all right you guys are gonna go
okay so today is the uh
mpo tech meeting for september it's
september 3rd it's 403 pm right now
dominic are you uh are we going to be
doing how we did it before where andrew
was asking
to see who's in um chair is in
of course and so dominic if you're going
to do the same thing
as we did before please go ahead yes sir
mr chair i'll go ahead and do roll call
then
thanks david armijo
dominic i see that he's muted
okay okay we can hear you sir all right
uh mr richard hanaway
president
mr michael garza
all right uh miss debbie hudson
i'm present ms allison jinx
present
mr rod mcgillivray
i'm here
and miss ashley curry i'm here
present all right is there anybody else
on the line that's joined us
oh this is sugi lee from city of las
cruces
i joined through the phone over the
phone
all righty thank you
looks like we have one more uh and mr
zach libben
so we do have quorum mr chair
great thank you you know what i
apologize guys for some reason
i lost the uh the meeting agenda
so typically the next thing then the
agenda is uh
or dominic do you mind giving me some
guidance on sure
because i don't have it before me and
for some reason i lost that email
right yes sir so uh next on the agenda
is the approval of the agenda
yes do i hear a motion to approve the
agenda
anyone this is zach summer
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second
be elite second
thank you and i will go ahead and call
the role mr chair
uh go ahead mr uh david armillo
yes mr richard hanway
yes mr zach libben
yes mr michael garza
miss debbie hudson yes
missal yes
mr suguli yes
mr rod mcgillivray yes
miss ashley curry yes
motion passes mr chair oh and mr chair
chair volte yes thanks dominic
well next is typically uh i think
somebody next it's typically the uh
public right uh
next we have the approval of the minutes
oh i'm sorry so
does anyone have any changes to the
meeting minutes at all
any modifications to be made
hearing hearing none if if that's the
case i'll accept a motion to approve the
minutes please
i moved the item to approve this is
david armijo
rod mcgilvrayal second the most
thank you go for a vote please
mr david armijo yes
mr richard hanaway yes
mr zach libbon
yes mr michael garza
miss debbie hudson yes
ms allison jinx yes
mr suguli yes
mr rod mcgillivray yes
ms ashley curry yes
is there anybody else that has uh joined
us
and then mr chair sure votes yes let's
move forward please
now it's public comments right yes mr
trump
dominic did you uh receive anything via
email i didn't
i did i did not okay
so that's how we took it last time so
not seeing any public comment let's move
on to action items
so we have the next is action item 5.1
it's an amendment to the mpo bylaws
okay and i will be presenting this mr
chair please go ahead and start
one second sir let me share my screen no
problem
so
i apologize here we go so we we have
before the community today
a bylaws amendment uh this was uh this
is specifically for the policy committee
uh due to the ongoing public health
order it currently prevents the npo
policy committee for meeting in person
the current version of the mpo bylaws uh
under
policy committee uh section three uh
f dot three uh bars telephonic voting
under most uh circumstances and limits
telephonic voting to only one member of
the policy committee
now we did consult with the legal
department at the city of las cruces
and the current uh open government
division advisory issued by the attorney
general's office
in response to the covet emergency does
allow us to do
operate uh with virtual meetings uh in
spite of our bylaws provision
uh we do believe it is best here where
the mpo staff believes it's best to
amend the bylaws now to respond to the
current situation
just in case uh there are any situations
like this in the future
so this is the proposed language for the
bylaws
and i will give you a minute to read
that
hey so
our current pilots are uh silent on
whether the b pack and tac can meet
virtually
uh we do interpret this to mean that
there is no barrier to meeting virtually
uh this is also only intended as a
short-term measure
um because the joint powers agreement is
about to be renegotiated
and then when the joint powers agreement
is renegotiated
we will do a update of the bylaws at
that time a complete overhaul of bylaws
so what we're asking today is for attack
remedy
recommendation of approval of the bylaws
amendment at this meeting
if there are any comments or questions
that will not stand for questions
does anyone have any questions or
comments that they'd like to share
hearing none does anyone want to make a
motion
i'm sorry go ahead i'll go ahead and
make the motion to recommend the
approval of the bylaws
thank you
i'll second that emotion the motion
this is david
okay dominic gonna put it for a vote
mr david armijo
yes mr richard henway
yes mr zach livin
yes mr michael garza yes
miss debbie hudson yes
miss allison jinx yes mr cotengly
yes mr suguli
yes mr rod mcgillivray
yes miss ashley curry
yes
the motion passes
care votes yes oh sorry i apologize mr
chair that's okay not a problem
great thank you do we have any other
action items again
no sir mr chair that is the only action
item uh the next
are discussion items uh the next item is
the elephant butte irrigation district
trails permitting process presentation
that will be presented by mr zach
levin okay zach whenever you're ready
sir go ahead
i'm ready is it uh can i share my screen
there we go i hope you can
me too
okay
can you all see that yes
good afternoon guys um this
as you guys know my name is zach libben
the district engineer here at ebid
we also have gary esslinger our
treasurer manager lucas doherty our
land and permit tech and anna donahue
our
engineering and land assistant here they
might
might help me out if i go wrong anywhere
um so first i'll cover
our general permitting process and then
some trail specific considerations and
then
i'll open it up for any questions or
comments from you all
so so first ebid is a quasi government
entity political subdivision of the
state of new mexico
formed to serve our members any use of
eb
i'm not sure what's going on uh any use
of ebid property
requires a written agreement
whether that's a special use permit or
other written agreement
our permits are usually issued for 1 10
or 25 years depending on the the type of
the use and
the permittee the
the permitting process is
first that an application has to be
submitted dbid that's available on
ebid's website and then we also got it
here in the have it here in the
here in the in our engineering
department here
requires a non-refundable application
fee of 50
plus tax and so discussion with uh with
our engineering department here is
highly recommended in advance of
submitting that or at least as you're as
you're submitting the application
every submitted application is required
to get the process started
um some structures can only be designed
and installed by
bid and many larger structures have to
be
stamped by a professional engineer
general conditions and requirements and
responsibilities are found on the
on the back of the right of use
application which are the same as the
the back of the permit um recommend
everyone reviews those there's a lot of
information there
and then there's special conditions that
can be added
by staff and then approved by the board
or or dictated by the board during their
approval process so the application
design
plans will be evaluated here in our
engineering department
and then by pertinent staff here at ebid
we'll review that
once that's completed then it goes
before
ebid's board of directors for approval
or denial
with the recommendation from staff
included in that presentation
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ebib's board usually meets the second
wednesday of each month
you know applicants don't have to be
present but it's recommended
and so i guess my things on a timer i
didn't know about
um
if questions arise that we don't have
answers to
then the permit is likely to get tabled
if there's no
if the applicants aren't there to help
us address those questions um
if uh once the permits approved your
invoice for the fees and the permits not
valid until
the the fees are paid
noteworthy that permits aren't are not
are non-exclusive meaning that we could
have both the gas line and a trail in
the same location
and they're non-transferable
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permits will not be issued for for
longer than 25 years
and any permit longer than a year
requires the va board of directors
approval
the permit process can take some time so
it's recommended you come in as early as
possible
and don't wait till last minute so
some of our other standard conditions or
the new construction must be completed
within two years of approval
and the construction obviously can't
begin until a permit is valid signed and
paid
and construction notice is required 10
days prior to construction and 72 hours
for a
construction clearance all kinds of
things can happen in irrigation system
with our canals and
laterals
general information is just that the
application and the policies available
on our website you can get it here at
our engineering department
and then we have a fact sheet too that
you if you if you would like it i'd be
happy to send it to you and it's also
available here at our offices
so again lucas doherty our it's our land
and permit tech
miss honor anna donahue is our
engineering and land assistant and i'm
the district engineer and you're welcome
to contact any of us or all three of us
about
any projects that are coming up or
anything you want to talk about
so the agreement process specific to
trail starts with a
memorandum of amount of understanding
ebid
worked with
the city of las cruces well sorry but
before
trails could be allowed uh
ebid worked with the new mexico
legislator to get a trails act passed
that allowed for a permittee to take
responsibility for a trail on ebid's
property without while not indignifying
ebid
the permittee takes responsibility for
the trail and the public using that
trail
so an mou was worked out with the city
in 2009
and the city got its first permit for a
trail in 2009 or 2010 for the trail that
goes along the outfall channel
part of that outfall channel is the dona
ana drain
and so the city has a permit but that
was the first one worked out
and recently the city has a permit
approved for a trail
along the messiah drain the quesenberry
lateral the first of their goband
projects
and out of that we there's some the
general conditions are found in that mou
and i'd be happy to send the city's mou
to anybody that
doesn't have that or would like that but
some new special conditions have also
come out of the the most recent
permitting process
we'll talk a little bit about those too
so special use permits on top of that
mou so mou sets up the framework
and addresses liability and general
considerations up front
a special use permit is still required
for discrete segments of ebid
system for the use of a trail
and each segment of that trail needs to
be discussed in detail
with us here at ebid but really before
planning that trail
so that operation and maintenance
departments can provide their input
and we can uh talk to you about any
foreseeable concerns
i'm going to mention right there that
ebid's board will not approve permits
that
for use is a significantly detriment
ebid's purpose and objectives
really almost anything that detriments
ebay these purposes i wouldn't expect
them to approve a permit
they are also unlikely to
approve any permits that detriment or
are
the the detriment the neighboring
landowners or that the
neighboring landowners specifically ebid
members and farmers
are opposed to so as we've discussed in
in past uh planning of the urals trail
plan
we do need to find places where we're
not going through farmland
and where we're not upsetting those
farmers or uh
see if we can get there see if the
permittee can get their buy-off on that
trail
before taking the tvids board
so the trail design must be such that it
doesn't impact ebid's operation and
maintenance
and the the biggest way that we do that
is finding
one bank that ebid is going to
allow to be a trail and one bank that
ebid is going to keep for
operation maintenance
that that's key that ebid
is the one dictating which bank ebitd is
going to keep for operation and
maintenance
one of the big benefits see the idea of
allowing a trail is that we can get the
traffic
off of the bank the foot traffic off of
the bank that we are going to be using
for operation and maintenance so again
that's the that's the big benefit tbid
is to get that
get those folks out of the way of what
we're trying to do
when their ditch riders are running
water and our maintenance crews are
trying to maintain the canal
so on that note permittee can't use both
banks
at any time so there won't be a trail
going on both sides of the facility
and then liability enforcement will be
the responsibility of the permittee as
well as ensuring the public doesn't
use or enter the water prism
no structures pavement landscaping
center will be allowed to impede the
water flow
or be anywhere in the water prison
impede the
free board or impede the flow of water
any use of ebid facilities for multi-use
trails is subservient to the intune
purposes and agricultural function
of ebig's facilities ebid will be
operated maintaining these canals and
drains and laterals
for its intended purpose and we won't
let that let any trail get in the way of
that
no use will be permitted that degrades
the water quality
and trails must also be mountable or
drivable for operation and maintenance
of by our crews and and by the permittee
when that needle rises or you have to
allow enough space next to the trail to
allow us to get into
that maintenance because at times
maintenance will be required from both
banks and at times operations will be
required from both banks but
in general the areas that we've
discussed was with the city for example
we don't need to get to that other bank
nearly as often which is why we've
allowed that that trail on that other
side
and then trails are subject to closure
at any time for emergencies
and and ebid's operation and maintenance
so also just some of these
general considerations are that in the
event that a an improvement
is damaged an emergency a ditch break
anything like that or even just general
maintenance
the permittee will be responsible for
the the costs and
replacing the landscaping or the
improvements or whatever it is
while ebid will take care of the ditch
break the
we won't be putting the trail back
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so ebid also won't take any
responsibility for the
for damage to any facilities or
improvements
and ebid won't be responsible for
liability associated with the safety of
the public
utilizing that property or for any
criminal activity or
or any of those kind of things that's
going to be the responsibility of the
the permittee and then
uh the
the legal way to say this would be too
that at all times the primitive must
maintain the trail in a manner necessary
for ebid to retain its immunity
under uh its legal ebitd's legal
authority
and that's a lot of what the trails act
was required to make sure that ebid
could retain that legal immunity
under that its authorizing act
so the permit team must also keep the
inside and outside slopes of the bank of
ebid's canal free of weeds and trash and
debris
and erosion that's going to be the
responsibility of the permittee
the perma team must address and respond
to concerns and complaints of the public
users of the trail
they bring landowners adjacent ebad
landowners and anyone with concerns
stemming from the trail and
its permitted use permateam was placed
and maintained signage
and we'll work together on making sure
that's adequate
and then and again that that signage got
to make it clear that
only one bank is allowed for use as a
trail the other bank is not
allowed for for bikers and hikers and
walkers and
whatever it may be which again is the
benefit to bid to get the folks off of
that side
so then the the permittee must not allow
the
the use to prevent or detriment eba
disability to upper
operating maintenance facilities or
agricultural uses
or the farming practices of neighboring
landowners the permit the permitted use
the trail cannot detriment detriment the
right
to farm with the neighboring landowners
so it cannot prevent a farmer from
spraying a
herbicide or spraying bugs
or spraying zinc or harvesting or
creating dust
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his right to farm cannot be impacted by
the trail
another benefit to ebid is that
before the trail can be constructed
the bank has to be
constructed in such a manner that it
provides adequate freeboard
so it's built up to an elevation
determined by ebid
to prevent normal operations from
overflowing or spilling from that bank
so another way to say that is that bank
has to be high enough
the water doesn't come out before the
permittee can put asphalt or whatever
improvement it is that they want to put
down
otherwise we're allowing we'll never be
able to raise that bank again
so then gates and removable bullets
need to be constructed will need to be
worked out during the design process
because there may be places that
additional gates require than just at
the
trail to prevent that access to the
other bank or to prevent access
from different a different route
than what's desired by the trail and
then lastly ebad shall have access to
all of its property at any time and we
can reserve the right to prohibit access
to any of it to any vbid's property at
any time for the purposes of operation
and maintenance so if something happens
if there's an emergency ditch
ditch break ebid will be
required in or be able to block off
the use of that section as a trail while
that repairs made
so in in general i think that's all that
i have to
to present but i'm open to any questions
or
thoughts or any input anybody has
any questions from anyone
so zach i think it's pretty clear i have
got a quick question but uh
zach i think it's pretty clear but the
only way to do a trailer really is an
mou
right renee that's correct
we need an mou in place first um we have
that worked out with the city so we have
a good template
we're working right now with the town of
macia to to have an mou worked out
we've talked to the economist of the
village of hatch about doing that as
well
and then we've we've had extensive
discussions with the county as well but
have never achieved that
yet but um the city example is a good
starting place and then the one
with the town of macia will be even
better learning from our recent
experiences
any other questions from anyone
zach thank you very much that was good
information if if someone would like
to have this presentation can they just
reach out to you
that would be great i'd be happy to
share okay awesome thank you
i was fortunate enough to have one of
our tech members send me the
the information so i know now the
discussion item the second
discussion item is the calendar year
safety targets presentation uh
it's probably gonna be michael
it is are you ready i sure am
let me uh share my screen with you
really quickly
and i got to bring it over to my screen
um
okay
let me share it probably got to know it
go to another screen to share it
hold on
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hold on a second i'm still trying to
share my screen
there it is
and
here it is here i see that is that clear
or should i bring it over that's good
for me
okay so the full screen is on the on the
page is that correct
i have a good view of it okay good
oh this is so much fun good afternoon
uh technical committee and uh
we're working through this situation
this is the second time i think i've
done this
for the tech and today we're going to
talk about seal valley mpo
safety performance targets
okay so the 23
uh the scrf which is the
circuit of federal register or
490 requires ecmpo to set up performance
targets
for safety in 2019 the
mpo adopted performance target for safe
louis measures for calendar year 2020
the safety performance measure must be
adopted annually
the the measure consists of number of
fatalities number of serious injuries
rate of fatalities for a hundred million
vehicles miles travel i just say vmt
which is a is a mouthful
and rate of serious injuries per 100
million bmt
the number of non-motorized fatalities
and seizure serious injuries
and the state has really released his
targets for 2021.
bear in mind we don't like the name
targets we put
for maximum uh because nobody wants to
say we're going to
hit um fata more fatalities
so in actuality these are projections
not really what we're striving for
the maximum so you can see the state's
level
of fatalities is increasing
gradually but it's still increasing the
the target
is 411.6
if you notice that and you read this i
can also share these
uh powerpoint if you like 53 percent
of all crashes were pedestrians and new
mexico
last year i'm not sure about the years
here had the highest
number of pedestrian fatalities so this
is something
we are working on and we hope to reduce
this
the mpo fatalities are going up as well
but going up slower at a slower rate
we know that in 2019 there are 50
fatalities in dona ana we don't have
that
we didn't have that so it probably lower
in 2019
and we're anticipating that
well the unfortunate thing we're having
right now is that
they're actually the crashes with the uh
kova
19 are decreasing but fatalities
are increasing people are driving much
faster
and that's nationwide and i'm sure
anecdotally you can see that here too
so we're anticipating more fatalities
because of people driving recklessly and
speeding
the good thing that the number of states
serious injuries is decreasing
and steadily decreasing since we're the
2010.
and the target is 1030.5
um we are also decreasing the npo
for serious injuries and that's for
class a
class a is for uh demonstratable
uh injuries so the the officer
that's investing the crash sees
that person is seriously injured and it
may be
taken to the hospital as you can see
our hours of serious injury are going
down and
we can attribute some of this to the use
of seat belts
uh vehicles with airbags less driving
under the influence of drug or alcohol
and
safer car design drivers education
programs
and mixed use realm and geometric
improvements
the state fatalities per 100 million vmt
is increasing uh the five years average
or expected
to increase from 2017
and the projected average will be 1.486
for the 21 target our maximum
uh there there will be decreasing bmt we
also know that because of code 19.
so these figures may change next year
and i anticipate they will anticipate
they will
we have had increasing the fatalities
per vmt
100 million vmt and
this is based on a lower projected vmt
that
was calculated and given us by the fhwa
and i use linear projection to get
our vmt you can see that it is going up
it's slightly decreasing but it's still
going up to 1.44
for our moving average
the state serious injuries per 100
million
100 million vehicle miles travel
is going down and that's predictable
it's the
target is 3.7 and these are based on
averages
this is the average rate the
series unit for 100 million bmt
is going down of course for the the
mpo and our rate is 7.7 higher than
the states for the moving average
the non-motorist fatalities for the
state
is projected to stay the same uh
are relatively stable to get a target or
a maximum of 200.00
um we are we are actually decreasing
if you notice uh from our high of
about 11 or 13 and now we're
at a moving average projected for 9.3
so this is good news but fatalities for
for pedestrians
and non-motorizers is
can't be really projected are
predicted because you may have zero in
one year in the next year
you may have seven or eight so this is a
very volatile
uh situation and we are monitoring this
as well
the purpose of the performance targets
or maxima
is to monitor crashes of motorized
vehicles bicycles pedestrians in the npr
area
the goal is to provide regional
stakeholders the information they need
to
implement project to improve safety
condition for all
users in the messiah valley mpo and
we have in our our tip a situation where
you
you look at how a project is enhancing
safety so we are we're monitoring that
to the
the or if they don't you know
the trend lines are indicators of very
complex factors
that cause crashes some are structural
like alcoholism dry driving
over speed limit some are geographic
means they're tied to a quarter
archway intersection a more detailed
analysis will be contained
in the 2021 in uh safety report for the
mpo which i am presently working on
and additional data can be found in the
new mexico traffic crash annual report
and that's online
and if you uh it's just really easy just
type in traffic annual report and you'll
get it
the one thing what we always are
reminding
everybody is there are two lyric lags
before the data is released to the
public and to mpos
so there is um it's not immediate
and so that's what our concern we keep
on stressing
to the state and other parties i stand
if any questions or comments on this
this uh the standards we will come back
and the next time we meet for
recommended approval
i mean for recommended recommendations
this is just a first reading
for your contemplation thank you
thank you my michael does anyone have
any questions or comments that they'd
like to share
please do so
i have a question or clarification
question
um just to
clarify that i'm understanding correctly
you're saying that the fatalities are
increasing but the injuries are
decreasing
yes that's correct that's what's causing
that or
is it yeah what's causing more
fatalities but less injuries and this
fertility
fatality is not considered an injury
well if they they are where there are
special kind
of injury i guess and say that that's
i'm not being facetious well a little
bit
um but uh it it's morbidly
uh sarcastic um
that there are two different factors
involved fatalities are
not really tied a lot of time with
geometrics but because i've studied this
very closely
and they're tied to speeding the number
on culprit
is is texting on phones or
distractions and also alcohol is alcohol
abuse
and drug abuse or other situations
involved too and they're more
education and things become systemic
the serious injuries are more related to
systemic
improvements like air bags etc
alcohol and drug abuse programs driving
education and geometric intersection
so they're two different the fatalities
are
usually focused on more than the serious
injuries but those are
there's a two thing we usually do focus
but fatalities have different
characteristics
than serious injuries just to a large
degree
so if you look at the you have to look
at them separately i think
i don't think i know you know is it does
that answer your question
or not yeah i think so
okay good
any other questions
this is ashley curry um i just looked up
the fatality rates for 2019 new mexico
is still population per 100 000 were
number one at 2.24
next below us is hawaii with 1.77
um i've said this i serve on the b pack
as well and i've said this again and
again i think it's backwards that we're
i know that michael dr mac adams will
disagree with me or
argue differently but i have a really
hard time justifying an
increase in targets for deaths when
we're number one in the nation
i feel like we should be doing
everything in our power to be decreasing
number of deaths and i know it's kind of
a political thing and the way that that
goes
um i understand it and i've talked
considerably but i still have a really
hard time justifying
an increase in fatalities when we are
significantly the highest in the nation
i don't see
a lot of programming going into changing
that compared to what
other states are doing mr chair miss
curry
we concur with you as you know that is
this is a distasteful situation but
pretty much
we the fhwa has a gun to our head
to a large degree we have to adopt the
state or adopt our own and that will be
disastrous
we hope in the future that these
regulations will be changed because the
real purpose
as you know is to decrease the
non-motorist particularly
crashes and fatalities and vehicular
crashes too
and this doesn't really do it and it's
really political situation
we cannot go that direction and we plead
for those that
can call to their congressmen are the
state representative congress persons
excuse me
i didn't mean that because chochi torres
is
small as a congress person and
um we we plead not plea would ask
that you go to your congress person to
say that this is not really the
intention was good
the outcome is not so that's our and
unfortunately we have to do this are
we'll be sanctioned perhaps it's it's
it's not a good situation miss curry
as you can see we're not defending this
in any way
but we have to do it because it's
federal regulations
and i have a another question then
um i understand that you have to adopt a
guideline i'm
learning a ton in this meeting right now
sorry so excuse
all my questions um but so what is being
done
in order to make sure that our numbers
don't continue to
go up um i yeah because there's one
thing
these are good questions and there's
this is a very broad
topic anyway you uh you really have to
go deeply in the subject
and uh fortunately unfortunately i have
and the situation could be
uh many many things uh it could be again
as i said
uh drug driving it could be speeding it
could be a bad intersection
it could be signal timing that's not
allowing pedestrians to cross
safely in time so it's almost it's two
things
overall things that maybe we can change
or something we can change
at any at an mpo level or city or county
or
town level are stuff that really has to
be changed at a national level
so it's it's opinion on the circumstance
and also improvements won't happen maybe
two or three years
after an improvement had been done so
we're going to see
for example crash is going down on north
main
and that's already happened and you're
go so we're
after we make improvements we'll see
that valley
is i think we'll have less pedestrian
and
bicycle crashes and vehicular crashes
because improvements were made there
but again it's very hard to get in
control a little to get control of but i
think the real key is
people working together in a consistent
basis that's what's happened in
other countries and other cities around
this nation
and they found that consistent working
together
not just one blast is the way you reduce
crashes fatalities
and uh serious injuries
all right another question no problem um
so i thought you showed that
the state of new mexico was decreasing
but we were increasing
was i just looking at the wrong i don't
know let me see if we can go back
where is that slide
see we are
oh we are to worry we're we are
non-serious non-motorized fatalities
the state is going up we're going down
so that is that what we were talking
about maybe
i'll look at it a little bit more okay
quickly through it
yeah i'll be glad to ask some questions
answer questions later by phone
or through email about
thanks michael you're welcome thanks
those are good questions
anyone else have any other questions
hearing none um
should we go to uh number seven
committee and staff comments
dominic are we ready for that yes sir mr
chair we are
okay so uh dominic are you okay if i
just call on the
the group and then let them respond yes
sir
okay city of las cruces
well now we just uh we're
we're executing some uh agreements for
the next phase of till short
lgrf funding and grants
is going to be reaching out to
for exhibits for the packets and
i think that's that's it
i i have a quick question cody
where are you guys on to shiro
um yeah i know that you guys were
you designed it i thought it went out to
bed but i haven't seen much activity
just a quick question on that
uh i'm not i'm not sure on that one
because i didn't work on that one could
i could i get back to you
on that oh no problem no coding what i
could do is i could shoot you an email
tomorrow
and just to inquire i know there was uh
some questions that a resident came by
well resident called that didn't come by
risen and called and was asking when
that project was
when we were going to start that project
so i let them know that it's not ours
that uh
you know that they should reach out to
the city but just in case if someone
else calls i
have some information and maybe who the
project manager will be and then maybe
i'll just put them in the right
direction
although i thought i did anyways uh
all right thanks pauline okay all right
there's no one else with the so you uh
you weren't gonna
comment on the city projects you didn't
have anything
no sir okay uh donaiana county
so i am bidding the um the donjana
school
and el camino real intersection we've
been working on that project for
years so i'm bidding it it's the bids uh
it's out to bid right now bids close on
september 30th and uh we'll
we'll award to the uh lowest responsible
bidder
but that if anyone has traveled through
that intersection it's a very
skewed and terrible intersection so
we're actually going to a
double t intersection just uh fyi
uh you know i guess
it's not taking advantage of the
situation but i guess we may be
fortunate in that we
might be able to fit it in uh and start
the project
during this uh not having the school
activities
occur there and having the vla occurring
anyways that's our uh that's what the
county has right now
uh so tano messiah what do you all have
yeah this rod mcgilvray so the town of
messiah
is uh actively building uh
the trail along del norte
the project's a huge success as of right
now
on schedule on budget looking really
really good we're also working on the
design for the next phase of that trail
system
del norte phase two and
we also have a couple of uh small
roadway projects
going in within the town
so we're excited to be so blessed to
have so much work right now
that's good uh las cruces public schools
um currently we have no updates
okay thank you roadrunner transit
i don't think i heard anyone with them
uh yeah mr chairs richard hanley
okay um we are uh finalizing contract
with uh
our the firm that will be handling our
short range transit plan
um that we have the documents illegal
right now so
hopefully they'll be moving forward um
here in the next week or two
um we also have um we're finalizing our
rfp for our electric bus
project um it has been getting ready to
go to sac
for for review we're hoping to to have
that rfp released next month
uh so we can start getting bids in on on
who the
oems are going to be possible bidders
we are also hiring uh we're gonna
put out another hiring post we're
looking for uh fixed route drivers
um that we are short-handed um nmsu
surprised us and
actually had um us do full service out
on
campus and we didn't know that they were
going to do that
to the last minute so um we had to
repurpose some drivers up to get them
out there
um you know you we're using the larger
buses
try to keep them socially distant we're
doing cleaning every two hours
on all of our routes including nmsu
we're hoping to go back to normal
service
if everything continues moving in the
right direction and we get some more
staff on board
possibly looking about thanksgiving i
would say
that's about it nice good information
thank you very much
scrtd yes uh we've got quite a bit of
activity going on
we're starting a new bus corridor on
october 3rd that will take us from
santa teresa sunderland park into
downtown el paso to the
paisano transit center this is what was
formerly the 83 route
that sun metro was doing under contract
with first transit
they released the first transit contract
so now they're they have their own
employees
they understand they have some serious
challenges also with staffing
as a result of this we've been ramping
up we've actually added uh several more
bus operators another dispatcher
and with the help of the folks at the
movit center here in town we've
moved into a larger office that's on the
first floor
so we're able to take in people and and
whatnot
we also initiated a on-demand service
about a month ago
so we're ramping that up after the
holiday fully
and we'll start taking in more calls on
that so that works over in the picacho
hills area we're doing that with just
one bus working pretty much from eight
to five
uh so we're starting to pick up some
trips and doing really well
uh and then lastly uh with the new bus
quarter
we are getting a couple of the hybrid
electric buses those will be
delivered uh they're running a little
bit late because they were delayed
because of the shut
down uh their guillotine buses and come
in from
uh the bay area and so that was shut
down for 10 weeks so we lost 10 weeks
but we'll get them here by the first
week of november so we'll have to get by
with our
small fleet and be a little challenged
but we'll we think we have enough
vehicles to do it
uh and then lastly uh we do have a
10-year plan similar to one roadrunner
has
we've already got our contractor on
board and we're starting to do some work
in back i've got the contractor coming
out next week
uh i'll have some discussions i think
we're going to do a conference call but
now
we can actually do it on site so i need
to be talking to the
the mpo staff uh this just came out
today so
i'm hoping that either next wednesday or
thursday we'll be able to meet
with mask on somewhere but uh now we'll
do it through zoom
but uh yeah that process is going uh
previously we've had a five-year plan
and that's about
well almost five years old so we did
upgrade that a couple years ago
refreshed it as a better way to
look at it but the 10-year plan will
give us a much better window
uh with a much broader scale and so
we're looking forward to that
uh we'll certainly get information out
to people we'll be doing a public review
process
somewhat creative i'm sure uh but uh
i'll try to get some more updates
we're also going to be setting up on our
website some information on the 10-year
plan so
you'll be able to link to that if you're
trying to keep up
i just approved their work schedule so
as soon as i can get that operating in
the next week or so i'll probably
put that online so you'll give you an
opportunity to see what's coming when
that's going to happen
and that's that's all i have you've been
pretty busy
thank you yeah with a pandemic
[Laughter]
yeah all right moving on to section
7.2 nmdot project project updates
debbie yes uh thank you
um today i just have the i-25 university
avenue updates
um continuing uh road work of course on
i-25 and university
um currently the northbound i-25 loop
ramp is
closed until further notice travis drive
is also closed
from arrowhead to stuart street so the
crews can work on the south roundabout
motorists can use stuart street and
arrowhead drive
to access south trevis drive university
avenue
and the parking lots during this closure
for any up-to-date information on this
project
we have our website
www.i25-university.com
and also just to throw in for anyone who
might be interested tonight
there is going to be a virtual public
meeting for this project
it begins at 6 pm and they are
broadcasting on the las cruces channel
comcast xfinity channel 98
and you can also check that out on
facebook if you're interested
and that's all i have thanks
debbie okay uh
now moving on to 7.3 npo staff update
dominic or michael
yes mr chair this is dominic for the
record uh so
uh we have a couple things coming up uh
our upwp was
accepted by the feds so we will be doing
the amendment we discussed
at the i believe two meetings ago
uh so that would be coming up uh as
michael as dr michael mcadams alluded to
today we will also be doing safety
targets here in the next couple of
months
and those are pretty much the only
updates we have at this time
okay thanks dominic um
dominic did you or dr mcadams receive
any public
commentary as we proceeded through our
meeting
i did not mr chair me either so um
i'm looking for an adjournment can i get
a motion
so move ashley curry
second all right
can we do a vote please i believe we can
do this by acclimation
all right let's go
thank you all uh have a great day a
great rest of the week
and uh dominic i'm sure andrew will
be back next week or uh next month i'm
sorry
and so thank you all mpo staff i
appreciate your help
look forward to seeing you all next
month
have a good day thank you