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Brookings, South Dakota
March 17, 2009
OFFICIAL MINUTES
The Brookings Transportation Board was called to order by Chairperson Robb
Rasmussen on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM in the City Hall meeting room.
Members present were Art Conners, Terrell Spence, Nancy Hartenhoff-Crooks, Jerry
Raabe, Dean Kattelmann, Roger DeGroot and Rob Jones. Teresa McKnight, Michael
Forgy, Tyler Luckhurst, Jeff Weldon and Deanna Santema were absent. City Engineer
Jackie Lanning, Community Development Director Mike Struck and others were also
present.
Item #2 – (Conners/Spurrell) Motion to approve the minutes from the February 17,
2009, meeting. All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED.
Item #3 – (Conners/Raabe) Motion to approve the agenda. All present voted aye.
MOTION CARRIED.
Item #4 – Update on the Safe Routes to School Application- Robb Rasmussen stated
for the approved $93,000 for the Phase I Project, the plan was criticized for not having
the whole community involved. A middle section of the city was not involved with
the safe routes to school Phase I and he would like the City Council’s approval for
applying for funds for this project for funds for this project. This area is only 2 miles from
Middle School. The SRTS grant application deadline is in April.
Lanning mentioned there will be a June letting for a new bike path project
which runs from 3M to the north and crosses 6th Street at 32nd Avenue, then running
north, which will be more of a recreational trail.
Kattleman asked if the bike path would be 4’ or 5’ wide for the SDSU Bike
Route? Lanning stated the lane would be 4’ minimum width. Kattlemen also inquired
about having a one-way street on 12th and 13th Avenues north of Sixth Street.
Sherry Rasmussen reported on a bike education program that is being held
May 11- 15th and handed out some brochures regarding the events each day of the
week. She also handed out brochures on RFD chips which keeps track of a child to
and from school called a FREIKOMETER . Rasmussen would like to apply for funding for
each elementary school to have these meters because there is grant money
available for FreiKometer for 4 or more years.
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R. Rasmussen was concerned about the time line for the grantand felt there
was a tremendous amount of items to get funding for and not everyone may agree
on the items for funding.
M. Struck mentioned the Phase I SDSU Bike Route Plan has been planned.
Phase II may include 8th Street from Western to 20th Street, 12th Avenue from 8th Street
to 3rd street, 20th Avenue from 8th Street to 3rd Street and 3rd Street from 20th Avenue to
12th Avenue. They will be submitting a more detailed plan to the City Council on the
April 7th meeting and the deadline for the application is the 8th . It would be postmark
the 8th.
Rasmussen asked to be involved with the re-submitting of the application.
Rasmussen went briefly over the Cyclist 6 E’s. Equality, Engineering,
Enforcement, Education, Evaluation and Encouragement.
Item #5 – Update from BATA – Brenda Schweitzer - Brenda distributed some handouts
on statistics on the BATA rider ship and trying to meet these demands. Rider ship is
already up by 32 % over from last year-year to date. She stated the different hours,
drivers – full & part time, dispatchers, administrative staff and vehicles. There has been
an increased interest for transportation to Sioux Falls, Volga, Arlington and Aurora and
increased demand for late night shift work employment transportation. Future goals
for 2009 – 2010 will include 24/7operation.
Kattleman asked if the 24/7 could include a shift for the 10:00pm custodial
workers at SDSU. Brenda answered it could include shifts for custodial workers or
events at the Swiftel Center.
Brenda recapped the building project. Relocation of the building is a big
factor for this building project to receive funding for. Bata is outgrowing their facility
faster than planned and the need is outgrowing their services. Bata saw a
tremendous increase in ridership when the price of gas went up to $4.00/gal.
Nancy briefly went over the subcommittee action plan to see if there was any
update on their plan. There were none.
Item # 6 – Update from Chris Daugaard on bike Lanes – City Officials and Chris have
met with each other on the bike lanes project. Chris will present his bike traffic plan
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to the City Council Tuesday, March 24 at 5:00 during their work session. He is no longer
on the bike lane committee as there is a new student council president.
Item #7 – Next meeting – The next meeting of the Transportation Board will be held on
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in the City Hall meeting room.
The meeting was adjourned.
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Barb Wiehr, Secretary Robb Rasmussen, Chairperson