Good evening. Good afternoon. Welcome to the December 9, 2024 meeting of the Sacramento

Regional Transportive Directors with the clerk. Please call the roll.

Director Brewer is absent. Director Budge is absent. Director Schaefer is absent. Director

Hume.

Here.

Director Jennings.

Here.

Director Kaplan.

Here.

Director Kuzlowski.

Also here.

Director Maple.

Present.

Director Serna.

Here.

Director Singh Allen.

Here.

Director Singh Allen is requested to participate online due to travel on County City Council

business. Is there anyone in the room with you that's 18 years or older?

No, I'm by myself.

Okay. And Director Vane is absent. And Chair Kennedy.

Here.

With that, we have a quorum of eight votes and this meeting of the Sacramento Regional

Transit District is recorded with closed captioning. The recording will be cable cast on Metro

Cable Channel 14, the local government affairs channel on the Comcast and Direct TV, U-verse

cable systems. The recording will also be video streamed at Metro14live.saccounty.gov.

Today's meeting replays Sunday, December 15th at 11.30 a.m. and Tuesday, December 17th

at 2 p.m. on Metro Cable Channel 14. Once posted, the recording of the meeting can be

viewed on demand at youtube.com forward slash Metro Cable 14. 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 myself or Adam. Once the item has been called, additional speaker cards will not

be accepted. The time allowed for public comment is at the chair's discretion. The

timer will time when you have 20 seconds and then again when your time is up. There was

one written public comment provided to the board on item 2.9 from Glenn Mandelkern regarding

real-time reports for trains. Thank you very much. Would you please join me in the Pledge

of Allegiance? Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to

the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice

for all. Thank you. That takes us to the Consent Calendar. I have a number of, quite

a large number of speaker slips this evening. So just fair warning, I will be keeping to

a solid two minutes on speaking. Is there any member of the board that has an item that

they have any questions on of staff or would like to have anything removed from the Consent

Calendar at this time? Okay, hearing and seeing none. On item 2.3, Helen O'Connell.

And Director Schaefer, just join the meeting. Thank you. Hello, board. Nice to see you again.

everybody else. And that was one of my sticking issues. So could I please have that a question

answered? Mr. Lee is not here. Mr. Topaz, is that your area? Okay, thank you. Okay, item

2.4, Jeffrey Tardigie.

My question, board, is simply it says hazardous material. I'm presuming that is for the maintenance

facility. But I'm wondering you're dealing with, so we spent money on the I-80 elevator and the

hazardous material coming down at the bottom. It didn't see any mention of that in your proposal

there. So just wondering. Staff is their response. Lisa.

But it's the cleanups for our social services practitioner, or if we have a bloodborne pathogen,

that kind of thing. So it's two separate things. But I didn't see it on the agreement in there.

Thank you. Item 2.7, Helen O'Connell.

Okay, I know that you guys put this out to bed and the software for the dispatch and scheduling

and everything like that. Has it been brought to the attention of the people that are actually

using the software? The person that comes most to mind is Kathy Sajin. And

I would also wonder if the dispatchers and the schedulers had an opportunity to

figure out how it works before they're required to use it.

I'm sorry. So Helen, what's your specific question?

Has the service software that's dealing with scheduling, dispatching, all that kind of stuff

been introduced to the people that are actually going to use it before you buy it?

Helen, Kathy was part of the procurement. So she gave us feedback and she was part of the

decision making on which software we went with. Okay, thank you. That's a yes. 2.8, Helen.

Had some time on your hands today, Helen? Actually, I got here at one o'clock.

I'm going to try to look it up real quick.

I can't remember which one's which right now. It's a warning of a contract for

comprehensive operational analysis to Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates.

Is Ms. Hamm here? Is she hiding behind that pillar?

Oh, okay.

Yes.

I believe this is the one where Seikag was involved getting our money and they

said that the money was operational expenses or capital improvements. So that means that we would

have money to pay people to drive the bus, the R-T-Go, the train, all that kind of stuff.

That seems to be a sticking point on a lot of things because I was told that they had no funds

to pay any more drivers to drive R-T-Go. So I had a question on that.

Helen, what's your question? How much of the operations and what's the name of the word?

This is specifically on the awarding of a contract for the operations analysis.

Okay. Maybe I didn't have that correct. I think the analysis is good.

Part of the analysis is to find out the answer to your question.

Okay. Thank you.

Item 2.9, Rich Hodgkins.

Okay. Is this on the train station technology?

This is the approval. Yes, it is.

Okay. The only train station technology I can think of is I understand that there are announcements

generally made on safety and boarding procedures, but that what about announcements telling people

that who are blind, particularly those that who do not carry smartphones around,

when the next train is coming?

That would be helpful even for someone like myself.

Because even though I carry a smartphone around, I would like to know when the next train is coming.

Again, when I think of train station technology, in real time, an audible announcement would not

only be just general announcements, which I hear all the time, but also that when the next train

is coming and how long before the next train is coming. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Rick. And Ms. Heinz, I'm sure you took note of that. Thank you.

2-10, Eleanor Connell.

Hello. This is about creating a new fare for SAC-RT Flex.

Micro Transit Service. I have an issue because it was my understanding that the new

RT Flex is going to be a micro transit service that had pre-registration and stuff,

but it won't be accepting prepaid fares like the 60 pass or other services that are accepted

throughout the rest of RT. And I don't understand why the prepaid things like

ultrational, RT go 60 pass won't be accepted on the SAC-RT Flex.

Thank you. Do we have a brief staff response to that? I know Ms. Ham is not here, but

you get the football. Brief response here. James Drake, Senior Manager of Service Planning.

Thank you for the question. I think the context that it's important here is that the transition

from smart ride to SAC-RT Flex is largely being done because it is a major cost-saving

measure. We have some fiscal challenges that we're dealing with, of course.

And on account of that, the availability of the service we know will be considerably less

than smart ride. So that's kind of the basis for limiting eligibility of the program just to

more vulnerable populations. And it's the same basis for that limitation or the elimination of

pass users. Because we tend to find that when we allow passes, a lot of our service or available

service gets absorbed by a small subset of super users who will make a lot of rides. We want to

make sure just what we have out there is available and spread out among more total users.

Thank you, James. And just to keep in mind, we've had many discussions at this at the board level

that unfortunately with budget constraints and certain funding that is no longer available,

we have to make decisions that are difficult and we can't be everything to everybody, but we need

to be everything to those who need us the most. And that's, I think, where the board has fallen on that.

Okay, thank you. Thank you. 210, Rich Hodgkins.

Hey, Patrick, that would be Rick Hodgkins. But I say Rich. Sorry. Yeah. I know,

even though they don't allow certain passes to be used, I will tell you that when it comes to the

connect card, it is just my understanding that connect cards would be allowed

during the use of SACRT Flex. And that's, other than that, I just wanted to make sure that the

prices will still be the same for the, as they were for SmartRide, for those that who don't have

connect cards or zip passes. Will the zip passes be allowed as well? Because I don't, again,

once again, I have a connect card. I don't have a zip pass. So thank you. Thank you. Kick it over to

James. These are brief answer on what the pricing is going to be like. Yeah. The pricing will be $2.50

across the board. And initially, it'll be just cash or debit and credit in the SACRT Flex.

Thank you. All right. $211. That was $211. Yes. No, $211. Rick Hodgkins.

And this is $211 on what item on the CONSEC calendar? This is the Delegation Authority,

the General Manager, CEO, to approve Amendment Number 1 to work order Number 4 to the contract

for on-call flagging support services with National Railroad Safety Services, Inc.,

for additional flagging support during construction of the low-floor

vehicle platform conversion phase three project. Yes, I'm in support of this one. I would also like

to add that I know at the Watt and Manlove light rail station that what they've done is that they've,

and even at the Sunrise light rail station, that what they've done is they raised the railroad tracks

just before you go into the Sunrise and Watt and Manlove light rail stations,

just before you go east to Sunrise light rail station, and just before you go west to Watt

and I-80 or not Watt and I-80, Watt and Manlove light rail stations, there's an elevated part of

the track. This definitely would eliminate people getting hit by trains if we had the ability to

also have elevated tracks where the tracks used to be street level. So that's also what I would

support. Thank you. Thank you, Rick. Appreciate your time. All right, that takes us to the end of

public comment on items on consent. Is there a motion? Moved. Second. Oh, Chair Kennedy,

I think we need to do the roll call vote with sing Ellen on the line. Oh, correct. Thank you very much.

Okay, so- I still have a motion and a second. Okay, who has the motion and the second?

It's a motion to approve the consent calendar. Vice Chair, second. Thank you. Okay, Director Brewer

is absent. Director Budge is absent. Director Schaefer. Hi. Director Hume. Hi. Director Jennings.

Director Kaplan. Director Kuzlowski. Yes. Director Maple. Hi. Director Serna.

Director Sing Allen. Hi. And Chair Kennedy. Hi. The consent calendar passes with nine votes.

Thank you very much. Thank you for the participation of the public. We are now going to adjust the

agenda just for a bit for time issues and we're going to, instead of taking six next,

we will take item 7.1. Please read that in the record, Madam Clerk. Okay, new business, 7.1,

intent motion to select the chair and vice chair of the Sacramento Regional Transit Board of Directors

for 2025. Okay. Yes, Mr. Chair, if there's no comment on this item, I would like to put forth

the vice chair for the chair position and director sing Ellen for the vice chair position.

Thank you. Are there any other nominations? Hearing and seeing none, please call the roll.

Is there any public comment on this? Oh, second. Oh, sorry. You don't need a second.

I think, how am I- 7.1, we do have Jeffrey Tardigia. I apologize, Jeffrey.

I have no Helen. Jeff Tardigia. Patrick, I will say I note the last two years of some of the

failures of things that have not happened. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm sorry, but I will

tell you that and will say to Rick as the new chair through there is that please take in consideration

the need for a 3D printer out there as well be so that you see what you have missed so far in the

implementation of the low floor light rail vehicles and as well as the other considerations that you

got from Seicog of equity and the other situations of how that is important and of value in regards

as well as the 10 microtransit vehicles in the sitting of getting out of the back and how that

restricts how you pick up people because you need a cutaway. And as in 13th Street, you don't have

cutaways on the north side of the street so you only have two major ways of getting out of the

location for electric wheelchairs and probably disabled, should we say in people that are blind,

really have to go to 13th Street to get around to knowing where they are to where they need to go.

That's my comment for your new chairmanship. Thank you, Jeffrey. Director Maple.

Thank you, chair. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for your services, chair. I know it's

been, you've been on this board a long time, you've seen the ups and downs, the different

budgetary cycles and certainly there have been challenges over the last year or so that you've

navigated very well. So it's been a pleasure serving with you in that role and continue to

serve with you on this board and want to congratulate incoming chair Jennings as well. Thank you.

Thank you, director Maple. See, Jeffrey, not a complete failure.

That's all I have. We have right here. Can I? Yes, sorry. So along the lines with director Maple,

I also want to thank and recognize chair Kennedy. You have been a staunch and passionate advocate

for SACRT. So while these are big shoes to fill, I have no doubt that the incoming chair will do

a fantastic job, but you've just really been exemplary leader and so I just want to thank you,

chair Kennedy. Thank you, director. I appreciate that.

Roll call, though, please. Okay. So motion vice chair Jennings as chair and director

sing Ellen as vice chair. Director Breuer is absent. Director Budge is absent. Director Schaefer.

Hi. Director Hume. Director Jennings. Yes. Director Kaplan. Director Kizlowski. Yes.

Director Maple. Hi. Director Serna. Director Sing Allen.

I for Jennings, I'm abstaining on mine unless it's needed. Okay, I think you're good. And director

Vang is absent and chair Kennedy. Enthusiastic I. All right. Motion passes with nine and one

abstention. 7.2, please read in the record. 7.2 information item receive and file the annual

comprehensive financial report and designate the operating surplus and working capital reserve

for fiscal year ended June 30th, 2024 and Jason Johnson is here to present this item.

Welcome. Good evening, chair Kennedy and board members of the board. Jason Johnson, VP of finance,

CFO at secRT. I am pleased to present the annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal

year ended June 30th, 2024. The goal of the independent audit is to provide reasonable

assurance that the financial statements are free of material misstatements and conform with

generally accepted accounting principles. SecRT has contracted with Crow LLP, an independent

certified public account firm to perform the audit and find of the financial statements.

The auditors have issued an unqualified or clean opinion on the financial statements. This means

that the financial statements are free of any material misstatements. This is the fifth year

in a row that SecRT has received no audit findings. Operating results for fiscal year 24 have revenues

exceeding expenditures by 1.2 million. The surplus amount will be added to the existing operating

reserve, which will bring our reserve balance to nearly $40 million. This fulfills our operating

reserve requirement and provides the district with sufficient funds to cover approximately 60

days of operating expenditures. While this strengthens our financial position, as staff has previously

noted, operating funding gaps are projected for the next two fiscal years. Staff continues to work

closely with SecRT to ensure that SecRT receives the maximum allocation of SB 125 funding to not

only close the projected operational gaps, but to free up discretionary monies such as Federal

5307 funds to address priority capital needs. I would like to thank the board of directors for

their exceptional direction on fiscal strategy, Henry and Shelley and the executive management

team for their strong leadership, and the finance team for their hard work throughout the year in

completing the audit report and annual financials. This concludes my presentation. I'm happy to

answer any questions you may have. Our auditors, CRO LLP, are present and available for questions

as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. I hope if there's anybody in the room that has the ear of

SEACOG board members, they will pass on the findings of the auditor. Is there any member of the board

that has any questions? Approval? I told you you'd hear a lot from me today.

I was hoping that the surplus operating expenditures would actually go to the operating

department so that we can again pay our people what they're worth for the jobs that they do.

Thank you. Thank you, Helen. Jeffrey Tardigia.

Hi, Jeff Tardigia. My focus in previous years, you had a line item for dealing with the

bus bridges. Particularly, it was for the I-80 when we had that, and that helped determine

what needed to go, what we are now doing with the I-80. Is it now because there are so many other

things that it's no longer separated out for either I-80 or construction or the other? I didn't see

in there a bus bridge item in your proposal, in your analysis of the budget. Just a question.

Thank you.

Okay.

Any member of the board? All right. Thank you very much. We will move back up to item 6,

public addressing items not on the agenda. Cocoa, it took me two years to get the name right.

You did good. Better than some. Yes, thank you for your service. Cocoa,

Sacramento Transit Advocates and Writers. I read this evening because I want to try to fit into

the two minutes. Here we go. This is about the Siemens Low Floor. I have of late become more

focused on issues that mobility challenged patrons face on the Siemens Low Floor light rail cars.

The reason for my increased intention lately is that I'm hearing the same issues raised again and

again. There seems to be an implication of lack of action or at least a lack of effect of a

communication with those who are raising the concerns. As I come up to speed on some of the

line items that have been repeatedly brought to the attention of staff in our board, I feel that

the call out difficulties fall into two main categories. One, issues that reduce accessibility

and independence. And I'll refer to those as equity issues. And two, issues that pose a dangerous

condition to users. And I won't dig in here to deep specifics of the issues, but for the sake of

a quick example or two, a couple of the danger hurdles are, A, the steepness of the accessibility

ramp and B, the need to get out of the way of the ramp as it's deploying on the outside. Two

examples. Quickly, a couple of brainstorm ideas that are feasible and actionable, simply always

opening the middle door and deploying the ramp at every station. Leverage technology. How about

using some type of voice activated protocol using smartphone communications for those who are able

to use smartphones? I recommend to think about the prioritization. Uh oh. Okay.

Asking staff to engage in the following ASAP communicate when intending to dive deeper

into each challenge and if possible provide a roadmap with milestone dates. Or if staff plans

to not actually address an issue, then communicate such for transparency. Thank you.

Safe and joyful holidays to everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Gokou. Appreciate it.

And I understand staff took notes on those comments. Thank you. Michael Bevins.

Hello, everybody. Happy holidays. I ran out of time last time. Someone ran through this real fast.

We want to the last minute first or first mile, last mile,

from your house to the bus station or bus station to work. We need to cover that somehow. We can't

do it right now, but maybe the flex program as it does expand beyond our minimal users that's

coming. Maybe we can use that to get from your house to the bus station as a possibility. Be happy

to pay it because it's an extra service. Also, the neighborhood bus route I mentioned before,

we can do that. And I'd be happy people who would use it maybe could pay extra. Double the

routes that have $1.25, whatever it is, make it $2.50 because it's an extra service. Beyond that,

what I ran out last time, bike accommodation. If the future we're going to use bikes,

bikes get on the trains, they're going to be full. What do you do? You got to wait for the next bike

and we can always, I always keep coming back to it, bike trains, bike buses, have a lot of our old,

our SacRT light rail trains. Don't get rid of all of them. Use a few of them just to go on the

routes just to collect bicycles and other people with cargo. I'll be happy again to pay extra for

that because it's an extra service. Double the route rate. Then also, if you want to, people

will get maybe just more routes. We need an outer rim route maybe to connect some of our outskirts,

towns. If you want to go from Elk Grove to Folsom, we really can't do it. I want to go from

Citrus Heights to Folsom. We really can't do it on a bus. You can install a rim route. If also not

a rim route, then a direct bisect the region. North, south, east, west. North, south, what avenue?

East, west, Greenback Lane, Elkhorn Boulevard. Make that our new spines to connect to.

Anyway, I think that's about it and good luck to you on the next year. Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Chair and Vice Chair.

Thank you, Mike. Dan Allison.

Dan Allison speaking for Sacramento Transit Advocates and Writers.

Staff has been saying to the Mobility Advisory Council that the problems with the new

light rail cars are minor and being quickly resolved. I don't observe that. I've ridden

light rail a number of times the last two weeks. Every single trip I've seen people having difficulty

with the button press for the ramp deployment and the ramps deploying. On one trip there were

three incidents. One rider got left behind. Another two times, I think the train operator

opened the door manually. Every time that happened, I kind of looked around at the other riders and

they're all like rolling their eyes like, and so I asked them, is this frequent? And they all said,

this happens all the time. It's really a major problem and staff is not owning up to that fact.

And I have to point out that this all stems from

Sakarte's decision to do low floor and not level boarding, which Starr objected to

from the very beginning. That's why we're having problems with the buttons. That's why we're having

problems with the ramps. Problem that would not exist if Sakarte had gone with level boarding.

Thank you. Thank you very much, Dan. Julie Coleman.

We need you to get the microphones for the record. There we go. Thank you. Good afternoon,

everybody. I just have two things. The first thing is what happens to my bus pass?

If I buy a 60 and I get sick and I have about 40 left, where does that money go? And what fund

does it go into? And the other one is our drivers, our paratransit go drivers deserve the better

benefits or they are your work horses. Thank you. Thank you very much, Julie. And someone from staff

can answer that first question, not right now, but to Julie directly. It seems simple enough to answer

that. Jeffrey Tarteguia. This is Jeff Tarteguia. I can echo the experience of the last two weeks,

as I've informed Bianca over there for operations, is how to train suddenly stop, watch people get

thrown out of their chairs, have had the problem with the pushing of buttons, had the problem

with the door opening. And it's today where one of the accessible buttons to push on there

was not no longer working. And it interfered with one of the doors through there. So over here at

the Archi Plaza, we had an individual that had to slam against the door to get it to open up.

You need to change where it says, do not lean against the doors, make those signs bigger,

and make sure that you are leaning against your doors. There is access issues that you need to

determine in a better manner than you have right now. And I will say to you that going around,

if you do a survey again, you will find how many people are displeased with the low floor vehicles.

and when they see that there is an issue, because they can't see inside the train,

when they see somebody trying to get on there, that they will spend a little extra moment waiting.

So you can go from one ramp to another to get aboard your low floor light rail trains.

All of these issues, as well as some others, you have not responded to an answered 65th Street.

Zinfandel is another one that you could not put a 40-inch wheelchair in there from high ramp to low

29th Street. The high ramp is at one level, the other, and I am ending that.

Thank you, Jeffrey. Just for the record, because there's no place on the agenda to really say this,

though, this is not a back and forth, I have made the recommendation to the incoming chair

that we establish a subcommittee, an ad hoc committee for a limited term purpose,

to meet with staff to further go into issues of the modernization, just so that the board hears

some of this, not just at every board meeting, but has a better grasp of the issues. So

it'll be up to next year's leadership, but that's a recommendation.

Rick Hodgkins.

Thank you. Yes. On the BART trains in San Francisco, there's actually signs for passengers on the

inside of the train that says, do not lean on the doors or please do not lean on the doors.

Maybe perhaps, and again, it's people on the inside of the light rail trains that are doing

the very same thing up here. So again, once again, that that print needs to be big enough.

So that's why the doors are broken. Also, my main concerns on items just not on the agenda are,

why can't the public participate virtually on Zoom anymore? My mom, even though she doesn't live with

me, says I should not be involved in these meetings anymore, that I should just send emails from home

or participate virtually. Now, she doesn't live with me, so I was able to sneak away.

And she was at the dentist. And the other thing is, I go to 24-hour fitness and that there are

times that when user, most of the time user of a scent, but that when user of is not sent,

paratransit buses are sent. And paratransit buses are always coming outside of the window,

particularly on the way to the gym, and that therefore I have to shorten my work out and it

does not look good. So I can't help but wonder why paratransit buses are always late picking me up

from home. I know that they have 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after the window, but

lately that they've been, if it's a bus, lately that they've been coming outside of the window.

Thank you. Thank you. Rick and Steph has made note of that and we'll look into that.

Arthur Federling? Yes, it is.

Yes, thank you, board. I just have basically one quick question that like on the

RTFlex that's supposed to start officially on the second. I know you're supposed to,

it's, you mentioned earlier something about registering. Well, I don't even know what you're

supposed to do. I don't even think your, your staff knows what to do. And I would like to,

like sign up to, to use that if it's at all possible. And another thing, you know, I don't know if it's

going to be happening, but is, are they still going to have RTFlex like

as a test for about a couple of weeks? That was the last I heard. And I thank you.

Thank you very much. Arthur, it's good to see you again. Welcome back.

If somebody can staff, can you address, Arthur, address directly, that'd be fantastic.

Okay. Thank you very much. I have no more cards for items not on the agenda, which takes us to

item number eight, the general manager report. Good evening. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and the

members of the board. At this last board meeting of the year 2024, I just wanted to express our

sincere thanks and appreciation to many of our writers, 1500 hardworking,

psychotic staff members, a wide variety of public transit advocates, many psychotic partners,

and gracious funding agencies from US DOT, FTA, and the state and regional partners and friends.

And actually, I especially want to thank our advocates who always give us some constructive

criticisms so we can improve our service continuously with their advice or support back

Jeff, you know, Harlan, you guys, you know, gave us lots of great, you know,

constructive, great, you know, ideas. Also, you know, I want to thank to all of you

for your unbelievable support to CICATI in 2024. This year alone, we secured over 200 million

dollars formula funds. And in the meantime, we secured or closed or received close to 150 million

dollars of competitive grant funding. For example, with a historical 77 million dollars

federal funds for our hydrogen and electric no emission buses, we're on the way to secure another

80 million dollars similar grant fundings as a leverage from a variety of other sources

to help us not just keep, you know, allow us to keep the pre COVID service level

and but also add new service and also to achieve the climate change and the GHG reduction goal

for this region and enhance the quality of life for 2.6 million citizens or for this great capital

region. I certainly want to thank our steadfast Board of Directors and for your extraordinary

leadership and special thanks to Chair Kennedy for your relentless service and, you know,

unbelievable leadership to move this agency to a higher new level. And congrats to

newly-luminated Chair Jennings and Vice Chair Shin-A-Yun and wish all a safe, joyful and merry

Christmas and a wonderful new year. Mr. Chair, that concludes my GM report. Get back to you.

Thank you. Thank you, Henry. Any questions? Okay. Next item is item 9.1. Please read that

under the record, Madam Clerk. I'm sorry, Jeffrey, you have a card in for... No, okay.

All right. 9.1. 9.1, Capital Corridor, Joint Powers Authority Meeting Summary of November 20, 2024.

Chair, anybody have anything to add? I do. Right. Thank you, Chair. We met on the 20th of November

and the two major action items were to reestablish or to create an agreement for our administrative

services with ART that passed unanimously. Also, we accepted the Self Pay Connect Final

Environmental Impact Report. There's a lot of public comment on this item that was quite extensive.

It is the new line actually bypasses the city of Hayward. Most people in Hayward are not happy

to hear that, but this does streamline the line overalls. But we did... The board did

pass unanimously to accept the IR. That concludes my report. Thank you, Director. Any questions from

the board? I do have Rick Hodgkins. Oh, there we go. I pushed a button to turn it back on

because it was off. Okay. Okay. So I guess I have a question for the Capital Corridor,

Joint Powers Authority. And that is, are you aware that the buses, the Amtrak Trueway buses,

particularly the one that goes... The one that which goes to and from South Lake Tahoe,

are you aware that there's only one bus a day? And are you also aware that that bus does not

have a bathroom and it does not even have table trays? Like if you were to bring food and drink

on board, that there's no place to set your food or drink? There used to be three buses coming

and three buses going and that those buses had bathrooms and table trays and food and drink.

Before you were on the board, before you were on the JPA,

that there was... This change was made. So you have... I don't think you were involved in that,

but just thought I would point that out. So that's why I asked those two questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Rick. And I'm not going to put Director Schaefer on the hook for representing the entire

JPA, but I'm sure he'll take those comments back to the board. Thank you. Definitely take those

comments back. Okay. 9.2. 9.2, Mobile Mobility Advisory Council Meeting Summary November 21st,

2024. Any questions from the board? You're seeing none. Rick Hodgkins.

Not looking at the report, I'll probably have to see if I can go to RT's website to look for it,

but I can't help but wonder if they even covered the things that were covered here tonight. Not

only about the doors, which by the way is a legitimate question and people having a hard

time with the low-floor vehicles. By the way, I love the low-floor vehicles because of how comfortable

and quiet they are and how easy I find getting on and off of them. But if people are having trouble

with the stuff about Archives Plaza and 13th Street for people that are blind, as Jeffrey

pointed out, that's pretty important. That's pretty serious stuff. But also what I said about

there being audible announcements to tell people that who are blind in real time,

when the next train is coming and how long before it comes and real-time arrival,

that this is what they do with the Muni light rail trains and BART trains down in San Francisco.

This is what we need up here and I just can't once again, I just can't help but

wonder if the MAC has talked about it up here. Thank you. Thank you very much, Rick. Appreciate

your comments. 9.3, please. 9.3, San Joaquin, Joint Powers Authority Meeting,

Summary on November 22nd, 2024. Anybody? Yeah, Mr. Chair, I'll just add it's not

captured in these minutes because I think given the holidays, we had meetings compressed into

one another. But I have bumped up against the term limits for the allowances of the San Joaquin

Joint Powers Authority. So I would be stepping down as chair, but they will ask me to remain on as

vice chair in order to provide some continuity as we look to expand the service here northward. So

looking forward to that. Thank you for your work. Appreciate it. I have Jeffrey Tardiglia.

Jeff Tardiglia, just like with SACOG, appreciate when you have these Joint Powers

that you give us some idea of what's going on. And that's why I was going to put Patrick on the

spot a little bit about explaining about the noon SACOG meeting relating to the travel program.

I think it's going to be expanded next year, but just feel like it would be nice to hear

how that affects Sacramento Regional Transit. But thank you guys that are going on these things

of reporting back what's not in the written reports and telling us what's happening and going on.

That's why I'm commenting here and appreciate you board members that have something and flagged for

us. What in the world had lots of public comment? What in a sense you realized would have an impact

for Sacramento Regional Transit? And that's what my public comment is on these reports. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Jeffrey.

That is my last public comment. Is there any other member that has any comments on item 9.3

hearing and seeing none? That takes us to the end of our meeting. And let me just say,

you know, to my fellow board members, our phenomenal staff and most importantly,

the passionate and well-informed public that comes regularly to keep us honest.

I hope you will have a fantastic, happy new year, wonderful holiday season. And thank you for being

here time in and time out. We really do appreciate it. So we're adjourned.

And again, thank you for your service, St.

Absolutely.

Yeah, I'm so old.