>>> GOOD MORNING. THAT'S IT. ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING. THE MARCH 4th, 2025 TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETING WILL COME TO ORDER. IT IS 9:33 A.M. I'M ROBERT SAKA CHAIR OF THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE. WILL THE COMMITTEE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? [ ROLL CALL ] CHAIR, THERE ARE FIVE MEMBERS PRESENT. >> IF THERE IS -- THANK YOU -- IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION, THE AGENDA IS ADOPTED. HEARING AND SEEING NO OBJECTION, THE AGENDA IS HEREBY ADOPTED. ALL RIGHT. WELCOME EVERYONE. WE ARE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA TODAY IS SDOT'S PROPOSED 2025 LEVY DELIVERY PLAN. I WANTED TO QUICKLY NOTE A FEW THINGS. FIRST, THAT TOMORROW AND OUR SELECT BUDGET COMMITTEE, THE FULL COUNCIL WILL TAKE UP THE PROVISO LIFT THAT WILL -- THAT IS CURRENTLY ON HALF OF -- OR THE OTHER PART OF THE STORY TO SDOT'S 2025 LEVY FUNDING. I ALSO NOTE THAT THIS IS A FAIRLY UNIQUE ONE OFF, ONE-TIME COMMITTEE WORKLOAD ARRANGEMENT. THAT I MADE IN CLOSE PARTNERSHIP WITH COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS AND CHAIR OF THE BUDGET COMMITTEE WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE A MEMBER OF OUR TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE HERE. YOU WILL RECALL THIS PROVISO WAS PLACED ON THE DEPARTMENT DURING BUDGET LATE LAST YEAR BECAUSE THE EXECUTIVES PROPOSED BUDGET DID NOT INCLUDE A LEVY OF SPENDING PLAN AND COUNCIL DID NOT HAVE ADEQUATE TIME TO REVIEW WHAT A CITY BUDGET WOULD HAVE -- WITH THE PAST LEVY WOULD HAVE LOOKED LIKE. BUT ON A GOING FORWARD BASIS ANY AND ALL FUTURE SDOT PROVISOS AND TRANSPORTATION RELATED POLICY PROPOSALS WILL GO EXCLUSIVELY BEFORE THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE. WHEN VOTERS PASSED THE LEVY IN NOVEMBER, THEY APPROVED OF THE MOST ACCOUNTABLE LEVY IN OUR CITY'S HISTORY. TODAY, WE GET TO SEE SOME OF THAT ACCOUNTABILITY IN ACTION. WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD SO TO SPEAK AND NUTS AND BOLTS OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONTEXT. WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IS AN ANNUAL DELIVERY OR ANNUAL LEVY SPENDING DELIVERY PLAN THAT'S CURRENTLY BEFORE THE COUNCIL. A FEW OF OUR IMPORTANT COMMITTEES. DELIVERY PLANS LIKE THE ONE WE'RE HEARING TODAY WILL BE AN ESSENTIAL ANNUAL COMPONENT OF THIS TRANSPORTATION LEVY THAT WE WILL HEAR AND CONSIDER AGAIN EXCLUSIVELY IN THIS COMMITTEE ON A GOING FORWARD BASIS. THIS PROPOSED SPENDING PLAN IS SOMEWHAT OF A DEPARTURE FROM PAST PRACTICES AND MY VIEW SHOWING A DEDICATION THE DETAIL, UP FRONT TRANSPARENCY, THOUGHTFUL COLLABORATION, AND ENGAGEMENT. I WANT TO THANK SDOT AND THE MAYOR FOR THIS TYPE OF CLOSE PARTNERSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT AND RESPONSIVENESS. NOT JUST ON THE DELIVERY PLAN ITSELF, BUT THROUGHOUT THE LEVY PROCESS. END TO END. YOU HAVE BEEN TERRIFIC PARTNERS. WE NOW HAVE SEVEN ELECTED DISTRICT COUNCILMEMBERS. AS ELECTED OFFICIALS AND OUR RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS, WE ARE THEREFORE MORE CONNECTED NOW MORE THAN EVER TO OUR VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES. WITH THAT TIGHT INTEGRATION AND CONNECTION, COMES CLOSER DIRECT ENGAGEMENT WITH CITY DEPARTMENTS INCLUDING CRITICALLY IMPORTANT ONES LIKE SDOT. SO THANK YOU AGAIN SDOT FOR YOUR RENEWED COMMITMENT TO COLLABORATING WITH OUR COUNCIL NOW AND ON A GOING FORWARD BASIS. LET'S DO THIS WORK TOGETHER. NOW OUR SECOND AGENDA ITEM PERTAINS TO VISION ZERO. LAST TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, WE FOCUSED ON THE CRITICAL ISSUE OF TRANSIT SECURITY, BOTH FOR DRIVERS AND PASSENGERS IN OUR REGION. THIS REMAINS A TOP PRIORITY FOR MY OFFICE. TODAY'S PRESENTATION FROM THE DEPARTMENT WILL FOCUS ON ANOTHER ASPECT OF OUR MOST SOLEMN RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE HAVE AS DECISION MAKERS AND AS POLICYMAKERS AND AS LEADERS IN OUR CITY. KEEPING PEOPLE SAFE ON OUR ROADS. SPECIFICALLY THE PRESENTATION WILL FOCUS ON WHAT OUR CITY IS DOING TO ACHIEVE OUR AMBITIOUS VISION ZERO GOAL TO END TRAFFIC DEATHS AND SERIOUS INJURIES ON CITY STREETS BY THE YEAR 2030. AND AS PART OF THIS I NOTE THAT THERE WAS A NON-- SO AS PART OF THE PRESENTATION, WE'LL LEARN MANY THINGS INCLUDING WHAT ARE SOME OF THE AVAILABLE TOOLS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR TOOL KIT THAT ARE ALIGNED WITH THE FEDERAL SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH. AND ONE OF THOSE COUNTERMEASURES I KNOW IT'S -- AN IMPORTANT PRIORITY OF MINE PERSONALLY AND I KNOW MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES ON THE DAIS AND NOT HERE TODAY AS WELL -- IS TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT CAMERAS. THERE'S A NONTRIVIAL TIE BETWEEN CARS, VEHICLES ARE GOING TOO FAST. AND PEOPLE ARE DYING. PEDESTRIANS ARE DYING. CYCLISTS ARE DYING. DRIVERS ARE DYING. AND SO I KNOW THAT THERE'S A STRONG NEXUS IN TERMS OF OUR ABILITY TO MITIGATE AND PREVENT SOME OF THESE TRAGEDIES WITH VARIOUS DESIGN FEATURES AND SPEED ENFORCEMENT CAMERAS. WHICH IS ANOTHER ITEM WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW WHO WILL BE IN A POSITION WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH AS I UNDERSTAND IT. TO PROPOSE LEGISLATION TO ALLOW US AS A CITY, TO ROLL OUT AND DEPLOY MORE SPEED CAMERAS THROUGHOUT OUR CITY. THANK YOU AGAIN TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR EFFORTS ON KEEPING OUR STREETS SAFE AND WE ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING MORE ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT WORK. ALL RIGHT. WE'LL NOW OPEN THE HYBRID PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. PUBLIC COMMENTS SHOULD RELATE TO ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA OR WITHIN THE BURR VIEW OF THIS COMMITTEE. HOW MANY SPEAKERS SIGNED UP TODAY? >> CURRENTLY WE HAVE TEN IN-PERSON SPEAKERS AND FIVE REMOTE SPEAKERS. >> ALL RIGHT. EACH SPEAKER WILL HAVE ONE MINUTE. WE WILL START WITH IN-PERSON SPEAKERS FIRST. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR PUBLIC EXCELLENT? >> THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WILL BE MODERATED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER. THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS UP TO 20 MINUTES AND SPEAKERS WILL BE CALLED IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY REGISTERED. SPEAKERS WILL ALTERNATE BETWEEN SETS OF IN-PERSON AND REMOTE SPEAKERS UNTIL THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS ENDED. SPEAKERS WILL HEAR A CHIME WHEN TEN SECONDS ARE LEFT OF THEIR TIME. SPEAKERS' MICS WILL BE MUTED IF THEY DON'T END THEIR COMMENTS TO ALLOW US TO CALL ON THE NEXT SPEAKER. THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS NOW OPEN AND WE WILL BEGIN WITH THE FIRST SPEAKER ON THE LIST. DAN ROUNDS. >> AND CLERK, JUST BY THE WAY, I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S AT LEAST ONE SPEAKER WHO NEEDS SOME ADDITIONAL ACCESSIBILITY -- SOME TIME FOR ACCESSIBILITY PURPOSES? SO THAT'S -- DEFINITELY GRANTED. >> YES, WE WILL GIVE DAN ROUNDS TWO MINUTES. >> GOOD MORNING GOVERNMENT MEMBERS. >> GOOD MORNING. >> SIR, CAN YOU SPEAK INTO THE MIC A LITTLE BIT? >> THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING COUNCILMEMBERS, I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE I'M TIRED OF SEEING MY TWO ELDERLY ASIAN NEIGHBORS TRUDGE UP A STREET TO GET TO A BUS STOP. THE STREET IS SOUTH ORCHARDS AND IT'S DANGEROUS AND HAS TRAFFIC AND IS NARROW. AND THE -- LACKS ANY KIND OF SIDEWALK. I TRY TO GET ATTENTION OF THAT -- IN 2017. NOTHING WAS DONE AT THAT TIME. I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I'M IN WITH SOUTH ORCHARDS AND 22nd AVENUE. WE HAVE ABOUT 200 -- EXCUSE ME, 165 HOUSEHOLDS AND 400 PERSONS AND WE'RE IN A BOTTLENECK. THE ONLY WAY TO GET FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOOD UP TO A BUS STATION IS THROUGH THIS ONE REAL DANGEROUS -- YOU GO UP AND IT'S A BLIND HILL. CREST. TRAFFIC EITHER WAY AND PEOPLE ARE IN THE CENTER OF THE STREET. WE HAVE A PETITION HERE FROM 50 PLUS PEOPLE ASKING FOR THIS. WE SUBMITTED THE MORE DETAILED INFORMATION AND YOU HAVE A PACKET FOR IT. AND I BELIEVE IT MEETS THE -- PLAN SECTION 4.1 IMPROVE BUS ACCESS SECTION 4.3, FOCUS ON BEACON AVENUE SOUTH AS A HIGH RIDERSHIP BUS ROUTE, AND 4.3, FOCUS ON EQUITY AND CONSTRUCTION OF MINIMUM -- OF 17% NEW SIDEWALKS AND DISTRICT 2. WE'RE A VERY DIVERSE AREA. I WAS DOORBELLING TO GET THE PETITIONS. RAN ACROSS BEAUTIFUL FAMILIES AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, ASIAN -- THANK YOU FOR THE TIME. >> THANK YOU SIR. AND IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT, YOU ARE ENCOURAGED -- FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT THAT WITH US. WE CAN CIRCULATE IT AND MAKE SURE ALL THE COUNCIL OFFICES HAVE ACCESS IT. THANK YOU. >> NEXT UP IS ELIZABETH ROBERTS FOLLOWED BY ALONZO R. SMALLS. IT IS ONE MINUTE. >> GOOD MORNING CITY COUNCIL TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS. I'M PRESENTING AGENCY SDOT DIRECTOR ADIAM EMERY AND YOUR TEAM AND I'M ELIZABETH ROBERTS AND I OWN A HOME NEXT TO A SHORELINE STREET AND MADISON PARK. I'M NOT A BUSINESS OR LAND DEVELOPER BUT I'M UPRIGHT CITIZEN AND I SUPPORT THE MAYOR'S ONE SEATTLE AND INITIATIVE. THE CITIZENS OF SEATTLE HAVE ENTRUSTED SDOT WITH SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO RESTORE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND FAITH IN SEATTLE AND FOR A MORE LIVEABLE AND FOR OUR FUTURE. MY COMMENT TODAY IS A REQUEST THAT SDOT ADMINISTER THE LAW FAITHFULLY AND FAIRLY. OUR EXPERIENCE OF THREE AND A HALF YEAR PROCESS TRYING TO GET A SAFE LEGAL DRIVEWAY PERMIT TO OUR HOME. THAT'S EXISTED FOR 72 YEARS. APPROVED. OUR PROCESS HAS BEEN UNDULY INFLUENCED BY COMMUNITY GROUPS AND A SEEMINGLY APATHETIC DEPARTMENT. THE PERMIT PROCESS -- IS GOING ON FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE A DRIVEWAY. WE'VE BEEN SUBJECT TO DISPARATE TREATMENT BY SDOT AND WE'RE EAGER TO MOVE AHEAD. THANK YOU. >> AGAIN FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT THOSE WRITTEN COMMENTS IF YOU HAVE THEM. AND REMINDER FOLKS, FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT WHEN YOU HEAR THAT CRIME. YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS, THANK YOU. >> NEXT UP IS ALONZO R. SMALLS FOLLOWED BY BRITTANY BROST. JUST SPEAK INTO THE MICROPHONE CLOSELY. >> OH. YOU READY? I THINK MY BIGGEST ISSUE WITH THE TRANSPORTATION RIGHT NOW IS SAFETY. NUMBER ONE SAFETY THING I REALIZED BEING OUT THERE ON THE STREETS AND TAKING THE BUSES AND DOING THE THINGS THAT I DO, IS THE DRIVERS. I BELIEVE THE DRIVERS SHOULD BE SAFE MORE THAN THE PASSENGERS. BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES KEEP US GOING. KEEP US MOVING. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HOPE THAT YOU COUNCILMEMBERS DO TODAY IS TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION IS MAKING THE SAFETY WITH THE UNIONS WITH THE DRIVERS. THE DRIVERS NEED MORE PROTECTION FROM US EVEN THOUGH WE ARE RIDING SOUTH TRANSIT. SO I THINK THAT YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THE WORK WITH THE UNIONS AND FOLLOW POLICIES WITH THE UNIONS IN WAYS THAT'S BENEFICIAL FOR ALL OF US TO WORK TOGETHER AND OUR SAFETY IS NUMBER ONE PERIOD. AND COMMON SENSE. I THINK WE DON'T USE ENOUGH COMMON SENSE. BUT THAT'S JUST MY THING. >> THANK YOU. COMMON SENSE COALITION. >> NEXT UP IS BRITTANY FOLLOWED BY AARON SELECTOR. >> GOOD MORNING COUNCIL. I LIVE IN DISTRICT 7. AND I AM A PERMANENT PEDESTRIAN AND I HATE THE TERM NONDRIVER BECAUSE THAT'S STILL FOCUSES AROUND CARS. I LIVE IN BELL TOWN AND I WORK IN DOWNTOWN. AN AREA OF THE CITY THAT IS FOCUSED ON GETTING PEOPLE IN AND OUT IN CARS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. SCREW PEDESTRIANS IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT I HAVE COME TO BELIEVE. I USE ONE OF THESE BECAUSE I AM LEGALLY BLIND. I GO THROUGH THESE BECAUSE CARS TEND TO HIT THEM. THEY'RE $70 APIECE. MY INSURANCE COVERS ONE EVERY FIVE YEARS. THEIR NOT CHEAP. I PAY FOR A LOT OF THEM. IT SUCKS BECAUSE CARS DON'T STOP WHEN THEY HIT THEM. JUST KEEP GOING. THEY COULD HIT ME AND THEY'LL KEEP GOING. TRUST ME. I KNOW THAT. I HAVE BEEN HIT BY A CAR BEFORE AND I'LL BE HIT BY A CAR AGAIN. MY BROTHER JOKES THAT I'LL DIE BY BEING HIT BY A CAR. WE KIND OF HAVE A MORBID SENSE OF HUMOR AT THIS POINT IN LIFE. SO I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WITH VISION ZERO PRIORITIZE PEOPLE THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF CARS BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY I'M SICK AND TIRED OF HAVING TO TAKE MY LIFE IN MY HANDS EVERY TIME I LEAVE MY HOME. IT'S TIRING, THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. UP NEXT IS AARON SELECTOR FOLLOWED BY DOUG McDONALD. >> HELLO COUNCIL. MY NAME IS AARON AND I'M A PASSIONATE SEATTLE-ITE AND WALKER. IN 2024, I CROSSED FROM BEACON HILL TO AME TENNIS CENTER NEARLY EVERY DAY. AND I WOULD CROSS RAINIER SOMETIMES LEGALLY. SOMETIMES ILL LILY. WHEN I CHOOSE TO CROSS THE STREET LEGALLY. IT WOULD COST ME ABOUT SIX, SEVEN MINUTES AND WHEN I CROSSED THE STREET ILLEGALLY, I WOULD ALMOST ALWAYS HAVE A CROSSING BUDDY. AND IT WAS -- NOT SAFE. AND SOMETIMES THIS PERSON WOULD BE VERY ELDERLY. AND COULDN'T WALK VERY WELL. BUT STILL WOULD CHOOSE TO WALK DIRECTLY ACROSS RAINIER OVER FOUR AND A HALF LANES OF TRAFFIC. AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR INSTALLING A CROSSING AT COLLEGE STREET RIGHT WHERE I WOULD CROSS. AND I WOULD REALLY REQUEST THAT -- THE WIDER ACROSS RAINIER. THIS REALLY MATTERS. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. DOUG McDONALD FOLLOWED BY JACK WHISMER. >> GOOD MORNING, I'M DOUG AND I LIVE IN DISTRICT 5. I PASSED UP A PIECE OF PAPER WITH TWO GRAPHS ON IT. THE SECOND IS THE EXTRAORDINARYRUNUP OREVEALED IN THE RECENT REPORT OF THE WASHINGTON TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSION RUNNING FROM 2020 TO 2023. AND THE MOST INTERESTING PIECE OF THIS IS THE REVELATION THAT ONLY 5% OR 6% OF THE SCOOTER INJURIES IN SEATTLE ARE CAUSED BY TRAFFIC COLLISIONS. THE REST ARE CAUSED BY FALLING OFF THE VEHICLES. THE SECOND GRAPH INDICATES THAT IN 2024, THERE WERE 20 TOTAL FATALITY AND SERIOUS INJURY E-SCOOTER INJURIES IN SEATTLE. NOW WHY DO WE KNOW THAT? WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE THOSE COLLISIONS ARE ALL RECORDED IN THE TRAFFIC COLLISION REPORTS THAT I RECEIVE FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE REQUESTS FROM SDOT. SO MY NUMBERS AND SDOT NUMBERS SHOULD MATCH. SINCE THEY'RE ALL FROM THE SAME DATA. QUESTION OF E-SCOOTER SAFETY IS COMING TO A CRISIS IN THE SEATTLE WITH HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE INJURED WHICH WE KNOW FROM HARBORVIEW. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ATTENDED. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU SIR. I NOTE IF -- MY MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY, YOU ARE FORMER WASHINGTON STATE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION. >> I AM. >> YEP. YEP. DOUG McDONALD READ A LOT OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND YOUR PRIOR REPORTS. AND INCORPORATED MANY OF THOSE INTO THE LEVY LEGISLATION THAT VOTERS ULTIMATELY APPROVED. BUT WE LISTEN TO PUBLIC COMMENT AND APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU SIR. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> UP NOW IS JACK WESTMER FOLLOWED BY LEONARD HARRISON JEROME. >> MY NAME IS JACK AND I LIVE IN DISTRICT 6. I GREW UP WITH DOUG McDONALD. I WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT NORTH 1,340th STREET PROJECT WHICH IS RELEVANT BOTH OF YOUR AGENDA ITEMS TODAY. BUT ADD THAT ON THIS E-SCOOTER QUESTION, ONE SAFETY ISSUE IS UNDISCIPLINED PARKING. THERE ARE TORCH BLOCKING SIDEWALKS AND BUS STOPS AND CURB RAMPS AND WE NEED TO FIGURE THAT OUT. THERE ARE PROBABLY -- IT'S JUST -- TERRIBLE CLUTTER. AND THAT'S A SAFETY ISSUE. WITH REGARD TO NORTH 130th STREET, WHAT SDOT MED MADE THE PRESENTATION FOR THE LEVY LAST YEAR THEY EXPLAINED THERE WERE ABOUT 27,000 AVERAGE WEEKDAY TRIPS. AND I THINK THAT IF WE LOOK AT THAT TRAFFIC VOLUME, IT CANNOT BE WELL HANDLED BY A THREE LANE PROFILE. WE NEED TO READ -- SDOT'S DOING THE RIGHT THING AND HAVE A FOUR LANE PROFILE IF A THREE LANE PROFILE IS USED WE'LL HAVE BUSES SITTING IN TRAFFIC. WE'VE EXPERIENCED THAT ALREADY ON BROADWAY, PIKE PINE, NORTHEAST 65th STREET AND ROOSEVELT WAY. >> SORRY -- [ INAUDIBLE ] THANK YOU JACK. >> THANK YOU SIR. OKAY. NEXT UP IS LEONARD HARRISON JEROME FOLLOWED BY KATHLEEN DUN. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, I'M HERE TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF DEFERRING SDOT'S EXPERTISE AND THEIR FUNDING FORMULA THEY HAVE DEVELOPED FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES WITHIN THE TRANSPORTATION LEVY. I RECOGNIZE THAT BEING ELECTED OFFICIALS PUTS YOU IN A TOUGH SPOT. HOWEVER, WE CAN SADLY NO LONGER AFFORD TO ACT WITHOUT URGENCY. THE CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE IT NO SECRET THAT HE WILL WITHDRAW FEDERAL FUNDING FROM ALL PROJECTS IN CITIES AND AND STATES HE DOESN'T LIKE. WE NEED TO GET THESE PROJECTS IN THE GROUND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THE MONEY IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. WE NEED ONLY LOOK AT SOUND TRANSIT'S ST 3. THAT ESSENTIAL REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PACKAGE BECAME MIRED TIME AND TIME AGAIN IN REPEATED STUDIES AND POLITICALDELIBERATIONS. A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND NOW -- WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IF WEST SEATTLE IS GOING TO GET LIGHTRAIL. TRUST ME YOU DON'T WANT THAT POLITICAL HEADACHE. WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO REMEET THE SAME MISTAKE WITH OUR CURRENT TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. ILL URGE YOU TO DO WHAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION REFUSES TO DO AND RELY ON EXPERTISE. MOVE FOREWORD WITH THESE AMAZING TRANSPORTATION -- [ INAUDIBLE ] MAKE SEATTLE SAFER. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU LEONARD. >> OKAY. NEXT UP KATHLEEN DUN FOLLOWED BY THE LAST IN-PERSON SPEAKER, CURT NEWCHATELLI. >> I LIVE IN WEST SEATTLE AND I'M KATHLEEN DUN. THE MAJOR ROUTES AND OUT FOR PEOPLE, THEY'RE ALL DESIGNED LIKE FREEWAYS FOR NO APPARENT REASON. AND PEOPLE ARE SPEEDING. THEY'RE GOING 20 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. NOT JUST PRIVATE DRIVERS BUT ALSO CITY -- CARS AND BUSES. THEY'RE ALL GOING WAY OVER THE SPEED LIMIT. I'M BIKING ALONG IN UNPROTECTED BIKE LANE OR ON A RED LIKE THAT. AND I JUST TENSE UP AND FEEL LIKE EVERYBODY IS OUT TO KILL ME. WHEN I SWITCH TO THE SIDEWALK BECAUSE I'M SCARED TO RIDE ON THE STREET, THE PEDESTRIANS ARE ACTING LIKE I'M OUT TO KILL THEM. NOT FAIR TO THEM AND IT'S NOT FAIR TO US, PEOPLE ARE CRASHING IN CARS ALL OVER WEST SAT AND ADMIRAL WAY AND ON THE WEST SEATTLE FREEWAY AND THE SPOKANE STREET BRIDGE WHICH ARE ALSO DESIGNED LIKE FREEWAYS. WE NEED TO GET SOME ROAD DIETS, THERE'S NO REASON TO HAVE -- FOUR LANES ON ADMIRAL WAY. THERE'S NO TRAFFIC JAMS THERE. >> THANK YOU, MA'AM. >> LAST IN-PERSON SPEAKER IS CURT. >> GOOD MORNING. GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIR SAKA AND THE ENTIRE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE. I'M CURT OWNER AND PRESIDENT OF SPIRIT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND RESIDING CHAIR OF THE WASHINGTON TRUCKING ASSOCIATION AND COUNCIL. I HAVE BEEN DOING BUSINESS IN SEATTLE WATERFRONT FOR 25 YEARS AND HAVE HANDLED THE LOGISTICS OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CONTAINERS OVER THE COURSE OF MY CAREER. WATCHING THE TRUCKING ASSOCIATION OR WTA'S NOT FOR PROFIT TRADE ASSOCIATION REPRESENTING OVER 600 MEMBER COMPANIES. ITEM 2. UNFORTUNATELY, THE PROPOSED CHANGES OF VISION ZERO ACTION ARE IN CONFLICT WITH THE SHARED GOAL OF SAFETY. AND OF THE ROUTES THAT WILL BE IMPACTED ARE DESIGNATED HEAVY HAUL CORRIDORS. MOVEMENT IS CRITICAL TO FREIGHT SMOKE AND EFFICIENCY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH SAFETY. ACCESS COMES A -- TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RESPONSIBILITY THAT'S BOTH MANDATED AND INHERENT IN DRIVING A SEMI-TRUCK. I'M ASKING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL CONSIDER BILL 12093 THAT'S COMING DUE FOR A VOTE ON FULL COUNCIL MARCH 18th. I JUST ASK THE COMMITTEE TO MAINTAIN EXISTING PEDESTRIAN PROTECTIONS THAT ARE CLEARLY -- [ INAUDIBLE ] >> THANK YOU SIR. WE WILL NOW GO TO THE REMOTE SPEAKERS AND HIT STAR 6 WHEN YOU ARE CALLED, FIRST SPEAKER IS CARLO AL CAN TARA. FOLLOWED BY LYNN DRAKE. YOU ARE UP, CARLO. >> HI. MY NAME IS CARLO. I'M CALLING ON BEHALF OF THE AURORA REIMAGINE COALITION. I FIRST WANTED TO THANK AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE HARD WORK THE VISION ZERO TEAM PUT INTO MAKING OUR STREETS SAFER. THEIR EFFORTS AND PROGRESS DO MAKE A DIFFERENT ON OUR STREETS AND I SEE IT AND FEEL IT EVERY DAY WHEN I WALK TO THE BUS STOP AND I HOP ON THE BIKE TO COMMUTE OR EVEN WHEN I'M DRIVING THROUGH THE CITY. AURORA AVENUE NORTH CONTINUES TO BE ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS STREETS IN OUR CITY AND IT'S IN DIRE NEED OF SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS FOR PEOPLE. ACCORDING TO U.S. DOT ADA, 42,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED ON U.S. ROADWAYS ALONE IN 2023. THAT NUMBER IS EXPECTED TO GO UP TO BE HIGHER IN 2024. TO PUT IT INTO PERSPECTIVE, WE AS THE U.S. LOST ABOUT 47,000 COMBATANTS IN THE VIETNAM WAR. AND WE'RE LOSING ABOUT THAT MANY PEOPLE PER YEAR JUST ON OUR ROADWAYS. WE REALLY NEED TO DO OUR PART TO EXPEDITE OUR VISION ZERO PROJECTS AND MY REQUEST IS FOR THE -- COMMITTEE TO EXPEDITE THESE AND THE VISION ZERO TEAM SPECIFICALLY ON OUR MOST DANGEROUS ROADS LIKE AURORA. THANKS. >> THANK YOU. >> NEXT UP IS LYNN DRAKE FOLLOWED BY LISA McCRUMBEN. >> GOOD MORNING. HI. GOOD MORNING. THIS IS LYNN DRAKE. I I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT ONE OF THE SUCCESSES OF VISION ZERO PROJECT WHICH IS OUR ALKI POINT HEALTHY STREET. IT'S MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. WE RECENTLY MET WITH COUNCILMEMBER SAKA TO REVIEW THE SURVEY RESULTS. LAST SATURDAY WE HAD ALMOST RECORD CROWDS. PEOPLE ENJOYING THE STREET AND IT'S BEEN A HUGE CALMING EFFECT AND WE REALLY WANT TO THANK SDOT FOR MAKING ALL THE BIG CHANGES NECESSARY SO WE CAN SHARE THE ROAD WITH VEHICLES. SCOOTERS, BIKERS. AND IN RETROSPECT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR 11 YEARS AND AND PROMOTING IT AND LIKE TO SEE THESE KINDS OF THINGS DONE AS A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT FASTER FOR OTHER PARTS OF ALKI BEACH AND THE REST OF SEATTLE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> OKAY, NEXT UP LISA MCCRUMBEN AND MAX BAKER. LISA, YOU ARE ON. HIT THAT STAR 6. LISA, STAR 6 OR WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU. OKAY. WE WILL DO -- NEXT UP WE'LL DO MAX BAKER. >> HELLO, I LIVE IN WEST SEATTLE. MY NAME IS MAX BAKER. ZERO COMMITMENT TO MOVING FAST ENOUGH AND THE CONSEQUENCES ARE REAL HERE. DELRIDGE WAY WAS RECENTLY REBUILT FOR RAPID RIDE YET DIDN'T INSTALL THE MARKED CROSSWALKS BETWEEN SOUTHWEST HUDSON AND SOUTHWEST OREGON. HALF A MILE OF NO SAFE CROSSINGS. NEW CAFES IS OPENING ON THE INTERSECTIONS AND YET HOW ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO CROSS SAFELY TO ACCESS IT? THIS IS DANGEROUS. MULTIPLE DEATHS IN OUR AREA MOST NOTABLY ROB MASON IN 2023. JUST WEEKS AGO A PERSON WAS HOSPITALIZED CROSSING DELRIDGE ITSELF WITH DAKOTA UNMARKED CROSSING WHERE CURB RAMPS MAKE IT SEEM SAFE BUT THERE ARE NO SIGNS OR MARKINGS. WORSE, NO MARKED CROSSINGS AT ALL AND NEARLY A FULL QUARTER MILE. VISION ZERO'S SUPPOSED TO PREVENT TRAGEDIES. IMPROVEMENTS NEED TO BE MADE BEFORE LIVES ARE LOST. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> OKAY. LISA? WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU AGAIN. ARE YOU ON? YOU NEED TO HIT STAR 6. OKAY. OKAY. WE'LL GIVE IT ONE MORE TIME. LAST SPEAKER OTHER THAN LISA, DAVID HAYNES. >> HI. THANK YOU. THE ONLY WAY IS WHEN WE HAVE PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY RESIDENT CENTRIC NEIGHBORHOODS THAT AREWALKABLE. WE ARE A CAR CENTRIC INNER CITY WHERE MOST EVERYONE LIVES ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD RAGE. EXTREMELY CLOSE TO TRANSIT ORIENTED NOISE AND AIR POLLUTIONS WITH NO REAL NOISE AND AIR ABATEMENT. THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH TRANSPORTATION AT THE MOMENT IS PUBLIC SAFETY. NOT FAIR ENFORCEMENT YET BUS DRIVERS SEE SOMETHING AND DON'T SAY SOMETHING WHEN THEY DRIVE DOWN 3rd AVENUE. THE MAYOR GETS A PASS FROM COUNCIL WHEN HE CLAIMS IT'S GOING TO QUELL ALL THE SAFETY CONCERNS AT 12th AND JACKSON ELSEWHERE. CLAIMS TAKING AWAY BUS STOPS INSTEAD OF TRESPASSING REEVES AND DRUG PUSHERS IS GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. YET ALL IT DOES IS -- HARM INNOCENT LAW-ABIDING RESIDENTS. WE NEED COUNCIL TO MAKE A LAW THAT ANY CONTRACTOR WHO GETS THE JOB IS BUILDING SIDEWALKS HAS TO AGREE TO HAVE TWO FULL PAID SHIFTS OF WORKERS -- >> OKAY, THANK YOU DAVID. WE'LL TRY LISA ONE MORE TIME. LAST SPEAKER. LISA, YOU ARE ON, REMEMBER TO HIT STAR 6. THAT'S IT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. >> OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO OUR FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS. WILL THE CLERK PLEASE READ ITEM NUMBER ONE INTO THE RECORD? >> YDA ITEM ONE. PROPOSED SDOT 2025 LEVY DELIVERY PLAN. >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WILL OUR PRESENTERS PLEASE JOIN US AT THE TABLE? AND SHARE YOUR PRESENTATION. ONCE READY, PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELVES AND THEN BEGIN YOUR PRESENTATIONS. >> GOOD MORNING. >> GOOD MORNING COUNCILMEMBERS. >> AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU TODAY ABOUT THE 2025 LEVY DELIVERY PLAN. AM I NOT LOUD? SCOOT MY CHAIR. >> THE MICROPHONE -- JUST PULL IT FORWARD. I'M SORRY. >> HERE. OKAY. THIS DETAILED PLAN REPRESENTS A CRITICAL STEP FORWARD IN ENSURING THAT WE DELIVER OUR COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF SEATTLE. TODAY IS A MONTH SINCE I TRANSITIONED FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO SDOT AND A NEW PARTNERSHIP HAS BEEN VERY MEAN,FUL. CHAIR, AS YOU HAVE STATED. THIS LEVY IS UNIQUE AS WE ARE INJECTING THE DISTRICT CONCEPT AND IT'S ONLY ENRICHED OUR DELIVERY PLAN AND A COMMITMENT AND OUR COLLABORATION WITH YOU ALL. SO WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO GET IT GOING. THIS THROUGH THE LEVY BUDGET PROVISO YOU ASKED US FOR REVIEW BEFORE IT WAS FINAL. THAT PUT US ON THE PATH OF DEVELOPING A WORK PLAN WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED AMOUNT OF DETAILS. AND WE APPRECIATE THE TIME THAT YOU AND YOUR STAFF TOOK TO REVIEW AND CO-COLLABORATE WITH US. AS WE LOOK AHEAD, ONE OF OUR KEY OBJECTIVES IS WORKING COLLABORATIVELY AGAIN WITH COUNCIL TO FIT THE -- LIFT THE 29 -- $89 MILLION -- LIFT PROVISO THAT'S ON THE LEVY FUND. DOING SO WILL EMPOWER US TO GET -- THE GROUND, YOU KNOW, TO GET IT GOING. AND DO SO TO KIND OF -- TO IMPLEMENT THE PROJECTS THAT ARE EXCITING AND IMPACTFUL WORK THAT OUR OUTLINED IN 2025. I'M VERY CONFIDENT THAT WE COLLECTIVELY WILL BE IN PARTNERSHIP TO GET THIS GOING AND LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR COLLABORATION AGAIN. SO LET ME INTRODUCE OUR -- MY SENIOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR TO SHARE WITH YOU THE DETAILS ON THE 2025 WORK PLAN. >> ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING COUNCIL. CHAIR, VICE CHAIR AND COUNCILMEMBERS. HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH YOU TODAY. TO PRESENT THIS. IT IS OUR FIRST ANNUAL PLAN FOR THE PROJECTS THAT SDOT PLANS TO WORK ON PLANNING, DESIGNING AND CONSTRUCTING IN THE NEXT YEAR. WE'RE REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THE VOTERS' SUPPORT FOR THIS EFFORT. WE TOOK IT REALLY SERIOUSLY AS AN AGENCY. THE TRUST INSTILLED IN US BY THE VOTERS WHEN THEY VOTED SO OVERWHELMINGLY TO SUPPORT THIS LEVY SO WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON BEING READY FOR THIS DAY EVER SINCE WE PASSED THIS OFF TO THE CLERK AND SO THAT WE COULD DEMONSTRATE IN GOOD FAITH THAT WE WANTED TO START STRONG ON THIS LEVY. IT'S A RESULT OF ALSO MANY YEARS OF GOOD PLANNING AND THINKING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. WE ARE ABLE TO BRING THIS DETAILED PLAN TO YOU BECAUSE WE ARE LEANING INTO THE COMMUNITY COMMENTARY, FEEDBACK, AND ENGAGEMENT FROM THE SEATTLE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. THE CLIMATE PLAN. THE TRANSPORTATION EQUITY PLAN. AND MUCH MORE. SO WE'RE REALLY PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO CULL FROM ALL OF THOSE VOICES AND WORKING WITH YOU IN ORDER TO BRING THIS DETAILED PLAN TO YOU. IT'S FOUNDED IN SOME VERY STRONG ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY VOICES. AS DIRECTOR EMERY SAID, THIS IS A VERY DETAILED PLAN. IDENTIFYING OVER 400 PROJECTS OR PROJECT LOCATIONS WHERE SDOT WILL BE WORKING IN THE COMING YEAR. IT IDENTIFIES PLANNING FOR LARGE AND TRANSFORMATIVE PROJECTS AS WELL AS THE LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS THAT KEEP OUR CITY MOVING EVERY SINGLE DAY AND MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS. IT -- THE PLAN ALSO DESCRIBES A GENERAL PRIORITIZATION APPROACH. WE DIDN'T JUST DELIVER SPREAD SHEET. WE WANTED TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT SO THE LEVY PLAN PROVIDES CONTEXT ABOUT HOW WE PICK PROJECTS AND HOW WE DELIVER PROJECTS AND SOME OF THE WAYS IN WHICH WE -- THE NORMAL PROCESSES PLAY OUT. SO TODAY WE'LL PROVIDE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF OVERVIEW. AS YOU KNOW, THIS PROCESS KICKS OFF WHEN WE START COLLECTING FUNDS. THAT STARTED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, THE TIME NEXT YEAR WE WILL ALSO HAVE THE LEVY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE REALLY EXCITED THAT WE ARE MAKING -- MAKING STRIDES TOWARDS GETTING THAT GROUP SEATED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. IS THAT BODY WILL BE A KEY PARTNER IN DELIVERING THE FUTURE LEVY PLANS. WE ARE ALSO -- AS I MENTIONED, GETTING GOING ON SOME LARGE PROJECTS BUT ALSO THE LEVY PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN OUR MAINTENANCE. THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT STARTED ON DAY ONE. LIKE FUNDING THE TRANSPORTATION OPERATION CENTER 24/7 AND THERE'S REGNANT MACHINES SHIM AND BEVEL WORK ON SIDEWALKS ANDPOTHOLE FILLING BUT ALSO SOME THINGS HAPPENING IN 2032. AS WE KNOW FROM THIS LEVY THAT WE'RE WORKING ONLY RIGHT NOW, WE MET THE COMMITMENT THAT SDOT MADE TO HAVE OUR MAJOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN CONTRACT IN 2024. AND WE DO HAVE SOME REALLY EXCITING PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION NOW LIKE THE RAPID RIDE J PROJECT. THE ROUTE HO FOURTH QUARTER PROCORRECT AND MANY OTHERS. SO IT'S BOTH AN IMMEDIATE AND A LONG-TERM EFFORT. AND SO WE ARE EXCITED TODAY BE ABLE TO BE WORKING DILIGENTLY NOW AND ALSO PAST 2032. SO JUST HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THE THEMES IN THIS LEVY. IT REALLY DOES REFLECT THE TOP PRIORITIES IN THE 2025 DELIVERY PLAN. VISION ZERO REALLY OUR NORTH STAR. WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT IT LATER TODAY. IT IS WOVEN INTO ALL FACTORS OF WHAT THE LEVY IS PRESENTING AND THE LEVY DELIVERIRY PLAN. WE HAVE A COMBINATION AS WELL AS LARGE PROJECTS ADVANCING THROUGPLANNING LIKE THE AURORA AVENUE NORTH PROJECTS. WE'VE HAD TWO EXCELLENT WALKS WITH COMMUNITY IN THE PINE HURST AND NORTH GATE NEIGHBORHOODS WORKING WITH COMMUNITY TO PRIORITIZE THE SIDEWALK SEC SEGMENTS THAT WOULD MEAN THE MOST TO THEM IN THE NEAR TERM. ALSO JUMP-START WORK ON BRIDGE STUDIES AND DESIGN. WE WANT TO HAVE A LOT OF THAT WORK IN ADDITION TO MOVING FORWARD ON OUR BRIDGE WORK, WE WANT TO ALSO HAVE SOME OF OUR DESIGN WORK IN HAND AS WE LIFT UP THE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING TASK FORCE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INSIGHT INTO OUR BRIDGE MAINTENANCE NEEDS. WE'RE ALSO INVESTING FUNDS IN OUR DOWNTOWN ACTIVATION. SOME EXCITING PROJECTS THAT WE WANT TO DELIVER PREFIFA BUT ALSO LASTING AND ENDURING VALUE POST FIFA FOR THE COMMUNITY. ALSO DESIGNING AND LAUNCHING NEW LEVY PROGRAMS COCREATING SAFETY PROJECTS WITH NEIGHBORHOODS. WORKING ON EV CHARGING INSTALLATION AND MUCH MORE. SO DIVING INTO A COUPLE OF SPECIFICS. ALTHOUGH -- REALLY THERE'S NO SUBSTITUTE FOR GOING THROUGH THE LONG LIST AND SEEING ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT ARE SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE CITY. BUT WE'RE EXCITED TO GET GOING ON THE 130th STREET PROJECT IN ADVANCE OF THE LIGHTRAIL STATION OPENING. WE ARE VERY COGNIZANT OF WANTING TO SYNC THAT UP SO THAT IT'S AVAILABLE TO COMMUNITY WHEN THE LIGHTRAIL STATION OPENS. WE'VE GOT 38 SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION. WE'VE GOT CLEANING AND INSPECTION WORK ON THE BRIDGES GOING AS PART OF OUR PROACTIVE BRIDGE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM INSPECTING AND CLEANING SO WE CAN GET A BETTER SENSE OF THEIR CONDITION AND WHAT ELSE IS NEEDED AS WELL AS MANY TRANSIT SPOT IMPROVEMENTS TO IMPROVE PASSENGER ACCESS TO AND COMFORT AT BUS STOPS AND COMPLEMENT TO SOME OF THE TRANSIT SAFETY AND SECURITY ISSUES THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY WITH YOU. OTHERS THAT YOU MAY NOT SEE, BUT JUST KNOW THAT THEY'RE UNDERWAY IS THE DESIGN FOR THE MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL WORK ON BRIDGES AS WELL AS OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS. THE END IS SORT OF THE TIME IT TAKES TO DO THE HUGE PROJECTS ON PAVING BUT WE HAVE MANY THINGS GOING ON RIGHT NOW INCLUDING PANEL REPLACEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE NEIGHBORHOODS. MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING SOME OF THE DETERIORATING PAVING CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. WE'LL ALSO BE DE-- WE ARE STARTING ON DESIGN ON THE EAST MARGINAL WAY PROJECT TO PINE HURST AND ROOSEVELT LARGER AAC PROJECTS AND WE ARE GETTING GOING ON BIKE SWEEPING AND IMPROVED BIKE LANE BARRIERS AND THE PEOPLE STREETS AND PUBLIC SPACES PROJECTS INCLUDING COMPLIMENTING THE OVERHEAD LIGHTING THAT JUST WENT IN ON 3rd AVENUE AND STARTING CONSTRUCTION ON THE SQUARE PROJECT ON 2nd AVENUE EXTENSION. NEXT. ONE OF THE THINGS TO JUST KEEP IN MIND AND THE ORGANIZING PRINCIPAL ARE THESE 11 CATEGORIES, THEY ARE THE WAY IN WHICH WE'RE GOING TO ORGANIZE SOME DATA GOING FORWARD AND WE WILL PROPOSE WITH THE LOD THAT WE ORGANIZE SOME OF OUR DELIVERY AS WELL AS OUR FINANCIAL TRACKING IN THESE CATEGORIES. SO THIS IS SORT OF A -- LET'S GET USED TO THEM MOMENT. WE WILL BE SEEING THEM A LOT. BUT THEY'RE HELPFUL AND THAT THEY SYNC UP NICELY WITH COMMITMENTS MADE IN THE LEVY SO THE LEVY DELIVERIRY PLAN IS ALSO ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO THOSE. FUNDS WILL CARRY FORWARD BECAUSE THESE ARE CAPITAL AND THAT APPLIES WHETHER IT'S MAINTENANCE BUDGET OR NOT RIGHT? THE 24/7 FOR EXAMPLE FUNDING, THAT WILL STILL ALSO CARRY OVER. NEXT. MOMENT ON PROJECT SELECTION. SO I HAVE MENTIONED THAT WE LEANED HEAVILY ON -- ON SORT OF COMMUNITY DRIVEN PLANNING PROCESSES. BUT JUST A LITTLE BIT SORT OF DOUBLE CLICKING INTO SOME OF THAT DETAIL. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE KEY THINGS THAT IS WITHIN ALL OF THOSE IS OUR CORE VALUES AND EMPHASIS ON MULTIMOBILITY AND MOVING PEOPLE IN ALL MODES, VEHICULAR OR NONVEHICULAR AND WITH SAFETY AT OUR FORE FONT AND WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ROI ON THE PROJECTS WE'RE PUTTING FORWARD SO THAT WE'RE -- TOUCHING SPACES THAT BENEFIT MULTIPLE MODES AND MULTIPLE PEOPLE WITH ONE IMPROVEMENT. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE WHOLE OF THE CITY. NOT LEAVING ANY CITY PART -- PART OF THE CITY BEHIND. GOOD DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORK AS WELL AS BEING OPTIMAL AND SORT OF OPPORTUNISTIC IN OUR TIMING RIGHT? WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN A STREET IS BEING TOUCHED, FOR EXAMPLE, BY OUR PARTNERS AT SPU OR SCL, WE TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO DO WORK WITH THEM AS WELL. SO THAT THE ADJACENT PUBLIC IS DISTURBED ONCE AND NOT TWICE. SO WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT THE TIMING OF PROJECTS SO WE CAN PARTNER WITH OUR OTHER CAPITAL AGENCIES. WE ALSO HAVE A FOCUS ON EQUITY AND OUR ABILITY TO CO-COMMUNITY. AND HAVE INCORPORATED SOME OF THE COUNCILMEMBER PRIORITIES AND WORKING WITH YOU OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS HAVE INCORPORATED SOME OF THE COUNCILMEMBER PRIORITIES IN THE LIST IN THE LEVY DELIVERY PLAN. SOL MY SECOND TO LAST SLIDE HERE IS JUST SORT OF RECAPPING SOME OF THE LARGE PROJECTS PROCESSES. ONE OF THE THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND IS WE'RE GETTING GOING ON SOME REALLY LARGE PLANNING EFFORTS RIGHT NOW. LOT OF OUR -- OUR ARTERIAL ASPHALT AND CONCRETE PROJECTS GO THROUGH A COMPLETE STREETS PLANNING PROCESS. AND SO WHAT WE ARE -- EMBARKING ON NOW, WE WILL TAKE THROUGH A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN DESIGN PROCESS LATER THIS YEAR AND INTO NEXT YEAR. THAT WILL THEN TRANSLATE INTO FINAL DESIGN PACKAGES AND PS&E AND BID PACKAGES AND WE'LL WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS IN THE CITY TO PUT THEM OUT TO BID. AND WE WILL PROBABLY START TO SEE CONSTRUCTION ON SOME OF THESE LARGER ONES IN 20 -- LATER '26 INTO EARLY '27. AND I SAY THAT JUST TO SAY THAT THERE'S AREN'T FOR SOME OF THESETIMELINES RIGHT? GETTING FEEDBACK AND INCORPORATING ANY CHANGES WE CAN MAKE IN A HOLISTIC WAY. AND THEN MAKING SURE THAT THAT BID PACKAGE IS READY TO GO SO THAT WE'RE OUT WORKING WITH CONTRACTORS PROACTIVELY AND PRODUCTIVELY. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR HEARING FROM US. WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK WITH YOU. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK WITH LOC AND WORKING WITH YOU TO GET THEMSEATED AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU. I GUESS FIRST OFF, I NOTE THAT I WANT TO RECOGNIZE AND WELCOME OUR COLLEAGUE COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING. I KNOW THESE ISSUES ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO YOU AND YOUR OFFICE. SO THANK YOU FOR PRIORITIZING JOINING US TODAY AND WELCOME. THANK YOU AGAIN PRESENTERS DIRECTOR EMERY AND TEAM. COLLEAGUES? THIS TIME I'LL OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS. ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENT S? Y, GO AHEAD. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. >> NO. NO, YOU ARE ON THE COMMITTEE. I'M NOT. [ INAUDIBLE ] >> OKAY. THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU DIRECTOR EMERY AND THE TEAM FOR BEING HERE AND MR.-- FROM CENTRAL STAFF OF COURSE. REALLY APPRECIATE AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK ALL THE PUBLIC COMMENTERS. I -- I DO HAVE, YOU KNOW,, THE LETTER THAT WAS PROVIDED BY MR. McDONALD. OR -- FACT SHEET I GUESS. AND THEN I ALSO APPRECIATE THE PUBLIC COMMENT FROM THE WASHINGTON TRUCKING ASSOCIATION. I THINK THAT GENTLEMAN HAS LEFT. APPRECIATE THE POINTS THAT HE WAS MAKING. JUST TO PIGGYBACK OFF THIS. -- JUST TO PLAY OFF THE -- ACTUALLY -- NEXT ONE. ACTUALLY I WOULD SAY THIS ONE FOR THE NEXT PRESENTATION. SO YOU CAN'T LEAVE YET. I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THE FOCUS ON BRIDGES. YOU KNOW, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE WARRANTY ON MAG YELL THAT BRIDGE EXPIRED AS OF DECEMBER 31st, 2024 AND I WANTED TO CONFIRM -- I'M ASSUMING IT IS BUT I WANTED TO CONFIRM MAG YELL THAT IN TERMS OF THE '25 PLAN. THE MAGNOLIA BRIDGE. IS THAT PART OF THAT BULLET? >> WE HAVE ANALYTICAL WORK GOING ON TO SUPPORT FUTURE DECISION MAKING ON THE MAGNOLIA BRIDGE. YES. >> OKAY. BECAUSE THAT'S -- THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. YOU KNOW, IT'S COME UP NOT JUST THE MAGNOLIA BRIDGE BUT ACTUALLY THE DELAY VIS BRIDGES AND THE EMERSON BRIDGES. REALLY IMPORTANT AS PART OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DISCUSSION. BECAUSE THERE'S AN ASSUMPTION, TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE NEED TO BE KIND OF PARTNERING TOGETHER KIND OFLIKE PUBLIC SAFETY AND HUMAN SERVICES SO THAT'S OF GREAT CONCERN. OR GREAT INTEREST FOR ME NOT JUST FROM A STRAIGHT STICK TRANSPORTATION PIECE. I ALSO WANT TO THANK SINCE I'M ON THE BORDER LANDS BETWEEN D 7 AND D 6. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK ON THE BALLARD BRIDGE BUT NOT JUST THE BALLARD BRIDGE, BUT ON BOTH SIDES. I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT WORK. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. YOU GO INTO VISION ZERO. TALK ABOUT THAT LATER. ALSO WANTED TO SAY TOO THANK YOU. THIS MAY NOT BE PART OF WHAT YOU WERE INTENDING IN TERMS OF STREET MAINTENANCE, AND THE LIKE, BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE THE PROACTIVE WORK OF SDOT RELATED TO STREET MAINTENANCE FOR PIKE PLACE. WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT WORK BEING DONE THERE. AND THEN SEPARATELY OF COURSE, AS CHAIR KNOWS, IT WAS PULLED OUT OF THE SEATTLE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. BUT WORKING WITH SDOT ALSO PIKE PLACE PDA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AND STAKEHOLDERS, WILL HAVE THAT MEETING IN APRIL. WE'LL FIGURE OUT THE WAY AHEAD. AND GET A COMPREHENSIVE EVERYBODY INCLUDED INCLUDING CHIEF SCOGGINS. THE FIRE IS OUT THERE TOO. AS YOU NOTED YOU CAN'T BACK UP RIGGS UP THE HILL. I WANTED TODAY HIGHLIGHT THAT IN EARLY APRIL THAT WILL HAPPEN. AND I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT. THE WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING ON THE MAINTENANCE SIDE IS REALLY APPRECIATED I THINK THAT -- YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT -- ONCE THIS IS DONE, EVERYBODY WILL SEE THE DIFFERENCE AND APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE RELATED TO PIKE PLACE AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. AND SAFETY ACROSS THE BOARD. I ALSO APPRECIATE THE HIGHLIGHT FOR FIFA WORLD CUP AND DOWNTOWN ACTIVATION. SO IMPORTANT. I DON'T THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE APPRECIATE WHAT FIFA WORLD CUP IS GOING TO MEAN IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF PEOPLE. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS CHAIR WITH THE -- THE PSRC TRANSPORTATION POLICY BOARD. YOU KNOW, THIS IS A REGIONAL PIECE AND THIS WAS SOMETHING WHEN I WAS DOWN IN OLYMPIA. LAST WEEK OR THE WEEK BEFORE, THEY DIDN'T REALLY -- EVERYBODY DOWN THERE THINKS THAT FIFA WORLD CUP IS JUST IS A SEATTLE THING. AND IT'S NOT. YOU KNOW, FROM HOTELS AS IANTHEED SOME COUNTRIES THEIR PRESS CORPS COULD FILL UP SEATTLE'S HOTELS. OUR HOTELS FROM SEA-TAC, MAYBE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO OLYMPIA AND THEN UP TO THE NORTH, ON THE OTHER SIDE ARE GOING TO BE FILLED AND YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE MAJOR PIECES. FAN ZONES ACROSS THE STATE. AGAINST THE FOLKS DOWN IN OLYMPIA DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A TRUE APPRECIATION OF THIS. NOT TO MENTION, YOU KNOW, A MATCH WITH THE U.S. MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM ON JUNETEENTH AND THEN ALSO ONE -- A MATCH DURING PRIDE WEEK. REALLY IMPORTANT POINTS FOR EVERYBODY TO UNDERSTAND I THINK. AND PREPARE FOR. AND SO I THANK YOU FOR THE WORK IN TERM OF PREPARATION FOR THAT WORLD CUP BECAUSE THE EYES OF THE WORLD WILL BE ON US AND THEN -- DOWNTOWN ACTIVATION IS KEY. KEY FOR THE CITY. OBVIOUSLY D 7 REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF THIS. 3rd AVENUE NEEDS THE ATTENTION. I DO LIKE THE LIGHTING AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF YOU KNOW THE SYMPHONY BLOCK. I ALWAYS SAY IN THE VISITS TO LIKE BEN ROYAL HALL AND THE SYMPHONY. WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT EITHER END THE CROSSWALKS LOOK LIKE -- KEYBOARD KEYS AT 3rd AVENUE? JUST A THOUGHT. JUST A THOUGHT. DIRECTOR EMERY, I LIKE THE RESPONSE. >> CREATIVE THINKING. I LIKE IT. >> THANK YOU. THAT'S IT. CHAIR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WANT TO END ON A HIGH NOTE. SO THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? GO AHEAD. >> OKAY. HAPPY AS WELL. THANK YOU FOR TODAY'S PRESENTATION. CERTAINLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE -- I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING PROJECTS ONLINE AND LIFTING THIS PROVISO QUICKLY. I MENTIONED OFFER IN THE ECONOMY THAT I'M CAR FREE AND THAT'S A DECISION BY CHOICE. BUT I DO IT BECAUSE I JOINED THE 20% OF SEATTLE HOUSEHOLDS WHO DO NOT OWN VEHICLES. AND THIS INCLUDES PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES WHO ARE FOUR TIMES MORE LIKELY TO NOT DRIVE AND PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD THE DRIVE. WHILE I KNOW MY DECISION IS BY CHOICE I KNOW IT'S NOT EVERYBODY'S CHOICE FOR THE CITY. THAT'S WHY SO EXCITED BECAUSE MANY OF THESE HOUSEHOLDS RELY ON THE PROJECTS THAT WILL BE FUNDED THROUGH THE LEVY. TO THAT END ALSO REPRESENTING CITY-WIDE, PARTICULARLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE PRIORITIZATION PROCESS THAT SDOT HAS LAID OUT. PARTICULARLY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF OUR PROJECTS HAPPENING CITY-WIDE ESPECIALLY IN AREAS OF THE CITY THAT HAVE BEEN UNDERINVESTED IN. AND CONTINUE TO FACE SAFETY CHALLENGES ON THE STREETS DUE TO AGAIN, TRAFFIC SAFETY AND OTHER COMPONENTS THAT I'M SURE WE'LL BE HEARING ABOUT IN THE NEXT PRESENTATION AS WELL. BUT MY QUESTION FOR TODAY IS A LITTLE BIT IF WE CAN COLOR SOME OF THE CONTRACTING PROCESS FOR SOME OF THESE PROJECTS. AND I WAS TAKING A LOOK AT THE TRANSPORTATION LEVY DOCUMENT. I BELIEVE IT'S R-THE ANNUAL DELIVERY PLAN DOCUMENT. I KNOW THERE'S A NUMBER OF PROJECTS NOTED IN THERE THAT ARE GOING TO BE STARTING CONSTRUCTION THIS YEAR. AND SO I WAS CURIOUS, HAVE CONTRACTORS BEEN SELECTED? IF NOT, PARTICULARLY CONTRACTORS FOR SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. HAVE THEY BEEN SELECTED AND IF NOT HOW ARE WE GOING ABOUT AWARDING THOSE CONTRACTS AND HOW DO THE SELECTION OF THESE CONTRACTS FALL UNDER THE CITY'S PLA OR CWA? >> GOOD QUESTIONS. SO MOST OF THE WORK IN HERE THAT IS LISTED AS GOING INTO CONSTRUCTION EITHER HAD SOME TENTACLE THAT WAS PREFUNDED BY ANOTHER EFFORT. SO THE LEVY FUNDING IS JUST MOVING THAT INTO CONSTRUCTION. BUT I WOULD SAY THE MAJORITY OF THINGS THAT ARE LISTED IN CONSTRUCTION WILL BE DELIVERED BY SDOT CREWS. WE HAVE INCREDIBLY TALENTED CREWS THAT COVER A LOT OF TRADES. AND CAN DO PRETTY GREAT WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACTING THRESHOLDS. SO A LOT OF IT WILL BE CREW DELIVERED. SOME OF IT WILL BE DONE THROUGH WHAT WE'RE CREATIVE PROCESS CALLED THE UNIT PRICE CONTRACTING. WHICH IS WE'RE WORKING WITH CONTRACTORS, THEY -- WE DO A COMPETITIVE BID PROCESS WHERE THEY HAVE A LIMITED SCOPE OF WORK AND CAN COMPETE TO BE ESSENTIALLY ON A BENCH OF CONTRACTORS THAT WE CAN USE. UP TO A CERTAIN DOLLAR VALUE. AND IT'S USUALLY SORT OF A KNOWN SCOPE OF WORK. SO LET'S SAY PARTICULAR SEGMENT OF A PAVING RIGHT? THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN ASK THEM TO BID. THERE ARE THIS DIMENSIONING THIS TYPE OF DEPTH THEY WOULD SUBMIT A COMPETITIVE BID AND AS WE NEED THAT WORK SITE SPECIFIC. WE NOW HAVE A SITE AT THIS LOCATION, WOULD YOU LIKED TO IT? SO SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION IS DONE THROUGH THAT UNIT PRICE CONTRACTING. WHEN IT COMES TO THE LARGE PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS, SDOT WORKS CLOSELY WITH FAS THECENTRAL CONTRACTING. THEY RUN ALL THE COMPETITIVE LARGE CONTRACTED CAPITAL FOR ALL OF THE CITY. SO WE WORK THROUGH ALL OF THEIR RULES AND REGULATIONS AS IT RELATES TO BID PACKAGING, BID SELECTION PROCESSES, ADVERTISING NOTICING AND ULTIMATE SELECTION. THEY DO LEAD US AND WE FOLLOW THEIRS THEIR RULES AND REGULATIONS. >> TO BE CLEAR TO GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES AND LIKE THE PROJECTS LABOR AGREEMENT PROCESS. WE WOULD NEED TO TALK TO F AS ABOUT THAT? >> YES, THAT'S CORRECT. THEY HAVE ON TEAM STAFF THAT DEAL WITH THAT. >> GREAT. THANK YOU. AND MY FINAL QUESTION IS -- WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM THIS COUNCIL TO BE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN DELIVERING THIS PLAN? I KNOW A LOT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WENT INTO DEVELOPING THIS PLAN. THERE WAS A HUGE EFFORT TO REALLY TALK TO OUR NEIGHBORS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE PASSED THIS PLAN AND SO WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM US TO BE SUCCESSFUL? IN DELIVERING IT? >> THAT'S A WONDERFUL QUESTION. THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR OFFERING. WE HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THE PARTNERSHIP AND THE CONVERSATIONS WE'VE BEEN HAVING. YOUR CONTINUED AWARENESS OF THE PROJECTS IN YOUR DISTRICTS BUT ALSO CITY-WIDE AND PRODUCTIVE INPUT AND ENGAGEMENT TOWARDS HELPING US GET INSIGHTS FROM COMMUNITY AND ALSO HELP PEOPLE BE AWARE. SOME OF IT IS ALSO, YOU KNOW, A CHALLENGE TO COMPETE WITH THE WORLD THAT IS FULL OF INFORMATION. AND FULL OF WAYS TO REACH PEOPLE. AND SO JUST YOUR HELP AND PARTNERSHIP TO HELP WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE AWARE OF THE WORK WE'RE DOING. WE WANT TO HELP THEM BE, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY WELL NOTIFIED AND SO YOUR PARTNERSHIP THERE IS ALSO REALLY HELPFUL. SO. THANK YOU. >> THE ONE THING I WANT TO ADD. IT IS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGING TIME. REGIONALLY, WE HAVE MEGAPROJECTS THAT ARE GOING ON. OUR LEVY TOUCHES ON MEGAPROJECTS AS WELL. WE NEED TO BE VERY INTENTIONAL AND HOW WE PHASE AND SEQUENCE THOSE PHASES. SO WE CAN MINIMIZE THE IMPACT TO OUR COMMUNITY. SO MITIGATION WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THAT, WE NEED TO BE VERY STRATEGIC. SO WE NEED TO SHIFT CERTAIN PROJECTS TO BE FACING A DIFFERENT WAY. IT'S THROUGH THAT LENS. SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE WITH YOU ALL AS WE NAVIGATE THIS SPACE. LOOK AT MAYBE A THREE YEAR LOOK AHEAD. NOT JUST EXCLUSIVE TO SDOT PROJECTS BUT REGIONAL IMPACTS THAT ARE COMING OUR WAY. AND HOW WE CAN SEQUENCE THOSE PROJECTS AND BE, YOU KNOW, BE VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT REDUCING THE IMPACT TO OUR COMMUNITY. FOR ALL. >> COUNCILMEMBER -- CENTRAL STAFF. I JUST WANTED TO JUST -- PUT OUT THERE THAT WE HAVE THIS ANNUAL DELIVERY PLAN. IT WAS A REQUIREMENT THAT YOU PUT IN THE COMPANION RESOLUTION TO THE LEVY TO HAVE ONE EVERY YEAR BY JANUARY 31st. THIS FIRST YEAR DURING BUDGET, YOU PUT THE PROVISO ON BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE AS MUCH DETAILED INFORMATION FOR THE FIRST YEAR AS WE HOPED. WE HAD THE LEVY COMMITMENTS BUT DIDN'T HAVE A SPENDING PLAN THAT CAME ALONG WITH THE BUDGET. SO JUST ALL WISH TO KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE GETTING ANOTHER BUDGET THIS YEAR. PROPOSAL. AND THE HOPE IS THAT AS WE GET MORE STAFFING PROGRAM MANAGERS AND PROJECT LEADS ESTABLISHED WE WILL HAVE MORE DETAIL FOR WHAT THE PLANS FOR THE NEXT YEAR WILL BE WITH BUDGET AS WELL. AND THEN HOPEFULLY WE WILL JUST BE ABLE TO -- WITH THE LEVY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, BE ABLE TO TRACK MORE OF THE PROJECT DELIVERY GOING FORWARD. SO HOPEFULLY THIS -- THIS SORT OF LEVEL OF SCRUTINY IS IMPORTANT. BUT THAT WE'LL HAVE MORE INFORMATION AS WE GET INTO THE FUTURE BUDGET. >> FANTASTIC. THANK YOU FOR THAT. CERTAINLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THESE PROJECTS COMING ONLINE SO WE CAN FURTHER CONNECT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE CITY. THANK YOU AND THANK YOU CHAIR. >> AWESOME. THANK YOU. AND COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? GO AHEAD. PLEASE. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR. AND THANK YOU SDOT FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU CHAIR FOR LETTING ME SIT IN ON YOUR COMMITTEE. YOU ARE RIGHT, THESE ARE ISSUES THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE FOLKS THAT I REPRESENT. AND THE D4. I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SLIDES ON SLIDE FIVE, LAUNCHING NEW LEVY PROGRAMS. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT THOSE PROGRAMS ARE? >> CERTAINLY CAN. LET ME -- GRAB THE SLIDE. SO I'LL START WITH ONE OF THE NEW PROGRAMS WAS AROUND ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING. SO THERE'S AN INVESTMENT TO WORK WITH OUR PARTNER DEPARTMENTS, MARKS AND COMMUNITY CENTERS AND LIBRARIES, TO FIND WAYS THAT WE CAN USE CITY LAND TO INCREASE COMMUNITY ACCESS TO CHARGING STATIONS IF THEY CANNOT CHARGE AT HOME. SO THAT IS A BIG ONE. SORT OF FIGURING OUT HOW TO LIFT THAT UP. BUILD THAT PARTNERSHIP. SORRY. WHAT ELSE? NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATED SAFETY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM IS ANOTHER BIG ONE. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE STRUCTURES THROUGH WHICH WE CAN HAVE STAFF AND SYSTEMS TO HAVE NONTRANSACTIONAL ENGAGEMENT WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS BEING PRESENT WHERE THEY'RE SHOWING UP AND HAVING A CONTINUOUS LEVEL OF AWARENESS? BUT ALSO ALLOWING THEIR PRIORITIES TO FILTER UP THROUGH SDOT. AND BE RECORDED AND REMEMBERED SO THAT AS WE'RE MOVING THROUGH MAINTENANCE AND REGULAR WORK, THAT WE CAN ALSO SORT OF BE INFORMED BY THAT COMMUNITY WISDOM. AND THAT MAY SOUND SIMPLE BUT THAT'S LICK SORT OF WONDERFULFULLY TRANSFORMATIVE AND COMPLEX. I'M PARTICULARLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS FOR SDOT TO GET INPUT AND HAVING A SYSTEM BY WHICH WE CAN HOLD THAT AND THEN ALSO CULL IT IN OUR DAY-TO-DAY WORK BECAUSE SDOT HAS TONS. WE TALK A LOT ABOUT OUR CAP TOM WORK BUT A TON OF WHAT WE DO IS OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE. TO THE EXTENT WE CAN LEVERAGE THE DAY-TO-DAY WORK JUST GOING OUT AND DOING REGULAR MAINTENANCE AND CONTINUING TO ADVANCE COMMUNITY INPUT, THAT'S PARTICULARLY EXCITING. I THINK AS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE DOING. >> ON THAT NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATED PROGRAM -- BOTH THESE PROGRAMS ARE -- YOU WILL BE WORKING THIS YEAR I ASSUME TO STAND THEM UP AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE AND THEN I ASSUME THAT NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATED PIECE IS GOING TO BE ACROSS ALL THE DISTRICTS. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> EQUALLY. GREAT. THANK YOU -- SO LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE. >> THIS IS ANOTHER ONE. DISTRICT FUND IS A NEW CONCEPT THAT WE'VE ADDED TO THE LEVY. WHICH YOU WILL HAVE GREAT PARTICIPATION IN. AND SHAPING IT TOGETHER. >> GREAT. I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING AT A LATER DATE ONCE THESE GET STOOD UP AND WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE AND HOW WE CAN HELP PLUG IN OUR CONSTITUENTS INTO THESE PROGRAMS BECAUSE AS YOU ALL KNOW, THERE'S SOME CONSTITUENTS THAT ARE MORE ACTIVE IN EACH OF THE DISTRICTS ON THESE ISSUES AND WE WANT TOMAKE SURE THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE. THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OPPORTUNITY IS THERE AND ROBUST WAY. ON PAGE EIGHT, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE GOOD GOVERNANCE AND EQUITABLE IMPLEMENTATION INITIATIVE? IN INVESTMENT. IT'S AN EIGHT YEAR PROGRAM FOR $4 MILLION IN FACT FIRST YEAR AND MILLION DOLLARS IS ALLOCATED SO IS IT THE MILLION DOLLARS THEN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEVEN YEARS OR CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS PIECE? >> WE'LL START WITH GOOD GOVERN NANCE. I'LL START WITH THAT. SO THAT'S A -- PORTION. THAT IS -- COVERING THE WORK TO ADVANCE THE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING TASK FORCE IS WITHIN GOOD GOVERNANCE. THERE'S COUPLE OF COMPONENTS TO IT. IT'S ON THE PAGE 34. OF THE LEVY DELIVERY PLAN. SO WE'VE GOT SUPPORTING THE -- THE STANDING UP OF THE TRANSPORTATION AND FUNDING TASK FORCE. SO THAT WE CAN MEET THE TIMELINES OF THAT DELIVERY. WE HAVE A COMMITMENT IN THE WORK TO BRING BACK ON A -- SORT OF SPECIAL -- SPECIFIC TIMELINE FOR FUTURE DECISION MAKING. I BELIEVE IT'S 2026 ALTHOUGH I DON'T HAVE IT MEMORIZED. IT'S ALSO FUNDING TO HELP PROVIDE RESOURCING TO THE LEVY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE FOR AUDITING SERVICES THAT THEY MAY WANT. SO IT'S ESSENTIALLY AL A SORT OF RESOURCE THAT THEY CAN AVAIL THEMSELVES OF IF THEY NEED TO. THAT WAS PARTICULARLY REQUESTED BY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. AND WAS FOLDED INTO THE LEVY DELIVERY PLAN. AND ALSO PROPERTY TAX RELIEF OUTREACH AND EDUCATION. SO THERE WAS AT A DESIRE TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO EXEMPT THEMSELVES FROM THE LEVY ARE ABLE -- AWARE OF THEIR ABILITY TO DO SO IF THEY WANT TO. >> GREAT. THANK YOU FRANCISCA. THIS TRANSPORTATION FUNDING TASK FORCE, HOW'S THAT DIFFERENT FROM THE LEVY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE? BECAUSE THOSE ARE TWO SEPARATE BODIES. >> THEY ARE, ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. SO LEVY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE WILL RUN THE ENTIRETY OF THE LEVY. THEY HAVE A PRIMARY ROLE TO BE OVERSEEING KIND OF THE EXPENDITURES AND MAKING SURE THAT IT'S IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE VOTER INTENT. THE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING TASK FORCE WILL BE A PURPOSE BUILT COMMITTEE THAT WILL SUNSET. THEN WHEN THEIR WORK IS DONE THEY WILL MORE LIKELY BE IN A TWO YEAR TIME FRAME. TO BE LOOKING AT THE LONG-TERM FUNDING SOURCES AND FUNDING STRATEGY FOR THE BIGGER ASSETS LIKE SIDEWALKS AND PAVING AND BRIDGES. WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE BIG MAINTENANCE AND ASSET NEEDS THERE. THEY'RE TRICKY PROBLEMS AND THIS IS SORT OF THINK TANK TO HELP US FIGURE OUT SOME STRATEGIES AND MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS. >> GREAT. THANK YOU FRANCISCA. THE COUNCIL DISTRICT FUND WAS MY OTHER QUESTION. SO IT'S LOOKING LIKE IT'S A -- $4 MILLION INVESTMENT OVER THE EIGHT YEARS FOR 2025. IT'S A $2 MILLION INVESTMENT. SO IT'S HALF OF THAT ORIGINAL INVESTMENT. AND SO IS IT -- YOU LOOK LIKE YOU WERE WANTING TO ANSWER. >> IF I COULD JUMP IN. JUST AS A REMINDER, THE DISTRICT FUND WAS ORIGINALLY PROPOSAL IN THE MAYOR'S PROPOSAL FOR THE LEVY BUT DIDN'T MAKE IT THROUGH TO THE LEVY PROPOSAL THAT WENT TO VOTERS. IN THE BUDGET LAST YEAR, WITH OTHER REVENUES THAT BECAME AVAILABLE, COUNCIL DIRECTED $7 MILLION EACH YEAR FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS FOR THE NEW COUNCIL DISTRICT FUND SORT OF RESURRECTING THIS CONVENT INCLUDING $2 MILLION OF REDIRECTED LEVY DOLLARS. BUT IT WAS SORT OF A -- BRINGING IT BACK ONLINE. BEYOND THAT, IT'S FRONT LOADED. SO THERE MIGHT BE OPPORTUNITY IN FUTURE BUDGETS IF WE CAN LOOK FOROTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPAND THAT. BUT THE PROPOSAL IN THE BUDGET WAS FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. >> OKAY. THANK YOU. JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR FOR CONSTITUENTS WHO MIGHT BE WATCHING, THAT THIS IS A -- INVESTMENT THAT COUNCIL PUT IN BUT IT IS A VERY LIMITED INVESTMENT. IT WAS MEANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COULD GET DISTRICT SPECIFIC PROJECTS DONE. I THINK THAT THE CHAIR FOR HIS LEADERSHIP ON THIS, AND I VERY MUCH SUPPORTED IT AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT IT. AND IT IS A VERY SMALL INVESTMENT. SO WANT TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR FUND. AND HOW WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT AS SDOT IS DELIVERING ON THE LEVY, WE ARE HAVING ROBUST, YOU KNOW, INVESTMENTS ACROSS THE CITY SO CONSTITUENTS CAN SEE CHANGES IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND IN THEIR MART OF THE CITY AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT TO ME AND THOSE OF US THAT REPRESENT DISTRICTS THAT ARE DISTRICT SPECIFIC. COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS, I'M LOOKING AT YOU. BECAUSE YOU ARE NODDING AND I KNOW YOU ARE A GOOD ADVOCATE FOR YOUR DISTRICT. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. OKAY AND THEINE I HAD ONE LAST QUESTION CHAIR, IF THAT'S OKAY. OKAY. ON PAGE NINE, THE PROJECT SELECTION. THE COMMUNITY CO-CREATION OPPORTUNITY. CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? >> YEAH. >> BECAUSE AGAIN, I HAVE -- I'M VERY FOCUSED ON MAKING SURE THAT OUR CONSTITUENTS GET TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE PROCESSES IN IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CO-CREATION AND I HAVE ALREADY IDENTIFIED FOUR PROJECTS THAT CONSTITUENTS WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN OUR DISTRICT AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THOSE PROJECTS AS PART OF THE CONVERSATION HERE. AND HOW DO BEMAKE SURE THAT FOLKS UNDERSTAND -- BECAUSE I'LL BE HONEST. AND IT IS -- SHOULD COME NO SURPRISE. FOLKS IN THE DISTRICTS AND ACROSS THE CITY ARE NOT ALWAYS NECESSARILY FEELING LIKE SDOT IS HEARING THEM. I KNOW YOU HAVE A PRIORITIZATION PLAN AND I UNDERSTAND WHY. WE HAVE SOME CERTAIN NUMBER OF FUNDS. AND NOT AT THE SAME TIME WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS THAT TRANSPARENCY PIECE IS SO CRITICAL BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY HOW YOU SHOW YOUR WORK AND YOU SHOW THEM WHY IT IS THAT THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE TIMETABLE THEY WOULD LIKE ET CETERA. AND I THINK THAT WE CAN ALL DO BETTER WORK AT THE CITY IN GENERAL. THE BUREAUCRACY CAN DO BETTER JOB ON THE TRANSPARENCY PIECE. AND I'M VERY INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE THAT AT LEAST THE CONSTITUENTS THAT I REPRESENT ARE ENGAGED AND UNDERSTAND THE WORK THAT SDOT IS DOING. SO THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR CO-CREATION OPPORTUNITY. AND HOW THIS IS -- HOW SDOT ENVISIONS THIS IS GOING TO PLAY OUT. >> YEAH. NO. VERY WELL SAID COUNCILMEMBER. THE NEED IS GREAT. AND SO PRIORITIZATION IS ESSENTIAL. AND ARTICULATING THAT PRIOR TOIZATION IS REALLY IMPORTANT AS WELL. BECAUSE YEAH, AND HAVING A GOOD FOUNDATION USING DATA WHENEVER WE CAN AS WELL IS CRUCIAL. SO COMMUNITY CO-CREATION ACTUALLY IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT ANOTHER ONE OF THE NEW PROGRAMS THAT I DIDN'T TOUCH ON EARLIER. SO PEOPLE STREETS AND PUBLIC SPACES IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF COMMUNITY CO-CREATION OPPORTUNITY. THIS IS A FUND WHERE WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO WORK WITH COMMUNITY TO -- CREATE SPACES THAT EITHER ADDRESS AN ISSUE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. IF THERE'S A DESIRE FOR A COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACE, FOR EXAMPLE. A SMALL PLAZA. OR AN AMENITY THAT WOULD BE MEANINGFUL FOR SOMEONE WHETHER IT'S LIGHTING A BLOCK FROM A BUS STOP OR LIGHTING IN A SPACE WHERE OTHERWISE PEOPLE COULD SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME IN DARKER HOURS OF YEAR. YOU KNOW, IT'S OUR ABILITY TO HAVE NONTRANSACTIONAL ENGAGEMENT WITH FOLKS THAT DOES SUPPORT THE ABILITY TO SAY OKAY WE HAVE NOW HEARD IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU, WE'RE HEARING THEM AND A PRIORITIZATION WITHIN THE DISTRICT AROUND THIS LIGHTING ISSUE. AND THAT -- WE NOW HAVE THE ABILITY THROUGH PEOPLE STREETS AND PUBLIC SPACES TO SAYING YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE A TON OF MONEY BUT WE DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PUT IN COUPLE OF LIGHTS HERE. IT'S SORT -- IT'S INTERTWINED WITH CREATING SPACES WHERE WE CAN HEAR COMMUNITY PROGRAMS LIKE PEOPLE STREETS AND PUBLIC SPACES AND NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATE SAFETY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM. AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY PROGRAM AND HOME ZONES ARE ARE HISTORIC EXAMPLES OF WHERE SDOT HAS SOUGHT TO CREATE SPACES TO HEAR FROM COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, HEARING FROM RESIDENTS WHERE ARE YOUR NONARTERIAL PATH WAYS THROUGH YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOW TO WORK WITH YOU TO DO SORT OF LIGHT TOUCH INSERTIONS TO MAKE THAT PATHWAY WORK FOR AND YOU FEEL SAFER? HOME ZONES AGAIN ANOTHER SORT OF ENGAGEMENT WITH COMMUNITY WHERE WE -- RECOGNIZING THAT PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC AND/OR OTHER SPEEDING ISSUES. WHERE WE CAN Y, WALK IN AND UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. AND FIND WAYS TO ADDRESS IT IN A SAMMATIC WAY. SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE WITH COMMUNITY. AND -- AND FIND WAYS THAT OUR PROGRAMS CAN SUPPORT THESE VOICES. >> WHAT WILL -- HOW WILL THIS ACTUALLY -- PLAY OUT? I MEAN, I'M THINKING OF TWO PROJECTS IN MY DISTRICT ALONE ON SAND POINT WAY THAT I HAVE TALKED TO INTERIM DIRECTOR EMERY ABOUT AND IN TERMS OF THE SPEED RACING AND DOING SOME TRAFFIC MITIGATION. AND I'M THINKING OF A LIGHTING PROJECT NEAR THE LIGHTRAIL STATION AT ROOSEVELT. WHERE IT'S THE UNDER THE I-5, YOU KNOW, THAT UNDERPASS AND IT'S VERY DARK AND PEOPLE DON'T FEEL SAFE. AND, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE GET THESE KINDS OF PROJECTS TO THE ATTENTION OF SDOT? AND I IMAGINE WHEN YOU SEE LIGHTING I THINK CITY LIGHT. HOW DO YOU WORK WITH YOUR PARTNER, YOUR SISTER DEPARTMENT ON THESE TYPES OF EFFORTS AND HOW DO WE AS COUNCILMEMBERS GET THIS INFORMATION TO YOU ALL? TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE THINGS ARE BEING ADDRESSED. >> SO -- YOU WANT TO? THIS SPEAKS -- YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU ARE IDENTIFYING AND MAYBE THIS IS TIE THIS A LITTLE BIT WITH COUNCIL DISTRICT FUND. ONE OF THE WAYS THIS CAN WORK IS BY HAVING SPACES TO HEAR FROM COMMUNITY AND LOOK AT HOW PROJECTS AND THEN TO TOUCH ON YOUR -- THE GOOD -- COMMENTARY ON PRIORITIZATION. A COMMUNITY ISSUE CAN BE INTAKE AND TAKEN INTO SDOT. WE CAN LOOK AT IT RELATIVE TO THE PRIORITIZATION OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. RIGHT? SO FOR EXAMPLE VISION ZERO WILL PRIORITIZE BASED ON CRASH DATA AND EXPOSURE DATA AND INJURY DATA. AND WE CAN ARTICULATE THAT BACK TO COMMUNITY AND SAY YOU KNOW, WE LOOKED THROUGH OUR PRIORITIZATION AND CRITERIA AND WE CAN SAY YEAH, THIS ACTUALLY DOES SYNC UP WITH PRIORITIZATION CRITERIA AND WE CAN PROGRAM IT FOR INSTALLATION AT THIS TIME. IN THE FUTURE. IN A CASE WHERE WE LOOK AT IT AND WE GO UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS A MERITORIOUS PROJECT BUT DOESN'T ACTUALLY SYNC UP WITH THE PRIORITIZATION CRITERIA, THAT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS AND SAY, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AS PART OF YOUR COUNCIL DISTRICT FUND? RIGHT. SO IT IS ALL PART OF THIS ABILITY TO LIFT UP A PROCESS BY WHICH WE DO EVALUATE ACCORDING TO CRITERIA. IF IT DOESN'T RANK, NOW THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY THROUGH THE COUNCIL DISTRICT FUND FOR IT TO POTENTIALLY HAVE ANOTHER PATHWAY. >> JUST WANT TO MENTION A FEW THINGS. I UNDERSTAND -- SDOT HAS A REPUTATION WITH NOT BEING RESPONSIVE. BUT THIS IS A HIGH PRIORITY FOR ME. RESPONSIVENESS, TRANSPARENCY, BEING DATA-DRIVEN. CREATING TIMELINE. WALKING PEOPLE THROUGH WHAT OUR EXPECTATION IS A HOW IT PRIORITIZES. THAT'S SUPER IMPORTANT TO ME. AND THAT -- YOU WILL SEE A DIFFERENCE AS WE MOVE FORWARD. WE DO HAVE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY THAT ALLOWS US TO KIND OF COCREATE, YOU KNOW, SOLUTIONS. I'M A FIRM BELIEVER, OUR COMMUNITY IS A GREAT INPUT -- THEY'RE OUR USERS, TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND WHAT WE CREATE. AND BUILD. RIGHT? SO VOICES FROM COMMUNITY IS VERY IMPORTANT. BECAUSE THAT'S A REFLECTION OF HOW DID OUR INVESTMENT, HOW DOES IT WORK? THEY'RE NAVIGATING THE SPACE. RIGHT? YOU KNOW, SO THIS PARTICULAR THING IS HIGH PRIORITY FOR THE DEPARTMENT. AND WE'RE SETTING THE FRAMEWORK TO CREATE THAT RESPONSIVENESS AND TRANSPARENCY PROCESS. >> THANK YOU. INTERIM DIRECTOR EMERY, I REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. I WANT TO ALSO SAY THAT THERE ARE USERS AND THEN THERE ARE ALSO THE TAXPAYERS THAT FUND THESE PROJECTS. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS ARE FEELING LIKE THE CITY IS BEING RESPONSIVE. I WILL SAY -- YOU KNOW, I WOULD LOVE TO BE ENGAGED WITH YOU ALL IF, YOU KNOW, WHERE APPROPRIATE TO MAKE SURE THAT CONSTITUENTS FEEL LIKE THEY ARE A PART OF THE PROCESS. OR THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO GET, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE PROJECTS DONE. I WILL SAY THAT IN THE PAST, I'M A DATA PERSON. I'M A MATH PERSON. AND SO THAT SPEAKS TO ME. I DO THINK THAT SOMETIMES SDOT WILL TELL CONSTITUENTS THEY WILL SEND THEIR ENGINEERS OUT AND KIND OF COUNT, YOU KNOW, OR THEY'LL LOOK A BETTER EXAMPLE OF HOW MANY ACCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED SOMEWHERE AND SAY WELL, NOT THAT MANY ACCIDENTS HAVE ACTUALLY OCCURRED THERE. SO THAT'S NOT A PRIORITY. AND THE FOLKS ARE LIVING THERE, SO THEY'RE IN A BETTER SITUATION TO SEE HOW BAD SOMETHING IS AND IT JUST BECOMES -- YOU KNOW, A CHALLENGE FOR CONSTITUENTS TO HEAR FROM SDOT. WELL, YOU KNOW, NOT ENOUGH ACCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED THERE. SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO PRIORITIZE THAT. THERE'S GOT TO BE SOME, SOME -- SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO TO ADDRESS THE SAFETY CONCERNS THAT CONSTITUENTS ARE RAISING EVEN THOUGH PERHAPS THERE MIGHT NOT BE THE LEVEL OF ACCIDENTS THAT YOU WOULD NEED TO SEE TO DO A MAJOR PROJECT. SOME MITIGATION EFFORTS BECAUSE A RECOGNITION THAT THEY ARE FEELING THIS. AND ARE FEELING UNSAFE. AND ARE -- SOME OF THE INTERSECTIONS ALMOST ABOUT TO GET HIT BY A CAR. SO JUST BECAUSE THE ACCIDENT HASN'T ACTUALLY HAPPENED DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT WAITING TO HAPPEN. SO SOME OF THAT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT SDOT IS PARTNERING BETTER WITH COMMUNITY THAT WAY. SO THAT THE RESPONSE BACK ISN'T JUST SOME DATA POINT THAT REALLY DOESN'T GET TO WHAT THEY'RE EXPERIENCING EVERY DAY BECAUSE THEY LIVE THERE. AND SO THANK YOU INTERIM DIRECTOR FOR YOUR PIECE ABOUT IT IS A PRIORITY FOR YOU TO DO THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ROBUSTLY. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S VERY MUCH NEEDED ACROSS THE CITY AND ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO ASK FORMALLY I'D LOVE TO SEE A LIST OF PROJECTS FOR THIS YEAR FOR THE DISTRICT. DISTRICT SPECIFIC PROJECTS. SO WE'RE ABLE TO SHARE THE INFORMATION WITH CONSTITUENTS AND THEN WE CAN TRACK PROGRESS ON THOSE PROJECTS. AND I'M NOT SURE THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST FROM SDOT. LIKE A LIST OF PROJECTS. MAYBE WE HAVE. BUT I DIDN'T SEE ONE FOR LAST YEAR. MY FIRST YEAR ON HERE. SO -- I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT AS WELL. THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME THE TIME TO ASK ALL MY QUESTIONS. >> ALL GOOD. THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? >> THANK YOU, CHAIR SAKA. INTERIM DIRECTOR EMERY. BILL -- FRANCISCA AND CAL. GREAT TO SEE YOU ALL. CHAIR, I WOULD MOVE THAT WE GET THE INTERIM MOVE FROM DIRECTOR EMERY'S TITLE. I SAY THAT BECAUSE TODAY'S CONSIDERATION IS ONE THAT YOU AND FRANCISCA AND OTHERS HAVE SHEPHERDED THROUGH THIS PROCESS SINCE LAST JUNE OR EARLIER. THE TWO OF YOU BILL BOTH MEGHANS AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN -- YOU HAVE BEEN THAT ROCK THAT STEADY ROCK, IN A STORMY SEA. BOTH GOOD AND BAD OVER THE LAST YEAR. AND THAT'S WHY I AM FEELING A NEW LEVEL OF TRUST WITH SDOT TODAY THAN I FELT FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS. SO TO THE EXECUTIVE TEAM, THANK YOU. I WISH THAT -- I WILL GO BACK AND WATCH ON SEATTLE CHANNEL. TO SEE HOW MANY TIMES THE WORD "DETAILED PLAN" WERE UTTERED THIS MORNING. IT WAS PROBABLY IN THE HUNDREDS AND IT WAS NOT ENOUGH. BECAUSE YOU -- REALLY HAVE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND PAST PRACTICE TO INCLUDE THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION BOTH IN THIS AND WHAT WE'LL GET TO TOMORROW WITH THE APPENDIX A.. THIS IS -- THIS CAN BE CHALLENGING AT TIMES BECAUSE WHEN WE PUT THIS AMOUNT OF INFORMATION OUT THERE. IT CAN SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE THERE ARE EXPECTATIONS. A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES LATER ON IN THE CONVERSATION HERE. BUT WHAT I'M SAYING HERE IS THAT WE WILL SAY WE'LL DO A PROJECT. IT MAY TURN OUT THAT THAT PROJECT IS -- HITS A SNAG. IT'S NOT ABLE TO GO FORWARD. WE PIVOT AND WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE PAST SDOT HAS HELD MORE INFORMATION BACK TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS AND IT IS REALLY HEALTHY FOR THIS CONVERSATION TO HAPPEN IN PUBLIC. AND JUST BECAUSE IT'S AN ITEM IN THIS LIST OR JUST BECAUSE AN ITEM IS NOT IN THIS LIST, DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT IT WILL OR WILL NOT HAPPEN. THIS GIVES US A REALLY SOLID CONVERSATION STARTING POINT FOR THIS YEAR. AND DOING THIS YEAR OVER YEAR IS GOING TO BE VERY HELPFUL. ALSO THANK COUNCILMEMBER SAKA FOR WORKING TO HAVE THIS REPORT IN HIS COMMITTEE. AS HE MENTIONED, THIS BRIEFING RESPONDS TO BOTH THE ACCOUNTABILITY PROVISION THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE LEVY THAT SEATTLE-ITES VOTED ON AND THE MEGAPROVISO PLACED ON SDOT'S BUDGET IN NOVEMBER. I BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME A PROVIE SOLVE OF ITS SIZE WAS EVER USED ON A DEPARTMENT AND IT IS -- DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT RESULTED IN THE TRANSMITTED LAST SEPTEMBER INCLUDING THE CURRENT LAW BUDGET MEETING THAT THE BUDGET WAS WRITTEN AS IF THE TRANSPORTATION LEVY DIDN'T PASS. LUCKY FOR PAT L IT PASSED. SO THIS BRIEFING ALSO COLLEAGUES, IS SERVING AS THE UNOFFICIAL TWO MEETING RULE FOR PASSING LEGISLATION. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE USE THIS TOOL OF MEGAPROVISO TO ENSURE THE FALL BUDGET PROCESS ISN'T AVOIDED BY THE CURRENT LAW BUDGET LAST YEAR. THAT WAS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED. AND THAT ONCE THE ACCOUNTABILITY WORK IS COMPLETE, WE MOVE SWIFTLY TO RELEASE THE PROVISO TO ENSURE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF DELAY ARE AVOIDED. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY AND TOMORROW. AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE -- AMOUNT OF DETAILED WORK THAT YOU HAVE PROVIDED. AS I MENTIONED, TOMORROW WE'LL DIG DEEPER INTO THAT PLAN SPECIFICALLY. APPENDIX A.. WHICH IS ALSO ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA ITEM DELIVERY PLAN FOR 2025. THERE WILL ALSO BE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT CONTINUING ACCOUNTABILITY AND OVERSIGHT WORK THAT BOTH THE CHAIR AND COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA REFERRED TO. LIKE TO JUST JUMP INTO COUPLE OF TOPICS OF FOCUS FOR THE CITY AND MY DISTRICT. IN MY COUNTING, I HAVE GOT 18 BRIDGES IN MY DISTRICT. THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE FORMER ARMORY STREET OR THE 21st AVENUE BRIDGE THAT NO LONGER EXISTS AND YES I DID INCLUDE THE MAGNOLIA BRIDGE. AND EMERSON OVERPASS AND MY DISTRICT AND I'M SORRY BOB. BUT I CAN'T KEEP MY EYES OFF OF IT AND YES THAT NUMBER OF 18 DOES INCLUDE TWO OVERPASSES OVER INTERSTATES AS WELL AS THE PEDESTRIAN OVERPAYS OF THE TRAIN PACKS AND JUST COUNT THEM OUT RIGHT NOW. BRIDGE NOW CROSSING THE SHIP CANAL AND WE HAVE THE BALLARD AND ALSO THE LEERY OVERPASS. 61st OVERPASS OF THE AURORA BRIDGE AND AURORA BRIDGE AND 45th, 50th AND 65th OVERPASSES AND UNDERPASSES OF I-5. THERE'S A BRIDGE AT THE WOODLAND PARK ZOO. FORT STREET BRIDGE AND WE'VE GOT THE EMERSON BRIDGE. AS WELL AS THE HOWELL STREET BRIDGE AND I ALREADY MENTIONED THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER CROSS THE TRAIN TRACKS. AS WELL AS THE 58th OVERPASS OVER THE TRAIN TRACKS. SAY I THIS BECAUSE THE AMOUNT OF DEFERRED MAINTENANCE THAT CAN OCCUR FOR THIS MANY STRUCTURESCAN HAPPEN PRETTY QUICKLY AND IT'S ESSENTIAL THAT WE KEEP OUR BRIDGES STRUCTURALLY SOUND AND THAT WE DON'T -- CUT OURSELVES OFF. I KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD LOT OF CONVERSATIONS OF DO WE JUST SEISMICALLY RETROFIT THE BALLARD BRIDGE OR EXTEND A PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY ON ONE SIDE OF THAT BRIDGE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW TWO PEDESTRIANS CROSSING CAN'T PASS EACH OTHER WITHOUT SLIDING TO THE SIDE AND IF THERE'S A FAST-MOVING TRUCK, THEY COULD -- THEIR CLOTHING COULD GET WHIPPED UP BY THAT TRUCK. TALKING A LOT ABOUT SAFETY HERE. JUST BECAUSE AN ITEM IS ON THE LIST DOESN'T MEAN IT WON'T CHANGE. AND JUST BECAUSE AN ITEM IS NOT ON THIS LIST DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T ADVOCATE FOR IT. MIGHT NOT MAKE IT ON THIS YEAR'S LIST BUT THAT MEANS IT WILL GET TO NEXT YEAR'S LIST. I HAVE HEARD JUST AN IMMENSE REQUEST ACROSS OUR CITY FOR SAFE CROSSINGS. I'LL GET INTO IN? A LITTLE BIT MORE. UNDERSTANDING WHAT AND HOW NEIGHBORHOODS WANT SAFETY IS REALLY CRITICAL TO ME. I KNOW THAT I HAVE HAD THE CONVERSATIONS WITH BOTH MEGHANS ABOUT 83rd STREET. THE RAMPS VERSUS CIRCLES. THE TRAFFIC CIRCLES. THERE'S SOME PLANNED RAMPS WHERE I BELIEVE 25 -- 21st -- OR 22nd OR JONES. SORRY. I DON'T HAVE THAT SPECIFICITY HERE. THE RESPONSE TO ME WAS THIS IS NEIGHBORHOOD REQUESTED. ALSO DIDN'T INCLUDE THE FACT THAT NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE REQUESTED TRAFFIC CIRCLES ON 18th, 19th AND 20th. SINCE NOT EVERYONE HAS A MAP OF WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, BETWEEN 19th AND 24th, THERE ARE TRAFFIC CIRCLES AT 21st, 22nd AND JONES WHICH IS NEXT TO 24. THAT'S IN THE FLATS. THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE USED TO SPEED. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IS THAT THERE ARE NOT ROUNDABOUTS ON EITHER SIDE OF A LITTLE HILL OR AT THE TOP. NOW PEOPLE ARE SPEEDING UP AND OVER THAT HILL. YES, WE DELIVERED THE RESIDENT REQUESTED CURB RAMP WHILE NOT ATTENDING TO THE REQUEST THAT THEY'VE BEEN MAKING TO SLOW DOWN SPEEDS BECAUSE IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, ONE CAR WAS HIT SO HARD THAT IT WAS ON ITS SIDE. AND THIS IS WHAT I MEAN BY OUR -- OVERSIGHT AND OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH YOU. IS IT IS TRUE THAT THE CURB RAMPS ARE RESIDENT REQUESTED AND PROBABLY GREATLY DESIRED AND WHAT IS THE CONTEXT FOR THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS? THIS LIST ALSO CREATES SECTIONS ABOUT PLANNING THAT WILL NOT BE -- DELIVERED YEAR THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE. PROPER PLANNING PREVENTS INEFFICIENT DELIVERY AS A SMART MAN ONCE SAID. USUALLY BOB DOESN'T SAY INEFFICIENT DELIVERY AT THE END. IT'S SOMETHING MORE COLORFUL AND PROPER BUT I SAY THAT PROPER PLANNING PREVENTS INEFFICIENT DELIVERY BECAUSE I LOOK AT HOW ARE WE -- JUST YOUR CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW DO WE SCALE OUR CONTRACTORS AND HOW DO WE SCALE OUR CREWS AND HOW DO WE GET THEM OUT THERE? I LOOK AT -- AND THAT SOMETIMES TAKES A LOT OF TIME. COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA JUST MENTIONED THAT THE REQUEST FOR ENGINEERS TO GO OUT AND LOOK AND LOOK AND LOOK, I'LL TELL YOU, I GAVE UP ON THE SIX WAY STOPS THAT WERE REQUESTED ON 14th AVENUE A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK BECAUSE I ASKED FOR IT YEAR OVERYEAR AND THE ANSWER ALWAYS WAS THE ENGINEERS ARE OUT THERE LOOKING AT. ONE DAY AGAIN IT WAS PROMISED AND I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. I LITERALLY HAD GIVEN UP AND I WENT OUT THERE AND SURE ENOUGH THE PAINT WAS ON THE GROUND. BECAUSE THE CREW'S SCHEDULE FINALLY ALLOWED FOR IT TO OCCUR. FOR US UP HERE IT FEELS THERE'S NOTHING HAPPENING WHEN THERE'S A WITHOUT OF WORK HAPPENING AT THE CREW STATIONS TO GET THAT DELIVERED. I WILL SAY THAT WE HAVE TO MOVE FASTER ON CROSSWALKS. PERIOD. DAN ROUNDS BROUGHT UP A REALLY GOOD POINT TODAY AND I HAVE YOUR LETTER, DAN, THANK YOU. DAN'S EXPERIENCE. NOT IN MY DISTRICT. IS ONE THAT I SEE ACROSS OUR CITY. WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO MOVE FASTER BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IN THIS PLAN, THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING 51st AND 53rd CROSSWALKS ACROSS 8th. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I CAN WAIT FOR UNTIL NEXT YEAR. THESE ARE TWO CROSSWALKS OF A VERY BUSY STREET THAT HAS HIGH SPEEDS. SPEEDS SO HIGH CARS ARE CRASHING INTO HOMES. AND COUNCILMEMBER SAKA YOU WILL HEAR THIS 49th AND 8th AS A LOCATION THAT I'M GOING TO REQUEST A SPEED CAMERA BECAUSE NEIGHBORS HAVE REQUESTED A SPEED CAMERA. THE IMPORTANCE OF 51st AND 53rd ACROSS 8th IS THAT IT CONNECTS THE NETWORK. THESE ARE MISSING CROSSINGS. IF WE'RE GOING TO USE MISSING IN INFRASTRUCTURE. THE WORD "MISSING" IN INFRASTRUCTURE. # 1st AND 53rd ARE THE ONLY MISSING LINKS ONCE THE 15th AVENUE CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE BETWEEN 17th AVENUE GREENWAY AND THE 6th AVENUE GREENWAY. IT'S -- A PLACE WHERE WE'RE SEEING THAT REALLY HIGH SPEED, OCCUR, BECAUSE WE'RE CHANGING FROM AN INDUSTRIAL ZONE TO A RESIDENTIAL ZONE IN PRETTY SHORT ORDER. SO UNDERSTANDING PROPER PLANNING PREVENTS INEFFICIENT DELIVERY AS WELL AS THIS PLAN SETS US UP FOR NEXT YEAR IN SOME CASES. IT'S ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME THAT WE GET THESE CROSSINGS SET. RIGHT? CROSSWALKS BEING ABLE TO BE DELIVERED QUICKLY. TRAFFIC CIRCLES I WON'T BORE YOU AGAIN WITH MY STORY ABOUT MY DESIRE FOR TRAFFIC CIRCLES. ONLY TO SAY THERE'S BEEN A RESIDENT REQUESTING A TRAFFIC CIRCLE AT 62nd AND 2nd. SINCE MIKE McGIN WAS OUR MAYOR. IT CAN'T BE -- YOU KNOW, IF WE CANNOT DO TRAFFIC CIRCLES; THAT'S FINE, WHAT CAN WE DO? I KNOW, BILL WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION SO MANY TIMES I SHOULD MAKE A RECORD SO WE CAN JUST PUT IT ON AND I DON'T KNOW. I CAN STOP TALKING. BUT THESE ARE THE SAFETY IMPLEMENTS THAT RESIDENTS ARE REQUESTING. WE DO HAVE A LOT TO DO TO PROVIDE THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE REQUESTING AND TO KEEP OUR ECONOMY MOVING. CLOSE OUT BY THANKING YOU SDOT FOR NOT MISSING A BEAT AND DOING GREAT WORK SO FAR. LET GET THIS LEVY DELIVERED. THANK YOU CHAIR. >> THANK YOU. LET'S SEE -- I GUESS STARTING OFF WITH COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. APPRECIATE ONE THING THAT YOU MENTIONED JUST NOW OR A MOMENT AGO THAT REALLY STRUCK ME WAS THE -- YOU MENTIONED QUOTE, THAT THESE ARE CONVERSATION STARTING POINTS. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS. FOLKS, WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE ARE SMALLER SCALE NEIGHBORHOODS SAFETY-TYPE PROJECTS THAT GENERALLY DON'T RISE TO THE LARGE -- TO THE LEVEL OF LARGE-SCALE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. AND THAT -- WHERE THERE'S AT LEAST $1 ASSOCIATED FROM THE LEVY THAT ARE GOING TO BE FUNDED TO BRING THESE TO LIFE. AND IT'S NOT -- AN EXHAUSTIVE EXCLUSIVE LIST OF ALL PROJECTS AND WHAT'S POSSIBLE THIS YEAR. THERE ARE OTHER NON-LEVY WAYS TO DELIVER PROJECTS AND DO OTHER THINGS WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, BUDGET INVESTMENTS THROUGH THE VISION ZERO, OTHER THINGS THE DEPARTMENT RETAINS A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY. A TON. TO DELIVER UPON ANY NUMBER OF SMALLER SCALE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECTS THROUGH VARIOUS BUDGET SUMMARY LEVELS AND BSLs AND BCLs AND ALL THAT FUN STUFF. AND WE -- ENHANCE THAT ABILITY OF THE DEPARTMENT TO DO MORE THROUGH SOME OF THESE NEW INNOVATIVE NEW PROGRAMS INCLUDING NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATED SAFETY FUND. THE DISTRICT PROJECT FUND. AND OTHERS. AND -- ULTIMATELY I THINK WE ALL HAVE A SHARED GOAL OF KEEPING OUR NEIGHBORS AND COMMUNITIES SAFE. VIS-A-VIS THE SMALLER SCALE NEIGHBORHOOD ROADS SAFETY-TYPE PROJECTS. I THINK WHAT IT ULTIMATELY COMES DOWN TO IS WHO DECIDES? WHO DECIDES? WHAT PROJECTS, WHEN AND WHERE AND THAT'S THE ESSENCE OF DEMOCRACY HERE. I AM PERSONALLY IN ALL OF THE ABOVE TYPE PERSON AND I MAKE NO APOLOGIES ABOUT THAT. [ CAPTIONERS TRANSITIONING ] THAT WE, THE DIRECTIONAL GUIDANCE AND CRITERIA WE SET FORTH IN THE RECENTLY ADOPTED SEATTLE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. SO THEY HAVE A LOT OF FLEX, THE DEPARTMENT HAS A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY BASED OFF OF THAT. THERE'S ALSO THIS NEW NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATED SAFETY FUND. I SHARE COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA'S FOCUS ON MAKING SURE WE HAVE A CLEAR PLAN TO FIGURE OUT HOW THAT AND THE NEW DISTRICT PROJECT FUND OR COUNCIL DISTRICT FUND ARE GOING TO BE ADMINISTERED. NAY ARE NASCENT RIGHT NOW. TO SET EXPECTATIONS, OUR CITY IS NOT IN A POSITION TODAY TO DELIVER ON THAT. BUT WE DO NEED MORE PARAMETERS AROUND WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE AND I'M WORKING WITH THE DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW TO DO EXACTLY THAT. SO I APPRECIATE YOUR PARTNERSHIP THERE. UNDERTHE NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE SAFETY PROJECT, THERE IS NO, THE DEPARTMENT PROVIDED A VERY THOUGHTFUL INITIAL FRAMEWORK BUT IT STILL NEEDS TO PUT SOME MEAT AROUND THE BONES SO TO SPEAK. AND DO MORE WORK THERE. ALONG WITH OTHER PROGRAMS. UNDER THAT PROGRAM, COMMUNITY SHOULD DECIDE AT A HIGH LEVEL. COMMUNITY DECIDES. AND UNDER OUR DISTRICT PROJECT FUND, WE ULTIMATELY DECIDE. BASED OFF OF THE FEED BACK THAT WE GET FROM OUR CONSTITUENTS. ALL OF THEM ARE IMPORTANT AND NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TO ALLOW OUR CITY TO DO MORE. TODAY, I DON'T THINK IT IS A LACK OF RESOURCING ISSUE AND MY COMMITMENT IS TO MAKE SURE IT IS NOT A LACK OF RESOURCING ISSUE AS OUR ABILITY AS A CITY TO DELIVER UPON THESE CRITICAL SAFETY INVESTMENTS. I DO THINK IT IS MORE OF A LACK OF CAPACITY ISSUE. THAT IS WHY SDOT IS WORKING HARD TO STAFF UP TO MEET THE MOMENT. BECAUSE YOU NEED PEOPLE AND PLANNERS AND ENGINEERS TO BUILD CAPACITY AND SCALE THIS WORK. THESE ARE COMPLEX PROGRAMS WE HAVE FUNDED. NOW WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT ADMINISTRATION OF THOSE LOOKS LIKE. THE OTHER POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS SO, UNDER THIS LEVY, WE DID SOMETHING, THIS VOTER APPROVED LEVY, WE DID SOMETHING VERY THOUGHTFUL THAT GOES UNNOTICED. WHEN UNNOTICED THEN AND NOW WITH THIS NEW ADMINISTRATION I THINK IT IS MORE IMPORTANT. LET ME CALL IT OUT. SO I WORK CLOSELY WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT HERE. BOTH ON A PREINTRODUCTION PROPOSED BASIS OF THE MAYOR'S FINAL EXECUTIVE LEVY AND WHEN WE THROUGH OUREDLYLATIVE PROCESS. ONE OF THE LEARNINGS ARE THE EXPIRED SEATTLE LEVY, THERE WAS A FAIR AMOUNT OF LEVERAGE MEANING THE FUNDING TO DELIVER THE PROJECTS WAS CONDITIONED UPON RECEIVING THIRD PARTY FUNDING FROM OTHER SOURCES. NAMELY FEDERAL DOLLARS. UNDER THE EXPIRING LEVY, EXPIRED LEVY I GUESS, THERE IS AN AMBITIOUS SET OF LEVERAGE ASSUMPTIONS AND THAT WAS THE LEARNING AND I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE LEVY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE TO MINIMIZE THOSE ASSUMPTIONS AND WE DID EXACTLY THAT. I WOULD RATHER AS THE CITY BE IN A POSITION TO UNDERPROMISE AND OVERDELIVER THAN VICE VERSA. WE MADE SOME CONSERVATIVE LEVERAGE ASSUMPTIONS IN THIS NEW LEVY AS A RESULT. AND I THINK MY HOPE IS, I THINK WE WILL START TO SEE THAT, THAT APPROACH PAID DIVIDENDS GIVEN THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. SO, LEVERAGED ASSUMPTIONS OF FUNDING IN THE APPROACH WE TOOK A WHILE AGO, I THINK IS GOING TO IMPACT AND ENABLE OUR CITY TO BETTER DELIVER UPON THESE GREAT PROJECTS. THE OTHER POINT I WANT TO MAKE AND I APPRECIATE COUNCILMEMBER RINCK'S POINT OF VIEW THAT SHE IS CAR FREE AND THAT IS EXCELLENT AND I'M GLAD WE HAVE HER VOICE AND PERSPECTIVE REPRESENTED ON THIS COMMITTEE. IT IS AN IMPORTANT ONE. ALSO, ACKNOWLEDGING WHATEVER YOUR PREFERRED MODE OF TRANSPORTATION, AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S A CHOICE. IT'S A CHOICE. I'M AN ALL OF THE ABOVE GUY AS MENTIONED. BUT REGARDLESS OF YOUR PREFERRED MODE OF TRANSPORTATION, WHETHER YOU CHOOSE TO GET AROUND BY BIKE, DRIVING TRANSIT PEDESTRIAN FREIGHT, WE ARE ALL PEDESTRIANS AT SOME POINT IN OUR JOURNEY. SO WE'LL LEARN A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THIS AS WELL IN TERMS OF THE IMPACT OF VISION ZERO AND WHAT THAT MEANS. I TOOK A TRIP TO A FEW WEEKS AGO, I TOOK A LONG WEEKEND TRIP WITH MY FAMILY TO SAN FRANCISCO. AND I WAS STRUCK BY IN SAN FRANCISCO IS THE SECOND MOST DENSE CITY IN THE COUNTRY AFTER NEW YORK. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT A WEST COAST CITY WOULD BE THE SECOND MOST DENSE CITY IN THE COUNTRY? I LOVED THE VIBRANT TRANSIT THERE, I TOOK THE BART AND THE MUNI AND THE CALTRAIN. IT WAS FUN. MY KIDS WERE A LITTLE WEIRDED OUT BY THE AUTONOMOUS WAYMO THOUGH. BUT IN ANY EVENT, AS VIBRANT AS THEIR TRANSIT SYSTEM IS, I WAS STRUCK BY THE FACT NEARLY EVERY STREET, ARTERIALS AND NON-ARTERIALS ALIKE, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD THERE WAS PARKING. PARKING AVAILABLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET. SO, AGAIN, HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOICE. IN SAN FRANCISCO, THE SECOND MOST DENSE CITY IN OUR COUNTRY, PEOPLE STILL CHOOSE TO DRIVE. AND ALSO, WE RELY ON VISITORS TO OUR CITY. WHO CHOOSE TO DRIVE. AND WE NEED VISITORS TO OUR CITY TO EXPERIENCE THE WONDERS AND JOYS OF OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY AND CONTRIBUTE MEANINGFULLY TO THE ECONOMY AND SUPPORT OUR BUSINESSES. THE FINAL POINT I WILL MAKE ABOUT THIS SPENDING PLAN IS JUST EMPHASIZING WHAT I MENTIONED EARLIER. IN TERMS OF EXPRESSING MY GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR CLOSE PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION IN PUTTING THIS TOGETHER. I, WORKING WITH YOU ALL, WE WERE ABLE TO ADD ONE OR TWO PROJECTS, I FORGET OFFHAND. 49th AVENUE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST GRAHAM STREET. THAT INTERSECTION. THIS IS A SMALL SCALE NEIGHBORHOOD. SAFETY PROJECT. COMMUNITY MEMBERS WERE CALLING FOR BETTER CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO THIS SPECIFIC AREA IN WEST SEATTLE. THEY HAD VISITED ME DURING OFFICE HOURS IN WEST SEATTLE AND HAD TAKEN THE TIME TO SHOW UP AT ONE OF OUR TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETINGS I THINK IN SEPTEMBER, EARLY SEPTEMBER. AND ORGANIZED THE NEIGHBORHOOD PETITION SUBMITTED LETTERS. THE DEPARTMENT WAS ALREADY WORKING WITH THEM TO DO SOMETHING IF I WALL DIRECTLY. DAYLIGHTING THAT INTERSECTION. I WANTED TO THANK THE PREPONDERATE FOR THEM FOR WHAT MORE WE CAN DO. BUT AGAIN, THESE NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY TYPE OF PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS, THEY MATTER. THEY IMPACT PEOPLE'S DAILY LIVES. PEOPLE CARE. AND THIS IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT WORK. SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK DONE ON A DAILY BASIS. WE HAVE THE LEADERS FROM SDOT HERE AT THE TABLE TODAY. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. BUT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES THAT ARE ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK OF PLANNING AND EXECUTION AND DELIVERY. THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO BETTER. FOR ALL OF US BY THE WAY. MYSELF INCLUDED. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE ARE NOT GRATEFUL FOR THE HARD WORK AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF SO MANY IN THE DEPARTMENT. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL AGAIN. ALL RIGHT. LET'S MOVE ON. TO OUR NEXT ITEM OF BUSINESS. THANK YOU YOU FOR. READ THE SECTION ITEM OF BUSINESS. >> ITEM 2, ACHIEVING VISION ZERO THROUGH THE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH. >> THANK YOU. AND I THINK THERE IS ONLY ONE NET NEW PRESENTER HERE. SO WELCOME. PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELVES AGAIN FOR THE RECORD. IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND AND BEGIN YOUR PRESENTATIONS WHEN YOU'RE READY. >> INTERIM DIRECTOR ADIAM EMERY, VENU NEMANI. >> FRANCISCA STEFAN. >> BEFORE VENU STARTS, I WANT TO SAY VISION ZERO IS MY WHY. THE WHY I'M HERE. I'M PERSONALLY TOUCHED BY THIS SPRING OF 2003 WAS WHEN I LOST MY SISTER TO A HIT AND RUN. VISION ZERO TOUCHES, WE JUST CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE PEOPLE LIKE MY SISTER. IT IS MY DRIVE AND THE DEPARTMENT'S PRIORITY, THE HIGHEST PRIORITY FOR ME SO I JUST WANT TO PASS IT ONTO OUR CHIEF SAFETY OFFICER VENU WHO HAS BEEN HELPING US NAVIGATE IMPLEMENTATION AND HEIGHTEN THE PROGRAM TO BE MEANINGFUL FOR ALL OF US. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. GOOD MORNING CHAIR SAKA, HOLLINGSWORTH AND THE OTHER MEMBERS. I'M EXCITED FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TALK TO YOU. ACHIEVING VISION ZERO THROUGH THIS APPROACH. BEFORE WE GET STARTED. LET ME KIND OF SHARE OR RESHARE OUR VISION VALUES AND GOALS. SEATTLE IS A DRIVING AND EQUITABLE COMMUNITY POWERED BY DEPENDABLE TRANSPORTATION. WE ARE ON A MISSION TO DELIVER A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES SAFE AND AFFORDABLE ACTS TO PLACE OPPORTUNITIES. OUR CODE VALUES ARE EQUITY, SAFETY, MOBILITY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND EXCELLENCE. I WANT TO START WITH THIS SLIDE. IT HELPS ME TO GROUND ALL OF, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO HERE IN VISION ZERO AND ALSO EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IN THE DEPARTMENT. IN THIS PRESENTATION, I WILL TOUCH UPON THIS APPROACH AND HOW VISION ZERO APPLIES THIS APPROACH. AND TALK ABOUT THE DESIGN AND GO OVER SOME KEY VISION ZERO DESIGN TRENDS. TALK ABOUT THE MAJOR 2024 ACTIONS YOU WILL SEE. BEFORE I DIVE INTO THE PRESENTATION, LET ME TAKE A MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE MORE THAN 1800 PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SEVERELY INJURED WON OUR STREETS SINCE WE ADOPTED VISION ZERO AND ALL 250 PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES ON OUR STREETS. TOGETHER WE HOLD THE STAKES FOR THEM. LET'S TAKE A FEW MOMENTS OF SILENCE. THANK YOU. IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE PEOPLE, SOMEBODY'S LIVES HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY CHANGED. THESE ARE OUR NEIGHBORS. FRIENDS, FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN PROFOUNDLY IMPACTED BY CRASHES, COLLISIONS ON OUR STREETS. TOGETHER LET'S COLLECTIVELY HUMANIZE OUR LOSS. SO, TALKING ABOUT VISION ZERO, AND, APPROACH TO SAFETY, TRADITIONALLY, SAFETY HAS BEEN APPROACHED USING THESE WHICH LATER DEVELOPED INTO THE 5E MODEL. THE E STANDING FOR ENGINEERING, AND EDUCATION ENFORCEMENT. AND THE EVALUATION AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE. AND THAT HAS BEEN A VERY TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO SOLVING SAFETY PROBLEMS ON OUR STREETS. COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW WE USE CRASHES TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL INVESTMENT LOCATIONS. AND THAT IS PART OF THE VERY TRADITIONAL APPROACH. WE ARE MAKING A PROFOUND SHIFT TO BROWEDDEN OUR FOCUS AND LOOK AT SAFETY FROM MULTIPLE ANGLES. TO BROADEN OUR FOCUS. IN 2022, THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HAS ADOPTED A NEW PARADIGM TO APPROACH SAFETY. AND THIS PARADIGM INCLUDED APPROACHING SAFETY FROM MULTIPLE ANGLES. THE WHOLE GOAL IS TO REDUCE THE LIKELIHOOD OF A CRASH ON OUR STREETS. AND TO REDUCE THE HARM A PARTICULAR CRASH CAN DO. THIS HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES INTERNATIONALLY AND I KNOW OF AT LEAST TWO JUST TWO DISEASE THERE ARE SIX GUIDING PRINCIPLES BEHIND THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH. THE FIRST ONE IS DEATH AND SERIOUS INJURIES. HUMANS MAKE MISTAKES. HUMANS ARE VULNERABLE. RESPONSIBILITY IS SHARED AMONG ALL THE SYSTEM. SAFETY IS PROACTIVE. THE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH HAS BEEN ELEMENTS YOU SEE INSIDE THE CIRCLE THAT ARE PRESENTED THERE. SO, THESE FIVE ELEMENTS ARE SAFER ROADS, SAFER STREETS, SAFER PEOPLE, SAFER VEHICLES, AND POST-CRASH CARE. I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE IN THEIR TARGET ZERO PLAN, THEY ADOPTED A SIXTH ELEMENT CALLED SAFE LAND USE. THEY DON'T HAVE DIRECT INFLUENCE ON LAND USE, BUT THEY DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT LAND USE HAS AN INTEGRAL PART TO PLAY IN THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND ITS OUTCOMES. SO LET ME TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN AND HOW WE HAVE BUILT OUR ACTION PLAN ON THE MODEL OF THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH. THE ACTION PLAN WE HAVE PUBLISHED IN MAY OF LAST YEAR, IS BASICALLY OUR ROAD MAP TO REDUCING THE NUMBER OF COLLISIONS AND FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES ON OUR STREETS GOING FORWARD. A PROACTIVE THREE YEAR STRATEGY AND IDENTIFIES 80 SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT TOUCH NOT JUST THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM, BUT ALL THE DEPARTMENTS, ALL THE DIVISIONS WITHIN THE SDOT DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE ALL SEEN BUILT IN ANNUAL TRACKING FOR HOW WE ARE DOING ON THE ACTION PLAN AND THE ACTIONS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED. SO IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN, LET'S DIVE INTO SOME KEY ELEMENTS AND EXAMINE THE STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS WE ARE TAKING. THE FIRST ELEMENT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS SAFER STREETS. SAFER STREETS IS THE IDEA OF DESIGNS STREETS THAT HELP MITIGATE HUMAN MISTAKES, SAFER BEHAVIORS FROM ALL ROAD USERS. AND INFLUENCING THE NUMBER AND SEVERITY OF CRASHES. I WANT TO TOUCH ON KEY STRATEGIES WE HAVE WITHIN THE SAFER STREETS. TO INTEGRATE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, ADVANCE RESPONSIVE SAFETY TREATMENTS AT CRASH. DELIVER ON OUR SAFE STREET AND ROADINGS FOR ALL PROJECT. DELIVER A INITIATIVE THAT BRINGS SAFETY ELEMENTS AND PERHAPS THE VIABILITY AND IMPROVE DEDICATED FACILITIES FOR PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, AND TAKING TRANSIT. SO WHAT DO VARIOUS INVESTMENTS OR PROJECTS LOOK LIKE UNDER THE SAFER STREETS PARADIGM? SO, THERE ARE THREE EXAMPLES I LIKE TO POINT TO. THE FIRST ONE IS LEADING. IT IS WHAT WE CALL A PEDESTRIAN HEAD START AT SIGNALS. AND WE HAVE BEEN, IT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MORE MATURE STRATEGIES WE HAVE EMPLOYED AND THEY HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ON REDUCING CRASHES THAT WE CAN POINT TO WE HAVE OVER 80% OF OUR SIGNALS HAVE THIS LEADING AND WE ARE DILIGENTLY WORKING TO EXPAND THE SIGNALS WITHIN THE CITY. ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS HOW WE CAN, A GOOD EXAMPLE, THE ROOSEVELT AREA THAT WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED COMPLETE RECONFIGURATION. AND HAVE SEEN THE CRASHES GO DOWN. AND, ANOTHER EXAMPLE KIND OF LIKE WITHIN THIS PARADIGM WOULD BE IMPLEMENTING DEDICATED APPLICATIONS. RIGHT HERE, NOT TOO FAR. 6th AND JAMES USED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST CRASH PRONE LOCATIONS. AND WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED PREDICTIVE LEFT THERM FACING THAT REDUCES CRASHES BY THREE QUARTERS. ALL THE VARIOUS ENGINEERING THAT MAKE IT SAFER FOR ALL ROAD USERS. SLIDE? SO THE NEXT ELEMENT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS SAFER SPEEDS. AND SPEEDS HAVE AN ENORMOUS EFFECT ON CRASH OUTCOMES. THE GRAPH THAT YOU SEE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THAT SLIDE SHOWS HOW SPEEDS AND OUTCOMES OF A CRASH ARE CORRELATED SO STRONGLY. AS THE SPEEDS INCREASE, WE ARE SEEING THE OUTCOME, THE SEVERE OUTCOMES OF THE COLLISION, INJURIES OR DEATH, GOES SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER. THE PROBABILITY OF THOSE OUTCOMES ARE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER WITH INCREASE IN SPEEDS. SO WHAT ARE WE DOING IN TERMS OF THE SAFER SPEED STRATEGY? WE ARE APPLYING CONTEXT TO SOLUTIONS TO RIGHT SIZE THE SPEED LIMITS ON OUR STREETS. WE ARE USING ROAD CONFIGURATIONS TO INFLUENCE THE SPEEDS WE SEE ON THOSE STREETS AND WE ARE EXPLORING HOW TO INVEST IN TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERAS EQUITABLY ACROSS THE CITY. SLIDE. SO, AS WE ALL KNOW, WE HAVE REDUCED SPEED LIMITS ON ALMOST ALL OF THE ARTERIALS WITHIN THE CITY AND POSTED AT REDUCED SPEED LIMITS TO 20 MILES PER HOUR. WE CAN POINT TO OUR OWN DATA THAT SHOWS THAT THIS CHANGE IN JUST THE SPEED LIMIT CONTRARY TO THE WELL ESTABLISHED KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY, CHANGING THE SPEED LIMITS WOULD NOT HAVE IMPACT. NATIONALLY, PEOPLE ARE POINTING TO SEATTLE'S EXAMPLE AND SEEING THEY DO HAVE AN IMPACT. THEY DO CONTRIBUTE TO LOWERING CRASHES IN THE CITY. ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS HOW WE CAN REFIGURE THE STREET SO IT DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE LIKE THIS LARGE FACILITY PRIMARILY GEARED TOWARD AUTO TRAVEL. AND HOW WE CAN BRING ABOUT THE VISOR ELEMENTS OF THE STREET THAT CATER TO ALL THE ROAD USERS. PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, TAKING TRANSIT. NOT JUST AUTO TRANSIT. WE HAVE SEEN IN THE COLUMBIA CITY AREA, NOT ONLY SPEEDS HAVE COME DOWN, BUT CRASHES HAVE COME DOWN IN THAT AREA. AND, WE ARE DEFINITELY TAKING A VERY BROAD APPROACH ON ARTERIAL TRAFFIC. WE KNOW OUR SPEEDING CONCERNS ARE ON ARTERIAL STREETS WITHIN THE CITY. WHAT CAN WE DO WITHIN THE TOOL BOX OF STRATEGIES AVAILABLE TO US TO BROADLY APPLY THIS ACROSS THE CITY TO INFLUENCE SPEEDS SO THESE TWO ELEMENTS OF SAFER SYSTEMS, SAFER STREETS ARE TWO ELEMENTS WHERE WE HAVE AN ENORMOUS INFLUENCE ON CREATING KIND OF CONDITIONS FOR CHANGE AND INFLUENCING CHANGE. THE OTHER THREE ELEMENTS THAT I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT ARE WE AS A DEPARTMENT HAVE AN INDIRECT INFLUENCE ON THE STREETS, ON THE STRATEGIES, AND OUTCOMES. THE NEXT ELEMENT IS SAFER VEHICLES. AS WE ALL KNOW, THE SIZE OF OUR VEHICLES HAVE GROWN SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DECADES. SO ADVOCATING FOR SAFER VEHICLES AND SAFER VEHICLE DESIGNS IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH. AND THE VISION ZERO STRATEGY. WE HERE IN THE CITY ARE PILOTING AND INSTALLING SEVERAL SAFETY FEATURES AND EXPLORING WHAT WITH WE CAN DO WITH SPEED ASSIST. WORKING WITH OUR FLEET TEAM WITHIN THE CITY. AND LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES WHERE WE CAN INFLUENCE BOTH AGENCIES AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THE FEDERAL LEVEL TO REFLECT ON THE VEHICLE SAFETY, SIZE, WEIGHT, AND SAFETY STANDARDS. AS FOR THE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE WE KNOW IS COMING VERY SOON TO OUR STREETS. NEXT SLIDE. SO, SAFER PEOPLE IS THE FINAL ELEMENT. FOCUSED ON EDUCATION. SURROUNDING SAFER BEHAVIORS. AND TALKING A MUCH BROADER APPROACH. IT IS ALSO ASKING PEOPLE WHO ARE DESIGNING AND MAINTAINING THESE SYSTEMS, TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE NEEDS OF ALL ROAD USERS. WE ARE OBVIOUSLY DOING MORE AND ASKING TO DO MORE WITH EDUCATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT CAMPAIGNS AND LOOKING AT OUR OWN SAFETY DATA TO IMPLEMENT COCREATED PROJECTS WITHIN OUR OWN DEPARTMENT. SO, WITH THAT, I'M SORRY. THERE WAS ONE MORE ELEMENT THAT I WANTED TO TOUCH UPON. IS POST-CRASH CARE. WE KNOW THAT WHEN CRASHES DO OCCUR, IT IS VERY CRITICAL TO GET THE EMERGENCY VEHICLES TO GET TO THE SITE OF THE CRASH SO WE CAN ADMINISTER AID AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. EMERGENCY VEHICLE AND EMERGENCY VEHICLE RESPONSE PLACE AN INTEGRAL ROLE. AND THAT IS IDENTIFIED IN THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH AS THE POST-CRASH CARE LAYER OF PROTECTION. AND WITHIN THIS, WE HAVE SEVERAL KEY STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE RESPONSE TIMES. IN A RECENT PROJECT WITHIN THE U DISTRICT, WE HAVE EXPLORED SOMETHING CALLED GREEN WAVE WHERE WE CAN I'VE EMERGENCY VEHICLES IN THE SYSTEM. AND PRIORITIZE TRAFFIC SIGNAL INDICATIONS FOR THOSE. WE ARE TALKING TO OUR PARTNERS IN THE SEATTLE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO SEE HOW WE CAN TAKE THE SYSTEM AND INCORPORATE THAT SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE RESPONSE IS. WE KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AND WE CAN PRIORITIZE OUR SIGNALS TO ENABLE THAT EMERGENCY VEHICLE TO REACH THEIR DESTINATION SOONER. WE ARE ALSO WORKING TO PLASTID EXPAND DATA COLLECTION. WE ARE WORKING TO SEE WHAT OPERATIONS EXIST TO GET MAYBE NOT IN AS MUCH DETAIL AS A TRAFFIC REPORT FROM THE DISDEPARTMENT. BUT WHERE THEY ARE RESPONDING TO WHAT INCIDENTS THEY ARE RESPONDING TO. AND GET MORE ROBUST DATA. SO, BASED ON THIS SAFE SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY. WE HAVE WHAT WE HAVE DEVELOPED IS THE SYSTEM ON HOW WE ARE LOOKING AT VARIOUS ROADWAY SAFETY ISSUES. AT THE VERY TOP, WE ARE ALWAYS IN TIER ONE, ALWAYS OUR EFFORTS ARE TOWARD MOVING WITH ANOTHER STREET NETWORK. JUST BELOW THAT IS WHERE WE ARE WORKING TO INFLUENCE SPEEDS. AND THUS INFLUENCE SAFER BEHAVIORS. HOW WE ARE MANAGING OUR INFLICTS ON OUR STREET SYSTEM BOTH IN TERMS OF TIME AND SPACE AND THE LAST LEVEL OF PROTECTION WE ARE SEEING IS WE CAN WORK TO INCREASE ATTENTION OF A PARTICULAR CONDITION AN OUR SITUATION ON THE STREET. SO THIS IS KIND OF LIKE THE SYSTEM DESIGN HIERARCHY WE ARE DEPLOYING TO APPROACH VARIOUS SAFETY CONCERNS WE ARE SEEING ON OUR STREETS. SO LET ME MOVE AWAY FROM THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME KEY TRENDS THAT WE ARE SEEING. BOTH AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AND THE LOCAL LEVEL. SO, ROAD SAFETY IS A NATIONAL ISSUE TODAY. WHEN COMPARES TO OTHER DEVELOPS COUNTRIES, WE AS A COUNTRY HAVE DONE REALLY POORLY IN TERMS OF OUTCOMES OF TRAFFIC FATALITIES. ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SLIDE, YOU SEE BASICALLY, THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF FATALITIES BETWEEN 2018 AND 2022 AND SOME OF OUR PEER CITIES NOW. IF YOU SEE THAT SEATTLE IS DOING RELATIVELY BETTER IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF FATALITIES FROM OUR PEER CITIES. IT IS NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF UNTIL THAT GREEN BAR GOES DOWN TO ZERO, WE STILL HAVE IMPORTANT WORK TO DO TO IMPROVE SAFETY OUTCOMES WITHIN OUR CITY. SO, HERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE COLLISION TRENDS THAT WE ARE SEEING. WE START THESE GRAPH INS 2015, THE YEAR THAT WE HAVE EMPLOYED THE VISION ZERO, TAKEN THE VISION ZERO GOAL. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE NUMBER OF LIVES LOST ON OUR STREETS IS STILL POINTING UPWARDS. WE HAVE SEEN, IN THE GRAPH WE HAVE INCLUDED OUR 2024 DATA WHICH WE JUST FINISHED COMPILING AND I CAUTION YOU TO TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. BECAUSE THAT IS STILL VERY PRELIMINARY AND WE ARE STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND SOLIDIFY THAT DATA WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS AT SPD. WE HAVE SEEN FEWER FATALITIES THAT INCLUDED PEOPLE WALKING ON THE STREETS. NO FATALITIES OF PEOPLE BIKING ON THE STREETS IN 2024. THAT DATA MIGHT STILL BE PRELIMINARY. THE ONE DISHEARTENING TREND THAT WE SAW THERE LAST YEAR WAS THE NUMBER OF MOTORCYCLE FATAL COLLISIONS. WE HAVE SEEN AN ABNORMALLY HIGH NUMBER OF MOTORCYCLE FATAL COLLISIONS LAST YEAR. I BELIEVE THERE WERE SEVEN FATALITIES WE SAW ON STREETS AND ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ON A MOTORCYCLE HAD ALSO LOST THEIR LIFE. THE NUMBER OF VEHICULAR FATALITIES WE HAD 12 FATAL COLLISIONS LAST YEAR. SEVEN OF THEM WERE DRIVERS AND THE REMAINING FIVE WERE PASSENGERS. WE HAVE SEEN A DROP IN THE COLLISIONS WE SAW IN 2024 COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS YEARS. SO WE GOT TO DIVE A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THAT DATA AND UNDERSTAND. WHAT CHANGED AND HOW WE CAN FURTHER INFLUENCE AND CONTINUE THE LATEST TRENDS. SO HERE IS ANOTHER LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES BOTH FROM THE PROSPECT OF THE PEOPLE PROTECTED AND THE VULNERABLE PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, TAKING TRANSIT. WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS PEOPLE WHO ARE VULNERABLE ARE MORE DISPROPORTIONALLY IMPACTED IN THESE FATAL COLLISIONS ON THE STREETS THAN THOSE IN CARS. AND, THOSE TRENDS YOU COULD SEE ARE STILL, UNLESS ALL THESE THINGS COME ALL THE WAY DOWN TO ZERO, WE HAVE ADDITIONAL WORK TO DO TO IMPROVE SAFETY OUTCOME INS THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM. SLIDE? HERE IS A QUICK LOOK AT WHERE THE COLLISIONS ARE HAPPENING. THE GRAPH ON THE LEFT SHOWS BY COUNCIL DISTRICT. THE COLLISIONS BETWEEN 2020 AND 2024. YOU CAN SEE MOST OF THESE CRASHES ARE CONCENTRATED IN THE SOUTH END OF OUR CITY. AND THE GRAPH ON THE RIGHT SHOWS OUR NETWORK. IT IDENTIFIES THOSE STREET SEGMENTS THAT ARE SEEING HIGHER THAN AVERAGE COLLISIONS ON THE STREET SEGMENTS. AND AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THAT HOW THE SOUTH END IS BEING REFLECTED. POPPING UP ON MULTIPLE PLACES. THIS VISION ZERO NETWORK IS BASED ON THE DATA FROM 2018 TO 2022. WE COMPILED ON COLLISION HISTORY WE HAVE HAD THREE TO FIVE YEARS AND TRY TO IDENTIFY THESE NETWORKS AND WE ARE CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT WHERE OUR HIGHEST NEEDS ARE BASED ON THE COLLISION TRENDS WE ARE SEEING. SO LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE MORE INSIGHT ON HOW THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM IS MAKING INVESTMENTS. I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT IS VERY SPECIFIC TO THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM. AND EVEN THOUGH SAFETY IS EVERY ASPECT AND EVERYTHING THAT WE DO HERE AT SDOT. BUT WE ARE APPROACHING SAFETY IN THREE WAYS. ONE IS WHAT WE CALL THE RESPONSE AND APPROACH TO SAFETY. USING THE DATA AT LOCATIONS, HIGH COLLISION LOCATIONS, IDENTIFIED SAFETY CORRIDORS ON THAT MAP I SHOWED YOU AND TRYING TO DOLE OUT SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES FOR THE VARIOUS CRASH TREND S WITH INVESTMENTS WE HAVE SEEN. THIS IS A TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO SAFETY THAT IS ALSO PART OF WHAT WE DO KIND OF WITHIN THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH PARADIGM. HERE IS WHERE WE ARE TRULY MAKING A STEP. THE PROACTIVE APPROACH TO SAFETY. WE ARE LOOKING AT SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES THAT ARE INFORMED BY LOW KNOWLEDGE TO SCALE THEM ACROSS THE CITY. ACROSS THE CITY. THE THIRD APPROACH IS LOOKING AT PARTNERSHIPS. THE PROGRAMS ACROSS THE CITY. TRYING TO LEVERAGE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO INCORP. TRAIT SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS. AND, HERE IS ALSO KIND OF LIKE WHERE OUR VARIOUS PROJECTS COME IN. WE ARE TAKING THE DOLLARS AVAILABLE AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AND THE FEDERAL LEVEL. OR THE STATE LEVEL TO MAKE OUR LOCAL DOLLARS GO LONGER IN TERMS OF INVESTING IN SAFETY. SO WHAT ARE THESE COUNTERMEASURE INS SO HERE IS KIND OF LIKE A LIST OF SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES THAT IS BASED ON PROVEN RESEARCH. AND THEY HAVE, WHEN THEY ADOPTED THE SAFE ASSISTANCE APPROACH, THEY HAVE PUBLISHED THIS LIST OF SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES THAT THEY ARE ASKING VARIOUS JURISDICTIONS TO PURSUE. NOW, EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE IN BLUE ARE THOSE THAT ARE ENDORSED BY THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION. AND THE ONES YOU SEE IN RED ARE SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES THAT ARE ENDORSED BY THE CITY. ALL THESE MEASURES ARE MORE GEARED TOWARD AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT, A CITY SUCH AS OURS, THAT ARE FEW OTHERS THAT THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION HAVE ENDORSED THAT MORE SPEAK TO A LARGER TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THE NATIONAL LEVEL. SLIDE. SO WITHIN THE REALM OF PRONE SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES MEASURES, WHAT WE ARE SEEING AS PART OF OUR APPROACH TO SAFETY IS TO INVEST IN THESE EIGHT SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES AND TRY TO SCALE THEM ACROSS THE CITY. THANKS TO THE FUNDING WITHIN THE SEATTLE TRANSPORTATION LEVY R. WE HAVE A SOURCE DEDICATED LEFT TURN FACING INTERSECTIONS AND MORE ENHANCED PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALKS. IMPROVING CORRIDOR AND SECTION LIGHTING. CLEAR SIGHT LINES. LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN RECON FIGURE THE ROAD WAYS. AND HOW WE CAN ACCOMMODATE ALL THE ROAD USERS AND FINALLY WITHIN THE TRAFFIC COMING, HOW WE CAN INFLUENCE WHAT YOU SEE ON THE STREETS. NEXT SLIDE. SO, WE TAKE ALL OF THOSE AND NOW ARE TRYING TO INVEST WITHIN THESE IDEAS. WITHIN THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM. BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SEE HERE IN 2025? THE ONE THING I WILL SAY IS WE ARE STARTING STRONG WITHIN THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM ON THE DELIVERABLES. I'LL GO INTO THOSE DETAILS IN THE NEXT SLIDE. WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO OBLIGATE THE SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL FEDERAL GRANT JUST BEFORE THE CHANGE IN ADMINISTRATION IN DC LAST YEAR, NOW WE HAVE ACCESS TO OR $25 MILLION OF FEDERAL DOLLARS AND ANOTHER $6 MILLION OF LOCAL MONEY TO INVEST IN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES IN UNDERSERVED AREAS, 90% OF THESE PROJECTS ARE IN UNDERSERVED AREAS. THAT IS AN ENORMOUS SAFETY INVESTMENT RIGHT THERE. WE ARE LOOKING AT AUTOMATED SAFETY CAMERA PROGRAM TO LOOK AT SAFETY CAMERAS. WE KNOW AS A PRO SAFETY COUNTERMEASURE TO INFLUENCE AND REDUCE SPEEDS. AND THUS CRASHES. AND WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN PROMOTE THE SAFETY CAMERA PROGRAM BOTH FROM A SAFETY PERSPECTIVE AND ALSO EQUITABLY AND RESPONSIBLY ACROSS THE CITY. THE ONE THING THAT YOU WILL SEE IS THAT WE WILL BE EXPANDING THE SCHOOL ZONE CAMERA PROGRAM. DOUBLING IT, INSTALLING 25 CAMERAS AT 19 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS NEAR SCHOOLS. FINALLY, YOU ARE GOING TO SEE INVESTMENT INS ALL THE SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES WE ARE FOCUSING ON. THE ENHANCED CROSSINGS. AND INVESTING THEM AT SCALE. SO GOING BACK TO KIND OF OUR LEVY INVESTMENTS. THANKS TO THE LEVY COMMITMENT, WE ARE STARTING CONSTRUCTION ON A LOT OF VISION PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM. SAFETY CORRIDORS WHERE WE ARE PROMOTING AND INSTALLING SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES AT. HAVE ALREADY STARTED CONSTRUCTION LAST YEAR. AND WILL COMPLETE INSTRUCTION THIS YEAR. BOTH OF THESE TWO CORRIDORS ARE THE SECOND HIGHEST PRIORITY. AND HAVE ESTABLISHED SAFETY MEETS. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE ARE PLANNING AND DESIGNING SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES ON SIX ADDITIONAL SAFETY CORRIDORS. WE WANT TO KEEP TO INVEST IN AT LEAST 12 SAFETY CORRIDORS OVER THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS. SO WE WANT TO KEEP THIS PROCESS OF GETTING AT LEAST ONE OR TWO CORRIDOR INS THE CONSTRUCTION E YEAR AND KEEP THE PIPELINE OF CONSTRUCTION SIMULTANEOUSLY STARTING ON PLANNING AND DESIGN ON OTHER PROJECTS THAT CAN BE DELIVERED EVERY YEAR DURING THIS LEVY. WE WILL BE CONSTRUCTING THIS TRAFFIC ON TEN DIFFERENT CORRIDORS. NOT JUST SPEED CUSHIONS BUT WE ARE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT OTHER VARIOUS SUBSTANTIALS AT OUR DISPOSAL. INTERSECTION LIGHTING. MEDIAN ISLANDS. AND SIGNAGE AND MARKINGS ON THE CORRIDORS. TAKING A VERY BROAD APPROACH TO OUR ARTERIAL TRAFFIC COMING ACROSS THE CITY. AND WE WILL ALSO BE IN CONSTRUCTION AT OVER A DOZEN HIGH COLLISION LOCATIONS. EVERY SPRING, USE THE PAST YEAR'S DATA AND IDENTIFIES HIGH COLLISION LOCATIONS AND IDENTIFIES WHERE THEY ARE AND THEN TRIES TO DEVELOP SPOT IMPROVEMENTS THAT CAN BE DESIGNED AND DELIVERED THE YEAR AFTER. WE ARE TASKED TO IMPLEMENT MORE THAN 50 HIGH COLLISION LOCATION IMPROVEMENTS OVER THE LIFE OF THE LEVY. SO THIS IS AN IMPORTANT DELIVERABLE FOR US. SO WE'LL HAVE THEM AT OVER 80% OF OUR SIGNALS. TRYING TO WORK ON THE REMAINING FEW AND GET THEM AT ALMOST ALL THE SIGNALS ACROSS THE CITY. SO THERE IS A LOT OF LEVY WORK GOING ON AND THESE PROJECTS WILL BE IN CONSTRUCTION THIS YEAR. BEYOND PLANNING AND BEYOND THE SIGN AND WE HOPE TO KEEP THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE LIFE OF THE LEVY. SO THAT IS A VERY QUICK INSIGHT INTO HOW WE ARE APPROACHING VISION ZERO FROM THE SAFE SYSTEMS ELEMENT AND INTO HOW THE PROJECTS AND HOW THE PROJECTS ARE TRANSLATING. THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU CHIEF SAFETY OFFICER VENU. APPRECIATE YOUR DETAILED PRESENTATION. IT IS AN IMPORTANT TOPIC AND I APPRECIATE THE WORK OF YOU AND YOUR TEAM AND HELPING TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE ARE SAFE. SAFER ON THE ROADS. CLEARLY WE HAVE A LOT MORE PROGRESS TO MAKE. BUT I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE HARD AT WORK COMMITTED TO DOWNING THAT WORK. COLLEAGUES, I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, BUT I WANT TO ALLOW MY COLLEAGUES THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK FIRST. SO, WE'LL GO IN ORDER HERE. COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? >> THANK YOU CHAIR. I WILL BE BRIEF. I HAVE A HARD STOP IN 11 MINUTES AND I'M CUTTING ALMOST ALL OF MY COMMENTS SO THE EXAMPLE I SHARED WITH YOU, VENU ABOUT HOW I HAD REQUESTED A GUARDRAIL. YOU PROPOSED NEW INTERVENTIONS. THAT DID EVENTUALLY WORK. WE'LL SEE IF IT IS STILL STICKING U BE I JUST SHARE THAT COLLEAGUES BECAUSE I HAVE HAD REQUESTS. I WITNESSED A NEIGHBOR LAST SUMMER BUILDING A CONCRETE WALL SO THAT CARS WOULD STOP HITTING THEIR HOUSE. ALL THAT TO SAY CROSSWALKS, STOP SIGNS, I HAVE HEARD SO MANY TIMES IN THE PAST. THEY CAN ONLY BE IMPLEMENTED IF THE DATA WARRANTED IT. I HEAR THIS LESS AND I REALLY FRANKLY NEVER WANT TO HEAR THIS AGAIN. WHEN I HEAR THAT DATA MEANS COLLISIONS, INJURY, OR DEATH. WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT INTERVENTIONS THAT PREVENT THIS DATA FROM EVER BEING COLLECTED AND I SEE THAT FROM SDOT NOW. I SEE THAT IN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO WHERE THE ANSWER USED TO BE NO AND NOW IT IS, WELL, LET'S SEE HOW WE DO IT OR YOU MIGHT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE THINGS THAT ARE BEFORE YOU IN THE QUEUE GET THROUGH THE QUEUE. THAT'S AN IMPORTANT AND POSITIVE CHANGE. THE LIVES THAT ARE LOST ARE UNREALIZED POTENTIAL. THE PEOPLE PERMANENTLY INJURED ARE UNREALIZED POTENTIAL. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE DATA BEFORE THIS WORK STARTED TO SEE THE BEFORE AND AFTER CONVERSATION. THAT'S ALL I WANT TO SAY NOW. JUST FOCUSING ON THE LIVES LOST AND PERMANENT INJURYS ARE UNREALIZED POTENTIAL WE CAN NEVER GET BACK. >> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. WELL SAID. AND, YEAH. THESE ARE PEOPLE'S LIVES AT STAKE. AND YEAH. I COULDN'T AGREE MORE. ULTIMATELY, YOU ARE A STRONG ADVOCATE AND CHAMPION FOR YOUR DISTRICT AND THE CITY, TOO, WE CAN BE BOTH. AND YOU KNOW, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE ALL THESE DELICATE CONVERSATIONS IN THIS NEW SYSTEM, IT BOILS DOWN TO MAKING SURE WE HAVE THE RIGHT TREATMENT AT THE RIGHT TIME AT THE RIGHT LOCATION. FOR ME, PERSONALLY, I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE RIGHT TREATMENT. I WOULD DEFER SUBSTANTIALLY TO YOU ALL IN YOUR WISE EXPERT JUDGMENT. I HAVE WORKED IN TECH AND I AM FAMILIAR WITH, I HAVE SOME TECHNICAL CHOPS. I DON'T HAVE AN ENGINEERING DEGREE. BUT YOU ALL THAT ARE ENGINEERS AND EXPERTS. I ELEVATE IDEAS FROM MY CONSTITUENTS TO YOU ALL. I DO CARE ABOUT THE LOCATION AND TIME. AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER AND BUILD AND SCALE THESE NEW INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS WE LAUNCH, THAT IS WHAT I PERSONALLY WOULD LOVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE MORE BILATERAL CONVERSATION ON. WELL SAID COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. IF A STOP SIGN ISN'T APPROPRIATE, THEN WHAT IS? I WANT TO FOLD IN SOMEONE WHO HASN'T SPOKEN YET. VICE CHAIR HOLLINGSWORTH? >> THANK YOU MR. CHAIR. I'LL BE SUPER BRIEF. I KNOW SOME PEOPLE HAVE A HARD STOP. THANK YOU MR. SC AND STORY AND BEING VULNERABLE. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO HEAR THAT STORY AND WHY. I KNOW WE HAVE THE RIGHT ADVOCATES ALWAYS WITH SEATTLE GREENWAYS. I KNOW MISS RITA IS HERE, CASCADE BIKE CLUB. I DO FOLLOW AND SEE A LOT OF STUFF THAT THE URBANIST IS SEEING. IT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT JUST, IT KEEPS IT IN THE FRONT MIND OF HEY, THESE ACCIDENTS ARE HAPPENING AND MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPORTATION AND A LOT OF PEOPLE, THEIR FIRST INTRODUCTION TO GOVERNMENT IS USUALLY THROUGH PARKS UTILITIES TRANSPORTATION AND THE CORNER I LIVED ON HAD 12 TO 15 ACCIDENTS. THAT WAS A YEAR FOR A LONG TIME. IT WAS GREAT TO GET THE SUPPORT FROM SDOT WITH JUST MINIMAL CHANGE TO MAKE THAT CORNER SAFER. NOW IT IS MAYBE ONE ACCIDENT A YEAR. THE CHANGING OF THE LIGHTS. BRIGHTER INTERSECTION. CLEARLY MARKED CROSSWALKS. TURNING SIGNALS. IMPROVED SIGNALS ON THAT INTERSECTION REALLY MADE A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE FOR PEOPLE'S EXPERIENCES. JUST SEEING HOW THAT IMPROVED INTERSECTION IS WHAT SDOT, WHAT I SEE IN THE PRESENTATION FOR VISION ZERO AND HOW WE NEED TO IMPROVE A LOT OF THE INTERSECTIONS IN OUR CITY AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. AND MAKING IT SAFER FOR PEOPLE TO GET AROUND. ESPECIALLY AS WE ARE BECOMING MORE OF A WALKABLE CITY FOR FOLKS. I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR THE SAFETY OBVIOUSLY. AND THE CAPITOL HILL AREA. SIGNS THAT ARE NO RIGHT TURN. MAKING PEDESTRIAN SAFETY THERE A PRIORITY. AND SO FORTH. AND ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR WORK YOU ARE DOING. I WILL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FROM OUR DISTRICT AND HEAR A LOT OF THE PEOPLE JUST CONTINUE TO ELEVATE THOSE CONCERNS. I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CONTINUED MAINTENANCE OF THOSE PROJECTS AS WELL SO THANKING OUR MAINTENANCE TEAM AS THE DESIGN GOES IN. AFTER THE FIRST IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT. BUT CONTINUING THE MAINTENANCE OF THOSE AND SO REALLY THANK OUR DESIGN TEAM AS WELL. OR MAINTENANCE TEAM. THANK YOU MR. CHAIR. THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. >> THANK YOU VICE CHAIR HOLLINGSWORTH. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE? >> THANK YOU CHAIR SAKA. THANK YOU EVERYONE. THANK YOU MR. NEMANI FOR YOUR BRIEFING. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. OFTEN I SAY IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE PRESENT, MINDFUL AND PREPARED. BEING PRESENT AND MINDFUL ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND THE BRIEFING DOES THAT. AND THAT, ON YOUR SYSTEM DESIGN HIERARCHY THE YOUR FOUR INCREASE TENTATIVE AND AWARENESS. IF YOU ARE DOING THAT, YOU WILL PROBABLY NOT BE RUSHING SO I'M USING THESE IN TERMS OF CONFLICT OF TIME. THESE THINGS WE NEED TO DO AND THE BRIEFING AND THE SAFE SYSTEM PIECE DOES THAT FROM A DIFFERENT DIRECTION BUT IT IS GOOD FOR ALL OF US TO FIND OUR LINKS TO THIS AND HOW CAN WE DO BETTER. I APPRECIATE THE POST CRASH CARE. SO IMPORTANT. IT KIND OF GOES TO THE REASON WHY THERE WILL BE AN AMENDMENT SUBMITTED FOR THE COMP PLAN AND HAVE A PUBLIC SAFETY ELEMENT. THESE ARE THE THINGS WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF DESIGNING TO MAKE SURE THE POST CRASH CARE CAN BE THE BEST IT CAN BE. ALSO FOR SDOT'S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. THERE HAS BEEN ISSUES OVER TIME RELATED TO THE DIFFERENT PIECES AND I RECOGNIZE FROM MY GOING TO THE FIRE GARAGE FOR EXAMPLE THAT WITH THE FIRE THEY ARE ENGAGING WITH SDOT TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN SQUARE THE CIRCLES. PUT MEASURES IN PLACE, BUT ALSO DO SO IN A WAY THAT FIRE IS NOT IMPACTED AS WELL. I WANTED TO TURN TO BIKE LANES. I'M ALWAYS CAREFUL NOW TALKING ABOUT BIKE LANES. LIKE LAST YEAR, THERE WAS SOME MISCOMMUNICATION THERE. I'M HAPPY TO SEE INCREASED USAGE OF THIS AND THE SCOOTERS. THE E-MOBILITY TYPES. NOW WE HAVE DIFFERENT KINDS LIKE A BIKE AND SO FORTH. THAT MEANS THERE IS DEEP CONFLICT WITH PEOPLE ON THE SIDEWALKS. I APPRECIATE ON THE INPUT RECEIVED FROM PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE POINT ABOUT E-MOBILITY. AS HE NOTED, THE POLICE REPORTS HAVE TWO PIECES. THERE IS REALLY NOT A BLOCK FOR WHAT WE ARE NOW TODAY. IF WE ARE GOING TO DO DATA RIGHT, SEEMS LIKE WE NEED TO UPDATE OUR FORMS. THAT IS A FORM TO TAKE THE INPUT WE GOT TODAY. THAT IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE AND IT GOES BACK TO THE EARLIER SLIDES ABOUT THE DATA DRIVEN PIECES, THE OLD SAYING GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT. IF WE ARE NOT GETTING GOOD DATA, I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT TO DO SO I WANTED TO LATERAL THE POINT MR. MCDONALD IS RAISING BECAUSE I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT AND I THINK IT IS PERIODICALLY, WE NEED TO UPDATE OUR FORUMS. SO I WANTED TO LEVERAGE THAT. ALSO IN TERMS OF DATA, IS THERE ANY SPECIFIC RESEARCH STUDIES IN I'M LOOKING AT A POINT REGARDING A HARBOR VIEW RESEARCH STUDY. DOES SDOT HAVE RESEARCH STUDIES TO LOOK AT THESE THIRD PARTY COMING IN. MAYBE SOME ECONOMIC INSTITUTION AND THE LIKE? >> USED ACROSS THE STATE, THAT TRAFFIC REPORT DOES NOT HAVE AND FEEL TO CLEARLY IDENTIFY ANY OF THE NEW MOBILITY DEVICES. I'M WORKING WITH THE STATE TRAFFIC ENGINEER AND HIS COUNTERPARTS AT THE STATE PATROL WHO BASICALLY CONTROL KIND OF LIKE HOW THE STANDARD FORMS THAT ARE USED BY DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE STATE LOOK LIKE. A LOT BETTER, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE GOOD DATA TO BASE OUR ANALYSIS AND OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ON. IT HAS BEEN KIND OF LIKE A CHALLENGING MANUAL PROCESS WHERE WE HAVE COLLISION REPORTS. AND WE ARE HAVING TO MANUALLY READ THROUGH AND KIND OF UNDERSTAND THIS. AND IT HAS BEEN KIND OF PAIN STAKINGLY SLOW PROCESS. BECAUSE OF THAT. I DID LOOK AT THE STUDY. THEY HAVE PUBLISHED JUST THIS PAST DECEMBER. AND, THEY ARE USING DATA. THIS IS NOT THE TRAFFIC COLLISION REPORT THAT WE SEE FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. TO LOOK AT THE COLLISION ONE OF THE BIG CHANGE WITHIN THEIR SYSTEM THAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT IN THE REPORT IS THAT THEY NOW HAVE A WAY TO CODE AND IDENTIFY THESE SEPARATELY. YOU HAVE SEEN MORE OF THESE CASES. WE ARE TAKING THAT REPORT BECAUSE THAT IS FOR US TO LOOK AT THE COLLISIONS AND WE ARE WORKING TO UNDERSTAND THE LIMITED DATA WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THESE BETTER BUT I WANT TO COMMENT ON A COUPLE OF THINGS WE ARE DOING ON OUR SIDE. RIGHT? WE ARE WORKING WITH THE VENDORS TO PUT OUT STURDIER E-SCOOTERS. SHOCK ABSORBERS TO HELP WITH THE EXPERIENCE ON THAT. WE ARE WORKING TO LIMIT THE SPEED FOR ANY RIDER IF IT IS THE FIRST RIDE, THEY ARE CAPPED AT EIGHT MILES PER HOUR. AND IF IT IS SUBSEQUENT, IT IS CAPPED AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. THERE ARE SEVERAL SLOW ZONES. WHERE THE SPEED IS CAPPED BY THESE VENDORS AT EIGHT MILES PER HOUR. WE ARE WORKING ON THESE. THERE THOUSAND ELEMENTS WERE GIVEN OUT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE PROGRAM. ELEMENTS YOU SAID WERE VERY LOW. SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THEM. ON MY PROGRAM, DISTRIBUTES A LOT OF ELEMENTS. AND COLLABORATING WITH THEM TO PUT OUT BETTER EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND WE ARE DOING ALL OF THESE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE VENDORS TO CREATE A SAFER RIDE EXPERIENCE. I WANT TO JUXTAPOSE THE FACT WITH THE SHARED MOBILITY DEVICES. WE HAVE SEEN OVER 5 MILLION TRIPS LAST YEAR WITHIN THE CITY. THEY ARE GETTING ENORMOUSLY POPULAR AND I'M TALKING THE SHARED MOBILITY SITE OF E SCOOTERS. WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD DATA SET. THE NEW MOBILITY IS A NEW WAY OF GETTING AROUND THE CITY. WE ARE ALL TRYING TO. IT IS GETTING ENORMOUSLY POPULAR AND WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE EXPERIENCE BETTER WITH OUR PARTNERS ACROSS AND OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT. AND OUR VENDORS TO ENHANCE THAT EXPERIENCE. >> THANK YOU. AND I DO APPRECIATE THAT THEY ARE USING THE BIKE LANES MORE WHICH IS GREAT. I WILL LEVERAGE TO DISCUSSING. AS YOU PROBABLY IMAGINE, COUNCILMEMBERS TALK TO TONS OF PEOPLE. AND MY UNDERSTANDING IN TERMS OF THE WATERFRONT PARK, SDOT REMAINS ON THE STREETS AND THE DIFFERENT PIECES BUT THE LANDSCAPES WENT TO THE WATERFRONT. THERE IS SECURITY IN DIFFERENT PIECES I HAVE GONE OVER. BUT SDOT STILL HAS THE ROADS AND THE BIKE LANES THAT GO THROUGH THAT AREA? I DID MEET WITH, PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED CASCADE BICYCLE CLUB. AND, THE WATERFRONT LOOKS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. THE BIKE LANES LOOK ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. THE NEW ARTWORK, EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL. BUT IT WAS RAISED TO ME THAT THE BIKE LANE AS THEY GO FROM THE TERMINAL TO THE AQUARIUM. THE STEEL BRACKETS FOR THE LANDSCAPING AND STUFF. SOME OF THOSE LOOKED, BECAUSE OF THEIR STEEL IN THEIR CORNERS, THAT IS A POTENTIAL RISK THAT IS NOT PRESENT IN OTHER BIKE LANES. TO RAISE IT AS A CONCERN AND IF THERE IS ANY MITIGATION. IT IS VERY DIFFERENT E-BIKE OR REGULAR BIKE OR SCOOTER OR WHATEVER THAT PERSON GOES INTO THAT. AND THAT COULD BE A PROBLEM. TO REFLECT THE CASCADE BIKE CLUB. [ CAPTIONER CHANGE ] THAT IS WHAT WAS RECOGNIZED IN TRYING TO BRING ABOUT HOW WE DESIGN THAT SYSTEM THAT IS IN BETWEEN . AND IT WILL BASICALLY BE MORE PEOPLE AND GOODS WITHIN THE CITY. AND THEY ARE TRYING TO ADOPT HOW THE [ INAUDIBLE ] IS SUCCESSFULLY DONE, TO BRING IN THE NEEDS OF ALL THE USERS AND TRYING TO DEVELOP A SYSTEM THAT SPEAKS TO THE NEEDS OF ALL USERS VERSUS MORE PURELY FOCUSED ON THE [ INAUDIBLE ] I THINK PERSONALLY , WE HAVE HAD SLIGHTLY [ INAUDIBLE ] PATHS. AND DEVELOPED COMPANIES, HAVE AHEAD OF US AND THAT GAME AND WE ARE NOW CATCHING UP WITH THEM. AND I WOULD PERSONALLY SAY THAT . >> THANK YOU FOR THAT. IT SEEMS AS THOUGH OUR HISTORY HAS SHOWN US WE HAVE -- THATTRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS HISTORICALLY HAVE PRIORITIZED AND VALUED PERSONAL CONVENIENCE OVER -- PERSONAL CONVENIENCE FOR SOME OVER THE SAFETY OF MANY. WE ALSO WANT TO DRAW ON ONE OF THE MAPS HERE AS WELL. LOOKING DISTRICT BY DISTRICT. WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WANTING TO REPRESENT DISTRICTS. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE DISTRICT 2 SPECIFICALLY. I NOTE COUNCILMEMBER SOLOMON NOT BEING A PART OF TODAY'S DISCUSSIONS I WANTED TO UPLIFT DISTRICT 2 HAVING THE HIGHEST SHARE OF FATAL AND SERIOUS INJURY CLASHES BY COUNSEL DISTRICT AND 90 THAT IS -- AND THAT NEEDS TO BE PARTICULARLY NAMED GIVEN THE LACK OF SOLID TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE. I KNOW THAT I HAVE HAD THE PERSONAL CHALLENGE OF TRYING TO RIDE MY BIKE AROUND RAINIER AVENUE AND IT IS A SCARY EXPERIENCE. IT FEELS VERY UNSAFE. WE NEED SAFER BIKE PATHS GOING THROUGH SOUTH SEATTLE. MY QUESTION IS -- AND I WANT TO ALSO APPRECIATE THAT ONE OF THE IDENTIFIED PLANS TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION HERE IS ON MLK WAY. AND I WANT TO ASK YOU HOW WE ARE CONTINUING TO PRIORITIZE PROJECTS THAT PROMOTE EQUITY ACROSS THE CITY FOR SAFE COMMUNITIES . >> ALL OF OUR [ INAUDIBLE ] SAY NEED AND THE PRIORITY? AND THOSE IS WHAT -- WAS OR WHAT WE ASK OURSELVES TRYING TO INVEST IN LOCATIONS. AND THE NEEDS WE HAVE AN DISTRICT 2, ESPECIALLY ON RAINIER AND MLK CORRIDORS. ON RAINIER, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING DILIGENTLY ON A NUMBER OF PROJECTS . RIGHT NOW, WE ARE TALKING WITH WSDOT. WE WANT TO IMPROVE CROSSINGS AT THE CHANGE RAMPS AND BEFORE THE STATION COMES ONLINE. WE ARE -- WE HAVE SETTLED -- THERE IS A NEW [ INAUDIBLE ] COLLEGE AND ANOTHER ONE AT RAINIER AND GRAND. WE HAVE THE RAINIER BUS LANE PROJECT THAT WILL BE COMING TO PHASE 3 COMING IN SOON. WE HAVE SEVERAL PLACES TO PRIORITIZE TRANSIT ON THE CORRIDOR. AND AND MY TEAM, WE HAVE A GRANT TO IMPROVE CROSSING , SEVERAL CROSSING LOCATIONS ON RAINIER THAT WE GO INTO CONSTRUCTION LATER THIS YEAR. WE ARE COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITIES AND RAINIER BEACH. WE HAVE TWO PROJECTS WE ARE PLANNING TO START . FROM STEWART PARK TO THE [ INAUDIBLE ] CITY LINE. AND ACCESSING CONCERNS WITH SPEEDING AND COLLISIONS ON THAT STRETCH. AND WE ARE WORKING WITH THEM TO CO- CREATE A PROJECT AND INSTALL SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS. WHILE WE ARE DOING THAT, WE ARE INVESTING IN SMALL THINGS THAT WE CAN COMPLETE SUCH AS [ INAUDIBLE ] STATIONS AND MARKINGS. WE HAD DONE SOME LAST YEAR. AND WE WILL DO MORE IN THE SPRING OF THIS YEAR. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PROJECTS WITHIN THE RAINIER BEACH AREA FOR THE SAFETY CORRIDOR WHICH ALSO IS IN D2. IT HAS BEEN A HUGE FOCUS, NOT ONLY FROM A [ INAUDIBLE ] APPROACH TO SAFETY BUT ALSO PROACTIVE APPROACH TO SAFETY. WE ARE TRYING TO SAVE WHAT WE CAN DO IN THIS AREA THAT HAS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT SAFETY NEEDS . >> JUST TO ADD , THE LEVY IS INFORMED BY THREE PRONGS OF THE SEATTLE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, EQUITY FRAMEWORK AND THE CLAIMANT. EQUITY ARE EVENTS WE LOOK AT THE ROUTE ANY OF OUR INVESTMENTS AND HOW WE RESPOND. WE WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP THAT LENS AS WE THINK ABOUT THE UNDERSERVED COMMUNITY WHICH COME FOR DECADES, THEY HAVE NOT HAD INFRASTRUCTURE TO PROMOTE SAFETY. WE WILL BE VERY INTENTIONAL AS WE DELIVER OUR PROGRAMS . >> THANK YOU FOR THAT. MY LAST QUESTION IS JUST THINKING ABOUT, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE STABILITY OF OUR TRANSPORTATION FUNDING, PARTICULARLY AS IT RELATES TO THE FLUCTUATIONS HAPPENING AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. IS ANY OF THE WORK PARTICULARLY COMPROMISED BY LOSS AND FEDERAL FUNDING? COULD THERE BE SOMETHING UPCOMING WE SHOULD BE MINDFUL OF? >> I'M HAPPY TO JUMP IN. WE DID A LOT OF THINKING ABOUT OUR LOOK AT THE LEVY. VISIONS HE WAS FORTUNATE AND WHERE IT IS NOT TOTALLY RELYING ON LEVY FUNDS AND THOSE FUNDS ARE SECURE AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF INFLUENCE ON THEM. AS IT RELATES TO OUTSIDE LEVERAGED FUNDS , WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING -- WE CONTINUE -- WE HAVE A VERY PROACTIVE APPROACH TO ASSESSING WHERE WE CAN BE COMPETITIVE REGARDLESS OF FLUCTUATION AND POLITICAL CLIMATE AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT . WHEN WE DEVELOPED THE LEVY, WE DID INTENTIONALLY DO A LOOK AHEAD THAT CONSIDERED THE POTENTIAL FOR DISRUPTION. WE HAVE NOT RELIED ON PLANNED PROJECTS IN THE 2025 WORK PLAN. WE ARE NOT RELIANT ON SOURCES THAT WE THINK WILL BE FALLING OUT OR LEVERAGE THAT WILL BE FALLING OUT. WE ALSO WORK WITH PARTNERS QUITE A BIT AND WE ARE BASICALLY IN CONSTANT CONVERSATION WITH THEM ABOUT THEIR RELATIVE FUNDING SOURCES. AT THIS POINT, WE ARE COGNIZANT OF THE FLUCTUATION BUT NOT RELIANT ON IT FOR THINGS WE DISCLOSED AND SHOW THAT WE ARE DELIVERING. >> I MISSPOKE. I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION. SORRY, CHAIR. IT IS RELATED TO WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS ON THIS. HOW ARE YOU WILL COLLABORATING WITH KING COUNTY METRO AS WELL AS SOUND TRANSIT WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ADDRESSING SOME OF THE SAFETY CHALLENGES THAT MAY BE AROUND SPECIFIC TRANSIT STOPS? >> I THINK WE WERE HERE TWO WEEKS AGO TALKING ABOUT INVESTMENTS. THE PERSONAL SAFETY ELEMENT. WE WORK REALLY WELL IN TERMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE BUILDING AND CROSSWALK THAT NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED. BUS STOP STATIONS. WE HAVE A VERY STRONG PARTNERSHIP WITH KING COUNTY METRO AND SOUND TRANSIT AND THE INVESTMENT WITH TRANSIT SPOT IMPROVEMENT AND CONTINUE TO ADVANCE THIS IN THE LEVY AS WELL. WE LOOK FORWARD TO ANY AND ALL ENHANCEMENTS , BOTH AT A PERSONAL SAFETY LEVEL FROM SECURITY AND ALSO INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE RIGHT-OF-WAY . >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THANK YOU, CHAIR. >> NO WORRIES. THANK YOU. AND I WILL CLOSE THIS OUT HERE. A QUICK SHOUT OUT TO RODNEY MAXEY AND THE AUDIENCE AS WELL. THANK YOU. HE LOOKS AFTER ONE OF THE BELLS OF THE BALL IN THE DEPARTMENT THAT I CARE ABOUT THE MOST AMONG OTHER THINGS. ROADS AND PAVEMENT CONDITIONS AND MANAGES THINGS THAT I ORIGINALLY LEARNED ABOUT AND I'M LOOKING AT THE FORMER WASHINGTON STATE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, YOUR REPORT. AND RECOMMENDATIONS BIG LEVY OVER THE [ INAUDIBLE ] COMMITTEE AND COUNCIL LAST SPRING. HE HELPED MANAGE ASSET SUSTAINABILITY RATIO, PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX, THE COMPOSITE SCORE AND HELPING US MAKE BETTER PROGRESS ON THOSE . SO I APPRECIATE THAT WORK. QUICKLY HERE, CAN WE GO TO SLIDE 23 PLEASE? THE PROVEN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES. FOR CLARITY, UNLESS YOU SAY OTHERWISE, I TAKE THAT TO MEAN THE FEDERALLY APPROVED UNDER THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH PROVEN COUNTERMEASURES. CAN YOU PULL THAT SLIDE UP PLEASE ? >> WHICH SLIDE? >> 23. IT SAYS PROVEN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES. THERE IT IS. ALL RIGHT. AND I WOULD NOTE THAT THAT IS NOT AN EXCLUSIVE LIST OF COUNTERMEASURES . >> IT IS NOT AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING LIST. >> NOTABLY EXCLUDED AS ENFORCEMENT CAMERAS AND THERE WERE ONLY 20 OR SO, TELL -- 20 PLUS ITEMS ON THIS LIST OF FEDERALLY APPROVED COUNTERMEASURES THAT ARE PROVEN TO WORK. >> IT IS THERE, THE LAST ICON . >> WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THAT . >> MY BROADER POINT REMAINS , THAT IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST. HOW MANY ARE THERE? 40 SOMETHING. HOW MANY ARE THERE ? >> SAFETY CAMERAS. >> PROVEN SAFETY CAMERAS . >> I THINK WE HAVE 35 OR SO SCHOOL ZONES SAFETY CAMERAS . >> I WASN'T REFERRING TO THE NUMBER OF SPEED CAMERAS BUT HOW MANY PROVEN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES UNDER THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH ARE THERE ? >> I WOULD SAY A DOZEN AND A HALF. NOT ALL OF THEM ARE APPLICABLE . SOME OF THEM ARE -- >> SEATTLE, THERE OUR. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. SCHOOL SAFETY RED LIGHT CAMERA, LANE RESTRICTION AND SPEED ENFORCEMENT CAMERA . >> YES. THANK YOU FOR THAT. I WASN'T REFERRING SPECIFICALLY TO THE ENFORCEMENT CAMERA ASPECT BUT ALL GOOD. THANK YOU. HELPFUL NONETHELESS . IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, CAN WE MOVE TO SLIDE 21 ? >> WHERE ARE CRASHES OCCURRING SLIDE ? >> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER FOR CALLING THAT OUT. 21% COUNCILMEMBER SOLOMON'S DISTRICT. COUNCIL TWO IS TODAY THE WORST OFF. I KNOW THIS IS A BRAND-NEW SLIDE. IT REFLECTS WHAT IS INCLUSIVE OF 2024 DATA. ALSO NOTE THAT LAST YEAR, AT THE SAME TIME , BEFORE 24 DATA WAS INCLUDED, MY COUNSEL DISTRICT, DISTRICT ONE, WAS WORSE OFF. THE EXACT NUMBERS WERE 22 AND THE NEXT CLOSEST WAS DISTRICT 2 AT 19. AND SO THIS YEAR, THERE HAS CLEARLY BEEN, WITH THE ADDITION OF 24 DATA INCLUDED IN THE FOUR-YEAR ROLLUP, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SIGNIFICANT EVENTS THAT HAVE SHIFTED THE SCALES IN ANOTHER DIRECTION. THIS IS A DUBIOUS DISTINCTION. A DUBIOUS STAT. AT A HIGH LEVEL, IT IS CLEAR THAT THE SELF END IS BEARING THE BRUNT OF INCLUDING MY DISTRICT. BEARING THE BRUNT OF THE OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE HERE TO DO MORE AND KEEP PEOPLE SAFE ON OUR ROADS. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO NAME THAT AS WELL . IMPORTANT DISTINCTION . AND ALL GOOD. WE WILL CONTINUE TO ITERATE OFF LINE. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU AGAIN , DIRECTOR AMORY AND YOUR TEAM HERE . WE APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR PARTNERSHIP. IS A VERY IMPORTANT TOPICS. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND SAY THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR STORY AND YOUR JOURNEY AND WHY THIS WORK IS SO POWERFUL AND IMPACTFUL FOR YOU AND I KNOW MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE THEIR OWN STORIES. COUNCILMEMBER RINCK AND COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS AND WE ARE ALL IMPACTED BY THIS WORK. PROGRESS IN THE SPECIFIC AREA, AS IT PERTAINS TO VISION ZERO OR LACK THEREOF . THESE ARE PEOPLE. THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. LIVES AT STAKE. I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE RITA HOLMAN WHO WAS IN THE AUDIENCE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE, RITA. RITA IS A CHAMPION AND ADVOCATE AND IS THE REASON WHY THERE ARE SO MANY GREAT VISION ZERO INVESTMENTS THAT WERE INCLUDED IN THE VOTER APPROVED LEVY TO BEGIN WITH. BECAUSE RITA'S LATE HUSBAND STEVE WAS TRAGICALLY KILLED ON OUR ROADS IN WEST SEATTLE IN DECEMBER OF 23, RIGHT BEFORE I TOOK OFFICE. THESE ARE PEOPLE . PEOPLE WHO PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE AT STAKE . AND BY THE WAY, AND THE LEVY, THERE IS ALSO, AMONG THE MANY EXCITING INVESTMENTS , THERE IS A MEMORIAL , HONORARY BIKE LANE IN WEST SEATTLE TO BE BUILT IN STEVE'S HONOR AND RITA, I WILL JUST SAY THERE WAS A LOT GOING ON FROM A CITYWIDE PERSPECTIVE. I WILL BE WORKING WITH THE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE SURE OVER THE EIGHT YEAR LIFECYCLE OF THE LEVY, THAT WE GET THAT PLANNED FOR AT LEAST ON THE FRONT END. FIRST FOUR YEARS RATHER THAN ONE OF THE LAST KIND OF GATING ITEMS. IT IS AN IMPORTANT PROJECT. >> IN ANY EVENT, THANK YOU ALL , EVERYONE. APPRECIATE EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE TODAY. WE HAVE REACHED THE END OF TODAY'S MEETING AGENDA. THE NEXT MEETING IS MARCH 18TH AT 9:30 A.M. ARE THERE ANY FURTHER BUSINESS MATTERS TO COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE BEFORE WE ADJOURN ? HEARING AND SEEING NONE, WE ARE ADJOURNED. IT IS 12:26 P.M.