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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCommuter Rail Committee-Minutes-7/14/2008c'.ity u~ Y~ j`l• \ i1 `+ COMMUTER RAIL COMMITTEE Minutes for Monday, July 14, 2008 1. Call to Order Mr. John Gooding, Chair called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m Present: John Gooding, Urmesh Shah, Linda Baker, John Paul Burnett, James Day, David Grimes, Joyce Hammill, Keath Hance, John Leeper, Michael Muhm, Roger Nelson, Kristen O'Regan Absent: Fred Mills, Clif Davis, Paul Vigiletti, Bartley Butler, Rich Hendler Staff: Kelly Cooper, Terry Leake, Mona Gandy, Steve Chutchian, Doug Cooper Chairman John Gooding announced the committee would breakout into their assigned subcommittees to work on answers to the public meeting comments. The subcommittees would have about 45 minutes and then would reconvene in the large group. 2. Subcommittee Breakouts The regular meeting was recessed at 7:03 p.m. for subcommittee work. a. Finance b. Station Impact c. Traffic d. Safety and Security e. Public Information Team 3. Resume regular meeting Chairman John Gooding called the regular meeting to resume at 7:50 p.m. 4. Approval of the Minutes for June 30, 2008 John Paul Burnett made a motion to approve the minutes for June 30, 2008. Urmesh Shah seconded the motion. Motion approved. 5. Discuss collection and dissemination of subcommittee responses to public meetings including timeline and meeting scheduled with subcommittee Chairs Commuter Rail Committee Minutes 7.14.08 /Page 2 of 3 Chairman John Gooding asked each of the subcommittees to report. Finance -Mike Muhm discussed the question/comments received contain variations of the same questions. The subcommittee will be submitting responses in paragraph/narrative format. Public Information Team -Urmesh Shah discussed that the goal was to provide information back to the public by putting it on the website, newspapers, print into city locations and various media outlets. Station Impact - Keath Hance spoke for the station impact subcommittee as the subcommittee chair was not present. The station impact group is still waiting on information from The T. They have begun to categories the questions/comments and will provide answers in narrative format. The subcommittee is planning on meeting sometime later this week or the next and will have information prepared for the July 28 meeting. Traffic -David Grimes discussed the subcommittee has six areas and will respond to question/comments by those areas. Discussion from the committee continued with a request for staff to ask The T for information on origin -destination modeling. Safety Security -John Leeper discussed the subcommittees work will answer questions/comments put into categories and will have a product by July 28, 2008. The subcommittee is meeting tomorrow to high rail the track Urmesh Shah stated that the narrative format was good for sending to media outlets. John Gooding discussed the map that plotted the locations of attendees so the origin of those making comments is known. Mona Gandy also responded to John's question that the minutes are available and accessible from the website. 6. Review and agree on presentation format for City Council presentation including timeline for completion John Gooding led the discussion on the presentation for City Council meeting. The presentation would be during Pre Council meeting which begins at 5:30 p.m. and would be approximately 10-15 minutes with possible questions and discussion from the City Council. John Paul asked if the committee needed to be there. It is not required of the committee however the subcommittee chairs should be present to assist with answering questions. A rough outline of the format for subcommittee is on page 28 of the packet. Discussion continued on presentation of facts. John Paul Burnett added the need to give City Council a "Report Card," here is what we know. Kristen O'Regan brought into the discussion the cost of the station. Michael Muhm added information about the shuttle costs and issues and that safety, traffic, etc. may need to be addressed even without a station in Colleyville. Linda Baker added that must look at the large picture. Train will go through. Commuter Rail Committee Minutes 7.14.08 /Page 3 of 3 John Gooding reviewed timeline. August 11, 2008 John would give the presentation as a trial presentation to the committee. A request was made to be at the end of the agenda on the 19th 7. Citizen Comments One citizen spoke. 8. Adjournment There being no further business to discuss, Michael Muhm made a motion to adjourn. John Paul Burnett seconded the motion. The motion was approved and the meeting adjourned at 8:50 p.m. Minutes taken and prepared by Kelly Cooper.