Phoenix City Council Policy Session – April 23, 2019

>>Mayor Gallego: WELCOME TO OUR APRIL 23rd COUNCIL MEETING. CALMING THE MEETING TO ORDER AND WE WILL BEGIN WITH COUNCILMEMBER INFORMATION AND FOLLOW-UP REQUESTS. ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY UPDATES? COUNCILWOMAN PASTOR?>>Councilwoman Pastor: I ALWAYS HAVE UPDATES. TOMORROW FROM 9:00 TO 11:00 WE WILL BE — WE WILL BE CELEBRATING THE 50th STREET STATION. JOIN US IF YOU CAN. THIS IS THE FIRST LIGHT RAIL PROJECT FUNDED BY T2050. AND THEN TOMORROW EVENING WE WILL HAVE A DISTRICT 4 COMMUNITY CHAT FROM 5:30 TO 6:30 AT THE PUERTO RICAN LATIN BAR AND GRILL, 2714 WEST THOMAS ROAD. THEN SATURDAY WE HAVE THE WORLD BAZAAR FROM 10:00 A.M. TO 3:00 P.M. ON 19th AVENUE AND CAMELBACK. THIS IS PRESENTED BY IRC AND THE CITY OF PHOENIX WITH SUPPORT FROM MOUNTAIN PARK HEALTH CENTER AND VALLEY METRO. THIS IS WHERE WE GET TO CELEBRATE ALL THE DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AROUND THE WORLD. AND THEN SATURDAY NIGHT IS THE CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA 50th YEAR OF EMPOWERMENT DINNER AND AWARDS. THAT STARTS AT 6:00 P.M. AND WILL GO ON UNTIL LATE IN THE EVENING BECAUSE POST-DINNER SHEILA E. WILL BE PLAYING FOR US. AND THIS WILL BE THE INAUGURAL OF THE PASTOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP HONOREE AND IT’S THE LOS ANGELES MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL OWNERS MORENO FAMILY FOUNDATION, ARTY AND KERRY MORENO WHO WILL BE HONORED UNDER MY PARENTS’ NAME. AND ONE LAST ITEM, HE’LL PROBABLY GET A LITTLE EMBARRASSED, BUT I WANT TO CONGRATULATE BURGETT FOR HIS RETIREMENT. THIS WEEK IS HIS LAST WEEK, FRIDAY. YES. OKAY. WITH A BIG SMILE. OR IS THAT LIKE, I DON’T, I DON’T WANT TO LEAVE YOU GUYS? THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SERVICE. REALLY ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU. SO THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]>>Councilwoman Guevara: THIS WEEK WE HAVE OUR COMMUNITY OFFICE HOURS LOCATED AT 733 WEST THOMAS ROAD FROM 6:00 TO 8:00 P.M. THAT’S TOMORROW. COMMUNITY OFFICE HOURS 6:00 TO 8 P.M. THIS SATURDAY WE HAVE COMMUNITY CELEBRATION. IT’S LIKE A SUNRISE LOCK AT LITTLE CANYON PARK. WE’RE MEETING THERE THIS SATURDAY WITH THE CORDOBA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION FROM 7:30 A.M. TO 9:30 A.M. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE GIVE OUR OFFICE A CALL. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: ANY ADDITIONAL COUNCILMEMBER UPDATES? COUNCILMEMBER NOWAKOWSKI THAT?>>Councilman Nowakowski: MY FAMILY AND I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO OUT TO THE EASTER EGG HUNT AT ENCANTO PARK THAT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR THE LAST 18 YEARS. WHAT A GREAT EVENT AND I REALLY WANT TO THANK THE INDIVIDUALS THAT RUN ENCHANTED ISLAND THAT CONTINUE TO DO THIS COMMUNITY EVENT. TERESA AND CRAIG LYON FOR ALL THEIR YEARS OF CARING AND GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. ALSO TOMORROW WE’RE GOING TO HAVE AN FAA FLIGHT PATH STEP 2 WORKSHOP. IT’S AT CESAR CHAVEZ HIGH SCHOOL FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 8:00 P.M. AND THIS EVENT IS TO DISCUSS THE FLIGHT PATH CHANGE AND ALSO TO GET COMMUNITY INPUT. SO IF YOU’RE OUT THERE AND YOU’RE CONCERNED OUT IN THE LAVEEN AREA ABOUT THE FLIGHT PATH, COME ON DOWN TO CESAR CHAVEZ HIGH SCHOOL AND WE’LL GIVE OUR CONCERNS TO THE FAA. ALSO WE HAVE TWO EVENTS GOING ON THIS WEEKEND. WE HAVE ONE AT CESAR CHAVEZ PARK THIS SATURDAY, A FREE EVENT. EVERYBODY IS WELCOME TO COME OUT. IT STARTS AT 9:00 A.M. UNTIL 1:00 P.M. IT’S FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. AND ALSO ANOTHER EVENT AT THE PHOENIX ZOO. SO YOU PAY YOUR ENTRANCE TO THE PHOENIX ZOO AND THERE’S ALL KINDS OF ACTIVITIES AND FUN STUFF FOR DIA LOS NINOS, DAY OF THE CHILDREN. ALSO WE HAVE A BIG CINCO DE MAYO EVENT IN SOUTH PHOENIX. IT’S GOING TO BE RIGHT THERE AT THE SOUTH PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER RIGHT OFF OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AVENUE. WE’RE GOING TO HAVE ALL KINDS OF THINGS GOING ON OUT THERE. THERE’S GOING TO BE A CAR SHOW, A COMMUNITY FAIR. SO WE WELCOME EVERYONE TO COME OUT. IT’S FREE. IT’S OPEN TO THE — IT’S A FAMILY EVENT AND IT’S OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY. SO COME ON DOWN AND LASTLY SATURDAY MAY 18th, THAT’S A SATURDAY, STAR SPANGLED BANNER CELEBRATION. THIS IS A CELEBRATION TO KEEP IN MEMORY ALL THE FALLEN POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS OVER THE LAST YEARS THAT HAVE GIVEN US THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND IT’S A WAY FOR US AS A COMMUNITY TO SAY THANK YOU AND TO CELEBRATE THEIR LEGACY AND KEEP THEM IN MIND OF WHAT THEY’VE DONE FOR THIS GREAT CITY OF OURS AND THE SACRIFICE THAT THEIR FAMILIES ARE GOING THROUGH LOSING A LOVED ONE. SO THAT’S REALLY IT, MAYOR. HOPEFULLY WE’LL SEE EVERYBODY OUT THERE.>>Mayor Gallego: BUSY TIME. ANY ADDITIONAL COUNCILMEMBER UPDATES? ALL RIGHT. WE DO NOT HAVE A CONSENT AGENDA TODAY. FOR OUR CITY MANAGER, DO YOU HAVE ANY BUDGET UPDATES FOR US?>>THANK YOU. MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, JUST A MOMENT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR HOSTING 20 BUDGET HEARINGS. THEY CONCLUDED ON APRIL 18th. IN TALKING TO MY CITY MANAGEMENT COLLEAGUES AROUND THE MARICOPA COUNTY REGION, NO ONE ELSE DOES A PROCESS LIKE THIS THAT HAS THIS MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE COMMITMENT YOU ALL PUT INTO THAT AND TO THANK OR CITY STAFF. WE HAD HUNDREDS OF ATTENDEES AND COMMENTS. WE WERE — OUR PROCESS — WE ARE PROCESSING THROUGH THOSE. WHILE WE CAN’T RESPOND TO EVERY COMMENT IN THE BUDGET WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO ADDRESS AS MANY AS WE CAN. AND SO THE PROPOSED BUDGET WILL COME TO THIS BODY ON MAY 7th AND THAT WILL START THE PROCESS FOR ADOPTION WHICH WILL BEGIN MAY 22nd. AGAIN, THANK YOU TO ALL FOR HOSTING THOSE HEARINGS.>>Mayor Gallego: WONDERFUL. THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 1 ON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. IT’S ALREADY BEEN A BIG WEEK FOR SAFETY IN ARIZONA WITH THE GOVERNOR SIGNING LEGISLATION SO PEOPLE SHOULDN’T BE TEXTING AND DRIVING. IT’S SOMETHING WE HEAR THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE ALL OUR DRIVERS AND ALL OUR PEDESTRIANS GET HOME SAFELY. SO I INTRODUCE OUR DEPUTY CITY MANAGER TO INTRODUCE THE PANEL.>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR, AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. WE’RE HERE TODAY TO DISCUSS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, THE STATUS OF WHAT’S BEEN A LARGE GROWING PROBLEM BOTH IN PHOENIX AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY IN RECENT YEARS. WE’LL BE DISCUSSING WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING TO REVERSE THE TREND IN PHOENIX AND THEN HAVE A DISCUSSION ON SOME POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS TO INTENSIFY OUR EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES ON OUR STREETS. SO PRESENTING WITH ME TODAY, TO MY RIGHT IS MALEN, OUR RECENTLY APPOINTED PEDESTRIAN SAFETY COORDINATOR, AND THEN TO HER RIGHT IS KINI KNUDSON, OUR STREET TRANSPORTATION DIRECTION. ALSO WITH US IS SARESH FROM AECOM I WILL TALK ABOUT WE WE HAVE HIM UP HERE AS WELL. AND ASSISTANT CHIEF JIM BURGETT FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHOM COUNCILWOMAN PASTOR JUST RECOGNIZED AS BEING A WEEK AWAY FROM RETIRING. WE APPRECIATE HAVING HIM UP HERE TODAY. SO SARESH IS HERE FROM AECOM. AS WE TALKED ABOUT AND EXAMINED FOR MORE WAYS AT DEALING WITH PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, WE DID HAVE SOME INQUIRIES FROM THE MAYOR AND SOME MEMBERS OF OUR COUNCIL ABOUT AN INTERNATIONALRY RECOGNIZED PROGRAM CALLED — TRAFFIC SAFETY PROGRAM CALLED VISION ZERO. SO AECOM HAS WORKED WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES TO IMPLEMENT VISION ZERO IN THOSE CITIES AND WE’VE TALKED — ASKED SARESH TO TALK MORE ABOUT THAT, EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT CAN BE EFFECTIVE. BEFORE WE GET INTO THAT I’M GOING TO COVER A LITTLE WHAT WE’RE SEEING AS THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ISSUE. THE BULK OF OUR PRESENTATION IS REALLY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND SOME OF THE WAYS WE’VE BEEN ADDRESSING THAT. AND TO OPEN UP A DISCUSSION FOR THE COUNCIL. AS I MENTIONED, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS A NATIONAL PROBLEM. IT’S A GROWING PROBLEM ACROSS THE COUNTRY. FACTORS THAT MANY EXPERTS ATTRIBUTE THE RECENT RISE TO INCLUDE MORE — JUST MORE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED AS POPULATION GROWS AND ECONOMY IMPROVES, MORE PEOPLE OWN CARS AND, OF COURSE, THE DISTRACTED DRIVERS DUE TO INCREASED SMARTPHONE USAGE AND OTHER TECHNOLOGY CAN BE DISTRACTIONS IN VEHICLES. AS THE MAYOR MENTIONED, NEW LEGISLATION WE’RE HOPEFUL WILL ASSIST. WHAT WE’RE SEEING ON THIS CHART OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, IN THE UNITED STATES, PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES HAVE RISEN 35%. IN ARIZONA THAT NUMBER JUMPS TO 81%. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CITY OF PHOENIX, IT’S A MUCH LARGER INCREASE OF 125% OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS. AND LAST YEAR’S BUDGET THE COUNCIL APPROVED A NEW PEDESTRIAN SAFETY COORDINATOR POSITION, AND AS I MENTIONED, MALEN IS OUR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY COORDINATOR AND OVERSEES THE OFFICE OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY COORDINATING THE WORK BETWEEN POLICE AND STREET TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS WITH THE GOAL OF ELIMINATING SERIOUS INJURIES AND FATALITIES OF PEDESTRIANS AND JUST WORKING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR NETWORKS OF TRANSPORTATION ARE SAFE FOR ALL USERS OF THE STREETS. IT WAS ALSO A YEAR AGO WE BEGAN MEETING AN INTERNAL STAFF PEDESTRIAN TASK FORCE WITH THE GOAL OF ADDRESSING PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES, GETTING RIGHT AT THE PROBLEM AND REALLY THE STRATEGY HAS INCLUDED WHAT WE CALL THE FOUR E’S OF TRAFFIC SAFETY WITH THAT BEGIN WITH EVALUATIVE DATA, TAKING A HARD LOOK AT THE DATA WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US, DATA COLLECTED FROM THE INCIDENTS ON SCENE BY POLICE OFFICERS, DATA ABOUT THE LOCATION AND WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE SURROUNDINGS. WE TAKE A LOOK AT HOW THAT DATA CAN HELP US GUIDE DECISIONS ON ENGINEERING IN THE DESIGN OF THE ROADWAY. IT ALSO HELPS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH ENFORCEMENT AND KNOWING WHERE TO FOCUS THE ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS AS WELL AS EDUCATION. EDUCATION BEING THE LAST E, HELPING TO IMPROVE PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT THE PROBLEM. SO I’M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BILTMORE ABOUT THE EVALUATION PIECE. WE’RE GOING TO COVER THOSE FOUR E’S IN THE WORK THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING. WHEN WE LOOK AT EVALUATION, WE TALK ABOUT THE DATA COLLECTION, WE TALK ABOUT THE KEY FACTORS AND WE’LL SHOW YOU SOME OF THE KEY FACTORS WE FOUND THAT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES, SAT YOUR INJURIES AS WELL AS OUR MAPPING ANALYSIS AND WHAT THAT HAS SHOWN US AND HOW THAT CAN HELP US MAKE DECISIONS MOVING FORWARD. SO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE STREETS DEPARTMENT HAVE WORKED COLLABORATIVELY TO IMPROVE DATA COLLECTION EFFORTS RECENTLY. THE POLICE OFFICERS ON THE SCENE AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT ARE — THAT INFORMATION THAT THEY COLLECT IS CRITICAL, AND SO THEY HAVE — THEY’VE ACTUALLY THROUGH THE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE TASK FORCE FOUND SOME WAYS TO IMPROVE THE FORMS THAT THEY USE AND THE DATA THAT THEY COLLECT, THINGS LIKE WHAT TYPE OF STREET DID THE INCIDENT HAPPEN ON, WAS THERE A CROSSING NEARBY, AND WAS IT USED? WHAT WERE THE LIGHTING CONDITIONS IF THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT NIGHT. WAS THERE A TRANSIT STOP NEARBY AND WAS THAT ASSOCIATED WITH THE INCIDENT? NUMBER OF LANES IN THE STREET. AND THEN WHAT WAS THE LANE CONFIGURATION. SO THOSE ARE ADDITIONAL DATA POINTS ADDED TO WHAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT — THEY NOW COLLECT THAT INFORMATION IN ADDITION TO ALL THE OTHER INFORMATION THEY HAVE BEEN COLLECTING. WHEN WE LOOK BACK AT LAST YEAR’S DATA, I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THIS IS PRELIMINARY, WHEN WE LOOK AT 2018, THE DATA IS PRELIMINARY. IT’S REALLY WHAT THE OFFICERS COLLECTED ON THE SCENE. HERE’S WHAT WE HAVE FOR 2018. WE’LL ALSO GET INTO TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE HISTORICAL DATA THAT HAS BEEN FINALIZED AND SO — BUT I WANTED TO POINT OUT THIS IS PRELIMINARY. BUT FOR 2018 WE SAW THAT 78% OF THE PEDESTRIAN — WERE ON AN ARTERIAL ROAD. OUR LARGEST STREETS. SOMETIMES THESE ARE AS BIG, SIX, SEVEN LANES ACROSS, 85 FEET WIDE. SO QUITE A LOT OF ROAD TO COVER WHEN CROSSING THE STREET. 77% WERE DURING NIGHTTIME HOURS. AND THEN 57% WERE OUTSIDE OF A CROSSWALK. ABOUT 38% WERE — OR A LITTLE MORE THAN A THIRD WERE IN AREAS WHERE WE ONLY HAVE SINGLE SIDED LIGHTING, OLDER CITY STANDARDS MEANT THAT STREETLIGHTING WAS ONLY INSTALLED ON ONE SIDE OF AN ARTERIAL STREET FOR EXAMPLE. NEWER STANDARDS HAVE IT ON BOTH SIDES, BUT IN OLDER AREAS WE STILL SEE SOME OF THESE AREAS WHERE THERE IS ONLY LIGHTING ON THE ONE SIDE. 35% WERE WITHIN 500 FEET OF AN EXISTING CROSSING. 32% WERE HIT AND RUN INCIDENTS. AND THEN 19% HAD POSSIBLE DRUG AND ALCOHOL INVOLVEMENT. SO I WANT TO PUT A REALLY BIG CAVEAT ON THAT 19% NUMBER. ONCE THIS DATA IS FINALIZED, THAT NUMBER WILL GROW SUBSTANTIALLY. AGAIN, THIS IS THE DATA COLLECTED ON THE SCENE. BUT ONCE THE DATA INCLUDES TOXICOLOGY REPORTS AND REPORTS FROM MEDICAL EXAMINERS, IT WILL SHOW A LOT MORE INFORMATION. SO FOR PEDESTRIANS, WHEN WE LOOK BACK AT THE LAST FIVE YEARS OF DATA, THE PEDESTRIANS THAT WERE KILLED IN THESE TYPES OF INCIDENTS, HALF OF THOSE WERE SHOWN TO HAVE BEEN IMPAIRED WITH DRUG OR ALCOHOL. SO THAT’S SOMETHING I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT’S POINTED OUT HERE WHEN WE HAVE THE FINALIZED DATA, IT INCLUDES THAT INFORMATION THAT’S NOT SHOWN ON THE PRELIMINARY. THE OTHER ASPECT WE WERE ABLE TO GET WAS THE GEOGRAPHIC PIECE OF THIS. AND SO WE’VE GOT SOME MAPPING TOOLS THAT ALLOW US TO PLOT WHERE THE BULK OF THE INCIDENTS ARE HAPPENING, AND YOU CAN SEE ON THIS CHART, WHICH IS THE — WHAT WE CALL OUR HEAT MAP, YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE INCIDENTS ARE HAPPENING. AS YOU GET CLOSER TO THE CENTER OF THE CITY, YOU SEE THE INTENSITY INCREASE. SO THE RED AND BRIGHT ORANGE AREAS ARE THOSE THAT REPRESENT THE AREAS WHERE THE MOST FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES ARE HAPPENING. SO WE’VE USED THIS MAP TO HELP GUIDE DECISIONS ABOUT ENGINEERING, TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT AND OUR EDUCATION EFFORTS. AND SO THIS IS A CRITICAL PIECE OF OUR EFFORTS TO CONTINUE WORKING ON ADDRESSING THE ISSUE. SO NEXT WE’RE GOING TO HAVE KINI KNUDSON TALK ABOUT THE ENGINEERING AND HOW WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS WITH THE DESIGN OF OUR ROADWAYS AND INFRASTRUCTURE.>>I’M HERE TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT THE ENGINEERING, ONE OF THE OTHER E’S HERE THAT WE’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR. WHAT I WOULD FOCUS IN ON THE ENGINEERING SIDE IS WE HAVE A LOT OF TOOLS IN OUR TOOLBOX TO ADDRESS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ISSUES AND AREAS WHERE WE HAVE CONCERNS OR INCIDENTS OF FATALITIES OR SERIOUS INJURIES WHEN IT COMES TO PEDESTRIANS BUT AS MARIO NOTED, THE EVALUATION COMPONENT WE HAVE TO DO FIRST REALLY HELPS GUIDE US WHICH TOOL IN THE TOOLBOX WE WILL USE. HERE’S SOME OF THE ONES WE’RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT HERE WHEN IT COMES TO THE ENGINEERING SIDE, ONES THAT WE CAN IMEMPLOY. THE FIRST IS FROM A STREETLIGHTING PERSPECTIVE. AS MARIO NOTED IN SOME OF THE DATA WE HAVE COLLECTED, STREETLIGHTING AND THE EXISTENCE OF STREETLIGHTING CAN CONTRIBUTE TO HOW VISIBLE IS SOMEBODY CROSSING THE STREET WHEN THEY ARE CROSSING THE STREET IF A VEHICLE IS COMING UPON THAT PEDESTRIAN. SO SOME OF THE THINGS WE HAVE BEEN DOING HERE AS CITYWIDE WE HAVE BEEN UNDER WAY IN THE LAST TWO YEARS OF ON AN LED REPLACEMENT PROJECT AND THAT’S NOT JUST ABOUT SAVING ENERGY, BUT IT WILL ALSO PROVIDE A LED LIE THAT’S CAN PROVIDE BETTER VISIBILITY THAN OUR STANDARD HPS TYPE FIXTURES IN THE PAST. WE HOPE THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A SAFER ENVIRONMENT IN STREETS. I WOULD ALSO MENTION WE HAVE BEEN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF STATE AND FEDERAL AND REGIONAL GRANTS THAT WE’VE HAD AVAILABLE TO LOOK AT OPPORTUNITIES WHERE AS MARIO NOTED THAT IF WE HAVE AREAS WHERE WE HAVE HIGH PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC THAT WE CAN INSTALL STREETLIGHTING IN THOSE AREAS TO FILL GAPS THAT MAY EXIST OR TO PROVIDE BETTER VISIBILITY IN THOSE LOCATIONS, BETTER WARN DRIVERS OR FOR DRIVERS TO BE UNDERSTANDING THERE ARE PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY COMING UP. WANT TO ALSO POINT OUT OUR HIGH VISIBILITY CROSSWALKS. OUR STANDARD CROSSWALKS ARE PARALLEL LINES. YOU SEE THOSE AT MOST OUR INTERSECTIONS. BUT WE HAVE A TOOL IN OUR TOOLBOX CALLED A LADDER STYLE CROSSWALK THAT ALLOWS FOR US TO PUT THOSE INTO LOCATIONS WHERE WE HAVE A HIGH PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT PROVIDES A MORE VISUAL — IT’S REFLECTIVE PAINT. SO IT PROVIDES A BETTER VISUAL CLUE TO DRIVERS THAT THERE IS SOMETHING COMING UP THE ROAD THEY NEED TO BE WARY OF, ESPECIALLY IF THERE IS HIGH PEDESTRIAN INCIDENTS IN THERE. AND SO WE’LL LOOK AT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES EVEN WHEN WE’RE LOOKING AT NEW CROSSWALKS OR EVEN CROSSWALKS THAT ARE EXISTING THAT ARE STANDARD TYPE THAT WE CAN UPGRADE THEM TO A HIGH VISIBILITY OR LADDER STYLE. THEN LOOKING AT ANOTHER TOOL IS SPEED EVALUATION. ONE THING WE CAN DO ON THE SPEED EVALUATION IS THAT HEAT MAP, THAT HOT SPOT MARIO REFERENCED WE HAVE BEEN USING TO LOOK WHERE WE HAVE THESE INCIDENTS OF PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES AND INJURIES AND USING THAT TO SEE IF THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO EVALUATE SPEEDS IN CORRIDORS WHERE WE HAVE PEDESTRIANS FATALITIES OR INJURIES TO SEE IF SPEED IS A FACTOR IN CONTRIBUTING TO THOSE INCIDENTS. I WOULD TELL YOU THAT THERE’S STUDIES OUT THERE, THOUGH, THAT OBVIOUSLY THE FAST E A VEHICLE STRIKES A PEDESTRIAN THE LESS CHANCE OF THAT PEDESTRIAN SURVIVING THAT COLLISION. THAT’S SOMETHING WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO EVALUATE IN SPECIFIC CORRIDORS WHERE WE HAVE THOSE AREAS. LANE WIDTHS. THIS IS SOMETHING I KNOW THAT THE COUNCIL HAS BEEN VERY FOCUSED IN ON, OUR PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE PROGRAM. WHEN WE DO PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE PROJECTS, THAT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO LOOK HOW WE RESTRIPE THE ROADWAY AND WHEN WE — IN THE — THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE SEEN LOCALLY BUT ALSO NATIONALLY, IF WE ARE ABLE TO REDUCE THE LANE WIDTHS, FOR US STANDARD IS 12, TO 11 OR 10 FOOT WIDTH, THAT PROVIDES DRIVERS WITH, I WOULD SAY, A FEELING THEY NEED TO SLOW DOWN IN THOSE LOCATIONS. SO YOU DO SEE A SPEED REDUCTION WHEN YOU REDUCE THE WIDTH OF THE LANES WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO CREATE A SAFER ENVIRONMENT FOR ROADWAY TRAFFIC AND FOR PEDESTRIANS AND USERS IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY. SO WE LOOK AT THOSE TO BE ABLE TO — IN THOSE CASES TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A SAFE AND DRIVABLE WIDTH.>>Councilwoman Stark: I’M SORRY TO INTERRUPT, BUT THAT DOES BRING UP A QUESTION. WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE LANE WIDTHS, YOU’RE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT IT IN EFFORT TO BRING IT TO CURRENT SPEED LIMIT, BECAUSE ISN’T PART OF OUR PROBLEM PEOPLE ARE JUST SPEEDING?>>THAT’S CORRECT. WHEN WE LOOKING THOSE WE’RE LOOKING AT — BEFORE WE WOULD LOOK AT A LANE WIDTH REDUCTION, WE’RE LOOKING AT WHAT THE SPEED TRAFFIC IS OUT THERE. SO WE’RE LOOKING AT THE DATA. YES, IF WE SEE PEOPLE ARE GOING, 10, 15, 20 MILES AN HOUR OVER THE SPEED LIMIT, THAT WOULD BE A LOCATION WHERE WE WOULD WANT TO DO SOMETHING FROM A SPEED PERSPECTIVE, ESPECIALLY IF WE HAVE INCIDENTS OF PEDESTRIAN FAUX TALLIES IN THAT AREA.>>Councilwoman Stark: THANK YOU.>>THE NEXT ONE THAT WE’VE HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL RECENT PROGRAM TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT IS WHAT WE CALL HIGH INTENSITY ACTIVATED CROSSWALK, AND THESE ARE PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED SIGNALS AND WE’VE BEEN INSTALLING THESE SIGNALS AROUND PHOENIX SINCE 2013. SO IT’S BEEN RELATIVELY RECENT ADDITION TO OUR TOOLBOX BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT’S SOMETHING WE HAVE BEEN FROM A RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE WE HAVE SEEN WHEN THESE KIND OF SIGNALS ARE GOING IN AT PEDESTRIAN LOCATIONS. WE SEE A REDUCTION OF COLLISIONS OR OPPORTUNITY FOR COLLISIONS BY 56%. AND WE HAVE BEEN VERY MUCH ENGAGED, ESPECIALLY MORE RECENTLY, ON MAKING SURE WE’RE FUNDING SUBSTANTIALLY MORE HAWKS. THERE ARE A LOT OF REQUESTS FOR HAWKS SIGNALS. AND SO WE’VE BEEN WORKING ON INSTOMPING THOSE AROUND THE CITY. THE NEXT SLIDE I WANT TO SHOW HERE IS JUST A LIST OF OUR EXISTING HAWK LOCATIONS. YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE BEEN VERY MUCH DEDICATED OVER THE LAST FIVE, SIX YEARS INSTALLING THESE IN LOCATIONS AROUND THE CITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU OVERLAY THE HOT SPOT ANALYSIS. SO WE’VE HAD 45 HAWKS ALREADY IN THE SYSTEM AND IN THE PLANS IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS WE HAVE PLANS FOR 46 ADDITIONAL HAWKES. I WILL TELL YOU 21 OF THOSE WILL BE INSTALLED BEFORE THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR. IT’S SOMETHING WE’RE REALLY DEDICATED AND WE’RE TRYING TO USE TOOLS AND DATA THAT WE HAVE LIKE THIS HEAT MAP TO MAKE SURE WE ARE PUTTING THEM IN THE CORRECT LOCATION. AND I WOULD MENTION THAT WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL ALSO IN THOSE FEDERAL AND REGIONAL GRANTS TO BE ABLE TO LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO BE ABLE TO USE — LEVERAGE OUR LOCAL MONIES WITH OTHER FUNDING SOURCES TO BE ABLE TO INSTALL THESE HAWK SIGNALS AND HAVE A GOOD NUMBER OF THOSE 46HAWKs WE HAVE PLANNED ARE FUNDED WITH OUTSIDE RESOURCES BUT I ALSO WOULD SAY WE’RE ALSO LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO FUND ADDITIONAL ONES WITH THOSE OUTSIDE RESOURCES. THIS IS A LOCATION THAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO JUST RECENTLY AT 35th AVENUE AND MONTROSE A. WE HAD A FATALITY IN THAT LOCATION RECENTLY, AND WE WERE ABLE TO PUT A HAWK SIGNAL IN THERE. WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE HAWKS SIGNALS, THIS SIGNAL DOES SAFEWAY DARK WITHOUT ANY LIGHTS ON UNTIL A PEDESTRIAN COMES UPON THAT SIGNAL AND WANTS TO USE IT. THEY PUSH A BUTTON. IT ACTIVATES THE SIGNAL. THOSE LIGHTS COME ON STOPPING TRAFFIC AND ALLOWING PEDESTRIANS TO SAFELY CROSS AT THAT LOCATION. WHEN USED PROPERLY, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE CHANCE OF COLLISIONS WITH PEDESTRIANS AND WE USE THIS ACTUALLY WHEN WE HAVE A HIGH INCIDENTS OF PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS OR PEDESTRIAN INJURIES OR FATALITIES AT THOSE LOCATIONS. I WILL NOTE ONE OF THE CONCERNS WE HAVE IS, AND — ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION, WHEN WE WERE TAKING THIS PHOTO OF THIS HAWK LOCATION, YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE SOMEBODY USING A — CROSSING THE STREET IN THIS LOCATION NOT USING THE HAWK AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT TO TRY TO GUIDE THIS ACTIVITY TO USING THE INFRASTRUCTURE WE HAVE IN PLACE. HAWKS DOESN’T GET US ALL THE WAY THERE. ONE LOCATION THAT WE’RE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT TOOLS HERE IS OUR FULL TRAFFIC SIGNALS. THIS ONE I KNOW FROM COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI AND COUNCILWOMAN MENDOZA KNOW, THIS IS A LOCATION AT 33rd AND SOUTHERN WHERE WE HAD TWO FATALITIES AT THIS LOCATION IN A SPAN OF FOUR TO SIX WEEKS BACK IN THE LATE 2018. WE ORIGINALLY AS STAFF WORKED WITH THE COMMUNITY AFTER THESE FATALITIES AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT USING A HAWK SIGNAL BUT IN WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND WORKING WITH COUNCIL OFFICES WE LOOK AT FOR THE RIGHT TOOL FOR A FULL TRAFFIC SIGNAL BECAUSE WE HAD NOT ONLY A PEDESTRIAN ISSUE AT THIS LOCATION BUT WE ALSO HAVE A VEHICLE ISSUE THAT WAS POTENTIALLY CONTRIBUTING TO SAFETY ISSUES THAT WERE EXISTING IN THIS INTERSECTION. SO THIS SIGNAL WILL BE INSTALLED LATER THIS SUMMER AND SOMETHING THAT SHOWS THAT FROM A STAFF PERSPECTIVE WE HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT TOOL WE MIGHT USE BUT I THINK WHEN WE USE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK AND WORKING WITH COUNCIL OFFICES WE CAN FIND THE RIGHT TOOL. THERE ARE ADDITIONAL STRATEGIES WE HAVE AVAILABLE. THIS IS A NATIONAL PROBLEM. THIS IS NOT JUST A PHOENIX PROBLEM. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE AS WE’RE ADDRESSING THE CONCERNS OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY WE’RE NOT JUST DOING IT ON OUR OWN. WE WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING TO SUCCESSFULLY OR TO TRY TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND WE WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE BEST PRACTICES THAT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE OUT THERE. BUT WE UNDERSTAND PHOENIX IS UNIQUE. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THOSE SOLUTIONS THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE OUT THERE, THEY CAN BE CUSTOM TAILORED TO THE NEEDS OF PHOENIX BECAUSE — WE NEED TO MAKE SURE OUR SOLUTIONS ARE TIED DIRECTLY TO THE TYPES OF USES AND CITY THAT WE ARE. ANOTHER THING IS THAT WE ARE A BIG CITY IN THIS VALLEY. BUT WE’RE NOT ALONE. WE’RE SURROUNDED BY OTHER NEIGHBORING CITIES. WE HAVE FREEWAYS RUNNING THROUGH OUR CITY ALONG THAT HAVE SIGNALS AS WELL. WE ALSO HAVE COUNTY ISLANDS. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE’RE WORKING WITH OTHER CITIES AND AGENCIES BECAUSE THEY DON’T END AT OUR MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE PROJECTS WE’RE DOING AND EFFORTS WE’RE DOING ARE WELL COORDINATED WITH OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS. I WOULD BE REMISS ALSO TO MENTION THAT ANOTHER GREAT PARTNER IS THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY. WE WORK WITH THEM ON GRANTS AND I KNOW CHIEF BURGETT IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT MORE LATER BUT THEY HAVE BEEN A GREAT PARTNER IN HELPING US ADDRESS AND FUND SOME OF THESE MEASURES TO ADDRESS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ISSUES. I’LL TURN IT OVER TO CHIEF BURR GET NOW.>>MY NAME IS JIM BURR GET. I’M AN ASSISTANT — [INAUDIBLE] WISH ME WELL IN MY RETIREMENT. MALEN AND I WILL TALK ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL AND ENFORCEMENT SECTION. WE’LL TALK ABOUT ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS, THE HEADS UP EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN, OUGHT WEARNESS EVENTS AND SIGNAGE. SO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS AN OUTSTANDING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY DIRECTOR ALBERTO GOO TEAR. ALBERTO HAS A — HE PROVIDED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH A $50,000 GRANT TO DO ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS THROUGHOUT VARIOUS PARTS OF THE CITY. THOSE SPOTS WERE BASED ON OUR HOT SPOTS IN THE EVALUATION WE DID AS PART OF THE TASK FORCE. THIS WAS AN EFFORT NOT ONLY TO ADDRESS VIOLATORS OF TRAFFIC LAWS BUT TO EDUCATE AND ENGAGE BOTH DRIVERS AND PEDESTRIANS ABOUT THE SHARED RESPONSIBILITIES OF BEING ON THE ROADWAY. IN THIS TWO-MONTH INTENSIVE EFFORT ACROSS THESE LOCATIONS, WE HAD 197 OFFICERS PARTICIPATE. WE HAD 1086 TOTAL DRIVERS AND PEDESTRIANS CONTACTED. WE HAD 157 PEDESTRIAN EDUCATIONAL CONTACTS. WE HAD FOUR PEDESTRIANS CITED. AND WE HAD 863 SPEEDING CITATIONS ISSUED. SO WITH THE NEXT SLIDE I’M GOING TO SHOW YOU IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE FLYER DISTRIBUTED AND THOSE FLYERS HIT ON OUR MAIN TALKING POINTS HOW WE WANTED EVERYBODY TO BE AWARE OF THE INCREASING OF FATALITY COLLISIONS ACROSS THE CITY AND TO REMIND THEM THAT SHORTCUTS CAN BE DANGEROUS AND TO REMIND DRIVERS AND PEDESTRIANS TO REMOVE DISTRACTIONS, TO UTILIZE CROSSWALKS AND, OF COURSE, WATCH YOUR SPEED. I’M ALSO HAD A THAT A TEE AANNOUNCE IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WE HAVE AN ASU PROFESSOR EMBEDDED WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THEY ASU AND SOME OF HIS PARTNERS ARE WORKING WITH OUR VEHICLE HOMICIDE UNIT AND WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT CAR-PEDESTRIANS FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE WITH THE ASSISTANCE AND DR. SCOTT IS THE IN AUDIENCE TODAY. WITH THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT OVER.>>GOOD AFTERNOON MAYOR AND COUNCIL. FOLLOWING UP ON THOSE EDUCATION EFFORTS IN 2018 THE STREET TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT LAUNCHED AND EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN ENTITLED HEADS UP THAT CON– THE CAMPAIGN HAS THREE MAIN MESSAGES WITH DRIVE SMART, BIKE SMART AND WALK SMART. WE WERE ABLE TO DISPLAY THESE MESSAGES IN A VARIETY OF MEDIUMS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, INCLUDING OUR CITY SANITATION TRUCKS, ON OUR OWN CITY OF PHOENIX WEBSITE THE CITY SERVICES BILLING, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER AS WELL AS OUR SPEED LIMIT SIGNS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ALSO PARTNER WITH THE ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS AND WE WERE ABLE TO CREATE OUR PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT USING BAXTER. AND IN REGARDS TO EDUCATION, WE ALSO HELD FOUR AWARENESS EVENTS AT LIGHT RAIL STATIONS. THESE WERE TO EDUCATE PEDESTRIANS ON THE SAFETY MEASURES THAT THEY NEED TO TAKE IN ORDER TO CROSS THE STREET APPROPRIATELY. WE HAD MEDIA COVERAGE ON THESE FOUR AWARENESS EVENTS, AND IN ADDITION TO THESE EVENTS COUNCILWOMAN WILLIAMS AND COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI PARTICIPATED IN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE HEADS-UP CAMPAIGN AND HERE IT IS.>>I’M THELDA WILLIAMS.>>I’M MICHAEL NOWAKOWSKI.>>NO MATTER HOW YOU TRAVEL ON PHOENIX ROADWAYS, SAFETY TO ALWAYS COME FIRST.>>ROADWAY SAFETY IS A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY.>>HEADS UP, PEDESTRIANS. HERE ARE SOME KEY SAFETY TIPS TO FOLLOW.>>STAY ALERT AND DON’T WALK DISTRACTED. ALWAYS BE SEEN. WEAR BRIGHT REFLECTIVE CLOTHEDDING WHEN IT’S DARK.>>ALWAYS CROSS THE STREET AT DESIGNATED CROSSWALKS OR INTERSECTIONS. DON’T CROSS MID-BLOCK. SAFETY IS EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY. FOR MORE SAFETY TIPS, VISIT PHOENIX DOLL GOVERNOR/HEADSUP.>>I WANTED TO THANK OUR COUNCIL DISTRICT OFFICE 1 AND 7 FOR HELPING US SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF SAFETY. ALSO AS PART OF THE EDUCATION WITH OUR DATA ANALYSIS WE IDENTIFIED A LOT OF THE INTERSECTIONS, IN FACT, THE TOP 10 INTERSECTIONS WHEN WE — WHERE WE FIND THAT PEDESTRIANS WERE CROSSING WITHIN 500 FEET OF A SIGNALIZED CROSSING AND WE ADDED REALLY BRIGHT HEADS-UP CAMPAIGN SIGNAGE TO THESE LOCATIONS IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH TO 234 COURAGE PEDESTRIANS TO USE THE CROSSWALK. AS PART OF OUR DATA ANALYSIS WE LOOKED AT OTHER PROBLEMATIC AREAS FROM OUR BHU REPORTS ON PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES. WE SEE APPEAR LOT OF PEOPLE TEND TO CROSS MID-BLOCK, AND IN THIS LOCATION WE INSTALLED SIGNS TO GUIDE PEDESTRIANS TO USE THE EXISTING CROSSWALK AND DISCOURAGE THEM FROM CROSSING MID-BLOCK.>>>>Mayor Gallego: COUNCILWOMAN MENDOZA HAS A QUESTION.>>Councilwoman Mendoza: IN YOUR EDUCATION PLAN, HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT PARTNERING WITH SCHOOLS AND DOING SOME KIND OF EDUCATION WITH THE KIDS IN CLASSROOMS.>>WE DO HAVE A DEDICATED PERSON THAT WORKS WITH SCHOOLS.>>EXACTLY. WE HAVE AN EMPLOYEE IN OUR STREET TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT WHO WORKS SPECIFICALLY WITH THE SCHOOLS ON BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY PROVIDING THEM INFORMATION SO THEY HAVE IT EARLY AT A YOUNG AGE TO KNOW HOW TO WORK — OPERATE SAFELY IN OUR STREET ENVIRONMENT WHETHER THEY’RE BIKING OR WALKING AND SO IT’S SOMETHING WE GET OUTSIDE FUNDING AS WELL FROM THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY TO BE ABLE TO DO SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS OUT THERE AS WELL.>>THANK YOU.>>Councilman Nowakowski: MAYOR, MAY I FOLLOW UP?>>Mayor Gallego: YES.>>Councilman Nowakowski: I REMEMBER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR WE ACTUALLY HAD A WALK DAY TO SCHOOL WHERE I WAS INVITED TO GO AT LEAST TO THREE TO FOUR DIFFERENT SCHOOLS WHERE OUR COORDINATOR FOR SAFETY STREETS IS ACTUALLY THERE AND WE ACTUALLY GAVE OUT FLYERS AND HANDOUTS TO PARENTS AND THE STUDENTS THEMSELVES. THAT PROGRAM STILL EXISTS, CORRECT?>>THAT’S CORRECT. I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN’T MENTION DON CROSS. HE DOES A GREAT WORK OUR SCHOOLS OUT THERE WITH THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS. WE DO WORK ON THAT AS WELL. THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THAT AS WELL.>>Councilwoman Mendoza: THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF CARDS TODAY SO I WAS HOPEFUL WE WOULD DO CARDS AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER QUESTIONS AFTER THIS IF THAT WORKS. COUNCILMAN WARING, POLICE.>>Councilman Waring: SO I CAN’T REMEMBER — [INAUDIBLE] WE HAVE 46 HAWKS AND WE’RE GOING TO ADD 45? [INAUDIBLE] I FOR GET THE PERIOD OF TIME. HOW MANY REGULAR STOPLIGHTS ARE WE GOING TO BE PUTTING IN THAT SAME PERIOD OF TIME.>>MAYOR, VICE MAYOR WARING, OUR NUMBER OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS WE HAVE AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW, WE USUALLY PUT THEM IN ABOUT THREE — IN ABOUT THREE TO FOUR A YEAR BUT THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS — A FULL TRAFFIC SIGNAL CAN RUN 250 TO 350,000 DEPENDING LOCATION WHERE A HAWK SIGNAL IS 60 TO 70,000 DOLLARS WHEN WE INSTALL ONE OF THOSE. WE HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE FOCUSED RECENTLY BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING SOME OUTSIDE FUNDING GRANTS IN ADDITION TO OUR LOCAL MONIES TO BE ABLE TO ADVANCE OUR HAWK PROGRAM.>>Councilman Waring: AT LEAST IN MY AREA WE GET REQUESTS FOR STOPLIGHTS FAIRLY FREQUENTLY. WE FULFILLED A FEW BUT WITH ONLY THREE OR FOUR — THAT’S THE ENTIRE CITY, NOT MY DISTRICT. SO A CITY OF 1.6 MILLION PEOPLE YOU ARE ONLY PUTTING IN THREE OR FOUR LIGHTS A YEAR, I KNOW THE LIGHTS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE ABOUT THREE TIMES AS MUCH, FOUR TIMES AS MUCH, OR SOMETHING BUT YOU CAN STILL PUT IN A LOT MORE LIGHTS, WHICH I WOULD ASSUME ARE OVERALL A MORE EFFECTIVE [INAUDIBLE] AT LEAST TO MY MIND. WHEN I LOOK AT THE STATISTICS THAT MARIO ILLUSTRATED, I THINK I HEARD IT RIGHT, IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS 50%, HALF OF THE PEDESTRIANS, WERE KILLED WERE ON DRUGS OR ALCOHOL, 57% — SO THAT WOULD BUMP THAT UP, IF IT HOLDS TRUE IN 2018 — IT WOULD JUMP UP TO THE FOURTH BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO THESE TRAGEDIES. YOU WOULD STILL HAVE NOT IN CROSSWALK AT 57%, AND OF THOSE 57%, MORE THAN HALF, I THINK I’M READING THIS RIGHT, WERE WITHIN 500 FEET OF A CROSSWALK BUT CHOSE NOT TO WALK THE EXTRA FEET AND THEY GOT HIT. SOME OF ITS UNDOUBTEDLY DUE TO SPEEDING AND SO FORTH. JUST, THE UTILITY OF THE HAWK WHEN I LOOK AT THIS LIST, AND I LOOK AT THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS, FURTHER, MOST OF THESE CROSSINGS, MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS, WERE ON ARTERIAL ROADS THAT ARE ABOUT 30 YARDS ACROSS. I MEAN, THAT’S A LONG WALK WHEN YOU’VE GOT TRAFFIC — THOSE MAJOR ARTERIALS, I’M GUESSING THE SPEED LIMITS ALONG ARE LIKE 45 MILES AN HOUR, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE 60 OR 70 — I SEE EVERY DAY. IT SEEMS LIKE MAYBE THE LIGHTS WOULD HAVE MORE OF AN OVERALL IMPACT IF YOU WANT TO REDUCE THE TRAFFIC FLOW GIVEN WHAT I JUST LAID OUT BECAUSE AT LEAST IN A LOT OF THESE PLACES AND THE CROSSWALKS AND SO FORTH ARE AVAILABLE. PEOPLE JUST AREN’T USING THOSE. IS THAT A FAIR ANALYSIS WHEN I LOOK AT THE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS IN THIS.>>I THINK THAT YOUR ANALYSIS — THERE’S SOME TRUTH TO THAT, THAT IT’S NOT JUST AN ENGINEERING SOLUTION WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HERE BECAUSE THESE HAWKS, WHETHER YOU DO A TRAFFIC SIGNAL OR HAWK, THEY ARE ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS. BUT WE HAVE FOUR E’S WE’RE TRYING TO DEAL WITH AND EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT ARE PART OF THAT AS WELL. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WHEN WE EVALUATE THESE LOCATIONS, IS IT THE RIGHT SOLUTION TO PUT A HAWK OR IS IT A SIGNAL. AND SOME OF THESE HAPPENS WHERE WE HAVE LONG STRETCHES OF ROADWAY WITHOUT SIGNALS. SO THERE WOULD BE SOMETIMES LONGER THAN 500 FEET. BUT THAT’S THE REASON WHY WE DO A LOT OF THIS ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION AND THE WORK OF THE TASK FORCE HAS BEEN DOING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE CAUSE OF PARTICULAR INCIDENTS ARE, WHAT COULD WE DO TO RESPOND TO THEM.>>MAYOR, CAN I DO A FOLLOW-UP ON THE SAME SUBJECT. THEN I’LL START. I KNOW WE HAVE CARDS. SO THERE IS A HAWK AT KIERLAND, I FORGET WHAT THE CROSS STREET WAS ON SCOTTSDALE ROAD, CONNECTING SCOTTSDALE WITH PHOENIX. IT WAS PUT IN BEFORE MY TIME ON THE COUNCIL. AT TATUM AND BELL THERE IS A NEW SUBDIVISION AND THE STREETS DEPARTMENT DID NOT WANT A NEW STOPLIGHT TO BE PUT IN FOR THIS NEW SUBDIVISION BECAUSE YOU HAD, I THINK IT’S FIVE LIGHTS BETWEEN 44th STREET AND 52nd STREET. AND YOU THOUGHT, ANOTHER LIGHT WOULD BE TOO MUCH. I DIDN’T DISAGREE. YOU’RE JOUST GOING, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, LIGHT TO LIGHT. BUT YOU PUT IN THE HAWK ON SCOTTSDALE ROAD WHERE IT’S BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, LIGHT, LIGHT, LIGHT, AND I DRIVE IT. I KNOW THE HAWK IS THERE, SO I HAVE TO REMIND MYSELF, THIS COULD CHANGE AT ANY TIME BECAUSE IT DOES KIND OF SNEAK UP ON YOU. I WOULD JUST — IF YOU’RE GOING TO GO THE HAWK ROUTE, I GET WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ABOUT MORE WIDE-OPEN SPACES. I WOULD STILL SAY IF IT’S THAT BIG A PROBLEM A TRAFFIC LIGHT MIGHT BE THE WAY TO GO. I WOULD REFER — YOU ARE PUTTING IN A LIGHT NEXT YEAR AT ROBERT E. LEE AND TATUM. AGAIN, IT’S A BIG STREET, PEOPLE CROSS THERE. THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT THERE RECENTLY. YOU WERE ALREADY GOING TO PUT IN A LIGHT THERE NEXT FISCAL YEAR ANYWAY. BUT I JUST — I JUST LOOK AT THAT SCOTTSDALE ROAD SETUP AND I JUST THINK PEOPLE MIGHT NOT TOTALLY PROCESS IT’S A HAWK UNTIL IT’S TOO LATE THE WAY IT’S LAID OUT. SO AGAIN, I WOULD JUST LOOK AT THE FEW NUMBER OF STOPLIGHTS THAT WE’RE PUTTING IN COMPARED TO THE — IT’S GOING TO BE A LOT MORE HAWKS. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU’RE EVALUATING BANG FOR THE BUCK GIVEN THE ANALYSIS AND THE DATA YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU. THANK YOU.>>Councilman DiCiccio: MAY I ASK A QUESTION? THANK YOU, STAFF, FOR THE PRESENTATION.>>Mayor Gallego: WHICH IS NOT OVER YET.>>Councilman DiCiccio: IT’S NOT OVER?>>Mayor Gallego: NOT OVER YET.>>Councilman DiCiccio: I’LL WAIT UNTIL THE END. SORRY ABOUT THAT.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU.>>I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT NEXT STEPS, ACTUALLY, BECAUSE WE DO RECOGNIZE THAT A GREAT PART OF ENHANCING PHOENIX SAFETY AND ATTRACTIVENESS HAS TO DO WITH HOW WELL WE DESIGN ALL OF OUR MOBILITY SYSTEMS, NOT JUST FOR VEHICLES, BUT FOR ALL MULTI-MODAL TRANSPORTATION USERS WHO RELY ON WALKING TO GET TO THEIR DESTINATIONS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE A LARGE PROPORTION OF DRIVERS BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE, WE HAVE ELDERLY PEOPLE, WE HAVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, WE HAVE RESIDENTS THAT CAN NO LONGER DRIVE, RESIDENTS THAT CANNOT YET DRIVE, SOME THAT DON’T WANT TO DRIVE AND ALSO SOME THAT CANNOT AFFORD A VEHICLE. AND STILL WE ALL NEED TO MOVE ABOUT OUR CITY AND TO GET TO OUR DESTINATIONS, AND AT THE END OF THE DAY WE ALL DESERVE TO MAKE IT BACK HOME SAFELY, REGARDLESS OF THE TRANSPORTATION MODE WE RELY ON. SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO USE DATA-DRIVEN ANALYSIS TO LOOK AT ROAD SAFETY AND ITS ELEMENTS BUT WE WILL ALSO BE ANALYZING THE VARIETY OF NEEDS OUR RESIDENTS HAVE — SAFETY SOLUTIONS THAT ARE TAILORED SPECIFICALLY TO PHOENIX. WE HAVE ‘BEAUTIFUL CITY OF OVER 500 SQUARE MILES AND ARTERIALS THAT MOVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VEHICLES EVERY SINGLE DAY AND WE FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT SOME SOLUTIONS USED IN OTHER CITIES ARE JUST NOT APPLICABLE TO OUR OWN NEEDS. BUT MAYOR AND COUNCIL HAVE ASKED STAFF TO INVESTIGATE OPTIONS TO ADDRESS PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES AND WE FIND THAT OUR INTENT AND OUR GOALS AND OUR CURRENT ACTIVITIES ARE VERY MUCH IN LINE WITH VISIONS AND YOUR FRAMEWORKS THAT HAVE BEEN ADOPTED NATIONWIDE TO ELIMINATE TRAFFIC FATALITY. SO I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT VISION ZERO. IT IS AN ETHICAL TRAFFIC SAFETY APPROACH THAT SETS A GOAL OF ZERO TRAFFIC FATALITIES OR SEVERE INJURIES UNDER THE MAIN BELIEF THAT ALL PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO MOVE ABOUT SAFELY, AGAIN, REGARDLESS OF THE MODE OF TRANSPORTATION. I WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT VISION ZERO IS NOT A ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL APPROACH TO TRAFFIC SAFETY AND WHILE THE [INAUDIBLE] IT’S AN ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT OF VISION ZERO AND ALL THE CITIES THAT ADOPT IT, THE METHODS TO ACHIEVE THIS DO VARY GREATLY TO FIT THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THE DENSITY AND THE NEEDS OF EACH COMMUNITY. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MAKES THIS FRAMEWORK EFFECTIVE. IT ALLOWS CITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN SPECIFIC STRATEGIES TO TARGET AND ELIMINATE TRAFFIC FATALITIES. WITH THAT I WILL TURN IT ON EVER TO SARESH FROM AECOM WHO WILL DO AN OVERVIEW OF VISION ZERO AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT AE COMWHICH HAS NATIONAL EXPERTISE WITH WORKING WITH DIFFERENT CITIES.>>CONTINUING ON, THERE ARE ABOUT 40 COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT HAVE ADOPTED THE VISION ZERO FRAMEWORK. I WANT TO STRESS TO TALER TO TAILOR TO THEIR COMMUNITIES TO COME UP WITH THEIR UNIQUE SOLUTIONS TO SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS. VISION ZERO DOES NOT DESCRIBE A SOLUTION BY ITSELF, DOESN’T PRESUPPOSE ANY SOLUTIONS. IT IS A PROCESS TO LOOK AT CONDITIONS WITHIN OUR CITY AND COME UP WITH OUR OWN SOLUTION. SO HOW IS IT DIFFERENT? A LOT OF THE DESIGN PRINCIPLES THAT WE FOLLOW IS IN LINE WITH THE SAFETY VISION ZERO APPROACH, WHICH IS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE VISION ZERO APPROACH. IN THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH IT WAS ASSUMED THAT TRAFFIC DEATHS ARE INEVITABLE. VISION ZERO VERY CLEARLY ASSUMES OR PRESCRIBES THAT TRAFFIC DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE. VISION ZERO IS THAT HUMAN BEHAVIOR IS NOT PERFECT AND ALL WE NEED TO DO IS TO PREVENT COLLISIONS. VISION ZERO INTEGRATES HUMAN FAILING INTO THIS APPROACH AND WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. WE NEED TO HAVE A SYSTEM THAT WOULD ACCOMMODATE THOSE MISTAKES AND ALLOWS FOR THOSE MISTAKES AND STILL PREVENT FATAL AND SEVERE CRASHES. A TRADITIONAL APPROACH PUTS THE RESPONSIBILITY ON THE INDIVIDUAL. VISION ZERO HAS A SYSTEMWIDE APPROACH WHICH INCLUDES TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE HAVE, WHICH INCLUDES THE SOLUTIONS THAT WE ARE PRESCRIBING FOR SAFETY. FINALLY, TRADITIONAL APPROACH SAYS SAVING LIFE IS EXPENSIVE. VISION ZERO SAYS IT’S NOT EXPENSIVE. ONE LIFE SAVED IS WORTH THE EFFORT OF HAVING THIS FRAMEWORK. SO WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR A CITY TO BECOME A VISION ZERO CITY? NUMBER ONE, WE NEED TO HAVE A GOAL TO HAVE ZERO TRAFFIC FATALITIES OR SEVERE INJURIES. AND THE SECOND ONE I THINK THE COUNCIL MEMBERS COMMENTS WERE RIGHT ON IN GETTING SCHOOLS INVOLVED. VISION ZERO GOES BEYOND THAT INTO THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. THAT COMMUNITY NEEDS TO BE INVOLVED FOR THIS FRAMEWORK TO WORK. THE NEXT MORE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE OUR LEADERS, OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, PARTICULARLY MAYOR AND COUNCIL CONNECT TO THE VISION ZERO EFFORT, AND THE LAST ONE, IT’S BEEN SAID A COUPLE TIMES, BUT WE IN A HE HAD TO DEVELOP A VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN THAT IS PHOENIX SPECIFIC AND WITH THAT I’LL HAND IT BACK TO MARIO.>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AS WE CONCLUDE THE PRESENTATION TODAY OUR RECOMMENDATION IS REALLY JUST TO ASK FOR THE COUNCIL TO AUTHORIZE STAFF TO DEVELOP A VISION ZERO FRAMEWORK FOR THE CITY SPECIFIC TO THE CITY OF PHOENIX AND RETURN TO THE AVIATION AND TRANSPORTATION SUBCOMMITTEE FOR FURTHER ACTION AND CONSIDERATION FOR A POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL, AND WITH THAT STAFF IS AVAILABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. WE HAVE ABOUT 20 RESIDENTS WISHING TO SPEAK. IF PEOPLE HAVE CLEAR QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESENTERS WE CAN TAKE THOSE NOW BUT I THINK WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A ROBUST DEBATE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM THE RESIDENTS.>>>>Councilman DiCiccio: I WOULD LIKE TO ASK STAFF SOME QUESTIONS.>>Mayor Gallego: CAN WE DO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS NOW –>>Councilman DiCiccio: WELL, WHY THEY LEFT OFF CERTAIN INFORMATION FROM THEIR REPORT.>>Mayor Gallego: OKAY. WE HAVE 20 RESIDENTS.>>Councilman DiCiccio: I KNOW BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK STAFF A VERY CLEAR QUESTION. BUT IT’S UP TO YOU, MAYOR, IF YOU DON’T WANT ME TO DO IT NOW I’LL WAIT.>>Mayor Gallego: PERFECT. WE’LL GET THROUGH THE RESIDENTS. WE HAVE MANY PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES. SO APPRECIATE YOU GIVING UP YOUR TIME TO COME DOWN AND HAVE US HAVE A GOOD DEBATE. I THINK THIS IS A VERY PERSONAL ISSUE FOR MANY PEOPLE AND THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE HERE WHO ARE HERE BECAUSE THEY LOST LOVED ONES. SO I WOULD ASK EVERYONE TO BE RESPECTFUL OF PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DEBATE. OUR FIRST SPEAKER WILL BE DR. ROBERT CANNON FOLLOWED BY FLO ECKSTEIN.>>GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TODAY. I’M DR. ROBERT CANNON, PRESIDENT OF THE WILLO NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORIC ASSOCIATION. I HAVE LIVED IN WILLO 20 YEARS. I HAVE BEEN EITHER THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, 10 OF THOSE 20, AND I APPRECIATE EVERYONE’S TIME AND ENERGY TODAY ON A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. SO I’M GOING TO LOCALIZE THIS ISSUE, AND YEARS AGO WHEN I RETURNED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WE DEVELOPED A PLAN CALLED VISION 3.5, WHICH IS THIRD AND FIFTH AVENUES, REDESIGN OF THOSE TWO STREETS. I’M EXCITED TO HEAR THE WORD VISION, STRATEGIC VISION TO COLLABORATE WITH THE CITY TO REDUCE PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES. IN THE WILLO NEIGHBORHOOD WE HAVE MORE CHILDREN THAN EVER. THE WILLO NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS THE LARGEST NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IN THE CITY OF PHOENIX. WE HAVE MULTIPLE TRAFFIC PATTERNS ON THIRD AND FIFTH AVENUES, FOR EXAMPLE. OUR PLAN HAS REQUESTED THE FOLLOWING. FOR EXAMPLE, ON THIRD AVENUE, WE WOULD LIKE TO REMAIN THE THIRD AVENUE TO REMAIN ONE WAY, ONE LANE ON FIFTH AVENUE, ONE LANE, ONE WAY. AND SPECIFICALLY ON THIRD AVENUE WE’RE REQUESTING THAT WE BE CONSISTENT WITH THE ROOSEVELT NEIGHBORHOOD SO THERE’S SOME CONSISTENT TRAFFIC PATTERNS. RIGHT NOW IF YOU TRAVEL THIRD AVENUE THROUGH THE CITY THROUGH THE MULTIPLE HISTORIC DISTRICTS YOU WILL FACE THREE DIFFERENT TRAFFIC PATTERNS. SO WE’RE ASKING FOR SOME VISION, SOME SYSTEMS, SOME SAFETY TO PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE HAVE MORE CHILDREN LIVING IN THE WILLO DISTRICT. WE STRONGLY SUPPORT SAFER STREETS. WE SUPPORT VISION ZERO. AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE CITY TO ACHIEVE MUTUAL RESPECT, COLLABORATION AND SAFETY FOR ALL PHOENIX RESIDENTS AND MOST IMPORTANT I WOULD LIKE TO READ A SECTION FROM PAGE 18 FROM THE WILLO CONSERVATION PLAN. I KNOW MANY PHOENIX RESIDENTS MAY NOT REALIZE THE WILLO CONSERVATION PLAN WAS ADOPTED BY THE CITY MANY YEARS AGO. IT’S PRESERVED AS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHICH EXISTS FROM CENTRAL TO 7th, THOMAS TO McDOWELL. I WOULD LIKE TO READ PAGE 18, SECTION 4 –>>Mayor Gallego: IF IT’S BRIEF.>>WHICH WILL REINFORCE THE MESSAGE TODAY. CIRCULATION OF TRAFFIC IN WHICH ADULTS AND CHILDREN CAN GET AROUND EASILY AND SAFETY WHETHER BY CAR, VEHICLE OR FOOT, DESIGN THE TRAFFIC SYSTEMS TO REDUCE INTERNAL TRAFFIC AND SAFETY. SO WITH THAT I THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND APPRECIATE THE HARD WORK EVERYONE AT THIS TABLE HAS DONE AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK ON THE BUDGET MEETING LAST WEEK AS WE ARE REPRESENTED BECAUSE WE KNOW FUNDING IS THE NEXT ISSUE. SO THANK YOU. I KNOW, LAURA, YOU’RE SMILING AT ME, SO THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: WE HAVE TWO MINUTES PER SPEAKER. FLO ECKSTEIN FOLLOWED BY TOM CHAUNCEY.>>GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR GALLEGO. I’M FLO ECKSTEIN, A PHOENIX NATIVE AND RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 6. I’M HERE TO COUNCIL AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME ADOPT VISION ZERO. A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY EMBRACED BY CITIES ACROSS OUR NATION TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE TRAFFIC FATALITIES AND INJURIES TO PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLISTS, MOTORCYCLISTS, DRIVERS AND PASSENGERS. I’M HEARTENED BY THE EXCELLENT WORK OF CITY STAFF TO ADDRESS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. PEDESTRIAN SAFE SAFE PASSAGE ACROSS MAJOR STREETS IS A CITYWIDE CONCERN. I WANT TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE FROM MY NEIGHBORHOOD. I LIVE IN NORTH CENTRAL PHOENIX IN A NEIGHBORHOOD BOUND BY 7th STREET, 7th AVENUE, GLENDALE AND NORTHERN AVENUES, ALL ARTERIAL STREETS OF FIVE AND SIX LANES. EXCEPT FOR THE MAJOR LIGHTED INTERSECTIONS, ONE HALF TO ONE MILE APART, THE ONLY PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK IS ON GLENDALE AVENUE AT 4th AVENUE FOR STUDENTS WALKING TO AND FROM SCHOOL. MY FAMILY AND OUR NEIGHBORS, INCLUDING PARENTS PUSHING LITTLE ONES IN STROLLERS, AND OLDER ADULTS, MUST WALK LONG DISTANCES TO CROSS MAJOR STREETS AT SIGNAL INTERSECTIONS OR RISK THEIR LIVES, WHICH THEY DO EVERY DAY, WAITING FOR BREAKS IN FAST-MOVING TRAFFIC. MANY NEIGHBORHOODS WE KNOW HAVE [INAUDIBLE] GREATER CHALLENGES. I SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE CITY MANAGER’S OFFICE BASED ON INTENSIVE STUDY AND DATA AND RESOURCE MOVING TOWARD WHAT I HOPE WILL BE THE ADOPTION OF VISION ZERO, ESTABLISHING AN INCLUSIVE STRATEGY UNIQUE TO PHOENIX COMMITTING TO A SPECIFIC TIME FRAME AND INVOLVING A BROAD RANGE OF COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING KEY CITY STAFF, SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS AND RESIDENTS. LIGHTING, SPEED LIMITS, WELL LOCATED AND WELL MARKED CROSSWALKS, MEDIAN TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES, EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT ALL CAN HELP PROTECT OUR CITIZENS FROM INJURY AND DEATH. LET’S JOIN OUR NEIGHBOR TEMPE WHICH JUST ADOPTED VISION ZERO TO LEAD OUR STATE IN PROTECTING LIVES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.>>Mayor Gallego: TOM WILL BE FOLLOWED BY JOHN GLENN.>>MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION. WHILE I SUPPORT THE GOALS AND APPRECIATE THE HARD WORK AND THE INTENTIONS, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU PLEASE ALSO CONSIDER THE NEEDS AND INCLUDE SOMEONE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS THAT WOULD BE A TRAFFIC ENGINEER INVOLVED WITH THE GOAL OF MOVING TRAFFIC IN AND OUT OF THE CITY. THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES NOW HAS GIVEN US THE LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM, WHICH WHEN IT WAS PASSED, DID NOT SHOW THE CURBS THAT PROTECT THE LIGHT RAIL. AS A RESULT, IT HAS CUT OUR CITY IN HALF AND IT HAS WORSE CONDENSED TRAFFIC AT ALL THE MAJOR INTERSECTIONS. THE EFFORT DOWNTOWN ON REDUCING THE NUMBER OF STREETS — LANES COMING OUT HAS FORCED MORE AND MORE BACKUP, MORE AND MORE TRAFFIC, MORE AND MORE IDLING BECAUSE OF GOOD INTENTIONS. I WOULD JUST ASK THAT THE VISION 100 — OR THE VISION ZERO PLAN ALSO INCLUDE THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND ITS VIBRANCY AND ITS GROWTH. THE FIRM THAT I REPRESENT HAS WORKED IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX FOR ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS. WE NEED TRAFFIC THAT COMES IN AND OUT OF DOWNTOWN. IF YOU RESTRICT THAT TO ITS LOGICAL END, IF YOU REALLY WANT TO STOP ANY SORT OF PEDESTRIAN DEATHS IN OUR CITY, BAN VEHICLES COMPLETELY OR BAN DRUNKS OR BAN PEOPLE FROM USING DRUGS AND WALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THESE STATISTICS, OVER HALF WERE VIOLATING THE LAW WALKING ACROSS PROBABLY WITH THEIR CELL PHONE LIKE THIS SO THEY CAN’T SEE TRAFFIC THAT’S COMING. SO WHEN YOU USE A HAMMER OR SLEDGEHAMMER TO TRY TO REDUCING SOMETHING, PLEASE KEEP THE OTHER ASPECTS IN TOWN IMPORTANT, AND THAT IS THE VIBRANCY AND VIABILITY OF OUR DOWNTOWN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.>>Mayor Gallego: JOHN GLENN. AND WE ARE JOINED BY DISTINGUISHED GUEST INCLUDING CONGRESSMAN SHADDEGG TODAY.>>MY NAME IS JOHN GLENN, 3202 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE, A RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT 4. I AM HERE IN — TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THE ITEM NUMBER 1 AND ENCOURAGE YOU TO HELP MOVE THIS FORWARD. SIMPLY PUT WE HAVE AN EPIDEMIC OF PEDESTRIAN INCIDENCES AND INTERSECTIONS WITH VEHICLES IN THE CITY AND IT’S LONG OVERDO WE HAVE SOME LEADERSHIP AT CITY HALL HERE. I’M CERTAINLY OPTIMISTIC THAT THE TAX PAY BAN THAT WAS CONTINUED TO INTO LAW YESTERDAY WILL GO A LONG WAY — TEXT BAN WILL GO A LONG. I THINK THAT THIS WHOLE STUDY IS A MORE HOLISTIC APPROACH THAT WILL GO A LONG WAY IN TERMS OF HELPING IDENTIFY SPECIFIC PROBLEMS. I’LL TELL YOU QUICKLY, BRIEFLY, A COUPLE STORIES OF MINE. I CHOOSE TO LIVE IN CENTRAL PHOENIX. I DO THAT BECAUSE I ENJOY WALKING TO PLACES, I ENJOY BIKING, I ENJOY TAKING OUR FABULOUS LIGHT RAIL. PLEASE STOP ATTACKING LIGHT RAIL. AND SO I MAKE THOSE CHOICES BECAUSE I LOVE LIVING IN A VIBRANCY. ABOUT A MONTH-AND-A-HALF AGO I WAS CROSSING FIFTH AND McDOWELL AND NEARLY HIT BY A CAR THAT WAS GUNNING IT TO RUN THE RED LIGHT. FORTUNATELY I WAS PAYING ATTENTION, NOT ON MY CELL PHONE, AND I WAS ABLE TO AVERT THAT. AT LEAST EVERY COUPLE WEEKS I SEE AND SOMETIMES ALMOST GET HIT BY A VEHICLE TRYING TO TURN RIGHT ON NORTHBOUND CENTRAL AND JEFFERSON WHEN THERE’S CLEARLY NO RIGHT TURN ON RED. THAT’S SOMETHING ELSE I THINK WE NEED TO STUDY IN THIS, IS THE INTERSECTION OF LIGHT RAIL, PEDESTRIANS AND VEHICLES AS WELL BECAUSE I JUST DON’T THINK ARE EITHER PAYING ATTENTION OR AWARE OF THESE TYPES OF THINGS. WE SIMPLY NEED LEADERSHIP FROM THE COUNCIL. IN CLOSING, IF COMPLETE STREETS ISN’T THE COLLUSION, IF THIS ISN’T THE SOLUTION, THEN I I’M LOOKING TO EIGHT OR NINE OF YOU ASKING WHAT IS THE SOLUTION. I SURE AS HECK SHOULDN’T HAVE TO RISK MY LIFE CROSSING THE STREET OR RIDING MY BIKE TO WORK. SO I THINK IT’S JUST SIMPLY ALL ABOUT NOT PRIORITIZING ONE MODE OF TRANSPORTATION OVER THE OTHER, IT’S ABOUT US ALL HAVING TO LIVE TOGETHER IN A SAFE AND NICE CITY. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. COURTNEY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY CHELSEA [INAUDIBLE]>>I JUST WANTED TO COME UP HERE AND SAY THAT I UNDERSTAND THERE’S A LOT OF KIND OF EMOTIONS INVOLVED IF YOU HAVE ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY WHO HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY SORT OF A DRIVER WHO HAS HIT ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS, WHICH IS TERRIBLE, BUT I’M CONCERNED ABOUT WITH VISION ZERO A KIND OF OVERREACTION. SO I’M FINE WITH THE COLLECTING DATA, BUT I FEEL LIKE IT SEEMS IN OVER 50% OF THESE CASES THERE’S ALCOHOL INVOLVED OR PEDESTRIANS ARE OUTSIDE OF WHERE THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE OR THERE’S TEXTING, AND WE — WITH THINGS LIKE REDUCING THE SPEED LIMIT, IT’S AN OVERREACTION TO DO THAT IMMEDIATELY. SO I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO MAYBE LOOK AT WHAT WE’RE DOING FIRST BEFORE WE JUMP IN AND MAKE THESE CHANGES. SO THAT’S ALL I WANTED TO SAY.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. CHELSEA SMITH FOLLOWED BY RONALD SERINI.>>GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. MY NAME IS CHELSEA SMITH, A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 7, AND I FULLY SUPPORT OF PHOENIX BECOMING A VISION ZERO CITY. RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF ATTENTION DRAWN BY SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS ON LOWERING SPEED LIMITS AND HOW THAT WILL IMPACT DRIVERS AND TRAFFIC. WHILE IT IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF THE PUZZLE INTO SOLVING IN PROBLEM IT’S NOT THE ONLY ONE. THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM IS MULTI-FACETED AND ENCOURAGES USING A VARIETY OF WAYS TO LOWER FATALITIES ON OUR CITY STREETS. SIMPLY WRITING OFF THIS PROGRAM BASED ON LOWERING SPEED LIMITS ALONE AND NOT CONSIDERING THE OTHER TACTICS THAT HAVE BEEN MENTIONED IS SHORT-SIGHTED. DOING MANY OF THE MEASURES WILL NOT ONLY MAKE STREETS SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS BUT MAKE STREETS SAFER FOR EVERYONE. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. RONALD FOLLOWED BY BROOK [INDISCERNIBLE]>>GOOD AFTERNOON. I’M RON, FROM DISTRICT 2. THIS PROPOSED VISION ZERO SAFETY PROGRAM HAS MET CRITICISM IN NEW YORK CITY FOR FAILING TO MAKE THE IMPACT PROPOSED WHEN INSTITUTED. IT SEEMS AS IF THE CITY IS SEARCHING FOR NEW AVENUES OF REVENUE TO PAY FOR THE RENOVATIONS OF THE PHOENIX SUNS STADIUM INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY FACILITATING SAFETY. THIS TYPE OF SWEEPING REFORM SHOULD BE VOTED ON BY THE PEOPLE AND NOT BY THE CITY COUNCIL OR SUBCOMMITTEE THEREOF. I WOULD ALSO REQUEST THAT EVERY CURRENT AND NEW RED LIGHT CAMERA INSTALLED BE INSTALLED IN A WAY THAT IT IS ACTUALLY LINKED WITH THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK TIMER WITH THE YELLOW LIGHT. THEN IT COULD ACTUALLY FACILITATE AN ACTUAL IMPACT INSTEAD OF JUST DRUMMING UP THE FEES, FINES AND CITATIONS TO BUILD UP THE BUDGET FUND OR FUND THE CLEAN ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN FUND. FURTHERMORE IT PROVES TO ME IF WE DON’T USE THESE MEASURES THAT IT IS ONLY THE FACT THAT WE NEED TO VOTE IN LIBERTARIANS INTO THESE BOARDS AND COUNCILS TO ACTUALLY PREVENT US — PREVENT THOSE WHO BELIEVE WE CAN LEGISLATE SAFETY OR SAVE EVERYONE FROM EVERY DANGER TAUGHT. IT TAKES INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AT THESE CROSSWALKS, WHETHER YOU’RE DRIVING OR WALKING. THOSE WHO WOULD GIVE UP ESSENTIAL LIBERTY TO PURCHASE A LITTLE TEMPORARY SAFETY DESERVE NEITHER LIBERTY OR SAFETY AND WILL RECEIVE NEITHER. THANKS.>>Mayor Gallego: BROOK WILL BE FOLLOWED BY RYAN HARTWIG.>>MAYOR AND COUNCIL, MY NAME IS BROOKE, I’M A COMMUNITY PLANNING MANAGER AT LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA. VALLEY AND WHILE THE COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM DISTRICT 1 AND 6 HAVE FALSELY CLAIMED THIS POLICY WILL REQUIRE A BLANKET SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION FOR THE CITY I’M SURE THEY KNOW ACCORDING TO ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES 28-703 THAT WOULD NOT BE LEGAL AND IT’S NOT WHAT VISION ZERO CALLS FOR. [INAUDIBLE] ENVIRONMENT AND OUR SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY. FINALLY SEVERAL STUDIES HAVE CONCLUDED THAT REDUCED SPEEDS, PARTICULARLY THOSE AROUND 35 MILES PER HOUR, DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO CONGESTION AND ACTUALLY MOVE TRAFFIC MORE EFFICIENTLY. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. RYAN WILL BE FOLLOWED BY CJ HAGER.>>MY NAME IS RYAN HARTWIG AND I LIVE IN DISTRICT 5 AND I HAVE A BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN SPANISH LINGUISTICS FROM ASU. I WANT TO MAKE A COUPLE POINTS. THERE IS SOME PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH BY JOHN LAMBERT TITLED DO CRASH RATES INCREASE WITH INCREASED — I’M SURE SARESH HAS READ THIS RESEARCH. I WANTED TO PIE LIGHT A FEW POINTS. THEY SAID SPEED ALONE NEVER DEFINES SAFE DRIVING. IT’S — IT TALKS ABOUT TRAFFIC FLOW, TALKS ABOUT HOW THE HIGHEST SPEED ROADS HAVE THE LOWEST FATALITY CRASH RATES AND SPEED ALONE NEVER DESCRIBES SAFE DRIVING. SO THERE’S A LOT OF FACTORS. IT’S COMPLEX. I WANT TO URGE YOU TO DO MORE RESEARCH, PARTNER WITH ASU, DO MORE RESEARCH ABOUT IT. I ALSO REFERENCE AN NTSB STUDY RECENTLY ON PEDESTRIAN DEATHS AND THEY TALK ABOUT HOW WE HAVE THE FACTORS SUCH AS ROAD TYPE, DRIVER AGE, ALCOHOL IMPAIRMENT, AND IN THAT RESEARCH, WHICH IS A LOT MORE — WHICH A LOT OF DATA, THEY SAID THAT SIX OF 13 PEDESTRIANS WERE INTOXICATED AND 8 OF 15 PEDESTRIANS WERE ON THEIR CELL PHONE. SO THAT’S ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO INCREASE ENFORCEMENT. A LOT OF THIS HAS TO DO BEEN FORCEMENT, LIKE WITH THE TEXTING LAW THAT JUST WENT INTO EFFECT. HOW DO YOU ENFORCE THAT LAW? THEY MENTIONED THE CONCLUSIONS, THE NTSB MENTIONS YOU NEED LOCALIZED PEDESTRIAN DATA. I THINK IT’S A GOOD STEP THAT PHOENIX HAS TRIED TO COLLECT MORE DATA. IT’S NOT — ENOUGH DATA BUT IT’S A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. SO THOSE ARE MY MAIN POINTS. I DO HAVE SOME RESEARCH, A GRAPH HERE FROM THE NTSB STUDY AND IT’S SHOWING FROM 40 — THE — IF YOU DECREASED THE SPEED FROM 40 TO 30 THERE IS ACTUALLY MORE FATALITIES IN THE 30 TO 35-MILE-PER-HOUR POWER RANGE AN THE 40 TO 45-MILE-PER-HOUR RANGE. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. C.J. HAGER WILL BE FOLLOWED BY JESSICA BARANCO.>>GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS C.J. AND I’M A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 4. — [INAUDIBLE] I’M HERE TODAY AND TO TALK IN SUPPORT OF THE VISION ZERO CONCEPT. RESIDENTS OF PHOENIX WANT A CITY WHERE THEY CAN WALK, BIKE AND TAKE TRANSIT SAFELY. WE’VE HEARD THAT THROUGH PROCESSES LIKE THE GENERAL PLAN, REINVENT PHOENIX AND THE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN. VISION ZERO IS AN IMPORTANT AND VISIBLE STEP IN ADDRESSING ONE OF THE BIGGEST BARRIERS TO WALKING, BIKING AND TAKING TRANSIT, WHICH IS THE FEAR OF BEING HIT BY A CAR. VISION ZERO RECOGNIZES THAT TRAFFIC SAFETY IS NOT JUST A TRAFFIC PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED BY TRAFFIC ENGINEERS. IT ALSO RECOGNIZES THAT THE 92 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO DIED LAST YEAR ON OUR STREETS, THOSE WERE NOT INEVITABLE DEATHS. TRAFFIC SAFETY IS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM AND AS SUCH NEEDS A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH THAT INCLUDES PERSPECTIVES BEYOND TRAFFIC ENGINEERS. AND SHOULD INCLUDE FOLKS LIKE PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND THOSE WHO WALK, BIKE AND TAKE TRANSIT ON A DAILY BASIS. AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS DISCUSSION I WOULD URGE US TO KEEP FOUR CONCEPTS IN MIND. THE FIRST ONE IS THAT RESPONSES TO CRASHES NEED TO BE TAIL ORDER TO THE ENVIRONMENT. WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE NO SIZE FITS ALL APPROACH. WE HAVE TO KNOW THE ON THE GROUND CONDITIONS THAT ARE LEADING TO THE CRASHES. SECOND IS WE SHOULDN’T BE BLAMING THE VICTIMS. SUCCESSFUL VISION ZERO PROGRAMS HAVE REMOVED BLAME COMPLETELY. MANY FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO CRASHES AND BLAMING THE VICTIM FAILS TO RECOGNIZE THE COMPLEX NATURE OF CRASHES. THIRD IS TO CERTAIN PEOPLE AND PLACES ARE MORE VULNERABLE TO CRASHES. OLDER ADULTS, PEOPLE OF COLOR, AND PEOPLE WALKING IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY REPRESENTED IN FATAL CRASHES. WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THESE PEOPLE AND THESE PLACES. LASTLY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, VISION ZERO — SUCCESSFUL VISION ZERO PROCESSES ARE TRANSPARENT AND DEEPLY CONNECTED TO THOSE WHO WALK, BIKE AND USE TRANSIT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. JESSICA WILL BE FOLLOWED BY DOUG FRYE.>>GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR GALLEGO AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS. I AM HERE TO SPEAK BRIEFLY IN SUPPORT OF PHOENIX DEVELOPING A VISION ZERO PROGRAM. THE STATISTICS OF FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURY ARE ABSOLUTELY STAGGERING. WE ARE THE FIFTH LARGEST CITY IN THE NATION. THRIVING CITIES HAVE ROBUST DOWNTOWNS AND ROBUST DOWNTOWNS RELY HEAVILY ON ATTRACTING PEDESTRIANS. IF WE CONSIDER OURSELVES AN URBAN LEADER, WHICH I BELIEVE WE ARE, IT IS INCUMBENT ON US TO MAKE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY A TOP PRIORITY. I STRONGLY URGE US ALSO TO CONSIDER THOSE WHO DO NOT RELY ON VEHICLES AS THEIR PRIMARY SOURCE OF TRANSPORTATION. I AM THINKING PARTICULARLY ABOUT THE ELDERLY AND NONDRIVERS AND CHILDREN. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY, IT SEEMS TO ME, FOR PHOENIX TO LEAD HE. PHOENIX HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN A CITY DRIVEN BY VEHICLES, AND IT’S NOW AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO LEAD IN THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST AS A MAJOR CITY ENCOURAGING THE PROTECTION AND SAFETY OF OUR PEDESTRIANS. THANKS VERY MUCH.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. DOUG WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ERIC COLE.>>THANK YOU, MAYOR. MY NAME IS DOUG FRYE. [INAUDIBLE] WE MET ONE DAY AT MY FRONT DOOR. THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY. SAL, THANKS FOR THE EMAIL. I APPRECIATE IT. I’M COMING AS A PERSON THAT DOESN’T HAVE A SHOE IN THE BOX. I’M KEEPING AN OPEN MIND ON THIS, BUT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT PEDESTRIANS HAVE LAWS THAT THEY MUST FOLLOW JUST AS THE VEHICLES. VISION ZERO, I’M GOING TO DO MORE RESEARCH ON VISION ZERO. I DON’T KNOW IF I LIKE IT OR DISLIKE IT. I KNOW THAT WE’RE NOT BOSTON. I ALSO KNOW THAT WE HAVE ARTERIES, MAJOR ARTERIES, THAT TRAFFIC FLOW GOES TO THE DOWNTOWN AREA. WE HAVE TRAFFIC PATTERNS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF WEST PHOENIX, NORTH PHOENIX, EAST PHOENIX, SOUTH PHOENIX. WE HAVE TRAFFIC JAMS ON McDOWELL BETWEEN 24th STREET AND 19th AVENUE THAT ARE RIDICULOUS. WHY? BECAUSE WE’VE GOT A LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM. WE’VE GOT A TRAIN AT 19th AVENUE. THAT TRAIN HAS BEEN THERE SINCE I’VE BEEN HERE, SINCE 1970. IT’S BEEN THERE LONG BEFORE THEN. WE’VE GOT TO BRING EVERYTHING INTO PERSPECTIVE HERE. MAYOR, IF YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE AN ADVISORY COUNCIL, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD HAVE A CITIZENS ADVISORY COUNCIL ALONG WITH THEM. PUT ME ON IT. I WOULD APPRECIATE IT. WE NEED SOME TRUTHFULNESS IN THE SITUATION HERE OPINION I UNDERSTAND CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED, I UNDERSTAND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BUT I ALSO DRIVE THESE STREETS. I’M A REALTOR IN THIS CITY. I DRIVE THESE STREETS ON A DAILY BASIS. I SEE TRAFFIC THAT IS DISGUSTING. I SEE CITY BUSES THAT RUN RED LIGHTS. I SEE TAXI CABS — THEY’RE NOT TAXI CABS ANYMORE. THEY’RE LYFT AND THINGS LIKE THAT. DRIVING AT 95 MILES AN HOUR. YOU DEREGULATED IT SO THAT WE COULD HAVE LYFT AND THOSE GUYS. AT LEAST THE CAB DRIVERS USED TO DRIVE SANELY. SO, FOLKS, OPEN MINDS, PLEASE, OPEN MINDS. MY HEARTFELT APPRECIATION FOR EVERYBODY THAT’S WORKING ON THIS, AND FOR THOSE HAVE THAT LOST LIVES, TRUST ME, I WAS THERE. 20 YEARS AGO I HAD A NEAR FATAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENT BECAUSE OF SOME WOMAN WAS OUT IN THE WORLD IN THE OZONE. SO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU AGAIN.>>ERIC COLE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY DAN — I THINK IT’S FARLEY BUT IT MIGHT BE FARSI OPINION.>>THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. I’M WITH THE DESIGN STUDIO FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS AT ASU. WE’RE AT THE DOWNTOWN PHOENIX CAMPUS AND I’M IN THE WATTS COLLEGE OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS. IT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER THE ONGOING CONVERSATIONS THAT ASU HAS HAD WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, MY COLLEAGUE MIKE SCOTT WHO IS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE PD WORKING. WE’RE HERE TO BE SUPPORTIVE AS BOTH ANCHOR INSTITUTION THAT IS IN TEMPE WHERE VISION ZERO IS BEING ADDRESSED AS WELL AS IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX. OUR — WE’RE — WE STAND READY TO WORK WITH YOU FROM A PROFESSIONAL STANDPOINT. WE’VE ALREADY GOT SEVEN OR EIGHT PROFESSIONAL ACADEMICS ENGAGED FROM ENGINEERING TO HUMAN ISSUES AS WELL AS URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN. SO WE STAND READY TO HELP WITH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND DISCUSSION AS NEEDED AND AS WE CAN BE SUPPORTIVE. MY WORK IS INVOLVED IN THE MARYVALE COMMUNITY, AND THIS ISSUE HAS COME UP THROUGH OUR ORGANIC CONVERSATIONS WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS, YOUTH-LED INTERVIEWING HAS FOUND THAT FOLKS HAVE EXPRESSED TO US THE — ONE OF THE ISSUES AROUND THE MID-BLOCK CROSSINGS IS HAVING TO CHOOSE BETWEEN BEING LATE FOR WORK OR JAYWALKING IN ORDER TO CATCH A BUS. AND SO I ASK US ALL TO REMEMBER IN THOSE COMMUNITIES, IN MANY COMMUNITIES, BEING A PEDESTRIAN IS NOT A CHOICE. IT’S A REQUIREMENT OF GETTING TO WORK, GETTING TO CHURCH AND GETTING TO STOREFRONTS. SO [INAUDIBLE] TO HELP YOU WORK ON THIS ISSUE GOING FORWARD AND I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. HE.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. DAN WILL BE FOLLOWED BY LUCY MARSHALL.>>GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS DAN FARLEY. I’M SPEAKING IN OPPOSITION OF VISION ZERO. THIS PROPOSAL HAS GOTTEN QUITE A BIT OF BUZZ IN MY SPHERE. THERE ARE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE OPINIONS VOICED. SO I’M JUST GOING TO RUN THROUGH THOSE BRIEFLY AND THEN TURN IT BACK OVER TO YOU. MANY FEEL THIS IS A CAMEL NOSE UNDER THE TENT AGAINST CAR TRANSPORTATION IN FAVOR OF MASS TRANSPORTATION. THIS APPEARS LIKE AN ATTEMPT TO FRUSTRATE CAR DRIVERS IN FAVOR OF MASS TRANSPORTATION EVEN THOUGH ELDERLY AND OTHERS WOULD PREFER NOT TO WALK IN 115 DEGREE HEAT IN THE SUMMER TO MASS TRANSIT OR MAKE THEMSELVES TO MUGGING OR TERRORISM ON MASS TRANSIT IF IT WAS USED MORE. THE RESEARCH I HAVE REVIEWED FROM BOSTON WHERE THIS WAS IMPLEMENTED SHOWS PEOPLE DID NOT SLOW DOWN BUT CITATIONS WENT UP AND INSURANCE RATES WENT UP. THIS WILL IMPACT THE EFFICIENCY OF TRANSPORTATION. IT WILL LIKELY IMPACT THE DECISIONS ABOUT DOING BUSINESS IN THE CITY IN TIME [INAUDIBLE] TRAFFIC ENGINEERS [INAUDIBLE] WE’RE ON THE CUSP OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WITH MORE ACTIVE SAVE ME MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WITHIN THEM WHICH MEANS VARIABLES ON THE ROAD ARE IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGING. FURTHERMORE MASS TRANSIT BECOMES INCREASINGLY OBSOLETE WHEN THERE ARE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES. I CAN TELL YOU WHEN I VISITED WASHINGTON D.C. THEY SPENT A FORTUNATE ON A SUBWAY SYSTEM THAT IS HARDLY USED BECAUSE UBER COULD PICK YOU UP WHERE YOU ARE AND YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO WALK TO IT. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.>>LUCY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY OPAL WAGNER.>>THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK. MY NAME IS LUCY MARSHALL AND I HAVE LIVED IN PHOENIXER FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS. I DON’T HAVE A COMPELLING STORY BUT I DO HAVE A PERSPECTIVE THIS IS CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT, SHARED WIDELY BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS AND POUR FOR YOU TO HEAR. MY YOUNGEST CHILD GRADUATED FROM OUR SCHOOL LAST YEAR, ENDING AN 18 YEAR STRETCH HAVING CHILDREN IN A SCHOOL WITHIN WALKING AND BIKING DISTANCE. A CONSTANT DISCUSSION AMONG PARENTS WAS A BALANCE BETWEEN ON THE ONE HAND SAFETY FOR OUR KIDS, WHICH TRANSLATES INTO NOT LETTING THEM WALK OR BIKE OR GO OUTSIDE NEAR A STREET, AND ON THE OTHER HAND THE NEED FOR THEM TO LEARN INDEPENDENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY, HELP OUT THE FAMILY AS A WHOLE AND GET EXERCISE. THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM PUTS KIDS AND FAMILIES FIRST IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND ON OUR STREETS. I HOPE THE PHOENIX WILL ADOPT THIS PROGRAM.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. OPAL WILL BE FOLLOWED BY DR. MARVIN BORSEN.>>MAYOR GALLEGO AND COUNCILMEMBERS, MY NAME IS OPAL WAGNER. I LIVE AT 330 WESTCOR NOD OWE RED IN THE WILLO HISS HE TORQUE DISTRICTS. I CAME DOWN HERE TO SPEAK TODAY BECAUSE I AM CONCERNED ABOUT TRAFFIC SAFETY IN MY OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. AS WE’VE WELCOMED MORE AND MORE RESIDENTS INTO MIDTOWN PHOENIX, THIRD AND FIFTH AVENUES HAVE ESSENTIALLY BECOME AN EXPRESSWAY FOR PEOPLE TRYING TO AVOID TRAFFIC BACKUPS ON 7th AVENUE AND THIS HAS POSED INCREDIBLE FEAR IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A TRAGEDY. IT IS VERY HARD TO CROSS THE STREET SOMETIMES JUST WITHIN OUR LITTLE — OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. I DIDN’T HEAR IT MENTIONED BUT I WANT — THINK IT SHOULD BE ON THE RECORD THAT IT’S 2016 REPORT THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC AND SAFETY ASSOCIATION NAMED THE CITY OF PHOENIX THE DEADLIEST CITY FOR PEDESTRIANS IN THE U.S. AND THAT IS BASED ON THE — THE METRIC WAS PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES PER 100,000 POPULATION. I AM NOT A OF TRAIC ENGINEER. I’M A REGISTERED NURSE AND I THINK THIS SHOULD BE LOOKED AT AS AN URGENT PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE AND I THINK [INAUDIBLE] IN DESPERATE NEED OF COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO REVERSE THE TROUBLING TREND OF PEDESTRIAN DEATHS AND I WANT TO ECHO WHAT A PREVIOUS SPEAKER SAID, BLAMING THE VICTIM, WHETHER IT’S AN IMPAIRED PERSON OR NOT, IS NEITHER A SOLUTION NOR A STRATEGY FOR SOLVING THIS PROBLEM. I THINK ADOPTING VISION ZERO WOULD BE A GREAT START AT COMING UP WITH A FRAMEWORK THAT WOULD BEGIN TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. MARVIN WILL BE FOLLOWED BY JACOB HARVEY.>>THANK YOU. I RISE TO SPEAK TO YOU AS JUST MY EXPERIENCE AS A BICYCLE RIDER FOR ABOUT 24 YEARS, ABOUT FOUR 1/2 MILES EACH WAY ON A MAIN ARTERIAL ROAD AND I MAINLY STAY ON THE SIDEWALKS. I WOULD TELL YOU AS I WATCH, IT WASN’T SPEEDING. IT REALLY WAS RELATED TO PEOPLE ON CELL PHONES MAINLY A NOT PAYING ATTENTION AND I WATCH VERY CAREFULLY. FORTUNATELY I NEVER GOT HIT BUT AS YOU THINK ABOUT VISION ZERO, I DON’T KNOW A LOT ABOUT IT, BUT I’M KIND OF CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THE COSTS ARE THERE AND I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THAT THERE’S A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM HERE. I KNOW WE ALSO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH OUR PENSIONS. I KNOW WE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH OUR STREETS THAT NEED TO BE PAID ATTENTION TO, TOO. I’M ON THE ARCADIA CAMELBACK MOUNTAIN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND WE WOULD LIKE TO BE INVOLVED. I WOULD LIKE TO BE INVOLVED AS WELL TO MAYBE HELP CUT COSTS IF YOU HAVE COMMUNITY MEMBERS INVOLVED WITH THIS AND HOPEFULLY THAT WE CAN ASSIST — OR I CAN ASSIST IN SOME WAY. I CAN’T SPEAK FOR THEM. THEY DIDN’T SEND ME HERE. I CAME ON MY OWN. I THINK AS YOU LOOK ARTERIAL AS 78% OF THE STATISTIC THAT THEY GAVE, AND AS I LOOK [INAUDIBLE] WASN’T THE SPEED. IT WAS REALLY THE PAYING ATTENTION ON THE CELL PHONES WAS THE MAIN ISSUE. THANK YOU.>>MY NAME IS JAKE HARVEY AND I’M A PROUD PHOENICIAN. I JUST MOVED FROM DISTRICT 4 BACK DOWNTOWN INTO DISTRICT 7. I USE ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION TO LIVE MY LIFE, TO GO TO WORK, AND I MOSTLY DRIVE. AND I SUPPORT VISION ZERO. I FEEL LIKE WE ARE BEING OFFERED A FALSE CHOICE WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE WHO USE VEHICLES. VISION ZERO IS NOT TRYING TO ELIMINATE CARS, AND I THINK IT’S IRRESPONSIBLE FOR MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL TO OFFER THAT AS A SUGGESTION. WE KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. IT’S VERY CLEAR WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. [INAUDIBLE] SOLUTIONS. THERE ARE SOLUTIONS THAT OTHER CITIES ARE ADOPTING AND IT’S TIME THIS CITY ADOPTS THEM AS WELL. WHAT I’M UNSURE OF IS WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE THE MORAL COMMITMENT TO TO WHAT’S RIGHT HERE. SO I AM ASKING THIS BODY TO DO WHAT’S RIGHT, TO DO WHAT’S BEST FOR ALL PHOENICIANS, WHETHER YOU USE LIGHT RAIL, WHETHER YOU DRIVE, WHETHER YOU WALK, AND TO DO SOMETHING TO MOVE THIS CITY FORWARD TO BE A CITY OF THE FUTURE. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. WE HAVE EIGHT ADDITIONAL CARDS IN SUPPORT OF THE AGENDA ITEM. WE THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS IN OPPOSITION TO THE ITEM. ONE OF THEM IS FROM OUR CITIZEN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSIONER ROY MILLER WHO WRITES HE HAS PHILOSOPHICAL OPPOSITION TO VISION ZERO BECAUSE — BECAUSE ZERO — BECAUSE ZERO PEDESTRIAN DEATHS IS NOT AN ACHIEVABLE GOAL. THAT CONCLUDES ALL THE CARDS I HAVE. COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI.>>Councilman Nowakowski: I JUST HAVE A QUESTION FOR STAFF. THE AECOM — ONE OF THE THINGS I HEARD — I HOSTED A BUDGET HEARING ALONG WITH COUNCILMEMBER PASTOR, AND THAT WAS AT ENCANTO PARK AREA. YOU WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS — WHAT THEY CALLED THE SUICIDE LANES OR REVERSIBLE LANES DOWN 7th STREET AND 7th AVENUE AND THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT IS THAT THOSE LANES ARE ACTUALLY BUTTED UP ON SOME HOUSEHOLDS, SOME HOUSES THAT ARE RIGHT ON 7th AVENUE. SO INDIVIDUALS PULL INTO THEIR HOMES BUT AT THE SAME TIME WHEN THEY’RE TRYING TO PULL OUT, THEY DON’T HAVE A MIDDLE LANE TO ACTUALLY MOVE INTO TRAFFIC OR SO. YOUR OPINION — IS THERE OTHER BIG CITIES WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN AREA WITH THESE TYPES OF REVERSIBLE LANES OR WHAT WE CALL HERE IN PHOENIX SUICIDE LANES?>>I THINK IT’S ONE OF THE — THERE NEEDS TO BE A SOLUTION FOR THE CITY AND FOR THE CONDITIONS THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE CITY, AND THE EXAMPLE YOU BRING UP IS A VERY SPECIFIC CASE THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT, AND IF THAT HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION, THEN THAT SHOULD GO INTO THE ANALYSIS. IF THE REVERSIBLE LANES WE HAVE ON 7th AND 7th AVENUE AND HOW THEY ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE CONDITION WE HAVE AND WHAT IS THE SOLUTION WE NEED TO LOOK AT. IN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, ARE THERE OTHER CITIES IN THE COUNTRY THAT HAVE REVERSIBLE LANES, I DON’T KNOW SPECIFICALLY THE CITIES THAT DO, AND ESPECIALLY WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN BUT I CAN DEFINITELY LOOK THAT UP AND BRING THAT INFORMATION BACK.>>Councilman Nowakowski: THANK YOU.>>Councilwoman Pastor: I WOULD JUST LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT ON THE REVERSIBLE LANES. SO WITH VISION ZERO BECAUSE OF THE REVERSIBLE LANES HAVE BE THERE FATALITIES, PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES, AND ALSO CAR CRASHES. SO I WOULD LIKE THAT TO BE PART OF — IF WE MOVE FORWARD — OF THE VISION ZERO PIECE. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: COUNCILMAN DICICCIO AND COUNCILWOMANLE GUEVARA.>>Councilman DiCiccio: PEOPLE KNOW I’M VERY DIRECT. I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING AN OVERALL PLAN FOR THE CITY OF PHOENIX CALLED VISION ZERO. RIGHT NOW IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FIX THE ROADS, IF YOU LOOK AT THE CORRELATIONS OF DEATHS THAT STARTED IN 2014 TO TODAY AND THE REASON THAT THERE’S BEEN SUCH AN UPTICK IS BECAUSE OUR ROADS ARE A DANGER AND THEY’RE AN EMBARRASSMENT AND THEY’RE FULL OF POTHOLES. A WEEK AGO, ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, WE HAD AN INDIVIDUAL HIT A POTHOLE ON A BIKE WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR THREE WEEKS. RIGHT NOW YOU DON’T HAVE TO PASS AN OVERALL PLAN. EACH COUNCILMEMBER RIGHT NOW TODAY CAN WORK WITH CITY STAFF TO COME UP WITH A PLAN FOR THEIR OWN AREA AND HIT SOME HOT SPOTS. I WOULD BE FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF LOOKING AT THREE OR FOUR HOT SPOTS IN THE CITY OF PHOENIX OR WORKING WITH EACH OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE TO MAKE A DETERMINATION WHAT THEY WANT TO HAVE DONE. BUT IF YOU END UP NARROWING THE ROADS, HERE’S WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN. YOU’RE GOING TO INCREASE CONGESTION AND YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE IT. BUT IF EACH COUNCILMEMBER UP HERE WANTS TO DO SOMETHING IN THEIR OWN DISTRICT WITHOUT PASSING AN OVERALL PLAN, THAT I BELIEVE IS GOING TO BE PROBLEMATIC, THEN THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THIS ON THEIR OWN IN THEIR OWN DISTRICT BECAUSE THEN THEY’RE GOING TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO THE VOTERS. THE VOTERS THEMSELVES WILL MAKE A DETERMINATION WHETHER OR NOT THAT COUNCILMEMBER DID THE RIGHT THING FOR THEM FOR THEIR OWN DISTRICT. IN MY DISTRICT I WANT THE ROADS REPAIRED. I WANT THEM TO BE BROUGHT UP EXACTLY THE WAY THEY ARE RIGHT NOW. I WANT THEM TO BE PAVED. I WANTOLOGY THE POTHOLES FIXED. I WANT MY ROADS IN MY DISTRICT TO BE SAFE AGAIN BY GETTING RID OF ALL THOSE POTHOLES AND MAKING THEM SAFE AND REDOING THEM THE WAY THEY ARE. THAT’S WHERE I WOULD LIKE TO GO AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF THAT. SO IF EVERYBODY IS GOING TO GET MONIES TO DO WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE DOING IN THEIR OWN DISTRICT, MY DISTRICT NEEDS THAT DONE TODAY. THE CITY OF PHOENIX, AND CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG, WE HAVE 1.6 BILLION DOLLARS THAT’S NEEDED TODAY TO REPAIR OUR ROADS AND BRING THEM UP TO STANDARD. IS THAT CORRECT, KINI?>>THAT’S CORRECT, AS FAR AS THE INFORMATION WE PROVIDED WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE $200 MILLION ADVANCEMENT OF T2050 FUNDS.>>Councilman DiCiccio: SO JUST TO BRING THE ROADS UP TO STANDARD TODAY, NOT FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, SEVEN YEARS FROM NOW, WE NEED $1.6 BILLION. WE DON’T HAVE A PLAN TO FIX THEM ALL TODAY. [INAUDIBLE] SMALL AMOUNT OF MILES EVERY YEAR BEING REPAIRED. IN MY DISTRICT WHAT I NEED, I NEED THE POTHOLES FIXED. I DON’T WANT TO SEE MORE SPIDERWEBS IN THERE. I WANT MY ROADS TO LOOK GOOD. I WANT MY QUALITY OF LIFE IN MY DISTRICT TO BE UPGRADED AND THE WAY TO UPGRADE SIT TO HAVE AETTE ABOUTER LOOK. IF YOU END UP NARROWING THESE ROADS, LOWERING THE SPEED LIMITS TO 25 MILES AN HOUR LIKE THEY DID IN BOSTON OR WHATEVER IT IS YOU END UP DOING, YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE. YOU WILL LOSE THAT. PEOPLE WILL NOT WANT TO DRIVE. PEOPLE WILL NOT WANT TO LIVE IN YOUR AREA. BUT IF ETCH COUNCILMEMBER WANTS TO DO IT IN THEIR OWN AREA, I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. THEY CAN CHOOSE THAT BECAUSE THEN THEY ARE GOING TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE BY THEIR OWN VOTERS. IN MY END OF IT, I WANT MY ROADS TO BE UPGRADED. THE OTHER PART, TOO, IF YOU LOOK AT IT, BACK IN 2010 THE CITY OF PHOENIX ADOPTED A POLICY THAT REALLY STARTED LOWERING THE — REDUCING THE NUMBER OF POLICE OFFICERS THAT WE HAVE. SO YOU HAVE A DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE LACK OF POLICE OFFICERS, ONE OF OUR LOWEST LEVELS, PER POPULATION, AND AT THE SAME TIME THE ROADS HAVE BECOME A DISASTER IN THE CITY OF PHOENIX WITH NO PLAN TO DO THAT. THIS IS ALL GOOD AND FINE, BUT IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FOCUS ON THOSE THINGS THAT REALLY ARE GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT, THAT IS WHERE WE OUGHT TO BE FOCUSED ON. LET ME GO THROUGH MY NOTES WITHOUT GOING THROUGH ALL THE HOT SPOTS THAT WE NEED TO DO. FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAD AN INDIVIDUAL FROM THE WILLO NEIGHBORHOOD, IF THEY WANT TO DO THAT, LET’S WORK ON THAT. SUICIDE LANES, IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF SUICIDE LANES, PUT THAT ON THE AGENDA. PUT IT ON THE AGENDA TO GET RID OF THEM. I DO KNOW THE DISTRICTS OUT FURTHER NORTH ARE GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. ANY TIME YOU DO A ROAD REDUCTION, DISTRICT 2 AND 3 IN PARTICULAR, ARE GOING TO HAVE MAJOR ISSUES ONCE YOU GET RID OF THE SUICIDE LANES. REMEMBER THE BATTLES WE HAD HERE? IF YOU WANT TO REDUCE THEM, GO DO IT. THEN FIGHT THAT BATTLE. THIS CAN BE DONE TODAY WITHOUT HAVING TO DO AN OVERALL THING FOR THE CITY OF PHOENIX. I FIND THIS AS A PROBLEM FOR MY DISTRICT. I WANT MY ROADS REPAIRED. I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. IF PEOPLE WANT TO REDUCE TRAFFIC, LET THEM DO THAT. THEY’RE GOING TO INCREASE CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC AND SMOG. LET ME GO THROUGH MY OTHER NOTES. I HAVE LIKE A TON OF NOTES HERE GUYS. BUT I DON’T WANT TO CAPITALIZE ALL THIS, EITHER. SO IF YOU LOOK AT VISION ZERO, IT LIMITS STREETS TO NO MORE THAN 25 MILES PER HOUR. THEY USE A METIC OF 30 KILOMETERS PER HOUR, WHICH IS REALLY 19 MILES PER HOW BUT IN THE U.S. RIGHT NOW WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT IS 25 MILES PER HOUR. THE SECOND THING IT DOES IS IT PUSHES A CITYWIDE ROAD NARROWING AND LANE REDUCTIONS ON EVERY STREET. IT — AND THE THIRD, THE RE DESIGNS STREETS TO WALKING, BIKING AND MASS TRANSIT WITHOUT ANY REGARD TO AUTOS. AND TO NOT LOOK AT THOSE INDIVIDUALS — NO ONE WANTS ANYBODY TO DIE. WE JUST DON’T. NOT ONE PERSON UP HERE WOULD SAY THAT THEY WOULD ADVOCATE THAT. WE DON’T. WE WANT TO MAKE IT AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE OUT THERE. BUT YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THOSE INDIVIDUALS, AND SAY, BLAMING THE VICTIM, YEAH, YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO BLAME THEM, IF THEY’RE OUT THERE DRINKING, DOING DRUGS, PUSH THEMSELVES OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND SOME INDIVIDUAL HITS THEM, THAT IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY. THEY CREATED THE PROBLEM. NOT THE DRIVER. THE DRIVER DID NOT CREATE THAT PROBLEM. THE DRIVER IS NOW A VICTIM HERE, TOO, BECAUSE THEIR LIFE IS CHANGED FOREVER. YOU HIT SOMEBODY, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM LIKE THAT, THAT DRIVER, WHO WASN’T UNDER THE INFLUENCE, DID EVERYTHING RIGHT, HAS NOW BECOME THE VICTIM HERE, TOO. AND WE’VE GOT TO LOOK AT THAT THAT THE THE DRIVERS THEMSELVES ARE BECOMING THE VICTIMS IN THESE SITUATIONS BECAUSE THEY ENDED UP — AN INDIVIDUAL DECIDED TO DO DRUGS, DECIDED TO GET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, NOW BECAME THE PROBLEM AND THAT DRIVER NOW HAS TO DEAL WITH THAT FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES THEY HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT. THAT’S SOMETHING ELSE WE OUGHT TO BE LOOKING. JUST TO BE CLEAR AGAIN, NONE OF THIS NEEDS TO BE PASSED ON A CITYWIDE. I KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN MY DISTRICT. IF INDIVIDUALS WANT TO DO THAT, THEY CAN DO THAT TODAY IN THEIR OWN AREAS AND THEIR OWN DISTRICT. SO I WILL BE VOTING AGAINST THE OVERALL PLAN BUT IF PEOPLE WANT TO DO RESEARCH, FIND THREE OR FOUR HOT SPOTS AND WORK WITH EACH OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS, I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT, MAYOR. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. COUNCILWOMAN.>>Councilwoman Guevara: JUST A COUPLE QUESTIONS. IS THERE ANY PLAN FOR THE CITY OF PHOENIX TO IMPLEMENT WITHOUT ANY DISCUSSION OR DATA A BLANKET CITYWIDE REDUCTION OF SPEED LIMITS?>>NO.>>Councilwoman Guevara: THANK YOU. I THINK IT’S GREAT THAT OTHER MAJOR CITIES HAVE ADOPTED VISION ZERO AND I AM GUESSING THERE ARE SOME LESSONS TO LEARN FROM THEIR EXPERIENCE. BUT JUST TO BE CLEAR, VISION ZERO ISN’T A ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL PLAN, SIT? PHOENIX CAN USE DATA TO CREATE OUR OWN PLAN?>>YES, THE IDEA WITH — AS WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT WITH VISION ZERO, IT’S VERY ADAPTABLE TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CITY AND RECOGNIZES THAT DIFFERENT AREAS HAVE DIFFERENT NEEDS, HAVE DIFFERENT LAND USE, HAVE DIFFERENT STRUCTURE IN PLACE, AND SO ALL OF THAT WOULD BE ANALYZED. NO CHANGES WOULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN WITHOUT BEING PART OF A COUNCIL-ADOPTED PLAN.>>Councilwoman Guevara: JUST TO FOLLOW UP, SO IT SOUNDS LIKE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS NOT ONLY CAN PHOENIX COME UP WITH A SPECIFIC PLAN TO THE NEEDS IN OUR CITY BUT THAT THAT PLAN CAN TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY SO THAT THE WAYS WE INCREASE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IN WEST PHOENIX MIGHT BE DIFFERENT THAN THE THINGS WE WOULD LOOK AT IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX?>>YES, THAT’S CORRECT.>>Councilwoman Guevara: OKAY. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: COMSTARK AND THEN PASTOR.>>Councilwoman Stark: THANK YOU, MAYOR. I HAVE A BROTHER WHO LIVES IN PORTLAND AND THEY HAVE VISION ZERO AND I WILL TELL YOU THEY DID NOT REDUCE ALL THE SPEED LIMITS IN THE CITY OF PORTLAND. THERE WERE A FEW STREETS THAT WERE LARGELY RESIDENTIAL, AND THEY REDUCED THE SPEED FROM 30 TO 25 MILES PER HOUR. IN PORTLAND THEY’RE STILL PAVING STREETS LIKE WE’RE PAVING STREETS. ONE OF THE CONCERNS THEY HAD IN PORTLAND WAS ENFORCING THE CURRENT SPEED LIMITS, AND WE DO HAVE A LOT OF SPEEDERS, AND SO I THINK AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF LOOKING AT VISION ZERO IS HOW DO WE BETTER ENFORCE. AND IT’S NOT JUST THE PEOPLE DRIVING. IT IS JAYWALKING. IT IS SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES. AGAIN, I THINK THIS PROGRAM IS A ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL. WE’RE NOT LIKE PORTLAND. WE’RE NOT LIKE BOSTON. WE’RE PHOENIX. WE ARE MORE CAR DOMINATED. SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT THING TO LOOK AT WHEN YOU’RE LOOKING AT VISION ZERO. THE ONE QUESTION I HAVE IS, ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF PUBLIC INPUT? I’M GUESSING YES, YOU’RE PROBABLY GOING TO WORK THROUGH THE VILLAGES AND NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS MUCH LIKE WE DID WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT THE INTERACTIVITY MAP TO TRY TO COLLECT DATA ON STREETS THAT DO NEED TO BE PAVED. SO WOULD THAT BE OCCURRING AS PART [INAUDIBLE]>>I’LL LET KINI EXPLAIN MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE STREETS MAPPING TOOL BUT ABSOLUTELY THE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PIECE WOULD BE INTEGRAL TO THIS AND NEED TO BE EXTENSIVE.>>EXACTLY THAT — YOU’RE EXACTLY RIGHT HOW WE WOULD APPROACH IT. FROM A PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE, ANYTHING WE DO WITH VISION ZERO, AND JUST THE VISION ZERO ITSELF IS REQUIRING US TO DO THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, BUT SOMETHING WE WOULD WANT TO DO BECAUSE OF — WE’RE A 500 SQUARE MILE CITY. WE NEED THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO MAKE SURE IF WE’RE DIRECTED TO IMPLEMENT A PLAN OR PUT TOGETHER A PLAN THAT WE DO HAVE THAT KIND OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT WORKS FOR OUR CITY.>>Councilwoman Stark: SO THE PEOPLE HERE TODAY WHO WANT TO BE PART OF THE PROCESS CAN BE A PART OF THE PROCESS, CORRECT?>>CORRECT.>>Councilwoman Stark: AND BECAUSE YOU MAY LIVE IN DISTRICT 2 AND 3, WE DO — WHERE WE DO NEED THE 7S, BY THE WAY, I DO AGREE WITH THAT, THAT WOULD STILL BE PART OF THE DIALOGUE AND YOU’RE GOING TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT DIFFERENT PARTS OF CITY IN A DIFFERENT WAY, RIGHT? I MEAN, SOME — SOME PARTS OF THE CITY ARE MORE PEDESTRIAN, HAVE MORE BIKES.>>MAYOR, COMSTARK, THAT’S EXACTLY CORRECT. IF YOU LOOK AT ONE OF THE THINGS WE’VE ALREADY BEEN USING IN LOOKING — THOSE HOT SPOTS, IF YOU LOOK AT THOSE, THOSE AREN’T EVENLY DISTRIBUTED AROUND THE CITY. SO THE SOLUTIONS WE IMPLEMENT — WOULD POTENTIALLY IMPLEMENT FOR LOCATIONS OF HAIFA TALE TEASE OR INJURIES WOULD BE DIFFERENT WHERE YOU HAVE ANOTHER AREA OF THE CITY WHERE YOU DON’T HAVE THOSE INCIDENTS. BUT I WOULD ALSO SAY CERTAIN AREAS OF THE CITY ARE OLDER AND THE STREETS ARE OLDER AND THE WAY WE DESIGN STREETS ARE OLDER THAN WHAT WE DO TODAY IN AREAS OF THE CITY, NORTH AREAS OF THE CITY OR WHERE WE HAVE HIGH GROWTH AREAS IN LAVEEN, WE ARE DESIGNING STREETS DIFFERENTLY AND BUILDING STREETS DIFFERENTLY THAN WE DID 10, 20, 30 YEARS AGO.>>Councilwoman Stark: LASTLY, SOME THINGS YOU WILL LOOK AT, TOO, WILL BE LIKE ADDITIONAL MEDIANS. I KNOW I HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WANTS TO SEE MEDIANS ON A MAJOR STREET BECAUSE THEY SEE THAT AS A SAFETY ISSUE. SO YOU ARE GOING TO INVOLVE ELECTED OFFICIALS — YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND DIFFERENT DISTRICTS SO WE CAN CONVEY TO YOU WHAT WE’RE HEARING AS WELL AS FAR AS SAFETY ISSUES?>>THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT. WE WANT TO INVOLVE EVERY COMPONENT OF THIS FROM A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE, ESPECIALLY OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, BUT I KNOW MALEN WOULD PROBABLY KICK ME UNDER THE TABLE IF I DIDN’T SAY THIS AS WELL, PART OF IT IS WE HAVE A STREET NETWORK OUT THERE AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE SOLUTIONS ARE IN LINE WITH WHAT OUR LAND USES ARE. IF WE HAVE A MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENCE COMPLEX ACROSS STREET FROM A GROCERY STORE, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE’RE PROVIDING SAFE CROSSINGS. AND YOU MENTIONED THE MEDIAN ISLANDS. THOSE ARE PROVIDING REFUGE FOR PEDESTRIANS CROSSING BUSY STREETS DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN YOU REDUCE LANES OF TRAFFIC BUT YOU PROVIDE SAFE ACCESS AND CROSSING OF OUR MAJOR STREETS.>>Councilwoman Stark: I’M GOING TO SUPPORT THIS. I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT WE LOOK AT OUR SAFETY ISSUES. THIS ISN’T JUST ABOUT PEDESTRIANS. IT’S ALSO ABOUT PEOPLE IN VEHICLES. SO I THINK THIS IS A GOOD STEP AND IT DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN IF THEY COME BACK WITH A RECOMMENDATION WE MAY FIND OUT THAT IT DOESN’T WORK IN PHOENIX, THAT MAYBE THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT. BUT I THINK IT’S WORTH THE EFFORT TO STUDY AND LOOK AT IT.>>Mayor Gallego: THANK YOU. COUNCILWOMAN.>>Councilwoman Pastor: SO YOU LOOK AT THIS MAP AND YOU STUDY IT, AND YOU SEE WHERE REALLY THE HOT SPOTS, THE RED, RED, RED SPOTS. THAT HAPPENS TO BE THE HEART OF THE CITY, WHICH I REPRESENT IN DISTRICT 4, AND I HAPPEN TO HAVE — IT’S UNFORTUNATE TO HAVE THE MOST FATALITIES WITHIN THE AREA WITHIN THIS REPORT. ON TOP OF THAT, THEN IT HAPPENS IN THE HEART. SO IT’S IN THE CENTER. AND THEN IT MOVES OUT TO THE 7s, AND THEN IT MOVES OUT TO THE AVENUES, AND THEN YOU START TO SEE HOW IT GROWS. SO MANY PEOPLE, LIKE 35th AVENUE AND MONTEROSA, INDIAN SCHOOL, THAT AREA WE HAD A FATALITY, LIKE COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI HAD AT 39th AVENUE AND SOUTHERN AVENUE, 27TH AVENUE — JUST 27th AVENUE ALONE IS JUST A PASS-THROUGH, A MINI FREEWAY KIND OF LIKE THE 7s, AND JUST ALONE ON 27th AVENUE, JUST LOOKING AT THAT WHOLE CORRIDOR, ALL THE WAY UP TO — AND IT HITS THREE DIFFERENT COUNCIL AREAS. IT HITS DISTRICT 4, DISTRICT 5 AND COUNCILWOMAN THELDA WILLIAMS, I WANT TO SAY DISTRICT 1. SO IT HITS SEVERAL OF US. I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE CITY — THE CITY AS A WHOLE AND NOT AS A SILO FASHION, AND WHEN WE START TO SILO EACH COUNCIL AREA, THEN IT’S NOT — THERE’S A RIPPLE EFFECT THAT HAPPENS WITH ALL OUR STREETS ACROSS OUR DISTRICTS, BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE BORDERS. WE ALL TOUCH ONE ANOTHER. AND THE STREETS DON’T KNOW DISTRICTS. THE STREETS CONTINUE AND YOU DON’T KNOW WHICH DISTRICT YOU’RE DRIVING IN AND WHY CERTAIN THINGS HAPPEN HERE AND WHY NOT OVER HERE. SO I THINK IT’S A WISE IDEA TO LOOK AT IT IN A GLOBAL WAY, A HOLISTIC WAY AS TO HOW ALL OUR STREETS OPERATE. BECAUSE IT’S REALLY ABOUT THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND MAKING — IT’S REALLY ABOUT SAFETY OF EVERYONE’S LIFE, NO MATTER WHAT. MY QUESTION, THOUGH, IS IN THIS PROCESS, IN THIS FRAMEWORK, AS WE DISCUSSED, BECAUSE I THINK WHAT WE’RE DOING TODAY IS REALLY ASKING STAFF TO GO AND REVIEW THE COMPONENTS OF VISION ZERO. WE’RE NOT VOTING ON TODAY VISION ZERO. IT’S REALLY ABOUT THE COMPONENTS AND LOOKING TO SEE IF WE FIT IN IT AND IF WE DON’T OR IF WE WANT TO ACCEPT IT OR NOT. THAT’S A FUTURE VOTE — THAT’S FOR THE FUTURE. MY QUESTION IS, THOUGH, IN TALKING THROUGH THIS, BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE MANY DIFFERENT [INAUDIBLE] IN PARTICULAR COMPLETE STREETS AND SHADE AND ALL THE PLANS, AT ONE POINT WE HAD ASKED FOR ALL THE PLANS TO BE ANALYZED AND LOOKED AT THAT. SO I BELIEVE WE ARE DOING SOME OF THE STEPS IN VISION ZERO, AND I THINK THAT’S IMPORTANT TO PUT IT IN A FRAMEWORK. THE OTHER PIECE IS I WANT TO LOOK — UNDERSTAND IF SMART CITY COMES INTO PLAY WITH THIS. BECAUSE FOR ME SMART CITY HAS TO DO WITH TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND BECOMING A SMART CITY HAS TO DO WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT SIGNALS AND THE WAY WE CROSS AND HOW WE CROSS AND HOW WE TIME AND HOW WE MOVE TRAFFIC. SO I’M HOPING THAT THAT IS PART OF THE FRAMEWORK, BECAUSE I HAVEN’T STUDIED REALLY ALL THE FRAMEWORKS AND THE COMPONENTS, BUT I’M HOPING THAT WE DO LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE WE DO NEED TO REALIZE WE NEED TO BECOME A SMART CITY IN THE TIMING OF ALL OUR LIGHTS. THIRDLY, IN LOOKING AT OUR TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND LOOKING AT THE DYNAMICS OF THE FUTURE, WHAT DOES THE DYNAMICS OF OUR GROWTH AS WE’RE GROWING, THE HEART OF THE CITY IS GROWING REALLY RAPIDLY, WHEN WE’RE ADDING MORE MULTI-FAMILY OR HOUSING IN THE AREA AND WE’RE LOOKING AT TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND MOVING THEM, HOW DOES THAT AFFECT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS? AND WHAT IS IS THE CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS? WE ALREADY HAVE CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. MEDLOCK AND WILLO, ST. FRANCIS — I CAN PROBABLY NAME MORE — ARE HAVING THIS EXPERIENCE, AND SO WE’RE LOOKING AT SOLUTIONS TO NOT NECESSARILY STOP IT BUT SLOW IT DOWN, AND WHEN I’M GETTING REQUESTS IN THE HEART OF THE CITY IS CAN WE PUT GATES ALL AROUND OUR — OR CLOSE STREETS. AND SO I THINK THAT’S A CONVERSATION WE NEED TO HAVE IN THE FUTURE AS WE’RE LOOKING AT A TRAFFIC PATTERN AND TRAFFIC MOVEMENT AND SLOWING IT DOWN. WHAT THAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? I’M NOT SURE NECESSARILY ABOUT THE SPEED LITTLE. I JUST THINK THAT WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS — AND THAT WILL BE A CONVERSATION FOR THE FUTURE. I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE SPEED LIMITS THAT ARE — THAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT, BUT AS A GREAT CITY AS WE ARE, WE’RE VERY TRANSPARENT, WHICH MEANS THE COMMUNITY IS ALWAYS INVOLVED, AND SO I JUST WANT TO GET SOME CLARITY AS TO WILL THAT BE PART OF SOME OF THE FRAMEWORK.>>COUNCILWOMAN PASTOR, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT WILL ABSOLUTELY BE A PART OF THE FRAMEWORK, WHEN IT COMES TO VISION ZERO, THAT’S ONE OF THE MAIN COMPONENTS, IS MAKING SURE THE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IS BUILT INTO ANY OF THE PLANS THAT ARE DEVELOPED AND TO THE ONGOING DATA ANALYSIS. AND SO WE WOULD CONTINUE TO LOOK AT THAT AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT’S BUILT INTO ANYTHING THAT GOES ON AND BROUGHT BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL.>>Councilwoman Pastor: AND WILL IT LOOK AT IN THESE PATTERNS CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC, THE 7S, SMART CITY –>>YOU MENTIONED THE SMART CITIES. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT EARLIER WAS THE SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ADDRESSING THE TRAFFIC FATALITIES ISSUE, AND THAT’S WHERE THE TECHNOLOGY COMES INTO PLAY, AND THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD — HELP BUILD NEW INFRASTRUCTURE AND IMPROVEMENTS THAT ACTUALLY ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, AND THAT’S ABSOLUTELY A KEY COMPONENT OF BECOMING A SMART CITY IS THAT USE OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS, HAWK SIGNALS AND HOW THEY’RE TIMED AND HOW THAT CAN ENHANCE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. I KNOW THAT OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE SIMILAR ENDEAVORS WITH THE TIMING OF THEIR TRAFFIC SIGNALS TO HELP ACTUALLY SLOW CARS DOWN BECAUSE VEHICLES KNOW THAT THEY NEED TO STAY AT A CERTAIN SPEED IN ORDER TO MAKE ALL THE GREEN LIGHTS, THEN THEY ACTUALLY DO SLOW DOWN TO DO THAT. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CAN BE EFFECTIVE IN US BECOMING A SMART CITY AS WELL AS ADDRESSING TRAFFIC SAFETY. AND THE OTHER COMPONENTS ARE THINGS WE CAN LOOK AT, THE CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC, BECAUSE WE KNOW THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY ISSUE IS THERE AS WELL, AND THAT’S AN ANALYSIS THAT WOULD BE BUILT INTO THE DATA EVALUATION, MAKING SURE THAT NEIGHBORHOOD CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC IS SOMETHING WE LOOK AT AND MAKE PART OF THE EVALUATION, AND YOU’VE ASKED FOR A LOOK AT THE STREETS ON 7th STREET AND 7th AVENUE AS WELL.>>Mayor Gallego: COUNCILMAN WARING.>>Councilman Waring: THANK YOU. SO I’M LOOKING AT THE STATISTICS AGAIN, JUST TO SUMMARIZE WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, PROBABLY MY GUESS, LOOKING AT THIS, IT DOES NOT DELINEATE BY AGE, AND THESE ARE ALL TRAGEDIES, BUT MY GUESS IS MAJORITY OF THE ADULTS WERE HURT OR KILLED IN THESE TRAGEDIES WHEN I LOOK AT THE STATISTICS PROVIDED BY THE CITY WERE INTOXICATED CROSSING A MAJOR ARTERIAL AT DARK NOT IN A CROSSWALK. THAT’S NOT VICTIM BLAMING. THOSE ARE STATISTICS PROVIDED BY THE CITY. AT SOME POINT WE CAN’T IGNORE THOSE FACTS. THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE. AND SO WE DIDN’T NEED A STUDY TO TELL US THAT THAT BEHAVIOR IS RISKY AND COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS. COUNCILMAN DICICCIO ILLUSTRATED I THINK VERY POIGNANTLY THE PROBLEM FOR THE DRIVER WHO WILL CARRY THAT WITH THEM FOREVER, AND THAT IS ALSO A TRAGEDY. AGAIN, I’M NOT BLAMING THE VICTIMS, BUT I DON’T THINK ANY OF US — I THINK WE’RE ALL SMART PEOPLE. WE DON’T NEED A STUDY OR NATIONAL MOVEMENT OR ANYTHING ELSE TO ASK OUR CITIZENS WE REALLY WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU WOULD MODERATE YOUR BEHAVIOR A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE THIS IS HAVING REAL-WORLD CONSEQUENCES FOR EVERYONE. I THINK OUR DISTRICTS ARE DIFFERENT. YOU KNOW, I GET THAT WE’RE ALL INTERRELATED. BUT MY DISTRICT IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN THE DOWNTOWN DISTRICTS IN TERMS OF TRAFFIC FLOW AND HOW THE STREETS ARE LAID OUT AND SO FORTH. I MENTIONED THE HAWK EARLIER ON SCOTTSDALE ROAD AND THE STREETS ON BELL BETWEEN 44th AND 52nd. I DON’T THINK WE’RE ALWAYS AS CONSIST AT ANY TIME EVEN WITHIN OUR OWN SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND HOW A HAWK, WHICH COMES ON SOMETIMES AND NOT OTHERS AND DRIVERS — I GO BUY A HAWK EVERY DAY, AT LEAST EVERY DAY WHEN I DROP MY KIDS OFF AT SCHOOL, AND PEOPLE DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO REACT TO THAT. IT KIND OF POPS UP. YOU CAN JUST SEE THE CONFUSION FROM DRIVERS. SO I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND HOW IT MADE SENSE TO PUT IN A HAWK WHEN YOU HAVE [INAUDIBLE] BUT YOU DIDN’T WANT TO PUT IN A LIGHT BETWEEN 52nd AND 44th STREET. PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THE LIGHTS DO. NOW, THEY MAY NOT STOP AT THE RIDE LIGHTS. THAT’S A DIFFERENT PROBLEM. I’M NOT SAYING THE DRIVER IS PERFECT OUT THERE. I DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT IF YOU PUT OUT A NEW THING THAT PEOPLE AREN’T USED TO, SAME WITH THE TRAFFIC CIRCLES, IT JUST THROWS AN ALREADY BAD SITUATION INTO, I WOULD ARGUE, EVEN MORE CHAOS. I SEE IT WHEN I DRIVE ON SCOTTSDALE ROAD. PEOPLE SLAMMING ON THE BRAKES. I DO IT TOO. I KNOW IT’S COMING BECAUSE I KNOW IT’S THERE AND I ALWAYS SORT OF ADJUST. BUT WHEN I HEAR US DOING 45 MORE HAWKS BUT WE’RE ONLY DOING THREE OR FOUR TRAFFIC SIGNALS, AND I THINK, WHAT — OBVIOUSLY OUR FOREFATHERS THOUGHT TRAFFIC LIGHTS WERE THE WAY TO GO. MAYBE WE SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT WE’VE DENY DOING FOR YEARS. IT’S NOT PERFECT, BUT NOTHING IS GOING TO BE PERFECT WITH THE STATISTICS THAT ARE LAID OUT IN FRONT OF US. THIS IS A LOT OF AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY WITHOUT MAKING HUGE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR. WE’RE NOT ASKING FOR ONE OF THOSE CHARTS THAT YOU HAD IN YOUR PRESENTATION TALKED ABOUT BEFORE WE WERE DEMANDING PERFECTION. I DON’T THINK WE’RE DEMANDING PERFECTION. BUT YOU BETTER BE AWARE THAT THE STREETS ARE DANGEROUS IF YOU’RE A PEDESTRIAN AND PAY ATTENTION, AND YOU CAN’T BE INTOXICATED CROSSING A MAJOR STREET AT DARK NOT IN A CROSSWALK AND EXPECT IT’S GOING TO BE FINE EVERY SINGLE TIME. THAT IS NOT A REASONABLE EXPECTATION. WE CANNOT AS A SOCIETY SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, THAT’S OUR EXPECTATION. YOU’RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT AND NOTHING BAD WILL EVER HAPPEN. THAT’S WHAT VISION WHATEVER IS KIND OF INDICATING SHOULD BE THE GOAL. THAT’S NOT A REALISTIC GOAL. I’M ALL FOR GOALS THAT ARE HIGH AND ELEVATING, BUT THAT DOESN’T SEEM IN ANY WAY REALISTIC WHATSOEVER, AND WE’RE GOING TO SPEND A COUPLE YEARS TO STUDY IT? I DON’T KNOW, IT SEEMS LIKE MAYBE WE COULD ADDRESS THINGS NOW. LOOK AT THE MIX OF LIGHTS VERSUS HAWKS THAT WE HAVE PLANNED. THREE OR FOUR LIGHTS A YEAR. THAT MEANS A DISTRICT LIKE MINE THAT HE HAS MORE STREETS THAN ANY DISTRICT IN THE CITY MIGHT NOT GET A LIGHT FOR A COUPLE YEARS. I DON’T KNOW — OKAY, I JUST — I THINK THAT’S A LITTLE MISGUIDED, I JUST DO, AND, AGAIN, I’M NOT BLAMING VICTIMS. I’M SIMPLY LOOKING AT THESE AS STATISTICS. THEY’RE COUNTABLE. IT’S JUST THE WAY IT SHAKES OUT. AND WE HAVE TO HOLD CITIZENS TO A STANDARDS THAT’S HIGHER THAN, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE’RE NOT EXPECTING TO BE PERFECT, DO AS YOU WILL, AND WE’LL MAKE SURE YOU’RE SAFE. THAT’S NOT A MESSAGE WE SHOULD BE SENDING. THAT IS NOT IN ANY WAY A MESSAGE WE SHOULD BE SENDING TO ANYBODY. I APPRECIATE THE TIME, MAYOR. THANK YOU. I’M SORRY FOR GOING ON AND ON.>>Mayor Gallego: AND I DO THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WHILE WE HAVE OVERALL HIGH LEVELS OF PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES, WE ALSO HAVE HIGHER THAN OUR PEERS IN TERMS OF YOUTH FATALITIES AND SO WE’VE HAD SOME REAL TRAGEDIES IN THIS COMMUNITY. WE HAD A YOUNG PERSON IN THE DISTRICT I USED TO REPRESENT WHO WAS KILLED RIDING A SCOOTER AND HIS FAMILY FEELS AN ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC SIGNAL WOULD HAVE SAVED HIS LIFE, AND HAVING ONE OF THE HARDEST PARTS OF THIS JOB FOR KNEE IS MEETING WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR CHILDREN, WITH PARENTS WHO HAD TO BURY A YOUNG ONE. NO PARENT SHOULD EVER HAVE TO BURY THEIR CHILD. IT IS SUCH A TRAGEDY. I MET WITH THE FATHER OF CASEY CLARK WHOSE DAUGHTER WAS WALKING ALONG INDIAN SCHOOL AT 19th AVENUE. SHE WAS NOT IN AN INTERSECTION AND A CAR WENT OVER THE BARRIER, OVER THE CURB, AND KILLED HER. HER FAMILY FEELS LIKE — AND THIS IS AN INTERSECTION, AS COUNCILWOMAN PASTOR SPOKE ELOQUENTLY, WHERE WE HAVE SEEN MULTIPLE TRAFFIC INCIDENTS. HER FAMILY MET WITH ENGINEERS MADE A COMPELLING CASE THAT IF WE PUT UP A SAFE BARRIER WE COULD SAVE LIVES IN THESE AREAS. IT IS ALSO ABOUT TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND I CERTAINLY AGREE WE NEED TO PUT MORE INVESTMENT IN THAT AREA. I WANT TO APPLAUD THE WORK THAT COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI DID AND MENDOZA DID THAT WAS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS PRESENTATION IN THE SOUTHERN AVENUE CORRIDOR. SO I THINK WE HAVE PRETTY BROAD AGREEMENT THAT THAT IS AN AREA WHERE WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH. I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS WE’VE HAD WITH CROSSINGS AROUND STUDENTS. WE HAVE STUDENTS WHO ARE RUNNING LATE AND MIGHT DART THROUGH A STREET. WE’VE PUT UP BARRIERS, SUCCESSFUL ONES IN DISTRICT 6. COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI WORKED ON ONE IN THE LAVEEN AREA THAT I BELIEVE HAS SAVED LIVES. TODAY IS, TO ME A STATEMENT ABOUT DO WE WANT TO MAKE THIS A PRIORITY. WE HAVE SEEN SINCE THE TIME I WAS RUNNING FOR COUNCIL A DOUBLING OF PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES. DO WE WANT TO STEP UP AND SEND A MESSAGE THAT WE’RE LOOKING HARD AT THIS, THAT WE’RE WORKING ACROSS DEPARTMENTS, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, STREETS DEPARTMENT, MULTIPLE AREAS OF THE CITY ALL WORKING TOGETHER SAYING WE WANT TO HAVE A SAFER CITY. I GUESS WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT ARE OUR TOP VALUES AND WHAT ARE THE COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS. IT SEEMS LIKE THERE ARE MANY, MANY AREAS WHERE WE ALL AGREE HERE WHERE WE CAN MOVE FORWARD. COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI, THIGH, AND THEN COUNCILWOMAN MENDOZA.>>>>Councilman Nowakowski: SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS WATCHING ON TELEVISION OR AFTER THE MEETING THEY GET THE WORD, WE HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. THERE MIGHT BE SOME PORTIONS MISSING. I REMEMBER A YEAR AGO HAVING THE SAME TYPE OF CONVERSATION AND BASICALLY WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT IS ACTUALLY HIRING A COORDINATE ORFOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, AND FROM THERE WE TALKED ABOUT CREATING A PROGRAM, AND THAT PROGRAM WAS HEADS UP THAT CAME OUT OF IT WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT DRIVE SAFE, TALKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN WALK SAFER, AND ACTUALLY BIKE SMARTER ALSO. SO THAT CALIFORNIA R CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN GOING ON. IT’S NOT CALLED VISION ZERO. IT WAS CALLED HEADS UP. SO I THINK THERE’S SOME THINGS THAT I FOUND OUT THROUGH BEING A PART OF THAT PROCESS OF HEADS UP IS THAT WHEN WE COME TO THE — TO OUR STAFF, WE NEED TRAFFIC LIGHTS, WE NEED CROSSWALKS, WE NEED STREET IMPROVEMENTS, SIDEWALKS. THERE’S PORTIONS OF MY DISTRICT WE DON’T EVEN HAVE SIDEWALKS. AND ONE OF THE THINGS I GET IS, WELL, WE’RE LOOKING INTO IT. THIS BUDGET DOESN’T HAVE IT, BUT MAYBE THE FOLLOWING YEAR CONTINUE ADVOCATING. SO WHAT I NEED TO DO IS GO OUT TO MY COMMUNITY AND START TO BASICALLY ORGANIZE THEM TO ADVOCATE TO THE CITY THAT THERE’S A NEED FOR SIDEWALKS, THERE’S A NEED — [INAUDIBLE] OR THERE’S A NEED FOR THE DIFFERENT THINGS WE’RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY. SO MY CONCERN IS THAT IF WE COME UP WITH THIS VISION ZERO FOR THE CITY OF PHOENIX, DO WE HAVE THE RESOURCES, NUMBER ONE. BECAUSE I WOULD HATE TO GO OUT THERE AND ADOPT SOMETHING WE DON’T HAVE THE RESOURCES TO ACTUALLY COMPLETE THIS VISION THAT WE HAVE. I KNOW THAT THAT’S THE NUMBER ONE THING I KEEP ON ASKING WHY CAN’T WE. WELL, WE HAVE BUDGET RESTRAINTS. SO I WOULD LIKE TO AT SOME DATA OF HOW WE’RE GOING TO COVER THIS. IS IT IN OUR GENERAL FUND? IS THERE ANOTHER SOURCE THAT WE CAN TAP INTO? I KNOW WITH THE HAWK LIGHTS WE ACTUALLY PARTNER UP WITH NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, BUSINESSES AND SCHOOLS TO ACTUALLY GET THOSE HAWK LIGHTS DONE. WITH THE STREET TRAFFIC LIGHTS I KNOW WHEN IT COMES TO PLANNING AND ZONING AND THERE’S NEW DEVELOPMENTS WE ASK THE DEVELOPER AND WE KIND OF PARTNER UP WITH THOSE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAVE. SO I KNOW THAT WE’RE DOING THAT ALREADY BUT AT THE SAME TIME THINGS WHERE WE CAN’T CREATE A NEW COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT’S ALREADY BUILT, HOW DO WE PAY FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE? THAT’S MY NUMBER ONE CONCERN. THE OTHER CONCERN IS THAT I BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD BE MORE RIDABLE, WALKABLE COMMUNITY. ABSOLUTELY. DOWNTOWN PHOENIX YOU SEE THAT. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE, INSTEAD OF JUST GETTING IN A CAR RIDING THREE BLOCKS OR A HALF MILE, THEY’LL TAKE THE LIGHT RAIL OR THEY’LL RIDE A BIKE OR THEY’LL GET — THEY’LL TAKE A WALK. I LIKE THAT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, NOT ALL COMMUNITIES CAN — OR INDIVIDUALS IN OUR COMMUNITY CAN AFFORD TO LIVE IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA WHERE WE HAVE ALL THESE AMENITIES THAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT. SO MY NUMBER ONE CONCERN, TOO, WOULD BE I REPRESENT DOWNTOWN, I REPRESENT SOUTH PHOENIX AND MARYVALE, AND THE ENFORCEMENT PART. I HEARD THAT A COUPLE TIMES, AND HUSHED IT FROM THE COMMUNITY AS WELL, WHEN YOU START TO ENFORCE — ENFORCEMENT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE. SO IN SOUTH PHOENIX AND MARYVALE, WHEN YOU START TO ENFORCE TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIAN WALKING AND ALL THAT, THAT’S A WHOLE DIFFERENT CAN OF WORMS THAN IT WOULD BE FOR THE DOWNTOWN AREA. YOU START ENFORCING SOME OF THESE MINORITY AND LOW INCOME AREAS, THAT’S A WHOLE DIFFERENT — IT’S NOT ABOUT ENFORCING, MAKING SURE THAT YOU’RE CROSSING THE STREET RIGHT, IT’S — THEY’RE GOING TO SEE IT AS A HARASSMENT, AND IT’S GOING TO BE A BIGGER BURDEN ON OUR POLICE OFFICERS. SO I’M NOW PUTTING ON MY PUBLIC SAFETY CAP. THAT CONCERNS ME, RIGHT? AND WHAT CONCERNS ME IS THAT I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA, AND KUDOS TO THE MAYOR, BECAUSE I THINK IT’S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD DO, BUT I BELIEVE THAT JUST THE WAY THAT I WAS KIND OF SURPRISED BY THIS AGENDA ITEM, I GOT IT FRIDAY, AND WAS JUST DOING ALL THIS READING, IT’S GREAT INFORMATION, BUT AT THE SAME TIME I CAN UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE FRUSTRATION FROM THE COMMUNITY WHERE THEY WANT TO HAVE MORE INPUT AND MORE DATA. I THINK THAT — I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMEHOW, SOME WAY, WHERE IT’S NOT JUST COMMITTEES OR SO, BUT IS THERE A WAY FOR US TO THROW IT BACK TO OUR STAFF WITH ALL THESE QUESTIONS OF WHAT WE CALL SUICIDE LANES. CAN WE LOOK INTO THAT? MAYBE IT’S UP TO THOMAS WHERE WE START THOSE REVERSIBLE LANES WHERE IT DOESN’T AFFECT TOO MUCH OF THE NORTHERN PART OF OUR TOWN THAT REALLY NEEDS THAT. COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTIONS AND COME UP WITH THE RESOURCES THAT WE CAN COVER THOSE SOLUTIONS ALSO. BECAUSE WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT NARROWING OR WIDENING OR WHATEVER STREETS, THERE’S ALWAYS RESOURCES. THERE’S US THAT WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING TO COME FROM, RIGHT? SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OUR STAFF MAYBE COME UP WITH 10 DIFFERENT ISSUES FROM EACH COUNCILMEMBER HERE, ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS IN A LATER MEETING. I LIKE IT GOING BACK TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE, BUT I WOULD RATHER HAVE IT COME BACK TO A WORK STUDY LIKE THIS AND BASICALLY HAVE ALL THOSE QUESTIONS ADDRESSED TO US AND THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN ACTUALLY BE HERE TO SAY THAT DOESN’T WORK IN OUR COMMUNITY, OR, COUNCILMEMBER, I AGREE WITH YOU, BUT. AND I THINK IF WE COULD BRING IT BACK IN A COUPLE MONTHS OR — AS LONG AS IT TAKES YOU ALL, AND THEN IF WE WANT TO CALL IT VISION ZERO AFTER THAT, AFTER WE FIGURE OUT THAT WE CAN DO ALL THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, THEN I FEEL VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THIS PROJECT. BUT MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS HOW DO WE GIVE YOU THE CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE? HOW CAN YOU ALL COME BACK WITH THE RESOURCES TO FIX THIS THESE CONCERNS AND THAT WE’RE NOT OUT THERE PROMISING STUFF THAT WE CAN’T DELIVER. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER WE SAY WE DELIVER ON IT, RIGHT? AND I BELIEVE THAT THE HEADS-UP PROGRAM WE NEED TO PUSH THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE. WE DON’T REALLY HAVE THE RESOURCES TO EDUCATE PEOPLE. SO I KNOW MYSELF AND COUNCILMEMBER THELDA WILLIAMS JUST CREATED THESE PSAs, THEY’RE JUST FIVE PSAs ADDRESSING THOSE ISSUES, BUT WE TOOK IT UPON OURSELVES TO HELP YOU ALL MARKET THAT. SO WE DON’T REALLY HAVE A MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO GET THE WORD OUT. WE GET CALLS IN OUR BUDGET HEARINGS THAT THE BUS DRIVERS ARE COMPLAINING THAT PEOPLE AREN’T EVEN STOPPING WHEN THE BUSES ARE PUTTING THEIR STOP SIGN ON. THEY JUST DRIVE 40, 50 MILES PER HOUR AND PASS A BUS. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT WE’RE HEARING IN OUR BUDGET HEARINGS, WE’RE HEARING AT OUR COMMUNITY HEARINGS. SO THOSE ARE KIND OF THINGS THAT THROW THOSE — IF THOSE FIVE OR 10 QUESTIONS OUT TO YOU AND MAYBE LET’S TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT. RIGHT? THANK YOU, MAYOR.>>Mayor Gallego: COUNCILWOMAN MENDOZA.>>Councilwoman Mendoza: THANK YOU, MAYOR. I NEED SOME CLARIFICATION. I HEARD COUNCILWOMAN PASTOR AND STARK MENTION THAT THIS IS SOMETHING WE’RE GOING TO LOOK INTO DOING SOME RESEARCH. YET THE CCR SAYS THAT WE WANT TO OFFICIALLY COMMIT TO THE VISION ZERO. SO WHAT IS IT? ARE WE DOING RESEARCH OR ARE WE HERE TO COMMIT TO VISION ZERO?>>WHAT WE’RE ASKING FOR AT THIS POINT IS AUTHORIZATION TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE FRAMEWORK, AND THAT FRAMEWORK WOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR FURTHER ACTION. BURR OUR RECOMMENDATION IS IT WOULD FIRST GO THROUGH THE SUBCOMMITTEE, THINGS LIKE PREPARING A COUNCIL RESOLUTION THAT THE COUNCIL COULD CONSIDER AS THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENT TO COMMIT TO VISION ZERO. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT WE’RE DOING TODAY, BUT THAT’S THE TYPE OF WORK THAT WOULD BE PREPARED BY STAFF IF IT’S AUTHORIZED. AND SO THAT’S AN EXAMPLE OF — THAT’S A FUTURE ACTION. TODAY IS GIVING STAFF THE AUTHORIZATION TO DO THE WORK TO PREPARE THAT.>>Councilwoman Mendoza: BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT THE CCR SAYS. THAT’S WHY I’M KIND OF CONCERNED — MY –>>Councilwoman Pastor: I’M JUST SAYING, [INAUDIBLE] ON YOUR STATEMENT BECAUSE THE WAY I READ THE CCR ON PAGE 7 AT THE BOTTOM IT SAYS STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD. STAFF WILL BEGIN PREPARING A VISION ZERO FRAME WORK. IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE –>>Councilwoman Mendoza: [INAUDIBLE]>>Councilwoman Pastor: I KNOW. BUT — I GUESS, MARIO –>>Mayor Gallego: WHY DON’T YOU GO TO THE FINAL SLIDE.>>Councilwoman Mendoza: THE FRAMEWORK HAS TO DO WITH — YES — COMMIT TO VISION ZERO WOULD BE — THIS IS WHY I’M CONFUSED. MOVE FORWARD –>>MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY CONFUSION. SO WHAT YOU SEE ON COUNCILWOMAN MENDOZA, WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT IS THE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT’S INVOLVED IN BECOMING A VISION ZERO. SO THERE IS A VISION ZERO ORGANIZATION THAT OUTLINES KIND OF WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS WOULD BE TO BE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED AS A VISION ZERO CITY. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL WOULD OFFICIALLY ADOPT A COMMITMENT TO VISION ZERO. THAT’S NOT WHAT WE’RE ASKING TODAY. ANOTHER ONE IS A COMMITMENT TO THE GOAL OF ZERO TRAFFIC FATALITIES. SO, AGAIN, THAT’S NOT WHAT WE’RE ASKING TO BE DONE TODAY. INVOLVEMENT OF COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS AND EVENTUALLY EVEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A VISION ZERO COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN. AND SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WOULD BE FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD THAT ARE INVOLVED IN BECOMING A VISION ZERO CITY BUT WHAT WE’RE ASKING FOR TODAY IS THE AUTHORITY TO MOVE FORWARD AND BEGINNING TO TAKE THOSE STEPS, WHICH WOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE AND TO THE COUNCIL FOR FURTHER ACTION IN THE FUTURE.>>I DON’T FEEL COMFORTABLE LOCKING MYSELF INTO A VISION ZERO PLAN. ONE OF THE FRAME BURKS OF THE VISION ZERO IS DATA, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT. HOWEVER, IN THE 39th AVENUE ISSUE THAT COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI HAD, DATA SAID THAT THIS INTERSECTION DIDN’T WARRANT FOR A SIGNAL. HOWEVER, WE HAD THREE FATALITIES THERE. SOMETIMES I THINK FEEL THAT — SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO USE COMMON SENSE. SO I’M A LITTLE HESITANT ON JUST THE DATA PORTION AND NOT USE — YOU KNOW, JUST — I DON’T WANT TO LOCK MYSELF ON THAT VISION ZERO WITH THE DATA. I JUST CAN’T.>>Councilman DiCiccio: MAYOR –>>Councilwoman Mendoza: I HAVE –>>Mayor Gallego: COUNCILWOMAN PASTOR. [INAUDIBLE]>>Councilman DiCiccio: MAYOR?>>Mayor Gallego: YES, COUNCILMAN.>>Councilman DiCiccio: WHAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND IS WHY NOT JUST FIX THREE OR FOUR HOT SPOTS, DO WHAT COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI SAID, GO TO EACH COUNCILMEMBER, AND ASK US WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE DONE IN OUR DISTRICTS OR EVEN IN THE CITY. MINE IS EASY. FIX THE POTHOLES. MAKE OUR STREETS LESS DANGEROUS, REPAVE ALL THE STREETS IN MY DISTRICT. THAT’S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE DONE. I DON’T WANT TO SEE ANY LOWERING OF SPEED LIMITS. I DON’T WANT TO SEE ANY NARROWING OF THE STREETS. I WANT TRAFFIC TO GO THROUGH, THE QUALITY OF LIFE TO GO UP. THAT’S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE DONE. I DON’T THINK IT WOULD BE FAIR TO CRAM THIS DOWN THE THROATS OF PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF WHO DON’T WANT TO SEE THIS IN OUR DISTRICTS. SO I THINK EVERY COUNCILMEMBER HERE CAN LIT LITERALLY WORK WITH STAFF. KINI HAS BEEN AMAZING TO WORK WITH, LIKE, INCREDIBLE, WORK WITH HIM TO FIND OUT WHAT YOUR NEEDS ARE IN YOUR OWN DISTRICT. I THINK WE KNOW. THEN HOLD THOSE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO RATHER THAN CREATING AN OVERWHELMING PLAN THAT DOESN’T FIT EACH OF OUR OWN AREAS. SO FROM MY END OF IT, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO HAVE US AT LEAST GET MORE DATA, GET MORE INFORMATION, AND THE WAY TO DO THAT IS TO MEET WITH STAFF AND COME UP WITH SOME IDEAS. THANK YOU, MAYOR.>>Mayor Gallego: COUNCILMAN WARING.>>Councilman Waring: IN ADDITION TO THAT I WANT THE FAIR DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES. SO ONE OF MY MANY [INAUDIBLE] INEFFECTIVE OF LIGHT RAIL TO MOVE MANY PEOPLE DURING THE DAY BUT ALSO THE FACT THAT THE DISTRICT I REPRESENT GOT ZERO DOLLARS FOR THAT. SO 9 BILLION OF THE 31 BILLION PLAN, I THINK THAT’S ROUGH NUMBERS, BUT I THINK THAT’S ABOUT RIGHT, ARE GOING TO LIGHT RAIL, NONE OF WHICH IS GOING INTO DISTRICT 2, BUT WE HAVE THE MOST STREETS IN THE WHOLE CITY AND THERE IS ONLY ONE 1 BILLION FOR STREET REPAIR, WHICH COUNCILMAN DICICCIO TALKED ABOUT EARLIER. THE STATE OF THE STREET. I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH THAT CONTRIBUTES TO DRIVING BUT IT CERTAINLY CAN HELP. MY FEAR WHEN I LOOK AT THIS PLAN AND THE HEAT MAPS AND SO FORTH IS ALL THE MONEY WILL BE CONCENTRATED DOWNTOWN. SO MONEY IS GOING TO BE RAISED THROUGH TAXES TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS FROM THE RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT 2, WHICH COMPRISES AT LEAST 200,000 IF NOT MORE, BUT THE MONEY IS GOING TO BE REDIRECTED. WE MIGHT GET MAYBE ONE STOPLIGHT, MAYBE A COUPLE HAWKS, BUT MOST OF THE MONEY IS GOING TO BE SPENT DOWNTOWN. PLEASE REMEMBER DOWNTOWN, DEFINE DOWNTOWN. 16,000 PEOPLE LIVE DOWNTOWN. 16,000. 1% OF THE CITY’S POPULATION. I’VE SAID THIS AT THESE MEETINGS BEFORE, I THINK OUR ECONOMIC PEOPLE HAVE COUNTED THEM, IT’S NOT A JOKE, 550. SO DO YOU THINK I GET IRRITATED AS A TAXPAYER IN DISTRICT 2 WHEN I SEE BIKE LANES AND LIGHT RAIL AND EVERYTHING DOWNTOWN FROM SUNS STADIUM, THAT WAS MENTIONED, WHERE NOBODY LIVES. PEOPLE SAY, WELL POPULATION IS BOOMING. IT’S GOING TO HAVE TO BOOM A LOT TO CATCHER UP TO THE 200,000 WHO LIVE IN MY AREA, THE AREA I REPRESENT. SO AT SOME POINT, YES, I WOULD RATHER HAVE THE STREETS REPAVED. I WOULD RATHER HAVE STOPLIGHTS THAT RESIDENTS ARE ASKING FOR, GIVEN OUR POPULATION GROWTH IS NOT AN UNREASONABLE ASK, BUT MY FEAR IS DISTRICT 2 WILL GET A PITTANCE AND THE MONEY IS GOING TO GO ELSEWHERE. THE PROBLEM WON’T BE ADDRESSED FOR THE REASONS I HIGHLIGHTED EARLIER. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO TELL RESIDENTS UP THERE. THEY PAY THEIR TAXES AND THE MONEY GETS REDIRECTED COMPLETELY AWAY FROM THEM, SO THEIR STREETS GET LESS SAFE, LESS POLICE PRESENCE, LESS THIS, LESS THAT. I DON’T KNOW HOW THAT MAKES SENSE. I KNOW IT’S NOT FAIR. I’M MAKING MY SORT OF BEST ARGUMENT, BUT, I MEAN, AT SOME POINT WE HAVE TO ACCEPT — ASK PEDESTRIANS TO MODIFY THEIR BEHAVIOR. THAT WILL BY DEFINITION REDUCE — FEWER INTOXICATED PEOPLE WALKING CROSS ENORMOUS STREETS IN THE DARK NOT IN CROSSWALKS WILL REDUCE FATALITIES. I DON’T KNOW AT SOME POINT WHAT KIND OF PUBLIC SIGNS AND STATEMENTS — I MEAN, I THINK AT ONE POINT PEOPLE WERE INDICATING THIS IS SOMEHOW THE POLICE’S FAULT. WHAT ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO DO IN THAT SCENARIO? REALISTICALLY, WHAT ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO DO? SO AT SOME POINT COULD WE USE THE WORDS COMMON — THE WORDS COMMON SENSE WERE USED. THAT’S EXCELLENT. COULD WE USE SOME COMMON SENSE IN THIS AND TRY TO MAKE THAT WORK OUT? I FEAR FOR SURE, AS I’M VOTING AGAINST IT, IF YOU GO THE VISION ZERO ROUTE YOU’RE GOING TO SPEND TWO YEARS STUDYING, COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS THAT AREN’T GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, THEY’RE GOING TO SPEND A DUMP TRUCK FULL OF MONEY, AND AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF 200,000 PEOPLE I’M FRAYED NOT ONLY IS THE MONEY GOING TO GET DIRECTED TOWARDS THE WRONG THINGS BUT AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHO RIGHTLY WANT THEIR SHARE. SO IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT OUR AREAS BEING DIFFERENT AND WHAT’S BEING DONE IN THOSE AREAS BUT ALSO THE EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES. I’VE SAID THIS STUFF BEFORE. YOU LOOK AT WHERE OUR PARKS ARE. IT’S ABSURD. IT’S ABSURD. THE DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES SOUTH OF, SAY, NORTHERN. THE PARKS COMMITTEE, I ASKED FOR THAT. SO THAT’S TAKING US FAR AFIELD. BUT AT SOME POINT BASIC FAIRNESS AND COMMON SENSE SHOULD BE USED. THIS ISN’T A CRITIQUE OF STAFF. YOU’RE DOING WHAT I AM SURE YOU’RE PROBABLY ASKED TO DO, BUT AT SOME POINT, PEOPLE WILL NOTICE, AND PLEASE SPEND THE MONEY DOING THINGS THAT MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK. THANK YOU.>>Mayor Gallego: COUNCILWOMAN PASTOR?>>Councilwoman Pastor: SO I THINK WE’RE ALL KIND OF ON THE SAME — NOT NEXTLY THE SAME PAGE BUT WE ALL HAVE THE SAME NEEDS IN EACH DISTRICT, SO I’M GOING TO MOVE A MOTION, AND WHAT THE MOTION IS GOING TO SAY IS I MOVE THAT THE CITY STAFF REVIEW THE COMPONENTS OF THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM AND ASSESS AVAILABLE DATA AND ANALYZE SPECIFIC VARIABLES FOR A FRAMEWORK, THIS IS VERY KEY, THAT WILL ADDRESS THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PHOENIX ROADWAY NETWORKS IN EACH DISTRICT AND ALL ITS USERS.>>Councilwoman Stark: SECOND.>>Councilwoman Pastor: I JUST WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THE COMPONENTS AND THEN BUILD A FRAMEWORK AROUND ALL THE STUFF THAT WE’RE DOING. I’M GLAD COUNCILMAN WARING IS TALKING ABOUT EQUITY. IT’S GOOD TO HEAR THAT.>>Mayor Gallego: EXCELLENT. SHOULD WE DO — I THINK WE CAN JUST DO A VOICE VOTE ON THIS ONE. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY AYE. [ CHORUS OF AYES] THAT.>>Mayor Gallego: ALL OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT. PASSES. WITH THAT, WE WANT TO TURN TO COUNCILWOMAN MENDOZA –>>Councilman DiCiccio: MAYOR, CAN I ASK FOR A ROLL CALL?>>Mayor Gallego: ALL RIGHT, ROLL CALLED.>>City Mgr.: DICICCIO.>>Councilman DiCiccio: NO.>>City Mgr.: GUEVARA.>>Councilwoman Guevara: YES.>>City Mgr.: MENDOZA.>>Councilwoman Mendoza: [INAUDIBLE]>>Councilwoman Pastor: I CHANGED ALL MY STUFF [INAUDIBLE] IT’S TO USE THE COMPONENTS [INAUDIBLE] I MOVE THE CITY STAFF REVIEW THE COMPONENTS OF VISION ZERO PROGRAM, ASSESS THE AVAILABLE DATA, ANALYZE SPECIFIC VARIABLES FOR A FRAMEWORK THAT WILL ADDRESS THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CITY ROADWAY NETWORK IN EACH DISTRICT AND ALL ITS USERS.>>Councilwoman Mendoza: I DON’T FEEL COMFORTABLE. SORRY.>>City Mgr.: NOWAKOWSKI.>>Councilman Nowakowski: THIS IS HARD. I LIKE TO LOOK AT THE RESEARCH BEHIND SOME OF THE ISSUES I’VE TALKED ABOUT IN MAKING SURE THERE IS THE THE RESOURCES TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. I JUST DON’T WANT TO SIT UP HERE AND SAY WE’RE GOING TO ADOPT SOMETHING WE’RE GOING TO CALL VISION ZERO WHEN WE ALREADY HAVE SOMETHING CALLED HEADS UP THAT’S SIMILAR BUT THEN ALL THE THINGS THAT I NEEDED IN HEADS UP WAS THE EXTRA INFRASTRUCTURE STUFF THAT WE DIDN’T HAVE THE RESOURCES TO FULFILL. SO I’M CONCERNED THAT VOTING YES ON THIS WE’RE ALL GOING TO LEAVE FEELING GOOD AND HAPPY BUT AT THE SAME TIME WHAT RESULTS ARE WE GOING TO GET OUT OF IT? I MEAN, WHAT EXTRA RESULTS BESIDES WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON RIGHT NOW? SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE IF WE’RE GOING TO SIT UP HERE THAT THIS MOTION HAS SOME TYPE OF RESOURCES OR SOME TYPE OF WAY OF COMPLETING WHAT WE’RE VOTING ON SO IT’S NOT JUST A BUNCH OF WORDS BUT IT’S SOME TYPE OF ACTION BEHIND IT, BEHIND THOSE WORDS. SO I’D LIKE TO SEE WHAT’S IT GOING TO COST TO ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT THE NEEDS WITHIN MY OWN DISTRICT AND TALK ABOUT NOT JUST THE EASY FIXES BUT THE HARD INFRASTRUCTURE FIXES THAT WE REALLY NEED. SO SAYING THAT, I REALLY — I’M REALLY CONFUSED ABOUT THIS.>>Councilwoman Pastor: I CAN ADD CLARITY TO THAT. SO IT’S A FRAME BURKE. IT’S USING THE COMPONENTS OF VISION ZERO. IN THAT FRAMEWORK CAN YOU ADD THE COST TO EVERYTHING THAT ONCE THE FRAMEWORK IS BUILT?>>Mayor Gallego: SO THE MOTION DOES WHAT COUNCILMAN NOWAKOWSKI IS LOOKING FOR?>>Councilwoman Pastor: THAT’S THE INTENT.>>Councilman Nowakowski: I’M STILL — THE NAME VISION ZERO IS NOT THE PROBLEM FOR ME. THE PROBLEM THAT I HAVE IS THAT THE LACK OF RESOURCES, LACK OF INFORMATION. I DIDN’T GET A STAFF BRIEFING ON THIS. SO IT SEEMS LIKE IT’S GOING REALLY QUICK. I IF I WOULD HAVE SAT DOWN, I WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO EXPRESS MY FEELINGS LIKE I’M DOING RIGHT HERE IN THE OPEN PUBLIC WITH OUR STAFF. I DON’T THINK IT’S RIGHT TO ACTUALLY SIT HERE AND KIND OF NOT SCOLD YOU ALL BUT TO SAY THESE ARE THE THINGS I NEED DONE BEFORE I CAN EVEN VOTE ON THIS. THAT’S WHY I DON’T FEEL COMFORTABLE VOTING YES RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THERE’S NOT — AND I BELIEVE IN THE VISION THAT THE MAYOR HAS. SO THAT’S WHY IT’S SO HARD. BECAUSE I BELIEVE THERE IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DO. BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN I VOTE ON SOMETHING THAT THERE’S RESOURCES ATTACHED TO IT AND IT’S NOT JUST WORDS BUT THERE’S SOME ACTION BEHIND IT. SO IT’S A NO.>>City Mgr.: PASTOR.>>Councilwoman Pastor: YES.>>City Mgr.: STARK.>>Councilwoman Stark: [INAUDIBLE]>>City Mgr.: WARING.>>Councilman Waring: [INAUDIBLE]>>CITY MGR.: GALLEGO.>>MAYOR GALLEGO: YES. THAT’S FOUR YES AND FOUR NO.>>Mayor Gallego: IT FAILS.>>City Mgr. Zuercher: THAT’S CORRECT.>>Mayor Gallego: COUNCILWOMAN MENDOZA HAD AN ANNOUNCEMENT AND THEN WE ARE ADJOURNED.>>Councilwoman Mendoza: THANK YOU, MAYOR. EARLIER I DID NOT HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION, BUT DISTRICT 8 LOST A COMMUNITY LEADER, MR. PERRY ELAM, AND HE SERVED ON MANY COMMITTEES, THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, THE T.O.D. STEERING [INAUDIBLE] HIS MEMORIAL SERVICES WILL BE AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN VISIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH LOCATED ON 2006 EAST BROADWAY ROAD ON SATURDAY, APRIL 27th AT 2:30 P.M. AND I WILL HAVE THIS INFORMATION POSTED ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA AS WELL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [INAUDIBLE].