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I am now calling this meeting to order. The time is now 5:30 PM. Madam Clerk, can you please take roll? | 00:00:42 | |
Council Member Gamma. | 00:00:48 | |
Here, Council Member Hernandez. | 00:00:50 | |
Here Council Member McQueen Lujan here. | 00:00:52 | |
Mayor Pro Tem Perez here and Mayor Martinez present. | 00:00:55 | |
Public Comments We will not hear public comments soon. Participants, please use the Raise Your Hand feature if you would like to | 00:01:00 | |
comment. Comments will be limited to 3 minutes. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments tonight? | 00:01:06 | |
There are no public comments for closed session. | 00:01:12 | |
Mr. Studio Attorney, can you please read the closed session item into the record? | 00:01:15 | |
Absolutely, Mayor Martinez. | 00:01:19 | |
There's one item of business on closed session tonight. It is Public employee Performance Evaluation for the City Attorney | 00:01:21 | |
pursuant to Government Code Section 54950. | 00:01:25 | |
957 subdivision B1. | 00:01:30 | |
OK, Do any council members have any conflicts to disclose for the listed closed session agenda items? | 00:01:33 | |
OK, Council will recess. | 00:01:41 | |
To closed session. The time is now 5:32 PM. | 00:01:44 | |
We will be back at 6:30 PM. | 00:01:49 | |
We appreciate everyone's patience. | 01:02:31 | |
Just waiting on. | 01:02:36 | |
Two more council members and the city manager and then we'll get started. | 01:02:38 | |
OK. | 01:02:42 | |
OK, OK, this is good. I think this is mine. | 01:03:03 | |
So I had a pen for sure. | 01:03:08 | |
2nd. | 01:03:12 | |
Thank you. | 01:03:14 | |
Alright, so it looks like we have everyone here. | 01:03:18 | |
So. | 01:03:22 | |
Welcome everyone to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6. | 01:03:23 | |
33 PM. | 01:03:30 | |
Will everyone please stand and join us for the flag salute? | 01:03:32 | |
Ready. | 01:03:41 | |
Begin. | 01:03:42 | |
I pledge allegiance. | 01:03:43 | |
The flag. | 01:03:44 | |
The United States of America. | 01:03:45 | |
Into the Republic. | 01:03:47 | |
We should send. | 01:03:49 | |
The nation that. | 01:03:50 | |
Indivisible. | 01:03:52 | |
Madam Clerk, can you please take roll? | 01:04:01 | |
Council Member Gamma. | 01:04:06 | |
Council member Hernandez. | 01:04:07 | |
Council. | 01:04:11 | |
Council Member McQueen Lujan here Mayor Pro Tem Perez. | 01:04:13 | |
Here and Mayor Martinez. | 01:04:17 | |
Present. | 01:04:19 | |
Tonight's inspiration will be given. | 01:04:21 | |
By our council member McQueen Lejon. | 01:04:23 | |
Good evening everyone. | 01:04:28 | |
My inspiration tonight is. | 01:04:32 | |
Just taking in the transition of US moving from the summer. | 01:04:35 | |
To the fall. | 01:04:40 | |
So as we continue to move quickly towards fall. | 01:04:43 | |
Which begins. | 01:04:46 | |
With the autumn, no. | 01:04:48 | |
Equinox this Saturday. | 01:04:50 | |
Warmer weather. | 01:04:53 | |
Longer days. | 01:04:54 | |
The time we spent outdoors. | 01:04:56 | |
Have begun to fade. | 01:04:58 | |
Schools have started. | 01:05:00 | |
Temperatures have cooled. | 01:05:02 | |
And shorter days signify the end of summer. | 01:05:05 | |
But a beautiful thing begins to happen in the fall. | 01:05:09 | |
The leaves begin to change colors. | 01:05:14 | |
Then they fall from the tree. | 01:05:16 | |
Which you may have already witnessed. | 01:05:18 | |
But during this time of transition the tree. | 01:05:21 | |
Its branches. | 01:05:25 | |
It's trunks. | 01:05:26 | |
His trunk and its roots remain. They don't change. | 01:05:28 | |
In fact, we see more of the tree. | 01:05:32 | |
In the fall. | 01:05:35 | |
Than in any other time of the year. | 01:05:37 | |
We might refer to the tree as being bare. | 01:05:39 | |
But we are really only now seeing the tree. | 01:05:42 | |
Versus the leaves that cover it. | 01:05:46 | |
Using this transition. | 01:05:49 | |
From summer to fall as a metaphor. | 01:05:51 | |
Or time of personal reflection and transition. | 01:05:54 | |
Whether your transition is. | 01:05:57 | |
Internally. | 01:06:00 | |
Or externally driven? | 01:06:01 | |
Know that change or transition. | 01:06:03 | |
Is a beautiful gift. | 01:06:06 | |
That reminds us that while we cannot control what happens outside of us. | 01:06:08 | |
We can always control our responses and our interactions with one another. | 01:06:13 | |
Thank you. | 01:06:18 | |
That's a beautiful inspiration. I know you, you know, I appreciate anytime we recognize the seasons. | 01:06:20 | |
Mr. City Attorney, can you please provide the closed session report? | 01:06:27 | |
Absolutely, Mayor Martinez. Following review of the Brown Act, there was no reportable action taken in closed session tonight. | 01:06:31 | |
We will now hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda soon. Participants, please use the Raise Your Hand feature. | 01:06:39 | |
If you would like to comment, comments are limited to 3 minutes. This process will be the same for comments pertaining to each | 01:06:45 | |
agenda item. | 01:06:49 | |
Madam Clerk, does anyone have a public comment tonight? | 01:06:53 | |
Yes, we have a public comment from Becky Burning. | 01:06:59 | |
Ohh, hold on, hold on. | 01:07:13 | |
I'm going to turn on your mic so everyone can hear you. | 01:07:15 | |
That better. There you go. OK. | 01:07:18 | |
I'm here on behalf of the real guppy outdoors tonight. | 01:07:21 | |
First of all I want to thank everyone. | 01:07:25 | |
Who came to the function? | 01:07:28 | |
And contributed to our fundraiser. | 01:07:30 | |
We ended up making $28,000 that night. | 01:07:33 | |
So we had a fantastic night. | 01:07:37 | |
This Sunday. | 01:07:41 | |
Is our fish day. | 01:07:42 | |
Where we? | 01:07:44 | |
Teach families and children how to fish. | 01:07:45 | |
At the end of whiny me pier. | 01:07:48 | |
From 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM. | 01:07:50 | |
That's it. | 01:07:54 | |
And thank you Miss Bruning. | 01:07:56 | |
Do we have any other public comments? We have one more written public comment that I will share with you now. | 01:07:59 | |
Good evening, Mayor Martinez, City Council and staff. | 01:08:06 | |
The Winema Chamber of Commerce will hold its next morning mixer event, Rise and Shine Networking, this Wednesday, September 20th. | 01:08:09 | |
From 7:00 AM to 8:30 AM. | 01:08:16 | |
Sponsored by Anna Cappuccino, we invite you to join us in jump start your day. The Chamber will be treating guests to a free cup | 01:08:18 | |
of coffee. Meet local leaders and like minded business professional to exchange leads and increase your business contacts. | 01:08:24 | |
Chamber members and non members welcomed. As always, we do hope to see you there. Remember the early bird gets the lead. | 01:08:31 | |
That concludes. | 01:08:38 | |
Public comments for general. The other ones are pertaining to items on the agenda. | 01:08:40 | |
May I have a motion and a second to approve tonight's agenda? | 01:08:46 | |
Move to Approve second. | 01:08:51 | |
May we please have a vote? | 01:08:54 | |
All in favor. | 01:08:57 | |
Aye. | 01:08:58 | |
All opposed. | 01:08:59 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 01:09:00 | |
Do any members of council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any item on the agenda? | 01:09:03 | |
OK. Hearing none, we're going to move on to the presentations. | 01:09:11 | |
Our first presentation is the Banana Festival Proclamation. | 01:09:15 | |
And I will be reading it tonight. | 01:09:22 | |
Banana festival. | 01:09:26 | |
Whereas the 10th annual Banana Festival will be held at the port. | 01:09:28 | |
Of Wanami on September 30th, 2023. | 01:09:32 | |
And whereas the Banana Festival was created by Commissioner Jess. | 01:09:35 | |
Ramirez and CEO Port Director Kristen Dekas to highlight the various contributions and positive impact. | 01:09:39 | |
Impacts the port has made locally, regionally and across the world. | 01:09:47 | |
And whereas the port operations support the Community by bringing 2.2 billion in economic activity and creating. | 01:09:51 | |
20,032 trade related jobs. | 01:10:00 | |
And whereas trade through the port of enemy generates more than 173.2 million in direct and related state and local taxes which | 01:10:03 | |
fund vital community services. | 01:10:09 | |
And whereas the Port Authority began over 80 years ago with a mission to provide a Californian Central Coast agricultural | 01:10:15 | |
community with an ocean link to the global market. | 01:10:20 | |
And whereas the Banana Festival is a way to bring people out in a fun way to see the see and appreciate the port. | 01:10:26 | |
And learn more about its operations and its vital economic role in Ventura County. | 01:10:34 | |
And whereas the City Council desires to join the celebration and support of the banana festival. | 01:10:38 | |
Now, therefore. | 01:10:45 | |
Be it proclaimed that the City Council of the City of Port Wanami does hereby encourage the community to go bananas. | 01:10:46 | |
At the port of Wanami. | 01:10:53 | |
Banana Festival and celebrate the diverse working port. | 01:10:55 | |
Proclaim this 18th day of September 2023. | 01:10:59 | |
And. | 01:11:04 | |
Please excuse me for not bringing up Miguel Rodriguez, the Community Outreach Manager from the Port. | 01:11:06 | |
Would you like to come up and say a couple of words, please? | 01:11:12 | |
Thank you Mayor, council members and city manager and. | 01:11:21 | |
Members of the public, it's with great honor that I come here to invite you to our 10th annual Banana Festival. It's going to be a | 01:11:24 | |
blast. As you know, we're going to have not only banana splits, but also banana flavored beer. So I know that could be a disaster | 01:11:32 | |
in the making, but it's actually going to be pretty darn good. So if you're, you know, adventurous, I invite you to come out and | 01:11:39 | |
enjoy, you know this. | 01:11:46 | |
Opportunity, right, for us to not Only Connect as a community, but also to celebrate both the city and the ports partnership in | 01:11:54 | |
creating a great impact here in the city of minimum. So with that, thank you so much for the proclamation and we look forward to | 01:12:01 | |
seeing you on September 30th. | 01:12:07 | |
And just let us know and we'll be happy to accommodate everybody. So everybody's welcome. | 01:12:14 | |
If I could, Mayor, I heard a rumor that there's going to be twice as many bananas as last year. | 01:12:24 | |
And I don't know how many there were last year, but twice as many sounds like a whole lot. So I wanted to put the plug in for | 01:12:30 | |
that. But I just wanted to take the opportunity with the port to thank them. And just to talk a little bit about last week we had | 01:12:35 | |
the city and the port for the first time did a joint. | 01:12:41 | |
Trip to Washington, DC. | 01:12:48 | |
And packed in 11 meetings with representatives and and different federal departments. | 01:12:50 | |
In two days and and still catching up on sleep from from that but it was a great. | 01:12:56 | |
Partnership with the port and I'm just wanted to announce that while we're recognizing them for Banana Festival and and continuing | 01:13:02 | |
to build that partnership with the port so. | 01:13:07 | |
And I'll take this over to Miguel. Thank you. | 01:13:14 | |
Thank you. We will now move on to our second presentation, National Suicide Prevention Awareness Awareness Month Proclamation | 01:13:17 | |
presented by Mayor Pro Tem Perez. | 01:13:21 | |
Thank you, Mayor. | 01:13:27 | |
So September is Suicide Awareness Month, and we have a proclamation I'd like to read. | 01:13:28 | |
Whereas September is known as National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and is intended to raise awareness on the stigmatized | 01:13:34 | |
and often taboo topic, in addition to shifting public perception. | 01:13:39 | |
And whereas suicidal thoughts, much like mental health conditions, can affect anyone regardless of age, gender, race, orientation, | 01:13:44 | |
income level, religion or background. | 01:13:49 | |
And whereas importance should be placed on ensuring that individuals, friends and families have access to the resources they need | 01:13:54 | |
to discuss suicide prevention and to seek help. | 01:13:59 | |
And whereas we encourage people to bring their voices together to advocate for better mental health care. | 01:14:04 | |
And encourage any person experiencing suicidal thoughts or behaviors to seek help. | 01:14:09 | |
And whereas the development of crisis response system is critical for those at risk to have a number to call a system to turn to | 01:14:15 | |
that would connect them to treatment and support they need. | 01:14:20 | |
And whereas while suicide prevention is important to address, year round, Suicide Prevention Awareness Month provides A dedicated | 01:14:25 | |
time to come together with collective passion. | 01:14:30 | |
And strength around a difficult topic. | 01:14:34 | |
And whereas suicide is a second leading cause of death among age. | 01:14:36 | |
10 to 34 and the 10th leading cause of death overall in the United States. The overall suicide rate has increased by 35% since | 01:14:40 | |
1999. | 01:14:45 | |
And whereas 46% of people who die by suicide had a diagnosed mental health condition. | 01:14:50 | |
And while nearly half of individuals who die by suicide. | 01:14:56 | |
Have a diagnosed mental health condition. Research shows that 90% experienced symptoms. | 01:15:00 | |
And whereas we use this month to spread hope. | 01:15:05 | |
And vital information to people affected by suicide and encourage others to research, educate and stand ready to recognize and | 01:15:08 | |
assist those who need help. | 01:15:13 | |
Now therefore, BE it proclaimed that the City Council of the City of Port Wineman hereby recognizes Suicide Prevention Awareness | 01:15:18 | |
Month and encourages the community to spread awareness for this important cause. | 01:15:23 | |
And I'd just like to note to anyone. | 01:15:29 | |
Who may or may not be listening as a suicide loss survivor. | 01:15:31 | |
I lost my son to suicide in 2019. | 01:15:35 | |
So if anyone out there is suffering or needs help or struggling with anything, please speak to someone immediately. Talk to | 01:15:38 | |
anyone. It doesn't have to be someone you know, it could be a stranger. | 01:15:43 | |
But the loss you leave behind? | 01:15:49 | |
We'll stay with that family member for the rest of your life, so I would recommend you think twice before contemplating that | 01:15:52 | |
direction and seek help immediately. | 01:15:56 | |
We will now. | 01:16:04 | |
Just wanted to say a Wanami resident recently committed suicide and it was a friend of mine. | 01:16:07 | |
And I'll be. | 01:16:13 | |
Attending his funeral soon. | 01:16:14 | |
And umm. | 01:16:17 | |
It is difficult for me because it's the first person that I've known who committed suicide. | 01:16:19 | |
And I I think like. | 01:16:26 | |
And that's just one. | 01:16:29 | |
Trip down the beach, picking up trash. Maybe we could have had that conversation, you know, I mean, and. | 01:16:32 | |
It's just heartbreaking and and he leaves behind a family and his daughter is somebody that I've been. | 01:16:37 | |
Mentoring for very long time and she's having a successful life, but. | 01:16:44 | |
Yes, if you know and if you are seek help, it's it's really. | 01:16:49 | |
Really, really a terrible legacy to live, leave behind. And sometimes it's. | 01:16:55 | |
I don't know. | 01:17:00 | |
But it it does. | 01:17:01 | |
I think we all need to just work on Wellness and if and help people if you see them struggling. Thank you for bringing. | 01:17:04 | |
OK. | 01:17:11 | |
We will now consider items on the consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion unless a Council member has a request to | 01:17:13 | |
remove an item for discussion. | 01:17:17 | |
May I have a motion and a second to approve our consent calendar, Mayor, if I could I just to clarify and actually correct | 01:17:22 | |
something I was. | 01:17:26 | |
I would ask if we could pull the. | 01:17:30 | |
Finance and Police Department Position Reclassifications item so I can give a little bit of. | 01:17:32 | |
Correction and explanation. | 01:17:38 | |
OK. | 01:17:39 | |
I'll make a motion to approve all items on the consent calendar except for item number 7. | 01:17:42 | |
Maybe we have a vote all in favor, aye? | 01:17:51 | |
All opposed. | 01:17:54 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 01:17:55 | |
We will now look at item number seven, finance and Police Department position reclassification. | 01:17:58 | |
The recommendation is to reclassify one of the existing customer service representative positions to a Fiscal assistant position | 01:18:04 | |
within the Finance department. | 01:18:08 | |
And also reclassify one of the existing Police Department full time positions to an administrative Sergeant Sergeant position | 01:18:12 | |
within the Police Department. | 01:18:17 | |
Thank you. | 01:18:22 | |
And yeah, I got a correction to this while we were in closed session and I just, I didn't want it to be voted on with. | 01:18:23 | |
Maybe some incorrect background that I gave on the item? | 01:18:29 | |
So I just wanted to clarify. | 01:18:32 | |
So the item is reclassifying 2 positions one in finance department. | 01:18:34 | |
Currently a customer service representative to a fiscal assistant. | 01:18:40 | |
And umm. | 01:18:43 | |
The reason short reason for that is that with moving business licenses in house to provide a better level of service to the | 01:18:45 | |
community. | 01:18:50 | |
And not have people have to come to City Hall to get a phone number to call someone somewhere else. | 01:18:55 | |
Umm. | 01:19:00 | |
We've moved that in house currently with a temporary employee, but that temporary has employee has taken a position at another. | 01:19:00 | |
Agency and is going to be leaving us. | 01:19:08 | |
So we it gave us an opportunity to look at our. | 01:19:10 | |
Organizational structure, and we determined that we could actually accomplish it by reclassifying the customer service | 01:19:15 | |
representative position. | 01:19:18 | |
To a fiscal assistant position and it actually would save money versus the way we were doing it before. | 01:19:22 | |
And uh. | 01:19:28 | |
I was asked before the meeting today if these items would come back. | 01:19:29 | |
With. | 01:19:34 | |
Because the job description needed to be created. | 01:19:36 | |
And when I left, I knew we were researching that and I thought I knew the answer, but it turns out I was incorrect on the answer. | 01:19:39 | |
These actually do have there is a job description for Fiscal Assistant that we have adopted and created and I have copies of that | 01:19:45 | |
that I could provide. | 01:19:49 | |
And so that is why the item was simply reclassifying them, since it's an existing. | 01:19:53 | |
Position that we just currently aren't using. | 01:20:00 | |
And then similarly the same thing with the Police Department reclassification to a Sergeant. | 01:20:03 | |
We don't have a a technically an administrative Sergeant position. | 01:20:12 | |
But it was determined that. | 01:20:16 | |
The position could be filled as a police Sergeant. | 01:20:18 | |
And as. | 01:20:22 | |
We were reviewing the police Sergeant job description to make sure that it had the duties that could be assigned of an | 01:20:23 | |
administrative Sergeant and the determination was it does have those duties. | 01:20:28 | |
So, umm. | 01:20:33 | |
Just a little bit of background on that modification. | 01:20:35 | |
Uh, currently we have Um. | 01:20:38 | |
Sergeants, but we don't have somebody who specifically assigned as an administrative Sergeant who would be able to handle. | 01:20:41 | |
Report writing press releases, paperwork. | 01:20:47 | |
And those types of more office focused studies. | 01:20:51 | |
Uh. | 01:20:54 | |
Instead of having one person specializing in that, currently we have. | 01:20:55 | |
The five sergeants and the commander and the chief all sort of sharing those duties. | 01:20:58 | |
But converting one of the positions to an administrative Sergeant. | 01:21:03 | |
Would allow us to have somebody who specializes in that and who can perform. | 01:21:08 | |
And be accountable for those duties, which is a priority. | 01:21:13 | |
So it's reclassifying one of the existing full time positions to a Sergeant. | 01:21:16 | |
Which is an existing position. | 01:21:22 | |
And and then we will. | 01:21:25 | |
Assign that Sergeant the administrative duties. | 01:21:28 | |
And so. | 01:21:31 | |
Hopefully that helped to clarify, but it in short. | 01:21:33 | |
Both of those positions exist, so we were simply reclassifying those positions. | 01:21:36 | |
At this time, and we recommend doing so to address those items that I just discussed. | 01:21:41 | |
Ask question. | 01:21:48 | |
And umm. | 01:21:50 | |
These two actions are. | 01:21:51 | |
Budget neutral. | 01:21:53 | |
So. | 01:21:55 | |
The there's a. | 01:21:56 | |
Slight difference. | 01:21:59 | |
Of the position. | 01:22:01 | |
That it was being converted from to what it's converted to. | 01:22:02 | |
In finance, the difference is $11,000 but. | 01:22:05 | |
As mentioned. | 01:22:10 | |
It actually ends up saving money because we had a. | 01:22:11 | |
Temporary. | 01:22:15 | |
Employee performing those duties, who's who, just who left. So you know that we actually. | 01:22:16 | |
We had a a great temporary employee, so we weren't thrilled that they were leaving, but it forced us to look at this a little bit | 01:22:21 | |
differently. | 01:22:24 | |
So it will end U. | 01:22:28 | |
Being budget neutral or even having some savings. | 01:22:31 | |
And then for police. | 01:22:34 | |
There is a cost of $10,000 for that position. | 01:22:36 | |
We were identifying salary savings that well exceed the $10,000 this year. | 01:22:40 | |
And then as part of the next year's budget, we would look at our budget and make sure we include those costs, so. | 01:22:45 | |
There would be the that $10,000 increase in that just from. | 01:22:51 | |
Converting a patrol officer to a Sergeant so. | 01:22:57 | |
All right. | 01:23:02 | |
So we have a motion. | 01:23:03 | |
Move to Approve item 7. | 01:23:05 | |
2nd. | 01:23:07 | |
Madam Clerk, may we have a vote? | 01:23:10 | |
All in favor? Aye. All opposed. | 01:23:12 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 01:23:14 | |
Alright, we're going to move on to public hearings. Item number 8, adoption of a resolution approving an engineering and traffic | 01:23:18 | |
survey including speed limit reductions in specific specified locations. | 01:23:24 | |
An update and introduction for first reading waiving further reading of an ordinance amending Article Three, Chapter three-part A | 01:23:31 | |
Division Fifteen of the Port Wanami Municipal Code. | 01:23:36 | |
Madam Clerk, do we have proof of publications as required by law and complete file, report and exhibits? Yes, Mr. Mayor. | 01:23:43 | |
Will staff please present the report? | 01:23:51 | |
Yes, thank you. | 01:23:53 | |
And I'm just going to do a brief introduction and then I'm going to ask. | 01:23:55 | |
Our Charles Cable, our engineer and our, I believe, our salting engineer to to speak. | 01:23:59 | |
To the specifics, but. | 01:24:05 | |
I wanted to just give a simple introduction. | 01:24:07 | |
Focused on this item, but also kind of setting the stage for tonight. | 01:24:10 | |
We have several items on the agenda tonight that relate to traffic speeds. | 01:24:15 | |
Trying to look at ways to make the streets. | 01:24:22 | |
Safer to help slow down traffic in areas where it's where we need to slow it down. | 01:24:26 | |
And umm. | 01:24:32 | |
So. | 01:24:33 | |
Uh. | 01:24:34 | |
We wanted to kind of just explain that there probably isn't a magic bullet to address all of the different speed and traffic | 01:24:36 | |
issues that we. | 01:24:40 | |
Hear about and all the different locations. | 01:24:45 | |
But we wanted to. | 01:24:47 | |
Show the community that we hear that that is a major concern. | 01:24:50 | |
I sat out at the. | 01:24:54 | |
A Public Works booth at Beach Fest and at the Health and Wellness Fest, and I was surprised that this is far and away the number | 01:24:57 | |
one. | 01:25:00 | |
A concern that we hear hear from the community. | 01:25:04 | |
And so we sat down and we talked with Public Works, and there are things we were working on that we could use to try to address | 01:25:07 | |
this in different ways. | 01:25:12 | |
And so tonight. | 01:25:17 | |
Most of the items on the agenda besides the last item related to investments. | 01:25:19 | |
Most of the other items on the agenda do relate to. | 01:25:24 | |
Different tools that we have and that we're going to try to use to address speeds, address line of sight issues and address. | 01:25:28 | |
Safety. | 01:25:36 | |
In in ways that we can do that. So with that I'm going to ask Charles to. | 01:25:38 | |
Give some more background on on this particular item which was a recommendation to reduce speed limits in specific locations. | 01:25:46 | |
The general public. | 01:26:05 | |
There it is. OK. | 01:26:06 | |
So tonight we have before you a recommendation to adopt this speed resolution where? | 01:26:08 | |
Generally, we're looking to reduce seeds in certain areas. | 01:26:13 | |
Umm. | 01:26:16 | |
Patterson We conducted a seed survey and we're. | 01:26:18 | |
The recommendation is to reduce speed limits on Patterson Rd. | 01:26:21 | |
Southbound Channel Islands to Hemlock from 45 to 40. | 01:26:25 | |
Channel Islands Westbound Victoria, Ventura. | 01:26:29 | |
From 45 to 40. | 01:26:32 | |
Eastbound Hemlock St. from Victoria Ave. to Patterson Rd. | 01:26:34 | |
It's recommended that this roadway segment actually delete be deleted from the further port when you study. | 01:26:41 | |
And that the speed limit be established by Oxnard because it's actually. | 01:26:46 | |
The jurisdiction of the City of Oxnard. | 01:26:50 | |
Evergreen Lane, Pleasant Valley to to South Chase St. | 01:26:52 | |
In Sunkist St. Ventura to N 6th St. and Bryce Canyon N 6th St. to. | 01:26:56 | |
To the city limit. | 01:27:01 | |
The placement of 25 mile per hour speed limit signs along Sunkiss, Bryce Canyon and Ever Green Lane is recommended. | 01:27:03 | |
Or Onimi Rd. Market Street, Ventura. We're recommending a decrease of the existing 35 mile per hour speed limit to 25. | 01:27:10 | |
In addition to the above recommendations for streets that require an engineering and traffic survey. | 01:27:20 | |
Several existing St. sections that were previously surveyed and posted it are not required, per CVC 22. | 01:27:25 | |
California Vehicle code. | 01:27:32 | |
22352. | 01:27:34 | |
Any local St. in the residential or business district has a Prima facial limit of 25. | 01:27:37 | |
So we're recommending a decrease from the existing 35 mile per hour speed limit to 25 mile per hours in the following streets. | 01:27:41 | |
Cross Jack St. | 01:27:48 | |
Market St. San Pedro. | 01:27:50 | |
Seaside drive. | 01:27:52 | |
See View St. | 01:27:54 | |
Surfside Drive. | 01:27:55 | |
And Wheelhouse Ave. | 01:27:56 | |
Today we also have Tom Miracle here. He's our. | 01:28:00 | |
Contract traffic engineer from TKM Consulting. | 01:28:03 | |
And he's available to answer any questions that you may have. | 01:28:06 | |
O With that we open. | 01:28:11 | |
The public hearing for any questions. | 01:28:13 | |
I do have one question I I've seen the map, but is there any way you can put it up so that everybody can see everybody in the | 01:28:15 | |
public can see where these? | 01:28:19 | |
Visually, where the speed reductions are going to take place. | 01:28:23 | |
I don't have a. | 01:28:29 | |
You give me one second, I'll check. Pull it up right now. | 01:28:32 | |
Well, she's checking on that. I have a question. Any other questions? So I'm curious what you know, Patterson. | 01:28:36 | |
Like most of our streets, Main main streets turns into Oxnard. | 01:28:43 | |
At Woolley. So how do you address that? | 01:28:48 | |
In other words, are we? | 01:28:51 | |
Do we have a? | 01:28:52 | |
Is this speed limit going to be the same all the way through Oxford, or does it change? | 01:28:54 | |
So we can only regulate our speed limits, but we can work with the other city to to do that. So it it can change, but it's also | 01:29:01 | |
based. | 01:29:04 | |
On the amount of traffic that goes through that section O we base it off the 85th percentile. | 01:29:08 | |
So it's the amount of vehicles that are going through there in the 85th percentile range. | 01:29:13 | |
So that's how it's addressed. That's why you'll see a difference. | 01:29:17 | |
On both sides of the street, is our new speed limit going to. | 01:29:20 | |
Be the same as? | 01:29:26 | |
The speed limit when you cross the border into Oxnard. | 01:29:27 | |
Yeah. | 01:29:31 | |
Mayor members of council. | 01:29:32 | |
There, there is in, in a couple of cases, the change where we're making a change by 5 miles an hour. The city of Oxnard has not | 01:29:35 | |
made that change yet. | 01:29:39 | |
We reached out to them back when the study was done a couple years ago. | 01:29:44 | |
They have traffic engineering staffing issues right now. The staff that was there that I talked to is no longer there. | 01:29:48 | |
We can reach out to see if they're going to make that change, but. | 01:29:55 | |
You know again, what Charles said is the city can regulate what's in the city. | 01:29:59 | |
Typically a five mile an hour change is is not a problem. | 01:30:04 | |
If you go more than 10. | 01:30:09 | |
The California Manual on Traffic Control Devices. | 01:30:11 | |
Says be careful of that because that kind of change up or down. | 01:30:15 | |
Can be really difficult for the public to understand why. | 01:30:18 | |
So. | 01:30:22 | |
My in my professional opinion, a five mile an hour change is not a big deal when you start getting 10 or more. | 01:30:24 | |
Then you gotta really look at. | 01:30:30 | |
You know. | 01:30:32 | |
Can the Jason agency go look at it again? Have they looked at it? Can they make that change or they're going to support? | 01:30:32 | |
That change? | 01:30:38 | |
So with the five mile an hour reduction, do we see, do we do any? | 01:30:43 | |
Additional surveying to see if it had the desired effect. | 01:30:49 | |
Well, they we didn't do any surveying in the adjacent agencies. | 01:30:56 | |
And we we can go out. Once these are posted and some time has gone by, we can go out and do more surveys to see what the effect | 01:31:02 | |
has been. | 01:31:06 | |
But at this point, since they haven't been changed. | 01:31:11 | |
We don't know what the effect will be. | 01:31:13 | |
Right. So how do we monitor the results of this action to? | 01:31:15 | |
Further Traffic Safety in our city. | 01:31:21 | |
There's a couple ways that monitoring of speeds can be done the way we are required to do them for. | 01:31:23 | |
This type of application is. | 01:31:30 | |
Somebody has to do it. It can't be done electronically or remotely. It has to be done. | 01:31:33 | |
By a person because of the methodology. | 01:31:38 | |
Umm. | 01:31:41 | |
But we can get devices that measure speeds. | 01:31:42 | |
Whether it's. | 01:31:46 | |
Tubes on the ground or video devices? | 01:31:47 | |
Or uh. | 01:31:51 | |
Radar type devices can be put out there. | 01:31:53 | |
The speed display signs that the city already has. | 01:31:56 | |
May already have the ability to collect that data and we can download that data, I don't know. | 01:32:00 | |
Some manufacturers do, some don't. | 01:32:05 | |
So the devices that are out there now might be able to start collecting that data and and we can. | 01:32:07 | |
We can look through that and see if it's if it's made a difference. | 01:32:13 | |
The ongoing we we're going to continue to monitor and pay attention and and see. | 01:32:18 | |
You know what positive effects have come from this And so I just. I just hope that we we're not just. | 01:32:25 | |
Having the mindset that we've solved the problem, we're just gonna move on. | 01:32:31 | |
So if Council so desires, we can. | 01:32:35 | |
Asked Tom or or someone to monitor the seeds there. | 01:32:38 | |
To continue to monitor that. | 01:32:41 | |
But also this is going to require enforcement too. O we put the seed. | 01:32:43 | |
Speed limits out there and we need. | 01:32:47 | |
To enforce the speed limits. | 01:32:50 | |
And that's what I think is going to be talked about later. | 01:32:52 | |
And then next agenda item, yeah those are those are some of the tools we're planning to try to talk about and. | 01:32:55 | |
To answer the question, yes, we'll we'll continue to monitor and I think even if we didn't monitor it, I think Facebook would tell | 01:33:01 | |
us if we weren't doing a good job. | 01:33:04 | |
Can can we go over the speed? | 01:33:12 | |
Limit recommendations. | 01:33:14 | |
Changes please. | 01:33:17 | |
You want us to just go by the street? | 01:33:19 | |
Yes, please. | 01:33:22 | |
OK. | 01:33:23 | |
Correct me if I miss any. | 01:33:29 | |
So it's going to be Patterson Rd. and I'll ask Georgiana to. | 01:33:30 | |
Gonna show that on the map here. | 01:33:35 | |
It's to the top of the page. | 01:33:38 | |
To the top of the page. | 01:33:40 | |
Go move it up a little bit higher because it'll be the color-coded part. | 01:33:43 | |
So Patterson Rd. from Channel Islands to Hemlock will change from 45 to 40. | 01:33:46 | |
OK. | 01:33:51 | |
Channel Islands from Victoria to. | 01:33:52 | |
To Ventura will change from 45 to 40. | 01:33:55 | |
And OK. | 01:34:01 | |
That was the that's there as well, Eastbound Hemlock St. from Victoria Ave. to Patterson Rd. | 01:34:03 | |
Is. | 01:34:13 | |
Ohh, yeah, we're saying. | 01:34:14 | |
That, that one. | 01:34:16 | |
Since most of it belongs to Oxnard, we're saying that that part is not included and will be. | 01:34:18 | |
Identified as part of the Oxnard speed study. | 01:34:25 | |
Yeah. And I did some research on this in the past. What we've done is shared our results with Oxnard so they can use this. | 01:34:28 | |
O Based on the analysis, 35 is recommended, but we can't. | 01:34:35 | |
Change it cause most of that jurisdiction is Oxnard. | 01:34:40 | |
But we will share it with Oxnard so they can use that data. | 01:34:43 | |
But it has been previously surveyed, so we included it. | 01:34:46 | |
And we have Evergreen Lane from Pleasant Valley to South Jay St. | 01:34:50 | |
Sunkist Street from Ventura to N 6th St. and Bryce Canyon from N 6th St. to the city limits. | 01:34:54 | |
We're gonna be placing the 25 mile per hour speed limit signs, OK? And that's a little lower, right on the map. | 01:35:00 | |
Yeah, they're it's kind of mixed in there. It's off to the. | 01:35:08 | |
Uh, what is that? The East? Eastern. | 01:35:13 | |
Part of the city. | 01:35:17 | |
And then we have Wanami Rd. from Market Street to Ventura, decreasing from 30 mph to 25 mph. | 01:35:25 | |
Is that every ohh? | 01:35:38 | |
And then? | 01:35:41 | |
Decrease from 30 mph to 25 for the following streets across Jack St. | 01:35:42 | |
Market St. San Pedro St. Seaside Drive, Seaview St. Surfside Drive and Wheelhouse Ave. | 01:35:48 | |
OK. | 01:35:57 | |
Does council have anymore questions for staff? | 01:35:59 | |
Only questions in at this time. | 01:36:04 | |
All right. | 01:36:08 | |
So we will now open to the public hearing and take public comment. The public hearing is now open for public input at. | 01:36:09 | |
7:06 PM. | 01:36:17 | |
Are there any public comments? | 01:36:19 | |
Regarding this one item. | 01:36:21 | |
There are several written public comments. | 01:36:25 | |
I'll just go ahead and read with. | 01:36:29 | |
Read them to you. Please bear with me, Some of them are quite lengthy. | 01:36:32 | |
I reviewed the documentation for the engineering and traffic study listed in the agenda for tonight's council meeting. | 01:36:36 | |
The study proposes reducing the speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph for the section of Lynema Rd. | 01:36:42 | |
From the port gates to Ventura Rd. | 01:36:49 | |
This is a good idea. | 01:36:52 | |
It will improve public safety and reduce the noise and vibrations from heavy traffic, which is highly problematic for any of the | 01:36:53 | |
homes located along Wanami Rd. | 01:36:57 | |
The study also recommends leaving the current speed limit from Ventura Road to J Street at 35 mph. | 01:37:02 | |
That is a reasonable speed limit for cars, but is too fast for trucks. | 01:37:08 | |
Years of heavy traffic. | 01:37:12 | |
Truck traffic have damaged the road bed on Wanami Road to the point that the homes located. | 01:37:14 | |
Next to enemy Rd. are subject to constant noise and vibration. | 01:37:19 | |
Caused by accelerating trucks and a compromised Rd. bed. | 01:37:22 | |
When heavily laden trucks accelerate over the compromised Rd. bed, it causes the homes to shake as if there were small | 01:37:26 | |
earthquakes. This happens hundreds of times a day and threatens the structural integrity of the homes. That line winning ME Rd. | 01:37:32 | |
This section of the roadbed was resurfaced about 15 years ago. | 01:37:39 | |
I don't remember the exact date the new surface successfully reduced noise and vibration until it became compromised. | 01:37:43 | |
I have not been able to get a straight answer about when the road will be repaired and resurfaced. | 01:37:49 | |
In 2019, the director of Public Works, Don Villafana, acknowledged that the road was compromised. | 01:37:54 | |
And told me that it would be resurfaced in the spring of 2020. | 01:37:59 | |
Obviously that didn't happen. | 01:38:03 | |
Reducing the speed limit for truck traffic from 35 mph to 25 mph between Ventura Road and J Street with significantly reduced | 01:38:05 | |
noise and vibration. | 01:38:10 | |
It would add less than 30 seconds to the average truck trip. | 01:38:15 | |
It would also reduce pollution from hundreds of chucks spewing out diesel exhaust. | 01:38:18 | |
Save fuel and reduce carbon emissions. | 01:38:24 | |
The other major issue at hand is public safety. | 01:38:26 | |
In the last few years, the intersection of Minimi and Ventura has been the location of multiple serious collisions and near | 01:38:29 | |
misses. | 01:38:33 | |
I have personally witnessed truck drivers running the red lights, talking on their cell phones and exceeding the speed limit. | 01:38:36 | |
One of these drivers nearly killed my son and granddaughter when he ran a red light. | 01:38:42 | |
We all remember the horrific wreck caused by an intoxicated truck driver with a suspended license who ran through a red light | 01:38:47 | |
traveling at 50 mph. | 01:38:50 | |
And crashed into several innocent drivers. This would not have happened if the speed limit were reduced and. | 01:38:55 | |
Fort Wayne Police Department enforced it. | 01:39:00 | |
In closing, I would like to ask that the speed limit for trucks on Wymore Rd. be reduced to 25 mph within the city limits. | 01:39:03 | |
I would also like to be given accurate information on when the city plans to resurface when NAMI Rd. | 01:39:10 | |
Thanks David Scrivener, President of the Surfside Village HOA. | 01:39:15 | |
If I could just quickly. | 01:39:21 | |
I I did respond to that e-mail, but for any member of the public who's also wants to know when the streets scheduled to be paved, | 01:39:24 | |
it's currently scheduled to be paved in next fiscal year. | 01:39:28 | |
The 24 to 25 budget includes paving Wynee Rd. | 01:39:34 | |
The next one says Dear mayor, mayor, Pro Tem, council members and staff. | 01:39:41 | |
I'm really happy to see that the city is finally addressing the traffic issues in the city. | 01:39:45 | |
I wish to share my thoughts on three items featured in the agenda, all of which bear significance in this regard. | 01:39:50 | |
I will only read the comment that's pertaining to this item Right now. I wholeheartedly endorse the adoption of the | 01:39:56 | |
recommendations. | 01:40:00 | |
I am particularly pleased to note the proposal to lower the speed limit on Winema Road between Market and Ventura. | 01:40:04 | |
The persistent issue of speeding trucks in that area necessitates this change. | 01:40:10 | |
And that's from Joan Tharp. | 01:40:14 | |
The next one is City Council. I'm a longtime resident and HOA board member at Beachport Bias. | 01:40:17 | |
Which is between Wimi Road and Miranda Park. | 01:40:24 | |
Myself and many of my neighbors are glad to hear about the recommendations to lower the speed limit on minimum road to 25. | 01:40:27 | |
Between Market Street and Ventura Rd. | 01:40:33 | |
I hope that at some point that same lower speed limit can be extended on Whitney Rd. from Ventura Road to J Street as well. | 01:40:35 | |
There is a lot of fast moving traffic in that area, especially when the trucks heading to the port catch a green light at Surfside | 01:40:42 | |
Drive. | 01:40:46 | |
There has been several serious accidents that I'm aware of over the years in this mostly residential area. | 01:40:49 | |
Thank you, Jeffrey Scarberry. | 01:40:55 | |
And the last written comment, Umm, good evening City Council. | 01:40:59 | |
As I read through the staff report, I found that the staff report has a lot of discrepancies and questionable decision making. | 01:41:03 | |
It appears that no one proofread the report prior to adding it in tonight's City Council agenda. | 01:41:09 | |
The staff report recommendations do not match the ordinance that is set to be voted on for speed changes to city streets. | 01:41:14 | |
The visual attachment of a colorful map attachment one is also presented wrong for current and recommended speeds. | 01:41:20 | |
As the Pleasant Valley Rd. Section is showing 40 mph. | 01:41:27 | |
Also, the southbound and northbound Ventura Rd. from Pleasant Valley to Enemy Rd. is showing a different speed for each direction. | 01:41:30 | |
How can CBC section 627 and 22358.6 subsection B? | 01:41:38 | |
And see AMU CD section 2B dot 13 related to residential density be used for changing the speed. | 01:41:43 | |
Of Onimi Road, and not for Pleasant Valley Rd. Or Bard Rd. | 01:41:51 | |
Which both have high residential and have elementary schools on the street. | 01:41:55 | |
Pleasant Valley Rd. West of Ventura has no bicycle considerations as there is no bike lanes or posted signage that bicycles share | 01:41:59 | |
the road. | 01:42:03 | |
East of Ventura Rd. there are marked bicycle lanes. | 01:42:08 | |
Wanami Rd. Market to Ventura was previously posted at 35 mph. When the city conducted the last study, it was lowered to 30 mph. As | 01:42:11 | |
a data collection was the count of average speed for vehicles traveling that section. The new vehicles driving out of the port | 01:42:17 | |
have speed regulators on them, which maxes out the speeds they can travel. | 01:42:24 | |
Which is usually around 30 mph. | 01:42:31 | |
The travelling new vehicles out of the port skew the data on the 85 percentile. | 01:42:34 | |
A vehicle speech traveled in this section. | 01:42:39 | |
Was the considerations of other traffic engineering review and recommendation considered? | 01:42:41 | |
The city should collect a few other traffic engineers opinions that use data collection and speed radar in making justified | 01:42:46 | |
decisions. | 01:42:50 | |
The two studies in tonight's report were conducted by the same traffic engineer working at different consulting firms for 2020 and | 01:42:53 | |
2023. | 01:42:57 | |
A strong recommendation to vote down the ordinance as it is currently presented. | 01:43:01 | |
Due to inconsistent fact statements within the Staff report and Supporting Engineering Traffic Reports survey. Additionally, it | 01:43:05 | |
would be great to get this item as a presentation for the Council and the public to see how the traffic engineer. | 01:43:11 | |
Conducted his study as well for the public to comment on the recommended changes. | 01:43:18 | |
Thank you, Frank Gonzalez. | 01:43:22 | |
And I just want to check zoom real quick just to make sure. And there are no other public comments. | 01:43:25 | |
May I ask the city attorney if if we have any questions? With any more questions, can we ask now? | 01:43:33 | |
Or do I close the public hearing and then ask questions? Or can we not ask questions? | 01:43:39 | |
Council can ask questions the The main reason for having a public hearing with respect first reading of an ordinance is so that | 01:43:44 | |
all questions and whatnot can be created for a record in the event of a future challenge. | 01:43:49 | |
OK. | 01:43:54 | |
I I had a question. | 01:43:55 | |
Can we reduce the speed just for trucks? | 01:43:58 | |
You know between. | 01:44:02 | |
Some of those areas say. | 01:44:03 | |
Between. | 01:44:05 | |
Pleasant Valley and. | 01:44:06 | |
Why Mimi Rd. on Ventura Rd. | 01:44:08 | |
As mentioned in the public comment. | 01:44:12 | |
This might be something the city attorney might be able to answer also, but. | 01:44:15 | |
I'm not aware of any of anything allowed by the state vehicle code. | 01:44:20 | |
To single out. | 01:44:26 | |
Trucks or certain types of trucks on local roadway streets. | 01:44:28 | |
If a truck is allowed by law. | 01:44:31 | |
Then it has to follow the same speed limits, the only place where trucks have separate speed limits. | 01:44:33 | |
Are on highways and that's that's specifically said in the vehicle code. | 01:44:38 | |
I would tend to agree the vehicle code is a is a very difficult thing to regulate locally it it specifically preempts many many | 01:44:44 | |
local regulations. | 01:44:49 | |
The other, the other caution that I would have is typically governments are prevented from doing things on an arbitrary and | 01:44:55 | |
capricious basis. | 01:44:59 | |
And so the standards and unseated by the vehicle code for being able to set prima fascia speed limits have to do with. | 01:45:03 | |
Not obstructing the flow of traffic and speeds that are reasonably safe. | 01:45:11 | |
And so as long as those two are followed, setting a variable speed for different types of vehicles, I don't think that we have the | 01:45:15 | |
justification for it, nor do I believe the vehicle code would allow such a finding. | 01:45:21 | |
I also want to mention that I did notice that the maps were. | 01:45:28 | |
Labeled incorrectly or switched out. | 01:45:31 | |
On the on the packet, OK. | 01:45:35 | |
Are there any other questions? And I I think if I think it's appropriate to ask. | 01:45:38 | |
Our engineer to speak to. | 01:45:45 | |
The questions about. | 01:45:48 | |
The way the streets are labeled in the staff report versus the resolution. | 01:45:50 | |
On the other side, mayor, members of the council there, there is an error on the map. | 01:46:03 | |
The per Pleasant Valley Rd. It should have been. | 01:46:09 | |
35 green instead of 40. | 01:46:12 | |
Orange. | 01:46:14 | |
As far as the difference between the resolution, I'll let Charles answer that because I I did not prepare the the resolution | 01:46:18 | |
myself. | 01:46:22 | |
There were also other questions. | 01:46:27 | |
Raised by the comments related to methodology. | 01:46:29 | |
I think their comments are. | 01:46:34 | |
They're misunderstanding the vehicle code and how speed limits can be set. | 01:46:38 | |
So for instance. | 01:46:42 | |
We can lower the speed limit. | 01:46:44 | |
By. | 01:46:47 | |
The 85th percentile only a certain amount. | 01:46:49 | |
And if you have a safety issue related to bicycles and pedestrians and residential density and collisions? | 01:46:52 | |
You still can't lower it any further than you if you only have any one of those, so you can use any or all of them. | 01:46:58 | |
To reduce it from the 85th, but you can't reduce it 5 for every one of them and I think that's. | 01:47:05 | |
Kind of what their comments were generated at was you reduced it for this one, but what about these other? | 01:47:10 | |
Charles, can you talk about the resolution? | 01:47:18 | |
Ohh OK. | 01:47:26 | |
I'm not aware that the discrepancy in the resolution that described. | 01:47:27 | |
What is the discrepancy? | 01:47:32 | |
The discrepancy I noticed was on the labeling of the maps and maybe the coloring, but. | 01:47:36 | |
I'm not sure about the public comment. | 01:47:41 | |
Ohh, that wasn't me. | 01:47:44 | |
I think there are some, well one, maybe one simple way to proceed because the. | 01:47:48 | |
Uh. | 01:47:54 | |
Would be adopting with the streets identified in the staff report and then we can. | 01:47:55 | |
Double check it and make any corrections if we if if we need to, but the streets and the staff report were the correct streets if | 01:48:01 | |
there is a. | 01:48:04 | |
Typo on the ordinance. We can address that so. | 01:48:09 | |
Yeah, we we can correct the map if it's wrong. It looks like we. | 01:48:12 | |
On one discrepancy. | 01:48:16 | |
And correct me if I'm wrong, the color issue that one side of the street is 1 color. | 01:48:20 | |
And the other side of trees, and that's done intentionally because one side is going to have a faster speed and the other side | 01:48:25 | |
will be slower, that's correct. Like for instance Channel Blvd. | 01:48:29 | |
Channel Islands Blvd. will have. Westbound will be. | 01:48:34 | |
40 mph and. | 01:48:37 | |
Eastbound would be 45. | 01:48:40 | |
And. | 01:48:42 | |
The reason for that is we have more, more traffic and and Tom can speak to the methodology there. | 01:48:43 | |
I'm not sure if the lights on if you can hear me or the lights off. | 01:48:50 | |
The way the speed limits are set is. | 01:48:55 | |
You're required if there is a raised median. | 01:48:58 | |
That it's two separate streets. So we have to actually measure those and conduct the speed survey different for each direction. | 01:49:01 | |
If there's a raised median, they're considered. | 01:49:07 | |
Two separate streets. | 01:49:09 | |
That's why we have some of them have two speed limits. | 01:49:11 | |
And some only have one. | 01:49:14 | |
OK. | 01:49:17 | |
Council member McQueen. | 01:49:19 | |
I just had a quick question. So Port Wanami Rd. Market Street to Ventura. | 01:49:22 | |
Umm. | 01:49:28 | |
Says the existing is 30, speed limit is 30 and. | 01:49:29 | |
Trying to get to 25. This is going back to the. | 01:49:35 | |
Comments about truck speeding. | 01:49:38 | |
Coming, going in and coming out of the port. What is the speed limit across Ventura Rd. | 01:49:41 | |
Wanami rote but across. | 01:49:48 | |
It's 35 my question. | 01:49:51 | |
Currently across Ventura Rd. going. | 01:49:55 | |
3535 OK. | 01:49:59 | |
So my question is back to and I know we're going to be talking about some other. | 01:50:01 | |
Traffic related topics later. | 01:50:06 | |
And it's it's. | 01:50:09 | |
I'm asking the question because of the the comment about truck slowing down as well. | 01:50:13 | |
And so the speed limit is 25. I think the issue we have now that trucks are speeding. | 01:50:18 | |
Right. And so not not that. | 01:50:23 | |
Moving it to a lower mileage is going to stop them from speeding. | 01:50:26 | |
So just really want to make sure that we're. | 01:50:32 | |
Where? | 01:50:35 | |
Thinking about what we need to do to stop the speeding. | 01:50:38 | |
Lowering the the mph may not stop the speeding. | 01:50:41 | |
So what are we gonna do to stop the speeding? And I I think we need to make sure that our police officers are out there giving | 01:50:46 | |
tickets if tickets need to be given to help slow down the traffic. I I just don't believe changing the mileage because they're | 01:50:50 | |
speeding now. | 01:50:55 | |
Where the mileage is. So we have to do something else. And I know that's not a street we're gonna put bumps on. Well, I don't | 01:51:00 | |
think so. | 01:51:03 | |
So, so we really got to do the other things that we're going to talk about that a little later. | 01:51:06 | |
We're going to work with our Police Department with enforcement and I think the city manager is going to speak to how we're going | 01:51:20 | |
to do that in the in the next agenda item. | 01:51:23 | |
Let me just. | 01:51:29 | |
Parts. | 01:51:31 | |
And they write that ticket. What are the courts gonna uphold? | 01:51:37 | |
And what we found here in Ventura County is the courts tend to. | 01:51:40 | |
Like something around 9 miles an hour or higher. | 01:51:44 | |
Over that speed limit. | 01:51:48 | |
So as we get the posted speed limits down, it allows reasonable enforcement at a speed. | 01:51:50 | |
That now that they can't enforce that 30 miles an hour because. | 01:51:56 | |
People are going 35 or 36. | 01:52:01 | |
And the courts are saying. | 01:52:04 | |
Boy, that's a Gray area because of the inconsistency of how speedometers work and things. | 01:52:06 | |
So it does help on the enforcement side with them being able to get. | 01:52:12 | |
The appropriate convictions when you go to court. | 01:52:16 | |
You know the issue of truck traffic. I wonder if we could. | 01:52:21 | |
Outreach to the port and see what kind of other things that we could do, because it's my understanding that those Chiquita Banana | 01:52:26 | |
trucks are. | 01:52:30 | |
Or load and so I think they get, a guy told me. | 01:52:33 | |
One time that they get $850 for 40 loads. | 01:52:38 | |
And and they have to come from the port. | 01:52:42 | |
Connect their trailer. | 01:52:44 | |
Drive all the way to 2nd Street, right near the Oxnard City Hall. | 01:52:46 | |
And then they unload the truck and then they pick up another another one, come back and so. | 01:52:51 | |
Comes out to like 2375 per load. | 01:52:57 | |
And. | 01:53:00 | |
You can understand why they're speeding because it's that's a real tight margin for a truck driver, especially with the price of | 01:53:01 | |
gas these days. | 01:53:05 | |
OUM. | 01:53:09 | |
I don't know how we go about that, but maybe we could have that conversation with the port and and try and come up with a. | 01:53:11 | |
A risk management. | 01:53:16 | |
Program to address the the truck traffic because it is we see it all the time. I've seen skid marks through the intersection I've | 01:53:18 | |
seen. | 01:53:22 | |
Trucks run red lights like blatantly. | 01:53:27 | |
Very recently, a matter of fact, so. | 01:53:30 | |
Wanted to offer that. | 01:53:33 | |
Alright. Are there any other questions? | 01:53:36 | |
Alright, we're concluding. | 01:53:38 | |
Public input and questions. I will now close the public hearing, the time being. | 01:53:41 | |
7:24 PM We have a recommendation before us to adopt resolution and title they Resolution of the City Council of the City of Port | 01:53:46 | |
Wanami, California, approving the 2023 Engineering and Traffic Survey update and adopting the recommended speed limits. | 01:53:53 | |
Set forth therein. | 01:54:00 | |
And introduce the for first reading read by title only way further reading of an ordinance amending article Three, Chapter | 01:54:01 | |
three-part A Division Fifteen of the Port Winding Municipal Code. | 01:54:07 | |
May I have a motion and a second? | 01:54:12 | |
Clarifying point we're we're referencing the staff report recommendations, yeah, that's what I was going to ask you is if we could | 01:54:16 | |
make that note that it's these streets included in the staff report just because. | 01:54:21 | |
We didn't get a chance to double check to make sure that there isn't an issue, but the ones in the staff report are the ones that | 01:54:27 | |
are correct. So we'll make a match and to the extent there is a scrivener's error, will be identified at the next business item | 01:54:32 | |
where the ordinance is attached. | 01:54:36 | |
Did you say Scrivener and not that, not that Scribner. | 01:54:42 | |
It's his ******* move to approve. | 01:54:47 | |
Right. | 01:54:50 | |
Would anyone like to entertain a discussion before we vote? | 01:54:53 | |
No. | 01:54:57 | |
No. | 01:54:57 | |
I thought I heard you say. | 01:54:59 | |
OK. | 01:55:02 | |
Madam Clerk, can you please take roll? | 01:55:04 | |
Vote. | 01:55:07 | |
Mayor Pro Tem Perez? Yes. Council Member Hernandez? Yes. Council Member Gamma. | 01:55:08 | |
Yes. So number McQueen Lejon, yes. And Mayor Martinez, yes. Motion passes unanimously. | 01:55:14 | |
OK, we're moving on now to business items. Item number 9, speed cushion policy and related traffic calming options. Will staff | 01:55:19 | |
please present the report? | 01:55:23 | |
Yes, thank you. And similarly just another tool where? | 01:55:28 | |
You know, we were talking about some of them on the last item, but. | 01:55:33 | |
Another tool. | 01:55:36 | |
Because lowering the speed limits is good, but there there's still more work to be done. | 01:55:38 | |
The another tool is. | 01:55:44 | |
Adoption of a speed cushion policy. The city previously had a policy or did not have a policy that allowed speed cushions. | 01:55:46 | |
However, the city had installed some speed cushions back in 2020 as sort of a test project. | 01:55:55 | |
We've gotten generally good response on on those speed cushions. | 01:56:02 | |
And so in the meantime, we've been working on a policy that will allow. | 01:56:06 | |
Speed cushions with specific criteria. | 01:56:12 | |
Other criteria includes basically five points first. | 01:56:16 | |
Of. | 01:56:19 | |
They would be installed on streets that have a speed limit of 25 mph. | 01:56:20 | |
Second, the street would have no more than two travel lanes just because of the the size of the cushions. | 01:56:25 | |
3rd The street would be a residential street near or adjoining a school zone park or a senior housing. | 01:56:31 | |
4th A review of traffic accident data would also be conducted under the review and 5th. | 01:56:38 | |
Other speed coming measures such as stop signs or other signage. | 01:56:46 | |
Would also be considered and evaluated prior to installation of speed cushions. | 01:56:50 | |
Basically, with the idea that speed cushions wouldn't just be the automatic default, we'd look at other things such as stop signs | 01:56:54 | |
as well. | 01:56:57 | |
And so. | 01:57:02 | |
The city. | 01:57:04 | |
As. | 01:57:05 | |
Ohh. | 01:57:07 | |
Installed those and. | 01:57:08 | |
Develop those criteria. | 01:57:10 | |
We are recommending that we adopt the formal policy. | 01:57:12 | |
That would allow for a. | 01:57:17 | |
Fair speed cushions to be considered and evaluated. | 01:57:20 | |
And. | 01:57:23 | |
In this year's budget we have funding for the next set of speed cushions. | 01:57:24 | |
And the map of that of the additional locations I believe is included, I'll ask. | 01:57:31 | |
Charles to speak to that. | 01:57:39 | |
Are actually Fred, are you going to speak to that? | 01:57:41 | |
To the to the areas or where we have currently. | 01:57:44 | |
Umm. | 01:57:49 | |
Well, we'll kind of back up a little bit and give. First of all, good evening, Mayor. | 01:57:50 | |
Mayor Protem, Council audience. | 01:57:55 | |
Just to expand a little bit more on. | 01:57:57 | |
What the city managers indicated. | 01:58:00 | |
Right now the map indicates 7 areas where they've already been placed. | 01:58:03 | |
There are some additional areas that are currently. | 01:58:08 | |
Up to be evaluated, which is the area of 6th St. and 6th place. | 01:58:13 | |
And then also Bryce Canyon in the area of Sunkist Elementary School. | 01:58:18 | |
Um. | 01:58:24 | |
The. | 01:58:27 | |
Since the beginning of the program, when it started out as a pilot program. | 01:58:32 | |
We've received a lot of positive feedback. | 01:58:37 | |
We haven't had to go back and replace or remove any of the ones that have been placed out. | 01:58:40 | |
In service. | 01:58:45 | |
It's obviously as we. | 01:58:48 | |
You've been hearing it's one other. | 01:58:50 | |
Tool that can be used to. | 01:58:52 | |
Help try and. | 01:58:55 | |
Get speeds under control. | 01:58:57 | |
But also. | 01:59:00 | |
With that, you're going to get. | 01:59:01 | |
People that find it an inconvenience. | 01:59:03 | |
Umm. | 01:59:06 | |
So it's trying to balance out. | 01:59:08 | |
How we put all of these things together? | 01:59:10 | |
Where we can. | 01:59:13 | |
Get the best effect. | 01:59:16 | |
But also not have. | 01:59:17 | |
A. | 01:59:20 | |
Negative reaction from the community. | 01:59:21 | |
One specific area that I'm sure you all were aware of is the Panoma St. neighborhood, where we started to paint the red curve | 01:59:24 | |
because it was a recommendation for line of sight. | 01:59:29 | |
And safety at those intersections. | 01:59:34 | |
Umm. | 01:59:36 | |
That was. | 01:59:37 | |
A very negative feedback that we got. | 01:59:39 | |
The city manager decided to go ahead and pause all of that. | 01:59:42 | |
And ask us to go back. | 01:59:45 | |
To traffic engineer and see if there's. | 01:59:48 | |
Some other sort of combination. | 01:59:51 | |
That we could institute with either signage. Maybe it still may be. | 01:59:53 | |
Necessary to paint red curb. | 01:59:59 | |
It's. | 02:00:02 | |
Gonna be a part of evaluating and seeing if there are other options available or alternatives to go ahead and make these places | 02:00:03 | |
safe for everybody, not just. | 02:00:07 | |
The pedestrians but the driving community as well, so. | 02:00:12 | |
Umm. | 02:00:16 | |
We're going to be looking at that. | 02:00:17 | |
Uh. | 02:00:19 | |
Again as I mentioned it's it may not be that we. | 02:00:21 | |
Can eliminate red curbs. | 02:00:24 | |
But we want to. | 02:00:26 | |
Make sure that we're taking notice and also try and accommodate. | 02:00:27 | |
Parking problems and and that particular area. | 02:00:31 | |
We have. | 02:00:34 | |
A lot of. | 02:00:36 | |
Multiple family units we have. | 02:00:38 | |
A lot of vehicles that are parked out there regularly. We don't have the ability to park on the Navy side of the street on Panoma. | 02:00:41 | |
So there's other things that we we can certainly look at and some of these other items along with these speed cushions or things | 02:00:48 | |
that we're hoping as a whole will make a difference. | 02:00:53 | |
I think that's really the key is again it's just another tool in a situation like Panoma where we went out and looked and there | 02:01:00 | |
really is a lack of parking and so. | 02:01:05 | |
This is just another tool that will let us. | 02:01:12 | |
Try to address those, the concerns that we're hearing there. | 02:01:14 | |
In place of doing things like the red curb so. | 02:01:19 | |
So the item is recommending the approval of that speed cushion policy. | 02:01:23 | |
Our budget this year includes funding for some additional speed cushions I have. | 02:01:28 | |
Thought we'd put those in the report, but I I think I had missed. | 02:01:34 | |
Misread that. | 02:01:38 | |
$95,000 So it's $95,000 included in this year's budget, but adopting the policy will allow us to. | 02:01:39 | |
Evaluate the streets that they're being requested on under that criteria and then approve and place speed cushions with that | 02:01:46 | |
funding, so. | 02:01:50 | |
Does Council have any questions for staff? | 02:01:57 | |
I'm a little confused on the red curb issue. | 02:02:02 | |
155 feet of red curb on Unoma. | 02:02:06 | |
And Clara. | 02:02:11 | |
What? | 02:02:14 | |
Bothered me is. | 02:02:15 | |
What are we? | 02:02:17 | |
It's OK to talk about red curbs right now, yeah, it's actually, this item includes traffic calming options. | 02:02:19 | |
And we specifically noted that we were looking at other options. | 02:02:26 | |
And and not looking or looking at other options that would replace the. | 02:02:30 | |
Our red curb plan. | 02:02:35 | |
So on the the intersection of. | 02:02:37 | |
Anoma. | 02:02:39 | |
And um Clara. | 02:02:41 | |
You to. | 02:02:44 | |
The reasoning? The rationale is we're going to paint 150. | 02:02:45 | |
5 feet of red curb to improve line of sight. But if you go to that corner. | 02:02:49 | |
You can't see through it. There's a big sign and there's bushes on both opposite corners, so you can't see. | 02:02:53 | |
Regardless of whether there's a car parked there or not, you can't see. | 02:03:00 | |
O. | 02:03:05 | |
In my judgment, it just seems. | 02:03:06 | |
That's a mistake. | 02:03:09 | |
And it seems to me that it would be. | 02:03:11 | |
Better to put a four way stop sign there because I've often wondered over the years like. | 02:03:14 | |
The pretty heavily trafficked St. | 02:03:19 | |
Travel St. | 02:03:22 | |
And I think a a stop sign would. | 02:03:24 | |
Would a four way stop would be much? | 02:03:26 | |
More. | 02:03:28 | |
Coming and and so and then of course the other issue is, is that the parking, there's just not enough parking. | 02:03:30 | |
And you know, I think we need to look at maybe moving the. | 02:03:37 | |
Bus stop. | 02:03:42 | |
Over to San Pedro. | 02:03:43 | |
Or other issues like that so that we could. | 02:03:45 | |
Maintain. | 02:03:49 | |
Adequate parking. I don't even know if there's adequate parking there. | 02:03:50 | |
But one thing I do know. | 02:03:53 | |
Is that we can open up San Pedro and and allow people to park there and I think we should. | 02:03:55 | |
And we've made special accommodations. | 02:04:02 | |
For the port. | 02:04:05 | |
For some of their events to have parking there and we heard and then again over at the the other side of. | 02:04:07 | |
Of the base. | 02:04:14 | |
You know there isn't that 15 foot cushion and there's very sensitive buildings very close to the, the, the. | 02:04:15 | |
The fence line, so I think we. | 02:04:21 | |
Yeah, I think we need to to consider that. | 02:04:25 | |
And I I. | 02:04:29 | |
Can speak to that just quickly that? | 02:04:30 | |
I wasn't here when the San Pedro parking issue was discussed, so I didn't get a chance to talk to the base about that yet. | 02:04:32 | |
But I do think. | 02:04:39 | |
We're hearing consistently from that neighborhood that they're just out of parking. | 02:04:42 | |
And I think. | 02:04:47 | |
It may be worth the conversation with the base at this point to go back to them and say, hey, we we were trying to accommodate | 02:04:49 | |
this, but we're running into these issues and. | 02:04:53 | |
Now we're having lighter side issues that we can't address, you know? | 02:04:58 | |
So that can be a discussion that we can go back and try to. | 02:05:02 | |
Work work through with with the base. | 02:05:06 | |
Because I do. I do think it's just part of the general. | 02:05:11 | |
Uh. | 02:05:14 | |
It feels like we can't give up one more spot in that neighborhood. Like it's just it's stretched us too thin so. | 02:05:15 | |
I just want us all to be cognizant of the fact that, you know, the base didn't want us to put a. | 02:05:23 | |
Dispensary there. And of course it was. | 02:05:28 | |
Put. | 02:05:31 | |
It was done. | 02:05:31 | |
And so, you know, it seems that it's our call and I think the needs of our residents. | 02:05:33 | |
Are very. | 02:05:39 | |
Needy right now for parking spots? | 02:05:42 | |
And again if you go to the other side. | 02:05:44 | |
That Silver Strand beach, I mean parking is a nightmare over there. | 02:05:46 | |
I mean it's not even close to the issues that well it is very close. We we you know we're probably competing but I think Silver | 02:05:50 | |
Strand might be a little harder parking than and they park. | 02:05:55 | |
Right U along the fence on Victoria like. | 02:06:01 | |
Literally have 6 inches of. | 02:06:04 | |
Space between their fence and the car. | 02:06:06 | |
And so I just hope that we could help our residents out by. | 02:06:08 | |
Getting as many parking spots as we can over there. | 02:06:14 | |
Are there any other questions? | 02:06:17 | |
I. | 02:06:20 | |
Mr. Camarillo, would you be able to pull up the the map just so that everybody can see where the current speed cushions are | 02:06:21 | |
located and which ones are proposed? | 02:06:25 | |
Just give me one second, OK? | 02:06:33 | |
I guess I have another question. Is there a? | 02:06:36 | |
Is there a list that's being taken by the public of where the next speed cushions would be? | 02:06:40 | |
I'll leave Charles to answer that question. | 02:06:47 | |
The. | 02:06:52 | |
Hello. Ohh yeah OK. | 02:06:55 | |
So I'd like to clarify, the map only shows where speed cushions have been installed. | 02:06:57 | |
We have put together this criteria because we received an overwhelming. | 02:07:02 | |
Request for speed cushions and we can't install speed cushions everywhere. So we came up with this criteria, this policy. | 02:07:07 | |
We don't want to impede response times for our law enforcement and. | 02:07:14 | |
We put together. | 02:07:20 | |
This criteria and we need to evaluate any proposed locations, Fred Camarillo mentioned. | 02:07:22 | |
A few locations, but through this criteria we're going to, we intend to evaluate those areas, not necessarily that we will put | 02:07:29 | |
them there, but to go through this criteria and evaluate if it's warranted there. | 02:07:34 | |
Because we received. | 02:07:41 | |
Request for seed cushions on Pleasant Valley. | 02:07:42 | |
Some people have said Channel Islands and we know realistically we can't, we can't do things like that. So these criteria that you | 02:07:46 | |
guys are looking at is for us to to make that evaluation determination. | 02:07:50 | |
So the map presented before you are existing speed cushion installations that met the criteria of the pilot program, but we've | 02:07:57 | |
expanded that. So we were primarily focused with senior housing. | 02:08:04 | |
And schools and areas where children congregate, but we've expanded that criteria to be included in that. | 02:08:11 | |
Attachment. But we looked at other cities and what they were doing. | 02:08:18 | |
And other professional organizations like. | 02:08:21 | |
The Traffic Engineers Institute. | 02:08:27 | |
And we found that our policy was in line with what other cities have been doing. | 02:08:29 | |
And then? | 02:08:36 | |
Into one of the comments made earlier about how dropping the speed limits. | 02:08:36 | |
Has multiple effects. | 02:08:42 | |
And one of them is. | 02:08:44 | |
The policy includes the. | 02:08:45 | |
Uh. | 02:08:48 | |
Requirement that the street be. | 02:08:49 | |
Alright, believe it does. Correct me if I'm wrong that it be 25 mph or less. | 02:08:53 | |
So now some of those streets that we've we're proposing reducing the speeds on can actually qualify for, could potentially qualify | 02:08:58 | |
for. | 02:09:01 | |
Speed cushions. So again, just how all these items kind of work together to try to help us address specific issues. | 02:09:05 | |
I'm gonna apologize before I even ask the question. I thought I in my reading of the agenda. | 02:09:15 | |
On my iPad I can't find it now in the binder. | 02:09:21 | |
But there was some verbiage about. | 02:09:25 | |
We have the $95,000 in the budget and but that. | 02:09:29 | |
They can be paid for. | 02:09:36 | |
Bye. | 02:09:38 | |
Public or private? | 02:09:39 | |
After the money's gone. | 02:09:41 | |
I read that. | 02:09:45 | |
Yeah. In the in the actual policy, yes, I can you can you just say describe what that means? | 02:09:46 | |
And what do you mean by? | 02:09:52 | |
It can once the are 95,000. | 02:09:54 | |
Is expended then. | 02:09:57 | |
How would? | 02:09:59 | |
Someone. | 02:10:00 | |
Pay for that. | 02:10:02 | |
Someone else confirmed that I read that. | 02:10:07 | |
I I'm I'm double checking I did. | 02:10:10 | |
I don't recall that. | 02:10:14 | |
But I'm trying to double check. | 02:10:17 | |
Yeah, the staff report notes that we have $95,000 in the budget. We kept that in the budget this year when we did the CIP review a | 02:10:19 | |
couple weeks back. | 02:10:24 | |
Specifically. | 02:10:29 | |
Specifically because we knew this was a hot topic that we were working to bring this policy for. | 02:10:32 | |
I don't recall. | 02:10:37 | |
That. That including language that. | 02:10:40 | |
That we would. | 02:10:44 | |
Take any funding from any other source to do that. | 02:10:46 | |
Council member McQueen John, other cities do allow offer that In our research we did find that other cities had that in their | 02:10:52 | |
policy. They would allow neighborhoods to crowdfund it. | 02:10:57 | |
We did not put that in our policy. | 02:11:02 | |
Point I might have sent an e-mail saying here's what some other agencies have done, like a while back, and maybe because it kind | 02:11:05 | |
of sounds familiar, but I don't think we ended up including that just because we figured it. It opens a can of worms. | 02:11:11 | |
So I have a question and this all this study that's been going on, was there anything discussed or looked at to reduce the street | 02:11:18 | |
racing Donuts happening on Surfside? | 02:11:23 | |
Area. | 02:11:29 | |
Yes. And I would say it's still, we're still looking at it, We haven't. | 02:11:30 | |
We were. | 02:11:35 | |
Hoping that some of these things help including the the motorcycle officer that we're planning to talk about soon. | 02:11:36 | |
And we're still looking at other options. | 02:11:42 | |
We did get a couple of. | 02:11:46 | |
Uh. | 02:11:47 | |
Kind of. | 02:11:49 | |
High level. | 02:11:51 | |
Ideas. | 02:11:52 | |
But umm. | 02:11:53 | |
Nothing ready to present or nothing. | 02:11:55 | |
Ready to install when we actually worked through some of the ideas and saw some problems with them. So. | 02:11:59 | |
It's something we're still looking at and something that we will probably end up bringing back. | 02:12:04 | |
But again, looking at. | 02:12:09 | |
Doing some things in the meantime did that. That should help even if it doesn't. | 02:12:12 | |
Completely solved the problem. | 02:12:15 | |
So. | 02:12:17 | |
Really quick on the speed cushion policy procedures 2E. | 02:12:20 | |
This Currently, City Council has set aside funding for speed cushion installation that meet the above criteria. However, there is | 02:12:26 | |
no guarantee that such funding will be continued. Approved project projects may be privately funded. | 02:12:32 | |
I know what it is. | 02:12:40 | |
Page page one of the. | 02:12:43 | |
Yeah, E2E. | 02:12:47 | |
Yeah, I think I would. I think I would recommend taking it out at this point. | 02:12:49 | |
I think we had talked about that early on and I. | 02:12:55 | |
Thought we had taken it out, but we have $95,000 this year in the budget. I think we proposed doing $95,000 next year and I think | 02:12:58 | |
that between those two years. | 02:13:04 | |
You can see our map here and and we lower the map please, and that's already what's installed. And then if we install two more | 02:13:09 | |
rounds, I think we're gonna be pretty. | 02:13:14 | |
Have a pretty good handle on the speed cushions. | 02:13:20 | |
So I don't think. | 02:13:22 | |
We probably had. | 02:13:23 | |
Gotten that from one of those other policies, we looked at that. | 02:13:25 | |
I know what like I had looked at the city of Philadelphia and I imagine that, you know, they probably just get a huge number of | 02:13:29 | |
requests and and do end up having to tell people that if you know, if you're willing to pay for it, you can have it. | 02:13:34 | |
I don't think we have that same. | 02:13:40 | |
Issue. | 02:13:42 | |
So. | 02:13:43 | |
I would just recommend we remove that sentence. | 02:13:45 | |
All right. | 02:13:51 | |
Are there any public comments regarding this item? | 02:13:52 | |
There are public comments. First one is from Macario Simon. | 02:13:56 | |
Mr. Camarillo, if you can. | 02:14:03 | |
Step to the side for a moment, just so. | 02:14:05 | |
Thank you. | 02:14:09 | |
Thank you Mayor and council members. | 02:14:12 | |
In the public. | 02:14:16 | |
And Mr. Camarillo for evaluating. | 02:14:17 | |
This situation. | 02:14:21 | |
I'm here to express my concerns regarding the city. | 02:14:23 | |
Paint the red curb. | 02:14:28 | |
On the corner of my property by BB and Panama. | 02:14:30 | |
Used to be convenient for my wife just to. | 02:14:35 | |
Get out of the vehicle and be able to walk straight to. | 02:14:38 | |
Our front door. | 02:14:42 | |
You know, it is now more hardship for my life because. | 02:14:43 | |
Parking space is no longer available due to the red curve. | 02:14:47 | |
He has difficulties walking. | 02:14:50 | |
Just to get to our front door and the red curve is the length of. | 02:14:53 | |
Almost too compact. | 02:14:57 | |
Vehicles and and now our curbside. We lost two parking spaces. | 02:14:59 | |
Parking was difficult to find even before. Now it is nearly impossible. | 02:15:05 | |
He would have to stop my vehicle. | 02:15:09 | |
On the street just for my wife to get off. | 02:15:12 | |
To get to the front door. | 02:15:15 | |
Now it's trying to find parking and this is an everyday situation. | 02:15:17 | |
It is difficult living knowing that someone. | 02:15:21 | |
Is going to park in any of the available space that. | 02:15:24 | |
They can find. | 02:15:27 | |
We didn't receive any notification that this was going to take place and it's. | 02:15:29 | |
Frustrating that we. | 02:15:33 | |
Must go through. | 02:15:35 | |
Just to find parking. | 02:15:37 | |
I have been a a homeowner in this community for over 37 years. I have seen why NEMI grow. | 02:15:39 | |
And most of the changes that the city has made throughout the years. | 02:15:45 | |
I remember when semi trucks were drive through Panoma every 10. | 02:15:49 | |
30 minutes a day. | 02:15:53 | |
A few years later, the city rerouted the truck to Anemia Roll. | 02:15:55 | |
That was a huge change. | 02:16:00 | |
Years later, the city decided to paint red. | 02:16:02 | |
On the same curve today. | 02:16:04 | |
For a transit bus stop in front of our house. | 02:16:06 | |
That didn't last very long after the bus hit. | 02:16:10 | |
Are two vehicles in two separate incidents. | 02:16:13 | |
So the city relocated the bus stop to another location. That was a big relief. | 02:16:16 | |
What I don't understand is why I used to be able to park my fifth wheel. | 02:16:21 | |
Which I no longer have for over 15 years on my grass. | 02:16:26 | |
And on my property until I was. | 02:16:30 | |
About to get a ticket. | 02:16:32 | |
From the parking officer for parking my vehicle 4 feet on my own grass. | 02:16:34 | |
And my property. | 02:16:39 | |
I am a owner, and there I am. I am a homeowner. | 02:16:41 | |
And there is an ordinance. | 02:16:44 | |
Is there an ordinance? | 02:16:46 | |
That prevents me from parking on my property. | 02:16:48 | |
Now I don't even have the option of doing that. | 02:16:51 | |
In the past six months or so, parking has still been a problem. | 02:16:55 | |
For the residents that live in the close vicinity. | 02:16:59 | |
It is even more difficult now that the curve has been painted red. | 02:17:02 | |
When the street sweeper is scheduled, scheduled for that day, you will not find parking because. | 02:17:06 | |
Other residents from the next block, or six or eight houses down the street. | 02:17:11 | |
Have been taking parking space. | 02:17:16 | |
It is not fair for those who live in the. | 02:17:18 | |
In the area. | 02:17:21 | |
Who are not able to park their vehicles and taken away. | 02:17:22 | |
The extra space by. | 02:17:26 | |
Placing red curve and solving. | 02:17:27 | |
Curve is not solving the problem. Instead the city needs to put stop signs. | 02:17:31 | |
In the designated areas because cars are speeding through Anoma every day. | 02:17:36 | |
That's why we have these accidents. | 02:17:41 | |
I love Portland, Emma, and I hope that the city. | 02:17:43 | |
We'll take this issue seriously and take messages into consideration. | 02:17:46 | |
By putting stop signs instead of further limiting our only scarce parking, I am. | 02:17:50 | |
Sure. The neighborhood. | 02:17:57 | |
Community agrees. | 02:17:59 | |
Thank you. | 02:18:01 | |
Thank you. | 02:18:02 | |
Next we have Tracy J. | 02:18:04 | |
After Tracy, it'll be Mr. Scribner. | 02:18:09 | |
Hello, my name is Tracy. I've spoke with you guys before. I'm again also speaking about the red curbs. | 02:18:14 | |
And I wanted to further the same speaking as everybody. Is that the fact that we don't have very much parking in our area? | 02:18:21 | |
Over the years you've given us the bus, which means on down Panoma we have 6 bus stops that means are. | 02:18:29 | |
3 bus stops, which means there's 630 foot already taken away our parking. | 02:18:36 | |
Down a whiny or Pleasant Valley, we have several red curbs that are inconsistent with the same visibility, so it's kind of in | 02:18:40 | |
confusing to understand why some area has. | 02:18:45 | |
A big long stretch of no parking and the opposite side. | 02:18:51 | |
Has nothing, but you go the block over and there's some parking. I noticed that the. | 02:18:55 | |
The emerald perspective has only a few feet of red and then the rest of it is allowable green, even though their business sits out | 02:18:59 | |
further than any of our homes on the opposite side. | 02:19:04 | |
If you go down Phenoma, like the gentleman said, there's several new red 30 foot strips that's taking away all of our parking, but | 02:19:10 | |
it's really not solving the issue. | 02:19:14 | |
If a car is traveling at a distance of 25 mph, which nobody does, you still need more than approximately 150 feet in order to stop | 02:19:19 | |
properly to avoid a collision if anybody pulls out. | 02:19:26 | |
As a as oncoming traffic as you're trying to pass through. | 02:19:32 | |
I also recommend to move the bus, even though it's now on Panoma, it may not have been where it was at the other location. | 02:19:37 | |
But we if you move the bus either down San Pedro or move it off of out of our neighborhood altogether into. | 02:19:43 | |
Went for a road would make more sense to us because at least then we could retain some of that. | 02:19:51 | |
That that parking area that currently we can't use. | 02:19:56 | |
Panoma. | 02:20:00 | |
Has has the bus stops, it has all the red curbs, and then we have fire hydrants about every other block as well, so you can't park | 02:20:02 | |
there either. | 02:20:05 | |
So I'm just asking if you guys can resend or find it on alternate source for helping reduce the speed to make exiting streets more | 02:20:09 | |
safe like stop signs or? | 02:20:14 | |
Speed bumps or traffic control? | 02:20:19 | |
Because painting the curb red is kind of giving anybody a false, false, false sense of security that you can pull out safely. If | 02:20:21 | |
the car is speeding down 50 mph, you'll end up being hit anyways. | 02:20:27 | |
So I thank you for your time and I hope you'll resend the current action. | 02:20:33 | |
Thank you. | 02:20:36 | |
Thank you, Tracy. | 02:20:37 | |
Mayor, could I just quickly note a couple things? | 02:20:39 | |
One is so we actually have the the bus stop is not the city's bus stop. It's believe that one is Gold Coast transit districts bus | 02:20:42 | |
stop. | 02:20:46 | |
So we actually had when we started to see parking issues, we did reach out and we did ask if those could be adjusted. | 02:20:51 | |
And so they were in analyzing those, but ultimately it's that that won't be the necessarily the cities decision of whether those | 02:20:58 | |
stops can be moved. | 02:21:02 | |
But but we've started that conversation and then second on the red curve, just our presentation focused on the speed cushion | 02:21:07 | |
policy but. | 02:21:11 | |
As a secondary item, we were recommending. | 02:21:16 | |
Because of those concerns that we seek alternative options other than red curb and so I just want to make sure that we did state | 02:21:20 | |
that because we may have missed it when we talked about the speed cushion policy. | 02:21:26 | |
O. | 02:21:34 | |
Thank you. | 02:21:35 | |
Mr. Scribner. | 02:21:37 | |
Thank you. I came here to make two comments tonight, and the first one has to do with speed bumps. Here's some feedback about how | 02:21:40 | |
they've worked in the Bulker neighborhood. | 02:21:44 | |
My father had a house there for many years. He passed away and. | 02:21:50 | |
We remodeled it and rented it out to to a family. | 02:21:54 | |
Before the speed bumps went in, they were afraid to let their kids play in the front yard in the It's got a big driveway. | 02:21:58 | |
The mother wouldn't let him out there because there are so many cars racing up and down. | 02:22:05 | |
You know, with a loud mufflers and all that crazy stuff that goes on. | 02:22:10 | |
That she had to keep in the house. | 02:22:14 | |
Since those speed bumps went in. | 02:22:16 | |
It's a different neighborhood. | 02:22:19 | |
It's it's quiet. | 02:22:21 | |
The kids were playing out in the streets and right and the sidewalks and stuff like that again. | 02:22:22 | |
It's it made a huge difference so. | 02:22:27 | |
I don't know. | 02:22:30 | |
Obviously you can't put speed bumps every place, but I just want to let you know in the bulker neighborhood. | 02:22:31 | |
There's a dramatic positive change there. | 02:22:36 | |
And I want to thank you for it. It has made a big difference. | 02:22:39 | |
OK. | 02:22:42 | |
Second thing really has to do with parking in general. | 02:22:43 | |
Because all the state mandates about more housing and not requiring any place to park. | 02:22:48 | |
This is going to be a huge problem going forward. | 02:22:54 | |
I guess the idea is eventually to. | 02:22:57 | |
Have electric cars picking people up by robots and driving them places, but that's not going to happen. | 02:23:00 | |
In my lifetime, I don't think. | 02:23:06 | |
In the meantime, we got more people, more cars because of the high housing prices. | 02:23:07 | |
People are doubling or tripling up. | 02:23:13 | |
For example, in the bulker neighborhood. | 02:23:17 | |
The only place you can park is in the park. | 02:23:19 | |
Which is you're not supposed to park there. | 02:23:21 | |
But. | 02:23:24 | |
It's not enforced because there's no place for these people to park. | 02:23:25 | |
So that that's what's coming to all of us and you know, as a the president of the suicide. | 02:23:28 | |
Village Homeowners Association. | 02:23:34 | |
All I gotta do is look across the street at the Surfside Hotel. | 02:23:36 | |
Which you guys were forced to. | 02:23:39 | |
Go along with. | 02:23:41 | |
With their. | 02:23:43 | |
Completely inadequate parking over there. Some of those units don't even. | 02:23:44 | |
Have parking. | 02:23:47 | |
The one bedrooms, you're allowed to have three people in those places. | 02:23:49 | |
There's one parking place. | 02:23:53 | |
It's gonna be a mess, so. | 02:23:55 | |
I don't know what the answer is, except that we're headed for. | 02:23:57 | |
More and more of this and and more cars and fewer places to park and. | 02:24:01 | |
Good luck figuring it out because I can't. Thank you. | 02:24:05 | |
We have two written public comments. | 02:24:13 | |
Item nine With regard to traffic calming measures, I urge the consideration of B Street between Ventura Road and Pomona. | 02:24:16 | |
Reckless speeds at the intersection of Ventura Road and B St. pose a significant danger, especially considering the proximity of | 02:24:23 | |
Casa Pacifica where frequent loading and unloading activities occur. While I do have reservations about sight distance curb | 02:24:30 | |
painting as it reduces available parking, I believe the corners of Third and B streets merit attention. | 02:24:37 | |
The visibility challenges when driving South on 3rd St. and turning left or right onto B Street are evident. | 02:24:45 | |
Particularly for vehicles just turning in from Ventura Rd. | 02:24:51 | |
There is a fire hydrant on the northeast corner, so even painting the curb red there would help. | 02:24:55 | |
And that's from Joan Tharp. | 02:25:00 | |
And then good afternoon City Ohh. My name is Julie Gonzalez and I have been a Winema resident for over 30 years and live on the | 02:25:03 | |
1100 block of N 7th St. | 02:25:08 | |
Our street has changed dramatically since the speed cushions were installed on Park Ave. during the spring of 2023, which by the | 02:25:13 | |
way, was a great idea. However, vehicles are now driving at unsafe speeds because 7th Street is the street thoroughfare between | 02:25:18 | |
Park Ave. and Board Rd. | 02:25:24 | |
So many cars are now trying to avoid the speed bumps just so that they can connect to Bard Rd. quicker. | 02:25:30 | |
My concern is for the safety of the many children and residents that live on our street. | 02:25:35 | |
Our neighborhood also has several daycare businesses and many of the children are walking to and from school. | 02:25:40 | |
I hope that the city manager and council members will put our street on the list to install speed cushions in the very near | 02:25:45 | |
future. | 02:25:48 | |
Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Julie Vardy Gonzalez. | 02:25:52 | |
And. | 02:25:57 | |
Just sorry, I just want to check Zoom really quickly. No public comments. So we're good. Thank you. | 02:25:59 | |
Alright, that's it with public comments. The recommendation is to approve and adopt the citywide speed cushion policy and receive | 02:26:06 | |
an update. | 02:26:09 | |
Unrelated traffic calming options including. | 02:26:13 | |
Staff seeking alternative options other than Red Curb and Panoma St. neighborhoods due to concerns. | 02:26:16 | |
Umm. | 02:26:23 | |
I I did, I don't know if my one of my questions was answered. Do we have a list of the next places that are going to be? | 02:26:25 | |
At where we're going to be adding speed cushions. | 02:26:33 | |
No, we don't have a final list. We have areas that we're going to evaluate. That's what we have. So nothing determined yet. | 02:26:36 | |
OK. Such as like the public comment we just heard, right, right. So well public comment, we have received many comments for their | 02:26:42 | |
neighborhoods. So we're going to look at those areas. | 02:26:47 | |
But we don't have. | 02:26:53 | |
A set lace yet? | 02:26:54 | |
Thank you, Mr. Keeble. | 02:26:56 | |
Alright, may I have a motion and a second? | 02:26:57 | |
Move to approve. | 02:27:02 | |
With changes, right changes, with recommended changes. | 02:27:03 | |
With the changes, removing the language about privately funded speed cushions second. | 02:27:06 | |
Any discussion? | 02:27:15 | |
Madam Clerk, can you please take a vote? | 02:27:18 | |
All in favour. | 02:27:20 | |
Aye, all opposed. | 02:27:21 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 02:27:23 | |
All right, item number 10 Authorization to purchase. | 02:27:26 | |
BMW police motorcycle to reinstate motorcycle enforcement will staff police present the report. | 02:27:30 | |
Excuse me, Mayor, may I take a quick break? | 02:27:36 | |
Restroom break. | 02:27:40 | |
Yes, you may take a quick restroom break. | 02:27:41 | |
Do we want to take a 5 minute recess? | 02:27:45 | |
Yes, we'll take a 5 minute recess. Thank you everyone for your patience. | 02:27:48 | |
And so especially Commander Albertson. | 02:27:52 | |
All right, we're going to move on to item number 10, authorization to purchase BMW police. | 02:32:41 | |
Motorcycle to reinstate motorcycle enforcement and at the same time I'm going to ask if they can close the door. | 02:32:47 | |
Thank you. | 02:32:56 | |
Will staff please present the report? | 02:32:58 | |
Yeah. And again just another tool and it's come up a couple times is. | 02:33:01 | |
Being able to. | 02:33:05 | |
Pair the enforcement with reduced speed limits and with speed cushions and. | 02:33:08 | |
And things like that. | 02:33:12 | |
It's just another tool that we're using to try to help address this issue. | 02:33:14 | |
And. | 02:33:17 | |
Commander Albertson has prepared a presentation with some traffic information and some data, so I will turn it over to him to go | 02:33:18 | |
through that presentation. | 02:33:23 | |
Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of City Council, members of staff, members of the public. | 02:33:28 | |
The item before you is authorization to purchase BMW police motorcycle to reinstate. | 02:33:35 | |
Motorcycle enforcement. | 02:33:41 | |
What I have is a short presentation. | 02:33:43 | |
Chief Federico is on on remotely. | 02:33:46 | |
An here city manager, after my presentation could address any issues pertaining to the. | 02:33:49 | |
Details of the purchase of the motorcycle. | 02:33:54 | |
I wanna Chiefs first orders of business when he came on board back in June was to task me with. | 02:33:57 | |
Doing a comprehensive analysis of our crash data. | 02:34:02 | |
A prepared presentation and bring it before you in conjunction with this item. | 02:34:05 | |
We want to make sure that we. | 02:34:10 | |
Did our due diligence and make sure that the the numbers we were looking at actually justifies having a a motor and a motor | 02:34:12 | |
officer and so we've done that. | 02:34:16 | |
The data comes from Switters, which is a statewide. | 02:34:21 | |
Integrated traffic recording system. | 02:34:24 | |
We're required to report all of our traffic collisions to the state as our other police agencies throughout the the state. | 02:34:27 | |
So the numbers I'm going to present are from 2011. | 02:34:34 | |
To 2022 and the reason for that is as switters reports only go back to 2011. | 02:34:37 | |
And then they are typically about 7 to 9 months behind and so any 2023 numbers would be provisional. | 02:34:42 | |
And it wouldn't be comprehensive and so. | 02:34:49 | |
I'm pretty confident that what I'm going to present to you from 2011 to 2022 are our solid numbers. | 02:34:52 | |
I've looked at them numerous times. I've compared them to our internal RMS system I've discussed them with. | 02:34:58 | |
Sergeant Bates, who was a traffic officer here and we're both in agreement that these numbers are are accurate. | 02:35:04 | |
They just pointed out the screen or. | 02:35:13 | |
That one. | 02:35:16 | |
OK and so. | 02:35:30 | |
What I did is I took the numbers that pertained to fatal and injury collisions and the reason why I did that. | 02:35:31 | |
Is a property damage only collisions, also known as Fender benders, and private property collisions only require that the drivers | 02:35:39 | |
exchange information. | 02:35:43 | |
And so we're not really capturing the number of collisions. | 02:35:47 | |
That we would normally as if we know reports been taken and so. | 02:35:51 | |
We're going to just concentrate on fatal and injury, traffic, collisions and so. | 02:35:54 | |
From 2011 to 2022 we had 561 crashes. | 02:35:58 | |
14 of those were fatal, that's 2% of our total. | 02:36:03 | |
15% were severe injuries. That's basically major injuries. It's a hospitalization, ambulance, transport, et cetera. | 02:36:07 | |
146 were visible injuries. Those are things like contusions, broken bones. | 02:36:15 | |
Cuts, things like that. | 02:36:21 | |
That was 26% of our total. | 02:36:23 | |
And then complained of pain. That was 386 collisions. That's almost 70% of our our total. Those are things like whiplash injuries, | 02:36:26 | |
airbag deployment injuries. | 02:36:30 | |
Soreness from the impact of the collision, things like that. Those typically result though in serious. | 02:36:36 | |
Damage to the vehicle and they could present. | 02:36:42 | |
Long term problems for the people that are involved. | 02:36:45 | |
Go to the next slide. | 02:36:48 | |
So this is just the pie chart of the same data that I just gave you to just give you kind of a. | 02:36:50 | |
Different perspective on it so you can see the complaint of pain. Injuries are by far the the largest percentage. | 02:36:54 | |
So what I did too is I put together a chart of the number of crashes per day of week per time. | 02:37:02 | |
And what this will help us do is this will help us figure out. | 02:37:09 | |
If the motorcycle is approved, when it makes the most sense to deploy so we get the the largest effect of having that person out | 02:37:13 | |
there. | 02:37:16 | |
As you can see. | 02:37:20 | |
So it's a seven day week in three hour increments over 24 hour period. | 02:37:22 | |
And by far our largest number of collisions is 28% occur between 3:00 PM. | 02:37:27 | |
And 559 M. | 02:37:33 | |
In the number one day of the week is Thursday and that was 31 collisions. We can go to the next slide. | 02:37:36 | |
So what this slide is is just basically shows. | 02:37:43 | |
What deployment would make sense for the motor? | 02:37:47 | |
And I know that mismanagement was brought up prior. | 02:37:49 | |
And so looking at this data, what this tells me is that the the times of the day. | 02:37:53 | |
That make the most sense to deploy a motor or. | 02:37:58 | |
When it's light outside, it's daytime. Nothing says you can't have a motor out at night, but obviously it's a lot safer to have | 02:38:01 | |
mountain daylight hours. | 02:38:04 | |
On SO I think we have a pretty good grasp. | 02:38:08 | |
From the the data we have right now that if the motors approved we can once training and all that's done, we can hit the ground | 02:38:11 | |
running and we're going to know when to put that motor out there, when it's going to have the biggest effect on our collisions. | 02:38:16 | |
Go to the next slide. | 02:38:22 | |
So I also analyzed our top five primary collision factors. | 02:38:25 | |
And So what this is, is this is typically a vehicle code violation that was the cause of the collision. There's a reason they call | 02:38:29 | |
them collisions and not accidents. | 02:38:33 | |
Umm. | 02:38:37 | |
So you can see unsafe speed was by far the largest primary collision factor. That's 180, that's 32%. | 02:38:38 | |
A Right of Way Violations 100 and 1721%. | 02:38:47 | |
Improper turning movement. Those are things like unsafe lane changes. So you see someone cut someone off, that's an improper | 02:38:50 | |
turning movement. | 02:38:53 | |
A 48 nine percent DUI's were 48 and 9%. | 02:38:56 | |
And traffic signals and signs violations. That's 41 and that 7%. | 02:39:00 | |
So look at this data. What this tells me is that these are all. | 02:39:05 | |
Primary collision factors that could be mitigated by having a motorcycle out there doing traffic enforcement especially the the, | 02:39:09 | |
the speed and we're going to get to a slide later on in the presentation we'll speak to to why I believe that is the the case, so | 02:39:13 | |
we can go to the next slide. | 02:39:18 | |
This is the point map of all of our crashes from 2011 to 2022. | 02:39:24 | |
And you can see that the the high corridors are Channel Islands Blvd. | 02:39:28 | |
Into a Rd. | 02:39:32 | |
Wanami Rd. | 02:39:33 | |
Pleasant Valley, and it looks like Bard may have some there. | 02:39:35 | |
All of these corridors can be worked with radar. | 02:39:39 | |
And you heard the traffic engineer speak to. | 02:39:43 | |
And it was in the staff report to the engineering survey that allows us to go out and legally enforce speed limits with radar. | 02:39:45 | |
And so all of these areas can be worked by a motorcycle officer. | 02:39:53 | |
With radar and. | 02:39:58 | |
We have some specific. | 02:39:59 | |
Conditions in our city that that are unique and that is that it's very difficult to do traffic enforcement on Channel Islands | 02:40:02 | |
Blvd. And Ventura Rd. In a in a regular patrol unit. | 02:40:06 | |
Not impossible. | 02:40:11 | |
But it's difficult, and Sergeant Bates can attest to the fact from when he was a motor. | 02:40:12 | |
Along Ventura Rd. there are only a few places where you can get tucked in good enough to be safe, but also to get out into traffic | 02:40:16 | |
quick enough to actually catch a violator, and a motorcycle can do that. | 02:40:21 | |
And so I think with those corridors having a majority of our crashes, it makes sense. | 02:40:26 | |
In my opinion, to have a motorcycle out there. | 02:40:30 | |
We go to the next slide. | 02:40:33 | |
And so for fatal crashes, I was able to actually go back. | 02:40:35 | |
Further than 2011 because we don't have to rely on just Twitter's data because our fatal traffic accidents are assigned to an | 02:40:40 | |
investigator and so we were able to actually pull those numbers. | 02:40:44 | |
And and I'm confident that those numbers are accurate. | 02:40:48 | |
And so we had a motorcycle officer from roughly July of 2006. | 02:40:51 | |
To December of 2013. It was actually suspended roughly in about July of 2013 and then completely ended in December of 2013. | 02:40:57 | |
And then we had no motorcycle from 2014 to 2022 and so comparing our fatal traffic collisions. | 02:41:06 | |
We had seven when we had a motor out there, average of 1 per year. | 02:41:12 | |
We've had 10 total average of 1.3 per year. That's a 43% increase in fatal crashes. | 02:41:16 | |
But when you look at fatal crashes, one thing you have to remember is. | 02:41:22 | |
They're fatals. | 02:41:26 | |
And nine times out of 10, if there are passengers in the fatal collision, those people are going to be injured as well. | 02:41:27 | |
And so the 10 fatal crashes on that we did have resulted in 11 injuries and 10 deaths. | 02:41:33 | |
Next slide. | 02:41:39 | |
And So what these are These are our California Office of Transportation Safety rankings. | 02:41:40 | |
So the first number. | 02:41:46 | |
And we'll talk about the ones in red. First number is the port enemy rank. The second number is the number of similar similar | 02:41:48 | |
sized cities in our group. | 02:41:51 | |
The lower the first number. | 02:41:57 | |
The worse ROTS ranking. | 02:41:59 | |
And so if you go to the OTS website and you look at the rankings. | 02:42:01 | |
There are going to be a list of rankings like the age of the driver, whether they're over 21, under 21, whether pedestrians are | 02:42:06 | |
involved, bicyclists, motorcycles. | 02:42:10 | |
The reason that exists is because OS collects that information for grant purposes. | 02:42:15 | |
For purposes of us making an analysis on a motorcycle program. | 02:42:20 | |
What I felt the two important rankings were was the total fatal and injury collisions. | 02:42:25 | |
And then the total. | 02:42:30 | |
Fatal and injury collisions that were speed related because speed was our top primary collision factor. | 02:42:32 | |
And so if you look at our rankings and Justice Seed related. | 02:42:37 | |
We were. | 02:42:41 | |
28 out of 101 cities, 15 out of 102 cities, 16 out of 103 cities, and then 53 out of 103 cities. So this information is only | 02:42:42 | |
available from 2017 to 2020. | 02:42:48 | |
So in 2018 and 19, what that means is say in 2018 that means only 14 cities out of our group. | 02:42:55 | |
Sampling was worse than Port Wanami in the OS ranking. | 02:43:04 | |
We have made some improvements. | 02:43:08 | |
I can't say. | 02:43:11 | |
Definitively, why we made those improvements, Anecdotally, I can say that probably what happened was that was about the time we | 02:43:13 | |
really started getting a lot of complaints about traffic and so we did step up traffic enforcement. So that is one possible | 02:43:17 | |
explanation. I can't say that's. | 02:43:22 | |
The only one. So we have made some improvements, but we don't have the 2122 and 23 numbers yet. | 02:43:26 | |
My opinion is I think that having a motorcycle out there could help us reduce. | 02:43:34 | |
Fatal traffic collisions, injury, traffic collisions, but also could help us maybe improve. | 02:43:39 | |
Of the OS rankings. | 02:43:43 | |
But having a a motor officer also gives us the opportunity to have someone that's going to be able to now submit for grants, maybe | 02:43:45 | |
some of those other areas in the UI. | 02:43:49 | |
Pedestrian motorcycles. | 02:43:53 | |
Bicycles and that'll be someone that. | 02:43:55 | |
Then we'll be collecting this information. | 02:43:58 | |
On a on a regular basis and we won't have to then do it. | 02:44:00 | |
Like we did at this time, where we bring it all at once, it'll be an ongoing thing And so with that I can turn it over to city | 02:44:04 | |
manager and chief and then. | 02:44:07 | |
If there are any questions, we'd be happy to take questions. | 02:44:12 | |
Thank you for that. | 02:44:17 | |
Yeah, I believe, chief. | 02:44:20 | |
Federico is. | 02:44:22 | |
Joining us via Zoom. | 02:44:23 | |
From a A training. | 02:44:25 | |
And so we'll see if he wants to add anything. | 02:44:27 | |
At this time. | 02:44:30 | |
Yes, chief. | 02:44:42 | |
They're capable of making. | 02:44:57 | |
Pictures. | 02:45:04 | |
Yes. | 02:45:08 | |
There are increased movement. | 02:45:08 | |
Just. | 02:45:14 | |
Training we can. | 02:45:49 | |
And we put. | 02:45:50 | |
We purchased the best safety equipment we can for our officer so that we minimize any risk to them. | 02:45:52 | |
Since even before becoming police chief here, I've listened to so many folks in this community, as you have in the council | 02:45:59 | |
meetings, come in. | 02:46:04 | |
Zoom in bright comments that they want traffic enforcement, that they want to see a motorcycle officer. | 02:46:09 | |
And what we are doing as your Police Department. | 02:46:15 | |
Is listening to those voices and doing our homework. | 02:46:18 | |
And making sure we get this. | 02:46:22 | |
As. | 02:46:25 | |
Efficiently and effectively as soon as we can and that we make sure. | 02:46:27 | |
We. | 02:46:32 | |
Grant those wishes, desires and needs of the community to get a motor officer out there. | 02:46:34 | |
So, umm. | 02:46:39 | |
Fortunately, we have a very successful history in the city with two prior motorcycle officers. | 02:46:42 | |
Even Sergeant Bates was a motor officer who? | 02:46:48 | |
Uniquely when you talk to people in the community. | 02:46:51 | |
Was very successful and even made friends of people he gave tickets to. I don't understand how that works, but they talk about him | 02:46:54 | |
positively. | 02:46:57 | |
And it was remembered. And it's. | 02:47:01 | |
Asked of us. | 02:47:04 | |
And as you can see, as I've told people before, none of us are smarter than all of us in the Police Department. | 02:47:05 | |
And Bob's wisdom and his. | 02:47:10 | |
Ability to do research for us. | 02:47:13 | |
Helps establish our need for a motorcycle, so. | 02:47:15 | |
I appreciate the team and. | 02:47:20 | |
I'm excited to get this up and run. | 02:47:23 | |
Thanks, Chief. And I'll just note a couple of I I think that's the big picture overview and and explanation, but a couple of the | 02:47:27 | |
details. | 02:47:32 | |
We. | 02:47:37 | |
Have an opportunity to purchase? Well there's a wait list to purchase BMW motorcycles police motorcycles that is months long due | 02:47:39 | |
to supply chain issues. | 02:47:44 | |
We have an opportunity to purchase a demo motorcycle that has under 1000 miles on it. | 02:47:51 | |
And so. | 02:47:57 | |
I think the Chief Sweet talked the dealer into. | 02:47:59 | |
Into that, but so we were trying to pursue that opportunity. | 02:48:04 | |
Umm. | 02:48:09 | |
And the cost? | 02:48:10 | |
Is expected it. It will not exceed $45,000 and we actually think it'll be a little less than $45,000. | 02:48:12 | |
We have that funding available currently. We have significant salary savings this year as we're working on recruitments. | 02:48:20 | |
So we have that funding available. | 02:48:27 | |
From salary savings. | 02:48:31 | |
And so with that, we are recommending that the council authorize the purchase of the BMW police motorcycle to reinstate motorcycle | 02:48:33 | |
enforcement. | 02:48:37 | |
To address some of these traffic and safety concerns. | 02:48:42 | |
Does Council have any questions? | 02:48:47 | |
New. | 02:48:55 | |
Motorcycle service. | 02:48:56 | |
Yeah, they. | 02:48:58 | |
It's. | 02:48:59 | |
I can only go by what I've heard because there isn't a great record keeping from 2013 when it was discontinued, but my | 02:49:00 | |
understanding was it was a result of budget cuts at that time. | 02:49:06 | |
So thank you and I know we have. | 02:49:12 | |
Officers who I think were both here at that time and I don't know if that's. | 02:49:14 | |
Matches what you understand as well. That was my understanding, yes. | 02:49:18 | |
Thank you Commander Albertson for your presentation. Excellent job and I I specially appreciate the the additional information. | 02:49:28 | |
Above and beyond what was in the staff report, my initial concern when I looked at this was. | 02:49:36 | |
Are you coming to us with a comprehensive motor program? | 02:49:43 | |
And I had a lot of questions about any potential additional costs that we might see down the road. | 02:49:47 | |
Are we going to hire a new officer? Does that officer have to go through training? | 02:49:53 | |
Liability equipment are all those costs being considered And I I got my answer and we're still within the $45,000 range and I | 02:49:58 | |
understand we have some expertise within our department, so we wouldn't be. | 02:50:04 | |
You wouldn't be coming back to us and asking for? | 02:50:11 | |
A new position. | 02:50:14 | |
So I'm very excited about this. I I think it's a wonderful thing and I really, really appreciate the fact that tonight. | 02:50:15 | |
I mean, this is all about traffic and the way that staff put together the agenda and the report so that. | 02:50:24 | |
We we are looking at all the different tools that we have out there to address traffic. I'm just really happy and pleased with the | 02:50:31 | |
staff. | 02:50:34 | |
Work on this and including your responses to all my questions. I appreciate that. Thank you. Welcome. | 02:50:39 | |
Are there any public comments? | 02:50:47 | |
There's one written public comment. | 02:50:50 | |
Ioffer my wholehearted support for the reinstatement of motorcycle enforcement enforcement. Given the high incidence of speeding | 02:50:53 | |
vehicles on Ventura Road and the relentless flow of speeding trucks to and from the port, I am confident that motorcycle | 02:50:58 | |
enforcement will be a valuable asset and ensuring Rd. safety. | 02:51:04 | |
In closing, I extend my best regards to you all and express my gratitude for your dedication to addressing our city's traffic | 02:51:10 | |
concerns. Best regards, Joan Tharp. | 02:51:14 | |
I'm Commander Albertson. Is it true? | 02:51:22 | |
That the CHP is. | 02:51:24 | |
The only agency that could. | 02:51:26 | |
Ticket trucks. I heard this rumor and I just didn't know if it's true or not. | 02:51:28 | |
That's incorrect. | 02:51:36 | |
OK, yeah, because they did. But I guess the the true part of it is the CHP can't inspect the trucks for. | 02:51:40 | |
Safety, right. And that's something that. | 02:51:47 | |
Right. Is that true? | 02:51:50 | |
We can do. | 02:51:53 | |
Commercial inspection as well we worked 1:00 on. | 02:51:54 | |
Side by side with CHP and it's it's about the training. It's not. | 02:51:57 | |
The the agency. | 02:52:00 | |
Thank you. Appreciate it. | 02:52:02 | |
The recommendation is to authorize the purchase of a BMW police motorcycle to reinstate motorcycle enforcement. May I have a | 02:52:05 | |
motion in a second? | 02:52:09 | |
Move to approve. | 02:52:14 | |
2nd. | 02:52:16 | |
Madam Clerk, can we take a vote? | 02:52:20 | |
I don't think there's a discussion I need for discussion, no. | 02:52:22 | |
OK. All in favor. | 02:52:25 | |
Aye, all opposed. | 02:52:26 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 02:52:29 | |
Alright, thank you. Thank you, Commander Albertson. | 02:52:32 | |
Item number 11. Investment Policy Update. Will staff please present the report? | 02:52:36 | |
And this one doesn't relate to traffic, so. | 02:52:43 | |
We we tried to keep on theme but this this one it was important. | 02:52:46 | |
And I'm going to turn it over to Lupe Acero, our Finance Director. | 02:52:52 | |
But with just a brief introduction, the city has an investment policy. | 02:52:57 | |
So unlike the last item where we said we didn't have 1:00, we we do have a current investment policy or we have an investment | 02:53:03 | |
policy, but it was last approved and updated in 2014. | 02:53:09 | |
So it's not. | 02:53:16 | |
Particularly current. | 02:53:17 | |
We. | 02:53:20 | |
It's important. So we want to moving forward, we want to have the investment policy updated annually. | 02:53:21 | |
So this is the first um. | 02:53:28 | |