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February 4, 2015
CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m. in the Siskiyou Room, 51 Winburn Way
Regular members present: Pam Hammond, Michael Dawkins, Rich Kaplan, John Williams, Emile Amarotico, Lisa
Beam, and Joe Graf
Regular members absent: Dave Young, Cynthia Rider, Marie Donovan, John Fields, and Joe Collonge
Ex officio (non-voting) members present: Sandra Slattery, Bill Molnar, Katharine Flanagan, Michael Faught, Lee
Tuneberg, Rich Rosenthal, and Pam Marsh (arrived at 4:25)
Ex officio (non-voting) members absent: Mike Gardiner
City of Ashland Staff members present: Tami De Mille-Campos, and Maria Harris
ANNOUCEMENTS
Chair Dawkins explained that Public Forum would only be for non agenda items and then during the agenda items
there would be opportunity for public comment after that agenda item presentation.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Minutes of December 3, 2014
Williams/Hammond m/s to approve the minutes of 12/3/14. Voice vote. All AYES. Motion passes.
PUBLIC FORUM
Colin Swales, 95 Coolidge St.
Colin stated he just got back into town from having been away for awhile and he was excited to see the Mayor’s
State of the City address and his vision which involves what is going on in the downtown area. He said one of the
things the Mayor mentioned is that he sees a downtown no longer dominated by cars. He feels this has been missing
from this discussion, rather than just adding more parking. He also added that he had submitted to the committee the
ODOT traffic counts (see attached) which he been keeping tally of over the years. He has added them into a
spreadsheet for Ashland. He pointed out if you look at the downtown couplet the traffic has actually dropped 30-40%
some of which can be attributed to high fuel prices. He added how gratified he is to see so many citizens attending
these meetings.
Louise Shawkat, 870 Cambridge
Louise read a letter to the committee (see attached)
Andrew Kubik, 1251 Munson Dr.
Andrew said he read the Mayor’s State of the City address several times and proposal number 5 pertains specifically
to less automobile traffic downtown. He found that interesting and coincidental to the comments that he submitted to
this committee on December 8th in response to the December 3rd meeting. He added he would request the
committee have another look at those comments that he submitted.
Dave Helmich, 468 Williamson Way
Dave read a letter to the committee (see attached)
Ken Lindsay, 180 Ohio St.
Ken stated he commends the idea of making things not so convenient for cars, not that they should be disallowed but
we shouldn’t go out of our way to covet them. He said it might help things if there were different sizes of parking
spaces (small spaces for small vehicles and large spaces for large vehicles). Another idea would be that the small
vehicles would be free and the large spaces there would be a fee for. He added the other thing he feels very strongly
about is there is something going on in these new housing developments where the developers can jam the houses
a foot or two away from each other and his understanding was that the rule in this town is 10 feet from the property
line per story which is clearly not being followed. He feels this is a real issue and the other consequence to that is the
roads into those new developments are really narrow, they’re inconvenient and he thinks they will be a problem if
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there is ever an emergency. He feels it is very important to stop allowing this.
Bill Heimann, 647 Siskiyou
Bill said he had planned to speak regarding non motorized transportation but that has been well addressed so his
concern is that we generate parking but there is no provision for the driver to morph into a pedestrian. For instance
when you put in a grass strip next to a parking space and a sidewalk and force the driver to walk over mud, they are
likely not going to walk over the grass so the driver is going to turn and walk across the street (in other words a non
pedestrian facility). He said when you design parking and you are thinking about the parking in the downtown think
about what its purpose is, which is to generate a pedestrian. When you design parking, you need to design more
pedestrian facilities and be sure that those pedestrian facilities draw the driver/passengers to the pedestrian facilities.
He urged the committee to give that some more consideration.
Executive Committee - Assigned to recommend potential Scope of work amendments
Faught mentioned that towards the end of the last meeting there was a decision made by the group to form an
executive committee to work on a new scope of work. This decision was made pretty quickly and after the meeting he
received some calls from the members of the committee saying they thought maybe it wasn’t such a great idea which
he also remembered hearing concerns during the discussion itself. Consequently the executive committee meeting
did not occur because of these concerns. He added he also sent them a current scope of work which wasn’t covered
during the last meeting.
Faught stepped through a few of the items contained in the scope of work. He did say really the only thing that isn’t
included within the scope of work which has been part of the discussions is land use. He feels the land use
discussion had people concerned about how far that might go. He would like to recommend that land use be very
limited, possibly just having the Planning staff that attend these meetings share with them when and if a
recommendation by the committee doesn’t follow the land use rules. That is simple enough but still would allow the
committee to stay focused on their task. He added if the committee doesn’t think they need this executive committee
then there should be a motion to repeal it and/or if there should be anything added to the scope of work.
Kaplan asked what the purpose was in recommending the executive committee. Faught answered the purpose was
to develop a new scope of work. He feels once the discussion went into land use people were a little nervous. Kaplan
asked about what happens to the subcommittee idea. Faught stated the subcommittees have already been approved
by the committee but he heard from people after the meeting that they didn’t like the idea of the executive committee.
Dawkins added he feels the confusion at the very end of the meeting was that all of a sudden it was starting to look
like they were going to end up with 3 or 4 subcommittees and he wasn’t for that even though he ended up on the
executive committee he wasn’t for that either. He added he feels the Mayor did an incredible job picking out a lot of
diversity and he is hopeful. In the past few months the committee has gotten to a point where they have some pretty
strong feelings and dividing lines and he is looking forward to everyone rolling up their sleeves.
Williams/Kaplan m/s to recommend the executive committee motion be repealed. Voice Vote. ALL AYES.
Discussion: Williams stated he is very much in favor of dividing and conquering and he thinks the idea of
subcommittees is a really good idea. He thinks there was some confusion with the public that this executive
committee was going to be meeting behind closed doors and not be transparent, which was never the intention. He
thinks that taking certain subjects that need to be drilled down into is a good idea to then bring back
recommendations to the larger group just like this committee is doing for Council. He added that he doesn’t feel this
executive committee is appropriate based on some of the concerns that people have. Kaplan stated if the purpose of
this executive committee was to look at the scope of work and revise it he doesn’t feel it is needed.
Draft East Main Multi-Modal Concept Drawings
Faught shared the concept drawings with the committee. He stated that the Transportation Master Plan is multi-
modal and that is one of the tasks of this committee. These concept drawings show a proposal which meets those
goals. He pointed out Siskiyou Blvd. and North Main have bike lanes but there is no connectivity through the
downtown. This concept would continue the bike facilities through the downtown area. He shared that some of the
issues that they had earlier on was how to get through Helman because the traffic signal there is tied to all of the
other downtown signals. ODOT was not willing to retime that facility out of sync with the rest of the traffic signals
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even though our traffic Engineer had a couple of good ideas on how to do that. They actually recommended that the
signal be removed. Faught said when he first heard that he was a little worried but Kim Parducci (Traffic Engineer)
went to work on this and he really likes her design. He shared that a couple of the advantages of doing this is that
traffic counts are low enough at Helman that it works just fine and the breaks would come with pedestrians. They
would install a pedestrian flashing light like there is on Siskiyou. On Lithia Way a sign would be put up somewhere in
between the fire station and Helman. The sign would say something like “out of town traffic right lane, downtown
traffic left lane”. It essentially allows the traffic heading north to flow through and the bikes aren’t interacting with the
traffic either. On the other side the road diet would just extend on through. Another concern that came up with the
road diet was when people were trying to turn at Bush Street there were no turn lanes. With this, the center turn lane
would be extended and that would take care of that issue.
He added there are a few things that are being recommended that will be controversial, not just the trees but also
some parking that would need to be removed in order for this to work.
He pointed out that he has been meeting with the trucking agencies over the past few weeks and conceptually they
like what they are seeing but they are pointing out changes.
He also stated that something he has seen as a problem since he got here is how the delivery trucks back up along
East Main right before the entrance to the plaza (next to Mix Sweet Shop). At times you aren’t able to see
pedestrians stepping out into the crosswalk and for those that are attempting the right turn into the Plaza when there
is a truck parked there they can’t see so that causes a potential for a rear end collision. He has looked at how this
issue can be solved and while still having deliveries into the downtown area. He would propose that the loading zone
be moved up further to a safer location and that the area next to Mix be painted yellow to prevent the safety hazard.
He would also recommend to the Council that the no parking area be enforced. He pointed out that several loading
zone locations were explored and this concept includes a few loading areas which would still be close enough for
them to make their deliveries to the Plaza. One of the issues that came up is that there are some trucks that are as
long as 67 feet which cannot make a turn into or out of the Plaza so finding a place for those trucks was the
challenge. If we didn’t have the large trucks his recommendation would be to make the yellow zone a loading zone
only but his dilemma is what to do with the 67 foot trucks that can’t get in there. Regarding the tree issue he never
wants to be the person that proposes taking down a tree. He is really trying to fix what he feels is a pedestrian safety
issue while meeting the needs of the downtown deliveries. He is having this conversation with the trucking agencies
and as he meets with them he is asking what can be done and one of the questions is whether or not a loading zone
is needed for a 67 foot truck. One of the trucking agencies that usually have the largest trucks is Sysco and they
have indicated that they pretty much don’t bring 67 foot trucks to the downtown which is new information to him.
From a staff standpoint he feels we need to study where the trucks are actually loading. He also mentioned that he
has been talking to the Engineer and if we can get support for putting a few cameras up then we can monitor the
delivery needs. If there aren’t 67 foot trucks delivering then there would be no need to create loading zones. One
thing he said he learned after meeting with the trucking agency earlier today is that there is only a need for 1 not 2
loading zones there.
Speaking of the trees, there is a Black Oak tree that would not be touched in any of the scenarios. There are 3 Sweet
Gum trees and all 3 of those would have to come out if there were 2 loading zones. If there were only 1 loading zone,
only 2 of the existing Sweet Gum trees would need to be removed. He knows that for some people removing 2 trees
isn’t acceptable. He is glad to see this interaction and working through these issues together. If he can talk the
trucking agencies into not bringing 67 foot trucks into town then both of those loading zones can go away and none
of the trees would need to be removed. He is going to continue to keep working on this with the trucking industry who
is very excited to be a part of this discussion.
Faught then stepped through the rest of the map documents. He mentioned part of the feedback the committee got
from the University of Oregon consultants is that we have very inefficient use of loading zones so one of the things
he is going to be recommending as part of the plan is that all loading zones be eliminated except for the ones that
are being proposed along East Main. There would be a permit process available to determine if a proposed loading
zone is in the proper place. He has asked the trucking industry where they think the most efficient loading zones will
be. He added that right now state law says a truck can park in the middle of the road and unload. This concerns him
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especially if we go from 3 lanes to 2 lanes as it will cause too much congestion in the downtown. If this plan is
adopted he would recommend that City Council adopt an ordinance to prohibit the trucks from unloading in the
middle of street through East Main. John Williams asked if Council has the authority to limit loading to certain times
of the day. Faught answered that part of what we are talking about is why we have a loading zone that is designated
as such all day long. One idea is to restrict the loading zone to a certain time of day (say 4:00 pm) and then during
our peak time of day those parking spots become available for all vehicles.
Williams asked if by removing one lane and adding a bike lane along East Main would leave enough room to widen
one or both sidewalks to create more of a pedestrian area, maybe areas that restaurants/cafes could use. Faught
said the right of way width isn’t the same all the way through, it starts out wide and narrows through the downtown.
He added, if everyone can agree on a concept then at that point an architect would come in and start doing
conceptual drawings to really look at what is the most efficient use of the space.
Fait asked if the loading zones are going to be specifically for commercial vehicles. Faught answered that he is
talking to the trucking experts. The ones that are being proposed along East Main (in front of the Plaza) would be for
commercial only. He hasn’t finished the conversation regarding the others.
Rosenthal asked if the sidewalk across from City Hall is ADA compliant. Faught said he isn’t sure because the ADA
standards are different. Barber said he isn’t quite sure on this particular one because they are several in town that
are not ADA compliant. Rosenthal said the reason he asked that is because if there is a sidewalk that is not in
compliance with federal statute and the reason is because of those trees, he would recommend the committee takes
a look at the problem. He added that nobody would like to see the trees removed but this problem is created by the
trees and besides the loading zone issue there is a problem that relates to the committee’s mission which needs to
be resolved. Faught said if you walk down that stretch of sidewalk you can see that the tree is causing a trip hazard
and we do need to figure out a way to handle those trip hazards. He did say that in context to what he is proposing
today, he doesn’t need that for the loading zone. He added that as the group looks at the aesthetics they will need to
look at whether the sidewalk can be removed without damaging the trees and if so will the trees continue to cause
damage to the new sidewalk. The committee does need to have these conversations still but not from the loading
zone perspective.
Heimann asked about Oak Street, he noticed on the parking side there are some new bicycle facilities there. Faught
said that part of the biking connectivity issue is that there are a lot of bicyclists traveling on Lithia that want to get
over to the Plaza so this recommended concept (which is still being looked at) includes a bike lane . He did add this
is still a concept in the works.
Swales said most of the big trucks that he has seen usually occur around 10:00-11:00. Before most of the downtown
merchants open around 10:00 am most of the downtown is a loading zone on both sides. Yet he has seen
commercial vehicles parked in the middle of the street for loading and there are empty spaces all around it. He would
like to see some kind of agreement with the downtown merchants and their delivery people to arrange for their
deliveries to occur before they open when they can basically have free reign of downtown.
Chair Dawkins reminded the room to try to keep this to questions and not comments.
Faught said part of the data that the committee doesn’t have is the merchant piece. While it might be easy to say
what time window deliveries should occur, he doesn’t know if that is fair and may be a burden. This is why he is
working with the trucking agencies because they actually know when the deliveries are happening, how they are
happening etc. He said if we aren’t cognizant of them then we are doing the merchants a huge disservice.
Hammond asked the Chair in the interest of time if questions could be limited to the committee’s voting and non-
voting members for now. She asked how long this plan would take and when would they anticipate doing this
because it could be very disruptive to life downtown for a long period of time. Faught stated he understands that it
would be disruptive, especially if they do it all at once. If they break it up and do it by block then that would disrupt
the downtown for probably 4-5 years. They have talked about maybe doing one side of the street one year and the
following side the next year. They’ve also talked about doing a pilot for a year which would just entail re-striping it
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down to 2 lanes, just like they did on North Main Street. That way we could make sure it works before investing a lot
of money into it. He said there are a multitude of options for construction and the project managers work with the
impacted businesses to try to work out the best solution moving forward. Hammond mentioned if the plan includes
sidewalks which will require grants, grants take time to acquire which could add to the wait. Faught responded by
saying that is why we would want to look into a pilot with just painting. He added due to the fact that we have a state
facility running through town there is money available for the downtown. In order to go after those funds there needs
to be a multi-modal/beautification plan in place which has been adopted by the City Council. Hammond replied this
would be devastating if this dragged on. She recalls how long Blue Bird Park was fenced up and nothing happened
and she doesn’t want to see that again, this would need to be very well planned. She is concerned with the safety at
Helman without there being a traffic signal. She also asked what the net parking loss is. Barber answered it is a net
loss of about 18 spaces but there isn’t enough information to pin that down at this time but they are continuing to
work on that. Lastly, she mentioned she feels we need to make the loading zones fair for the businesses because
that could be devastating to many businesses. Faught said for those loading zone issues he would be going right to
those businesses affected and talk about how to solve that.
Chair Dawkins reminded everyone that this is still in the preliminary stages. He welcomed comments and said this is
the time to do it.
Liza Maltsberger (citizen) informed the committee that not everyone that came regarding the trees is going to get to
speak. She stated she understands that this is preliminary and that this proposal is new to the committee. She said in
one sense she has an opinion and in another sense she doesn’t because she has a goal which is to not remove the
trees but she doesn’t have an opinion because the committee needs to figure things out that she doesn’t yet
understand. However, her willingness to make sure the trees are not removed means she wants to help solve the
problems that need to be dealt with. She added it is encouraging for her to hear that one option to solve this is to
possibly eliminate 67 foot trucks from entering the downtown. She closed by thanking the committee and those that
are in attendance.
Chair Dawkins said he had a conversation with Faught and Molnar last week and they feel for the first few months
the committee collected the data from U of O and now the committee has sort of reached a dividing point. It is time to
go to work and determine if there is a supply or a distribution issue. He added a number of years ago there was an
Editor/Publisher of the Daily Tidings by the name of Edd Roundtree. There was one particular editorial that he
remembers where the City had decided Siskiyou Blvd. needed to have dividers and plants in the middle. At that time
Siskiyou Blvd was Hwy 99 going 1 lane in each direction with parking on each side of the street and a huge amount
of asphalt in the middle. Edd’s editorial were things like a socialistic state changing the driving patterns of all the
Ashlander’s because when you pulled out to these streets with that big piece of center lane you could do 90 degrees
rather than 30 degrees and get in front. He thought of all of the things if we actually put up this divider it would work
and it ended up working! Then about 40 years later Siskiyou was redone again and some of the cross sections are
taken out and again people are thinking it won’t work but it does work. The reason he brings this up is because the
committee can decide to do nothing but he really likes what Sandra Slattery said several months ago with the multi-
modal and bringing everything together. This is the committee’s vision and their chance to do something.
Next Steps
Faught added as the committee talks about whether there is a need or there isn’t a need for parking, he wanted to
point out the National Citizen survey that was recently completed for Ashland shows only 26% of the citizens
surveyed thought the parking was ok which he found interesting given the work that this committee is doing.
Everything else in the survey was rated pretty highly. He said when we had U of O here and they were working on a
plan things started to fall apart when they were sort of insisting there was a distribution problem rather than a supply
problem. He doesn’t feel that the committee has had the debate on whether or not they agree with that and he isn’t
necessarily in agreement with it as well. If parking is simply being shifted to the residential areas, that isn’t a solution
he wants to be a part of. There are parts of that plan that he thought were pretty good (2 hour versus 4 hour,
restructuring the loading zones etc.). He said there is work that still needs to be done on the street configurations and
staff will continue to tweak that and bring it back to the committee. He added that there is enough money to have U
of O come back for 3 more meetings and finish up the parking piece of the plan. He thinks there are some parking
issues and potential parking structures that the group at least needs to consider. He thinks 18 parking spaces is a lot
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to take out of the downtown area so the question is how they at least make that whole without even looking at the
growth piece. He said once they wrap up the multi-modal piece then they can move on to the fun piece which is
determining what they want the downtown to look like. He said the nice thing about having plans is they make you
think about things differently. Speaking to Councilor Rosenthal’s point, even when they do simple overlay projects all
ADA rules have to be met so those are real issues for projects. He said they are likely looking at rebuilding the whole
East Main structure, lights, banners etc. He added at some point he would like to hire a consultant to provide
conceptual drawings for the committee to see what everything might look like. At this point, his recommendation to
move forward is to bring U of O back for the next 3 meetings, wrap up the parking and then come back after that and
revisit the 3 lane to 2 lane configuration and if there is consensus on that then they could move forward to the easier
parts.
Williams thinks it is a really good idea to explore extending the bike lane through downtown since there seems to be
a pent up interest in town to do that. He has heard that from a variety of people and he feels the right people are in
the room to talk about the business interests and loading zone issues etc.
Graf said he thinks it would solve a lot of the transportation problems, if it can be pulled off.
Hammond likes the multi-modal piece but the multi-modal part she likes best is the pedestrian aspect because she
thinks the sidewalks are unsafe (they’re not wide enough). She added there are so many issues; the street lights are
rotting. Overall, she feels we need a better place for pedestrians to walk. Dawkins asked if this proposed
configuration gives her vision of some sort. She responded that it does and that she brought up earlier some of her
concerns. She would hate for someone to go out of business because their business was so impacted by this. Beam
added that having a 48 foot truck in front of your business all day unloading for the whole 2 block section would be a
detriment. The trick is that businesses are turning over in the downtown pretty consistently and so it is hard to say
where the loading zone should go now and then a few years down the road something changes. Hammond added
there are many things that need to be hashed out in order to make it fair and equitable to all.
Faught said that part of his work that he and staff need to do is once the concept is approved he would need to start
working with those impacted businesses but he doesn’t want to do that until he knows there is support for the
concept.
Beam also feels it is important that they look at creating the bike right of way because there are so many bikes
coming from the watershed and the park area and we need to look at how they connect into East Main. Faught
asked if the committee is ok with the concept of bringing the bikes through. Beam said they are doing it now so the
question is how you can keep that safe for everyone, including drivers and right now we really don’t have any space
for the cyclists and it is a pretty important piece of recreation. Faught asked if she is talking about Winburn Way. She
said yes. If they are going to wrap up around the city building they need to look at how that ties into Oak Street and
back to East Main. She thinks there is more bike traffic heading that way than Oak Street. Flanagan stated she
agrees. At this point they are riding with the traffic because there aren’t bike lanes. Faught added he will bring back
the part of the Transportation System Plan that looks at the bike lanes so that the committee can see the
comprehensive bike plan because that piece is missing from this concept.
Chair Dawkins asked if there is any fear of having traffic backed up in between Lithia Way and East Main. He also
asked if there would need to be another traffic signal at Oak Street. Kim Parducci (Southern Oregon Transportation
Engineering LLC) stated they are looking at a signal also on Lithia and then it would basically be a grid system of the
downtown area that would all be coordinated. She added, it is a unit now and they would be adding 2 signals to that
unit and taking the one at Helman away so that they are all still coordinated and then you are just taking platoons of
traffic through so that traffic shouldn’t be stacking up.
Kaplan asked about adding additional bicycle parking. Faught said we haven’t reached that level of detail yet.
Councilor Rosenthal pointed out that the meetings as of late have been very well attended and it would be a good
idea to direct staff to find a different venue that would be more comfortable for the committee and the people in
attendance. Beam mentioned the irony is that no one attended these meetings early on. Staff will look to find a
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different venue for future meetings.
Graf pointed out we hadn’t discussed agenda item V-a (University of Oregon Community Service Center return for
the March meeting) and as a new member on the committee he hadn’t had the benefit of the consultant explain their
methodology. He doesn’t feel he has enough information to know whether there is a supply problem or a distribution
problem. He doesn’t know what the supply is or what the demand is. He has read through the documentation and he
hasn’t come across those answers. He added he would be curious to know how many spaces they actually need to
find because what they have recommended doing is taking away 4 hour and untimed spaces and turning them into 2
hour spaces. If the big problem is people who are going to OSF or if one of the parts of the problem are employees
who need more than 4 hours at a time and we take away 4 hour spaces the problem isn’t being solved, it is creating
new problems. If we build a new parking garage that is so far away that nobody is going to use and a shuttle has to
be used to get people to the new parking structure that isn’t really solving problems either. He feels like maybe he
needs to sit down with staff to try to better understand how to make the decision regarding supply versus demand.
Dawkins agrees with Graf and said that the committee hasn’t necessarily delved into that and determined one way or
another. This is part of the conversation that still needs to be had. Faught said Robert Parker (U of O) will need to
answer some of those questions and he would be happy to have him do that.
Donna Swanson, 863 Plum Ridge Dr. submitted a letter to be added into public record (see attached)
Donna read proposal #5 from the Mayor’s State of the City address. Proposal #5: Reduce the presence and pressure
of cars downtown and in adjacent neighborhoods while improving the pedestrian environment and linking the entire
town with frequent public transport. She feels the Mayor perhaps has view that hasn’t been paid attention to. From
what she has heard from the Scientists, global warming is happening and it is happening faster than they ever
expected it to and she thinks anything that does not lead toward a low carbon future is a poor decision and she
thinks perhaps a parking structure would be dinosaur technology. She hopes that the committee will take this home
and think about it because the committee is far down the road to bringing more cars in and encouraging more carbon
in the atmosphere.
Flanagan said she feels the meeting was very well run today and thanked Dawkins for being a good chair and
reporting well. She asked for a point of order in the room. She understands that there’s the committee and then they
are the secondary aspect to that. She asked if the public is now allowed to make comments or ask questions during
the meeting. Chair Dawkins said he just took the liberty as chair to do it that way. Flanagan said with all due respect
she just wanted to know what to expect for the next meeting. Dawkins said he felt it was important to do it differently
this time. He would think we would stick with the format which means that public input would be at the beginning, this
one because of the controversy he thought it was a good idea to allow the presentation and discussion before
allowing people to speak on the agenda item. Flanagan said she often gets people asking her if they can attend
these meetings and speak at the meeting so she wanted to be sure she understood the process. Kaplan said he felt
like this meeting was unique in that without Faught’s presentation on the trees there would have been a lot of people
speaking during public forum. Some of which may not have made those same comments if they had heard the
presentation first. He thinks it worked well for this meeting but may not work so well going forward.
In closing, Faught said we will work on finding a new venue for the next meeting so that we can get everyone
participating at the same table.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 5:11 pm
Respectfully submitted,
Tami De Mille-Campos, Administrative Assistant