Senior Advisory Commission - Regular Meeting

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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the American with Disability Act Committee meeting. I now call this meeting to order on Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 9.01 a.m. and note that there is a sign in sheet at the front. So please be sure to enter your contact information on it before you leave attendance.

Chair, if we can do just quickly do attendance. So I can see you're present. You're present.

Craig Mobeck, Director of Public Works, present.

Carol Chariot, Transportation Manager, present.

Vince Lucchese with the Public Works Design Division, present. David Knight with the City Manager's Office Communications Manager, present.

Nicole Heat, ADA Coordinator, Senior Civil Engineer with Public Works Department.

Michael Liu, Assistant Director of Public Works. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.

Thank you. So coming back to consent calendar, we have American with Disability Act Committee meeting minutes for June 19, 2025. Are there any questions or changes?

If not, I will- And a recommendation to approve.

I'll second that. All in favor? Aye. Public presentation. We'll now move to public presentation section of our meeting. This part of the meeting is reserved for persons to address the Americans with Disability Act Committee on any matter not on the agenda that is within the subject matter of jurisdiction of the committee. The law does not permit action on or extended discussion of any item not on the agenda except under special circumstances. The committee or staff may briefly respond to statements made or questions posted and staff may be asked to report back on item at a subsequent meeting. As a reminder, comments can be emailed also to adacoordinator at santaclaraca.gov. If any member of the public would like to make comments, please fill out the speaker card or raise your hand on Zoom. I would now like to invite anyone present in the audience who would like to speak, come forward to address the committee. And if any member on Zoom

Are there any members online?

Yes. We do have one guest online. Raise the hand.

Okay.

Serena, I'm going to unmute you. Oh, go ahead.

Serena Chuchi. The only comment I have right at the moment is I can't see the meeting. All I see is an agenda. I'd like to see the meeting also.

Thank you. I think what you see agenda, so that may be the only one.

If I can jump in here, Chair. So once again, Mike Liu, Assistant Director, and then this is for Sabina online. Unfortunately for this hybrid meeting, we don't have a video. What we do have is the audio and then what the viewers online should be able to see is the presentation. So for these types of committee meetings, it's not uncommon for us to only have audio through Zoom.

so for instance with the bicycle pedestrian advisory committee which i staff regularly we it's similar it's a similar format okay thank you right so just note that from uh zoom perspective it's not it's not good we need to be able to see the the meeting as well in future thank you thank you very much we'll um talk about that with the city manager thank you any other no we don't have any other raised hand

Coming back to... Actually, sorry, one person just raised their hand. We have Fernanda. I am going to unmute you.

Yes, thank you. Following what the previous person said, I would denounce for anybody who is speaking just to state their name and that they're going to be doing that so we know who is speaking and from what the farm can see.

Thank you for the suggestion. We will do that. Thank you.

Anyone else?

No. Okay. Coming back to welcome Director Parks and Rec Damon. Coming back to general business, we have item 5A, Americans with Disability Act Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan. And I think staff will present that.

Thank you, Chair. Once again, Mike Liu, Assistant Director, Department of Public Works. If I could take a moment to introduce this item. We do have a presenter today, Nicole He. So Nicole's our ADA coordinator. She's been in the job, you know, As soon as we could hire her after the motor after the adoption of the ADA plan, this is our first annual report since the city council. accepted the self evaluation and transition plan update and we're happy to report that today so Nicole he once again senior civil engineer with them department of public works is going to present next, thank you, I welcome the calling.

Thank you, thank you chair, and thank you Mike for the quick introduction. For my presentation today, I will start with a brief history and background on the ADA self-evaluation and transition plan. And throughout my presentation, I'll refer to it as the ADA plan. Okay. And then we'll dive into the progress, what projects, program improvement that we have made since the plan adoption in 2024. So I'll dive into the three areas, program and administrative improvements, then facilities improvement, and lastly, the public right-of-way improvements, and wrap up with next steps and future projects. The Americans with Disabilities Act, also known as the ADA, is a civil rights law that mandates equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities. Under the Title II of the ADA, the city as a public agency is required to evaluate its services, policies, and practices in order to identify any barriers to access and to make necessary modifications to eliminate such barriers. The city has previously completed a self evaluation and transition plan in 1993. And then in August 2024, we did a very comprehensive update to that plan and have council city council adopted in August 2024. So now we are in the implementation phase. As the ADA coordinator, I've been working with various departments to track the progress that we have done in the past year or so. In this very first annual report, which will be also posted online, we documented the city's effort completed since the plan adoption through December 2025. So starting with the program improvements, I wanna provide some context on what we evaluated during the ADA plan. So we summarize the findings and recommendations in these key areas, looking at customer service practices, staff training, contracting, adaptive aids, printed materials, public meetings, emergency planning and procedures and grievance procedure. And the grievance procedure, I want to note, we do post that on our city website. So in the plan, there were about over 60 recommended strategies to be more ADA compliant. We've done a lot since the last year, and I just wanna, for this presentation, I wanna highlight some of the key program and administrative improvement that we've done. We provided two trainings to all city staff The first one is on customer service, best practices under the ADA Title II. And the second training is on applicable codes and standards. Me as the ADA coordinator, I also work and developed a internal staff network with key staff liaisons from various departments that can all work together on ADA coordination and implementation. We received and addressed 25 ADA inquiries. No formal grievances was received in the last year. We also completed a robust citywide web content accessibility analysis. We do have the next item on this topic where our communications manager will provide a more detailed update. And another work in progress is we created two GIS dashboards, as you can see on the screen, to track our ADA work geospatially. This first one on the screen is the facilities ADA dashboard. The red dots that you see in the screenshot represent a deficiency that we identified in the ADA plan. And any green ones will be the ones that we so far completed. I am also working closely with contracts manager to have- Sorry, Fernanda. You might have to unmute yourself.

We have some echo here. Thank you.

Yeah, we're getting the contracts to have on-call ADA auxiliary aids and services. I'm also working with various staff to update our city program forms to ensure accessibility to our programs and services. I'm also developing a checklist for accessible public meetings or events for staff use. And here I just want to show you another the other dashboard. This is for public right of way where we will be tracking the ADA improvements by different category curb ramps, pedestrian signals, on street parking, et cetera, and also by year. And we're also tracking the date that we mitigate this barrier in the dashboard. So now I'm going to talk about the physical barrier evaluations. As mentioned before, there are two big buckets here. The first one is facilities that include public buildings and parks. also includes any libraries, police, and fire stations that the city own and maintain. And then the second bucket is the public right-of-way. That's looking at the possession ways, path of travel that include curb ramps, sidewalks, crosswalks, railroad crossings, and possession signals. That's more citywide and on our streets. So looking at the parks and facilities improvements in this reporting period, we remediated 36 facility barriers. And on the map, we have these key projects completed. We have the Fairway Glen restroom construction, Westwood Oaks Park playground. And the big one is the Central Park Magical Bridge all-inclusive playground and city utilities corporation yard renovation. And I have some pictures to show you. So this is the new restroom and water fountains at the Fairway Glen Park. Again, as you can see, we've made the restroom following the latest building code and also ADA and also water fountains for everyone. And here's the picture of the new all-inclusive playground and pathways at the Central Park Magical Bridge. As you can see, there's new concrete ADA-compliant pathway for everyone to access the park. Now switching gear, looking at the public right-of-way improvements. We've done a lot over the last year. In total, we remediated about almost 1,300 barriers throughout the city. And curb ramps, we have remediated almost 500 barriers. And every green dot that you see in the image here represent a barrier that has been addressed. Some key notable projects here, we have completed the ADA improvements around Tasman Drive and Patrick Henry in the North Santa Clara side near Levi's Stadium. We also completed the Great America Parkway and Mission College Boulevard intersection improvements. And another big project that we complete is the annual pavement and also our annual program programs that fixed built new programs at various location throughout the city. Here are some pictures of the work. The first two are newly constructed curb ramps. on residential streets in Santa Clara. And then the third picture here is new pedestrian accessible push button at Great America Parkway and Patrick Henry Drive, also with new curb ramp too. This is a picture of the Great America Parkway Mission College Boulevard intersection improvements. As you can see, we built new curb ramps, push buttons, and also providing more turning space for people with disabilities here. So now just looking ahead, what are we doing in the next year and in the near term? There were some questions about where are we getting the funding for ADA improvements. I just want to take a minute to kind of provide some background on that. So in general, there are four sources to fund ADA improvements. Number one, we have direct appropriation from our city's capital improvement program. A couple of examples here, we have the infrastructure bond measure I funding. We have a 10 million in that measure I that funds ADA public right-of-way improvements. And phase one for that will be 5 million that I am currently working on. And we also have... a project that's specifically dedicated for ADA improvement called ADA transition plan implementation. And then the second source will be a coordination with other capital projects. So for example, if you, in our annual street pavement maintenance program, if we are, doing more work than just maintenance, then it will trigger a ADA improvement requirement. We will fix the curb ramp next to the, you know, at the street end. And then also we have the sidewalk curb and gutter repair program. The third source will be the grant funding for transportation and community projects. Some grant examples that can cover ADA improvements include the federal community project funding one Bay area grant, et cetera. So for example, if you are building say a new roadway or bikeway project, that's considered like altering the roadway and that will also trigger ADA improvements. So you will have to fix the intersection that has ADA deficiencies. And then the last source will be the public improvements from private developments. For those private developments, we continue to expect them to construct new ADA improvements such as curb ramps associated with their project sites as applicable. But those are the four main sources. So in the near term, we have many projects underway. I won't go through them in details because we do have an item on the parks and parks project later on in the agenda. But I just want to mention a few key ones, Central Park, new entrance and access improvement that's underway, Henry Schmidt Park playground, international swim center phase one, and a few other parks project. We also working on the fire stations five and seven replacement, working on the design study phase right now, and Bowers parking lot rehabilitation. And in terms of public right-of-way projects, We have the 2026 Annual Street Maintenance and Rehabilitation Project currently in design. Central Santa Clara Bicycle and Possession Improvements, that's funded by the One Bay Area Grant, also currently in design phase. And we have uncontrolled crosswalks phase two that will be adding accessible possession beacons. And lastly, Measure I ADA Improvement, as I mentioned before, we are looking to install new curb ramps, address sidewalk barriers and also pedestrian signal push buttons. Oh, that concludes my presentation. I am happy to take any questions from chair and the community.

Thank you, Nicole. Appreciate that. I have a couple of comments and questions basically. One is, I think the staff and everybody involved who has done tremendous job in the circumstances we have been, especially from the funding point of view, and so many lot of improvements have been done, especially the magical bridge park. That's excellent. It's always busy and a lot of improvement in Central Park because of that. Public right of way, like around 1300 improvements, that's commendable. and especially the corridor, Great America Parkway corridor, Levi's Stadium corridor, that improvements on the ADA. That's really great job on that. I have a question like, you know, we were facing some of the issues with the federal grants. So our federal community project grant for the ADA, how are we doing on that? Are there any hiccups or are we getting those grants?

Yeah, I can address that, Chair. So once again, Mike Liu, Assistant Director of Public Works. So yeah, that is correct. With the change in the federal administration and some of the rules that they were looking to move forward, there was concern on the city side related to previous federal grants and allocations that were basically afforded to the city. Working with the attorney's office, they ended up There was a slight pause a little bit in terms of kind of, you know, pursuing reimbursements. At this point, what we understand is that those restrictions are no longer in place for us as a city. We do have, working with the Attorney's Office, we do have some additional paperwork that we submit when we submit reimbursements for grants that we already have, as well as for other programs. In terms of the specifically related to a federal funding for ADA related improvements. What we do have in play at this point is the city working with our legislative advocate and of course the city manager and the council submitted to elected officials, state representatives, as well as federal elected officials, potential federal earmarks. So the federal community project funding is a program at the federal level But that's actually, I mean, at the end of the day, it's no different than a federal earmark. So we do have a specific request that they potentially fund ADA improvements as a general category that's continuing to move forward. So that's not guaranteed yet at this point. But to answer your question, once again, is so in regards to the issues at the federal level and our grants, as staff, we believe it's no longer an issue, at least for the time being. Thank you. Thank you for the update. I appreciate that.

Another question I have is, you know, we put hawk lights at some places. Those are very costly, basically. And I've seen some of those like low cost bed crossing lights. Take an example on Los Pedras and Royal Drive. I see that. So are we thinking of, and there are some other, like I recently saw on Facebook, Bray and Scott, they had some multiple close calls on that corridor, but we put those flag things which we are implementing at multiple crossings So are we planning to put low cost, those bed crossing lights at some of these crossings, which are like, if you look at the Bray and Scott, alchemy lights are very close. That doesn't make sense to put another light, but can we have those bed crossing lights, which are low cost and flashing lights so that, it's beneficial for the people who are crossing those and those are pretty busy i see those some of these crossings are pretty busy are there any plans to so that we save money as well as have some safety for the residents

thank you i can i can address that again once again mike lewis assistant director of public works so um earlier in the presentation nicole highlighted um two projects that i think are relevant to the question being asked um we do have a project called uncontrolled crosswalks so that is a project and we try to do it regularly you know i think ultimately it's related it's all related to funding but you know this would be our phase two project and what it is is a effort by the city to look at crosswalks within the city where there's no stop control no no no signal no stop sign and those are crosswalks you know that pedestrians have the right to cross but oftentimes they're they're dealing with um motorists that don't see them or speeding and things like that so we do have a program where we're looking at all over 200 crosswalks in the city we've prioritized them based on you know the um what we believe is um relative to speed as well as number of lanes, things like traffic patterns. And basically we've worked on the first, we have a priority list of 30 at this point, work through several at the beginning with phase one, phase two is on its way. So that's at least 50% through the design. That is gonna hopefully address some of the other priority corridors. We are looking to do less hawks because of the cost and really focus on what you mentioned, which is a rectangular rapid flashing beacon. And then for those online, that is a, You know, if you're a pedestrian trying to cross the crosswalk, you push the button and then these white lights flash for the motorists, right? And there's signage and whatnot. It's not a stop sign, it's not a hawk, because a hawk is basically an on-demand signal, but it does provide pretty strong flashing lights that if the motorists are paying attention, they'll see that. So we are looking to do more of those in the city. When developments come in, we often work with them to see if we can implement those with those projects as well. in terms of the particular location at Scott and Bray, that is actually part of another project that I was gonna mention, which is our central Santa Clara bike and ped project, right? That was where we were able to obtain one Bay Area grant funding, as Nicole mentioned, and it's actually looking at central Santa Clara. So Scott and Bray is one of those locations that we're looking at as well as just kind of others within the central part of the city. So we do intend to do more of the rapid flashing beacons and try to get them out as soon as possible.

Good, thank you for the update. Is there anybody online or anybody in the audience?

Anybody online?

Okay, thank you. So we just note and file.

Okay.

Okay, note and file and we move on to item number 5B, which is ADA Act Digital Accessibility.

I'd like to introduce David Knight, communications manager with the city. Thank you, David.

Thank you, Mike. So under the Title II law, we endeavor to look at our accessibility on the city website starting in January of 2025. The law actually states that that the city shall ensure that the web content mobile apps and mobile apps that the public entity provides or makes available directly or through contractual licensing or other arrangements comply with level A and level AA success criteria and conformance requirements specified in WCAG 2.1, which are basic guidelines for accessibility on our digital platforms. The original deadline that was given was April 23rd of this year. The DOJ recently extended the deadline full year to April 26, 2027. But we were prepared to meet the deadline this year. And so we got most of the work done. And I'll walk us through that. Thanks, Nicole. So some of the milestones I'll cover. First, the accessibility piece with regard to just the website itself. So in Gen 2025, we created a working group The city had some form of a working group previously. We kind of calibrated this to be specific to digital accessibility on the website. This group meets monthly and we're going over accessibility analytics as well as just the website in general and its general, you know, the content and the navigation, et cetera. So from February to November of last year, this was led jointly with city communications and the IT department, a web content audit, really focusing on removing outdated content, improving the navigation and addressing the accessibility issues. We have a third party software, browser-based software called Siteimprove, pretty common in cities that tracks. You can actually set the conformance level for that single A and double A WCAG 2.1 standard, and it's just constantly scanning our website. So we use that as our guide. and worked throughout last year to bring those numbers down to near zero. They're currently near zero or under 10, which is very minuscule amount of issues that we're actually detecting on the website. So yeah, February 2025 through now, we remediated nearly all of the city's websites. We have three. There's a library website, the main city website, and SVP has a website. And we brought the website into compliance with the guidelines. But we'll go to the next slide. There was another issue that was significant, which is PDFs. the entire, throughout this entire process, we were, we kind of knew in the back of our heads that PDFs were going to be an issue. And so Late last year, I started pivoting to how we can strategize around getting the PDFs remediated or off the website. And then in January of this year, we really pivoted very hard to managing the PDF situation. There were thousands and thousands of PDFs on the website. So... The main sort of way we kind of combated that was, first of all, mandated staff training for anyone creating PDF content that was going up onto the CMS, the website. That training was basically creating PDFs from scratch, accessible PDFs from scratch, and also how to remediate them using Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat, and we had some other tools as well. Another piece of that was, can we procure some technology to help us out? And luckily, we came across DocAccess, which was really a lifesaver in this situation in order to get to the April 23 date in compliance, this piece of software basically scans the entire website, looks at all of the PDFs, and then it essentially renders them into HTML, which is much better for screen readers. and and and in that process remediates all of the issues in the in in the pdfs um another kind of piece of that too is just removal um there were a lot of there were a lot of pdfs that just needed to be taken off uh which again at least a thousand pdfs probably removed i don't have the exact number on me but we removed a lot so the deadline was extended a full year um which gave us all a lot of breathing room. I think staff was very relieved that we had dock access and that we have another year to continue to work on this. So what's next? As it says here, we're in an excellent position with regard to this digital communications mandate. I have full confidence we'll meet the deadline. We're already doing very well. The working group will continue and will continue to be addressing these accessibility issues. We're kind of hoping that AI, because DocAccess leverages AI to render those PDFs accessible. We're kind of hoping that technology improves across the board as we sort of seek to redesign our website or in the future, maybe swap out some of our apps. We're hoping that AI will help address the accessibility gap. And so the future of procurement of any of our web and mobile services will definitely prioritize ADA compliance to make sure it complies with the law. And that's the end of my presentation. If there's any questions, I'm happy to answer them.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. And I'm glad we are ahead of beating the deadline. More and more people are trying to access digitally everywhere basically sense that to do this thing sooner than. Do not have any other questions or comments.

We do not have any recent online chair, do we have any on in the attendees okay.

Thank you. With that, we can move to the next note and file, this one, and we can move to the next item. And item number 5C, Public Works Verbal Update from Assistant Director Liu.

Thank you again. Once again, Mike Liu, Assistant Director for Public Works. For those online, what we put on the screen is a copy of the memo that is included in the packet. I'm gonna go over these projects pretty briefly, just to give everybody a highlight in terms of what we have in store. in the coming year, and this is a verbal report. So as you can see on the slide, we have several projects in design. We did talk about several of these already, so I won't go through the whole list, but there's a good variety of projects, parks projects, roadway projects that are in the process of design. Some are earlier in design, like for instance, we're trying to select a consultant to support the city's efforts to improve those facilities, and then some are, in design already. So there are various stages, a good amount of work headed our way here. I'm very much looking forward to it. Several of these are measure I related. For instance, we're going to be doing work related to pavement in 2027. ADA is mentioned earlier. fire stations, international swim center phase two, and just some other handful of projects and some are grant funded as well. Projects in construction, we did highlight some of those already. So the central park new entrance access and parking lot improvements, Henry Schmidt, bond funded international swim center phase one, which is bond funded as well. The city just hosted a groundbreaking or an event It's basically turning the shovels. That was very exciting to see that take place. And then the Lafayette Class 4 bikeway, which is under construction, almost complete in our city. And then 2026 annual pavement actually was just awarded by our council for construction start in the coming months. So very much looking forward to completing these. a handful of projects in construction, as well as just progressing on the design. So a lot of work going on there. You know, wanted to thank the staff for continuing to push forward on these, but ultimately we're trying to meet the mandate of continuing to improve our city facilities, as well as, you know, address as much ADA-related deficiencies as we can as we move through these projects. That's my presentation on this item, and I'm more than happy to answer any questions. Sorry, actually, one last comment. If there's anybody online in the audience that sees a project on this list and feels the need to ask questions or has questions, they can certainly reach out to us here in Public Works. I'd be more than happy to address any question and kind of keep them up to date as well. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for all the work you all are doing and in collaboration with park and rec department, which are basically two great partnerships. And we are working a lot of parks improvements in this phase. And I'm also glad the measure I bond funds are basically helping us as strides on finance part of it.

And we are able to

take care of a lot many issues which have been pending like IESC and other projects which we are taking under those plans. Thank you. I don't have any other question other than thanking all the staff for that. Are there any because online, yeah, okay. And as mentioned by assistant director, if people online or on Zoom has any questions, they can please contact the Public Works Department on any of these projects. Thank you very much. Moving along, we will now go to item 5D, park and rec projects, verbal update.

Yeah, thank you, Chair Chahal, Damon Sparacino, Parks and Recreation Director. As this is my first ADA committee meeting, I may have over-prepared for the presentation. We went through and gave project updates that were touched upon by the Assistant Director, Lou, especially concentrating on those things that are relative to ADA. I'll try to get through these fairly quickly. We have a few slides. Again, the project list that the Parks and Recreation Department is working hand in glove with the Department of Public Works are the International Swim Center Phase 1, Central Park Entrance and Access Improvements, Henry Schmidt Park and Playground Rehabilitation, Warburton, rehabilitation and that one's in design Bowers parking lot which is in design and then we'll also touch briefly um really high level on our developer funded parks that have been added to our city's inventory but are still open and accessible for public access next slide please So really quick, the International Swim Center is a very large two-phased project. Phase one includes majority the bodies of water, the pool decking, the dive tower. There'll be a building addition, which will... how's the pump and filtration systems as well as one staff and flex space that will act as both the staff and customer service space. While we're entering into and completing phase two, the other the other nice amenity that's going to be coming as part of this will be a nice wall of outdoor showers that are part and parcel to the pump house building. Um, next slide, please. So to go briefly over the ADA improvements that you'll see in this project, uh, there'll be improved pedestrian pathways, um, throughout the facility, ADA parking improvements to, to access the facility, um, There'll be lighting upgrades that will also help the visibility while transferring throughout the deck in the evening time. Between phase one and phase two, we will also have portable restroom and shower facilities to supplement the outdoor showers and some of the brick and mortar restrooms that are existing at both the north and south end of the park or the facility, I should say. those restrooms will be um ada accessible and then um the and for those just to put it in in quick on in terms of this particular project if you've ever been to the international swim center prior to the project you would walk out or through the through the main entrance building and walk out and there was a series of steps that you needed to navigate um in order to access the pools or have a long circuitous workaround. And now when you transition from the parking lot through the future buildings, the pool deck will be at grade or slight grade to the parking lot and all of the other amenities with the winged pools, meaning the diving well and the training pool will have ADA access ramps. So there'll be a lot better accessibility and transitions throughout the facility. Next slide, please. Central Park entrance and access. This is where we are updating the parking lot at the southwest corner that accesses the arbor and pavilion areas, as well as a series of headways that leads from that parking lot to access throughout that portion of Central Park. Additionally, we're adding an entrance, and drop off Zone at Kaiser Drive or Avenue in the park that will be a great access and drop point for the newly added amenity the magical bridge which we touched on earlier in today's presentation next slide please So in particular, the ADA improvements are the pathway improvements, as mentioned, additional ADA parking and drop zones, accessing the west side of the park, in particular, the Magical Bridge amenity and interior pathways and entrance and enhancements. Next slide, please. Henry Schmidt, this is a standard park upgrade. We're getting a little bit more into a series of projects that we'll touch on. Whenever we as a city endeavor to improve, rehabilitate, or reconstruct any of our existing parks, we do so following current ADA accessibility requirements, both by state and building codes. So this Henry Schmidt is within that ilk and we'll continue will encompass a complete redo, but to highlight the ADA, we'll go to the next slide. So we'll be adding or improving the accessibility pathways and circulation throughout the park, creating a complete walking loop. Previously, we had DG and mixed use pathways throughout the entire park. Now it'll be either cement or reconstructed. parking lot upgrades, the playground will now be more accessible and also include inclusive playground features. And then we'll be adding ADA accessible furnishings such as picnic tables and access to and from the picnic tables and fitness equipment and generally upgraded pedestrian lighting. Next slide. Warburton is currently under design. We're between 90% and 100% design on this particular project. And just like the one before it discussed, Henry Schmidt, when we endeavored to rehabilitate this particular park, we did so with the lens of ADA and access improvements. Next slide. The ones, the ADA improvements, particularly designed into Warburton Park and Playground are pathways, again, creating an entire circulation throughout the park, ADA parking upgrades, And then again, while we're redoing the playground, we'll not only create a more accessible transition from the park itself to the playground, but we'll be incorporating accessible features and inclusive play features within the playground. And again, the site furnishings, picnic tables, fitness equipment, pedestrian lighting, upgrades, and then restroom accessibility. Thanks. This is, we're getting close. We updated or rehabilitated Powers Park in January. City Council Chambers, playground and park amenities couple years ago we're now moving towards finalizing or rounding out the rest of the improvements for this location. City Council Chambers, First, being the parking lot and then subsequently we'll be looking at the the park building and restrooms and the final phase, but this particular phase addresses the parking lot project so next slide please. The ADA improvements are pretty much only in the parking lot area and then the accessing the park from the parking lot on this particular project. PB, David Ensign he or him, So as mentioned at the top of our presentation segment we had talked about the developer funded parks and wanted to lift that up as an ongoing effort to increase park acreage within the city. And these are unlike our existing parks. These are all, or a majority of which are new. And so from the beginning or the outset in design with the developers on these particular projects, it is done so with current California, state or federal ada standards so really briefly um it's it's a lot of words up on the slide i won't go into it but we have the mitigation fee act that governs a park and recreation land so it's either an in lieu or park provision when developers come in and build homes um and uh within the last year and a half, we've brought online three such parks relative to development projects and they're listed here and we'll go through each one of those briefly. Next slide, please. So first we have Calle del Mundo that's just under a half acre, has a little walking loop seating area, dedicated off-leash park, and again, accessible playground. Next slide, please. In the same area, these are all part of the Tasman East development, which is east of Lafayette and Levi's Stadium, for those who may not be familiar. This particular park is one acre and features accessible play equipment, swings, another off-leash dog park, and helps support play and accessibility throughout this area as well. Next. And then our last park is at Gateway Crossing. This is in the Coleman station area near Costco. And I don't know the name of the park right now where the San Jose Earthquakes play. The name's changed a couple of times. So this project is also inclusive, built from the ground up, two acres. has a nice circulation loop, publicly accessible restrooms, as well as integrated accessible play features. And that concludes the detailed approach to the ADA updates relative to the park projects happening in the city. Thank you.

Thank you, director. Appreciate that.

A couple of questions.

I know you did touch that, but I just want to verify. ISC phase one, phase two, right? So once we start phase two, we will still have ADA compliant accesses to the phase one because phase one will complete before phase two starts or we start working on that.

Yes, that's correct. That's the correct assumption is. While we open the pool for operation after phase one, and when we begin constructing phase two, phase one or the pool and all of the features that we touched on relative to phase one improvements will be ADA accessible, including the temporary restrooms, the pool deck, the pool themselves, the outdoor showers, all of the above.

And Warburton Park, we have a pool there. As per the plans, we are not touching the pool right now. So during the construction, the pool will still be accessible and only the other parts will be cordoned off for construction, right?

Correct.

Okay. And... Central Park access. You mentioned that you will have a drop-off on Kaiser. Is it on Kaiser and Kylie? Yes. Towards on the Kylie or other side of the Kylie on Kaiser?

It'll be within the park. Within the park. So the new entrance will have, there is currently a signal at that intersection, but right now it's Pedway or pedestrian or bike accessible only. So that will become an actual vehicular entrance to Central Park, which will have a small roundabout. And within the roundabout, there's a curb cut where there'll be between four and six drop-off parking, as well as ADA. And I think we're going to put some charging stations, some EV charging stations within there, create a nice pedestrian access to either the CRC and the basketball courts. It's like choose your adventure or go right and go to the park major, including Magical Bridge.

So it's parallel to Kylie?

Yes.

Okay, I was confused that Kaiser is across, so I don't want.

No, it'll actually drive into the park on the now and and then. and then actually circulate, not just for the drop-off, but you'll actually be able to circulate your vehicle through that entrance and then drive through and access CRC, the community recreation center, and then that parking area as well. So if you pull through and drop your family or your children or your barbecue or any number of things off, drive through, find parking, and then come back and join them. Yeah, sure.

Is there any speakers in the audience or online?

Nobody online.

No one?

Okay.

Thank you for the report again, director. And you are very busy, I understand, with all the projects going on. Thank you for that. Okay, moving along. We have item 5E, which is traffic engineering verbal report update, verbal update, actually.

Actually, Chair, if I could introduce our next speaker. He's going to speak on the next two items. Her name's Carol Chariot. She's our new transportation manager in public works, replacing Steve Chan, which I believe you're familiar, you were familiar with him. Very much appreciate Carol's work so far. She's been with the city for quite some time and her recent promotion was well-deserved. So I wanted to congratulate her on that at this committee, but also introduce her. She's going to give her the next update related to trapping engineering. And then after that, the Levi's Stadium events. Thank you.

Thank you, Michael. Carol Sherriot, Transportation Manager. Chair, I'd like to give a summary of plans, projects, and programs related to ADA. So bear with me as I go through each of these. Our Stevens Creek Boulevard Corridor Vision Study. This is a joint effort with San Jose, Cupertino, County of Santa Clara and BTA to implement bike, ped and high capacity transit improvements along Stevens Creek. In May, 2025, the study was approved by city council. And I'm happy to report that the agencies recently received a 500,000 VTA measure B planning grant to study bike and pet improvements along the corridor. The Santa Clara Vision Zero Action Plan. This plan creates a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries within Santa Clara by 2050. And just as a reminder, the City Council approved the plans at the March 10th meeting. The 2025 ADA curb ramp project. This project was completed in December, 2025. The project consisted of installing ADA compliant curb ramps at 27 locations within the city based on resident requests or recommendations contained within the ADA transition plan and pedestrian master plan. This also includes new curb ramps and a mid block crosswalk adjacent to Central Park Elementary. The 15 mile per hour school zone speed limits. This project implemented 15 mile per hour school zones on streets adjacent to 28 schools to improve safety for students walking and biking to school. Pedestrian crosswalk sensors were installed at 10 intersection locations along Great America Parkway in Tasman as part of the traffic signal enhancements CIP project. The sensors detect if a pedestrian needs more time to cross the street and will extend the green time of the corresponding traffic signal phase. I also want to talk about current projects. We have our Creek Trail Network Expansion Master Plan. This master plan will guide the future implementation of trails along Calabasas Creek, Saratoga Creek, and Hetch Hetchy Corridor. Community meetings will be held this summer to show preferred alignments for each trail based on comments received from previous rounds of public outreach. We also have the Benton Brokaw connection feasibility study. It's a study to determine if there's an opportunity to connect Benton Street and Brokaw Road across existing and planned rail infrastructure. The project recently began and the first virtual community meeting will occur on June 24th to introduce the project to the community. This project will take approximately 12 months to complete. We have our North Santa Clara Transit Station Access and Circulation Study. The study is about to begin, which will identify opportunities to close the bike and pedestrian gaps in the network within four transit-oriented community areas in Santa Clara, which include Old Ironside Station, Great America Station, Lickmill Station, and Great America Capital Corridor A Station. This project will take about a year to complete. And then, for our ongoing programs, we have our Silicon Valley hopper service, the on demand electric micro transit joint service is with Cupertino which began in 2023 residents can travel between the city of Cupertino and the southern half of Santa Clara, which is south of the Caltrain tracks. We also have our crosswalks flags program, which are where we have brightly colored pedestrian crossing flags, which have been installed at 30 marked crosswalk locations and thus far throughout the city where pedestrians may experience challenges crossing the roadway. Our slow down Santa Clara yard sign program. This initiative aims to encourage motorists to reduce speeds on residential streets and improve neighborhood quality of life. Residents can help raise awareness by displaying please slow down yard signs in their neighborhoods and they are free of charge to the public and residents. Our Safe Routes to School Education Program, this is in its third phase with 17 schools so far participating in the program. The program teaches students how to safely walk and bike to school to encourage healthy physical activity in their daily routine. We also have our quick build bike and ped safety improvement project. This uses quick build treatments to quickly respond to safety concerns raised by the community and to pilot bicycle or pedestrian design concepts before permanent construction. Quick build projects are generally defined as temporary, low cost, and flexible in application. Some locations where quick build improvements have been installed already are along Monroe, generally between South Drive and San Juan Avenue, and at the horizontal curve of Francis Avenue, along with at the intersection of Winchester and Dolores. Upcoming plans and studies, we have our neighborhood traffic calming program update, and the city will hire a consultant to update the city's neighborhood traffic calming policy to support the vision zero plan recommendations. This policy was last updated in 1999. We also have our bikeway city council policy in March, 2025 council directed staff to develop a policy to guide the development of future bikeway studies in Santa Clara. The project will develop a policy related to the study and implementation of new bikeways along corridors with constrained right away and where parking or vehicle travel lanes may need to be removed. The project will also look at how to best implement parking protected bicycle lane designs. We also have our Bowers Avenue class four bike study. This study will analyze how to best incorporate a class four protected bike lane along Bowers Avenue between Walsh Avenue and El Camino Real. And then, lastly, we have, but not least, we have our Santa Clara vision zero plan infrastructure implementation, the city will pursue grant funding to implement the infrastructure improvements identified in the adopted Santa Clara vision zero plan. And with that that is the end of my presentation, if there are any questions.

Thank you, Manager Sherry. A couple of questions. One is the 15-mile school zone signage. Has that been done for all the schools? Only partially?

Yeah, we have identified certain schools that meet certain criteria to be able to reduce it down to 15 miles per hour. And so the ones that we were able to do were 28 of them. And we'll evaluate any others that may need to, that can satisfy the criteria.

Okay, thank you. And I know you touched the Vision Zero implementation, infrastructure implementation plan. Do we have any timeline on that? Like, I know you're waiting for the funding, but like, are there any expected timeline for funding as well as completion of that? Any rough number if you have right now?

Yeah, I don't have a rough number, but Nicole, do you wanna help answer that question? Nicole was our- That's fine. Yeah, Nicole was our project manager. Oh no, it's okay.

Yeah, we actually, besides the grant funding, we are in this upcoming capital project cycle, we actually created a project for implementation. So there will be some funding to support at least the initial low cost efforts that could help on infrastructure implementation. So that's in the budget process, right? Yeah.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you with that. Yeah, I don't have any other questions. Oh, the beds crossing sensors, which are technologically advanced. I really like that part, like on Great America. I wish we can. move that technology to other pet crossings, basically. I think it's a low cost and very beneficial cost benefit and this is pretty high on that. So if we can implement the technology.

Yes, and we do have a capital project that funds those type of improvements. So we will be continually doing that throughout the city.

Thank you, staff, for all the reporting. And I also want to commend staff on one thing like I got several requests from the resident for several crossings or several traffic related issues. And the staff has been very helpful in responding to those in very timely manner.

Appreciate that.

Thank you. With that, I think we go back to again, transportation manager regarding Levi's.

We do have, sorry, excuse me. We have one hand raised online. Sabrina, we'll unmute you.

Sorry about that. Please, Sabrina.

Hi, thank you. I wanted to, this is Sabrina. Thank you for all these presentations. Seems like we're doing a lot of good things. I think some things are maybe a little excessive, but that is just my opinion. I did want to say for anything that you're talking about with respect to bikes on Bowers, that's definitively in my area, that my two cents would be, I don't want to see a removal of lanes or removal of parking in front of people's homes. That would

That would be a negative from my perspective.

And then there's something that's been bothering me for a few years and I never knew where to address it, but perhaps this is the venue. There is incessant beeping up and down, particularly El Camino, and I know in a lot of other places, but it affects me here on El Camino. where the, for the crosswalks, where it's just beeping 24-7 forever and ever and ever, and it never stops. And it goes, you can hear it from hundreds and hundreds and sometimes 500 or more feet away. I'd like to see that fixed. It's impacting, you know, it's creating additional noise. It's impacting, you know, state of mind. And I don't think it's necessary. It's probably some other, I understand there might be a need to help people, but there could probably be another way that's much less impactful to the general public. Yeah. And then I don't know if this was the right time or not, but with respect to sidewalks, it's been another one of my things that I've noticed hugely lately. Generally, the city throughout, it should be easily accessible and traversable by all, right? But I just run into so many sidewalks that don't exist, that just end randomly, or that are blocked. I don't know. I mean, I didn't know where to bring this up, but this just seemed like the best place to do that. And I hope you take my feedback and let me know if you have any questions. Otherwise, I'll just leave it at that. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Staff, did you note down the beeping part of which crossing is that?

And actually, I can. Okay. So, Sabrina, if we can somehow get your contact information, you know, for us, specifics are very important, like what location that we want to follow up with. Some of those signals may be Caltrans related, so we have to talk with them because El Camino Real is a state route. But ultimately, if we can get your contact information, then we can work to try to address the concerns you have.

Or who could I contact directly? And I'll leave that information.

We do have an ADA coordinator email. It's adacoordinator at Santa Clara ca.gov. So you can email us.

Great. Thank you.

Thank you. And thanks for bringing that to the notice. Appreciate that. And on the sidewalk, I just got information. Like we have some sidewalks which need improvements. And I think city has got two new grinding machines, if I'm not mistaken. I just came to know about yesterday. And I appreciate that with those probably maybe faster way to correct the sidewalk improvements. that. Anybody else online?

No one else.

This was the only chance I missed asking it. Thank you.

Okay.

So item five F Levi steady mobile update.

Yes. Once again, this is Carol Sherritt, Transportation Manager. I will give a brief verbal update for Levi's Stadium. There will be six FIFA World Cup matches, which will be played in Santa Clara. And the dates are June 13th, June 16th, June 19th, June 22nd, June 25th, and July 1st. Each event and traffic planning effort, ADA parking and drop-off are evaluated and adjusted as needed to meet the event needs. However, ADA parking is provided in red lot one, which is closest to the stadium and a path is marked from the parking lot into the stadium. They can also be accommodated at pink lot four and five, which is adjacent to Mission College Boulevard and Mission College. And they would be shuttled over to the stadium. Staff coordinates closely with public safety and stadium staff for each event to accommodate ADA needs. And that is the end of my presentation. If there are any questions.

thank you very much on that uh i first of all uh 2026 has been very very busy for public works as well as for the whole city staff and we have done a great job on the super bowl hosting that and we are very confident that all the fifa games will go very well down the line and appreciate all the help from all the departments making this thing happen don't have any other comments unless we have somebody online for that. Anybody in the audience? With that, I'll go back if you have any closing remarks.

No, no closing remarks from me, but I appreciate everybody's effort to put in this meeting together and all the presentations as well as for the public attending and providing the feedback.

Thank you. And again, as mentioned, like I know we don't hold regular ADA committee meetings, but the staff is always there to listen and take care of any issues in the public domain. So please don't hesitate to contact the email ADA coordinator at Santa Clara CA.gov or public works department or traffic department for any issues. And once again, I appreciate everyone, all the staff members for doing an excellent job this year and bringing us up to code or trying to bring us up to full code for the ADA compliance. Thank you very much. And with that, the meeting is adjourned.