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Transit — Transportation Planning Committee
Meeting Minutes
Thursday, January 2O.2O11
1O:3Oa.nn.-12Noon
City Council Members Staff
Rick Ensey, Chair Chris VVaarviok, Public Works Director
Micah Cawley Joe RVoen|und, Streets & Traffic Operations Manager
Dave Ettl Kevin Futrell, Transit Planner
Transit Items
Councilman Rick Ensey called the meeting to order at 10:30 am in the Community & Economic
Development (CED) Conference Room at City Hall. Chris Waarvick started the meeting by sharing
that Transit was approached by their bus advertiser, Lamar AdvertioinQ, who said they were
contacted by an agency called Final Exit Network vvh0, within book ends of the |evv, assist and
support people with suicide. Waarvick continued by saying that in the State of Washington in 3009
those book ends were established and they are fairly narrow. VVmorviuk said the organization is
interested in placing their advertisement on our city buses and would like to know our thoughts about
this issue.
Waarvick explained that he contacted the Legal Department to see if they could see what constraints
there are with this activity or level of sensitivity. Opinions were written by Mark Kunkler after an
analysis and the preliminary conclusion is that we have limited ability to deny their request. Waarvick
said he just wanted to bring this before the Council to see if there are any precautions they should
take. Councilman Micah Cawley responded that as long as we stay within the compounds of the law
vve cannot restrict them from advertising 0n our buses and the rest of the Council Committee agreed.
Kevin Futrell gave an annual ridership report and said that they were down by 3 }1 percent compared
to the previous year. Futrell mentioned that Yakima Transit will soon have Google Transit so if the
public wants to map out their trips from Point A to Point B along with the cost of the trip they are able
to do so. Futrell said that King County already has theirs in place and expects ours to be available
soon. Futrell added that the plan is to eventually get People for People, Tribal Transit, and Union
Gap Transit to also participate. Futrell's final comments were that Transit will be providing Sunday
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service starting April 4 which is part ofadennonctrction project and operated by a grant.
Street and Traffic Operations
Joe Rosenlund gave the Committee an update on the condition of city streets. An inspection of the
entire street nehmork m�` just completed i [) b Th city's t t i | in good
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condition. The percentage of streets that are fair to failed condition has grown three percent over the
last three years from 25% to 28%. The majority of the streets are in good condition with pavement
condition indexes (P[}|) between 55to75ona scale mfO1u1OO. The 55 PCI value is the breakpoint
between maintaining roads in a mostly proactive preventative maintenance mode or in a reactive
major repair mode. At the present street maintenance funding |eve|, it will not be long before the
majority of our streets drop below that 55 PCI level. More specific information on what these results
mean in terms of required funding will be presented at the next Transit/Transportation Planning
Committee meeting.
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