Welcome to you now. My name is Kevin O'Neill. I'm the chair. My colleagues.
Good morning, Melissa Robinson, the district vice chair.
Eric Bunch, fourth district. John the Nuffins, the district.
Lindsay Prime, second district, that large.
Staff.
Right the Ross City Clerk's office.
Jeff Martin, city manager's office.
Andrew Bancowski, welcome.
Ken Morgan, water services.
Hi, McGee and Crio Department.
Okay, we're going to hold 2, 6, 0, 5, 3, 5.
And then we will go to...
That heo doctor, off the agenda.
For two weeks, actually four.
Just hold it for two weeks.
Okay.
Oh, no, I'm sorry, off doctor.
Yes, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Thank you, guys. No problem.
And we'll read our one and only ordinance.
2, 6, 0, 7, 0, 0.
Authorizing the manager of procurement services to execute
a term in supply contract for archwood.
Environmental for contract number.
EV, 4, 3, 7, 5.
Household has it as waste operations and
Authorizing the manager of procurement services
to amend the contract in exercise five,
one year or no options.
Good morning.
Keely Golden assistant chief procurement officer
with the General Services Department.
I have Jessica Jensen operations officer with
water services department with me today.
This ordinance request is to approve contract EV,
4, 3, 7, 5.
For household hazardous waste operator and operations
for the water services department.
There request for proposal was issued on November 24,
2025 and closed on January 7, 20, 26.
The city received two submissions from our
quid environmental and clean harbors environmental services
with an award made to our quid environmental.
We did request the supplier be here today,
but they were out of town and not able to attend.
The $1,470,379 and 16 cent contract has an initial term
of one year with five annual renewal options.
I will now turn the presentation over to Jessica to cover more
information on the scope and project requirements.
Good morning, Jessica Jensen operations officer,
Kansas City.
So this contract provides the continued operation
and management of Kansas City's household hazardous waste
facility and related mobile collection events
by our quid environmental.
On average, this facility serves approximately 1,035 vehicles
or customers and processes approximately 100 and 20,000
pounds of household hazardous waste each month.
We will now take a look at the
demand for the essential service.
Our quid will provide the trained personnel,
equipment, supplies, transportation, and technical expertise
needed to safely collect and manage materials such as paint,
solvents, pesticides, automotive fluids, batteries,
fields, and other household chemicals.
The contractor is responsible for screening,
and we will now take a look at the
local regulations.
In partnership with the American Regional Council,
household hazardous waste and art would also provide
support for mobile household hazardous waste collection
events in 10 area communities.
We also have four mobile events within the city of Kansas City
every year.
The scope includes cleaning the facility,
completing required regulatory reporting and
record keeping, supporting approved emergency
response and legal dumping activities, and collecting
hazardous waste from city facilities.
Our quid will continue operating a swap shop,
and establish the recycled paint program which promotes
reuse, reduces disposal costs, and diverts
usable material from landfills.
Our quid environmental is the incumbent provider and has
extensive experience operating facility and mobile
collection events.
We have had no issues with their performance,
regulatory compliance, or customer service.
A wording this contract will ensure residents
continue to have a safe and reliable option for
disposal of household hazardous waste.
Thank you.
We're happy to answer any questions.
Thank you.
Let's have a robust 20-minute conversation about
hazardous waste.
You said how many households is that a thousand households?
It's approximately.
This is just an average on what we serve monthly is
1,000 and monthly.
1,000.
That's approximately.
We keep track of how many vehicles come through the facility,
so it's not necessarily just households as people
could cargo.
We don't necessarily know that for sure when we
just verify that they're an ID and a resident of Kansas City.
How many mobile events does this contract allow for?
It's 14.
14 mobile events in addition to the monthly,
in addition to the drop-offing.
Yes, we have one stationary location and that is open
four days a week.
The 14 events are they all throughout the city
and every council district?
We don't do, sorry, the districts.
The district that the household has a place is
I believe is in third district, so we don't do one there.
Then we do the city-wide recycling one at the
manual tech, which is in third district.
Then we try to represent the other.
We have four of them, so we rotate them between district.
We're having one in one, two, six and four.
Okay, great.
How do people know what type of community outreach do we do to
let people know about the service?
Is that a part of the contract to where we're
communicating the service to the public?
Not part of this contract, no.
We let all the council people know when it's on their
calendars for the mobile events.
So there's fires that go out for that.
We have like a set two in the first part of the year and then two in the last
half of the year, so we have one that's coming up in September.
And then we'll have another one in October.
So we'll start setting out fires and like council people know.
We've also been willing to talk at town hall meetings
that people would like us to, but that's not part of
our code contract.
It just seems like the size of having five hundred thousand
more than five hundred thousand residents.
It just seems like it might be low and I'm not sure
people really know about the service that is offered.
And maybe there's a way that we can get the word out a little bit
more.
Yeah.
I'm happy to work with communications on that.
Okay.
Thank you.
Councilman Robinson's point.
It's some of these because I know that when we do our district
dropoffs one of those of the two that we do includes hazardous
risk waste is that part of this contract.
Yes.
Yeah.
Those will be the mobile events.
So I'm not sure exactly what all you do in every one of your council,
but I know that we provide household hazardous waste for four of the pickups
so one in each district.
So I know that the one in sixth district is coming up and I believe that
burns in the back is the location that we're doing it at for their
parking lot because we need something that's large enough to do that.
And then the other one is at risk and is in October.
So just one other question.
Mr. Chair.
So we've had a lot of conversations about solid waste and making sure
the right things go in the right places.
It relates to trying to preserve our laying fields and all of the things.
So would you wish your opinion about the number of households we serve?
Do you feel like we're having an adequate impact in serving the city or
is there room?
Do we need to improve the number of folks who are using this service?
And does this contract allow for that target?
I think we're doing an adequate job of serving the community.
I always think we can do better.
However, the facility is also aging, right?
So we're operating at about 150% of what that facility should be doing.
We just installed another loading dock.
So that's allowed us to utilize the facility that we currently have.
So we're trying to expand as much outreach as and update the facility as needed.
But currently the facility is undersized for the community that we do have.
Okay.
I don't want to open up a can of work.
So I'll leave it there for this contract.
Thank you though for your bet.
Insight.
Any other questions?
I don't think I see a hand up for Lindsay.
So I would.
Is there any public testimony on this?
There's not public testimony for this ordinance.
I would entertain a motion.
Okay.
Wonderful.
Is Arc Wood environmental?
Are they here?
Did you want to recognize?
Oh, I don't see them.
No.
They were out of town.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I just want to make sure.
All right.
Mr. Chair.
Are you ready for a motion?
Okay.
I move the ordinance.
Number two, 60, 170.
We'll see what we report out of committee with a recommendation.
It would be answered to pass.
Thank you.
All those in favor.
All right.
Second.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I might advise those in the audience that for the finance committee that starts at nine
thirty or five, whatever.
The ordinance is regarding the royals will be held today.
I don't want to, if you're, if you're here for that, that will not be held today.
So, just wanted to notify you.
They're not on the DACA today.
The finance.
No.
The finance will notify.
We are off for two weeks.
So, it would have to be after that.
Correct.
All right.
Thank you.
Let's see if we can find our vote.
Okay.
Presentation.
Yes.
We have a present.
Are they here?
Public works as a.
Here.
Thank you.
There we are.
I thought everybody here was here to hear your conversation.
Your presentation.
Yes.
Excuse me.
I guess you didn't have to make a decision.
That's okay.
No.
You didn't have to make a decision.
You saw yesterday on the case here.
Yes.
Public presentation.
On safe.
Across.
Crosswork campaign.
Good morning Chairman or Neil members of the Transportation
Infrastructure Operations Committee.
My name is Jason Waldron and I'm the Transportation Director of Public Works.
With me today, it's Salina Zaffraper.
In the NGLory.
Over here to present on ordinance 24097, which is also effectively.
Title Vision zero road safety audits and safe.
Across.
Crosswork compliance.
Excuse me.
Good morning everyone.
Again, my name is NGLory.
With me as Salina Zaffraper.
And we're going to share with you some of the progress that has been made in implementation
specifically given the directives of ordinance 24097.
That includes the identification of 10 high injury network.
Intersections and 10 high injury network corridors for the performance of road safety audits,
as well as implementation of a crosswalk compliance program.
This is just a summary of that ordinance, which was approved in 2024.
We'll start with a summary of the work that has been conducted on the road audits.
Since that was a piece of our directive in addition to the crosswalk program.
The goal of road safety audit is to answer these questions.
A road safety audit in summary is a formal review of roadway and intersection conditions.
That includes operations and safety issues.
The goal of that review is to identify potential safety concerns and opportunities for improvement for all users.
That includes drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users, and in particular, vulnerable road users.
The work involved in that is a pre-meeting.
And certainly first identifying the locations on the high injury network for that work.
This slide summarizes the 10 high injury network intersections for which audits were performed.
The road safety audit included data collection analysis and field reviews.
First for each location, there was a pre-meeting with the team from the audit and then a formal field visit,
which in some cases depending on the length of the corridor or intersection complexity.
Took hours or an afternoon.
A few other details about that work.
There was an ordinance required for the amendment to the consultant team contract, which was approved in May of 2025.
That team consisted of emergency McDonald's with trek design.
The audits themselves were identified very quickly after that approval.
And we're performed across the two months fan last summer between July 25th and September 23rd.
And if we advance to the second slide for corridors, these are the 10 corridors for which audits were completed as well.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, we received initial reports.
And those reports were reviewed across a fourth quarter of last year and in the first quarter of 2026.
Those reports are now in a draft final.
State. And we are using the results of that work, which identified safety countermeasures for all of these
locations to inform the work we are implementing this fiscal year. Here is a summary of what
that looks like so far. We are engaging with council district aids to share progress in honing in on
coordination points for resurfacing, design updates for work that may be in process,
and also pipelining work to feed into the city's capital improvement program.
For this fiscal year, in particular, we are targeting improvements on nine of the ten intersections,
and one of those locations, which involves railroad coordination, we are advancing for additional study.
And we are targeting to make improvements in four or five of the corridors for which the audits were performed.
The night three corridor, we are updating a design and the audits are feeding into those updates,
and we will complete these improvements to the extent that our awarded budget allows us to optimizing that opportunity.
Are there any questions?
All right. This slide summarizes some of the engagement that I have shared already.
We have shared the Vision Zero 2025 accomplishments that I believe was distributed in February of
2006, and also we continue to conduct Vision Zero quarterly meetings on the most recent occurring in March and June.
And I did mention as we pipeline some of this work that was informed by the audits achieved through the ordinance that you
approved. We are fine-tuning the list for next year's work and those improvements across the summer.
We've had three meetings so far to hone in on that work and the scope.
All right. We'll now pivot to the CrossWat Compliance program and where we stand with that program's implementation.
Good morning. Thank you for having us here this morning.
Safe across is the second part of the ordinance that, there we go. I can see the screen now.
So the second half of the ordinance requires that we do a safety that CrossWat Compliance study.
And so we are engaging in safe across which is an educational campaign that utilizes compliance studies to measure changing driver habits and uses the findings for social norming.
It includes installations of statues that you see there on the right hand of the screen as well as compliance studies.
It also includes a public education and outreach component.
So you may be wondering what a compliance study is.
So a compliance study evaluates the human factor such as the ability and willingness of drivers to yield and gives insight into a pedestrian's comfort level at a particular crosswalk.
When we are identifying sites for compliance studies, there are specific requirements that we need to keep in mind
and we have been doing that, for example. None of these CrossWat can be as signalized intersections.
They can be at midblock crossings, uncontrolled or they could be enhanced with rapid rectangular flashing beacons.
They could not be at Hawk signals.
Another thing we need to consider is the amount of traffic that goes along the corridor with the Crosswalk.
Typically we want more than 2,000 vehicles per day, but we also don't want so much traffic on the corridor that it could create hazard for the staff conducting the assessment or corridors that exhibit high excessive speeds.
So something in the middle is ideal. Ideally we also have no more than 2 lanes of traffic.
If we do have 2 lanes in each direction, we should have a 6-foot median for that crosswalk as well.
So how are compliance studies conducted? First we select the sites.
We've been working towards that over the last couple of months.
We conduct a site assessment at each of these Crosswalk locations, a site assessment verifies that the Crosswalk is marked, signed and in good condition.
We've done that informally for all the sites that we've been looking at so far, but we will conduct a formal site assessment right before each baseline compliance study as well.
So some specifics about the compliance studies. We will be conducting them every quarter in the fall winter spring and summer.
We will have 18 sites total. That's three sites per council district. However, we're not going to be conducting 18 compliance studies every quarter.
The idea is to rotate the compliance studies throughout the year. So we'll have two control sites every quarter and four variable sites.
These are the locations that we've proposed for the Crosswalk compliance studies. There are three locations per district.
They adhere to those criteria and requirements that we spoke about earlier.
Sorry, we just need to get a lot of people coming in.
Okay. I'll speak to them.
We'll do.
Sorry.
Okay. Most of these are on our hindering network or on your it.
Signature element of the safer Cross is the student Walker and Mr. Walker statues.
They should be in high pedestrian zones. They should be highly visible.
There are a reminder for drivers to yield to pedestrians.
We've purchased and received 28 Mr. Walker's 14 student walkers this year in two phases.
We proposed installing up to four Mr. Walker's district and two student walkers.
The first phase of that will be two locations per district.
We've come up with some ideas for these areas.
These high activity areas based on midemare for regional council activity centers layers.
And we're looking for further input on where you'd like to see your Mr. Walker and student Walker.
Implementation in 2025.
We hit the ground running with the RSA scope as Angie mentioned earlier.
Also in 2025 some of our staff attended safer cross training at the Mid-America Regional Council to get
the correct on what the program entails as well as what we can expect moving forward towards implementation.
Earlier this year we started regular coordination calls with safer cross as well as contracting negotiations and modifications.
In the spring we issued POs to fabricate the statues.
And then in the summer we've been developing the locations that we just discussed as well as received the statues.
We've also been holding a series of coordination meetings with council district aids for awareness and input.
Communications is a big part of this program.
We've been working with city columnist to develop a KCMO branded safer cross logo.
You'll see the one on the right.
That spring field uses.
That's their city specific logo for safer cross.
We've also been looking at how we can inform pedestrians and drivers with the signage for the compliance.
So on the side you'll also see a sign that is on existing poll that we're also considering.
This is a timeline basically what we just spoke about.
The main takeaway here is that there are a lot of activities to do before official kickoff which we anticipate in September.
And here are key next steps.
Finalizing priority locations for the statues.
Doing our baseline compliance studies in late September and in kickoff.
Focusing on communications and promotion of the campaign and then continuing with our quarterly compliance studies.
Thank you.
I didn't mean to rush it.
You know, councilwoman Robinson has a lot of questions.
Thank you very much.
Any question for my colleagues?
Just.
Just thank you for the presentation.
I'd love to follow up there to just hear more detail.
I know that busy day.
So thank you for preparing with us through the noise and stuff and rushing.
So thank you so much for the book to catch up more and appreciate.
We appreciate the presentation on this.
Thank you.
You got two minutes.
Cool.
I'm chair said that because they're we're not taking up the royals.
That we will have a couple more questions but no seriously.
This is important because the matter of life and death.
Are my colleague and I we got into, you know, a interesting conversation.
I appreciate his leadership in making sure that we have resources.
That's a theory to do adequate communication and engagement.
My passion comes to this issue because the majority of the fatalities are in the third district.
So this is a life and death issue.
I just returned from Denver and at every intersection there was a crosswalk.
There's no need to do a audit to figure out where the crosswalk needs to be.
They're there.
Their street does not also require a marker for where the car is supposed to stop.
So let's go back to your design.
Which is like where the design for the crosswalk.
I think it's a site assessment.
Yes.
Which is to a car supposed to stop.
The next one.
There's one that shows it.
There's one.
Is this something that we're utilizing now?
I've not seen it.
Yeah.
I think you're referring to both the stop bar and a yield bar.
And that is a standard requirement of a crosswalk painted intersection.
So our crosswalks right now have the sharty.
So most of them should have actually a solid stop bar.
In some instances we do have the sharty field as well.
Do all of our crosswalks.
Our intersections have pedestrian crosswalks.
That's not every intersection the city has a crosswalks.
Can you please provide for us what the budgetary cost would be to have crosswalks?
Are there crosswalks at every intersection where there is a fatality?
Or has been identified by vision zero as a problem intersection?
Do we have crosswalks there?
My, I would venture to guess their locations where we've had fatalities with our no crosswalks.
Okay.
We need to know that.
Please.
And we need to figure out a way to ensure that those locations are first on the list as relates to implementation of this work.
The sign, the percentage sign.
So amazing idea.
Thank you.
That's great show.
You know, the percentage of folks who are doing the right thing.
And I was paying close attention to myself as in driving in Denver and everyone else.
They were, they were stopping at that marker.
But it's at every crosswalk.
And the reason why that's important is because sometimes you have to stop there.
Sometimes you don't.
If it's not at every intersection.
So how do we change behavior if it's not standard at every stop sign.
If we don't have the markers at every stop sign.
So the, the investment in communication is great.
But the behavior change comes where I don't put my seat belt on.
Some of the time I put it on every time.
I drive.
And so if we don't have this that each intersection.
It's a problem as it relates to how people are going to behave behind the wheel.
And that's concerning for me.
And I think that it needs to be at every intersection.
Can you go back to the slide where it has the, the signage, the percentage of compliance.
Okay.
Is that digital?
This one here, no, it's not digital.
Okay, so that's going to be lagging, lagging indicator.
And so they have to figure out.
Yes, after the compliance studies are conducted every quarter.
Someone goes out and updates the number.
Have we talked to KCPD about increased enforcement.
For crosswalk compliance.
Yes.
Specifically.
Is there a law on the books that requires people to stop.
Okay, okay, so that's the thing.
I just want to make sure I'm covering the basis.
Okay, good question.
So have we talked to KCPD about that?
In addition to, you know, I always, you know, carrots are important.
Like, this is important to communicate.
But we also need additional reinforcements.
Has there been a discussion made about that?
We have a routine monthly coordination meeting with KCPD.
And I say over the last couple of years that is that coordination you're asking about is really improved.
And so we public works in the police.
We'd like us.
So we meet every month.
We talk about these issues.
And I got to say thank you to them.
They've been really supportive of the vision zero enforcement.
Because to your point, we can engineer so much.
We can educate so much.
But we have to have that third leg of enforcement as well.
Okay, thank you.
So just to wrap up to make sure we're on the same page.
You're going to provide for us information about the intersections and the costs.
That's necessary to make sure that all of our intersections have crosswalks.
To help with that behavior change, right?
And to make sure that all of those areas are safe.
And then you're going to provide information about prioritizing areas where there's been
fatalities and have been identified by vision zero.
Again, thank you to Councilman Bunch for his leadership in making sure we have that data set from vision.
So make you sure that we have that information as well to the committee. Is that fair? Thank you, copy.
For clarification, I really want all intersections or just signalized intersection.
No, I want to know what the investment is required to make sure all intersections have the crosswalks.
Thank you.
Thank you, guys. Any other questions?
With that, thank you very much.
Thank you very much, sir.
Thank you very much.
Yes.