Nov. 13: Council Alert DOT & Mayor's Office DOT Policy Lightning Round Panel Q/A

Oakland Dept.Transportation, 2019 & 2020 + Assist Dir. DOT joining lightning round panel...

Join us to see how things are changing:

• elections formed new leadership and Action Committee groups,

• members defined new topics to address beyond crime,

• Action Committees are defining goals and action plans,

• a new website, standardized processes, and templates are available,

• members are learning how to navigate city bureaucracy,

• new member leaders are stepping up to actively drive change,

It's been a year of major changes, disruption, and progress for the Melrose community. Come join us and our featured panel re; traffic safety on Foothill...

We're featuring accomplishments this year, options for growth in 2020, and now have a 3-person panel of representatives from the City of Oakland, coming in person to address our Demands for Action outlined in our Victim Witness letter writing campaign from Oct. 4 for 4 deaths in 6 months on Foothill Blvd.

Michael Ford, Smart Parking & Mobility Manager at the City of Oakland Department of Transportation, our featured speaker for tonight has offered to step out of this session to allow us all to focus on the issue of traffic-related deaths in Melrose. He's happy to come back and join us as a speaker early in 2020. Thanks Michael!

We now have Wladimir Wlassowsky, Assistant Director DOT, Joe Wang, Supervising Transportation Engineer for the City of Oakland, and Warren Logan, the Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations for the Oakland Mayor's Office joining us to directly address our demands outlined in the Melrose Street Scape Letter Writing Campaign from Oct. 4.

We asked multiple city leaders to address our questions and concerns about the rise in traffic deaths on Foothill Blvd over the last 6 months. If you have questions tonight is the night to join Melrose Council to get some answers and help us take action!

Agenda

• 6:30-6:55pm

  • setup/chat/sign in/say hello
    

• 6:55-7:05pm call to order / agenda review

  • Stephanie Hayden, Chair & Braunz Courtney, Vice Chair present 2019 finding & accomplishments with new opportunities ahead of us in 2020
    

• 7:05-7:45pm Featured Speakers Panel Q/A - Lightning Rounds facilitated by Stephanie Hayden re; Vision Zero goals for zero traffic deaths in Oakland

  • Wladimir Wlassowski, Assistant Director, Oakland Department of Transportation

  • Warren Logan, Mayor's Office on DOT Policy

  • Joe Wang, Supervising Transportation Engineer, City of Oakland Department of Transportation is joining us on behalf of Ryan Russo, Director of OakDOT
    

• 7:45-8:05pm

  • Action Committees can discuss what they'll do over the break to maintain momentum between now and our next meeting in January 2020

    • Transportation/Traffic Safety Action Committee, Marissa Bowman, will share progress as her group is gaining traction on safety improvements for Foothill Blvd

    • Schools & Garden combination Action Committee, Christopher Fiorentini, will share a request to Melrose to help water new trees planted around Horace Mann Elementary School

• 8:05-8:25 pm Muni Check-in / QA to be taken offline/outside

  • OPD (3 min)

  • District 6 Council Rep: Council Member Loren Taylor (3 min)

  • District 5 Council Rep: Rosa Velasquez (3 min)

  • District 4 Council Rep: Amauri Collins (3 min)
    

• 8:25-8:30pm be outside HM building with doors closed behind us - let's help staff go home on time!

Does anyone have a location they'd be interested in adding or sharing if folks want to keep working after our monthly meetings?

See you there - bring your friends!

Stephanie Hayden
Chair
stephanie.hayden@melrosecommunity.org
www.melrosecommunity.org