What's the meanest schedule for 9:30 or 10?
Are we are just waiting on one more physically present
colleagues to get going here and that colleague is on the
way. We appreciate your patience.
no, that's
No, that's fine. I didn't see your picture there, but I seen
your picture. I would even ask the question. I would have
known but I didn't see you at first. That's why I was
asking.
What's?
What's that thing that Carson was raised? I am sure you are
attending to important official or unofficial duties.
Certain we will we will see you tomorrow.
I appreciate you. Getting me the link chairman. I don't see
your picture. That that's why I asked the question that I
asked and I saw you, I would have known that. We were
waiting for a quorum.
Probably just as a heads up, this will be a timely Affair.
Once we get rolling, we we do not have any non-routine
items today. So we're going to fly through it. Once we get
going, we're just stuck on the tarmac right now waiting for
some flights ahead of us, but we should be taking off
shortly. I guess, I understand, but I understand.
We?
We got some in the mix, fantastic, big fan of their early
80s work.
Llama.
We?
We are ready to roll ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so
much, very much for your patience. The meeting of the
committee on pedestrian and traffic, safety is now called
to order for October 5th 2023. We will not have a roll call
to establish, a quorum will orders. Please make their
microphones. Make sure their microphones are on muted.
Chairman laspada, present, vice-chair Cruz.
All.
Order.
Ortman Hopkins, almond Robinson.
Sir.
sir, Alderman DLC, we will be with you momentarily,
ornament Chico
Alderman Quinn.
All.
Almond more, we will also be with you momentarily. All
admin. Curtis
All.
Alderman Burnett.
Almond Urban.
Altman's. Knudsen.
Or.
Orbin Lawson.
All.
Alderman. Martin.
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there.
there are eight members present. We have a quorum now that
we have established that we have a request from Alderman,
more and ottoman, Yancey to appear remotely in accordance
with rule 59 of the city council Rules of Order and
procedures. And with subsections, a through D of section, 7
of the open meetings act on a rule, 59 and aldermen may
appear at a committee meeting by Audio or video present a
conference. If the members prevented from physically
attending because of personal illness or disability
employment, or the business of the public body or a family
or other emergency and the Quorum boats to allow the remote
attendance on demand more and Albany NC. Let me know that
they are unavailable and would never the
Lights.
like to participate as committee members With Us online,
Yes, I am. Good morning.
Will.
Really and good morning Autumn and Nancy. Almond. More you
with us.
I'm sure he'll come back to us. But can I get a motion
first to allow Alderman? DNC to participate, remotely?
So moved by ottoman Lawson all those in favor say aye.
All opposed say nay in the opinion of the chairs, the eyes
have it, probably may. I have a motion to allow Alderman
more to attend this meeting Lord Alderman Irving's. So move
all in favor say aye all opposed say nay
and,
In the opinion of the chairs again eyes have it. All right?
With him and I was having difficulty technical difficulty.
100%. All right. Thank you so much sir. Armand, Moore and
ottoman. Yancey are present here today and will be counted
accordingly for the role call. At this time, we will begin
the public comment period out of respect, for everybody's
time. Each speaker is limited to three minutes are first.
Speaker is mr. George Blakemore.
The.
Good morning.
I have.
Play.
Need my comments. Minichamp to this party and other body
about residential parking.
I'm totally against it.
For the reason that the streets belong to the people. Also,
I was told by one of the staff that they're having problems
up on Milwaukee Avenue and they, I don't know if they have
data done. One of these birds, a study, I tried to study
having cost to park in the middle of the street.
Is.
Is something inherently wrong answer.
You wait.
You waited almost 30 minutes to have this needing, or she
didn't have a car and you read the reason this virtual
should not be abused by these elected officials. Then, did
they tell you which one of those criteria that you read
that they was on today? Did they tell you what was it
illness in my family or whatever? They are not supposed to
use going virtual? We want to see you here. Yancy ultimate
again and we want to see you hear all that one more because
you're needed here.
When?
When you get on these committees, now people are taking
advantage of its virtual. These elected officials are some
of them and I'm totally against that.
Go right here. I'm challenging all my black Facebook,
friends, and Basilica of This, Global City come to these
needy.
Is.
Is not a good look to just help one or two blacks here.
It's not.
It's not a good look for our community, and I challenge all
of you out here to teach your children to be bilingual.
Battle.
That will open up a whole new world for you. I pad Spanish,
High School. Elementary in college, is something wrong with
you, mr. Blakemore, you must be slow. You never learn
another language. A whole world would open up for us. So
the business are taking advantage of the street and the
sidewalk. They coming all out on the North Side by Gibson
and Brandon Riley. Ward, they block the streets off on Cars
track. The bus number 22, have to go all the way around
because they got business in the street.
19.
The 19th. This is Obama's stop it. We need you here. May
God bless all of you. And me all of you bless somebody else
and you're like, yeah.
our next speaker is a Zuma, Santiago
The.
Good morning. I'm grateful for the opportunity to present
my concerns and our community's concerns before your
Committee of safety. First one, I would like to address is
the street parking and street signs. There are a lot of
people with visual impairments.
There are.
There are these cars with the LED lights. My friends. Do we
have. We been blinded at least once so makes it very
difficult to drive safely.
Turn.
To nag navigate ourselves safely in our communities. When
there is in proper. Signage, I saw the signage our ward has
been really good about cleaning up the stop signs that get
covered and whatnot. And so regarding the streets, I think
that's really important regarding the biking and the names
I think that Chicago being so diverse is great. But when
we're putting things up like that that I'm going to
eventually run through the entire city which is great, it
should be uniform sections of the city. Should not look
like this would thereby claim another session look like
that. I think it's an area where uniformity would be
beneficial and and really keep us safe, which is what we
desire and those are my two major points. Thank you.
Thank you. Very
Thank you very much. I will tell you that both on your
infrastructure points and also your points related to sign
it and accessibility. These are absolutely topics that the
committee is committed to exploring and working on.
Our next speaker is David Anthony Velez.
They?
Thank.
Thank you for saying my full name. I appreciate it. So like
you said, my name is David. I most people call me D for
shorts I was
Born.
Born and raised in the city of Chicago by Humboldt Park and
I live in Austin area, I serve in the Humboldt Park
Community as well. I worship their abundance here in
belmont-cragin but the Northwest Center and I also work in
Garfield Park so I'm in different parts of the city, mostly
the West Side, just wanted to share that just to give
perspective a growing up, I grow biking in the city and if
anyone's been in the city for over 30 years, you can see
that things have changed for the better. And I'm very
grateful for the bike lanes that we do have so that we have
a better experience and things like that. One thing I
wanted to highlight was protected, bike Lanes.
By.
B.
B in most parts of the city and I would say it's a much
better experience when there are protected bike Lanes. I
have been in a few situations where I'll be there. Almost
got hit by cars or some situations where I got hit by cars.
Fortunately wasn't as severe as other people but it does
happen. I'm also a driver in the city so I buy can drive.
So I understand both sides and I think having more bike
lanes that are protected in the city makes it easier for a
driver to not get in the way of a biker. But it also keeps
the bikers accountable and being in a protected bike Lanes
cuz it's not the across line is sometimes and some
neighborhood specifically Garfield Park. The bike lanes are
little it's you're not sure if there's a bike lane or not
and so that's one of the reasons why I driving area just
cuz it's it's not safe about my Craig and I love that.
There are.
There are lines that are obvious as far as the pain and
different things like that that that they do. We fix I just
think protected bike lane such as on Belmont or some of the
busiest streets. I think I should be protected bike lanes
that also promotes diversity cuz not everyone just bikes in
their own neighborhood that they're from but they want to
venture out to other areas. Also won't have to risk that
come out to the city. I think it'll be beneficial to have
more protected bike Lanes in other neighborhoods not just
Summer.
Some of them. And yeah that's something I just wanted to
highlight and talked about and also thank you all for what
you do. Thank you all for showing up. I'll be see another
one shows up to these things. So thank you for coming out
and I just wanted to raise that awareness and get with the
community see what the community wants. You'd be surprised
that a lot of people are open to the idea of having
protected bike lanes, for kids adults, even older adults.
So thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Have a good
one strategy for where we're trying to go as a city. I
think you'll be inspired and hopefully you can hold us
accountable for getting there.
Our last speaker for the day is Jeremy and Jerry apologize.
For mispronounce your last name Jeremy
Can.
Can you hear me? Good morning everyone. My name is Jeremy.
Cuevas. I'm the lead organizer for the Northwest Center. We
are from a community called Belmont, Cragin on the
northwest side of Chicago, or so. Before I begin, I want to
shout out our team, a Residence Inn parents, that I took
time out of their day to be here. So thank y'all so much.
We're a community organization that offers free programs
and services, but we also organized residents to build
power in our community since 2018 myself and the
belmont-cragin youth Leadership Council
7.
I've been organizing to bring better bike infrastructure to
our community, after nearly four years of organizing, with
our community and partnering, with our alderman, in the
30th, 31st and 36 Wards and creating a strong partnership
with the Department of Transportation Belmont. Cragin went
from 1.2 miles of bike Lanes. So now over 15 miles of bike
Lanes in our neighborhood, we also with the help of our
alderman, and Department of Transportation. Also installed
13 divvy stations in our neighborhood, which today we're
having a ribbon-cutting for the first classic station being
installed in belmont-cragin.
Would you have?
Would you have a?
Would you have in your hand or what's been shared with you?
I believe there was a report that was shared with you, is a
nine-page. It's what what you have is 9 pages of a 72 page
for pork that has been done explaining our campaign and our
efforts over the last four years. So full of valuation
report shares, the successes data that we collected, but
also the challenges we encountered on his journey
What?
What we shared with you, in the nine-page report is the best
practices evaluation. It shows what works best for our
community and how it can be a model for others. One of the
best practices that we found to work for us that's in your
pamphlet is to meet with local elected officials. At the
beginning stages of your campaign or project. We recognize
that change starts with residents, who live in our
communities, but we also need the support of our alderman
and our elected officials as well just last year in
belmont-cragin alone. In the northwest side, we saw Zero
bicycle fatalities in our community that something to laugh
about.
We?
We believe that this was a direct result of the kind of
work that needs to be done in all communities that need and
want bike Lanes. Chicago was ranked 160th out of 163 big
cities for bike for bike, ability in 2023. So that tells me
and it says our community and our city that we still have a
long road ahead of us when it comes to saving lives in our
city.
Urge this.
Urge this committee that there is still more work to do in
all of our Wards. So let's collaborate across departments
and Wards to bring The Pedestrian and cyclist, cyclist
zero. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Together. Thank
you for speaking with us.
This concludes our public comment. Out of our first order
of business, is the rule 45 report from September, which
was sent out two committee members. May I have a motion to
approve, the rule 45 report, I love that participation but
we'll give this one to all those in favor of passing the
report respond by saying, I
Those opposed say, nay.
In.
In the opinion of the chair, the eyes have it. Now we will
begin with the items before the committee. You may have
noticed that the agenda is formatted slightly differently
this time around committee staff have been working with
various departments to ensure the agendas are as clear as
possible and in the next week or so all ward off. His will
receive a document outlining all committed procedures
committee staff are available for any questions or
feedback, you may have on the agenda or ordinance
procedures with that. Can I have a motion to recommend
approval of all direct introduction ordinances on pages one
through four by the same role?
Call.
Call Boaz was applied to determine quorum.
So moved by Ciara Cruz hearing no objections. So ordered
the lettuce turn to page 5 for the recommended portion of
the agenda. Can I get a motion to recommend approval of all
recommended ordinances on page 5 by the same roll call vote
as was applied to determine quorum
Keurig.
Hearing no objections. So ordered now, we will move on to
pay just six to eight of the agenda, which are items that
receive no recommendations from City departments. These
ordinances were submitted as over rights, were added to the
agenda at the request of the older person or their relevant
Ward, or do not require a departmental approval with that.
Can I get a motion to recommend approval of all ordinances
on, p2628 to be passed without a department of
recommendation but the same roll call vote as was applied
to determine Quorum summer. I also moved all the woman so
moves hearing no objections. So ordered
Final.
Finally matters listed on pages, 9, through 27 are disabled
parking ordinances. Can I get a motion to recommend
approval of these ordinances by the same roll, call vote as
was applied to determine Quorum. So moves hearing no
objections. So ordered we will report these items out at
the next regularly. Scheduled city council meeting with
there, being no further business before the committee. Can
I have a motion to adjourn?
so moved by Alderman been lost all those in favor signify
by saying I
Oh, oh.
I also seen a, we are adjourned it. Thank you so much,
dear, appreciate your time and your service.
Thank you.
Becky G.