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Okay. Good evening, everyone. It is now 538. I'd like to call this meeting of the Infrastructure and Transportation Subcommittee to order
Our first item of the evening is public comments. If any member of the public would like to speak on a non-agenda item, you may do so. Please note we will limit it to 3 min per speaker. You may not yield your time to another speaker.
So with that, do we have any public comments for non-agenda items?
Go first, huh?
That's from teaching for so many years.
Glenn Doherty, retired teacher, but I did find out that we don't have to give our names or our cities in any of these meetings. We can just start talking. Anyway, I've been reading the Brown rules and getting up to speed on everything that's going on, and I'm finding that there's some discrepancies
Which we'll be looking into. So I just want you guys to mind your P's and Q's, and we will too, and don't be afraid to, you know, tell us what if we're doing anything that you believe violates your rights. I feel like
I'm of two minds. Tonight, I have this little mini blurb because I'm a teacher, of course. Let me give you a couple of minutes lecture on why this data center is no good for you, but definitely not good for us. But I got to thinking, maybe it is good for some of you
I mean, maybe some of you are going to get something out of it. I'm not sure what would be so important that you would defy the entire constituency, or most of the constituency
and not educate them and not and to lie and be deceptive. And I found out that there might have been some NDA signed with the previous organization before Avayo. So we're going to be looking into that as well, going to do some freedom of information requests and try to get to the bottom of it, because one thing I love is a mystery
And this has been an incredible mystery, and I'm very excited to solve why on earth we are going to put a data center here. But I wanted to point out to you something that I've been looking into. One of the things is that this is a bubble and it's going to burst
Okay, and likely within the next couple of years
And I think what we're missing here is that they need to go public, these businesses. And then the reason they need to go public is to get the money back that they put in plus extra. And the way they're going to do that is to put it into all of everybody's 401ks. And the only way they can do that
Is if they go public. So these companies are going to have to go public so that they can get their money back plus extra. And then the people are going to get screwed are those with a 401k because you have to buy into whatever stocks
Or out there. Do you see what I'm saying? So what's gonna happen… Bless you. Thank you. Is that your people are going to go… could get really racked in their 401ks. So, I just don't understand why
On Earth, you guys would do this. And so I'm really upset about it. But like I said, I love a mystery, so I'm going to get to the bottom of it and try to figure out what's going on. I would like if you guys would delay as much as possible since they don't have all their permitting yet. Delay, delay, delay to the bubble bursts
Then they'll withdraw, and then maybe we can find something that's actually good for our city. Okay, and thank you for your time. Thank you. By the way, I love these meetings.
Hello, my name is May.
I guess this is a public comment or public comments in general. So
From what I understand, there was a meeting in 2018 back when this project was going, the data center project. The city invited the residents closest to
where the plan site will be to the California Theater where union reps were already waiting for them ready to tell them what a great project this was going to be. It would create jobs, this was going to be a great thing for the city. And even back then, the residents said, no, they do not want the project
And we've consistently said, no, we do not want to Pittsburgh residents have been consulted on this.
So you can't willfully ignore the public and what they want.
And you can't just and then the city consistently moves on and does what they want to do. And we just keep pushing this farther down the road, but it will get to the point where we cannot ignore it anymore.
I don't think there's a perfect way to make a public comment. I don't know what it is. You can just ignore somebody because you think they're ignorant, or they said something factually wrong, because some of it, some of the public, yes, they're operating on info that's not necessarily true. I agree there
But when you do have the facts and you do present them, you cannot just ignore somebody and move on, ignore them.
So, yeah, and then you can't discount people because they so do Pittsburgh residents exist in your mind or are they just line items or what? Because we're here
But then here, if we're here before, we will be here after this. So I don't think I don't think I've come at the wrong time to say all this, you know
I think I'm here exactly at the right time. That's how I feel, and I will continue to speak out. Thank you. Thank you.
Anyone else?
So it's one person here.
Yeah, my name is Abustaine Aleman
Very simple
We need a moratorium on this
On this project
And I'll keep it simple
I have certain
But by now, every less people never under this data center here.
And I want
I would praise
Mr. Bark
Michael Miss me, sir.
If I pronounce it correctly, the bio digital CEO
We don't want to force through a development in a community that doesn't want it
That's what he said, quote unquote.
And again.
Just to remember the famous phrase that is a requirement of the people, by the people for the people
I'm pretty sure that we are very familiar with this
For this race
Under the same context, we the people of Pittsburgh
By demanding a moratorium to this project. Whether it is six months, 9 months, 12 months, whatever it takes
For you to relate that this was another occasion against the community workers there
I would just
Gonna leave this
further with you just listen to the whispers
And you won't have to hear the screams
Listen to the whispers of your heart so you don't have to listen to the scream of the community that is being held betrayed
My people
we think is serving books. Thank you.
Thank you. We have public comment for here. I am sorry. I'm Melanie Johnson. I live here in Pittsburgh. I'm here to talk briefly about
I don't know if it's a I don't know if it's related to the citywide gateway beautification monetization. But I noticed that there was an item in the budget referring to like a basically a display sign. It costs $250,000. I'm sorry. I can't hear you 25
$1,000 allocated for a display sign. And so when I see that, it seems like potentially might not actually get directed to a project this year, but that in juxtaposition to the library, not like being not open this year
I think there's essentially room to
Reprioritize the projects that are going on in the city. So again, when there are core services not being provided for the citizens, such as library, I think that a display sign should not even exist in that
a budget, or at least be amended to not be. Sorry, clawed back to a different project. I thought that was related to infrastructure. So that's my comments today. Thank you. Thank you.
Yes, sir? Hello, my name is Oscar. I'm a Pittsburgh resident. And
I want to talk that. I hope you guys will deliver the data center to think about that there's better ideas. We could build a hospital
I think that that will help or give a union a job to build it
It will give us more revenue in Facebook and it will give us more jobs here because all around our group, we have a lot of medical assistance, DNA, RN and doctors. So that will give us a lot of jobs. There's clerk people, administration
That will give us a lot of jobs.
And you know when somebody gets hurt or something seconds matter, minutes matter. So if there's a hospital in our city will be great because Concord has one, Antioch has one we don't
Even if it was a big urgent care would be something nice, something that we actually need and we deserve, you know.
Because to me, how people say, oh, there's a problem if there was a data center, we could fix it. I don't trust a lot of you guys because I live on Oceania or Range Road. So my backyard is basically the empty lot of Range Road
You guys were using that as a construction site. I have asthma, like, I have COPD. For 3 years, I kept calling and saying, I don't like this, I can't have my window open, I can't have my sliding door open, because all the dirt you guys will put in asphalt, pieces of concrete back there, sand
And so when the wind was blowing, it was going inside my house. I was coughing. I was actually hospitalized because I couldn't breathe, and I called. They said, oh, we're going to cover
Next two days later, the tarps are flown out. Same thing happened. And then I started saying, are you guys are going to end up paying my hospital.
Then we took it out. Could took it off for about six months, came back. Again, I'm like, my father can't visit me. I'm starting to have again asthma symptoms. By then, they do the same thing. They watered it down, put tarps. Again, when the wind blows
took off the tongues. That didn't work. Finally, this time, and this was this year, I called in the beginning, and I'm like, you guys are doing this again. I'm like, this is tiring. My son is going to wind was blowing very hard. He was outside skateboarding. He had to come in because he
The pieces of family to his face. Little kids playing my street. So if you guys said there's something wrong, and you guys will fix it, why it took 3 years to fix that, and it was part of my health, and a lot of people that have asthma and COPD in my street
You know? So I find that very disturbing that it took me to threaten you guys that I will get a lawyer because I am a LEN and my wife's an honor. So we know what all those chemicals and compounds could you do to one another
And you guys took three years to agree there. And that's my thing that I would say that we have to think about each other. And thank you. Thank you.
Any other public comments?
We'll move on to the next item on the agenda. Thank you for the public commenters
The next item is approval of the minutes.
As the sessioning review the minutes of July 23rd, 2026
If there are no edits or discussion, I will entertain a motion. Are there any edits or discussion?
Okay, I make a motion to
accept the minutes for the July 23rd, 2026 meeting
And I will second
With that, the motion is adopted.
Alrighty.
All right. Thank you. So motion is seconded, and the minutes have been adopted.
Next item is
Item number 3, state park development and community revitalization grant. That's a mouthful. I will turn this over to Natasha Farmer to lead the discussion. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. I'm excited to be here and present this to you guys today.
As I said, this is for the statewide park development and community revitalization program grant applications, possibly. And it's also, I call it later the SPP grants more widely known
I'm sorry
There we go. Okay. So I'm just going to go over this slide really quick. This is just some background on what what the grant program is. And it funds the creation renovation or expansion of parks in underserved communities.
It's the largest park-related grant program in California history. We're on round 5. It's funded by 2024 Proposition for Climate Bond, and it's administered through the California State Parks Office of Grants and local services.
And so the reason that this grant is so amazing is because there is no cap on the number of grants that one agency can receive. The minimum grant request per park per park is $200,000, and the maximum is
$8.5 million per part. So it is… we have an opportunity here that could really transform some things in our community, and there is no match required. So it was when I saw those as part of this grant, I had to… I was like, we have to jump on this. So
There's some other application items on here too. So there's one application per park. But we can submit multiple applications for different parks. And they have in the past awarded the same cities for multiple parks. So it isn
It isn't outrageous to do that. There's no there's no cap on the awards. And the only thing is that the requested grant amount can't be increased after the application deadline. So that so that makes it so we really have to have our application up to par
This is some of the eligibility requirements for the parks to be eligible for this grant. You have to meet just one of those 3 categories, basically. In the scoring which I'll go into a little bit in the following slides
The more you
Go into one of these categories for each park, the higher you score. So but all of the parks that I'll be presenting fall in at least one of these categories. Most of them are going to be under climate vulnerability
And then also the park, the project has to create a new park, renovate an existing park or expand a park, too. And it has to have one recreation feature added or improved, which is not a problem here.
The eligibility is confirmed with the state's community fact finder mapping tool, which I've used to get some of the park information. This is how the applications are scored. So it's a 100 point maximum
Most… a lot of the application is subjective to whoever's reviewing it, but there are some objective things that that we can. We know that we could score on depending on what we put in the application. And again, some of that eligibility criteria is included in the scoring as well
And so and I'll go into that detail a little bit more, too. So you start at 0 and you work your way up to 100 in the scoring, basically.
Go to the next one. And one of the biggest scoring points is a community input. So that has about 18 points on the application, and it's one of the most labor intensive parts of the application process.
You have to do they like to see five meetings for the full amount of points and two meetings have to be after, like, after work hours or on a weekend. And they want to see that if we were going to apply for multiple parks, they do want to see that we
dedicated meetings to those parks. So it is pretty intensive. We have some ideas on how to work that so we don't have to do 5 separate, you know, 15 separate meetings in order to do that. You do have to do 3 3 or more outreach methods, so flyers, door-to-door school, social media, whatever we can do
And basically, the in those community inputs, they're like workshops. So we are going to have to have very intense community meetings, and they basically get to decide some of the features in the park that we do upgrade and and where the where some of those features might go
in relation to where we have the infrastructure for those things. So, it does take a lot of community input, but I think that's a great part of this grant, too.
Let's see, and this is another reason why I'm here today is because it is a lengthy technical application. So there is a lot of work that goes into it. That's good in a way because it makes it a little bit less competitive because people that aren't
cities that aren't interested as much in in something, they might drop out of it, or they might get to a certain point. And there is 188 million dollars for this round of grants. So so it is worth the pool
So these are just some of the other things we have to have a concept level site plan. We have to know funding sources and project timelines, and those would be reimbursed the funding sources would from the grant. They want to know if we have volunteer hours, if we're working with partners
So we have to have it really laid out for the application.
And this is what we would be committing to if we were awarded one or all of the grants. It's 30 years of required operation and maintenance starting on the appropriation date, which isn't any parks they stay around for a while, but that's what we would have to be committed to that. There's a 25% cap
On what we can spend on pre-construction design and permitting. And the grant would require reporting every six months. It's semi-annual. It's pretty standard for a grant. And then if we had to do any CEQA, we would have to be the lead agency and we'd have to do some permanent grant funded signage
At whatever sites are awarded.
So we have five parts that we've selected for this grant that we thought would be good candidates for the grant and that are some highly used parks as well. And I've just kind of highlighted, I'll come back to some of what the highlighting is, but we have Small World Park
City Park, Buchanan Park, John S. Bryant Park, which I'm sure not a lot of people know where what that is, and then we have Premier Fields. And so you can see some of these. I have kind of what they're awarded the most points for at the bottom and what each category is. So you can see
Some of the some of these categories, it's really hard to meet all of them. But we do have parks that fall in 2 or just one. So that's why I'm here today is to see what we want to do exactly. These are the locations of the park in case, like I said, the John S. Bryant Park is actually, I believe it's owned still by the school district.
That would be a park to… I think we still maintain it, though, right? Yeah, partial maintenance agreement. Yeah, so we have a maintenance agreement there. But that one, that's one of the candidate parks, and it's a smaller, lesser known park, actually
So these are the parks that we're considering for this. Yes, okay. It's on the back side of it. Okay, yeah. And that one is technically owned by the school district, and so part of the grant application would be to purchase the land to formally make it a city owned park. And we're working with the school district as it relates to the ownership of that park.
And then these are the locations on the city map in case you were wondering where exactly they were. So we are recommending to apply for 3 just because of how expensive they are
And to to give quality over quantity really it is a heavy engagement load. We are competing with other parks throughout the State. Some of the criteria is graded on not just how your park is
like, in that category, but how it compares to all the other parks in the application process.
So, and there's a there's a deadline risk basically selection criteria responses are locked at the deadline. Rep applications later and like I said, quality over quantity. So doing three well
written applications would be better than having 5 that are stretched thin. So today we want to confirm the 3 priority parks with this Subcommittee. And then the next step would. We would begin scheduling the community meetings and evenings and weekends would be included, and then we would assign a timeline to each of the 3 applications
And we would plan on submitting the application for at least 24 hours ahead of the deadline. And we would find out if we were awarded. It says it's about six months that we would find out. So it is a long time and there hasn't been a due date announced yet. So we
Ahead of ahead of the game, I would say. And so just to come back to this chart. So today we're asking which three parts should staff submit applications for? And I can I've prepared this chart just to show you some of the eligibility requirements and how they compare with with each part
And you can see Small World Park is actually covered in two of the eligibility criteria. But the climate vulnerabilities, it only has one. It's drought. So it might score higher on the median household income, but it might score a little bit lower on the climate vulnerabilities
They want… they want at least one, but 3 is the best chance or the most points. City Park. It only eligible with the climate vulnerabilities, but it does cover 3, so it would get the full amount there, and it is in a severely disadvantaged community. The more if it's
So part of the application is, does it is it within a half a mile radius of a severely disadvantaged community or disadvantaged community, and you get extra points for that as well?
Buchanan Park. Again, that's one that it only falls under the climate vulnerabilities. It does have 2, and we would get some points because it's close to 3 parks per 1,000 residents
So the scoring would be pretty pretty good on that one, and it does have severely disadvantaged and disadvantaged communities. John asks Bryant Park actually meets the parking acres per thousand residents. It's it's actually 1.3 9
So that would score really high in that category, and it does have 2 climate vulnerabilities, and it's Sdac and Dhc again. And then we have premier fields on here. It's under a climate vulnerability
It has one and it really doesn't fall into any of the other categories, but it was, was a candidate for this. So so that's that is my presentation. And if you have any questions or
discussion. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Do you have any questions or comments?
Vice Chair
Yes, actually, I do. Thank you for that report. It's really exciting to hear that something like this is coming our way. It's something we really needed. So I have a question about
the if awarded, we're committing to 30 years. Okay, required operation maintenance starting on the appropriation date. Will that grant fund go toward that part of the maintenance? Yes, we can fund some maintenance part of it, but it would only be for the grant
the grant period like you have to so with grants, it's usually, like, I think this was a 6-year grant, so we could actually fund some maintenance with it. Or another option with this grant is actually
Conversing with, like, Civicor and having a program where they can actually do some of the maintenance for us in the parks, and that actually makes a higher score for us. Okay, and then another one
for parks for consideration
So
For city
Let's go to John S. Bryant Park. One of the things that I've found concerning about that particular park and I know it's part of the schools
Over to near the end of the park by the school
At the end of the park, there's Buffano Bear
And it's been highly neglected and it needs maintenance big time. It's been vandalized so much and I've been keeping an eye on that bear because it is a very special bear that was
It's an art piece and it's not just made of cement. It looks like it's made of cement, but it's made of different granites and stones. And it should be sealed. It's very cracked
A friend of mine is actually an arts
lover, and she owns property here, but she moved out of state and
I was talking to her about Buffalo bear, and she actually hired somebody to come out and look at it on her own
And, you know, so
there is, you know, it does need to be, like, resurfaced and sealed. Unfortunately, Mr. Profano is no longer around us, so he cannot do that anymore, nor his son. So I was wondering if the grant can be put toward Bofano Bear, because it is… As long as it's a permanent, a permanent item in the park
It can be funded. I'm kind of concern. I don't know if it's really the schools or part of the park because of it's the school it's going to stay with the school district. It would not be part of the park. So the school district will be owning and maintaining the fair even after this transition occurs
Okay.
It might be something we could look into as like an additional amenity or something. But yeah. I mean, it's something I can look into.
Well, it was gifted to this by the kids asked for it. Yeah, and it used to be obviously where the school used to be located right? And then they rebuilt the school on the other side. Right. It's no longer. Yeah. So it's kind of like blended into
are kind of… and that's why I was wondering if it's too bad that they didn't move it when they did the reconstruction and put it in front of the school. Yeah, maybe we could move it as part of the park and put it in the park, too. Well, I think pretty sure the school district. Yeah, fence around it or something
Which is it just really needs
And Small World Park that yeah, that one is on my eye as well.
So I have no other questions. Okay
Small World Park was on my list. Also, I was more so looking at the acres per thousand residents, sort of as a rubric of like, you know, the size of the park and who it would serve.
The top three just were three that came to my mind. Small World Park, we have
I know there's a couple of things that folks want to get fixed there that we've heard from residents around and wanting to upgrade that part. Yes. So I think
And it's a beloved park. And so that's one that I agree with vice chair and then city park. That's our oldest park that needs a lot of love
We talked about doing some repair to like turf and things like that. Is that something that could be included in this grant? Yes, it can. Okay. And lighting, things like that lighting, and they're like they want they want some kind of big recreation. They told me
Go big. They want us to think big for this grant. They want the biggest impact. So and I said, that's perfect for this city. That could be something that if we can fit it there, I think that we could put it there. So and then that will be something in the community meetings, you know, and we can find out what everybody wants. Yeah
Okay, and then
Yeah, so it's a top three for me, Buchanan. It's another park that needs a lot of love and some retrofitting.
Those are my recommendations for the 3. If you're
And then let's a little
Bryant Park, John S. Bryant Park
That one to me, it's just such a small footprint of a But the other standout for me and then Premier Fields is still underway with some other things. So those would be my recommendations. Okay
Thank you. I also have something else to say. In regards to Buchanan Park, I know there's a problem with the drainage. Is that what the drainage? Would that money go into? Okay, so my would be Small World Park City Park and Buchanan Park as well. Okay.
Perfect.
Oh, yes, sorry, it's not settled. So we'll
And do any members of the public have comment on this item?
Thank you. I think that Premier Fields, that's the John Henry Johnson debacle. It's a new park across the street. Oh, that's where they do the bridge to nowhere. Yes, that's right. Okay, so the Premier Fields, I think that should be just left out. I think they're wasting the money on that
Thank you.
Okay.
I'll bring it back to the Subcommittee. Is there any further discussion about this item?
As chair, I will make a motion for this item to be
For the staff to take the recommendations and prepare to move forward.
I have a second. I have a second on that. Awesome. Thank you. We have a motion and a second
Thank you very much. You're welcome.
Next, we will move on to the Delta De Anza Multimodal trail safety project follow-up.
I will turn this over to Essen Saklian to lead the discussion. Did I say that right? Yes, thank you.
Yes, good evening, everyone. My name is Asam Shakhline. I'll be
Providing updates on Delta Denza Multimodal trail safety projects
For this presentation, I'll focus on project alternative and and some considerations.
The goal of this project is to improve access and safer trail crossings
The location map shows the extent of the project. The the project is located along the Delta transit trail within
Bay Point and City of Pittsburgh, city limits. So this project is being carried out in collaboration with Contra Costa County, East Burgental Park District as well
Is the Municipal Utility District. So this project is funded by one Bay Area grant approximately 4.4 million and overall project budget is 5 million
We have conducted
Additional
Community outreach, including Pittsburgh high school cross country runners group
this the first image shows the survey results
Their main concern is lack of shades or overall the lack of greenery along the the trail corridor.
And the other
Image shows the combined survey results with total 162 community survey responses, including earlier effort and our renewed effort with Pittsburgh
High school cross country runners group. Overall, the trail safety is the main concern and
Along with requested amenities is trail safety lighting and landscaping.
We have also held a meeting with East Bay Municipal Utility District.
Because they're on that trail corridor, and aqueducts run through it. Based on our meetings, East Bay, East Bay Mud does not recommend installing trail safety lighting along the trail corridor, because it would potentially conflict with the aqueduct
Yes, I'm going to ask a question. Do they allow it in any other communities?
They would allow us to do it. They just expressed the most concern with it. We would have to be very careful where the conduits went because if there was ever a need for them to do excavation, they would tear it up. So it wasn't, no, you can't do the lighting
It was that's what had the most concern for them
So we have developed four alternatives that were evaluated for Pittsburgh portion of the project only. So one thing I do want to mention, so these available budgets, project budget includes improvements within the Bay Point and the city portion
So this alternative options is mainly applicable for city of Pittsburgh version only. Based on the feedback from the Contra Costa County, they are not doing any additional amenities along the trail within the Bay Point because of
Additional maintenance responsibility.
So
The option one considers safety improvements only without any new landscaping
Then option 1A is targeted safety and for crossings landscaping within the city. So we have total 8 crossings within the city. So option one would include only 4 crossings, landscaping
Option two would entail all the crossing
And then option 3 would be continuous landscaping along the trail, 5 foot from the trail edge
And there are a common scope is trail resurfacing safety intersection lighting where it's needed or applicable, and also other amenities, including emergency call boxes, way finding signage
Dog was being
We did not include in the estimate any rest area or any benches due to the feedback we received
And because there is a concern about unhoused encampments
That's why we're not considering adding any rest area or shape
As emulators. So all this alternative mainly differ in the level and extent of the landscaping and safety enhancement. And I'll go over each option little detail in the later slide.
So option one is a safety priority, as I mentioned. It does not include any new landscaping.
So the project cost estimate would be 4.7 million, which is 300,000 below.
current project budgets.
This slide shows the rendering. And this is a sketch only actual design will vary. So that's include
Rectangular rapid flashing beacons, emergency call boxes located from the intersections along with the dog waste pins, wayfinding signage, and then safety intersection lighting along with crossing improvements, high visibility crossing
The option 1A, which is
middle ground. It's a blend of safety and landscaping enhancement.
The estimated cost is 5 million and it is within the project budgets.
One caveat. So this would include
This would exclude the railroad Avenue crossing modifications, and also extensive Crestview bulbout is also excluded in this option
And this is the renderings of the auction 1A, which would include the landscaping within the 50 feet of the crossing.
the roadway
Go ahead. What kind of shade trees were included in that package?
So this the tree we haven't really selected the final that will be once we have the
landscape design on board, because currently we don't have that scope, but that will be finalized in the next phase, the type of fees that we could plant, and it'll also
needs approval from his behemoth, because they have the specific plant or tree list that we could only do because of the equity. And the roots, yeah, okay, yeah, I was just wondering, like, the… how many trees of wood type, that's all. That'll be the… yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, so at the moment, so we are considering
at least planting 10 trees
For shading, but that number could go up and down, you know, depends on the final design.
SM is currently no water or power to those areas, correct?
That is correct. Okay, that's important. Yeah, the other thing to consider with the trees is what East Big Mud shared with us is they would want the trees all the way at the fence line
Because they have a what was it, 25 foot requirement that the tree has to be through the pipeline. We can't meet that and they'd be willing to give us a waiver, but they would want it as far away as possible. So while we can install shade trees
They have to be at the fence line. And so it'll take some time for them to grow and provide shade on the trail itself. Yeah. So what this is, yeah, it's like 20 feet from the drift line of the tree to the edge of the pipeline, so it's really pushing all limits within the trail corridor
Next option 2 is the trail crossing landscaping in all eight crossings within the Pittsburgh.
The project estimate is 5.5 million, so which puts us above the current budgets
So in order to implement this option too, we require additional 500k for this project.
And this is also the
This is also the it's a similar rendering option 1A because option 1A is half of the option two crossing. So it's
Some of the safety enhancement reductions and, exclusion.
And option three would provide the maximum corridor enhancement and the project cost estimate would be 6.1. And it would be 1.1 million above the current
project authorized budgets
This option would provide
the greatest corridor enhancement along with the features. However, it would require additional funding.
And this slide shows the overall budget comparison with the project scope.
According to the current estimates, the option one and one are within the current budgets. Option 2 and and 2 and 3 will require additional funding
And next step would be
Which strategy should guide the next phase of design? So staff is seeking subcommittee direction on which option should be considered as preferred scope for this project.
And that conclude my presentation. Thank you. I'm happy to take any questions.
Thank you for the presentation. Do we have any questions?
Firstly, you can go ahead first. Oh, okay. I'm still thinking here. Okay, I have a question around
the… so this is the expense for the project. Did we look at like what the maintenance costs will be ongoing for these projects for the different scenarios? We haven't. That is one of the concerns with it going with the landscaping of this project is we're already having a hard time
Maintaining what we already have, so you're just adding on some additional costs. Yeah. So I'm glad you brought that up. It is a consideration, but we have not calculated what the additional maintenance costs would be.
Yeah, those are things that I think about depending on decide which designs to go with or what what's available to us. Are there any changes and
any of our other landscaping or projects in the city to where we could offset that
I want to know, like, what the maintenance costs would be for this compared to, you know the other expenses to make sure that we can manage it.
And then also, you know
drought resistant
plants
for the different design. When you bring up if there's no water available near with some of these designs, what's close to water and things like that to take care of it. So
Could we do a drought
Resistant type of plant or design or you know do we go with stones and pebbles that are beautiful
In lieu of some of this landscaping. So
What can we manage that's cost-effective but still
Looks nice. So what's being proposed this evening is drought tolerant native species. It would require us to install an irrigation system to water them, which is part of the additional cost, which is why option 3's cost has gone up.
Great. So if there is a desire to look at doing a hardscape instead of planting, that is something you can absolutely consider.
Yeah, I think we should.
In addition to looking at like what it would cost to keep it up. It's hard to make a decision without knowing what the cost is going to be. Let me give you the cost baseline to what it costs now as well. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah, that would be great.
That's the word hardscaping. Thank you. You're welcome.
No more question.
So what I do love, I love the renderings. Thank you. I want to thank you very much for this report. I like the options here. My favorite, of course, is the one that's the most expensive because I think it's beautiful. But I understand what the lemma we're going to have with that
That being said, I know in some areas in Walnut Creek, because I use trails a lot
There have been sections where neighbors have kind of pitched in and started to do their own thing with it. And that means they were coming out and they were planting their own little plants.
And it became kind of a little co-op where everybody was coming out and they, you know, got a little club together. They started talking about, you know, let's do this, and they kind of randomly just started doing it, I'm sure, without permission. But it's beautiful.
And, so I'm wondering if we go toward number one and then over time
We can form something like that among the community to, you know, if that's you know these like a lot of it was these, you know the little easy plants that they were that don't require, and they'll go out there, and they water them themselves, you know, because that's their little garden. I mean, that's just something that
you know, the same… I don't know if you guys remember the time when I talked about how they decorated the trees with all the birdhouses. It's that same concept. And so you go there, and it's just beautiful and whimsical, and you know, and people like to sit there and just be there, because it's so beautiful. But I mean, just seeing
for future possibilities. So, you know, I like number one for that possibility and the cost of it as well. So that's the one I really like is one for now. And then
Maybe possibly over the next few years, something like that can be an option. There's been quite a few neighbors that have started their own. Yeah, and yeah, they come. They come out and they
preteed up, and so it just depends what area, you know, and that's your little area, your neighborhood, you're gonna do it. Over there might be a different kind of personality types over here, and they might have a different type of thing, you know, succulents on one side, you know, annuals on the other, or whatever. So, I mean
And that's truly a community
Putting themselves into
No, their neighborhood. But that's just something an idea
Nothing else we'll move to, is there any public comment? You know, I had a great presentation. I love these things. You look at the paperwork and you're like, what? And then you come in and explain this lovely. Is it possible to use solar for the lights
Is that a possibility so that they say they don't want the wiring. So the emergency call boxes, because it's going to be the areas that really doesn't have any like conduits. So we are proposing that to be a solo. Also, can we add more plants and water later if we ever become more solvent as a city
Does that have an issue?
And another thing, you know how we choose to read on what you said is, could we just have like certain groups adopt parts of the trail like they do on parts of the highway? This part is maintained by such and such horticulture club or something. I would love that
Yeah, I would too.
Anyway, that was just my thoughts. Thank you. I like the one where we don't have to spend money. Thank you. Are you talking garden Club
You know, I'm thinking about it. This really got my kind of creative stuff going on here. You'll be the first volunteer. We'll see. I killed all my houseplants.
Might not be the best person for that. Okay, with is there any further discussion on this item
John, do we need a motion. Well, if there's direction on one option, then we would want a motion. But if there is a request for additional information before motion is given, then
We can bring the sign back.
Yeah, I think
We would we would like to see a few other things. So one, the costs
The cost for these options for us to maintain them.
To look at is there an option for hearts? Hardscaping?
And then what was the other thing?
I think those were heartscaping up the ongoing maintenance costs. And then there were some recommendations or thoughts around
I think when we'll get to the place of maybe implementing it like adding that community
engagement piece.
So that's direction from Subcommittee unless you disagree. I agree. Okay, and then we'll
Then we can look at it at a later time, another time. Okay.
Do I need to make a motion for that request? Okay, super all righty, we will move on to item number 6 travel time result. Oh, not I did. I'm sorry
Thank you. Citywide gate wide gateway beautification prioritization. We'll turn this over to Gina Hayes to lead the discussion. Thank you. So this is not
The monument sign project. So June 15th of this year, Council approved a 5 year capital improvement program 2026 27 through 3031.
This project was authorized $100,000 per year of measure M funding
And over the next four years, we will be obligating $100,000 per year of the same funding measure and funds
So the goal for today is to prioritize the top 5 entry locations, and then also give recommendations on what kind of features to include.
So you've probably seen this list before when we were talking about the monument sign and its potential gateway project locations. So there are 13 entry locations that we have for you to look at tonight
And so the next 13 slides will go over those locations.
Here it goes the overview map that just shows basically every location that we're looking at, and it's every entry to our city
So the first location is Bailey Road at State Route 4.
We're looking southbound here. The median nose is within Caltrans right away and will require permit and maintenance agreement for any work proposed in this location. And it
Not that we can't do it. I just wanted to let you know that it will take a little extra work here.
The next location is Daily Road at Willow Avenue. And here we are looking northbound and we are in Contra Costa County. Bailey Road, there's a portion further to the south
the city of Pittsburgh, and then there is this piece that's Contra Costa County, and then we enter the city of Pittsburgh here. This location is looking northbound and is entirely within Contra Costa County
If we do anything on the right side of the road here
And then if you were looking at something further to the north, there is not very much right away on the right side
Location 3 is Willow Pass Road at Bay Point City Limits
And because of the drug, so where the paving line is here is the city limit line
And so there are driveways to the east which would prevent us from really doing anything within the city right of way here. These improvements would also be in Contra Costa County. If you were putting something on the right side
Our next location is Kroger Pass Road at City Limits. There is currently a prepare to stop sign that is prior to the signalized intersection. This is in the median and would have to remain in place and active
There is an area alongside the east side of the roadway, but there is also this beloved Pittsburgh Mallard sign that I know we are every time it is knocked over or not in place, we hear from
a particular group that it needs to
Come back to where at this location.
But there is potential along the right side to do some type of landscaping improvements.
The next location is Railroad Avenue off-ramp. We are looking here southbound
Any project here in the median or on the right side would be entirely within Caltrans right away
I'm not saying that we couldn't do a project here, but it will require that instant coordination with Caltrans and the maintenance agreement.
Location 6, I've heard this come up many times. It's our Harbor Street off-ramp at California Avenue
You're looking northbound here. One of the challenges we have here is we only have 5 feet behind the back of sidewalk
And the property north of that is owned by private property.
Each location is leverage road at State Route 4. This particular meeting in Island is in front of the Delta Landing Interim Housing Facility. It's also a Caltrans
right-of-way, the entire median, or most of the median island there is within the Altrans right-of-way.
Okay, location 8 is East Leland Road at Boston Honors College
Both the median island and the area in front of the car sales are potential locations for improvements, and it's entirely within the city's right of way.
Location 9 is Century Boulevard
And this is north just under the State Route 4 overpass. This location is entirely within our right of way, and we have
About 20 feet from the edge of pavement
Any work to the south of this location would be within the Caltrans right away.
The patient then is Buchanan Road at city limits. And in this photo, we're looking westbound as you enter the city. This median island here was completed with Thessamine meadows
Due to the canal on the north side, there is not much area on the right side of the roadway to the north.
And then also, do you narrow, narrow median at this location? Staff chose to not landscape this median island due to safety concerns, with maintenance
Location 11 is Pittsburgh Agentic Highway at city limits. With the future right-of-way or widening project for Pittsburgh Highway Highway, there will not be a raised median at this location
But there is potential along the north side of the roadway.
Subscription 12 is said to both our east. So this is at Summersville Road looking westbound
And this is entirely within city of Pittsburgh right of way.
And our last location is San Marco Boulevard at State Route 4. Here we're looking southbound.
This is within the Caltrans right-of-way
Up to a point where you see the monument signs is where it's the city right of way. And this is San Marco Monument sign and a Sprouts Monument sign
That is all within the city's right.
And then this is just really some examples. We do have $100,000 that we could spend each year. So if we perhaps did a landscaping project, this is leverage
at State Route 4 before and after. So this is really just entirely landscape median project. And Natasha picked some drought tolerant plants
And some appropriate terms for this location, and they did a great job
putting them in this meeting to give you a rendering of what it could look like.
So then if a project were a monument sign and some minor landscaping, this is Harbor Street at State Route 4 off ramp and California Avenue. And so if it were a smaller monument sign
And perhaps some minor landscaping this is what it might look like.
Again, using some drought-tolerant plants do
And then lastly, just some other things to consider. We could look at digitally signs. We talked about adding more digital signs at locations. We could talk about public art
And then also feature landscaping. So the graphic circled down at Central Harbor Park. Public Works put together a hardscape project there. And that's what the picture on the left is
The picture on the right, I wanted to include. This is actually Concord. I watched Concord plant do plantings here
And they lasted maybe 4 or 5 months, and they died, and then they replanted. So I watched them do it twice. This third installation was with
Big flowers and you really wouldn't know. Yeah
And it's, yeah, it's not coming down. It looks beautiful every day. So I just wanted to put that out there.
So what we're asking the Subcommittee to consider tonight is to prioritize the top 5 locations and then just give us some feedback on what kind of features you'd like us to consider
Back this presentation and if you have any questions or need more information on these locations.
Yeah, I just want to let you know on Bailey Road.
of the very first location run, we did redo that meeting.
So it's all clean all the way down to where the
Oh, okay, add a few more trees, so it's almost, you know, 75% down, you know. Okay, so it probably looks different than my yeah
And that monument site is called out
the previous city project like that's a
Nine years ago, 10 years ago as a possible location. Okay.
So I will go back to let me just add
You know the council, you know, each and every year the council adopts a budget and you know we have limited resources
And you know, if we put all the money into fiscal improvements, we'd have no staff to provide the services.
If we put all of the money into services, we would have an ugly city that wasn't well maintained, or we wouldn't have the facilities to maintain. So right, there's a delicate balance here, and and I think a small investment into
Community beautification is absolutely important and key as we try to continue to improve our economic development efforts and measures. And there's… I do think there's some key corridors, right? The exit off Highway 4 at
Harbor is many times it's the first thing that people see. You know, I think as you go further to the west, although it would be nice if you were kind of talking about that one area, it already looks it looks much better than
Coming off of Highway 4 at Harvard. And so I mean, I guess I am advocating for I think each one of these probably deserve improvements
But that California Avenue and Harbor Street off ramp looks right into just the wall of a storage facility. And then Kirker Pass coming in on the southern limits, southern limits is is one that's that's that's key
Leverage at State 4 is that that that is one that I think we get some of the most complaints about the leverage corridor and the council has actually described the leverage corridor, you know wanting to see improvements along that
But I would definitely say you could always put this money in other places. But if you did I don't think it'd be to the detriment to the future beautification programs that the city council is trying to
implement across the city
Yeah, those three that I said are kind of key ones. Probably number 10, Buchanan Road at Eastern City limits
Number 9, I think maybe when that project develops, maybe we can work with the developer to see what type of improvements they can make there.
It is. But
Question. Can you tell me about the Caltrans right away? What does that entail? So it will require an encroachment permit. We have to go through their plan review process
We have to put together a maintenance agreement because they will not maintain any of our improvements.
It's, you know, it's a process. It just would take a project longer and maybe be a little more expensive just because you're spending your staff time. Do we have other arrangements that are similar for any of our properties, or
And I believe the BART and the multimodal train did we have to
Have an encroachment permit from we had to do a maintenance agreement, all of that. So our our California. We had to do that for that project. Okay.
And then, you know, I like the corners of the city where there's these key entry points. The Bailey Road at State Route 4
When I look at the map
This is the Safeway Plaza here. It is. And then where would it potentially go?
So we could do something in this medium here
The front portion of this is all cat trans. And then as you get further back here, it's the city of Pittsburgh. Okay, so I'm on Bailey Road coming from Willow Pass going up. Yeah, you're looking. I'm trying to figure out the southbound.
Okay.
And that this is a shopping center over here, say, shopping center. And then the map shows the other side. Okay, yeah.
Okay.
When speaking the gateways I drove past her yesterday, it'd be nice just to get all the trash off of the other
Yeah, and I will say that it's not in the city either. Yeah, Contra Costa County is working on the development of this parcel and they're further along than I've ever seen because I've seen that project in September
They were walking the site yesterday. Yeah, and I think it's on the far side of the library. It is. Yeah.
I have a Bailey, the two lanes to the east are actually the county. These 2 lanes over on this side. Yeah, it's kind of tricky. And we have an old agreement to do maintenance, but that needs to be renewed. And we are doing some paving out there here pretty soon too, probably in the next year we'll be doing some
I think it's library and affordable housing project, correct?
It'll be nice to have a better gateway into the park and the pool.
And then question around the Bailey Road and Willow Avenue that is going over Bailey Road.
Yeah, so if you are coming in from Concord, and you're… this photo here is looking northbound, so right, this is before you get to our city limit, or city limits are right about here. Okay
But one thing to consider on this one is we are doing our Bailey road improvement project, which will widen Bailey Road. So if there is a desire to do some enhancements to the gateway, we could potentially include it as part of that project. That's good
And then, you know, kind of like there's
Both signs would be closed if you did the first, location number one
Yes. On that one. Yes, so it's just the other direction. They're really close.
Location number four, River Pass
That would be a median sign also. Probably not in the median because we need this sign to remain there. So this this light activates when that signal turns red down there. So this is really our
warning sign for that. And we do have a lot of people, a lot of quite close calls down there. Actually, I think just recently, Hilario, something went through the yeah
Yeah, so we wouldn't want to do anything right here in front of that sign, because we would want that sign to remain. But there is a potential to do something along this side of the road. But there's also options if you don't like the landscaping in the meeting, we could remove those bushes and put in something else
Right? There's… I don't want the Subcommittee to limit themselves if you think this is an ideal location and you'd like to see us more attractive landscaping, you know, we can explore all those options.
Probably a good option for more of the hardscape leading to the sign like before it or something like that. So even even possibly a different base to the sign. Sure, yeah, maybe we can make the sign more attractive. Yeah.
Okay.
I will use because I can go on and on. No, go ahead. I'm making my notes as I go on. Oh, okay. Because I kind of got my ideas already. Okay.
Love the railroad eastbound off-ramp, but that's the Caltrans corridor, which is okay
Okay.
I just think about how we have the Old Town Pittsburgh sign and then we don't really have anything you know there or maybe even further down.
For us
And
I do think that the leverage corridor does need to be loved. That's another one. Location 7
And that would go right in that meeting? Yes. Okay. And that was the example that we
Right there. So that's the median we're talking about. So that's what it looks like now, and that's what it could look like if we did just a landscaping project. It's also our largest area. So if you want to do artwork or monument, that would probably be
One location that could actually fit it. Can I put the spirits pulse there? I can recommend whatever you would like. Whatever's left over. We'll go find them in the junkyard and bring them back to life. There used to be a monument sign there, a wood sign, many, many years ago. Long time ago.
That was prior to all the highway changes and moved. Question around location 8, East Leland and LMC. Is there any type of like big signage around LMC?
If we put Pittsburgh Finance there to 18 feet
Other signs are along the
Southside or leading to it. There's I don't think they have anything out in the median or on the north side of Leland. And particularly not through this this portion here potentially further up, but not like when you first enter the city, which is right about here
Yeah, I just it's really so you know LMC is like this gem of our community. It's like one of the highest ranking Jcs in the state. You know, I feel like we sort of give that away as a city like
It's like, am I anion? Am I in Pittsburgh? And so it would be nice to maybe have some signage there.
That little that red potting area or
the wood right there. That would be ideal for them to put something in that area, because that's their other entrance to the back of the Lmc, because they have one at the main almost by the pond. You mean like a school signage. Yes, their own signage. Or we could do a joint sign. Yeah, Pittsburgh and Lmc. Highlight both of them
Oh, that would be nice. That would be nice. But I do like this location
And then I do, I think we should have something along Century Boulevard. I'm not really
If we have that there, we wouldn't necessarily have to do it at the beginning, but maybe on the other side.
The Somersfield Sound. Yes
Yeah, another 12. Yeah. Number 12.
I'm done. Okay.
But I can be persuaded. Council will decide anyhow, but those are my thoughts.
Because we have the money right now or was already obligated to start
I like number one because it's the main commuter
And then the BART's right there. So I like that one. It's
So when people coming from BART can see it as well.
Remember for Cooker Pass, I like that because to me, when you're everyone comes down Crooker Pass and it's like
You know your home. And I wanted one there for a long, long, long.
Because it's to me, it's like a greeting.
Number seven
Leverage because it needs love and it's definitely needs something.
To jazz it up a little and make it not so industrial looking.
Number 10, Buchanan Road
I think we need some identification down there because it's so
close to Antioch and
Some people don't know where governments are.
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San Marco
I like that one as well, right there.
near the freeway
It's kind of an entry thing too.
Thank you.
Neither one of you have a number one.
Hmm
Number one, there's one you guys really love. Was that a hint? What is? Well, I don't know. That was, I think we have that one comment. Do you have did you pick her for pass
I did. Okay, I did. But do we not have in common? But no. Yeah, there's a couple we do. But I'm
I know that there's some
Some plans or new development or ways that we're thinking about the leverage corridor. I'm not opposed to the leverage road being
one of the… being the number one
Because it does need some love
I did not pick Century because I believe aren't there going to be some developments there?
or nothing in the plans right now, but I imagine that is the west side, yes, there's been some conversations, but it probably would be a while before we see
Yeah, I'm not opposed to leverage being number one.
And
If I were to pick a number two
It would probably be the railroad
one just so people can see it
Which one?
Yes, it does.
Yeah, number five.
If it was, you know that
That takes a little extra work, so that might make it number two.
Okay. That's your number 2. That's your number one. That's my number one. Okay, Kirk is your number one. Oh, excuse me, erase that leverage road first and then Kirker. Okay.
Okay.
And then the other thing is, is do you like
Maybe we just start with leverage. Is there
Amenities. I'm not quite amenities, just features that you're envisioning there.
I do like the idea of the art
type of design
This is a… you know, we've got a hotel that's over there. We've got a recovery center that's going to be coming over there, you know,
There's lots of things that could give it a different feel.
As a part of our maintenance. And no maintenance. That's a good one.
But if that is the footprint that gives us the biggest space, then that would be all
It is a difficult spot for crews to maintain and stop there because of the right of way. That would definitely help to do a hard scape and maybe a monument site.
What's a good thing.
All right
So, John, do you have any questions? I would ask for a motion
To identify locations 4, 5, and 7 as the top priority locations.
If that is what I heard Subcommittee correctly
Yes.
And just last in on that
We need to take public comment to
I agree. Okay. All right.
Do we have any public comments?
I think it just depends on who we're interested in pressing or both
The only ones I have any experience at is sitting at that absolutely ridiculous on California Avenue Harbor Street off ramp, which goes all the way out into the freeway at times, and you spend a really long time there. So the thing very interesting would be nice to start looking at that
And would it be possible to do something kind of close, you can just kind of stare off into that and sort of relax. And the leverage road at State Road 4
It's just ugly, and like she said, industrial. So anything you could do there. Otherwise, wow, I'm so glad I don't have to make this decision. I just can pick at it later
Yeah, 13. Thank you. Thank you.
I'm going with that
If there's no further discussion, we will place a motion
This is for staff to
Look at or prepare locations 4, 5, and 7
To move forward, and then we'll bring it to Council at a later time when it's agendized
I make a motion to accept
I have a second
I would like, I'm sorry. I just want to do a time check. It is 7:05. Oh. If you're happy, want to proceed, we're happy to do so. We would ask that you move item 7 ahead of item 6
If you would like to continue, I would say that the remaining items are not very time sensitive and can be pushed to the next meeting if you would like to adjourn the meeting. So I just want to bring that to your attention. Yeah, thank you for the time check
I am will stay on time. I will
defer to my colleague
I'm okay on time as well. Okay, let's get it done.
We will move on to item number six. If we can please do item seven first. Oh, okay.
I thought you meant if we didn't
Mariana has needs to go. So her item before mine. Thank you. I appreciate you all. Okay, cool. Good evening. Oh, go ahead. I will make this quick. I do want to share and highlight some of our
accomplishments that we've had with some of the projects that we've been dealing with. So with Premier Fields, I want to say that we have clear, we're finally cleared for construction for our traffic signal. So this is amazing. We've been, you
Dealing with PG&E for the past few months. So it's been a
We hit a milestone on this one. The on-sites have been energized. That was energized on the 25th, and then today we were cleared for construction for the offsite. So now what we need to do is PG&E to kind of install the transformer, which I'm hoping to get it done in the next
A couple of weeks ago. They said they're going to expedite their schedule and get us in the books fairly quick. And so parallel to all of this, we have already lined up our contractor. So our contractor is going to start. You're going to start seeing some movement
Then working on the striping and other stuff that we have requested as well. So this is great news for us. Pavement zone 7 is also wrapping up. We are working on the punch list, and we are hoping to take this to Council for completion on
Either the October 19th Council meeting or the 1st meeting in November.
And then we have our Buchanan slope repair. This project is also in construction right now and starting next week, we have a meeting with our drilling subcontractor to have a precon on how these piers are going to be placed
On the back of the slope, we also had our residents
Move some of their improvements that were done on city right of way, so they've been very cooperatively working with us, so it's been good.
Sure.
The other project I want to talk about is the citywide sidewalk repair. So this project is replacing, this is a new project. This project is replacing the damaged brick sidewalk that is along railroad. Pretty much there's pockets from Central Avenue up to 10th Street
This has been a great learning experience for our interns. So one of our interns is working on this project, and Siobhan Reese is mentoring her. So it's been a good experience.
We're getting her out in the field with measurements, doing plants, all the design, everything's being done in-house. So it's been good.
Nice
And also you can import pond loop just got advertised. So we just hit the start of the advertisement window for that project
And today we had our bid opening for not yesterday, we had our bid opening for the Lindshine phase two and the ADA ramps. And we have nine bids. So that was great. It was a full house
People were stem here, so that was great. And we right now we've issued the notice of potential award. We have checked the math, and our contractor is Modernscapes, and they were the ones that did the first traffic circle, and they came in at 60,000 less. So we're looking at other work that they can do so we can utilize all of the Cdbg funds
And we are wrapping up our well we have wrapped up our designs. We're going through the QAQC for the Buchanan stone drain repairs. So we are hoping to go out to bid
Tomorrow
I'm calling him out because I need him to look at my plans, which I just gave him yesterday. So that plan hopefully will go out to bid tomorrow, and then we can award the construction contract at the October 19th meeting.
We really want to get this project going and get in before the rings. We are expecting a really wet winter. So we're excited to see this finally go through.
That's all I have. If you have any questions on any specific project, go ahead.
Thank you.
Not really freshman, just one who left this report. It's like my favorite thing because I get to see all the things that are
That's underway. But I wanted to
Just really commend you on the so the fact that you have more people showing up for bids, like the outreach that you're doing is really it's great what you all are doing. But I love when more people show up. That means they want to do business in Pittsburgh and that we have businesses
you know, that could compete. And so thank you for making the bid process open, making it understandable so that people feel like they have an opportunity to compete. And you you all are just doing great work. So I love this because it
you know, just gives a
Quick look of the status of everything. Thank you for the feedback. Yeah, yeah, having worked in supplier diversity and done bids and projects and things over the years
It says a lot when people feel like they can bid and compete. It means that we're doing good outreach, but we also make it easy for people to participate and get information. So, great job. Thank you. Thank you. And I also want to thank you
Or
You can slope. That was one that's been that was my pet peeve was Buchanan slope. So I'm really, really excited. I go by. I get to see what they're doing and I'm really, really thank you. Thank you for all of you, what you've done to
To push that one through. It's just that one's just I don't know why it's so small to me, but that was my thing. I know what I wanted to say. It has been so great to drive up Crestview and see the improvements for the paving. And so thank you for that
My mom lives in that neighborhood, and she complains all the time. It's just like, oh, the road's so smooth, it's so nice. And so it's just nice to be able to see the things that we prioritize happen. Yes. So thank you again. And I know that it was,
City Council's
focus to get this Buchanan stone drain repaired. So we made an effort and lifted through some. Thank you. Yeah, we did that before we know it. Well, residents did so I have one thing. There's a lot of work that happens behind the scenes
On projects with grants many, many emails, sometimes sleepless nights permits, and you have a number of public works staff that's as results of what they do on a daily basis that keeps the city running, making sure protects our general fund
receive grants and ensure that our contractors are doing what they say they're going to do, making sure that we don't spend more money than we need to make sure and limit the number of change orders. We are not a city that just says yes to change orders, and that's known. And so
While, you know, Gina, Mariana, Elario, and John are here, I just want to make sure that they understand and the Council understands all the work that they do. It's greatly appreciated from the community members. Yeah, we appreciate it, because I know that Buchanan still had to do with Caltrans as well
So, it's a matter of… and they, you know, sometimes they're so behind on things, it takes time, and it's not, you know, on our fault, it's just that we have to wait for them to be next in line. Oh, yeah. So I that Buchanan's the… I don't know. It's an art of negotiation. And you guys work really hard, and I appreciate you
Thank you. Are there any public comments on this agenda item?
Yeah, get some stuff done around. Thank you. All right. So there's no action required on this. Thank you for the update. Thank you. Thank you. Okay
Okay, so the last item is agenda item number six, travel time results. John Samuelson will lead this discussion. Yes, thank you very much. So there's a document in your packet
As part of our strategic workshop this year we added some performance measures to our goals to really help us track to make sure that we're making improvements as we're completing these implementation measures.
One of them, though, was incomplete for the improved traffic circulation and infrastructure. We developed a performance measure to really track how long it's taking people to travel on West Leon and Railroad, but we hadn't set the baseline measure yet to know what would be a reasonable improvement
And so we created a performance measure. It was really said reduce travel time by and then had a bunch of X's.
So we've now completed the study
What you see in the table below is we did a travel time study, and this involves city employees driving during the morning and PM commute and tracking how long it takes them to drive in. And they'll do
3 times in one day, and then we take the average, and that kind of shows how long it takes for typical commuter to drive that commute. And so what we'll be able to do now is be able to set a goal on how much we want to improve it
with these projects that we are planning to implement. And so what I've done is I have in red typed in a time goal
for each of these improvements. So for the 1st one reducing the traffic delay at the intersection of San Marco and Wesleyan Road. What we want to measure is how long it takes people traveling from Wesleyan Road and Alves Ranch to then get on to the freeway
Highway 4 at San Marco
So after driving that a few times, it took them essentially seven minutes on average to make that commute
With the extension of West Loon Road, we think we can dramatically reduce that time. So we're suggesting that we can do a 30% improvement on that time and reduce it by 2 min.
For railroad
The you could see they did several different passes in northbound and southbound in the AM and PM commute, and you can see those times, and it really varied between southbound being around 8 min, and northbound being around 7 min
Because it's just traffic signal technology improvements, you're not going to get as great of an improvement. So we found a reasonable goal would be a 5% reduction, which is 25 seconds. And if we want to increase that, we can have a higher goal, but
I wanted you to understand the mindset behind how we came up with that number. And then finally, for Bailey Road, we are looking to widen Bailey Road from West Linen down to our southern city limits. And so the current commute time you can see there's a big difference between the aim and the PM commute
For Anne, it takes about 7 minutes. For in PM, it's just under 4. So it shows you how much additional traffic there is in the morning. We think with this project, we can get at least 10% reduction, which equates to 45 seconds in that AM commute
And so we wanted to present that to the Subcommittee to see if you agree with these recommended changes to the performance measure.
With that, I will turn it over to the Subcommittee for a conversation.
Thank you.
So I'm just trying to understand the math. Okay about this. So you have trial one, trial 2 and trial 3, and then
The average is sort of what you did over the different timing periods
Yeah, so so each trial it's how long it took us to drive from point A to point B, and then you just take an average of those 3. So you would take all 3 times add them up together, divide by 3, and that tells you, on average it took you this long to go from point A to point B
Okay
And then I'm looking at the translation of the performance measure compared to the average. Like, how did you
How did that happen? Or how did you formulate that? So it was really just educated guess based on the type of improvement
And the condition that currently exists. So, like I said, for doing traffic signal improvements
It's hard to actually get a significant improvement just by improving technology, which is why I came up with 5% improvement. Okay. Whereas building a brand new road and giving people an alternative route that they can drive, that's going to have a much more significant impact in bringing down the time
Okay, okay, so you sort of look at the environment too. Correct. Okay.
That helps a lot. I could see someone within this going, oh, two minutes, big deal, but that's why I would ask the question like, how did we get there? And that is a very good point, because even when I was writing in 25 seconds, I'm like, wow, people are going to think, really, 25 seconds
You'll feel 2 minutes. There will be a 2 minutes is a lot longer when you're driving than you realize and it's a noticeable difference. 25 seconds, not as noticeable.
But and our goal would be to exceed that. I just don't want to create a goal that we can't meet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, understood. Understood.
Well, thank you for taking, you know, for thinking about it. I forget there's some stat, there's some, like, if you glance away from your
When you're driving, like you look at your phone or look down like you go the distance of a football field and it's like just a few seconds. Right. So it does make a difference when you think of it in that way.
And maybe, you know, when you describe it to people, maybe sharing sort of that visual, so people can be like, in 25 seconds, you can travel half a football field or whatever, and that makes a difference. Yeah, we can do that. Okay.
My concern about the Bailey Road one
Is that… I understand you have a goal of 45 seconds, but I don't want you to
feel like, oh, I have to do that 45 seconds, because in reality, we can widen at our side, but Concord's still not participating. So I don't want to put that pressure on you because it's not going to be our fault.
And it would be nice if they widened up and helped a little bit, and then that would ease the traffic. But I don't want, you know, you to feel that
that, I mean, granted, it's a great target, and I know that's what we all want, but I just want
everyone to remember that it that Concord is is not going to widen their end. So it's going to make a bottleneck.
You know, that's all I just want to say. So that was taking into account why we only did 10%. If we were widening this all the way into Concord, we would have a goal to reduce it even more. Right. So I just want to make sure, you know, you don't feel that pressure. That was one of my things, is like
It's great on our end, but, you know, Concord, it would hope to to help. Right.
Okay, this is. Are there any public comments on this particular item?
I like the educated guess part, but I'm sure there's some formula somewhere with the naked.
expert judgment that makes you feel too humble
Okay.
Do we need a motion on this particular item? I would appreciate the motion if you agree with the recommended reduction times.
Yeah, I have no objections. Can we move forward with the motion?
Yes, I'd like to make a motion to accept that.
Mr. Beckyon
We'll move that item forward.
Are there any Subcommittee remarks
For reports
No.
Okay
Well, tonight I'm attending as an alternate. It's always great to be with you all. I love this Subcommittee because
Infrastructure and transportation is what keeps people moving. Those are my remarks. And with that, thank you. We will adjourn and end our meeting at 7.
Oh my gosh, 22. Thank you. You're welcome.