City Council and Authorities Concurrent on 2026-09-15 5:30 PM - Sep 15, 2026

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What is the purpose of the opening roll call and quorum confirmation?

Lisa Gillmor 3:06

Hello, welcome everyone. I know we don't have a whole lot of time, so we're going to get started. But before we do, City Clerk, can you confirm our

Araceli Azevedo 3:17

quorum? Thank you, Madam Mayor. There is a confirmation of a quorum for the Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Advisory Committee, as well as the City Council.

Lisa Gillmor 3:27

Very good, thank you. Is that me? Okay, so welcome. This is the first... We're

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going

Lisa Gillmor 3:37

to start by

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going

Lisa Gillmor 3:44

around the room. All right, Lisa Gilmore, Mayor of Santa Clara. Karen Murray, city council member.

Bernd Schur 3:59

Hi, Bernd Schur, BPAC. about 15 months ago, I guess. And I'm also a representative on the Station Area Task Force.

Ken Kratz 4:12

Yeah, my name's Ken Kratz. I've been on the BPAC a few times over the last 15 years or so. And I was here at the formation of the BPAC too. Let's see, I'm also on the, I also participate in the Vision Zero program. I was the representative of the BPAC for Vision Zero. And I'm also on the Wayfinding Subcommittee of the BPAC.

Lisa Gillmor 4:40

Betsy Magus. I'm currently the chair of the City of Santa Clara Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. I'm a 20-plus year resident of the City of Santa Clara, having grown up going to Santa Clara schools. So I've ridden some of these streets. many decades ago, and also currently the chair of the VTA, Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, and the liaison for the two, which is also the County Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. So County Roads comes to us also.

George Harrow 5:23

Good evening. My name is George Harrow. First year on the committee, on any committee, and it's been fascinating working with the BPAC committee. Thank you. Hi, good evening. Glenn Guggins, professional city attorney and amateur bike rider.

Jovan Grogan 5:41

Hi, Javon Grogan, city manager, amateur cyclist, having done a century about 10 years ago and wanting to get back on it.

Araceli Azevedo 5:51

Good evening, Araceli Azevedo, Assistant City Manager.

Craig Mobeck 5:56

Good evening, everybody. Craig Mobeck, Director of Public Works.

Mike Liu 6:00

And then Mike Liu, Assistant Director of Public Works.

Ralph Garcia 6:04

Good evening, I'm Ralph Garcia with the Traffic Engineering Division and Staff Liaison to the BPAC.

Araceli Azevedo 6:11

Carol Sherriot, Transportation Manager and also Staff Liaison to the BPAC.

Albert Gonzalez 6:17

Mr. Gonzalez, Council 1. District 1, Council Member.

Mike Liu 6:26

and bicyclist with the scouts, scout master.

Lisa Gillmor 6:41

Araceli Azevedo 6:42

I know I want to

Lisa Gillmor 6:52

spend a lot of

Mike Liu 6:52

time. I think you. Go first. Thank you, Mayor. Actually, the chair is gonna present the comments. Oh, very good, okay. So Betsy's cute, though.

Lisa Gillmor 7:01

All right, I have more than two minutes to talk about bicycling. This must be why we've been putting it off. Let's see if this thing works. Oh, it looks like what we just did. All right. So we have only five meetings per year, but they've been action-packed. The big one, which some of you will remember if you were there at 3 a.m. that day, was that we... We put together, we participated a great deal as a committee in the Vision Zero plan, which the Council passed at about 3 in the morning one day in March. We have a lot more work to do to implement that plan. We've formed two BPAC subcommittees, which are wayfinding and data collection. Ken here would like to talk more about wayfinding when we give him the chance.

Lisa Gillmor 8:01

and data collection. The city's Safe Routes to School program is a city run program that actually goes into the schools to teach bicycle safety. We've done a complete street reviews of the proposed bicycle improvements as a part of the city's annual pavement rehabilitation project. completed the Lafayette Street Class 4 bikeway project. I have ridden that bikeway. It's looking pretty good these days. The fresh pavement helped. We've supported a whole bunch of grant applications. This was one of the every four years there's a I'm going to get this wrong. The OBAG is the is a four-year cycle for regional grant funding for active transportation projects, and most of those go through a complete streets checklist process that is the BPAC's opportunity to chime in and make sure that they are both getting what we want and packed to travel and in good shape for being competitive when the application gets to the scoring committees.

Lisa Gillmor 9:29

We've helped put together Bike to Wear Everyday events.