Council Airport Committee - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everybody, or good afternoon. I'd to welcome everyone to the Council Infrastructure and Import Committee meeting. It is Wednesday, 04/23/2025. It is 05:31PM. It is 05:30, 05:31PM. And, if I could ask, miss Paras, take the role, please.

Councilman Berg, Andrew. Present. Councilmember Cyrich.

Present.

Chair Zoning?

Present. Thank you. Next is public comments. This is reserved for anybody who would like to make a public comment on something that is not on the agenda. And I do have one card. I know there's a lot of people here. Do any of you else wanna make a public comment? No? Okay. So I got one card here. Miss Mimi D,

Director D. Is it director D? It is it is director D. Director D?

It's just director D. I am ready. Misson, you have to click

the button. Hit the button?

Mhmm. Yeah.

Alright. Alright. My name

is Vivi Dean. I do live in San Lorenzo. But as you know, the Hayward, Executive Airport's area of influence goes over unincorporated Alameda County, which includes Hayward Acres, Ashland, Cherryland, and San Lorenzo. I'm here to speak about, the SkyWest project tonight, and I wanted to specifically address a couple of different things. At a recent meeting, council member Andrew has asked about the migratory status and the native status of the monarch butterfly.

So I did my homework, and I came back with an answer. So, the Western monarch, which is the monarchs that fly in our backyard, they live between the Western Rockies, and then they fly across The United States. And they overwinter here in California, and they lay their eggs. And then they migrate back. So they're they're definitely native to our area, but they're native to many Western states.

So there's your answer. As you know, we've been doing, a lot of research and looking at what's going on with the plan that Hayward has for the airport, and it's not a plan that our community is really getting behind. We really think that, we need to save SkyWest for community benefit. And I know there's a really big project that's gonna be taking place in Hayward soon because I go to the HASPA meetings, and I know all about the data center project. And I know that that, project should have a lot more community benefit and a lot more revenue to the, city of Hayward than it's being asked for by the city of Hayward.

And I would like to suggest that Hayward because we know that data center's gonna go in. Right? And so we should ask for as much community benefit as we could get. And one thing I'd like to suggest is that we look at SkyWest as part of that community benefit package because SkyWest is a 126 acres of open space that is zoned as a, open space even in, looking forward 2040 Hayward's general plan. So we in the community, we have a petition.

Mayor Salina suggested that we get a petition a couple years ago. We have one. We have about 600 signatures so far. We're gonna have to file them by the time we're done. We are really we are really making a coalition coalesce. Like, I'm working with students at different high schools. I was at Chabot College today. I was at Chabot yesterday speaking to a class. I just wanna let you know that there's really a lot of community support about keeping SkyWest as open space, the habitat for the butterflies. It's the fifth largest site in the state of California.

It's the number one overwintering site in in the East Bay. And then the Western pond turtle, it's our only native turtle. Besides that, it's magnificent. It's picturesque. It's quiet reflection. It's community benefit, especially for an area of Hayward that has less than one third of an acre of open space for a thousand people, which is not in alignment with Queen of the Act. How many seconds do I have left over my dog?

Yeah. You for listening.

But I'll let you finish your point.

Alright. Thank you. I think what's it? Sorry.

It needs to be over there. Yeah. I just don't think.

I I think it's Matthew. Is it Thorne? Or no. Matthew. Is Matthew in the room? There you go. But how do you say your last name?

Matthew Verona, w r o n a.

Oh, okay. Sorry about that.

Wrong. Okay.

Yeah. That's

you. So that I assume would be regarding the the the traffic. I didn't know.

If you okay. You don't you didn't put an agenda item here, but if you want me to wait for the traffic one, I

can wait. Okay. Okay. Got it. Alright. Cool. Let me ask one question, though. When would If

you if you wanna make a public comment, come up to the podium and

So when will be the next meeting regarding is it in May regarding the Hayward Boulevard taking out the two lanes of traffic from Hayward Boulevard.

So so so that you know the way public comment works is we cannot respond to you, but

what we can do

is once you're done, we can figure out a creative way to respond to you, and we'll let you know. But we'll let you know.

Yes. We

we are all Yes.

Yes. We'll we'll we'll get that. But we can't respond to questions directly from

the podium. Okay. So I'll turn I'll wait for my turn regarding the timing of the trap.

Perfect. Okay. And staff has certainly documented that. Okay. We write that down. Okay. Next is Kelly. Is it Kelly? I think last time I pronounced it right too. Both now. So

I wanna compare what Hayward is doing with what other cities do. Let's talk about golf courses. There's a city called Livermore. They have a golf course. It's right next to their airport. What a coincidence. And they're I I think people are still playing golf there last time we drive by. It's right next to a freeway too. You can watch their golf course in the freeway. And if they ever shut down that golf course, I find it unimaginable that they would allow their open space to get developed, you know, because it's underneath an airport and for a lot of reasons.

But let's let's talk about instead of just theorizing about what would happen if a golf course shut down, What happened to the Snow Valley Golf Course? It's next to 680. It's over there, you know, in Snow. And it's owned by a government agency, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. And what did they do when they shut down that golf course? It's still sitting there empty. They're bringing in cows. It's that's how that that's how things are done when when when the other people shut down their golf courses. Just just to, you know, set set some precedent here. And then let's talk about the the if you look at this agenda for today, it's got all this spending capital improvements.

Do you know how much money it takes to and all these unfunded capital improvements that the the SAWOR needs and only a little bit of money, whatever's 3,000,000 or whatever coming out of the general fund going into the capital improvement program. And it's, you know, it's very hard to find money to to pave the roads or or or invest in things or maintain things. The capital the, you know, the maintenance and the capital is very hard to find that money. So let's look at what San Jose does. San Jose has a data center that's 99 megawatts.

How much it how many megawatts is your proposed data center? 77. Those very, very close. Very, very similar numbers. In San Jose, they got $65,000,000 for infrastructure improvements to widen roads nearby that thing, $8,000,000 for development impact fees, $5,000,000 in annual revenue from taxes and fees, and over $10,000,000 in annual property tax revenue, all coming from Microsoft data center in San Jose, similar in slides.

And they know how much. They told the San Jose San Jose's Murphy's. They told them how much money they're gonna get in each category. Hayward's just sitting here, and all all I hear from Hayward is, oh, it's gonna be great. The hand waving stuff about, oh, it's it's gonna be wonderful, and we're gonna make so much money. What where's the money? How much money? Which categories? And I'd like to get a little chart. You know? This is what San Jose gets, and this is what Hayward gets. And this is what San Jose got, and this is what Hayward got. Because Hayward's chart right now, it's it's blank. It's blank. Do you guys know what you're doing? Do you do you have these you know, do you do you know how

to negotiate? In other words. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Barbara Herzog. Yeah.

Well, it's I'm I'm here.

Oh, you're on item number three. Okay. Yeah. You can wait. Okay.

And then, Peter, did you wanna speak now, or is there a specific agenda item you wanna Yes. Orchard. Yeah. So Oh, Orchard. Okay. Alright. Okay. Alright. And we will wait on that. Okay. Seeing no more public comment on this, I will close pub oh, Zoom. That's right. Is there any public comment online?

Do we have three hands?

Okay.

We have three hands raised. Melissa. Melissa?

Melissa? Hello. Can you hear

me? Yes.

Hi. This is Melissa Milliman. Hello?

Go ahead.

Mayor Salinas and council member Andrews and. Thank you thank you for hearing me tonight. I am also speaking on behalf of Saving SkyWest as a urban green space. I would like to basically and, of course, I'm speaking as just a Hayward citizen. Again, I am going to talk about the toxic effects of what is happening with basically Hayward Airport as an executive airport.

And, yes, I basically keep having experiences with jet fuel in my current neighborhood. I know this is anecdotal, but I went on to access Hayward recently. And, basically, there is a place where you can, lodge your complaints for noise only. But I use that to actually talk about in the jet fuel that is blasting into my neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods and how horribly unhealthy it is. Again, was out gardening and had to come into the house because it made me headachy, nauseous.

It's like putting your face in the back of your car's exhaust pipe. I'm getting real tired of it. And my concern here is that your Hayward citizens, the ones who are living here in these surrounding areas of the airport and beyond into surrounding unincorporated areas, we are the ones that are paying the taxes, the property taxes, the sales taxes, supporting the local economy. These are your citizens that need to be protected from these unhealthy situations. Now I I want the airport to be safe.

Of course, FAA regulations. I don't want a plane crashing. I don't want a pilot in danger. I don't want passengers in danger. I don't who wants a a plane to crash on the ground?

It's horrible. But your Hayward citizens are getting the brunt of these issues, and who are you really protecting? And the thing is is that we are living here supporting the community, supporting you guys. And, basically, I would ask that you really, really think of your local community because people coming in on the jets are coming here to go to meetings elsewhere, in and out for a weekend or a couple days during the week. They can afford.

Maybe you need to just ask them to pay more for what they're doing for using our local airport. I understand the airport is here to stay. I get that. But, you know, ask them to to contribute to our community. And also, SkyWest is gonna be one of the few areas in this local community that will help mitigate what is going on at that airport at the airport. I know I have fumes. Yep. Right now, there's fumes coming into my house. So thank you for hearing me.

Thank you. Our next speaker is

Elena.

Yes. That's me. Hi. How are you doing? I would like to also add my comments about the SkyWest. I'm really happy to be able to attend the meeting even though it's remote, but sadly, the traffic is making things harder to attend in person. But I appreciate you listening, and I just wanted to add a few points. And I'm I'm really happy Melissa pointed out about the noise complaints, and I live in Cherilyn. And, yeah, there's a lot of noise from those airplanes, which is not the main topic right now. I I just wanna say as as as a resident of of Hayward, I love walking.

You know? I I have two dogs, and I enjoy running and walking. And believe me or not, every time I wanna go to the dog park, I have to drive. In in the parks where I can actually walk, it actually also almost I have to drive every time or I have to walk further than, you know, it's possible. So there's no evening activities.

San Leandro Marina is fifteen minutes away drive. There's no public transportation. And I think the places like SkyWest, golf course should be preserved to make it for people accessible, not even maybe for us, for future for future generations, for kids who wanna bike, who wants to enjoy the nature, who wants to be under the shaded trees. We all know that the hot days will come, and we're all gonna be seeking for the shade. In in Hayward, the, the amount of asphalt around Cherryland is just impressive.

It's really hard to find the few trees. I'm really glad that few of the trees are in the now there is a ordinance that you can't remove the tree, and you have a to seek a special permit. I'm glad that happens. I have to add that, with with the monarch butterflies and other species, they were there's a proposal to list them on as endangered species. And, actually, as of March 2025, there is again the open comment from federal use, EU station wildlife, department.

So it's and it's again, it's the comments are open. We all should comment on how Monarch butterflies are important. And if you will dig further that, the Unit 6 is actually in Alameda County, and it's proposed to be as a dedicated, critical habitat for Monarch butterflies. The Alameda County actually have couple of places, and one of them is San Leandro Marina Golf Course. And it's again, we can see the same pattern.

There's a golf course with trees and where there are monarchs. So the SkyWest, this is the same exact situation. I I urge it I urge it to preserve this area for future us and everybody else enjoyment. And, yeah. Thank you for listening. That's all for me.

Thank you. Next speaker is Rob Bennington. Rob Vincent? See, I'm gonna give Rob Benton one more time.

You're gonna ask on mute.

You can

ask on mute.

Okay. I will, I'm gonna move on. And, if Rob can, call back, maybe he can oh, do we have another one? IPad? Okay. IPad.

Yeah.

Good afternoon. Can you hear me? This is also Rob.

Oh, okay. Go ahead.

Okay. Sorry about that. Okay. So, good afternoon. Rob Bennington, formerly Cooperative Extension. I have a background and career of thirty year history in horticulture and habitat management and restoration. I am chiming in here. I actually don't live in Hayward. I live in Ashland. However, the Skywise Golf Course and the airport are in the sphere of influence of the Eden area, and also affect their overall livability.

In addition to that, there's a significant lack of sufficient open space in the San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Hayward areas generally. And at the same time, we recognize the need that there's need for ultimate economic development in the city of Hayward too. But, paving over open space, developing on, land that is currently vegetated, that also has some vernal ponds, monarch and other, species, whether endangered or threatened, isn't really a good look. The potential for development on industrial spaces in Western Hayward has greater opportunity than here economically. But, also, the concern about this specific open space is because of, the airport.

It's also because of overall air quality. We're at a point in history where less than a tenth of a percent of fresh water remains. That doesn't need to be desalinated on planet Earth. We're at a point in history where we're at about 60% of the world's populations living in cities, and our food is also, traveling a further distance, from us than ever before historically. And what it why is that relevant?

Well, carbon footprints and food miles. So the potential for some of the, SkyWest site to become a urban farm, to serve ultimately low income residents of the community, really exists, and there's a lot of infrastructural support and potential grant funding, for that as well. In addition to that, there is a current program available through the Association of Bay Area Governments or ABAG. It's the 2025 priority conservation area nomination cycle due May 2. A couple of us have, endeavored to reach out to, but not been able to get to reaching, mister Eric Pearson on this, but, it would require the local governments, consider nominating SkyWest as a priority conservation area.

So specifically, the city of Hayward to nominate it within this nomination cycle for the May 2, submission. And I know that's tight, but, your city nominating SkyWest as a priority conservation area would make that site eligible for grant funding. Some of the categories for priority conservation areas are urban greening, agriculture, heritage site, and open space. Thanks so much, and we really appreciate you keeping it open.

Thank you. Yep. Okay. So that is all for public comment. I will close public comment, move on to approval of minutes, and I'll entertain a motion.

I move the item.

Second. Moved by council member Andrews, seconded by council member Cyrop. And if there are no objections, it will unanimously pass. Thank you. Our next item is reports and action items number two. This is the review of recommended capital improvement program for fiscal year twenty six to thirty five, and I believe our development our our public works director, Alex.

Thank you, mister May. Committee members. As we mentioned, we have prepared the draft capital improvement program for f one twenty six through f one seventy five. There are 23 funds over 200 projects in the funds, and the budget for next year is a 100 over a $160,000,000. The total ten year budget is over $1,300,000,000.

We have over $700,000,000 needs that have been identified but have not been budgeted for. As the in order to go with the in some more of the details, I have who is a management analyst online. He is she is in her office, but wanted to have access to two screens. So she stayed there. Marissa, can you hear me? If you can, go ahead.

Okay. Thank you, Alex. Can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay. Perfect. Good evening. My name is Marissa Motta, and I am a management analyst for Public Works. Today, I will be presenting the recommended fiscal year twenty six CIP for your review and your comment.

For the past several years, the CIP has been developed as an online book using OpenGov stories. Staff will provide a refresher tour of the online book at the city council work session scheduled on May 6. The online version can be found on the city's website linked on the screen here. OpenGov stories is intended to increase the user friendliness and ease of and ease of navigation within the document and make it more publicly accessible. The proposed CIP includes a total recommended budget of approximately $161,000,000 in fiscal year twenty six and a total budget of approximately $1,300,000,000 in the entire ten year planning period from fiscal year twenty six through 2035.

The document also includes a proposed general fund transfer of approximately 3,000,000 in fiscal year twenty six. The recommended CIP also includes proposed internal service fees. These are fees that are collected when one city department provides a service to another, drawing those service expenses from the operating budget of the benefiting department. The CIP includes a recommended ISF of approximately $3,900,000. Now this slide provides a snapshot of the recommended CIP's budget breakdown by project category.

Examples of project categories are municipal facilities improvements, road and street projects, and airport projects, just to name a few. As you may notice, the largest portion of the recommended fiscal year twenty six budget has been programmed in sewer system projects in orange. Projects in this category encompass a wide range of projects which support the ongoing replacement and improvement of our utility infrastructure, such as annual sewer line replacement and our phase two improvement project at the water resource recovery facility. The second largest category is livable neighborhoods in gray. This category includes projects that focus on the enhancement of neighborhood amenities with projects like La Vista Park, the South Hayward Youth and Family Center, median landscaping projects, traffic calming projects, pedestrian and bicycle improvements, and sidewalk sidewalk projects among many others.

Lastly, the third largest category is the water system projects category in blue, which include groundwater sustainability projects, annual waterline replacements, and more. This slide displays the recommended budget broken down by funding source as opposed to category. Funding source examples include, but are not limited to, special revenue funds such as gas tax and vehicle registration fee or enterprise funds such as airport capital, water improvement, or sewer replacement to name a few. Funds with the largest allocation of the recommended budget are the water and sewer system funds in blue and in orange. The fund with the third largest budget allocation is fund four zero five capital projects.

Many of these projects fall within the livable neighborhoods categories such as La Vista Park and the Stack Center. The livable neighborhoods category includes beautification, safety, and neighborhood amenities, and improvement projects like the South Hayward Youth and Family Center and La Vista Park. Other examples include the Campus Drive improvements project through which a series of traffic calming measures are being implemented in the stretch of Campus Drive between 2nd Street and Hayward Boulevard, as well as the Orchard Avenue traffic calming project and safe routes to school projects. The Alameda County Transportation Commission's safe routes to school program conducts regular school safety assessments for public schools in Hayward and throughout the county, resulting in a set of infrastructure recommendations to make it easier for students to bike and walk to school. Hayward's Safe Routes to School program was created to implement these recommendations in collaboration with partners such as Hayward Unified School District, Alameda CTC, and various community organizations.

K. A key project in the roads and streets category is phase three of the Mission Boulevard corridor improvement project located from A Street to the northern city limit at Rose Street. It is the last phase of a three phase Mission Boulevard corridor improvement project and will include traffic calming measures, the addition of bicycle facilities, the installation of landscaping, monument signs, lighting, and other improvements. Another project in this category is the Main Street Complete Streets project. This project will improve pedestrian and bicycle facilities along Main Street to create a safe and friendly environment for multimodal travel in the Downtown Hayward area.

The pavement rehabilitation category comprises all annual pavement rehab projects and is the fourth largest category in the CIP with approximately 13,700,000.0 in recommended programming in fiscal year twenty six. The table on this slide shows the city's historical pavement condition index or PCI for the last ten years. It is measured on a scale of zero to 100, where 100 means a newly paved road. As the table shows, PCI has had a significant improvement over the last four years. The new Fire Station Number 6 and Fire Training Center project was constructed at the Hayward Executive Airport as a campus with classrooms, offices, a training tower, a burn building, and other facilities for urban search and rescue, as well as the new Fire Station Number 6.

Construction began in August 2020 and was completed by fall twenty twenty three. Now a new project in this category is the public safety center project. The existing Hayward Police Station no longer meets the space, operational, staffing, and security requirements for the Hayward Police Department. The new public safety center project aims to develop the conceptual design of the new facility, including site assessment of two potential locations, which are the former California Air National Guard site and the former City Hall building on Foothill Boulevard. The scope of work encompasses identifying space needs, conducting site analysis and design, creating facility layout plans, and cost analysis.

The sewer system category is the largest of the categories in the CIP and includes projects which are enterprise fund supported and are related to the improvement of our sewer system, water reuse efforts, and the water resource recovery facility. Some major projects in this category include the fiscal year twenty six sewer line replacement project, water resource recovery facility phase two improvement projects, and phase two recycled water projects. Staff is currently developing a recycled water master plan to guide design and construction efforts for phase two of the recycled water program. Phase two will involve the increasing will involve increasing the recycled water customer base, which will require designing and constructing an expanded treatment facility to meet the increased demand. Water system projects are also enterprise fund supported and are related to the improvement of our water system as well as projects which promote water conservation.

Some major projects include the cast iron water pipeline replacement program as well as the annual water line replacement project through which we aim to replace two miles of water pipeline every year. Next, the fleet man fleet management category is comprised of projects involving the replacement of fleet units in various departments, divisions or work groups, and other city related vehicles. Fleet purchases benefiting the fire and police departments are predominantly funded by transfers from the general fund, while those benefiting the airport, storm water, sewer, and water divisions are predominantly supported by enterprise funding. A project in this category is the citywide EV charging upgrade. Staff is working with Eva Community Energy to install one to three fast charging hubs for electric vehicle charging, the first of which will be Muni Lot 4.

Muni Lot 4 is located between B And C Street east of Foothill Boulevard. These hubs will be entirely funded by AVA Community Energy and will also serve the general public, but will also be cited to also serve residents of multifamily properties, many of which are older buildings that lack the infrastructure needed to support EV charging. The equipment and software category primarily includes equipment related purchases supporting the fire, police, and information technology departments, such as the purchase of radios, fleet cameras, and replacement of aging fiber optic lines between city facilities. The recommended fiscal year '26 CIP includes approximately 5,400,000.0 in this category. The airport category is comprised of all projects within fund six twenty one Airport Capital, which support improvements to the Hayward Executive Airport.

One key project in this category is the Sulphur Creek mitigation project, which will allow for the design, engineering, and construction of enclosing portions of Sulphur Creek adjacent to airport runways. The project includes a total budget of 8,300,000.0, which is being provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, Caltrans Division of Aeronautics, and the city's Airport Enterprise Fund. And finally, the miscellaneous category includes projects that do not fit into the other categories such as the 2040 general plan update, route two thirty eight property projects, and the parcel group projects. The parcel group projects, which are currently budgeted at 585,000 combined in fiscal year twenty six, are used to facilitate the new cohesive development of former Caltrans two thirty eight property parcels with the goals of eliminating blight, creating public benefits for the community, and generating excess land value to the city. In addition to including recommended project budgets, the CIP also includes a list of identified and unfunded capital needs.

One of the largest unfunded needs continues to be the renovation of the corporation yard. The necessary improvements to the corp yard were estimated to amount to more than 140,000,000. The fiscal year twenty six CIP includes a corporation yards needs assessment project, which is funding the development of a revised assessment to determine the current improvement needs and update costs. Another significant need included in the unfunded capital needs list is the stack center, which currently has an unfunded need of an estimated $25,000,000 for future phases of the project. Lastly, this graphic is intended to demonstrate the CIP's alignment with the city's strategic road map.

The list of projects featured here is not exhaustive, but does demonstrate a helpful overview of the priorities that CIP projects support. For example, you can see that the CIP projects tend to directly support the invest in infrastructure priority. However, many of the projects support multiple priorities simultaneously. Alright. That concludes the presentation. It is staff's recommendation that the committee review and comment on the recommended fiscal year twenty six CIP. Myself and the team are now available for any of your questions.

Thank you. What I'm gonna do first is, instead of going to committee questions, I'm gonna go to public comment first and and and see what you have. First is, now Peter Rona again. Or or did you no. Your Orchard. And then, of course, Mimi Dean. My apologies.

I know where to watch the plot. I I discovered it. Thank you. Great. Well, I have a couple of things to say about that report because, you know, I drive down Hisperey Boulevard all the time because I do a lot of my shopping in Hayward.

And something I've noticed since the fire station has gone in at the airport, I noticed that whenever I'm at that red light, the fire truck Winton is so packed up. There's so much traffic on Winton. It doesn't matter what time of the day it is. But coming from the West going east, there is so much traffic that when the fire truck pulls out of the firehouse, they have to drive on the wrong side of the street. I have yet to see the fire trucks going to their emergencies, driving on the correct side of the street because there's so much ding ding traffic on LinkedIn Avenue.

So I'm just concerned I'm just concerned about this because now we're talking about perhaps putting a police station down there, a really big police station that we know needs to serve the community. Right? So I'm very worried about that. I don't think that's the proper location. I just think that could create more traffic and more chaos down in that part of Hayward. So what I'd like to say, of course, you know what

I'm doing too, so I must.

I think how about if some of the hangars that we wanna put at SkyWest go into the go into the the Air National Guard building instead of making it into the pipe into making it the police station? That's kind of really all I have to say. I had

a bunch of questions, but I

know you can't answer them. I am very curious about the sulfuric acid mitigation because that's mitigation that we've been waiting for for a really long time, I'm imagining I can find out more about about it at some other meeting or from one of your staff. And then the 43,000,000 in unfunded capital needs at the airport is very concerning. And I hope that when we look at, the new data center that we are gonna be able to get more, more money so we can fund some of these things. So once again, thanks for listening to me. I hope we reconsider, putting the police station down in that area. It just doesn't seem like a great fit. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there any online?

Yes.

Hello? Can you hear me?

Yes.

Hi. So I was just so I just wanted to comment about the the improvement or, like, I'm not sure how to call it. I think it's too slow the traffic coming down from Carlos B to the Mission and then on Orchard. So, basically, I see there, like, there's been quite a bit of change, like, you took Monica? Away Yeah.

I know that you're speaking on the traffic from Carlos B to Orchard. You wanna wait until we get to that item on

the Oh, sorry about that. Yeah. Yeah. Then it's fine.

Yeah. Sure.

My apologies.

Bye. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Just

stay tuned. Miss. That's it? Okay. Okay. So I'll close public comment, and I will start with Thanks,

sir. Go ahead. Sure.

Thank you for the report. It's a exceptionally large amount of work that the city is doing on an annual basis. So I just wanna acknowledge this does a great job of summarizing all of it, but I have immense respect for you and your team and all the folks on the ground that are making this real for the community. Really also wanna appreciate and I think for a year, we've been on OpenGov making our budget very accessible, and it it's mobile compatible. And so for folks that ever wanna learn more about these projects or how we're funding it, I love that Hayward's ahead of the curve as it comes to being very transparent and making our budget very accessible to everyday residents.

Because this is an item on the agenda, we can respond to some of these public comments, if I'm not mistaken. And I I am curious. Could you speak a little bit to the Sulphur Creek mitigation just for one of

our commenters? So a section of Sulfur Creek is very close to the runway, and we have been asked that has been identified as a hands on, and we have been asked to basically cover that. So in order to cover that section of South Macquarie, we have to find a mitigation site that we can mitigate the impact of closing a section. We have been searching for a suitable site in Hayward. We have not been able to find it.

A year ago or so, we found a place in Oakland that we could use as mitigation, but the staff was reluctant to bring that to you because we were looking for a site in Hayward to mitigate and and and may open a section of a creek or something Mhmm. To make it suitable. So that's the plan.

Okay. Thank you. And can you speak a little bit to the site locations for the public safety center? It sounds like the former or the current Wynton site is not a consideration. It looks like we're not considering I I don't

know if demolition is the right

word to do, but can you speak to why those two were finalists and maybe not the current locations? So the current location is 4.3 acres,

and there is a new update on it that is now at capacity. Yeah. If he wanted to use that site, which is too small with one, this apartment's operation will have to relocate somewhere else to a secure site for the, which is about three years. And that is a consideration. Why not using that site?

The site that we are looking at, at Mount Mill, Westfulton, is next to the fire training center and Fire Station 6, so there is some synergy there. The site is twice as large as the existing site. Now the traffic and other issues will have to be considered as part of the environmental documentation and see if it is something that can be mitigated, what we need to do, etcetera, etcetera. The site on Foothill is the existing site, the vacant site, is about three acres, but there is a parking structure that has 700 parking spaces, that's 2.4 acres for a total of 5.4. There is some benefits of using that site in terms of basically saving money for the parking structure, which can be very, very expensive, about $40,000 per space.

So you can imagine if you need 500 spaces, that would be a lot of money.

Understood. That's another consideration. And given the high cost of the police building estimate or the public safety center's estimate, I had mentioned before, and I just wanted to see if you're going through the assessment process. Are there looks at what decentralizing isn't the right word, but rather than having one large building, what a refurbishment of Winton plus the construction of the building might look like Definitely. Down costs. Definitely.

That's a consideration Okay. To to see how we can save costs by leaving some of the operations on the existing place and then have another headquarters somewhere.

Understood. And we're going through the process right now of firming up our strategic roadmap for the next year. I know there's a lot of moving pieces that coincide at once. So this is being presented to us tonight, but based off what we finalized around the strategic road map Yeah. How much is this subject to change?

It is basically up to you. It is subject to change. It can change. Okay. If you make that change, it will incorporate it into the design and and so on.

Understood. So my my primary point of feedback here would be as we firm up that strategic road map for the next year, just seeing, you know, how aligned what is being presented here is with what council has decided to fire guide us last week since it's very recent. Absolutely. Yes. And I think folks in the audience, we have to know that one of those projects that council's interested in looking at, at least many of us, is what would it take to preserve SkyWest's open space. So please keep the conversation going. Thank you for being here. I think outside of that, this is phenomenal work. I really appreciate that's gone into this, and I'm excited to

see it become real. Thanks, Anne.

Thank you for the recording. No. I was, going to see this here. Wanted to know about the two locations for the public safety center. Are these the two that bubbled up at the top so far with design, but are there other locations that you find with this design that maybe we should look at two others or three others? Because I know there's probably big conversations just with feedback from the department of other locations that might be up for consideration? If there are other locations that have potential,

and there is not a long timeline to acquire them, yes, they can be considered.

Okay. And so then you will have to come back to counsel because it's gonna be more time and money in the Right. Correct. Okay. And then wanted to see just in it looks like we're looking at it by program and by enterprise, which is great. But what if out of all the programs and enterprises that you're seeing, what is the highest priority? Like, what is the product that keeps Alex up at night or doctor or or director Mary up at night? What's the one that beat metabolic with.

So as I mentioned, we have about 200 projects in morphine. Half of them, about 90 of them Okay. Are active right now. Mhmm. That doesn't mean that the rest of them will not be active at this point in the year. 9,000,000 are active. One of the biggest projects obviously we are doing is the treatment plan improvement. We are under an order to complete that construction by 2030. So that's one. The safety center is another one that we have to complete. SAC center is another one, and there are many other projects.

And I know in the past couple of meetings, I've been really pushing for advocacy at the state level because this is the plant project is our biggest ticket item that is hitting the organization out of all your departments, not just in your CIP. So I know there's a lot of advocacy here for SkyWest, but there should be advocacy at the state level regarding wastewater treatment and the demands that the state has put on jurisdictions. It's it's actually quite shocking, miss sticker number. So if you all can look at how much money our organization could save if the state was to help us remove nutrients and do all these upgrades at our our plant that are required, that would that kind of advocacy is what we need to see at the state level because it is Mhmm. Doing a lot of damage to our our budgets here.

So just wanted to acknowledge that. And then how are things going with with the sewer replacements and and anything that you're concerned about? Like, just keeping up the number of feet on your feet, keeping the pace of what you've been doing in the past. Are you concerned about losing steam on that?

That's actually great question. We have a requirement on our strategic road map to replace about two miles of pipeline every year. Because of the cost of replacing sewer lines, We have not been able to do two miles. The last time that we went to build, every mile of sewer pipeline replacement cost 3 and a half million dollars, so two miles becomes about 7,000,000. Okay.

On the water side, it's less expensive because it's not, you know, depth dependent. You can install water lines at a given depth rather than sometimes sewer line is like 20 feet deep. Okay. That is 2 and a half million dollars per mile. The total amount of money that we transfer from, let's say, sewer operating to sewer replacement is currently $7,000,000. Okay. So if we spend all of that money in replacement, we could do the two miles, but we have pump stations. Yep. We have other systems. We have the wastewater treatment plant that we have to also maintain.

So over the next few years, we are going to have to increase the amount of transfers into replacement in order to be able to meet our goal of your goal of two miles per year.

And then what are the impact of tariffs? I know it's moving it's a moving target day by day. What are we seeing in terms of how it's gonna impact the the CIP?

It is going to impact the CIP because we get some of our systems from overseas. Mhmm. An example, for instance, is our cogeneration engine that we purchased from Europe. Mhmm. And it cost 2 point something million dollars. So to the extent that there is a 40% tariff, that was

And even some of the the items we think are American made, some of those parts inside of Absolutely. From other countries. So it could be anywhere from a 150% to 28%. Right? Correct. 10 or 20.

Okay. And then by the way, the reason that that engine was purchased from Europe is because at the time, that was in place in the engine that met the airborne requirement for emissions.

Okay. And are these numbers gonna be updated once, I mean, once we have a good handle on what the so

it can change. Okay. Right.

And then my my last question, and this is for council members remaining on 1,500. That's the max we could do with

the budget we have right now for trees? We do as many trees as we possibly can do. As an example, the improvement of Mission Boulevard, phase three from a street to Rose, believe it or not, had zero street trees. This major entrance to the city did not have street trees. We are planting a 120, 24 inch box trees, canopy trees and other trees. That's part of the project, and we have many other projects for tree replacement.

When is when is that for completion? Phase three? This month. Oh, nice.

Yes.

Okay. Let me tell all the tree people about that because We are working on the punch list now. Awesome. Okay. Great. Thank you.

Thank you.

Mission Boulevard from A Street to Rose is looking good.

Thank

you. I just a couple of comments. One, thank you. Two, you know, if, clearly, what this committee does is all you have to do is, you know, look at the presentation. Everything we deal here with is very expensive.

And and, and that's why anytime there is a change in Washington, we pay very, very close attention, to what what is going on. And I think council member Andrews quite appropriately, talked about, you know, tariffs. Tariffs are real. They're we're only in this one hundred days about plus or minus. And we are, when these tariffs come to full realization, you know, we will certainly be impacted a great deal.

And I also wanted to appreciate, council member Cyrop's comments Cyrop's comments about, you know, this document is still a working document. The budget is still a working budget. We're not done with this because, I can only imagine that come month six or, you know, come the the end of the summer and the fall when these tariffs really begin to take root, we will probably in our midyear budget, we will probably be having a very, very different conversation. And it's no longer gonna be about SkyWest. It's gonna no longer be about the Stack Center or LaVista.

Right? It's really gonna have to, we're gonna be having conversations about pairing this work down in term in terms of what our priorities are. And I and, I mean, I just, I can't say that can't say that for more, and and more sort of more clearly. Just a a couple of just a couple of comments. I appreciate everything.

The we're under livable neighborhoods. La Vista Park, you know, I know I've been getting we've been getting email about La Vista Park.

We are receiving bids today.

Okay. Good. Okay. And and I know I work I know we're in the receiving bids process, but if in a perfect world, everything was seamlessly moving right along the path, and you had a crystal ball sitting in front of you, when do you think we could see a park up there, kids playing?

By the 2026.

By the 2026. Okay. That's great. Thank you. Another question I had was regarding safe routes to school and safe routes for seniors.

I know we've been working with, you know, ACTC with safe routes and so forth. And I'm just curious what kinds of, you know, enhancements, treatments, solutions have come out of safe of safe routes to schools?

Yes. So most of the types of things we're doing, they're sort of for kids walking to school. So they're bow bouts. They're improved crosswalks. They're things like like that. Try to slow traffic near schools, you know, kinda make it easier for kids to walk. Perfect. And seniors? It's very similar Okay. In different locations. Yeah.

And I and I I I have noticed that it's you know, and I I know it's they're legally required, but, on Mission Boulevard between roads and and a, the sidewalks are wider, and you do have, you know, the, you know, the the wheelchair accessible or rolling accessibility. The one thing I have to say, I know there's those pads on the on the on the ramps that have the the bubbles.

He has the bubbles on them.

They look great. But I'm I I did see, you know, I did see a senior walking with a walker. It just you know, they were already sort of, you know, wobbling a little bit and trying to negotiate those those bubbles. I was just curious. Is there any other kind of technology that sort of is smoother?

Yeah. They're, you know,

So they're called truncated domes.

Yeah. And they're they're very standard and and, you know, they're really to help folks who are blind to be aware that they're leaving a space that's not that's a pedestrian space and entering a space that's a shared space. So so it's important that they be there, and they are essentially required. And there there really isn't anything else that has the same, you know, for that purpose. Okay.

I did wanna ask a question regarding fleet management. I did hear a story on KQBD, I don't know, a few days ago, a week or so ago, about a city that is rolling out their first electric fire truck. And I was just curious. Have you know, has there been any research on that? Have we looked into electrification of our fire trucks? Or

Not not the fire truck per se.

Yeah.

I have to tell you that, two years ago, three years ago, when we were negotiating with Waste Management for our ten year franchise, we really pushed them to go electric electric garbage trucks. And they existed because they said that technology is not here right now. Now I see that there are some agencies that are introducing the garbage trucks, electric garbage trucks because they are ideal because they are only so many miles, just so many miles on the road before they go back to station every night and get charged. Right? The amount of travel is very limited, 50 miles.

They're not going from town to, you know, across the state. Unfortunately, that's. But we are always interested. I'm just looking to see what's available.

Yeah. And I can only imagine the the expense. But okay.

That's all I got. I bet. You guys sorry. Do you wanna add something? I

I just wanted to say that we took this to the CDP to planning commission for finding a consistency in the general plan. They did that. They were very complementary. They liked the projects. The exception was related to, I think, calling projects that we do that includes removing a travel lane to planning commission. And there's made comments that they did not like that. They did not like us to remove the travel aid and add parking. That is a challenge that we have now with implementing most of our, you know, projects that involve the same thing.

On the what is it?

The

orchard? Was Boulevard?

Or It wasn't about orchard. Last night, the gentleman that came and commented, he did not mention the name of the street, but I went and had a had a conversation with him. He was talking about Huntwood Avenue. Oh. And he said, hey. You have taken, in his world, 16 feet and and added bike lanes, and he was unhappy about that.

No.

So it wasn't about Orchard Avenue. It was about

Another a different street.

I think that actually one of the comments was about Orchard because the person that made that comment lives in the Galleria about Cornersville.

Yeah. Well, I just and before I defer to council members, just wanted to you know, there was a one of the latest reports we got from, ACTC, on it was one of their, stat it was one of the project updates reports or something. And they were talking about, the and I mispronounced it last time, but it's the high injury net high injury network. Mhmm. So of the high injury networks in Alameda County, three or four, maybe three of them, there might have been a fourth one, but three of the highest injury network intersections are in Hayward.

Good. And, you know, and the and the injuries are collisions, fatal, and and other collisions fatal collisions and others. And so I just wanted to point that out.

Thank you. So I was taking this action, but we're always open to adjusting as needed. I'm afraid gonna get into that in just a second. Just for the record, I want to just reiterate my support for funding the staff center. I know that that, you know, that's something we're looking at for phase two, but as I advocated before last week as well, I'm really interested in funding both phases at the same time because we only know that the cost of construction and labor is going up.

It's gonna be more expensive to complete one phase and then have a third phase happening while the building's actually in use. So if there's any way that we can save money as a city by just knocking it out, that's similar to your question on La Vista. When are we gonna see kids at that park? I wanna see whole families using that center, you know, while I'm still on the council ideally, but, you know, while while I'm still alive. And so if we could get this done sooner rather than later, that would be my my recommendation.

So I don't know how that might materially adjust the the CIP budget. I think that'll really come to a hand once we finalize our strategic road map plan. But combining those phases, it just seems like a no brainer because the cost savings will realize and the benefit to our community community more immediately. And then my last question is just around the butt benches. Is this coming out of this budget, or is that a separate budget?

You want a better one?

For sure. Yeah. No. There I mean, there is an item in the CIP to do an expansion of the semi seats, and, yeah, it comes out of measure b b cutting rates and sets funds.

Great. So this is a cash in our general fund. No. No. Fantastic. Okay. Great.

Thank you. And and if council member wants to see the stack center before he's no longer alive, he's the youngest one on the county. So I really wanna make sure.

Go ahead.

Yes. Question about the crosswalk in front of the library. Yes. Love that. How how did that come to fruition? And you wanted to know how the budget went for that, and are we seeing more in the future?

Let me just start. Yeah. I can stop.

Well, fortunately, we have someone who's involved directly in that here in the room, but

that's My god.

My god. So services took the lead on that, and and we coordinated with them. And I know that they've worked, I think, the city manager's office on the budget part of it in terms of finding places for art. And it was all secondhand, but mind as well Absolutely. Talk about it. So and then they're looking for other locations throughout the city to pursue that kinda that kinda scale of of a project.

Yes. And then wanted to know if you if you're looking at any other items or utilities, like access point covers, I'm trying not to say manual covers. Mhmm. Then also utility boxes, those types of things.

Yeah. I think anything potentially could be under consideration and and, you know,

they take that back and Okay.

And look at those opportunities which exist. Okay. There's a little bit of focus right now on CrossFlex, but Mhmm.

I love the focus. The option is good.

Yeah. Okay. Great. Thank you. So

for CrossFlex, we are looking we are potentially using them on as part of the project.

And have you seen the crossfalls on the other base B Street, the B Street across the bridge? Oh, yes. I've seen it. So I don't know if there's something you all can do with with, like, the tag kind of part as well.

Sure. Yeah. Okay. Great. Thanks.

I'm glad you brought up the library crosswalk because a few days ago, I think it might have been over the weekend, I was watching I went to Jungle 9, and they were talking about they were there was a story on the artist who did a mural on the new Highway 1 a stretch of Highway 1 in San Francisco, the the part of you know, they they closed down Highway 1 and

Oh, yeah.

They they they turned it into a park. But the the process of doing this mural and the mural wasn't this long mural. It was I don't know how big it was, but it was really maybe the same size of ours, but it wasn't a very easy process. I mean, they used drones to map out the the space and and the whole thing. So, I don't know what our process was, but I yeah.

It was a very complicated artistic process the way they did it. So, anyways, just kudos to public work for the maintenance to that. Okay. So if there are no more questions, I will close this item. I'll move on to another item, item number three, which is evaluation and long term project recommendation for the Orchard Avenue traffic calming quick build pilot project, and I believe I can't see your car. You're

I can Oh, we're the Internet. Okay. So he's a deputy director of

pilot works. I think he's

got opportunity. So Diane Tang, principal transportation engineer, will be giving presentation about this. And before he begins,

I will know that he

had a question about it, but the Hayward Boulevard project that we've been working on, which came previously to you, and we are holding a public meeting for that in May 8. It'll be held at Cal State East Bay. The information is on our website where I can talk to folks afterwards and get you additional information about that.

Alright. Welcome members of the day, mayor Salinas, council member Andrews, and council member Sarah. I'm here to present on the Portrait Avenue traffic calming quick build pilot project. So this presentation today will cover a quick project construction update, and then we'll talk about the evaluation that we did after the project was construction was completed. And then we'll talk about the recommendations, and there'll be some time here for questions and and feedback.

Real quick update on the construction. This project actually has it's been a while, and the first community meeting was in January 2024, and I knew that it wasn't 2023. So it's a milestone now that we're in 2025. And this pilot was originally it came up because of community feedback that they wanted to do something quick. And so here we are, and it has been completed.

So this is what we'll be talking about today. And as and the pilot was completed on January from that. Well, the validation of this project started immediately after the instruction was done. So it it was started in January and it passed all the way till April. It consisted of different kinds of ways of collecting data.

So we did data collection through vendors who did counts, tiny movement counts, counts of trucks, all kinds of vehicles. It also included staff observations. And then also along the way, whenever we saw opportunities to make adjustments, we try to do that also, and then I'll talk about more of that later. And then in addition, resident survey was sent out. Over 5,000 postcards were sent out to the neighborhood of Orchard and Hayward Highlands mainly.

People were had the opportunity to take the survey, but it's also put out in social media and other avenues. So a lot of things that in this evaluation that we're trying to assess some of the objectives that have been discussed in previous communities. Some of that's could we reduce speeding with this pipe? Now then was could we reduce cut through traffic? That was something that was mentioned a lot.

In addition, we got we received many concerns about the heavy vehicles going through a winter. So were we able to reduce heavy vehicles? And also, were there any other impacts or things that came up, maybe that wasn't as I expected, but, you know, was a concern more of note. Alright. So a quick just very quick rundown of some of the highlights of the data collected.

From the data we collected, we did see speed reductions near the roundabout and on Long Orchard. They vary from 4% to 8% average speed reduction. We also the counts show that heavy vehicles, so all vehicles that are larger than a passenger typical passenger vehicle, we did see reductions to around 50. So this is from 2023 before the project and till now 2025 from January 2025 when we collected the data. The total amount of vehicles, heavy vehicles, and regular passenger vehicles remain pretty much unchanged from 2020 to 2025.

Numbers are almost the same. When it came to observations by staff, one of the key observations we found was the roundabout operations do appear safer. It used to be that vehicles, especially going eastbound, could just drive straight through because it's just striking. Now they they cannot because there are many roundabouts that are going to areas that make them have to slow down a little, which is the purpose of a roundabout. So we did observe that.

We also received a lot of feedback about increased congestion in queuing along Mission Boulevard and Orchard And Carlsby Intersection. And, you know, this was a lot of effort was spent on this evaluation period looking into this. So staff actually adjusted the signal timing three times. And the third time, we changed the phasing to the lab phasing, which allowed the left turn and the through movement from Carlos b to go at the same time and increase the green time. And we saw through our recording of the the notes that chewing was reduced by about 30% on average views in the morning.

In addition, we received feedback from other city departments, I think, the maintenance that the maintenance is an ongoing need, and up to seven to 10,000,000 units need to be replaced weekly. So they didn't get it, and they do get hit

A lot.

Yeah. A lot. Specific to

the reason for that. Yeah.

Specific to this pilot or across the city? Yeah. Oh, that's just For this pilot. Okay.

So so data this is just very quick rundown. Data is available on the staff report and will be available on the website for. And there's a handout that that we asked them. Right. Now let's talk a little bit about the survey.

So the survey was opened March and was ended yesterday. We received over 500 respondents. Most of the respondents were from Hayward Island, about 60%. And then the second week, largest was Atlanta Orchard, which is what we expected because that's where most postcards was done to those two areas. To the right is is very high level, you know, insights, and almost everyone has perceived, you know, congestion has increased at the Mission Boulevard and Orchard Intersection.

But for other things, you know, perception is it's will not always align with the data. Like, for example and it's hard to really unless you're watching the street all day, you can't really tell if heavy vehicle increased or decreased. But other things that to point out is, you know, it there's some disagreement that cut through traffic was reduced, and, you know, the data kind of shows that the overall vehicles didn't change. And then it's a kind of split perception on reduced speeds at the traffic So I'm just going into the data just a little more from the survey. One interesting interesting thing we found is respondents did about 22% did say that they actually use Orchard s than what they did before the project.

So that's that was an interesting, you know, insight that we we found and wasn't expecting. And then to your bottom left is a breakdown of the reduced speeds by location. And as you can see, as it gets closer to Orchard, there is more agreement that they're that the speeds are reduced, but it's still overall kind of a mixed perception if they disagree or agree that the speeds were reduced. On the top right was an interesting insight where pedestrians and bicyclists tend to perceive that speeds were reduced reduced more than people who were driving in people. And then for the bottom right graph, you can see that there was some people who did agree, especially around New Orchard Avenue, that there was reduced heavy vehicle usage.

And now I'm gonna talk to a little bit about staff recommendations. A lot of these recommendations are based off the vision zero, the city's vision zero by twenty twenty twenty fifty and also the back end and that's the financial and some documents and policy. So that would be. So for the medium and short term, we do recommend the removal of the two raised intersections on Orchard Avenue. This is something that we receive, you know, many complaints of by some one by one by one person.

These raised intersections are not not best practice and built to the standard of what raised intersections that are built on now today, and they cause a lot of noise when that equals full time. For the second recommendation for the immediate and short term, this is something we received a lot of public comments on. There's a left turn lane that was removed from going from Orchard to Mission Boulevard.

Mhmm.

And we you know, this played a role in this recommendations, and we are recommending to reopen the left turn lane. So, of course, with any, you know, implementation of these recommendations, continual continual monitoring will be done just as we've done. We also have a set of long term recommendations, and, you know, we have listened to the feedback. No one really likes the delay in your post. It's something like how it look, how they think how we are.

We do we are recommending to replace the pilot project temporary materials with permanent materials. This will make maintenance less, you know, not worrying about having to replace the billionaires on a weekly basis. And then another thing is this going back, this pilot was not meant to address all concerns. Really, these long term recommendations are to, you know, address those concerns that were raised by the human communities. We are recommending to install crosswalks, programs, and curb extensions on Orchard Avenue, which would enhance the traffic calming.

There are no crosswalks going across Orchard right now, which we've received many feedback many feedback on from some of those residents. And with the space of the reduced lane, there's now opportunities to explore installation of buffered or protected by winds. And this is talking about on the East portion of Orchard where where there's a lot more space. The west is the West portion is a little different. We also like to say, looking to installing safety lighting at the roundabout.

This area isn't the lighting isn't that great right now, and that would also enhance more safety. And then maybe for a more ambitious thing that would connect everything together, You know, we the staff is recommending to explore options for multiuse farewell connection from Orchard Avenue to Whitman Street, and that would actually connect bike lanes to the future East Bay. So that concludes the presentation. Thank you. Looking for feedback and direction on our recommendations, and welcome any questions and comments.

Great. I'm gonna do a public comment first. I'm gonna call upon, Peter Ronan.

Hi. I'm a resident of Highlands Mhmm. For about fifty five years now. And my concern with with the is that you you reduce the lanes. You reduce the left turn lane.

You're also on the the right turn lane was eliminated and moved. You it it created congestion. To me, there is much more congestion now in that area and also some confusion because now in order to go straight, you have to change on Carlos B. You have to change lanes going down Carlos B. You have to move to the left lane in order to go straight.

Otherwise, you will end up, on a right turn lane to Mission. And, you know, couple of times when I was changing the lane, you know, I couldn't do it in time. I I saw some other cars. They couldn't do it in time. It's it's just asking for accidents.

So my question is why, you know, I mean, obviously, you will slow down the traffic if you if you reduce lanes, but you will create congestion. And to me, it just doesn't make sense. That's, you know, I I hope you you take a look at it again because there is confusion and a lot of congestion now. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Russell Alting.

I can take a quick step back to the community resource center. That should be located as close to downtown. A signal at the roundabout on Droit Street. I recommended that before just like the one on So to at the Greenway. Hayward Boulevard.

Hayward approved all that housing up on the hill without any thought to extending Hayward Boulevard to Harter Road around the east side of campus. Now it may require tearing down a couple houses to do it, but you approved all that housing on the hill which created this problem. You created the problem without a solution at hand. You have a potential solution. Thank you.

Thank you. Are there any speakers online?

This one says traffic. Oh,

did I not? Okay. Matthew Matthew Burnett? Yeah. Okay. Good eye.

Thank you. Hi. I apologize. I have been a resident of Hayward, Highlands for fifty five years, and I had an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and and design roads. And I have graduate undergraduate degree from San Jose State and graduate degree from UC Berkeley.

And I had been a licensed civil engineer in the state of California for over fifty years now. So just from my professional experience, a couple of comments and suggestions on this. So first of all, going on to, you know, calming the traffic, we have to look really at the root causes of why there is traffic going through Orchard Avenue to So to and then to Jackson. This has been really caused by the tremendous congestion that is at the intersection of Jackson, which is essentially an expressway, almost a freeway, foothill and Mission. And that needs to be addressed in order to reduce the traffic going through the neighborhoods at Orchard Avenue.

As you could see in the CERT, you know, pilot program, the traffic didn't reduce that much. Well, it was 3%, 5% from the survey or or the between 2023 and 2025. And my suggestion would be to start looking at that rather than doing the pilot programs because we spent over quarter of $1,000,000 for this pilot project. If I were to suggest something, I would say that we should have done simply a computer study on that or simulation, which can be based on simple measuring of the topics. So reducing the number of lanes is not a solution.

It requires a major solution Oh. In the not the problem. And the major problem is that Hayward is a transit point for the for the commuters between the Peninsula and the Sangamo Mumbai that for

the past fifty years, which

I observed living just skyrocket. So we have to really somehow address that. Otherwise, we are not going. We will have still the the traffics with the neighborhoods. And so some of these suggestions, yeah, the left turn, we had to change it.

We had to change the we have to reintroduce the right turn into the Mission from Carlos b because right now, what this created really is a push more traffic to Orchard. Yes. Because you can't turn right into Mission. Now a lot of people don't turn right into Mission because Google Maps and Apple Maps will direct you to Orchard because simply between 6AM and 10AM of every day, every weekday, and Yes. 2PM and about 7PM in the afternoon, the intersection of Jackson, Mission, and Foothill is practically impossible, especially for people that living in Hayward.

If I want to go to Downtown Hayward to support some of the businesses there, and you know what is happening to the businesses there,

You can't get there. Your time is up. Okay. Oh, yes. We heard you. Okay. Thank you. Our next speaker is Barbara Hersing.

I I have been living for forty two years. Since you approved all the buildings up on the hills, it doesn't make very much sense to me that you want to reduce lanes on Hayward Boulevard or anywhere else. Now the pilot project on Orchard, there is all that pavement that now is wasted, And at least the lane, that one lane that goes through should be at least 12 feet or a little bit more, not less. Under the bridge, under the BART Bridge, it's I I'm sure it's not 12 feet. It's less.

I don't know where there is all that pavement. Why do you can cannot you give us a decent lane width? Okay? The roundabout, it should have never been done. I am a transplantation engineer, retired.

That should have never been done as well as none of the ones on Fairview. The only one that is decent is Hayward Boulevard to to Fairview at the school. That's a decent one. But this one at Orchard is actually terrible. Now the way it is done now, the sharp turns.

Why do you have to have such a sharp turn? Is it it's not an accident that those channelizers are being knocked out all the time because Slow down. It is you don't have room to turn that sharp turn. The turns are too sharp to, to navigate. Okay?

This is not slowing down the project or, the traffic. In my view, it is not knowing roadway design to me. This needs to be reevaluated. It is it is terrible. It works right now as a regular cross intersection because the side traffic still stops, cannot go because the so called roundabout traffic talk through Orchard, those those just go through.

And the side streets are stopping and waiting until it's free. Because in a roundabout, you have to have enough length to do to go to give room for the other traffic to come in. If if that is not there, then then it it has no

Your your tidings. Reason. Okay? So

that's the number one thing. That

It's hard to

say.

Roundabout should be a little bit more.

Thank you. Your time is Okay. I appreciate it. Bringing up the bringing up the roundabouts up on Fairview, are, like, triggers around here. I know I know that's, those have been some long discussions, over the years. And so but absolutely. Okay. I will now come back up. Oh, of course. On the list. Yes.

Monica?

Hi. Can you hear me?

Yes.

Yeah. I just wanted to echo what, the other neighbors said. I also live on, Highland. And, basically, like, to me, it doesn't make sense that you would remove that lane to go right, and also the other lane, basically, from our charter to go right as well. But the point is that there is so much congestion right now that my request is to bring it back towards to what it was at the original.

So I understand that this is have been a multiple phases project, but it doesn't seem to me that it's working because the improvement are so minimal. Like, it starts I don't know how relevant they are. So, yeah, my my only request is, like, please remove all those little poles that take away so much space on the on the road and also, like, those lanes because we need to come down the that road. Need to go to work. We need to take the kids to school, and it's not feasible in this way. So yeah.

Okay. Thank you. Any calls? Mhmm.

Miss Parr?

Hi. Hey there. So first first of all, I wanted to thank all the staff for all their hard work in this and listening to feedback from the community. In terms of the traffic coming down the hill from Carlos b, I understand the second right turn. That's probably a good idea.

I don't know. But, you know, let it queue up. Let it back up into people going straight. Maybe they will rethink about coming into a community neighborhood that is not was never designed to handle this kind of traffic. The traffic intersections, whatever, the the raised intersections, okay.

That's okay to remove those. They were stupid idea from the beginning. But could we possibly consider traffic humps to slow the traffic down? And in terms of the the roundabout, if you looked on your own map, I don't know if it's feasible, but if you can move the roundabout south when you're redesigning it so that it's more of a roundabout so that traffic going from Orchard toward Mission is not is a less straight through. It's even it's slower now, but it's as as speakers have pointed out, people in the roundabout still have to wait to go through.

And I love the idea of the crosswalks, but I would encourage if there's any room in the budget to add the the bag bag lights similar to what they have at some places like on Harder, and they have one at the Eden the the Greenway on Sodom to stop traffic because I think because traffic still goes through there way too fast. And for the safer safety of the people crossing through, it's just something to consider. I think that would be awesome. And I I also agree with a previous speaker that the problem is you need to address. And I know you're looking at this, the prom at the traffic at Jackson And Mission.

And with that stupid stupid loop that really exacerbated that problem. And I again, I really do appreciate it, everything you've done. And so thank you very much. And as I said, you can do to discourage people from driving straight through onto Orchard from Carlsby would be great. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other calls?

Alicia?

Yes, sir. So I'd like to comment on the alleged reduction in speed and heavy traffic. I am not sure this is due to these to this pilot project. The quality of the road surface has you know, it's full of potholes on Orchard, so that might be one of the reasons why the traffic is a little bit slower. I do not think traffic has been reduced by this pilot.

Also, the heavy traffic is a seasonal component. So maybe now it appears that the less heavy traffic is going through Orchard, but it's been winter, so less dump trucks because there's not much work moving. So I am not sure there's been any improvement due to this pilot. What is sure is that traffic and con congestion has increased a lot,

and

it's it's terrible. You know? Every day, I wake up. I have to take the kids to school. I have to go to work. It's a nightmare. Yes. Please bring back the two lanes and and make try to make traffic manageable. Thank you.

Thank you. That's it? Okay. Before I call on councilmember Andrew's, I I wanna if you don't mind, take the chair's privilege to speak first. I, you know, I wanna sort of bring our attention back to sort of why, this was an issue to begin.

There is a neighborhood between So To and Mission. It's Orchard Avenue. And this is a an older neighborhood where you have families, low income families. You have seniors, many on extremely low fixed incomes, and, and who rely on that stream to walk, to bike, to go to school, and to get around. And and they came to us with a great deal of concern that, one, traffic was too fast, period.

Too fast. I mean, I don't know any other way of putting it. Traffic is fast. And and I keep going back to I don't know I don't know the family. I don't I've never met the the the family. I've never met the owner of the property. But on a on a high frequency, when I drive around that loop, I can see that wall on around the loop completely driven through, like car had just driven through it. Right? More on more occasions that I would wanna see, but it hit that fence is always destroyed because a car has gone through that fence.

Because the

So let me there. So that's the first issue. The second issue the second issue is that there is a big concern a a a a serious concern about cut through traffic. People use Orchard, you know, from the hills. They drive right through Orchard.

They turn on So to to go to Jackson Mhmm. To the freeway. I mean, I don't know anybody if through traffic at the at the at the at the amount and at the frequency in any neighborhood in the Hayward Hills that would want that amount of of traffic. If that was on any other street, Farmhill, Skyline, Doble, we would be having a very different conversation in this room. Very different in this room.

And and these neighbors have come to us for a solution. They've come to us, and that's and that's what we're doing. I'm not gonna get on my soapbox about the loop because I live off of the loop. And when the day after, the day after that loop was implemented, I could not get out of my driveway or go into my driveway without being honked at because cars were now on my street not going 25 miles an hour, but now they're doing fifty, sixty with or without speed bumps. Right.

And so, you know, I look at chart the slide three where it says speeds have reduced to four to 8%. Okay. I wish it was more, but it's reducing. Secondly, heavy vehicles have turned around. I don't think anyone wants heavy trucks going through their neighborhoods of any size, whether they're, you know, 50 footers or or or or higher.

You know, some of the observations, I know, yeah, they're they're making some tweaks, but I I don't I you know, miss Park, I I have to agree with miss Park. We're talking about a neighborhood here. And and I, you know, I I and I'm also very observant that I don't know how many of in the room that are actually from that Orchard corridor right now. But right now, there's nobody in the room or maybe one or two of you, three of you, thank you for being here, that, you know, that are that have spoken yet. But I I wanna bring voice to this because I have when at street part know, we all get hit at street parties and when we're out in the public.

These are the concerns. Mhmm. These are concerns. And when I see congestion, yes, it's inconvenient. Yes. We had to wait

a little longer. Yeah. All of that.

But at least traffic is slower. Right? And I should and and and I'm sure the others will bring this up. But the other reason why we're doing this is because of safer bicycle ridership and and others. But I I don't want us to lose the the the the attention, what we're doing here. I was looking at the recommendations. I, you know, I wanna go back to what miss Par said. Whatever we need to do whatever we need to do, I am in support of this. And, yes, let's let's focus on these things. I'm not saying we're not gonna be we're not listening to the to the good people up in the hills.

That's we're listening and and, you know, all that. But I don't want us to lose phobias on why we're doing this, that we're doing this. And it's and it's both short term and long term, temporary with some long term fixes, but we're doing this because there is a neighborhood that has been severely impacted. So I'll let my roommates They're available.

Ahead. Yes.

Thank you for the presentation. Thank you for everyone who came out tonight. I just had a couple of questions. So remove the two raised intersections on Orchard Avenue. There was a question about traffic humps instead. Can you speak to that question?

We can evaluate. Yeah. Bet. Speed humps. That may maybe challenging the wider section, I would say, but I've been definitely looking the other section instead. But just like we have noise when things about Yeah. Intersection a few months.

Because they say, you talk about that? Sure.

We'll definitely look at that as an option and bring it.

Can you remind me why the traffic is having been as popular?

I haven't been as popular. I don't the specific location here on Orchard is is you can book they came as well before my time, but Byron said, they're kind of nonstandard the way they signed. Yeah. Whereas the speed on suite generally pretty well received on the streets that we put them in on. And we used to use the kind of temporary ones that don't Mhmm. People don't like, but the permanent asphalt ones tend to be a little bit better.

Okay. Great. That's still

we reviewed. Yeah. Okay. Great.

And then reopen the left turn lane from Orchard Avenue to Mission. Thank you for bringing this up. Just so it didn't not have as big of an impact as we we intended when we closed it, or what was the reasoning for closing it?

Yeah. Staff staff did observe that Okay. That part of the discussion too, and they did observe queues

Yeah.

Exceeding the pocket length. Okay. So that that would help. Okay. That's something.

Then May I

just add one thing to So if I mentioned this already, and and I I do wanna make

sure it's good at that. We've been

taking the concern we've heard very seriously, like, the we did these multiple retimings of the signals. We did really but one of the issues when we did multiple retimes in the circles probably had an adverse impact on that pocket length coming from Orchard.

Oh,

okay. And so that's you know, now we'll address that, and and then hopefully that'll stabilize a little bit.

Oh, okay. So I see. So the left turn lane, you were also adjusting the signal timing to address taking away of the left turning point.

We did adjust. Like, we we made the the physical geometric changes. Yeah. Then we started to adjust the signal timing. And as we did that, it had other impacts now. So, know, it's a we're tweaking and changing as we go, but but that's likely one of the things that happened as well as that.

Because it used

to be both at the straight directions when it wants, and then and the turns went. And now it's like one side of the turns goes, and then the others and then the straight wave gone on the other side. So it it kinda creates a situation where have to play around a little bit with this. But we can open that bucket back up, and that'll help.

Okay. And that lecture lane, when you closed it well, to closed it, the left turn arrow was still on there. Is that normal to do that, or do you paint when you close out the lane, do you normally paint do a temporary paint?

If it was permanent, we would remove it. But because it's all sub opined, it's it's okay to leave it.

Okay. Got it.

Okay. And then do you wanna speak to the the right turn lane coming from Carlos b?

Yeah. I mean and this so this

is the issue we've heard about more than any other Mhmm. During the pilot and the the various concern. And I think for sure, respect and understand the folks here tonight who who have that concern. So there there is a right turn lane. It's just been shifted away from the occurred inside, and and what there is not is two through lanes.

So there's a right turn lane, a through lane, and a and a left turn lane. And what we were experiencing when we first put it in, which which we did try to correct the signal timing, was that if you were trying to turn left, the through travel was kind of there was a blocking access to the pocket because the queues were a little bit longer. So by changing the signals, I just made it easier to get into the pocket and both staff observations and the data kinda show that we made a pretty substantial reduction in in that queue length. But there is still a right turn lane there today. The issue is that you have two through lanes coming through when you touch Mission Boulevard from Carlos B.

You have to have two receiving lanes. So if we're bringing it down to one lane, then we have to have a merge somewhere else. And generally, there are couple different ways to do that. The way we've done it is with what's called a trap lane, where you basically force people

to turn, and the other way to do

it is to merge them. We were already we actually had a conversation with PD today. The only place that or it should really experience significant collisions was where the old merge lane used to be when you got in towards the roundabout. So for we're just pushing that upstream if we if we bring that back. So we'd rather do it the way we're doing it, but we think there are probably tweaks we could continue to do to make it it clear and make it easier for things.

Okay. So you also so you're looking at signal timing to help with that. Okay. And then question about the permanent materials. Are we concerned about accidents coming from the people hitting the permanent materials, or it's

just gonna be more durable? Yeah.

They'll be more durable. Right? And this wouldn't be something that you would you would break off, for example. So I I I think that they would work a lot better for the purposes, and they would also be less abrupt. So for example, we're using these kind of mini speed hubs inside the traffic circle now. If we did an actual sort of truck apron, as in snow, which is a raised segment, it would just be so, like, when you to use that, it wouldn't be as jarring, for example. So it it would work a lot better overall for folks. And where we have permanent infrastructure, you know, people where they see curb, they not that nobody ever runs over our curbs right there. You know, it tends to be much less than when you see this kind of post.

And and that day, permanent implementation doesn't have to take place tomorrow. Yeah. All these comments from all sides and for the decisions that we are going to make and bring before you. Got it. We are not going to install concrete where we had a plastic baller that was hit several times. That's not what's going to be done. Okay. We are going to take all of these comments into consideration before decision is made what we do in.

Thank you for that reminder. And then this install safety lighting at the roundabout, are the neighbors gonna be impacted by more lighting in that area in the roundabout in terms of

There there was some different lighting configurations that can reduce and reduce the kind of overflow of the light to to the

houses and Okay. That can

use. Yeah.

Okay. And then you you also mentioned crosswalks, Eurethicans and crosswalks. Okay. High visibility crosswalks on it. Okay. Then did you get any complaints from other streets about more traffic in their streets on the Hayward retail center? I know there's a lot more activity kinda coming to that area. Do you think that is one of the reasons why you're seeing the unchanged amount of cars?

That's a good point, and and certainly could be that there's just more traffic because of that. I mean,

several folks have already alluded to this, but

there are a few ways through town. Right? So it that it doesn't necessarily it's not more convenient to try to use a different street Exactly. For the folks who are kinda coming down and through and getting over to Jackson. So so, I mean, we didn't we didn't reduce speed somewhat. Not too surprised we didn't see a big reduction in in traffic. It was slow to walk down the speed bit.

Yes. Got it. Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation. Thank you for the update.

We're running an experiment here, and experiments have

we're testing a hypothesis, and sometimes you find out things that you that were unexpected. So, you know, I understand the recommendation. I'm happy we're looking at moving the left turn or reopening the left turn lane from where should Avenue on Mission Boulevard. I am curious if there's a way for us to signal better to reduce confusion on the traffic that is currently designed, especially as we're looking to move into some sort of next phase. I think I'm in alignment with all of these. I just wanted to respond to some of my comments. Firstly, I wanna ground us in the why. I don't get on the soapbox about the loop. I completely agree. The loop downtown is monster of a throughway that's choking the center of our city.

It was a mistake, and it was a $100,000,000 mistake. And that's about how much it's gonna cost for us to fix it if we're lucky. But the council, we're on board with trying to fix this. We recently received a little bit $4,000,000 grant to begin initiating studies to redesign and redevelop this. Once we know what that plan is and I hope you all show up to talk about, you know, what that plan should look like because we wanna get it right this time around. Because when we go to the accounting and say, hey. Sorry about the last $700,000,000. We're gonna do another $100,000,000. We better have a really good plan that time around. So just wanna be clear.

We're working on that. We understand that is the big fish to fry. And recently, at a strategic planning meeting, when we were looking at our infrastructure projects, that was one of the highest priorities for us was we need to keep our eyes on the loop and figure out what is ultimately a generational problem at this point and how to solve it. So I want you to know we we get that, and we understand the connection here. I heard a comment earlier in the crowd that no one rides bikes in that area. There's a father named Chris Pena who died riding his bike. Big decision. Okay. Thank you. I'm bike rider. Okay. Good. Good. Because to me and I wanna be clear for the folks that don't believe it because I do have a lot of folks from the Highlands. I grew up on Farmville.

I grew up down here at Boulevard. My family takes Orchard. I I know this road. But this is an unsafe place for people that are trying to travel in ways that are different than just being in a car. Father of two died at Mission And Orchard being hit by a car because people are just going too quickly. And we need the infrastructure throughout people of all types to travel if they want to. Cars are getting more expensive. You try looking at the used car market these days. We're about to give out I think I said this last time. What is it?

2,000? Mhmm. Maybe that's

too high. 600? I wanna I wanna over promise here.

Around 2,000.

We're giving out 2,000 bikes for

kids. Alrighty.

What kind of roads do you want these kids to be riding bikes on? Do you want them to be competing with the cars streaming down Carlos B and not slowing down a little bit, or do you want

them to

have a lane

of their own so they can get to school safely without admitting carbon emissions and making our climate crisis worse? Right? So these are the trade offs we're considering. I'm not dismissing what you're saying, but I just want you to have the additional data. And I also just want us to be grounded in facts. We have a really talented staff team here, and they they conducted four months of studies and to say, oh, well, it's potholes, and the speed didn't actually go down. Come on. We see who the president is. We see how he operates. Let's not just go back out the window.

We're spending very real time trying to study these things to have the impact we wanna have. And we sat in an auditorium of 50 people from the Orchard neighborhood telling us less heavy vehicles, slow the traffic down. And for all intents and purposes, this pilot has demonstrated that we've accomplished that. So I just we're not entitled to have somebody else's neighborhood be our throughway. The traffic is frustrating. I understand. I think we're seeing what adjustments we can make to adjust that. But I just really wanna level set here all the considerations you're taking into account when we do a pilot like this and to not dismiss the hard work that's happened and and the community input. Tons of working families coming out to tell us, our neighborhood feels unsafe. Please help us. And what we're hearing today is I'm

a little bit frustrated that I have

to wait one more light cycle, and this is oppression to me. And I I just these are different things. So let's just level set. We're gonna make adjustments. I'm in line with the recommendation that you want us to look at how to improve the trap lane. I think this right turn lane is the biggest pain point here. Right? And all of our residents deserve some form of relief. But if this is what's required to prevent people from dying, yes, quarter million on a pilot project.

The loop was up

a 100,000,000. How much would you pay for the health and safety of your child or your grandchild? What what price tag do you think the city should put on that? On your parent, on your you know, whoever in your family. But let's let's just be, you know, human about this. Let's let's see the humanity that other folks are looking for their own safety here. Is is our comfort in a car really what takes precedence over somebody's well-being and health? I just wanna offer that question there. So we're gonna look into it. I hear your comments.

Please have you know, please please hold in high regard the people that ask for this as well even if they couldn't be here tonight because as Amir said, it is a very working class neighborhood. I don't know if the Jackson Triangle has had a representative on council for for how long. You know? I mean, they don't have the luxury of coming out here. And when we did put a call out, they came en masse. So I just wanna leave it with that. Thank you for all for all the hard work that went into this. We're gonna continue to make the investments. I think you've heard all the comments tonight too, and, yeah, we'll keep moving forward.

Thank you. Okay. Do you have what you need?

Yes. Thank you.

Yeah. Perfect. Wonderful.

Oh, and humps where the raised intersections were. I don't wanna just remove the the old the old raised intersections. I'd like for there to still be speed speed humps there. Okay.

I like to close this item. I'll move on to future items, and this is review and comment.

Do have any comments? No.

I looked at the house member Andrews.

Oh, yes. Wanted to see if we can look at high visibility across locations, potential locations we can identify. Do you have that list, or we already have this?

And so, typically, for thinking about future location, I would say anytime we're paving Okay. We're replacing crosswalking with putting that type

of visibility that's much easier.

You see the visibility of

the scene you in advance when you have to bring them back. Okay. That way, and then anytime we have, like, a safe route to school project, safe route to all those projects were were what can I put in high school? If there are particular locations

Yeah. Can I have the latest and greatest, I guess, on the safe route to the seniors? Sure. Yeah. So we did get I did get a couple of calls this week about the new solar development, so we

had made new orders.

We tried to take you around those. Mhmm. So I is that something y'all can bring

to Yeah. Absolutely. We'd be happy to talk more

about that. I can't remember. Do we have any signage for sorry. We're still in the meeting.

So

Lady ladies and gentlemen, can we can we if

you wanna talk, please talk outside or because three more minutes. K. But then you can

all mess around that again.

So I know I've seen in other communities, senior housing, field yield signs. Do we have that on our We have

so some of the senior developments have gone there's some signage near the ones a second Okay. Maybe, for example, and and we can definitely put in there's Yeah. Specific signage that's allowed or that Yeah. So we can absolutely do that.

Yeah. If we could talk about that, just so I can forward it to those communities, that'd be great.

We can get information information about this. Let me see.

Okay. And then I I would like to see impact of tariffs at some point. Just it could just be whenever you do your next update, just include it with the next update. That'd be great. Thank you. It's what

I would what they are.

Give it give it a five minutes before. Refresh and then.

Yeah. I

know we've made lots of fans here, but I think having a clear timeline, I'm gonna move project back. People care about it, obviously. I think we're gonna have this May work session or sorry, community public feedback session, but being able to be clear about, at that session, the whole two agenda items that may be in our autumn meeting or something just so folks know if they can expect to come back would be vital. So I don't know if that's the specific date that works for your team, but just really my ask is please communicate when the next meeting is at that public meeting.

I do. I do. Okay.

Next to committee member or staff announcements or refer reports or or referrals. Seeing none.

Oh, sorry. Yeah. Too quick. Yes. Oh, yeah. Thank you, doctor for flagging the full loop study. We we have kicked that up. I wanna be clear. The formula is not for that study. It's for a whole set of studies. Yeah. That's just one of them. So don't think that we're spending all that there. I I

I thought that's an impressive study.

I think

I'm gonna lose that.

We're gonna be studying outreach in May, and and I think we'll probably at the first street party, we're hoping to do some pop up outreach there for that, and we've got studies also. Plexiglass. And B Street and Tennyson as well. So so we are actively working on that. We definitely wanna make sure that folks are participating.

You'll you'll get communication about this as well so we can we can make sure we get good outreach for those because we're really those are all kinda getting going now. And I did wanna mention, you know, we came to you almost in, about Gadding Road, and you gave us some very clear direction. We have since then conducted some additional outreach, and we did have and I think Mary may have had a conversation with one of these individuals, some very passionate folks who don't like that project. You know, it's a complicated project. We did essentially half the project on Patrick and left the other half.

We're we're finishing the full project. The direction we got from you was clear to kinda keep going and move forward. We we heard some good things. We can make some tweaks on for that related, again, generally related to signal timing, some other stuff. We don't think it makes sense to not do the gathering part at the stage, but to do it and complete it, and then we can always revisit it later. But the Dishman made a quick update on that as well.

And can we also have a quick update on just Main Street, how that's going? The the sidewalk, the instructions, the instructions, how that's going? That's gonna be it doesn't have to be today. Just whenever you all come back.

What else? So the Main Street is going to be completed in about a couple of months from now. And at the end, we can do that. Okay. Yeah. Great. Thanks. Perfect. Sure.

So much.

Okay. And if there's no further business, we can stop.

Oh, okay. Yeah. There's the Thursday, Is that correct? This Saturday. You wanna let us know? Sure.

April 26, we park 08:30 to one. Register if you wanna taco.

Come out, meet the community. We'll take care of our neighborhood. And then in the afternoon, there's also the Haber Lit Hop. For folks that aren't familiar with the Lit Hop, there's gonna be a series of different authors meeting at downtown businesses. We're gonna kick off. I think it's either at twelve or noon at the Heritage Plaza. Look at the haywardlithop.com, but open to the public.

So Hayward will be lit Yeah. This weekend. Yep.

And clean.

And clean. Think

ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out. Media is ready.

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