Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission Meeting

Approved 1 Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) 2 Meeting Minutes 3 Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 4 Time: 7:00 p.m. 5 Place: City Council Chambers, 400 South Vine Street, Urbana, IL 61801 6 Members Present: Bill Brown (Chair), Shannon Beranek, Annie Adams, Kara Dudek, Sarthak 7 Prasad, Nancy Westcott 8 9 Late Arrival: 10 11 Staff Present: Lily Wilcock 12 13 Others Present: Carol Mitten, City Administrator 14 15 Members Absent: Cynthia Hoyle, Susan Jones, Audrey Ishii 16 17 1. CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL, AND DECLARATION OF QUORUM 18 Bill Brown called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. Roll call was taken. A quorum was present. 19 20 2. CLOSED SESSION: PURSUAUNT TO 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(8) 21 Shannon Beranek moved to enter into closed session to discuss security procedures, pursuant to 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(8). 22 Nancy Westcott seconded the motion. 23 Roll was taken. The motion was approved unanimously. 24 25 Brown-Aye Adams-Aye Beranek-Aye 26 Dudek-Aye Westcott-Aye Prasad- Aye 27 28 Shannon Beranek moved to return to open session. 29 Sarthak Prasad seconded the motion. 30 Roll was taken. The motion was approved unanimously. 31 32 Brown-Aye Adams-Aye Beranek-Aye 33 Dudek-Aye Westcott-Aye Prasad- Aye 34 35 3. ADDITIONS TO AGENDA 36 No corrections or additions were made to the agenda. 37 38 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING (MAY & JUNE) 39 Nancy Westcott moved to approve the May and June 2021 meeting minutes. 40 Kara Dudek seconded the motion. 41 A vote was taken on the motion to approve the May and June 2021 meeting minutes. The motion was 42 approved unanimously. 43 44 5. PUBLIC INPUT 45 None. 46 47 48 49 50 Page 1  Approved 1 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 2 a. Equity and Quality of Life Projects 3 City Administrator, Carol Mitten, reintroduced the EQoL capital project, a $2 million fund created in the recent Capital 4 Improvement Plan. Mitten asked for BPAC assistance in creating the framework on how the projects would be 5 evaluated from a priority standpoint. A prospective rating system was introduced. 6 Discussion ensued. 7 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 8 a. Vision Zero Update 9 Bill Brown shared a brief update on Vision Zero. A WikiMap was in the process of being added to the Vision Zero 10 webpage. Brown also shared a list of organizations and possible contacts for potential Vision Zero task force members. 11 12 Discussion ensued. 13 14 Nancy Westscott motioned to submit the amended taskforce member list and a draft letter to the Mayor before the August 15 meeting. 16 Annie Adams seconded the motion. 17 18 A vote was taken. The motion was approved unanimously. 19 b. Website Updates/Corrections 20 Bill Brown shared a visual of the current BPAC page on the city website. He mentioned the various segments of this page 21 that are in need of correction or updating. The list of board/commission members was inaccurate and there were multiple 22 annual reports missing from the page. 23 24 Discussion ensued. 25 7. REPORTS OF CITY OFFICIALS AND STAFF AND REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 26 An update was provided on the status of the Pedestrian Slow Street effort. It was determined that currently this project 27 would not be actively pursued. 28 8. NEW BUSINESS 29 No new business. 30 31 32 9. ANNOUNCEMENTS 33 a. Bike to Work Day has been scheduled for September 14th,2021 34 b. Light the Night has been scheduled for September 14th, 2021 35 c. Campus Bike Center re-opening has been scheduled for September 17th, 2021 36 d. The University of Illinois will be removing abandoned bike paths 37 38 10. FUTURE TOPICS 39 a. Bike share 40 41 11. ADJOURNMENT 42 The meeting adjourned at 9:09 p.m. 43 ***Respectfully submitted, 44 Shelby Mammano, Recording Secretary Page 2  Approved 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Page 3