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Minutes of the February 3, 2025 Meeting
Present from the Transportation Advisory Board Jon Larsen, Josh Stewart, Justice
Morath, and Steve Wooldridge.
Electronically present from the Transportation Advisory Board were Craig Buschmann,
Daniel Mendoza, Greg Sanchez, John Close, Matt Gray, Matthew Morriss, and Suzanne
Stensaas.
Absent from the Transportation Advisory Board were Isaac Astill, Johnnae Nardone,
Julie Bjornstad, and Miranda Bradshaw.
Also Present was Troy Saltiel.
Electronically present were Amy Lyons, Becka Roolf, Julianne Sabula, Heather
Mclaughlin-kolb, and Mili Pioquinto.
The meeting was held both electronically and in person and was called to order at 4:05
p.m. by Justice Morath.
Welcome and Introduction of Guests — Justice welcomed everyone, and everyone
introduced themselves.
Motion: Matthew Morriss moved to approve the minutes of the December 2, 2024 TAB
meeting and the January 13, 2025 Joint TAB/BAC meeting. Suzanne requested staff go
back and ensure public questions from past meetings are being answered on the
minutes. Staff agreed to add any missed questions on the minutes of the current
meeting. Daniel Mendoza seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
Public Comment — There were no comments from the public.
Report Out — by Members
Matthew said that back in December it rained a lot and was dark a lot, he wanted to
comment that the road paint for lane dividing is very difficult to see at night when the
roads are wet. A lot of the city streets, particularly California, Boo South, and goo South
are where he really noticed it. Even with streetlights, it's just hard to know exactly
where the lanes are, or another one would be. It was really hard driving at night, and he
could sometimes see the paint,but it just didn't seem super reflective. He doesn't know
if there's a magic formula out there for reflective paint for when it's wet at night but
wanted to leave the comment for transportation. Jon said UDOT is researching
potential solutions such as tape instead of paint. Currently glass beads are added to the
top of the paint immediately after it's painted. The beads stick to the paint but wear off
over time.
Suzanne said that it's really a UDOT issue,but TAB needs to have a UDOT person on
TAB. A letter was supposed to have been sent to UDOT requesting a consistent person
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on the Board rather than a revolving person attending. She doesn't know if that letter
was sent but hopes so because many times an issue like she had last night comes up.
She was coming from 600 North onto I-15 going south on one of those diagonal long
turn left turns under the freeway. The lighting there was just terrible, and the stripes
were fading and if it were raining or a little bit of snow or anything,you would have no
idea even where the entrance to that ramp was. It needs not only light but striping and
it's a UDOT question,but they don't come to the meeting. Justice asked Becka if a
UDOT letter was sent out. Becka said she needs to check the status of letters with the
recent TAB Chair transition.
Greg said he's seen a lot of articles about cleanup on North Temple, improvement of
drug enforcement, and whatnot in the Power District area. He expressed concern that
some of the issues are progressing further north. He's sure issues are going south as
well,but from what he can see, they are progressing further north and becoming issues
along the trail, especially by 65o North, the bridge they are going to reconstruct. He's
seen and heard from the community that there are needles and other trash that is
dangerous and people camping along the way. He's talked to friends who have gone
biking through there, weaving through it. He knows it's not something the Board can
solve,but he wanted to bring it up as a concern within his community of a great amenity
that can't really be enjoyed properly. He brought this up because he thinks TAB should
all be concerned, especially with the Power District development. It'll be really nice
there,but then there are concerns about the repercussions in the adjacent areas. Justice
added that if it gets to Backman Elementary, he wouldn't want to put elementary school
kids in an uncomfortable situation.
Josh listened to the Mayor's State of the City address. She mentioned this new sports
stadium stuff in the Delta Center. He's wondering if TAB can add to an agenda item in a
future meeting to kind of look at what SLC is doing in terms of transportation related to
that project. Jon explained that plans for this area are evolving rapidly with many
parties involved. Justice said it's important that TAB's voices are heard during the
decision making. Jon said he will see who they can get to talk to TAB.
Matthew said there was a SL Tribune article about TRAX rerouting through downtown
happening at the end of the decade before the Olympics. He thinks it'd be worthwhile to
have someone from UTA come talk to them about this. He knows the plans are now
more finalized,but he can't remember if they'd had a presentation on this proposal in
the past or what other proposals there will be for changes to transit before the Olympics.
Matt said to his knowledge there hasn't been a presentation to TAB and not since the
completion of the project, which is very recent. He will ask about arranging that or
maybe finding a presentation that can be shared. Matthew said that would be great
because this seemed to evolve very quickly from multiple plans in the fall to now a
finalized plan. Nobody came to talk to TAB, and he was hoping at some point somebody
would. He'd like to advocate for that on a future agenda.
Retreat Update
Board members and staff discussed whether to follow up on former TAB chair Johnnae's
idea of having a retreat, since she has now resigned from TAB. Suzanne said she would
be willing to help organize a retreat if someone else would help as well. After some
discussion, Justice, serving as acting chair, suggested that the topic be revisited once the
TAB leadership is filled again.
No action was taken.
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Federal Grants Status
Staff provided a brief update on federal grants. At this time, Transportation staff are
proceeding with the idea that their federal grant commitments that are already
programmed and in place will go forward. Matthew asked what percentage of the SLC
Transportation's budget comes from federal funding; Becka said it is typically around
$4-5 million per year. She said it's the new programs that were created through the
bipartisan infrastructure law that are most likely to be eliminated. Jon said
Transportation doesn't have any federal money in their operating budget; the federal
funds help them take on bigger projects they otherwise couldn't do.
No action was taken.
TAB's Prioritization of Internal CIP Applications
TAB members discussed the difference in priorities of these applications between SLC,
TAB, and BAC and how to give input to the selection process.
Motion: Justice motioned to write a draft letter in support of the CIP applications;
Josh seconded that motion. The motion passed unanimously.
Constituent CIP Applications
The Board looked at the rankings of both TAB and BAC and discussed a possible letter
of support.
Motion: Justice motioned to write one letter of support with TAB's rankings for both
City and Constituent CIP applications separated out. This will include their rankings for
all projects and a brief narrative of comments on the ranking sheets. This may include a
request for more money in the future because the community is asking for more to be
done in transportation around the city. Matthew seconded.
Motion: Greg Sanchez motioned to adjourn the meeting; Suzanne Stensaas seconded
the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:21 p.m. and the next meeting will be a joint TAB/BAC
meeting scheduled for March 10, 2025, at 4:00 p.m.
TAB WebEx Meeting Chat
Matthew Morriss (he/him) 2/3/2025 4:07 PM • small lake city
Matthew Morriss (he/him) 2/3/2025 4:29 PM -
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/02/o3/salt-lake-citys-trax-routes-are/
Matt Gray(UTA) 2/3/2025 4:34 PM • Techlink TRAX Study(Completed this month)
https://www.techlinkstudy.com/
Matt Gray(UTA) 2/3/2025 4:36 PM • Red Line reroute through Granary District and
new Orange Line (Airport-UofU)
Sabula, Julianne 2/3/2025 4:59 PM • Council has had a goal of putting 9% of the budget
into CIP, but it is typically 7%.
Troy Saltiel 2/3/2025 5:00 PM • The "TENTATIVE" meeting schedule is as follows:
Monday, February loth: Constituent Transportation Applications
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Wednesday, February 19th: Remaining Constituent Transportation and Constituent
Engineering Applications
Monday, February 24th: Remaining Constituent Engineering and Constituent Public
Lands Applications
Monday, March 3rd: Internal Public Lands Applications
Monday, March loth: Internal Public Services and Internal Engineering Applications
Monday, March lath: Remaining Internal Engineering and Internal Transportation
Applications
Roolf, Becka 2/3/2025 5:00 PM • that is into General Fund CIP,which is different than
all CIP
2/3/2025 5:00 PM • Thanks, Troy!
Previous Meeting Questions from the Public
12-02-24
• Dave Iltis has been pushing SLC to leave the lloo East bike lane from 1st Avenue to goo
South and he still hasn't gotten an answer from Transportation. He wishes they could
get this started this spring and even if there is one block that the pavement is a disaster
on,you could go in and put bike lanes on the other blocks. Then you would have a
continuous route from the Avenues all the way to 33O0 South if the area from South
Temple to goo South was fixed. He would really like an answer.
o We've talked about this with Dave, and while we can't yet give a definitive answer
on the timeline,we are definitely planning to add in bike lanes for this section of
lloo East. It will likely be in phases, including some sections that will be in
conjunction with reconstruction projects.We've assigned a project manager who
has begun working on potential striping plans.
01-13-25
• Dave Iltis is wondering what the paving schedule is for 2025. This determines where
bike lanes can go in, and what roads are going to be resurfaced, and wants to know if
that's readily publicly available. Last year it was kind of there,but it wasn't always clear
what was getting done and what wasn't. 7Oo East was kind of half resurfaced, and he
guesses it was because Streets chip seal machine broke. It would be nice to understand
what's happening and if that street is going to get the bike lanes from at least 300 South
to South Temple that it was supposed to get last year.
o We don't yet have a surface treatment schedule for 2025,but we do have a rough
potential list. Streets did have some equipment issues last year,which means they
didn't get to 7Oo East,but are planning to do it this year.
Approved by Transportation Advisory Committee 05-05-25.
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