Complete Streets Advisory Board

City of Saratoga Springs JACLYN HAKES, CHAIR LOU SCHNEIDER, VICE CHAIR SHARED ACCESS ADVISORY BOARD MARK BENAQUISTA 474 Broadway THERESA CAPOZZOLA Saratoga Springs, New York 12866 KEN GREY _____________________ STEPHAN GODLEWSKI Telephone 518-587-3550 Fax 518-587-1688 CHARLIE SAMUELS Shared Access Advisory Board (SAAB) Meeting September 6, 2012 City Council Room 5:00 pm Attendees: Board Members: Jackie Hakes, Lou Schneider, Mark Benaquista, Charlie Samuels, Steve Godlewski, Ken Grey (came late). Staff and others: Kate Maynard and Stephanie Seidmon Public Comment: None. 1. Housekeeping: o We will keep the meeting at an hour and a half each time. 2. Approve meeting minutes: Lou makes motion to approve as written. o August 23rd change meeting time from 7:00 to 5:00. o Make the minutes more of a summary with final decisions. o We will not be recording the meetings. o None opposed; minutes approved. 3. Complete Streets Checklist: o We want to ensure that this checklist is not creating redundancies with SEQR. o We should ask the planning board what they think of the checklist o We need to figure out a balance so that it’s substantial enough to achieve what we want to without burdening the planning board and the applicants. o Eventual need to revise standard details for streets (begin running list of examples, including bike racks and gradient coverings). o Discussion about the checklist: It is a tool to provide to the decision makers in the city with the knowledge of what we should be striving for and this committee is a resource to supply those tools to the decision making bodies. 4. Housekeeping/Next Steps: o Once we’re comfortable with a draft checklist, Jackie and Lou will go the planning board, introduce this committee, and let them know we’re an advisory resource. The planning board should review the checklist. o Reach out to various departments in the city (public safety, public works, city engineer) for buy in. o To think about for next meeting: what is our role? How do we want to interact with the planning board, the city council, and other committees? Do we create  a quarterly newsletter? How do we engage the public and let them know that this policy and this committee exists? o What do we want our priorities to be for the next year? Look at the short term action items and decide which ones we want to complete. o At the next meeting we’ll finish the checklist and Rob Leslie will come Public Comment o None. 2