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Okay, we'll go ahead and start it here if we can start with a roll call please.

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Councilwoman Sandeva, Mr. Frisbee, Ms. White,

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Your Kyle, Ms. Mathees, sorry, Commissioner Webb, Mayor Riley,

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Judge Kutcher, Councilman Cisneras, Councilman Hottis,

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Mr. Jorge, Ms. Rodriguez, Chair, we have a quorum.

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They're good. Thank you.

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We're going to start off with some quick recognitions. I'm going to go up here in front and said it's going to call out, at least,

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clap the three that we're recognizing, but we know one of them is accurate for here. Yes.

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We have three board members. This month, two from the via board Rebecca Sadeo and Dr. Richard Gambet,

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who could not be here today. I don't think Rebecca is here, is she? No, okay.

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They need to one could be here today, so we do want to thank them for their service to the MPO Board, of course.

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And then also Councilman Rondries with the sitting new bumpfills who's been a board member here for since ever since we expanded MPO boundary

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He was very instrument to on all the work we did for that boundary expansion and getting new bumpfills situated and coming along

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We really appreciate Councilmanries all you work with the MPO board and I think the Councilman has applied for you

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That's great.

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That's a little more fun.

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And again, that's great.

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There may have two other members that aren't here.

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There may have been one of those back.

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You know, one of the remaining here, K-2-3 orders.

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Oh, Rebecca's here.

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We just wanted to thank you very much for the time to implement this and you know how important it is.

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I've got to mention the Pyramid, Rebecca, and back again, because you're not tearing

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one.

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I don't think you're not going to get a bolt for service.

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You may as well, everybody's radar screen.

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It's back to be left alone.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Where we got next?

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The board?

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The board?

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Yes.

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So we'll go straight into that.

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I do want to recognize the two new VFOs that are on the board as well.

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Patricia Rodriguez is representing the via board and Jordan and he is representing the Advanced

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Transportation District. So welcome to your first meeting.

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The Chairman has promised a record meeting today. I don't. We're going to be part of the delivery here with a pretty short director's report, but the first item is just that National Bike Month continues throughout the month May and that we really have to think a lot of people for a very successful walking roll rally.

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We are walking roll rally on Friday May 4th and that day we had some very threatening thunderstorms in the region and it actually did rank a bit right after the event, but we escaped the rain.

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So we had about 150 people show up despite that ring on morning, and it was a really good event.

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There was plenty of good music, fully fun, content, and importantly lots of information and resources geared toward active transportation in the region.

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We do want to thank all of our sponsors and vendors who participated, but we do want to give out a special shout out and thanks to Councilwoman Shirley Gonzalez who addressed the group that morning and also to the event host Randy Beamer with News 4 San Antonio.

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We also have our walk-and-roll bike coming up, I'm sorry, a walk-and-night on Wednesday, May 23rd from 5 to 7 p.m. at Confluence Park on the South Side of San Antonio.

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That event will be an open house format with updates on plant and programs throughout the region.

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This is a different date than what we've presented in April.

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We had a conflict with the original date that we presented to you that month, but just put it on your calendar.

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we can't be left to have as many of you participate as possible and not actually attend

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if you could help us spread the work for that event so that we can get a good turnout

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we would appreciate it.

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The next item deals with the vision bureau, the MPO, is proud to be working with vision

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bureau San Antonio, the San Antonio Chape, the Women's Transportation Terminal or WTS, the

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San Antonio section of the American Union Association and the South Institute of Transportation

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Engineers as well as a long list of private sector sponsors to bring professional development

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vision zero summit to the region. That summit will take place on Friday, June 15th from

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AAM to 4 p.m. at the Urban Ecology Center at Hartford, the event does include both local

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national experts and the leadership panel moderative Jeff Coiler with the City of San

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Antonio that includes Councilwoman Gonzalez and Mike Frisby of the City of San

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Antonio and the issue who moves the vision zero network founder and executive director.

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There is a fee to attend the event but registration information can be for our website if you're

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interested in attending.

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The third item is just that the July Transportation Policy Board meeting will likely be cancelled.

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That's our goal for now.

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Of course, it's something that will require a meeting.

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Then we will have to move forward with one.

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But as for now, we're doing our best to make sure we can give you a break for the summer.

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And then lastly, our MPR office will be closed on Monday, May 28th from a Memorial Day.

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That's all we have.

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Are you going to do we have any citizens to be heard?

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I don't believe there are any signs of no.

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No consent items

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Item number 5, approval, April 23, 2018, meeting, minute, can I have a motion to approve? Motion, second, and a second, all those in favor say aye, aye, vote, motion carry.

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Item 6, action on the appointment of a via metropolitan transit representative on the transportation policy board to the MPOs executive committee.

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What I do here?

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Let me just give a bit of background.

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And then you could.

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So, because six of the MPOs by law state executive committee will be comprised of nine transportation

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support members, as all of you know, the chair of the MPO board, vice chair, the MPO board, also serve as a chair, vice chair, executive committee.

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So, the other seven members include the City of San Antonio appointment with this currently filled by Councilwoman

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Sandevol, the county appointment, which is currently filled by Commissioner Rodriguez.

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A text out of appointment, which is filled by Mario Boy.

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I'd like to thank any area of suburban city rep, which is currently filled by Mayor Riley,

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via a chance which is the one that's taken filling today.

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come out county geographic areas rather than by Commissioner Webb and then Wadler

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the county geographic area representative, which is currently judge-culture.

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So we do have that via vacancy.

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The by-laws also speak at the chairman of the board.

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The individuals for the committee and this board approved.

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So we're looking for nomination today.

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Very good. Thank you, sir.

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I would like to nominate a very new board member, Jordan and Matthews,

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to serve on the executive committee.

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No, no, I have to ask for it.

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Yes, we do have to prove a motion.

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I need a second.

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Do I need a second?

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I actually need a motion.

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Motion in the second.

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Who's the motion?

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He's he.

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I've been up.

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You need to make a motion.

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Yeah, somebody.

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Now I need a second.

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I have a motion in the second.

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Discussion.

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Anybody want to fight?

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Please do.

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Your predecessor, we spark occasionally.

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Yes. Yes. This is good. This past along the message that I thought he did a good job here and he represented

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it very well. We're going to miss Dr. Gambita. But welcome Lord.

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I'm glad you said something commissioner. Dr. Gambita was an integral part of our executive committee.

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And while we didn't always agree, we always had very, very good discussions and worked very well together.

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So we're kind of expecting the same from you too.

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We'll fight sometimes, but that's okay.

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We'll get more to it.

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Very good.

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All those in favor, say aye.

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Opposed? Motion carries.

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Item 7 presentation on the draft final report for the regional transportation Attitude Survey 3.

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Sorry, we're getting a kick out of the Attitude Survey.

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Chris Tatum with DC Institute is going to be making this presentation.

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As you noted, this survey number 3, we actually conducted a survey back in 1997, 98, and in 2006, 2006, 2007.

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So, 10 years later here, we are again with a third survey and there's a lot of good information here that Chris is going to present to all of you.

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This information actually helps us put together our long-range transportation plan of feeds into that long-range transportation plan.

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So Chris, I'll turn it over to you.

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The Supples should be back.

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I'm just really going to just share with you some of the highlights of the survey today.

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There's obviously volumes and volumes of data that can be broken down into very detailed assessments for each of you.

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If you're not familiar with our firm, we actually are an national firm, we do a lot of work

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in the San Antonio area.

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I'll be back next week to present to the City Council for San Antonio via just selected

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our firm to do their on-board survey.

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So we've been doing work done here for about 15 years, including the last long-range transportation

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assessment.

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So, I'm going to share some of that just within context of our experience in the area.

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For those of you who aren't familiar with the regional transportation attitude survey, this

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is the third time that it's been done, it's been done about every 10 years.

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And it really helps you gather input from the vast majority of residents who aren't engaged in the public in public input process.

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In reality, most people are just busy going about the lives and you probably will not hear from them.

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So without a tool like this, sometimes it's hard to know what is the average resident think is important, what are their views on things and so forth.

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This year, we expanded the survey, so it includes not just Bear County, but all the surrounding counties as well.

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As far as the survey methodology and not going to go into great detail, but we did do a series of focus groups and stakeholder interviews up front to help design the questions.

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We then had three surveys. One was targeted at residents. One was targeted at employers and one was targeted at traditionally underserved populations.

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people who have, with disabilities, transit users, non-English speakers, because those groups are

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important, particularly with not-automable meal, transportation needs, and they're

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off underrepresented, so we wanted to make sure they were included.

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They all surveys were administered in both English and Spanish.

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We also geocoded the home address of respondents, so as you look at the full report, you'll

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see a series of maps that actually show how people view different issues based on the location

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of their home.

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With that said, let me just kind of walk through the major topics and some of the findings and then I'll summarize what we found.

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The first is just general perception of congestion.

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I'm sure everyone here knows that people are concerned about that and they don't think traffic congestion is great.

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The matter is, how many people feel that way?

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So when we ask people how they thought it had changed compared to five years ago, you can see about three-fourths of people,

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both the residents and the employers thought it had increased the great deal just over the last five years.

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If you add in those who thought it was somewhat gotten worse, you can see all together, you have 9 out of 10 people think traffic congestion has gotten worse over the last couple of years.

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The other thing that we looked at though is also which specific types of transportation are people concerned about when it comes to the ease of travel.

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And you can see all of the areas that were assessed ease of travel from people's homes to work, different locations within the metro area.

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even things like ease of bicycle travel. And you can see for the most part, all types of travel

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did have a significant number of people who were dissatisfied. ease of bicycle travel at 53%

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ease of travel between your home and new brawn souls had 52% just a highlight a couple that had the most

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negatives. The thing that I was really impressed about in this day to those, even though people

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report that they think traffic has gotten a lot worse compared to five years ago and their ease of

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level has not as good as it used to be.

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Overall satisfaction is actually not much different.

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And what that shows is expectations are changing.

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People are getting used to it.

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If you actually look at the results from 2008,

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which was just Eric County,

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and look at the same respondents from Bear County,

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which is in the dark Boomer 2018,

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you can see satisfaction level for a little bit lower

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with different types of travel,

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but for the most part they haven't changed

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at much.

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In fact, ease of walking is actually improved

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three percentage points over the last few years.

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So that shows you expectation, people are adjusting,

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but it's going to be important to continue meeting

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those expectations over the next decade.

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The other thing that we looked at

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is just what did people who were traditionally

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underserved populations, those who oftentimes

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depend on non-automobile forms of transit,

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or non-automobile forms of transportation,

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and there are ratings of those.

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In what you'll see here,

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from those groups, they gave very high mark,

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ease of travel by public transportation,

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only 8% were dissatisfied, 77% were very satisfied or satisfied, ease of travel by bicycle among this group.

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You can see over half-gave positive ratings and also ease of travel by walk, also 51% gave positive ratings.

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So those who really need these alternatives actually were generally satisfied in the survey.

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In addition, we wanted to look at what they thought priorities for transportation planning were in the region,

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and we had a whole lot of these.

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You can see everything from preserving historical sites to reducing energy consumption, reducing noise or traffic.

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I won't read the whole list to you, but you can see if you owe all the way to the bottom.

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Two areas that have the most dissatisfaction are relieving traffic congestion and efforts to maintain existing roads in highways.

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So those are two areas of greatest concern when we actually people had rate how their things now.

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We then went through and asked them to prioritize what they topped the top priority should be and moving forward

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There was strong agreement between both employers and residents that the top two issues that should impact planning decisions moving forward

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Should be making sure you're planning to address issues of traffic congestion and also maintain the existing roads and highways

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You can see four of the top five issues for both groups for the same travel safety was in the top five for employers and efforts

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It's basically improved training to prevent

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flubs within the top five for residents.

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But for the most part, there was a struck

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alignment between your employment or business community

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and what residents think with traffic congestion

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and maintenance of existing roads being the top

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and second rated issues in for both.

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In addition, we looked at some of the alternatives

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that could be used for public transportation.

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We looked at things like passenger rail, bus rapid transit,

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carpooling programs with park and ride,

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and also special lanes.

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And what you'll notice is when you first look at this, you might say, well, wow, people won't use them because there's a lot of red on here that's saying they're not interested, but you don't have to have 50% of the people use any of these.

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It had actually 10 or 15% that would be a lot of people using alternative forms.

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You can see, for particular passenger rail and bus rapid transit, both are near 50% or more of people expressing some interest.

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But all of the items that were assessed did have a significant number of people who said they would be interested if they were available.

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One of the challenges is making sure you roll out the level of service that people expect.

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So another part of this study is we did have bus service.

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How would you be to use it under different frequencies?

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This data is really insightful because look what happens if the bus comes by every 11 to 20 minutes.

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Almost two thirds of people said that they'd be interested in you.

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You drop it to 21 to 30 minutes. It goes down to 21 percent. And eventually when you get down to the current service levels, you see it gets 5% or lower. So that's one of the challenges is how can you develop high frequency service in the areas in the community or so much low density. And that's going to be one of the big issues for you all as you plan in the future. But people certainly will use it under the right conditions.

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The other thing we asked for is, what do you think about investments?

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You know, I'm just planning issues, but what should we be investing our money when it comes to the future for the region?

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And we gave residents employers and the underserved populations a significant list of things to review and choose from.

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And you can see for residents and employers the list was pretty much the same.

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widening freeways adding lanes, rewriting traffic, reducing congestion was unique to residents,

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acquiring land for traffic corridors, was understood by employers, and then building

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right rail building over and underpasses at railroad crossings.

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You can see pretty much the similar list for traditionally underserved regulations.

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You can see all those non-automobile options, the expanding public transit, benches and

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budget shelters, building a widening sidewalks and so forth.

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So clearly, that group is going to expect certain types of things that are not automobile-related,

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but when it comes to your resident employers, clearly they're focused on being able to get around the region and their cars moving forward.

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In addition, we got some feedback from the business community about their perceptions of freight system.

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We found that 1 in 5 or 19% indicated that they did have freight requirements,

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But interestingly, only 46% or less than half of them felt that the region's road system would support their needs over the next 20 years.

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So that's another issue to be taking a look at as how to address the freight requirements for the region moving forward,

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particularly when it comes to the region's road system.

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With that, though, we wanted to ask people perhaps the biggest question of all, is what do you think about funding?

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And what folks said is generally they thought it should be more.

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We didn't give them the conditions that would have to come out of their pockets, so those

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are always different issues.

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But we did generally find that people believe that there should be more funding for transportation.

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In fact, when we ask people about how funding for roads and highways to change, 75% of residents,

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84% of employers, and 61% of your underserved population thought it should be increased.

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And even on public transportation, though not everybody will use it, you can see there's strong

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support among all three groups to see higher levels of fit spending in the future for public transportation investments.

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So with that, I know I've dumped a lot of information on you, but the idea is for you to be aware that it's there.

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His planning decisions are made in the future.

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You'll probably hear references back to this study over the next decade, and it is a very, very comprehensive.

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One of the most comprehensive that we do for any metropolitan planning organizations, just by the fear number of surveys.

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But the takeaways are clearly traffic congestion as a concern for folks, most people get us gotten worse.

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But the overall satisfaction hasn't changed that rapidly.

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So you've done a good job, please managing expectations with your investment,

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but moving forward, taking care of congestion and also maintaining your highway system

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and road system are really important to both residents and employers.

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There are opportunities to get people to use non-automobile transportation,

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But making sure you deploy them under the right conditions is going to be critical, otherwise you'll have nobody on the system because you didn't provide the right level of service.

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Funding support is out there and clearly moving forward, there's a need in a concern among some of your employers who have freight requirements that the region's capabilities is particularly on roadways won't meet their needs in the future.

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But all in all, it's been great working with you this last year and I'd be happy to answer any questions if there are any.

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Good. Thank you for the presentation and how fast it was. That was good. I do. I do have kind of a question.

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The category you put was it called traditionally underserved. It almost feels like you go in making the assumption that the only people that utilize mass transportation are underserved.

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And I'm wondering if, and I don't know whether that's true or not, I'm just telling you what I'm watching here.

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But I wonder if we're missing a segment of the population that isn't, I'm not sure how you're qualifying underserved.

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Are you qualifying that based on income, are you qualifying it based on whether or not they have a vehicle, those types of things,

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because, you know, I'm sure that a segment of our population that could certainly afford their

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own vehicles and those sorts of things, but choose to take math, transportation, and

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some instances.

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And I'm just, I'm just worried that we're kind of categorizing that only people are going

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to use math transportation or those that can't afford to do other sorts.

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That's actually why we have their residence surveys.

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You can actually look at those results in the levels of interest in using all of those

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were from their resident survey, and there were high levels of interest among the average resident.

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The traditionally underserved populations are grouped that are important for transportation planning,

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but they don't have a high enough incident in the general public to be represented.

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In other words, some of the people that might be included in there are going to be some of your low-income non-English speaking folks

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who might not participate in a normal survey just because they live in a way that makes them difficult to reach.

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So we call it traditionally underserved, it isn't really related to their access to transportation.

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It's really that they're underserved typically in public meeting processes.

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They're underserved with regard to surveys like this.

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So we wanted to make sure that they were included.

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And we didn't overlook them.

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Okay, so those comments for me was me just being nice to our new view representatives here.

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Now me, the roadguiles pay, well, you know, based on what I saw here,

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be as doing a great job. They just need to get their ridership time down to 15 minutes and

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you know, you're done. Well thanks for the work. Let's build some more roads because that's

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what everybody else wants it. So I'm just kidding. Just kidding guys.

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Mayor. Thank you. Council. I'm a question. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. It was

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very fast. So I do have some questions. Could we, could we start at the beginning in terms of

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Let's see. Yeah, like I guess before that one. Right, so could you talk a little bit about

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how you identified who to reach out to and how they were reached out to, was it male,

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fell, on internet?

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Actually, it's a great question because today, how many of you all will answer your phone

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from somebody? Probably nobody, okay? So really these days, what you have to do, is we randomly

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select residents from each of the counties that were included in the study area and we

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wanted to make sure we had a certain number so that way the date for each of the sub-arrays

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was statistically represented. So what we did with the sample 2400 we ended up getting

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2,500 people to actually complete the survey is we picked from every potential residential address

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for example in Bear County so all of them are eligible and then we randomly picked about five times

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our goal for that. I don't remember off the top of my head, but our goal was about a 20% response rate, and so those were selected.

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We then mailed all of those households a survey with a cover letter. Also, that information was translated a little bit into Spanish, so if someone didn't speak English, they could call the number.

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And then we did follow up by email and some with phone. Most of our phone center now is actually inbound calls for people who get the survey. They're too lazy to fill it out, but they love to call and do it while they walk around the house.

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We also have a website where they could go to, but if you did it on the website,

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you had to enter your home address so we could validate your part of the random sample

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so that we didn't have folks in China go online and fill out the survey.

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So we have a lot of controls in place.

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It's the same methodology we're actually using for the city survey right now.

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And it used for a number of surveys not just here, but across the state of Texas and the rest of the country.

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And the nice thing is, is people actually when they get a cover letter from a legitimate organization

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And then they get emails about that, then they tend to feel guilty and then they'll do the survey.

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That's the same thing that we used to do is we used to call people and say,

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Hey, did you get the survey?

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And we you fill it out and then people would fill it out.

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Now we're able to reach them through emails, even though they don't answer their phones.

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So somehow you've got people's addresses, emails and phone numbers.

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Actually, it's easier to acquire people's email address for this kind of survey that is their phone number these days.

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because everyone fills out their email address.

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And so we actually able to get for about every household that's selected,

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we're able to get about six or seven, 60 to 70% of them,

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we can get your emails.

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Okay, so then those are the ones that would be eligible for your survey

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if you're not able to get their emails, you wouldn't know.

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No, no, we just can't do the follow-up.

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So everyone, so in other words, our ability to follow-ups limited,

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we then send a second mailing to households, for example,

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that we couldn't follow up with by phone or by email

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and they didn't respond. We'd send them the survey one more time.

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Okay. I got the survey twice in the mail. Did anybody else get it?

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So that means you probably didn't respond.

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First of all, there you go.

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But no emails. So now you know, you get the second mailing if you didn't respond the first two times or when we called her.

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Could you tell me about the, uh, you said you, well, the demographics were well represented.

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What does it look like? And also, how many Spanish surveys did you end up with?

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I don't remember the number. I can certainly get that for you, but it was comparable to what we've done for the city of San Antonio's survey in the past.

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I can tell you that the Hispanic percentage of persons who are Hispanic actually matches up closely with the census data.

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The age distribution looked very good, gender distribution looked very good.

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So that's what we're looking at and off the top of my hand. I don't have the actual numbers.

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But if you actually do a side by side comparison with what we have in the report with the census, you'll see it's pretty much on target for the region.

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Okay, just a couple more questions, can you tell us again, how did you identify who you consider underserved?

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These were basically people who fell into one of several categories.

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The seniors, persons who were disabled, persons with very low, persons with disabilities,

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persons with very low incomes, people who were not English speakers as their primary language.

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And what we did is we went to locations that serve these different groups, like places that actually serve people with disabilities.

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We did surveys on the transit system.

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And it was mainly to make sure that those groups are represented ultimately in decisions because those are groups that oftentimes are very actively involved in transportation planning because they have specific needs.

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And so the group felt it was important to have their input as well.

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I agree I think that was great that you went out there and found them so that how many people fell into that category.

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That would have been we had four hundred and five.

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Oh right.

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So this is essentially if you wanted the best way to look at this is it's an over sampling of groups that would otherwise be under represented in the random sample.

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That makes sense to you.

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We're not going to get that many people with some of these characteristics with a random survey of the general public.

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So by doing this underserved survey, we made sure these groups were represented.

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Right, and statistically significant when you came to your conclusions.

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So in the subsequent slides, if you move, let's see, not that one, but like let's start at the next one.

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So, in the previous slide, you distinguish between employers and residents, but when we, in the subsequent slides you don't, did you observe any differences?

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There are some, I showed them in the ones that were most notable, the employer survey for the sake of making sure we had a good participation rate was actually shorter.

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So, it did not have all the questions, and we found that when it comes to things like ease of travel, the employers tend to raise it for themselves as if they're a resident anyway.

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And so that's why this question was just asked of residents and in so are there any highlights you would want to share about

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With the difference. Oh, I guess you you got to them at the end. We go to that could you go to that?

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A lot of some of the we have some of the priorities perceptions here

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This is one. This is one. This is one. This is one. It comes to how should different issues affect planning

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For transportation issues and what was interesting is the employed or some residents were pretty much aligned on the top issues

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The one difference you can see employers ranked travel safety a little higher than residents

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I think it was six or seven for residents. It's not like it wasn't important to residents

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It was just higher for employers and then the issues about preventing flooding you can see was fourth for residents

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And I think it was still in the top ten for employers

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But otherwise clearly the traffic ingestion though and maintaining existing roads and highways was the top for each group

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Do you think the safety under employers has to do with the fact that

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You know people have to travel on the job

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Exactly, that's often times the case and then could you go to the next one

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Yeah, that one so the

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This one I'm not sure how to how to interpret it because there are there are some categories that mean many things so reducing congestion

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And build light rail art and

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Caiceroly mutually exclusive right or rerouting truck traffic or some of the other things so I don't know what advice

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But you give us as we review this.

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Well, what happens is this tells you if you're trying to gain the public support, some of

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your talking points.

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You know, obviously, congestion, maintenance, things like those for the average resident

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average employer, those are going to resonate well, especially if you're going to have to raise

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money or invest dollars in those.

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It doesn't mean that some of these options on the list won't do those things, but you need

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to make sure that at the end of the day, if you don't address congestion issues over the

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next 10 years, are you the condition of the infrastructure deteriorates over the next 10

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years, you'll probably end up having residents and employers who aren't very happy, but it

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doesn't mean that you don't do these other things as part of your strategy, and so ultimately

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this gives you an idea of what is important to the average resident, but you can change attitudes

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of the public as well by letting them know why you're doing things, and so public education and

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communication are part of your transportation planning process, and so understanding where people

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are today, let's you kind of guide your decision making process so that in the future you continue

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to have a fairly happy residence.

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That's what you've done from the last 10 years ago.

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So in other words, you look at traffic conditions.

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Today compared to 10 years ago, there's a lot more traffic,

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but overall satisfaction is about the same,

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which shows me you've done a good job managing that process.

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So I think what I read here after your advice

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is that when it comes to entrepreneurship,

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Additionally, under so-called presidents and employers, I don't want to say I'm expanding public transportation. I want to go straight, light rail, is that?

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Is that what they want to hear?

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That's what they want to hear.

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My skill set today is to comment on the details, but building light rail is in the top four, but it's all going to matter.

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I mean, that's ultimately, they're all important to folks, but clearly being able to drive around this region is something that today is a significant.

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But people also want to have mobility, and so the extent that you can accomplish that with transit and alternatives is important to,

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especially for certain segments of the population that may not have other choices.

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And that's one of the reasons we did the underserved group just to make sure they were represented.

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And sorry, absolutely. That's actually my promise.

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On, under residents and employers, if you just looked at expanding public transportation,

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where would that fall?

419
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It's not in the top five.

420
00:32:56,852 --> 00:33:00,132
Well, there's several different categories. So there wasn't just the expanding.

421
00:33:00,432 --> 00:33:02,452
Oh, yes, the first one up there. I don't remember often.

422
00:33:02,452 --> 00:33:06,092
Okay, all right, yeah, so light rail was a standing public transport.

423
00:33:06,572 --> 00:33:07,852
Exactly, so that includes that.

424
00:33:07,952 --> 00:33:14,932
So part of it is is from the average residents expanding light rail resonates very strongly.

425
00:33:14,932 --> 00:33:18,492
And if you look at the chart that we had about the interest in using different services,

426
00:33:18,612 --> 00:33:21,332
that's the one people were most interested in doing.

427
00:33:21,672 --> 00:33:26,332
Doesn't mean that you're not doing the other things as well, but they're not as sexy to people

428
00:33:26,332 --> 00:33:29,112
or don't meet an immediate need that they might have.

429
00:33:29,572 --> 00:33:32,292
All right, well thank you very much for your presentation and for the insight.

430
00:33:32,292 --> 00:33:33,072
Thank you, Chair.

431
00:33:34,172 --> 00:33:34,412
Thank you.

432
00:33:36,852 --> 00:33:48,232
So I guess I would just, I guess this was your charge to present the data as it was given

433
00:33:48,232 --> 00:33:48,772
to you.

434
00:33:48,772 --> 00:33:49,592
You're supposed to collect.

435
00:33:50,052 --> 00:33:52,172
I just, I think that we're missing a lot of information.

436
00:33:52,732 --> 00:33:56,772
So if you wanted to dig a little bit deeper, because I'm very concerned that you keep

437
00:33:56,772 --> 00:34:03,192
saying that people, everybody said that traffic congestion was getting worse, but they're

438
00:34:03,192 --> 00:34:04,012
generally satisfied.

439
00:34:04,012 --> 00:34:05,812
So that really doesn't make sense.

440
00:34:06,412 --> 00:34:08,332
So there must be information in there somewhere.

441
00:34:09,232 --> 00:34:13,692
I mean, that are tolerance for greater congestion.

442
00:34:14,212 --> 00:34:15,812
I mean, I just, I think that's probably,

443
00:34:16,592 --> 00:34:18,512
I suspect that you're missing something in there.

444
00:34:18,632 --> 00:34:20,192
But it makes a lot of sense, actually,

445
00:34:20,272 --> 00:34:23,112
because imagine if you look at the traffic patterns right now,

446
00:34:23,152 --> 00:34:24,852
there's a lot more cars on the roads,

447
00:34:25,232 --> 00:34:26,952
but people have gotten more used to that.

448
00:34:27,072 --> 00:34:29,052
Yeah, well, that's not really a good,

449
00:34:29,232 --> 00:34:31,232
you know, we're just used to being miserable

450
00:34:31,232 --> 00:34:36,772
is not really something that we as policymakers are comfortable with, you know, we're just going

451
00:34:36,772 --> 00:34:39,992
to have to tolerate miserable for years and years.

452
00:34:40,112 --> 00:34:45,792
If they congestion in urban areas will be very, like if you go to a small community, Sioux Falls

453
00:34:45,792 --> 00:34:50,292
South Dakota actually has some of the worst traffic condition ratings in the country, but it

454
00:34:50,292 --> 00:34:54,272
because of people expect to be able to go any place in five minutes, not 20 minutes.

455
00:34:54,492 --> 00:34:59,752
And so what happens is as people get used to increase traffic, they tend to, their expectations

456
00:34:59,752 --> 00:35:08,212
And so part of it is is you may want to keep your traffic flow levels at the same now as they are in the future.

457
00:35:08,212 --> 00:35:09,592
That can actually be a planning goal.

458
00:35:09,592 --> 00:35:13,192
In other words, you don't want perceptions of traffic congestion to get worse.

459
00:35:13,652 --> 00:35:16,072
And so you manage that with investments over time.

460
00:35:16,772 --> 00:35:19,492
But that doesn't mean that we're talking about the difference between expectations.

461
00:35:19,752 --> 00:35:20,372
That is fact.

462
00:35:20,392 --> 00:35:24,512
Right. So we know that right the secret to happiness is low expectations.

463
00:35:26,012 --> 00:35:32,752
So, I don't know, that's one concern about your survey just in general, as your, you know, sort of,

464
00:35:34,262 --> 00:35:39,262
I just think that there's got to be a way to get in between the reads and really see what the data is showing.

465
00:35:41,422 --> 00:35:48,302
And I could just start at the beginning again and it just go to the very, I couldn't keep trying to bring it inside here and I can't bring it up.

466
00:35:48,862 --> 00:35:49,302
So,

467
00:35:52,202 --> 00:35:53,802
this is a very first one.

468
00:35:53,802 --> 00:35:56,922
In other words, people are aware that traffic works.

469
00:35:57,262 --> 00:35:58,322
That's what this tells you.

470
00:35:58,662 --> 00:36:01,142
In other words, when they think about how things were five years ago,

471
00:36:01,542 --> 00:36:03,402
they think that congestion has gotten worse.

472
00:36:04,082 --> 00:36:06,082
This chart that comes here tells you

473
00:36:06,082 --> 00:36:08,382
though their expectations have declined for that.

474
00:36:08,522 --> 00:36:10,102
So even though you think it's gotten worse,

475
00:36:10,682 --> 00:36:12,222
when you look at how things have changed,

476
00:36:12,342 --> 00:36:16,402
you actually are about just as satisfied as you were five to 10 years ago.

477
00:36:16,482 --> 00:36:18,082
And that's what's happening here

478
00:36:18,082 --> 00:36:20,142
as people are getting used to the traffic.

479
00:36:20,402 --> 00:36:22,322
That's all this tells you as people are.

480
00:36:22,322 --> 00:36:29,102
If you had had the same, I think you had not today, 10 years ago, these ratings would have been much, much worse.

481
00:36:29,382 --> 00:36:31,742
So this just shows you people are getting used to it slowly.

482
00:36:31,882 --> 00:36:34,782
And that's okay. You may not want it, but that's what's happened.

483
00:36:34,802 --> 00:36:36,882
There's people have adjusted their expectations.

484
00:36:36,962 --> 00:36:38,382
You're like jumping out of your chair.

485
00:36:38,542 --> 00:36:42,442
You know, I was like, I don't, I'm just very much disagreeing with what you're saying.

486
00:36:42,662 --> 00:36:46,142
So I'll turn it over to you in just one second.

487
00:36:46,142 --> 00:37:04,622
Let me just, I also want to go back to the issue that we've heard a couple of times now about the underserved populations because we know that if we really design for underserved populations, whether it's children or senior to the people with disabilities, then we'll design a system that's better for everyone.

488
00:37:05,182 --> 00:37:10,722
And so by not really just focusing on that, I think that we've done a great disservice as well as you continue to present your information.

489
00:37:10,722 --> 00:37:15,102
So if you go back to that one again about the employers and the play and I suspect that yeah

490
00:37:15,102 --> 00:37:18,862
I've forgiven me for not being so informed with the survey that I suspect that there was

491
00:37:19,182 --> 00:37:24,642
Probably somebody who who requested the survey and asked you to ask these specific questions and these were your guidelines

492
00:37:24,642 --> 00:37:26,182
and you're not necessarily

493
00:37:27,802 --> 00:37:33,242
Your Bob is not necessarily to interpret interpret the data but just to present it as it was given

494
00:37:33,242 --> 00:37:40,342
Actually I can jump in here. I mean actually I was doing surveys for Austin 10 years ago and I told them that traffic was a big issue

495
00:37:41,162 --> 00:37:46,782
It went from 40% satisfaction to now below 10% in some of their most recent surveys.

496
00:37:47,742 --> 00:37:52,062
And the issue is, are you going to invest in your road networks in highways and they chose

497
00:37:52,062 --> 00:37:57,042
not to for a pretty long period of time, and now they have lots of dissatisfaction with

498
00:37:57,042 --> 00:37:57,882
traffic flow?

499
00:37:58,542 --> 00:38:02,502
And in the realities I've been doing this for 20 years, I'm not just somebody who does surveys

500
00:38:02,502 --> 00:38:03,042
for people.

501
00:38:03,042 --> 00:38:07,922
I know how to interpret the results, and I'm telling you your expectations for traffic

502
00:38:07,922 --> 00:38:10,742
flow here have gone down over the last decade.

503
00:38:10,922 --> 00:38:15,902
People are noticing more traffic, but they think traffic flow is an extremely important

504
00:38:15,902 --> 00:38:17,462
part of the future for this region.

505
00:38:17,542 --> 00:38:21,342
If you don't manage it well, you're going to be Austin in 10 years.

506
00:38:22,322 --> 00:38:25,422
Well, you know, I had another comment.

507
00:38:25,802 --> 00:38:29,982
I guess because it also goes what we've decided is policymakers about what it's

508
00:38:29,982 --> 00:38:32,982
acceptable to die on our roadways.

509
00:38:33,162 --> 00:38:36,242
And we know that part of the reason why we've had so many fatalities over the

510
00:38:36,242 --> 00:38:40,542
is because we as elected policymakers have decided that that's acceptable.

511
00:38:41,062 --> 00:38:42,702
And so I think that's where we're starting to change it.

512
00:38:42,802 --> 00:38:45,382
It's really not acceptable to be getting killed on our roadways.

513
00:38:45,762 --> 00:38:46,862
And so we're trying to change that.

514
00:38:46,942 --> 00:38:48,302
We do it here at the policy level.

515
00:38:48,602 --> 00:38:52,562
That's why I'm very concerned with what you're saying about, you know, that we can just go ahead

516
00:38:52,562 --> 00:38:57,442
and continue to manage our expectations without actually having to make any policy decisions.

517
00:38:57,902 --> 00:39:01,042
We continue to stay with this status quo just as long as we know what I'm saying.

518
00:39:01,042 --> 00:39:02,062
People are not miserable.

519
00:39:02,062 --> 00:39:08,262
your expectations will change as conditions change, as you make investments that will impact

520
00:39:08,262 --> 00:39:12,382
people's perceptions, whether or not you make those investments that are raved to the

521
00:39:12,382 --> 00:39:17,122
exceed expectations or below expectations, that's ultimately what impacts people's satisfaction.

522
00:39:19,532 --> 00:39:24,152
I have a lot of concern about what you're presenting. I'll go ahead and yield floor because I don't

523
00:39:24,152 --> 00:39:29,032
think I'm going to get there, but I think we have responsibility as policymakers to make decisions that

524
00:39:29,032 --> 00:39:33,652
probably are most impactful for the least among us.

525
00:39:33,782 --> 00:39:43,842
And that's why we keep talking about the underserved population. And if we address there, there are needs for addressing the needs of everybody in a much more thoughtful way.

526
00:39:44,542 --> 00:40:00,482
And I recognize that there are limitations in terms of funding, but I'm also concerned that this information is that there are lots of details in between that we could expand on and perhaps make a decision.

527
00:40:00,482 --> 00:40:13,342
We made sure that traditionally underserved populations were included because we know they're very important, in fact, I know they're very important, but we also need to make sure that the needs of your residents as a whole are represented, and that's all we have 2,500 surveys from the average residents.

528
00:40:13,802 --> 00:40:28,042
And they do disagree as far as their priorities. That's one of the challenges you as a governing body have to decide. I'm not here to tell you what to do, but I can tell you right now that your residents care a lot about traffic congestion that care a lot about road maintenance, that's their top priorities.

529
00:40:28,042 --> 00:40:31,602
You're traditionally in the research populations care about other things.

530
00:40:32,042 --> 00:40:34,942
How you manage that's going to be your challenge for the next 10 years.

531
00:40:35,082 --> 00:40:40,782
But that doesn't suggest the data in any way is not sufficient or the conclusions that we found,

532
00:40:40,922 --> 00:40:41,642
they're not accurate.

533
00:40:42,142 --> 00:40:46,582
It just shows you that you have different groups out there that have different expectations as leaders.

534
00:40:47,502 --> 00:40:48,842
I would disagree with you.

535
00:40:48,862 --> 00:40:51,502
I think there's a lot of information that we can read between the lines.

536
00:40:52,142 --> 00:40:54,402
And we do it all the time in a lot of different scenarios.

537
00:40:54,402 --> 00:40:58,622
and so I would disagree that you're presenting all the information. I think that there's a lot

538
00:40:58,622 --> 00:41:02,402
of things we can do in between the weeds and that they would make very good policy decisions

539
00:41:02,402 --> 00:41:05,882
and that we can manage our budget effectively as well. So I'll leave the floor.

540
00:41:06,642 --> 00:41:12,282
Come on, Barack. Oh, thank you. It's very robust discussion. So we have to come in the middle

541
00:41:12,282 --> 00:41:17,162
and drop their spice into what has already been a pretty easy board assignment for me. So thank you, sure.

542
00:41:17,162 --> 00:41:17,302
Well,

543
00:41:19,642 --> 00:41:24,222
things, number one, you are presenting people's feelings and thoughts.

544
00:41:26,022 --> 00:41:29,562
Because they don't match our policy worldview doesn't make them wrong or right.

545
00:41:30,562 --> 00:41:34,942
So I just want to be very clear, make sure that it is, you know, that we at the city

546
00:41:34,942 --> 00:41:41,862
of San Antonio of a particular thing, our city council as a whole, has a policy worldview of

547
00:41:41,862 --> 00:41:49,502
thing should work, right, whether we focus on vision zero, we focus on, you know, less working

548
00:41:49,502 --> 00:41:53,902
capacity and putting it more in towards under certain areas, whatever our particular policy

549
00:41:53,902 --> 00:41:58,322
world view is, it's at the San Antonio City Council. Frankly, I don't think it really matched

550
00:41:58,322 --> 00:42:01,862
what you're presenting in the data, and that's kind of some of the rub here in my opinion, right?

551
00:42:02,502 --> 00:42:08,212
Because so when I see it, I think immediately that the bulk of the community is concerned about

552
00:42:08,212 --> 00:42:11,552
traffic congestion. They're concerned about adding more

553
00:42:11,552 --> 00:42:16,572
capacity. The traffic stunk 10 years ago, but it stinks

554
00:42:16,572 --> 00:42:18,212
just as bad today. That doesn't mean there wasn't

555
00:42:18,212 --> 00:42:21,572
progress because the city grew exponentially. The city

556
00:42:21,572 --> 00:42:25,152
exploded. But we held the same level of dissatisfaction while

557
00:42:25,152 --> 00:42:27,792
that doesn't feel from very rewarding from a policy

558
00:42:27,792 --> 00:42:30,752
perspective. The truth is that the grub with his absolutely

559
00:42:30,752 --> 00:42:34,992
been handled and managed to at least maintain that level of

560
00:42:34,992 --> 00:42:38,172
dissatisfaction. That's not what we as policymakers want to

561
00:42:38,172 --> 00:42:43,132
But when you look, I think it would be interesting for us to see maybe another example of the municipality

562
00:42:43,132 --> 00:42:44,072
like Austin, right?

563
00:42:44,072 --> 00:42:47,992
So when you present this type of data, you can say, hey, Austin 10 years ago felt like this about it

564
00:42:47,992 --> 00:42:53,432
that they felt like this, and it's been a complete and total explosion, and satisfaction rates got better,

565
00:42:53,852 --> 00:42:59,252
Or whatever, whatever it was, because what we're looking at here is drastically different

566
00:42:59,252 --> 00:43:04,652
feelings about transportation and the goals of the MPO, right?

567
00:43:04,652 --> 00:43:06,992
And the fact is, I look at this and I say,

568
00:43:07,092 --> 00:43:08,852
you know what this is what the residents feel like.

569
00:43:09,652 --> 00:43:11,072
We're going to have to deliver on that.

570
00:43:11,352 --> 00:43:13,752
I'm more concerned about delivering to the whole

571
00:43:13,752 --> 00:43:16,132
of what maps most to the entire region in the city.

572
00:43:16,932 --> 00:43:18,732
Does that mean that the, and credit to you

573
00:43:18,732 --> 00:43:21,612
that you over sampled the underserved population

574
00:43:21,612 --> 00:43:24,612
because you couldn't, you could have not had done that

575
00:43:24,612 --> 00:43:27,032
and played the random sample game 100%

576
00:43:27,032 --> 00:43:28,232
and it correct me if I'm wrong.

577
00:43:28,772 --> 00:43:29,872
And your underserved representation

578
00:43:29,872 --> 00:43:31,352
would have been basically irrelevant.

579
00:43:31,712 --> 00:43:33,652
So their voice wouldn't have been heard, correct?

580
00:43:34,452 --> 00:43:42,692
So I think by you oversampling the underserved population, you have done a great service to that organization that group of folks, right?

581
00:43:43,012 --> 00:43:45,692
That is now raising there and elevating their conversation.

582
00:43:45,852 --> 00:43:52,552
So I don't want to lose side of the fact that you've solved, you have enough foresight to give the underserved a bigger voice.

583
00:43:53,192 --> 00:43:59,612
Hence, we see that the need for the public transportation is higher, and they don't care too much about congestion, because they just want to be able to get on bus every 10 minutes.

584
00:44:00,592 --> 00:44:06,332
So, a lot of positives I see in this and we have to be careful with, in my opinion, and I'll

585
00:44:06,332 --> 00:44:09,192
yield the Florida Vick because I know because he was chomping at the bit of it.

586
00:44:10,992 --> 00:44:13,092
What I see is this is wide open.

587
00:44:13,572 --> 00:44:17,772
I mean, this is just a tool within a larger policy discussion, it's exactly what we're going

588
00:44:17,772 --> 00:44:22,252
to do with this information, because however we feel about it, frankly, is not how they feel

589
00:44:22,252 --> 00:44:23,032
about it.

590
00:44:23,372 --> 00:44:26,412
And that is, as we're going to how we're going to have to save the day here, right?

591
00:44:26,412 --> 00:44:29,312
We have to hold the line and help the underserved.

592
00:44:29,652 --> 00:44:33,752
And this is the big, this is the policy for us because we have to make larger investments

593
00:44:33,752 --> 00:44:40,132
into the underserved while holding the level of those who are living the book of our community

594
00:44:40,132 --> 00:44:40,792
life.

595
00:44:41,512 --> 00:44:45,592
So we don't leave that group behind and thank you for raising and elevating their voice.

596
00:44:45,772 --> 00:44:48,952
So I hope my colleagues all understand that as well as I'm trying to say here, we're not

597
00:44:48,952 --> 00:44:50,612
going to leave the underserved out.

598
00:44:50,972 --> 00:44:52,032
We've already elevated them.

599
00:44:52,032 --> 00:44:55,612
Now, we've got to give that an appropriate elevation in a financial and policy

600
00:44:56,852 --> 00:45:00,832
implementation while serving the greater 90 plus percent of our community

601
00:45:00,832 --> 00:45:05,132
who are screaming for congestion and at a capacity and other areas well outside.

602
00:45:05,372 --> 00:45:09,052
This doesn't even begin to scope whether this looks like for San Antonio versus

603
00:45:09,812 --> 00:45:12,172
Guadalupe County versus Canada versus wherever, right?

604
00:45:12,632 --> 00:45:14,572
So there's all other kinds of issues there.

605
00:45:14,772 --> 00:45:17,312
So I'll just wrap up and yield the floor by saying thank you.

606
00:45:17,332 --> 00:45:20,592
I think it was an excellent presentation to Councilman Gonzalez point though.

607
00:45:20,592 --> 00:45:27,112
is a lot more within the weeds that we need to get to because we have to implement policy

608
00:45:27,112 --> 00:45:27,912
off of this.

609
00:45:27,912 --> 00:45:29,012
This is one tool.

610
00:45:29,132 --> 00:45:33,592
I go on to a survey on a political campaign or whatever, I get some messaging techniques

611
00:45:33,592 --> 00:45:37,592
and tools, but the more than anything I learn about, or the voter or the resident is.

612
00:45:37,892 --> 00:45:42,372
And then I pivot according to that to serve the greater majority of the community, however

613
00:45:42,372 --> 00:45:44,032
we see fit, you know, to do that.

614
00:45:44,052 --> 00:45:46,052
So thank you for the work, Chair, and I appreciate it.

615
00:45:46,452 --> 00:45:49,852
Again, more detail information be highly useful to those, but this council will make to become

616
00:45:49,852 --> 00:45:51,372
Comfortable with it. She's got a large contention.

617
00:45:51,472 --> 00:46:00,952
Consistency CCS service. Well, just in response to that that's this is a 15 minute presentation for a study that took a year and there are thousands and thousands of surveys that were completed.

618
00:46:00,952 --> 00:46:08,612
We have all sorts of input from focus groups and stakeholder in every so I completely agree the intent is for this data to be mined later.

619
00:46:09,032 --> 00:46:12,592
So you actually can I got you know, it looks I'm a little expectation guy, right?

620
00:46:12,732 --> 00:46:16,772
I put it in the morning was a good day. So that's how I would come back and so you're good.

621
00:46:16,772 --> 00:46:21,672
now appreciate what you did. Everything looks fantastic and thank you for the for the

622
00:46:21,672 --> 00:46:25,232
solid work. We look forward and I know we would arrest the city of San Antonio,

623
00:46:25,372 --> 00:46:29,252
we look forward more information. So we can find out really what that applies to our own

624
00:46:29,252 --> 00:46:34,172
individual people we represent. So thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

625
00:46:34,792 --> 00:46:39,072
I know Vic's trying to say something. I just want to quickly add the two things we're

626
00:46:39,072 --> 00:46:43,352
really quick that we did have an offer site committee that was working with Chris and his team

627
00:46:44,072 --> 00:46:49,392
and clean up the service data to get before we're out and during and after and so

628
00:46:49,392 --> 00:46:52,332
and that over second but you did consist of folks from the city of San Antonio Bear County

629
00:46:52,332 --> 00:46:53,732
while look at County Coma County.

630
00:46:54,852 --> 00:47:03,632
You know, our Northropartner's trick text dot, a call, but aside from, we did include the executive summary in your report, but I'm sorry you're paying me.

631
00:47:03,672 --> 00:47:09,292
The package, but there is a much larger report as Chris noted that we'll be posted on our website for sure.

632
00:47:09,812 --> 00:47:16,872
We can send a link that once it's posted if this is your staff can look more into it for you if you'd like.

633
00:47:17,532 --> 00:47:18,672
So we'll commit to doing that as well.

634
00:47:19,292 --> 00:47:21,392
Bic, did you have something to say?

635
00:47:21,652 --> 00:47:27,412
Hey, remember now, thank you, just very briefly, the third slide in, the one that compares

636
00:47:27,412 --> 00:47:30,212
2018 to 2008,

637
00:47:32,732 --> 00:47:36,672
kind of finding it fascinating, just something to consider is, in 2008, there

638
00:47:36,672 --> 00:47:41,592
was major construction on going as probably one of the most painful years from the pain threshold

639
00:47:41,592 --> 00:47:47,852
that Kevin others talk about, because I tent from Fort 10 down to downtown was under construction

640
00:47:47,852 --> 00:47:54,092
going from 3 to 5 lanes, the interchange of 410 and 10, the airport interchange to 81 and

641
00:47:54,092 --> 00:48:00,832
410, 410 itself had several projects going on. So there was considerable construction

642
00:48:00,832 --> 00:48:06,172
and I suspect that may have inflated a little bit for that year or those years around it,

643
00:48:06,792 --> 00:48:12,992
the dissatisfaction. Also, I believe we've seen a shift in where congestion is because those

644
00:48:12,992 --> 00:48:18,632
The project solve congestion in some places are reduced to considerably, and now you see the

645
00:48:18,632 --> 00:48:24,112
more severe congestion perhaps is out, 1604, 35 out of 110 further in other places.

646
00:48:25,652 --> 00:48:31,032
And so that may be a reason why the congestion index itself, which back in that time was

647
00:48:31,032 --> 00:48:37,412
around 1.231.24, actually went down for a few years, and then the last, it's been reported

648
00:48:37,412 --> 00:48:44,992
and 2015 was at 1.24 had not budged in terms of the average increasing your time over during

649
00:48:44,992 --> 00:48:50,432
peak hours. And I think that's probably because some areas of congestion were worked on

650
00:48:50,432 --> 00:48:57,192
and actually addressed while others have grown. So I just caution against that needs a lot

651
00:48:57,192 --> 00:49:01,012
of context that comparison. I think that may be part of it. There's probably other factors.

652
00:49:01,232 --> 00:49:06,272
And also just for the trend that we only have bare county data, not the entire region. And also

653
00:49:06,272 --> 00:49:09,912
If you take a look at this, you'll be able to see maps if you go to the full report, and you

654
00:49:09,912 --> 00:49:13,932
can see how people who live in all the different areas, right different items, and so there

655
00:49:13,932 --> 00:49:16,912
are clearly differences now in different parts of the region.

656
00:49:16,952 --> 00:49:18,532
You can see that in the full report.

657
00:49:20,312 --> 00:49:20,532
Good.

658
00:49:21,272 --> 00:49:21,432
Good.

659
00:49:21,532 --> 00:49:22,672
Further questions, comments?

660
00:49:23,192 --> 00:49:23,432
Yes.

661
00:49:23,812 --> 00:49:24,552
I have a question.

662
00:49:24,632 --> 00:49:28,852
I was on the regional transportation investment that are most important by type of respondent

663
00:49:29,492 --> 00:49:35,512
that slide is interesting to me as well because when you look at reducing congestion number

664
00:49:35,512 --> 00:49:42,232
three well one two four and five are examples of reducing congestion and I guess I keep going back to

665
00:49:42,232 --> 00:49:49,172
widening free what is my adding lanes because Jeff you always give us the fact that in Katie they added

666
00:49:49,172 --> 00:49:57,892
how many lanes and they filled up and now their commute is much longer than when then before they added the

667
00:49:57,892 --> 00:50:02,272
So, debts, adding lanes, solve congestion, true or false.

668
00:50:02,832 --> 00:50:06,752
And the reality is, there's ATMS and all sorts of other things that can be done as well.

669
00:50:06,972 --> 00:50:10,272
And so, right now, this is what residents and businesses think.

670
00:50:10,312 --> 00:50:15,052
And I think the gentleman over who stepped out, you know, what people think is,

671
00:50:15,472 --> 00:50:19,612
you're going to have to come up with the strategies to, they want to get for the day to be.

672
00:50:19,772 --> 00:50:21,552
At the end of the day, and that's their concern.

673
00:50:21,572 --> 00:50:26,532
And then I was going to ask you, did you give the survey, the people who took the survey,

674
00:50:26,532 --> 00:50:29,512
these topics and then they just chose from them.

675
00:50:29,552 --> 00:50:32,052
Developed them from the stakeholder interviews and focus groups.

676
00:50:32,272 --> 00:50:33,732
So we first went around and we asked

677
00:50:33,732 --> 00:50:35,772
we asked people what they cared about.

678
00:50:35,992 --> 00:50:38,352
That's what was used to actually put the questions together.

679
00:50:38,592 --> 00:50:40,672
So it wasn't that we just created a bunch of questions

680
00:50:40,672 --> 00:50:41,732
and dumped them on people.

681
00:50:42,232 --> 00:50:43,752
We actually got them from the focus group.

682
00:50:43,832 --> 00:50:45,392
So we asked people, well, what is important to you?

683
00:50:45,412 --> 00:50:46,172
What do you care about?

684
00:50:46,212 --> 00:50:46,812
What investments?

685
00:50:47,572 --> 00:50:49,832
And so that was the list or how the list was developed.

686
00:50:52,382 --> 00:50:53,362
Well, it is, it's difficult.

687
00:50:54,322 --> 00:50:57,122
But the management of that is quite a challenge.

688
00:50:57,122 --> 00:51:01,562
it's lots of dollars, lots of resources and this gives you a snapshot at one point in time

689
00:51:01,562 --> 00:51:06,742
of where people are and the reality is in 10 years and they may or may not still be there

690
00:51:06,742 --> 00:51:08,522
depending on what happens over the next decade.

691
00:51:11,502 --> 00:51:11,922
Very good.

692
00:51:12,622 --> 00:51:13,722
Well thank you for your time.

693
00:51:13,742 --> 00:51:14,542
Great presentation.

694
00:51:14,902 --> 00:51:17,842
Who knew we'd have such attitude about our attitude survey?

695
00:51:18,502 --> 00:51:19,762
It is good information.

696
00:51:20,982 --> 00:51:28,322
I'm glad there's a bunch of detail behind it because as a closet statistic, I like to delve

697
00:51:28,322 --> 00:51:32,422
of that myself and figure out how you really came up with stuff. So good stuff. Appreciate it.

698
00:51:33,362 --> 00:51:40,082
I don't, presentation on the city of San Antonio's safest driver contest.

699
00:51:40,702 --> 00:51:43,402
All right, line heart with the city of San Antonio's best decision capital improvement,

700
00:51:43,402 --> 00:51:45,442
department going to be making this presentation

701
00:51:52,002 --> 00:51:54,262
escape, and then that should

702
00:51:57,272 --> 00:51:57,892
not you

703
00:51:57,892 --> 00:51:59,152
start having to do this or self.

704
00:52:03,682 --> 00:52:05,202
All right, well, thank you so much for the opportunity

705
00:52:05,202 --> 00:52:09,882
to provide a briefing on the safest driver contest that's coming to the San Antonio area.

706
00:52:11,442 --> 00:52:15,682
So the goal of this contest is to 12-week contest. It'll be this summer and I'll cover the dates

707
00:52:15,682 --> 00:52:20,442
here in a second, but we're looking to improve safety on our streets as well as our drivers

708
00:52:20,442 --> 00:52:25,842
by some friendly competition. Also, throughout the competition, you'll get some feedback

709
00:52:25,842 --> 00:52:31,142
and tips on driving, and then at the back end of the competition, the city will get some

710
00:52:31,142 --> 00:52:36,742
information on where some of our potential problem areas to review and detail. We'll have

711
00:52:36,742 --> 00:52:39,482
less data than the survey that was just conducted.

712
00:52:41,522 --> 00:52:44,622
One of the focuses of this contest, though, is

713
00:52:44,622 --> 00:52:46,082
to promote our vision zero initiative.

714
00:52:46,662 --> 00:52:49,002
And you all on the policy border familiar with that.

715
00:52:49,202 --> 00:52:51,942
And if the city, we've taken a 5E approach to vision zero,

716
00:52:52,102 --> 00:52:53,442
and that's, you can see it on the screen,

717
00:52:53,742 --> 00:52:55,502
ranging from education through evaluation.

718
00:52:55,862 --> 00:52:58,862
So the contest here will really hit at those first two.

719
00:52:58,962 --> 00:53:02,042
The education component by promoting this application

720
00:53:02,042 --> 00:53:04,942
and the contest and then the encouragement will be

721
00:53:04,942 --> 00:53:06,442
the constant messaging and feedback

722
00:53:06,442 --> 00:53:07,362
to get on your trips.

723
00:53:07,502 --> 00:53:08,922
And I'll cover that in here in a second.

724
00:53:10,162 --> 00:53:12,582
So the way the app works or the contest as well

725
00:53:12,582 --> 00:53:17,042
is there will be an application that we're working on with a developer right now, you'll download

726
00:53:17,042 --> 00:53:21,922
it to your smartphone, you download it one time, and then as you have make your trips, it'll

727
00:53:21,922 --> 00:53:26,502
automatically run in the background. So you don't need to go through and open it up for every driver,

728
00:53:26,942 --> 00:53:32,342
anything like that. So it uses the sensors in your phone, and it analyzes your driving behaviors.

729
00:53:33,342 --> 00:53:39,042
It tracks your your fast acceleration or hard braking or sharp cornering or phone distraction.

730
00:53:39,722 --> 00:53:44,242
As you do those things, you get dinged and you can see here an image on the left screen.

731
00:53:44,602 --> 00:53:47,542
So out of a score of 100 for that trip, the driver received 81.

732
00:53:48,402 --> 00:53:52,662
So it'll track your feedback and then there will be prizes throughout the competition.

733
00:53:53,562 --> 00:54:00,042
The competition itself will start June 11th, and it will be a 12-week contest in Ann September 3rd.

734
00:54:00,682 --> 00:54:04,222
The week before the contest, so just here in a couple weeks, the apps will be available,

735
00:54:04,222 --> 00:54:07,942
in either the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store for download.

736
00:54:08,102 --> 00:54:09,742
And we're working on a big press conference

737
00:54:09,742 --> 00:54:12,142
the week before on June 4th.

738
00:54:12,902 --> 00:54:15,702
So where it gets good is we've been able to partner

739
00:54:15,702 --> 00:54:18,482
with USAA as sponsoring this event.

740
00:54:18,642 --> 00:54:21,502
So not only did USAA cover the costs to develop the app,

741
00:54:21,502 --> 00:54:23,142
which was approximately $50,000,

742
00:54:23,702 --> 00:54:26,502
they're also putting up some real money for prizes.

743
00:54:27,502 --> 00:54:29,682
This type of competition's been done in the city

744
00:54:29,682 --> 00:54:32,762
of Boston last year, as well as earlier in this year in Seattle.

745
00:54:32,762 --> 00:54:36,722
But their prices were about $1,000 for the top price.

746
00:54:37,302 --> 00:54:39,182
U.S.A. is really done a great job.

747
00:54:39,742 --> 00:54:44,142
They're going to have three grand prices of $10,000 each for the top driver.

748
00:54:45,282 --> 00:54:48,402
And the categories you can see here will be the overall safest driver,

749
00:54:48,702 --> 00:54:50,282
as well as the least distracted driver.

750
00:54:50,562 --> 00:54:52,862
And because we're a military city U.S.A.

751
00:54:53,402 --> 00:54:55,622
military city U.S.A.

752
00:54:56,142 --> 00:54:59,682
will have a category for military members of $10,000 as well.

753
00:54:59,682 --> 00:55:10,582
In addition to the grant prizes, we'll have bi-weekly prizes of $500, so every two weeks, the person with the top score, they'll be three winners in each of those categories, each getting $500.

754
00:55:11,602 --> 00:55:14,522
Just by downloading the app, you'll be entitled to a random drawing.

755
00:55:14,722 --> 00:55:16,962
So even if you're the worst driver, you may still win.

756
00:55:18,482 --> 00:55:21,062
So probably one of you all on the board might get that.

757
00:55:21,582 --> 00:55:26,782
So you can have a grant prize of $2000 or as well as $150 on a bi-weekly basis.

758
00:55:26,782 --> 00:55:29,662
And again, thank you so much to USAA for stepping up

759
00:55:29,662 --> 00:55:31,322
to help us out with this.

760
00:55:32,122 --> 00:55:33,942
So here's some different visuals of the application.

761
00:55:34,682 --> 00:55:36,542
So when you enter it, one of the questions we've gotten

762
00:55:36,542 --> 00:55:38,982
so far is what kind of data are you going to be tracking this

763
00:55:38,982 --> 00:55:39,822
as we drive everywhere?

764
00:55:40,702 --> 00:55:43,982
And yes, the way it works is your phone will be tracked.

765
00:55:44,462 --> 00:55:46,562
But the only data you'll provide is the email address

766
00:55:46,562 --> 00:55:48,202
just to be able to contact you.

767
00:55:48,222 --> 00:55:49,402
Should you be the top score.

768
00:55:50,362 --> 00:55:52,902
And then you'll create a username and then your zip code.

769
00:55:53,582 --> 00:55:55,782
And one of the things I wanted to make sure to talk about here

770
00:55:55,782 --> 00:55:58,822
today was the eligible zip code, is the entire MPO boundary.

771
00:55:59,582 --> 00:56:01,422
So even though it's San Antonio's safe as driver,

772
00:56:01,982 --> 00:56:07,082
it is open to the folks that live in our MPO boundary.

773
00:56:08,462 --> 00:56:10,982
To wait the most of the trips will need to occur in Bear County,

774
00:56:11,042 --> 00:56:13,862
but we want to be able to get the residents

775
00:56:13,862 --> 00:56:17,082
that come in and commute from your alls counties as well.

776
00:56:17,862 --> 00:56:19,122
So then there's different leaderboards.

777
00:56:19,262 --> 00:56:20,882
You can invite friends to your own leaderboard

778
00:56:20,882 --> 00:56:23,342
and have a competition as well as the citywide competition

779
00:56:23,342 --> 00:56:25,402
and MPO-wide competition.

780
00:56:26,342 --> 00:56:27,622
It's not just about the drivers,

781
00:56:28,122 --> 00:56:29,962
so although it is a safest driver competition,

782
00:56:30,722 --> 00:56:32,482
there are achievements you can get within the app

783
00:56:32,482 --> 00:56:33,922
for taking other modes of transportation.

784
00:56:34,462 --> 00:56:37,142
So after each trip, if you were a passenger in a car,

785
00:56:37,342 --> 00:56:39,022
you can go in and change that to a passenger,

786
00:56:39,502 --> 00:56:41,142
or if you took a bus, or walked,

787
00:56:41,702 --> 00:56:42,982
you can change the trip mode there,

788
00:56:42,982 --> 00:56:44,682
and there's special achievements within the app

789
00:56:44,682 --> 00:56:45,462
that you can unlock.

790
00:56:45,942 --> 00:56:47,022
And then also on the far right,

791
00:56:47,082 --> 00:56:48,822
you'll get valuable feedback as you drive.

792
00:56:49,022 --> 00:56:51,802
So each drive, you can open up a map,

793
00:56:51,802 --> 00:56:56,722
and you'll see if you're speeding or part breaking and it'll give you feedback on that as well

794
00:56:56,722 --> 00:57:02,402
to make you a better driver. So besides the competition there are real results. So this is the

795
00:57:02,402 --> 00:57:08,622
results you can see from Seattle and Boston. The distracted driving is almost just as that

796
00:57:08,622 --> 00:57:14,922
deadly is drunk driving. It's a huge consideration for unsafe behaviors and you can see here just

797
00:57:14,922 --> 00:57:20,882
and the improvement that the competition had. And this was on the top 25% of the

798
00:57:20,882 --> 00:57:27,102
So the top 25 of the folks in the competition that had the most miles driven and you can see what

799
00:57:27,102 --> 00:57:31,442
it did ranging from 30 to almost 50% decrease in some of these unsafe behaviors.

800
00:57:32,342 --> 00:57:37,522
So besides the fun and knowing if you're a better driver than your friend, it really does change

801
00:57:37,522 --> 00:57:42,282
your behavior and I can attest to that during Seattle's competition, I had their app on my phone

802
00:57:42,282 --> 00:57:49,622
and it really did change my behavior. After the competition we'll also get information back on where

803
00:57:49,622 --> 00:57:55,982
these things occurring. So are we seeing some challenges at intersections or are there other

804
00:57:55,982 --> 00:57:59,602
things or are we learning more about other trip modes? If we're seeing a lot of people writing

805
00:57:59,602 --> 00:58:04,182
a bike in one area of town and there's no bike facilities maybe that's something we can look at.

806
00:58:05,762 --> 00:58:10,642
Also, we'll get some visual data bags. So this is a map from Boston. You can see it's kind of a heat

807
00:58:10,642 --> 00:58:15,122
map showing the different colors for the different metrics. So kind of just talking about the previous

808
00:58:15,122 --> 00:58:19,522
as well. So if we see a lot of speeding in an area, we may want to put up some of the digital

809
00:58:19,522 --> 00:58:25,382
speed feedback signs in that area to inform residents of motorists of their speed, the same

810
00:58:25,382 --> 00:58:31,282
with phone distraction, perhaps there's some additional signage in those areas. So great data will

811
00:58:31,282 --> 00:58:36,602
come to us from this as well. Then I'll end here on this quote, this would never happen in my household,

812
00:58:37,522 --> 00:58:42,522
but Carrie from Charleston said, this app finally allowed herself to prove to her husband as

813
00:58:42,522 --> 00:58:48,802
better driver. So you'll get those that feedback as well. So with that I'll take any questions.

814
00:58:51,152 --> 00:58:54,672
Yes. Is this just forced to leave San Antonio residence?

815
00:58:55,332 --> 00:58:59,972
So the eligible boundaries is the entire MPO zip code.

816
00:59:01,192 --> 00:59:02,072
It code.

817
00:59:02,132 --> 00:59:02,552
It's correct.

818
00:59:02,872 --> 00:59:03,292
Oh, 100.

819
00:59:10,042 --> 00:59:35,802
So, the way it works is there's five metrics on your, that it tracks on your phone. So, a fast acceleration, hard picking, sharp cornering, phone distraction. And when it measures for a phone distraction, will be if your screen is lit and it's kind of moving around in a way that's not just set on like a dashboard, board amount. And then you're overall speeding. So, it knows based on your phone movement, essentially, and then it'll calculate the score.

820
00:59:36,722 --> 00:59:37,162
Oh,

821
00:59:40,122 --> 00:59:40,762
that was your question.

822
00:59:41,262 --> 00:59:41,322
Okay.

823
00:59:45,012 --> 00:59:46,332
It knows all.

824
00:59:46,332 --> 00:59:47,312
It does.

825
00:59:47,712 --> 00:59:48,792
That's one.

826
00:59:50,602 --> 00:59:51,882
Thanks for the presentation again.

827
00:59:53,162 --> 00:59:56,382
So what happens if you've got your phone and you're riding with someone else?

828
00:59:56,462 --> 00:59:57,082
How does that register?

829
00:59:57,642 --> 01:00:04,822
So after each trip, whether you were driving or taking another mode, you can go into that trip and change the mode.

830
01:00:04,982 --> 01:00:06,762
So there's one specific to say, I was a passenger.

831
01:00:07,262 --> 01:00:09,842
Because if you're constantly under a phone, you don't want to get dinged for that.

832
01:00:10,422 --> 01:00:11,682
So you can change that.

833
01:00:17,832 --> 01:00:19,992
It's all here, man. Trust me.

834
01:00:20,192 --> 01:00:21,832
Any other questions on this?

835
01:00:23,312 --> 01:00:23,872
Very good.

836
01:00:24,072 --> 01:00:25,012
Thank you.

837
01:00:25,152 --> 01:00:25,672
Great presentation.

838
01:00:26,052 --> 01:00:26,912
All right, what do we got next?

839
01:00:26,933 --> 01:00:30,993
Three-get presentation of amendments to the Metropolitan Transportation Plan.

840
01:00:50,463 --> 01:00:54,943
So, this quarter we're doing amendments to our long-range plan, the Metropolitan Transportation Plan.

841
01:00:54,963 --> 01:00:58,163
We're not amending the tip this quarter, only the long-range plan.

842
01:00:58,563 --> 01:01:04,303
And that went to a courage and a two-step process, so we're presenting the amendments this month with action and schedule for June.

843
01:01:05,043 --> 01:01:11,463
So, there are 13 projects that are being amended this time. You've heard this phrase before, we're to correct the funding distribution.

844
01:01:11,463 --> 01:01:17,063
So, these were projects that were included in the Long Range Plan back in April of 2017.

845
01:01:17,783 --> 01:01:19,623
We've been cleaning up that funding distribution.

846
01:01:20,183 --> 01:01:24,423
It's probably as tired of this as I am, but this should be our last round of cleaning

847
01:01:24,423 --> 01:01:27,543
those up and these are the 10 projects that are being cleaned up.

848
01:01:27,983 --> 01:01:31,683
What we mean by correcting the funding distribution is when these projects were included

849
01:01:31,683 --> 01:01:35,263
in the plans back in April of last year.

850
01:01:35,463 --> 01:01:39,483
We assumed they were 100% state funding, but over time,

851
01:01:39,483 --> 01:01:44,363
through direction from text. They do need to have both the federal and state funding participation.

852
01:01:45,183 --> 01:01:51,323
So that's all that's being changed on those first 10 projects. On the other three projects,

853
01:01:52,003 --> 01:01:56,363
there is specific amendment is shown here. There's also more of a great separation that you

854
01:01:56,363 --> 01:02:04,183
approved last month is an STPMM project selection. The city of San Antonio didn't include a $3.5

855
01:02:04,183 --> 01:02:09,463
million over match with that project. So we did feel like we should include it. That was

856
01:02:09,463 --> 01:02:12,723
My bad, but we're fixing that project now.

857
01:02:13,503 --> 01:02:16,403
There's the U.S. 90. It's ours a more ramp.

858
01:02:16,803 --> 01:02:20,083
Textiles proposing to move it from 2026 to 2028.

859
01:02:20,503 --> 01:02:22,423
And again, we're correcting that funding distribution.

860
01:02:23,043 --> 01:02:26,203
And there's a phase 3 interchange improvements that

861
01:02:26,203 --> 01:02:28,003
Interstate 4, 10 at H10 East.

862
01:02:28,383 --> 01:02:29,983
It has a cost increase to it.

863
01:02:30,223 --> 01:02:32,023
And again, correcting the funding distribution.

864
01:02:32,743 --> 01:02:36,243
So it hurts in feedback attack that people need to know where these projects are.

865
01:02:36,563 --> 01:02:38,743
So these are all the projects in our plan right now.

866
01:02:38,743 --> 01:02:43,403
And these do include the projects that you approved last month as part of the new tip.

867
01:02:43,763 --> 01:02:47,183
And then these are the projects that are being amended here.

868
01:02:47,243 --> 01:02:51,963
There's two projects, you kind of on top of each other, to really zoom in to tell them apart.

869
01:02:52,523 --> 01:02:54,463
But these are the projects that are as a mora.

870
01:02:55,063 --> 01:03:02,283
And then all of these projects here are the ones that are having their fixing that cost distribution.

871
01:03:02,283 --> 01:03:09,363
So all of these projects and then here's the IH410 at I10 East phase 3 improvements.

872
01:03:09,823 --> 01:03:17,563
So most of these amendments are really years 2028 and beyond and we are not adding any new

873
01:03:17,563 --> 01:03:21,523
projects to the Long Range Plan just fixing existing projects in the plan.

874
01:03:21,803 --> 01:03:24,523
So we'll be looking for action from you next month.

875
01:03:28,013 --> 01:03:37,433
I saw one on there, Councilwoman Gonzalez, I'm sure one set as far as a more project taken off, doesn't want to.

876
01:03:37,873 --> 01:03:38,733
I'm kidding, Shirley.

877
01:03:42,913 --> 01:03:47,313
I wanted to see her jump up on the table, sorry, but only thing got me.

878
01:03:48,393 --> 01:03:52,313
Any questions about presentation? Councilwoman.

879
01:03:53,553 --> 01:03:57,913
So just to clarify, when you say you're fixing the distribution, are you actually moving

880
01:03:57,913 --> 01:04:02,373
any money or are we moving any money when we take that boat?

881
01:04:03,133 --> 01:04:08,893
No, we're just fixing where it was, in this example, where it was a 100% state funding before,

882
01:04:09,373 --> 01:04:13,953
we're taking that amount and splitting it up into a federal and state distribution.

883
01:04:14,793 --> 01:04:20,993
And most of, and I guess 12 out of the 13 projects, the cost remains the same, it's just

884
01:04:20,993 --> 01:04:23,653
fixing the federal and state participation.

885
01:04:24,533 --> 01:04:30,333
Yeah, I think, so when we get this funding, it's one category of funding, like category

886
01:04:30,333 --> 01:04:31,273
two, for example.

887
01:04:31,853 --> 01:04:35,853
And so that can be either state or federal and so like when we put this together, we just

888
01:04:35,853 --> 01:04:40,933
assumed it was all state or all federal, now text, that's actually asking that we clean

889
01:04:40,933 --> 01:04:41,213
that up.

890
01:04:41,633 --> 01:04:45,633
So it's not, it's not new money that we're splitting up or not, you know what I mean?

891
01:04:45,633 --> 01:04:48,233
It's just when the category comes to us.

892
01:04:48,613 --> 01:04:50,793
There's both state and federal dollars in there.

893
01:04:51,633 --> 01:04:55,293
And so now we're making sure that it's correctly split.

894
01:04:56,453 --> 01:04:57,473
I think Mario wants to have something.

895
01:04:57,933 --> 01:05:00,733
Yeah, and if I'm very quick, this is this is critical

896
01:05:00,733 --> 01:05:02,253
for my project development standpoint

897
01:05:02,253 --> 01:05:05,373
because what happens is when we are going to do

898
01:05:05,373 --> 01:05:08,393
an environmental assessment on one of these projects, for example,

899
01:05:10,173 --> 01:05:13,773
we will follow the federal rules to get a environmental

900
01:05:13,773 --> 01:05:21,633
clearance, then what's on our MTP has to match that federal document. So if our project

901
01:05:21,633 --> 01:05:27,133
shows us fully state funding and we're doing an environmental document that's federal

902
01:05:27,133 --> 01:05:33,333
document, then we won't match. We'll build the, you know, authority to move the project forward.

903
01:05:33,973 --> 01:05:39,113
So, very important to match the federal funds with the process that we're going to be following.

904
01:05:39,873 --> 01:05:42,593
That's what happened this year.

905
01:05:43,293 --> 01:05:47,373
We had to move some projects from May to June simply because of that.

906
01:05:47,673 --> 01:05:49,313
We didn't get catch that in time.

907
01:05:50,093 --> 01:05:53,193
So this will allow us to develop the projects with the, you know,

908
01:05:53,333 --> 01:05:56,033
federally, with the federal process,

909
01:05:56,793 --> 01:06:00,033
and then match with our, our, our MTP.

910
01:06:03,313 --> 01:06:04,373
Good any other questions?

911
01:06:05,173 --> 01:06:06,933
Okay, there's no action on this item.

912
01:06:06,933 --> 01:06:09,933
Ah, that leads us to...

913
01:06:10,890 --> 01:06:16,510
Monthly status reports, Renee Green, tell us about the RMA.

914
01:06:17,890 --> 01:06:26,270
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to mention that the LMAO RMA, let it first project, this

915
01:06:26,270 --> 01:06:32,770
past month's Fisher Road 2 from 35 to summer set. It's a small project, but it's a very

916
01:06:32,770 --> 01:06:39,430
necessary one given the new high school that's going in there. We widen the travel lanes and

917
01:06:39,430 --> 01:06:46,530
shoulders to the roadway. It was a very, it's a small project, but it was very well received.

918
01:06:46,730 --> 01:06:52,490
We had 13 vids and the top better was Dean Warden company and there was only 10 percent in

919
01:06:52,490 --> 01:06:59,770
between the top five vids. It was a very tightly bid project. That was awarded by the RMA Board

920
01:06:59,770 --> 01:07:05,470
of Directors and we hope to have a groundbreaking on that within the next 30 to 60 days.

921
01:07:10,730 --> 01:07:16,150
You've got what about 250 million and non-told projects queued up?

922
01:07:16,190 --> 01:07:23,390
Yes, the RMA is funding 179 of about 271 million dollars worth the project's non-told.

923
01:07:25,270 --> 01:07:26,850
Diane, air quality.

924
01:07:27,510 --> 01:07:28,110
Yes, sir.

925
01:07:28,730 --> 01:07:30,950
As well, note has been a busy year.

926
01:07:31,590 --> 01:07:37,190
The comment period to the EPA on their proposed designations did close if a 30th,

927
01:07:37,190 --> 01:07:44,010
I want to thank so many of the organizations and governmental entities in individuals that

928
01:07:44,010 --> 01:07:45,470
did submit comments from this area.

929
01:07:45,910 --> 01:07:50,330
The governor submitted his comment on May 11th and it was an eight page, very strongly

930
01:07:50,330 --> 01:07:58,450
worded letter in support of our statement slash unclassifiable, and the decision should

931
01:07:58,450 --> 01:08:02,790
be released by EPA not later than July 17th.

932
01:08:02,790 --> 01:08:08,550
want you all to know that we are in ozone season, we usually have two peaks, we're in the

933
01:08:08,550 --> 01:08:14,310
middle of the spring peak now and then another one comes about in the fall. And we have already

934
01:08:14,310 --> 01:08:21,410
had five exceedances. The interesting thing is where they really are occurring. It is

935
01:08:21,410 --> 01:08:27,660
Camp Bullis regulatory monitor that is peaking up and it's hit 72, 73. Each time it's

936
01:08:27,660 --> 01:08:36,620
It has been in conjunction with a cold front coming through because so much of our weather is associated with weather events or with events.

937
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:49,380
And interesting, the northwest monitor has not been kicking out. Usually it's a little closer to bullets, but it has been demonstrating that as much this year as it has in the past.

938
01:08:50,480 --> 01:08:58,280
Also, as you've heard us discuss the Volkswagen settlement, we have been approved for a settlement

939
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:03,920
to be part of it, TCQ is still formulating their distribution plan, which will have to

940
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:08,720
be finalized and submitted before they submit the first request.

941
01:09:08,860 --> 01:09:14,000
So we anticipate getting more information about it at the end of summer that will be very

942
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:18,920
important for both public entities, particularly school districts on how they move forward

943
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:24,780
taking advantage of the funding availability and on June 14th we will be hosting a school bus

944
01:09:24,780 --> 01:09:31,100
workshop for school districts to really understand the funding and what could be available for

945
01:09:31,100 --> 01:09:37,880
them as we move forward and to provide information on purchasing new diesel or alternative bus and

946
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:44,280
you have buses. You have much more information in your report and until we have a permanent designation

947
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:49,300
will keep giving you very lengthy details so you have it readily available in case you need to

948
01:09:49,300 --> 01:09:54,940
reference it and then after July we'll scale down to be a bit more concise in our written report.

949
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:59,180
So thank you Mr. Chairman. Good. Thank you, Diane. Mike, city centre.

950
01:10:00,060 --> 01:10:04,880
Pretty quick things. One, the city is a member of NACTO that's the National Association of

951
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:10,060
City Transportation Officials and thanks to Councilwoman Gonzalez have been one of the leaders in

952
01:10:10,060 --> 01:10:12,960
that effort and part of the national organization.

953
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:17,220
We back in December, we did some training for city staff.

954
01:10:17,660 --> 01:10:21,000
Tomorrow, we're going to have consultants come in for training

955
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,440
about 50 or more consultants.

956
01:10:24,060 --> 01:10:27,340
And so we know the context of designing a freeway system,

957
01:10:27,500 --> 01:10:29,800
a highway system, is different than local streets.

958
01:10:30,180 --> 01:10:32,320
Because you're introducing all modes of transportation,

959
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:34,800
pedestrian, cyclists, so forth.

960
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:39,740
So it's good to understand that really the latest practices

961
01:10:39,740 --> 01:10:47,440
of city design so we're looking forward to that tomorrow. And then two awards at City Council

962
01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:53,100
I want to mention last Thursday Council approved a design build team for the Broadway

963
01:10:53,100 --> 01:10:59,100
corridor. So we've split Broadway into two sections. We have the low funded section from Houston

964
01:10:59,100 --> 01:11:05,400
up to the I-35 crossover and then we have the federally funded and text out participation

965
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:10,560
north of there. So this is the lower section first going forward and then we'll continue

966
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:17,140
the process working with Mario and others on the text out and federally funded version as

967
01:11:17,140 --> 01:11:24,500
the next phase. And then in the 2017 bond program we have $48 million set aside for pedestrian

968
01:11:24,500 --> 01:11:29,680
mobility projects, expect that'll be predominantly sidewalk improvements and wheelchair ramps.

969
01:11:30,500 --> 01:11:39,920
We've City Council awarded two packages in that program last week so we're going to continue to roll out all that sidewalk work throughout the city as well.

970
01:11:43,300 --> 01:11:43,920
Thank you.

971
01:11:46,030 --> 01:11:49,550
I think I've mentioned a couple of times we have a major event in Wednesday.

972
01:11:49,770 --> 01:11:53,430
Our second annual State of Transit with Judge Wolfe Mayor Nernberg.

973
01:11:54,070 --> 01:11:56,710
Jeff Arnt, Hope Andrade is this key speakers.

974
01:11:56,970 --> 01:12:03,310
And I'm sure we'll learn a lot more about the direction transit headed and essay connect and things related to that.

975
01:12:03,310 --> 01:12:06,910
So, high expectations, we've got almost a sellout.

976
01:12:07,170 --> 01:12:09,090
I think we've got just a handful of seats left,

977
01:12:09,190 --> 01:12:10,530
if anybody is interested in that.

978
01:12:11,210 --> 01:12:13,010
And then also in the Nounsen August 15,

979
01:12:13,430 --> 01:12:15,390
we have the State Compton Protocol

980
01:12:15,390 --> 01:12:18,050
and Hager coming to address Sam Co.

981
01:12:18,750 --> 01:12:19,730
That will be a pearl.

982
01:12:21,110 --> 01:12:24,170
And that's about the time when he announces

983
01:12:24,170 --> 01:12:26,670
the preliminary projections for the next session,

984
01:12:27,170 --> 01:12:28,250
for the next biennium.

985
01:12:29,110 --> 01:12:31,950
And I expect he will help at that time be able to update

986
01:12:31,950 --> 01:12:37,270
This is a numbers related to prop 1 in 7 and other gas tax and other things that are part

987
01:12:37,270 --> 01:12:41,630
of text-outs budget, so we'll have a fly around and that very soon for all of you.

988
01:12:42,830 --> 01:12:42,970
Thanks.

989
01:12:44,150 --> 01:12:45,630
Mike, are you a text-out?

990
01:12:46,330 --> 01:12:47,350
Yes, Mr. Chairman.

991
01:12:48,250 --> 01:12:54,910
You all have a handout that I can't adopt for a year, so I'll speak off of that and I think

992
01:12:54,910 --> 01:12:56,530
you will have the slides.

993
01:12:57,770 --> 01:13:01,070
We received bits on 10 projects in May.

994
01:13:01,070 --> 01:13:07,710
So I kind of want to give you a quick rundown on the projects and I'll spend all the time talking about specifically I-10 on the east side

995
01:13:07,710 --> 01:13:14,550
But the first project we built out was on stay how we 16 and that's cause a county a bridge replaced at the

996
01:13:14,550 --> 01:13:21,510
Alice cause a river. It's an Arab pitch on a on a major energy energy sector corridor or Harper Brothers

997
01:13:23,030 --> 01:13:24,990
Oh, yes, man. I know. Yes

998
01:13:25,870 --> 01:13:29,310
Yeah, we'll do a grand picking in and ribbon cutting. How's that?

999
01:13:29,310 --> 01:13:35,610
Now, it's a really narrow bridge, but it's a big safety concern for us down there.

1000
01:13:36,070 --> 01:13:38,610
And Harper Brothers is a log bear at 5.7 million.

1001
01:13:39,450 --> 01:13:40,850
We also let it project to over...

1002
01:13:40,890 --> 01:13:48,730
We laid the funderials on 51 from Weissman all the way to U.S. 90. Pretty pretty lengthy project.

1003
01:13:49,210 --> 01:13:55,930
A bit was 7.3 million by angel brothers, so that we will start that.

1004
01:13:56,510 --> 01:14:02,810
We led a project for landscaping with a partnership with the city of Santonio at the I-35 and Sarza Mora.

1005
01:14:03,470 --> 01:14:08,090
So we're doing some hard and landscaping there, improved some of the area.

1006
01:14:09,050 --> 01:14:19,130
We did quite a few core ramp ADA projects, sidewalks, there are three projects we built out,

1007
01:14:19,530 --> 01:14:25,050
actually, yeah, three projects, one over in Bear County, one over in Manada, Skosa County,

1008
01:14:25,830 --> 01:14:31,550
and another one in Bandera and Evalde. So the one involved in Bandera was F&D,

1009
01:14:31,550 --> 01:14:38,310
the concrete, the better at 1.2, the one, that same page you see there, Michael Corporation

1010
01:14:38,310 --> 01:14:46,890
got a high-master luminate project on 410 from 37 to WW White. That will help with some of the

1011
01:14:46,890 --> 01:14:53,330
nighttime crashes we've had in that area, it's on the southeast side. The Alaska Medina and

1012
01:14:55,790 --> 01:15:07,630
CURBRAM sidewalks and ADAP program. That was bit for 1.4 million. TIsAC concrete was a little biter.

1013
01:15:08,050 --> 01:15:16,560
And then the one in Bear County or ADAP program with like I said various locations for sidewalks, ramps and curves.

1014
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:21,750
J-3 concrete was a low bidder at 4.5 and change.

1015
01:15:24,380 --> 01:15:27,920
We bid a project on I-10 and worst buck.

1016
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:30,700
That would be some intersection and operational improvements.

1017
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:33,580
Something would be working on the city of San Antonio

1018
01:15:33,580 --> 01:15:35,760
to try to improve the worst buck corridor.

1019
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:40,810
That came in a 1.6 million Dan Williams of the low bidder there.

1020
01:15:41,430 --> 01:15:49,030
And then we did a project in Frio County in I-35 on the front of roads to rehabilitate the front of

1021
01:15:49,030 --> 01:15:55,050
roads, had a lot of impairsop, quite a bit of pavement deterioration due to the energy sector there,

1022
01:15:55,410 --> 01:15:59,910
and HL Sunwald construction was a little bit right, at essentially 14 million.

1023
01:16:00,890 --> 01:16:07,010
And then the last project I want to talk about is the I-10 project from 410 to 16 or 4 on the east side.

1024
01:16:07,010 --> 01:16:09,750
It's an expansion to six lanes, a three-nice direction.

1025
01:16:10,390 --> 01:16:12,350
So we did that project when we call it,

1026
01:16:12,350 --> 01:16:14,150
on what we call an A plus B bit,

1027
01:16:15,190 --> 01:16:20,290
which the contractor puts in his bit in two different parts.

1028
01:16:20,850 --> 01:16:24,370
Part A is the construction cost of the actual work.

1029
01:16:24,870 --> 01:16:29,250
So they bid for individual bid items that give us a construction cost.

1030
01:16:29,690 --> 01:16:31,490
And then part B is the time,

1031
01:16:31,610 --> 01:16:33,390
what they would actually bid the number of days

1032
01:16:33,390 --> 01:16:34,950
that they can do the project in.

1033
01:16:34,950 --> 01:16:45,990
So, obviously, the lower, the number of days, the lower, the bid, overall bid and therefore, we get the benefit of the time, the time.

1034
01:16:47,250 --> 01:16:53,530
So, that's how we, this low bid is determined both A plus B component. So, if you look at the next.

1035
01:16:54,670 --> 01:16:58,750
So, the A part of the low bid and whether, whether it was the low bid or by the way,

1036
01:16:59,730 --> 01:17:04,330
LLC, they're doing 21, they're doing also a portion of 16 or four.

1037
01:17:04,830 --> 01:17:12,490
So the eight part of the date was $18 million, 806, 144 dollars and 24 cents, which was

1038
01:17:12,490 --> 01:17:16,450
2.9 per cent under the estimate of 12 and change.

1039
01:17:17,150 --> 01:17:24,610
Beep part was 685 days at the press and use a cost amount of $15,898 per day.

1040
01:17:24,610 --> 01:17:35,210
And so that was just one to indicate the estimated contract time was 913, so we had a huge savings in the time.

1041
01:17:35,790 --> 01:17:45,730
So again, that's a huge benefit for the project. So the A plus B total for the low bay was 119 million, 770,000, 274, with 24 cents.

1042
01:17:45,990 --> 01:17:54,270
That was 5.43% under the corresponding estimate of 126 and change. And in the contract time, this is the big one for us.

1043
01:17:54,610 --> 01:18:03,090
The contract time will be 700, they take 75 that they bid for substantial completion for 15 plus 15 days for contract completion.

1044
01:18:03,890 --> 01:18:11,750
There's also an incentive if they can beat that substantial completion amount by a 94 days.

1045
01:18:12,290 --> 01:18:21,470
So the bid results in an estimated time savings of 213 days, that's without counting the incentive which if they meet the incentive,

1046
01:18:21,470 --> 01:18:26,410
If you're talking 300 days ahead of what a normal schedule would be so we'll really

1047
01:18:26,410 --> 01:18:33,630
have to be about this particular bit and the A plus B type of building for one of

1048
01:18:33,630 --> 01:18:38,170
the use in it in quite a few projects, it'll have to be the right type of project that doesn't

1049
01:18:38,170 --> 01:18:43,770
have a whole lot of right away utility conflicts, but you can see how we gained or the public

1050
01:18:43,770 --> 01:18:50,070
really gained almost a year worth of time by just making a competitive for the contractors

1051
01:18:50,070 --> 01:18:54,210
to look at the resources that they can put on a project and how they can face it in.

1052
01:18:55,270 --> 01:19:00,770
And so, very, very happy with that. And I think the last slide just has the kind of,

1053
01:19:00,870 --> 01:19:05,550
just the running place that I've been showing you on projects that we are kind of bit this year.

1054
01:19:06,550 --> 01:19:10,230
We still have quite a few projects to build in the next couple of months.

1055
01:19:10,610 --> 01:19:20,050
June July and August, I tend to waste. We've got to finish that project and some of the

1056
01:19:20,050 --> 01:19:25,670
on the south and east side, north east side as well on 16 or four.

1057
01:19:26,130 --> 01:19:32,390
Paging in burning in 46, prudging in the lotus on 1560, and so we're rapidly not going

1058
01:19:32,390 --> 01:19:35,990
on 21 or bit of the big one and July that goes to the county line.

1059
01:19:36,490 --> 01:19:42,410
So all of that's still coming and like I said, we do plan to have really healthy lighting.

1060
01:19:42,570 --> 01:19:46,150
So every month I'll be reporting to you quite a few projects that we put out for a bit.

1061
01:19:46,150 --> 01:19:53,210
And then the last thing I have in this term is just wanted to kind of inform the report

1062
01:19:53,210 --> 01:20:01,070
that pretty excited about a training that we're holding on May 23rd is the first joint training

1063
01:20:01,070 --> 01:20:03,010
for traffic incident management.

1064
01:20:03,030 --> 01:20:05,590
Something we've been trying to do for some time.

1065
01:20:06,150 --> 01:20:10,890
It's going to be held at the Syrosan Antonio EOT on Brook City Base.

1066
01:20:10,890 --> 01:20:14,230
and we've got multiple agencies,

1067
01:20:15,370 --> 01:20:18,670
Santoni, fires, Santoni, PD, as well as others

1068
01:20:18,670 --> 01:20:20,390
from around the area.

1069
01:20:21,070 --> 01:20:21,770
And so we're pretty excited

1070
01:20:21,770 --> 01:20:24,150
as the first joint training that we're having,

1071
01:20:24,890 --> 01:20:28,290
but we do hope to have quite a few more of these

1072
01:20:28,290 --> 01:20:31,610
double training, we feel like it really will help us

1073
01:20:31,610 --> 01:20:33,750
work together on clearing these incidents

1074
01:20:33,750 --> 01:20:36,770
faster and preventing, the most importantly,

1075
01:20:36,950 --> 01:20:39,130
preventing those secondary crashes that

1076
01:20:39,130 --> 01:20:42,930
resulting in people getting hurt, so we were excited about that.

1077
01:20:43,110 --> 01:20:44,610
Right, I'm glad you bring that up Mario.

1078
01:20:44,950 --> 01:20:47,950
It was actually a subject of my lunch earlier today.

1079
01:20:48,430 --> 01:20:50,950
That's the judges' pet peeve is, you know,

1080
01:20:51,070 --> 01:20:52,750
how can we get these things cleared up quicker?

1081
01:20:53,610 --> 01:20:55,950
And it truly does mean a lot in regards

1082
01:20:55,950 --> 01:20:57,330
to the efficiency of flow of traffic.

1083
01:20:57,990 --> 01:20:59,070
So, thanks for bringing that up.

1084
01:20:59,230 --> 01:21:02,950
Jeff, I would just point out, I thought

1085
01:21:02,950 --> 01:21:04,970
was one slide that was very interesting

1086
01:21:04,970 --> 01:21:06,170
that we saw earlier today.

1087
01:21:06,170 --> 01:21:10,870
I was at S. shape curve that correlated the degree to which people were interested in.

1088
01:21:10,890 --> 01:21:17,710
In transit, compared to frequency of transit. And you notice, when you're at 10 minutes, it's up at 83% and when you're

1089
01:21:17,710 --> 01:21:23,930
half an hour to an hour, it's down at 5%. And as we've been speaking, about three quarters of

1090
01:21:23,930 --> 01:21:29,370
our services, half an hour to an hour. But through the contribution of the city of San Antonio,

1091
01:21:29,590 --> 01:21:36,210
we've been able to increase free, on a series of routes and a WCEO keythumb presented to be session last

1092
01:21:36,210 --> 01:21:42,050
If we can just give you the short response, if you look at April at the set of routes that

1093
01:21:42,050 --> 01:21:46,690
have the improved frequency, and then you look at the rest of the system as a whole, the

1094
01:21:46,690 --> 01:21:50,230
rest of the system dropped 4.5% in ridership.

1095
01:21:50,410 --> 01:21:57,250
This piece grew more than 12% and that's a 17 point gap on services that were only improved

1096
01:21:57,250 --> 01:21:58,210
a few months ago.

1097
01:21:58,370 --> 01:22:03,290
So it kind of proves out that chart, and I think when you come Wednesday, you'll see how

1098
01:22:03,290 --> 01:22:07,710
we want to push the system in that direction to make it an option that would be attractive

1099
01:22:07,710 --> 01:22:08,870
to a lot more people.

1100
01:22:09,330 --> 01:22:15,490
Diane, I had planned to sing my new song Unclassifiable, but they've taken that off the

1101
01:22:15,490 --> 01:22:15,790
agenda.

1102
01:22:15,990 --> 01:22:17,210
I apologize for that.

1103
01:22:17,690 --> 01:22:22,410
But you can find out what mobility on demand is, and you can find out what happens when

1104
01:22:22,410 --> 01:22:24,810
you widen the Katy Freeway to congestion.

1105
01:22:24,930 --> 01:22:26,550
I'll be sure to include that.

1106
01:22:28,870 --> 01:22:29,010
Good.

1107
01:22:29,310 --> 01:22:29,810
When were they?

1108
01:22:30,230 --> 01:22:34,910
Yeah, I think Mike got a little silence and didn't mention that last week he was recognized as

1109
01:22:34,910 --> 01:22:40,550
top and leader, fighting back in public, what's association, a lot of Mike does a great job

1110
01:22:40,550 --> 01:22:43,450
here locally, of course, but when you're recognized that appears, obviously means a lot

1111
01:22:43,450 --> 01:22:46,150
more. So congratulations, Mike, on your recognition.

1112
01:22:52,300 --> 01:22:58,700
Mr. Chair, I just wanted to double check, do we have an air quality stakeholder meeting

1113
01:22:58,700 --> 01:23:04,040
on June the 8th at 1 30 day call? It's on my calendar. So let me look at my calendar and I'll

1114
01:23:04,040 --> 01:23:10,560
I just want to. I know that back to you. Alright, I think it's there. Let me look real quick. Just a second.

1115
01:23:13,670 --> 01:23:18,530
Alright, with that folks, we have no executive session. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.

1116
01:23:18,590 --> 01:23:19,270
Thank you.