Councilmember wong today i will update the council and the public of two projects. Podesta and accessible signals; provided information about pedestrian signals referred to as apc. Special pedestrian pushbuttons at intersections to visually impaired, audible speech and tactile messages. Apms are currently placed at 129 intersections. 29 to be installed in the next 23 years. How aps are prioritized . Crosswalk Length Program for visually impaired. City public programs. Proximity to transit facility. Speed limit. Examples of upcoming aps installation locations. 19th ave. And l inconln way. 25th ave. At. Sometimes people cannot hear the countdown. These devices can be adjusted by staff. Number two, complete streets. This project is in earlystage. Seeks to implement aesthetic and safety improvements or users of street between mcallister and union streets. In accordance with the city transit policy, improvements will primarily focus on polk street. It is slated to be resurfaced and repaved
Councilmember wilson seconds the friendly amendment. Everyone is clear . Public comment . All in favor of the Amendment Proposal please raise your right hand and say aye. Any opposed . Abstained . That was not very painful. laughter we have a few more items. We are running short on time. Is there any potential for extended time today . Five minutes. Thank you. The next item is a report from the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. Thank you cochair parsons. Chair delivered by councilmember senhaux. Disability Disaster Preparedness committee met on friday. There was a followup discussion on the shakeout activities that took place in october 18 and a disability specific activities. The Mayors Disability Council conducted an activation deal with the sou partners by text messaging the identifying contacts. The results were impressive. There was 100 response within 12 hours. We also discussed the civic center evacuation drill on october 25, about 10 buildings in the Civic Center Area
The friendly amendment. Everyone is clear . Public comment . All in favor of the Amendment Proposal please raise your right hand and say aye. Any opposed . Abstained . That was not very painful. laughter we have a few more items. We are running short on time. Is there any potential for extended time today . Five minutes. Thank you. The next item is a report from the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. Thank you cochair parsons. Chair delivered by councilmember senhaux. Disability Disaster Preparedness committee met on friday. There was a followup discussion on the shakeout activities that took place in october 18 and a disability specific activities. The Mayors Disability Council conducted an activation deal with the sou partners by text messaging the identifying contacts. The results were impressive. There was 100 response within 12 hours. We also discussed the civic center evacuation drill on october 25, about 10 buildings in the Civic Center Area evacuated including city hal
All you have to do is take a look outside and know were under a yellow alert. Good afternoon. Aim andrea roane. On the right side of our screen youll see missing children from our area. Well get more on that but lets go to erica grow with a look at this yellow alert lasting all day and through the night, erica . Thats right. Its not only because of the rain we have out here right now but also the windy conditions that are starting to develop and that will continue to get worse as we head into the evening hours. You can see here on doppler 9000, this is a threehour loop. The big spin in the atmosphere is due to the fact that this area of low pressure as it moved off the coast started to strengthen. It gains a little bit more energy from the Atlantic Ocean this time of year. Youve heard the term noreaster. This is a noreaster that is developing and its going to head into new england. Thats where theyre really going to get slammed. We have pockets of heavy rain in northwest d. C. I was in
Chair councilmember supanich. Does that prevent someone from taking off a term and coming back . The bylaws would be silent and would not prevent someone from taking a year off as currently written. All right. Chair because it says consecutive. Right. Chair Councilmember Wilson . Councilmember wilson is that four years . Two. I would like to make a motion to adopt it. I will second the. Chair cochair james . Okay. We had two questions. I have a question. We have not had a motion to approve is yet or a second. Did we . Who made a motion to approve . Cochair james, councilmember supanich. Now we are open for discussion and Public Comment. Have a question about the intent of the proposed amendment. I am suspecting the intent by the author is to encourage and engage more councilmember leadership opportunities. What would happen if that were not the result . Lets hope that would not be the case if that comes into approval. Maybe that option, discussion . Councilmember wilson . I do not unde