This summary is based on the supplied transcript, which states the meeting was called to order on June 10, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. and adjourned at 8:36 p.m.; the assigned synthesis date is February 12, 2026. No formal votes were taken during the work session.
Commissioner's work session is now called to order. The date is June 10th, 2025. And the time is 5 30 p.m. At this time I will do roll call, district one. Here. District 3. District 2. Yeah. District 4. President. All right. Thank you. All right. At this time board members, um, we're moving on to item three, the preliminary items uh to date. Are there any preliminary items um for the June 17th, 2025 regular business meeting that you would like to discuss at this time or even move to the regular agenda? Seeing none, we'll move on to our items for our work session. Um today we have with us Mr. Kylie Greenwood from the this the CEO of MARTA, and he will come up to give his MARTA Q2 quarterly briefing for 2025. Come on up, Mr. Greenwood. Thank you, Dr. Anderson Henry. Thank you. And uh hello to um the Clayton County Commissioners, Board of Commissioners. My name is Collie Greenwood, General Manager and CEO of MARTA, and um online with us. We have uh uh our board members Katie Power and Valencia Williamson uh watching streaming, and I also have a number of esteemed colleagues here from MARTA Stephen Parker and Carrie Rocher Stevens, our chief of staff and carries our chief capital officer, uh, who will be uh observing this proceeding as well. Um I wanted to begin if I can get the MARTA um agenda up. So while that's happening, I'll just start by saying um we we will have our regular agenda items today, which is operations updates, proposed budget, the MARTA capital expansion, as well as community engagement and other news. So this is our our opening page, and we'll just move on from there with okay. So I'll just say next slide. Is that what we're okay? Thank you very much. So that's the agenda as I've spoken of on the next slide is operational updates. And the next slide from that starts what we normally start to talk about is our ridership. So uh a lot of good news here in the in the fact that ridership is stable and continuing to rise year over year, not as quickly as we would like, but the the really you know, and you'll see this the cyclic dip that happens just leading into January each year, uh, from October or September to January, and if you'll notice along the linear the x-axis that happens every year going into the holidays. But we started we were alarmed at one point because you see that separation between orange and blue, which we're where rail seemed to have been losing a lot of ridership. And uh when we went back and and dug into it, it really we weren't so we were collecting the fares as people paid for their freeze cards. We were collecting the taps as people were tapping to get through, but the thumb drive that is us as sort of connected to the motherboard, if you will, of this 40-year-old gate equipment was broken. So we we were accepting the money, and that was all working, but we weren't able to um to communicate the taps to the national transportation database. So it was under reporting but not under collection. And and when we found that problem and the vendor pushed the fix, we can see that those lines started to close up again back to uh a more reasonable gap. And so that's it for ridership. There's a lot of things at play. I always say that there are a lot of things that are outside of our control in terms of um the the modal share that Atlanta enjoys, somewhere around seven percent modal share of trips coming in and out of uh the city as compared to a lot of other transit forward cities that are enjoying 25%. That is just a generational decades old uh concern, as well as the fact that there are cities like New York that are 49, 50 percent modal share. So when your modal share is that low, your rebound uh opportunities are are somewhat diminished, but that's not stopping MARTA from getting all those things done that are going to absolutely grow our ridership back to pre-pandemic levels and beyond. Not the least of which are things like the new stops, a thousand amenities we've put in, the safe routes to transit, um, automated fare collection 2.0, which is going to allow people access into the system with their their credit cards, their watches, their cell phones. It you know, you don't have to be a regular here with a breeze card to understand the system. Uh the new trains, the CQ400s that we've already started to bring in, and we launched on January 30th, as well as um as well as the bus network redesign and one billion dollars being spent on our um station refurbishments. Next slide, please.