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COMMUTER RAIL COMMITTEE
Minutes from Friday, May 9, 2008
1. Call to Order
John Gooding, Chair, cailed the meeting to order at 4:11 p.m.
Present: John Gooding, Fred Mills, John Paul Burnett, James Day, Joyce Hammill,
Michael Muhm, Roger Nelson, Kristen O'Regan, Paul Vigiletti,
Absent at role call: Bartley Butler, David Grimes, John Leeper, Rich Hendler, Linda
Baker, Clif Davis and Urmesh Shah
Staff: Kelly Cooper
2. Approval of the minutes for May 5, 2Q08
This item was moved to the end of the agenda so the committee could focus on
establishing subcommittees.
John Paul Burnett made a motion to approve; Michael Muhm seconded the motion.
Motion approved.
3. Discussion of Committee Workplan and Assignments
Chair John Gooding opened discussion of the committee workplan by striking or
removing the following from the Community Rail Work Plan by Categories
document:
I. Need for a Station - Should we have a station, Do we need a station? Will
citizen's use? Will Colleyville Citizens use stop? How does station fit into the
strategic objectives of city? Removed the word Expansion from SH26 Expansion
affect traffic flow — will rail help or not?
II. Impacts of a Station — F. Impact to homeowners, Alternate forms of
transportation, other cities on board is for staff dialogue building city partnerships
III. Funding/Affordability/Revenue — Funding Cap on what we are willing to spend,
funding — sales tax cap, cost — other portions of budget that would have spent on
other things, multi-city station — sharing costs of station with other city is for staff
dialogue with NRH and Southlake.
Commuter Rail Committee Minutes
May 9, 2008 / Page 2
Discussion continued on establishing subcommittees. The subcommittees and
members were determined as follows:
1. Financial Aspects - John Gooding, Michael Muhm,
2. Station Impacts — John Paul Burnett, Fred Mills, Paul Vigiletti
3. Traffic — Joyce Hammill
4. Safety and Security (established May 5, 2008) - Roger Nelson, John Leeper
5. Public Input -(established May 5, 2008) — Urmesh Shah, Kristen O'Regan,
James Day and Bartley Butler
It was determined that members not present would be contacted and given the
opportunity to choose which subcommittee they would like to participate.
Roger Nelson provided an update of his work with regard to Safety. Attached is a
summary of this subcommittees work to include railroad safety and station operation
safety.
John Gooding, Chair discussed the timeline including the final deliverable statement,
research phase, analysis response phase, delivery phase and the need for public
input through-out the entire process.
Staff verified the next meeting times and dates as follows:
Public Information subcommittee meets Monday, May 12, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. in the
City Manager's Office Conference room
All other subcommittees will meet Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:30 p.m_ second floor of
the Library
Next �egular full meeting will be Monday, May 19, 2008 6:30 p.m. Colleyville Center
Staff reviewed the agenda packet process to include emailing to all with available
email, mailing to those who have requested mail and providing copies at the meeting
for those members who did not want to print.
Discussed continued use of the citizen cards and the committee was agreeable to
using.
4. Adjournment
There being no further business, Chair John Gooding adjourned the meeting at 5:12
p. m.
Minutes taken and prepared by Kelly Cooper.