Everyone, it is 5 o'clock December the second and we are here to meet with the Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization for the Gainesville Urbanized Area. I have an agenda here and consent agenda. Hopefully you all have had a chance to look through those things. I've had requests for a couple of items to be pulled from consent just for comment. So do I have a motion to approve? Move with these comments coming in. Move to approve with just a mention of the consent item number two about the safety numbers. And Mayor Ward's addition. Yes, we have Mayor Ward who's got a presentation to make. And Commissioner Book, you had one. I would just like to make a comment about consent agenda item number eight. All right. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. And I have a comment. Okay, you have one, too. Well, can we move the, I can't not be here for the whole meeting. Okay. And I'm supposed to speak about the transition. I'm ready to move that to the front of the agenda. Yes. Two number two. Would that be, would that put you up where you need to be? I also have to leave it six. I hope that doesn't affect Choram if we are both leaving. Okay. Well, let's just move along and then we'll see. We'll all be going. That's right. Hopefully we can see what's going on. All right. So we have Consent agenda items two and eight mayors presentation that will follow this vote and then we will move Where is your item number eight item number three? Okay, okay, missionary Smith. Okay. I'm Commissioner Eastman. Okay. Eight up to two. Two to two. If you would make that. Three or three. Okay. All right. That's we can do. We can do any of that. All right. Then. All right. Everybody clear. Yeah. All right. All in. All in favor. I. I like son of post. All right. Thank you favor. Aye. Aye. Like Senate post. All right. Thank you. Moving along here. Consent agenda item two. I just wanted to note that we do have these target zero numbers that we're trying to aim towards. And we had a number and rate of fatalities. And the numbers of fatalities have been going down. The number of serious injuries and have been going down. The increase has been in pedestrian fatalities and we had an increase of 8.3%, but also a reduction of serious injuries. We had a reduction of fatalities for bicycles by 25%, but unfortunately an increase of serious injuries. But overall the numbers were an improvement, so I just felt like that was worth noting. Thank you. And that's on pages, starting on page 25 for anybody that's interested. Thank you, Commissioner Offord. All right. Madam Chair, Commissioner Offord. All right. Madam Chair, if I might add. Yes. To that. So let the record show that inside the City of Gainesville, we are on track to have a major reduction in pedestrian and cyclist deaths year over year. We went from 10, two years ago to seven last year, and right now we're at four. And this is entirely due to the work that's been done by our staff, by the County Commission, by MTPO in general. By keeping our eye on the Vision Zero ball is how we're reducing these numbers. So. Good news, good news. Commissioner Book, you had item eight. these numbers. Good news. Commissioner, book. You had item eight that you wanted to share. Yes, sir. Before you move on, since consent agenda item number two was pulled from the consent agenda to the regular agenda. It's an action item. So it needs a vote to set for the next year. Your safety targets add zero fatalities and zero serious bodily injuries. So moved. Second. So moved. Second. All right. Thank you, sir. All right. A name for their discussion. All in favor. All right. Like Son and Pose. All right. That motion passes unanimously. Thank you, sir. And will we also need for number eight to? No, number eight is just an information. I don't know if you can refer. Thank you. All right, Commissioner Bullock. Yeah, thank you Madam Chair. So, consent agenda, I ate deals with the transportation and disadvantage program. It's on page 59. I just found it's very interesting. We get these quarterly reports about how the contract vendor deals relative to complaints, response time, and the metrics are tremendously informative and they're all in good shape. So when you talk about dealing with picking up those who may be vulnerable and getting people where they need to go for jobs and education and kind of where you work and play and live, I found this really good data director and it's in our favor from an MTPO perspective. So it was worth looking at those bar graphs for our transportation disadvantaged service plan standards. They're in good shape. Thank you for pointing that out. It's good to have good news. All right. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. All right, Mr. Chair, Madam, Mr. Mayor. I'm sorry. Madam Chair, thank you. So I'm sorry to have to bring this before the group, but we had, as you all know that remember, we had an $8 million grant, safe streets and roads for all that we won in early 2023 to make the University Avenue significantly safer. safely, a part of that included essentially a road diet and lane diet as part of it, not entirely, but part of it. And as time and negotiations have gone on between the City of Gainesville staff and the U.S. Department of Transportation and F.Dott, Last week we were advised that we would likely receive about half of that amount because the federal priorities and state priorities don't match up to what we all hoped they would. And we are in a last-ditch effort to try to retain as much of that grant as possible. And I have a meeting scheduled with our staff and with the US DOT staff tomorrow to try to, again, save as much as possible. I've distributed to each of you a draft letter that I will move. We direct the chair to sign and send to the U.S. Department of Transportation tomorrow I'm on the second to approve this letter be sent by the chair of this board to support what we're trying to do to keep this funding All right, all in favor. I like excited, post. All right, thank you. Anonymous, that's, you made that easy. Thank you. All right, then. Moving along, then, Commissioner Eastman, are you ready to make the presentation? I believe so. I'm getting. Okay. Yes, the, so the governance subcommittee is something that was created here for this transition. This is the very last meeting that we will have as the MTPO in which we have the Northern Central Florida Regional Planning Council as the organization it's overseeing it, which I think has been, it's 47 years, so just under 50 years. So there's been a lot of work, both from the Florida Department of Transportation, from city staff, from county staff, from the Regional Planning Council. First of all, Scott and Mike and everyone else that's been working here in doing this sort of work. Thank you guys for all of your years of service to this. It's, you know, I think we're excited for the future and really looking forward to where this goes. So from the governance subcommittee, they have, they're from the transition subcommittee report. There's a number of items that are sort of listed in here and I can kind of go down the road here but I think probably more important for everyone that's up here is sort of where we sit in this transition because we are, we have this period, we'll have on December 31st Scott and Mike will be going back to just doing regional planning council work and then we have HDR who is taking over basically that that role and so I'd like to invite a Brad Brad Thoe burn up here to kind of introduce himself to see he's really going to be sort of the point of contact in the person who's sort of taking over that role so pass us off to Brad for internally. Internally. Yeah, of course. Yes. Thank you. Through the chair, to Commissioner Eastman, I appreciate your recognizing me. My name is Brad Thoburn. I am with HDR engineering or HDR, sorry. And we are, and I'm the policy and strategic planning lead for HDR. I previously worked at Florida DOT. I also worked for the City of Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Transportation Authority. I've been involved in issues with North Florida TPO extensively. In fact, I was with the city when we separated from the city and created a regional MPO, which at that point was the first coast MPO. Now it's North Florida TPO. And so it sort of brings back some of those issues I dealt with back then, and I understand. So I have a little bit of context there, although it's been a while. But I had the opportunity to sit in with Commissioner Eastman subcommittee meeting the other day. We're working on a variety of issues to kind of work through the transition and make sure that we're providing the support that you need. And so I think Brad, when we spoke earlier for folks that during this, I believe on January 1st, when this transfers over, if you guys have any questions, anything you want on the agenda, any kind of clarity as to anything, I think Brad, your point of contact, though Brad, you're kind of drinking from water hose on all of this, right? Like you're kind of drinking from water hose on all of this right? You're coming in so I mean Brad might direct you to certain staff or F daughter folks that will be in there but this is all of our guy. This is the person that will be reaching out to for everything. Yeah and so thank you for all your work on that and really thank you to the Florida Department of Transportation. This is paid for by the Florida Department of Transportation. They did not have to step up and offer this, but I don't know what we would have done had they not stepped up. So thank you to Akeia and the whole team over there for being willing to work on this. So as it relates to this, we have the, I'll just go down the list here. We have the transition subcommittee composition currently right now. We have it's myself, Commissioner Saco, Mayor Ward, Commissioner Prisya and Commissioner Alfred. That's probably going to have to transition. I think we'll probably have to make a motion to bring in. It'll be, I believe myself, Mayor Ward, Commissioner Alfred, Commissioner Prisya, and then our new chair, Mary Helen Wheeler, will be taking over at that point. If that's something you're comfortable with, Mary Helen, would you? Yes, sir. All right. Yes sir. So we probably need that to be a motion at some point but I kind of want to jump into some of these other things because this is important for how we're doing this transition. We have a number of things that have to come up in terms of just getting our TMA certified and all of that. We've been looking for we have our there needs to be an interlocal agreement that brings all the different parties together that actually creates the MTPO. That's the Gainesville Airport Authority. That is the the Elatua County Commission, the City of Gainesville, the school board and the Florida Department of Transportation. I believe Brad, if you have anything you want to add, I think you're the one who's taking the lead on that. Certainly. In the University of Florida, yes. Of course, yes. Sorry, Linda. Yeah. Through the chair, again, Commissioner Eastman, I have drafted the initial draft of the interlocal that is the establishment. It's really an update to the 2004 agreement which is still in place but as as Commissioner Eastman noted it includes the the boundary changes and the membership changes and and obviously you'll have additional signatories so I've provided a copy to the city and county staff to begin and I and to DOT for some legal review. Obviously, I'm not an attorney, so I want to make sure the attorneys get to look at it and have their say. There obviously is probably one critical issue for discussion, which is the process for including the rural elected representative. And we do have some examples of how that's been handled in other places, but there's obviously something that has to be contemplated in the local context. And so that'll be a discussion item for sure. We've kind of left it in the current draft to the rural cities to select their representative and not being prescriptive in that manner, which may be the option that you choose for unless there's other direction you want to proceed, but that is probably the most critical issue. I'm Chair. And I guess. Yeah, can I speak to that? So I would say that the rural cities would elect their nominees and submit them. My suggestion would be they have nominees and submit them to this board for selection if that's possible. My experience has been that the MPO board is not able to elect. Select that they must do that and I will tell you with and my experience is North Florida, Florida TPO where you have three beach cities and they confer amongst themselves and they agree to a representative. And it has been a collegial process and it has not been a problem. But it's not that the TPO or the MPO does not actually appoint that person. Okay. All right. Any other question? No, I just wanted to make sure Corvans give of that. They used to be a League of Cities, which is not an entity, but if they amongst themselves can choose a representative, I'm good with that. It's just if they can't, then I don't know what the, what the legal way to do that would be. Madam Chair, I think one thing that we had discussed at the last steering committee was whether or not the rural cities could nominate someone, send it to the county and the county would select. That's something that we could, whatever that process might be, that's something that we could put into the interlocal agreement to- That would be fine too. Yeah, we were thinking they could submit there their like if the League of Cities could choose one person they could just send it to us and we would just Picking but if they don't then the individual cities could nominate if they're interested in being on it They could nominate and then we would select like we do our commission committees. I mean if there's a way to and from the transition subcommittee perspective What we were thinking is like almost like a minimum viable product Like if we can keep things open ended and then we can allow an executive director to come in, this is more of a policy question, more so than other things. But it's, I mean, I like this idea of keeping it open ended. I've reached out to some of the other mayors that I serve on the Elatio County League of Cities. They're just happy they have a voting member on here and are kind of comfortable with wherever. That doesn't mean it will always be that way once more conversation occurs, but I think keeping it open ended and you think we'd have that draft back in January? For us to kind of be able to pick apart some exact language or do you think we should make that decision today in terms of the? Certainly, I don't think there's a lot to in terms of the draft itself. it's really taking the 2004 agreement updating it. And so there aren't a lot of policy issues. So if there's direction on that, then language can be crafted. The appropriate legal counsels can review it. And so that direction wouldn't be helpful. The direction basically that we're comfortable updating the interlocal agreement having that go out to the various entities. After it's been reviewed I guess by legal counsel perhaps at the county and then just allowing you guys to work on that through the holidays so that we can get something finalized. So and perhaps I guess I guess on the on the cities then if they need direction on that so they do that. Then I guess I would say we plan to solicit through a letter from the chair of the MPO to the small cities, saying we have a seat, and if they want to make a nomination, then they can make a nomination to the county, and the county would then do the chair of the county commission to do that letter, or do we want the chair of the MPO to say submit your, to the MTPO, I guess, saying submit your nominations to the county? I guess the, I don't know, I'm not the chair, but I mean, for my opinion, the chair of the MTPO makes sense. I will say that when I spoke with someone earlier today, they mentioned that the Electric kind of League of Cities is what, that they're emailing right now to get the electric kind of legal cities to send that exact email out to folks to nominate people to serve on this. So I know it's at least getting out. Okay. Are all the cities in a lot of county involved in the league of cities? Yes. They are. Okay. We're not. I mean, the league of that's what I'm saying is I think we need to send an MPO letter to all the small cities saying send your nominations to the county. If the city's choose to do it through League of Cities, that's their own thing, but because it's not an official entity, we can't. We can't just send a letter to the League of Cities. We need to send it to all the small cities. So we send that letter, I guess I'm making a motion. Or yeah, I'll make a motion that we send a letter through the chair asking to the county and then the county would select a member for and it would happen annually. Is that an annual thing or? The current draft is for a four year term. That could be renewed. It's a pretty long time. Yeah, I've worried we're putting the Carpohard for the horse a little bit here and that we don't know who the selecting entity is. We don't have the interlocal to determine that. And so then we're sending out a letter saying nominate people. I think it'll probably be the election. No, I'm saying that that's the process that we put into the interlocal agreement that the MPO sends a chair letter, the chair letter goes out to the city, the city sends it to the county, and then the county selects the member. But not even all these people sit for four years. They sit for two, most of them. So I think two years is probably the max time we would want. So maybe a two year term, and then we would rotate it. Through the chair that the current interlocal doesn't address it simply because it's concurrent with the terms of the commissioners and the council members. So this is sort of a new issue. I see. But two years are concurrent with the term is good. Okay. So that would be my motion that that's how the interlocal will be worded for the small city representative. Thank you. Right emotion is. Oh yes. And add, I think we already had the chair city representative. Thank you. Right emotion is. Oh yes and add I think we already had the chair on that. She just the current chair just didn't wish to serve. Okay. Past chair. All right. All right. Any further discussion? Okay. So sorry. Sorry. Just the interlocals for an MTPO, where does this sit in our transition to a TMA? I'm sorry, I've already gotten. We're in the process of, because we're larger now, is this just a semantics of the words and the language? Are we doing something now that then will be changed once we have full approval from? Am I making this up? Through the chair if I might. This simply is reestablishing the MTPO based on the revised boundary and the membership that is part of the update from the last census. As part of that last census census you became a TMA. But we don't change the name, we don't do it. It simply is reestablishing the MPO based on what we change the name is. Maybe it's the question. And some of the other ones in Florida are not called MTPOs or even TTPOs are called TMAs. So that's- We have a suggestion. You do from the, I didn't know because this just says creating the MTPO in essence and I know that we're in that transition to being a TMA. I just didn't know whether we're going to call it a TMA or we're going to stick with as a TPO. Maybe we haven't gotten to that part of the presentation. Is that coming? No, it's not. I mean, we talked about this at the Transitions of Committee, where it's one of those conversations I could go on, because lots of people have, I just didn't know if it happened now. It doesn't need to happen now. An executive director come in, make a recommendation. I think you can change their name, and then you can change your name the month after that, and the month after that. like you can always change your name. I don't think there's any regular rule. And logistically, I would say there's going to be other things that happen because you change the name. And that maybe that's, again, something better to happen when you have a new executive director and you're doing all of those other items. OK. I just didn't know if it's better now. We did pick it up. Ripping the bandaid off or into the future. Fine. Thank you, Chair. I'm motion on the floor. Motion to motion and second it to send a letter. Right, chair letter. Yes. That's where we are. It was to recommend. It was actually a motion for process that would be included in our revised notes because we didn't have that small city representative. So these are, I'm not saying we do it right now until we actually have that formal thing signed the interlocal agreement, but this would just be how it's outlined in the interlocal agreement, yeah? Yeah. Hit it. There's a little chicken in the egg because you're gonna want them to sign the interlocal. So that's sort of the challenge is. We can also do it. Yeah. That's that's sort of the challenge is we can also do it. Yeah, so how are we going to get them to have Sign on the dotted line I Would proceed with the letter I think I would recommend that you proceed with the letter to get the person Identified and that simply that's how it happened when we did it in in Jacksonville and that the beaches city was Representative was able to sign the interlocal agreement when that was reestablished. Well, if the seconder is okay, then I can modify my motion for both process and execution of that process. Okay. The structure that we're outlining here feels very different than what Brad is referring to. I mean, the interlocal would be with the Lachua County. Lachua County, I guess, would be the entity that would be selecting it, correct? They'd be selecting the role member. It is each individual city need to sign off. And this might be a question for Corbin and the legal team, but it's, I mean, I don't know. If the Lachua County is the one selecting, like the County Commission, there's no need to have each individual city sign off on this. And potentially, I don't know. Madam Chair, the way that that interlocal would be structured, it would be structured with all of the members of this entity. So you would have the county, the city, the MTPO would be its own separate entity. The, I think what we've talked about is the airport authority being its own member. The rural cities, as I understand the conversation, would not be a member to this entity. They would just be nominating somebody who would serve on the committee as a voting member, but the cities themselves would not be members the way that the County Commission and the City Commissioner represented. So I don't necessarily see them as a thing we can talk about as we go through it, but I don't see them as members who we can talk about as we go through it, but I don't see them as as members who'd be signing off as you know, eight separate municipalities. And Corbin, as long as you're up here, you're comfortable with us just saying, giving Clark Blanche saying, okay, these are kind of the outline of the MTP of the interlocal agreement, we're giving approval, go forth and get everything signed without it coming back to us for approval because it's creating us as an entity, correct? It will eventually come back to the MTPO for voting and signature. I mean, this entity will have to sign off on it the way that they have for other interlocal agreements or agreements. The MTPO will have to approve it and sign it. Even though the city may have already approved it and signed it as a member, even though the county may have already approved it and signed it as a member, then acting jointly as the MTPO, you will have to approve it and sign it. Okay. So the direction to come back, you know, something for us to work with and bring language back. It's language that we can take to the other member organizations or member entities, get it approved and then bring it back here depending on whatever the quickest timeline is. Okay. Perfect. That's it. Is that okay? Any further discussion? And we're voting now on, did we change that at all? Okay. I think that we're going to go ahead and start soliciting. Okay. All right. All in favor say aye. All right. Likeiting. Okay, all right, all in favor say aye. All right. Like Senate post, all right, that motion passes unanimously. Moving on. Well, another critical part of this is whose act, so this is an leaning independent organization, right? So it is unlike, it is not a contract organization like it was with the North Central Florida Regional Planning Council. This would be its own executive director, but it's using the administrative back end of Alachua County the same way. The children's trust does the same way. The library district does the same way. A lot of our constitutional officers do. That is something that's with the county right now and I believe the that's an interlocal agreement that's being spearheaded. Well, by some one of the county staff members and I think that should be coming back to us. I don't know if you have anything to add or if you'd like to speak to that Allison Then that's fine. Yeah, but they're working on that to just try to figure out the you know how PTO Accounting just you know all the administrative back end type work and so that's being worked on as we speak As well as website hosting I believe which kind of dovetails into the documents transfer. My understanding is that all the documents have a transfer it over, correct? That happened earlier this week. And so, um, Brad and them have, you have all the documents on from the server in your possession, correct? We have transferred what we believe is are the critical documents. We're going to go through and we're going through, we're sort of creating a new file structure, and then we'll validate if there's any others that we need, obviously, they're retaining those records. So we think we have everything, but we always have to go through the different, basically, folders within the drives that we pulled off. And so they're all in electronic form. We're organizing them and we'll be double checking to make sure we have those key documents we need. But we did get to stand with the RPC staff and go through those. And we believe we have what we need. So, but of course they've retained the documents and they're available to us to continue if we have anything we need. And then with that, once those documents are over, then the website, and I forget, what is... AC... AC mobility, Mr. Mayor, the one who came up with the website. AC mobility, is that it? ACGNV mobility. ACGNV mobility. Mr. Mayor, the one who came up with the website. AC mobility, is that it? ACGNV mobility. ACGNV mobility. It's just sort of, ACGNV mobility.org is sort of the interim title that we have until during the transition period. And so once all those documents are there, that will be on that website that can be utilized at that point in the county of spearheading that. The last two points on here meeting location one thing that got brought up at our transition subcommittee meeting is that there are we're going to have significantly more we're going to have I guess three more people on there and as you can see from how we are sitting here there is not space for three more chairs so we were talking about putting our meeting space over into the Grace night. Grace night, which does have enough space over there. So we'd be around a little table all looking at each other. But that would give us enough space here. I don't think we need a motion to that. That will all just be handled. But that's what I think was meant by meeting location. Yes. And then the year 2050 Long Range Transportation Plan update. I think this is really the one project that's sort of operational of which we have contracted with Coridino Group. And that's all been transferred over to Brad and HDR. I don't know if you have anything to add to it, but that's a contract that you're directly overseeing. That's correct. We are in the early stages. And within the document, within the meeting back that you do have the goals of objectives and policies that have been renewed as part of that. But in the process of they're developing the public involvement plan, got a schedule for key tasks, really on the front end of doing the data development, the model validation, and looking for needs. So there's a lot of coordination between agencies at this point on the front end. So if you look at the schedule, there's basically four key tasks on the front end that are kind of all happening concurrently. There's a working group next meeting as Wednesday. And so there's a lot of activity happening there. And as we transition, the, you know, obviously, Cardina will continue to be leading the LRTP under our contract. So we'll be working with them on that. And so with that, I mean, that's basically all the things. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, thank you. I just had a question about that. So the, I'm assuming that's your lining, what you're doing with the long range transportation plan. It's page 19 and taking a look how that aligns with the principles there. So what we're speaking about. Those are the, those were the principle, yes, those are the principles that were re-adopted as part of the LRTP update. Yes, that's all on a clarification. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Mr. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. And so with that, that's all we basically talked about in the transition subcommittee. There is one thing that came to my attention right beforehand, which was that what we're trying to do now. I mean, there's a whole lot of stuff that's all happening behind the scenes. There's a lot of, you know, this party is responsible for this particular thing that they weren't previously responsible for, and there's been a lot of good collaboration. I mean, everyone's really come to the table, try to figure out things that have been picked to what could be dropped, what needs to be picked up as we go through the transition. We've tried to take as much, any other ex-factors that are on the table, one of which is, so we know who's clerking this meeting, which will be HDR. Right now, our city clerk is the one responsible for our transition subcommittee. There are two other subcommittees that are actively being done, which is the Citizens Advisory Committee and the Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Board. And I don't know if I can have Allison come up and speak to this point. But is it critical that we continue to do those as we're trying to figure out some of these clerking responsibilities In some of the transition time or could we put those on hold for a bet and I Allison if you could speak to that also monster transportation planning manager for the county And I may lean a little bit on mr. Scott Coons in terms of the statutory requirement of those two committees I do know they meet at times that are really late in the evening and with HDR serving as general planning consultant and not being locally based. I don't think they would be able to staff those meetings and yeah, basically clerk those meetings for the duration of the transition period. So it's possible if they're not, you know, statutorily required that the MTPO board maybe pauses, sort of has a brief pause on those while the transition is being worked out, and then resumes those committees once there's leadership on board. The county doesn't have capacity to clerk those meetings. And while HDR is available to do, you know, agendas, meeting materials, minutes, those meetings happen at six PM and seven PM, respectively, BPAP has gone to every single month and they're not coordinated with other meetings that are happening at this time. I'm sure you have three advisory committees, a technical advisory committee and citizens of advisory committee which are required by federal legislation, federal high administration for the MedPomp planning process. Those cannot be paused as they need to continue. And those have been staffed by the Regional Planning Council in the past. Your third advisory committee is the Bi-Circle Pedestrian Advisory Board. That is a locally created committee where four members are appointed by this body, four members by the City Commission and four members by the County Commission. The Metropolitan Planning Organization has an existing agreement with the City of Gainesville to provide staff support to the bicycle pedestrian advisory board. City of Gainesville staff has provided that service for many many years. So that is in place. So the city staff does staff that board. But the Citizens Advisory Committee and the Technovisor Committee are federal requirements for this planning process and they do need to be continued during the transition. What time? They typically have been meeting six times a year prior to this board's meeting to make advisory recommendations to this body. The Technovisor Committee currently meets at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and the CIS committee does meet at 7 o'clock in the evening. I don't, I mean, I think our preference would be for HD article, and their issue is at 7 o'clock. They're based in Jacksonville. And so driving down, I don't know if it's possible for us to just move that to a daytime slot. That's hard to do. It's possible for us to just move that to a daytime slot. That's hard to do. And especially because people have already opened that up. Or if they could clerk it remotely? Yeah, and through the chair, we do have staff person in Gainesville. But probably the evening would be a challenge, but they could be there. They could be present, and we could have a remote staff, kind of staff, you know, that may be more of a note taker than somebody that's supporting the meeting. And so that may, there may be a way to support it, but I think the time is a challenge. When is the next citizen advisory council? Is it, do we have one this month next month? It's six times a part of the consent agenda was approval of your meeting schedule for next year. And as requested we have scheduled monthly meetings. You may not need all those meetings but schedule monthly meetings for 2025 during a transition. And the committees would say typically meet prior to each of those meetings to make any recommendations on Policy matters that you'd be considering so I don't I don't think that just because that's when they typically meet they have to meet I mean they don't have to meet before every one of our meetings, right? I mean ideally we could bring Information before I mean So they've moved to monthly now that we've moved to monthly the report and the report and the report and the report and the report and the report and the report and the report 49 that's 24. Okay, thank you. I saw that which page 49. Thank you, Commissioner. Okay, any other comments? I mean, we got to figure out the logistics of really staffing. Yes, yes. Madam Chair. As commissioners, Eastman noted, in the past, if while this board may be meeting every other month in the past, there may not have been items on your agenda that were pertinent to either the advisory committees. And advisory committee meetings have been canceled if there aren't items for them to comment on to give you recommendations for policy issues. Okay. So they said why are they won't be commenting on transition issues. So if some of these meetings are primarily on transition matters, the one being reason for them to meet that particular month. Can we just move the advisory committee meetings, keep the dates, but move the times to facilitate the consultants hours? I mean members may not be able to attend that and we might not get quarantined. They might not make a quarantined because most people work. Can we do them via Zoom? Your existing public involvement plan specifies that the citizen advisor committee will meet in the Yeah, I will okay, can I meet via zoom? That's a lot to be a person, but it could be staff virtually Okay, I suggested but the committee itself needs to meet in person, but it could be staff virtually I can if If they can staff it virtually, if HDR could staff it virtually, or if we could ask the regional planning council to help us staff it in person, I haven't heard them not offering the help. I think we got it. Okay. Where was Duck? Where are we stuck? I think we have a solution, right? HDR says they can do it by Zoom. And we have a time already. We have dates already. Let's see if it works. Yeah. And then if we have to, like, either city or county staff can pick it up. I mean, this is just a transition. Everyone's, I think, been very good at understanding that we're kind of building the planes, we're flying it, right? And it's, yeah, it's, so yes, if HDR is willing to do that, then we can have that conversation potentially in January. If there's a better structure. But I do think the one motion to be made is that we probably need to figure out the composition of the transition. So I've moved that the transition subcommittee is composed of Mayor Ward, Commissioner Eastman, Commissioner Prisya, Commissioner Alfred, and Chair, Commissioner Mary Ellen Wheeler. Second. Okay, the transition. Okay, go ahead. Okay. Just a real quick. Got a motion in a second. All right. Thank you. My only discussion is I really want to thank City staff, County staff, the Regional Planning Council really and obviously the OT for building this plane while it's in the air. You guys have done a lot of work in the last since the last time we met. So thank you. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Like sign opposed. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. Commissioner Eastman, for all the work and the presentation. All right. Moving back now to our regular listing. We are at three now, which is the Transportation Improvement Amendment. Southwest 20th Avenue, complete quarter. I think we have it up on the screen as well. And there we go. The county staff. Are you going to make any presentation with this or we are just anybody have any. Madam chair, this is a request from county staff. This is a first phase for the Southwest 20th Avenue complete quarter. This is the planning phase. It's currently in Department of Transportation's tentative work program for fiscal 26. County State was asking it to be advanced to fiscal 25. They are applying for a competitive discretionary grant from the US Department of Transportation and are hopefully get those funds in the current fiscal year. So, I'm gonna write that. And, Chair, this is one of the items that does require a roll call vote because it's a formal amendment to the Transportation Improvement Program. All right, thank you. Commissioner Nalford, did you have a... Oh, I was going to make the motion but somebody jumped into it. Did you already? Yes, I did. And we accept staff's recommendation. And roll call vote then sir. I have a quick comment. Who does? Oh I'm sorry sir. I think the county for putting this forward and I'm excited about this moving it up that section is partially in my district, partially just out but that road 20th is you'd be surprised if you drive it how many people are walking and on motorized wheelchairs and a kick scooter in a very narrow and one portion, you know, a small bike lane or they're trying to get across the interstate and you wouldn't think people are out there walking across the interstate. But they really are using it as a, I mean, obviously, probably 20,000 cars drive over a day as well, but people are trying to get across to their neighbors, to their friends, to work, you know, the mall, or Butler Plaza. It is more of a pedestrian potential danger into the future. I think we've been lucky out there, and I think this is moving it up makes sense to really get at the goals of both the city, the county, and this joint board. So I really appreciate that. I support 100% moving it up as fast as possible. It's something we should have taken care of years ago, but it's ready. It's time. And if county staff is ready and they want it, thank you for the county bringing this forward. And I fully support it. Thank you. All right. Any other comments? Well, I'm favor say aye. I'm sure the roll call that's right. Commissioner Alfred. Okay. Commissioner Book. Commissioner Charles Chesna. Aye. Commissioner Cornell. Mr. Duncan Walker. Aye. Commissioner Prisya. Aye. Mayor Ward. Commissioner Willits. Aye. And Chair Wheeler. Aye. Mayor Ward. Aye. Commissioner Willetts. Aye. And Chair Wheeler. Aye. And I'm Chair of the Motion of the Passies, now, Assembly. Thank you, sir. All right. I didn't ask for citizen comment, but I'm hoping if there's anyone who would like to make a comment now. All right. Thank you. That motion passes unanimously. All right. Then item number four, bicycle pedestrian advisory board vacant position. Madam Chair, as I mentioned earlier on the previous item, this is a joint board where this board appoints four members, city commission and points four members, county commission and points four members. There's one current vacancy in the four Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization's positions and you have three applications in your packet. Memorams on page 71 and then the applications from the individuals are included in the meeting packet. Your application from Caden Wuvakar, who is seeking reappointment. And you also have applications from two new individuals, John Skelly and Arthur Wu. And in the past, when you also have applications from two new individuals, John Skelly and Arthur Wu. And in the past, when you had multiple applications for one position, each of you identified which individual you would select and then we'll have a motion that individual receives the most votes. So Commissioner offered. Do we want to see if any of those people are here just anyone who has applied to be here? No, all right then. proceed. Skelly. Skelly. Commissioner Book. Skelly. Charles. Commissioner Charles Chestnut. Skelly. Commissioner Cornell. Commissioner Duncan Walker. Skelly. Commissioner Prisya. Link, as we're really pushing on youth involvement, will. One, whoop. Who is the nominates? Will. Okay. Mayor Ward. Commissioner Willis. Whoop. And Chair Wheeler. Skelly. Move Skelly. Second. motion and a second to approve John Skelly to fulfill that position. Right. All in favor say aye. I like son of pose. Thank you. All right. Congratulations to Mr. Skeally and I'm hoping that these other two applicants will make sure they keep their name on the list. We need folks. All right then this is we're at five. All right is it when let's see four? It's four four now I Didn't change my numbers will all right all right floor the Department of Transportation tentative by your work plan that would be Miss Brown here to present that or No, all right department does not have a formal presentation, but in your packet is the tentative work program for fiscal year 26 through fiscal year 30. With a staff recommendation I'll address in a moment but the tentative work program starts on page 83 and if you would flip to page 105 we have extracted from the tentative work program and identified in new projects that are not in the current five year schedule. There are several projects at the airport, most of them in year five, 2030. There's a new Sun Trail bicycle pedestrian project in 2030, as well as the Newbury Road on street, off street multi-use bicycle project. That was discussed at the last meeting between 43rd Street and 38th for engineering and fiscal 26 construction and fiscal 28th. There's the corridor study project we just discussed in fiscal 26th planning project, a couple landscaping projects and then several resurfacing projects with engineering and construction in 26 and 28. I'm sure. The recommendation from staff is on page 81 is to request that the Lachor County City gains on metropolitan transportation planning staff be involved in the scoping for the Newbury Road from Northwest 43rd and Northwest 38th Street by a single pedestrian facility project. Mr. Alfred. I, as I reviewed the five year plan, I, there was a glaring omission to me, which was the for-leaning of Archer Road from Tower Road to Parker Road, which had been requested to be added to the five-year plan. And which was funded by the state legislature for $2.25 million. This past fiscal year, and I am curious why that is not on the plan if there's anyone from the state that could address that. Good evening. I'm Kaya Brown, Transportation Planning Manager with FDOT. Through the chair, I do not have a answer to that question. I will go back and review with the team and figure out why that was not added. But if you would like to put on your LOPP to make it one of your priority projects. Well, we made that request already. Okay. Yeah. Okay. But again, I'll get back with the team and have an answer for you as soon as I can. Well, if I could ask that the staff recommendation be revised to add that we also recommend that FDOT add Archer Road for landing from Tower Road to Parker Road to the planning. I'm going to have a motion to have a second. All right. A motion and a second. Mr. Kuhn. Did you have something else you wanted to add? No. All right. Thank you. Any further discussion? Okay, and down there. Okay. Just a couple of questions and a comment. I'm curious about the Compass Transit service. Can we get a description of that? It was a new item at the bottom of that list that staff provided. Madam Chair Hayes, Gomez, a transportation director for the city and manager of regional transit systems here at the address. Madam Chair, commissioners, that's a ground application we submitted about two years ago. It's to increase transit service on the east, west and north, south of Gainesville. It's gonna connect the east-west and north-south of Gainesville. It's gonna connect the east-south station to Butler Plaza on those proposed routes and it's gonna be included in our transit development plan. It's basically to increase transit service on the main north-south and eastern west of Elijah County. So, this and service. Great. Thank you. Any further? OK. Just a couple more things. The project to resurface University Avenue from Gail Lemmer into Waldo Road, any opportunity to incorporate some of the restriping from the complete street study. I'm sorry I can't repeat the question. There's the University Avenue resurfacing project from Galellimmer into Waldo Road. I'm just wondering if there was any opportunity to do any of the restriping that is in the complete street study. Okay. You know, particularly I'm thinking by campus, there was going to be removal of on-street parking and narrowing of lanes and there may have been some other sections that had some restriping that might be able to be incorporated. Through the chair, I have to get with the engineering team to see where they are on the scope. Okay. Got a bit. Two more things if I may. Go ahead. On page 97 the University Avenue lighting project that's one that has was on the work program got pulled back and now it's out in senior 2030. So I'm glad it's back in the work program. Again I feel like that's one that really needs to be done sooner than later. It's been pushed out, I think originally it was programmed to have been done by now. So I wanted to ask about that one. And then my last, I'll just go ahead and make my last comment. I was just noting an FY28 looking at the area around campus. Three of the four sides of campus have resurfacing, excuse me, two of the sides of campus have resurfacing projects and Archer Road has a landscape project. So I just wanted to ask, you know, that the university be kept really close communications when it comes to scheduling and lane closures. You know, one section is that part of university avenue right by campus that's had a lot of lane closures over the last couple years as those intersections were being constructed So that's just it's very impactful or glad the works getting done But all you know three out of four sides of campus could potentially be impacted at the same time So just wanted to make sure you kind of got that on your radar and thinking about that the overlapping work zones Okay, thank you for your comment. Thanks. Are you getting the other comments? Thank you. Commissioner Cornell. Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to thank the OT. It looks like in 26, 7 and 8, we've got over 40 million of resurfacing projects. That's a big investment. I appreciate that. Is there anyone from Hawthorne here? Any elected officials from Hawthorne? OK. So I was at the Hawthorne meeting, and they had asked about this brown, the opportunity for a light in front of the loves truck stop off 301 as a safety issue. I don't know where that would fall, but if you could maybe just look into that for me and then I could get back to them, that would be great. Okay, we'll do, I'll get with the county staff. You have a response for you. Okay, how may Allison, do you know about that one? That light? Yeah, so I'm actually reviewed. It's supposed to be just a resurfacing project through the FDOT electronic comment System and they actually have included a light at that At that location per the scope that's excellent. So it's been incorporated. Oh, it has been okay And do we know which year so that majority of that looks like 2028? Is that I just thought come through final design recently, so I don't know when it's scheduled to be constructed. OK, so great. They'll be happy to hear that. Thank you, Allison. They will be happy to hear that. They've been asking for that for a few years now. Yeah, glad to see that. Thanks, Allison. All right. Any further discussion? Okay, so that was, we have the motion in, okay, that's what I'm trying to figure out where we are on here. We have a motion in a second. Thank you. And public comment. Anyone like to speak to this motion All right, all in favor say aye. I like sign-in pose. All right nay all right. Thank you with commissioner Will it's voting no All right Now we're moving along, sir. Right, and cherry the next item is election of officers at the December meeting chair. The Board of ex-outsers for the coming calendar year. You currently know the current chair is Commissioner Cynthia Morchessent from the city. The vice chair who's chairing a meeting today is Commissioner Mary Hall and Wheeler from the county. And the current secretary of treasurer is Commissioner Casey Willets from the city. Typically the board is not formal in the bylaws, but the practice has been to alternate between city and county. And also the practice has been to elevate each officer position to the next position. And I would add to that that's not just because it's standard doesn't mean it's necessarily so so if there is someone who would really like to do the chairing here you know I would certainly be willing to step aside from that. Move Mary Hall Wheeler's chair Casey Wilson's vice chair. Okay. I will end to take my turn. And then yeah, that's what I was just going to say. Commissioner Cornelus, I'm happy to be secretary. Oh, thank you. That's fine. It just means you sign your name. All right. Any other recommendations? All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. Hi. Like sign of pose. All right. Thank you favor say aye. Aye. Like sign of pose. All right. Thank you very much you guys. I'll do the best I can I promise. And I'll be here every time I can Casey. All right. I'm usually here. All right then. Thank you very much you guys. I'm glad to take my turn. All right then we have audit review committee. That would be Mr. Scott. Yes, next item is to point the audit review committee for the coming year. To appoint the secretary of treasurer as chair and then a member from the alternate jurisdiction. So if Commissioner Cornell is gonna be the new chair, secretary of treasurer, and be chair of the audit committee, you need to point a city commissioner to also serve in that committee that would be perfect okay so who from the city wants to serve it whoever's absent right treat me fair beautiful moviesman Beesman. Have a second. That nomination. All right. Remember. That's a second. All in favor? So fine. I got it. That's a little kid, y'all. He gets for leaving early. There's no more things to be nominated. I'm going to put you guys. All right. All right. Then Florida Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council member, you guys, I have not done a good job. I have not gotten to one of them. I have been on a couple of the zooms for the meetings. And I really enjoy my as the chair down there. So if there's someone who would like to be representing us, speak now. Madam Chair, this is the Statewide Association of the 27 Med-Prompt Planning Organizations across the state. And there is a governing board made up of one elected official from each of the Med-Prompt Planning Organizations. As Chair Wheeler mentioned, she's been serving as your designee. And Commissioner Cornell was the primary alternate and Commissioner Prisya was the secondary alternate. This body meets on the fourth Thursday of the first month of each quarter at 3 pm and the afternoon, usually in Orlando. That conflicts with the standing city of Gainesville Commission's policy committee meeting on the afternoon of the fourth Thursday of each month. In addition, as most of you know, the 4th Thursday is also the regular meeting time for the North Center Florida Regional Planning Council. And they use serving on that board. That party meets at 7 p.m. on the 4th Thursday of each month in Lake City. There is, as Chair mentioned, a virtual option. They have been meeting in a hybrid format ever since COVID so the in-person meetings are land but there is a hybrid virtual access for the meeting and they typically run from 3 to 5 p.m. on that afternoon. So Madam Chair just a comment there. Yes sir. Since you're obviously in the the chair's role and you're in the audit role Commissioner Pritzio would you serve as the primary representative? Is there somebody else in the office? All right, I just I can't travel on those days. I haven't even been able to make the meetings. I let my my team know I just can't travel on those days. Commissioner Cornell. You will. I nominate Commissioner Cornell in that room. I have motion in a second. All right. All in second. All right. All in favor? All right. Like sign a post. Thank you, Ken. Then you need to designate a primary and secondary alternate. Okay. So there's no available. All right. You guys. I'm happy to be an alternate. All right. Thank you. We've got a volunteer to be alternate and secondary alternate. Mr. Book. I'll do it. Oh okay. All right then. All right then. So we have the city's folks can't do it. Volunteers. All right. All right. Yeah, I just want to say thank you to our county representatives who can handle that for us. It's it's a good time. Yeah, it's January, April, July and October. It's an interesting meeting. Thank you. All right. So I have a motion. Do I have there? Is there a motion then to? So moved. Okay. Second. All right. Motion in a second to have who is going to be the alternative of the alternative to the primary and check. Oh, got it. All right. Thank you. Ken Miriancha. Sounds like a good team. All right. All in favor. I'm like sign opposed. All right. Thank you. All right. Then have we finished? Except for report. Announcements of the next meeting will be January not February January 13th and 2025 is on the screen not in your printed agenda January 13th 2025. All right at 3pm. Is there so now we have comments from the from the community. Transportation. Anything to report today? Good news. It's a good news night everybody's getting good news, right? Well for the tentative work program comments are due in Writing or by mail by December 17th I we do intend on present on the work program at the next upcoming meeting January 13th. So I will Prepare a presentation. OK. All right. Any questions? Board? Uh, yes. Do we know does our staff have any suggestions? Or are we writing in comments? Do we? I mean, she's saying the comments are due before we're having the presentation? Yes. 17. 17. Right. So we're going to get a presentation after there are already do. So I mean I made the motion that we add archer road. Well that's what I was saying. Are those comments the comments that we gave you or no? Yeah. Two of the three letter. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So we'll just provide those in writing and that'll suffice. Okay. Okay. Okay. And who's responsible for doing that? Now that we're HD. Okay. You all okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right then. Public comment. Anyone from the public? Yes. Please. Very nice. We don't often get. And I know all about this. Good evening, Madam Chair, commissioners. Mr. Mayor, it's good to be with you tonight. My name is Reverend Melissa Pisco. I serve as the pastor at Celebration United Methodist Church, which is on Southwest Archer Road. And I've been serving there for about 10 years. I'm pretty familiar with our flow of traffic. And I'm here with a safety concern that I would like to present specifically as it pertains to signage for the church. We've always had difficulty with being seen from Archer Road. We're kind of set back off on the property and in the past year the collective has been built which they are lovely neighbors. We love having them there. But part of their structure has added additional difficulty to being able to be seen from the road. There is literally a fence that goes directly to the entrance. We share an entrance with the collective, making it absolutely impossible to see the church from the road at all. And we know that in the next couple of years, we have a wonderful sports complex that is also getting ready to be built and we'll be using the same entrance again. And so we have been experiencing some safety concerns around people coming in, not knowing we're there and us leaving and what have you. We have been in conversation for the last two years once we knew the collective was coming in, we immediately began having conversation with them. We have reached an agreement with the collective. We have been in conversation with Clay. We have been in conversation with GRU because that entrance area, everybody has a part to play in it and has interest in it. But there is a rule in the books that says you can't have a sign on property you don't own. And so we are here asking for a variance to be able to put a sign so that people coming down Archer Road know where they're versus passing us and then making a hard left turn which is very dangerous. People have often gone kind of into the grass areas missing the entrance. If they miss that entrance altogether they're going down to a second entrance where there's no longer a left hand turn lane. And if I could tell you how many times I hear the breaks you know on the road as people are making that hard left hand turn in it is really a safety concern and so I'm here on behalf of the congregation asking that we be given permission to be able to put a sign at our entrance. Oh, thank you. I was actually requested to meet with Pastor Pisco and went to the church myself and completely missed the entrance and almost wrecked myself trying to turn in the second entrance. It is really a problem. I mean, it's not. This isn't, you really can't see the entrance. You just literally can't see it. If you don't know that it's there and you haven't been there several times, probably before, it's it's it's it is a real safety concern. I don't know if this body is the right one to to to address this. But but I don't know if we could defer this to a county commission meeting to do that sign change But since it's a safety concern, I appreciate you bringing it here because we do address safety issues here For the staff to just bring back some recommendations. Yeah Yeah, do we need a motion to refer that staff? No, okay, she was she's got it. Okay Okay, maybe make sure that you all have her information too. I just want to say thank you so much for you taking the initiative to make all those connections and communications with those people because I didn't even realize the last time I came to your church, there was nothing out there, nothing. And I had no idea. So thank you for taking the initiative to make sure that you are doing the communicating with those people to get what you needed before you came here. That's pretty remarkable. Thank you. So I'll follow up. Yes, would you grab her? Thank you so much for your time coming. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Anyone else from the community? Anyone else? All right, seeing none. Anything from the group? Anything for the anything to share? Nothing. Only thing I wanted to share is something that Brian didn't cover, but I just wanted to quickly go over it because we did talk about it. And I don't it was just that when we we talked about in our transition subcommittee that the county the county's clerk will handle the finances for the MPO now, which is great for us. I think it'll, yeah, it'll know. I mean that the clerk, all the money will channel through the clerk the same way. Right. So we just talked about that. It was like we could have an outside of county firm, but that would be a lot more expensive. And the nice thing about the clerk doing it is that it then it's included in the audit for the county which is great for all of us in terms of accountability and transparency. So I just wanted that was something we discussed the first meeting, not the second meeting. So I think I lost but I just wanted to give you all the heads up that we agreed as a subcommittee that that was a good idea and I just wanted to bring it up here in case there was any last minute concerns about that before they finished the interlocal, because I think that's in there. So. I also want to say that that has been a hard working group, the staff that have been supporting that. It's a lot. And Brian's doing a great job chairing that. And he's not here to say thank you, but I want to tell. Thank you. Publicly for the work he's doing on that. I think we promoted to the audit committee. Yeah, yeah, that's a great reward. Thank you enough. I just have the question about this letter that Mayor Ward is needing done right away. Is there a way I can just sign this thing now? I mean this and hand it to you because we're leaving town tomorrow. Oh, it's. Thank you. My staff is and hand it to you because we're leaving town tomorrow. Oh it's my staff is emailing it to you. Okay. And you drop it on your letterhead. Okay great. I'm just emailing back to them. Okay great. Thank you. And this needs to be done like tomorrow. It's pretty immediate isn't it? Yes I have a meeting with staff and with DOT staff tomorrow afternoon, so tomorrow morning sometime would be really helpful. Got you. All right, thank you. We will. Yeah, no chicken. Anything else for the good of the board or the community? If not, this meeting's adjourned. Thank you. Good afternoon. Look out here. Thank you.