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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 /> 18, 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 />