Everyone, welcome to 2026, and welcome to the first of the, Transportation Commission meetings for the City Of Scottsdale. This is the meeting for, 01/15/2026. Like all evening or like all meetings, I'd like to formally call the meeting to order. Welcome city staff, transportation commissioners, and the public to today's January 20 01/15/2026 meeting, transport of the transportation Commission. Meetings are being held in person, televised on Cox Cable eleven, and streamed online with
scottsdaleaz.gov. The public to listen and view meeting in progress. I'd like to ask for a roll call to begin this evening's meeting. Thank you. Chair Wilcoxon? Here. Thank you. Vice chair Cardella? Here. Thank you. Commissioner Marmon? Here. Thank you. Commissioner Pankowich? Here. Thank you. Commissioner Koftheil? Here. Thank you. Commissioner Davis? Here. Thank you. Commissioner Baker? Here. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Susan. Comment is being accepted for agendized and non agendized items. The request to speak forms must be submitted no later than ninety minutes before the
start of the meeting. Susan, do we have any requests for spoken comment today? Chair Wilcoxon, we do not. Alright. Written comments are being accepted for agendized and non agendized items and should be submitted electronically at least ninety minutes before the start of the meeting. These comments are also emailed to Transportation Commission and posted online. Susan, do we have any written comments? Chair Wilcoxon, we do not. Alright. Well that with that, I will proceed to the agenda. And our first item is the, approval of the minutes from our 11/20/2025 meeting.
Do we have any, any comments on the notes? Okay. I do have one, comment actually on page three, paragraph five, line one, and then on same page, paragraph seven, line one, the chief fire chief is referred to as chair. So if you could make those changes, and nothing else was out of order. Chief Weller. Wait, not chief. I'm sorry. I'll get it corrected with his proper title and amend that.
Thank you. Thank you. And with that, I don't see any other comments. Would someone care to make a motion to approve the minutes from the 11/20/2025 meeting? Motion to approve the minutes as amended. Second. We have a motion and a second. Do we need a roll call vote on this? Give me one second. Excuse me. Motion by commissioner Koftile and second by commissioner Davis? That's correct. Okay. I'll I'll do an individual vote, which is what I think you said. Chair Wilcoxon?
Yes. Thank you. Vice chair Cardella? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Marmon? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Pankiewicz? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Koftile? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Davis? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Baker? Yes. Thank you. Minutes are approved as amended. Great. Thank you, Susan. Moving on to agenda item two, approval of the annual transportation commission report. And is there a presentation with this? I know we were sent the copy of the report Chair Wilcoxon, we just have
the document that you were sent in your packet as well as I gave each of you a printed copy and, we can scroll through if there's any questions anyone has. We included, I just noticed an error. I said eight meetings held because I don't know how to do math when it's under 12. It should say nine unless I'm, mistaken. And I included any topic that was brought in, in order of when we brought
it as much as possible for action items as well as information. And then if, if you could scroll down just a tad, then we just include information on the attendance of each commissioner. Everybody did a great job at attending. And then it just discusses information about the paths and trails subcommittee, everyone's ethics training that was completed on time, the selected officers, and, included just required items like the,
the review of the bylaws and city code was completed. So other than that change I need to make to say nine meetings, please, let me know if there's any other changes or questions. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Susan. Are there any, comments, corrections, changes? Yes. I have one, Cheryl Wilcoxon. Under the member and tenants table, for my, presence, it should be, seven instead of one. Oh my. Thank you. Yes. That is Thank you.
Committee is It's a Susan copy paste error. Seven. Thank you. Any other comments? I'm wondering for Mary Ann Miller, should that be eight since she was just through October and we had a meeting in November? That should be eight as well. She was with us in spirit for that lesson. Yes. Any other comments? Thank you. Alright. With those corrections, I will, entertain a motion to, approve the annual report. I move that we approve the 2025 annual report for the Transportation Commission.
Second. Thank you Commissioner. Second. Thank you. Mark Fair. Alright. The second or it was, it was, motion by, Commissioner Marmon and seconded by commissioner Baker. Okay. Chair Wilcoxon? Yes. Thank you. Vice Chair Cardella? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Marmon? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Pankowicz? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Koftau? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Davis? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Baker? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Susan. Alright. Right. And moving right along, we're going to number three, election of officers.
We do this every year at this time, so that we and the commission meeting or the, the term of I guess the term of election is a year until the next time around. So with that, we're looking for, nominations for chair and vice chair. I would like to nominate Commissioner Wilcoxson as chair. Thank you, commissioner. Second? Our vice chair. Thank you, commissioner. Do we vote on these separate, Susan, or do we just That's a great question. I'm not sure.
I guess you could do it however the group would wish to do it unless we had multiple people, wanting to nominate. Let's do it in one go. Okay? Yeah. If you'd like. Commissioner Goff out. And then so then I nominate, vice chair Cardella as, for vice chair. Okay. Second. Alright. Thank you. So we have an initial, motion by vice chair Cardella and a second for the
first motion by Commissioner Marmon. Marmon. Thank you. And then an amendment by? Commissioner Koftile. Amended motion by Koftile Koftile. Sorry. And who was the second? Commissioner Davis. Thank you. Any discussion? Looks like we're ready to take a vote. Chair Wilcoxon? Yes. Thank you. Vice Chair Cardella? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Marmon? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Pankowicz? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Kostyle? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Davis? Yes. Thank you. And commissioner Baker?
Yes. Thank you. Congratulations, Chair Wilcoxon and Vice Chair Cardella. Great. Thank you and thank you all for your faith in us. Okay. Moving along to item number four, the 2026 Transportation Commission meeting schedule. We have a, So, Chair Wilcoxon, as a reminder, we the bylaws do require that we have nine meetings per year. And, typically, we discuss and take action you as a as a commission, months that
we don't hold a meeting. I believe in 2025 the group talked about, not wanting to have two months in a row that that there was a canceled meeting. So it's up to all of you how you want to schedule your meetings. So we're looking for a, a third meeting to cancel that is not continue or not, adjacent to July or Yeah. December. Unless you wanted a different three months altogether, but it would, be the action a
motion for the group, or a motion to make and vote on. Okay. Alright. Commissioner Marmon. You know, we're in the middle of this transportation safety plan and I believe there's a schedule for that and I think we need to know that schedule so we can keep the safety plan going. Sure. Yeah. I think that's a good idea. Susan, do we have any, do we have any idea what the schedule is for the, for the, transportation, or the, safety plan?
Chair Wilcox and members of the commission, a My consultant is looking at we've had many meetings and sessions over the last year. They're compiling all of our comments as well as things finishing up the draft. We should have that soon. We'll review it internally, have some back and forth with the consultant.
So I agree with Susan about April would be the time we can bring the final and completed draft to you guys so we can start reviewing it as with the commission. Are there any, between now and, say, April, are there any, proposed, or scheduled briefings on any of the sections? We have finished up all of our briefings, we're just looking to bring the draft to the commission now. Alright. So we presumably could take one of the February or March off off or we could try something like September.
Any other thoughts? Go ahead, commissioner Marmon. Well I think to to balance things off we should consider March because we have July and December on the second half of the year off. Okay. Alright. Makes sense? Okay. So, we have March, we have a proposal although it's not a formal, motion, a proposal for March, July, and December, being the month we we don't meet. Would someone like to to make a motion for that? Well, I would be curious to know what the staff thinks of that because I
don't think we've ever had one that early in the year, skipped a meeting that early in the year, they've been on the back end of the year. The staff is our regular time off of the council is July and December. And then coming up with March seems we're fine doing what the council needs us to do in terms of council, sorry, commission doing what they need us to do to to have agenda items. So March is fine. It coincides with, pretty closely to spring break. So I can imagine that that helps staff as most people take time off during
spring break to be with kids so we can accommodate what you guys think is best for the month off. Okay. Do we have a motion? Yes, chair Woodhoxen. I'd like to make a motion to take off the months of, March, July, and December. Thank you, commissioner Davis. Do we have a, second? I second it. Thank you, commissioner Baker. The motion has been made and seconded. I didn't catch which one seconded. Commissioner Baker. You both sounded very enthusiastic. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, commissioner Baker. I'll take a roll call vote. Chair Wilcoxon? Yes. Thank you.
Vice chair Cardella? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Marmon? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Pankowitz? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Koftile? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Davis? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Baker? Yes. Thank you. I think it was the addition of the spring break concept that that really sold March for everybody. Yeah. That was, coming directly from a parent. So Great. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Moving along to item number five, Scottsdale trolley paint color change.
We have a, a presentation on this and, I'm sure there'll be lively debate. So Nathan. Thank you. Chair Wilcoxon, members of Transportation Commission, yes. So we've been contemplating this, we've been, mulling this over for a couple for a while now now to talk about what is our color of the Scottsdale trolleys and whether we should change them to reflect the city a little bit more. It's the right time to have this conversation because we're going into the So right
now the five vehicles are scheduled for delivery in '6. We're looking to create a consistent color scheme that improves the recognition and civic branding of our trolleys. Nothing inherently wrong with the old style. It's good. It's, it has strong vibrant colors. We're just looking to model it a little bit more after what we have for Civic branding. We do have a strong Civic design. It is incorporated in a lot of features in the city.
So just trying to emulate that and bring that the trolleys into consistency with the rest of the city. History of the Scottsdale trolley. So 2526, we switched from a seasonal service to a year round service. We currently have 17 vehicles in the fleet. The vehicle color scheme, it's designed to complement Valley Metro, and the next slide will show that while that may that decision was to complement it and make them look similar as they go through the city, it kind of leads to confusion or at
least slight confusion of which vehicle is coming from time to time. So the decision was made to complement Valley Metro. We're trying to work away from that, make ourselves distinct so that our riders, when they see a a Valley Metro vehicle or a Scottsdale vehicle, can identify which one is which and know which one they're getting on. Services from Monday to Friday, we have three routes, one in the middle part of town, two in the southern part of town, one that kind of extends from the middle to the southern part of town. And it's mostly primarily for connections, to the civic centers sorry, to the senior centers.
And then we also provide some special event service, including the spring training service that goes from the parking garages in Old Town to the ballpark during games, during home games for the Giants, go Giants. These are our models and I'll go through all the ones that we currently have in stock. So these are our twenty thirteen models. They're our older versions. We have a 13 foot bus that is showing more of the traditional trolley look with the wood paneling on the sides. Purple with gray is the consistent theme through it, but, and then we have the
more 35 foot long bus that has a more simplified 35 footer that is that same purple and gray. And then our new one has more of a white top with the purple. And the latest buses that we purchased was in 2020. This is the combination or the comparison between Valley Metro buses and our fleet. You can see a similar color scheme. So as you see it coming down the road, you have to wait, I would
say, actually quite a while before you can identify whether it's a trolley or a Valley Metro. I certainly, have taken some time or some thought as it comes down the road whether which service is being provided. It is important to note that ours is a free trolley service that does different routes. Valley Metro is paid, so that that identification is somewhat important to know which bus is coming and whether you're getting on it or not. So we can brand recognition or public awareness, the passenger uncertainty of which vehicles are
part of the fleet, and then, inconsistent approach across the routes. So we have different types. We have the trolley version. We have the newer versions that have a little bit more white in there, and we circle these buses through the different routes. So sometimes you'll see the one with the wood paneling going on one of our more the route in in the middle part of the town, or you'll have one of the 35 footers. It's it's a service that we provide where we're not designating certain buses for certain
routes. It's based on the morning and what we have available. So looking for consistency so that, it's identifiable throughout a caution as we go into the different kind of color schemes that we have. As we noticed, we have two different types of blue that are standard for the city. We have our Civic blue and then we have our Denim blue. The Civic blue is a lot darker. These are the new Tempe orbit buses. They are very similar to the Civic Blue, the dark blue. So just to put that as an example that we do run routes that come
very close to the orbits. So having the goal being to distinguish ourselves from other routes as well as bring the Civic branding, make note that our Civic blue is very close to what Orbit is now running with the the darker blue. So as we've seen in many different photos taken and branding throughout, at least what I've seen through many parts of the city, the trolley does seem to get photographed quite a lot and be presented in different marketing campaigns whether it's ours or just across the city. So but It is one of the very, very old buses that we used to
have blue and white trolleys going through the Old Town area and they still use a picture that is with the blue and white buses. So we see this a lot of places. We wanna make sure that we bring back the blue and gray for that civic identity. But I wanted to highlight that I see pictures pop up in all different places all over, place with trolleys in there, even if it's not necessarily, talking about the trolley. The recommendation is the standard color palette for the city to ensure consistent approach across
all routes, high contrast design to make a quick recognition at a distance. We're going to make sure that we include the Scottsdale Trolley branding on the sides as well as city markings and then fleet numbers and then adopt template based approach to facilitate future updates. So the key thing of this is not just to identify the colors we want to use for this new batch of buses that we're purchasing, but put in our designs, our design standards that this is the template that we use so that if
we wanna make that change, we'll come back to the commission, but make sure that we've standardized the way the look and feel of our buses, so we don't just make changes based on each batch that we purchase. So as we go into the the, action item, one of the actions is to standardize our our template for the buses. You can see on the side, that's our that's our primary color palettes. We have our primary denim, light blue, Civic dark blue, secondary being gray, and then the secondary also being white.
So one of those can be the secondary colors. We've been I'll I'll bring that up as we go into the colors. Based color bay base color design and schedule, so, we have been collaborating with our graphic design team and Scottsdale Arts to come up with a color palette as well as, the scheme itself on the buses. So we need to confirm the color palette this month and then a very quick turnaround by February to stay on schedule for the procurement of the buses in the
fall of coming up with the paint scheme itself for the decals for the new bus. So that's our schedule. And then the fall, we will get those new buses, and then we will come back here as well as look to move forward with what we're gonna do with the existing fleet. Like I said, we are purchasing 13 new buses, so this would be our effort moving forward with those 13 buses. A lot of the old buses are going to come to their end of life. And do we do we spend the money to replace their paint and their decals,
or do we let them run their course amount of time, we'll have the fleet with the new branding. So something to be decided once we get these new buses. The goal is just to start the process with these five buses and get rolling in the right direction. And going into the different paint schemes that we looked at with our graphic design team, we're going to going into the different paint schemes that we looked at with our graphic design team, we we matched a lot of the different colors together. I should identify that. This is not the layout of the paint necessarily.
We're not gonna do just a top coat and then a and a bottom coat. We are gonna have our graphic design team work on maybe bringing in some some different kind of mixtures of where the paint is going. This is just to highlight that we have a secondary and a primary color that we can identify for the buses. The, we were recommended that two paint colors was the right choice for if we brought too many in, it would get it would blend together and start getting a little messy, a little complicated. So it was highly recommended to us to choose two, a primary and a secondary,
and then you'll see the different variations of them. So this is a denim blue with the white, a very traditional, Scottsdale look. And we have the Civic blue and the white, and as I mentioned with the orbits and looking a little bit similar to them if we went about this. The gray, the denim blue, and the gray, once again, another very Scottsdale looking color of that. Then we have Civic blue and gray. Then we had a gray with a partial wrapper or decals, so going with an all gray and then going pretty heavy on the the decals to, highlight Scottsdale influence,
and then an all white for a full wrap. We've talked to Valley Metro about their wraps, and they only use their their RAPS for about once a year. We're not necessarily looking to wrap our buses once a year, paint blasts significantly longer. So we wanted to highlight this about all the options that we looked into, but strongly don't recommend, going with a white bus with RAPS. It's going to the maintenance is going to be too much and it's going to be too costly. So final wraps versus decals, so the wraps should be replaced two to three times in the bus's life cycle.
If we're being very concentrated on preserving the style, we live in the desert. The sun does affect the decals quite a lot, it does crack and break. So we do need to replace the decals at least a couple of times in the lifespan, which is typically twelve to fifteen years, whereas the vinyls is going to be a once a year thing. So, it is an option that we can use and the Valley Metro uses from time to time. So, if we do want to bring some vinyl wraps together and do it for a seasonal event or special branding for a year, we have that option and we
could move forward with that for something that we'd like to highlight, but that would be a case by case basis and not something to do as the regular standard, paint scheme. Collaboration with Scottsdale Art, we have had them in the room. It was a good idea to bring them in. They have some ideas about colors as well as scheming. And then they've talked to us about bringing our current public art onto the buses, whether we put a wrap on there to show the public art or whether we use some of our key pieces as, influence in some of the decals that we
use, the jackknife statue being one that would also would definitely represent city logo, while also representing a public art piece that many of the residents do like and admire. So the Jackknife statue, that's the one on the far right, if, you're unfamiliar. It's right there on Main. It is the horse and rider. The horse and rider logo being representing Scottsdale very strongly.
I'll tell you that word later when I when I'm not up on the the podium. Then we have, the one eyed jack. That's a very popular statue Indian school, the horses, and then and then the one over by Fashion Square. So a lot of different statues that we have that we can can use as models for the decals that we come up with for the buses as we move forward. And so with that, I've showed you what we have and open up for discussion or comments. Thank you, Nathan. Now so you're looking for us or from us to choose or make a recommendation
on which So the exterior? So right now, I would say approve the standardization of the exterior paint colors, so telling us to go and make a standard, then approve us using the blue, white, and gray. Then we're gonna come back before February 23 and and show the paint schemes and paint styles that we have. So this is just to say that we're going to go forward with the Scottsdale colors and then to standardize it. I see. Okay. Thank you. Commissioners, any I would I guess I should say last thing, sorry, Chair Wilcoxon.
If you have any, preferences or suggestions about the colors, we would love to hear it too. So Thank you for your faith in my fashion and color sense. I will probably defer to city staff on this one, but, regardless, commissioners, any, questions or comments? Commissioner Marmon. Was the, the bus identification feedback from riders? I don't think we've gotten that from riders. That would just be understanding of what the goal and the intent was for the
color we have now and observation from staff. How's the ridership? How's ridership? How's the ridership? Goods? It's going up. It's trending up. We're still coming back from COVID. We're looking to market and provide possible changes to the routes to to improve ridership. Well, I think since we're gonna put our 2¢ in, I really like that gold decal with Scottsdale on it. I mean, it's distinctive. It says Scottsdale on it. It's on the older bus. And but I do think Scottsdale is also known for horses, especially at Westborough, and
that would be a good candidate. Thank you. Thank you. One comment? Oh, a I'm done. Oh, just a moment. Commissioner Cottau. Just, real quick, just my 2¢. I think I prefer the the light denim blue, and gray. Just, that's just my 2¢ on that one since you graciously gave us that option to give that to you. This is a little outside of this this one here. I just wanted to make a comment since, you're looking at them as somebody rides
a bike a lot and takes the bus a lot. Lot. Some some of the buses come with, bike racks that have that do three, and some come with ones that have two. And so if there's a option there, I just, wanted to give, you know, the three is, makes it a lot easier to, to use the bus. So I just wanted to give that feedback. And then, you mentioned in your presentation, you know, we've got, like, five currently different schemes color schemes, I think, or four.
And you kinda rotate them all throughout all the you know, through our three different routes. It has there been any talk about just keeping certain ones in certain on certain routes just to make that a little more because I I I have noticed that it's been a little confusing and, you know, all the and I did have one friend who specifically came to Scottsdale to ride the trolley and, was disappointed that she got on one of the newer ones rather than the, old style with the wooden trim and stuff like that. So, Chair Wilcoxen and Commissioner Wolcottel, this is a product of our fleet inventory, the
size of our fleet that we we the size of our fleet that we we have limited buses right now. The bus purchase could help with that. We maybe could run the same buses on the same routes. But right now, we use what we have available and and send them out. So we can look into it, but right now, we're just our our fleet is so small that we we use what we have in stock to to put out on the route. And then, so our current fleet is 17 vehicles, and we're getting 13 more in
the next three years, I think you said. Right? Yep. So are we at the end of that three years, are we gonna still be at 17 vehicles? Or are we gonna be higher than that, or lower? We are determining it was planned to be replacements, so come back to 'seventeen again, see if we can extend the life of some of our buses and maybe work with the size of our fleet, so maybe get up to twenty, twenty one buses. Okay. Alright. Then that's all I have.
Thank you very much for your presentation. Thank you. Commissioner Baker. It seems to me, we're so the orbit buses, the the blue color in the orbit buses looks like it's closest to the civic blue. So I would think we wanna go with the denim blue to differentiate ours from the orbit literature, it talks about that the maintenance is higher on the white, as you might imagine, color. So that would lend me to go to the gray. So the denim blue and the gray seems like the best way to go to
me. Sounds good. I agree. We we do have in our, specifications with the vendor the ability to put in three colors. So we can put in three colors and then look to do how we configure them. So if we drop one off, we can get some savings on that too. So we can start with three and work down to the two just to provide that. Three colors would be, like, both blues and and white? Or Three paint colors. We get to just choose which paint colors it is.
So we can go with gray, white, and blue. We can go with civic blue I see. Denim blue and white. They just want us to identify the three colors we are planning to use. Okay. Commissioner Davis. So as I was looking at the presentation beforehand, I kind of pictured in my mind's eye, like, what do I think of the Scottsdale Trail looks like? And what's interesting is that you're telling me it was the oldest model we have from 2013 with the with the wood paneling and such. And I've realized now that I've actually seen probably our trolleys out on the roads thinking they were a Valley Metro bus because they lacked that detail.
I understand the reason to shift away from the purple and and and make it our own thing and tie in the blue, which is great. I think I think both of the blue options are presented look fine and I agree with Commissioner Baker's, I guess, choice between the two as well as the gray as the secondary color. But I would really like if we were able to incorporate, the wood paneling or gold accent that we have. I think that is a characteristic of what I think of a trolley should look like even though I know they're buses, right? They're not trolleys but, I don't know if that's applied as a third coat of
paint or a third type of color or if that is done as a decal? To us, as you see the one that looks like the trolley, that is wood paneling on the sides and it is challenging to maintain as would have to we have to go and get a replacement part. So that is the challenge with those. If you see this one right here, that was, I believe, one of the twenty eighteen models. You can see they tried to replicate the trolley look while putting on a 35 foot bus. On the left picture, the right the right most?
This picture, with this one right here. So it was two it was this that had just the the two tone paint scheme and then this one that tried to to model it as close to this without putting the wood paneling onto it. Got it. I I would encourage. I understand there'll be a cost issue with that. From a design standpoint, that is probably what I would like to see is to have again, maybe not real word paneling and I accept the fact that they're in zone and that's not the correct choice. But if there could be some decals applied to to to give that that that
trim look, I think that's a massive selling point. And again, I think that's what if you told me what does the trial look like, that that that's it. That's what you It's it's probably not a blue and white bus with, with a logo on the side. Those are my comments. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Panquets. I know a lot of cities are looking into EV buses, but it's really difficult in our climate to do especially in the summer. Are any of these buses going to be electric? The five that we have already talking to Gilligan is CNG.
Our most of our fleet is CNG and, we haven't put in the purchase for the next five or the next three after that. So this five are CNG buses. We haven't looked into EV at all. Our infrastructure is built for CNG right now. So that would be a big shift for for our fleet and for our our yard to start incorporating that. I know that solid waste has looked a little bit into that. They've, been very reserved about their vehicles going on EV.
They don't think that it has the force to get the the the, dumpsters up over the the, up and into the the truck. So but, no, we haven't looked in the EV at all. Okay. And then to, I guess, echo what commissioner David has said, I think that some of the best run cities in terms of their buses and transportation really market their
lines. Like, there there are many cities in the world where you know your bus is coming because it's the red bus or it's the gray bus. And I would like to see, it seems like we're really limited in the color palette and it matches, our adjacent cities and also Valley Metro. But I would like to see something that better markets the fact that this is, Scottsdale specific. Whether that I know that white can be challenging. Whether that can be done with more gray or different ways to apply the white
so that passengers can really know their bus is coming without having to even read the, the sign, which is what, the cities with the best transportation you could do. You see something red coming and you know that's the bus that takes you home. But, that would be really nice to see. And I'm not advocating for red. I'm just advocating for something that's just that you can see it and know that's the trolley and not confuse it at a distance with, Valley Metro bus or an Orbit bus. Chair Wilcox and commissioner Penkowitz, we are, that is our goal is to make ours
distinct and reflective of it's our bus and you see it coming. So we will try to incorporate that as much as possible to differentiate ourselves from Valley Metro or the orbits or anything else out there. Any other comments? Mister Makowitz? Okay. Any other comments? So, Nathan, just to be clear, we're gonna, look at the color palette this month and then you'll come back to us next month with decals options. Is that correct? We have a very tight schedule with Gillig. We have got to get them our design by February 23, so I have to
come back here next month to show you and hopefully get that into the order that we will have. Okay. So, to Commissioner, Davis's and Commissioner Pangowitz's, comments, that discussion about what the things will look like once we've decided on the base colors will really be next month. Will really be next month. Okay. Alright. So, with that in mind we're looking for a vote or a motion on a on color on color palettes who've got, choices of, two different blues, white and a
gray. If we'd had one more color, it probably would have been impossible to decide. But, do we have a, do we have a motion? Yes, chair. I have a motion. I would like to, propose, approving the standardization of the Ska Seltra exterior paint scheme for the entire fleet and then approving the use of the city's traditional palette, with the use of denim blue, and gray as the baseline paint schemes. Can I second that motion?
Okay. So we have a, a motion by commissioner Davis and a second by commissioner Baker, for blue and gray or excuse me, denim blue and gray. I have a question. So we can include white in that as well though. Right? Really it's just to keep blue, white, and gray and then we're selecting which blue. Yes. But not determining what the top is, if that's gray or white. That'll come down to the designs and the professionals to come up with that. Yeah. And it could be a little white stripe or it could be half of we
just need to give them three paint colors. So yeah. That's just I didn't like three. I see. So either blue works. Yes. Mister chairman, could you repeat the motion, please? Sure. The motion, as I understand it is to approve standardization of the Scottsdale trolley exterior, and then approve the at at this point, we have color palette that consists of two colors, the denim blue and the gray. But we have an option for a third color. So those are the two motion or that's that's the motion on the table. Do we wanna vote on that or do we wanna amend it?
So I would amend the motion to include the white, blue, and gray in the color scheme with the denim blue. That's the blue. Thank you vice chair Cardella. Do we have a second? No second. I wanted so sorry, we'll finish that part. I second the amendment. Thank you commissioner, Marmon. Any discussion on that? Well, one comment in the document as I said earlier that, white is much more maintenance intensive. So it would seem that gray would be the way to go just to reduce.
Do you have a feel for what percentage more maintenance is required for the white versus the gray? Just more, Touch up and Or clean, more touch up. Yeah. It would reflect it more so. That that's my thought is is go with the gray that way we reduce the maintenance cost. Thank you. Commissioner Baker. Vice chair Cardella. This motion though is just allowing the designers to use select from those three colors. So they may come up with a design that has a gray top and then that's something that we would vote on later, but this is simply saying these are
the three colors to choose from versus here's two colors to choose from. Yes. That's my understanding, yes. Does that make sense Commissioner Baker? Okay. Any other discussion? I just Excuse me. Or, excuse Commissioner Castell. I just had a question just along, commissioner, Davis's, question about the trim. Would the trim color to kinda give it that, not actually wood paneling, but to give it that sort of trolley look, would that be part of this base color scheme or would that be something for February?
It would be part of February. We're gonna have to Alright. Then That would have to be decals, which are not included in the base color scheme. So, if we're gonna look to try and replicate a trolley as much as possible with the purchase order that we have now, that would be with decals. Okay. Alright. Then I do not have any more questions. Okay. So we have, a motion, a second, and then an amended motion, and a second. So I guess we're voting on the second or the amended motion, but both motions are both, proposals had common feature of, the approval of the standardization of the Scottsdale
trolley. The most recent amended motion, is to include in the palette the, denim blue, gray, and white. And next this February, the arts commissioner, you all, will come back to us with a combination. We're not deciding on what how we would use those colors, but those would be the color palettes that we would work with after this. Mhmm. Exactly. Yes. Okay. So with that, I think we're ready for a vote.
Thank you. Chair Wilcoxon. Yes. Thank you. Vice chair Cardella. Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Marmon? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Pankiewicz? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Koftheil? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Davis? Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Baker? Yes. Yes. Thank you. Great. Alright. Thank you all, everyone. Normally, normally color choices are argued in our household but Okay. Moving on to number six, projects and programs updates.
Nathan. We will certainly have more speakers as the year comes, I promise. Will we have more color choices though? More color choices, more. More different size of the department will come and present to you, I assure you. So now I will thank you, Chair Wilcoxon, members of Transportation Commission. I will give you our projects and programs update of what we've done over the last year and what we're kind of looking to move into into the future. So referencing the focus point of the transportation action plan to refine the existing transportation
infrastructure, fill the system gaps where they are and then an effective use of the existing right of way are three key features that we use when we're developing these projects or doing our maintenance improvements throughout the city. So I'm gonna go into two key focus areas today of the central and the lower part and highlight some of our improvements that have happened over the last, year. So capacity improvements for the central area, McCormick Parkway Multi Use Path has started its
design of looking to put a multi use path on the southern side of McCormick Parkway, this being the main, artery for our, bike and pedestrian multiuse paths with the Indian bin wash going through here in our pass system there. We've provided a pedestrian refuge crossing on McCormick Parkway and looking to see if we need to widen out that sidewalk there. So that feasibility study has just started last year and will continue into this year.
One of the most significant things we finished last year was the Loop 101 widening. Thanks to ADOT four leading that endeavor, we did have significant skin in the game with the improvements to our interchanges, and we've seen a improvement to the interchange at Frank Lloyd Wright being the key and the biggest one, but also an extension of the right turn bay on Shea as well as various other things as well as the just the overall widening of the 101.
I'll go more into detail on that in a later slide. And then the Shea Boulevard improvements, these were several intersection improvements of adding term base as well as improvements to the signals and also some active transportation or some multi use improvements through that corridor as well as adding, concrete to one of the underpasses that we have in that corridor. So a comprehensive improvement through that corridor through Shea. And some safety improvements, the Indian And Wash Path renovations, we just completed the Osborne
section just south of here and are moving into the Indian And Wash area just north of McCormick branch going all the way up to the Loop 101, widening those paths out. We just finished the IGA, the agreements. It's not under government. Let's see. Amended maintenance agreement with McCormick Ranch Property Owners Association. Thank you. I Thank you. I go too quickly into IGA. This is not a governmental agreement. This is an agreement with the McCormick, Ranch HOA so that we will go out and widen those paths.
Then we have the cap the cap canal path design that we finished our agreement with ADOT to continue that design as well. Completed. It added one general purpose lane to each direction, reducing that significant choke point that we had right as you came up to Shea going northbound for sure that has now been alleviated as well as interchange improvements at Pima Road, Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard. Raintree Drive and then Shea Boulevard and then updated freeway and ramp lighting with LED. We also improved the aesthetics and the landscaping throughout the corridor.
As you can see, fresh paint and aesthetic improvements on both the new pillars in the freeway and the existing ones, making sure that it's nice and freshed up, which was a key point for the residents. And we looked to provide that funding as well as with tourism to update and improve those features. Then going to the southern part of the town, we have the Pima Road widening, which we'll be wrapping up here in the next couple months, hopefully, by the May
or June, to finish that up and widen that road. The Arizona Canal bank improvements, we had a path that just extended from Camelback just up as a developer came in to put in their development. We have a new multiuse path going on the West side of the canal. Shared use path signs, we have new signs along that path highlighting the restrictions to e bikes on the multiuse paths along the canal as the federal government does not
allow any motorized vehicles on those paths. They own those that land and we adhere to that. Then the safety improvements, the 77th Street emergency access improvements is continuing and we should be wrapping up design relatively soon. 68th Street Camelback and Indian School sidewalks is continuing as well and we should be starting construction hopefully in the next coming sometime this year, hopefully, before summer to start that construction. And then 2nd Street streetscape improvements, we started the study and the design to see
what kind of pedestrian improvement features can be added to that corridor, to improve that. And then the Old Town pavement, a significant, investment to repave and put some preservation to the pavement in the Old Town area. Pavement preservation, our crews went out there and for a couple of months did a extensive amount of work, everything from solar seals to fog seals to mill and overlays to improve the condition of of the roads in the Old Town area.
And here are some of the stats that they had that was a substantial amount of yardage done, including parking lots and alleys to freshen up all the pavement down there. I know that that was a daunting task for them, and they accomplished it very well. And it's it's a massive endeavor to try and tackle that, including, Christine Link over here with our public relations officer of going out there and coordinating with the businesses and the the residents out there of all of this.
I know everybody pitched in and it was very large task and was accomplished. They also added the painted crosswalks in several areas, which is a interesting thing to see done where it is asphalt and they stamp it and then paint it so that it the maintenance problems that we've had before. So it's a simplified version of giving us the aesthetic feel that we want while maintaining the maintenance that that helps us keep it as as fresh as possible.
2nd Street, like I said, we're starting the preliminary design for the improvements to the pedestrian activity along the road roadway. We have it as a bond project when we're looking to see what can be accomplished. So in the next coming months, we'll have identified what we can use to to just freshen up and improve walking capabilities through this quarter. The repaving and restriping program, so as our crews go out and repave things, John's team and several of our transportation planners look at ways that can we can modify
the striping to bring it up to current standards. So several of the corridors in the last year's restriping and repaving cycle, were able to narrow the wet lanes a little bit and add some bike features into this. This is not our standard for lane widths is 11 feet. So sometimes we have wider lanes than are feasible for safety reasons as well as for accommodations of other modes.
We it affords us the opportunity to add new features. Honda Street between Cactus and Sweetwater allowed us to put a buffer bike lane in. It was already an existing bike lane. This is now a buffer to that and 60 of existing bike lane. This is now a buffer to that, and 68th Street North Of Shea allowed us to put a a bike lane just, on the one side of the road. I took this picture and I was, wanted to add it because you see a car parked in there. That is a Waymo that has decided to put itself in our bike lanes, so
we should probably tell them to not park in bike lanes. So wherever possible, we modified to the current standards and then add bike lanes where we can. Trail improvements to 25, we added three new trails up in the northern part of the region. Desert Foothills neighborhood trail system was completed early last year as a extensive network through one of our our neighborhoods up there to connect to more regional trail routes as well as through the neighborhood itself. The Los Gatos Trail was added as well as Pima GeoMax from Pima to Pinnacle
Peak Trailhead. So all of those were were completed. Then the restructuring reconstruction of the trails for Pinnacle Peak Road from Hayden to 80 To 78th Street and then the Scottsdale Road trail connections were all reconstructed to add new life to them. And then enhancements on the Riata Wash Trail, the Riata Wash single track track from Westworld to Bellevue where where where brush was removed and and adding allowing people to move through there as well as the Ashland Hills Trail realignment where we had a
trail that was dipping into, a place where it shouldn't go. So we we realigned that to be back into the right of way or the easement. New inventories. We had, several of our staff work on adding inventories that we can use to make sure that we're keeping our assets up to speed. One of them being the way finding sign inventory for the Indian bed wash multi use path. We have added those new signs and now we've completed the inventory of all those
signs to make sure that we know where they are and when we need to replace a sign. We can just highlight where it is and they can go out and replace it. As well as the bike rack Old Town inventory identifying where all of our bike racks are. So those two inventories were completed last year as well. Cycle of the Arts, we finished Cycle of the Arts again last year featuring 10 art installments at nine stops. It was 11 mile route. We've kind of honed in on how long of a route this event should be. It is I guess, I should back up and say, I'm so I guess, used
to this event now, but Cycle of the Arts is an event that we host where we have a route. We coordinate with Scottsdale Art to create a route for us to cycle. And as the title suggests, to the arts or cycle of the arts, where we will take groups to each art installation, public art installation. We'll have a speaker there, whether it's the artist themselves or somebody who knows about the art. We'll stop there. They'll talk about the art and we cycle through. It's on a Saturday.
It's a pretty good family friendly event that is well attended and and and very much enjoyed. So last year, we did an 11 mile route through Old Town, Southern Scottsdale, and then even wash as you can see the map there. And we give out a t shirt, some stickers, breakfast because it's early in the morning, and then we do also add a self guided map on the Internet. So if you couldn't attend the event, you can go and tour the route yourself.
This year is the twentieth year anniversary, so we're looking forward to highlighting it as much as possible seeing as it's an anniversary of twenty years of doing this event. And then the local area infrastructure plans, this year, we're looking to update those plans. These are infrastructure plans where when we've inherited these neighborhoods from the county, we needed to identify where the right of way and where the roads should go so that
we provide access to every parcel. It is a daunting task as the parcels keep getting subdivided, and we keep looking for ways to make sure that we have fee simple right of way and roads connecting to each parcel. We will look to update all of our maps to make sure that we look at all possible ways that we maintain access to the properties. With that, any comments or questions? Thank you, Nathan. That's, always, always great to see kind of the summary of all the work you
all do. Commissioners, any comments, questions? Commissioner Koftau. Hi, Nathan. Love the presentation. Always look seeing that. I just had a I didn't want, the on the old town payment preservation, slide, you had streets, 02/1412. Is that representing hours worked on that, or what exactly because I didn't think we had that many streets. It's it's all square yards. Square yards. Okay. Thank you. Alright. At the bottom. Okay. And then, and then just, to John, I just wanted the for the restriping, I
know we talked about this. I'm just gonna put it on the record though. Like, the the contractors that that were being used, they're not putting down everything that was there before they did the restriping. Specifically, I've noticed whenever there's a restriping that stop here to request a light for bicycles, that symbol just disappears and never comes back. And so at that recent we were talking about the intersection at Miller And Thomas, that symbol disappeared after they finished their work there. So, it's just, yeah, if you wanna give your contractors a hard time, that definitely
they're they're not quite doing they're they're not doing everything that they they said they were. Chair Wilcoxson, commissioner Cough Tyle, that's a very good question. That is actually intentional. We were still evaluating to see if we should, continue with the marking or we should just you know, many years ago, a few years, I think it's, like, almost ten years ago, we kinda pilot that project. And if we're looking at different agencies around us, they don't really do something like
that because it's almost, like, understood that if you're there, you so we are trying to streamline the detection system just like a vehicle. Right? They don't have any indication saying that you park here, you'll be detected. It's gonna be very similar for the bike if we're able to stream line the detection system. If the bikes are there waiting within reason, of time, you know, twenty, thirty seconds, whatever, they'll be picked up. And that's what we're trying to do.
And if we're able to do that, we can do away with our symbols. And that's it's very preliminary, still kind of evaluating. We didn't know which way we're going yet, but that's kind of where we at. Oh, okay. I have a follow-up then on that, which is when they when they don't put the symbol back down the pavement, you still see the sign, bolted to the, to the street light or the yeah. To the, the traffic light, mask there.
So it when you decide one way or the other on that, if you decide to just not have that anymore, is are you gonna also pull down those signs that are there? Yes. The discussion is gonna be both. Okay. We're either gonna have both or we're not gonna have any. Okay. And then, how are you determining how it's understood, I guess? Because it just, I'd like the what I'm thinking of is there's there's certain places where it used to be, there wasn't like a bike lane.
Like, again, Miller, because that's the one one I spend a lot of time on. Miller is like a one lane road, except at the intersection, it becomes a one lane with a turn bay as well, and then the turn bay would have that little square and it was always to the left. And so that's where you would put your bike is right there in that that left box, but that box isn't there anymore. And I, when I first started using it, I really enjoyed that because it's it wasn't intuitive to me to be on the left side there, but it's nice because
I've noticed drivers, if they can, they'll fit behind me and then they'll do a, they'll do a ride on red, through there. Although, I have other feelings about ride on red. But, you know, at least I the driver didn't feel like I was holding them up and I, and I, you know, was able and I didn't feel like I was holding somebody up either because I was there. If I was on the right hand side, you know, people just sit behind you. They don't kinda go around and then cut and then turn in front of you. So which I appreciate also, but I I liked it when it was obvious that
you should wait to the left of that term of that term bay. Jeff Wilkerson, commissioner, Kapteil, that's very good input. So we're not when I said either we have both or we don't have anything, but we can have something else instead of that. We were thinking of doing the buy symbol, the bigger buy symbol at the in the bike lane areas. So, so people the bicyclists would know that if there's a bike lane, if you're in here, you're gonna be detected. So we we are looking at different options, somehow, someway to make sure that the
bicyclists would understand that, hey. If they're gonna be here, they'll be okay. They'll be detected. Okay. Thank thank you. Commissioner Marmon. Thank you. Is the, 68th Street sidewalk project still move moving ahead? It is still moving ahead. We're wrapping up design and then we'll have a one last public outreach effort to show the full design to those residents along there. We have, you know, very small amount of residents that live on the 68th Street. So we've been constantly talking to them about this project and what will happen then
we'll move forward with construction this year. So yeah, it's moving ahead. Thank you. I just had one other question, or actually a comment, to add on to, Commissioner Marmon's, comment. I when we do get to 68th Street, it sounds like you're talking to the residents. I think it's a really big deal and it's not necessarily just a big deal for them because they pushed for it. I remember them coming here and speaking in front of the the commission, but I think it's really a good, case study to, advertise because it it is a situation
where people didn't know what to do, they turn to their government and their government responded to them. It, you know, took a long time but that's kind of nature of government. But the point is it's a good example of how, the government worked for the citizen's request to make that, you know, that road, better for them. And I I I think it's a really good example for Scottsdale and a really good inspiration for people who have other ideas. So I hope we, I hope we really celebrate that as a city as well
as the people on that street. So Sure, thank you. We definitely get that over the finish line and then we'll celebrate it. Right. That brings us to the end of the agenda except for the motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. We have a motion from, commissioner Koftaal. Do we have a second? Second. We have a second from vice chair Cardella. With that is just a voice vote. Correct? Yes. Okay. So all those in favor That's correct. All those in favor of adjourning say aye. Aye.
Any opposed say nay. Alright. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you all. We'll see you in February and, we'll can't wait to see what the design options are gonna look like with those buses. Thank you.