Thread by @mmwpro63

The Last BPAC meeting of the year is tonight at 5:30 pm

Items on the agenda include January Officer Nominations, Logo Review, Strategic Plan, Regional Transportation Plan Update, and the usual Grant and PD reports.

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Is @CMACTV recording this tonight? I'm not seeing them in the meeting.

Susan Smith is doing role call, even though my predecessor Tony Molina and I are both here, I haven't been appointed yet, so the seat is considered vacant.

Not good considering @PhilArballo2020 isn't here yet and we only have 4 members, no quorum. :(

Moving on, the minutes are being clarified, but not being approved since we don't have a Quorem. On to unscheduled communications.

I mention that I look forward to being a BPAC member and getting to know everyone better. 😊

Continued Unscheduled Communication
Celeste Martinez is interested in applying for the District 4 seat again.

Jill Gromley advises that she wait until @Maxwell4Fresno joins the city council.

Laura Gromis from USGBC notes that District 3 is not vacant but that Gene Richards has been vacant for several meetings now even though he has been talking with his councilmember. Southwest Fresno needs to be represented.

Kimberly Tapscott-Munson, Resident of District 3 and Community Engagement Consultant, District 3 Office of Councilmember Miguel Arias, present tonight. "will be speaking with the councilmember" about the issue. She also filled out her Bike Fresno survey.

Looks like @PhilArballo2020 is here "for nominations" at least. His term as chair ends in 2021. Interested in continuing in his position for another 3 years. Will be speaking with the incoming mayor to be reappointed. Will not nominate himself for chair.

The group has nominated @PhilArballo2020 to continue as chair, Melanie Ruvalcaba has been nominated for co-chair, but cites her job at the county is very busy right now with COVID and will continue to be for a while.

Susan Smith will continue to be the secretary. The vote will happen in January, @PhilArballo2020 says the city council seemed impressed by the semi-annual report today.

@PhilArballo2020 Accepts the nomination to continue as chair, son's 7th birthday party is happening right now.

Moving on to the new logo.

Steven Martinez (District 7) is presenting the logo designs by his wife.

Susan Smith wants to see a pedestrian in the logo since its in the name.

The intention of the logo is to include stickers on the helmets BPAC gives out from time to time, Steven says that he was able to get some stickers for his business for relatively cheap.

Says he had a good time handing out helmets a few weeks back, more child helmets needed!

Laura Gromis USGBC comments on the event also, saying it was a successful event too.

On to strategic Planning

Melanie Ruvalcaba says we have been working towards a number of our goals, but not quickly, says we had good support from council last week for ATP coordinator.

Currently don't have a strategic plan though, needs someone with time to work on it.

I'm summarizing here...it's different considering being a member while having type this out rather than just being a public participant.

Fresno PD Officer John Belli

From January to now:

162 pedestrian collisions
of those 41 were injury/fatal

65 collisions vehicle vs bikes
injury/fatal 48.

Jill Gormley comments she was glad to have collision numbers in the Semi-annual report to the council, thanks to Officer Belli for providing them.

Grant Update. Grant writer Shelby says they are looking for BPAC's letter of support from BPAC for an ATP update grant from Caltrans sustainable communities grant.

The letter is due in January,

I asked Shelby if an ATP coordinator would allow the city to forgo hiring a consultant for the project, it wouldn't.

Jill Gormley clarifies that they would be a project manager or an assistant project manager.

Standard Drawings & Specifications
Update from Scott Sehm

City is updating some of it's standard designs for compliance.

An extra foot for new bike lanes! Less space for road lanes though a few more below, including green paint.

These designs and more can be viewed until Friday...apparently these have been up for a bit. (No one told me)

If the link doesn't hurt, it is going to be 7th tab at the bottom left: fresno.gov/publicworks/fe…

Clarification: the extra foot in bike lanes is when the lane has car parking on the right in order for bikers to be a little freer of the door zone.

Vacant Positions:

Jill Gormley says that D1 is vacant, no one has filled it, D4 left vacant "by design" to allow the incoming councilmember to choose.

From the chat:

Celeste Martinez to everyone: 6:38 PM "Yeah I will certainly apply."

AB 1234 Ethics Training - Jill Gormley

Current members have ethics training they need to go through, 2 hours long. A certificate must be uploaded. Due by December 31st.

Correction: Steven Bradley. 🤦

Regional Transportation Plan:

Jill Gormley says that about a month ago @FresnoCOG asked for public requests for the regional transportation plan. Public works is filtering through the requests right now.

Many include holdovers from previous RTP plans, I.E. sidewalks in w Fresno

...where there aren't any currently.

Tony Molina (County Bike Coalition, formerly D2 representative), asks about ATP projects.

Jill clarifies that there are issues in some cases with feasibility. I.E. bike lanes on Mckinley east of Blackstone is high priority...

...corridor in Fresno ATP , but PW doesn't always have the time to go back and look at standards to clarify. Workload even with COVID isn't lower.

New Infrastructure

Jill and Harman Dhaliwal are going over Fresno's first HAWK pedestrian beacon crossings:

Bryan and Acacia was turned on recently,

Fowler North of Jensen and Locan HAWKs turning on eventually:

A city educational flyer has been produced: fresno.gov/publicworks/wp…

Jill says others may be funded but will be a few years out. The 3 currently built are developer-funded and installed.

Safety Education Funds
Jill Gormley updates everyone on Tony Molina's funding request for Cycling Savy education materials, there were questions about whether it's a proper use of funding considering the materials will be only online and in English.

Tony says that the site team was interested in having their materials in other languages.

Jill also says that the council wanted to have more of a say over how the city does cycling education. Nothing needs to be decided yet.

BPAC Work Plan

Jill Gormley:

I asked Jill about the Buffered Bike lanes I saw on a ride a week and a half ago on Maple, between Mckinley and Shields. She says there are no plans to convert to Class IV, it was part of an idea from 3 years ago with Nick Paladino...

...convincing the county to buffer their segments along this corridor. If it was to be Class IV, the bike lane would have to switch spaces with the parking lane.

According to Harman Dhawlilal, the buffering in the picture above is 2 ft. along the corridor. 3ft. sometimes.

Moving along with the Work Plan, Tulare ave apparently is getting a class IV on one segment.

As for a Palm Bike path, there may be a community meeting next week. Jill doesn't know for sure. She asks BPAC if they would like to schedule a separate meeting to go over designs or...

...if BPAC would want to go to the public meeting.

The members have decided (without a vote) to go to the public meeting.

Tony Molina asks if there were any updates from the county's segment (Dakota to Shaw).

Andrew Benelli says that it's going to be class II, not IV

:)

Steven Bradley says, "We'll take all of the improvements we can get."

Meeting adjourned, but Melanie is staying on for COVID questions.

The convention center is available as an overflow, but no one to staff it. One ICU bed left.

I ask her about a masked bike ride I was doing this weekend (under 10) and she recommended that no more than 3 households be present. Outdoors is safer, but still has some risk.

With that, we are done for the night.

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