Thank you. Thank you everyone for having us here today. We appreciate the Department of Transportation. I'm a transportation planning manager. Uh I've worked with DOT for 16 years, a little over 16 years now. Um so a myriad of different things including um traffic
operation in this. packet is in that. We've given a couple different uh present What's it? the air. That's going to work. striking.
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between the travel lanes to give a little bit of uh separation for vehicles going either direction. And then some signage to help [Music] honestly. Yeah, that not necessarily handled out of my shop. We've been coordinating
closely with its working with them. They do that. went down that road. They'd never terrible to try to turn semi down the road. Think that. But yeah, that's and just a statement is uh
it's not a shot, but if the the city can't enforce the the rules on State Road 20, then they shouldn't be able to enforce them on 19, 100, or 17 as well. So, yeah. Yeah. And I might not have understood it correctly. I mean, I know there's not a I don't guess and Terry, you might be able to help me with that.
It there's maybe there's not a city ordinance on that or something. It was It was Yeah, I think there was some vagueness to it. So, I what I'll do is if it's okay with you, Madam Chair, is I'll reach out to Chief Shaw and have a conversation with Chief Shaw. Yeah. I It would be nice if if they just started
stopping them because I feel like if they did it, we would the word would get out real quick just like it does on any of the other enforcement issues. Um, all right. So, moving on. Um, any other questions regarding the update um on
what FDOT is doing? The other Terry? Yes, you Terry. The Ed. Terry. Terry. Next time I'm not putting you two next to each other. Ed Ed and the other Eddie. Okay. Um, my question for you is on the State Road 100 at Bon
Road. Um, are we going to do anything to the eastbound um turning lane there? Making a turning lane where it goes on to Bon Road. I think we're looking at that. That was something that um was brought to our attention last time we met and so it's something we're looking
at. I don't I don't think we necessarily will. We're having some issues on that project. Okay. So, what you I think what you told me was it wouldn't be part of this resurfacing project, but it doesn't mean we and it didn't quite meet the threshold for data to Right. The left
turn volumes weren't necessarily there to to justify it. And well, and again, the the funding used for resurfacing is a dedicated type of funding that really we have these specific lane mile targets throughout our district that we're trying to resurface a certain number of
lane miles every year to make sure that we're our roadway condition is up to par. And so any of this additional scope that we're adding into these projects is kind of at the expense at the end for that lane mile. You know, ultimate
we're using that fund source. And so we were able to get some some scope items added is my understanding, including that the offset of the turn lane going in the other direction. And so, um, we will continue to look at all of these intersections. Um, and we'll monitor them and, uh, see if something needs to
be done as a standalone project or as a future effort. Yeah. Not not initially. I don't think we're going to do that, but it is something I think we're still evaluating as part of that design. Okay. Thank you. And again, and again, Ed, I think that's one of the if we end up making that as part of our recommendations to ask like that's one
could be one of our ask. Okay. And I know there been a big thing on Facebook the last couple weeks talking about the trucks coming down 20 um the smaller dump trucks, the ones, what are they eight wheels or something like that coming through town. They were actually
had them filmed the other night just running the red light at St. John's and State Road 20 Kill Avenue, right? Just running through it. Yep. All right. So that was um David, thank you for doing that. That was your um Putinham County updates for all of the You guys have actually started.
Okay, thank you. You guys have actually started um doing a lot of projects already and we appreciate that. U Miss Ryan, you you recognize I don't know who is in charge of it, but who um regulates the speed limit on on 20? You've got the
four lane and it's 50 miles an hour on the four lane, but on 100 a two-lane it's 60 miles an hour. Yeah, know that's a good question. So, it's it's a pretty well- definfined process for setting speed zones um or speed limits, I should
say. We usually go out there and we'll sit on the side of the road and we will take a inventory of speeds um for a certain duration of time and a certain number of vehicles. Then we plot that out on a bell curve and somewhere I think it's 80th percentile we that's
about we have a certain tolerance of setting the speed within um range. So, so the it's one of the issues is if we set it artificially low, let's say we set that speed limit for 20 miles an hour, some people would go 20 miles an hour, but some people like, "Oh my gosh, this is a wide open rural typical
section should be going 60 65." So, get this variable speed out. So, creates a safety. That's how it's set. We do. Um, and when we get a request for driving too fast or go out there and perform one of those studies, sure we have that and
I could probably provide those to you guys. On 100, they drive 80 because it says 60 or you know on but on the fourlane I was confused because going from Gainesville to Interlarkin is 50 miles an hour and it's a huge road. You
would think it would be the opposite. Exactly. For safety reasons. Yeah, especially. Okay, that's a great comment and again that's the the type of feedback we want. I can provide you guys those safety uh those speed limit studies that we've done along the
corridor. I'm sure we have some um for this segment of roadway and and also state 20 if you're interested in that. I know that's a newer corridor so we might something I definitely can something you What would you like to do next? You want to go into the um to the data? Yeah. So,
I'm on page six of 104. I know you're on 104. Um I'm not going to go through all of it. I just I just want to kind of quickly Are you Are you using your slide presentation? I'm not. No. Um I'm just kind of going through this packet. Hopefully you guys are following along. Um I'm not sure how to get those screens
to pull it up. Um okay. Are you seeing the same screen I'm seeing? No, I'm just I'm not. That's why I was asking. Do you have a screen that you're seeing? I do. I'm see. But it's that's what I wanted it to make sure that we could see the screen. the screen that he's seeing is what we'd like to see. Thank you.
And then also, can you do that on our monitors? Yeah. Let me know when you guys can see it and I'll Oh, you can. Okay, good. We can see it on only on that screen. We were We're supposed to be able to see it in front of us, but he's going to work on Oh, it's just not here in the center.
Just not here. He probably touched something. It's okay. Okay. So, so I'll give you guys Well, hopefully you're following along. Again, this is in the printed p uh handouts I gave you guys. So, our safety office um
did a quick review of the crashes on this 19 little over 19 mile per um segment of uh State Road 100. Um the the study period that they looked at was from 2020, January of 2020 um to March of 2023. So, a little over 5 years. Um
in that time frame, there was 32 of the the type of crashes we really are are paying the most attention to, which are a combination of the fatal and serious crashes. Um, and so overall crashes, the the ones that didn't result in serious or fail.
There was 345 total. And I, and I'll try and put that a little bit into, you know, terms that are like, how does that compare to like an average roadway in our system as we get through this, but um, kind of moving on, you can see this graphic. And again, this isn't my presentation, so I'm kind
of a high level. I might some of the intent of what was trying to be conveyed in these, but you can see the the hot spots of where where we're seeing crashes along the corridor. It's pretty evenly distributed throughout. There's a higher concentration at the intersections, which but hopefully this
would be a tool um you know that we could partner with law enforcement when they're doing enforcement. This is probably the areas you want to you um where we're seeing incidents. I'm sure you guys have access to signal for all this data. Hopefully, if it's some tool we can put together for you guys to help
concentrate that enforcement, we're happy to do that as well. So, here's the volumes we're talking about a little bit. So, these are these are current volumes. We're at the next page. Sorry, I'm try and keep keep you guys alone here, but looking over a little over 7,000 about
8,000 vehicles in this segment of roadway. And here are the speed limits throughout on uh State Road 20 on the next I'm sorry, State Road 100 on the next page. So, we do have 60 mph segments at State Road 26 um heading into 315 where it
drops down um to 45 miles per hour through that area, goes back up to 55 miles per hour and slows down at 45. I think that's Flora home, I want to believe. And then um heading east, we have the long uh 60 m per hour segment up to Barton Road and then into um
Palaca in the Fort Landing segment. All right, next page. Here's a kind of a catalog of the different types of crashes that we're seeing and um and the different So, you can see we're receiving predominantly off-road as well
as rear end crashes. Um the the right angle and head-on are usually serious and fatal type crashes. Um and uh but we also are seeing some of the more severe crashes in the sideswipe and rollover what we're seeing for the for the fatalities. But off-road is the rear end
are the predominant crash types we're seeing along the corridor. Uh next page is some of the recent improvements we've done um along some of these intersections to try and address some of these um these issues. is we we've installed an intersection conflict
warning system at State Road 26 and 100. We have a concept looking looking at our future, you know, it's a roundabout on here, but um we're still workshopping that idea. And then county road 315, uh we've done some signing and pavement marking improvements at that intersection. Um and we're also again
looking at a some kind of intersection control improvement there. It says roundabout here, but we're looking at a few different options. And then Barton Road, uh we've installed some signing improve, uh pavement marking improvements, um some flashing beacons, and we're looking to install that westbound right turn lane offset as part
of the resurfacing job. And so just real quick, David, when we're talking about an offset there, we're just saying a longer a longer turn lane. What is or or wider or what does that mean? So offset meaning we're gonna we're gonna pull it further away from the Okay. Okay. So,
you'll be able to see coming out of that intersection. If you're coming off Barton Road, they'll be more to your left. So, you'll be able to see past them on coming. Yeah, that is a little more visibility. Yeah, that is the problem right there. I just saw it the other day. Somebody missed by about an inch. Yeah. And so, so deceleration
length would be the other thing we'd be looking at is extending the turn length so you have more to slow down before you turn if you're heading direction. And then I don't know that we need to go through each one of these crashes. I think I I think we're good. Yeah. But I just at a high level, if you're flipping
through this, um we detailed out all the different serious and fatal crashes along the corridor. Um we we talked a little bit about some of the before and after. So um you can see some of the improvements have really we feel like made a a significant impact um at State
Road 26 and at Barton Road. The ones at County Road 315 really did not. In fact, you know, we're showing a slight increase in crashes, honestly. So, we're trying to be transparent that we're trying some other things short of a roundabout. That's a really complicated intersection. Um, but we are seeing some success at the other installed some of
these countermeasures. And so, so again, as you go through this document, a lot of material here, you can see some of these plans. Um, and hopefully you can see the want to kind of to some of these recommendations from our safety
office. Yeah, that'd be great. mid midway down page are we at if you can see the screen hopefully you're following along but these are the recommendations that that came from our safety office that we're trying to implement maybe as part of the resurfacing job or as a future
standalone type improvement we saw a lot of nighttime crashes so improving the lighting at some of the section um is something that this is at street road also looking at 315 to potentially install some light fixtures on existing
poles or install new light poles as part of that project at the state road 26 intering for uh the to address some of the sideswipe type crashes. We're looking at installing potentially more RPMs or the raise uh raised pavement mark markings
along State Road 100. So if you see the screen there, you can see essentially doubling those amounts. So if you start to drift into the center line, you'll a you'll have the visibility of those uh reflective markings. So you'll have bump of driving over them to alert you if you're starting to drift.
Um on page 51. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm trying to move quick. I want to get to the discussion portion, but I do want to let you guys know kind of what's in your packet. So um we are looking at some sign improvements as well. this uh we looked really closely um at the fatal
and serious crashes as well and so those are detailed out. This is um page we at 57 in your packet. We really we we wanted to really focus on fatal crashes and you know a lot of them um you know
happen DUI related and so it's something you know we wanted to bring up that is something we we're seeing in a lot of these I think out of the nine fatalities that we looked at six of them uh rel
tag on them crash reports uh we looked also looked at some of the different counties in um our district. You know, Putham County does have a high uh DUI percentage in you know, in relation to um looking at some of the other counties, it looks like from a percentage wise uh for these type of
crashes, Putnham County is right around 60%. Which which is high. Um so something something in terms of like when we're talking about education and enforcement and engineering, just understanding like this is this is what the data is showing. Um, so again, we
wanted wanted to provide that to you what we're seeing. And these are the the serious uh injury crashes so you can kind of see where those are happening and what what's causing them. I'm not going to go through each one of these, but they're there for you. So if you're if you're interested in a certain
area of the roadway, we try to make it break them down by location so you can go each location and see what's going on. So kind of looking ahead, um, I think I mentioned the the PD study update. So started that that PD back 2015, whatever that was. We finished in
2019 the passing lane study. We kept that contract open. We're laying out a fourlaning just to get some good uh cost estimates, maybe some segmentation. I wonder where a four laning would terms of implementation prioritization strategy, try and get funding in the future as traffic grows. Um we also have
these reservicing uh improvements that we're going to be hopefully uh doing here soon. uh Bonan Road, right turn lane offset, the no passing zone modifications and shoulder treatments and those are kind of the main ones. We're looking at the counter 315 intersection at state road 100. We also have our our standard
programs that we're looking. So I think I'm gonna not necessarily go through much of this but at a very high level just talking about how does state 100 rank in terms the amount of crash type and seriousness of these crashes
versus other similar two-lane undivided rural roadways. we try and pull that that information out and and it it's no doubt about a bad segment of road. So, um definitely in there. It's in our top top 10 around Bonan. Um and kind of as
you move west, it's in the top uh concern in terms of this type of facility. Here's here's those those different segments kind of detailed out and so you can see see where where
crashes are falling based on broken down per million vehicles traveled. So everything and um how does that compare as a statewide high crashment crash segment versus other similar corridors you're
you know 60 70ish for the state. So again you know I think I think it's just important to from a high level understand that you know we we're trying to this is a serious problem for us. We we have a lot of these um these high-speed rural two-lane facilities are
just fortunately when a crash happens it is it is Right. So, it's something we're contending with statewide. Just trying to put some perspective on on how county this county and this segment kind of stacks up against neighbors. And some of this data is a
little bit, you know, when you're talking about counties and um fatalities per 100,000. I think this this data can be a little bit misunderstood because some of these counties have interstates going through them and obviously that's going to skew the numbers a lot higher than than you'll see in Putnham County which
doesn't have an interstate. So, so these numbers I don't I don't necessarily like to dive too closely into them or look too hard at comparing these counties because again most of these rural counties do have an interstate system through it's not really fair to Putinham County to be stacked up against an interstate system which is really not
local traffic issues but it's but it's there uh for reference. There's a whole bunch of information here. I'm not going to get dive into it but it's here for you guys. Um we're happy to interpret it. I think we've we've went painstakingly page through page on some of this stuff with
Commissioner Wilkinson so she can also navigate some of this conversation. But um without further uh further data analysis, I just want to let see if you guys have any questions about what I've presented. Is there something you would like to see
in addition to this? Um try to just give it to you as we're seeing it. Um you know, and hopefully generate some good conversations. Yes, I have a question. um on the resurfacing plan. I just kind of want to know a couple things. Um
what's your timeline on that? And the second was um you it had something mentioned about shoulders, which was something that those of us who drive 100 every day, uh especially that really dangerous stretch. Um the shoulders are a concern and it feels like a quick and
easy there's nothing quick and easy but uh fairly straightforward improvement that could be made to the road on a short um kind of more on a short short-term basis. Yeah, we've definitely heard that feedback. I know they're looking at it. I'm not exactly sure where they're at in the design team. I don't think you're going to see a
full-blown shoulder widening for the the entire length of the project. Um it is a uh there's a swale system for for uh retention and um conveyance of of um water coming off of the roadway and so
any any uh I guess widening of the roadway itself would push into those drainage ditches which is why you don't have a lot of room to pull off honestly. um which then trips you into some you know environmental permitting, right? And again if if you do it with
impervious area such as asphalt, you have to treat that additional impervious runoff through ponds which requires rightaway acquisition permitting. Um it really does it seems like a straightforward hey let's just add a few feet of of uh of asphalt in either
direction. it quickly becomes complicated and um does it starts to pull away from like hey the intent is to replace the roadway surface first. Um and again there also are we have very kind of well- definfined design standards as well that we're trying to
adhere to and those are based on a lot of experience and empirical data and also research and one of the things you don't want to do is an unintended consequence. Let's say you have a just say for instance like a 12 foot wide shoulder. Now people might be using that as a passing lane. Some some use that
you think you're doing good, you end up exasperating issue. I'm not I'm not saying that would happen, but I think that's a lot of times what you end up seeing a very hopefully similar roadway segment whether you're in Putham County, Union County or anywhere in 40 kind of a
cons look on in but but David it looks like what you're it looks like you're doing it going to do or FDOD is going to do shoulder improvements when where and when they can during not when but during this resurfacing wherever they can that would
make difference. That's what you guys are looking at. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, that's correct. We are evaluating that. So, if there's an area for that can be without going through all of that other stuff, then that's what part of the consideration. Yeah. And absolutely, we we'll definitely be, you know, addressing the existing
shoulder as well to make sure that there's no drop offs, that we're re the saw is stabilized, everything's looking good. So, if there's any issues out there with erosion or some other overtime deterioration of the shoulder, we'll definitely be coming through addressing that as part of this project.
Um, yeah, it's actually in your packet if you go to the updates. Um, I think we're talking about October of 26 if my brain is Yeah, it's planned for construction October of 2026. It's part of uh that project number that's listed on number
two. Yep. So, we're we're coming. Uh, very good. And I think I got a couple more questions for you. Um, Chief, is it Chief? Oh, it's it's um Sandy, you have a question? Two questions and I'll let you go. I promise. That's okay. That's what you said last time. So, did CO
affect the accidents? Were there less non-commercial vehicles on the road? So, the accidents are skewed in any way? That's one. And then two, 100 seems just haven't gone on it today. such a different road between Placa and
Lake Butler. And after Lake Butler, it's just an easy thing to drive. I mean, what what makes that difference? Is it the amount of volume of people? Anyway, well, yeah, I'll try and address the first question. Um, so there was a
dramatic impact obviously to traffic during COVID and you know, subsequently crashes. Um I thought a lot of areas had 30% reduction up to 50% reduction in daily volumes. Um and so that traffic's come back um since then. It's it's back to pre-COVID. It's grown since then. Um
for a while there it was coming back in at different peak hours. So we would see people instead of coming in at 8:00 a.m. and going home at 5:00 p.m. they'd be teleworking and doing errands. So So their travel patterns were changing a lot. And I think one thing we have seen in a lot of local communities are
contending with is the increase in truck volume. a lot of I kind a lot of people are ordering stuff now. I think that kind of unlocked this new way of shopping for a lot of people like hey I don't want to go out and go to these stores and be interfacing with people. I want to but I need this product to come to my house. And so you're seeing a lot
more of these box truck delivery other kind of rate that supports that kind of the lifeblood of society. And so you're seeing a lot of those type of tra uh trips. And for whatever reason, I don't know if people are less patient these days, but for a while there, we were seeing a big uptick in serious and fatal
crashes just based on driver behavior, speeding sort of thing. I don't know if law enforcement you can you're nodding your head. That's what the data is shown is people are just driving more aggressively and maybe the phone. I know there's a lot of distractions in today's vehicles that maybe weren't there before. you got screen this big a lot of
cars and so there's a lot that can contribute to crashes and we're in a whole the only thing I wondered could it skew the accident reporting because we don't have as many you know since your numbers were really from 2020 to 2025 you know you got two and a half years of
people not driving as much that's that was my only point yeah no I and that's a and that's a good point um I think what we I think yeah I think data I think Um, we're trying to portray the data as we see it. Again, can be we can attribute
some of these reductions in crashes to our our projects, right, that we've done, but maybe it's unrelated. Maybe there's some there's some new road that open that people are now using or something causing that. I'd like to believe it's the countermeasures we've installed, but ultimately data is a tool
that we try and interpret. But yeah, that's a loaded question. I gave you a very uh waffly response. So I'm sorry. I think you're you said your time frame was 2026, right? You were looking. Yeah, I think I thought that I saw that. So somebody on this side of the dis asking a question? Uh, Miss
Terry Me personally, I don't know if we've looked at that. Um, but I I'll look into that for sure. It's something we're still looking at. So, definitely um yeah, I'll definitely be swinging by there. So, uh yeah, we'll we'll take a look at that. But yeah, again, it could could be attributing to some of these
crashes that we're seeing. All right. So David, before you um end, did you want to talk about this the traffic truths regarding Oh, yeah. just the signage of Barton Road. I think that's very um pertinent. Thank you for that lifeline. Um so all that data I just went over, our PIO office kind of put it
into some easier to digest um infographics and that's what you're looking at. We took that same data, all that um information that our safety office pulled together and working with the safety office, our PI team, uh public information office put together this kind of quick facts what we're
seeing, fatalities have reduced along the corridor, which is promising. We we do want to see that trend going in the direction. Um we are we are kind of pointing out that the DUI statistic again. um you know, we're trying to get these crashes and serious and fatal crashes down to zero. And I think that's
something that we're seeing as a contributing factor. And so if we can help with some of the outreach to address that, we definitely want to partner um and be out in the community and try and try and address that topic itself. Um and again, just this is just a breakdown for for easy reference. You
can kind of see what we're seeing through that data. Um and so and so some of it is promising. I know it's it's a it's a it's a tough corridor, but we are seeing some good trends. Um hopefully that we can and some some ideas on maybe where we need to be
working with that infographic. And I don't know um you guys are probably tired of hearing from me. I don't know if you want to hear from Bert from a PI. We do. We do. So what we're going to do real quick is we're going to take just a threem minute recess and then we do want to hear about your outreach programs you got and then we'll move on. Great. Thank
you. Thank you. Thank you, David. information you have. Um, it's already been very helpful, I'm sure, for the entire team to know what you're currently working on and, um, what you've been evaluating in that area. So, uh, Bert, welcome. Thank you. Delighted
to be here, uh, Commissioner. Uh, thank you for letting us come by and and talk to you and share some of the things that we're trying to do to accomplish our our collective goal. Uh we're very pleased to be part of the team and um I'm I apologize I'm using little notes. I'm
old enough to remember when we wrote things down on paper, right? I still do that too. You've also and I'm not old, I'm young. I'm going to that's what I'm sticking with anyway. But you also have next to you a thumb drive that looks a whole lot like this that will have
everything I'm going to show you as resource available to you. um understanding that that there's a older form and a newer form. What hasn't changed is DO's focus on safety. We have
to make sure as our primary objective that everyone gets home. I remember arrive. We still use that, but our focus is to make sure that everybody is safe on the road. We It's a challenge sometimes and and this is one of those
examples. Um, but we are part of the team. Law enforcement, uh, legislation, uh, community involvement, we all play a part and and we're just one of the team members. That being said, we're trying
to make sure as a department that we maintain an understanding of the charm of Blatka and what you're trying to achieve with your roadways and reaching out to your community to improve behaviors on our very nice roads. Um, as
you've seen, um, our efforts, as was pointed out, of course, a signage, uh, did a 61% reduction in crashes. As, uh, David pointed out, there's a lot of potential contributors to that. But, of course,
we're going to take credit for that because we put up the signs and and, uh, we've got that decrease in crashes, and that's our goal. We want to decrease crashes, increase safety. Um, we're also looking at trying to make sure that law
enforcement is uh part of the problem part of the solution because there are a number of problems. We can't solve every problem because of a road. People are still going to make poor choices and we depend on that partnership to make sure that the good road is met with good
drivers. And with that, I'm going to look at an effort that our team put together. the the state road 100 100% sober effort. Uh can you see this on the screens now? Yeah, we can. Thank you. Okay.
I'm not going to go through all the facts. By the way, my homework is a lot less than David, much shorter, less than 100 pages. Um, we can look at the state roads, we can look at the intersections, we can look at the
lights, but we want to communicate with the people, with the drivers, with the community. And looking at our outreach, we have messages that we want to promote. Um, some of the signs you've
seen in front of you there, uh, highlighting the the cost of a DUI. and law enforcement know as well the the financial aspects are just the beginning. If someone's in an accident, um usually the person that walks away is
is the driver that's under impairment. Um the the societal cost is substantial. So we're trying to again reach out, show what's going on with the impact of poor decisions and say let's let's choose
another option. And that also includes reaching out with calling a friend or getting an app, an Uber, a taxi, whatever it is, a bicycle, you know. Okay, it's still driving. I apolog. We're just saying please consider that. make sure that is part of your thought
process when you're walking out the door. We've thought of a number of things. Some of them are are potential for you to use, some maybe not. But I've read everything from koozies to coasters, um
partnering with applications, businesses, taxis, uh any way to get home. If we can enable that, give them that choice, inspire that choice before they make a a poor decision, we're trying to do that.
And these are again some of the efforts um engaging friends and all um when when someone says, you know, I'm good to drive, someone's got to say, actually, no, you're not. Um that's not peer pressure as much as it is just common
sense. Uh uh looking after each other. So pushing that, promoting it, uh cajoling people, engaging the community to work with us as a department dedicated transportation. We also want to enhance
good choices in the behavior. And with that, I I can take questions. It's it's I wanted to really give you a sense of where we're trying trying to go with a public information consistent with, you know, building roads, but engaging the community. Yeah. I I'll
start I'll start. Um so this is a campaign that you're proposing, right? That hasn't started yet. And um obviously State Road 100% sober. I like I like the catchy phrase to it. Um I think what we all are probably somewhat
taken back by, at least I am, that nearly 60% of the fatalities involve DUIs. So um that is something that I think is new knowledge if if y'all knew it. I guess I didn't know it quite as much. Um, so that is it's it's I'm a
little bit blown away by the number. I'll bet at least one of you know that that was the case, right? Um, but um so when when when I look at this and I see that you would have some target outreach um maybe some um mesh banners or or
billboards on 100 or outside businesses. What I would say is would would it be helpful because you guys aren't in this community, right? And so all of us up here, some of us actually live on 100 or off of 100. Would it be helpful if we're
going to go through with this kind of a campaign that that we can reach out to maybe some business owners we know and share that information with you? I mean, Marlene, I'm already thinking of Coventry. You know, I'm sure she would be willing to put up a maybe a banner if
it was available. Let me short that. The short answer is yes. Okay. We encourage that. We want the community to be involved. This is not a us or them. It's me. Yes. Okay. Absolutely. Okay. So, that's what I would want to know is what what is it? How can we help you guys get
the message out and see what we could do on our end as a as a task force and as um just being community engaged. That's exactly why that thumb drive is there. This these materials are all on there. You can print them out and say, "Would you do this, post this, show this?"
Okay. And and with that, let me try and this is going to be challenge. Let me try and get that video up. Okay. To show you. Of course, the video is not right. Put it down. Oh my goodness. So, so that's obviously something you
already have out and that's across the state or you have it Uh that's what that's on here as well. It's one of the things on there. Absolutely. Okay. Of course, we had to get the FDOT logo. Right. Right. Right. So, but this is a campaign that's a statewide campaign. Um it started off as just District 2. And by the way, District 2 that you're in
goes literally from Ocean to Gulf. Uh we're we're across the entire state. So bringing Putham County attention is a high priority, but you're getting you're on the top of the list of getting attention and and we know you deserve that and need it. That's why it's there.
We we focus this uh on the 100 deadly stays. It is around the state. In fact, it's going to other states. Uh this this particular video was very well done. The authenticity I hope you felt that the au authenticity of the children young
adults speaking to young adults was has a lot of gravity to it. The uh lack of drama and the the factualness of it. I think that they really hit a sweet spot there and I'm really proud proud of that uh video. So yes, it is statewide and
beyond. We've had calls from Texas and and Georgia. It's just a good effort. So that is available to you um to put in wherever you want to put it. There's there's no copyright on this. So please utilize that. Okay. All right.
Are there any questions so far? Miss Miss Sandy, I was counting on you. Good. I'm glad you were. So like we don't have ride share capabilities in this county. Can this be edited to really maybe take that away or push the friend more? We're
here to get information just like legislators are. We're here to receive information so we can manage things. You can if you've got someone I'm just thinking about this being in a bar they'd laugh at this you know because who what taxi are you going to call you
know what Uber doesn't service Lift doesn't service anything like that. So even if you have that, it's strictly a friend. So I didn't know if there was some other counties that might have the same problems. I think we do have some. Your
point is, yeah, there we don't have it like you would have in Jacksonville or places like that. Yeah, it's you may or may not turn Uber on and may or may not get a driver. I can get an Uber to my house right now for $13 and they'll be here in six minutes. I mean, it's it's it's kind of I think the thing is is I
think that's part of the problem though, too, is that we don't know that we have ride shares in our community. Um, and I think that that could be part of, you know, we've got to change. What I'm hearing is that we're going to have to change behaviors long before we're going to this get this road changed, right?
And so, it's a multi it's a multi- Yeah. effort. We're going to have to figure out ways including, you know, making ride shares a little bit easier if that is something that that might be something that that people can do or finding other ways around it. Um, but
yeah, it's we can't they're not Thank you for all that you've done so far, but they're not going to solve the problem year and a half. There are problems that we can help with and there's others we cannot. and and the part we cannot are the behavioral choices and that's why we
want to add our outreach to that to try and help again leverage that good decision with a good road. Joe, does there is is is there a group that comes into your schools or does or says anything or any information that goes out to schools? Uh yes, uh DOT sends a
group out um and they're always willing and try to get to the schools and um you know they're they're the ones advocating please um and they they will come to all of the schools things with the students. Um, I don't
know what the effectiveness of that is because I see this is hopeful to me in the sense of um teens talking to teens will improve that. But also I got a feeling that that our DUI deaths on 100 aren't teenagers. Um the reality is is
that it's a us, you know, it's it's people we know. Um it's people we're friends with and they're making poor choices. um and those poor can be catastrophic and are catastrophic. Uh so yeah, we have to change some really basic decisions
behaviors in our community impact that. So so that's that's a good point. And um when you talked about the we haven't got there yet, but the geocaching I think it's in geotech whatever the right word is. Um geof fencing. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. So, I know it
said something about a targeted age like the younger younger than all of us age um 20s to 30s 20s to 30s. But but to to Joe's point, it could be that that's not the age group, but I know that's the
demographics that most more than likely has the the DUIs. Is that right? We have a well I I might defer to law enforcement on that, but we have some information that we're analyzing and we may be in for some
surprises as to who's doing what at what point and and the difference between a a speeding ticket age propensity, a DUI age propensity, and a crash propensity may be completely different universes. So, we're going to be looking at that
and drilling down into the exact numbers and and if we're talking about a specific speeding universe, it might be the wrong universe we're talking to, right? They'll all benefit from a better driving experience, but we want to make
sure that if the most catastrophic decisions are we we get some uh information to them as well. So, again, we're partnering with community. It was a very very good point and it may actually be accurate. Um, but we want to get some information. We'll certainly
partner with law enforcement and say this is what we're seeing. Is that correct? And we're usually using their information to start with. Right. Right. Um, Mr. Larry. Thank you. So for 25 years I represented the outdoor advertising association and and probably
in that 25 years we had a major battle with DOT every year and permit a billboard today is you know probably bridge to Hawaii. Yeah. Yeah. So um but they are the most effective um as has
been borne out with our Amber and Silver alerts hurricane disaster and all those types of things. Um they're currently unless it's there may be one or two grandfathered um between Palaca and Lake Butler, but
that's the venue and we don't and I'm talking about the 52 feet ones. I'm talking about the, you know, the 40 foot, 36 ft ones that are electronic and you can have multiple things including advertising and um, you know, because if
you if you're leaving Palatka and the old u, the old country store was right there or is Oh, Carolyn Davis Springside cut off. Yeah, there was a billboard there that went back to the was before right before Bon Road. Yeah. And um so if you had
something like that where you had this, you know, flashing say coming on something along that line. Yes, sir. Every 3 to five minutes. I can tell you that you would think about this. It's proven fact for at least 30 to 45
minutes. I mean, it stays in your brain, the back of your brain. To me, that is could be part of the solution. Electronic advertising, a billboard of fashion. Um, there are a
couple sites that I think would qualify for that. One that was there at Springside is gone. It's gone, but it was but it's still a commercial. Oh, I sketch a point. I get a point. I mean, you know, the property has to be commercial. You can't reszone it
specifically for the billboard. you know, if we could find a few of those locations in in, you know, critical points along that stretch between Pala and I don't know if Lake Butler at least to Keystone. Um, one east and one west,
I think it would do wonders. Well, if you know uh some folks who want to apply for a billboard permit, um certainly working with the county commission and applying to the FDOT, I don't know all the regulations uh that have to be met
in order to county, they banned billboards 20 years ago unless you take one down, replace it, you can't build any new. I don't know what we do, but where we at put that we never heard it talked about. I think
there's a cap and replacement here in the county too that illustrious past put in place, but I can't remember. But any rate, I think that's that would be phenomenal. If if you have a billboard um available, we
could certainly look at the funding potential for utilizing it public and the billboard companies public too. How are these things? I guess my question is how are these funded is
there how are what funded I'm sorry ma'am that the these outreach programs are they all funded through DOT or we have a a funding line available and as I said Putham County gets a good amount of that in comparison to other counties. So, we're really focused on making sure we get the word out and respond to the
requirements and the need of of Putnham County. Okay, Madam Chairman. Yes. Um, I'm going to agree with Mr. Larry because about a billboard. I mean, I started thinking that a while ago when I when you passed these out, that not so fast thing caught my eye. Um, I was just
telling Miss Ryan before the before we started today. I was passed coming out by the airport yesterday, yesterday, day before. Um I was about the fifth sixth car ahead of this car that came around us between the airport and the water
management area and um it came out and passed six car I mean fly it and when it came by it was a it was a tag that was an out of state tag and people don't realize the um uh you know what they're passing through or what they're going
through. I mean, it's not all that, you know. I mean, I know there's a lot of local people that do that have the access and stuff, but there is a lot of these out of state tags that come through. And I and I agree with Mr. Liry that that one section right there where they used to have the um the old um sign
at, you know, if you put something up there like that, you know, not so fast. Pay attention to what you're doing or right there, especially when before you get to Bon Road. I mean, I've seen people come out on that no passing zone and go through Bon Road and people are trying to come out off of Barton Road on
100 all day and all day long, every day it happens, you know, and and and I agree with you about the stretch, you know, uh uh uh taking the stretch back a little bit so people can or widen it so people can see. But I think that some some kind of
signs like these, you know, along Bon Road between there and granted, you know, I mean, that's, you know, the where where there's a lot of uh a lot of accidents. We we could certainly be uh uh be looking at and
consider the signage opportunity as we've just seen in one intersection where it has made a difference. Yep. According to us, um but we can look at that. Uh, it's also again a partnership law enforcement. Those folks who are violating law, we need to say that's that's not the best decision. I've got
to give my hats off to the Putnham County Sheriff's Department because they're busting their butts out there when you go through there. I mean, they're they're they're they got them pulled everywhere. So, I mean, they're doing their part. Um, so, and you know, I'm just saying that like I say, you know, Mr. Larry brought up a good idea.
You know, that that that makes a lot of sense. Thank you. Thank you. Does somebody on this side have a DAS? cuz the D have a question cuz I've got Okay, go ahead. Um, so we had we had a a good deal of of data beforehand. I was wondering if there's any and I'm I would
imagine it might come from the sheriff's department. Do y'all have any data from when you started you in conjunction with uh highway patrol really started cracking down on 100 um driving it every day. I noticed it uh for sure and I
wasn't sure if it continued um after the school year ended. I haven't noticed it as much. Uh, and then I don't know if y'all had any data as far as um what outcomes we saw in that three or four month period because it felt safer. Um, so I don't know if y'all could speak to
that. No, so we have not discontinued it, but it's it's like everything calls for service generated may, you know, bring it up or bring it down depending on how that goes, but we are moving forward with as the sheriff's office goes. I don't have the data with me today. We do have our analyst that's going to continue to present that data for each
one of these meetings forthcoming. Um, and we're also moving forward with a part-time traffic enforcement unit that will start doing multiple uh operations monthly at the targeted locations that are generated by the the data that we're seeing in this uh packet. Okay. Um, is there somebody on this side
of the dis? Okay. Okay. Um, and then I have um Mr. Coats. Yeah. And though this goes back a few years, but uh which is not there anymore, but Bruners used to have the big billboard outside their business. There are still other businesses throughout the county that have
billboards and signs and things that are up. We could reach out to them and ask him if they could do that. Also to Sam Wimberly is one of our local folks that has a bunch of billboards and things. We could ask him if we could uh if he would donate one of us for, you know, six
months or a year. I don't think he has any on state road 100, but still it is in Putnham County and that message would still get out and I'd be glad to contact Sam if you'd like. Absolutely. See if he's got anything available and then we can connect them with DOT. I think that
that's always a a plus. Anything we can do to partner with the community, we want to we may be constrained by by budget um but until we know what's being requested or permitted by the community, we don't know what to try and ask for as far as funding. So, um, let us know what
your options are, what you think would be most valuable to you in the community and we'll try and respond to that to the best of our ability. Is is there funding available? I mean, um, Sam's a good friend of mine, too, and and I can tell you those those boards bring $800 to
$1,200 a month, you know, per side. Yes. Um, is there We don't have a line for billboards right now. uh that have to be a separate request and consideration. Um yeah, if
we get a if we get a a request and and with an amount that that is specific, I'll have to be able to send it over and see what we uh get from the central office. I know the the state I don't not sure which department, but they do pay u
the billboard outside advertising companies for some public service announcements. I mean, and then and they get some free is part of that. I don't know. I'm trying to think. Maybe it's I don't know all the specifics on the options. I I know there are some avail.
Yes, please. We'd like that. Okay. So, just to be clear and I and I'll get to you in just a second. Just to be clear. So, you we've got these campaigns, the electronic ones can already be shared already. We've got s these um yard signs that can be shared. If if we did have a
company like the one I mentioned like Coventry, can we get a banner? Pretty if we needed is that an easy ask? I'm pretty sure we could get a banner because they only run 100 little bit of money. Okay. 200 bucks. Okay. So, that kind of stuff we can go ahead and and
share with the community is what you're saying. Yes, ma'am. Okay. All right. Um, go ahead, Miss Sandy. What one thing I was going to bring to the table is the FMCSA or the photo the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration had over $84 million in
grants available to different municipality state. You're familiar with what I'm saying, right? All right. And you know, unfortunately what I saw available expires tomorrow. So, but it doesn't mean they won't extend the grant funding, you know, so
you can apply. I'm not a grant writer. I assume we have someone that could help us with that or pay someone to do it. But it is for safety programs for different state, local, and municipalities. Yeah, that's a good point. Um, so what
what you would look up is grants.gov, I think, is what it is, or FMCSA. Okay. Okay. All right. Um and and I think um David if you could ask the sheriff when you get back um is there any kind of um grants that we could go
after to do I mean I'll just I'll just say what I need to say. I haven't seen a DUI stop in a long time. I know you individually stop people but I haven't seen like a DUI checkpoint. Is there do we just not do those or is there a is
that just a different way of of enforcement now than what it used to be when I remembered back and there was DUI checkpoints? So, they're probably not as often as we did. I think we did two last year. Oh, okay. Um they are done slightly different and they're as as all things
laws change and the ability and um advertisement prior to along with the postings before the checkpoint. There's a lot of things that have changed that don't uh that probably aren't as efficient as they once were. I gota um but we do still do them but not as often. Okay. As maybe in the past. And
then is there is there grant funding for to help the sheriff's office with those kind of enforcement activities? DOT does offer a DUI grant as well as some other traffic safety grants. Um so that's things that we are considering. We've looked at them at the past. Um I think we missed the window this year, but we
did apply for them the year prior. Okay. Um, so this something that we do consider, but we did miss the deadline this year. Yeah. And I know I know um sometimes grants aren't always while they look good on the outside when you're the agency that's applying them, they're not always the best either because there's a lot of strings and I
don't know the details in this one. Um, but it's just something that I was was curious about if it was something that the sheriff's office has looked into. So, very good. Very good information. Do you have anything else? I'm here to respond to you. I think we're good. Is there any other questions?
All right. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Great information. Our All right. With that, um, we're going to go into public comment. I have three public comment cards. Um, I will start with Wayne Davis.
If you will come up to the podium and speak. Just give your name and address for our our record, please. Your name and address. Wayne Davis, 2664. I'm sorry. Uh 6302 Baker Road in Keystone Heights. Yes, sir. If you'll
pull that mic up a little bit. I know it won't reach the top. Yeah, that's better. No. Yeah, I live in Keystone Heights. Yes, sir. Um I don't know how much I can contribute. All I can do is just tell you my story. I'm one of the survivors in on 100. Um he gave me one of the packages there and actually looking
through it. One of the diagrams in their drawing is actually my accident. Yeah. Head-on collision right there at Barton. I know everybody's talked about Garching Road being an issue. They put the flashing lights up after my accident. I don't know because of my accident, but you
know, I drive that road all the time also. And all I was doing was I was just going to Edge Donuts one morning to get donuts for the family and then next thing I know I'm being loaded in the back of a helicopter and they're flying me to to Shann. The other driver was a 19 year old kid just turned 19 the day before hit me head on and he got burned
up pretty bad but he survived and they flew him to you know some burn center but I know what some people have talked about we we have to try to change the behavior of people because we can do some tricks and things and turnarounds and flashing lights but man is hard to
get people just to take uh e you know account of what they're doing and speeding and tailgating and going too fast or on their cell phone which we've We've all seen it on 100 and I was like was like Sandy said, you know, I was driving 100 day trying to keep my cool. No one's going to be here today to be
able to say something because it was just so bad. Um they were going either too slow in 10 cars and you can't go around all of them or they're going too fast and they're driving on your butt and you know and pushing along. But I just wanted to just to tell my story of you know that there there's people who
really getting hurt out there and I was one of those. It took me over a year to get my my arm to work anymore. I'm still I can't go to work anymore. So, I'm pretty much retired now because of what happened to me. Um I look better cuz I did a lot of work. And I have to say, man, the people out here that were the
law enforcement and EMT stuff, man, took care of me so good out here. They were right on it because I heard all the stories from some of the sheriff's office that came after that I talked to the FHP. Man, they did a great job take care of me. you don't really know and appreciate until it happens to you. But
man, they were just just like on TV where they get you out of the truck and they, you know, take care of you and they and just it was amazing. And even at the hospital, they took care of me. So, I got more of a appreciation of what happens after the fact. The people their job is to, you know, get us in the
ambulance and fly us to whatever and the doctors to work on us. I mean, that's just I just have appreciation for that. But I just wanted to tell my story of of I am I guess a face of what can happen and and does happen to people on 100 and there is an issue and I'm so happy that
when I heard about y'all going to have this task force thought was a great idea and I want to just whatever I could do to try to help. I tell my people my story and try to get them like man you just got to pay attention and just watch what you're doing you know because you just go right on and hit someone head on
like it happened to me. Yeah. So that that's my story. appreciate y'all let me be able to to tell that. And thank you so much for doing this task force. And so whatever y'all need from people out in the community, I'm there for you to help you out any way I can. Well, thank you for coming and sharing your story
and speaking with us today. Uh Deanie Diver. Hey Miss Styiver, how are you? Good morning. Good afternoon. Um, this is uh something that's very close to my heart because on Tuesday, February 25th, I got
a phone call from my daughter who was Jessica Dorri's best friend. She was in tears. She was driving to Gainesville from Jacksonville where she lived. And she told me that she was alert and conscious, but she didn't know the
status. But when she got to Gainesville, she soon found out that her friend was no longer with us. Now, I know our governor has recently passed a bill and it has been signed into law that all students all have or before they can get
a driver's license must take a driver safety course. And thank God for that because that was one of the things we talked about at the first meeting was education is very important especially to the younger people. It's not just the
younger people though. I have here Florida politics.com. Putnham County is ranked fifth in the nation. Not just in the state of Florida. They are ranked fifth in the
nation for traffic fatalities. Now, it's not just about on Highway 100, but it is in the whole county. I live off of 19 South. My address is 137 Karen Court. I have to drive through that subdivision
at Hermitage Shores to get to my home. I live beyond the subdivision in the on the divers's homestead that's been there for six generations. They had the penile store home, Penile Church Road or Penile
Road. Yes, ma'am. And we've lived there years and so many people in that neighborhood have been hit in the rear end trying to turn into the subdivision. They have cars going around them,
sideswiping them. That's right. They're on that curve. Yes, ma'am. Yes. And just past there's a traffic light where the sitgo station is or I think it's sitco and once they get the green light, it's
like they put the pedal to the metal and they don't and you go around a curve. But I lost what I felt like was my second daughter the day on February 25th.
My daughter has not gotten over it. Every Tuesday she calls me crying. She's 37 years old. She had a friend that she could confide in. She loved her dearly. We all love her and we keep we're going
to keep her alive. Her memory is on my chest right now. And it breaks my heart that this is not going to happen until October 26. It needs to happen now. Why have hasn't it happened before now?
I mean, I know other people have lost family members on that road. Are you talking about the resurfacing? I'm talking about fixing the problem. Well, it's a multitude of problems. It is. It is definitely a multitude of problems, but I want to see it addressed sooner.
They've got I mean, I know the sheriff's office is out there working, highway patrol is out there working, but I don't want another family to get that phone call. It's the worst phone call that any mother, father,
grandparent can get. And to see anybody else lose their life on that road breaks my heart. We have a wonderful school out there which I just recently attended for the first time
even though my son-in-law was a teacher there for many years before he went to Bahrain to work for the Department of Justice as a school teacher. But I worry about those children going to school every day, the teachers driving
to school every day. And there are so many I was in an accident coming back from the hospital in Gainesville on 26 myself where someone was not paying attention behind me. I was stopping to
let someone turn off and I from my law enforcement days tried to avoid the accident by driving off the road, but I couldn't get off the road because of the trees. I looked at going into the other lane, but I had a car coming in that lane.
My car was I was driving my husband's truck and it was really messed up. The guy behind me, his car was total the one that hit me. Fortunately, neither of us were injured because we were wearing our
seat belts. But we have to educate these kids. We have to educate the community to what has happened here. I don't want anyone else to ever get that phone call. It's heartbreaking. Yes, ma'am. And I don't know that we will ever get over
it. We lost a precious person who loved the Lord. And everywhere she went, she spread that. And I think our schools owe it to our children. They have to learn driver's education.
When I graduated in 1977 from an old the last graduating class at Palaka Central High School, we couldn't get a driver's license unless we had driver's education. We got a certificate and we took it over to the highway patrol and then they would let us take our driving
test. These kids don't get that anymore. So, I'm praying that the schools will do it. I know they said they were going to do it in summer schools at the last, but I think with the new passing of the law, they need to put it in on the
curriculum all year long. Well, just like the legislature has done for the last 25 years, they they have defunded public schools and monies going to charter and private schools and everything else. That's one of the reductions was the driver's education
class. They were held. We had classes every period like South South High School. I graduated in 74, right? Did the same thing you did. got my certificate, went through what was that a six, you know, five month, you know, program and and you you drove every day
just about with with your driver's education teacher and it made a difference. And uh and so I'd like to see that come back, but you know what the legislaturator is doing now is they're essentially um they're there
won't be public schools in 20 years. I don't think that what like we see today. and you can thank the legislature for that. So, call Senator Leak's office and call Representative Justin Sap's office and you tell them. Well, actually, my granddaughter
is the was the administrative aid for the speaker of the house who just recently retired. Paul Rener. Paul Rener. She still works for him. Samantha Story. Yep. Yep. Very proud of her and the work that they did. Mhm. And they
have the governor's ear. Good. And I have informed her of all of this and she has promised me that she will talk to Paul and Paul will talk to the governor and maybe we can get some more funding that way. That's the key. We you know, we don't have the funding for the
vehicles for the the the instructors. Um you know, and driving on a a high school parking lot out there is not like driving out in the community and and that that type of thing. They used to do it at Pla High and they did it for Oh, they did it Placa High up until Yeah,
they were they had a driving course that they had to go through. They had to parallel park and everything. Well, they they still have that, but but I'm talking about driving out on the road into the community is what he's saying, right? I understand that. And it's it's not the same as it was, but I don't know
if they can drive on that parking lot out there, then they need to be able to go out on the roadway. Yes, ma'am. And that's all I have to say. Well, thank you for for coming. Um, I can tell you we're all here on our own accord um volunteering to try to help with the situation and I appreciate every one of
y'all that are DOT has been a good partner so far as well as the sheriff's office and trying to uh come up with solutions. Um, some of them are long-term, some of them are shortterm. They're doing the short-term ones as quick as they can and we said that from the beginning where there would be some
shortterm goals and longterm long term and and that's what it is. And so uh this package that we got and we can certainly share it with you. He didn't get to go through all of it, but it has a lot of good data in there and and some dates of when they would have some completions, but some of them are more
within the next year, within a year's time. That's good to know. And back to where I live at, there's two deputies that live in that subdivision. Yes, ma'am. And so I fear for them. Yeah. They come in and out, too. Yeah. And
it's a raceourse and they're all headed to the hogwaller on Friday nights. So you bet you met I don't even leave my house on Friday because of that. Well, I know from from and and and um I know from speaking with DOT when I work for
Representative Payne's office, they actually did a study in that on that curve and um the issue is stopping. If you were to put some kind of a red light or a turn light, it's a little bit tricky right there. So they have looked at it at Point of the Woods and they have it at all the subdivisions. Yes,
ma'am. But those aren't on curves and I think that's the issue is the is the curve right there. That's your That's really the issue that you guys got going because the church right there wants a turn lane as well. The church has been wanting a turn lane for a long time. Yes. There's three churches right there together. So, we need something, but we
need 100 fixed. And we talked about also um um putting a making it a slower area right there as well, the speed limit. Yes, ma'am. Well, thank y'all very much. Thank you. All right, Mr. day. Ryan,
can I borrow that book that you name is Dave Ryan? I live at 119 Springside Shortcut Road. And my hats off to every one of you, okay, for being here. Listen to the stuff. I have no thing. I have nothing to say about what's wrong. I have some suggestions on
what we could do. Okay, we can't forlane 100 because outside floor home, the road's not even stable to build the road. It's sinking as we go. It's on building on a pee bog. This is my suggestion. If you could think about just for a second, hop on the bus with me. We're going to be on Highway 100.
We're going to go down 100 past the airport. We're heading west. When you pass the airport entrance, you go down to water management entrance. There's two entrances. There's a lot of employees there that enter the road. It's 50 miles an hour till we get there.
As soon as you get just before you get the curve, when you're heading west, it goes to 60 miles an hour going around the curve. Unfortunately, there's 12 active driveways on the south side of 100 with multiple residents pulling out on that road. And anybody that's not
from PLA is going to speed up because it says 60 miles an hour. They're going to speed up to 60 miles an hour. But we all know, and I'm glad Gator's not here. He'd be calling me when I leave. The sheriff's department will give you 5 to 10 miles an hour when they're run
because they're they got their job to do. They got to go arrest people, beating people up. Highway Patrol will give you seven to eight miles an hour over the speed limit. So when the speed limit says 60, they're really doing 70 because they know they're going to get 10 miles an hour on the radar. They're
not going to pull them over. That's just how it is. Interstate if it says 70, you're in 75, 80 because they're not going to pull you over. So in reality, people speeding up from 50 miles an hour to 60 m hour, but in the back of their mind, they're going to do 65. Once you go around that corner where the all them
driveways are on the left when you're heading west, if you look to the guardrail on the right, there's all kind of screech marks where semis have had to lock their brakes up to hit the guardrail. That guardrail has been replaced blue at time. It's not their fault. They're doing a speed limit, but
100,000lb vehicle, 80,000lb vehicle when they're doing 60 miles an hour and there's 10 cars stopped around that corner, they cannot stop in time. They got to take the ditch. A lot of trucks take the ditch. It's not just pulpwood trucks. It's everybody. But if you look at the guard rail, when you go down 100,
it's bent all the pieces. They replace it quite often. Let's go on down. We're going down 309C, 60 m an hour. 309 C is 45 miles an hour from three from 100 uh
that is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. Double lines. So when people actually do the speed limit because they don't want a ticket or they don't have a license or they're drinking, there's people passing them 60 miles an hour. That's actually causing a problem. I feel like that road should be 50 miles
an hour. But is if we pass 309C, you have uh Springside Shortcut Road, which if somebody's in a real hurry, they're going to instead of coming out barn road, they're going to cut through 30 through the springside cutoff and they're hauling butt. Edward, you know what I'm talking about. And because we
live off that road and they're running that road 50 miles an hour. Well, they've come to get on there. So, they're entering the road where you're doing 60 miles an hour legally, but you can really do 65 to 70 because radar is not going to stop you until you're doing over 10 miles an hour. So, as you pass
through a 9C, you pass Shortcut and then you get to Barton Road. Well, now we got a flashing light, which is great, but the flashing light west of Barton Road is only 300 feet down the road. We need another flashing light farther down that
flashes a different color. Uh the color is flashing now. People see it every day. They're not going to pay attention to it. So we're going down 100. You're doing 60 miles an hour. People are thinking they can do 65 or 70. And if you're doing 60, they're going to flip you off when they
pass you. It's just how it is. And law enforcement has been incredible job. The problem with it is we're going to have to go to somebody's funeral because somebody's going to run over them officers trying to do their job because people are not paying attention. That when a patrolman gets out to pull
somebody over, you about need two cars to block her from getting killed. It's dangerous. I would not get out of the car on 100 other than to put flowers on my daughter's cross. Um, so you continue and then when you come out the floor home, let's turn around and come back
east. When you leave floor home, you come down the hill, it's 50 miles an hour. When you get down the hill on the right, it says 60. So, as you go down the hill, you can speed up 60 miles an hour while the other people are slowing down to 50. Well, the people that are behind you coming from floor home,
they're in a hurry heading east. They'll pass you on coming down that hill to get around you and then they enter the curve. So, I my suggestion is it needs to be 50 miles an hour. I appreciate what you said about the um how you do a
survey. So, if we were doing 110 on 100, we could do 75. I'm not quite sure how that works, but it needs to be 50 miles an hour all the way to floor home. Um I would suggest 50 miles an hour. I will suggest try to get at least two speed
indicators on east and westbound where it starts flashing when a when a when you exceed the speed limit because we all drive with our head thinking about something else. I don't care how good of a driver you are, you're thinking about something else. And sometimes if you don't have on cruise control, you're going to look down and you're going to
be speeding. But when that light flashes, it's cuz oh crap. You go through Alabama, them things are everywhere. You can't it scare you half to death. It's very inexpensive. You don't have to change the geometry of the world. Two eastbound, two westbound to notify people.
50 miles an hour all the way. No passing all the way. Don't pass. Um if we want a shoulder non-pervious concrete, there's you don't have to have no drainage for non-pervious concrete. But also a suggestion
on the north side of 100 from Barton Road to Floorhome to take majority of the trees out to the nature trail. Those trees are growing towards the sunlight. So they're automatically growing towards the road. When it gets dry, the roots automatically grow to the ditch because
that's where the water is. With all the toxins from the railroad bed, which is a great rails to trails, a lot of trees are dying along the rails to trails. If you'll walk it, there's dead trees laying across it every day. So, if that's our escape route for the hurricane and trees are already leaning
towards 100, we need to take them out. There's no engineering to be done to take those trees out. Just take the trees out all the way to the trail and be done with it. Um, that's the suggestion. The other suggestion is
on nine mile 50 miles an hour. Why get up to 65 miles an hour between the two hills? There's no sense in it. All of our good wrecks happen at 65 miles an hour because they're doing 75 miles an hour. They're not paying attention. So
the suggestion is 50 miles an hour because as Marlene said from Hawthorne to Interlark is 50 miles an hour. They got sidewalks, bicycle paths, turning lanes, fixing to get pretty trees, irrigation, 50 m an hour and it works 50 m an hour.
I don't care how you rate the road, but statistically when somebody dies, when Jessica died, she left four kids. Left four kids. But the problem also is nobody talks about the four kids the guy had that hit her. So there's eight kids
without parents. Um it's sad. and he was just trying to get in a hurry passing somebody. Um, simple some speed indicators, no passing, 50 miles an hour and that'll bring people that'll do it 60 miles an
hour. And for sure on Barton Road, put some ripples at least 500 ft before you get to Barton Road. are people that go to Bon that are not familiar with that stop sign coming on the 100. Them little bumps drive me nuts when I run over them, but it knows, you know,
something's coming up and the flashing light at one Bon Road. It needs to be another one moved out farther and a different color indicating something's going on up there, not just blink blink blink. People get used to it. People
are not going to change their habits. So, it's just like a kid. If you don't believe in corporal punishment, you see what we got. If you don't regulate it, pull them over, it's not going to change. You can't make these people better drivers. They're just, and we're
all guilty of it. We all have sped. If nobody s up there has not sped before, um, wow, you're awesome. But when you're running against time, you're behind. Everybody's in a
hurry. Everybody's running behind. Nobody's going to get up earlier and leave earlier. So, we have to control the cows. You just funnel them in. No passing 50 mph all the way. And some speed indicators so they'll know. And
FHP and the sheriff's department has been doing an incredible job out there. And every time I see him pull somebody over, I say a prayer. Please God, don't run over them people. I would also suggest no more bicycles from Bon Road to Floorhome on 100. They got a bicycle
path. They got a whole road built to ride their $10,000 bicycle. No bicycle because they're going to sure enough be killed. You cannot ride a bicycle on 100. And they a lot of people with bicycles think they got the ride away. Well, it's legally they do. But when you
got two people trying to pass each other in a hurry, they're just the smallest thing that's going to be squished. Um, so there's no sense in a bicycle, especially when they have these rallies, be allowed to ride from 100 from Bon Road to Floor Home when they got a whole path to ride on. There's no sense. I
mean, they don't let me ride my truck on there, so it's just a way. That's all I got to say. Thank y'all. Those bicycles on 100 drive me crazy. Just didn't do that. No way to fix it except
move forward and by just small things, traffic indicators where the blue light starts flashing when you're speeding. Oh, I'm speeding. Um, the FHP and the sheriff's department cannot control all the dingo barriers on that road. They can only do what they can do and they're
doing a great job of it. Yes, sir. And a lot of deputies patrol it that aren't sent out there. They're just out there working it. I know a bunch of them working it. And um we just need to I'm unfiltered. This isn't a BS session. We just got to figure out what'll work.
And in all business people, you can't just change a road. You can't build it bigger. It takes years to design it. It's already caving in. It won't support the road now. But we can put in non-passing, slow them down, speed indicators,
especially from water management to Bon Road, especially there. Yep. Thank y'all. Thank you. And I think that's one of the things that we learned in the in the information we got from DOT. Um when you they even had a traffic count
there's a huge traffic area from uh the water management to Bin area. It was over that area did have over 10,000 um daily um drivers. So um Madam Chairman, yes. Um what to go to what Dave was saying the
you know the flashing things stuff like that. I mean we have billboards or signs, portable signs. I know that the sheriff's department has I think the county has a few that can be set out there from time to time and and you know I mean like you're saying
you watch you go past it so many times and you forget it. But if they can be moved and and set aside to different places or even taken away and then put back electricity just that are not just Well, I'm just
what what you're absolutely correct as far as I'm concerned, Dave. That's what I'm trying to say. But but but what I'm trying to say with the with the with theformational boards that we have now, that's something that can happen now. I know it has. I know you I know y'all put them out, but I mean that's
something that can happen now. It doesn't have to wait for million dollars to be brought in by DOT or something like that. I mean that you're right. I mean, it needs and you going back again to the billboards, you know, something that brings attention to, oh, this is a bad road for people coming through that
don't know the road. Thank you. Okay. Um, thank you. Any other comments or questions from the board? All right. Um, so as we discussed before, um, our role
is to come up with with, um, some kind of a recommendation to the BOCC and to the sheriff's office. And so, um, I've been taking some notes today regarding some of the recommendations that we've talked about. But, um, what I would like
to see is, you know, as we I don't want us, this task force isn't meant to go on forever, right? It it's not. So the goal is that we u make recommendations back to the BOCC and to the sheriff's office um the enforcement side of it work with
DOT um on things that they can so BOCC would then address concerns with with the sheriff's office or um andor um FDOT with certain recommendations. Some of those might be some of the things we talked about like an eastbound turn lane
on onto Bard Road, you know, uh truck enforcement. Um how if there's something we can do with that, speed changes that we talked about, you know, the advertisements. We I've been trying to take some notes, but um encouraging the driver's education courses, um the
indicators, flashing indicators. So, several things here that um that we that I just made some notes about, but how we move forward, I guess I'd like to hear from you guys as to do you want to by the next meeting that we've come up with
this is our list and this is our goals or um what's the pleasure of everybody on the board? Does anybody have any thoughts? Go ahead, Joe. Um, I think some of the ideas that were just expressed were fantastic ideas just
as a layman. Um, I I hate those trees. Uh, you mentioned getting rid of those trees. I think um I you don't want erosion. I get it completely. But I mean, that's part of the shoulder issue is that if you see somebody coming, you you got to make a decision. Can I eat
through or do I eat a tree? Which one am I going to do here? Um, so if we could do some I I don't know who's in charge of those trees, but you know, let's see if we can find some people that can do something with that. Um, if the sheriff's office can put out some of those signs in the short term, that sounds great. I think if we had some
short-term things that we can control as a community um and then some kind of medium uh to long-term goals that we can partner with DOT with. I think that's the most important thing and and that could get us a clear focus. Um, I think the schools, I know the schools would be
completely um in favor of of any kind of a public campaign to get our roads safer. Uh, because our teenagers are not safe drivers. They're new drivers, but they are not, again, they're not our big problem with the UIs. However, having
unsafe, you know, new drivers trying to navigate around equally or more unsafe uh drivers who are who are drinking and driving, that that creates a huge problem for all of them. Uh, so I know that we would be able to partner with with changing some of those behaviors as
best we can. So I think short-term goals that we can control and long-term goals that we can partner with would be what I'd love to see next time. Okay. Thank you so much for that. Um, Mr. Larry, thanks Madam Chairman. Um, you know, one
of the things in conjunction with the trees and I agree with that wholeheartedly and have a couple people have mentioned that to me including uh board member Buckles um that's all stateowned so it can be you know they could be removed without any problem and
it generates some funding for maintaining the balance of the uh of the uh greenway. Um and also with respect to the the shoulders and the ditches. Um I've had a lot of experience with ditches and roads in in forestry
operations and and agriculture operations. What needs to happen is those ditches need to be moved further back from the road. um you know be deeper and sloped at you know four to one five to one slopes and then back
from the ditch to the road either put impervious concrete or um highly stable you know lime lime rock bearing ratio uh of 50% or greater that would allow people either or in emergency vehicles
and law enforcement to use those without any problem and I don't think it would result because grass is going to grow uh through any of those means um that somebody would use it as a as a un illegal passing. Um so that can be done
and you know with the backhoe uh crawler backhoe and a bulldozer you did a lot of work in in in a time frame. So I think that that you know should be looked at. Maybe it is being looked at at you guys but um you know I agree with Mr. Ryan
that that th those trees could be taken out. And in fact, somebody had asked me about um you know trying to get some of my friends that are currently working in Tallahassee and lobbyists to to do it on all roadways. You know, move those trees
back so you got a greater open area and you can work with your ditches and your shoulders better. So I think that should be one of our priorities. Um and madam chair as far as moving forward with the committee I think at our next meeting um we should have a list of you know our
top priorities and our secondary priorities um and then discuss those and and then the committee rank them in order um and then adopt that as a recommendation to the the full county commission and the and the uh the
sheriff's department and then forward those to DOT. All right. Thank you. I that's what I needed to hear. I needed some feedback on that. This is obviously all new to to me. Uh Chief, yeah, from somebody that drives from one in
this county to the other daily. Um I think the education part we really need to to work on. Um aggressive driving is not just on 100. I mean, unfortunately, it's bad. I was on 100 twice yesterday and got past it 70 m an hour by people
that just didn't want to wait. Um, and it's a terrible road. We all agree on that. But if we can educate from the schools up, it it's not just the schools. I mean, the aggressive driver, be honest with you, is I would say your 35 to 50 year olds anymore. Um, by
looking at the people that I get passed out or cut off by, um, driving in this county. So, I really think we need to do some education. Um, make DUIs are going to be DUIs unless they're
an enforcement. We can put out, you know, please stop to drink and get a ride like we do on every holiday. But just the aggressive driving in this county, I've lived here my whole life is and honestly since CO in my opinion has
went above and beyond anything I've ever seen in the 57 years I've lived here. Right. So u one other qu and this is a question. I know during COVID and this may be a question that the county can answer driving tests were no
longer done with people in the car. It was a visual threeb block. You get out there and drive your car and we're going to watch you because we can't ride with you anymore. Is it went back to an actual in the car driving driving test now? I I don't know that. I
believe it has because when and only reason I think that's because when I was down there getting my driver's license renewed, I saw them like getting in the same vehicle. So, okay. I know the whole two two and a half years of COVID, everybody that got a driver's license that time, nobody was in the car with them. They literally did it was a threeb
block thing. I I worked in Crescent City at the time and they did it right there behind Crescent City Fire Department in a three block and if you could do a three-point turnaround, park in the cones and back up, they went in and gave you a driver's license. And that's the people we're dealing with driving on the
road. That's why I think education is my high priority that we can do something about as a committee. Yeah, DOT is working on what they're I agree with the trees. I agree with the portable signs that the county has to get up a message to drive safe, but I think they should be all over the
county. Yeah. Yep. Well, and and and this isn't all about Highway 100. Highway 100 was the catalyst that started it, but to there are certainly other areas in the in the county that have issues as well. Um,
Highway 100's just seems to be the focus point because of what we, you know, what how we started, but and then we do know that there are some very um, serious areas in there that have a higher crash rate than other other areas in the county. Um, so we did focus on that. All right, let's over here on this end, is
there any comment or feedback on this end that we we want to have? All right, so what I'm hearing is I have some. Yes, go ahead, Mr. Coats. Brett, sorry. It's okay that we add a third entity to that. You said the board of county commission and the sheriff's office. Yeah. We also
add the school board. Oh yeah. Okay. And what was it? So when we say school board, what would be their request for the educational portion of it? Education. Okay. Yeah. So what we're saying is um at the next meeting we will we will discuss almost
have like a like a moderating type meeting and we'll have a talk about our top priorities, our second priorities, rank them and then divide those requests up between DOT BOCC and the um school district and FHP I guess law enforcement
together. And then for right now, let's talk about um things that we are doing right now that we can do right now regarding the flashing signs. Uh Terry, do we have flashing signs? I thought they were all the sheriffs. Do we have our own flashing signs? I I believe we do. Uh so I'll check with uh Mr. Stout
next week and uh see what we can do about assisting with that. I think we may have some and uh you know, so we'll look at that as well. But I also want to make sure that we don't violate anything with that being a state road out there as well about us placing signage on the
state road. We've been down that road before, but it was a permanent sign. So, uh I'll I I'll work with DOT and see if we can't get uh get some dialogue going back and forth about location and and where we might be able to place some signs. Yeah, I do think if if we just had even if it's just one is all we have
on each side of the road, that section between Bon Road and um Robert's Lane, which we know is heavily um an issue. But the good news is, you know, today we did receive some good news. We realized we learned some things today. We learned
um number one that um in my opinion, number one is the amount of fatal crashes of 60% involves DUIs. That's shocking to me. Um, so that's something that we're going to have to work on as a as a community. And then second, um, the
signage at Bard Road and um, 100 has helped. We also already know, we just don't have the exact numbers about the um, enforcement has been helping on on Highway 100 as well. We just don't have those exact numbers. So, I do think we are seeing some reduction of crashes in
that in that area. Um, you know, to the sheriff's point when he was here, you can't control somebody. I think he said something about stupid games and stupid prizes. So, if somebody's jumping on a motorcycle and they're drinking and driving and they're doing something crazy,
we can't control that. Um, but we can certainly do everything we can in our wheelhouse to try to find um any any resources and anything we can do to try to help help the community and help with education. So, right now we
can work on um flashing signs. Um this outreach program we have, we can share I'll share that. Um we are still um growing and and finishing up. So, this this program is ready to go. This one's This one's ready
to go. And then the other one, the 100. Yeah. Uh, State Road 100% Sober. We're still working on this campaign, right? Okay. So, what do you need on this one to get this one up and going? What would you prefer? So, so the digital outreach and the um
obviously that's something you guys can do. The geo fencing you can do or you can go ahead and move forward on that. Um social media, we can all help with that. DOT can do that. BOCC can do that. The fire uh department can do that. the sheriff's office can get out um social
media regarding that. Um in-person outreach, so some signage, you know, billboards are going to take a little bit to work on. Um and then you had it says you have some u summer promotions. Let's see, what are we talking about? Oh, that was the 100 days of summer. I
got that. Okay. And um FDOT target zero initiative. Did we talk about that? We hadn't The target zero obviously zero deaths and zero injury and we're available
with events that you might select or instances where you select we come out and promote target zero initiative and hand out information and little items to reinforce that message.
So, we're looking for your guidance on where to go, where to show up that you feel would make a difference. Okay. All right. I see that there's got some uh National Highway Safety Administration driver sober campaign, and then um a statewide initiative to reduce the
number of transportation related serious injuries. Okay. So, anyway, there's those are some things that we can immediately work on. and um and and signage. Like I said, we have some people that we I'm sure we could get some banners and and get some signs up. So, we would just have them coordinate
with me and then I would get with you. Um one of you guys outlining the banner you want perhaps. Okay. So, um team, if we look at this fire right here, if we look at this, I guess he's saying out of these, which
one do we like? I mean, I like them all, so it's hard for me to pick. Um the not so fast ones seem to catch Ed's attention down here. This one right here was pretty. This one, by the way, these little yard signs. Yeah, they're your
takehome. There are takehomes. Okay. And I've got the little supports here. Okay, the first step, the first showing people get started, get used to the
idea. Do you have a radio clip already that we can like if we went to our local radios, we could say something whether I read it or Marlene reads it or somebody could you get us something like that that says you know what just some little clip that
if Marlene wanted to go to Hope FM and yeah a voiceover. Yep. I don't know the right language. Yep. That's right. And you know, hi I'm Marlene Ryan and I'm here to say blah blah blah blah blah you know and then you something like that if you could give us that. We feel like that we probably would get some the
local radios to work with us on this at school. Yeah. And on the YouTubes. Yep. On the YouTube channels, we could do that. We'll figure out the best time frame. Right. Right. Well, if you could give us the wording, we'll let the radio stations um
record them. We just want to say the right words. Madam Chairman. Yes. Um the sign thing when you first started putting those out a while ago caught my attention. I mean a lot not just here but I mean that you know if we could
somehow put those out I mean it's it's like I said to Dave a while ago about the you know putting something out that's new. It's it's like political signs right? You know you don't put them out but 30 days before the before the race because you want people to notice
it. And so I think that that would be right now would be a uh a time to do that. I mean something that don't cost, you know, if you've got the signs, it wouldn't cost as much to to get them out and just get them out and get them on on the road for a while. Yeah. Because we
are in that 100 day period. Yes. Okay. Well, we don't want to litter our community. I'm sure it won't be 10,000. So don't worry. Okay. All right. We can work on that. Um, so those are the immediate things that I think we can work on. Um, is there anything else that anybody has
that's immediate? Um, and go ahead, Miss Marlene. I I don't know if it's possible, but what if we got GP or Seol to be involved in funding some of the education parts for our I definitely think that's a possibility. Um
yeah I don't I don't see that as not I think they would definitely we could have those kind of conversations Christian GP is very helpful education Chris Jent yeah he's the public information yeah I think we can have those conversations so how does that
work do you reach out to him or how what what do you do well Julianne just left so let's give it to her I'm just teasing but seriously she might have the contact. She might have the the relationship. I'm not sure. We do and
we'll reach out to uh not only them but some other partners that I think would be willing to help us out as well. I think we got a lot of good folks in this community that'd be willing to to support this this process. I really do. And even if there's something we can pass out at at churches, I think even
though you don't churches aren't the ones who's doing the DUIs, but they might be sharing the information. That is correct. That's the whole purpose. I I think that's a very good idea. And Madam Chair, just I just want to make it uh we don't need to say this, but we are anyway. Anything that this committee
feels is appropriate, it wants us to make sure that we we get out uh you know, our IT department, our our public information uh individual will absolutely flood the media, you know, in every every way that we can to make sure this information gets out. So, uh, I've
been taking notes as well about there's about seven or eight ideas and once we come together and figure out what it is that we want to do, including the videos and things and and flyers from DOT, I think we uh we can make that happen as as soon as y'all would like to have that done. Well, that's what we're talking about. Those are the immediate needs we
do want to have done. We do want to start that. We do want to start that campaign. We don't want to wait till our next meeting to to do that. I think the next meeting will include the hard the hard items, the you know what our short-term and long-term goals are, whether it's um permanent signage or road changes or enforcement, those kind
of things. But the the the what we can work on today is and and do is um the flashing signs like we talked about um on Highway 100 and then if we can I know that's going to be a question and then
working on these outreach campaigns that DOT has already queued up for us. We just need to help get that information out there. Yes, sir. Whatever actions you take to at least communicate with us because we want to sure that everything's done in that. Yes, sir. We agree with that. You like
to track the fun things that you're you're doing as well. Yep. Okay. No problem. We'll be glad to do that. We we want to definitely we will definitely be working with you because you're really you're the conduit for the material anyway. I mean um we just want to share I mean sharing is allowed right without
you have the thumb drive, right? Okay. All right. Yes, sir. The geo fencing does that mean when you get to You can actually send them a message. Yeah, you might want to come out and speak to about that.
Geo fencing is a mechanism where we actually acquire information from uh different sources and and like the sheriff and and law enforcement can say when you use a phone in a crime, you can
track it, triangulate, and figure out who was there doing what. Well, to a much lesser degree, we can access and and utilize that information. So, we'll just know um the sheriff went through here uh later on, not now because we don't want distracted driving. We will
send you a message say be careful or there's a a lane change coming up or something. It's an informationational response after you've taken the action of going through this area that we've put a geoence around. So, it's just an electronic acknowledgement
that you were there that we then access and send a little information later. Does that help? It's after we have to know you were there. It's usually through your cell phone because your cell phone is what pings on the tower. There's no No, there's no
payments. It's it's just what what she's what he's saying is it would be like a public service announcement that comes on your phone. We we can there are services that will access Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cell phone, uh sneezing. I mean there's just all sorts
of distraction. Well, that's my point is we gather that information, understand, we could purchase that and then after you're elsewhere, not driving, we can just send a text message, say, "Hey, something interesting is going on. Be careful, etc." Yeah. That help? Yeah. Y
Okay. All right. Um, as far as the next meeting, um, what what are we thinking? That was our our next um next item of discussion. What's that? How long is it going to take? Um, how long is it going to take
to do what? Put the priorities in, you know, just Well, um, I mean, I have the notes that I took today, but I want you guys to You can send the priorities to Miss Laura that So, Laura sends you out the information. If you have any ideas or priorities you want to get, you can
send them to um, Laura Bardi and then she can gather them up and we'll have them in writing at the next board meeting. Right. Is that what we're saying? I want to make sure I understand. She's going to ask us or we're going to volunteer. Just go ahead and do it.
Yeah, that's what we're going to um do you need an email to ask? I don't think it hurts as a reminder. Okay. All right. We can do that. Well, Madam Chair, I'll have Miss Bardi reach out to each one of the uh uh members of the committee uh and ask them to go
ahead and start supplying the information request and then we'll include it in the next agenda. Okay. All right. So, um and I know everybody's ready to go home. Um do we want to meet toward the end of July? Maybe about a month from now. The
24th. Would that be okay? And uh yeah, we can do that. That's a proposed date. Does anybody have anything against that right now? All right, we'll put that as a proposed date and time. So July 24th, probably about 3:00 same way. And hopefully we'll be able to wrap
up what our priorities will be and what our suggestions will be to um the different entities. And go ahead. Yes, ma'am. if we could the uh I'll have Miss Bardi reach out uh the first of next week if we could get those back to her a week or so in advance of our meeting so
we can get all that information put together and get an agenda out in time for everybody. All right. And um again, I want to thank DOT for coming today and giving us information, sharing the data you have, the projects that you're already working on. I think that's
exciting. Um that's that's very um good that we've you've listened to us. Thank you for listening to us and thank you for listening to the community and providing these updates and what you're already working on. Many of them which are focused on um improving areas that
will improve safety in the in the community. And so thank you for that. And with that is there any other thing to come before the board? All right. This meeting's adjourned.