Director of Aviation - Regular Meeting

Welcome to TIA now. My name is Kevin O'Neill. I'm the chair. My colleagues.

Good morning. Melissa Robinson, 3rd District Vice Chair.

Okay, we're going to hold 260535. And then we will go to... That held off doc, off agenda? For two weeks. Actually, four. Just hold it for two weeks.

No problem. And we'll read our one and only ordinance.

Thank you. Let's have a robust 20-minute conversation about hazardous waste, household hazardous waste. You said how many households? Is it 1,000 households?

Okay, and how many mobile events does this contract allow for? So it's 14. 14 mobile events in addition to the monthly, or in addition to the... drop-off.

And the 14 events, are they all throughout the city and every council district?

manual tech which is in third district so then we try to represent the other um we have four of them so we rotate them between districts so this year we're having one in one two six and four okay great um and how how do people know what type of community outreach do we do to let people know about the service because is that a part of the contract where we're communicating the service to the public

It just seems like the size of, you know, having 500,000, more than 500,000 residents, it just seems like it might be low, and I'm not sure people really know about the service that is offered. And maybe there's a way that we can get the word out a little bit more. Yeah, I'm happy to work with communications on that. Okay, thank you.

Just one other question. Um, Mr. Chair. So with, I mean, we've had a lot of conversations about solid waste and making sure the right things go in the right places as it relates to trying to preserve our landfills and all of the things, right? So would you, what's your, um, opinion about the number of households we serve? Do you feel like we're having adequate impact in serving the city? Or is there room, do we need to improve the number of folks who are using this service? And does this contract allow for that target?

Okay. I don't want to open up a can of worms, so I'll leave it there for this contract. Thank you, though, for that insight.

Any other questions? I don't think I see a hand up for Lindsay, so I would enter. Is there any public testimony on this? There's no public testimony for this ordinance. I would entertain a motion.

Okay, wonderful. Is Arkwood Environmental, are they here? Did you want to recognize them? Oh, I didn't see them.

Yes. Okay, great. Sorry, I just wanted to make sure.

I am. Okay, I move that ordinance number 260700 be reported out of committee with the recommendation to advance and do pass. Thank you. All those in favor?

Aye. Second. Thank you very much. Thank you. I might advise those in the audience that for the finance committee that starts at 9.30 or 9.35, whatever, the ordinances regarding the royals will be held today. So I don't want to, if you're here for that, that will not be held today. So I just wanted to notify you. They are not on the docket today. No. The finance will notify. We are off for two weeks, so it would have to be after that.

Yes, we have a presentation. Are they here? Public Works has a... Here.

There they are. I thought everybody here was here to hear your presentation. You see it? I guess you didn't have to make a decision. You didn't have to make a decision. You saw yesterday on the KCA today.

So we just need to get we got a lot of people coming in. So if you could speed it up.

I didn't mean to rush it, but you know, Councilwoman Robinson has a lot of questions.

Thank you. You got two minutes. Our chair said that because we're not taking up the Royals, that we will have a couple more questions. But no, seriously, this is important because it's a matter of life and death. My colleague and I, we got into an interesting conversation, and I appreciate his leadership in making sure that we have resources necessary to do adequate communication and engagement. My passion comes to this issue because the majority of the fatalities are in the third district so this is a life and death issue i just returned from denver and at every intersection there was a cross

Where the design for the crosswalk. I think it's the site assessment slide. Yes.

Where is the car supposed to stop? I think the next one. Forward.

There we go, that one. Okay, so is this something that we're utilizing now? I've not seen it.

So our crosswalks right now have the shark teeth on them?

Do all of our crosswalks or our intersections have pedestrian crosswalks?

Can you please provide for us what the budgetary cost would be to have crosswalks? Are there crosswalks at every intersection where there is a fatality or has been identified by Vision Zero as a problem intersection? Do we have crosswalks there?

Okay, we need to know that, please. And we need to figure out a way to ensure that those locations are first on the list as relates to implementation of this work. The sign, the percentage sign, it's an amazing idea. Thank you. That's great to show, you know, the percentage of folks who are doing the right thing. And I was paying close attention to myself in driving in Denver and everyone else. They were stopping at that marker. But it's at every cross marker. And the reason why that's important is because sometimes you have to stop there, sometimes you don't if it's not at every intersection.

No, it's not digital. Okay, so that's going to be lagging, a lagging indicator? So they have to figure out?

Have we talked to KCPD about increased enforcement? for crosswalk compliance specifically. Is there a law on the books that requires people to stop? Okay. Okay. So that's the thing. I just want to make sure I'm covering the basis. Okay. Good question. So have we talked to KCPD about that? In addition to, you know, I always, you know, carrots are important. Like this is important to communicate, but we also need additional reinforcements. Has there been a discussion made about that?

Thank you, sir. So just to wrap up to make sure we're on the same page, you're going to provide for us information about the intersections and the costs that's necessary to make sure that all of our intersections have crosswalks to help with that behavior change, right? And to make sure that all of those areas are safe. And then you're going to provide information about prioritizing areas where there's been fatalities and have been identified by Vision Zero. Again, thank you to Councilman Bunch for his leadership in making sure we have that data set from Vision Zero. So making sure that we hav

No, I want to know what the investment is, what investment is required to make sure all intersections have the crosswalks. Thank you.

Thank you guys. Any other questions? With that, thank you very much.