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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_GTAB_10.13.2017Minutes of the Meeting of the Georgetown Transportation Advisory Board and the Governing Body of the City of Georgetown, Texas October 13 2017 The City of Georgetown is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you require assistance in participation at a public meeting due to a disability, as defined under the ADA, reasonable assistance, adaptations, or accommodations will be provided upon request. Please contact the City at least four (4) days prior to the scheduled meeting date, at (512)930-3652 or City Hall at 113 East 81h Street for additional information: TTY users route through Relay Texas at 711. Board Members: Steve Johnston - Chair, Ron Bindas - Vice Chair, Troy Hellmann, John Hesser, Sheila Mills, Mark Allen Board Members Absent: John Marler, Doug Noble, Donna Courtney - Secretary Staff Present: Mike Babin, Jana Kern, Wes Wright, Russ Volk, Ed Polasek, Octavio Garza, Jordan Fengel, Others Present: Carl Norris, Dennis Hegebarth, John Milford, Avis & James O'Connell, Wendy Dew, Terry Reed - ACC; Trae Sutton - KPA Engineers; Gary Hertel - TDS; Johnathan Terrazas - Lockwood, Andrews & Newman Regular Session A. Call to Order Mr. Steve Johnston called the regular GTAB Board meeting to order on Friday, October 13, 2017 at 10:00 AM Georgetown Transportation Advisory Board may, at any time, recess the Regular Session to Convene an Executive Session at the request of the Chair, a Board Member, The City Manager, Assistant City Manager, General Manager of Utilities, City Council Member, or legal counsel for any purpose authorized by the Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551, and are subject to action in the Regular Session that follows. B. Introduction of Visitors C. Industry/CAMPO/TxDOT Updates TxDOT's RR 2243 (Leander Road) Corridor study was to be ready for public meetings by the end of this past summer. The meeting still has not been scheduled and no updates have been received. We are checking with TxDOT on the status of Corridor Analysis and will update the Board as we get further information. CAMPO October 15, 2017 Policy Board Meeting - Couple of items on the agenda. Discussion and Approval for CAMPO Executive Director to Begin Negotiation of Regional Arterial Plan and MoKan/Northeast Subregional Study Contract. The MoKan Study which CAMPO initiated upon the removal of support for the Lone Star Rail Project has been rolled into the Regional Arterial Plan. This study will have a direct impact on establishing the desired regional alternatives for the MoKan corridor into the City of Georgetown and will require coordination with the City that CAMPO has agreed to include in the Study. Discussion and Approval of Project Selection Criteria. CAMPO is preparing to initiate a call for projects in Winter 2017/2018. In order to administer these programs and ensure an effective and equitable distribution of funding, CAMPO will evaluate projects through a new selection process that has been developed over the past year. The selection criteria, dependent on project type, will focus on three major areas: performance measures, cost/benefit (value), and project readiness. There is some reservation about the Cost/Benefit Analysis not including opportunity cost of some type, it is only based on Cost/Benefit to CAMPO's travel demand modeling. There needs to be some method to increase Cost/Benefit in the future to include opportunity cost/benefits to the local governments in the criteria as well. D. Discussion regarding the Project Progress Reports and Time Lines - Wesley Wright, P.E., Systems Engineering Director E. Discussion regarding the Airport Project Progress Report and Time Lines. - Russ Volk, Airport Manger Ms. Dew spoke on this item. Her comments are at the end of these minutes. Legislative Regular Agenda The Board will individually consider and possibly take action on any or all of the following items: F. Review and possible action to approve the minutes from the regular GTAB Board meeting held on September 8, 2017. - Jana Kern - GTAB Board Liaison Motion by Hellmann second by Hesser to approve the minutes as presented. Approved 6-0 (Courtney, Noble, & Marler absent) G. Consideration and possible recommendation to approve Task Order B&M 18-001 for the professional services related to the Solid Waste/Transfer Station Master Plan Study with Burns and McDonnell of Austin, Texas in the amount not to exceed $197,860. Jordan Fengel, Environmental Service Programs Coordinator; Octavio Garza, P.E., Director of Public Works. Fengel gave the board and overview of what is expected for the master plan study. Motion by Bindas second by Hellmann to approve Task Order B&M 18-001 for the professional services related to the Solid Waste/Transfer Station Master Plan Study with Burns and McDonnell of Austin, Texas in the amount not to exceed $197,860.00. Approved 6-0 (Courtney, Noble, & Marler absent) H. Consideration and possible recommendation on Task Order KPA-18-001 to Kasberg, Patrick, and Associates, LP of Georgetown, TX in the amount of $533,072.00 for Pavement Condition Indices and Five Year Street Maintenance Program - Wesley Wright, P.E., Systems Engineering Director Wright explained that approximately every 3 years the City of Georgetown conducts a study of the condition of all of the city's streets. This study consists of a highly specialized van driving virtually every mile of city street and gathering detailed information on overall pavement condition such as: cracking, potholes, ride quality, roughness, rutting, raveling, and appearance. The data obtained is used to generate individual scores for each street and an overall pavement condition index (PCI) score for the city. Those scores are then used to develop a street maintenance master plan detailing recommended maintenance measures. These results are the basis for each year's recommended CIP Street Maintenance Program. Motion by Hellmann second by Mills to approve Task Order KPA-18-001 to Kasberg, Patrick, and Associates, LP of Georgetown, TX in the amount of $533,072.00 for Pavement Condition Indices and Five Year Street Maintenance Program. Approved 6-0 (Courtney, Noble, & Marler absent) Adjournment Motion by Hesser second by Hellmann to adjourn meeting. Approved 6-0 (Courtney, Noble, & Marler absent). Meeting ended at 10:41 AM Approved: ,X, OiNA Leve Johnston ]lair Jana R. Kern — GTAB Board Lia'son Attested: Ton Bindas — ecretary October 13, 2017 Agenda Item "E"- Airport Monthly Report and Project Time Lines Good morning members of the Georgetown Transportation Advisory Board, city staff and ladies and gentlemen. My name is Wendy Dew. My address is 30109 Spyglass Circle,Georgetown, TX 78628. I am a member of the Airport Concerned Citizens (ACC). My comments this morning address the constant lack of concern for the voice of your citizens,and following proper protocol for the 20 year (2016-2036) Airport Master Plan Update being developed by Coffman Associates. This new 20 year master plan update totally ignores vitally important history of the airport beginning with the 1980 FAA funded master plan by Bovay Engineers. A small group of "unelected" city council appointees to the Airport Advisory Board, in secret without proper input from the general public, decided to begin development of the airport from its then socially acceptable status into a reliever airport to service the entire Central Texas region. To initiate this development, FAA and the State of Texas funded a multimillion dollars 14 year construction program that included more than doubling the strength, widening the width and major length extension of Runway 18-36, dangerously realigning a major city roadway, taking of multiple parcels of private property and other costly state and federal funded facilities all in violation of a Department of Transportation regulation, two presidential Executive Orders and FAA NEPA compliance orders with no federal structured public meetings. These so called "improvements" resulted in a roar of citizen environmental damage complaints over the years. Similar violations of federal laws and regulations with full knowledge by officials of public health, safety and environmental hazard illegal Categorical Exclusion concerns resulted from the following master plan updates of 1998 and 2005. A seven member Planning Advisory Committee was appointed to oversee development of this new master plan. Two members were designated to represent the "public". These two members have remained anonymous to the public, never offered their services to their general public citizens to represent their views and concerns, have refused any public dialog workshops with the public, refused to provide any phone numbers, email or USPS addresses for receipt of public comments and concerns and have never spoken on behalf of public concerns at any public meetings with Coffman Associates. Their only interest appears to proceed with all haste to build the biggest, baddest airport in Central Texas right over our heads with no thought of public safety, health and environmental hazard concerns and objections. The public workshops to date in which the public could actually participate were limited in number, especially any workshops where concerns and objections could be submitted to the consultant. Though the citizens may own the airport, TxDOT and FAA will build it anyway they desire and our citizen duties are to continue paying local, state and federal taxes for that effort. Otherwise, shut up or move away. Now, the city is revising the city's 2030 master plan in which the airport plan is an integral part. The city has requested through local social media for citizens suggestions for a revised master plan vision statement that will capture the city's identity, aspirations, and directions as a community. This is ironic because the city's airport planning will result in a future city of 200,000 or more with a dangerous, life threatening regional airport serving both public and military aviation located in the very center of this community. The actual vision of our city to the outside world will be one of amazed disbelief that any city in its right mind would develop this monstrosity that accommodates 764 planned take offs and landings operations a day just up to 2036 with many more to follow, with aircraft up to 150,000 lb gross weight, swirling and droning low over homes, schools, churches, hospitals, business and civic centers, spewing deadly residues of toxic leaded aviation fuel over inhabited areas and polluting the numerous water sources that surround our community. Not to mention debilitating noise, placing the public in dire danger from air crashes and a host of other safety, health and environmental consequences. "Why' would they ask "would any city not plan and develop an alternate, safer, superior airport in a special zoned and controlled rural area especially at the time of the 2016- 2036 airport plan when options and resources were available to do so potentially at no cost to the taxpayers?" The ACC has requested multiple times in the past for the GTAB to establish open workshops with the public for discussions regarding airport planning and development. It seems that TxDOT has no plans for preparation of a fully scoped Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for this new airport planned construction program. That means again - no federally structured public hearings or meetings. Why is the GTAB not sponsoring such meetings for this new 20 year airport master plan to make sure the citizens are heard and this community is protected? IT'S ONLY YOUR JOBHH folks.