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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTransportation Board - Minutes - 04/16/2003I-, REGULAR MEETING MINUTES of the TRANSPORTATION BOARD April 16, 2003 5:45 p.m. City of Fort Collins 215 N. Mason Street Community Room FOR REFERENCE: CHAIR: Bruce Henderson 898-4625 VICE CHAIR: Heather Trantham 206-4255 STAFF LIAISON: Don Bachman 224-6049 ADMIN SUPPORT: Cynthia Cass 224-6058 BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Joe Dumais Dan Gould Neil Grigg Bruce Henderson Edward Jakubauskas Tim Johnson Brad Miller Ray Moe Christophe Ricord Brent Thordarson Heather Trantham CITY STAFF IN ATTENDANCE: Don Bachman Cynthia Cass Randy Hensley Mark Jackson Cam McNair Ron Phillips ABSENT: GUESTS IN ATTENDANCE: Gary Thomas George Walton APPROVED Transportation Board Regular Meeting Minutes April 16, 2003 Page 2 of 6 1. CALL TO ORDER Chair Henderson called the meeting to order at 5:58 p.m. PAW.T L"1 _1 AJv 1D►h'I Staff pared down the amount of time needed for both the I-25 Subarea Plan and the Mason Transportation Corridor items, needing only a few minutes each for an update only. Items 6b, 6c and 7b are all related to Transportation Finance, so these items will be addressed one after the other. 3. PUBLIC COMMENT Gary Thomas reported that the street car will commence operating the second week in May and will run through the end of September. CllT��ZIPL�[1J DfS i f►1111_Y_DE.9 There was a motion by Johnson and a second by Grigg to approve the minutes of March 26, 2003 as presented The motion carried by a unanimous vote,11-0. Several board members requested the minutes of the joint work session this board had with the Natural Resources Advisory Board Staff will include those in the May packets. 5. COUNCIL LIAISON REPORT None. 6. DISCUSSION ITEMS a. I-25SUB-AREA PLAN -Jackson Jackson apologized that this particular item was sprung on the board for action tonight. He then explained that no action is needed tonight after all and that it will he on the May 21 agenda instead. This item is slated to go to Council on June 3. A map showing the I-25 Sub -Area Plan Master Street Plan amendments was distributed. Chair Henderson suggested that staff embellish the map even more by showing the Urban Growth Boundary on it. Johnson suggested that this plan be tabled until the City Plan is adopted, then make it fit with the City Plan and not the other way around. City Plan is the master document and the I-25 Sub -Area Plan is subordinate to it. Ricord asked if additional materials will be presented to the board for the I-25 Plan. Jackson said there were not. The material in the packets for tonight's meeting is it. APPROVED Transportation Board Regular Meeting Minutes April 16, 2003 Page 3 of 6 b. TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN UPDATE — Jackson Jackson briefly went over the City Plan Draft CAC Revisions to Goals, Principles, and Policies. He added that much of this Board's input was incorporated into the documents. Jackson said that this document is out for review by a number of people and he requested that the board take the time to review it as well. Comments will be taken in any way, shape or form that is convenient for members. Jackson will accept a fax, a hard copy, email, etc. The second meeting of the bicycle focus group will be held on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Anyone who is interested is invited to attend. The agenda includes looking at existing and proposed bike facilities. Jackson said that schedule wise, in May, the plan will be going to the Natural Resources Advisory Board, there will be another CAC meeting and staff is going to try to have another open house type meeting where some of the initial modeling analysis results will be shown. Chair Henderson requested that the modeling information be available at the May Transportation Board meeting. c. MASON TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR UPDATE — Backman Bachman stated that since the April election results were disappointing to say the least, the MTC project is being viewed differently. Staff has had to return to the original Building Community Choices project which was a bike/ped corridor south of Prospect. Currently, alternative analyses are being conducted and an environmental overview will be done. The consultant is preparing updated cost estimates and the scope of work for the consultant is being revised as well. 7. ACTION ITEMS a. TRANSPORTATION CAPITAL INVENTORY — Backman Bachman stated that as part of the budget process, the City will be updating its Capital Improvement Program (CIP) inventory. The Board needs to review the inventory and either confirm that the direction is still valid or if there are substantial changes warranted, provide recommendations accordingly. Ricord asked if staff has plans to approach transportation capital in a fiscally constrained environment. Jackson stated that staff is coming up with a master list of necessary projects by mode and then fiscal constraints will be discussed. Ricord stated that he thinks Council needs to continue to be reminded of the fiscal realities. APPROVED Transportation Boaro Regular Meeting Minutes April 16, 2003 Page 4 of 6 Johnson moved to accept the inventory as presented until the Transportation Master Plan comes before the board It should be accepted as City policy and then the board will look at itfor changes at that time. There was a second by Dumais and the motion carried by a unanimous vote, 11— 0. b. CITY COUNCIL POLICY AGENDA — Bachman Bachman stated that per the memo from the City Manager, he would like the board to identify the top public policy issues or concerns (not more than five policy topics) that they believe are essential to address over the next two years. After much discussion, the board agreed upon several recommendations. Chair Henderson will draft a memo containing their recommendations and email it to all the board members for their approval before sending it on to the City Manager. For the record, the final memo from Chair Henderson is included at the end of these minutes. 8. REPORTS a. BOARD MEMBER REPORTS Grigg: Summit. With regard to the ballot measure, I think it would be a good idea to have a conference or a summit of some kind. I have another idea though. Since we got knocked down twice, we should meet with the newspaper editorial board and start a dialogue, see if we can get some stuff in the newspaper. Johnson: Since my name was on a lot of that material with my phone number, I did field about 80 calls. A number of different things came out of those calls. One was the tax issue and another element, as I summarize it, comes down to communication. A number of the things that the City is doing, but is not being understood by people is something that they voted against this thing for. For instance, people said, "My street should be a high priority and it's not on your list to be done." I got to talking to them and it had to do with maintenance (potholes). It was clear to me that capital and maintenance work are confused by people. In terms of Mason Street, communication didn't get well said that it was to be the anchor for our future grid system. A lot of people thought it was just a stand alone for the transit system. They didn't see the connection. In a number of points, we missed essential links. Gould: I echo Johnson's comments about people's misunderstandings. APPROVED Transportation Boaro Regular Meeting Minutes April 16, 2003 Page 5 of 6 Dumais: I applaud Johnson for keeping his cool when leaving Perspectives. I admire how he put up with a photographer snapping pictures of him all the way out to his car. I heard that priorities were an issue with people. There were a lot of individual grudges and gripes that come up when talking about transportation. I also heard that people voted against it because Mason was going to take so much money. Henderson: Communication. One of the things we may want on a future agenda is this idea of using Soapboxes and other means, some kind of coordinated plan to really identify the key ideas that we still have and want to get out there in front of people. So some of this confusion of fixing maintenance with capital and things like that may start to go away a little bit and help us avoid these problems in the future. Bike Trail Update. Last month I gave you an update on the Fossil Creek Bike Trail going through Paragon Point or not. The Parks and Recreation Board voted on that and they voted 6 — 2 in favor of leaving the trail in its current planned position, which means it would go through Paragon Point. They would not have the extension going down Lemay and all that. Ricord: Thank You. I just want to thank everybody for your Soapboxes. I think most of us wrote something at some point during the campaign and I was glad to see such a unified front from the board — thank you. Miller: Traffic Safety Improvement Needed. There's an intersection I happen to go through often that seems to be getting more dangerous by the day. It's a four way stop at Kennedy and Troutman. It's very confusing for a lot of drivers because there's so many of them contending that are in parallel positions. People come flying down Troutman and often don't stop at the sign at all. I was wondering if there are any plans for that intersection to improve safety. Jakubauskas: Election. I thought I would give you the retired person's perspective on the election. There is a lot of uncertainty, gloominess, and pessimism out there. The stock market is down and there are worries about the war. I think that just created a climate of gloom among many people. They understand we need it, but they've got a lot of other worries. A lot of retirement funds have been hit by the stock market and incomes are down for a lot of people. I think another period of time with a different climate it would have done very well. Transportation is a priority for people, but it was just these special circumstances that hurt us. APPROVED Transportation Boaro Regular Meeting Minutes April 16, 2003 Page 6 of 6 b. STAFF REPORTS Bachman: Next A¢enda Items: - Transportation Master Plan - I-25 Subarea Plan - Downtown Strategic Plan — Parking Jackson: Transportation Master Plan. Just to forewarn you, I may need to request a special Board meeting in June in order to meet our deadline to City Council. Please be thinking about what might work on your calendars so we can get a date at your meeting in May. Phillips: Signal System. The system on the College corridors is working very well. I'm really pleased and we're hearing that from a number of people. Transportation Commission Meeting. Good news. I attended the Commission meeting today. They were in the process of prioritizing transit projects in the state and the CSU Transit Center was in the medium category, but we were successful in getting them to change it to the "high" category. 9. OTHER BUSINESS None. 10. ADJOURN Chair Henderson adjourned the meeting at 8:18 p.m. Respectfully submitted, — k�w Cynthia Cass Executive Administrative Assistant City of Fort Collins — Transportation Services