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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee - 11/09/2016BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN COMMITTEE MINUTES 11-09-2016 The Bicycle and Pedestrian Commiee held its regular monthly meeng on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 5:30 pm in the small conference room at the city office building. Members Present: Cathy Frank, Vice-Chair; Jamieson Goodwin, Clerk; Dana Farr, Chair; Bob Bri; Roy Neuer (6:15); Donna Leban; Amanda Holland Members Absent: Jim Grossman; City Representave: Cathyann LaRose, City Planner. Also Present: Lou Bresee, John Dinklage Meeng began at 5:35 pm. 1. Changes to Agenda – Remove policy and safety recommendaons – no updates at this me.2. Approval of prior minutes – Donna moon, Cathy second. Roy and Amanda abstained. Unanimous for presentvong members.3. Comments from public not related to Agenda – Lou wished to discuss some issues brought up on SeeClickFix. Overlook Park has some issues with cracks between pavement slabs on the sidewalk. Many people have beenhaving issues with it – personal property damage, but also some injuries. Item is up on SeeClickFix, and has beenfor about a month. Item # 2978549. Will be brought up with Jusn Rabidoux, Director of Public Works.4. Meeng with Recreaon Path “Founders”; John Dinklage and Lou Bresee –a. Inspiraon from Stowe development by Anne Lutz. Chris Cavin and Jill Coffrin developed the originalproposal and formed the commiee which the City Council supported and allowed funding to be raisedthrough a Bond. The South Burlington Recreaonal Path was built through many phases. The originalfootprint of Phase 1 and 2 was built through the aforemenoned bond private contribuons unl “Phase3,” which connects to UVM parallel to 89 and the northern part of Spear Street that was funded viapublic grants. Due to funding grant, Phase 3 was built to federal standards. There have been a handful ofpublicly funded addions since. Since, some new secons have been added mostly through privatedevelopment. Discussion about current challenges connued. The primary issues are gaps in the path betweenneighborhoods, or where people are using the roads to walk or bike. Some related topics discussedincluded ways to garner support from the City, City departments, or from the public in general and howthis was done during inial development; methods for raising capital for addions or repairs to the path;management of projects and involved pares; and past roadblocks to developing the path and methodsfor resolving them. The commiee thanks John Dinklage and Lou Bresee for their insight and their past and ongoingcontribuons to these efforts!5. Updates from City; Cathyann LaRose –a. Announcement – Geng to know Cathyann and history within her work alongside commiees likeDRB. The Commiee welcomes and looks forward to a close working relaonship with Cathyann. b. Special Topics – Discussion connued around topics from last meeng, specifically about the upcomingproposals for updates to End of Trip facilies. Cathy will review and aggregate comments sent to herfrom the commiee to present out at next meeng. Addional discussion connued around thefollowing topics. i. Discussion and review of Open Meeng Law – Topic transioned to Open Meeng lawdiscussion. Cathyann has some items used by the city for guidance that she will distribute. Public always has a right to access a conversaon or acon, which is a why email or otherelectronic conversaons are disallowed. Some new guidance from Secretary of State about useof electronic interacons. A quorum is based on a majority of posions for a commiee asdefined by City Council, and not necessarily a count of acve members. The SBBPC’s currentcount for a Quorum would be 5 members. ii. Discussion on policy regarding Commiee aendance – No official policy on aendance. Before reappointments, an aendance list is compiled from public records. iii. Public Informaon Officer – There is a new resource, Coralee Holm, who can help managepublic announcements and is great resource for driving local awareness. and can be used tobuild interest for the community. Commiee noted it would be nice to include an announcement over the installaon of the new bike repair facilies that are coming to Overlook Park, but need to determine when it will be installed. c. General Updates – i. Brief discussion about use of LocalMoon’s new website to publish events and announcements for South Burlington’s upcoming events. Cathy has been interacng with LocalMoon and can provide a point of contact for future contribuons for the city. ii. Improving interacons, discussion about how Cathyann can help funnel items to the commiee as they arise in other groups. People in a room maer – so being public and visible interacons with other groups can only help. 6. General Maers a. Report: Cathy & Bob; November meeng with Jusn Rabidoux (Director of Public Works) – Meeng was today (11/9/16) – Discussed line painng projects. It appears some desired requests will not be completed before end of season due to weather condions or other ming factors. If there are priories that need to be addressed, please provide feedback ASAP. Bob will connue to monitor and provide feedback on these and related items as needed through his policy and safety recommendaon updates. Jusn has received a budget/direcve to add $500k to Capital Improvement Plan. There was also some discussion of a bond for new projects for the path as well. Bob will update the policy and safety recommendaons spreadsheet based on the meeng. b. Report: Cathy; City Center Press Conference 10/27/2016 – Cathy aended, was impressed with the event, and responses by people involved. Overall, not much specific to report related to this commiee at this me. c. Talking Points: i. Announcement: Roy; Public Workshop regarding I-89 Exit 14 Bike/Ped crossing – Likely to be a quorum in aendance. Cathyann will put a warning out in advance of meeng to be held 11/16/2016. ii. Announcement: Dana; Commiee Chairs Meeng – Meeng with other commiees to discuss how best to collaborate among the commiees and accomplish goals through working together as needed. Meeng was very beneficial and informave for both Dana and Cathy. iii. Discussion: Roy; Shelburne Rd Pedestrian Crossing SeeClickFix– Resolved, no further updates needed. iv. FYI: Cathy; San Francisco Bike Route markings – Cathy distributed some photos from San Francisco showing their methods for marking on-road bicycle travel lanes. Some discussion about uses, types of paint and concerns over tracon in inclement weather. d. Report: Jamieson; Annual Report – Feedback received. Jamieson to review and aggregate feedback and provide new dra for review with dra minutes from this meeng by this weekend. e. Discussion: Cathy; 2017 Goals – Discussion about how do we plan for the next year. Efforts moving forward to include review and comment on codificaon of standards to include with Land Development Regulaons, relaonship building with other commiees (Design Review Board, Planning Commission, etc.), budget building and reviews of other funding sources. Some addional next steps are to develop a living document which can help direct efforts and generate some internal accountability. 7. Confirmaon: Next meeng December 14 at 5:30. Moon to adjourn – Cathy, Jamieson second. All approve. Meeng ended at 8:10 pm. Respecully submied, Jamieson Goodwin, Clerk These meeng minutes were approved by the Commiee on January 11, 2017.