just identifying federal, state,\nlocal, potential sources for funding safety\nprojects. Obviously, those change over time, so this is a\nsnapshot of today and what's available.\nUm, and then this table, which is included, and you can hopefully\nactually read it in the plan, not on the slide.\nBut re- It's just taking kind of an exercise and saying, \"Okay, given all these\nfunding sources and kind of the nature of what they are typically geared for,\nthen as you look at high priority projects across the, the columns, which\nones might they be decent candidates for?\" So it's kinda helping to start that\nprocess of looking for funding sources.\nAnd then the last section, performance measures and monitoring.\nSo again, one of the requirements of the program is do the plan, then\nannually, you need to have some performance measures set, and you need to go and\nsee how did we do every year? Are we making progress on that goal to get\nto zero? Um, and so, and\nagain, that has to-- the results need to be made publicly available, so most\nlikely just posting them on your website once you've kind of made that report.\nAnd so the performance measures that we've identified for Corvallis...\nAgain, this is on city roadways. So it's looking at the number of\nall the crashes, the number of serious injury crashes,\nnumber of fatal crashes, number of pedestrians involved\ncrashes, number of bicycle involved crashes, and the number of\nfatal and serious injury crashes involving pedestrians and bicycles.\nSo those would be the key performance measures they'd be looking at, comparing that\nyear over year to see how that trend is\nchanging.\nAnd then another part of the reporting is,\njust accounting\nfor, okay, well, what did we do like last year? What were the actions?\nMaybe we did two of the high priority projects, or we did two\neducational campaigns. So it's just so you can see what did we\ndo kind of compared to, outcomes.\nBut I will acknowledge there's a lag in getting crash data.\nSo you do something next year, maybe two years before you get the crash\ndata to actually align with that. So that is one trick to\nthis.\nUm, so again, I've said this a couple of times now, but the next steps for the\nTSAP is, requesting city council acceptance\nof the Transportation Safety Action Plan through resolution\nat the April twentieth city council\nmeeting. I believe that is the end of\nmy very long presentation. On\nto you.\nBefore we go any further and, and maybe take some, some, some\nquestions here, I did want to acknowledge someone else that's joined us today,\nwhich is Nick from Federal Highways.\nHe's been our grant administrator from the federal side, and I can't\nemphasize-- And he's attended many task force meetings, for\nus and put us in touch with other federal resources,\nwhen we had questions, and has really,\ndemonstrated, above\nand beyond commitment to our project.\nAnd I just wanted to acknowledge Nick being here,\nand, a-as the grant\nadministrator on our side, I've leaned on him, many times.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd, and he's come through every time for us.\nAnd, it's just-- it's been a very, I have to say, it's been a very\npositive experience from our side working, working with Federal\nHighways on this. And, I'm not sure every community gets to say that, but,\nbut we certainly can, and, and just wanted to,\ngive our appreciation for him. Thanks, Nick.\nYou're welcome.\nJust real, real quick, adding on to that, you know, this is, this\nwas a pretty rewarding project to be part of.\nWe had really strong task force participation and\nsupport. We had very strong consultant support,\nboth from a technical standpoint and a public\nengagement standpoint. Uh, and we had really good\nbuy-in and engagement from, from staff that this\nrepresented extra work for, was\npainful to incorporate at times. Uh,\nbut the neat thing about it is that it fills, fills a real\ngap that I don't know that we knew that we had.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd, when you think about what's in a traditional\ntransportation system plan, or a TSP, you don't have\nthis type of safety analysis incorporated in\nthat study. You don't do a separate action like this.\nAnd so, it's filling a gap, a real gap that we have\nwith meaningful, data-driven\nprojects that we can consider implementing to make a real\ndifference in our community. So we look forward to continuing the\nconversation about how to move projects\nforward. But also one, one of the recommendations is, and the plan\nis, you know, when you, when you haven't done one of these for a\nwhile, like, we have a t-- minor TSP update that we have to do soon, so you\nwouldn't redo this again in, like, two years.\nBut in the future, when we do TSP updates, to coordinate updates\nto the Transportation Safety Action Plan at the same time.\nSo when you're identifying all your improvements, you're considering, these\nmore detailed safety elements, at the same time.\nUh, in addition to a recommendation to continue to do the road safety audits,\nin conjunction with our, our larger, street projects\nthat, that we take on. So the intention is to\ncontinue to build on, on what we learned and incorporate this in future\nplanning activities as, as well.\nAnd we should thank Jeff for writing the, the original grant,\nand he went above and beyond to, to do that.\nYeah.\nSo it's given us some really good information.\nYeah. Thanks for that. A little, an au-acknowledgment that some of\nyou would appreciate was, some of you had\npersonal working relationships with Marge Stevens, and\nI didn't know her as well as many of, as you did, but,\nshe\nhad made me aware of, of this grant that led to\nthe, conversations, led to us\napplying.\nYeah.\nSo I've always kind of thought of this as, as Marge's project.\nThat's so cool.\nSo I'm glad to\nbring it forward.\nThank you for sharing that.\nYeah. Great, great presentation.\nAwesome.\nGreat work, and, if you have any questions, there'll\nalso be an opportunity to have some time.\nSo I just think it's-- I think it does fill a gap.\nIt's amazing, the, the qu- quality of the information.\nIt's gonna be very helpful in decision-making for\nsure. Thank you very much.\nI just want to--\nGiven all the work that happened to do\nthis, you mentioning future planning cycles and\naligning\nupdates for--\nto the TSP unit, which makes sense.\nThe, the scale of this work\nOkay.\nIs, is something happening through all this that makes it replicable at less\nexpense in the future? Um,\nin other words, if you- every time we do this, we would be\ndependent on a six, seven hundred thousand dollar grant?\nWell, I, you know, I think we, we did a lot...\nAs you saw, we did a lot of supplemental planning activities.\nYeah.\nAnd there was a lot of cost, associated with those.\nSo I think, you know, going back to,\ngoing back to just, the transportation safety action plan component of it will\nin itself limit the, the level of\ninvestment. Um, but there's a lot of work that goes,\ngoes into that. So I, I still think it'll be a\nsignificant dollar amount.\nYeah.\nYou know, the formats of master plans or TSPs don't necessarily change\ndramatically, cycle to cycle.\nBut you still spend a heck of a lot of money-\nYeah\n... to, to refresh them and bring in new regulations, and in this case, new\ntraffic data and things like that.\nI, I can, I can add on just a little bit to that.\nI think also if you do this concurrently with a T-TSP-\nMm-hmm\n... you have, there's, there's efficiencies there if you have, like, the same,\nlike, the same consulting team perhaps is doing both.\nAlso, if you're doing your public outreach at the same time.\nLike, there's considerable costs to...\nThe public engagement in this was a considerable effort-\nMm-hmm\n... and required considerable resources.\nAnd when, when you do a TSP, it's, it's even more as far\nas, the cost component to engage the community in that.\nSo if you can engage the community with multiple things-\nAt the same-\n... multiple\nco-concurrent efforts that are, you know, married together-\nMm-hmm\n... I think there is a lot of efficiencies there, where if we look at\njust what it cost us to do this TSAP versus what it would cost to incorporate\nas part of a TSP project, you're gonna gain some on it.\nThe same way we gained by working with Benton County on our\ncollective efforts on our outreach and sharing data and everything.\nThat, that provided a, a great s- resource savings to both\nof us by sharing. So.\nI'll add quickly if, if I can. I'll say even if all you want to do within a few\nyears, let's say you've finished some of your high priority projects, and you just\nwant to refresh that list, 'cause that's gonna change over time\ntoo. Um, we're giving the city as part of this a tool now that\nwe've set up the analysis framework for identifying that, right?\nRemember the prioritization criteria I talked about that?\nYeah.\nWe're doing a training session with them next month and handing over this tool so\nthey can update that periodically.\nSo that's, a lot of the work to set that piece up is done.\nSo with fairly low effort, they can at the very\nleast refresh that prioritization list every so often.\nGreat. Anyone\nelse?\nYeah.\nWell, thank you very much. And again, all the work's really appreciated, and-\nSure\n... we'll see you on the twentieth.\nGreat.\nOkay. Move on. Um, I'm sure you also did see, received\nsome written comments, so wanna be sure to get\nto those. Um, I'm just gonna kinda skip them and hand it off to Tony\nfor his questions, and going after we'll get-\nRight. So I did say that as the update regarding\nthe, use the RFP process for,\ncity manager evaluation. Um, I\nthink that\nwe got some feedback from, Counselor Schaefer, who felt\nthat it was a,\nconsistent with what we had previously discussed and saw it as a valuable\nexercise.\nI think the way I would frame the question for all of you is, there's,\nthere's no doubt we will get something from using a consultant.\nUm, to put it in stark relief, perhaps\nif, if this\ncost of this was a thousand dollars, we would, it would be a no-brainer to do\nit. If the cost, if the cost of it were twelve\nthousand, which is kind of a little gateway,\nwe would probably do it. The costs are probably gonna be about twenty-five\nK. So, and it's really a manner, it's really a practical matter\nof, um-\nIt's a-\nIt's a pain in the extreme. If this costs a hundred K, is it still worth the\neffort? So I, I just... Really the question is, and I, like I\nsaid, I'm happy to proceed and manage whatever,\nprocess the council would decide.\nUm, but I do invite your comments as to how you'd like, how you'd like to\nproceed.\nUm,\nI'm gonna say that I would like to proceed, but we're also down\nthree counselors, two of whom argued strongly in favor of the\nevaluation last time. So I feel like, we're missing\nsome voices at the table.\nWell, let's start with you.\nYou... Go ahead. You said you felt like\nfor sure we would gain something. Uh, when I\nread through it, I was not\nespecially convinced that we would gain, that the process would\nbe measurably all that different than what we did\nourselves.\nI did-\nSo-\nI didn't, I didn't quantify how much we would gain.\nMm-hmm.\nI s- I... Obviously, seeing how someone else does\nthis, who does this in different settings, there's something\nto be learned.\nRight.\nI don't know that I can speak to the magnitude.\nOkay.\nSo I'm not saying it's small or large.\nOkay.\nDifferent.\nNo, I just didn't know if you had a particular,\nsegment of what we did that you thought might\nbe better or, you know, what gain\nmight be gained.\nI agree.\nYou know, I just, that's all. I, i-if you don't have a particular thing, that's\nfine. Okay.\nYou, um-\nYeah, I was gonna say I think that I still think that this is a\ngood idea. I mean, if we were looking at this for every year,\ntwenty years into the future, I would have a lot more questions.\nBut considering the amount of discussion that has gone into\nhaving an outside person doing this over the past\nmany, many years, since probably before both of us were\non the council, I think that having...\nI, I think that having someone come in and kind of\nstreamline and optimize our process would be\nideal because it allows us to use as an investment for years in the\nfuture. So...\nJim.\nUm,\nI don't want to go through what we did\nlast year again. So,\npriority mine is that we establish\na framework protocol, content\nthat's replicable and that, that successive\ncity councils can look at and go, \"That, that's, that's good.\nWe don't have to reinvent the wheel.\nWe got something that, that is, based on best practices and\nworks.\" Um,\nif we can do it, we can accomplish that without a consultant, then why\nspend the money? I'm not sure that we would, though,\nbecause we-- it was such a struggle, trying to figure out what we\nwanted. If, if it's a, you know, one-time\nexpenditure of twenty-five thousand dollars and we get an excellent\nproduct out of it that's going to remove, you\nknow, conflicts in the future about, you know, reinventing\nit every time and, and, then I think it's money well\nspent.\nRita.\nUm, yeah, no, I, I agree. I,\nI... The, the, the, the price tag\nis getting to me a little bit, but because it is a one-- it\nfeels like it will be a one-time expenditure, I think we should go for\nit. Um, I just,\nI think it's just like for the future, I just hope we don't have to do it again\nbecause then it's like, then why did we spend twenty-five K in the first place-\nYeah\n... if we're just gonna keep doing it?\nSo I, I say\nwe go with it and, and just see how it goes.\nUh, okay, let me say we'll have...\nUh,\ndid you?\nWell, I think that when I hear about one-time expense versus\nongoing, what I recall one\nof the driving factors was having an outside person rather than our\nHR director run this process. So that would mean this would be an ongoing\nprocess.\nFor groups.\nBut, but I, I don't want to\npresuppose the outcome. I think likely the\nquestions\ngenerally that you saw last time aren't gonna be wildly\ndifferent with a consultant, but what you'll have is just an outside person\nrunning the process. Um,\nwhich maybe that's good confirmation for the council.\nAgain, is that worth the money? That's for you to determine.\nRight. So a couple comments. Uh, because we did get six proposals and we did rank\nthem,\nI know that Councilor Ellis, you said we have voices we haven't heard from.\nI, I must point out that one of the voices\nwas-- should have been part of the ranking process and was not.\nUm, so I think that,\nthe, the ones that were ranked high did tend to converge with the\nICMA,\nframework.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, the highest rated one right now, definitely-\nWhich one we would wanna be a little careful about.\nI'm not, I'm not gonna say anything more other than to say\nthat, I think there's-- we-- a lot of our questions that\nwe, we used in the last evaluation do align with the ICMA\nframework. There could be some refinement there.\nThe answer to, what Council-- what Jim said was that,\nI, I feel this-- I-I am like, like I said, I'm willing to support whatever process\nthe council wants. I feel confident that we could\nimprove the process that we had last year, incorporate three hundred and sixty\ndegree feedback with a similar but slightly different set of\nquestions, is still lush. Uh, and\nthere's-- I think that I have no, doubt that I could\ndrive a process with council input that would get us there.\nSo-\nI guess I wanna-\nThat's, that's my, that's my own observation\nof, what I think, could be delivered, but I'm happy.\nWe will, we will get another shot at this because we have a council\nmeeting, the day before\nwe award the contract, according to the timeline we have.\nI will bring this up again, for a\ndiscussion. But I\nalso-- I'm also a little, um...\nThat being said, I don't like the idea of spending a lot of\nenergy on something and, and asking folks\nto... I, I mean, frankly, they're consultants, they're used to\ns-getting nos as well. It doesn't bother me so much.\nBut our own time, we've, we've spent a lot of time\non this and, so I,\nI, I realize that's all in the past, but I would\nlike us to not-- like us to be more effective, more\nclear in our decision-making. Yes.\nIt just occurs to me that maybe, I mean, one thing we\ndon't ever look at very carefully is trending on\nhow much council is spending over time.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd I just thought that might be useful information in this decision because I'm\npretty sure we're spending more this year than we spent the year before already,\nbefore we even think about the twenty-five thousand dollars.\nBut I could be wrong. Does that-\nResonate with anyone as a matter of importance, given our budget\nconstraints that we're facing and all of that business or-\nWell, I think that's partially what weighs into, I was even asking this\nquestion.\nYeah.\nIf we were\nnot having a budget strain, we're sitting just fine. I don't think...\nI mean, in the grand scheme of things, twenty-five thousand dollars isn't a lot of\nmoney from a, a, a city budget. But considering where\nwe are, is why like when, when I was looking at the proposals like that, I had\nsome sticker shock.\nMm-hmm.\nI was like, \"Whoa, that's not what I was expecting to see.\" Um, but it is what it\nis.\nYeah.\nSo that's why we want to-\nI think the short... My recollection is that we, we have adjusted county\nmayor council budget up. We've done things for add- additional training.\nWe've done things like the Mayor's Innovation Conference, that Charles just\nspoke to.\nThe office-\nPotentially, joining, that as, as an\nactivity. I can't speak to fifteen years\nof- ... or twenty years of trend.\nMm-hmm.\nUm, but certainly in my time on the council, I would bet-\nRight now we have the office now too, so I would think-\nYeah\n... the first line is fairly high.\nTwenty-five, 25K is a, is a very big increment though-\nYeah\n... to whatever that growth has been.\nWe, we can pull together where the council is right\nnow, in the, our biennium versus what your\nbudget is, so you have an idea of are you ahead or behind.\nUm, you know, there's multiple things that play into that.\nAs you said, training. Um, city attorney\ncost is one of the highest,\nvariables for the council. So we can, I can work\nto provide that before the next council meeting.\nAll right.\nThank you.\nWell, at this point, we're-\nYeah\n... go through the process of, uh-\nPardon?\nWell, continuing to move forward.\nWe'll continue moving forward. Uh, I'm probably gonna\nbe, uh... We're gonna continue moving\nforward.\nOkay.\nWe'll talk about it again at the next\nmeeting.\nUh, we adjourned?\nOh, sorry. Distracted. Yes, I thought we're adjourned.\nDid you care?"
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      "headline": "Corvallis Council Reviews Charter Reform Proposals and Adopts Traffic Safety Framework",
      "summary": "The Corvallis City Council held a joint work session with the Charter Review Task Force Phase Two on March 19, 2026, covering proposed charter amendments to reduce council size and add term limits, a federally funded transportation safety planning effort, and a brief discussion on hiring a consultant for the city manager evaluation process.",
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        "Charter Review Task Force recommends reducing council from 9 to 7 members, adopting four-year staggered terms, and adding a three-consecutive-term limit for both councilors and the mayor.",
        "Council debated the rationale for term limits, with some members questioning whether a problem actually exists at the local level.",
        "A structural inequity was identified in the proposed staggered election cycle: some ward residents would have no local election every other two-year period.",
        "The Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP) will come before council for formal acceptance on April 20, 2026.",
        "Crash data (2018–2022) shows the proportion of fatal and serious injury crashes nearly doubled from 2019 to 2022 in Corvallis.",
        "Walnut Boulevard lane reconfiguration (4-to-3 lanes) was found feasible for further study, with a projected 29% crash reduction and 1–2 minute increase in end-to-end travel time.",
        "The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program was recommended to shift from neighborhood-funded to city-funded to address equity gaps.",
        "Twelve specific high-priority crash locations were identified, with five projects on Ninth Street alone.",
        "Council agreed to continue moving forward with the city manager evaluation consultant RFP (~$25,000 estimated cost) and will revisit the decision at the next meeting."
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        "Council provided feedback to the Charter Review Task Force to examine comparable cities' term limit practices and address the odd/even ward voting frequency inequity before returning in May.",
        "Council indicated general support (not a formal vote) for proceeding with the city manager evaluation RFP; final decision deferred to the next council meeting.",
        "No formal votes were taken at this work session; the TSAP acceptance resolution is scheduled for April 20."
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        "April 2026: Charter Review Task Force develops red-line charter language.",
        "April 20, 2026: Council votes on formal acceptance of the Transportation Safety Action Plan by resolution.",
        "April 2026: DKS Associates conducts a prioritization tool training session with city staff.",
        "May 2026: Charter Review Task Force returns to council with refined recommendations.",
        "Before next council meeting: Staff to provide a budget snapshot of council spending in the current biennium to inform the consultant decision.",
        "June 2026: Finalize ballot titles and summary statements for charter measures.",
        "July 2026: Refer charter measures to the November 2026 ballot.",
        "Staff must formally respond to each Road Safety Audit's recommendations, indicating which are feasible to implement."
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        "John Bosket — DKS Associates project manager for the SS4A/TSAP effort",
        "Nick — Federal Highway Administration grant administrator, publicly thanked for exceptional engagement",
        "Marge Stevens — credited posthumously or in absentia for alerting staff to the SS4A grant opportunity",
        "Jeff — city staff member who wrote the original SS4A grant application",
        "Hal Bronner — former long-serving councilor cited during term limits debate as an example of effective institutional knowledge",
        "Brennan — suggested a two-year mayoral term as a solution to the odd/even ward inequity (suggestion not adopted)",
        "Councilor Tony — led the city manager evaluation discussion; indicated council would continue moving forward",
        "Councilor Jim — expressed support for the consultant RFP as a one-time investment in a replicable framework",
        "Councilor Rita — supported the RFP despite sticker shock over the $25,000 cost",
        "Councilor Ellis — noted three absent councilors who had previously advocated for the evaluation",
        "Councilor Schaefer — noted (in absentia) as having provided written feedback supporting the RFP process",
        "Alex — clarified the odd/even ward voting frequency mechanics during charter discussion"
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