Transportation Commission - Regular Meeting

There we go. Hey. We are recording. Welcome to the 10/09/2025 Transportation Commission meeting. We are conducting this meeting both in person and virtually. So we were gonna go ahead and start with the call to order and the roll call. So as I go across, please let me know if you're here. Commissioner Kaehlman Kaehlman. Sorry. Commissioner Rabun?

Commissioner Rapun is not present at the time. Commissioner Welter? Here.

Williams? Here.

Okay. So we have absent and excused chair Stash and vice chair Miguel. Do I have a motion to approve today's agenda?

So moved. Any

amendments to the agenda? So any discussion or objections to approving the agenda? K. Seeing none, the agenda is approved unanimously. So we're gonna go ahead and move on to oral and written communications.

So Kevin has already forwarded us all the written communications to the Transportation Commission that has been received since September 11 meeting up until this late afternoon. Moving on to oral communications. Public comments are limited to three minutes per person and a total of thirty minutes overall. Staff will keep track of time, and I will enforce the time limit. Please remember that comments must be related to the City of Bellevue government business and must be related to the roles and responsibilities of the Transportation Commission.

The public participation rules regarding elections. So in compliance with Washington state campaign laws regarding the use of public facilities during elections, RCW 42 17555, No speaker may support or oppose a ballot measure or support or oppose a candidate for an election, which includes your own campaign. Any speaker who begins discussing topics of this nature will be asked to stop. Kevin, do we have people that are signed up for oral communications?

Commissioner Ting, no one has signed up for oral communications. There may be people in the audience who would like to speak.

Okay. If you didn't sign up and would like to speak, please raise your actual hand if you are in the room or your Zoom virtual hand. I will first invite people in the room, the people in Zoom. Okay. I see that there's one person that has their hand raised. Go ahead and come on up to the chair, and please state your name for the record, and you will have three minutes.

Yeah. Oh, chair here. I'm so sorry. I cannot see my chair here. Oh, this is good.

Oh, yeah. I need closer. Oh, this is good. Yeah. Yeah. Nazi damn Nazi. You get stop a fascist pig. My name, Alex Zimmerman. Yeah. I want speak about transportation. Yeah. So something my English is so good. Fatality in Bellevue for last year jumped by 200 percentage. You know about this? Transportation fatality jumped in Bellevue for last year by 200 percentage.

Guys, I'm not too much sure you understand what is mean 200 percentage. It's mean two zero zero. Yeah. So for example, when it before die ten people, so right now die thirty forty people. Yeah. How we can fix it this? I have only my president Trump who want terminate 55,000,000 people from America. Yep. Because it's not legal here, and they're very dangerous. This is exactly what has happened in Bellevue right now.

We have 120,000 jungles left, but they don't have right leave here because they come to America not legally. Yeah. Absolutely. Have too many violation. Include double citizenship, what is not possible now. Yeah. So it is all criminal. Yeah. Absolutely. But there's another point.

Another point, what is we have this like mayor Robinson. Someone fixes this problem, move from City Street who have speed 20 miles to 25 miles. So this five miles different can stop and people kill one another. Government who kill dozen and dozen people is a criminal government. Consul possibly be in jail. Mayor Robinson, who mayor for six years, possibly be in jail too because 200 percentage increase in fatality. This mean government killed people. They are killer. They're a Bandita. They be supposed to be be all in jail.

Absolutely. When this will be happen, my president Trump, talk to them. You know what this mean? Prosecute them. You prosecute Obama right now. Why you cannot prosecute this Bandita who killed people? Why this not happen? Even you dirty crooks very quiet about this. You need prosecute me too. So my question right now, can we stop and end battle with this fatality or not? With consul what is recover right now, we cannot do this even you freaking idiot or the two. You know what this mean? Because you all identical. So how we can doing this? We were Trump.

We were new American revolution. Stand up. Slap in happy cow. Emperor this council in jail. Thank you very much.

God. You are real freaking idiot.

There anyone else that would like to make any public commentary either in person or online? Okay. Seeing none, we'll continue with the agenda. Moving on to communications from city council, boards, and commissioners. As commissioner sorry. As council member Newhouse is not present, we'll move on to see if there are any reports from commissioners. Alright. Seeing none, we'll move on to staff reports. Kevin, do you have any staff reports?

Yeah. Have excuse me. I have

a few things to mention for the commission. One is a reminder that the Open Public Meetings Act training is being held as a webinar on October 16 from 06:30 to 07:30. It is a live virtual webinar, and the city clerk encourages commissioners to attend during the live portion. The meeting the webinar will be recorded, and it can be reviewed at a later date that is convenient to you. Another reminder is that, you know, on occasion, you get emails from me regarding commission business on your city of Bellevue commission account.

And sometimes as a reminder, you'll forward it to your personal account so you you you know where it is. The, our IT people frown upon doing that. It it exposes your your personal account to public disclosure, and it may invite malicious intrusion into the city of Bellevue accounts. So please don't forward emails from your city of Bellevue account to your personal account. The recommendation on the mobility implementation plan that you approved on September 11 is going to the city council on November 25.

And, chair Stash will accompany the transmittal of the commission's recommendation to the council on November 25. And finally, the much anticipated parliamentary procedures training for boards and commissions has has a date and a time. It's December 8 from 06:30 to 08:30 in this building in person. There will be an official invitation from the city clerk's office to you when more details are available, but save the date. It is in person, and the city clerk assures me that there will be a nice dinner provided as incentive to to come to the parliamentary procedures training.

And just as an aside, staff did parliamentary procedures training yesterday, and it was it was fascinating. I I have been through several of these trainings, and I learned something new every time, including the need to use the gavel. So and any anyway, I think I'll watch watch for the announcements, and please plan to attend on December 8. Thank you. That's what I have.

Thank you. So, Kevin, for the OPMA meeting, you said that it's going to be recorded. Yes. While it's preferable to attend in person or sorry. Watch on online live. Is watching the recorded video afterwards sufficient to satisfy the requirements from the city?

Yes. It is. Okay.

And then the parliamentary procedure training is not going to be recorded.

Is that correct? I don't think so, but I'm not sure. The city clerk's office will share the details about that. But the the neat thing about the parliamentary procedures training is that there are live in person exercises that that can help, you know, instill some of the procedures into your head more easily than just watching. Okay. If you

have an opportunity to have them recorded, I think that would be wonderful even though I I definitely am gonna try and attend that. I would encourage everyone also to attend. Alright. Great. Thank you. So now let's continue on with the agenda moving to the study session. So today, we have two items on the study session, the curb pricing study and also the transportation facilities plan or the TFP update. So we have Chris Iverson, Chris Long, and the consultant team will provide an overview of the curb pricing implementation strategy and will describe the findings from recent public outreach activities. Please note that there is no action required at this time. I'd like to welcome Chris and Chris to give the presentation.

Oh, and please let us know when you would like to get when you would like questions to be asked.

I think we're gonna take questions at the end, so I'll wait till Chris. There we go. Alright. Cool. So we have thank you, commissioners, for having us back again today.

This is our final touch on this project with the commission. Today with me, as introduced, in addition to Chris and Chrissy here, we have Kenzie Colson and Eric Haggett online to support Q and A. They are also from Walker Consultants and have been integral to the development of this strategy document. So today, we have the the following items that we're gonna cover. Do a brief recap on the the background of this project.

As we have a new commissioner, we wanna make sure everybody's on the same page and go over some of the more recent engagement that we've done since the last time we've been here, just fill in a little bit more of the information that we've gathered from the public, and then dive into the the implementation strategy itself and what it entails and and close out with the next steps. So as and as you as commissioner Ting stated with this, there's no action required today as part of this presentation, but all comments and questions are certainly taken. So as a recap, this project started back in 2022, and there we are, and was ultimately adopted in '23 as the curb management plan. And that was a a project that worked extensively with the commission the transportation commission and the planning commission as we had new policies and revised policies that were part of that process. One of the the outcomes of this document was over two dozen what we called curb practices or initiatives that we wanted to move forward with once this program became or this the curb management plan became operationalized.

And so the one of the key ones, though, is this is summarized here in s t one, which is the policy that spoke to paid parking. And that actually originated before we did the curb management plan. That was brought to the comp plan through other previous studies and one that we refined and was further refined into the current comp plan that was adopted last year. So the intent of it was to study whether to do paid on street parking in the downtown, and that's what we've been doing for the last year. So the study area is defined here is what we refer to as the urban core, which is the Downtown Bell Red and Wilburton neighborhoods.

We divide it into five areas because Old Bellevue and Spring District really have a different feel than a lot of the other parts. It's our most densely parked area at the curb. So in each of those are were studied and evaluated independently as we looked at paid on street parking. And then just as a reminder of the goals of this study and of the consideration of paid on street parking in general, the number one goal is to improve the access at the curb. So we are trying to make an environment where drivers can find one to two parking spaces at the curb using pricing as a mechanism to do that.

So another way that we talk about that is trying to reach an occupancy at the curve of about 80%. So through this program with the once deployed, the we we will improve we look to improve safety and predictability of that parking through education of how to use the the parking system, but also through improving our enforcement as well. So that's an area that has been that has not been able to grow with the city over the years. And then lastly, we are we are trying to achieve an equitable outcome in making that the curb accessible for all users. So a lot of folks picture the curb as a place to park their personal vehicle, but a lot of other activity happens there with all of the King County Metro Transit and Sound Transit operating at the curb, employer shuttles, microtransits, TNCs, delivery, food delivery, all these activities that have exploded in recent years that we're trying to accommodate in that same space.

So lastly, here, our schedule, we started this project with the commission in December. This is our fourth touch with the commission. After today, we will be advertising the the draft plan more broadly to all this the people who have engaged in this process so far. Pretty all the different stakeholder groups and anyone who had registered to be informed in this project. We will be gathering information on the plan or on on the strategy that we receive and then packaging that into the the final version that'll be submitted to council for the December 9 meeting. So with that, I'll pass it to Chris. Great.

Thank you. I really can't touch that.

Oh, commission. Again, thanks for the time. So I'm going to go over some some updates in terms of public engagement and then also transition into addressing some comments that we received from the commission last time we talked with you back in July. First and foremost, just wanted to highlight that since July, we've continued our public engagement process in support of this this initiative. So you might recall that earlier in the year, we did a really robust public outreach exercise that involved stakeholder interviews, focus groups, on the ground surveys, online surveys, and and and a myriad of other things.

We continued that effort in the summer with, some, tabling exercises, that we that we conducted at the boundary of Downtown Park near Old Bellevue, just gathering feedback from people that were walking into and out of the park. Folks that were very used to driving and parking in the area gave us good feedback about their perspective and their experiences. Act we had a a survey that we asked folks that were interested in taking, and one of the interesting findings is listed on the slide here. Question stated, would you visit Downtown Bellevue or the Spring District more or less often if on street parking were easier to find, but you had to pay a few dollars to park. And about three quarters of respondents said that it wouldn't change their frequency or they would actually visit more often because it would mean that parking was generally easier to find.

So that was an interesting finding that kinda showed that there was an overall openness, at least in this small, the small survey. But it really, also kind of highlighted that a good majority of the public is used to the concept of paying for parking today, whether it's going into a garage or paying in a in a surface lot. This is something that, is not quite foreign, for for some travelers. So that was a a good exercise. We got some good feedback from the general community.

We also conducted some door to door interviews with businesses in the area in August. We met with the Old Belvieu Merchants Association and other business representatives in September, again, with some initial ideas. We received their feedback, and, some of that feedback was incorporated into the the recommendations that are listed in in the implementation strategy that was in your packet. So I wanted to transition to highlighting some, some comments that we heard from you all back, in July, the last time we, we brought this project forward. There were three main things that, we we heard from the commission, one being about payment options for a potential paid parking program, a second one regarding an equity lens and the the way that the program is approaching equity, and a third talking about the economic impacts or or outputs, as it relates to paid parking implementation.

So I'll address each of these individually. The first one, again, there was a comment just to make sure that a proposed program includes payment options that are more than just, you know, paying on an app or paying at one individual meter. Ultimately, the way that we are approaching this, the project team is thinking about this, is a multifaceted way of ensuring that payment is available in multiple forms. So the idea is that there would be physical pay stations. You'd be able to go, very similar to other cities.

You know, Seattle has pay stations. Many communities do. There's pay stations at parking lots. That is an easy way to go and and pay for your pay for your time. There would also be a mobile payment option through an app, and there would also be a mobile payment option through, not an app, essentially, like, something like a QR code that would go directly to a payment link.

So that gives individuals the option to pay the way that they want. And the way that we would approach this too would be, ensuring that there would be, translations and and multilingual support, so it'd be hopefully as seamless as possible. So, moving on, there was a comment last time about making sure that the program is taking an equitable approach to the a potential curve pricing program, and all there was also a request to gain clarity from diversity organizations if the way that we were initially proposing equity was appropriate. So you'll see in the implementation strategy, we have a framework of approaching, this program in the lens of equity through multiple forms. My colleague, Chrissy, will get into that in a little bit, later in the presentation.

But, we just wanted to highlight to you that we met with the Bellevue Diversity Advantage Network, twice through this project, most recently last week, to bring forward the the overall program approach and some overall recommendations. Ultimately, that group gave some good feedback, and they gave us concurrence that the way that we are approaching equity was appropriate in the context of the program. And their main message was just if the program does indeed move forward, that we continue to communicate with community organizations and make sure that the word gets out. So they that was a kind of a good thumbs up moment for the program. Also just, again, wanna highlight that throughout this entire year, we've been engaging with many different community and business organizations to understand the challenges and received input that is being filtered into the recommendations.

So, again, we'll get into this a little bit later. Just wanted to highlight that that work occurred and is occurring. So last but not least, there was a request to highlight, the economic output of a community as it relates to paid parking implementation. And if you go into the implementation strategy document, you'll see a a handful of case studies. I just wanted to spend time highlighting one, which is, Pasadena, California.

This is documented, pretty well, pretty extensively online. There was an initial, paid parking deployment in the old Pasadena business district back in 1993. There was some hesitancy to this change, but, ultimately, they did, the city kinda did some sales tax, assessment and noted that retail sales in this old Pasadena district actually increased at a greater rate than other retail districts in the area, including those that had free parking. Just goes to show that there was overall a positive, feedback loop that went into when paid parking went in, it allowed there to be more availability and more predictability for parking. And so that felt that filtered into positive economic, activity for that business district.

Just wanna highlight a couple other things that Pasadena does. So, you know, I mentioned that was in the nineties, a ways away, but wanted to just highlight that as recently as May, the city is still taking still using paid parking as a tool to balance parking demand and alleviate congestion. So they, added meters in the playhouse district and, also wanted to highlight that they have, an advisory board that helps inform the program. And the way that their funding mechanism works is, so that funds are contributed back into the community, pretty similar to the way that Bellevue is thinking about a potential program. So those are all items, just wanted to highlight, and I will pass it off to Chris, who will now start going over the implementation strategy.

Great. Thanks, Chris. So I wanna talk through the pricing implementation strategy. This is the document that recommends how to move forward with the curve pricing. So it's a draft framework that city council will be asked to review and consider.

So the full strategy was included in your agenda packet, and the document includes all the background information, the data, and all of our evaluation and the full implementation details. So the recommended parameters of the current pricing structure are proposed, again, based on the feedback we heard from you during our transportation commission meetings and then from the community, and then we looked at best practices, as Chris mentioned. So the parameters include that council adopt a pricing rate range, and that can be adjusted administratively over time based on curb utilization data hitting that 80% demand goal. Hours enforcement would be beginning at 10AM in all neighborhoods and then ending around five or eight depending on the neighborhood context, cost recovery for temporary paid parking impacts related to things like street closures or construction, and then, as Chris mentioned, payment options like mobile payment and the parking meters. And we heard a lot of feedback on the revenue reinvestments.

The city is committed to an open and transparent process, so we'll talk more about that. In terms of equity, all the communications would be multilingual with multiple payment options, and then we know that the equity mitigations were very important. So we're recommending promoting transit, discounted ORCA passes, deploying an employee parking permit pilot, public and private partnerships with parking garages, and the parking private parking lot owners to share lower cost parking, and then financial support for microtransit service like Bellhop, specifically expanding service hours or and and improving connections to transit. So wanna talk through the financial details here on the slide. The capital investment side is approximately 1,600,000.0 up front, and those are that's to pay for the pay station infrastructure, signage, the mobile app payments, those upfront cost.

And then the annual operating expenses are estimated to be approximately $2,000,000 annually. So that includes mobile app fees, new city staff cost, and then the expanded enforcement and ongoing data collection so that we can monitor the utilization to make those rate adjustments so that we're making sure we're hitting that 80 utilization goal. So we also show that our model shows that operating revenues will be approximately 4,300,000.0. So that's based on the first full year of normal operations. So that 4,300,000.0, most of that revenue is derived from the demand management side, the parking meter side.

84% of all the revenues will come from the directly from the parking meter payment. So potential revenues going back to the community would be approximately 2,300,000.0. So that's where we wanna walk through the reinvestment concepts for that revenue. So as I mentioned, first, we're, recommending a curb pricing advisory committee so that, you know, that commitment to transparency and openness, that curb pricing advisory committee charge would be to inform program reinvestment. We expect that reinvestment would be aligned with the curb management plan, the high priority recommendations of the curb management plan, and the community ideas.

So reinvestments for the curb management plan wouldn't be akin to more ADA spaces, more loading zones, improved bus shelters, curb street activation. And then other potential risk reinvestments we heard from the community include things like more better and more parking wayfinding so that we can people can find that private off street parking and where that private off street parking is available, how to get there, pedestrian and streetscaping improvements, pedestrian and curb activation, street lighting. And like I said, all of those reinvestment concepts would go through be informed by the curb pricing advisory committee. So with that, I'll hand it back to Chris for next steps.

Yeah. Go ahead and flip to the next slide. So this graphic on the right is the is in the the plan. I I we've we've put this in here to show the the breadth of work that still will need to be done if council does provide direction to staff to move forward with this initiative. There's a there are a lot of steps to actually actually operationalize paid on street parking.

We after we get direction for council to move forward, there are code changes that have to be made. There's and then we then we have to start planning for the capital investments in in citing pay stations, identifying all the signage changes, and then the hiring of the the vendor for the payment systems, city staff, enforcement staff, and then all the public outreach and education to to help people understand how this new system will work. And as I mentioned, we'll be back to council we're going to council December 9, and the ask of council will be to provide direction to staff to come back to council with the code changes necessarily to to operationalize paid on street parking. So with that, we are ready for questions.

Alright. Thank you, Chris, Chris, and Chris for your presentation. I'd like to open the I'd like to open the floor to hear if there's any feedback, from the commissioners. Yes. Commissioner, Kelman?

Thank you so much for putting this together and for ensuring that the equitable path was clearly articulated. We really appreciate that, or I really appreciate that. Had a few questions, and some of these may not be applicable based on your answers. So I'm gonna prevent myself from going down a rabbit hole. But the case studies that you provided in the draft, are those cities similar of population and geographic size to that of Bellevue?

I believe. Mhmm. Yeah. Generally speaking, yes, I think, in the proximity, especially of the scope of a paid parking implement like, the the the number of spaces and the geography. So the populations might be a little bit different. The built form might be different, but the quantity of parking is, I would say, fairly comparable.

Okay. Thank you. And then this is a multipart question. Can you walk us through the flow of money from when a customer pays to how that is routed to the city? And I ask because we have so many different sections of the city that are responsible for different things, and taxes, as you know, go to specific things.

And so I I saw one thing, and I'm just gonna use it as an example, bus shelters, for example. Is that something that does does does that typically fall under the city's purview, or is that falling under Sound Transit or the county? So I just wanna make sure that the money is going towards something that the city is gonna benefit from and that we're not picking up other people's slack, basically, for this for the ROI. And then just to dig into that a little bit deeper, if we're using these funds and if they go into, let's just say, a general fund, and I don't know if that's the case, but if we use these funds to go towards improvements, I just wanna make sure that the residents are how do we know or do a a maybe an internal quality check-in to ensure that we're not just picking up the slack for other departments that aren't doing those things or maybe adding those responsibilities to fall under the correct department. So I'm if if that makes sense, you know, to just if it's just going into a general fund to just say, here's the money.

Do what you want with it. But if we actually find out that the improvement that that is making is supposed to be under a different budget, I think that's where I want the line of delineation.

Yeah. That's a that's a great question. We don't so the the concept there is that we'll be we'll be tracking the revenue on a quarterly basis and reporting both revenue and expenditures to our finance team and or quarterly and then summing that up annually and understanding what the what the return is and available funds are for reinvestment, and that's where why we we're recommending this community or or committee that would help with the transparency where we can show directly, here's the revenue that we've generated, and here's how we're putting it back into the street. The the question about doing work of other, you know, departments or organizations is a good one. When we when we talk about bus shelters, that might come in the form of a we have a project that has been sitting on the books.

I actually don't know if it's still in the TFP, but it was on a the hundred and eighth spine projects. Yeah. That's still in TFP. So that is a a project to improve the passenger pickup area on a hundred and eighth for for buses, try to find a way to to free up space on the sidewalk for people who are trying to move on the sidewalk and get the staging area for transit out of the street. That is a a project that benefits both us and transit.

And so that's an example of where we we would potentially invest in that in that transit realm. We also have some shelter facilities in the downtown that really are are that are getting used heavily for a lot of different operations like employer shuttles that have no longer have an owner. So we're that were installed years ago and just need to be maintained and maybe enhanced to meet the need of of the community. And in our case, you know, we wanna be able to promote the that transit usage as much as possible to get people out of their vehicles. So if we can find ways to partner more to enhance those facilities, we hope that that'll enhance the ridership too.

So that's that's generally the concept. And then using, you know, finding ways, a lot of times it'll be more in like a partnership aspect where one of the items there was in street activation, where we what we heard from Old Bellevue in particular was trying to find ways to help fund some of the events they wanna be able to do on the street where they close the street down. And our economic development program has had a very small grant program that they've they've piloted the last year or two to have community organizations be able to apply to do things like that. And we see this having a a direct correlation to our curb space management in that we wanna provide place making and activation at the curb as well. And so this would be we wouldn't be fully funding those types of programs, but but helping contribute to those programs to to meet our goals of the curb management plan as well.

And I'm just looking at this from a resident and as a patron standpoint. I wanna ensure that my taxes are going towards what they're supposed to be, and I'm not getting an additional fee going towards So that same just keeping that in mind for how it's managed moving forward.

Yeah. Thank you. Great great point.

Alright. Thank you. Are there any other comments from the other commissioners?

I shared quite a number of comments already in email, and I appreciate the responses already from from staff. And thanks to staff and also to consultants for putting this together. Just, two things I'll mention. One is that I think it will be interesting to, at some point, and maybe this is something that the advisory council does, to prioritize some of those curb improvements. And, anyway, I'm sure that that that that will be done.

And then related to that, I'll just give kind of my own take on some things that I felt like from a recent experience. I would say as a parking user, like they should be high priority things. And I shared this example with with others in my email. Recently, I was in Tacoma who and Tacoma, I think, is one of those cities that has also got paid street parking. It was a Friday night.

It was very busy. I could not find parking anywhere. We we spent in our group, there were three of us looking for parking. One one person one of the people looking for parking bailed because they could not find it. And, so that wayfinding aspect, I think, would have been really valuable in that situation, and I feel like that would be the same for for Bellevue.

And if, again, if you look at it from a user perspective, I think there's it's important that the wayfinding cover both private parking spaces and public parking spaces. That's where you get the okay. This is now easier to do. It's easier for me to come to the city and, you know, visit the stores or the shops that I want to visit. So I would love to see there, you know, be that be a high priority thing to make sure we make that be a good experience.

And I realize there's a lot of there's a lot to that. There's, you know, a bunch of digitizing things to and coordinating across a bunch of organizations. So so it's a big project, but I think high value. And then the other one is the payment system, and, that's another one that's pretty in my recent experience was was pretty painful. So, we did get to a nice pay station, like, we're proposing for the city of Bellevue, and there were the three options.

You could pay manually or use QR code or, or download an app. And we got stuck on I got stuck on something very simple initially, which is that my phone, tried to be helpful and connect me to a T Mobile hotspot, but it's a flaky hotspot. And so and so, you know, every time I try to get my, you know, credit card in, it's been and spin. And, I mean, some of those things are kind of out of our control maybe, but, you know, but it all contributes to the experience of you know? If it's easy for me to do, then you know?

And, you know, in this case, the parking was $2. It was not much, but it was took me ten minutes to figure out. And I really should have. And in the future, I probably would just use the swipe the card, which was, you know, thankfully thankfully a a feature there. So so so getting that user experience right, I think, is something that's that's worth, you know, investing the the money. Because because then it feels like you're really getting the for for the vast majority of people, a big bang benefit.

Yeah. I appreciate that. That's, I think, a big part of our outreach campaign will be trying to encourage people to download the app before they've they leave their home. You know, get in in some cases, we know some cities are and I think I mentioned this in the response. Some cities actually use multiple apps so that they capture whatever app is that you have you've used most commonly of it so that we haven't.

We're we're a ways away from making that decision, but and what the pros and cons are there, but that is you know, those are the the elements that we're looking at. We're also talking to, you know, neighboring cities as well, seeing where they're headed. And, you know, the the more that you can get comfortable with one that you can use in other cities too, the the better as well. So

Alright. Great. Any other comments? Yes. Go ahead. Alright. This is

my second meeting. This will be my first real question. So having not sat through some of the prior briefings, I apologize if any of these are sort of, you know, replicating anything that's already been addressed. I was just kinda going through and had made some notes, and, you know, I'm mostly, I think, interested in, like, sort of the metric components of gauging, obviously, the success and how you know, one once an implementation, how is it gonna be evaluated? You know, what are what are the what are the metrics being utilized to evaluate the success, to adjust the pricing on a, you know, timely basis?

So, you know, if we're not getting the goal rate, how we you know, up or down on that front. Secondly, when you talked about, for example, the PASADENA study and looking at tax revenue, is that actually going to be a metric utilized in the evaluation of success of this this program? And then I think the last piece, so just considering the neighborhoods and spillover, know there's reference to, you know, sort of the enforcement component and and monitoring some of those neighborhoods more actively than they obviously are at this point. But how, again, would there be metrics applied in you know, to determine, you know, the extent of any issues at that time, or would it be at first based on people reporting problems, or will there be actual active enforcement starting with 10 results, and will the those neighborhoods be notified that active enforcement will start? Since I happen to live in one, I'm aware that people often park because we don't or I know neighbors don't think about there ever being an issue unless there really, you know, is a problem at this given time.

Yeah. Great questions. So the metrics gauging success will a big part of that is gonna be looking at the occupancy on the street and making sure that we are achieving that one to two spots. So that's something that we will be collecting one to two times a year and then adjusting the pricing accordingly. And those would be incremental price changes. It's not gonna be big swings. So that

that'll be a

big one. I we'll also probably or we've talked about doing annual surveys of users. So either through the apps or, you know, on the pay stations having a QR code. We've seen some examples of that from other cities as well to to find out from the users how how their experience has been. It's another opportunity to also gauge that through the community, the the committee that we've talked about, and directly with the same stakeholders we've been working with, like Old Bellevue Merchants Association.

Tax revenue is a great question, and I'm still waiting to get a final answer from our our finance department. But we we are hopeful we'll be able to look at that data as well. So we've provided some information to them to to dig into that, but I think that'll be important. So spillover, we did we collected data just this last month in no. I guess it was this month.

Or just in the last few weeks in the neighborhoods that were we're we're mostly aware of the potential of spillover, and that's South Of Of Main Street near Old Bellevue and West Of The Park. The West the neighborhood West Of The Park is an RPZ. So we excuse me, a residential permit zone. So, technically, no one other than residents should be parked in that neighborhood, and that seemed to play out to be pretty true. There wasn't a lot of other cars there.

South Of Of Maine, depending on the time of day, does get pretty heavily used. So there's a I've we we anticipate that's where a lot of or actually, we know that's where a lot of employees of Old Bellevue Park. So that's part of the the mitigation strategies that we're looking at is try is is to address that and to provide other options for them beyond just parking in the neighborhood. With that said, we don't, we will continue to monitor that area and look at, usage, and we'll have the flexibility to do more enforcement if we get reports of illegal parking behavior, in that area. To date.

It's not an area that we do get a lot of complaints, so which is good. If they are parking there, they people are doing it legally. So meaning that they're not parking too close to a driveway and creating other problems for for people who live there. So yeah. So I think that's those are the the the the plan, and I think we'll we we will have the flexibility to to hopefully, with a little bit more enforcement staff to be able to to tackle a few of these issues a little more readily down the road.

I'll add one more item, and I know this probably sort of this would bring in the the parks commission as well. But Yeah. Looking at when you're looking at their use of revenue with the advisory committee and talking about some of the equity components, but, you know, having revenue depending on what it looks like, potentially evaluating, you know, whether there would be support bonding for, you know, building a public parking garage of some kind, which obviously produces more revenue. So in some of the areas, know that that has been a discussion in the past and obviously never implemented.

Interesting. Okay. Thank you.

All right. Great. Thank you. So I have a couple of questions that I'd like to cover. First off, I think it's great that you talked with the Bellevue Diversity Advantage Network, thinking about the equity and the diversity component of current pricing. I would I would love to hear if there are any metrics or any way that we can measure the outcomes. Outcomes? How does this, in practice, affect the equity initiatives that we have here at Bellevue? So I'm not sure exactly what that would look like. But thinking about the outcomes and communication and access and all that, that's great.

But I think brass tacks, when you think about how does this impact people that are in disadvantaged groups from an equity perspective, I would love to just have some sort of understanding of how we would measure the outcomes and then what those outcomes actually are. On my next point, I think if we have given that the one of the goals is to keep parking between, what was it, 70 to 85 utilization, about two parking spots per per corridor, I suppose, per block. So if there is a place that has less than 70% utilization, are we looking at basically making those areas free to park?

So, yeah, good question. So that is something we're actually evaluating right now or will be evaluating a little bit here shortly. We have the old the Bell Red neighborhood, which is primarily the where there is currently on street parking is near the Bell Red Light Rail Station on a Hundred And 30th and a Hundred and thirty second. As we've been working through both the curb management plan and the curb pricing study, those areas had a lot of construction going on during that effort. So we don't have good data out there yet.

But all that construction is complete. We have a a beautiful new street on 130th with a lot of new parking. So we are gonna be collecting data there at the end of this month. So we may have right now, our model is assuming that those streets are not part of the the paid parking program. What we would likely do is include them in the code for future deployment there. But if if they're not hitting 70 to 80% occupancy, there really isn't a reason to to do the paid program there, and we'll we'll wait and see how those streets continue to redevelop.

I see. And so how frequently does this model update to figure out, you know, we need to increase the price or we need to lower the price?

So the our plan is one to two times a year. We'll be looking at it. Other cities, some do it as often as three times a year. We're we're gonna definitely take a slower approach probably in the first year. It will it'll be let the program settle in for the full year and then look down the road at maybe increasing that to twice a year.

Okay. Great. Thank you. For the RPCs then, for the surrounding neighborhoods that do have RPCs, so is it my my understanding is that the RPCs are still going to be free for the people that live in those communities and that the enforcement is going to be covered by the funds from this program. Is that correct?

Yeah. It's potentially. So, yes, we don't have any plans to charge for the RPCs. That's not part of the program. How they get enforced so today, they're enforced by the police department, so it's included in their contract or not contract.

It's included in their workload. The down that's something we still need to work out with them. We we have talked about particularly the RPZ that is west of the downtown park, that that's the one we feel could have the most impact from people trying to not to to maybe park outside of the pay area. So that might be one we would pick up and pay for through this program. So we'll we'll we'll definitely be monitoring that. And, you know, I I'm imagining that this prog as part of the data collection we do for the with this program, that we'll be paying for the data collection in the RPGs.

Yeah. And it seems pretty easy that if you don't get any complaints from an area, that enforcement probably doesn't need to increase. You know, if no one's complaining, then they probably are okay with it.

It's yeah. That is the model we use today, and fortunately, we know the residents of those communities well because they're ordering permits on a regular basis. So we have a mechanism to communicate with them, and and so we can do direct outreach to them as well and find out if there's issues. So that that is but that's yeah. That's exactly I don't yeah. There won't necessarily be a need to go into the RPCs every day. So hopefully.

Right. Well, thank you for that update because I know that was one of the concerns that came from some of the people that came to give public communications about RPCs and ensuring that the spillover doesn't impact their communities negatively. So thank you for that update. I'd also like to say thank you for the robust engagement process that you guys have been doing. So it sounds like you've reached out.

You've talked a lot with people. You've understood what are the concerns. I am kind of curious to hear for the communities or the businesses, when they hear about your studies, for example, with Pasadena, does that placate them? Do they hear that and say, wow, I just need to adjust my thinking and be a little patient? So I'm really hoping that those studies match how it works in Bellevue. But I guess that's just an exercise that we'll have to go through.

Yeah. It has been a big part of the outreach for the old Bellevue Merchants Group particular, just helping them understand that benefit. And more and more of them are have have come around to it. They're seeing it in other communities. Some of them even have businesses in Seattle and and beyond where there is paid on street parking, and they've seen the benefit.

Others have talked about in in the in a very small area within Old Bellevue where paid parking was added to a surface lot and how they noticed the the difference just from that change to be for their clients to be able to get to their business more easily. So it's I I think it I think the shock has worn off and understanding that this this, you know, this is for them is starting to come through.

Great. Thank you. And I would encourage you to continue with the robust communication. I think as part of the CMP being having that public engagement and ensuring that the public is aware of the changes that are coming. So for example, as part of the CMP, understanding when there are going to be changes to the transportation system, knowing how a curb lane is going to be possibly repurposed, I think that's a really important facet of the program. And I'm happy that it's in there. And I hope that we continue to use that open communication so that people that use our transportation system what are the upcoming changes and how do I need to either give feedback or adjust my transportation needs based on those changes.

Yeah. This is a pretty big change for the downtown. So we definitely will be spending a lot of time. That's why we've we've added the concept of the ambassadors too through the the opening of the program to to have more people on the street to help with the with this as well.

Alright. Great. Thank you. Are there any other comments? No? Okay. Great. Thank you very much for the presentation. Thank you all. Alright. The second item in our study session today is the transportation facilities plan update. I'd like to welcome Christie and Mike to come up or already be up. What's up? And one yes. One coming.

So Mike and Christie will give will review the proposed 2,026 through 2045 transportation facilities plan update, and we'll seek two actions today. The first is a recommendation of the TFP, and the second is an approval of the transmittal letter to city council. Welcome, Mike and Christie.

Thank you. Thank you, commissioner Ting. Good evening, commissioners. So as commissioner Ting indicated, we're here in the final stages of the update to the transportation facilities plan. This is the city's intermediate range capital planning effort.

It informs the development of the city's capital improvement program, so that's the actual adopted budget. So the proposed TFP updated TFP for the years 2026 to 2045 was included as an attachment in your packet for tonight's meeting. Tonight, we will be reviewing the feedback that we heard from city council back in August when we briefed them on this process. Yes.

Oh, I'm sorry. Can you please let us know when you'd like to take questions?

Sure. We can take questions along the way. Thank you. Thank you. We will review the the TFP revenue, what we're looking at in the next twenty years as best we understand it at this point.

This was really this is really a review of what you were was presented in more detail in July at at your July meeting by our finance staff. We will briefly look at the content of the proposed TFP document, and then finally, we'll seek your endorsement of the of the TFP and recommendation of that to the city council. Next slide, please. So at the council meeting on August 4, vice chair McGill and city staff briefed the city council on the process that we've pursued for nearly for for about a year to update the transportation facilities plan. The council was expressed appreciation for the work of the commission and staff in doing the update.

They indicated comfort with the process that we used and the project list that we've developed. They did hear several public comments suggesting that we should include the transit connection projects that were originally part of the candy pool in the TFP itself. So these are projects that advance goals in the city's transit plan. Transit plan identifies activity centers around the city and target levels of frequency and speed for transit service between those activity centers. A few of those target levels are met currently.

Many are not. And the plans, the the projects that we have are really just conceptual, recognizing that these are, you know, goals that the city has and wants to advance as opportunities arise. We we don't obviously, you know, control the transit service. We do cooperate with transit service providers to advance those goals as opportunities arise. And so the thought was by putting these projects into the plan, as they've been in the past, incorporating them into the plan, that gives them a little more visibility and prominence.

So so we've we've built those in to the project list that we've proposed for tonight for the for the document tonight. The council expressed understanding and endorsed the extension of a TFP time frame from twelve years to twenty years. So so they gave us the go ahead to proceed as we have been. Next slide. Oh, and if there are any questions along the way, please let me know. So the yes.

Actually and I again, this is given that I'm newer. So the change from twelve years to twenty years, is that just functionally because right now they're short of money, or is it just have a longer time horizon to be thinking, you know, more generationally?

Some of each. Mostly, it's money. But the twenty years does align with the city's comprehensive plan. And our comprehensive plan is, you know, kind of how we do it is governed by the state framework. It's reviewed by locally by the Puget Sound Regional Council. When trans when our plan when they looked at our update of the comprehensive plan, they said, well, where's your twenty year transportation plan? And we said, well, we use twelve year you know? So the the this would this now aligns with what they're looking for in framework two. So yes. So this table, we looked at in July.

It's the same. And so in terms of the amount of revenue that we expect over the twenty years, the amount of money that's set aside in the current CIP, so the city's capital budget, 132,000,000. The 157,000,000, as we indicated, as we discussed back in July, the capital plan for transportation projects has more projects than there is money. So how we got there is kind of water under the bridge at this point. But the council has know, for purposes of our of our work, the council has said that these are projects they want to build, their priorities.

So we need more than the five years, six years of revenue to pay for all those projects. That's the 157,000,000. The other expense item is the ongoing programs. So we have ongoing programs to construct sidewalks, to build bicycle facilities, to do certain maintenance activities, and also to implement or to identify and evaluate and prioritize and start scope and start to implement congestion reduction projects. And so so that's the those are the expense items.

And then what's left after those expense items is 26 and a half million dollars. I added an asterisk. So that wasn't there in July. And we'll look at that in the next slide. So the project list in the proposed TFE document has 25 projects that are funded.

Those are the ones with Grayfill. And there's those are projects are in two categories. 13 of the projects are in the first section of the list. Those are projects that have specific line items in the city's capital budget. The other way that we implement improvements on the ground is through our ongoing programs, which I mentioned a minute ago.

So we have ongoing programs for sidewalks. And currently, there are there are two projects listed in your in the TFP shown as funded for for sidewalks. Similarly, there are four projects in the bicycle program listed as funded, and some of those came from the the Bike Belvieu initiative. And and you so you've you've seen those, and and we've looked at them. And then the bigger expense item is the congestion reduction program.

That's a program that's funded in part with money from the transportation levy. It gets $2,000,000 a year from the levy, and that's enough money to evaluate scope, start to plan and design, and prioritize projects. It doesn't get you very far in actually building projects on the ground. So what the city council has traditionally done is allocated additional money in the CIP to actually put these projects on the ground. We So there's six projects that are shown as funded in the project list.

We recently updated our cost estimates for those projects. And not surprisingly, the costs have gone up. That's definitely been an issue in the last few years. So we need an additional $16,000,000 to to build those projects according to the information we have now. So so that's a revision from the project list that you saw in July.

But the project so the document that was attached today shows an additional $16,000,000 for those congestion reduction projects. So really, we're down to about 10 and a half million dollars that are that's unallocated at this point. And and and that's, you know, fundamentally how things work. You know, the council decides what the priorities are. You know, we we look at what's the cost to build the next priority, and sometimes those projects, those costs have have changed.

So we're always using the best information that we have at the time. So now we're down to to our document. And this document is essentially similar to the existing TFP and to the ones we've had prior. Key key sections are background and purpose. We look at the funding, so where the money comes from and and and how we spend it both in capital projects as well as ongoing programs.

We have a discussion of the project selection and prioritization process that we've been through this last year, and then finally, a map of the list and the projects. So tonight, we are seeking action to endorse to endorse or to recommend the the proposed 2026 to 2045 TFP to the city council to approve a transmittal letter to that effect. And then, also, we will be asking a commission member to attend the council meeting on November 18. Traditionally, that is the chair initially. And if the chair is unavailable, then it would be the vice chair.

It'd be the next person in line. So we will contact chair Stash to understand her her availability for that for that meeting.

Okay. Great. Thank you. Any additional parts of your presentation, or is that

No.

This is it. So it's now when now we're

speaking with your

endorsement and your recommendation.

Alright. Before we move on to the the recommendations, I'd like to open up the floor for any discussion or questions from the commissioners.

Go ahead. Oh, looking at some of the they just having, like, the seven new ones that are dropped in, you know, references a little bit, you know, which what presumably is you know, gets into, like, lane diets, which obviously is a sensitive issue in the in the city and has been for last few years. And the one thing when it talks about, you know, project development and then implementation, there's nothing stated that I found anywhere in this report about going back and seeking public feedback, you know, as projects that have not been committed to are in that implement development phase. So I

would just

recommend adding some sort of language here somewhere just stating if anything like that's going to be addressed, that there is a chance for the communities to have feedback and comment.

Oh, I mean, as projects move toward implementation?

Yes. Because there's nothing specifically in writing indicating that that that would occur. So I would personally recommend that that get added at some point in here. Even if, like, it's an asterisk saying that anything that has not been already addressed in the community would be.

So if I understand correctly, and and correct me if I'm not, so when we when a project, you know, advances into design and implementation, there's a there is a public outreach process, you know, relating to, you know, specifically depending on the nature of the project, but, you know, focused typically on the area where it's to be implemented. Is that is that part of what you were getting at? Or

Yes. But I would encourage putting language in here stating explicitly that that will occur, that there will be public engagement, even if it is general policy, because I know sometimes things do slip through that don't have it, you know, that don't public engagement doesn't always happen.

K. Well, I mean, the document is is, you know, as it stands right now. And so the you know, there there's plan I guess I would say, you know, we have the project list, which is essentially what this plan amounts to, and then we have our practices for how we, you know, advance projects through design and and implementation. And we have, you know, whole staff groups that that do those those those aspects of it. So, you know, I think I don't know. Did did you you you work more on the implementation side and and with the sidewalk program. So did you have any thoughts or comments here, Christie?

Yeah. Good evening, commissioners. I think that I would kind of be echoing the same thing that Mike says. I don't know if there's a a standard statement that we could make that would cover all of them because this has so many varieties of projects in it from different kinds of studies. It is part of our planning process, no matter what, whether we are in a planning process or if we're actually implementing. Public, involvement is part of it, and it's part of our compliance with title six that we have to do. So and I know that because they track that as well for the department. So it is actually a piece of our overarching picture for the department anyway.

I think one of the metrics that we can use to see how successful we are with communication is figuring out whether the public is surprised. So I understand there's a process, but I think really ensuring that we have an open, transparent process where the public has the opportunity to speak up before the decisions are made. And I think that might be one of the key nuances that Commissioner Welch was thinking about is that if you were able to give feedback on a project but you're not able to, say, comment on the fact that you would prefer not to have a road diet. And if the comments are limited to, well, you can say how the road diet occurs or what the treatments look like, I think the public would be surprised because there should be an opportunity for them to comment to say whether or not they support having a road diet before the decision is made to have a road diet. And so that's the part of the process that I'm actually not familiar with because I know there is definitely a common process.

There's a public process and that's great. But I think ensuring that the public is not surprised and they have a comment period before the decision is made to move forward with the project. Does that like, can you explain to us how that public process works?

So I think the best way that I can explain how that all takes place is when we're doing our actual capital improvement program process, so the budget process that will actually start next year because all of the projects that we will bring forward will have a description that belongs with them. So there are at least three different kinds of public hearing opportunities with the council to be able to say that they wouldn't want to have those projects coming forward if there isn't a public comment, you know, element to it or that they don't agree with the kind of description that we put forward. They have that kind of opportunity to be able to do that. There's always opportunities for them to contact us at any time because they do as well, but really through the capital process when it actually gets to be a funded project is the best way for people to be able to give. Because once it's been an approved description, it does get harder.

But, again, we do always go out to the community because we've made changes. We've made changes along the way. That's how some of the changes that happened with Bike Bellevue happened. We're not going to do these projects. We're not going to be bringing certain ones forward. So we do try and give as many opportunities as possible. It is written into our public involvement process as well. That way we'll do that to make sure that wherever the actual project is being implemented, that the community knows that it's going to be coming before it's shovels out there on the ground, because we don't want to have that kind of relationship with the community.

Right. And that makes total sense. And I think the metric is, again, are people surprised or not? And as long as people are not surprised, people have fair warning, then I think the public process is working.

I think you're always going to have an element of somebody who's surprised because they're not paying attention. Communication is hard. We do do our best that we can. We've been doing more about trying to seek that outreach before we actually get to the we're digging into the ground piece. But we always have those people who weren't paying attention the whole time and then are like, what are you doing? And the nice thing is that we usually have a good track of, well, this is what we've done, and this is where we've asked you to participate and give feedback and, you know, and try to get through those mechanisms. So it won't be a 100% foolproof, but we do try our best.

Okay. Commissioner Welch, does that address your concerns, do you have any thoughts?

I think it's I think I think you addressed the thoughts, but, again, it's just wanna emphasize the importance of engaging early into to what our chair said, you know, before things are in final, you know, final phases. Like, the people have a chance to to chime in early on and hopefully have influence or direct provide direction as to where where the actual project design ends up. Thank you.

And oh, sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead, commercial. This

window is so big, so 2045, and I know it takes a long time to get funding. So is there has there ever been historically an opportunity or or an instance where there's been such a big time gap, and you finally get the money, finally get the funding, and you it's no longer needed or it's no longer relevant. Has that ever happened?

Probably. I'm trying

It has. Or the or what we've need now has changed. So that's why we're back. We'll we'll be back again in about two and a half years to go through this process all over again.

Yeah.

So this doesn't just lie dormant. Yeah. We come back, you know, so that we can we go through the whole entire list all over again. Mhmm. And it's usually right after a budget process, so we know anything new that might have come, you know, whether it's financial or projects that need to be happening.

And we do this all over where we go through every project again. It's like, this, you know, is this something that we need? Is this not something that we need? You know, during this process, we removed a lot that were just no longer relevant to us. And we somewhat go through that process when I bring the Transportation Improvement Program to you as well because we have a whole other section that you'll learn about this in the new year that it's the blue section that has all of the other projects.

And I ask Steph, go through, are all of these still the relevant things that we would want to do in these areas? Because they could have been from studies that were fifteen, twenty years old, and it just doesn't work for the community anymore. So we do have those opportunities, and then we basically just say, well, that's what we thought we needed at the time because we probably did, And now there's new circumstances that are happening, we need to adjust to that.

All right. Great. Thank you. Are there any other comments? All right. So I one last question, which you probably don't know the answer to, but I'll ask anyway. I like this public process of having the transparency and the known mechanism where people can understand how the projects are coming up. Does that occur for all projects across the city of Bellevue with regards to transportation? So we were just talking about a road diet, for example, or a road reconfiguration. Is a similar public process in place so that people aren't surprised? Do you know of are there other other teams out there that could follow the same process that you're using in order to encourage more transparency?

So we can actually only answer probably for the transportation department in knowing that, but we do have people that participate on other teams. So Kevin does a lot of work with community development and some of the things for doing the comprehensive plan or doing some of those other larger planning efforts, and they definitely do that same thing of going out into the community to be able to get what their opinions and things are. Can't answer, actually, for some of the other departments. I mean, know that our finance and asset management department, they're doing all of the things for, you know, all of the surveys and things that they do to try to get public opinion about how we're doing our work and stuff, you know, that takes place. But from a transportation project perspective only, it is something that we ask all staff who are actually either doing studies or out there to do that community outreach.

Again, it's it's part of our title six compliance that we want to make sure that we are getting out to the community so that they understand what we're working on because, I mean, you're paying us, but also so that they understand so that it isn't new news to them. But how other departments do it, not wouldn't know all of their methodologies.

That's fair. I guess my comment would be within transportation, any time that we have a major change that would, say, create surprise for the community, it sounds like we have a robust process with the CIP, the TFP, etcetera, trying to replicate that process to ensure that people understand when their road reconfiguration is occurring in the future, I think that would be wonderful, especially if it's the same process because then people are familiar, they know where to go, and then they're not surprised when the project either happens or doesn't happen. So having said that, it sounds like we have reached the the end of our discussion with regards to the TFP. Are there any last comments? Okay.

So at this point, I would entertain a motion for the commission to recommend the twenty twenty six, two thousand forty five transportation facilities plan update to the City Council for approval.

So moved.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Okay. Alright. Any debate or discussion? Alright. So all those in favor, please say aye.

Aye. Aye.

K. All those opposed, nay or no. K. And it looks like we have a unanimous decision here, so that passes. I'd also like to entertain a motion to approve the Transportation Commission transmittal letter to city council.

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second. Okay.

Alright. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye. Aye.

All those opposed, no. Okay. Sounds unanimous. It is unanimous. So thank you very much, Mike, and Chris, for your Chris for your presentation.

You.

Alright.

So, yes, we'll be in touch with about availability for the eighteenth when we brief the council. And then at that time, we'll also be discussing the impact fee program with the city council. The transportation facilities plan supports the city's transportation impact fee program where new development, you know, helps to pay for the cost of some of these projects.

Great.

And that's built into the funding model that we we looked at earlier.

Okay. Thanks, Mike and Christy. Alright. Moving on with the agenda, we have the approval of the minutes. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes from our September 11 meeting?

So moved. Second.

Alright. Any amendments? Alright. Is there any objection to approving the minutes? Hearing none, the minutes are approved. It looks like we have no unfinished business and no new business. Next up, we have a review of the commission calendar. Kevin, can you please review the planned agendas for the upcoming Transportation Commission meetings?

Sure, commissioner Ting. I've mentioned a couple things on your calendar. One is the October 16 open public meetings act meeting, and the other is the December 8 parliamentary procedures training. Other than that, I have I have no formal commission meetings in November or December. Something may come up, so hold the dates. But I I have nothing for November or December right now. Our our next formal get together as planned, it would be the January. I think it's on the ninth.

Okay. Great. Thank you. Alright. Looks like we are at the end of the meeting. Are there any objections to adjourning the meeting? Alright. Seeing none, thank you very much. We are adjourned.