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| | | | 1. Call to Order & Roll Call at 10:00 AM | | | |
Roll call
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| | | | 2. Review and approval of the previous meeting minutes (1/28/25)
Minutes note: Member Tucker, seconded by member Washington, moved to approve the minutes. There were no objections. | | | |
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| | | | 3. Discussion relating to items placed in the parking lots. | | | |
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| | | | 4. Discussion relating to the tools available to address traffic and crime issues.
Minutes note: Captain Scheli as he shared a few slides with the members, said that part of the Bronzeville scale crime data between 2024 to 2025, they are happy to report that these numbers are all going down especially with the total violence going down 55%.
There were three additional thefts from autos in the area from February 2nd to February 23rd in a 20-day period compared to last month.
Alluding to the presentation, three robberies occurred in the month of January. None in the month of February. He showed the motor vehicle thefts; it is important to see what is going on with the crime in the area so that our strategies go along with the current activity.
For the crime aspect of it, Captain Jax from District 5 will be joining next month's meeting to give an update and share the strategies currently in placed in addressing these issues.
For the traffic enforcement portion, we all know that there is more than just enforcement that goes into controlling traffic and modifying the behavior of our citizens and those that drive through the catchment area. Since our last meeting, January 28 to February 22, we conducted 24 traffic stops just outside of the border and then in addition we wrote 17 traffic citations for those traffic stops.
You can see a big concentration up on West North Avenue which is one of our major corridor areas and the citations that we issued are driving in the bicycle lane, we call base lining or passing on the right driving in the bicycle lane. High beam hit and run we had one, no insurance, misuse of plates, operating while suspended, red light violation, unregistered and unsafe passing.
Regarding the operating while suspended we are looking at, and implemented a policy of ensuring that we are writing the state citations for operating without license versus operating while suspended as we move forward.
Question was asked if there are heated bus shelters. To which Captain said that he is not aware of any heated bus shelters.
There is a citation for operating without insurance. It is mandatory in the state of Wisconsin to have insurance.
Chair said that now that this group has covered the traffic safety strategies and tactics, such as Vision Zero, and discussed traffic data, extending the catchman of District 5, which is a little bit outside of the specifics of the Bronzeville Task Force. The city of Milwaukee has adopted this as a policy goal and has set the deadline of 2037.
Member Wineberg said that the Vision Zero Action Plan is currently being drafted and will be released this spring. Once made public, she will present an overview to this group. along with the survey. While a traffic camera bill is unlikely to pass the state legislature at this point, they are an effective tool that she will be happy to explore with this group at the next meeting.
The city and other partners have been investing in lots of different solutions to try to increase safety and slow drivers down. We have being engage, over the last year and a half, in a Vision Zero action plan process, which includes a survey trying to get community sentiment and solutions on this issue. The survey results is and will be used to develop this plan of action.
Chair asked for an update on the progress of the traffic safety cameras legislation. the efficacy of these traffic cameras. She asked about speeding specifically on the corridor of Vel R Phillips.
Member Washington was asked to come up with what potential traffic calming and other tactics we could use to address some of the reckless driving or speeding issues in this area. With DPW, as it is with most of these departments, the first thing that people ask or the first thing the department asks is, how is this being paid for?
Because we do have limited funding sources.
DPW has a program that is used when residents, community members or businesses want to try out what traffic calming installations they can place on the block to try to reduce or at least see what they can do to reduce some of the reckless driving behaviors that they are seeing that is called the Community-Led Traffic Calming program (CLT).
There are different types of devices: with Mr. Washington presentation, he showed a couple of examples of some of the traffic calming measures that we can put into place.
Some specific installations are, Speed Humps, Speed Table, Traffic Circle, Curb Extensions, Chicanes, Neck-Down, Pedestrian Refuge Island. This is all community led.
Typically with these installations there is an assessment for the residents on the block or sometimes It is two blocks distance from the installation is requested for that, we always require a survey. The department wants to make sure the residents are informed as to upcoming changes and any sort of traffic calming devices in these areas. These have to approve by Common Council, specifically the Alderperson of the area.
The speed humps are one measure that people use, but these are on lower volume streets typically the residential streets, it has to have average daily traffic of under 3,000 cars a day. they don't work in arterials by design because of the way they are engineered to slow traffic down to about 15 miles an hour. Traffic circles are actually for typically uncontrolled intersections, but they can have, a two-way stop.
Chair asked what currently exists in the catchment area, the boundaries of North Avenue, MLK, Walnut and 6th.
We do have several installations that we put forward in the last, two or three years ago, as part of a neighborhood improvement project that was done in Howard Park. There are quite a few bump outs that we have installed, pinned on bump outs that we have installed on Vel R Phillips.
In some cases (TID) Tax Incremental Financing was use to cover installation cost. We would meet with community groups and community representatives to help in the gathering of the community expectations to create the footprint. However, there are outside area of those boundaries that we can also look at for potential improvements.
Chair, asked guidelines to formulate feasible recommendations that would be reasonable within the budget.
Mr. Washington said that DPW is looking at what additional devices we could put into place on target areas.
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| | | | 5. Next meeting date & adjournment
Minutes note: March 18, 2025 at 11AM
This meeting adjourned at 12:00
Joanna Urtiz
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