MINUTES OF BICYCLE PEDESTRIAN COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY, January 23, CALL TO ORDER 6:05 pm 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

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1 MINUTES OF BICYCLE PEDESTRIAN COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY, January 23, CALL TO ORDER 6:05 pm 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. ROLL CALL Zachary Hilton, Chairperson (Present) Chad Reeder, Vice Chairperson (Present) Leonardo Gonzalez (Present) Lionel Gonzalez (Present) Sean Reedy (Present) ALSO PRESENT Gary Heap, City Engineer/Transportation Engineer Bryce Atkins, Senior Management Analyst 4. COMMISSION SECRETARY S REPORT ON POSTING THE AGENDA The agenda for the Bicycle Pedestrian regular meeting was posted on Friday, January 19, 2018, at 3:42 p.m. in the City Hall announcement window near the Council Chambers and online in keeping with provisions of the California Brown Act. 5. CEREMONIAL ITEMS None 6. PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS TO COMMISSION A. PUBLIC COMMENT BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA BUT WITHIN THE SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION OF THE BICYCLE PEDESTRIAN COMMISSION None B. Valley Transportation Authority Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (VTABPAC) 1. Report: Notes have been sent by Carolyn, but not in packet. Silicon Valley Bike Festival will be happening Sunday, May 6 th. Roads Commission regular meeting open house on 29 th, 12:30 pm at roads and airports department. C. South Valley Running Club (SVRC)

2 Manuel Hero, President of SVRC, gave a presentation providing an overview of the SVRC and the activities they conduct in the area. The goal of the organization is to promote healthy, safe, and active lifestyles and provide a network for people seeking to do running activities and live very athletic lifestyles. Activities include Saturday runs along various locations in the South County region (Gilroy, San Martin, and Morgan Hill), Mt Madonna Challenge to help fund scholarships for local high school kids pursuing a college education (last year awarded $3400 in scholarship funds), 5K races to donate money to organizations such as St Joseph Family Center, and the couch to 5K race. They love to use Gilroy trails and Mt. Madonna trails and are on board with any support for trail improvements. Information to join the club is available online, on Facebook, other media channels, and flyers. The organization is a recognized member of the Road Runners Club of America. Annual membership costs are $30 for individuals, $45 for a family, and $10 for students under 18. Membership includes race discounts and promotions from local running shops. The club is currently comprised of 65 members, half from Gilroy and half from Morgan Hill. 7. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 11/28/2017 minutes pulled from agenda because it was not in packet. Will be moved to vote on at 2/27/2018 meeting along with 1/23/2018 minutes. 8. OLD BUSINESS A. Strategic Plan Update - Downtown Bicycle Racks: Grant Opportunities: Chairperson Hilton provided an update on this item. Approval for 4 racks downtown, at last minute when Tony heard it was in front of Pinnacle Bank, bank wanted to purchase it, so now 5 racks are being installed. Order placed in middle of December, should arrive by end of January. Gary and Jessie Bristow have scoped locations and will do a final walkthrough that the site is good, installed shortly after delivered. Once installed, will ask Reid Lerner architects to update the bike map with the new spots. At same time approach the businesses that do get bike ridership to advertise the new racks. Also request to be added to the downtown map of all the bicycle mapping locations. Once installed, Chairperson Hilton will be walking around to provide details of the cost of them, including pinnacle bank bought them, but they were able to choose the color. But also invite those that would want to buy a rack with downtown Gilroy, or put their logo on it. Can bring it back to the commission, and see what interest there is, and request that Council amend the code to accommodate. Currently can install a small sign on it, but anything larger will require a code amendment. Two lists to judge the interest of businesses in these opportunities. Donation program for plaque, donation is $500, but racks in bulk were $700. May be able to get this program to fund a full rack, and then get more racks. 9th and 16th of February is the strategic plan meeting of Council. There we can gather notes on what their strategic priorities are and align our goals with City Council. Grant Opportunities: ed Gary. 4 opening up with a potential 5th. Bikes for people funding bike racks, call for interest currently. Maybe still accept it. Last year it was not a high enough grant that they wanted to fund. Also active transportation grant from CalTrans to increase use of active transportation. March 2018 call for projects. Received from Smart Growth Council for active transportation Urban Greening grant program, infrastructure including bike and pedestrian paths. Opens January 26th, info not known at this time. 4 th one is BAAQMD funding bike facilities. Competitive grants, bikeways, secure parking, etc. Gary s experience in grant writing, and board supporting him in grant writing Gary Heap: This process works fine. IF there is an opportunity for grant funding, let us know. Usually pretty on top of grant options, but bring up anyway for new ones. Michael Fisher didn t want to dedicate staff time to small grants, so will evaluate benefit versus cost of the grant, as well as

3 consideration of matching funds. Lock yourself in to a large match for large funding, as well as reporting on the grants and that burden that is generated by the grant requirements. Not all grant funds are that way, but some are. All 4 will be evaluated, but will analyze and present projects and if grants can be used for it. Public Comment Gary Walton: Are you getting s from design committee? Answer: No. Some interest on bike racks, can they put plaques on repair station? Answer: Yes. Where is it going? Answer: A corral where there is a congregation of bikes, but need a business interest. But LimeBike says they can put their name on a corral, and that is where the fix-it station can go, but funding is an issue. Gary Heap regarding funding for hoop racks for fix-it station: Funding for decorative racks, but will have to see if there is funding for other racks. Maybe fund through capital improvement program, but anytime dip into funding, but needs to be run through the process. Identified potential location, north end of town open space that would lend itself to it, but having outside at end of downtown didn t make sense, but maybe a middle bulb out. The point is we want a voice on bike rack location. We know the downtown. On the agenda, we meet the first Friday of every month at Reid Lerner s office at 8 o clock. Want to stay informed of what is going on, mutual information sharing and overlap. Also miller red barn association, pro bono grant writing. Small grants are out there; don t want to lose out on it. Chairperson Hilton: Non-profits can go after these grants. Recommend that when non-profits are going after grants, they could use a letter of endorsement from the City. Gary Walton: Need to be talking to determine the grants. Appreciate all the work of the commission, and makes downtown more bicycle friendly, and helps the local businesses. Want someone at the meetings to provide information and input. Will put everyone on the mailing list. Maybe even have a downtown 5K. Need the discussion. Locations of the decorative racks were discussed. B. Bicycle Pedestrian Commission Monthly Award Nomination: Chairperson Hilton contacted Alicia Arci, school representative from Santa Clara County Public Health, who is nominating Francisca and Juan Garcia, parent coordinators at Las Animas Elementary School, for improved safety and health for kids biking to school. Promotes 2x per month walk and bike to school, including walking busses. Add themes to make events fun for participants. Seen an increase of 50+ students participating. Others are asking them how to start their own programs. Vice-chairperson Reeder nominates, Commissioner Leonardo Gonzalez seconds, vote is unanimous in favor. C. Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Growth and Sustainability: Commissioner Sean Reedy provided an update. action plans, strategic plans, becoming a monthly update. Background: county public health giving a lot of support to Gilroy schools to make routes to school safe, one of the grants is ending, and another ending in June of Need to form a task force of school and City officials and community leaders to ensure things don t fall apart when the funding ends. Has seen it before in other communities. Alicia Arjay spoken with and other communities meetings. Latest update is that county public health is getting national level SR2s staff to meet with local groups. Need funding for June meetings, 2-3 meetings, can t start until March. Finding out when the meeting might be possible. Waiting to see when first meeting

4 can start. Need to interview key stakeholders about what is happening, challenges, etc. want an action plan ready to go so when the task force continues, the groundwork is already done. Commissioner Reedy went to Sunnyvale, and Chairperson Hilton went to Campbell, both similarly. Sat on the task force with different stakeholders, and they meet quarterly or so, and an update on what each had going on, who needed help, etc. This is a great program and good to get action plan down. Whatever we can go to get the right people there. Keeping item on the agenda for the foreseeable future. More updates provided next month. Need a member of this commission to be on the board ongoing. Bike Coordinator. Girum talked about using some of SB1 funding for a bike coordinator. Big part of this program is public safety. Sunnyvale runs it through public safety. Gary Heap: Challenging to have funding for position just for SRTS, combined hat in most communities, Gary H serves in that role as well. Has been participating with SRTS staff, had them on site, shared information, requested public improvements in work plan, attended school on-site assessments, also a grant application being worked on for schools. Currently pretty active, and responding to SRTS. 9. NEW BUSINESS A. LimeBike Citywide Bike Share Program: Sam Dreiman, Business Development Representative from LimeBike, performed a presentation to the BPC on LimeBike potential Bike Share Program. In his presentation, he stated instituting dock-less bikes encourage people to get off cars, in between walk distance and car distance hope to use transportation modes to move into mobility options such as train and bus systems. Traditional systems have gaps, such as cost. It gets expensive to install docks into communities. Usually must be grant funded, or find a title sponsor. Costs are usually transferred to the user. Can be inconvenient if docking stations are in locations where you want to go. Docking stations cannot cover all areas where residents may want to use a bike, and cannot be in every neighborhood. Key distinguishing features include 1) does not cost the City any investment, 2) US based company with generous supporters that allow it to be sustainable and long term, 3) actively working in cities to compliment mobility objectives, traffic congestion, air quality goals by sharing data of bike riders and movement, as well as strategic deployment locations. Use of bike is app driven, registered with a credit card. When map is opened, it identifies where bikes are located. Once a bike is found, scan the plate number into app and it triggers GPS to unlock the bike for riding. When done, lock it up manually, and then app provides a summary of route, bike, cost, and fun facts. Bike features include international and consumer safety features. Front light under the basket, less likely for rip-off. Back light reflector, activates when bike starts working. Adjustable seat. Bikes come with various features, 1, 2, and 8 speed bikes. Solar panel powers the battery and GPS. Three locking locations. Scan the code and triggers the locks to disengage. Cell phones mount. Front and rear brakes. Maintenance is extremely low, airless tires cannot be punctured or flat. Tools are tamper resistant which prevents theft. Bike is designed to be sturdy and durable but as comfortable as possible for everyone. If lock is not engaged when getting off the bike, the last user s account will be charged for use.

5 Pricing is as affordable, $1 per half hour. Average distance is a mile, so between 12 and 15 minutes, so basically a dollar a ride. Frequent users can purchase a number of rides with some opportunities for reduction. Will have production codes for discounts. Works localized. Team in San Jose, and will be expanded to Gilroy. Patrol to check on the bikes and spot check the bikes. Rebalancing of the bikes into communities and hubs, based upon the ridership statistics. Also handles any maintenance issues. Report in the app or call a number that is open 24 hours a day to issue a complaint or problem with bike or the service. Team receives the message and then contacts the complainant within 2 hours. If maintenance needed, he bike is placed in maintenance mode, locked out and will not appear on the map Parking: good parking behavior is encouraged through tutorials and other means in the app to encourage best parking locations as recommended by LimeBike, which are collaborated with the cities regarding locations that bikes are being parked by users. Core of LimeBike is to share data with cities. Quarterly updates with heat maps of bikes, and hope that cities use the data to make a more comprehensive mobility plan and to integrate it into their existing transportation systems. Presented maps that were used as data for updates with local cities. Bikes kept out of walkways and for those with accessibility concerns, but kept aesthetically. New products coming out this month that will broaden availability. Electric assistance bike that increases distance with limited effort. Range is miles. Other option is electric scooters meant for short distances but also to encourage people to not get in a car mile range distance. Products designed so that when launched, it is as seamless as possible. Operational efficiency on the new products, and battery exchanges and equipment swap based upon when they run out. Team at LimeBike comes from diverse backgrounds. Understand it is capital intensive product, but based on the model it is sustainable and great experts and sponsors. Strong government relations professionals help in collaborative manner with cities, as well as mobility experts from other businesses. Questions from the Commission Vice-chairperson Reeder asked if someone can apply their own lock to the bike. Dreiman answered that they re not supposed to and that if LimeBike staff sees a bike with a personal lock on it, they will break the lock. Once you complete the ride, the bike is open to the public for use. Ideally you would open the app and find a bike nearby. Having data to analyze and track how far away bikes are make it more appealing for use. That is what the operations team does. Track and monitor bike locations to strategically locate bikes in ideal locations. Vice-chairperson Reeder also asked what happens if you forget to lock the bike. Dreiman answered that you would receive notifications on your phone reminding you to lock your bike. Commissioner Leonardo Gonzalez: How many bikes are you starting off with? Answer: bikes. However, they are not all clustered together, but will be distributed. This amount won t serve when usage begins, so it is scaled to the size to fully meet the demand. If you don t own a credit card, can you still use the bikes? Answer: We understand there are 2 main barriers to accessing the bikes, lack of credit card and lack of smartphone with data plan. There is a low

6 income equity program where you register in person, create an account, and make a cash deposit to use the system, call in the plate number you want to use, and the team will internally unlock it for you. It has rolled out slowly in larger communities, and leverage partners to further develop the system. Work with libraries, etc. to be a good resource for accessing these bikes. For the initial deployment of bicycles, how do you determine where to start them off in the first place? Answer: Operations team created a map for initial deployment. Area includes denser areas, schools, main arteries of traffic, and heavy residential areas. Can share map with commissioners, however, it should be noted that these are not fixed areas as bikes will move as they are being used, the LimeBike team moves them as demand dictates, or if the City does not want bikes in certain areas. Can the Gilroy Bicycle Map be integrated to be included in the LimeBike app map? Answer: We could certainly put that into our priority list, but it is hard for me to say when that will be rolled out. It is certainly something we want to do in cities across the country. Smaller bikes for kids at school programs? Answer: That speaks to the age requirements of our bikes. 16 and older for bike usage. If between 13 and 16, you can agree with parental consent to use the bikes. How often are the handlebars cleaned? Answer: With the nature of our operations we will touch every bike in 2-3 days with wipe-downs and spot checks. Local team will also expand based on use and need. Chairperson Hilton What is LimeBike s social media, , and other outreach material for the business community, particularly for businesses that don t want the bikes parked in their area and vice versa promoting local business and tourism? Answer: We are very active with Chamber of Commerce and Business Groups to inform them that these bikes are coming and give them the opportunity to let us know where bikes should be parked. Will work with their best on a timeframe to bring bikes off as it cannot be monitored every day and to prevent removing a bike that a person needs to get back. Most of the time this is really driving the traffic to downtown businesses, eliminating the traffic and parking issues. Very easy and convenient. Different creative ways to offer rides for employees, discounts for using the bike, etc. looking at ways to collaborate. Local staff on the ground will be the ones fed to respond to issues. Tourism: partner with tourism agencies, such as Tour Dallas, would partner with garlic festival, hotels, etc. What sort of typical launching party would LimeBike do to promote to the general public? Answer: As a grand kick off we try to work with City officials to have symbolic rides around key areas. On a more local level we do everything from attend farmers markets and similar events to table. We have the bikes there to demo them. We also work with the City and community to learn about local events so that we can attend and sponsor those events. How often does LimeBike do helmet give aways? Answer: That is something more on the local operations team level where you work with them to coordinate such promotions. We target middle school and high school riders as they are the more active riders. They do demos of their bike to middle and high school kids. Public Health purchased a Bike fix-it station at library, want to do seminars there. Has limebike done something like this? Answer: Yes, Sunnyvale also did safety training, and provided limebikes. Can do the same for safety or mechanics, but they are quite specialized, so training may have to be tailored.

7 Commissioner Lionel Gonzales Do you track nuisances on bikes that people report? Answer: Yes. Our customer services center logs and categorizes every contact they have and receive, and breakdown is provided to the City. Commissioner Leonardo Gonzalez How much theft of these bikes are you seeing in other cities? Answer: It is actually quite low. Across the whole country it is less than 1%. We expect it to happen. Our operations team is responsible when it comes to tracking them down and working with local law enforcement. Gary Heap Will you be working with City staff on the deployment map with finalizing those locations? Answer: Certainly. I can send it to Zach tomorrow morning or send it to you directly. Would we see a mix of the 3 types of bikes (e-bike, scooter, pedal bike) or just one bike initially? Answer: We will start off with the 300 regular pedal bikes and then phase in the mixture of other products. Could we work with you to bring in more bikes for special events (ex. Garlic Festival)? Answer: Yes and we don t see 300 being enough for a slow season, but we are doing what is comfortable for City Officials, but we know once we launch we will have to scale up as ridership goes up. What type of regular contact do you have with city staff? Do you have meetings with them? Specific contacts? Answer: You would be connected to me and our Bay Area manager that will assist with the launch process and deployment. We also have an operations manager that would cover San Jose area including Gilroy. Be in touch with each over different things. Public Comment Carolyn Schmandel: Question about what cities are being served, no silicon valley on map, but mention SJ and Sunnyvale. Where else? Answer: We are in Burlingame and South San Francisco and also speaking actively with neighboring cities. In San Jose, were on certain private properties and on San Jose State because the City of San Jose has another agreement with a bike share company and were working on how LimeBike can be an addition to that. We ve also spoken to Milpitas. Jane Howard: It would be helpful to hear specifics how destinations are using the product. Not apples to apples, but some opportunities include major shopping centers and their international visitors, etc.? Also bikes used on the wine trail possible? Bikes may be far out then, outside of Gilroy. Need specific examples of what other destinations are doing. Dreiman: Briefly touch on them, work with you to is what Gilroy wants to promote. San Jose we work with the Westfall mall, can have similar at shopping center here. Working with lodgings would be better for tourism to promote before they get here. Very flexible to work with Gilroy. Winery is not too sure, seems difficult, but will be creative and consider the option. Mark Turner: Do you bring in an operation team from out of the area, or do you hire locally? Answer: First from San Jose, but at a certain point, it will be local folks from Gilroy.

8 There are several local bike shops in Gilroy. How do you work with them? Answer: We do have experience partnering with bike shops on things regarding operations and maintenance. We view this as a chance to drive business to local bike shops. New riders may want to buy riding gear from local shops when they begin to ride. Where do you see most of the ridership occurring? Answer: Can vary. First is commuters, such as Cal- Train service area for returning home, then place in areas of people using them where they live to ride to the station, healthcare improvements, analyze data in residential areas, restaurants, bar areas, etc. How often is the operations team in the area initially? Answer: Daily patrols throughout the day, depending upon fleet size and time used, will be monitored, but should be every day. Monitor bikes that we see as idle in an area, and track idle bike times to recover bikes from the area if not ridden. Jannely Rodriguez: Good presentation and great information. Thank you to the commission for putting bike sharing it on agenda. Offo is operating in 200 cities worldwide, travel over 13 million miles. In effort to expand on services, work with community to expand their service. Competitive spaces is encouraged to provide services to the community. Pages are provided at the entries. Fred Harris, VP of Administrative Services at Gavilan College: Congratulate the City and the Commission for taking the leadership role in making this happen. When is the City Planning on implementing? Gary: Number of things that are looking to be done. If recommendation is approved, would need to go through MOU process, then to Council. Maybe in the next couple of months. Fred: Im working locally through a participatory governance process on the college campus. Not a lot of students and faculty during the winter term. I ve been working behind the scenes to advocate this option in tandem with the City. Want to push it through the groups to get support. Presenting to groups at the school. Exciting opportunity, and works with other sustainability projects. One area of concern is ways to improve the trails between city and the college. Gary: Deployment map. Do outreach at outlets and gavilan on where deployments should happen. Fred: working on bike racks with Sunshine rotary, and can work together on this. Looking forward to the partnership. Liability assumed by the company, very attractive. Gary Walton, Chairman of Downtown Association: Downtown is a great place to start it. As an organization, all in. limited resources as an org, work with LimeBike and commission 10% is all that is bike able, and downtown is all in it. Reduces cost for users as well as traffic improvements. This is a plus. Applaud the commission in moving this forward. Encourage you to move forward and move forward through the City. Commissioner Reeder: Diagonal parking. Back in diagonal parking is safer than the current diagonal parking. Give serious thought to marking this in downtown. Chairperson Hilton: No reason to hold up the process for another commission meeting. City Admin being considered, if no risk to city and no cost, maybe not need to go to Council. Spoke last night at Council public comment, also at annual presentation to Council. Also in downtown bike racks discussion in September. Chairperson Hilton motioned from recommendation, Vice-chairperson Reeder seconds, the motion carries unanimously in favor. B. Elect Bicycle Pedestrian Commission Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson for 2018: Commissioner Leonardo Gonzalez inquired if someone needs to nominate first, then come back to next meeting to vote. Chairperson Hilton stated that process is for changing bylaws and since this item was agenized for

9 tonight, nominations and voting can happen now. Commissioner Leonardo Gonzalez commented that he thinks current chair and vice-chair roles are doing an excellent job and that we should keep the momentum going. Commissioner Leonardo Gonzalez nominates Zachary Hilton for Chairperson, Commissioner Reedy seconds, vote was unanimous in favor. Commissioner Leonardo Gonzalez nominates Chad Reeder for vice-chairperson, Chairperson Hilton seconds, vote was unanimous in favor. C. Specialized Foundation Grant: Identified grant last year, but we were too late in applying for the grant. Vice-chairperson Reeder gave an update on this item. Can apply in February. Met with Anthony Fuchela in Solarsano, part of requirements is a place to ride bikes as part of PE curriculum. Ties into ADHD, and how the riding helps their education. Reached out, willing to run with the program. He would be the lead person at the school and in charge of running it. Other grants won, 55 kids. That would be a lot of bikes. Last Thursday 18th, spoke with 3 minutes before GUSD school board. One of the things we want to work on with Anthony. Need City buy in for bikes being ridden in Christmas Hill Park, also up streets. Also need GUSD to buy-in. everyone was shaking head yes. May have to buy a container for the bikes. But can likely do through an organization. Costs can be kept minimal. City needs to say what the insurances are, and if the kids can bike off of the campus. Need to say that City says it is okay to ride through the park. Also, some private property (Filice) allows cross country to go through it. Can City provide insurance coverage for that to happen. Really set up to get funded by the grant. Specialized foundation closest is down the street. 15 minutes away. Needs buy-in and acknowledgment from the City. Going to meet with Anthony again. Send every school board member what the grant is and get their buy-in. Anthony said it may fall under the curriculum. Gary Heap: The cost of grants need to be larger to make the grant more economically feasible for the City to do. If there are other minor grants, maybe some other organizations. Some of the larger grants, significant time to put them together. Going for larger grants also have matching funds which the City does not have a lot of money for it. But happy to support other grant applications. Vice-chairperson Reeder: It is about who is supporting the grant, and what resources can be provided. Add next month on the agenda to take action to support the grant, maybe also get the City Council to do likewise. Want to see this growing. Solorsano has CHP and Filice would be a great addition. If we can do it, it is perfect location for it. Vice Chairperson Reeder motions to reach out and start applying for the specialized foundation grant to get bikes into Solorsano. Commissioner Reedy seconds. Vote is unanimous in favor. 10. CORRESPONDENCE None 11. COMMISSIONER S REPORTS A. Chairperson Zachary Hilton: Suggestions in November presentation to come up with a number of how many class 2 trails, 4 trails, 3 trails, and their miles to have data, and how much more have been added. Any track ability for this now? Gary Heap: I think it would be in the Bicycle Master Plan. Meeting with Gary and Jesse Bristow regarding Downtown bicycle parking plan. Coming back in February for comments and finalization. Also be great to kick off sustainability on the website links to other organizations, also add a section on safe routes to school to start the conversation and others to

10 see it. El Roble walk and roll tomorrow. Parent coordinator. Now 2 Wednesdays a month, 2 bike trains now. Both have increased in attendance over time. Motorcycle officers have been great at attending; goal is to increase by April 3 times per month, then every Wednesday. America Walks application is up, accepting applications. Gilroy Restaurant Week this week. Contest through welcome center. Personally doing all of this by bicycle, and video record it. Start a wishlist for Gary. Get some recording of these meetings, video or audio on the website. Need some simple upload. Nice way to get more push on the open government. B. Vice Chairperson Chad Reeder: E-bikes and bike to the future is a program put on by Silicon Valley Clean Energy. It provides all pieces of the parts for a high school to design and build their own e-bike. Free to the school, just need to find someone to lead it. Dr. Sanchez and principals from mount Madonna and GECA. GECA is interested, put in contact with Kelly Huland, last talked to, only one know for sure doing it is Gilroy High, talking to Christopher high (Sean) is doing it. Final competition at May 5th, Dan Harney arranged it at Gilroy Gardens. Need to keep pushing it. Meeting with Barb Gratner with Gilroy Gardens on SV running club, GG is looking for other opportunities, and land goes up to the ridge and the bay area ridge trail. 100 mile trail around to San Francisco, and up to North Bay. Connect to Gilroy Gardens. They have some trails possibly, maybe be a trailhead connector. Zach stated a feasibility study is going to happen. Chad says SV running Club that they can help. They can build trails. Pump track updates: mountain bikes of Santa Cruz, public private partnership land of an old skate park converting into a pump track. Keeping an eye on what they are doing, to help us get such a partnership going. Intersection crossing to Gilroy high school at 10th and orchard: 3 kids hit within a 1 year period. Not safe. West of high school. Blind intersection for the driver. Curious to see about blinking lights to make it safer. When school is out or after hours, school cones are removed, but school still used. Maybe get flashing indicators in the right location, and then put them in the roundabout. Gary Heap: CalTrans policy do not allow devices to be identified in their manual if it is a device that is sole sourced, rectangular flasher is a patent, which makes it sole source. Once patent was applied, oversight agency says they are no longer allowed in California. Temporary approval for use in California has now been pulled, and recommend other lighting devices. Maybe install in lieu the signs with flashing LED on the outside of the signs. Some efforts in place to try to work with manufacturer to rescind the patent or to change the law to allow patent devices. This location specifically, worked with PD and staff has gone out there. It is being looked at. First inaugural Police Department/Public Works coordination meeting was held today. 3 minutes to talk to school board, about bike to the future, 2 members say they support it in an , specialized bike program and to keep SRTS program going. Walking audit needed of the Alexander Station. Need more than 1.7 kids per unit. SRTS: reached out to GECA, Fred Harris with Gavilan, awkward to get there, but GECA is on there, to see if SRTS can be done at GECA. Thank Gary for the Luchessa bridge separators was improved quickly once identified. No notification to cars, sharrows don t start until other side of roundabout, put sharrows before and signing that bikes must share the road. West side of Thomas road. C. Commissioner Sean Reedy: Contacted principal of Christopher high about the e-bike competition. Nothing has been heard beyond the administrative level. Will have an application available soon. Will reminder her. SR2S a lot of schools have this in place to do in-class education for K-4, now target is to catch up to other schools. D. Commissioner Leonardo Gonzalez: Welcome new commissioner, Gary question. Extra tax for gas that a certain part is to be allocated to bike and ped improvements.

11 Gary Heap: indeed there is a portion. The funding is held in lawsuit. Hope resolution by July to apply for funding. Projects specifically that relate to that likely do. Once available it would make sense to put an item on this agenda to identify projects and review bicycle plan documents to identify such projects Leo: Traffic engineer with flashing signs. Only one that had the flashing. Can those that were existing stay there. Gary: yes, if already in they can stay there for their life. Of project is already underway, it can be installed. However, if design and project has not been awarded, then they have to be replaced. Issue is if one is damaged, can it be replaced Leo: law change, pedestrian crossing at controlled intersection, combination of either saying you can walk, flashing hand to stop, and/or countdown. Pedestrian can only enter intersection if sign says to walk, or enough time on the stop hand to get across on a timer. Gary: effort is to go to countdown timers to get it. E. Commissioner Lionel Gonzalez: Fairly new to Gilroy, he and wife entered She is an avid user of Nextdoor app, and he joined neighborhood watch Facebook page. A lot of complaints, but not going beyond the page to make an impact. Left the group, but let me start finding out how to make an impact in the community. Wants to be informed and contribute to the community. Has two teens, and 1 baby, and one on the way. No other comments made. First night. 12. STAFF COMMENTS Commented on Upper Welburn striping being done tomorrow, weather permitting Discussed development of Parklet Policy document Talked about the levee improvements by the SCVWD First St Bicycle Striping. Shared with Caltrans. Will track the Caltrans plans to make sure the bike improvements are included in the drawings 13. AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING Specialized grant Zach wants to develop a bike rack plaque program Downtown bicycle parking plan SRTS sustainability ADJOURN: 9:16 p.m. to the February 27, 2018 meeting at 6pm.