City Council - Regular Meeting

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like to call the work session order for April 13, 2026. City clear, please read the roll call. Let the record reflect that all members are present. And Councilwoman Gillis, can you confirm you are uh you can hear us? Yes. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. We have one item on the agenda tonight. I would like to remind council that staff will be pausing every so often to answer any question. The item is to receive an all update on the traffic operations and road safety action plan. Uh please introduce yourself, whoever's going to kick us off.

Mayor, and thank you very much. And members of the council, just wanted to before I turn it over to our um panel here, I wanted to just introduce the topic a little bit. We'd heard from a number of you um on a couple different issues. is we know that traffic is one of the most important pro uh issues facing our constituents and our residents and businesses and uh we're going to be talking about that tonight. Some of the concerns that were brought up were some of the traffic related issues around the city that we're seeing as we face unprecedented growth. The other one is as we've also embarked on uh developing a road safety action plan. I know we've talked on on a number of occasions with council about that plan, but we know that one of the big pieces of that is being able to get public input and feedback on that. So we're going to cover some of the um ways in which uh the public can interact with that plan and be able to provide feedback. Uh that is actually very easy. So we're going to give a little bit demonstration of that. Uh before you got multiple departments who are going to be talking to you u from our police department, from our engineering department, and from our development services department. There are a number of departments who are involved in traffic related issues, but these are the three that deal with it most closely. And uh so we have uh Chief Esset up here, Steve Sento, our engineering director, and Katie Wilin, our development services director. And uh so the way we've structured the presentation is really more of a conversation. So we have a number of topics that we're talking about. We're going to pause at each one if there's uh feedback or questions or discussion that you'd like to have. We're going to have that opportunity as well. Thankfully, we only have one item on the agenda, so we have some time to be able to talk about it. So I'm going to turn it over to Steve who's going to kick us off.

Okay. Thank you.

All right. Thanks, Kenny. So, good evening, Mayor and Council. Again, Steve Sinto, uh, city engineer. And as Katie mentioned, uh, Chief, uh, Brian Isit and DSD director Katie Wilkin are here with me tonight, and we're going to be updating you on many aspects of our traffic operation around the city, and as another touch point, um, for council discussion and on the public engagement aspect of the road safety action plan. So, we've got a a pretty packed agenda tonight. Um, as Keny mentioned, we'll be going through multiple areas. So, first I will talk about traffic cameras. Uh what types of cameras we use in the city and what we use them for. Then I'll cover our traffic counts. Uh what they are and how we use them. Uh traffic signals will be next. I'll go over detection types, signal timing, and some of the factors that impact our traffic management in the city. Then I'll hand it off to Chief who will cover uh traffic enforcement. And then we'll hand it over to Katie who will cover construction permitting and uh temporary traffic control in the city. And then finally, I'll wrap it up uh with the touch point on a road safety action plan. And as uh Keeny mentioned, uh there'll be multiple points and this evening for council discussion in between all the major areas and at the end of the presentation. All right. So, to get us started off, I'll I'll start with the types of cameras in the city. So, uh there are two main types of cameras in the city that we use for traffic signals. um they're both mounted on the signal poles and one is uh one's a detection camera and the second one's a point tilt zoom or PTZ camera. So just to be clear, neither of these camera types are license plate readers nor are they speeding ticket cameras. They're uh for traffic management. So detection cameras are on the top right of the screen there. They're fixed live stream and not recorded and they're used for vehicle detection only. Um while our PTZ cameras on the bottom left uh they're both live streamed and recorded and they're for

viewing the right of way in real time and uh monitoring the traffic in the city. Uh now some of council may recall uh that council adopted a traffic camera recording policy back in October of 2024. So it's been a little while. Um this policy governs the access, use, and retention of the video footage uh we record from the PTZ cameras. So access is restricted to authorized engineering personnel only and can be provided to the police department upon request. Uh the uses are restricted to traffic operations and PD investigations and they can they can be used to help us uh find issues with traffic, go back and review it as well as review traffic accidents after the fact. As a side note, um cameras and the footage will be available to the real-time crime center once that's up and running. Just quick quick question. I think you answered it, but uh you can also with those cameras go back and review like an accident to see the cause of the accident, that type of thing with that camera,

mayor. Yes, absolutely.

Okay. Um and finally uh the retention schedule which gets into that uh it's governed by the state retention uh ASRS and um the minimums for this type of footage are uh 14 days unless police department pulls it then it moves to a different retention schedule which is dependent on the case type could be up to 99 years depending on the crime. Um so for traffic related incidents 14 days we'd want to make sure we um can look at that within that time frame. And so one final item worth noting one of the major major advantages of having uh recordings is that we can go back again and and investigate the traffic incidents and better determine what happened. Um, so if you see something or hear something from someone or have questions or specific concerns, you can let us know in the engineering department and we can go back and take a look within that 14-day window.

Hold on. You got a question. I want to uh just ask a question before we move on to the next slide. So, you said that the PTZ cameras do record information and it's made available for accidents, but is it made available to the public in case of their dealing with an accident with their insurance company? Mayor, Council Member Kano. Yes. Um, they are available via public records request within that window. Thank you. Absolutely.

Uh, thanks, Mayor. Uh, Steve, with traffic cameras, I wanted to get a little bit to the genesis of them. Do you know how long either the vehicle detection cameras or the PTZ cameras that we have had traffic cameras here in the city of Goodyear? My assumption is this is not a new technology. I've been seeing traffic camera on the morning news reports since when I was a little kid. So I assume this is not new technology. This is just very similar to what we've always had. Is that correct? Council member Cherry. Absolutely. I believe uh we started installing these in the city about 20 years ago.

About 20 years. So we've had these for at least 20 years. And you mentioned license plate readers which capture just a license plate and just kind of a um you know a broad description of a vehicle. What can these cameras what can a PTZ camera see? They can see pretty much anything in real time. So it's a closed circuit TV camera.

Yeah. So basically from my point of view these are cameras we've had for 20 years or so. these types of camera more than that. Some cities have had them decades longer than that. Uh and they can see a heck of a lot more than some of those other very specific tools. Um I I did want to check you had mentioned the real time crime center with these PTZ cameras. You know, technology changes over time. Once this is up by the end of the year, I I assume um our dispatch operator in the real time crime or operators in the real time crime center will be able to have access to these cameras one. That's is that correct?

That's the intent. I don't know all the details myself, but the intent is that they'll be able to access the cameras and move them themselves. I

I think that's vital um for the efficiency of a real-time crime center. you know, if there's an an issue or you know, a for example, say Lichfield and McDall, there's a brawl in the parking lot of McDonald's. Uh, as soon as it calls in, we actually have eyes on within 20 seconds of that call or something that is happening within view of the rightway within the public right away. Um, which, you know, legally, you know, we that's fully covered. um you know just to be able to have that access to be able to turn the camera to catch like if there's a assault or hey somebody was just kidnapped and taken into a red car or something like that being able to pick that up. I know when uh chief gave his strategic plan it's something I know I think I remember councilomano saying it I' I've said it if you commit a violent crime here in Goodyear we will catch you and we will prosecute you. Um, and I want to make sure that that's always the case. And this is just one more tool um, to that front. But when it comes to the technology, do we have cameras that are in need of updating or I know city manager, you are well experienced with the city of Phoenix and their um, traffic systems. Um, they have many more intersections than we do. I I I don't know if this is for either city manager or Steve, but to make sure that all of our intersections are updated with the proper technology. Are we already there? Um I I know, you know, that's we're building a lot of intersections each year in our budget. So, I I wanted to make sure that we are pretty much already there or do we need to invest more in in these systems?

Great question, Council Member Terry. So I think the the answer to that is first of all they are in our engineering design standards. So every new intersection that comes on board already has these up there. Every other intersection in the city does have these cameras as they hit their uh life cycle. Then we replace them under asset management plan. So I uh essentially every active intersection in the city does have these cameras.

Okay, that's good to know. And then last one um sorry for springing this upon you uh to the city attorney. Um, we mentioned how we have city policy that regulates operation recording of the traffic camera footage. What does state law require or that you're initially aware of? To my knowledge, it's pretty broad as far as, you know, your public record. Is is there anything in terms of what the public of what we must provide? Um, how long we must retain this data? How long what can it be used for? What can it be used for? So the state law hang

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uh the state law requires a 14-day retention if it's just for um not for investigatory purposes but if it's just regulatory like you you just retain it but I think Steve mentioned that you know for instance if you see an accident somebody you know we filed an accident report, we've cited someone, we would keep it longer based on the need, but you know, your general purpose where it's just recording as a as as a matter of course, it's just 14 days. Uh, and there was some thought that we would keep it for a less amount of time because we didn't need it. It requires a lot of storage. We did request that the state archivist who sets the retention schedule maybe look at that and reduce it because you know we have so much and you know so much of it's not needed but we were shot down uh pretty hard. So as a normal course 14 days if you do see like you were seeing a mugging or something it becomes evidence in a criminal case it'll be pulled out. It will be retained for as long as you you have that case and it becomes evidence in the case. There is nothing at this point that talks about how you can use this information who can access. We have as a city have adopted policies that talk about what we want it used for and have limited but it's not mandated by state law. So, and then our policy for certain information is we try to protect even under a public records request access to information that you know people could use for stalking, you know, to find patterns of

red license plates and things like that, don't we? Yeah. Or we we actually just blur it out, you know, because the intent of the public records law is to show what government's doing with their money and, you know, taxpayers money so they know what we're doing. Well, individual license plate that doesn't mean they don't need to know what license plate to know that we're monitoring that we have monitoring devices. So, we've been pretty lucky. Nobody's really challenged us on it, but we do try to protect that information. And I think that our policies are also geared so that this information is not used uh misused.

No, I I think it's incredibly important to protect that information um to not just give that out. Those privacy protections are there. But from what it sounds like is that the state is rather broad leaving it to the cities to determine these specific policies um on what it can and can or they're at least not not specific at at this point. Yes. My understanding is that there's a lot of movement down at the legislature and there's bills regul trying to regulate it, but at this point um we don't have those regulations that limit how you can use it or what you have to.

Okay. No, that that's that's good to know. So whereas state law currently is broad, we've adopted policies that are much more strict and defined and specific to what it can be used for and what it can be used for. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. All right. Thank you, Mayor Wally. My question's simple. Steve, did I understand you correctly that you said all of our intersections have some type of a camera? Absolutely. And what is the purpose of the vehicle detention camera and what does it actually do? The vehicle detection camera. Thank you, uh, Council Member Campbell. Well, the vehicle detection camera does essentially what it sounds like. Uh, it can detect cameras as they approach the intersection. Does it do anything though?

It can it does help control how the traffic signals function. Okay. It can, but it doesn't necessarily do that at all intersections. Correct. Um, it's used in all intersections. Um, I'll get into a little later maybe some of the inner workings of of the different types of signal control, but it is used at all intersections in the city that have a traffic signal. Okay. Thank you, Medina. Well, it sounds like if there was an accident, that retention would be longer. Is that kind of how it generally works?

Council member Beckles. Um, if the police department does pull it for an accident related, it then is retained for as long as they need it. So, have you ever had anybody, this is just a crazy question, have you ever had anybody who came back, it wasn't an accident, nothing happened. Have you ever had anybody come back and ask for um a camera footage for something after the 14 days and it was gone? Um, to the best of my knowledge, I actually I'm not sure. I I do not know the answer to that right now. We could find out though. Thank you. Good. Go ahead. Go ahead.

All right. Moving along to traffic counts. So, um, what are traffic counts? So, they're basically what they sound like. Uh, we count traffic volume, speed, and travel time data in the city. And how do we collect that data? Well, we collect it in two main ways. Uh, one is using road tubes or pneumatic tubes. Those are those little boxes uh with tubes across the roadway similar to what you see in a couple of the pictures there. And they work by literally by counting puffs of air um as they're created as vehicle tires roll over the tubes. And then they analyze the counts and determine the average traffic volume and speed uh from that data. So with the current level of growth in the city, we typically collect this data every year or two based on the type of roadway. Um we actually just wrapped up the latest counts for 2026. So, it's possible that you may have seen some of these in the city very recently. Um, the second main way we collect data is through IT equipment um called roadside units or RSUs, similar to that little router device uh on the screen there. And they can detect smart devices and cars wirelessly and provide us with travel time and speed collection data. And as you'd imagine, this data is collected continuously. Um, and it's also completely anonymous. Uh so what do we use this data for or what do we use the counts for? So traffic data collected from the road tubes. Um it's most often used to plan new roadway projects, intersection improvements including traffic signals. Uh and we also make this available to the public and their engineers development community. It sometimes uh aids in their development related studies and transactions. um traffic data collected from the RSUs. Uh that's that's primarily used for intelligence signal timing applications and determining how well traffic flows down a corridor in the city. Um then can also be used to inform uh infrastructure projects in supplement to the other traffic counts that I mentioned. And and

before I move on, just to kind of cover um what we have recently done here, I've got some statistics. So, the the 2026 uh traffic counts, we we had it counted at about 240 locations around the city. It's a 24-hour count uh including volume and speed. The data collection started in about January, went through February. We paused for spring training because that's an anomaly, right? And then we picked that up and um finished uh basically last week and um we'll probably have the analysis done by June. So that'll be up uploaded to the website once we have that completed for the latest study. All right, moving on to traffic signals. Uh so let's start with vehicle detection. So there's there's two types two main types of detection we use in the city. Um one we've been using the longest and that's video as as we previously discussed a little bit ago. Um and it's currently installed at all the intersections with traffic signals in the city. Uh the second detection type is radar and some of you you may recall we piloted this a few years ago at Cotton and Yuma. It performed very well and we're now deploying it all over the city. Um they complement each other as video provides a a good visual uh and is good for short distances up to about 150 ft and radar can detect merch further uh up to 400 ft or more and it can also distinguish different types of vehicles uh better than the the video. adding the radar component, it it does allow the intersections to take even more advantage of some of the new technologies regarding safety and traffic management. So, it's been a big upgrade. So, moving on to signal.

Hold on one second there. Those lines where those cars are, does it make a difference if they're not coming to the specific zone where they're picking that up as far as messing up the actual signaling or whatever? Because I know they're designed there for something. It picks up where your car is sitting. Those lines mean something. Can you explain that?

Absolutely, Mayor. So, those those lines are they're essentially a detection a detection box. So, when a vehicle is within one of those green boxes, the camera detects it and then tells the controller, "Hey, we've got a vehicle in this box." Um, so if if they're outside of there, kind of in the area between the green boxes, then it it doesn't pick that up. Um, and then further back, it'll pick those vehicles up as they approach the intersection. Okay, that's what I thought. I just want to remember Go ahead.

I I find that it picks up right turns a lot and I don't know if that's anything that can be fine-tuned that uh somebody will pull up to make a right turn and it switches to accommodate it, but does it have any ability to discern right turns from everybody else?

Council member Kano. Um yes. Um if you So most of the signals intersections in the city have a delay on the right turn. So if it detects one, then it won't trip and it'll give it enough time to go through. If you do see that behavior somewhere, let us know because it could be that there's one or two out there that Okay. Yeah, please let us know. We can review that. Mayor um and council member Kano if I may. I know one change we did make um in the last few years is if it's a dedicated right turn lane like the one in the picture there, there is actually a um a um delay, meaning that it it needs to detect a vehicle for 10 seconds before it'll actually um potentially impact the phasing.

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Go ahead. Okay. So to dive a little more into the signal operating types um so I mentioned um you know we've got a couple different detection um both of those can be used for the first uh signal type we have I guess back up there's two main also two main operating types in the city right one is fully actuated and the second is coordinated um so think of fully actuated as the intersection is programmed to react to vehicles as they arrive so these work best where vehicles arrive at an intersection at random. Um, and it's the default configuration for all of our intersections around the city. So, I've got an example for you. You can see the picture up there of something close to home right out front here at 150th Drive and Goodyear Way. So, if after the council meeting you leave city hall and good your way and you want to make a left to go north on 150th, um you'll pull up to the signal, stop in the left lane, uh the camera detects you uh as it sees you in one of those green detection boxes up there and um at it earliest time it can, it'll stop traffic on 150th and then it'll give you a green arrow that allows you to make that northbound turn uh and go through the intersection. Then once it no longer detects a vehicle in one of those boxes on 150th, it'll switch the green back to 150th um that in fully actuated mode essentially it we're still going to prioritize or it'll favor the street with the most volume which in this case is 150th and that's where you'll have your resting green. So it should rest on 150th um and then be actuated from somebody coming up on a side street. a question.

Yes. Thank you, mayor. Uh just quickly on the vehicle detection, um public safety vehicles, do they have the ability at all to influence um the traffic signal signals at all? And can you or um chief or um the deputy fire chief speak to that? How that's possible, how it's used, and any guardrails that we may have on that? Mayor, uh, Council Member Terry, I can start and then and pass it off to Chief. All the, uh, intersections do have, uh, a preeemption device, um, that it does allow authorized vehicles to preempt the signal and change it green so that they can get through to where they're needed.

Yeah. Is there a timing on that? Because you know if you have a signal quickly changing obviously they need to get somewhere for a reason. But if you ch but if you change a signal like a signal turns green and then within two seconds it's back to red like that that could cause some issues. Um what what is the timing like on that as well? Spoiler alert. I had that further along in the presentation. You're absolutely right. Um, while obviously it's intended for the use of our public safety so they can get to where they need to be, it does impact signal timing especially in certain certain instances which then can take some while to recover.

Uh, Mayor Paz, Council Member Terry. So the uh each patrol car uh has what is called an optic. Uh, so the the officer can activate uh that device. Uh it's basically like a uh it sounds like a taser, but it looks like a strobe uh that uh that hits the uh preeemption uh uh component of the uh traffic light and that's what changes uh that's what changes the cycle. So, our officers are supposed to only use that on uh uh active uh priority one calls for service and priority two calls um if they need to get to the uh if they need to get to the the scene urgently. So, I know the fire department also has uh the same um device on their their equipment as well

and I assume it's the same process with it. Okay, nods are good there. All right. Thank you, Mayor. Can I ask a question here? Okay. Is this where we ask a question about a specific traffic signal? Council member Campbell. Absolutely. All right. Coming out of Civic Square and hanging a left and going all the way down to Cambridge and Bullard. Why is there not a detect? There is a camera there, but it does not change the light until probably six to nine cars are in the left-hand turn lane. That's great.

And I've talked to you about this for months and months and months. And I just want to bring to your attention all of the town houses and apartments are now full in the two areas people are cutting through from Pebble Creek Parkway on that thoroughare to get to Bullard to hang a right to get on the freeway. So I just wonder if if it's not reading correctly or if the camera isn't working correctly. But it's the same story every day. Doesn't matter what time of the day or night. Doesn't matter if it's a Saturday or a Sunday where there's no traffic on Bullard whatsoever. It still will not change.

Council member Campbell, that's a great question and you know, we can certainly go back and look at that again. I will be covering it. That signal operates a little different. It's in coordinated mode and that's probably why you're experiencing what you're experiencing. Um, and I'll cover the times of day and whatnot in the and the days of the week. So, I I I believe that's probably why you're experiencing what you're experiencing, but we can definitely go back. was covered for a long time with the burlap until the all of the apartments finished building and then they finished all the units up by actually city hall. So there's a tremendous amount of traffic plus there's a little park there as well. So maybe you need to take a look at that one. Certainly we can re review it. Thanks.

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All right. Thank you. Um moving on to coordinated signals. Uh so I'll talk a little bit about the second main way that we uh have signals programmed in the city. So think of coordinated uh as actuated signals but with the benefit of utilizing data uh to prioritize volume and direction on a roadway corridor. Um so signals are timed so that vehicles traveling a certain speed uh can hit consecutive green lights sometimes called a green wave as you can kind of visualize it. So we use offsets or time differences between the signals uh to manage progression through the intersection. And you can see that little animation kind of shows you the greens are offset, right? So if you start in the beginning, you should get to the next intersection with the green, the next one, the next one, the next one, and have that green wave. That's the idea. Um so these work best where the vehicle groups are expected to move down a corridor in a more predictable way. Say during rush hour going towards I 10, just an example. um and designed to maximize their green time as they move through that corridor. Uh so ultimately coordination is about trade-offs though. Um it's to maximize efficiency for the most vehicles. So if you're traveling down the corridor, you can anticipate more green signals and smoother travel. Um but if you're arriving from side streets, I think similar likely to the situation that Council Member Campbell mentioned, you you can anticipate longer wait times for Greens. Um, so I've got an example up there on the screen of Bullard and Estraa as one of the areas that's under coordination. So if I'm traveling south on Bullard to get to Straya Mountain Ranch and um I hit that intersection and I stop in the left lane again, uh if there hasn't been a car waiting there already um uh or if it turned red recently, you know, I can expect I may wait up to two minutes to make that

left. Um and then you know usually uh 2 minutes is the longest but wait usually it's shorter than that but if the circumstances are correct to prioritize Estraa and coordinate Estraa I may weigh up to two minutes to make a left turn on there. Um so one final note about coordination you know currently uh we operate coordinated corridors between 6:00 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. uh 7 days a week. So outside of those hours, they all revert back to fully actuated, but within those hours, you'll experience a similar uh you'll have a similar experience all across the coordinated corridors in the city. Um, and I want to cover one more type. I know I said we use two types in the city. There's actually a third one that we're piloting and it's called adaptive or dynamic signal control. Um, we have a strategic plan item for fiscal year 26. So we'll be back, engineering will be back in June to fully brief council. But I did want to mention we're piloting this uh in several areas and essentially it's it's where the signals talk to each other and interact with each other to make small adjustments to better uh handle traffic flow in real time. So we're hopeful for for some promising results, but we'll be again we'll be back in in June uh to to discuss that a work session.

Questions? Vicki, do you have anything you want to add right now? No, I'm fine. Thank you. Go ahead.

Okay. So, um just uh to wrap up the signal section, uh we have a you know, we have a team of professionals that works hard to balance the many factors involved with managing traffic flow in the city. And in general, when we we're using our utilizing our technology, they can keep things uh flowing as efficiently as possible. But along those lines, we do I did want to touch on some of the the a few of the factors at least that that we have to you know that we have to deal with and mitigate that do impact um the traffic flow in the city. So the first of those is population and land use changes. So with new development, tenant improvements, business changes even I mean it can change the dynamic and depending on how large the change is, it can it can significantly impact traffic flow at intersections um or on roadways in the city. The second is ongoing construction. And this is really happens in two main ways, right? First is large construction sites. Think your data centers, think your major uh your major industrial um they can have a influx of of many cars, workers with cars and trucks while it's being constructed. Sometimes during interesting hours during the day um and it's temporary, you know, that gets built and then they move on. um and then it turns into the permanent as I discussed with the you know land use change. The second construction related uh traffic impact has to do with temporary traffic control. Katie is going to talk a little bit more about that. Um but essentially if there's roadway widening, utility relocations, even sometimes maintenance in the city. Um you know, you'll see that temporary traffic control which can significantly change how traffic patterns work during that period of time. Uh the next one is is pretty intuitive, but I 10 regional traffic impacts. If I 10's closed or even restricted during peak times, a lot of that traffic ends up on arterials. Think your you know McDow, your Vampurine, but in in very I guess extreme situations, it can have

repercussions throughout the entire city. Um and then finally, as was brought up previously, signal preeemptions. Again, you know, obviously we want our first responders to have top priority as intended, but it does impact signal timing. And um for the coordinated corridors, it can take up to five cycles or more to get back to uh the normal program. And so again, just a snapshot into some of the complexities that staff deals with when managing the traffic network in the city.

Got a question for you. Um, bies, is there a way to manually control or there be officers out there, for example, if they see stuff backing up on 10 or backing up to get off of Bullard to get into BIES or on what is it? life way, you know, that uh cancer treatment centers to to move things along if they have to speed it up a little bit, slow it down because I not an engineer, but my gut tells me that that that's going to be some interesting challenges, especially for the first few weeks when it opens. Now, the good news is it's summertime, so that means there's less people coming to Arizona because the heat be pretty pretty substantial. But at the same token, I'm hoping we have some fallback plan to mitigate traffic and how you're going to move it in and out whenever that opens.

Mayor, um I'll take the first shot and then uh chief can step in too. Um we we are already coordinating on it. We have two ways like you mentioned. Um officers can control from the intersection from the the boxes, but we also can control remotely from the TMC. Um, so we'll have folks monitoring actively and we'll be coordinating and doing the best job we can to keep things moving. And as much as you're absolutely right, you don't have to be an engineer to know that it's going to be a lot of traffic when that opens. So, okay, Chief,

I was just I was only going to add that uh and the worst case scenario, our officers uh are obviously going to be prepared to get out there and actually direct traffic to keep uh to keep it moving. So, uh, we're we're in the preparation for for the grand opening for the city manager. If if the uh 50 foot buck uh beaver starts to be an attraction, it may even add more to uh people coming here to the city. So, thank you. I appreciate that. Anybody have any what we got? Go ahead and we'll work. Okay, Steve. How much does it does one traffic signal cost?

Great question, Council Member Campbell. It it varies, but generally I'd say maybe million, 1.1 million. It used to be 495,000 for each signal. And I complained then that we need to stop using those signals and get a another brown signal somewhere because that's such an exorbitant amount of money to spend on a traffic light that really I don't know if it works better or less than the plain ones like everyone else has. So, is there any discussion at all to cut down those costs?

And great question, Council Member Campbell. And I believe so, going back a little while, um, there was a discussion around this and the city engineer at the time, the city changed the standards and the engineering design standards and allows certain areas of the city to have the AOT uh, look, which I remember that as you may recall,

not a not the large modular, but the thinner circular poles. However, because of the installation costs and the steel, there's really less than 10% difference in cost all said and done. But of course, the areas that they're supposed to be ADOT moving forward, we've been constructing and the development community that's been constructing. Um, and then in the other areas that have modular, we add modular so it doesn't uh, you know, aesthetically doesn't look displeasing as you go down the roadway. You can see a similar

I don't think people really even notice what they are, Steve. They look for a red or a green light. That's it. they, you know, they don't care if it's pink, purple, or yellow. It's just that all of ours happen to be brown, just like Tempy. So, but I just want us to be very much aware of how expensive these are. And if maybe we need to think that if we're going to put lights in, the developer pays for those, not us all the time because that's an exorbitant amount of money. Is that if it's a million for two or one signal? It's for it's for the full intersection for that whole intersection. Exactly. It's a lot of money.

And and just to touch on one of the things you brought up, the development community does pay for their impact. Um whether it's a quarter of the signal or that's part of the the regular standard of development. Good. So they do pay their share. Good. Thank you. Who was it over here that had one? Go ahead. Go ahead. Good. Bonita, you paper scissors.

Um, you mentioned for BIES the collaboration between PD and uh the traffic center, which is good and and I feel like we had this discussion about spring training not too long ago because we weren't doing that before. We was I think just one maybe just PD operating. Um, is that kind of the new norm now to have the two departments work collaboratively to look at traffic more holistically? I I would say yes. I believe so. Okay, that sounds ambiguous.

I mean that that is our approach. It just depends on the situation. So for big events like spring training or big events, things like that, that it's not just the officer on the ground looking around, it's somebody's also in the center taking taking a a larger view.

Okay. Because I think that's really important. Um, regarding the the look of the traffic um uh signals, it it's interesting that there's similarity in costs. And I think for our uh major thorough affairs where we do have that consistent look, I would recommend just keeping that consistent look. Um I think most everything is up uh already, but the the few intersections that that aren't, but um you know, just uh I I see that it makes sense we did make that adjustment, but we do have those major thorough affairs and and and I support a consistent look. Go Venita then then you

what's the staffing in the traffic management center? Um council member Beckles there are um we have our city traffic engineer assistant city traffic engineer. We've got a about six to seven depending on the time um operations staff that maintain all of our equipment and um we have an IT analyst and we were hiring an operator. So add all those together around 10 to to 11. Do they have set hours or um

so good question. Uh they do have set hours. Um but they're all there's always an on call schedule to for callins like like for bies. So we going to add hours. Correct. Right. And we have we have multiple tools available to us overtime call out pay things of that nature. Thank you.

Yeah, I was just going to mention also about BIES, too, that um it's going to be like a spring training almost every day and it's going to be maybe like a NASCAR every week potentially. So, I don't treat it something like like that kind of event. I hate to have an officer there paying an officer there for every single day in 12 hour shift, but I I don't know whatever that's going to look like in the future. Yeah, with 120 degrees out there, but I don't want to use that as a mitigating mitigating strategy, but if there's some way that we can try to help that because if it is truly going to be 100,000 people a week, that's going to be it's a lot of traffic. And I looking at the how they're fixing it right now. I mean, it's still like a one lane to like a three lane kind of off like on to get on the on-ramp or off-ramp. I mean, it's I don't think it's going to be enough. Um, but I know we can't have the money to go restructure and have ADOT. I know I went I went I know we talked to DC and we talked to all our Congress people and all our senators about the need for help with those kind of things too and it's not going to be fast but I just want us to think about that as a it's going to be our tourist attraction for quite a while I think as well that's my first question. So, um, Mayor and Vice Mayor Hampton, I think the one thing about the BIES opening I I we probably alluded to a little bit is we have some um ongoing multi-EP department um preparation meetings going on right now to prepare for the June 22nd opening. And some of that is related specifically to public safety and transportation. So, we have Chief and Steve and a number of team members who are looking at this. Um, I would say on opening day, what I would envision is you'd have police presence out there to be able to respond on the fly to what we're what we're going to be seeing as we experience this. But to the point of both you and Council Member Beckles is as we um deal with this days after or weeks after that, it is likely more efficient for us to have a TMC a controller in the TMC to be able to adjust signal timing on the fly rather than have somebody necessarily out there

um running the manual um gun from the box. Yeah, it would be better to have use our cameras that we just talked about and just doing it from there. But I think there'll be some more has to be someone doing it. I think just because of we don't know it's a change daily. We don't know the patterns, traffic patterns, all that kind of stuff yet.

And um to add to to add to what Keiny mentioned just a couple a couple levels further, you know, you mentioned some of the improvements that are going on. When Bies came in, we had a traffic impact analysis and they had some requirements based on that, but but like we've alluded to. It's a unique situation here. We don't really know exactly what it's going to look like until they're here, right? So, we're also preparing uh brought an engineer back on that helped us uh augment that study and we're going to have them go out and and monitor and then readjust and see what it looks like long term, what those recommendations are. Um and in addition to that uh we have um a strategic plan item for fiscal year 27 to um and and we've requested that funding in the CIP to do uh design concept reports for board and I 10field and I 10 interchanges. So we're definitely fullcourt pressing it um to try and prepare and and look to the future.

Okay. And then the other point was I know we brought up traffic signals. I mean, I would like to see us have uh at least our borders of I guess Aendelle and Litro Park and Buckeye to have those type of signals maybe look nicer, bigger, say very clearly, distinctly that you've now entered Goodyear, whatever that whatever that looks like for us. And the internal internal ones would be the normal traffic signals with like the small Goodyear symbol on it. I that looks like in the future. I know like when you cross an ABN, you know, you're an abn because you cross a checker flag. We don't have anything that really distinguishes us except that we're I think we're cleaner and nicer looking, but I don't know. But there's nothing that really defines that you're now in Goodyear for the most part. So, I'd be okay looking at options for that. I don't know what that looks like. I've seen other cities have like little mountains on their traffic sign. I think Paradise Valley or someone has there's just different things out there that I've seen. So, I know they're expensive because I remember when Dulky was talking about a new a new signal and he's like, "I don't know we can get the 700 one or the $400,000 one." So, so, so yeah, I know everything's gone up, but it is what it is. We got a budget for them and make it happen. So, but but that's my thought of I'd like to at least when you enter Goodyear that you that might be one way to notify people that you're in Goodyear. So,

appreciate the feedback. Okay. Can I just say one thing? I know you're preparing, but people camp out the night before. The one in Dallas, we had 12,000 people. 12,000. That didn't include anyone getting off of the freeway that were just there ready for that door to open at 6:00 in the morning. So, while you're saying June 22nd, do the 21st as well. Yeah. Well, I don't know that they're going to have a ribbon cutting. I heard they weren't, so I don't know. Okay. All right. Go on.

All right. With that, I'm gonna hand it over to Chief who can walk through the enforcement part.

All right. A topic that's near and dear to my heart, uh, traffic enforcement. So, I'm going to share um share some stats with you uh tonight uh that I received from our our traffic bureau. So just for your own edification understanding, everybody in our department on patrol is expected to uh conduct traffic enforcement when they're not busy otherwise with other calls for service. So however, we do have a a traffic bureau that's specifically dedicated to our highprofile uh traffic complaints and uh and then other enforcement throughout the city. So go ahead. Uh our traffic stops from 2024 to 2025 uh they dipped a little bit but go to the next one but our traffic related citations increased. So uh you know we went up by 23.4% and I've a little bit later I'll share a little bit more of a breakdown with what what we were citing with. But you know this is the old uh you know uh rear view mirror test. Uh, every time you see a uh police car, uh, I don't know, I'm sure you guys are like me because I do the same thing. The first thing I do is look at look at my speedometer and I'm like, okay, I'm going the speed limit. That's good news. But uh um to the point uh our officers are afforded uh discretion. So the whole point of a traffic stop and traffic enforcement is either education uh through a warning or education through a citation. So go ahead. Uh this is uh promising. So um you know since I've been doing law enforcement over the past uh 25 years now in Arizona, the uh the three main uh contributing factors uh during that time has been uh for for

collisions or accidents has been DUI or driving uh driving impaired uh speed or distracted driving. Distracted driving has obviously increased with the inception of the cell phone, but those consistently have been the three main uh causial factors for for any type of traffic collisions. Our DUIs uh as you can see uh between 2024 and 2025 have trended downward. Uh I can tell you that's not for lack of effort. Our officers are out there. Um we uh consistently um rank high above you know high above other agencies uh with the governor office of highway safety for uh doing DUI enforcement. So when I see that kind of decrease I really do believe that we are seeing lesser DUIs out on the street which is which is good news. Uh, next. So, our civil uh speed cit speed citations uh you can see they're up, but the good news is our criminal speed citations are down. So, again, what what this is telling me is that we're focusing on the right things. With the criminal speed citations going down by almost 30.9%. That tells me that the enforcement efforts are and probably more also the presence of uh having more officers on the street is is slowing people down so they're not going the crazy speeds of 21 uh miles per hour or over. Uh but we still are seeing uh people speeding. So, we've still got work to do, but overall, I I think seeing the uh almost 31% decrease in the in the criminal speed is a really great sign. Uh and then lastly, the uh the hands-free uh citations. So, this year, we've really made an effort

to focus uh our efforts on distracted driving. Um hence why you see an increase there uh to the almost 24%. uh other areas that uh you know with the uh you know the 11,000 plus uh traffic related citations. So of the uh the the civil and criminal speed that equated for about 24% of the uh of the citations uh that were uh that were issued. Our hands-free uh accounted for about eight uh 8.5% almost. Here's uh here's a almost 9% uh we had 540 citations for for uh people with no driver's license. Uh we had uh a little over uh 4% 478 uh citations for people with suspended driver's license. So, between the two, we uh that equated for almost 9% of tickets for people that really shouldn't have been driving at all because they either weren't licensed or their driving uh license uh uh was suspended. Their privileges were suspended.

Quick question, Chief. Um which I guess is good news. You go back one more slide there. Which is good news. It looks like the criminal speeding has dropped significantly. any idea why or are the u officers getting you know tagging them with more civil speeding? Yeah. So, uh Mayor Pazilla, I really do believe uh a couple factors in there. Number one, uh we have more officers out on the street, so there's there's greater presence. Okay.

Uh again, you know, going back to what I said a second ago, you see a police car, it's just instinct. The first thing you do, you look at your speedometer and hopefully you're driving the speed limit. Uh the second thing is, you know, I I really do believe that our enforcement education efforts uh have been, you know, we've been consistent with that and I I do believe that, you know, there's there's obviously people that we have uh have given citations for criminal speeding. They're probably not doing that any longer. And uh so um you know that also has a causal effect as well. Like I said, we're we're still seeing the civil speed citations, but you know, those are much less than than the 20 m hour.

Well, that's good to hear. I I like to I like to see that that has dropped significantly. Go ahead, Ray. Thank you, Mayor. Uh chief, you mentioned, you know, how you have more officer like what are numbers related to the patrol increases that we've seen over the last year and a half or so? Um cuz when we hear for the residents, it's like when are you guys going to tackle this stuff? What are you guys doing to tackle this stuff? Where are we on the numbers for more patrol? What does that look like per maybe per shift or per like how many per per any given point in time? How many officers do we have out there and how many more are we continuously adding?

Great question, Councilman Terry. So, um, when I I think I talked about this a little bit in our our budget discussion, uh, last week, but when I first got here, our patrol model was, uh, we had 52 people on patrol in August uh, 2024, which basically with sick leave and just people out, we were down in the 40s, uh, possibly even the 30s. Um, right now uh with the upcoming right well I created a uh a new model uh when I first got here based off of 64. Um so those are all fully staffed and so they are out there that also includes um our what we call gold squads which is our tactical teams. So they are also out there. They answer calls for service. uh they are still uh active and you you can see them although they are a little difficult because they're in unmarked cars. Um so the next uh iteration that uh we will hit in September we are increasing the patrol model to 84 officers. So that uh basically from the 52 in August of 2024 to the 84 that uh we will have coming up here in September. That is a 62% increase uh into the patrol bureau uh for officers to be out on the street and uh responding to calls.

Okay. Thank you. Um on the traffic enforcement, earlier we talked about cameras. Uh do we use traffic cameras or video to enforce uh civil traffic violations?

That's a great question. We if we have um if we have like for example a fatality we'll make a request uh to engineering to pull the video and then through that video we'll also also be able to determine um you know in addition to the reconstruction and accident what what occurred. So we are uh using that in in so far as adding evidence to the case and uh using using the uh uh technology uh that way.

Okay. So sounds like a major case but just say for um you know you mentioned in there Steve how the traffic counts can actually measure speed because it can tell the timing it takes to you know for wheels to hit one end or the other. Um same at just for speeding purposes. Do we in any way um say you don't hit somebody, say you don't um do do something like that? Do we use automated enforcement of these things or does it require an actual police officer on the ground doing the actual work? So that is correct. It's the latter. We do it the oldfashioned way. Okay. Yeah.

All right. That's kind of where I wanted to go get at. did want it is good to know that we have the ability especially in a um larger case you know fatality collision I I think we should be able to determine for evidence reasons what actually happened so that good to hear but unlike um I think it was Phoenix that recently started using photo radar again we do not do that here in uh good year correct that is correct we do not use photo radar enforcement

then you mentioned uh priority uh locations and times where you deploy uh extra traffic units. Do we prioritize in any way our schools during school hours? Uh we do and uh so a lot of our enforcement activity uh is based off of complaints that we get from the community. So that's one I get a lot.

Yes. Yep. and that is uh we do we do uh um uh rotate where we we uh put our traffic enforcement folks uh during school hours. Um and then obviously if we get any other u uh requests from the community on different locations or intersections then we will also the officers will also go out and work actively work those locations as well.

Okay. And then my last one, we had mentioned speeding, DUI, uh, you know, distracted driving. Another one that, you know, I see out there quite a bit and I do get complaints. It's just kind of the more aggressive, reckless driving. That's probably the hardest to find and enforce. Just you you have to be in the right place at the right time. Um, what without saying too much or like what tools, tactics do we have to potentially address that in any way? Because I I would say that aggressive driving or, you know, the potential for, you know, just mild road rage or hopefully that's all it ever gets to. Um, but on top of, you know, the distracted driving, the DUIs, the speeding, that's probably the other one I hear of the most complaints about. So, I I didn't know if there's a way we could that's the hardest, but if there's a way we can um pay a little more attention to that as well

with our traffic unit folks and as I mentioned uh some of our other uh personnel, we do have unmarked cars and you'd be amazed what people do when uh you you're in an unmarked car and you see them doing things. Um so we we are able obviously to um to do enforcement that way on the aggressive driving uh type uh uh incidents and also uh we you know a lot of times when things like that are happening the road rage type uh scenarios we will get calls for service on that as well and then you know we'll make the stops and then sort it out with the different uh uh people involved in in the in the case.

Okay. Yeah. It's just amazing what some people will do behind the wheel just for five seconds or something. Um, that's all I got. Mayor, next. Oh, go ahead. So, um, I want to kind of piggy back on what he's saying. We we talk about distracted drivers or what what are what is an officer seeing when they uh give out hands-free citations and are we going to be doing some education to the public? to get those numbers going in another direction.

So, that's a great question, Council Member Beckles. And so, what what an officer what an officer is seeing is they're actually seeing the person actively

engaging with their phone. So whether that's them texting, whether that's them uh scrolling through Instagram or, you know, social media, um they're actually seeing that happen. And so that's when they'll make a traffic stop on a distracted driving or hands-free uh complaint or if they're talking on the cell phone instead of using the Bluetooth uh speaker inside the car. Um I think part of the road safety action plan there will be an educational component uh as well that uh we'll be discussing. But yes, we're we're uh constantly looking for ways uh to educate our community either through social media uh on the different topics that uh we're seeing out there. Just a funny story. Um on the Cotton Lane Bridge, um sometimes the officers are there just kind of waiting for speeders probably. And uh so the residents will post on next door where the cops are and finally people are going, "Don't tell when the cops are there. Let them get caught so they'll slow down." I thought that was great. Well, that might be a part of uh the deterrent too and the the speed that we're seeing. So, um you know, that's uh thank you for sharing.

Go ahead, Laura. Another aspect of speeding that has come up uh time and time again is like the road racing or the hot rodding. I know that's been a big issue down by Cantameia, but I I can tell you it happens on McDow quite a bit. and any thoughts or that you want to share on your enforcement and those types of things?

Yes. Uh, Council Member Aino. So, there's actually, um, whenever we get those those calls, we're actively sending, uh, officers into that area. A lot of times, um, they're pretty compliant and they'll they'll, as soon as we arrive, they'll leave. uh generally speaking uh usually heading uh back east uh towards Phoenix. Um but uh you know the best thing that happens is we get notified early um by the community that people are starting to gather and generally speaking if we can get that information ahead of time then we're able to stop it before you know they get onto the road and start start racing. But we have uh you know in terms of the racing there we have zero tolerance when it when it comes to that

and we have a racing that happens that's not organized it just spontaneous I guess racing uh there's a certain profile of cars I've observed that tend to do that more but uh yeah it's just an ongoing thing and they like to do it at night it seems uh and on the I 10 because I could hear it also there but uh all right well keep vigilant Thank you. Anything else? Go ahead. All right, we'll pass it off to Katie. Oh, wait a minute. Vicki, any questions as we as we move on to the next piece?

Yeah, I did. I had I wanted to ask Chief Is um the street racing especially on Indian School and up in Cania in Estray Mountain Ranch. Has that decreased? Have you seen it? um you know Indian school and

so councilwoman Gillis um we have not seen to my understanding we have not seen a a tremendous increase in the street racing. We keep a pretty good eye on it from a social media aspect and our community has been really good about notifying us whenever uh large gatherings are starting to appear. I hope that answers your question. Okay. So, you have seen it decrease was my question. Have you seen it decrease?

I can't say if it's decreased specifically. I think uh we it comes and goes. It's uh it it es and flows. Uh you know, I think in the summertime that's when we start to see it pick up again. Um and then it's very cyclical with the seasons. Okay. But we're obviously on that. Okay. Thank you. You're You're welcome. Okay. Go ahead. Thank you.

So, all planned work that happens in the ride ofway requires traffic control permits. In fis in calendar year 2025, we issued 142 traffic control permits and that was a steady increase over um 2022 where we issued 611. So, we've seen about a 15% increase year-over-year in the traffic control permit. So, if you think that there's more construction on the roads, you would be correct. This does include more minor work. You know, somebody could close a delturn lane into a business for a work that that business is doing. But of course, it goes all the way up to major arterial road closures. It is up to the private development to notify nearby businesses and residents of these closures. Um, one thing to break it down a little bit, about half of the traffic control permits are from private development, primarily their offsite um, development. Another big portion are from utilities and that could be telecommunications, power, gas and also um either private or city water wastewater projects. Um there are CIP city projects and city road work that we do as well. And then finally there are special events that require traffic control permits. So any of those um it is the private development or private special event or the city if it is a city project that does the notification. For major projects um we do have a preconstruction meeting that happens on the site. So our staff and the developer or um utility doing the work are on the site together. So at that time they can just look around and see who needs notification. Um, so here's an example. That A-frame sign is one of the telecommunications. They put out A-frame

signs at all the neighborhoods they're working in. They do have problems. They get stolen. Um, they do replace them when they can. So, sometimes even their notification methods um are difficult to keep out there. Um, when they're working in neighborhoods, they also do do hangers on each of the homes before they start the work. Once in a while we do have a problem where the blue staking happens before the door hangers get out there and so someone comes home and already sees the blue staking and wonders what's going on. Um but for the most part they um the utilities do have it down on getting that notification out there. We do also make sure all sidewalk or not all sidewalks but there is um at least one sidewalk open and ADA access is maintained. We also require that resident access to their homes is maintained 24/7. So, not even a vehicle should be blocking a driveway at any time. When we review the traffic control permits, um we are reviewing the safety, how the barricades and signage is put up, but we do look at conflicts between various um potential traffic controls such as we don't want two arterial roadways adjacent to each other closed or with significant restrictions. Um we do have moratorum periods such as the Phoenix Raceway, spring training, the holiday season. We designate those administratively. So, we can designate the BIES grand opening period as a special event where we might have additional restrictions on traffic control that can happen in the area to make sure we're doing everything we can to help the success of that project. We also get questions a lot about night work. We do encourage night work both through our fees and our reviews. However, um it is a balance between keeping traffic moving and impact residents. We have a major upcoming project of the construction of the loop

303 on Cotton Lane and there are a lot of neighborhoods in the area and it's not just noise but the lights that they use on the construction can be seen a half a mile away. So, you know, as that example, we are balancing that potential impact to residents and how to keep the traffic moving on such a major roadway such as Cotton Lane. So, my team is working with Steve's team on a major project such as as that. And then of course we will include economic development neighborhoods in the notification on such a major project. Another question.

Yes. Briefly you mentioned the cotton lane in 303 that's going to uproot a lot of pavement and stuff in that area.

What can we expect as far as logistically? you know, ADOT's covering a lot of that, but once it gets down to the ground level, that becomes our problem. Um, kind of. Um, what what can residents in that area expect as far as delays go? Is cotton just going to completely disappear for a point of time or like to our knowledge I know a lot of this is up to AOT um or they you know find all get get over to Pville get over to Saraveal or something like are we what can residents in that area expect?

Thank you council member Terry great question. We do not have all those details yet. Construction isn't expected to start till later this year. I'm not even sure if they've awarded the construction contract. They are doing pre-work right now. You've seen some of the the old cotton gin has come down there. So, we've been working with the um specific contractors on those pre-work items and have already been thinking about this once um they get further along in the project. Um what we did with the loop 303 to the north is we started regular meetings between ADOT and our teams and everyone on our side that needs to be involved so we can be working through those things. And it sounds

and I'll just add to that as well is we're working with our government relations team as well working with ADOT. They usually have weekly or regular project meetings to be able to work with them on on messaging so we can have consistent messaging going out to our residents um but also know those impacts so we can work on coordinating around those as well. Okay, thank you. Go ahead.

And then finally, as part of our notification, we do have a um web page on the city of Goodyear website. If you go under our city, there's a traffic restrictions page, but probably more helpful is to utilize the a511 tool. So, if you go to a511.com, our information as well as other cities in the valley feed into this statewide resource. and you can see the traffic restrictions. So, those are updated daily. They automatically come down when a project is complete. So, you can anyone can go in if they're wondering about a project near them or that impacts their route and see the timing information. It's also interesting you can look around and see how um many traffic restrictions our neighbors also have. This is not a Goodyear specific problem to have so much construction going on. It is something that especially impacting the southwest valley with so much construction going on, but definitely has impacts throughout the entire state.

Any questions on traffic control? Go ahead. I just want to comment on that, Katie. Thank you for bringing it up. It is not just us. um anybody who drives anywhere is running into traffic um construction issues and uh but I think we've come a long way uh identifying situations where um maybe we did two projects at the same time and hindered and and we're we've gotten a lot better. So I just appreciate all the work that's been done. Thank you. Good.

Mayor, if I may, real quickly, um I know uh council member Beckles asked a question regulated to the public records request um specific to the traffic signal cameras and uh our great city clerk Jasmine uh messaged me during u the rest of the the presentation here that we've had five public records requests that have come in outside of the 14-day um retention schedule. So, there's five so far.

Thank you. Go ahead. Okay, back to me. Um, so just another touch point on the road safety action plan. Um, so as council, you know, may recall from our work session last month and our one-on- ones, uh, late last year, we're right in the thick of things with this plan and and we also have an upcoming work session in May to talk about strategies to what strategies to include. Um but again just a some quick background you know in 2024 uh the city received a safe streets and roads for all grant or SS4A and it was to develop a road safety action plan or RSAP um and implement a de demonstration project. So high level uh the road safety action plan is intended to give the the city some data-driven uh guidance and practical options to improve uh transportation safety in the city and more specifically uh the RSAP will establish a comprehensive strategy uh to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries across the community. And like I mentioned included in that is a demonstration project which many of you have likely seen. It's that green paint pilot that we're doing in the bicycle lanes around the city.

So, in addition to providing, you know, an opportunity for council discussion on the topic this evening, it's also an opportunity to emphasize uh the importance of the public engagement portion of the study. So, we've had pretty good success with the online surveys. Uh but unfortunately, you know, we've only had about 18, maybe 20 uh people use the comment map that we've got the QR code up there for. So that's where you can literally drop a pin on a map and let us know exactly what you've experienced um or an idea for improvement you have at the location. Uh this is a tool that can really complement the data analysis that we're doing. it can because because it can give us anecdotal examples of near misses, something that may not be picked up in the data um or really just what the public is experiencing as they travel around the city. So, just to round out the traffic discussion, I'm going to play a quick video uh for council and the public that Tammy's team and digital communications nicely put together to encourage even more public engagement.

The Goodyear road safety action plan is underway and your input is needed. This comment map is for residents to pinpoint where safety improvements are needed most. Your feedback helps the city combine your experiences with data to shape projects focused on making our streets safer. Here's how you can share a road safety concern, issue, or suggestion in just a few steps. Step one, go to goodyearsafe streets.com and click the comment map in the top left corner. Step two, click the blue explore button to exit out of the popup tutorial screen. Scroll down and click the blue enter a comment button in the lower left corner. Step three, choose what type of comment you'd like to share. Project ideas, bike or pedestrian safety, crash concerns, or general improvement needs. Then select a specific area on the map, or search for an address. Fill out the short form describing your concern or idea, then hit submit. That's all it takes to help guide strategies for safer streets in Goodyear.

It's pretty intuitive. Pretty easy to follow. And just a nice video. They did a great job with that to kind of spread awareness. Nice job.

So, I'll just quickly go over what's next for us. Um as I mentioned um next month engineering will be back with another RAP work session to talk to council and about uh what strategies to include in it. And then the following month engineer will be back to uh discuss our strategic plan item for TMC optimization. Like I mentioned that's really focused on the adaptive or dynamic signal timing. And then finally multiple departments have a fiscal year 27 strat plan item to reduce speeding. So, we'll be working on that and likely be back with a touch point on that as well. And that concludes our update to council for the evening and we're here for your feedback and any additional questions.

Anything?

All right. Thank you, mayor. um on that map or on that feedback, what is kind of the process that then that item would take say, you know, that there have been times where I've brought up potential needs or I've heard complaints from people about maybe a crosswalk or a traffic signal somewhere or once we get that sort of information, what is that next step? Um I I know a little bit of that process, you know, specifically whether it's around some of our schools. I've heard from either parents or school administration about uh safety concerns of either walking and crosswalk needs or an intersection where left turns are dangerous. Um what can you speak a little bit to the logistics of what happens next once somebody submits that?

Mayor, council member Terry, appreciate the question. I think I do not have our consultant here this evening, but I can tell you high level what I believe it'll look like. So, like I said, we're doing analysis. They're um analyzing a lot of data through this. The if you put a comment on there, it's more anecdotal and so we'll collect all of those and then kind of uh talk about the strategies that we want to approach uh some of the improvements or the education with and and filter it through that. And so all said and done, it'll end up integrated somehow into the final road safety action plan which could have a myriad of recommendations that the city can then potentially take action on.

Just it's not a unfortunately it's not a very quick process. Is that correct? Yes. depending on barring like an emergent situation where it's obviously clear like something needs to happen before people get killed. Correct. If there's something like that, then that would obviously would be more immediate action. But this is is planned out weighing it versus all the options and then we'll have an opportunity to kind of uh use it as an ongoing as ongoing roadmap. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? Oh, go ahead,

Mayor. If I may and council member Terry, if I may build on that, my experience with with these tools that with with comment maps is is is twofold kind of as what Steve described is is one is to be able to inform what we put together as overarching strategies for the road safety action plan that ultimately be strategies that council will adopt. The second part is is that um anecdotal piece. So anecdotal information and and input that we receive is definitely turned over to the engineering department or whatever department might be responsible for that and they can do some additional investigation on that outside of the road safety action plan development. So if there is something like urgent or emergent or something that we need to take care of address now that's something that Steve and his team can definitely take a look at and I know we've had conversations about things where we've gone and talked with principles at schools to be able to talk about what the situations they're seeing when it comes to school safety related issues. And so that was be how we handle it. One is in the road safety action plan and over the arching plans and how we look at strategies for the road safety aspect. The other one is actually those on the ground kind of issues and how do we deal with those.

Yes. Uh I would encourage getting that QR code out more. I did it. I just filled one out right now and it was easy to do. But I think the Q rather than going to the website and looking for it, the QR code makes it readily available. Thank you. I have a question. Go ahead. So, is it your intention to implement the road safety plan once it's adopted? And when do you anticipate submitting the plan to the feds?

Council member Kimbo, great question. We plan on currently we plan on coming back later this year by the end of the year for adoption for council adoption and then from there there's a myriad of things we can do. We can we can look at uh working together with the departments the educational component and then we can look at programming requesting funding potentially for future grants um and then also local standard changes and then local funding for capital projects and supplemental projects. So kind of a myriad of things. Well, you understand the grant that you got was just to design something and now you go back and ask for the money and I'm not sure it's going to be available in 27. It's been two years since we got this grant almost coming up two years. We got it in 24.

If there's money available, we absolutely will be putting in for Yeah. And it may not be if we keep dillydallying around. I know it takes a long time to do these plans, but we really need to focus on trying to bring closure sooner than later if we are going to ask for federal funds because this is still from the old regime, the money coming in that has not been spent, but once it's not been spent, they're not going to allocate it. So, I'm just worried that we're going to miss that thresh that threshold. And to your point, Council Member Campbell, we we plan on getting this approved later this year so we can meet that next window. Okay. If it's available,

I'll find out um I'll try to find out next week if there's any talk about closure so that we know. I know they're asking for applications right now. I've gotten several emails asking, are we putting ours in? And I keep saying no, we're not ready. But, you know, if we're really serious about doing this and we want to get the federal funds, it's there, but we just need to get everything together and then we get the money to implement the plan because we now are designing it. And when you talk to the public, um, are you going out to all the bike shops and are you going to the car shows and are we are we reaching everyone that we can possibly reach? Has it gone out to the neighborhoods? um because everybody uses our roadways one way or the other and they may have a better suggestion for us.

A great question and and definitely PR is a large part of it. Public engagement. I I can get you a more comprehensive answer on that when we have our consultant with us, but I know they've been to our bike shops. I know we've had open houses um and and there's been a a pretty um robust campaign social media to try and get this out there to get as much feedback as possible. Yeah. Well, can can Council member Kano suggested you get the survey out quicker. Send them to the neighborhoods. Thank you for

into the and we have a list I'm sure somewhere of bike or not bike but auto clubs. We have a Corvette club in Pebble Creek that's got 400 and something members. Not that that you know it's just but these folks use the roadway as well. And I'm just I'm trying to get us the biggest thing because we don't have a gathering place to say, "Okay, come today. We're going to talk about road safety and everybody give us your opinion." So, we're trying to just reach who we can reach. But there's plenty of car shows. There's plenty of of car clubs, you know, that we could ask as well. And if we're hitting the bicycle clubs, that's that's the main roadway people are cars and bicycles.

Absolutely. Thanks for the feedback. going to know. We're trying to cast the widest net possible to get as much involvement as possible. Um, it's possible some of those that you mentioned I'm just not aware of, but I know we've we've really cast a wide net. We'll continue to. So, thank you for the suggestion. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Vicki. Any comments? No. Everything's been asked and answered. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Is that it? That's it. That's it. All right. Next meeting will be April 27th. No further business. This one's over. We don't have anything a week, two weeks.