e e e e e e ready we are going to start with the um with with the work and again one of the key elements of of their Safe Streets for all is creating creating a steering committee and again many of you will be will be asked to participate in that and we hope that that that you do um that steering committee will include not just elected officials obviously but it'll include uh people also hopefully from law enforcement uh you know police departments and the county sheriffs and and so on and uh as well as as stakeholders from the private sector and others that are important to to get involved in the development of a Safety Action Plan again you recall the city of op Pasa completed that their their own for the city limits a couple years ago so we obviously going to work together with that build on it to make it you know for the entire region and focus on on every roadway every element of our transportation system not just roads but but not you know on system or off system to cover everything we've got to look at this in a holistic uh uh matter so that was task order number three so now to the one that we are talking about which is Task order number four EXC slite um these are the sort of like the highlights if if you see each of the the elements here in this slide they're all the different steps that are necessary to develop the the Metropolitan Transportation plan everything from from the very beginning which is sort of more like a like a scoping visioning exercise we there's going to be a lot of public involvement with that um looking at at the performance measures that that we have to to do now with the with the latest uh requirements from the Transportation uh planning process uh look at also Transportation like and and land use the relationship and and you'll hear later well you've seen the the work that we've done with Sim to develop a a regional Land Use model all of that is going to help us to understand of the better understand the relationship between land use and Transportation uh decision making and then of course you know we're we're going to put together the document that that's also a a pretty uh um you know um time consuming and takes resources to put all the documents together uh go out and and get the project list uh do all all our our travel demand model runs for the future years and so on so all of that um as we develop all of this our consultant is going to come in and help us again being an extension of of our office to perform all of these uh tasks next so the next slide gives you a a pretty um sort of like an overall schedule obviously there's a lot of activities in here we're just collapsing the the schedule to show more or less what the development is but the but the key um elements here is that we need to present the documents here to the policy board in early 2026 right so we're looking in February of 2026 that's our Target and that is to give the Federal Highway Administration and the consultative partners from February to November to review the Conformity and approve it before November which is when we turn into pumpkins right that's the end of the four-year cycle so 9 months or eight months sounds like a lot of time but these reviews are are you know very very thorough uh you know that's why it is so important for us to to have uh multiple sets of eyes doing quality control and quality assurance on our documents before we submit to them because they were you know they do very thorough reviews they they nitpick they find a lot of uh you know details some modeling issues or some things that that that may not uh that that you know may need to to be revised and every revision takes you know a long time unfortunately so you know that's our schedule it's pretty aggressive and um so you know as soon as we get this task order in place you know we'll get started and again a lot of these activities will involve uh many of you as stakeholders and um and and of course you know going out to the public as well will be very important so with that uh happy to answer any questions sure um so last time in 2020 for the update we used a consultant through text what was the cost I don't have that number it wasn't okay it it was probably less than that because we we did a lot of work and putting the document together um they helped us a lot in in the early phases on the visioning and which I actually took a a lot of effort because when we were starting the process that was exactly during the pandemic so we were all learning how to do these these you know public meetings virtual public meetings and and uh so that that was great that we had access to to the Consultants at at the time but I I'll I mean I can research and work with Marty to see the cost because they paid for it remembers that it was not too much difference maybe a little bit L depends on what the work authorization went in for as far as tasks uh negotiations about the same I don't remember because they PID for it very very convenient on yes I had recall we initially talking about the original budget what is the limits for this specific tax orders what REM theour okay so the the original contract the master agreement does not have a maximum or a minimum the master agreement just uh it's pretty generic in terms of uh identifying roles and responsibilities for for between the no and and and the consultant and and what it does is that establishes the hourly rates right so that's the master agreement now once we have the master agreement we start issuing in idual task orders right and and the task orders are the ones that have very specific scope and deliverables and you know hours and cost and schedule right so that that's what we have um if you recall also a couple months ago when we made the presentation what we showed you sort of like the what we call our cash flow analysis of the no some of the work that some of the Tas orders that we have issued are paid through other grants not through the no money that or the N funds that we receive on a regular basis from Federal Highway and FTA what we call our planning funds like the ss4a that was a completely separate independent uh source of funding um so um and the reason why I'm asking I remember we you had proposed well we want to put the contract up to to 2 million right so the current three task orders are 1.83 and then this this additional one is one almost a million so we're we're approaching right million yes I'm trying to understand you know at which point do we does this contract have to go back through a competitive process because you're already at 3 million but the initial conversations I recall was two right so what we were estimating at the time because again you know the contract does not have a minimum or a maximum right initially you have proposed that right so exactly bring us each task order right so what we said is is that the the total amount that we were anticipating to to to spend under this contract was in the ballpark of 4.75 million more or less that was made up of the the big amounts $2 million for the for the uh strategic plan for the border crossings that we haven't developed yet that was two um 750 for the Safe Streets for all that's 2.75 and then we were anticipating another $2 million coming combination of our planning funds and and other sources to do other work right like the the task order that is specifically for the for the uh the travel demand model I think it was task order number two that that we showed there that one is is uh paid partially with the New Mexico DOT spr funds that are that are extra right that are not and the other half would be it's about 40% would be paid out of our planning funds so the the there's a combination of of of sources that we're using to pay for this right but theel you showed exactly exactly right but the the anticipated amount because it's there there's you know again there's no fixed amount either Max or or minimum the the amount that we were anticipating is at 4.75 million more or less yeah I keep bringing it up because it makes me really uncomfortable um so I think moving forward I'm not going to support any additional tax orders purely because of the amount but that's just my my okay well I mean absolutely what we can do is every time we bring one of these you know bigger task orders we can provide you the you know the the numbers on how we're paying for it and and you know basically our cash flow I mean I would I wouldn't do it if we were you know we're running low on on this but IG back on that I I agree with uh representative we just need to know exactly what's been spent to date um so to that has GPC provided any invoices to the city and if so how much I'm sorry as a consultant provided any invoices to the city no State not yet not yet any overruns or any no no no we we're barely get getting started on on these uh uh task orders it's just extremely important that we get this information I know representative Hernandez and and representative Canales have I've brought I've brought this these questions before we got to have this information before absolutely absolutely we big votes on we'll make it a a a recurring I don't know if you want to see maybe quarterly reports on on you know invoicing and and how we're doing in terms of the each of the task ORD I think quarterly is helpful absolutely is there a motion on the table we have a have a we have a motion to approve we have a second uh all in favor any opposed motion passes item four all right item four is consideration of documents associated with the writer 7 Local air quality statement of work under Texas commission on Environmental Quality tcq uh contract Grant number 582-2000 d11 979 so we have two items item a is consider authorizing the executive director to sign a lending agreement with for vehicle counting cameras equipment to be acquired by TTI under task order number two um so we have two two separate uh items here that are related to the to the um to the riter 7 um I think it would be good if if we separate them Claudia is going to provide a a refresher on on you know where these two FIT within the writer 7 program uh if you recall last month you also approved a couple of other uh task orders related to this and then we'll we'll start the discussion on items A and B and I'll read B later on into the record the presentation today yeah so good morning claas SAA PhD so as part of the writer 7 grand for o El Paso and po will be working on this project until hero is the other one is this is we have two GRS we have oon and also PM 2.5 we will see both presentation [Music] [Music] it's that one yes so mention we will be working on this project uh until December 2025 when the amendment round will end as Ardo mentioned last tpv meeting we saw this presentation but we will like to review the two task that are relate to the items that need your approval today can we follow the [Music] next the next slide so there are five main tasks so the first one is the line use and Transportation model validation and scenarios for ques the improve land use and transportation scenarios for El Paso the international border crosses and scenarios that resulting traffic congestion in the bational region and improve also precour and Nal dioxide the volatil organic compound estimations for each scenario the items will be related to T task number one and task number two so we will only review task number one first and then number [Music] two the first task will focus in a better understanding of the traffic congestion and Fest and we will start with the calibration and validation of a land use model and forecast of socio economic data for Fest followed by the traffic counts at a minimum of 150 points in qu for calibration and validation of a travel demand Model H using the Hest travel demand Model H forecast motor vehicle traffic and congestion in h for future year this is the item that will be the commod that the will discuss in a little bit where they are going to be working placing a camera for the 150 points that we will be monitoring for counts the next one that will be task number two will be relied with the urban seam H contract so for the task the second task that will be we will build on the previous validation and scenarios for Al Paso a publishing the previous scenarios into find new ones and we will refine the Urban Development policy that could be model and could attain the growth capabilities then we will develop five additional scenarios for each run the Paso area land use model to forecast the social economic data for future years and using the AL Paso travel model forecast motorized vehicle traffic and congestion for future years under the fin use scenarios that will be developed the new all right so as as cludia mentioned um this is all all of the work that we're doing under the ryer 7 Grant and by the way this is another grant that we received from tcq extra money we're not using uh Mo planning funds so this is additional money that we're getting to do this work which is obviously a great thing for us in terms of improving our understanding of uh of air quality and emissions and in this in these particular part of the work we are improving the models on the H side as well both the land use with Urban Sim and the uh and and you obtaining traffic counts to improve the travel demand model on the H side as well all right so um I read already item a into the record which is the comodato agreement this is a lending agreement that we have with Kio de Laona where the the cameras that we are purchasing that TTI is purchasing through another task order that was already approved we're going to lend them to K Laona because they are the ones that are physically going to do the work in sis these cameras are going to be placed on on light post or or signals or whatever on on intersections and they these cameras will will be uh you know uh capturing video uh 48 hours in each location we're looking at 150 locations throughout the city to determine these counts every every location will have a camera for 2 days 48 hours so these five cameras will are going to be rotated all over the place but what is important is that this comodato agreement or lending agreement uh we feel is necessary because you know physically we're going to give them the cameras and you know they're going to be you know responsible for them and um so we've been working and said has been really active in working and and making sure that that we are covered with that um fron has an insurance policy that covers um theft and damage to the equipment and all that so we're you know it's it's taking a little bit longer now that agreement we were hoping to have it ready for you here uh today but obviously we we don't so uh you know I I think we even even though we would like to get started and and you know get this gatu agreement done as soon as possible so that we can start the work but given that we don't have the the um you know the the agreement here with you as backup I think we're going to recommend tabling it for next month and um so you know I know Salvador and and cl are going to be making faces but you know we've got to make sure that yeah we've got to make sure that uh that we have all the paperwork ready and and in place everything is good but as you can imagine if it is difficult to do agreements here on this side of the border now um but everybody is is working hard and diligently and um and hopefully we'll well not hopefully we'll have this ready uh for you all next [Music] month are there is there are we under the gun here do we have a time constraint on getting these agreements or is there is there any issue that makes this press conservative commit um we're not under the gun like like that yet but uh we would like to get started as soon as possible um my understanding Salvador is that the the we would really like to start the actual work in August right so you know it would there there's still time to to get the agreement executed right um so I think there's still plenty of time to to do it well I shouldn't say plenty of time you know there's still time to do it but we would like to we're getting a little bit uh if I may Salvador Gonzalez uh I'm the manager and Trav for travel research and model development at the n and um you see the thing is that once the the the equipment is purchased TTI needs to do uh to put everything together uh different components uh and they have to test and then bring KF to to El Paso and train them this is a very uh unique project in that we're using uh specialized cameras that use artificial intelligence to interpretate uh directional flow so so without going into the details requires uh specific training is not just as simple as putting pneumatic tubes as we normally do you know the the counters are you can leave them there and so this requires additional uh you know work on the equipment programming and training of personnel so so that's why I guess myself I'm a little bit nervous about the time if of course I understand that you need to see all all of the details but we we think we can we can make it it's going to be uh it's going to be tight but we need to start in August because we have a A reduced time frame we have the fall to make this uh to have all of the 150 points uh to get the counts on all 150 points from August to November it's uh it's it seems like a lot of time but it's not so so that's why we would like to get uh going as as soon as possible yes ma'am my point my point on this is this is one of those instances where and I know a little bit about this that there is a time constraint it's dependent upon this board to act and for Forum this morning next month is July it's vacation month uh so I'm just want to say everybody needs to be cognizant that we have a a pretty significant responsibility to attend these meetings even in in the vacation so if that's my lecture for this morning thank you I've got a question with regard to the actual grant that was awarded uh what the amount and was there um parameters with regard to when those funds needed to be used by I don't have exactly the amount here but it's more than 500,000 okay and we have to finish all the technical work by October 2025 and we can finish the administrative War like reports and everything by December 2025 all right it's a so that's the reason that you want to have this contract in place to get the data in order to do the report that okay got it yes and they are relate to another Tas order so we need to start having one by one thank you any other questions so a question on the narrative congratulations on the ground but the task number two of refining Urban Development policies how are you going to do that that's out of the perw this feeds into several of the tasks the accounts will be used to calibrate a travel demand or revalidate a travel demand model keep in mind please that we already have the travel demand from hes but it's as part of the of the work that previously we we've done and and and we did uh um we had several questions about the Val of the hes Mall because it had so many I'm sorry so few points for validation so what we're trying to do is update the quarez model with uh the the robust data now that is for the travel demand model but if we want to forecast we need the socioeconomic data and the urban Sim so it's tied to that the the the counts and the and the traffic uh volumes for for you know current conditions go go into the land use modeling and to the forecasting of of future traffic in harez and El Paso and ports of Entry I don't know if that I know it starts to get messy or or it's complex understand the getting the counts and understanding the flow and traffic patterns my specific question is to Urban Development that's what you refine Urban Development policies yes the the idea is well I'll go into the task of of for casting uh socioeconomic uh conditions for both quis and El Paso we've been doing this as part of the deli I don't know if you remember uh the deli is is simply a consensus where do you think you know the next 20 years of of growth will where employment and where population will grow will actually locate this has then from a consensus what what we're trying to do through Urban Sim is if we apply different options of policy zoning policy land use policy yeah that's not thems per that's what I'm ask no no no it's not it it will it will be part of a of a of a of a process where the different stakeholders from the within the AL Paso area the city of Al Paso Soro selli you know you name it Sunland Park will come and and and look at such policies because land use policy and growth actually have a tremendous impact on traffic and emissions and so it'll be part of that but we need I guess my point is we need good a good uh validated and calibrated model to forecast the the impact of those policies which are not our policy it's it's from the city of El Paso San Sal Park and how would that look and uh you know in in in terms of traffic congestion in the future and and and uh and Emissions that sort of explains that or we will not be making policy okay because it does we will not be making policy but but we need to start discussing about that that those policies with the different uh people involved and in charge of that okay it's more like defining scenarios rather than defining or dictating all be it's we're defining what scenarios we model and we're looking at different sorts of policies and what land use implications those would have and incorporating that into the model to see how that would look different vers you know higher density lower density and those are the things that those would be dictated by whatever the policies were and we're looking at okay so how would it look different what would traffic look like if city of El Paso changed in this way versus what they have current what would happen if sakuro did that so it's yeah we're not defining anybody's policy we're we're we're defining scenarios right and and the value of that and and by the way we're incorporating that that's going to be one of the innovations that we do for our next long range plan uh basically using Urban s because otherwise you know we just rely on on the on the deli group on the consensus on how the region is going to grow right we think it's going to grow here we're going to going to grow there and all that without having more information about how the growth could be you know so some of the factors that affect growth right land availability prices and so on um so even here in our n region you know we as an N we don't we don't control land use policy I mean that's that's you know at the the municipalities or at that level and you know how difficult that's been right to to control you know uh land use decisions but at least now the Innovation is that now when we run the scenarios as an was explaining at least now we can develop some alternative growth patterns and see what if what if we increase you know promote higher density right so that public transportation works better because right now our our you know our patterns have been pretty much at a regional level sprawling we sprawl we sprawl and there's more need for for highways and and you know Transit is is more more challenging and in terms of providing good service and and and so on but at least now we are trying to to combine and have more more quantitative analysis on the relationship between land use and transportation so we're doing it here on on the and that's the work that we have done in the past already with Urban Sim now what we're doing in in this case is doing a similar exercise of course with some limitations because a lot of the data that that we that we use here in the US that is more readily available may not be that readily available on the on the Hite but you know we're going to be working with the municipio with IM and the other um entities that that have you know information on this so again this is not a you know it's not a crystal ball it's not a you know it's not magic but at least now it's going to give us a a better understanding of of so that we can run these true bational scenarios what happens in in on the ELP Paso side what happens on the H side and by having also the two travel demand models as you have seen in the past now we can combine them and have a true bational travel demand model that includes all the all the border crossings and and uh so that we can analyze the travel patterns and also very importantly the emissions right so now we have emissions estimations on the op Paso side on the H side and through the micro simulation tool tools that we're developing on on on with these wrer 7 tools also the the estimate the emissions at each individual border crossing so now we have a true uh picture um aggregate of all the emissions so these are really really cool things these are really Innovative things but the best part of it is that tcq is paying for it you know we're not I mean I think we would have at some point uh you know uh suggested or proposed to do this with our planning funds because this is really important for us but we were able to to uh develop the scope of work and tcq is paying for this so I think it's a it's a win-win right so on the urban Sim I was wondering for a future agenda item if we could request that you come back with some of the modeling that you've been working on because you've been using it over a year yeah yes the answer is yes and and as part of that we invited uh you know for that pilot if you may uh we invited uh stakeholders from C Paso from from Soro from from Horizon from Silent Park they help us again suggest okay why don't we try this policy and so we but you've been working yes of course certainly certainly yes and and and by the way uh Dr Paul woodell from Urban Sim is here if uh anybody has any any specific questions about the mechanics of something uh such a uh you know type of model uh so you mentioned that TTI ordered the cameras put together and train this agreement that's being postponed for a month that doesn't preclude TTI from proceeding with their purchase and or dos because it's a separate fund it is I mean well separate in the worst case hopefully that is not the case I mean if if we cannot agree uh on on on on this then I mean the cameras are Fortis so what you're saying TTI won't order them they won't even order we wanted to I guess we wanted to wait until we have that approval from you that's up to TTI because that's their Grant yeah it's our no no no we're we're paying C was buying the cameras but with tcq agenda items where we can purchase do cameras and then approve the waras can you split the agenda item so that they can do what they need to do T order number two the weather pchas of the Camas last month okay so we've approve the purchase so that like I'm saying today this doesn't preclude them from doing what they need to do so are they GNA if you're making it sound like they're on hold as well chair if I may um no this agreement that you've been asked to table for today does not affect tti's task order and does not affect their ability to purchase the cameras okay um okay he said that we well now they they they may have internally have you know some hesitation to purchase them but they're not prohibited from purchasing the cameras um I I think what uh staff also needs to make clear to uh the board is the items under agenda item number four 4 a and 4B are all being both of these uh task orders are being fully paid through the grant that was received from tcq uh it's it's all um no money received from t uh from tcq uh and I had originally uh discussed with with Mr Galo and staff that we should table item 4A which is theato agreement The Lending agreement because we don't have it ready for your review um however based on some of the representations that you know staff has made here to you all today I'm going to just put it on the table that maybe you want to consider authorizing for a uh subject to final legal review uh and the reason for that is the only thing that's pending there is a final approval from the Mexican college the KV as to a change that we made to the the agreement uh with regard to uh requiring that they have insurance that properly protects the equipment uh they we we have been going back and forth a little bit and the pre so so I'm expanding beyond what your question was M Mike but I'm just trying to kind of give a little synopsis here of the entire thing uh the the you know when staff came to me and said we're going to send these uh cameras over to Mexico here's a draft that that the Mexican college is proposing uh when I review it one of the things I look for is well how are we protected and this expensive equipment that we're sending over to uh to quadis uh and so that in case if anything happens to the equipment which is possibly can happen to anything can happen to the equipment anywhere we can turn back and look at our gr TS and say look we did our best to protect the equipment when when it went over there uh we had originally in the kadat agreement put language where we made the Mexican college completely responsible for any damage uh you know a minor uh complete destruction or theft uh and and they obviously had some hesitation with that language and so when they came back to us they they rejected that language and said well you know we we will take care of the equipment but we're not sure we feel comfortable becoming fully responsible for anything that may happen to uh to this uh equipment so then I talked to staff and I said it's up to you all how much risk you want to take on when you lend this equipment you know there's always some risk it's just you know how much risk are you comfortable with and and then with you know from a legal review uh you know how how best can we protect the equipment and how best can we explain to our gr TS or you know the the funding sources tcq in this case hey something happened to the equipment that we purchased with with with your money uh and look at everything we did to try and and protect ourselves and and the the equipment so all all that to say that the KATU agreement is a simple lending agreement where we te we no TTI is purchasing the equipment with the task order they have with us but the equipment belongs to the no uh which is the lending agreement is just us entrusting the equipment to the Mexican college they agree to take care of it they agree to perform the work that's been described by staff uh and now uh the most recent change as of yesterday is they have shown us a Mexican policy that they have as a university that protects their equipment in case of theft or damages uh and be and as their uh officials have explained to me the KATU agreement uh because there is a com agreement this equipment now Falls within the coverage of that policy so but this was only confirmed yesterday uh um and so that's why it's not ready for your review but if if you're comfortable with that and that's the best protection we're going to get for this equipment it's either that or there is no lending of the equipment to KV and this Mexican study or por of the study in Mexico doesn't occur um so we would need a motion to amend well you would probably need you need a motion for a uh and what it would be is if you're satisfied with the explanation I've given you that you know you should or recommendation I would say just leave it as is uh you know consider authorizing the executive director to sign a lending agreement with de for vehicle counting cameras equipment to be acquired by TTI under task order number two subject to final RW and approval by legal council and that that review ever occurred but it occurred yesterday that's the only thing holding this up so it to us yeah absolutely well and here's the only other thing that's outstanding uh we're still waiting to hear their response to this final change if they're not happy with it then we'll probably have to not do this at all um my understanding is they'll be okay with it uh based on the conversations we were having with them up until yesterday um you don't do it at all would you use the cameras somewhere else or if they don't do it at all you don't want to buy the cameras what what is the worst case scenario if you don't if they won't sign it you don't buy the cameras the cameras become M Property so we would have the cameras right we do you know some again there's no reason TI I can't order them there is no reason there is no reason and I try to make that clear at the outset there's nothing holding TTI from or preventing TTI from purchasing the cameras um the cameras will be n property any other questions no you have a question no no just a motion okay okay I I move to authorize the MP to sign a lending agreement subject to the approval of what's pending by our legal counsel uh to proceed with it if he gets if he is satisfied with what uh is getting approved if not to bring it back to us at the next meeting so just for clarity that motion is no different from what's uh listed currently correct any motion with the added language subject to final review and approval from Council so then it's amended we're going to amend the motion well since it's uh since it's been read for the first time as a motion the way she did uh it doesn't have to be so we have a motion on the table we have a motion we have a second all in favor I any opposed motion passes item Four B thank you all right Item B is consider authorizing the executive director to execute a Consulting Services agreement and a master subscription agreement with Urban Sim Inc for an amount not to exceed $170,000 for the purchase of three software licenses for a a one-year period technical support and consulting services that will enable the mo to complete task three impact of transborder urban growth policies and patterns on ozone concentration in the El Paso hes bational region it is also requested that after review by the no's legal council that the executive director be authorized to execute any related contract documents or agreements as long as a total amount of the agreements does not exceed $170,000 so again this is specifically to the urban Sim piece that that we were discussing earlier I just wanted to Echo 's request there's a lot of great data that's being collected we' like to see the outcomes of that directly from our our Consultants that so we can put some faces to their names and to their overall organizations but I make a motion to we have a motion on the table do we have a second second all in favor opposed motion passes thank you all right item five is consider approval of the riter 7 Local air quality statement of worth under Texas commission on Environmental Quality tcq contract Grant number 582 d24 d394 to perform air quality planning activities to reduce find particular matter PM 2.5 emissions and and a is consider approval of task order number four between the El Paso no and the University of Texas at El Paso UTP for the project monitoring of PM 2.5 exposure from traffic congestion at international border crossings again the this item number five is similar to to the uh to the item that we discussed before but this is a separate writer 7 Grant this is specifically for PM 2.5 all the work that we've done be prior to this on the writer 7 program has been for ozone very specific so this is a separate Grant smaller than than the uh than the ones that we've had before but it's again it's additional money that we were able to receive from tcq and Claudia will have a a brief oh and by the way I think we had already we we're just coming back to to present the scope right or 2.5 part of the of the yeah yeah the board had already uh authorized us to execute the agreement with the tcq but we we had uh offer to come back to the board to show the scope of work that we're submitting the the detailed scope of work so with that Claudia will have a short presentation okay so as Eduardo mentioned this is part of the new router 7even that start this year for particle matter of 2.5 micros and El Paso will be working on this project as similar of the O we have to finish technical work on October 2025 and the administrative work on December 2025 so this project um is important for us because of the exposure to vehicle emissions at the international border crossings has been a concern for many including the daily crossb Travelers and the US Customs and Border Protection officials and they propos the proposed project will measure PM 2.5 concentrations at different hours of the day and locations within the select international border crossings in this case will be bod and Santa Teresa to understand the potential amount of swish pollutant in contact with people waiting to cross the border in private Vehicles as pedestrians as well as the CBP officials and manying inspection boots a further the project will attempt to find a statistically is significant correlation between these pm2 measures and other variable such as the motor traffic volume the congestion and his distance to the monitor locations as well the ambient conditions and these correlations can potentially help predict the special concentration of 2.5 within an IBC and a will help for C in mitigation strategy so the main goal is that we are going to put monitors we are going to create a correlation find a correlation and our main goal is to find strategies that will help us to reduce the pm2 concentrations that the CVP and pedestrians and people in the vehicles are breeding so this project has been divided in five tests and the first one will be the location plan of the pm2.5 mobile monitors at ban Teresa as I previous mentioned only the US s for this project the crossb volume and Lane availability that adquisition followed by the ambient condition monitoring the correlation analysis and the eometric modeling and finally the proxy exposure estimation of PM 2.5 on the ibcs in Al Paso [Music] area the first task will focus on the iable at the end of the deliverable are they going if they come up with a correlation I mean they might not but I hope they will it come with a recommendation yes they deliverable to make recommendations to us or is it just to model it measure it and give it definitely will depend on on the correlation if if the if if we in fact find that correlation you see the the here interesting is enough is uh to know how far uh those concentration can happen from traffic and so it will depend on on if we find that if if distance we find that it's it's it's it's correlation it you know that might open the door for for for different uh mitigation strategies that's what I'm asking is the mitigation strategies will be part of the Del yes yes I wasn't really on there yes yes and hopefully we will continue having grants so we can continue with more like projects and we can study more mitigation strategies for PM 2.5 or other areas of impact so the first task H we'll focus on the allocation of P 2.5 and the ambient monitors and measurement Gathering and database organization as we can see in the following map okay so H mobile pm2 Point Monitor will be placed along the sidewalks uh used by crossb pedestrian in a fixed position during the project as we can see we're going to have southbound and Northbound also they will be also placed CVP at CBP inspection boots and changing the location weekly to different boots as to capture PM 2.5 concentation under different open link configuration as we know sometimes they open on the lines and then they have less only some days are only five so we will be moving weekly so we can have the coration also the distance of the boots are open also in the middle as you can see we are going to place ambient monitor that will be in fixed locations in the two borders in the Santa Teresa and the B the second task will focus on that acquisition on cbp's vehicle traffic processing H to register sou bound pedestrian volumes automatical counter will be placed on site as no agency currently report this information by hour we obtain nbound CBP has been very generous and provid us nbound um data pedestrian trucks and vehicles but saan is very limited so it's why we are going to have these counters in the bridg for TAS T task we'll focus on on the ambient monitor measure Gathering a datab base organization we are going to take in consideration the ambient temperature the ambient humidity the wind speed and another ones that we can register in our monitors the fourth task will focus on developing a predicting models of the generic form and the final task will'll use the econometric model develop to estimate PM 2.5 levels at CBP inspection boots and pedestrian sidewalks at ibcs in a Paso area based on the respective size current traffic and ambient conditions and PM 2.5 will also be estimated for future conditions uh of traffic and this work will be du by the University of Texas El Paso and the p is Dr iara I believe he was connected Gabriel iar Mia is connected um just part of the mechanic you're going to be placing these devices on federal property at the bridges is there going to be any further need for agreements to do that are we going to do that or is somebody else going to do that it seems like there's going to be another step to this this will be loc on CVP property and we already have a meeting two weeks ago with the cpvp officials and they are very interested but they know about this and we already requested authorization from them okay so there may not be something that's no yeah you okay thank you you want to bring another agreement to the board the senator has a question on the formula he thinks she miss any other questions we have a motion second we have a first motion we have a second uh all in favor I you opposed motion passes thank you all right item number six consider adoption of the RMS 2050 MTP and amended RMS 2050 Transportation Conformity report and this we have har is implored with the [Music] presentation good morning chair and board members Harrison flid with El Paso M uh we could get the uh presentation up and I will get started uh as you know the uh uh Mo staff has been working since uh last fall on amendments a major Amendment to the uh current MTP uh that was spurred by some project amendments that uh uh were requested um and as you know we make project amendments regularly practically every month but they're usually very minor amendments uh uh some of these amendments uh involved changing capacity on the actual roadway Network and as a result that triggered the need for a new Conformity determination for the document as a whole so uh that is a much larger undertaking for us uh involving uh analysis of uh emissions and uh um going through a formal uh public involvement process and uh as if we were making a new MTP in a lot of ways so uh that's why we've been working on it since last fall and now we are uh looking for um a uh adoption from the board for the amended document so that we can provide it to the uh consultation Partners to review and get that new Conformity determination uh that's essentially what this slide says so we can move to the next [Music] one this is the list of the projects that were amended um there's nine projects and I know you can't read this very well but we'll go through them uh individually on the next slides here's a map showing the locations of all of those projects next okay the the first project and this was the one that really triggered the uh major Amendment uh in Earnest uh as a change to the Border Highway connector this is the new facility that connects the Santa Teresa Port of Entry Eastward to uh Sunland Park area um to facilitate use of that port and and relief for some of the uh uh more congested crossings that we have uh in the uh more urbanized parts of the region uh so the change here is to increase the proposed number of lanes from two lanes to four lanes so that is added capacity to the network as a whole and that's uh one of the main triggers for us to say okay we need to look at the emissions for the entire network um and get a new Conformity determination next uh the second Project monio Extension um this is a change to the yes okay we're doing the air quality analysis on this yes okay wasn't that part of their enval stud before they or was there did they have an air quality for to their environmental study prior to development of this project you mean that's part of the NEPA process yeah I mean they they've got to do the it will be done as part of the Nea process and the NEPA process has not been completed on that yet it's ongoing right now okay thank you thank you [Music] so monio extension um this was just rerouting uh this road um it was originally proposed to connect to Mesa Park Drive uh but it's been rerouted northward a little bit to connect to Mono Boulevard as it dead ends uh right now um but it's not actually an added capacity project it's just uh it's the same design proposal same number of lanes so it's just being shifted [Music] thanks and then the rest of the projects are all different segments of Interstate Highway 10 um the change here is uh we had originally had in the description uh the addition of what was called an Adaptive Lane um as well as a regular travel Lane so two lanes in each Direction uh tex. uh District requested that we remove that adaptive Lane um so the new description has one additional Lane in each direction for all of these segments of I 10 so that's actually a reduction in capacity but that's another you know reduction or uh addition of capacity change in capacity can generate uh the need for a new Conformity determination next is that because of money that's we we still meet our lane balance issue from four rather 434 what we have right now we still maintain four it was proposed to be five with one of them being an Adaptive Lane so we just removed the Adaptive Lane because it was only going to be done for about six miles so there was no logical termin uh or beginning so uh that that can always be added later as the facility gets upgraded uh and then the last project here this is the downtown segment of I 10 uh and this one is called out because uh the description changed in the same way uh in terms of removing the Adaptive Lane language uh but in our model we also made some coding changes because uh tex. was able to provide more detailed uh schematics for the design so we had less detail in the model when it was originally approv for what the changes were going to be and we added more detail uh once we were able to this gave us the opportunity to do that it says also project was modified to detail code from in roads and ramps and follow pervert uh alternative have has a preferred alternative already been identified no how is the how is the project modified to follow a preferred alternative if a preferred alternative hasn't been selected we incorporated elements that uh were provided by Texa on their uh their development documents so they're they're not 100% documents uh they're still in that process um but I mean this happens all the time when it's our best guess at this point because the the preferred alternative for downtown 10 has not been formally um you know selected yet or or approved yet but given that that you know we are already doing these amendments and that's the reason why we did them monio as well you know might as well approximated to the best information that we have today but but the answer is no the the preferred alternative for that project has not been selected forly yet but this is the you know the the best guess that that we have right now teron you mentioned that there were design schematics is that for one of the Alternatives that went through nepo or have all of the Alternatives that went through NEPA gone all the way to design schematic that's a question for Tex not all the Alternatives have been have been have have gone all the way through design schematic which ones have uh so there is a front running alternative which is alternative I which meets the basic purpose and need of the project um which also has uh as far as the front Ed roads and ramps uh would be some of the larger impacts as far as RightWay acquisition and the like so um you know if you're going to model something you model it for the potential worst case or highest impact so so that's kind of what uh kind of what they're alluding to on the on the modification detail code front Ed roads ramps and follow it's it's basically uh one of the Alternatives that was identified has been identified to now uh I meaning being the front runner of okay yeah I mean I think we can probably talk offline about this I'm under the impression that Neo would require until a design alternative is selected that all of them are modeled to equal levels that one isn't modeled out further than the others until it's selected as the preferred alternative there are some that don't meet the purpose and need uh so there'd be no need for for it to be modeled because it doesn't meet the transportation needs uh of the project okay again I mean I understand I think we can we can talk offline about this not totally Germain to this but I it's concerning to me to say to hear that one alternative was modeled out and the others were not when this hasn't when the Nea process hasn't concluded [Music] yet all right so uh that is the summary of all of the projects that are being considered as part of this amendment um as I mentioned the those amendments do require us to achieve uh show Conformity again for air quality purposes next slide [Music] um so we do that through the transportation Conformity report which uh um you can read kind of the purpose of it there um this is how we show that the projects we are proposing are not worsening uh emissions and therefore air quality uh and uh bringing us further out of violation with the Clean Air Act next so Conformity means that Transportation activities will not cause new air quality emission violations worse than existing violations or delay timely attainment of uh the national ambient air quality standards next these are all of the pollutants that uh are monitored under the Clean Air Act uh we currently have um designations other than uh attainment for three of them [Music] next and here's a map showing the areas covered by each of those [Music] next um so basically because of that non-conformity um or the the non-attainment status for those three emissions uh we need to analyze uh not only the uh emissions in the base year for the plan and the final year it's 2050 but intermediate years throughout uh to show that the projects being proposed are not going to uh create even in the interim uh worsening conditions next [Music] and here is a chart showing the results of that analysis um so you see the budget is uh the the number that uh we have to abide by and you can see that as we move forward through all of the analysis years that we looked at out to 2050 um we are well under for VOC and KNX and pm10 thanks and then this slide shows the uh uh analysis for ozone which is um just want to separate it out because it's a slightly different uh standard um looking at uh whatever the readings were in the Baseline year which is 2017 so again we're uh demonstrating that we are meeting that requirement next we did have a public involvement period a full uh 30-day public involvement period as required uh ran from uh April 15th to May 14th and we did have two uh public meetings that were held uh you could attend either in person in our offices or virtually and of course we did all of the uh advertisement for those as we usually do the documents uh were available for public review uh on our website throughout the length of the public involvement period next this is the timeline um we are hoping to uh receive an adoption um for the amended MTP from you all today so that we can provide it to the consultation Partners to get it approved hopefully by October and here's our recommended motion uh this did go to the TAC um and they recommended that the board adopt um the match this motion questions motion table motion to approve second we have a second any uh all in favor any opposed motion pass all right then item number seven is consider approval of amendments to appendix the environmental clearance project list of the RMS 2023 2026 Transportation Improvement program tip and RMS 2025 and 2028 tip to change project description of the downtown 10 Executive Center to State Loop 478 copia project and here is an Gant with a brief presentation hi there good morning again um so for this item as you may recall we adopted an appendix D within the past year appendix D being uh items that are in the MTP undergoing or soon to undergo environmental clearance but are outside the four years covered by the tip we added this uh at Tech's request because for environmental clearance there is a require reement that projects be listed in a tip which only covers four years so for these larger projects that are go undergoing environmental review earlier in order for them to meet this requirement we need to have some sort of a mechanism like appendix D that allows them to be listed in a tip and when they're still outside the tip years so the current item under consideration is a companion item to the uh MTP amendment that was just approved and This concerns the uh downtown 10 Opia segment because it's in 2029 it's outside both the current tip which covers 2023 to 2026 and the one that we recently adopted that covers 2025 to 2028 so it's just outside both those years so in both of those documents it is to be included in appendix D in the 2023 to 2026 tip it was shown under its previous configuration that had been modeled where it was going to be changed to five to seven lengthes so the only real change here and this is going to carry across both of them is it's going it's saying it's going from uh I think three to five used to say 5 to 7 now says four to six and that's and because we have adopted the 20 25 to 2028 tip we have to make that change in that appendix D2 so you're getting the same change to the appendices in both documents in both cases it's an identical change CH where it used to say five to seven in each it now says four to six and if anybody has any questions I'm happy to entertain those any questions move to approve second we have a motion to approve we have a second all in favor any opposed motion passes item eight all right then moving on to item number eight consider approval of amendments to the RMS 2050 MTP amended RMS 2050 MTP RMS 2023 2026 tip and RMS 2025 2028 tip to a amend on New Mexico 213 New Mexico 404 interchange improvements npid B 608 x uh cn1 10322 project to in increase total project cost from 47,6 41652 to 76,000 uh 30 I'm sorry 76 mil 38782 and add 45 million of State Severance tax Bond proceeds funds at 3,435 374 of stpf surface Transportation program Flex funds reduce nhpp National Highway performance program funds from 20, 66,800 to 8,916 29 reduce sbsi border state infrastructure funds from 5,457 188 to 2,772 1894 increase nhpp Freight funds from 13, 64165 to 13,944 185 to increase total funding from 4,667 106 to 76 uh, 38,7 182 in fiscal year 2025 right so we have do I write B presentation or um yeah let let me read B because both of them are are tied together um and then Item B is amend the New Mexico 213 widening mpid P 621 x-c cap cn1 321 project to increase total project cost from 26 million to 43 m961 37 and add 8,7 $ 37,38 of nhpp funds add 5,585 1865 of STP funds and 2,772 1894 of FB sbsi funds to increase total funding from 26 million to 43 m96 37 in fiscal year 2025 take it over good morning chair members of the board thank you L um so on April 26 we we received a a request from nmdot uh for these proposed amendments to the to the nm213 and nm2 404 inter interchange Improvement improvements and the NM 213 weding projects the Amendments include an increase in the total project cost based on the most recent cost estimates which resulted in changes to the funding um for each project the so basically the ma the major change is that the Project's increasing cost and they're they're adding 45 millions of the state share and tax Bond proceeds for uh secur for the nm213 and 404 interchange interchange improvements project uh the nhpp stpf and sbsi funds uh program for this project were moved to the nm213 weding project so they Reed the 45 millions and move money from one project to the other one and they just re accommodated the the funds due to the increase in the in the total project costs um if approved amendments will be submitted to during the new mexic June steep Amendment which ends at the end of this month and in the backup you you have this information this is the current project details for the nm213 and NM 404 and this is how it's going to look after the amendment and this is the current project details for the nm213 weding and in the bottom you have the proposed amendment uh the recommendation is to amend the RMS 2050 MTP amended RMS 2050 MTP the RMS 2023 to 2026 tip and the RMS 2025 2028 tip as [Music] described Mr chair just this is a really really important uh uh Amendment because it has to do with the Borderland Expressway project this is specifically on the New Mexico side but it allows the the completion of the Borderland Express way on the on the New Mexico side so that that's great they're moving forward you know with the 404 uh improvements that are currently going on and and now the you know the other pieces which are the The Interchange between 404 and 213 and then uh funding the portion on 213 from that uh interchange or the where the round the roundabout currently exists all the way down to the state line so that is good news and as as uh you all know we've been working also on the Texas side to to get the borderline Expressway funded and you know we're looking at the at phase two that would now build the main Lanes from the state line um to us54 approximately but this is specifically for New Mexico do and you know we're very happy that that they're moving forward with that too any questions have a motion to approve the Amendments approve we have a motion we have a second all in favor any opposed motion passes all right so we already covered uh under reports and discussion nine and 10 um so moving on to partly reports item 11 a is the no administrative amendments report and an Gant will go through it good morning again all right we're getting presentation up okay so this report covers those administrative amendments that were made by the mo that per our public participation plan thresholds were not large enough amendments to bring forward for TPB approval so this is often things like something was going to be in 2025 and now it's going to be in 2026 or we're making a uh minor shift uh less than half the federal share of a uh of a Project's total cost um things things that are uh that that are that are relatively minor so every quarter we bring you this report to keep you apprised of of what we've done so that you have the most current information so this particular report covers the fiscal quarter uh that ended May 29 um and just as a quick summary of the findings there were 11 total amendments and n of them were concerning the uh funds that just got appropriated for 5307 and 5309 and these so these were minor tweaks to Transit projects mostly Sun Metro but also scrtd in New Mexico um and so of the remaining two projects one uh made some modifications to funding categories and the other one updated at csj which is a essentially its unique uh text Dot or nmdot project identification number so a very you know very immaterial this chart covers which amendments were made when so this chart covers April and then moving on to may this information's all you and you're also in your backup and we're trying to I'm trying to go a little fast here may this is a bunch and that's because it was those Transit ones and this is just minor tweaks to to those existing projects and then uh and then also just the funding category so that's that's all we've got for this particular quarter more we had most most of the uh action was in May and uh this is the end of my report if anyone wants to go over anything a little further happy to otherwise uh I can end here thank you all right moving on with a quar reports we've got B project completion report C project Readiness report and D RMS 2020 projects report um all these are in your backup um you know we can k out here can give you a very brief uh report on what's going on or if you prefer just to review the back or if you have any questions you know we're happy to answer given that this meeting has been running a little late but we're more than ready to to do this questions I think everyone thoroughly read the reports thank you all right all right then moving on to the item 12 executive director's report um a the national electric vehicle infrastructure program uh the nevi uh Phase 2 just to let you know that uh we uh got a presentation from from teot on the Texas side um so phase two phase one is is in the process of of implementation phase one and by the way nebbi is is really looking at El installing um a charging stations for electric vehicles so phase one uh really consisted in looking at the at the big major quarters within the state of Texas right so Tex was looking at you know where to locate stations charging stations along I 10 I20 35 45 the the major quarters phase B is really focusing within the the mo areas right so that's that's where the mo has a lot more more participation and and and what to do so these specifics will be included in the um in the fiscal year 25 Texas uh EV plan um and there are two things that that that the MP s will are being asked to establish right now one is to uh establish a study areas so you know we're going to split the the M region into study areas so that we can you know figure out what is the best location for some of these charging stations right um there will be a lot of public involvement in this you know the the of course we'll bring it here to the to the TAC and to the U and to the policy board um there's a lot considerations here you know physical location of the um of or or the ease you know in terms of properties RightWay where to do it but also a lot of uh considerations related to uh disadvantaged census tracks Equity considerations making sure that that these are located where where they should be and making it accessible and available to to everybody um as far as process you know it is an open process there will be um once the locations are are identified there will be applications that will be um uh requested by you know the the the private sector that will be installing them uh there will be a a scoring uh in order to select these these applications there will be a NEPA done given that these are federal dollars and and each individual location will be added into the tip and the MTP so there's there's you know a lot of opportunities for public involvement and for the for the policy board to to to make the final call so they're estimating as soon as they we collectively start the process that it's going to take somewhere between 10 to 12 months um you know from kickoff to uh beginning the the implementation process so this just an FYI that uh this is coming to you all or to all of us here at the no fairly soon any thoughts questions sir just a friendly reminder the city of Al Paso and pass count Fe last year received a $15 million grant for a similar purpose so all of the steps that you are mentioning about selecting locations in historically underserved communities and opening making it a very public process we're barely wrapping uper contract with Federal Highway Administration we'll be able to do that so I just ask that you that this board keeps in mind that there's already an EV charging effort led by city and county absolutely so you know what whatever locations that are selected on the phase two of the Nei plan you know obviously we're going to be working with what's already in place here to to complement and supplement all right um Item B which is a Texas Mexico border of connectivity Workshop this is a a workshop that happened a few weeks ago it's sort of like a followup to the Border master plan um the uh TCH organized uh this meeting bringing stakeholders from both sides of the border the no and uh local government governments but inviting as well uh important stakeholders from the from the uh the Mexican side as well um so there was good conversations and all of this is going to to be uh leading to the the Border Master Plan update which is going to happen in the next year or so so all of us will be participating on that um and then C finally the Texas Transportation committee meetings uh several of us attended the May 23rd meeting again we provided comments to the uh Texas Transportation Commission um in may we had a representative Cassandra nandes and art Fierro both of them from the city of El Paso and we also had Liz O'Hara who uh in her position as chairwoman of the um of the El Paso chamber and and myself so again we were there providing comments and and uh the same messages as always we've got to be repeating it about our priorities about having consensus it's not 100% it's not perfect but uh you know making sure that they hear that that comment and then next week the on the 27th of June uh several of us are going to be out there again at the commission meeting so um I think S Miller I think you're going to be there as well right um the what is important about the June meeting is that the the draft uh fisal year 25 UTP will be presented to the commission um it's just what what will be presented is only the totals at the state level the individual projects that are funded are not going to be shown until the public comment begins on July the 5th is it the 5th or the 7th well early July whatever that that that date is and um and that's where the they will be unveiling the list of projects that are funded with categories 2 4 and 12 so that's all I have it happy to answer any questions or do we have a motion to Jour Jed at 10:47 thank you [Music]