Folsom City Council Regular Meeting

>> good evening everyone. We want to call order to the fulsome city council meeting for tuesday, February 22. -- 27th. >> council member sheldon? >> howell?P wwwwwwwovlh~ moran?Zuwwwwwwww;a nicholas? If you would please rise and turn for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with nobody and nation -- and justice for all. >> for those of you coming out for the first time he picked a good night. You should be out of here in a reasonable time. For those that come on a regular basis, you're welcome. We will be getting out at a reasonable time. With that, with the city clerk please show the next item. >> that is the agenda update. We have one item that has been -- amended. Item 7k has been amended and is available to the public at the back of the room.>> okay. Next item? >> the first scheduled presentation item tonight is item 5 a. This is the presentation regarding highway 50 integrated core door management. >> good evening. I think I caught to this thing in mid-sleep mode. Okay. I got it. good evening Mister Mayor and members of the council. I am mark rock vendor and engineer with the public works department. In addition to your staff role in managing transportation system here in the city of folsom, we also collaborate with the regional transportation partners on projects and programs outside the city that impact our residents and those that work in the city of fulsome. Some examples of the regional calibration include our work with sca, the highway 50 tma, and obviously regional transit. The connector project but most important, perhaps to be the work with cal tran as it relates to highway 50. One such effort that we are currently involved in, is the highway 50 integrated core door management plan. This is a joint collaboration with the cal tran and various local agencies along the highway 50 core door. With a goal to develop technological and operational improvements along the parallel routes of highway 50. So that we can manage traffic that has been displaced from highway 50 three major incidents. This evening which leads to welcome the deputy director here of planning, local assistance and sustainability. For cal tran to stick three. And joining marlon this evening is alex wong and brian all can no. We will be providing an understanding of integrated core door management, the current status for the highway 50 icm and fulsome's rural plan. With that I will to the presentation over. >> good evening. Thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. Today, we wanted to talk about the partnership that we have not only with the city of fulsome but with other agencies on that fifth -- and this also includes sack rt, and other agencies. At this but we want to do is provide you an overview of what or dork corridor is. The benefit that it provides, and what it describes. And some basic next steps. So, facilities and services are often managed independently. Efforts to reduce and manage congestion have worked on optimizing performance and individual assets. A division of integrated management is transportation network will realize significant improvements of people through institutional collaboration and practice integration of existing infrastructure along major core doors. Answer and icm approach, transportation professionals in the core door will manage its as a multi modal system and make decisions for the benefit of the core door as a whole. One of the things that we really focused here is the fact that it all basically includes the necessary elements as modes of transportation and I will get a little more into that. It has elements such as arterial signals and what we are wanting to do with the technologies that makes those signals able to talk to our meters. We also want to ensure that we are incorporating light mail -- light rail and carpool lanes. And leveraging -- without leveraging the bike trail. This is a graphical representation of what the integrated core door management might look like. So you have different facilities, local street networks, and you might have train service, in our case it is the sacramento light rail. We have freeway facilities which include a carpool lane, the transit agencies May have automated vehicle location systems. And really, the goal is for all of these different elements and assets to be able to talk to one another. In that way we are operating as one seamless transportation system. Really the partner agencies will still be able to manage their individual systems independently. The goal is to be able to work together to manage the core door as a unified system and combine these advanced technologies and innovative practices. So, this is not the only place that we have implemented the management. It has been done all across the country. Specifically in california it has been implemented in san diego on the I-15 core door and also in oakland on the I-80 core door. Right now, we are in the implementation phases of los angeles where you are looking at the 110 into 10 core doors. There is also discussion in the san mateo area implementing it on the 101 core door. The beauty is that it is not the one-size-fits-all. You are looking at the different needs of each core door and assets and basically providing a customized approach that fits the needs of that core door. And that is what we are looking at here in sacramento. So there are a couple of reasons why we selected the us 50 core door as the pilot. The first, is that it includes all the necessary modes of transportation. What we have done, is basically split up us 50 into three different segments. Segment one dish number one goes from improve -- improvise boulevard. Segment two from howell avenue is inclusive with the county and in segment number three, fulsome in el dorado county is going to go from folsom boulevard to cameron park. In terms of implementation, the lowest hanging fruit, will be segment number two. It already has a lot of key elements and allows us to move a little more quickly. Another reason why we selected that core door is the collision and incidents. And I say collisions, they are type of incidents that involves any vehicle. This could be collisions with no injuries, or ones with moderate energy -- injuries or major injuries. any that chp receives from the public or state local agencies related to situation. Having said that, us 50 is the second highest in reported collisions. It is the second highest in the number of reported incidents, and the second highest in vehicle miles traveled in the region. As well as hours delayed. Within the region. Over 60% of the congestion delay in the region is accounted for in the core door. When incidents happen, that is when you have to have the havoc on our freeways in local streets. So how are we currently doing operations right now? Basically our infrastructure is not fully utilized. Not to the full potential. Because we are operating our systems independently. Whenever an incident does happen, on the us 50, we pick up the phone and work with the -- chp. We work with service control and other entities to be able to coordinate our response. What we are really talking about is trying to make that more efficient and collaborative. And basically be able to automate some of those processes. >> with regard to the occasion between agencies, we have some of the issues that happen include on folsom boulevard between iron point and intel. Because the city has an issue with archie having control of the signals on folsom boulevard. so that measures up the trap dish traffic there. I've personal called and issues very of had lights on east bidwell that are malfunctioning on the weekend. And, my apologies to all the staff people that said what are we doing about this? The answer, obviously was nothing. We cannot really do anything. So those are some of the things that we can hopefully coordinate and get fixed faster. >> now would be the goal. Basically to have our systems work together to improve the mobility within the core door. So I will talk about that in the next step, but basically getting agreement and having that early communication amongst different agencies to be able to make decisions more effectively. >> is that going to and fun -- include funding? >> there currently with rt according to but rt is telling us they have yet to be integrated and they don't want to pick up the task to do it. It would be great if we could get them to capture it in the city and get them all on the same page so we can work together and hopefully get some accomplished there. A >> that is really the goal for all of us to work together. We don't want this necessarily to be a valid approach where each agency is acting independently. We want to be able to work together as a group and take advantage of different funding programs. when we all go in to that request and be able to have a unified approach to get the funding. >> did you want to comment on that? >> I was just going to say that was a good point carrie. The fulsome representative on the regional transit board. There's a lot of activity along with what you are just describing, and I will just pass along my thanks to kal tran for all of their support with his some of these grant applications that we submitted lately. So we really appreciate that. Spent most certainly and we will offer any support that we have. Okay, this is what to the responses right now on incidents in us 50. If you could just imagine yourself, on the freeway and traffic starts backing up, you have one of two choices. The first is to sit in traffic and wait for everything to clear through. The second, is to attempt some kind of various streets go through. What is happened is everyone has a smart phone. It used to be people that were familiar with the street networks now, would give you detours and it was not really an issue. But now what we are finding is with google's -- google maps you are sitting in traffic you plug in your destination and, it is consistently figuring out what the lowest duration in terms of the commutes to where you need to go. so what happened is it is sending people through all kinds of neighborhoods in school zones. They were never intended to be able to carry the level of traffic that is running through them now. And so, what we want to do is move from that approach. Where we have smart phones that are taking people in various directions, basically we want to work together to have a more collaborative approach. With this is really doing is creating a path of least resistance. By coordinating different systems together and travel information, rent metering and transit are all interconnected and integrated. And this would basically improve communications for a nation between -- communications between local agencies. We are working ahead of time to come up with a predetermined parallel route that can be designed to handle bigger traffic volumes. And the goal is to be able to clear these incidents off and be able to get the traffic flowing faster. The rent metering will create a more direct path and this will basically detour traffic away from residential streets and back to freeways. That is really the goal and more importantly, this is creating a faster route and will be able to manipulate third-party applications such as google maps and fighting technology with technology.>> so is that going to include the connector? >> that will include certain sections of that.>> great. >> one of the benefits is improving mobility and intrusion. Streamlined and better coordinate a response to incidents, improving alternative mode choices by providing more real-time information and then, reducing greenhouse gases. Really at the end of the day, the goal is to more effectively direct travelers around incidents. Now, intelligent transportation system is not anything new for this region. We have been working together collaboratively with everyone for the past five years. This really started out with the sacramento transportation areawide network. Or the star net. It is really an him ou that provides long-term vision and goals in terms of it s deployment and intelligence information systems. It provides the structure for regional it s architecture and regional communications network as well as responsibility for maintaining intelligence transportation systems. Last year we've completed our integrative corridor plan with the agencies and we are also working right now with stay cog with the regional architecture implementation plan. And so, what we are wanting to do now is to make sure we are doing the outreach and talking with -- various elected officials about icm providing education here. our next steps now are to start working with each jurisdiction on the charter. And this is basically going to provide a framework in terms of how we are going to work together toward implementing icm. We various staff level work groups that are currently meeting and have been meeting for the last two years. We have an executive management group with quarterly public works meetings where we are talking about some of these issues and being able to provide strategic direction to the working groups. It is also important to note that we are kicking off doing some implementation of icm in the us 50 core door. And so that is going to be part of the state -- core door -- and so that is going to be able to be part of the local elements. We mentioned, some of the assets in terms of funding and that is really a big strategy for us, being able to leverage our state dollars and make it more attractive by lowering the barrier to entry in terms of implementation for local systems. That is something we are going to continue to do in the region and we have done it for lots of different projects. In fact for us 50, the carpool lanes, we were leveraging state dollars to be able to take care of certain elements to that project. We are competing for other dollars to complete other aspects of it as well. That is a big strategy for us in terms of funding. And that concludes my presentation. Am not sure if you guys have any questions. >> with regard to finding funding going forward, I am happy to help in any way that I can. I am the city's representative to the fda board. And I am actually an engineer and former employee myself. And it with help from the director and the audience so thank you for being here. I'm happy to help in any way that I can. >> we appreciate that offer and your support. >> no questions for my and we just want to say on behalf of -- behalf of the state of the city of fulsome the partnership is really a great partnership. A lot of good things coming down the line. You can always count on our cooperation and expertise to get on with this and many more things. Did I not also read, I think you guys did a cold application to the city of sacramento to finally put the rest of that missing carpool lane in? The city of sacramento city limits finish the carpool lane? >> yes. The plan is basically on us 50 from the I-5 interchange all the way to the what interchange we want to close that gap. >> I want to say thank you for that because that was a heated battle almost 15 to 18 years ago. So it is tough to get that one done. >> I think it was actually 20 years stephen. >> I'm slightly foggy there. So we appreciate that very much. And please take that back to the district that we are vitiate the work you have done.>> I work with district 3 all the time. So I know she does fda and rt. So I'm very familiar with her work because we work with your office all the time.>> we greatly appreciate that. Thank you very much. >> a shout out to mark here, pretty much whatever he had to do with transportation he was my staff member here to stay in the connection. I think he does rt sometimes and sometimes he does fda. Is also the executive director for the railroad core door -- and my point is you have a really good person to work with there. He is on top of all transportation stuff that affects the city of fulsome. >> and I want to give a lot of credit to mark and the rest of the staff. Of the years it has been extremely easy working with the city. And for us to be able to come together and actually do innovative things like this, because we think about transportation things change quickly. And they're going to continue to change quickly. It is important that we work together to try to find innovative ways to improve mobility. >> if we can talk about some interchanges here to this that would be great as well. >> thank you. Anything else would you will day she would like to add? >> no sir. >> thank you again gentlemen for coming down and doing the presentation. We greatly appreciate it. Clerk if you could introduce the next item. >> your next item is presentation item 5b. This is the presentation regarding the line bike bicycle sharing program. >> good evening again. I am the head of the public works department. >> I'm wearing another hat now. >> wearing my highway 50 tm in hats. >> is that why you are challenged? Because you were so many different hats? >> yes. Exactly. Okay so some context here for the presentation this evening. The city of fulsome is a member of the highway 50 transportation management agency the 50 tma. For those that are not familiar, it is a public and private partnership of agencies and large employees along the highway 50 area working together with the goal to reduce and -- peak hour traffic demands on highway 50. We are here well this evening. >> some of the strategies promoted by our organization include carpools, alternate work schedules, and alternate transportation modes such as transit and walking as well as cycling. one of the tma's current efforts with respect to bicycling as a commute alternative, was just to explore the feasibility of a bike share system along the highway 50 area. Bike sharing is essentially a low-cost bike rental program that also incorporates smart phone technology. And it is oriented toward specific target audiences. Whether it is commuters, students, or tourist. Depending on what the market is. The aim of the tma at this time, is to initiate a 12 month trial period to determine if a bike share program in fulsome or cordova is viable. For fulsome, the initial focus would be the iron point road area. We are trying to link the iron point light rail station to the federal major employers along the highway 50 area most notably that will be intel, -- anheuser and also vsp is a key player in the tma. Even though they are not on their line here they are anxious to produce made in the trial program. The tma -- the so, tma formed a selection committee. And line bike was the overwhelming favorite of that selection committee. They already have growing interest to expand the program in fulsome even though we have not rolled the program out yet. The greater fulsome partnership and towards number -- bureau can see the benefits of having bike share available at hotels and shopping centers as well as other major employers around the city. As well as all three light rail centers. >> with that be focused on this district? >> that is certainly a possibility. Certainly including the historic light rail station and some of the other public gathering places. >> your staff is currently working on a number of understandings would line bike to allow their bikes to be staged on city property during the initial trial period. One of the key concerns that has been raised, throughout the vetting of this process is a concern about whether or not the bikes May be left on sidewalks or in front of businesses creating a sense of clutter. We have been reassured that they will have staff that will respond rapidly to find their bikes. They have gps on them and have stage them back where they belong. We are going to assist with that by modifying our reporting app to have a line by -- line bike reporting category that will go directly to customer service. So this will not involve a great deal of city of fulsome staff and time. >> we have integration into that app? >> we will be looking into that. Primarily what will happen, is if a member of the city of fulsome public reports a bike, the email goes directly to their customer service for their response. Instead of filtering it through the city's desk. >> so that could be one of the key evaluation criteria during this trial month to see whether or not any of these incidents or other issue that the public has, we just want to vet this through the trial run period. And of course line bike wants to see the demand. So this evening, we are pleased to have with us sam channel from line bike. And liz will be giving us a brief overview of the company and the products as well as the mobile app. Liz and sam martel are all available to answer any questions you May have about the program, and if there are no questions for me I will go ahead and turn it over to the presentation. >> thank you. My name is liz caesar and I look at line bike. In full transparency this is my first time presenting to city council so bear with me. There are a few things you wanted to cover and first that was the presentation on who we are, and what we hope to achieve. And then we will open the floor for any questions that you might have. >> so why are we building line bike? We are building it to revolutionize urban and city mobility. There's a number of reasons why we want to do that. First and last mile of the biggest priority. We look at these two hotspots on why and where we should locate our bikes so that they can be utilized in the most effective manner. It also reduces local pollution and has a more vibrant local community. So currently, we are in 45 U.S. Communities. And that means some very small communities like tahoe and we are in south san francisco but we also large cities such as seattle, dallas and washington dc. As you can see, we had a couple more pop up this last month. So what sets line bike apart? A couple of things I want to focus on is that we are american founded and american- owned. So we are just down the road, and it came right up this afternoon. We also have bay area bike lanes so we are in for the long run and we are american run overall. So we also have a big focus on conceding to the city. That is our biggest driver because we want to work with you guys to build an effective and efficient program whether that is finding hotspots or maintaining a sustainability of the program. A little bit about our app, it is very simple. You take more or less 4 steps here. You find the app you find a bike, you unlock it with the qr code where you type in the keypad number on the back. You unlock it, go for a ride to the grocery store, to a gas station, traced data train station or whatever and you lock in the back. I am happy to demonstrate that after the presentation is over. So little bit more about our bikes, and they are safe, reliable and smart bikes. What is that mean? They are 3g and gps enabled. So you know exactly where the bikes are, where they are going and that leads us to get great data on your transportation in your city. But we also have safety tested our bikes and they pass all regulations as well as we made adjustments to make them theft proof. We have the best tested and they are 100% available on your street. Okay a little bit more we have our regular bikes but we have line e. The two new products and this is one of them. It is a petal assist electric bike. They are petal assist in that a few days after you stop pedaling the torque will activate the battery so you will start to get a little more. It maxes at 15 miles per hour but if you take it for a spin it's really an unbelievable thing. It gets you up there without breaking a sweat. And if you move away from the first and last mile it makes it more 5 to 10 miles. It maxes at about 62 miles in terms of range.>> when he said it maxes out does that battery die? >> yes the battery has to be charged. But you haven't on the ground teen the contained out the battery and track it back in the app. >> exactly. >> we also have the line x which is the electric scooter. They are zippy and smaller more agile than the bikes. And honestly they are fun to ride. If you give them a shot, if you're uncomfortable riding a bike or you're in a dress and don't listen on a bike it is a great alternative. We also have great affordable pricing. Which is a dollar for every 30 minutes. Your seven monthly membership for 30 hours for 100 rights. And if you have an at edu email address to get 50% off. Finally, we manage our applications in a very interesting way. We have an on the ground operations team. What is that mean? It is really threefold. First they get the bikes where they need to be. And then there's a big hill and you guys have an electric bike we are going to make sure that there bikes at the bottom of that hill so that people can get up that hill. Second, they maintain customer service. We also have a 24 hour customer service line. And writers can either put the bike in maintenance mode or shoot a text, or give us a call and we will get back to them within two hours. That means our team is coming out to the field and fixing the bike or taking the bike back to our warehouse to make sure that it was 100% before continues to ride. And last but not least, there are also communities and our forward facing folks. You will see that farmers markets, at parades, they will be the face that you guys will be most familiar with. We also use data to make city mobility smarter. So for us, that means we are able to track all of the data such as writer time, and distance as well the street- level map so that we can go in and effectively run a good program from our operational side. But we also give that information to you guys see you can figure out the top objectives for mobility whether that is certain bike areas or bike lanes our data helps you make those decisions. Last but not least, we have a really experienced team with experts in finance, mobility, we also have a really strong government relations team we have been on that side of the table as well, and we have people from all over coming together to serve this community. Finally, what it boils down to is three things. Bikes, which you had to see for yourself, the app and the team. Our team is comprised of staff at the operation and government operations. Basically all working together with you to solve mobility in a cutting-edge way. >> before he you do the bike is there any questions because we three of request to speak, and then we will have her demonstrate.>> one of the measurable benchmarks you guys are just what are the measurable benchmarks? >> that is a great question. I think what we tend to do especially with launching, is how we operate one bike per 100 residents. What we will do is start with that baselevel and then start to scale. We look at writer time and distance as well as talking about off team to make sure we are hitting the hot speights -- hotspots you are hoping to hit as well. We are also just looking for interactions with the bike especially with e bikes or scooters. >> I am ready to stand by. >> our first speaker is michael burkart. He will be followed by will compton. >> liz just wanted to sit on over there and we will get these questions you have to answer.>> good evening. Mister Mayor and other members of the council my name is michael burkart. I'm the vice President Of the bicycle advocates. I'm joined by others to show our support for this bicycle sharing program. We are committed to making bicyclists this bicycle safe and accessible for residents and visitors of the city of folsom. We believe that ethical sharing as well as other forms a bicycle rental pain important role to make it a viable transportation option for more people. As more people have access to bicycles, we can anticipate less traffic, injection days congestion and improve public health. Put simply, a bicycle sharing program is a big win for the city of folsom. With that said there are many areas the city can improve to make bicycling safer for both bicyclists and drivers. We look forward to working with the city council and staff to address those issues. For tonight we just wanted to share our support.>> welcome.>> we are excited to be here. >> and you get those ideas coming up we can take care of some of them directly without having to stand here and go through them make sure you exchange information. Welcome back. >> next speaker is will kempton. And he will be followed by tony powers.>> good evening. I am with the greater full some partnership. I reside at one 40 feather circle. I am the Chairman Of the parking ministration commission. We have to say that our partnership has been working in collaboration with the highway 50 tma in the city staff as well as the ranch of court over on this plan for many months. Many of our business is in full some have actual expressed a serious interest in bike share. Not just as a first and last mile option but making short trips during the business day. Fox grow, kaiser safe just to name a few. We think there are other opportunities from a tourism aspect from respect of replacing the bicycles at the hotels and May be other opportunities with college and certainly as accountable howell indicated the historic district. Just to name a few. We support implementation of the effort with the line bike and we look forward to continuing to do what we can to make the program a success. Estimator we were hopeful, as I discussed with you previously that we would have in addition to the regular line bike and the e line bike, they also provide a scooter that you saw on the screen. We were going to put a temporary class to bike lane on the carpet, cal tran agreed to provide a cushion in the event that we were not able to stop, but we were hopeful to be able to offer the councilmembers an opportunity to ride on the scooter which is a lot of fun.>> we hope that this is a successful program. And as I say we are going to do what we can to make it a success.>> next speaker is tony powers.>> good evening tony. >> good evening Mister Mayor and council members. I am glad to see everyone is back. It was never really gone it was just hibernating. So, I interrupted as the chair to the tma, I wear a lot of hats. Not as many as mark but I wear a lot of hats. But, we really pleased to have the opportunity to work with the city on this one. Along with the city of court over to join this program. As mentioned it is really about transportation. To quote a famous but now disgraced bike racer it is not about the bike, and in this case it's not even about the bicyclist. Bike share is about the people who don't bike on a regular basis. Statistics from other cities who have used bike share show that in the neighborhood of 25% of the users had not ridden a bike more than once a month in the last year. It's not your bailey dave staley by community that using it. It puts new people out there. So we like to think of it as an opportunity to create more movement. It falls right on that first presentation. Think of it as another wheel in the transportation system. We are looking forward to it and think you. Necklace? You are up. >> by the way you're doing a good job. We are not hostile up here. >> so you unlock the bike through this app here. These guys are so eager I ran into them at 5:30 am and they talked at 5:30 am. Did you find something to eat somewhere? >> I did. >> did you ride your bike? >> you had to set it outside? did I read that there are some bikes it don't have solar panels? >> there actually some in the basket. >> it would be nice if we could get sound somehow. >> we have something here for you. >> let's test this out. Just go ahead and toss it to them. >> it does a lot there. >> okay so in the front we have the solar panel here. Which is great. It powers our smart bike. So this is where it all powers from. This is where the data comes from, and it's how you unlock the black as well. >> sam is pulling out -- >> what if you enter? >> sam has that. >> it's in final testing right now. We are still working on the back of that. >> that's okay. That's no problem. >> with the qr codes here and the bike number here and here. And then our shifter is here for safety. >> so we had to turn it into maintenance mode so no one else really does that. >> what that does is shows the floor panel powers the lock. The lights are powered here in the front. The idea being that it always has power and the ability -- mobility and light for the front and back whether there is light out or not. The seat is adjustable up and down, the front and rear brake. But it's a bike. Hopefully it gets used here. >> we are looking forward to it. Because we were here when we approved the bike share program in sacramento. And I was the first to say that we needed something in full some. Some glad that you guys are here. Any other questions for liz and her team? >> you want a ride? >> no I don't think so. How do you deter someone picking that bike up and taking it? What about someone physically taking it? Any can track it and sue them, but how you do that? >> we want to make sure the people at home can hear you so come back up to the microphone. >> great question. Because our bikes are smart it has a gps technology in it so we can track it anytime. Even if the bike, for some reason gets tampered with, our app tracks all of that. If you mess with the bike or the lock it has an alarm. It will say please unlock me to ride me. So there is that option as well for combating that issue. >> where do you control the data from? Where do you monitor it at? >> all of our data is housed in the U.S. It is through the app.>> but where do they physically see it?>> where are they at is it going to be monitored? >> yes. We will have a team on the ground here to monitor every bike. Not only will they check for bikes in maintenance mode but they will run patrol to circle around and make sure that the bikes are in commission and top shape. >> any more questions for liz and her team?>> we just heard a long list of places that these might be, are there any plans to have them at city hall? >> there is actually been quite a lot of interest in the city employees who have seen this who want a small fleet here for a quick jaunt to the store or elsewhere like a quick lunch trip. So I think that is and augment to the original plan that we are going to consider. I did want to embellish on a couple of points here. The initial proposal I think was touched on 60 bikes as the initial plan to be stage throughout the area. In the recent meetings with a greater fulsome partnership that number has already approached 100. When we start adding the light rail stations and city hall. So we will probably be adjusting that number initially. And of course line bike will balance their fleets over time based on demands and on the path and trips that are taken. Our initial fleet will be made up of e bikes and eight speeds. There are also the three speed and scooter. And those can always be incorporated if needed. A couple of other things I want to point out, the bike has airless tire so they are solid you don't have to worry about flat tires. Is my understanding the components are all specifically engineered. They do not fit a standard toolset. So no one can come with a european allen wrench and dismantled the bike. They are all protect these proprietary parts. >> that's a very good point. >> is there any financial impact to the city or is this been tested? >> we have no financial responsibility whatsoever. It is fully financed by line bike. It is there risk. Our only involvement is the mo you that will allow them to stage the bikes on city property. We have to define specific locations where they can be parked. I am not sure that it was stated clearly, but a lot of you are familiar with other bike shares that you have seen in large cities like san francisco where the bikes are staged in their own distinct locking corral, these bikes will be staged just like this. Just in a row for someone to take it. And that is what keeps the cost down. The cost to the user and does not require any subkeys for the city. >> are you considering the college? >> the college is also being considered yes. >> any further questions? >> thank you mark and liz. It was that wonderful and looking forward to seeing these limegreen puppies across the city. i think we spent almost 3 years trying to figure out what was here after the sacramento demonstration and how to get here quicker. We need to reinvent -- event -- reinvent the wheel. >>> next item is item 5 see. A presentation on city of fulsome communications and public information programs. >> christine? >> that evening. >> introduce yourself when you're ready. >> my name is christine bring her can communication manager for the city of fulsome. I am pleased to share with you an overview of our cities communication program. The city regularly and can -- proactively provides timely and relevant information to residents, businesses, prospective job creators community organizations and the media. Take a multifaceted approach when it comes to communication with our strategy and toolbox. Use a blend of new and traditional tactics to make sure that all the information is out there. Our city printed newsletter is printed and distributed on a bimonthly basis. With more than 29,000 residents and businesses impacted each year. Our weekend digest is distributed every monday and reaches more than 8500 residents with information about the city's programs, citizens -- and upcoming events. The city has nine departments combined with 22 social media platforms including facebook, twitter, instagram, pinterest and youtube. The combined reaches more than 52,000 people. The cities can indication programs are increasingly requiring or rather increasingly requiring social media. Social media is a fundamental shift in how we are communicating with information about the city. An example, in 2015 or rather January 2015 you had 280 followers on twitter. Today we have more than 1700. During that same time span, we added roughly 4000 additional followers on our facebook page. Social media also has a long dish allowed us the opportunity to advertise in an affordable manner and we are able to pay for or boost a certain post to drive attendance or increase awareness about a given topic. We've also started producing a series of videos to inform the community about our different programs and services. They are produced on a regular basis around monthly. And shared to the social media networks and publications. I am going to show you a recent example the video that was produced at the library. >> these videos can be found on the video section of our webpage as well as social media channels. The cities reporting apps allow them to report non-emergency request such as abandoned vehicles, and burnout streetlights. Staff members receive a request they are able to acknowledge it has been received, routed to the proper department and update to the request as information is available or the issue is resolved. Early 2000 residents use our app. Emergency notifications send information by text or email about pressing safety matters such as road closures accidents storm response and localized flooding and fires. With more than 4000 subscribers and want to see that number triple. Drop counter is our new information for conservation information. Currently more than 3600 community members use this app. >> the representative site is one of our primary tools to distribute the information to the public. More than 2 million visitors annually we see it as a beauty's busiest public lobby. We are currently working on site structuring and content update which we hope to have completed by July. The cities park and recreation guide is distributed for more than 29,000 residents. It informs the community about programs and special events opportunities offered by the recreation department. We are working on a redesign of the activity guide. As you can see the on your screen, that will be available later this year. We regularly run advertisements in the fulsome telegraph. They inform the community about services and not just distributed to everyone in the city. Our freeway signs are located over the automall and they reach 350,000 motorists each day by each line. The sign outside of the community center reaches 16,000 motorists a daily. -- 16,000 motorists daily. >> we worked to get a variety of topics out from important fulsome events. We also work on national media and other local interest stories in our community. The parks and recreation write a monthly column -- column and have a monthly one in the telegraph as well. Special events allow us to share information. It informs the business community and the public about important information to the 3000 people who work in the community. Our annual city council meeting happens in May and it helps us explain what it takes to run a community. We work with a lot of organizations to receive feedback including ground baking's and ribbon cuttings. We offer community members and students toward city hall on a regular basis. Our community partners help us to disseminate information through websites and other information tools. That includes the friends group, the school district and the greater fulsome partnership. Residents are encouraged to stay informed and get involved in the community. And this concludes my presentation. Are there any questions? >> so I am going to actually help you get up to 12,000. to me that is probably one of the most important apps you can have on your phone. I would like to say that it touches every potential emergency and have 4000 is good. But we really need to get to almost everyone in the city. Everyone needs to have this app. They can find it through fulsome.Ca.Us. So we will figure out a way on a monthly basis to make sure people are signed up to that. >> just a quick suggestion, on my utility bill I just do the paperless stuff and get a nice email and I am trying to think, does the email reminder have a link? I never think about the utility bill and I'm certain it could actually have some pertinent information there. Remind me, the email has a reminder to click on if you want to see the utility bill insert? Or like when I pay online with each check or whatever? I can't think I'm being reminded of that, so can we look at that and make sure that people who are doing all of this online do not completely Miss Information that could be there? And I might be missing something. Or just blowing through it. >> that is a great suggestion. >> I could not tell you what was in my last utility bill inclusion. So just a reminder for those out there did deal with that. >> I've watched you since I've been here. watched everything going and a 1000 all the way to 5000 facebook is tremendous. But at this point I would like to see more of a campaign based around the quickfix. I answer a lot of questions on social media but most of them don't know c?. So I want to see if maybe we can allocate some resources here and it can even be on the same. I think it resonated pretty well.>> I push it pretty good on twitter, instagram and facebook as well. Because I would like to see at a minimum everyone in the city have that. I would like to double that number if possible. We will keep pushing and pushing. Very good presentation though. >> all I can say, the many years I've been on here, this is really tremendous. The information that you pass on to whatever media is fantastic. I enjoy it. And I like the hardcopies because they can read them easier. But you're very good. >> I appreciate that very much. >> christine and I put our group together, and we let people know there are so many different mediums out there to know what is going on within the city limits. There is so much. And we always tell people, if you don't know what's going on it's probably because you aren't paying attention. So we will continue to boost the presence of not only our initial sequence but that might be our theme for the year because there is a lot going on and it's really easy to find out where it's going on and how it's going on. All the different opportunities that we have. I know it's a lot of work for you christine, but you are doing an amazing job and we're going to let you keep going forward. Thank you for all of your hard work.>> I just want to add my thanks, and remind people that whatever the medium is, you need to go look for it. Because the city of folsom is not going to be writing a check for 10 grand a month. So you might actually have to put a couple of keystrokes in in order to find out what is going on. >> very nice job. >> next item? >> it is a schedule presentation 5b. This presentation is for fiscal year 16-17 and economic overview for fiscal year 18-19. >> jim we always did they should save the best for last. >> Mister Mayor members of the council, tonight, I am going to present to you the results of fiscal year 16-17 comprehensive annual financial report. And also we will begin talking about the development of the budget. That budget for fiscal year 18- 19. And get guidance on how we're going to deal with that budget. To just start off, we had a strong economic environment the past year. Certainly on the national scale there and confidence. On a more local level, home prices are up and building permits are up. Home fields are up and employment is up. Unemployment is down. So we can't get much better than those figures. I will show you a few of those, with the fulsome unemployment rate every January we measure it it is at 2.For as of January 18. We are at full employment. We had the same number of jobs offered in fulsome as we have adults who are working age. The mean average price has grown at about 6% rate. This is all homes both new and existing. For 17-18 that means that the average was 525,000. Our auto sales have been going up in the last call among the ranks. They are tending to flatten out at this point. We still have some small growth however. The comprehensive annual report I am presenting, is a final, official and audited statements. It has been audited by a cpa firm and we do have an unmodified or clean opinion to all of the statements. When we start preparing the budgets, we generally find these four principles. Sustainability and finances. To be able to sustain the services to improve them. Certainly transparency is a big issue for us. So we try to make our financial position through the capper and financial problematic transparency to the budget. When we adopt the budget, we are taking on responsibility for fiscal accountability. And the capper, is the score sheet for that. Certainly we want to be responsive to the community and the governing body as well as other stakeholders in the programs and services that we offer. As the general fund for the 16- 17 year, we had revenues of 82 million.6. And the fund balance grew to 15 1/2 million. That is almost 20% of expenditures and the policy is 15%. We have exceeded that with the direction from you. To continue to build. You can see, from the prior two years we've had continuous growth in our revenues. At about a 6% level and that is an important point that we will talk about a little bit later in terms of maintaining the sustainability. Again, the same balances continue to grow. Just in looking at our major revenue categories, probably tax and sales tax is the largest revenue sources and they account for 56 of our revenue. You can see, charges for services have continually gone up. The vehicle license fee as well which makes up more than three fourths of that amount. Transfer in is up in this last year because we use equipment replacements on the budget which were one time charges for operations. And again, our revenue has gone from 7785. Which is a little over 5%. On average. our major expense category, we have a couple here the salaries have gone up a little over 3%. To 34 million. Benefits have been the largest increase and a lot of that or rather most of that has been our purse increase. It has been relatively flat the last two years. The capital outlay has grown up to about 2 million and our debt service remains roughly the same. Payments are little different but the debt has not changed or entered into any more debt. When we look at it by program area and expenditures, we see that this has been fairly steady over a number of years. More than just these four. Public safety is right around 60%. Community development and public works has grown somewhat and that was intentional because we had standards that we had to meet for public works in terms of minimum contributions. Parks and rec, have grown a little bit. Is almost flat in general government non-departmental has gone down over the last few years. This is just the chart on the unassigned general fund balance. You've seen this before where we are growing 15.5 with the official number for fiscal year 17. We are looking at growing that up to 17 point to. To look at some of our other funds, the water enterprise charges for services, certainly went down. 12.2 million was about the lowest it went in 1516 and we started in 1517 to come back up. We lost almost $2 million during the drought period in terms of our charges. We should be up close to 14 million this year. Our operational expenses are relatively flat. Debt service, has remained flat. We have not entered into any new debt with the enterprise fund. It was not required to be reported back in 13-14. But it now has to be reported on the financial statement. >> is that for every department? >> with you that for every fund yes. >> for every enterprise fund? >> yes. >> our working capital is in good shape. As you can see, we grew that to 13.6 million. It is somewhat like a fund balance for the enterprise fund. Is really the current assets minus your current liability. >> wastewater enterprise fund, it has grown in term of charges slightly every year as we have added new accounts. The program expenses have remained fairly flat. At 5.2 million. There is no debt in this program. We are looking forward to continuing that. There is that pension liability with the reported number 4.6 and we will talk more about that in a little while. Working capital is a nice healthy amount for the screen -- deployment. the solid waste enterprise fund is the same experience with minor growth in the accounts. The operational expense has remained relatively flat. Working capital is up slightly at four-point 2 million. Which is about where he wants to have that. Again, there is no debt with us -- the waste enterprise fund. Most of our capital expenditure on the vehicle of course. Everyone to continue our pay-as- you-go process. Risk management is an internal service fund. Our treasures have been up to 16 point to operational expenses have gone up. And that is primarily if you look down below the employee health numbers. But our unrestricted net position at 6.3 million is a good healthy number to have in this particular fund. And these are three smaller funds that we have always looked at. Because they add to certain issues in the past as you recall it used to be a deficit position it is now plus one.1 million revenue and expenses were almost equal during the 16- 17 year. The tree mitigation fund, a number of years ago we were worried about spending that out. And we removed some expenditures from that fund. We now have 764,000 at the end of the year. Some plans in the near future for possible purchase and more tree mitigation. The well creek fund we've mentioned a number of times this is the only fund we have on our watchlist. What that is, is all of our trail grants where we have to have the expense before we get reimbursed. This is how we monitor where we are and that number is really a number that is due from other governments. And how we reported. >> so that entire fund is really where all of the trail money goes in and out?>> yes. >> okay. So basically most of the 50 miles of trail went in and out of that account? >> yes.>> do not expect right now, to get all of that one.1 million but we do track that because the grants do not always cover the amounts. >> would it be possible to change how -- to willow creek and trail fund? >> we will do that. It is misnamed. >> and I guess that goes back a lot of years? >> yes. >> as we turn to the budget focus, again what we tried to do in building the budget is bill that sustainability. So that we are financially secure and providing services we certainly want to address the preferred maintenance and we see that in the trying to grow programs and where you put your money on that. We always want to strengthen our core services and make them as cost-effective as we can. We want to invest for the future to avoid this in the future. As well as anticipate these cost. And as the managers have always said, we have a community balance of services. Where we are building a community and not trying to build a bank statement here. These are considerations certainly that go into the budget. And into the preparation. As we look ahead to fiscal year 19, these are the major drivers of the budget. Wages, we are looking at almost 4% increase at 1.3 million. That is an increase of one.3 million. We go up about 9% here which is a $300,000 amount. >> at what point do we expect that return to start decreasing? >> what has happened, why it is increasing so much right now, is because of the early incentive program we had.>> so we have a lot of people that retired? >> we will be at normal here at the normal rate increase later. We should be at around four or 5% after this. >> so percentagewise it is a big number but if you compare it to what it would've been if there were wages it would be very different number? >> yes. Neck okay.>> we had 80 people retire so that was a significant number. >> again the number is up one .1 million. This is just the general fund member. Not to the overall number. Which is a 10% increase and again that is going to impact us for several years until we get another slide on that. All the other benefits are at about 2 1/2%. Operations and maintenance is down. Mainly because of activities and purchases that we had. Capital, we just plan on it being fairly stable. And then we add debt service payment go away from the general fund. And that was one.3 million >> what was that for? >> that was for the city hall complex. The community center. >> that's right.>> so that was savings. So with that, we have a one- point one million. If we did not have a debt service we would be up around $3 million. Which would be 3 1/2 or 4% which would be a different picture. The future trend that I am concerned with is the gross assumptions that we worked with to calculate so you can see, going into 18-19, this is the total number where the one before I showed you is a general fund only this includes all of the other funds. So we are up to 12.6 million which was at one.5 million dollar increase. The year after, 1920 is very expect to have the biggest that's because more of the assumptions will change during that year. >> plus we are saying your senses are correct? >> unfortunately. We don't get to tell them what assumptions to use. So it will depend on their investment earnings quite honestly. More than anything else. Which has not had a positive record. >> which is what got us to this point in the first place. >> correct. So, these are simply numbers in terms of looking ahead which we have to plan for and see how we address those in each of the budgets forthcoming. In terms of revenue and expenditure forecast, the dark green line is really the revenue trend that we have had in the past continuing. It is and now five -- at 5%. If we had a 5% growth in our revenue, it would be the start green line. The light green line is the revenue trend at 3%. So if we were down to 3% growth we would be at the light green line. Right in the middle of that, in the black dotted line, is expenses at 5%. So if we had growth in expenses of 5% which again would be closer to trend, it would continue and we will be right between and in good shape if we continued the revenue. If the expense trend went to 6% then you can see up and around fiscal year 22 and 23 we could start to meet and exceed the revenue number. And in the lower trend here is the expense at 3 1/2%. If our trend was 3% in revenue, and expense was at 3 1/2 we would be okay for the next five years. But you can see it is narrowing even at that point. So the take away, is you want to watch the trend in both cases. You wanted to be about the same. one year will not make a difference. It has to be over time as it shows. But you really don't want expense trends to be higher than your revenue trend for very long. >> we've done that. And it doesn't work well in the end. >> no it does not. >> we do that during a recession. >> and if you went back, and looked at it the years where it increased, to 6% revenue that's how we did that. So issues to be considered in the budget being built, we can sustain if the economy's changes, we are predicting a strong fiscal year like it has been. Certainly things could change in what will be due in that case? Other funds that would be needing attention? What deferred maintenance projects need to be addressed in the near future? Obviously if you let deferred maintenance go too long, we have bigger problems in the future. So we need to see what might be out there that needs to be immediately addressed. The third, how can we strengthen our core services which we are always trying to do. Fourth is the investments, what do we need to invest in for the future? And then the question of how to fund our retiree long-term liabilities. And then, next is what we need to do with those over 50 starting to develop? Are the things we need to plan for and start to budget for because of that development? And finally, again had we maintain a balance of services that makes the community? These are the main issues that we have come up with at least initially. That need to be addressed during this budget. Our next steps on the budget, planning on April 24 to present the operating and capital budget to you. May 8 would be a public hearing on those budgets, and for May 8 on through to the end of the fiscal year, you can adopt it whenever you are ready to adopt it. And again we do go through the regulation of the state. And with that I will stop talking and see if you have any comments. >> I will start here.>> I think one of the differences that we have now, I am happy we are expecting 17 point to in change for the balance here, versus what we have for the economic downturn which was about 16 million, one of the things that concerns me a little bit, is that we were able or had something approaching 200 over that time period when we were spending down that $15 million. We don't have 20 positions to cut right now let alone 200. So I think that is something we need to keep in mind. I know our objective back in the day was 15%. 15% balance. And I think we need to think seriously about increasing that number over the 17 million. I am concerned that if we go too much below that, it would not be as easy to weather that storm. Because we lost so many positions and cut so many. As far as the deferred maintenance projects, I know we are finally getting work on the water tanks which is something that we kind of ignored for a while. With regard to the race -- wastewater, I know we were doing any of that work for five or six years. So there's definitely some maintenance that we need to do I'd like to put together a list to take a look at. Because it is way cheaper to