Fiscal Committee

Mobile GR Commission 50 Ottawa Ave. NW Minutes Packet Grand Rapids, MI 49503 August 7, 2019 @ 2:00 PM Mobile GR and Parking Services Conference Room I. Call to Order PRESENT: Lunger, Judd, Kelly, Maas, Monoyios, Nyenhuis, Winn, Bennett, Kelley, Kasper, Moore, Naramore, Owens, Schutter, Singleton, Terpstra, Wood, Batzer, DeLong ABSENT: Anderson, Covey, LaGrand, Miguel-Cipriano, Sorrell, Wells II. Approval of Minutes Approval of Minutes from June 6, 2019 RESULT: ACCEPTED [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Josh Lunger, Chair SECONDER: Jacob Robert Maas, Comm YEAS: Lunger, Judd, Kelly, Maas, Monoyios, Nyenhuis, Winn ABSENT: Anderson, Covey, LaGrand, Miguel-Cipriano, Sorrell, Wells III. Public Comment on Agenda Items None. IV. Action Items 1. Recommendation to approve proposed Studio Park monthly parking rate of $150 • Area 4 and 5 were closed. • New parking structure built in their place. • Mobile GR has go set rate for the 300 access cards the city will be administering for spaces. • The city has agree for a period up to 7 years, with renewal options, and to lease 300 access cards. • The development agreement states after 12 months they can give 12 months’ notice to the city that they no longer need the City to be the leaser of those 300 access cards. • Mobile GR is working on an MOU to clarify agreement with Ellis Parking. • The City is paying for the spaces up front. • Mobile GR is requesting to set the rate at $150. • It is up the City to determine the rate and if they want to change it. Generated 9/20/2019 04:15 PM Mobile GR Commission Meeting Full Page 2 August 7, 2019 RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Josh Lunger, Chair SECONDER: Jacob Robert Maas, Comm YEAS: Lunger, Judd, Kelly, Maas, Monoyios, Nyenhuis, Winn ABSENT: Anderson, Covey, LaGrand, Miguel-Cipriano, Sorrell, Wells V. Discussions 1. Organizational Assessment • Sam Schwartz is doing an organizational assessment. • Sam Schwartz is addressing limitations of the Strategic Plan and helping agencies to clarify their vision, mission, and different roles and responsibilities internally. Ultimately to help Mobile GR and the City deliver transportation projects more effectively and efficiently. • In the next month Sam Schwartz will pull out key issues and themes. • Sam Schwartz will come back in October to test initial ideas and follow - up procedures. Questions to the Group: • Vision for Mobile GR o Zero complaints on parking. o Work on messaging especially when we receive confusion and push - back. o Have a universal message on convenience, accessibility, transportation on getting to work - whatever it may be. o Create messaging for all age groups (including visuals) on bikes, parking, The Rapid, etc. o Mobile GR is a problem solver for a growing city, so we can provide or support transportation mobility solutions - focus on convenience and customer service. o Minimize obstacles for anyone visiting or a permanent resident. o Understand the distinction between the service provisions of Mobile GR as it relates to the relationship with transit authority - i.e. DASH service - at what point does it stay within Mobile GR or fall more on the Rapid. o Plan for the output of Mobile GR and how it impacts the community and message that and think about what stakeholders need to be on Generated 9/20/2019 04:15 PM Mobile GR Commission Meeting Full Page 3 August 7, 2019 board (Spectrum, The Chamber etc.) to all get there cohesively and champion the same message. o Message to the business districts. o Set stronger broader goals to connect to the neighborhoods to downtown - create more general inclusion. o The big goal/vision needs to be supplemented by a feasible financial plan. o Create more interactive customer engagement. o Mobile GR needs more communication resources. o Figuring out to how accommodate very individualized issues (that take up a lot of time) and accommodating all disabilities. • Goal of the commission itself: o Utilizing multiple perspectives because the commission is very diverse. o Difficult to summarize because the commission is very multi-faceted. o Finding a unified vision - strengthening our roadmap of where we are going and why. o Figuring out what to accomplish in the next 5 years because Mobile GR is 90% done with their 20 year plan already. o Part of the concern is the “then what” - what is on the horizon - things that cost money or things that are just policy. • Engaging Mobile GR and The City together to have one vision instead of being separate silos: o Need to establish universalism. o Messaging and explaining upcoming projects to the public ahead of time. Not only explaining “why” we are doing the project but the benefits ahead of time. o Once finishing a project discussing must discuss what did and didn’t go well. Create an after action review. o Vocalize health benefits of certain projects. o Understanding the disparity between a traffic engineers perspective of level of safety versus what the public perceives as safety. Generated 9/20/2019 04:15 PM Mobile GR Commission Meeting Full Page 4 August 7, 2019 o Focus on data - elevate our data tracking/intake. RESULT: DISCUSSED VI. Public Comment on Other Matters None. VII. Adjournment Generated 9/20/2019 04:15 PM