May I have a roll call, please?

Chair Bagwell.

Here.

Vice Chair Shooty.

Here.

Commissioner Costa.

Your Commissioner Maloney.

Yeah.

Commissioner Novak.

The quorum is present.

Thank you so much.

We're on to opening public comment.

Do I have anyone that would like to make opening public comment?

See anyone signed up either.

Okay.

Then we're on to agenda item four A, which is the approval of our February eleventh, twenty twenty-six minutes.

Do I have any corrections or changes?

Seeing none, I'll accept a motion for approval, please.

I move to approve uh or I'm yeah, the minutes from February eleventh, twenty twenty-six as presented.

I will second.

I have a motion and a second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Any opposed, say no.

Let the record reflect it was unanimous.

We're now on to agenda item five A.

This is discussion of possible action for a contract with Sierra Nevada Construction Inc.

Um, for one point one five nine nine hundred and no pennies, nine hundred and seven dollars.

An authorization for the public works direct.

I know usually we have pennies to approve a ten percent contingency amount of a hundred and fifteen nine nine one for a total of one million two seventy-five eight ninety-eight.

Casey, is there anything about this project that we that you just want to put on the record?

Yes.

Uh thank you, Madam Chair.

Sylvester.

Sorry, Casey Sylvester Transportation and Traffic Engineer.

So this project was advertised in December.

We ended up not getting any bids following the correct procedure for that scenario.

We re-advertised the project.

We again did not have any bids.

Public works staff reached out to contractors.

We were able to get a bid from Sierra Nevada construction.

This is the bid that we received from Sierra Nevada construction, and we're looking to move forward with a construction contract with this bid.

The as you mentioned, the total is 1,159,907 with a 10% contingency amount of 115,991 for a total not to exceed amount of 1,275,898.

Are there any questions?

Just why do you think we didn't get any bids yet?

You were able to talk Sierra Nevada into doing it.

Well, there I think there's a number of factors with that.

And one of those factors is the CDBG funds.

So those funds need to be spent by June 30th of this year, which means we need to have a certain amount of construction done.

So that makes the contract schedule tricky.

Um I think that looking at it in um you know that that was an added level of complexity that um was hard to work through amount the amount of time the bid was out.

Um upon reaching out to Sierra Nevada Construction, they indicated they were willing to submit a bid and did.

And so we're feeling pretty comfortable that we can meet that bid.

There was a pre-construction meeting earlier this week already.

They're ready to go, they're excited to get started.

They understand on the tight deadline, and um we're uh we're looking to move it along, and I think we're gonna be able to do that.

Perfect.

And this one really um carmine just hit a lot of snags along the way.

So I think it was a project that were in danger of losing some opportunity for money just because it um we just didn't have the ability to hook in and to do some things that we wanted to get done, right?

Ran into some hate to say the word roadblocks, but roadblocks to accomplishing this project.

So I'm glad to see it come to fruition.

Um it's it's really bad in that area, and I think the people on carmine on that area really deserves some relief, and I hope that it gives them some.

Um, I know it's not gonna do everything we want, but is it going to help the people that live there not to uh flood every single time there's a little teeny bit of water?

It is a good first step in getting those things done.

This is a definitely a foundation that in order to get the rest of the corridor done.

This step has to happen.

And um, a large portion of the project is funded with stormwater funds because there's a lot of stormwater work going in.

This is the basic block that has to happen before any of the other things can go.

And so we're excited to get that going and set that foundation.

Not sure when we're gonna get back to Carmine.

Um, but once we've done this, we will be able to and be able to do something additional and work our way and eventually have the corridor complete.

Be nice.

You had a question, Mr.

Costa.

Um, yes, it's related to bidding also on page 50 of the package.

They have a list of subcontractors that bidding, but none were selected.

Um I just was curious about that or if I misunderstood the form.

I wonder if Darren Anderson, project manager, would be able to come up and answer this question because I am not sure.

So, Darren, the question is on this page right here, page 50.

There are subconsultants listed.

And are these subconsultants that Sierra Nevada construction will be using as part of this project?

Yeah, so uh Darren Anderson, city engineer.

I was the this list is the plan of subs that they do that they do anticipate using.

I was gonna just question to clarify there was you saw somewhere where I indicated they were not using them.

Yes, there was none selected.

49.

Yeah.

Page 49, I think.

But those were the ones just exceeding the one percent a bit.

I mean, it's a particular form for the bid form.

Right.

Yeah, so for Sierra Nevada construction, they self-perform a lot of the the work.

And so that's why I love these two separate forms.

Yeah, so some of the list that is on the one percent.

Page 49 versus 50.

Yeah, so page page 50 would be the subset would be a part of it, but we'll often not see um on those on this other form just because of the self-performed work.

So as far as you know, they're not using any subcontractors.

No, that exceed one percent of the bid.

Okay.

It's a right.

Right.

It's a subset.

If I'm subset.

All right.

I just wanted to uh I wanted to offer um pending discussion here.

I just want to offer if there are further questions on any contract stuff, big picture how we how the city does templates, how the city bids things, we're happy to have that conversation offline and separate from some I'm happy to coordinate with you, Mr.

Costa or any of the board members related to contractual processes of the city and how that works.

Just please let me know.

Okay, thank you.

Thanks.

Okay.

Is there any other questions on this one?

Any public comment on the Carmine Street project?

Um I will accept a motion.

Miss Shuty.

I move to award the contract as presented and to authorize the public works director to approve expenditure of the contingency if needed.

Oh a second.

I have a motion and a second for approval.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say no.

Let the record reflect it was unanimous.

Thank you so much.

We're now gonna move on to agenda item 5B.

Um, this is for discussion on a letter of intent, uh, traffic safety grant for our public safety for 28,000, which includes 21,000 in grant funding and the required 25% match of 7,000 for comprehensive safety and education campaign to increase awareness of bicycle and pedestrian laws.

Um Erica, is there some highlights that you what what are we gonna do with this money?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

Erica Rosilius, transportation planner analyst.

So if awarded this grant, it'll be the third year that staff has managed these funds, which um are used for safety and education campaigns focused on vulnerable users.

If there's sufficient funding available this year, we'd like to expand by including additional marketing outlets and addressing populations that the Office of Traffic Safety has indicated our priorities.

The grant would also enable us to continue our work with the Office of Traffic.

I mean, I'm sorry, continue our work with the road safety task force.

That was established under the first grant cycle, and it includes representatives from SafeRoutes to School, the Carson City School District, Sheriff's Department, and dot Office of Traffic Safety and others.

It meets quarterly, and the purpose is to work on joint efforts across the community.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Does any member have a question?

This one.

Some of the campaigns are tricky to track because they're just public outreach campaigns.

Um I included in the report, we are able to track things like the social media presence, so how many likes we get or views we get.

Uh we did a movie theater campaign, um, and we were able to track how many tickets were sold each year, which is around 250,000, I think.

So we can do some of those metrics.

Um, and then for others, we can talk about ways that we could do outreach with the community for other specific campaigns.

Is the success measured over years that we should see the objectives being met, which is the reduction of aggressive driving or no seat belts or the types of tickets that are being issued.

Do we see overall that we believe the marketing campaigns are actually impacting?

Well, I think so.

So the the main goals are to reduce uh crashes and serious injuries and get to vision zero.

I we support that state initiative.

And so when we look at the crash data every year, if that's going down, particularly with serious injuries or non-pedest um non-vehicle crashes, then I think then that's a good metric, not statewide, not completely local, but it does give us something to go off of.

And and we are or are not seeing an impact.

Well, from the report that we uh gave a actually I brought it a couple months ago, or was it last month?

In general, they are going down and they're hitting some of the um targets that we want, but so fight fatalities and serious injuries non-motorized has not.

So that's why this these campaigns I think are really important to continue because it's pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable users.

And then do we see the opportunity to market or target our advertising to the specific zones or areas in which we're high having high incidents?

We can if that is one of the goals we want to work on.

So for example, we just launched a pedestrian campaign, it's going March through June.

And we have um public outreach and pedestrian safety pop-ups that are happening at elementary schools, and the way that I picked those elementary schools was by using the action plan that had the most um miles of high injury network in the city.

And the way that I picked those elementary schools was by using the action plan that had the most miles of high injury network in the city.

So I'm using that plan a lot to determine where we exactly focus the campaigns.

So particularly with outreach, like public outreach and programming.

Perfect.

I think that seems reasonable to me.

Find our areas of concern and try to drive that focus there.

And then watch it for a year or two and say, are we making a difference?

Yes.

Is there some catchy phrase that we have that we can come up with one?

Well, that the objective is to well, drill's a good word, but to drill it into people's minds so it becomes habit.

Right.

Right?

Is that like click it or tick it?

Right?

Things of that nature that go, oh my stop.

Right.

That's a famous one for a long time.

So I guess I'm always interested.

Do we see a marketing component that we feel is starting to work?

That you think the kids can it's sinking in.

I think that we can if we um we haven't come up with a catchy phrase, but I think we can work on it.

And I think that working with um organizations like the sheriff's department, other organizations that already have catchy titles, why reinvent the wheel?

Like we can just strengthen those.

So okay.

Well, we look forward to seeing what you can come up with.

Thank you.

Anybody else?

Yep.

Great.

Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned the sheriff's department, because that was one of my concerns because they're out and about and they can help you, and they've got information and uh they do a good job.

So coordinate as much as you can with that for sure.

Uh Miss Maloney.

Sorry to be a pill.

Um, if you don't get this grant, is this are these activities that could be funded with the safe routes to school program?

No, it's a completely separate grant, and actually the safe routes to school grant funding cannot be used for these measures.

It has to be totally separate.

So we collaborate together, but um, the vulnerable user program it is specifically Carson City only, and the specific campaigns that the office office of traffic safety approves.

Okay, because the Safe Reserve School program has paid for marketing in the past, right?

Chris Martinov is transportation manager generally, yes.

If they're public safety campaigns, if they're for the benefit of the public as a whole, then there's there's more leeway than a calling it's advertising, for instance, or or certain there's certain phrases and ways we have to be careful with some of the federal guidance.

Got it.

Um I guess where I'm going with this, and I'll I assume I'll be the only no, but we we don't have a lot of infrastructure money, and and so I know it's only $7,000, but I'd rather the $7,000 go toward improving infrastructure for safety.

Um so for me, I'm a no on this.

Okay.

Do have anybody else?

No.

No.

Okay, is there any public comment on this item?

I can bring it back up here to uh take a motion or to have discussion.

I think that's why we're looking for the statistics and the value to it.

I think Miss Maloney's bringing up a point if I only have limited dollars to utilize.

Is this even a good use of $7,000?

I guess that's the that's the point.

And so why does staff believe that this is um just because grant money is out there?

It's the same thing in our health department.

Just because it's out there doesn't mean we should be doing it, right?

So if I'm gonna expend $7,000, what's my gain?

What's my benefit?

And I think that's what we're starting to really look for.

So I may support it because this is year three.

That's correct.

Right.

So I may support it another year, but want to start seeing you connect a dot that that we really are starting to see something come through that, okay.

We're starting to see that we had zero fatalities.

Oh, now we're starting to make a difference, you know.

Now it's starting to work.

I think that's what we're looking for, is to warrant that.

So I think I'll support it this year, but really ask you to start down that path of tying in some stats.

Otherwise, it it may not may not go in the future.

I absolutely support it in that.

I think about all the corridor improvements that we're doing and the pathways and the safe route to school.

I think it really ties in.

And I do appreciate that with limited funding, we need to be very mindful of how that money is spent.

But I think this complements other projects in the city.

So I'm in support, and I'm happy to make a motion.

Uh go ahead.

Okay.

I move to approve the submission of the LOI and the grant application and to authorize the transportation manager to accept the grant funds if awarded.

I have a motion.

Do I have a second?

I will second.

Okay.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say no.

No.

Let the record reflect it was three yeses and a no by Miss Maloney and there were two no's.

Yeah.

I you didn't let me finish.

And Mr.

Costa.

I said, and I didn't get to finish.

That's okay.

And Mr.

Costa.

Thank you.

Okay, we'll now move on to agenda item 5C.

Um, this is the submission of an application to aging and disability services for a competitive sub award seeking 132,000 for FY27, subject to a 19,800 local match for Jack, senior bus program, and authorization for the transportation manager to execute the agreement, as well as future amendments to the funding for time or amounts not exceeding 10%.

And a summary of our program, including the status, et cetera.

Uh Marcus, are you gonna give us a highlight?

How many years have we been doing this one?

Quite a few.

Yeah, a lot.

Uh thank you, Madam Chair Marcus Myers, transit coordinator.

Since fiscal year 2021, Jack has received flat funding in the amount of $96,750 through this grant, although higher levels of funding have been requested in prior years.

This application requests 132,000, which would cover the associated costs of distributing 550 senior passes in fiscal year 2027.

The current awarded amount covers uh covered the distribution of 403 passes when considering 20 per month cost of a reduced fare bus pass to date in fiscal year 2026.

518 of these passes have been distributed.

Should funding fall short of the requested amount, staff recommend continuing to not limit the number of passes offered through this program and to instead continue offering an uncapped number of passes to seniors.

While the level of ridership under this program is unknown, it is understood that some seniors sign up for this pass to be used as a backup or supplemental travel option, but may not actually ride the bus consistently.

Uh with funding in recent years remaining flat, staff is seeking guidance from the board to determine if Jack should continue offering an uncapped number of passes or require seniors to purchase a reduced fare pass once the number of ADSD funded passes have been depleted.

Happy to take questions.

Thank you so much.

Um it's uh so we've been funded for how many passes.

The $96,750 funds 403.

And we gave out 518?

That's what we've distributed so far this year.

Essentially no one.

Chair, if I may, transportation manager Chris Martinovich.

This program is very successful, and to Marcus's point, we have not received, we don't know the statistics on the number of seniors that are using this pass to ride our buses.

We do plan to the point of the other conversation, we do plan to start gathering some of that through the rollout of our this year's senior bus pass program.

Uh, but we've in the past asked for additional funding uh as noted in the staff report to cover the cost of the number of passes we issue.

And again, we're doing that this grant cycle.

This is a two-year grant cycle.

We asked 108,000 two years ago.

We received 96 for the the two subsequent years.

So we're back again asking for the full amount to cover the number of passes we're actually issuing.

We haven't capped them in the past.

We could cap them in the in the future, and that's what we're looking for is to in direction for that particular area.

Is if we aren't awarded the 132,000 that we're requesting, what should we do with the senior bus passes that we're not funded for.

Well, I think the discussion is the same as that means the general fund is actually subsidizing the potentially 115 or however many might come in.

It's actually getting paid from somewhere, and then match isn't available to use on a project that potentially we are.

And I don't mind continuing with an uncap, but what I don't want to do is give them a pass that they never use.

I I can't stomach that one.

That that doesn't make any sense because then I'm that's just bad math.

Um so I I want the statistic and we should see.

So are we giving them 12 months worth all at the front end, or every month they re-get their next month's $20 pass?

The way the program works is they're issued one pass that is good for the entire fiscal year.

As we've done for a number of years.

It's FTA eligible matching funds.

So there is no match to the city, and we can use it to match our FTA funded grant.

So it does reduce the general fund match requirements for the operation of the transit system as a whole.

Yeah, and I know I got on a soapbox on the last item, so that's okay.

Um this grant, the way I think about the overage from what's reimbursed from the state here is it's a waiver of fees rather than a cost to the city.

So giving out the extra passes isn't necessarily costing the city anything.

Well, my concern is there's other individuals that would love a waived fee.

I have we have some very benevolent people in our community that um provide me dollars through the mayor's attendance hall of fame that give me so that I can give bus passes to the kids for a few schools that have no buses, and so I give them bus passes, and I pay for all of those, which again we have benevolent people in the community that are donating, but it's hard for me to understand that I have bus passes that may not be being used when I have individuals that it's really made a difference for them to go to school because they live out Deer Run Road area and they and they're not gonna get uh silver campus.

I gotta get the right name for that now, right?

And so that's all.

I I don't want I don't want bus passes use it, right?

And so and it sounds great to say 518, but I'm somehow doubting they're using them, or they only used it one time in the entire year, and that's quite the value.

That was quite an expensive trip at 20 dollars a month, you know.

I'm like, oh, that's 240 dollars of value of value.

I'm leaning towards voting against this for the same reason.

Um I had an original question here after reading this.

Okay, we have these distributed.

How many people are actually using it?

We distributed one time for a whole year.

They may use it just one or two months, or one or two one or two trips.

We don't know.

Um I think in this program, I hate to do it because I know there's people that should go ahead and need this service, but we don't know who's being who's using it or how many people are are needing it.

Um spent somewhere else.

And I think we need to put more controls or more accountability on this program to get data in order to go ahead and continue it.

So let's talk about what we could do to award passes that matches the grant, right?

So let me think about I'm I'm getting on the bus.

Are you saying there's nothing in the counters or anything that says senior bus pass or senior pass for badwell or we're we have no capability of understanding who's using that pass, so they can hand it to anybody and they just flash the pass as they get on the bus.

So they can hand it to anybody.

And they just flash the pass as they get on the bus.

Correct.

Well, that's I'm I'm looking for a way to feel if I get 132,000, I'm willing to give 132,000 worth of because if we can help the seniors have transportation, I'm all for that.

I just want an accountable program.

I don't want wasted bus passes, and I don't want bus passes that they just can hand off to transfer to somebody else.

So give me the mechanism that we can have accountability to the actual bus pass.

Well, right now, in terms of accountability for when you get on a bus, if you're a senior and you waive a bus pass, you get on the bus.

We're not tracking who is how many senior passes we're seeing, but we are making sure that only seniors are using the bus pass.

So if if a young person gets on with a a pink senior bus pass, then they're right this year they're pink.

I don't know what color they'll be next year, but we'll order a different color to make sure that we make sure we're using this year's pass.

So they're very clear, colors changes every year.

You can't duplicate.

If should should anyone lose one, we don't reissue for free.

So we do, should you lose one, you are charged five dollars to get a new one.

So we're not seeing people losing them getting another one free of charge where we're out the cost of the printing and and the processing of the application.

So that is also happening.

Um, in terms of what we plan to do going forward at our at our senior bus pair pass event, uh bus pass event that we hold each June.

Should we have one this year?

We would ask writers to fill out a short two to three question survey to understand general metrics as to how many times do you use the bus.

We haven't figured out those questions, but we do plan to ask that as part of the application that is required for members of the public who want this pass to complete and submit to the city.

What we do with those applications, what we do with that information is then we we take that information, we must report it to ADSD.

I believe it's on a monthly basis through uh a software program where our dispatchers, Marcus, and the and the state all look at this, we enter in the data, and so there's there's there is reporting and real-time metrics of names, individuals, when they were issued to the pass, what number pass they were issued, and items like that.

But the one area we don't have is that moment when they write on the bus, who's that person, what did they use the bus pass?

And I think that would be a difficult element for us to track, which is the paper pass and our fair media that we use today.

That would be an additional burden on our drivers at this point.

I thought we were I thought we were getting a neat new fare box program and things.

So I don't understand how anyone gets on a bus and is not recorded that they were on the bus.

I guess I'm really having a hard time.

I don't care who it is, how'd they get on the bus without being documented that there's a rider on that bus?

We we do document that there's a rider on the bus.

They are counted with our automatic passenger counters as well as the drivers do count the individuals who get on the bus.

We're not tracking the type of fare media that every individual is using when they get on the bus.

I guess that's a different problem.

So it doesn't matter.

So what you do with the punch ones?

Because the ones I give the kids is a monthly pass.

It starts, I I punched the little month and I run over, I run over to the school and I say, okay, here's your April passes.

And I give them to the 10 kids.

If it's a if it's a punched pass, it has the month punched out.

Right.

They'll show the driver, the driver will look and make sure the month, the correct month is active for that month.

And then they get on the bus.

So the bus thing just says 10 people are on the bus, but we don't know whether two were full pay, two were that's correct.

We don't know.

We don't have any idea.

Boy, that's a different problem.

It's just a different problem.

Yeah, okay.

I see there is a letter of support from the senior center that was in the packet.

And I guess we do have at least some data on that bus stop there, if they're actually going to the senior center.

But I think we all agree it would be nice to know are these passes being used.

Is there an easy way to track it or sample or something?

But okay.

If I may sure we used to collect the fair media in the old system, so we had a count of senior passes or reduced fare, whatever, but we didn't track individual people.

So it sounds like the new system may not do that.

Um as a matter of policy, this body has supported free essentially free transit for seniors in Carson City.

And I there was one year when I was transportation manager where I said, this is a lot of work.

Do we want to do this?

And we got pushback.

People love those passes.

So we don't know how many people are using it, but we also don't know that they're not using it.

So I want that on the record as well because I have talked with many seniors that love this program.

Oh, I'm not I'm not disagreeing with that.

I'm just disappointed that we don't have any accountability to its use.

I guess that's where we where we do have the accountability where we do have the accountability is in the fares that are paid.

We know how many single tickets are sold, we know how much cash we collect, we know how many monthly passes we sold, those are tracked by individual fare revenue.

But who's riding the bus with those fares we're not tracking?

But let's do it in the opposite direction.

Is this the only thing that we give free is the seniors?

So if you have all that accountability that you just discussed, and I have a total counter, so I had 20,000 riders this year minus so many single rate payers, so many past payers, is that's what's left or these freebies, then overall.

I mean, not unless you're under four.

Um I believe I don't believe everything else is fair paying.

So we could look to that to say on average there's 450 free ones going to at least get an idea.

Just to look at it.

And so I think I just think it's important again.

I'm gonna support this at this point, but I think what this is telling us is, and especially in Jack, because like you said, I know there's a lot of discussion about changing routes and doing this and doing that, but we don't have good data to even it's really hard to make decisions in a vacuum.

It's really hard.

And I and I think it's a lot to ask of us to determine whether where the priorities should lie.

And so I don't want to take this away from the seniors that have had it.

We aren't required to put money in to make this successful.

Um, but at the same time, I don't want passes out there not being used when I have maybe it doesn't matter if they use it because we got the 132,000, so who cares whether they use it?

I the use doesn't affect the amount of money that we get, right?

Right.

So maybe it's just worth it if a person thinks they might use it and they end up not using it right, it's insurance for them, right?

Anyway, hmm, okay.

Well, I'll take some public comment on this item.

Okay, I'll bring it back up here.

Interesting.

Mr.

Costa, yes, I know we're not here to talk about transit.

Um the transit plan, I had a number of concerns about the the transit plan, which I understand we're gonna address in the next few months.

And this is another concern we have about um who's actually using the power or who's using the passes that they get, and just in general how it is.

I don't think it should be a one-year, one-time distribution pass for people.

Um, on the other hand, we want to go ahead and give seniors a chance to have some transportation.

Many of them have limited income and they can't afford that.

So anybody with any type of conscience, you'd say, yeah, go ahead and um continue this program.

But we do have responsibility to the taxpayers too that we're efficiently using our funds uh in the in general and in the transit program in particular, which has me very concerned, and we're kind of like being torn in two directions here on how to vote on this.

That's a true statement.

Right.

I think since they're right, there isn't any there's no drawback to issuing.

Is there um an eligibility criteria on the application for those that get a pass?

Or you just have to be 60.

That's the eligibility, 16 over.

That's it.

So it doesn't matter how much money I make.

If I wanted one, I could go get one.

Correct.

Well, like I said, and and maybe it's okay, and I've had people say, why aren't you giving those under 18 that need them to get to school because the bus doesn't go there?

I'm like, well, because we don't have an entity like aging that pays for it.

And that's their criteria.

If you're of age, that's it.

Wow.

Okay.

Well, I guess that's their criteria, not it's not ours.

If it pleases the chair, I'd be willing to make a motion.

Um I move to approve the submission of the grant application and to authorize the transportation manager to execute the grant agreement and future amendments regarding extensions of time and changes of funding, not exceeding 10% of the present amount.

I second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say no.

Let the record reflect it was unanimous.

I was an aye.

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't I didn't hear it.

No, that's okay.

I I just said it now.

Oh, okay.

Uh a reluctant aye.

Okay, that's okay.

Uh please uh mark Mr.

Costa No.

Thank you.

Oh, I yes.

Oh, I said it was unanimous.

Sorry, thought you were correcting me.

Okay.

Uh we'll go to agenda item 5D.

Discussion of possible.

Uh let's go for another application.

These are going so well for uh Nevada Aging and Disability Services for Competitive Sub Award seeking 5,000 for fiscal 27 with a 15% match of 750 to for reduced fare monthly bus passes to eligible individuals with disabilities on Jack to use them for fixed route and authorization for the transportation manager to execute the grant agreement as well as other future amendments of time or changes in funding not exceeding 10%.

Marcus, is this something new?

This one's new.

Okay.

Talk to us about this.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Marcus Myers, transit coordinator.

Um, in response to community requests to make transit more accessible to individuals with disabilities.

Jack is seeking $5,000 in ADSD funding to further reduce the cost of bus passes for the disabled community.

Uh reduced fixed route fares are currently available to military disabled and youth populations at $20 a month, which is half the standard rate.

This grant would allow Jack to offer monthly fixed route passes for only $3 per month or $36 per year to qualifying individuals, which would be used to cover the 15% local match required by this opportunity.

Thus far in fiscal year 2026, 129 reduced fare passes have been sold at $20 each for a total fare revenue of $2,580.

This application requests $5,000, which would allow for $250 of these monthly passes to be distributed at the $3 rate.

Staff anticipates coordination with outside agencies to ensure these passes are reasonably accessible to the target population.

So this one we have the actual number because we've issued a specific pass to 129.

Yes, that that's how many month reduced monthly passes we've distributed.

And they'll pay $17 less.

They've been paying $20, so hopefully they could get it for three.

Correct.

I like this one better.

It's a known quantity.

I like this better.

Okay.

Anybody else have comment on this one?

On this one, I know we've got 129 monthly passes, but does that get counted when they actually use it, the bus each time?

The individual ride is tracked, but the pass is not accounted for.

Similar to the senior bus pass, they show it when they get on.

But this one they're laying out $20 currently.

Yeah.

And so we know how many we've sold as reduced fare disability.

And Lori buys a lot of youth fare discounted ones.

This is this is well thought out, and I appreciate um figuring out how to cover the match.

Good job.

Yeah.

I like this one.

And and it'll be a good great reduction for them.

Is there any public comment on this item?

No.

I'll bring it back here for a motion.

I move to approve the submission of the grant application and to authorize the transportation manager to execute the grant agreement and future amendments regarding extensions of time and changes in funding not exceeding 10% of the present amount.

I will second.

I have a motion and a second for approval.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say no.

Let the record reflect it was unanimous.

We'll now move on to agenda item 5e, discussion of possible action for a contract with parametrics to assist in the development of the city of Fernley's Safe Route Schools Master Plan as part of the Western Nevada Safe Routes grant programmed by us for a not to exceed amount of 115495, which includes a required 5% local match.

NRS 281A.420 requires me to disclose conflicts of interest and abstain from voting when I have a disqualifying conflict.

My nephew is Chris Martinovich, who is employed by Carson City and will be presenting this item.

Chris and I are not receiving compensation of any kind directly related to this item.

NRS 281A point four two zero only requires abstention in clear cases.

And the independent judgment of a reasonable person in my position would not be impacted by my familial relationship.

Therefore, I do not have a disqualifying conflict, and I will be voting on this matter.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

Um, Erica, are there any highlights on this one?

I'm sorry, Chris.

That's okay.

Erica's ready for any particular safe routes questions.

Um Chris Marcinovich, transportation manager.

Nothing really to highlight on this other than uh we have an affirm an agreement with the City of Friendly for $5,000 in local match.

They've verbally agreed to pay the additional 770, whatever it is, dollars in local match.

We're working to execute an amendment to that agreement with the city of Friendly to ensure that with this project gets done.

So that's what I have to add.

Thank you.

Anyone have any questions?

Oh good.

Oh, Mr.

Costa.

Um is this a new program with Fernley or have we been working with them before in this area?

The action plan itself or the Western Nevada Safe Routes to School.

Um Western Nevada Safe Routes to School.

They have always been included in our region.

As far as I know.

Yeah.

Okay.

So we've worked with them before and we have a history of working with them.

Correct.

Okay.

And there'll be, as I was informed, I think lad last meeting, the C Frouts of School, they have head count totals on our website, which I'll take a look at this firmly.

Also going to provide those to the people that are actually using this, the number of children actually using this.

Chris Martinovich, one of the elements that will be the data collection associated with this contract to understand how many people are walking and biking and other modes getting to school.

We'll do that as part of this plan.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Is there any public comment on this item?

See none, I'll bring it back up here for a motion.

Greg.

Okay.

I move to approve the contract as presented.

I will second.

I have a motion and a second for approval.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Let the record reflect it was unanimous.

Okay, we're on to agenda item six, uh, the transportation managers report.

Mr.

Martinovich.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Wanted to note that March 18th is National Transit Employee Appreciation Day.

Uh, so our transit agency uh Transdev First Transit, they'll be holding some events at the transit facility for our drivers.

And I just wanted to put on the record, appreciate them, you know, coming to work and driving and serving the people of Carson City, uh, whether they're on fixed route or they're our paratransit service, they do a lot for the city.

And safe routes to school front.

We are kicking off our safety campaign as Erica mentioned under a previous item, and it'll continue for a number of months.

We also, in conjunction with that, are doing a poster contest with a few schools here in the area.

Uh so engaging students through a poster contest and and I think the winner is an ice cream social or something at the end.

So and bikes, yes.

So uh definitely some incentives there for the poster contest.

Uh we are scooters too.

We are working on scoping our district four regional road projects.

Uh we plan to bring the regional roads and the local roads to the RTC for selection in May.

We're targeting the month of May for selection of our district four projects using both or using on local roads and on regional roads, as I stated.

We're also reviewing the comments and incorporating those comments uh for the transit development coordinated human services plan.

Again, I was alluded to a few times tonight.

We are working on updating that plan, and we'll get that to the board here in the coming coming month or two.

At the Board of Supervisors retreat at the end of February, uh, the board of supervisors gave direction.

And Madam Chair, if you or in Supervisor Shudder would like to add anything further, we gave direction for staff to start developing a process for having developers pay an amount of money for the first maintenance of roads that are built by developers and dedicated to Carson City.

So we are working on what that what that looks like, and we'll bring that forward to the Board of Supervisors at some point in the future.

Just know that that's something we're trying to do to address some of the road maintenance items we've discussed here many, many times.

Next month, anticipate uh fiscal 27 budgets.

So April's our month for budgets for the transit fund, Campo Fund, uh the Regional Transportation Fund, the street operations fund, and the street and highway fund, as it'll be now called, will also be presented as it's a new fund for us to start using on our local road projects.

We also plan to bring an item for North Carson Street next month as we're about to start the public outreach phase, and so want to get some input and give a status update on to the North Carson Corridor, North Carson Complete Streets Corridor Project to kind of share what we're doing and what the upcoming project looks like going forward.

With that, I conclude my comments.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Mr.

Costa.

Um, yes, um, I had a question uh, Chris, on what you had talked about, April being budget month, you know, for the transportation.

And I wanted to know if you could explain a little bit what that entails.

Does the board have any input into that or what does that mean exactly?

Mr.

Costa, uh basically what it's meant in the past is we'll present the tentative budgets to the RTC for your review.

Any comments?

Uh ultimately you'll you'll make a recommendation to the board of supervisors.

Uh what those recommendations are are up to you, and then the board will take its action on approving the budget and at future meetings.

Okay, very good.

Did you have something, Greg?

Yeah, Chris.

Uh you mentioned you know that the transit appreciation days coming, whatever.

And since we're looking ahead a little bit, April, it's work zone season, and we're gonna have National Work Zone Awareness Day week or whatever.

So I don't know if you have any planning underway or working with NDOT or others on that.

But from what I've seen, RTC between the state and the local and the private projects.

There's a sea of orange out there.

So let's uh you know get our message out as soon as we can.

And again, that's towards the end of April, but but I wanted to bring it up now.

Noted, thank you.

Okay, we'll move on to agenda item six B, our uh street operations and control report.

Is there something you'd like to highlight?

No highlight.

There is nothing I'd like to highlight unless there are questions.

Does anybody have a question?

I will I will highlight, Madam Chair, if I may, that last month we brought up the decorations, and so I just wanted to make sure that it was noted on packet page 332, third box down or remove Christmas decorations.

We did get the rest of them.

We didn't lose any.

We took down the same number we put up.

Sad, leave those up all year.

I love them.

I do I do have some questions, but I'll contact um Chris offline on this about this.

Okay.

Nobody else?

Okay, then we'll move on to agenda item six C.

Um reports by anyone, anything to share?

Anything that was missed that we need to know about General General General.

Nothing, nothing, nothing.

Okay.

Then I'll move to final public comment.

Do we have any?

No.

Okay.

Your last chance, it's all gone.

Um with that, um, if there's no objections, we haven't missed anything.

We are adjourned.

Thank you all for a good meeting.