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Home My WebLink AboutMinutes - Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee - 05/11/20221 South Burlington Bike & Pedestrian Committee APPROVED Regular Meeting Minutes Wednesday, May 11, 2022 @ 5:30 p.m. VIRTUAL MEETING Committee Attendees - Remote: Havaleh Gagne (Goddess/Chair), Nic Anderson (Clerk), Donna Leban, Cathy Frank, Amanda Holland, Committee Absent: Bob Britt, Dana Farr Other Attendees: Andrew Bolduc (City Liaison) Public: Alexandra Gitzes (Ali) 1. Welcome, Gratitude and Virtual Meeting Instructions 2. Changes or additions to the agenda a. None 3. Comments from the public not related to the agenda a. Ali – Member of the public just attending to see how things are. 6 year resident. Lives in Chamberlin neighborhood. 4. Consideration of minutes from April 13,2022 a. Motion by Cathy b. Seconded by Nic c. Unanimous approval 5. Queen City Park Scoping Study –Discuss and Possible Committee Recommendations a. Andrew sent to Committee today. Will send to City Council as a consent agenda item for their information. Can discuss next meeting b. Donna detailed report c. Amanda on advisory committee who meets tomorrow. Has not seen yet. 6. Updates from the City a. No updates on staffing yet. b. Two new deputy CIP positions in DPW. Whoever is in that role will oversee our committee. Will solve a lot of the communication issues. c. Don’t have clear spreadsheet of Penny for Paths expenses. Meeting with Tom to go through finances soon. d. Question sent to Andrew from Havaleh on committees’ role. New bylaws sent around last week. Committee should review. e. Donna asked for them to be summarized. f. Andrew – Setting expectations from Council. Detailed pieces of bylaws. Encouraged to look at conduct component g. Nic mentioned Hinesburg Road crosswalks and the need for additional phase of RRFB’s. Would like to do the next phase to petition VTRANS for permit to do RRFB’s. h. Andrew will connect with Tom DiPetro to discuss process. i. Nic would like to keep the discussion going and is planting the seed for future discussion. 7. Hubbard Path Memo a. Havaleh put memo in the packet so that it was publicly noted that the committee has submitted this to City Council. 2 b. Donna mentioned the Climate Task force have been using the word resiliency. Not sure how they coin the term resiliency. Up for debate. Could be more about storms. c. Andrew believed it went to City Council already. d. Nic is happy that our position was stated publicly. 8. VT Bike/Walk Summit Update a. Nic and Amanda attended and presented on Penny for Paths. Successful discussion and well received. 9. Discuss Potential ARPA Projects a. Havaleh detailed ARPA funding documents b. Nic asked Andrew if he considered any bike ped projects to fit c. Donna noted that health and safety are big pieces. Reviewed Bicycle Friendly Community report. Two components talked about education and outreach methods. Wondered if there was interest in expanding Greenride Bikeshare to neighborhoods that are lower income or targeted groups. d. Ali – Doesn’t drive and plenty of places where she gets harassed by drivers because the infrastructure isn’t there. Focus on Williston Rd where people walk because they don’t have a choice. Would like to see funding used for walking infrastructure. Drivers aren’t paying attention. Social justice issue. e. Donna mentioned Williston Road bike ped facilities project f. Nic noted two projects – One is bike path on south side but other is changing travel lanes and reducing curb cuts g. Amanda – Are there two funding streams and are there other things to think about. h. Andrew detailed what is already committed and what is left. One of the categories is disproportionately impacted communities. Lost revenue helps to designate general fund purpose. Big splash projects which align with funding. i. Donna mentioned access to Micro-transit for seniors. A lot of older folks driving cars. Plus other folks who don’t drive. j. Amanda – where there is lack of money is funding for folks to socialize or get rides to entertainment. Instead of just medical trips. Asked what process is for input from groups and prioritization. k. Andrew – Community outreach. City Council discussing on Monday. Want to get into FY24 budget process. l. Nic thinks that Hinesburg Road sidewalk is needed to be replaced much sooner than 2026. It is access to schools, Price Chopper and Walgreens and is in a bad shape. People using wheelchairs have had challenges in a long time and there were Front Porch Forum posts this year about snow management. Impossible to plow. Thinks this could be a good candidate due to location and access to services. m. Amanda thinks that using our CIP projects list could be good. Airport Parkway project was expensive and could be a good idea. Could come up with a short list of these. n. Nic thinks 2-3 would be the max o. Cathy agrees it has to focus on places people need to get places and access to services for essential transportation. p. Ali thinks it’s an issue of accessibility that keeps people feeling stuck. Accessible sidewalks allow independence that gets people places. Mentioned the GMT Micro- Transit pilot in Montpelier. Would rather just be independent and have the ability to get places without relying on others to get around safely. Wants to be able to get to services such as grocery store, City Hall, library and school independently. q. Havaleh can maybe finalize top two or three items in next meeting. 3 r. Donna – All feed into Climate Task force issues too. 10. Discuss FY23 Priorities & Strategies a. Nic thinks the work plan for FY22 seem to be fully accurate for FY23 too. Maybe no changes needed. b. Amanda wonders if we should add more detail on Committee Interest. c. Andrew – Good way for two-way communication with Council for what are being worked on an quarterly updates. Really helpful for council. d. Donna – Talked about in the past about planning bike friendly community events. So much work on CIP and projects which takes up bulk of time. Need to work on building more community and community focused activities. e. Amanda – Yes that is one area that has lagged because of so much has been going on. Maybe adding bullet or action/goal on communication and outreach. f. Donna – Maybe one banner community event would be good. g. Havaleh – Having a committee run event is difficult and not sure the bandwidth is there with the City support staff. h. Donna – Local Motion is also a resource we have not used much recently. i. Amanda – One of our priorities is education and outreach but maybe we need to address staffing constraints. Know we can’t have a specific Facebook page but wanting to know if we can push to bolster communications department. j. Andrew – Bringing these things up to Council is the important part. Ideas may get put on the bike rack but worth putting on. k. Cathy – Other thing we can do is reach out to Parks and Rec and partner on events and subject matter for encouraging bikes/walking. l. Havaleh – Have not reached out to Holly lately. Last time was COVID so may be good to reconnect. m. Donna – GMBC does rides every week. Not for kids but for encouraging adults to ride. Volunteer organization that has done it for years. Should be acknowledged. n. Havaleh – Lots of media places that can help promote biking. o. Andrew – A lot of work in the past for coordinating efforts and ensuring “branding”. Not sure there are written policies around this. Does have City News that could include. Send to him and can send to Coralee. p. Havaleh – A lot of things are buried in the SB website. q. Amanda – Could have conversation with Coralee about updating bike ped pages. r. Nic suggested Slow Roll events s. Amanda talked about Ciclovia in Bogata, Columbia t. Donna talked about Montreal organized ride and CLACC ride in the islands that funds infrastructure. u. Havaleh – Proposed to include in 2023 plan to include sponsoring one event and to improve web/social media presence. v. Moved by Cathy w. All in favor to include. Nic will provide to Andrew. 11. Updates Ongoing Committee Work a. Chair Updates/Comments -Havaleh b. DPW –Bob, Dana, Amanda, Donna i. Donna - Making sure fog line maintenance spreadsheet gets shared with Tom. Andrew will forward along. ii. Amanda – Would be good to ensure that our work is useful and may be easier to have conversations if our Liaison was a DPW employee as suggested earlier. 4 c. Climate Action -Donna i. Definite push and pull of the comments and committee. After next go around of transportation will share spreadsheet. d. DRB Update –Cathy i. Old Farm Road discussion still needs to keep an eye on. ii. Gaining some paths around airport with Beta. Discussion around Airport paths. e. Communications/Outreach–Cathy, Donna (Havaleh) i. Good conversation today. Park Your Car(bon) event. Maybe put in next City newsletter. f. Safety –Bob, Dana i. Last meeting had spreadsheet of safety items for DPW. Donna appreciated Dana who had neck surgery. Should be up and about in the next couple of weeks. g. Mapping –Amanda/Nic i. No update. Email to Paul. As there is no point person for city on mapping so has no direction on who to connect with. Haven’t heard anything back h. Signs –Nic, Donna, Dana i. Travis Ladd is Parks and Rec person. Nic to come up with plan of what and where and then connect with Travis to get a quote and move the project forward. i. Bike Friendly Community Planning –Nic i. Greenway – August Launch. Have asked Local Motion for MOU. Once we get that back, I will connect with Andrew on the remaining components. ii. BFC sign proposal – Nic to resend to Andrew. 12. Confirmation: Next meeting Wednesday, June 8, 2022@ 5:30pm 13. Adjourn (by 8:00 p.m.)