WEBVTT 00:00:00.354 --> 00:00:06.859 - Welcome to the Bloomington Metropolitan Planning Office Technical Advisory Committee meeting for May 00:00:06.859 --> 00:00:13.557 - 27th, 2026. Thanks for being here and everybody online. Katie and Pat, were you guys gonna go over some 00:00:13.557 --> 00:00:20.384 - of the online protocol today, or should I mention that first? Go ahead and touch it. Yeah, so for anybody 00:00:20.384 --> 00:00:26.889 - here who is a voting member online, please, if you are gonna be voting, you need to have your camera 00:00:26.889 --> 00:00:30.174 - turned on before you vote, and that's kind of the, 00:00:30.690 --> 00:00:36.479 - The big thing there. Did I cover that? Yeah, I think that's good. So I think we're probably good to 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:42.441 - go. Should we do a call to order and introductions? Sound good. I guess I maybe did the call to order. 00:00:42.441 --> 00:00:48.288 - Welcome to the technical advisor committee meeting. Sorry, I got back from a road trip yesterday, so 00:00:48.288 --> 00:00:54.076 - I'm a little bit out of it. I guess we can start with introductions. Maybe at the left, Ryan, would 00:00:54.076 --> 00:00:58.302 - you be willing to start first? Sure. Ryan Roebling, proxy, David Hittle. 00:00:59.714 --> 00:01:06.949 - Jane Fleague, City of Bloomington Utilities. John Baton, GIS Coordinator, Monroe County. Kelly Whitmer, 00:01:06.949 --> 00:01:14.114 - Monroe County Parks and Recreation. Tammy Bierman, Monroe County Planning Department, Acting Director. 00:01:14.114 --> 00:01:20.723 - Hunter Jackson, Proxy for the Monroe County Auditor. Cheryl Gilliland, Deputy Controller, City 00:01:20.723 --> 00:01:25.662 - of Bloomington, Proxy for Jeff McKim, Controller, City of Bloomington. 00:01:27.298 --> 00:01:37.041 - Lynette Tavernier, Monroe County Highway Department Operations Asset Manager, alternate for the Highway 00:01:37.041 --> 00:01:46.504 - Engineer. Linnea Wellings, NDOT, proxy for Rebecca Packer. Max Dyer, City of Bloomington, GIS, proxy 00:01:46.504 --> 00:01:55.873 - for Megan Blair. Amy Garataz, Area 10, Agency on Aging Rural Transit. And we do have one non-voting 00:01:55.873 --> 00:01:57.278 - member online. 00:01:58.914 --> 00:02:07.359 - Great. Do they introduce themselves? Go ahead, Sam. Hi, Sam Tobin-Hockstadt. I'm here representing the 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:15.559 - Citizens Advisory Commission since John can't be here today. Awesome. Thanks, everybody. With that, 00:02:15.559 --> 00:02:23.922 - I guess we'll move to an approval for the agenda from May 27th, 2026 or today. Can I have a motion to 00:02:23.922 --> 00:02:28.350 - approve? So I'll move. Second. Thanks, Jane and Ryan. 00:02:29.730 --> 00:02:41.250 - And is this gonna be a roll call vote, Katie, or? You should be able to do an all in favor. Okay, so 00:02:41.250 --> 00:02:52.884 - if we could get an all in favor, everybody say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay, you need 00:02:52.884 --> 00:02:59.614 - to speak into the microphone, Tammy. Okay, so we are good. 00:03:00.706 --> 00:03:09.951 - One abstention from Tammy Berman, the proxy for Jackie Gellenexter. Next, we'll move to a motion to 00:03:09.951 --> 00:03:19.382 - approve the minutes from April 22nd, 2026. If I could get a motion to approve. Move approval. Second. 00:03:19.382 --> 00:03:28.812 - Thank you, Jane and Ryan. And again, we'll do a all in favor vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. 00:03:28.812 --> 00:03:30.014 - Any opposed? 00:03:30.338 --> 00:03:38.004 - Say nay. Any abstentions? Thank you, everybody. And this brings us to communications. Am I going too 00:03:38.004 --> 00:03:45.897 - fast, Katie? Sorry if I am. Okay. This brings us to communications from the Chair and Vice Chair. Jane, 00:03:45.897 --> 00:03:53.108 - I'll let you go first if you have anything you want to share. I don't have anything right now. 00:03:53.108 --> 00:03:54.398 - Thank you. Cool. 00:03:54.562 --> 00:04:00.608 - I'm not sure if I guess I'll share this now I didn't see it on the agenda but I do want to let everybody 00:04:00.608 --> 00:04:06.655 - know that the city is offering a really cool program right now that benefits from public kind of support 00:04:06.655 --> 00:04:10.398 - and and and us participating in it and this is the resident led. 00:04:10.562 --> 00:04:16.933 - resident-led traffic calming program within the city. What this is doing is trying for residents of 00:04:16.933 --> 00:04:23.305 - Bloomington to fill out, basically, it's a really quick survey whether or not they have an interest 00:04:23.305 --> 00:04:29.740 - in some type of implementation of a traffic calming program within the city. It's really easy to do. 00:04:29.740 --> 00:04:36.621 - The main requirements of it is that you need to have two participants, they can't live at the same address, 00:04:36.621 --> 00:04:39.998 - and those participants need to live within 300 feet, 00:04:40.194 --> 00:04:48.170 - of the area in which this traffic calming program is geared towards. And so if you guys are interested 00:04:48.170 --> 00:04:56.068 - in that, I really highly recommend checking out the city's website. It's a great program that you can 00:04:56.068 --> 00:05:04.044 - see the impacts of participating. That's all I have for communications. So I guess we're going to move 00:05:04.044 --> 00:05:09.310 - on to communications from Pat and Katie. Did I go too far? Am I in? 00:05:10.370 --> 00:05:17.541 - I think we're on number 5 Pat. Did I skip something? Number 5. Number 6. Number 6. Oh, NPO. I'm sorry. 00:05:17.541 --> 00:05:24.990 - I'm sorry. Oh, I guess I said communications from officers and or committees, but that's not really, yeah. 00:05:40.066 --> 00:05:49.668 - I'm sorry. We've lost our script. Usually we don't plan this like this. Under item 6.1, Indiana Department 00:05:49.668 --> 00:05:58.642 - of Transportation news release on single lane closures planned on Interstate 69 in Green and Monroe 00:05:58.642 --> 00:06:06.270 - County. I believe those are associated with slide control. There's a landslide issue 00:06:06.786 --> 00:06:15.047 - that's always down in that area due to the type of soils that they have down in that area. Please be 00:06:15.047 --> 00:06:23.225 - aware of that and please pass this information along. Item 6.2, we've got the city of Bloomington's 00:06:23.225 --> 00:06:31.895 - ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act transition plan. This is out of CFRD, community and family resources 00:06:31.895 --> 00:06:33.694 - development upstairs. 00:06:34.018 --> 00:06:42.948 - This comment period is open until, well, the end of this month. If it hasn't already closed, we were 00:06:42.948 --> 00:06:51.966 - aware of this late, so we apologize for having it in the packet late. Please feel free to review this 00:06:51.966 --> 00:07:00.984 - to make sure that City of Bloomington is meeting all of its ADA transition plan requirements. This is 00:07:00.984 --> 00:07:03.902 - something the MPO also must have 00:07:04.098 --> 00:07:12.963 - it must have approved. The plan will be approved in a final form probably around the 1st of July. 00:07:12.963 --> 00:07:22.280 - Item 6.3, memorandum is included in the packet on Bloomington Transit's proposed service improvements. 00:07:22.280 --> 00:07:31.506 - This goes along with the public meetings that they had three public meetings several weeks ago. First 00:07:31.506 --> 00:07:33.406 - one was at Ivy Tech, 00:07:33.794 --> 00:07:42.710 - State College, the other two, Bloomington Trans, downtown transfer center. This is a proposal which 00:07:42.710 --> 00:07:51.715 - has already been passed at this time now, would combine routes three west and route 13 into a single 00:07:51.715 --> 00:08:01.790 - route. I think it's called route 16 is what it was called. This was due to the fact that there was low ridership 00:08:02.050 --> 00:08:10.289 - This is an unusual route in that it is an external route, external outside of the city of Bloomington. 00:08:10.289 --> 00:08:18.448 - It's under an interlocal agreement. It operates under an interlocal agreement where the Monroe County 00:08:18.448 --> 00:08:26.926 - Council provides a subsidy for the operation of this route. The new route would have a 45-minute headway, 00:08:26.926 --> 00:08:29.086 - in other words, 90 minutes 00:08:29.410 --> 00:08:38.199 - all the way around, round trip, 45 minute headway, but it was Bloomington Transit, I wish somebody from 00:08:38.199 --> 00:08:46.735 - Bloomington Transit was here, they looked at seven different scenarios before they came up with this 00:08:46.735 --> 00:08:55.102 - optimized version here, and the optimized version will operate at least a year to see how it does. 00:08:55.234 --> 00:09:04.729 - under the current routing system out to IBTEC State College, it was only, sometimes only a single rider 00:09:04.729 --> 00:09:14.225 - per hour, which is just not functional, and it's not a revenue generating source. So this was optimized 00:09:14.225 --> 00:09:23.355 - with a combination of other traffic attractors. Yeah, if you scroll down there, it'll tell you what 00:09:23.355 --> 00:09:24.542 - the other... 00:09:25.602 --> 00:09:34.284 - Okay, it's got a whole series of traffic attractors there in terms of commercial service. And we received, 00:09:34.284 --> 00:09:42.723 - all the meetings were attended very well, received very positive comments on all of the meetings. There 00:09:42.723 --> 00:09:51.161 - was one concern expressed at the last meeting, but at the end of the meeting, that individual expressed 00:09:51.161 --> 00:09:53.758 - support for the entire concept. 00:09:54.210 --> 00:10:02.035 - If you have any questions on that, please let us know. Go ahead. Is Ivy Tech in the city of Bloomington? 00:10:02.035 --> 00:10:09.934 - No, this route is operated under interlocal agreement because it exceeds outside of the city of corporate 00:10:09.934 --> 00:10:17.609 - limits and the Monroe County Council has funded this and Monroe County Commissioners asked for funding 00:10:17.609 --> 00:10:23.198 - for this and the Monroe County Council approved this, so it's supported by 00:10:23.586 --> 00:10:31.597 - Monroe County funds since it is outside of the city limits. Does that answer your question? Can I ask 00:10:31.597 --> 00:10:39.687 - another question on something you went on actually the ADA transition plan? Sure. Sorry you were going 00:10:39.687 --> 00:10:47.934 - so fast. I thought I heard you say that the MPO needs to approve the city's ADA transition plan. Is that 00:10:48.514 --> 00:10:58.386 - You didn't say that, okay. No, no, no. City, no, we're including it in the packet for information purposes 00:10:58.386 --> 00:11:07.613 - only. Draft, this is the draft. It'll be finalized by July 1st and usually the first or second week 00:11:07.613 --> 00:11:17.854 - of July, the MPO sends this ADA transition plan to the Indiana Department of Transportation and to verify that 00:11:18.882 --> 00:11:26.661 - the MPO is operating in an environment that is ADA accessible. So it's not required. The reason why 00:11:26.661 --> 00:11:34.595 - I'm asking is that the county, I believe, finalized their ADA plan and I didn't recall this MPO step. 00:11:34.595 --> 00:11:42.374 - So not needed. Yeah, it's not required by the MPO. The MPO provides it to the Indiana Department of 00:11:42.374 --> 00:11:48.830 - Transportation as an FYI type thing to show that the city of Bloomington itself is 00:11:48.994 --> 00:11:59.162 - compliant. Does that answer your question? Oh, always. Okay. Yeah, it's one of those check the box items 00:11:59.162 --> 00:12:08.942 - that are mandatory that we always do in July of every year with Federal Highway Administration, FTA, 00:12:08.942 --> 00:12:18.142 - and also with NDOT. Okay. Okay, next item, NDOT traffic engineering memo. You want to do that? 00:12:18.466 --> 00:12:28.254 - Please. Oh, actually item 6.4 is just a quick memo as we usually do. As you know, we have a tip document 00:12:28.254 --> 00:12:38.321 - that has information on projects receiving federal funds through the MPO and. It the document also contains 00:12:38.321 --> 00:12:45.406 - transit projects as well that will receive FTA funding, but not through us. 00:12:46.594 --> 00:12:53.543 - those have to be in there as well. And so sometimes when we have a change to a project or the funding 00:12:53.543 --> 00:13:00.493 - that is below a certain threshold, we do not have to bring it to approval to the committee. We do not 00:13:00.493 --> 00:13:07.306 - have to bring it to the committee for approval, but we do provide a memo describing what change was 00:13:07.306 --> 00:13:14.119 - made so that you are all aware. And so since the last meeting, one of the changes that was made was 00:13:14.119 --> 00:13:15.550 - to a transit project 00:13:16.066 --> 00:13:24.704 - This was a project that was already in the TIP called Bloomington Transit's EV mobile chargers project. 00:13:24.704 --> 00:13:33.342 - We simply changed the funding source for that project. We increased the amount of federal funding. This 00:13:33.342 --> 00:13:40.734 - federal funding that they're receiving, I believe this portion is coming from some extra 00:13:41.122 --> 00:13:49.812 - MPO funds that were rolled over flexed to transit in a past year. They're trying to get all those used 00:13:49.812 --> 00:13:58.333 - up before new transportation bills occur. And in addition to the federal share increasing, the local 00:13:58.333 --> 00:14:07.361 - share also needs to increase. And the project total also increased as well. And so you can see the changes 00:14:07.361 --> 00:14:09.470 - in funding in the table. 00:14:10.018 --> 00:14:20.823 - that's provided as well. Questions? Since the last meeting, there was also an update to a non-transit 00:14:20.823 --> 00:14:31.839 - project that was made by MPO staff that did not have to be reviewed. That change was to Monroe County's 00:14:31.839 --> 00:14:39.678 - Dillman Road bridge project. Due to environmental impact, they are moving 00:14:39.938 --> 00:14:48.734 - the bridge program funds and the local match that they're providing for the project. They're moving 00:14:48.734 --> 00:14:57.619 - the right of way phase and those funds from fiscal year 2026 to 2027. So just an environmental delay 00:14:57.619 --> 00:15:06.591 - for that is causing a change in fiscal year for the right of way phase. And in this case, this is not 00:15:06.591 --> 00:15:09.406 - a use of MPO federal funds, but 00:15:09.858 --> 00:15:22.022 - All projects that receive bridge funding through the state also need to be in the tip and everyone needs 00:15:22.022 --> 00:15:33.955 - to be aware of it, the local representatives. Any questions? Go ahead, Pat. On the crash severity? No, 00:15:33.955 --> 00:15:37.662 - 6.6, the traffic engineer memo. 00:15:44.418 --> 00:15:55.784 - Okay. All right. Item 6.6, which is in your packet. We have a memorandum from Taylor Ruval, who leads 00:15:55.784 --> 00:16:07.262 - the management of the Office of Traffic Safety at the Indiana Department of Transportation, where he's 00:16:07.778 --> 00:16:18.809 - announcing changes to the injury severity determination method for traffic data analysis. Our traffic 00:16:18.809 --> 00:16:29.840 - injuries have been all over the place in the last decade due to changing definitions and we've shown, 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:37.086 - well, it's shown a slight decrease or a steady decrease in traffic 00:16:37.538 --> 00:16:46.081 - traffic injuries over the period and there was a suspicion there that the methodology had a flaw to 00:16:46.081 --> 00:16:55.051 - it. So the Department of Transportation examined this methodology and they've now adopted a new standard 00:16:55.051 --> 00:17:02.142 - which will be effective at the beginning of next calendar year. In the memo you'll 00:17:02.434 --> 00:17:10.710 - see there that talks about historically Indiana's use following crash severity for analysis, fatal or 00:17:10.710 --> 00:17:18.824 - incapacitating injury, non-capacitating injury or property damage only. The termination was usually 00:17:18.824 --> 00:17:27.019 - made by the officer in the field, state police or the local law enforcement agency in the field, and 00:17:27.019 --> 00:17:31.806 - made the determination on whether it was suspected or not. 00:17:32.002 --> 00:17:43.267 - The new criteria which the Department of Transportation, well, yeah, actually there's a table in here 00:17:43.267 --> 00:17:54.642 - also that shows how the 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 suspected serious injury crashes, the numbers 00:17:54.642 --> 00:18:00.606 - that are found on the state police data under the new 00:18:00.834 --> 00:18:09.156 - There were always a number of errors associated with that. Under this new criteria, crash narratives 00:18:09.156 --> 00:18:17.478 - will still be important as part of the safety analysis to verify accuracy. However, they're changing 00:18:17.478 --> 00:18:25.965 - the definitions. A suspected serious injury crash with injury nature of fractured dislocation has been 00:18:25.965 --> 00:18:28.766 - clarified as a minor broken nose. 00:18:29.026 --> 00:18:38.502 - with no other injury or narrative. A non-serious suspected injury crash with an injury nature of a minor 00:18:38.502 --> 00:18:47.708 - bruise was found to be unconscious at the crash site. The practitioner should modify this to document 00:18:47.708 --> 00:18:56.733 - that change. A minor crash injury of nature complaint of pain has been clarified. A property damage 00:18:56.733 --> 00:18:57.726 - only crash 00:18:58.146 --> 00:19:08.327 - would show no injuries, but the narrative may describe an injured person or another error. Crash costs 00:19:08.327 --> 00:19:18.212 - have also been updated to a national standard. These costs, we've got some heartburn with the costs 00:19:18.212 --> 00:19:22.462 - ourselves, but in 2020 for $20, $25 terms, 00:19:23.266 --> 00:19:33.563 - The costs are listed there as $857,956 for a fatality and then for the other types of injuries that's 00:19:33.563 --> 00:19:43.659 - been listed also. The number of years used in the analysis severe crashes. Since severe crashes are 00:19:43.659 --> 00:19:51.230 - rare, in few years or years, the pattern of crashes has not been apparent. 00:19:51.330 --> 00:20:03.040 - Therefore, the change in the definition under the updated crash cost analysis system, which is shown 00:20:03.040 --> 00:20:13.706 - in a tabular form. I don't know if you can scroll down to that. I'm sorry, we'll get there. 00:20:13.706 --> 00:20:20.894 - There we go. Updated crash costs for highway safety analysis. 00:20:21.122 --> 00:20:31.075 - This is the 2024 costs in terms of comprehensive unit costs and the application of the costs and the 00:20:31.075 --> 00:20:41.225 - processes. Under this new process, the Department of Transportation will have what I would call a more 00:20:41.225 --> 00:20:48.222 - accurate and a more consistent definition based on national standards. 00:20:48.898 --> 00:20:59.466 - and you can see that in the following tables. The bottom line here is that the number of injuries, suspected 00:20:59.466 --> 00:21:09.646 - serious injury crashes that do this definitional change, those numbers will probably change dramatically 00:21:09.646 --> 00:21:17.790 - between the current year 2026 and 2027, and then in all outlined years beyond 2027. 00:21:19.010 --> 00:21:26.685 - Questions anybody have on this? I know this is highly technical, but it has to do with what we call 00:21:26.685 --> 00:21:34.513 - the most serious aspect of the thing is how do we report injury crashes and how do we report property 00:21:34.513 --> 00:21:42.342 - damage crashes? I've got a question, and if you guys can't answer it, that's perfectly fine. I can do 00:21:42.342 --> 00:21:44.030 - some Googling myself. 00:21:44.546 --> 00:21:51.209 - So this data is reported by officers as they kind of approach a scene. They're doing their best kind 00:21:51.209 --> 00:21:58.201 - of analysis of the scene to identify whether or not there was a serious injury. They could also be coming 00:21:58.201 --> 00:22:05.194 - from a domestic violence situation and trying to figure out what's going on. So there's a lot of pressure 00:22:05.194 --> 00:22:11.989 - on the police officer who's actually responding to the incident to get this. Say there's an individual 00:22:11.989 --> 00:22:13.374 - who's in an accident 00:22:13.474 --> 00:22:20.357 - They appear conscious and everything like that. They're released, but then they go home, or they go 00:22:20.357 --> 00:22:27.585 - to a hospital for that matter, and die essentially. Are these numbers going to be edited after the fact, 00:22:27.585 --> 00:22:34.674 - or is it once the police officer enters that information into the database, is it just kind of static? 00:22:34.674 --> 00:22:41.558 - In terms of fatality, it's dynamic. It is, okay. So they could revise this information. In terms of 00:22:41.558 --> 00:22:42.590 - fatality, yes. 00:22:42.786 --> 00:22:50.812 - transported to the hospital with a suspected serious injury and they end up with a fatality. That is 00:22:50.812 --> 00:22:59.156 - reported as a fatality. The problem came in where you had suspected serious injuries and the individuals 00:22:59.156 --> 00:23:07.341 - involved refused to go to the hospital, refused treatment, and ended up later on having something more 00:23:07.341 --> 00:23:11.870 - serious, such as a fractured leg or something like that. 00:23:12.002 --> 00:23:20.782 - This definition also includes, this is somewhat grisly, dislocations, dismemberment, I'm sorry, I don't 00:23:20.782 --> 00:23:29.562 - want to say dislocation, dismemberment issues, where those are now classified as serious injury instead 00:23:29.562 --> 00:23:38.342 - of a suspected serious injury. I would probably say that a dismemberment would be a serious, I wouldn't 00:23:38.342 --> 00:23:40.030 - suspect it anymore. 00:23:40.194 --> 00:23:46.991 - but a broken nose is not. So yeah, the difficulty gets into the narrative of the definition. And then 00:23:46.991 --> 00:23:53.721 - trying to, I think, categorize these after the fact, which is what you guys are doing with the crash 00:23:53.721 --> 00:24:00.384 - dashboard and things like that to make this more logical. Yeah, and the officers are under a lot of 00:24:00.384 --> 00:24:05.182 - pressure, time pressure, first of all, to arrive at the accident scene. 00:24:05.346 --> 00:24:13.535 - to report the thing as accurately as possible and then to complete the accident report afterwards. And 00:24:13.535 --> 00:24:21.645 - sometimes the after report is days afterwards and full clarity is not always there. And that's not to 00:24:21.645 --> 00:24:29.834 - follow the officer, that's just the nature of the beast. They consider a fatal injury to be any injury 00:24:29.834 --> 00:24:34.366 - that results in death within 30 days after the accident. 00:24:34.914 --> 00:24:50.046 - Awesome, yeah, not awesome. Thanks for the clarity, though, or clarification. You wanna do the other 00:24:50.046 --> 00:25:03.230 - one? Sure. Item 6.8 is just a quick memo for you. We've finished editing the crash data 00:25:03.746 --> 00:25:12.530 - and GIS is working on getting it up on the website. But we wanted to just provide a quick overview of 00:25:12.530 --> 00:25:21.485 - the crashes in 2025 because people often ask for that information. Some of the information in this memo 00:25:21.485 --> 00:25:30.097 - is not available on the crash dashboard, but much of it will be eventually. We just have some total 00:25:30.097 --> 00:25:32.766 - numbers here at the beginning. 00:25:33.122 --> 00:25:41.121 - And then something interesting we haven't really figured out all the metrics for in past years is the 00:25:41.121 --> 00:25:49.120 - number of Monroe County, Indiana fatal crashes occurring within the metropolitan planning area, which 00:25:49.120 --> 00:25:57.040 - is kind of the area that we have jurisdiction over as a committee here. And so 10 out of 14 of those 00:25:57.040 --> 00:26:01.118 - crashes were within the metropolitan planning area. 00:26:01.282 --> 00:26:10.605 - which for those of you who are new, includes all of Ellisville and some of the county and all of city 00:26:10.605 --> 00:26:20.019 - of Bloomington. Next, there is some comparisons of fatal crashes and total fatalities. In 2025, we had 00:26:20.019 --> 00:26:29.525 - 14 fatal crashes, although one occurred in a parking garage, which was not on a public road. Typically, 00:26:29.525 --> 00:26:30.622 - we wouldn't 00:26:30.850 --> 00:26:40.845 - pay attention to that one when engineers are doing and planners are doing analysis. But one crash did, 00:26:40.845 --> 00:26:51.131 - sorry, two crashes did have two deaths in them. Then number of fatal vehicle crashes, pedestrian crashes, 00:26:51.131 --> 00:27:00.446 - and fatal bicycle crashes. You can see kind of the history of that in that table. Then next is, 00:27:01.506 --> 00:27:12.427 - a basic summary of each of the fatal crashes that occurred in Monroe County in 2025 and their location. 00:27:12.427 --> 00:27:23.348 - You'll be able to see those visually on the map once they're up on the crash dashboard. Next is a tally 00:27:23.348 --> 00:27:29.438 - of the manner of collision for each of the fatal crashes. 00:27:30.946 --> 00:27:40.599 - To be expected, the two crashes that had two deaths each were both head-on collisions. And then some 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:50.443 - language about the metrics and some of the history regarding the metrics of serious and incapacitating 00:27:50.443 --> 00:28:00.382 - injuries is there for you again and as well as a history of the amount, the number of serious injuries. 00:28:01.026 --> 00:28:11.169 - The state uses incapacitating as their language, and on our crash dashboard we use serious injuries, 00:28:11.169 --> 00:28:21.412 - but it's the same thing. And then last is serious injuries by primary factor of the crash. So we just 00:28:21.412 --> 00:28:28.542 - wanted to provide somewhat of a summary overview for your information. 00:28:31.490 --> 00:28:38.215 - Katie, can I ask a quick question? If you scroll back down to the table where it shows kind of the history 00:28:38.215 --> 00:28:44.751 - of fatal crashes or serious crashes, I think it's down a little bit further, it looks like we're seeing 00:28:44.751 --> 00:28:51.414 - a really good improvement, yeah, right there, in terms of the number of just crashes and serious injuries 00:28:51.414 --> 00:28:57.950 - that have occurred from 2019 to 2025. Do you guys have any idea, like, I mean, is that a policy change? 00:28:58.338 --> 00:29:08.022 - some different types of engineering we've deployed or are people being better drivers? Well, part of 00:29:08.022 --> 00:29:17.610 - it is what Pat was speaking to earlier about the change in software used at the state level and the 00:29:17.610 --> 00:29:27.198 - change in definition of what a serious injury is. So you can see here in this table that with using 00:29:27.362 --> 00:29:37.692 - the Areas 5 software in 2019, and then they were transitioning using Areas 5 and 6. Oh, actually, that's 00:29:37.692 --> 00:29:47.924 - an increase. I thought it showed a decrease. But the change in definition, it describes earlier in this 00:29:47.924 --> 00:29:56.286 - memo how the change in definition and the change in software has perhaps caused some 00:29:57.378 --> 00:30:05.446 - the number of serious injuries to appear to decline, but that might just be because of the interpretation 00:30:05.446 --> 00:30:13.058 - of serious injuries. Pat, what else were you going to say? I was going to say also with the city of 00:30:13.058 --> 00:30:20.898 - Bloomington's adoption of the SS4A plan and the countermeasures, the 25 countermeasures used for crash 00:30:20.898 --> 00:30:26.302 - locations. I know the city engineer's office has been very aggressive. 00:30:26.658 --> 00:30:37.315 - in terms of investigating all fatal and serious injury locations and applying a countermeasure as quickly 00:30:37.315 --> 00:30:47.369 - as possible, usually within 30 days, if they can, 60 days at most. So you will see, and that's only 00:30:47.369 --> 00:30:54.206 - been one year, 2025 and 2026, part of 2026 so far, but you will see 00:30:54.370 --> 00:31:01.996 - evidence probably in 2027-2028 where there is a measurable reduction within the city of Bloomington, 00:31:01.996 --> 00:31:09.849 - mainly because of the aggressiveness that they've used for that approach. Now, the same thing goes with 00:31:09.849 --> 00:31:17.400 - the Indiana Department of Transportation Seymour District. Seymour District and statewide have been 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:20.798 - very aggressive in applying countermeasures, 00:31:20.930 --> 00:31:28.607 - These are the proven countermeasures approved by the Federal Highway Administration. Becky, not Becky, 00:31:28.607 --> 00:31:36.135 - Leonick, correct me if I'm wrong, 25 countermeasures I think it is, something like that. But they've 00:31:36.135 --> 00:31:44.260 - been extremely aggressive in applying those measures and also doing what I would call preventative measures. 00:31:44.260 --> 00:31:47.614 - In other words, better marking of crossings, 00:31:48.002 --> 00:31:55.181 - better marking, well, installing new stop signs in some of the rural areas, installing flashers, warning 00:31:55.181 --> 00:32:02.087 - signs, devices, and all of that. I mean, kudos goes to the state and to the local people in terms of 00:32:02.087 --> 00:32:08.446 - how aggressive they've been on doing that. I'm sorry, Leigh Ann, I didn't mean to interrupt. 00:32:10.274 --> 00:32:17.493 - No, I just wanted to agree with you, Pat. It's definitely safety has come to the forefront and NDOT 00:32:17.493 --> 00:32:25.000 - is trying to, like you said, update crosswalks, replace signage if they've faded and people aren't able 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:32.363 - to see them where it's causing some sort of visual inability to stay on the road or whatever the case 00:32:32.363 --> 00:32:39.870 - may be. So yeah, it's definitely a push and we appreciate any cooperation we can get. So thank you all. 00:32:40.098 --> 00:32:50.247 - Yeah, thanks, and props to everybody involved with that for getting those numbers down. That's good. 00:32:50.247 --> 00:33:00.497 - Moving on. Just wanted to give you guys a few updates. I know this is hard to read on the screen, but 00:33:00.497 --> 00:33:07.230 - these are some updates. And Lynette, you're probably prepared with 00:33:07.330 --> 00:33:15.159 - with some updates, but we just had a quarterly tracking meeting with Monroe County and City of Bloomington, 00:33:15.159 --> 00:33:22.046 - so I'll just read what I have from those meetings, and you can add if I miss anything. So City 00:33:22.046 --> 00:33:29.586 - of Bloomington's High Street project, the right-of-way acquisition is complete, and utility relocations 00:33:29.586 --> 00:33:34.878 - are going to take place this year, with construction anticipated for 27. 00:33:35.874 --> 00:33:43.742 - This, the project construction phase will be, does not currently have federal MPO funds through the 00:33:43.742 --> 00:33:51.689 - MPO, but we'll be reviewing that today a little bit. The downtown, city of Bloomington downtown curb 00:33:51.689 --> 00:34:00.029 - ramp project, there's no utility relocations are right away required for their locations. They're waiting 00:34:00.029 --> 00:34:03.806 - on environmental report to come back from NDOT. 00:34:04.834 --> 00:34:13.623 - The city's crosswalk phase three project is doing design. North Dunn Street multi-use path is currently 00:34:13.623 --> 00:34:22.243 - in design and approaching stage three. They are doing right away appraisals and acquisitions, getting 00:34:22.243 --> 00:34:30.778 - going on that right now. College and Walnut phase one is doing the final analysis of corridor study, 00:34:30.778 --> 00:34:34.750 - of the corridor study. The anticipated project 00:34:34.914 --> 00:34:43.062 - construction date will be pushed out one year though, at least from the original planned date in our 00:34:43.062 --> 00:34:51.128 - TIP document. The downtown curb ramps phase five projects is doing design as well. They just issued 00:34:51.128 --> 00:34:59.437 - a notice to proceed to the consultant and crosswalks phase four is currently selecting a design, doing 00:34:59.437 --> 00:35:03.390 - design consultant selection. West Second Street, 00:35:04.066 --> 00:35:11.749 - utility relocations are in progress and construction will start in a couple months. The county's high 00:35:11.749 --> 00:35:19.507 - friction surface treatment on Fairfax Road project, their design plans are finalized and soil sampling 00:35:19.507 --> 00:35:27.567 - is in progress. They are working on stage three documentation and there will be no right of way or utility 00:35:27.567 --> 00:35:32.990 - relocations for this project. The Dillman Road Bridge number 83 project 00:35:33.314 --> 00:35:42.428 - Design is in progress and the bridge will have to be closed for the next six months for environmental 00:35:42.428 --> 00:35:51.364 - reasons. And they're working on stage two design submission. Old SR37 and Dillman Road intersection 00:35:51.364 --> 00:36:00.478 - improvement project. The construction phases will be moving, shifting soon from fiscal year 28 to 29. 00:36:02.242 --> 00:36:10.714 - and the right-of-way and utility phases will also be shifting a year up. No car features were found 00:36:10.714 --> 00:36:19.271 - on the property and they will finalize drainage and detention in June. That road bridge number 79 is 00:36:19.271 --> 00:36:27.913 - a new project. It's not getting federal MPO funds, but it's getting bridge funds from the state. This 00:36:27.913 --> 00:36:30.878 - is the bridge over Clear Creek and 00:36:31.074 --> 00:36:39.745 - All right away has been approved and the last parcel is being acquired and they are doing stage three 00:36:39.745 --> 00:36:48.841 - design plans. I have a question. Is that the bridge by the post office? The little itty bitty post office? 00:36:48.841 --> 00:36:57.513 - That is, I thought I had the location on here. I actually think I do have it. Ben says no. Nevermind, 00:36:57.513 --> 00:37:00.318 - I'm good. It's over clear creek. 00:37:00.802 --> 00:37:15.975 - West of... In the boondocks. West of Walnut. Yeah, West of Walnut, yeah. Okay. The county has completed 00:37:15.975 --> 00:37:26.334 - their bridge safety inventories by the required month, which is March. 00:37:29.442 --> 00:37:37.562 - The Rockport Bridge number 308 south of Bowlin Lane is beginning construction in June and the Eagleson 00:37:37.562 --> 00:37:45.604 - Avenue superstructure replacement over the Indiana Railroad. They are doing pre-construction meetings 00:37:45.604 --> 00:37:53.566 - and road closure is anticipated September 26 to July 2027. Lynette, do you have any other additions? 00:37:54.914 --> 00:38:02.881 - Thanks for giving the updates on the county stuff. For Bridge 308 Rockport Road, expected to close June 00:38:02.881 --> 00:38:10.925 - 2nd. I was just going to share some contact information. CLR is a contractor, Travis Hughes is the name, 00:38:10.925 --> 00:38:18.585 - and his phone number is 812-208-5875 if you have any questions. And this isn't in the tip, but we'd 00:38:18.585 --> 00:38:24.254 - like to share that Rora Road Bridge is expected to be closed on July 6th. 00:38:24.386 --> 00:38:40.977 - and same contractor CLR. That's all. Thank you so much. We'll go ahead and move on if nobody has any 00:38:40.977 --> 00:38:51.326 - other questions. I guess we're moving on to new business then. 00:38:52.962 --> 00:39:04.556 - So for you today, we have, you can see what the resolution looks like, but resolution 2026-08 will be 00:39:04.556 --> 00:39:16.149 - presented to the policy committee this Friday. And we are seeking your recommendation of approval for 00:39:16.149 --> 00:39:17.854 - these changes. 00:39:20.610 --> 00:39:31.043 - I will go ahead and briefly mention that the changes presented today, this is what our fiscal constraint 00:39:31.043 --> 00:39:41.179 - looks like with these changes taking place. After these changes, we would have used all of our fiscal 00:39:41.179 --> 00:39:48.830 - year 26 funding, have everything allocated out for 27, and then we will have 00:39:49.058 --> 00:39:58.002 - some extra funds we'll need to allocate in the future for fiscal year 28 and 29. So the first request 00:39:58.002 --> 00:40:06.771 - is to add a new project to the TIP for Monroe County called that road bridge number 79 replacement. 00:40:06.771 --> 00:40:14.750 - This is where I have that link to the location if you want to look and see where it is at. 00:40:16.802 --> 00:40:25.252 - The project is receiving local bridge funds from the state of Indiana, and then all other phases will 00:40:25.252 --> 00:40:34.281 - be using local funds. The work includes removal and replacement of the existing bridge, as well as upgrading 00:40:34.281 --> 00:40:42.813 - the bridge rail and adding a multi-use path with pedestrian handrail. You can see the funding proposed 00:40:42.813 --> 00:40:45.630 - for the project. It's $2 million. 00:40:49.954 --> 00:41:00.529 - The next proposed change is to update the College and Walnut project in the TIP. It had been programmed 00:41:00.529 --> 00:41:10.901 - to potentially be receiving funds in fiscal year 2029, NPO federal funds, but we'll be pushing it out 00:41:10.901 --> 00:41:19.646 - and anticipating that the construction phases will be taking place in fiscal year 30. 00:41:19.842 --> 00:41:30.570 - if not have to move it again in the future. But the idea is that they hope to do both phase one and 00:41:30.570 --> 00:41:41.941 - phase two of College and Walnut quarter project in the same fiscal year instead of separate fiscal years. 00:41:41.941 --> 00:41:45.374 - Because of this change, because 00:41:45.954 --> 00:41:54.998 - the federal funds, the majority of NPO federal funds for fiscal year 2029 were being put towards College 00:41:54.998 --> 00:42:03.956 - and Walnut Project. So because of this change, those 2029 funds had to be reallocated. And so one thing 00:42:03.956 --> 00:42:12.569 - we shared at the last meeting that we had a discussion with the LPAs about our plan on how to shift 00:42:12.569 --> 00:42:14.206 - that money around. 00:42:14.626 --> 00:42:23.329 - And this is the result of that meeting. So one thing that came out of that meeting was that the agreement 00:42:23.329 --> 00:42:31.704 - that we would do a trade with another MPO. And so this funding chart for College and Walnut phase one 00:42:31.704 --> 00:42:39.997 - reflects that we've done a trade with MCCOG, an exchange. So we will give them 2 million of the 2029 00:42:39.997 --> 00:42:43.774 - funds in exchange for an additional 2 million 00:42:44.226 --> 00:42:54.942 - in the fiscal year 2030. We also mentioned last meeting the update for old SR 37 and Dillman and the 00:42:54.942 --> 00:43:05.977 - county's desire to move the construction phases from fiscal year 28 to 29. And then also having to move 00:43:05.977 --> 00:43:13.086 - the right away and utility phases as well. And so this change also 00:43:13.986 --> 00:43:25.705 - released money in different years. And so we had to make funding adjustments as well for that. And so 00:43:25.705 --> 00:43:37.653 - you can see the proposed new funds for that. Shifting this project from 28 to 29 freed up a significant 00:43:37.653 --> 00:43:43.742 - number of MPO funds in fiscal year 28. And so we did 00:43:44.834 --> 00:43:54.578 - We did an exchange with another MPO with, you can see that in the next, in item number four, the update 00:43:54.578 --> 00:44:04.041 - for High Street. In the proposed new funding table, you can see that we did an exchange with the AP, 00:44:04.041 --> 00:44:13.598 - the Area Plan Commission of Tippecanoe County MPO, and in exchange for us giving them 20, 2028 funds, 00:44:13.698 --> 00:44:23.140 - will be receiving additional 2.1 million in 2027 funds, which will be applied, which we're proposing 00:44:23.140 --> 00:44:32.582 - to apply to High Street project. High Street did not have any federal funds allocated towards it for 00:44:32.582 --> 00:44:38.846 - the construction phase. So that is extremely helpful for the city. 00:44:45.154 --> 00:44:55.066 - I know that's a lot, but at the end of all of that, we are still fiscally constrained with what we expect 00:44:55.066 --> 00:45:04.791 - to receive at this time from NDOT and what we have proposed to allocate to these projects. And so we're 00:45:04.791 --> 00:45:12.926 - just looking for a consensus on recommending approval of this to the policy committee. 00:45:14.818 --> 00:45:22.981 - I guess would we have questions from folks first, if there's any questions? Seems like none. So I guess 00:45:22.981 --> 00:45:31.537 - if I could get a motion to have a positive recommendation to the policy committee, is that worded correctly? 00:45:31.537 --> 00:45:39.779 - If I could get a motion for that, that'd be great. I move that this be forwarded to the policy committee 00:45:39.779 --> 00:45:43.390 - with a positive recommendation from the tech. 00:45:44.930 --> 00:46:02.768 - second awesome thanks Jane and run all in favor say aye aye any opposed nay and any abstentions it's 00:46:02.768 --> 00:46:11.422 - saying we don't actually have any members of the 00:46:11.522 --> 00:46:21.942 - Public, oh, we do now. But before the vote next time, do public comment, yeah. Sorry, I guess we could 00:46:21.942 --> 00:46:31.553 - open it to if there is public comment on this. I can't see on the screen, I just see like the. 00:46:31.553 --> 00:46:40.254 - It's okay, they'll unmute if they have. Okay, perfect. Okay, I guess this moves us to 00:46:40.482 --> 00:46:49.431 - public comment, if there is anybody here who has public comment, you can come to the podium in the room, 00:46:49.431 --> 00:46:58.294 - or if you're online, this is your opportunity. I'm not seeing anybody in person, nor online, so I guess 00:46:58.294 --> 00:47:07.073 - we can move forward. So on to communications from committee members on non-voting matters that are not 00:47:07.073 --> 00:47:09.118 - included in the agenda. 00:47:13.666 --> 00:47:21.851 - speak now or don't speak? It seems like there's none. Topics for future agendas, if anybody has anything? 00:47:21.851 --> 00:47:29.650 - I did want to mention that I really appreciated in the packet the table showing the board membership 00:47:29.650 --> 00:47:37.913 - of the MPO and the TAC as well. And something that I was kind of interested in, again, because the success 00:47:37.913 --> 00:47:43.550 - of organizations or the success of anything in the public kind of sphere 00:47:43.938 --> 00:47:51.245 - That success is achieved from participation right and so i'd be interested and I don't want to put a 00:47:51.245 --> 00:47:56.382 - lot of work on staff here at all but i'm curious if we could get like. 00:47:57.090 --> 00:48:02.272 - or if it's even doable, some type of a roll call tally of who's attended the TAC as voting people over 00:48:02.272 --> 00:48:07.404 - the past two years. Because I'm curious if there's some folks that we should maybe be reaching out to 00:48:07.404 --> 00:48:12.435 - attend. Because I was looking through this and I see a lot of familiar names and faces, but I don't 00:48:12.435 --> 00:48:17.567 - see a lot of those same names and faces here often. And I know everybody's busy and things like that, 00:48:17.567 --> 00:48:22.799 - but these are important decisions. And so I think that would make sense for the TAC, but maybe for the, 00:48:22.799 --> 00:48:25.214 - I think the policy is a smaller group probably. 00:48:25.378 --> 00:48:32.563 - That was just a thought that I had, but I'm not sure how much work that is to pull up a rule call thing. 00:48:32.563 --> 00:48:39.406 - I think from there, we're just going to go on to our upcoming meetings. We have a Citizens Advisory 00:48:39.406 --> 00:48:45.086 - Committee meeting on May 27th at 5.30 PM, and that's going to be a hybrid meeting. 00:48:45.218 --> 00:48:51.704 - We have a policy committee meeting on May 29th, 2026 at 10.30 AM, and that's also a hybrid meeting. 00:48:51.704 --> 00:48:58.514 - Then our next technical advisory committee meeting, I believe the July one is canceled, is that correct? 00:48:58.514 --> 00:49:05.129 - Or the June one? The June one is canceled. There's a summer recess for the TAC committee, so the next 00:49:05.129 --> 00:49:11.550 - meeting will be July. Will be in July. Yes. Our June meeting, everybody here take your nice break. 00:49:11.650 --> 00:49:19.128 - Enjoy the summer and all of those things. And with that, we are adjourned. So thank you everybody for 00:49:19.128 --> 00:49:23.454 - attending and have a great rest of your summer until July.