Transportation Board - Regular Meeting

All right, it's 5.30, so the meeting's called to order. Quick roll call. Member Edwards, Member Hampton, Member Lasowski, Member Gebhard Kleinrath, and Member Chappelle are in chamber. Member Connolly is online, and Member Muck is excused absence. Does anyone have any changes to the agenda?

Mr. Chair, I just have to make a quick question. Just want to clarify, I'm seeing both the agendas for the regular meeting and then the special meeting we had, correct?

I think that's part of the minutes.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, just for tonight's agenda, though.

Oh, yeah. I'll ask again.

All right. Since there's no changes, the agenda is approved unanimously. Is there any public comment for items not on the agenda? There are none. Next with the minutes for June 4th. Do we have any changes? All right. June 4th minutes are approved unanimously. June 22nd minutes. Any changes or correction? All right. The June 22nd minutes are approved unanimously. And with that... update on public works projects.

All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. The agenda notes the presenter is Keith Wilson today, but he couldn't make it due to a family matter. But I can do my best Scottish accent if you would like me to. We'd like to hear you try. No, you don't. I can say garage. All right. Thank you, Ms. Martinez, for pulling up the presentation. Can you go to the next slide, please? All right. Since we didn't have any specific project presentations today, we kind of wanted to put together a presentation to give an update of all the projects that we're doing, um, you know, mainly the, the more notable ones. So this project, uh, was one of the traffic safety projects that, uh, council funded through, um, through the budget. And, uh, it was the, uh, the installation of rumble strips, uh, from more or less from about the County line, uh, to airport road along 502. Uh, this was done in coordination with the NMDOT. Since it is one of their facilities and the project was completed in May and had great results and was completed, you know, rather quickly. So we're happy about that. Next slide, please. The Denver Stills Phase 2 project, the slide here shows that it was started in January of this year and substantially complete in July. Happy to report that it is actually fully complete. So the project came out really, really good. And congratulations to our project management team for all their hard work on this project. Trinity Drive safety and ADA improvements. That one began just a few weeks ago, and we're expecting construction to be complete in January of next year. And you've seen all the traffic control devices out there already, so work has started. So far, so good, right, Mr. Wooly Buddy and Gonzales? So good progress on that so far. Next slide. So what we're looking to do with this project, the Ashley Pond Park safety improvements, we did get console approval on concept number three, which is the rock boulders and landscape concept design. And so that project has moved into design and we're looking to follow the Trinity Drive project with the installation of of that improvement following the Trinity Drive Safety Project. Next slide. Finch Street Extension, another project that has recently begun with construction expected to be complete in December. So a lot of activity happening out there currently. The New Mexico Fork Crossing and Multi-Use Trail Improvement Project, along with the Pinon School Trail, those are two combined efforts into one project, essentially. We are awaiting what we call a notice of obligation for the funding, since it is a state and federally funded project. There's a process that is followed by the state DOT and how funds are obligated to the county. So once that's in place, we can begin the process to advertise for bids for the project. We anticipate taking it to council sometime in October for awarding the bid for construction. And then hopefully we can get construction started in November. And that will take us through October of 27 to complete. All right, so those were the projects. The next few slides are more of our traffic operations-based efforts. So this one in particular is the regrading and placement of millings on Rendija Canyon Road. So great job to our traffic and street crews that did this work and helped prepare that road bit so in case it it is ever needed for wildfire evacuations. This project actually was funded through a state grant, and it helped us repair the concrete infrastructure on the roundabout at the Diamond Drive, North Mesa Road, San Ildefonso intersection. And those are those pictures on the right side, the two on the right. The picture on the left was some drainage improvements at the Middle School driveway to help maintain that infrastructure where Hog Drive intersects with North Road in that area. We had a lot of areas where it was washing out because of the drainage, and so that infrastructure will help give us more longevity in that area. Next slide. ONE THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF IS THAT WE COMPLETED BACK IN MAY WAS THE CLOSING OF BASICALLY A FEW PARKING SPACES ALONG CENTRAL AVENUE TO PROVIDE BETTER SITE DISTANCE FOR THOSE PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS. the Oppenheimer crossing at Central Avenue as well. We've made some improvements there with the crosswalk, but more recently, we also brought the pedestrian crossing signs closer into the roadway prism. So where they were initially behind the sidewalk, now they're in front of the sidewalk next to the curb to provide a better visual acuity of those signs for pedestrians crossing that area. And that's your image on the right side. On the left side, we're looking at placing green bike lanes through there. And that's the area where if you're traveling eastbound on a bike past the Oppenheimer intersection, the bike lane eventually merges into the travel lane. This effort would provide more visual acuity for that bike lane through the intersection, as well as giving us that kind of narrowness of the roadway that the bulb outs achieve further to the east of that area. So I'm looking forward to that. Next slide. So the next few slides are going to be showing you a few of the pedestrian crossings that currently exist. along Central Avenue and the adjoining side streets. This one in particular is at the intersection of 20th Street. Currently, there is not a marked crossing across 20th Street. We are looking to place the two lateral bars that you see at the bottom of the intersection there to provide more, again, more that there's presence of pedestrians crossing that area. The crosswalk that you see going north-south is a pedestrian crossing that does exist there that is increased travel with the intersection of the urban street, the urban trail, um, uh, infrastructure that we, uh, placed there, you know, a few years ago. Um, we use the different, uh, design of a crosswalk using what we call a continental design with the multiple bars. Uh, and those are usually reserved for heavy pedestrian traffic intersections of that sort. Uh, so that's a good application for that type. They are more intensive to maintain. because there is more surface area. But we felt the increase in pedestrian traffic through there because of the trail that it was needed. So good improvement there. And I'm not sure if those are in yet.

The central crossing was installed yesterday.

Yeah, okay. Thank you.

The other crosswalk, the one on 20th. Okay.

That's what I thought. I traveled through there this morning, and I think those are in right now. So... the one for the urban uh trail crossing are are installed so great job to the team on that uh tim and his crews uh did that recently and there is more work coming through central um in the next few days including the one on the on the 20th street side uh next oh if you could go back real quick So on the right side of the intersection with the double yellow centerline markings, we've also stretched those further into towards the intersection to help encourage drivers make that left turn a little bit tighter to allow drivers to see pedestrians crossing there a little bit better and help avoid any circumstances where they may be cutting that close to the TO THE VEHICLE THAT MAY BE EXITING THAT INTERSECTION AT 20TH STREET. I KNOW COUNCILOR HAVING ME IS HAPPY TO SEE THAT. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO THESE TWO PHOTOS HERE SHOW THE INTERSECTIONS OF CENTRAL AND BATHTOB ROW AND THAT MAIN STREET. SAME THING HERE ON THOSE SIDE STREETS THAT INTERSECT WITH CENTRAL, WE'RE LOOKING AT PUTTING CROSSWALK MARKINGS THROUGH THERE. We don't place crosswalk markings at every side street intersection, but we felt given the amount of pedestrian activity on Central Avenue, it was important to do so. So in the theme of increasing pedestrian safety and noting that, that was another effort we felt would be a good improvement along Central Avenue given its high pedestrian use. And then again, the same thing here with the double yellow center line markings, bringing that forward towards the intersection for a tighter turn with vehicles. This one shows a restriping of our current crosswalks that contain bulb outs, which we have quite a few along Central Avenue. What we're looking to do a little bit different here is to increase the width of those crosswalks white markings for the crosswalk, again, for enhancing the visual acuity for drivers and motorists that travel through there, along with using a different type of crosswalk material. So entirely different product. It's similar to the epoxy that we're placing for the green bike lanes, but I think it has a few differences, right, Tim?

Is it a hybrid epoxy?

Yeah, hybrid epoxy acrylic is what that is. So this crosswalk in particular, Tim says it's complete. So great job to the team. There's more to do, but they got a good start. All right, on to something a little bit different here. This is a slurry, what we call a slurry seal application. It's a pavement preservation method to help ATTAIN MORE LONGEVITY OUT OF OUR ASPALT ROADWAYS. THIS PROJECT IN PARTICULAR WENT ALONG GRAND CANYON FROM NM 4 TO METAL LANE AND THAT WAS COMPLETED AT THE END OF JULY. TRAFFIC AND STREETS UTILIZED A VENDOR FOR THIS AND DID SOME OUTREACH WITH SOME OF THE NEIGHBORING RESIDENTS WHILE THAT WAS BEING DONE. IT'S A QUICK OPERATION. CAN GET A LITTLE MESSY. They did a great job. Next slide. Now that that is done, we were waiting to do that, to be able to install what you see on this rendering. And this was a project that came from a petition, a citizen petition, to look at enhancing pedestrian crossing and traffic calming. Is that correct, Eric? And so again, our traffic and streets crews, now that the slurry seal is complete, are looking to put some of that infrastructure into place. They're classified as kind of a quick, I forget the term, quick build project. to create some bulb outs at the intersections, help with the traffic calming and reduce the crossing distance for pedestrians at the intersection. All right, yes.

Question, what exactly is like, you mentioned it's a quick project, the orange lines, I'm not exactly sure what the proposed curb type are or the match existing curb.

that was like would that be a project down the road as to like extending the curve out so what exactly are we looking at with those orange lines okay um i'm going to ask mr walker foster to explain the devices that we're looking to place around those and then i'll address the future potential future plans for that so

good evening board uh yeah so we're basically reducing the lane uh width so i believe it's 18 feet going down to 12 feet so it'll be a traffic calming measure i've been just again creating that narrowness to try and slow traffic and reading the engineering report Speed was a concern and not fully stopping around the turns for the school zones. So with that, we're going to place some plastic quick curb and it's going to have the delineators. It's going to be white in color. And so we laid it out prior to the slurry seal just to make sure we got everything to fit correctly. So now we'll go back, relay it out. The material has been ordered and we're dealing with a new vendor. So we're just waiting on an actual delivery date for the quick curb. But the crosswalks are in as of today.

Basically what QuickCurb is, it's a pre-manufactured product that gets mounted and essentially anchored into the asphalt so that it doesn't move. And that curb itself can actually hold delineator devices, vertical devices.

So is it the same as on the roundabout between Barranca and North Mesa? That's it. Yes. Okay.

Next slide All right this project another one in White Rock was to make some drainage improvements at the intersection of show Avenue and Aragon Avenue Some years ago utilities had a project in there that installed some newer electric infrastructure and so it was a the patching and the and the work there was a A little rough, so we took the opportunity to put some valley gutters in there to help with drainage. And then our crews repaved the intersection as well. And then, of course, you see some crosswalk markings through there because it is a safe routes to school route. Next. All right, here's another one that dovetails in with the Yuchamisa School that was recently built. And it's improving the ADA ramps at the intersection opposite of the driveway to the school. And that's an area where school kids do cross. So there's a school crossing. Now other projects in the works. So long list of things. Wayfinding sign installation is ongoing. We're looking to install some And again, based on some input we received to install some right turn yield to pet signs on the mast arms of the traffic signals at Central Avenue and 15th Street. We're evaluating several pedestrian crossings, one at Diamond Drive in Sycamore, pedestrian crossing improvements. Let me clarify that. One at Diamond Drive in Sycamore Street, 15th Street and Iris, just right out our door here. New Mexico 4 and the White Rock Visitor Center, given the increase that we foresee with pedestrian crossing in there with improvements at the visitor center and opposite the visitor center. So that's something that's on our radar. We're evaluating various green bike lane marking requests that Keith has received over the course of the installation that occurred at Diamond Drive near Canyon. um oops okay um our county manager's office is currently working on a wildlife study and we're dovetailing that with any possible warning signage that we want to look at placing and we're just waiting on the results of that study to try to inform us of how best to proceed with installation of signs. What we're looking to do is actually, and we're currently researching this, is wildlife activated warning signs. So something that is activated by the presence of wildlife to provide a lighted beacon or LED lights on a warning sign. something that's not on all the time but is activated when it senses wildlife in the area. So that's the tricky part because you could use infrared, but that also detects people. So we're looking at cameras and AI that may help, you know, with that effort. So Aaron Park, our traffic manager, is currently working on that. Some upcoming projects, Denver Seals Phase 3 is coming around the corner. Fairway Drive, same thing. Those two projects are currently under design. I believe next month we are expecting to have a presentation and public meeting regarding the Fairway Drive project. Correct, Eric? Yeah. And then Canyon Rim Trail Phase 3 construction. And that one, now that we're into the August season, we've been waiting to do a a bird nesting study in the area to complete that project and get it out to bid and begin the construction of that project. And then Longview Drive realignment, that's a project that we are early in design on. And we're actually in the process of the demolition of the buildings that the county the property that the county purchased not too long ago and the demolition of those buildings is actually in process currently what the demolition well they're still out there now so yeah they're finishing the the uh foundation and the grading uh in there to complete that project So this next slide, Keith probably could have done a better job explaining this one, but we've been currently engaged with the, represented with the University of Nevada on some LIDAR technology to evaluate intersections and provide traffic data to inform us of what's happening at a particular intersection with pedestrians, with vehicles. with bicyclists. It's a non-camera type system, so there's no issues with it as far as getting people's information, faces, data, that sort of thing. It's merely looking at how operations are occurring at a particular intersection. And again, it's data. It's informing us of how to address a problem. Is there a problem? steps that we can take and how to resolve that. So you'll get more information at a future meeting. Keith noted that we're looking to have that in September. And we'll have a couple of speakers, I think, scheduled for that as well. So they'll provide you a lot more better information than I'm giving you right now. But stay tuned for that. And then a couple of slides on the airport. We wanted to give you a quick update on what's going on with the hangar project. Construction is currently ongoing. The photos you see here, they're doing some, they installed a traverse drain for the hangar to collect stormwater. And on the right side, they're patching the asphalt around a, a column that's going to hold a vertical structural member for the hanger building itself. Um, so once these site improvements are complete and the, uh, and the, uh, building components are delivered, which we expect within the next two to three weeks, uh, you'll start seeing some vertical structural members start being installed and, and erected. So, uh, looking to complete that project by October 31st. So we're looking forward to that. And then here's a little bit of a plug for our airport open house that we have scheduled on September the 12th. Our airport manager, Gary Goddard, has been coordinating with the chamber on putting this together. As you can see on this slide, it also includes a home-based business expo. And so thanks to the chamber and to Gary for their efforts in putting this together. So September on September the 12th 9 to 12th. Hope to see you guys there And that's it for the presentation I'm available for questions we have Eric Uliwadi our county engineer to help any questions with any of the projects Tim Walker Foster traffic and streets manager here. I also want to take this quick opportunity to introduce a couple of our newest staff members to our engineering division, Mr. Ben Gonzalez. He was with our traffic and streets division as our traffic safety manager, but he moved over to the project management side of things. So now he's helping us manage projects like the Trinity Drive project. So happy to keep him in public works. And then as of recent, we have Brian Romero. He's a licensed engineer. Happy to have him. Tons of experience in civil engineering and helping us manage all the projects. We recently lost Jennifer Morrow to our utilities department. So she's moved on, but Brian's going to help carry some of that load that she left behind and help us continue our project management side of the operation. So happy to have Brian here. With that, Mr. Chair, I'm open for any questions.

Thank you and welcome. Questions or comments?

I have a question.

Go ahead.

Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Mr. Martinez, for giving that presentation on Keith's behalf. I'm not very impressed with your brogue, but I'm very impressed with all the work that your team has been doing. So, excellent work. I wanted to ask specifically about the evaluation of the pedestrian crossing at Highway 4 and the Visitor Center. Are there particular things you're already considering or are you just evaluating overall flow and capacity?

Mr. Chair and Board Member Connolly, we're really early in that. One of the things that we've heard was just the increase in pedestrian travel. Some things that may help, you know, well, before I get too far, I don't want to kind of presume, you know, what we're looking at, but we're doing some evaluation just to see what may be needed to enhance the pedestrian safety through there. Very early on in that, so I'm sorry I can't speak more to that, but we're just in the data collection stage right now. But more to come.

So focus more on safety, or are you also considering how we might be wanting as a municipality to encourage visitors and locals to traverse through that area, connect to a trail, connect, we hoped, eventually to a secondary main street, you know, with the realignment of Longview and hopefully some redevelopment coming through that area. Are we thinking about it kind of more broadly, not just for safety reasons, but also just encouraging and making it enticing that, yes, this would be a way to maneuver through the space?

Um, board member Connolly, I would say it's more focused just on the crossing itself, but that doesn't mean that we can't look at it more broadly and how it may connect, uh, either now or in the future in other ways.

Okay. It just seems like a great way to connect both with the bus stop and thinking about it just from a transit board perspective, you know, it's a great tie in to multiple things that we have going on in our community right now with redevelopment, as well as addressing, you know, safety concerns as well, you know, and all the things. So I just wanted to bring that up.

Yeah. Thank you for that. And that's kind of what kind of put it on our radar was the redevelopment and the, and the increase in activity through there. Right. So.

Yeah. Great. Thank you.

So thank you very much for that update. That was very helpful. There are actually two things. One is, as you know, there's a lot of construction out on North Mesa in that newly opened area, and that's going to bring a lot of traffic into the roundabout from one direction. Anyone coming into the roundabout from the other direction is going to have a very hard time entering the roundabout when people are going that way. Is there any consideration about how we're going to handle that traffic flow when there are another 100 cars coming down the road, North Mesa Road, into the roundabout? That's the first question. And the second is one of my friends commented about the lack of bus service to White Rock. And I wonder if you could comment about the hiring situation for drivers.

Mr. Chair and Board Member Lesowski, thank you for the question. Regarding the traffic within the Roundabout, North Mesa area, additional housing, and I'll ask Mr. Ulibarri to chime in if I miss anything, but a traffic study was performed with the consideration of all that new development coming in, not just with what's under construction now, but with potential housing with in the area just to the east of the middle school. And the findings from that, from my vague recollection, is that all the infrastructure along the roadways that lead to there, including the roundabout, have adequate capacity to handle that additional traffic generated.

They probably don't try to get into the roundabout at 8 o'clock in the morning.

Yeah. And then on your, did I capture that correctly? Yeah. Okay. And on your second question regarding transit, yes, hiring is still ongoing. It is still a struggle, a challenge that we're working through. Good news, knock on wood. I don't want to jinx it. We haven't lost any drivers recently. So we're still, but we are still recruiting. Um, and hopefully, uh, we can get, you know, get those seats filled too, so that we, we can continue our regular service and not have to have any impacts to, to routes. Um, a quick reminder, uh, on, uh, so you're aware that we are in the process of performing a, uh, a transit study to look at. We can service and also looking at, uh, how we can adjust our operations in a way that we can maybe do more through on-demand type service rather than fixed route. But we're hoping to get a draft of that report for our review in the coming months. I think about October, November is what I recall. And eventually we'll want to report on that to this board as well as council. So stay tuned in the coming months for something as far as what the study shows and how we may be able to accommodate weekend service.

A few things. First of all, I've lived on Barranco Mesa for three years before I moved to 48th Street last year. And I'm dropping off my kids on North Mesa every day at 8 a.m. 90% of the time by car. I never had any capacity issues with the roundabout, so my experience doesn't match. And I was wondering if there is a lighter solution that doesn't require cameras for the wildlife EI recognition. Thank you, board member.

What was the question on that precisely? Can you repeat that?

I was wondering if for the wildlife recognition system, this AI project, is there a possible lidar solution instead of a camera solution?

Okay, thank you for that question. Potentially, and I believe that's the technology that's being utilized or being researched. I think there's numerous technologies that Mr. Park is looking at, and LiDAR is one of those.

I know that there's some resistance building up against the fog cameras that are in town, and I assume that similar things will happen with cameras for wildlife.

And in that instance, it's not collecting any data in any meaningful way. It's basically taking photos and figuring out what it is to activate lights, warning lights on signs. So hopefully, you know, we can call any concerns that may come from that.

I appreciate all the improvements that are done in Los Alamos, especially the ones for pedestrians. And I was wondering if there is any legal difference between what you call the continental crossing and those sidebar crossings, or is it all the same for pedestrians?

Yeah, it's just different designs. Some are, again, intended for more high-pedestrian areas. We like to use the continental design on safe routes to schools because they are more visible. So it's a different tool, different tools in the toolbox, if you will.

Okay. I was just wondering if there's any difference. Another comment from my side is, and I brought this up a few times, when building infrastructure, it should be built in a way that people want to use it. And I'm worried that, especially on Trinity Drive, bike lanes without any physical separation from cars are stressful and will not be adopted as much as if, for example, quick curbs would be installed. And the same, I would argue, is true for NM4. And I think that those would be especially useful before cars turn. So right up to the intersection where cars turn. I just drove my bike here. I was riding on Diamond Drive and at the intersection Diamond and Canyon Road, there is this green patch for cyclists and the truck cut on the bike lane before turning right while I was riding there and he cut me off. And as I understand, if the line is continuous, cars are not supposed to use the bike lane as a turning lane. If it's a dashed line, they can. On that intersection, it's a continuous line. And I also would say that having quick curbs and some physical separation would enforce that. And yeah, I think that both the Trinity Drive upgrade and New Mexico for upgrade would benefit from physical separation for cyclists and I think that quick curbs would do and I Had a small situation today on Central because I was with the kids at the park and driving down on Oppenheimer, same thing, car, cut me off before turning right into the library. So just today I had two instances being cut off by a right turning car on bicycle infrastructure. And I'm a routine cyclist. If I was not, I think this would deter me from keep riding my bike.

Thank you. Thank you.

Are there any other questions or comments? Next item is Council Liaison Report. Councilor Haveman. No worries.

Thank you, Chair Hampton, and thank you for your comments. I just want to make sure I caught those because I hear you on that, and I witnessed it and have experienced it too. So I also thank you. That's a lot of stuff, and I love the focus on pedestrian safety and traffic calming. So it seems like that's been a big focus for you all. Let's see, the last couple county council meetings, probably worth highlighting that at the July 14th meeting, the chair of the Board of Public Utilities gave really an outstanding summary presentation of everything going on with utilities. So if you have interest in kind of getting a reader's digest know cliff notes version of what that huge department does pull up the zoom from july 14th and i also wanted to highlight that at that county council meeting we received a presentation about the county's dashboard on our website which highlights performance metrics under each of the county's strategic goals. And we kind of got a little demonstration of the ones under economic vitality. But if you haven't had a chance to go on the county's website recently, I highly encourage you to give that a look and also give feedback on how you think those metrics could be more useful to you as board members and to the public at large. And we also received a presentation about updates from community development department and updates that are they are doing as we speak regarding the comprehensive plan and that was also presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission in this past month and really the the updates that are happening kind of inform chapter 16 which is the development code so if you haven't had a chance to give input on that yet highly encourage you to do so because it really makes a difference on how our town is gonna look and feel in the years ahead. At our County Council meeting this week, the big topic was potential consideration for a plastic bag ban. It had been presented to the Environmental Sustainability Board. In July, the ESB voted to not recommend Council implemented ordinance to ban plastic bags in our community that it had already been placed on the August 4th agenda for county council and there were a few counselors who still wanted to give it more consideration taking into account the ESB's recommendation to not implement a plastic bag ban. There was a presentation and there was a lot of conversation and in the end A BAN ON PLASTIC BANDS, PLASTIC BAGS FAILED ON A TIE VOTE THREE TO THREE. SO WE WILL NOT BE HAVING A PLASTIC BAG BAN. OTHER ITEMS AT THIS PAST TUESDAY'S MEETING INCLUDED THE ISSUANCE OF A $230 MILLION BOND FOR A REVENUE BOND TO SUPPORT A WORKFORCE HOUSING PROJECT OUT ON DP ROAD ALSO KNOWN AS COYOTE MESA. And we also received an update from our sustainability manager talking about our climate action plan and progress related to that. One highlight, I think, is that a countywide composting service is about to take another step forward with the issuance of an RFP for a service contractor to help us provide that service to our community. And then we also heard a presentation from our community development manager about the building code and what standards are used when we approve new building permits in regard to energy efficiency, sustainability, and the metrics related to our climate action plan. So those were some of the highlights there. I also think it's worth noting, just for you all to know, that at the last Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, site plans were approved for two major projects which could influence things that you guys think about. One was the site plan adoption for the redevelopment of the CB Fox building here on Central. And then another was for the property on Diamond Drive and Sandia across from the high school. to give a site, was it a special use permit?

It was change of use and then he asked for a variance.

Thank you very much. And the variance was declined. Thank you, Chair Hampton, who also sits on planning and zoning and on the Environmental Sustainability Force. You can correct me if I have any of this wrong. To allow for that site to be used for the overflow parking for high school students and then for the addition of up to seven food trucks that would also then have electricity connections rather than having to run generators. And then they wanted a variance to not have to put in kind of a tree buffer. But my understanding is that that part was not approved. So they will have to do a buffer and meet a bunch of other conditions like take out the ingress and egress on Diamond Drive and move that to Sandia so it's a safer in and out of that parking lot. So just kind of FYI that that happened. And that's all I have for you unless you have any questions.

Thank you, Councillor Haveman. Questions or comments? All right. Thank you.

Thank you all very much.

Our next item is Chair's Report. There is none. Board Member Reports. Anyone have anything to bring up? All right. Do you have a separate staff report from your presentation?

Mr. Chair, I'll just touch on a few quick things. In the report, there is information about a Young Eagles rally at the airport in coordination with the EAA, and that's August the 15th, so that's coming up here pretty soon. I also mentioned earlier about the fairway drive project coming to T-Board for future presentation, and that's September, right? September or October. We'll give ourselves some options there. Along with that, our traffic and streets team did a great job assisting with the July 4th event at Overlook Park, helping with traffic control and managing traffic. all that traffic flow through there. And they're going to be doing the same with the fair and rodeo parade this coming weekend. And then they've been really busy working on signs and markings and school flashers in preparation for the start of school next week. So big shout out to them for all their work. They recently lost one of their team members to retirement. So, We got some shoes to fill in that group, but they continue to do a great job for us. And that's the same group that's doing all these new pedestrian markings along Central Avenue as well. In transit, transit supported the July 4th event as well. I utilized it. They did a great job. A lot of people utilized the transit system during that event. And we got some really good shout outs for that. Great job to our transit team for having everybody work in that event and helping out. In the report, it talks about that school release times have not changed from last year, but since the publishing of that, they were changed. I wanted to make note that Fridays, the schools will be released an hour earlier on Fridays than their regular time. So that's a little bit of change that our transit will have to consider for those early releases on Friday. And with that, Mr. Chair, that's all I got, unless there's any questions.

Thank you. Questions or comments? All right.

Sorry, Chair.

Go ahead.

I do have just one comment. I think Councillor Haberman's presentation or report really highlighted a couple of key things that our group should pay attention to, especially the Diamond Drive property. I do think that there's already really heavy congestion multiple times a day on varying days of the week. And I think, you know, it might be something that we should all be considering together relatively soon. I think maybe paying attention over this next school year, kind of how things are moving about. But I think what he proposed and was approved to do differently with his site is going to have a pretty sincere impact. So just wanted to bring that up and both from traffic moving about as well as pedestrian access and how they're moving about and then key event kind of scenarios where we have high school events and community events happening all in that same area at the same time.

Thank you. And that did come up in the planning and zoning meeting too, so. It's good to be aware of it. Anything else? All right. What do we have to look forward to in September?

Okay. Mr. Ulibarri tells me fairways is on deck for September, and then we'll also have the presentation on the LIDAR system. So looking forward to that.

Excellent. Thank you. And with that, we're adjourned.