City of Santa Fe Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee met Dec. 16.

Here are the minutes provided by the committee:

1. CALL TO ORDER

Chair Garcia called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm.

2. ROLL CALL

Members Present:

Chair Michael Garcia

Member Erick Aaboe

Member Terence Foreback

Member Judith Gabriele

Member Tony Gerlicz

Member Michelle Hoffman

Member Phil Lucero

Member Ben Pingilley

Members Excused:

Member Yolanda Eisenstein

Member Khal Spencer

Others Attending:

Romella Glorioso-Moss, Staff Liaison

Erick Aune, SFMPO

Hannah Burnham, SFMPO

Philip Crump, CoSF Resident

Michael Herrera, District 3 Resident

Lara Miller, PPL Subcommittee Member Tim Rogers, SFCT

Leah Yngve, SFMPO

3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

MOTION: Member Aaboe moved, seconded by Member Gabriele, to approve the Agenda as amended.

VOTE: The motion was on the following Roll Call vote:

For: Chair Garcia, Member Aaboe, Member Foreback, Member Gabriele, Member Gerlicz, Member Hoffman, Member Lucero, Member Pingilley

Against: None

Abstain: None

Taken off the Agenda are items #6.c “Public Safety Committee Report”; #7.2.c (2nd bullet point) “BPAC Strategic Plan”; and #7.2.d. “The Idaho Stop Law”.

4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

a. August 12, 2021

b. October 14, 2021

MOTION: Member Foreback moved, seconded by Member Gerlicz, to approve the August 12, 2021 minutes as presented.

VOTE: The motion was on the following Roll Call vote:

For: Chair Garcia, Member Foreback, Member Gabriele, Member Gerlicz, Member Lucero, Member Pingilley

Against: None

Abstain: Member Aaboe, Member Hoffman

MOTION: Member Foreback moved, seconded by Member Gabriele, to approve the October 14, 2021 minutes as presented.

VOTE: The motion was approved on the following Roll Call vote:

For: Chair Garcia, Member Foreback, Member Gabriele, Member Gerlicz, Member Hoffman, Member Pingilley

Against: None

Abstain: Member Aaboe, Member Lucero

5. COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC

6. COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER AGENCIES

a. Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization, Leah Yngve, Senior Transportation Planner

b. Santa Fe Conservation Trust, Tim Rogers, Trails Manager

c. City of Santa Fe Public Safety Committee, Khalil Spencer, BPAC Representative & Vice Chair

d. Safe Route to School Planning Committee (Phil Lucero, BPAC Representative)

7. DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ITEMS

a. Planning, Policy and Law Subcommittee Appointment (Chair Garcia)

∙ Erick Aaboe (New BPAC member representing County of Santa Fe, replacing Ms. Yvette Serrano; term ending 06.30.2022)

b. SWAN Park Trail Request (Michael Herrera, District 3 Constituent)

SFMPO will organize a field visit to SWAN Park with BPAC members and others who are interested in this project to assess the trail connectivity of Mutt Nelson neighborhood. Erick Aune mentioned that the advantage of Mr. Michael Herrera’s request is this trail connectivity project is already included in the Bicycle Master Plan. Mr. Herrera is very willing to join the field visit and show BPAC members alternative routes. Depending on the number of BPAC members who can participate, Staff Liaison may need to post a Notice for Special Meeting in PrimeGov. Quorum is 6.

c. Committee Members Orientation

1. Administrative (Romella Glorioso-Moss, Staff Liaison)

∙ Public Works Department, Engineering Division, Roadway and Trails

∙ Resolution 2021-8

∙ Members’ Roles, Duties and Responsibilities

Staff Liaison reminded all members not to “Reply All” when she emails them. All members need to be aware of the “rolling quorum” violation under the Open Meetings Act. BPAC quorum is 6. Rolling quorum applies to any type of communication including e-mail, telephone, mail, face-to-face.

Chair Garcia also reminded everyone not to use the “chat box” in the meeting because our meetings are open to the Public. The Public cannot see what we write in the chat box therefore violating the Open Meetings Act.

2. Plans

∙ SFMPO Master Plans (Bicycle, Pedestrian & Transportation) (Erick Aune, SFMPO Officer)

See Exhibit B

∙ BPAC Strategic Plan (Romella Glorioso-Moss, Staff Liaison on behalf of Member Eisenstein, Planning, Policy & Law Subcommittee Chair)

d. The Idaho Stop Law (Khalil Spencer, BPAC Vice Chair)

e. Complete Streets Draft Resolution (Erick Aune, SFMPO Officer)

Chair Garcia is very willing and interested to support this Resolution.

f. Staff Liaison Report (Romella Glorioso-Moss)

8. SUBCOMMITTEE COMMUNICATIONS

a. Promotion, Education and Programming (Judith Gabriele, Chair) See also Exhibit C.

Slide 1

BPAC conducted a survey this past fall to ascertain how much people know about and how they use existing cycling and pedestrian infrastructure in Santa Fe. We started the survey on Oct 9 at the Santa Fe Century packet pick up event and SFMPO disseminated leaflets explaining the survey. The survey was extended through November 15 at the suggestion of the Chair. Thanks to Romella and the MPO, especially Leah, for their work on this survey and also to Public Utilities Dept Director Shannon Jones for donating water bottles as our giveaways.

Slide 2

The number of respondents exceeded our expectations. Although 18 questions were asked, we’re reporting results to only 10 because some questions were regarding pop up bike lanes and Leah reported on this earlier. Other questions were qualitative in nature and are harder to analyze and present. We’ll share the findings of the whole survey with Planning, Policy and Law and anyone else who’s interested for updating our Strategic Plan 2022-2027.

Slide 3

This slide is interesting because although a number of participants at the Santa Fe Century were tourists, only 4% of survey respondents were tourists. We included tourists in our survey because we’d like to know how they perceive our bicycle infrastructure compared with where they come from.

Slide 4

This slide speaks to the equity issue. It confirms some of my assumptions about which districts may get more attention and be more engaged and which ones we need to engage with more. It may also be a reflection of where the infrastructure is, again an equity issue. It also reinforces the reality that many more applicants for membership to BPAC come from District 1 compared to other districts. Our current membership is the first time that all 4 City Council Districts and the County are represented equally in BPAC.

Slide 5

Two thirds of our respondents were aware of BPAC, which is a pleasant outcome, but it might just be respondent bias, since folks who are more active cyclists may have been more likely to know about and answer the survey.

Slide 6

Our respondents were mostly from Districts 1 and 2, which are more centrally located. It may also represent a bias towards the more centrally located trails and provides some good information for BPAC regarding education and promotion of trails.

Slide 7

The response to this question was not a surprise at all. Many respondents were cyclists who participated in the Santa Fe Century so fewer young people or schoolchildren likely participated in the survey. The majority of survey respondents bicycle for exercise and entertainment; not so much for these other reasons. This finding corresponds to the survey result conducted for the City of Santa Fe Multi-Modal Transportation Study conducted early this year. Slides 8 & 9 may give light to some of the reasons why City residents don’t bicycle as their primary mode of transportation.

Slide 8

This slide shows “connectivity” is key for more bicycling and that bike and pedestrian trail access and infrastructure need to be a priority for BPAC and the city.

Slide 9

These results also strongly speak to the need for better infrastructure. Physically separated/protected bike lanes, desired by 90% of all respondents, is the single most important bicycle infrastructure that could increase bicycling in the city.

Slide 10

Given Santa Fe’s aging population, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that the majority of respondents were older. “This is still an overrepresentation though, which is pretty common in surveys conducted in Santa Fe …”

Slide 11

We heard from males and females roughly equally.

Slide 12

This may be reflective of who has the means to take a survey. Nevertheless, more than 68% of survey respondents have a higher household income than the average city resident, with the median household income for Santa Fe in 2019 at about $58,000.

For discussion

• Which responses stood out the most?

• How might the results help inform our strategic plan and priorities? • Are there specific issues that might be most pertinent to one or more of our subcommittees (Promotion, Education and Programming; Planning, Policy and Law; and Technical Review)?

One takeaway is that even Santa Fe’s most advantaged people, i.e., at least the ones who responded to the survey, identify access and safety as barriers to biking more. If our well-resourced populations with more control over their environments are worried about safety and access, less advantaged populations probably feel it as much or more.

9. MATTERS FROM STAFF

10. MATTERS FROM THE COMMITTEE

11. MATTERS FROM THE CHAIR

The Chair thanked all members for their volunteer work; mentioned that he doesn’t know if Mayor Webber will reappoint him as Chair of BPAC but will know in January 2022; and wished everyone a safe and happy holiday season.

12. NEXT MEETING: January 13, 2022

13. ADJOURN: 8:07 pm

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