Aye.

Aye.

All those opposed?

Hearing none, that motion passes.

Our first real item on the agenda is KC Streetcar Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan, also known as the PTASP presentation.

Welcome.

Please come forward and introduce yourselves and thank you for being here.

Good afternoon.

My name is Jason Waldron.

I'm the transportation director in public works.

With me here today's associate director of transportation, Angie Lori.

We are going to be presenting our annual safety plan for the Casey Streetcar System.

Angie.

Thank you, Jason.

We really are going to focus on the annual plan that we maintain as a requirement of our receipt of federal funding.

Slide, please.

This focuses currently on our existing system, which is 2.2 track miles, 4.4 miles total.

You'll see here the extension to the south, three and a half miles, as well as the approximate 0.75 mile to the North Berkeley Riverfront extension.

We'll move on.

For our system, we do have responsibilities to the FTA because of our use of federal dollars and our role as a rail transit agency as the city.

This diagram depicts those responsibilities, and they really illustrate that in the far right hand corner, the rail transit agency being the system, the city as the owner of that system has to meet certain responsibilities to ensure that the system operates safely and securely.

And of course, we do that with other partnerships as well, including those with KCATA.

So the requirement that we're speaking to today is the annual plan update, which is referred to by FTA as the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan.

That was a final rule that required systems to put in place their initial PTASP, as the acronym goes, by July 20th of 2020.

As a system, we did meet that requirement, and we adopted our compliant plan reviewed by MODOT.

MODOT is our state safety oversight agency, and they are the entity that we report up to for our responsibilities.

So again, this uh session is really for everyone's information and better understanding of these responsibilities.

Um the minimum uh plan requirements for our safety plan are at the end of the day uh annual approval by the agency's accountable executive, uh, that being Mr.

Platt, um, and approval by an equivalent authority.

Uh the plan must also designate a chief safety officer.

Um that chief safety officer must be a city employee.

Uh, presently I uh perform that role as chief safety officer.

Uh the accountable executive has designated responsibilities for uh safety responsibilities to the chief safety officer, and then we ensure that those responsibilities are carried out uh by the systems and its partners.

So it's it's not just one person um but many people uh performing those roles and duties.

Um the plan itself documents uh four categories uh within an overall safety management system, that being um safety management policy, safety assurance, safety risk management, and safety promotion.

I'll speak to those momentarily.

Uh the plan must also include a program for employee safety reporting, uh, that being from our operations and maintenance uh employees that perform frontline duties.

We also have each year a required performance targets.

Uh, there are four that we are required to have, um, and we may add additional ones as our system matures.

There are certain criteria to address specific FTA requirements that the plan also discusses in terms of procedures for event reporting, in terms of responsibilities for internal audit responsibilities, and how all team members within our system collaborate and cooperate.

They have their own program standard they update each year, so we have to make sure that our safety plan is in compliance with the state's requirements and its responsibilities.

So specifically the components of a safety management system, the safety management policy.

This identifies the leadership of the system, what those responsibilities are and what those accountabilities include.

It includes safety risk management processes.

That's the process by which we identify hazards, by which we evaluate the probability and severity of those occurrences, and then work to mitigate those those things identified.

Safety promotion includes things like training as well as safety communications across departments and across our team.

And finally, safety assurance, which is the probably the largest component of our plan.

That category includes our internal audits.

It includes the inspections that are performed daily, monthly, and annually for our system.

It includes the responsibilities we have for event investigations and reporting.

That reporting to our state safety oversight falls to the city.

So these are all things that sort of happen in the background, but are our significant components of what we have committed to FTA and to MODOT as a rail transit agency.

I have already discussed many of these.

Modot has provided a nice compliment in commending us for our dedication and noting that we have a performance record recognized across the industry.

So thanks to good team members and great partnerships with KC Street Car Authority, KCATA, our operations and maintenance contractor, and then the good work across departments and within the city's transit program.

We are we are seeing really good results.

This was a short list of awardees, and we were very grateful.

If you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them.

Any questions on the presentation?

Well, I appreciate it.