The City Council of College Place adopted Resolution No. 25-049 on Aug. 26, approving the 2025 City of College Place Roadway Safety Action Plan and its associated monitoring and transparency measures.

The plan was prepared under a U.S. Department of Transportation grant and includes a leadership-commitment resolution, a planning structure, collision history analysis from 2019–2023, public outreach, recommendations for policy and process changes, and suggested projects and strategies for safer streets. Consultant Spencer Montgomery presented the final plan and summarized maps and analyses showing collision locations and contributing factors.

Montgomery told the council the data set covers 2019 through 2023 and separates collisions by severity. He said the city’s serious-injury and fatality counts were relatively low in that period and that many collisions involved parked cars and attention/distraction as contributing factors. Montgomery also highlighted strategies including implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act transition plan, improving sight distance by enforcing parking limits near intersections, adding sidewalks, and addressing speed through enforcement and engineering.

Council members on the Utilities and Transportation Engineering Committee (UTEC) reviewed the draft and requested an edit to allow the city to update priorities as project progress is monitored; Montgomery said the document is proposed to be updated every five years per USDOT requirements. After questions about whether the analysis included time-of-day or weather factors, Montgomery said that information is available in the packet but the small number of collisions limited statistical trends.

Council member Williams, a UTEC member, urged approval, noting that committee members had actively solicited public input. Council then moved to adopt Resolution No. 25-049; the motion was seconded and passed with no recorded opposition.

The resolution directs staff to publicly post the plan and to use the monitoring approach required by the USDOT grant. Implementation steps in the plan identify project and policy recommendations for staff and UTEC follow-up.