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CItizen Advisory Committee Minutes 08/30/2019September 30, 2019 Page 1 CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE of the COLLIER COUNTY METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION Main Conference Room 2885 North Horseshoe Drive Naples FL 34104 September 30, 2019 2:00 p.m. Meeting Minutes 1. Call to Order Ms. Brown called the meeting to order at approximately 2:02 p.m. 2. Roll Call Mr. Ortman called the roll and confirmed a quorum was present. CAC Members Present Karen Homiak, District I Pam Brown, Chair, At-Large Russell Tuff, District III Rick Hart, Persons with Disabilities Tammie Pernas, Everglades City Gary Shirk, At-Large Josh Rincon, Representative of Minorities Neal Gelfand, District II Members Absent Robert Phelan, Vice-Chair, City of Marco Island Susan Jones, City of Naples Robert Anderson, District V William Stephens, District IV Susan Cross, City of Naples MPO Staff Eric Ortman, Senior Planner Karen Intriago, Administrative Assistant Brandy Otero, Principle Planner Josey Medina, Senior Planner FDOT Victoria Peters, FDOT Others Present Lorraine Lantz, Collier County Transportation Planning Patty Huff, Citizen Zachary Karto, PTNE Bill Gramer, Project Manager, Jacobs Engineering September 30, 2019 Page 2 Tara Jones, Deputy Project Manager, Jacobs Engineering Michelle Ison, Minute Taker 3. Approval of the Agenda Mr. Tuff moved to approve the agenda. Second by Mr. Shirk. Carried unanimously. 4. Approval of the May 20, 2019 Meeting Minutes Mr. Tuff moved to approve the May 20, 2019 meeting minutes. Second by Ms. Homiak. Carried unanimously. 5. Public Comments for Items not on the Agenda None. Mr. Ortman introduced Josie Medina, new MPO Senior Planner. Ms. Otero introduced Zach Kerno, new CAT Senior Planner. 6. Agency Updates A. FDOT The last Traffic Signal Warrant Analysis was done in 2015 for SR29 and Westclox, FDOT Traffic Ops will do a new Signal Warrant Analysis in January 2020. If a new signal is warranted, it could take 12-18 months to install. E-Public Hearing Week October 21-25. FY25 Draft Tentative Work Program showing new FY25 will be released soon. Draft Tentative will be placed online along with a comment card. Ms. Peters and Mr. Ortman will be doing public outreach on October 21, 2019 from 12pm-3pm at the Orange Blossom Library Public Meeting to be held on October 10, 2019 from 4:30pm – 6:30pm at UF/IFAS in Immokalee regarding FDOT construction of SR82 from Gator Slough to SR29. This is the last segment of construction; construction has been pushed out due to utility concerns. A final decision has not be made on the intersection of 82 and 29. FDOT project managers and engineers will be present to meet with the community and answer questions. Mobility Week is scheduled for October 25-November 1. Ms. Peters will be at the Immokalee Ciclovia on November 2nd. SU Box in FY20 has grown to over $2 million through Work Program balancing. FDOT has identified projects that might be able to be advanced and is asking for the committee’s input on these and other projects that may be “shovel ready”. To avoid a Work Program amendment, each project cost must be below $543,000. There are many outstanding questions and details to be clarified; a detailed email will be sent to the committee. B. MPO Executive Director None. September 30, 2019 Page 3 7. Committee Action A. Endorse 2045 Long Range Transportation (LRTP) Public Involvement Plan and Goals, Objectives and Decision-Making Framework Technical Memo Ms. Tara Jones, Jacobs Engineering, presented an overview of the 2045 LRTP Framework which reflects changes from previous TAC and Board meetings. Complete Streets has been incorporated into the goals. The white paper was written to identify the framework used to prioritize goals; each goal has been given a weighted score. The TAC committee endorsed the framework with the following changes to the scoring categories and criteria:  Goal 2 Environmental: o Increase primary panther habitat weight to 4%; reduce secondary panther habitat weight to 0%; delete “wetland encroachment” wording.  Goal 10 Consider Climate Change Vulnerability: reduce to 4%  Goal 11 Consider Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: reduce to 4%  Goal 3 (Connectivity), 6 (Safety), 7 (Multimodal) 8 (Promote the Integrated Planning) increase by 2% each. Ms. Lantz – still early in the process, as these projects are discussed and more data is available, the projects and weighting will be furthered honed. The CAC committee expressed concern that certain areas are underrepresented in the Public Involvement Plan, such as Everglades City, East Naples and South Naples. Additionally, more coordination is suggested with Naples Daily News, Coastal Breeze News, East Naples Civic Association , The Bayshore Gateway Triangle Community Redevelopment Agency, Immokalee CRA, the BlueZones Project and the Collier County Sheriff. Mr. Tuff moved to endorse the 2045 Long Range Transportation (LRTP) Public Involvement Plan and Goals, Objectives and Decision-Making Framework Technical Memo with the TAC changes and Public Involvement Plan with the additions outlined by the CAC. Mr. Shirk seconded. Carried unanimously. B. Endorse Amendment 4 to FY 18/19 -19/20 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Ms. Otero - Amendment 4 to the UPWP illustrates the net zero change to the PL funding. $5 ,000 was removed from the TIP and reallocated to Special Projects and Systems Planning to cover the cost of GIS software. Changes have been made to the FTA 5305 budget and the TD budget. In order to spend down the 5305 funds from the FY 15/16 and 16/17, it is necessary to identify the funding in the current UPWP as revenue so it can be allocated to a study. Carryforward funding in the amount of $133,600 has been added, along with the final allocation for the TD grant and for the FY 19/20 FTA 5305 grant. The new amended budget will be $1,3042,099. Ms. Homiak moved to endorse Amendment 4 to Unified Planning Work Program . Mr. Rincon seconded. Carried unanimously. September 30, 2019 Page 4 C. Re-endorse 2019 Congestion Management Project Priorities List with Updated Project Descriptions and Costs Ms. Otero - FDOT has conducted an exhaustive constructability review of the projects. At FDOT’s request, a scope change has been made in the left-turn from US41 to Golden Gate Parkway. The City submitted an interim solution at a cost of $55,000. The estimate for FDOT’s long-term solution $1.3 million. Collier County is swithching the intersections on Pine Ridge Road with 13 intersections on Santa Barbara and Golden Gate Parkway in the Adaptive Traffic Control System submittal; the cost is similar. The CMC and TAC have both endorsed this updated list. Ms. Peters – additional SU funds are being used for this project. Mr. Shirk motioned to re-endorse the CMC Project Priorities List with updated project descriptions and costs. Mr. Gelfand seconded. Carried unanimously. D. Endorse Citizens Advisory Committee Bylaw Revisions Mr. Ortman – the last change to the CAC bylaws was in 2014. These revisions will bring the bylaws in line with the MPO Bylaws, and more accurately reflect what this committee is doing. The Committee’s purpose has been redefined; eligibility requirements have been relaxed to allow for the addition of business owners in Collier County; Everglades City representation can now come from the City, Chokoloskee and Plantation Island; at-large members will be selected to reflect geographic representation; the quorum will be changed to a set number of five (5) members. Mr. Gelfand – members should be required to sign that they have read the bylaws. Mr. Ortman noted that this is a volunteer committee. Mr. Tuff motioned to endorse CAC Bylaw Revisions, Mr. Shirk seconded. Carried unanimously. E. Discuss Change to Meeting Time Mr. Ortman – polled the committee to see if there was an interest in changing the meeting time. Most committee members prefered to keep the meeting time as is. Ms. Pernas motioned keep the meeting time at 2:00 p.m. Mr. Rincon seconded. Carried unanimously 8. Reports and Presentations None 9. Member Comments None 10. Distribution Items A. Administrative Modification FY20-24 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) B. Administrative Modification to FY18- 19-19/20 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) 11. Next Meeting Date October 28, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. 12. Adjourn September 30, 2019 Page 5 With no further comments or items to attend to, Ms. Brown adjourned the meeting at approximately 3:45 p.m.