{ "meetingId": "2026-07-29-ws-1", "title": "Portland City Council Work Session - 07/29/26", "displayTitle": "City Council · work session", "date": "2026-07-29T09:00:00-07:00", "duration": 151, "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEa09IXp3M0", "videoId": "UEa09IXp3M0", "agendaUrl": "https://www.portland.gov/auditor/council-clerk/events/2026/7/29/city-council-work-session", "agendaItems": [], "summary": "**Portland councilors used a work session to press Oregon Department of Transportation officials on who will pay the citywide costs of a southbound I-5 closure through the Rose Quarter that begins September 11 and could last up to five weeks — a session that produced no vote.**\n\nCity Administrator Raymond C. Lee III opened by calling the shutdown a project that \"will have a significant impact on the city services, on our workers, our businesses, and our community at large\" ([00:06:33](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@00:06:33)). Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1) presided and skipped roll, noting work sessions take no formal action.\n\n## The closure and why ODOT chose it\n\nDavid Kim, ODOT Statewide Project Delivery Manager, said the work replaces about 2,000 feet of a 38-foot-wide southbound bridge deck first laid in 1985, now 40 years old and past its 25-year lifespan. He said the Rose Quarter segment is Oregon's worst congestion bottleneck and carries the highest crash rate of any urban interstate in the state — about 3.5 times the statewide average, and 20 times higher on the southbound stretch near the Wheeler ramp.\n\nODOT evaluated single-lane and weekend-closure options before choosing a continuous shutdown for \"safety, schedule, cost, and quality.\" Kim said drivers should expect travel times **two to three times longer**, with morning congestion starting 30 minutes earlier and evening congestion lasting 2.5 hours longer. One southbound lane stays open for local access to the Broadway-Weidler exit; the signed detour routes traffic to I-405 across the Fremont Bridge, with regional trips pushed to I-205.\n\n## Who pays for the spillover\n\nDunphy pressed the cost question hardest. Citing an estimate that a continuous closure saves roughly **$9 million** over a weekend-closure approach ([01:02:26](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:02:26)), he asked what happens if the costs pushed onto the city exceed those savings: \"To whom do we send the bill?\" ([01:03:10](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:03:10)). He added that the freeway \"is not our asset to fix\" ([01:03:59](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:03:59)).\n\nKim said ODOT is reimbursing the city for signal retiming, providing speed-feedback signs and some camera funding, and giving TriMet some money to review plans affecting its facilities — but \"there are no funds that we typically provide for that type of response\" ([01:56:16](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:56:16)).\n\nCouncilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) said the mitigation ODOT described was inadequate: \"I do not think 3 incident response vehicles and 4 speed signs are sufficient\" ([01:26:46](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:26:46)). She asked ODOT to support the community financially \"regardless of whether it exceeds the cost of the next best option\" ([01:29:47](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:29:47)). Councilor Sameer Kanal (District 2) and Councilor Mitch Green (District 4) echoed the concern; Green called the shutdown \"a natural experiment\" and urged spending \"whatever political capital we need to\" to fund more transit service ([02:19:12](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@02:19:12)).\n\n## TriMet's limits\n\nInessa Vitko, Chief Operations Officer at TriMet, said the agency will run double cars on the Yellow, Orange and Green lines and stage buses for extra capacity, but repeatedly declined to promise added frequency: \"I cannot commit to frequency at this time\" ([01:32:51](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:32:51)). She said TriMet is receiving no state financial support for the closure ([00:57:22](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@00:57:22)) and is completing a 400-position reduction, though operators — who determine service levels — are not being laid off. Councilor Olivia Clark (District 4), who raised diverting C-TRAN buses to the Yellow Line, said the city should request state funding for TriMet.\n\n## City workers and neighborhood safety\n\nRon Zito, Interim Director of HR, said hybrid-eligible employees may work remotely during the first two weeks, with a later reassessment. Millicent Williams, PBOT director, said the bureau will retime up to 30 signals and relocate about 400 employees and equipment from the Kirby/Stanton Yard beneath I-5. Wendy Cauley, city traffic engineer, said PBOT is considering crossing guards and pandemic-era \"slow streets\" barrels near schools but has no final plan.\n\nPirtle-Guiney warned that a month and a half out, plans were still incomplete, and pressed on emergency access, school drop-off timing and delayed first-responder times in inner North and Northeast Portland. Kanal raised access to Legacy Emanuel; Aaron Monning, Multnomah County EMS Administrator, said ambulances \"are just like any other vehicle\" and that more patients will likely be routed to OHSU during the closure ([02:03:08](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@02:03:08)).\n\n## Surveillance concerns\n\nKanal objected to leaving 13 new traffic cameras in place across his district for months. Told the systems are PBOT-monitored and not shared with police, he pressed further; when Williams said footage is not shared \"unless there is an active cause,\" Kanal replied, \"The word typically is doing a lot in that sentence, though\" ([02:07:02](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@02:07:02)). Williams answered, \"Strike typically. That is not what we do.\" Lee agreed to provide a report on camera use.\n\n## Lighter notes\n\nCouncilor Steve Novick (District 3) offered a traffic-playlist of songs, quoting Bruce Springsteen's \"Working on the Highway\" ([01:01:20](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:01:20)); Oppenheimer, Williams, Kanal and Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) added their own. Asked what she needed, Williams answered, \"Money\" ([01:49:14](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:49:14)).\n\n## What's next\n\nThe closure begins **September 11** and could run up to five weeks. ODOT is holding business webinars August 4 and 5. Its incident action plan was about 90% complete, expected within a week, with city feedback to follow ([01:13:17](meeting:2026-07-29-ws-1@01:13:17)). ODOT plans to meet the Swan Island Business Association one week into the closure, and PBOT will attend a freight committee meeting the following week. A northbound closure is planned as a future phase. Lee committed to a report on how the new cameras' data will be used, and councilors asked to tour PBOT's traffic operations center.", "summaryText": "Portland councilors used a work session to press Oregon Department of Transportation officials on who will pay the citywide costs of a southbound I-5 closure through the Rose Quarter that begins September 11 and could last up to five weeks — a session that produced no vote.\n\nCity Administrator Raymond C. Lee III opened by calling the shutdown a project that \"will have a significant impact on the city services, on our workers, our businesses, and our community at large\" (00:06:33). Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1) presided and skipped roll, noting work sessions take no formal action.\n\nDavid Kim, ODOT Statewide Project Delivery Manager, said the work replaces about 2,000 feet of a 38-foot-wide southbound bridge deck first laid in 1985, now 40 years old and past its 25-year lifespan. He said the Rose Quarter segment is Oregon's worst congestion bottleneck and carries the highest crash rate of any urban interstate in the state — about 3.5 times the statewide average, and 20 times higher on the southbound stretch near the Wheeler ramp.\n\nODOT evaluated single-lane and weekend-closure options before choosing a continuous shutdown for \"safety, schedule, cost, and quality.\" Kim said drivers should expect travel times two to three times longer, with morning congestion starting 30 minutes earlier and evening congestion lasting 2.5 hours longer. One southbound lane stays open for local access to the Broadway-Weidler exit; the signed detour routes traffic to I-405 across the Fremont Bridge, with regional trips pushed to I-205.\n\nDunphy pressed the cost question hardest. Citing an estimate that a continuous closure saves roughly $9 million over a weekend-closure approach (01:02:26), he asked what happens if the costs pushed onto the city exceed those savings: \"To whom do we send the bill?\" (01:03:10). He added that the freeway \"is not our asset to fix\" (01:03:59).\n\nKim said ODOT is reimbursing the city for signal retiming, providing speed-feedback signs and some camera funding, and giving TriMet some money to review plans affecting its facilities — but \"there are no funds that we typically provide for that type of response\" (01:56:16).\n\nCouncilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) said the mitigation ODOT described was inadequate: \"I do not think 3 incident response vehicles and 4 speed signs are sufficient\" (01:26:46). She asked ODOT to support the community financially \"regardless of whether it exceeds the cost of the next best option\" (01:29:47). Councilor Sameer Kanal (District 2) and Councilor Mitch Green (District 4) echoed the concern; Green called the shutdown \"a natural experiment\" and urged spending \"whatever political capital we need to\" to fund more transit service (02:19:12).\n\nInessa Vitko, Chief Operations Officer at TriMet, said the agency will run double cars on the Yellow, Orange and Green lines and stage buses for extra capacity, but repeatedly declined to promise added frequency: \"I cannot commit to frequency at this time\" (01:32:51). She said TriMet is receiving no state financial support for the closure (00:57:22) and is completing a 400-position reduction, though operators — who determine service levels — are not being laid off. Councilor Olivia Clark (District 4), who raised diverting C-TRAN buses to the Yellow Line, said the city should request state funding for TriMet.\n\nRon Zito, Interim Director of HR, said hybrid-eligible employees may work remotely during the first two weeks, with a later reassessment. Millicent Williams, PBOT director, said the bureau will retime up to 30 signals and relocate about 400 employees and equipment from the Kirby/Stanton Yard beneath I-5. Wendy Cauley, city traffic engineer, said PBOT is considering crossing guards and pandemic-era \"slow streets\" barrels near schools but has no final plan.\n\nPirtle-Guiney warned that a month and a half out, plans were still incomplete, and pressed on emergency access, school drop-off timing and delayed first-responder times in inner North and Northeast Portland. Kanal raised access to Legacy Emanuel; Aaron Monning, Multnomah County EMS Administrator, said ambulances \"are just like any other vehicle\" and that more patients will likely be routed to OHSU during the closure (02:03:08).\n\nKanal objected to leaving 13 new traffic cameras in place across his district for months. Told the systems are PBOT-monitored and not shared with police, he pressed further; when Williams said footage is not shared \"unless there is an active cause,\" Kanal replied, \"The word typically is doing a lot in that sentence, though\" (02:07:02). Williams answered, \"Strike typically. That is not what we do.\" Lee agreed to provide a report on camera use.\n\nCouncilor Steve Novick (District 3) offered a traffic-playlist of songs, quoting Bruce Springsteen's \"Working on the Highway\" (01:01:20); Oppenheimer, Williams, Kanal and Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) added their own. Asked what she needed, Williams answered, \"Money\" (01:49:14).\n\nThe closure begins September 11 and could run up to five weeks. ODOT is holding business webinars August 4 and 5. Its incident action plan was about 90% complete, expected within a week, with city feedback to follow (01:13:17). ODOT plans to meet the Swan Island Business Association one week into the closure, and PBOT will attend a freight committee meeting the following week. A northbound closure is planned as a future phase. Lee committed to a report on how the new cameras' data will be used, and councilors asked to tour PBOT's traffic operations center.", "summaryLede": "Portland councilors used a work session to press Oregon Department of Transportation officials on who will pay the citywide costs of a southbound I-5 closure through the Rose Quarter that begins September 11 and could last up to five weeks — a session that produced no vote.", "sections": [ { "title": "Introductions and Staff Presentations", "startTime": "00:05:30.050", "endTime": "00:54:00.739", "items": [ { "title": "Introduction and Overview", "startTime": "00:05:30.050", "endTime": "00:09:11.089" }, { "title": "ODOT Presentation on I-5 Closure", "startTime": "00:09:11.089", "endTime": "00:33:40.970" }, { "title": "PBOT Transportation Overview", "startTime": "00:33:40.970", "endTime": "00:43:17.938" }, { "title": "PBEM Citywide Coordination", "startTime": "00:43:17.938", "endTime": "00:45:39.675" }, { "title": "Human Resources Employee Impacts", "startTime": "00:45:39.675", "endTime": "00:48:29.858" }, { "title": "Citywide Communications", "startTime": "00:48:29.858", "endTime": "00:54:00.739" } ] }, { "title": "Council Questions and Discussion", "startTime": "00:54:00.739", "endTime": "02:30:15.000", "items": [ { "title": "Council Q&A and Discussion Block", "startTime": "00:54:00.739", "endTime": "02:30:15.000" } ] } ], "cues": [ { "id": "cue-1", "start": 330.05, "end": 332.35, "text": "Good afternoon, friends.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-2", "start": 332.48, "end": 336.109, "text": "I am calling to order this work session of the Portland City Council.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-3", "start": 337.254, "end": 338.86, "text": "Do we take roll on this?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-4", "start": 339.422, "end": 341.316, "text": "Nah, no roll for work sessions.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-5", "start": 341.493, "end": 342.006, "text": "We're just here.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-6", "start": 342.954, "end": 344.142, "text": "Thanks everybody for being here today.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-7", "start": 345.041, "end": 353.823, "text": "We are here to discuss ODOT's upcoming closure of southbound I-5 through the Rose Quarter beginning on September 11th and lasting for up to 5 weeks.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-8", "start": 354.433, "end": 364.88, "text": "We have friends from ODOT here today along with representatives from many of our city bureaus to walk us through an overview of the project, the current operational and engagement efforts, And the mitigation strategies underway.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-9", "start": 365.345, "end": 368.437, "text": "This closure is going to impact our entire city.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-10", "start": 369.815, "end": 375.166, "text": "I also want to flag that this appears to be the first of several closures of this type that ODOT is planning going forward.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-11", "start": 375.278, "end": 378.483, "text": "So what we learn today matters beyond just September.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-12", "start": 379.844, "end": 389.954, "text": "Councilors, this is our opportunity to ask every question we have so that we can be fully informed and in turn be a resource for our constituents as they navigate this closure.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-13", "start": 390.563, "end": 392.197, "text": "I will now turn it over to City Administrator Lee.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-14", "start": 392.261, "end": 392.469, "text": "Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-15", "start": 393.787, "end": 408.053, "text": "Thank you, Council President and City Council, and thank you for having us all here today to really give an overview of this I-5 southbound closure and the impacts it is going to have on the overall city.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-16", "start": 408.632, "end": 426.983, "text": "As many of you know, this is an ODOT project, but this is a partnership that the city is working with ODOT as it relates to being committed to ensuring that the community is aware, And we have mechanisms to safeguard the city, but also help the city during a major closure of this size.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-17", "start": 427.565, "end": 428.277, "text": "I want to be upfront.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-18", "start": 428.374, "end": 437.248, "text": "I know this project will have a significant impact on the city services, on our workers, our businesses, and our community at large.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-19", "start": 437.297, "end": 439.055, "text": "And we take that seriously as a city.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-20", "start": 439.636, "end": 446.212, "text": "And we're here today, and I know the state does as well, but we're here today because we want you to hear directly from the people involved.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-21", "start": 446.822, "end": 450.934, "text": "And have the opportunity to understand what's ahead of us right now.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-22", "start": 451.303, "end": 456.46, "text": "This afternoon, we'll be hearing from ODOT directly, followed by our city staff.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-23", "start": 456.926, "end": 461.793, "text": "I encourage everyone to hold your questions until the end of the presentation.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-24", "start": 462.388, "end": 465.97, "text": "Many of them may be answered as we go through this presentation today.", "speaker": "Raymond C. 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Kim and I serve as ODOT Statewide Project Delivery Manager and I'm helping to lead the Rose Quarter project.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-37", "start": 535.369, "end": 537.1, "text": "Thank you for the opportunity to be here.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-38", "start": 537.569, "end": 543.343, "text": "I appreciate your time and the city's continued partnership as we deliver this important project.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-39", "start": 543.877, "end": 549.824, "text": "I'd also like to acknowledge members of our project team, the contractor, and our partners that are here in the room today.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-40", "start": 551.089, "end": 551.396, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-41", "start": 553.079, "end": 563.461, "text": "So this afternoon, I'll provide an overview of the Rose Quarter project, an update on the current construction progress, and a look ahead at the upcoming 5-week southbound 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"start": 642.08, "end": 649.625, "text": "From a transportation perspective, this section of I-5 through the Rose Quarter is Oregon's most significant congestion bottleneck.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-52", "start": 650.348, "end": 662.934, "text": "As of fall 2024, the Portland metro area ranked 4th nationally for traffic congestion and 7th overall for traffic delays amongst 49 major metropolitan areas.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-53", "start": 663.994, "end": 670.399, "text": "I-5 between I-84 and I-405 has the highest crash rate of any urban interstate in Oregon.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-54", "start": 670.818, "end": 673.862, "text": "Approximately 3.5 times the statewide average.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-55", "start": 674.619, "end": 683.545, "text": "For I-5 southbound between the segment of Wheeler ramp and I-84 ramps, the rate is 20 times higher than the statewide average.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-56", "start": 684.549, "end": 690.87, "text": "Additional safety statistics are included in the Public Works Council follow-up packet that has been provided to you.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-57", "start": 692.305, "end": 692.789, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-58", "start": 695.112, "end": 698.81, "text": "This slide illustrates the full build-out of the Rose Quarter project.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-59", "start": 699.333, "end": 701.179, "text": "And the long-term vision for this corridor.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-60", "start": 701.806, "end": 704.391, "text": "The project includes several major elements.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-61", "start": 705.033, "end": 707.539, "text": "At the heart of the project is the highway cover.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-62", "start": 708.39, "end": 717.96, "text": "Beyond providing transportation improvements, the COVID creates new space for future 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ramps to improve traffic flow and provide more time for merging.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-68", "start": 756.686, "end": 762.788, "text": "We're also constructing wider shoulders to provide safer space for disabled vehicles and for emergency response.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-69", "start": 764.217, "end": 780.627, "text": "Bubble 6 in teal, we are relocating the southbound I-5 off-ramp from its current location at Broadway to further south towards the south end of the COVID That'll improve traffic operations as well as support the redesigned local street network.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-70", "start": 781.573, "end": 788.113, "text": "Because of the project size, complexity, and available funding, we're delivering these improvements in phases.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-71", "start": 789.01, "end": 796.817, "text": "This phased approach allows us to advance critical elements while continuing to pursue funding for the remaining elements to build the full project.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-72", "start": 798.147, "end": 798.532, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-73", "start": 799.766, "end": 810.767, "text": "I wanted to take a moment and recognize and thank the members of the Historic Albina Advisory Board and the Community Oversight Advisory Committee for their time, commitment and partnership to, to this project.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-74", "start": 811.634, "end": 821.396, "text": "The members of these groups volunteer their time to ensure transparency, accountability, and meaningful community engagement throughout the delivery of this project.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-75", "start": 822.151, "end": 833.278, "text": "We appreciate their contributions and the continued partnership and the important role that they play in helping us deliver this project in a way that reflects the values and priorities of the community.", 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"David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-163", "start": 1501.847, "end": 1507.354, "text": "The graphic on the right shows the locations of ODOT's variable message sign system throughout the region.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-164", "start": 1508.044, "end": 1516.36, "text": "We'll use both permanent and temporary electronic signs to provide real-time travel information, detour guidance, and updates to travelers during the closure.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-165", "start": 1517.019, "end": 1530.766, "text": "We're also coordinating with our partners at the Washington Department of Transportation to provide information to regional travelers approaching Portland before they reach the I-5/205 split next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-166", "start": 1532.653, "end": 1535.783, "text": "We know that quickly responding to incidents will be critical.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-167", "start": 1536.266, "end": 1541.792, "text": "Even a minor crash or 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the events, the Moda Center and the Convention Center, working with those organizations as well as the event organizers.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-192", "start": 1727.224, "end": 1727.642, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-193", "start": 1729.055, "end": 1735.911, "text": "We're also engaging with other agencies regularly to ensure that they are prepared for the closures and collaborating on outreach.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-194", "start": 1736.296, "end": 1740.76, "text": "For example, Prosper Portland and Metro have been assisting with local business outreach.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-195", "start": 1741.498, "end": 1749.045, "text": "Get There Oregon and Southwest Washington have provided resources and information regarding alternate travel options that we have added to our website.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-196", "start": 1750.425, "end": 1750.907, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David 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"start": 1784.87, "end": 1794.269, "text": "I won't walk through each statistic, but if you want to join me and the more than 16,000 subscribers to text and email alerts, you can sign up at i5rulescorridor.org/contact.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-203", "start": 1799.636, "end": 1800.064, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-204", "start": 1802.194, "end": 1814.098, "text": "We're also focused on informing agencies, elected officials, and businesses about the closure and how they can manage their communication and operations leading up to and during the closure.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-205", "start": 1814.467, "end": 1823.5, "text": "We've provided messaging toolkits that can be used to share information about the closure with their employees and partners and interested parties.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-206", "start": 1824.254, "end": 1830.468, "text": "We're hosting 2 webinars on August 4th and 5th for businesses, and our partners are helping to get that word out.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-207", "start": 1832.03, "end": 1832.867, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-208", "start": 1833.447, "end": 1836.941, "text": "Since July of last year, we've held about 170 briefings.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-209", "start": 1837.52, "end": 1843.026, "text": "Agency partners are helping to spread the word about the closure through their newsletters and websites.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-210", "start": 1844.562, "end": 1844.917, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-211", "start": 1846.014, "end": 1854.017, "text": "We're also meeting with, uh, community members and hosting tabling events, having many touch points with individuals and businesses.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-212", "start": 1854.634, "end": 1864.642, "text": "We're also conducting direct outreach to community organizations, neighborhoods, and health and faith organizations, including hosting a community organization-focused webinar in August.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-213", "start": 1865.19, "end": 1870.21, "text": "The list to the left shows the events that we've participated in and those that we're scheduled to attend.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-214", "start": 1870.743, "end": 1876.883, "text": "And we've noticed a trend that for the most recent events that more people are now aware of the closures coming up.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-215", "start": 1878.813, "end": 1879.353, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-216", "start": 1880.256, "end": 1885.183, "text": "Our partners have been instrumental in getting the word out using our closure information toolkit.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-217", "start": 1885.713, "end": 1892.582, "text": "It includes fact sheets, talking points, sample language for newsletters and social media posts, and graphics to share out about the closure.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-218", "start": 1893.112, "end": 1896.723, "text": "We've heard feedback that this has been a valuable resource for them.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-219", "start": 1897.269, "end": 1909.24, "text": "We've also developed travel resource webpage to help folks figure out how they can use other modes of travel, taking the bus, light rail, carpooling, or walking and biking during the closure.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-220", "start": 1909.678, "end": 1912.398, "text": "Explainer videos are also in the process of being developed.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-221", "start": 1914.1, "end": 1914.421, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-222", "start": 1916.863, "end": 1917.682, "text": "And we'll go one more slide.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-223", "start": 1918.695, "end": 1929.115, "text": "So I opened this presentation by sharing that 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welcoming district that will serve residents and visitors for generations to come.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-228", "start": 1967.352, "end": 1968.028, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-229", "start": 1970.472, "end": 1971.164, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-230", "start": 1971.373, "end": 1974.075, "text": "Millicent Williams, the director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-231", "start": 1974.172, "end": 1975.716, "text": "My apologies for being a few minutes late.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-232", "start": 1976.102, "end": 1977.861, "text": "I don't know if you all saw me escorting my mother in.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-233", "start": 1978.152, "end": 1981.952, "text": "She wanted to hear the work session, and so she's joined us here today.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-234", "start": 1982.081, "end": 1982.952, "text": "So thanks for your patience.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-235", "start": 1983.209, "end": 1983.498, "text": "Hi, Mom.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-236", "start": 1987.307, "end": 1992.413, "text": "Thank you, David, for your partnership and for ODOT's attention to this effort.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-237", "start": 1992.722, "end": 1998.872, "text": "While this is an ODOT project, as has been acknowledged, The city is a key partner.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-238", "start": 1999.514, "end": 2008.925, "text": "There is a long history of work focused on ensuring the project addresses needs on both the state and local systems and the community and businesses within the project area.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-239", "start": 2009.648, "end": 2020.376, "text": "I want to acknowledge and thank all the local, regional, community, business, 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"speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-252", "start": 2124.743, "end": 2139.456, "text": "This map is still a work in progress, but what it shows you is that the existing I-5 southbound morning commute traffic congestion which is in yellow and red, and overlays the additional anticipated congestion due to the closure, which is in green to purple.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-253", "start": 2140.291, "end": 2142.218, "text": "We call this a bruise map.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-254", "start": 2142.298, "end": 2146.473, "text": "That's what it looks like, and this is what we anticipate feeling, at least initially.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-255", "start": 2147.035, "end": 2156.428, "text": "But we wanted to be very honest with you about the impacts of what we anticipate the closure will be so that people will be able to make decisions about how they want to travel throughout the area.", "speaker": "Millicent 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"text": "We are going to coordinate with partners to engage businesses on impacted travel corridors.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-292", "start": 2424.754, "end": 2426.87, "text": "We've talked about this in sessions previous to this.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-293", "start": 2427.384, "end": 2432.606, "text": "We're going to create maps— excuse me— and messaging that highlights shops and restaurants.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-294", "start": 2432.655, "end": 2440.662, "text": "And we've done this in partnership with Prosper Portland and TriMet on several past projects, District Spotlight campaigns, and showing up for small business.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-295", "start": 2440.759, "end": 2441.309, "text": "Excuse me.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-296", "start": 2443.038, "end": 2448.373, "text": "We'll explore how to champion local businesses, especially those supporting 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"start": 2472.558, "end": 2479.019, "text": "While the city will support ODOT's communications strategy on their project, PBOT will also fill in some gaps that we've identified.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-303", "start": 2479.566, "end": 2484.679, "text": "We'll do this by launching a safety awareness campaign similar to the Vision Zero messages that you see on the slide.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-304", "start": 2485.212, "end": 2490.752, "text": "To remind drivers who might be frustrated by delays to slow down, drive safe, and remain aware.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-305", "start": 2490.992, "end": 2495.584, "text": "We'll amplify these messages on social media, perhaps using some of these key themes.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-306", "start": 2496.034, "end": 2502.601, "text": "And if people aren't able to walk, bike, or take transit, then we want people stuck in traffic, traffic to stay calm 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"Again, Elizabeth Perez, Interim Director for the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-312", "start": 2531.596, "end": 2535.043, "text": "I have a feeling Councilor Novick will have some suggestions for songs.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-313", "start": 2536.325, "end": 2544.857, "text": "So given its impact across city bureaus, PBEM has taken the role of coordinating both internally among bureaus and some of our external Next slide.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-314", "start": 2545.852, "end": 2548.148, "text": "The goal of this coordination is a one-city approach.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-315", "start": 2548.405, "end": 2558.537, "text": "Through weekly meetings, we're identifying areas of cooperation, understanding the full scope of the impacts to people and to our services, and looking for ways to mitigate those impacts.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-316", "start": 2559.083, "end": 2567.175, "text": "The city is working with ODOT and other partners to minimize regional disruption, provide accurate information, and maintain access for emergency services.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-317", "start": 2567.609, "end": 2568.026, "text": "Next slide.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-318", "start": 2569.133, "end": 2571.908, "text": "We currently have 4 coordination groups that meet weekly.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-319", "start": 2572.341, "end": 2582.333, "text": "We have our internal coordination call, which brings together representatives from each service area, Portland Solutions, the Office of the City Administrator, and President Dunphy's office.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-320", "start": 2583.086, "end": 2597.649, "text": "The multi-agency coordination call, which includes PBEM, PBOT, ODOT, the Oregon Emergency Management Office, Multnomah County, TriMet, Portland 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2626.186, "text": "You'll hear a little bit more about that in future slides.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-326", "start": 2627.065, "end": 2640.647, "text": "The group has also identified operational impacts that are currently being addressed, as Director Williams said, such as assigning staff to alternate locations, moving equipment for easier access, and identifying possible shifts in schedules.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-327", "start": 2642.28, "end": 2651.237, "text": "The Executive Policy Group is composed of leadership from Transportation, Emergency Management, Communications, Equity, Finance, and Human Resources.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-328", "start": 2651.982, "end": 2668.3, "text": "This group serves as the executive-level decision-making and problem-solving body for and then, as David had said previously, there is the Joint Information Center that is convened by ODOT, and this group includes city communicators and other partners.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-329", "start": 2668.802, "end": 2672.801, "text": "Our Chief Communications Officer, Laura Oppenheimer, will expand upon this later.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-330", "start": 2673.89, "end": 2684.635, "text": "Finally, PBIM has dedicated staff to this project to ensure communication flows across the organization, and we're prepared to activate the Emergency Operations Center if the need arises.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-331", "start": 2684.703, "end": 2684.822, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-332", "start": 2685.67, "end": 2693.611, "text": "Staff from Public Safety Bureaus and PBOT will likely join ODOT's Emergency Operations Center at the outset of the closure.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-333", "start": 2694.397, "end": 2701.377, "text": "I particularly want to thank some of the folks on my staff, Eric West, Jordan Wiley, and Jamie Cuddy, for their work so far on this project.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-334", "start": 2702.018, "end": 2704.024, "text": "And with that, I'll turn it over to Director Zito.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-335", "start": 2704.746, "end": 2710.377, "text": "Thank you, Director Perez, and good afternoon, city councilors, and welcome regional and state partners with us today.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-336", "start": 2710.925, "end": 2713.458, "text": "For the record, Ron Zito, Interim Director of HR.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-337", "start": 2714.136, "end": 2726.983, "text": "As it relates to supporting city employees during the upcoming closure, our goal is to maintain continuity of city services while providing reasonable flexibility for employees whose commutes and work sites may be significantly affected.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-338", "start": 2728.844, "end": 2739.625, "text": "We recognize that the impacts will vary considerably depending on the employees' work locations and job responsibilities, so our approach is designed to provide flexibility where appropriate and operationally feasible.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-339", "start": 2739.675, "end": 2739.843, "text": "Thank you, Ron.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-340", "start": 2739.92, "end": 2741.722, "text": "If we could jump to the next slide, please.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-341", "start": 2744.869, "end": 2745.256, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-342", "start": 2745.386, "end": 2758.168, "text": "Now, I know most councilors are aware that city employees work in a variety of environments, and we have approximately 6,500 employees who work in primarily in-person roles and about 2,000 employees who work in hybrid positions.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-343", "start": 2758.217, "end": 2762.639, "text": "And so that's some work in person, some work 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"start": 2792.86, "end": 2795.635, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-349", "start": 2795.73, "end": 2801.91, "text": "Starting with employees whose work must be performed on-site, we've identified several practical options for bureaus to consider.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-350", "start": 2802.15, "end": 2808.689, "text": "First, where operationally feasible, supervisors could stagger shift start times to help employees avoid the heaviest traffic periods.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-351", "start": 2809.11, "end": 2817.37, "text": "Second, we're recommending a temporary grace period for construction-related delays, recognizing that travel conditions may vary or fluctuate from day to day.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-352", "start": 2817.37, "end": 2818.25, "text": "And if we expect delays, we're As recommending that employees be we allowed to explore work from home for a limited time.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-353", "start": 2818.25, "end": 2818.29, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-354", "start": 2818.3, "end": 2824.957, "text": "That route further, we'd want to look into a dedicated attendance code so we could track those, those lates separate from normal attendance issues.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-355", "start": 2825.775, "end": 2834.341, "text": "And finally, we'd be encouraging bureaus to proactively communicate alternate routes, transit resources, and the ODOT travel alerts so employees can plan ahead.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-356", "start": 2835.817, "end": 2845.265, "text": "Bureaus, as you've heard as a part of this presentation, are also investigating alternate staging areas, reporting locations, and vehicle pickups throughout the area to avoid congestion.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-357", "start": 2845.313, "end": 2845.425, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-358", "start": 2846.256, "end": 2847.079, "text": "Next slide, please.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-359", "start": 2849.244, "end": 2854.267, "text": "And then finally, for employees whose duties can be performed remotely, we do have some additional flexibility available.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-360", "start": 2854.493, "end": 2861.032, "text": "And during the initial 2 weeks of closure, the mayor has expressed support for bureaus to temporarily expand telework.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-361", "start": 2861.129, "end": 2872.585, "text": "So employees during the initial 2 weeks could work remotely when— if they're hybrid-eligible employees, and there'll be an assessment for the remainder of the duration of the project after those first 2 weeks.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-362", "start": 2873.03, "end": 2879.57, "text": "We're also encouraging the consideration of compressed work schedules where that makes sense for both employees and the bureau.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-363", "start": 2879.57, "end": 2886.89, "text": "And throughout the closure, we'll be working to monitor employee feedback, commute impacts, and operational trends to make adjustments along the way.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-364", "start": 2887.17, "end": 2890.07, "text": "Finally, it's important to emphasize that these measures would be temporary.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-365", "start": 2890.07, "end": 2897.04, "text": "They include a defined sunset period tied to ODOT's construction timeline and would be reevaluated if the project timeline changes.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-366", "start": 2897.81, "end": 2902.75, "text": "I think with that, I'm going to turn it over to our Chief Communications Officer, Laura Oppenheimer, who I believe is online with us tonight.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-367", "start": 2902.75, "end": 2902.83, "text": "Thank you, Mayor Wilson.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-368", "start": 2904.383, "end": 2908.216, "text": "Thank you, Ron.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-369", "start": 2908.329, "end": 2909.585, "text": "Good afternoon, everyone.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-370", "start": 2909.859, "end": 2911.759, "text": "Laura Oppenheimer, I use she and her pronouns.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-371", "start": 2912.4, "end": 2914.868, "text": "I'm the city's Chief Communications Officer.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-372", "start": 2915.096, "end": 2919.708, "text": "I wish I could be there with you in person, but I appreciate the opportunity to join you nonetheless.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-373", "start": 2920.72, "end": 2938.513, "text": "A couple of our speakers have given you a sneak preview of communications, and I will just underscore that we do view communications as being really vital to keeping people safe, reducing disruption, minimizing frustration, and maintaining trust with both our employees and community.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-374", "start": 2939.491, "end": 2944.448, "text": "As you heard from ODOT, they have a really robust public communications strategy.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-375", "start": 2944.737, "end": 2960.729, "text": "Our role from the city is threefold: amplifying state messaging to boost public awareness, really doing our part to share how the city is minimizing disruption and supporting community, and then of course when it comes to the internal kind of impacts that you heard about from Ron, Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-376", "start": 2961.067, "end": 2965.156, "text": "Helping employees prepare for the changes to their commutes and their jobs.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-377", "start": 2965.655, "end": 2966.443, "text": "Next slide, please.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-378", "start": 2968.07, "end": 2976.132, "text": "You've heard the Joint Information Center mentioned a couple of times, and I'll just give a little broad overview of how that works.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-379", "start": 2976.67, "end": 2986.682, "text": "The reason we're organized centrally for this is to make sure we're sharing accurate and coordinated information, really being clear with people and having as broad a reach as possible.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-380", "start": 2987.178, "end": 2993.865, "text": "So we are organized in the Joint Information Center, just as we would be for a severe weather event or any other kind of emergency.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-381", "start": 2994.138, "end": 3001.322, "text": "We're grateful to our partners at ODOT for being in the lead, but we have a very robust city contingency showing up for those meetings.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-382", "start": 3002.172, "end": 3021.498, "text": "Representatives include our communications staff who are embedded in emergency management, transportation, public works, city operations, and importantly for you all, council operations and well, so that we can make sure there's a really good pipeline of information to council to help be ambassadors to this work.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-383", "start": 3022.205, "end": 3022.914, "text": "Next slide, please.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-384", "start": 3024.01, "end": 3032.223, "text": "I'll just give a real brief overview of where we see our focus from the city, both externally and then internally.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-385", "start": 3033.518, "end": 3036.707, "text": "Externally, you heard a lot about what ODOT's doing.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-386", "start": 3036.755, "end": 3045.541, "text": "We are going to be amplifying that messaging using the channels available to us through the city— social media, website, newsletters, distributing flyers.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-387", "start": 3046.615, "end": 3056.923, "text": "We will be redirecting to ODOT resources for the project-specific information while amplifying city resources that are sort of wraparound services.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-388", "start": 3057.163, "end": 3062.662, "text": "We're having an opportunity to provide feedback to ODOT as we work through communications together.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-389", "start": 3062.886, "end": 3063.848, "text": "Grateful for that.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-390", "start": 3064.473, "end": 3065.195, "text": "And then just—.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-391", "start": 3065.211, "end": 3065.531, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-392", "start": 3065.856, "end": 3078.408, "text": "Again, really emphasizing that the city is working in partnership to minimize disruption, provide accurate information, and of course making this as safe as possible by maintaining access for emergency services.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-393", "start": 3079.18, "end": 3080.017, "text": "Next slide, please.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-394", "start": 3082.56, "end": 3088.413, "text": "Now, internal communications is the part that clearly we need to own and be fully responsible for.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-395", "start": 3089.955, "end": 3095.527, "text": "We're really focused on raising awareness about the changes so that employees understand what to expect.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-396", "start": 3095.936, "end": 3103.553, "text": "Both for getting to and from work and then doing their jobs if there's someone who needs to be on the move or maybe disrupted by the work.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-397", "start": 3104.774, "end": 3113.949, "text": "Educating them about some of the options that you just heard previewed from a human resources perspective to provide some flexibility to make this easier on them.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-398", "start": 3114.415, "end": 3120.087, "text": "And then empowering employees really to be ambassadors both within our organization and in the community.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-399", "start": 3120.135, "end": 3126.445, "text": "We know they have a lot of touchpoints and we want to make sure they're equipped to send people to the right resources for information.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-400", "start": 3126.865, "end": 3127.851, "text": "Next slide, please.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-401", "start": 3130.33, "end": 3136.258, "text": "All right, so lots of things are coming soon, and you'll be seeing things in pretty quick succession.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-402", "start": 3137.51, "end": 3140.051, "text": "You saw that communications toolkit from ODOT.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-403", "start": 3140.115, "end": 3148.198, "text": "We'll be getting that shared out internally to make sure folks are ready to help spread the word and providing some city-specific messages.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-404", "start": 3148.297, "end": 3148.544, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-405", "start": 3148.64, "end": 3171.126, "text": "To amplify as well, getting an intranet page launched for employees, content in all our usual channels, the City Insider, making sure employees know how to answer questions and send people to the right place, and then getting flyers out to work sites as well, recognizing that different members of our staff teams receive information differently.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-406", "start": 3171.72, "end": 3174.675, "text": "So you can look forward to hearing a whole lot from us in the coming weeks.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-407", "start": 3175.254, "end": 3180.331, "text": "And with that, I will turn it back to City Administrator Lee for some closing remarks.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-408", "start": 3180.556, "end": 3180.941, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-409", "start": 3183.834, "end": 3195.868, "text": "As you can see, this is a joint performance before you with all hands on deck as it relates to this major project that is happening within our city.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-410", "start": 3196.125, "end": 3203.968, "text": "As stated before, this is the largest closure that we've seen in our city, and it's going to require a certain amount of attention from us.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-411", "start": 3204.417, "end": 3212.225, "text": "As it relates to us being agile as an organization and working with ODOT in any responsiveness that we need to do.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-412", "start": 3212.321, "end": 3212.643, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-413", "start": 3212.707, "end": 3223.744, "text": "The biggest thing in this situation is life and safety issues that we want to make sure that we are able to address as we work through this project as a whole.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-414", "start": 3224.419, "end": 3240.546, "text": "Just know you have a team that is committed in working together with the state, also with TriMet and our other partners to make sure this is as successful as it can be as it relates to us still providing services to not only Portland, but to our region as a whole.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-415", "start": 3240.739, "end": 3246.087, "text": "So at this point in time, we'll turn it over to council for any questions or feedback that you may have.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-416", "start": 3246.36, "end": 3250.745, "text": "Thank you, City Administrator, and thank you to all the staff who just presented.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-417", "start": 3251.339, "end": 3252.72, "text": "We have a bunch of councilors in the queue.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-418", "start": 3252.865, "end": 3255.354, "text": "I'm going to start with Vice President Clark.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-419", "start": 3256.382, "end": 3257.169, "text": "Thank you, Councilor President.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-420", "start": 3257.988, "end": 3260.784, "text": "Thank you to the ODOT and PBOT teams.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-421", "start": 3262.263, "end": 3264.319, "text": "Great overview, lots of details.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-422", "start": 3264.593, "end": 3272.836, "text": "And thank you also— the Public Works Committee got a preview of this in June, and we asked a lot of questions.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-423", "start": 3273.013, "end": 3280.388, "text": "My colleagues asked lots of questions, and you've answered most of those, I believe, both separately in another document and in this presentation.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-424", "start": 3280.485, "end": 3282.638, "text": "So I really appreciate your attention to those questions.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-425", "start": 3282.75, "end": 3282.895, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-426", "start": 3283.072, "end": 3283.393, "text": "Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-427", "start": 3283.489, "end": 3283.65, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-428", "start": 3283.698, "end": 3285.61, "text": "Thank you for taking the questions and providing the answers.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-429", "start": 3286.863, "end": 3290.687, "text": "I do have a couple of just really easy questions, I think.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-430", "start": 3292.68, "end": 3300.343, "text": "I don't think that C-TRAN is in the room, but I have a question about the diversion of their buses from downtown.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-431", "start": 3300.924, "end": 3308.377, "text": "Is it possible— I don't know how many buses they have coming into downtown, but I'm wondering if we can divert them to the Yellow Line.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-432", "start": 3309.147, "end": 3314.179, "text": "And to avoid having them come into the downtown, getting them off the freeway.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-433", "start": 3314.873, "end": 3321.752, "text": "And if TriMet is ready with bolstering the service on the Yellow Line, because I imagine that's going to increase.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-434", "start": 3321.8, "end": 3325.565, "text": "That's maybe a question for someone from TriMet in the audience.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-435", "start": 3326.11, "end": 3331.541, "text": "I do believe we have someone from TriMet here, and I think we also have someone from PPS, by the way, colleagues, if anyone's interested in that.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-436", "start": 3331.638, "end": 3333.498, "text": "But if there's a representative— there we go.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-437", "start": 3333.562, "end": 3333.74, "text": "Hi.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-438", "start": 3334.422, "end": 3335.313, "text": "Hi, Inessa.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-439", "start": 3338.004, "end": 3338.669, "text": "Of course, thank you.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-440", "start": 3339.269, "end": 3340.792, "text": "Uh, good afternoon, councilors.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-441", "start": 3341.376, "end": 3343.433, "text": "Um, Olivia, I heard the first half of your question.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-442", "start": 3343.498, "end": 3347.171, "text": "Councilor Clark— oh, sorry, Inessa Vitko, Chief Operations Officer at TriMet.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-443", "start": 3347.769, "end": 3348.53, "text": "Hello, City Administrator.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-444", "start": 3349.225, "end": 3355.655, "text": "Um, uh, I understand loosely from C-TRAN that they will be doing some diversion and connecting to the Yellow Line.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-445", "start": 3355.831, "end": 3358.402, "text": "I do— I cannot confirm that for you today though.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-446", "start": 3358.804, "end": 3363.379, "text": "The second half of your question, I heard you mention something about Yellow Line, but I missed What words you said before.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-447", "start": 3363.652, "end": 3366.766, "text": "Are you prepared to increase the service on the Yellow Line?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-448", "start": 3367.199, "end": 3368.58, "text": "We are working on a plan.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-449", "start": 3368.644, "end": 3369.671, "text": "We've been working on it for months.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-450", "start": 3370.072, "end": 3372.801, "text": "Thank you to our partners at ODOT who connected with us many months ago.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-451", "start": 3373.556, "end": 3380.651, "text": "And so our operations team does have an operational plan in place, and we are finalizing some of those very specific details.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-452", "start": 3381.309, "end": 3386.317, "text": "What we can ensure you at this time is our Yellow Line will be running double cars on there.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-453", "start": 3386.462, "end": 3389.207, "text": "If you, if you're familiar with the system, we do have single cars out there.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-454", "start": 3390.233, "end": 3394.275, "text": "Because of our service changes, we'll be able to ensure that we have double cars out on there.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-455", "start": 3394.788, "end": 3404.362, "text": "We'll also be strategically placing buses in locations throughout the region so that if we have needs for excess, extra capacity, we can pull those into the system.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-456", "start": 3405.083, "end": 3412.172, "text": "Similarly, if there's a disruption on one of the MAX lines, we want to have buses available to help do those passengers.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-457", "start": 3413.342, "end": 3419.629, "text": "I think everyone is well aware of our budget situation, and as such, we do have limitations.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-458", "start": 3419.677, "end": 3419.805, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-459", "start": 3420.303, "end": 3429.094, "text": "With our staffing, we're in the middle of a 400-position reduction, and so some of our extra service will be dependent on our staffing capabilities at that time.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-460", "start": 3429.271, "end": 3435.431, "text": "But our plan is to be prepared for extra service on all of our MAX lines as well as strategically placed buses.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-461", "start": 3436.105, "end": 3441.528, "text": "Are you receiving any kind of financial support from the state to address the situation?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-462", "start": 3442.218, "end": 3443.068, "text": "Not at this time, no.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-463", "start": 3444.207, "end": 3446.116, "text": "I would suggest we request that.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-464", "start": 3447.16, "end": 3456.135, "text": "Um, but I do think that we should encourage, strongly encourage C-TRAN to not come into the downtown, to actually use the Yellow Line.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-465", "start": 3457.115, "end": 3459.347, "text": "Um, but thank you for that.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-466", "start": 3460.005, "end": 3470.538, "text": "Yeah, and they, just for awareness, they do have their routes that come downtown and they would connect not just with our Yellow Line, but they connect out on the east side as well, uh, in Parkrose with the Blue and Red Lines that are coming into town from there.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-467", "start": 3470.715, "end": 3471.197, "text": "So great.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-468", "start": 3472.332, "end": 3474.359, "text": "I have a different kind of question, a non-tribal.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-469", "start": 3474.44, "end": 3476.726, "text": "Thank you so much for helping us out.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-470", "start": 3478.33, "end": 3480.325, "text": "Um, maybe this is a question for Elizabeth.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-471", "start": 3480.39, "end": 3481.168, "text": "I don't know where she went.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-472", "start": 3482.966, "end": 3485.501, "text": "Uh, thank you, Elizabeth.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-473", "start": 3485.712, "end": 3495.014, "text": "Um, this is kind of a weird question, but should there be an accident, a serious accident, how are we going to get people out of there?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-474", "start": 3495.063, "end": 3496.211, "text": "Is there a life flight?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-475", "start": 3496.34, "end": 3500.209, "text": "What What, what are we going to do if there's a real problem?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-476", "start": 3500.643, "end": 3504.719, "text": "Yeah, there are a variety of different ways that we handle that.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-477", "start": 3504.815, "end": 3512.551, "text": "It's mostly in coordination with PPB, fire, and probably the state on how we would handle that.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-478", "start": 3512.615, "end": 3521.201, "text": "So we are meeting right now as a service area and public safety in general on what— how we will handle those situations.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-479", "start": 3522.388, "end": 3529.008, "text": "I can just see helicopters, drones, whatever we can do to extract people from bad situations.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-480", "start": 3529.216, "end": 3532.469, "text": "So, and we're including Life Flight in our conversations.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-481", "start": 3532.55, "end": 3532.774, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-482", "start": 3532.822, "end": 3533.591, "text": "Oh, okay, super.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-483", "start": 3533.671, "end": 3535.29, "text": "That was really my question, so thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-484", "start": 3535.995, "end": 3537.341, "text": "Thank you, Councilor President.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-485", "start": 3537.389, "end": 3538.927, "text": "I don't think I have any other questions right now.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-486", "start": 3539.136, "end": 3540.161, "text": "Thank you, Vice President Clark.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-487", "start": 3540.418, "end": 3541.075, "text": "Councilor Novick.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-488", "start": 3541.459, "end": 3542.421, "text": "Thank you, Mr. President.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-489", "start": 3543.046, "end": 3546.17, "text": "Um, as you said, this is unprecedented for this area.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-490", "start": 3546.267, "end": 3553.943, "text": "I was wondering if you've been able to find examples of comparable events in other cities that it's possible to learn lessons from?", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-491", "start": 3558.091, "end": 3576.847, "text": "I actually have been observing the response to the Key Bridge, the crash that occurred there, and that bridge not being able to shuttle those residents and business Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-492", "start": 3576.944, "end": 3582.812, "text": "I was just thinking about the rail operators and freight and how they were able to make the adjustments pretty quickly.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-493", "start": 3583.88, "end": 3591.147, "text": "It does require intentionality and the type of coordination that we're bringing forward today.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-494", "start": 3594.276, "end": 3600.839, "text": "It's not lost on me that almost every transportation system across the country is at its breaking point.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-495", "start": 3606.88, "end": 3607.057, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-496", "start": 3607.816, "end": 3618.717, "text": "So there's a lot of conversation that happens around the transportation emergency management tables to talk about how you build in that resiliency.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-497", "start": 3619.521, "end": 3622.674, "text": "It is something that people discuss all the time.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-498", "start": 3622.722, "end": 3629.218, "text": "It's part of why transportation is critical to every one of the emergency response solutions that are coming forward.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-499", "start": 3630.068, "end": 3632.782, "text": "But that is the most contemporary example we have.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-500", "start": 3633.279, "end": 3645.177, "text": "I also looked at when I-35 in Minneapolis, the bridge crossing whichever river, the Mississippi River, about 15 years ago, that one went out.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-501", "start": 3645.675, "end": 3646.542, "text": "It had people on it.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-502", "start": 3647.248, "end": 3674.96, "text": "And so there was both the need to address a mass casualty event, to your point, Councilor Clark, Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-503", "start": 3674.96, "end": 3677.8, "text": "And Director Perez is, of course, correct.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-504", "start": 3678.2, "end": 3679.53, "text": "I do have some song suggestions.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-505", "start": 3680.18, "end": 3686.66, "text": "And I think we're going to have to at do a little bit of the a risk of having Councilor Murillo attack me for my outdated musical tastes, here are a few.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-506", "start": 3688.46, "end": 3689.829, "text": "In the Middle of the Road, The Pretenders.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-507", "start": 3690.425, "end": 3691.795, "text": "Love Is a Long Road, Tom Petty.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-508", "start": 3692.359, "end": 3694.067, "text": "Every Day Is a Winding Road, Sheryl Crow.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-509", "start": 3694.916, "end": 3698.402, "text": "And of course, Bruce Springsteen's Working on the Highway with its deathless chorus.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-510", "start": 3698.889, "end": 3700.624, "text": "Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-511", "start": 3700.689, "end": 3702.262, "text": "Working on the highway all day long and don't stop.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-512", "start": 3702.74, "end": 3704.614, "text": "Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-513", "start": 3704.695, "end": 3705.924, "text": "Working on the highway, working on the highway.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-514", "start": 3706.085, "end": 3706.506, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-515", "start": 3707.183, "end": 3711.914, "text": "Councilor Novick, may I just suggest that we could add some Olivia Rodrigo driveway songs as well?", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-516", "start": 3712.092, "end": 3715.064, "text": "There are many driving-related young people songs as well.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-517", "start": 3716.79, "end": 3718.581, "text": "And Life Is a Highway by Rascal Flatts.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-518", "start": 3718.678, "end": 3720.179, "text": "I think there's going to be some crowdsourcing done.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-519", "start": 3720.276, "end": 3721.034, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Novick.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-520", "start": 3721.647, "end": 3722.987, "text": "Uh, colleagues, put myself in the queue.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-521", "start": 3723.035, "end": 3724.052, "text": "I've got a number of questions.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-522", "start": 3724.391, "end": 3736.591, "text": "Um, so, uh, this, uh, this wasn't directly addressed, but I heard that part of the reason for a total closure of I-5, or doing it all once and shutting the whole thing down, was for cost savings.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-523", "start": 3736.687, "end": 3743.103, "text": "That doing it that way would save, according to my notes, roughly $9 million on the total cost of the project.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-524", "start": 3743.52, "end": 3746.167, "text": "First, is that an accurate number, roughly?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-525", "start": 3746.568, "end": 3749.552, "text": "Those are estimated costs working with the contractor.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-526", "start": 3750.258, "end": 3755.279, "text": "You know, we have our design team, and with this delivery approach with CMGC, we actually have the contractor in the room.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-527", "start": 3755.776, "end": 3764.431, "text": "And so they're looking at having to set up traffic control, remove traffic control, Looking at the efficiencies of bringing trucks in, bringing trucks out, bringing equipment, bringing equipment out.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-528", "start": 3764.543, "end": 3768.98, "text": "And so those are order of magnitude costs, and we provided a range.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-529", "start": 3769.367, "end": 3769.528, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-530", "start": 3770.012, "end": 3778.734, "text": "Well, if this is about cost savings to do it this way, I'm worried about the fact that I'm hearing from our friends at TriMet, I'm hearing from us, we don't have any money.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-531", "start": 3780.266, "end": 3788.74, "text": "If the externalized costs are higher than the savings that ODOT expected, To whom do we send the bill?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-532", "start": 3790.46, "end": 3795.335, "text": "Well, when we look at the cost, we're not just looking at the cost of the project, we're also looking at the societal costs.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-533", "start": 3795.739, "end": 3799.79, "text": "So we know the opening weekend there's going to be a Weezer concert at the Moda Center.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-534", "start": 3799.999, "end": 3804.411, "text": "We know that weekend there's going to be the Comic-Con event, 60,000 people expected to attend.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-535", "start": 3804.926, "end": 3810.517, "text": "And so getting the project done quickly will actually reduce the impact to the community overall.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-536", "start": 3810.647, "end": 3815.615, "text": "Even having a single lane closure would result in pretty significant impacts to the traveling public.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-537", "start": 3815.695, "end": 3818.68, "text": "So our goal was to get in and get out as quickly as we can.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-538", "start": 3819.29, "end": 3821.858, "text": "And the hope is that the contractor can get the work done sooner.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-539", "start": 3822.339, "end": 3832.627, "text": "And so not just a cost savings to the taxpayers on the project, but a societal cost savings to the community with the impacts it has on the business and the events and the community.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-540", "start": 3832.915, "end": 3833.092, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-541", "start": 3833.798, "end": 3839.367, "text": "And, you know, I was mostly being glib, but I am genuinely worried about the city's financial situation.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-542", "start": 3839.48, "end": 3839.577, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-543", "start": 3839.819, "end": 3848.957, "text": "Our ability to absorb this cost and our ability to— I mean, just simply to have to take it ultimately, that we didn't have the ability to say yes or no.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-544", "start": 3849.037, "end": 3850.574, "text": "It is not our asset to fix.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-545", "start": 3850.817, "end": 3866.191, "text": "And I have some real worries about the sort of— not you, sir, but broadly the relationship between the city and the state and whether that is a— this is a sustainable sort of yeah.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-546", "start": 3866.24, "end": 3867.431, "text": "—Of imposition that is happening.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-547", "start": 3867.882, "end": 3869.702, "text": "Moving on to something else.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-548", "start": 3870.104, "end": 3871.65, "text": "I think this question is more for Ron Zito.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-549", "start": 3873.48, "end": 3886.258, "text": "It is said— it was said in the presentation that some expect— there's some expectation that traffic volume will reduce naturally as a result of telling the public about this ahead of time, that people will plan and take other traffic routes.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-550", "start": 3888.006, "end": 3890.373, "text": "And that's part of the benefit of us having this conversation here.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-551", "start": 3890.437, "end": 3891.458, "text": "Hey, y'all, this is happening.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-552", "start": 3891.688, "end": 3892.603, "text": "Stay home if you can.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-553", "start": 3892.796, "end": 3901.597, "text": "But we have about 1,000 employees who live in Vancouver, as I understand it, not to mention all the folks who live in North Portland.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-554", "start": 3902.577, "end": 3912.165, "text": "I hear, you know, I will personally be providing some flexibility to my staff and encourage my colleagues, especially my D2 colleagues, to use the virtual participation option wherever possible.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-555", "start": 3912.229, "end": 3917.979, "text": "But are we having a single policy about telework and other adjustments as a city?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-556", "start": 3918.412, "end": 3922.742, "text": "Or is it more bureau by bureau, or is it going to come down to like even supervisor by supervisor?", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-557", "start": 3924.009, "end": 3925.501, "text": "Thank you for the question, Council President.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-558", "start": 3925.549, "end": 3926.142, "text": "It's a good one.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-559", "start": 3926.334, "end": 3944.007, "text": "In terms of our policy on telework, it is a citywide human resource administrative rule, and for a period of time now we've been operating within the flexibility of that rule on a half-time hybrid approach that has been supported by the previous mayor and by the current mayor.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-560", "start": 3944.536, "end": 3950.769, "text": "As it relates to this particular event, we've got a known duration of time that's going to demand greater flexibility.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-561", "start": 3951.106, "end": 3959.39, "text": "And so as a city, we are going to move forward with those hybrid employees being eligible for 2 weeks of remote work to start, with an assessment as we go.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-562", "start": 3960.079, "end": 3964.421, "text": "If it does pan out that congestion relieves over the first 2 weeks, then we'll probably have to reassess.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-563", "start": 3964.501, "end": 3974.019, "text": "If it turns out that there's going to be continued congestion and prolonged commute times, then we'll have to think about how that impacts any future but it's a—.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-564", "start": 3974.115, "end": 3989.066, "text": "I, I won't, I won't suddenly hear a complaint from a single employee at the Mount Scott Community Center or a Mount Tabor, uh, maintenance yard employee who says, well, my supervisor said no, so now I have to get in the car at 4 in the morning.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-565", "start": 3989.419, "end": 3993.104, "text": "It should be more centralized is what I'm sort of—.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-566", "start": 3993.104, "end": 3993.761, "text": "Or consistent.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-567", "start": 3994.066, "end": 3994.803, "text": "I would agree with that.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-568", "start": 3994.867, "end": 4003.332, "text": "I can't rule out any singular complaints coming in that throughout the course of this, but I would say this is a time period to lean into flexibility, and we're going to do that.", "speaker": "Ron Zito" }, { "id": "cue-569", "start": 4003.508, "end": 4004.406, "text": "Great, thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-570", "start": 4004.519, "end": 4007.261, "text": "Just a couple other quick questions.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-571", "start": 4007.341, "end": 4009.057, "text": "So East— you know, I represent East Portland.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-572", "start": 4009.618, "end": 4012.713, "text": "We already have disproportionately high level of traffic deaths and injuries.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-573", "start": 4013.371, "end": 4016.434, "text": "Our streets are used like freeways already.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-574", "start": 4017.781, "end": 4023.971, "text": "With this closure, I am concerned about tens of thousands of extra vehicles potentially coming over the Glenn Jackson Bridge.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-575", "start": 4026.042, "end": 4035.901, "text": "One, what is the city or ODOT's plan with regard to extra enforcement or traffic control measures to keep East Portland's residents safe?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-576", "start": 4037.202, "end": 4049.357, "text": "And then related, has ODOT thought about using this closure window as a real-world opportunity to test temporary Glen Jackson Bridge tolling and study its impact on traffic?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-577", "start": 4049.977, "end": 4052.607, "text": "Ahead of the IBR, the Interstate Bridge Replacement?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-578", "start": 4057.749, "end": 4064.263, "text": "So Council President, in terms of— I'll go with the last question first related to tolling.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-579", "start": 4064.344, "end": 4066.478, "text": "No, that's not something that we have evaluated.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-580", "start": 4067.07, "end": 4072.992, "text": "However, through this closure process, we will be capturing a lot of rich data.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-581", "start": 4073.782, "end": 4079.038, "text": "We have modeling, and so we will be able to see what the diversion looks like onto 205 as well as city streets.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-582", "start": 4079.087, "end": 4079.544, "text": "And we're going to capture that data.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-583", "start": 4081.112, "end": 4088.797, "text": "Work with PBOT as well as Metro and other partners to see what valuable information we can use to plan for future events.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-584", "start": 4089.92, "end": 4102.097, "text": "As it relates to East Portland and traffic, we did secure 4 speed feedback camera— or speed feedback signs on trailers that we've made available to the City of Portland.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-585", "start": 4102.146, "end": 4105.033, "text": "So they don't necessarily have to be within the project area.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-586", "start": 4105.178, "end": 4106.429, "text": "So if we're getting complaints, Thank you.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-587", "start": 4106.862, "end": 4109.361, "text": "From a neighborhood, we can certainly deploy that.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-588", "start": 4109.41, "end": 4115.658, "text": "We'll have our— the city just needs to tell us where, and then what we'll do is get our contractor to place that trailer out there.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-589", "start": 4116.027, "end": 4117.437, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-590", "start": 4118.398, "end": 4119.407, "text": "Yeah, I'm Wendy Cauley.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-591", "start": 4119.536, "end": 4135.349, "text": "I'm the city traffic engineer for PBOT, and we are following ODOT's lead as far as being resourced by them, but we also have speed reader boards at our disposal that we use on local streets and other streets that we can add to the mix.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-592", "start": 4135.864, "end": 4142.982, "text": "We are considering what we might be able to do around elementary schools that may be impacted by this.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-593", "start": 4143.577, "end": 4153.422, "text": "We are still working on a list of options that might be available, but we do have tools that we use regularly to address safety issues.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-594", "start": 4153.842, "end": 4164.978, "text": "And then finally, I don't know if Portland Police is in the room, but they would have a role with enforcement potentially and did just receive some new speed trailers as part of the photo enforcement.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-595", "start": 4165.03, "end": 4165.237, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-596", "start": 4166.52, "end": 4173.17, "text": "And I can speak to the PPB part.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-597", "start": 4173.17, "end": 4180.53, "text": "We are having conversations with PPB traffic on what the options are given their limited resources.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-598", "start": 4180.57, "end": 4188.31, "text": "So we're working right now on scheduling and if there's possibility to increase enforcement, but we'll get back to you on that.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-599", "start": 4188.71, "end": 4189.25, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-600", "start": 4189.25, "end": 4189.9, "text": "Thank you all very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-601", "start": 4190.11, "end": 4194.23, "text": "Councilor, before you move on to your next question, if I may readdress the question about the 2nd floor parking lot.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-602", "start": 4194.285, "end": 4214.893, "text": "The response that I provided for Councilor Novick regarding other jurisdictions where we did some work, we formed a tiger team within PBOT based on what we learned from Seattle specific to how they planned around FIFA and the significant number of closures for a significant number of weeks that they were experiencing.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-603", "start": 4215.503, "end": 4217.782, "text": "There are other cities that of course had the same challenges.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-604", "start": 4218.135, "end": 4219.516, "text": "So our team did some work there.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-605", "start": 4219.58, "end": 4219.708, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-606", "start": 4220.608, "end": 4225.795, "text": "And we also learned from the I-405 closure in Los Angeles.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-607", "start": 4226.967, "end": 4243.794, "text": "There, one of the main strategies that they talked about being useful, most helpful in terms of managing and mitigating the challenges, was really heavy communication, consistent communication, and demonstrating partnership across a number of entities.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-608", "start": 4243.987, "end": 4244.998, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-609", "start": 4245.655, "end": 4246.274, "text": "Thank you all very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-610", "start": 4247.121, "end": 4247.984, "text": "Councilor Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-611", "start": 4249.727, "end": 4250.884, "text": "Thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-612", "start": 4252.878, "end": 4270.406, "text": "I've got a couple of questions, and I want to start by asking about the potential for incidents that occur and an incident action plan that I think somebody referred to in one of the presentations here.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-613", "start": 4271.828, "end": 4283.107, "text": "And I'm thinking both about what one of my colleagues asked about clearing accidents and also what another colleague asked about what do we do in a life safety situation.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-614", "start": 4284.118, "end": 4307.016, "text": "So is there an incident action plan that covers one or both of those scenarios that all of the affected bureaus have been a part of creating and have copy of and are in agreement on, or do we have competition between, uh, bureaus and the state or different entities about what the priorities need to be here?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-615", "start": 4307.947, "end": 4311.847, "text": "David, would you mind talking about your ICP, and then I can add on to it?", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-616", "start": 4312.345, "end": 4318.716, "text": "So our Transportation Maintenance Operations Center has an emergency manager, and he is developing the incident action plan.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-617", "start": 4318.78, "end": 4322.215, "text": "There are a lot of different what-if scenarios with call trees and points of contact.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-618", "start": 4323.049, "end": 4327.298, "text": "Most of that action plan is focused on the state highway system.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-619", "start": 4327.987, "end": 4337.111, "text": "I can't speak to incidents on the city, but we have contacts related to the city, the county, EMS, Oregon State Police.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-620", "start": 4338.169, "end": 4341.183, "text": "As I mentioned earlier, we have staged tows, we'll have maintenance patrols out there.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-621", "start": 4341.392, "end": 4348.334, "text": "And so depending on what the incident is, there's a call tree with key points of contact in that call tree with emergency numbers.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-622", "start": 4348.703, "end": 4355.787, "text": "So we have, again, a number of different scenarios that could potentially play out, you know, from a hazmat incident to a fatality.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-623", "start": 4356.524, "end": 4362.998, "text": "In an unfortunate circumstance of fatality, much of that is at the mercy of the law enforcement doing their investigation.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-624", "start": 4363.094, "end": 4373.815, "text": "So, but we have a list and we're sharing that with Portland Bureau of Emergency Management and PBOT and others to help them understand what we've laid out in terms of a coordination process is.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-625", "start": 4374.312, "end": 4376.058, "text": "Hearing a lot of one-way communication.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-626", "start": 4376.106, "end": 4383.763, "text": "Is this a Is this a plan that has had feedback from those city bureaus that you named to ensure that it will actually work on the ground?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-627", "start": 4384.517, "end": 4394.31, "text": "Yes, our emergency manager has been reaching out to ensure that the phone numbers are correct, and once the plan is complete, it will be routed further for review and comment.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-628", "start": 4394.551, "end": 4397.633, "text": "When should we expect that our bureaus have that plan?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-629", "start": 4397.986, "end": 4402.257, "text": "I heard the plan is about 90% complete right now, so probably in the next week or so.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-630", "start": 4402.497, "end": 4403.637, "text": "We know that the clock is ticking.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-631", "start": 4404.279, "end": 4405.178, "text": "Is a month enough time?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-632", "start": 4406.415, "end": 4406.993, "text": "It will have to be.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-633", "start": 4408.261, "end": 4421.362, "text": "We, as soon as we receive it, we will be working on not only feedback, but our, the citywide IAP to make sure that we are coordinated not only at the city level, but then with our partners as well.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-634", "start": 4421.779, "end": 4433.817, "text": "I'm concerned that if we're talking about giving feedback a month out from construction starting, that if there are any conflicts in priorities between the city and the state, we're not going to be able to work those out.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-635", "start": 4434.236, "end": 4437.425, "text": "So I just, I want to note that, and I hope that there's communication there.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-636", "start": 4438.978, "end": 4455.499, "text": "What are the plans to ensure that first responders can get to people, and what should my constituents in inner North and Northeast Portland expect in terms of delayed response for police, ambulance, fire, critical life support services?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-637", "start": 4456.723, "end": 4459.646, "text": "So I can answer that as well.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-638", "start": 4462.027, "end": 4464.116, "text": "We've been really grateful for the partnership with PBOT.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-639", "start": 4464.614, "end": 4480.092, "text": "We are working on local access lanes and making sure that we're getting feedback from all of public safety, including ambulance and the hospitals, on what those priority lanes should be, including things like, is the street wide enough for a fire truck?", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-640", "start": 4481.086, "end": 4501.72, "text": "And so we're compiling that list right now, and then I think we're meeting with PBOT again in the next will there be any communication to people who live in the most affected areas, that kind of bluish-purple bruise area on the map, about expecting slower response times in an emergency?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-641", "start": 4503.877, "end": 4516.827, "text": "If I'm not mistaken, the overall, the citywide comms plan— and Laura, maybe you can jump in if you're still on— speaks to the importance of having a to helping to inform the public about this closure and how it affects residents.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-642", "start": 4517.148, "end": 4519.976, "text": "I know that PBOT is also planning to build in some redundancy there.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-643", "start": 4520.281, "end": 4520.732, "text": "There she is.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-644", "start": 4521.733, "end": 4531.871, "text": "But yes, we are intending to make sure that people are aware so that they can, again, make appropriate plans or understand what they should be expecting regarding response times and all those other things.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-645", "start": 4532.469, "end": 4532.711, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-646", "start": 4532.937, "end": 4533.762, "text": "But Laura is there.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-647", "start": 4534.247, "end": 4535.346, "text": "Laura, anything to add?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-648", "start": 4537.059, "end": 4538.513, "text": "Just— that's exactly right.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-649", "start": 4538.61, "end": 4546.421, "text": "We'll be sharing all the big picture So we're leveraging the City's primary city channels and getting out additional, more nuanced information from PBOT channels.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-650", "start": 4546.517, "end": 4558.237, "text": "We're also leveraging the City's community engagement staff to share information at already existing events and community engagements to bring information directly out into the community.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-651", "start": 4559.434, "end": 4560.324, "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-652", "start": 4562.671, "end": 4583.121, "text": "I do have a question for TriMet while they come back I just want to note for our team at the city that I am concerned as we look at our own city employees that we need to be thinking about how we work with our city employees who can't leave an hour earlier to get to work.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-653", "start": 4583.763, "end": 4590.796, "text": "For folks who have kids, this is happening right after school starts, and you can't change when school drop-off is.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-654", "start": 4591.021, "end": 4591.551, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-655", "start": 4591.872, "end": 4593.527, "text": "School drop-off is when it is.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-656", "start": 4593.88, "end": 4596.772, "text": "That is when you can get on the road to get to work.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-657", "start": 4597.592, "end": 4602.653, "text": "So I know we have folks in jobs where they have to be to work by a certain time.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-658", "start": 4602.797, "end": 4641.114, "text": "I hope that managers are working with our employees now to make any scheduling adjustments to ensure that people who have limitations, whether it's getting kids to school, whether it's other caregiving activities where they can't leave an hour and a half earlier, That we are figuring out how to schedule in such a way that we don't have either services not able to be provided or folks who are getting in trouble, getting written up because they had true limitations where they could not adjust their schedules to accommodate the new traffic patterns and flows and timing.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-659", "start": 4642.092, "end": 4652.628, "text": "And as I say this, I want to make sure sure that we are thinking about how we're communicating that to other employers in the region as well and not just thinking about our own workforce.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-660", "start": 4655.657, "end": 4656.844, "text": "TriMet, thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-661", "start": 4658.079, "end": 4661.867, "text": "I appreciate the doubling up for cars for the Yellow Line.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-662", "start": 4662.98, "end": 4673.175, "text": "There are, I think, 7 lines affected by service reductions in North and Northeast Portland just a week before some of those touch the affected area, some don't.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-663", "start": 4674.218, "end": 4683.804, "text": "Has there been any conversation about ensuring that any changes to lines that might affect folks' ability to get around are delayed until after this project?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-664", "start": 4684.414, "end": 4692.041, "text": "And why are we talking about doubling up train cars and not about increased frequency, which could help get people to work?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-665", "start": 4693.149, "end": 4695.075, "text": "You know, you're still going to be stuck in a delay in traffic.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-666", "start": 4696.279, "end": 4701.96, "text": "Like, if you're on a bus, increased frequency might help people cut some of that time down.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-667", "start": 4703.132, "end": 4704.304, "text": "So there's 2 main parts.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-668", "start": 4704.4, "end": 4707.369, "text": "Again, sorry, Nessa Vitko, Chief Operations Officer at TriMet.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-669", "start": 4707.433, "end": 4708.685, "text": "Thank you for the question, Councilor.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-670", "start": 4709.198, "end": 4717.127, "text": "Our biggest thing right now as we move into our fall service is our, is our people resources as well as our fleet resources.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-671", "start": 4717.64, "end": 4719.165, "text": "So we'll have to be watching that closely.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-672", "start": 4719.245, "end": 4725.193, "text": "I should have mentioned earlier that our plan is just like you've heard others talk about their, you know, command centers, if you will.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-673", "start": 4725.257, "end": 4727.036, "text": "That's what we call it, the Operations Command Center.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-674", "start": 4727.084, "end": 4731.715, "text": "We will be monitoring this very closely, and so we will pay attention to those things.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-675", "start": 4732.292, "end": 4740.4, "text": "We have to be careful about increasing frequency on our train lines also, because the more traffic we get out there, the more we'll have to respond if there's an incident.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-676", "start": 4740.48, "end": 4747.595, "text": "We're looking forward to working with ODOT on their staged tow trucks, so we'll be able to maybe get vehicles that are stuck on our MAX lines out of there sooner.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-677", "start": 4747.643, "end": 4747.755, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-678", "start": 4748.976, "end": 4755.208, "text": "Again, our, our plan from the beginning is trying to balance our resources with what we know the community needs.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-679", "start": 4756.027, "end": 4760.058, "text": "And if I may, I'd like to touch on your school comment, if that's possible.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-680", "start": 4760.219, "end": 4760.476, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-681", "start": 4761.905, "end": 4769.246, "text": "We do have, for the City of Portland, as most of you are aware, we do have buses that serve the schools since you don't have yellow school bus service.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-682", "start": 4769.776, "end": 4779.14, "text": "And so we will also be paying attention to those and making sure that those buses are available given things like delays and the kids, we don't want the kids being out there obviously waiting for long periods of time for their buses.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-683", "start": 4779.815, "end": 4781.068, "text": "Specifically our high schoolers.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-684", "start": 4781.261, "end": 4781.663, "text": "Yes, exactly.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-685", "start": 4781.743, "end": 4783.285, "text": "Who rely on TriMet service to get to school.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-686", "start": 4783.414, "end": 4788.651, "text": "Yeah, and so we work closely with the schools for that, but this is one of those areas that we will be paying special attention to to make sure.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-687", "start": 4789.374, "end": 4792.988, "text": "We do expect the buses, you said it, we do expect the buses to be delayed.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-688", "start": 4793.068, "end": 4801.133, "text": "They are running with mixed traffic and we do have various plans in place about where those buses may be able to be detoured or moved to.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-689", "start": 4801.487, "end": 4805.757, "text": "And anything that happens like that in advance, we will make sure we also communicate to our riders.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-690", "start": 4805.967, "end": 4809.395, "text": "So again, I can't promise you extra frequency.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-691", "start": 4809.735, "end": 4812.707, "text": "I can, I can pretty much guarantee that we will have double cars.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-692", "start": 4812.772, "end": 4816.467, "text": "It's not just the Yellow Line, it's actually Yellow, Orange, and Green will all have double cars.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-693", "start": 4817.13, "end": 4822.066, "text": "Um, but I, I— we will be monitoring and doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-694", "start": 4822.81, "end": 4823.247, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-695", "start": 4826.475, "end": 4831.055, "text": "Um, what is the plan to I'm sorry, moving back to ODOT and PBOT.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-696", "start": 4831.861, "end": 4836.089, "text": "What is the plan to keep cars off of neighborhood streets?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-697", "start": 4837.28, "end": 4841.304, "text": "I know that Plan A is stay on the freeway, do the detour around.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-698", "start": 4842.383, "end": 4847.632, "text": "I hope that Plan B is stay on major streets, stick to MLK, stick to interstate.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-699", "start": 4850.454, "end": 4852.962, "text": "But what are we physically doing to ensure that that happens?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-700", "start": 4853.223, "end": 4853.858, "text": "I think that's a great question.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-701", "start": 4854.939, "end": 4861.185, "text": "What are the physical infrastructure resources that we are putting in place, especially around our schools?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-702", "start": 4861.634, "end": 4867.848, "text": "Second week of school, folks, we're going to have tiny little kindergartners who just started school who are trying to get to their classrooms safely.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-703", "start": 4868.988, "end": 4873.066, "text": "What are the— not just, oh, we have some resources.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-704", "start": 4874.382, "end": 4898.819, "text": "Give us a real picture of what the physical infrastructure is to ensure that we're keeping community members So I'll speak first about the question regarding where people—.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-705", "start": 4899.109, "end": 4903.378, "text": "Where we will direct people to drive.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-706", "start": 4903.846, "end": 4906.424, "text": "The hope and goal is that people would maintain a safe driving behavior.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-707", "start": 4906.504, "end": 4906.569, "text": "Please.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-708", "start": 4907.569, "end": 4912.259, "text": "Use of the collectors and arterials and not find themselves spilling into neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-709", "start": 4912.307, "end": 4931.245, "text": "That's part of why we talked about some of that slow street infrastructure that really does— while it's not a quote-unquote diverter, it does discourage people from traversing on those roads that would otherwise be quite hyperlocal and safer for folks who are cycling or walking.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-710", "start": 4931.855, "end": 4934.682, "text": "So we're going to do that messaging.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-711", "start": 4934.763, "end": 4934.939, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-712", "start": 4935.517, "end": 4945.371, "text": "With regard to the physical attributes that we may be able to impose in some of the areas, I'm going to ask that Wendy speak to that because the team has been working on that.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-713", "start": 4945.484, "end": 4945.805, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-714", "start": 4946.591, "end": 4960.843, "text": "Yeah, we don't have a specific plan yet for physical attributes to place around schools, but we have some things in the work for removing parking around intersections at school for better visibility, which is already something that we have in progress.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-715", "start": 4962.32, "end": 4965.995, "text": "But we're really focused on slowing people down if they are traveling.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-716", "start": 4966.348, "end": 4974.822, "text": "We can't stop people from finding a route to work, but we can work on having them be doing it slowly.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-717", "start": 4975.272, "end": 4986.458, "text": "Some things we've talked about potentially are, or I've thought about, are could we have crossing guards at some of the more major crossings near schools just during this timeframe?", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-718", "start": 4986.892, "end": 4992.446, "text": "We've talked about some other things like the barrels that we did during the pandemic.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-719", "start": 4992.832, "end": 4995.85, "text": "Again, just more education and warning signs.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-720", "start": 4996.107, "end": 5002.496, "text": "It's very hard to put something physical out that stays in place over time for 4 weeks.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-721", "start": 5003.251, "end": 5013.365, "text": "But those are things that we are still thinking about that we haven't come to any definite conclusions on all of the things, all of the tools that we would have or be able to implement.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-722", "start": 5013.413, "end": 5013.525, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-723", "start": 5014.486, "end": 5014.892, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-724", "start": 5015.2, "end": 5023.179, "text": "Um, it's a little concerning to me again that we're a month and a half out and we don't have the plan yet.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-725", "start": 5023.966, "end": 5045.694, "text": "The things that you named sound promising, um, and like they could really help, and I hope that those end up being implemented and they are not just good ideas to talk about here that don't actually come into practice on the streets, in the schools, in May I, may I add one more thing about keeping—.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-726", "start": 5045.953, "end": 5050.193, "text": "Trying to keep people on arterials and collectors rather than diverting to local streets?", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-727", "start": 5050.581, "end": 5061.607, "text": "We are looking at major corridors and retiming traffic signals to provide better coordination so that people will experience less delay and be able to keep moving.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-728", "start": 5061.72, "end": 5067.512, "text": "We do that routinely on most of our corridors, but there are some that still need updates, and so our team is looking at that too.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-729", "start": 5067.592, "end": 5067.786, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-730", "start": 5068.282, "end": 5073.175, "text": "Again, for more efficient flow on those higher-volume corridors.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-731", "start": 5073.416, "end": 5080.009, "text": "Would those be temporary changes, or would this be seen as an opportunity to make changes that should be made anyway?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-732", "start": 5080.137, "end": 5083.811, "text": "Yeah, once they're made, they will likely stay in place.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-733", "start": 5083.923, "end": 5090.516, "text": "And then unless there's something that we do that really creates a very long green time that we'd want to scale back once there's less traffic.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-734", "start": 5090.58, "end": 5098.811, "text": "But the coordination piece should stay in place, you know, until— Until we have another construction project that sort of makes us change it again.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-735", "start": 5099.485, "end": 5107.267, "text": "Councilor Pirtle-Guiney, if I may, you asked about the incident management teams, and I know that ODOT spoke to having staged TOEs.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-736", "start": 5108.213, "end": 5113.942, "text": "That is something that they're able to achieve because of the very finite nature of their project.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-737", "start": 5114.006, "end": 5126.701, "text": "But as we saw with that heat map, it'll be harder for us to do that type of staging to ensure that people could immediately respond to clear crashes or other things.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-738", "start": 5127.071, "end": 5140.947, "text": "However, we are working to ensure that anyone who would be working in support of that type of clearing activity or response activity is aware of what's happening, what we are finding.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-739", "start": 5141.044, "end": 5155.505, "text": "And I would share that David probably has experienced the same things as we've been talking to people as recently as yesterday about things that the light bulb is I think it's just starting to come on for people to be able to say, oh, I need to do something different.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-740", "start": 5156.051, "end": 5157.558, "text": "I think it's time.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-741", "start": 5158.136, "end": 5163.027, "text": "And so that's something that we're working with our partners around.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-742", "start": 5163.765, "end": 5175.311, "text": "If you'll look back at leaf season, when we know we're going to be clearing leaves in a specific area and we do clean sweeps, we do a couple of those in key areas around the city.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-743", "start": 5176.258, "end": 5183.435, "text": "We work with parking enforcement and with the tow companies, and it's pretty seamless in the ways that they show up.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-744", "start": 5183.5, "end": 5190.869, "text": "We're going to do that type of at least awareness so that people are ready to show up if in fact we need for them to.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-745", "start": 5191.431, "end": 5195.429, "text": "And that means we also need to make sure that they have the lane to access.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-746", "start": 5196.007, "end": 5201.049, "text": "And so that's part of why we're working with the emergency responding— responder community.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-747", "start": 5201.338, "end": 5205.85, "text": "To ensure we understand where their preferred routes are so that we can figure out how we can best support that.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-748", "start": 5206.38, "end": 5207.359, "text": "Thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-749", "start": 5207.407, "end": 5212.369, "text": "I'll change my last question to a comment because I'm cognizant of the time.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-750", "start": 5213.124, "end": 5220.959, "text": "For ODOT, I heard you say we would have 3 incident response vehicles and 4 speed signs.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-751", "start": 5221.955, "end": 5226.499, "text": "We are talking about a very large area that will be impacted by this.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-752", "start": 5227.814, "end": 5232.671, "text": "I do not think 3 incident response vehicles and 4 speed signs are sufficient.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-753", "start": 5233.264, "end": 5246.682, "text": "I do not think it is acceptable that TriMet is not getting any support to increase service so that we can keep people off— out of their individual vehicles and put them into public transportation.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-754", "start": 5247.435, "end": 5252.453, "text": "I do not think it is acceptable that our folks at the city don't yet have plans from you all.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-755", "start": 5253.368, "end": 5260.306, "text": "And I suspect that if I asked a question about support for the cost that PBOT will be taking on, I would hear that there is none.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-756", "start": 5262.77, "end": 5267.888, "text": "ODOT made a decision to do a project this way in our community because it saves cost.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-757", "start": 5268.454, "end": 5275.792, "text": "And my colleague said that if the externalized costs are higher than the project cost increase, we would want to know who to send the bill to.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-758", "start": 5276.701, "end": 5280.82, "text": "I actually think that that comment is efficient.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-759", "start": 5281.208, "end": 5290.505, "text": "We need to have support for the externalized costs regardless of whether it exceeds the cost of the next best option that ODOT could have taken on.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-760", "start": 5292.733, "end": 5295.03, "text": "This is an important project, certainly.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-761", "start": 5295.384, "end": 5297.97, "text": "It is a project that will benefit the community, certainly.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-762", "start": 5298.918, "end": 5302.195, "text": "But the impacts are going to be felt in a very localized way.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-763", "start": 5303.994, "end": 5312.673, "text": "ODOT chose the timing on this to coincide with when school starts, when folks are back from vacation, and when traffic is at its peak.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-764", "start": 5313.475, "end": 5321.66, "text": "And I understand there were some weather-related reasons for choosing this time period, but there are significant cost impacts to do this right.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-765", "start": 5322.302, "end": 5353.306, "text": "And I fear that because TriMet is strapped for funding, and I fear that because PBOT does not have a big gap in in extra funding, that we actually won't see the safety measures that my community needs to see to keep kids safe on their way to school and to keep traffic on main arteries and to ensure that emergency vehicles can get to people in my community who are experiencing a medical emergency.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-766", "start": 5355.146, "end": 5361.032, "text": "So I am making an ask here from the dais and I am looking at what I can do to make that ask more official.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-767", "start": 5363.05, "end": 5383.816, "text": "That ODOT consider how you might be able to better support the community financially, so that we can take on the necessary steps to actually ensure that this project works smoothly—not just for your folks who are up on the bridge doing the repairs, but for the community members who are feeling the daily impact of it.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-768", "start": 5384.586, "end": 5385.474, "text": "Thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-769", "start": 5387.33, "end": 5388.315, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-770", "start": 5388.379, "end": 5388.96, "text": "Councilor Ryan.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-771", "start": 5389.67, "end": 5390.849, "text": "Thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-772", "start": 5393.02, "end": 5400.709, "text": "Following my D2 mom colleague, when you start talking about school drop-off, I knew this was going to be good.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-773", "start": 5403.535, "end": 5404.365, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-774", "start": 5405.227, "end": 5405.992, "text": "Is PPP—.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-775", "start": 5405.992, "end": 5408.563, "text": "Councilor, we can talk about my kids' bus time another time.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-776", "start": 5408.759, "end": 5409.052, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-777", "start": 5409.937, "end": 5412.041, "text": "PPS is in the house, right?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-778", "start": 5413.254, "end": 5414.08, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-779", "start": 5414.226, "end": 5415.035, "text": "I just have a quick question.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-780", "start": 5415.89, "end": 5427.594, "text": "What I've learned by being connected with PPS and here is that your audience, your parents, your moms, they really trust your— they look at your communication.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-781", "start": 5427.819, "end": 5428.866, "text": "It's high alert for them.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-782", "start": 5429.011, "end": 5433.909, "text": "I'm concerned so many parents won't catch all this information unless it comes from you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-783", "start": 5434.645, "end": 5446.186, "text": "What's your communications plan with all of our parents and kids that exist in the PPS capture area, especially in the D2 area, in the north-northeast area.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-784", "start": 5447.212, "end": 5447.549, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-785", "start": 5448.013, "end": 5451.524, "text": "Liz Lee Scherer, Portland Public Schools Emergency Management.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-786", "start": 5452.149, "end": 5455.739, "text": "We're going to be communicating early and often.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-787", "start": 5455.932, "end": 5459.714, "text": "Our schools start in August, so not in September.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-788", "start": 5459.794, "end": 5463.882, "text": "So we'll be and already are working on a communications plan both to thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-789", "start": 5464.042, "end": 5471.91, "text": "So, in regards to communicating to staff and to families, I imagine that that will be more than one communication out.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-790", "start": 5472.312, "end": 5480.468, "text": "What we really want to do and what we've been working to do and you've seen here today is communicating with the MAC groups and the JIC is that we want consistency.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-791", "start": 5480.806, "end": 5489.219, "text": "And so being able to come here, being able to learn more, being in partnership is advocating for our families and our students about impacts.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-792", "start": 5489.797, "end": 5496.091, "text": "We're doing a lot of work right now to try and mitigate any delays that we can and then communicating what we can as we go forward.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-793", "start": 5496.413, "end": 5508.246, "text": "So I would anticipate that we have communications coming out as soon as we have something solid, but certainly weeks in advance of, of the closure.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-794", "start": 5509.547, "end": 5510.462, "text": "Did that answer your question?", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-795", "start": 5510.51, "end": 5511.426, "text": "It does, and thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-796", "start": 5511.49, "end": 5518.742, "text": "And I know we have private schools in the area too, so PBOT will and ODOT, we'll have to work with how to communicate with them as well.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-797", "start": 5519.357, "end": 5525.923, "text": "Parents respond to communication from the schools in a way that they're not going to respond to communication from the City of Portland.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-798", "start": 5526.165, "end": 5529.096, "text": "So Councilor Clark covered a lot of this.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-799", "start": 5529.998, "end": 5532.752, "text": "I'm still having trouble with the increased frequency.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-800", "start": 5532.832, "end": 5536.021, "text": "It sounds like you're going to be monitoring that, let's say, with the Yellow Line.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-801", "start": 5536.761, "end": 5540.561, "text": "And if in fact adding more trains, more frequency, that you'll be able to—.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-802", "start": 5540.561, "end": 5540.625, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-803", "start": 5540.832, "end": 5541.713, "text": "Be nimble on that?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-804", "start": 5542.515, "end": 5549.488, "text": "I know that we've probably brought this up in 3 different ways, and Councilor Pirtle-Guiney was— but I guess I wasn't satisfied with what I heard.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-805", "start": 5549.552, "end": 5549.808, "text": "Maybe.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-806", "start": 5551.155, "end": 5551.379, "text": "Can you repeat?", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-807", "start": 5551.443, "end": 5551.972, "text": "Not your fault.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-808", "start": 5552.277, "end": 5553.752, "text": "You're a messenger.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-809", "start": 5554.521, "end": 5558.304, "text": "Yeah, I am in charge of operations, so you can blame me.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-810", "start": 5559.266, "end": 5561.398, "text": "So you're asking why not more frequency?", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-811", "start": 5561.574, "end": 5565.325, "text": "Well, I just kind of was startled that I didn't hear that that was part of the plan already.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-812", "start": 5565.597, "end": 5567.729, "text": "I, you know, when you're adding a train, I got that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-813", "start": 5568.147, "end": 5570.699, "text": "But I didn't hear any commitment yet to frequency.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-814", "start": 5571.293, "end": 5573.268, "text": "I cannot commit to frequency at this time.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-815", "start": 5574.022, "end": 5578.051, "text": "That's balance of our resources and what we are able to do.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-816", "start": 5578.34, "end": 5589.465, "text": "So I can tell you we are going to work to have as many extra trains out as we can and that they will be, those potentially might be single cars because that might be able, what we're able to do from a resource standpoint.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-817", "start": 5590.059, "end": 5591.809, "text": "And we have to monitor what's going on.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-818", "start": 5592.323, "end": 5605.095, "text": "It's been mentioned, I think by Director Williams, that We do know that when these kind of big events happen, we do see a decrease in street traffic, and we do see some of that move over to transit, and some of that is because more folks are staying home.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-819", "start": 5605.564, "end": 5611.742, "text": "So our hope is just to monitor close— our hope— our plan is to monitor closely and just make sure we can manage as we go.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-820", "start": 5611.871, "end": 5618.382, "text": "We have a very agile team, to use the word that Administrator Lee used earlier.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-821", "start": 5618.865, "end": 5622.202, "text": "Our entire operation is change management, right?", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-822", "start": 5622.25, "end": 5630.98, "text": "We're responding to incidents all day long throughout our entire region and adding adding buses and moving trains and pulling buses out to respond to circumstances.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-823", "start": 5631.414, "end": 5641.244, "text": "So although this is a big impact, we're really more worried actually about our buses' ability to move through the exact streets that we're talking about, the arterials.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-824", "start": 5641.292, "end": 5643.284, "text": "So let's stay there for a second.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-825", "start": 5643.365, "end": 5656.977, "text": "But I think this is what's good about this meeting is, I mean, we have the silos that sometimes exist are all here and the public is not going to care about it's PBOT's fault, it's ODOT's fault, it's TriMet's fault, it's PPS's fault.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-826", "start": 5657.33, "end": 5662.413, "text": "They're just going to be upset, and they'll be upset with all of us up here, of course.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-827", "start": 5662.814, "end": 5668.171, "text": "That's where— but my point is, when we have moments like this, David, right?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-828", "start": 5668.315, "end": 5668.395, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-829", "start": 5668.443, "end": 5669.694, "text": "I'm glad you're nodding your head.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-830", "start": 5669.999, "end": 5682.403, "text": "And so we have to figure out where the resources are going to come so we don't have to hear that TriMet doesn't have the resources to add and so maybe that's part of ODOT's budget for this project.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-831", "start": 5684.292, "end": 5687.584, "text": "I'd like to be clear and transparent on resources.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-832", "start": 5687.633, "end": 5689.557, "text": "That can be people, not just dollars.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" 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{ "id": "cue-840", "start": 5709.036, "end": 5719.973, "text": "And then during this sort of disruption, we're working to make sure that we can throw as many extra people and buses and trains at it as we can that we have available to us.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-841", "start": 5720.134, "end": 5728.077, "text": "So that's part of monitoring closely 'cause we recognize that we may need to find a way to add more even just at certain times of the day, right?", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-842", "start": 5728.383, "end": 5729.204, "text": "And respond to that.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-843", "start": 5732.007, "end": 5732.345, "text": "Noted.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-844", "start": 5732.41, "end": 5732.941, "text": "I heard that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-845", "start": 5735.208, "end": 5737.599, "text": "Have you looked at, considered new temporary routes?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-846", "start": 5737.776, "end": 5745.303, "text": "For example, if I get this right, but I recall the Northwest St. Helens line, what's that number that goes out to Sauvie's Island?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-847", "start": 5745.351, "end": 5745.752, "text": "16.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-848", "start": 5745.993, "end": 5746.362, "text": "That one.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-849", "start": 5746.924, "end": 5757.549, "text": "So St. John's Bridge, I wasn't shocked, had the red alert because of course I know people in St. John's are gonna try to use that and take Northwest St. Helens Road.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-850", "start": 5758.094, "end": 5767.125, "text": "So maybe there could just be like a shuttle That goes from St. Johns and a few spots over to increased frequency.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-851", "start": 5767.382, "end": 5768.697, "text": "You love that word, don't you?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-852", "start": 5769.547, "end": 5771.375, "text": "On that line on Northwest St. Helens Road.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-853", "start": 5771.744, "end": 5773.989, "text": "So you're thinking about stuff like that as well, correct?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-854", "start": 5774.053, "end": 5778.801, "text": "Yes, we have an entire operations team and planning team working on this internally.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-855", "start": 5778.865, "end": 5779.843, "text": "We have for quite a few months.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-856", "start": 5779.891, "end": 5783.933, "text": "Some of those details like the heat maps are very helpful for us to identify where our problems are.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-857", "start": 5784.382, "end": 5790.075, "text": "One of our biggest concerns is the Line 6, which is over on, runs north-south on the east side of the river.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-858", "start": 5790.492, "end": 5793.652, "text": "And so we are looking at multiple alternatives for that.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-859", "start": 5793.716, "end": 5801.978, "text": "So we are aware of some of the trouble spots that we're already expecting, and we're coming up with alternate routes that we hope to not have to implement immediately, right?", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-860", "start": 5802.042, "end": 5804.576, "text": "Because the service as it exists is better for our riders.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-861", "start": 5804.785, "end": 5809.1, "text": "So 6th and 4th and 35th, they're going to be overly congested and move really slow.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-862", "start": 5809.277, "end": 5812.549, "text": "So that's why I was thinking out loud with you on that other idea.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-863", "start": 5813.175, "end": 5820.165, "text": "I'm not plugging Frog Ferry at the moment, but I am saying that if it was in existence right now, we'd be happy about that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-864", "start": 5820.566, "end": 5825.18, "text": "And there are water taxi type systems that we have in the city.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-865", "start": 5825.837, "end": 5833.945, "text": "And has anyone considered looking into that option where we could use our docks at Cathedral Park and such to take us downtown?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-866", "start": 5834.906, "end": 5836.797, "text": "I would say TriMet has not explored that.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-867", "start": 5836.909, "end": 5837.422, "text": "What's that?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-868", "start": 5837.614, "end": 5839.761, "text": "I said we have not looked into anything in that nature.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-869", "start": 5839.937, "end": 5840.69, "text": "I can tell you from us.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-870", "start": 5840.754, "end": 5842.292, "text": "Okay, we'll leave it to someone else to take this one.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-871", "start": 5842.917, "end": 5843.398, "text": "We have not.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-872", "start": 5843.959, "end": 5854.155, "text": "We know that it is an option, but to implement something like that at this time, given the window is very small and the—.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-873", "start": 5854.155, "end": 5860.272, "text": "Are they private companies that do this and would love to extend their operations beyond the tourist season?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-874", "start": 5860.337, "end": 5863.513, "text": "There are likely private companies that would do some ferrying.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-875", "start": 5865.317, "end": 5869.362, "text": "If you're talking about ferrying vehicles, or are you talking about just ferrying people?", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-876", "start": 5869.603, "end": 5870.924, "text": "No, we don't want vehicles.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-877", "start": 5871.037, "end": 5875.746, "text": "There are likely I think there are.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-878", "start": 5875.991, "end": 5877.019, "text": "So I think we're onto something.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-879", "start": 5877.133, "end": 5878.535, "text": "So you're going to look into that?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-880", "start": 5879.96, "end": 5880.203, "text": "Sure.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-881", "start": 5881.028, "end": 5883.634, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-882", "start": 5884.346, "end": 5885.867, "text": "Jacob Zanick.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-883", "start": 5886.045, "end": 5887.858, "text": "We brought this up earlier, and I appreciate that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-884", "start": 5888.311, "end": 5895.218, "text": "The emergency responses for the arterials that are going to be really, really congested, like say Fremont Bridge.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-885", "start": 5895.943, "end": 5898.577, "text": "I can't tell you how many times I've sat on that bridge when there's an accident.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-886", "start": 5898.798, "end": 5907.096, "text": "In a stalled car and it takes a long time for the ODOT's arrow things to show up, that won't be okay during this.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-887", "start": 5907.145, "end": 5910.127, "text": "So is there gonna be some— I bet you planned on this, David.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-888", "start": 5910.225, "end": 5912.853, "text": "So is there gonna be extra, what are those called?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-889", "start": 5912.951, "end": 5914.249, "text": "What are those little trucks called?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-890", "start": 5914.979, "end": 5915.755, "text": "Incident responders.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-891", "start": 5916.019, "end": 5916.944, "text": "Incident response.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-892", "start": 5917.274, "end": 5918.397, "text": "I just call 'em little arrow trucks.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-893", "start": 5920.163, "end": 5921.258, "text": "We all have a story about those.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-894", "start": 5921.628, "end": 5926.649, "text": "So are they going to be increased in frequency and maybe staged to be at the ready?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-895", "start": 5927.463, "end": 5928.458, "text": "In ways that they're not now?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-896", "start": 5929.245, "end": 5938.989, "text": "So one of the challenges we have currently in the Portland metropolitan area is that we have 9 incident responders or 9 incident response positions.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-897", "start": 5939.503, "end": 5942.248, "text": "We only have 3 that are fully filled.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-898", "start": 5942.874, "end": 5945.49, "text": "We have others that are vacant and we're in the process of filling.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-899", "start": 5945.763, "end": 5948.428, "text": "It takes about 3 to 6 months to get them certified.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-900", "start": 5949.038, "end": 5951.253, "text": "And then we have a number of employees that are unavailable.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-901", "start": 5951.847, "end": 5956.005, "text": "So what we are doing is augmenting our incident responders with maintenance patrols.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-902", "start": 5956.053, "end": 5961.031, "text": "So we have a lot of maintenance personnel that have rigs that also have aeroboards, so they'll be out and about as well.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-903", "start": 5961.111, "end": 5974.92, "text": "So in addition to the 3 incident responders, we'll have multiple maintenance vehicles, and then we'll have stage tows pre-positioned up north at I-5 North in the southbound direction over by the Broadway-Weidler area, and then one on 405.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-904", "start": 5975.386, "end": 5979.416, "text": "And so in addition to the incident responders, maintenance patrols will be out there.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-905", "start": 5979.641, "end": 5983.077, "text": "They have rigs that can push vehicles out of the way.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-906", "start": 5983.736, "end": 5988.661, "text": "The goal would be to keep the So that was a yes?", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-907", "start": 5989.03, "end": 5989.222, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-908", "start": 5989.447, "end": 5990.874, "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-909", "start": 5991.419, "end": 5993.888, "text": "And I'm now more educated about the different levels.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-910", "start": 5995.268, "end": 5998.811, "text": "Okay, this has been talked about, but we've kind of talked around it.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-911", "start": 5998.876, "end": 6003.895, "text": "I think everyone's scratched their head when we saw that it begins on 9/11 and goes into Electober.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-912", "start": 6004.52, "end": 6009.122, "text": "So this is part 1, and then you're going to do the northbound.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-913", "start": 6009.876, "end": 6015.862, "text": "Was— I can't imagine that that was a decision that was made was always the plan to do this on September 11th?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-914", "start": 6016.135, "end": 6022.799, "text": "I assume that at one time you were expecting to do it from maybe mid-July to somewhere into August.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-915", "start": 6023.185, "end": 6034.794, "text": "I'm putting words in your mouth because I really can't understand why we picked early September when schools are back in session and traffic is well known to go to spike up during that time.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-916", "start": 6035.967, "end": 6041.209, "text": "So I'm not aware of whether there are prior scheduled commitments to starting in the summer.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-917", "start": 6041.355, "end": 6053.105, "text": "I do know that there is a lot of work underway as it relates to constructing the bridge rail and then laying in that bridge girder or the beam is a significant element of work that's gonna take place during the closure as well.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-918", "start": 6053.298, "end": 6064.634, "text": "They're gonna be constructing and widening that gore area so that we extend the gore distance as well as create space to be able to extend that auxiliary lane.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-919", "start": 6064.747, "end": 6069.327, "text": "So there's been a lot of pre-work to date, and I think it's all a matter of just construction sequencing and timing.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-920", "start": 6069.812, "end": 6074.403, "text": "That led us to the September 11th date, pretty much near the end of summer.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-921", "start": 6074.964, "end": 6077.436, "text": "And this work does require dry weather.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-922", "start": 6078.078, "end": 6086.472, "text": "And so that's gonna be a risk to the project, weather is, but we have contingency plans.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-923", "start": 6086.729, "end": 6092.089, "text": "All the work requires dry weather, which is a statement that you're making a few times.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-924", "start": 6092.137, "end": 6095.379, "text": "And so the pre-work began during the dry season.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-925", "start": 6095.974, "end": 6097.89, "text": "As well as what you're— what I'm getting from you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-926", "start": 6098.377, "end": 6102.258, "text": "And this is done last, and so it goes to the very end of the dry season.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-927", "start": 6102.74, "end": 6106.688, "text": "Most of us know that once you get into October, you're, you're crossing your fingers.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-928", "start": 6107.865, "end": 6114.109, "text": "So what happens if we have one of those, you know, rainstorms that last 4 days that we have now and then in September?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-929", "start": 6114.174, "end": 6115.377, "text": "Does work stop?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-930", "start": 6115.637, "end": 6117.718, "text": "Because you kept repeating that it's the dry season.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-931", "start": 6119.435, "end": 6126.659, "text": "If we have rain weather, it's something we have to work with the contractor to see if there's another method to getting the concrete to cure in that timeframe.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-932", "start": 6126.739, "end": 6132.769, "text": "I do know that we're going to be looking at high-strength early cure concrete to reduce the time it takes to get the concrete to cure.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-933", "start": 6133.299, "end": 6136.634, "text": "But weather is certainly a risk, and we have accounted for that in the schedule.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-934", "start": 6137.228, "end": 6143.562, "text": "The hope again is for the contractor to get the work done sooner, and we have some contingency plans for schedule.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-935", "start": 6143.899, "end": 6145.792, "text": "Okay, I'll try to wrap this up with this question.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-936", "start": 6146.786, "end": 6154.134, "text": "We know that moving freight and cargo around the city is always challenging, even when there's no shutdowns of I-5.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-937", "start": 6154.872, "end": 6171.015, "text": "And we also know that the North Portland part of town is where the majority of cargo and freight come from, whether it's Swan Island, whether it's the Jubas truck stop, whether it's the piers that are along North Marine Drive out towards Kelly Point.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-938", "start": 6171.432, "end": 6172.347, "text": "So that's a lot.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-939", "start": 6172.395, "end": 6185.57, "text": "So tell me more about the conversations you're having with the Swan Island workgroup, Councilor Ryan, yes, we've had a number of meetings with the Swan Island Business Association.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-940", "start": 6185.82, "end": 6190.3, "text": "They have expressed concerns with not just the freight movements but also shift change.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-941", "start": 6190.3, "end": 6192.33, "text": "They have about 1,000 employees coming in and out.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-942", "start": 6192.62, "end": 6199.4, "text": "And so our commitment is to meet with the Swan Island Business Association as well as others one week into the closure.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-943", "start": 6199.4, "end": 6202.45, "text": "We know the situation with traffic is going to be very dynamic.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-944", "start": 6202.45, "end": 6209.186, "text": "I think the concern is that if you close the road, Starting September 11th on a Friday, the weekend traffic impacts are going to be vastly different than the weekday traffic impacts.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-945", "start": 6209.635, "end": 6229.191, "text": "And we expect after about the first week, if we see a dramatic change in traffic volumes or we see an area that is problematic, we are going to be working with our traffic engineers as well as with PBOT to see, are there other options that we can take, such as closing a ramp, reopening a ramp?", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-946", "start": 6229.898, "end": 6236.593, "text": "But it's really very— it's a very dynamic situation because if we close or open another ramp, that has potential implications to the city system as well.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-947", "start": 6236.673, "end": 6251.686, "text": "So we got some subject matter experts that will be closely monitoring the situation at a regional level to see what we can do to respond to the challenges that the closure will have on the traveling public as well as the freight.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-948", "start": 6251.751, "end": 6259.837, "text": "David, and you have similar meetings beyond the Swan Island workgroup with the good folks out at Rivergate and also people out at the Jubitz truck stop area?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-949", "start": 6260.238, "end": 6263.862, "text": "Yes, we are reaching out to Jubitz per our meeting last week.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-950", "start": 6264.889, "end": 6266.621, "text": "Oh, which— okay, well, I'm glad that—.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-951", "start": 6266.909, "end": 6280.236, "text": "And Councilor Ryan, if I might add, PBOT is going to attend the next— we always attend the freight committee meetings, but there's a freight committee meeting that's coming up next week where we are going to go to talk about this project.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-952", "start": 6281.584, "end": 6292.784, "text": "That group is made up of any number of carriers from around the region, and many of them have been made aware of this work, especially through the work of Janet Jarvis.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-953", "start": 6293.282, "end": 6297.775, "text": "But we're going to be making sure that they're aware of all of the efforts that are underway to support freight movement.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-954", "start": 6298.096, "end": 6299.476, "text": "You're going to take up a lot of that agenda.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-955", "start": 6299.54, "end": 6300.294, "text": "You know that, right?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-956", "start": 6300.663, "end": 6300.792, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-957", "start": 6300.84, "end": 6301.177, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-958", "start": 6302.525, "end": 6304.37, "text": "I know we— Elizabeth, I'll end with this.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-959", "start": 6304.515, "end": 6307.002, "text": "You're in that group representing PBAM.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-960", "start": 6307.082, "end": 6308.045, "text": "What group is that?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-961", "start": 6308.206, "end": 6312.089, "text": "It's the group of the city that's all connecting with one another.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-962", "start": 6312.538, "end": 6314.4, "text": "But I didn't see public safety on there.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-963", "start": 6314.705, "end": 6317.096, "text": "And I know this was brought up earlier, but I'm so concerned.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-964", "start": 6317.208, "end": 6326.884, "text": "How are our first responders, specifically fire, police, going to feel like they're really connected to all the nuances of this challenge?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-965", "start": 6327.719, "end": 6329.42, "text": "Yeah, public safety is included.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-966", "start": 6329.484, "end": 6332.18, "text": "We have members from each of the public safety bureaus.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-967", "start": 6332.677, "end": 6333.078, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-968", "start": 6333.239, "end": 6333.704, "text": "And then we also—.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-969", "start": 6333.704, "end": 6334.876, "text": "That wasn't on the list earlier.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-970", "start": 6334.924, "end": 6335.469, "text": "That's why I asked.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-971", "start": 6335.726, "end": 6339.936, "text": "Yeah, I think I said each of the service areas, and then I mentioned some of the other groups.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-972", "start": 6340, "end": 6346.604, "text": "But each of the services, I think we have like 60 members right now that each include public safety.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-973", "start": 6346.813, "end": 6354.06, "text": "And then we're having additional meetings on top of those internal coordination groups that are public safety specific.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-974", "start": 6354.622, "end": 6365.409, "text": "We're also including Multnomah County and AMR in that as well, as well as the and this is a question about navigation systems.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-975", "start": 6365.602, "end": 6373.028, "text": "I think that sometimes they don't keep up with the reality of the situation, and it sounds like there will be some changes now and then that take place.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-976", "start": 6373.578, "end": 6379.922, "text": "I've got to experience that with the Morrison Bridge being closed now and then over the last 2 weeks, but it doesn't tell you that on your navigation system.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-977", "start": 6380.58, "end": 6384.302, "text": "How do you communicate with those, and who's the smart person that's going to explain that?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-978", "start": 6384.61, "end": 6385.049, "text": "Navigation.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-979", "start": 6385.976, "end": 6386.187, "text": "Sorry.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-980", "start": 6388.047, "end": 6388.928, "text": "I said we already own it.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-981", "start": 6389.281, "end": 6390.74, "text": "So, so there are a couple of things.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-982", "start": 6390.852, "end": 6399.54, "text": "There's NavMan that the public safety cluster already uses as a tool to help to inform the ways that they will move about the city.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-983", "start": 6399.604, "end": 6400.518, "text": "They talk to Google?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-984", "start": 6401.111, "end": 6404.365, "text": "That's— and that's why Jacob is here, because he's going to talk about that.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-985", "start": 6404.717, "end": 6405.711, "text": "Hi, Councilor Ryan.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-986", "start": 6405.759, "end": 6408.741, "text": "For the record, Jacob Sherman, use he/him pronouns, work at PBOT.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-987", "start": 6409.542, "end": 6414.639, "text": "We have reached out to Google already to see what we might be able to do in working with them on routing.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-988", "start": 6415.072, "end": 6425.945, "text": "We've started a conversation with Uber and Lyft as well to make sure that their routing algorithms are maybe getting updated so drivers aren't getting stuck in traffic with frustrated passengers.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-989", "start": 6426.458, "end": 6429.071, "text": "And we're trying to reach out to some of the other technology companies.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-990", "start": 6429.825, "end": 6432.599, "text": "This is a little bit of an uphill battle.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-991", "start": 6432.888, "end": 6438.212, "text": "Cities around the United States have been trying to get the platforms to work with them for many years.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-992", "start": 6438.468, "end": 6438.645, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-993", "start": 6438.805, "end": 6448.104, "text": "But we're going to use this as another good example to try and be collaborative with them and make sure that we're not diverting traffic onto things like neighborhood greenways as much as we can.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-994", "start": 6448.667, "end": 6455.194, "text": "And when you're in those dialogues, you get to talk about things like Councilor Pirtle-Guiney brought up, like when cars go into the neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-995", "start": 6456.263, "end": 6460.578, "text": "I find a lot of cars go into neighborhoods because your navigation system will tell you to do that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-996", "start": 6461.577, "end": 6466.427, "text": "And that's what we're working to hopefully be able to inform so that they will not do that.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-997", "start": 6466.813, "end": 6467.055, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-998", "start": 6467.606, "end": 6468.007, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-999", "start": 6468.328, "end": 6471.807, "text": "I assume that everything I asked, you've all been considering and thinking about.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1000", "start": 6471.887, "end": 6474.693, "text": "So I really appreciate the dialogue that we're having today.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1001", "start": 6474.918, "end": 6475.239, "text": "Absolutely.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1002", "start": 6475.303, "end": 6476.89, "text": "There's been a lot of work that's been happening.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1003", "start": 6477.547, "end": 6487.825, "text": "And we are also appreciative of the opportunity to bring the information forward through this work session so that you can know that there is thoughtful consideration regarding the ways that we're going to show up as a city.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1004", "start": 6488.947, "end": 6494.832, "text": "I won't touch on the music selection, but I'll just say, true to my stereotype, Ease on Down the Road by The Wiz.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1005", "start": 6494.896, "end": 6495.329, "text": "Sounds good.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1006", "start": 6495.923, "end": 6506.101, "text": "And I think some of your signs, I know you don't mean to put those up for this one, but speed kills, slow down is probably not going to go over that well when you haven't moved in like a half hour.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1007", "start": 6506.422, "end": 6508.702, "text": "So this too shall pass might be better.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1008", "start": 6508.846, "end": 6511.19, "text": "But we will be doing some of that.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1009", "start": 6511.495, "end": 6543.76, "text": "While we want to be as lighthearted as possible, because this is a time when there are a lot of things that are on a lot of people's minds that are not favorable, we do want thank you, President Dunphy.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1010", "start": 6543.76, "end": 6549.14, "text": "Director Williams, question: is there anything that you need that we can be helpful with?", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1011", "start": 6549.14, "end": 6549.2, "text": "Yes, we do.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-1012", "start": 6554.052, "end": 6554.261, "text": "Money.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1013", "start": 6554.453, "end": 6569.885, "text": "But what would be really helpful, though, is councilors, as we prepare the information that's going to be shared citywide, that you work with us to perhaps even customize the messages that you might send to your constituencies.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1014", "start": 6570.079, "end": 6570.564, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1015", "start": 6570.806, "end": 6571.599, "text": "They listen to you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1016", "start": 6572.838, "end": 6575.578, "text": "You're influencing their opinions and the ways that they think about the city.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1017", "start": 6576.103, "end": 6576.6, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1018", "start": 6576.825, "end": 6584.784, "text": "And so we would hope that we would be able to piggyback on some of the really fine work that all of the councilors are doing to get information out to your constituencies.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1019", "start": 6585.57, "end": 6598.615, "text": "We also, as you're getting this information and you're helping to share information, that if you're in conversation, that you do let folks know that there are people standing by to provide support and responses to their questions or concerns.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1020", "start": 6599.273, "end": 6603.429, "text": "ODOT will have certainly places that people can go to get information.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1021", "start": 6603.782, "end": 6610.403, "text": "We're going to be working on scripts to share with 311 so that they'll be able to be responsive to community who have concerns.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1022", "start": 6611.14, "end": 6629.079, "text": "And then we're going to ask that you, inasmuch as this may be a hard thing to do, ask that our community come together with a certain degree of patience to ensure that we can get through this together and be honest and forthright about the things that are concerns, because if we don't hear it, sometimes we don't know that there's a problem that we need to solve again.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1023", "start": 6629.288, "end": 6631.663, "text": "So please make sure that you're sharing that with us.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1024", "start": 6632.08, "end": 6648.594, "text": "That's a good idea because we do a weekly, um, electronic newsletter, and I can put that in our newsletter every week until throughout the 5 weeks from now until, just to remind people because people forget.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1025", "start": 6649.236, "end": 6655.27, "text": "But the other thing that I heard earlier was that there are a lot of cameras that are additional cameras that are being put up.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1026", "start": 6655.35, "end": 6659.789, "text": "Will they will they stay after, or will we go pick them up?", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1027", "start": 6660.278, "end": 6660.392, "text": "There.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1028", "start": 6660.62, "end": 6663.73, "text": "Okay, I'll, I'll ask Wendy to answer that question.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1029", "start": 6664.64, "end": 6670.902, "text": "Yeah, the plan is to have the cameras installed, stayed at least through the next couple phases of the project.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1030", "start": 6670.951, "end": 6674.084, "text": "So when there's a northbound lane closure, so that we still have access to those.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1031", "start": 6674.749, "end": 6678.171, "text": "And then we'll see what comes after those phases.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1032", "start": 6678.236, "end": 6688.03, "text": "If there are future projects where that they would be helpful for, we will thank you, Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1033", "start": 6688.03, "end": 6689.57, "text": "Councilor Morillo.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1034", "start": 6689.57, "end": 6690.5, "text": "Thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1035", "start": 6690.65, "end": 6691.83, "text": "Um, thank you guys so much for this presentation.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1036", "start": 6692.01, "end": 6694.75, "text": "I think it's really helpful for the public to hear what's going on and why.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1037", "start": 6694.97, "end": 6703.29, "text": "And, um, I will say I agree with pretty much everything that Councilor Pirtle-Guiney laid out, and I'm a little bit concerned about the impact on especially city workers.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1038", "start": 6703.29, "end": 6707.05, "text": "I feel like that's an easy area where we have control, so if we can avoid any additional burden on them, I think that would be great.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1039", "start": 6708.3, "end": 6722.19, "text": "I think that I'm just publicly stating that I'm in favor of that if it makes it a bit easier for everybody, including the employees and the other people that are going to be sharing the road.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1040", "start": 6722.86, "end": 6730.21, "text": "I had most of my questions answered as people were speaking, so the one outstanding question I have is about the additional cameras that are being added.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1041", "start": 6730.34, "end": 6733.08, "text": "I was wondering if we have any details about what company is doing that, and if we have any idea of when those cameras will be installed.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1042", "start": 6734.093, "end": 6737.571, "text": "Whose cameras they are, what the data sharing aspects are of that.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1043", "start": 6737.859, "end": 6738.532, "text": "Like, is it Flock?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1044", "start": 6738.66, "end": 6739.397, "text": "Is it something else?", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1045", "start": 6740.006, "end": 6740.952, "text": "Um, just curious.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1046", "start": 6741.705, "end": 6742.698, "text": "That's a great question.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1047", "start": 6742.747, "end": 6745.663, "text": "I don't know if you know, David, but I can get that information for you.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1048", "start": 6746.096, "end": 6751.928, "text": "Um, what I can also share is that they do not record on a regular basis.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1049", "start": 6752.025, "end": 6753.531, "text": "They are just monitoring cameras.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1050", "start": 6753.883, "end": 6759.139, "text": "We have the ability to record if we see something very specific in the moment that we want to capture.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1051", "start": 6759.412, "end": 6761.595, "text": "But we don't save those recordings.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1052", "start": 6761.659, "end": 6767.454, "text": "And so they're not recording cameras, but I can get the information on what type of cameras and system.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1053", "start": 6767.502, "end": 6770.937, "text": "Yeah, Councilor Morillo, the cameras are called PTZ cameras.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1054", "start": 6770.985, "end": 6776.234, "text": "So point-to-zoom, they're manually operated and they connect to the PBOT system or the ODOT system.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1055", "start": 6776.282, "end": 6777.663, "text": "So there's no third-party vendor.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1056", "start": 6778.417, "end": 6787.423, "text": "And in terms of installing the cameras, it was more cost-effective to install the cameras and use them primarily to monitor traffic and congestion.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1057", "start": 6787.503, "end": 6803.543, "text": "But also in some instances, we have the ability and so if they're seeing a significant backup, then either a PBOT employee traffic engineer or ODOT traffic engineer can go in there and adjust that signal timing on the fly rather than sending somebody out there.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1058", "start": 6804.267, "end": 6804.67, "text": "Gotcha.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1059", "start": 6804.831, "end": 6805.024, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1060", "start": 6805.136, "end": 6805.33, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1061", "start": 6805.394, "end": 6807.905, "text": "Any additional details you want to share, feel free to email me afterwards.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1062", "start": 6807.97, "end": 6810.562, "text": "But I think that alleviates most of the concerns I would have.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1063", "start": 6810.771, "end": 6811.771, "text": "I think you were about to speak.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1064", "start": 6811.901, "end": 6817.815, "text": "I was just going to invite you or any of the councilors over to PBOT's yes.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1065", "start": 6817.928, "end": 6824.354, "text": "The 14th floor where we have a mini command center in terms of traffic operations center.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1066", "start": 6824.772, "end": 6830.733, "text": "So you can see what the cameras are doing, how they're doing it, how long they stay in a specific location.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1067", "start": 6831.327, "end": 6842.799, "text": "I think it is helpful to inform the understanding about the ways that we use that information and how in fact we are not storing the information but really using it to help to be able to be responsive in the moment.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1068", "start": 6843.563, "end": 6844.75, "text": "Okay, that sounds like a fun tour.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1069", "start": 6844.833, "end": 6846.053, "text": "I'll take you up on that at some point.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1070", "start": 6846.201, "end": 6846.614, "text": "Thank you, everybody.", "speaker": "Laura Oppenheimer" }, { "id": "cue-1071", "start": 6849.14, "end": 6849.725, "text": "Turn that off.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1072", "start": 6849.773, "end": 6850.845, "text": "Councilor— thank you, Councilor Morillo.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1073", "start": 6850.926, "end": 6851.543, "text": "Councilor Kanal.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1074", "start": 6851.9, "end": 6853.93, "text": "Thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1075", "start": 6854.953, "end": 6856.199, "text": "Thanks to everyone for being here.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1076", "start": 6856.506, "end": 6863.093, "text": "In future, I'd love the chance to ask questions without having a 45-minute without a pause presentation when we do these.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1077", "start": 6863.773, "end": 6870.458, "text": "Councilor Novick, in the interest of multimodal transport, but with no joy, I have to suggest I'm going to be 500 miles by the Proclaimers.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1078", "start": 6872.31, "end": 6875.596, "text": "I wrote down that I agree with Councilor Dunphy about the issue of externalized costs.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1079", "start": 6875.677, "end": 6878.248, "text": "I think that Councilor Pirtle-Guiney is correct.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1080", "start": 6878.983, "end": 6902.232, "text": "I am concerned that there's not just financial costs, but a lot of other costs, obviously time, but risk, safety risk being placed on us because we have to account for the places on that heat map that are not ODOT's I think I'll kind of COVID a few of these, but as I'm doing it, can we pull up the slides one more time from you, David?", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1081", "start": 6902.409, "end": 6903.663, "text": "Specifically slide 11.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1082", "start": 6905.72, "end": 6927.375, "text": "So first, I appreciate the updates to the business assistance part of this since July 9th, but I will note that when I got the briefing, I specifically raised Jubitz and other— when discussing the issue of truck traffic, and I'm disappointed to hear it's just happening now as a concern, um, or as a— sorry, uh, piece of, of outreach.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1083", "start": 6930.071, "end": 6936.075, "text": "Um, yeah, okay.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1084", "start": 6936.155, "end": 6941.604, "text": "So, uh, this slide, uh, on the construction workforce, do you have disaggregated data for the light blue?", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1085", "start": 6944.323, "end": 6945.989, "text": "We should have disaggregated Yes.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1086", "start": 6946.535, "end": 6953.279, "text": "Okay, because I, I don't think it's fair to either women or to people of color to combine these statistics.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1087", "start": 6954.162, "end": 6961.403, "text": "And I want to make sure that we have the opportunity to see how that's working, even though it does appear that it's being exceeded by a factor of 3.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1088", "start": 6961.468, "end": 6963.25, "text": "I just wanted to get that on the record.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1089", "start": 6963.908, "end": 6973.048, "text": "Since it's come up a few times, but we've been directing it primarily, it looks like, at TriMet, I'll ask ODOT, what has what has ODOT done to increase transit funding?", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1090", "start": 6973.427, "end": 6974.697, "text": "Is that a part of this budget?", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1091", "start": 6976.487, "end": 6983.574, "text": "ODOT, I'm not aware that ODOT has done anything in terms of providing funding to transit for the impacts of this project.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1092", "start": 6983.655, "end": 6985.088, "text": "We have a set project budget.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1093", "start": 6986.05, "end": 6994.103, "text": "We are reimbursing the city for the signal timers to help mitigate the problem areas.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1094", "start": 6994.457, "end": 6998.269, "text": "We are providing the speed feedback signs to the city to be used.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1095", "start": 6998.333, "end": 7001.667, "text": "We're providing funding for some of the cameras to help mitigate.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1096", "start": 7001.859, "end": 7005.257, "text": "But in terms of other agencies, we know their impacts.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1097", "start": 7006.747, "end": 7013.575, "text": "We're providing some funding to TriMet to review some of our plans that affect their facilities as it relates to the project.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1098", "start": 7014.103, "end": 7022.437, "text": "But as it relates to the broader response, there are no funds that we typically provide for that type of response.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1099", "start": 7023.095, "end": 7024.441, "text": "Thank you for clarifying that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1100", "start": 7024.601, "end": 7025.947, "text": "I'll circle back on the cameras.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1101", "start": 7026.124, "end": 7027.085, "text": "Thank you for everything else.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1102", "start": 7027.396, "end": 7037.753, "text": "I think that for future, including next year on the northbound side, that should be something that's baked into the budget is the externalized costs, not only to us but to TriMet.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1103", "start": 7038.911, "end": 7041.533, "text": "To Director Williams, I have 4 questions.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1104", "start": 7041.581, "end": 7044.637, "text": "I'm going to ask them all together to be cognizant of time.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1105", "start": 7045.57, "end": 7051.648, "text": "There are 2 hotspots, one on the map, one around Northeast 15th and the other at the St. Johns Bridge.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1106", "start": 7052.004, "end": 7053.265, "text": "I just want to ask the open-ended question.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1107", "start": 7053.36, "end": 7055.926, "text": "I guess I have a question for each of those of what's being done there specifically.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1108", "start": 7057.402, "end": 7073.863, "text": "There's— I saw from the other presenters that there's a reference to— we talked about the transit work or the collaboration there, but on your slides there's a piece about updates or, sorry, upgrades to transit.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1109", "start": 7074.328, "end": 7076.59, "text": "And I wanted to just ask what's being done by PBOT there.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1110", "start": 7076.655, "end": 7076.799, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1111", "start": 7077.2, "end": 7079.559, "text": "And then just to get on the record, I guess this one isn't a question, Thank you.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1112", "start": 7079.639, "end": 7083.494, "text": "I appreciate the question, but I am particularly concerned about elementary schools too.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1113", "start": 7084.345, "end": 7089.277, "text": "As my D2 colleague pointed out, you know, we have Beach, Boise Elliott, Sabin, Irvington.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1114", "start": 7089.325, "end": 7093.437, "text": "They're all right in that area that will be affected, possibly Buckman, Alameda.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1115", "start": 7093.758, "end": 7104.985, "text": "There's quite a few that I think— yeah, I'm concerned about that, and I just would love to know what specifically is being done there in terms of access control to the area or any other updates.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1116", "start": 7106.268, "end": 7108.738, "text": "I'm trying to track all the questions.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1117", "start": 7109.09, "end": 7114.671, "text": "So the first one was about Northeast 15th and then also St. Johns.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1118", "start": 7115.088, "end": 7116.707, "text": "Yep, that was number 2, St. Johns Bridge.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1119", "start": 7116.932, "end": 7129.215, "text": "You specifically referenced actually what we shared yesterday about some transit work that wasn't in today's presentation because we did want to make sure that we provided TriMet the opportunity to provide that response.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1120", "start": 7129.552, "end": 7134.475, "text": "So in the event that TriMet shares with us So I'm sorry, I'm answering that question really quickly.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1121", "start": 7134.747, "end": 7149.757, "text": "In the event that TriMet shares with us that there's something that they would need for us to do to help to ensure that circulation of especially buses was enhanced, we would be able to work together to identify what that solution might look like.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1122", "start": 7150.286, "end": 7155.161, "text": "I think we all know about Rose Lanes and the effectiveness of those.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1123", "start": 7155.289, "end": 7155.85, "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1124", "start": 7155.898, "end": 7175.79, "text": "I'm not committing to a Rose Lane, but I am suggesting that there may be some opportunities for us to do some exploration about how we can, at least on a temporary basis, provide some relief to ensure that we're not causing or allowing for automobile traffic or other freight traffic to hold up the buses and keeping— causing schedules to be delayed.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1125", "start": 7176.77, "end": 7182.583, "text": "Regarding 15th and St. Johns, Wendy, is there specific work that's being done there?", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1126", "start": 7182.808, "end": 7186.678, "text": "Those are included in the 20 to 30 signalized intersections correct.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1127", "start": 7186.742, "end": 7193.531, "text": "Or like those hotspots that our signal engineers and traffic engineers will be looking at for improvements to signal timing.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1128", "start": 7194.381, "end": 7206.626, "text": "Some other things that we're looking at on these and other corridors to help potentially even transit and some other things are, are there opportunities to temporarily remove parking to allow for temporary right-turn lanes or some things like that?", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1129", "start": 7207.589, "end": 7217.485, "text": "So those are the types of things that we're looking at that are relatively easy to implement for a you know, a short period of time, relatively short period of time during the construction.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1130", "start": 7218.084, "end": 7219.348, "text": "And I know that's not all the questions.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1131", "start": 7220.022, "end": 7221.018, "text": "There were a couple more in there.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1132", "start": 7221.388, "end": 7225.774, "text": "Just more, anything on signal, sorry, access control or other updates around the schools?", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1133", "start": 7226.191, "end": 7226.4, "text": "Sure.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1134", "start": 7226.464, "end": 7228.167, "text": "So Wendy kind of mentioned it before.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1135", "start": 7228.296, "end": 7237.502, "text": "One of the things that we're hoping to be able to lean in on is getting some crossing guards to support.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1136", "start": 7237.647, "end": 7238.068, "text": "Go ahead.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1137", "start": 7238.752, "end": 7250.073, "text": "No, I was, I was going to say yes, crossing guards, and then also some of the temporary interventions that we did during the pandemic with the slow streets, if those are local streets.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1138", "start": 7250.778, "end": 7272.525, "text": "The crossing guards would mainly be on any neighborhood collectors that are impacted by this, and then the orange barrels with local street or shared street signage would be for some of the local streets that could potentially be impacted, but we're still trying to determine what, uh, how far away from the collectors we think that traffic may divert.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1139", "start": 7272.589, "end": 7279.777, "text": "And so that's why we don't have like a full comprehensive plan right now that we can hand out and say like, at this school, this is specifically what we'll be doing.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1140", "start": 7279.889, "end": 7283.547, "text": "We're still working on sort of the reach of some of these things.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1141", "start": 7284.061, "end": 7284.959, "text": "Yeah, I appreciate that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1142", "start": 7285.007, "end": 7287.879, "text": "I'll also pitch more support for bike buses.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1143", "start": 7288.697, "end": 7296.19, "text": "And then with relation to the parking piece, I really like hearing that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1144", "start": 7296.238, "end": 7298.837, "text": "I think that's a good thing to test, to use this as a test for.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1145", "start": 7298.901, "end": 7308.238, "text": "I think there are things that this provides an opportunity to test for the future, and there are things that I would prefer not to use this as an opportunity to test for as well.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1146", "start": 7308.784, "end": 7311.239, "text": "So, but this is one of the good ones, I would say.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1147", "start": 7312.442, "end": 7314.945, "text": "No need to come up, but I appreciate the update from Director Zito.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1148", "start": 7315.169, "end": 7316.806, "text": "I am happy to see the progress you've made.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1149", "start": 7316.87, "end": 7317.255, "text": "I want to keep pushing.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1150", "start": 7317.303, "end": 7317.399, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1151", "start": 7317.48, "end": 7325.522, "text": "Pushing you and the mayor, who we all know is not the biggest fan of telework, to increase telework, even as I'm grateful for what you've already done.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1152", "start": 7327.54, "end": 7328.962, "text": "Director Perez, thanks for being here.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1153", "start": 7329.092, "end": 7329.755, "text": "Thanks for the updates.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1154", "start": 7329.981, "end": 7334.816, "text": "I want to follow up on the piece about ambulances and ask a question about Legacy Emanuel specifically.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1155", "start": 7335.479, "end": 7339.467, "text": "As you know, pretty—it's one of the two level one trauma centers in the area.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1156", "start": 7339.548, "end": 7342.883, "text": "Everybody north of Burnside all the way out to Gresham is supposed to get taken there.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1157", "start": 7344.492, "end": 7348.535, "text": "And so I'm curious about how we ensure access there.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1158", "start": 7348.761, "end": 7353.361, "text": "Looking at the area of the map, I think it's going to be close to that area.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1159", "start": 7354.495, "end": 7360.505, "text": "Yeah, so we are working on the local access lanes, and I'm wondering— Aaron, you want to come up?", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-1160", "start": 7363.939, "end": 7367.053, "text": "Musical chairs up here for those watching online.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1161", "start": 7368.609, "end": 7371.155, "text": "Aaron Monning, he/him/his, Multnomah County EMS Administrator.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1162", "start": 7373.008, "end": 7375.438, "text": "We've been invited to coordinate with the team.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1163", "start": 7375.928, "end": 7378.309, "text": "There's— AMR's been involved in that also.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1164", "start": 7379.692, "end": 7381.031, "text": "It is a regional trauma center.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1165", "start": 7381.144, "end": 7387.519, "text": "It receives a very large number of patients every day, not just from Multnomah County but from the state.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1166", "start": 7388.406, "end": 7391.917, "text": "So we've sent a lot of notices out to get coordinated.", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1167", "start": 7393.98, "end": 7395.83, "text": "Ambulances are just like any other vehicle.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1168", "start": 7395.879, "end": 7397.385, "text": "There's no, no magic there.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1169", "start": 7397.532, "end": 7398.384, "text": "They're going to deal with the congestion.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1170", "start": 7398.433, "end": 7398.728, "text": "I'm sorry, I'm sorry.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1171", "start": 7399.677, "end": 7407.977, "text": "They will take the path of least resistance to get patients to the right hospital, and that means more patients will likely go to OHSU during this closure.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1172", "start": 7408.828, "end": 7411.204, "text": "Although if they can get through, they'll go to Emmanuel.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1173", "start": 7411.654, "end": 7418.236, "text": "We also have Robin Holm here, who represents the Hospital Preparedness Organization, who we're also coordinating with.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1174", "start": 7419.119, "end": 7425.685, "text": "Again, we want to get patients where they can get definitive care, and that may be a trauma center or it may be another hospital until we can get.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1175", "start": 7425.75, "end": 7438.713, "text": "Yeah, I think both sides of that, helping folks who have to get there get there, and also diverting those that may, given the traffic, need to go to another place to get faster care at a lower level, lower acuity level, will be very helpful.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1176", "start": 7438.777, "end": 7443.077, "text": "And I would love, as that gets developed in more detail, if we can get more information.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1177", "start": 7444.152, "end": 7449.462, "text": "And then this is kind of broadly, you know, I pushed back in the briefing to Director Williams.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1178", "start": 7449.51, "end": 7456.526, "text": "I haven't passed this on to Public Safety, but as it relates to the cameras, this area is home to historic communities of color.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1179", "start": 7456.59, "end": 7458.902, "text": "It remains one of the most diverse areas in Portland.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1180", "start": 7459.175, "end": 7466.995, "text": "I'm concerned about overpolicing using this as an entry point, and I want data that is not curated by police that shows me that didn't happen after this closure.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1181", "start": 7467.99, "end": 7472.004, "text": "Can Enterprise Services collect and process that data?", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1182", "start": 7472.085, "end": 7475.055, "text": "And I guess I'm also asking this of our interim DCA.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1183", "start": 7476.115, "end": 7476.757, "text": "City Administrator.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1184", "start": 7478.666, "end": 7497.983, "text": "We'll go ahead and provide a report, but typically that information, and this is not new to cities and the use of that traffic information, those— that information is not typically used by public safety for any mechanism unless there was a traffic accident or any— or an event like that that took place.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-1185", "start": 7498.4, "end": 7500.839, "text": "But it's not something that they're visually looking at.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-1186", "start": 7501.77, "end": 7502.508, "text": "I understand that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1187", "start": 7502.636, "end": 7517.425, "text": "You know, a couple years ago we had a presentation on the use of drones for, at the time, taking pictures after the fact only of traffic incidents, locations that traffic incidents and accidents had occurred.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1188", "start": 7518.372, "end": 7519.754, "text": "That was at least the pledge.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1189", "start": 7519.978, "end": 7529.037, "text": "And then later on, we have seen use of it to show heat mapping of street racing as it was happening, which is outside the originally council-approved scope for police.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1190", "start": 7530.017, "end": 7541.628, "text": "So I think there is a context to wanting to ensure that there is not, after the approval, expansion of the approved use of technology in this particular case.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1191", "start": 7542.105, "end": 7544.788, "text": "Does that contextualize your question a little bit better?", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1192", "start": 7548.29, "end": 7548.757, "text": "It does.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-1193", "start": 7549.014, "end": 7557.209, "text": "I'd have to look at it from an operational standpoint and what that means from operations, and we can follow up with you from the standpoint of what it looks like from operations.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-1194", "start": 7558.899, "end": 7570.445, "text": "Typically, these things are located in a traffic management center, not accessible to PD at that time, but I'll let Millicent add anything else additional to that.", "speaker": "Raymond C. Lee" }, { "id": "cue-1195", "start": 7570.493, "end": 7571.746, "text": "Yeah, thank you, City Administrator Lee.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1196", "start": 7571.923, "end": 7588.96, "text": "Councilor Kanal, the speed cameras, the red light cameras, all of those cameras are monitored by folks that are PBOT employees sworn to be able to do that work, but they are not officers in the same way that law enforcement would be considered.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1197", "start": 7589.04, "end": 7593.488, "text": "So we'll be able to monitor that information and provide the reporting that you're requesting.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1198", "start": 7594.403, "end": 7604.246, "text": "But we don't typically share the information either unless there is an active cause for that type of sharing.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1199", "start": 7605.322, "end": 7618.688, "text": "When you may get the weekly reports on fatal crashes, That's when information sharing does happen, just so that people can place the scene together, piece the scene together.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1200", "start": 7619.105, "end": 7621.013, "text": "But typically, that's not something that we're sharing.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1201", "start": 7622.072, "end": 7623.451, "text": "Yeah, I appreciate that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1202", "start": 7623.932, "end": 7626.722, "text": "The word typically is doing a lot in that sentence, though.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1203", "start": 7627.123, "end": 7627.797, "text": "Strike typically.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1204", "start": 7627.941, "end": 7628.679, "text": "That is not what we do.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1205", "start": 7628.743, "end": 7629.497, "text": "That is not our practice.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1206", "start": 7629.866, "end": 7630.267, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1207", "start": 7631.068, "end": 7637.758, "text": "And just to follow up, I'm very concerned by what Wendy said about installing cameras in our neighborhoods for another year.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1208", "start": 7638.625, "end": 7641.79, "text": "I mean, you said during multiple phases of the process that goes into next year.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1209", "start": 7641.838, "end": 7656.808, "text": "So just to clarify, that means that there will be hopefully less than a year because you're not doing it in September next year on the northbound side, but maybe 8, 9 months of no project on I-5 while we have cameras set up in our neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1210", "start": 7656.857, "end": 7657.579, "text": "Is that accurate?", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1211", "start": 7658.511, "end": 7660.647, "text": "The cameras would be set up, but do they have to be activated?", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1212", "start": 7661.258, "end": 7662.96, "text": "They don't have to be activated.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1213", "start": 7663.346, "end": 7664.888, "text": "There are some yes.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1214", "start": 7665.016, "end": 7673.705, "text": "We have some cameras that are in the area of the Moda Center that were already existing that are active most of the time because we monitor major events at the Moda Center.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1215", "start": 7674.171, "end": 7680.098, "text": "So if there are any in this area that would help us monitor major events, we might keep those active.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1216", "start": 7680.21, "end": 7698.017, "text": "But, you know, I can talk with our Traffic Operations Center and discuss like which ones we want to leave on, which ones we don't, don't need, or we would just turn them on occasionally if we're having a yeah, I'm speaking in the context of the residential areas primarily.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1217", "start": 7698.454, "end": 7704.566, "text": "I, as I mentioned, I think this is a good opportunity to test out the parking removals to create right-turn lanes.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1218", "start": 7704.986, "end": 7711.702, "text": "I want to make sure that in the context of cameras that this traffic project is not an excuse to expand a surveillance state in my district.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1219", "start": 7712.105, "end": 7714.908, "text": "I just want to be upfront on that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1220", "start": 7715.086, "end": 7718.965, "text": "I will take the tour, but I'd also like to see the specs in writing for those about cameras.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1221", "start": 7719.014, "end": 7719.255, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1222", "start": 7719.33, "end": 7733.581, "text": "About what it's able to— and talking about capacity primarily, not just usage, because we've seen that extension over time, uh, for what it's able to record and retain, um, informationally, because I want to make sure that that capacity doesn't halve.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1223", "start": 7734.165, "end": 7740.66, "text": "And then for Nessa from TriMet, um, I just wanted to say first, thank you for being here.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1224", "start": 7740.74, "end": 7744.969, "text": "Uh, I know you're doing the best you can given the indefensible cuts that the state has given to your budget.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1225", "start": 7745.466, "end": 7746.67, "text": "Appreciate you and your team.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1226", "start": 7747.311, "end": 7750.552, "text": "Uh, I also want to push on more frequent service on the Yellow Line as well.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1227", "start": 7750.616, "end": 7753.6, "text": "I'm comfortable if it's single cars to do that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1228", "start": 7753.986, "end": 7755.847, "text": "I think the frequency is more important.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1229", "start": 7756.552, "end": 7763.644, "text": "I have one other question here, which is, is TriMet— and if not, why not— delaying its layoffs until after this process?", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1230", "start": 7764.35, "end": 7768.585, "text": "Our layoffs are almost complete at this time, so they'll be complete in the next 2 weeks.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1231", "start": 7769.131, "end": 7775.292, "text": "Um, when I speak about, um, some of those resources that we have, our operator counts are based on our service levels.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1232", "start": 7775.549, "end": 7777.748, "text": "And so there's a natural attrition that occurs with those.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1233", "start": 7777.813, "end": 7780.912, "text": "And so making sure we balance our operators with the service that's needed.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1234", "start": 7781.506, "end": 7787.479, "text": "And in rail, where we might be totally okay to be able to get extra service out, I just can't make that promise to folks.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1235", "start": 7787.591, "end": 7790.594, "text": "So there's just natural attrition that occurs as well with that work group.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" 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"And because we know that we already have enough operators to deliver the service that's planned starting August 23rd, we haven't added to that work group.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1242", "start": 7824.166, "end": 7827.354, "text": "We might be just fine to be able to add extra service out there.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1243", "start": 7827.434, "end": 7834.291, "text": "I just can't make that promise because there is natural attrition that occurs, and that's retirements, resignations, promotions even.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1244", "start": 7834.405, "end": 7840.126, "text": "So it's not necessarily anybody doing anything, um, to get themselves, you know, in trouble.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1245", "start": 7840.768, "end": 7842.632, "text": "Yeah, no, I understand attrition.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1246", "start": 7842.841, "end": 7843.982, "text": "Uh, that makes sense.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1247", "start": 7844.207, "end": 7851.147, "text": "I— that implies that there hasn't been anything added yet for this particular project in our area.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1248", "start": 7851.794, "end": 7858.274, "text": "Um, and so I'm, I'm I'm a little concerned there, but I understand that you're unable to promise it.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1249", "start": 7858.323, "end": 7859.262, "text": "I understand why.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1250", "start": 7860.558, "end": 7888.469, "text": "The last thing I wanted to mention here was, you know, we raised a lot of issues in previous briefings on lack of outreach except to a committee that didn't have District 2 on it last year, coming, you know, inviting folks to come out and present at existing or engage with the public at existing events, including engaging with council because we are out in the community quite a bit and often are running events and would love to have your folks out.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1251", "start": 7888.517, "end": 7892.879, "text": "I appreciate ODOT following up on that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1252", "start": 7893.504, "end": 7905.3, "text": "Concerned about the redirection of traffic, including people who maybe aren't as familiar, you know, Clark County drivers with our city streets and the impact there on safety, business promotion, thank you.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1253", "start": 7905.3, "end": 7905.3, "text": "I appreciate that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1254", "start": 7905.3, "end": 7905.3, "text": "And I think that's a great point.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1255", "start": 7905.3, "end": 7910.77, "text": "We've talked about public communications, business 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7938.658, "end": 7942.398, "text": "Given the area that we're talking about, that's less of a concern, not zero, but less.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1261", "start": 7943.236, "end": 7950.942, "text": "And it, I think, would dramatically— even though it would extend the life of the project, it would dramatically increase the safety during the daytime for those who are affected.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1262", "start": 7952.109, "end": 7960.489, "text": "So I just wanted to get that on the record as a question for when the northbound appreciate it.", "speaker": "Steve Novick, Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1263", "start": 7962.019, "end": 7962.904, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1264", "start": 7964.257, "end": 7970.61, "text": "Councilor, uh, President Dunphy and Councilor Kanal, we put this up, uh, actually, uh, Councilor Pirtle-Guiney as well.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1265", "start": 7971.012, "end": 7974.065, "text": "We put this image up just to give you an idea or a reminder.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1266", "start": 7974.563, "end": 7983.935, "text": "Sorry, we put this image up as a reminder of what we did, especially during the pandemic, to discourage people from using local streets.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1267", "start": 7985.802, "end": 7994.696, "text": "Now, we also recognize we did this to create space for people to come outside and play because they had been cooped up in their houses for weeks and that a lot of people were not driving.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1268", "start": 7994.792, "end": 8003.334, "text": "However, we still find it to be an effective tool in keeping people from using local streets when that signage is there.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1269", "start": 8003.864, "end": 8009.274, "text": "I am proud to say that Portlanders in large part are quite compliant with the signage.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1270", "start": 8009.692, "end": 8010.141, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1271", "start": 8010.382, "end": 8013.621, "text": "Some of the ways that we reimagine roadway use.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1272", "start": 8014.086, "end": 8019.859, "text": "If you'll think about a Rose Lane, we don't have wands all along Rose Lanes, but we don't see people driving in them either.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1273", "start": 8020.244, "end": 8023.66, "text": "And it's because people are respectful of the systems that we are putting in place.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1274", "start": 8024.173, "end": 8025.552, "text": "And so we can do this type of work.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1275", "start": 8026.098, "end": 8036.137, "text": "And as we're doing this physical work, also making sure we're doing that follow-up communication to ensure that people understand why it's important for us to keep people on those main streets.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1276", "start": 8036.201, "end": 8036.377, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1277", "start": 8036.927, "end": 8052.205, "text": "The collectors and arterials, that they pick different times to do their commutes or run their errands if they can, and that they look at keeping things local so that they won't have to drive, so that they can use bikes, so that they can walk.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1278", "start": 8052.65, "end": 8079.878, "text": "And to your point around business engagement, we're working with a number of associations with chambers to ensure that they are, yes, aware of what's happening, But also to encourage them to consider ways that they might be able to even open their doors even wider to those who may not normally be using those routes so that they can benefit from having potentially additional either foot traffic or other type of traffic in their businesses.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1279", "start": 8082.601, "end": 8083.341, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Kanal.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1280", "start": 8083.808, "end": 8084.564, "text": "You can take that down.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1281", "start": 8084.934, "end": 8085.176, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1282", "start": 8085.417, "end": 8086.125, "text": "Thank you all.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1283", "start": 8086.302, "end": 8089.64, "text": "All right, we got 3 more councilors in the queue and then we're out of here.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1284", "start": 8089.769, "end": 8090.636, "text": "Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1285", "start": 8091.39, "end": 8093.028, "text": "Thank you, Councilor President.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1286", "start": 8093.092, "end": 8094.891, "text": "I'll keep my comments brief.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1287", "start": 8095.067, "end": 8097.765, "text": "Uh, first of all, I always love to go into a control room.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1288", "start": 8097.829, "end": 8098.872, "text": "It's one of my favorite things to do.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1289", "start": 8098.953, "end": 8101.65, "text": "I'm going to go into any control room that I'm ever invited into.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1290", "start": 8102.405, "end": 8104.348, "text": "Uh, standing offer to go into the control room.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1291", "start": 8104.781, "end": 8105.825, "text": "Um, love it.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1292", "start": 8105.985, "end": 8107.575, "text": "Our doors swing on, uh, welcome hinges.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1293", "start": 8108.073, "end": 8108.233, "text": "All right.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1294", "start": 8108.458, "end": 8114.559, "text": "Yeah, so I, I got in the queue largely because Councilor Pirtle-Guiney said something that made me just do this.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1295", "start": 8114.994, "end": 8116.801, "text": "But people on the screen don't see that.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1296", "start": 8116.898, "end": 8120.285, "text": "And so I wanted to reaffirm that reaction.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. 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Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1312", "start": 8241.628, "end": 8243.631, "text": "Because there's a subsidy problem too.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1313", "start": 8243.711, "end": 8246.71, "text": "So if you can grow that ridership on your own, then you've solved structural problems.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1314", "start": 8246.839, "end": 8248.252, "text": "So I know that you know this.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1315", "start": 8249.087, "end": 8257.066, "text": "I'm acknowledging that there's a systemic interplay here, that we have a huge opportunity to put our thumb on the scale and say, what can we do for a very low cost?", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1316", "start": 8257.612, "end": 8265.688, "text": "It's not free, but it is a low cost that could potentially reverse course on what might be a death spiral for our transit system, because that's what we're facing.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1317", "start": 8266.282, "end": 8268.514, "text": "So I just wanted to lay that out there.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1318", "start": 8268.674, "end": 8276.212, "text": "And I see— I know that Director Williams' head nod I'm with you on that.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1319", "start": 8276.372, "end": 8277.83, "text": "I think it is an opportunity.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1320", "start": 8278.471, "end": 8280.089, "text": "You never waste a good disaster.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1321", "start": 8281.099, "end": 8296.529, "text": "And so this is a way for TriMet to reintroduce itself to community, for people to develop the trust in the system again, and for the city to serve as a partner in helping to cause people to consider it as an option.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1322", "start": 8297.298, "end": 8298.612, "text": "Certainly doing that in partnership with ODOT.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1323", "start": 8298.66, "end": 8299.269, "text": "But I think it's a great opportunity.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1324", "start": 8299.333, "end": 8299.509, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1325", "start": 8300.183, "end": 8306.405, "text": "We have as much of an opportunity as an obligation to help our partner to be successful in this moment.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1326", "start": 8306.534, "end": 8310.639, "text": "So we are happy to do whatever we can to encourage that.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1327", "start": 8311.714, "end": 8317.391, "text": "And that's always been at the top of our minds when we've talked about it internal to PBOT.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1328", "start": 8317.888, "end": 8320.679, "text": "We were just saying, you know, this is the moment.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1329", "start": 8321.513, "end": 8324.047, "text": "This is when we can dispel the mythology.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1330", "start": 8324.335, "end": 8327.078, "text": "So we're happy to help to lean in on that.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1331", "start": 8327.447, "end": 8330.526, "text": "I've had a meaningful conversation with Chief GM DeSouza as well.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1332", "start": 8331.361, "end": 8336.783, "text": "He has indicated he is excited about being able to be that partner and show up well.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1333", "start": 8336.912, "end": 8343.169, "text": "And I know that Inessa has— our COO at Vitco has spoken to the work that they're doing and the challenges that they have.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1334", "start": 8343.49, "end": 8346.217, "text": "But I know that in their hearts, that commitment is there.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1335", "start": 8346.313, "end": 8351.48, "text": "Just figuring out how to get there is going to be what we have the opportunity to do in this very short window.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1336", "start": 8352.009, "end": 8352.394, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1337", "start": 8352.699, "end": 8370.187, "text": "I just think that all of us in government positions of leadership, whether elected or not, we, we have a huge obligation and duty in this moment to spend whatever political capital we need to spend to, to make that happen, because we are all part of why we got to this place where there's a tribe that has no funding but we're widening freeways.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1338", "start": 8370.235, "end": 8373.01, "text": "And so I'll leave that part alone and leave it there.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1339", "start": 8373.528, "end": 8379.546, "text": "Um, those decisions have been made, and so— but we don't have to keep ignoring that systemic interplay.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1340", "start": 8379.724, "end": 8380.549, "text": "So that's all I wanted to say.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1341", "start": 8381.099, "end": 8382.345, "text": "Thank you so much for the work session.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1342", "start": 8384.017, "end": 8389.323, "text": "It's— no one's going to like this, but it seems like the least cost approach to things.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1343", "start": 8389.371, "end": 8390.002, "text": "And so thank you.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1344", "start": 8390.782, "end": 8391.559, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1345", "start": 8391.672, "end": 8392.562, "text": "Councilor Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1346", "start": 8394.1, "end": 8394.602, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1347", "start": 8395.378, "end": 8414.142, "text": "For ODOT in particular, I'd like to hear what collaboration has happened with our city staff who work specifically on Vision Zero, both Vision Zero team members within PBOT and also our citywide Vision Zero lead?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1348", "start": 8414.27, "end": 8419.175, "text": "And if there hasn't been direct coordination between those teams, is there openness for that to happen?", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1349", "start": 8422.12, "end": 8438.394, "text": "Councilor Lane, I'm going to actually have to look to someone from our communications team because the vast outreach that we've done with the City of Portland and our partners, I'm not aware if we've actually reached out to staff at the city on Vision Zero?", "speaker": "David Kim" }, { "id": "cue-1350", "start": 8450.326, "end": 8452.096, "text": "No.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1351", "start": 8453.883, "end": 8458.135, "text": "For the record, John L. Bell supporting ODOT spousal strategies.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1352", "start": 8459.743, "end": 8461.912, "text": "We'll have to get back on that particular one.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1353", "start": 8461.992, "end": 8480.221, "text": "What I will indicate is that, as Director Williams indicated earlier, the whole project team has been working very closely with City of Portland staff, staff from other agencies in the region, on a whole host of outreach.", "speaker": "Aaron Monning, Mitch Green, John L. Bell" }, { "id": "cue-1354", "start": 8485.063, "end": 8500.43, "text": "Councilor, while I know that your question was specific to ODOT, I will share that a number of our team members that have been working with ODOT over the course of the past many years do have a Vision Zero focus as a portion of their work.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1355", "start": 8500.846, "end": 8517.433, "text": "And so I can share that with assurance that there are Vision Zero considerations as we've thought about what we would be able to do, not just not just specific to this closure, but the I-5 Rose Quarter transformational project overall.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1356", "start": 8517.978, "end": 8520.222, "text": "And we'll continue to do that.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1357", "start": 8520.702, "end": 8542.298, "text": "But I recognize that question was for ODOT, but I did want to offer that given that David is newer to this project, although— albeit not new to project delivery from a statewide level, there may be some intricacies and intimate details thank you, Director.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1358", "start": 8543.422, "end": 8552.847, "text": "And I know this is something that you care a lot about, and you have team members who have a wealth of experience and tools.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1359", "start": 8552.943, "end": 8556.235, "text": "And so I just encourage from ODOT that continued work.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1360", "start": 8556.973, "end": 8558.194, "text": "Please work with Director Williams.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1361", "start": 8558.258, "end": 8561.244, "text": "Please work with her Vision Zero team within PBOT.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1362", "start": 8561.309, "end": 8564.07, "text": "Please work with Dana Dickman on citywide Vision Zero work.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1363", "start": 8564.119, "end": 8565.259, "text": "And I think that's a great way to move forward.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1364", "start": 8565.546, "end": 8569.168, "text": "And, you know, the goal is that Vision Zero—.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1365", "start": 8569.264, "end": 8575.049, "text": "For Vision Zero is that there are zero serious traffic incidents and fatalities.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1366", "start": 8575.097, "end": 8576.732, "text": "And that's what we would hope for this time.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1367", "start": 8576.956, "end": 8577.885, "text": "So thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" }, { "id": "cue-1368", "start": 8579.263, "end": 8580.193, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1369", "start": 8580.449, "end": 8581.074, "text": "Councilor Ryan.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1370", "start": 8581.331, "end": 8582.468, "text": "Yes, thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1371", "start": 8582.949, "end": 8587.789, "text": "Earlier, Councilor Clark did a really good job of talking about the SeaTram.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1372", "start": 8588.141, "end": 8589.808, "text": "Is it SeaTram from Vancouver?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1373", "start": 8591.186, "end": 8595.053, "text": "Because C-TRAN isn't here, perhaps I want to follow up on that and underscore it.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1374", "start": 8595.919, "end": 8601.839, "text": "First of all, who will be responsible in this panel to make sure that C-TRAN gets this question?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1375", "start": 8602.914, "end": 8603.829, "text": "It's— thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1376", "start": 8604.198, "end": 8604.711, "text": "It's TriMet.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1377", "start": 8606.027, "end": 8618.667, "text": "Because I really do think the shuttles to the Expo Center where there is a large parking lot, Metro will have to be a really good partner on this one, obviously, will be great in terms of Having that system in place.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1378", "start": 8619.244, "end": 8624.917, "text": "However, we didn't talk about 205, and the Red Line could also be used in that manner.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1379", "start": 8625.445, "end": 8634.067, "text": "And hopefully our friends at the port, PDX, has some temporary parking lots they could put out there in some of their long-term parking areas.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1380", "start": 8634.259, "end": 8636.503, "text": "I don't know, I'm just looking at the landmass out there.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1381", "start": 8636.599, "end": 8641.326, "text": "Or maybe— I think going all the way to Gateway would be a failure because it'll be so congested.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1382", "start": 8641.807, "end": 8647.591, "text": "So I think Something around the first stop on both I-5 and 205 would make sense.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1383", "start": 8648.04, "end": 8655.714, "text": "But not having the C-Tram buses downtown is a big deal, and making sure we have that system in place is also a big deal.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1384", "start": 8656.595, "end": 8658.31, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1385", "start": 8658.518, "end": 8663.709, "text": "I can add that PBEM can take the lead on reaching out to C-Tran from the city.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-1386", "start": 8665.103, "end": 8669.798, "text": "And then I'll just note that Port of Portland is also in our multi-agency coordination.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Perez" }, { "id": "cue-1387", "start": 8669.894, "end": 8675.491, "text": "So that's another idea that we You're kind of speaking to the beauty of this project, trying to— this is positive.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1388", "start": 8676.085, "end": 8681.667, "text": "I think people complain a lot because our silos don't connect and work in a systemic way very often.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1389", "start": 8682.02, "end": 8693.153, "text": "I think you do more than people realize it, but this is an opportunity for us to show that multi-agencies and multi-different governments can actually come together to do something right for 5 weeks.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1390", "start": 8693.747, "end": 8703.914, "text": "So we're all rooting for you, and I think the way that you're being responsive to these questions and the way that you're talking to each other like you're on the same team is giving me some hope.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1391", "start": 8704.862, "end": 8705.345, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1392", "start": 8705.973, "end": 8710.449, "text": "Councilor Ryan, if I may, um, just a couple comments on your, on, on your statements.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1393", "start": 8711.126, "end": 8713.686, "text": "Um, I used to be— I used to work at CTRAN.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1394", "start": 8713.734, "end": 8714.361, "text": "I used to be their COO.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1395", "start": 8714.603, "end": 8722.878, "text": "And so we, we— it's very common for them across the river to run to Expo Center, um, whether there's a disruption downtown or light rail situation, whatever.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1396", "start": 8723.458, "end": 8724.432, "text": "They also go into Parkrose.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1397", "start": 8725.238, "end": 8725.559, "text": "As well.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1398", "start": 8725.655, "end": 8728.304, "text": "And we have, we have other park-and-rides in the area.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1399", "start": 8728.722, "end": 8732.656, "text": "So we'll be coordinating that in our messaging, which I haven't spoke much about.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1400", "start": 8732.704, "end": 8744.971, "text": "TriMet has an entire internal and external communication plan, piggybacks on ODOT as well as things that are specialized for our riders, including alerts for folks on certain routes, right, that if there's any changes on those.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1401", "start": 8745.886, "end": 8746.898, "text": "Someone mentioned NAV.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1402", "start": 8747.091, "end": 8749.917, "text": "Our real-time tracks all of that as well, so people will be able to see that.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1403", "start": 8750.061, "end": 8758.581, "text": "But And with respect to Expo, our partners at ODOT have reached out to Metro, and there will be conversations on that moving forward.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1404", "start": 8758.629, "end": 8764.833, "text": "So hopefully I'm not too out of line by saying that, but it's been on our radar as something to make sure we can get more space.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1405", "start": 8765.545, "end": 8768.957, "text": "TriMet only has 100 spaces there, but only about 10 are actively used.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1406", "start": 8769.021, "end": 8773.145, "text": "So we do have capacity already, but 90 cars is only 90 cars.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1407", "start": 8774.623, "end": 8777.238, "text": "Councilor Ryan, if I may— it's Millicent.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1408", "start": 8779.464, "end": 8781.488, "text": "Some years ago, I saw an advertisement.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1409", "start": 8781.536, "end": 8797.556, "text": "It was for a transit provider in Canada, and they were highlighting the ways to move a lot of people really quickly without having a significant impact on the environment and on traffic congestion.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1410", "start": 8797.685, "end": 8799.215, "text": "And it was actually the bus.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1411", "start": 8800.198, "end": 8803.355, "text": "And so if you have how many seats on a bus, average bus?", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1412", "start": 8803.42, "end": 8803.548, "text": "40.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1413", "start": 8803.852, "end": 8809.248, "text": "So an average bus has a seated load of 33, a full standing load is 40, and a crush load is about 52.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1414", "start": 8809.489, "end": 8814.419, "text": "So 52 people potentially not driving in exchange for one bus.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1415", "start": 8814.676, "end": 8825.757, "text": "I recognize the value and beauty of potentially doing that park-and-ride and shuttling people to transit, but if— excuse me, to the light rail.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1416", "start": 8826.174, "end": 8834.204, "text": "But if people will consider transit, I think that it has a really significant net effect that we can benefit from.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1417", "start": 8834.686, "end": 8847.423, "text": "One bus versus 50 cars or 30 cars is a big difference, and we can facilitate moving one bus better than we can facilitate moving 20, 30 cars.", "speaker": "Millicent Williams" }, { "id": "cue-1418", "start": 8847.84, "end": 8848.804, "text": "Thank you, Director Williams.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1419", "start": 8848.981, "end": 8852.915, "text": "I do think that this is an opportunity for ridership on MAX to go up.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1420", "start": 8853.462, "end": 8856.979, "text": "There's so many people in my neighborhood that haven't ridden it since just around COVID.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1421", "start": 8857.637, "end": 8859.34, "text": "And there's reasons for that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1422", "start": 8859.581, "end": 8862.375, "text": "So now that we'll have more people on it, I think they'll feel safer.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1423", "start": 8862.793, "end": 8864.929, "text": "They'll remember that this is a great way to commute.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1424", "start": 8865.218, "end": 8868.253, "text": "So I hope we look at those kind of results from this.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1425", "start": 8868.638, "end": 8878.869, "text": "Like, I know that you keep track of data on ridership, so it'd be great to look at what it is before, what it is during, and then to see that net impact of increase after this closure.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1426", "start": 8879.479, "end": 8879.945, "text": "Absolutely.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1427", "start": 8880.442, "end": 8883.606, "text": "We track all of that very closely during every single event.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1428", "start": 8883.67, "end": 8892.789, "text": "We We actually give a report every week to the mayor's office on ridership and, you know, event— the impact of events in downtown and things like that to bring people into the city.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1429", "start": 8892.837, "end": 8898.889, "text": "So it's always something that we're paying attention to, helps inform all the decisions we make about service changes.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1430", "start": 8899.226, "end": 8905.038, "text": "And so there is an opportunity to have folks come back and see how easy it is to use MAX.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1431", "start": 8906.451, "end": 8909.164, "text": "I want to remind folks that we help 205 as well.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1432", "start": 8909.42, "end": 8911.892, "text": "We got the Red Line over there and we Uh, coming in.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1433", "start": 8912.31, "end": 8916.755, "text": "And, and we have the, um, Orange Line that comes in from Milwaukee on the south side.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1434", "start": 8916.819, "end": 8920.815, "text": "So, um, let's not forget that there's folks down there that can get into the city that way as well.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1435", "start": 8921.538, "end": 8928.037, "text": "Um, and to Millicent, your point, um, uh, our friends to the north do run a, a mean bus system into town.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1436", "start": 8928.679, "end": 8932.162, "text": "Um, and they do run 60-foot into town, which even hold more, more people.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1437", "start": 8932.242, "end": 8933.959, "text": "So takes even more cars off the road.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1438", "start": 8934.457, "end": 8936.527, "text": "Um, so there, there's efforts there.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1439", "start": 8936.944, "end": 8941.504, "text": "Um, And I, and I appreciate Councilor Green's comments on the opportunity.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1440", "start": 8941.616, "end": 8944.233, "text": "We also want to make sure that it's the best experience that they have.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1441", "start": 8944.731, "end": 8948.616, "text": "And unfortunately, as been mentioned, we know the buses will also get stuck in the same traffic.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1442", "start": 8948.664, "end": 8960.609, "text": "So we want to make sure that what we're providing is reliable and they have a good experience, because the last thing we want to do is, is have them have a really unpleasant experience and then not want to come back either.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1443", "start": 8960.705, "end": 8960.817, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Wendy Cauley" }, { "id": "cue-1444", "start": 8960.882, "end": 8963.739, "text": "So we're really working to find the balance of all of those things.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1445", "start": 8964.777, "end": 8970.49, "text": "As Millicent said, we are always looking at a way to serve our city with transit the best way we can.", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1446", "start": 8971.37, "end": 8974.462, "text": "So a new goal is ridership to go up for red, orange, and yellow.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1447", "start": 8975.487, "end": 8976.317, "text": "Oh no, did I do that?", "speaker": "Inessa Vitko" }, { "id": "cue-1448", "start": 8978.08, "end": 8979.822, "text": "Yeah, your enthusiasm.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1449", "start": 8980.113, "end": 8980.774, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1450", "start": 8981.42, "end": 8982.355, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Ryan.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1451", "start": 8983.114, "end": 8984.469, "text": "Colleagues, that is everyone in the queue.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1452", "start": 8984.711, "end": 8988.039, "text": "We've had, uh, I think everyone who wanted to had an opportunity to ask.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1453", "start": 8988.218, "end": 8989.974, "text": "I want to thank all the staff who were here.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1454", "start": 8990.246, "end": 8991.064, "text": "Who came and presented.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1455", "start": 8991.466, "end": 8994.097, "text": "You know, this is— we got 5 weeks until we got 5 weeks of closure.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1456", "start": 8994.274, "end": 8999.233, "text": "And despite the best efforts of all the people in this room, it's going to be messy.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1457", "start": 9000.436, "end": 9008.508, "text": "You know, to all the tax dodgers in Vancouver, there's always an opportunity for you to come on back down to Portland, help us reduce some of that traffic in the first place.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1458", "start": 9009.358, "end": 9012.135, "text": "But with that, we are adjourned.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1459", "start": 9012.327, "end": 9012.568, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1460", "start": 9013.354, "end": 9016.435, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Liz Lee Scherer" } ] }