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there's there's no audio matt yeah we're not here enough
i'm detecting that let me try one more time
share sound on me
here
give me one second
i know it by heart so i can say it if we don't have it
go ahead okay under the governor's emergency executive
order we are holding this meeting pursuant to
coven 19 restrictions anyone who wishes to address this do you
have it there yep thanks for starting us off though
okay unofficial chair hudson says thank you
we're still not hearing it but we can see it
the little x is on the speaker mat matt the x is on the speaker
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of the contra costa transportation authority
thank you um so can we have a roll call please i don't know if tyrion's doing
that or jaclyn's doing that i'll be doing that yes thank you
there you are thank you chair mitch off um
commissioner haskey here commissioner hudson yep
commissioner kelly yeah commissioner white
here and chair mitch off here this uh i'm going to uh we're going to
go to public comment for items not on the agenda
but until i get out of my car uh jack when i'm going to depend on you for
raised hands um because i'm looking at the street and
not at my screen so um this is the opportunity oh
i can't stand up but do we have a flag for the pledge
or do we need to do that oh okay good we all the word the united states of
america going on to public comment this is the
opportunity uh on our meeting for anyone to address
this on any item not on the agenda there will be opportunity
to speak under public comment on agendaized items
um are there any uh people who wish to address this under public comment
do you see any jacqueline no we have not received any public comment either all
right then we will move on to the consent calendar
um is there anyone who wishes me to pull anything off the consent calendar
seeing and or hearing none do i have a motion to
approve the consent calendar
move by uh second by hudson broke an all-time record is there any
public comment uh on our consent calendar
okay we don't have any may we have a roll call vote please
yes commissioner hudson aye commissioner white
hi commissioner kelly hi vice chair haskew hi
pierre mitchum yes okay i looked at the agenda but i can't look at it right now
so i'm calling the next item jacqueline would you announce it please
oh yes i just want to say motion passes unanimously for the community oh yes
thank you sorry no it works
okay so we have regular agenda item 6a this is going to be presented by matt
kelly can you say what it is for the public
yes the item is
for approval to issue an uh urban limit line
for the policy advisory letter to local oh i'm on the wrong one
the wrong one that's last month i have it here if you need me to announce it
yeah 4a approval of work plan to update the
congestion management program for 2021 and this will be provided by matt kelly
wonderful thank you go ahead matt thank you
uh chair mitch often planning committee members great to be here tonight
so i'm here to present the work plan for the congestion management program as
you may know this the cmp is legislatively required
as a congestion management agency as the congestion
management agency for contra costa we are required to update it every two
years uh this will be our 15th update since
1991 and just for a little background i know
most of you heard this before but i'll uh let the new member know that the
congestion management program was developed back in 1991 as a statewide
program um in response to uh kind of sprawl
development and things like that going on around the
state and they used measure c at the times growth management
program as the template for the state's
congestion management program uh so we there are definitely some
overlaps so what is required under the cmp is
that we establish level of service standards for
a county-wide roadway network that includes all our state highways and
principal arterials that we establish performance measures
and metrics uh for the multimodal system uh transportation system that we
identify a capital improvement program to maintain that transportation system
that we have a program to analyze the impacts of land use
developments on the transportation system that really is what our growth
management program does and then a travel demand element
that promotes alternatives to the single entrepreneur vehicle
so those are the main uh requirements of the cmp
as i mentioned the gmp fulfills many of those requirements
and i'm going to hit on that a little bit later for
an added uh something added this time around
uh because of that uh the gmp fulfilling all those requirements
so the cmp must uh demonstrate consistency with the current adopted rtp
uh our last year's our last time we updated
in 2019 we have the same rtp adopted so
we're referring back to the same rtp mtc's guidelines
for 2021 state that uh consistency will be with that same older rtp
and they're advising for a limited update of the cmps so
we are proposing a limited uh technical update
of the cmp focusing on any changes since 2019 but our primary focus will be
the biannual monitoring monitoring we do of the entire system including
collecting pedestrian and bicycle accounts at 65
locations around the county in addition to all the freeways
um the major addition that i was alluding to a little bit earlier
is that for the first time we in the cmp we will
examine the authority opting out of the cmp process
um this is something that's been talked about a while
um we feel like because the gmp does satisfy most of the requirements
and we're really just doing kind of a this is a formality um we do we do get
some good things out of it like the monitoring
um but we feel like we may be better off just opting out so
as part of this update we will examine that we are
working with mtc to make sure that there are no funds lost in in that
opting out uh when it comes to gas taxes things
like that
we look to our our peers up at uh sonoma county who opted out several
years ago and have been uh just fine um la county just opted out
uh this past year which is what really got our attention we've been following
that process so we'll come back to you when uh we
have our draft cmp with a little more information there but um our proposal is
to uh move ahead of the work plan do the monitoring of the system
uh this spring so we can really uh get a better look at the uh
the impacts of covid and a schedule for the cmp update is in your
packet and i can take any questions okay thank
you um i'm almost home but i still can't see
hands raised so uh i have it i can't karen
your recommendation matt is just to start this
but not opt out at this time correct start that's our work plan part of the
work plan is is examining that opt-out and coming back
to you okay it just has to start the plan i'll move
it um i have a question does anybody else
have a question okay matt i want to make sure i
understand you're i understand you're looking at it this year
um and and was the main reason that that it's duplicative of other work we do
or is there any downside to us opting out well it is it is duplicative
of the growth management program um so that's our primary reason but the
only reason we haven't opted out is because
we're worried that losing that cmp uh being part of the cmp will
could affect us somehow so we will look into that working with mtc
they've told us we won't initially so we'll keep
investigating that if if there's a chance we would lose funds somehow we
would not uh go forward with the object now but we
don't think that's going to be well and if sonoma's opted out and dave
rabbit sits on mtc so i i'm going to do that okay
are there any other hands raised
um chris did you did i hear something no no i'll just second dave's motion
okay move by hudson seconded by kelly uh do we have any public comment
on this
hearing that we no don't we have a roll call vote please
yes commissioner hudson aye commissioner white
hi commissioner kelly hi vice chair haskew
hi here mitch off
tear mitch off oh darren did we lose you i think she's frozen
she says yes
okay well
go ahead finish the ocean passes unanimously with uh chair mitch off
abstaining okay so so until she comes back why don't i step in
and we'll go on to the next item and um unfortunately i'd ask somebody to
read it again because my ipad just went blank so would
somebody please read the title of the next
of the next item yes the next item is for
this was action item 6b approval of amendment number 2 to agreement number
428 with iteras and this is also going to be presented
by matt kelly lovely thank you thank you vice chair ask you thank you
jackie um so this is related to the last item
um it's separate approval but related um one of the required components of the
congestion management program is the bi-annual monitoring of the
system we do feel like this is one of the best
things we do get out of the cmp and it is because we are able to
do a biannual kind of assessment of the of the
uh cmp network which is all of our freeways and most of our major arterials
we try and add value to this process by collecting
those bike and pedestrian counts at all the intersections in addition to the
vehicle so we've had a running total of bike and ped counts since 2011.
um so that's been valuable um this uh contract is with iteras
um they're a california firm who has done our
cmp monitoring uh since 2015 so this would be their fourth cycle
uh the reason we thought we would be good to bring them
back on board this time um as opposed to going out for a new contract is that
uh we're hoping uh this may be one of the last
uh normal cmp cycles where they're requiring
the same type of monitoring just because it doesn't line up with the vmt
uh changes that the state has done so we anytime we bring on a new consultant
they have to kind of re-code the entire system into the
entire transportation network into their monitoring system which
takes a fair amount of effort and budget so we thought it would uh
be more efficient just to keep by terrace on for one more cycle
in addition to that they've uh they've added a task on
no additional cost where they're going to prepare a
dashboard which is kind of like right now we're just getting a report every
two years from this big data source that we have access to
developing a dashboard would give us real-time
live access to the data that we were normally just
looking at every two years so this will allow us to have a
website that anyone can look at staff cities
of general public that would um you know show exactly what's going on in contra
costa would allow you to look at archive data
would allow you to do queries of the transportation data
so we think um by keeping iterazon for one more round we can you know not lose
any of the momentum they've built up with us over
the years and doing this fairly routine monitoring
but also get some added value this time around
so our proposal or our staff's recommendation
is to uh amend uh for the second time uh itara's contract to
do the biennial monitoring of the cmp network
uh that's my presentation i can take any questions
and i'm back and uh there's something wrong with my virtual background but
that's okay um so uh
do we have any questions or comments for matt
i we voted for you karen i thank you yeah
from the part of the to the computer so uh okay i'm not seeing do we have any
public comment jacqueline no public comment all right
maybe we have a roll call um oh we need a motion yes thank you
and i'll second all right goodbye seconded by haskew roll call vote please
commissioner hudson yes commissioner white
yes commissioner kelly yes vice chair haskey yes and chair mitch
off yes unanimously
wonderful um correspondence and communications
uh in your packet commissioner and staff comments i don't have any comments do
any of our commissioner colleagues have any comments
i do i've never seen so many h's in one meeting in my life
so many h's there yeah we got to ask you we got the hudson we got holland we got
home i mean hail i mean i i this is this is a
glorious day for ages honey you've got
a pretty sad life you got honey we got honey too
oh yeah honey okay um executive staffed uh mr hale did you have anything to add
to our meeting tonight nothing to report tonight thank you all
righty
he's still up in tahoe and and he put his picture back up peter nothing
nothing to report thank you okay and i see colin and john and matt
have already done their thing so with that we're
going to adjourn to our meeting on march 3rd
2021 have a lovely evening everyone nice to see you all