Holland.

Here.

Marks is absent.

Stevens.

Yes.

Holman.

Seeger.

Here.

O'Connell.

Here.

Wolf.

Okay.

Thank you.

Let's see.

Public comments.

Do we have any public comments?

No.

Okay.

Approval of the minutes of December the third, 2025.

Do I have a motion?

I move you approve it.

Second.

Second.

All approved.

Say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Okay, we do have a new member of our commission, Michael O'Connell.

And I'd like to welcome you to the board.

And if you want to give us a little background on you and why you wanted to be on the board.

Is it not working?

Does that sound better?

Yeah, that's better.

Is it better?

Yeah.

Do you think my starting work?

So again, I'm uh Michael O'Connell and uh I moved to Napa about a year ago.

Uh I had uh I was born and raised in Chicago.

Uh I worked as a health care administrator in both hospitals and medical groups for over 40 years.

Uh I came here specifically to work at Stanford, where I manage 70 of their ambulatory clinics in five counties.

And uh when I semi-retired, uh my wife and I have always loved Napa and uh decided that this would be a wonderful place for us to be able to uh retire.

And so I currently work as a career transition coach, uh helping people that have been laid off and uh helping them to find new positions.

I also work at two nonprofits uh in uh for the unhoused.

Uh I also do uh quite a bit of uh coaching and mentoring of early careerists, as well as uh I've worked extensively in healthcare in all aspects uh with the elderly, whether it's nursing homes, home care, whether it's uh adult daycare facilities.

Also done a lot of work with uh uh social determinants of health and helping individuals uh within the community to partner with the organizations that will support them in the work that they do.

Uh I uh when I came here to Napa, I uh joined or was accepted into the NAPA Academy, uh which is over six weeks, uh, for three hours, the different uh services and programs of NAPA come together to be able to educate us about what the services are.

I was incredibly impressed with the organization, uh the city as well as the services that they provided, and so when this uh opportunity uh became available, I'm a big believer of giving back.

I'm a big believer of uh making a difference as well as I like to have fun, and so hopefully we'll have some fun here and uh to be able to provide uh support and guidance.

I've also served on multiple boards so that I do understand uh the role of a board or the role of a commission, as well as uh our role is more strategic than it is operational.

So I'm happy to be here.

I'm looking forward to working with Katrina and Linda as well as with all of you in supporting uh programs for the uh for the elderly as well as our seniors and uh others that uh work with them as well.

Thank you.

We do have a presentation, Diane Mahan, planning and program manager and Rebecca Shinick.

Almost almost as close, suddenly.

It's Rebecca Schenk.

I'm Diana Meehan, I'm the planning and programming manager with NVTA, and my colleague Rebecca Schenk is here too, and we're both gonna talk a little bit about Napa Valley Transportation Authority and Mind Transit, who we are, what we do, and I'll first just start out by asking with a show of hands.

How many of you are familiar with our agency.

Oh, good, great.

Fantastic.

Even even the gentleman who's brand new.

Great.

Um so you know, we thought we'd just provide a little bit of a oh, I'm gonna go this way.

Okay, there we go.

Um, NBTA is a Nap Valley Transportation Authority, is a joint powers agency.

Basically, it's all jurisdictions in Napa County.

There are six of us, including the unincorporated county that counts as a jurisdiction, all under one umbrella, and that and our board is made up of a mayor and a council member and two supervisors from the Board of Supervisors, and those are our board, and one ex officio member who is for uh sits on our paratransit coordinating council, and we meet monthly the third Wednesday of the month at 1 p.m.

in our boardroom over at 625 Burnell Street, and would love to have you attend if you if you have interest.

Um we have a series of committees also that advise the board.

We have our citizens advisory committee that's a 19-member committee that that does a lot of review on projects and programs, a variety of things, a lot of transit-related projects and programs that that they advise the board, advise us and the board on.

Our technical advisory committee is made up of uh predominantly public works directors or public works staff and planning staff from each of the six jurisdictions, our paratransit coordinating council, these are members representing elderly and disabled populations and and um advise us on our buying uh ADA paratransit service, uh our active transportation advisory committee.

They those, of course, just like it sounds bikes and pedestrians also have representatives from each of the six jurisdictions, and our independent taxpayers oversight committee because we are also an NBTA tax authority.

So, you know, what what are the roles of our agency?

We are a planning agency.

There's one agency just like ours in each of the nine Bay Area counties.

We're called county transportation agencies or CTAs, used to be called congestion management agencies, so one and the same.

NBTA is a tax authority, not all agencies in the region are tax authorities, but most are.

We are what's known as a self-help county, so we pass a sales tax, and that's for our local use and our local needs.

Um we process and bring through federal and state funding, transportation funding for programming to our local programs and projects.

We are the public transit provider.

Um, over there on the left, you see all the list of the different transit uh services that we have available, and we also do our uh ADA, our paratransit service or VineGo.

Um, we do long range transportation planning.

So if you're most probably most familiar with the transit side, but on the on the transportation side, we do all the long-range transportation planning, and again, a lot of this is tied to funding.

Without these long-range established plans that prioritize programs and projects, we it we wouldn't be eligible for the funding that comes from the federal government through the state and into the local region.

So it's important that we invest in these plans and programs over the course of the long range so that we have an idea of what we're establishing as our local need so that we're eligible when funding does become available.

And that includes highway projects and programs, transit as you might imagine, um, technical planning assistance, our local jurisdictions, uh, highway big highway projects, and uh Saskell Junction is one that I think you might be familiar with.

The roundabouts over on First Street.

We work with all the partners, so all our local jurisdictions and also regional partners and uh Caltrans.

Um this is the tax authority, it's a separate agency, all one although one and the same, it's the NBTA TA tax authority, and the roles and responsibility.

We over oversee and administer um the sales tax, which is uh was once measure T, has now been renewed to measure U.

It's a um it it's a 25-year half cent sales tax, and it generates about 22 million dollars annually for local streets and roads, rehabilitation and maintenance.

And if any of you uh watched the council meeting last night, that project that they were discussing discussing on Lincoln is funded under uh measure measure T, the the sales tax, which has now been become measure U.

Um, I'm gonna bring Rebecca up to talk about vine transit.

Perfect.

Thank you, Diana.

So my name's Rebecca Schenck, um, and I operate the transit system here in Napa.

So we've got a few different components to this.

So it's all under kind of this Vine name, given we're Napa.

So we have Vine, which is our fixed route service.

So you might see that, for example, we travel down Third Street here, we go as far north as Calistoga on the Route 10, as far south as Vallejo on the Route 11, far east as Sassoon and Fairfield, and then um as far south as both Vallejo and the El Cerrito del Norte Bart station where you can make connections.

If you're not able to ride fixed route, um, you have the option of doing our paratransit service throughout Napa County, and you can do it basically anywhere where we run that fixed route, that vine service within three quarters of a mile.

What that really means in reality is any jurisdiction, so if you live in any of the cities or towns, or if you live along the 29 corridor, you could be eligible for this service.

So it's basically if you physically or mentally cannot ride the fixed route service.

There is an application process for that, and then if you qualify, you're eligible for five years.

We come basically door to door.

We can't enter your house, but we come pick you up and bring you to our your appointments and such, or your grocery shopping, whatever it might be.

You can make rides about seven days in advance.

So let's say you're a Monday, Wednesday, Friday person who's going to get um dialysis on those days, right?

Those people tend to call every Friday, say, and set up their trips.

We also in all of our smaller jurisdictions operate an on-demand service, so it's just within that jurisdiction.

But let's say, you know, you're in Calistoga and you're um out to dinner and you need to go back to your hotel or you're at Calmart and you need to go back to your mobile home, whatever it might be, you can either call that shuttle or use the app to reserve it, and we'll come and pick you up within those jurisdictions.

And then you can also kind of connect to our vine service.

So, say if you're in Yauntville, right, and you live outside of um say Washington Street, there where we travel, you could take the B and then get on the fixed route to the 10, for example, um, to come to Napa.

And in addition, we have some of these like what we call travel demand management programs that kind of complement the um vine services that I mentioned before.

We offer van pools to different employee groups.

We have one right now that we just established um starting this month at Meadowwood, where basically there are a set of employees who live close to in proximity to one another.

They are utilizing a van provided by Enterprise and they're going to work at Meadowwood where they don't um have a lot of parking available for employees, and employees tend not to live close to Meadowwood.

So that's one I'd emphasize also for this group.

Taxi script is a really easy um program to use and operate.

If you're over 65 and live in the city of Napa, which I think being on this commission probably fits the bill, you can basically qualify to take taxi rides, and we pay for half of your trip.

So how it works is we have like a prepaid debit card.

So let's say you come up to our window or you make a phone call once you're in the taxi script program.

You could put your $30 on, we'd match it with our 30, and next time you went to take a taxi ride with we have made two main operators in the city of Napa.

You could use your prepaid debit card to pay for that.

So if your trip was $12, right, ostensibly six comes from us and six comes from you.

And that's really meant to okay, you know, we only over service so late, or maybe not all of our routes on Sunday, so how else can you get around?

So those are some of our main um travel demand management programs that I think are applicable to you.

And I'll turn it over to Diana.

I'm gonna talk a little bit about some of the planning we do in the long range planning that we do.

And um the first one that I'll mention is the countywide transportation plan, and and these are just a few that are currently in the works.

We these are long-range plans, so you know, forecasting at least on the countywide transportation plan side or what we call the CTP.

That's a four-kit cast out 25 years into the future.

So I know that sounds far away, but a lot of these projects and programs take a long time.

This is a big heavy ship.

It takes a lot of time and momentum to turn it.

So we are looking well ahead.

It looks at things like the different land uses and how those land uses might affect transportation or transportation needs in the community.

It takes a look at population, what's going on with population?

Are more people moving in or more people leaving?

Again, how does that associate or affect the transportation system?

We look at land uses and transportation holistically as kind of a unit.

They go together.

And then kind of back to what Rebecca was talking about with our transportation demand management programs.

How do we mitigate or alleviate challenges with congestion and things like that that we often hear that are related to certain types of land uses?

If folks aren't living here in the community and have to commute in for their jobs, what are the ways that we can you know take single occupancy vehicles off the roadway and Van Pool program is kind of an example of that.

Um we adopt a series of goals with our countywide transportation plan, and I'm just gonna read through a few of those.

So we have a series of six of those, equity being the first, which is you know, the goal the objective for that is to address the unique transportation needs for everyone in the community, in particular seniors and children, individuals with disabilities.

So we want to ensure that we're uh addressing resources and needs for those groups in transportation to offer affordable and sustainable transportation solutions.

So under our equity component or goal, those are the kinds of things that will we're those are our objectives.

System safety, and when we talk about that, that's looking at the entire system, not just for bikes and pedestrians, but for all roadway users.

So we want to ensure that we're designing facilities in the way, and you know, again, I'll just refer to the the uh project talked about last night, which was Lincoln, which is really being designed around safety and safety challenges on that roadway and how we might address those.

Another goal under safety is our objective under safety is to really educate people on why are we making these changes so that it's supported by the community and uh provide an understanding of best practices and why we might do things differently now than we did say 30 years ago.

Again, we're we're attempting to address the transportation safety needs of all users, not just bikes and pedestrians, but people using transit, people driving everybody out there.

Uh roadways have become quite dangerous for a lot of people, as you might imagine.

More than 40,000 people die annually on roadways nationally, and this is something that under a program are called Vision Zero, which has the goal of reaching zero fatal and severe injuries on our roadways by by a certain date and time.

This is taken on a national uh component.

The federal government is in support of this and and there's a lot of funding or funding that's been established for working towards these goals.

And we we also have an adopted local vision zero plan in Knapp County.

Um we want to be strong stewards of public funds.

We want to ensure that we're leveraging our local dollars when you know there's only so much money to go around for programs and projects.

One of the the reasons that we become what's known as a self-help county with as a tax authority is we can leverage local funds with other funds to support our project needs.

Um, economic vitality, you know, if we can't get around to where we want to go and and be where we need to be when we need to be there, it has impacts to our community.

So we want to identify where those key corridors are for goods movements, that's typically highway 29.

There's a lot of manufacturing and uh distribution happening down in the south part of the county.

So ensuring that we're addressing that the goods we're trying to move can can move in and out of the county easily.

Um, and to improve transportation services for when visitors come here.

We've got a lot of visits.

Um, one of the challenges, and probably a lot of people don't know this with transportation funding, is uh when we get what's known as formula funding, that formula is based on population.

In Napa County, we have about a hundred and thirty two thousand people countywide.

And so you might imagine our formula funds are not quite as big as I mean, the city of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County has over 200,000 people.

Um so our formula funds aren't as big as other counties might have due to population.

Um so again, that that local self-help support, and we'll we go out often for what are known as discretionary funds.

So there are big grant programs on this through the state and also through the federal government that we can apply for, but it's competitive.

So, you know, sometimes we achieve those, sometimes we don't.

But having these long-range transportation plans helps us be more competitive, it helps us establish these goals.

Um, energy, energy and resources.

You know, transportation is notorious for being the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

You've probably heard lots about that.

It's one of the reasons that we promote active transportation, and I'll talk a little bit about that too.

And also our travel demand management programs are all significant in helping reduce um emissions that that are associated with with transportation, and things like uh vehicle charging.

We've got um an electric vehicle uh fleet mandate from the federal government.

We've been purchasing electric buses.

We are what halfway there about?

Yeah.

So you've probably seen some of them rolling around, they're all zero emission vehicles, and and that's by mandate.

Um these buses are expensive, there are very few manufacturers.

Um I think it's the only large fleet that is required in the in the United States to be fully electric by 2035, give or take.

Okay, yeah.

So we are on our well on our way um to meet those goals.

Um maintenance and rehabilitation, which you know, measure T now measure U.

That's really our objective as being a tax authority, is really revolved around that to ensure that what we have is being maintained in a way that it is useful and safe for everybody to use.

So that's just kind of an example of our goals and some of the objectives in the countywide plan that go with that.

And I can stop and see if anybody has any questions.

I know that was a lot.

I like to say transportation and transportation funding in particular is the best kept secret, even with the smartest people I know.

Um, it's it's ever changing.

The environment with it is ever changing.

That's part of our job is to keep up with that.

Um, you know, that that's uh I'll just stop there.

I think that there's a there's a lot more I could say about that, but I'll I'll just stop with that.

And then um the other plan that we're we're just close to wrapping up.

Again, this is one that we update once every four years, but we're we were a little delayed on this after COVID.

We had a bike plan, a separate bike plan for the county, and a uh pedestrian plan, and now those are combined into a single active transportation plan countywide.

And we're um just about to release the draft of that plan with our board on uh in mid-February this month.

So, you know, certainly that addresses the needs for bikes and pedestrians countywide and uh also uh forecast where we're gonna make these improvements for active transportation.

Um, so I'm curious is infrastructure management part of NBTA's mandate?

No, road maintenance and things like that.

We work directly with our local jurisdictions.

So, you know, when there's a program or a project, like we will help bring the funding, and it's the local jurisdiction wherever that project exists that's responsible for implementation and maintenance of the projects.

Yeah.

Good question.

Um I imagine this would go underneath those local jurisdictions, but is the sidewalk management part?

Does that relate to the roads in this case or is that a separate?

Yes, it does.

So when we say roadways, and under uh our sales tax measure, the roadway consists of sidewalk curb, and gutter, the full roadway, and all the things that are kind of attached around it, signals, signage, all of that is eligible under the measure for uh repair, upgrade, replacement, all of that.

It's included.

Yeah.

So, you know, we can do, and and this is a good example, good question to under active transportation.

So, and again, Lincoln, another good example where we're reconfiguring the city's reconfiguring that roadway to address the needs of multiple types of users, and that's an on street, that's a repaving project that is just being re-striped or reconfigured through striping in another way to accommodate all these different users.

There's no significant infrastructure changes changes taking place with with that particular project.

So, you know, if if there was something larger that needed to take place, like a full intersection reconfiguration, that would require uh additional funding, and it may or may not be eligible under the measure, depending on what types of configurations were taking place.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, it does, and I am personally curious uh where I might understand how funds for the maintenance work are used for sidewalk reparations.

Um, so in the city, if I'm and I'm pretty sure it's a 50-50 cost share with the property owner, if I'm not mistaken.

I'd have to look back to that, but I think that's most jurisdictions are that.

If there's a rupture of issue on a sidewalk out in front of your house, 50% of that is the property owner, and it's like a 50-50 cost share between the city and the property owner.

Okay, I'm curious.

I've got I've got elderly clients uh and or just neighbors, um, and we have generally fairly atrocious sidewalks in our neighborhood.

Um so I'm kind of always curious, you know, what the what the management in that situation is.

Thank you.

That's edifying.

Sure.

So I see vine buses going up and down the valley, and I don't see a lot of people in them, but they're huge buses.

Oh, yes.

Why?

So I guess a couple of things.

So on that note, so just to think think it through about how many trips people do you think we take each year?

Like if you were to, I don't know, get a number.

You know, we know the Napa County population, you know, is close to a hundred and forty thousand.

I think it's more or less.

We'll start there.

About 550,000.

So we do 550,000 trips a year, so more than that.

So we are taking a number of people, I guess one.

So in terms of size of vehicles, so this is where we, you know, we could have this discussion for days, but my most expensive part of operating transit is the person that's the driver.

And whether or not they're driving uh a van that holds nine people, right?

Or they're doing a 40-foot bus, for example, it's the same cost for me to operate, and a lot of the grant funding and things that come with it, um, often have the requirement that the vehicle has to have a particular useful life.

So for a while in the city of Napa and some with some previous boards, they're like, okay, we'll buy these 23-foot vehicles that are basically on a Ford chassis, and they're relatively inexpensive.

But what we found is they have a much shorter useful life.

It's just seven years, as opposed to those larger buses that are the 12 years.

And we find too that like if we go to pick up someone in a wheelchair, or um, even if you just can't take that step right on, like those Ford chassis, they're kind of quite high, and it's three steps in, or if you're in a wheelchair, you kind of like get in and then it lifts you up off the ground, um, and then gets you in at this high level, that they're not real accessible.

So we think that the sweet spot for us um is a 30-foot bus, which some of if you see like we have some like an owl, a bee, a butterfly, if you see those around, those are 30-foot buses.

They have the low seating, and it's also like in the course of the day, like yesterday is a perfect example.

Like, okay, so I have all these elementary school students that are gonna ride the wine train, and the school district, uh, it's pretty expensive for them to take those vehicles, and um uh yeah, and they're not always available.

So we took a hundred and ten hundred and ten students from uh Browns Valley that came to get on the uh wine train to go on their little classroom trip, and then from Canyon Oaks in American Canyon, and so the course of the day yesterday, you would have seen this 40-foot bus on the Route A because it was doing you know what I mean, the trips to take them.

Now, if it takes them, but then on the way back, it doesn't have people.

Um, so we also kind of run in into that.

So that's my guess answer on that front.

Thank you.

Uh you were talking about like on demand.

You could call and get a ride.

Do you where's that?

Where do you find that number?

Yes.

Um, yeah, you can always call dispatch and do that.

It's 707 uh 251 2800, and then each of the jurisdictions has their own number, but it all goes to the same people sitting next to one another.

So that's a good number for all of those.

So if you're in Yauntville, St.

Helena, Calistoga, or American Canyon, that would work.

Thank you.

So as the uh new member of the commission, um, when I was at a Cleveland hospital, I was responsible for our hospital's transportation system, and my biggest challenges were technology, staffing, and the inventory.

So, where does your organization fall in terms of those three different areas?

And how can we, as an advisory commission, support you in those areas or in other strategic areas to continue to make this service uh successful?

Sure.

I guess I'll start on the staffing front.

Um, our hardest position to fill consistently as bus driver, couple for a couple different reasons.

Um you really have a tight schedule and you have to show up at certain times, and um, it's kind of a bidding process for that.

Also, you have to have a certain overall personality, and you have a pretty high responsibility at a price range or uh at a salary that's not all that different from an easier easier job.

And so we find, particularly in Napa, with the cost of living, that the majority of our drivers are coming from Solano County, and so they come into our county each day to drive our buses and then go home.

That's probably our hardest staffing, but that gets at housing costs and how that all you know what I mean, it fits in.

So I would say otherwise we have no problem fill filling say mechanic positions or um greater administration positions, so some staffing there.

In terms of technology, we do, for example, you know, you can call that number to revive or to do to request a ride, but we also use an application for on-demand, which is called the Ride the Vine app, and then we use an app called the Transit App to track our buses in real time.

But optimally, right?

They're kind of would be one thing, right?

Where you're doing both on demand and you can do your fixed route.

And so we are gonna award a contract, I think at our board in February to kind of try to bring those two parts together, and we're finding too that we need a little more of an upgraded system because the overall Wi-Fi connectivity and NAPA is not great, and so that real-time tracking, and each time we have a fire, we like lose a new, you know what I mean?

Lose a new cell tower.

So we're actually gonna go to a wider band antenna and um satellites.

So I guess on that front, um, we just try to work with like EMTs and ambulance and police and try to find the best way to track our vehicles and communicate um via radio.

So it was technology staffing and sorry, it was your third.

Your inventory of vehicles that um, in terms of potentially like letters of support and things, we do go after federal and state funding.

We have been surprisingly successful thus far this year actually in getting federal funding.

Um, we got awarded six million dollars in January for um 35-foot hybrid vehicles from the federal government, and then we got awarded some paratransit vehicles um as well, including one electric bus, a short really short bus that we're gonna try in Calistoga so it can maneuver around there, so potentially um, yeah, supporting applications that we're going after at the federal and state level.

And um, I guess I would encourage you, or if people you know are interested, you can contact us and we'll do travel trainings.

Like yesterday, for example, we were at the Napa Creek Apartments, it's just north of the senior center there.

So we'll say, hey, we're all gonna take a trip today on the Route C, and then we can answer your questions about like how do I pay, or how does the bus driver know when I want to get off, or does the bus where does it turn?

You know, those types of things.

And so if you're part of organizations you think could benefit from travel training, even for an individual or larger group, we'd be happy to meet with them.

I was also.

I was also curious about sustainable transportation.

I know you're talking about substituting electric buses as they're affordable.

I mean, can you kind of give us an overview of uh you know hydrogen sustainable electric, I mean everything else that's kind of going with that?

Yeah, so we've got a fleet of about 74 vehicles between the fixed route and the shuttles and then the Vine-Go vehicles.

So right now we have 19% of them that are or 19 of them that are the zero admission vehicles, and thus far they're electric vehicles, and kind of the reason for that, we've been exploring hydrogen, but there's not currently a source of fuel for hydrogen within Napa County itself, and it's a little tricky on the hydrogen.

So let's say you own a Honda Toyota makes the Marai.

So the pressure that that hydrogen has to be under to fill up the Marai is different than the pressure it has to be to fill up the bus.

And so let's say there was a station that could fill up the car, it does not fill up the bus.

We need a really specific station in order to do that.

We did build a bus maintenance facility recently and we have it set up in terms of the wiring and the sensors and things to be ready for hydrogen.

So it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem.

Who could supply us with hydrogen here at the pressures that we need at the PSI levels to do the vehicle?

So we're trying to work that out.

Federal funding right now is not in favor of hydrogen vehicles, so that um that avenue is anyways not as maybe hopeful as it was maybe last year, but we're prepared at the point.

Um we have found that we think that hybrid vehicles are also useful in our fleet long term, along with maybe some CNG vehicles.

Because I always think, like, hey, you know, a couple of times we've now evacuated the city of Calistoga, we've been on call and um evacuated the veterans home before, things like that, and we're like, okay, we can do that on day one if we have an electric fleet, but if we have the power safety shut-off and/or if our power is cut due to the fire, we don't have a great evacuation plan if we're all electric.

Um so we're looking at kind of a mix.

It really has changed drastically.

I was actually just looking at it yesterday that um in 2023 of that fleet.

I had 35 diesel vehicles, and this year I have nine.

Um, so we've really gotten rid of uh most of our diesel fleets and now have more of the CNG, the hydrogen, and the electric.

Any other questions?

I have one more.

Um, that was interesting what you just said about the evacuation.

And and I run a home care agency, so I do see um there's a need for that, and and you're obviously well aware of it.

Um, is that a service that you coordinate with agencies or individuals to provide in the event of a not a residential, you know, assisted living or independent living community or the VA home or anything of that sort, but like for people living in remote areas who may need assistance?

Yeah, so we are like basically an arm or um of the Napa County Office of Emergency Operations, and so we are like the transportation arm.

So essentially, in like the case where we're doing evacuations, all calls kind of go into them, and we do feed them our pair transit lists, for example.

So people we know that don't have a vehicle can't drive themselves, right?

And try to be prepared to do that.

We've also, I mean, it's something we can do.

I know when um there was a particular child care facility that was going in and renovating a property in Alta Heights.

There was some question like, could you evacuate it?

And so we just went up to see like what's the lay of the land?

How could you get a vehicle in?

What would that look like?

In that case, you've got basically kids in cribs.

It's like, all right, well, you're creating the crib like a wheelchair, and you are rolling it up the ramp and you are strapping it in, similar um to the way in which you would the wheelchair.

So we could definitely um, yeah, come out and visit a site, and but again, it all it's not like hey, you call us that day, it all comes through the EOC on those days.

Thank you.

That's awesome.

Do you have a newsletter?

We do.

So how would we sign up?

How would we sign up?

How would you sign up?

That's a good question.

It's funny.

We used to have this teeny newsletter that just went out to a few people.

Um I will follow up with the link to add that um to Katrina.

Yeah.

And I if any people are interested, I do have information in English and Spanish just overall on our assistance programs on VineGo, like the paratransit, if you were to apply, and then just our local and regional route.

So maybe I'll leave those with you, too.

Thank you.

Thanks for having us today.

Breeze through a couple of these other ones.

These are um some plans that we recently completed that I think um would be of interest to this commission.

Um, our community-based transportation plan.

This is also done approximately once every four years.

Um, there are local communities that are identified as equity priority communities, so um high rates of uh seniors, and that's 75 or older is is how they're calculating that.

There's a series of metrics that are associated with lower income, and that's I think 200% below the poverty level, limited English proficient, zero vehicle households.

There's a whole number of criteria, and those are identified on the regional level through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

So, you know, that's kind of the mother agency to all the other Bay Air Nine Bay Area County transportation agencies, and um a lot of the state funding and federal funding funnels through that agency down to us, and this is a requirement of theirs is that we we do kind of a community-led uh planning process.

So we go out to all these identified equity priority communities or EPCs and talk to those residents about what their local transportation needs are.

I think we have nine identified in the county, um, five of those were identified on the regional level, and we identified an additional four looking at um county data, not just um county uh Bay Area data.

We we localize that data and and looked at uh census tracks locally that that fit the bill under under the criteria.

So we have a series of uh nine, and I think two are in the city of Napa, if I'm not mistaken.

There's a few in within the city of Napa.

So we reached out to these communities and have conversations with them about their needs, and um all of this ends up in a plan, which we recently adopted in December.

And I'm happy to report that MTC now has a new program that could bring funding forward for implementing or bringing these projects that are in the plan up to the next level.

So when we do a planning process, we identify a need, talk about what you know what that need is and and what a project might be.

Uh, but to advance what's identified in a plan all the way through to an actual project, also takes funding.

So before you even get to the construction level, you have to do a lot of design work.

You might have to do environmental work, all of that is associated with getting something forward from the planning stage to the construction stage.

So this new funding source called the CARE program, um, community action and resource, I can't remember the E, is designed exactly for that, and that's brand new, and um that'll be part of the next Bay Area cycle of funding that that comes down to us called the One Bay Area grant.

Um we also recently completed uh early last year, an accessible transportation needs assessment.

So we took a look countywide at what the needs are transportation needs are gaps in services for seniors and and folks with disabilities.

There was kind of a uh complementary study also going on at the county level, the uh called the NOAA, the Napa older adults Assessment, and they were looking at more, it was more broad-based, not just transportation, but this was really looking at um some of the challenges faced post-COVID.

So, and there are many things, uh projects that came out of that assessment, and a lot of what we were hearing from the NOAA team and what we were hearing on our accessible transportation needs side were very similar.

One of the things was the information that's available out there, and how do you know about it?

You all are the senior commission here in the city of Napa, and I'm guessing you heard some new things here today.

So, our goal is to make sure that's slow-hanging fruit that we can get good information into the hands of people who need it and can then distribute that information forward to others who might need to know these things.

Um, the other thing is we've heard a lot about transportation between Upper Valley and over into Sonoma County.

Once upon a time, we had a transit route that did that, but not a lot of folks wrote it in spite of the fact that they wanted it.

Sometimes we can get funding to run a pilot.

The challenge there is if people if we don't get enough people using it, the route goes away.

So that that's a challenge for us.

Um we want to try to deliver what we can.

Sometimes that means something else has to give based on what our resources are.

So we try to maximize those resources when and where we can.

Trips to medical appointments was another thing that we heard a lot about.

NAPA is what's identified as a local medical desert, meaning people are have to travel outside of the the county or out of the area to get to the resources or their medical needs or their medical appointments, so that's that's a challenge.

We recently started a one-seat uh ride pilot where we currently are have a route that goes into the city of Vallejo to a couple of places, and now we're expanding out to go anywhere in the city of Valleo.

So you could reach a medical appointment that isn't at Kaiser or at Sutter, you could go other places in that one-seat ride pilot, and we'll assess and evaluate how well that's working.

There's a lot of um discussion about that in the region and the whole Bay Area.

Currently, people who are riding paratransit say you need to go to San Francisco for a specialty appointment, and you're a paratransit rider.

That has to be coordinated through three counties.

So that rider gets on here in Napa County.

We've got to coordinate with Solano County, make a swap, get them through Contra Costa County, make a swap, get them into San Francisco.

It's a long day, it's it's not really reasonable, and it's a big challenge.

So that is something that's important in the region, and again, back to that why we're piloting something like a one-seat ride pilot, is really to investigate how well these kinds of shared services operating and outside of our area could look.

There's 27 different operators in the Bay Area for transit, which is part of the challenge.

So, and we're all relegated to operating in um certain areas, like there's boundaries that we can operate within.

Yeah, so uh we have formed an implementation working group for the accessible transportation needs assessment.

That's uh folks who we have a lot of medical providers involved in that.

We know that um there are resources on uh for folks on Medical and Medicare that are offered through medical providers that again back to that information sharing is people don't have an awareness of that.

One of the things that came out of the NOAA is um something called the ADRC and why I always mess this up uh aging and disability resource center, and this is a through the state uh uh aging plan.

I think this is all counties within the state they hope will have a resource center like this.

It's kind of the no wrong door policy.

If you call the resource center and you say, you know, I I need a trip to get my pharmacy meds, you know.

Who do I call, or how that they should be able to direct you accordingly, or my mother is getting discharged from the hospital from her hip surgery, and I'm not there and can't bring her home.

How will she get home?

Things like that.

So, you know, no wrong door, no matter what you call for, they should be able to direct you, and that is now functioning and operating.

It's called connections, and we're working, you know, in conjunction with them, and they're part of the implementation working group team.

Um, and kind of also associated with that, and this is kind of goes back to the region, they and to the community-based transportation plan, which sort of informs a regional plan called the coordinated plan that really looks at these challenges with crossing county boundaries and transportation for older adults and disabled folks, and how to manage that regionally.

So we're investigating.

That's again kind of somebody who's overseeing all the transportation needs and services or mobility for those folks.

So, you know, that's something that we're working towards.

We're gonna try to pilot that.

I think locally in our agency.

We're already doing a lot of that work under our paratransit service and some of the other programs that we have.

Molly's Angels, who I'm sure you're familiar with.

We work very closely with them, they provide some element of that, as does the ADRC or connections resource center.

So we're kind of looking at a hybrid uh perhaps.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is funding from the region to help support this.

So, you know, we're probably gonna start this by tapping into our own internal resources to see what we can manage, and then see if we can evaluate what the need might be, and then possibly seek funding to support.

I just wanted to, you know, quickly talk about some of the major projects that we recently completed, and you know, these are things that you probably wouldn't ever expect we might be associated with, with the exception of the bus maintenance facility.

But that was a big major project for us.

Our our previous bus maintenance facility was located in the city of Napa Corpyard, right off of Jackson Street, was very tiny.

Um the office there was an old dilapidated trailer, which is where staff was located.

Um, the repair bays were really outdated and um difficult to uh functionally work on transit vehicles with, and um, we were basically out of room for the fleet.

There was nowhere to park the fleet, so we were having to find other locations to park transit vehicles, and we got big grants to be able to build this um beautiful maintenance facility that you see there.

It's located in the south part of the county off of Devlin Road on GE Court.

Um, as Rebecca said, you know, we have an adjacent property that that we, you know, should the time come where we want to put a hybrid or a uh hydrogen fueling station in, we're prepared for that.

This is fully um electric vehicle charging stations for all of our vehicles out there uh functioning bus washer, which we didn't have before either.

So, you know, it's it's a beautiful facility can also be used as an emergency operations center.

Folks can we have a uh uh facilities, a meeting room facility that people can use and operate out of, and it's very close to the sheriff department down there off of Airport Road.

So very well located.

Toskell Junction, that was a $54 million project.

We received federal funding along with some other uh regional money through uh uh uh bridge tolls to help support the construction of this project.

That's right at the junction of 221 and SR and State Route 29, where there was a signal, and you might sit at that signal for seven, eight, nine, ten minutes, um, and the signal is gone.

And now um it's free flow north and south on the highway with a couple of roundabouts underneath to move the uh the turns.

Um we know that south of there at Airport Boulevard, there's a little congestion because now we're moving all the, you know, things go downstream, and so we're at the downstream part.

That's another very expensive intersection improvement that we are currently working on and heading into the environmental component of that project under development.

Um another big one that was completed is the Napa Valley Vine Trail.

That's a a bike and pedestrian pathway or what we call a multi-use path.

And um, and when the vine trail is complete, it will go from Calistoga all the way down to the Vallejo Ferry Terminal, it's 47 miles long.

Nearly, I think just over 33 miles of that trail are now complete with the last large segment left to complete between the city of St.

Alina and the town of Yauntville.

But currently you can take off on your bike today and ride up to Yauntville, and then jump on one of our transit vehicles and get yourself up to uh St.

Alina and then jump back on your bike and ride up to Calistoga if that seems like something fun to do.

So yeah, that was a pretty magnificent uh big undertaking.

It's gotten quite expensive to build because of uh its proximity to very expensive vineyard lands, it's it's adjacent to the highway, so it competes well for funding.

You know, if you're you can say, look, we have the ability to take some vehicles off the road because we've got this nice trail that somebody could get on an e-bike and commute between Calistoga and St.

Alina, you know, it's perfectly doable, it's relatively flat, but it's some say one of the most beautiful sections of the vine trail that's been completed to date, um, and that particular section of the vine trail was 14 million dollars.

Um, the IMOL park and ride improvement that's over on the um south end of of the town at Imola and Highway 29.

There's a park and ride there before it was uh Caltrans built that park and ride about 35 years ago, and then they never looked back, and it was fairly dilapidated by the time we got to it.

It's a very odd shape, kind of an egg-shaped lot that we couldn't turn a transit vehicle in.

So we reconstructed the transit stop.

I don't know if you can really see that.

Um, it's literally right on the ramp to the highway.

So one of the things that that does is it speeds the bus up.

The bus used to have to leave the highway, come over to the transit center, pick people up, and they go, and that added I don't know what how many minutes on to the route.

Lots of time onto the route.

These are commuters who are trying to get down to BART.

So, you know, that roundy round um loop delou was not something that people would encourage people to use and ride transit for their commute.

So we put these stops directly on the highway.

There's a there's actually a stop right on the ramp, it has its own signal to cross back over and get back on the highway, and um really made a lot of improvements to the park and lot.

There's electric vehicle charging out there now, there are bike lockers that say you want to ride your bike over there to catch transit to go to work, but you don't want to leave your bike out in the elements or just chained up to their electronic bike lockers that are there, so your bike is secure for the day.

And we actually have those at all of our parking rides and at our transit facility, so that that's again some information that would be nice for people to know.

And then these are just kind of some upcoming, you know, projects that are in the works.

In the south part of the county, you've probably heard a little bit about American Canyon and uh on the highway 29 corridor, and they're uh looking at all the intersections there to make improvements to help the corridor function better to improve safety.

There are a lot of crashes that take place in the south part of the county along that corridor and uh predominantly at the intersection, so they're really focused on improving the intersections to improve operations and safety, and um they were looking at roundabouts and and also what you're seeing.

This is an example of one of the alternatives, which is a signalized intersection, and those red lanes that you see there would be bus only lanes, meaning um, you know, if the bus is stuck in traffic like everybody else, and nobody's really encouraged to use the bus for transportation.

But if the bus has its own lane and it's moving right along like an express lane, might be appealing to folks.

So we're investigating doing something like that and um use for uh bus on uh bus lanes, and also this will include some um like the Vine Trail, a separated facility for bikes and pedestrians to use separated from traffic too, so people go in from one side of town to the other would be able to use those facilities and and not have to drive.

Maybe it's just a mile or two, and and they could go that way instead of hopping in a car.

Um the airport interchange, that's the one that looks like a diamond that you're seeing there.

Um, certainly that is the next big intersection that needs to be addressed based on the fact that we now have throughput at Saskell Junction, and we knew this was coming, it's just assembling the dollars it's gonna take to get this one done, but that one is well underway.

And um, and um we have some new federal uh lobbyist advocates that are working for us now that say they're a hundred percent on getting funding from the federal government for these kinds of projects.

So we'll see.

Um the Redwood Park and Ride, which is on the north end of town, that's another big hub for our transit center.

We're gonna be making a lot of improvements over there again for safety and operations, and we're gonna be installing a bathroom out there, similar to the one that you guys have downtown by the the old uh what's it called?

An Exalou.

Yeah, we're gonna put one of those in.

Currently, our poor drivers would they stop there for a break.

They've got to run across the street to the gas station to go use facilities.

So I think it'll be good for everybody using that facility.

Um, and that's the end of the presentation.

Um happy to answer any other questions that you have about NBTA buying transit.

Thinking about the paratransit issue, and and how are you?

Is there an uh any kind of effort for the counties to work together to try and figure out a way to make it easier to transition from one location to another and maybe set up like some kind of through service or something that's you know intercounty related?

Yeah, I think the Metropolitan Transportation Commission that kind of oversees the nine counties is interested in this.

Um Contra Costa has done it within their county because unlike Napa, where we only have one provider.

If you were going within Contra Costa County, you could switch three providers just within that county.

So that seems to be their biggest focus is these counties that have you know, multiple providers, and they're thinking like, okay, we're doing okay, but given you know where our medical facilities are, we aren't.

So we did get some funding this year to go as far as the city of Vallejo with the one seat ride.

And I think we if we can prove that as proof of concept, we'd really like to go um pretty much to all of Solana so you could get to Fairfield one seat and Vacaville one seat, and then the next one to crack would be Contra Costa, and I think if we could get those three, that would be the the I don't want to say the key to life in terms of uh transportation for medical.

I'm curious if in um my guess is it like Spring Mountain is like part of the unincorporated area of the county, and I continue to talk to elderly individuals who live up there and struggle with transportation, and in just sort of reviewing what you said, it I didn't hear St.

Alina for the on-demand.

Oh they do have St.

Helena on demand, but it is within that jurisdiction itself.

So it doesn't go up to St.

Helena Hospital or to you know what I mean, other you know, PUC things like that east of there.

I really think, and this is you guys at the county city commission.

So this is like the conversation I have with the county commission all of the time, but like if the county is interested in us going into these smaller unincorporated jurisdictions, they're gonna have to come to the table with some funding.

St.

Helena pays for um 15% of the oper or 10% of the operation of their shuttle.

American Canyon pays 15% because they're a more urban jurisdiction.

The county is zero.

Um, and so they'd need to come to the table to help us with operating if we want to go into unincorporated.

Okay.

So at the moment, there's not really a good solution.

There's no tax the taxi thing is like the city of Napa.

There's not really a good solution for those folks, right?

Okay.

Yeah.

Um, we oftentimes whenever we're trying to think about okay.

So let's say Molly's Angels gets a call and they need someone that needs to go to Kaiser Vallejo from Napa.

We're like, send us that ride, and we will send you the um the tricky thing.

Yes, hospital, like the other rides that we can't that we can't do, and we try to work that out.

But that's probably your only option right now.

Okay, that's awesome.

I was gonna suggest the Molly's Angels connection earlier for data gathering as well.

So I'm really glad you you brought that up.

Yes.

And um Deborah Smith, who's the head of Molly's Angels, is on our board currently.

So yeah.

Any other questions?

No.

Well, thank you uh for the presentation.

It was quite informative.

Thank you.

Happy to be here and we'll come back again.

Looking forward to it, thank you.

We have a re any reports from the senior center.

Yes.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Um, I just wanted to share with you that I think I was here before our December luncheon.

Um we had just as popular as Thanksgiving, if not more, we had about a hundred almost 140 seniors attend the holiday luncheon.

The cost was offset by that donation that we received for $5,000 last year.

Traditionally is our lowest in terms of having people come to visit the senior center for our monthly luncheon.

And this month we have 52 people come for lunch, which is quite, you know, made us quite happy.

And we were really surprised about because usually it's like maybe 15 to 20 people because right after the holidays, people are still in holiday mode.

We had a delightful uh reading poetry reading by William Smith, who is titled self-titled cowboy poet, and he is on his, has now traveled back to where he spends most of his year, which I believe is Arizona.

But he went home via Elco Nevada because he was going to the very large cowboy poetry reading, so and he was looking forward to open mic night.

I know there's like some kind of like old little uh child saying, like the crooked little man down the crooked little road, right?

He he is a very little crooked little man and but very delightful, and um read his poetry and had a nice uh nice reception by everybody that was there.

We have 75 or 76 people I think coming for lunch for uh Valentine's Day.

So um staff are working hard to not only incorporate a meal but also some kind of activity or some kind of fun trivia or a little contest or something like that because you know it's not just we want to nourish your body, but also your mind and your spirit, right?

And to be able to come and incorporate something um fun into the events.

And uh Justin Blanc, our program manager who oversees the luncheons is doing a great job with that.

So what we had planned worked for a group of about 40 people, so he's going back to the drawing board because now we have 75 people coming for lunch, so he's gonna come up with something else.

Um we uh saw a very big boost in the number of people attending the January classes, and that usually is everybody has their new year's resolution to get out and exercise, meet new people, whatever the their resolution might be.

But I did put together a few numbers.

I just took a few of the classes, and uh this is for enrollment for December to January, so just in the one month.

December arguably could be a little bit light because some people are busy with their holiday plans or whatever.

But um, Eucalaidly Jam uh had an 11% increase in the number of people in attendance, get fit, which is one of our um probably our longest standing exercise class at the senior center had a 21% increase in attendance, drawing and painting had a 25% increase.

Um Tai Chi uh had a 48% increase in attendance from December to January.

Eccentrics, which is another one of our law uh very popular exercise programs, had a 50% increase.

Um, and this is specifically for the Tuesday night class.

So that's exciting to see that people are coming in.

You know, maybe people who are still working, or you know, the younger elders are coming out, or maybe it's just a better time fit, but that's it was great to see that.

And the big winner was Beginning Line Dance, which had almost a hundred and forty percent increase in attendance.

Which um she had a dedicated group, and she's got more than double the dedicated group now.

They they were uh out in force in uh in January.

So it will be interesting to see.

I I expect that there probably will be a little bit of a drop off in February as people get rid of that uh New Year's resolution, but as an aside, I I've noticed that the line dance group is highly promoted on next door.

Oh, good, which may have a lot to do with the attendance because she was progressive in posting, you know.

Sign up, we're here, good.

I wonder if that's our half a dozen posts from our I wonder if it's our line dance though.

I maybe I don't have to look at it.

I know there's somebody else who's uh holding line dance that could be that it it might but line dance overall, yeah.

Seems like it's it's booming.

So I was I was really happy to see that.

Um we attend the healthy aging population initiative meetings, the happy meetings.

I always attend them, and specifically this last month.

They uh Joe Cherry, who is the advocate, uh, trying to think of his title.

He's the person if you can't manage your finances any longer.

He takes over your finances, yeah.

Public guardian, that's that's his title, public guardian.

Um Joe was able to give um, it was short, shorter than the you know, two hour long training, but it was a good 45-minute training on APS and some of the changes that they've made to the form, and just kind of uh I mean I've filed many APS reports, but I think I had the program managers attend and they're not as familiar with that.

I think it took away some of the fear in reporting and and what is you know, if you notice something, you should say something.

So um Joe offered to provide that training because we have our senior center staff trainings in the evening, and he offered to come out at our next senior center staff training.

So we are gonna have him uh come at the end of February.

So he will be out to uh go over this with our staff.

So it'll be about an hour-long training.

So on how to file an APS report and what to what to look for.

Um and just like anecdotally, we have seen again, I think it's the January, uh I've seen probably at least 10 different individuals or groups, couples coming in just to see the senior center.

They've never been to the senior center before, they don't know what's about, they have family members maybe visiting over the holidays, and that that were like you know, let's go down and see the senior center and see what's going on there.

So just anecdotally, um I've seen a lot of new people come into the senior center.

We are trying to really hard to find uh their niche, what what class they might find interesting, what program.

Um, so we've been we've been doing a lot of that and hopefully some of those people will be returning uh to take a class.

So does anybody have a question for me?

Okay dokie.

Thank you.

Okay, next um approval of our schedule for 2026.

Um I don't know if is that in here, yes, it's in the packet.

It's in there.

It's a fairly uh kind of standard item that we do at the beginning of each year.

Just kind of review the dates so um everyone can put those in their calendar, um, if there's or any concerns about those dates, but we're recommending keeping the meeting every other month um on the first Wednesday of the month at 2 p.m.

here at the city council chambers.

Of course, if anything more urgent comes up, we can always call a special meeting, which we have on occasions done that.

Um, but I just want to review these dates and have them approved for the 2026 calendar.

Second, we have all in favor.

All in favor.

Aye.

Okay.

I don't like April 1st one, though, because that it does.

Try to make that one fun.

It does.

Okay.

All of that's approved then.

We have an annual nomination for the chair and the vice chair of this commission.

And um so we need to take that uh vote today.

So do we have any nominations for the chair?

I'll do it.

No, I know.

No, it's fine.

Any other nomination?

I nominate Jim for the chair.

No other nominations, okay.

Done.

How about for vice chair we have um unfortunately Liz is not here.

She's the vice chair now.

Um I don't I don't know if we can nominate her.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, we weren't we expected her today, so I wasn't able to communicate with her to see if there was an interest or not, interest.

Right.

So, one big question?

If Liz doesn't want it, I'd be honored to accept.

She she travels a lot.

So, yeah, but aspirations of being Liz.

Sure.

I'd be delighted, which is fine.

Nominate Katie for vice chair.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Welcome.

Thank you, sir.

You're welcome.

Okay, do we have any other um comments by the commission or uh question?

What happened to the um the survey that we did in November December with um the guy who came up from Arizona?

I can't remember his name.

Did that get finalized?

Uh you're talking about the kind of the engagement process we went through.

Um, or the community wide survey.

Um they're just now kind of finalizing the data and that'll be put out shortly.

Yeah, Brianna and Ali will probably return it at the upcoming meeting to discuss that.

Okay.

I had a friend yesterday bring up a concern to me.

Uh she and her husband have they own two houses in town.

The second one they bought specifically for their son and his family.

And she got a letter in the mail this week from the city saying she has to now start getting a business license.

And she's wondering what what's what what's that all about?

She's really uh w really upset about it.

It's not an A B, you know, yeah.

Unfortunately I don't know much about that.

It's uh a different department than ours, so I haven't been briefed on that particular item.

It sounds like that's popping up for a few other people.

I don't know if there's a department or phone number on that letter, usually it's typically through the finance department.

Or is it a competent?

But it's through, I'm sure.

Yeah through our finance department.

Yes.

Yeah.

So I don't know why that's all.

Yeah, that's that's what she's worried she's concerned about.

Yeah, I would I would call the fine through the finance and see if they can direct you.

Okay.

Thank you.

Any other business?

I did attend the Napa County uh commission on aging last week and met with Mark Frankenstein.

He did indicate that he came to the last meeting and wanted to continue to encourage us to attend his meetings as well as to uh look at ways that we can collaborate together, both the city and the county.

So I do have those uh meetings on my calendar for twenty twenty six to be able to attend.

And I was looking for ways to be able to collaborate with the county as well as with the city.

I have gone, I attend those when I can, and one thing I've noticed is that there are a lot of initiatives and committees that they are a part of.

And I think it would be very interesting.

But also they're very interesting and and useful, you know, to be part of and be aware of.

So I will see you there at some point here, but also happy to partner on that.

They're also uh working on writing an annual report so that they can because they're advisory just like we are, and they wanted to be able to show they're also looking at their mission to be able to see what did they accomplish last year so that they can present that.

There's not a formal presentation per se to the city commissioners or to the county commissioners, but they want to be able to say if they're advisory that they should be able to show what do they accomplish and and what value or benefit are they providing to that.

Is that something that we do here?

Is do we present to our uh city commissioners and do we provide them with an annual report?

No, we don't do any formal reports, um, but we at we have our annual um dinner.

It's also um a thank you to all the committees and commissioners, but it's typically a time when a representative of the commission actually provides like the annual highlights that the committee or the commission worked on that year.

Um Liz actually presented this last time.

Um so that is one way, and that's what's right about that particular dinner, which will probably be coming up here in April or so, is that you get to hear not just city council's there to listen, but you get to hear about all the other I think there's 13 different commissions and committees within the city, and you get to hear their annual highlights as well.

So it's not necessarily a written report, but it is a way of communication.

Um it'd be something I I know you mentioned this before.

I think I'm gonna mention it to the city clerk too because it'd be nice if we do it consistently across um all the different groups, and it might be a nice idea to to implement.

I've heard it mentioned before, but to actually implement it going forward might be a nice idea.

Um with regard to the commission on aging, I had that on my calendar and had a conflict because it can't I came to be late.

I was wondering have you got a copy of the schedule?

It's on it's online.

Is it okay?

Uh huh.

I'm gonna check it out.

I just googled uh Napa County Commission on Aging and the schedule came up and they meet uh monthly.

So I have those on my calendar for 2026.

Okay, any other comments or okay.

See you all in two months, April first.

Yeah, there'