1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – Minutes for September 23, 2010
4. PUBLIC COMMENT - For persons desiring to address the Commission on an item that is not on the agenda please note that each speaker is limited to three (3) minutes. The Brown Act limits the Committee’s ability to take and/or discuss items that are not on the agenda; therefore, such items are normally referred to staff for comment or to a future agenda.
5 PRESENTATION
5-1 Police Report
6. DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON MATTERS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:
6-1 Marin-Santa Fe Intersection Improvements—65% Plans attached
6-2 Speed survey results for Washington Avenue
6-3 Speed Hump Guidelines—Administrative Draft, attached
6-4 Request APD to explore reinstating the Traffic Officer position (requested by T&S Chair)
6-5 Change of date for the November and December Traffic and Safety Commission meetings—
Dates proposed: Tuesday, November 16 and Thursday December 16, 2010
Note: Commission should address how each action above might affect pedestrian and bicycle safety and travel.
7. REPORTS
7-1 Update on Masonic Avenue Re-pavement—Report by Chair, Ray Anderson
7-2 Speed Survey results for 900 Block of Jackson Street, Dartmouth Avenue, 900 block of Santa Fe Avenue, 800 and 900 Block of Curtis Ave.
7-3 Memo to Beth Pollard the recommendation for the roles of the City Commissions, Committees and Boards—Memo and sample of Action Minutes, attached.
7-4 Pedestrian Master Plan and Update to the Cycling Master Plan—Active Transportation Workshop
7-5 Double yellow line on Jackson, south of Buchanan Street—Excerpt from the 2010 California Vehicle Code attached.
8. ANNOUNCEMENTS/COMMUNICATIONS
8-1 AC Transit Service Changes, effective October 31, 2010
9. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS (Commission announcements or requests for future agenda items. No public comment will be taken on announcement of future agenda items).
• Subway 20-minute parking follow up (November, 2010)
• A-Frame (sandwich) signs on Solano (November, 2010)
Loading/Unloading zone adjacent to the Children Center at 720 Jackson Street (November, 2010)
• Permit Parking Program (December, 2010)
10. ADJOURNMENT – Next meeting: Date TBA. 7:00 pm at City Council Chambers
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