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Approved Minutes

URBAN TRANSPORTATION MEETING MINUTES (Tuesday, July 9, 2024) URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, July 9, 2024 The Urban Transportation Commission convened in a REGULAR meeting on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, at the Permitting and Development Center in Austin, Texas. Chair Somers called the Urban Transportation Commission Meeting to order at 6:29 p.m. Board Members/Commissioners in Attendance: Susan Somers, Chair Ruven Brooks, Vice Chair Spencer Schumacher Board Members/Commissioners in Attendance Remotely: Diana Wheeler Deshon Brown Edward Smith PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL Ryan Saunders – Commercial Loading Zones/Crosswalk prioritization APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approve the minutes of the URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING on 6/4/2024. The minutes from the meeting of 6/4/2024 were approved on Commissioner Smith’s motion, Commissioner Schumacher’s second on a 6-0 vote; Commissioners Buffo, Ortiz, Alvarez, and Kavelman absent. DISCUSSION ITEMS 2. Mobility Annual Plan Briefing The commission received a presentation on the Local Mobility Annual Plan from Anna Martin, Transportation and Public Works. 1  URBAN TRANSPORTATION MEETING MINUTES (Tuesday, July 9, 2024) DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS 3. Discussion and approval of Hays Commons Municipal Utility District The Commission received a presentation from Sara Groff, Planning Department Approved on Commissioner Schumacher’s motion, Commissioner Wheeler’s second on a 6-0 vote; Commissioners Buffo, Ortiz, Alvarez, and Kavelman absent. 4. Discussion and approval of recommendation on accelerating and improving our Urban Trails network Approved on Commissioner Schumacher’s motion, Commissioner Somers’s second on an 6-0 vote; Commissioners Buffo, Ortiz, Alvarez, and Kavelman absent. 5. Discussion and approval of a recommendation on bridge investments in sidewalks Amendment: Commissioner Schumacher’s motion, Commissioners Somers’s second, on a 6-0 vote; Commissioners Buffo, Ortiz, Alvarez, and Kavelman absent. Approved on Commissioner Schumacher’s motion, Commissioner Somers’s second on a 6-0 vote; Commissioners Buffo, Ortiz, Alvarez, and Kavelman absent. 6. Discussion and approval of the Urban Transportation Commission Annual Report Amendment 1: Commissioner Somers’s motion, Commissioners Schumacher’s second, on a 6-0 vote; Commissioners Buffo, Ortiz, Alvarez, and Kavelman absent. Amendment 2: Commissioner Somers’s motion, Commissioners Schumacher’s second, on a 6-0 vote; Commissioners Buffo, Ortiz, Alvarez, and Kavelman absent. Approved on Commissioner Somers’s motion, Commissioner Smith’s second on a 6-0 vote; Commissioners Buffo, Ortiz, Alvarez, and Kavelman absent. Chair Somers adjourned the meeting at 8:03 p.m. without objection. The minutes were approved at the 8/6/2024 meeting on Commissioner Smith’s motion, Commissioner Wheeler’s second on a 6-0 vote; with one vacancy and Commissioners Alvarez, Ortiz and Brown off the dais. 2