[1:50] All
[2:02] right, good morning everybody. It's
11:30. We'll get started with the
[2:05] pre-commission agenda. Um, no
president's report uh from me today
[2:10] except other than to say happy birthday
to Commissioner Gold Thorp. It's
[2:15] officially his birthday.
[2:21] Bill officially the oldest employee at
ACD.
[2:25] » Madame President,
>> it is true.
[2:28] » Commissioner McKini.
>> Uh, yes. Given that Commissioner Goldorp
[2:30] has set the precedent for singing to
people experiencing a birthday.
[2:36] » I believe that um, turnabout is fair
play. So this week we all need to sing
[2:40] for Commissioner.
>> We have a big audience here today.
[2:43] » So at an appropriate time in the
meeting. I don't know if now is the
[2:46] appropriate time.
>> I think now is a good time. do it now.
[2:50] » All right, everybody. Are we ready?
>> Happy birthday to you.
[2:57] » Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday.
[3:07] Happy birthday to you.
[3:16] I don't know what to say. [laughter]
[gasps]
[3:20] » All right. Are there any uh general
housekeeping items or discussion of the
[3:23] agenda from the commission?
>> Madam President,
[3:25] » Commissioner Nielson,
>> I just want to share some happy news. Um
[3:30] I just want to thank and I'm full of
gratitude to the entire team,
[3:34] particularly director Head and Stacy for
taking good care of me as I've I've
[3:40] tried to manage an illness since
January. And I'd like to report that so
[3:44] far today I'm cancer free. So
and uh
[3:52] I know there's there's several members
of the the staff here have had their own
[3:56] journey and uh all the power to you and
I would expect everybody would get the
[4:01] same level of support that I've had. So
thank you very much full of gratitude.
[4:10] » That's wonderful news.
Any other um housekeeping or agenda
[4:16] discussion?
All right, seeing none, we'll hand it
[4:19] right over to Director Head for the
director's report.
[4:26] » Wonderful. Madame President,
commissioners, and congratulations,
[4:29] Commissioner Nelson. Um and
congratulations, Commissioner Goldthorp.
[4:33] We uh [laughter]
um in true commission fashion, you're
[4:38] always one step ahead of me. So, uh, um,
we do have some some cake to share
[4:44] during the break.
Uh, commissioners, just a couple, um,
[4:49] updates for you today. Uh, in the news
this week, we had EJ who who shared an
[4:56] update on the Eustic 10 mile to lender
project. That project is um, making good
[5:01] progress. It is open one lane in each
direction at this point in time, and
[5:05] we're shooting for the end of October
uh, to have that project fully open. So,
[5:09] good progress is being made there. Uh,
we also had Aaron uh Williams on to
[5:15] speak with the statesman about the Swan
Falls project. Uh, project, this is the
[5:20] bridge crossing. Um, project was
accelerated thanks to the federal
[5:24] funding that we got for the design of
that. Um, it's now in the 5-year plan,
[5:29] uh, with the design to be finished by
2029. So, uh, this is the project that
[5:34] spans the the railroad tracks and the
and Indian Creek. um uh pretty big deal
[5:40] for CUNA for quite some time and we're
excited to see that project moving
[5:43] forward. So, thanks to both EJ and Aaron
for their uh coordination and
[5:48] communication with um our local press.
Uh commissioners, just a couple um
[5:55] updates on some projects that are um in
the works just to make sure that you're
[5:59] fully um on board with the uh what's
going on. These are some larger projects
[6:04] here. Uh many of you are are well aware
of the Dry Creek development that's
[6:10] happening off of Highway 55 at Dry Creek
Road. Um as they move into the next
[6:14] phase, one of the things that's um
they're ready to begin work on is the uh
[6:21] crossing of Quail Valley or Brookside
that extends into Quail Valley over to
[6:25] Dry Creek Roads or there'll be another
um way out of the neighborhood. Um, in
[6:31] order to do that, um, and and prepare
for that, they are in the process of
[6:36] there's going to be a closure, a
six-week closure. Now, speaking to the
[6:40] good of our team, I think the original
request was for 10 to 11 months, and the
[6:45] team got it down to 6 weeks. So, um that
during this time they're going to be
[6:50] making uh the the realignment there
right below B um of Dry Creek Road and
[6:57] as well as replacing um the section
between that new [clears throat]
[7:02] connection and Seaman's Gulch. Uh
they're also going to be building a a
[7:06] new temp road there where the yellow is
during the six week closure. So, um a
[7:11] lot of good realignment that's will be
happening out there. Um, as a resident
[7:15] that lives off in that general area,
I've been visiting a lot with my
[7:19] neighbors, so hearing a lot about this.
But, um, the team has done a great job
[7:23] of already coordinating with the school
district. Uh, luckily the students here
[7:28] um, [clears throat] mostly are part of
the West School District, so they're not
[7:32] needing to go into the elementary school
that's in Hidden Springs. Um, there are
[7:37] a couple, but they're they don't have
any a couple houses that would
[7:40] correspond to that, but they don't have
any kids in Hidden Springs. So, um, so
[7:45] really positive thing, uh, good progress
here, but just wanted to report on on
[7:50] this work. And all of this is part of
that extraordinary impact fee, um, and
[7:54] will be paid for as part of that
process.
[7:59] Uh, we also have a closure that's coming
up um on Fairview Bridge. It's actually
[8:04] happening today and part of tomorrow.
It's it's really just a six-hour closure
[8:08] in the middle of the day and possibly
part of in tomorrow. Um, this is a
[8:12] bridge inspection that that has to
happen um and is scheduled about a year
[8:18] in advance and so we were not able to to
move it. Um, but it's only going to
[8:23] close it down to two lanes going uh
eastbound there. Uh, it doesn't close
[8:29] the the bridge completely. We probably
would have been a little bit more
[8:32] concerned recognizing we already have uh
with the sewer work that's happening for
[8:38] the um College of Western Idaho
construction that's happening at at
[8:42] Whitewater and Fair or Maine. um that
intersections closed at Whitewater and
[8:48] Maine. And so uh probably would have
been a bigger deal had um it been a full
[8:54] closure of the bridge, but we do have to
get that inspection done in order to
[8:58] stay in full compliance with with
federal rules. Um and in order to do
[9:02] that, they have to put something on the
bridge. So um but this is this is up and
[9:07] coming um today as well as tomorrow but
should hopefully we won't have see any
[9:12] impacts but because it is impacting one
of the route ingress routes into
[9:16] downtown wanted to make sure that you
are all aware of that.
[9:27] Hi CJ Hancock. I'm a lead worker here at
the paint striping and pavement [music]
[9:32] marking crew at ACD. I've been here for
10 years. So, the way that I ended up
[9:38] here on the paint crew was I actually
had [music] some prior experience in
[9:43] Southern California. I was in the union
there and when I moved here to Idaho
[9:49] [music] in 2016, I ended up applying for
the job and got hired [music] full-time.
[9:55] When I first started here at ACD, I was
a GEO, a general equipment operator,
[9:59] [music] and over the years, I worked my
way up to a senior equipment operator,
[10:03] and then later becoming a lead worker.
As a lead worker here, I help manage and
[10:10] supervise a group of [music] about 20
people in our busy season. The average
[10:15] day that we have consists of a lot of
[music] striping. We stripe the entire
[10:19] county every year. We repaint and
restripe pretty much everything with
[10:24] either the stencil trucks or the paint
trucks. And then all the new install
[10:28] goes in with thermal plastic after the
chip seal or whenever [music] we have
[10:32] work orders or changes. So during the
chip seal season, um it's it's the
[10:37] busiest time of the year. We have to
start at 3:00 in the morning to
[10:41] basically get all of the mains done
before all the early morning commutes
[10:46] start. It kind of just keeps us out of
the way of the public so that we're not
[10:50] causing more congestion. We try our best
to stay out of traffic's way and to keep
[10:55] a mobile operation that keeps traffic
flowing with as minimal disruptions as
[11:00] possible. I think that my favorite part
of the job is seeing the completed work.
[11:06] Nothing really feels better than when
you have pretty much a black canvas and
[11:10] you get to just be an artist and [music]
make everything look new again. And we
[11:14] have a great team. I love the people
I've worked [music] with. I've been
[11:17] working with them for a long time. I
think the hardest part of the job is
[11:20] probably training. We [music] have a lot
of seasonal employees, a lot of new
[11:25] traffic rovers that come and go, and
just having safety [music] being our top
[11:29] priority, just having everybody stay on
the same page and in the way that we do
[11:34] things. So, outside of work, I like to
play a lot of sports. I play actively
[11:39] basketball, volleyball, flag football,
cornhole leagues, kickball leagues.
[11:45] Pretty much [music] anything that you
could think of, I'm out there doing it.
[11:49] Keep my kids involved. Go paddle
boarding, hit the water, staying busy,
[11:54] staying active. Those are probably some
of my favorite things to do outside of
[11:58] work.
[12:01] Commissioner CJ is really a great
example of ACD and has always impressed
[12:06] me. From my very first meeting with him,
he was talking about ways we could make
[12:10] things more efficient and more
effective. It's truly a good example.
[12:15] Um, and it's apppropo. Last night I had
the opportunity, not last night, the
[12:19] night. Well, I've kind of lost track
because I got up at 2 in the morning
[12:23] yesterday uh to go out with our paint
crew. Uh truly a wonderful team. We were
[12:29] able to um uh prepare and and get it set
up as well as then mark out um the
[12:35] intersection of Locust Grove and Pine.
It was one of the last ones um they had
[12:41] from Chip Seal to of the larger
intersections and the whole crew was out
[12:45] there uh making those changes. I'll tell
you it definitely impressed me um as you
[12:52] have cars whizzing by at 30 40 mph. I
watched a dump truck go by or or a
[12:58] garbage truck go by. I'm sitting here
going, "Did you not see the 50,000 cones
[13:02] we have out here?" Um, so truly they
they they are focused on safety and
[13:06] making sure because they are in the
middle of traffic in some of the busiest
[13:09] intersections. We even identified maybe
some ways to make that even safer while
[13:13] we were out there. So, it was a really
great um opportunity. But, uh, as I went
[13:18] to bed the night before at at 6:00 at
night, I realized the sacrifices, um,
[13:24] these guys make as I'm saying good night
to my family and I'm going to bed while
[13:28] they're going to still be up for many
hours and and the sacrifices they make
[13:32] during the summer in order to do the job
and to make sure that, um, they're safe
[13:37] as well as the public continues to to
move. So, uh, great experience there.
[13:42] Uh, just a couple statistics on our our
paint crew. uh just in July and August
[13:47] alone they striped over 1,100 miles um
and installed in in August alone 1,800
[13:55] pavement markings which is a 55%
increase over last year um just just
[14:01] tremendous amounts of work the team is
doing very well um and continuing to
[14:06] make it you know for me I told them it's
a sense of pride when I drive around and
[14:10] I see the brand new paint on the road
I'm like look at what they did look at
[14:14] what our guys are doing and it just
shows up somehow in the middle of the
[14:17] night. You never you never actually see
it happening. They're just doing it. So,
[14:21] um kudos to to them for that great um
for the great work they're doing.
[14:27] A couple of agenda items that are up and
coming. Um uh we will have next week for
[14:33] you. Today you'll hear about the 5-year
plan. Next week we'll have the bid award
[14:37] for the Eert Bridges and Roundabout. Um,
as you may have seen from the the report
[14:42] that we sent out, um, it came in well
under, um, our initial estimates. So,
[14:48] uh, really pleased with that. Um, as
that's moving forward, we'll also have a
[14:52] a work session on micro trenching, um,
with the 5-year plan adoption later this
[14:57] month. Uh in October, we'll be bringing
back to the second phase of our slow
[15:02] zone pilot program um with where we're
looking at the central bench for a slow
[15:07] zone. Um and and our team will introduce
that and what we're looking at doing
[15:12] there um in and around some of the
schools up on the bench. Um as well as
[15:16] we'll be bringing back the next
iteration of our our development policy
[15:20] um for consideration and conversation.
Uh commissioners, you can see obviously
[15:26] a lot of things are up and coming. Uh
next week we will have our all staff on
[15:31] Tuesday at the Adams broom shed. Um this
will likely be one of our last at the at
[15:36] Adams. So um as we get ready um next
year to move into the new location
[15:44] um as well as we will have the chipsil
celebration. You'll also see a number of
[15:48] open houses and open streets events and
other public events that are up and
[15:52] coming. And with that, commissioners,
I'm happy to stand for any questions.
[15:58] » Commissioner Gold.
>> Yes. Uh, so I I watched CJ
[16:04] sprinkling all the uh beads down so that
everyone would be able to see those uh
[16:10] stripings while we while it rains or
any chance that that he was the guy on
[16:18] with the little canister of beads on a
skateboard being dragged behind one of
[16:24] the paint trucks that did the regular
striping. I'm just kidding here.
[16:28] [laughter]
I think our trucks actually do that.
[16:31] » The trucks do that.
>> Yeah, they right right behind the paint
[16:34] there's there's beads that are falling.
Um and so yeah, the our our our paint
[16:39] our striper trucks do lay the the glass.
>> Take a little video of that to show
[16:44] people that, you know, email us and call
in and complain that we don't do any of
[16:48] that. [laughter]
>> I I'm sure we have some good video of it
[16:52] already, but uh um it's a good point.
>> Madam President,
[16:57] » Mr. McKenny.
>> Uh, director, just one quick question
[16:59] then on on the striping issue. I've had
a number of residents who have uh asked
[17:05] questions or expressed concerns about
places where they believe after chip
[17:09] seal that crosswalks weren't put back
in. Who do they need to contact to uh if
[17:14] they have that concern?
>> Yeah, they absolutely can just reach out
[17:18] through ACD Connect and that will get it
to the right people um and we'll be able
[17:23] to confirm that for them.
Madam President, Commissioner,
[17:28] » and there may be Sorry, Madame
President. Um there will be uh they're
[17:34] still working on the markings, so
they're not fully done for wi with all
[17:38] of those and so some of those may still
be in the works.
[17:42] » Sure.
>> Pickering.
[17:44] Um, director Head, I don't mean to
ask a question you're not may maybe not
[17:50] prepared to answer um because it's kind
of ITD2, but there's been a lot of uh
[17:56] challenges with congestion at peak hour
leaving downtown on Front. Um, obviously
[18:04] there's we've got the closure on Fair
View, a few other pieces. Front Street
[18:09] is not our jurisdiction, but it's pretty
challenging. I was just curious, do we
[18:16] have an assessment of what exactly is
going wrong there? Are we working to fix
[18:21] that flow a little bit better? Kind of
what's your what's the team's assessment
[18:25] of that?
>> Madame President, Commissioner
[18:27] Pickering, I think your your analysis is
probably um appropriate in terms of the
[18:33] impact of having that closure. um it is
pushing traffic onto whether it be State
[18:39] Street or or front um for people trying
to exit downtown. So um I will
[18:44] definitely ask to the team to to look at
that to make sure that there's um
[18:49] nothing that's that's um wrong with the
equipment um and making sure that the
[18:56] signal timing is appropriate, but it may
not be. We are already um pretty maxed
[19:01] out. We have double cycles on on Front
Street to for for the through traffic.
[19:06] Um and so I think any additional
traffic's probably being noticed um with
[19:12] the people being pushed off of Fairview.
>> Well, I noticed Oh, sorry. I I also
[19:16] noticed that it, you know, got
considerable considerably worse, you
[19:21] know, around start of school time
because I think if I think it closed a
[19:25] few weeks before, right around so it
really hasn't gotten as bad up until
[19:30] recently. And so I'm just wondering if
>> what's changed
[19:35] » um you know is it truly Yeah. And it's
also backing up on 13th. So there's I
[19:40] mean even the corridors to get to front
are taking you know 10 15 minutes to get
[19:46] to through one light cycle.
>> Yeah. Madame President, Commissioner
[19:49] Pickering, one of the things that
changed in the last few weeks is they
[19:52] the closure moved from between 27th and
and Whitewater to in the intersection.
[19:59] So those who would have used white water
to to get onto the connector um
[20:04] previously are now being forced onto
roads like like 13th Street um to be
[20:11] able to get on the connector sooner. So
um that's I think a big part of what you
[20:16] might be seeing there. They're either
there or on onto Curtis. Those are the
[20:19] two options to get there. Um and I think
that that's pro probably what you're
[20:23] seeing. But we'll uh we'll take a look.
It might be worth I mean I know
[20:27] Shandandy you have enough on your plate
but from a communication standpoint and
[20:30] also working with the city to make sure
that folks kind of understand because
[20:34] I'm seeing a lot of you know frustration
and people care right and it's coming
[20:38] out in I think very loud ways um but I
think just kind of being clear about
[20:44] this is a system we don't have control
over we only have control over certain
[20:47] parts of that right and we need to work
together to figure that out. Thank you
[20:54] Nelson. Yeah, I uh took me about a half
hour to get through downtown last week
[20:59] and uh I was wondering if we could um
maybe have Compass at the appropriate
[21:05] time give us an update on the congestion
management system report that they do
[21:10] every year
>> to see where we're seeing recurrent
[21:13] congestion and then what what's the
trends? I've been really kind of curious
[21:17] about that. So, there's a good time that
someone there could come at a maybe a
[21:21] work session at some point and give us
an update. Um I'm very patient person I
[21:27] guess but [laughter]
uh I was really curious on with the
[21:31] growth particularly in downtown and
other parts of the county are there um
[21:36] what can we expect in terms of recurrent
congestion would be good to share.
[21:42] » Yeah.
>> Yeah.
[21:45] » Any other questions or comments for the
director?
[21:48] All right. Thanks for a great report and
we will be at ease until noon.
[21:56] 11.
[32:10] » [laughter]
>> What the hell
[32:16] radiation or chemo.
>> Yeah.
[32:18] » All right. Good afternoon everybody.
It's now 12:00 and I will call the
[32:22] commission meeting to order. Thanks to
everybody joining us in person and
[32:26] online and please join us in the pledge
of allegiance.
[32:33] » I aliance
of the United States of America to the
[32:39] stands
and under God, indivisible, with liberty
[32:44] and
[32:49] » All right, the first item is to adopt
the agenda. Is there a motion?
[32:52] » So moved.
>> Second.
[32:55] » All right, we have a motion.
>> He wasn't. So,
[32:57] » is there any discussion?
>> Seeing none, all in favor?
[33:01] » I Okay, motion carries. Next up is the
consent agenda. Items on the consent
[33:05] agenda are considered to be to be
routine and will be enacted by one
[33:09] motion. There will be no separate
discussion on these items unless a
[33:13] commissioner citizens so requests in
which case the item will be removed from
[33:16] the consent agenda and placed on the
regular agenda. All consent agenda items
[33:20] are commission action items unless
noted. I don't believe we have any
[33:23] requests on the consent consent agenda
today. Do we have a motion? Madam
[33:28] President,
>> Commissioner McKenna,
[33:29] » let me first note that this is a long
consent agenda, longer than typical, but
[33:34] I believe most of it has to do with the
fact that we recently passed a new
[33:37] budget and so a whole bunch of things
are happening right now because of that.
[33:41] So, I've looked through all of these and
it all looks in good order. I move that
[33:46] we approve the consent agenda as
published.
[33:49] » I'll second.
>> We've got a motion and a second. Is
[33:51] there any discussion? Seeing none, all
in favor? I
[33:56] » any opposed? Motion carries. All right,
that moves us to the regular agenda. Uh,
[34:01] first up is a presentation of ACD team
for National Equipment Rodeo
[34:05] presentation by Lloyd Carnegie. Right.
Oh, and Tom.
[34:14] » Good afternoon, Madam President,
commissioners. I am very proud to tell
[34:17] you the winners of our local truck rodeo
that we will be sending to the National
[34:21] Rodeo in Colorado this year. We'll start
out with our truck horse winners. We've
[34:25] got Cody Shields and Dylan Roberts.
Please come on down.
[34:38] Our loader course winner was Cody
Jensen.
[34:47] Greater course winner was Justin Cedic.
[34:54] And although he is not here, our skid
steer course winner was Pete Ramp.
[35:02] » And accompanying them on this wonderful
trip to Colorado is Justin Starky, our
[35:06] supervisor extraordinaire.
[35:19] Commissioner Goldarp.
>> Yes. I I I just noticed I I was hoping
[35:24] that you weren't going to be announcing
that they won something already besides
[35:28] at our rodeo, but I will donate to the
cause my sash
[35:35] and we will put rodeo.
Forget the other word, but what queen?
[35:42] Okay. Anyway, if you don't come back
with at least one first place, someone's
[35:46] going to have to wear this thing.
[35:54] » Yeah. Shall we do a shall we do a
picture?
[35:58] » Okay, we're gonna run down there real
quick and do a picture with y'all.
[36:02] » Hey, I'm not wearing this for that.
[laughter]
[36:11] The light's a little
[36:36] » congregation.
[36:45] Little bit of frozen.
[38:06] Well, congratulations to that group. I
know they'll do a great job at competing
[38:10] and representing ACD in Colorado. Um
that moves us to item number two on the
[38:15] regular agenda which is authorization
order of condemnation um 2026 arterial
[38:20] and collector capital maintenance
popular street coal road to Curtis Road
[38:24] project number 52419.007
[38:30] parcel and property owner 7250 popular
street owner LLC
[38:36] and welcome Dave Sar.
Thank you, Madame President.
[38:39] Commissioners, for the record, David
Sdar, rightway super. Oh, sorry.
[38:44] » Sorry. This is a public hearing which I
will go ahead and open.
[38:47] Back to you.
>> Sorry, I jumped the gun there. Thank
[38:52] you, Madame President, commissioners,
for the record, David Sdar, rightway
[38:56] supervisor for the Ada County Highway
District.
[39:00] This is a condemnation dis uh public
hearing and decision briefing uh for a
[39:07] property on a residential capital
maintenance project. Uh it's actually on
[39:11] the Popular Street portion of that. Uh
the owners of the property are 7250
[39:17] Popular Street owners. They named it
after their address. Um, this project is
[39:23] part of ACD's adopted 2026 to 2030
5-year plan. Construction is scheduled
[39:30] to begin in fiscal year 27.
This side, this vicinity map shows the
[39:38] location of the acquisition. You can see
Cole Road over there on the west side of
[39:45] the acquisition. Uh, our acquisition is
just on the north side of Popular
[39:50] Street, about one or two properties in
from Cole Road.
[39:57] Here is a a closer zoom in of the
property. Uh, in this case, the
[40:04] acquisition is a temporary construction
easement.
[40:10] The property size before the acquisition
is 2.470 acres. That property size
[40:16] remains the same because this is only a
temporary acquisition. The temporary
[40:22] construction easement is 2,121
square ft. The property is zoned as
[40:29] residential urban or a multifamily
residential.
[40:35] The offer package was sent in July of
2025.
[40:40] Um we have had ongoing negotiations with
the property owner and if the and in
[40:46] August of this year staff ACD staff both
legal and rightway has been in contact
[40:53] constant contact with the uh property
owners legal council. We are close to a
[40:59] resolution. However, due to the project
timelines we need to move forward with
[41:04] the condemnation.
It is staff recommendation that the
[41:09] commission declare that the acquisition
area as necessary for the project as
[41:14] rightway and public use. Authorize staff
to proceed with the condemnation action.
[41:20] Execute an order of condemnation for the
acquisition area. As always, ACD staff
[41:26] will continue to negotiate to a
resolution before a court case is filed.
[41:31] I will remain standing for any
questions. I think Commissioner Goldard.
[41:36] » Yes. Now,
we're not taking anything fee simple on
[41:41] this. How is the use of the property
going to be changed with um this
[41:46] project?
[41:50] Madame uh Madame President, Commissioner
Goldthorp,
[41:54] uh the use of the property is going to
remain mostly the same. Um, this is
[42:01] actually this acquisition is just
temporary to get the driveways correct.
[42:07] Uh, so they are uh ADA compliant.
>> Well, I I'm kind of amazed.
[42:14] This is just me personally speaking for
me myself and I I'm just amazed that
[42:20] we're having to go to this extreme just
to get permission to to do something
[42:26] this temporary to spend this kind of
time and money and goodness knows what
[42:32] else just to do a little thing like
this. I
[42:37] I hope they know that uh
that they're really wasting the public's
[42:44] resources and dragging their heels like
this.
[42:49] Madame President, Commissioner Gothorp,
I I understand uh all I can say is that
[42:55] we're definitely working with their
parties and we we we anticipate a
[43:00] resolution soon. So, I don't think it's
going to go to the bigger cost. But
[43:04] thanks. You never know.
>> Any other questions for staff on this?
[43:11] Okay, seeing none, are there any members
of the public present or online who wish
[43:16] to uh testify on this item?
[43:23] All right. Seeing none, I will close the
public hearing. And this is before the
[43:27] commission. and President
>> Commissioner McKini.
[43:30] » I move that we approve the authorization
order of condemnation for the 2026
[43:36] arterial and collector capital of
maintenance popular street co to Curtis
[43:39] Road project number 524019004
parcel 6 property owner 7250 Popular
[43:46] Street Owner LLC.
>> I'll second that.
[43:49] » Okay, there's a motion and a second. Is
there any discussion?
[43:52] Seeing none, all in favor.
>> Any opposed? Motion carries.
[43:58] All right, moves us to discussion items
in public communications. Is there
[44:02] anyone in person or online who wish to
address the commission?
[44:07] Okay, seeing none, the meeting is
adjourned. We do have a work session.
[44:11] We're going to move next door to the
commission boardroom for this work
[44:13] session. So, we will be back up over
there in a minute.
[46:18] Um for today's presentation, uh staff
would like to go over uh the updated
[46:24] schedule as well as the public outreach
done so far, including the results of
[46:28] the second public outreach. Um we will
uh we will present uh on what has been
[46:36] uh updated to the partner agencies as
part of their this second partner agency
[46:40] outreach uh and the recommended changes
following that initial draft release and
[46:46] finally next steps.
Um just as a reminder commission we like
[46:52] to present the updated schedule for this
uh development of the plan. Um we
[46:57] highlighted in red the this month where
where we are in with the review of the
[47:03] public and partner agency common review
work session and this will all lead into
[47:09] the September 23rd uh 5-year plan
adoption hearing.
[47:17] So on August uh following the commission
meeting uh the August 5th commission
[47:22] work session staff released the initial
draft to the public on August 6 and to
[47:28] the partner agencies.
uh for the public the comment period was
[47:32] open from uh August 6 to August 20th for
a two-week period where we receive a
[47:38] total of 431 public comments between all
platforms
[47:44] um and a total of six 6,600 views in in
the project engage page. Of those 431
[47:52] public comments, 378 were received
through the interactive comment map,
[47:58] 33 through the engage page survey, and
20 comments via email and ACDC connect.
[48:05] Um, in as part of this slide, we wanted
to highlight some of the most commented
[48:08] projects as as listed there. The most
commented project was the Warm Springs
[48:13] and Milbrook project with 28 responses.
Uh in this slide we also included the uh
[48:19] uh the degree of support that the
project received uh and as well for the
[48:26] other five projects in there. Um under
the most commented projects, we
[48:32] highlighted the top themes from the
public from all interactions. Uh with
[48:38] the top theme being concerned over
keeping up with growth and the
[48:42] development areas as well as the request
to accelerate many of the projects that
[48:46] are already in the plant and plans that
yet to be identified as well that are
[48:52] identified but are lives in the Byon
2031 tab. then uh uh continue to be uh
[49:00] receiving support for safe route to
school projects and pedestrian bicycle
[49:04] safety project all across the board uh
throughout the county.
[49:09] Um with that commission of uh in total
from the 378 commented project 80% of
[49:16] the comments were supportive of the
projects listed in the plan 5% uh
[49:21] received neutral comments uh and 15%
received no support.
[49:30] Moving forward to the partner agency
outreach. Uh as mentioned in our uh last
[49:35] work session commission, we reach out to
all our partners presenting uh providing
[49:40] them an update on their project
prioritization list. Following our uh
[49:45] the updated or the draft initial draft
of the five-year with those updated
[49:50] statuses as well staff invited uh
partner agencies if there were uh
[49:56] interesting of meetings or any had any
questions regarding any any of their
[49:59] list. Uh we were more than happy to to
meet with them. Um one uh the city of
[50:06] Maria invited staff to attend one
council meeting and city of voice
[50:10] invited at a staff level uh meeting to
discuss some of the projects listed in
[50:14] the p participation list. Uh this slide
we highlighted what uh some of the we
[50:21] highlight we summarized the project
program in relations to their top three
[50:25] uh projects listed in the prioritization
list with 37 of those projects having a
[50:30] construction year associated with them
and 15 of those projects having at least
[50:35] one of the phases whether it's design or
right or rightway acquisition phase
[50:38] listed in one in in in there in the
prior decision list.
[50:45] And sorry, just to note, and I didn't
know if you were going to mention this,
[50:48] the we did receive a letter of support
um from Ada County and in response to
[50:54] the draft plan just indicating their
gratitude for the work of the
[50:58] recognition of the work that's happening
>> and the projects that we are doing for
[51:02] them.
>> Yes, absolutely.
[51:09] Now move forward to the recommended
changes following the initial draft
[51:13] commission. After uh the review of all
the feedback received um in uh further
[51:20] review of the initial draft uh staff
recommends that uh identified that the
[51:25] Boisey Hill Drive 7th Street Mesa Grande
Lane be added to the initial draft and
[51:30] add construction to 2029.
uh this is a project that uh in the past
[51:36] it uh it was identified as an RPI
project but was deemed that it needed to
[51:40] be more uh from the capital side. So we
move it into the plan due to uh that
[51:47] evaluation consideration. Um then uh
another addition or modification to the
[51:53] plan which was already part of the
priority quarter list is the addition of
[51:57] a design year to the lake hesil uh
extension. Considering that city of
[52:04] Boyise uh received a bill grant for that
work, we ACDA is supporting those those
[52:09] efforts uh and considered that uh it was
necessary to start uh showing those
[52:16] dates or those years in deadline.
>> Um let's go back to that for a second. I
[52:22] I believe we've talked about in the past
this build grant that the city of Boise
[52:26] received, but I don't recall the
details. Could you review that for me?
[52:30] What did what did Boyisey receive? Is it
just for design?
[52:33] Madam, give me the rundown on that.
>> Madam President, Commissioner McKini.
[52:37] Absolutely. Uh the bill grant um that
the city received was focused on the
[52:42] design work for the Lake Heso extension
from Orchard Street to Heisenment. Uh
[52:47] this focuses solely on the on the on the
on the 100% design needed for that
[52:55] border. Um I think as part of that brand
AC committed to a certain match that was
[53:01] discussed earlier this year but those
are the details that were present
[53:07] » sorry I thought it was more of like a
concept like theoretic was design
[53:12] » they can add some elaboration to that
madam president commissioners so they
[53:17] will need to go through the initial
concept um alignment um because it's a
[53:22] federal grant there'll also be NEPA and
other other components connected to that
[53:26] um the intent is to take it to um as far
in the design process as possible within
[53:32] the 7 million that they receive 7
million with the match combined. Um and
[53:38] so with that they plan to take it as far
as possible in the design process. Um it
[53:43] should be at that point in time um
fairly far along that we could begin the
[53:47] rideway phase um and move further with
the project.
[53:52] » Members, go ahead. And since is did we
receive any other recommended
[53:56] recommended changes from other city
partners?
[54:00] » Uh the from conversation with staff most
of the uh
[54:06] short answer is no. There was no
specific additions to the initial draft.
[54:10] Most of uh of the conversation was
related to their uh prioritization list
[54:15] request. For example, city boy requested
the addition of uh LA and Alpine
[54:21] intersection in terms of prioritization
of this. We're
[54:24] » um considering the work that they have
done in that area, but beyond that
[54:28] project, there hasn't been any other
specific that would be recommended to be
[54:34] added the initial draft
>> that would include Garden City or
[54:37] Meridian.
Commission. Well,
[54:41] » Alex has pretty much covered what I was
going to ask.
[54:46] » [clears throat]
[54:50] » Now entering to the key dates and
milestone commission. Uh we still uh
[54:55] have a comment per partner agency all
the way to the adoption hearing. Welcome
[55:00] any feedback letter of recommendation
from them. uh and uh
[55:07] we will share it with the commission as
soon as we have received any uh line of
[55:12] communication from the from any of the
partner agencies. Um following today's
[55:17] meeting, we'll be releasing the draft 27
2031 5-year plan for public review uh in
[55:24] preparation in leading towards the
adoption hearing on September 23rd when
[55:28] the commission will be able to uh take
it under consideration. So, uh, with
[55:34] that, I will I present for any
questions.
[55:38] » Thank you, Edmonson. Are there any other
questions? Commissioner Nielson?
[55:41] » Yeah. Um, Ed and I have lots of paper on
the five-year plan, lots of project
[55:47] list, but what I don't have, and you
summarized it, so it must exist of which
[55:51] projects are in design versus
construction or what phase. I have
[55:56] title, I have a description, I have a
year, I have all but I don't have a
[56:00] phase. So if there's some summary of
that that can be posted. I I know it
[56:05] exists but that's where I'm trying to
ascertain the and some of them I just
[56:09] know because I I
designed but I I don't I can't see that
[56:15] in what I have. So that summary could be
provided and then the second question um
[56:20] I don't recall the exact number it's
very large but uh in approving the
[56:24] budget we didn't approve specific
projects but there was an amount. So,
[56:27] are we with this change dialing in with
the budget amount that was approved
[56:35] » for the capital projects? Does that make
sense? I mean,
[56:38] » Madame [clears throat] President,
Commissioner, um, with the cap with the
[56:43] budget, you did adopt a capital budget.
>> Yeah.
[56:45] » Um, and that capital budget include
included a list of projects that were
[56:49] Okay. Um, that are currently scheduled
for the first two years. The five-year
[56:54] plan includes those first two years and
then three more years after that. Um so
[57:00] we we reflect exactly what was adopted
in the in the budget in the five-year
[57:05] plan um in those first two years.
>> Just a followup, Madam President. So
[57:11] with the savings on eert, for example,
is that going to be a future
[57:14] recommendation or are we just going to
wait and see? Um
[57:18] » yeah, Madame President, Commissioner, um
we we typically will look uh account for
[57:24] those during um budget adjustments.
>> Yeah.
[57:27] » And the the good news and the bad news
on on Eert is with those savings, a lot
[57:33] of those are grant funds that are going
to be saved. So, um those those right
[57:38] those funds don't necessarily come back
to us. They're but so there'll be a
[57:42] reduction in revenue as well as an
expense.
[57:45] » Thanks for that reminder. Yeah,
opportunist
[57:50] » just more of a comment and I think it's
really
[57:54] great to see how one obviously like a
letter from the county. We've never
[58:00] since I've been here haven't received
something like that in support for the
[58:05] five-year plan. And then also to have
such small change. I mean, these are
[58:11] obviously very impactful changes, but
they're kind of no-brainers, right?
[58:15] that's very like oh we just learned more
this is going to be more capital we had
[58:19] factored in this grant so I think that I
just I feel like I feel compelled to
[58:23] share like I think that that's obviously
a reflection of the team's work and the
[58:28] you know intention around centering
priorities
[58:32] working closely with our municipal and
county partners um obviously no one's
[58:37] ever it's never perfect or no process is
perfect no one's 100% satisfied but some
[58:42] of those projects folks were very happy
with the fact that they were on her. So,
[58:46] I just wanted to make sure that I
acknowledge like the process and the
[58:52] outputs and the outcomes seem to be
working and great job.
[58:57] Any other comments or questions?
All right. Thank you so much, Robinson.
[59:02] Appreciate it. Uh, next we will have
executive session. So,
[59:10] anybody else again next week?