Since Jesse is not here, I'll just go through.

So we have two main items on here.

It would be the January transit reports.

This is really just for information purposes.

So every month we will release a report that is late for two months.

So we are in March, you are not getting the January report.

In April, you'll be getting the free bill report just to give you a state of transit, what our ridership numbers are on time and what our financials are looking like.

So I attached a copy of the report to the agenda.

Um we have fixed route data, we have zips, which is our power transit service, and then we have our financials for both fixed route and for zips.

So with fixed routes, you would see that uh, and again the green bar is for 2025 last year, and then this other color is for 2026.

So we are sort of comparing what's happening this year to what happened last year, and you would see uh January ridership is a bit higher than what we had in 2025, which actually showing some growth.

We have what our completed trips here, which is basically how many trips we scheduled were we able to complete.

So in January, we had a completion rate of 99.96.

So we've missed, I think about six trips the whole of January.

And our target for completed trips is actually 100.

So we are hoping that every month we are able to complete every trip we've scheduled, but this is not at the target yet, but still pretty close.

Okay, you would see the green line for 2025.

You could tell what some of those percentages are.

So there's actually a good improvement.

To measure how effective we are, we usually consider ridership per vehicle revenue hour.

Our target for that is 15 riders per hour.

Currently, for January 2026, we were at 6.4 riders per hour.

Even with that, if you compare to what we had in January 2025, that was 5.73 all through till September of last year, that is when we were able to reach 6.7.

But it seems we have started a bit strong this year with the 6.4 instead of the 5.7 we had in January.

For ZIPS, which is our paratransit service, ridership was a bit lower than what we had as compared to last year.

On time is also slightly low, ridership per hour is also slightly low, but uh new contractor or our subcontractor, transverse subcontractor.

So translate subcontract service power transfer services to my city.

So transdev only does or focuses on fixed routes and then my CD does power transit.

They've been working really hard to get these numbers up.

So hopefully for the rest of the months or the rest of the months and the year, we should see these numbers going up.

For our financials, these numbers are not very much up to date.

Some of the things we spent on are yet to hit our accounts.

This is just January.

So as we update these ridership or monthly reports through February, March, we are hopefully we are hoping to see these numbers show what the true state of transit is.

So I'll just quickly glance through this, but they are not as accurate as you want them to be because some of our financials are still getting our accounts.

So as I as I said, we would provide you with these reports every month, and you could review them and come with any questions you have on them.

Okay.

So we usually have service changes twice every year, mostly in the spring and the fall.

And these service changes just allow us to look at our system, see what's working, what's not, and just realign service to where demand is.

Okay.

So I'll give an update for what happened during the fall before I go into what we'll be doing this spring.

So in the fall, we discontinued four routes, which is 103, 202, 217, and 309.

We made some route frequency changes to our week weekend and evening service.

So in the evenings, we have service every 30 minutes from 7 p.m.

to 10 p.m.

We change that to every hour because ridership was just not meeting up with that demand, and we just had to cut back on service a bit.

Also, we realigned four routes, we had to shorten one route.

And what that looked like after the changes were that we were currently at 30 routes, we moved to 26 routes.

We cut back on our revenue miles and revenue hours.

So what guided these changes we made in the fall was that our operating expense.

So the state and federal gives us some money to operate our services.

The state and federal used to give us 95%, and we would just cover 5% from our fares and any advertisements we had.

But from 2026, the state was only going to cover 85%, and we had to cover 15%.

So that means that there was more, I mean, more on us to cover because five was not moving to 15%.

And our ridership was just not at the point where we couldn't make enough revenue to cover our services.

That was why we needed to reduce or cut back on service or realign service to work demand was.

So that was part of the guided principle against those changes we made.

We made the changes in November 2026, November 2025, 26th November.

And after monitoring and looking at data and performance over a few months, we noticed that even with these changes we made, we were able to increase our burdens per hour from seven to eight.

As I said, our goal for burdens per hour is 15, but at least from the changes we made in the fall, we noticed that our burdens per R increased by one from seven to eight, which is an improvement.

Also, our cost per burden, which is basically how much does it cost that system to give one person a ride.

That figure also reduced from 24 to 21.

So if we are, if we are able to reduce that cost per burden, then that tells us that we are being more efficient.

So those were the two main metrics we looked at in assessing how efficient or how well our system was doing.

In terms of customer feedback, we had a few things.

The first one was that route 206, which is a route that goes south on Broadway, goes to Walmart South and goes all the way to Target South, had a deviation that used to serve the VA clinic.

But that route, that route was maintained, but service to the VA clinic was eliminated.

We did that because it cost us a lot to go to the VA clinic because it was more of a deviation from Broadway to go there.

And in the whole of 2025, we had about 19 people going to the VA clinic.

So it was not as efficient as we wanted to be, and that's why service was cut back from that area.

We also closed the stop on Broadway and Center Streets, which had a few people complaining about that.

And we may do this because that stop is really close to an intersection, and if drivers had to pull out to stop and then get back on road to the intersection and sort of slow them down.

So we have to close that stop.

And we had a lot of complaints from that.

And actually, for this spring, this stop is being pulled back in because of all the complaints and inconveniences caused to our drivers.

Also, we had some comments about the drop of times at central park for our 116, where riders were riders made us know that if they are dropped up at central park two minutes before the start of their work time, they are they end up getting to work late.

So we this spring we are making some adjustments to that route, just so people are dropped off maybe between five to 10 minutes before the start of their work, so they could maybe walk to Mayo Clinic or wherever they are going to to be able to start work on time.

So those were the main themes or the main feedback we had after these changes.

And for this spring, we will be we have looked at some of these and make changes to them based on the feedback we receive.

I will now go into what our plans are for this spring.

So usually before we make service changes, we consult with our riders because they are the ones using the system.

They see the issues and they can give us feedback and recommendations.

So to do the community engagement process started with a pre-survey, which was online for two weeks to just ask riders what's working, what's not working, and what they would like to see for the spring.

Some RPT employees also did some ride alongs where we were on the buses with the riders, asking them questions and getting a feel of how things are working.

So that's what started the whole service change process.

We asked for feedback.

We went back to make some recommendations and we had two virtual sessions on February 9th at noon and then in the evening, just to present what we had prepared to our riders.

We also had two in-person sessions also to let people learn about what changes we were proposing to make.

These different sessions were just to give people the opportunity to join us if they have time and learn about the changes we are making.

Just to give an overview of what our current system looks like.

We have 26 routes.

So four of our routes run every 30 minutes all day.

So the peak is usually between 5.30 a.m.

and around 9 a.m.

And then from around 2.30 p.m.

to around 6 p.m.

And then the off-peak period is during the midday and later in the evenings.

And we have three peak only routes that only run during these peak periods I just mentioned.

For our system performance, our goal for our system is to have at least 15 riders per hour.

And this recommendation was both brought to us by the mental council and also our internal analysis to see how many riders we needed to be able to meet about 15% local much.

Currently, none of our routes meet this standard of 15.

The highest is around 11 riders per hour, and the lowest is two riders per hour.

So we are nowhere close that close to that 15 figure.

We have a few routes that are underperforming.

That's routes that are below an average of eight riders per hour.

And those are the routes I have listed on the screen.

For this spring, the changes we are recommending is to combine two routes, which is route 101, and I'll take you through all of these with images of what these routes look like afterwards, but just an overview of what we are doing.

So we are proposing to combine routes 101 and route 206.

So 101 runs in the northeast region and then 206 in the southeast area.

We are proposing to combine these two routes into a new route called Route 120 that would run every 20 minutes and will be a bi-directional route.

We are also proposing to convert two loop routes, which is route 306 and route 307 to become bidirectional.

So how the loop routes work is that the riders can only get on the bus from one side of the street.

But if they are converted to bidirectional, that means you can get on the bus from either side of the street, and that makes it more convenient.

Also, we are proposing to combine round 4.18 with 4.09.

We will combine 4.11 with 412 and realign a few routes.

Lastly, we will discontinue our 5.05, which is uh Tuesday and Friday only route.

And we are making some reductions on our weekend service.

So I'll just break down what all the changes are.

Please come in and ask me any questions if you have them.

Yeah.

So for the Northeast, we are combining routes 101 and 206 into a new route that is 120.

So this route will start from the North Broadway park and ride.

It will hello.

That's okay.

Let's give me time to settle down.

Yeah, should I just go on?

Should I just go on?

Yeah.

Okay, that's fine.

So for the Northeast region, we are proposing to combine routes 101 and 206.

So currently route 101 starts at the North Broadway Park and Right.

No.

101 actually starts and ends at Central Park.

It goes through North Broadway, goes all the way north to the Zambou estates.

It says the North Broadway Park and Ride, serves northern hills and northern highs, and then comes back downtown.

206 also starts from Central Park, goes all the way over South Broadway to say Third Avenue, it says Walmart South, goes down to serve Target South and comes back downtown.

The proposal we have is to combine these two routes.

So based on data on which route people are transferring from and to, we notice that there are a lot of riders who are either transferring from route 101 to 206 or from 206 to 101.

And if you have to find the currently all the routes start and end at Central Park.

So you might have to get on 101, get to Central Park, get off and wait for 202 to get down south.

Combining these two routes, that means we give riders a one-seat ride that connects them from the north to the south of the city on Broadway.

Currently, these routes run every 30 minutes, but we are making an improvement to make them run every 20 minutes.

So making them run a bit more frequently.

And I have two maps here with colors representing what the what the routes are.

So 101 is the black, 102 is the redish colour, and then 116 is the green.

So what I have on the left is what we currently have, and on the right is what the area will look like after these changes.

Also, we are proposing to realign routes 102 and 116.

So currently route 102 runs every hour all day.

So we are proposing to convert this route to a peak only route where only runs in the morning to get people to work and late in the afternoons to get folks back to work.

Also, we are proposing to realign route 116 just to cover some of the areas that will be lost by the peak convention of Route 102.

So mainly in the Northeast will be combining 101 and 206 and making route alignment changes to 102 and 116.

Sorry, I'm a little bit confused because it looks like there were only three routes shown on the before.

Yes.

But um I see on the side it mentions 101, 102, 206, and 116 as previous samples.

So 101 and 206 are being combined into one route.

Okay, so that's why that's why it's it's just the same color.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's it's just a little bit difficult for me to see.

It's just because they're because they're not uh you know, one that's shifted up a little bit, it can be difficult to compare the uh you know what comes on the northern side, right?

Yeah, what is that in the classic error?

The proposed map.

Yeah, proposed map.

It looks like it uh it reduced how far it goes.

Yes for the 101, 206 for this route.

Yeah, do you want to walk to if you want to walk to the screen to show me what you're referring to?

It might be easier for me to explain.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't know if you notice or any offer questions about our uh what is it how we it's now just turned down to this one, like really low numbers.

So we have three stocks up north on that's in the Zambor estates, but those three stops have an average of one board in per day.

So it wasn't as efficient to keep going up north to serve that area.

So that's why the route was cut short to only serve for the Hurries.

Yeah, to be uh oh, right.

So it'll it'll just go as a as an out and back.

Yes.

See, yeah, and then the other and one is one or two.

Because the ones the 101 and 206 has been made more of a direct route.

We extended the 102 to be able to serve the circle drive and then southern broadway.

I see instead of having to be the whole loop.

One used to make that loop, but we want to make this route as direct as possible.

That's why this area was taken away, and 102 was made to cover those loops.

Okay, yeah.

So one or two is going to be the more slower one.

And then 101, 206 will be faster because in the really long routes and want to make it as direct as possible.

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

What do you think?

Yeah.

I think if you specialize in the slow versus fast, nice.

Yeah.

And before you came into this, we were kind of just talking about how before spring we're trying to realign with ridership in the flipper.

This year we're at a deficit.

We're we have to provide the 50% uh check up for the loss of control funding.

But um, I think yeah, that I guess my question is in this case is there are we leaning more towards this is really I guess ridership that is um affecting the change more than yeah.

So when we do uh surveys, one thing we hear a lot is that the bus doesn't run as frequent as we want it to.

And this route currently runs every 30 minutes.

So sort of putting in some more frequencies to make it run more frequent than it used to.

So if you used to run every 30 minutes, now it runs every 20 minutes.

So that's sort of an improvement in making the service more faster and more frequent as people will want it.

And the other thing no, just a quick note is the two weeks before they do these realignments.

They have a survey, right?

Oh, yeah, where they get a lot of feedback from the ridership and stuff.

Is that also being taken into a large consideration?

Yes.

Yes, so we did a survey before the changes were made.

The first two weeks, we did a survey, we did some ride-alongs to talk to riders and know what they want these changes to look like.

So that feedback we hear, and then the data we have sort of informs the kind of changes we make.

Okay.

That's great.

Quick look at there at the adjustment balance because I I hadn't realized okay.

So that's the 14th of the vinyl road that was changed.

So there's not there's not really people being picked up there.

No.

Okay.

No.

Then um trying to think.

Oh, yes, it's it changes to being on the side going to that one ultra.

So it's not.

I was concerned about having to join the northern hill, like the uh the Broadway side going into northern hill, where it's really steep and kind of often, so it does avoid that.

Yes.

Um that area has always been a concern because when it snows, uh, buses are not able to go on the hill.

So we have to sort of detour all the time to be able to avoid that area.

Is that a problem still exist on the green line?

It will still exist on the one or two, which is the red line.

Right.

It will still exist, but we have attempted to divert service from that area, and residents weren't as excited about that change.

So again, listening to feedback and knowing what the people want.

So we have to restore service in that area.

That's great.

I don't know, but I don't know what you think, but the allocation is changing.

I think one of the biggest hindrances in maybe not for you, but in my opinion, one of the biggest hindrances uh to going on the bus system was is waiting for the bus.

Yeah, like you know, you don't like when something's a bit slower, but like at the end of the day, like a 20-minute commute versus a 30-minute commute is very different from I am waiting for uh you know 18 minutes max versus waiting for 28 minutes, yeah.

And again, we have an app called a transit app which shows real-time updates on when buses are gonna arrive.

So riders usually use it to track or based on where I live, the bus is gonna arrive in five minutes.

That's when I leave my house.

So that sort of helps them in planning how to meet where the buses are.

Yeah.

I will move to the southeast area.

So the southeast area is where we have our 200 series route, which is 203, 204, 205.

Currently, the only change we are making in that area will be to route 203.

So route 203 starts from downtown, goes all the way on Fourth Street Southeast and ends out CTC.

That route runs every 30 minutes currently.

But a big part of why the route used to do that is because we used to have a park and ride at RCTC, and parking rights have more frequent and express service.

But our agreement with RCTC ended, and we currently do not have our parking ride there.

And there's no much demand to keep having service every 30 minutes all day.

So we are making a change to have service every 30 minutes during the peak, which is usually from 5.30 to 9 a.m.

and from around 2.30 p.m.

to 6 p.m.

So we'll have service every 30 minutes during that time, and then every 60 minutes during off-peak, which is around midday.

And we don't usually have so many people traveling on this route during the midday.

So sort of scaling back on how much service we are throwing to that area during the midday and keep it service as frequent as we can during the peak.

The route alignment for this route will stay the same.

It would only be a frequency change during the off-peak time.

Like if there's I imagine there are some occasions when there will be like big events in the RCTC area, like I can think of what things like science fair or things like that, when there might be three in the square in the next half year.

Um, would there be any possibility of adjusting the frequency just on those specific days?

Our system has not really had that that what you're referring to is special service.

We don't really have any framework or system for special service.

So we only make these changes twice a year, and whatever change we made sort of stays the same till the next season when we are making a change.

So we haven't had the need to have special types of services for special locations yet.

So it's not it's not like a calendar system in the same way where you might have it like, okay, so a person can look in two months in advance, and this you know, on 4th of July, we'll have this frequency different or whatever.

No, we have different types of service for holidays, which is not what our routes do.

Like on holidays and weekends, we only have six routes.

So that is what the system, so we only have regular weekday, weekend, and then holiday service.

And the holiday service will be the only kind of special service we have, but everything will remain the same for weekday throughout the season.

Okay, yeah.

Because I think like one thing I came to mind when we're talking about this.

It would be if it were possible to make a special service system for the following.

I think it would be helpful for us to have something, some boosted presence for independence day.

Um, I don't know if I'll be in town then because you know it's big year, but uh I I imagine that Russia wants to do anything.

Uh, we're going to have to find a way to shuttle people who aren't parked anywhere near soldiers field or wherever it's gonna be to be in that area.

That's something we could discuss more and see if there's a possibility to do that.

Welcome back.

Sorry, I'm late.

That's okay.

Sorry, I'm in new company.

Yeah, I'm happy to be out there coming.

Oh, I don't know where I don't like working going.

If you're late, take your time, you can't be late, but I'm gonna call me the late yesterday.

I will move on to the southwest area where we currently have three routes 306, 307, and 314.

314 is a peak only route, but 306 and 307 are routes that run all day.

So currently 306 runs every 30 minutes during the peak, and every 60 minutes join off peak.

And 306 is the red route.

Take note on the difference between the left and the right maps.

The change we are making to this route would have it be a bi-directional route.

So 306 is currently a loop route, so it only says the streets in one direction, and you can only get on the bus on one direction of the street.

So let's assume you live in this area, and you want to go to downtown.

The route comes not south that way, and you can only get a route on one direction where the route will still go south, say this whole area before going back downtown.

That adds about four minutes to your travel time.

But with how this route will currently run, if you want to go downtown, you really don't have to get a route when it's coming this way.

You could wait till it's making the inbound trip where it will still go back this way and get a route right on the right side of the street before it goes back downtown.

So this change will basically make things easier for riders to understand and really just decrease their travel time because they don't really have to ride with the bus all the way for it to make its loop.

So the only change we'll be making to 306 is just to convert it from the loop route to making more of a bi-directional route.

There's a similar thing we are making to 307.

So 307 is the blue route.

It goes that way, makes that loop and goes back downtown.

And just for context, this is where the mall is.

So currently it takes about 23 minutes to go from downtown all the way to get to the mall.

This route is also being converted to a bi-directional route where it would first go down on 7th hour to serve the mall first, go to Crossroads College and end at the TGMax Plaza.

What this does is that the mall is where we see most people who are riding this routes go to.

So this change is going to decrease their travel time from 23 minutes to 15 minutes because it's going to hit this area first before it goes back downtown before it goes back to TJ Maxx Plaza and come back the same way.

So this route is just being realigned just to provide better service to where people are going to the most.

Nothing on the frequency on this route changes, it would only be how the route runs and where it goes first before the other.

And those are the only two changes we are proposing for the southwest region.

Are there any questions on that?

Okay.

This is a messy one because of how many routes we have in the northwest, which is where we have had the highest of our ridership.

So the northwest is where we have routes.

Currently we have 408, 409, we have 411, 412, 413, 418, and 419.

I'll go through the changes we'll be making by each route.

So we are proposing to combine routes 409 and 418.

And you would see with the colors which routes are currently 409 and which ones are for which one is 418.

So this one is 409, and this red one is 418.

418, which is this red one, is currently a peak only route that runs in the mornings and in the late afternoons, and then 409 runs every day.

We are proposing to combine these two routes into one, and this is the new route you see right here, which will run every 20 minutes.

So this was an improvement on what riders currently have on this route because it runs every 30 minutes.

But this new combined route will run every 20 minutes.

So what about the so this was good many ways?

But I was curious about the um 41st pre-design proposals and know that there's a school and some other things on that part of this is taken away, and then there's um the Catholic corner as well as uh the rack, if I was think correctly, or taken on the route.

And I don't know, I just want to hear more about that and the process.

When we make these changes, a lot of us is back by what the ridership at those stops look like.

Uh, to make some of these changes, there had to be trade-offs.

Like we can't keep saving every area reserve and make improvements because they are not enough funds to support those kind of changes.

So if there's not enough ridership and there's service close by, we could realign and direct riders to use the services close by.

And our standard is usually if we are taking away a stock, we should make sure there's another stock within a 10-minute walk of where riders currently get on.

So if there's an option, we usually do public campaigns with all these changes to let people know, oh, this is the stock you currently use, it will no more be available, but this other stock is available, which is within a 10-minute walk.

So ridership on 19 and on for investment.

I see what you're referring to up north here, was a bit low, and that's why we made those redirections.

But their service close by for riders who still want to use those routes.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, that makes a lot of sense that it was low for 41st.

I was a bit more surprised in the 19th street because uh where it's not more people will be you know, trying to get to the rack or to leaders, yeah.

Is it cost of memberships declining and people are going to say's club?

Well, we still don't got glasses, yeah.

It could still go by cost for yeah, that's on Commerce Drive right here.

Yeah, it will still serve that area.

Four night currently serves it, and the new one was to continue to serve that area.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, the next change in the Northwest area is to realign route 411.

So currently 411 starts from downtown and it ends at target north.

Um, 411 is the route, just for context.

This route is being realigned to now start downtown and end our Walmart north.

We have Route 412, which serves the area north of 55th Street, all the way goes to the 75th Street Park and Ride and ends at Walmart.

That route is being taken away, and the 411 is being redirected to still provide that service to that area.

So instead of having the route and go to IBM and go to target to end, it would now serve the areas north and go in the Walmart north, and this route will come back the same way sound.

So it's again a bi-directional service instead of a loop service where it connects people up north, and then riders can get the route on the other side of the street when it's coming back south, which is not how the route currently runs.

This route will run every 30 minutes during the peak and every 60 minutes during the up peak.

Lastly, because service to IBM will be lost because 411 is being redirected.

We are realigning route 413, which is the red one to now provide service to IBM, which has a few riders who go there every day.

So 413 will not end at target anymore.

It will go to Target and then make it end at IBM and then go back the same way as riders currently know the route to be.

So, in summary, instead of having seven routes that run in the northwest region, we will have five routes now, but most of the areas that are currently served will still be served because we have sort of realigned the routes to still provide better coverage, but take service from areas that weren't as efficient as we would have liked them to be.

Is there a breakdown of revenue by region somewhere?

So I could get those numbers.

I don't have them here, but I could get those numbers.

But definitely the Northwest is the area that has the best ridership in the system.

Yeah.

Um just how long these routes are.

Is there a concern?

The operational costs are gonna there is definitely a concern, and that's why we have to make these changes as often to make sure we are responding to how people are using our system.

So as I said previously, both of you were in here.

Previously, the state gave us 85% of our preding cost, and we provided not sorry, the state gave us 95%, and we provided 5%.

From this year, the state will only be giving us 85%, and we have to provide 15%.

And our revenue is mostly from fares.

So if we have more people riding, that's when we have more money to cover our local match.

But our ridership has really decreased over the year.

So there's not enough funds to be able to cover our local match.

And that's why there's a need to sort of relook at the system and make some adjustments just to ensure that we are able to provide our local match with the revenue that's coming in.

So that's one of the goals that guide the changes as we make them.

Like if there's not good ridership in a particular area, although it's difficult to have to cut back on service a bit just so we are not putting our service, we cannot afford to provide.

So yeah.

A lot of these changes do look quite good, and maybe towards bi directionality.

Yes.

And yeah, you know, a lot of times people can't pull up by directionality, but when you can, that's great.

Yeah.

Um within five with for the people who live within seven minutes drive or downtown.

I think this is going to be a big change.

Yeah.

If they can reach there, yes.

And again, people are used to bi-directional service because that's how people understand transit to work in other areas.

So a look service is quite difficult for people to understand when they are reading the schedule books and the maps.

So if you know you can get on the bus on this side of the street and you cannot get in on the other side, it's difficult for you to find them or understand how the service works.

So we are hoping these changes will just make the system much easier to understand and more user friendly.

The other change we have is to discontinue our 505.

So 505 is a route that only runs on Tuesdays and Fridays, and it's called a shopper route.

As you can see, it's a very long route.

It's the longest route in our system.

And on an average weekday, we have about maybe 15 to 20 people using the route.

And all the stocks that are served by the shopper route are also served by other weekday routes.

So this service was really just a duplicate of our system.

And it costs us almost 200,000 a year to operate it.

So if we currently have routes that serve all these stocks, we really do not have to have this 20K system, this duplicate route, and that's why it is being discontinued.

But as this continued, we'll still have all these routes that will still continue to serve all the stocks that are currently served by this route.

Just to one of the hubs because all the people are on Friday nights.

So cutting back one hour in the morning and then two hours in the evening.

When we look at our ridership data by R, we don't have most people riding the bus between 6 a.m.

and 7 a.m.

on the weekends and also after 5 p.m.

So just to make the system more efficient and put service when it's needed out the most, that is why we are making this reduction.

The routes will still stay the same.

The frequencies will still stay the same.

But this is just a reduction in how long the routes will run on the weekends.

So the map on the left shows what our current system looks like.

And then right is what a proposed will look.

So even though maybe your stock is being discontinued as you notice on 19th Street, you would still have service close by within a 10 minute walk.

So service is not completely taken away from you, it is just being a realignment.

So after we make all these changes, it would be about 1% of our current boardings or riders that would be outside that 10 minute walk of service elsewhere.

And this translates to about 26 stops that would fall outside the quarter mile distance of service, which average about 11 boardings on average weekday.

Not to say these 11 boardings are not necessary.

We appreciate everybody who uses our system, but we also recognize that based on the financial situation and just ways to make our system more efficient.

We just have to cut back a bit on where service is provided if it's not as efficient as we want it to be.

So that's no, please go on.

Um there's a total of 2600 stops then.

2600 riders on an average weekday.

Oh, okay.

Sorry, existing boardings.

Okay, I thought we meant like boarding locations.

No, like as boardings, yeah.

Right.

And then um the little bit confused about the black one northeast, because I pointed out earlier.

I I thought that the new one, um, I thought that there is the new one that it goes like to here or something.

Yes, yes, that was that is an error that I'm seeing now.

Yeah, don't remember exactly what it was like, but it goes it went on the way to for the fourth street.

Yes, you're right.

Yeah, yeah.

No, it didn't go quite as far as the yeah, go on more and more, yeah.

I see what you mean.

That is an error, yeah.

Yes, it looks good, yes.

I one thought, I mean, it's it's it's a little bit current, bro.

But the the idea behind this, it wouldn't really be able to be something you could analyze based on existing ridership, but more based on the sort of psychological incentives and what I know about uh people situations.

Um I know that though Rochester doesn't really have much of what might be called night life.

Um there are there is that one location cafe so where people will be till up to 2 a.m.

And I know a lot of people spend a lot of time like trying to figure out uh you know, like Ubers and things like that over the different parking situations, and um I do think that you could get some substantial ridership if you just had like a 11 p.m.

to 2 a.m.

thing, literally just Friday night and Saturday night, just from there to where it was just like a good hub for them to whatever the central park, I guess.

So just like I don't know how much more it would cost, but 11 p.m.

to 2 a.m.

is a stretch.

I mean, I I get that, but would we have that demand at 11 p.m.

to 2 a.m.?

Maybe maybe not.

I think when people when people know that when people know that the bus is there, then that will you know, more than would be willing to go to do the thing that they otherwise would do without worrying about a lot of people they drive there, yeah, and then they have to call in Uber home, and then they have to call in Uber to get the car next day.

And I don't know if you guys, I'm pretty sure you guys know about the link BRT system that would be on 2nd Street.

It would be every five minutes during the peak, and every 10 to 15 minutes during the off peak.

It would be on 2nd street between okay.

Let me give this straight.

So West Transit Village and Street all the way after the library, and that would be like a connector on 2nd Street, which we run every five minutes and every 10 minutes, and it would be from morning to around midnight.

Oh that's all the problem.

That would be like again, when you said that that reminded me, that would solve a lot of problems, as you said, like provide midnight service.

Well, not for everybody, yeah.

Nothing but for tons of people.

Yes, and there'll be a ton of parking on West Transit Village as well.

So you could park your vehicle there and just get on this VRT fast route that would have dedicated lanes and just drive downtown.

So either lanes.

Dedicated lanes.

Okay, yes, not dedicated lanes.

Like what is the same thing?

No, dedicated lanes, yeah.

So I'm noticing most of you might have noticed most of 2nd Street is being closed this year.

That's because construction has begun to make that wet.

Yeah.

To my last slide.

And these are key outcomes in regards to how many people would be within frequent service.

So this is all residents in terms of people, and then this will be for jobs.

And as I mentioned, we have two new high frequent, not high frequency, but better frequency routes that run every 20 minutes on Broadway on 11th half on Commerce Drive.

And that increases the number of people who are within a 20-minute service currently from 3% to 14%.

So basically we'll have 14% of people who live in Rochester who are within service that runs every 20 minutes or better.

We would also have about 21% more of jobs that are within service that's every 20 minutes or better.

So currently 29% have service within 20 minutes or better.

For these changes we are proposing in the spring after that is done, we'll have 50% of residents or jobs particularly that would be within service that runs every 20 minutes or better.

So essentially providing service that runs frequently enough as we usually hear in the surveys.

We have everybody wants service that's frequent that's reliable, and that's what we are trying to do with these changes.

We are proposing.

Okay.

The next steps for these changes is our plan is to roll these out on April 26th.

So currently we we actually wanted the card to vote in support of these changes.

But we do not have quorum today.

So we would not be able to do that vote.

But we just wanted to present these to you to get your thoughts and ideas before we make these final and begin the process on rolling it out on April 26th.

April.

Can we vote before that?

Like next April, like next meeting in April?

Then I have time to vote.

That wouldn't be enough time because if you guys make a vote to make an adjustment to these changes, it will be too late because there's a lot of back work that goes into making these, like the drivers have to build on these.

We have to block how the vehicles run, we have to print out schedule books.

So we need a few more weeks to be able to make those plants work.

Okay, maybe ad hoc meeting or two.

How important is it for you to get this to get this vote?

It would have been great to get you your support on this.

Are we allowed to do that?

We can't we are we like we can't make that we didn't need advanced notice, right?

How much advanced notice?

I can't remember.

So this cannot be a hold.

If at least folks here let us know you support these changes, we should still be good to go with making additional plans to vote out.

So yeah, in informally, I I would support it.

No, I don't foresee any reason why I would change that, and therefore in a hypothetical April vote, it would be a rubber stamp on my end.

Yeah, yeah.

What if we just said that in April we still vote on it if we have no changes, then we'll go if we do have changes and we will not vote.

In April, I like the thinking.

Um next meeting in April will be on the 9th.

And that really gives us two weeks to rule this out, which is not possible.

Sure, but um, unless we have everyone present, and all four of them disagree with us, yes.

Then we're not going to make any changes, right?

Yeah, unless you haven't spoken up.

Oh no, I'm sorry.

No, secret, yeah.

Wait, what's the best thing that we could do that can help you with this?

If you guys just give us a verbal support, at least those who were in this meeting support what we are doing, but we cannot wait to vote on this in April.

Okay, that's okay.

Yeah, purple support.

Oh, sorry that we don't perform.

No, that's okay.

I was telling Darren that I thought we might have four people, and that gives us quorum, but yeah.

Because I know three people reached out to have to be excused from this meeting today.

So I think we yes.

Well, we spoke it was only two hours.

One more came in.

But I do a TV.

But I understand if we're just gonna skip over the format, but I think it would be hard to get attendance for ad hoc meeting, maybe.

I don't know, maybe this is true.

But I don't know if the advanced notice would be hard.

But train that muscle for if something's necessary in the future could post helpfulness in there itself.

I think it would just be hard to like give the public notice because have to be probably posted somewhere publicly sometime before, however much that is.

Um as my file.

How much does it help you to get to have a vote versus just verbal a verbal support from you?

It's good.

It's good.

Okay, all right, all right.

Verbal support is good.

Yeah, mess with them.

And again, we know you guys know the community, so presenting these to you.

If you have any recommendations, that's what we're waiting to see.

Like if there were any things you wanted us to consider, this would have been a good time to have brought it up.

But from what I'm hearing from you, you are okay or good with these changes.

So we don't have any.

It looks like you guys put a lot of work in it and have read a lot.

So I think it's good.

Yeah, seems like you're it's somehow saving money and helping more people.

Yeah, which is like kind of best of both worlds.

So good on the um it does say that um uh you know, special meetings may be called by the chairman at his discretion and shall be called by the chairman of public class of the city.

Um, and it does say that um uh any rules or procedure may be amended, repealed or suspended by two-thirds of what we're foreign president at meeting.

So I think that if we were to do things if we were to arise for some sort of ad hoc Microsoft team meeting to be recorded and posted on the city website subsequently, if we just had a few days in advance, we could show up there, suspend the rule on physic being you know, physically it doesn't explicitly authorize teams, but we can vote a two-thirds to suspend the unwritten rule of being physically present for the sake of that meeting, and then give the formal declaration of support for these changes for for whatever value that would be done.

Okay, we don't have to, but I'm saying that we could yeah, and I get your point in future if there's something that we really need to vote on.

We could do that, we could yeah, we could do that.

Good to know.

And oh, and the meeting notice describing all matters would be mailed to each member at least five working days prior to any regular special meeting of the committee.

Um, this provision maybe wait for special meetings upon maturity board committee, but I don't see anything explicitly stating the um oh we must have this many days before it must be on the city website, and I'll show that's a city procedure in which we want to keep yeah um and I mean this this recording will be posted on the website, the boards and commission's website.

So anyone else who has interest in seeing what we discussed that they has the opportunity to go, and I did send an email this after me on how you can sign up to get notifications when the agendas are posted, which I usually do a week before the meeting.

So you see everything you can read through and bring your questions to the meeting and be able to answer them.

That's all I have on the reading of this the fall and then the spring self-exchanges.

So Jesse, we uh uh we just finished with seven eight.

Very well.

So um how did we um okay?

So you already did the the transit January before.

Um did you do anything under old business?

No, there was a more old business that needed to be taken.

Yeah, okay.

So we did that.

Um I didn't hear, so what before we move on, did I think you guys have a specific intention regarding what we mold about uh what we're going to do about the non-form?

Is there a motion to make a decision about what to do about that?

Well, what do we have?

Well, there will be just the informal intention, the um decision to have the formal vote on April because the statistical odds of there being an amendment are practically no.

Wasn't informal there can be what probably could be formal, okay.

I think it's probably not special, but great yeah, yeah.

Um formal support.

All right, uh still moved the second second.

All is in favor, aye, thank you, opposed, okay.

All right, so um okay, now move on to other business.

I mustn't ask um Sandra, the very thing that we discussed.

Um let's see.

Did you mention all the the transit report matter?

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

How that's going to be sent to us then.

Yeah.

So I think Packer wasn't here and he hasn't had that.

So every month we have a transit report that should have shows what our writership is looking like and what our financials are.

And we would always provide that two months after.

So you have the January reports this March.

We'll have the February report in April.

And it's just how we are able to pull data, it's not always easily available or readily available.

So it's updated a bit.

So I would always have these reports from the April meeting to May.

I always have the reports on here.

You just have to click on it, and you can just view the report.

And if there are any questions or concerns, you could let us know during the meeting and we'll address it.

So it just talks about featural writership, ZIPS writership, and then what are financials for both modes are looking like.

Moving on, um another other business.

Sorry, you mentioned the um discussion about Matt Lynch.

Yes, I didn't bring it up because Matt has yet to confirm with me whether he'd be available for the April or May meeting.

So I'm waiting for that confirmation from him before I ask you or if when you want him to come back.

Once I get it, like we just send a quick email to let you know if he's available.

Yeah.

So there was a discussion about um much coordinator, and if because he had come to us for the grant um from Department of Transportation that he could come back and share about what happens because it'll probably be the result of the grant request in April.

So it would either be in April May or trying to, and it's very likely we'll have it be for the May meeting.

Umless anyone had uh reasoning need to do it in April.

Would that be the kind of would this be the kind of thing we would now put on our agenda for me, or do you wait?

Well, it could be a potential future agenda item.

I just don't have confirmation if it's going to happen in April.

Yes.

Very well.

But we could always keep that on the agenda as a future item.

If it doesn't happen in April and happens in May, we'll just do it there.

So also the matter of um the bidding process for trans debt informed it occurs as long as we um we had it covered prior, but reminder there isn't more in the late May or June period.

Uh, and there are uh five submissions, and the the selection committee will have a confidential process.

Um and they will um they they is possible for us to do individual drop-in on updates in the brief discussion of that, which we can talk about.

I would wait for Rachel to confirm if those drop-ins would happen, but just for context.

Currently, Transdev is the operator for our system, and the contract is for five years.

There's an optional renewal for the next five years.

So Transdev has done a full 10 years, and we are now off of bids for our new operator.

So we currently have five different operators that submit a bids.

So we currently have five different operators that submit a bids we are in the process of reviewing those inviting a few of them for interviews and then deciding who our next operator would be.

And this process is very confidential.

Once a selection is made it will be taken to city council for their approval.

So at that point a lot of things become public and we can give an update on where we are in the process but just a few things will still remain confidential who submitted and what what the committee is gering towards all that will remain confidential but once we have more updates or we have a more concrete decision on who the next operator would be we could come in and give them feedback.

We had a discussion with Rachel Jesse Rachel and I on Tuesday and Rachel did mention that we could give everyone the opportunity to weigh in I'll need her to make that decision but I can follow up with him when she's back to hear what she has to say on that.

Yeah.

I was under the impression that the who were the five people that submitted I was in the impression that that part was not confidential because but the details were I think that part is confidential for now we know five submitted but who they are might not be something we put out at the scope very well um let's see I would make it know that there are currently no future agenda items if everybody will want a project update on other projects our PT is working on that would be a potential one but if there's anything else you would want this class you could bring it up and we could have that for the April meeting.

Okay.

What updates yeah sorry unless there's anything else Jesse you want to discuss next month I want to I want the floor to be open for any yeah that's why you asked yeah can't think of anything right now okay so currently we have project updates as features um and again we wouldn't do the mapping until we hear more from and uh similar on the transdev bidding matter um just not a trans dev bidding transdev is our current operator it's a bidding for our new operator yes yeah what the records stand yeah that's for the public well um the idea if if if it is a low thing we could potentially have a discussion of perhaps making a you know writing down a procedural path in the bylaws for a an ad hoc you know zoom or teams meeting the process by which one would go about that just for future necessity kind of like we're paving a road before we need it if it's a low if it's if it's a no activity day we could figure that out maybe you write some ideas down and bring it and we can kind of critique it and vote on it.

Do you think we could work on that between now if you want to and I would also check in with CD attorney on what the legal requirements on that would be.

On adult readings yeah yeah so anytime we I don't know when you guys want that on the agenda but I could prefer to him and get back on what that would look like.

I want to give you guys more homework though.

Yeah I mean the bylaws aren't very big so unless there's a document I'm I'm just saying if there's a constitution somewhere that I haven't that I couldn't find on the website then my way but and again if there are any other boards or commissions that do this we could just adopt what their procedure is so I'll figure out how to pick that up yeah um yeah that's a good idea what another board to do cat meetings I just could have sworn you said Persian cat meetings and you enunciate better because we have a lot of cat emergencies that I couldn't believe exactly but um what do what do you guys think about our agenda items for the future bids next time then I think we open there see what what that brings us up okay I while I don't um anticipate it coming up if there does if there does happen to be any discussion within either the bidding process or just RPT's outworkings of the uh new department of transportation

more to do cat meetings could have sworn you said Persian cat meetings and enunciate better because we have a lot of cat emergencies instead of public exactly get the following but um what do you what do you guys think of other agenda items for the future updates next time then I think we open there see what what that brings us up okay I while I don't um anticipate it coming up if there does or put this if there does happen to be any discussion within either the bidding process or just RPT's outworkings of the uh new department of transportation uh CDL guidelines that could be brought up at the next meeting if if nothing is happening then no need to okay um if I understand correctly there was yes um this was just this was since our last meeting the um department of transportation announced uh new uh require a new type of certain requirements for uh commercial drivers related to um related to English proficiency on the uh commercial drivers license tests and so if we pre pertain to previous discussion if that affects like the number of employees available at any given time that could be something that could be brought to our attention but if it doesn't then we don't need to yeah and again transdev has the drivers so the drivers also they are employee less but I could definitely ask how this is going I mean I have an idea how this might affect them but I could also refer to them and see how this might affect them and come back if you guys want us to it it may not be something that I don't even think it may not be something that would be like a huge significant cost personally but it could just in the yeah and it could be in the public because I've it seems that in the last three weeks there have been a lot of you might call a niche headlines where it's like not the big thing everyone's talking about in the news but something that happens that is like kind of a big deal to the people who hear about it related to different aspects of commercial driving so it could public have to know about that in fact one of them was a um just the other day I heard about this instance of a guy with uh of course it was a truck not a bus but from within Minnesota CEL who's driving the wrong way on an interstate Missouri I don't know if you guys heard about that's not good yeah I mean thankfully he didn't hurt anybody but anyway I don't have any up what I did that one I'm not with interstate yeah I'm like oh I don't wonder I think a lot of people have done our common it's kind of bad it happened a West Circle drive once uh when my my two brothers saw it when they were driving someone's going the wrong way but you know you think it wouldn't happen in West Oak Drive but interstate is just crazy.

Interstate yeah that's rough especially with the summer like you know the thing going at you and you know combined speed of nine miles an hour man scary anyway um I don't have any more business uh does Sandra have any more thoughts I don't have any more business but I'm here in this police updates for next month and then we figure out what the feature looking for