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Recoording in progress.

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Thank you very much.

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Council Member Amara, we please leave us in the pledge.

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First up, tonight we have a Proclamation for Hunger Action Month.

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If I can ask Denise, do you want to join me at the podium?

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Tonight we are doing a Proclamation for Hunger Action Month,

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which is September, 2026.

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In the matter of a Proclamation recognizing September 2026

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as Hunger Action Month in Plaster County.

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Whereas, feeding America, the largest charity,

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working to end hunger in the United States has designated the month of September 2026 as

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hunger action month to bring continued awareness that hunger and poverty are issues of serious

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concern in the United States. And whereas there are Auburn area individuals and families who

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experience food and securities and must make difficult choices every day. A weather to buy healthy

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food or pay for housing, utilities, transportation, or medical care. And whereas the

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Thanks for watching!

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The council is committed to raising awareness of hunger needs and commends the ongoing effort of the

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Auburn Interfaith Food Closet, an agency, partner of feeding the foothills, and the number

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and the numerous hunger relief organizations throughout the area who provide no cost, nutritious

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food, to families in need. And whereas, the Auburn City Council engages its citizens and businesses

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to support these organizations as they rely on financial and food donations from our community.

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and whereas food banks and food closets across the country will host events and activities throughout

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the month of September and the Auburn Interfaith Food Closet will be hosting a neighborhood

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food drive on Saturday, September 26, 2020. Now therefore, let it be proclaimed that I,

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Kelly Davis, mayor of the city of Auburn on behalf of the city council, gear by a recognized

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September as hunger action month and encourage all our citizens and businesses to support the efforts

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of local food agencies to reduce hunger in our area.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Do you want to say something?

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Thank you, Mayor Davis.

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I knew our earlier is this Kelly.

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I want to also thank City Council, the City of Auburn and also all the community.

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You have been such a great support to the Auburn Interfaith Food Closet.

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We couldn't do what we're doing today without you.

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Yes, we do have food security in our area.

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It's about 12%.

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And we're hitting in the Auburn City limits

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about 80% to 84% are coming to the food closet.

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We're having a food drive in September.

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Look for your front doorstep that we'll be dropping off bags

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in your neighborhood.

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Feel free to fill them up.

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That's how we keep our cost down

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as with the community's health.

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We're grateful for all that you've done.

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We're still 100% volunteer, and we have about 220 volunteers.

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We service about 32,000 people a year, it's about 3,000 a month, and our cost is 94% of

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every dollar you donate goes to food.

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We have very little overhead.

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And we want to thank all of you.

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And thank you, Kelly.

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Appreciate it.

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All right.

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Moving on next, we have adoption of the agenda.

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This is the time set aside for council members and or the public to ask for removal, postponement, or a change to the listed sequence of an agenda item.

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The agenda will be approved by consensus of the council.

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Do I have any requests from council?

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Madam Mary, too.

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I'd like to move the by claim item up to the first item on council business.

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By the way, we have a lot of people here and I just want to make sure we get to that first.

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Thank you.

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I'll second up.

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You're going to, you want to put that before the appointment of the new city council member?

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I do.

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I would, I honestly would like the new city council member to be able to participate in that decision.

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So I would respectfully request a no vote simply because I think it's important for the new person

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to have that a say in the process as well.

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I think they have both candidates probably reviewed the information,

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but I think we do it.

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We owe it to them to have that opportunity to participate in the process.

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So I would be happy to make it if it's what item is it announced?

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It's item 11 anyway.

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I'd like to keep it as it is.

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I would make a substitute motion to keep the agenda as proposed.

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What do you expect?

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There's kids in the audience.

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I'd like to get it done as soon as possible.

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And this item was discussed and agreed upon by this council anyway.

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So I think it I still think it should go before the.

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I kind of would agree.

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There's a lot of people here and it could take some time with we have questions.

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and the point of process isn't quick, so I just wanted to make sure that I'm just concerned

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that it puts a person on a spot on a pretty large controversial area.

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When they come on halfway through the agenda, so I think it makes more sense for me.

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All right.

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Let the record show I oppose the changing of the agenda with all due respect.

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I understand there are people here for the bike item, but I do think it's prudent for the

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new council member to be able to participate in this particular process.

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And they are welcome to also provide public comment during the item as well.

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So we will leave that.

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Do we have any other requests?

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Any requests from the public?

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So we are switching the animals or Lena.

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We are switching the animals.

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We are switching the animals.

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If there's any public comment on the motion.

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Sure.

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Any public comment?

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On the movement of item 11 ahead of 10.

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Seeing none, I move that we reorder the agenda to have item 11 done before item 10.

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Roll call. Council member Mar. Yes.

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Down in Calveo? No. Redell Harris? Yes. May I do this? Yes.

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All right. So, otherwise, the agenda stands. We will move now to the consent calendar. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered to be routine in nature.

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and will be approved by one blanket motion with a roll call vote, there will be no separate

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discussion of these items unless persons request specific items to be removed from the consent

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calendar for discussion and separate action. Any items removed will be considered after the

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motion to approve the consent calendar. Do we have any requests from Council to poll items?

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I'd like to remove number five. Council member Dowling Kovie, I have no items.

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Right. Any requests from the public?

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Seeing none. Do I have a motion?

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I'll move approval of the amended consent calendar.

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All second.

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Rule call please.

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Councilmember Omar.

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Yes, down Calveo.

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Aye.

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Redell Harris.

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Aye. Mayor Davis.

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Aye. Thank you.

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And for item five.

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Yes.

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That was me.

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Okay.

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This was the acceptance of the Plastic Community Foundation Grant

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Downtown Arts and Entertainment Business District.

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And I just put it out here because I want to thank the Placer Community Foundation for their $10,000 grant to the Downtown Business Association who will put that to good use.

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The Downtown Business Association is going to try to have Auburn, downtown Auburn have their own identity and they're going to develop an arts and entertainment district.

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So this is a good way to start it out, and I just want to acknowledge the thank you for that.

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That's it.

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Oh, Bolo gives a thanks, too.

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Bolo improves.

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Fantastic.

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Do I have any council questions or comments?

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Any public comment?

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I'll move approval of this item by resolution.

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The second.

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I'll second that.

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Roll call please.

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Council member.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Moving on now, we will open public comments and I will let folks know if this is your first

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time to city council.

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This is public comment for items not on the agenda.

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So if you're here to discuss the bike lanes, we'll get to that next.

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This is a time provided so that the public may speak to the council on any item not on the agenda.

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And we ask that you make your statements brief.

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not to exceed three minutes. We can't take action, but we can direct staff or place in my future

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agenda. And I would like to, before we open it, mention that we do have a town hall scheduled

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for the automated license plate readers on September 21st, in the Rose Room downstairs at 6pm.

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So if you're here for a flocc, you're automated license plate readers. You are more the welcome

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to speak or come to the town hall,

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there will be opportunities to speak then as well.

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So do we have any public comment from Council?

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Yes.

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Do you public comment?

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I'll do a quick public comment of we won the kickball game

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against the Chamber of Commerce.

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It was our third year, being a Chamber of Commerce.

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Thank you very much.

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We had some VIPs, the Fire Chief, and Public Works,

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some other folks on the, there was some sliding going on.

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I was very impressed.

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So, it was a great time by all, we edited it out at ARD's Food Truck Fest.

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And we had a great time.

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Everyone is a pile of sore the day after, because we all

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am playing kickball on a long time, but appreciate everyone

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for coming out and for ARD for hosting us.

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So thank you.

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Oh, and the Jamie Ross for organizing.

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Thank you.

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Absolutely.

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Good evening, Mayor Davis and Council members, Wayne Nader.

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If I think as we go through life mistakes or something that we all have to deal with, and I think it speaks to our character on how we deal with those.

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If we deal with them honestly, the implications of them, do we deal with them honestly with integrity?

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Or do we do it dismissive or do we just disregard it?

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I think, again, it speaks to character and this is especially important when it comes to

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leadership in a public arena because that really comes down to public trust and an erosion of

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potentially public trust if issues are not dealt with, it doesn't take place.

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Obviously, as you were sworn into this position, you said that you would defend, you would support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California and that you obviously do so freely and that you are faithfully administering your responsibilities as a public servant.

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What I'm trying to get at is that you made a decision last Wednesday at a special meeting to make an exception, or it was last week at some point.

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You made a decision to make an exception to the election law with regards to Mayor Davis's filing for reelection.

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It was done during what is normally considered the extension period when there is the incumbent

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that has decided not to run, there is an additional week that's given.

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And that is for new filers, not current office holders.

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So I really concerned that that is a bending of the law very clearly in the election law.

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And again, I am very concerned and disappointed in that decision.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Madam Mayor, I just want to make one statement.

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I just want to say that we're not going to engage in back and forth conversation, but just to correct the record.

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The City Council did meet in closed session last week.

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We took no action.

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There was no reportable action.

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I just need to put that on the record for the purposes of what was just stated.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, I'll just also briefly mention that the clerk did issue a press release on this topic

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and there are copies available from the clerk if anybody would like a copy.

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Here at City Hall or by email request, either one.

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Thank you very much.

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Ready?

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Good evening council members. My name is Sandy and I am one of we the people.

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I'd like to thank you for agreeing to be public servants of the people for having taken your

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of office to uphold and defend both the federal and the state constitutions. I want to remind

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you of the oath of that oath and would like to read you the preemble to the federal constitution

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and the preemble to the California State Constitution as a reminder of the filter you must use

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in governing this body. As the constitutions are the highest law of the land, despite what any

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and our group would counsel you otherwise.

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We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more-perfect union established

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justice and suredomistic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general

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welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do or

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gain and establish this constitution for the United States of America, those were our founders.

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The California State Constitution preemble states we the people of the state of California grateful to Almighty God for our freedom in order to secure and perpetuate its blessings do establish this Constitution.

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I would also like to share with you that the case Marbury V. Madison of 1803 clearly says any law repugnant to the Constitution shall be void.

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In addition, the Scottish decision of 2024 trumped the USA clearly says that there is no immunity for unofficial acts.

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So I would advise that this council be careful to abide by the constitutionally pursuant rules and statutes that have been passed concerning local elections here in this municipality.

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It would be wise for the letter of the law to be followed as a representative of the people.

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It is your duty to do so.

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And I thank you and advance for that.

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Thank you.

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Do some blockstep.

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I'll give you a short vote.

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There's my short one.

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Members, the council.

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I want to remind everyone of three important facts about flock.

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One, the flock system is a very large machine that follows people around.

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Oh, sorry.

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Please state your name.

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Jared level.

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Okay.

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Two, being followed around is offensive.

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whether it's spent done by a human or a machine.

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Three, flock is optional.

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That's it.

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In a few weeks, we'll hear a lot about how legal flock is

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and how good or bad it is at catching criminals.

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We'll learn how the data is stored and how it is used both by our police and other customers.

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We'll learn how flock plans to save itself. The simple facts we'll get lost in the technical discussion.

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Modern people enjoy powers our ancestors could never imagine. We also suffer indignities they would never tolerate. We've become really used to it.

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Our economy and our national politics are dominated by billionaires who hate us. On the internet, we're abused by tech companies because they're federal and state governments are unable to keep up with technology.

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Social media companies predict our kids and make money on our anger and frustration.

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AI promises to make that worse.

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Where monitored and commodified by businesses of all kinds,

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through our smart houses and smart cars,

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gas pump targeted advertisements at us.

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We suffer in many strange new ways, and we usually can't do much about it.

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We don't need to put up with being watched by this massive flock machine.

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A spine machine, a machine we've allowed to grow very large because it doesn't move.

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If Flock were a network of flying drones or robots, we'd have killed it long ago.

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Somehow, since Flock can follow us around with stationary cameras and cloud computing,

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it seems normal and acceptable.

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Flock is optional.

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We can stock pain for it and turn it off.

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Machine that follows humans around a town, or a whole country, is an offensive human dignity

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and should be turned off.

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New-like new data life cycle policies and access policies won't change that.

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A higher rate of hotly success won't change that.

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Block is offensive and terrible, and we should turn it off.

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Thank you. I'll also let up, sorry.

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Good evening.

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My name is Mark Hoffman. I'm privileged to represent

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Placer Repertoire Theatre. Placer Repertoire Theatre is a professional and educational

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theatre endeavor. We have no current permanent performance home.

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But we do take our shows to various venues throughout the county and surrounding area.

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We provide shows for schools, senior centers,

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corporations that are interested, and the general public.

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Our season, official season is opening next month with the show Dracula.

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We have then used already scheduled for that in other parts of the county, we're looking

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to secure a performance venue here in Auburn, so that's coming up.

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One of the needs that we have that I'd like to bring before you is that our executive director is interested in expanding our board.

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And we are openly seeking individuals who would be interested in performing volunteer activities to support the theater,

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such as usher's ticket ticketing and other such things if you're into costuming, if you're into set, you know, construction.

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We're looking forward to any volunteers who would like to participate in that way and receive training in the professional aspects of theater. Thank you.

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Okay, thank you. What's the best way people can learn more?

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How should people learn more about this?

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Is there a website?

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We have a website, but probably the easiest thing to do is go to Facebook and look up

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Placer Reptory Theater or PRT.org.

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There you go.

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Thank you.

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You do have a very good Facebook, so it's a good spot to go.

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All right, do we have any more?

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This is about the plot.

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Hi, my name is Story Havolin.

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Been a long time, Auburn resident.

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And I know everybody has concern about these

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plot cameras, but I just want to say, hey,

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if it helps our officers, why not?

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If it results crime faster, why not?

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My feeling is, if you're a legit human being,

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you wouldn't have anything to worry about, right?

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So, go for it.

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Help the police officers.

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Thank you.

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Good evening, everybody. My name is Melissa Johnson. I am here representing the EDC and the Auburn Chamber.

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We announced at the last town hall that we are doing another one of the classes to optimize search for local Auburn businesses.

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We are having another one September 1st 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. and it will be held at the canyon.

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You community center. So if you are a local business owner or non-profit, work for a non-profit

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or run a non-profit, and you want to optimize your search so that people can find you in

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Auburn, using all the free stuff, not there to sell them a local business owner that just

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wants to share what I know. And this is being hosted by the Chamber. So you can check it out now

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and register on the Chamber website. It's free for Chamber members. Unfortunately, it's a Chamber

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thing it's $30 for non-Jamer members. Sorry folks. But you can check it out and that's

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September 1st. Thank you. And we're going to get you next year on that chamber trophy. Thank you.

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Good luck. We need to do some recruiting chamber. You put your heart into it. I mean, you did some really

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play. My knees into it. I think it's too. Yeah. Oh, it's great. Thank you.

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I just wanted to make a quick comment that after a year of renovation, the Auburn Library is now open once again.

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So, come on out and read a book because as my grant be used to say, people that don't read missile.

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So that's it.

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Fantastic. I would like to echo that.

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Celebration.

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It was Allison.

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I were there on Saturday.

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Yes.

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Fantastic.

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The number of people flooding through the doors with smiles on their faces was just.

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a $10 million investment in our community.

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The library is fantastic if you haven't been able to visit it since it just reopened.

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Please do.

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It's great.

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Light, bright, airy, just a great facility.

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And the kids just went wild including your two.

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It was wonderful to see.

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So thank you so much to the county.

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And to the friends of the Auburn Library.

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You know, they also donated $130,000.

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They were able to raise in the last year to support our library.

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So we're incredibly fortunate to have such a great facility in our community.

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So thank you and thanks for bringing that up.

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Good evening.

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Council members.

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My name is Spencer Delling.

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My family and I have been residents here for about 40 years.

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And I only recently found out about the flocks system.

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I want to address that.

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Thank you for announcing that you'll host the meeting on September 21st.

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I, to be very frank with you.

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This is the type of surveillance measure that I would expect to find on one of my three

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comment, deployments to Afghanistan.

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It's in violation of California state law.

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It's unconstitutional.

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And I would like to humbly ask why our elected

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officials feel they need to conduct such

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independent surveillance of our operand residents.

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It's rather confusing to me.

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So I would respectfully ask that you would

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consider immediately canceling our contracts,

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taking down the cameras, and also issuing

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a statement regarding the intent of the council to not

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intend to implement any further surveillance measures without complete transparency and a public

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vote on the measure.

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Thank you so much.

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I'm sorry I missed your name.

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Could you repeat it?

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Thank you.

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Any further public comment?

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Well, yeah.

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Good evening.

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My name is Rich Nielsen.

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I'm actually not here for that I'm here for the bike and real head thing, but as a retired

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deputy sheriff, with two young daughters in the community, I think flock can't

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is our phenomenal. I think for safety standpoint, for law enforcement and for other all being.

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When you're in public, you don't have a public, you don't have any right of expectation.

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I think we have measures that have moved forward. We've got LPR cameras.

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I personally had my life saved from an LPR camera, and I think they're fantastic.

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So support local law enforcement. Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm going to, I'm going to

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also have the record show we received five other public comments by email for opposed in one

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other in favor. So those will remain in public comments. Any other public comment?

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Also with any public comment received via email we do have a copy of it in the back and it's available

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as well in my office.

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Hi there my name is Eric Robb and I feel like you would be

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remissive me to not comment on flock cameras. Now, as the gentleman previously stated,

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you do not have an expectation of privacy, even when you're in public, you can be recorded,

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you can be photographed or whatever, but we're at a time in the world.

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Old in our country with the advanced technology, where we need to make a choice if that means the opportunity to be seen in public means that you will always be surveilled in public.

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Must we always have the law enforcement knowing exactly where everyone is at just the little search of a license plate number or any other personal details regarding it?

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Does being in public mean that you will always be watched by the government and in Vox case not the government a private corporation has selling your data your habits your interest to whoever now

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There will be little walkbacks. There will be things that happen. Oh, they're going to reduce

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the time in which they hold every single person in the country's license plate that happens

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to drive by one of the years for a week instead of a month. In various of the things, there will

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be some protections. And hopefully what they're wanting is everyone to stop caring about it.

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any combination to be able to track any one of the nation no matter what.

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For that information to be given over to other, you know, law enforcement agencies,

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other agencies of interest.

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I, of course, another big one that takes advantage of black cameras.

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They're not supposed to, but law enforcement complies.

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A corporation could comply.

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The IRS could comply.

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Anyone could comply.

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This is not a government service.

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This is a private corporation that is surveilling not just you.

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not just the members of the system Council, not just me, but everyone, the potential for everyone

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to be tracked at any moment. Now, you better hope that you've never pissed off a cop,

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you better hope that you've never married a cop, you'd be hoping you'd never had a

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guilty lover be a cop and or, you know, have a variety of other

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organizations that have access to this information because they will track you, they track

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children inside of genie's hymns, they track their XY's, they track just women seeking

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abortion across state lines, they've prosecuted them. They will track you if this power

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is made available, then they will use it. It's not a matter of, if it's not a matter

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of a couple of bad apples, if the power is there, it will be used always.

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Thank you.

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Madam Mayor, if I could, I know we instituted this once before, that during

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public comment it would be there during general or even when we talk about the bikes.

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If you guys have, you know, instead of applause, if you wouldn't mind jazz hands work great,

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just so we don't disrupt the council chamber. So just want to put that out there that we,

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we always encourage that just so that we can move along. So thank you to everyone in jazz hands.

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Like I started to go. He got the memo. Thank you.

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Hi, my name is River and I've been a resident for three years now. I just want to go and

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we'd say there are 30 flock cameras around Auburn and anyone thinks that's a little overkill?

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I would, who was it? Someone asked, like, why did you guys allow it to be put up? And I think that

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is an answer that the community needs to know because, again, it's the invasion of our purpose.

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Thank you. Yeah, no problem. Just reminding to come to the the town hall and we'll

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Yeah. And just reminder for everyone during public comment, we're not allowed to respond, so that's part of the reason why we made the town hall so we can have more of a dialogue with the community because we know there's a lot of interest in getting responses and we're just not allowed to respond to public comment in the meeting on public comment like that. So just wanted to let everyone know that's why we're not responding when people have questions.

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Thank you.

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All right. With that, we will go ahead and close public comment.

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Moving on now to Council business, these items include discussion and or action by the City Council.

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And before we open up the white we can come up mental if you'd like, I just wanted to say a few words.

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For folks who might be the first time coming to Council meeting to make public comment, just to understand the general process.

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First of all, thank you all for coming. This is one of the reasons I love serving on Council is because our community spoke out,

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And we listened and we want to take a corrective course.

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So we're here because we are listening and we want to find a good solution.

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And so tonight I am looking forward to hearing our staff report.

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I'm looking forward to hearing from a variety of users of this corridor and

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with the intention of and goal of finding compromise. So with that, I will introduce our

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Director of Public Works, men to the.

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Good evening Madam Mayor, Council.

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And members of the public, there's quite a.

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Give you here this evening. It's nice to see you. The item being discussed today is the bicycle facilities

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along Pacific Avenue that were approved on July 13th, council meeting. The roadway improvement

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originally brought forward by staff was the direct representation of the recommendations

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outlined in the act of transportation plan or ATP. While the ATP provided a very good

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framework for improving bicycle pedestrian connectivity, it did not fully account for how this

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particular stretch of specific avenue is currently being utilized.

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That is where the community input became especially valuable.

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The community helped to identify some of the particular shortcomings of this plan that

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needed to be addressed as we move forward.

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And I can't begin by saying thank you enough to everyone that's reached out.

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I've spoken to many of you in the auditorium, I'm sure.

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And we heard you and your social media posts and things of that nature kind of came

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through, and if let us know where we went wrong.

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And the original prime represented by staff call for 212 foot travel lanes.

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Ultimately, the width allocated to those travel lanes became a limiting factor, because

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the original design did not account for on Street Parking.

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That's what happens when you use 12 foot travel lanes.

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It becomes so massive that the road cannot be used for its original purpose that it was.

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Entry parking lanes can be narrow as narrow as eight feet.

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Incorporating the additional width of that design, the 12 foot lane,

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didn't allow for that to happen.

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If you shrink the lanes to ten feet lanes, you gain four feet in each direction,

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and you actually gain some shoulder width where

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Entry parking can then come out.

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I had the opportunity to visit the soccer fest.

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I'm speaking to the crowd, I know I probably should do this,

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but I just want you guys to know that we heard you.

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I had the opportunity to visit soccer fast.

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I think that's what's called on Friday night last week and it was very telling, you know,

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there were some mistakes were made and it's mostly by staff.

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We didn't necessarily give council all the information that was necessary for them to make

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the correct decision or the correct, you know, make the correct decision at that time.

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Since that, we have made some changes and implemented a couple of new plans that we're going

464
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:13,820
to present here tonight for everyone to take a look at and we do think that they're

465
00:37:13,820 --> 00:37:15,500
good alternative to what was recommended.

466
00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:21,380
And while the ATP spoke on a very general basis of what the Pacific

467
00:37:21,380 --> 00:37:25,480
Street should look like, it didn't account for local usability and how

468
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,620
that roadway should be utilized and how it was currently being utilized.

469
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,320
So, they stuff has brought forward two options that we believe not only

470
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,100
maintained the original intent of the active transportation plan, which is very

471
00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:42,240
important, but also provide practical opportunities for

472
00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:45,520
unsreparking in the vicinity of Real Hip-Hark towards Overlook Park.

473
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:58,200
I want to point out that this project only represents that portion between Sacramento Street and as far as Gum Lane the remaining portion that go that turns into Pleasant Avenue and goes to High Street

474
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:09,000
Just just not room and with the roadway to do anything there. So it'll remain as it is with the small exception of it getting some Sheros, which will become sort of like a bike boulevard if you will, where people it's a share the road

475
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,180
I think

476
00:38:14,470 --> 00:38:17,950
it would be a good times, Madam Tork, if you can pull up the options,

477
00:38:29,790 --> 00:38:39,030
so I'll go forward and say this, the intent behind this is for my report to be very short. I know it's already getting quite long. I'm talking in that way.

478
00:38:39,690 --> 00:38:51,210
There's the two options, the option one and option two, I want to give council the opportunity to ask questions about what staff is thinking, what differs from the active transportation plan.

479
00:38:51,210 --> 00:38:55,510
I also want to give the public an opportunity to get gather what's going on here.

480
00:38:55,510 --> 00:38:59,950
I don't know how in that few guys guard with looking into this report.

481
00:39:01,070 --> 00:39:05,070
Option one provides standard five-foot bike lanes on each side of the roadway with the parallel

482
00:39:05,070 --> 00:39:08,250
parking along the north side of the street adjacent to Railhead Park.

483
00:39:08,310 --> 00:39:16,270
This configuration provides approximately 120 to parking spaces, each parking space at approximately

484
00:39:16,270 --> 00:39:18,090
22 feet in length.

485
00:39:20,650 --> 00:39:22,070
Can we go to option 2?

486
00:39:24,810 --> 00:39:27,050
Option 2 provides parallel parking on the north side

487
00:39:27,050 --> 00:39:31,970
of the roadway along the residential side while placing both bicycle facilities on the opposite side

488
00:39:31,970 --> 00:39:36,710
of the roadway. So the bicycle facilities would be on the side of the roadway that's closest to

489
00:39:36,710 --> 00:39:41,250
the railhead park that I tried to make it so that that makes sense there I don't know if it does

490
00:39:41,250 --> 00:39:48,720
and the parallel parking lane is on the residential side of the roadway there. These are both very

491
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:54,900
good options and it helps to retain parking. This particular option allows for 122

492
00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:58,260
on street parking spots. No, I've got that backwards.

493
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:10,720
Yes, no, this particular option allows for about approximately 122 parking spots, and that's with each parking spot being approximately 22 feet similar to what's happening on the other side.

494
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:17,340
102.

495
00:40:19,180 --> 00:40:26,420
I have a quick question. You see, you're talking just one side of parking, and that allows 122 parking spaces.

496
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:31,040
And are you talking all the way from Sacramento to Pleasant?

497
00:40:31,740 --> 00:40:35,140
Yes, to gun lane or just pass over look part.

498
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:47,680
Sorry about that.

499
00:40:48,140 --> 00:40:51,940
So just as a point of order, our staff are providing a report and then we'll have questions

500
00:40:51,940 --> 00:40:53,580
and we'll open it up for public comments.

501
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,080
So just for the purposes of decorum and the council rooms.

502
00:40:57,140 --> 00:40:58,840
Thank you very much everyone for understanding.

503
00:40:59,780 --> 00:41:00,260
Thank you, Minjo.

504
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:00,940
Absolutely.

505
00:41:00,980 --> 00:41:05,140
And I'll go forward by saying both of these options as well as the original ATP content

506
00:41:05,140 --> 00:41:07,940
extended from Sacramento Street, all the way to Pacifica.

507
00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:08,340
I'm sorry.

508
00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:14,200
Sacramento Street, along Pacific Avenue towards Gum Lane, so just to clarify that.

509
00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:18,540
Ultimately, both options accomplish the primary goal of improving bicycle connectivity,

510
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,500
while recognizing the existing use of the roadway and preserving the opportunity

511
00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:27,000
for our street parking. I think this is a good opportunity for me to turn it over to the council,

512
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:32,480
so I can answer any questions that you may have or provide any additional clarifying information

513
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:33,560
that might be necessary.

514
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:34,700
Madam Mary, I have a question.

515
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:36,680
I just had a question real fast.

516
00:41:37,060 --> 00:41:40,860
So on the option one, it's a red curb and an option two.

517
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,760
It's a red and white curb, is that I thought there was something different about what

518
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:48,440
happened during the main events that happened at Railhead Park?

519
00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:49,260
Yeah, no, absolutely.

520
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:50,500
And that's a valid point.

521
00:41:50,820 --> 00:41:54,920
So last week and I forgot to mention this, I had the opportunity to meet with the director

522
00:41:55,640 --> 00:42:03,120
of ARD and his staff and if you scroll to option two, so option two while parallel parking

523
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:10,820
is allowed on the residential side. Option two also with the bike lanes being there gives us the

524
00:42:10,820 --> 00:42:15,380
opportunity to close the bike lanes and make it available for parking at some key-look

525
00:42:15,380 --> 00:42:20,040
key times during the year. We've identified all those events that they have.

526
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:26,620
So in total, there's about an event per month, we can say, but I would say that the most

527
00:42:26,620 --> 00:42:33,400
just populated times, it's about six times per year where all that parking would be necessary.

528
00:42:35,220 --> 00:42:39,300
Like a major event at the time, and they're not just regular soccer.

529
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:45,460
Yeah, no, I think so if based off of what's out there with the 102 parking on one side,

530
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:53,740
and 122 parking spots on the other side, there's ample parking for a normal weekend soccer event,

531
00:42:53,740 --> 00:42:57,920
I would say what happened on Friday with a soccer fest where all the teams and all the

532
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,180
parents and everyone were just there. That's an extraordinary situation that would be someone

533
00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:06,180
that would be something that would open up both sides. Absolutely. We can easily close down the

534
00:43:06,180 --> 00:43:10,620
bike lane through signage and community outreach and we can make it so that that now becomes

535
00:43:10,620 --> 00:43:17,280
available parking for everyone in the community as it's needed. Okay. That was so just to go clarify

536
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:25,720
on that module then. Option two allows for 122, Option one, 102. Now option two, which would

537
00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:32,820
allow for parking on the opposite side of the rail, railhead park, all the time, 24, 7,

538
00:43:33,060 --> 00:43:40,020
parking is available any time of the day. The other side would be for the would be no parking except

539
00:43:40,020 --> 00:43:47,180
for large events and those are events that you are working with ARD to identify. So anybody who

540
00:43:47,180 --> 00:43:53,520
utilize as the park either rail head or overlook, go through ARD because they manage those

541
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:54,200
two parks.

542
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,440
And so they're going to know which events would require more parking.

543
00:43:59,420 --> 00:44:03,520
And so then when they communicate those events, I believe there are approximately seven

544
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:11,660
or so, then we would go ahead and close the bike lane and allow parking on both sides

545
00:44:11,660 --> 00:44:14,040
of the street in those circumstances.

546
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:22,460
So, for example, when we have formidable or one of the races that at the overlook that people are parking all over the place,

547
00:44:23,060 --> 00:44:27,900
the bike lane would be closed for that day, and people would be parking just as they park today.

548
00:44:28,580 --> 00:44:28,780
Correct?

549
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,340
That is correct. And also taken to consideration.

550
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,860
The staff is also aware of other events that are outside of what ARD does there,

551
00:44:36,060 --> 00:44:39,660
and we will work with other service clubs to make sure that those days are also identified.

552
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,660
We know the fourth of July is a big one, and that's a big thing for everyone along the way.

553
00:44:43,660 --> 00:44:49,660
Nobody parks along, nobody is allowed to park on specific drain for the July for, you know,

554
00:44:49,860 --> 00:44:56,540
but I think though that anybody who utilizes the, either of those parks for any large event

555
00:44:56,540 --> 00:44:59,540
has to go through ARD because they are their parks. Now.

556
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,980
That doesn't mean that people could be utilizing the overlook, which is where the horse is staging area. So we'll have to coordinate with them separately, of course, you know, on those kinds of things. But I just wanted to make it clear as I understood that that's what you're, that's what option to would allow. So thank you very much. I also had a question on sharing, I'm just gathering information. So just as a question about, you know, initially when this council acted, we also

557
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:39,680
approved a ped lane, and I understand that now the ADA makes that difficult for us to do that.

558
00:45:40,540 --> 00:45:47,980
So I'm wondering if we're able to, if pedestrians are able to walk into the bike lane, I'm just trying to deal with them as well.

559
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:56,420
I'm just wondering, a shared use path, if you could just kind of speak to that.

560
00:45:56,420 --> 00:46:04,720
I don't know what the pros and cons of doing that or if it is something that we can even do with the ADA requirements for the state of California, but if you could just talk to that I really appreciate it.

561
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:26,340
Absolutely, and I'm happy to do so. I would say that stating outright that this is a pathway for both bicycle and pedestrians at the same time should not be done. It's just it's simply, no. That being said, the roadway is currently being utilized in a certain way, and there's nothing stopping the community from continuing.

562
00:46:26,340 --> 00:46:31,760
to do it in the way they are currently using it at. We have to keep, we have to take into consideration

563
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:36,720
while this is a bicycle facility, it's not like we're going to see a 100,000 bikes on that

564
00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:41,780
land throughout the course of the day. All day every day I think it's going to be the usage is going

565
00:46:41,780 --> 00:46:50,200
to be what it is today. It's just going to be marked. So if you are able to walk on Pacific

566
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:55,400
currently with bikes that are out there, I don't anticipate that there's going to be a changing.

567
00:46:55,400 --> 00:47:00,880
that's going to be changing. I don't think there is going to be an influx of bikes going

568
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:07,060
on Pacific just because this is now, this infrastructure is now added. But to market as a

569
00:47:07,060 --> 00:47:13,280
bike and pedestrian facility, no, we shouldn't do that. There are some safety concerns associated

570
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,920
with that and I think the narrowing of the lanes and just the way that this is laid out. It's an

571
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:23,600
ideal for the way it's pictured depicted here. So then the narrowing of the lanes makes an

572
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:28,560
I'm obviously I want everyone to be safe, but so this brings me to another issue.

573
00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:34,380
I know that when you and I first walked the project before we took action on this, and

574
00:47:34,380 --> 00:47:39,920
we talked about the difficulty of putting a sidewalk in on the opposite side of the railhead

575
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,780
park because of the right way that would need to be obtained and then moving of the poles

576
00:47:44,780 --> 00:47:49,400
and so forth and it just becomes an astronomically expensive endeavor, which is why I initially

577
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,860
I wanted to do that a little peddling before and in any of that.

578
00:47:53,940 --> 00:48:03,160
My question is that if this is just a bike lane, I still would like to be able to somehow

579
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,360
address pedestrian use on the road.

580
00:48:05,540 --> 00:48:07,060
The road will be more narrow.

581
00:48:07,260 --> 00:48:13,360
I do recognize the fact that if we go with option two, which I'm going to allow for permanent

582
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,400
parking on that side, people could walk safely in that.

583
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:21,940
So I guess I would note that that area where people can park,

584
00:48:22,180 --> 00:48:23,700
there would be a white line, correct?

585
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:25,400
So right now there's no line.

586
00:48:25,700 --> 00:48:27,440
Right now, well, you got all kinds of lines.

587
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,460
But before we started to do anything with it,

588
00:48:30,460 --> 00:48:32,120
the road just had the dotted line.

589
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,300
There was no white line, the delineated parking or anything.

590
00:48:37,060 --> 00:48:39,440
But with option two or option two,

591
00:48:39,620 --> 00:48:43,720
there would actually be a white line on the outside of the roadway, correct?

592
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:44,560
Correct.

593
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,940
So then people could walk in there is what I'm trying to say.

594
00:48:48,300 --> 00:48:52,440
So I'll I'll I'll ask this question in such a way that

595
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:52,620
little.

596
00:48:55,090 --> 00:49:02,490
Currently there is well despite the red marks I apologize for those I had a time before the red marks were on the roadway.

597
00:49:04,410 --> 00:49:06,030
There are no sidewalks there.

598
00:49:06,170 --> 00:49:08,210
People were walking on that street.

599
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:11,200
Where?

600
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:12,800
So go ahead, Menjal.

601
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:17,880
There the way in the current condition of the road people were walking along there.

602
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:24,720
Nothing really changes with that. There is never going to be a situation unless those events are out there where that roadways filled with cars.

603
00:49:25,060 --> 00:49:33,340
Those big events when the roadways filled with cars. So all the available space, both in the bike lane and in the parallel parking are available to

604
00:49:34,620 --> 00:49:36,260
the utilize how it's currently being utilized.

605
00:49:36,820 --> 00:49:43,140
Thank you, Manjol. And like I said, I would just, again, just we're having this conversation is that I just note that, you know,

606
00:49:43,140 --> 00:49:45,900
I use specific, I come out when I run in the canyon.

607
00:49:46,140 --> 00:49:51,120
I come out where that gate is and I have my along the road a little bit until I go back

608
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:56,660
into the staging area and back down to the trail and when I'm on the road I always step off the

609
00:49:56,660 --> 00:50:00,000
road and on the dirt when cars come because you never know.

610
00:50:00,210 --> 00:50:14,730
But I do say that I like that line there because it keeps the cars in their lane, as opposed to driving over into the gutter, so to speak, where the people would be parking.

611
00:50:17,230 --> 00:50:34,390
I mean, we can't call it a pedestrian, it is for parallel parking, but it does provide an opportunity for people to utilize that eight feet for what, you know, a parking, people could walk there, whatever they want to do just like they do now.

612
00:50:34,390 --> 00:50:37,990
Yeah, and I understand that perspective.

613
00:50:38,730 --> 00:50:43,490
I have some concerns, mainly while we're here tonight,

614
00:50:44,170 --> 00:50:46,270
for two concerns, number one, bike safety,

615
00:50:46,650 --> 00:50:49,010
and number two, access to the park,

616
00:50:49,010 --> 00:50:51,030
parking so that people would access to the park.

617
00:50:51,210 --> 00:50:54,510
Because I feel badly that this council,

618
00:50:54,970 --> 00:50:56,290
unfortunately overlooked,

619
00:50:57,070 --> 00:50:58,730
did not take that into consideration.

620
00:50:59,250 --> 00:51:00,170
That was an oversight.

621
00:51:00,270 --> 00:51:01,690
It was an honest fair oversight.

622
00:51:01,690 --> 00:51:05,650
And as our mayor said, we're here tonight to rectify that.

623
00:51:06,550 --> 00:51:11,550
So my concern, though, is that I do, I go there every Saturday.

624
00:51:11,810 --> 00:51:13,850
My kids played there, soccer.

625
00:51:14,590 --> 00:51:21,010
And that is a big concern when you have children, parents, families who have no other

626
00:51:21,010 --> 00:51:22,410
place to park, but on the street.

627
00:51:22,550 --> 00:51:29,450
They want to be close because they are caring a lot of equipment, and that's just the way it is.

628
00:51:29,450 --> 00:51:34,310
So, I have concerns about both options.

629
00:51:35,270 --> 00:51:39,930
I have concerns about options, well since option 2 is there.

630
00:51:40,150 --> 00:51:45,070
My concern about that is that we have the kids,

631
00:51:46,150 --> 00:51:48,870
the parking will be on the opposite side of the field,

632
00:51:49,290 --> 00:51:52,230
so the kids will have to cross and parents.

633
00:51:52,770 --> 00:51:55,790
We'll have to cross the road and the bike lane,

634
00:51:55,910 --> 00:51:57,910
so there will be everybody who will be running across.

635
00:51:57,910 --> 00:52:13,330
I asked if it's possible, we can put a crosswalk in, possibly at some point, and I know like for Skyward School, we have those shiny things that work occasion, and you don't have to answer that yet.

636
00:52:13,510 --> 00:52:21,950
That's an observation and a possible solution, I don't know. Option one, my concern, option one.

637
00:52:23,590 --> 00:52:31,770
My concern about option one and looking at this is that we're trying to implement a bike

638
00:52:31,770 --> 00:52:32,450
lane.

639
00:52:32,650 --> 00:52:41,270
We're trying to have Auburn become bike friendly and have people, there's a lot of people

640
00:52:41,270 --> 00:52:48,470
in our community who do like to ride bikes and it's growing and we hope it grows and so

641
00:52:48,470 --> 00:52:58,710
we want it to be safe. In option one here the problem I see here is that the the the cars will

642
00:52:58,710 --> 00:53:06,070
be coming in front of bikes to park and that concerns me I've been a biker myself and and when you have cars

643
00:53:06,070 --> 00:53:12,050
going in front of bikes that's a big concern and then if you have cars parked open doors that's a concern.

644
00:53:15,290 --> 00:53:17,010
So I will say this.

645
00:53:17,070 --> 00:53:18,690
I ask you about council member.

646
00:53:19,590 --> 00:53:21,390
There are trade-off to both options.

647
00:53:25,370 --> 00:53:31,210
The problem with this scenario and with with with with Auburn in general, which I love deeply.

648
00:53:31,290 --> 00:53:31,790
I live here.

649
00:53:32,730 --> 00:53:34,030
Don't come for me.

650
00:53:35,870 --> 00:53:41,590
Each of these roadways provide challenges and we can sit here and we can talk about what

651
00:53:41,590 --> 00:53:49,350
challenges with each one of these. I do believe that both of these options are looking at active

652
00:53:49,350 --> 00:53:58,630
transportation as a whole. That's both bike traffic and pedestrian traffic. And more importantly

653
00:53:58,630 --> 00:54:03,170
that was brought to my attention through all of this, the the the the Austrian parking for the

654
00:54:03,170 --> 00:54:08,470
residents. And I think when you have a limited amount of space you're challenged to how you utilize

655
00:54:08,470 --> 00:54:15,350
that's based. I think option one and option two are good uses of that space. We can keep

656
00:54:15,350 --> 00:54:21,610
the roadway exactly as it is, but then the bikers are left out. Yeah. We could make some changes.

657
00:54:22,010 --> 00:54:27,870
We can use option one. And yes, while we have wider bike lanes for doing that,

658
00:54:28,090 --> 00:54:32,350
there is the trade-off of where we'll have to get creative with the striping for the inlets and

659
00:54:32,350 --> 00:54:37,770
outlets of where you couldn't pull in for parking and things of that nature. Option two also

660
00:54:37,770 --> 00:54:45,970
and some challenges. But option two is one of those challenges. I think a really good option

661
00:54:45,970 --> 00:54:51,830
giving the intention of the ATP, given what is necessary for the residents, given what is necessary

662
00:54:51,830 --> 00:54:58,190
for ARD and then community events. There is a safety mechanism built into this by having that

663
00:54:58,190 --> 00:54:59,970
You should put buffer lane up.

664
00:55:00,750 --> 00:55:10,270
None of these options are perfect. I would say one of these options is better than the other, and it certainly helps to serve the greater community.

665
00:55:11,010 --> 00:55:23,810
That's my approach to this. I can't make the roadway wider, I wish I can add sidewalks out there right now, and while they're not out there, staff is actively looking for funds to ensure that that can happen.

666
00:55:23,810 --> 00:55:25,290
So these are all things that are being considered.

667
00:55:25,670 --> 00:55:27,550
We do have to start to place Auburn is small.

668
00:55:27,950 --> 00:55:28,510
Auburn is unique.

669
00:55:28,770 --> 00:55:30,970
And Auburn has the opportunity to do something great.

670
00:55:31,090 --> 00:55:32,010
And I think this is a great opportunity.

671
00:55:32,210 --> 00:55:35,850
And my other question, Mr. Dean,

672
00:55:36,430 --> 00:55:38,850
is that we did do a traffic study, is that correct?

673
00:55:39,370 --> 00:55:41,410
There was a traffic analysis that was done

674
00:55:41,410 --> 00:55:43,370
as a part of the active transportation program,

675
00:55:43,370 --> 00:55:45,870
along with the comprehensive safety action plan.

676
00:55:46,030 --> 00:55:48,450
Those two things were done currently

677
00:55:49,790 --> 00:55:51,370
to help us reach this decision.

678
00:55:51,370 --> 00:55:55,130
Now, granted, I may have led the Council of Stray on July 13th,

679
00:55:55,190 --> 00:55:58,690
but I didn't give Councilwoman Valdencavio all the information,

680
00:55:59,350 --> 00:56:02,650
but I believe tonight the opportunity that indeed the plans,

681
00:56:02,810 --> 00:56:05,510
we have before you is a much better laid out plan,

682
00:56:05,790 --> 00:56:09,470
and that takes into consideration what the community has spoken to,

683
00:56:09,490 --> 00:56:10,850
the my community has spoken to it.

684
00:56:10,850 --> 00:56:13,730
And then just for everyone's information,

685
00:56:14,490 --> 00:56:20,390
I believe you had said there's seven exits on the,

686
00:56:20,390 --> 00:56:25,170
on the side opposite the railhead park, is that right?

687
00:56:25,630 --> 00:56:28,770
Yeah, so those are what we commonly refer to as contact points.

688
00:56:29,230 --> 00:56:31,510
So there's three streets, and there's, I believe,

689
00:56:31,930 --> 00:56:33,370
I don't know what we're on this, I think it is seven,

690
00:56:33,510 --> 00:56:36,030
there's four active residential driveways

691
00:56:36,030 --> 00:56:37,670
where cars would be backing out.

692
00:56:38,090 --> 00:56:41,670
So all those were taken into consideration when this was developed.

693
00:56:42,010 --> 00:56:43,350
But there are seven points of contact.

694
00:56:43,430 --> 00:56:46,390
There's three roadways and four driveways,

695
00:56:47,190 --> 00:56:48,590
coming out on to Pacific history.

696
00:56:51,330 --> 00:56:51,770
Thank you.

697
00:56:51,770 --> 00:57:02,690
Great. Thank you, Manjol. I want to thank you first and foremost for the significant amount of time that you've put into this. You have been very patient.

698
00:57:04,590 --> 00:57:15,610
I have questioned you. I've revisited you. I've challenged you and I asked you to present more than one option and I appreciate that because it gave us all an opportunity to debate.

699
00:57:15,610 --> 00:57:22,670
not just do it or don't do it, it was if we do it, how do we want to do it? So, thank you.

700
00:57:22,970 --> 00:57:28,790
It is my pleasure, and I live with someone that was born in Auburn, so she holds me very accountable for something.

701
00:57:30,710 --> 00:57:42,790
And so, I want to clarify that it is option two that maximizes parking opportunities and minimizes car bike friction points or contact points.

702
00:57:43,250 --> 00:57:44,110
That is correct.

703
00:57:44,430 --> 00:57:45,130
Thank you.

704
00:57:47,910 --> 00:57:52,790
And I want to highlight that this is in line with the ATP that took two plus years.

705
00:57:53,830 --> 00:57:54,530
That is correct.

706
00:57:56,610 --> 00:58:03,710
And I do, you know, I have the amount of himming and hauling I've put into this over the last two weeks has been.

707
00:58:03,810 --> 00:58:05,450
I won't go through all of it.

708
00:58:05,570 --> 00:58:06,490
I appreciate your input.

709
00:58:06,790 --> 00:58:08,670
In the interest of time, I just want to say thank you.

710
00:58:08,750 --> 00:58:09,590
All kinds of great.

711
00:58:09,990 --> 00:58:10,910
I know you've done your homework.

712
00:58:11,730 --> 00:58:20,290
No idea. And I'm largely because I want this to be successful. I want us to be able to move forward with projects and for the community to be heard.

713
00:58:20,630 --> 00:58:35,150
I'm confident that this is the best option that actually reaches the broad broader ATP and we will be more cognizant of the community as we move forward with some of these recommendations from the ATP.

714
00:58:35,150 --> 00:58:41,870
And I believe that this one is particularly challenged because it's the lack of sidewalks

715
00:58:41,870 --> 00:58:45,890
that this particular location made this one more interesting and just how Pacific

716
00:58:45,890 --> 00:58:46,610
street-to-use.

717
00:58:46,910 --> 00:58:51,990
But we will be moving forward on a different set of circumstances and we will have more community

718
00:58:51,990 --> 00:58:54,130
input as we move some of these things out.

719
00:58:54,210 --> 00:58:57,470
These people are very angry with me, so.

720
00:58:58,150 --> 00:59:02,030
I just, Madam Mayor, I just wanted to say it, Minjol, I do appreciate your coming before

721
00:59:02,030 --> 00:59:02,550
us today.

722
00:59:02,550 --> 00:59:12,590
I know this is difficult, but thank you for accepting, you know, things happen, mistakes are made, we move on, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna rectify this.

723
00:59:12,950 --> 00:59:19,350
So I, I very much look forward to hearing what the public has to say, but I do want to say thank you, mental, for coming up with a couple of options.

724
00:59:20,250 --> 00:59:24,410
There may be an option three that we don't even know about, but, but thank you, mental.

725
00:59:26,270 --> 00:59:30,710
All right, as we move now to public comment, this is the time you've all been waiting for.

726
00:59:30,710 --> 00:59:39,570
Let me share a few tips for public comments so that we stay under control.

727
00:59:40,750 --> 00:59:45,330
First of all, as Council Member Don Kavio shared, we like to use jazz hands.

728
00:59:45,610 --> 00:59:48,510
So if somebody has shared a comment, you are in agreement.

729
00:59:49,430 --> 00:59:50,670
Welcome you to do jazz hands.

730
00:59:50,730 --> 00:59:56,350
I know it's not that exciting, but it helps us judge the feedback in the room.

731
00:59:57,070 --> 00:59:59,590
So yeah, because we can see it and it helps us judge.

732
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:14,520
I make one comment. I know, for myself, and I'm sure everyone in the city council has read every single letter to us. So no need to read it again if you have something to add to that.

733
01:00:14,700 --> 01:00:25,140
I'll add for the record. We have eight public comments in favor six opposed or with some of them have a yes and.

734
01:00:25,140 --> 01:00:26,120
and then you're going to use it.

735
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,480
If you utilize any of the seating up here to wait and line, I know it can be a long time

736
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:29,700
stand.

737
01:00:29,700 --> 01:00:30,740
I'll get there.

738
01:00:30,860 --> 01:00:32,220
I've got all my advice.

739
01:00:32,820 --> 01:00:33,940
Just wait for it.

740
01:00:35,740 --> 01:00:36,240
I know.

741
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:37,920
So hold your applause.

742
01:00:38,260 --> 01:00:40,400
If you can, jazz hands are great.

743
01:00:42,300 --> 01:00:47,200
If you are planning to speak, if you can move into seats closer to the podium and that helps us

744
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:52,440
move through, we will have staff taking a list of questions.

745
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:58,340
So we will not have mental dean come up and answer each question as they come up.

746
01:00:58,460 --> 01:01:05,140
We'll make a list and we'll address all of them at the end and there's a three-minute max.

747
01:01:05,380 --> 01:01:10,060
So we do have a timer and it's not to intimidate you, but if you do get close to those three minutes

748
01:01:10,060 --> 01:01:19,660
I might start making a little face and if you get past the three I will respectfully whoever whatever point you're discussing ask you to wrap it up.

749
01:01:19,660 --> 01:01:23,790
And here we go, we'll go ahead and open it for public comment.

750
01:01:24,090 --> 01:01:26,370
Oh, and please state your name and where you live.

751
01:01:27,590 --> 01:01:28,370
My name is Slaslow.

752
01:01:28,470 --> 01:01:31,310
I'm in Auburn, and I'm the President of Auburn News

753
01:01:31,310 --> 01:01:31,930
Soccer Club.

754
01:01:32,390 --> 01:01:36,010
Our club has over 50 teams consisting of over 700 players.

755
01:01:36,450 --> 01:01:39,210
Last Friday, we hosted Soccer Fest, which is our kickoff event

756
01:01:39,210 --> 01:01:39,930
for the season.

757
01:01:40,230 --> 01:01:44,210
We provided bounce houses and hosted vendors for a fun family night.

758
01:01:44,530 --> 01:01:46,370
About a week before our event, we were made aware

759
01:01:46,370 --> 01:01:48,990
that the curbs along Pacific Avenue had been painted red.

760
01:01:48,990 --> 01:01:57,070
We quickly researched alternative parking options for our families, finding that the next closest parking lot is that overlooked park half a mile away from railhead.

761
01:01:57,530 --> 01:02:03,090
Pacific Avenue does not have sidewalks which would force young kids to walk along a busy road with several sharp turns.

762
01:02:03,730 --> 01:02:17,050
In addition to soccer fast, we host Friday night games. The three games are roughly 70 players in addition to referees at a low estimate of 1.5 cars per player that is 105 cars with referees 114.

763
01:02:17,050 --> 01:02:22,390
railhead only has 100 parking spots. Once the families arrive for the next games, that's an additional

764
01:02:22,390 --> 01:02:27,250
105 cars would know where to park, again forcing them into the nearby neighborhoods or overlook.

765
01:02:27,790 --> 01:02:32,670
This is a safety issue that should be taken very seriously. I read the staff report that was

766
01:02:32,670 --> 01:02:37,690
presented on 713 and at no point was the removal of parking mentioned, and looking at the plans

767
01:02:37,690 --> 01:02:47,030
adding in bike lanes would take up the parking spots. And while this wasn't an illegal way to

768
01:02:47,030 --> 01:02:52,670
day, quote, as part of the process, staff placed temporary markings in the roadway to provide

769
01:02:52,670 --> 01:02:57,670
a visual representation of what the completed project would look like and painted the

770
01:02:57,670 --> 01:03:01,870
car curves that would have indicated the elimination of parking.

771
01:03:03,390 --> 01:03:08,590
The staff report is once again misleading. The barking was eliminated. Red curves indicate

772
01:03:08,590 --> 01:03:13,230
no parking or stopping. It was not some sort of temporary, no parking area. The curves

773
01:03:13,910 --> 01:03:18,070
and the parking was eliminated until enough of us spoke up.

774
01:03:18,370 --> 01:03:22,070
Additionally, why were the alternatives presented today not previously considered?

775
01:03:22,670 --> 01:03:27,150
Is it not public works and the Council's duty to compare and consider all available options

776
01:03:27,150 --> 01:03:31,450
and choose the one that benefits the community most prior to implementation?

777
01:03:32,250 --> 01:03:37,170
I do appreciate your recognition of that not happening Council Member Amara.

778
01:03:38,410 --> 01:03:41,250
Neither option being presented today considers using Sheros.

779
01:03:41,250 --> 01:03:46,530
haven't we all been taught to share the road? Can the bicyclists not share the road with the families of Auburn?

780
01:03:47,710 --> 01:03:52,770
Mindual mention the bike use is considerably minimal, so it begs the question why do we need a bike lane at all.

781
01:03:53,370 --> 01:03:56,950
Although neither of the new options presented preserve all of the current street parking,

782
01:03:57,290 --> 01:04:02,290
we are still appreciative that the project has been put on hold, and that alternatives are being considered.

783
01:04:02,890 --> 01:04:06,390
We ask that the council members do its best for the community and our children.

784
01:04:07,410 --> 01:04:07,590
Thank you.

785
01:04:09,310 --> 01:04:15,810
Hi, my name is Dorie Havelin. I live at 106 Pine Crest Avenue and I live there for over 30 years.

786
01:04:17,650 --> 01:04:22,770
The course of 30 years, I don't know where he gets off on sand. There's only six events a year. There's not.

787
01:04:23,310 --> 01:04:31,690
That place is packed lots of time of the year. And what happens is when they don't have a place to park, they park on Pine Crest Avenue

788
01:04:31,690 --> 01:04:35,010
or a metal larke, and a bomb barreds are cords.

789
01:04:35,370 --> 01:04:37,630
I met, if you ever drove up, I'm pressed.

790
01:04:37,810 --> 01:04:41,730
As a sharp corner, we have lines of cards on both sides,

791
01:04:41,730 --> 01:04:45,310
and it's really, really hard to drive down that street.

792
01:04:45,790 --> 01:04:47,150
But that's not my main concern.

793
01:04:47,290 --> 01:04:50,130
I don't mind the soccer people park it on our street.

794
01:04:50,470 --> 01:04:51,850
I support that.

795
01:04:52,210 --> 01:04:57,450
But my main concern is not being able to park at all

796
01:04:57,450 --> 01:04:58,830
on Pacific Avenue.

797
01:04:59,310 --> 01:04:59,990
You know that?

798
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:29,000
Just cause as way more congestion, and over this last soccer event they had Friday, we went out there and everybody was parking in the field, which fire hazard and itself, the weeds are tall out there, you know, behind the park, behind the pond, but, you know, that's that's fine in D&D too, but I wish you guys or somebody to traffic people would have came to the name people who live in the area and maybe, you know, asked our thoughts and how it would affect us.

799
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:32,340
I can tell you over the 30 years I've lived there.

800
01:05:32,620 --> 01:05:40,560
We've had two cars go into the corner house on Pacific Avenue and Pine Crest, that blue house on the corner.

801
01:05:41,500 --> 01:05:48,040
Two cars went into his living room over the course of the 30 years because people go way too fast around that corner.

802
01:05:48,660 --> 01:05:54,260
I loved your idea about putting a three-way stop sign or something across the walk there.

803
01:05:54,260 --> 01:06:01,000
That would be a perfect location, because when people do park on there on the residential sign,

804
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:08,100
they have to cross, and I cross that street all the time with my grandchildren, and it's really hard to cross.

805
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:14,900
When somebody's flying around that corner at 45 miles an hour, that will slow people down.

806
01:06:15,780 --> 01:06:21,400
So when they're coming around that corner, it gives people a chance to see that people are trying to cross,

807
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:22,540
even when it's busy.

808
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,360
But again, I really appreciate you guys

809
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:30,200
putting this project on hold and hearing us.

810
01:06:30,580 --> 01:06:32,880
I do have one idea and a little concern

811
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:35,100
with this two-way bike path.

812
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:37,040
I mean, everybody has road bikes.

813
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:39,160
We don't want to go towards cat traffic.

814
01:06:39,820 --> 01:06:42,120
That would be dangerous in itself,

815
01:06:42,180 --> 01:06:43,540
even if you had a buffer.

816
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:49,040
Maybe we don't really have that many bikers going through.

817
01:06:49,100 --> 01:06:50,380
Why can't they share the road

818
01:06:50,380 --> 01:06:54,240
like they're gonna do down off past Garmat and you know,

819
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:56,360
put one of those bike things in like they do in full

820
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:58,480
some and just share the road.

821
01:06:58,740 --> 01:07:01,240
Now if we had a lot of bikes going through there,

822
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:02,520
I could understand a bike lane,

823
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:04,900
but honestly I think a pedestrian lane

824
01:07:04,900 --> 01:07:09,340
would be way more important on the right side than a bike lane.

825
01:07:09,620 --> 01:07:11,740
You know, we just don't get that many.

826
01:07:12,180 --> 01:07:13,040
But that's it.

827
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:13,700
Good luck guys.

828
01:07:13,700 --> 01:07:14,000
Thank you.

829
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:15,120
Hi,

830
01:07:18,580 --> 01:07:20,180
I'm Madison Labordore.

831
01:07:22,350 --> 01:07:26,090
Good evening Mayor Davis and members of the City Council.

832
01:07:26,330 --> 01:07:28,890
My name is Madison and I live on Pacific Avenue.

833
01:07:29,850 --> 01:07:32,870
First, I want to say how proud I am to live in Auburn.

834
01:07:33,250 --> 01:07:37,350
I am thankful and I'm proud that the City Council

835
01:07:37,350 --> 01:07:38,750
put a pause on this project.

836
01:07:38,950 --> 01:07:42,570
I'm really proud of the City Council for doing that.

837
01:07:42,990 --> 01:07:46,810
I know the city has a strict timeline in order to use the grant funding.

838
01:07:47,190 --> 01:07:49,850
So I know that is a concern.

839
01:07:49,850 --> 01:07:55,150
The decision shows that leadership and gives an opportunity to make sure that we get this right.

840
01:07:56,310 --> 01:07:57,810
I am not opposed to bike lanes.

841
01:07:57,850 --> 01:07:59,430
I want cyclists to be safe.

842
01:07:59,730 --> 01:08:05,150
I want pedestrians to be safe and I want families to use Pacific Avenue to be safe.

843
01:08:06,370 --> 01:08:10,970
I live directly across the soccer field, so I see what happens on this road every day.

844
01:08:11,210 --> 01:08:16,050
I see parents with strollers, young children, seniors, dog walkers, runners,

845
01:08:16,050 --> 01:08:21,350
cyclists, e-bikes, motorcycles, and families walking to the fields and the trailheads.

846
01:08:22,190 --> 01:08:27,650
I also want to see, I also see vehicles traveling at very high speeds, blind curves,

847
01:08:28,150 --> 01:08:34,390
unfinished sidewalks, and people walking in the street because more than half of the sidewalks

848
01:08:34,390 --> 01:08:40,430
are gravel, dirt, unfinished, and simply do not exist. So right now we do have existing sidewalks,

849
01:08:40,550 --> 01:08:45,290
they're just uneven, and so I see right in front of my driveway, people walk down into the

850
01:08:45,290 --> 01:08:49,230
to avoid the sidewalks that are used.

851
01:08:50,750 --> 01:08:52,910
There are also intersections at Medellock,

852
01:08:53,190 --> 01:08:55,970
Pine Crest and Portment where drivers have to pull out

853
01:08:55,970 --> 01:08:59,610
into forward, forward, into the roadway,

854
01:09:00,070 --> 01:09:00,990
just to see around the curb.

855
01:09:01,190 --> 01:09:03,770
So they're essentially pulling out into oncoming traffic,

856
01:09:04,390 --> 01:09:06,910
and vehicles are going 40 miles plus.

857
01:09:08,790 --> 01:09:10,290
So that is a safe problem.

858
01:09:11,470 --> 01:09:12,930
We need to solve first.

859
01:09:12,930 --> 01:09:19,810
I think placing an eight foot, this was also, I didn't know that there, you had alternatives

860
01:09:19,810 --> 01:09:27,270
that were, that you were planning, so this is, so there were original plan, placing an

861
01:09:27,270 --> 01:09:33,130
eight foot class one path right next to active traffic lanes, directly contradicts cow trans

862
01:09:33,130 --> 01:09:40,710
guidelines, the state explicitly warns cities not to use those next to busy streets.

863
01:09:42,150 --> 01:09:48,210
So, during the major events, that just took place at soccer press.

864
01:09:48,690 --> 01:09:57,230
The problems became evident, there was also in front of my house, a red pre-existing curb,

865
01:09:57,590 --> 01:09:59,230
and so people got confused.

866
01:09:59,510 --> 01:09:59,950
What was pre- ...

867
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:07,260
Is this thing in what wasn't? So that was already there for the line of site for Medovark, and so people didn't even know what to

868
01:10:07,260 --> 01:10:11,000
Distinguished what was temporary and what wasn't.

869
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:19,920
So the new paint created confusion about where people could and couldn't park vehicles were pushed into

870
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:27,380
unmanaged areas. And I witnessed hundreds of cars parked extremely close to the railroad tracks. So that was

871
01:10:27,380 --> 01:10:33,620
certainly concerning, I think it put a panic in their mind subconsciously and they started

872
01:10:33,620 --> 01:10:39,780
parking right next to the railroad tracks. I saw cars as the train was moving. I saw cars

873
01:10:39,780 --> 01:10:49,480
driving right next to the railroad tracks, which was very concerning. And I know it's used for

874
01:10:49,480 --> 01:10:55,300
off-roading, which I love, and I know that's safe because they aren't close to the railroad tracks.

875
01:10:55,300 --> 01:10:58,140
they're pretty far from the railroad tracks.

876
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:02,920
So regarding what happened over soccer fest,

877
01:11:02,980 --> 01:11:06,140
this is a real world evidence that we need to set back.

878
01:11:06,140 --> 01:11:08,220
Oh, sorry, no you're totally fine.

879
01:11:08,480 --> 01:11:10,040
So I'll wrap it up.

880
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:12,500
If funding is the obstacle,

881
01:11:12,940 --> 01:11:16,320
I ask the city council to consider a binding resolution

882
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:18,680
of intent to pursue future funding

883
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:22,160
for the infractor structure of Pacific Avenue

884
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:27,760
actual means. Complete sidewalks, clear fog lines, high-visitability across

885
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:33,320
walks and three-way stops at dangerous curbs side streets and posted speed limits.

886
01:11:33,500 --> 01:11:38,280
Cal Crowns allows formal scope chains request during project pause. We can't

887
01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:43,000
protect, we can protect our cyclists and keep our neighborhood safe. Thank you.

888
01:11:43,480 --> 01:11:43,480
Thanks.

889
01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:51,600
I sit at Council. My name is Julie. I check y'all can tell where I live.

890
01:11:52,100 --> 01:11:59,600
recognize the signs. When you drive out of railhead park, you drive into my garden. So I live right there. I see it all.

891
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:04,600
I've seen the accidents. I've seen the cars, you know, hitting people and almost hitting people.

892
01:12:04,780 --> 01:12:10,920
Killing, almost killing people. It's very, very concerning of after speaking with several people.

893
01:12:11,340 --> 01:12:17,340
Not this last weekend with the weekend before several people confessed that they thought it was a by way and they thought the speed limit there was 45.

894
01:12:17,340 --> 01:12:27,840
So, you know they're going 50, so how about we post the regular speed limit, you can also put it on the ground to let people know as well as when you have the shared lane on the bikes as well.

895
01:12:28,180 --> 01:12:36,780
That would be instead of having individual bike lanes because if you can put up his second proposal, if you look at the lane with its 10 feet, your average car is about 7 feet.

896
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:41,060
That gives you a foot and a half on each side. If someone sneezes, looks for their phone.

897
01:12:41,060 --> 01:12:42,500
What's your smurf and guess what?

898
01:12:42,500 --> 01:12:43,520
There goes a little kid.

899
01:12:44,140 --> 01:12:45,700
If you want to put your little kid on the side

900
01:12:45,700 --> 01:12:47,580
and line up your family, well, then you'll

901
01:12:47,580 --> 01:12:51,080
be the first one, and then let us drive by 50 miles an hour.

902
01:12:51,180 --> 01:12:51,940
Next to your kid.

903
01:12:52,100 --> 01:12:53,440
You don't want it to have happened.

904
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:54,300
Trust me.

905
01:12:54,420 --> 01:12:56,120
It's really bad out there.

906
01:12:56,680 --> 01:12:57,480
I've been out front.

907
01:12:57,620 --> 01:12:59,300
I've been taking polls from bicyclists,

908
01:12:59,420 --> 01:13:01,140
from pedestrians, dogwalkers,

909
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:05,040
and it's been a collaboration

910
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:08,380
from what I've experienced when I've been doing this.

911
01:13:09,100 --> 01:13:11,020
So we would ask that you guys would collaborate

912
01:13:11,020 --> 01:13:14,940
which I'll have it. So we had to appreciate the town hall meeting and then just so let

913
01:13:14,940 --> 01:13:18,080
you know where you guys did the red curve. They did the same thing on race track in front

914
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:22,380
of that convalescent home and actually it has become a race track. It has actually significantly

915
01:13:22,380 --> 01:13:26,740
increased the car speed and I know that when a couple of the residents have been here before

916
01:13:26,740 --> 01:13:31,700
you the last couple of city council meetings explaining and asking you to fix the problem you

917
01:13:31,700 --> 01:13:36,600
made significantly worse. Now you've done it on our street. And I wanted to tell you I've been

918
01:13:36,600 --> 01:14:05,520
out there counting. Last week I was out there for let's see. I think it was 19 and a half hours out there, and I registered, let's see. I had 102 pedestrians, 31 dogs, 435 cars, and only 100 bikes. So you're looking at only 12% of the population that used that road out there. And you're going to cater and give them, can you put that back up on there for me? That would be great. You're going to give them how much percentage of the road, a third of the road for 12%.

919
01:14:06,020 --> 01:14:34,680
That doesn't seem right, I think as City Council members and as people who are serving the public, you're supposed to be serving the people that don't have a voice. Those are the kids. Right there, if you put the parallel parking on my side of the street in front of my house, that means you're forcing all these kids to run across the street, you give them no pedestrian sidewalk, and then there is a perfectly good sidewalk, you said you walked it and you measured it, a narrow sidewalk has to be a minimum of four feet. It's five and a half feet out there.

920
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:45,000
So we have many other ideas, but the most importantly, the kids need to be the one, the center of our focus because they're the ones without a voice, and this is endangering them.

921
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:52,740
I have no problem with them working on my street. I tell people, don't park in the sun, come park over here in my shade, but this is not taking them into consideration.

922
01:14:52,740 --> 01:14:59,320
sidewalks where the existing sidewalks are. Make those commit a four foot bike path and a four stop signs.

923
01:14:59,640 --> 01:14:59,960
All right, three stops.

924
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:11,820
Signs, please. And hopefully we'll be able to work with your city council director of public works in order to work together. Thank you so much.

925
01:15:19,230 --> 01:15:26,630
Good evening, I'm Bob Peterson. I'm past President of Sierra Photo Hill, second club chair of the interns committee here in open.

926
01:15:26,630 --> 01:15:33,630
And also remember the advice of advocacy and safety team for SFCC.

927
01:15:34,810 --> 01:15:36,570
I've lived in Auburn since 1988.

928
01:15:37,570 --> 01:15:40,910
Raise two kids who played a lot of soccer at Railhead.

929
01:15:42,330 --> 01:15:45,030
But I'm really here to recognize the work,

930
01:15:45,130 --> 01:15:49,290
Menjell, and the council's done to resolve the unsolvable problems.

931
01:15:51,330 --> 01:15:54,770
So given all the work that I've seen done

932
01:15:54,770 --> 01:15:59,570
through the Pasha County Act of Transportation Plan, the City of Roseville, the City of

933
01:15:59,570 --> 01:16:05,990
Rockland, and all the other work that Auburn has done, the objective here was to look

934
01:16:05,990 --> 01:16:11,510
at incidents of collisions with cars, with vehicles, with bikes, and how do you do the best

935
01:16:11,510 --> 01:16:18,430
you can to mitigate those? And now it's about 30% of the road for the bikeways.

936
01:16:19,710 --> 01:16:24,630
Within our club, a lot of people thought both options were great, but we're here to say that

937
01:16:24,630 --> 01:16:28,710
option two is the best option for a number of reasons.

938
01:16:28,710 --> 01:16:35,950
If you're looking at safety, that is the closest method to a class four by way, which

939
01:16:35,950 --> 01:16:38,770
totally separates the bike and the pedestrians from traffic.

940
01:16:39,390 --> 01:16:44,330
Here you've got that two-foot buffer between the traffic going back and forth and the bike

941
01:16:44,330 --> 01:16:45,410
is going back and forth.

942
01:16:46,010 --> 01:16:49,970
And at first I thought, hmm, well the bike back and forth, that's not a wide lane, but then

943
01:16:49,970 --> 01:16:58,030
I ride the American River Bike Path and people are looking there and so looking at this

944
01:16:58,030 --> 01:17:05,750
it meets all the objectives for keeping your parking, active use of the roads, managing

945
01:17:06,890 --> 01:17:13,650
bike safety. A lot of other data was thrown out today. I think that you need to look at

946
01:17:13,650 --> 01:17:19,590
every point that was brought up and put it in a proper context. So while there's no perfect

947
01:17:19,590 --> 01:17:25,970
I give kudos to the city and menjell and your team for doing the work you did.

948
01:17:26,350 --> 01:17:32,930
I really think this is awesome as flexible meets a safety criteria and is a big step forward for the city.

949
01:17:33,710 --> 01:17:34,330
Thank you.

950
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:42,380
All right.

951
01:17:42,500 --> 01:17:44,400
Thank you for letting us cut in line.

952
01:17:44,700 --> 01:17:48,260
Tomorrow was a school day and it's almost our bedtime.

953
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:49,620
Well, it's bedtime.

954
01:17:50,340 --> 01:17:51,240
So hi, good evening.

955
01:17:51,380 --> 01:17:52,860
My name is Jeanette Pierce.

956
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:55,220
And this is my son.

957
01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:00,400
I need to get it.

958
01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:01,800
And Garrett hold her you.

959
01:18:01,940 --> 01:18:02,560
Five.

960
01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:04,880
You're six.

961
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:09,100
Garrett does have a birthday last week.

962
01:18:09,380 --> 01:18:09,780
So give it right.

963
01:18:09,780 --> 01:18:11,300
Let the record show he is six.

964
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:11,760
Yes.

965
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:16,600
So we I grew up in Auburn actually.

966
01:18:17,500 --> 01:18:20,640
And we live in Auburn off of Sacramento Street.

967
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,960
So we use specific almost every day.

968
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:28,060
We ride our bikes a lot, Garrett, do you like to ride your bike?

969
01:18:28,660 --> 01:18:29,040
Yes.

970
01:18:30,180 --> 01:18:32,740
So we are part of the bike bus.

971
01:18:32,900 --> 01:18:34,080
So we ride to Sky Ridge.

972
01:18:34,480 --> 01:18:35,740
We ride to downtown.

973
01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:37,440
We ride to Old Town.

974
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:38,780
The Farmer's Market.

975
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:39,600
All over.

976
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:41,560
Also coach at Foster High School.

977
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:44,200
So I ride my bike to work.

978
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:45,420
My second job.

979
01:18:47,220 --> 01:18:49,420
And so now it's kind of exciting.

980
01:18:49,540 --> 01:18:51,680
Both my kids can ride their own bikes.

981
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:54,600
So while we do have the e-bike and we utilize that,

982
01:18:54,600 --> 01:19:01,040
consistently, these kids want to write on their own. And they're doing great. They're getting really good at the hills.

983
01:19:01,940 --> 01:19:10,780
However, I do not let them write on Pacific. So we have a cut-through that we use to avoid not just the

984
01:19:10,780 --> 01:19:18,200
hill but the speed of all of the cars on Pacific. So it's just not safe with the cars that are parked there because

985
01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:24,960
because the kids have to, and I have to swing into the traveling to get around.

986
01:19:25,440 --> 01:19:29,500
So not only do I have to give them enough space to prevent someone from opening the door,

987
01:19:29,740 --> 01:19:36,080
but also, I have to get on the other side of them to rent other cars from coming up too quickly behind them,

988
01:19:36,180 --> 01:19:37,720
which has happened so many times.

989
01:19:38,240 --> 01:19:42,880
So we finally just said, nope, we're going to cut across where the railroad tracks are, to Gum Lane,

990
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:45,360
which works, it works fine.

991
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:51,020
with the exception one time we saw a really big what rattlesnake. Do you remember that? That was

992
01:19:51,020 --> 01:19:59,800
kind of cool. Yeah, that was a big one. So I so bottom line is this is something that we we were really

993
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:07,460
I did for and I appreciate that all the work that's been put into this plan, we've got to speed it up.

994
01:20:07,740 --> 01:20:14,880
The outreach is the workshops, the presentations. We've been a part of this and we've been supporting it for a long time.

995
01:20:15,220 --> 01:20:24,240
I admit that the parking loss is real. For those of you that live in that neighborhood, I think that is an issue with the events and everything that happens.

996
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:28,460
I'm so excited that there was a second, that option 2 is available.

997
01:20:28,780 --> 01:20:36,460
I think that is a great way to kind of cater to both sides in terms of helping us create a

998
01:20:36,460 --> 01:20:43,100
bike lane that we will utilize almost every day at the same time making sure that parking

999
01:20:43,100 --> 01:20:45,560
doesn't get eliminated, which is something that's really needed.

1000
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:51,460
So anyways, our vote is option 2, I'll wrap it up because it turns out lots of other people

1001
01:20:51,460 --> 01:20:54,420
Thank you for letting us kind of light, and thank you everyone for your hard work on this.

1002
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:55,260
Thank you.

1003
01:21:03,420 --> 01:21:04,380
Hi, my name is Ted Treiber.

1004
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:06,920
I've lived in Auburn for almost 40 years.

1005
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:12,620
I've been using utilizing the battery over there for the last 25 years.

1006
01:21:12,740 --> 01:21:13,640
I used to live off my juice.

1007
01:21:13,820 --> 01:21:14,740
I didn't have to go over there.

1008
01:21:15,820 --> 01:21:19,460
I'm here to basically say the option one and two are both bad ideas.

1009
01:21:19,980 --> 01:21:24,840
I'm thinking option three where we get a sidewalk on parts of the industry, parts of dairy,

1010
01:21:25,340 --> 01:21:28,100
parts of Auburn Veen that are very tight shoulders.

1011
01:21:28,100 --> 01:21:34,360
There's no walking. There's sidewalk, no sidewalk, sidewalk, no sidewalk. Option three would be a better option.

1012
01:21:35,160 --> 01:21:42,300
I've been hiking 2,000 to 3,000 miles that canyon every year. I've parked in the same spot.

1013
01:21:42,780 --> 01:21:50,980
When I came there one day and found that it was red on one side, lost my spot, moved to the other side, came back another day. Now the other side is red.

1014
01:21:50,980 --> 01:21:59,460
I hike at 5.45 in the morning, both parks are closed, because they're locked up, there's only a few at the overlook.

1015
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:06,160
So basically, you're denying me from a future TED comes long.

1016
01:22:06,580 --> 01:22:08,820
I'd met somebody I loved at one time that Canyon.

1017
01:22:09,580 --> 01:22:12,500
I've lost 65 pounds in that Canyon.

1018
01:22:13,360 --> 01:22:20,520
There's so many things that I've experienced, and denying future TEDs or future whoever's coming there,

1019
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:26,360
utilizing the canyon. If it was a strip mall, a bell-air, a permit complex, I could carry

1020
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:33,820
less of the loss of parking spots. You're taking away the proximity valley from Auburn,

1021
01:22:34,260 --> 01:22:40,440
it's who want to utilize thousands of hiking miles, biking miles. I ride three days

1022
01:22:40,440 --> 01:22:47,580
a week through there. I start here in downtown. I use gun lane, come through. I don't, I'm on

1023
01:22:47,580 --> 01:22:52,620
road for just a tiny bit, if I have too many cars, I can go right through the railhead, get

1024
01:22:52,620 --> 01:22:58,240
underneath, and there are thousands of miles that are being, I mean, are going to be basically

1025
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:05,440
denied some days, there's like, when there's racing events, there's 800 contestants, where

1026
01:23:05,440 --> 01:23:09,320
there's 800 contestants going to park. I don't go and height there when there's those events,

1027
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:15,020
because every spot is taken up, they have the racing event at the overlook, so that means

1028
01:23:15,020 --> 01:23:16,380
overlook is closed for parking.

1029
01:23:16,900 --> 01:23:21,860
That means those 800 contestants had to find all the neighborhood parking lots, which are

1030
01:23:21,860 --> 01:23:27,140
parking little tiny roads that I'm trying to think what the one is by the canal.

1031
01:23:27,220 --> 01:23:32,020
They put up little some barriers because people are parking illegally there, they're irritated.

1032
01:23:32,380 --> 01:23:37,320
I've talked to numerous people live in that area and they're all just kind of fired up, and

1033
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:38,080
that's why I'm here.

1034
01:23:38,740 --> 01:23:45,940
So, I say option 1's dumb, option 2's dumb, and if there's an option 3, like I said,

1035
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:49,720
some areas that need sidewalks, totally for that.

1036
01:23:50,260 --> 01:23:55,120
Like I live off Luther, and I've walked it down a few times, it takes me a few minutes,

1037
01:23:55,740 --> 01:24:00,220
but there's sections where there's no sidewalk at all, and I'm like, it's herbal.

1038
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:01,460
So, thank you.

1039
01:24:01,780 --> 01:24:02,120
Thanks, Ted.

1040
01:24:07,910 --> 01:24:10,030
Okay, if I interpret this, Madam Clerk, is that okay?

1041
01:24:10,950 --> 01:24:12,530
Hello, my name is Sean.

1042
01:24:13,410 --> 01:24:14,110
I live here in Auburn.

1043
01:24:14,290 --> 01:24:15,390
I've lived here for 10 years.

1044
01:24:15,570 --> 01:24:16,370
Yeah, about that.

1045
01:24:16,470 --> 01:24:17,290
This is my wife.

1046
01:24:17,450 --> 01:24:18,230
We have two daughters.

1047
01:24:18,550 --> 01:24:20,030
Two beautiful girls at the back there.

1048
01:24:21,250 --> 01:24:24,170
When I first moved here, I fell in love with mountain biking.

1049
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:27,600
It became my new favorite hobby.

1050
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:30,160
And now with my kids, we have an e-cargo bike.

1051
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,820
Can we go to the farmer's market and go to downtown events.

1052
01:24:33,500 --> 01:24:34,940
And we don't have to worry about parking.

1053
01:24:35,060 --> 01:24:35,840
And it is great.

1054
01:24:36,020 --> 01:24:37,700
What a piece of mind we have.

1055
01:24:39,630 --> 01:24:42,670
It relieves all that stress of looking around for places to park.

1056
01:24:44,130 --> 01:24:48,470
And it's so great to see my kids, they're here in the wind and can chat on the way.

1057
01:24:49,070 --> 01:24:51,070
But one thing is I'm a deaf person.

1058
01:24:51,570 --> 01:24:53,670
I cannot hear cars behind me.

1059
01:24:53,790 --> 01:24:57,570
I have to constantly be looking behind me because I don't trust the cars.

1060
01:24:58,370 --> 01:24:59,390
People are on their phones.

1061
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:10,840
And I cannot rely on hearing who's behind me. It's a constant looking back. So if there are bike lanes that are safe, it's going to give me peace of mind.

1062
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:17,260
I'm going to actually be able to enjoy biking. Yeah, both options have pros and cons. There's always going to be pros and cons with everything.

1063
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:22,960
But a bike lane is going to be such a solution for us like this.

1064
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:31,160
So thank you for this deep consideration and everyone's thoughts and feedback and different perspectives, I really appreciate all of this.

1065
01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:32,140
Thanks again.

1066
01:25:34,410 --> 01:25:35,350
Thank you.

1067
01:25:40,640 --> 01:25:41,580
Good evening, Mayor.

1068
01:25:41,660 --> 01:25:42,400
Council members.

1069
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:43,820
My name is Steve Hyatt.

1070
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:45,140
I'm on Riverview Drive.

1071
01:25:45,460 --> 01:25:48,420
I'm also the chairperson of the Planning Commission.

1072
01:25:48,540 --> 01:25:50,720
I'm a retired transportation engineer.

1073
01:25:51,360 --> 01:25:55,620
And I am invious at how much attention you are getting to this topic.

1074
01:25:55,620 --> 01:26:04,280
Because when the active transportation plan came through the planning commission, I don't think we had any comments.

1075
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:13,320
So I would like to remind those in the audience that Council is not always the first time you see items such as this.

1076
01:26:13,580 --> 01:26:16,080
It typically goes through the planning commission first.

1077
01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:21,620
And if you check the agendas, you'll maybe be able to find other places where you can comment.

1078
01:26:21,620 --> 01:26:29,680
So, I was on the focus group of the Acting Act of Transportation Plan, as well as having

1079
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:33,300
seen through the Planning Commission before it came to you.

1080
01:26:34,200 --> 01:26:39,540
And I also think that it's very important that this street has the potential for having

1081
01:26:39,540 --> 01:26:43,220
more bicycles in the future, and something needs to be done.

1082
01:26:43,620 --> 01:26:45,800
A do nothing option is not reasonable.

1083
01:26:46,380 --> 01:26:49,960
That's why it was listed high on the Act of Transportation Plan.

1084
01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:52,940
I really only only have three items that I wanted to mention.

1085
01:26:53,480 --> 01:26:57,180
Two is, I believe, that option two is the best of the options.

1086
01:26:57,660 --> 01:27:01,600
It's safer for cyclists because of the divided by claim.

1087
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:07,200
Option two gives more flexibility with respect to vehicles needing

1088
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:09,300
Depart during large events.

1089
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:12,040
And then, the last thing I wanted to do is I wanted to thank

1090
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:18,040
Menjol and staff for getting the grant funding in order to make projects like this possible.

1091
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:26,220
Because of it was not for that funding, we would not be talking about this and we would not be making improvements here in the city of Auburn.

1092
01:27:26,620 --> 01:27:27,060
Thank you.

1093
01:27:27,060 --> 01:27:28,160
Thank you.

1094
01:27:34,620 --> 01:27:37,200
My name is Michael Mapes, Madam Clerk,

1095
01:27:37,620 --> 01:27:39,480
Exalted Members of the Council.

1096
01:27:41,020 --> 01:27:44,940
I am a small business owner, Auburn resident in this guy,

1097
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:47,920
Ridge neighborhood attorney, and most importantly, I'm an apparent.

1098
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:54,440
I have two young kids that attend school at Skyridge.

1099
01:27:55,320 --> 01:28:01,100
We use the bike lane, excuse me, we use Pacific Avenue three to four days a week, currently.

1100
01:28:02,120 --> 01:28:09,040
I anticipate in the next few years when my kids start attending plaster, we will use at least five days a week.

1101
01:28:09,740 --> 01:28:12,440
Pacific is not a pleasant bike ride.

1102
01:28:12,440 --> 01:28:14,920
It is not a pleasant walk,

1103
01:28:18,220 --> 01:28:26,220
so I welcome any effort to make that area of transit safer for my young children and myself.

1104
01:28:27,020 --> 01:28:37,540
Yeah, we can divert next to the railroad tracks. I'd prefer not to. We can walk down in the canyon. I would prefer not to.

1105
01:28:39,300 --> 01:28:48,980
So I welcome and appreciate any efforts to make pedestrian and cycling safer along that one of our main thoroughfares in Auburn.

1106
01:28:49,460 --> 01:28:55,620
I also commend the council for opening this matter back up for reconsideration and public comment.

1107
01:28:56,140 --> 01:28:59,060
Even though you had no obligation to do so,

1108
01:28:59,060 --> 01:29:06,840
Any suggestion that you somehow concealed or were dishonest and implementing this plan is inaccurate and it's false.

1109
01:29:07,440 --> 01:29:12,640
There's you complied with the Brown Act in proceeding with this project.

1110
01:29:13,380 --> 01:29:21,560
I also commend the Director of Public Works for following on this grenade this evening.

1111
01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:28,060
And I also echo the concerns of Councilmember Amara.

1112
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:30,920
We'd prefer option 2.

1113
01:29:31,420 --> 01:29:33,480
I believed option 2 would be safer,

1114
01:29:33,880 --> 01:29:39,520
so long as the bike lane were on the non-rail head side of the street

1115
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:51,540
to reduce pedestrian crossings and also crossings necessary to exit

1116
01:29:51,540 --> 01:29:54,620
there were seven points of ingress and egress,

1117
01:29:54,920 --> 01:29:59,680
so I will defer to the experts knowledge on which is the safer side.

1118
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:17,520
So, I completely support option two. Oh, I also am a parent who swelters in the heat of railhead park with kids at soccer. So, I have our on and on both sides of this issue. And please implement option two. Thank you, Board.

1119
01:30:17,700 --> 01:30:18,440
Thank you.

1120
01:30:22,180 --> 01:30:28,260
All right, Diana Boyer. I am a resident of Auburn and I live at on Skyward Drive.

1121
01:30:28,260 --> 01:30:35,760
And so we are often, and I personally, as well as my family are often, traveling by bike,

1122
01:30:36,060 --> 01:30:39,920
by electric scooter, running, walking along Pacific.

1123
01:30:41,180 --> 01:30:48,040
We are often using Pacific, in fact, we just used it this week to visit the station house,

1124
01:30:48,500 --> 01:30:54,040
so, who a member of who is here today, and other businesses in the local community.

1125
01:30:54,040 --> 01:31:00,660
I do, as others have said, think about the kids in this situation, and it is specific

1126
01:31:00,660 --> 01:31:04,380
really is the way for folks to access plaster high.

1127
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:09,660
I am somewhat surprised that we've gone so many years without thinking of a safe route to

1128
01:31:09,660 --> 01:31:16,700
schools, sort of grant to get that access route safe for them, and, you know, it is true

1129
01:31:16,700 --> 01:31:21,120
when research is shown that if there are bike lanes, that kids will ride those bikes,

1130
01:31:21,200 --> 01:31:23,400
and others will ride their bikes and those bike lanes.

1131
01:31:23,400 --> 01:31:25,420
because they feel protected and safe.

1132
01:31:25,700 --> 01:31:28,760
And we know with Pacific Avenue, it's very curvy.

1133
01:31:29,520 --> 01:31:31,060
And so it could be hard for a car

1134
01:31:31,060 --> 01:31:34,560
to always know how to navigate those curvy areas.

1135
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:37,880
And we often do see excessive speeds.

1136
01:31:37,900 --> 01:31:39,360
I agree with what others have said

1137
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:42,280
that that is something that is greatly of concern.

1138
01:31:42,980 --> 01:31:45,660
And for that reason, I just really want to first say foremost

1139
01:31:45,660 --> 01:31:49,080
that we really just appreciate my family appreciates this council

1140
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:53,380
and mensuals work and your staff's work in planning

1141
01:31:53,380 --> 01:32:00,720
for a bike lane. As far as which option really option one two or whatever third one comes up,

1142
01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:06,320
I don't care, I just want to see a bike lane put in. I just want to note some things for option

1143
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:12,900
one. One is that and that's that's that's that's my preference but again I live with anything

1144
01:32:13,540 --> 01:32:19,260
but with option one just thinking about coming from Sacramento street, coming from Skyridge and

1145
01:32:19,260 --> 01:32:23,880
whole neighborhood, you kind of have momentum making that right-hand turn. So you kind of

1146
01:32:23,880 --> 01:32:29,700
want to stay on that right-hand side when you're going towards say plaster high. What I

1147
01:32:29,700 --> 01:32:34,500
fear is that you're going to have people have to sort of cross the street to get into that

1148
01:32:34,500 --> 01:32:39,980
protected lane, which just also creates more of that crossing situation, which isn't always that

1149
01:32:39,980 --> 01:32:40,420
safe.

1150
01:32:43,280 --> 01:32:48,820
I did submit some extensive written comments. In my written comments, I suggested

1151
01:32:48,820 --> 01:32:54,100
looking at some short term and long term solutions. The first short term is just get the

1152
01:32:54,100 --> 01:32:59,380
lanes painted. Whether it's option one or two or something like that, fine, let's just

1153
01:32:59,380 --> 01:33:04,540
get those painted. I also urge just more collaboration with ARD, our friends at ARD and ASRA.

1154
01:33:04,980 --> 01:33:11,260
We have a very large lot, and ASRA is at the north lot. I don't know how much it's utilized for

1155
01:33:11,260 --> 01:33:15,900
some of that overflow parking. It really needs to be. There is some dead grass there. Maybe that

1156
01:33:15,900 --> 01:33:21,940
needs to have gravel added, but that could accommodate so many more parking spaces. On the

1157
01:33:21,940 --> 01:33:26,440
west end of Railhead Park, we're already starting to see some people dive in and park there.

1158
01:33:26,620 --> 01:33:32,520
It's totally not a designated parking spot, and so I've let ARD know that they're aware now,

1159
01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:36,640
at least, if not previously. But I do think that there's some possibility to develop

1160
01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:51,400
more parking spots for folks. I want to in the long-term just urge that we could consider adding things like green paint because really that's what makes these bike plants stand out for visibility.

1161
01:33:52,020 --> 01:34:00,140
That will also increase vehicles awareness of bikes in the area. They're used all over Sacramento. That's where I work.

1162
01:34:00,140 --> 01:34:05,720
And I see how much of an impact that makes just that green paint alone.

1163
01:34:06,100 --> 01:34:10,420
In addition, we could develop, I think, more parking for those special events.

1164
01:34:11,440 --> 01:34:16,020
And also potentially a protected, completely like a class one pathway.

1165
01:34:16,580 --> 01:34:21,880
That could utilize some dirt pathways that are already existing now.

1166
01:34:21,940 --> 01:34:24,800
That's outside, I believe, of the UP space, barely.

1167
01:34:25,600 --> 01:34:27,040
It's probably in city only.

1168
01:34:27,040 --> 01:34:34,480
So that's all. You mapped out in my in my comment. So I can thank you very much. Sorry.

1169
01:34:37,280 --> 01:34:43,340
I guess I get so in I want to hear and I get so into it. So I apologize for not having the time or here.

1170
01:34:45,140 --> 01:34:50,060
Mayor Davis City Council. Thanks for having this conversation. Mr. Dean also appreciate that presentation.

1171
01:34:51,060 --> 01:34:55,740
I'm Alex Anderson. I support the plan to add the bike lanes on Pacific Avenue.

1172
01:34:55,740 --> 01:34:58,200
option 2 is my preference.

1173
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:05,320
One of the great things about is that it eliminates what's called a door zone bike line. I'm a fairly

1174
01:35:05,320 --> 01:35:10,500
experienced cyclist. I'd much rather ride in the lane than next door door, because you don't know

1175
01:35:10,500 --> 01:35:16,360
when someone's going to open that door. It's a real hazard. I think that's why option 2 is really

1176
01:35:16,360 --> 01:35:24,740
preferable. I live just above Skyridge Drive on value view and walk and bike and drive on Pacific

1177
01:35:24,740 --> 01:35:27,800
I have almost every day, sometimes a couple times a day.

1178
01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:31,420
And I use that because even coming here,

1179
01:35:31,740 --> 01:35:33,860
most direct route is Sacramento and Auburn Folsom.

1180
01:35:34,660 --> 01:35:37,260
Auburn Folsom, a lot of people acknowledge,

1181
01:35:37,860 --> 01:35:40,000
a lot of speeding, I experience aggressive drivers

1182
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:43,520
on Auburn Folsom and Pacific Avenue is really

1183
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:46,480
the only route to take to city hall and downtown.

1184
01:35:49,120 --> 01:35:52,600
The improvement to Pacific Avenue is not from me.

1185
01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:58,580
I'm a pretty experienced and confident bike rider. I don't mind taking the lane when it's 30 mile an hour speed

1186
01:35:58,580 --> 01:36:00,940
And then it's the things like that if I need you to be safe

1187
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:10,680
But it is for me the 13 year old me the guy who got hit by a car riding on city streets by a driver who quote never saw me

1188
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:12,020
This is the

1189
01:36:12,020 --> 01:36:17,560
Famous words a cyclist here all the time. I never saw the kid. I never saw the rider

1190
01:36:18,500 --> 01:36:24,840
got 13 years old didn't get really seriously injured just to broke a leg and a hand.

1191
01:36:25,720 --> 01:36:28,680
Still wrote a bike I think that's what 13 old kids do.

1192
01:36:29,420 --> 01:36:33,600
This change will allow safer use of the road by kids.

1193
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:39,540
People without access to cars and about 10% of Auburn residents don't have access to a car.

1194
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:43,760
And also adults who don't feel safe biking today,

1195
01:36:43,760 --> 01:36:48,720
But would like to be able to ride to the parks downtown and high school.

1196
01:36:49,200 --> 01:36:52,980
It's going to make it that much easier for them to do that.

1197
01:36:53,820 --> 01:36:57,380
As Council Member Down in Calvila said, when the Spain was approved,

1198
01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:02,580
the Invision Auburn Outreach should overall make support for safe,

1199
01:37:03,120 --> 01:37:04,520
walkable, and bikeable city.

1200
01:37:05,600 --> 01:37:09,920
These events were held for the public between 2023 and 2025,

1201
01:37:09,920 --> 01:37:16,760
and I attended three or four of these events and overwhelmingly, every table I sat at in those events,

1202
01:37:17,100 --> 01:37:21,160
people expressed this desire to be able to walk and bike safely in the city.

1203
01:37:23,660 --> 01:37:29,600
I think the overflow parking issue is a real serious concern and even if it's that why I was

1204
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:35,420
guessing 20 or 25 days, maybe a year where we needed to have serious extra parking,

1205
01:37:36,260 --> 01:37:41,360
I think that the challenge for us to figure out how to make a combination for those days

1206
01:37:41,620 --> 01:37:46,880
And not just say that because we need it for 25 days a year we're going to give it up for

1207
01:37:46,880 --> 01:37:48,000
340 days.

1208
01:37:48,360 --> 01:37:51,780
It's 340 days where it would be really nice to have that pipeline.

1209
01:37:52,720 --> 01:37:56,700
And I think it's important to make it safe as the residents have acknowledged that

1210
01:37:56,700 --> 01:37:58,920
there are some danger issues there.

1211
01:37:59,260 --> 01:38:04,560
Finally, this is just the first project in a 10 to 20 year vision for the city as

1212
01:38:04,560 --> 01:38:09,720
laid out the transportation plan that this council just passed a few months ago to

1213
01:38:09,720 --> 01:38:18,020
And let's not stall out on our first project and let's make our city safer and better for all forms of transportation.

1214
01:38:18,700 --> 01:38:18,920
Thank you.

1215
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:19,700
Thank you.

1216
01:38:22,500 --> 01:38:23,180
Good evening.

1217
01:38:23,540 --> 01:38:24,320
Melissa Johnson.

1218
01:38:24,680 --> 01:38:29,460
I am on the EDC member of the chamber board and newly appointed to the Planning Commission.

1219
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:35,410
My comment is, I don't envy where you guys are out to make everybody happy.

1220
01:38:36,280 --> 01:38:38,980
But I want to offer a perspective that I haven't heard.

1221
01:38:38,980 --> 01:38:41,580
I'm going to put my EDC hat here.

1222
01:38:42,020 --> 01:38:43,460
I'm a local ulcer runner.

1223
01:38:44,200 --> 01:38:45,640
I own a home at Roby Point.

1224
01:38:46,140 --> 01:38:51,060
And I used to come up here on the weekends when I didn't live in Auburn so that I could

1225
01:38:51,060 --> 01:38:55,760
come and have access to the American American Canyon, which is me a huge gem.

1226
01:38:55,980 --> 01:38:59,760
And I know a lot of other runners that come from all over.

1227
01:38:59,940 --> 01:39:02,260
They can't ride their bikes from Lake of the Pines.

1228
01:39:02,620 --> 01:39:07,220
They can't ride their bike from Sacramento to access the beautiful American River Canyon.

1229
01:39:07,220 --> 01:39:09,320
Now, I do want it to be safe.

1230
01:39:09,500 --> 01:39:10,540
My kids went to Skyrage.

1231
01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:13,320
My kids went to EVK and tried writing your bike there.

1232
01:39:14,060 --> 01:39:17,340
But my point is that I think it's important for Auburn

1233
01:39:17,340 --> 01:39:19,300
to make sure putting our best foot forward.

1234
01:39:19,740 --> 01:39:24,700
People come from all over the area to visit Auburn

1235
01:39:24,700 --> 01:39:27,960
and see Auburn and to visit the American River Canyon

1236
01:39:27,960 --> 01:39:30,660
and have access via the overlook.

1237
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:32,640
Because if you've ever been to the confluence,

1238
01:39:32,940 --> 01:39:36,460
okay, the end of Roby Point is free parking.

1239
01:39:36,460 --> 01:39:41,860
you have the top-of-stage coach, but really overlook, especially if you're new, if you're

1240
01:39:41,860 --> 01:39:45,840
from out of town and you're wanting to experience well marked trails, that's the place

1241
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:51,260
where you can feel safest. So I'm going to speak for the Melissa Johnson that didn't live in

1242
01:39:51,260 --> 01:39:57,880
Auburn that drove up here every weekend to be able to run on the trails in access. And if both sides

1243
01:39:57,880 --> 01:39:59,960
have been red and overlook was being...

1244
01:40:02,360 --> 01:40:20,480
So if I'm wearing my EDC hat and I'm going to talk about economic development and the way that people come from outside the area to spend money and support small business, I think whatever you do, you're going to have to kind of keep that in mind because that really is a place where we can highlight the best of Auburn.

1245
01:40:20,480 --> 01:40:23,380
And I just do something that I want to put out there.

1246
01:40:23,580 --> 01:40:29,940
Again, I love bikes, I want kids to be safe, all the things, but the EDC cat hat and just

1247
01:40:29,940 --> 01:40:35,800
making it very easy for people to visit Auburn, spend money in Auburn, and be healthy, and

1248
01:40:35,800 --> 01:40:36,720
access the canyon.

1249
01:40:37,180 --> 01:40:38,300
It should be open to everybody.

1250
01:40:40,400 --> 01:40:41,400
Thank you.

1251
01:40:42,160 --> 01:40:42,600
Good evening.

1252
01:40:43,720 --> 01:40:45,140
Can I get your stat real quick?

1253
01:40:45,140 --> 01:40:50,020
She's been you had a hundred, 180 bikes, two hundred pedestrians.

1254
01:40:53,780 --> 01:40:54,560
Okay, that's all I need.

1255
01:40:54,740 --> 01:40:56,100
Hello, my name is Tony Meringo.

1256
01:40:56,260 --> 01:41:00,480
I'm a lifetime Auburn endurance capital of the world resident.

1257
01:41:00,580 --> 01:41:03,480
I'm also a business over at the Bicycle Emporium.

1258
01:41:04,140 --> 01:41:07,920
I have spent my whole life riding my bike through Auburn, running an Auburn,

1259
01:41:08,320 --> 01:41:13,060
and not only is the cycling community a huge part of where we live.

1260
01:41:13,060 --> 01:41:20,540
It's something that's growing and cycling encompasses people that live and shared housing

1261
01:41:20,540 --> 01:41:26,120
with no money riding their bike to a world to work, and it also represents people that

1262
01:41:26,120 --> 01:41:31,900
ride a $10,000 bicycle that have plenty of money to spend in the Auburn area, and maybe

1263
01:41:31,900 --> 01:41:37,840
it's only 12% of people that are bike traveling over pleasant, but a shared number of people

1264
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:44,180
to bikes is a very comparable number, and I believe that lots of cyclists that are not currently

1265
01:41:44,180 --> 01:41:48,660
cycling in Auburn will cycle when there's increase of bike lanes.

1266
01:41:49,180 --> 01:41:54,060
Someone for myself who's written on many types of roads, something that I don't necessarily

1267
01:41:54,060 --> 01:41:58,920
worry about, but there are many people in the cycling community that need to have a area

1268
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:04,820
cater to them to feel safe. As far as the options go, I believe option one makes more

1269
01:42:04,820 --> 01:42:12,100
There's a lot of parking, not having to put both directions of cycling on the same side of the road.

1270
01:42:12,860 --> 01:42:15,660
Helps keep the exiting intersections a lot cleaner.

1271
01:42:16,100 --> 01:42:21,680
It also makes the flow of stuff a lot less confusing for people that don't understand there's a bike lane there.

1272
01:42:22,300 --> 01:42:27,160
And if there was going to be an option to, I think it's more important to have just an a two foot buffer.

1273
01:42:27,360 --> 01:42:34,740
There needs to be some sort of plastic poles or preventative measure because people will go into that dual direction bike lane no matter what.

1274
01:42:35,440 --> 01:43:00,880
For pedestrians walking on this road, maybe there's not a beautiful sidewalk, but there's plenty of room to walk on both sides of the road, and there's a not only the overlook, there's the railhead, of course it's not marked, but there's a gorgeous gravel parkway off of Gum Lane, and plenty of places to park, and you can cross from railhead to town to the trail system without going on the road whatsoever, it's for crossing it.

1275
01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:03,500
So walking on the road is important.

1276
01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:08,580
Sidewalks could be cool, not only on the vatistry and all across the town,

1277
01:43:09,480 --> 01:43:12,980
but pointing people in the right direction to move is, I think, first and foremost.

1278
01:43:14,600 --> 01:43:21,700
If there's going to be pedestrian lane in the bike lane, I think having anti-bike traffic,

1279
01:43:22,140 --> 01:43:26,560
like walkers going towards bike is important, so it doesn't get insanely cluttered.

1280
01:43:28,200 --> 01:43:47,300
And whatever which way it goes, bike safety is a mix not only of the infrastructure that's provided but the information that share to the community and how people view it even if there's bike lanes if there's people that are so anti bike and there isn't a area around Auburn promoting bikes.

1281
01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:48,000
Thank you Tony.

1282
01:43:48,020 --> 01:43:51,700
There's always going to be hatred and doors coming out.

1283
01:43:52,140 --> 01:43:52,980
Thank you.

1284
01:43:52,980 --> 01:43:54,200
Thank you for listening everybody.

1285
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:55,920
Thank you.

1286
01:43:58,480 --> 01:44:04,400
You didn't even count so many as Brian Abishon, a long-term resident of this community, retired police officer.

1287
01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:16,700
One of my concerns that I have over this entire situation is, was, is this a solution in search of a problem?

1288
01:44:17,140 --> 01:44:22,820
Was this done through statistical analysis of daily vehicle miles traveled on the roadway?

1289
01:44:22,820 --> 01:44:30,480
vehicle collisions per DVM, vehicle pedestrian collisions, vehicle bicycle collisions, what is the primary

1290
01:44:30,480 --> 01:44:38,280
cause of the collision? I live in that area and I will agree with all the residents. Speed is

1291
01:44:38,280 --> 01:44:44,900
a horrible problem on that roadway. What solves that problem is cops, cops or ticket books.

1292
01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:50,760
You can put white lines on the ground or you want. That doesn't change speeding behavior.

1293
01:44:52,440 --> 01:44:58,900
We used to have a traffic unit in this town, a couple motor cops did a great job trying to

1294
01:44:58,900 --> 01:44:59,960
stem some of that speed around.

1295
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,980
On the town. But my question is if the statistical analysis was or was not done, maybe that's something we can take a look at and see where we're trying to fix the problem. Honestly, I drive that road. Many thousands of time on the way to talk about tree. And again, I will agree with you, speeding as a problem. But by reducing the size of the roadway and now cluttering up what is a pretty open up roadway.

1296
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:39,140
way to avoid issues, I think option 3 might be just 10 gallons of black paint and a roller.

1297
01:45:39,920 --> 01:45:44,640
Get rid of the red curves. I really don't like to, to use force and a bunch of kids

1298
01:45:44,640 --> 01:45:48,900
across the road. And again, you can put up a, you can put up a side where a crosswalk

1299
01:45:48,900 --> 01:45:54,420
anywhere you want. Kids aren't going to use it. I lived in that world. I mean, unfortunately.

1300
01:45:54,420 --> 01:46:02,320
So great idea I thought with painting big numbers for speed limit signs on the ground, bigger speed limit signs.

1301
01:46:03,260 --> 01:46:07,500
Or like I said, put a couple of cops out there with ticket books and make it hurt.

1302
01:46:08,500 --> 01:46:12,840
I know for a fact that works. I spent 25 years dealing that.

1303
01:46:13,340 --> 01:46:14,700
So, appreciate your time. Have a

1304
01:46:18,830 --> 01:46:28,010
good day.

1305
01:46:28,010 --> 01:46:33,510
while on my bike. I'm lucky that way. It wasn't an Auburn, but it was an older town very similar

1306
01:46:33,510 --> 01:46:39,010
to Auburn. Both times the drivers were very good people, who just didn't see me. Like Alex

1307
01:46:39,010 --> 01:46:45,250
I had said earlier, I received medical attention, got concussed and all that fun stuff and

1308
01:46:45,250 --> 01:46:51,330
but I lived to ride another day. But that town that I'm talking about didn't start placing

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01:46:51,330 --> 01:46:57,390
bike lanes and bike routes until someone who was hit by a car died. The times that I was hit

1310
01:46:57,390 --> 01:47:02,790
car I was in close to a high school. But the road that we're talking about is I go to the

1311
01:47:02,790 --> 01:47:07,670
Canyon in the mornings and I have these kids riding by me in school. I park at

1312
01:47:07,670 --> 01:47:12,870
Placer and I go to the Canyon and the kids are like on your left, on your left they're there.

1313
01:47:14,030 --> 01:47:19,090
Viking is growing as a sport and a source of transportation for young and old alike. My older

1314
01:47:19,090 --> 01:47:23,710
neighbors are buying e-bikes like gangbusters and my neighbors kids are riding the school.

1315
01:47:23,710 --> 01:47:51,030
I hope that we can come to a compromise today. I actually heard a lot of terrific comments today on both sides. I don't envy your position, but I really hope there's a compromise here where we can give up some parking not all on a busy weekday morning and afternoon by corridor so that our kids can ride more safely on their bikes and perhaps this way we can avoid coming back here in the future because someone has been severely hurt or has died.

1316
01:47:51,030 --> 01:47:53,530
That's my comment. Thank you.

1317
01:47:58,050 --> 01:48:03,490
My name is Rich Nielsen. Again, I'm gonna come here on behalf of 49er United Soccer.

1318
01:48:03,570 --> 01:48:09,810
If the local club team, I'm a board member with them. I'm also a Gold. Goly trainer for them, and I'm also a coach for them.

1319
01:48:10,030 --> 01:48:14,230
I'm also a Goldie trainer for Auburn Rec as well. So I can represent a lot of kids.

1320
01:48:14,970 --> 01:48:20,150
That being said, I also have they were in here a little while ago and nine and ten year old daughters.

1321
01:48:20,150 --> 01:48:22,610
We live at Mount Vernon and Miller Town.

1322
01:48:22,690 --> 01:48:23,410
I live on Miller Town.

1323
01:48:23,470 --> 01:48:26,350
We ride to practice two or three times a week,

1324
01:48:26,910 --> 01:48:28,450
but we've been able to finalize our way

1325
01:48:28,450 --> 01:48:30,370
through some private property and some easements

1326
01:48:30,370 --> 01:48:32,030
and can get to practice.

1327
01:48:33,910 --> 01:48:35,610
Something that was stated earlier is that

1328
01:48:35,610 --> 01:48:39,210
there's like six or seven days where we have events

1329
01:48:39,210 --> 01:48:42,190
and we can open up parking with options one and two

1330
01:48:42,930 --> 01:48:43,410
last.

1331
01:48:43,570 --> 01:48:45,630
So we had the soccer fest Friday with Auburn Rec

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01:48:45,630 --> 01:48:49,310
and we saw the cluster of vehicles and stuff that goes on.

1333
01:48:49,310 --> 01:48:55,190
The following day, which wasn't represented, is we had Auburn 4999, it had 10 soccer games,

1334
01:48:55,710 --> 01:49:01,830
that day. That's not a special event. 10 soccer games is 20 teams. There's a whole lot of people.

1335
01:49:02,070 --> 01:49:08,450
That's not a dress. I know personally, when I get out of the car, when I'm bringing my kids to

1336
01:49:08,450 --> 01:49:13,410
soccer, if we're pushed another half mile or mile down the road to park, first thing my kids do when

1337
01:49:13,410 --> 01:49:17,850
they get out of the car is the soccer ball falls out. The soccer ball falls out, it rolls across the street

1338
01:49:17,850 --> 01:49:22,210
because they're eight and nine they run after it or they're walking from the parking spot

1339
01:49:22,210 --> 01:49:26,110
to the park and now my kids are trying to juggle it and they're trying to outjuggle their teammate

1340
01:49:26,110 --> 01:49:29,670
to they just saw or they saw their teammate that parked on the other side of the road,

1341
01:49:29,950 --> 01:49:33,070
a mile away and the first thing new is they want to run bolt and give a hug.

1342
01:49:34,990 --> 01:49:41,410
This tricky. So I think and you know and you pull up the bit we're hatch on your SUV and

1343
01:49:41,410 --> 01:49:46,550
you've got your easy up, you've got your ice cooler, you've got your Auburn heat, you've got your

1344
01:49:46,550 --> 01:49:51,510
And you got your coolers, you got, and then things start falling out, they go in the street, the kids run after it, they don't look.

1345
01:49:53,470 --> 01:49:56,090
And I think that's just something that we're overlooking, it's just one of the basic things.

1346
01:49:56,230 --> 01:49:59,870
Kids get out of the car, they start juggling and kicking up all that roll across street, kid goes and gets it.

1347
01:50:00,050 --> 01:50:13,930
That's dangerous. I'm a massive cyclist. I live on Miller town. If anybody's been on Miller town, there's probably 200 bikes a day that go on it. I ride. I lived in South Korea for several years and I reached over there. I ride bikes. My kids ride bikes.

1348
01:50:14,830 --> 01:50:21,930
So I want to promote that as well. So I'm super excited that I'm not sitting where you guys are. I definitely don't envy that. It sucks.

1349
01:50:22,510 --> 01:50:28,390
So, personally, I'm a 50-50 on it, but, you know, 10 years ago before kids, while I was

1350
01:50:28,390 --> 01:50:31,790
biking, I said, yeah, I want to bike lane, but now I'm got two kids, and now I look

1351
01:50:31,790 --> 01:50:36,670
after essentially, you know, hundreds of kids a day between the goalie training, the coaching,

1352
01:50:37,010 --> 01:50:42,030
the board member stuff, and I just feel the option one sucks, I feel the option two sucks,

1353
01:50:42,310 --> 01:50:46,830
and I think like my fellow law enforcement partner, I feel like we're kind of trying to find

1354
01:50:46,830 --> 01:50:49,550
solutions when there's not necessarily a problem.

1355
01:50:49,550 --> 01:50:52,470
So, I thank you very much for hearing me.

1356
01:50:52,670 --> 01:50:53,430
Thank you.

1357
01:50:56,880 --> 01:50:57,420
Good evening.

1358
01:50:57,520 --> 01:50:58,640
My name is Katie Evans.

1359
01:50:58,800 --> 01:50:59,920
I'm a resident of Auburn.

1360
01:50:59,980 --> 01:51:01,160
I'm an avid biomiker.

1361
01:51:01,340 --> 01:51:04,040
I'm a frequent hiker of the trail surrounding overlook park.

1362
01:51:04,460 --> 01:51:06,860
Also a mom to an Auburn youth soccer player.

1363
01:51:07,440 --> 01:51:10,160
I'm speaking today in support of installing bike infrastructure

1364
01:51:10,160 --> 01:51:15,000
of civic avenue and of the two options my preferences for option two.

1365
01:51:15,140 --> 01:51:19,260
First I want to appreciate the responsiveness to community concerns.

1366
01:51:19,260 --> 01:51:24,280
the opportunity for further comments, and as everyone has said, you're in a tough spot,

1367
01:51:24,860 --> 01:51:27,660
but we appreciate the work and the thinking that you do around it.

1368
01:51:27,920 --> 01:51:32,060
Like many here tonight, I attended Soccer Fest, the event on Friday night,

1369
01:51:32,460 --> 01:51:36,620
so I understand the impacted parking situation at Railroad Park during such events,

1370
01:51:36,860 --> 01:51:40,860
but I am still here strongly in support of implementing bike lanes in the area.

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01:51:41,960 --> 01:51:44,420
I've seen firsthand what a city looks in feels like,

1372
01:51:44,420 --> 01:51:50,020
one safe passageways for cyclists are prioritized. Davis, I think, is a good local example.

1373
01:51:50,300 --> 01:51:55,480
I work there and I live there for several years and I commuted by bike every day and

1374
01:51:55,480 --> 01:52:00,640
it's a city where its residents can and have taken full advantage of a very extensive network

1375
01:52:00,640 --> 01:52:05,180
of safe bike infrastructure and they enjoy a bike friendly community and I'd like to see

1376
01:52:05,180 --> 01:52:10,100
this growth continue here in Auburn. I think we're trying to head in that direction and I support

1377
01:52:10,100 --> 01:52:16,320
that I think this bike lane speaks to that effort. Also, my students and Davis are able to save

1378
01:52:16,320 --> 01:52:21,140
money by biking to campus instead of driving. They also get daily exercise and they can feel

1379
01:52:21,140 --> 01:52:26,420
safe while doing so. I'll say that I recognize geographically Davis is much flatter than Auburn,

1380
01:52:26,560 --> 01:52:32,820
but we are seeing huge growth and interest in popularity of e-bikes and that can make Auburn

1381
01:52:32,820 --> 01:52:38,600
even more bikeable and demands for bikes will likely increase alongside infrastructure when that

1382
01:52:38,600 --> 01:52:43,580
structure supports bike safety and bike culture. Here in Auburn, I live on Orange Street,

1383
01:52:44,040 --> 01:52:49,360
so I also see firsthand the extremely congested driving and parking situation that surrounds

1384
01:52:49,360 --> 01:52:55,400
plaster high. I think if more students wrote bikes to school, that situation could be at least

1385
01:52:55,400 --> 01:53:00,480
partially mitigated. A bike laying along Pacific Avenue could probably provide the connection

1386
01:53:00,480 --> 01:53:05,380
and a safe connection for many of the students between their homes and the high school there,

1387
01:53:05,380 --> 01:53:12,280
and perhaps increased ridership in general. In closing my young child, she's not only

1388
01:53:12,280 --> 01:53:17,460
interested in soccer, she also is into biking and particularly as a mode of transportation

1389
01:53:17,460 --> 01:53:23,040
independent of her parents. When she's ready to make those rides on her own to visit her friends

1390
01:53:23,040 --> 01:53:29,320
that live in the Sky Ridge neighborhoods, she would want to take Pacific Avenue from our house

1391
01:53:29,320 --> 01:53:34,900
over to that area and when I'm ready to let her do so, I really hope that a bike lane is there

1392
01:53:34,900 --> 01:53:39,980
So she can safely do so and it will likely have an impact on my choice and whether or not to allow her.

1393
01:53:40,700 --> 01:53:42,880
So thanks for the opportunity to speak.

1394
01:53:43,880 --> 01:53:44,720
Thank you.

1395
01:53:48,390 --> 01:53:51,710
Your arms are all getting tired and I recognize that.

1396
01:53:53,180 --> 01:53:58,100
Hi, I'm Chris. I live on the corner of Pacific Avenue in Sacramento Street.

1397
01:53:58,700 --> 01:54:04,060
And I walked my dog two to three times a day around railhead park and around the neighborhood.

1398
01:54:05,840 --> 01:54:12,300
I'm originally from Sacramento and it was before some of the latest upgrades to the bike lanes,

1399
01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:24,260
but I rode in town and I both got hit by car doors and was hit by a cyclist while following the traffic laws in my car,

1400
01:54:24,980 --> 01:54:27,220
which there's not really much resource for.

1401
01:54:28,700 --> 01:54:43,360
I can say that on Pacific Avenue, what I've seen is a lot of speeding by both bikes and cars and running the stop sign of bicycles running the stop sign.

1402
01:54:43,360 --> 01:54:50,480
see a lot of kids crossing the street, never seen, fortunately in the past year that I've

1403
01:54:50,480 --> 01:54:52,600
been there.

1404
01:54:53,200 --> 01:54:59,680
I haven't seen any difficulties navigating between pedestrians.

1405
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:02,320
Localist, and ours.

1406
01:55:04,900 --> 01:55:21,440
I support everyone being able to get everywhere safely, but I do think that, I guess, I just, I don't, I don't really support either of the options proposed.

1407
01:55:22,120 --> 01:55:28,760
And although I do think there needs to be improvements to the sidewalks and possibly stop

1408
01:55:28,760 --> 01:55:33,240
signs, speed limits, things like that that will help people slow down and make sure

1409
01:55:33,240 --> 01:55:40,200
they are making the right choices and kind of staying in wherever their safe lane is.

1410
01:55:41,100 --> 01:55:47,300
The other concern I have is that I am new to this whole process and so I looked at the last

1411
01:55:47,300 --> 01:55:54,260
meeting agenda and saw this was only posted once on the agenda before it was implemented

1412
01:55:54,260 --> 01:55:59,740
in the next month and so I didn't think that was enough notice, especially without giving

1413
01:55:59,740 --> 01:56:05,740
the neighborhood residents any posted notices on their doors or anything like that with

1414
01:56:05,740 --> 01:56:08,160
an opportunity to come speak on it.

1415
01:56:08,480 --> 01:56:14,920
I'm also in reviewing the safety plan, all the partners and things like that that day back

1416
01:56:14,920 --> 01:56:22,080
related meetings. I think there is an appearance of a conflict of interests that people are a little

1417
01:56:22,080 --> 01:56:30,180
bit concerned about with bike enthusiasts and bike advocacy and I think that you know that should

1418
01:56:30,180 --> 01:56:34,140
be balanced and I just want to make sure that it's been brought to your attention.

1419
01:56:51,440 --> 01:56:52,640
Hi, my name is

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01:56:53,400 --> 01:57:09,780
I have no, I mean, I pull out of my driveway and there's red curves on both sides, so my main issue was that I don't have a guest parking, I don't have a parking if I had two cars, I don't have a parking, and I

1421
01:57:11,900 --> 01:57:14,760
just think that

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01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:18,100
You know residents need to have a place to be.

1423
01:57:18,900 --> 01:57:23,000
I have my coffee in my driveway every morning.

1424
01:57:23,440 --> 01:57:27,500
I waved all of the walkers that come by, say hi.

1425
01:57:29,680 --> 01:57:32,980
And if I had to pick an option, it would be option two.

1426
01:57:33,500 --> 01:57:36,200
But again, I don't think there is actually a problem.

1427
01:57:38,260 --> 01:57:41,760
I did have the speeding as a problem.

1428
01:57:41,760 --> 01:57:56,240
When 2016 I had a cargo trailer parked on my side of the street, it was in the gutter and we got hit by an underage drunk driver and it was totaled.

1429
01:57:56,800 --> 01:58:01,700
So in a couple years ago there was another car that was totaled right in front of her house.

1430
01:58:02,760 --> 01:58:09,920
So the speed limit is a problem, we're not Davis, we're not the big biking community.

1431
01:58:10,660 --> 01:58:14,860
And if you're talking about e-bikes, they need to have, they need to drive in the lanes

1432
01:58:14,860 --> 01:58:17,940
with the traffic, because they're going 45 miles an hour an hour an hour.

1433
01:58:17,980 --> 01:58:22,040
I mean, I watched them go to school and they're going 45 miles an hour.

1434
01:58:22,860 --> 01:58:26,820
So that's it, thank you for your consideration.

1435
01:58:27,400 --> 01:58:33,980
Thank you. And if I can pause, we've had a request for a potty break and water.

1436
01:58:34,760 --> 01:58:40,020
So can we do it quickly? Yeah. Okay. We're going to take a two minute, three minute. Okay. Three minutes.

1437
01:58:59,540 --> 01:58:59,780
Sorry.

1438
01:59:14,560 --> 01:59:14,920
Okay.

1439
01:59:14,920 --> 01:59:19,780
In Clark, this actually I hear ice cubes, fresh, fresh water,

1440
01:59:32,450 --> 01:59:34,150
it would fly to you.

1441
01:59:34,250 --> 01:59:35,570
Oh, she's here for everything,

1442
01:59:44,170 --> 01:59:44,850
that is it.

1443
02:00:24,120 --> 02:00:25,040
That's

1444
02:00:28,620 --> 02:00:30,340
a good idea. That's a good idea.

1445
02:00:34,160 --> 02:00:35,300
It's okay.

1446
02:01:31,860 --> 02:01:32,520
It's okay.

1447
02:01:32,520 --> 02:01:40,220
All right,

1448
02:03:19,450 --> 02:03:21,970
council members and community.

1449
02:04:02,240 --> 02:04:03,860
I'm Quirk, are we ready to resume?

1450
02:04:05,220 --> 02:04:10,640
All right, we will bring this meeting back to order and continue with public comment.

1451
02:04:10,640 --> 02:04:17,180
All right. My name is Trisha Casper. I'm an Auburn resident. I'm also a candidate for

1452
02:04:17,180 --> 02:04:24,460
a plaster union in high school district, Trusty Area 3. I grew up in Auburn and I didn't

1453
02:04:24,460 --> 02:04:31,020
ride my bike in Auburn when I was growing up until I had graduated and I felt a little

1454
02:04:31,020 --> 02:04:38,180
safer. And I couldn't get my son to ride his bike to plaster when he was attending plaster.

1455
02:04:39,300 --> 02:04:55,200
So I also I'm an avid cyclist. My husband and I are avid cyclist and we would love to write our bikes around Auburn so I'm a big fan of bike lanes, but we tend to go down to the American River Bike Trail and we have lunch and fall some on the weekends.

1456
02:04:56,780 --> 02:05:00,000
But I totally understand what the-

1457
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:29,720
No, our folks are saying over here. That sounds like a really hard situation. And I feel for all of you as well. And I, but I hope that a compromise can be made. I think bike lanes are so important, especially for our students who are trying to get to school. And I, it does sound like some traffic calming measures could be taken. Maybe one of those signs that posts how fast you're traveling. I drive past those every day on my way to work. And they definitely

1458
02:05:29,720 --> 02:05:37,820
slow me down. And also this is maybe a bigger question that's not for this council, but it sounds

1459
02:05:37,820 --> 02:05:45,280
like maybe railhead isn't the best place for soccer. Maybe there needs to be another park,

1460
02:05:46,000 --> 02:05:52,800
eventually in the future. I'm just saying it sounds like there's a lot of congestion and maybe

1461
02:05:52,800 --> 02:05:58,460
maybe our town needs a new park. So I just wanted to throw that out there and think a little bit

1462
02:05:58,460 --> 02:06:07,400
of the box, but I would go for option two if I had to choose, but definitely with some traffic

1463
02:06:07,400 --> 02:06:12,220
calming measures and maybe a crosswalk and that's it. Thank you. Thank you.

1464
02:06:15,610 --> 02:06:21,370
Hi, my name is Sarah Leaver. I'm a resident of Auburn. I am here simply tonight as a resident

1465
02:06:21,370 --> 02:06:28,170
who cares about Auburn and where it's headed. Trails, bike lanes, sidewalks, and safe crossings,

1466
02:06:28,170 --> 02:06:33,910
Link neighborhoods to our schools, our parks, downtown, and transit areas.

1467
02:06:34,410 --> 02:06:35,990
This is worth an investment.

1468
02:06:36,930 --> 02:06:42,690
Not as nice to have, but as an actual infrastructure that creates safety in our town.

1469
02:06:43,430 --> 02:06:48,110
Bike safety lanes have been shown to cut crashes as much as 40%

1470
02:06:48,110 --> 02:06:53,910
and protected buffer lanes are far safer than unprotected lanes, especially after dark.

1471
02:06:53,910 --> 02:07:02,290
Skyridge is using their bike best. I would love to see the other Auburn schools have an opportunity to do this in a safe place. Thank you

1472
02:07:02,290 --> 02:07:02,810
Thank you

1473
02:07:06,680 --> 02:07:13,360
Jim Hockensmith, resident of Newcastle, but I write up an Auburn all the time and I write for transportation all the time and

1474
02:07:13,960 --> 02:07:14,480
Having

1475
02:07:15,580 --> 02:07:21,960
Byclans, whether they be protected or just regular on street are both really important and get a lot more people out that are not as comfortable

1476
02:07:22,660 --> 02:07:25,580
Just writing any place on their bike. So I

1477
02:07:26,420 --> 02:07:32,460
And the editing of, I'm concerned a little bit about is the door zone if we do bike lanes

1478
02:07:32,460 --> 02:07:33,480
on either side of the street.

1479
02:07:33,960 --> 02:07:40,560
I'm leaning towards option two, and at some point in the future, at some point thinking

1480
02:07:40,560 --> 02:07:45,120
about a little traffic calming to somehow get the speeds down and looking at some more off-street

1481
02:07:45,120 --> 02:07:48,300
parking, you know, there is some space around railing park.

1482
02:07:48,440 --> 02:07:53,940
It seems like that could implement some off-street parking either 100% of the time or just

1483
02:07:53,940 --> 02:07:59,460
for events and obviously state parks has some additional parking that's not being that's locked up

1484
02:07:59,460 --> 02:08:00,060
a lot of the time.

1485
02:08:01,340 --> 02:08:05,220
So if you're really looking at that off street parking and is close to where the soccer field

1486
02:08:05,220 --> 02:08:09,680
door is possible because you know you're carrying these easy ups and all sorts of stuff

1487
02:08:10,300 --> 02:08:14,360
and you know you better off in a parking lot that's right there next to the soccer field.

1488
02:08:15,140 --> 02:08:20,340
So look forward to seeing first of all the bike lane improvements and then in the features

1489
02:08:20,340 --> 02:08:21,440
and some parking improvements.

1490
02:08:21,840 --> 02:08:21,960
Thanks.

1491
02:08:21,960 --> 02:08:23,400
Thank you.

1492
02:08:30,400 --> 02:08:30,620
Hello.

1493
02:08:30,820 --> 02:08:31,560
I'm Sarah Molten.

1494
02:08:31,680 --> 02:08:36,960
I'm the president at 49er United Soccer Club and I found out about this from a random

1495
02:08:36,960 --> 02:08:40,760
text message from somebody being like, hey, have you seen the red lines?

1496
02:08:41,740 --> 02:08:46,280
We were not notified by the city in any way that our fields were going to have significantly

1497
02:08:46,280 --> 02:08:48,940
less parking, which was pretty surprising.

1498
02:08:50,700 --> 02:08:56,740
On a given weekend we have, as was already pointed out, 10 plus matches on railhead and that's

1499
02:08:56,740 --> 02:09:04,460
random seven times a year that's almost every weekend. In an overflow situation we might have

1500
02:09:04,880 --> 02:09:11,420
six different teams playing at one time on our various fields and average roster sizes 18 kids.

1501
02:09:12,000 --> 02:09:19,120
So you have 18 kids times six of that and then you have inflow an outflow of that coming in.

1502
02:09:19,240 --> 02:09:22,400
So that's roughly 200 families and that's not including grandparents.

1503
02:09:22,400 --> 02:09:26,940
on goals and answer anybody else that might be coming to that field. I was there on Saturday

1504
02:09:26,940 --> 02:09:33,500
and had to park in a residential neighborhood up the street. When we get our permission

1505
02:09:33,500 --> 02:09:37,320
to be a competitive soccer team, we have to have a playable field and we have to have parking

1506
02:09:37,320 --> 02:09:42,460
that's the same spot. And so if we don't have those options, then we can use that our ability

1507
02:09:42,460 --> 02:09:48,960
to be a competitive soccer team in Auburn, which is a huge fire community. And it draws in so many

1508
02:09:48,960 --> 02:09:54,580
people, and so that would be from NorCal if we don't have appropriate parking. As was

1509
02:09:54,580 --> 02:09:59,240
already mentioned, we have safety concerns, a little kids that are just out of the cars.

1510
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:06,460
Also witnessed a horrific bike accident in a bike lane. Somebody was turning left, somebody didn't

1511
02:10:06,460 --> 02:10:12,420
see them and they were life-lighted out of that situation. So my concern would be that in that

1512
02:10:12,420 --> 02:10:16,100
you have young drivers pulling in and out of railhead all of the time they're not looking,

1513
02:10:16,500 --> 02:10:21,720
they're running late to practice. The bikers in the bike lane, they turn and they're just demolished,

1514
02:10:21,720 --> 02:10:26,980
no fall of their own. They're doing what they're supposed to be doing. And so I think that's a valid

1515
02:10:26,980 --> 02:10:33,100
concern as well and and just kids safety coming up and all of that another thing I would

1516
02:10:33,100 --> 02:10:39,280
think about is when I visit a soccer field a way it's really frustrating to have to walk

1517
02:10:39,280 --> 02:10:43,780
a half a mile to get to the soccer field. It does not make Auburn an inclusive environment

1518
02:10:43,780 --> 02:10:48,380
for the soccer community. I would love if we had more soccer fields but we don't real head

1519
02:10:48,380 --> 02:10:54,360
is where we do all of our soccer playing for our competitive team so just not having places to

1520
02:10:54,360 --> 02:11:00,060
is very frustrating as a mom who's always running late and dropping my kids off and having to

1521
02:11:00,060 --> 02:11:05,040
get to and from the field a lot of times then I have to go park and it's just kind of a nightmare

1522
02:11:05,040 --> 02:11:10,780
so and that's not just real it also has dog walkers and all of the other things and all of the

1523
02:11:10,780 --> 02:11:16,280
bike riders and all of the things it's not just the soccer community so it's already overflowing

1524
02:11:16,280 --> 02:11:19,080
and the parking. Thank you. Thank you.

1525
02:11:30,900 --> 02:11:35,340
Good evening. My name is Kathy Agansmet and I'm an avid cyclist.

1526
02:11:35,380 --> 02:11:43,580
You could use this for good. Oh, I'm an avid cyclist and I use my bike as a primary mode of

1527
02:11:43,580 --> 02:11:51,360
transportation. So I would like to start out by saying thank you. As I was writing up as I was

1528
02:11:51,360 --> 02:11:57,740
writing up Nevada Street on Saturday morning to attend the library grand reopening. I was so

1529
02:11:57,740 --> 02:12:06,100
grateful for the bike lanes and as I recall, that was years in the making and there was

1530
02:12:06,100 --> 02:12:13,680
a lot of discussion about it. There was I think some bidding issues which you had to deal with and

1531
02:12:14,580 --> 02:12:22,820
I think Echo Farm Supply had some and the neighbors had some parking issues as well but it was

1532
02:12:22,820 --> 02:12:34,320
testament to all of your hard work and the staff's hard work for following up on every issue

1533
02:12:34,320 --> 02:12:40,820
and being persistent about it and finally providing some bicycle infrastructure that is so

1534
02:12:40,820 --> 02:12:52,800
needed across this town. It is the endurance capital of the world. Pacific is part of the

1535
02:12:52,800 --> 02:13:00,200
bike lane. It's just the most awesome thing and to have funding for it and for it to be part already part of the plan.

1536
02:13:01,760 --> 02:13:09,000
So I'm really grateful for your hard work and for staff's hard work and coming up with some options.

1537
02:13:10,400 --> 02:13:18,740
At first I was I did send an email and I was thinking option one is something I'm more used to having bike lanes on both sides of the street.

1538
02:13:18,740 --> 02:13:29,500
But if option two with the protected bike lane is the one of choice, I'm in favor of you all moving forward and proceeding with it.

1539
02:13:29,760 --> 02:13:34,720
So once again, thank you and as a cyclist, I think it's the greatest thing in the world.

1540
02:13:35,380 --> 02:13:36,180
Thank you.

1541
02:13:52,430 --> 02:13:55,090
Hello, Mayor Davis and our esteemed city council.

1542
02:13:55,090 --> 02:14:06,410
And Amy. My name is Sue Engel. I'm an ARD director. And I want to tell you how much I really appreciate getting the grant funding for this.

1543
02:14:06,450 --> 02:14:15,050
I'm an avid bicyclist. I have an electric track, which is a little larger than most bikes, and I really do appreciate bike lanes.

1544
02:14:15,950 --> 02:14:22,990
I did have a question from Angel and about the option two, is there a reason that we couldn't

1545
02:14:22,990 --> 02:14:28,190
have an option three and move the bike lane over to the other side of the street, so it's

1546
02:14:28,190 --> 02:14:34,990
on the overlook side, because I'd really like to see having cars being able to park right

1547
02:14:34,990 --> 02:14:41,530
next to the park at railhead, so there's more of a safe egress and entrance off for the kids

1548
02:14:41,530 --> 02:14:48,670
from the cars. So a mirror image of the option 2. A mirror image of option 2 but have the

1549
02:14:48,670 --> 02:14:54,050
the two bike lanes over on the other side of the street. And another reason that would be a nice

1550
02:14:54,050 --> 02:14:59,430
thing is a lot of people come up gun lane or they use gun lane as part of a bike trail.

1551
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:28,560
Then you'd be making a left on it, but you wouldn't be crossing the street. Right now, I have to cross the street. So that would be nice because where I'm gone, it's, I wouldn't be crossing anywhere. But there were several really good suggestions about painting the lane screen, you know, that nice fluorescent green, peeing green color, you know, designated spikes. And also I think it's a really good idea to put the elements and paint them on the street.

1552
02:15:28,560 --> 02:15:33,780
So any mitigating factors that we could do to slow traffic would be really good.

1553
02:15:34,440 --> 02:15:37,360
So thank you very much for listening and doing this tonight.

1554
02:15:37,360 --> 02:15:42,280
I know it's kind of tedious, but I really appreciate where you guys have been doing.

1555
02:15:44,360 --> 02:15:44,720
Thank you.

1556
02:15:47,330 --> 02:15:47,810
All right.

1557
02:15:48,290 --> 02:15:48,670
To know.

1558
02:15:51,780 --> 02:15:52,640
My name is Roy.

1559
02:15:52,840 --> 02:15:54,600
I've been in Auburn for six years.

1560
02:15:55,020 --> 02:16:01,680
I wanted to first start with a compliment to help me out a little because we did get a new

1561
02:16:02,660 --> 02:16:06,940
Improvement with Luther and Bowen Road with that stop sign, and that has been incredible.

1562
02:16:07,620 --> 02:16:16,920
So I'm not against improving our city. I think that that change has been exponentially greater for my commute to take my kiddo to school every single day.

1563
02:16:17,540 --> 02:16:22,620
The one thing I haven't heard anyone else mention is that I love overlook.

1564
02:16:22,800 --> 02:16:27,120
I've gone there, I've written horses there, I've gone there hiking, running.

1565
02:16:27,120 --> 02:16:35,420
And one thing is that I've taken my bikes there to go, you know, take them out in the

1566
02:16:35,420 --> 02:16:35,720
trail.

1567
02:16:36,120 --> 02:16:39,580
Every single trail head there has a no bike trail.

1568
02:16:40,280 --> 02:16:45,240
So the one thing I can't wrap my head around is why are we stopping at overlook?

1569
02:16:45,840 --> 02:16:51,860
Because everyone who said that they'd like to ride bikes and go that way, they say that

1570
02:16:51,860 --> 02:16:52,560
you was gun lane.

1571
02:16:52,560 --> 02:17:13,000
So, I guess I have a little bit, I haven't heard anyone mention that, is that I just have a little bit of a flaw with that part of it, is that overlook really doesn't have a lot of bike accessibility for you to go anywhere other than tie it to a tree and then go hiking or go to use the skate park or then ride your horse that you just took a bike to.

1572
02:17:13,000 --> 02:17:22,140
Like, it shouldn't start at overlook if we were to do a bike lane, if people were to vote for this,

1573
02:17:22,500 --> 02:17:27,660
it should continue beyond that as the bare minimum to gun lane for the bikers,

1574
02:17:28,080 --> 02:17:32,280
because that's their accessibility point. But I also don't like the idea of a bike lane.

1575
02:17:32,680 --> 02:17:42,020
I prefer the idea of the stop sign that we just saw in Luther and Bowman. I think the idea is slowing

1576
02:17:42,020 --> 02:17:46,320
down that road. I think the complaints that we've heard from every single person isn't really

1577
02:17:46,320 --> 02:17:50,420
about a bike lane. It isn't really about that. It's about slowing down that road. They're

1578
02:17:50,420 --> 02:17:55,020
worried about their kids passing there. They're worried about people parking safely with the

1579
02:17:55,020 --> 02:18:00,380
balls rolling when they go out the car. They're worried about accessibility when they want to

1580
02:18:00,380 --> 02:18:05,640
go hiking at five in the morning before work. Because the gates don't open at that park.

1581
02:18:05,640 --> 02:18:10,980
How are you going to be able to use the park without the gates being open?

1582
02:18:13,400 --> 02:18:13,900
Thank

1583
02:18:21,290 --> 02:18:21,790
you.

1584
02:18:21,890 --> 02:18:22,930
All right, Mr. Dees.

1585
02:18:25,850 --> 02:18:28,930
Before we have our public work structure returned,

1586
02:18:28,930 --> 02:18:31,070
do we have any more public comment?

1587
02:18:32,050 --> 02:18:32,550
Okay.

1588
02:18:34,950 --> 02:18:35,490
Sorry, Menjol.

1589
02:18:44,520 --> 02:18:45,900
Hi, my name is Zero Grove.

1590
02:18:46,660 --> 02:18:51,180
And first I'd like to say that I've lived in Auburn my entire life.

1591
02:18:51,180 --> 02:18:54,360
I literally born here, back when I used to have kids at the

1592
02:18:54,360 --> 02:18:58,900
Auburn Center Bay, and over my life, I especially

1593
02:18:58,900 --> 02:19:03,400
recently, I've been very impressed with all with you guys

1594
02:19:03,400 --> 02:19:07,180
and everyone else working on the transportation, because

1595
02:19:07,180 --> 02:19:10,340
the public transportation in Auburn has dramatically

1596
02:19:10,340 --> 02:19:13,920
improved in really tangible, noticeable ways.

1597
02:19:14,480 --> 02:19:15,880
And I've really loved that.

1598
02:19:15,880 --> 02:19:17,280
I really appreciate it.

1599
02:19:17,340 --> 02:19:18,280
So thank you all.

1600
02:19:19,460 --> 02:19:28,660
I love a lot of aspects of this plan, and it seems, unfortunately, we can't do nine foot lanes.

1601
02:19:29,040 --> 02:19:34,000
Now, people talk about how dangerous people drive really fast on this.

1602
02:19:34,240 --> 02:19:39,860
I live on Marvin Way and that leads over to Ruby Point, and it is a tremendously dangerous

1603
02:19:39,860 --> 02:19:47,920
road, even though it sees probably a lot less traffic, and it is a lot smaller of an area

1604
02:19:47,920 --> 02:19:53,080
has hills. You wouldn't imagine people would drive fast, but I've literally had two cars

1605
02:19:53,080 --> 02:20:00,000
destroyed from people driving too fast, not paying attention for one second, and then just risk.

1606
02:20:02,840 --> 02:20:26,160
And this in this road, obviously, is incredibly dangerous. And so, unfortunately, I would love to see nine foot lanes be put in. Unfortunately, it seems that there's some sort of legislation, a regulation that makes it so that that's not possible to do here, which is too bad. But I would very much recommend nine foot lanes being put here.

1607
02:20:26,160 --> 02:20:31,300
if either of these proposals were to be put into effect,

1608
02:20:31,820 --> 02:20:34,600
because on a 35 mile in our lane,

1609
02:20:35,040 --> 02:20:36,400
now it's counterintuitive

1610
02:20:36,400 --> 02:20:38,300
because we all think that like a wider lane

1611
02:20:38,300 --> 02:20:40,760
would be safer, like the sign filled episode

1612
02:20:40,760 --> 02:20:42,360
where Kramer adopts a highway,

1613
02:20:42,600 --> 02:20:43,660
and like paints over the lanes,

1614
02:20:43,800 --> 02:20:45,480
and he has luxury lanes, people are like driving

1615
02:20:45,480 --> 02:20:47,240
like this in an out of.

1616
02:20:47,920 --> 02:20:50,720
But it's actually quite the opposite.

1617
02:20:51,100 --> 02:20:53,080
In a compared to a 12-foot lane,

1618
02:20:53,440 --> 02:20:54,940
or a reduction to a 9-foot lane,

1619
02:20:54,940 --> 02:20:59,340
actually decreases accidents by one and a half times.

1620
02:20:59,740 --> 02:21:03,040
It makes it dramatically safer the more narrow

1621
02:21:03,040 --> 02:21:04,780
of a lane actually is.

1622
02:21:05,420 --> 02:21:08,040
Now, I would absolutely recommend

1623
02:21:08,040 --> 02:21:12,920
what a previous speaker said about reversing

1624
02:21:12,920 --> 02:21:19,040
about nearing this year, specifically because of the way

1625
02:21:19,040 --> 02:21:23,840
that it turns the lead, there's less of a sight line,

1626
02:21:23,840 --> 02:21:30,580
So how currently is this list of site land on the bicycling side and I think it would be preferable

1627
02:21:30,580 --> 02:21:34,740
to have it on the side that is more towards the overlook.

1628
02:21:34,920 --> 02:21:41,000
So that cars love a wider angle in order to see bicyclists and pedestrians using the

1629
02:21:41,000 --> 02:21:43,960
bike land as they're coming around.

1630
02:21:44,260 --> 02:21:45,320
Thank you.

1631
02:21:45,380 --> 02:21:47,020
Thank you very much.

1632
02:21:50,680 --> 02:21:51,980
Any further public comment?

1633
02:21:52,960 --> 02:21:53,180
All right.

1634
02:21:53,420 --> 02:21:53,900
Mr. Dean.

1635
02:21:59,510 --> 02:21:59,850
Everyone.

1636
02:22:00,930 --> 02:22:07,850
And back, and we're not supposed to address the comments, but there are a few things that

1637
02:22:07,850 --> 02:22:09,630
of clarifying statements I'd like to make.

1638
02:22:11,740 --> 02:22:16,840
The options you see before you don't depict everything that it's going to be, they don't

1639
02:22:16,840 --> 02:22:19,620
show the totality of the plan is what I'm trying to say.

1640
02:22:19,960 --> 02:22:23,480
The green paint on the roadways of the entries and exit point is planned.

1641
02:22:24,580 --> 02:22:28,900
The speed limit signs throughout the course of the driving path is planned.

1642
02:22:28,900 --> 02:22:30,900
I should have mentioned these things.

1643
02:22:32,260 --> 02:22:36,780
There's other safety mechanisms, signage, and things that go along with this that don't

1644
02:22:36,780 --> 02:22:42,500
that aren't accurately represented here on this plan, but those things are also planned.

1645
02:22:42,980 --> 02:22:43,960
Should this move forward?

1646
02:22:45,620 --> 02:22:50,000
It was not my attempt to indicate that there's only six events.

1647
02:22:50,580 --> 02:22:57,260
When I said that, I sat with Director from ARD and we pointed out the six events where we think those

1648
02:22:57,260 --> 02:22:58,360
would be necessary.

1649
02:22:58,840 --> 02:23:04,560
As pointed out, Rail Health Park has a approximately 100 parking spaces and either one of

1650
02:23:04,560 --> 02:23:10,740
these options will allow for an additional 100 parking spaces on road and there's also some

1651
02:23:10,740 --> 02:23:13,040
of the community parking that's there.

1652
02:23:13,680 --> 02:23:19,620
It's beyond that that we were talking about the six particular events and again there could

1653
02:23:19,620 --> 02:23:20,440
be more.

1654
02:23:21,000 --> 02:23:26,280
We will work with the groups and my intent is to reach out to the 49ers so we can get a better

1655
02:23:26,280 --> 02:23:31,080
conversation. I don't want to, you guys to feel like you don't have ownership in this

1656
02:23:31,080 --> 02:23:35,700
plan. Like this is something, again, my hit play soccer there. So this is something that

1657
02:23:35,700 --> 02:23:39,620
is important to me as well, too. I don't want you to feel like the counsel is forcing you

1658
02:23:39,620 --> 02:23:43,440
into doing something. These are all things we're aware. I had a short amount of time. If I

1659
02:23:43,440 --> 02:23:46,740
would have known we had this much time tonight, perhaps would have given you more information.

1660
02:23:47,900 --> 02:23:52,340
But all these things are planned. I do intend to meet with you as you request it. And we

1661
02:23:52,340 --> 02:23:54,720
we can talk about what this stuff looks further,

1662
02:23:54,880 --> 02:23:58,340
looks like further, and I'll return it back to the council.

1663
02:23:58,340 --> 02:24:00,840
If you have anything that you'd like to know for me,

1664
02:24:00,860 --> 02:24:01,880
before you can make a decision,

1665
02:24:02,120 --> 02:24:04,220
I'm happy to help and I'm happy to provide

1666
02:24:04,220 --> 02:24:05,280
that additional information.

1667
02:24:05,720 --> 02:24:06,220
Thank you very much.

1668
02:24:06,340 --> 02:24:09,840
Do we have a follow-up questions or, yeah, Alice?

1669
02:24:09,840 --> 02:24:10,620
Yes, I did.

1670
02:24:10,700 --> 02:24:11,780
I just wanted to ask,

1671
02:24:11,920 --> 02:24:14,280
men joy know that you weren't able to give all the details

1672
02:24:14,280 --> 02:24:16,820
of the project, but I heard you say today

1673
02:24:16,820 --> 02:24:19,260
that this would include signage for speeding

1674
02:24:19,260 --> 02:24:20,380
and things of that nature.

1675
02:24:20,380 --> 02:24:27,780
What about, and Kelly, you and I spoke about this, the dots that those elevated dots,

1676
02:24:28,200 --> 02:24:33,600
you know, in the buffer between the bike lanes and the car so that you go over, you know,

1677
02:24:33,740 --> 02:24:37,700
you're immediately aware that you're, where you're not, don't belong. Is that something that we

1678
02:24:37,700 --> 02:24:43,680
couldn't cooperate into a project? Absolutely. I'm a kind of a warning warning, warning strip,

1679
02:24:43,780 --> 02:24:46,700
as we call it, the rumble dots or whatever. Yeah, the rumble dots, yeah. Yeah,

1680
02:24:50,360 --> 02:24:50,360
but

1681
02:24:50,360 --> 02:24:54,420
of this, but I mean, hearing the outcry and listening to the council, this is something that

1682
02:24:54,420 --> 02:24:55,400
we can certainly incorporate.

1683
02:24:57,180 --> 02:24:59,960
And the other question is, I know that you answered this, but-

1684
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:06,980
It came up a couple of times. When you came up with the two options and of course, there could be a third. There could be a mixed match.

1685
02:25:07,600 --> 02:25:11,900
There was some discussion about a mirror image of option one using the other side of the street.

1686
02:25:12,440 --> 02:25:18,920
I think that I heard you say that there were seven extra egresses and ingresses on that other side.

1687
02:25:19,140 --> 02:25:21,440
Is that correct? Could you maybe just address that a little bit more?

1688
02:25:21,620 --> 02:25:27,320
Absolutely. So it's the contact point on the other side of the street. The contact points that make it less desirable.

1689
02:25:27,320 --> 02:25:31,120
So it certainly could be an option, it could be option three, there could be several hundred

1690
02:25:31,120 --> 02:25:31,720
options, right?

1691
02:25:31,720 --> 02:25:36,280
But when you talk about just so that people understand a contact point, so those are drive

1692
02:25:36,280 --> 02:25:36,660
ways.

1693
02:25:36,700 --> 02:25:42,140
Drive ways, ingress egress, also streets, and things of that nature, trailheads that

1694
02:25:42,140 --> 02:25:45,980
adjacent the road, that are about the road, so those sorts of things.

1695
02:25:46,380 --> 02:25:46,720
So if there's...

1696
02:25:46,720 --> 02:25:47,800
There's seven known contacts.

1697
02:25:47,860 --> 02:25:48,720
No, no, okay.

1698
02:25:49,300 --> 02:25:54,220
So in other words, those are potential safety hazards for a bicyclist or a pedestrian, or

1699
02:25:54,220 --> 02:25:58,440
anybody that's in that, you know, because somebody could back out of their driveway and hit

1700
02:25:58,440 --> 02:25:58,780
somebody.

1701
02:25:59,620 --> 02:26:01,500
Option two eliminates those points.

1702
02:26:01,600 --> 02:26:05,360
That's why this was the recommendation as opposed to a third option where those points

1703
02:26:05,360 --> 02:26:06,160
would be included.

1704
02:26:06,780 --> 02:26:12,340
The other question I had, you know, there was some talk about some crosswalks.

1705
02:26:13,180 --> 02:26:19,840
Now, clearly, I respect the fact that right now, not today, let's say a month ago, before

1706
02:26:19,840 --> 02:26:24,200
any red paint or if you came to this game out, folks were parking all over the place.

1707
02:26:24,200 --> 02:26:30,160
on both sides of the street, kids were running across the street, just as they would today

1708
02:26:30,160 --> 02:26:35,580
versus a month ago that that is something that happens, right?

1709
02:26:35,620 --> 02:26:44,480
I mean, kids, the balls, if one side of the street has parking, you know, yes, but what I'm

1710
02:26:44,480 --> 02:26:48,800
trying to say is that essentially without the red curves, people are parking on both sides,

1711
02:26:48,900 --> 02:26:53,180
they're having to cross the street, balls are falling out, kids are running all over, so of course

1712
02:26:53,180 --> 02:26:54,740
as parents, we always have to watch our kids.

1713
02:26:55,220 --> 02:26:57,440
But that is happening independently of anything

1714
02:26:57,440 --> 02:26:58,900
that was happening with the bike lines.

1715
02:26:59,760 --> 02:27:03,640
So what I wonder about is crosswalk.

1716
02:27:03,920 --> 02:27:07,060
Now we've heard that discussion in the past.

1717
02:27:07,740 --> 02:27:09,600
And again, right now, kids are just walking

1718
02:27:09,600 --> 02:27:11,860
if they park on the other side of the street of Willhead Park,

1719
02:27:11,860 --> 02:27:12,800
which they can do.

1720
02:27:12,920 --> 02:27:15,480
They're walking across the street anyway with no crosswalk.

1721
02:27:16,260 --> 02:27:20,600
But I've always been in support of making Auburn safer.

1722
02:27:20,600 --> 02:27:29,940
And that's why I really liked the active transportation plan because it took into account all the different modes of transportation, which includes walking.

1723
02:27:31,400 --> 02:27:35,680
And so have we given any thought to putting across walk there?

1724
02:27:36,380 --> 02:27:37,720
And I mean, that would add to the project.

1725
02:27:37,960 --> 02:27:41,720
But what is involved in determining when a crosswalk is appropriate?

1726
02:27:41,720 --> 02:27:47,440
I know that we had Councilwoman Redell Harris raised the issue of kids walking across the

1727
02:27:47,440 --> 02:27:52,720
skyward school and we were able to put in a really large crosswalk there relatively easily.

1728
02:27:53,320 --> 02:27:57,820
So can you talk to me about, you know, is that something that we could consider with this

1729
02:27:57,820 --> 02:27:58,320
project?

1730
02:27:58,760 --> 02:27:59,280
Yeah, absolutely.

1731
02:27:59,600 --> 02:28:04,200
And so the difference between the mighty project and this one is existing infrastructure.

1732
02:28:05,080 --> 02:28:10,480
There is no existing infrastructure on Pacific, and I know you would argue that there is.

1733
02:28:10,480 --> 02:28:12,760
That is ADA compliant.

1734
02:28:13,140 --> 02:28:16,780
That is the biggest challenge when it comes to these sorts of projects.

1735
02:28:17,280 --> 02:28:21,140
Whenever we lay out crosswalks with, we love to do and we're seeking funds to put inside

1736
02:28:21,140 --> 02:28:26,320
walks in this location, you have to make it ADA compliant, it is almost impossible to make

1737
02:28:26,320 --> 02:28:31,020
it paved their road or gravel, gravel, walkway ADA compliant.

1738
02:28:31,160 --> 02:28:34,400
It just doesn't meet the standards, it doesn't have the required materials, so that's

1739
02:28:34,400 --> 02:28:34,820
the challenge.

1740
02:28:34,960 --> 02:28:40,340
Is there any way, though, anywhere along Pacific across from railhead, where there could

1741
02:28:40,340 --> 02:28:42,760
be an ADA compliant crosswalk, like one.

1742
02:28:43,180 --> 02:28:46,420
I mean, because there is some sidewalk, I know.

1743
02:28:47,620 --> 02:28:48,920
But, and I'm kind of putting you on the spot,

1744
02:28:49,220 --> 02:28:51,220
I, this is just things that have come up to me

1745
02:28:51,220 --> 02:28:52,640
organically when people are talking.

1746
02:28:53,140 --> 02:28:56,400
But I'm wondering, again, I know we have to make sure

1747
02:28:56,400 --> 02:29:00,500
that we're ADA compliant, but is there any infrastructure there

1748
02:29:00,500 --> 02:29:01,720
that would allow for one?

1749
02:29:01,980 --> 02:29:04,620
Not that I can think of off of the top of my habit, that does not

1750
02:29:04,620 --> 02:29:06,640
mean, I won't be out there tomorrow driving and I'm sure

1751
02:29:06,640 --> 02:29:07,540
you're all seeing me.

1752
02:29:07,540 --> 02:29:13,420
the kind of person that I am. I want to know what I don't know and this is part of the process.

1753
02:29:13,600 --> 02:29:18,200
There were some things here that I was unaware of and you guys have made me aware. We're looking

1754
02:29:18,200 --> 02:29:23,440
to what ADA opportunities exist and if there is something that exists we're certainly going

1755
02:29:23,440 --> 02:29:28,060
to exercise our right to put that in place. The idea is if we do put it in a crosswalk we have

1756
02:29:28,060 --> 02:29:32,880
certain requirements by the ADA 1991 act to make sure that it's accessible for all I would love to

1757
02:29:32,880 --> 02:29:37,400
say this is where you can cross but then there's liability put on the city for doing so.

1758
02:29:37,400 --> 02:29:44,240
So one thing in that, Menjo, when you take a look at what the infrastructure would allow under the law,

1759
02:29:45,700 --> 02:29:56,380
is to let us know the council what would be necessary and what cost to make that an ADA compliant area.

1760
02:29:56,560 --> 02:29:59,960
I know that we just signed off on quite a bit of ADA work.

1761
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:04,780
And I believe we had some grants with that, or did we consent tonight?

1762
02:30:04,820 --> 02:30:09,480
It was on consent tonight. We did, I mean, we're always doing ADA work. We're required by law

1763
02:30:09,480 --> 02:30:13,700
to make our sidewalks ADA compliant. And we're going through, we can't all do it at one

1764
02:30:13,700 --> 02:30:17,900
time, so we've been doing it in phases. You've been doing a great job on that. But I would be interested

1765
02:30:17,900 --> 02:30:26,240
in knowing what the costs would be to do that, to put in a crosswalk there and that, you know,

1766
02:30:26,240 --> 02:30:33,140
we're talking about doing a capital improvement plan, but to me, that would be important.

1767
02:30:33,440 --> 02:30:35,220
I mean, again, right now there's no crosswalks.

1768
02:30:35,320 --> 02:30:38,420
So kids are just running, running anyway.

1769
02:30:38,940 --> 02:30:40,180
Anyone is running.

1770
02:30:40,360 --> 02:30:40,920
Not just kids.

1771
02:30:41,040 --> 02:30:41,660
I run.

1772
02:30:43,420 --> 02:30:44,900
I look, I look both ways.

1773
02:30:45,900 --> 02:30:50,380
So I mean, but if that's a possibility, I know that right now you can't commit to that.

1774
02:30:50,720 --> 02:30:55,380
So we wouldn't be able, we could make a motion that would direct you to look into that

1775
02:30:55,380 --> 02:31:01,640
and then get back to us with regards to ADA compliant and what it would take, because it's

1776
02:31:01,640 --> 02:31:02,600
going to be extra dollars.

1777
02:31:02,780 --> 02:31:07,580
There's no doubt in my mind, but I would like to know, first of all, if any infrastructure

1778
02:31:07,580 --> 02:31:13,420
would support it, and if not, what would we need to do to put in that infrastructure, even

1779
02:31:13,420 --> 02:31:15,120
if it's just for that one stretch?

1780
02:31:16,140 --> 02:31:20,540
So, I'll say this very briefly, without getting into too much detail, the limiting factors

1781
02:31:20,540 --> 02:31:22,280
we don't want to create pathways to nothing.

1782
02:31:22,280 --> 02:31:27,200
That being said, we are actively looking at this particular area.

1783
02:31:27,720 --> 02:31:31,600
This conversation alone this evening has brought it to our attention and it certainly

1784
02:31:31,600 --> 02:31:34,180
brings it up further up on the list and it was previously.

1785
02:31:34,880 --> 02:31:35,940
There's a need.

1786
02:31:36,980 --> 02:31:37,800
The committee is spoken.

1787
02:31:37,960 --> 02:31:41,440
The council is spoken and we're going to look tomorrow.

1788
02:31:41,640 --> 02:31:42,400
As early as tomorrow.

1789
02:31:42,920 --> 02:31:46,780
I'm going to look at if there's opportunities to implement some sort of ADA across.

1790
02:31:46,860 --> 02:31:48,300
Or just a crossing in general.

1791
02:31:48,980 --> 02:31:53,260
We're going to look to see if there's opportunities to put some sort of signalized crossing.

1792
02:31:53,900 --> 02:31:58,960
I took with the gentleman set the heart, because I saw a kid soccer ball fall out of the car on Friday.

1793
02:31:59,040 --> 02:32:00,160
Oh, that never happened.

1794
02:32:01,360 --> 02:32:04,680
And I would remiss if I didn't say it didn't happen to my own kid, too.

1795
02:32:04,980 --> 02:32:07,500
So, I mean, these are all real things your concerns are being heard.

1796
02:32:07,700 --> 02:32:08,220
It's what I'm saying.

1797
02:32:08,460 --> 02:32:10,200
And we're doing our part.

1798
02:32:10,360 --> 02:32:11,920
We will certainly try.

1799
02:32:12,680 --> 02:32:14,160
This is just the first step.

1800
02:32:14,720 --> 02:32:22,060
With a lot of these plans and a lot of the things that we spoke about tonight, the reality is this isn't the end goal, the end goal is to build upon it, right?

1801
02:32:22,140 --> 02:32:26,100
Like this is just the first step and I think there was another gentleman that mentioned that earlier this evening.

1802
02:32:26,860 --> 02:32:38,000
And it's hard to grow if you don't have a starting point and I really want the community to look at this as a starting point to a much greater connected community.

1803
02:32:39,200 --> 02:32:43,420
And I can I just piggyback on your last point.

1804
02:32:43,880 --> 02:32:56,940
Yeah, the point I think that's well taken point, you know, there is not there is a pathway to somewhere because it is the park and people are going into that park without any opportunity even neighbors.

1805
02:32:57,180 --> 02:32:59,480
They can't even get across the street to go to the park without being illegal.

1806
02:32:59,480 --> 02:33:10,460
So I would support totally some information back on that in that regard because that's I think it should be a priority and I'm on the traffic committee

1807
02:33:10,460 --> 02:33:17,460
So I'd be happy to put that as a one of our agenda items. I'm happy to provide. That's great. Yeah. Yeah, for the questions.

1808
02:33:17,720 --> 02:33:20,360
Just two questions real quick. I know it's getting late.

1809
02:33:21,400 --> 02:33:29,320
As far as the gentleman's question that he had for you that he hasn't gotten answered yet, he wanted to know if the actor transmission plan is based on data

1810
02:33:29,320 --> 02:33:33,920
statistics around injuries and I know it is. So I just wanted you to explain that a little bit further.

1811
02:33:34,440 --> 02:33:38,300
Yeah, absolutely. And I probably, again, another thing I probably should have brought up here tonight.

1812
02:33:38,300 --> 02:33:43,840
A huge night of misses on my part. The active transportation planning, more importantly,

1813
02:33:44,000 --> 02:33:50,720
the comprehensive safety action plan identified the areas of potential risk because of areas

1814
02:33:50,720 --> 02:33:55,980
of risks that have already transpired within the city. So this plan wasn't just, oh, this would be a

1815
02:33:55,980 --> 02:34:02,740
rate place to put this. It's based off of current usage, future usage, and historical data.

1816
02:34:03,000 --> 02:34:06,720
There's a lot of historical data that is pointed to that said that this is the project that we

1817
02:34:06,720 --> 02:34:12,700
need to push forward with first. Statistics are boring to people, so we don't generally put those

1818
02:34:12,700 --> 02:34:18,220
in our reports. But data is cool. It's based on data. It's based on data. I just wanted to highlight

1819
02:34:18,220 --> 02:34:22,280
it. Yeah, no, absolutely. This isn't. I didn't think of this on my own. There was a group of

1820
02:34:22,280 --> 02:34:24,700
engineers that came together and said,

1821
02:34:24,700 --> 02:34:27,300
physically, here's the data that came out

1822
02:34:27,300 --> 02:34:29,580
and these are the points of contact that we think

1823
02:34:29,580 --> 02:34:31,500
should be addressed if the city wants

1824
02:34:31,500 --> 02:34:33,980
to strengthen up their safety depotant.

1825
02:34:34,280 --> 02:34:36,280
I also had one more question about a possible,

1826
02:34:36,380 --> 02:34:39,420
like it's probably option number 12 right now.

1827
02:34:41,360 --> 02:34:44,460
Is there a possibility of having it be no parking?

1828
02:34:44,760 --> 02:34:46,740
Whichever part we decide is no parking

1829
02:34:46,740 --> 02:34:49,560
Sunday through Friday and leaving Saturdays

1830
02:34:49,560 --> 02:34:52,060
as a parking zone because it feels like that would mitigate

1831
02:34:52,060 --> 02:34:56,620
all of the school issues and, but, I mean, there's lots of places they know park and

1832
02:34:56,620 --> 02:35:00,000
because of street sleeping on certain days and all that kind of stuff is a possible sense.

1833
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:00,940
Saturday, Saturday,

1834
02:35:03,220 --> 02:35:07,360
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,

1835
02:35:07,360 --> 02:35:11,980
Saturday. So whatever day might be, I mean, practice is, there's not, you don't have

1836
02:35:11,980 --> 02:35:17,620
gram on gram become in practice as much, but there might be a compromise to be able to be made

1837
02:35:17,620 --> 02:35:21,660
if we talk through what the highest usage days are versus the days where kids are trying to get

1838
02:35:21,660 --> 02:35:25,500
to school, or maybe there's certain hours that we do it, or other ways of doing signage to

1839
02:35:25,500 --> 02:35:27,660
make it more accommodating to those

1840
02:35:27,660 --> 02:35:29,460
and special events, of course.

1841
02:35:30,080 --> 02:35:31,560
It's an absolute yes.

1842
02:35:31,640 --> 02:35:32,040
OK.

1843
02:35:32,420 --> 02:35:33,860
But it might be where we might have to do

1844
02:35:33,860 --> 02:35:35,180
a little more research to figure out exactly

1845
02:35:35,180 --> 02:35:36,500
when those days and times.

1846
02:35:36,500 --> 02:35:39,880
And I can work with our partners at ARD and the other groups

1847
02:35:39,880 --> 02:35:41,540
to figure out what that would look like.

1848
02:35:42,140 --> 02:35:42,600
But we can certainly do that.

1849
02:35:42,600 --> 02:35:44,040
The blood pressure is when the kids are going to and from school,

1850
02:35:44,160 --> 02:35:46,020
it's not when they're also in after school activities.

1851
02:35:46,320 --> 02:35:47,140
So that might be.

1852
02:35:47,140 --> 02:35:49,280
The beauty about doing something of that nature

1853
02:35:49,280 --> 02:35:51,840
is that there is hard deadlines and hard times

1854
02:35:51,840 --> 02:35:52,940
of when things can be used.

1855
02:35:53,060 --> 02:35:54,140
So there is not so ambiguous.

1856
02:35:54,140 --> 02:35:59,360
and I certainly would be supportive of something like that if that's the direction that the council

1857
02:36:00,060 --> 02:36:06,320
point its staff. Okay, thank you. Yep, and I'll piggyback on that in terms of my preference for

1858
02:36:06,320 --> 02:36:12,880
option to being that we have the most adaptability with it, whether it's times or days, it's meeting

1859
02:36:12,880 --> 02:36:20,020
this tremendous interest and need from the community for safe biking. I bike that road three to five

1860
02:36:20,020 --> 02:36:26,380
times a week for the last five years taking my kids to daycare on my cargo bike. And now my kids

1861
02:36:26,380 --> 02:36:34,360
want to also bike it to go to soccer and to go to bike park and to go to rec parks. We use it.

1862
02:36:34,620 --> 02:36:41,540
We have many friends that use it. And I think option to definitely meet both of those needs

1863
02:36:41,540 --> 02:36:48,160
with the most flexibility to adapt. This is paint. You know, this is paint. So if we can get a safe

1864
02:36:48,160 --> 02:36:54,280
passage now, and then we get funding for sidewalks, and we get funding for a neat path that

1865
02:36:54,280 --> 02:36:59,160
goes through record, great. We can turn it back into parking. If we go with option one,

1866
02:36:59,640 --> 02:37:05,220
there's a lot more striping that needs to be re-done. Very, very clear tonight traffic calming

1867
02:37:05,220 --> 02:37:08,880
is absolutely necessary across the board. I did have one more quick question.

1868
02:37:09,760 --> 02:37:15,680
Yeah. Remind me of the timelines of the grant and what we would have to meet in order to,

1869
02:37:15,680 --> 02:37:17,940
or what we would lose if we didn't do things

1870
02:37:17,940 --> 02:37:18,740
at a certain timeframe.

1871
02:37:19,840 --> 02:37:21,620
So I'm not prepared to speak about funding mechanisms

1872
02:37:21,620 --> 02:37:23,080
for this particular project this evening.

1873
02:37:23,080 --> 02:37:25,140
Okay, it's not on a grant with a timeline that we're worried about.

1874
02:37:25,220 --> 02:37:26,620
I'm not concerned about that.

1875
02:37:26,620 --> 02:37:28,580
Okay, just wanted to make sure I think it's,

1876
02:37:29,900 --> 02:37:31,420
it's, it's, it's, it's the,

1877
02:37:31,780 --> 02:37:36,020
so the, it's SB1 funds, SB1 funds that were utilized

1878
02:37:36,020 --> 02:37:38,280
through, that we received through gas tax and things

1879
02:37:38,280 --> 02:37:38,920
of that nature.

1880
02:37:38,920 --> 02:37:43,060
I know that I can't speak it in, it's still tallity

1881
02:37:43,060 --> 02:37:45,180
because we have projects that utilize this and there,

1882
02:37:45,180 --> 02:37:47,300
I just don't know. I don't want to give about it for me.

1883
02:37:47,320 --> 02:37:51,880
But there's not a sense of urgency around money and grant funding for this particular project right now.

1884
02:37:52,460 --> 02:37:56,540
I would not say that there is a definitive need to do this at this very moment.

1885
02:37:56,960 --> 02:37:57,520
Okay, I just wanted to.

1886
02:37:58,020 --> 02:37:59,640
Thank you.

1887
02:37:59,800 --> 02:38:05,600
One other thing I want to make in terms of funding is that there's a need to start somewhere.

1888
02:38:06,120 --> 02:38:11,980
Like you said, right, we will never in a million years have millions of dollars to complete every path

1889
02:38:11,980 --> 02:38:14,540
and every side walk in every dream all at once.

1890
02:38:14,820 --> 02:38:19,480
And if we don't start with half a mile when we have enough money to do half a mile,

1891
02:38:20,080 --> 02:38:21,440
we're never going to make progress.

1892
02:38:21,640 --> 02:38:26,660
And so I think that's really important to consider that we're not picking these things.

1893
02:38:26,780 --> 02:38:31,780
Our betrayerly, we're picking things that match a need and a budget amount that we've received,

1894
02:38:32,280 --> 02:38:34,900
focusing on making those funds not from our general fund.

1895
02:38:35,460 --> 02:38:41,040
And I'm not to cut you off, Madam Mayor, but there is one additional thing that no one spoke about this evening that should be considered.

1896
02:38:41,040 --> 02:38:46,140
And when you're putting in public infrastructure, it has to be on publicly owned land.

1897
02:38:46,560 --> 02:38:52,120
There's a gross amount of right away acquisition that would be required in order for us to put in public sidewalk.

1898
02:38:53,820 --> 02:39:00,560
So it doesn't go without us thinking about this sort of thing, but there is a lot of additional work.

1899
02:39:00,760 --> 02:39:04,560
And to your point, this is just the foundation to get some of that kit.

1900
02:39:04,560 --> 02:39:10,380
This is the foundation, and it is from the perspective of parents that I've talked to.

1901
02:39:10,460 --> 02:39:15,040
It is terrifying to ride with young children on a completely unmarked road.

1902
02:39:15,380 --> 02:39:20,960
So I think indefinitely leaving it blank is also an incredible risk to the community.

1903
02:39:21,620 --> 02:39:28,700
And I think the option to maximize as parking reduces interference between cars and bikes.

1904
02:39:28,700 --> 02:39:36,300
And we absolutely need to look at the plans for crosswalks and slowing.

1905
02:39:37,100 --> 02:39:41,840
And I think we would probably like to see that at the next meeting.

1906
02:39:42,240 --> 02:39:46,200
Or soon before we approve the new striping plan.

1907
02:39:47,360 --> 02:39:50,080
So we're just going to ask.

1908
02:39:50,340 --> 02:39:51,040
Are we going to ask?

1909
02:39:52,080 --> 02:39:52,900
I'm sorry.

1910
02:39:53,100 --> 02:39:55,020
I'm just going to ask for a clerk because it sounds.

1911
02:39:55,020 --> 02:39:59,960
Are you suggesting that maybe we continue this item and allow staff to come back?

1912
02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:08,060
But the answer is that we've asked the questions for. I mean, I'd have more comments about what I'd like

1913
02:40:08,060 --> 02:40:08,860
staff to look for.

1914
02:40:10,400 --> 02:40:12,380
I'd have more comments about what I'd like staff to look for.

1915
02:40:12,380 --> 02:40:19,900
For me, I know it takes a lot of time to put some stuff like this together, and I feel like you should get more time.

1916
02:40:20,220 --> 02:40:25,120
That's where I'm at right now, because I just feel like this isn't fully baked, and I'd like to have more outreach to the community

1917
02:40:25,120 --> 02:40:29,940
outreach the neighborhood outreach those who are the user of the park and work with ARD in order to do that.

1918
02:40:30,160 --> 02:40:34,620
Maybe even talk to ARD if there's any opportunities for more parking things like that.

1919
02:40:34,820 --> 02:40:38,440
And it just feels like we haven't had enough time to work through all the details.

1920
02:40:38,820 --> 02:40:43,540
I'm not a big fan of fire aim shoot.

1921
02:40:44,060 --> 02:40:50,080
And sometimes you get in that when you're trying to fix things on the fly that didn't quite go as we planned.

1922
02:40:50,360 --> 02:40:52,080
So that's kind of where I'm at right now.

1923
02:40:52,080 --> 02:40:54,840
I do like that this highlighted the issues with this neighborhood.

1924
02:40:55,160 --> 02:40:59,580
I wish we could do that with all the neighborhoods to be perfectly honest because we did the

1925
02:40:59,580 --> 02:41:00,560
active transportation plan.

1926
02:41:00,680 --> 02:41:02,300
We had a lot of people mark on a map.

1927
02:41:02,600 --> 02:41:06,520
We emailed out to everyone and message everyone that we wanted them all to give feedback on

1928
02:41:06,520 --> 02:41:06,920
this map.

1929
02:41:07,000 --> 02:41:11,920
But I don't feel like the communication got out to everyone and that's hard to do with everyone's

1930
02:41:11,920 --> 02:41:13,800
got busy lives and kids and things like that.

1931
02:41:14,200 --> 02:41:20,200
But I feel like maybe when we're working in a particular area doing that outreach to those

1932
02:41:20,200 --> 02:41:23,040
particular people who utilize that area, the most might be beneficial.

1933
02:41:24,080 --> 02:41:30,000
So I think that that is worth working through before we move forward so that way we

1934
02:41:30,000 --> 02:41:31,320
have a plan everyone feels included.

1935
02:41:31,960 --> 02:41:42,200
Just a point, I'm not sure where we're at, are we making a decision to have a bike lane or

1936
02:41:42,200 --> 02:41:49,340
not have a bike lane tonight and then what you would like is further answers so that we choose

1937
02:41:49,340 --> 02:41:51,540
between the two? Is that what I hear you saying?

1938
02:41:52,000 --> 02:41:56,360
I'm just making comments on what I feel like the we need to do more of beforehand.

1939
02:41:57,440 --> 02:42:02,960
I don't because of all these things. I don't really feel like I'm ready to vote for any option tonight.

1940
02:42:04,420 --> 02:42:08,760
But I'm not I'm informally in favor of a bike lane. I'm not going to say that I'm going to not want a bike lane.

1941
02:42:08,780 --> 02:42:16,080
But I think it needs to be all the way fleshed out and thought through and that the concerns of the people who use the park and the concerns of the neighbor

1942
02:42:16,080 --> 02:42:20,040
and neighbors and all those need to be addressed as best as possible.

1943
02:42:20,060 --> 02:42:21,340
You're never going to make everyone happy,

1944
02:42:21,500 --> 02:42:24,480
but I feel like the communication wasn't there to those people.

1945
02:42:25,100 --> 02:42:26,640
And since there's not a sense of urgency

1946
02:42:26,640 --> 02:42:28,660
that we have to get this done right now,

1947
02:42:28,720 --> 02:42:31,700
I feel like taking an extra month to sort through some of that stuff

1948
02:42:31,700 --> 02:42:33,280
and maybe come back with better solution

1949
02:42:33,920 --> 02:42:35,940
would be well worth our time to do.

1950
02:42:36,640 --> 02:42:37,200
So I just...

1951
02:42:38,340 --> 02:42:39,220
I'd like...

1952
02:42:39,220 --> 02:42:42,340
Can I have you had some outreach?

1953
02:42:42,600 --> 02:42:44,940
I thought you were able to the last month.

1954
02:42:44,940 --> 02:42:46,440
We have it all though.

1955
02:42:46,940 --> 02:42:51,320
So there was a significant amount of outreach done to get us to the point where we're at.

1956
02:42:51,900 --> 02:42:55,940
That being said, I don't think the outreach reached all the folks that.

1957
02:43:00,430 --> 02:43:01,890
I want to pause with a comment.

1958
02:43:02,950 --> 02:43:06,290
I definitely appreciate the council's desire to study this issue further.

1959
02:43:07,050 --> 02:43:13,030
We do have a lot of red curbing out there, which is creating some confusion.

1960
02:43:13,950 --> 02:43:18,190
And right now I think everybody with the short notice, we were able to say we are not enforcing that.

1961
02:43:18,190 --> 02:43:21,950
for that short period of time for the council to have this meeting this evening.

1962
02:43:22,510 --> 02:43:28,990
We also have a contractor, which we're under contract for, that had certain deadlines to meet that we've now pushed those out.

1963
02:43:29,550 --> 02:43:34,090
So it's not saying that we cannot do these things, but when I start hearing months down the road,

1964
02:43:34,570 --> 02:43:41,090
it does bring me to think that maybe we should just go back and eliminate that red curbing,

1965
02:43:42,010 --> 02:43:44,850
and have the contractor, you know,

1966
02:43:44,930 --> 02:43:47,670
permanently on pause if a lot of the changes

1967
02:43:47,670 --> 02:43:50,430
that I'm hearing for that the council may go,

1968
02:43:50,590 --> 02:43:52,390
may want to be considering in the future.

1969
02:43:52,590 --> 02:43:55,350
That will give us the time that I'm hearing you may want.

1970
02:43:55,910 --> 02:43:57,370
With the contractor on hold,

1971
02:43:57,770 --> 02:44:00,090
get the, have them paint the kerbs back.

1972
02:44:00,650 --> 02:44:01,910
And that will give you that, I think,

1973
02:44:02,010 --> 02:44:03,070
the time that you're asking for.

1974
02:44:03,110 --> 02:44:04,730
Just a question on that, Mr. City Manager.

1975
02:44:04,850 --> 02:44:06,910
Thank you very much for reminding us of the fact

1976
02:44:06,910 --> 02:44:10,030
that we did enter into a contract as, you know,

1977
02:44:11,070 --> 02:44:18,990
If we put this on pause for too long, do we run the risk of additional costs or the costs that we're originally given to us?

1978
02:44:19,590 --> 02:44:20,030
Yes.

1979
02:44:20,190 --> 02:44:21,690
We've already incurred additional costs.

1980
02:44:22,190 --> 02:44:24,390
I put in the contract on hold and having this meeting.

1981
02:44:24,610 --> 02:44:26,210
How did this decision be reached this evening?

1982
02:44:26,950 --> 02:44:29,430
Those would have been easily been absorbed within the contingency,

1983
02:44:29,570 --> 02:44:31,070
which we build in the public Earth contract.

1984
02:44:32,070 --> 02:44:33,990
If we're going to have months long of a delay,

1985
02:44:34,170 --> 02:44:36,230
that's going to require a different conversation with the contractor.

1986
02:44:37,150 --> 02:44:39,670
and may actually have some of that cost-beater

1987
02:44:39,670 --> 02:44:42,210
restore the payment to what it was,

1988
02:44:42,450 --> 02:44:43,390
or are they excuse you in the curbing.

1989
02:44:44,450 --> 02:44:47,190
And then look at what the new project is,

1990
02:44:47,750 --> 02:44:49,830
if the new project is substantially different,

1991
02:44:49,970 --> 02:44:51,870
it may require some rebitting,

1992
02:44:51,910 --> 02:44:53,950
depending on where we land.

1993
02:44:54,870 --> 02:44:56,010
And so that, and that is a concern

1994
02:44:56,010 --> 02:44:58,170
that I just have from a fiscal perspective

1995
02:44:58,170 --> 02:44:59,970
is that our budget,

1996
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:07,220
It is very limited, and I know that we sought transportation monies, which can only be utilized for transportation

1997
02:45:07,220 --> 02:45:11,940
projects like this, we're not using any general fund money. And that's important because

1998
02:45:11,940 --> 02:45:17,040
the pressure on our general fund is so great, because that's what we pay for our police and

1999
02:45:17,040 --> 02:45:26,460
our fire and things of that nature. And so, I think I'm always in support of public comment

2000
02:45:26,460 --> 02:45:29,880
and having the opportunity for people to come in.

2001
02:45:30,060 --> 02:45:33,120
And I'm very grateful that we've had so many people come here

2002
02:45:33,120 --> 02:45:35,300
today to give us input.

2003
02:45:35,340 --> 02:45:36,280
That's been great.

2004
02:45:36,300 --> 02:45:37,700
We've heard quite a bit of it.

2005
02:45:38,000 --> 02:45:39,760
And we've come up with some suggestions

2006
02:45:39,760 --> 02:45:42,520
on looking further at crosswalks, the dots,

2007
02:45:42,840 --> 02:45:44,340
for protection, things of that nature.

2008
02:45:44,820 --> 02:45:46,880
But I would just be concerned that if we're just going

2009
02:45:46,880 --> 02:45:49,540
to put this out indefinitely, I think.

2010
02:45:49,980 --> 02:45:51,160
I never said indefinitely.

2011
02:45:51,300 --> 02:45:52,300
Well, I mean, that indefinitely.

2012
02:45:53,140 --> 02:45:54,400
Or even a couple of months.

2013
02:45:54,500 --> 02:45:55,940
I just get concerned about the month.

2014
02:45:55,940 --> 02:46:07,920
I don't even remember what it's not put words, yeah, I mean, I'm just, I'm just going to say from my perspective is that I think, you know, certainly, you know, I spoke in support of a bike lane.

2015
02:46:08,340 --> 02:46:14,840
I was under a different impression last time and we also included a little pedaling, which we had to back that out because of the ADA.

2016
02:46:15,560 --> 02:46:27,260
And so I just, you know, clearly it's our job to protect all of those who are here in the city of Auburn.

2017
02:46:27,480 --> 02:46:30,100
You know, whatever transportation means they wish to choose.

2018
02:46:30,120 --> 02:46:37,760
If it's walking, writing their bike, they're the unicycle, their car, their truck, their motorcycle, what have you.

2019
02:46:37,760 --> 02:46:40,540
And I'm supportive of putting a bike lane there.

2020
02:46:40,780 --> 02:46:42,560
I do like option two.

2021
02:46:42,920 --> 02:46:46,040
I like the opportunity to allow for parking

2022
02:46:46,040 --> 02:46:48,540
for whatever amount of events.

2023
02:46:48,780 --> 02:46:52,020
And to me, the work around really here,

2024
02:46:52,580 --> 02:46:54,280
if we approve the bike lane,

2025
02:46:54,360 --> 02:46:56,320
but we work with the parties to determine

2026
02:46:56,320 --> 02:46:58,140
when the bike lane is closed.

2027
02:46:58,640 --> 02:46:59,760
I have no problem.

2028
02:46:59,940 --> 02:47:03,580
In fact, I would highly encourage lots of discussion on that

2029
02:47:03,580 --> 02:47:06,840
with the users and say, okay, let's work together.

2030
02:47:06,840 --> 02:47:10,060
what dates bring the bike community in too,

2031
02:47:10,440 --> 02:47:13,560
where that bike lane is going to be closed for specific events

2032
02:47:14,060 --> 02:47:16,280
so that people can park on both sides.

2033
02:47:16,800 --> 02:47:20,020
But I think option two gives a lot of parking.

2034
02:47:20,920 --> 02:47:22,760
It takes a little bit away.

2035
02:47:23,480 --> 02:47:26,240
I'm on Pacific, but mostly on the upper part when I run,

2036
02:47:26,340 --> 02:47:28,440
I don't run so much near railhead.

2037
02:47:29,100 --> 02:47:30,960
My kid just started her sophomore year at Berkeley,

2038
02:47:31,100 --> 02:47:33,740
so she's not playing soccer at the park this year.

2039
02:47:33,740 --> 02:47:37,360
But I think that that's where we can do some additional outreach.

2040
02:47:37,900 --> 02:47:41,400
I absolutely, and I think my colleagues agree on the crosswalk,

2041
02:47:41,840 --> 02:47:43,720
but that's going to be a supplemental.

2042
02:47:44,860 --> 02:47:48,460
It's not part of this project, but I absolutely want to know

2043
02:47:48,460 --> 02:47:50,700
how we can incorporate that.

2044
02:47:50,700 --> 02:47:52,380
That that would be an amendment to the contract,

2045
02:47:52,460 --> 02:47:55,700
should we choose to move in that direction or a new contract.

2046
02:47:55,840 --> 02:47:56,620
How's it going to happen?

2047
02:47:57,020 --> 02:47:59,580
I would agree with a councilwoman,

2048
02:47:59,580 --> 02:48:05,560
down in Kaviyo that we, you know, there's a lot of people here who are expecting a decision

2049
02:48:06,860 --> 02:48:11,080
and tonight we're not, if we're not going to make one that's, I don't think that's fair

2050
02:48:11,080 --> 02:48:20,600
for them either. So I think it's important for us to give a path forward and it's up to staff

2051
02:48:20,600 --> 02:48:27,360
to work through the details. I mean we're not, we're not staff. We need to make the major decision

2052
02:48:27,360 --> 02:48:38,660
and move forward. And just to understand my perspective, I am very supportive. I totally understand

2053
02:48:38,660 --> 02:48:43,640
the concern that the neighbors have, the soccer individuals have.

2054
02:48:45,740 --> 02:48:47,000
I totally respect

2055
02:48:47,000 --> 02:48:53,580
the safety element and we have to address that. And I think with a crosswalk, we're addressing

2056
02:48:53,580 --> 02:48:57,240
out and there's other ways as well, which you alluded to.

2057
02:48:58,100 --> 02:49:06,140
I also want to point out that if anybody's been to any town that is even just slightly

2058
02:49:06,140 --> 02:49:11,980
larger than ours, or I think we're an up and coming town, and we have a lot to offer,

2059
02:49:12,340 --> 02:49:21,560
and our town is going to catch the wave of bicycles and transporting children going to

2060
02:49:21,560 --> 02:49:25,240
from schools with bicycles other than just being in their cars.

2061
02:49:25,840 --> 02:49:27,900
And so I think we need to be ahead of the way.

2062
02:49:28,000 --> 02:49:33,300
If I know you have a good statistic and I respect that right now but we're hoping to get

2063
02:49:33,300 --> 02:49:38,940
people out of their cars and moving, moving without vehicles.

2064
02:49:39,160 --> 02:49:42,300
And hopefully it will be safer and we can't shrink the lanes.

2065
02:49:43,020 --> 02:49:49,440
So what I'm trying to say is that I'm supportive of a bike lane and listening to everyone

2066
02:49:49,440 --> 02:49:53,580
And after our public work's director here,

2067
02:49:54,040 --> 02:49:56,780
told us about how many parking spaces in Council,

2068
02:49:57,360 --> 02:50:00,000
I feel the sense that Council wants to...

2069
02:50:02,760 --> 02:50:30,060
And so, I think we should definitely move forward. I'm supported with option 2 as well. I think that's the safest, especially for bike, people who are right bikes. And we want our bicycle, you know, our first go at it to be successful. And I think that would be a very good compromise and it would allow a lot of parking. But I do think that the crosswalk is is very good.

2070
02:50:30,060 --> 02:50:32,520
very important for us to look into as soon as possible.

2071
02:50:33,080 --> 02:50:33,340
That's my question.

2072
02:50:33,340 --> 02:50:34,440
Can I finish my comments?

2073
02:50:34,560 --> 02:50:36,200
You guys started talking and I forgot to finish.

2074
02:50:36,500 --> 02:50:36,760
Sorry.

2075
02:50:38,740 --> 02:50:41,140
I appreciate all of your thoughts.

2076
02:50:41,680 --> 02:50:45,540
I have not heard an overwhelming opinion tonight that

2077
02:50:45,540 --> 02:50:50,340
byklanes in this particular method are what our constituents want.

2078
02:50:50,880 --> 02:50:53,900
And the people who utilize that area and people who live there.

2079
02:50:54,900 --> 02:50:56,920
So though I feel like a byklane is important,

2080
02:50:57,080 --> 02:50:59,640
I don't feel like the needs and wants of our other constituents

2081
02:50:59,640 --> 02:51:04,240
are any less important. And for me, maybe it's two weeks. Maybe we give

2082
02:51:04,240 --> 02:51:09,940
me two more weeks to figure out the details. But I like you. I want it to go

2083
02:51:09,940 --> 02:51:14,600
well and doing it haphazard and quickly and not having all the answers to provide

2084
02:51:14,600 --> 02:51:19,000
to our constituents who use it so that they feel comfortable moving forward. I feel like

2085
02:51:19,000 --> 02:51:22,920
I think we'll take advantage of the experience and make it so it's harder for us to

2086
02:51:22,920 --> 02:51:26,120
move forward with other bike lanes because I don't want to have people have a negative

2087
02:51:26,120 --> 02:51:30,580
experience and ignoring people's concerns is not a positive experience making them feel included

2088
02:51:30,580 --> 02:51:36,040
in the process, making them feel heard and moving forward together as a community is the most

2089
02:51:36,040 --> 02:51:38,880
important thing and I don't feel like we're doing that if we make a decision tonight because

2090
02:51:38,880 --> 02:51:42,440
I don't have all the answers. I don't have all the data. Maybe it would be good for us to go on

2091
02:51:42,440 --> 02:51:47,060
our Saturday and figure out how many park cars are. We're just using random statistics.

2092
02:51:47,260 --> 02:51:50,900
I need some data and I want to know how we're going to plan on making this work so everyone can

2093
02:51:50,900 --> 02:51:51,380
comfortable.

2094
02:51:56,760 --> 02:52:02,000
Mr. Dean. I'll move it. Maybe we weren't. I don't think we

2095
02:52:02,000 --> 02:52:05,820
will finish. I can commend you'll probably work with you all rather than

2096
02:52:05,820 --> 02:52:08,980
us because it's hard to coordinate our schedules that would take. I think it

2097
02:52:08,980 --> 02:52:11,660
must. But I don't want to. I'm mentioned it does a pretty good job of working with

2098
02:52:11,660 --> 02:52:17,380
folks and communicating with them. I think that would be the best way. But yes,

2099
02:52:17,380 --> 02:52:21,360
I also agree that I don't know if it's possible to put into the contract either,

2100
02:52:21,620 --> 02:52:25,220
but traffic calming seems like an very important thing in this area. And in

2101
02:52:25,220 --> 02:52:29,700
more important than a cycling. So I think we need to talk about what that looks like and how,

2102
02:52:29,880 --> 02:52:33,320
I know that short making lanes more narrow helps with that, because we did that on my

2103
02:52:33,320 --> 02:52:37,980
do and it really helped with some of the speeds on my do. But I think that there might be some

2104
02:52:37,980 --> 02:52:42,320
other opportunities for looking at traffic calming to that we also need to make sure that we're looking

2105
02:52:42,320 --> 02:52:47,420
at. I'll say that the contractors a local contracting has a vested interest in the community.

2106
02:52:47,880 --> 02:52:53,620
That being said, he still has a business to run. I know if we push this out beyond a certain point

2107
02:52:53,620 --> 02:52:57,820
that we may not even be able to make his schedule at this point for the rest of this year.

2108
02:52:58,500 --> 02:53:00,500
And most certainly there will be additional costs.

2109
02:53:01,080 --> 02:53:04,960
We have already began to conversation about all the traffic calming things.

2110
02:53:05,200 --> 02:53:06,720
Some of the things I've already mentioned,

2111
02:53:06,940 --> 02:53:11,280
but I think one of the things that has come out of this meeting this evening

2112
02:53:11,280 --> 02:53:14,960
is certainly that there needs to be more enforcement along Pacific.

2113
02:53:15,120 --> 02:53:20,420
And I think, you know, there's a saying in the traffic world,

2114
02:53:20,420 --> 02:53:27,620
you don't put out traffic signals to reduce speeding, you do that through enforcement, and there's

2115
02:53:27,620 --> 02:53:31,820
a lot of folks that have mentioned kind of the things that have been happening along, Pacific

2116
02:53:31,820 --> 02:53:36,940
Avenue, independent of anything we're talking about here, and I think those things are

2117
02:53:36,940 --> 02:53:41,960
going to continue to happen if we don't take that next step and start to engage in enforcement.

2118
02:53:42,060 --> 02:53:45,880
Luckily, I have the chief of police and cell phone numbers, so I'm sorry.

2119
02:53:45,880 --> 02:53:48,840
And he is he is here. He's lost.

2120
02:53:48,860 --> 02:53:49,400
Oh, I know.

2121
02:53:49,700 --> 02:53:50,060
I know.

2122
02:53:50,740 --> 02:53:51,860
Just the idea.

2123
02:53:51,860 --> 02:53:52,760
I talked about that.

2124
02:53:52,760 --> 02:53:55,060
He's in the top that Chief is up there.

2125
02:53:55,120 --> 02:53:58,400
And he's also hearing all of the traffic concerns.

2126
02:53:58,680 --> 02:54:03,980
And I'll point out that you didn't know even the public work staff that was responsible for some of the

2127
02:54:03,980 --> 02:54:04,280
the working.

2128
02:54:04,340 --> 02:54:05,240
That's already out there.

2129
02:54:05,280 --> 02:54:09,200
They're in the audience this evening because they're Auburn residents as well too.

2130
02:54:09,320 --> 02:54:11,540
And everyone's blessed to do it.

2131
02:54:12,340 --> 02:54:13,860
We're going to do this right.

2132
02:54:14,560 --> 02:54:26,680
I think what I hear you saying is that I mean what I'm getting and to is the fact that we have a project we have a couple of options and there could be other options like we talked about there's option 3 option 12

2133
02:54:26,680 --> 02:54:39,000
I don't know if there's a lot of options but there's almost like two separate issues here there there certainly related one is just that the bike lane that's consistent with the ATPA with the active transportation plan

2134
02:54:39,000 --> 02:54:42,960
plan. You know, I am one that's looking from me

2135
02:54:42,960 --> 02:54:46,660
from a safety perspective for our residents and for our visitors.

2136
02:54:47,400 --> 02:54:50,880
I am with all due respect council on tomorrow. I'm not interested in giving

2137
02:54:50,880 --> 02:54:53,580
up my car for a bike that it's just me. That's just me.

2138
02:54:53,640 --> 02:54:59,100
I'm going to drive my car. But I do run and I am out there.

2139
02:55:00,000 --> 02:55:05,060
But I think that, you know, as I mentioned, we went through this incredibly lengthy process with the

2140
02:55:05,060 --> 02:55:11,840
ATP over a year. We had so much community outreach on it. We adopted the plan. We introduced the

2141
02:55:11,840 --> 02:55:17,120
planet of meeting and the next plan. We adopted it. You know, and I think that we've learned

2142
02:55:17,120 --> 02:55:23,540
some big lessons with this particular project, which was really the first project that we would

2143
02:55:23,540 --> 02:55:30,980
implementing out of the ATP. And that is community outreach, community outreach, community outreach.

2144
02:55:31,820 --> 02:55:37,300
And so, and we're grateful that folks stepped up and brought this to our attention.

2145
02:55:37,720 --> 02:55:42,020
You know, some of us, there were some assumptions that were made on our part and so forth,

2146
02:55:42,520 --> 02:55:46,700
but you know, you brought that to our attention and we need to address that now and I think that we are

2147
02:55:46,700 --> 02:55:53,060
doing that, you know, for future projects, I would love to have seen, you know, a sign at the park saying,

2148
02:55:53,060 --> 02:55:57,380
We're in the process of doing a bike lane, and so if you see a red line, those kinds

2149
02:55:57,380 --> 02:56:03,320
of things, we've done the chief, our fire chief has done a great job with the fire-wise

2150
02:56:03,320 --> 02:56:08,620
sign, and we'll be point with the grant, let people know what's happening so that people

2151
02:56:08,620 --> 02:56:09,120
know.

2152
02:56:09,260 --> 02:56:10,400
And it's just the signage thing.

2153
02:56:10,520 --> 02:56:11,500
We didn't go to everyone.

2154
02:56:11,660 --> 02:56:17,260
Well, we did do door-to-door because people had their trees trimmed, but my point is that having

2155
02:56:17,260 --> 02:56:22,100
some signage and some strategic places that there is a project, because we really don't

2156
02:56:22,100 --> 02:56:24,620
have the opportunity to go to everybody's door.

2157
02:56:25,260 --> 02:56:26,820
We just don't have that kind of staffing.

2158
02:56:27,740 --> 02:56:31,720
And so, but a sign at the park, or, you know, I both parks, things of that nature.

2159
02:56:31,840 --> 02:56:35,280
And I would like us to utilize those, even going forward today.

2160
02:56:35,960 --> 02:56:42,560
But what I would say is that I wouldn't be, I think that we should move forward, you know,

2161
02:56:43,420 --> 02:56:47,180
with the action on the bike path or bike lanes tonight.

2162
02:56:47,980 --> 02:57:16,160
with the caveat that we have continued communication with our users, with the neighbors on the traffic calming issues, perhaps they have some suggestions, like I said I like the crosswalk way, I want to know about that, but because there are bigger issues than just by excusing that, it's the overall safety of that road, and this project doesn't look at the overall all user safety, it's looking at just the one piece of the ATP.

2163
02:57:17,780 --> 02:57:20,180
And so, you know, those are, that's my thought.

2164
02:57:20,320 --> 02:57:21,900
I think that we should take some action,

2165
02:57:22,100 --> 02:57:23,740
but I think we need to provide you a direction,

2166
02:57:23,940 --> 02:57:28,080
and I do want folks to have an opportunity, like I said,

2167
02:57:28,220 --> 02:57:30,000
with regards to our traffic calming issues

2168
02:57:30,000 --> 02:57:31,740
and how we can address those issues.

2169
02:57:32,080 --> 02:57:34,280
Parking is imperative, and I know that MJ mentioned

2170
02:57:34,280 --> 02:57:35,380
economic development.

2171
02:57:35,540 --> 02:57:38,080
We want people to come in and use the canyon,

2172
02:57:38,540 --> 02:57:40,240
and to be able to park along there.

2173
02:57:40,480 --> 02:57:42,540
I mean, that was one of the big things I talked to menjell

2174
02:57:42,540 --> 02:57:43,960
about when I went out there, I said, menjell,

2175
02:57:44,160 --> 02:57:45,140
I know people park out here,

2176
02:57:45,140 --> 02:57:46,340
because I see them all the time when I'm running.

2177
02:57:47,420 --> 02:57:48,480
And that's important.

2178
02:57:49,440 --> 02:57:51,640
And I think that we have the option with option two

2179
02:57:51,640 --> 02:57:56,360
of opening up those spaces, and then closing the bike lane

2180
02:57:57,560 --> 02:57:59,120
for bigger events.

2181
02:57:59,940 --> 02:58:02,760
The issue there is defining what is a bigger event.

2182
02:58:03,900 --> 02:58:08,120
And that's where we need our community involved to help us.

2183
02:58:08,780 --> 02:58:10,260
That's really where we need our community.

2184
02:58:10,440 --> 02:58:12,560
So we know, and I might have,

2185
02:58:12,560 --> 02:58:19,580
We've already started meeting with ARD and our city managers been meeting, so that certainly

2186
02:58:20,440 --> 02:58:25,400
is in the works and the community should be involved and we know some individuals here

2187
02:58:25,400 --> 02:58:26,640
who could be on the committee.

2188
02:58:27,960 --> 02:58:30,720
But with that being said, I'm prepared to make a motion.

2189
02:58:31,140 --> 02:58:37,800
I would say larger events and also the weekend times that accommodate the needs of those

2190
02:58:37,800 --> 02:58:39,040
highly users of the park.

2191
02:58:39,040 --> 02:58:41,060
I don't want just to be those seven times.

2192
02:58:41,220 --> 02:58:43,240
I want it to be something that works for those

2193
02:58:43,240 --> 02:58:45,280
who are actually utilizing the park on a regular basis

2194
02:58:45,280 --> 02:58:46,380
and supporting our community.

2195
02:58:47,020 --> 02:58:49,600
And so I will vote for option two,

2196
02:58:49,860 --> 02:58:51,740
but under the conditions that that's what we're going to do

2197
02:58:51,740 --> 02:58:53,340
is we're going to put in signage that makes it

2198
02:58:53,340 --> 02:58:55,160
so that we're accommodating and meeting their needs

2199
02:58:55,160 --> 02:58:56,120
as well as the needs of this.

2200
02:58:56,120 --> 02:58:59,040
Well, that's why when, and I know you're ready to make a motion,

2201
02:58:59,220 --> 02:59:02,240
but I might actually, if you like to add some things to it,

2202
02:59:02,440 --> 02:59:03,820
so maybe if I could make a motion.

2203
02:59:04,380 --> 02:59:08,260
But because I was going to say that what I would say on that

2204
02:59:08,260 --> 02:59:12,540
Is that that's part of the community outreach and identifying which events if it's

2205
02:59:12,540 --> 02:59:15,400
I just don't want to call large events because if it's weekly, it's not normally considered a

2206
02:59:15,400 --> 02:59:15,640
large event.

2207
02:59:15,640 --> 02:59:24,360
I would just say that, so what I would do is this council, if it would make a motion that we approve

2208
02:59:24,360 --> 02:59:31,380
option to with the stipulation that staff look into a crosswalk and what we would need to do to

2209
02:59:31,380 --> 02:59:37,780
like put in an ADA crosswalk that is which will be separate from this project that staff

2210
02:59:37,780 --> 02:59:44,560
begin outreach with the community and the users you know through ARD and figuring out which

2211
02:59:44,560 --> 02:59:50,540
who's who to talk about when is the most appropriate time to close the bike lane so that

2212
02:59:50,540 --> 02:59:59,020
people have optimal parking and then that we also and then this is a long motion.

2213
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:05,140
Look into the dots, putting those dots in that buffer zone. I think that's important as well.

2214
03:00:05,300 --> 03:00:10,660
And traffic calming. Yeah, traffic calming. Well, the traffic calming in my mind is some of the signage.

2215
03:00:10,660 --> 03:00:13,820
The signage. Well, the traffic calming and the signage.

2216
03:00:13,820 --> 03:00:19,540
Can we, I would say, go to the traffic committee, but we need to talk about that too. I think, can you make your motion.

2217
03:00:19,960 --> 03:00:22,040
That's what it was open to.

2218
03:00:23,180 --> 03:00:27,180
So if you could tell us, Amy, thank goodness it's being recorded.

2219
03:00:27,660 --> 03:00:38,240
So option two, so option two with direction to staff to number one, communication and

2220
03:00:38,240 --> 03:00:43,920
outreach on when would be the best time or needed time to close the bike path.

2221
03:00:44,200 --> 03:00:50,440
Number two, look into the crosswalk, where it would be allowed from an 88 perspective, what

2222
03:00:50,440 --> 03:00:52,860
the cost would be in what would be necessary.

2223
03:00:53,480 --> 03:00:56,760
And number three is working towards traffic calming.

2224
03:00:57,160 --> 03:00:58,860
And that's separate from this project.

2225
03:00:59,820 --> 03:01:03,100
And we can talk about traffic calming

2226
03:01:03,100 --> 03:01:05,240
with the users of the park as well.

2227
03:01:05,380 --> 03:01:07,180
So when we talk to the community outreach,

2228
03:01:07,180 --> 03:01:12,620
it's talking to them about the parking and traffic calming.

2229
03:01:13,200 --> 03:01:15,260
Does that mean any and other, all?

2230
03:01:15,800 --> 03:01:19,440
And I can't just say, please, I'll second the motion.

2231
03:01:29,720 --> 03:01:33,000
So do you have an idea when striping would continue?

2232
03:01:34,120 --> 03:01:38,740
So I would say based off of the motion that's presented to Council to staff.

2233
03:01:39,140 --> 03:01:44,140
I would say continued use as it is right now where you can park with the red.

2234
03:01:45,480 --> 03:01:49,140
Through our outreach with you, we'll give some dates as to when the project will start

2235
03:01:49,140 --> 03:01:52,160
and then we will begin the new usage pattern.

2236
03:01:52,160 --> 03:01:57,060
Will be signage when the four park before used the road as it is now?

2237
03:01:57,260 --> 03:02:00,280
Yeah, before we began again, we'll just we'll have some signage.

2238
03:02:01,260 --> 03:02:05,720
But Mr. City manager, how did you just disperse if I am timing, I thought I understood

2239
03:02:05,720 --> 03:02:11,400
we're proving option two tonight with some things for the staff to come back to council

2240
03:02:11,400 --> 03:02:18,500
with. So it under approving option two, then the scope of work of what we have, the contractor

2241
03:02:18,500 --> 03:02:21,200
under contract four could begin immediately.

2242
03:02:21,280 --> 03:02:21,680
Right.

2243
03:02:21,700 --> 03:02:22,800
So that's not true too.

2244
03:02:23,660 --> 03:02:24,140
Unstripe.

2245
03:02:24,140 --> 03:02:24,420
Okay.

2246
03:02:24,600 --> 03:02:26,100
That's why I just wanted to clarify this.

2247
03:02:26,260 --> 03:02:27,120
My understanding of the most.

2248
03:02:27,160 --> 03:02:30,320
All plans put parking on one side either way.

2249
03:02:30,520 --> 03:02:30,680
So right.

2250
03:02:30,740 --> 03:02:33,540
We could unstripe for sure one side.

2251
03:02:34,900 --> 03:02:37,060
I know the right guys, they're in the audience.

2252
03:02:38,020 --> 03:02:39,280
I'll be out there tomorrow.

2253
03:02:39,920 --> 03:02:45,540
But we, I just want to make sure that we have the signage and the rules figured out

2254
03:02:45,540 --> 03:02:48,120
before we start making the no parking stuff.

2255
03:02:48,120 --> 03:02:57,500
So before we ensure that those conditions of when the when it's open and closed all get sorted out before we start enforcing before we open the bike lane, we would have to have all those issues.

2256
03:02:57,920 --> 03:02:59,680
Yeah, address. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

2257
03:03:04,000 --> 03:03:10,740
No, too. Too many friction points. Yeah. Sorry. We have already talked about that a couple of times.

2258
03:03:13,300 --> 03:03:15,200
Any further discussion?

2259
03:03:16,240 --> 03:03:16,780
We have a motion.

2260
03:03:17,420 --> 03:03:18,940
We have a motion and the second.

2261
03:03:19,380 --> 03:03:20,260
Madam Clerk, roll call.

2262
03:03:20,900 --> 03:03:21,840
Sure. Council member Mara.

2263
03:03:22,760 --> 03:03:23,200
Thank you.

2264
03:03:23,620 --> 03:03:24,080
Redell Harris.

2265
03:03:24,260 --> 03:03:24,320
I.

2266
03:03:24,560 --> 03:03:25,060
Mayor Davis.

2267
03:03:25,440 --> 03:03:25,460
I.

2268
03:03:26,280 --> 03:03:27,120
Thank you.

2269
03:03:27,440 --> 03:03:28,000
Motion passes.

2270
03:03:28,660 --> 03:03:28,860
And please.

2271
03:03:30,160 --> 03:03:31,420
You have contact information.

2272
03:03:36,360 --> 03:03:36,960
Compromise.

2273
03:03:36,980 --> 03:03:37,660
That is.

2274
03:03:37,660 --> 03:03:38,080
That is.

2275
03:03:38,280 --> 03:03:38,300
Good.

2276
03:03:39,660 --> 03:03:44,800
and you are welcome to leave if this was your only item we will not be offended

2277
03:05:57,230 --> 03:06:06,570
All right, folks, we still have two more items on our agenda, and I appreciate everyone's patience beyond words.

2278
03:06:09,760 --> 03:06:18,000
Without further ado, I think we will move on to our appointment of a new city council member.

2279
03:06:18,000 --> 03:06:21,860
Sure, I'll introduce the site of mayor council members.

2280
03:06:22,620 --> 03:06:28,300
Tonight, you'll be considering the appointment to fill the city council vacancy by the resignation of the late council member of my council.

2281
03:06:28,860 --> 03:06:33,940
The council met and voted to open the application process to appoint a successor to this position.

2282
03:06:34,440 --> 03:06:42,920
The outreach was very successful and included the city's website, social media, public notices, published in the Auburn Journal, along with an article that they wrote.

2283
03:06:42,920 --> 03:06:52,740
The application period closed August 10th, we received five applications with two applicants not meeting the residency requirement and one also withdrew.

2284
03:06:53,280 --> 03:06:56,560
That leaves two eligible applicants for your consideration tonight.

2285
03:06:57,380 --> 03:06:59,960
Before we begin, I'll briefly explain the interview process.

2286
03:07:00,480 --> 03:07:06,920
One candidate will step outside while the others interview each candidate will have two minutes for an introduction for questions from the council.

2287
03:07:07,320 --> 03:07:12,900
Follow up questions from the council in an opportunity for a public comment and one minute for a closing statement.

2288
03:07:12,900 --> 03:07:16,580
Following the interviews, the Council will consider the appointment by Resolution.

2289
03:07:16,860 --> 03:07:19,580
Once an appointment is made, I will administer the oath of office.

2290
03:07:20,580 --> 03:07:23,200
We decided to begin.

2291
03:07:23,200 --> 03:07:28,220
We will just go an alphabetical order and we will bring up Ms. Felicia, Joy, D. Prosper,

2292
03:07:29,540 --> 03:07:32,360
and Bridget Powers will be stepping out of the Council chambers.

2293
03:07:33,020 --> 03:07:34,880
With that mayor, I turn it over to you.

2294
03:07:35,100 --> 03:07:35,220
All right.

2295
03:07:35,300 --> 03:07:36,260
Thank you very much.

2296
03:07:37,460 --> 03:07:40,820
Welcome, do you prefer Ms. Joy to Prosper?

2297
03:07:41,200 --> 03:07:41,480
Sure.

2298
03:07:43,060 --> 03:07:46,860
If you would like to start with a two minute intro, introduce yourself?

2299
03:07:47,580 --> 03:07:49,940
My name is Felicia Joy de Prosper.

2300
03:07:51,100 --> 03:07:53,540
Great. Is there anything you'd like to share about yourself?

2301
03:07:54,140 --> 03:08:00,160
I'm from Michigan, and Auburn really reminds me of this small town that I came from in Michigan.

2302
03:08:00,740 --> 03:08:05,340
There's 5,144 people in the town that was born in.

2303
03:08:05,860 --> 03:08:07,080
I really love Auburn.

2304
03:08:09,160 --> 03:08:11,300
Yeah, you can adjust the mic for you.

2305
03:08:11,620 --> 03:08:12,120
There you go.

2306
03:08:12,300 --> 03:08:13,140
That's a bit more comfortable.

2307
03:08:14,960 --> 03:08:18,940
Council, you comfortable if I administer the questions or would we?

2308
03:08:19,060 --> 03:08:21,420
Okay, if I go through them all.

2309
03:08:21,560 --> 03:08:22,080
If you want.

2310
03:08:22,340 --> 03:08:22,580
All right.

2311
03:08:22,700 --> 03:08:24,240
We'll start down here then.

2312
03:08:28,600 --> 03:08:32,760
My question is, why do you want to serve on the city council?

2313
03:08:34,040 --> 03:08:37,960
Well, one of my clients told me I'd be really good at it and that I should apply.

2314
03:08:38,640 --> 03:08:40,240
So that's what brought me here today.

2315
03:08:41,700 --> 03:08:43,620
Thank you. Thank you.

2316
03:08:44,140 --> 03:08:49,940
What are the roles and responsibilities of city council members at City Hall and in the community?

2317
03:08:51,260 --> 03:08:55,700
Well, the roles are for you guys to listen to the people,

2318
03:08:56,600 --> 03:09:02,300
rule on the motion, and look out for the greater good of the community.

2319
03:09:03,420 --> 03:09:04,180
Okay, thank you.

2320
03:09:04,180 --> 03:09:13,560
What is your understanding of the city's current budget and fiscal position and what specific suggestions would you have to change it if needed?

2321
03:09:14,600 --> 03:09:16,480
I wouldn't know the answer to that question.

2322
03:09:16,900 --> 03:09:18,840
I didn't look into that, so I'm sorry.

2323
03:09:19,480 --> 03:09:20,360
I appreciate your honesty.

2324
03:09:25,710 --> 03:09:26,130
All right.

2325
03:09:26,710 --> 03:09:27,910
I'm on question number four.

2326
03:09:28,690 --> 03:09:38,090
What objective do you believe are the most important to the position to position the position to position the city

2327
03:09:38,090 --> 03:09:43,110
for long-term success. Sorry about that. What objectives do you believe are the most important

2328
03:09:43,110 --> 03:09:45,610
to position the city for long-term success?

2329
03:09:46,490 --> 03:09:52,410
Well, my main concern is the roads because I drive around around here. And for a long time I

2330
03:09:52,410 --> 03:09:59,970
wanted Palm to get repaved and it did. So I really thank you guys for that. But my main concern

2331
03:10:00,000 --> 03:10:08,080
The conditions of the roads, because we're driving on these roads. And this is an older community up here.

2332
03:10:08,420 --> 03:10:13,840
So the road, you know, sending to the roads that need, sending to like Bell is real bad for a while.

2333
03:10:14,320 --> 03:10:17,360
You guys have kind of fixed that up a little bit better.

2334
03:10:18,400 --> 03:10:21,820
You know, yeah, that's my answer. Thank you.

2335
03:10:21,940 --> 03:10:24,360
Thank you. Do we have any questions?

2336
03:10:24,360 --> 03:10:31,720
a quick question. Are you you're not running in the election in November? Is that correct?

2337
03:10:32,000 --> 03:10:42,100
I believe not. I'm sorry. No. No. Okay. Thank you. Is there a reason why you decided just to apply

2338
03:10:42,100 --> 03:10:48,140
for the appointment but didn't want to run for office? Well, I would like to. I need to get my nomination

2339
03:10:48,140 --> 03:10:57,320
papers to move forward with that. Thank you. Thank you. Any further questions? Yes. I have a question.

2340
03:10:59,240 --> 03:11:06,760
What you've you've listened tonight to everything. Sure. So my question to you is how do you see

2341
03:11:06,760 --> 03:11:12,460
Auburn progressing? How do I see Auburn progressing?

2342
03:11:15,140 --> 03:11:18,360
I just love it up here. I just think it's a

2343
03:11:18,360 --> 03:11:24,120
wonderful place and most people come up here because they know somebody that lived up here.

2344
03:11:24,380 --> 03:11:29,140
There are some people like most of the people today were from here, which was really interesting,

2345
03:11:29,360 --> 03:11:33,830
but I mean a lot of people that had met somebody and then they've retired up here.

2346
03:11:35,040 --> 03:11:40,820
I know a lot of older people in the community more so than any of the younger people in the community.

2347
03:11:41,360 --> 03:11:46,990
So I really find it to be very beneficial for you to sustain yourself if you were

2348
03:11:46,990 --> 03:11:55,630
maybe disabled, or then really have more means of, you know, getting around like in a big city.

2349
03:11:55,930 --> 03:12:06,390
It's very easy to shop up here. It's very easy to get around. I find it easy to be accessible to live your life up here.

2350
03:12:06,390 --> 03:12:08,290
Good. Thank you.

2351
03:12:08,410 --> 03:12:08,670
I have one.

2352
03:12:09,750 --> 03:12:12,970
You seem active in the business community.

2353
03:12:13,450 --> 03:12:16,830
Do you know what would you say or some things we could do to improve

2354
03:12:16,830 --> 03:12:18,850
Auburn that would help local businesses?

2355
03:12:21,070 --> 03:12:23,370
It's very hard to do business up here in Auburn.

2356
03:12:23,630 --> 03:12:28,530
I believe you've got to network and I have my people.

2357
03:12:28,850 --> 03:12:33,730
I've been really blessed, but I really lean on the Lord a lot for that.

2358
03:12:34,290 --> 03:12:39,430
I can't really speak for other people how they do things or how they're going about

2359
03:12:40,210 --> 03:12:42,210
Because I see a lot of businesses close down

2360
03:12:43,690 --> 03:12:50,150
Like the place across the street for me has changed hands three times and I was shocked that they left them it always makes me feel bad

2361
03:12:51,090 --> 03:12:52,810
And then there was that

2362
03:12:53,950 --> 03:12:59,770
Links I got a dog four years ago and there's that vanity pet place that didn't last long either

2363
03:12:59,770 --> 03:13:02,890
I was shocked to see that I placed go out of business. So

2364
03:13:04,010 --> 03:13:05,450
I'm just grateful.

2365
03:13:06,450 --> 03:13:06,830
Thank you.

2366
03:13:07,050 --> 03:13:07,730
Thank you.

2367
03:13:08,170 --> 03:13:11,870
We have an option here for any public comment.

2368
03:13:12,090 --> 03:13:13,310
We have any public comment.

2369
03:13:15,360 --> 03:13:15,600
All right.

2370
03:13:15,780 --> 03:13:18,580
Seeing none, would you like to make any closing statements?

2371
03:13:19,280 --> 03:13:19,920
Yes.

2372
03:13:23,600 --> 03:13:27,160
Good evening, fellow city council members and managers and staff.

2373
03:13:27,660 --> 03:13:31,780
For my understanding, you are in undergoing the election

2374
03:13:31,780 --> 03:13:35,220
for the occupation of city council board member.

2375
03:13:35,220 --> 03:13:39,340
I understandably are responding to that principle.

2376
03:13:40,200 --> 03:13:48,420
I feel I am obligated and persist to respond to this election, not to all, but add as successfully.

2377
03:13:49,380 --> 03:13:56,020
So, therefore, I will do my very best, and I am elected as your city council member,

2378
03:13:56,480 --> 03:13:59,040
and believe me, I won't let you down.

2379
03:13:59,040 --> 03:14:07,140
Don't forget Felicia do a deposit is who's going to get the job done as a city council number

2380
03:14:07,140 --> 03:14:13,360
Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for your interest in stepping up. We really do appreciate you.

2381
03:14:32,620 --> 03:14:33,840
Thank you, yes

2382
03:14:46,100 --> 03:14:47,780
Good evening

2383
03:14:48,320 --> 03:14:49,740
Good evening

2384
03:14:50,320 --> 03:14:52,330
We please introduce yourself

2385
03:14:54,620 --> 03:14:59,960
You want me to start with that in my two minute and three or just introduce myself

2386
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:11,700
You can go into your intro. Okay, because even though I've been around these chambers a lot, it's still nerve-wracking, Dean interviewed by several people I admire on my respect.

2387
03:15:12,360 --> 03:15:27,300
My name is Brigitte Powers, and I want to tell a little story, and then at the end, tell you why I would appreciate you choosing me for this appointment this evening, but I want to go back in time.

2388
03:15:27,300 --> 03:15:31,680
And I'll do it all, of course, you did that to me.

2389
03:15:34,480 --> 03:15:42,600
In 2006, the Community Access City Council took creative place for community to gather and to make

2390
03:15:42,600 --> 03:15:49,040
the community more walkable and to allow for outdoor dining as well as many other things.

2391
03:15:49,780 --> 03:15:54,900
In 2010, this was realized with our wonderful central square.

2392
03:15:56,600 --> 03:16:06,960
This community driven huge undertaking took just four years to accomplish because your City Council heard you loud and clear.

2393
03:16:08,000 --> 03:16:11,900
I had the honor as mayor at the time to be the master of ceremonies.

2394
03:16:12,760 --> 03:16:21,860
However, it was the entire City Council working together with the community and the city staff to bring this together so quickly.

2395
03:16:21,860 --> 03:16:29,120
This is what I will bring to the City Council, working together with the community finding ways

2396
03:16:29,120 --> 03:16:36,540
to improve our business districts and creating spaces our citizens can enjoy with their friends and family.

2397
03:16:37,500 --> 03:16:45,630
One of the City Council members at the time was the late My Comps, who's seat I'm asking to be appointed to

2398
03:16:45,630 --> 03:16:49,010
to serve the rest of his term.

2399
03:16:49,650 --> 03:16:56,150
If appointed, I planned to carry out my desire to preserve our historic character and

2400
03:16:56,150 --> 03:16:59,690
his love of the arts that are so important to our community.

2401
03:17:00,430 --> 03:17:06,310
He had many other things that were important to the day-to-day operations of the city, but

2402
03:17:06,310 --> 03:17:13,790
these were his passion and I agree with this and him and his desire to preserve the history

2403
03:17:13,790 --> 03:17:17,470
and to encourage the arts community here in our city.

2404
03:17:18,230 --> 03:17:24,430
The skills I will bring to the council are communication and collaboration with my fellow council members.

2405
03:17:24,730 --> 03:17:26,330
I'm going to have you just wrap it up.

2406
03:17:26,590 --> 03:17:27,090
I will have your pass.

2407
03:17:27,510 --> 03:17:27,950
Sorry.

2408
03:17:27,970 --> 03:17:28,590
I have 13 seconds.

2409
03:17:28,770 --> 03:17:29,390
No, you have no.

2410
03:17:29,550 --> 03:17:29,650
You have no.

2411
03:17:29,810 --> 03:17:30,070
You have no.

2412
03:17:30,070 --> 03:17:30,790
You have no.

2413
03:17:30,790 --> 03:17:30,890
You have no.

2414
03:17:30,890 --> 03:17:30,950
You have no.

2415
03:17:30,950 --> 03:17:31,410
You have no.

2416
03:17:31,690 --> 03:17:41,930
You have no.

2417
03:17:42,770 --> 03:17:45,170
And so we've got four questions for you.

2418
03:17:45,330 --> 03:17:46,470
We'll each ask you one.

2419
03:17:49,920 --> 03:17:51,420
I have a hardest question.

2420
03:17:52,160 --> 03:17:54,220
Why do you want to serve on the city council?

2421
03:17:54,860 --> 03:17:55,720
After tonight?

2422
03:17:58,520 --> 03:17:59,620
That's why it's a hard question.

2423
03:18:00,800 --> 03:18:02,280
It's not a hard question.

2424
03:18:03,160 --> 03:18:05,880
I have, I served for 13 years prior.

2425
03:18:06,100 --> 03:18:11,520
We had much harder questions, even central square that I briefly talked about.

2426
03:18:11,920 --> 03:18:13,460
I'm not afraid of those challenges.

2427
03:18:13,460 --> 03:18:17,600
I like to work with our community and make sure that we're doing everything together.

2428
03:18:20,040 --> 03:18:27,740
I love my city and I have lived here for a lot of years and I care about what direction it takes

2429
03:18:27,740 --> 03:18:31,540
and what it's doing for our citizens and our businesses.

2430
03:18:32,500 --> 03:18:39,660
And I want to continue to serve and this is in my community as I recently retired from a full-time job

2431
03:18:39,660 --> 03:18:45,780
feel I haven't more time and I want to continue to give back like I did for 13 years in

2432
03:18:45,780 --> 03:18:53,250
the past. Thank you. I have the second question. What are the roles and responsibilities

2433
03:18:53,250 --> 03:18:59,330
of city council members at City Hall and in the community? Well the number one role in

2434
03:18:59,330 --> 03:19:07,190
responsibility is financial stability as we all know and of course public safety and in the community

2435
03:19:07,190 --> 03:19:14,930
is to make sure that we hear, listen, collaborate, and communicate to make sure we're meeting the

2436
03:19:14,930 --> 03:19:22,040
needs of what our citizens are asking for from us within our financial ability to do so.

2437
03:19:23,850 --> 03:19:28,490
Okay, thank you. What is your understanding of the city's current budget and fiscal position

2438
03:19:28,490 --> 03:19:34,970
and what specific suggestions would you have to change it if needed? That's, uh, you don't have

2439
03:19:34,970 --> 03:19:42,870
enough time. But tonight, I think we don't have enough time. Sorry, it didn't mean specific to you, Mayor.

2440
03:19:44,690 --> 03:19:51,250
We have, we have some problems coming up. We have some financial deficits that are going to

2441
03:19:51,250 --> 03:19:59,290
strongly impact the future of the city of Auburn. And I feel another example, central square,

2442
03:19:59,290 --> 03:19:59,990
was a very...

2443
03:20:00,000 --> 03:20:17,540
Big picture item. That was hard to fathom and such a short time and we need to be thinking, bigger picture. I'm all for building an industrial building and helping with our sales tax revenue and all those things.

2444
03:20:17,540 --> 03:20:23,160
But if we don't think in a bigger broader way of what that bigger picture is going to look like

2445
03:20:23,160 --> 03:20:30,900
in order to create more revenue and not think small, but think much bigger about what can we do?

2446
03:20:32,440 --> 03:20:33,180
Thank you.

2447
03:20:37,250 --> 03:20:38,410
Turn that on. Excuse me.

2448
03:20:38,910 --> 03:20:44,510
What objectives do you believe are the most important to position Auburn for long-term success?

2449
03:20:48,090 --> 03:20:55,210
Well, our number one objective is to really dig deep into our budget and to really think

2450
03:20:55,210 --> 03:21:01,570
big about what we have to do to get to the next step in the future and not continue to have

2451
03:21:01,570 --> 03:21:02,370
budget crisis.

2452
03:21:03,010 --> 03:21:09,170
I also believe that we need to reinstate and add our reserve, rainy day, reserve fun, and I

2453
03:21:09,170 --> 03:21:14,170
have specific things that I feel that we should be using that for and things that I don't

2454
03:21:14,170 --> 03:21:20,150
we should be using that for. So I would certainly working together with the council member really

2455
03:21:20,150 --> 03:21:27,110
encouraged that we start working towards that. So when we have another large recession or economic

2456
03:21:27,110 --> 03:21:35,590
downturn, we're prepared. There's so much I could talk all night to what how I feel about what

2457
03:21:35,590 --> 03:21:41,810
directions we can go and where we need to be. Thank you. Do we have any follow-up questions?

2458
03:21:47,740 --> 03:21:52,660
No, I think I won't pass on that.

2459
03:21:54,640 --> 03:22:00,060
So Bridget, what do you think is the city's biggest challenge at this point in time?

2460
03:22:00,880 --> 03:22:02,400
And how would you address it?

2461
03:22:05,290 --> 03:22:14,870
Well, obviously, well, for safety, I mean, I say that last, even though it's number one on

2462
03:22:14,870 --> 03:22:26,010
goals of making sure that we have a fire safe community and that we're prepared. That is our biggest issue in order to protect our city best example right now

2463
03:22:26,010 --> 03:22:33,530
is what's happening over in Reno. Are we prepared? Are we doing everything we can to be prepared? That is one of our biggest issues.

2464
03:22:33,530 --> 03:22:44,890
But if we don't have a fiscally sound budget, we're not going to be able to pay for the staff that we need and the public safety, we need to protect our community.

2465
03:22:45,590 --> 03:22:50,510
So public safety, obviously number one, sorry I didn't mention it first.

2466
03:22:50,690 --> 03:22:51,710
I'm a little nervous.

2467
03:22:53,030 --> 03:22:53,710
I have a question.

2468
03:22:54,930 --> 03:22:56,430
Are you ready to give up your opportunity?

2469
03:22:56,430 --> 03:22:57,770
No, this is a good idea.

2470
03:22:57,910 --> 03:22:59,450
This is a good easy one.

2471
03:22:59,450 --> 03:23:17,730
So, I just want to end on a, well, maybe not an end, but I want to positiveness, so my question to you is, what is the most positive aspect of Auburn that's occurred in the last eight years?

2472
03:23:23,800 --> 03:23:30,500
Well, you hired an economic development director who has been creative with the limited funding

2473
03:23:30,500 --> 03:23:36,840
that he has had in order to create entertainment zones to try and work more closely with

2474
03:23:36,840 --> 03:23:40,720
our businesses to try and help our businesses be more successful.

2475
03:23:41,280 --> 03:23:46,700
And I will say this, it is up to the businesses to participate too.

2476
03:23:47,880 --> 03:23:54,320
15, 20 years ago I said if our businesses are only open from 10 until 4 p.m. I who worked

2477
03:23:54,320 --> 03:23:59,140
down the hill in Sacramento and leaving my house at 6 p.m. and I'm not even getting

2478
03:23:59,140 --> 03:24:06,520
home having dinner until 7. That has changed. And central square and what your previous

2479
03:24:06,520 --> 03:24:14,900
council did ahead of time with that bigger picture vision. Now sees we have lovely high

2480
03:24:14,900 --> 03:24:20,660
And the restaurants, quite nice restaurants, we have shops and boutiques that some are thriving,

2481
03:24:20,840 --> 03:24:21,480
some are not.

2482
03:24:21,660 --> 03:24:27,320
I'm hoping to help them all be successful, but we have made a lot of changes in differences

2483
03:24:27,320 --> 03:24:28,440
outside dining.

2484
03:24:28,700 --> 03:24:34,500
We have made it a more walkable community, more bikeable community, by the way, my husband

2485
03:24:34,500 --> 03:24:44,880
wrote his bike here, because of these, but he wrote his bike here, and all of those

2486
03:24:46,540 --> 03:24:49,280
Those are positive things I've seen back then.

2487
03:24:49,600 --> 03:24:50,820
Thank you very much.

2488
03:24:52,120 --> 03:24:59,560
I was just going to, we spent a lot of time over the last couple years working on our general plan, which is now in the public comment phase and getting a lot of positive.

2489
03:25:00,000 --> 03:25:05,440
Or did less different feedback from our community? Is there anything in the general plan or in the future

2490
03:25:05,440 --> 03:25:09,620
of Auburn that you see that you're really optimistic about or you think will be a good change

2491
03:25:09,620 --> 03:25:10,400
for Auburn?

2492
03:25:11,880 --> 03:25:18,300
I've been looking at two general plans. The counties and ours and some, you know, it's

2493
03:25:18,300 --> 03:25:25,260
a lot to read. I have a few areas where maybe I wouldn't necessarily do it that way and wouldn't

2494
03:25:25,260 --> 03:25:29,300
agree, but I actually got a conversation with a planning commissioner tonight.

2495
03:25:29,920 --> 03:25:34,940
It changed my mind on how I feel about what direction we should take, but it's about

2496
03:25:34,940 --> 03:25:35,400
time.

2497
03:25:35,620 --> 03:25:41,520
I believe we've been asking for the general plan update for a long, long time and what

2498
03:25:41,520 --> 03:25:46,360
I most respect about what you've done is you've done it simultaneously with the county and

2499
03:25:46,360 --> 03:25:51,800
you've worked together to make sure we aren't going to have lawsuits on our borders ever

2500
03:25:51,800 --> 03:25:56,760
that we are working collaboratively and together to help us all be successful.

2501
03:25:57,680 --> 03:25:57,950
Thank you.

2502
03:25:58,540 --> 03:25:59,960
Thank you very much.

2503
03:26:00,620 --> 03:26:02,760
This is an opportunity for public comment.

2504
03:26:07,600 --> 03:26:08,220
See, oh, sure.

2505
03:26:15,550 --> 03:26:18,950
And I'm coming to the podium now because I'm not sure Amy,

2506
03:26:18,970 --> 03:26:22,870
if there's going to be another opportunity for public comment later this evening

2507
03:26:22,870 --> 03:26:24,390
or is this the last opportunity?

2508
03:26:24,890 --> 03:26:25,850
This is just on the appointment.

2509
03:26:25,870 --> 03:26:30,310
Just on this particular appointment that we're doing great.

2510
03:26:30,310 --> 03:26:46,590
Okay, well then this is relevant. Regardless of who the council selects tonight, the new council member has an opportunity to appoint a brand new planning commissioner.

2511
03:26:46,590 --> 03:26:56,550
We are going to the general plan as you all know, and we have five planning commissioners right now that have been studying and working on that general plan.

2512
03:26:56,990 --> 03:27:15,930
It would be nice if the new council member would appoint the new planning or the new planning commissioner to take office after the planning commission has a reviewed and advanced the general plan and the EIR documents.

2513
03:27:15,930 --> 03:27:23,190
on to council. In other words, what I'm trying to avoid is a brand new planning commissioner coming

2514
03:27:23,190 --> 03:27:32,650
in at the 11th hour. I have the most respect for whoever is going to be appointed by either one

2515
03:27:32,650 --> 03:27:39,710
of these two council members, but I would prefer to see that occur after we advance the general plan.

2516
03:27:40,310 --> 03:27:50,980
Thank you. Thank you. Any further comments? All right. Seeing Madam Clark, how would you like us to proceed?

2517
03:27:52,020 --> 03:27:53,380
Oh, yes, you may have wanted to. Sorry.

2518
03:27:56,410 --> 03:28:02,610
So sorry. Thank you. I get another 60 seconds. Get it on the thing there on the clock.

2519
03:28:03,470 --> 03:28:06,650
I just want to say that I have had experience.

2520
03:28:07,050 --> 03:28:17,390
I think I've hired three city managers, two police chiefs, two fire chiefs, and worked for

2521
03:28:17,390 --> 03:28:23,350
plaster county as a chief of staff for the last three years, working very closely with plaster

2522
03:28:23,350 --> 03:28:23,870
county.

2523
03:28:24,510 --> 03:28:30,470
And so I feel like I have the right experience knowledge and a very good relationship with

2524
03:28:30,470 --> 03:28:36,570
class or county and I would be the best person for the position. Thank you.

2525
03:28:36,710 --> 03:28:43,650
And one, sorry, one question that was, what about, are you planning to run for election in the campaign? Are you

2526
03:28:43,650 --> 03:28:52,730
running for? Oh, you see, I'm out there, elect for jippowers.com. I have fundraisers planned. I mean,

2527
03:28:52,870 --> 03:28:59,450
my signs are on order. I'm definitely in full campaign mode. I have a little vacation coming up,

2528
03:28:59,450 --> 03:29:05,450
but I am planning in September to start full court campaigning.

2529
03:29:06,130 --> 03:29:06,970
Thank you very much.

2530
03:29:07,150 --> 03:29:08,710
Sorry Madam Clerk, I would do like us to proceed.

2531
03:29:08,930 --> 03:29:14,530
Council now deliberate as awkward as open interviews may be.

2532
03:29:15,010 --> 03:29:21,250
Madam Mayor, if I could just say that one thing I would just would like to say is that I really appreciate our two candidates.

2533
03:29:21,910 --> 03:29:25,190
You know, serving on the city council is a really tough job.

2534
03:29:25,190 --> 03:29:29,290
You know, you try to do the best that you can for the overall community.

2535
03:29:29,510 --> 03:29:31,830
You have a lot of people whispering in your ear.

2536
03:29:32,070 --> 03:29:34,990
Some not whispering but yelling and throwing sticks.

2537
03:29:35,330 --> 03:29:39,350
While others are praising you and it's a tough job.

2538
03:29:39,590 --> 03:29:43,290
It's tough because you've got to go through the information you need to be prepared,

2539
03:29:43,730 --> 03:29:44,850
which is incredibly important.

2540
03:29:45,070 --> 03:29:46,590
It's very time-consuming.

2541
03:29:47,290 --> 03:29:48,630
Certainly you don't do this for the money.

2542
03:29:49,070 --> 03:29:50,750
You do it because you love this community.

2543
03:29:51,650 --> 03:29:55,150
We all love this community up here and so I really want to just thank our candidates

2544
03:29:55,530 --> 03:29:59,850
for coming up, it's tough to put yourself out there, it's tough to come up and be interviewed.

2545
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:09,000
Good. It's tough to campaign. So thank you very much to both of our candidates for taking the risk.

2546
03:30:09,140 --> 03:30:15,600
Because you never know, I always tell my daughter, you've got to take the, you never know unless you take the risk. So thank you.

2547
03:30:16,220 --> 03:30:26,500
And I'm ready to make a motion. So with that said, I feel that mispowers is demonstrated that she possesses the experience,

2548
03:30:28,040 --> 03:30:30,820
necessary to really do this job justice.

2549
03:30:31,940 --> 03:30:35,880
It's no stranger to know that Bridget and I have worked together for a very long time.

2550
03:30:35,900 --> 03:30:38,680
So I know firsthand of her qualification.

2551
03:30:39,200 --> 03:30:40,940
She's passionate about this community.

2552
03:30:41,800 --> 03:30:43,440
She puts her money where her mouth is.

2553
03:30:43,440 --> 03:30:45,960
She's out there walking the walk really is.

2554
03:30:46,760 --> 03:30:51,300
And it would be an honor and a pleasure to have the opportunity to serve with her.

2555
03:30:51,300 --> 03:30:53,420
She and I have never served together on the council.

2556
03:30:53,420 --> 03:30:59,600
She replaced me back in 2005 when I took a little job with the Governor Schwarzenegger and Bridget

2557
03:30:59,600 --> 03:31:04,800
came in and came in and did a great job and she left before I got back on.

2558
03:31:05,200 --> 03:31:11,340
So I think that she's demonstrated that she has the experience in the skills necessary to do this job

2559
03:31:11,340 --> 03:31:16,220
and I would be honored to move the appointment of Bridget Powers.

2560
03:31:16,220 --> 03:31:26,240
I'd like to second that, and I appreciate, again, both candidates very much, but I do want

2561
03:31:26,240 --> 03:31:33,460
to say, the bridge of powers, I'm seconding this because I respect what you would you set

2562
03:31:33,460 --> 03:31:39,720
up there, what I read, how you want to move the city forward, and your respect for my

2563
03:31:39,720 --> 03:31:47,220
homes. But most importantly, this is an interim. You have to jump in right now, and we need

2564
03:31:47,220 --> 03:31:55,520
someone who has the ability and the experience to be able to jump in. There's going to be

2565
03:31:55,520 --> 03:32:02,800
a lot of very tough decisions, and I appreciate the experience that Project House, I appreciate

2566
03:32:02,800 --> 03:32:08,680
our other candidate, however coming forward, and I hope in the future that you get involved

2567
03:32:08,680 --> 03:32:12,620
with the city and maybe we'll see you again from my perspective.

2568
03:32:13,340 --> 03:32:15,560
I like to comment about my plans.

2569
03:32:15,900 --> 03:32:16,140
Thank you.

2570
03:32:17,620 --> 03:32:19,700
Madam Clerk, roll call, please.

2571
03:32:19,960 --> 03:32:20,920
Councilmember Amara.

2572
03:32:21,680 --> 03:32:22,260
Down Calvier.

2573
03:32:22,320 --> 03:32:22,760
I.

2574
03:32:22,760 --> 03:32:23,300
Redell Harris.

2575
03:32:23,520 --> 03:32:23,540
I.

2576
03:32:26,060 --> 03:32:28,300
And speaking of a jump being passed.

2577
03:32:31,850 --> 03:32:32,330
Thank you.

2578
03:32:33,070 --> 03:32:38,530
Speaking of jumping right and I will now perform the oath of office for incoming council member.

2579
03:32:38,530 --> 03:32:39,330
Bridget Powers.

2580
03:32:58,580 --> 03:32:59,280
I it can't

2581
03:33:02,070 --> 03:33:02,930
either.

2582
03:33:02,990 --> 03:33:04,850
Where to power, save someone who's there.

2583
03:33:05,070 --> 03:33:06,130
Who is someone who's there?

2584
03:33:06,290 --> 03:33:07,610
Who's earnin' the dead.

2585
03:33:07,950 --> 03:33:09,390
That I will support and defend.

2586
03:33:09,610 --> 03:33:10,050
The constitution.

2587
03:33:10,570 --> 03:33:12,670
You might say the constitution of that.

2588
03:33:12,790 --> 03:33:13,990
You can die its state as to.

2589
03:33:14,010 --> 03:33:16,270
The Constitution of the state.

2590
03:33:16,270 --> 03:33:17,730
But the constitution of the state that will form.

2591
03:33:18,030 --> 03:33:22,690
It's all and it's all in discipline, and men and women's.

2592
03:33:23,530 --> 03:33:27,250
I will hear a true air � malature, I will hear a true face.

2593
03:33:27,250 --> 03:33:30,090
In early, in the sort of constitution that he had to say,

2594
03:33:30,130 --> 03:33:32,190
in the constitution that he had to say,

2595
03:33:32,310 --> 03:33:35,270
in the constitution that he had to say,

2596
03:33:35,270 --> 03:33:36,250
in the constitution of the state of battle.

2597
03:33:36,470 --> 03:33:37,930
That take his population free.

2598
03:33:38,430 --> 03:33:40,370
I think this all of the states can free.

2599
03:33:40,770 --> 03:33:42,210
Without any mental preservation,

2600
03:33:42,450 --> 03:33:43,770
or personal rights.

2601
03:33:43,890 --> 03:33:46,330
Without any mental resignation, or purpose,

2602
03:33:46,490 --> 03:33:47,210
but they can.

2603
03:33:47,210 --> 03:33:50,070
And they can start to be the state of battle.

2604
03:33:50,670 --> 03:33:52,310
I think we'll need to start

2605
03:33:52,310 --> 03:33:53,730
with the state of battle.

2606
03:33:54,350 --> 03:33:55,630
We're in the world city of battle.

2607
03:33:55,630 --> 03:33:57,390
I'm in an Apple or the city.

2608
03:33:57,870 --> 03:33:58,870
And I'm lost or coming.

2609
03:33:59,190 --> 03:33:59,290
And I'm lost.

2610
03:33:59,510 --> 03:34:01,410
I'm wondering how the four hundred years

2611
03:34:01,920 --> 03:34:03,450
were part of this last slide.

2612
03:34:12,210 --> 03:34:13,190
You're like, I'm going to go.

2613
03:34:13,910 --> 03:34:14,990
Oh, yeah, it's pretty hard.

2614
03:34:16,990 --> 03:34:18,510
I'm going to go to the school.

2615
03:35:11,820 --> 03:35:15,160
All right. So things exploding.

2616
03:35:19,100 --> 03:35:21,240
All right, Kay, are you still here?

2617
03:35:26,070 --> 03:35:28,710
I did a really great, very direct introduction.

2618
03:35:28,990 --> 03:35:30,290
You know, one of you approved me.

2619
03:35:31,310 --> 03:35:36,450
Joining us now for the final council business item tonight.

2620
03:35:36,450 --> 03:35:39,920
We have ARD, Auburn Recreation Park District Annual Park,

2621
03:35:39,920 --> 03:35:42,120
Park, in fact, mitigation field report.

2622
03:35:43,980 --> 03:35:47,360
Thank you for having me, Kail Muscat, with the

2623
03:35:47,360 --> 03:35:48,460
Robert Recreation District.

2624
03:35:49,240 --> 03:35:52,440
And I will try to make this pretty quick.

2625
03:35:53,900 --> 03:35:54,920
Is that?

2626
03:35:56,280 --> 03:35:56,460
Yeah.

2627
03:36:01,330 --> 03:36:02,890
Which button am I pushing in?

2628
03:36:04,010 --> 03:36:04,130
Yeah.

2629
03:36:08,710 --> 03:36:09,030
There goes.

2630
03:36:09,510 --> 03:36:13,590
Okay, so this is our Mr. May report for our fiscal year,

2631
03:36:13,750 --> 03:36:15,550
which ended March 31st.

2632
03:36:15,550 --> 03:36:22,970
The number you see that the 195952 is actually what we have at our city with the R.D. and our balance sheet.

2633
03:36:23,310 --> 03:36:30,590
There's another, that's in your report, 36,575 at the city that hasn't been transferred over yet.

2634
03:36:35,810 --> 03:36:36,870
What am I pointing this at?

2635
03:36:39,810 --> 03:36:40,250
Yeah.

2636
03:36:44,430 --> 03:36:46,890
So anyways, I'm just going to go over the projects.

2637
03:36:47,130 --> 03:36:49,630
We didn't have any projects that you said you mitigation funds last year.

2638
03:36:49,770 --> 03:36:51,490
So these are the ones that are coming up right now.

2639
03:36:51,490 --> 03:36:56,370
The first one is a new playground and 80 path to travel at recreation park.

2640
03:36:56,530 --> 03:36:58,770
It's to replace that playground right there.

2641
03:36:58,950 --> 03:37:00,430
Estimated cost is 120.

2642
03:37:02,410 --> 03:37:05,290
Then the city mitigation piece of views is 120.

2643
03:37:05,930 --> 03:37:08,030
So this is a process that we've done this before.

2644
03:37:08,210 --> 03:37:09,490
There are other playgrounds.

2645
03:37:10,190 --> 03:37:10,950
It's not working.

2646
03:37:12,350 --> 03:37:13,570
Okay, so first of all, I'm sorry.

2647
03:37:14,410 --> 03:37:16,710
That's where the playground is at the north end of recreation park.

2648
03:37:17,230 --> 03:37:19,670
That's one of the pieces of the equipment out there.

2649
03:37:19,970 --> 03:37:21,190
It's very, very old.

2650
03:37:21,810 --> 03:37:22,930
This is our oldest playground.

2651
03:37:23,610 --> 03:37:24,450
It's still there.

2652
03:37:25,090 --> 03:37:25,170
Yes.

2653
03:37:25,530 --> 03:37:26,210
That's an attorney.

2654
03:37:26,210 --> 03:37:27,170
You can't remove it.

2655
03:37:27,170 --> 03:37:27,850
It's close.

2656
03:37:27,890 --> 03:37:28,650
You can't go down.

2657
03:37:29,150 --> 03:37:30,810
It's more up with the top.

2658
03:37:34,380 --> 03:37:42,000
So anyway, so we go through a process where we ask, we give the budget to a bunch of playground manufacturers.

2659
03:37:42,360 --> 03:37:43,080
And so here's your budget.

2660
03:37:43,180 --> 03:37:44,920
It gives your best playground for this budget.

2661
03:37:44,920 --> 03:37:53,040
So we had what is that six this time or seven seven different playground manufacturers come up with their best design

2662
03:37:53,040 --> 03:38:03,660
And we put it out to the public for voting you tell us which one you like and so the winner this year was or this time was compound, which actually they went the last one, too

2663
03:38:03,660 --> 03:38:06,060
And that's through the design off to the side right there

2664
03:38:06,880 --> 03:38:13,080
One of the challenges we did ask him to try to incorporate as much shade as possible, but what we were finding is that

2665
03:38:13,080 --> 03:38:19,440
The more shade they put in shades expensive and the more shade they put in it was less playground equipment

2666
03:38:19,440 --> 03:38:23,300
I think that's why one of those up there has a bit more shade on it

2667
03:38:23,300 --> 03:38:34,300
But I didn't get very many votes because it doesn't have very much equipment. So our goal is to then as we can add shade down the line down the line around this equipment

2668
03:38:34,820 --> 03:38:41,980
And we're going to plant some more trees, but you know trees take well to grow. So we don't shade the thing so

2669
03:38:42,500 --> 03:38:48,480
We're working on it, and this is the path to travel, so the solid yellow line is the current

2670
03:38:48,480 --> 03:38:52,420
ADA path to travel around the building from the ADA parking spots and the dotted line

2671
03:38:52,420 --> 03:38:59,720
represent the way that will take you into the playground, because there is no current ADA path

2672
03:38:59,720 --> 03:39:00,960
to travel to that playground.

2673
03:39:04,360 --> 03:39:09,360
Okay, emergency exit on to recreation from Recreation Park on Auburn, full some road.

2674
03:39:10,400 --> 03:39:14,100
We bumped up the estimated costs in this 80,000, we're just not sure, so we might have

2675
03:39:14,100 --> 03:39:19,560
to put in a little bit more road and expansion there

2676
03:39:19,560 --> 03:39:22,220
than we thought, but I'll show you a little map.

2677
03:39:22,340 --> 03:39:23,860
And this is seeing this before.

2678
03:39:23,880 --> 03:39:26,680
So it's right there, right there off of by the Batchy

2679
03:39:26,680 --> 03:39:29,260
Courts kind of, and you can see where it dumps in

2680
03:39:29,260 --> 03:39:31,900
under that little spur of Auburn Folsom Road.

2681
03:39:32,920 --> 03:39:35,320
And that is an emergency exit to get.

2682
03:39:35,480 --> 03:39:39,560
It's a second way out of the folks that live up,

2683
03:39:39,600 --> 03:39:41,040
what can't they, little streets, you know,

2684
03:39:41,040 --> 03:39:43,760
up up all my red stuff up there, that area.

2685
03:39:44,380 --> 03:39:46,320
Does I believe that's there's only one way out.

2686
03:39:46,580 --> 03:39:47,100
Isn't that correct?

2687
03:39:47,360 --> 03:39:48,040
John, yeah, so.

2688
03:39:49,480 --> 03:39:52,060
OK, so a couple of other real, so before I move on,

2689
03:39:52,160 --> 03:39:53,700
is there any questions about those projects?

2690
03:39:54,800 --> 03:39:57,080
OK, real quick, so other projects of note,

2691
03:39:57,340 --> 03:39:59,960
not using city mitigation funds, but they're here in the city.

2692
03:40:00,780 --> 03:40:29,980
We are doing some heavy repairs on the ash for park playground. On the right of that picture is the pond. You can see the water. And the other side is there's a, there's a design. So when it rains a lot, the water is supposed to overflow, but there's also drainage underneath it. It is failing. And as you can see on the left side of that picture, it is, it's collapsing the road. So we've got to get that fixed. It's there, like our main way to get in to mow over there, but also we have a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,

2693
03:40:29,980 --> 03:40:37,060
a garage down there that we use for storage. So yay for us. That's for the location of an

2694
03:40:37,060 --> 03:40:42,460
at Ashered Park. So the dog parks down there at the bottom kind of middle-ish and you see the pond.

2695
03:40:45,040 --> 03:40:52,040
Speaking of Ashered Park, Jen, where we went ahead of those hard rains, it finally blew out

2696
03:40:52,040 --> 03:40:58,220
for the second time, the culvert. That culvert is on the on the right side picture, the solid line,

2697
03:40:58,220 --> 03:41:04,120
this kind of gold. That's the existing culvert. We do not know how old it is. It is very

2698
03:41:04,120 --> 03:41:11,420
old. It's the entire bottom part of his rusted out. We did set a camera up, but it is useless

2699
03:41:11,420 --> 03:41:15,860
at this point. So we are going to have to reroute it. It took us a little time, but we finally

2700
03:41:17,040 --> 03:41:23,980
got insurance is going to cover this for us. So it drains a lot of things. Mainly, a lot

2701
03:41:23,980 --> 03:41:29,860
Also water comes off the tracks right there, the U.P. tracks, but some of it comes from up above on the southern property.

2702
03:41:31,800 --> 03:41:33,420
And there's just no way we can keep.

2703
03:41:33,420 --> 03:41:35,300
We're going to keep getting holes like that.

2704
03:41:35,660 --> 03:41:39,020
Like we my employee Kevin is standing in on that left side.

2705
03:41:39,080 --> 03:41:41,020
That's what happened this last time.

2706
03:41:41,180 --> 03:41:42,980
Hey, blue, a giant hole in the earth.

2707
03:41:44,920 --> 03:41:45,500
Other projects.

2708
03:41:45,700 --> 03:41:47,240
Once again, bigsfield scoreboard.

2709
03:41:47,240 --> 03:41:49,300
This has been going on for far too long.

2710
03:41:51,000 --> 03:41:58,340
We've little league is now they're finally getting, and you see the kind of the example over there you got those sponsors at the bottom.

2711
03:41:58,620 --> 03:42:02,680
They're finally getting their last sponsors in on that, so we can get the scoreboard ordered.

2712
03:42:03,660 --> 03:42:10,040
Air D's pitching in 7500, and the rest is all coming from little league either through cash or in kind donations.

2713
03:42:14,140 --> 03:42:19,840
Oh, the gazebo, gosh, what a fun, a big branch fell on that and took it out.

2714
03:42:21,080 --> 03:42:25,260
We were going to get it repaired, as a matter of fact, Nick, and so that his crew was

2715
03:42:25,260 --> 03:42:29,940
looking at trying to just fix it for us, well, then we found out after we brought out some

2716
03:42:29,940 --> 03:42:35,020
engineers and architects that when that branch hit it, it really kind of twisted the whole

2717
03:42:35,020 --> 03:42:40,720
thing and it made it unsafe, and then when they looked into it further, when it was built

2718
03:42:40,720 --> 03:42:43,520
back in some time ago.

2719
03:42:45,240 --> 03:42:47,420
These was not, it's not to code.

2720
03:42:47,840 --> 03:42:48,800
I'll just cut to the chase.

2721
03:42:48,960 --> 03:42:53,280
It's not to code, not even the slab is to code anymore.

2722
03:42:54,040 --> 03:42:56,240
So the whole darn thing's got to be ripped out.

2723
03:42:56,300 --> 03:42:57,660
Insurance is going to pay for it.

2724
03:42:57,680 --> 03:43:01,280
We just got that approval two weeks ago.

2725
03:43:01,900 --> 03:43:04,780
Our insurance moves just terribly slow.

2726
03:43:06,020 --> 03:43:07,940
But yeah, it'll be, it'll be a replacement.

2727
03:43:07,940 --> 03:43:13,060
So and I'll just run through these super quick just to advance you guys know these events. You can stop me after

2728
03:43:13,060 --> 03:43:17,140
There's anything you see in here that's you want to know about there's Bridget

2729
03:43:20,220 --> 03:43:25,300
Harvest fast all these things please come they're they're great fun and Santa chest great fun

2730
03:43:25,300 --> 03:43:27,780
So and that's it the bike park

2731
03:43:30,660 --> 03:43:33,140
good end

2732
03:43:33,840 --> 03:43:35,900
Thank you very much. Do we have any questions from council

2733
03:43:37,380 --> 03:43:40,160
First, thank you for doing the 88th path.

2734
03:43:40,320 --> 03:43:45,600
That one, my daughter didn't walk until she was almost 3 and so trying to get her with how much

2735
03:43:45,600 --> 03:43:50,320
she waited that point up to the park was challenging and all the kids wanted to go.

2736
03:43:50,640 --> 03:43:52,220
Do you guys use the cell phone now?

2737
03:43:52,620 --> 03:43:54,800
We, she's walking now, so it's okay.

2738
03:43:55,400 --> 03:43:59,100
But back in the day, she was in the hip brace and trying to get her in the swings and all that

2739
03:43:59,100 --> 03:43:59,820
stuff was all challenged.

2740
03:43:59,920 --> 03:44:03,840
So I appreciate all the ADF grades that you're making because I know it helps those people who have those challenges.

2741
03:44:03,840 --> 03:44:09,140
I appreciate that. I always like to know how discovery club is doing because I know that's a big financial

2742
03:44:09,140 --> 03:44:18,620
part of what you do. It's doing, it's doing well. We're working more closely with the school district now because we're using a lot more

2743
03:44:18,620 --> 03:44:26,880
E-Lop funds and they've got a new E-Lop director coordinator, whatever I figured is titled, but so that that's helpful, but it's

2744
03:44:26,880 --> 03:44:32,740
they're trying to make it easier for everybody, but we're just maybe more work for you.

2745
03:44:32,740 --> 03:44:36,980
Yeah, but it's okay. It's gonna work right now. It's just everybody's trying to figure out because

2746
03:44:36,980 --> 03:44:40,960
it's all new for them to just trying to figure out the best way. So they out because they get

2747
03:44:40,960 --> 03:44:45,100
out of the state. So they want to make sure that we're doing things the right way. So

2748
03:44:45,100 --> 03:44:51,920
but we're sold out. I mean, you know, my kids got a waiting list. So yeah.

2749
03:44:52,280 --> 03:44:57,580
Okay. The last one is not an Auburn. I've been asked a couple of times about the roof and the basketball court

2750
03:44:57,580 --> 03:44:59,760
at Regional Park and is there a news?

2751
03:45:01,100 --> 03:45:06,140
They've been told that it's not a real basketball floor because the roof leaks.

2752
03:45:06,480 --> 03:45:16,500
Well, okay, so yeah. So the floor out there has got that rubberized surface to it, because we had multiple failures of kind of not so much the roof.

2753
03:45:17,260 --> 03:45:24,140
But believe it or not, the gutter for that building is on the inside of the building. Imagine looking up there and seeing the bottom of the gutter.

2754
03:45:24,140 --> 03:45:26,140
That's what we have out there.

2755
03:45:26,760 --> 03:45:28,380
So that failed multiple times.

2756
03:45:28,560 --> 03:45:29,040
We've got it.

2757
03:45:29,140 --> 03:45:30,920
Face it has it failed any time recently.

2758
03:45:32,520 --> 03:45:34,340
But after the second or third time,

2759
03:45:34,440 --> 03:45:37,460
we had replaced portions or the entire sections of the wood

2760
03:45:37,460 --> 03:45:39,920
and floor, we decided to put the rubberized stuff in.

2761
03:45:40,120 --> 03:45:42,100
Now the rubberized stuff is failing,

2762
03:45:42,340 --> 03:45:44,520
and we're going to have a decision to make about what

2763
03:45:44,520 --> 03:45:45,860
we're going to replace it with.

2764
03:45:46,000 --> 03:45:48,060
Either wood or the rubber stuff.

2765
03:45:48,840 --> 03:45:50,640
And if we do the wood, we're just hoping

2766
03:45:50,640 --> 03:45:51,880
we don't have any more problems.

2767
03:45:52,760 --> 03:45:59,240
You know, it's just easier to play on the surface. They're more comfortable on, so I've had several people ask me and so on.

2768
03:45:59,620 --> 03:46:04,060
No, the rubber is, it's not as good as a wooden floor. No, no doubt about it.

2769
03:46:04,060 --> 03:46:06,720
I didn't understand the roof things, so I thank you for clarifying that floor.

2770
03:46:06,800 --> 03:46:12,480
Yeah, I was really interesting design and I don't know why they ended up like that.

2771
03:46:12,640 --> 03:46:18,500
And it's basically just, it's a metal building with a skin on it for some reason that the goddess on the inside.

2772
03:46:18,500 --> 03:46:22,940
If you look up on your next time you're in there, just look up and you're going like, oh my gosh, you got us on the inside.

2773
03:46:23,600 --> 03:46:25,000
Thank you.

2774
03:46:25,380 --> 03:46:26,040
There's powers.

2775
03:46:26,080 --> 03:46:27,120
Any questions or comments?

2776
03:46:29,620 --> 03:46:30,420
I get used.

2777
03:46:30,780 --> 03:46:39,780
I feel like I'm only five minutes too new, but I've been working with kale for over 25 years and whenever I ask for something, you get it for us.

2778
03:46:40,260 --> 03:46:42,300
So thank you for all you do.

2779
03:46:44,380 --> 03:46:49,200
Good. Yes, thanks for the report, Calvin, appreciate it. Good to see that the

2780
03:46:49,200 --> 03:46:53,540
park mitigations are being utilized for great purposes. So, you know, advancing

2781
03:46:53,540 --> 03:46:55,680
our parks are very important. So, thank you so much.

2782
03:46:55,900 --> 03:47:00,600
Actually, I do have one thing to comment. Would you quit telling Jim Gray to come to

2783
03:47:00,600 --> 03:47:02,120
me when there's a pickleball problem?

2784
03:47:04,400 --> 03:47:06,340
There's no ways coming to you about a more

2785
03:47:06,340 --> 03:47:08,280
is coming to me.

2786
03:47:08,620 --> 03:47:09,320
Okay, good.

2787
03:47:10,180 --> 03:47:12,680
Does I direct them back to you?

2788
03:47:14,160 --> 03:47:15,280
Kayle, thank you so much.

2789
03:47:15,500 --> 03:47:17,220
I appreciate all the work you put into this playground.

2790
03:47:17,540 --> 03:47:20,120
I know I've shared many concerns with you over the last couple of years.

2791
03:47:20,600 --> 03:47:24,500
It's been essential that parents, especially the most tired ones,

2792
03:47:24,640 --> 03:47:27,160
with the smallest kids who have the least amount of time to advocate,

2793
03:47:27,780 --> 03:47:31,720
have somewhere that is low stress to go be with other parents and

2794
03:47:31,720 --> 03:47:35,780
caregivers and to have equipment that is appropriate for their children.

2795
03:47:35,780 --> 03:47:39,780
So I really appreciate that and that you guys followed through with that.

2796
03:47:40,800 --> 03:47:43,440
You're a great partner. You fund the work with. You do great projects.

2797
03:47:44,160 --> 03:47:45,940
Bike process and underwater events.

2798
03:47:47,320 --> 03:47:49,100
Come to the events, support ARD.

2799
03:47:49,380 --> 03:47:52,820
Thank you to Board Member Ingol back there for joining.

2800
03:47:54,160 --> 03:47:55,000
And any further questions?

2801
03:47:55,860 --> 03:47:56,880
I think that was just for information.

2802
03:47:57,140 --> 03:47:57,820
Thank you.

2803
03:47:59,830 --> 03:48:00,530
All right, reports.

2804
03:48:03,550 --> 03:48:04,870
We have City Manager report.

2805
03:48:07,080 --> 03:48:09,240
Thank you. Out of that, for the latest of the hour,

2806
03:48:09,240 --> 03:48:15,920
I'm just would like to acknowledge our service award recipients for our August milestones,

2807
03:48:16,140 --> 03:48:22,000
our economic development director, Jonathan Wright, has been with us now for five years

2808
03:48:22,000 --> 03:48:23,560
by our Captain James Murphy

2809
03:48:25,580 --> 03:48:29,900
and the Italian Chief Matt Gele, who's been all five year

2810
03:48:29,900 --> 03:48:34,480
a recipients here in August and a special call out for Andy Furck in for 20 years of

2811
03:48:34,480 --> 03:48:35,660
services August.

2812
03:48:36,320 --> 03:48:39,900
Now, Andy works in all the entertainment plant but also generally within the public

2813
03:48:39,900 --> 03:48:43,580
course crews just help keep our city as beautiful it is.

2814
03:48:43,880 --> 03:48:49,300
So I just wanted to call those individuals out this evening, the city manager report is

2815
03:48:49,300 --> 03:48:53,520
outside it in the lobby for anybody who wanted to read to the details and with that back to

2816
03:48:53,520 --> 03:48:53,900
Mayor.

2817
03:48:54,260 --> 03:48:55,480
Thank you.

2818
03:48:56,280 --> 03:49:00,880
Next item future agenda items discussion and identification of topics that require tension

2819
03:49:00,880 --> 03:49:01,800
and upcoming meetings.

2820
03:49:01,880 --> 03:49:05,940
This section allows council members to propose new ideas, unresolved issues or projects that need

2821
03:49:05,940 --> 03:49:07,280
further planning or discussion.

2822
03:49:07,840 --> 03:49:09,080
Do we have any future agenda items?

2823
03:49:10,120 --> 03:49:23,020
I was just going to say that just to give you an update that the City Manager and I are working on the group can be in our group to talk about events at the high school that impact parking in the roadway point area.

2824
03:49:23,280 --> 03:49:27,660
We've identified the stakeholders and we'll be inviting them to meetings to talk about that.

2825
03:49:27,780 --> 03:49:30,020
It's perfect. Thank you.

2826
03:49:30,020 --> 03:49:34,480
And finally, City Council Committee reports, do we have any reports from Council?

2827
03:49:35,320 --> 03:49:36,860
Can I just, I could say.

2828
03:49:37,240 --> 03:49:37,840
Oh, sorry.

2829
03:49:39,520 --> 03:49:46,440
I just wanted to say that from our former city manager, Sean Ray Bay, watched this entire thing.

2830
03:49:46,480 --> 03:49:51,480
And he says it's the first all female council in Auburn's history, first in Placer County.

2831
03:49:51,960 --> 03:49:57,260
And only the second in the capital region west of Sacramento was first in 2023.

2832
03:49:57,260 --> 03:49:59,940
So, we are making history today.

2833
03:50:00,590 --> 03:50:07,930
I didn't even realize that. Yes, West Sacramento is all female. Well, while there you have it.

2834
03:50:07,930 --> 03:50:21,790
Thank committee reports. I don't have. We had a successful economic development town hall. It was well attended. The tacos were incredible from acquires and we will be scheduling a next one in October.

2835
03:50:22,410 --> 03:50:23,270
That's all I have.

2836
03:50:23,750 --> 03:50:25,330
Yeah, we had say cog last week.

2837
03:50:25,930 --> 03:50:28,970
Unfortunately, even though we had a lot of people there, we lacked a quorum.

2838
03:50:29,270 --> 03:50:32,870
We didn't have a majority of the counties present, so we couldn't take any action, but we did

2839
03:50:32,870 --> 03:50:34,510
here from Congressman Vera.

2840
03:50:36,910 --> 03:50:37,390
Anyway.

2841
03:50:38,790 --> 03:50:44,990
And in the interest of time, it has been discussed that we will not do close session.

2842
03:50:45,790 --> 03:50:46,190
Yes.

2843
03:50:46,450 --> 03:50:47,170
Yes, we discussed that.

2844
03:50:47,270 --> 03:50:50,070
We're happy to continue those to the next agenda.

2845
03:50:50,070 --> 03:50:55,570
If there's direction to do that, and the motion in a second just to continue those onto the next meeting, we're happy to do that.

2846
03:50:55,790 --> 03:51:00,870
I'm moving we continue the close session onto the next calendar council meeting.

2847
03:51:00,930 --> 03:51:04,730
Can I ask a quick question? I believe that September 14.

2848
03:51:05,530 --> 03:51:07,270
Is that when's the next one?

2849
03:51:07,790 --> 03:51:08,670
That's correct.

2850
03:51:10,290 --> 03:51:16,730
I'll be at the Aurora Borealis in Fairbanks Alaska, which I didn't get a chance to let you know.

2851
03:51:16,730 --> 03:51:23,450
and I miss one meeting throughout the course of the end of the year, but we are making big decisions

2852
03:51:23,450 --> 03:51:28,890
and I am open to special sessions and all those things in order to facilitate getting our new

2853
03:51:28,890 --> 03:51:39,290
city manager rolling, whatever you need. Okay. Okay. I'll second the motion to continue at the next

2854
03:51:39,290 --> 03:51:44,570
scheduled council meeting. Do you like roll call? Roll call please? Council member Amara.

2855
03:51:44,570 --> 03:51:48,510
Yes, down in Calvea, powers, Mayor Davis.

2856
03:51:49,030 --> 03:51:53,570
I will note, Council Member Delherse is not in the chambers for this vote.

2857
03:51:54,790 --> 03:52:00,450
Fantastic. Thank you to everyone who has remained here to the end. Have a good night.