City Council — February 3, 2026

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Thank you.

Yes, Councilmember Reyes-Martin?

Here.

Councilmember Kiriakou? Here. Councilmember Kasdan? Here. Mayor Pro Tempore Smith?

Here

and Mayor Parodi?

Here Okay at this time I'd like to introduce our interpreters for this evening's meeting

Good evening, we have interpretation into Spanish available if anybody prefers. Here we have some headsets. Thank you. Gracias.

Okay, at this time we'll have public forum. Anybody that would like to speak to anything that's not on our agenda this evening and pertains to this jurisdiction? Do we have any speakers?

Yes thank you Madam Mayor I have received two speaker slips and if any attendees on the Zoom webinar wish to speak to public forum please use the raised hand feature now will call upon you. Speaking first Robin Cederlof followed by Bill Woodbridge and you will have three minutes thank you.

Good evening

Good evening. It's so nice to be here in person, but I want to tell you I really appreciate the continuing of Zoom because often I can't get here and so it's nice to be able to listen in and comment if I need to. Fortunately last week or your last meeting I made a big boo-boo And I'm here today because I want to express my concern and give you some suggestions in the future about our local history. I am really concerned that the Chumash art piece went up the valley, to San Ynez. San Ynez has a fabulous museum I give them a lot of credit and whatnot, but we don't really have a place here in Goleta to talk about our local Chumash history.

And I hope in the future that we'll be able to do some things. Marriott, when they came in and put the residents in, they did a fabulous job with working with the local BBCI and creating a color scheme and putting images up and having a nice dedication on their site. I would love to see some of that happening at different places. You know, coming forward the new design for the golf course maybe there might be a way to do something there but I'm also looking at our wonderful Goleta Community Center.

Isn't there a way that one of the rooms could be dedicated to our Chumash history so that our local residents can go there and learn a little bit, maybe have some Chumash members coming in and doing some demonstrations and whatnot? Going to San Ynez is an all day event, and it's very expensive. So I'd love to see something happen here in Goleta. Thank you very much. Thank you for that.

Thank you. Speaking next Bill Woodbridge

Hi Mayor and Council. Thank you very much for hearing me. I did speak to James Kiriakou about this a week ago on Zoom, and I wanted to bring it all of your attention. The City of Santa Barbara recently passed a resolution, and it was confirmed last week, to freeze rents in that city until an ordinance creating a sustainable rent policy can be created and a program can be created in the city of Santa Barbara. It does not include houses or condos but most other rentals. They did confirm it last week.

My concern is that we have the same problem here in Goleta. Rents have been going up especially under the Tobbs properties at 10% a year for the last five That's unsustainable. I and thousands, tens of thousands of seniors in this city are on fixed income. I'm retired, no pension. My social security doesn't even cover my rent much less food, car costs, insurances everything else has to come out as savings. Well the savings are quickly dwindling And soon I will have nothing to live on.

And in the meantime, the rents go up 10% a year and my social security goes up 2.8% a year. That doesn't work especially after years and years and years of doing this. Tobes has no problem raising their rents the maximum they can on all of their properties. I lived in two of them. I live on Patterson Avenue now. My rent started at $1,800 a month Now it's $2,700 a month. My Social Security is under $2600 a month in four more months it's going to go up another $270 so the problem is a lot of seniors including me in this town are going to either have to leave town if not the county if not the state I don't want to leave here.

I can't afford to move Because to rent a similar apartment in another place in town would cost me now $3,200-$3,300 a month so I can't afford to stay there. Move out of town. So as James put it humoristically, this is going to become another Monaco, a town with nothing but wealthy people and very highly paid tech people in this town. That's all that's going to be left so I'm hoping you could copy and paste that resolution. I'm hoping we will quickly do something about this and arrive at the same resolution. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Yes, thank you. That is item A1, approval of the City Council meeting minutes of January 20th, 2026. A2, acceptance of the November 2025 check register. A3, agreement with DUDEC for stormwater services. A4, amendment number two to agreement number 2025-046 with M&S Engineers Inc. for professional services for the 2025 arterial pavement project. And A5, agreement for Goleta's 4th of July drone show light vendor and acceptance of donation of funds for the 4th of July drone light show event above $10,000.

OK. Council wish to pull any item from consent? I'm not seeing any. Do we have any speakers for consent?

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I've not received speaker slips and if any attendees on the Zoom webinar wish to speak to this item please use the raised hand feature and I will call upon you. Madam Mayor, I'm seeing none.

Okay looking for a motion to approve consent calendar.

So moved.

Second.

Let me log it in there. Uh oh, not letting me. But I'm an

aye. Sorry, I could start the voting procedure if you'd like for consent. I apologize.

That's okay. We all agreed it's unanimous Okay. Presentation?

Yes, that is item B1, fitness with racial business recognition.

Who's going to come up and say a few words about this?

Yes. It

doesn't work because it's not turned on. What a concept!

Oh there we go.

We're spoiled, everything's usually turned on and waiting for us. Here we go, okay.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Blake Markham from the City Manager's Office here to just briefly introduce our Business Recognition Program once again. As a reminder this program was approved back in 2024 and since then we have recognized two businesses. The program is intended to highlight exceptional Goleta businesses for their notable achievements and unique contributions to the community Recognition can be based on factors such as longevity, economic development, prosperity, sustainability, resilience or other efforts that promote community enrichment.

And honorees are given a certificate at a City Council meeting like we'll be doing tonight. They're also featured in our Monarch Press and on the business recognition page of our website. We're doing this once a quarter so we have Our forum open now for any nominations and folks are encouraged to go to the business recognition page of our website and send in nominations. And self-nominations are accepted. With that, I pass it to you.

Thank you. Will Rachel please come up to the podium? We'll take some pictures and if you'd like to say a few words, please do. But this is exciting for me because what we've done in the past is we've recognized businesses for being successful but they're leaving. We're saying goodbye and we're acknowledging their business and how long they've been here But I thought, and my colleagues agreed, we all thought that it would be really nice to have, really acknowledge and recognize the businesses that are successful and doing well and are not leaving.

So that's how this came about. And you are our third recipient. And so it's my honor to present you the City of Goleta Business Recognition Award. This certificate is proudly presented to Rachel with, oh fitness with Rachel, excuse me. For its success as a woman-owned business and dedication to enriching the lives of seniors and residents through fitness and connection. So important. Awarded on this third day of February, 2026 and signed by myself and Robert Nisset our city manager.

And thank you so much for what you do. I was just talking to a friend the other day that mentioned That she had heard about this really great place in Goleta to go and work out. And I said, where is that? And she said it's Rachel, Rachel Fitness by Rachel. And they said well they're getting a recognition. That was just a coincidence that came up. I was just like wow! So do you want to take a picture and then picture with all of us?

Thank you so much for this recognition. Really first and foremost, thank you so much to the City of Goleta and everyone here. I was born and raised here in Goleta and it's been such an honor and a privilege to grow my business here in the place that I really do think of as home. So that's, it's just lovely. Thank you so much. I also have to say thank you to my family, to my husband and to my kid for all of your hours of unpaid labor and being voluntold to do various tasks around the studio. Thank you so much for all of that help. And being a small business owner can be fairly inconsistent in The hours that I work and a little bit chaotic with the financials. And so thank you so much for your support for all of that during those years.

I also have to say a special thank you to my mother-in-law, Janice Molloy. I would not be doing this if it were not for your encouragement and your mentorship. Thank you so much for nudging me persistently all those years ago to get into this line of work. It's really been just, it makes my heart so happy. So thank you for that. And finally, I have to say thank you, of course, to all of my clients, so many of whom are here tonight showing their support You are the secret sauce that makes Fitness with Rachel unique and special. And I obviously wouldn't be here if it weren't for all of you. I absolutely love what I do, and you're the reason I am so very happy to go to work every single day. So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you. Do we have any speakers?

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have not received any speaker slips and if any attendees on the webinar wish to speak please use the raised hand feature and I will call upon you. Madam Mayor, I'm seeing none.

Okay thank you for what you do.

That takes us to item B2 project connect update.

Oh, you are definitely loved. Yes, Nina. Go ahead.

Good evening Madam Mayor and City Council. Tonight is an exciting milestone for Public Works. We're close to our two-year anniversary of starting Project Connect which is really exciting for us and we're honored that we've been able to deliver the largest project in the city's history so I think that's a great thing. Tonight we'll have our talented project manager Melissa Angeles presenting And we also have our construction management team, Unico staff here for any construction questions that may come up. So I'm going to pass it on to Melissa.

Great thank you.

Good evening mayor and council members tonight i'll be sharing an update on Project Connect beginning with a brief project overview followed by improvements completed to date remaining work and our public outreach efforts Project Connect is a combined transportation and infrastructure project located in Old Town Goleta. The project brings together the former Echols Street and Fowler Road extensions project, and the Hollister Avenue bridge replacement project both of which had been in development for many years and were identified as the city's highest priority transportation projects The two projects overlap along Hollister Avenue near the State Route 217 interchange.

To minimize construction-related disruptions, limit lane closures and improve overall project delivery, the city combined the projects into a single construction contract which was awarded in December 2023. Project Connect includes construction of new and improved roadway connections, intersection and interchange improvements and significant pedestrian and accessibility enhancements.

This includes new and upgraded sidewalks, curb, gutter and the reconstruction of curb ramps to meet current ADA accessibility standards. Improving pedestrian connectivity throughout the corridor. Equal Street is being constructed to provide a new connection between Kellogg Avenue and Fairview Avenue and includes it and includes a roundabout at the Equal Street and Pine Avenue intersection.

The Fowler Road project will construct sidewalk, curb gutter and drainage improvements along South Kellogg Avenue. At Hollister Avenue and State Route 217, two roundabouts will be constructed at the northbound and southbound on-ramp and off-ramp intersections to improve traffic operations and safety. Project Connect also includes a replacement of the Hollister Avenue Bridge increasing 100 year storm capacity beneath the bridge and improving the overall hydraulic performance.

San Jose Creek Channel improvements and fish passage enhancements are also included Construction began in March of 2024. To date, approximately two-thirds of the project has been completed with major roadway bridge and utility improvements substantially in place. Major milestones include completion of the Hollister Avenue Bridge, drainage improvements, realignment of Dearborn Place, sidewalk driveway curb and gutter improvements including ADA compliant curb ramp reconstruction Traffic signal upgrades, construction of the Equal Street roadway from Kellogg Avenue.

I'm sorry, Kellogg Way to Fairview Avenue. Installation of roundabout raised medians at Ward Drive and Equal Street. Construction of the Hollister Avenue Old Town interim striping project. Installation of parking lot wayfinding signs in Old Town and reconstruction of the Orange Avenue parking lot which was added as a construction change order to leverage economies of scale and reduce overall construction costs.

Remaining work includes construction of roundabouts at the Hollister Avenue intersections with the southbound and northbound State Route 217 ramps and at Equal Street and Pine Avenue. Fowler Road improvements along South Kellogg Avenue, street lighting installation, additional sidewalk curb and gutter work, final roadway surface treatments and striping, realignment of the State Route 217 on-and-off ramps at Hollister Avenue, San Jose Creek Channel improvements, and landscaping and mitigation plantings. Project completion is anticipated in spring of 2027.

Public outreach efforts have included the project groundbreaking ceremony, booths at the annual public works week and the state of the city. An ongoing project communications such as a dedicated web page email and contact channels door hangers mailed postcards site signage press and media coverage in English and Spanish video messaging and community support campaigns during construction Throughout construction, the project outreach team has actively engaged the community responding to more than 700 inquiries to date.

A dedicated email address and phone number have been set up for residents and businesses to reach the project team. The project team continues regular coordination with property owners, businesses, the school districts, the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce, Greater Santa Barbara Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, MTD, Caltrans, utilities The City of Santa Barbara Airport District, UCSB, Santa Barbara County Sheriff and Fire and Emergency Service providers regarding construction impacts.

A public outreach plan is in place for the next traffic pattern change on Hollister Avenue when the roundabouts will become operational. This change is anticipated to occur in the spring of this year though the schedule may change due to unforeseen construction conditions or weather impacts. Outreach for the traffic pattern change will begin approximately two weeks in advance and will include press releases, web page updates, electronic message signs, short instructional videos demonstrating how to use the roundabouts and updated maps showing the new traffic patterns. Construction updates and additional outreach information are available on the project webpage.

The total construction contract award is $62,746,460.70. In addition the City Council authorized the Public Works Director to approve contract change orders as needed in an amount not to exceed $8,801,628.33. To date $4,035,443.09. has been spent on approved change orders. The largest share of these expenditures is associated with the Hollister Avenue Interim Striping Project, reconstruction of the Orange Avenue parking lot, accelerated work at the Hollister Avenue Bridge due to utility conflicts and unforeseen site conditions.

That concludes my presentation. Staff is available to answer questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. And thank you staff for that efficient presentation just like you've been efficient with the project so far. Two-thirds completed. Congratulations. That's great. We're not quite two thirds of the years that we anticipated it would take but your two thirds done. That's great. My first question is about the roundabouts and I appreciate that you're working on a communication plan and you kind of laid out kind of the broad contours of that In terms of how the roundabouts are going to function though, are the roundabouts going to functionally perform when they're ready the way they're supposed to when the project is completed or are there going to be differences? Examples of differences might be lane striping versus maybe just some kind of simple arrows.

Will it be fresh pavement or will it be something rougher? Because you're going to do the final pavement when you do, you know, the final treatments on it. I just want to get a sense for the public of what are they going to experience when they start going through those roundabouts?

Council Member Kiriakou, thank you for the question. So I discussed this with Melissa today and we got notice from the contractor that there will be one lane in the eastbound direction of the roundabout and that's because they still have to work on portions of the bridge. We still have to do the work underneath the bridge where the channel works so they need access there so that's why it's gonna be in one lane and then there'll be two lanes on the westbound direction Everything will be striped. We won't have the full fixtures of the curb and gutters at this point, and the pavement I'm not sure if it's gonna be patch paved or it's gonna be a new pavement but it'll definitely be two inches lower if it is a new pavement.

After the project's done and we're ready to do the final pavement we are going to do a rubber asphalt pavement.

Okay. And then I guess my follow-up question then is so if one of the roundabouts, and I believe you said it was the eastern roundabout, the one that's closer to Dearborn Place and Kellogg Avenue? Or are we talking

about Ward?

Both roundabouts

will have one lane in the east direction and two lanes in the westbound direction.

So then I guess my follow-up question to that is if you're driving towards The first roundabout will be in you're approaching Kellogg. As of right now, you have cones that start to narrow before you get there and it kind of closes off the bus station. Do we anticipate those cones will stay a while longer?

I'm not 100% sure if the cones will be there or they'll have striping, but we will have mechanisms in place that follow the California MUTCD to ensure safety. So it will be either cones or it will be striped.

Okay. And then one thing that also kind of stood out for me is can you go back to the slide that had the change orders?

Yes.

You might know where I'm going with this already. So the project is two-thirds completed and it looked like change orders we had spent less than 50% of the money that we'd put into change orders. And I just wanted to make sure I understood that correctly because I know there have been a lot of concern with, you know, striping project being processed as a change order and perhaps even some concern from some because I believe the Orange Avenue parking lot striping and repaving was done as a change order.

So I'm just wondering, it looks like we're doing pretty well on change orders so far. Do you have reason to anticipate that that's going to even out by the time the project is done just because of what's left? Or do we think there's a possibility that we might actually fall under what the authority was?

I think it's still too early to tell, especially because we're gonna be doing in creek work. So we're gonna be doing some removal so we're gonna get into material we haven't seen before these potentially could be cultural resources. So we are holding on to that change order budget as tightly as possible in the event something comes up.

Okay thanks that's all I have for now.

Council Member Reyes-Martin. I have a question about signage. So when I've been out either here and I'm thinking of other kind of locally known roundabouts like the milk bus and then the ones in Montecito but even in other parts of California, Paying more attention as a driver, that experience. And one thing I noticed is when the signage is really good it's pretty seamless as a driver to know what to do or where to be depending on where you want to go and the signage really varies. You know, I've seen some that are fairly large with diagrams that really show really clearly if you're wanting to get on a freeway on ramp for example here's where you want to go.

Has that been kind of thought through and decided on what kind of signage there will be for drivers? And do you look at kind of what some best practices are for the most effective and helpful signage for drivers?

Councilmember Reyes-Martin, thank you for the question. What we're going to initially do is do all striping so it'll have arrows and kind Lane lines to show people how to move through the roundabout and as we go through this process, it'll be a learning curve. So if we do need to add more signage that's something we certainly can do but we will be monitoring it throughout the whole process so if there's anything that comes up it's something that we can quickly change and adapt.

But right now there's no plan for signage other than the striping on the road?

We're gonna be placing yield signs, but I don't recall that we have the signage of an actual diagram of a roundabout. So I can confirm that.

Well, that will definitely be something I think to keep an eye on because I think those can be really helpful. And I'm glad that we've got some change of our money in there if we need to but that will be good and maybe there's a way to get some feedback from folks as they start to experience that on what kind of signage would be helpful. I think

that's probably something pretty simple for us to add so we'll talk to the CM team to see if we can add that.

All right thank you. Council Member Kasdan?

Yeah, first I wanted to follow up on Council Member Reyes-Martin's observation about especially the roundabouts where...I guess two things. We've heard a lot of concern from the bicyclists for instance that one member of the public kept referring to them as meat grinders I believe was his term which was very evocative But the other thing, my own experience. I used to live in Washington D.C., and there were roundabouts there usually with a general on a horse in the middle of it. Roundabouts are pretty easy when it's a one-lane roundabout but when it's two lane roundabout they get a lot more challenging and you can find yourself sort Going around and around in the roundabout trying to figure out when to get over and things like that.

And I remember bringing this up when Charlie was here, and he said well that's an older design that they had or something like that. So I don't know if concentric circles are changed dramatically over time but I guess where I'm going with that is if there are certain signage or other stripings or things that'll make it Simple just to keep that in mind because my own experience, those roundabouts can get tricky for drivers.

I did have, you don't have to say anything.

Well I was just, Council Member Caston thank you for the question. I was just gonna add that during the time where we're adding the roundabouts into the final roundabouts, we're gonna share the road signs but we're also gonna have sharrows in the pavement and once the roundabouts go full bore and we add all the multi-use paths there's going to be other means of travel for the public, for pedestrians and bicyclists

I look forward to seeing it. The other thing, I didn't even realize we had added when we added it shows my inattentiveness I guess but the that the Orange Avenue parking lot got out of that's awesome. I mean that has been yeah because that's been kind of languishing on our CIP list for a long time. We spent a ton of money to buy the parcel and it's you know it just I mean there'd be other things ideally that we would do with that but it's great that we're fixing it up.

And one other observation I had, one other thought is that for future presentations like this then maybe we could get the folks from someone from Neighborhood Services also my thought is that part of the goal that we had with this was not just to enhance circulation and make it safer but also to make the neighborhood, I'm talking about the Lane Restriping more walkable and actually to benefit businesses that this would be a positive thing for the businesses as we develop it. And so I know in Neighborhood Services they've got business support programs and you know they're doing other things probably with walkability or maybe zoning, I don't know but it might be valuable just to also report What if they, you know here are the things we're doing to enhance the goals of the project that are not necessarily public works per se.

Well I have some... You're

looking dubious or skeptical. No. I'm

sorry, I was thinking something else. Oh. I have some news to add to that. We're going to come back on April 7th to give an update to the Hollister interim striping so I think all your answers, all your questions will be answered.

Okay.

I guess that's it. Thank

you.

If I could just jump in on it, I was thinking about something else but it was related to roundabouts so maybe that's why my face looked like that. Since I got called out on it, I will tell the anecdote. So as the question came up about the signage and then the further question about whether two lanes more confusing than one, that's where my mind was going. There is a couple of roundabouts that are somewhat regular basis that are two lanes But I'm not frequent enough that I know exactly what to do every time, right? I think if you use them every day you get used to it. And so what my experience is is that you get a little confused if you should use the right lane or the left lane but if you think about it for just a second it becomes obvious.

If you're getting off at one of the earlier exits either the first or the second exit use the right lane. If you're getting off at the third exit use the left lane And what I've seen, there are signs on those double lane ones to try to help mitigate that confusion of depending on the exit you're choosing which lane should you... So anyway Public Works will look at all this. That's what I was thinking about Council Member Kastner. Okay

well actually and as I was thinking about it also Washington might be a peculiar or not a good comparison because they have so many tourists And, you know, it might be the people as opposed to people who regularly go through it. So I don't know. Okay. Thank you for your...

If you get confused, you just keep going around until you figure out where... That's

what my wife would do. She'd get stuck in the middle and go round and round.

My question is more about pedestrians and bicyclists. You know when we open up the roundabouts are we gonna be making sure that they understand Their lane, where they're supposed to be and the kids walking to school. There's a group of kids that walk to St. Raphael School.

Mayor Prodi thank you for the question we're gonna do a full media blitz once everything is installed. We're also going to do a video in-house to show how to use the roundabouts, how pedestrians can use the roundabouts and bicyclists as well

Okay. That's good if they're looking on the Internet for, I mean how else are we getting the information out? Are we doing anything else for those that may not be looking at social media? I mean there are people that aren't looking at social media.

Currently we've been doing a lot of public engagement with our outreach team, but if there's more that we can do, we can certainly do that.

Okay, that's good to hear because those are two groups that I have a little bit of concern about basically because the two lanes. So that always been my concern or somebody that's disabled trying to

get... We've had a lot of public engagement with the school districts so we can easily reach out to them because we are aware that a lot of kids use that route for certain schools. So we can easily reach out to them and even go to the schools and do a demonstration.

And just as a reminder, because I am now remembering a little over two years ago, probably three years ago. Because I think it was before Nina was here but we were having a discussion and there were some questions in that regard about the sidewalks you might recall and there was an explanation about how wide the sidewalks were. But at that time I also remember that the design of it is such that if you're a cyclist you can certainly ride through the roundabout but there's an option as a cyclist to exit Before you get to the roundabout, share the sidewalk and then get back on. And I remember that conversation from Tuna. And that's the design of the one on Los Caneros too, I believe.

Right. Council Member Carioca?

Yeah so I can actually add to that because I live right where the construction of the roundabouts is happening. One of the real benefits of the way the project was designed when it came to final design after Comments I remember from Councilmember Kasdan, the Mayor, former Councilmember Richards who are very concerned about bike and pedestrian safety is those parts of the sidewalk that are right by the roundabout have been widened. So it's share the sidewalk not just share the road. You share the sidewalk there. It's a wider sidewalk in those more impacted areas but one of the other improvements that I really appreciated about the final design is there's little pedestrian shelters with at least some of the roundabouts. So when you're trying to cross over two lanes and then two lanes, there's actually a shelter where you can stop and pause and it's a physical built structure.

It's not just signage. It is real concrete. It is real structure so I really appreciate that. I think in terms of outreach one of the suggestions I would have and I'm happy to participate is actually going and talking to St. Rayfield School, and I know from having talked to them previously they had a lot of concerns not just about the roundabouts but also about some of the development that's happening right across the street with so many housing units and what would that do to traffic in that area? So I think having the conversation directly with the school would be really helpful but then also making sure they realize that these changes are being made with safety in mind not just those pedestrian shelters, but there's also places before you really get into the meat of the roundabouts where there's crosswalks that didn't used to exist before.

When you lived in Old Town or if you're traveling around Old Town, you never used to be able to safely cross the street at Dearborn Place. That was not something that existed and now that is an actual crosswalk that exists. So I really like the way that our staff have incorporated the bridge project with The 217 circulation improvements with safety in mind to make these changes. And I think they were really being responsive to past and current council.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem Smith.

Oh yes just briefly actually to follow up on your comment. I do think in terms of out outreach you know I'm thinking back a couple years ago And city staff did a presentation about how complicated it is that we're all receiving information in so many different ways. So I do think our television outreach, KEYT and even to the extent we could use our public access channel remain important.

Options because we're just all everybody's consuming information in so many different ways You know and certainly in terms of using our own Community center to for outreach as well. So I just support those concerns

Any more questions, do we have any speakers from the public?

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have received one speaker slip and as a reminder to those on the Zoom webinar if you wish to speak to this item please use the raised hand feature and I will call upon you. Speaking first I have Barry Remus and you'll have three minutes.

Good evening. It's great to see you again, Mayor Parodi and council members. My name is Barry Remes with MOVE Santa Barbara County and first want to say happy anniversary to the good land and also congratulations on Project Connect being two-thirds of the way through but yes get that change order money ready And I'll tell you why, because basically move is really pleased to see the progress on this and we also want to commend the public works team for making a decision that you did make about the efficiencies of scale by incorporating change order approach with the Hollister Old Town interim striping project.

So I think that was a job well done. We are really looking forward to the implementation of the roundabouts, not only also the extension of Equal and Fowler and the pedestrian and bike improvements there as well as ADA curb and hopefully our strong suggestion is that the public works in the design team are following PROAG guidelines so Guide a wheelchair user diagonally into the street, but have perpendicular wherever possible and then let's get to the roundabout We're really excited be able to see those multi and we want to not call them sidewalks. So we really want to call them multi-use paths as Director Brenna mentioned before because this is a shared past path that could be both for pedestrians ADA access as well as bicyclists and other wheeled users who don't opt to take the road, take the lane and ride through the roundabout.

But it's great that both options are going to exist. And we were really encouraged by the initial design for a 10 foot wide multi-use path and circumnavigating both roundabouts and we really are hoping that that's still gonna be the case. And we look forward to not only that safe access once the roundabouts are completed but we really, really are hoping that during construction we're still being mindful of allowing safe pedestrian and bicycle paths, bicyclic access, excuse me, access During the construction phase and it's not an afterthought.

Two lane roundabouts according to the new proag pedestrian right-of-way accessible guidelines now allow for and call for in a matter of fact on the milpus roundabout we're soon going to see rapid rectangular rapid flashing beacons at the crosswalks which is really something to consider because that ensures further safety for pedestrians crossing through the roundabouts. And as well, when the implementation happens we would wonder definitely with a two-lane roundabout we highly and strongly recommend the wayfinding signage that's graphic As Councilmember Reyes-Martin alluded to, it really does help guide all road users through the roundabouts. And also a phased approach that the City of Santa Barbara took with the Los Patos Roundabout is to implement stop signs in the initial phase of the roundabout just so that it gives people, all users you know a chance to be phase into the circulation element.