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CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON <br />DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION <br />Meeting Minutes <br />July 7, 2016 <br />CALL TO ORDER <br />The meeting was called to order at 5:05 p.m. in Room 1600 of the City Hall Ross Annex, <br />ATTENDANCE <br />The following Committee Members were present: Vicente Sarmiento <br />David Benavides <br />Staff present were: David Cavazos, City Manager; Hassan Haghani, Executive <br />Director/Planning & Building Agency; Fred Mousavipour, Executive Director/Public <br />Works Agency; William Galvez, City Engineer; Nabil Saba, Water Resources Manager; <br />Taig Higgins, Principal Civil Engineer; Jason Gabriel, Principal Civil Engineer; Melanie <br />McCann, Senior Planner; Jorge Garcia, Senior Management Assistant; Julie Castro - <br />Cardenas, Senior Management Assistant; Cory Wilkerson, Active Transportation <br />Coordinator; Alma Flores, Strategic Communications Manager; Lorrie Ortiz, PWA <br />Executive Secretary. <br />PUBLIC COMMENTS — Gilad Salmon, member of the Environmental & Transportation <br />Advisory Committee (ETAC), congratulated Chairman Sarmiento for his recent <br />appointment to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Latino Elected and <br />Appointed Officials (NALEO). Mr. Salmon also expressed that the agenda title of the <br />July 7, 2016 Council Committee meeting does not reflect that Councilmember Martinez <br />recommended the establishment of a new transportation committee at a City Council <br />meeting. As a member of ETAC, he suggested that attention be given to <br />Councilmember Martinez's recommendation for a monthly transportation commission, <br />as well as to concerns about safety, transportation and other related issues. It was later <br />clarified that the intent of the suggestion was not to create a third committee; but rather <br />to divide ETAC's duties into two separate committees, one of which would address <br />transportation -related items, and another to address environmental -related items. <br />AGENDA ITEMS <br />1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES — Special Meetings of February 11, 2016 and April <br />1& 2016. <br />Motion by Committee member Benavides and seconded by Chairman <br />Sarmiento to approve the Minutes, and approved unanimously by a vote <br />of 2:0. <br />2. RESIDENT REQUEST TO ESTABLISH A NEW TRANSPORTATION <br />COMMISSION <br />13A-11 <br />