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Quinlan Conf Room: Today's part…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): In… And I call this meeting to order at
7.02, and ask staff to proceed with the vote.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, thank you, Chair.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Chair Eshelbeck? Here. Vice Chair Mike
Putla?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Ganga? Yes. Commissioner
Marcy?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Commissioner Wolf. Here. We have a chair
with,
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Vice Chair Mike Potla and Commissioner
Marcy have absent.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent, thank you. That takes us to our
first, item on the agenda tonight, which is the approval of the minutes
from our February 18 meeting. The meeting minutes have been provided to
us.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I'm looking for a motion to approve,
or any feedback or comments on the draft.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I make a motion to approve.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): 5 seconds.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have a proper motion, we have a second,
asking for a vote on the approval of the meeting minutes from February
18th, please.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): for, the approval of the February 18th,
2026.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Bike Commission minutes, how do you vote?
Chair Eshelbeck? Yes. Commissioner Ganga? Yes. And Commissioner Wolf?
Yes. A motion passes, 3-0. Commissioners, Madipotle and Mercy Houseen.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent, so we're not all to know.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Are there any, postponements?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I do not have any postponements.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And let's see, Commissioner Marcy has
arrived.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Like… 20 seconds.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sorry for interrupting you. No. Okay,
perfect.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we have no response tonight. That takes
us to oral communications. This part of the meeting is reserved for any
topics that are not on the agenda tonight.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, members, or speakers are limited to 3
minutes in the commentary, so I'm just wondering if you have any oral
communication tonight, either in the room or on remote?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no speakers, no speakers. Thank
you!
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no old business.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I will close the public comment period
for this agenda item, and we'll move on to our…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next item, which is on the new business
category, item number 2, which is the bike event coordination, and I
think we have a presentation that we are receiving tonight on this
function.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Nope.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, if you're all familiar with, the
Silicon Valley's,
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Coalition Bike to Work Day and Bike to
Wherever Days. Wherever days this year are. May…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, like me. We should.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it's May 14th, 15th, and 16th, so
Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And this year they're doing it a little bit
differently and going back, Thursday is officially Bike to Work Day.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The other two are Biked to wherever days.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Get more confusing.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): You are invited to have an Energizer
station on any of the days and any time that you wish.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The question I have for you tonight is, if
you're hosting an Energizer station, and if so, when and where, if you go
to the next slide, the… what you've done in the past is the Thursday at
the corner of McClellan and Stelling from 7 to 10 a.m. in the morning.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So the question is, is that of interest
again?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think so.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it… I think that's the best day,
in my opinion.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Awesome. Heads up that Mayor Moore is very
interested in partnering somehow. It's a little bit unclear exactly what
she wishes to do, but the first step is she is doing a series of video
promotions. They're taping tomorrow, so she will do a little promotional
video for this, so that's why it was important to set day and time.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that she could advertise it for you.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, you'll at least get the advertising. I
imagine she'll show up for the event. I do not know if she'll be there
for the entire time. If I get more details, I will pass them along, or
presumably Tina will be in direct contact. I don't know how they're gonna
organize that.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… Oh, sure.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The Energizer Station Host Guide is out
already, as usual. It has most of the same information as last year.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sign-ups for the Energizer Station are by
March 31st. They're early this year. Silicon Valley Bike Coalition says
they are short-staffed this year, so they're doing less than they
normally do. It's a little bit more hands-off, so they're asking for
sign-ups a little bit earlier than normal as well, so they have more time
to prep.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): They are still doing the tote bags and all
the goodies that go in them. However, this year, the big change is you'll
get a package. They won't already be pre-stuffed. So it will be your
choice whether you want to stuff them and hand them out like usual, or if
you just want to have a spread on the table and let people take whatever
they want to take.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, it's up to you.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next slide.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): sign up by the 31st of March, and then the
tote bag pickup is May 4th, this time at the Redwood City Sports
Basement, not the Sunnyvale one, so that's a change from last year.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then there is a one-hour Zoom
orientation.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): At Tuesday the 28th, April 28th at 6pm, or
Thursday, May 7th at 1pm, and now…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): the May 7th might actually be in person,
I'm not quite sure about that, but the…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The website definitely lists it all out.
You go to look for that.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then, obviously, finding people to
staff the booth, and deciding what goodies to offer.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And as usual, the city will reimburse up
to $100. Receipts go to David.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Still.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I didn't catch that fifth part about the
video, the emotional video, what was that all about?
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Mayor Moore is doing a series of
promotional videos. She has a, like, Mayor's initiative, which is a…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): move out more, move on more? Oh, I've
been, like, messing this up.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it's Move On More is her slogan
for the year, and so she wants to do one activity, like, one active thing
a month. So she did Big Bunny.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): That was part of her thing, and so she's
using… she wants to use this as one of her thing… one of her monthly
events, I think. And so she's recording video that'll be, like, on,
Facebook and things, like.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): advertising video, and so she's doing one
for your bike to work day.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, if we get her the information
before tomorrow, she'll get the details correct, which would be good.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's it from your second theory part.
That's it from my…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Unless you have any questions.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, that's my first.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next step is to ask for any commissioners
for any clarifying questions first.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): No? Ben, any public questions or any
public comments on this topic? Yes, we have,
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): One remote speaker. Wonderful, let's get
started, and you have 3 minutes per speaker. Okay, one side.
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: Can you hear me?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, we can hear you.
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: Yeah, yeah. Hey, this is Commissioner,
Madhipatlam. I joined.
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: I registered and joined. I'm joining from
India, so I wasn't sure if I'm admitted as a commissioner, or…
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: They've been a participant.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): You're, you're breaking up? You're
breaking up, Monty, we cannot hear you consistently.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm kidding.
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: I, I sent a mail earlier, yeah.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. Now we can give you a better.
Continue on.
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: Yeah, yeah. No, I sent a mail last week to
David Stillman and, you know, and to you, Gerhard, about my travel, and…
and I was struggling to access my system, the…
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: from home in US, so… but I was finally able to
get in from India, so I wanted to join this meeting from India, so I sent
a mail, so I don't know if you guys got an opportunity to see that.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I didn't get notice muni until.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sunday, and by then, the agenda had been
posted, and we were within the 72-hour window by Monday, so we weren't
able to include you as a remote attendee.
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: Okay, okay, that's fine. So, no problem. Okay,
thanks for the clarification. So, so I'll probably, you know, abstain
from this meeting, I guess.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can still have a comment,
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): as a member of the public money, if you
want to.
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: Yes
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: Yeah, as a public, you know, I certainly want
to volunteer for this event on May 14th, so I'll go ahead and register,
okay?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, wonderful. Thank you.
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Munisekaran Madhdhipatla: Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): No more… no more public speakers on this
topic? We have no remaining speakers. Excellent. So that means we can
move to our Commission discussion on this topic here, so I think that the
topic of discussion should be around
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): the dates, the specific dates, it puts,
like, there's three possible dates, which, have been proposed, but it
sounds like one is kind of a preferred date, if I…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Correctly. So we should probably have a
discussion on dates still, just for…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): what it's worthwhile. I am out of town
for… for Thursday and Friday that week. I cook for Saturday, if you
decide. Not saying you should do Saturday, but if you decide Saturday, I
will be there, but I cannot do Thursday, Friday, because I will be in New
York for that… for that week.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): for everybody, at least a little bit. So I
would love to have a discussion on the topic, and if you want to do this,
and, obviously.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Which days would work for everybody.
Again, I'm open for any day, but,
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would, I would go.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): suggests we… we've always done, May 14th,
it is about.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): knowledge back to being the.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): like the workday. That's the day that
everybody has the expectation of having, at least.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Energizer, boost, and so I think you get
the most…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think we would get the most traffic if
we did it on that Thursday.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I'm not sure about Saturday, it's… it
might be… But,
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think there is that expectation, but
most… a lot of people just ride to work that day, so the volume of
bicycle rides is up. Yeah. And,
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): For as long as I remember, it's been… It's
been on May 14th.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I would suggest May 14th. Okay.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any other comments, any other thoughts?
So, if it's May 14th, like, I can… partially, I can…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): A lot volunteer?
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): I will not be able to stay the full, time,
because I have a… I chair another meeting at the, on the same day as a
framework, so…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): balance that out, but I'll try to come
partially for that stuff.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And when's the start? Because I think it
starts at 7 o'clock in the morning. 7, yeah. So you should follow.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): We'd be there at, you know, well, somebody
has to be there at 6.30 to set up, somebody drops off the tables and the…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah. Usually, I've been there.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): before in prior events, and 6.30 is a good
time for everybody to be there to start setting up tables and the tent
and everything there, so…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): 6.30 is a good time to be.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): As I recall, the city helped us set
everything up, too. I think they set the canopy something. The canopies
are delivered.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): They delivered the night before that
morning.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): It was on the.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): End of the day?
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Did they help you set it up last year?
They did not help us set it up, they set it up.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): themselves, and they did pretty much.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): The year before the help set up. But the
year before that, they do. If you need help set.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because the thing was it wrong, so they
just took everything he had. It went faster.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, any other thoughts, any other
comments on… On this topic?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And it sounds like the… the May 14th is
the preferred date, it sounds like. Should probably…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): lock that in.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's the right day. Sounds like it's the
recommended day by the season as well.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): At least I heard, like, the only Israel…
That's what I heard from United. You're going to volunteer as well,
right? So at least two of…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): He will be there for the following.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): 3 hours, right? I will be there for 5
months at a time. I don't know.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): I… so, folks.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can go from 7… 7 to 10? I think I can go
7 to 9.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, yeah. So that is actually a good
turnout there, yeah. I'm sorry, I cannot…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): So I could be there at 6.30 and set up.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll be the second part of it, second off,
so I'll… that way I get a compliment.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We don't… I don't think we need to vote
for that, David, to be…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Do you want to vote, or…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't think we need that. No, I think
that sounds like we're… we're in agreement that… That being said, we need
someone to, attend the Zoom or.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And pick up the, we used to be handed over
on that day.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Which is on… which base test, that is…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): La Zoom is on April 28th.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): At 6 p.m.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): or Thursday, May 7th. So, I think it has
to be…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): It would have to be one, I mean, somebody
who's gonna be there. So, I mean, I could just have a Zoom meeting.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): After Maripatla, is it going to be here?
Because you mentioned it would be interesting.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't think there's any hurt if you have
multiple members attending the Zoom, but it would be better if you have
somebody who is here on the line, unless you can get money back on the
line.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it's probably better. If you can
do it, Joe, I would rather have you down there. If Moni wants to join as
well, in addition to it, I don't think there's any harm.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): If that… if that works for everybody.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sounds like that's pretty much it. Joel,
you'll sign up for the Energize Nation.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I can do that. Perfect. Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And who's picking up.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): the supplies?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Probably do that.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): it's up in Redwood City.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you for volunteering, Joe.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Page.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Was… Yeah, it was not that far away
before.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that's okay.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, great. Any other…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): McCullen and Stellium. Is that… that's
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's what it has been in prior years.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's just… it's a good look.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Excellent. Yeah, we have… we had a setup
on each… On scaling your setup on… I don't know.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): McCullough.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Two tables, two canopies, Fort shows, or
something like that.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We need to give a heads up to the St.
George's community that…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, we have to get permission… I have
permission just to get a heads up, I think. Yeah.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, yeah, I…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think, because you don't use the
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think we might be able to use the best.
In the parking lot, yeah. That's right. So we… I talked to,
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): you want to bring food, I guess that's the
other… We do typically supply You know, some…
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Like…
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Roasted potatoes, that's a hot…
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): That sort of thing, that's,
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think an energy bar, something like
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's the items that specifically are
talked about here for the refunding by daily.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay, so it's… Yeah, whoever.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): that, just… you can spend up to $100.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): But normally, we used to volunteer, like,
each of us, just… So that… So how…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right? This is in addition to the $100,
right? Is that so? Well, I've never.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Great.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): submitted any expenses in the past, so…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Previously, whenever I did it, I did never
submit anything expenses, I'm asking.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's up to you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): It sounds like there is the option of
getting refunding, but it sounds like it's not mandatory. Somebody wants
to donate, it sounds like that's okay.
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, I… I remember years ago when I was
riding to work, I worked in Memo Park, and some of the corporations that
sponsored the booths, they would go up
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): to elaborate… I mean, they were very
elaborate spreads, and so it varied quite a bit. Some stations only had
bananas, some had, you know, berries, and
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ton of food, but, you know, that's not… we've never been to that level,
but…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): They used to donate, actually.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): In my experience, bananas are very
successful.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And it will be…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm talking about, like, the serial boss,
like, I can get back.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then give it… drop it off at your…
Okay. We have done it in the past, so I'll do the same, but I don't think
I'm intent on getting the new ones.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's true.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sounds like we covered the topic
extensively, and I think we all said yes. Thank you for
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): But it's, contribution…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I'll let you know if I hear anything
about Mayor Moore and what her plans…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And while we are… it's not on the agenda
officially today, but I'd like to kind of put on the calendar as well the
Bike Fest calendar, the schedule, is that being scheduled already? In
September, this is the other event where we usually, as a commission, are
active, participate. September 26th. September 26th. I just wanted to
make everybody aware.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That September 26th is kind of the bike.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… Move on to our…
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Next topic, which is, item number 3 on the
agenda tonight, and it's, Safe Routes to School update, and it's also
very…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anyway, thank you all for having me back
again. The last time we were here with Safe Routes updates was almost a
year ago, and we did kind of a very broad spread update, or overview of
the entire Safe Routes program.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): SafeRoutes, our framework, is the seven
E's, and we kind of went through them all and showed you how our program
touches all of them. Tonight, I didn't really want to do everything
again. I felt like we'd already done that, so I wanted to give you a
snapshot of SafeRoutes today, right, and what the hot topics that we have
right now, and what we're working on.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So what you will notice, instead of this
very pretty wheel where I touch on everything, it's more like this
scatter plot of going back and forth, because truthfully, that's the way
Safe Routes works, is it's a little bit of everything, and not really in
any kind of order, and, just keeping our kids safe.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): General stuff.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're gonna start off with some education.
I'm very excited to announce we have a second grant from the California
Office of Traffic Safety for pedestrian and bicycle education.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Last year, we're going to use it this
spring, same thing we used it for last year, in that we're doing,
education in primarily the elementary schools and a little bit of middle
school education.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So our goal is to touch the kids every two
years, right? So we touch them in kindergarten.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): with their, kindergarten parades and
teaching them how to cross the street safely, right, with mom and dad.
Then in second grade, we come back and do a little bit more pedestrian
education, this time a little more focused towards maybe the kids are
going to school by themselves now, right? So how do you cross the street
without mom and dad? Like, how do you keep yourself safe?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then in fourth grade, we come back
this time with a very similar curriculum, but this time focused on bikes.
How would you bike yourself to school? It's… the assumption is by 4th
grade, most of the kids can bike themselves.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): are… can ride… they know how to ride a
bike, right? So what we're focusing on is street safety. How do you cross
the street on the bike? How do you ride down the bike lane without
wobbling all over and giving the driver behind you a heart attack?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then in sixth grade, and truthfully,
in all of middle school, we do a middle school workshop for bikes, that's
a little bit more geared towards, like, defensive biking. How do you keep
yourself safe on the road when the drivers aren't always looking for you,
right?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then, this is just out here on high
school. We don't really have a formal education program in the high
school level. What we have there is our high school representatives who
do a more encouragement, a little bit of education, but the idea is to
touch them again there, so just as a reminder that, yeah, you're getting
your driver's license now, but that doesn't mean you go out and you run
over all the pedestrians and bicyclists that are out there.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, if you go to the next slide…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So this, graph starts in COVID because,
truthfully, from our point of view, the world restarted in COVID, right?
Schools shut down to in-person learning, which means there was no walking
and biking to school, and as we came back.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): People have started up again, so that's
why that… this chart starts there.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And as you can see, we've done… worked
very, very hard to get more and more programming in the schools.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): If we can manage, and Herve, if we could
get your help a little bit, too. Eaton is one of the holdouts yet. We
don't yet have our second grade pedestrian education scheduled there, but
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Except for a couple of exceptions like
that, we might have actually hit all of the classrooms this year, which
would be awesome, and that does mean that next year this chart will
plateau, but that's good news. That means that we're hitting all kinder,
second, and fourth graders in the city of Cupertino, which is awesome.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The next slide.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And this is just a way of showing off a
little bit that we have managed to pay for this programming, not using
city general funds, right? Through grants, primarily that OTS grant that
we have, that's the big one, and then a little bit of Measure B funding
as well.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So here's me, I don't know how these
programs work. Did you want to do questions as I finish a topic, or hold
them till the end?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, I think typically we should
probably allow you to finish your presentation, and then… Okay.
Questions. But if there is a question that just fits in perfectly, I
think we should be able to do another as well.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Perfect.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So then, moving on to evaluation, for
another E, we did our annual travel tallies again in October this year,
or I guess, last year.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): This is where all of the teachers partner
with us and ask their students, how did you get to school, right? How
many kids walk to school? And the kids raise their hands, and the
teachers write down the numbers. And so then we take all of that data,
and if you'll go to the next slide…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We've been doing this since 2015, so,
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): It is not necessarily the most rigorous of
surveys, however, just by virtue of doing the same survey every year, the
data set gets very interesting as you get enough data.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Take a look at it. I didn't graph it for
you this time, I wanted to show you the numbers so you can see. We're
holding fairly steady. The walk numbers haven't changed a whole lot.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): However, what's really interesting is the
bike numbers are slowly creeping up. And the last couple of years, I
haven't wanted to say anything, because as you can see, it's not really
much yet, but now it's been 4 or 5 years of it, so I'm, like, slowly
working it. It's pretty exciting to see, even if it is small.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Minnesota?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Of course, then we can take a look at lots
of other things in that data, right? That one table is a very high-level
snapshot, and you can do lots of deep dives and have lots of fun with the
data. One of the things that was exciting this year is we've been working
really, really hard with the high schools.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Get, teacher participation.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's a very long time, the teachers, like,
our, response rate from the teachers was at about 20%.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Which is small enough that I'm leery that
the data's any good, right? But this year, working with Cupertino High
School, we actually got a 60% response rate, so I actually trust the
data.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or at least a little bit more. So we can
actually take a look at, the different grades in high school.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): What you do see is, at the high school
level, as some of you probably know, a lot of the classes aren't just 9th
grade, right? It's like a mixed 9th, 10th, and 11th graders, or 11th and
12th graders.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And we don't ask the teachers to say, how
many 11th graders walk to school today, right? We just ask them for their
class. So, about half of the high school population in this survey is in
the mixed bucket. So that's why I've shown it, but it's off to the side.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's also why there doesn't happen to be
any 11th grade response, we just didn't have a pure 11th grade classroom.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): But what you can see is the war of the
driver's license in the car is really, really high. And it's not
unexpected, it's not something we didn't know, but it's interesting that
the data really shows it. So the kids get their driver's license, and all
they want to do is drive to school.
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Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): So…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's there. And for other interesting
things, we saw a couple of schools this year where their, active
transportation rate just did a giant jump, right? So 9% at Collins,
that's huge in the scope of this.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Survey, right?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): It is a certain amount of guesswork onto…
as to why this is happening. Like, I can't tell you for absolute certain
what happened.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): What I can tell you is, if you remember
when I was here last year… if you go one more slide, please.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Go ahead. Go one more slide.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): what we had talked about is Collins was
having an issue where on Blaney, in front of the school, people were
stacking up and waiting for school dismissal, and they were blocking the
entire road, right? And so we went out over Christmas, and then
periodically in the spring.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then again this fall, and just… This
big campaign…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can't just sit in the middle of the
road. You have to move on, right? You have to go park in the
neighborhood, or you have to keep circling. And at the Collins case,
there's a nice loop to do. You come down, and you go around Plum Tree
Lane, and keep circling.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Truthfully, a lot of the parents chose to
go park in the neighborhood instead of circling endlessly, but still, the
idea was it was no longer convenient for somebody to drive up in a car
and wait their turn and drive in to pick up their kid. They had to go do
something else. It wasn't easy.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so my speculation is this is really
what's feeding into that active transportation increase.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is that if you make it less convenient to
drive.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Then people start looking at other
options, and they realize that other options can actually be a lot
better.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Part of the reason that I suggest that
this is one of the reasons is we did something similar this fall, very
early in the fall, with Kennedy Middle School on Bubb Road, was having
the same issue. So we really had to go out in Bubb, because Bubb is such
a artery that carries so much
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Regular traffic, not just school traffic,
that we were requested to do something about that road as well.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that happened just before the travel
tally happened. So, like, we were out there in September and October,
telling parents they couldn't just wait, and then the travel tally
happened at the end of October. And you noticed an even bigger jump. They
had a 13% jump.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that's why I'm suggesting that this…
this might be behind some of this data change, is that parent…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): people in general take the easy way out.
Like, that's not…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): accusing anybody, that's just what
everybody does. And so, if the car is the easiest way, they'll take the
car. But if walking is the easiest way.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Sometimes they'll walk, which is pretty
cool.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): If you go to the next slide…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Unfortunately, this epidemic of parents
picking up kids and blocking street traffic, Garden Gate was the latest
one that we got complaints about.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Usually what happens on these is, we'll
get a 311 complaint, or some people write in to city council, or to, the
Public Works Director himself.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Like, somebody will… some resident or
neighbor will call in and complain.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So the latest school we got a complaint
for is Garden Gate, and I don't know how familiar you are with the area
right in front of Garden Gate, so forgive the hokey little map.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): But, the Garden Gate drop-off loop is
actually quite large, right? It accommodates quite a number of cars.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): But then, when there's more cars, they
feed out… those little blue dots are meant to be the cars, and they feed
out onto the street, onto Greenleaf Drive, and there's a really big
section of red curb there, so there's nobody parked there, so they can
line up… you can line up another goods…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): What, 5-7 cars there?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, it kind of extends the driveway, which
is really nice. But at some point, you hit the parked cars. Those green
cars are parked.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the people who are waiting now don't
have anywhere to go, so they become those red cars who just sit in the
middle of the road.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then Greenleaf happens to have a
little concrete divider in the middle.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): as you go down, so that people weren't
crossing over in that… that S-turn, right, to keep it safe. Because that
divider is there, once that first red car parks, no one can get around,
right? Like, there's nothing anybody can do, unless you're in the lifted,
you know.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, people were being trapped there for,
like, 20 minutes at a time while they were waiting for the bell to ring.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Which they had, you know, and so if it's a
neighbor.
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they just want to go where they were going.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, this forward one.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Luckily, the area around, garden…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): brings itself to another loop. There are
schools in town that don't have a good loop, which is unfortunate, but
Garden Gate actually does. So if, instead of just waiting, if you
continue around, you can see that. You can just keep looping around if
you want. If you don't want to go park in the neighborhood, you can keep
looping around.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, we started… this information went
out
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Two weeks ago, right, and the school
helped us, the school principal did a big push with all the teachers,
sent out, this is the message that she sent out, you know, hey.
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everybody safe. That's usually our theme.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And warning them that they were going to
be asked to move around, asking them politely first, right? And then
starting last week, Prashant and I and Chelsea have been out, every day,
just standing at the bottom of the
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): the driveway, and shooing people on,
right? Reminding them that you can't just sit in the middle of the road,
you have to move on and do something.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we're kind of still in the middle of
this.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): It is tricky, changing parent behavior is…
well, changing any behavior is hard.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So it works really, really well now, after
a week of doing this. The parents, all they did today was see us, and
they… most of them went…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And moved on.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The trick is, of course, when we can't be
there anymore, how do we keep that behavior instead of regressing? And so
that's a discussion with the school, and probably the school district at
some point.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): To make it more clear to them, but…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that's been a push for our time in the
last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I did warn you, it was a little bit of
bouncing back and forth, so now we'll go back to some… a different
evaluation, and we'll look at some bite counts.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't know… I don't know that I brought
this up last time, and I did want to show this off a little bit. So, Walk
Bike Cupertino has been doing bike counts at each of the five, FUHSD
schools. That's Fremont Union High School District. So that's…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): the high school… our three schools in
Cupertino, our three high schools, are 3 of their five, and so then they
also have one in Sunnyvale and one in San Jose.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So those 5 schools, the team has been
going out and counting bikes there once a month for the last 5 years. So
they also have a very interesting data set that you can take a look at
and do some interesting analysis on.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): If you take a look, that first chart there
is just September data from every year, so it's year-over-year
comparable. We do find that weather is a huge factor in how many people
bike.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So you really… you want… if you're trying
to compare year over year, you kind of want weather to be similar, so
that's why I showed you just September.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And you can see that this kind of backs up
the travel tally. It's not a huge rise in bikes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): But it's kind of a trend upward here as
well, so… That is nice to see.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then the second chart I showed you,
just in case you were interested, is this is how… this is kind of typical
of how bike ridership changes over the school year, right? Everybody
starts off just like January 1st in that gym membership. Everybody starts
off with really high aspirations.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then it gets cold and wet in January
and February, and, you know, ridership drops, and then kids get really,
really busy with all their spring events, and ridership drops a little
bit more. There's usually a small uptick as the weather gets really nice
in May.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): depending on the year, can be how big that
is. That's kind of very typical that you'll see that… that kind of
profile over the course of a year.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The other thing that's really big right
now is e-bikes and e-motos, and I don't know how much you've seen or
heard, so I didn't want to
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): tell you stuff you already knew. So the
question is,
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Have you heard the term emoto, and does…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or do you want me to go do an overview of
them?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think you should probably cover it for
everybody. Okay.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): If you will please then go to the end of
the slide deck. It's one of the backup slides.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): One more.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, electric bikes, come… because
everything has to be confusing. There are 3 flavors of electric bikes. A
Class 1 electric bike is a pedal assist only, and it goes up to 20 miles
an hour.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, is limited… the wattage on the motor
is… This is the flyer from the Santa Clara Sheriff's Office, by the way,
and I can send you the flyer if you want, so you see both sides of it.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then a Class 2 e-bike is very similar
in that it only goes up to 20 miles an hour, but this one's with a
throttle instead of a pedal assist, so all you have to do is push the
button, and you…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Get speed, instead of having to pedal and
have it, you know, speed you up a little bit more than you're pedaling.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): There is also a Class 3 e-bike, which is
back to the pedal assist, but now it goes up to 28 miles an hour, and you
have to be 16 or older in order to ride… legally ride a Class 3 bike.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And this is a state of California.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anything that goes faster than this level
of bike, anything that has a bigger motor than a 750 watts, anything
that,
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is being… really is being ridden by
somebody too young to ride one of these bikes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, an e-motorcycle, and it's really an
off-road dirt bike that they're riding illegally on the road.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so, when you… when you hear about
problems with e-bikes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The real answer is, it's… the e-bikes
themselves aren't really the problem. The problem is the e-motivos that
are going 40 miles an hour down the road with the kids.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's why we're trying to distinguish
what problem do we have, right? Because there's nothing wrong with the
kids, especially in, like, the Monta Vista area, where it's really hilly.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): great that they ride an e-bike and get to
school, right? With a little bit of assistance to get up the hill at the
end of the day, right? There's nothing wrong with that. But there's
everything wrong with going 30 miles an hour up that hill without your,
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): You know, without your driver's license
and without your helmet, so…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I will say the one good thing about all
these e-motorcycles is, as cool as the kids think they are, they also
happen to think it's cool to wear a motorcycle helmet with them, so at
least they've got a helmet on their head.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, so that's what an eModo is, and then
if you'll go… sorry, back. I should have just put it in, sorry.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So one of the things that's happening is,
countywide, there's an interest in counting how many regular bikes we
have, how many e-bikes do we have, and then how many illegal e-bikes do
we have, how many e-modos are out there. So how big of a problem do we
have?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so we've been around, and we counted
at all 3 Cupertino high schools, and all 3 Cupertino middle schools.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): As you can see, the vast majority of bikes
that are out there are still regular
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): old pedal… unassisted pedal bikes, right?
Classic bikes. Which is, in some senses, really nice to see.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): There is, however, a fair share,
especially at the high school, of electric bikes, and what's hard to see
is when you have the electric bikes, a large percentage of them are these
emotos.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): the information we're getting from Marin,
which is… Marin County is where awareness of this really started, and
they're really at the forefront of working with, and working with
manufacturers and tools to kind of get ahead of this problem.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): They're a couple of years ahead of us, if
we look at the curve, and they're saying that this is just the beginning
of the explosion, right? You're at the beginning of the exponential
curve. And so, addressing it now would be wise.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, but the first step was to kind of…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): figure out what precise problem we had. So
that's why we did these counts.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And now we're working with Santa Clara
Public Health. They have a big initiative
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): To start collecting data at… from,
emergency responders and hospitals, right? They're seeing… the big
problem with this is
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): As your speeds go up, the injuries they're
seeing from these kids, they're no longer bike injuries, right? Now
they're motorcycle-type injuries, which are obviously way worse. And so
that's kind of why this all wraps in, and why people are concerned about
it, and concerned about what the kids are riding.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So there's a… at the county level, they're
working at that. They're also putting together a task force to kind of
address this county-wide, but we're looking at it at a Cupertino level as
well, and we're going to be working with both school districts, and then,
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): kind of parents as well, just to educate
parents. Because part of the problem, of course, is
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): A really nice e-bike is gonna cost you
$2,000.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): a really cool-looking Emoto from Costco is
$600.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right? As a parent, if you don't do a lot
of more research, like, if you're busy, and you just… your kid's really,
really begging for this, and really, really asking, and all my friends
have it, right?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): you're probably gonna go the easy route
and get the Costco thing. And so that's kind of where there's a lot of
parent education that needs to start happening, which is where we come in
as Safe Routes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… Stay tuned for that.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): That kind of brings us into our spring and
summer events, if you go to the next one. So, we are scheduling a parent
and an, like, educator, school district administrator type
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Overview of e-bikes and e-motos, and what
can be done, and what we think should be done.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that'll be scheduled for May.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Chelsea just picked a date, I think it's
gonna be May 7th, don't hold me to that yet, but it's looking good.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that's exciting that that's coming.
That'll be in Community Hall, and hopefully be a big forum. So… actually,
if I could get your help advertising that once we have all the details,
that would be great.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Then we also have middle school bike
skills. This is a class that we've offered now in the summers, for a
number of years. Was it pre-COVID, even?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): It was. So, it's been offered for a long
time. It's a very cool class. It's 4 hours on a weekend day in the
summer, so it's voluntary. A student comes with a parent, both on bikes.
There's about an hour of classroom reminders of safety things.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's about an hour on the blacktop
practicing, like, practicing stopping, practicing hand signals,
practicing turning, and then there's about 2 hours they go out on a road
ride, and they… they take all of that that they learned and practiced and
put it into the real world. So it's a 4-hour course that's very well
done.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We partner with Wheel Kids to offer that.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): This year, brand new, we have partnered
with Wheel Kids that will have the regular middle school bike skills on a
regular bikes. There'll be 3 of those courses offered, but we're also
going to offer, on two different days, a 2-hour version, like a Part 2
for e-bikes.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because I don't know how many of you have
tried riding an e-bike, it's surprisingly different.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right? It gets heavier, it goes faster, it
turns harder, like, it doesn't turn… it's not as maneuverable, and it
certainly doesn't stop as well, unless you get a really nice one.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, there are things to be aware of when
you transfer to an e-bike, and how to work in traffic. And then there's
also the fact of
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): a regular pedal bike, you're going, what,
10… okay, maybe Joel's going 15 miles an hour, I'm going 10 miles an
hour, right? You're kind of out of traffic, like, you're kind of between
a pedestrian and a car.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): But if you're on an e-bike, especially one
of the faster e-bikes, you're going the same speed as a car. And the cars
are trying to pass you, but you're trying to not be passed, like, it's a
little bit different, it's more like you're riding, like, a Vespa or
something instead of a bike.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, we'll do a 2-hour long, road ride, a
little bit of blacktop practice, and then mostly a road ride on the e-
bikes to get kids familiar with that and stay safe.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then they are also piloting a bike
repair class, so teaching kids how to fix their own bikes. So, instead of
just the regular 101 course, we're also having a 102 and a 103 this year.
See how it goes, so that's very exciting.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): For just plain old fun events, on the next
slide… The high school,
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): school district is having a Climate
Collective Day for Earth Day on the 22nd. That's a big event. They rent
out the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and they have just lots
of different places come in booths and activities and things for all the
high school kids, so we'll be there.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): As part of Safe Routes. That's usually a
fun event.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We're gonna do our walk-a-mole bingo
again, I don't know…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Everybody, if your kids did that last
year,
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Think of a bingo card, and each square is
some of… something to do, an activity that's walking or biking around
town. And can you make a bingo? And can you make a blackout, which is
take all squares. And, there are prizes, then, at the end of the month
for…
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): If you've managed to do any of those. The
number of kids who did blackouts last year was, like, a huge percentage.
Like, apparently it becomes a… if you're gonna do it, it becomes a
competition, and you gotta do the whole thing. So that was pretty funny.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We'll also have a number of walk and bike
to school days. If any of you are interested in tagging along for one of
those, those tend to be really fun.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Just lots of kids coming to school, and
being really excited to go to school at the elementary school level,
which is fun, because my teenager sure isn't excited to go to school
anymore.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And, every year we try to partner with the
library as well to do something, because they have a bigger reach than we
do, right? They're obviously not bike or pedestrian-focused, but they
still have a big reach and see a lot of families over the summer.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): They always do a, read a book thing in the
summer, right? Sign up to read at least 10 books, or however many books
you think you're gonna read.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then at the end of the summer, if
you've made your thing, you get a free book from the library.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): This year, kids who make their target
number of books to read are also going to get a raffle ticket for a
baggie of Safe Routes to School fun stuff. So, a little backpack.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): a leg… reflective leg band, a bike bell, I
forget what else is in the package. I think we put in a water bottle, so
just cute things. But the point is that there'll be a couple of thousand
families that see Safe Routes to School, right?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): hopefully that will do… remind people as
they come up into August and the start of the school year that maybe
think about walking and biking to school, not just driving.
410
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that's our goal.
411
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think that brings us back to Gerhard's
point of Bike Fest and the advance warning.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you all in advance for coming out
and helping, and as you know, it takes a lot of people to pull that off,
so we're planning our two bike rides again. The long bike ride is going
to be different this year. David and Chad wanted to see a different part
of town.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, and the short bike ride, Tim is
working hard on making that a little bit different to accommodate the
number of people. So last year, we had, like, 275 people on that ride,
and it got a little bit overwhelming, so this year, he's breaking it up a
little bit differently.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And by popular request, the Little Loop is
coming back. We'll see how many miles that they ride this year.
415
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that is my last slide.
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Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you, Bergen.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And do we have any, clarifying questions,
from the Commission?
418
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, you mentioned the OTS credits.
419
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So it's the California Office of Traffic
Safety.
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Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's a pedestrian and bicycle.
421
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): grants?
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we got… this year, we got $184,000 from
them. You put in for what you plan to use it for. It is…
423
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): state government, so it's very… it's not
like Measure B, which can be used for fun stuff. This is supposed to be
used for very serious things, so we use it for our…
424
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Bicycle and pedestrian education terms,
and so that pays for the teacher's side.
425
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): While we have the budget, do you also have
a complete picture of the overall Safe2Routes budget? Because I think…
426
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I just came from the Commission chair
meetings, and there was a discussion about the cost that I was sharing
and talking about tonight, about the process of school, and there were
specific questions around
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): overall cost and budget for the program,
and what's actually included in the total program. I didn't have the
answers on, but I would love to get some color on that, because that
seems like the 170 here that we're pulling is just the educational part,
but I think the Safe Route program is a bigger program, I understand,
right?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I can provide… I don't have the
information with me, but I can provide to the Commission at a later
meeting more detailed breakdown. Yeah, I think it may be helpful to have.
429
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): have a complete picture of maybe some
agenda that the future meetings.
430
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): It just came up as a question, so I just
thought it would be good for us to discuss it and have a picture. I
understand just means, I don't know, crossing guards well in the
SafeRocks program, or is there…
431
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, that's most of… Yeah.
432
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Probably would be good to get a budget
picture in one of the company.
433
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any other clarifying questions?
434
00:53:58.810 --> 00:54:04.989
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes, I see on the travel tally and the,
overall count.
435
00:54:05.130 --> 00:54:09.799
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We must walk back over. Are these
scooters?
436
00:54:09.805 --> 00:54:13.475
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): use other category, or are they, like,
categories? They're…
437
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The instructions say to put them in the
other category. The reason that we have recently combined bike and other,
because I've gotten anecdotal responses from teachers and the principals
that, where do I put it, right? So we just combined them. I would expect
it to be… I would expect the school.
438
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): count to be higher than just, you know, S.
439
00:54:37.785 --> 00:54:38.444
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): At the.
440
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): E-pipes are on the bike category, I would
assume.
441
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. And…
442
00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:48.279
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): We give detailed instructions, like, if
you take SD Hopper.
443
00:54:48.290 --> 00:55:06.180
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): if you're the only kid as a family car,
and if you're, like, with other kids, it should count as a carpool, but I
don't know for sure that that's getting counted correctly either, but
there's not much we can do about a self-reported essay other than make
very clear instructions and hope.
444
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, my other question is, like, similar to
what they have asked, like, it's more than the funding, like, most of the
445
00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:19.290
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Discussion that we had is about the
education part of it.
446
00:55:19.420 --> 00:55:29.579
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): But what other, initiatives or activities
that is coming into school, and we'd like to get an update along with the
budget?
447
00:55:31.630 --> 00:55:40.070
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Maybe we can cover this with you. What's
included, actually, in Safe Ravels? What's the overall, kind of, program
looking like? I mean, I think this is super helpful for the information
part there.
448
00:55:41.110 --> 00:55:44.110
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I know, I keep going back to the
circle.
449
00:55:45.000 --> 00:56:00.099
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So there's the evaluation that's a lot of
what you saw tonight, too, right, and the integration piece. Engineering,
I don't tend to talk about too much, because, I sit with David and
Prashant and Matt, and so they kind of take
450
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): it's more of a partnership than us doing
that, right? But, like, for instance, the pedestrian scramble at
McClellan and Bubb.
451
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right, that was an initiative to support
the students who use that intersection.
452
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So there are lots of places around town.
The Lawson Bike.
453
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yes. It's the infrastructure projects and
things that are included in the…
454
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): list. The smaller day-to-day things that
Prashant will help out with, you know, red curb near an intersection by a
school in order to make clear sight lines, it's the… it's the stuff on
the…
455
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): What would that fall under? That would be…
encouragement, or…
456
00:56:45.230 --> 00:57:02.650
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Remember how I said it's… it looks like a
nice circle, and it's really a scatter chart? So, crossing guards are
kind of a little bit of enforcement, a little bit of encouragement, a
little bit of engagement, because you would be surprised at how… oh, you
know, the number of crossing guards who know their kids.
457
00:57:02.650 --> 00:57:10.659
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): and say hi, and hey, you're not looking so
happy today. Like, they act as another, you know, adult support system.
458
00:57:10.660 --> 00:57:13.799
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So they… the crossing guards really fall
into a lot of that.
459
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): They also do a little bit of education. We
like to pull in the crossing guards into the kinder parades, and
introduce the kinders to their new crossing guard, and like, you know,
teach them how to cross with the crossing guard.
460
00:57:28.720 --> 00:57:47.749
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it would be really helpful to kind
of get this maybe in a follow-up meeting. I mean, I think our intention
is to do these updates from Safe Browsing on a more regular basis anyway,
than once a year, so maybe more projects don't even include some of the
broader program, and that's how we have with the budgets.
461
00:57:49.950 --> 00:57:54.769
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any other clarifying questions on this
topic? Yeah, so I saw the…
462
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you.
463
00:57:56.550 --> 00:58:09.550
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): right in the bike, and you also said that
the e-bikes are also… the e-bikes and e-motos are included in that as
well. And the numbers that you showed was kind of… there was an uptick of
e-bike or e-motor as well.
464
00:58:10.520 --> 00:58:14.029
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): So you should… So overall optic, is it
because…
465
00:58:14.310 --> 00:58:16.390
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): People are starting to use e-bikes.
466
00:58:16.710 --> 00:58:20.970
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Otherwise, the root of sales are taken
down, or some of the work.
467
00:58:21.180 --> 00:58:22.790
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, I can't…
468
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I can't reliably give you an answer at the
high school level.
469
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I can tell you that I've only ever
seen one e-bike at the elementary school level. It wasn't eaten, and it
wasn't Emoto. I'm a little worried.
470
00:58:35.670 --> 00:58:48.979
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, the uptick at the elementary school
level is not e-bikes, right? And so, it argues that there's just an
uptake in bikes in general, and e-bikes are feeding into that, being just
a part of it.
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00:58:50.330 --> 00:58:57.119
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, if I look at this, it's almost 20%
e-bikes now, right? Including e-bikes and e-motors, so I think that
472
00:58:57.500 --> 00:59:03.330
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That probably contributes to a big part of
the growth in the Viking spectra.
473
00:59:04.870 --> 00:59:11.809
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's hard to say, right? How many people
converted from a regular bike, and how many people picked up a bike
because they had an e-bike?
474
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, one more question regarding the
Carnegate. You mentioned.
475
00:59:24.695 --> 00:59:38.344
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): when people were, kind of, stacking up at
the entrance in their cars, they said, we… we were… we came, and they
recognized us. Were you with law enforcement, or was it just you coming
to tell people to do law enforcement?
476
00:59:38.780 --> 00:59:58.569
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So that particular case, it's been us, so
city staff, the sheriff's department, we do work with the traffic unit
pretty closely. They do send people, like, he sends a guy around and does
the rounds. We find it super helpful that he's just around.
477
00:59:58.570 --> 01:00:14.170
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): He doesn't have… he doesn't have to be
directing traffic, just the fact that he's, like, visible helps. They
have been out on Bub in front of Kennedy quite a bit. They try to go out
there at least once a week, if not more, kind of help keep that road open
as well.
478
01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:17.110
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… So they're, they're good.
479
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): They're definitely partner.
480
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Another question, like, on the… when you
have this loop, like, I think two of the schools that you're…
481
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): joining, right? So… It's a behavior where
482
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): The parents drop their kids elsewhere
along the loop, and then the kids walk to school, or how does it do?
483
01:00:37.370 --> 01:00:38.319
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): on all drugs.
484
01:00:39.300 --> 01:00:41.279
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, this is.
485
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): part of what.
486
01:00:42.035 --> 01:00:43.904
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't understand. As a parent.
487
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would be dropping my kid… actually, I
wouldn't even be getting in the car, right? I'd be like, the kid gets to
walk to school, so the… I'm coming from a different mindset, apparently.
But a lot of these.
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): kids, we walk.
489
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Or a lot of these.
490
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): parents, we watch.
491
01:00:56.270 --> 01:01:00.370
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): They drive around the loop until they can
drop their kid off front and center.
492
01:01:02.520 --> 01:01:03.240
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
493
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): And not all. I mean, a fair number of
people are going and parking in the neighborhood and walking their kid
in, which is nice.
494
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): parent wants to make sure the kid gets
into school rather than dropping them a block away. Right.
495
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): And we do see that on the parent surveys.
496
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): as well. We don't do those every year, but
when we do do the parent survey, one of the.
497
01:01:26.695 --> 01:01:28.215
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Questions on that is.
498
01:01:28.215 --> 01:01:31.545
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): What age would you let your kid walk to
school by themselves?
499
01:01:31.695 --> 01:01:36.735
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And Cupertino has a surprisingly high
number of parents who say never.
500
01:01:45.100 --> 01:01:49.369
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any other clarifying questions? Otherwise,
I'll open up for the public.
501
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's any commentary from the public,
either?
502
01:01:53.090 --> 01:01:55.380
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): The moon, or offline.
503
01:01:55.960 --> 01:01:58.539
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no speakers, sure. Okay.
504
01:01:58.820 --> 01:02:04.360
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Wonderful. That means we're gonna go back
to the Commission for a discussion of this topic.
505
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Other additional commentary with… Maybe
that went to the topic.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I have one point that I'd like to mention,
because…
507
01:02:16.570 --> 01:02:17.380
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then showed…
508
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): On the annual count for all the slight
uptick in terms of
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): By count, and I think we don't take enough
credit, because my understanding is that the incline… the enrollment is
declining, so proportionally, we're actually growing much more than just
that, so we have, unfortunately, more kids.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Go back to… did I give you… I should have
given you the.
511
01:02:40.545 --> 01:02:41.934
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Percentage slide, right?
512
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): This one here?
513
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): This slide… is it percent, or is it
numbers?
514
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's true.
515
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, okay.
516
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): I did give you the wrong slide then,
sorry. Yes, you're right. So it's even… it's a little bit more than that.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the other thing.
518
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): is…
519
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): We received a news,
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): weekly newsletter from the principal.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): at Eaton, and I think what would be super
helpful is to send… tell the principals to send that information about
all the schools, how well they're doing, just to, you know, gamify it,
and maybe say, hey, look at the other schools, they are doing…
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): In terms of walking and biking, so let's
start with.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
524
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): good motivation for the families to be
like, okay, we want to beat Honey.
525
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay.
526
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'll talk a… we'll talk it over. We
usually have a meeting with all the.
527
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): So we can talk it over and see.
528
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): If we want to try and…
529
01:03:42.460 --> 01:03:44.919
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): put together a game like that for next
year, that'd be fun.
530
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I guess I'm a little puzzled by the high
number of emotives that are, like, in Cupertino high schools, because.
531
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): You know… That's cool. There's a cool new
thing.
532
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): And parents are…
533
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): really not, you see them all over the
place, I mean, not only in schools, but, and they really are…
534
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): My opinion… I mean, there should be
enforcement, they shouldn't be on the road, but they are on the road, and
they're everywhere.
535
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Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): And they're going really fast.
536
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): You know, really is next to Cupertino High
School all the time.
537
01:04:22.180 --> 01:04:27.820
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So why wouldn't we have enforcement at the
schools? I mean, wouldn't this be an easy problem?
538
01:04:28.470 --> 01:04:32.819
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That seems like it's the easiest way to…
Back to the development.
539
01:04:33.540 --> 01:04:40.830
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… First time it's a warning, and the
second time it's a ticket. I mean, it's the same thing.
540
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right, I mean, part of what's that is, law
enforcement.
541
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Law enforcement is reluctant to give
tickets to minors.
542
01:04:49.620 --> 01:04:55.880
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): For… Yes and no, right? But… so they don't
want to be the first.
543
01:04:55.885 --> 01:04:57.455
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Line of defense, but…
544
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Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): The program that we're going to propose to
the school district is a multi-step like that. First, there's some
education, so that the parents can't say that.
545
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): they didn't know. And then there's, you
know, you can…
546
01:05:09.190 --> 01:05:17.330
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Especially… There's only, I mean… there
were 12 emotos, right? So we could…
547
01:05:17.500 --> 01:05:24.409
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): the school administrators probably know
who those 12 people are, right? So we can talk to them without, like,
issuing.
548
01:05:24.415 --> 01:05:26.665
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): doing tickets or anything, we can just
talk.
549
01:05:27.310 --> 01:05:32.770
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right? And then we can work our way up,
and then the schools can confiscate illegal bikes.
550
01:05:33.010 --> 01:05:37.139
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then the sheriff can do it on the city
streets.
551
01:05:37.330 --> 01:05:39.669
Speaker 3 (Quinlan Conf Room): And so you kind of… kind of work your way
up.
552
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right now, we're more in the… just having
classified the problem, right? How big of a problem do we have?
553
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Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): So… Right, right.
554
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): all major payers.
555
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, it looks like, and it looks like
it's a pretty big problem, actually. What is it, 462? No.
556
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Not even… 20%.
557
01:06:05.485 --> 01:06:09.514
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would ask you for the parents not to
give you that are.
558
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:12.520
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's unclear.
559
01:06:12.980 --> 01:06:17.389
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right? That's why now the next step here
is going to be, of course, parents.
560
01:06:17.575 --> 01:06:20.895
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I asked, do the parents know how dangerous
they are.
561
01:06:21.125 --> 01:06:26.814
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Maybe this… It's a… You know, I…
562
01:06:27.875 --> 01:06:41.534
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'd be interested in knowing what the, you
know, maybe what Marin's done all the work as far as, like, the number of
injuries. But I did read recently that there's been, like, a 30-fold
explosion in the number of e-bike injuries in.
563
01:06:41.540 --> 01:06:42.070
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): general.
564
01:06:42.070 --> 01:06:44.839
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): But, they may have occluded
565
01:06:44.970 --> 01:06:51.080
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): these emotes. Right. No, no, for sure,
well, if they separate all that out, but…
566
01:06:51.670 --> 01:07:10.470
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): And that's one of the issues they're
having just at the… at the hospital level with the injuries, right?
Because somebody's injured, you're trying to help them, are you really
stopping to ask, is that a Class 1 e-bike, or is that an Emoto? Right?
You're… you're not stopping to ask that kind of question, because it's
not super important at the time.
567
01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:18.830
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's important later, but then it's too
late to go back, and so one of the questions is, how do you record that
data easily and correctly?
568
01:07:24.210 --> 01:07:25.980
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Because also, my mind.
569
01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:38.030
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Those shouldn't be classified as a bike in
the first case. When you do bike counts, your bike counts are off,
because you obviously consider those e-motors in the bike category. They
should be in the vehicle category.
570
01:07:39.270 --> 01:07:41.800
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's no reason to count them to buy his
bike.
571
01:07:42.280 --> 01:07:44.170
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, the whole spirit of…
572
01:07:44.470 --> 01:07:49.690
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): pedaling and doing it yourself. It's all
motor for everybody, it's like a motor.
573
01:07:49.970 --> 01:07:51.440
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Managing a motor.
574
01:07:51.680 --> 01:07:54.729
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, to me, this is not a fight, so that's
why I'm…
575
01:07:54.920 --> 01:08:06.389
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm also wondering, actually, with this
whole kind of data gathering here, how… if you take the e-bikes and the
e-motors off for a moment, if you think… if you think there's growth.
576
01:08:06.860 --> 01:08:17.569
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): look at… looking at this slide, you have a
problem here. If you take out the, the e-motors from the bike for a
moment, just because, first of all, they shouldn't be here in the first
place.
577
01:08:17.800 --> 01:08:22.560
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Then there is actually negative growth, in
terms of the actual biking activity.
578
01:08:24.399 --> 01:08:27.410
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Substantially negative growth the last few
years.
579
01:08:28.200 --> 01:08:36.910
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'd have to look at it again, but if that…
even if that's true, that's only at the high school level, right? At the
elementary school level, that's not true. I'm not seeing.
580
01:08:36.915 --> 01:08:38.415
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): from there. Yeah, it's just not…
581
01:08:38.415 --> 01:08:41.444
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Only 12 or whatever, so they're probably
only a percent or two.
582
01:08:42.115 --> 01:08:44.964
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): But I think for… for the high school, I
mean.
583
01:08:45.135 --> 01:08:56.854
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): just looking at those numbers here, I'm
actually surprised that the numbers didn't go up more. Now, considering
and thinking it through more about the e-movers here, I mean, I think
we're seeing probably negatives for it here.
584
01:09:01.515 --> 01:09:04.295
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Which is actually… Surprisingly.
585
01:09:05.715 --> 01:09:14.885
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Considering all the effort we're putting
in in training and education and all the things, I'm just wondering why…
why it doesn't actually pick up, why it's going downwards.
586
01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:17.869
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, we don't know if those kids would…
587
01:09:18.100 --> 01:09:27.130
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): be riding regular bicycles if they weren't
riding the e-bikes or the models either, so it's not necessarily
certainty that it's going down, we just don't know.
588
01:09:29.080 --> 01:09:31.130
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I will say, from all.
589
01:09:31.135 --> 01:09:33.515
Speaker 8 (Quinlan Conf Room): of… Until this point.
590
01:09:34.359 --> 01:09:41.569
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Like, to me, a kid riding an e-bike,
especially a pedal-assist e-bike, is way better than being driven in a
car.
591
01:09:41.575 --> 01:09:46.794
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm talking about the e-bikes, I'm talking
about the e-models. So, yeah, I agree with you. I think that's…
592
01:09:46.975 --> 01:09:57.994
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): super fair and correct, but I think the
more concerning part is the immodos, I think, which is the majority of
the most children. Right, at the high school level. Yeah, exactly.
593
01:10:00.520 --> 01:10:04.760
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): You said something earlier, the e-motors
are actually cheaper than the e-bikes?
594
01:10:06.435 --> 01:10:07.535
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's it?
595
01:10:07.875 --> 01:10:10.815
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah. How can that be? That just seems…
596
01:10:11.240 --> 01:10:11.550
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's true.
597
01:10:11.555 --> 01:10:13.135
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): counterintuitive.
598
01:10:13.135 --> 01:10:13.895
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Korean.
599
01:10:14.360 --> 01:10:16.120
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): It sounds counterintuitive.
600
01:10:16.320 --> 01:10:16.930
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, but they're not.
601
01:10:16.935 --> 01:10:27.485
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): It looks like it. Right? Like, you don't…
it's not like they upped the… most of them didn't up the brakes and
everything, and the steering to make…
602
01:10:27.605 --> 01:10:31.445
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): To be good with that bigger motor.
603
01:10:31.545 --> 01:10:36.774
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Right, so it's… Essentially, it's a cheap
piece of… you know, equipment.
604
01:10:38.605 --> 01:10:46.655
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Whereas something that's being sold as an
e-bike tends to be… like, there's a specialized e-bike out there that's
really nice. I'm like, I wouldn't mind having that.
605
01:10:51.390 --> 01:10:53.179
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, but that's… those… those are the…
606
01:10:53.540 --> 01:11:01.530
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Those are, like, the $7,000 to $15,000
special OC bikes. But I'm saying the… I just think that…
607
01:11:02.660 --> 01:11:06.600
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): the e-motors, they must have a bigger
battery, the bigger motor.
608
01:11:07.760 --> 01:11:11.390
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): doesn't… I'm just puzzled by the fact that
I could…
609
01:11:12.485 --> 01:11:16.715
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the fact that they…
610
01:11:16.720 --> 01:11:21.000
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): they're taking off here and beating out e-
bikes is disturbing. It's,
611
01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:26.610
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oops.
612
01:11:27.690 --> 01:11:33.020
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it is worthwhile to consider a
more aggressive Okay, about,
613
01:11:33.170 --> 01:11:36.000
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Just to reduce liability as well for
anybody.
614
01:11:36.590 --> 01:11:38.609
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): For instance, become a liability.
615
01:11:40.120 --> 01:11:59.279
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, and you are all invited on May 7th to
that discussion, too. I mean, that's not… that'll be too big of a forum
to have… to be a real, like, discussion on what to do about the problem
going forward, but the hope is that it will start the thoughts and the
discussion, and then we can have the task force go from there and figure
out what we want to do.
616
01:12:07.660 --> 01:12:13.600
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it's more of a David question from
my side, but, I think the classification…
617
01:12:14.650 --> 01:12:33.610
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): California DOT is very complicated with
Class 1, you have throttle, pedal… I think it all comes down to speed,
like, if you go faster than 20, when you have electric capability, you
probably shouldn't be in a bike lane. But is it something that you and
the city have thought of in the future, in terms of
618
01:12:33.790 --> 01:12:40.070
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): planning, like, if there are some specific
requirements in terms of engineering. I'm just curious if it's something
that you're thinking of.
619
01:12:40.945 --> 01:12:44.295
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): In terms of the design of bike lanes?
Yeah, bike lanes or bike lan.
620
01:12:44.295 --> 01:12:45.705
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): infrastructure in general.
621
01:12:46.290 --> 01:12:54.660
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We design our bike lanes to the, you know,
the standards in the… in the MUTCD and the highway design manual, so we
don't…
622
01:12:54.790 --> 01:13:01.470
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): There's nothing specific, or… I don't have
a lot of… yeah, there's nothing specific related to certain
classifications.
623
01:13:02.320 --> 01:13:05.209
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I was just curious if there was something…
624
01:13:06.980 --> 01:13:09.250
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): No, these, these are moving so far.
625
01:13:09.590 --> 01:13:16.079
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Ahead of any kind of legislation design
standards.
626
01:13:16.930 --> 01:13:23.390
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I think people picked up those
lanes… those bike lanes might not be able to sustain this.
627
01:13:23.395 --> 01:13:38.064
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I mean, you know, a 5-foot Class 4
bike lane, you're going 25 miles an hour, you know, and we try to design
them as… with as much room as we can, given the constraints, but yeah,
there's no special requirements.
628
01:13:38.415 --> 01:13:43.864
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Some are dangerous, I'm a shared use, but,
you know, pedestrian, from both directions.
629
01:13:47.040 --> 01:13:50.349
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, those have speed limits, right?
Shared use paths?
630
01:13:52.620 --> 01:13:55.210
Quinlan Conf Room: Generally, it's 15.
631
01:13:57.120 --> 01:14:00.589
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is it… is it other sons? Or is it the
children?
632
01:14:00.595 --> 01:14:09.814
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Some places there are signs. I don't know,
in Cupertino there's anything like that. You'll see it on some trails.
Little Skylar Creek Trail may have some, but I mean, no one's out
enforcing those.
633
01:14:11.020 --> 01:14:17.060
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, the cops occasionally go out on, like,
Fremont Older. Yeah, they pull over the tree every once in a while.
634
01:14:18.640 --> 01:14:25.350
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): I've seen some advice on sidewalks, where
the pedestrians are also walking in this zooming.
635
01:14:28.430 --> 01:14:32.810
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think that's strongly discouraged, but…
Again, there's…
636
01:14:33.750 --> 01:14:37.020
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): There are only so many police officers in
town, so…
637
01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:41.320
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't think it's even forbidden to
include wrong.
638
01:14:41.580 --> 01:14:43.719
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Only if you have minor, right?
639
01:14:43.725 --> 01:14:44.785
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): septical or something.
640
01:14:44.790 --> 01:14:49.730
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can ride a bike.
641
01:14:49.735 --> 01:14:52.395
Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Oh, no. 12.
642
01:14:54.280 --> 01:15:02.349
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, do we have any final comments
on this topic? I don't think we have any… there's any decisions or any…
sorry, nothing to… It's just an information.
643
01:15:02.690 --> 01:15:09.390
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then we'll bring back in one of the
following up meetings about the other topics we covered today.
644
01:15:09.395 --> 01:15:13.285
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): specific questions? I mean, obviously the
budget, but anything else specific?
645
01:15:13.870 --> 01:15:23.799
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): It was specifically those commentary and
questions that I was asked, specifically around, kind of, what's the
budget allocation for Safe Routes to School, and how is it allocated to
the different topics, and I…
646
01:15:23.920 --> 01:15:31.269
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I thought we were going to cover this
today, but I covered the educational part, but it sounds like there's
more to the CFRAS program that… It's a big program.
647
01:15:31.275 --> 01:15:32.784
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, I understand.
648
01:15:33.150 --> 01:15:43.639
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): So it'd probably be good to have a
specific kind of conversation about it, so that we get a better
understanding if we get asked these questions, we can communicate
effectively about it. Okay.
649
01:15:45.700 --> 01:15:46.400
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): just…
650
01:15:47.880 --> 01:16:00.700
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): You know, e-bikes in Europe, they… they
have much stricter requirements. So, you know, the speed… maximum speed,
I think, is 25 kilometers per hour. That's less than… that would be…
651
01:16:01.530 --> 01:16:03.340
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): 18 or something.
652
01:16:03.340 --> 01:16:11.010
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): And then, I think above that, then they
have requirements, they have to be licensed, insurance, and everything.
So, just in general, it's like, in America.
653
01:16:11.540 --> 01:16:15.580
Speaker 5 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's pretty much the Wild West, I think,
right now.
654
01:16:18.550 --> 01:16:20.609
Speaker 9 (Quinlan Conf Room): You can be stupid as you want.
655
01:16:23.040 --> 01:16:28.229
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): All right, very good, and I'm gonna close
this topic here.
656
01:16:28.690 --> 01:16:31.710
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Thank you, Bergen, thank you very much.
657
01:16:32.230 --> 01:16:39.079
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And move to our next item, item number 4
on the agenda tonight, which is, staff update and commission activities
for…
658
01:16:40.310 --> 01:16:43.450
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anything, David, from your side? I'll
just…
659
01:16:43.995 --> 01:16:51.795
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Let the Commission know that the, the
Twitty-Wolf Interchange project, the construction is going to begin next
month.
660
01:16:52.215 --> 01:16:54.954
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't have a precise date.
661
01:16:55.185 --> 01:17:04.505
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): schedule yet, but, starting in April,
you'll start to see instructions there. There will be a public meeting
662
01:17:04.855 --> 01:17:15.914
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): a virtual meeting that VTA will be
hosting, because they're the… it's their project, and I'll get the
commission information about that… about that virtual meeting, so you
can… Right.
663
01:17:16.195 --> 01:17:18.404
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I think it's early April of that
meeting.
664
01:17:24.860 --> 01:17:26.350
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anything else from anybody?
665
01:17:26.490 --> 01:17:32.250
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Quick question. That's a multi-question I
ask every time. What about the 10-year?
666
01:17:32.255 --> 01:17:34.684
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): during the designs? You.
667
01:17:35.440 --> 01:17:49.470
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Hold that thought for, if you may, until
next month, where Susan… I'm planning on, and I'll talk to you about
having Susan Michael come to discuss the CIP, so that would be a perfect
question for Susan.
668
01:17:50.230 --> 01:17:55.859
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): If you need answers quicker, I can try to
get you some, but she'll be here, and we'll be able to trust in you.
669
01:18:07.980 --> 01:18:08.970
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any else?
670
01:18:11.100 --> 01:18:13.119
Quinlan Conf Room: Anything from the public on this topic?
671
01:18:14.350 --> 01:18:25.020
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no speakers, Chair. Wonderful.
Thank you. So I'm going to close this topic as well, and moving on to the
future agenda setting.
672
01:18:25.280 --> 01:18:27.320
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): files have to be tokenized.
673
01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:39.299
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, we can… we can delete those.
674
01:18:47.300 --> 01:18:49.190
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): The total room.
675
01:18:49.195 --> 01:18:57.004
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Is ATP coming back one more time, or is
it… are we… there should be a… when the document is ready, I guess, then
it's coming back to us.
676
01:18:57.005 --> 01:19:03.475
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I'm not sure yet. We'll see what happens
after the… we're planning… oh, I should have mentioned this. We are
planning to take the…
677
01:19:03.615 --> 01:19:07.765
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): City Council for a study session, the
first meeting in April.
678
01:19:07.935 --> 01:19:18.935
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Okay. I believe it's scheduled now to be a
study session prior to the normal start time of the meeting, so 5.30 or
545 start time.
679
01:19:19.615 --> 01:19:23.144
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): And it's April, what did you say April? I
think it's April 7th.
680
01:19:26.080 --> 01:19:28.730
Quinlan Conf Room: So we will be informing the Council of…
681
01:19:30.250 --> 01:19:32.329
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): what we've heard from both present that's…
682
01:19:32.550 --> 01:19:36.460
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): planning tools. Okay, okay. And addressing
those…
683
01:19:36.860 --> 01:19:39.630
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): comments to some degree. We did do some…
684
01:19:39.770 --> 01:19:49.619
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): work on the… on the list based upon what
we heard from you and the Planning Commission, and the Council will be
informed of that. And so, depending on what comes from the Council
meeting.
685
01:19:50.550 --> 01:19:57.489
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We may come back to the Bike Commission
again, one more time before we take it to City Council for action.
686
01:19:57.495 --> 01:20:03.444
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I hope you will see it. If you haven't
seen the document yet, I think it would be useful to kind of see the
687
01:20:03.565 --> 01:20:06.195
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): The pre-final document before it goes…
688
01:20:06.195 --> 01:20:11.775
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): The draft will be available for public
review. Okay, okay. Probably a whole month.
689
01:20:12.245 --> 01:20:14.454
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Once it's put together.
690
01:20:14.455 --> 01:20:18.755
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): goal still to finish it, like, by June
this year, or… We are hoping to.
691
01:20:20.110 --> 01:20:21.280
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's our goal.
692
01:20:24.070 --> 01:20:29.779
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): For July, before the council break, is
that right? Yeah, yeah, right.
693
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Well, I think it'd be good to get it
finished and done.
694
01:20:35.200 --> 01:20:40.189
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't think about Torre… I'm only
talking about Torre Avenue, because I passed by today by car.
695
01:20:40.195 --> 01:20:41.695
Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I saw the red spot.
696
01:20:41.695 --> 01:20:44.675
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): They've done some of the work of this.
697
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): difference in terms of visibility, it's
really good, and I would suggest also to do it on the north part, because
next to the,
698
01:20:56.635 --> 01:21:05.064
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, on the northbound side, or when you
go southbound, sorry, it would be great to have the same thing on the
other side, just to have more visibility.
699
01:21:05.385 --> 01:21:05.865
Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yep.
700
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We'll look at that. But yeah, we're in the
process of doing the improvements that we discussed. That's awesome. Was
it last month? Yeah, last month. Last month, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how
fast we moved. That is awesome, Tim.
701
01:21:17.460 --> 01:21:19.510
Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, they replaced most of the stops.
702
01:21:19.515 --> 01:21:24.525
Speaker 4 (Quinlan Conf Room): They installed the thread reflectors, and
also in the library.
703
01:21:24.530 --> 01:21:37.120
Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): of library book drop-off. We installed 3
bullets. Next week, we're going to do it on the north… north, west end
and southwest corners, to restrict the U-turns. So, it's moving very
fast. It's awesome.
704
01:21:37.500 --> 01:21:40.959
Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): And the speed trailer was also out in the
last 2 weeks.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, thank you for moving on this fast.
It's really good.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Follow question on one.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, on the Mission Zero Next Steps, right,
they were supposed to be
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): task force that was supposed to be found,
or you got some… went to the council and got some feedback from them.
There was
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think the previous mayor, like, there
was also pushback
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): On… to form a task force versus to have
some other alternative.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): I don't know, mechanics. Yeah, that was…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): We paused that temporarily, because our
focus has been on BDP for the last couple months, so we still do intend
on convening the task force.
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): And you have enough to work from the
sunset, or…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): The task force was… Part of the document.
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Quinlan Conf Room: That was approved by the City Council.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's in our… it's in our adopted Vision
Zero plan to…
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Quinlan Conf Room: To form a task force.
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Speaker 10 (Quinlan Conf Room): I've added April 2026 for the general
demos. Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's the CRP in his book, too. Dave was
referring to it earlier.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I would like to bring back, in the next…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Couple months, the… the bike rack?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): topic. The… the racks that were… the racks
have been installed by…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Ones that the Rotary Help Fund are done.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): $8,000, we've contributed to that from the
$50,000 that counts allocated for the project, but we still have $42,000
that we would like to spend putting in
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): More bike racks around.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): There are views of those based on
location. Like, some locations may have more use than others. Is there a
way to do that?
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Of the rotary racks? It's probably hard to
do. It's… yeah, we don't…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): It's a good way, without just spending a
lot of time
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): going out there and looking, so… but we'd
like to get more racks out in places, so I'd like to bring that back to
the Commission to get a consensus on where those should be located, so…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): There was a question about liability, and
you are supposed to get back
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Who else on that? Yeah, I have not been
able to…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Ascertain that there's any particular
concern about liability as a result of those.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Puerto.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): specifically, there was one that was an
accident or something like that?
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, whether the city is liable or not,
so maybe next time when you're addressing the bike racks, it's good to
get your consul's opinion.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): I mean, the city has the same liability as
they would with any item in the public right-of-way, whether it's another
bike rack, whether it's a bleacher on the Tulsa Park, there's nothing…
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Unusual or remarkable about those? No, the
question was more specific to…
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Speaker 6 (Quinlan Conf Room): The racks were installed by a private
party, and then the city is taking the liability, or is it the party that
installed it? They would be the city.
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Speaker 7 (Quinlan Conf Room): It was transferred over, property was
transferred over to the city, and there was an acceptance.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): So, ultimately, the.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): also know from maintenance as well. Is
that the case?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): One of the things we want to add is, as we
talked about today, the Safe Route to Schools program, the overall
program, and kind of the budgetary, kind of… I think that's one topic we
want to add, too.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): I think it would be good to bring this
back in the next month or two as well. Which one? The… what we talked
earlier today about the Safe Routes to Schools program, the… kind of what
the broader program, the overall program, and the budgetary allocation.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Maybe in a few months.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Yeah, thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Just the fact that it came up in the
Commission meeting, I just wanted to make sure that some.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): The Council, I mean, if you're interested,
the Council discusses the budget as well. Okay. And they will soon, as
they approve the budget for the next fiscal year. Safe Routes is part of
that, so the information is available.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And calls the overall program and
budgetary indication.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Any other suggestions?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): For additional removals.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): Anything from the public on this topic?
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): We have no speakers here. Wonderful, thank
you. All right, so that means, we can close this topic,
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And we have, therefore reached the agenda,
the end of the agenda. The next meeting is on April 15, same location
here.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): And I'm adjourning this meeting.
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Speaker 1 (Quinlan Conf Room): That's what they gave it.
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Speaker 2 (Quinlan Conf Room): Let the power go to your head.