HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-09-18 PTS MinutesBozeman (Area) Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Committee 1
Minutes of the May 9th, 2018 Meeting 2
Upstairs Conference Room Alfred Stiff Office Building 3 4 Attendance: 5 6
Voting Committee Members: 7
Ralph Zimmer (Gallatin County), Chair 8 Danielle Scharf (City of Bozeman), Vice Chair 9 Mandee Arnold (City of Bozeman), Secretary 10
Tom Foster (Gallatin County) 11
Marilee Brown (At-large-Member) 12
Tony Gaddo (At-large-Member ) 13 14 Absent: 15
Dillon Fatouros (Bozeman School District) 16
Unfilled vacancy from School District 17
18 Official Non-Voting Committee Members: 19
John Van Delinder (City of Bozeman Streets Department) 20
Todd Swinehart (School District) 21
Absent: Bill Brownell, Road & Bridge Supervisor (County) 22
23 City Commissioners, County Commissioners, and School Board Members 24
Terry Cunningham (City Commissioner) 25
Absent: County Commissioner and School District Trustees 26
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Law Enforcement Liaison Officers 28 Steve Crawford (Chief, Bozeman Police Department) 29
Brian Gootkin (Sheriff, Gallatin County) 30
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Frequent Attendees and Guests (City, County, Bozeman School District, and Montana 32
Department of Transportation Staff): 33
Matt Marcinek (Gallatin Valley Land Trust) 34 Linda DuPriest (contractor to City for Bike/Ped) 35 36
Citizens and Other Guests: 37
Leslie Jackson (citizen associated with 1815 Sourdough Road) 38 Levi Ewan (Engineer Gallatin County) 39
Andy Kerr (Bozeman City Engineer’s Office) 40
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Quorum: Present. 42
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1. Call to Order, Introductions and New Business. 44 Ralph Zimmer, PTS Committee Chair, called the meeting to order at 12:00 PM and 45
introductions of attendees were made. 46
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2. Agenda. 48 Ralph offered the opportunity to provide comments on the agenda. None were made. Ralph 49
stated he would use agenda as a guideline but might deviate from it if that appeared to be 50
desirable at any point. 51
52 3. Public Comment. None. 53
4. Minutes. 54 Approval of April 11th minutes- postponed until next meeting, minutes were not distributed. 55
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5. Report on Results of Previous Actions & Consideration of Follow-Up Action. 57 No objections to move along the agenda 58
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6. County Commission, City Commission, and School Board Member Reports. 60
Terry Cunningham reported the strategic planning process has been reviewed and some items 61
have been identified as priorities. Community out reach and affordable housing, detailed goal 62 planning and land use alternatives, parks maintenance district and, public law and justice 63
center- these items have been identified as key items. 64
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7. Liaison Officer Reports- 66
Steve Crawford with the police department reported, MSU graduation weekend went well. 67 Radar trailer is available, neighborhoods can request it, go through the website to request. 68
Working on traffic, motorists should try to avoid Ferguson and Durston, lots of congestion 69
and complaints- special mobilization period, traffic enforcement around Memorial day, extra 70
police cars out. 71
72 8. Reports from non voting members- ( city, county & schools)- 73 John- city- bids are going out- Baxter Lane , 7th and 19th started- 19th- Davis signal hasn’t been 74
bid out yet. 75
a. Ferguson Durston right away issue 76
b. Babcock to Durston in planning stage 77 c. South Tracy reconstruction- Memorial day to start- 78
d. MDT – chip seal unaware when it will start- 79
e. Baxter- Flanders Mill- Equestrian starting next week 80
f. South 11th to Graf- started back up to pave 81
g. Baxter Davis not done waiting for Bids and right away issues- 82 83
h. Todd Swinehart with Bozeman School District- Vance Ruff no longer working for school 84
district is working on replacing his position on PTS- 85
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i. County- Levi Ewan (Engineer Gallatin County - Most activities this summer is pavement 87 maintenance – Baxter- Love 2019 construction – 88
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9. Consider Safety Recommendations Involving Traffic on Sourdough Road North of Kagy 90
Leslie Jackson property owner expressed safety concerns regarding the driveway and 91
dwelling/outbuildings at 1815 Sourdough Road. This property has been owned and occupied 92 by her family since 1965. 93
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Many drunk drivers and other drivers think their driveway is the road. There have been 95
significant accidents with one involving a death due to the driveway being mistaken for the 96
road. Over the years the city marks the edge to remind people where the road is with turning 97 arrows but the arrows have been taken out by drunk drivers. 98
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Leslie is looking for a safe solution, wanting to stop people from thinking their driveway is 100
the ROAD! City on upper portion and county is bottom portion of Sourdough Road. Levi 101 Ewan (Engineer with Gallatin County) stated three agencies are involved to create and move 102
the driveway (the City, the County, and, since Sourdough is a federal-aid route, MDT). 103
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Ask the commissioners to change the driveway due to pubic safety, the police department 105
patrols that area along with the sheriffs department. City and MDT for the barrier, MDT might 106 take it up as a safety project but will take several years. Guard rail is a good solution but it 107
will take time due to MDT. The county will go look at joining the shared driveway on the 108
north side, hoping there is still room on the old road to access, and Levi will look into it. 109
Andy Kern said to find out if there is still safety funds available and propose to MDT. Andy 110
suggested to get the arrows back up and John VanDelinder will work together with Andy to 111 get the arrows back up and look into safety funds to propose to MDT. 112
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Steve Crawford with the police department will have patrol, enforcement and education, 114
currently the speed limit is 25 mph. 115
116 10. Reports from related groups, ( BABAB, TCC, GVLT, SAFER BOZEMAN, GAP) – 117
a. GVLT- Matt Marcinek- busy all summer- activities out on the trail this summer, 118
working to plan national trails day June 2nd, working with city and county- routes 119
to school – resurface gravel routes, plant trees at the regional parks, trail etiquette 120
out on facebook page- doing first meeting with Mitch and Carolyn on Friday to 121 narrow down trail connections and possibilities 122 b. GAP- making head way, applying for TA funding, city limits identified, private 123
land, city land- Made some money at Give Big, Headwaters is providing an 124
economic study 125
c. TCC- Ralph- held quarterly meetings last month- Headwaters study and they also 126 talked about the spur Bike Ped connections, should know more after May 10th 127
afternoon meeting. 128
d. BABAB- LINDA- talking about the bike swap- a lot of needs for funding and 129
time to facilitate the growing needs of the city for Bike Ped- 130
131 e. Safer Bozeman- Marilee- trying hard to reduce speed limit- hoped to meet with the 132
city manager and the mayor to discuss the direction they think they could move 133
ahead on to get it going it would be helpful to have a discussion with the manager 134
11. Update on Ped/Bike & Related concerns in Bozeman 135
Linda- list of improvements that are happening with new construction along with 136 maintenance list- most bike related and some sidewalk. Make bike lanes wider than 137
before, bike lane on Baxter between 19th and the post office, got the right-of-way, 15th – 138
19th bike lane and shared use path getting ready for of start construction. 139
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Ralph asked what intersections involve MDT not allowing desired changes. Answers: 141 North 7th trying to do an urban, bike able section- what goes in the right-away- and not 142
allowing hawk signal- downtown- hoping to get an MDT person involved in the meetings 143
and future plans. 144
Does this group want to take any action? Marilee would love to have someone who was 145
on the joint MDT/City bus tour come and report to PTS. 146 147
12. Consider making budget recommendation to city commission 148
Terry Cunningham reported agenda items available Thursday online- giving feedback on 149
May 14th, including public comments and at anytime along the process- 150 151 Ralph reminded the committee that a citizen made a public comment at one of our meetings about 152
the need to keep the ADA sidewalk ramps free of snow. That citizen urged the committee to raise 153
the issue at budget time. Clearing pedestrian ramps takes more people, time and, money however, 154
the city doesn’t have enough space to accommodate the extra space for another employee. 155 156 Ralph asked if there is a formal request involving the city budget? Tony would like to see the list 157
first. Mariliee made a motion for Ralph to make budget recommendations – via email 158
recommendations from the commitee. 159
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Ralph had forwarded two emails from MDT pertaining to the current development of a 163
statewide bike/ped plan. Six workshops are going to be held, one in each of MDT’s five 164
Districts plus one in Helena. MDT survey put up a link on their facebook page - 165 166 167 14. Future meeting June 13th) 168
15. Adjournment 169
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Minutes by Mandee Arnold 173
Initial edits by Ralph Zimmer 174