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9.A. - Page 5 of 17 <br />• Address challenges community members will experience due to the Redwood City School <br />District's consolidation of elementary school sites; some families will need to travel further <br />distances to schools and neighborhoods may experience impacts associated with new travel <br />patterns and an increased number of students at some schools. To enhance resident safety and <br />help ease impacts on neighborhoods staff propose to: <br />o Contract with a Safe Routes to School consultant to update walking and biking maps and <br />to support creation of biking school buses; <br />o Implement additional traffic enforcement for four weeks at the start of the 2019-20 <br />school year; and <br />o Increase citywide communications to help residents across the City prepare for new <br />transportation patterns around schools in August 2019 <br />• Complete Marshall Street Pedestrian Enhancement Project by October 2019 <br />• Kick off the Roosevelt Traffic Calming project and present design options for community input by <br />October 2019, and preferred design alternatives in early 2020 <br />• Increasing parking enforcement staffing by two positions (for a total of 4 positions) by fall 2019 <br />to address additional neighborhood parking and Downtown parking needs <br />• Reclassify two existing parking enforcement officer positions to expand their duties related to <br />abandoned vehicle abatement and traffic safety duties in support of the Traffic Unit by fall 2019 <br />• Complete construction of the US Highway 101 Pedestrian Undercrossing between Bair Island Road <br />and Main Street providing an important pedestrian and bicycle connection from the <br />neighborhoods east of Highway 101 to the downtown area by December 2019 <br />• Complete traffic improvements at Jefferson and Middlefield by early 2020 <br />• Advance design of the Whipple Grade Separation project and develop conceptual grade <br />separation alternatives by early 2020 <br />• Make significant pedestrian and bicycle improvements Downtown, including the permanent <br />closure of Theatre Way to automobile traffic, by spring of 2020 <br />• Complete design of US Highway 101/84 Interchange Project by summer 2020 <br />• Coordinate with regional partners throughout the year to further key transportation projects <br />including the Redwood City Ferry Terminal Project, the Dumbarton Transportation Project, and <br />the Caltrain Electrification and Modernization Project <br />Children and Youth <br />The City Council's third priority area is children and youth. Multiple City departments provide programs <br />annually to support children and youth. <br />The Recommended Budget proposes several one-time efforts to address community impacts associated <br />with the Redwood City School District's decision to consolidate elementary school sites. These efforts are <br />being carefully coordinated with Redwood City School District staff and transportation -related initiatives <br />are described above. Additionally, the City will continue to collaborate with all of the school districts <br />serving Redwood City by focusing on after school care and school safety. <br />The following activities are included as part of the FY 2019-20 Recommended Budget: <br />• Increased City afterschool programming <br />• Scholarships for afterschool care for families who previously received reduced -cost afterschool <br />care at Hawes School <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.ore <br />637 <br />