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The Recommended Plan After 10 months of work and nearly two dozen meetings, I left the City as it's Assistant City Engineer. However, the task force's work was already complete. The Chairman took over the task of preparing the final report that was presented to the City Council in April of 1999. The report reveals their efforts to conceive cost-effective solutions. Where the ultimate solution might require a large capital investment, they proposed one or two Iow cost alternatives to try first. A number of projects are Iow cost and easily implemented. It will be up to the Department of Public Works to prioritize these projects and incorporate them into its maintenance program. Some of the projects will be incorporated as mitigation for the 14th Street Project. The Council did vote to permanently close the street. The more expensive projects will require capital budgeting. The City of Aroata just happens to be updating its General Plan, including a new Transportation Element. It is anticipated that these costly projects will be incorporated the Element as mitigation measures of growth. A Transportation Management Program will prioritize and construct these projects as the city grows over the next 20 years. Funding will be derived from development fees to be paid as a part of new construction within the City. In Summary After developing and administering a neighborhood traffic management task force, I give you the following recommendations: · Create a standing committee for your community, such as Transportation Safety Committee to deal with transportation management. It is difficult enough to train one group of eager citizens. Do not try it for every neighborhood in your community. · Keep your committee or task for well educated and informed. They can be your best spokespeople. The community will take their option at face value while the traffic engineer's opinion is considered suspect. And sometimes I agree. · Stay in control of your task force. But don't look like you are. Traffic calming can be intoxicating, until you try to pay for it. · Keep your chairperson educated, informed and the one in charge. You can then remain as the expert with few biases or preconceived notions (which you obviously have anyway.) · Lead them away from rabbit trails. · When they think stop signs will solve it all, lead them back to traffic calming concepts. · Do not take vacations at the wrong time. Changing horses midstream can lead to stampedes.