Cross_cutting

15:48 I've also sent you links with the director of CRC, the original one, saying, no, we're looking at all kinds of bridges. These provide a full report of what is wrong, how much it costs to fix it, and why we are not fixing it when we are doing that to bridges that are older. The steel bridge, the Broadway bridge, and since both those bridges were renewed in 1958, that means 12 bridges in Portland are older than these. When I have asked agencies, they're all shoving it around. They're standing up and saying, this is what's wrong, and it's number this, and it goes that long, and here's the cut, and that's the problem, and we can't fix it because of this. No, they all hide. We're going to lose hundreds of homes, historical properties, so they're going to have to move their schools. Thank you, Sharon. Have a sunny day. Yeah, I'm sorry, there's no clock on the phone, and thank you very much for coming back to

16:47 me. Have a lovely day. All right, thank you, Sharon. I appreciate it. Yes, I understand it's hard to see at the time we're online. That concludes the public comments portion of the meeting. We'll now move on to our action items. First up is consent agenda. Board, what is your pleasure? I move approval of the consent agenda. And McInerney-Ogle's second. Commissioner, you have your hand raised for a question on the consent agenda? Yeah, Commissioner Leckie, Committee of the County. Yeah, I just had a question. It seemed like some of the minutes were just -- they're not wholly accurate. And I don't think that's the fault of the people taking the minutes. I think with the hybrid format and the Zoom, it's kind of hard to get an accounting at the instant of votes. So just my suggestion that maybe we should be having roll call votes to help those with the records.

17:44 I think we owe it to our constituents to keep accurate records of the minutes. So that's all I had. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for that. Anybody else? Yes. I just want to talk about the professional consulting agreement. First of all, I want to show my support for having on-call consultant. I experienced that it helps the process to go efficient and effective. I have a question, RTC plays a big lead in providing traffic data for the whole region. Local agency use that. Do we have any program in place that the data that agency collect for their future development, for their growth, that comes to RTC to incorporate into their program? Thank you. Okay.

18:40 So the question is when other agencies collect data, does RTC request that data and try to incorporate it in our data sets? The answer is yes, subject to an agency's willingness and consistency and delivering that to us. So when we've looked at our traffic count database over time, we have tried to collect that. People would send us PDFs other times they'd send us the actual raw data. And when we receive it, we update it in our portfolio. In other instances, agencies don't send it to us. And so I think it's a matter of just consistency, I suppose. The other factor involved is both the state DOT and Clark County have a pretty active and independent counting program and they have their own data sets and online tools, GIS based for example. And we've looked recently and trying to link their data sets to ours. And there are some technical issues that might prevent that, but in summary, yes, we try

19:39 to use other agencies data to try to pull it together so that we can have a comprehensive data set. Any further questions on the consent agenda? We have a motion in front of us. Seeing none. All in favor on the motion on the floor to approve the consent agenda as presented, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Opposed? Okay. Passes unanimously. Thank you. This will bring us to our federal grant strategy. Jennifer? So good afternoon. I'm here to talk about another policy exception.

20:38 So I think I mentioned at the last meeting that we had that it's unusual to have so many policy exceptions in a year, and unfortunately we're back with another one that we wanted to present to you tonight just for information and to get approval on that to move that forward. So just going over again, RTC has the responsibility of federal funding allocation. We receive funding for the CMAQ program, STBG, and transportation alternatives, and then