1 00:00:21,28 --> 00:00:23,78 Good evening and evening. 2 00:00:35,45 --> 00:00:37,94 But if they. Call for 3 00:00:37,95 --> 00:00:43,32 a motion to adopt the agenda as presented by. The second most favorite sport in 4 00:00:43,33 --> 00:00:49,51 moshe's because at least they are all right Washington area. We have one item on 5 00:00:49,52 --> 00:00:53,06 the agenda tonight the technology committee as 6 00:00:53,07 --> 00:00:58,83 a brief findings report which will be presented by Tim FOSS and Christian Thomas. 7 00:01:01,04 --> 00:01:06,39 That being said welcome Tim Christian and when you're ready we're ready All right 8 00:01:06,52 --> 00:01:08,91 we're going to start with an audio clip to set the tone. 9 00:01:18,69 --> 00:01:20,83 I for you to think Jeff. 10 00:01:26,57 --> 00:01:31,45 That I wanted her to show something you know the audio video we would have to get 11 00:01:31,86 --> 00:01:35,37 but I had to get releases and all kinds of breaks in order to probably show 12 00:01:35,38 --> 00:01:42,36 anything that's. Kristen and I are going to. Take you through just 13 00:01:42,37 --> 00:01:46,39 a summary of the findings from the technology committee meeting that was held back 14 00:01:46,40 --> 00:01:50,05 on. September the sixth and just 15 00:01:50,09 --> 00:01:55,83 a few notes before we. Before we start on the slides really this was kind of Emory 16 00:01:55,84 --> 00:02:00,77 suggestion shortly after coming on to the board was to stand up some kind of an ad 17 00:02:00,78 --> 00:02:07,61 hoc committee which was done we had. A professional facilitator 18 00:02:07,62 --> 00:02:13,98 come in to actually run that meeting we also in advance of the meeting 19 00:02:14,79 --> 00:02:21,13 what I think were four different questions. Which we had hoped to kind of solicit 20 00:02:21,17 --> 00:02:22,49 input from 21 00:02:22,50 --> 00:02:29,40 a group of about sixty some odd individuals from around the community on who have 22 00:02:29,55 --> 00:02:35,26 some knowledge or interest in connected and autonomous vehicles one thing that we 23 00:02:35,27 --> 00:02:42,05 did learn after. Compiled or synthesized all the results was 24 00:02:42,60 --> 00:02:47,88 well maybe the priorities that we thought the group would have had. Different than 25 00:02:48,06 --> 00:02:51,88 what they actually listed. So so that was 26 00:02:51,89 --> 00:02:58,30 a good exercise in itself to realize that maybe the private sector thinking behind 27 00:02:58,31 --> 00:03:02,96 connected in autonomy as vehicles is not absolutely aligned with how government 28 00:03:02,97 --> 00:03:09,94 might be thinking about the impact of these so. Certainly what I'd like to 29 00:03:09,95 --> 00:03:14,45 do is at the end please do take copious notes and then we'll have public. 30 00:03:15,57 --> 00:03:21,87 Discussion so I will call. Comments and questions and we'll address everything you 31 00:03:21,88 --> 00:03:23,00 have so and it's 32 00:03:23,01 --> 00:03:32,83 a fairly brief presentation tonight so. Fourteen slides. OK 33 00:03:32,84 --> 00:03:33,49 please make 34 00:03:33,50 --> 00:03:40,30 a. Circle back to it all perfect. So in looking at 35 00:03:40,72 --> 00:03:46,25 the comments that that we received we divide them up into kind of three buckets of 36 00:03:46,26 --> 00:03:52,58 ideas. Some ideas that we felt were kind of internally driven these are things that 37 00:03:52,59 --> 00:03:59,20 the municipal staff will take on over time the second group where the industry and 38 00:03:59,21 --> 00:04:00,17 public driven 39 00:04:00,41 --> 00:04:04,70 a lot of those are really kind of outside of can control but definitely we will 40 00:04:05,37 --> 00:04:09,49 continue to monitor those as connected in 41 00:04:09,50 --> 00:04:12,59 a ton of this vehicles evolve and then third I just 42 00:04:12,60 --> 00:04:15,44 a list of miscellaneous and this was where there was quite 43 00:04:15,45 --> 00:04:21,70 a few more. Few more comments generally at the session then we had 44 00:04:21,71 --> 00:04:27,96 anticipated so. Since that time we have presented this 45 00:04:27,97 --> 00:04:33,67 information it's been sent out to the individuals that attended the September sixth 46 00:04:34,00 --> 00:04:40,99 meeting committee meeting and we have since presented this information also at some 47 00:04:41,00 --> 00:04:44,46 kind of meeting. Cranbrook institute 48 00:04:44,47 --> 00:04:51,21 a number of months back on behalf of some cog so. We're going to just take you 49 00:04:51,22 --> 00:04:55,18 through these I'm going to talk on the internal driven ones first and then turn it 50 00:04:55,19 --> 00:04:59,75 over to Kristen and then kind of come back and wrap it up with the miscellaneous So 51 00:04:59,76 --> 00:05:03,79 if you see any bullet on here that's highlighted in yellow These are bullets that 52 00:05:03,80 --> 00:05:09,18 we're committing to take on in the short term over the next say six to twelve 53 00:05:09,19 --> 00:05:14,67 months these are items that we're actively going to work on not to say we won't 54 00:05:14,68 --> 00:05:19,29 address some of the other things that are on here eventually but we had to really 55 00:05:19,30 --> 00:05:25,67 kind of pick some priorities so the very first. Set of internal 56 00:05:25,68 --> 00:05:32,43 driven ideas were to improve traffic safety and reduce traffic congestion. 57 00:05:34,21 --> 00:05:38,85 We've committed to look into improving lanes and traffic signs as well as the 58 00:05:38,86 --> 00:05:44,66 traffic signals as the connected and the town of this vehicle technology evolves 59 00:05:45,58 --> 00:05:50,88 one can be at that all put with this now and I think the board certainly 60 00:05:50,89 --> 00:05:54,90 understands that is can and does not own does not operate 61 00:05:55,09 --> 00:06:00,34 a single traffic signal within the community every traffic signal within our 62 00:06:00,35 --> 00:06:01,98 community is one of either an M. 63 00:06:01,99 --> 00:06:03,77 DOT traffic signal or 64 00:06:03,78 --> 00:06:09,33 a Wayne County traffic signal I think the split is there's about twenty five that 65 00:06:09,34 --> 00:06:13,94 are under the Michigan Department of Transportation's jurisdiction and then another 66 00:06:14,14 --> 00:06:19,98 forty five. Counties jurisdiction but that doesn't mean we won't work with those 67 00:06:19,99 --> 00:06:26,74 agencies to try to advance these issues. A couple other 68 00:06:26,75 --> 00:06:31,41 ideas that emerged which were not going to perhaps down the road would be to 69 00:06:31,56 --> 00:06:36,01 collect information on community transit patterns utilize some of the data 70 00:06:36,05 --> 00:06:41,10 potentially partnering with Google ways or one of the other companies that's 71 00:06:41,11 --> 00:06:45,06 collecting what they call crowd source data. Off of 72 00:06:45,60 --> 00:06:52,31 a quick myth that is out there along the right of ways through Michigan. And then 73 00:06:52,32 --> 00:06:56,99 third planning an ordinance for safety concerns this is kind of addressed 74 00:06:57,00 --> 00:07:01,32 a little bit later so we will talk about that and we did include on 75 00:07:01,33 --> 00:07:07,43 a further slide. The second item though that we have agreed to kind of take on 76 00:07:07,44 --> 00:07:13,26 would be to make commercial areas more accessible by opening back roads or interior 77 00:07:13,27 --> 00:07:18,33 roads between parcels so we have actually been working on this since two thousand 78 00:07:18,34 --> 00:07:19,88 and four this is been 79 00:07:19,89 --> 00:07:24,89 a very focused thing that the township has been doing along Ford Road in particular 80 00:07:24,89 --> 00:07:26,30 . We've done 81 00:07:26,31 --> 00:07:29,88 a little bit of it along Michigan Avenue but it's really this is kind of 82 00:07:29,89 --> 00:07:35,71 a Ford Road issue trying to you know reduce the number of turns and reduce traffic 83 00:07:35,72 --> 00:07:42,13 impacts along busy corridors such as Ford by opening up if you will east west roads 84 00:07:42,14 --> 00:07:47,92 in behind the businesses as you know there's one between the road and Haggerty road 85 00:07:48,55 --> 00:07:54,15 generally you know in behind Ikea and the other shopping centers that takes you out 86 00:07:54,16 --> 00:08:00,69 to the road on the west side there's also one between Morton Taylor and Sheldon we 87 00:08:00,70 --> 00:08:05,33 would like to explore more of those certainly as part of our access management plan 88 00:08:05,34 --> 00:08:06,82 and we do do think that that's 89 00:08:06,83 --> 00:08:13,67 a good idea. Second second topic came up under 90 00:08:13,68 --> 00:08:19,09 internal driven was reducing parking requirements. We don't see the need to do that 91 00:08:19,25 --> 00:08:25,69 at this time and I'll just share with you one thought if you if you think about the 92 00:08:25,70 --> 00:08:31,28 fact that we just approved permitted and then the developer constructed the new Art 93 00:08:31,29 --> 00:08:38,20 Van store on Ford Road. Canton has one of the most restrictive 94 00:08:38,43 --> 00:08:43,89 that is the highest number of parking spaces required per development of any 95 00:08:43,90 --> 00:08:49,59 community in southeast Michigan. Was something done very purposeful twenty twenty 96 00:08:49,60 --> 00:08:52,97 five years ago. Was to keep 97 00:08:53,01 --> 00:08:57,18 a high requirement on the number of parking spaces because there was 98 00:08:57,19 --> 00:09:01,80 a lot of complaints at that time about available parking at commercial businesses 99 00:09:02,66 --> 00:09:08,10 now the reality is commercial connected and autonomy vehicles may in fact reduce 100 00:09:08,11 --> 00:09:14,67 the amount of parking required in the future some studies suggest that you know 101 00:09:14,68 --> 00:09:21,07 could be as high as thirty five percent fewer parking spaces required but they'll 102 00:09:21,08 --> 00:09:24,79 be additional paved areas around buildings that are going to be required for drop 103 00:09:24,80 --> 00:09:29,32 off where these connected vehicles that are actually going to park but they're 104 00:09:29,33 --> 00:09:34,69 going to deliver you to the store and then take you when you're done shopping so 105 00:09:34,87 --> 00:09:38,33 our. Requirements needed to construct 106 00:09:38,34 --> 00:09:42,85 a parking spots and we told them that when they were going through their review 107 00:09:43,21 --> 00:09:49,15 they came. To few we refused to construct the minimum we want to hundred fifty 108 00:09:49,16 --> 00:09:52,62 three parking spots so our order 109 00:09:53,33 --> 00:09:59,56 a minimum standard if the business through their business plans and the traffic 110 00:09:59,57 --> 00:10:04,71 analyses feels that they want to construct additional spots then we will allow them 111 00:10:04,72 --> 00:10:10,52 to do so where where those numbers are reasonable so. The reason I bring our van up 112 00:10:10,53 --> 00:10:11,21 is it's 113 00:10:11,22 --> 00:10:15,86 a brand new building in our community I hope it'll be there very long time these 114 00:10:15,87 --> 00:10:21,96 builds are typically forty fifty year assets. And we just built one so that you 115 00:10:21,97 --> 00:10:25,36 know it's new to the community should we have forced them to put in less parking 116 00:10:25,37 --> 00:10:32,00 right now I think speaking very frankly today the answer is no. I think we want to 117 00:10:32,01 --> 00:10:36,59 see what's going to come with connected and autonomy vehicles and when the right 118 00:10:36,60 --> 00:10:41,56 time is to consider reducing our requirements so that's kind of one for the future 119 00:10:42,31 --> 00:10:47,37 the reality too is that as I mentioned the existing parking lot may have 120 00:10:47,87 --> 00:10:53,11 a few parking spaces it can be reconfigured in the future so that maybe some of the 121 00:10:53,12 --> 00:10:57,61 parking spaces are used for drop off areas so this is just kind of some of our 122 00:10:57,62 --> 00:11:02,36 internal thinking on it at this point so that one is kind of parked out into the 123 00:11:02,37 --> 00:11:08,29 future for us. Exploring transportation alternatives there's 124 00:11:08,30 --> 00:11:12,62 a couple here that we'd like to tackle certainly to have alternative pass for 125 00:11:12,63 --> 00:11:18,30 getting through the community I think that sits pretty high on the boards set of 126 00:11:18,80 --> 00:11:24,11 goals that were just recently developed and likewise to invest in connecting 127 00:11:24,12 --> 00:11:29,85 sidewalks and pathways for community you're seeing us try to push that with some of 128 00:11:29,86 --> 00:11:36,45 the development community now. We saw with the recent changes for 129 00:11:36,73 --> 00:11:41,91 Michigan Avenue between Sheldon and and Morton Taylor road you know these are 130 00:11:41,92 --> 00:11:46,75 examples where we're going to try to kind of push the development community towards 131 00:11:46,75 --> 00:11:53,46 . Designs in the future. A few other points here and A.V. 132 00:11:53,47 --> 00:11:54,69 Friendly community is 133 00:11:54,70 --> 00:12:01,35 a pedestrian friendly area sori. You know sure I buy that but there's really 134 00:12:01,36 --> 00:12:06,58 nothing that that we need to take action on on on that. There was 135 00:12:06,59 --> 00:12:08,77 a suggestion to identify 136 00:12:08,78 --> 00:12:15,56 a popular route. And I think in fact the suggestion was to buy maybe three or four 137 00:12:16,31 --> 00:12:20,24 autonomy vehicles the township do that and begin running 138 00:12:20,25 --> 00:12:26,80 a shuttle up and down that route of some kind. I don't you know the townships 139 00:12:27,03 --> 00:12:32,10 not ready to do that at this point in time I think frankly nor is really maybe the 140 00:12:32,11 --> 00:12:34,82 industry. There is just 141 00:12:34,83 --> 00:12:38,64 a comment made about the M one line in Detroit and the need to have 142 00:12:38,65 --> 00:12:43,19 a trolley line somewhere in Canton Township and there's kind of one in the same 143 00:12:43,53 --> 00:12:50,20 with that previous bull an additional goal was to 144 00:12:50,21 --> 00:12:55,83 explore additional mobility services especially for seniors with the emphasis there 145 00:12:55,83 --> 00:13:02,56 . One of the things in connected in autonomy vehicles that that's coming is. 146 00:13:04,09 --> 00:13:10,83 Improved or enhanced mobility services right now the township offers mobility 147 00:13:10,84 --> 00:13:17,63 services to seniors sixty two years of age and older. And the 148 00:13:17,64 --> 00:13:24,45 disabled. For what otherwise is kind of like an eight to five. Day 149 00:13:24,46 --> 00:13:30,85 shift Monday through Fridays and they can get rides for medical appointments and 150 00:13:31,79 --> 00:13:37,23 and other reasons around the community based on priority through the CAN'T mobility 151 00:13:37,70 --> 00:13:44,31 transportation program. What. We envision on this front 152 00:13:44,39 --> 00:13:50,85 is an increased number of services in this arena in the future where there might be 153 00:13:50,86 --> 00:13:57,47 smaller operators set up to run what they call micro transit which are 154 00:13:57,71 --> 00:14:03,76 smaller smaller shuttles that deliver you shorter distances in order to pick up 155 00:14:04,06 --> 00:14:10,15 other forms of transportation so if you want to go in and pick up the SMART bus to 156 00:14:10,16 --> 00:14:12,32 go into downtown Detroit you might be able to take 157 00:14:12,33 --> 00:14:18,65 a little micro transit bus with two or three other people and and go over to the 158 00:14:18,66 --> 00:14:22,52 city of Wayne and pick up that pick up that ride you want to go pick up 159 00:14:22,53 --> 00:14:27,15 a train or some you know maybe even as far potentially as Metro Airport but 160 00:14:27,88 --> 00:14:33,10 typically these are are fairly short trips but we definitely see that happening in 161 00:14:33,11 --> 00:14:39,77 Canton Township and in more suburban areas like Canton probably across the metro 162 00:14:39,78 --> 00:14:46,08 area the other point that was driven home was we need to consider the budget 163 00:14:46,09 --> 00:14:51,42 implications of all of this stuff because you know there's again 164 00:14:51,51 --> 00:14:58,00 a we have some limited responsibilities for some of this infrastructure and be we 165 00:14:58,01 --> 00:15:03,52 always got to be cognizant of how we spend the public dollars. But the reality is 166 00:15:03,53 --> 00:15:07,69 we probably need to think about budgeting for connectivity somewhere in the 167 00:15:07,70 --> 00:15:13,79 community one example I would give is. Seven maybe eight years ago 168 00:15:14,79 --> 00:15:16,43 the D.D.A. 169 00:15:16,82 --> 00:15:16,96 Did 170 00:15:16,97 --> 00:15:23,64 a major project to bury all the electrical underground lines along for the road when 171 00:15:23,65 --> 00:15:29,10 that project was done we asked the designers to put some additional conduits in the 172 00:15:29,11 --> 00:15:34,43 underground tanks along Ford Road just in case in the future we might need some 173 00:15:34,44 --> 00:15:40,77 other form of communication lines so that was done those duck banks exist capital 174 00:15:40,78 --> 00:15:46,21 investments been made if we needed or wanted to pull fiber optic lines through 175 00:15:46,78 --> 00:15:48,69 through those conduits that would be 176 00:15:48,70 --> 00:15:55,06 a possibility in order to connect traffic signals and other. Signal 177 00:15:55,07 --> 00:16:01,00 infrastructure along the border of cord or so there is some opportunities there and 178 00:16:01,59 --> 00:16:06,54 for example installing fiber as the as the board knows is something that we've done 179 00:16:06,55 --> 00:16:10,50 before and it's so we did it in partnership with the school district and it was 180 00:16:10,51 --> 00:16:17,14 relatively inexpensive in the greater scheme of things but few of the points made 181 00:16:17,15 --> 00:16:21,35 that we just need to be cautious with the capital expenditures the suggestion to 182 00:16:21,36 --> 00:16:22,79 add rental lockers as 183 00:16:22,80 --> 00:16:29,40 a source of revenue investing in mapping throughout the township focusing on 184 00:16:29,41 --> 00:16:34,89 driving more revenue. And then again revenue generation versus reduction 185 00:16:35,37 --> 00:16:39,49 a little bit of this discussion point was around you know if there's going to be 186 00:16:39,50 --> 00:16:45,36 a number of kind of outdated connected non Autonomy's vehicles out there that are 187 00:16:45,37 --> 00:16:47,55 still in decent condition is there 188 00:16:47,56 --> 00:16:52,97 a way somehow we I don't know if that really means can itself or the community can 189 00:16:52,98 --> 00:16:57,06 somehow make money on the sale of those vehicles but those are just 190 00:16:57,07 --> 00:17:01,10 a few of the ideas that were kind of thrown around. So I'm going to turn it over to 191 00:17:01,11 --> 00:17:02,06 Christina she'll talk 192 00:17:02,07 --> 00:17:07,33 a little bit about the industry and kind of public driven stuff and then take it 193 00:17:07,34 --> 00:17:14,32 back and wrap it OK So when this first came about we were thinking What 194 00:17:14,33 --> 00:17:20,13 can can do for the technology autonomous vehicle idea 195 00:17:20,67 --> 00:17:26,20 and one one thing we can do is with M. 196 00:17:26,21 --> 00:17:28,62 City over in Ann Arbor and a C.N.N. 197 00:17:28,63 --> 00:17:34,21 It will run we thought well let's try to get in on the synergy being created to the 198 00:17:34,22 --> 00:17:38,89 west of us right so. Michigan Avenue would be 199 00:17:38,90 --> 00:17:45,67 a great place to for some of the. Technology companies to maybe locate 200 00:17:46,01 --> 00:17:49,09 between two seventy five and where they need to go we've got our Michigan Avenue 201 00:17:49,10 --> 00:17:55,33 corridor or so. This is something that we can maybe tap into so. 202 00:17:57,55 --> 00:18:04,54 What I've been doing on that front is kind of researching where 203 00:18:04,64 --> 00:18:09,62 I could put myself in front of some of these companies so. A lot of the autonomous 204 00:18:09,63 --> 00:18:14,98 vehicle trade shows are in China and Berlin and that's just not in my budget to go 205 00:18:14,99 --> 00:18:17,41 to go over there so that there are there are 206 00:18:17,42 --> 00:18:22,45 a couple coming to Detroit this year that I'm going to look into attending to just 207 00:18:22,46 --> 00:18:26,56 kind of talk to the companies see what kind of space they might need to see see if 208 00:18:26,57 --> 00:18:33,28 I can hook them up with developers in the community. To to to try to get him here 209 00:18:33,33 --> 00:18:36,100 and then bring their employees here and then they'll buy houses here and then 210 00:18:37,01 --> 00:18:43,75 everybody's happy right. Another comment was developed the canned 211 00:18:43,76 --> 00:18:50,67 center Denton Cherry Hill Village area. More homes are coming their businesses will 212 00:18:50,68 --> 00:18:57,62 come there and I'm. Don't know. Where that exactly figures into the 213 00:18:57,63 --> 00:19:01,85 economic development and technology side of course we want businesses to come to 214 00:19:01,86 --> 00:19:05,19 the area. Be 215 00:19:05,20 --> 00:19:10,43 a welcoming community to advance tech organizations and firms we try to be 216 00:19:10,55 --> 00:19:17,23 welcoming to all businesses. And and we just need to find the right fit for these 217 00:19:17,24 --> 00:19:20,74 places that's why I want to get in front of some of them at these trade shows to 218 00:19:20,75 --> 00:19:24,78 see what exactly does are looking for what kind of office space to they need what 219 00:19:24,79 --> 00:19:29,25 kind of warehouse space to they need what what did what do they need what do we 220 00:19:29,26 --> 00:19:34,18 have what can we. Provide for them as 221 00:19:34,19 --> 00:19:39,91 a community I know we have. The right. 222 00:19:53,29 --> 00:19:57,47 Through it so we we have the skill sets required we have the people living in 223 00:19:57,48 --> 00:20:02,07 Canton who can work at these companies so we that needs to be part of my package to 224 00:20:02,08 --> 00:20:06,76 these companies I need to present them with the kind of space they might be looking 225 00:20:06,77 --> 00:20:09,79 for I need to present them with the demographics that we already have here in 226 00:20:09,80 --> 00:20:16,55 Canton not just the people but the other. Businesses the other companies 227 00:20:16,63 --> 00:20:21,16 that are doing some of this work right here in Canton to let them know of the 228 00:20:21,17 --> 00:20:27,97 resources that we urge he have here. Tax incentives. The 229 00:20:27,98 --> 00:20:34,13 state has. Tax incentives for high tech manufacturing 230 00:20:34,82 --> 00:20:39,51 industries and Canton historically has been very supportive of those when 231 00:20:39,52 --> 00:20:44,13 businesses come in when they've they've their investment in the community their 232 00:20:44,14 --> 00:20:48,87 staffing how many people are they going to hire we've been very very generous with 233 00:20:48,88 --> 00:20:51,30 those tax incentives we can go up to 234 00:20:51,31 --> 00:20:55,41 a twelve year fifty percent abatement on their taxes and depending on their 235 00:20:55,42 --> 00:20:59,60 staffing investment I think that that would be no different here with this industry 236 00:21:00,18 --> 00:21:06,96 we like to see jobs coming to Canton and investment in our community so. I 237 00:21:06,97 --> 00:21:12,70 believe we can still I can still confidently put that on the table to companies who 238 00:21:12,71 --> 00:21:18,47 might be. Interested in Canton. We always try to provide 239 00:21:18,48 --> 00:21:23,93 a business friendly environment again trying to put the right companies with the 240 00:21:23,94 --> 00:21:27,12 right. Developers they've got 241 00:21:27,86 --> 00:21:32,26 a person owns one hundred acres out there Michigan and back who's just looking for 242 00:21:32,27 --> 00:21:38,34 some tenants he wants to build some big buildings and. And I think it's 243 00:21:38,35 --> 00:21:40,89 a good time for him with A.C.M. 244 00:21:40,93 --> 00:21:47,85 And city I think it's all going to be coming together soon. The second this other 245 00:21:47,86 --> 00:21:49,01 part is more of 246 00:21:49,02 --> 00:21:55,82 a communications. Idea educating the community through videos and seminars to 247 00:21:55,83 --> 00:22:00,32 embrace these technologies and gather input will be talking in 248 00:22:00,33 --> 00:22:06,70 a few minutes about some input that we've just recently acquired and as all of this 249 00:22:06,71 --> 00:22:11,90 new tech shop technology becomes available and may be integrated into the community 250 00:22:11,91 --> 00:22:16,65 we do want to let the residents know hey this is what's coming in here's how it can 251 00:22:16,66 --> 00:22:20,12 benefit you and here's what Canton is doing and here's how you might want to get 252 00:22:20,13 --> 00:22:26,77 involved or. We can have we can put videos on our website we can hold seminars we 253 00:22:26,78 --> 00:22:33,18 can do whatever it is our residents might be asking for to learn about and embrace 254 00:22:33,19 --> 00:22:38,74 these technologies. And I think. 255 00:22:43,68 --> 00:22:48,98 The information we just gathered. But anyway we want we want our residents to be. 256 00:22:50,30 --> 00:22:52,58 Involved as we go as we move along 257 00:22:58,75 --> 00:23:02,100 one of the comments was that we should work with public safety to make the 258 00:23:03,01 --> 00:23:07,86 community more friendly to the and that's something we can certainly work on with 259 00:23:07,87 --> 00:23:13,26 our public safety is. They need to be ready for these vehicles to rate in case 260 00:23:14,77 --> 00:23:20,08 like in Las Vegas the first day on the job the autonomous bus crashed. 261 00:23:22,28 --> 00:23:26,66 Through no fault of their buses on it was it was the other guy's fault but what 262 00:23:26,67 --> 00:23:30,97 does public safety do when when that happens are they are they prepared to handle 263 00:23:30,98 --> 00:23:35,66 this stuff so we need to let these companies feel comfortable that we know how to 264 00:23:35,67 --> 00:23:41,77 handle situations and again what to residents want we want to do some surveys we 265 00:23:41,78 --> 00:23:48,63 want to to get feedback from them as much as possible as the technology emerges 266 00:23:48,82 --> 00:23:51,87 and what what do they want to see what do they want us to try to do. 267 00:23:56,02 --> 00:24:00,01 So then there was the category of everything else. 268 00:24:03,17 --> 00:24:05,11 What emerged from from this was 269 00:24:05,37 --> 00:24:10,16 a couple suggestions one you know we should learn from what others are already 270 00:24:10,17 --> 00:24:15,29 doing an arbor is is doing some work with connected in autonomy severe calls 271 00:24:15,96 --> 00:24:22,48 already and have been for some time as Kristen noted the city site is 272 00:24:23,14 --> 00:24:25,53 you know has been in the city of Ann Arbor for 273 00:24:25,54 --> 00:24:31,99 a while now the American Center for mobility is kind of right between us in Ann 274 00:24:32,00 --> 00:24:36,99 Arbor so we think we're well positioned to learn from from both of those but I 275 00:24:37,00 --> 00:24:41,17 think you will probably learn the most from is Oakland County who are definitely 276 00:24:41,21 --> 00:24:47,04 a leader in the connected in autonomy vehicles front at least from 277 00:24:47,05 --> 00:24:53,30 a government standpoint so. Presented at the thing that the the 278 00:24:53,35 --> 00:25:00,09 workshop that that we did with. Institute and I 279 00:25:00,10 --> 00:25:02,30 presented. What we're doing at 280 00:25:02,31 --> 00:25:08,03 a local level County presented on what the county is doing at the county level and 281 00:25:08,04 --> 00:25:13,08 then the Center for Automotive Research presented more kind of on 282 00:25:13,09 --> 00:25:19,88 a national state national perspective. But. Oakland County has 283 00:25:19,89 --> 00:25:20,42 issued 284 00:25:20,43 --> 00:25:26,97 a request for proposals. It was issued back I think you November with 285 00:25:26,98 --> 00:25:33,20 a deadline of January the ninth and that proposal is to have 286 00:25:33,21 --> 00:25:36,85 companies bid on constructing 287 00:25:37,17 --> 00:25:41,46 a live operating connected in autonomy as 288 00:25:41,47 --> 00:25:46,30 a vehicle kind of corridor throughout the county so the county has over two 289 00:25:46,31 --> 00:25:52,35 thousand signalized intersections and this pilot project will be for ten 290 00:25:52,36 --> 00:25:57,92 intersections along squirrel road if you know the. Oakland University campus it all 291 00:25:57,93 --> 00:26:04,55 it's basically from M fifty nine north up to. The road and then Dutton road he 292 00:26:04,56 --> 00:26:11,46 says West. To Brown road and then Brown road over back towards I seventy 293 00:26:11,47 --> 00:26:17,42 five so they're going to have companies bid on constructing an operating this 294 00:26:17,43 --> 00:26:21,08 system for a period of time in order to do 295 00:26:21,09 --> 00:26:27,68 a real kind of live. Pilot Project to establish some technical 296 00:26:27,69 --> 00:26:32,93 criteria for the other one thousand nine hundred ninety intersections in the county 297 00:26:33,38 --> 00:26:39,84 and. They are you know they've been working on this for three years the the county 298 00:26:39,85 --> 00:26:46,56 executives charged to to this task force is to do it and have it not cost 299 00:26:46,57 --> 00:26:52,99 Oakland County any money so be interesting to see how this proposal evolves but the 300 00:26:52,99 --> 00:26:59,98 . The proposals have been extended now until February the eighth and our 301 00:27:00,02 --> 00:27:05,19 contact there has indicated that they will share any and all information with us as 302 00:27:05,20 --> 00:27:07,84 soon as soon as it's received and they have 303 00:27:07,85 --> 00:27:13,83 a recommendation and they're very willing to help can now do even in moving forward 304 00:27:13,84 --> 00:27:20,75 so I think that was great. Installing electrical vehicles charging stations 305 00:27:20,76 --> 00:27:21,10 we've had 306 00:27:21,11 --> 00:27:27,14 a number of applications over the last ten years propose installing these throughout 307 00:27:27,15 --> 00:27:31,63 the community all of them were tied to grant funding none of the individuals got 308 00:27:31,64 --> 00:27:38,24 grants know the projects move forward it's going to happen. Is that you know the 309 00:27:38,25 --> 00:27:41,99 role of the township or is that the role of the private sector that's kind of I 310 00:27:42,00 --> 00:27:46,21 think really the question right now because for the most part these are likely 311 00:27:46,22 --> 00:27:50,91 going to be on private property so I think you know where my thinking is on it. 312 00:27:52,45 --> 00:27:56,70 Becoming the next test you know sure if the if that's an opportunity then we'll 313 00:27:56,71 --> 00:28:02,60 explore it but we would definitely commit to learning and commit to 314 00:28:02,84 --> 00:28:07,30 a developing any policies that would support connected and autonomous vehicles of 315 00:28:07,31 --> 00:28:13,72 the future. Again on miscellaneous things that we would consider 316 00:28:13,73 --> 00:28:17,74 tackling would be. Studying cities that have had 317 00:28:17,75 --> 00:28:22,36 a ton of US vehicles operating in their streets for many years this is probably 318 00:28:22,37 --> 00:28:22,96 a little bit more of 319 00:28:22,97 --> 00:28:29,40 a long term goal. And learn from you know the lessons that they've learned over 320 00:28:29,41 --> 00:28:36,16 time and then also balancing both the search and urban implications of connected in 321 00:28:36,17 --> 00:28:40,27 the town in this vehicles because this means something different for can than it 322 00:28:40,28 --> 00:28:41,20 means for 323 00:28:41,34 --> 00:28:48,25 a large urban center as I mentioned. I would Invision more 324 00:28:48,29 --> 00:28:54,14 of this micro transit type of of applications in in the community I think that's 325 00:28:54,15 --> 00:29:01,01 definitely something very workable for suburban locations. And you know rethinking 326 00:29:01,02 --> 00:29:07,91 our parking and rethinking how drop off and pick up of users in the 327 00:29:07,92 --> 00:29:14,42 future should be figured out on existing and new commercial construction sites 328 00:29:14,80 --> 00:29:21,78 so those are definitely some things that we can work on the last 329 00:29:21,79 --> 00:29:27,39 couple slides that we have here. You know being cognizant of the surrounding 330 00:29:27,40 --> 00:29:33,62 communities so that we don't become an island of of technology I guess you know we 331 00:29:33,63 --> 00:29:40,02 just always need to be aware that. That we're not in this alone that this is 332 00:29:40,36 --> 00:29:46,90 more than even regional This is you know this is state this is nationwide and we 333 00:29:46,91 --> 00:29:50,46 can't be doing something substantially different than you know what other 334 00:29:50,47 --> 00:29:55,32 communities are doing but we can be doing it faster and earlier than some of these 335 00:29:55,33 --> 00:30:01,47 other communities certainly because you know transit transit you know transcends 336 00:30:01,48 --> 00:30:07,63 these geographical boundaries that we call the community lines. So so we need to be 337 00:30:07,64 --> 00:30:13,64 thinking regionally in terms of these these solutions Public Safety Training 338 00:30:13,65 --> 00:30:17,28 Kristen hit on that earlier that there may be there main be 339 00:30:17,29 --> 00:30:22,19 a need to do some training for our police officers and our emergency responders and 340 00:30:22,20 --> 00:30:28,35 how they're responding to. Electric vehicles that are perhaps involved with 341 00:30:28,61 --> 00:30:35,42 accidents or disabled. And then you know police officers and how they're going to 342 00:30:35,43 --> 00:30:41,23 deal with any potential infractions that happen when somebody is in a in 343 00:30:41,24 --> 00:30:46,54 a connected or a tone in this vehicle. And then to become C.A.V. 344 00:30:46,55 --> 00:30:52,62 Friendly again Kristen mentioned where we're absolutely on board to to do that. So 345 00:30:53,38 --> 00:30:54,35 we've outlined 346 00:30:54,36 --> 00:31:01,53 a few proposed next steps the first of which is we've completed the synthesis 347 00:31:01,54 --> 00:31:06,95 of the notes and you're being presented those with those tonight. Working with them 348 00:31:06,95 --> 00:31:12,31 . On a strategy to tackle some of these schools I handed out 349 00:31:12,84 --> 00:31:19,52 a sheet which is. A drawing from. That shows on Michigan Avenue and it 350 00:31:19,53 --> 00:31:25,40 shows the American Center for mobility. And the Red Square on the left side of that 351 00:31:25,41 --> 00:31:29,82 drawing in Ypsilanti Township. And it shows 352 00:31:29,83 --> 00:31:35,07 a bunch of dots along Michigan Avenue with. Lines and bubbles with 353 00:31:35,08 --> 00:31:40,01 a bunch of technical information in those bubbles and what it all means is we're 354 00:31:40,02 --> 00:31:44,40 over those dots are located in Canton Township along Michigan Avenue generally 355 00:31:44,41 --> 00:31:51,41 between I two seventy five and Ypsilanti Township others and so you know 356 00:31:51,74 --> 00:31:58,29 ten traffic signals along that stretch and am diet is going to install these 357 00:31:58,96 --> 00:32:05,57 dedicated short range communication devices over the next couple years along that 358 00:32:05,58 --> 00:32:12,35 corridor or so what that will allow to do is to tie that equipment 359 00:32:12,45 --> 00:32:14,04 into the A.C.M. 360 00:32:14,70 --> 00:32:19,53 Be able to tie it into I ninety four tied into I two seventy five all the way up to 361 00:32:19,54 --> 00:32:26,45 I ninety six in Oakland County out towards us twenty three so it would be 362 00:32:26,49 --> 00:32:33,15 a kind of mid-level. Arterial highway through the community that 363 00:32:33,16 --> 00:32:36,56 ties to the urban freeway system that already has 364 00:32:36,57 --> 00:32:41,33 a bunch of this equipment installed on it. The other thing that is not shown on 365 00:32:41,34 --> 00:32:47,90 that drawing. But is going to happen later this year is an upgrade of the 366 00:32:47,91 --> 00:32:54,19 existing. Dedicated short range commune. Devices two seventy five 367 00:32:54,54 --> 00:33:00,14 a couple years ago when redid to seventy five between six ninety six and ninety six 368 00:33:00,51 --> 00:33:05,90 they put all new equipment in they're going to match the section from I ninety six 369 00:33:05,91 --> 00:33:07,68 down to I ninety four in fact 370 00:33:07,69 --> 00:33:11,90 a little bit south of ninety four this coming year and get all that equipment 371 00:33:11,91 --> 00:33:14,98 upgraded so it's the latest in the greatest and I'll show you 372 00:33:14,99 --> 00:33:17,75 a picture of what type of equipment looks like in 373 00:33:17,76 --> 00:33:24,64 a second. So you know working with and that's positive news I 374 00:33:24,65 --> 00:33:25,62 think there's maybe 375 00:33:25,63 --> 00:33:31,59 a play down the road for us with Ford Road is you know maybe we could. Also put 376 00:33:31,60 --> 00:33:36,32 this equipment on Ford Road maybe utilize that existing conduit bank that was put 377 00:33:36,33 --> 00:33:43,01 in seven years ago. For the communications between these 378 00:33:43,02 --> 00:33:48,52 devices and tie that into the seventy five then we just need to make the link down 379 00:33:48,53 --> 00:33:52,84 can center road from four. Michigan now we've got 380 00:33:52,85 --> 00:33:58,01 a loop within can't afford care center Michigan Avenue and that's tied into the 381 00:33:58,02 --> 00:34:00,75 urban highway system so I think there's 382 00:34:00,76 --> 00:34:03,95 a real opportunity there and we've been talking with them doubt about that already 383 00:34:03,95 --> 00:34:09,14 . We would also have to work through Wayne County which is kind of another issue 384 00:34:09,15 --> 00:34:14,06 that we'll have to address over time because Canton centers under the county 385 00:34:14,07 --> 00:34:20,33 jurisdiction. Kristen mentioned that we're already you know working on pursuing 386 00:34:20,34 --> 00:34:26,15 companies to try to come to Canton and work on things associated with this industry 387 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:31,28 we're going to educate communicate educate our residents thought that was an 388 00:34:31,29 --> 00:34:36,64 excellent step. That we're probably one of the first communities in the state that 389 00:34:36,65 --> 00:34:40,26 is actually doing anything on this at this point while they've made 390 00:34:40,27 --> 00:34:41,57 a lot of progress at 391 00:34:41,58 --> 00:34:45,68 a county level there's been few communities that are actually doing what we're 392 00:34:45,69 --> 00:34:49,06 doing so they thought that that was 393 00:34:49,07 --> 00:34:54,74 a real Admiral admirable goal for us. Well we'll continue to monitor the connected 394 00:34:54,75 --> 00:34:59,54 and economist vehicles developments definitely going to stay on Oakland County and 395 00:34:59,55 --> 00:35:05,81 try and learn from what they're going through and. Look to explore 396 00:35:06,20 --> 00:35:11,10 additional partnerships through the American Center for mobility and the M. 397 00:35:11,11 --> 00:35:17,27 City site in Ann Arbor. So what I've got in closing is just 398 00:35:17,31 --> 00:35:24,09 a couple things that I wanted to show you real quick so 399 00:35:24,70 --> 00:35:31,61 three little over three years ago. Oakland County Road Commission worked 400 00:35:31,62 --> 00:35:38,19 with of the city of Novi and they installed I think it was thirty of these units in 401 00:35:38,61 --> 00:35:43,56 the city and this is what the dedicated short range communication unit looks like 402 00:35:43,74 --> 00:35:48,79 this is the old one this is the on this thing is pretty large as you can see this 403 00:35:48,80 --> 00:35:54,36 is mounted up pretty high above the traffic signals here at Novi road. This is 404 00:35:54,37 --> 00:35:56,71 pretty large thing is you know I would guess the size of 405 00:35:56,72 --> 00:36:02,11 a toaster oven or bigger. The units that are out there today are certainly much 406 00:36:02,12 --> 00:36:06,06 smaller but it just gives you no appreciation of the type of equipment that you're 407 00:36:06,07 --> 00:36:11,22 going to see out there on the on the urban freeway system and maybe on some of our 408 00:36:11,23 --> 00:36:16,33 mile roads in the coming future and the other thing that I have. 409 00:36:20,68 --> 00:36:25,19 So just to have some fun because we're all about fun. 410 00:36:28,43 --> 00:36:34,72 That's not good we did a little survey in the house and we received 411 00:36:34,73 --> 00:36:41,66 a copy of of an xterm all survey. That was done. Bias by 412 00:36:41,67 --> 00:36:46,08 an automotive group in two thousand and sixteen which surveyed 413 00:36:46,25 --> 00:36:51,06 a few things of age and then asked for four questions. 414 00:36:52,79 --> 00:36:57,71 Internally two or three hundred sixty some full time employees and of those fifty 415 00:36:57,72 --> 00:37:02,02 percent responded which was about six times as many as I thought would respond to 416 00:37:02,03 --> 00:37:08,61 this. I'm going to call it statistically significant but. What 417 00:37:09,27 --> 00:37:10,76 so that the first question was just on 418 00:37:10,77 --> 00:37:16,57 a. Spread roughly equal spread of baby boomers. 419 00:37:18,16 --> 00:37:24,21 The swing generation only a few individuals responded from there and Generation X. 420 00:37:24,22 --> 00:37:30,90 Where all. This question of you know how many vehicles your house will presently 421 00:37:30,91 --> 00:37:36,74 use what's interesting is if you add the light blue and the yellow slice the pie 422 00:37:36,75 --> 00:37:43,49 here it totals about eighty seven percent of the of the total respondents 423 00:37:43,75 --> 00:37:50,19 so basically means that you know eighty seven percent of the individuals have two 424 00:37:50,20 --> 00:37:56,05 or more in their households that's going to change Absolutely 425 00:37:57,23 --> 00:38:03,72 but the real crux of the survey are in. Is in this graph. 426 00:38:04,84 --> 00:38:05,06 If it's 427 00:38:05,07 --> 00:38:13,41 a little bit small but what this graph shows is. Asks 428 00:38:13,42 --> 00:38:16,85 four questions the first question is would I ride in 429 00:38:16,86 --> 00:38:22,32 a soft driving vehicle and would I purchase one and in our case twenty two percent 430 00:38:22,89 --> 00:38:29,86 of our staff said yes they would do that so that's the screen slice right here the 431 00:38:29,87 --> 00:38:34,98 national average in the survey was thirty three percent but I would note that that 432 00:38:34,99 --> 00:38:36,84 was. About 433 00:38:36,85 --> 00:38:42,43 a year ago this survey. The second question was I would not ride in 434 00:38:42,44 --> 00:38:48,72 a soft driving vehicle and I would not purchase one so twenty eight percent of the 435 00:38:48,73 --> 00:38:55,41 individuals story thirty four percent of our individuals surveyed. Had 436 00:38:55,42 --> 00:39:00,07 indicated that would be their response Nationally the number was twenty eight 437 00:39:00,08 --> 00:39:02,25 percent so might reflect a little bit of 438 00:39:02,26 --> 00:39:08,48 a bias to southeast Michigan and how much we love our vehicles. And age but. 439 00:39:09,53 --> 00:39:16,37 Maybe age I don't know yet. And then the yellow slice here says I would 440 00:39:16,38 --> 00:39:16,71 drive in 441 00:39:16,72 --> 00:39:20,68 a soft driving vehicle but I would not purchase one and in our case thirteen 442 00:39:20,69 --> 00:39:24,55 percent of the people thought that was the way they would respond to that question 443 00:39:24,77 --> 00:39:31,54 twenty four percent nationally and then the last slice I don't know yet that was 444 00:39:31,55 --> 00:39:36,43 almost thirty one percent of the individuals when this was asked nationally it was 445 00:39:36,44 --> 00:39:42,98 fifteen percent so. Just some statistics for fun on 446 00:39:42,99 --> 00:39:49,87 how our staff answered a similar survey that was asked nationally about 447 00:39:49,88 --> 00:39:54,02 a year ago on these these very same questions so. 448 00:40:00,85 --> 00:40:07,85 That the. Questions. To do is go to public first the audience as 449 00:40:07,86 --> 00:40:12,18 Or any questions or comments anybody would like to make regarding the presentation 450 00:40:13,42 --> 00:40:18,70 Additionally if you make comments from the audience nobody will be able to hear you 451 00:40:19,24 --> 00:40:21,89 who are participating from home or watching this is 452 00:40:21,90 --> 00:40:27,94 a question so. Please come to the podium and record but if you give us name address 453 00:40:27,94 --> 00:40:33,03 . Please forgive. Going to work in the back forward. 454 00:40:41,56 --> 00:40:46,57 The name and address and all that. OK Greg Green four six eight nine zero Creek 455 00:40:46,58 --> 00:40:53,47 spend drive can. I'm very excited about the. Idea 456 00:40:53,86 --> 00:40:59,01 of autonomous vehicles I happen to be in the group that would. Right and one would 457 00:40:59,02 --> 00:41:05,10 buy one. But I'm older I'm I'm ready for this you know I can relinquish the 458 00:41:05,11 --> 00:41:09,52 steering wheel and all that kind of stuff and and have this as long as I feel 459 00:41:09,53 --> 00:41:14,59 confident and I think that's really what what it gets down to is confidence. If you 460 00:41:14,60 --> 00:41:20,17 were to ask people today and ten years ago would you give your credit card 461 00:41:20,18 --> 00:41:25,69 information on line to buy something you would have two totally different results 462 00:41:25,70 --> 00:41:25,90 and now 463 00:41:25,91 --> 00:41:31,73 a lot of it has to do with the absence of fear of the unknown and you know confident 464 00:41:31,74 --> 00:41:34,80 that things are going to go well so I think that those would take care of 465 00:41:34,81 --> 00:41:41,72 themselves my question is relating to. Speeding up of our 466 00:41:41,73 --> 00:41:43,64 knowledge and basically presenting 467 00:41:43,65 --> 00:41:49,41 a win win scenario between can and the C.A.V. 468 00:41:49,42 --> 00:41:53,76 Technology companies. I think we have 469 00:41:53,83 --> 00:41:58,12 a perfect test tracks two different types of test tracks and Ford wrote on Michigan 470 00:41:58,13 --> 00:42:05,00 Avenue that would be useful for real time real life technology 471 00:42:05,17 --> 00:42:10,35 information technological information and gaining knowledge and would personally 472 00:42:10,36 --> 00:42:11,73 like to see us take 473 00:42:11,74 --> 00:42:18,72 a proactive role and actually hook up with companies and say hey we want you to use 474 00:42:18,85 --> 00:42:25,09 this segment of our busiest intersections our busiest streets and we will help you 475 00:42:25,14 --> 00:42:29,09 we will partner and I don't know what that will entail but we will work with you 476 00:42:29,61 --> 00:42:33,69 and thank you very much for enlightening me of all the years that I've served on 477 00:42:33,70 --> 00:42:34,27 the D.D.A. 478 00:42:34,28 --> 00:42:39,25 I was unaware that that extra conduit had been installed when we buried the cables 479 00:42:39,29 --> 00:42:39,88 I mean we went through 480 00:42:39,89 --> 00:42:44,27 a lot to get the bury the cables buried and I guess my thanks go to mannequin Smith 481 00:42:44,88 --> 00:42:48,10 for the engineering that took place on that so that's 482 00:42:48,11 --> 00:42:53,86 a that's good to know that we were proactive on on something like that. But you 483 00:42:53,87 --> 00:42:56,50 know that's that's I guess my question is is there 484 00:42:56,51 --> 00:43:02,75 a possibility of us being proactive really looking to connect direct connect with 485 00:43:02,76 --> 00:43:07,75 those technology companies while also still learning about what they're doing out 486 00:43:07,76 --> 00:43:10,60 in Oakland Oakland County that's you know it's always always 487 00:43:10,61 --> 00:43:15,69 a good thing to say on top of that but I would like to see as be proactive on our 488 00:43:15,70 --> 00:43:21,45 own and just become you know since we're so close I think that would suit us in 489 00:43:21,46 --> 00:43:26,80 a win win such scenario ball the things that Kristen talked about in terms of the 490 00:43:26,84 --> 00:43:30,63 companies feeling that hey let's let's open up 491 00:43:30,64 --> 00:43:36,76 a shop here on Michigan Avenue and use those test tracks and then obviously people 492 00:43:36,77 --> 00:43:41,80 want to live where they work so obviously people would want to live here I think 493 00:43:41,81 --> 00:43:41,96 it's 494 00:43:41,97 --> 00:43:47,04 a win win all the way around so that's that's basically my questions says are do 495 00:43:47,05 --> 00:43:47,30 you see 496 00:43:47,31 --> 00:43:53,63 a possibility of us. Being proactive like that and actually establish it not waiting 497 00:43:53,64 --> 00:43:58,31 for something to happen but actually making something happen I think you know 498 00:43:58,32 --> 00:43:58,50 there's 499 00:43:58,51 --> 00:44:05,47 a couple things one. You know what we've done to date is we've. You know put 500 00:44:05,75 --> 00:44:12,21 our. Our leaders in Washington you know on notice that we have some 501 00:44:12,22 --> 00:44:19,19 interest. In maybe advancing some of this technology for the 502 00:44:19,20 --> 00:44:25,16 for growth. That we've made application for so that they know that there's an 503 00:44:25,17 --> 00:44:30,97 additional opportunity beyond just fixing the issues with with Ford rode by and 504 00:44:30,98 --> 00:44:37,95 listening this kind of technology. But but really I think the key to to 505 00:44:37,96 --> 00:44:44,95 your question would be that we need to work with it owns that right of 506 00:44:44,96 --> 00:44:49,80 way and out ohms you know all the traffic signal infrastructure what we actually 507 00:44:49,81 --> 00:44:52,66 own are the conduits in between cell but I think there is 508 00:44:52,67 --> 00:44:58,11 a natural partnership there. And that's something that goes without saying that we 509 00:44:58,12 --> 00:45:02,24 have to do you know but we've already established that connection with all the 510 00:45:02,25 --> 00:45:06,65 various projects that we've had and there are there are constant look at for road 511 00:45:07,51 --> 00:45:12,77 terms of improvements although you know we haven't gone gone as far as Fast forward 512 00:45:12,78 --> 00:45:18,02 as we'd like on Ford Road maybe that would help spur some of that impetus as well 513 00:45:19,27 --> 00:45:26,09 just and it's just an idea thank you. Mark what was 514 00:45:26,10 --> 00:45:27,10 specifically do you have 515 00:45:27,11 --> 00:45:31,50 a name I do it's called connected car Detroit and it's on March thirteenth at the 516 00:45:31,51 --> 00:45:38,44 Henry hotel looks pretty interesting three hundred plus experts and the 517 00:45:38,45 --> 00:45:45,36 technology isn't trends shaping the evolution of the connected car. But the 518 00:45:45,59 --> 00:45:51,42 panel discussions one I really thought. Was it was 519 00:45:51,91 --> 00:45:58,63 specifically about how. How it's affecting. Us. 520 00:46:03,54 --> 00:46:09,73 And the other one is called Auto sense asked something. It's mostly sense and that 521 00:46:09,74 --> 00:46:16,35 is in May at the Michigan Science Center. At these events Kristen will be one of 522 00:46:16,45 --> 00:46:21,55 the at the attending the events in aggressively pursuing and meeting people for 523 00:46:21,56 --> 00:46:23,75 opportunities present in Canton has 524 00:46:24,04 --> 00:46:29,26 a great place to be come set up shop real as we do with all other economic growth 525 00:46:30,62 --> 00:46:30,85 with as 526 00:46:30,86 --> 00:46:37,98 a direct tie in there's what. Additional comments questions from. Please 527 00:46:37,98 --> 00:46:44,97 . Sixty eight all 528 00:46:44,98 --> 00:46:51,64 six whether Israel can. I recently read an article from the C.E.O. 529 00:46:51,90 --> 00:46:58,78 Of Chrysler and he had stated he felt within ten years already by 530 00:46:58,79 --> 00:47:05,73 percent our boat vehicles would be electric So my thought and just to throw an 531 00:47:05,74 --> 00:47:12,04 idea out if we were able to put charging stations on our public property. 532 00:47:13,62 --> 00:47:19,69 It would kind of show Canton as being very progressive in looking for that 533 00:47:19,70 --> 00:47:25,80 technology and kind of both welcome Hey come on bring your technology because we we 534 00:47:25,81 --> 00:47:32,53 already have it at our public site and also look at the Michigan Avenue 535 00:47:32,57 --> 00:47:39,24 corridor and say you know lift or or some of these. Share 536 00:47:39,25 --> 00:47:45,71 rights those type opportunities again I think they see that is those 537 00:47:45,72 --> 00:47:51,97 communities that could provide charging stations provide help in that way. But I 538 00:47:51,98 --> 00:47:54,21 just pondered interested here is C.E.O. 539 00:47:54,25 --> 00:48:00,51 Of Chrysler thinks within ten years forty five to fifty percent will be electric 540 00:48:00,63 --> 00:48:04,89 vehicles and I also know that. G.M. 541 00:48:04,89 --> 00:48:11,72 . Believes the same thing so just the thought. We have 542 00:48:11,73 --> 00:48:17,44 given some thought to you know if attention was going to cite some kind of 543 00:48:17,45 --> 00:48:19,88 a charging station down the road or have 544 00:48:20,06 --> 00:48:25,51 a private entity come in and use our property for that purpose at the Canton 545 00:48:25,52 --> 00:48:28,53 softball center or at the sama would be definitely 546 00:48:28,54 --> 00:48:33,28 a couple you know excellent locations where you know the calls are maybe not parked 547 00:48:33,29 --> 00:48:37,36 all day long but they're there for you know maybe two three or four and I think if 548 00:48:37,37 --> 00:48:43,33 we get the press the kind as they were welcoming them would be was also heard 549 00:48:43,34 --> 00:48:48,60 although I won't go on but I also heard some interesting statements from the same 550 00:48:48,80 --> 00:48:50,26 F.C.A. C.E.O. 551 00:48:50,27 --> 00:48:55,98 This morning on the radio so about his predictions on nada on the top of the city 552 00:48:55,99 --> 00:48:57,58 a call so interesting. 553 00:49:04,50 --> 00:49:04,80 Place 554 00:49:13,43 --> 00:49:18,33 names may receive it so I live it word in Lilly road and I just had 555 00:49:18,34 --> 00:49:23,80 a couple questions First off I'd like to say awesome job there was one hundred 556 00:49:23,81 --> 00:49:25,95 people there with you needed 557 00:49:25,96 --> 00:49:31,38 a professional facilitator to get all that information organize and put this stuff 558 00:49:31,39 --> 00:49:37,89 together so thank you so much it was very very well done. The first question is on 559 00:49:37,90 --> 00:49:42,53 page two you mentioned that you learned that our priorities may not be away with 560 00:49:42,54 --> 00:49:47,79 those who attended who is our and what were you what are the priorities. 561 00:49:50,87 --> 00:49:56,58 Very those were the four questions that in advance of the session we worked with 562 00:49:56,59 --> 00:50:02,10 the facilitator in terms of trying to get answers to and I think in short we had 563 00:50:02,31 --> 00:50:07,90 four boards up in the room and the least number of comments were put on the three 564 00:50:07,91 --> 00:50:14,21 main questions and the one that was miscellaneous had pretty much everything yes. 565 00:50:15,27 --> 00:50:19,20 Didn't quite exactly get the answers that we were looking for but it was we still 566 00:50:19,21 --> 00:50:19,33 got 567 00:50:19,34 --> 00:50:24,72 a lot of good in OK Very good I was just curious as to what what you meant by that 568 00:50:24,94 --> 00:50:25,09 I'm 569 00:50:25,10 --> 00:50:32,01 a little too literal sometimes so then on page five. Talks 570 00:50:32,02 --> 00:50:36,58 about the budget for kind activity. Things don't happen in 571 00:50:36,59 --> 00:50:42,60 a big bang How do we plan and put together and determine what phases are needed 572 00:50:43,43 --> 00:50:47,50 because it's not going to happen overnight I mean if you guys is that for the 573 00:50:47,51 --> 00:50:54,32 future of that is the technology committee going to be reconvened. To help with 574 00:50:54,33 --> 00:51:01,03 that. Well I guess you don't in terms of budgeting. 575 00:51:02,06 --> 00:51:03,09 It's a matter of 576 00:51:03,48 --> 00:51:09,33 a. If you think about you know the couple examples that I gave of Ford Road in 577 00:51:09,34 --> 00:51:14,43 Canton center roads. One would employ embrace. 578 00:51:16,55 --> 00:51:18,82 Doing for growth as a corridor R. 579 00:51:18,83 --> 00:51:24,25 And if so then comes with that who's going to pay and then what comes with that is 580 00:51:24,49 --> 00:51:29,71 how do we budget for what our share would be. And for the most part you know we can 581 00:51:30,05 --> 00:51:30,46 that's 582 00:51:30,47 --> 00:51:35,78 a pretty task pretty easy task for us to undertake it comes down to you know the 583 00:51:35,79 --> 00:51:42,70 boards boards will do use general fund dollars to fund this sort of thing and 584 00:51:42,71 --> 00:51:49,63 budget for training of public safety and for me to go to Germany and China. I tell 585 00:51:49,67 --> 00:51:55,04 I can so I behind them might be well used they might be able I guess what I had 586 00:51:55,05 --> 00:52:01,49 vision in terms of what we've already given some thought to. Is. M. 587 00:52:01,50 --> 00:52:07,65 Dots project along Michigan Avenue being probably phase one potentially Ford Road 588 00:52:07,66 --> 00:52:07,90 being 589 00:52:07,91 --> 00:52:13,43 a Phase two and then can center working with Wayne County which you know very frankly 590 00:52:13,44 --> 00:52:15,77 will have its challenges being like 591 00:52:15,78 --> 00:52:21,12 a Phase three that's what I envision you know at this point in time if if something 592 00:52:21,13 --> 00:52:23,94 was to happen in our in 593 00:52:23,95 --> 00:52:30,58 a project like sense and what comment about your kind of 594 00:52:30,59 --> 00:52:37,05 activity you mention the fiber which might be great but Snyder has signed some 595 00:52:37,06 --> 00:52:41,77 deals for A C M sponsors a T. And T. 596 00:52:41,78 --> 00:52:45,61 And Cisco. People are using five G. 597 00:52:45,62 --> 00:52:48,67 Now instead of pulling fiber so there's 598 00:52:48,68 --> 00:52:52,33 a lot of places that don't have the infrastructure and they're not going to pull it 599 00:52:53,17 --> 00:52:56,16 so why don't we approach a T. And T. 600 00:52:56,17 --> 00:53:00,18 And Cisco and say hey we can't we piggyback off some of the work you guys are doing 601 00:53:00,19 --> 00:53:03,22 with Governor Slater. You know just 602 00:53:03,23 --> 00:53:09,63 a suggestion there and the last item the last question was. Is there were 603 00:53:09,64 --> 00:53:14,39 a positive or eager where will the info that you share with the public or 604 00:53:14,40 --> 00:53:21,01 technology committee reside or where can we find out more on what the direction is 605 00:53:21,02 --> 00:53:25,58 what the budget how we can help as citizens to sort of pitch in and. 606 00:53:28,12 --> 00:53:28,31 That's 607 00:53:28,32 --> 00:53:35,00 a good question right now we. Right now we just compiled all this send it out to 608 00:53:35,01 --> 00:53:41,97 the committee. I'm not sure about. Meetings as that I 609 00:53:41,98 --> 00:53:48,03 would think we would have them as as we get new information as new new technologies 610 00:53:48,04 --> 00:53:54,80 emerging as new. Opportunities arise for Canton I would imagine we have we 611 00:53:54,84 --> 00:54:00,56 reconvene. And I said we can have 612 00:54:00,57 --> 00:54:07,28 a mean AD Do you have any suggestions you want to Facebook page for the 613 00:54:07,29 --> 00:54:10,75 Technology Committee we can have a good weekend we can have a we can have 614 00:54:10,76 --> 00:54:16,60 a page on the the can Web site that I can post. Articles that I come across I can 615 00:54:16,61 --> 00:54:23,51 post the trade show information that I'm finding I don't like to help so I don't 616 00:54:23,52 --> 00:54:28,60 have any already figured out what you guys have nobody wants to duplicate we want 617 00:54:28,61 --> 00:54:32,19 to learn what you guys are learning and what you'd married and then sort of 618 00:54:32,20 --> 00:54:36,70 contribute there was one hundred people in that room that there everybody was ready 619 00:54:36,71 --> 00:54:38,38 to grab a shovel and start digging 620 00:54:38,39 --> 00:54:43,86 a hole. You know we just don't know where those holes need to be done yet or if 621 00:54:43,87 --> 00:54:47,73 they need to be dug now and what kind of shovel we're going to use That's the point 622 00:54:47,74 --> 00:54:51,58 right there right Zach leave the Point Break It was one hundred volunteers and we 623 00:54:51,59 --> 00:54:56,51 don't know where to direct that energy so I don't have any suggestions right now 624 00:54:56,52 --> 00:54:56,78 would be 625 00:54:56,79 --> 00:55:02,96 a great thing to think about but. I'd like to be on that list and continue getting 626 00:55:02,97 --> 00:55:07,10 the updates. So thank you for your hard work thank you 627 00:55:12,69 --> 00:55:16,01 they're all it's unusual but do you have any question save your phone call tomorrow 628 00:55:16,02 --> 00:55:16,64 maybe if you have 629 00:55:16,65 --> 00:55:23,42 a. Very good sitter or questions comments. I 630 00:55:23,43 --> 00:55:27,63 don't have any questions actually I was writing down questions but Tim answered all 631 00:55:27,64 --> 00:55:32,40 of my questions while he was talking I do want to say how exciting I think all of 632 00:55:32,41 --> 00:55:37,73 this is I read an article the other day about. G.M. 633 00:55:37,74 --> 00:55:38,17 Producing 634 00:55:38,18 --> 00:55:42,05 a car with no steering wheel and no puddles and I was like I can't wait to get that 635 00:55:42,06 --> 00:55:48,79 car because I hate driving. And I do like that some of the items that you 636 00:55:48,80 --> 00:55:55,17 identified to work on seem to fit into the board strategic plan so I 637 00:55:55,34 --> 00:56:01,36 appreciate that and I can't wait to see where this goes they did. Just really 638 00:56:01,37 --> 00:56:08,13 quickly I did want to ask. Was there any attempt to talk to some of the car 639 00:56:08,14 --> 00:56:12,100 manufacturers that are in town for the auto show no OK No 640 00:56:16,36 --> 00:56:19,95 thank you I think that's going to save 641 00:56:19,96 --> 00:56:25,41 a new for the end I now have various religious are writing. On the order of the car 642 00:56:25,42 --> 00:56:31,97 with. You when we get in the car. 643 00:56:34,60 --> 00:56:39,87 In the back seat no. One is in there but me know. 644 00:56:41,46 --> 00:56:41,64 It's 645 00:56:41,65 --> 00:56:49,59 a major drive from here to the three. I love you but. It's 646 00:56:49,60 --> 00:56:49,90 going to be 647 00:56:49,91 --> 00:56:54,33 a wonderful thing and this is going to do you think in ten years this technology is 648 00:56:54,34 --> 00:57:00,82 going to be. To the point where it's actually going to. But you know what I'm 649 00:57:00,88 --> 00:57:05,00 hearing and reading is that. Predictions that we heard 650 00:57:05,29 --> 00:57:12,16 a year ago. Are probably being accelerated not slowed down so I 651 00:57:12,17 --> 00:57:17,18 think you know Ford and I guess maybe Emery can or can't talk about this but you 652 00:57:17,19 --> 00:57:18,25 know I was to I heard 653 00:57:18,41 --> 00:57:22,16 a year ago Ford was talking twenty twenty one you know I'm reading now Ford's talk 654 00:57:22,17 --> 00:57:29,09 in two thousand and twenty. So you know I think within eighteen months to two years 655 00:57:30,04 --> 00:57:36,89 you know this stuff's going to be real and. Gibbs from Oakland County he feels 656 00:57:36,90 --> 00:57:39,51 very strongly that this is going to happen 657 00:57:39,78 --> 00:57:44,49 a lot faster than any of us are ready for it to happen in the municipal government 658 00:57:44,50 --> 00:57:49,91 field. Well and they're going to thing I was thinking about is the you know the 659 00:57:49,92 --> 00:57:56,41 road tax the for routes. Comes with gasoline ties 660 00:57:58,00 --> 00:58:04,96 and gasoline tax. It's one of the reasons that they made the registration 661 00:58:05,27 --> 00:58:11,44 fees higher on electric vehicles which is that there. Yeah the funding the funding 662 00:58:11,45 --> 00:58:16,80 zone certain it's definitely not certain time. You know that the reality is you 663 00:58:16,81 --> 00:58:20,30 know and I'm I'm one of them I like to keep my vehicles for 664 00:58:20,31 --> 00:58:21,69 a long time because I drive them 665 00:58:21,70 --> 00:58:28,32 a lot and. And you know if it will take ten years at least to 666 00:58:28,33 --> 00:58:35,06 cycle through once once the last one is the once the last conventional vehicle is 667 00:58:35,07 --> 00:58:41,80 sold and all you can buy is some car other powered connected 668 00:58:41,81 --> 00:58:45,90 antonymous vehicles it's going to take at least ten years from that point so it's 669 00:58:45,91 --> 00:58:49,34 probably going to take twenty or twenty five years to cycle through to 670 00:58:49,35 --> 00:58:54,26 a point where everything on the vehicle everything on the road is is one of these 671 00:58:54,73 --> 00:58:57,65 driverless vehicles you want me to get in. 672 00:59:01,94 --> 00:59:02,12 Like 673 00:59:02,13 --> 00:59:09,59 a great idea. Right 674 00:59:09,59 --> 00:59:09,59 . 675 00:59:20,75 --> 00:59:20,85 There. 676 00:59:39,49 --> 00:59:46,25 Oh. Yeah. So I think it boils 677 00:59:46,26 --> 00:59:52,58 down to it's if it's any more it's going to be the money question and all we can do 678 00:59:52,59 --> 00:59:52,69 is 679 00:59:52,70 --> 00:59:57,22 a communities who's paid attention to what's happening in the environment around us 680 00:59:57,55 --> 01:00:01,69 and hopefully not have to be reactive all the time and be proactive when and where 681 01:00:01,70 --> 01:00:06,95 we can and there may have there is going to be so budget requirements set aside so 682 01:00:07,49 --> 01:00:14,33 we can help but like before. Question. The additional lane that was 683 01:00:14,34 --> 01:00:21,22 added to twenty three North and South. They put 684 01:00:21,23 --> 01:00:28,07 a lot of infrastructure is not familiar with it Tim But is that somehow. 685 01:00:29,49 --> 01:00:32,84 Set up because it looks like the additional lane is 686 01:00:32,85 --> 01:00:38,30 a dozen these shoulder that goes on during peak traffic hours off outside of hours 687 01:00:38,58 --> 01:00:40,41 is there a C.A.V. 688 01:00:40,42 --> 01:00:44,71 Component to the infrastructure that they put in there there is yeah that's kind of 689 01:00:44,72 --> 01:00:49,40 completing the loop the big loop that they call it but those that are kind of 690 01:00:49,41 --> 01:00:55,40 working on those projects talk about this loop from Brighton to Ann Arbor and over 691 01:00:55,41 --> 01:01:02,03 towards Metro. Back up into Farmington Hills and then ninety six back to 692 01:01:02,04 --> 01:01:07,30 Brighton that's the big loop and then they're building other spurs off of that loop 693 01:01:07,31 --> 01:01:14,26 and then there's another. Oakland County I forget which highway it's on now but 694 01:01:14,27 --> 01:01:14,50 there's 695 01:01:14,51 --> 01:01:22,09 a smaller. One. Yes it was put in when they did the reconstruction. Is 696 01:01:22,10 --> 01:01:26,20 I was I had the luxury of attending the some cog conference and so I saw the 697 01:01:26,21 --> 01:01:32,12 presentation that Tim put on which was great. The one from Car of the industry 698 01:01:32,13 --> 01:01:36,71 group and then the one from Oakland County very educational and it's interesting 699 01:01:36,72 --> 01:01:37,40 because if you see 700 01:01:37,41 --> 01:01:44,35 a survey of people who say there's no elevator do this. And he was the gentleman 701 01:01:44,36 --> 01:01:48,61 from Oakland County who did who was phenomenal by the way who did the presentation 702 01:01:48,62 --> 01:01:52,44 and he showed a beautiful photo of one lying that was 703 01:01:52,45 --> 01:01:57,26 a designated dots connected on Thomas Lane and traffic was moving at an even pace 704 01:01:57,27 --> 01:02:02,16 because it has to their computers right that are connected with each other and the 705 01:02:02,17 --> 01:02:07,30 other two lanes are free flowing lanes and they're gridlocked and he says it's very 706 01:02:07,31 --> 01:02:09,08 easy today when this is 707 01:02:09,09 --> 01:02:11,96 a concept that you're not thinking about to say this is something I would never 708 01:02:11,97 --> 01:02:17,29 engage in but when you watch and curse as these other vehicles are sailing past you 709 01:02:17,30 --> 01:02:22,56 when you're stuck in rush hour traffic and you can't advance forward the economics 710 01:02:22,57 --> 01:02:23,78 of that decision begin to change 711 01:02:23,79 --> 01:02:28,16 a little bit as does our realities change and so that was an interesting statement 712 01:02:28,17 --> 01:02:34,52 an interesting visual. Because yeah it was fascinating. 713 01:02:36,49 --> 01:02:42,49 I am excited about it I mean the interesting the notion of safety is an interesting 714 01:02:42,50 --> 01:02:45,87 notion as well because people get afraid of flying people get afraid of 715 01:02:45,88 --> 01:02:49,99 a lot of things but they what are we going to tell people the most dangerous part 716 01:02:49,100 --> 01:02:54,06 of your trip in any given moment is that first couple of miles away from your home 717 01:02:54,65 --> 01:03:00,59 and. I also think about how we refer to as the roads get slicker all I hear the 718 01:03:00,60 --> 01:03:04,39 sirens every day and now we call them accidents but for all intents and purposes 719 01:03:04,40 --> 01:03:08,94 they're not through accidents they're miscalculations right I mean we aren't 720 01:03:08,95 --> 01:03:12,57 calculating our speeds correctly we are calculating the road condition correctly 721 01:03:12,58 --> 01:03:17,75 our brains are computers and we make errors and they result in us crashing our cars 722 01:03:17,76 --> 01:03:24,71 and other people's cars and. It's just it's an interesting notion that more 723 01:03:24,72 --> 01:03:29,23 powerful computers provided they have all of the variables will actually result in 724 01:03:29,24 --> 01:03:36,23 a significant amount of more safety and less quote accidents. Where most 725 01:03:36,24 --> 01:03:41,98 of the statistics are suggesting up to eighty percent reduction in incursions 726 01:03:43,22 --> 01:03:47,32 by giving up control which is not an emotional thing it's 727 01:03:47,33 --> 01:03:53,22 a hard thing to do I think philosophically and literally but anyway 728 01:03:54,82 --> 01:03:59,06 I know that Plymouth Township and Northville township would spend 729 01:03:59,07 --> 01:04:03,16 a great deal of time trying to institute 730 01:04:03,17 --> 01:04:10,01 a high tech corner or bring back my comic development to that area. The 731 01:04:10,02 --> 01:04:16,60 jobs of tomorrow whatever they want to call it. What's in it 732 01:04:17,62 --> 01:04:20,44 and I know that like for Michigan Avenue is purposes we had 733 01:04:20,45 --> 01:04:25,88 a change for the future land use map and the zoning to try to move parcels in the 734 01:04:25,89 --> 01:04:31,02 light industrial research try to allow basically the conditions that would create 735 01:04:31,03 --> 01:04:35,25 that and again it's going to be private industry that will drive that but is there 736 01:04:35,26 --> 01:04:40,71 anything you know of that other municipalities or town are doing to try to bring in 737 01:04:40,72 --> 01:04:45,21 like tech incubators or the sort of the industry that will be supporting will be 738 01:04:45,22 --> 01:04:51,23 supporting this this in. Well there's there's definitely 739 01:04:51,24 --> 01:04:57,40 a few things that Wayne County is working on with respect to what was previously 740 01:04:57,41 --> 01:05:04,07 the US project kind of either side of the Course Road if you will between well run 741 01:05:04,08 --> 01:05:10,32 airport and Metro Airport. So they've been kind of working that economic 742 01:05:10,33 --> 01:05:14,75 development side of it and I think from what we've heard there you know trying to 743 01:05:14,76 --> 01:05:20,04 steer some of these companies they're competing that is competing with you know 744 01:05:20,53 --> 01:05:25,66 kind of raw industrial property and can township and elsewhere and it's competing 745 01:05:25,67 --> 01:05:32,46 with businesses wind wanting to be at the American Center for mobility site and any 746 01:05:32,47 --> 01:05:36,78 incentives that there might be for being on that physical sites and that site is 747 01:05:37,34 --> 01:05:43,17 designed to house many many of those companies which we did not know previously 748 01:05:43,18 --> 01:05:43,100 that they are there 749 01:05:44,17 --> 01:05:48,26 a lot of them are going to live there that we learned during that they are setting 750 01:05:48,27 --> 01:05:54,66 up to have vendors and suppliers inside them which makes sense for your new reasons 751 01:05:54,84 --> 01:06:01,75 developers just outside that so we're going to see some. Residuals from 752 01:06:01,76 --> 01:06:06,31 and then where those folks are going to live as well camp and I think you can be 753 01:06:06,73 --> 01:06:13,59 desirable you know the other Ok so I'm trying to think of 754 01:06:14,64 --> 01:06:17,44 one of the other things that they kind of talked about and one of the reasons I 755 01:06:17,45 --> 01:06:21,82 think open County had prioritized doing the work they did so early was because it 756 01:06:21,83 --> 01:06:26,62 looked like economic regions were kind of competing with each other for who will 757 01:06:26,67 --> 01:06:30,21 who are going to be the emerging region for this technology much like we have the 758 01:06:30,22 --> 01:06:34,16 auto industry like who's going to be doing this is it going to be Silicon Valley is 759 01:06:34,17 --> 01:06:40,35 it going to be Atlanta Boston and is it going to be the United States. So I think I 760 01:06:40,36 --> 01:06:44,85 am really appreciative that Oakland County got really aggressive early on and I 761 01:06:44,86 --> 01:06:45,76 think it's great and 762 01:06:45,77 --> 01:06:50,77 a testament to the board to municipal services you know everybody here that we're 763 01:06:51,33 --> 01:06:57,99 and we're doing this work now because to to supervise William's point. I mean the 764 01:06:58,00 --> 01:07:03,17 future's coming right we're all going to get there. Are the jobs in the people 765 01:07:03,18 --> 01:07:07,25 going to be here or are they going to be somewhere else and I for one would like to 766 01:07:07,26 --> 01:07:14,17 see them and like to see them again so. I would channel I wonder 767 01:07:14,95 --> 01:07:18,04 out loud about municipalities like cities that actually own their own 768 01:07:18,05 --> 01:07:23,13 infrastructure they're going to be buying. These you know so I wonder about the 769 01:07:23,14 --> 01:07:29,24 proprietary you know having uniformity in the systems that are used because Wayne 770 01:07:29,25 --> 01:07:36,14 County has you know forty three municipalities right. There 771 01:07:36,34 --> 01:07:36,82 it's going to take 772 01:07:36,83 --> 01:07:41,77 a concerted regional effort and state effort to make sure that the same degree all 773 01:07:41,78 --> 01:07:47,90 software hardware it all works as you because right I don't is driving you know you 774 01:07:47,91 --> 01:07:50,09 know my car doesn't really typically care which one is 775 01:07:50,10 --> 01:07:55,51 a pallet I'm in so that kind of it's all got to communicate with itself as you and 776 01:07:55,52 --> 01:07:57,80 that's a huge endeavor there's 777 01:07:57,81 --> 01:08:02,42 a statement to the world I guess it's true that we were just somebody who was on 778 01:08:02,43 --> 01:08:07,65 the technology committee e-mailed us today. He was just at the Consumer Electronics 779 01:08:07,66 --> 01:08:10,78 Show in Vegas and he came across 780 01:08:10,96 --> 01:08:17,76 a Essentially one of the. Short range so you 781 01:08:17,77 --> 01:08:23,97 get sensors. It's just some company has developed these and I think that he made it 782 01:08:23,98 --> 01:08:29,13 sound like Las Vegas is using those and so I sent it to Tim and I'm like he said. 783 01:08:31,37 --> 01:08:35,09 This other stuff so so you're right are all these things going to be talking to 784 01:08:35,10 --> 01:08:40,68 each other are they going to be speaking the same language they have to write so I 785 01:08:40,69 --> 01:08:47,09 don't I don't. It boggles my mind. There's got to be there's got to be 786 01:08:47,89 --> 01:08:50,46 I mean these devices are going to communicate with each other so what about 787 01:08:50,47 --> 01:08:55,17 interference and things like that if we looked at our building code in our sign 788 01:08:55,18 --> 01:08:58,38 ordinances and all that stuff to make sure that our warden says I mean that to me 789 01:08:58,39 --> 01:08:58,66 seems like 790 01:08:58,67 --> 01:09:03,22 a practical thing we can do to make sure that as we develop naturally organically 791 01:09:03,23 --> 01:09:07,55 that that's not going to conflict with you know the fact that information is going 792 01:09:07,56 --> 01:09:14,35 to be whizzing around constantly. Where we have to pay attention to understand 793 01:09:14,36 --> 01:09:20,73 the evolution. Revolution of the evolution of. Alright want to let the 794 01:09:21,70 --> 01:09:23,75 memory Thank you thanks you guys did 795 01:09:23,76 --> 01:09:26,94 a great job and thanks for the meeting and you know 796 01:09:26,95 --> 01:09:32,69 a lot of people are interested in. You know getting information and just to let you 797 01:09:32,70 --> 01:09:38,15 know there are electric Chargers. And Ikea right now that the public can use that's 798 01:09:38,19 --> 01:09:43,57 if anybody wants to go play with those. Funding I just want to talk about that for 799 01:09:43,58 --> 01:09:48,72 a second so folks Weygand I'm sure many have heard about diesel gave they all the 800 01:09:48,73 --> 01:09:53,08 states lots of money based on what they've done read you know sending on 801 01:09:53,09 --> 01:09:57,95 e missions Michigan get sixty five million dollars Of that sixty five that sixty 802 01:09:57,96 --> 01:10:01,99 five million dollars is available to anybody any community any school district any 803 01:10:01,100 --> 01:10:07,66 county in the state fifteen percent of that money isn't nine million dollars which 804 01:10:07,67 --> 01:10:12,71 can be used totally an electrical vehicle infrastructure you can if you I'm working 805 01:10:12,72 --> 01:10:19,01 on this in my day job across the country so this can be used to buy many transit 806 01:10:19,02 --> 01:10:23,23 buses it can be used for to for electric vehicle Chargers there are cities that are 807 01:10:23,24 --> 01:10:27,89 doing this I can send you examples of those cities models so this is going to be 808 01:10:27,90 --> 01:10:30,74 fully paid for by these funds I sent you actually this the links 809 01:10:30,75 --> 01:10:34,23 a couple of weeks ago I actually spoke to the person at D.Q. 810 01:10:34,24 --> 01:10:38,93 And she said the funding would be they should have the funding available by the 811 01:10:38,94 --> 01:10:43,42 fall of twenty yes and you want to put in our Earth because everyone's going to be 812 01:10:43,43 --> 01:10:47,71 asking for it I'm surprised Michigan hasn't been aggressive as other states with 813 01:10:47,72 --> 01:10:49,36 pushing it down to the communities they had 814 01:10:49,37 --> 01:10:53,20 a couple webinars on it but they've been getting dribbles and drabs and I see other 815 01:10:53,21 --> 01:10:57,65 states are going gangbusters they don't they don't have their program together yet 816 01:10:58,06 --> 01:11:01,08 they've had kind of the public input and they have 817 01:11:01,09 --> 01:11:05,32 a direction but they haven't finalized yet so it is that's what I was told either 818 01:11:05,33 --> 01:11:11,06 Thursday or Friday last week I did. That's good and Representative Peg and I know 819 01:11:11,07 --> 01:11:14,86 what she's working and she's pushing to try to get some of that over here also but 820 01:11:14,87 --> 01:11:18,77 we can put it you can put in for certain projects for that so you can put in for 821 01:11:18,78 --> 01:11:23,73 many transit bus and many you know electrical infrastructure to support that and 822 01:11:23,74 --> 01:11:25,79 that wouldn't be tearing up roads or anything and just 823 01:11:26,03 --> 01:11:29,65 a bust so you can use those funds for that and if you want there's 824 01:11:29,66 --> 01:11:33,27 a clearing house you can see I can send you some of the other projects you can see 825 01:11:33,28 --> 01:11:36,82 how they're being written up for those funds which would help us why start from 826 01:11:36,83 --> 01:11:42,68 scratch you know. For Economic Development I'm Jim can. Steve that rather than I 827 01:11:42,69 --> 01:11:46,30 mean trade shows are great and some of these shows that are here which implies 828 01:11:46,31 --> 01:11:50,44 Steve had mentioned several times of us working with some of the spark companies 829 01:11:50,45 --> 01:11:53,90 are coming out he said basically they're starting you know spark 830 01:11:53,91 --> 01:11:58,22 a star has all these startups he said like one he had mentioned it when he went out 831 01:11:58,23 --> 01:12:01,04 to M. City like one every twenty five days 832 01:12:01,05 --> 01:12:05,23 a new startup He said he could facilitate some meetings with those companies to see 833 01:12:05,24 --> 01:12:09,55 from start pulling them to Canton maybe up inside of Michigan Michigan Avenue and 834 01:12:10,36 --> 01:12:17,33 maybe pushing Jim to set that up with us. Some of the projects let 835 01:12:17,34 --> 01:12:20,98 me see the county push so I understand that Oakland County is doing what they're 836 01:12:20,99 --> 01:12:22,55 doing because they're they basically have 837 01:12:22,79 --> 01:12:26,61 a bigger planning group than we do in Wayne County I mean it was in our planning 838 01:12:26,62 --> 01:12:31,08 group kind of planning for basically diminished down to nothing with budget cuts 839 01:12:32,81 --> 01:12:33,41 yeah they don't have 840 01:12:33,42 --> 01:12:37,98 a group right right in Oakland County does so they can plan things like this like 841 01:12:38,54 --> 01:12:43,32 county is there any way we can anything in the future we can push Wayne County 842 01:12:43,33 --> 01:12:45,95 expand their planning or begin because we're missing out on 843 01:12:45,96 --> 01:12:50,51 a lot because of that they really have to create it and they have to you know 844 01:12:50,55 --> 01:12:55,42 assign people to work on this which which other than I think one individual in 845 01:12:55,43 --> 01:13:00,02 their economic development area I don't know that they've got anybody working on. 846 01:13:02,30 --> 01:13:06,76 The infrastructure side of it anyway so yeah I don't know because I know Detroit 847 01:13:06,77 --> 01:13:08,37 has a cord or it's like a little street 848 01:13:08,38 --> 01:13:11,93 a test Street and the other doing it on their own but it you know forty three 849 01:13:11,94 --> 01:13:15,85 communities should be working together and I don't know how we have to push way to 850 01:13:15,86 --> 01:13:21,25 do that somehow so it'd be best for companies huge card companies to go to Wayne 851 01:13:21,26 --> 01:13:24,63 County to push this work rather than the communities because Wayne County really 852 01:13:24,64 --> 01:13:30,13 has to ties together yeah and most of the major roads through even you know the 853 01:13:30,14 --> 01:13:34,95 cities are located in Wayne County are are owned and operated by the county. 854 01:13:36,72 --> 01:13:38,21 So whether you're a township or 855 01:13:38,22 --> 01:13:44,78 a city most of the major roads for your communities are our county roads. These out 856 01:13:44,79 --> 01:13:48,48 this map that you gave us for these traffic signals you know that and we know that 857 01:13:48,49 --> 01:13:51,82 from the Planning Commission that any new traffic signals that are going on have to 858 01:13:51,83 --> 01:13:57,35 have this capability to speak you know the smart capability basically. Are they 859 01:13:57,36 --> 01:14:03,59 looking at tying that in with and city through Detroit Yes What year is that do you 860 01:14:03,60 --> 01:14:08,79 think they said be Michigan Avenue project let me just take 861 01:14:08,80 --> 01:14:14,07 a look at my notes because I get that the Michigan Avenue project is design in 862 01:14:14,08 --> 01:14:20,52 twenty nineteen and construction in twenty twenty the ITU seventy five project is 863 01:14:20,53 --> 01:14:26,69 already designed and is going to be bid stories already designed and being bid and 864 01:14:26,70 --> 01:14:30,94 it's going to be awarded to February the sixth So that's going to happen this year 865 01:14:31,26 --> 01:14:32,05 OK that's 866 01:14:32,06 --> 01:14:37,45 a redo of the existing equipment that's already on to seventy five and if you look 867 01:14:38,01 --> 01:14:42,40 actually what you can do is if you look just off into the Boulevard side northbound 868 01:14:42,41 --> 01:14:44,40 and southbound and there's 869 01:14:44,41 --> 01:14:48,98 a few units in the center but most of this equipment on the kind of on the right or 870 01:14:48,99 --> 01:14:53,52 left Boulevard as you're going up and down the highway you can see the equipment 871 01:14:53,53 --> 01:14:58,03 it's mounted up on poles in the big cabinets at the base of those poles that's what 872 01:14:58,17 --> 01:15:04,77 most scuse me most of that equipment is that you see. I mean we are this is moving 873 01:15:04,78 --> 01:15:08,98 like crazy it really really is and other states are going quicker than us but 874 01:15:09,36 --> 01:15:13,22 there's no reason we can't start planning on it and bring some of those companies 875 01:15:13,23 --> 01:15:16,67 here because like you said Kristen this company you know some of these builders 876 01:15:16,68 --> 01:15:20,64 want to put these big buildings up if we can film with smartness it is the research 877 01:15:20,68 --> 01:15:23,73 people that you know help us and I know 878 01:15:23,74 --> 01:15:27,30 a lot of the big companies are working with that so the smart City Challenge 879 01:15:27,31 --> 01:15:31,35 happened two years ago and they ordered it not clean I think for Congress as 880 01:15:31,36 --> 01:15:36,25 a US And they're really working gangbusters with them but there's no reason we 881 01:15:36,26 --> 01:15:40,03 couldn't start you know figure out how to bring some of those companies here but 882 01:15:40,04 --> 01:15:46,90 C.E.O.'s was huge with this year he did. No you didn't go this 883 01:15:46,91 --> 01:15:52,16 year on. That note thank you very much and I think if we have repository even if 884 01:15:52,20 --> 01:15:56,08 a lot of people who are on the technology committee because they work for G.M. 885 01:15:56,09 --> 01:16:00,45 And some of the suppliers and Ford they get even puts you know things are happening 886 01:16:00,51 --> 01:16:04,49 right which we could you know here in the ground on they can also e-mail me 887 01:16:04,50 --> 01:16:09,43 directly like the the one guy just did today with the from that he saw the stuff 888 01:16:09,44 --> 01:16:15,39 that he saw C S That's always appreciated too because the more information you have 889 01:16:15,44 --> 01:16:20,69 right right. Right but yet even to working with spark you know if you can hear from 890 01:16:20,70 --> 01:16:25,34 Jim some of these companies and he say he could help us with that we Yeah I I did 891 01:16:25,35 --> 01:16:25,92 meet with him 892 01:16:26,91 --> 01:16:32,66 a month or two ago so we're right thank you 893 01:16:34,82 --> 01:16:38,84 and another question for director FOSS that portion of the seventy five as far as 894 01:16:39,32 --> 01:16:42,85 repave that or that were practical road work that's on M. 895 01:16:42,86 --> 01:16:48,100 Dots schedule correct is it for twenty one thousand or twenty twenty or it is so 896 01:16:49,01 --> 01:16:54,19 there's two parts there's the actual road there's some asphalt pavement 897 01:16:54,65 --> 01:16:58,13 rehabilitation work that they're doing which is I believe 898 01:16:58,14 --> 01:17:04,06 a separate contract from this communications equipment contract so it will he 899 01:17:04,07 --> 01:17:08,24 wouldn't have like the designated lane or the you know he would not be look like OK 900 01:17:08,25 --> 01:17:12,23 I was just curious that was what the result would look like but all this is just an 901 01:17:12,24 --> 01:17:17,46 upgrade of the existing kind of four or five year old equipment that's already out 902 01:17:17,47 --> 01:17:24,19 there on to seventy five point one market part of it. The 903 01:17:24,20 --> 01:17:29,27 suggestion about using ways traffic you know or to monitor the traffic through can 904 01:17:29,28 --> 01:17:31,64 was to in the future look at some kind of 905 01:17:31,65 --> 01:17:34,73 a planning dashboard the great now the Planning Commission when we get 906 01:17:35,41 --> 01:17:39,60 a developer coming in he wants to build something we look at the traffic around 907 01:17:39,61 --> 01:17:44,10 there but we really don't understand how it affects the traffic down. And having 908 01:17:44,11 --> 01:17:49,90 planning to export if you're tracking you can. Put in this development this is the 909 01:17:49,91 --> 01:17:54,95 traffic lane here but hey look at what happens down here in Oregon Haggerty even 910 01:17:54,96 --> 01:17:55,89 though the that's 911 01:17:55,90 --> 01:18:01,42 a Ford back what happened was that the traffic was something like that would assist 912 01:18:01,43 --> 01:18:05,94 with something like that are you seeing any kind of software like that. On the 913 01:18:05,95 --> 01:18:12,68 shelf. Not not software per se but what it is doing is they are 914 01:18:12,69 --> 01:18:18,43 issued a recall request for proposals from engineering companies to develop 915 01:18:18,44 --> 01:18:23,86 a new dynamic traffic model for the region that's all of southeast Michigan it's 916 01:18:23,87 --> 01:18:30,34 a huge project. But that model is going to focus more just on the 917 01:18:30,41 --> 01:18:35,50 freeway system and then some major corridors like Michigan like Ford growed 918 01:18:35,51 --> 01:18:39,86 potentially but it wouldn't get down to the level where they would be doing say 919 01:18:39,87 --> 01:18:46,87 like. Warren and Lilly one of the individuals you know I live there so it's 920 01:18:46,88 --> 01:18:50,25 not going to include those signals but it would include the signals along major 921 01:18:50,26 --> 01:18:56,24 corridors and along the freeway systems generally kind of at the interchanges. And 922 01:18:56,25 --> 01:18:56,53 that's 923 01:18:56,54 --> 01:19:00,95 a two to three year project that it's going to award so they're working with some 924 01:19:00,96 --> 01:19:07,35 Kaga on that and we're very much in tune with kind of where they're at on their on 925 01:19:07,36 --> 01:19:12,06 that project and we've told them that if they wanted to expand that into doing 926 01:19:12,07 --> 01:19:14,86 local level analysis that we'd like to see can as 927 01:19:14,87 --> 01:19:18,58 a test but I think you know when you did your presentation I'm just wondering what 928 01:19:18,59 --> 01:19:25,51 kind of questions and answers did you hear No not too much not too much really. 929 01:19:29,18 --> 01:19:34,71 And there were some pretty yeah the people that attended that were very well 930 01:19:34,72 --> 01:19:41,28 schooled I'd say generally in this industry already. But you know I just had 931 01:19:41,29 --> 01:19:45,74 a few comments afterwards about well you know we really hadn't thought about even 932 01:19:46,14 --> 01:19:51,38 talking to the community about that so that was the type of kind of comment that we 933 01:19:51,39 --> 01:19:57,32 had. A few communities that were in attendance it was mostly I'd say technical 934 01:19:57,33 --> 01:19:58,91 people that were there not really 935 01:19:59,24 --> 01:20:05,56 a lot of communities. Just conclusion. 936 01:20:07,49 --> 01:20:14,29 Any additional questions. That you know what the 937 01:20:14,30 --> 01:20:19,32 times are driving right you don't know that. I think you're right. 938 01:20:23,58 --> 01:20:30,38 To close. For those in favor. I Good evening thank you folks 939 01:20:30,57 --> 01:20:30,95 thank you.