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Part 1 (Video ID: CjV2TdVdasc):
- 00:00:00: Electric Bikes, Fayetteville, and Rapid Transit Discussion
- 00:02:46: Meeting Called to Order and Invocation
- 00:04:39: Public Comment: Denton Avenue Rezoning Project Opposition
- 00:08:32: Tampa Bay Regional MPO Merger Board Appointment Discussion
- 00:23:28: Approval of June 25th Meeting Minutes and Committee Reports
- 00:26:54: Approval of New Member of Technical Advisory Committee
- 00:27:26: Draft MPO 2026 List of Project Priorities Approval
- 00:32:50: MPO Fiscal Year 2027-2031 Transportation Improvement Program
- 00:35:00: Amendment to 2026-2030 Transportation Improvement Program
- 00:36:23: Final Unified Planning Work Program for Fiscal Year 2027-2028
- 00:38:33: Consolidated Planning Grant CPG Fiscal Year 2027-2028
- 00:40:52: Florida DOT Joint Certification Review Report Discussion
- 00:44:22: Active Transportation Letter from FDOT Discussion
- 00:50:44: Pasco County Safety Action Plan Update and Discussion
- 01:06:51: Safety Action Plan Vision Zero Resolution Approval
- 01:09:25: Transportation Resiliency Improvement Plan Update
- 01:24:18: Active Transportation Plan Update and Discussion


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um electric bikes that they can use that they give them these white bikes. >> Is this you >> with the new airport is kind of set back. >> I would move there. >> Oh yeah.

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>> Has she been up there? >> He Oh, Becky the bike. The bike. Yeah. Yeah. We toured I didn't tour the university one of our places to be here. >> But I did tour fade though from >> what a cool town. >> No, >> what a cool town.

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>> Oh about about >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. And it's 20 Well, you can ride your bike, of course, on the uh Razor Back, but um the uh uh >> it's only like 25 minutes. >> That's perfect. >> 25 to 30. >> So, they're still working on transit. Um

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I talked to their transit people there. It's funny because some of the planners at Fedville didn't even know they had trans >> like, "Wait a minute. I just talked with them in Fville. >> It's it's partially funded by the Walmart Foundation. >> Um, but it takes three hours because of

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all the stops. It's not a rapid transit." So, they're working on a rapid transit. >> Yeah. They're going to get a BRT in. They're working on it. >> So, he has one on both sides of >> both sides. >> With all my suits, at least two pens in each one.

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So, >> well, that's very interesting. And a and a question for you. Um, when I was on that walking tour, Lisa was on there with me and Mayor Hoover from Port Richie of the Ramble, which is part of their trail system, goes right through downtown Fateville and they they cleaned

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up cleaned it up. They had a river like a beautiful little stream that goes through and it greatly increase the property values of the property all around them like crazy. >> Um, water. Yeah, I want to see Chattanooga. But but what the guy there

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said was that the I think it was on that trip that EPA or EDA or someone had a grant. Someone had a grant for $500 per electric bike depending on your income. They said that that they stopped it,

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>> but they he thinks they're going to refund it. Have you heard of this? >> Like sometimes I got nothing. >> I'm always >> Well, were they using this grant? ask because it was a >> okay so it was a it was a grant

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>> brother >> how are you >> that I hope comes back >> our problem is the kids who are riding our bike trails >> with at speeds of 40 miles hour we've caught eight of them now in the Trinity area

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>> no um I've been told they get two offenses they have a a hard time getting a driver's license. >> Yeah, it's fine. >> We're ready. >> I'm still exhausted, but we have >> call to order the MO meeting 1:00 Dade

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City. Everyone could please stand for the uh invocation. Remain standing for the pledge of allegiance. Gracious God, we invite you into our discussions today. Unite our hearts and guide our conversations with wisdom and patience. Help us to seek solutions that

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honor you and benefit everyone involved. In your name, amen. >> Amen. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all. Welcome everyone. This time we'll ask the clerk's office to call the role, please. >> Mayor John Hoover. Councilman, >> I'm here virtually. >> Oh, virtually. Good. >> Who was that? Virtually

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>> Hoover. >> Okay. Mayor Hoover virtually. Okay. Thank you. >> Councilman Smith. >> Councilman >> here. >> Commissioner Ron Oakley >> here. Commissioner Seth >> present. >> Commissioner Catherine Starky >> here. >> Commissioner Liser

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>> here. >> Commissioner Jack Mariano >> here. >> Chairman >> here. >> Thank you very much. Public comment. This is our period of time for public comment. And I do believe we've had one sign in so far. Who has the signin

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sheet? >> Okay. Who is our person that's up on the signin sheet? Miss Craw. Yes. Welcome. If you could state your name and address for the record please. >> Yep. Um, is it on? Hello. >> Yes.

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>> Uh, yes. My name is Michaela Krauss. I live in uh 53920, Praise Place, Unit 102, Zephr Hills, Florida 33541. >> Thank you for being here. >> Yeah. And I guess whenever I'm ready, I go.

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>> Please. Yes, ma'am. Well, good afternoon, commissioners. Um, I would like to bring this to awareness today. I am aware that this agenda topic is happening at 1:30 over in Newport Richie, but this is local for me. Um, I am a resident here to strongly urge you

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to deny the proposed Denton Avenue resoning project. This is incompatible highdensity development in a rural community. The current proposal would transform 331 acres of rural land into a

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massive development containing 832 single family homes, 75,000 square ft of commercial space, and 440,000 square ft of light industrial space. This is not just a small neighborhood expansion. It is a major highdensity

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development being forced into an area that has historically always been rural and agricultural. This development is fundamentally incompatible with the existing rural character of the community. Families who have lived here for generations chose

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this area because of its open space, natural environment, wildlife habitat, agricultural heritage, and peaceful way of life. Once this land is reszoned and paved over, it is gone forever, lost to

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noise and light pollution. The environmental impacts alone should give this commission a pause. It is not just an empty field. It is a living ecosystem that provides food, shelter, and nesting grounds for a wide variety of wildlife.

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Majestic bald eagles, sandill cranes, red shoulder hawks soar through this sky. Beneath them, confirmed panther sightings threatened gopher tortoises tunnel into the earth, creating burrows that act as lifesaving refugees for

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hundreds of other Florida native species. Largecale clearing and development threaten wildlife corridors, wetlands, drainage systems, groundwater recharge areas that are essential to protecting both the environment and

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nearby neighbors such as the residents on Kitten Trail, Mattis Road, and Dennis Drive from flooding and storm water impact. Rural land serves as an important purpose beyond developmental value. Future generations deserve more

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than endless sprawl and overcrowding. They deserve a county that still values its rural communities and natural spaces. Commissioners, you have the full discretion and the responsibility to protect our community's character and

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safeguard our local environment. Please do not prioritize developer profits over our endangered wildlife and our rural heritage. I ask you to listen to and stand by the residents of Pasco County and vote no on the Denton Avenue

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resoning request. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Krauss. Thank you for being here today. Would anyone else like to speak at this time during public comment? Seeing none, we will close the public comment and we'll proceed into our agenda. Um,

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at this time, we'll uh we have been asked to move up an item. um because of some of our members having needing to leave. And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that's item 12 with the proposed Tampa Bay Regional MO merger uh

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board appointment. So, we'll move this item up uh at this time. Miss Gorman, >> good afternoon. I'm going to be presenting on the regional MO uh support activities and uh we're going to move

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forward. Uh we want to introduce this today as what has been happening uh legislatively to get us to this point and then talk about what we're doing into phase one and ending phase one and then moving into phase two. Um but before that happens, I'm going to ask

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the board to take recommendation on uh action of the composition of the board. So just a quick recap, how did we get here? The 2023 legislative direction, excuse me. Um the three NPOS jointly

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submitted a report andou outlining processes for forming a single MO in the Tampa Bay region. uh we were building on prior work and current efforts from almost about 30 40 years ago um to this

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point now. Um and we we did anou with our study uh and the work continues to follow that structure and the commitments outlined in the adopted which was to actually have a scope uh phased out um and then we received funds

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from DOT to make that happen. So what does the project need and motivation? Um the regional coordination one a unified forum improves coordination across multi all of our county lines. Um public engagement of course because we are regional. A single

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MO amplifies public input and participation. And then we're a unified decision-making body to be looked at as not just three single NPOs but one large MO so that we can poss that we can uh possibly get more discretionary funds

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and be a part of the larger um discussions here in the Tampa Bay region. So what is optimizing a potential solution? We want to balance in regional and local input. ensure both regional priorities and local needs are

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represented on this new formed uh board. We want to make sure that we deliver and provide a full range of services required to advance regional goals. We want uh fair representation amongst all the community interest and our three boards that were emerging. Regatory

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compliance. So we have to have structure of course that must meet federal and state compliance. Um, I would love for our structure, you know, if we could make it like, uh, we've talked about multiple times like Tampa Bay Water, but we do have regulatory and federal

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restrictions that we must go by our population size for the seats on the board like we do here currently. And then adaptability, the organization must be flexible and of course evolve because we are going into this uh together. So, we're trying to make sure that um even

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if we go with what we currently have, there may be some time down the road where we could amend the documents that we decide on later down in phase two. So, let's talk about activities completed. We had a busy year last year.

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We did a lot of workshops. Some of you were many of you were there quite actually. Uh we had a principles workshop. Uh we we had leadership identify priorities, benefits and concerns. I think that was a pivotal moment. I think Commissioner Starky can attest to this where we actually had we

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were able to have those discussions, those really tough discussions and um it really I think uh put us in a turn and actually brought us to where we are now. Um we also had um we had comparison reports. We got all three NPOS's

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documents together. That was a very big undertaking to where we put and as you know NPOs have multiple documents. So we put them all together. We did a comparison report that is in your packet if you'd like some nighttime bed reading. Um and then of course we did sum up employee survey gather staff

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perspectives and culture and merger readiness. So we have um the draft aortionment plan what we have here today um of course as you all know the target is to have a vote in or around July 1st 2027. Um but

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right now we're moving through the different phases of the project. We're concluding on phase one moving into phase two. Um we also looking at smaller cities representation. Um and of course board preference um has been expressed by every by all the boards of 25 person

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board. Okay. So right now for the regional snapshot and of course these numbers especially for Pasco has gone up significantly. We're more at closer to the 700,000 uh uh citiz 700,000 citizens range. But of course, Vampo, we do our

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aortionment based off of the census, which the last sentence was 2020. Our next aortionment would be in 2030, very closely to uh if we potentially merged. So, right now, the recommended action

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right now, we want to take action on potentially Pasco. I know you guys see that number. We're now at five seats. Um we had great discussion at the Ford Penllis meeting um to kind of balance out uh the percentage of the uh 51% to

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49%. So now we have Penllis and Pasco um having more of that uh 51% Hillsboro with the 49% range and then we have uh 10 seats to Hill Hills Hillsboro, five to Pasco and eight to Penllis and then

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two uh seats go off the top to Port and the airport >> and this and that changes in 2030 which is not far away. >> It's not far away. >> Do it again. >> Correct. we will be doing it again and our population will be larger because as

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you all know with doing the comprehensive plan and the LRTP we are estimated to be at 1 million citizens by 2035 and we're not far from that. So right now we're our Pasco's voting

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seats. The staff recommendation is four seats for the Pasco County Board of Commissioners and one seat for a representative of small cities on a rotational basis of Newport Richie, Port Richie, Zephr Hills, and Date City. So at this time, I'll open up for

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discussion. Um I would like to say I do have my counterpart uh Dr. Johnny Wong here from Hillsboro who has come. Uh if you have any questions or comments, uh we were we're here to be open and we've been supporting each other through this path. I've attended Ford Penllis and

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Hill Spurs board meeting and now it's my turn to present to my board. So I will open it up for discussion. >> Thank you very much, Tia. Questions for Miss Gorman. >> Um Tia, can you go over the majority voting discussion? Super majority voting. >> Yes. So, the supermajority voting for

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the boards because um we had discussion about with Hillsboro and Ford Penllis about if we were to have a supermajority vote. Um they were a lot of a lot of the electeds were feeling that there would be um Hillsbor at the time would have

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more say over Pasco and Penllis. um we have worked through that to have at least twothirds of the vote from each county actually when we go to provide the vote so that it's not a supermajority vote. Now I will say to

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clarify our LRTP and our tip per statute per statute needs a supermajority vote. So that is a discussion that we we we cannot really work around unless there is some discussion from the governor's office to change that. But at this time

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those are actually the two documents that would need supermajority. But the all the other votes we are looking to put into our interlocal 2/3 from each uh county so that way the supermajority that balances out.

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>> Other questions for Miss Gorman. >> Um can you show us how they mur previous slide to look at >> this side? >> Yeah. So you got 10 581. Mhm. >> That's what's being proposed now.

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>> Correct. That is what is being proposed at the moment. >> That gives Pascal and Penelis 13 votes compared to 12 for the other. >> Right. >> Correct. >> All right. So, go if you would go to the next slide. As we write this up, I like the structure. However, if four

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commissioners aren't going to show to a meeting, I want to make sure there's the other commissioner that's not going to be on there can go. And if he can't go then any of the other cities go alterate alternate build that in >> um I believe if I'm memory serves me

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correct I believe that is how the Broward MO uh conducts their uh board even though they're not a merged NPO they're very large so they have it where you know again the commissioners from each or the city council if you're there you can be you could come and sometimes

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the cities end up uh providing the quorum right and sometimes there's that balance that they kind of eb and flow between. So that is a very valid point. I have wrote it down and I will share with uh the TMA as well. >> Further questions? What you're looking

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for today is a vote on this structure. Not actual names, just a vote on the correct. >> Okay, very good. >> Move to approve. Second. >> We have a motion. We have a second uh to approve the five voting seats with four of those being from the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners and one

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being a rotating seat uh from among the four uh cities that are members of the NO that represent on the NO. And I'm going to say um Commissioner Mariano uh if it's okay with you as the maker of the motion, Commissioner Starky, that we

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say in the motion that um the fifth commissioner would be an alternate. >> Yes. And and we also approve are approving the um 25 board structure. >> Correct. >> In this motion. >> Okay. >> And and we will be the last county to

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approve it. Both Hillsboro and Penelis County have >> correct. Both Hillsboro TBO and Panelis has approved. >> And you are okay with the alternate commissioner language? >> Yeah. >> Okay. And the second >> I think we need an alternate for the city as well. So we need two alternates. >> Okay. I would I would I would say just

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put whatever board member can be an alter. >> So like any anyone because of any any one of the city people can go. >> We want to get as many people as we can just make it open that it can be set up either way. >> Mr. Wayman.

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>> Hey. >> Uh thank you chair. So other communities have done this. They have this many people at their board meetings. >> Correct. and they're hitting quorum. >> Correct. Because of this discussion that you're

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having now, that alternate piece, that is what saves the quorum because having the ability to have another county commissioner replace or another city uh replace and be your alternate. That is how you end up supporting the board if you can't make

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it. >> And that is what's in my motion, that there's an alternate from the county commissioners and an alternate from the cities, not just one alternate. I'm looking. >> All right. So, I'm looking for more. Let me let me just to be clear. >> This is the general setup. As far as

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alternates go, the rest of the board can the MO board can be an alternate and providing you. >> Well, that's that's what that would be. >> Well, no, because you're you're cut you're just adding two. I'm I'm putting out all >> you you want the whole entire previous no. >> You could have five city members and no

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commissioners. Say, >> no, I'm saying four county commissioners the way it's set. There's only one one. >> So there's one that's not. So he that would he would be the first alternate to be able to go in to replace a commissioner that couldn't make it. On the on the back side of it though, every other commissioner from the cities

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should be an alternate as well in case the one designated can't make it or the >> to replace a a commissioner. >> He can replace a commissioner or if our designated representative from the cities cannot attend the meeting then any of the three remaining cities could their representative could take

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that. But I think what Jack is saying, they could also replace a commissioner, >> not a county commissioner. >> If if we didn't get a commissioner that could make it, if you didn't get that commission, >> you would have two commissioners that couldn't make it. >> Would allow a city commissioner to step in too. >> We want the bodies, >> right? >> Our numbers so tight. I agree with what

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Commissioner Mariana saying like something happens, whatever, >> any of the elected city council members, >> we'll come bail y'all out. >> Yep. Exactly. Carry the water. >> That's what we're looking question. Yeah. >> Can these rules be specific to a county

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or or or is this going to be like the same for Penllis and Hillsboro? Do they have to go back and approve that? >> Each each uh county uh MBO is going to fill their seats as they accordingly uh as they recommend and we are here today to talk about our specific seat. >> Okay.

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>> So, we can >> we can have our own setup our own structure here and that would not violate anything with the three county arrangement. I >> think in agreement with that, right? Just just for the record because we only have five. I want to make sure that all five we

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have five representatives from this county whether they're city or county. >> Yeah. >> Available to be there. >> I know we're panelis puts us over but they're still their own entity. So I'm a little gunshy.

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>> Okay. So my motion is to approve the um distribution provided and that um we will do four seats from the county commission, one seat rotating from the small cities and that anyone on the MO

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can be an alternate to any seat on the merged. >> Everyone understands the motion or the second motion stands. Okay, >> very good. Any further conversation on this item hearing? None. We'll have our

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vote at this time. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> I. Those opposed, nay. >> Thank you. Motion. >> Thank you. Woo. A mile, Miss B. >> You happy? >> All right. Now, we'll be go back to the beginning of our agenda and pick up

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where we left off. Uh the first item of business um is the approval of minutes of the June 25th, 2020. second minute meeting. We have a motion. We have a second. Any additions or corrections need to be made? Hearing none. All those

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in favor, please say I. I. >> Those opposed, nay. Thank you. NO Advisory Committee reports we have with us today, who's first? Uh let's see. Citizens Advisory Committee, uh Sean Hoffman.

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>> Hello. Uh Sean Hoffman, uh planner one for the Pasco NO. Uh we had our citizen advisory committee on May 5th uh 2026 in Dade City. Uh we canled the April 1st committee meeting. So this had been the first one in a couple of months. So it

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was a bit hefty there. We approved the 3426 meeting mating minutes. We also approved the draft of the uh list of uh priority projects uh the fiscal year 27 through31 uh

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transportation improvement plan and a fiscal year 26 through30 transportation improvement plan amendment. Uh we also approved the UPWP and the new uh G uh CPG

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and then also went over the FO joint and the active transportation plan or the active transportation letter and the safety action plan was also approved. We also saw presentations on the uh how the resiliency plan is going, the freight

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plan and the active transportation plan and the meeting adjourned. Any questions? >> Thank you, Sean. Any questions for Mr. Hoffman? Citizens Advisory Committee. >> Hearing none. Thank you very much. >> Thanks much. >> Appreciate it. Thank you. Technical

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advisory committee. Angel of >> Thank you, Angel. >> Didn't have to do that. >> A little shorter than him. Um, the Pasco MO technical advisory committee also met on May 6th and they did have a quorum. The committee heard presentations on the

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resiliency improvement plan, freight plan update, and the active transportation plan. The committee voted to approve nine action items, all of which you will be hearing today. Some of these items include one new member, the draft 2026 list of priority projects, as Sean mentioned, the fiscal year 27

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through31 draft transportation improvement program, an amendment to the fiscal year 26 through30 tip, and the safety action plan. Um, this concludes my tech update. If you have any questions, >> thank you. Any questions from Miss Ailla? >> Hearing none. Thank you very much,

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Angel. >> I'm on the next. >> And your next two, bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee. >> The best one. >> Yes, I will keep this one a bit short. Uh the Pasco MPO bicycle pedestrian advisory committee also met on May 6 and they did have a quorum. Uh the committee

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heard all the same presentations as the CAC and the TAC and voted to approve eight action items, all of which you will be hearing today. Again, I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions from Isabella? >> Thank you very much, Angel. >> Thank you very much. >> Appreciate it. Thank you to all those

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for presenting reports today. On action items, item two, approval of new regular member of the technical advisory committee on this one as well. >> Thank you very much. The Pasco MO staff recommends the approval approval of Ali

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Teffy to serve as a regular member of the Pasco MPO technical advisory committee. Mr. Teffy serves as a senior project manager with traffic and mobility consultants and has worked and collaborated extensively with Pasco County asking the Pasco PO request and approval.

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>> I think we're all very familiar with M with Mr. ATffy and I think we I think I heard a motion. Did I hear a second? We have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Thank you. Thank you very much Angel.

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>> Um, Commissioner Mariano. >> Yes. Thank you. Item three, draft MO 2026 list of project priorities is Avala. >> All right. Um, in your agenda packet and up on the screen is a copy of the MOS's

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draft 2026 list of priority projects or LOP which I'm presenting today for your approval. The LOP contains a list of prioritized transportation improvement projects located on local roadways for which the MO's constituent communities seek state or federal funding. The list is updated and adopted by the MO board

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annually and provided to the Florida DOT District 7 for use in developing the following year's 5-year work program. Candidate projects included on the list are scored using established project criteria and ranked according to their score. Priority is given to projects demonstrating construction readiness,

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enhancement of safety, connectivity, and economic development potential. Three program projects on the 2025 lop are requested for removal on the 2026 lop because the projects have been successfully constructed. No unfunded projects have been removed. Um let me

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just can't see that. Sorry. Okay, you can see them there. Those three have been um fully constructed. Uh, additional notable updates include one pro new new pro one new project which is number two which is an extension of the 50 state road 52 shraider highway capacity projects. Uh,

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an advancement of funding for right ofway from fiscal year to 27 from fiscal year 27 um from fiscal year 29 and updated limits on five segments of the orange belt trail. I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Any questions miss aval? Just a comment

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when we do these slides in the future. Can for the over 50 crowd, can you make them a little >> Yes, of course. >> Yeah. I mean, >> yeah. >> And also, could you email me these slides? >> Of course, >> Commissioner Waitman, you can read that just fine, can't you? >> They're thick. >> Yeah,

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>> I was just digging for >> the car. >> Just just a uh off topic, but but similar. I mentioned this at our board meeting uh on Tuesday since DOT's here. Um

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just want to go on the record with it based on the governor's press conference for the ready stadium deal since that at least one's passed. Um assuming city of Tampa will pass their itsou uh governor stated it would mobilize a special task force essentially to do the

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road work and intersection improvements for the potential stadium site. Just want to be clear that DOT is not going to delay or or move funding around from State Road 52 from 41 to 75 and that we

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are still moving forward with 41 54 intersection improvements. I don't know how the funding strategy is going to work for that, but we can't delay we can't afford any more delays on those those road works. So whatever we can do to be supportive if it becomes in

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jeopardy, I request you please let us know and we'll beg bar still whatever we need to do to keep those projects uh coming forward and in a timely manner. So thank thank you all. >> Thank you commissioner >> commissioner Mariano. I think County Lane Road is another road project that's

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very critical to the area too. And you know, from the proposals of us having to go borrow money over time, uh when you're going to shift a project like that, um I think we should be getting some priority to get that road project done as well.

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>> Um just a comment on on Thank you. on the on the >> the uh sidewalk list. Leonard is on here. I've been a commissioner. This is my fourth goround. I inherited that project and

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the effort for that sidewalk from Commissioner Maleri. So, it's that that community's been trying to get a sidewalk for like 25 years. So, um I'm really happy to see it kind of moving up. I mean, it's

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I don't Let's see. We're in for design funded in 2025. We talked about this, Tia. >> Um construction funded for 2027 >> like October 2. >> Is that is that like October of 26?

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>> So we'll be in the year 27, not just the >> Okay. All right. Well, I'm happy to tell that community >> within the within a year from now. It's It's in um I think it's now in Weightman's district. It's south of 41. Um okay. Thank you very much.

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>> Further comments on this item. Okay. Hearing none. We do need a motion to approve. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> We have a motion. We have a second. Um further discussion hearing none. All those in favor please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed? Nay. Thank you. Uh item

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five, the draft of the MO fiscal year 2027 to 2031 transportation improvement program. >> Skip four, >> Miss Aval. >> Thank you very much. >> Skip four. >> That was four that we just waited on.

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>> In your agenda packet is a copy of the MO draft fiscal year 27 to 2031 transportation improvement program or TIP, which I'm presenting today for your approval. The MO's transportation improvement program reflects its short-term transportation improvement funding priorities and contains a

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descriptive list of transportation improvement projects funded for development by the Florida Department of Transportation for the next five fiscal years using state and federal funds. Additionally, adoption and maintenance of the TIP is mandatory for the continued receipt of federal funding for transportation improvements in Pasco

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County. The project list on the screen highlights uh new improvement projects or continuing projects that are being added to the draft tip. The list of transportation improvement projects contained in this draft tip reflect an investment of over 500. >> M commission Marian

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>> I think we just approved the priority projects that was number three number four and we're going over number four now. >> That's what I'll say. >> We did the technical advisory committee member and then we did the list of numbers parties. >> Your numbers were wrong. >> Okay. three. It was the >> Okay. So, we're doing the transportation

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improvement period. That's what we're hearing from now. Correct. >> Yes. Number four. >> Well, we did approve though, just for the record, was number three. >> That's correct. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Um the list of uh transportation improvement projects contained in this draft tip contains an investment of over

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$52 million in Pasco County's transportation system over the next five fiscal years. I'm happy to accept any questions. >> Any questions from Miss Avala on this item? Um I just want to note to the um fellow MO board members that you see the

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multi-use path on Pine Ranch from Grand to Mount Ash. Um this is going to go very near the Elamp property that we just purchased or that we just voted. >> So that's good. >> Very good. Further discussion on this

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item. >> What's the pleasure of the board? Do we have a motion to approve? >> Move to approve. >> We have a motion to approve. We have a second. >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> Those opposed, nay. Thank you. Okay. Item five, amendment to the fiscal year

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2026 20 to 2030 transportation improvement program project 2397-2. Miss Aval. >> Love you. I think thank you. Thank you very much. Um, you're just getting it up here for us in just a moment.

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All right, there we go. Um, the Florida Department of Transportation requests approval of a a proposed amendment to the Pasco County MO fiscal year 26 to30 transportation improvement program or TIP. The purpose of the amendment is to add funding for transit project number

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402397-2 not currently listed in the fiscal year 26 through30 TIP. Specifically, FDOT wishes to add $712,014 in fiscal year 26 for transit maintenance. These funds were awarded to the transit agency through allocations

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provided by the FTA and FDOT and do not affect existing TIP projects. >> Thank you, Angel. Any questions from Miss Avala on this item? >> Hearing none. Do we have a motion to approve? >> Move approve. >> We have a motion to approve. Commissioner Breman. We have a second.

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That was Commissioner Mariano. >> All those in favor, please say I. I. >> I. Those opposed, nay. Thank you. Item six, Pasco County Metropolitan Planning Organization final unified planning work program. Dr. Campbell.

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>> Afternoon board members. Dr. Campbell, planning manager, Pasco NPO. Staff recommends the NO board approve the fiscal year 2027 and 2028 unified planning work program. Uh this document was available for public uh comment uh

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from March 12th of this year. through April 12th. The unified planning work program is the NO's two-year work plan that outlines all fed federally funded transportation planning activities to be carried out in Pasco County. It is

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required by the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and Florida Department of Transportation. The UPWP identifies the planning task, studies, data collection efforts, public engagement activities, and regional

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coordination work that the NO will undertake of resources um excuse me, undertake using using federal cooperative planning, excuse me, cooperative planning grant of funds and

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other planning resources. Adoption of the UPWP is required to for the NPO to receive and utilize federal transportation planning funds. Approval of the FY 2027 and 2028 UPWP

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authorizes the staff to implement the work program, coordinate with FD, FHWA, FTA, and ensure continued eligibility for federal planning funds that support transportation improvements throughout Pasco County. Final approval of the UPWP

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is contingent upon uh F. FHWA and FTA workflow approval process pending your questions and guidance. >> Thank you very much, Casey. Any questions for Dr. Campbell on this item? >> Hearing none. Do we have a motion to approve?

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>> So moved. >> We have a motion. We have a second. Further discussion hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Those opposed? Nay. Thank you. Number seven, you're up for this one as well. Consolidated Planning Grant CPG fiscal

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year 2027 to 2028. >> Again, for the record, Dr. Casey Campbell, Pasco Planning, Pasco NO Planning Manager, uh the CPG or Consolidated Planning Grant is combines the Federal Highway Administration

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planning funds and federal transit uh administration section 5305D funds into a single streamlined grant. This structure simplifies administration reporting and reimbur reimbursement while ensuring all planning activities

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align with NPO's uh UPWP. For the funding overview, the total CPG funding is 2,257,398. Um we have uh de obligation of 800,000 uh returned due to um a reprogram funds

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and these will be applied uh to the new um UPWP. Um the adjusted total is 3,57,398. The deobligation reflects responsible financial management and ensures that the NO's funding levels accurately match

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current planning needs and federal requirements. Staff recommends that the NO board formally adopts the CPG as part of the FY20 uh 27 and 28 UPWP. Adoption authorizes the NPO to receive and

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utilize federal planning funds, ensures compliance with FHWA and FTA requirements, and supports the continued the continuation of essential planning activities that benefit Pasco County residents. Final approval of the CPG for

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FY 2027 and 2028 is contingent upon F. FHWA and FTA workflow process. >> Thank you. >> Questions and guidance. >> Thank you. We have a recommendation from staff to approve any questions for Dr. Campbell on this item.

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>> We have a motion to approve. Commissioner Mar, do we have a second? >> Second. >> We have a second. Um, Councilman Murphy. Um, further discussion hearing none, we'll have our vote. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> Those opposed, nay. Thank you.

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>> Thank you very much, Dr. Campbell. Item eight, Florida DOT Joint Certification Review Report, Miss Gorman. >> Hello, board. I am here again to present the Florida DOT FDOT joint review. Um I

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was uh during our uh sessions this week I was broaching this topic uh to review our joint cert that I had previously brought to you in March that it had been updated um that we were into uh unfortunately a corrective action uh to update some of our financial processes

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um and also um our audit uh status for our quarterly invoicing. Um, currently I'm bringing a a motion to accept the corrective action on two corrective actions of the updated staff services

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agreement so we have a path forward to rectify um our current uh joint cert so we can be on the road to success. Um, the first corrective action of the the action that I'm asking you to take is recommend the NO board approve the

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Florida Department joint certification summary and recommend actions as follows. Corrective action number one, update staff services agreement. The county and the NPO will develop and execute an updated staff services agreement that addresses direct costs

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exclusively ensuring all charge are clearly defined allocated and compliant with FDOT and FHWA requirements. Establish a formal rec me formal me formal mechanism to reconcile prior

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current and future charges through fiscal 26 and 25 and then also provide a transparent direct cost framework that supports audit readiness and ongoing compliance. Um the second corrective action no self audits to strengthen our internal controls and ensure compliance

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with FDOT joint certification standards. The county and no will continue to conduct regular self audits to verify accuracy allowability and documentation of all shared uh all direct charges. The development services fiscal department

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in conjunction with the no will prepare an official quarterly audit report summarizing findings. The quarterly report will be presented by the development services fiscal director, no executive director or no business compliance contracts manager at the MO

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and committees and board meetings to ensure full- transparency and governance oversight. And at this time, is there any discussion? >> Any questions from Miss Gorman? We also have Mr. Hunter here from Florida DOT. Any questions from the board?

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>> Mr. Chairman, >> Commissioner Mariano. So a question from for Mr. Hunter. Mr. Hunter, if you could come forward and state your name and title for the record please. >> Brian Hunter with the Florida Department of Transportation. >> So, I appreciate the call you gave me

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the previous week and I asked you to get with our team to kind of get us back in line. You comfortable with everything that's been done to put us in the right spot? >> Yeah, we're working with the NO to to get everything in alignment. >> Thank you. Approval. Okay. >> Second. >> We have a motion. We have a second. Is

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there any other conversation, any other discussion on this item? Hearing none, we have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. >> Thank you. Item number nine, the active transportation letter from FDOT, Miss Gorman. Uh the active transportation

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letter item is a draft letter that has been prepared uh for MO board consideration expressed continued support uh for from DOT for including active transportation improvements in all of their projects such as sidewalk shared use paths and other pedestrian

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and bicycle facilities on applicable roadways. These improvements are essential for enhancing safety, improving connectivity, and expanding mobility options for residents of all ages and abilities. The letter encourages, of course, our ongoing collaboration with DOT during project

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planning and design to ensure active transportation needs are fully evaluated. The letter requests that when such improvements are determined to be not feasible, FDOT will provide the information to the MO board for further discussion and consideration. Uh, I open

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it at this time for discussion. >> Any questions from Miss Gorman on this item? All right. Hearing none. What's the pleasure of the board? Do we have a motion to approve? Approve. >> Well, um, no. I I start. >> Um, >> there was recently a roundabout built by

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DOT on what road? What road is my 301? >> The one on 98 or 301? >> Which roundabout? >> Which roundabout you >> talked about that pedestrians can't get across? >> Which roundabout are we talking I I don't know your area that well, but you

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and I had a discussion at the last recently. >> Well, there there is one that I've had concerns about. Well, just from a uh the public transportation standpoint with the 98 to 575 north of Dade City about seven miles, but >> So, if you'd look at that one that you guys built, I don't know if you can drop

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a pin on that because it's built. >> Yeah, that that was just to get a sidewalk >> constructed to the bus sidewalk stop. There's not one. We need one >> because handicap it's not handicap. If I'm not mistaken, I was told >> Is that the one you're talking about? That's what I brought up in the

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>> I was told DOT designed this >> traffic circle. >> Yeah. >> At what? >> 98 and 575. Yeah. I've had comments. >> Yeah. Just answer the bus stop. >> Yeah, we're pulling it up.

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>> The pad there with the bus stop that it be accessible. >> I just want to show Justin what it is. >> Yes. >> While and hopefully we don't do these anymore. Um, and Tina's here, so I want Tina to see it. >> Is Is he getting to me? >> Chairman.

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>> Yes. Uh, Commissioner Oakley, >> that roundabout was put in within about six or eight months after a death of a young person. And >> you're going to have another one. >> You're going to have another one. >> Yeah, we've had we've had a few fatalities at that intersection. >> Another one, but >> Well, I want you to to look at the the

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the composition of the >> Okay. 98 and 301 north of Dade City. I think we're looking at >> Did he put in Yeah. >> the right intersection? >> Yeah. Keep going north >> right there at Trailby. >> Yeah.

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>> It was put in by >> Yeah. Keep going north. Go north on 301 about seven mile eight miles. Nine miles. >> Yeah. Keep going. Yeah. Keep going. >> Yeah. >> No. Nope. Nope. Keep going. Keep going. No. >> No. That one. >> You got to go up about eight more miles. It's okay.

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>> You got to go up about eight more miles. Jup. Okay. Now, now veer off to the left here. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay. Right there. Yes. That roundabout. As you'll notice, there is a pad on the southwest. >> Um

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>> you can see the uh bus um pickup pad there. And there is no sidewalk connecting that. Of course, there's no sidewalks at all along 98 or 575 Trilby Road. >> How do you get that red line off so we can actually see it?

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>> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. So, how Justin, if you live on one side of the road, how do you get to the other side of the road? >> I have a >> not not driving, walking, or riding your

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bike. That's my problem. I will follow up with you on that. I we'll we'll take a look at it. >> You see the problems there. >> Yeah, >> that's we should never design a roundabout like that. >> Yeah, I I was kind of interested, you know, with everything on 301 with sidewalks now that the section of 98

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needs. >> He said that he has a church member that goes through this intersection the public transportation and yeah to get to it. She's coming from the west on Trilby Road 575. When she gets up there to 98, the traffic is considerably

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heavier than it is on Trilby Road. And and to go in that, you know, very slim bicycle lane. >> Where's a bike is challenging. >> There's no bicycle lane. >> Well, there is a little little, >> you know, kill lane. >> Yeah, we'll take a look at I'll have

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some folks. >> Okay. >> Take a look at it and follow up with y'all. >> Okay. Thank you, Brian. >> Secretary Gwyn actually did. I asked him to put a roundabout there at that point. >> Well, I think the roundabout >> I think it's working great. It's working. >> I didn't ask him about any sidewalks or anything,

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>> but they need to take that into there's a trail just to the west of of this area >> with Fuji State. >> A lot of people move on that come up to the trail. >> But commissioner, you have to be able to cross the street without getting killed. >> So, um there's no pedestrian side.

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>> Transit. You were talking about transit in your email, though. Well, there is a the um bus pickup pad there. Okay. Yeah, that's being that it can be accessible without getting out onto the highway, US Highway 98, to get to it.

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>> Uh if someone's in a motorized vehicle or wheelchair or Yeah. >> All right. I'm making a a note for Cop Pasco as well. >> Thank you. >> All right. We just need to make a motion. >> Okay. Uh, that was all my

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>> Any other comments on this item? I think we had a motion. We had a second already, didn't we? Okay. Oh, Commissioner Waitman, I'm sorry. >> I made a motion. >> Okay, you made a motion. Okay. >> And I think it was seconded. >> Okay. >> I think I second. >> All right. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Those opposed? Nay. Thank you.

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>> All right. We have we're up to item 10 now. Pesco County safety action plan update. Miss Avalot. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. The Pasco MPO is requesting a vote to approve the final safety action plan which is available in

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your agenda packets. The Pasco MPO has been working on this plan with the support of our consultant fair peers for over a year to identify the most dangerous roadways in our community and develop recommendations to improve safety using the safe system approach. This project is nearing completion and today Katherine from Fair and Piers is

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here to share an overview of the key findings and recommended actions prior to the vote. I'll let Katherine take it away. >> Thank you very much. Welcome. If you can state your name and your title and u your your business for the record, please. >> All right. Katherine Tles, a principal

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transportation planner with Fair Pierce. Um thank you for having me here today. Very excited to share with you what we've been working on the last 15 months. Um so we have been busy and and this is the third time that we've come before you. So, you've had the action

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plan now for a little while to peruse. Hopefully, you've had a chance to at least look at the executive summary. Um, today we're just going to kind of touch briefly on what you might find in each chapter. Um, and then some of the highlights of the action items, which are really how we're going to move

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forward to improve safety on our transportation system here in Pasco County. Um, so it's organized in in these uh eight chapters. Um, and we'll kind of go through each one. Um, so there's an executive summary. So, if that's all that you had time to read,

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that should be a pretty good snapshot of everything that is in the plan. It highlights why we need the safety action plan, what are the issues, how are we going to get to zero fatalities and serious injuries on our our roadways,

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what we did to engage with the public, and then a summary of the various action items. So in the first chapter we provide uh a high level crash trends overview. We go through what we call the safe system approach. We know there's no

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one silver bullet of how we are going to eliminate fatalities and severe injuries. So we kind of highlight all the different things that that we're looking at which includes looking at roads that are designed to encourage safe behavior and the appropriate speed

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for the context. Um, we also look at the the policy framework because we want to understand all the great policies that you all already have on the books that help support this plan. In the second chapter, we do a deep dive into the crash trends. Um, who's involved, where

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it's happening, what are the characteristics of those roads, and then we share what we're calling the high injury network. So the high injury network is a collection of roads and intersections where we see the highest level of fatal and severe injury crashes

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occurring. Um so if we focus on these roads first, we'll be able to make the the biggest impact on on reducing those fatalities and severe injuries. Um we then also summarize all of the community engagement that we did which included

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online inperson, we had some workshops. Um, we estimate that we engaged over a thousand people throughout the the process. Um, and really got to hear specific issues that people are having in their subdivisions, ideas that they have, and and challenges.

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Um, in chapter 4, we talk through how we're going to get there. What are the different strategies? Um, and we're looking at the engineering side of things as well as the non-engineering side. We know that improving roadways and building new roadways that takes a lot of time and a lot of money and

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there's a lot of things that we can do on the non-engineering side which includes um educational campaigns, outreach, enforcement. Um we then also did a deeper dive on the policies to help understand are there policies that could be enhanced um to help amplify the

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the safety benefits. Um we then also looked at sort of specific engineering counter measures. So we wanted to look at sort of countywide what are some of those crash trends and identify what we call lowcost quick build type improvements. So an example of that was

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flagging where are we seeing people running um stop lights or stop um stop controlled intersections. Maybe we just need to you know make some some minor changes there or install an allway stop sign. Um, we then also looked on the top 10 high injury network segments to

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identify um some additional things that that could happen there. So, here's just an example of one where we looked at short-term, medium-term, and then longer term improvements. And then chapter six, that's where we really set the plan of action. And so,

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we highlighted here sort of what it's going to take in terms of year-over-year reductions to get to zero fatalities and severe injuries. So when we look at, you know, where we started in 2019, we can see that we're having a nice already downward trend. We're already starting

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to make progress. Um, but I do want to highlight that a lot of the progress is being made on uh reducing those severe injury crashes. Unfortunately, our fatal crashes are sort of stubbornly flat. So, um, we need to to keep working on both of them. But looking at this, it does

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not seem like it's too insurmountable of a challenge where we've already got a lot of good momentum. Um, we also then, you know, organized our actions around the safe system strategy because we want to understand is this an an engagement strategy? Is

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this um a speed management strategy? Is this constructing um different types of facilities? Um and then there's a detailed of what the action is. Who are the partners involved? On some of them it's requiring some coordination with FDOT. On some of them it's fire rescue.

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Some of them it's the school district. There's a lot of different partners um in this plan. And then we identified a timeline. So some things can happen pretty quickly. And then other items we put in the three to fiveyear bucket with the intent that every year, you know, MO

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staff will be looking at the actions, pulling forward things they think that are are feasible to start doing. Um, and then assessing progress on things to see, you know, what's working. Um, and more importantly too, what's not working because we don't want to keep doing things that just aren't working.

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Um, so just some some highlights here of the the action plan. So we've got 32 It's actually 33 actions. We added one based on some feedback from from fire rescue. Um and it's primarily focused on data um monitoring, sharing best

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practices, and just making sure that there's collaboration happening between everybody who touches our transportation system. So key highlights are setting 2050 as the year to eliminate um fatalities and serious injury crashes. It's continuing the safety task force.

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So, um having that group meet twice a year, conducting before and after studies, really understanding what's working, what's not working. um doing safety focused out outreach, some safe routes to school projects, evaluating enforcement outcomes, doing um safety

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audits on those sections of the the high injury network, testing new new safety strategies, piloting new things, um and then integrating the findings of this plan into all of the other processes. Um so with that, happy to answer any questions.

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>> Any questions? Commissioner Mariano? Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm just missing on my agenda, but I don't have those 32 actions. But let me just bring up something to you. Um, a lot of the crosswalks that you improve to shorten the distance, go through look very good.

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Um, but there's one that you could probably look at and I think it would be very important for us. Something we've been trying to get done for probably 30 years on this in this county is the underpass at Cody River. And if you had put if you put that in place, you'll save a lot of people be crossing back

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and forth, uh, pedestrian, bikes, whatever, um, up the street. There's a lot of golf carts across. You've got signs up there that say don't, but they still do. Um, so we can ignore it or take a step to go. I would like you to see put in put in this study as far as

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recommendations go as far as actions to to do is to actually push forward that is one of the projects that you think would be effective. >> Thank you, Commissioner Mar. Any other comments, questions at this time? >> Um, I have a question and I'm looking I

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don't think I have that list either. >> It was in chapter six of the action plan document >> in the copy of the agenda. >> Let me see. My question is for the number one intersection in the county,

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which is my district. >> Um, alternate 19 and 19, is there a plan? I mean, what that's a funky intersection. Oh, I see it here. Um, >> yes. So, we did identify a few different items. Um, but then that will require

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further collaboration with FDOT. So, one of the immediate actions is to do some road safety audits. Um, and so that location could be selected as that top location to to do first. >> Okay. These aren't bulletized. I'm not How many did you say there were?

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So in the there should be 33 total and um because we added one fire rescue reviewed the plan in early May and asked us to add some things um related to whole blood that they can carry in their

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ambulances that will help people um survive a crash. We see it there for a moment. >> I think it went past. >> Okay. I thought they were more like um physical things that we would be

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doing to improve, but they're not. They're Yeah, these are mostly on the sort of monitoring policy and action um side, things to incorporate into um other plans. So, um I'll be back up here

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talking about the active transportation plan in about 20 30 minutes. So, I think some of these items would be great to identify those specific projects in that that particular plan to help advance those forward. >> Let me ask a question. The money that we got to do the study, wasn't it from the

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to the safety grant that's out there about $600,000 to study the county? >> Correct. >> So, I think it's important that you make recommendations for us to go forward. I mean to because if we're going to go try to get I mean the part of this everybody gets this grant and then you can try to

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go forward to get extra funding but if you don't have anything and you just got all these generalities that are out there about what we can do I don't think it's going to carry the load. >> That's I think if you get some specific things like that underpass which we've been trying to get done for many many years. You got two cities that want to see it done

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to try to put something like that in there is something that's going to be helpful to us to go say here's what we did a safety plan and here's what they recommend. these generalities just lead us to throw another thing on the shelf and let it sit. >> So, we did identify some specific

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projects in chapter five to move forward um as well, but again, it does require some collaboration with those entities that would be implementing those projects. >> I can say you got two cities in a county that wants to see it done. Been on been on MP list for many, many years, sliding

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up and down and again the busiest road with both safety It's not even on here. The project of the Cody River underpass is not even on here. I said this is why we are coming before you today because we wanted to make sure

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we brought the draft plan before we finalized it in June. So this is the time to make those comments so we can go back and look at it before we say this is the final plan. But off of the data that we currently have, this is the 10 high injury networks that scored the

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highest. So we can go back and look and see where Cody River Falls and then come back to you in June for final adoption and go from there. >> Thank you. Further questions or comments, >> Mr. Chairman? >> Um, Commissioner,

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>> do they who dictates the safety score? I see at the bottom of the notes there, who dictates that or is that something you've implemented? So that the safety score was calculated based on the number of crashes, the crash severity, and who was involved in the crash. So if

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somebody was riding a motorcycle, that ranked a little higher. Um, and so that's just based on the math of all of the different crashes that we're seeing. So the higher the score means the worse the safety um problem is there. So a score of zero means there's no crashes.

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And I believe the top um entire segment has a score of about 40,000. So that means there's a lot of problems to address. >> So if you put something like this in, I don't know where these crashes may happen, but if something like that's available where people can go under, no

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traffic, no traffic delays, is there a way to calculate as far as like the benefit of having it which might save other things from happening to go? >> Yes, most definitely. >> Mr. Um I have a question because on this

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page 40 what this is I don't know it's 53 uh but well on page 343 of 490 it says the table two top 10 high injury network corridors and number one is 19

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and alternate 19 and number two is 19 in Phoenix. So what's the difference between this list and this list? So, one is a list of corridors because we have to sort of look at the entirety of some of the corridors where there are safety issues, but then we also highlighted of

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the corridors what are the worst intersections because sometimes it may not be feasible to tackle, you know, a two-m long corridor because that might just be too much all at once. So, we wanted to identify for the top critical intersections, what are some very specific things that could happen there.

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Okay. So, number two and number three, I believe, are in the number one corridor, >> correct? >> But they drop down to two and three here. The number one comes up, which is in the further down the list in the quarter.

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I'm just trying to figure out how that's number six in your high corridor. >> Yeah. So that's just based on understanding the crashes. And so there is sort of a distinction of, you know, you may have a two-mile long corridor

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where there's a lot of different challenges at a variety of locations um versus a particular intersection where maybe the rest of the corridor works okay from a safety perspective, but there's just a lot of conflicts at that one intersection. So we're trying to

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slice and dice it a number of different ways to really understand. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Further discussion. We need a motion to approve. >> Move to approve. >> We have a motion to approve. Commissioner Jagger. Do we have a second? >> Second.

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>> We have a second from Commissioner Starky. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Those opposed, nay. Thank you. Item 11, safety action plan vision zero resolution. Miss Avala. >> Thank you very much. Um, Pasco County

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continues to experience an unacceptably high rate of traffic deaths and severe injuries, averaging two to three lifealtering crashes every day. These tragedies disproportionately affect vulnerable road users, including pedestrians bicycles bicyclists seniors, youth, and transportation

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disadvantaged communities and reflect long-standing roadway design priorities that favored speed over safety. In alignment with the US Department of Transportation safe system approach in the Florida DO's target zero policy, the Pasco Metropolitan Planning Organization seeks to adopt a countywide goal of

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eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries by 2050. This resolution establishes a unified commitment to protecting human life, improving multimodal safety, and creating a transportation network where mistakes do not result in death or serious harm. This also does align with our safety

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action plan and is um generally adopted alongside it. Yes for a motion to approve. >> Thank you, Miss Avala. Any questions at this time? Commissioner Mariano. >> So again, if if data of crashes and everything else is what's the safety is

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all going to be directed, I wouldn't mind seeing some sentence in here saying something about that we're going to also look to prevent these preventive measures to improve the safety. Member Hoover, did you have Mayor Hoover, did you have any comments to

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make as well? >> Okay, so your suggestion was noted >> going to be added later. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Approval. >> Anything further? >> Do we have a motion to approve this resolution? >> Move approval. >> We have a motion. We have a second.

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Second, Commissioner Gagger. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Those opposed, nay. Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Do we have any Go Pasco updates today?

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>> Wait, did you have another one? >> Uh, we already took care of that one. >> 13. >> Go Pasco is after. >> Okay. >> Oh, 13. >> So, no go Pasco update today. We'll move

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into item 13, transportation resiliency improvement plan update. >> And um this envelope, >> thank you. Over the last 12 months, the Pasco MO has been working on the transportation resiliency improvement plan with the

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support of MO consultant Wilkart Incorporated to strengthen the strengthen the systems ability to withstand and recover from disruptions. This effort builds existing planning initiatives, evaluates key vulnerabilities, and identifies priority projects for the next 5, 10, and 20

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years. Today, we have Chris Zupa here from Vulkar. Um, and he will share a final update on the plan as it is expected to conclude in the coming weeks. Very much. I'll let Chris take it away. >> Mr. Zupa, if you could state your full name and your firm, your title, and your firm for the record, please.

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>> Sir, my name is Chris Zupa. I am a senior transportation planner with Bulkart. >> I thank you very much. I am very grateful to be here today to be presenting our initial recommendations for the resilient transportation improvement plan. This is the name of

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the plan is the road to resiliency. It's Pasco County's first sorry it's Pasco County's first uh transportation improvement resilience plan. Um just some brief team introductions. As you know, Angel is the project manager for the project. Ned Byer, my boss, is the

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project manager with Vulkar. Um, I am a senior transportation planner. I've been working heavily with the project. And Zoe, who's another planner, has also been working extensively with it as well. So, what are we doing? Um, so the purpose of the plan is to help um help

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prepare Pasco County's transportation system for future human and natural hazards. That could include storm surge from hurricanes, inland flooding, could also include wildfires. Um, it could include accidents, traffic accidents. So, there's a whole myriad of um human

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and natural hazards that we looked at. And the ultimate goal is to identify projects, programs, and policies that can be implemented over five, 10, and 20-year periods. So, we started our work in September of uh 2025, and as Angel noted, we're

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wrapping up the project. We've done a majority of our work and here to present um our initial recommendations for the plan. So, we've done a plans and policies review, but we've had six committee meetings. We've also done seven

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stakeholder interviews. Um we've had um two steering committees. We have one more that we're going to have. Um so we've done two public workshops also public um a pop-up event and a survey. All of that as well as a technical analysis is coalesed into this plan

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brought together to help develop this list of recommendations that we're going to talk about a little bit later in the presentation. So as you can see here's the scope of work. It's um eight tasks broken out and as a part of the scope of work as I

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mentioned we did a plans and policies review and and a major takeaway from that is pretty much every plan that we looked at is touching on resiliency in some way even if it's not calling out resiliency specifically. there's elements of the plan um that touches on

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the topic and there are opportunities um that we found big opportunity is that we can coordinate planning across all planning efforts so that we can leverage federal and state grants. Um but of course there's challenges as Pasco County

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grows. It's putting more people on the roads. We did seven stakeholder interviews and these are the list of stakeholder interviews that we did. They range from Pasco County Schools to go Pasco to the transportation um chief engineer and TED

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and traffic operations. And we learned something unique from each interview. So for example um with the office of strategy and sustainability getting people out of harm's way was a big important priority for them. Um Pasco County Public Works um they were pretty

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much following all the best practices for getting the most out of the road system. with the um go Pasco they have survey um technology on the buses that allows um them to view operations in real time. So

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if there's an incident on the bus they can notify the proper authorities. It's also strong coordination with the EOC during um emergencies. And um really interesting uh finding or takeaway from our interview with operations and engineering is that um

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they would love to see uh fiber optic connectivity. Currently there's 60% coverage in the county and getting to 100% would really help them do their job because they would be allowed to tap in remotely from traffic operations. So, we also talked to it and they're

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following all the best practices for preparing the county for cyber security. That includes federal, state requirements and insurance requirements. Education is a key component of what they do. That includes educating county staff, but also themselves, staying on

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top of current trends. And then their last interview that we just did was with Pasco County Schools, which was really interesting. um they power failure is a um is a big deal for them. If there's power generators that go out, they don't have

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diesel pulled. They can't um fuel the buses which were used during evac um during the evacuations of the last storm events a couple years ago. Transitioning a little bit to our technical analysis, we had like two-part

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technical analysis and the first part was the vulnerability index and assessment. These are the criteria that we used for the assessment. They were broken up into two categories based on the Federal Highway Administration's definition of vulnerability and the map. We put all those criteria,

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scored them um and put them into the map. And as you can see, the darker shades indicate higher vulnerability across the county and the lighter shades um less vulnerability. Doesn't mean that those areas don't have vulnerability. It just ranks them based

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on their exposure and sensitivity based on the measures that we have. And as a part of this plan, each individual criteria, we're going to map it so you can see it individually. These are just a few of the maps that we're including.

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Extreme heat. Some of the data came from the resilient Pasco project. Some of the data we sourced um from different sources. And we when we did the index, we built upon what Resilient Pasco did and added to it. >> Well, that's a fun map. >> Holy cow.

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>> I thought this would get a chuckle. >> We all know about sinkholes in Florida. >> We This is something that you you normally don't see in a transportation plan, but we felt like it was really important to acknowledge, right? Because it can really disrupt the system.

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>> Wow. I've never I have never seen that map before. >> Um and that data came from Florida Department of Environmental Protection if you're curious. Um so we took the index and we overlaid it on top of the county's transportation system and we added additional criteria to it and we

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developed what's called an asset criticality index. It's a mouthful admittingly, but what it does is it helps identify it's a tool and it helps identify the most what you would consider the most critical corridors in

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Pasco County. That's not to say that the corridors that scored lower are not critical or important. >> Well, we believe the importance and usefulness of this tool is to help with the prioritization process when you're developing projects um for this plan,

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but also for future plans. The darker shades indicate a higher criticality score and the lighter shades um of course a lower score. And then all of that plus u the stakeholder feedback, steering committee

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feedback um and uh public outreach. We developed um a list of project ideas um which included cool corridors. Cool corridors actually came from the resilient Pasco project. >> I like that very much. Thank you very much. I I also like it. I think that was

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an action item was to develop a list of cool corridors to implement from the resilient Pasco project. Um elevated traffic control cabinets. Nick, the chief engineer um expressed interest in seeing that in the plan. Um we do know that floor flood warning sensors are um

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being implemented. We um that's um I believe the RFQ is coming out for that. It's funded under the local hazard hazard mitigation grant. Um fiber optic optic connectivity. That's something that we didn't expect or I didn't anticipate as a planner coming into the

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plan but it came out of our stakeholder interview. So we developed a vision map for it um as I'll present later. And then solar panels traffic operations and engineering. They're interested in it. They don't quite think the technology is there yet. So they're looking at it. Plus, there's some data gaps with

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helping to identify locations. Um, so that's going to be a recommendation is addressing those gaps and then dynamic messaging boards. Um, we um we heard feedback that that would be good to include especially with helping moving congestion, helping people understand

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the congestion, but also if there's an incident on the roadway, um, giving people a warning of what's happening and if there's an alternative route to go. Um, we also, one thing I didn't, it's not in the presentation, but I do want to highlight as we received NO feedback

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for a few projects, um, storm water projects. We reached out to public works. Two of those projects have either they're scheduled to be completed in May or over the summer, and one of those projects, which I believe is called the Southern Outfall project. That project

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is unfunded. So, that will be going into this plan as well. >> Can um, can I make a comment on this? >> Yes. Start please. I want to suggest you look at the new State Road 56 multi-use path um and add that to your cool

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corridor. It's an area that's developing rapidly, but there's not one shade tree on that path. >> Yes, ma'am. I'd be happy to do that. >> Um so, here's a map. Um >> I could commission honor, please. So, um

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I'm I'm very happy to hear you talk about the southern outfall because I have written down here how you did the northern outfall, but southern outfall does need to come. Um US 19 acts as kind of a dam a lot of 19. So, the water can't get out. You look at the east coast of Florida, they got canals

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everywhere taking the water out. Kevin Guthrie when he was here now the head of Florida's Department of Emergency Management said, "You need to get more roads, more canals going out." Sander Drive. We had major flooding in that area. A low income

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water water come in. Couldn't get out. And if there was a there's a pathway there to get directly to the Gulf. We did it down in Newport and Main Street down by Cracker. We we finally fixed Leisure Beach Road first, put some ditches in, went to the north, and then on on Gulfway. The city came in, did

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that part, and then we did the final connection at the end of it. got the road out when tropical when hurricane tropical storm Debbie many years ago came in when I was doing my loop checking all the flooding out that place because of the pitch of the road the ranger we worked together on dry as a

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bone it's got to be conveyed to get out there you can go up in Wildwood on state road Hudson Avenue in 19 there's a thing that DOT and we're all trying to work with the private people that own the property to go take and put a channel

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under underground to go get it to a canal would would save probably hundreds of those people, but it actually prevents me from be able to endorse any other work to be done, even commercial, but development, knowing they're all going to go underwater and push more water on. So, there's a lot of opportunities up

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and down the coast that should get looked at. Um, Jasmine Lakes is one we're working on and even talked to DOT this past week about it, but you know, if you're on US 19, Jasmine Lakes is a side road. our

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wash came in. That whole road of 19 to the north, it pitches toward the coast. All the water flows out there, but there's a ditch on the other side. And that ditch, the way the road is set up, the water can't get into the ditch on the other side, which could actually get

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there and flow out. It's been years trying to make that work together. But you guys should work on that project. It's a big project. It's not an expensive one either to get it done. It just takes coordination. We're now working on something to the south side of it. But that northern side, which I've recommended again to go forward,

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should be part of this resiliency part because there's no way you should have a half a mile of roadway going underwater when everything else besides dry. So there's there's ways to fix this stuff and I feel if we're going to look at things rather than raising lift boxes and this that thing, let's go fix the

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water when we can. Thanks. >> Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate it. So this is the uh map of the project list. These are only the projects that are original or were developed as part of this plan. But there's also in your

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project list um additional projects that were carrying over from the long range uh transportation plan to acknowledge the importance of those projects which include the transit and the capacity projects as well as projects that are funded through the local mitigation strategy. those projects automatically

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fall into your Fiverr time frame and they're funded through the uh HUD MA HUD's hazard mitigation grant funding program. But we think it's important to acknowledge that because ultimately we want to see you want to know how these things are progressing and they play out

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over time. Um I had alluded to the vision network for fiber optics. So, this is the vision network and that's it. Um, we have a project website. Please feel free to visit it and if you have any questions, please

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let me know. >> Thank you very much, Chris. Any questions for Mr. Zupa? >> I will reach out to you so we can talk about those things, too. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Thank you very much. Appreciate you being here today. >> You guys have a lovely day. >> You too. We're going to skip ahead to

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item 15 and then we'll go back to 14. Item 15 is the active transportation plan update. Miss Avala, >> thank you very much. In February of this year, the Pasco MO

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in partnership with the Pasco County Planning and Economic Growth Department kicked off phase one of an active transportation plan to establish a clear, implementable vision for a safe, connected, and appropriate active transportation network that supports walking and bicycling in excuse me in

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Pasco County. Katherine Tles with Fair and Piers is here today to provide an update on the project. >> Thank you. I I have a question because I don't see any of our county active transportation planners here. >> Yes. Um Rebecca Bogue. Um >> where's where's Rebecca? I don't see her.

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>> She um actually had a conflict today, but she really wanted to come. She was trying to get onto the video. Yes. But unfortunately, she was unable to attend. But she is the um county's project manager on >> here. >> Yes, unfortunately. >> Is she online? Okay.

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>> Oh, she's online. Great. Okay. Can you guys hear me? >> A little bit. >> Okay. I am super sorry I couldn't be uh I'm very sorry I couldn't be there today. I'm you know uh 30 weeks pregnant and I have a doctor's appointment this evening. So apologies, but um I'm super

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happy for this plan and super happy to support. So uh thank you to the board and to Katherine and we're we're chugging along. >> Okay. Thank you for tuning in with us today. >> Get your priorities. Yes. >> Miss Tles, if you could state your name

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and your title and your firm again for the record, please. >> All right. Katherine Tlesz, principal transportation planner with fair and peers. And now I'm going to touch on the active transportation plan. Um, so what is an active transportation plan? So really it's a comprehensive set of

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strategies aimed to provide better facilities for people walking and biking including accessing transit. So in this project we will have a list of very specific projects that will be prioritized at the end of the the

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project. Um so active transportation plans typically identify infrastructure policies and then processes based on um public and stakeholder engagement. So what are we doing? So we're we're conducting a detailed assessment of what you all have already built. So that way

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we we know what's already on the ground. Um we're also looking at what's already planned. There's a lot of projects that are already um happening that will be constructed in the next few years. There's a lot of development that is happening. So we want to understand what

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might be happening as a part of those projects because before those projects is built is the time to sort of outline what might what we might want to see happen as a part of those new developments so we don't have to come back in after they have been constructed

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to retrofit them. We can get them to incorporate the active transportation infrastructure along with the the new development. Um and then upon adoption, all of the projects will be um incorporated into all the other processes for implementation.

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So some some key tasks and we're really just at the beginning of this. Um so we're working on pulling together an engagement strategy. So how are we going to engage with the the public? We in expect those efforts to kick off in the fall with a steering committee and some

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in-person outreach um online outreach as well. Um, we're in the process of collecting a lot of data again to kind of combine all of the different data sets that are already available. So that way we have a good understanding of what's already

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built and then what's already happening. And then we'll spend the fall and winter working on what do we want that bicycle and pedestrian system to look like and then prioritizing projects and and putting together an implementation plan. Um, so here's the the phase one focus.

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So you can see on the the data collection side of things, um it's more than just looking at where we have existing and planned trails and and sidewalks, but also looking at crash data and demographic data, existing and future land use. Um a lot of the things

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that are happening on the resiliency plan like the cool corridors and other things, we're going to make sure to weave that all into this particular plan. You'll also hear after this about a freight plan. And so we want to understand where we're encouraging trucks to be because if we're also

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providing bicycling and walking facilities on those roads, we want to make sure that we protect the people walking and biking from truck movements. Um and then we really want to look at what's that future transportation system uh plan. So if there are some edits or

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modifications we'd like to suggest, um now is the time to do that. Um, we're also working on an existing conditions analysis. So, as part of that, we're coming up with facility type definitions. So, that way we're all working with the same vocabulary because

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oftentimes we might use the terms shared use path or urban trail or wide sidewalk interchangeably and it might all mean the same thing. Um, so we just want to make sure we've got a good dictionary of what we're working from. And then we're um working on uh calculating the level

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of traffic stress. So this is a sort of how stressful is it for somebody to walk or bike on a a different facility type. And I'll get into a little bit more what that means in a minute. Um and then sort of mapping what's already on the books because we don't want to start we don't

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want to reinvent the wheel. We kind of want to already understand what you all have already envisioned and use that as our starting point. And then in the fall, we'll have some conversations with um all of the different jurisdictions and stakeholders to understand is this still what you really want or is there

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something else? Um and then incorporating all of the safety analysis and then we're working on pulling together an engagement plan that will kick off in the fall. Um so when we think about walking um we use the term

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level of traffic stress to evaluate how it might feel to to walk on a particular facility. And so there are five rankings that we will be using for the plan. And this builds on a methodology developed by FDOT. Um but we've we've added a new

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category and I'll explain that in a minute. So, when we think about a facility that's really nice to walk on, it's a level of traffic stress one, meaning it's the lowest stress possible. That's most likely a trail. Um, or it could be a really nice sidewalk in a

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residential neighborhood. You probably have some trees. You probably have a nice separation between where vehicles are and where you you're walking. Um, when we think about a level traffic stress too, that's maybe a little bit more stressful, but feel still feels pretty good for most people. you're

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probably going to feel pretty comfortable letting your kids walk on this street. Um, once you get to your level of traffic stress three, that's when it starts to feel a little bit more stressful and maybe you're walking adjacent to a travel lane, but maybe that travel lane is, you know,

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relatively slower speed traffic. Um, when we think about level traffic stress four, this is going to be walking along a sixlane roadway with cars going 50 miles an hour and there's no separation between the travel lane and where you're walking. Um, you'll walk on it if you

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have to, but you don't actually feel very comfortable and it's not a walk that you're looking forward to to making, >> right? >> Um, and then we've added a level of traffic stress five to really denote where there are no sidewalks. Um because you could have a road with sidewalks or

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no sidewalks, both ranked as level of traffic stress four, and we really want to be able to differentiate the difference between we have something, it's not the greatest, but at least there's a a way for people to walk. Um versus where there just aren't sidewalks at all. Um and depending on the type of

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road, we might want to prioritize those a little higher just to close that gap. Um, especially if you think about somebody who might be using a mobility scooter or might have some mobility limitations that can't walk through an area where we don't have a sidewalk.

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And then we have a similar um calculation that we'll do for bicycling. So again, when we think about the most comfortable, that is really it's a trail, maybe it's a nice bike lane that has a concrete separator between the travel lane and where you're biking. um

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up to a level of traffic stress four where you might be sort of expected to share the lane with people driving or it could be that there is a bike lane but it's adjacent again to very high-speed um high volume traffic. Um, so we'll be

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doing this for each road in the county to to really help identify um where we where it's really high stress, but also where there's great facilities and maybe we don't need to worry so much about those because we really want to prioritize where the need is the greatest. Um, so there's a lot of

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different inputs to the analysis. We want to look at where there's actually sidewalks, the separation of the sidewalk from the travel way, how what's the posted speed limit, um what's the vehicle volumes, the number of travel lanes, what's the land use context. It's

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much different if you're walking in a residential neighborhood versus maybe a commercial area where you've got a lot of additional driveways and other conflicts. And then block lengths. And then on the bicycle side, it's, you know, pretty similar inputs with the main difference being what type of

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bicycle facility there is, if there is one. Um, so project schedule, we kind of kicked off this data compilation effort in um February and sort of really working on honing on on how we're doing the analysis. What are those facility

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type definitions? We're now working on developing the engagement plan and doing the existing conditions analysis and that should be ready um in midsummer. Um and then once we kick off the phase two effort in August, then we'll already

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have the engagement plan ready to go so we can get all of our stakeholder meetings scheduled. Um we can figure out how we want to engage with the community. Um, and then really starting to work on that gap analysis in the fall and developing that project list with

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some prioritization and the implementation strategy coming in the the winter and a plan sometime next spring. So, I'll be back before you a few times presenting our progress along the way and would love to hear any thoughts or things that you really want

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to make sure that are incorporated into the plan. >> Comments from Miss Tles. >> Um, I want to >> Thank you. I'd like to make sure that we're doing some kind of wayfinding. We don't have any in the county

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and um I think it's important. >> Mr. Chairman, >> Mr. Mariano, >> I'm looking at all these studies we're doing. I'm looking at these recommendations and you mentioned stakeholders. The previous one mentioned stakeholders, but I haven't heard anything about citizens. I don't know if we're reaching out to the

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people to find out what things they want because they could probably give us a few good suggestions what they'd like to see. I don't know if we have to spend money the way we're spending it or or what's >> Yeah, we do have um a few ways that we will be engaging with the general

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public. So, one of them is online and we have found actually sending out um inserts in the utility bills to be a great way to get people's attention on a project. Um we will also have an inperson workshop where we'll invite everybody with boards and project ideas

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and um lots of ways that they can engage um there and >> had some public event engagement too. Didn't you some tents where you were? >> Yeah, we'll be doing some of those popup events as well. So um yeah, we've got a lot of different ways planned to engage

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with the public. >> I just have a comment. I would love to see you know when we're trying to make it walkable that we make sure that we have trees, lots of trees because like take it's so hot and >> if if you have a place where people can

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walk in the shade, they're going to walk. >> Yes. >> So like for an example, we walked over to the courthouse today. It was so hot, we drove back because there was no shade anywhere. So I think you I think your paths and everything will get a lot more use if we try and add some shade.

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>> Uh one more question. And then I'm sorry I have to go board meeting in St. Pete. Um we started a and had consultants with the county blueways greenways and trails

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master plan. Did we ever vote on that >> Rebecca? >> Um no that's never been brought to the the board for like official adoption. >> That's where Okay. We need to have a discussion about that. I mean, hired a

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consultant. We had meetings. I went to some of them. Never seen the plan B. So, I don't know how that goes forward. I mean, that's got >> I will relay that to our parks and recck team. >> Okay. >> That's also why we're doing a sort of a

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deep dive to figure out what's already been planned and thought of so we're not reinventing the wheel because we don't we know there's been a lot of good discussions and planning work that's already happened. And we hired a consultant to do that one. Had lots of meetings on it.

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>> I don't know how gerine this is, but this this has come through my mind several times lately. I'm not much of one to use GPS. I usually know where I'm going. I don't like somebody telling me every few seconds to do this, do that. Um but

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>> you talk about the map say turn left and >> she keeps telling me this. Okay. But but my you know I I think sometimes as I'm when I'm using it and it's sending me down a road that I I bet these this neighborhood realized where did all