 Um, do we have a motion to approve, uh, the minutes that were sent on out as part of the back it? I so move, all right. Thanks. Is there a second? Second. Okay. So a second from Sandy. Uh, the first hand I saw there. So we'll go with that. Uh, any comments on the minutes before we, uh, I do the vote. I do, I have a couple, two updates or corrections. All right. Um, David, what are those? Uh, let me see if I got to find them here quick. Sorry, I was in the process of looking for this before, uh, but you got to a quicker and I could find it. Hold on. Tate, while you're tracking that down, why don't we go to Courtney? I think Courtney had a couple of, uh, some, some comments as well. And then we'll come back to you there, David. Yes. My only comment is that my last name has two L's in it and it's spelled with one L in the meeting minutes whenever my name is mentioned. Sounds good. All right. Correction with the name spelling there. Always important there. And, uh, David, we're able to, uh, come back to, uh, uh, the comments. Uh, I haven't found it yet. Um, okay. Were there any other comments from Sandy or Jack or Liz? Or Joe? No, I didn't. Oh, yes. Um, I mean, I, I haven't found it, but in one end there was, uh, when I had mentioned, um, uh, maybe it was at the closing minutes about, uh, public input, uh, uh, kind of focusing on Mountain Avenue. It said Mountain Avenue between, uh, airport and hover. And it just in the, in the minutes though, I can't find it. It says, uh, Mountain at hover. So it's, it's on, on Mountain View. The trouble, the input that we've had for public to be heard is between hover and airport on Mountain View. Though I, I haven't been able to look at it on that. It looks like it's on page eight. You're talking about your comments, David, the Mountain View and airport road. That's right. Page eight second to the last paragraph. And it says the complaints regarding road and speed issues surrounding Mountain View and airport road. That's what it currently says. Yes. What it, what it should say is on Mountain View between airport and hover. Seems reasonable. Any other comments? So we have a motion to approve the minutes there, uh, um, uh, with, uh, hopefully with those adjustments there, all in favor of approving the minutes there with, uh, those adjustments, uh, raise your hand or say aye. Aye. Aye. Joe, don't have your video there, but are you supportive of the minutes? Aye. Yep. Oh, sorry. Videos not on my followings. All right. It's fair enough. Any opposed? All right. The minutes are approved. Uh, communications from staff. Hey, Tyler, Phil and Ben and Jim, hope you guys are doing well. Any, uh, any updates? I just want to say thank, thanks for hanging on tonight. We've got a bit of a special meeting. A little different than normal. Um, keep to a relatively quick timeline here about 645. We'll jump off of this meeting and you all should have another link to the joint session meeting with council and RTD members. So if anyone doesn't have that, let me know and we can work on getting that to you. Um, a couple other things, just some work updates, railroad closures. We still are anticipating being that BNSF repairs on Main Street at 1st Avenue will require a full closure of Main Street. Initially, the work was scheduled for earlier this month. That's been delayed. They intend to reassess and see if they can do that later in the month. I suspect it might, it is due due to road temperatures at the ground. So if they have really cold temperatures trying to pour concrete may impact their schedule again. So um, generally later in January, he's probably not going to see a warming trend, but we'll see what we'll see what weather holds for us. How long is your observation Main Street being closed? I would expect it's probably going to be a week project. I'm hoping for less than a week, but I would plan on about a week of it's a full reconstruct of that crossing, remove the rails, move the surface and some additional concrete on the road surface has to be removed in place. So it'll be it will be an impact to that section of Main Street for sure. And I take it the communications person. The city is going to be communicating with the local newspapers and community. Yeah, we will be coordinating with public outreach to the extent we can and and keep in mind this is a BNSF project BNSF and C dot. So we're doing our best to um make our position be heard and make sure that those entities understand the impacts to us but ultimately is the is their project that they're doing. If anyone's been out and about on hover, they may have you may have seen some message boards out today would you anticipate some lane shifts for um, I believe on the 13th. So starting in the morning 9 30 in the morning till wee hours of the next morning. We'll have some lane shifts in place. It's for leak detection on one of the main water transmission lines out there. So if you see work areas and lane shifts out there, that's what's going on there. Phil, I think you had a couple other things you wanted to mention. So I'll turn it over you. Thanks, Tyler. Thank you, Chair. Phil Greenwald, Transportation Planning Manager with the city. Just wanted to do some quick I guess just some quick info items. Really just one big one is we just heard back from a group called the Denver Regional Council of Governments. I think we've talked about in this group quite a bit. So I'm hoping you know Dr. Cog. Also C dot was working on these projects as well as far as getting dollars out to folks for some projects dealing with alternative modes and safety projects. We were able to combine that into one 1.2 million dollar project at Sunset and Kenpratt Boulevard or Highway 119. So if you think about Sunset kind of going through that area, we've done some major work south of Kenpratt Boulevard where we consolidated a four lane road down to what we call a three lane road with bike lanes. And we have bike lanes north of that north of Nelson. And what we're trying to do is connect from Nelson South to basically Kansas where the project starts further south there. We're trying to fill that gap as it were with the project and just make that intersection safer for all all traveling public. So we're excited that we finally we kind of knew it was coming but we had to kind of keep it quiet because it wasn't public yet. And so C dot let us know that they had officially approved that project. And so we can go out there with them and vigor and say that yeah we've we got the 1.2 million dollars we're pretty excited about that project and we're hoping to go after some other projects here but it's really based on our our resources and what we have at the city to be able to actually get those complete because what we're seeing now is that a lot of this money needs to be spent quickly and we have to show that you know we're making progress. So we've got some other projects that kind of fall under that CARES Act if you've heard about all all the funding from the federal government based on the on CARES and the COVID piece. There's some money available there that we're going after as well but it's going to it's going to be you know depending on how quickly can move projects forward. So I think that's it unless Tyler you thought I should talk about anything else but I think that's it for me. Thanks. Any questions or great thank you. Sounds like good news on on Sunset. All right anything else from staff? Okay I don't think we have any members of the public to be heard but just doing an invitation there are there any members of the public to be heard? All right well why don't we roll into our action in there with the transportation advisory board work plan and Tyler is that one you want to kick off? Absolutely thank you chair. So each year we do a January meeting is a good time to reassess what we hope to accomplish and work on. With this meeting we put together a proposed work plan and I would say it's not a hard and fast we don't we can definitely make additions or deletions to this as we work throughout the year and as new issues come up we can definitely adjust the schedule but but really kind of set the groundwork for what we hope to accomplish and things we want to see brought to this board this year. A lot of the items you'll see on here are repeats we do a lot of the same issues a lot of the same topics every year the capital improvement program being a big one that that this board provides input on on a year-to-year basis. We generally do an RTD meeting which we we do anticipate doing another RTD meeting later in the year in addition to the one tonight and full of other projects going on. Car plan land use amendments we can bring those to you as they're coming through the development process if that's some of the board's interested in seeing and any bike pad traffic safety funds crash reports some new projects on there so feel free to discuss comment requests we are asking for an action on this so with that I'll let you guys discuss thank you. Okay thanks Tyler so hopefully everyone's had a chance to be able to look at the the work plan that's part of the agenda here are there any comments on the work plan any questions clarifying questions other thoughts on the work plan I think a lot of things on here are you know things that that we've seen here in in the past great comments on this Jacques I'm sorry I just wanted to jump in real quick and just say that this all looks good and I really appreciate it this time of year it kind of maps out like the deliverables that kind of we as a transportation board need to look at what's our schedule to because there's stuff we need to approve and stuff that we need to be aware of so I just appreciate it this all looks good to me. Okay thanks just one quick comment on my side looks good to me as well Tyler just a favorite ask there I noticed that the neighborhood traffic mitigation program follow-up conversation there is scheduled for some time in Q2 which sounds fine if it's possible to have that in April or May that would be great I know personnel will be out the month of June so and we'd love to be able to participate in that conversation so it's possible to be able to have neighborhood traffic mitigation in April or May that would be great great any last comment before we seek to for a motion to approve the work plan all right do we have somebody who's willing to offer a motion to approve the 2021 work plan motion to approve all right Joe motion to approve the reserve second Chuck second great all in favor raise your hand any opposed all right looks like everyone's in favor of moving that forward there and Tyler thanks for giving us a plan for 2021 all right and then as it relates to the information items there we have an update on the quiet zones thank you chair so this game up that the last meeting we had there was a comment from the board to bring back some information updates on quiet zones where are we at where are we going where are we where have we been so there's a communication in your packet to really try and summarize that information where we're at as you know we were selected in February 2020 we received notification that we were successful in our grant application for federal funding which is going to provide four million dollars in matching funds towards implementing safety improvements so that we could then establish quiet zones bulk of my work in the last year has been working through the obligation process with FRA the federal railroad administration is the administrator of those dollars we had to do a lot of work to get all of our environmental and historical clearances and at the same time we're still continuing to finalize designs we are also in order to get the first round of construction or the first round of intersections under construction we are still working or waiting on a final construction of maintenance agreements from BNSF so a lot of moving pieces in this one a lot of a lot of hands in the pot between city of Longmont FRA BNSF and state preservation commission so we've had to do a lot of work on the on the front end of this and I'm hoping that we can get this going and start seeing some improvements here in the next the next couple of years right now we're planning on doing we're planning on having improvements at five crossings this year third avenue Longspeak 917 memory memory streets not part of the grant but that's a separate capital improvement project I think that's really the bulk of what I had to offer on this one to just a brief update and any questions at this point with quiet zones or you had mentioned I'm not real clear on stand-alone in the quiet zone you mentioned in the information you provided us that the one on mountain view is going to be a standalone but how many other places do you anticipate being stand-alone or is this the only one and I don't know what it standalone is so board member Stuart the thing to keep in mind with these quiet zones is that the trains require to start sounding the whistle a quarter mile in advance of each crossing so some of those closely spaced crossings that we see in old town third fourth fifth sixth longspeak they're all spaced at a block apart so you can't do if you do safety improvements at one the horn the whistle still going to be sounding right through that crossing because it's sounding for the next one in line either direction and so really you have to have a quarter mile spacing or more between each crossing to where you could do an individual crossing by itself mountain view is one where it is spaced for either direction that that one could be implemented as a standalone by its own and there may be some other ways we can package that to get maybe leverage that improvements at one intersection towards maybe speeding up the process of implementing a quiet zone and others would be on a temporary basis but then we'd come back and do the permanent improvement so there's a couple of strategy items there but mountain view the short answer is mountain view could be done and established as a quiet zone by itself 17th 21st every 66 those are the ones that really could be standalone quiet zone thank you thank you for explaining me hey Jacques I was trying to remember my memory is failing me here with the federal money Kyler is there any deadline requirements you know deliverables that we're we're kind of needing to adhere to or is this kind of open given all the partners that we have on this great question there there are deadlines we are working through what those deadlines are with FRA they there is some flexibility in terms of 2020 was a challenging year from a lot of fronts so so we do have deadlines we are currently still meeting all of these deadlines okay thank you any other questions on uh river quiet zones thanks Tyler can imagine the process of working with uh bnsf and anyone else on on top of bnsf is uh complicated at best so um thanks for your your help with that all right well let's keep plowing forward here any comments from board members um either on items that were raised today items you've seen around town anything else top of mind as relates to uh transportation related issues in Longmont so um all right Liz why don't you start us off first I want to say um thank you for all the work toward quiet zones I know that that was something that a lot of people felt really strongly about um one of the places I saw a lot of that feeling was in next door and uh during the past month it was interesting watching conversations on the next door app as people were talking about where they were having problems and wanted to have uh traffic mitigation and when I noticed that I said well here's the webpage for the city and this is where you start what you need to do and I realized that we probably could be doing better um an outreach but that's kind of overall I wish we could do a citizenship in the community merit badge for adults because so many people don't know how to interact with the government it's always them and they and their money and it's like I felt as I watched people talk about it we need to do more outreach on how they can get involved and I think that was part of what we were going to do with changing the rules about traffic mitigation but I just want to mention that that's an ongoing issue of people understanding how to interact with the Longmont government awesome thank you Sandy you want to go next with uh any comments on on your side yes thank you for all your work I I traveled down on Mountain View west um from um Hovered to airport road and I saw at Harvard the new crosswalk that was placed in where the flashing lights will go when you want to cross the street and how I appreciate that and I and I do remember we've had a number of people comment about the speeds on Mountain View and the hazards of children crossing um and the worry of them getting hit so thank you very much for putting that there and I know it's going to be used that's it thank you great thanks Sandy Courtney you want to go next there with uh any comments on your side sure um I just want to say the work plan is totally good and I appreciate everything that goes into that and looks like a a good list for us to keep continuing working on this year thank you thank you Courtney jock you want to jump in after that um I think I've talked enough tonight pass I here's to 2021 we got a good work plan and I'm excited for it sounds good Joe I will uh hand it over to you next any comments on your side I'll be abnormally quiet for once fair enough David I just want a second uh Sandy's comment about the uh passive pedestrian crossing on Mountain View I also went through it uh two weeks ago and um it looks good I I'm looking forward to seeing if uh if the public invited to be heard or comments that we may get indicate that they the neighbors are also happy with it that's all I have sounds good thanks David only thing I'll add Tyler and Phil this is more of a question for the two of you um uh in thinking about the conversation with uh RTD's new general manager coming up here at seven o'clock um are there any topics that you think will be important for us to be you know in particular listening for um or anything else uh timely that that we can help reinforce as an advisory board I can start off if Tyler doesn't mind um just uh wanted to let you know I think what we're really trying to do is this is more of a meet and greet and you should just understand the format is going to be kind of council led unfortunately for you guys on this um but fortunately for for council member Peck but um so uh you know Aaron Rodriguez is the mayor pro tem and he'll be running the show tonight but we are making sure that the TAB does have a chance to ask questions so that's kind of why I throw that flipping comment in about the council running the show this is your time is why I say that but um the council really is the the governing board of this so um there will be um chances for you to ask questions obviously but it really is a meet and greet for you to find out who these people the new people are and kind of what their stance is on different things you'll probably want to hear about their their long and short term goals I think one thing that you may want to bring up as a TAB is really the idea and and council may do this as well as the idea of more localized control of maybe local transit routes might be something you you you just see the response and see how folks are thinking about those kind of things obviously they're going to probably cover fast tracks early on in their comments because they know that's exactly their their staff has already prepped them with the idea that they're they're going to hear loud and clear about a train tonight and so um they'll probably be prepped for that but it's also about getting RTD help for our first and main project you know that's fast tracks those are fast tracks dollars that people forget about the 17 million dollars of actual fast tracks dollars so it's it is our tax dollars coming back to the community which is a is a good thing to to kind of hear about and so hopefully they know a little bit or enough about that we will have one board member who is from what's called District O which is really western Longmont so anybody who lives west of hoover Lynn Geisinger is actually your representative so yeah um Sandy um and and probably others but so Lynn Geisinger is your representative she's been there for a number of years already two years I believe and so she's kind of the veteran I believe among this group and so feel free to ask her questions too she has some more background but they are leading this whole idea of changing the governance and the structure of RTD to be really more inclusive of the locals and letting us have more of a voice in decisions that are made rather than it just being a centralized you know Denver centric system so maybe some things that you want to talk about also if you have any issues with things you've heard from riders or or have heard in previous TABs about you know kind of the state of the bus system if you've heard good things that's good to share if you've heard bad things that's probably good to share as well and Sandy you probably have a lot of information on that front based on some of the work you've done in your in previous in previous work you've done but just a just kind it's just a general sense you know if this was to be any other year this would probably be more of a reception than a than kind of a formal meeting and we do plan on having kind of the what we call like the RTD grilling session in March where we invite staff to come by and tell us about ridership and projections and of course this year it's going to be much different because the ridership is is way down right and and you know they've just had a they had three rounds of layoffs last week and so we did lose some some staff members that we we work with quite we were we were working with quite a bit one on the one person was on the first and main station planning effort so that's going to be a loss for us but but so they've been doing a lot of things I think to try to shore up their their costs and their expenses and and they've obviously laid off a lot of drivers too so it's a tough time for them so just remember that when we're kind of talking to them today and on in March that they've been through the ringer quite quite a bit but that we do still think the change is important and I just throw that out there and sorry I probably took all of Tyler's time but yes Council Member Peck thank you so one thing that if you're interested that I think might be appropriate for tab is a question on the the fairness of our different levels of passes that's been a that's been a conversation about there's too many are too confusing and and basically asking if they were going to address that because that affects all of us thank you great any additional I should say that there's been a push lately to do a fair fee system across the whole district which would be great for us because we're kind of paying for our small portion of it but there's there's a push that and this is happening all across the country well not all across but it's happening in various large metropolitan areas like Kansas City has adopted this and some others are in California are as well but it's just a like a fair free system across because it does cost a lot actually to collect fairs and that whole that whole piece does cost a lot of money so it's it's kind of balancing that level and we do pay taxes so great thanks Phil hey one quick question on that did so I know it was part of the federal legislation that was signed into law a week and a half two weeks ago that was supposedly going to be including some dollars for for transit agencies like RTD do we ever hear back in terms of what that came on out to and what that's going to be going towards I just got an email right before this this meeting 203.4 million dollars RTD expects to to get from from that so that's the portion meant to RTD and that's another please don't talk about that tonight sorry yeah no I butted in as usual but that would be another good question for tab but what are our expectations for that money sounds good great thanks so much for the update there Phil comments from council liaison anything else above and beyond the RTD conversation no I think I've said enough fair enough well any upcoming transportation meetings besides the one in 30 minutes that goes on to the rest of Bruce Raider I could not find any on my calendar for the next month so we'll keep our eyes posted if we if we do hear of anything we will certainly forward that along sounds good council member because yep okay Chris Quinn the project manager for RTD is having one tomorrow morning I'm trying to it's going to be at 10 a.m. is for for it's a meeting for local officials as an update am I looking at the correct one Phil it looked like that's when it was but I think anybody can listen in yeah he did not invite staff to that so I don't have it on my calendar oh I'm sorry for might just be for elected officials okay I'll see I'll see if you if we can if anybody can tune into that and if so I will send how the the link you can send it out to join interesting it takes place just as the the new Boulder County commissioners are going to be uh installed into their new office so interesting okay great thank you all right well uh I know uh the committee meeting will be talking about the equitable carbon free transportation activities so I interested to hear more about that um anything else pressing before we sign off and we'll reconvene at seven o'clock there as part of the the RTD meeting just say is there anyone that doesn't yet have the link for the meeting RTD meeting anyone need help with that or or customer back didn't come through you or it didn't I don't know why but okay thank you Sandy did you have it or did you need it hope you're on mute there still would you mind sending it to me again in case I deleted it I can do that thank you just it's on zoom platform so to be a little bit different than this meeting but it's a zoom meeting right and just quickly just the reason why we had to do this I think you all got it in the hopefully you've got it in the council in the column or in the information but council and RTD both meet on Tuesday nights at the same exact well basically the same time so we we had to kind of hijack your meeting a little bit here to to make it work and I appreciate your your patience and your time to do that I think it's going to be I think it'd be really great to hear I think you'll really enjoy the new general manager and the new board member for our district so look forward to seeing you guys all at seven all right sounds good thanks so much Phil thanks Tyler thanks councilmember Peck and we'll see you guys in half an hour just jumping in real quick Phil I think we're supposed to jump into that meeting like a quarter of right because there is a check-in for that so that while the meeting starts at seven um I think they want you to check in by by 10 of so kind of get there 20 of maybe so everybody gets a bio break for about 10 minutes 10 minutes sounds good thanks Jim everybody we'll see you later