They shouldn't be able to hit the ball.

Charles Barkley swing or Jim Horick if you want to look at it.

Okay, good evening, everyone.

We'll go ahead and call to order the Sacramento Regional Transit District Board meeting for Monday, September twenty-fifth, two thousand seventeen.

Would the clerk please call the roll?

Director Budge?

Director Hansen.

Director Harris will be late.

Director Hume.

Here.

Director Jennings.

Director Kennedy.

Director Miller.

Director Natoli.

Chair Sh uh, sorry, Director Shanir will be absent, as well as Director Cerna and Chair Moran.

Here.

With that we have a quorum at 100 votes.

This meeting of the Sacramento Regional Transit District will be cable cast without interruption on Metro Cable 14, the local government affairs channel, and will be streamed live on RT's website.

Tonight's meeting will air on September twenty-seventh at six PM on Channel 14 and webcast at WWW SACMetroCable dot TV.

It is also closed captioned.

Members of the audience wishing to address the board should fill out a speaker card located at the rear of the room and provide it to me or Adam.

Please speak into the microphone and state your name for the record.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Cindy.

Would everyone please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

Public addresses the board on matters not on the agenda.

There's Jeffrey.

Um which is hey guys, when you use the connect cards, tap it so you tap it on and off through there to uh use it.

That was three and a half years ago that I made that suggestion when they testing the connect card because it was important to get people to uh use it.

Now symptom optimization.

Uh you know that when you did in Jackson it took eighteen months.

Um how how uh how Houston took twenty-four months through here.

Um how how uh how Houston took 24 months through here, and now you're gonna try in a year to do that, and you're not gonna do any comprehensive assessment of specific bus stops, but you're doing that already for I-80 because of what you're needing to do and happen around, and you've got several others that it would be, I think, real informative, important, like what you're gonna be doing when you talk about the uh um arena today.

Um I'm hoping you include about how you specifically with all the bus service that goes through there now conveniently of what other changes are happening and taking place.

Uh the other thing on this is you're saying project thing through there, you got way down there about building stronger relationship with customers and stakeholders.

This is where calling system optimization.

It's a sheet that you've got floating around through there.

I really think that you know, in a year you've got a hard task here to get learn who your riders really are.

I think with the connect card that you did this thing that um uh reaching out to the seniors, and I will tell you that uh dealing with Barbara's reach out for the should we say resident advisory boards with the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency.

I think that was appreciated that you guys went out there, and it really thrilled them that for seniors that they could figure out and understand a little bit how to use the connect card.

And I got 20 seconds left, so we will turn around and bounce back to the sheet and say, yes, is Doug Carter's contract going to end in June 2018 for the 500,000 dollars, or is this board going to continue it for um dealing with the labor negotiations and other such factors?

And is um the item number 11, oh well, um, contract and consulting fees.

So with that note, I will leave you guys to um do things as a board.

Um, good evening to you.

By the way, Robert's last name is Copeland.

Hope for the record.

Um, but it's it's spelled like Copeland.

Anyway, um speaking of Waton I 80, I was at Waton I 80 this afternoon catching the light rail to come down here because he and I both had a meeting down on uh 18th and K at Disability Rights California.

And at the vast majority of light rail stations that I've been at since using the Kinet card for the first time back on September 4th of this year, um that this is four weeks ago um or three weeks ago, actually, I um noticed that at Waton I-80, you have two Kinect card terminals that are too close together on the platform side, and you only have one other terminal that is at the bottom of the ramp on you know, the trains coming in to Waton I80 from CRC when you get off you I learned one thing I learned is not only do you swipe your card when you get on the bus, but you have to swipe it before you get on the light rail train and after you get on and get off the train.

Nobody told me that.

That's just something that I figured out on my own.

Needless to say, um, the vast majority of light rail stations have four Kinect card terminals.

Watten I 80 only has three, but two of them are too close together.

One is at the ramp uh outbound, and one is in the very middle of the station.

Um the one in the middle of the station should be, you know, near at the beginning of the platform near uh the stairs in the elevator uh because that's uh that's something I notice.

And um also I had um I think it was last month.

I had I was getting on 21 at Sunrise and Old Auburn or was it Sunrise and Antelope, and I had a I was telling the bus driver where I wanted to get off, and she was telling me, regardless of the fact that I'm disabled, that it was up to each passenger to know where they wanted to get off and pull the cord, and that it's basically not her problem.

That's the first time I had a driver say that before.

Um it was about three o'clock on a Saturday, sometime in August.

And that'll be it.