First order of business would be to see if any commissioner would like to discuss any preliminary item for next board meeting.

First presentation will be Marta Q4 quarterly briefing.

Hey, hey.

Good evening, Chairman Turner and Commissioners.

I am Carrie Rocha, Chief Capital Officer at Marta, and I'm pleased to provide you with Marta's quarterly Q4 jurisdictional update.

With me today, I have Jennifer LaRosa with our government affairs group, as well as Shelley Pert, our AGM of Planning and Project Development.

Online today, we also have Marta board members watching us, Valencia Williamson and Chair Catherine Powers.

So we start this evening looking at the great capture on the on the cover here of the groundbreaking event on November 15th for the Clayton County OM facility.

We are proud to really show that we are making Clayton County our home.

Thank you, Chairman Turner, Commissioner Reeves, and of course, Representative Demetrius Douglas, Mayor Angeline Butler, Councilwoman Kimberly Jones, Chair Elect Anderson, and board members, Marta Bar, Rod Frierson, Segura Jones, and Clayton County's own Valencia Williams.

Next slide, please.

So we will proceed with our operational update.

This report is through October of 2024, and as you can see, our bus service is continuing to increase in rebound from COVID.

And as we've just completed our amenities program, we don't currently have a lot of backlog of those shelters, so we will continue to stock those up and make sure that we can do the replacements as soon as possible.

With respect to our bus service modifications, last quarter, we informed you of the upcoming service modification of the Route 191, and we're proud to sh to demonstrate here some of the public engagement and outreach efforts that we made to make sure the public was included in the decisions as well as informed of those changes.

And recently we know that the City of Atlanta has approved this modification as well, so we look forward to the modification being put in place.

You can see the different social media platforms that we use to publicize the modification changes.

From the airport baggage claim terminals and be able to see really a seamless transition between the airport and Marta.

So we're really proud of the improvements.

We've replaced all of our platform tiles as well as installed Tarrazzo in the concourse area, which really gives the the area a much brighter look.

We've installed a mosaic art installation on the wall as you walk into the concourse, as well as a new elevator.

We're working on new rides tour, new lighting, and many of these improvements, they'll be completed before the World Cup in 2026.

And now I will get specifically into our capital expansion projects.

Starting off first with the Marta Rapids South Lake project, we have made a selection of our final designer.

We will be going to the MARTA board at the February Planning and Capital Programs Committee as well as the MARTA full board in March.

So February for PCP and March for the full board to be able to ask for permission to execute that contract.

So we look forward to progressing the final design on this so that we can prepare construction plans for bid.

We have also had a class of action determination from the FTA, and that has been a documented categorical exclusion.

So it's really good news for this project as we continue to move forward with our environmental and special studies that we can very quickly now get into the design and construction process.

We are awaiting our federal funding rating.

We submitted for the capital investment grant program in August, and we anticipate hearing back on that rating in late fet late January, early February.

And finally, we did issue an RFP for the transit-oriented development study along this alignment.

And that selection has also been made.

We anticipate that going to the MARTA board in January for the Planning Capital Programs Committee and February for the full board to execute that contract.

Next up, we have our MARTA Rapid SR 54 update.

We are well into the alternatives analysis for this project.

We are refining the project schedule, and we are really targeted at getting an approved LPA, locally preferred alternative within the calendar year 2025.

Next step is to do a planning charrette with county and local jurisdiction technical committees, and that will take place in quarter one of 2025.

And we have ongoing local municipality outreach to get input into this project.

The demolition contractor was awarded their contract by the MARTA board in late September.

They were issued an administrative notice to proceed in November, which allows them to get underway with their submittals and work plans and schedule and safety and insurance and all of those aspects that lead to getting under construction.

We anticipate construction starting roughly towards the end of December in order to start with some of the hazardous material mitigation inside the buildings, and then you'll be able to visibly see some things after that work is complete.

The 100% design plans are expected to be ready for bid late Q1 of 2025.

And we are working on final specifications, plans, and cost estimates for that.

With regard to the Clayton County Justice Center Transit Hub, the 100% final design and cost estimate are expected to be complete by the end of April in 2025.

The invitation for bid is expected within the quarter as well.

And we have been working closely with the county to put some temporary fencing between the transit hub and the justice center, and that will be complete by the end of quarter one 2025.

And in other news, um, we've had a number of engagement events, and I won't go through all of them here on the screen.

Um, but they've been really exciting to be uh a part of here in Clayton County.

Um the last one I'll note is the only one that has not happened already, and that is for the OM facility community meeting that is for tomorrow in Forrest Park.

And finally, we wrap up our year of celebrating our civil rights leaders, and we want to take just this chance to celebrate all five of the specially wrapped buses for uh honoring these heroes, and it was pretty amazing event for those of you that did attend.

Um Marta is committed to showing respect and honoring Atlanta's essential role in the civil rights movement and to highlight the intersection of transportation and equity.

As a result, we've been rolling out these wrap buses to celebrate that role in the movement.

We previously reported on buses celebrating the lives of Dr.

King and Coretta Scott King, we needed Jones Abernathy, Joseph E and Joseph E.

Lowry on September 12th.

We unveiled the Congressman John Lewis bus and held a voter registration drive at College Park on October 4th.

We honored the late civil rights icon, Reverend Dr.

Joseph E.

Lowry and Evelyn Gibson Lowry.