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Christina Casha <br /> From: Ellen Holmgren <br /> Sent: Monday, June 5, 2023 3:43 PM <br /> To: Todd Nelson <br /> Cc: Ellen Clark <br /> Subject: RE:June 6 Consent Calendar- Item #4 <br /> Dear Todd Nelson, <br /> Thank you for your email to the Mayor and City Council. I have forwarded your inquiry to the appropriate City <br /> Department, cc'd here. <br /> If this comment relates to an item on the current City Council agenda and you would like to submit written public <br /> comment, please visit https://forms.cityofpleasantonca.gov/f/writtenpubliccomment. <br /> Thank you for your interest in the City of Pleasanton. <br /> Regards, <br /> Ellen Holmgren,Administrative Assistant <br /> City of Pleasanton <br /> From:Todd Nelson <br /> Sent: Friday,June 2, 2023 1:06 PM <br /> fo: Mayor and City Council<citycouncil@cityofpleasantonca.gov> <br /> Subject:June 6 Consent Calendar- Item #4 <br /> ***[EXTERNAL]This message comes from an external organization.Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links,especially from unknown <br /> senders.*** <br /> My concern for this item is that the process used by staff ignores the significant amount of public engagement that went <br /> into the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan.There is very little justification why these projects in item#4 were chosen <br /> above the 100+ prioritized projects in the master plan. <br /> We were told there's no money for the arroyo trails(included in several "Corridor Opportunity Projects"). Yet there's <br /> money for projects that I've never heard anyone request. If you're going to ignore the BPMP, then why not a Pedestrian <br /> Leading Interval signal near the ACE station at Bernal and Pleasanton Ave (requested multiple times)? <br /> The TDA Article 3 funding of$493,513 is the exact amount available to the City of Pleasanton.That money is ours as long <br /> as we follow appropriate guidelines; it is not a competitive grant.The exact amount is being requested without any <br /> attempt to estimate the costs of the individual projects in a manner that adds up to that exact amount. <br /> Finding#6 is questionable. How do you know that the funds are adequate for completion without any sort of estimate? <br /> Finding#8 is questionable. MTC resolution 4108 provides the eligibility requirements and this finding pertains to the <br /> inclusion of these projects in an approved written plan. In Finding#8, staff has added "...or responds to an immediate <br /> ommunity need,such as a quick-build project."These projects are not included in the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan,or any <br /> other approved written plans.The"immediate community need" is not in RES-4108. "Quick build"is in the resolution but implied to <br /> be an interim project from an approved written plan.These proposed projects are not presented as an immediate community need, <br /> anyway. <br /> 1 <br />