8904-16 Establish Certain Council Priorities

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facilitation of public input, producing renderings or blue prints, development of a Bicycle Infrastructure Design Guide, making grant applications for finding from foundations or state and federal programs): 40 to 60 percent of the allocation. Infrastructure Improvements to pay for small improvements (e.g. an always -ready supply of bike parking hitches and corrals at City Hall, signage, refreshing sharrows, intersection markings) 20 to 40 percent of the allocation Education, Encouragement and Enforcement (EEE): approximately 20 percent of the allocation for safety trainings in schools and workplaces, free safety lights for graduates of traffic safety courses, group rides, etc.) 4. Briefly summarize any proposals or discussions from the past that are related to this priority, if applicable. Lakewood's Bicycle Master Plan (available at this link) has been previously adopted with strong support by both the Planning Commission and City Council. Several elements of this plan have already been implemented, with encouraging results. Discussion of this funding in recent years has centered on its intermittent and irregular nature. All have supported funding for this purpose, but more discussion of what amount is appropriate is needed. A thoughtfid set of recommendations can be found in Bike Lakewood's "Lakewood Bicycling Priorities Interim Report 2014." 5. Briefly describe any preliminary discussions you have had with colleagues, the administration and /or relevant department directors about this priority, if applicable. • Many City Council colleagues have expressed support. • Mayor Summers and Directors have expressed support. • The Planning Department and Bike Lakewood have shared input on how an annual allocation might effectively be used. • Allocating amounts and establishing the timing of implementing specific elements of the bicycle master plan is where the deliberation has lacked follow through. Determining what happens, in what order, when, and at what cost our current challenge. This is a policy question that must establish affordability, priority, timeline for specific actions. Please provide detail on how your idea fits within the SMART objectives framework: Provide a reliable funding source to enable more consistent, year -by -year implementation of Lakewood's Bicycle Master Plan. The implementers would chiefly be Planning and Public Works, but Police have an education role, and outside partners such as Bike Lakewood, City of Lakewood Schools, Lakewood Alive, and others could play a role (especially in education and encouragement). For 2017, goals might include: Specific • Desiyi work for Lakewood's bikeway network as a whole or for a State precisely what you intend significant specific project such as north -south corrector streets, Lake to accomplish and who will Avenue, or Riverside Drive accomplish it. • Infrastructure Improvements such as an always -ready supply of bike parking hitches and corrals at City Hall and high- visibility green markings where needed at at specific intersections) • Education, Encouragement and Enforcement (EEE): adding significant new capacity (i.e. consultant time) for safety trainings in schools, consistent group rides, traffic safety courses, and free bike safety lights. Data should be collected to enable measurement of which techniques are more or less effective. 21 Page