03-23-26 Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee - Mar 23, 2026

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Why were participants unable to hear the Zoom meeting and how was the issue resolved?

Rafael Mandelman 15:04

Hello? Hello? Can you hear

Diane Harrison 15:08

me? I can't hear you. In fact, those of us on Zoom haven't heard the meeting at all. I had a public presentation I wanted to make. So I wanted to do mine. I wanted to hear other people's. I didn't hear the police report. I haven't heard anything. In fact, if you're talking right now, I can't hear you at all. Hello. Wait a minute. It says it's going to lower my hand. Can somebody reply or figure out turning turn on the volume on your side, please.

Diane Harrison 16:04

Hello.

Betsy Magus 17:13

possible that there's I hear you I hear you all right all right you got your headphones plugged in or something I don't have headphones no this is on your end okay all right and did you did you want to make a comment on will

Diane Harrison 17:30

I nothing on the police because I haven't heard it um

Betsy Magus 17:33

but yeah I did

Diane Harrison 17:34

have a a public presentation could I do that Now?

Betsy Magus 17:40

I think let's take this because you weren't able to hear us call on you before. So go ahead.

Diane Harrison 17:46

Did you? Oh, you did try. Okay, because yeah,

Betsy Magus 17:48

I haven't

Diane Harrison 17:48

been.

Betsy Magus 17:48

I did try. I did try. Go ahead and do your public

Diane Harrison 17:54

presentation. Okay. Some of it's what we had before. Bike to Shop Day is now May 23rd. It was May 30th before. And I really would like some volunteers if we're going to make it a good event today. You can just say something in this meeting or talk to Ken, who's my husband, and give him your name and email address and I can get in touch with you. And so that's coming up in also in May is the bike to wherever days starting 14 to May 15th of May is the energizer station at the senior center. We would also like 1 or 2 volunteers for that. That's during the day. And then one other thing on this current agenda, I would like to object to one agenda item for all subcommittees. I don't believe it saves time, shortens meetings, and it can create confusion of several not very related subcommittees are all trying to

Diane Harrison 18:51

present at the same time. The reason it doesn't save staff time is because they were basically cutting and pasting every time, every agenda, and it was pretty much the same thing. And the meetings aren't shortened because if there's something to report, there's something to report. If there's nothing to report, how long does it say to say, okay, Vision Zero Committee nothing to report. I mean, that takes like a second. So it really doesn't shorten meetings and it would make sense to separate once. Yeah. I mean, now you have one subcommittee, it's no big deal, but once you have more than one, it's a lot better to have each one as a separate line item, a separate item on the agenda. That's all I have. Thank you.

Betsy Magus 19:29

Thank you, Diane.

19:31

Okay.

Betsy Magus 19:32

coming back to where we were. So I think that was all for the police verbal update. Thank you for attending and for bringing your report.

Rafael Mandelman 19:43

Thank you.

Betsy Magus 19:47

All right. That brings us to item five, creation of-

Ken Kratz 19:51

Point of order, Chair. Is there somebody else online? Did they want to speak? I think that was just first hoping

Betsy Magus 19:58

for a sound

Ken Kratz 19:59

check.

Betsy Magus 20:00

Is there?

Ken Kratz 20:01

No.

Betsy Magus 20:02

Okay. All right, so creation of a data-driven approach to evaluating bicycle and pedestrian projects subcommittee. So this is an action item to create this subcommittee and there's a thing in the agenda packet. about what the subcommittee is supposed to do, but this was kind of your thing. Do you want to speak to this a little bit on what you think that the subcommittee, and we need to, we heard from the attorney's office, we need to be pretty specific what the outcomes are that we're aiming for when we put this thing together. So, member Gennaro.

Guillermo Gennaro 21:02

Yes, thank you. So there was an action or a work item that we proposed or I proposed last year that the engineering department presented some of the opportunities we have to collect more data and understand better if the decisions that we are advising in the committee are using the right resources and having the right outcomes and the way to The way to make judgment is through looking at the data. So we invest in a pedestrian here or a bicycle lane there. What is the impact? Are people using the? So the proposed subcommittee should have a target on understanding how we can get the data.