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09-19-2018 PBAC CITY OF HUTCHINSON Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 2:00 p.m. City Center Meeting Minutes Members present: Sara Turrell John Hassinger, Michelle Keifer, Others Present: Candace Hoversten (Heart of Hutch), and Kerry Ward (McLeod County Public Health), John Olson Absent: Kent Exne, Mark Hanneman, Steve Cook, Dolf Moon (PRCE Director), Sara Witte (Parks Supervisor), 1. Review of last meetings minutes —Michelle was late so meeting minutes were not approved and there were only 2 advisory committee members present. 2. Education/Promotion/Community Wellness a) Bike/Walk to Work/School- August update? School event dates • Oct 10'h will be walk to school day. NDMA wants to participate. • Currently Doug Hanneman and staff from the Hutchinson Leader provide a walking school bus on Wednesdays. 4 volunteers have been screened by the school to provide these walk to school Wednesdays. On average 2-10 kids have been walking. The route is the Franklin Route behind Bobbing Bobber Brewing Company. • Michelle attempted a Bike Train at the Middle School. It was trialed a few times last school year in May. Heritage Ave along the trail to school road to the middle school. It was tried 3 different Tuesdays with no participants b) Bike Rides- Bike to work day was not well attended. It seems that when local business owners are not champions around this event then it seems that this event does not have good attendance. This group could work on getting more bike champions. Tote this event as an encouragement event as being part of the community. In the future, the group could consider working with businesses to provide an incentive to participate. There was a thought that some bypassed library square as it's an extra stop. c) "Move" (H of H) No more Move Committee—the Heart of Hutch work is being transitioned into the Hutchinson Health Health and Wellness Advisory Committee. d) Friends of Luce Line-no report at this time. e) SHIP-Kerry- No real report from SHIP at this time. Brett Nelson from SHIP has been doing counts using the MDOT counts around Meeker McLeod and Sibley Counties. We hope to share his findings at the December mtg. The topic of Worksite Wellness came up in regards to SHIP and how we could use SHIP work to facilitate more walking and biking within Hutchinson worksites. j) Walk, Bike, Fun program updates-Steve/Michelle Michael Scott from the High School was offered a fall training. There are has not been a response from him. NDMA staff has been trained in this curriculum and they have been using it. 3. Trail Counts June/July: Sara W. put cameras out at Bluff, Eheim, Oddfellows underpass —these counts were not available yet. Physical counting in July at Eheim- update- Candace worked on the data. The group reviewed the data together. Green sections were the raw numbers. John observed that an earlier count on Saturday might be beneficial. Lots of activity on the trail on Saturday morning prior to 9am. 4. Trail Projects Update on 2018 projects —John Olson had a sheet reviewing 2018 thus far. Hutchinson has seen .82 miles of new construction and total work and maintenance in 2018 has been 52.6 miles. And about 2 miles of trail has been maintained this year. John would love to create a document to review trail maintenance as part of the parks master planning. What is a good number and how often should it be done. The thought is to try and get things maintained every 7 to 8 years versus 12 years. 5. Street Crossings/Bike racks Bike racks installed at: South Park, River Rental building and Roberts Park Southwest corner of Shopko parking lot would be an ideal place to have a bike rack. John has made multiple attempts to contact Shopko to get this in place. Also there are gaps out in the HWY 15 area like Cashwise, Aldi, and Walmart etc. 6. Luce Line Trail MNDOT trail use counter near Arch St.- No update given. Updates on Winsted connection- Steve sent an email stating that the work in the luce line gap by the Winsted airport is supposed to get started on Sept 19'h. Substantial completion date is Oct 31 st 7. County Trail- Dakota update No update given 8. Other: Meeker County Trails Plan group has been meeting with Mid Minnesota Development Commission/Matt Johnson. They are looking at connectivity near Cedar Mills and linkages near Lake Coronas. SRTS pilot tool was used at the Middle School. Michelle wrote a report of the findings and gave it to the Middle school. MDH, BOBS, MDOT were involved with the pilot tool. There will be SRTS evaluation tools that the schools can use. A SRTS concern for Hutchinson would be the HWY 7 and Montana and South Grade areas. A HAWKS system would be ideal to implement. The rotary club and the parks system are working on ideas for bike safety. Rotary Park might be a great place to implement at traffic safety garden, bike rodeo, or having a bike maintenance tool station there. Bike tool maintenance stations/tire inflators could be placed at the Rec Center. Also some of the existing stations need some maintenance and clean up. Please remember to fill out the survey that Sarah sent as well as feel free to fill out the survey on the park page too. Bike Friendly Recertification has been submitted. 9. Committee Goals for 2018 New bike map-publish this winter, Bike Friendly Community recertification, Community outreach on bike education- with HCVN- Steve NEXT MEETING: Schedule next Quarterly meeting: December 19th, 2018 Meeting began at 2:00 p.m.