 Sorry, I'm roll call if that's okay. Hi everybody. Roll call, Neil Lauri. Here. Pedroge. Here. Jacques Livingston. Here. Courtney Michele. Here. Sandra Stewart. Here. Council Member Peck. Here. Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. You're good. All good. All right. So do we have a motion to approve the meeting minutes from, I guess that would be the March meeting. I make a motion to approve the minutes. All right. Second. David has a, for the motion there, Courtney Michele offers a second and any comment on the meeting minutes are approved. All right. The content of the minutes. All right. Hearing none. All in favor of approving the minutes. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. Meeting minutes are approved. All right. Tyler and Phil. Communication from staff. The court is yours. So thank you all for. Thank you. I appreciate. Thank you and I appreciate the opportunity to be here. And I think it's been a great environment. It's been a change of life for. Everyone. I think I don't think we all figure it learner thought we would adapt like this, but. This is quickly becoming the norm. I appreciate all of you. Taking the time to figure out the download the web. Backs and being patient with us as we work through this. Really it's, it's thank. Thanks to Jane and Stacy for getting this set up. They put a lot of work on the back end. kind of shifting duties of a lot of staff and that's where I say Jane and Stacy have both stepped up really big to fill a role in kind of the running the meeting portion. Thanks to them. And Jane's on the call here. Do you have anything you wanted to say in terms of process, help the meeting minutes smoothly? Raise your hand, talk one at a time. Anything you would cover on that? Sorry to put you on the spot, but I want to give you that opportunity. No, no, it's fine. Thank you. Yeah, I think just as we we move through the meeting, it's great if we could all mute ourselves during the meeting so we don't hear a lot of background noise. What I've seen at most meetings is the best way to do it is people to raise their hand when they want to speak. Neil is the chair, you'll just watch and kind of see whose hands are up. Other than that, I think that just makes the make the meeting run a little bit smoother for everyone. I'm back here on the back end recording the meeting. So this meeting will end up on YouTube in the next couple of days. So we can go back and watch ourselves again and learn from it. But thank you all for participating. And if you need anything, I'm back here. Thanks. Thank you. Some other housekeeping stuff. So Melanie, her term ended in June. She decided that she did not want to apply to be on TAV again. And she decided that she was looking to pursue other opportunities. I understand council is looking to make board appointments in July. So Joan, I believe that's coming up pretty soon from you guys. So we'll have hopefully two new board members at that time. Over the last couple of months, we've really made an effort to try and just give information. Like I mentioned, it's putting running these meetings as kind of a new dynamic for staff. And so we're really trying to take, I've been trying to share all the information. A lot of the information we would provide at TAV meetings as an email update. So hopefully those have been valuable for this group. And if you have any questions about any of the stuff that we've sent out, happy to hear any feedback you have on that, or anything you'd like to see come back to you guys in any further detail, please let me know. And we can do that. Following up on a couple items from last month's meeting, we had Buzz Feldman came public invited to be heard. The two questions that I had written down from him, one Ken Pratt and Sherman, he'd asked a question about a traffic signal at that intersection. It's a very busy intersection there. One of the things that we're looking at, there's one of our CIP projects is Ken Pratt widening that would go from Nelson to South Pratt Parkway to continue that piece of widening we did five or so years ago. As part of that, what we're looking at wouldn't be a signal, it would be more along the lines of restricting some of the movements at that intersection. Some of the issues with the signal at that location is the spacing is not very good for progression along there. And CDOT initially has not been super excited about that location. It's also really close to the railroad tracks. So when we look at how we're stacking traffic through that area, we definitely have to be cognizant of trying to not stack cars on the tracks. So that's one of the big factors that we're looking at in terms of how that could be signalized. So the reality is probably access movement restrictions would be the resolution there. It would solve the crash problem. It doesn't necessarily make it easier to get out of there. The other comment that Buzz had left was westbound clover basin approaching Fordham. There's a lane drop sign. And there is some question about is it right and can be sort of confusing. So the sign is correct and I can understand how it would be confusing. And one of the things that we're going to do in addition to the sign is add some additional pavement markings, the lane drop pavement markings. I'm sure you've probably seen them driving around before. They're kind of the angled arrows on the pavement. So we'll add those to hopefully try and resolve that a little bit more. So two things that we're going to do there, a handful of other things to talk about. Phil, did you have a couple of things you want to chat about too? Sure. Maybe I'll steal some of, hate to steal Tyler's thunder, but it's been kind of exciting project for all of us at the city and within city council, and I think KAB as well as the main street closers closure or the main street lane closures that you've seen out there. So we do have some preliminary data, which has been kind of exciting that it's not Carmageddon as we say. We're actually seeing relatively minor delays. Typically on a kind of a regular time of the day, we're seeing about maybe 10 seconds of delay for people trying to get through that section of main street. Throughout the amp going southbound and somebody has a lot of feedback on that. I'm not sure Tyler, your volume maybe too high, but thanks. Anyway, so we're starting to see that the volume going southbound is probably an extra 20 seconds, maybe 25 seconds, maybe going southbound in the mornings. And then in the afternoon, that is where we're seeing some backups and we've had some issues, but they're not been very major. They're about, we're seeing about a minute, a minute and 10 second delay through that whole, you know, compared to what we used to, what it used to take us to go through that section of main street from third, basically second up to sixth, it's taking us an extra minute, maybe an extra 70 seconds to get through that section of main street. So really, we're not seeing these 15 minute delays that people were going to, were kind of worried about. So that's been exciting. Again, I'm sorry, Tyler, if that kind of took away from what you were saying, but I'm sorry, I was trying to find my email here with the, or my list of topics to cover, so apologies. But yeah, so we're measuring the travel times between first and night. So it's a little bit further than I think the extent you were saying. So the little bit longer length, when we're looking at the travel times over that, we're able to measure week over week and day over day increases in that. We're also measuring volumes. We did a lot of traffic data collection on main street, Kaufman, Kimbark, Terry and Emery to try and really see how that traffic is going to move around. Where is it going? If it's not on main street, where is it going? And to be able to quantify that and really have a good picture of what happened while we closed these lands. So it's an interesting project to see how it works and how the public reacts to it and where they go and impacts to the system. So I had a question there and then David after that. Okay. So you kind of took my question there, Tyler, about wondering where the traffic is going then. But I was wondering, are you also looking all the way over to say hover to see if maybe we're seeing an increase during rush hour times? So we'll look at hover as well for volumes. We have a couple intersections where we have counters, detectors in the ground that we can use as counters and we can get a daily count on that. I think I'm set up to where I can do travel times there. I'll double check on that as well if we can see a difference, measure a difference in travel time on that. But we're looking at all those factors. How about if you had any feedback from the businesses along third that have the extended frontage? So I think initially there's a handful of businesses that are pretty excited about it. There are some that have moved out there. They're doing seating areas. I've seen some bike racks out in this space. I think there's still opportunity for a lot more to come out. We've been working, Phil and I've been working with Kimberly at LDDA to try and figure out how to better use that space or communicate to the businesses that that's available to them. I would say there's also a handful of folks that are not really excited about this closure yet. And so we're certainly working with those folks to try to figure out what we can do to make this a little less painful for them if there's perceived pain and then there's real financial pain. So we need to kind of measure out which is which here and what's happening. So we're working with folks and I think a lot of that has to do maybe with the perception that on-street parking is really kind of the be-all end-all. That's really that front door service is really critical. So Council Member Joampak. Hi, Phil, have you had any or Tyler to add any feedback from the cyclists yet? Is it working for them as well as for the motorists? Well, I think I'll take this one if you don't mind Tyler and just kind of talk about, you know, the cyclists have enjoyed getting into this closure area, but I don't think they're seeing the benefit of really being able to travel very quickly. I think the alleys are still providing that function when they're fully open and I think we're having some issues with maybe like some of the alleys closed on the weekends so that they're seating out there as well, but there's plenty of space for bicycles still so we're working through those issues as well. But I think once the bicyclists get to Main Street, they've kind of reached their destination and the bicycle on Main Street is more of a novelty than it is a practical way of getting around so it's been fun for people to kind of bike in those areas, but with the liquor laws, the way they are to and the alcohol sales, there has to be a certain way to fence off the seating areas and that's good to keep bicyclists out of there, but it also inhibits people from moving through there as quickly I think as they like so we're working on that as well. Thank you. That's perfect. Thanks. Great. Just along the lines of comments and communication from staff, since this is the first meeting we've had in quite some time, can you just comment on from a COVID perspective, pandemic perspective, and budget perspective, to what extent are you seeing significant impacts to the projects that we've talked about here at the Transportation Advisory Board meeting or are you finding that that's more impacts for next year's budget? I should probably turn that over to Jim for if Jim has a chance to answer that question. All right. Thanks, Phil. Appreciate that one. So, budget, the COVID-19 epidemic as it kind of swept through or came in the long and the closures of restaurants and impacts to bars, the biggest hit that we see in public works and natural resources is the impacts to the street fund, which is funded through the sales and use tax. It also hits the general fund, hits public safety as it was unfolding. The city took kind of a bit of a conservative stance. We held off on any position shifts. We pretty much, for the street fund, cut back a lot of our capital for this year until we saw what, over time, how it impacted it. We had some projections of the downturn in April and May as Jim Golden has been tracking the budgets. It's turned out that has not been as bad as we thought it was going to be. So, we're still waiting for what we're looking at currently is numbers for May. They come about a month late, but the early projections don't show it as bad as what we anticipate. So, we're starting to get kind of back into the regular routine. One of the other components of kind of our current or our future budget is we're anticipating that we will see it that downturn will be a little more drastic than we originally projected in our revenues. So, our budget reflects that. We don't show, we show less funding sales and use tax coming in over the next 12 months. So, we've adjusted our budget accordingly in the street fund. And we're coming up in, I believe in August to present the capital budget to council. And it reflects some of the, we kind of got hit in the street fund a little bit sideways, not just a reduction in revenues, but example of this is the, with the advent of a four million dollar grant, we now have to have to accelerate the railroad quiet zones. We were hoping to spread that out over about four or five years. We had to accelerate that to about a three year timeframe. So, it's a little bit different, but we are weathering it. Still continue with our safety programs or some of our smaller scale projects. We'll still be doing our road resurfacing curb work. We're a little more selective in some of our capital projects for the next five years. All right. Thank you very much, Jim. I'm sorry, Jacques. Was that a follow up? Yeah. So, first off, Jim, I feel like I'm paying based on what I'm going through similarly. I was curious. I know we went through and we had like a list of all these projects. I don't know if it was the TIP or maybe it was just the CIP. I was wondering at what point should we expect to see kind of a revised schedule, like what's kind of the new plan, so to speak. Is that something that we're going to get to see in a month or two? Certainly. I think that's something realistic we can put together for a quick presentation for the next meeting. Show you kind of where we're going, what we're proposing for next year's budget, and then for the following four years beyond that for what impacts will be. And then we'll be approving next year's funding as I always like to say a budget should be a fluid document. That's the dog behind me. Always fun to work from home, but it's a fluid document. So, as those revenues, if the revenue situation changes, taking a more conservative approach, if we get good news, there's always an advent to change things throughout the course of the year. So, we can certainly put something together. We're going to be doing it for council. We can certainly bring it together for run through TAB at the next meeting. Okay, that'd be great. And I'm also because I imagine once you start going conservative, it does take time to ramp back up. And so I was thinking you might have impacts to this year, or is that not the case so much? Well, there were a few things, mostly in design. We can, as part of the presentation to you, we can show you what we're doing this year. We have a lot out there in capital. Okay, we just started a county line road project, which has kind of been been dragging along and floating. We're still working on Pike Road. Okay, we're finishing up a drainage project on 17th and main. The paving program is going hot and heavy this year. Tyler's working on a traffic signal at Alpine Mountain View. So we've got quite a few things currently going on right now that'll take us well into the fall. So we can include that. Here's what we got now. Here's what, you know, kind of short term, what we're looking at for, you know, into the fall and next winter under design, and then going through and carrying forward construction the next summer. Okay, so that's great. So it sounds like the impact is probably not what we're feeling right now, but what might be down the line a little bit. So we have a lot going on right now that is continuing on. We've had some, there's some staffing challenges. So we're trying to adjust here and there. Most of staff and we, you know, this will fall into the Climate Action Task Force. Most of the engineering staff through the whole course of this has been working remotely. We've all, you know, very few of our staff come into the office. We're all working, trying to work remotely as much as possible. Helps a lot with greenhouse gases. People aren't commuting as much anymore. So that's a positive. Maybe the only thing, the only positive thing coming out of this whole thing. Yes, very true. You're probably a little more time with the family. So yes, yes. And pets. Don't forget the pets. Awesome. Anything else on the communication from staff from any members of staff there? We actually have quite a few more things, but I'm just going to save them till the end of the meeting if you guys want to. We probably need to progress and get to the big item on the agenda tonight. It's going to take a bit of your time. So we have some other things. So if you have questions, we can probably answer those too for the items from TV members. Okay, Sandy, do you have a quick question or should it tell the comments from board members? Well, I just was wondering about RTD because they presented before we left our last meeting and due to COVID, they were making changes. How has that impacted our bus service here? Have the wraps changed? Times changed? Just general stuff like that. And the answer can wait. But that's what I wondered about. Thank you. Yeah, I can answer that at the items from TAB members at the end because I do have something on that. Okay, sounds duly noted. All right. Well, marching forward, do we have any members of the public to be heard today? I haven't seen anyone call in. I don't recognize all the names on the participants list. So I can't honestly say for sure we don't have somebody waiting in the list. Tyler, Phil, maybe you know all the names on the participants list. I don't know the T-E-R-A-N Taran. Or is that somebody from the consulting team? Hello? Hey, Phil, this is Sarah. They're not with our consulting team. Oh, okay. So they might be just listening in. Oh, Taran is Ben Ortiz. Never mind. Terry. It's Terry. I got it. Thanks, Ben. Hey, Ben. Good to have you here. You may not be able to have audio, so. Fair enough. Last call for any members of the public to share their comment now. All right. Hearing none, why don't we turn it on over to Lisa and Francie and team. Great. Thank you guys so much. Thanks for having us and getting us some time on your agenda. I'm going to jump right in and hopefully all this great technology will work for us. Of course, I tried this earlier before everyone got on and it worked fine. And now are you guys seeing anything on your side? Not yet, Lisa, but now we can. Yep, there it is. Okay. You can see it now? Yep. Okay. And I put it in slide show here for you. I'm so used to Zoom that as I think somebody else was saying, trying to do the transition back and forth from different technologies keeps them getting used to for sure. Okay. There we go. All right. So as many of you probably know, we've been working for the last six months or so after the council declared a climate emergency in back in October and called for the convening of a climate action task force. So that kicked off in December. And we've been working along developing a recommendations report and then obviously COVID hit. So that kind of postponed things for a couple of months there, but we got back on it and just presented our recommendations report to city council of the beginning of July. And city council wanted us then to take the recommendations to the advisory boards and get some feedback from you all to bring back to them. So we're going to run through that tonight. And I'm going to run through the, so there are six topic areas that I'll talk about. I'm going to run through the non-transportation one related ones pretty quickly, but we'll spend most of the time on the transportation recommendations because those are obviously most relevant to us. And in the meantime, feel free to holler if you all have any clarifying questions or anything like that. So if you, for those of you don't know me, I'm sorry, I'm recent novel like the sustainability program. So this just provides you a brief overview of what the report itself covered. It ended up being quite a substantive document around 150 pages or so. So if any of you, I know you got the link to that in your packets. I don't know how many of you actually read it from cover to cover, but there's, it goes into the background of a climate action task force, the recommendations, also some recommendations from the Just Transition Planning Committee, which Francie will be talking about in a little bit, community engagement, and then just a ton of resources that were provided to that group. The task force came up with six primary topic areas that they wanted to focus on to develop recommendations. So it was adaptation and resilience, building energy use, education and outreach, land use and waste management, renewable energy and transportation. And then equity was also identified as a really integral part of climate action. And rather than having its own section with really specific recommendations, they wanted to leave equity throughout all of these topic areas. And then that also lead into the work that the Climate Action Task Force did with the Just Transition Planning Committee, which again, Francie will talk about. There we go. So we did endeavor to do some community engagement in this process. We thought we're already working under a 120-day deadline, which was pretty tight. But then COVID happened and obviously all of our community engagement that was meant to be in person, which was really designed to try to get at that equity standpoint and get a more broad and diverse perspective from the community engagement standpoint was all really pretty significantly impacted. So we did, we were able to put out a community questionnaire and we got almost 400 responses to that. We did do a handful of presentations and tabling events before lockdown happened. But we know that even through that process, we were pretty limited in terms of the engagement that we were able to do. We did get some key takeaways. So there, at least from the folks that were able to participate in that, there was general support for climate actions, incentives and overall changes from the city standpoint. In particular, there was strong support for increasing services and benefits, particularly for low-income communities and addressing issues around affordability and making sure that any measures that we are taking from the climate action perspective are taking affordability into account. On the flip side of that, there was some current concern definitely about the cost and the impact on affordability of climate action measures and then a lack of stakeholder engagement as well. As I mentioned, we have some significant limitations. We were working under a pretty fast timeline, the impacts from COVID. The questionnaire format was a little bit, I would say constrained in terms of it really forced people to rank their options and didn't provide people an option to say, I actually don't like any of these options that you're giving me. So there was some limitations in that. And then again, we think that from the responses that we got, we know that there were pretty key perspectives and voices that we're not able to engage in that process. So I'm going to jump into the recommendations. And like I said, I'm going to speed through the ones that really aren't transportation focus, but if you have any clarifying questions, please feel free to holler. Francie is jotting down notes and we have kind of two separate documents. One, that's kind of a more formal document that we'll go to Council saying this is what the Transportation Advisory Board thinks about these recommendations. And then we can also take notes just on individual comments if you have comments related to some of the other recommendations. So we'll review and record high level comments. Again, Francie will do that. And at the end, we'll pull up that document so you guys can see it. And then we'll go through each of the transportation related recommendations and have you all do kind of a thumbs up, thumbs side or thumbs down. And then take a general agreement. And then you all will vote as a board in terms of how you want to go forward. So the first topic area is focused on adaptation and resilience. And this most of the recommendations are focused on greenhouse gas reductions overall, which we refer to as mitigation. But we do also know that even if Longmont were to achieve 100% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 or whatever, the way science works and the way the world works, we are still probably looking at some significant impacts from climate change. And so this section is really focused on how do we prepare our community for those impacts. The one, the first one is focused on public health and that's looking at what are the impacts of a warming climate on the public health of our community. The second one is water conservation. And I highlighted this one in green. And we'll discuss this a little bit more in detail later. Even though this is focused on water conservation, and I highlighted it as being relevant to the Transportation Advisory Board. Because if you see this goal, it's a 35 to 40% reduction in overall water consumption by 2025. That could have significant impacts to the look of right of ways in particular. And so we just wanted to highlight that for this group, so that you all have an opportunity to discuss and provide comments on particularly around how that might impact the look and feel right of ways. And then the third is focused on flood mitigation and preparedness. Building energy. Sorry, I know there's a ton of text on here. That's focused on probably things that you would expect. So building code. So that's looking at the next building code cycle of expanding that one is really good about adopting and implementing the most recent version of each building code cycle. But this one would be looking specifically at adding in solar readiness, PV readiness and electrification. Also looking at creating an electrification feasibility committee to develop a plan for the city to transition from natural gas to electrification and buildings over the next 10 to 15 years. And that feasibility committee would really help develop what that plan looks like. Commercial energy benchmarking. That's a program that's looking at evaluating buildings to educate building owners and how to reduce energy use. Commercial and residential energy efficiency, low income energy efficiency, and then establishing a climate action fund that can help, again, particularly address the affordability issue of potential impacts to low and middle income residents and business owners to help them in our transition process. Education and outreach. This is mostly focused on a number of things to help just gain better awareness by the public and engagement in the conversation around climate issues and climate action. So there's a lecture series and article series looking at adding to the teaching exhibit at the museum called Front Range Rising to add issues of climate and energy use, establishing a community liaison program. So that's setting up a peer to peer network within neighborhoods of folks that are like sustainability and climate ambassadors that can educate their friends and neighbors. And then the bigger piece one here is really developing comprehensive workforce development opportunities to train the workforce that we're really going to need to accomplish our climate action goals. So that's in those areas, particularly around energy use, energy efficiency, weatherization, renewable energy. Land use and waste management. The first one is focusing on promoting and educating and changing code to allow for home scale agriculture production and sales, expanding residential and residential and commercial composting. And then this is in the land use section. But the third one here is downtown pay for parking. I highlighted this one obviously because of the tide of transportation and parking as well to think Phil was talking about a little bit earlier. And that's implementing a pay to park requirement in the downtown area to help encourage alternative modes of travel into and out of downtown. And this one really, so we started this process that I mentioned before COVID happened. So this one also would really need to probably be put on hold or we'd need to really pay attention to what the impacts might be to our downtown businesses because we definitely don't want to have any adverse impacts beyond what people are already experiencing. Renewable energy. This is looking at accelerating the installation of smart meters and then developing a number of programs that really help homeowners understand and mitigate their energy use within their own homes. And then a broader network that helps actually connect things like home energy management systems to our overall system and have folks opt into programs where they could actually say, yes, I agree for a long, long power communications to manage my energy use during peak times and folks would get incentives or reduced rates for that behavior, carbon intensity signaling. So that's providing real-time information to customers to say, hey, the energy mix right now is really heavy on renewables. So you might want to kick on your appliances or hey, right now the energy production, power production is really heavy on fossil fuels. So if you can scale things back, so transportation, this is where I'm going to spend the most time. And I'm going to have Phil, Phil was part of this process in developing these recommendations. All right, there's one of the WebEx boxes right over some of my strategies here. So but Phil, I'm going to have you jump in in case I'm missing anything, get anything wrong, or if you guys have a question that I can't answer, I'm going to send them over Phil's way. So the first transportation recommendation is increasing the effectiveness of the transit system through a checkpoint bus service. So that's essentially a high service between like a call and ride service and a fixed route service, a little bit more flexibility for users that would allow folks that might not be able to make it to a formal stop. The fixed route service will very much be the backbone of our transit system, but this would provide a little bit more flexibility for folks and help some of those last mile connections. Phil, do you want to add anything to that one? So sure. So the checkpoint piece of it is that it would hit certain important points in the city at specific times. So it's still have that level of reliability. So you would always know like at the hospital, it would show up at quarter past the hour, you know, and different places, different important locations, different stops could be added into the network. But from there, it could deviate from its fixed route and go, you know, and come right to your front, not your front door, but to the curb in front of your house. So if it has that ability to make that run, it could do it that way. So it's just a bit more flexible service. It's something that was actually in a 2012 plan for First and Main Street, and it was never implemented by RTD, though they were very excited about it at first, and then they kind of lost a little bit of interest based on some costs. But we threw it back in here because we still think it's a viable service. Yeah, and the goal would really be to be at or below the cost of the current like via or call and ride system, right, so right though. Yeah, those are pretty expensive right now, running about 25 to $30. In fact, Sandra probably knows more than I do about that. But they run very expensive per writer, and we try to get those costs down quite a bit. So yeah, great. Thank you. The second one is focusing on establishing electric vehicle charging infrastructure, particularly in the downtown area. So that's increasing 20 additional what are called level two charging stations. So that's where you can charge your car. If you were going from zero to 100%, it would take a few hours. But if you're just doing some shopping for an hour or so, it would help get your car charged pretty quickly. It would help bring people to the downtown area that are looking to charge in long line and help from that economic standpoint as well. The third one is looking at connected bikeways. And so that's a longer term project that's really trying to connect all the bikeways and interconnect all major nodes across the city so that you would have a complete and safe bikeway system where you don't have to make any at grade crossings. Bill, do you want to add anything to that one? Well, I don't think we're saying any at grade crossings, but we're saying definitely whenever you cross an arterial level street, you know, one of the higher volume multi-lane roads, we would be looking at trying to get some kind of grade separation for those for sure. And then it was just an idea this was critical from the group was that they really saw bicycling as being kind of that next level. And I think we're seeing that even with COVID is bicycling has become that thing that people have turned to if they can't they don't want to use the bus necessarily transit. So bicycling is becoming part of that and we're starting to see more and more electric bicycles and different types of bicycles like tricycles electric tricycles. So it's becoming more and more commonplace for people to be able to use these types of vehicles. And so this is the idea that we get them around the city in an efficient manner. Great, thanks Bill. Yeah, and that one is one again we started this before COVID but obviously the the connections to COVID are pretty stark. And when I hand it over to Sarah and Abby to talk about the transportation road map, they'll speak a little bit to that as well of the impact of transportation from COVID is something that that is there's just a lot of unknown right now in terms of how people's behavior is going to turn and is going to change into the future. And then the last one that we have is focused on alternative work schedules and again even though we started this before COVID this one's particularly relevant because it's really looking at developing an education campaign for both employers and employees to help reduce meeting congestion through either alternative work schedules additional telecommuting options and things like that that really help reduce congestion during those peak periods. As I'm sure you all have probably paid attention to our ozone levels have been quite high. And obviously I made a note over on the left here that transportation is about 19% of long long screen house gas emissions. So transportation has a pretty heavy impact. It's interesting to see how telecommuting from due to the pandemic is is impacting those emissions and potentially some of our long term behaviors as well I think is opening up some of the communities for us there. So that as far as the transportation recommendations. Before we move on to the just transition plan committee recommendations does anyone have any questions or comments or anything that they want to add at this time and then we'll get into the voting in a little bit here but I just want to make sure there's some time for questions. Yeah. Council Member Peck? I do and these are just things for the board to think about not necessarily things that I have any knowledge super knowledge about and my first one is to feel when we're talking about connected bikeways. The recommendation is to have this in 20 years. Does this align with staff because 20 years is even further out in the 2030 timeline that we have for climate action emergency for renewable energy. So I'm wondering if that is that a line with what we've been trying to accomplish? That's a great question Council Member Peck. The full text if you looked at the full text of this I believe it's it talks about a 20 or a 10 significant significant work being done in the next 10 years and so I think the idea was this doesn't you know if we're to talk to all the folks that have anything to do with transportation this is not part of that work plan as of yet but it's in a lot of different documents in different ways but there's no timing associated with it so what this attempts to do is you know allow TAB to to recommend to Council that these be included and then if this gets into a work plan of some kind for Council then that's something we'd have to take on and evaluate how that works with the budget and so yeah it's very aggressive quite frankly I mean it seems like 20 years is a long way out but if you think about all the different underpasses that we're talking about I mean we do have a number of those in our work plan right now but in order to complete the full system it's going to be it's going to be quite a bit of quite a bit of work so what we're trying to do is put it out there as something to kind of aspire to as a goal and again the full text kind of talks about major completion within 10 years to meet some of the goals you're talking about council member okay and the reason I asked was I'm reading the T3 connected bikeways which is on the thing and on the screen and it says construct most of the system within the next two years TO so there's a typo there yeah that's sort of been 10 years I'm sorry about that and then full completion in 20 years I just wanted to make sure and then I do have another question it is the T1 the downtown pay-to-park by 2023 but we just talked about an integrated bus system which I totally agree with but you want that according to the timeline by 2025 my thought process is if we are going to have people take alternate routes downtown and if they don't have to pay to park should these timelines not be somewhat aligned we can't ask them to get downtown in another way other than driving if we don't have that alternate way in place that's just a thought going forward when we talk about this and then my other thought as you can see I've been thinking a lot about this are the charging stations and I had earlier before this climate action task force came about I had a conversation with Harold Dominguez about these charging stations I think the city should be in the position of selling electricity and like the downtown parking stations whoever owns those if it's the LDDA my thought process is they should be putting them in and then we sell them they charge whatever they want to pay for the electricity that the city sells them I'm just very nervous about the city just like we don't have gas stations in parking lots I mean why would we do that so I could be totally wrong on this thought process but I just think this is opening up a discussion that the city may not be able to afford to do so just putting that out there thank you are there other questions or comments yeah Courtney and I can't see everybody so I'm going to call on who I see but Neal I'm going to look to you because hopefully you can see everybody is the blind leading the blind only see just a fraction of it so we'll just invite people to call them to call identify themselves if they're interested in raising a question all right but Courtney I did see your hand yes thank you my question is about paying to park are there studies from other cities where pay to park has been implemented and has it shown to reduce parking or congestion or car parking downtown and has it also shown therefore to increase public transportation use or shuttles I saw I read about the shuttles and you know all these other options possibly even using like the school buses and that kind of thing which seemed very interesting to me I'm wondering if it actually does reduce the amount of use of parking or does it as the document show just allow people who have the money to use it and and just discriminate if you will against or disallow equity for people who can't afford to do it thank you yeah Courtney I'll try to take that one um and I think poor Ben Ortiz is jumping at the bit um and he can't say anything right now but he actually used to be uh he used to take a class from a professor um Donald Shoup from UCLA who uh who wrote the a great book called the high price of the high cost of free parking and so it really talks about how people can take you know that's a free resource that's provided by the city basically for private vehicles to take to store on on public property so it's an interesting way of looking at things but we've actually looked at a number of studies across the nation um and that book kind of outlines a lot of the studies as well but if you get a chance um we can get get you we can try to get you a copy or or send it your way if you have a lot of interest in this but it really does talk about trying to add a cost to parking so that there's always 15 open so that you're not driving around in circles wasting gasoline including that environment trying to find that one parking spot that's right where you want it to be so by charging for parking you're actually making it more efficient and then that those dollars that you charge for parking go back into the area which which is being served so they actually go back to the down you know in this case it would be the downtown development authority and that can make it easier to get access and it can provide some of those shuttles that we were talking about in the document you can you can start to pay for some of those things using the price that you charge for parking and it it's just that guarantee that reliability again you know we just talked about that reliability piece for transportation of being able to come downtown and be assured that you're going to find that spot not today because we've got them all blocked off on Main Street but someday you know and especially on the avenue that you always have about 15 full 85 percent is kind of that magic number that you're looking for of utilization so you're trying to get it up to that level and then we talked with council the other night about the idea that anybody with a placard that has for you know they it's kind of an older term now it's you know it shouldn't really be the Americans with disability act placard but we still call them the handicapped placards or the handicapped license plates if you have those you can park in any of these stalls as long as you need to so there's no there's no restrictions on those types of placards and license plates now so if you do have a disability if you need to come downtown we're not going to try to charge you for that or or make it inconvenient for you now if you are low income we did talk about that issue of how does a low income person access these parking spaces if you're going to start charging for them and that's the best solution that we came up with was providing these shuttle services that if you did have to use outlying parking you at least have a quick trip on some of these shuttle services that would take you into downtown fairly quickly especially if you work downtown and have satellite parking lots kind of on the edges and so we had a bunch of different things that we tried to work into this document to cover a lot of these fears that people were having great are there other questions from board members yeah this is Jacques I got a couple questions here so the first one I had is when you were talking about that shuttle I started thinking it has there been any thought about using that Kauffman redesign and being kind of a north south sort of transportation line just a thought um so you can answer that but then my other question was on the flex ride I believe I'm trying to reach back in my memory banks here but I believe the colon ride service is required within a half mile of a fixed route and that's due to ADA excuse me um so I'm not sure if have you thought about that requirement with this plan yeah the actual legislature the actual rule on the ADA is that there must be accessible accessoride is what it's called from RTD they have accessoride service that's within that half mile of a fixed route service that operates all day long so they do have to provide that service but it does cost a lot I'm actually in Longmont quite frankly it's free because of the right free Longmont system that we have but typically it's it's a it's a full fare price for that so the colon ride would be something a little different and we would have to replicate so wherever you had the fixed routes or the fixed bus stops you would have to have that ADA service provided but that would be a point that you'd have to provide that around so we might there might be some issues there you're correct we'd have to go into the legalities of all those different things so those would be something that we'd have to look at especially carefully with changing this from a fixed route to more of a flexible route and then your other question was about the shuttle and using Kauffman so we've certainly talked about that Kauffman just makes a lot of sense in using that shuttle but then you could also use Kimbark seems to make a lot of sense as well so we were trying to figure out how you can make it work we probably try to stay out of the alleys but Kim Kimbark and Kauffman would be would be ideal yes that sounds good um yeah and just a quick anecdotal story in my brief experience about three four months of using FlexRide every time I get on that bus there's someone there that I don't think they would have the ability to walk more than maybe a block I think it would really cause a hardship if they didn't have that service so that's just my anecdotal right and I don't think we're trying to get rid of the service we're trying to enhance it and kind of build it into a better system of services and that could also include even you know partnering with I hate to say at the ubers and lifts of the world because you never know what's going to go on with ubers and that's right but uh they seem to be pretty popular now because people are kind of moving to that from public transportation because they feel uh it's a little safer more and safer environment so we're seeing those in other cities not necessarily Longmont but it's it's about bringing all these different systems together you talk about the bikeways and the flex ride and you know we haven't talked about regional transit and the excessive ride but it's it's talking about them all together as one system even you know single occupant vehicles and and hovs and and the event goals and talking about it all as a system I mean if we were to write the perfect document I think that's where we would try to say we're trying to integrate all these different things but um these are the full the pieces that we were able to pull out the whole time we were talking about the integration of the system and trying to get it all to work together uh as best we could I think David had a question yes thank you I have two uh one has to do with the parking so I might have missed this in the document but are we just talking about main street or is this also Kauffman Kimbark and other parts of town I think we're looking at the and this is again pre-covid this is a pre-covid idea so as the businesses are hurting right now and parking isn't an issue this doesn't make sense to do today or even it's something that you could turn off if it was to happen again in the future but the parking was really meant to be an area wide uh parking plan not just on main street but all the different uh public parking lots that are available like you said on Kimbark on Kauffman and so the idea is to um I mean maybe maybe you could start with main street or some of the avenues beyond street parking and move them to the the the lots but um it could be a phased approach to this whole this whole idea but we'd start with a a downtown core where there was a lot of demand you know five or six months ago and people were really having a difficult time parking and now that's not really the case even even though we've taken away about 70 parking spaces off of main street people are still having a pretty easy time of parking as we understand it so um but when you have those high demand areas and maybe the next place you look at is maybe prospect but first you start with the downtown core okay thank you and the second thing and this is more towards Lisa uh she mentioned um water reduction impacts and I'd be curious if she could just spend a minute or two talking more about um what what that might look like she mentioned how the green space and how it might impact the green space yeah so and I might have Francie step in here if I miss anything too she's our water conservation and sustainability specialist so that's definitely her realm but this area is is looking at uh what are the potential impacts to our water availability the climate change and how might we mitigate our water use in order to to make sure that we can weather those impacts and so the goal that the climate action task force came up with the reduction of 35 to 40 percent of our city wide water use by 2025 which is a pretty aggressive pretty aggressive goal and one of the things that that we talked about as staff when we went to city council is that in order to implement that and achieve that goal one we know that that would take financial resources it also would require some pretty significant redesign we spoke more specifically about parks and golf courses but as I mentioned right of ways as well which to be you know grassy areas and things like that so we would be looking at a transition away from any of those type of uses that more water to xeric gardening use of native plant materials and things like that to radically cut our water particularly around irrigation so you think about um people often think of when we talk about zero escaping as oh it's just going to be you know rocks and there's nothing there and that's that's not true um there there's quite a bit of of drought materials that we can use that actually you know they flower they look beautiful but they require a lot less in terms of water use but it is a transition away from what people are used to which is more turf grass grantee do you want to add anything to that that I might have missed no I think you covered it I couldn't get the answer of what everything would look like because it was a pretty high level recommendation just that our landscapes for to reach a reduction of that magnitude we'd have to read on our landscapes so so our so where is all the other so that do you have any kind of um thoughts as uh let's say we just magically shut off all the water to the golf courses and the parks just for a day to find out how much money how much water we'd save is that 30 of our daily usage 50 I know it'd be more in the summer it's it a oh I would I would have to pull it up our city water usage and it's hard because our golf courses in a lot of our parks use raw water which it's much easy the city it's for tracking water consumption it's much easier for the city to track treated water than raw water so unfortunately we do not have a really accurate estimate of both our raw water versus treated water but do not have that right now so that's kind of a little bit hard to see and we often when we see now water conservation savings on the treated water rather than the raw water um and city treated water use is not not 30 of all city treated water use answering your question we would need to uh residential at so just looking at treated water use residential water use is our highest um usage and I can have a spreadsheet that I could pull up and check that out good great in the interest of time why don't we keep uh uh Lisa and Francie want you keep marching forward on your slides and I'm sure there'll be additional questions to go forward sounds good thanks Neil so I'm going to pass it off to Francie and she's just going to really quickly go through talk about the just transition plan committee and who they are and their equity recommendations and how it's relevant and I think this might help speak to some of the equity questions that came up in that discussion now around impacts to different folks on from the transportation recognition uh so Francie I'm going to meet myself when you want me to advance the slide great thank you um oh before getting into this background slide oh um also uh I'll introduce me um but I'm Francie Jenwater conservation and sustainability specialist um so before diving into this background slide um this section I'm going to focus on the just transition recommendations and starting with kind of reviewing this and then diving into the recommendations kind of a distinction between the just transition plan and climate action task force so the climate action task force were really like what actions you need to take to address climate change why this is more the how can you do it in a way that's reaching all members of our community right now these slides are just informational as we're still waiting for direction from city council of whether they want us to apply these recommendations or not to the climate action task force recommendations um some context for this group this the this group is also is part of a just transition process that actually started in 2018 and would came out of the resolution to transition to 100% renewable energy so we actually did um did some surveys last summer and it was originally more focused on energy specifically so the surveys and listening sessions um targeted lower income households to learn kind of access to energy services and programs um and then we are going to transition to developing policy and program recommendations by pulling together a group to support staff in that effort but the passing of the climate emergency resolution called to engage frontline communities and the goal of the just transition plan committee was to gather lower income in frontline communities so we thought this was a good opportunity to reach the goals of that resolution by sprouting their scope to equitable climate action the members of this group are specifically targeted to be members who are part of populations that may be most impacted by climate change but have historically been less involved in the decision-making process or historically have had policies that may have negatively impacted them I know we talked about people with disabilities there's still probably many how how buildings out there that aren't ADA accessible as well as a connection to the community next slide oh you can skip this side um so their recommendations were split in two parts the first is their equity assessment recommendations and these recommendations are really about they're kind of recommending the just transition plan process of the importance of providing both the foundation and equity and climate action using the equity lens and then focusing on frontline communities that are most impacted by climate change next slide then the bulk of their recommendations were in this overarching equitable climate action recommendations all eight of these recommendations um really could be used as an equity lens when implementing climate action so they highlight the importance of in marketing outreach engaging cultural brokers and developing culturally relevant messaging using data and research identifying barriers um and increasing program access um kind of understanding the connections between health and safety understanding addressing financial burdens kind of building more neighborhood-based programs um I skipped one there's supposed to be a four here and it's equitable access to jobs so building on the workforce development program um and then as well as identifying alternative mechanisms funding mechanisms and a lot of these recommendations are written in a way that there's a lot of questions so when someone's implementing a climate action recommendation in like in looking in the program access there's a there's a series of questions that someone could or a staff or others who are implementing that could think through to identify areas of potential lack of program access or barriers are ways to increase program access and um that's it thank you great thanks fancy um so with that I'm going to move into this voting process um and so again we really want to we'll run through each of those transportation recommendations and the way we want to do this is if we could get and we'll see might have to I'm just trying to figure out how we'll do this because I can't see everybody um this is where zoom makes it a little bit easier I think but we'll do a thumbs up is you're you're good with the recommendation as is um but you're you're you feel comfortable telling city council of yep we we approve this recommendation a thumbs side which is um it's okay use some work and you have a suggestion on modification about how you would how you would make it better so that you could be a thumbs up or a thumbs down which is really strong concerns and this recommendation should not be approved by city council and then we'll kind of look at everybody's votes collectively and come up with a vote for each of the transportation recommendations that the board um can say collectively this is what we want to submit to city council great sorry you can be talking through each of the individual items that would previously went through and and as for feedback or you could be introducing some new ideas it's the it's the ones that we just went through and we'll just be asking for the thumbs up thumbs side or thumbs down I just wanted you guys to see them all first um and then if there's more discussion or more questions we can go through that does that make sense yeah would it be helpful if we were to um pull off the slide view so you can see everyone on one screen and you can just talk to each of the individual items yeah that'd be great we'll do that and then while I'm doing that Francie's gonna like I said document everything and then she'll pull up the document at the end so you guys can see and make sure we captured everything wonderful haven't my sharing screen here okay that's a great idea okay and then if you need me to share so we can um you can see the text of those recommendations okay so the first one that we have uh is the water conservation one again like I said that that could have a significant impact on the right of way so that'll be the first one so if everyone can show me a thumbs up thumbs sideways or thumbs down I just hold it up so I can see okay and how many board members do we have Neil so I can yeah so right now we have uh five active board members we're in the process of adding a few more okay great so do do your thumbs one more time sorry I'll find me perfect okay thumbs up for everybody great all right good to go the next one is the land use and waste management the paper downtown the downtown paper parking the thumbs up thumbs side thumbs down okay yeah three thumbs up two sides okay and just quick comment on the on the thumb side there I support I support the uh the goal of it uh uh pretty much depend on the timing of the rollout obviously um the impact of business owners right now is is pretty significant but you know a couple years down the road would 100 support the the policy perfect and Sandra you have the thumb side same and I agree with Neil I think it's too much now but on down the road I I would be in agreement perfect thank you guys all right and then the transportation ones we have the first one is the checkpoint slash flexible bus service all right we got four thumbs up and jaco thumb side so tell me about your thumb side uh just kind of has to do with the comments that I made it I didn't feel like we had a really solid plan for I understand the integration and the desire but I didn't hear enough to sign off on it it does that make sense it's like I just need more need more details about the implementation yeah a lot of question marks and and again I I really think about those individuals that this would impact and I'm not I'm not necessarily sure that uber lift is going to be a suitable substitute for those folks okay the electric vehicle charging infrastructure thumbs thumbs up thumbs up all right thumbs up great I I have a comment on that one yeah I'd like to fall I'd like to uh just align with what uh Joan had mentioned that I think that the the businesses should certainly be a part of it if the city's just paying for free and for christy I would disagree okay great and one quick comment on that from from my side Lisa the number 20 charging station seems like a really low number in an environment where we're likely to be having a huge huge increase in electric vehicles so if this is a long-term document perhaps they need to be thinking bigger than just 20 to 20 charging stations well or unless each charging station has multiple access points there at the station that would be a different situation but 20 seems low okay yep they are usually now dual point or dual port so you can get two with each but we'll note that okay the next one is the connected bikeways everyone thumbs up with Neil giving it a double thumbs up okay great and the last is the alternative work schedules right thumbs up I'm a thumbs up but I have something to add okay it doesn't mention for folks like me that live here but work somewhere else and I would be I would love to have some kind of incentive to stay home but uh you know I don't I'm not expecting love to come up with it but so I don't know it just seems like we are leaving out a large percentage of the population if we only look at people that either work somewhere else or live somewhere and work here or live here and work here there's either 25 to some percent that we're not considering there might be something that can be done to encourage people that live here that work somewhere else to try and stay closer to home I had I had a question about that I'm because we have been forced to do that with the pandemic have have there been some studies started or data collected that show that we've already been doing it and how that has worked or how that could be projected to work in the future um I there that's something I might look to Phil to see if he's seen anything come out specific to the pandemic I know we have been trying to track air quality impacts and things like that from what's happening but it's going to be a while I think before we really know due to the pandemic and what's due to other factors as well still have you seen anything that's come out more well all we have really is to you know I threw Jim under the bus earlier my third Tyler under the bus that you know we have some we have some volume data on on roads and we kind of saw what happened with the traffic traffic volumes maybe Todd I can talk a little bit about that also we've been recording and Jane knows a lot about this we've been recording how many people have been coming into our work versus how many people are staying at home so we're at about 25 to 30 percent at our offices right now that's how many people are coming into the office right now about 25 to 30 percent of the full staff yeah so so with traffic volumes on main street we saw and I've got a graphic I was trying to track down here real quick but when we saw the stay at home orders come into place we saw daily traffic volumes on main street we've got a count station right there just north of Longs Peak they were down about 60 percent lower than normal daily traffic volume so the month before within about two weeks that second week of April traffic volume were substantially lower and it's really cool to see kind of all the different inflection points or as each different stay at home schools close the volume goes down stay at home volume goes down and then we started opening back up and then all of a sudden that grass starts going right back up and about two weeks ago we were back to about 92 percent of pre volumes on main street so it was a nice break there for a little while while everyone was doing a really good job staying at home but now it's it's certainly coming back quickly thank you quick question so even with the even with the main street closure you're at 92 percent of what we'd normally be at this time of year so we haven't checked the after the closure yet on that later this week we also did some additional counts that earlier in terms of measuring the where the traffic goes but we'll be doing some main street counts this week actually within that closure the volume impacts there wherever we're at in terms of that 90 percent but I suspect it's you see a lot of spread is what happens instead of all being in the p-cap the p-cap really spreads and I think a lot of what we're seeing shows that in the data the mornings overall the morning hours are still below precode it really starts picking up in noon and it's really a lot of the volume shifted later in the day and remains a little more constant right part of that staying at home working I can stay at home and do my morning emails before I go to work or some sort of like that I think what we also have noticed and this is just kind of maybe transportation planning 101 is when you have that open capacity on those roads like the bigger our trails like hover and main street and pace and county line when you have not a lot of people using them people are kind of drawn to them and so luckily we saw a lot of people kind of pulled off the side streets and not maybe cutting through on sunset in francis and and martin and these different ones they were going to the arterials which is exactly kind of how we plan it when we're talking about transportation planning but so we saw a quick return back to main street which was unfortunate for us because we kept on saying hey we have to do these closures with 60 of the people gone and all of a sudden we got these numbers that said no it's it's like 90 of normal so we think that was part of the issue is and then we'd have to measure every street again to see if that was really the case but that's just kind of the way people behave is when they see that open and they see that it's easier to drive they get out there and they'll drive on those roads and we think that's what we saw I think and we're kind of getting away from from Lisa's goal here but I think one of the things we saw was a lot of I would say from my perspective a lot more calls about speed so congestion on some of that congestion went away opened up a lot of that capacity it's a lot easier to go faster for people and there's definitely some people that are going faster so definitely a give and take with congestion and ability to speed great thanks everyone well I'm going to really quickly have Francie just pull up the document that you put together so we can double check that we captured everything and then I'm going to hand it off to Sarah and Abby to just talk to you a few minutes about the transportation roadmap that we have okay and you might have to bear with me a little bit uh you are the first board we went to so we're trying to do some as we realize implementing things our format um needed to be adjusted a little bit um so I'll probably put a change the title of this one call and uh do like the record on this side we just have kind of the record um but water conservation um I have it was five thumbs up there was no modification comments downtown paper parking and I will try to make this a little bigger uh two more board members supported the goal but said it depended on the timeline so I had three thumbs up two sideways for uh the checkpoint service four up one sideways and that was because uh a desire to have a a more solid plan and think through the impact to individuals the t2 all five thumbs up and when someone said business should be part of it but I think you were also referring to the council member's comment do you specifically mean ldda as uh jone mentioned or um or were you well I I essentially would be the businesses that are supporting the the presence of that meter so if it's in front of their businesses they would be the ones that would benefit from it okay thank you for the verification and then also that 20 charging stations seem low uh connected bikeways I believe it was five thumbs up no comments and then alternative work schedules five thumbs up but with a desire for those who live in long want a work elsewhere maybe consider incentive or just factor that population into the discussion and then below I've been trying to I'm going to move all these clarifying questions discussion um to a separate document and I've fully gone to fully filling this in but I was just going to for each of them and under comments just have general topic lines about what uh was discussed and fancy there was a there was a comment from jack in the in the chat about adding the a d a requirement um for call and ride factors into the plan for t one okay so this one um so maybe specifically ada ada I'm just adding extra does that look look good to everybody does it look like we're missing anything or misrepresenting anything I think you captured it well awesome all right well thank you all for your time if you have any other follow-up questions um like I said I know you probably didn't get a chance to dig into all those 156 pages but if you do because you know want to and you have follow-up questions hesitate to reach out to me um and with that I'm going to pass it over to sarah and abby and they're just going to talk for a few minutes about the kind of free transportation roadmap that we have been working on as I mentioned transportation is about 19 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions and we we got a grant for this project the transportation roadmap before the climate emergency resolution so we're trying to align all these things um with information and recommendations but she'll talk to you a little bit about that project there and um I'm going to pull up first slides here so sarah while I'm doing that I'll let you introduce yourself okay thank you lisa good evening everybody thank you for having us my name is sarah davis and I'm the lead consultant uh working on your equitable carbon free transportation roadmap uh really excited to talk to you today about where we are in the process um and I'm joined by abby bohanan who is the founder and co-founder and ceo of um bg who's also been helping on the equitable engagement side so the purpose of the roadmap kind of as lisa mentioned is to promote and ensure equitable access to all forms of carbon free transportation so we're talking about walking uh rolling whether in a wheelchair or some other form of pedestrian mobility assessment assistance skating biking and also electric vehicle usage from e-bikes to passenger vehicles all the way up to transit so we are especially focused on the equity component of this plan building off of the work through the just transition plan so we are focusing on engaging Latinx disability and senior communities in particular in our outreach and abby will touch on that a little bit later next slide so as lisa mentioned this effort is funded is funded by the boulder county sustainability tax um and is being led by longmont staff uh and behind the scenes driven by three colorado women's owned businesses uh i am the founder and ceo of s3d consulting we're a land use planning firm based in Denver colorado that focuses specifically on decarbonizing and electrifying our transportation energy and built environment um and on our team is abby who i'll let andrew herself with ambg hey i'm abby um i recognize some of y'all from previous calls so apologies for the repeated presentation but um as as sarah said i'm one of the co-founders of amby consulting um we do um projects sort of at the intersection of public health and urban planning with a pretty heavy community engagement component um and specifically um uplifting the voices of folks who are um most often left out of community decisions or decisions that affect their community um so in terms of this project um it sounds like i mean there have been quite quite a few of um quite a few efforts sort of happening simultaneously um and obviously covid has definitely thrown some uh thrown us uh for a loop um in terms of community engagement um but we're still very focused on connecting with folks who are um not often at the table making those decisions so and they couldn't be with us tonight but we're also on our consultant team is brendel group they have a fort collins and denver office and they have really been helping out on the data collection and analytics side next slide so this project like a lot of the ones we've already discussed this evening really builds off of a lot of the planning work that the city's been doing over the past several years so the 2015 2016 envision longmont process which resulted in the multimodal and comprehensive plan um is definitely the basis for this as well as the 2018 sustainability plan which called out a plan like this specifically um and the october 2019 climate emergency declaration by city council so we're really focused on trying to provide the city an implementation focused path forward um between today where we're in 2020 and 2050 where we're really trying to achieve that 33 percent uh emissions reduction from the transportation sector specifically so our goals are broken down and some of these are interrelated of course um are really focused on decreasing transportation related emissions we all breathe the same air so at the end of the day we all have a part to play and making sure that it's emission free as possible uh reducing single occupancy vehicle miles traveled so getting creative about how we bundle trips or shift modes as well as increasing electrification and increasing air quality one point i'll make about increasing electrification the data that we're seeing from longmont so including the air quality measure indicators that you have now as well as your historic data show that evs are really critical to meeting the 33 percent reduction goal by 2050 so while this plan does touch on all forms of carbon free transportation and we really believe that transit is the solution as much as e-bikes are the solution and all of these things are getting us to our goal uh we we really have a part of this to play where evs individually owned fleet owned and operated um from passenger vehicles all the way up to transit is really going to be key and that's part and parcel with the city making the hundred percent renewable energy commitment obviously where the fuel comes from for these vehicles is key and so you'll see in our final roadmap report where we actually track the data for when plot river power authority is going to be transitioning some of their coal fire power plants so as the grid is becoming greener uh we can show that even transit becomes an emission free mode for getting around town when they're electrified uh next slide so our schedule shifted a little of course of because of coven we actually kicked this off back in april our proposal did not contemplate coven at all so um luckily ambg has been a great partner in coming up with creative ways to continue the community engagement we are targeting a fall adoption by city council so we're looking at the september city council meeting which as some of the dates at the bottom note is actually a really good time considering the content of this roadmap the bike to work day for colorado has been rescheduled to september 22nd and the last week of september first week of october is national drive electric week next slide please so this is just a slide to kind of show you that we're looking at all the different aspects of this and and lisa i don't know if this is showing up on other people's screens but i have a little gray box kind of shading this slide thank you um so yeah we're looking at not only physical improvements which we understand the budget limitations that coven has has created so some of those are maybe getting pushed out a little bit further but also there's things that we can be doing now from a cultural standpoint how do we get people to acknowledge that while we were in coven we weren't driving as much or we were making a concerted effort to bundle our trips together so there is an education toolkit that's part of this overall roadmap that will help set the city up for long-term awareness and education campaigns and then we're also looking at those regulatory levers but the city really has a hand in pulling land use code suggestions including ev charging infrastructure but also things like parklets that are becoming really necessary in times of coven but even beyond and then some incentives that the city can look at in the future in addition to paying their fare box for transit next slide so this is just a graphical representation but just really hitting home that we're here in 2020 today this project's really looking out into the distance to 2050 and there's a lot of different ways to get there and so Abby is going to talk on the next slide about some ways that you and anyone that you know that lives and gets around in Longmont can help provide insight into your experiences and and yeah share really your your specific feedback about how you think that we can get where we're trying to go and obviously the toolkit will come with a lot of different variations from policy changes like I mentioned but also indicating key partnerships that the city can continue to leverage and grant funding and other incentives that are coming down from the state and federal level that will help you do things like build your 20 identified charging stations next slide and I'm going to turn it over to Abby and she's going to talk a little bit about how to get involved thanks all right thanks Sarah um so um as as part of of uh engaging the community we have a couple of options that you can do from home that you can participate in from home um so we have an email list um where you can say so you can stay informed about the plan like Sarah said the plan through shifting but we do plan on um circling back with folks um participating in key informant interviews so we are setting up 30 to 60 minute interviews um with key informants or community members who can kind of speak to the needs of themselves in their community um and then probably the easiest um and most director out would be to complete the online questionnaire um I think the questionnaire has been taking like less than 10 minutes it's like 20 questions um we currently have about 100 interview particular uh questionnaire participants so we're definitely hoping to learn more um and all of oh thanks Sarah so yeah so just start with the link in the chat I believe um so for folks who are interested in providing their feedback we do have the online questionnaire it's available in English and Spanish um so do you mind dropping the the Spanish link as well um and so um and we are a bilingual team as well so if you know folks who want to be interviewed um we can offer interviews in in either Spanish or English depending on um the the comfort level of whatever everything um so yeah so there's a those are sort of the key ways that folks can get involved thanks Abby and I know we went through it really fast we had a little bit of time today but we do really appreciate um all of your time our contact information's on the slide on your screen right there I'll also drop it in the chat um I did include links to both versions of the survey and the way to get on our email list so please use and abuse those and share them with all your friends and family we really do want to hear from everybody that we can thanks you guys Sarah this is Neil just one real quick follow-up question from what you presented there thanks for the helpful overview the one thing I didn't see on on the slides was um being able to do a survey or analysis of what peer communities are doing and bringing in some of the best practices there um it seemed like there there's a potential of some reinventing the wheel here and there are hundreds of communities taking a similar going through a similar effort which is also very important there I I assume that's just part of the plan that that there would be that that survey of what other communities are doing and bringing that and inviting feedback up but just maybe you can just comment on that just briefly definitely um so one of the reasons why our project team was selected for this is because of our our vast experience so not only do I have a couple years working in the EV industry at Tesla building out their supercharger network throughout Colorado and across the Midwest and West but Brendel group has been a recharge coach they're very connected to many of the clean cities organizations throughout the state as well as help excel put together their education toolkit so we're really bringing a lot of our own past experience but then we'll definitely be including a look at what other regions plans are Fort Collins and Boulder being kind of your two neighboring communities already have ED readiness plans on the books the state just issued an update to their state plan um about a month and a half ago and so we're definitely going to be making sure that this plan aligns with those goals um and then actually we were selected for the town of Estes parks they're going to be kind of following you and making sure that whatever they do integrates into this plan so it's very connected a network is really really part and parcel to making sure that EVs specifically but bikes buses all of this it's very systems focused so we have to zoom in on long lawn and make really specific recommendations but continuously zoom in and out to make sure that we're not planning in a vacuum thank you thank you and we're happy to stay on extra if anybody has any other questions that you'd like to discuss this evening thank you again all right uh Lisa go back to you that's it for us so thank you all for for letting us jump on your agenda tonight again if you have any follow questions feel free to reach out to me or if you can't reach me Neil and and Phil and Tyler I'll know how to get a hold so um I'm gonna hop off um unless you guys have any any other last minute questions for me I know you guys have some other things all right thanks so much you guys appreciate that thank you thank you thanks all all right well uh we'll jump to comments from uh other board members and um I can't just call folks out there just in the order they happen to randomly appear on my screen here so uh Jacques we'll we'll start with you and uh any uh comments from your side sure it'll just be brief um there was a thought that kind of occurred to me as we were going through some of this climate change task force and that is if we're converting buildings from natural gas to electricity one of the benefits to that is actually with the energy assistance program the federal program right now follows the heat source so if it has an electric heat source it actually provides assistance to the entire electric bill whereas if it's natural gas it only provides assistance to the natural gas bill so just kind of one of those odd benefits that would happen so that's all I got all right thank you Sandy why don't we go to you next there uh and any comments on your side um I just um not so much about what we've talked about tonight but I just want to mention that I think that the transportation department of city of Longmont's been really busy over the COVID time and I wanted to thank all the staff for their hard work during this pandemic and much of what they've done has been noted in the newspaper so I know other people have been able to see Pike Road 9th Streets being widened from airport to Hover and I checked Pike Road yesterday and saw that it's coming along even though it's not done but I went down the County Line Road 1 corridor and seeing the changes that are taking place there so I just want to say thank you for all their hard work that's it thank you awesome thank you very much David why don't we go to you next there any uh comments on your side looks like you're a mute there David yeah thank you yeah I uh I I cruised Main Street a couple of times yet uh in the last couple of days by myself and with my family and uh just to get a look at the blocking and how the single lane was working and I think uh I was I was pleasantly surprised at how painless it was to drive through there uh seemed like the lanes were plenty wide for cars and as well as for the pedestrian area on the other side of the walls I think my only concern would be that well it'd be nice to see more patrons or shops taking advantage of it there's a lot of empty store or quiet stores with nothing going on in the middle of the day and the other thing would be in the uh in this time where we're trying to do social distancing folks that are trying to get to a front of a store that's in the middle of a block you know they have to pass through these areas and I don't know if that may be intimidating to some folks or not but that's just one thing that occurred to me that like walking past let's say the pump house to get to um can't even think of the restaurant that's next to them but um that would just be one thing I would I just wanted to bring up is I could see folks maybe being a little intimidated about walking through there to get to another place nearby that's all I have great thank you all right Courtney anything on your side excuse me um I live on Emory street which is two blocks east of main and so having seen uh some 18 wheelers drive by my house is pretty interesting because I think they're probably taking you know some of those side streets there so on a personal note I was like why is a giant truck driving by my house um but I did want to uh just say thank you to the climate group they put together a very extensive uh list of goals and hopefully we'll be able to achieve some of those um so I wanted to thank them for for all their hard work well said and totally agree um only coming out out of my side I know Tyler uh you and Phil are looking at items for upcoming agendas and as part of the work plan update that I'm sure we'll be talking about in the next month or two I don't want to lose the and so disjointed here with being able to having several meetings we've had to to skip here but I don't want to lose a topic that came up about six months ago around the the neighborhood traffic mitigation program where I think that one of the conclusions from the from the TAV was to kind of take a fresh look at at how it's structured and some of the items in the toolkit that we could consider and just to take a step back to see if there's any potential for being able to to improve it make it work better for the the citizens of Longmont so no action required now other than uh Tyler if you can just make sure that that is included in the in the work plan for our upcoming discussions on that that would be great all right uh council member peck any comments in your side yep thank you um first of all I want to say it's great to see everybody this uh staying at home thing is really driving me crazy so it's it's lovely to see everybody's faces um and I do want to thank the uh the task force um I think they did an incredible job as well um I I also want to bring it up to date a little bit about RTD in that the governor as well as senators Faith Winters and Matt Gray have been charged with having a accountability committee for RTD looking at everything from finances to ridership to everything on how to restructure um they asked for nominees and Matt Jones reached out to me and said he would love to be on that committee so I wrote to them and I agree I would love to have Matt Jones on that committee because so far he's the only one in boulder county that to this point that has been in the senate and seen from the very onset what RTD is doing so his input would be invaluable so I nominated him via email plus uh the chair of the northern area transportation um I always forget what that last a is for but it was alliance so nata so she was also uh nominated so I'll try to keep you up to date on what's going on with that so thank you wonderful thank you um all right well I think we have uh some items there on the radar for uh upcoming agendas are there any transportation related meetings on the radar that either Tyler Phil or others are aware of they want to make the rest of the TAB keep them in the loop I think we just wanted to let you know I wanted to let you know in the staff update just about there's a new study there's always a new study there's a new study going on with uh state highway 119 first and final mile study it's really about it's not so much centered on kind of downtown long mom but it's definitely centered on kind of as 119 as the diagonal heads to boulder and then that whole stretch of where you have 119 as your transit corridor but there's things that are so far away I think we all understand that corridor that you know it's really hard to get from the bus from that corridor to actual places like naiwat we always get the comment why can't you bring a bus to naiwat high school you know it's like well that's that's like three miles away from the corridor two miles away from the corridor so those kind of questions come up so this is a this is a chance you know it's not necessarily a meeting that's coming up but there's definitely a chance to have some input as as the surveys start coming out and people try to do these type of meetings for outreach so I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that that was that was coming forward and then there was a quick question about RTD service I think from Sandy about you know what's happened with the service and what happened was RTD basically took Longmont and went to the Saturday service which didn't have much impact except for the 324 bus that runs every half hour went to every hour so that's the big local issue everything's still free for the rider so right free Longmont is still in place and we're not we still have to work out with RTD how that's going to get charged as you probably heard at the last meeting where we talked with RTD but we did lose some service to Boulder we lost the J service because it was commuter service only we lost some of the express routes to Denver but we do have we do have kind of a patchwork of we have the bolts still going back and forth on their Saturday service which is like once an hour I think all day and then there's an LD3 that runs between here in Broomfield and gets us to connect to the to the spine that is that is the US 36 corridor so we have some some options but it's not it's not great and we're working with RTD to bring back our services as people get back to work so that's just a quick update thanks yes Jen I'm sorry I forgot to tell you one thing when we look at this climate action passport on force on transportation and the shuttles and stuff I just want to remind a tab that advance Longmont 2.0 has a transportation part of it that I and Phil have been a part of and been RTS as well and they have been working on alternative things to RTD as far as shuttles etc and and I I want them to continue to be a part of the conversation as we talk about businesses being involved in in the solution so and for the main street closure gotten a couple of emails about some people who take their elderly parents to restaurants they usually park drop them off walk them into the restaurant they get back in their car and go park and they're having a problem with the one lane being only one lane being open I don't know that we can solve this yet but I just think it's something to keep in mind as we move forward thanks thank you all right I think that was the those were the main agenda didn't anything else pressing before we sign off all right well uh 12 minutes early we'll consider the meeting adjourned thanks everyone we'll talk to you next month thank you all thank you all all right good seeing y'all thanks bye bye thanks everybody thank you thank you