Thank you, Chair.

We're ready to start.

All right, thank you, and welcome to the March 4th meeting of the City of Sacramento Disability Advisory Commission.

And I just want to remind the public that if you would like to speak on any item on our agenda, you can turn in speaker slips to the city clerk, which is on the left side of the dais uh if you're facing the dais.

Uh and then we'll get started with our agenda.

Uh uh clerk, can you please call the roll to determine quorum?

Yes, thank you, Chair.

Commissioners, please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

Present.

Commissioner Barnbaum?

Here.

Commissioner Patel.

Absent.

Commissioner Guerrero?

Present.

Commissioner Wilson.

Absent.

Commissioner Dyson.

Oops, absent.

Commissioner Napper.

Absent.

Commissioner Poland.

Here.

Commissioner Igwebe.

Here.

Commission uh sorry, uh Commissioner Cower.

Present.

And Vice Chair Ellis.

Present.

Thank you.

We have a quorum.

Awesome.

Um and I'm gonna turn it over to Commissioner Barnbaum to oh, if you please rise if you're able.

And I'm gonna turn over to Commissioner Barnbaum to lead us in the land acknowledgement.

Okay, please rise for the opening acknowledgement in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Miwok, Patwin Wintune peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people's history, contribution, and lives.

Thank you.

Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

One nation and indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

And you may be seated.

Elise Guerrero.

If you would like to just briefly introduce yourself to the rest of us on the dais and to the public.

Hello, my name's Elsie Guerrero, and I'm very excited to be here.

I've done over the last uh 10 years.

I um practice special education law.

I also serve in the Sacramento County Developmental Disability Planning and Advisory Council.

I also um work with children with disabilities and also write books about children with disabilities.

So I am very excited to be here and be able to learn um how I can serve my community and my new neighborhood.

Um District 4, and I'm happy to be here.

Thank you.

Fantastic, and thank you so much for um joining us.

Um next I'm gonna go to our formal agenda, uh, which the first item on our agenda is the consent calendar.

Do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar?

Oh, um, are there any uh clerk?

Are there any um members of the public who wish to speak on our consent calendar?

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips on this item.

And then uh is there a motion to approve our consent calendar?

Um, Mr.

Vice Chair, this is Commissioner Barnbaum.

Uh and I would like to make a motion to adopt the consent calendar as presented.

Is there a second I do?

I second it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So that was a motion by Commissioner Barnbaum and a second by Commissioner Cower.

Okay, roll um Clerk.

Can you please call the roll?

Yes, thank you.

Commissioners, please unmute your microphones.

Uh Commissioner Greenbaum, yeah, for the consent calendar.

Oh, aye.

You commissioner Bonbaum?

Aye.

Commissioner Patel.

Absent.

Commissioner Guerrero.

Aye.

Commissioner Wilson, absent.

Commissioner Dyson, absent.

Commissioner Knapper.

Absent.

Commissioner Pullin.

Aye.

Thank you.

Commissioner Igwe Bay.

Aye.

You commissioner Cower?

Aye.

And Vice Chair Ellis.

Aye.

You.

The motion passes.

Thank you.

I'm a little rusty at turning the meeting, apparently tonight.

So we're moving into.

Thank you, uh Clerk.

We are moving into our discussion calendar items.

Item number three, which is the first item on our formal agenda, uh, is the H Street uh bikeway project, which is being presented by Cecilin.

Is it foot?

Foot.

Thank you for correcting.

Awesome.

Cecilin is an associate engineer uh for the city and will be presenting on the H Street Bikeway project whenever you're ready.

Thank you.

Uh good evening, Commissioners.

Um, my name is Cecilyn Foote, and I'm with the uh Department of Public Works.

I'm the project manager for the H Street Bikeway Project.

Um the H Street Bikeway Project is located along H Street between 5th Street and 10th Street, and also with a connection on 10th Street between H Street and I Street.

Um the purpose of the project is to improve safety and connectivity to uh the Sacramento Valley Station from downtown and uh midtown.

Um also um it's a it's a good it's a it will serve as a connection to the growing areas in the rail yards uh to the north.

Um it'll provide a safer and convenient two-way space buffering cyclists from other traffic flow and addressing uh potential conflicts in the street, um, such as crossing light rail tracks in this area.

Um the uh bikeway project proposes to uh to meet this purpose by constructing a two-way class four separated bikeway on H Street and a Class 2 bike lane on 10th Street.

Oops, went too far.

Sorry.

So um this project is part of a larger package of projects that will complement the Sacramento Valley Station area plan.

The city received um a grant through the transit and intercity rail capital program, also known as TURSIP.

Um, and we received an award for several different projects, um, including the bus mobility center, the relocated bus loop, um, the double tracking of the light rail on H Street, as well as this H Street bikeway.

And um, you'll hear more about some of the projects going on in the Sacramento Valley station in the next item on the agenda.

Um but um to deliver this project, we're coordinating um with all these projects and in particular with Sacramento Regional Transit as their project will be overlapping within our project limits.

Um we'll also be coordinating with Sacramento County, um, who has the new city courthouse, the new county courthouse, the jail, and their administration building, and also along this corridor is the federal courthouse.

So I'll just quickly go through what we're planning on each block.

Um the first block from 5th Street to 6th Street.

Um we are proposing to do a lane reduction from two lanes down to one lane um to in order to put in the bikeway.

Um it on this block, the uh Sacramento Regional Transit is planning to double track.

So um we'll be coordinating with them on their second track.

Um we'll also at the intersection um construct 88 compliant curb ramps um where they're needed, and the other uh compliant curb ramps will will remain.

And we'll also ensure that um audible signals are installed at the traffic signal if they uh are not existing on six on six between sixth street and seventh street.

Uh we're proposing to can continue the lane reduction.

Construct 88 compliant curb ramps where they're needed and the other uh compliant curb ramps will will remain and we'll also ensure that um audible signals are installed at the traffic signal if they uh are not existing on six on six between sixth street and seventh street uh we're proposing to can continue the lane reduction um on this block the travel lane will be shared with the second light rail track um and we're putting in a right turn pocket to accommodate the need um and at the intersection we'll be putting in a separate uh bike phase um at the traffic signal um to avoid conflicts um and the bikeway along the south side will be separated uh from the roadway from the travel lane uh by hatching and vertical posts um from 7th Street to 8th Street the lane reduction continues um and we will also make sure to have bike phases at the signals to avoid conflicts um we'll be putting in or we're planning to put in parking separated two-way class for bikeway on on this stretch um and as with every intersection that's within our project limits we will ensure that all the curb ramps are brought up to ADA compliance and ensure that audible signals are at each signal from uh 8th to 9th um from 8th to 9th um we will continue um with our design um with the parking separated bikeway and with um 88 compliant curb ramps and all audible signals at the audible pedestrian signals at the at the signals um from 9th to 10th um which is uh right outside city hall we're gonna be doing something a little different here um the two travel lanes will remain but um in an effort to maintain the heavily used loading zone out on each street we're proposing to reconstruct the curb line um to bring it out towards the roadway and at this um location so at this location we are proposing to construct a sidewalk level uh bikeway um and uh so the bikeway will be separated from the existing sidewalk with the existing tree line there and the planters but at the loading zone um I have an example we'll do another treatment to ensure that there's a color difference um to distinguish between the bikeway and the sidewalk um and also put in some kind of domes or uh some other treatment um to ensure that people with canes can detect them um and what the treatment we will be the exact treatment we use will be determined during design also I'll go back and at the um at the at the corners we will also be putting in bulb outs that will shorten the crossing length and then finally on 10th street um we're just putting in a uh buffered bike lane um this will prove this will allow us to connect the existing um the existing bikeway on 10th street that currently ends at I Street and so this will provide a connection um in our network so that we can connect all the way to the to the station um so our schedule um right now is that we are working on completing our preliminary engineering we're hoping by the end of spring um to have that done um and then we'll be able to move into final design um which will last um approximately a year to 18 months so any questions um so before we go take commissioner questions um clerk do we have any um members of the public who wish to speak on this item thank you chair i do not have any speaker slips on this item all right thank you and um who's our first speaker okay um um commissioner barnbaum yes um so on on this slide am i on yes you're on oh okay um on this slide once you finish the completion of the final design uh what is the preliminary schedule to enter into construction so um because we are coordinating with the other projects that are going on um we the timing is um to be determined we do have funding for construction so um we're coordinating with the uh with sacramento rt to uh to coordinate our construction okay um then so we're looking at maybe 2028

So we are coordinating with the other projects that are going on.

Um we the timing is to be determined.

We do have funding for construction.

So we're coordinating with the uh with Sacramento RT to uh to coordinate our construction.

Okay.

Um then so we're looking at maybe 2028.

Maybe 2028.

As long as we can get coordinated with the light rail.

Okay.

And then I want to ask a question though about safety and enforcement.

Um so as folks know, H Street Westbound becomes the Sacramento Valley Station Roadway behind the station building uh between the building and the existing light rail tracks.

And as you know, there is a stop sign at the pedestrian walkway uh where pedestrians coming off of uh inner city trains are walking toward the station waiting room and vice versa from the station waiting room over to the trains.

I have observed numerous times uh too many to count.

Bicyclists ignore the stop sign at that stop sign.

It's roughly what would be the equivalent of about fourth street, but it's the walkway again between the the station waiting room and the uh inner city trains.

Um is there a way now that this is being presented today to include some type of um safety enhancement and enforcement uh that a there's a stop sign uh don't just go to old SAC or don't just come uh from old SAC straight back through.

You need to stop first, uh just like any uh any of the interstate buses do uh heading to Stockton, Reno, or Reading.

Thank you.

We um I think the segment you're talking about is just to the west of this project.

Um so it's in the Sacramento Valley um footprint, and um actually we have someone here who's gonna be talking about the different improvements that they're gonna be doing over in that area.

Oh, okay.

I I I didn't realize that that part was gonna be part of the next presentation as I had some separate questions about the uh intermodal uh facility and the commuter buses, but I was holding that off for the next presentation.

So you're just to clarify your point, your this project basically stops at the track station.

Yeah, we stop at Fifth Street Street, and uh but we're working we're working closely with the other projects, so that there's continuation.

Good, okay.

Uh are you are you all finished?

Uh Commissioner Barnbum?

Yeah, I'll finish with my questions.

Thank you.

Uh Commissioner Pullin.

Um so I do have a couple of questions.

Um, uh the report it does list coordination, as you said, with SACRT and the county, um, but no public or neighborhood outreach has occurred yet, according to the report?

Actually, we just had a public outreach meeting last Thursday um right here in City Hall, and it was very well attended.

Um we probably had 30 or 40 uh um citizens come in and um we um we took in all their feedback.

So um so we have been so we we have had the public outreach meeting for the community and we're currently scheduling uh meetings with some of the stakeholders along the corridor.

Okay.

Um is there as part of that outreach?

Um is there engagement um prior to the final design specifically um about accessibility with the accessible needs with the stakeholders?

Um you know, my concern is if there is um this outreach happening uh only at at City Hall, whereas going out, um I mean the the main way of uh engagement sessions asking for people's uh feedback when they are disabled is having all of the accessibility provided at the start.

So was there like ASL interpreting there?

Was there um you know large print?

Was there braille?

concern is if there is um this outreach happening uh only at at city hall whereas going out um i mean the the main way of uh engagement sessions asking for people's uh feedback when they are disabled is having all of the accessibility provided at the start so was there like a sl interpreting there was there um you know large print was there braille was there tactile you know what was the engagement like to look for those specific stakeholders if there was uh uh we did not have that but we did engage directly with um the braille one of the braille organizations they did email and give us some feedback but we will um before we finalize the design we will come out back out to the community um and we'll make sure to um to improve our engagement with the accessibility community okay um and then there's uh one of the cross sections um is like for example at uh sixth and seventh um the sidewalks are as narrow as like 4.5 feet in some of the blocks um and then the the proposed designs do improve this but is there a minimum proposed sidewalk clear width um after accounting for signal poles light poles planters utility boxes i mean where are those measurements um where are they starting and ending i guess we will make sure when we're um doing the the design the design that we meet all the um clearances I know I think it's I believe 48 feet we need clearance um but we will make sure that any um polls we put in or any other um equipment we put in we will maintain the the clearances that we need and that clearance is just the minimum from for the ADA um we will try to do as much as we can um but we will definitely meet the minimum yeah yes indeed uh okay thank you uh thank you commissioners um I think just to Commissioner Pulland's point I think yeah doing more than the minimum is good and I believe my memory serves city ordinances above um the minimum for ADA compliance but it's um I can average so like when there is a poll or a box it can shrink down to the ADA minimum but typically it's a little more than that like you're saying we try to do the maximum clearances but given you know the age of our city and our infrastructure sometimes that's not uh feasible but uh we appreciate that um or at least I do personally um and I really appreciate this project I think this is long overdue in this corridor and especially in and around uh the Sacramento Valley station um having better connectivity to that hub especially hopefully someday high speed rail will be coming in there um but with all the um inner city connections light rail improvements going on and eventual streetcar there this is a really major um transit uh hub for our for our city so I really appreciate this project um personally and as a member of this commission and um I believe uh Susan I think this is your first time coming before us right or have you been it's the first time I've been in City Hall I think I did it on Zoom okay I did a presentation on Zoom once during the pandemic yes well you did amazing thank you so much um unless there's any other questions or comments from the commissioners we'll move to our next item comments more in the form of a motion if so I will no this is just a discussion item you don't mind uh Chair Ellis I would like to interject yes Cecil and Foote is our author for the disability advisory commission's prospective plan oh at council yesterday thank you so she works with all the project managers to document the um accessibility improvements that are included in our annual CIPs so she's done that for many years now um maybe 10 10 prospective plans so um don't don't let her um fool us her her friendly humble demeanor fool you she's very uh very involved in our in our commission just behind the scenes success of our of our uh our accessibility program so thank you fantastic thank you jessie and thank you Ceclin for all your work you've done for this commission over the years thank you and thank you for your time tonight all right and we will move let me find my spot we will move to item four which dovetails very well into this previous excuse me previous item uh the Sacramento Valley station uh project update uh presented by um supervising architect Greg Taylor so whenever you're ready Greg please take it away thank you chair commissioners thank you it's a pleasure to be in front of you tonight thank you for the invitation Mr.

So whenever you're ready, Greg, please take it away.

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioners, thank you.

It's a pleasure to be in front of you tonight.

Thank you for the invitation, Mr.

Barnbaum.

Commissioner, I'm appreciate that.

Absolutely.

Um I also presented um back in pandemic times, I think, via Zoom back in the day, so it's been a while.

So good to be back in front of you.

Um we've got a lot moving forward, and um I'll kick it off here with uh a couple of overviews just before we get into the projects.

Um Cecilin mentioned, um, the projects I'm gonna present tonight were all funded um by the TERSIP program that was a Calsta California State Transportation Agency uh funded through SB1 gas tax and cap and trade funds.

And there the program has been in place, I believe since 2018, if I've got that right, um, that focuses on improving transit statewide, uh, connecting rail with transit, coordinating schedules, and it was really um the time we were working on our um Sacramento Valley Station area plan, which I presented to the commission back in the pandemic days, um, that was uh adopted in 2021, was able to be coordinated with the state rail plan at the time of 2018.

And that state rail plan had this map that um looks at trying to bring a coordination between the rail system and hub stations with the spokes, the networks of buses primarily reaching to all points in the Northern California in in our case here, focusing on Sacramento.

So this map here and the diagram represent uh that from the state rail plan.

So we've worked hard in our projects and the projects we've applied for in TURSIP to fulfill sort of the mandate that the states laid out for Sacramento Valley Station.

So the station has its its own um local purpose and but it's also very much a regional and northern California station.

Um also want to just introduce uh the context for development around this slide um indicates the projects that uh have been in the pipeline, some have been completed now, but um it just overall gives the picture that within a half mile, the the gray blue-gray shaded area and three quarters of a mile that line are significant in projects that are coming online coincidental to us expanding the station, which isn't an opportunity that many cities have.

The rail yards in particular with its 240 acres for infill development is one of the unique um opportunities that we have in this country, and we're trying to build that and keep up with that as fast as we can in expanding the station and the need.

Um so some of the projects that are in the rail yards that are coming online here are indicated in this diagram.

All of our all of them are moving forward.

We have Kaiser up uh, I don't know if I have a pointer here, but uh at the top there is as many of you may have seen from the freeways under construction.

Uh we're actively working through on the soccer stadium.

Uh the may of the main uh road infrastructure is been put in place, and then we are focusing now close to the station in the central shops area.

And uh this gives you kind of an overview of some of the projects coming online.

And then I'll use that to introduce the one close to us in the shops that were on our site, is a new entrance connecting the existing Steve Cohn passageway, the aka the passenger tunnel, um, that was completed in 2012 to the new plaza area in this diagram.

I've got some better images coming up, but you can see the uh new entrance there in red and the plaza that's uh making that connection.

So in the slide to the upper right, you can see the tunnel kind of stops with a fence and a gate that's our emergency access up, and that will that um wall that you see at the very end will be removed, and um you'll see an access into the plaza.

There's a little more detailed plan area, and this shows the connection on the left.

I'm sorry, this rotates so north now that had been up, is now to the right.

Um, but you can see there in that illustrated diagram to the left that the indicating the tunnel stairs coming straight forward on the axis, and then a uh accessible ramp um winding back, and it's very nicely landscaped.

There's graphics that will be cast in the concrete that that relate to the history of the railroad.

And then we have a that the whole plaza that this connects to to Telegrapher Avenue, which is in the second image to the right, is to the far right there that street.

The plaza will be a maintained by the development company under our with our community facilities district, and then we have a easement, irrevocable easement for access to the station through that plaza to the station via telegrapher, and then coming from 5th Street that comes up from the bottom of the image into that main spline.

So this gives a little better picture of what it's going to look like.

You're seeing the stairs coming up, and you see an overview of the aerial there with the remained paint shop building, which was the oldest structure on the site, and that's being refitted to be an entertainment venue for live nation of up to 4,000 capacity for for that venue that you see.

So it's going to be quite a dramatic change, opening a new door to Sacramento Valley Station without us having to do much on site.

We get it actually a new, you know, there that we can connect to with the station.

So that is in construction that had been presented before.

So I just wanted to update you on that.

And then I'm gonna talk here about our access into the station, kind of picking up on the H Street Cycle project and some others as well.

The area plan focuses on a very pedestrian focused, uh transit focused, and the the car is allowed to come in, it's diminished.

Um we we see that um there's opportunities for parking that will develop off site, and we really want to make the focus uh pedestrian area at the station.

So the smaller diagram to the left shows the vehicle loops that come in and uh loop through for pickup and drop-off and loop out, leaving the center between the historic station and what we see is the new concourse eventually connected through a transit plaza that is pedestrian only and bike access only as well.

Um I'm going to talk to you tonight about the loop on the right side, and that's kind of contained in this image here that's an image from our plan that shows light rail as it comes in on the right.

So I should maybe point out, and I was planning to have a pointer, so I'm gonna have to just top this.

Is there that mouse to your right?

Over here?

You might be able to point out there.

Okay, it won't really be.

All right, that's perfect.

Great, thank you.

Okay, so I'm gonna leave the cursor there.

So currently light rail, it disappeared.

Um currently light rail comes in behind the station and stops, as many of you who have been there would know.

Um the books and planning since actually 2003, I think, before the city purchased the site.

Um, light rail was to be redirected in this kind of north-south direction that you see here in the image along the edge of the the eastern edge of the site.

And we are now bringing in a new pickup and drop-off loop.

And I'm gonna jump to the next image here to show that diagram.

This better shows it here.

Um just directly to the west of light rail that will allow a more direct access to the pedestrian tunnel.

And I'll come back to this image, but I'm just gonna jump to this diagram and then come back.

That you can see currently we have about just under a thousand feet for folks that are dropped off at the front of the station, make their way through the station out to the passageway, and to get to the center of the platforms, and then you from there you have to go up to the track.

So that's that's a little bit even longer than this.

But this new drop-off point will allow to almost have that distance to the tracks.

And currently we Amtrak provides a service for folks that prefer not to make that or cannot make that distance with a electric shuttle that picks up at the North Plaza.

Uh that does intended to remain as that service, but this provides just another point of access closer to the station.

And so I'm gonna go back here.

And Commissioner Barnbaum, I think you'll be interested in this and to your to your question.

Do you see in the kind of orange shaded diagram?

Um that from that point and to the west of 5th street will be accommodating the cycle track access into the site at that point.

So this pickup and drop-off loop, which we're just going to be starting design on uh here upcoming shortly, um, will be the receiving end of the H Street Cycle Track.

And I understand you're very well just having been down there today.

Um we have a lot of conflicts.

We still have people despite all of our attempts and signage and trying to increase enforcement, um, still have people driving back to drop off vehicles, and then we have the overlay of bicycles as a throughput.

Um it's gonna be difficult, but we're being vigilant to keep after that.

But this will improve, I think, the access because we'll try and get people in this project to get them to enter on the north side of the roadway, and then we'll deal with the conflict of pedestrian crossing in more of a sidewalk condition where I think we can control it better.

Right now, the open roadway is kind of free for all, and people just zoom through.

So we'll we're very conscious of that, and we'll we'll keep that in mind.

Um so with this project, the the existing bus stops will be um slightly shifted a little bit to the west, but the three bays maintained.

Um we're actually as Cecilin talked, we're we're working to coordinate these projects together with the flight rail project, and so that they can go in uh in concert and and work together, be managed well, and uh hopefully expedite the uh construction, the overall construction timeline.

So I wanted also to point out another project that we received funding for in 2000 um four, cycle six, it's excuse me, cycle seven TERSIP project.

And um we've we've had successive projects since four or five, six and seven, we've received funding on in each of those every two years.

But this is for um what we call the Western Axe West Side Access Project, and it's a segment of Burkett Street that is now constructed.

Um I'll try the cursor again from this intersection of sorry, Burkett and Telographer, the street stops there currently, and we were able to get funding to extend the remaining 400 feet south and bring the um by the the sidewalk and the class uh four uh separated bikeway down to the cul-de-sac.

And we're also have expanded the the program to include a increase in the circumference of the cul-de-sac so that SACRT buses can turn around and they will have a layover on the east side of the um the turnaround, which is indicated here in the yellow striping.

So we're in preliminary design.

This is this is being designed by the developer.

The funding will go to them for construction as as also with the north entrance that I showed earlier.

But the um the point here is that we get three buses to lay over for end of end of line.

We provide a restroom for the drivers at the end of the line for servicing.

It will work out, I think, great for um the future when the when the uh River Museum and other um programs expand so that if you have school tours or so on, you can gather your kids at the end of the line board the bus, not what you know, waiting to for the bus to zoom off.

I think it'll support access to the waterfront, and um, I think be it be a great asset for for everyone here.

So that's currently in in early design, and I think the intent is to be out with construction on this by next year by the developer.

So it's it's moving quickly, but be glad to take any comments back with me on that.

Um thank you so much for this um awesome presentation.

One last product.

Oh, yeah, go for it.

Sorry.

That's okay.

Um I know it's long, sorry.

Um, so the last one I want to present tonight.

It's also uh this point of the uh hub and spoke process is um we are designing uh for construction 17 new bus stops in the midtown downtown area for primarily for the regional commuter buses.

And the diagram to the upper left, this was a study that was also funded by TERSIP in 2020, led by SACOG, and the city is now implementing through a separate grant for uh engineering design and um construction.

But the uh regional agencies such as El Dorado Transit, Amador, um Roseville Transit, all kind of stop in their own stops around the city.

There's 34 stops uh that were at least at the time of the study, um, and we are making that a more efficient identifiable route and reducing the number of stops by seven to seventeen, but allowing them to be overlapping so that nowhere is there more than a seven seven-minute walk shed within all the main employment areas.

Um so those are the three diagrams that show that.

And we have a similar condition.

We are we are actually uh moving the bus stop into uh the parking lane to engage with the traffic where we have two-way streets so that um buses are not pulling in and then getting trapped and having to pull out again into traffic.

So it works sort of like a BRT, but it's not a BRT route.

Um so that's illustrated here in the in the middle, and I've got another larger image here to show you.

But it but this will connect and feed into the Valley Rail station in Midtown at Q Street with stops close by and proximity there, and then also um as we go through and up over the tracks um and outwards uh towards uh Richards um and uh the river district, um we pick up some of the housing projects and and the plaza that I just spoke about um in the rail yards.

So one unique piece is that uh I've been kind of working on this for about five plus years.

Um the canopies that were used at the temporary Trans Bay site in San Francisco during the construction of the Trans Bay terminal shown in that park that's the rooftop park to the uh to the terminal, and you can see indicated in that red square there all the canopies and a street view.

They are still being used, they are now owned by the this uh city redevelopment agency, but we're on on course to coordinate the um the reuse of those and bring those to Sacramento, and that was part of the grant application and included in the grant to reuse as they were designed to be reused, and uh we're gonna take advantage of that.

And we think they has a really great character, they fit well um into the Sacramento uh streetscape.

And so here, very similar to what Cecilin presented for um here outside of City Hall.

Um the bike lane will be in in certain areas brought in, and then we would have uh detectable warnings there at the uh the main crossing um where it comes to level with the sidewalk and the bus stop and then the the bus uh the bike uh way drops down back to street level at the at the very outside edges.

So I'd be glad to take any other additional comments, notes, um concerns on this design um with me to the design team.

Lastly, um we're finishing up our we broke into a 15% set to identify all the issues and get early um cost estimates.

Now we're going into detailed design here this year and through into next year and be ready for construction in 27 to 28.

So that's the conclusion and uh sorry for the length of the presentation.

Well, not at all.

Uh thank you so much for this very detailed and comprehensive uh presentation that goes even far beyond the actual physical footprint of our Sacramento Valley station.

Um before I go into Commissioner um questions and comments, uh clerk, do we have any um anyone from the public who would like to uh make public comment on this item?

I do not have any speaker slips on this item.

All right, thank you.

And then I'll turn it over to Commissioner Barnbaum.

Thank you, Greg.

Um, and thank you for the presentation to the uh disability advisory commission.

Um on that last piece you just mentioned about what Sacramento is gonna be reusing.

Um the new place is referred to as the Salesforce Transit Center.

Runs on Fremont Street between Mission and Howard in downtown San Francisco.

Uh Amtrak through their long distance trains and the two JPAs, uh the Gold Runner board and the uh Capitol board.

Uh there are throughway bus stops right in front of the Salesforce Center, but not actually in the garage like AC Transit does.

Um for anyone going to San Francisco and checking out the new transit center.

Um I had a question of uh was so kind of tying back into the previous item.

Um is some of the construction that you talked about, and I wanted to highlight the one about um bear cut for for a minute.

Uh that was some new information I I didn't know of.

Is that kind of tied in to the construction that may be starting in 2028 with regard then to H Street, or is the beer cut thing uh as you indicated moving along and it may even begin quicker and sooner?

Yeah, that's a separate timeline piece, separate separate funding, separate project, yeah, smaller project for one.

Um so it's moving, it's that's pretty much at the developer's schedule, and they're uh indicating wanting to move forward quickly with that project.

Um it helps with uh just access so that their their goal for the the main Central Shops Plaza project, the entertainment is to be open by the end of 2027, which is quite aggressive, but they're working towards that.

So um this was kind of a compendium piece to that in a way to provide more access.

And what I did fail to say in the presentation that we're connecting to the existing ramp and tunnel that was built in 2012 as part of the track relocation uh that has never been able to open because it wasn't connecting to a public way.

So this project connects to the public way this one that opens it up.

Yeah, I missed that too.

And 2027, by the way, in that uh when you showed the various projects on the uh one of the early slides.

I think I was told the entertainment center, the uh stadium, and they filed for an expanded stadium.

Uh, I'm told with the city just recently, and the adjoining light rail station at Rail Yards and 7th should be all ready sometime next year.

Um my follow-up question was when you were describing a lot of things.

One thing that occurred to me is a project now called um Sacramento or SACRT 2050, formerly the comprehensive operational analysis at SACRT.

So they're uh doing two parts to it.

A long-range transportation plan, uh, which might involve uh going to the voters within the city limits of the city of Sacramento in November through a citizens group.

But on the short range transit plan, they're doing a lot of things about service changes, uh service efficiency and things like that.

Have you been in contact with folks like Anthony Adams, James Drake, Rowan Brand, Kevin Alvarez, and and just their team and planning, coordinating what you just presented with what they want to do so that a lot of the things are coming to together from across uh public agencies and no one's trying to do things separate without communicating.

No, yeah, no.

In fact um the Westside project, we came to them, they were having trouble finding a place that they could overlay lay over their buses at the end of the route for servicing the area around the new Kaiser hospital and so on.

So we presented this to them as an idea.

Um and they we've been working with them and coordinating with them on that.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay, great.

So that's soon probably gonna be resolved.

Uh that's that's incorporated in the design to have three uh the ability to lay over three buses there with the restroom facility exclusively for the drivers for the end of end of route.

Right.

Uh and I hope that the drivers will also have access to a break room too while they're on end of route, not just a restroom.

Yep.

So we're we've been working with SACRT, and we we put it coordination email when we're doing the grant to this is what we were applying for, and so we've incorporated that into the grant.

Great.

Uh thank you, Vice Chair.

Those are the questions I have at the moment.

Bless you.

Thank you.

Uh, and thank you for your comments.

Uh turning over to uh Commissioner Greenbaum.

Um I had I'd canceled my request, but that's okay because I also I was waiting kind of towards the end to thank you for your presentation.

Um, I'm personally, and I think uh everyone will share my excitement with regards to um the Sacra Valley um Valley Station, you know, walkways being shortened into the to the bus.

I mean to the Amtrak.

Um, you know, that's been an inaccessible for for years, and for so many people, whether it's you know, you're traveling with children or you know, large luggage or um other limitations.

Um so that I think that's exciting, and um, you know, I I someone that rides very often um into the city, um well, I'm personally excited for that too.

And I enjoyed the presentation, it was very detailed, so thank you.

Great, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for writing.

Uh Commissioner Pullen.

Yeah, thank you for such a detailed um presentation.

Um I understand that the pickup and drop off does reduce it quite a bit.

Um question is in the report, it says the city will coordinate with Amtrak on accessible access.

Now my fear is it's Amtrak.

So the current Amtrak experience of accessibility, as Commissioner Greenbaum stated, uh isn't accessible.

And um the city sort of banking on this shuttle system to do the heavy lifting of that.

Um the shuttle, I I was curious what is the shuttle system?

Um, and uh as recently as 2025, there's a lovely blog post by um a wheelchair travel blog who talked about how the shuttle uh is a golf cart that works for passengers who can self-transfer but is not designed for wheelchair users who cannot transfer out of their chairs, and that ticket counter staff and conductors are poorly coordinated on when the shuttle will arrive, um, whether the shuttle exists and when it will happen.

Um so my concern is if the city is sort of baking into their plan to sort of say, well, Amtrak has got it, what is the safeguards um in involved there, especially with if there's a grievance that somebody might have, if they submit it to the city, will the city say go talk to Amtrak?

And then Amtrak says go talk to the city.

What's the sort of what's the the coordination there?

Yeah, you you bring up a very important point.

It has not been easy.

They are our tenants.

Um we inherited the lease with the building.

Um we have some flexibility, I think we can have with our uh use agreements that to try and get more response from them on that.

But I think the public comment is probably our best vehicle to help work with us on the city to work through with that because we do have to they have control of the access to the the platforms.

And I know even now with this commenter is saying that the bill you you not everyone can transfer to that vehicle.

Um and there's been numerous uh times when I know people have had to rely on friends and family to help them get um to the platforms via the the ramps.

So that is going to I think be a an issue that we have to continually work Amtrak on if we because I know they have docent systems if we can convince them find finding a way to have people that would be there to attend um at this entrance point.

We will have the ability to have a better connection between the drop-off and what we call the midway plaza, that kind of covered area just before the top of the ramp.

Um they currently have a station there.

Um I'm my my hope is that we can make that kind of a valet point where people can there could be a docent there that could respond quickly to the needs from that point.

But we haven't got there yet, but I really appreciate the comment and any more comments we can receive like that would be helpful.

Um yeah, thank you so much.

I mean, I obviously it's really rough when it's a private company um and dealing with who's uh who's in charge of what and why and when I will say um for the what the city can control with the pickup and drop off, um uh the 540-foot path, if it could be uh sort of baked in that there's seating and rest areas like every hundred feet, and there's uh weather protection and and um adequate lighting and that type of stuff, really making sure that if that is all the city can control, that that 540 feet is the most accessible pathway, um, that might be a way to um sort of uh offer a more accessible path than the golf cart um and sort of push uh disabled people towards that to say, look, we've done all this stuff, look, we've really thought about it on this path, so that it's not I could see a lot of um confusion and upset if you know it's like oh okay, this is accessible, this is new, and then they have to deal with Amtrak, and then they go, what the heck, City of Sacramento, you said this was accessible.

So if there's a really um a way to double and triple down on that 540-foot path, that it be as accessible as humanly possible, more than the minimum, more than and anything, knowing that the alternatives are not something we can control, um, I think that would really help as well.

So your suggestion then, for instance, in the tunnel to be able to have some seating for a respite to kind of that'd be about a midway point um before you ascend to the platforms or for that would be helpful because we are looking at how we can improve the tunnel experience as a separate project as well.

Yeah, I mean, there's there's a lot of um, I would highly recommend any um, and this goes to anybody uh anybody, there's um some really good um resources for accessible design um by disabled art architects, and one of the things um is Alexa Vaughn, who's down at UCLA.

Um, she specifically um has uh has stuff on deaf space um and also Crip space.

And so part of that means um having uh sort of places outside of the walkway that you can sit that you can um sort of connect your collect yourselves.

Um and I believe the um the current uh suggestion for that is every 150 feet or 200 feet um that you have a sheltered away safe area that you can stop, collect yourself, um, and whatever that may be, whether that be to sit or to um reorient yourself, whatever.

So, yeah, the tunnel and tunnel as well, making sure that there's a lot of lighting um down in that tunnel for safety, but also for for wayfinding um because tunnels obviously make it uh a lot harder to orient as well.

So there's a lot of um really good tools out there, like I said, Alexa Vaughn has an online resource for that.

Right, yeah, and you reminded me, thank you.

Um I'm working with um San Joaquin Rail Commission.

There is a uh pilot project they're talking about for Sacramento Valley Station for um wayfinding that uh that will be using your phone for uh helping guide uh visually that we're gonna uh hopefully have a presentation here, like to come back in the next couple months or so, hopefully.

Is that good maps?

It's um Nava sign, I believe.

Nava sign.

Okay, interesting.

Okay.

Thank you.

Uh great, thank you uh so much.

Um a lot of what I was gonna bring up has been brought up by my colleagues, but I would just say I think this is a really um fantastic project.

Long time coming, and I think yeah, some of the history you've shared with us where the city kind of inherited some of this um and maybe wasn't necessarily brought in as a partner when they moved the tracks and built the tunnel and all that of those things, and we're coming in now and trying to bring in those enhancements and make it as accessible as we hopefully can as the rail yards development takes off, like we've all been wanting and hoping in the future.

And so I like this idea of kind of the this tunnel way is gonna kind of be a uh a bridge or uh kind of activate towards getting into the rail yards and not just uh to get on a train.

Um but um all in all, this has been a very comprehensive presentation and really appreciate and I think really highlighting the coordination between all these different entities is um takes a lot of effort and a lot of time between you know the the city, uh Amtrak, SACRT, uh the joint powers authorities of the different rail entities, you know, that takes a lot of effort on the part of staff, and I just want to say thank you for everyone involved in these proud these these two projects.

Um that coordination, then in the end we can see the finished product, and it's not like well, why is it like this?

Why did this end here and didn't continue through well that there's another entity that wasn't part of the planning process?

So I really applaud all the efforts to really try to coordinate all these uh different projects as they all flow together.

So thank you so much.

Um and then with uh oh.

Okay.

Um uh Commissioner Barnum, my apologies.

Um yeah, thank you.

Just uh as a follow uh follow-up.

Uh you mentioned about the way finding program that the rail commission headquartered in Stockton is looking at doing, uh looking at my calendar.

I know they have a um set dates for their joint powers authority uh meetings uh and they rotate around the Gold Runner Corridor.

Um I have asked them, I don't know if they're going to do this or not, to have their May 15th meeting in Sacramento.

Um that still remains to be seen.

I know that they've said that on March 19th, they're gonna meet in Hanford.

They had to move it up from a Friday to a Thursday, and I'm not able to um make it due to uh prior scheduling conflicts and commitments, but then I heard you mentioned you want to come back.

Yeah, we we've we've talked um they've they've had some changes in staff, but I just had a communication.

We we do have a monthly um called the SVS working group, all the agencies convene.

We do a catch-up and report out every third uh Wednesday each month.

So um brought that up at the last meeting.

We're looking for a date that we can come to you with the okay.

So uh looking at my calendar, because I'm sure we're gonna discuss under commissioner comments uh a little debate about April and May, but that's that's to come.

Um would you be open to come back June 3rd uh to this commission at 1730?

I believe I'm open uh to check out the right.

Why don't we um yeah, we'll we'll we'll let our staff coordinate what we're gonna do.

I want to make sure I give you a date where it's more certain than uncertain, right?

Yeah, but thank you.

Yeah, we would love to have you back, of course.

Very good.

Okay, okay.

All right, and thank you again um for an awesome presentation.

And we'll move right along to our next item number five, our um Stockton Boulevard uh safety and transit enhancements presented by uh Jesse Gotham senior or supervising engineer and staff to our commission.

So Jesse, take it away.

Thank you, uh Vice Chair Ellis.

Uh it's my um my privilege to bring this project forward.

This uh project has um been the vision of our city leadership as well as regional transit and the county for um some time now in in 2023, we were awarded funding from our Sacramento Area Council of Governments to uh to kick this project off.

And so we formed a partnership with Regional Transit in Sack County to uh bring this project forward.

This constitutes our first real public forum of presenting this project, and kind of you're getting the first look at uh at the vision here, and so working in conjunction with RT and the county.

Uh we went through a procurement process and had um interest from firms all over the nation, and we ended up selecting um Kimley Horn to lead this effort, which has experience in many different states implementing um bus ranch bid transit as well as safety improvements along the corridor.

So it's my uh honor to introduce uh Greg Kyle.

He is leading leading the team, and he will be um handling the presentation tonight, but I might interject here and there.

Thank thank you, Jesse, and good evening, everyone.

Um, as Jesse mentioned, uh, this project is being advanced as a partnership uh with the city as the lead agency, but uh with SAC RT as well as Sacramento County as key partners, and the stage of the project that we're working on right now, we kicked it off just about a year ago in March 2025, is the alternatives analysis phase, and we anticipate completing that phase in the middle of this year 2026 and transitioning into stage two, which will be the environmental review phase as well as preparing preliminary engineering plans to initiate the design of the project.

Um what's shown here is a project area map, and so the project extends from the south at the Florent Town Center um into downtown Sacramento.

Um and the pr the project is it's a multifaceted project.

There's a complete streets component of the project that extends from the Florentown Center north on Stockton Boulevard to Alhambra Boulevard.

In addition, we're looking at a way to connect a BRT route from the Florentown Center into downtown Sacramento, and we're studying two alignments, one that follows the existing Route 51, and the other route, which follows the Route 51 north to the Broadway, the Stockton Broadway intersection, and then would follow the alignment of the Sacramento Regional Transit Route 38 into downtown.

And at the beginning of the project, we work to establish a vision of the corridor, and it's got some key elements, including safety, multimodal, being able to develop and deliver a premium transit service, developing a sustainable project that is going to be durable and changing climates and adaptable, and also looking at a project that's really geared towards the community, being able to facilitate access to opportunities and to create an inviting and self-environment for all.

And we took this vision and began to develop it into some specific purpose and objectives, beginning with improving safety.

We want to improve the multimodal infrastructure to provide a safe environment to walk to cycle and to access the transit service in the corridor.

We want to build upon the existing transit ridership that already exists in the corridor through providing a more premium transit service, and through these measures, hope to be able to support economic development and provide access to opportunities, to jobs, to education, to services.

And finally, we want to be able to build the project.

And so we're trying to develop the project to be fiscal fiscally responsible so that it's going to be cost effective and that it will be able to advance into future phases of implementation.

The first is going to focus on bus rapid transit, and then the second will part of it will focus on multimodal and complete streets improvements.

So starting off with the bus rapid transit or BRT component, a high-level definition of bus rapid transit is a high-quality bus system.

And it can include some or all of the elements that are listed here, which could include dedicated lanes for the buses to provide a faster service and a more consistent travel time.

Enhanced stations along the route to provide and facilitate efficient boarding and also provide amenities, make them a more comfortable waiting experience for transit riders.

And then a key component of bus rapid transit is also differentiating it from the standard bus service as a higher level of transit service.

It's often bus rapid transit is frequently referred to as light rail on rubber tires.

So as I mentioned, we're looking at two alternative BRT routes.

The alternative one follows the Route 51 alignment along Stockton Boulevard to Broadway, and then it makes its way into downtown along 7th, 8th, and 9th streets.

And our alternative two is our Route 51, Route 38 hybrid alternative, which runs along Stockton Boulevard to T Street and then comes into the midtown and downtown through 29th and 30th streets and J and L Streets.

And a high-level definition, and you probably know this, uh maybe a little preaching to the choir here, but complete streets are roads that are being that are designed to be safe for all users.

And the goal is for the street to be comfortable and accessible for everyone, no matter their mode of travel or their abilities, and components of complete streets could include bike lanes, um, wider sidewalks, improved pedestrian crossings, and dedicated bus lanes, and those are all things that we're looking at.

And we're also looking for input on a travel mode hierarchy as we're going around and conducting our outreach for the project.

And what we've defined here is the travel hierarchy, is starting with the most susceptible users in the corridor with folks that are walking and rolling as the highest priority in the corridor, and then working our way down to cycling and micromobility, followed by public transit, and with vehicle travel being at the bottom of the travel mode hierarchy.

And so this is a reimagination of the Stockton Boulevard corridor, which is heavily geared towards automobiles today, and that has been its function over the years.

And now I'll walk through a sample corridor segment.

This is a segment of Stockton Boulevard between Elder Creek Road and 20th Avenue.

It's approximately 1.7 miles in length.

And we've divided the corridor into segments to try to imagine what type of improvements could fit within the space that we have to work with, and starting to consider some of the trade-offs within that available space.

And so quick overview with some existing conditions photos here.

You see with the photo on the left side of the screen, sidewalks are relatively narrow, quite frequently obstructed with utility poles and other obstacles within the sidewalk with.

Some of the trade-offs or constraints associated with this alternative is that there are narrow class two bike lanes.

There's not a buffer from the adjacent bus lane, and in general, there's nominal improvements for cyclists and pedestrians.

But this is a lower cost option for this portion of the corridor.

Alternative B looks to uh some additional capital investment to be able to improve the conditions.

And what's shown here is the introduction of a shared use path on one side of the roadway.

It would be approximately 11 feet in total, but two feet of that is consumed by the shoulder.

With this alternative, we also limited the improvements to the existing back of sidewalks to avoid major impacts to utilities and other obstacles that exist behind the sidewalks.

So some of the trade-offs with this is there is a higher uh cost associated with it.

Um it requires more extensive construction with uh sidewalks, with curb ramps along the corridor, and uh the reconstruction of a number of driveways.

Some utility relocations would also be required.

And um, with this, there is also the constraint that it is a relatively narrow shared use path, and there's not an adjacent on-street bike lane where we have the on-street path with this option.

Um, our alternative C we we didn't limit the improvements here to the existing back of sidewalk.

We took an opportunity to really reimagine the corridor to provide um separated facilities uh for cyclists and pedestrians, their own designated space within the corridor.

Uh the trade-offs associated with this is that it's the highest cost option.

It requires uh widening of the road on both sides to accommodate the sidewalks and uh extensive driveway reconstructions, and also a lot of conflicts between the existing back of sidewalk uh would need to be addressed.

There would be impacts to uh trees along the corridor as well as utility relocations uh that would need to be addressed.

Transition now to a uh update on the project status.

Um, as I mentioned at the outset, we're currently in the alternatives analysis phase and are looking to complete that the this phase by summer of 2026 by selecting the preferred alignment of the BRT route and by narrowing down the complete street improvements uh in the corridor to uh have a project uh that is uh defined to be able to advance into the environmental review phase that would begin in the second half of 2026 and extend through 2027.

Only stage one and stage two of the project are currently funded.

So as we begin to transition from stage one to stage two, another um item that will need to be addressed is identifying funding for future stages of the project.

And subject to securing that funding, the project, if it could if it remains on schedule, will then advance into final design in 28 and 2029 and would be ready for uh construction in 2030 and 2031.

And um that wraps up the the presentation.

Um you see Jesse's name is listed there as the contact as the city's PM and as the consultants project manager that you know I'm working in close partnership uh with Jesse and would be happy to address questions and also looking for comment and feedback as we are considering which alternatives to advance in this project.

Uh fantastic.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

Uh Clerk, do we have any uh any members of the public who would like to make public comment on this item?

Thank you, Chair.

I do not have any speaker slips on this item.

All right, thank you.

And then turning it to our commissioners.

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes.

Um go back to the slide that shows uh on one half.

I think on the left it was Route 51.

On the right, it was Route 38.

Okay, and you were looking for some feedback uh on this as to how to which design is best to go forward with for the BRT route, yes.

Okay.

So uh I would like to make a motion that the Rou 5138 hybrid alignment, and for two major reasons.

South Sacramento residents and businesses would have a direct uh alignment to the University of California Davis Medical Center and Aggie Square along Stockton Boulevard, north of Broadway and south of T Street, and inner state and inner city uh bus and rail travelers would have from South Sacramento a direct uh one seat ride to the Sacramento Valley Station, which they do not have today.

Uh on the bus, you only have the options of Route 30 and Route 38, which are more easterly and westerly, along with the light rail alignment out to and as far easterly as historic fulsom.

This currently leaves out South Sacramento.

While I'm a commissioner appointed by District 2 in North Sacramento, one thing that I have had to keep in mind while serving on this commission is we don't just serve our district, but we have to look at the whole city and the big picture when discussing things.

So that's hence why I make the motion uh to uh tentatively of this commission meeting, adopt alternative two, the Route 5138 hybrid alignment for the reasons I stated.

So this is just a discussion item.

So each commissioner is welcome to uh weigh in and articulate your opinion on any of the things that have been presented.

So I think uh you don't need a motion.

Don't need a motion, Vice Chair.

No, no.

Okay, thank you.

Um did you have any other further comments, Commissioner Barnbaum?

Uh no, that was the that that was the comment or motion I'd I'd like to make and have this uh commission uh and the commissioners uh consider what was said.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um Commissioner Guerrero.

Hi, thank you so much for your presentation.

Um you mentioned that you're seeking more funding.

Will you be applying for community project grants through the federal government?

Um we're not quite sure what grants we're gonna apply for yet.

That's something that we'll investigate um during the course of this calendar year.

Um, one grant specific to the BRT that we're potentially going to invest um investigate through the feds is a capital investment grant, um, which is through the federal transit administration.

And so as we're developing the alternatives, um, we are um evaluating them to see how they would rank within that specific grant program.

Uh beyond that, we're gonna look for additional funding opportunities because it will likely be more than one grant program that's necessary to fund this project.

Yeah, because definitely in the um just coming from the federal government, you have the ability to do earmarks and submit community project fundings through your local representative.

So um, I don't know if it's if it falls under Congresswoman Dory Matsui, but I know it does Senator Padilla and and Adam Schiff um to be able to provide this and and present it largely and try to get community project funding that way as well.

This is a suggestion.

Thank you.

Well, thank you.

Um Commissioner Carr.

Oh, I had just canceled, but um, thank you so much for your um presentation.

It is excellent.

It looks like it's in very um in the first phase right now, and so it's a good start.

We look forward to seeing you in the rest of the phases, all the best.

Okay, thank you.

Uh thank you.

Um, and I'll just kind of take a point as you know, vice chair of the commission.

I will echo uh Commissioner Barnbaum's comments, you know.

Yes, as we do represent uh particular segments and communities within the city in which we reside and identify with it is incumbent upon us to look more broadly as the whole city and if possible, even the wider region with some of our items that come before us.

And as you were presenting, uh at least the feedback I would provide you is I think uh just like Commissioner Barnbaum mentioned, uh, I think the Route 5138 truncation and turning that into the bus rapid transit line, I think has the best connectivity.

Um, you know, touching upon a lot of the main um um connection points and different businesses and other transit connections.

Um that would be my choice, but again, I don't frequent that corridor, I don't live um down that corridor or have you know so but I would um definitely want us to do outreach and collect data from those within that region as you have been doing uh all throughout this project.

So that would be my feedback to you, specifically leaning towards um just as um Commissioner Barmaum articulated so uh well.

Um and then trying to think of anything else.

I think this is a again one of our many long overdue projects.

This is really inspiring to see.

Um, and that we're one of the first to actually kind of contribute and be part of this planning process as you're moving forward and trying to see you know that as you develop the project more specifically, seeing what funding sources you can tap into.

And I think, yeah, all the things all options are on the table, so see what we can get in order to really enhance this corridor and really activate it and and make it you know become kind of a uh economic engine for this area too.

And then um Jesse.

Yeah, so I do want to announce, I think it's okay to announce we're going to have a public meeting on April 15th at the Oak Park Community Center.

And so we'll also be doing um some present, we'll do a presentation to the Active Transportation Commission and um and a presentation to the Sacramental Transport Transit Author Transportation Authority, the STA, uh, will be in April as well.

So, yeah, April 15th for our community at large meeting where we'll be presenting a lot of the same information you saw tonight.

So thank you.

Glad we got a first sneak peek at uh this presentation.

So as it's making its rounds through our various different other entities in the region.

Um with that, I will turn it back over to you, Jesse, for your staff report.

Thank you, everyone.

Thank you, thank you.

Uh Vice Chair will just mention that that Oak Park Community Center is located on Route 68, if you are attending by transit.

Thank you.

Yeah, always good to have those transit options.

Oh staff oral report.

Yeah.

Oh, right.

I don't want to steal your thunder too much.

No.

Um just hold on, Jesse, one second.

Oh, uh Commissioner Carr, did you have a comment you wanted to make?

Yeah, I just wanted to mention that when uh is it possible when you have the community meetings to have some kind of Zoom link?

Because a lot of people are unable to attend the meetings.

But if given a zoom link, like people just in general just like to um log in and you may have more public input um that way.

Thank you.

Yeah, having a virtual option and surveys are both are good.

And then Barnbaum, did you have another comment you need to make?

That's it.

Okay.

Well, thank you again.

And then Jesse with your staff report.

Yeah, so uh quick staff oral report update.

Um the Sack Valley station, which Greg presented on February 27th, had its hundredth anniversary.

So there's banners at the station.

There's a press article on KVI abridged, will come out uh March 3rd.

Event announcements for the 100th year at station are coming soon.

So if you want to celebrate that our Marysville Boulevard Vision Zero Quick Build Project came before the commission um last year.

The contractors been selected, it's been awarded, and we'll most likely start seeing construction activity on March 30th.

Uh project should last 35 working days.

Um there's going to be some notifications going out to Del Paso Heights Community Association and Hagenwood Community Association.

And then I would like to maybe I'm taking Vice Chair Ellis' Thunder.

But uh staff, so I guess it works.

Um you can have it.

You can have okay.

So your annual report was uh approved by the P and PE committee on um on February 17th, and so that's that's going to be forwarded to the full council on March 24th, the 2 p.m.

meeting.

And so yeah, so PNP heard the item and approved it.

And so um congratulations.

There was a lot of uh nice remarks made at the meeting, and so it'll be going to the full council on um March 24th.

It's the two o'clock meeting.

It will be on the consent calendar, but you can speak to it if you um happen to um want to attend.

And one of the recommendations has been forwarded to the budget and audit committee.

So, Chair, one of your long-standing recommendations to have a citywide accessibility coordinator.

Um so that was forwarded by PMPE to the budget and audit committee, and so I'll have more information on when that would um come forward.

So yeah, I just want to say um this is huge.

Um like Jesse said, this has been in our annual report for the last three or four years now to have a citywide accessibility coordinator position, and while it's not necessarily you know, them approving the position and going out to hire for it, it is a giant step in that direction.

Um, that the fact that this position is going to be discussed as part of the budget process for this coming fiscal year, I think is enormous.

Um that you know this these issues around accessibility in our city are gonna be kind of in the center stage with regard to the city budget conversations.

Granted, the city budget has some issues.

They're they're not exactly um got a surplus, they've got a deficit, and so but I think it's it's it's worth that it's gonna be part of the conversation.

Um and I just want to, you know, even though they're not here, really thank Vice uh Mayor Kaplan and Councilmember Vang who have been our champions of this commission and really pushed for this um this motion to send it to budget and audit.

Um so just my thanks to them from this commission.

Um, and then the other item that I do want to uh that it was also noted in the meeting um by the council members uh that's been in our report, at least the last two, I believe, is regarding public comment.

So there was a change in state law, and the city and the city clerk's office are going through a process to uh revamp the um public comment process to comply with state law and making it more accessible for both city council and the boards and commissions.

So that should be a process, you know.

They're they're working through that revision process now, and hopefully should be in place by July, is what they shared with us um during the committee meeting.

So yeah, and I have reached out to that project manager to have a presentation as the roll-up fantastic.

So thank you, Jesse.

Um, is there any uh commissioners who would like uh to comment on any uh part of Jesse's report before we move to our next item?

Uh uh Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you, and vice chair.

That that's amazing news.

I mean, I in terms of you know, the conversation moving forward.

Um will we be advised and perhaps maybe there are not with related to the budget, but um public meetings um in terms of you know um that when this goes to that committee, are there further public meetings um before the before the public is what I mean to say?

Um or comments.

Yeah, as far as I know, the budget and audit committee is a public.

That's what I would have would assume too.

Yeah, and that's um just if we could be advised of those dates, uh, if it gets agendized with them, we can I think we can share it out.

Great.

That's all upcoming tentatively.

Um targeting the May 5th 2026.

Um is a Tuesday.

Yes.

So I would uh but wait on wait for me to confirm that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And what watch your emails for that because we're gonna have a we're gonna come out in force if as much as we can given uh the Brown Act.

Um got a little Nagy Brown Act.

Not all of us can show up all together at once.

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum.

Oh it was gonna be under Commissioner comments uh and and ideas.

I have some some comments of some upcoming work.

Uh, but is this the right time round?

Give us one more moment to make sure anybody else want to comment on Jesse's report, otherwise, yeah.

Okay, seeing none, we'll move to Commissioner uh comments, ideas, and questions, and I'll turn it back over to Commissioner Barnbow.

Okay.

So back to kind of what I was mentioning earlier today, and I mentioned quite a bit in uh past meetings uh Vice Chair Ellis.

We're now at the point to uh just notate that on the calendar approved by the city council.

Uh what it is showing is that the next meeting scheduled for this body is Wednesday, April 22nd, followed two weeks later by Wednesday May 6th.

And I was kind of going back and forth of how many weeks then, you know, if one meeting was taken away, you know, how many weeks in between would it be to June 3rd?

The are which is pretty certain that that that's gonna happen.

And I have mentioned uh I would like to not have the May 6th meeting, because if we went from now to the 22nd of April, we're talking seven weeks from now would be April 22nd, and then another six weeks for June 3rd.

So which is about even.

But if it went the other way and we canceled April but kept May, then we're talking nine weeks to the next meeting and then only four weeks to the meeting after rather than seven and six.

So I would rather keep uh the April meeting and cancel the May meeting due to spacing between meetings and what Commissioner I think it was Knapper said at one meeting that she would like to keep the April meeting as well, so we would prepare for mental health awareness month, which is in the month of May, uh, but then not have the meeting in May.

But I know it's something that we need to discuss before we assume what our next meeting is when we adjourn today.

So wanted to get to that first, and then I have some announcements to make.

I'm gonna defer to Jesse because I can't remember what we decided on this one.

So I'll take that into consideration.

It is my purview on on which meetings we have, and so I'm working with our staff, but it looks like we're gonna keep the May meeting and cancel the April meeting.

Okay.

Um having lining up our our pro speakers and and their availability as well.

Uh-huh.

So um it looks like right now May is working better than the April date.

That May is working better to hold the meeting, correct?

And April is looking better to cancel the meeting.

Correct.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um notice would come about 10 days before the meeting.

Okay, so we should know something uh by the close of business Friday the 10th.

Around about then, yeah.

Okay, because the 10 days before would be the 12th, which is a Sunday and business is closed.

Right.

Okay, and then okay, the announcements I want to make.

So we we often talk a lot about accessibility uh and mobility and our options uh in this in this meeting, and having accessibility via alternative mobility modes is very important.

But so also is if you know of a service disruption that's planned, it should go on the record, and I do.

So I want to let people know beginning the weekend of the 14th and 15th of this month, along with the 21st and 22nd of this month.

There will be a bus bridge in place between the Marconi Arcade station and the Cathedral Square Station.

The reason is is so that contractors can tie in a second track to the main line around the Dos Rio station project area near the Richards Triangle.

There will also be uh platform modification work from the 16th through the 26th at both the Arden Del Paso and Royal Oaks stations in North Sacramento.

Blue line trains will operate, but skip stop.

Arden Del Paso and Royal Oaks, while contractors are working to modify the platforms at those stations to eventually accommodate the uh operation of the new S 700 low floor light rail vehicles.

A bus bridge will take riders from the globe to the Swanston station for those that need to absolutely get to Arden Del Paso and Royal Oaks, but won't be able to buy light rail train because they will be just running through the stations from the 27th through the 31st, continuing work at the two stations, but a bus bridge will be in place between Alkali Flat and Marconi Arcade, and there will be no train service through that section uh during the the close of this month.

Okay, now going into the uh next month from Wednesday, April 1st through Monday, April 13th.

The uh platform modification work will be at Watt I 80 and Watt I 80 West.

Those stations will be closed to the public.

Currently, no information or details about specifically a bus bridge, but as soon as one comes, I'll let you know.

Tuesday, April 14th through April 17th, construction at Marconi Arcade Station for the platform modification.

Saturday, April 18th through Sunday, April 19th, construction at Arden Del Paso Station.

Monday, April 20th through Thursday, April 23rd, construction at the Marconi Arcade Station, and finally April 24th through April 26th, Friday through Sunday, construction at Marconi Arcade and Royal Oaks stations.

Please be advised all the work that I have mentioned is weather permitting.

So the schedule that I just read could change if factors do not comply uh in pouring concrete in the rain because rain and concrete don't mix very well.

Okay, thank you.

If there's any questions about that schedule, it's at SACRT.com.

That's where I got the info from.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And uh uh Commissioner Crock.

First of all, welcome, Commissioner Guerrero.

It's good to have you on the commission here.

Thank you so much for joining us.

And um secondly, I'd like to say that uh um March month is um the month of national uh it recognizes um as it's recognized as national developmental disabilities awareness month.

And each year in March Development Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month focuses on uh increased awareness on the needs of those with developmental disabilities, and this observ observance also highlights their potential in school, work, and home.

It's important to remember that a person is not identified by their injury or by their disability.

Um each injury or disability affects a person in a very different way, and how we support the person and treat them with um will require a lot of patience and understanding.

So we got to keep that in mind, and um March is actually also National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month as well to bring attention to the group of disorders usually diagnosed in early childhood, and it's also brain injury um awareness month, which alerts us to the causes and uh aims to eliminate the stigma around the brain injuries.

That being said, also National Women's Awareness Month.

So it's um encourages us to honor the women who came before us and fought for equality among all races and genders.

There will be a women's history um month celebration on March 19th in Passover Day School in Natomas, um, hosted by trustee um Sumitimeta, sponsored by councilwoman um Karina Telemantes, um uh councilwoman Lisa Kaplan and yours truly.

So please join us, and um the highlights of the event are um speak uh student speakers, leaders uh and um panel of local community um leaders.

Thank you.

You're all invited.

Thank you.

And thank you.

Um, seeing no other commissioners seeking recognition, we'll go to our um public comment for items not on the agenda, um, clerk.

Yes, we have one public speaker, uh LR Roberts one before, and you'll have um believe uh up to three minutes.

Oh, it's good to see Mike.

Um used to be when I went to these meetings and they were not here.

Um we used to meet um, and I used to come from California's for disability rights.

Tonight I'm being older women's league, I've become their treasurer.

Uh I am in dog fight with uh Joseph, but I'm not speaking for dogfight today.

Um for a long time I couldn't come to meetings because I was caring for a disabled husband who has since passed on, so uh I have time to come to meetings again.

Um so yesterday I came to the city council meeting and I parked across the street, and I have uh developed a disability in my leg and I cannot walk long distances.

I got a ticket for parking there too long.

So one of the things we used to fight about when I used to come to these meetings is if you come downtown, even if you're on a commission and you try to park, you can't park.

And they said, well, with a with you know a placard, you can park anywhere.

There has to be a vacancy.

So at a city council meeting recently, I had to walk four or five blocks.

So because I found a place across the way, I didn't move it after after a certain time, and I got a ticket.

I thought if you had a placard, you didn't have to do that.

So I'm gonna be fighting that ticket.

We were still having this problem is that yes, you can park anywhere with a placard, but there has to be an open space.

And so uh some of the elderly people like myself, I'm 74.

We find ourselves skipping meetings downtown because we cannot park anywhere near where the meeting is, especially the capital's especially bad.

So that's one thing.

And then the second thing is uh I've been coming to City City Council meetings and complaining about how we fund things at the city council.

So what they do is they spend a lot of money hassling homeless people, a lot of whom are disabled.

So about a month and a week ago, I leave a city council meeting that started at two, and there is a woman who's older than me, which is hard to do, and she's with her walker and she's laying down on the bench because she doesn't feel good.

Well, you know, now you cannot lie down on the bench at City Hall.

So there are four bike cops telling this woman she can't lie down on the bench, then two more cops show up by cops, and then two more cops on foot.

So eight cops give this woman a ticket for lying down because she doesn't feel good, and someone has told me that she thinks that's an ADA violation.

So when they do that kind of stuff, because a lot of homeless people have disabilities, it counts in the budget as homeless services.

So imagine how annoying that is.

So the public doesn't like that homeless people have everything they have thrown away, and they also don't like that that counts as homeless services.

So I think we need to stop this silliness.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for your comments.

So we really appreciate uh your participation in our meeting this evening, and we'll be taking them under consideration.

Um, with that, we have no other items on our agenda.

Uh, thank you all for uh very vibrant meeting this evening, and I will uh declare this meeting adjourned.

I don't know if any commissioners need uh parking, uh come see the clerk.