00:00:07,930	10 o’clock on Monday, May 19th. I’ll call to order the regular meeting of the technical advisory Committee of the Bismarckandan Metropolitan Planning Organization. Steven, can we begin with a roll call, please? Ben Ereth. Here Dan Trio? Deidre Hughes. Here. Gabel. Here Greg Fraser. Here Ja Winess John Sai. Here Logan Bezy Mitch Flanagan. Sure.

00:00:43,230	Well, Hutchins chair Reppel. Thank you. Uh, we’ll begin with a review and possible approval of the minutes from the April 14th meeting. Uh, are there any corrections or additions to the minutes. And if not, is there a motion to approve the minutes Gabe so moved? We have a first, is there a second? Her second.

00:01:10,370	The 2nd. And roll call vote please. Ben Erith, Deidre Hughes Gabe Shell Greg Fasier, Jarek Witness. Johnacki. Yes. Logan busy. Mitch Flanagan. Well, Hutching. Yes. Cher Ripple. Yes, minutes are approved as presented. Moving on to item number 2 on the agenda.

00:01:43,670	It is a fiscal year 2026 recreational trails program, uh, applications, and Stephen Larson is going to present those to us today. Thank you, Chair. Give me just one moment. You know this All right, so the North Dakota Parks and Recreation District recently solicited for applications to the fiscal year 26 recreational trails program or RTP. They opened solicitation on April 1st and accepted applications through April 13th.

00:02:47,700	Uh, applications for projects that are within the MPO area, requiring MPO letter of support, the Park District requires this as part of the application, but Uh, this can be added to applications, one after the application window.

00:03:12,200	So for this year’s solicitation, we received 2 applications, one from the Bismarck Parks and Recreation District, which is exhibit B, and one from the Lincoln Park District, exhibit C, and there is a summary of these projects uh for you on exhibit A. I will give a brief description of each application for you today. So the first project is a Bismarck project. This is a proposed as a cottonwood Park South Trail connection.

00:03:39,870	It would be a rehabilitation of shared use trail connections within the southern portion of Cottonwood Park. The project includes 5,901 linear feet of 10 ft wide shared use trail that is currently aged and cracking, including 176 linear feet of trail that needs to be removed and replaced. This proposed project is located within one of Bismarck’s most popular park.

00:04:10,470	Parks, the proposed cost estimate is $306,516 and the federal RTP request is $245,000213. And I will note that, um, Bismarck did provide a few slides for this, uh, noting that this area provides accessible routes to the ADA fishing pier at the Cottonwood Pond.

00:04:33,330	Connections to the Hidden Star Park and neighborhoods to the west of the park and links to sports fields, playgrounds, and spectator areas. They also provided a just kind of a nice map overlaying the project area and um, Some images of the current condition of the trail. Uh, are there any questions on the project application or would uh the Bismarck representative have anything to add about the project? Thank you, Steven.

00:04:58,630	We do have a representative from Bismarck Parks and Rec. Nothing, nothing additional. Any questions from the board for Steven right now on this application? No, all right, why don’t we carry on? So then the second application from the Lincoln Park District, this is uh 66th Street Southeast Pathway Project, the proposed project is to construct a 10 ft wide gravel pathway starting at Santee Road

00:05:22,470	going south along the west side of 6-Sixth Street ending at the South City limits approximately 180 ft south of Humbert Drive. The project will include topsoil stripping, common excavation and earthwork to establish ADA compliance grades, compact. of insight soils and placement of a six-inch gravel base with an alternative to pave if the funding allows.

00:05:46,000	This will include ADA compliance at two street crossings with concrete panel and truncated domes to warn users of crossings. Uh, the cost for this is estimated at 129,807 with a federal share requested of 103,840. And uh Lincoln, of course, submitted their application.

00:06:14,700	It is a little bit difficult to see on the screen, uh, but there are um more details contained in that exhibit C. Are there any questions from the board on this project. I had two questions. Um, so noting that this is an ADA compliant route, um, but it also says the gravel pathway.

00:06:35,570	It seems kind of inherently not um in sync, you know, because the gravel pathway with the wheelchair is not always the most easy to traverse, um, you don’t feel long term intent is to just grade this and make it possible to have pavement later, so then the whole route becomes ADA compliant, and I, I might be wrong about EDA clients, so, um, I bought many, um, correction if there is any.

00:06:51,100	And then the other question is, um, if you look at the pictures, you should see some really worn routes where ATVs have been using, uh, the, the ditch section to traverse for recreational purposes.

00:07:09,330	And so, I’m wondering if this application or if they noted anything about including signage to prevent people who shouldn’t be on the, the, the gravel pathway which is intended for bikes and pads, um, and, and not having ATPs on it. If you don’t know, I understand. Thanks. Well, I was hoping that, uh, one of the Lincoln reps would be here. They would be better suited to answer those questions. I could certainly inquire. My understanding is that they are.

00:07:26,830	At the very least trying to set this project up so that it can be paved either immediately if their funding goes further than they expected or in the near future, uh if they need to do it as a separate project.

00:07:41,830	So the first question of my understanding is that they would like to have it paved if possible. Um, so as a second, I’m not sure I would have to see what the uh what their signage plans are as part of the application. Uh, Ben, please.

00:08:06,000	Yeah, Steven, thanks for the the presentation and uh maybe Greg knows us too, but I was just looking at the project limits, um, and do you know if the trail or the proposed trail connects into any existing. Bicycle pedestrian facilities and in particularly interested on the south side where it goes past Humboldt Drive, but just seems to. End Somewhere south of Humboldt Drive. What, what does that? Link into As Greg Beer city engineer for Lincoln.

00:08:37,900	Uh, yeah, at the south end, uh, off of Humbert Drive there, that would be kind of a dead end at this time. Um, The goal is to just get it tie in there, just picking a stopping point, uh, to the previous questions, the goal is to be able to get the gravel down and based on funding like Stephen had mentioned.

00:08:57,030	Uh, then to follow up with the pavement and that, um, the signage, I’m not as clear on, but I believe they were including some of that as well, but. Thanks, Greg. Thank you, Greg for, uh, stating those clarifications and. Maybe shedding a little light on this application for us. That’s appreciated. Good questions.

00:09:18,370	Are there any other questions from the board regarding the thinking application game. Maybe as a follow up to to the north, Greg, what’s, what’s it stops at Santee Road. I don’t know if the map. Displays that there’s anything north of there, but can you maybe elaborate on that piece of it too? Uh, so I sent you, uh, it does stop at.

00:09:41,900	The road, there’s, there is some sidewalk on the north side. Uh, you can’t really see it here, but Uh Part of just Lincoln’s overall. development, they generally do not have sidewalks, um, especially in the older parts, parts of town, uh, all new developments are required to have sidewalks, so.

00:10:07,500	So it’s part of Starting to kind of link some of this stuff together and. Uh, kind of move things forward. They’re trying to create some routes to tie. The Uh, like the school, to businesses and things like that, um, so this, this will help with that as, as well, um, as you are down by Humbert Road in that area, that’s a newer

00:10:29,370	development that development has sidewalks, as things are going in, so. Thank you. And one follow-up question. Stephen, can you explain the process with these RTP projects, that sounds like they already solicited for them and we’re being asked to review and recommend support to the policy board at this time. That is, that’s correct.

00:10:55,030	Well, so typically the uh application window for these is fairly short and does not always fit into our meeting schedule, so the park district has accommodated that by allowing us or allowing applicants to seek MPO support after application submit.

00:11:15,830	So yes, both of these applications were already submitted to the Park District, but the districts are, you know, seeking our support as part of their application process determination has been made as. Whether or not these were awarded at the time. No, no, that will probably be, I think that the window is usually about 6 months in down the road before there anything is awarded.

00:11:33,370	I just like to add a clarification to that as well. We do not prioritize these projects in any way. We are only asked to review them, make sure that they’re um consistent with the goals and objectives of our MTP, um, and then to, uh, basically, uh, consent to, uh, their, their approval and at such time that they would be

00:11:53,330	awarded, then we make sure that we’re including those into our tip and making sure that they’re programmed. Are there any other questions regarding the RTP, uh, projects that have been brought before us or the process that’s in place in general.

00:12:17,900	If not, um, Staff would be looking for a motion of recommendation to the policy board to approve, um, one or both of these to North Dakota Parks and Recreation District for consideration. This is Ben. I would move approval to recommend both projects to uh North Dakota. Uh, I guess it’s the parks and recreation department, uh, who administers this program. OK. Thanks, Ben. We have a motion for approval.

00:12:47,730	Uh, is there a second? As Greg, I’ll second. Thanks, Greg. Roll call please Steven. It’s Ben Harris? Yes. Deirdre Hughes. Gabriel, Greg Fraser. Yes. Jare Witness? John Zaki. Yes, Logan Bey. Yes. Mitch Flanagan. Yes. Well, Hutchins, yes, Che Rebel. Yes Motion passes. The projects will be recommended for approval to the policy board.

00:13:20,770	Item number 3 on the agenda is the Bismarck Mandan MPO Self-certification and Steven will be presenting that today as well. Thank you, chair. Give me one moment again. I will. That’s All right. So the Bismarck Manan NPOs self-certification.

00:13:52,970	This is something we do every year is required by United States Code NPOs must certify their planning processes are being carried out in accordance with federal law. And that our MDP and tip are also consistent with these same laws. The self certification is required every 4 years, but we update it annually as part of our tip development as a best practice.

00:14:14,170	Uh, it just declares MP compliance with current highway bill legislation. I will note that the most current is a 2022 IA. Um, the self-certification declares our compliance in 10 different areas, including MPO operations and functions, air quality control standards, Title 6 and the Civil Rights Act, the disadvantaged business enterprises and five areas of non-discrimination.

00:14:38,170	I will note that the uh certification online, uh, right now, it has been updated since packets were sent out. So your exhibit in paper form is not. Current, we removed some equal employment language in response to, uh, executive order 11246, which rescinded EEO in federal, um. Programs.

00:15:03,400	Uh, so otherwise though, uh, at this time we’re kind of standing pat on a lot of these, this language because uh the federal titles and programs have not been updated, and so we are declaring compliance with what we have. Available at this time. Are there any questions? This is well, I just had one question. I, I noted the two references to the EEO um language that you guys updated online.

00:15:22,470	I haven’t had a chance to look though on the last page with the self-certification statement. Number 6 is specifically about equal employment opportunity. I just want to make sure you guys caught that one as well, um.

00:15:42,300	So we do still have the, I mean, we, I guess we still have the, the category of for number 6 because the federal. Register and guidelines for selfer have not been updated to remove that title. We had kept that in, we had just removed the language that you had referenced and discussed. That was kind of the way we felt. Would be most um kind of balancing I guess of the uh.

00:16:03,230	Going with the current law until it is. Officially removed, I suppose, uh, but. Yeah, I mean that’s kind of, that’s kind of where we’re at with that, I understand, yeah, and then of course it just a reminder that this may come before the board again for updates because there’s a constantly changing um um kind of climate around some of these

00:16:21,770	executive orders, so until they’re uh decided by the courts or what process they need to go through to be changed for the CFRs, etc. Um, there’s a potential you’re gonna have to look at this again, um, correct. Great observation.

00:16:42,570	Are there any other questions or, or Ben, please? Thanks for updating us, Steven, uh, and well, this might actually relate to your question or your comment, but I, I actually had a question for FHWA partner, uh, particularly related dissection 5 related to the disadvantaged business enterprises, several of us, about a month or so ago, received a letter from USDOT Director Sean Duffy with concerns about Diversity, equity, inclusion in our

00:17:08,230	programs. Uh, can you speak to how the DBE program is impacted by that letter or that interpretation that is being made by Sean Duffy. I haven’t heard That we won’t do the Yeah, I, I, I know that.

00:17:37,030	I attended the Minnesota, um, DOTs and PO coordinator call, and they had a update there as well and really it’s just the EEO and the planning focus areas are the only thing as of now that have been officially kind of do not do the letter from Duffy kind of stands in contrast to some of what we know is actually happening, so um I guess it’s like TPD for the time being, unfortunately.

00:17:53,100	I wish I had a better answer, but we don’t. OK. Thank you. OK, are there any other questions or comments regarding the self-certification. If not, uh, we would be looking for a motion to recommend approval of the update to the self-certification. Is there such a motion from the board. This is Jarek I moved to recommend approval.

00:18:24,030	Thank you, Jarek. We have a motion to recommend approval. Is there a second? Stere second. Thank you, Deirdre Roll call Steven Ben Erith Deidre Hughes Gabe Shell Greg Faser. Yes, Jarek Witness. John Psaki. Yes. Logan Bey Mitch Flanagan. Will Hutchins? Che Ripple. Yes. Motion passes. OK, moving on to number 4 on the agenda.

00:18:56,030	It is a 2025 safety policy study. Luke Champo is going to provide this update. Is he on with us? Hey Tre Re Paul ack members, can you hear me all right? Yes, we can. Thanks, Luke. Good morning. Good morning.

00:19:19,500	Uh, yeah, I’ll just, I’ll keep it brief, but a couple critical updates here um on Saturday we were at, uh, we had a pop-up event. At the Mandan Toy truck. From time was that At 10 to 2 Um So you’re out there for several hours, and there’s really good attendance, beautiful weather. Um, and received comments and feedback regarding where people feel unsafe traveling in the Bizan region.

00:19:51,030	And um We got pretty specific with stickers and then a comment cards that could be associated with those stickers, so there’ll be a lot of good comments to supplement our our ah. Data analysis, um. Ripple, do you have any additional feedback from that, that event you were, you were there on Saturday.

00:20:12,370	I was, and it was so busy that we didn’t even get a chance to count all of the dots on our maps, so, uh, we had 544 maps displayed out there and folks were coming in and regularly providing us comments and putting dots all over our maps, so, um, we kind of use those dots as a, as a gauge to to measure um our

00:20:35,300	attendance, if you would, because it gets a little hard to do that at these open public events, um. But it looked like it was pretty good, and I know when we were at the April 29th Earth Day festival.

00:20:54,030	We had basically the same format and we came away with well over 50 comments, um, provided there and I think that we’ve probably exceeded that with the touch of trucks, so we’ve had some good, good public outreach, um, events here in the last month. Thanks to the opportunity, Luke. You bet. Thanks for sharing.

00:21:18,700	Um To supplement that we’ve been behind the scenes working on the uh data analysis component of of the safety analysis, and I’m just gonna share my screen really quickly, um, to give you a heads up about something that You should be seeing this week, um. This is a web app with uh Our high injury network layers, and then there’s comment. comment tools here, so this will be sent out to uh the NPO and the steering committee.

00:21:40,030	For the safety policy study, ah, but we have broken this out as a modal high injury network analysis and um. There’s several layers which you can click on and off, and there’s a a.

00:22:08,770	corridors that are identified specifically where, you know, there’s a higher or the highest density of severe crashes, which include incapacitating injury crashes and fatal. crashes, so there’s several high injury network layers here um first being the all modes, so every mode of transportation. Second, Um, there’s, there’s also motorized, um, which includes like, for example, heavy, heavy vehicles. Um, along with other motorized modes, and then we split it out even further with uh passenger vehicles or autos, um, motorcycle.

00:22:41,530	Non-motorized, which includes bicycle and pedestrian. Um And then those are also split up here. And then it looks like we do have a crash density. I want to see if we can throw on the specific point. Um, crash point data here.

00:22:59,600	I, I think that might be a good way to supplement this as well. Um, and then of course with, with most EI products, um, you would have the ability to to click on specific data. This is going to be um Pretty coded, so.

00:23:22,430	So, so what I’m working on right now is uh uh our two memos, one being a crash trends summary memo, and then one also being a high injury network methodology memo which will will shed some insight into, you know, what the high ry network means what some of these Fields mean and how thresholds um Because it’s essentially a heat map and there are thresholds set by mode, which, which is what you’re seeing indicated on the screen, so there will be some

00:23:50,770	Background information to better understand what’s going on here, um, in the data. And then You’ll have the opportunity to please, you know, comment on specific locations via, you know, the common point tool, of course, um. You can add your comment. There’s also a line and a polygon.

00:24:15,300	Tool as well But I know how to operate this. I’ll I’ll stop sharing here. So please be on the lookout for, for this web app and then a couple um critical memos. That are analyzing the crash data.

00:24:39,300	And that’s going to Going to come to you, um, about 4 weeks in advance of the our next steering committee meeting, so they’ll have plenty of time ideally to take a look at that information, provide some feedback, or ask questions about methodology um as we move forward. I think those are the, the two biggest updates, I think, um. You know, our, our subconsultant has been working. to coordinate focus group meetings we’ve already had uh the uh emergency.

00:25:08,200	Personnel Um, focus group meeting, which was, was really insightful for our team and so please expect a some summary of public engagement to date at our next hearing committee as well because that’ll be an important Component of our analysis, you know, both qualitative, uh, like public comment and then quantitative through through data analysis.

00:25:37,070	All right, well, thank you very much, Luke, for the update and thank you very much for sharing that, uh, the web app and giving us a little preview of of what we’re going to be seeing there. Can you just remind me, I know that we have a steering committee coming, a steering committee meeting coming up in June.

00:25:54,030	Is it like June 23rd, or do you happen to know that day? Let me just double check. I think it’s the 26th, but let me just double check. Yeah, it’s Thursday, June 26th is the date. All right, thank you very much, Luke. You, you bet.

00:26:15,430	And I did want to just add that I know, um, Jolene is going to be conducting a, uh, maybe her final focus group meeting on Wednesday morning at 8:15, um, in the West Conference room of the Public Works building, uh, we will.

00:26:41,230	be hosting the MPO will be hosting a bicycle-friendly community workshop there beginning at 9, and so she’s hoping to get a really good contingent of active transportation advocates and representatives from the region along with perhaps, uh, transit users or transit representatives and uh maybe a couple of folks from the disabled, um, community. Um, to just kind of converge and uh talk through a few questions on that, on that focus group item, so. Um, I think that will be her final focus group that she’ll be conducting.

00:27:01,900	Are there any other questions on the, uh, safety policy study to date. Mm OK, thank you, Luke. You have a great day. You too. Thank you. You bet. Item number 5 on the agenda is a 2025 ITSRA update and Sherry Jad Hassan is going to provide an update for that. It’s still on.

00:27:46,700	He’s still on? Oh, he’s Sher John, I think you’re muted. I think that’s Can you hear me now? Yes, we can hear you now. Sorry about uh sorry about this. I was having I was trying to share my screen and uh uh I’m, I’m actually working from home today.

00:28:24,730	I’m a little bit under the weather, uh, and I’m happy that you can hear me, um. I’ll, I’ll share my screen with her with the presentation, uh, with your permission, uh, Cherry. Absolutely. Sorry to hear you’re feeling a little under the weather. Hopefully that’ll improve. So this is just a um very quick update on, uh, do you see my screen? Yes, we can.

00:28:51,330	OK. Um, so yeah, it will be a, um, pretty small update on uh what we’re working on, um, for the regional ITS architecture, um, pan update we are actually in the very um Early stages of that, uh, where we uh collect data from different stakeholders and therefore that we have done some group meetings, some, uh, individual

00:29:14,700	meetings, uh, to collect the required data for this, uh, for this update, and, uh, this is the uh task uh that you have, um, that I have, uh, presented, uh, in the last, um, tech meeting in February, so, uh, we are, uh, very close to the end of this data collection part.

00:29:36,170	And um, now we are currently working on, uh, providing um uh. A report up there or, or, or a report, uh, to, uh, all the stakeholders to understand if we are um missing some, um, critical information or if we need to uh add something or even if we have misinterpreted any of the information, so, um, the stakeholders will have uh

00:29:59,630	the opportunity to get back to us uh at this stage before, uh, before we dive in, um, into any of the inventory changes that’s going to take place. in the architecture.

00:30:22,570	So, um, in terms of the, uh, um, update work, um, we have the, we have our first group meetings with the transit, um, um, a transit group, uh, which was mainly the Bismarck Man and Transit executive Director, uh, on March 12 and uh there we uh we have identified some of the, uh, the, the new software system which will uh enable some additional, uh, some additional functional requirement in the architecture, uh, additionally.

00:30:45,200	the uh vehicle tracking system, uh, using the tablet will be updated in the information flow, uh, which will actually um create the option for any future integration, uh, for the transit if they, uh, ever want to adopt.

00:31:04,230	Um, on the same day we also met with our largest group for this project, uh, that was our emergency management group where we have representation from Burley County Sheriff’s Office, CEO ambulance, um, Manton Fire Department, highway patrol, uh, Morton County Emergency Management and Bismarck Police Department and as well as we had a representative from uh FHWA.

00:31:29,830	Um, on the 2nd day we had uh our we we met with the uh city of Manan uh Engineering department, Barley County Engineering and the DOT District uh engineering office at that time, Dean was, uh, um, with the with that department and I understand currently there is a change of role and Logan Baizi joined that uh that position, so, um, uh, in, in future, all my um communication will go with, uh, go with or go

00:31:52,870	to him. And uh on that meeting we also had the Bismsmotrophic engineer, um, um, from whom we learned about the fiber connection and um we are going to include the uh how the fiber connection is going to change some of the uh information flow, the communication flow that’s happening with some of the roadside elements.

00:32:15,230	And later on that day, our last group meeting was with the maintenance group where we had uh only Burley County and the DOTB is not. Of, um, since, uh, it was a, uh, uh, it was not, um.

00:32:40,530	Uh, uh, well represented, uh, so we have requested some uh additional individual meetings to ensure that we are uh we have more information that is needed for the maintenance and operation uh operation management in the Bismban area and we, we got very positive response from Morton County city of Bismarck, and the city of London Public Work. And uh from there uh we have already identified one of the um service package that we are going to uh propose as a.

00:33:00,670	Um, as in, uh, as a planned uh service package. So, uh, here is the, um, here is, uh, on your, um, meeting memo or or on your, um, meeting report you will see this, uh, this table where I have identified some of the um critical comments or critical uh changes that we are

00:33:20,470	going to bring, uh, one of the biggest uh challenges that, um, I’m going to update on this one is the uh IT data sharing challenges because uh. Uh, after, after our group meeting, uh, sessions we have, uh, done some uh uh one more group meeting with um Bismarck City Engineering as well as the, um,

00:33:42,870	their IT department. Although the IT department, there will be another IT department meeting which will come in uh probably uh around August, um, so over there we have identified uh what are the challenges that uh Bismarck City, um, um, city IT is uh facing in terms of uh um uh with uh with the implementation

00:34:04,170	of new IT rules and all, and uh that will definitely be identified as uh um in the um ITS architecture report. Um, uh, with that, uh, I also want to identify uh the some of the challenges, so or some of the changes that is, um, going into or that we are proposing at

00:34:24,530	this point of time for the Bismarck Mandan architecture. So currently, uh, there is no change in the user service areas, but uh we have uh as I said, we have identified one new service package which is the MC09 or infrastructure protection uh service package which will, uh, I’ll be proposing as a plan.

00:34:45,300	one and uh since I have uh talked to some of the, uh, um, I have talked to, uh, maintenance group, uh, mainly, um. The, um, uh, Morgan, uh, Morton County, um, uh, uh, public work or yeah, public works department, uh, so they have identified these MC09 as a uh as a uh probable uh service package, so I’ll put it over

00:35:08,770	there. That will go as planned, uh, with that, um, one of the planned service package which was uh in our last architecture that will move into uh existing service package, and that is PT.

00:35:31,700	07 or uh passenger counting service package since uh the use of the uh pass your tablet, uh, it will allow some driver driver input. I mean, it’s a manual driver input, but we can definitely identify it in the information flow for the for this architecture. Uh, one more service package that will go into the existing service package is the PS 02 or the emergency response service package.

00:35:51,630	So with uh all of those, um, the new changes will be, will, uh, staying with 24 existing service package. Uh, the plant’s status will remain the same since we moved on from the plant to existing and bring one from future to the plan, so it will remain 3 and the future status service package would be 5.

00:36:12,830	Uh, that’s actually all I had, uh, as a brief update for this one, if anyone has any questions, uh please feel free to um ask no. Thanks, Sherry Jad. Are there any questions from the tech? For Sherry Jad on the project. I did have one. I just, um. To be clear, we will be meeting with ITS group, um.

00:36:38,630	In June, is that correct? Yes, so it will be uh um communication group meeting and uh that will be more, uh, Um, they, they can, they can connect to the ITS architecture more when they see uh where are the um functional requirements are because right now when I talk to, let’s say Bismarck IT, I felt like they, they are

00:37:00,070	looking for the final goal because they’re in one of the, one of their initial comment was, uh, there are lots of information flow which was identified as a, as a future information flow. I propose that information flow.

00:37:19,030	Now, as long as we have those updated, uh, or, uh, until we update those, uh, using the information that we have collected this year, that may not reflect uh properly for them to understand where we are going with it, because once they understand that one, it would be much easier for them to, um, uh, relate to their work as well as what would be the additional challenges other than what we have, uh,

00:37:41,070	identified so far. So yes, there will be another. Me in, um, around August. OK, very good, thank you. Anything else to add on the ITS update? No, all right, well, Sherry Judd, you just, uh, get some rest and feel better. We’ll talk to you later. Thank you. OK. Thank you, Jerry Bill.

00:38:04,370	OK, uh, that leads us to our 2025 monitoring Report update that Steven will be providing for us. Kim, just a very brief update today, um. For you, the MPO has been holding biweekly meetings with HDR, our consultant, to review the existing report. Uh, we have completed an initial review, and we have set May 28th. Uh, at 1 p.m.

00:38:28,830	as the date for our monitoring report stakeholder workshop where we will review the document and collect suggestions for the update from jurisdictional staff. Many of you would be included, uh, in the invitation, uh, if you are able to make it either online or in person.

00:38:46,130	Uh, we will be in the David Black, or excuse me, uh, yeah, the David Baxter room on the 2nd floor, uh, in person, and we will also have a a teams option, um, so HDR has also begun to work on uh line for the new document, uh, we should be bringing a more substantial update to everyone in June at our meeting. Sounds good. Thank you, Steven.

00:39:04,470	Any questions for Steven? Alright Oh, how about an update on roadway projects through our jurisdictions, um. I believe Mitch Flanagan is online and I don’t want to, uh, neglect to To offer him a chance to update us, so why don’t we start with you, Mitch? Anything going on in Burley County? Yeah, to Ripple.

00:39:29,230	I have no update for that. Um, I tried to get a hold of Dan, um. Um, employees. Uh, I have no updates for Ber at this time. OK, thanks, Mitch. Uh, Greg, anything for the Lincoln area? Uh, not too much.

00:39:53,430	We do have uh some pavement, uh, larger pavement maintenance project, uh, coming up this summer, uh, should start the beginning of June. Um, that is about all we have at this point. OK. Thanks, Greg. Uh Jure city of Mandan.

00:40:18,830	We have an old red trail shared use path that is just kicking off and then our rapid rectangular flashing beacon project also we just completed a pre uh pre-construction meeting on that, but so that should be kicking off soon too. OK. And Gabe City of Bismarck.

00:40:39,170	Sure, we got a lot of things happening, but federal aid related, we have our South Washington Street Project from last year, uh, reconstruction that will set up some permanent pavement markings and some, you know, clean up type items or larger one that’s locally and state funded, uh, partially with some Flex dollars is the e-Century Avenue reconstruction on the east side of town. Uh, we have moved traffic, um, on, onto the roadway up to Stonewall Drive and then East Stonewall Drive is now a obliterated roadway. We’ll be here shortly.

00:40:59,170	So we’ll be maintaining access, but on temporary roads until we can get through the first couple of phases here. All right. Thank you, uh. Logan North Dakota DOT. Yes, we got our kind of 3 big projects or 161 Memorial Highway, and then the interstate Reconstruction East of town. Um, exit 161, um.

00:41:19,270	These rains haven’t been very good for any of these projects, so they’re kind of getting a little bit behind a week or two, but they’re gonna be uh building deck and pounding pile. A Memorial Highway also lost some time, but they’re going to be finishing up some storm sewer. possibly close 21st at the end of the week, depending how, how things kind of.

00:41:34,800	Go here, but, and then uh start storm to her next week, next Monday. And the interstate is just there, um, so plugging away at the interstate. OK, thanks, and I don’t want to forget about John Psyche. He still with us? Yes, I am.

00:41:56,100	We don’t have any construction to report, but the travel is a little bit challenging in certain areas of the county with all this rain, so that’s all I have. Uh, you guys have a lot of gravel roadways out in Martin County, don’t you? Yes, we do. OK. Well, good luck with all that and hopefully that rain, even though it’s welcome, um, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, so.

00:42:17,970	Hopefully we’ll find a balance here soon. Uh Is there any other business that anybody would like to bring before the board. Um All right, well, I just wanna remind everybody that the NPO is going to be hosting its first ever bicycle friendly community workshop on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, um, even though the

00:42:43,630	registration has closed if um you do have the availability in your schedule to join us Wednesday morning from 9 until 12, or Thursday morning from 9 until noon, I would just encourage, encourage you to come on down to the public works conference room.

00:43:02,830	in, um, for whatever time you can afford to spend with us and learn a little bit about the five Es of uh promoting bicycle friendliness in our communities, um, and then we will be also hosting a a bike audit the afternoon of um, Wednesday and, uh, Bismarck Parks and Recreation District has been good enough to coordinate with us and, and provide some of their, uh, bike share e-bikes

00:43:27,900	and bicycles. For that particular event, so we are looking forward to maybe a little, a little lightning of the rain for for that event at least, but um. And I, uh, yes, no I’m sorry, I just didn’t mean to interrupt.

00:43:46,730	Um, what if you are going to ride your own bike, what, what is the expectation of when we would be writing and doing things on site on a bicycle. Uh, so the bike got it itself will begin at 1 o’clock p.m.

00:44:10,030	at 6:27 West Arbor Avenue, which is the parks and rec uh shop location here in Bismarck, uh, will be mobilizing and setting out and there is a there is a route audit that’s been developed. Uh, we’ll be posting that onto our website and sending that out to any folks who have already registered for the, the ride.

00:44:29,830	In the workshop, but um, yeah, it’s gonna take us up through, uh, downtown Bismarck and then West over on Broadway and kind of uh north north side of Maine towards the Rosa Young Park and then cut south and cross the river. We’re gonna head into Man Down.

00:44:50,800	We’re looking at about a 7 mile ride, but um it should be a good ride taking us down into that Lakewood area 46th Avenue South Southeast McKenzie Avenue, um, and then ing back over on, on the expressway bridge, so, um, yeah, if, if you have a bike and you wanna ride, join us at one o’clock at the Bismarck Park shop the other events at Public Works don’t require the bike. Those are classroom situations, so yeah, you’re welcome.

00:45:16,430	Hope to see everybody there, um, additionally, just to follow up on uh the pavement condition analysis, um, project that we had. Performed in 2024, while that report was completed and presented in, uh, December and January, uh, we did have some outstanding paver training, and this is training that’s being presented to our local jurisdictional engineers by uh um QES, the, the firm that did the pavement analysis for us,

00:45:46,270	um, so it is a 16 hour train. session broken up into 44 hour training sessions, uh, to complete, um, a tutorial on how to use the paver uh management system to. Help assist uh your pavement management processes. Um And if there is nothing else. I will call the meeting Adjourned. Thank you very much.