MPO Technical Committee Meeting   9/19/2023

Jessica Hirsch-Bowery, Michael Bormer, Luis Carrazano, Ben Chambers, James Freese, Tiffany Dubinsky, Christine Jacobs, Katie Lacy, Bill Palmer, Sarah Pennington,

We'll start with a match from the public between them and members of the public.

We really wish to speak.

Approval of the August 15th minutes.

Any corrections?

I'll move the motion.

Second?

Second.

Next up, moving towards 2050, public engagement.

Yeah, I just want to let you know we have consultants from EPR here, so Will Cockrell is joining us in person and then he is also joined by Alan Simpson online and they have been working on our public engagement feedback and they are going to be doing the bulk of the presenting today.

Again, another part of this is trying to build that relationship with existing groups to try to get information out like surveys, other public engagement opportunities, and really get the word out through those existing groups.

Sometimes they do combined CAC meetings, so if there's an opportunity to just put the information in front of them, we will.

No, it was pretty good.

Crozet, especially, if I recall, had a lot of the public that was there, as well as the Places 29 hydraulic.

you know as much the kind of that social media side whenever there's something coming up especially with the survey or meetings and try to use best practices with the different platforms.

I don't think had to.

I'm going to advance the slides for you.

Can you guys hear me?

Yes.

I think, so the next step is for the next week or so, I'm gonna be going through everything and finishing up the report and going into more detail and kind of gleaning some insights from all these results.

And just to add again to what Alan was showing with the representation, as part of when we looked at that, then we decided, you know, let's take some additional steps to get some more of that diversity in there.

Exactly.

So just philosophical approaches there, but did want to first see if there's any major takeaways as you all saw.

Can you go back to the income chart?

kind of areas or organizations where those perspectives would be represented.

So this is from the survey portion which is what triggered those additional actions and the survey was roughly probably half of all people engaged but certainly sitting at the transit center national night out the

So

Maybe just to sort of try to highlight that a little bit better.

As they're coming in, there are ways to get their name through a range of income groups.

You just kind of let them know, which sort of helped us understand what their framework was for the feedback that they were providing.

I think seeing a priority and immersing people

When you look at the national night out at the transit center, kind of those discussions.

So when we're looking at the Harvard media presenting here, like the maps, are those in-person interactions reflected in those?

This is just the MetroQuest survey and I believe that was part of what we were going to do is be combining, combine the public intercept feedback that was location specific into the map as well.

we have a database where we have all comments and we put all comments from all areas and put them all together so that's kind of part of part of the analysis and then also just kind of within this process of all the surveys and then any in-person discussions if someone mentioned a location that turns into a data point yeah right now the maps just show the stuff from MetroQuest but I'm going through the the comment log and

noting anything that has a specific location and I'll add a data point for that.

again what we heard last we've been in and out of the program is changes to the campus on a scale scoring and how we're going to square that day as we develop our part in the project.

So this is a challenge.

Yes

The challenge is that they might not explore as competitively as they had previously.

I think that's one thing that the community can benefit from is having a more

They should have a whole database of all comments and all locations, all points, and you can track and analyze it any number of ways.

Did you find any of those places, as you move from data now, that's going to stand out to you, that disconnects, or anything like that?

I usually follow that up.

You know, we may end up finding and work to prioritize and stuff.

Oh, yeah.

So again you know we've been talking like like this helps gives us information to start making decisions but this isn't the only information and there's still going to be a lot of a qualitative evaluation as we really determine what makes sense as far as a priority.

because in terms of the survey was was definitely skewed more on no

So based on what you said earlier about

Yeah, multimodal tended to be mostly about

Multimodal was mostly focused on like transit, bike facilities, that kind of thing.

So do we know if they were focused more on community transit so we can get a place for bike transit?

But multimodal was kind of a catch all for anything related to that.

So we are looking at the transit vision plan, trying to pull that in here as well and have that be part of the data set, but just something to be aware of.

And we're doing our transit survey currently, so sorry.

We should just have hope.

Transit pilot, I think there's one.

you just have a one regional survey but yeah so I'm gonna guess that the survey is gonna that there are some self selection biases here which is something we just want to document any other possible biases we just want to document it have it in the report just so that transparency

People might have felt a little bit more freedom to just...

We didn't, not that I know of, we did do another survey though for a different community and there were tons of responses from other countries so we can track the IP addresses.

I am getting those from our like comment form online though.

So that's something we're paying pretty close attention to now.

So if it's like a hundred came in, like between 2 AM and 2.05, then that's kind of weird.

I was going to start, I was going to say everything on the comment log, nothing looked fishy with the IP addresses or anything.

I'm sorry.

This one, Alan, do you have the average response time?

Anywhere from five to 10 minutes.

So that's probably where people are spending their time.

We also made postcards, so we handed those out to people in person

I think we saw a tiny bump.

But yeah.

Thank you to Will and Alan and I'm sure we're all looking forward to seeing the more detailed analysis.

Thank you.

So we want to make sure that it's consistent with MPO's expectations.

Alright, go ahead.

This is an informational item.

Any bridges going to collapse because we waited to maintain them?

Do you have a presentation, Michael?

We'll have a formal presentation again.

I mostly just wanted to keep you all updated as to the extent that I am and also just to leave room for any additional discussion, especially if there were any other thoughts that you had since our previous meeting.

Where will we end up getting a letter to

But as of right now, we're not planning to submit a letter.

They don't want to.

They have not indicated that they would like us to develop any formal comments on behalf of our region.

But you talked to them about the idea of it and they were like, they just don't care.

So um, yeah, I don't I don't want to speak for them, though.

To the Policy Board?

To the Policy Board or to either one?

November, December, late in October.

They'll meet in October, correct.

We kind of need them to do it next week.

We can buy it?

We kind of need them to get on it, right?

I think it would be okay for October.

Do you want staff to draft a letter?

And you guys want to share some of your thoughts of what would go into a letter that is brought to the Policy Board?

Okay.

I think that's it.

Um, do you think it's done?

We also have a bike parking inventory going on right now and we are putting out our bike counter

So we're looking to put more, but besides that we're not entirely sure.

How many state projects did you say that number or something?

160.

Most of those are made in classic post projects.

There are some projects that are applications that we did not last year that are going to actually

Cool, thanks.

So that's what we're working on right now, and I'll hand it off to Albert to talk about project prioritization and how we present the stuff that we've developed.

like everything's ranked and now tomorrow I'm going to sit there and spend eight hours just going through GIS and making the maps and getting it done.

So I think we're going to the board in October 1st to get the board's feedback for work session and kind of be like, okay, let's see, we'll move from there.

We just formally requested with the board, adopt a resolution to formal request to DDoS looking through truck restriction on Clank Road from North Jarden going north

The Route 20 plan, are you guys still moving forward with that one?

We are not planning on picking up that like seeking any funding right now for that particular project, but we have all this great work done and it's going to hang out until that project is a higher priority.

DRPT?

I don't see anyone on the call from DRPT.

Alright, next up is right chair.

And that's all for Rideshare.

Okay, David, go ahead.

Oh, we can't hear you, David.

David, you're on mute.

Yeah, we'll come back to him.

All right, do we come back now?

Yeah, so we are working on redesigning some of our connect routes based on the GDP recommendations and We just had our first kickoff meeting for the world needs assessment study that we're conducting with North Dakota State University, so Yeah, I think our next meeting will be in December Part of it's like the technical studies that are kind of just gathering information But it's we had a pretty good turnout for the weekend, even on the spiritual, but yeah

on the project side

It's pretty high, but it's a little less so lately.

And the I-14 road, in particular, in the green applications scene, is really starting to coalesce

new building because we're building that off of system parking so we're replacing the parking garage but also additional command for that building and future building so we're going to build it now for development and future and you know the really impact for our community that is

David, do you want to try again?

Thank you.

Anyone else on the other matter?