Tue, Jan 28, 2025·Sacramento County, California·Sacramento Regional Transit Board Meetings

Sacramento Regional Transit District Board Meeting - January 2025

Discussion Breakdown

Transportation Planning40%
Community Engagement30%
Transportation Safety20%
Affordable Housing10%

Summary

Sacramento Regional Transit District Board Meeting

The Sacramento Regional Transit District Board met for their January 2025 meeting with 9 voting members present. The meeting included recognition of outgoing board members and updates on transit operations.

Opening and Introductions

  • Two new board members were welcomed:
    • Anna Roba from Folsom City Council
    • Mary Jane Lopez Taff from Citrus Heights

Recognition of Outgoing Members

  • Patrick Kennedy recognized for 8 years of service, including role as chair
  • Lisa Kaplan, Mike Kolowski, and My Van recognized for service through December 2024
  • Key achievements under their leadership included:
    • Student ridership program achieving 4.2 million rides
    • Securing $680 million for light rail modernization
    • $77 million FTA grant for zero-emission buses
    • Launch of SAC RT Flex program

General Manager's Report

  • System ridership at 84% of pre-COVID levels
    • Bus service at 101% recovery
    • Light rail at 70% recovery
  • Received $9.6 million RAISE grant for Dos Rios station construction
  • Named 2024 Employer of the Year by Women's Transportation Seminar
  • New SAC RT Flex service launched January 3rd:
    • Over 2,500 rides completed
    • 94% fulfillment rate
    • $8.5 million annual savings

Public Comments

  • Concerns raised about:
    • Light rail accessibility issues
    • Ticket machine functionality
    • New light rail train design features
    • Service timing and scheduling

Key Outcomes

  • Established new ad hoc real estate committee with representatives from each jurisdiction
  • Approved resolutions honoring outgoing board members
  • Customer satisfaction rate maintained at 82% (industry average is 70%)
  • Employee satisfaction rate at 83%

Meeting Transcript

Board of Directors and we want to thank you for all coming out tonight and looking forward to an exciting meeting. Tabitha, if you will do the roll call and read the Metro Cable Replay Statement, please. Of course. Director Burr, it's absent. Director Budge. Oh, look at that. Director Dickinson. Director Hume. Director Kennedy. Director Maple. Director Warba. Director Sheifer. Director Surnah is absent. And director Sing Allen. Here. And Chair Jennings. Here. With that, we have a quorum of nine votes. And this meeting of the Sacramento Regional Transit District is recorded and closed captioning. The recording will be cablecast on Metro Cable Channel 14, the local government affairs channel on the Comcast and Direct TV universe cable systems. The recording will also be video streamed at Metro 14 live dot sack county dot gov. Today's meeting replays Thursday, January 30th at 3 p.m. and Saturday, February 1st at 2 p.m. on Metro Cable Channel 14. Once posted the recording of this 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 chime 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 number four from Rick Hodgkins relating to customer service and feedback and updates. Okay, so with that, I'd like to do the Pledge of Allegiance and I'd like to call on director Lisa Kaplan to come to the microphone and lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Would everyone please stand if you can. I pledge I pledge 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. We are not just getting awards for you. Okay, we have two items on the consent calendar item 2.1 and 2.2. Do I hear any item that needs to be discussed at this time? Is there any public comment on either item? Yes, we have public comment. It's a consent calendar items 2.1 to 2.3 and we have public comment on 2.2 and 2.3. Jeffrey Tartigia. Yes, this is Jeffrey. My comments related to is this you have these contracts going out for dealing with the dose reos. Five years ago was the last time I've seen for the plans for dose reos when we only had $100,000 for mitigation. Now we had more than a million dollars to mitigate seems like it would change a lot of what's going on and happening. So question is what are the plans looking like now that to complete this station and of these four I think it is contracts. Are they dealing with making it level? Are they dealing with you know by what I could see it's hard to determine what are they component wise bringing up and coming through. We're building this station and where is the master plan of what is going to be built to look like because clearly at 65th Street when you showed to the Mac a agenda meet him and what he was coming out was not was laid out and what actually was created and built. So wondering that this dose real station what is going to be built and what does it look like. I don't know now. That's my comment. All right, we'll have staff look into that and get some information for you. And 2.3 Helen O'Connell. Hello board. I'm glad to see you again. I'm only going to be here a couple of times. I was looking at the 2.3 the you serve. They're the supplementary service and sometimes the supplementary service is extremely important because we don't have enough buses or drivers. So I think that's on our t go to do all of the service. But I was under the impression that they were only supposed to cover. I think it's 30 25 or 30% of the monthly rides. And I was wondering if there was something keeping us from increasing the amount of rides that they could perform during the whole month. So maybe 40 or 50% of the rides because we're still running way behind on the article service that's using the kind of way buses. So that was my question. Thank you. We'll get somebody to answer that question for you. Thank you so much for the question and thank you for being here. I would take a motion on the calendar. If I'm on the consent. If there is no director comment on any of the consent items. Second. It's been moved in second. All in favor say aye. Opposed. Obstain. We are then unanimous. Right.