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Meeting Minutes
Non-Motorized Transportation Advisory Board
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
City Hall, Conference Rm 41
L Meeting called to order at 4:30 pm by board chair, Scott Walker,
Members in attendance: Lys Burden, Pat Teal and Jolly Wahlstrom
Staff present: Tyler Johnson,
Visitors: Jennifer Knight and Richard Dandridge
IL Approval of Agenda —Agenda distributed and approved
III. Approval of Minutes —Minutes of the May and June meeting were distributed, approval
tabled until board members could review.
IV. Business
1. Public Works Staff items:
- Existing trail on Jackman (above Safeway) needs some work at the turn about 15 feet
down the hill
- Jolly needs details from Mary Sepler to proceed with Grant Street Trail Planning for
the September trail project, and she has not yet responded to his queries
-Public Works has a walk behind DR field &brush mower and will mow trail behind
Blue Heron School, if any other trails of this type need mowing, we need to contact
Tyler and he will forward requests to John Merchant to arrange maintenance
a. Spruce Street r/w Acquisition—no progress yet.
b. Trail Project—Board members decided to cancel the July trail project, as
attendance had been too light in previous years and details are not available for the
Grant Street Trail Project yet.
c. Hastings Hill Climb —Board members discussed proposing to improve the uphill
shoulder (near the City limit) with hard-packed gravel and fines, similar to what was
done on the east side of Landes Street on that uphill grade, to improve the walking,
bicycling,jogging, etc. conditions
d. Grant Street SRTS Grant Funds for Map Printing— not discussed
e. Parking on SJ—not discussed
£ Sheridan/Hospital Design Progress —Scott had reviewed the drawings, suggested on-
street parking removal opposite the hospital side to make room for the bike lane
behind the planter-strip buffers. The bus pullout has been eliminated and will stop in
the street to assist traffic calming the area.
2. Meet with David Timmons —Scott would like ideas to present to Dave Timmons for
"low-hanging fruit," i.e. no or lite-cost bike/ped improvements that could be
implemented by the City, such as painting bike lanes green. Board members suggested:
- encouraging more use of the City street crew(when they are not busy) for
maintaining trails, i.e. mowing;
- asking for him to make a statement about working to make Port Townsend more
bicycle friendly;
- focusing on more downtown bike racks;
- explaining why downtown cannot be striped for bike lanes;
- encouraging work toward LAB silver status for the 2016 bicycle-friendly-city
renewal application,
-promoting bicycle education programs in schools, begin building curb-cuts with
a minimum of one project budgeted each year;
- focus on fixing the broken trail links on Chestnut and Spruce Streets;
- signage needed when trails are continuous.
3. Trail Work Project—plans tabled until August meeting, September work party
planned
4. DT Bike Racks —tabled
5. Map Project: Funding and Process —Board members had reviewed the maps and
found many broken connections, which look like a glitch in the graphic program, and
other corrections. Jolly had a list. Lys was to follow up with David McCulloch.
6. DT Bike Racks —tabled
7. Trail Highlight Article—no further information, as Sally is absent
8. NMTAB Website—no action yet, tabled.
10. QWC Trail Repairs/Signage -tabled
11. Member Term Expiration—Pat and Lys were reappointed. Richard
Dandridge is applying, but has not yet been approved.
14. Chestnut: P to Q—board encouraged to visit trail
V. General Discussion - none
VI. Next Meeting: 4:30 pm, August 1, 2013
VII. Agency Invitee and Agency Invitation
VIII. Adjourned at 5:55 pm
IX. Work Plan
X. Long Term, Continuing Issues:
1. Securing r/w purchase for Chestnut St. Trail easement
2. Designating and marking an official Portage Trail
3. Hwy 20 underpass and appropriately marking bicycle passage through the Upper
Sims Way roundabouts
XI. Action Steps Needed
a. Still need to send electronic final draft Grant Street School Walking Audit Report document
to board members and school administrators
b. Scott to meet with Dave Timmons
c. Tyler and Jolly need to follow up on trail project details
d. Sally to edit Trail Highlights articles
e. Lys to meet with David McCulloch about the map project again
f. Draft letter to WashDOT still needed to be written about inappropriate roundabout signage
for bicycling,potential underpass development at Bishop Park and Kearney Street
intersection planning