City staff present comprehensive safety action plan, urge Vision Zero resolution before finalizing plan

City staff and consultants presented a draft Comprehensive Safety Action Plan on July 28 that aims to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries and to help the city qualify for future safety grants. Jim Kowach, the city engineer, and Kevin Kroll of Tool Design Group walked the City Commission through five chapters of the draft, which include a data-driven high‑injury network, a countermeasure “toolbox,” and proposed monitoring and public dashboards. Kroll said the analysis found that “14 percent of the roadway miles in Celina are responsible for 76 percent of fatalities and injuries.”

The plan, prepared under the federal Safer Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant, draws on five years of crash data (2019–2023), public outreach and walk audits. Kroll…