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Home My WebLink AboutMinutes - Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee - 10/09/2019 Bike & Pedestrian Committee Meeting minutes Wednesday, October 9, 2019 5:30 p.m. South Burlington City Hall, Champlain Room 575 Dorset Street 1. Welcome and directions on emergency evacuation procedures (5:30 p.m.) • Meeting started at 5:42pm • Attendees: Shawn, Amanda, Bob, Bill, Havaleh, Nic. • Public: Sue Fletcher. 2. Changes or additions to the agenda (5:35 p.m.) • Bob asks to have 5 minute member updates added to end. • Bill to update last months minutes to change name to “meeting minutes” from ‘meeting agenda’. 3. Comments from the public not related to the agenda (5:40 p.m.) • No comments 4. Consideration of minutes from the previous meeting(s) (5:45 p.m.) • Bob motioned to accept minutes from last month, Nic 2nd, all in favor. 5) Updates from the City - Ashley (5:50 p.m. - 20min) a) General Updates a) City wants ideas for projects from committee for UPWP. Need by November 15th, but as soon as possible. a) Havaleh “is there is a way to see what existing proposed projects there are?” a) There is a folder in Google docs. b) Ashley to provide list of projects requests from Paul. c) Speed limit study b) City requests additional striping recommendations by spring, committee to work on priority over winter. a) Bob: We should increase striping budget from $20k to $30k, to keep up with goals and year-over-year wear. a) Burlington has $100k budget - “less total miles than SB”. b) CIP Briefing and discussion (also Bob – Report to include how much P4P funds have been allocated to projects as well as how much grant funding is being assumed in the CIP for each if needed) • Bob would like to see road projects on separate CIP list. At minimum, he suggests making it clear which projects are road projects and not part of the bike/ped lists. • “more than half the money is not for bike/ped”, 3 of 23 projects on list are road related. • Bob suggested grouping the road projects at the bottom of the list, with separate header. • Shawn “Does CIP account for all of P4P funds?” Only sums to $2.2million. • City council will review CIP November 18th. c) CIP Objective: vote on approval or disapproval of CIP a) Bike/ped approves of projects and funding numbers for CIP a) All in favor, no objections b) Bob would like title clarified to add dollar amount of road project. 6) Minor: Shawn – Review availability for Nov., Dec., Jam. Bike-Ped Meetings (6:10 pm 10 mins) a) Objective – determine if any meeting dates need to be changed due to lack of quorum. a) Halaveh has conflict with November meeting date, no other committee member conflicts at this time. 7) Minor: Havaleh - Review, critique and finalize calendar of events for 2020. (Calendar not ready yet, but will be by next week, I hope) (6:20 pm 15 mins) • Reach out to Ben McShane about bike tune-up/training day early May • Also contact Old Spokes, Cow Bell can do more in-depth repairs • Contact Energy committee about bike to work week. • Correct to 10-15th of May. • Tuesday night ride, change to “slow roll” ride to encourage people without families to attend. Check Green mountain bike club nights. • Local motion can provide demos for the e-bikes and bike racks. • Talk to Holly (Rec department Director) about dates. • Find out what their capacity is for taking on and supporting project and events • Use consensus app for asking public questions: • What times are best for group rides? • Feedback about events • Look at other communities and what they do. What other partnerships are available? • Terry Bicycles - women’s ride night 8) Minor: Bob -"Rec Path Cracking Severity Definitions" (6:35 pm 15 mins) a) Objective- to provide conformity for members • Ashley suggested quantifying crack size, measurable “.25” wide by XX length”. Sidewalk distress manual. “wider than a pencil”. • Nic - how to define and categorize cross path cracks, humps, etc? • Vertical cracks are more severe, regarding safety. 9) Minor: Bob – Report on new VTrans Program (6:50pm 10 mins) following link to new program that could help with some funding for our planned crosswalk projects with a November submission date. https://vtrans.vermont.gov/highway/local-projects/transport- alt • Look at for May/June of next year to complete in 2020. 10) Minor: Nic - Bike Lanes on White St? Are they planned? What is the process for "removal of parking"? (6:55pm 10 mins) a) Objective: Determine how we can help move the recommendations of the Chamberlin Neighborhood Study along. CIP? P4P? • Nic suggested making north side of street “no parking”, to add bike lane. • When ordinance was reworked last month, it is easier to reassign road lanes. • Road is 30’ wide, can do 10’-10’-5’ • Can use part of $6000 dollars remaining in City FY 2020 striping budget to complete line work. Install no parking signs as needed. • Motion to remove parking from white street and add bike lane. • Shawn made motion, Bob second - all in favor • Need to send in all materials to present to City Council. Nic to provide materials on google drive for October meeting 11) Minor: Nic -Airport Parkway fog lines. Lanes have been painted at 12 feet (with some at 11). Nic measured 10/9. (7:05 10 mins) a) Objective - Need to add item to the Justin Agenda to ask when they will be corrected to 10ft lanes per City standard. • Justin said they can fix line in next round of painting • Committee would like to know why it wasn’t painted at 10’ the first time? 12) Minor: Nic Bicycle Friendly Community project planning. – (7:15pm 10 mins) a) Objective – update determine next steps • Submission is April 8th, 2020. • Would like to create sub-committee of people for task force • Added Holly Rees to contacts 13) Report from Donna re: Way To Go Schools, I have sent an email to at least one contact person at each school. I will follow up with a phone call with the objective of identifying at least one person at each school as a contact for the effort. That can be easier done in conversation than through email. For an effort to work, staff or students can come up with the ideas. The program provides a platform to document the efforts, but requires someone to do the reporting. It helps for this person to be really passionate about Climate Action, and a leader. I need to find those teachers, parents, and students who are passionate about the topic to take the lead in their school. Perhaps Deb can provide an article for The Other Paper (for Oct 2nd Walk or Bike to School Day) on what other schools have done to provide encouragement? If I got the article, I'd make sure to get it submitted, and get a network started. 14) Sue Fletcher: Riding along Tilley drive, July 26th. • VTRANS, crash data. • Police report is not correct, indicates impact was from rear, was from front. • New building will require changes to intersection • Use consensus to get feedback regarding Tilley intersection, for rec path use. Additional updates: Bob • SD Ireland not going to pave until spring - South village to Dorset farms. • Spear street crosswalks at UVM - will be painted by city before winter. Nic • Kennedy drive - no street or bike path lights. What is next step to resolve this? Talk to Paul why no lights? Involve energy committee. Confirmation: Next meeting Wednesday, November 13, 2019 @ 5:30pm 15) Adjourn (7:30 p.m.) Next meeting Nov. 13th. • Meeting adjourned at 8:01pm.