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Home My WebLink About2022-01-26 -Minutes- Transportation Coordinating CommitteBozeman Area Transportation Coordinating Committee 1 Minutes 2 10:30 am, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 3 WebEx 4 This meeting will be using WebEx, an online videoconferencing system. You can join this meeting: 5 Via WebEx (link for attendees): 6 https://cityofbozeman.webex.com/cityofbozeman/onstage/g.php?MTID=e61ee7d1227127fe6ce5a5e847 2c943754 8 Click the Register link, enter the required information, and click submit. 9 Click Join Now to enter the meeting. 10 Via Phone: This is for listening only. 11 Call-in toll number 12 1-650-479-3208 13 Access code: 126 830 9783 14 A. CALL TO ORDER – Introductions & Attendance 15 Present / Absent 16 Committee Chair –Taylor Lonsdale, City Transportation Engineer (City Manager Designee) Committee Vice Chair - Scott MacFarlane, County Commission Committee Member – Cyndy Andrus, City Commission Committee Member – Vacant, City of Bozeman Director of Transportation Committee Member – Anna Bentley, City of Bozeman Community Development Director Committee Member – Henry Happel– City Planning Board Committee Member – Jeff Boyle, County Planning Board Committee Member – Christopher Scott, County Planning Department Representative Committee Member – Levi Ewan, County Road Department Committee Member – Bill Fogarty, District Administrator, MDT Butte District Committee Member – Kyle DeMars, MDT, Bozeman Maintenance Committee Member – Dave Gates, MDT Engineering Services Supervisor Committee Member – Mitch Buthod, Supervisor, Statewide and Urban Planning Section, MDT (Designee) Committee Member - Ralph Zimmer, Bozeman Area Pedestrian & Traffic Safety Committee Committee Member – Dan Martin, City Citizen Representative Committee Member – Dave Fowler, County Citizen Representative Committee Member - Vacant– MSU Representative                 Committee Member – Matt Stark, Bozeman School District #7 Committee Member – Jason Delmue, Bozeman Area Bicycle Advisory Board Committee Member – Jeff Patten, Federal Highway Administration Committee Member – Sunshine Ross, Transit Advisory Board 17 Also in attendance: Marilee Brown, Safer Bozeman; Danielle Scharf, Sanderson Stewart; Joe 18 Walsh, MDT; Kerry Pedersen, Robert Peccia; John VanDelinder, Matt Workman, Trey Reinhardt 19 and Marcy Yeykal, City of Bozeman. 20 21 B. PUBLIC COMMENT #1 22 Limited to any public matter within the jurisdiction of the Bozeman Area Transportation 23 Coordinating Committee not on this agenda. Please limit your comments to three minutes. 24 25 26 Marilee Brown – Safer Bozeman 27 1. PTS used to be involved in speed studies which was handy so the public could be 28 aware of when studies were taking place so that they could comment. Please find a 29 way of notifying the public. 30 2. Valley Center Spur – I spoke at the last County Road Matters meeting about Valley 31 Center Spur issues with the public ignoring the stop light prior to the rail tracks 32 when traveling North on the Spur. The MDT Transportation Commissioner attended 33 that meeting. The County Commissioners also noted how it is a dangerous situation 34 and people actually end up blocking the railroad. The issue of people moving to the 35 forward stop bar occurs because you can not see the “wait here” sign while waiting 36 at the first stop bar in front of the tracks. You then look up and see a red arrow 37 pointing at a red circle only a few feet away with a stop bar at Frontage Road. Since 38 there is no-one waiting at the forward stop sign, you think the red arrow is telling 39 you to move forward to the red circle. So you move forward. Then you are able to 40 make a right turn on red - which is very dangerous and has been know to cause 41 deaths. This is a liability situation that needs to be addressed to prevent a serious 42 crash. 43 Don Jackson-Concerned citizen 44 • West Griffin Drive to add to the State highway systems- Multiple Benefits 45 46 C. MINUTES – October 27, 2021 47 Dave Gates made a motion to approve the minutes. 48 Anna Bentley second the motion 49 Ralph Zimmer abstained since he has not seen the minutes 50 The minutes were approved by a unanimous vote. 51 52 Presentation from Scott Randle with Robert Peccia. 53 Greater Triangle Area 54 • Providing a blueprint for guiding transportation investments based on system & 55 user needs. 56 • Planning process-Review, inventory, forecast, analyze & recommend. 57 • Study Area-Four Corners, Belgrade, and Bozeman, extended south to Gallatin 58 Gateway. 59 • What was considered- Existing & projected conditions, Traffic, Safety, 60 Infrastructure, recommendation to help county. 61 62 63 Election of Officers- 64 Dan Martin made a motion to keep Taylor Lonsdale as Chair 65 Levi seconded the motion 66 The motion was approved by a unanimous vote. 67 Tabling the Vice chair until the next meeting 68 Marcy Yeykal will remain as recording Secretary with Trey Reinhardt as a backup. 69 70 D. TCC COMMITTEE/MEMBER REPORTS & PROJECT UPDATES 71 (Members of the TCC who sit on other related committees, are invited to report on such 72 activities that are of interest to the full TCC) 73 1. Transit Committee 74 Sunshine- Short staffed –Suspension of services due to COVID. 75 2. Gallatin County (Commission, Planning Board, Road Department) 76 Levi-Winter operations- managing and getting through the transportation update. 77 78 3. City of Bozeman (Commission, Planning Board, Engineering Department) 79 Taylor-Griffin drive will resume in March or April should finish up this summer. Kagy Blvd. 80 ongoing- Bridger drive and story mill drive in construction this summer. Roundabout at 81 cottonwood and Baxter. Large development projects. S university project – Stucky and 19th 82 and Kagy. Blackwood road and 19th. Buffalo run coordinating with the county. Winter 83 operation- short staffed. 84 4. Bicycle Advisory Board 85 None 86 5. Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Committee 87 None 88 6. Montana Department of Transportation 89 Dave gates- 2022 season projects- construction phase I-90 Manhatten to Belgrade-90 completed this year. Gallatin county VMS project- construction Spring 22- headwater rest 91 area- legal issues has been resolved so it is now on schedule. Maintenance projects. Bzn hill 92 ditch cleans, chip seal project, Logan dump road chip seal project, luminaire project. Cares 2 93 money that DOT got. Luminaire heads will be updated to LED by 2023. 94 Bozeman area in design phase- Gallatin Gateway US-191 two left turn lanes- land owner 95 negotiations. Installation of road warning signs. Cable rail project- 96 N 7th Ave intersection improvements with traffic signals and turning lanes. Seal and cover 97 project. Cares 2 funding project. N 7th and griffin Drive project. 98 Kagy Blvd. project- S 19th to Willson- Consultant has recently got it under contract. 2026 99 Belgrade Urban Improvements. Widening Jackrabbit to 5 lanes. Just under contract. Very 100 preliminary design phase. 2026 101 7. Montana State University 102 None 103 8. Bozeman School District 104 None 105 9. Other TCC Member/Committee Reports 106 None 107 E. OLD BUSINESS 108 None 109 F. NEW BUSINESS 110 a) Discussion on Bylaws & Agreement 111 112 The City is the signatory advisory on this. City has 8, county has 5, MDT has 2, ??? 113 Ralph would like to move to add the County chief of staff to the voting membership list. 114 A second- None 115 Chair makes a suggestion. Take recommendation from today for revisions to MOA. 116 Taylor will add Ralph’s recommendation. 117 Levi agrees with Taylor and appreciates his approach. 118 119 Ralph- make it clear in by-laws- Only one vote per person. 120 Taylor will include in the MOA or discussion in by-laws 121 122 Sunshine- Would create an even number on the board if we add the county. 123 124 Ralph-The group will not vote on bylaws today. 125 Taylor - With Dan’s departure we know longer have a quorum. 126 127 Mitch- Replace Planning board with the community development board. Recommend if 128 we remove city planning board that we remove county planning board. 129 130 Dan Martin-If they don’t show up to meetings we are making it harder to form a 131 quorum. 132 A voting member can designate a proxy to attend the meeting. 133 G. PUBLIC COMMENT #2 134 135 None 136 137 138 H. UPCOMING MEETING DATES AND ADJOURNMENT 139 Taylor adjourned the meeting at 12:30pm 140 141 April 27, 2022 – 10:30 am 142 July 27, 2022 – 10:30 am 143 October 26, 2022 – 10:30 am 144 January 26, 2023 – 10:30 am 145 146 For more information please contact Marcy Yeykal at 406-582-2273 147 Committee meetings are open to all members of the public. If you have a disability and require assistance, please contact our 148 ADA coordinator, Mike Gray at 582-3232 (TDD 582-2301). 149